6 Members Clash On Nurseries VICTORIA. BC. — = The vital question of women’s role in war and peace which recently touched off a con- troversy in the legislature be- tween the two women mem- bers on the Coalition side of - the House, Mrs. Nancy Hodges, MLA for Victoria, and Mrs. Tillie Raiston; MLA for WVancouver- Point Grey, is also haying its re- percussions in the capital city. Leaders of the Day Nursery. Association and other women’s groups in Victoria are applauding Mrs. Hodges’ firm stand in the House for day nurseries. “Some say women should stay in the home,” she said, “but I say women are needed in war in- dustry to day. And in any event housing conditions in our coun- try are so appalling that it is not possible in most cases to bring up children properly at home. The value of day nurseries has already been proved in Eastern _Canada and the United States.” But few have come forward to applaud Mrs: Ralston’s plea that women should go back to their homes “where they belong.” The Coalition Conservative member for Vancouver - Point Grey had no words of praise for women in war industry and the forces, only for the “heroines of the broom, dustpan and drudgery brigade” whom she has deserted by entering the legislature and spending the last year touring the nine provinces of Canada. , Mrs. Ralston was not concerned with the lack of day nurseries, which she opposed, but “absen- tee mothers, which have produced the most critical juvenile delin- Guency problem in all or history.” “No women with children under sixteen should work. The marri- age that survives twin careers is the exception,” she stated. “The woman who works is setting up financial habits it is becoming increasingly hard to change, and the woman who is giving her best to a job cannot give her best to her home. It will be a hollow mockery if we produce a genera- tion of demoralized children as an outcome of this war.” e = | Banquet Co neert Norquay Halt Slocan at Kingsway SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 7:30 P.M. , 6 F Auspices South Vancouver Branch, LPP WHisT | EMBASSY BALLROOM Davie at Burrard @ $50 IN CASH PRIZES on Tuesday, Wed., Thurs. $35 CASH PRIZE on - Saturday Starts at - - 8:30 P.M. OOOOOOOCOOOCOOOOOSO0000 LESLIE MORRIS whose election as Ontario pro- vincial leader of the tlLabor- Progressive Party last week has necessitated his relinquish- ing his post as editor of the Canadian Tribune. A national figure in the left-wing Labor movement, Morris is a national executive member of the LPP. Split On _ Wage Law BURNABY, B.C. — Opposition of Councillor J. P. Gartlan, Inde- pendent Labor, one of _ three United Labor candidates elected in December, was responsible for Gefeat of a motion to protest the federal wage order when it came before Burnaby Municipal Coun- cil this week. : “ Introduced by Councillor Harry Ball, LPP, the motion, similar to those already adopted by Saanich and Equimalt municipal councils, was to instruct the municipal clerk to send letters to Tom Reid, Ziberal M.P. for New Westmins- ter, and James Sinclair, Liberal M.P. for North Vancouver, whose constituencies embrace the muni- cipality, supporting their oppo- sition to the order. With Councillors Ball; Dingle and Matheson supporting the * motion, Gartlan joined with CCF Reeve Wilson and Councillors Lewis and Wilson in opposing it. Councillor Beamish, CCF, spoke in favor of the motion from the chair, but did not vote. Dingle Edits Norman. Paper NORMAN WELLS, NwT. — This new town, center for the first major producing oilfield in the Canadian North, is now pub- lishing its own weekly news- Paper, a four-page tabloid. News editor of the Paper is Walter Dingle, chief. assistant engineer on the Canol Project, and son of Councillor Walter Dingle of Burnaby, who was re- cently reelected as an Independ- ent Labor candidate on a4 unity slate. Dingle graduated with honors as a civil engineer from the Uni- versity of British Columbia in 1934: ~ John Stanton } Barrister, Solicitor, Notary 502 Holden Bldg. 16 E- Hastings St. MAr. 5746 = Se “the Uphill Motion Supported “Labor will not rest until the straitjacket is removed,” declared Harold Pritchett, vice-president of Vancouver Labor Council, this week in reviewing the efforts of the CCL delegation which recent- ly presented a brief to the federal cabinet demanding the rescinding of the Wartime Wage Control Order. Speaking before the council Pritchett praised the positive as- pects of the government’s legis- lation as providing a labor code, which was a recognition by the government that it must respond to labor’s demand. But, he warned delegates, labor must con- tinue to press for the removal of objectional legislation which ties the labor movement’s hands. Qn the suggestion of Harvey Murphy, International representa- tive of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the council agreed to send a letter complimenting all British Colum- bia members of parliament who are supporting Jabor’s stand on the wage order. The council also agreed to send a delegation to meet with Van- couver City Council and ask it to demand that the federal gov- ernment rescind the wage order. A further resolution will also be sent to Premier John Hart asking that the resolution intro- duced’ in the lfegislature by Tom Uphill, Labor member for Fer- nie, be discussed on the floor of the House and endorsed by the government. - The urgent need for a wniform Workmen’s Compensation Act on a Dominion-wide scale was re- flected in a resolution which came before council from the Deepsea and Inland Boatmen’s Union. It Was revealed that while’ provin- cial legislation did provide com- pensation for injuries sustained while working on coastwise ves- sels no such provisions were made either in provincial or fed- eral laws for seamen injured on deep sea vessels. A delegate from the Deepsea and Inland SBoatmen’s ~ Union pointed out that hospitaliation was provided only in deep sea cases and this was considered in- adequate by the union. _ fhe resolution, which called for full remuneration as well as hos- pitaliation inj such’ cases, was unanimously endorsed by coun- cil and turned over to the legis- lative committee for action. Other resolutions dealt with: @ Endorsation and support of the Red Cross Drive in its $800,000 objective to provide comforts for prisoners of war. ® Increased support to the Canadian Aid to Russia Gommit- tee. Seek Voto: For East Indians VICTORIA, B.C. — Votes for East Indians, as petitioned by the Khalsa Diwan’ Society, received support in the legislature this week from Laura Jamieson (CCE Vancouver Center). “I want to make a special plea,” she said, “that this govern- ment help the Wniteq Nations win the war and make a small, but. decisive contribution to the peace by giving the franchise to the 1,200 East Indians in this province, all British subjects.” She added: “There is not one valid reason why these people should not have the Tight to vote. Only race prejudice stands in ey “ ~ (UUiiincmcn Accor This Week in the Hou By BRUCE MICKLEBURGH — SOO MMMM LL previous production records have been broken by the wo A and farmers of British Columbia. This is the Salient factor y lying the reams of figures reeled off by Premier and Minist Finance John Hart in his budget speech this week. With 70.000 of their number in the forces. the people OF this) ince produced goods worth $472,000,000 net during the fiscal” 1942-3,-an increase of $91,000,000 over the previous “year, and ir current fiscal year will easily pass the $500.000,000 mark 2a And sinee provincial government reyenue has for i qany 1 been roughly one-twelfth of the net value of production, it We: be expected that the government would take in the record Sui. $39,957,352 in 1942-43. leaving a surplus of $8.139,597- et Premier Hart must know. better than anyone else. that if provinee is in a more “sound” position than any other province, not due primarily to the “financial wizardry” for which he is Wie hailed in the daily press, but due to the war expansion oF economy. It is on this that he is able to base the current finar of the progressive measures his government has advanced at this: sion, such as the record $10,000,000 vote for social services, the § 000 increase in teachers’ salary grants, the Provision for a forest ducts laboratory and industrial research council, the $140,000 tow vocational training, the increase in old age pensions, the Peace Highway, and so on. This is still only a beginning. Such provisions must be exter in the postwar period. For example, many more millions are Ter for education. And if the province is to be “sound” enough al vide them. measures must be taken now to maintain British 0. bia’s praductivity. Further, there are many as yet untapped sources of reventie q J education and other purposes. West Kootenay Light and Power € Pany is a case in point. This company should pay between twenty thirty thousand dollars annually at prevailing tax rates tow: cost of education. Instead, it installs a company school at an exp of less than $3,000 a yea e : Ves the CCF resolution on the budget completely failed to. down to earth when it regretted that the ie government had g- “no due consideration to, and recognition of,-the necessity of nomic planning and fundamental social change” to provide jobs, — living standards and veterans’ security. Se : True, the provision of jobs, high living standards and vete security is the main task- But the government is recognizing the? | of economic planning, although it has still a long way to go in respect, and to speak of “fundamental change” in the legislatu © this time is hardly realistic. “Fundamental social change” could correctly mean socialism, and Harold Winch has already told House that the CCF does not see even its brand of socialism 2 immediate prospect. And Colin Cameron, who moved the resolution, himself re nized that socialism could not be introduced “in a semi-autonor province” (as though that were the only obstacle!) While dwellin | Jength on the question of p ublic ownership. Cameron ignored | positive features of the fovyernment’s program when he belittle | as “a glorified relief project” people when he wondered ho suggest that an economic sys “before the war will produc W. W. Lefeaux (CCF seizing the opportunity to state capitalism, g from Marx to show that he, Marx, r between socialism, Communism,” and quotin and left little immediate hope for ~ WwW anyone “could have the effronte: tem which produced” terrible condi e anything else after the war” e fo , Vancouver Center) seconded the ma: lecture coalition members on the differ and “Boishevism or mi stood for evolutionary socialism and not revolutionary Commu at all. If people used their intelli “Bolshevism” which, he assert ed, gence, there would be no need : is what happens when things ” out of hand, “as they did in Russia, or Germany, or Japan.” Ru- in 1921, went back to state capitalism, which she has now. state. talism passes into socialism when there is “no more debt, or inte and “what the CCF proposes now is state capitalism. with Socialis the ultimate aim” it was all very fantastic, and typical of the series of irrelevant. tures on “socialism” to which the session began. Equally irrelevant are the treatises on “free € prise” with which government e ; ie pease week. for instance. Tom King. Coalition Liberal for Colui Was given a rough ride for his statement. made during the cf | of such a speech on Herbert Gargrave s : “free enterprise.” Union were just like “cows in a stall.” (CCE. Mackenzie) CCF has treated the gov’t since | “3 members are responding. z that the people of the 3 resented “any honoi member of this house speaking of the people of our valiant Soviet as cattle.” “Philosopher Tom King,” rose to protest. but only succeeded as the Victoria Times calls” in making things worse. “I ¢ say that.” he eried. “T was merely referring to Longfellow’s psall: life. which said. ‘Be not like dumb strife.” All I meant if you just let a handful o can't be much more than thing!” So Gargrave asked him if he - of Stalingrad, and Tom Uphill told him, offering him a copy of Si Russia Today. that he should get some books in his store ani — some reading. @ OrE constructive motion which has driven cattle. but be a hero i was that our cattle also have social security, f people do your thinking for you, cattle. We're too virile for tte | thought cattle fought the b 4 paper for two weeks now under the hame of Harold Wan | that in which the CCF pr mittee of the Whole Hou tation and reconstruction matters in which the relations of the] inion government to the provincial Government are that “said committee of the Whole House with a view to government to the opinions of this legislature relative to the PLor : conference.” been standing on the ¢} united efforts of both TOUS, 1)