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By DAVID BIRKAN
TORONTO —
The Labor Zionist Movement in Canada celebrated Its 75th anhiver-sar>' last weelt, at the Borochov Centre here. The event included a surprise tribute, a dedication, and an assessment of ^ urgent concerns facing its parent organization in Israel.
BenHimel, a LZM leader for more than 60 years, was awarded a plaque in tribute to his long standing service with'the organ-izatioa. It came as a surpri4e to him; "You know,' ■ he said, in accepting the award, "this is one thing I didn't find out about until this very moment."
Himel is chairman of the LZM's building coirimit-tee and this year's campaign, chairman. He has beeii the organization's-long-term financial controller. Himel is also vice-chairman of the Torpiito-. area Israel Histadrut organization, an LZM constituent, and its national budget chairmari.
The Borochov Centrie's. auditorium was dedicaied as the Spnia Hershman Auditorium, in memory Of the late wife of supporter Max Hershman.
Prof. Ar\'e Globerson- , past chairman of Tel Aviv, University's department of labor studies, president oflsrael's Industrial Relations Research Association, and currently visiting professor at the University of Montreal's school , of industrial relations, outlined major concerns fac-. ingthe Israeli labor movement and Israel in gen-. eral.       ■. ■ ; ■ •■-
'.'The Palestinian problem" has yet to be confronted with a clear policy,: from among the three more or less conflicting attitudes that Have prevailed through successive Israeli governments, said Globerson. ,
The "wait and see" attitude presents a variety of moral, social and strategic dangers. Full annexation of Judea and Samaria could render the Jews a minority hi Israel by the . tuni of the century. Handing the lands to Jordan could lead to the creation of a hostile Palestinian state at the -whim of King Hussein.
"The problem remains," said Globerson, "of how to recognize the ■ Palestinians as a national group without doing injury to ourselves."
Other  concerns cited
were:        ,   " ;
• Increasing alienation on the part of Israel's Arab minority,, representing, about 15% of ^the' counr try's population.
• The burden of defence costs, whdse only solution, according to. Globerson. is peace with Israel's Arab neighbors.
• The   alienation   be-,
tween the various groups , and cultures making up Israeli society.
• A long-terin deterioration of internal democracy within Histadrut, the trade union arm oflsrael's labor movement.
• The formulation — or re-formulation— of Zionist ideology to guide future development, both within Histadrut and in Israel as a whole. "Everything can't be achieved through pragmatic means," he said. "Ideas and ideals among Histadrut leadership seem to have been left far dowii the road."
Globerson listed as another concern the aims and direction of Israel-Diasppra relations. "There is in Israel more, and more of a genuine feeling that the country and its people's strength is very much connected to Jews all oyer the world," he said. The urgency of improved  relations was
TORONTO— -Despite, the greatly Increased numbers of wo-men~now participating in the labor force, Inequities abound—In the -occiapa-_Jional and salary status of women in Ontario. FoD year female workers: still earn 43% less than fnU year nnale workers. Unemployment rate for females is substantially higher than the unemployment rate for males. And the gap continues to widen.
S0 said Linda Silvier DranofTat the recent Provincial Consultation on Wp-men's Issues hosted by the Ontario Status of Women Council. Delegates to this meeting, chaired by Lyhne Gordon, included presidents of over 80 women's organizations across Ontario.
In a review of a brief entitled Employment Strategies for Women in the 80s, submitted to the Ontario government, Dranoff, the vice-chairperson of the meeting, called for "attitudinal changes" and "legislated affirmative action" to support the "plethora Pf employment strategies" recommended to the government.
In short, the brief recommends the adoption of the principle of equal pay , for work of equal value, a comprehensive child care policy, a strategy for immigrant women, protection for domestic workers, provisions for maternity, paternity oi- adoption leave, and pension re-formis.
DranoCf stressed the need for a child care policy that will allow women "to take out-of-town jobs, work on weekends, take 9-5 Jobs; or go hito poll-tics." She suggested that a child care centre in the House of . Commons "would humanize the political process."
Dranoff admitted she is unhappy with the government's respprise which has been that the brief is • "under study." Dranoff said: "I would like to feel that behind the study there is commhment." She suggested the appointment of a Royal Com-
Commission, the;, librarians involved eventually recejyed up to $6,000 in. retroactive pay.
PSA has "also acted oh behalf of registered nurses, assistants, lab technicians and general service workers — eg. I^ood service "attendants and building cleaners.
The problem isthere are thousands of cases before the Human Rights Commission, said Mahion, and it takeis 2'/2-3 yeark to get a , resolution to be disputed. "You must be prepared for  a  long sustained
struggle with careful documentation."
Later, at the same session, Dranoff addressed the issue of widow's rights to family property. She said on the V death of a spouse, widows and widowers aire riot guaranteed eqaitable_sharing of the family assets accnmu-' lated during the marriage. -The problem^ she explained, is the Family Law Reform Act (1978) which legislates those guarantees only for divorced or separated persons. "It almost rewards those par-
tics who've had enough of marriage,"   she said, "making   legislative • coniniitment only if there is marriage breakdow-n."
In addition. Dranoff ex F^atiied. the Succession ^ Lau Reform Act-(1978), designed to protect "widows, responds only to "need" by ordering "sup-piirf' lor widows whose spouses have not provided for their "adequate . and ■proper support."' It does no] entitle a widow to ownership of property because of the contribution to the marriage.
The; wpman whose husband leaves her everything in his Willi or with whom all property was held in joint tenancy, will -not have a problem. But, asked Dranoff: "What happens if a;hou§e is iri the. man's' name and he decides to leave it to- his brother or to a charity and to leaye his wife one dollar?"
She said it is not fair or safe for the government to assume that a spouse will be treated fairly. Also, she added, it is difficult to
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cently increasing political isolatioiiv. according to Globersbn. "I don't have the answers,"
North America's LZM Was founded sfaranltane-ously hi  1906  hi New York,: Montreal and Tor-. onto. Cpnstiitiient groups
Aileeh Manion, resource person of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, explained further the.concept of equail pay for worlc pf eqiial value. Using an evaluative point system, jobs arie rated
toclude the Labor Zionist;
AUiance, the. Borochov skiH, respons.bihty, eff(^ schools [Peretz schooU fai f workmg conditions In Montreal], Bialik^ebrew H"' ^'^>'' .s"88«ted, Day School, Dror Habo-' y°\"" ^egm to com-nim youth movement, ^^'^ ^^e work of a stenog-Poale Zion, Israel Histadrut, Canadian Friends of Amal, and Pioneer Woi men-iya'amat.
The Borochov school and kindergarten is celebrating 50 years of operation. . -
Among those delivering congratulations at the LZM celebration were: Miles Halberstadt,.president of the Canadian Zionist Federation's Central Region; David Ariel, Israeli consul-general in Toronto; David Zlot, vice-president of the Labor Zionist Alliance; Max Federman, national president of Poale Zion.
Irma Ziskin, president of Toronto Pioneer Wo-men-Na'amat; Harry Simon, chairman of the advisory board of the Israel Histadrut Campaign; and Sandra Brown, chairman of Bialik Hebrew School also brought greetings.
, Master of ceremonies fof'the evening was Dr. Sydney Wax, LZM national chairman.
pare the work ot a stenog: rapher-typist with the work of a truck driver." ;
According to Manion, when you evaluate jobs — where women are in pre-, dominance on the basis of the point system, you find that the jobs are of much higher value than has been paid in the past. "It's simply because women were used to taking lower paid jobs or because women were just . paid less."
With the point system, it is now easier for the Public Service Alliance to prove cases of discrimination against women. . Manionlistedafewland-mark decisions. For instance, PSAfoundthatlib-rarians (who were - predominantly female) were paid $3,000 a year less than historical researchers (who were predominantly maIe);eventhoughthejobs were totally comparable (except that the librarians required more academic
training).
Although h took PSA 2. '/j years to prove its case before the Human Rights
ByMOURAWOLPERT
KITCHENER, Ont. —
,0n a recent gray November day, a couple pf dozen women from several of the smaller Jevvish communities of Ontario crammed themselves behind desks in the school-.robms of Beth Jacob Synagogue in Kitchener and grappled with a very important problem; how to organize a successful fund raising campaign.
From London, Oshawa and Hamilton they had come to attend the 1981 Ontario UL\ Women's Division regional meeting.
Billed as Kitchener's "creative campaign," the session was led by national presideiit Simone Goldberg of Ottawa, Ontario regional chairman Joyce Glazier of Oshawa, past regional chairman Isabel Strub and vice-chairman Andrea Stringer of Hamilton, and national executive director Gittel Tatz. . The women discussed such topics as how tp plan a campaign, canvasser training, how to find new leadership and new campaign ideas.
They also heard Genya Intratpr, chairman of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry, tell them of the difficulties of being a Jew in the Soviet Union, of the successful absorption in Israel of those whp succeed in emigrating and the imporrant role ULA dollars play in this task.
In a brief report on the first international women's diyiision conference in London, England, last Septeihber, Goldberg said with regard to fund raising that"one of the things we learned was that we have a very easy time of it in North America. No other countn'es have . the tax advantages of the U.S. and Canada, while many have to raise money in secret." -
A campaign manual, written by Strub, Glazier and Singer; is new to the women of Ontario, though it already has been distributed to other women's, divisions.
The manual'Ms your Bible," Tatz told the wp-men."It's the A to Z of the campaign. Take out what suitsyou . . ; and use your creativeness."
One of the biggest problems in small communities is fiiiding a campaign chairman, and a good way to get a potential leader to accept that position is by promising her a good support system, Strub advised.
"Leaders are made, not born," she pointed out, and an effective means of involving women in the campaign is by giving them jobs to which they
arc suited — even creating jobs for them, if necessary, from which they will •eventually move up.
The women were told that canvasser training was fundamental to a successful carnpaign and they were urged to make this a priority in planiiing their campaigns. A campaign cabinet ■ and categories are a good way to involve as many people ias
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TORONTO —
One of four recently released Argentinian Jews was the object of intense appeals and other efforts on his behalf by family meimbers here and by B'nai B'rith Canada's League for Human Rights.
For the past year and a half, when relatives of 24-year-old lithographer Jorge Gustavo Sialischiker first contacted the Leagiie, it has beeh>working tp ; secure his release, according to League national chairman Ted Greenfield.
Alan Shefman, League regional director, said Saiischiker's family in Canada and in Argentina made "extraPrdinary efforts to use every channel possible to gain his re-liease."
Said Shefman: "While our involvement since early 1980 has been an ini-portant aspect of freeing Jorge, the family rnust be commendisd for never giving up hope and persisting against all odds.
"At this time, we will continue oiir assistance to the family by helping Mr. Salischiker to fulfil his wish of coming to Canada tolive."
The three other prisoners set free, after being held for years without formal charges; are De^ borah Benshoam, Raul Oscar Nudel, and Pablo Klimovsky.
"Theh- release," commented Qreenfield, "is an encouraging sign that Argentina is moving towards the restoration of constitutional rights. At die same time, it is hnportant
to maintain public pressure until all those held without proper due process are set free or formally charged and tried."
The League is co-operating with the Anti-Defamation League.
possible, they agreed.
"Get a solid base support and the rest easy," said Strub.
Cater tp "snob appeal" and make the women's division the "in" place to be and the campaign function "the most important function of the year in town." the women agreed, and always keep past leadership involved because "continuity is important" and it's helpful to know "that there's someone around.who has done it."
The Kitchener contingent Was led by campaign chairman Lillian Weiss. Among those who attended were 19j82 Hamilton co-chairmen Sharpii Lax and Gwenn Shermian, London, Ont., co-chairmen Lorna Brooke and Bemice .Perlmutter, as well as London Bonds chairman. Rose Fox and Oshawa campaign chairman Bailah Burns.
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A brief on widow's rights to family property, prepared for the government by the Ontario Status of VVomen Council, is now under study in- the attorney-general's department, said Dranoff. It proposes that contribution to marriage justifies entitlement. ".Widows were partners in marriage and are enthled to the fruits of that partnership," she concluded. "It is not that one partner is a dependent and the other is a first class citizen."
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