MLA Wants Equal Pay For Women Workers
If Mrs. Lois Haggen had her way, no employer in the province would be allowed to hire a woman at a wage lower than a man would get for the same work.
Speaking to the sixteenth annual convention of Women's Auxiliaries to the UFAWU in Fishermen's Hall March 20, the N e w Democratic MLA for Grand Forks-Greenwood said she had had a private bill to provide equal pay for comparable work on the order paper in the legislature for three years.
Last year, when her bill was turned down, the government stated it intended to set up a women's bureau in the labor department. This year, when she questioned labor minister Leslie Peterson, he said steps would be taken to establish the bureau when the estimates had been passed and the civil service commission could act on the appointment.
"The important thing is to ensure that this bureau, when it is established, is adequately staffed to do the job," Mrs. Haggen declared.
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She charged that employers generally paid no attention to equal pay legislation because it was not effectively enforced.
The injustice of the present legislation was that it required the person concerned to report
the infraction, and, she added, "you all know what happens."
Mrs. Haggen told delegates her interest in the fishing industry was kindled when she
MRS. LOIS'HAGGEN MLA for Grand Forks-Greenwood addressed Women's Auxiliaries convention.
came to this province in 1911 and saw the salmon runs for the first time — "there was a very good run that year, if I remember rightly," she recalled.
"Every year we in the New Democratic Party say there is
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"I have followed your activities. I read your Fisherman and I keep abreast of developments in the fishing industry.
"I am always impressed by what a family you are. Whenever tragedy strikes, there is always aid forthcoming, always compassion for those stricken."
LONG CONCERN
She said she had been concerned for years, long before she was elected to the legislature, over conservation and protection of fisheries.
"Since I have been in the legislature," she observed, "I have not developed any faith in the government's concern for the problem nor its readiness to do anything about it."
Fish, she said, should be the major food in this province, and the fact that it was not should also be the concern of government.
"I know it's not the fault of the fisherman that the price of salmon is so high," she said. "In fact, I often wonder how fishermen can afford to eat salmon.
"The problem is to put fresh fish on the tables of every family at a price that every family can afford and to ensure that every fisherman has the opportunity to earn a decent livelihood.
"In seeking to solve this problem, I am sure we have mutual understanding and support."
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THE FISHERMAN — April 1, 1966
FRATERNAL DELEGATE Lone US delegate to the Women's Auxiliaries convention was Mrs. Fern Molvik of Seattle, who was accompanied by her husband, Gus. Mrs. Molvik, who is president of the Halibut Fishermen's Wives in Seattle and vice president of the National Fishermen and Wives, reported that two delegates from the Women's Auxiliary to the Puget Sound Gillnetters Association had been stricken by the 'flu epidemic and no alternate delegates were available to attend the convention.
Women in Position To Lead on Peace
Women are in "an excellent and privileged position to lead the fight for peace — in the community, the country and the world," Mrs. Hilary Brown, national council member of the Voice of Women, told applauding delegates to the sixteenth annual convention of Women's Auxiliaries to the UFAWU on March 20.
Even on this peaceful British Columbia coast, she said, people were 'constantly reminded of the threat to their peace.
Herself a resident of Hornby Island for more than 25 years, Mrs. Brown said it might seem that the Gulf Islands were remote from "the terrors of this modern world.
-iyet there's hardly an hour of the day or night that I cannot look up and see the vapor trails of the jets or hear the sound of the big bombers of the 'nuclear shield' we have allowed to be established in our skies," she declared.
"Even on this peaceful coast we are constantly reminded how precarious is our peace, just as much as any country under the threat of the big nuclear bases."
Speaking of the work of peace organisations, Mrs. Brown said one of the discouraging aspects was that too often "you feel so very much alone." Yet, taken together, the effect of all the many actions for peace was to impress the facts upon the
people and change the pattern of cold war thinking.
She compared the struggle for peace with the civil rights movement in the US. There too, the campaigners for civil rights had fought an uphill battle against bigotry and prejudice, apathy and indifference. "But look at what happened in Selma and the impact it had on people's thinking," she pointed out.
Too often, she continued, Canadians were prone to say "they" in the US when increasingly they should say "we" because of the rising opposition among the American people to the war in Vietnam as the truth of their government's policies became apparent to them.
"I think the US is going through a great soul searching, an agony of reappraisal," she asserted. "The women are experiencing a painful awakening. Their sons are being drafted and sent to Vietnam. Casualties are mounting.
"American women are protesting, just as Canadian women are protesting. They can't do it alone, but their voices, supported by our own, and the voices of women everywhere, cannot be ignored.
"We can help to bring an end to the war in Vietnam, so fraught with peril to our own homes."
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