Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba D Eurt Winnipeg free press inn Winnipeg thursday August second Section pages 17-26 women hesitant to push for equal pay by Edna Blakely Canadian press. Staff writes eight of Canada s 10 prov inces have legislation based on the principle that a woman doing the same Job As a Man should be paid at the same rate. But Are the Laws effective a Cross Canada Survey by the Canadian press shows women s groups involved in the Long Campaign for Equality agree the Laws have helped but they feel improvements Are needed. They note for example that Quebec and Newfoundland Lack equal pay acts and would like to see this remedied. They Are unhappy because the individual employee is the one who. Must Lay the complaint that starts the wheels of investigation turning. Sometimes they say the employee Toler ates injustices because she fears she will lose her Job even though most acts protect her against dismissal or discrimination. Wording of some acts is of concern to women s groups and prime minister Pearson recently asked the Canadian federation of business and professional women s clubs to look into this. See loopholes the acts in British Columbia new Brunswick Nova Scotia Ontario and Prince Edward is land require equal nay for women and men doing the same work in the. Same establish ment. The Federal act which covers More than women employed by Banks railways communications firms and other businesses under Federal Juris diction provides equal pay for identical or substantially Iden tical the same wording is used in the Manitoba and Alberta acts. The federation in a Brief presented to the government asked that the wording of the Federal act be changed to work of comparable character As in the Saskatchewan legislation. Frightened because might lose jobs it says the present wording is an open invitation to employ ers to define jobs unfairly and in such a Way As to put those jobs the operation of the for example the federation says a woman sales clerk May be paid at a lower rate than a male sales clerk because she Sells blouses sweaters and jackets while he Sells men s shirts ties and socks. They May be doing work of compar Able character but it is not identical. Accept principle Elsie Gregory Macgill of Toronto president of the federation says the principle that wage rates should be based on Job. Content without regard to sex is winning acceptance while the principle is not be strongly enforced miss a Gill says the Laws Are Neve the less a guide to manag ment and a goal for Workin women and they drive a wed into the she concedes that Equality contrary to the deeply roote traditional attitudes unde which we All grew up in Canad and which come Down to from the Days when Canadian women had Little vocational o professional training by drapes custom made with fabrics from cd. Length 80 ins. New fall fabrics Are arriving every Day come in and see the Many Beautiful new materials and patterns. Clearance of All summer fabrics 255 Vaughan St. Polo Park shopping Centre store hours Mori. 12 noon to 9 . Tues. Wed. To . Thurs. Fri. To 9 . Sat. To . Phone up 5-7011. For phone orders dial 775-0131. 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Hints from do Heloise Cal Fri dear gals the dish rags we make from dime less than 40 cents a Yard and 72 inches Are wonderful for scrubbing pots and pans taking Baths covering a bar of soap and a thousand other things but a new idea just hit me after a woman complained that they would t pick up water spots on her Formica dra inboard. We knew they i took an old Wash rag Cut a piece of net to fit and stitched them together around the edges on my sewing machine it s fantastic if i want friction i turn the net Side Down. If i want absorption i turn the cloth Side Down. Washes beautifully in the washing machine too. And just try these for taking a Bath i Heloise so find an old Wash cloth and a piece of net and sew them together and see what you have been missing. Dear Heloise for women who have to watch their figures i wonder if they know that they can get a Side order of Spaghetti instead of a whole Platter full i have never yet seen a restaurant that would not extend this Courtesy to a woman. Or. H. Spero dear Heloise i shrink All of my washable material before i make it up. First i Lay. It. Folded in my Kitchen sink then run hot water Over it and let in this hot water for at least five minutes. Pull the plug out of the sink and press the material As dry As you can with your hands. Re move it and pin the Selvage to Jie clothes line and let drip. Dry. It needs Little pressing. When i Iron i put my Iron Cord through a coat Hanger and Hook he Hanger Over a Nail and it helps keep the Cord out of my Way. Mrs. 0. A Pitts dear Heloise have any of your readers Ever successfully dyed f i b erg 1 As drapes mine have shaded in to washings. I have been told by several authorities that this cannot be done successfully. Appreciate any answers. S. Holt anyone know if so drop your answers on a Post card to Heloise n care of this paper. There Are ots of. Us who have fiberglas drapes and would be delighted to mow if you have Ever Success ully tinted them. Heloise she adds that times and conditions have changed sine training for women is b coming the Rule the Worl ing woman is an essential i the Canadian Economy d business and Industry really e pet that the woman who cheated in her pay Cheque i put Forward her Best Effort or that the Man who is under Cut by Low paid women worker will be an efficient operator men interested while obviously of special in Terest to women the fight of equal pay is also of concern t men. The june Issue of textile la Bor publication of the textile workers Union of America says it is hardly a secret tha women worker s have been use to depress wage Levels of Bot sexes. In provinces with equal pay legislation there is also Machin Ery for investigating com plaints. In some cases employ ers who fail to meet the minimums May be fined. Report from across the country Indi Cate that what complaints there Are Seldom if Ever reach the Point where court action 1 taken. The very fact that few Case of discrimination against women Are reported leads some among them Margaret Fer Guson. Resolutions chairman o the Ontario Council of women to suspect that there Are in stances where the Law is being broken but that the employee is afraid to report it. An individual can easily be victimized or put under Grea says miss. Ferguson she adds that the Council has been pressing for years to have the Ontario fair remuneration act amended to permit an association to bring a complain on of an individual. Says Law fails in Quebec one of the two provinces without equal pay legislation a labor department spokesman says minimum wage Laws make no distinction be tween males and females but that such distinctions Are Usu ally made in collective bar gaining Between labor and management. Is Bresner assistant general manager of the International ladies garment workers Union in Montreal says Quebec s minimum wage Law is not work ing effectively. It is being evaded and the workers exploited particularly in the children s Wear and Lin Gerie industries which employ to a Large extent foreign work ers who Aren t aware of legis Quebec is divided into two zones for minimum wage Pur poses. The greater Montreal area is zone i and has mini mums for experienced workers ranging from 64 to 70 cents an hour. Zone a comprising the rest of the province ranges from 60 to 64. Rates differ Newfoundland is the o Only province that sets different minimum rates for male and female employees although a temporary disparity occurs in the Industrial heart of Ontario. The Newfoundland rates Are 35 cents an hour for women and 50 for men. The Newfoundland federation of labor says it has been try ing for years to get minimum wages increased to for women and for men. It also wants equal pay for men and women doing comparable work. In two provinces Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island minimum wage rates apply Only to women. The , act covers women in hotels and restaurants in Charlottetown and Summerside and within five Miles of each Community. Minimum for wait resses is a week during a probationary period and afterwards. Other female help gets a minimum of while Cashiers get at least Law not proclaimed Nova Scotia which has had a minimum wage Law for women since the Early 1930s Al though the present legislation was passed in 1956, approved a Law for men in 1945 but never put it into effect. Minimums for women Range from in smaller centres to in cities for a 40-to48-hour week. A labor department spokes Man says infractions of the Law Are fairly frequent but that most settled of court. Minimums in new Brunswick Are 55 cents for female hotel and restaurant employees and 60 cents for others. The Only minimums for men Are 65 cents an hour in fish packing and in logging. Una Wilson of Saint John former Eastern vice president of. The Canadian federation of University says equal pay legislation is Good As far As it goes but there Are ways of getting around it and it needs to be very carefully watched " a new regulation under on Tario s act covers workers in the heavily industrialized area known As the Golden Horseshoe i stretching Iii an arc from Ham Ilton to Oshawa and including world head visitor Here the Central president of the anglican mothers Union will address a Public rally during a five Day visit to the City. Mrs. Ronald Hallifax of England will speak at the rally slated for . Sept. 3 in St. George s Church Wilton Street. Currently attending the anglican world Congress in Toronto mrs. Hallifax will be in Winnipeg from August 31 to sept. 4. While Here mrs. Hallifax will tour St John s College at the University of Manitoba and St. John s Cathedral boys school at Dynevor. She will meet Union members in greater Winnipeg at gatherings in St. James and St. Alban s churches on september 2, and at the Church of the As Cension in Stonewall on septem Ber 3. Mrs. Hallifax will stay at the lome of mrs. H. C. Hutchison Yale Avenue. Metropolitan Toronto at june 30 a minimum of 85 cents an hour for women went into effect compared with for All men except construction workers who get women protest the Ontario Council of women and provincial business1 and professional women s clubs have made representations to the government about this in equity. They were assured that by March of next year the rates for women will have risen to the level of those for men. Ontario has had a 67-cent minimum for women since 1923 and this remains in effect in the rest of the province Al though labor minister h. L. Rowntree has said the new rates will be extended progressively to the remainder of on Tario. Legislation in All four Western provinces applies to both male and female workers. Manitoba the Only province that specifically forbids discrimination against men As Well As women has a minimum of 66 cents an hour in Urban Cen tres and 61 in Rural areas. The Manitoba Cabinet is considering a nine cent increase in rates As proposed in a january report to the minimum wage Board. Saskatchewan has a minimum of a week for those Over 18 in cities and in the rest of the province. In Alberta where business and professional women s clubs Are campaigning for the government to take Over the task of seeking out breaches of the Law the minimums Are a week for communities with less than population and for communities with More slightly lower rates apply to workers 18 and under. The British Columbia act passed in 1953, has a minimum for factories and shops and 75 cents for office workers. Princess Anne Only daughter of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip posed for her first formal portrait just be fore her 13th birthday thursday. 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