Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 23, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Wednesday. October 23, 1974 Kamloops a mining Camp technician wont have to share open showers with 19 men much her fight up i equal rights for i women still a partition has been put up across the Middle a bunk House she has shared or Over with male employees at the Wornex mining corp., site 105 Miles West of Kam loops in the. British Columbia in the cubicles in1 the sections on either Side of the partition Aliss but to make one bunkhouse Tor women Only. The. Partition providing Sepa rate washroom facilities was started after., a . Human rights commission inspector i site the Camp last week. Miss worked for Wornex since january moved i into the. Bunkhouse in a commission order requiring Madation for women at the Camp. But. The inspector said when he visited the. Camp that the shared washroom facilities m Ade. A mockery of the _. J the was Given follow ing a complaint Bya Wom Ahi chemist or. Bonnie Buckwa an sex employee. A commission award to or. Buckwa. Of is now Beisig court by the com miss she will await the outcome of to if she. Can . Before moving into Camp. Commuted. 305 Miles daily from Kamloops to her Job As. A chemical technician at the mine. F she said she also has to pay a Day for room and Board although other employees in her category Don t or if mar Are. Granted a subsidy to live in. The nearby of Logan Lake she said she. Was told she would have to pay because she began living the Camp after the of file technical employees Union was certified at Wornex. However she said she. Did t live at thei Camp previously because the com Pany would t allow it., although she gets along with the other miss Tharp said apparently wants make things difficult. Nob of y tells me what s going she said referring partition. She has heard she will be moved to the other end of the trailer but not officially. She said there is a company regulation saying in the bunkhouses must live there in fact. But the Leyula Tion Only seems to he enforced against her while male employees often stay away Over night for several Days and sometimes for months without difficulty. The men in the bunkhouse seem to have accepted miss Tharp s presence. One Man who did t want to b e identified said we re of her being there. Like we Don t go run Down the Hall in our shorts anymore. But we get along Fine. She s one of the _. G a of course there s All kinds of jokes. Going around like the next woman who comes in can stay in my room. But it s just fooling around. I think the company is try ing to discourage her but she s sticking to her guns. There s lots of bunkhouses Here and there d be no problem in hav ing one just for the girls if the company wanted Stone resists London Reuter a Man who tried to steal the ancient Stone of stands in. L o n d o n s Westminster Abbey although Many scots feel that it rightfully belongs in was freed but or dered by a court tuesday to pay for damage. David Robert Lockwood car Michael Stewart 24, English Horn but three quarters Scot Tish was Given a conditional discharge for three years at Bow Street court. For 12-months, thex court was told he studied the huge 450 Pound Stone resting beneath the chair on which British monarchs have been crowned since the Stone was brought from Scotland by Edward i in 1296. It is supposed to by Iii Luck to the Monarch who sits Over it. On sept. 4, Carnichael Ste wart dragged the Stone onto a wooden trolley but set off an alarm and also damaged the Coronation which the court ordered him to pay damages As Well As Conral costs. When police accused him of trying to steal the Stone he re How can t steal some Liing Thal. Is already _ 1 i the Label an unusual Story. An unusual store. 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