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conference on the Thanksgiving weekend at U.B.C. For three
days over 200 women from all over western Canada and the
western U.S. discussed our problems and courses of action.
About this time we held our first public demonstration in
front of the provincial government office pbuilding at 411
Dunsmuir St. protesting job discrimination by the provincial
government. The eeuaeae reid on October 24, United Nations
Day, Using the U.N.'s “Deciaration of the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women" The Demonstration was held in
front of the Engineer's Club and The Canada manpower offices
to protest their practices which effectively exciuae women
from occupations they are capable of handling. At the end
ot November a brief was presented to the Human Rights
Commission which exposed the way in which the Human Rights
Act dia not extend Human Rights to Women. Meanwhile, outside,
a tableau showed a 1959 woman chained to a stove, a 1969
woman carrying a picket sign and a 1979(?) woman carrying a
gun. On Friday December 12 we presented a vrief to the regional
directors of Manpower outlining their discriminatory policies
and the next day held a demonstration at the Post Office
protesting ranale Christmas help at $1.25 and male Christmas
help at $1.50 an hour. We ran into some trouble with the postal
Union because they were more concerned with their regular
help who recieve much higher pay

On Wednesday evening$S during October and November

speakers talked about "Women as an Oppressed Group" In January