Show Refugee Girls Find Finda Happiness a iness in in Canada Many of Them Are lire Employed In Rayon Spinning Mill ST. ST GEORGES QUE One One hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred European girls who were transported from displaced persons camps In Germany to this little I French speaking French speaking town In Quebec seem stem happy in their work In a rayon rayon rayon ray ray- on spinning mill mm here Socially they stick sUck pretty much to themselves Reaction to Importation of the girls who began work at 25 cents an hour has been heard In Canada and elsewhere Some labor leaders criticized the organizer of ot the scheme sChem Ludger Dionne owner of the spinning mill mm and liberal member member member mem mem- ber of ot parliament for or Beauce for tor forthe forthe the low wage being paid the girls At the same time criticism of ot the government as having no uniform immigration policy polley was heard Dionne however has said that the girls girls flown flown here from Frankfort at ata a cost of about each were each were being being be be- ing lodged and fed at an unusually low rate of 6 a week The girls who are under a not too rigid two- two year contract recently received their first raise raise to to 30 cents an hour All the girls are Roman Catholics and Polish except for a few Yugoslavs Yugoslavs Yugoslavs Yugo Yugo- slavs two Russians and a anian aruan A few speak good English an additional few can make themselves themselves them them- selves understood while two speak passable French The language difficulty difficulty dif dif dif- was seen as the m major jor reason they mix little with the people of this town of oooo which is about 65 miles mUes south of Quebec city Anne commented I have no time for tor boy friends I like to stay home and read read read-I I have so much to learn She is 22 and a former university chemistry student The girls although lacking In industrial Industrial Industrial In In- experience are found to be good workers and quick to learn Dionne said they were not throwing other girls out of ot work work work-he he could still take an additional 50 girls in his plant if II he could get them There has been no great comment from other employers Although at first townsfolk weren't too keen about arrival of the group Mayor Kenneth Pozer of St St. Georges West Nest said said- The girls are received here sympathetically just just as well as any family They are well liked |