Show Refugee Girls Find Happiness cc in Canada I Many fany of Them lIre Are Employed in Rayon Spinning Mill r ST ST. GEORGES QUE One QUE-One One hun hun- hundred hundred hundred dred European girls girIs who were transported from displaced persons camps in Germany to this little speaking French-speaking town in Quebec seem happy in their work in a ray lay rayon layon rayon on spinning mill here Socially they stick pretty much mu h to themselves Reaction to importation of the girls girIs who began work at 25 cents an hour has been heard in Canada and elsewhere Some labor leaders criticized the organizer of the scheme Ludger Dionne owner of the spinning mill and liberal mem mem- member member ber of parliament for Beauce for forthe forthe forthe the low wage being paid the girls At the same time criticism of the government as having no uniform immigration policy was heard Dionne however has said that the girls girls flown flown here from Frankfort at ata ata a cost of about each were each were be be- being being being ing lodged and fed at an m unusually low rate of 6 a week The girls girIs who are under a not too rigid two two- year contract recently received their first raise raise to to 30 cents an hour All Alti girls girl arp are Roman ics s I and and e lor a few rev Tugo- Tugo slavs slays two ho Russian and a anian A few speak good English an additional few can make them them- themselves themselves themselves selves understood while two speak passable French The language dif dit- difficulty dit- dit was seen as the major reason reason they mix little with the people of I this town of which is about 65 miles south of Quebec city I Anne commented I have no time for 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 o oThe The girls although lacking in in in- industrial industrial experience nce are found to be good workers and quick to learn Dionne said they were not throwing other girls out of work work work-he he could still take an additional 50 girls in ini i his plant if he could get them I There has been beel 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 said The girls girIs are received here sympathetically just just as well as os any family They are well liked |