THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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FIRST MOVE

IN WAR ON POVERTY

As part of the complex war
on poverty, the government
is said to be almost ready to
announce far-reaching
changes in its area develop-
ment program. This, say
some officials, will be the next
step following the program to
assist workers in moving from
one locality to another.

This moving program was
announced several weeks ago,
when Prime Minister Pear-
son described it as “one item
in the first phase of the gov-
ernment’s planned attack on
the Pe oblens of poverty and
inadequate opportunity.”

The program makes loans
available “to anyone who is
without work but for whom
a job is open beyond commut-
ing distance from his present
home.” The loans will cover
the costs of the family’s trans-

portation and movement of
household effects, plus a re-
settlement allowance of up to
$1,000 a family. The allow-
ance for single persons will
be $100.

In the case of persons who
have been unemployed for
four of the previous six
months, or persons who can-
not get a local job after com-
pleting a training course, the
government will give them
grants instead of loans. These
grants will range from $400
for a childless couple up to
$1,000 for a family with six
or more dependents.

This first item in the war
on poverty has been generally
welcomed in Ottawa, al-
though some opposition
spokesmen have said it
doesn’t go far enough. And
there have been some com-

plaints that the loan repay-
ment period of two years is
too short.

But no immediate changes
are expected, and officials of
the various departments —
particularly industry and la-
bor — now are working on
the next part of the program.

Last year the Industry De-
partment began a study of
the existing area development
program, which provides tax
concessions to industries es-
tablishing in ‘‘designated
areas”. These areas were es-
tablished in the fall of 1963,
when the government picked
out 35 localities with high un-
employment rates that would
qualify. Since then two of the
localities have been removed
from the list because the em-
ployment picture has im-
proved: Several other com-

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munities have since qualified,

but they were not added to
the list because the govern-
ment expects changes to be
made in the qualifications.

Officials of the Industry De-
partment have argued pri-
vately that the existing sys-
tem is far from satisfactory.
High unemployment rates
don’t tell the full story, they
say, and because these local-
ities are usually within a
stone’s throw of areas of high
employment, unfair competi-
tion often results. They cite
examples where industries
move a few miles to benefit
from tax concessions, and the
effect is to create new em-
ployment problems.

The system they have in
mind involves the level of
earnings besides the level of
unemployment. This would
mean that such regions as the
Atlantic Provinces, where in-
comes are relatively low,
would qualify as a whole,
rather than selected commun-
ities within the provinces.
Eastern Quebec would be an-
other obvious region to
qualify.

Officials say the new pro-
posals have been presented
to the provinces for their
views, and after this the de-
tails will be announced. They
expect these details to come
before the public within the
next few weeks.

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