The rich keep getting richer
and the poor poorer — as in-
dividuals and as nations—the
Canadian Welfare Council
was told at its 43rd annual
meeting.

Another piece of advice:
some relief programs tend to
perpetuate poverty, provid-
ing residents of low-income
areas with just enough cash
fo stay where they are and
not enough to get out and
rustle for work elsewhere.

Phyllis Burns, a Canadian
social affairs officer with the
United Nations, said popula-
tion increases tend to over-
come increases in national
revenue.

“Tt is true that in the last
10 years some of the antici-
pated improvement in the
levels of living has been al-
most completely countered by
the increase in population,”
Miss Burns said in describing
finds of a recent UN report
on international social con-
ditions.

“While

national income

may have increased in an ab-
selute sense, per capita in-
come has declined since any

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improvement now must be
divided among a larger popu-
lation.” The world population
by 1960 had exceeded all fore-
casts and the total by 2000
should be at least 6,000,000,-
000 or double the present
total.

Dr. John Madden, economic
professor at the University of
Western Ontario, said poverty
and low incomes tend to be-
come regional problems in
areas peopled by a higher
than average number of eld-
erly and, less-educated
people, or where industrial
strength was declining or
stagnant. f j

“This is particularly true of
the Atlantic provinces, Sask-
atchewan and some rural
areas of the other provinces,”
said Dr. Madden. He did not
advocate a policy of starv-
ation to force people out of
certain areas but “if necessary
limit cash grants only to those
who cannot move and sub-
sidize other groups by tied
gifts or loans to ensure that
they do move in the right
direction.”

Machines
Taking
Over

U.S. News & World Report
has found that office worker
jobs are “being taken over
by the machine.” It has re-
ported that a “revolution is
under way in the offices of
large and medium sized firms”
and that a leading manage-
ment consultant sees an in-
vestment of a billion dollars
this year in white collar auto-
mation.

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Prince George

Firm Fined

Ross Inglis, President of
Local 1-424, IWA, reports
that the United Forest Pro-
ducts Company of Aleza
Lake, was found guilty in a
Prince George police court
of violating the Provincial
Hours of Work Act.

The court fined the Com-
pany $100 for working their
employees in excess of eight
hours in a day, or 44 hours
in a week, without a writ-
ten permit issued by the
Department of Labour.

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More Money
Enters
Country

OTTAWA (CPA) — A re-
cord amount of $359,000,000
in foreign capital entered
Canada in the first three
months of the year from all
securities transactions.

Heavy borrowing in new
bond issues —— mostly in the
United States — contributed
to the peak amount.

It contrasted to the exodus
for the same period just a
year earlier of $64,000,000.
This was part of the drain on
the Canadian dollar which
culminated early in May,
1962, in the pegged dollar at
a rate of 92.5 cents Ameri-

can.
Meanwhile, the reverse sit-
uation — a heavy flow into

Canada of foreign money —
has strengthened the Can-
adian dollar but at the same
time failed to improve the
long-range problem of eas-
ing Canadian drains caused
by top-heavy foreign invest-
ment, interest on borrowings
abroad, and investment pro-
fit-taking by foreign invest-
ors.

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: BREWERIES (B.C.) LTO.

Local 1-217

Membership Figures
Show Steady Rise

By STU HODGSON
1-217 FINANCIAL SECRETARY :
Local 1-217’s membership since the first of the year has
steadily climbed. The average monthly membership for March,
April and May was 6,600. This figure largely reflects that all
operations within Local 1-217’s jurisdiction are operating to
capacity and that several new certifications have been or-

ganized.

Heading the list of certifica-
tions recently obtained from
the Department of Labour is
Metropolitan Trading Ltd., a
log sorting operation; Motts
Building Supply, Head Lum-
ber Company and Viking
Timber.

Viking Timber was organ-
ized by Tom Clarke and
myself; Motts Building by
Tom Clarke and George Kow-
bel, Metropolitan Trading by
Tom Clarke and Mike Sekora
and Head Lumber by Tom
Clarke and myself.

Taking part in the cam-
paign to organize Johl Saw-
mills on the North Shore were
Tom Clarke, myself and
Mike Sekora. Negotiations
have been concluded and an
agreement worked out.

Certification is pending for

River Lath & Handle Comp-

any. This operation was or-
ganized by Mike Sekora.

The Local Union is also
pleased to announce the re-
organization of B.C. Hard-
wood and Millwork. This is
a company that was out of
business until this spring. The
mill has now been re-organ-
ized and a satisfactory agree-
ment negotiated. Taking part
in re-organizing were Broth-
ers Kowhbel, myself and Se-
kora, with negotiations being
handle by myself and Kow-
bel.

There has been a number of
swing shift votes taken in the
Local Union with Bay Lum-

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cessful. M. B. King and Em-
pire Box Company rejected
the swing shift by heavy
votes.

After four years contin-
uous negotiations the guards
and watchmen problem at the
Canadian White Pine and Red
Band Shingle have been sat-
istactorily resolved.

Freparations are being
made to present recommen-
dations for consideration at
the June 22 Regional Shingle
Conference. At a recent meet-
ing of Local 1-217 members
from shingle mills, a complete
airing was given to piece
work and shingle mill prob-
lems. A standing committee
on shingle was organized un-
der the chairmanship of Paul
Beaulieu of Acme Shingle
and Sam Groutage, Red Band,
was named secretary. All op-
erations will place one man
on the committee. The first
meeting of the shingle com-
mittee is scheduled for Sat-
urday, June 8th at which time
the Local Union’s presenta-
tion will be finalized.

Plans are proceeding for
further investigations into
wage rates presently being
paid Graders and Tallymen.
It has been years since the
graders and tallymens form-
ula was finally adopted by the
Regional Council and Forest
Industrial Relations. Since
that time many changes have
taken place in the sawmills
and a thorough overhaul is
needed. Graders and tally-
men within Local 1-217 held a
series of meetings and are
preparing proposals for pres-
entation to Management.

Plans are under way to hold
Local 1-217’s 14th Annual
Picnic on Saturday, August
8rd, at Confederation Park
Burnaby.

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The manager called in his
salesman to explain a new
program.

“Under this incentive plan,”
he explained, “every salesman
who meets his quota keeps
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