B.

Cc. LUMBER WORKER

By G.D. FERG ~- Local 1-357

REDIT UNIONS LOAN
MILLION IN 1948

annual report on “Credit

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ion in Canada, 1948”, prepared
issued recently by Spee a aeeae He ea S
es Division of the Federal De-|  Rarnings 847,622 3
n 83 ES Eenenitare, includes | ther ‘ ae
n historical review of the growth iabiliti
d development of credit unions | Ziabilities ... 9,605,896 38
Canada from 1900 to 1948, Liabilities 255,017,193 1.00.0
Recent Growth _ ASSETS
There was a net increase of 92 Per
dit unions in the nine proy- Dollars Cent
in 1948. Membership in- - 86,534,498 14.8
ised by 71,409 and total assets - 58,866,050 21.2
creased by $82,500,000 over | Mortgages - 15,395,697 29.6
947. Quebec maintained its lead |Investments >... 84,693,773 33.2
in all departments of credit|Real Estate ... 119,234 0
union activity. Of the 2,608 | Furniture
‘unions in the nine provinces in| and Fixtures 2,730,679 11
"1948, 1,078 were chartered in|Other Assets .. 1,677,262 6
bee; Ontario was in second | Total
e with 871. The assets of Que-| Assets 255,017,193 100.0
¢ credit unions amounted to
oe th in ace pyite the
0 ‘or the other eight prov-
stood at $47,939,884, HALF-WAY MEAS-
URES, AREN’T SO HOT

Combined Balance Sheet

LIABILITIES
Per
Dollars Cent GIVE SAFETY
Depots castes tz, MVERYTHING
Deposits 1348, .
Accounts YOU’VE GOT
_ _ Payable ......... 3,287,835 1.3
Dividends
Seeayable ........ 293,382 al A bachelor skunk visited a
Interest newly married pair of skunks,
8 on Deposits .. 38,021 .0|and saw an extra bed in their
_ Guarantee room.
Fund 164,569 -03|. On questioning them they ex-
Educational plained, “We're expecting a little
114,908 .0| stinker in the spring.”

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“SEASONALITY” is a phrase you boys in B.C. haven’t caught
up with, but down in Oregon it spells out a nasty state legislature

time he needs them most.

___ THIS unjust clause was slipped
through the Legislature in 1949,
and allows operators to obtain a
“seasonality rating” which means
that workers laid off are not en-

3 draw unemployment
benefits during the “seasonality
Period” which is, of course, desig-

___ hated by the operator.

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LUMBER lobbyists were on the
le track when the legislators
Were persuaded to amend the law.
is saves on Unemployment Act
contributions, for the boss, but
Means an individual loss for the
x of anything up to $650 a
year,

CIO are really cleaning things
up in Indianapolis. They are go-

dry in that city.

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DANISH trade unionists sure

derson, U.S. ambassador in Co-
penhagen, held a get-together for
the stone masons and carpenters
who worked on the new embassy.
As the men left, they heaved a
brick through a window pane, and
then told Eugene that Danish
workers always do that at a
house-warming as a token of hav-
ing a good time.

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OUR OWN International

‘THE CO-OPERATIVE VIEW

ruling that can cut out a logger’s unemployment benefits at the very ||

ing to buy, lease or build a laun- ||

know how to put the finishing |
touches to a party. Eugene An- |

IWA

19 Co-op Farms
In Sask.

Incorporation of two new
co-operative farms during the
past month brings the total
number of co-op farms now op-
erating in Saskatchewan to 19,
Harold Chapman, director of ex-
tension services for the provincial
department of co-operation, has
announced.

One of the new farms, Willow-
dale, is the seventh veterans’ co-
operative farm to be organized
on the Carrot River project: in
northeastern Saskatchewan, while
the other, formed. by a  seven-
member family group and inc
porated as the Oka co-operati
farm, is in the Zenon Park dis-
trict, about 20 miles northeast of
Tisdale.

The 10 members of the Willow-
dale co-op farm, who will lease
3,200 acres of crown land, have
been working together on the
Saskatchewan governme nt’s
clearing and breaking project at
Carrot River for the past year.
There are now 177 veterans on
the seven co-operative farms in
the Carrot River project leasing

24,640 acres, of which about 8,-
000 acres are under cultivation.

The Oka family group at Zenon
Park has pooled assets of six
quarter sections of land and a full
line of machinery, and also rents
three quarters, Most of the land,
originally in heavy bush, has al-
ready been brought under cultiva-
tion, and the building site is be-
ing developed on the original
homestead about six miles north-
west of Zenon Park.

JOB SAE

« « - requires GOOD EYESIGHT

A regular visit to an Optometrist is as important to
your Health and Wellbeing as a regular visit to your
physician and your dentist.

J Bs Hollenberg J Ji Abramson

OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN
VANCOUVER, B.C.

605 WEST HASTINGS ST.

DAVE BODDY, formerly person- |
nell manager, Clarke Bros. Tim-
ber Co., now expanding a loggers’ | |
employment service at 213 Car-
rall Streety Vancouver.

Woodworker adopted the right at-

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Clic,

gliceprea

‘SANDWICH

BALANCED
RATION

titude editorially when they

wrote, “So we may as well forget
_ that (the passing of the law) and
oneentrate on electing people
Who will look at things from a
fair viewpoint, who have a deter-
ition to do the right thing by
people”,

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