Significant facts regarding Canada’s immigration prob- j
lem have been disclosed by the Research Department of
the Canadian Congress of Labor in the last issue of Labour
Research. These were intended for submission to a parlia-
mentary committee this year but the plans misfired.

The Congress has been urging |
the Federal Government to. in-
vestigate immigration problems
in their relation to unemploy-
ment, and to establish an Immi-
gration Advisory Commission,
upon which the trade union move-
ment, would be represented.

many
women
sons.

of the immigrants were
and» self-employed per-

‘The rate of immigration varied,
and in 1951, the net inflow into |
the labor force approximated |

It is shown in the Congress
brief that immigration during the
years 1946-1952, inclusive, to-
talled 789,250 with an additional
35,735 returning Canadians.

Prior to 1941, almost 93 out-of
100 who came in emigrated to
other countries, principally the
United States.

For the last two years, for

"y one hundred who came in, |
only twenty-one have gone out. |

Most serious effect is in the
housing situation, as Canada is|
now 648,000 dwellings short of |
the required number to house all
families adequately.

Emigration during the same| ey,
period was 247,000-255,000. Net | 4
inflow was therefore about 570,-
000-578,000.

Total net inflow into Canada’s
working force is estimated as in
the neighborhood of 200,000 .as

IMMIGRATION and
the. LABOUR FORCE j

Sole
Inmigrants
Gointuty “Occupied |

75,000 and in 1952, 45,000. |

Source: DBS The Labour Force; Central Mortgage and Housing Corp, Housing in Canada.

No. of Immigrants per lOO
Population

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UN AND OUT

HISTADRUT
JOINS ICFTU

TEL AVIV —Histadrut, the
General Federation of Labor in
Israel, will probably apply for
affiliation to the International
Confederation of Free Trade
Unions in the near future as a
result of a recommendation
from Histadrut Executive Bur-
eau to the General Council of
that organization.

Representatives of Mapai (Is-
rael Labor Party) urged the ex-
ecutive to apply for affiliation
after the Central Committee of
the Party had voted 62-1 in favor
of urging the affiliation. The
representative of Oved Zioni
(Progressive Party Workers) had
supported the Labor Party mo-
tion after consultation with his
party.

Affiliation Opposed

The representative of Mapam
(left-wing United Workers Par-
ty) opposed the proposed affilia-
tion and suggested that, for the
time being, the Histadrut should
send only observers to'the forth-
coming ICFTU convention as

well as to that of the World Fed-

eration of Trade Unions.

Histadrut was one of the
founder members of the WFTU
in 1945 but split with the orga-
nization in 1950 when it became
clear that the organization had
become Communist - dominated.
Since that time, Histadrut has
remained outside the interne t
tional labor badieay ca

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