NOVEMBER, 1970 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER 11
ASIAN MONKEYS POLLUTION
By BARRY MATHER, MP CLC THEME
Surrey, B.C. :
The Canadian Labour

BANGKOK — Banks in several Asian lands now employ
monkeys to detect counterfeit coins. Some Thailand banks
have monkeys on staff who have been trained and screened,
and who can test coins for weight and sound, subjecting sus-
pect coins to the bite test. A well-trained, efficient monkey is
worth up to $5,000 to a bank. (News item.)

Oh, bank clerks on our western strand

Who by your cash-drawers coolly stand ...

White-collared, deft, whose pallid hand
Will cash a pay cheque on demand —
Ho! Heed the news from old Thailand.

The bankers there are hiring munks

Congress, alarmed at the ef-
fects of pollution in our en-
vironment, is using as_ its
theme for Citizenship Month —
February 1971, ‘Our En-
vironment.”

The CLC states that pollution

is probably one of the most
serious and complex problems
involving all peoples of the
world and drastic action is
needed now on the part of

¥ To test Thai coins by sound of plunks, EO Peon Ori aill
To snag the ones with phoney clunks cae & b
r And nab the con-man ere he bunks! affiliates to co-operate by
; establishing working com-
They take some ape, right off a tree mittees to participate in the
a And, after two years third-degree, pollution fight.
He gets a job like you or me... The programmes will be co-
.> Except, of course, he works for free. ordinated through local labour
c : councils .and_ provincial
Oh, see those monkeys in their cage, :
" Hard working, poised, trust-worthy, sage ‘Sa ae ee of es par
As, testing to the biting stage, NEW PRESIDENT of the B.C. Federation George Johns- Me Pc ce Pane to
5 War on worthless coins they wage. ton of the Meatcutters Union (right) who was elected by WEEN y: ary
: , acclamation, poses for his picture with Federation Secre- those groups taking part in the
Chimp-clerks ne’er employers fash, tary Ray Haynes who was re-elected by acclamation. campaign.
: They’re never late, they’re never brash.
. They never do a thing ee Tash...
& (Like fearing-audit, making-dash!)
They never monkey with the cash. REGIONAL ELECTION VOTE
“a It seems a good chimp-clerk can stanch
A swelling false-coin avalanche. LOC A L BY LOC AL
i (One ape’s been named to manage branch -
At modern Malay monkey-ranch.)
a Success of Bangkok’s banker-beast : FE :
May bring us simians from the East .. . President 3rd_ Vice-President
Oh, local bank-clerks, hear me through — Local No. Moore MacKenzie Spoiled Kowbel Parker Spoiled
y They’ll make a monkey out of you.
~ 1-71 343 1,873 27 1,766 390 22
ty 1-80 993 . 1,508 59 1,380 956 229
: NEW FED. OFFICERS 1-85 1,750 1,145 41 976 1,719 22
, saa : laa ater eae 7 |=) Lil} 509 650 39 574 498 16
New officers of the B.C. Executive: Council: Monty 1-184 323 45 4 40 328 4
Praneuchauonsorsbapour elected-“Alton, Steelworkers: Ron [icersamipmccus se pe ee ea ae
> for the next two years are as Bone, Office Workers; Bill ECOG a2 OE SO ee A ee ee OO
» follows: Clark, Telephone Workers; *
President, George Johnston, George Cole, CUPE; Fred 2 et nor, Anne! Mmeeeeatee naomi se Lee Rees Uf - 2
, Meatcutters; 1st Vice Corley, Pulp Sulphite; Alma 1-217 1,686 2,076 218 2,184 1,400 300
Presaent, Jock MeKenzie, Faulds, Fruit: “& Vegetable [See ween a csla os a eee ee ee
IWA; 2nd Vice President, Len Workers; Ed Fay, Plumbers; 2:1 a ene) ee eee | Meee a ener Ne EY NS
* Guy, Typos; 38rd Vice Weldon Jubenville, IWA; 1-324
President, Don Dunphy, Frank Kennedy,
+ Steelworkers; 4th Vice Longshoremen; George 1-357 1,692 1,479 > 64 1,378 1,656 35
President, Jim Kinnaird, Kowbel, IWA;: Jim McCall, ,
i. IBEW; 5th Vice President, Bill Postal Workers; John Schibli, 2283 = ze it ue zosaees 6
Apps, CBRT & GW; Secretary- Carpenters; (Jim Smith, 1-367 518 288 16 242 503 14
) Treasurer, Ray Haynes, Retail CFAW). :
a 1-417 762 240 19 208 710 7
‘ 1-423 998 124 21 135 963 5
~ UNEMPLOYMENT HITS | 1-424 2,218 435 61 398 2,207 109
* TOTALS 13,628 10,653 644 9,951 13,066
WHITE COLLAR WORKERS TOO —
“ ‘ . a)

*« White collar workers are

What about that

While 17 per cent of all

”

feeling the brunt of unem-
ployment. So are workers in
the service industries.

About 22 per cent of the

* 455,000 workers unemployed

during the July-September

* period were in the service

industries. These include
community, business and
personal services, public

- administration, finance, in-

surance and real estate —
industries that normally
employ about 35 per cent of the
total labor force.

unemployed during the first
quarter of 1970 were service
workers, this percentage was
up to 22 during the third
quarter.

Lowest rates of unem-
ployment during the 1970 third
quarter were in the primary
industries — agriculture,
forestry, fishing, trapping,
mining quarrying and oil wells.

But they employ only about 10
per cent of the Canadian labor
force.

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