8 WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER Immigration to chr in the first nine months of 1961 dropped by one- third compared with the corresponding period a year earlier. Arrivals from Britain remained in second place behind Italians, who took the lead in 1959 and again in 1960. The immigration flow in the January-to-September period totalled 56,168 persons compared with 83,843 a year earlier. The decline was 27,675. British arrivals in that period amounted to 10,735—down by 7,000—and immigrants of Italian origin totalled 11,202 against 16,496 last year. Arrivals from the United States ran third at 8,788 or just a shade heavier than in 1960. The government has been discouraging immigration during the prolonged unemployment crisis, particularly those would-be arrivals without skill. * * % Federal government employees in July numbered 356,050 or 5,809 more Rf * * * Railway freight car loadings for the last 10 days of October increased 11.2 per cent to 99,518 from the corresponding period of 1960. But loadings for the January-October period were down 5.4 per cent at 2,923,799. * Re * Claims for unemployment insurance benefits totalled 229,200 at September 29, unchanged from August but down 50,000 from September 29, 1960. Males accounted for almost two-thirds of the decline over the full year. me * * Dairy production in October rose on the 1960 rate and stocks grew too as output outstripped consumption. Creamery butter output was 32,371,000 pounds or more than 7,000,000 pounds above the pace last year. Record hold- ings of butter, most of it in government warehouses, total 159,409,000 pounds compared with 134,754,000 pounds held a year earlier. Skim milk powder holdings more than doubled at 53,497,000 pounds. * * * Consumer price indexes have risen between September 1 and October 1, in eight of 10 regional cities, says the Dominion bureau of statistics. St. John’s, Newfoundland, marked the only decline while Saint John, N.B., was un« changed. Increases ranged from one-fifth of a point in Toronto to nine-tenths of a point in Montreal and Ottawa. Food costs were higher in nine of the cities selected across the country. * * The government has a good-sized bank account again thanks to Canada Savings bond sales. Recently, it ran its bank deposits down to $17,000,000 and had to borrow $45,000,000 on a short-term basis from the Bank of Canada. The dip is a seasonal one but higher expenditures forced the government to make such a loan for the aoe time a at easy four years. Canadian sales by ee rose eet ae per cent in August to $777,- 073,000 compared with a year earlier. But sales for the January-August period were down .5 per cent at $5,914,656,000—indicating that the rush to beat the Ontario sales tax played a part in August and that the recession impact was still being felt. * * * September imports jumped nearly 10 per cent from a year earlier with pur- chases from the United States continuing to rise. The September total this year was $467,600,000 compared with $427,500,000 a year earlier. The cal- culated depreciation of the Canadian dollar—making imports more costly in terms of U.S. currency—was partly to blame. Department Store Sales Down Slightly In Canada OTTAWA — September sales of. department stores totalled $126,032,000 or a marginal reduction from the same period of 1960, the Dominion bureau of statistics reports. The figure represents the decline in the Cana- dian economy caused by the economic recession, despite the growth in the buying public, Canadian exports to all six Common Market countries increased in the first seven months of the year as well as to the Communist bloc in general and to Red China in. particular, through grain sales. Exports dropped to the United States and Britain. Sales for the first seven months to all countries rose more than four per cent on 1960 at $3,120,826,000. -«e PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU DIG A LITTLE DEEPER And that goes for boots too. Lots of people make boots, many of which look alike on the surface. But only Paris puts 54 years of family craftsmanship into every pair. That’s the difference that counts. Vive la difference! PIERRE PARIS & SONS 51 West Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. Institute Examines Problems “Labour, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” was the theme of discussions at the education- al weekend Institute held under the auspices of the Kamloops and District Labour Council, North Kamloops, November 18-19. Institute sessions were chaired by Dick Larson, Local 1-417 IWA, President of the Labour Council. Director and guest speaker was Dan Redford of the Canadian Labour Congress. Discussion leader was Grant MacNeil of the Regional Office IWA. Approximately fifty trade unionists were in attendance, many of them from distant points. A large number of students, wives and guests were welcomed to the Saturday banquet and social even- ing by the Mayors of Kamloops City and North Kamloops. Dan Radford’s blow-by-blow account of the Nan- aimo miners’ strike 1912-14 found a receptive and highly pleased audi- ence. After a pleasant interlude for dancing, the social evening closed with community singing of familiar trade union songs. Unemployment, anti-labour legis- lation and the need for political action proved to be the subjects of engrossing interest. The conclusion reached was that direct political action as made possible through the New Democratic Party must neces- sarily accompany solidarity in econ- omic action. CLC EXECUTIVE Backs Sudbury Workers’ Fight With Mine-Mill The Canadian Labour Con- gress Executive Council ee: in Ottawa November 17, en- dorsed several resolutions did recommended the following: 1—That the fullest support and assistance be given to the Sudbury and Port Colborne, Ontario, miners, smeltermen and refinery workers in their opposition to the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. 2—Support be given to the gov- ernment’s six-mile exclusive fishing zone. They also asked the govern- ment to take the necessary steps to restrict all trawlers from fishing within the 12-mile limit so that Can- adian and foreign trawlers would operate on a similar basis. 3—Increased support for the Can- adian merchant marine _ service. Congress has asked the government to provide subsidies to enable the Canadian merchant marine to com- pete on an equal basis with Com- monwealth and foreign-owned and operated ships. The subsidies would be contingent on the companies building, repairing and maintaining their ships in Canadian yards. 4—That action be taken to meet import competition from countries maintaining low wages and unfair labour standards. A programme was also adopted proposing a new role for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Under this plan, GATT would institute an annual re- view procedure requiring each mem- ber nation to file an annual report Furniture Company Hit For Sweatshop Hours Sweatshops a thing of the past? Not in downtown Toronto. A Toronto furniture company has been charged with working its employees 80 hours a week, The charges were laid by the Ontario Industry and Labour board. The board investigated the furniture company after local residents complained that the noise from the factory was keeping them awake at night. Dictators Receive Visit From Joey Smallwood Two of the world’s most ruthless dictators, hangovers from the days of Hitler and Mussolini, are receiv- ing personal visits from Canada’s own Premier Joseph R. Smallwood of Newfoundland. General Francisco Franco of Spain and recently-“re-elected” Dr. Olivero Salazar of Portugal are playing host to the Liberal premier who won the antipathy of the Cana- dian labour movement during the 1959 loggers’ strike in Newfound- nd. Fish Processing Premier Smallwood is said to be discussing fish processing with the two dictators. Franco has held power since the pre-war days when, with the help of Hitler, he overthrew the country’s democratic government. Salazar, three days before the Smallwood visit, won another four years in office in Portugal’s national elections. He had no opponents. Stock Dealings Accompanying Premier Smallwood is John C. Doyle, head of Canadian We have an excellent CLEANER for DENTAL PLATES DR. R. Dou UGLAS Supply be ONE DOLLAR POSTPAID 712 Robson St. Suite 3 Cor. Granville MU. 1-4022 Vancouver 1, B.C. Javelin Co. which is developing areas of Newfoundland with_the aid of large grants from the Liberal government. It is believed that some of Mr. Smallwood’s cabinet owned shares in Canadian Javelin. The company has been before the courts at least twice on charges of question- able stock dealings. Both the -dictators—Franco and Salazar, that is—have come under heavy fire from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions for smashing the union movements in Spain and Portugal. showing what had been done to im- Pointing to the near-disap of the rubber footwear industry, the CLC asked for a new inquiry into this industry by the Tariff Board. The last such investigation was held in 1958 and evidence was based on 1957 figures. Imports of rubber foot- wear in 1960 were more than three times those of 1957. The other industry which was given particular attention was tex- tiles. The CLC urged upon the gov- ernment “the necessity of taking all possible steps to safeguard, maintain and expand a healthy, efficient tex- tile industry capable of doing its share to maintain full employment,” The CLC suggested that the textile industry could contribute substan- tially to ironing out seasonal employ- ment fluctuations and could provide employment for unskilled workers, Telegraphers Sign Life Contract The Order of Railroad Telegra- phers have signed an agreement in the United States with the Southern Pacific Lines that guarantees work- ers their jobs or equivalent wages for life. The Southern Pacific is the sec- ond largest rail system in the U.S. Their profit last year was the high- est of any in America, These are the major points cov- ered in the pact with the railroad: o Employment ceiling for telegra- phers on Southern Pacific will be 1,000. The number now employed is 54 below that figure. e The number of positions included in the base (i.e. 1,900) will not be reduced except to the extent of tech- nological or organizational change, or a change in the volume or com- position of traffic. e Reduction in the employment ceiling of 1,000 by reason of death, resignation, dismissal or promotion, can only be made at the maximum rate of 2% per year. eo Thus, at the present level of em- ployment for telegraphers on South- ern Pacific, the work force may be reduced by no more than 20 a year. Since the ORT work force on this railroad is 54 below the employment ceiling, it will be roughly three years before Southern Pacific can reduce the number of its telegra- phers. DUNCAN BUSINESS GUIDE LOUTET AGENCIES LTD. INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE Duncan Lake Cowichan J. Lindsay Loutet Gordon R. Loutet 131 Jubilee St. S. 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