Figures recently released by the Do- Minion Bureau of Statistics shows how nada is outstripping the United States in the increase of productivity Per man hour. Output per man hour in 1966 grew by 4.6 percent in Canada compared to 2.8 percent in the United States. The ~Mercial industries. = Further rise in ~ Canada’s productivity year before it was 5.1 percent as com- pared with 2.8. The table below shows the trend over the last five years and gives ample evidence of why, with the rising pro- ductivity, workers in Canada are to- day demanding parity of wages with their counterparts in the United States. The total commercial economy is divided for comparative purposes into three sic sectors, manufacturing, non-manufacturing industries and agriculture. The _ Sggregate of the first two sectors is called the commercial non-agricultural in- Gustries. The aggregate of all three basic sectors is simply referred to as com- a MANUFACTURING ..__._ =. MANUFACTURING... ._ age ot a tng pide Spee ER WONMANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES-...-----------------= : NONMANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES... ..--------- -- 1960-66 COMMERCIAL NONAGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES AGRICULTURE 5; ABRICULTURE 6 sesee cen COMMERCIAL INoUSTRIES eS COMMERCIAL NONAGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES AGRicuLTURE MANUFACTURING COMMERCIAL WNONAGRICULTURAL INOUSTRIES. AeRicucTURE s+ es 2 ts MANUFACTURING COMMERCIAL WONAGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES aeeemese AEE WONMANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES... ne ee WONMAWUPACTURING INOUSTRIES.....-----.------ PER CENT CHANGES FROM PRECEDING YEAR-OUTPUT PER PERSON EMPLOYED -o+ FY 10 1s PER CENT 25 2s - Canada can provide housing for everyone HE Central Executive Com- mittee of the Communist ote last week issued the needs g statement on housing a The federal-provincial hous- a Conference has come to an ai Upt end. It was a complete lure, a waste of time and tax- Payers money, Prime Minister ee en's proposal for yet an- €r committee to study the Bepems of housing and a pro- a _Of ‘financial assistance metime in the future when Ot- ae has solved its own finan- - eefticulties, could not but the € a negative response from € Provinces. At the same time oe @ single provincial Premier cane any practical way to =. with the problem within ,J€ framework of existing laws ; ae field of joint federal-pro- ~*clal responsibility. Thus the _ conference was doomed from the start to produce nothing ex- cept a guarantee that the serious needs for housing, particularly as it effects people in low and medium income brackets, will continue to be a political foot- ball between various levels of government. “As every politicians—federal or provincial—know very well, housing needs cannot be met by private investment, higher inter- est rates and more stringent re- gulation of loans for prospective home owners. Nor can housing be used as an instrument of fis- cal policy to regulate the econo- my, as the Economic Council of Canada has already pointed out. Public funds for large-scale in- vestment at low interest rates, treating housing needs as a pub- lic utility, is the only way. Such a policy must be accompanied _ 2,\ sha By CHARLES BOYLAN O YOU still have some illusions that our universities are democratic in- stitutions organized to seek the truth. If you were at the University of Tor- onto placement office last Wednesday, you’d think you were trying to crash _the North Bay Bomarc base. Why? DOW was back on campus hiring engineers. Even though the re- cently organized “advisory” committee to the Board of Governors voted seven ‘to six to restrict use of placement ser- vices, the board decided to continue an “open” policy. After all, the vote was extremely close. And so DOW came back. But two ” hundred irate student picketers weren’t glad they did. Paul Hoch, a U of T Physics professor, told the demonstra- tors, “It’s impossible to dialogue with the administration. They obviously don’t care that the Student Administra- tive Council voted 26 to 14 to keep DOW off campus.” ’ It was obvious, however, that stu- dents at U of T aren’t united on this issue. Some one hundred and fifty en- gineers were on hand-to jeer the demon- strators. One of them, Ernest Phillips, Engineering IV, told the Tribune, “I support the U.S. Vietnam policy. An open war is better than a cold war.” Two engineers disagreed. Allan Bruce, the engineering SAC represen- tative impeached last week, supported . the anti-DOW demonstrators. So did John Morris, President of the Engineer- ing Society. “Just remember there are two me’s,” he told the Tribune. “As Engineering President I can’t say anything. But personally I support the demonstrators. I would march too but I’m under orders © from my executive not to.” After the demonstrators dispersed to gather at the central administration of- . fice, this reporter decided to inspect the mysterious DOW recruitment pro- cess. The three university cops who had guarded the door had slinked off for coffee. Inside a couple of GI Joe haircutted engineers waited in their button-down suits for their turn with Mr. White, the DOW man. “Whereya going?” one snapped. “Up- stairs” and I made my way to White’s office. I listened to the pleasant chat- ter of White as he told a perspective employee the happy fun times to be had with DOW. Seems they have com- puters and everything to make the life of a “value-free” scientist (as they say in the ed biz) all happiness and colored- TV. After a few minutes, I heard an engineer downstairs say, “There’s an artsy type upstairs, better check it out.” A veteran of the Boer war decked out in a university cop outfit toddled up and told me I wasn’t on his “list.” I explained I was from the press and this was a public university building and who the hell gave him authority to kick anyone out. Somewhat impressed, he phoned his superior. “I was just talking to Chief West and he gave me orders to escort you out.” Earlier in the day, U of T cop Chief West, who was joking with the jeering engineers, had “no com- ment” when asked who ordered the top security for DOW. Downstairs again, a young executive let slip that the demonstration had held ’ up the interviews. Obvious too was the fact that the whole administration was nervous. And they have good reason to be. Their authority has been effectively challenged. Tom Faulkner, who went to the students on his anti-DOW stand, won the campus-wide election with 5184 votes against his right-wing op- ponent’s 4281 votes. If only 200 stu- dents actually picketed DOW, quite a few thousand more agree Canadian universities should stop their compli- city with the Vietnam war. by land assembly projects under public ownership and control and a curb on all private specu- lation in land. “Canada has both the techni- cal skill, the resources and the labor power needed to build ade- quate housing for everyone. To plead poverty in this country as -an excuse for failure to act on such an issue is merely an ex- cuse for the failure to face up to . the issue. “We call upon both the fed- eral and provincial governments to face up to the immediate need to increase public spending in the housing field, and to provide the money for this purpose by a cut in needless and wasteful spending in the military field, and by a revised and more demo- cratic system of taxation based upon ability to pay.” IH WET et Hehe Be 1 four year total of over 750,000 new. - will fall 30,000 units short of this target | the 1966 deficiency of 55,000 houses. But investment in new housing is starti - drastically because the market can only ab: expensive homes and luxury apartments, the onl can be built in urban areas under the present c Central Mortgage & Housing Corporation has ally withdrawn from the National Housing Act me lending field and the Prime Minister. has stated th 'NHA lending will not match the 1967 volume of $9: lion. : — | So this decline in the construction of medic and moderate rental housing will continue into