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MAN'S INHUMANITY

by Bill Smiley

There’s a typical Canadian
tragedy.in the making right
now, and it may be too late
to avert it, unless there is a
hue and cry that will rattle
the halls of parliament.

| use the word “typical”
because it has happened
again and again in this coun-

‘PUBLISHER 3. try, and we have lived to re-

: - 3 =—sogret it. Peompted by politi-
‘Don cal or pecuniary motives, .

Pat 0 meen Canada has gone a long way

toward destroying its very
seli and the things that
make it most dear to the
average Canadian.‘

1 am referring to pollu-
tion and the disturbance of

MARK HAMILTON =

“aa saya aPalh at a ats afta aa a

Broadening recovery
in Canadian
forest industries

The recovery in pulp and paper markets that was delayed
longer than many anticipated has at last begun, says the Bank
of Nova Scotia in its latest Monthly Review. Atthe same time,
the boom in lumber demand which began in 1971 has been even
stronger this past year.

The demand for Canadian lumber refiects the exceptionally
high rates of residential coustruction both in Canada and the
United States. This past year U.S. lumber mills reached vir-
luatiy the limit of their capacity, and market pressures were
increased by strikes in the B.C. woods. Thus the upward
movement of lumber prices which began in early 1971 has
since August turned into an almost vertical climb.

A strong demand for Canadian lumber is forecast for 1973
simply in the light of the low inventories at every stage of
production and distribution, and the large’ carry-over of
housebuilding already started. Thus, though it appears that the
rate of North American housing starls may moderate somewhat
in 1974, and so bring some easing in lumber prices, the overall
market is likely to continue very firm.

For Canadian newsprint producers, prospects are alse en-
couraging, since consumption in both the United States and
abroad is on the clumb and there is very little by way of new
North America capacity in the offing. Sales have been in-
creasing, and ihe operating ratio in recent months — has im-
praved (op some 87 psrcent as compared to last year's very low
figure of 43 percenf.

The U.S. market for Canadian newsprint was not only affected
hy the marked drop iv U.S. usage thal.occurred in 1970, but by
the Jong-run expansion of U.S. newsprint capacity, The ex-
pansion in the United States has been promoted, in large part,
through the direct investment of major publishers, As a con-
sequence, the Canadian industry has come to serve in a sense as
a marginal supplier. Thus, mills in that country have continued
torus at very high ratios, dropping only fram 99 per cent in 1969
to 95 per ecntin L971. The disadvantages to Canadian producers
were painfully obvious. However, the same process of leverage.
can be expected to work to the advantage of the Canadian in-
dustry for the next few years, with almost all the increase in
U.S. consumption beitg supplied from Canadian mills. Even
assuming a moderate market expansion, Canadian mills will be
running at very high rates in 1973. Thus, although several mills
were closed indefinitely early in 1972, one large mill in
Newfoundland is now back in full operation again.

The general improvement in business activity in 1972 has . -
resulted also in a strong-upward swing in-pulp ‘sales’ both in *

Borth America aaud overseas. The sudden slackening in the

demand for wood pulp in the United States beginning in 1970; .--

followed the next year by an easing of demands in Japan and
astern Europe, was in marked contrast to the whole of the past
two decades when Canadian exports of draft pulp (which now
represents 90 percent of pulp exports) showed an average in-
crease of about 10 percent annually. This reflects not only the
long-standing tendency to pre-pack consumer goods, but also
the rapid expansion in recent years of container transport
fopether with substantial success in the replacement of wooden
erates and boxes by paperboard shipping containers.

Unfortunately, the temporary decline in world pulp demand
caught che Canadian industry still expanding its capacity with
the result Lhat in 1971 there was a considerable amount of in-
ventory accumulation in the R.S, and European warehouses of
ihe predneers. Although these have now been reduced to a
reasonable level and demand in 1973 shows pramise of ex-
pansion at a rate comparable to that of the 1960's, the operating
rale is being kept down by the new mills now starting to come on
stream in B.C, and will be unlikley to reach a really satisfactory
fevel until (he mid-1070's. With this outlook it seems likely that
the contemplated construction of further pulp capacity in
Urilish Columbia will be posiponed.

Production from the aew -pulp mill. near Stephenville in
Newfoundland will go directly into draft linerboard, the heavy
paperboard used on one or both sides of the Muted board in
corruguted boxes. Paperboard mills in Canada have been
rinning at 97 percent of capacity this year and substantial
pressure has developed in world linerboardmmarkets. When
the Newfoundland mill begins production early.in 1973 it should
find a ready market for its linerboard.

The Bank goes on to conelude that the forest products in-
dlusivies are now clearly feeling the benefit of the business
upswing in North America and other parts ofthe world. Lumber
producers are currently at the top of a boom and the im-

* provement in operating rates at pulp and paper mills will to
some exlent offset the continuing pressures from rising wage
costs and extensive pollution-abatemeit programs.

Prevention by education

and taxes

In 1971 taxes and other government charges teok 84,8 percent
of nel earnings in the forest industry, according to a study
released by Gordon Draeseke, President of the Council of Forest
industries,

“During 1569, (he previous government, largely as a resull of
NDP pressure, moved to a sharply higher stumpage and tax
policy, with the result becoming obvious in both 1970 and 1971.
Return on investment dropped io 2.3 percent in these two years
compared (5.4 percent in the previous four years, as a result of
re-evalualion of the Canadian dollar, poor markets, and greatly
increased taxation,

“Slumpage was particularly increased, moving lo 70 percent
of income and logging taxes in 1970 and 197f compared to tess
than 30 per cent in the previous four years.

“The new government cannot continue to appropriate such a
high share of the available money without serious damage to the
industry. By serious damage I mean stagnation, less em-
ploy ment ~ and possibly closures. Lf anly 15 percent of the profit
margin is left to the investors, people will naturally invest in
other industries with more reasonable tax burdens. Instead of
taking such a high share, the government should take only a
fair share of the increased profit margins which are now being
realized, and so encourage creation of more jobs through ex-
pansion. ;

‘The figures in the study show that, in 1971, sales amounted to
Just over one billion dollars for the companies taking part.
General costs totalled $920 million, leaving net earnings before
all taxes and crown charges at $115,406,000. 64.8 percent or
$97,006,000, was paid intaxes and crown charges, leaving a total
net earnings figure of only $17,500,000. oo

‘Taxes and crown charges, as a percentage of nel earnings
before such taxes, have grown, in the period Irom 1966 to 1971,

from 64 percent in the first year of the study lo 84 percent for .

1971. Mr. Draeseke pointed out tha! sales of (he participating
companies increased 37 percent from 1966 to L971, but net
earnings had dropped by 70 percent in the same period.

“Between 1966 and 1971, pre-tax earnings went down 535 per-
cent while stumpage and royalty charges went up 60 percent,”
said Draeseke. ‘This contradiction cannot continue.’..

The report lists four categories of taxes and crown charges: E)
Income and legging taxes; 2) Stumpage and royalty; 4)
Property and allied taxes: and 4) Social services and gasollne
and fuel Laxes. ;

OF ese four categories oniy the first declined over the period
under study. Even in the low profit year of 1971, the olher (hree
categories of taxation showed an increase,

_,. “We are confident that new ‘government will consider
~ carefully-ihe ‘impact of laxalion on-the forest industry as it
relates to jobs and the overall prosperily of British Coluriibia,” *'*

_ said Mr, Draeseke,

Hero Of The
Week Award

.. Fhis week, fame lands on a fellow who built a read, the
‘road slash’ award,
.- The tin ‘Hero’ badge goes oul ¢o the operator who bulidozed
his road through -- an obviously well-used mountaiii trail.
.. There's nothing particularly wrong with building a road.
‘The fellow didu't clean out the approach (o the trail from his
road. He didn't even mark where the trail leaves the road..
.. With ihe tin budge this week goes a two year ‘holiday’. One
rule applies...le is to walk every day, all day, through slash
alongside bush reads. ;
.. To you the ‘road slash’ hero, happy hopping.

: Charlie Chipmunk -

b

The ultimate in passive restraint?

GOES ON AND ON AND.. .

THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

name of progress we have .
fouled our own nest, time
and again, until an outsider
would think we enjoyed
living in our own mess.

Item. ‘Lake Eric, with
sonie friendly help from our
old buddies, the Yanks, has
been turned into a vast cess-
pool, which ‘is almost unre-
claimable.

Item. Paper mills and
other industries have been
pouring their poisons into
Lake Superior for years.

___ Item. If you took adrink —
of water out of Hamilton
bay, you'd probably be rust-
ing within twenty-four
hours. :

Item. Huge industries
continue to belch into the
air over our big cities, until
you'd think there was a con-
tinual fall of black snow,

Item. Two of cur magni-
ficent rivers, the Ottawa and

_ the St. Lawrence, are run-
ning, open sewers,

That's a very brief
sampling. And now that
idiot Bourassa, prime minis-
ter of Quebec, in an attempt
to save face after mishan-
dling everything from the
FLQ kidnappings to the un-

| Letters : to th e E di tor |

Hydro billing |
Dear Sir:

Recently I wrote to B.C.
Hydro suggesting that con-
sumers should be billed every
otner month after the meter has
ten read. This practice,
t rmal in other provinces,

-wuld considerably reduce the
osts of paper, envelopes,
mailing and cheque charges for
both Hydro and its customers
and, for Hydro, programming
and computer time, both very
expensive.

By this saving, Hydro could
advertise it was contributing to
the anti-pollution drive.

J] received a reply, “over a”
phofdstat signature of Mr..G,
Shrutp; in which one paragrap

read: ' “We live in an age when . ;

most people are buying on
credit and paying their bills
from a very tight budget. If a
customer's heating bill for gas
in the winter months averages
$50 per month ahd then we add
the electric bill there would be
many cases where he would be
unable to pay an account of $50
+-$50 + $12 + $12 equals $124.”

Frankly, [ don’t believe this
argument. This is the age of
the consumer: if you think B.C.
Hydro could become more
efficient by billing only every
ather month, and you are
prepared to accept this change,
please write to me, K.W. Lines,
27 South Turner, Victoria, B.C.
_ Incidentally, a B.C. Hydro

employment situation, has

launched the James Bay
Project. Sy .
Maybe you don’t know
_ much about it, and it’s all so
far away that it’s like a
.flood in China. oo
But that’s what we
thought about all the other

signs of “progress”, is it
not? .

“Oh, they'll never pol-
Jute the Great Lakes,

They’re too big. So dump
the garbage boys, and flush
out the tanks.”

“What? Pollute the
Ottawa and the. St,
Lawrence? Impossible. Too
mich running water. Why
should we build a sewage
disposal plant? Let "er run

- into the river," ,

“Don't be stupid.

* Squawk about the big plants
polluting and there won't be
no jobs for nobody,”

We've said it all, and
heard it all. But what heri-
tage are we leaving behind
for our children, and
theirs? A great big pile of
you know what. .

Letting Bourassa and his -
boys play around with the
James Bay project is like let-
ting a couple of bright
Science students play

official, who shall be nameless,
says that you don’t have to pay
the interim statement you
receive if you don’t want to.

Just pay the invoice which gives

you the actual meter reading. .

t

K.W. Lines

Royal Canadian |

Legion
The Editor : ;
Please accept our sincere

‘appreciation for the excellent

co-operation received by you
with respect to the publicity
given Remembrance Day in
your paper.

RE. Haingt

Innacuracies —

Dear Sir: ,

Your November 29, 1972
report announcing a victory for
the International Woodworkers
of America at Kitwanga and the
defeat of the Christian Labour
Association of Canada contains
a number of inaccuracies that
should not remain un-
challenged, -

‘It is indeed true that. the
CLAC negotiated an improved
contract including a one-year
extension with Colcel,- but for
the IWA to pass it off as a
“sweetheart contract”, is just
so much propanganda. The fact
is that the extension was signed

Yours sincerely ©

ack, fee...

. from work, but its answer

‘around . with’. a nuclear ~
bomb, J
. _ Here’s the picture. The
- Quebec government plans a
hydro project in the James
Bay aréa,. one of the iast
great wilderness. areas in
eastern North America. It is
a,mammoth scheme. Some
estimates place the cost at
$10: billion. Yep. Billion.
Where is that kind of money
going tocome from?
Plan is to tinker with up
to ten dams and seven rivers
which mn into James Bay.
The damage to the area af-
-fected, 170,000 square
miles, larger than the whole
United Kingdom, is incatcul-
able. a
_ The sub-soil, known to
be unstable, has taken hun-
dreds of years to build up
on the solid rack. The tre-
mendous weight of water in
the artificial lakes — some
of them 70 miles long —
‘could: cause earthquakes,
landslides, who knows
what?

The lxkes themselves are
big enough to affect the cli-
mate of the whole area,
Worse, the change in fresh-
water flow into James Bay
could delay the spring
breakup in the Bay, and

with the full knowledge of the
membership and ratified by an
overwhelming majority.

The claim that CLAC’s
agreement is inferior would' on
comparison prove equally false. |
Moreover. to simply take the
wage and benefit package as
the yardstick of a union’s
performance reflects the IWA’s
total adherence to a
materialistic view of life, It
indicates, to this writer at least,
that the IWA has failed to really
come to grips with the bigger
problems facing. Canadian
workers. The authors of the
Woods Report registered a
valid criticism:

Unions do not seem to have
recognized the magnitude of the
problem. Organized labotir' has”
long’ talked“ about “alienation

seems to have been to ensure
workers more generous pay to
compensate for their
frustrating life on the job with a-
good life off the job. This has not
and will not solve the problem

_ Labour force...

The: following. bulletin is
based on the results of the
Labour Foree Survey of
Stalislics Canada, reference
week ended November 11, 1972,

SUMMARY
In- November, growth in the
labour force in British

Columbia was evenly matched

The Pedigree of nations

“of WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER13, 972

‘expensive palliative. (p.98)

integral part of a man's life-¥

‘Seasonally,

Safer still and safer.

While some safety experts and engi-
ers are saying that passive ‘safety de-

vices are the answer (see “Belt buzzer-
light approach a failure’), olhers are

"getting liltle testy about the subject. This

article from Adtocar, June 1, 1972, was
quoted in Driver's Digest, a publication

of
of

the Royal Society for the Prevention
Accidents, Somewhat bitter and defi-

nitely satirical, it nevertheless presents

on

tion on passive safety devices can be car--
ried too far.. Needless to say, it does not -

e side of the argument that concentra-

“It is recklessly irresponsible of science
and State to continue to allow the -walker
the chance to hurt himself even slightly
by inadvertently crossing the path of.a

" flattening-battery’d electric milk float, Ict

alone fully internally safe motor car. -

The universol answer _
: “Most fortunately, watchful, ever-car-
ing Detroit has:come up with the answer.

It turned up unexpectedly as a happy by-
product of intensive research into low--
cring the cost of passive-car safety. —

- Languages are the pedigree of nations, wrote Samuel Johnson
just two'centuries ago. Despite the problems thal bilingualism
brings, Canada is fortunate. Its founding peoples speak two of

the finest, most universal and best-loved languages in the world.” .

When Canadians agonize about the unity of their land, they

lend to forget that their nation is more fortunate than many, In |

China, India, Indonesia and the Philippines alone, for instance,
more than 1.5 billion people-speak hundreds of languages and

‘dialects, in Cariada's communications problems are segligible :
-. when compared to those of many nations.

Whal is more, the Iact that there is an atlempt.in Ottawa to

, Lf help Senior officials of Government departmens and agencies to
~, ‘become competent in both English and French is an advantage

to. Canada. Many millions around the world are bilingual,

, employment advanced by 9,000, 5

“Preventive education is one
of the most important.parts of
our program," says J.J. Hauge,

Director of Education for the
Alcoholism Foundation of
British Columbia. '‘While
Treatment for those. with
alcohol problems is a necessary
part of an alcoholism controi
program we feel it is even more
essential to reach those who
have not. yet developed. a
problem. .

“With limited. funds and the

small staff at our disposal, it is

not practical to: attempt to
reach every member of. the
public through:a program of
| direct education:.We. believe it

is, preferable to “utilize the.
services already available in’

the. community. Our job” is
primarily to. ‘educate the

educators’. We try to reach all’

those people who. can. be

' described. as ‘educators in the

broadest sense of the term --
and the list is a long one, en-
compassing nearly everybody
whose job is primarily helping
people, ‘Our target groups Jn-

; ; “and | ’
clude : school . teachers’. and “eoordidation; bur basic goal is

counsellors; .doctors,: : nurses,

welfare .. workers;"-” social.

workers, corrections personnel,
’ elergy,:

community groups, 0 20.
“Information Js. one of. our.

in paychologists,.
~ psychiatrists,” and .concern ", aleoholism programs for‘ their

concerns, bul is is not our main
concern. Our aim is Jargely to
get people to examine their own
attitudes toward alcoholism; to
find oul whether or not these
atlitudes are useful in helping
them deal with the -problems
arising out of alcohol abuse. For
example it is unfortunately true
that alcoholism is one of the few
sicknesses where ‘the: therapist
may not always be sympathetic
toward the patient -- because of
the moralistic stigma that is.
still attached lo the term:
‘alcoholism’. Such an attitude is
not helpful.

“We are finding a large
measure of success
approach .to the) problem--an
approach that is people-

oriented rather than drug- |.

oriented,

a “We encourage people: from

all the professions to use our.
facilities, which include printed
materials, films- and other

‘audio-visual aids, the.use of our
library, and advice and help in ~
‘setting up. training aworkshops. n
“Our role is primarily one o! n
a tideien Par ey oe | * y herybody -seems to: have. forgotten. him...

to help’ people. in: conimunitles

throughout the province to. -
realize thelr. own potential in - .

setting «up. -.. preventive —

own areas

Fy woe

in our. .

: - “s head’ The day is not far off when every-

woe ay

“On a secret underground stud farm
somewhere under Dearborn, the celé-
brated trendo-ecologist Dr- Hiéronymous ——
Z. Traumerklapp H has been working on.) |
nothing tes¢ than the artificially induced’.
acceleration of ‘evolution. He has pra->
duced a pill, essentially a distillation of -
powdered rhinoceros horn and the live °°.

necessarily represent the view of the
“Council. We welcome your commenis —
pro or con about the point of view cx-
pressed in the article.
“All the ponderous «stuff you and-I
have pushed at us about secondary or.
"passive ‘car-safety becomes somewhat
‘nauseating, To what degree it is nec-
". essary for everybody else to protect you
from what may be mainly your own folly
_ is arguable — but not now, thark you all
. the same, It is agreed that it is nice to be
secure, ;
“Everyone, bullied maker and -well-.
, meaning legislator alike talks about. the
‘" progressively impact-absorbing padded
cell, strapped-cadaver-seating . fully ‘ar- -
*~-moured: tank in which-they want to:put., -
all motorists. Thus it is possible for you
--: to have bigger and better accidents with-
out hurting yourself. "Wonderful; mar-
‘-, Vellous:. I trust it doesn’t go-to your

administered to any infant under five —
years old.duly develops an adult instantly
convertible into a living image of Mich-

_ tlin’s amiably bouncy Mr. : Bibendum,

The individual —- actually. a new. breed © -
of man, homo securitas — is- roughly ©
normal sized when secure. He has iwo” -
skins, an outer one similar to the hide of.
the rhinoceros,. though more elastic,
over his old skin, When any sort of im-°~
pact threatens, the outer skin is instantly -.
inflated to’.an approximately’. spherical,
shape,. providing him with his own. air:
bag. Ergo, the entire car occupant safety :

: ara rind “ae robl ved. low, No need for”

7] one is legally required to drive, only such . caborate Maeron a ding, mi imum
Oe CATS ‘\">-grushabitity needed; no‘seat belts, though ...

Whot about the wolkers?.. — _in order'to prevent undesirable punctures |.
coe Pee eye "it ia still essential. to avoid sharp-poinied

': “So, we will be able to crash ‘hari- © switches and dashboard protrusions. And”

. lessly. A great advance. But what about”. so beautifully: cheap from the .manufac-

. the poor wreich on the pavement? Ev-. turer's point’of- Views 0.2 Over.

seems - fim.) ~~ “And it has'the handy and unlooked-

“1, The charices-of :killing ‘or maiming him . | for-side-benefit ;.of* making: ‘pedestrians.

sexe not altered; the only ‘difference. is.’ crashproof ‘too, - You hit. "em,-they. ‘just
v-ythat you may be-alightly leas likely to/no-:° bounce. Trite. equality ‘of folly ‘at’ last;

“ties that you have hit-him from inside’ we. will af be able to crash into each other
"Your beautifally. insulated wheeled. pad--,.. scatheless, motorists,. motor cars, and

fee a iy :

edestcinne?

ers of self-inflating giant bullfrogs which; =.)

7 - ‘particularly in Europe and Asia, ,

Nobody suggests hat’ in a democracy such as Canada, ‘
citizens should be forced to speak English or French. On the

“contrary, most programs now in progress are voluntary. In- |

deed, it should be considered a privilege by those who have:the

- opportunity to be able to speak both-English and-French.

“Bilingualism is not designed tointerfere with a person's culture,

ton

* a
aa aes Woes

ine counsel is ‘confusing, but examp
And the best of all the preachers are th

' “religious or political beliefs; social or economic stalus, 2°. -
+)“ One would hope that those who become flyent in both French
-andEnglish will persuade fellow Canadians that knowledge of .
° wo la guages broadens the mind, _and gives people new in-.

“The move toward bilingualism will allow English and French-_
speaking Canadians to keep their language. " :
-» [twill help make Canada a better, more unified nation. -.

‘increased over -the last 12
-months and the rate, of unern- '%
ployment for women now ex- (im
‘ ceeds that of men: The national f

And thet ill tt her e men who live their creed, .
». For to'see the good in action is what everybody needs,’ :
~-J can soon learn how to doit if you let mesee it done; :
- Tecan watch your hands in action but

ed WASH YOU | action but your tongue toofa
‘And the lectures you deliver may be ue.

nd the lectu i deliver may be wise and true:
But I'drather. get my lesson by observing what you dc
‘For I may not understand you and the high advise you give
But there is no misunderstanding how you act and how you liv

make. winter longer. This i
could: affect’ the tempera- iF
tureof the. water flowing i
ut of “Hudson Bay, which
oins*the Labrador ‘current. ae
going south, and this in turn. a
could ‘make the whole cast- am
| seaboard colder, Be i
Project this a little fur-  #
ther and. it could affect the 4g
1

-. entire fishing Industry on

"the Atlantic shores,

And worst of all is the °

callous distegard of the na- ga
tive peoples of :the area, - jam
They ere Cree indians, who ;
eke a meagre living fromthe 4
fish, géesa and moose of this
bleak area. These people
have never been conquered,
never sold their land, and
never ceded ‘it by ‘treaty.
They -are to be uprooted
and transplanted... -

So we have the ironic
spectacte of the federal
government on the one
hand creating vast new na- 4

- tional parks, and ‘on the gf

other, condoning, if not ap- =H
_ Proving, the possible des- [iM
truction of another vast 2a
atea, This is not progress.
This is rape. - Poe
_And for what?: Sure, it 2a
_ will create temporary jobs 3
in Quebec for a large num- fae
ber. A few people will be- —im
come wealthy. oe
But it will do nothing for §
the fong-term unemploy- a
ment situation in Quebec, (am
where unemployment sel- ‘izes

. dom goes below ten per J -

cent, In afew years the jobs iyRae
will be finished, afew guys {im

at push-butions will be left, jam
and the U.S, will have jam
another source of power. At ‘Rime
what cost?

and overtime will likely become
an increasigly eneffectual andy
Aman's daily work should not: : _
be considered amere economic
‘necessity or.a commodity Hk
wheat and steel, to be sold to the}
highest bidder in the market
CLAC believes that work is anj}

long cultural mission to develop tt
and preserve the creation in all!§
its harmony and power, Hen G

In conculsion it is one thing .
for the IWA organizers to have Fee
assured workers they need not (aaa
forego their Christian prin- |Heee
ciples, it is quite another to ‘ae
actively seek -the im- ¥
plementation of Christian | o)
principles.’ As the Scriptures ame
teach; “‘man'shall not live by’ jam

bread alone.”

Neil J. Roos i

. Christian Labour
. . Association of Canada.
Western Canada |
Representative ©

ee

by increases in the number of jag

jobs and the number of [iam
unemployed: persons remained Jam
unchanged at 67,000. This am
corresponds to a rate of Hae
unemployment of 7.1 percent, (iam
ithe same a s in. October. \ hy
employment @@

usually drops off in November \am

but.as the reverse occurrec the am

seasonally adjusted rate of Jaa
unemployment dropped quite \REN
substantially from 7.6 percent Sim
in October to 6.7 percent. oa
LABOUR FORCE & EM- 3am
PLOYMENT. -

' Labour force growth in
November was over double the Jie
usual number expected and Same

Those of prime working age (25 ji
years and over) shared all of iim
the increase in labour foree and }
employment growth, However, pg
over the past 12 months the BE
increase in employment and j
labour force of approximately
20,000 persons was weli below 9
the expected change. In the
service-producing industries, §
employment. advances in}
November. were best in the
trade and community, business’ a
and personal services ‘sectors. J
UNEMPLOYMENT. 5

“, The unemployment rate of 7/1
percent in B.C, is at the same {
level as a year ago. The number
of “unemployed females has

rate’ of unemployment rose |e
from October's 6.4 per cent to
5.9 cent. 'in ‘November. -

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