WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER Over 1500 delegates including trade unionists are expected to attend the Founding Convention of the New Party in Ottawa, July 3lst to August 4th. Visiting guest speaker will be Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party. * * Unemployment in the Toronto area has hit hard at recent immi- grants. About 12,000 were unemployed in June and of these about 90 per cent were of Italian origin, mostly in the building trades. The Ottawa and District Labour Council charged exploitation by contractors in violation of the Ontario Industrial Standards Act. Sub- standard working conditions and rates of pay are due to subcontracting of work in the building industry, said Council spokesmen. The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Local 16-14 has been given right of appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada from an arbitration board decision on damages in an illegal strike charge. The award against the Polymer Local in Sarnia was upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal ¢ European countries have increased .productivity faster than the United States, Great Britain or Canada, according to the U.S. publica- tion Business Week. This factor, and not wages, is the prime reason for price rises. ; * * The strike-bound Royal York Hotel in Toronto is getting away with tax concessions from the City of Toronto amounting to about $150,000 a year, according to the Toronto and District Labour Council. The hotel is owned by the giant CPR and is exempted from normal taxation because it is classified as a railway hotel under the Ontario Assess- ment Act. ~ ; * A labour-backed candidate has been elected mayor of Minneapolis. Arthur Naftalin ran on the Democratic-Farmer-Labour ticket with trade union support. He is professor of political science at University of Minnesota. * The Ontario Industry and Labour Board has charged nine contractors in the Toronto area with failure to provide vacation pay for their workers. This is the first charge laid since building workers went on strike against substandard working conditions and pay. The Toronto building unions had charged that there have already been over a thousand violations of contracts signed last year which would take years to arbitrate through normal processes. The provincial government appointed a special board of investigators to probe viola- tions : BR Part Changes Mooted © For Auto Industry: The one-man Royal Commission on the Canadian auto industry has recommended complicated tariff changes to boost Canadian production of vehicles and parts. If the recommendations are ac- cepted, Commissioner Vincent Bladen of the University of Toronto said, car prices will drop and production will increase up to ten per cent in Canada. ree At the core of the Bladen recom- mendations is this proposal: If an auto company’s Canada-made parts’ sales are a certain per cent of the value of all its cars sold in Canada, then, imported parts or vehicles can come in duty free. Manufacturers would be freed to export a certain line of parts — to develop long, low-cost runs — and qualify for big savings on duties against imports. Other Recommendations Other recommendations, designed primarily to bring down the retail ‘cost of Canadian cars and to protect the Canadian auto industry against British and European imports, are: © Removal of the 7% per cent excise tax on all new cars. This has already been accepted by the government and is now in effect. © Change the base for levying the sales tax on imported ve- hicles. 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Sales and employment had fallen off in a sector of the econ- omy that was vital, particularly to Ontario. 64 Hearings He reported that he had conduct- ed 64 public hearings, heard 41 con- fidential briefs and 80 other expres- sions of opinion. He toured auto plants in the U.K., France, West Germany and Sweden and said he ex- -pected that stiff competition will come from these countries in the next ten years, The excise tax removal was urged, said Prof. Bladen, because cars can now no longer be considered a lux- ury. There are more than 5,000,000 vehicles on Canadian roads, almost 4,000,000 are passenger cars. “4 ve pi Columbia. re J F P . Y > : : 4 7 <* . > , aa THIS FIRE is burning young growth and destroying the soil itself. Fires are the worst enemy of sustained yield in British a Photo Courtesy The Province Labour Party Seeks More Controls The Labour Party, looking like a unified opposition force for the first time since the 1959 election, has prescribed increased state in- tervention as a solution for Bri- tain’s problems. “We live in a scientific revolution,” said the Labour party’s domestic pol- icy statement called Signposts for the Sixties. “Tn such an epoch of revolutionary change, those who identify laissez- faire with liberty are enemies, how- ever, unwitting, of democracy,” the 14,000-word statement added. Its main proposals are: A national plan for eco- nomic growth with increased state control and supervision of industry. @ Establishment of a land commission to purchase private- ly-owned land. @ Increased benefits. @ Establishment of a govern- ment education trust to integrate private schools into the state system. @ A capital gains tax aimed at the one per cent of the popu- lation still owning nearly half the nation’s private wealth and social security property. Laval Professor States Social security should be part of a vast welfare program which includes full employment, better public health, better housing and improved educational facilities. In an article for Relations Indus- trielles, Prof. Claude Morin of Laval University also said that private agencies are unable to meet all of Canada’s welfare needs. ynamic Role “The government must play a more dynamic and more progressive role in the field -of social security,” Prof. Morin said. He lashed out at the inadequacies of present social security in Canada. It is “unsystematic,” it is based on “insufficient knowledge of the facts” of the bar! THE VANPORT HOTEL 645 MAIN STREET : VANCOUVER 3, B.C. (MU 2-9049) is under NEW MANAGEMENT Maurice St, Cyr and Vern Carter have spruced up: the whole place till it shines. friendly WELCOME MAT out for all IWA loggers in clean, bright rooms ranging from $7.00 per week up. Make the NEW VANPORT your home base next time you hit town. We guarantee you'll stick around! Georgia at Main: new look but same old spirit on both sides There’s a warm, Private Agencies Unable To Meet Welfare Needs and “is directed to problems, not to people.” A complete reorientation of social security is needed, Prof. Morin ‘said: Today's social services are a patch- work of unconnected programs that fail ‘‘to take enough into account the levels of social community life” in Canada. He suggested a provements. © the people and the govern- ment must adopt-a broader con- cept of the role of social security as a partner to other economic and social policies. Full employ- ment is more important than im- proved unemployment assistance. © government’ should make more effective use of voluntary organizations. © federal and provincial gov- ernments should establish social research centers “to work-out a national policy.” © the government should pre- pare a short-run and long-run plan to develop the social secur- _ity system. © rehabilitation services should be set up. : Prof. Morin advised that the proy- incial governments be given greater responsibilities in the field of social security, number of im- i) "rm Howard Has More Reasons OTTAWA REPORT Sh DN By FRANK HOWARD, MP. For Senate Reform The Senate of Canada has been somewhat in the news recently, because of certain actions that it has taken and certain actions that it has failed to take. As a result it has upset a number of Members of the House of Commons for various reasons. Early in this Session, we passed a Bill which would have given the en- tire jurisdiction to the Senate in the hearing of divorce cases from Quebec and Newfoundland. We sent the Bill over to the Senate for its considera- tion. The Bill languished on the Order Paper there for weeks and weeks. Finally the Speaker ordered it to be dropped for no one could be found to sponsor the Bill. This action was considered to be a bit contemp- tuous, for we considered that the Senate should have at least had the decency to defeat the Bill if it was not acceptable. Transport Bill Later on the House of Commons passed another Bill relating to mat- ters of Transport. This, too, has been treated in a rather cavalier fashion and might be postponed until the Fall, or worse still, be sidetracked entirely. Still a third Bill was passed by the House of Commons and sent to the Senate, dealing with tariffs. This Bill was amended and returned to the House as amended. The House of Commons, because this was a gov- ernment Bill, introd 1 a resolutior stating that we disagreed with the Senate and consider that their amendment was undue interference with certain rights of the House of Commons, Normally the Senate is a quiet, gentle place with not too much in the way of debate on legislation. The tendency in Parliamentary affairs is to allow the House of Commons to do all of the work and for the Senate to endorse whatever is sent over to them. Life Pension Senators receive $10,000.00 a year which is in effect a pension for the appointment is for life. The rules re- garding attendance in the Senate are rather generous and can be taken ad- vantage of if one is lazy. For instance, the British North America Act states that a Senator may lose his right to sit in the Sen- ate if, and the Act reads as follows; “for Two consecutive Sessions of Parliament he fails to give his Atten- dance in the Senate.” This means that so long as a Senator shows up for one day -every two years his posi- tion in the Senate is protected. I was reading some of the Han-- sards for the period 1925-26 just a few days ago and came across some interesting references there to the great need for reform of the Senate. But, nothing was done. I was also looking at some of the campaign promises of the present Conserva- tive Government, one of which dealt with Senate reform. Again, nothing — has been done. After all the present furour has subsided I predict that so long as either the Conservatives or the Lib- erals remain in office-there will still be nothing done. Special Labour Library Established In Toronto The Ontario Woodsworth Memorial Foundation has established a special library dealing with the history of Canada’s socialist and labour _ movement and has invited contributions of reference material from i terested individuals across the country. pension rights so that —From PROSPECT FOR A