THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

RHODESIA RAPPED

NEW YORK, N. Y. — A
memorandum spelling out vio-
lations of trade union rights
by the all-white government
of Southern Rhodesia has
been filed with a committee of
the United Nations General
Assembly by Irving Brown,
UN representative of the In-
ternational Confederation of
Free Trade Unions.

The ICFTU memorandum
said Southern Rhodesia has
applied its Law and Order
(Maintenance) Act “to im-
pair and to hinder the normal
functioning of trade unions.”

COSTS CLIMB

OTTAWA — The Cana-
dian consumer price index
rose to a new high in No-
vember.

The Dominion Bureau of
Statistics reported the in-
dex jumped to 140.2, up
almost a full point over the
October figure of 139.3.
Food costs were the main
cause of the increase.

The previous high was
in July at 139.5. In Novem-
ber last year, the index
stood at 135.9 and the
jump in the one-year peri-
od is about 3.2 percent.

Economists claim that
price gains should be held
at between 1% and two
percent in a year.

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sO DO
PROFITS

Canadian business is hav-
ing boom times with net pro-
fit figures streaking way
ahead of wage improvements.
The 1965 Financial Post Sur-
vey of Industrials shows an
average gain of 18.5% in pro-
fit, after taxes, last year. The
survey covers 287 major
Canadian companies.

The biggest profit increases
were in milling and grain,
which rose 46% for the year,
with metals and construction
following closely.

LIGHTER SIDE

Judge: ‘“You’ve been ap-
pearing before me in this
court for 20 years!”

Drunk: “Can I help it if
you don’t get promoted?”

This law, “the most harsh
piece of legislation in South-
ern Rhodesia,” results in con-
travention of the International
Labor Organization conven-
tion on trade union freedom,
the memorandum charges.

The legislation among other
things includes provisions reg-
ulating public processions and
meetings and the use of loud-
speakers which in practice
“have been used to prohibit
gatherings and meetings by
trade unions,” according to
the memorandum.

Police monitor union meet-
ings — when they are held —
by tape recorder, “an infringe-
ment of free speech,” it con-
tinues. “Almost all” union
meetings have been proscrib-
ed since November 1963, the
memorandum states. “It is
manifestly clear... that trade
unions in Southern Rhodesia
never will function freely so
long as the present constitu-

dominate and to suppress the
four million African people.”

BIG PARTY

The huge seventeenth an-
nual Christmas party given
by IWA Local 1-217 in the
Queen Elizabeth Theatre was
a huge success.

The affair was held on Sun-
day, Dec. 12 in three sessions
because of the large attend-
ance, one at 11 am., the
second at 2 p.m. and the third
at 7 p.m.

All children received a gift
and the excitement and
goodies again made the big
party a fun-filled day.

JOBLESS

OTTAWA (CPA) — Un-
employment climbed in No-
vember as the usual cutback

was an increase in non-farm
- jobs.

government report said
that unemployment at mid-
November stood at 220,000,
which is 3.1 percent of the

gu
mid-October was 171,000, or
2.4 percent of the labor force.

QUOTE

“More Canadians than ever think the government should
own and manage this country’s industries, a nationwide study
of public attitudes reveals. To determine Canadians’ attitude
on public versus private industrial ownership, Elliott re-
searchers questioned more than 5,000 persons from all kinds
of economic and social backgrounds... .

“The company’s resea

rchers this year found that public

support for private ownership of industry has dropped to 60.7
percent from last year’s 63.1 percent and from a peak of 68.6

mt in 1954. At the same time,

e number of persons

vouring government ownership of industry has risen from
22.8 percent in 1964 to 24.5 percent this year—the highest level
LY ”

since 1947

—Globe and Mail Report on Business

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