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People’ Ss Republic of Mongolia forges ahead. Picture above
shews the inner view of the heat plant which supplies
electricity for a newly-built paper mill.

FARM
NOTES

Here are some facts taken
from a publication of the Ec-
onomics and Research Branch
of the Department of Labour
at Ottawa, entitled “Trends
in the Agricultural Labour
Force in Canada.”

LESS FARMERS

In 1921 there were 8.1 mil-
lion people in Canada, slight-
ly more than half of them liv-
ing in rural areas, mostly on
farms By 1956 the population
had gone up to 16.1 million
but the number of people liv-
ing on farms had dropped to
2.7 million.

The agricultural labour
force (which consists of those
14 years old and over who are
working on farms or looking
for work there) has declined
even more. In 1946 there were
1,190,000 persons in the farm
labour force; by 1959 it had
declined to 703,000. This hap-
pened at a time when the en-
tire Canadian labour force

CORRECTION

An article entitled ‘Unity
Can Win For Woodworkers”
(March 31) stated, “In 1950
the H.R. MacMillan Co. had
a work force of 3,500. Their
profit for that year was $3
million. Later in the article
it states “In 1950 with a pro-
fit of $3 million —”

The year 1945 should be
substituted for 1950 in both
cases,

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In 1946 there were 31,000
in the agricultural labour
force in B.C. By 1958 this had
gone down to 25,000. During
the same period the total B.C.
labour force went up from
406,000 to 551,000. In 1946
the number in agriculture
was 8% of the total labour
force; in 1958 it was down to
5%.

PRODUCTIVITY IN
AGRICULTURE

While the farm labour force
has gone down a great deal
since the end of World War
II, agricultural production has
gone up. The physical volume
of agricultural production av-
eraged 145.5% for the five
year period from 1953-57 bas-
ed on average production in
the 1935-39 period equalling
100. In terms of constant
1935-39 dollars, the increase
in average output per man-
hour between these two per-
iods is estimated to be close to
90%. This happened at a time
when the number of persons
with jobs in“ agriculture de-
clined by about 36%.

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BY SCHOOL TEACHER
Delegates representing 12,-
000 B.C. teachers met in Van-
couver last week. Meeting
amidst the growing crisis in
B.C. education, the convention
was faced with many crucial
issues,

“Among the issues debated
were the Chant Commission

recommendationss, province-!

membership controls by the
Federation. On all major
issues the Federation con-
tinued to pursue a policy of
retreat.

In contrast to the B.C.,
P-TA position on federal shar-
ing of education costs as an
answer to the educational fin-
ance problem, the teachers did
not even consider this solu-
tion. A report of the Educa-

wide bargaining and proposed | ents into vocational and aca-

Be

B.C. Teachers’ Convention Fails
To Take Up Vital Social Issues

tional Finance Committee in-
dicated a degree of satisfac-
tion with recent government
legislation.

While disagreeing with many
aspects of the Chant Report
the teachers agreed, in prin-
ciple, with the reactionary
class approach of the report.
The best example of this is the
proposed separation of stud-

demic channels at an early
age.

On the B.C. School Trustees
Association proposal of provin-
cial bargaining, in place of the
present iocal bargaining, now
threatened as government leg-
islation, the Federation took
no positive stand.

In an effort to gain control
over professional standards the

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