PORE Ph : ah " fa ang Te i. a ted that the organization now 82 affiliates in 25 countries, representing 2,147,912 members. Two Yugoslavian affiliates had been expelled in 1959, he reported, one the 84,000-member wood- workers’ union and a_ 123,000- member building workers’ union - because of Yugoslavian Govern- ment domination. Employment Survey A survey of conditions in the various countries represented indi- cated that important gains had been made in reduction of the hours of work, annual vacations, paid statutory holidays, and sick pay. Strike action had been neces- sary at a number of points, it was stated, but in nearly all cases improved conditions has hbéen obtained. Secretary Hagen of the Feder- ation advised the conference that economic conditions had shown improvement in the leading Euro- pean countries, after a recession in 1957 and 1958. The outlook would be much brighter, he stated, but for the general feeling of in- security caused by international tensions. The Federation’s Secretary re-; He warned the delegates that automation and general techno- logical progress were responsible for problems which now demand greater attention on the part of organized labour. An interesting phase of his report dealt with the attention given trade union education for the younger workers in the occu- pations represented. Through edu- cational conferences sponsored by the Federation and its affiliates in Europe, the younger trade unionists are given courses and training in various aspects of trade union administration and policies. The Federation has also extended aid to woodworkers in Ghana, Kenya, Tanganyika, Nigeria and Cameroon. Steps have also been taken to contact organized groups of woodworkers in Japan. Workers’ groups in Cuba and British Guiana had sought affilia- tion it was disclosed. 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The paramount consideration in such case would be that it would lead to political union. This in turn would create the ‘Third Force” in the world to exert pres- sure on the two leading world powers to building conditions of enduring peace. Such a move would mean a complete re-ap- praisal of the world political situ- ation. The conference ended on the note which promised further en- deavour on the part of European trade unions to bring about the fusion of the two graups. From Page 1 QV z 2 5 Oils ke v7 Joc “The workers and the workers alone made the choice of organiz- ation to represent them. And this is the decision of the workers... not of editorial writers or em- ployers.” Jodoin denied that Canadian unions hue to a line laid down in the U.S. on wage demands and other policies. 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He listed 41 per cent of Canadian manufacturing, 73 per cent of the oil and gas industry and 52 per cent of the mining and smelting industry as controlled by U.S. citizens. : “Economic domination of a country leaves the door open to political pressure,” he told the club, ‘and at times our negoti- ations have been complicated by this pressure.” Testing A machine that drives a steel sampling tube into a load of coal on a truck will be used by the Tennessee Valley Authority to catch truckers who try to deliver inferior coal to the TVA by hiding the fuel under a layer of good fuel, the authority an- nounced at Knoxville.