By BARRY MATHER, M.P.
Surrey, B.C.
$20-A-MONTH FOR ADS:

Advertising expenditures in Canada total 1.2 billion dollars a
year or about $240 for a family of four. This is more than the
Federal Government spent last year on the combined total of:
External Affairs, Fisheries & Forestry, Indian Affairs and
Northern Development, Foreign Aid, Justice, Labor, Regional
Economic Expansion grants for the Arts and Consumer & Cor-
porate Affairs . . . Many contend that advertising now adds to
the cost of goods sold, and to prices, and represents a waste of
resources which would be useful in programs of better priority.

LATER THAN YOU THINK: .

On the average 3.9 babies are born every second and 1.7
people die. With a gain of 2.2 persons per second, or 132 every
minute, or 190,000 a day more than 1,330,000 are added to the
world’s population every week. At that rate an entire new
population of Canada came into being from last May to Sep-
tember. It took half a million years for the world’s population to
total today’s 2,900 million. That figure will be doubled in the next
30 years ... unless war, famine, or a reduction in population
growth intervenes.

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$23,000,000 AN HOUR

Is the approximate rate of world spending on “military
preparedness’’. . . Inthe last six years alone more than a trillion
dollars have been spent on that purpose. . . 15 tons of TNT for
each man, woman and child on earth now exists in explosive,
power in the nuclear weapon stockpiles of the U.S.A. and the
U.S.S.R.. . . Canada is still spending close to two billion dollars a
year on defence, when no defence is possible in this nuclear world
. . . There have been 1956 arms races since 650 B.C. and, ac-
cording to the Norwegian Academy of Sciences only an estimated
16 did not end in war...

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NOISE POLLUTION:
The intensity of noise is measured in decibels. Lengthy ex-
posure of more than 90 decibels is considered harmful to humans.

decibels
House party, four-piece rock band 115
Pneumatic hammer (six-feet away) 108
Walking near a helicopter 104
Jet taking off at airport 102
Train stopping at station 100
Power lawn mower 96
Inside subway with windows open 95
Screaming child ; 92
Moving sports car 86
Garbage truck (200 feet away ) 85
Traffic at residential corner 82

“either we shall use our new machinery and technology to
help us create security and dignity in the construction of a brave

“new world or the impact of jet propulsion technology upon a

huffing and puffing Model T distributive system will dig our
economic graves.’’ — The late Walter P. Reuther.

NOT SO FUNNY MONEY:

In North America dollar depreciation was at the rate of 25
per cent from 1940 to 1946. It was 28 per cent from 1946 to 1956. It
was 16 per cent from 1956 to 1966. It was approximately 21 per
cent from 1966 to mid-1970. So, if your North American $ was
worth 100 cents in 1940 it was worth about 36 cents in 1970, in

terms of buying goods.
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U.S. brokers have asked their government for a billion dollar

guarantee against bankruptcies . . . The government has also
been asked to bail out the aircraft industry and the rail tran-
sportation industry.

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WOMEN’S LIB:

A contract between Miss Lottie Jones, teacher, and the
Board of Education of the Middletown school, District in Ontario,
wherein the Board agrees to pay Miss Jones the sum of $75 per

month, and Miss Jones agrees, among other things:

1. Not to get married. }
®. Not to ride in a carriage or automobile with any man except

her brothers or father. rleks
3. Not to leave town without permission. ;
4. Not to smoke cigarettes or to drink beer, wine or whiskey.
5. Not to dye her hair or dress in bright colours.
6. To wear at least two petticoats. ra otc
7. To keep the schoolroom clean, scrubbing it with soap and
water at least once a week. :
8. Not to use face powder, mascara, or paint the lips.
9, Not to wear dresses more than two inches above the ankle,
and, finally,
10. Not toe loiter downtown in ice cream parlours.

The

point is that that contract was drawn up and signed, not in

the 1600's, but in Canada in 1923!

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER at

.-. MAY I HAVE SOME MORE?

Over 30imillion school children in 21 countries are given
school lunches éach day by GARE. Mhese children attend
school regularly because there they receive the only
nourishing mealiof the day. Whe school lunch plus GARE
school'supplies add upto a potent weapon with which

tofight malnutrition and illiteracy.

Yes, you willihave some more...as more Ganadians every
day send'their dollars to CARE in order to build a strong
and well-informed world for to-morrow.

GARE of Ganada, 63 Sparks St. Ottawa 4, Ont.

CLC VIEWS WITH MIXED FEELINGS
GOVERNMENT'S U.I.C. PROPOSALS

The federal government’s
White Paper on unemployment
insurance has. drawn both
endorsation and reservations
from the Canadian Labor
Congress.

In a brief presented Oct. 6 to
the Commons standing com-
mittee on labor, manpower and
immigration, the congress
endorsed proposals to extend
coverage to more people, to
provide payments during
sickness and pregnancy, to
increase benefits and lower
contribution rates and to ease

‘the requirements for benefits.

Reservations Too

But it had reservations about
proposals to extend the waiting
period, reduce the maximum
period of benefit, exclude
retirees and some low-income
people and to establish ex-
perience rating of employers’
contributions.

The CLC expressed dismay
that the fedral government
would consider a rate of four

per cent unemployed as
“normal.”
In reply to committee

members’ questions, Andy
Andras, CLC legislative
director, strongly criticized the
proposal that Ottawa’s con-
tribution be reduced when the
national unemployment rate
exceeds four per cent of the
labor force.

Employer Borne

The White Paper would have
most costs borne by employers
and employees when the
seasonally adjusted jobless
rate exceeded four per cent.
The. federal government now
puts up an amount equal to 20
per cent of the combined
employer and employee
contributions. It also pays for
administering the program.

The CLC fully supported the
universality of the proposed
new act, and specifically
welcomed the inclusion of
municipal workers, salaried
employees earning more than
$7,800 a year and employees of

non-profit hospitals and
charities.

Benefit Rate
It also - welcomed the

proposed shortening of the
minimum number of con-
tributions required to eight
from 30, and raising the benefit
rate to 66 per cent of earn-
ings with a maximum benefit
of $100 weekly. But it said the
maximum should be
automatically adjusted with
living cost increases. It also
said the waiting period should
remain one week, not two as
suggested.

On financing the program,
the CLC favoured the formula
proposed by the Unem-
ployment Insurance Advisory

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DELEGATES from Local 1-288 (Lumber Inspectors) and

Local 1-206 Alberta, during the recent IWA Regional Con-

vention.

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1750 East Kent

Vancouver 15, B.C.

Phone: 327-4629

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Committee — equal con-

tributions by government,

employers and employees.
Units of Time

It opposed a proposal that
workers earning less than $25 a
week be excluded. Instead the
base should be measured in
units of time — for example
four hours a week. Nor should
retirees who genuinely
remained in the labor force
after age 65 be excluded.

The CLC also said maximum
benefits should remain 51
weeks in any year, rather than
being reduced in some in-
stances to 43 as the White
Paper suggests.

And it objected to a
suggested experienced rating
system under which employers
with above-average rates of
layoff would pay higher con-
tributions.

HUGE FUND
FOR STEEL

The international executive
board’ of the United
Steelworkers of America has
approved a $10-million back-up
fund for the United Auto
Workers in their strike against
General Motors.

The Steelworkers’ con-
tribution will shore up the
UAW’s own defence fund of
nearly $130 million, which
would dry up in only six weeks
supporting 350,000 GM strikers
without additional support.

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