ae ‘ ud Fr S. ig | end for news copy May 13th. Rich Getting Richer — Mo: of us know how poor people eke out an existence. Little is told us about how the rich _ get along. To find out we must rely on an agency such as the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Re- search. According to the latest report from the body of experts, the rich are getting richer. More and more wealth is being concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The Bureau’s study reveals that in the last year of record, 1.6% of the population held 30% of the total.volume of personal wealth. Stock market transactions in recent years have greatly emphasized this trend. The lion’s share of stock and bond holdings is held by those in the top- income bracket. The report disproves a claim made by CMA spokesmen when before the Committee of the Legi- slature dealing with automation. It was said then that the benefits of automation would accrue to the general public on an equit- able basis by means of increased dividends on their stock holdings. The need to-day, especially because of the advent of automation, is for a more equitable sharing of the increased wealth resulting from a rapidly rising productivity. Otherwise, automation will. prove a eurse and not a blessing. —— Life Is Cheap ORKERS interested in steps to outlaw the manufacture, use and testing of nuclear weap- ons should not overlook the fact that still more deadly weapons of mass destruction are being stock-piled. Now the U.S. Army Chemical Corps has disclosed that they have been accumulating stocks of a lethal gas that can kill millions swiftly. Another death- dealing specialty would spread dread epidemics such as cholera through infected insects. The army experts have expressed a preference for the use of lethal gas, for the simple reason that the wholesale murder of people by its use, does not involve the destruction of buildings, plant or equip- ment. Talk of disarmament is merely a hypocritical gesture, when proposals of this kind are seriously entertained. Report Erroneous THE UNITED STATES is not pricing itself out of world markets a recent study has shown. The study, presented at a Princeton University seminar, declared that there is “No broad evidence” to back up claims that the U.S. is losing its export markets while imports are rising. Publication date of the next issue of the WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER is May 19th. Deadline for ad copy is May 5th A AOA THE WESTERN CANADIAN BwTUe PUBLISHED TWICE MONTHLY ON THE FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAYS BY International Woodworkers of America 7 (AFL-CIO-CLC) Regional Council No.1 “Gg REGIONAL OFFICERS: President Joe Morris Ist Vice-President. ..... Jack Moore 2nd Vice-President .. Bob Ross ee | EEE Ta Fred Fieber Seeretary-Treasurer ~ orge H. Mitchell International Board Members .. eee Walter F. Allen S. M, Hodgson Address all communications to GEORGE H. MITCHELL, Secretary-Treasurer 45 Kingsway - TR 4-5261 - 2 Vancouver, B.C, Subscription Rates.............$2.00 per annum Advertising Representative...........G, A. Spencer uthorized as Second Class Mall, Post Office Dept., Ottawa - 27,500 COPIES PRINTED IN THIS ISSUE” WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER Compensation Bulletin Lists Latest Benefits The 1959 edition of the bulletin “Workmen’s Com- pensation in Canada” has just been released, Hon. Michael Starr, Minister of Labour, has announced. The bulletin, prepared by the Legislation Branch, Department of Labour, describes the main features of compensation legis- lation and sets out in tabulation form by provinces the scale of | compensation in effect in case of disability from an industrial accident and the benefits to de- pendents in case of a fatal in- dustrial accident. It also con- tains a review of the changes in workmen’s compensation laws in 1959 up to October, the date of publication, In Manitoba and Nova Scotia, amendments to the Acts imple- mented recommendations of Roya! Commissions, headed by Honourable W, F. A, Turgeon in Manitoba and Mr. Justice McKinnon in Nova Scotia. The changes in Saskatchewan re- sulted from an inquiry into the Act by a Committee of Review appointed every four years, The Acts of British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island were also revised. The main changes affecting disability compensation for Printers of The Western Canadian Lumber Worker J.W. Bow & Co. LIMITED PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS 944 RICHARDS STREET MUtual 1-6338 - 6339 were the increase in Nova Scotia of the percentage rate of earnings on which awards for disability are based from 70 to 75 (making a 75 per cent rate | uniform aeross Canada) and in- creases in the maximum yearly earnings base for the computa- tion of compensation to $3,600 in Nova Scotia, $4,500 in Manitoba and $5,000 in British Columbia. The most significant changes in benefits to dependents in fatal cases were the increases in monthly pensions to widows to $90 in British Columbia, $75 in Manitoba and $60 in Nova Scotia, Children’s allowances were aiso raised in British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Ist Issue May, 1960 FATTENING, ILLEGAL OR IMMORAL If a spoonful of ice cream, a sip of coffee or a puff of tobacco smoke speeds up your heartbeat, probably you have a mild type of allergy com- mon to 85 to 90 per cent of the white population of this country. So reports an allergy specialist in California. Ice cream, coffee and tobacco can produce headache, cold sores, dizziness. We aren’t surprised. This might well go down in history as the age when doctors dis- covered everything pleasur- able in life was immoral, illegal, fattening or slow death. —Plain Dealer, Cleveland For a light and bright pilsener beer CARLING'S PILSENER ...0f course! : THE CARLING BREWERIES (3 C.) LimiTeD This advertisement is Liquor Control Board or by Not published or displayed by the. the Government of British Columbia,