‘oibles, Vancies und Facts pmforting Thought, iorge? sie “The latest finding (of e- Gallup Poll) is in Swer ‘to a question con- ening the chief interest of litical parties. Funnily yough, the newspaper com- Wnt on the result voices the nclusion that ‘no political tty has a monopoly of pblic confidence.’ : @ lhe figures show that , percent of professed CCF Weoporters believe that the *_E is more concerned with ~gional wellbeing than ifh party welfare. That “ans that 71 percent think 4 . st party .comes first. > oks ‘bad enough. But [)nservative supporters fe that much credit by ely 12 percent, while Lib- Is are only willing-by 10 Feent to concede that their pty puts the country’s ‘lfare first. ‘So bad as the CCF case Way look, it is nearly three ties better than the other Ho appear even in the eyes (@ their own supporters.’°-— fom George Weaver's W7eckly Comment’ in the UF News. | e q |e Political (H)arm— ~ailding Trade Union Sanity : ‘The logger who signed Veiself ‘IWA Member’ was wyt an ordinary ‘working st and not a member of IWA hiérarchy.” Edi- e's INote in the letters to editor column of the | News. -#me, Come, George, mmy Douglas and J. Won't Like This “How can a new social er be ‘new’ if there is no elution? We ask to yw.” From George Weay- column in CCF News. nich Is it Boys? Trade jionism or Partisan Flitics? | Labor-Management com- Pitees, far from being Kely a wartime fad is @etined to become a perm- ent heritage of the worker il is, in fact, the bevinning ean era when labor's true m= in the affairs of the entry and the manage- fot of industry along with emment and company Necials will be far less BOretical than at present.” {nd on the same editorial Pee of the Sudbury Beacon: /) Without social owner- '2 in times of peace we F to see how trade unions § continue to be effective.” Continued > have met with a warm sym- pathy and a widespread desire for a new deal in the Yukon. Owing to wartime _ueeds the gold production of the Klon- dyke fields has declined as a result of labor Shortage, but there is every indication that this industry, which produces the greatest bulk of the wealth of the Yulson, will again forge ahead. There is a growing sentiment among the Yukon people for a final break with the old tory gang that has bedevilled the Yukon with its reactionary policies and narrow partisan control. AMONG many of the miners ~ and oldtimers, there is a jus- tifiable worry at the fact that -there are two labor candidates in the field, myself as Labor candidate for the Yukon Terri- tory, and a candidate of the CCF. They feel that in such a situation the “tory will slip in again.” Hitherto, as a re- sult of the reckless disregard of the top CCF leadership for the real facts of the case .. _ repeated again and again, by the handful of local GCF fol- lowers, the miners’ and work- ers of the Dawson areas were given to believe that the GCF was the “political arm of the whole of Canadian “Doesn't the whole of the labor movement on the outside en- dorse the G©CF” a miner asked. When he is told that less than two percent of the trade union- ists of Canada officially en- dorse the CCF as its “political arm,” he gets the feeling that someone has been ‘stretching the Iongbew.” Many of the -local CCE people agree with the idea that it would perhaps be better if there was only one labor can- didate. but express the fear that if the steps toward unity: to achieve this was undertaken by them, the top leadership would “apply the axe.” labor.” _ * Von Politically the CCF is bank- Tupt in the Yukon; it has noth- ing to offer but demagogy and promises of what will happen when it (the CCF), introduces © “socialism.” It seeks to cash in on the legitimate grievances of the Yukon people against those interests who have systematic-— ally sabotaged and obstructed democratic progress in the Yukon. It rails against Mac-— kenzie King and the LPP in its public pronouncements; claims to hold Dawson in its hand, by virtue of its imagined contro] of the Dawson Miners’ Union, and “blames” White- horse for “splitting the vote’ and making it possible for a tory to be*re-elected. Nevertheless, the Yukon is on the march, and in spite of all difficulties, will record its unity for progressive govern- ment on election day. One cannot stay in the Yu- kon any length of time without realizing that here, perhaps more than in any other area of Canada, there is a deep_ love and reverence among the ma- jority. of .the people for their country. Men and women who have lived and toiled in the Yukon swear by their country, and generally wind up by. tell- ing you that if they could ‘get rid of this monopoly control and its stooges” that the Yu- kon would forge ahead beyond all dreams, An old Yukoner who has travelled its many trails since the gold rush days put it this way. “Crossing: them thar hills is hard .. . its kinda nice. kinda pretty ... when ya git over ya swear youll never come back ... but ya always do.” Yes, the Yukon is° on the march for a new deal... for a chance to grow. And it is looking to labor for progressive government and a new way of life. = The Yukon is realizing that it -is a proud part of Canada, and not Canada’s backyard, destined for ever to be under narrow tory + supervision and domination. © UNITED NATIONS [3/:\(64/65 % STEADY REFER SOB! GERMANS TWICE REBUILT RAIL: TUNNEL NEAR GULOZs FRENCH PATRIOTS DYNA= MITED IT A THIRD TIME WITHIN A MONTA BREAKING NAZI SUPPLY LINES 7 TER PERCENT OF ALL DUTCH COAST CRAFT SUPPIY UNITED FORGES 17! NORMANDY,7~ y PEOPLE AT THE START OF THE WAR, HAS TRAINED THOUSANDS OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN SCHOOLS ORGANIZED By GEN- LIM 7 CHINA, WITH ONLY 1 DOCTOR PER 45,000 Yukon Belles—competitors in the popular girl contest held at the Whitehorse Labor Day Celebration. Wage Rates in the USSR Sole Individual Income By RAYMOND ARTHUR DAVIES MOSCOW— (ALN) —A description of the principles and forms of wage payments in the USSR was presented to this correspondent recently by Professor 1. M.Brover, an outstanding Soviet Doctor of Economics. Although wages are paid either on piece rate or time rates, as in the USA, he explained, the fundamental difference lie in the fact that wages in the USSR are virtually the only means of indi- vidual income, whereas in other countries income is also derived from rent, interest and profit. Social ownership in the Soviet Union, Brover ‘stated, takes two forms—state ownership and cooperative ownership. The overwhelming majority of the means of production mills, factories, railways, etc.) belong to the people as a whole and are administered in their behalf by the state. In the case of the cooperative ownership, the means of production belone to.each association. This form, most prevalent in agriculture, rose out of the amalgamation of small individual enterprises. Since the cooperatives use land and agricultural machinery be- longing to the state, however, they deliver a portion of their product to the state at fixed prices. Thus the state distri- butes practically the entire so- cial product. The total national-wealth is divided among a reserve and insurance fund, a fund for the state maintenance of the in- capacitated, and the personal consumption of the working population. The method of dis= tribution to the. working popu- lation, Brover explained, takes the form of wages. However, the level of consumption cannot be determined by wages alone,- he added, since workers receive substantial supplements in the form of free cultural and ma- terial services (schools, hospi- tals, clubs, kindergartens, sana- toria, rest-homes, etc.). Because the economic level of the entire people depends upon the rate of production, Brover continued, it is constantly “necessary to increase the skills of the workers. Because added payment for outstanding work is a stimulus, he asserted, the USSR regards equalitarianism (equal pay for unequal work) as detrimental to the prosperity of the population. However, he declared, the principle of equal pay for equal work is firmly. established whether the worker. be male, female, adult or ju- venile. © G pice rates predominate in industry, Brover said, while time rates prevail mainly in non-productive work (educa- - tion, health, ete.) and in pro- ductive branches where an exact ealeulation of results is impos- sible, such as in the work of (land, engineers, technicians or clerks. Piece rates take two forms— p Straight and progressive. Under the straight piece rate, workers are paid on the same scale for every piece they turn out. Wages are therefore in direct proportion to output, Brover ex- plained, and this encourages workers to attain new skills and to pass on to more complex jobs. Training programs are given to workers free of charge in their spare time. Under the progressive piece ~ rate, the worker is paid on a fixed scale for all output up to the established norm, and above this a higher rate which pro- gressively increases as his out- put increases. For example, cér- tain kinds of -workers in the Donbas coal mines received the following progressive rates: output upto 10 percent in ex- eess of the norm is paid at double the normal rate, and over 10 percent at three times the normal rate. These are paid primarily where it is especially necessary to increase produc- tion or in industries such as coal mining where because of special difficulty added encour- agement is required to attract workers to them. Under the time rate system, Brover said, the principle of payment according to ability is observed by classifying differ- ent types of work according to their difficulty and importance to the national economy, and by. classifying each worker accord- ing to his skill. During the war, added meas- ures have been taken both to preserve the level of real wages and to maintain the differen- | tiation, Brover stated. The in- troduction of guaranteed food rations for workers and their families, the starting of farms by industrial plants to supply their employees, the extension of public catering, the encour- agement of victory gardening and increased accommodation in- child nurseries have main- tained the real wage level. At the same time, the introduc- tion of differentiated rations for workers of different cate- gories, and of increased rations for those workers with high output quotas, intensify the stimulus for increased produc- tion.