The Inter-American Institute
for Labour Studies, at Cuer-
navaca, Mexico, serves trade
unionists in the Caribbean area
and 29 countries in Central and
South America. Canadian
trade unionists have un-
deriaken a building project
that will more than double the

_ facilities of the Institute,
__ sponsored by the Inter-
i American Regional
Organization (ORIT) of the
International Confederation of
7 Free Trade Unions.

In 1969, a total of 1,200
& students participated in
courses at the Institute. The
a, average course lasts three
weeks. Subjects in these in-
tensive sessions include:

t Labour Education Techniques;
| Fundamental Economics;
m) Trade Union Structure;
1 Labour Legislation; History of
+} the Trade Union Movement;

Communications and Public

Relations; Economic and

Social Development; and Role
of International Agencies, such
" as the International Labour

Organization, the World Health
e Organization.

. Astudent’s travel expenses,
tuition and accommodation are
covered by a scholarship from

his union. Lost-time is not paid.
_/ The Institute has a full-time
_/ director and three resident
lecturers. In addition staff
members of ORIT, the
Mexican trade unions and
international agencies in
Central and South America
? serve as visiting lecturers.

wi The CLC building project
will add three buildings to the

CANADIAN UNIONISTS
SPONSOR ORIT PROJECT

ORIT Institute: a two-storey
residence accommodating 60
students; a small building with
two classrooms; and another
two-storey building in which
the entire first floor will be
used for a library.

The total cost of the project
has been estimated at $300,000.
A grant equal to one-quarter of
the construction cost was
received from the voluntary
agencies’ division of the
Canadian International
Development Agency of the
federal government.

CLC Executive Vice-
President Jean Beaudry laid
the cornerstone for the new
library at the sod-turning
ceremony for the Cuernavaca
Project, on Nov. 11, 1970. In
addition to the Government of
Mexico, which had donated
some of the land for the ORIT
Institute, the following
countries, whose residents use
the facilities, were represented
at this event: Argentina,
Barbados, Brazil, British
Honduras, Chile, Columbia,
Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru,
Venezuela and Trinidad.

Some CLC unions have
helped build the addition to the
ORIT Institute through
specific pledges or regular
contributions to the In-
ternational Activities Fund.
Congress affiliates still may
contribute to this training
centre for their brothers in
Latin America by donations to
cover the cost of furnishing the
new bedrooms and classrooms
and the purchase of books for
the library.

7

without a job and looking for a

The discrepancy also adds
fuel to the worries of those who
distrust the monthly Dominion
Bureau of Statistics figures,

“ty :
fe VERNMENT ADMITS
P 000 UNEMPLOYED
r
' ‘
= The government has _ad-
a mitted that 750,000 Canadians job.
“> are drawing unemployment
insurance benefits.
x The admission came Jan. 29
i from External Affairs Minister
; Sharp — as acting prime

ed minister — in reply to a
Commons question from Frank
_ Howard, the NDP Member
from Skeena.

The figure is 211,000 above
the last official count of
unemployed — 539,000 for
December. 1970. And that
figure was 40 per cent higher
than the year-earlier total.
Sharp later spent a futile 15

minutes trying to explain the
discrepancy to reporters.

He said the 750,000 figure
people on “temporary
and some people with
But he was unable to explain
ay the basic considerations
t to receive unemployment

nce a Canadian has to be

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The previous day Manpower
Minister Lang admitted he had
sent a memorandum to his
regional departmental -offices
about publishing unem-
ployment figures, and said it
was merely to ensure that

figures were ‘‘fully un-

derstood.”

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THIS SECTION of the ORIT Inter-American Institute for Labour Studies, opened in 1966,
mee a small library and students’ sleeping quarters facing the L-shaped swimming
pool.

FEDERAL SLEUTHS TRACKING DOWN
MISLEADING CANADIAN ADVERTISERS

Federal sleuths are track-
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tisers in Canada’s $1-billion-
a-year ad game.

They have already nabbed
some of the country’s most
prominent business concerns.
Changes in the Combines In-
vestigation Act took enforce-
ment of misleading advertis-
ing out of provincial hands
and the criminal code and
gave federal authorities the
right to prosecute.

The result is a growing list
of convictions. As of late last
year, the department of con-
sumer and corporate affairs
reports 33 cases had been
brought to court. There have

been 11 convictions. Two are
being appealed.
300 Complaints

The department gets 300
complaints of misleading
advertisements every month.
This proves, says minister
Ron Basford, that new laws
are “still required to deal
with the infinite capacity of
man to innovate in deceptive
practices.”

Among the manufacturers
and retailers prosecuted to
date by the branch are Mon-
arch Fine Foods Co. Ltd. of
Toronto, G. Tamblyn Ltd., the
Toronto-based drug chain;
American Music Corp. Ltd.
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