Poll Reveals
Voters’ Shift

_ Both Government and Opposition forces have lost ground
politically since January. Liberals have dropped two points;
Conservatives three points; while NDP favor has gained three
points, and Social Credit and other parties are two points up.

Indecision among the voters is at a high level — more
than three in ten voters reporting they don’t know how they’d
vote in an election if it were called now. In Quebec, this con-
fusion has reached an all-time high in the Poll’s surveys —
with more than four in ten undecided.

_ Liberals and Conservatives stand at a lower level in all
regions, while the NDP pained slightly in all. In Ontario, the
Liberals have dropped back to their standing at the last fed-
eral election. Social Credit is up in the West.

The question: “If a federal election were held today
which party’s candidate do you think you would favor?”

: The table below compares today’s ratio for party stand-
ings with those of the last election and recent Gallup reports.
(The figures are based on answers from those people who
have made up their minds.)

Conserva- Socred
Standing— tives Liberals NDP and Others
April 1963 33% 42% 13% 12%
October 1964 33 4T 13 7
January 1965 32 AT 12 9
TODAY 29 45 15 11

ONE MILLION STRIKE

More than one million Italian building workers toak part
in a one-day nation-wide strike on February 23, 1965. This
was in support of demands for Government action to combat
the lag in the building industry caused by recession, and the
ban of credits for construction work. As a result of the reces-
sion, workers’ earnings have been considerably reduced. The
strike was called by the three main Italian building and wood-
workers’ trade unions, including two affiliated to CISL and
UIL — the two Italian national trade union federations affi-
liated to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

6 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

Well fer one thing .. .

lumbego. .

whenever ya see a lead hand suddenly develop
. ya know them orders he’s carrin’ means bull work ahead! :

HANSARD REPORT

"Raise Tax Exemptions!”

Referring to an earlier an-
nouncement by Prime Minis-
ter Pearson to the effect that
the extra $500 income tax ex-
emption now granted to those
between 65 and 70 would be
done away with when this
group began to receive the
Old Age Security Pension,

IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO A QUESTION

My
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1 f WAM | eo - and Pierre Paris & Sons

have KNOWN HOW for

nearly

60 years. It was

‘then, and still is now, the

finest

logging boot that

money can buy.

UNION-MADE 1IN B.C.

PIERRE PARIS & SONS

51 West Hastings Street
Vancouver 3, B.C.

Family Teamwork in Craftsmanship since 1907

Stanley Knowles M.P. (Win-
nipeg North Centre) said
March 12:

“The government knows
that there is a very strong
feeling in this country that
the $1,000 and the $2,000 in-
come tax exemption levels
we now have are not high
enough in relation to today’s
cost of living. Therefore if
the government feels that

there should not be this dis-
crimination in favor of peo-
ple between 65 and 70 by
their having the extra $500
exemption, I suggest that the
way to cope with the situa-
tion, instead of taking the
exemption away from them,
is to raise the exemption
level for single people to
$1,500 and to raise the mar-
ried exemption from $2,000
to $3,000.”

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