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_ New Survey Shows

More than 80 per cent of Canada’s 6,763 union locals are

within the Canadian Labour
Department of Labour’s 1959

Union membership in 1959 stood
at 1,459,000 of which 1,154,000 be-
longed to the Congress. Member-
ship of the Canadian and Catholic

Confederation of Labour was
more than 97,000.

Largest Union

Largest union in Canada contin-
nes to be the United Steelworkers
of America with 80,000 members,
followed by the 70,000-member
Carpenters Union and the 60,000-
member UAW.

The national Union of Public
Employees recorded a membership
of 43,000 to surpass the 33,000-
member CBRT as the largest Na-
tional Union.

As of January, 1959, 90 of the
110 international unions active in
Canada were affiliates of the Can-
adian Labour Congress.

National and regional unions in
Canada at the begining of the year
totalled 51.

Membership Drop
Largest non-CLC groups in the
country included the CCCL un-
ions, Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers, the United Mine Work-
ers and the United Electrical

Congress, according to the
survey.

Workers of America. Many of
these groups reported a drop in
membership over 1958.

Two unions disappeared from
the Canadian scene and two un-
ions made new appearances. The
Granite Cutters’ International As-
sociation of America closed its
last local in 1958 as did the Insur-
ance Agents’ International Union.

The Stone Workers returned to
Canada after a two-year with-
drawal when a new local was
opened in Saskatchewan. The
Guards Association, consisting of
five locals, was organized in 1958
to represent plant guards in Tor-
onto,

Smallest Union

To the American Train Dis-
patchers Association (Ind.) goes
the honor of being the smallest
union in Canada. There is only
one local of ‘the Dispatchers Union
with a total membership of eight.

The results of the department’s
survey are published annually in a
booklet entitled “Labour Organiz-
ations in Canada.” It lists the
names, leaders, locals, and mem-
bership totals of every union in
the country.

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Earthquakes

Produced
By Machine

A machine that manufactures
earthquakes has been developed
by four engineers at California
Institute of Technology. Their
idea is to crack some real build-
ings under controlled condi-
tions to learn how to build
structures that will withstand
earthquakes better.

The basic component of the
machine is a pair of unbalanced
weights that rotate in opposite

directions horizontally in a 15-in.- |

high assembly bolted to the floor
of the building. Rotating the
weights rapidly produces. the
building-shaking vibrations.

The machine produces quakes
of varying magnitude according to
the weights used and the speed at
which they are rotated. By tuning
the vibration to the natural
frequency of each building, con-
siderable damage can be done with
little energy. The project’s goal
is to find ways of dampening the
vibrations caused by natural earth-
quakes.

AND MORE LOGGERS IN CONVENTION

Bears Won't!
Believe This
But

University of Toronto re-

searchers have exploded the

generally accepted theory that

hibernating animals sleep
soundly all winter.

Experiments by the university’s
zoology department show that at
least some animals wake up at
regular intervals for a stroll and
a snack.

The scientists believe some of
their findings on the lowering of
hody temperatures during hiber-
nation may have an important ap-
plication in hypothermial—deep
freeze” operations on humans,

“Boom” For Whom?

They say Canada’s booming,
but you’d never believe it by
looking in the unemployment
insurance office,

According to the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics, there has
heen a rise in the number of Cana-
dians seeking unemployment in-
surance,

The most depressing feature of
the latest DBS report is that this
winter's unemployment seems al-

depths of the depression.

More than 400,000 claimed un-
employment insurance on Novem-
ber 30, 1959 — only 1,800 below
November i958 totals!

The Octuber figure of 250,600
claimants jumped in one month by
166,900, Ontario alone
men and women seeking insurance
November 1958 totals!

Initial claimants in November
numbered 193,000, about 100 per
cent above October and 18 per

while in

most as bad as a year ago, at thecent higher than 1958.

New Westminster.

CREDIT UNION DIRECTORY

IWA Credit Unions and other Credit Unions

sypported by IWA Local Unions in B.C.
Alberni District Credit Union, 209 Argyle Street, Port Alberni
IWA 1-217 Savings, Broadway & Quebec Streets, Vancouver 10
IWA (N.W.) Credit Union, Room 21, 774 Columbia Street,

Local 1-118, IWA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria
Chemainus & District Credit Union, Box 229, Chemainus
Leke Cowichan and District Credit Union, Lake Cowichan, B.C.
Courtenay Credit Union, Box 952 Courtenay

Dencon & District Credit Union, Box 1717, Duncan

Prince George & District, 1046 - 4th Avenue, Prince George
_ Nenaimo & District Credit Union, 499 Wallace St., Nanaimo
| Lodysmith & District Credit Union, Box 154 Ladysmith, B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

What's New

For

DICTATING SYSTEM elimi-
nates need for handling records,
belts, tapes or wires. You merely
pick up a telephone-like handset,
dictate and replace. To transcribe,
puts on her ecar-
presses the foot-switch
Heart of the system
is a permanently installed, remote

your secretary
phones,
and listens,

recording-transcribing unit utiliz-
ing a continuous-flow magnetic
tape

from

that requires no attention
either the dictator or the
transcriber. Several dictating sta-
may be connected to one

systein,

tions

* * *

POLIO PATIENTS or ‘suf-
ferers from serious chest com-
plaints may no longer remain
anchored inside an iron lung. U.K.
firm has an electronic lung that
links patients to the “ventilator”
by two plastic tubes. Breathing
is sustained by the alternation of
positive and negative pressures.
The “lung” weighs only 56 IJb.,
will run for 24 hrs. on built-in
batteries without recharging,
maker says.

Ed * *

CLIP keeps recording tape
from unwinding and tangling. It’s
so designed that a reel of tape
will lie flat in its storage box with

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the clip in place. Maker says it
works with either a full or par-
tially full reel.

* * *

TOOL for awkward spots:
wrench that can be worn on the
finger of a hand without restrict-
ing the movement of cither hands
or fingers. It consists essentially
of a shaped hand of spring steel
that fits tightly on the finger to

which tools like wrenches or
screwdrivers can be affixed.

* * *
ADHESIVE that comes in

sheets will immediately bond two
surfaces with a minimum strength
of 8 lb. per sq. in., the maker says.
You press the sheet by hand to the
back of any flat object remove the.
paper backing, and the adhesive
remains on the back of the object
ready for sticking. You can mount
photos, drawings, illustrations; ~
laminate paper or board.

* * *

HEAT INSULATION of walls
is improved with a plastic “under-
wallpaper,” German maker says.
It is stuck on the walls beneath
the wallpaper proper. It has a
thickness of one-twelfth to one-
fifth of an inch, the thicker being
equivalent to 4 in. of wall in its
heat insulation effect, the maker
claims. It can also be placed under
linoleum to damp the sound of
footsteps.

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