THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

RHODESIA RAPPED

NEW YORK, N. Y. — A memorandum spelling out vio- lations of trade union rights by the all-white government of Southern Rhodesia has been filed with a committee of the United Nations General Assembly by Irving Brown, UN representative of the In- ternational Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

The ICFTU memorandum said Southern Rhodesia has applied its Law and Order (Maintenance) Act “to im- pair and to hinder the normal functioning of trade unions.”

COSTS CLIMB

OTTAWA — The Cana- dian consumer price index rose to a new high in No- vember.

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported the in- dex jumped to 140.2, up almost a full point over the October figure of 139.3. Food costs were the main cause of the increase.

The previous high was in July at 139.5. In Novem- ber last year, the index stood at 135.9 and the jump in the one-year peri- od is about 3.2 percent.

Economists claim that price gains should be held at between 1% and two percent in a year.

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sO DO PROFITS

Canadian business is hav- ing boom times with net pro- fit figures streaking way ahead of wage improvements. The 1965 Financial Post Sur- vey of Industrials shows an average gain of 18.5% in pro- fit, after taxes, last year. The survey covers 287 major Canadian companies.

The biggest profit increases were in milling and grain, which rose 46% for the year, with metals and construction following closely.

LIGHTER SIDE

Judge: ‘“You’ve been ap- pearing before me in this court for 20 years!”

Drunk: “Can I help it if you don’t get promoted?”

This law, “the most harsh piece of legislation in South- ern Rhodesia,” results in con- travention of the International Labor Organization conven- tion on trade union freedom, the memorandum charges.

The legislation among other things includes provisions reg- ulating public processions and meetings and the use of loud- speakers which in practice “have been used to prohibit gatherings and meetings by trade unions,” according to the memorandum.

Police monitor union meet- ings — when they are held — by tape recorder, “an infringe- ment of free speech,” it con- tinues. “Almost all” union meetings have been proscrib- ed since November 1963, the memorandum states. “It is manifestly clear... that trade unions in Southern Rhodesia never will function freely so long as the present constitu-

dominate and to suppress the four million African people.”

BIG PARTY

The huge seventeenth an- nual Christmas party given by IWA Local 1-217 in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre was a huge success.

The affair was held on Sun- day, Dec. 12 in three sessions because of the large attend- ance, one at 11 am., the second at 2 p.m. and the third at 7 p.m.

All children received a gift and the excitement and goodies again made the big party a fun-filled day.

JOBLESS

OTTAWA (CPA) — Un- employment climbed in No- vember as the usual cutback

was an increase in non-farm - jobs.

government report said that unemployment at mid- November stood at 220,000, which is 3.1 percent of the

gu mid-October was 171,000, or 2.4 percent of the labor force.

QUOTE

“More Canadians than ever think the government should own and manage this country’s industries, a nationwide study of public attitudes reveals. To determine Canadians’ attitude on public versus private industrial ownership, Elliott re- searchers questioned more than 5,000 persons from all kinds of economic and social backgrounds... .

“The company’s resea

rchers this year found that public

support for private ownership of industry has dropped to 60.7 percent from last year’s 63.1 percent and from a peak of 68.6

mt in 1954. At the same time,

e number of persons

vouring government ownership of industry has risen from 22.8 percent in 1964 to 24.5 percent this year—the highest level LY ”

since 1947

—Globe and Mail Report on Business

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