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PREMIER Joseph Smallwood's new anti-Iabour legislation has been rammed through the Nsw-^foundland House of Assembly. The new laws prohibit "what is commonly known as picketing" by any and all unions and their membera or officers or agents or representatives. The act also prohibits any and all uniaas» groups of unions, and their memfaers and offícers and every-one else from "authocizing, counselüng, procuring. aíding or abetting" any person to "persuade anyone not. to enter or leave the property or place of business of an employer." Por breaking tfaese laws, unions can be fined $5,000 and individuals $500.
(An editorial in the Toronto Globs and Mail reported that the proposed clause ag^ainst all picketing was withdrawn before the, act was passed by the legislature and that "peaceful" picketing will be allowed. The r^rt was aot carried in any of the newa* dis-
patches. In any case, such an amendment does not altér the vi-cious character of the rest of the act.)
The    danger of this fantastic
|new act is height«»ed by the fact * that it is only the most open ex-ípression of a pattmi of unión I smashing shaping up alsewhere in Canada.
At the other end of the countiy, B. C.'s Labour Mmister, Lyle Wicks has introduced a bili bito the B. C. legislature (BiU 43) which outlaws sytnpathy picaet lines and sympathy strikes, tokén picket Unes,secondary picket lines, and information picket lines. The proposed new legislation declares that unions and management or-ganizations are legal «itities. This would mean that management could aue unions in the event of strikes, and if the courts so de-cided, such unión could be heavily fined.
B. C. Pederation cf ^.r^boiur Pre-sident BiÍ! Black said: ••ihis bili gives liie employers the lever they réquire to continually harass, per^ secute the labour unions through the courts on the slightest pre-text" The f ederation has been asked by the Vancouver Labour CoUncil to call an emergency pro-vince-wide meeting of unión representatives to discuss action to combat this legislation.
The Ontario Legislature has be-
fore it a report^f a Select Gom-nüttee which would also ban sym-
pathetic picketing, and would tie up IsűtKmr disputes in lengfaty and costly court actions. Labour l^Cn-' ister Daley .told tii'e Ontario. legis-latiire that "Ontario'a present ja-bour act csm. handlé adequatsly any of the province's.major in-dustrial problems." He thought somé of the recommendations of the Select Cömmittee might be contrary ^to the criminal code. Thus, without cottunitting üim-self; Jir. Daley ■. sought to create an impression that the Toiy provinciai govemment was-not in fa-vour of the Select Cktmmittee re-port.
But labour men are waming that the Toriea are. only soft-pedalling because of an approach-ing election. They emphasize that eight of the ten members of the Select Coimnittee who drafted the anti-Iabour report are govemment supporters, and it Is hardly Mely that théy would bring in a report which did not reflect thé real thinking of the Tories.
INDEPENDENCE
THE hereditary chiefs of the Six Nations reservatiott near Brantford^ Outsoio, last week proclaimed their territory án in^ dependent nation and-named it "Grand Rivér Cöuntry." They have asked the Canadian govemment to recognize their n&w régime and said they would. ap-peal to the U. N. if it fdiled to do so.
The chiefs and ciose to 1,000 of their people deposed the elected council that governed the territory and took' over the ruling powers which they held until 35 yéars ago, when the elective system was impojsed on them by the Indián, Act,
The chiefs have announced plans to build a eanning factory to process their own. farm pro-duce, a clothing factory, tobac-co factory and an abbatoir. They also plan to introduce co-
operative farming and provide loans to promising studeuts far higher leahimg.
Thir^-five years ago. when the Indián Act was introduced/* the Six Nations ^ppealed to the League of Nations in Geneva to assm their independpnt nation-hood but nothing came of it
Two years ago they threatea-ed to appeal to the World Court at The Hague against violar tions of treaties théy had sigh-ed with thé govérmnent and th© crown (Qüeen Victoria).
Three ye&ra ago they proteöt-ed against changes in the Indián Act iffhich abolished one of the ancestral Indián customs and rights, the marriage cere-mon^, and made it mandatoiy that tjieir marriages be ^^per-formed by persons registéred and licensed by the govemment.
One Canadian In Five Is Now Without Work
By Lukm Robinson, Research Director, Mine-MiU Union
776,000 Canadian workers were unemployed in Janu-ary 1959. This is the latest govemment figure publish-ed so far. It is now more than a month old, and pro-bably 100,000 less than the February figure will be.
We won't go into the dreary ar-gument of whether one set of the Govenunent's. unemployment fi-gures is more **truthful" than the other. The fact is that this month of March 1959, one millión work-ers in Canada will be without jobs. H the govemment figures don't show that many, Ifs because they f aU to teU the whole story.
Profits Vp, Jobs Down
Compared to a year before, this was the production and employ-ment picture at the enc( of 1958.
Industria) production, aa a whole, up 1.8%; industrial em-ployment down 4.1SÍ.
Metál mining production • up ö 9 %; metál   mining employment down 1.7%.
Manufacturing production up^ 1.4%, manufacturing employment ries.
pital equipment installed in recen'. years is paying off in the form oí hicreased productivity. Greater industrial efficiency arising írom new ec|uU>niient, improved operat-ing methods and elimination of wasteful and inefficient practices has made possible reductions in the work force.
"Numerous Xirms have found that not all workers lald off need to be re-hired. Recently. production has been rising much faster than employment, bringing sav-
Ings in payroll costs.'
Huge profíts are being made by destroying jobs. New machines and equipment, automation and speed-up boost profits by cutting employment. That is why more
than one CJanadian worker in PROBLEMS OF HIGHER EDUCATION every five is now unemployed.
j TBBG ABOVE shows Nüia Alexandrova Anisimova, ohoreograpber ftom the Lenüigrad ^Irov Opera Honse with Hungárián baUet artlsts Zsuzsa Kun and Viktor FIUöp. The Sovlet choréographerils instructing the' ballet corps of tiie Hungárián State Opera in Khachaturlan's baUet '"G^ana" wh!ch wiU i>e shown ta Budapest during March. V V  J s.
What to do
• Ridsd wages all roond.
• Increase unemployment inso-rance benefits, family allowances, old age pensions and other wel-fare measnres.
• Bulid more roads, schools, hospitals. We certainly need them.
• Increase trade with all connt
down 5.2%.
But the profit outlook for the employers is rosier than ever. Business Week, a U.S. magaziné says: 'The only qaestton seems to be how much more abundant the gr&vy ívUl ber
The Monthly Letter of the First National Bank of New Tork ex-plained last November* how it would be done. Corporations, it said, "were tightening up on effi-ciency.**
**nie large volume of new ca-
"Our export trade, which ought to be expandixig rapidly in an rix->-panding, underfed and undereqttíp-ped world, is doing no better >Jian to .hold its own." (Toronto Globe and MaU, Jan. 24, 1959)
James Moir, Preaident of the Royal Bank of Canada, aaid: "The Ghinese Communists want to trade with Canada,' but I think our Govenunent is-asleep. Our re-fusal to trade is only a- confused policy of our neighbours to the south."
Sovíet Kplomat Speaks To Studeuts At Uoíversity Ot Montreal
^ ON MARGH 5th, at the invitation of the Association Gé-nérale des Étudiants de l'université de Montreal Igor K Laptev, Attaché of the USSR Embassy in Canada, spoke to the^students of the Uniyersity of iMontreal on problems x)f higher education in the Soviet Union.
He pomted out that the right to education in the USSR is guaranteed by the CJonstitution and cited figures showing the truly democratic character óf the Soviet system of education. At present more than 50 millión people study in the educational establishments of the country. That is,  almost three times
more than the whole population of Canada.
Mr. Laptev spoke about the cultural revolution which had been accomplished in the cöuntry smce the Great October So-cialist Revolution. Now over 7 mUlion specialists with a higher education (39 times more than in 1913) work m the
Soviet national economy. In 1958 over 94^000 engineers gra-duated from universities and institutes. - Speakíng on the great aid' accorded to the stu-dente in the USSR by the state, he said that students in the USSR not only pay nothing for their education, but receiye State stipends. They have no fear for their future since due to the absence of unemployment they were certain to get work at the end of their stu^ dies.
The speakér also stressed the immense progress in the educa-
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tion in the national republics of the Soviet Union. Before the Great Sociálist Revolution the population of somé of the ^ publics was almost completely illiterate.
In concluaion, Mr. Laptey told the áudience about the de-cisions of the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ~- the great program of building communism in the USSR. He also spoke about the behéficial effect of the new seven-year plan ön Soviet eda-cation. During the 1959-65 riod over 2,300,000 specialista wiU graduate from the highw schools, 1,400,000 more than during the preceding seven years.
After the conference Mr. l^aP" tev replied; to quéstions tcm the audience.