EEN meg SI | ¢ ay aan yet. mn -entire panne are ae = ME se a Ps Fgh ight Speer eoeie Shateg on pueEe vas SSEREUTE SEY right, are Rev. H. W. Foster, province reports industries. shut-down or reduced turn- overs. Many © skilled). men. have, through no fault of their own, been | thrown out of work. The rita Me ‘es Datel 1 ven MEMBER 's Winter Wort own Now venaber ST of Prince, Rupert’ Winter Work comittee are shown during their meeting of No- ne local offices of the National Employment Service. Seated, from left to. ° Mrs. Catherine G. Holder, Willi ley, chairman, R. L. Gardner and Me ane viomman G. a. Carlion c t ‘ Edgar Woodward. Standin are de Gordon Nore and J. S, Blac#.—(Staff photo by G. P. Woodside). Alderman G. EB, Carlson, fi veryoody can-help winter works program A poor fishing season has added t¢ to the inemployment problem through- > out the Prince Rupert area as autumn pr ogresses into winter, Cecil Pitt, man- ager of the Unemployment Insurance Commission said today. He said that throughout the tthe vw show Winter Works Campaign gives| pairs and maintenance that the employment situatiof f is. worsening pry a ioh them the opportunity to make 2| done during the winter months. Weekly items from the news ser-! ahead . ‘ yiees carry repeated stories of. plants on short shift, temporary | ‘Yiving through the hard months; Firms ‘and = organizations |; eal comniitteé headed by A. P. | Crawley to assist in- alleviating | the ‘situation. Homeowners, too, s}ean. help by having. needed » re- ‘SOME SAY: “Everything | in good t time . a BUT... The Best Time to | nstal anew _ GENERAL MOT ORS DIESEL is NOW! - Because it’s winter time, tradesmen of alll kinds find jobs few and far. between. Naturally, you'll get exactly the | kind of job you want when men are available. There’ sno: real need f for high levels of unemployment, as jong as we - _¢ wig Be > throughout the city have been required and available, asked'to co-operate With the lo-| | of Prince Rupert can case ‘a wat “TO HAVE THAT. NEW ENGINE IN- STALLED OR EFFECT REPAIRS YOU'VE LONG PUT OFF DIESEL” See work Mr, Pitt will help competent men and women to do the work A concerted effort by citizens seasonal problem that is grow- ing in proportion with a slow- down of industry... oy seh 7 last. year.. ‘\ per” 15, was...39,000. ‘| October of 329,000 in 1958. ° jot. * persons, ‘with. jobs: decreased ‘more Pr. \that the decline in - -employment, ‘ a ~ Unem 41,000 from mid- Septembe cent more than the jobless ployment. figures show “hap rise over 59 ; OTTAWA (CP) - —.Canada’s unemployment, ris- ing faster than. usual as. autumn began, increased by mid- October—a post-war ‘record for the tnorith—the bureau of statistics reported today. This was 46 per eee ete Ne lee be eee eel a = fk MIE HU Ste Ne Ny Eat 8G ( Saag : -aotag' ag" ’ é ey Mate Mts Gi me Mee SNC 0 3 EPROP E EE EOL EL ELD ELECT AEDATED TTR EVEL L EL é F MANY TONGUES [rir “oRICE- ROP. = More than 800 languages aro Bumper 1960. ‘tice. crop Ofc 4 spoken on the African. continent. 000,000 -tons is. Japan's. forecast 4 ay | eo tee I Spee © Qe at we ve. ae She sight af ae ped a eye pene eth Dil] mo i Fey pect 2 : se a ne pen canbér. r 7 nls om y to a total of 368.000 at’ total of 251,000 in October ve + ome a | “The. . official: “gnemployment figure, forthe week.ended | O&to- higher ithan the. ‘previous post-war. record: for}: ‘The. bureau, said the number by 16,000 between September and Oétober | to. 6;131,000—a’ decline: that -was less than’ ‘seasonal..'- But it: said’ Canada’s: ‘total; la: bor : force ‘continued tor ‘expand idly. than. At: has for the last two years. Bee ‘The.’ report ° ‘placed. “the ‘Yabor force in. mid-October ‘at. 6,499,- 000,; up 3.3 per. cent from «thé year-earlier level ‘of 6,290,000.:In the. samme, 12° months, employ-" ment expanded’ ‘by ‘only “1:5 per cent to 6,131,000 -from. 6,039, 000. USE NEW ‘MEASURE- - : ’Today’s report,’ based ‘on a. la: bor force survey ‘of 35,000 house- holds, was the “second ‘to use’ the: newly- adopted | ‘official. ‘measure of. unemployment. This © figure: ds a total of persons “without work’ and seeking . work”. and: ‘persons on temporary - Jayorts of “up” to 30 days. - The picture. in biie?, with “esti- mates. in thousands: co ~ Oct. ' Sept. * Get. . 1960 | 1960 | 1959" |. ‘Labor force 6,499 | 6,474 6,290 | ‘Employed | 6131. 6,147 6.039 | ‘Unemployed 3687 gar - 251 The’ “rise « “in. “unemployment. brought the October jobless to-. tal to 5.7 per. icent of the labor | force, compared ° with 5.3. per; cént-:in September, four. per, cent a year. ago ‘and 5. 3 per cent two years ago. -- + FARM. JOBS DROP © ‘The. report — a joint ‘release from the bureau of statistics and the. labor: department — showed lbetween September .and: -October: oH numbers of farm jobs. . ‘| months,» 53,000 ‘ for ~ four: | months - andi’ 49, 000° “‘for'. ‘seven “ito 30 days. _| September but 19,000 more than the normal. seasonal .employment was “| jobs. lwas due entirely to .a fall-off in| Farm employment declined. pyr. 62, 000 to 695,000.. This. drop. was} l Columbia 1. per. ‘cent. The: un- employment rate ‘in other areas: Bo 6.9; Ontario 5.0; Prairies sAbout one-third — 120, 000—of | the 368,000 unemployed in mid-. October had beén without. work and seeking work for less than a month. -Another 125,000 had been ‘jobless for one ‘to’ three, to. six d electrical practitioners wher: : a 5 eet j ult ‘auetitie months of more. Another ‘21,000 were on temporary, layoffs of up if - Regiona! picture cone Jj Prairie — Mid-October ae ployment ‘totalled “31,000, ' 8,000 from a month earlier and 6,000 higher than a year ear-' lier. ‘There were: 1,080,000 -per- sons eniployed, down 24,000 from - electrical workers -and—Den’ f Do it Yourself! in October, 1959. ’ The . report attributed the month’s employment. decline’ to drop’ in|. farm activity. There was a small rise in. non-farm employment. Construction work. : remained fairly steady and food- -process- ing plants were busier. Virtually all of ‘the year-to-year gain in. jn non- ~farm Pacific — ‘Unemployment rose by 4,000 from mid-September. to 45,000. -This was 73 per: cent ‘higher than. the year- -earlier ‘level of 26,000. Total - employ- “ment, at 539,000, was up 8,000 .in the month but 3,000 below a year earlier. a During.the month there were séasonal hirings in forestry, ! mining, trade and the service: industries. Employment. in ship-; yards and machine shops held) steady. * non-farm ‘employment: of: 46, 000 - t0.,5,436, 000. But the: repagt said! -most: of -this: employment" gain: .was among women. =!" i The: increase in employmen ipansion : “arid: finance. industries. ome « ‘ ” 2 y ve - Bltorations or the ‘addition 0 Also tho pure cooking, refrig Sand awnings; Also painting, of water supply RENTAL : $d, 000 for 5 multiplo- -famil additional uni Repaymentt 1 An month) with intorost, ton years, ~ 2957 ee le RES Hee oo ' 3 we rrlso garage Of: ‘outbuilding: —pyat gms} of olectric light and power systems, disposal oquipmen ,and connections to public gowers; of storm doors and windows, screund overall (loor covoring: | NASH a: one-family : clwolling, y inatallimonts, together: *, Tesuod by Authority of Hon. 6 . about | a HOME IMPROVEMENT. LOAN oe available through your bank e's under the National Housing 4 Act for the following: - ropairs to.an extorior. or an interior. ‘ols a home, including my rooms, storeyd or farnily: hgusing Uiyits Ws f one ‘or more: hase, installation,. roration, and garbage papor hanging and gonoral docorating including an - the sinking or improvement of wells and all ty po y systema and other hone improvements. QUALIFY FOR. ‘DWELLINGS NOW y dwolling, t, jonna aro repayable for periods up td 4 ' ¥ ‘ iis ere about Govarnment- ms een Lonns avaliinblo through your bank up, ty rah 00.0. Manis ew witlt.uv oe years to Day. Loans for equipment, Wyaqatoak US ane woll Aa Ww Br yrange Why Wait for Spring Do itNow! | ' ’ 1 and demolition or moving, of- buildings “papair or improvement of honting” and plumbing: ¢ of builtin’ OME IMPROVEMENT or $4,000 for “the or apartment house, plua for more deveits _Inqnitre nt veh bank, and have the jah dane Uiln, winter whon’ men nid imine - are available, ” ae «backed varm me sho eb “of Hone’ Wiprovementad?: SUA SS! ete ays M ichaeal Start, Minisler laloari Conca ! ‘ an! * tyes ts saptic (ainks “LOANS. firyt unite ‘otinsegss $1,500: tore anch’, we , qr ns.n result af n were x ‘men? nid! most of the 117,- ‘in » part; -the “slowness, in: ‘the . ee goods:producing. ‘industries: . wos 1° The’ report, ‘said® the: largest ‘ : year-to- year. “percentage: : .Yise - “in unemployment ‘occurred - “in _ Ontario ‘and. ‘British - Colum- bia, due partly to the decreas- -ed démand’ for manufacturing workers. ° ee B.C, HARD. HiT” : October ; ‘inemployment. was most severe—in relation to the ‘| size ‘of the: labor force—in_ the Atlantic pro ovinces and British | Columbia. unemployment was 7.8 per cent Decline shown in employment A‘seasonal decline in. eemploy~ ment occurred In the Pacific re- gion ‘between August and Sep-. tember, Farm employment went down as tho fruit and vegetable harvest neared completion, and widely distributed Inyoffs took | place: in the service - producing groups and in manufacturing, A number of persons in agri- culture and: the sensonal sum- mer activities related to the tourist trade left the labor force ‘on: termination of. thelr jobs. Logging ‘and: sawmilling em- | ployment . ‘yomained at reduced levols due to ‘unfavornble market sonditions for lumber! Construcs tion romained fairly stable dur- aye} Vg, the, month despite the con- ‘nung * woaknoss in jyousc - : building, et! Bont. ‘Aug. 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