14 The Guardian, H Thurs. Feb 13, 1964. 4

Jobless Figures Reviewed

By ROBERT RICE

OTTAWA tCP)——-Canada's la- bor force began the new year with an estimated 6.231.000 per- . sons at work and 466,000 un- employed.

The jobless total at mid-Jan- uary was down 75,000 from the year-earlier count. but up 120, 000 between December and Jan-

uary.

The mid-winter increase In‘ unemployment was described‘ as “normal for is time of year" in a joint report issued Wednesday by the federal labor department and the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.

The report was based on a survey of 35,000 households across Canada for the we ended Jan. 18. Figures are es- timates, not precise totals.

As a percentage of the labor force. unemployment was seven substantial droi;

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January. & ad-‘ Justed, the unemployment rate was 4.9 per cent. the same as in December. A year earlier it was 5.9 per cent.

Employment showed a sharp jump over the total at the starti of 1963——up by 275.000. or 4. l per cent. to 6,331,000. Since September. employment each: month has been well ahead of; the comparable period last-’

year. FORESTRY HELPS

Continuing strength in goods- producing industries — chiefly‘ manufacturing, forestry and: residential construction — havej kept more men at work than is i usual during the winter months,l the report said.

An estimated 4,416,000 men were employed last month, up 143, , or 3.3 per cent, over - earlier employment count. Over the last. five years. in comparison. the average an- nual rate of increase in male employment has been 1.4 per c nt

e . Employment of women con- tinued at a high level as well-- 1.815.000 women at work com- pared with 1.683.000 in January last year. ‘ Regionally. employment was up considerably from last year in all regions except the Atlan- tic, where it was virtually un- changed. The increases ranged from 4.4 per cent in Ontario to 6.7 per cent in British Colum- .

a. The decline in unemployment over the year was shared by all 1 regions. but e Atlantic area j still had the highest jobless rate -12.6 per cent of its labor force compared with the lowest rate 4 of 4.7 per cent on the Prairies.

Iowa Farmer Tells Russians To Keep Trying

By GEORGE SYLVERTSEN MOSCOW iAPi — Iowa corn farmer Roswell Garst has told the Russians they will not catch

American farmers. but advised them to keep trying anyway.

Garst. a personal friend of Soviet Premier Khrushchev. en- ‘ couraged the Russians to follow the American lead in farming‘ ‘ a 3,000-word letter to Soviet agricultural officials now meet- ing in the Kremlin.

Izvestia published the letter Wednesday 1. o g e t h e r with speeches made at the third day of the Soviet Communist party‘: ,

central committee meeting on 4 farm problems. ' note said that altliough “we cannot agree with all the con- clusinns of Mr. Garst. espe- cially in relation to his evalua- tion of some politic mo- ments." his views on farm tech- gology “deserves great atten-. on

The Coon Rapids farmer said I he had travelled extensively . through the Soviet Union and,‘ East Europe in the at nine‘ years.

"1 saw that we are far. far4 ahead of the agriculture of East .‘ Europe," he wrote.

He estimated the Communist? satellite nations were about 30: years behind the U.S. Russia In about_where the United States. was eight years ago. he said. i

“ on will not overtake us in‘ eight years. as we will continue - to make great progress. but you . will double your productivity . and significantly decrease labor i expenditures." i farmer and cornl

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