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The senior students of.

. UPEI will be graduating in

889,000.

just a few months. One of the questions foremost on their minds right now is whether or not they will find employment afterward. The recent figures on unemployment put out by Statistics Canada reveal that unemployment is now And these are not the real figures. Statistics Canada does not take into consideration those who have given up looking for work' those whose benefits have run out; or those working part time. When these are considered, the real figure is well in excess of 1,000,000. A sober— ing thomght. ‘ ‘ Moreover, if the grad- uate is lucky enough to find something it will‘ not, in all liklihood, be that for which he is trained; indeed, there are thousands of univer— sity graduates in Canada (including M.A.'s & P.H.D's) who are forced to settle for boring and uncreative jobs so they may eat.

, And th're the luckey ones!

Many are unemployed. The old promise that a higher education will guarantee a good job has been blown to smithereens. Instead, the university student is full of fears and anxiety about his/her future.

And then they've;got that loan to pay back!

In the Soviet Union, on the other hand, the sit— uation is quite the op—' posite. The U.S.S.R. Central Statistical Board reported that last year alone 735,000 institute graduates befan economy. Most people realiZe today that the SOviet society is planned which\means there- fore that the training of specialists is determined by the needs of the ec— onomy. If it looks like fewer people will be need— ed in a certain field, then the courses will be cut back accordingly; if more are needed then the courses will be provided. How un— like Canada, which has an unplanned economy, where students are allowed to specialize in fields which may offer no job oppor— tunities at all! Ask any philosophy major.

Dfie to the fact that there is an overall man— power shortage in the

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Soviet Union (there usually is because development is so broad, rapid, and utili—

zing the most modern scienc-

and technology) the grad- uate need never fear un- employment. Indeed, if he doesn't like his present job he can leave it at any itime without fear_of not finding another one.

Can we say the same for Canada/?

Consider: the Soviet Union is the largest country (geographically) on Earth~covering 1/6 of the earth's land mass; is tremendously rich in natural resources; has a population in excess of 257,000,000 yet there is almost 1,000,000 jobs for which there are no workers. Now that's full employment!

Canada, by contrast, is only slightly smaller (geographically) is just

population of the U.S.S.R., uet there are over 1,000,000 people for whom there are

no jobs! It makes you

.wonder doesn't it?

Under socialism the job . literally hunts the man; under capitalism, as we in canada are painfully aware, the man hunts the job-with less and less success! '

But those responsible for unemployment-the capitalists and their governments as-well as their mass media-never cease 3to spew forth their anti-socialist venom

(to scare the people away from considering socialism as our inevitiable path of development for fear they will lose thei grip on us. They create high un— ‘employment because it ef- fectively brings wages down which lifts profits up. It also serves to divide the working class and their allies in the attempt to weaken the labor-movement so as to' exploit it that much easier-for the same rea-

'son: to get maximum

profits. They don't care a whit the suffering they bring to hear upon us, just so long as they profit. handsomely. But that's capitalism for you: production for profit,

not for people. Under socialism production is for people, the people run the economy in their own interests, and everyone

is looked after. That's what the Canadian and

‘American capitalist class

is afraid of, and that's

why they_are recently digging up their old cold war anti—sovietism and \ anti-sicialism as well as continuing their at- tack on Canada's working class. *. The students in their struggles are part of- the fightback on a must .join ranks with labor, farming, etc. to defeat the anti—worker, anti- student, anti-farmer policies of the Trudeau ' and Campbell govern- ments. A step in the right direction would be to vote in favor of joining the Atlantic Federation of Students, as well as establish fraternal ties with the P.E.I. Federation of Labor and the National Farme"s.Union. Each

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Student will eventually join the labor force ‘which is why the UPEI student union should support the Federation , of Labor. Labor.will\ be‘bringingrgraduates (into its ranks_which ’will, in many ways, in— »‘ fluence the nature of the labor movement, which is .why labor should in turn support students in their struggles. ,This is the kind of broad unity V we need if we-are to :successfully carry on our struggle against capital. It is only when the people stand to— gether do they constitue ~ a force. When divided they are weak, too weak to win success. We ' can't afford not to join hands. ' .

USSR: PeOpIe lst ::::::::.:?1‘§:3:::°vrces0anada:,Profits, first,People 2n

Among the many worries ; burdending our youth is the problem of establishing the necessary security to found a family. With 1 the future appearing ever bleaker many_are forced to defer marriage or, where they do marry, to indefinw- itely postpone having-. children. The cost of day care (where it exists) often consumes the en- tire earnings of one of the parents. .Moreover, many parents are ancious about the quality of care their children do receive if ‘ they are lucky to find a place at all. Inadequate day care facilities is one of the many sore spots in Canadian society. The_ problem is more complex if the mother happens to‘ be unwed since the laWs (meagre as they are) tend to favor state-sanctioned marriages. ,_

By contract welll take a look at the situations in a socialist country; In this case, the Soviet Union. v .

In the Soviet Union the state looks after four— fifths of the expenses for the childrens upkeep in kindergardens and 85 percent in nurseries. It costs the state betweene400 and 500 roubles a year to keep a child in a pre—school establishment. Moreover, the state's keep to the mother in taking care of and bringing up children starts when the mather is still expecting. Theree is a broad network of

.women's consultation ' centres throughout the .

country. ,If'a future V mother forgets to go and see a doctor there she will be reminded.‘ If necessary, the doctor_will call at home. (InCidentally, 252 of all the doctors ’ in the world are“ in the iSoviet Union!) 7t, .-

5 Visifors to the U.S.V S. R. especially women, are amazed to learn that there child delivery doesn't cost the-parents any- ,3 thing. The services at the women's consultation _ centres or special clinics are also free."

‘ The state bears all the

enourmous expenses in- ‘ volVed. ‘ , . Here'are some facts” showing what progress the medical care system has-made fOr expectant _ and nursing mothers and 4i their children during the-' years of Soviet power.‘A ;' women's average life span 'has more than doubled as compared with the pre-' “v revolutionary period and is.now 74 years. Before, the RevolutiOn ‘432 of all children died before' they were five; today the child mortality rate is slightly over three per cent. Maternity homes now have more than 225,000 beds. Before the re- volution there were only 7,500 and in 1940, p . before world war II, l47,00.,. The number of women's con-” sulations centres, child- ren's polyclinics and V out-patient clinics) have almost tripled since, 1940—up from 8,600 to I

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