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PAGE, 4 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1966."

The Donald Autopsy

‘It remains to be seen what action the Pearson government will take on the Donald “autopsy report” of the

Cape. Bretoncoal_industry. That's what it is being called in Cape Breton, and with good reason, for it recommends the elimination of min- ing operations there within 15 years.

* Thumbs down are turned on pro- posals to open new, profitable mine

_seams.. Coal, says the report in ef-. “fect, cannot win the battle against oil and nuclear power, when gigantic thermal plants are now planned for Ontario and Nova Scotia. The esti- mated savings on coal subventions (erroneously called subsidies) should be expended in promoting the island’s economy in other fields. Future planning should be based on the assumption that the mines will not operate beyond 1981.

The author of this report is a Mon- treal industrial economics consultant, and he was commissioned, back in June, 1965, with the aid of a special committee of government officials

-and “as a matter of urgency,” to

-make “‘comprehensive- recommenda-

- tions for the reorganization, modern- - _ization and re-equipment” of’ the

Cape Breton coal industry. : ‘This was a follow-up to an election

pledge given by the then Minister of

‘Labor, Hon. Allan MacKachen, that

the Pearson government would make -

“large scale investments in the Cape Breton coal mining industry in the

immediate future and;-early in 1966,” would introduce “a comprehensive longterm program.” Also promised

--—was-the-opening of a_new.mine_at_

Longan which would constitute “an

essential part of this program to make the most effective use of the requir- ed capital.”

Nothing has been done to imple-

“nent this pledge, the excuse being—|-

‘that the details of policy would have to await the findings of the Donald commission. Dr. Donald has report- ed, in substance, that the whole scheme is cock-eyed. Naturally Cape Bretoners are indignant. They claim he hasn’t followed his terms of ref- erence and that his recommendations would be a waste of the required federal subventions—leaving the is- land without its coal industry and, in the most vague terms, proposing other employment for jobless miners without any suggestion of what the new industries may be.

- “Undoubtedly,” says the Cape Breton Post, “this report was delayed te such an unreasonable extent be- cause the government could not make up its mind on its coal, policy.

e government has still not made _

Up its mind. We have every right to demand that Ottawa’s policy on coal be made known immediately.”

And every right, one might add, to expect that it would be in accord with the government’s explicit promises when seeking. support at the polls.

Worthwhile Changes

. The decision to drop the name _ “National Employment Service” in favor of ‘(Canada Manpower Centre” appears to have met with general ap- proval across the country. As explain- ed by government spokesmen, it was taken. to accommodate the new image of expanded and improved employ-. ment service, and thus more accurate- ly reflect involvement with man- power programs that go far beyond the basic labor market activity of matching jobs and: workers.

The change has not yet received. the official blessing of Parliament, but it soon will. In the meantime, the ‘Insurance aspect has. been’ separated from the employment side. Plans have been made, and staff engaged, to provide the comprehensive ap- proach that will be needed - increas- ingly to cope with a technological age: 4

There-will be more emphasis on

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‘their objectives.

training, labor force mobility, upgrading and research as well as labor market information. A very decentralized administration is being evolved in order that local of- fices can most effectively pursue

These are all worthwhile aims, and mark the culminating step in an evolutionary process that has gone. on, actually, since 1940, when’ the Unemployment Insurance Act creat- ed a commission to administer a na- tional employment insurance service. During the next year, a country-wide network of local offices was estab-' lished by the commission to conduct ‘its operations. However, in....1942,, when the National Selective Service Regulations were passed, the Depart- ment of Labor became responsible for administration of both staff and premises of the commission for the duration of World War II. Local of- fices:. became known as_ National Selective Service Offices.

In 1945 the local offices were re- turned to the administration of the Unemployment Insurance Commis-

sion-and. they took on the dual name. |

For the next twenty years this identi- ty was retained and during this time the employment service function of the local office steadily gained in importance as technological change and the incréasing complexity of the labor market resulted in greater and greater demands on it. There were further significant changes, leading to the setup under the new Man- power administration and the ap-

-pointment of service managers, as dis-

tinct from unemployment insurance office managers.

Liberal Reactio According to a prominent Liberal paper, the Toronto Star, only 14 out of a total 2,000 delegates at the Lib- eral party conference this week were “sufficiently concerned to register a strong and loud protest” against the

_government’s shelving of its promis-

ed medicare “program for another year. ‘The -overwhelming~majority-

at

“uncritically accepted Finance Minis- .

ter Sharp's bland explanation that

-medicare had to be delayed on the

ground of “fiscal responsibility.” “This vacillation,” comments the Toronto paper, “is turned into a-vir- tue. And a giant Liberal assembly sits by, with scarcely a murmur of protest, as a Liberal finance minister offers the dubious proposition that he is helping the ‘little people’ of Canada by denying them the protection of .

medicare for -another—year.What--}

kind of curious Liberal logic is this? Is this going to impress the aged, the

“sick, and the poor who have waited

patiently for decades for the Liberal party to honor its pledge on medi- care? Are they expected to postpone their ailments and their medical bills until 1968?” rae

It is The Star’s contention that “in the whole range of Liberal policy in recent years, no issue has constituted

‘so firm a moral commitment as the

pledge to launch medicare by July, ° 1967. If the Liberal party can ignore so solemn and so clearcut a commit- ment, how can it be trusted to honor its new pledge to lauch medicare by 1968, especially when a large majori- ty of the Liberal cabinet is known te | be opposed or indifferent toward a medicare program? And if inflation can be used to justify a delay in medicare this time, what assurance can Mr. Sharp offer that it won’t be used to justify another delay in

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Pertinent questions, which call for answers as debate on the issue con- tinues in Parliament.

‘EDITORIAL NOTES

Moving with the times, the Re- public of the Congo has africanized the names of its leading cities. Leo-' poldville is now Kinshasa. Elizabeth- -ville has“ become Lubumbashi; Stan- leyville, Kisangani.

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Strange news from Communist Rus- sia: A new book of Bible stories, re- cently put on sale in Moscow book stores, was sold out in a matter,of, minutes, according to the book- seller—all 100.000 copies.

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A U:S. company is now marketing an item called “People Crackers.” These, notes the Financial Post, are in the shape of people which dogs have always found most agreeable to chew up—milkmen, mailmen, burg- lars, policemen and dogcatchers. The cracker makers have obviously ac- cepted the dietician’s principle that food must not only be good to taste but good to look at. Lest humans take offense at the shape of the food, ad- vertisemerits remind us that fair is

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Our Yesterdays

(rom The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (October 15, 1941)

A vast German force of tanks -and-motorized infantry has brok- en through the defences west of Moscow, forcing the Russian central armies into retreat, with the hour of supreme crisis for the Soviet capital admittedly at hand. : .

Authoritative Japanese. agen- cles spread a blanket: of gloom over prospects for a new lease on Japanese- American friend- ship, and the leaders of the Em- . pire held a series of consulta- tions which hinted at decisions of great importance.

TEN YEARS AGO (October 15, 1956) Canadian Trade Minister C.D. Howe appealed to United States corporations to'throw open more of their branch operations in his country to Canadian investors and managers.

Jordan asked for a Security Council session soon to act on its serious border troubles with Israel. Jordan's complaint charged 50 Jordanians have

“been killed in the last two big raids from Israel. Israel con-' tends the raids are’in retaliation

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Ing Canadian The ‘national Liberal . policy’ conference in Ottawa placed the government party more squarely than ever on the road to continentalism. The strongest voices took the North, American approach on economics.

a North American : free- area and a welcome mat

largely from the U.S.

greater Canadian control of the economy at the expense of U.S

1_investment.failed—to_make much...

impact.

One of the effects is to widen the policy gap between the Lib- |-erals “and the New Democratic approach calls for strong meas- ares to assert Canadian control of the economy.

SEEN AS SHARP VICTORY. Some observers picture the results as a black- white defeat for the left-leaning nationalistic. policies of Walter Gordon, the former finance min- ister. The victor was his suc- cessor, Mitchell Sharp, looking outward to the benefits of*close U.S. ties.

Tt was probably not ail that clear-cut. Vigorous pro-Gordcn

views were aired and many voices warned about putting all

Quebec A

Some Quebec separatists are already filling the air with warn- ings of what may happen {f. the Queen is given ‘'a special’’ wel- come .at-Expo. ‘67 nexty.ear.. While they- willingly admit they like her a8 a person, they de- ‘spise the title “Queen of Can- ada”’ and it is against the title, not the individual, that they will vent their displeasure.

Now that the government has been forewarned, perhaps mea- sures will be taken by the police to keep known ruts and other separatist extremists out of town or at least under close surveil- lance when Her Majesty v i sits Montreal next year. ;

It would be ridiculous to chide

Fort William

_ Women's styles change fre- quently, which is of course good for the annual financial reports of the garment manufacturers, even though it be dame pe iy that in the matter of ‘ skirtS)-“Aithough © thé hemlines may_betome higher or lower, the over-all trend is up. Some

‘| social historians suggest that the

skirts may disappear altogeth- er. e There is a precedent: men’s shirts disappeared — centuries ago. :

In antient Greece and Rome, the National Geographic Society Says, trousers were unknown. Roman soldiers in. Germany were fascinated by the ¢ wo- legged garments worn by local tribesmen. But the. manly Ro- mans could —hot easily discard traditional. garb, 80 they hid

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|_Widening The Policy Gap

“By Ken Clark Staff

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managements selling to the So- vii Union. And local Commu- nist Parties have to temper their opposition to and criticism of non- Communist governments when those governments are in

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nificant minority that wants @ shift: of direction. :

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French. Canadians as a race for this unpleasantness. Every na: tion has its crackpots and every prominent. person understands

public. And in Canada, not al} the crackpots are Quebec sep- aratists. te ‘ 7

It would be equally ridiculous, however, not to take every pre- .the Queen's visit is handled as smoothly as possible. The auth- orities have more than half a year’s notice, plenty of time for them to ensure that there will be no repetition of the Quebec City incidents that marred; her last visit to Canada.

Times-Journal

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ther completed the wardrobe. Women went about im long, shapeless dresses.

The shape of the dresses im- proved. over the centuries, but, in the early 1900’s, a lady crossing a muddy street still had to gath-

up her skirts. :

The rise of the skirt’ began innocently enough with a tunic- like overskirt in 1912. The novel- ty caught, designers’ attention and three years later the over- skirt had become the whole dress

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