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This article reviews "Labor Relations" by Arthur A. Sloane and Fred Witney.

This article reviews "Manpower Planning in a Free Society" by Richard A. Lester.

This article reviews "Modern Economic Growth, Rate, Structure and Spread" by Simon Kuznets.

This article reviews "Sky Full of Storm : A Brief History of California Labor" by David F. Selvin.

Loin de contredire la « logique » d'une économie capitaliste, la planification souple peut, au contraire, renforcer les conditions d'une croissance soutenue et harmonisée et corriger partiellement les déséquilibres et les tensions nécessairement liés au développement.

The depression of the 1930's confronted Canadians with shrinking markets, falling prices, a drought-stricken Prairie region and mass unemployment. Consequently there was an enormous burden of relief and welfare. Financial support from the Dominion was needed in all areas, but since not all areas were affected equally some required more assistance than others. The federal government gave grants and loans to the provinces to assist "('with relief costs and Ln some cases increased provincial subsidies. To alleviate distress the Dominion also carried on a public works program and established relief camps for single men. Not everyone viewed the depression in the same way. In 1930 the Workers' Unity League was established to organize labour into "revolutionary unions" for the struggle against capitalism. The League worked under the assumption that a time of crisis was favorable both in terms of the expansion of the League and the onslaught on the existing system. At the midpoint of the 1930's several hundred men on the initiative of a union established in the relief camps by the Workers' Unity League left these camps in British Columbia. After months in Vancouver they started on a trek to Ottawa to present six demands to the government. They were stopped in Regina. On July 1, 1935 a riot, which has been termed the Regina Riot, broke out in the city. Although some writers have referred briefly to this event a detailed study has not been made. The writer hopes to make a small contribution to the examination of the events of the 1930's by examining the Regina Riot. The main purpose of this study is to trace the events which culminated in a serious riot. The examination is primarily concerned with a study of the events in an attempt to explain why there was a Regina Riot. Although the riot was related to the broader problems of the depression and government policies in coping with the depression, these aspects are touched upon only to the extent that they related specifically to the events surrounding the riot. Relief camps are discussed, but it is outside the scope of this study to make a detailed evaluation of this or any other type of relief measure. Although the leader of the trek was an avowed Communist and the organization in the camps had been established by a Communist organization, the question of Communism in the 1930ls is not examined except where it applies specifically to the events of this study. The movement of the men out of the camps to Vancouver and their stay in Vancouver involved to a greater or lesser degree the striking relief camp men, the municipal, provincial and federal governments, as did the trek eastward. The decisions and actions of each are examined. The trek was stopped in Regina by the federal government. that very important decision resulted in a confrontation of the strikers and the federal government and also involved in the dispute the provincial government. The events of this period are examined, along with the incidents that touched off the actual riot. Finally the inquiry into the riot and the eventual disposition of the relief camps are discussed.

L'auteur expose sa conception de la place et du rôle d'un sociologue travaillant pour le compte d'une entreprise. De là il tire certaines conclusions se rapportant à l'enseignement de la sociologie dans les universités.

L'auteur soutient que l'intégration politique du syndicalisme, soit comme groupe d'intérêt soit comme corps intermédiaire, pendant la Révolution tranquille n'a pas été, en dépit d'un net progrès sur la période pré-1960, aussi profonde et définitive qu'on l'avait espéré. Cette période a cependant été pour le syndicalisme l'occasion de prendre conscience de certaines contradictions intrinsèques et de reviser ses objectifs, méthodes et structures. Enfin, à l'encontre des autres observateurs, l'auteur prétend que les principaux objectifs des deux centres ouvriers pendant cette période, n'ont pas été aussi radicalement différents qu'on le prétend généralement.

La Cour suprême affirme la validité, au regard de la constitution, du pouvoir de la C.R.T. de prononcer la dissolution d'associations ayant participé à des infractions à rencontre de la liberté syndicale. Rappel, par ailleurs, par le tribunal de première instance, de la validité du pouvoir de la C.R.T. d'ordonner la réintégration du salarié congédié pour activité syndicale et de fixer, en cas de désaccord, le montant de l'indemnité.

Un arrêt récent de la Cour d'appel 1 incite surtout à réévaluer le caractère réglementaire de la convention collective. S'il est acquis que celle-ci impose des normes minima, en matière de salaire notamment, aux ententes individuelles conclues entre un employeur et des salariés, n'admet-on pas, par ailleurs trop facilement que des ententes individuelles puissent déroger à celle-ci en se montrant, de prime abord, du moins, plus favorables à certains salariés? (1) Gaston Robitaille et al. c. Les commissaires d'écoles pour la municipalité de la Cité de Thetford Mines, dossier 6660, Cour du Banc de la Reine, Québec, 1967 « B.R. » 206.

Un arbitre 1 se fonde sur la supériorité du texte de la convention pour refuser de donner effet à une pratique antérieure, mais contraire à celle-ci. Est-ce à nier la survie de tout usage pendant la durée de l'entente? (1) Me Harold Lande, dans l'affaire Commission Hydroélectrique de Québec c. Le Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique (957), décision du 1er mars 1967, rapportée à (1967) R.DT. p. 184.

A technology that permits a heavy flow of military and consumer goods, a mass education system producing a mass audience, untrained to higher tastes, a cultural é elite more heterogeneous in background and functions, more open to mass culture, these are all gains of abundance, but to what cost? The following text is drawn from an address presented at the last meeting of CIRRI and from the discussion which took place.

This article analyzes the organization of employers in the Netheriands for their industrial relations tasks. After first describing the role of individual employers and explaining why that role is a relatively small one, the article emphasizes the structure and functioning of employers associations in industrial relations. Special attention is given to the existence of pluralistic associations in a country where by tradition most if not all social organizations are pluralistically organized. The postwar wage and economic policies of the Dutch government have encouraged a high degree of centralized decision-making among employers as well as among labor organizations. The article concludes with some observations about the likely consequences of a current trend toward greater decentralization.

In December 1966, Prime Minister Pearson announced the creation of a Task Force on Labour Relations. Under the chairmanship of H.D. Woods, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, McGill University, Montréal, the members are: Gérard Dion, Professor, Department of Industrial Relations, Laval University, Québec; John H.G. Crispo, Director, Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto; A.W.R. Carrothers, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario.