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By Wanda Kojich
How many Canadian are out of
work — 1.6 million or 2.4 milion?
The federal government claims that
the seasonally adjusted jobless rate
is 12.6 percent. The Social Planning
Council of Metro Torotno maintains
that the real unemployment rate is
19.4 per cent.
The government claims that 1.6
million Canadians are out of work.
The Social Planning Council recen-tly
reported that 2.4 million workers
are unemployed.
What accounts for the difference
in the two jobless rates?
The higher rate is the real rate of
unemployment. The lower rate is
unreal and is embellished to reduce
public concern about the alarming
crisis in employment.
Over 802,000 jobless Canadians
are excluded from official unemplo-yment
statistics. It's that simple.
Exclusion of two essential catego-ries
of jobless workers reduces the
unemployment rate from 19.4 per
cent to 12.6 per cent. The lower rate
is evidently not as alarming as the
higher unemployment rate.
The Council's project chairman,
David Wolfe, claims that the gover-ment-'s
jobless statistics do not
include the "hidden unemployed".
This category of jobless workers is
made up of 375,000 people. They
are willing and able to work but have
abandoned all hope of finding
employment.
.Over 427,000 other Canadians are
excluded from the unemployment
statistics. They work part-tim- e,
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How would you like to see Nikola
Tesla honored with a bronze star
and his name on the
Walk of Fame? With your help, it
could be
The Tesla Memorial Society (TMS)
of the U.S. and Canada has been
alerted to the fact that the Holly-wood
Chamber of
Committee for the
of Fame at 6324 West Sunset Blvd.,
CA 90028, plans to
announce six new stars, honoring
inventors who have contributed to
the development of the motion
picture industry.
The Tesla Coil is used for lightning
special effects in the movie industry
along with Testa's AC motor which
operates the cameras and his fluo-rescent
light has a function too, to
name a few of Testa's
"Why can't Nikola Tesla be
a long with Lee De Forest
for the vacuum tube and Thomas
Edison for his work on the phono-graph"
Mr. Edson Andre
Johnson of La Canada, California
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perhaps a few hours each week.
They are jobless workers, nevert-heless,
and are searching for perma-nent
employment.
Federal Employment Minister
Lloyd Axworthy admits that large
numbers of "hidden unemployed do
exist. He also claims that recovery
will not significantly reduce unem-ploume- nt
rates.
For 2.4 million unemployed Cana-dians
recovery with full employment
is an urgent priority. Rent has to be
paid or mortgage payments have to
be made with an uninterrupted
regularity that is difficult to main-tain.
Food has to be bought and
paid for, usually at prices higher
that last year's price-leve- l.
There is a way out of the quagmire
of economic Despite the
profound structural changes that
our micro-chi- p society is
Canada's jobless rate could
be significantly reduced. Higher
employment levels could be achie-ved
by reordering our economic
priorities and launching large-scal- e
programs on provincial
and federal levels.
Job-creati- on would provide
for hundreds of thousands
of jobless Canadians. It would
restore confidence in our ability to
achieve a sustainable recovery.
Higher levels of employment
would generate increased consum-ption
and capital spending in the
private sector, reduce excess indus-trial
capacity and reanimate other
sectors of Canada's ailing economy.
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Hollywood
possible.
Commerce,
Hollywood Walk
Hollywood,
contributions.
honored
questioned
stagnation.
under-going,
jobcreation
em-ployment
who alerted the TMS of the forth-coming
nomination of inventors for
the Walk of Fame.
You, the reader of this item, have
helped the TMS with the issuance
this year of a commemorative stamp
honoring Nikola Tesla, Edward
Howard Armstrong, Philip T. Far-nwor- th and Charles 0. Steinmetz.
You can now help again by writing
immediately to the Committee for
the Walk of Fame (address above)
asking them to include the name of
Nikola Tesla, inventor, who has
contributed to the development of
the motion picture industry. Sug-gested
also is that you ask any of
your Lodges and organizations to do
the same.
Thanks are extended to Mr. Edson
Andre Johnson for alerting the TMS
and all readers in notifying the TMS,
Mr. Nikola Kosanovich, 453 Martin
Road, Lackawanna, NY 14218, of
any future related information on
Nikola Tesla.
Margaret Starcevic,
TMS Publicity
Notes on Activities
By Nicholas Kosanovich
It is difficult to touch base and
thank all of the people, media
vriters, scientists, adacemicians,
businessmen, men of government,
individual authors, screen writers,
biographers, the Tesla Museum in
Belgrade, the Tesla people in Zag-reb,
Gospic and Smiljan, Yugoslavia
and especially the major contribu-tors,
that permitted the genesis of
the Tesla Memorial Society, Inc. to
be a part of the main cultural stream
in the mosaic of our American and
Canadian societies.
I would like to just mention the
beginnings of this movement to
popularize the life, work, contribu-tions
and the theories of this great
man, Nikola Tesla who was a
scientist, discoverer, inventor and
benefactor of mankind. We would
be remiss if he was allowed to be
expunged from the history of our
country and Canada and forgotten
for posterity. This would have been
a travesty on justice for the whole
human race.
would like to repeat the purpose
and raison d'etre of our Society. The
purpose of this society is to honor
and perpetuate the memory and
ideals of the great YugoslavAmeri-can
scientist and inventor Nikola
Tesla through appropriate academic
conferences, scholarship awards,
and various cultural activities. It is a
non-politic- al and non-prof- it organi-zation.
The genesis of the formation of
our group goes back to the prepara-tion
of the Bi-centin- nial of the U.S.
and the donation from the Yugoslav
people of a brounze bust of Nikola
Tesla-- a replica of the one in Belgra-de
done by the famous Yugoslav
sculptor KrSinic. There is one bust
in Gospi6 also.
Representatives from the Wes-tinghou- se
Corporation, Morgan
Guaranty Trust, the U.S. govern-ment,
RCA Corporation of America,
Niagara Parks Comm., Niagara
Mohwewk, Yugoslav Government,
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and
Elektronic Engineers), scientists
from the U.S., Canada, and Europe,
Academicians, elected officials-loca- l,
state and national — as well
as many people from all walks of
life, participated to dedicate a
statue on Goat Island of Nikola
Tesla and to observe the Bi-Cente-n- nial
of the birth of the U.S. The
impact of such giants of many fields
of endeavor laid the firm foundation
for the formation of the Tesla
Memorial Society, Inc. to become a
reality, and belated tribute to one of
the greatest men of the 19the and
early 20th centuries. I would like to
make mention of the activities and
programs conducted by the Society
since its formal organization in
1979 and incorporation as a non-profit,
non-politic- al entity.
We have conducted observances
of Tesla's birthday on Goat Island in
Niagara Falls, N.Y. where his statue
is located. There was a showing of a
film, The Secret of Nikola Tesla
which was a joint American-Yugosla- v
effort at the Greek theater at the
Convention Center in the same city.
Musicians and artists from Yugosla-via
performed at the banquet and
dance that was held simultaneously
in addition to the attendance of the
American actors who were in the
film.
We have offered scholarships and
awards to doctoral students and
those students for special citations.
The first awards were to Dr. Jelena
Kesler from Canada, now Drexel
Institute; doctoral candidate Philip
Malyak from State University of
Buffalo in New York, probably now a
Ph.D.
We also awarded special achie-vement
awards to Dr. Vojin G.
Oklobdzija, Fullbright scholar from
Stanford and U.C.L.A.; Dr. Milan
Nikolich from State University of
Buffalo in N.Y.; Vince Marasco and
Robert Drake, special high school
citations.
The doctoral shcolarships are
awarded in the name of Mary
Bogdanovic-Dexte- r, a generous be-nefactor
and Board Member of our
Society. The Awards Committee is
chaired by Dr. Dennis P. Malone,
Chairman, Department of Electrical
Engineering at State University of
Buffalo at New York.
The Tesla Memorial Society
had conducted an Academy
and a film showing at the
National Academy of Sciences
in Washington, D.C. It was done in
collegiality with the IEEE, Power
Engineering Section with its Presi-dent
Delivering the main address,
Lionel 0. Barthold. TheToastmaster
and Chairman of this 125th obser-vance
of Tesla's birth was Honorab-le
John A. Blatnik, retired congres-sman.
William H. Terbo, Tesla's
grandnephew, Honorary Chairman
of our Society and Marketing Mana-ger
of RCA Global Communication,
addressed the audience. The Yugo-slav
Ambassador Budimir Lonfiar
spoke on this occasion. It was a
tremendous success and establi-shed
de-fac- to citizenship in the
American community for this great
man, Tesla and for our Society.
This year, 1983, is the 100th
anniversary of Tesla's arrival to the
U.S. It is also the 40th anniversary
of his death. To mark this dual
event, the Postal Department will
issue a Commemorative stamp to
honor Steinmetz, Farnsworth, Col.
Armstrong and Tesla in collegiality.
We are planning to have a program
in Washington this September to
observe this event.
I would be remiss if I did not
mention the two people who were
the prime movers in realizing this
stamp issue. They are Thaddeus J.
Dulski, former congressman and
former chairman of the House Post
Office Committee and Henry J.
Nowak his successor. They were
part of a team that John Blatnik was
able to recruit in this endeavor. The
Society is most grateful for this
most magnanimous gesture to right
a wrong about Nikola Tesla.
Finally, I would like to thank all of
these people from Hong Kong to
India and from the British Isles to
continental Europe who have contri-buted
to the establishment of our
Society as a useful vehicle to inspire
young scientists and students to
help make this a better world.