http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0345494
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1924-06-06
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note: BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STRENGTH OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE FEDERATED LABOR PARTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA • PUBLISHED IN INTERESTS OF ALL WORKERS .. POLITICAL UNITY: VICTORY SIXTEENTH YEAR. No. 23 POUR PAGES VANCOUVER, B. G, FRIDAY, MORNING, JUNE 6, 1924 Stf'A COPY 7 Old Country People Misled as to Conditions in Dominion of Canada HEARTBREAK IS CERTAIN .\ — Si mry of Ideals Canadian Labor Party Have Set _ Before Them \ I ■ ADEQUATE MAINTENANCE Even Practical Farmers Can Not Exist on Land—Cruel Deception r\UIt Canadian government, is constantly using every effort lo Induce Immigrants lo come lo Canada. They claim that they are not bringing settlers to Canada to compete with tiie wage-worker but lo settle them on the fettilo lands of thli gurdn oi' the world. That they ore oven then doing a grave injustice to these settlers can be seen by any person not party-blind. Air. Caldwell representative oC an Ontario constituency, some days ago stated in the house, that in one issue of the iloyal Gazette (April 30th) he found 22 farms advertised for sale under moi't gage in New Urunswick alono. These were not all the farms advertised for salo In New Urunswick. One issue of the Daily Mail (Frcdcrlcton) had lour,farms advertised for sale und "mortgage. Not long ago iie had listened to a man describe tho findings: of survey he hnd made of vacant farms in the maritime provinces, where thore was a possibility of settling immigrants. JThc number ran into large figures. Sixty per cent, of these farms,had complete buildings. No doubt, many of those farms had been owned and worked by mon born ami raised in tho maritime tirovinces, and many of them with a practical experience ot . conditions there, yet, for some reason, they left tlie farm and -went perhaps to tho cities, came to Vancouver possibly to look for a job. And now tho immigrant, with more than likely a very scant knowledge of what he will bo up against' is being Induced to come to Canada and go on the land. It…

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