http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0439133
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1931-04-03
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note: '•"<•*-■-' or OWNED AND CONTROLLED > . : ■-"* s '_.•'- BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions NO. 361—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, CANADA, APRIL 3rd. 1931 ants Pour In kmh~ The Government Sleeps |fc.ighty-.hret Thousand Immigrants Enter Canada in Nine Months —Governments Fail to Lighten/' Unemployment Burden was fagillg one "1 its JN SPITE OF THE. FACT that Canad; worst periods of Unemployment and industrial depression, we learn that 8_.°01 immigrants .enterecl^Canada dining the last nine months of 1930, and 26.441 Canadians returned from the .United States. During all that time every city and municipality in Canada was suffering from the effects of having a vast army of unemployed, willing and able toxarry on the work that these immigrants undoubtedly came out .here with the intention of attempting to do. Following this article is a statement from the Department of Immigration and Colonijsution which shows the nature and ejctent of immigration into Canada during the nine months ending December 31st, 1930. During all this time thc government knew of the plight amongst the unemployed in Canada, yet no definite steps were taken to make any great reduction in the number. Municipal and provincial governments have been complaining about the vast number of unemployed and destitute that they have been compelled to take care of, but their protests to Ottawa, most of them weak, however, have been ignored. We are still facing the depression, the Provincial Government refuses to give any more financial help to the municipalities, and the municipal governments make the same statement to the unemployed. April, May. and 'June are the heaviest months of immigration, so while our unemployed chase the elusive job, another hunch of immigrants will arrive on our shores and probably beat our.unemployed to the job. To Keep Wages Down Probably" our governments and financial magnates figure that business is going to pick up to such an extent that if immigr…

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