CANADIANS HOPEFUL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 194, 18 August 1930, Page 8

CANADIANS HOPEFUL.

COPING WITH UNEMPLOYMENT

DEPRESSION WILL PASS. PLANS FOR PUBLIC WORKS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) VANCOUVER, July 19. Despite the fact that slumps have swept over the stock exchanges, that wheat prices are the lowest in two years, and that there is some depression in trade and considerable unemployment throughout the country, Canadians are far from pessimistic. Leading large employers of labour, are' preparing, if necessary to place their industries under shorter working hours rather than reduce staffs, and thereby add to the problem of the unemployed.

While failure of the Wheat Pool to dispose of all of last year's crop was decidedly adverse, the opinion prevails that there will be a decidedly large movement before the new crop is ready for garnering. The Dominion Government,

provincial legislatures and municipalities are pushing forward as much as possible plans for public works in order to provide employment.

A comprehensive employment scheme for the whole country is to be drafted at a conference of Dominion and provincial government representatives, organised labour, and municipalities early in the autumn, if circumstances then still warrant that action. 'The Dominion Government, through its control of all railways throughout Canada, is drawing up a scheme for the elimination of hundreds of level railway crossings by tlie construction of viaducts and.subways. Pacific shipping interests as a whole are predicting a return to normal in the autumn. Already grain and to -some j extent .lumber shipments have begun to 'show steady improvement.