CANADA'S UNEMPLOYED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 8

CANADA'S UNEMPLOYED.

WORK CAMP ARMY MOBILISED

NATIONAL HIGHWAY .PROJECTED.

(From Our Special VANCOUVER, August Negotiations between the Domini 0 " Government, the Provincial Governmen and the municipalities of the Domin_ have resulted in a systematic P' a ®, the relief of unemployed in Canada curing the fall and winter. Under the scheme Canada is to am a cross-country auto reac = from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Stretches of this road in the var _ provinces will be constructed by provinces interested, the Dominion P plying the money. . . ; . Men engaged will be housed m No wages will be paid, but each receive a "subsistence allowance o tatively two dollars per day. , _ ■ this he will pay one dollar per d board:. Married men will recei "Sfczz the ~t « or allowance" has drawn from Bennett the reply that no _■ g Canada will receive pay for being jI and that a premium will not M P upon idleness. "The indolent wi 1 not je placed as a burden upon the tliriicy, Premier declared, adding that m • , refused to accept the jobs . would receive no assistance