IN CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 210, 6 September 1939, Page 7

IN CANADA.

'REFUGEE' INDUSTRIES

FINANCE FROM EUROPE.

DETAILS KEPT QUIET.

OTTAWA, August 15.

Canadian cities and towns are on the alert for "refugee" industries from Central Eurojie. seeking to put dowm roots far awav from bombs and decrees

of confiscation. Just how many European industrialists and promoters have made plans t® establish in Canada is uncertain. Groups engaged in fostering new business are reluctant to give details, because they fear the information may get back to I sources in Europe which seek to hinder I the emigration of capital and personnel. I Most publicised new industry is that jof the Bata shoe firm of Czechoslovakia, | which plans a manufacturing plant at IFrankford in Eastern Ontario employing IISOO men. who will live in a model village, according to this concern's longtime practice. Reception of the Bata project illustrates the varying degrees of welcome the immigrant industries encounter. Shoe manufacturers opposed it, municipalities competed for it. the Federal Government allowed entrance to the country of key technicians, but not Jrank-and-file workers. 1 | Other prospective businesses include a ' jFrench-Czechoslovakian glove factory I and a Czechoslovakian toy factory for jPrescott, also in Eastern Ontario: a Polish textile plant for Huntingdon, (Quebec and an aluminiumware plant for Levis, Quebec, planned by a Beljrian. ' In Manitoba. Albert Flaq-enheimer. a German .Tew. who own® several sugar factories and di=tillerip« in Central Europe and the P.aikans. i= promoting a huee beet-=Tiprnr plant. European "• terest« supported by British capita * said to be organising a rayon l " -" - at North Vancouver British Two small wood ™c£choslov*Mnn, bv an Austrian and T> r ;Hsh Colum* are already operating in British Columbia.—Canadian Press.