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BRITISH LABOUR M.P.'S HARVESTERS SATISFIED Australian Press Association—United Serrlc* OTTAWA, 9th September. A message from Edmonton states that Mr. Thomas Johnston, Labour M.P. for Dundee, with the Empire Parliamentarians, whose speech at Winnipeg regarding the treatment of British minerharvesters created a sensation, in a statement here said he and his friends were at one in appreciation of the kindly welcome the harvesters had received in Western Canada. From what they had seen and learned the men were highly satisfied and likely to remain and make a success in the West. After visits to farms in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Mr. David Kirkwood, Scottish Labour M.P., and Mr. George Hall, representative of the Welsh colliery district, himself a farmer-miner, expressed satisfaction with the conditions he found. Mr. Kirkwood's investigation showed that fifteen hundred miner-harvesters were in Saskatchewan, and all but four were at work, receiving an average wage of 3 dollars 50 cents to 4 dollars, and in some cases 5 dollars per day. Both men and farmers were satisfied. Mr. Hall found seven hundred miner-harvesters in the Edmonton district, all but five working. Of tho latter, four were physically unfit, and the fifth would not work.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 11
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197ANOTHER STORY Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 11
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