MOST CRUEL HOAX"
VISIONARY ADVENTURERS
(Received August 27, 2.15 p.m.)
VANCOUVER, August 26.
The Mayor, Mr. G. G. McGeer, who has returned from Alberta after taking part in the campaign: on behalf of the Liberals, declares.: that Mr. Aberhart's 25 dollars promise was the most cruel hoax ever perpetrated on a suffering people by a group of visionary and impractical' political adventurers.
The Social Credit Party, led by Mr. William Aberhart, who was not himself a candidate, swept the rural riding at the Alberta elections last week, and the Government was defeated. Mr. Aberhart's plans and aims were a modification of those of Major Douglas, the author of the Douglas Credit scheme. The Aberhart plan proposes to pay a basic dividend, tentatively, of 25 dollars a month, to every adult, with an allowance for children, from a levy on unearned increment; in nonnegotiable certificates issued by the proposed credit office. The "just price" would be fixed by a Commission.
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Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 10
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