CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
WORK OF THE SESSION ACTION AGAINST FOREIGN AGITATORS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, August 2. Parliament will bo prorogued tomorrow, Its chief accomplishment has been the Australian trade treaty and measures to deal with farm and unemployment relief. In connection with the latter strong action is planned against rioters and foreign agitators. Foreign leaders are particularly hitter against the Government proposal to establish work camps for highway construction and land clearing. The prospect of being concentrated therein and not being fed unless they work puts a bitter taste in the mouths of hordes of hoboes who infest the cities and the countryside in the summer time and ride on railways between populous centres. They _ plunder goods in trucks or bog a living from settlors in the regions they traverse, and their depredations cost the country many thousands of dollars jier annum.
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Evening Star, Issue 20862, 4 August 1931, Page 7
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143CANADIAN PARLIAMENT Evening Star, Issue 20862, 4 August 1931, Page 7
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