HOURS OF LABOUR
CANADA FAVOURS REDUCTION UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF MEASURE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, February 5. The House of Commons to-day passed a resolution instructing the Government to ocnsider reducing the hours of labour as an unemployment relief measure. Members of all parties supported it, generally referring to the fact, however, that the provinces held the right to legislate on the hours of labour. A former Minister of Labour (Mr Heenan) laid a charge that “ slave camps were operated by the Ontario Government, in which men received only a few cents for a month’s work.”
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Evening Star, Issue 21639, 7 February 1934, Page 7
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94HOURS OF LABOUR Evening Star, Issue 21639, 7 February 1934, Page 7
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