CANADA’S ENTERPRISE

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1930, Page 5

CANADA’S ENTERPRISE

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED.

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(Received October 2,2 p.m.) OTTAWA, October 1.

Between eighty and ninety million dollars will be used to aid unemployment during the next twelve months, under the programme of the federal Government, the provinces, and the railways. n , The Minister of Labour (Mr. Robeitson) announced to-day that the money will be expended on useful public works, and will provide great stimulus to business. He declared that the recent tariff changes would further afford stimulus to industrial activity. The restrictions on immigration were inaugurated materially to aid employment. Fourteen steamship sailings from Montreal were recently cancelled, for the reason that the vessels could not operate profitably without bringing immigrants to Canada on the ieturn voyages. Ono of the most important public works is the construction of a highway from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, the Federal and Provincial Government’s dividing the cost equal-

ly. It is announced that the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways are embarking on a twenty million dollars construction and improvement programme. ______

RIGHT TO SECEDE.

OTTAWA, October 1.

Sir Thomas White, a former Minister in the Federal Government of Canada, in a letter appearing in the “Toronto Mail and Empire.” expresses the opinion that the view attributed to the British Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr J. 11. Thomas, that nobody questions in the least the right of any Dominion to secede from, the Empire is quite unsound; and he says: “I would not like to see it pass without comment or criticism by the public or Press of Canada. He says that Mr Thomas “makes an assertion which is not only inaccurate in itself, but purports to speak for those of the overseas Empire whose representatives may, and some of whom undoubtedly do, take a very different view.”

Sir T. White asks: “What is the validity of this declaration of the Imperial Conference unless it is enacted into positive law by the Imperial Parliament? The right to secede can only be given by the legislative authority that created our constitution. It cannot be conferred by the members of a mere conference without legislative power, whose declaration is not binding upon any Parliament —Imperial. Federal, or Provincial, throughout the Empire.”

S. AFRICAN ATTITUDE.

(Recd. Oct. 2, 10 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, October 1.

The opening of the Imperial Conference coincided with a declaration by Doctor Madan, Acting-Premier, on South Africa’s independent status, at $ the Cape Nationalists’ Congress. He said: The Imperial Conference had ceased to function regarding our constitutional liberty. It was for us to interpret its scope and character. South Africa possessed the fullest right to neutrality, in the international sense. He did not believe in the doctrine of unity.