CANADIAN AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1933, Page 7

CANADIAN AFFAIRS

WHEAT CROP ESTIMATES. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—-COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. August 10, 1 p.m.) OTTAWA, August 9. Heat, drought, and plagues of grasshoppers, combined during the past week, to cause further damage to Canadian crops. The Bureau of Statistics reported an increase of more than 100,000 bushels for export clearance, for the week-ending August 4, compared with the previous week, an increase of more than half a million bushels against the corresponding period last year. INDUSTRIAL CODES. VANCOUVER, August 9. The Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, the Canada Chamber of Commerce, and the r Vancouver Trade Board, announced that the committees have been appointed to study the working of the Roosevelt National Recovery Act, with a view to similar enterprise in Canada if warranted by United States-.results.' The adoption of the code wage system in leading Washington industries, has led to a demand for an embargo on Canadian lumber, on the grounds that Canadian workers are paid much below the', United States scale. U.S.A. GRAIN PROPOSALS. - .WASHINGTON, August 9. The proposed code of fair competition for grain exchanges was submitted, to-day to the Farm Adjustment Administration. It fixes a definite minimum of margins to be set up in virtually all speculative purchases, and provides for minimum wages, and maximum weekly hours of labour, but the provisions, with which the administrators are most concerned, deal with exchange rules. These include proposals to limit permanently the daily fluctuations in prices of wheat, rye, and barley to five cents a bushel, corn, four cents., and oats three cents.