CANADIAN AFFAIRS
WHEAT GROWERS’ CONFERENCE. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] i Received January 17, 2.15 p.m.) WINNIPEG, January IG. Declaring that international co-oper-ation must be achieved as a fundamental basis for a solution of the world wheat problem, the Premier (Mr. John Bracken) to-day issued a. cull to all agricultural organisations in Western Canada, to send delegates to a conference to decide on the platform to be laid before the Dominion Government. COMMUNISTIC LIT ER AT UR E. OTTAWA. January IG. The first business day of the new session, of Parliament featured among the bills a. proposal by Mr. Wilfred Waorbix, of Quebec City, to authorise the. Postmaster General to bann all Communistic literature from the mails.
The same member is proposing that Canada, declare December 10. the date that the Statute of Westminster became effective 1 , as a national holiday, declaring it is of imperative importance that, nationhood be kept before Canadians. ALBERTA'S DEFAULT. EDMONTON. January IG.
Alberta defaulted on the 2.500,000 dollars bond issue to-day, raising the total defaults to ten million dollars.
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