RELIEF IN CANADA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 196, 2 August 1934, Page 7

RELIEF IN CANADA

Provinces’ Responsibility By telegraph—l’ress Assn. —Copyright OTTAWA, July 31. The Kt. Ron. 11. B. Bennett bluntly informed a conference of provincial Premiers that the Federal Government intended to shift back to them the main burden of unemployment relief. The statement resulted in Mr Tacheroau’s angry desertion of the conference. Mr Bennett, explaining tho reasons for which the Government would have to reduce lump-sum relief contributions to each province, cited the fact that the Government already hud expended 1,000,000,000 dollars on relief in addition to making loans totalling 00,000,000 dollars to the provinces for the same purpose, as well as financing 40,000,000 dollars’ worth of public works programme by currency inflation. While the conference was in session the Ottawa City Board of Control decided to investigate a charge that 200,000 bread tickets and 190,000 milk tickets had been redeemed for beer, cinema, candy and tonsorial services. Similar charges also have been heard in other parts of the Dominion. Mr Bennett reminded Premier's that the responsibility for the proper redemption of tickets was entirely theirs. Meanwhile an army of 2000 “hunger marchers’’ front ’the various provinces bitterly denounced Hie inadequacy of Government help.