Canada Establishes Camps for Workless
GLOOMY PROSPECT FOR HOBOES. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. OTTAWA, Aug. 2. Parliament is being prorogued tomorrow. Its chief accomplishment has been the Australian trade treaty and measures to deal with farm and unemployment relief. In connection with the latter strong action is planned against rioters and foreign agitators. The foreign leaders aro particularly bitter against, tho Government proposal to establish work camps for highway construction and land clearing. The prospect of being concentrated in camps and being unfed unless they work puts a bitter taste in tho mouths of hordes of hoboes who infest the cities and the countryside in the summertime and ride on the railways between populous centres. They plunder goods in the trucks or beg a living from settlers in the regions traversed. Their depredations cost the country many thousands of dollars per annum.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6619, 4 August 1931, Page 7
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