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FOREIGN AGITATORS IN CANADA LEGISLATION PASSED CAMPS FOR' RELIEF WORKERS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) OTTAWA, 2nd August. Parliament is being prorogued to-mor-row. 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. Foreign leaders are particularly bitter against the Government proposal to establish work camps for highway construction and land clearing. Prospects are being concentrated therein ancl aro not being fed unless they work. Tins puls a bitter taste in the mouths of hordes of hoboes who infest the cities and counryside in the summer time, and ride on the railways between the populous centres. They plunder goods in 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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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 August 1931, Page 5
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146STRONG ACTION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 August 1931, Page 5
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