UNEMPLOYMENT RIFE
PROBLEM IN CANADIAN CITIES P.A. AUCKLAND, May 12.
Tradesmen arriving from Canada in the Wairata spoke of widespread unemployment and deteriorating economic conditions in Canadian cities. There are between 20,000 and 30,000 unemployed in Vancouver alone,” said Mr T. Bilton, a carpenter. Mr Joseph Wilson, a carpenter, who left Somerset with his wife six months ago, said there was little building during the winter, and thousands of casual workers flocked to the cities. There was no State housing and no social security or pensions. Another migrant, Mr R. McConnell, who was with the Imperial forces on Gallipoli and worked on the Yukon between the wars, described Canada as “ probably the wealthiest country in the worldwealthier than the United States—but it just is not developed.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26770, 13 May 1948, Page 10
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