HOMELESS BOYS ON LAND
CANADIAN STATE SCHEME VANCOUVER, Nov. 9. The newest phase of unemployment relief in Canada is a paternal plan, in which the Dominion and Provincial Governments are co-operating, of placing homeless boys on the land to work for farmers who cannot afford to pay hired labor at the ruling rate of wages. The movement aims to scotch u growing menace in the number of boys travelling from place to place across the Dominion, emulating adults who spend their time travelling on freight trains. 1 The Federal Government proposes that each boy and the farmer who boards him bo paid five dollars. (£1 at par) a month, the cost to be shared with the provinces It is intended to protect existing farm labor by not sending boys to farmers who would be likely to dispense with farm hands to share in the new schoine.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 5
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146HOMELESS BOYS ON LAND Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 5
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