UNEMPLOYED WILL BE COMPELLED TO WORK.
CAMPS TO BE SET UP UNDER CANADIAN PLAN. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, August 2. Parliament will be prorogued tomorrow. Its chief accomplishments have been the Australian Trade Treaty and the measures to deal with farm and unemployment relief. In connection with unemployment relief strong action is planned against rioters and foreign agitators. Foreign leaders are particularly bitter against the Government’s proposal to establish work camps for highway construction and land clearing. Men will be concentrated in these camps, but will not be fed unless they work. This puts a bitter taste in the mouths of the hordes of “ hoboes ” who infest the cities and the countryside in summer time and ride on the railways between the populous centres. They plunder goods in the trucks or beg a living from the settlers in the regions traversed. Each year their depredations cost the country many thousands of dollars.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 4 August 1931, Page 1
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