IMMIGRATION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 420, 1 February 1909, Page 7

IMMIGRATION.

CANADA PROPOSES DRASTIC STEPS.

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INSPECTORS AT EMBARKATION; PORTS. (Bit TEIKOBAPH—PBISa ABSOOUTIOM-,-COfTßtailT.) (Rec. January 31, 4.15 p.m.) < Ottawa, January 30. The Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, has introduced in the Dominion House'of Commons a Bill to amend the Immigratioii Act. "-•• "•'" The new measure is drastic. It imposes stricter supervision at ports of embarkation, and provides for the .appointment of inspectors at Liverpool, Glasgow, and other British jSorts.'-/' '•.* ■;. ■ " '..'■■'' . Undesirables may be deported from Canada within three years of their arrival. SALVATION ARMY EMICRANTS.;. -'■■-;■ A CANADIAN CRITIC! ; ' ■ : .:•'..' .' ;..•.".■ London, January 29. . Speaking ;.at the Labour ConfeTencft at Portsmouth, Mr. Trotter, a Canadian delegate, violently attacked the Salvation Army's emigration programme, whioh,- he 'declared, would.win..the prize for the best way of prevaricating without lying. ' '.. ■

■ 'The Army, Mr. Trotter asserted, had become, the procurator-general of cheap labour for'.international capital. .'. ' ' ■'. '■

fMr. Trotter declares that a laige"number of emiwa'ats are not suitable' for settling on the land/and art .over-crowding' the towns , , of Canada. Many of the people who were placed' on the land'(ho. added) got back to the towns'as soon a' 3 they' possibly could. The Dominion Government,knew very well that there was no room for,'skilled craftsmen in Canada, and, in spite, of the repeated appeals of the manufacturers, who only wanted the men 1 in order to bring, the price of labour, had studiously refused to invite such peqplo to emigrate,from England. ■ All the ~ .emif«ation agencies in London were"condemned by Mr. Trotter.for par.ticipation in the work of misrepresentation that was entail; ng so miioh disappointment and misery'upon, English emigrants, and. their families in Canada; but he also'.passed severe 'strictures on the shipping .companies,. working- upon a commission whioh encouraged their activities.]