SOVIET SYSTEM
NO OPENING IN CANADA
INTRODUCTION OPPOSED
"STATEMENT BY BENNETT
(United Press Association—By Electric TeleCraph—Copyright. (Eeceived ISth January, 11 a.m.) OTTAWA, 17th January. [ No attempt to introduce a system of ISoviet Government in Canada would be I tolerated, and a system of non-contri-butory unemployment insurance would not be introduced in Parliament by the present Government, the Prime Minister, Mr. B. B. Bennett, told a delegation of the National Committee of Unemployed Councils on Tuesday, so far as any desire to institnte any Soviet system which the delegation evidently wanted was concerned.
Mr. Bennett stated that sis applications had been received that day by the Minister of Labour, Mr. Gordon, from people who had been sent to Soviet Eussia, asking that they be permitted to come back to Canada. There were many evidences, Mr. Bennett continued, that conditions in Eussia were far different from those under which the delegation lived in Canada under liberty and decency.
.»In the matter of ■unemployment insurance, the Dominion Provincial Conference, which opened on Tuesday, was considering another principle than the non-contributory plan, Mr. Bennett
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 14, 18 January 1933, Page 9
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180SOVIET SYSTEM Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 14, 18 January 1933, Page 9
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