ISSUE OF CERTIFICATES
SOCIAL CREDIT IN ALBERTA
CRISIS PREDICTED
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EDMONTON, August 8.
The Chamber of Commerce today appealed to the Dominion Government to stop the circulation of the Aberhart social credit certificates. The Prime Minister (Mr. Aberhart) has referred the protest to the law officers of the Crown.
The Aberhart Government on Wednesday distributed 250,000 dollars' worth of certificates all over the province in payment to unemployed for work on roads. Some merchants have accepted them, but the majority are refusing. Each certificate must have a one cent Aberhart Government stamp affixed weekly for 104 weeks, and then it is redeemable for a dollar.
The Chamber of Commerce declares the issue illegal in that only the Dominion has authority to issue currency, and complains that the issue is creating intolerable confusion i:i. business.
Mr. Aberhart, in replying, describes the chamber as the mouthpiece of those oppressing the people.
Business men predict a crisis when Mr. Aberhart and merchants accepting scrip attempt to recoup stocks from wholesalers outside the province, who have already declared that they will not accept the scrip.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 35, 10 August 1936, Page 9
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187ISSUE OF CERTIFICATES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 35, 10 August 1936, Page 9
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