LOAFERS IN CANADA.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1926, Page 3

LOAFERS IN CANADA.

, LONDON, Feb. 23. Statements that emigrants from this country under the Canadian Government’s “£3 to Canada” scheme are unable to find work, in spite of the guarantee of employment, were yesterday characterised as untruths by Mr William Denton, a prominent Alberta farmer at present in London. Speaking to a reporter, Mr Denton, who emigrated from Manchester in 1909, said: •‘These statements are liable to undo much of the good of the Government’s scheme. The emigrants who are complaining are men who have loafed about on the dole in England and show a disinclination for steady work. They work for a month in the spring, live on their earnings until they are hard up, work for another month, and idle about again and sponge on their friends until the winter comes. By that ttime the slack two months of the year have arrived, and the men start whining because they cannot find work. If they had stuck to their jobs they would have saved enough to tide them over the very short slack period. I have gone in the summer to Calgary, where I have found from 150 to 200 ‘‘unemployed’’ men. 1 have tried to engage two men for farm work at good wages, but not one accepted the offer. These loafers prefer to secure jobs near a large town, where they can return when they have saved enough money to start idling and. drinking. This is almost every Canadian farmer’s exper i e nee