APPEAL TO CANADA

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1929, Page 3

APPEAL TO CANADA

BY -BRITISH MINISTER. FOR BUSINESS PATRONAGE. 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). OTTAWA, Sept. 3. At Winnipeg, Rt. Hon J. H. Thomas (British Minister, for Unemployment) discussed with farm organisation officials closer trade relationship between Canada and the United Kingdom, also methods to alleviate unemployment in England, as well as plans for future British immigration to the Dominion. To the officers of the Canadian Wheat Pool, Mr Thomas suggested the possibility of the . pool extending its policy of purchase of machinery from Great Britain. He thought that every effort should be made by the Canadians to buy in British markets when -e articles 'they sought were not obtainable in Canada. The discussions were frank and satisfactory. Addressing the Canadian Club, Mr Thomas said that there was no intentioin of solving British unemployment problem by -dumping'a large number of people into Canada. He merely asked the Canadians to give Britain a fair share of their business and thus Case the unemployment in Britain. He declared: “You spend only one pound with us for every four pounds you spend in the United States. , You import sixteen million tons of American oal, and I am going to get some of that for this, the best customer you have.”