AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

CANADIAN" WHEAT POOL’S * Mistake. [United Press; Association .—By Electric Telegraph .—Copy right.] ' * ’ J,, j * . WINNIPEG, April 1. In reference 'to a statement made in the British 'Hohse of Commons by the lit. Hon. J. H. ThoihjA (Minister of Unemployment. )to the effect that he advised tlie Canadian Wheat Poo! to sell last fall, when wheat .was 147 'cents per bushel, so that, they eaild , ■ get return cargoes of ; coal, the officials of the pool to-dav did not deny that ‘Air Thomas (filtered They refused to comment on tlie 'matter. U.S. "UNEMPLOYED. . WASHINGTON, April 2. ATE Groene7 of" the American, Federation of before ; tiie'-. Senate l .Gbifimittee; estimated 3,703,(XX) workers were unemployed in February, losing..four hundred million dollars in wages. He declared relief for unemployment, 'in ' the first quarter of 1933 cost a thousand million , dollars. He -endorsed Senator Wagner's •; programing sfor the expenditure of 150 million dollars for the pernia- ; jient federation • unemployment relief : programme. .Witness said the country ;was fac-edi with tlie. possibility of. a revolution unless the unemployment situation was nieti- • He estimated one .workers: out in industry was idle. A.i 1