AMERICAN ITEMS
CANADIAN UNEMPLOYMENT
[United Press Association —By Electric (Australian Press Association)
OTTAWA, Jan, 30
Official figures gathered from Trades Unions arid other labour organisations place Canada’s unemployed at three hundred thousand. While there is one hundred thousand of an increase since August, it is the customary seasonal contraction of employment which occurs from November to January. The Minister of Labour, Mr Robertson, predicted a substantial improvement within a few months.
MURDERER LYNCHED. v A FAMILY SLAIN. VA NCOUVER /Jan. 30. Charles Bannon ,aged 22 years, who confessed that he was the slayer of six members of a family named Haven, was taken from the country gaol in Schafer, North Dakota, and lynched from a bridge beam. Hannon worked as a farm hand. He quarrelled with Mrs Haven, and then killed the family, one after another in various parts of the farm, on which he continued to work, telling the neighbours that the Havens had gone on a visit to California.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1931, Page 5
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