CANADA’S UNEMPLOYED
WORK CAMP ARMY MOBILISED. NATIONAL HIGHWAY PROJECTED VANCOUVER, August 28. Negotiations between the Dominion Government, the Provincial Governments and the niunieipa-liites of the Dominion have resulted in a systematic plan for the relief of unemployed in Canada during the fall and winter. Under the scheme Canada is to build a cross-country auto highway reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Stretches of this road in the various provinces will he constructed by the provinces interested. the Dominion supplying the money. Men engaged will lie housed in large camps.
No wages will be paid hut each will receive a “subsistence allowance” of tentatively' two dollars per day'. Out of this he will pay one dollar per day for board. Married men will receive slightly more.
Criticism of the rates of “subsistence allowance” has drawn from Premier Bennett the reply that no man in Canada will receive pay for being jobless and that a premium will not he placed upon idleness. “The indolent- will not be placed as a burden upon the thrifty,” the Premier declared, adding that men who' refused to accept the jobs offered them would receive no assistance whatever.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1931, Page 6
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192CANADA’S UNEMPLOYED Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1931, Page 6
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