SOVIET SYSTEM

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1933, Page 6

SOVIET SYSTEM

NOT BE TOLERATEDi JN CANADA

UNE\IPL()YED INSURANCF

(Umted Press Association—By- Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.)

OTTAWA, January 17.

“No attempt to- introduce a- system of' Soviet Government in Canada will be tolerated, and a system of 11011oOiiitidbutory employment . insurance ,wi.]l be ilntroduced- in Parliament liy the present Government,’’ Air- Bennett' told.’a d.elhgatioii from the National Committee off Unemployed Councils, to-iday. ■ : - ■

. Soi far as «iimy desire to - institute any Soviet- system; which th p delegation evidently desired was concerned, Aft’ Bennett stated that six applications Mere received to-day by the Minister of Labour (Air Gordon) from people who had. 'been sent to Soviet- Runs’-a, asking that they be permitted-to-come back to Canada.

There were many, evidences. Air Bennett continued, that the. conditions in ißifSsi'a were far. different from those under which the delegation lived in 'Canada under liberty andi decency.

Air Bennett said that in the matter of unemployment insurance, the Dominion ’Provincial Conference, which opened to-day was oohis'idering another principle than the non-contri-'butory plan..

CO-OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH

ALBERTA FARMERS’ STEPS

CALGARY, January 17

'Steps towards the achievement of a co-operative- commonwealth were outlined and. then adopted -by the Delegates of the United Fanners of Alberta at their -annual convention. These are resolutions urging: The- nationalisation of' the currency and credit. ‘

The public ownership or the socialisation of oil natural resources, ami all industrial and distributive equipment essential to the welfare of -society. A foreign policy designed to secure international rf>-operat:ion in trade, industry and: - finance, and to promote world peace- ,