CANADIAN COMMENTS.
Unemployment Rampant. Organised labor from cvory quarter of Western Canada has been vigorously protesting against the tremendous importation of job-seekers into this territory for the last two years, and have suffered much as the result of the glutted labor market for some time past, along with the victims themselves. So congested has become the unemployed that oven the employers themselves are moved to issue a warning ; after having turned away so many applicants for work that it has become a positive nuisance. Here's what a prominent Canadian Northern Hailway contractor has to say in the daily press: "In all my experience in railway construction work I never saw the supply of labor so ample as it is this winter. . . For several weeks I have been turning down over 100 applications daily."
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 57, 12 April 1912, Page 2
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133CANADIAN COMMENTS. Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 57, 12 April 1912, Page 2
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