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BRITISH MIGRATION PLAN MINISTER’S ALLEGATION (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) TORONTO, Friday. In an address to the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada the Federal Minister of Labour, Mr. Peter Heenan, alleged that a well-thought-out campaign was being conducted in Britain, to stampede the Canadian Government into bringing British unemployed to Canada by the shipload. The propaganda was due, said Mr. Heenan, to the desire of certain interests in Britain to solve a political problem, and was encouraged by persons in Canada who wanted to flood the labour market. The Minister said: “It is a lie to say the British unemployed do not want work, and that they are content to subsist on the dole. They do want to work, and so false reports of plenty of work and high wages in .Canada are eagerly received.” Mr. Heenan said that as Minister of Labour he defended the movement to send British miners to Canada for the harvest labour, as separate from the immigration policy.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 9
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169TO STAMPEDE CANADA Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 9
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