SLUMP IN CANADA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 301, 21 December 1907, Page 2

SLUMP IN CANADA.

•tVKRSTOCKING THE TOWN LABOR MARKETS. W'OliKElii-y CSV—SSTONEIt IN LONiWX. v WARNING INTENDING EMIGRANTS Received 20th, U. 41 p , m , London, December 20. ' - Jlr trotter, the special Commissioner sent by the Canadian Trades and Labor ' Congress to warn British workers against emigration, address the Labor Party and Parliamentary Committee at the Irades Union Congress at Westminster. He declared the flood of skilled labor had attained alarming proportions. .Many emigrants were settling, in the cities where they were not wanted, refusing to go to the country, where they : were needed. Mr Trotter blamed the Canadian manufacturers, British emigration agencies, and shipping companies working on eomiliission. SHORTENING HANDS. LORD STRATHCONA INTERVIEWED. ' Received 20th, 9.44 p.m. ' Ottawa, December 20; Lord Stratlicona, in an interview, said nobody needing work should emigrate until the spring. Several Ontario factories have decreased their output, rendering idle a 1 large number of hands. The claßs affected is chiefly those sent out by charitable institutions. 1 Alarmists' reports are groundless, though it is admitted the conditions of labor and business is less brisk than In 1006.