Postwar Plans For Employment In Canada
Ottawa outlines a broad program for postwar employment under the advisory committee on postwar reconstruction. Dr. F Cyn James of McGill insists full employability for all Canadians, with demobilized service personnel absorbed into the economy. Plans include staged wage payments, gradual relaxation of controls, private enterprise support, and coordinated, government-financed projects to rebuild industry while preserving resources and shifting wartime plants to peacetime production.
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Ottawa
F Cyn James
McGill University
James
House of Commons Committee On Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
Canada
England
Canada Seeks Separate Overseas Air Force Policy
Air Minister Power told Parliament he supports Canadianizing the Royal Canadian Air Force overseas amid resistance from some RCAF and RAF officers and British air ministry doubts. He cited arguments for and against segregating Canadians and noted progress toward forming 25 Canadian squadrons in the RAF, with 22 established, and ongoing efforts to train Canadians before overseas deployment.
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Ottawa
Power
House of Commons
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
R.A.F
Conservative House
Hanson
Maj. Power
Curtin Demands Striking Miners Return to Work
Australian Prime Minister Curtin orders coal miners to resume work or face government action. He warned parliament the government shall stand or fall by the issue and stated authorities would be used to compel workers back to the pits if necessary.
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Canberra
Australia
Curtin
Budget Doubled in Northern Ireland War Chest Provision
Belfast reports Finance Minister J Milne Barbour unveils a provisional empire war chest contribution of £21,300,000 ($9,800,000), nearly double last year’s £11,750,000. The budget outlines increased funding for wartime needs and defense.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
J. Milne Barbour
Empire War Chest
Montcalm Icebreaker Reaches Northern Russia in War Service
The Canadian icebreaker Montcalm arrived safely in northern Russia and will serve the Soviet government for the war. It becomes the second Canadian icebreaker in those waters under wartime conditions. The ship will be operated by Russians, with Canadian crew to return home soon.
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Montcalm
Russia
Ottawa
Glasgow
Canada
Slight Advance in Canned Salmon Prices Allowed
Retail and wholesale prices for canned salmon will rise modestly announces Neil Mc Lean wartime prices and trade board fish products administrator. Retail dealers may add one cent per pound to containers and half a cent per half or quarter pound tin. Wholesalers may add 54 cents per case of 48 one pound containers or 96 half or quarter pound tins.
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Ottawa
Neil McLean
Prices and Trade Board
Allied Bombers Sink Ship and Set Two Ablaze in Pacific
Allied air forces conducted a 1.30 mile round trip over northern Australia and sank a 3.9 percent ton Japanese vessel near Amboina in the Netherlands Islands and set two others on fire. MacArthur’s headquarters said additional units hit a surprise Japanese base at Rabaul dropping bombs on 15 bombers, destroying three and severely damaging many more while two other ships, 3 000 tons and 2 000 tons, were set afire by direct hits.
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Allied
Australia
Netherlands
Amboina
General MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain Island
Navy Plan To Establish Canadian Fleet Mail Office At London
The naval services headquarters announced a Canadian fleet mail office to be set up in London and an extension of the airgraph mail service to naval personnel. Arrangements include parcel post for personnel abroad and postal provisions for Royal Canadian Navy members on Canadian ships and those serving with the Royal Navy.
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London
Ottawa
England
Naval Services Headquarters
Royal Canadian Navy
Royal Navy
Home Guards Train For Anti Aircraft Defences
Home Guards are trained in small numbers to man anti aircraft defences. If the experiment succeeds, larger numbers will be given charge of one vital section of the defences.
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London
Chinese Canadian lauded as first officer candidate
Dennie Tien Shek Leong, 22, of Vancouver, was recommended for a commission in the Canadian Army. He will attend a four month course at Kingston, Ontario before becoming a lieutenant in the signal corps. Leong was born in Hong Kong and moved to Canada at age one.
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Vancouver
Dennie Tien Shek Leong
Kingston
Ont
Signal Corps
Hong Kong
Canada
Canada to Train U.S. Pilots Under Added Commonwealth Plan
Daily Telegraph correspondent notes Canada may expand the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan to produce pilots and air crews for the United States. Ottawa hosts an air training conference and other United Nations may be invited to send personnel to Canada for training.
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London
The
Daily Telegraph
United States
Ottawa
Canada
United Nations
Indian volunteers flood Delhi recruiting centres
BBC's New Delhi bureau quotes a spokesman stating that Indian volunteers are pouring into Delhi recruiting centres at a rate of 100000 a month, signaling large scale enlistment activity.
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London
British Broadcasting Corporation
New Delhi
Britain Reaches Highest Point In War Production
Britain reports record war production with output doubling from Dunkirk to early 1942. By 1942 some 55 percent of resources go to government work as civilian goods shrink. Labor, materials, and tools limit further expansion while factories convert to war needs.
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Britain
London
Dunkirk
Production Of Munitions Have Been Increased
Ottawa reports Canadian explosives plants are running 75 percent above capacity and one gun plant is producing two and a half times expected output. Howe outlined wartime production, noting vast expansion in aircraft, shipbuilding, motor vehicles, and weapons with contracts exceeding four billion dollars and ongoing growth in munitions across Federal Aircraft, tank yards, and naval gun mounts.
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Ottawa
Howe
House of Commons
Canada
United States
United Kingdom
Montreal
New Air Service To Link United States With Eire London
A new airline will operate between the United States and Eire with four-motored flying boats. The American Export Lines plans a proving flight within two weeks and then a regular service of four weekly flights. Pan American Airways also expects to resume North Atlantic service soon.
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United States
Eire
The
American Export Lines
Pan-American Airways
North Atlantic
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