Protest Against Swivel Chair Farmers Sparks Commons Debate
John Vallance and Joseph Bradette led a Commons motion advocating a five year land settlement scheme with 20 million dollars to buy farms for young men, prioritizing farm-born youths while excluding industrial workers and immigrants. Critics urged education over indiscriminate farming grants, noting need to attract workers through better farming life and training.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
John Vallance
South Battleford
Sas
Aatonen
Joseph Bradette
North Temiskaming
Cochrane
Ont
Bradette
Saskatchewan
George Perley
Agricultural Committee of the House
Vallance
Canada
Mr. Vlance
Gasoline Tariff Board May Open Session In Ottawa
The Tariff Board may hold its first hearing on gasoline tariffs outside Ottawa in Regina or Ottawa. The inquiry could shift hearings west to reduce transport costs for witnesses as the board prepares its budget report within weeks.
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Ottawa
Tari
Regina
Prairies
Trade Level Maintains 1934 World Trade
Geneva volume of world trade stayed at 1933 levels, per League of Nations data. In 1882 trade had dropped to 74 percent of the 1929 figure, then rose slightly in 1933.
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Geneva
League of Nations Secretariat
Cockroach Banquet Case Convicts Five Officials in USSR
In Archangel, USSR, five men including M. Scanin former secretary of the Communist party committee at Inakogorky harbor were jailed for their role in a cockroach banquet. They allegedly forced restaurant staff to eat soup with insects as discipline after a customer found a cockroach in his meal. Spanin lost his political post and was sentenced to three years. others received shorter terms.
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Russia
Archangel
Ussr
M. Scanin
Communist Party Committee
Inakogorky Harbor
Spanin
Bracken Likely to Push Wage Uniformity Plan in Manitoba
Premier John Bracken aims to introduce Manitoba legislation to standardize wages and working hours across Quebec Ontario and Manitoba. The move targets unfair industrial competition caused by differing provincial labor laws and would curb cheaper production elsewhere due to longer hours and lower pay.
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Bracken
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Quebec
Ontario
John Bracken
Provinces Submit Concrete Plans For Relief Operations
Hon W A Gordon told the House of Commons that provinces have not submitted concrete relief plans to date and Ottawa can take no action until statements are received. He noted plans would come after the current fiscal year and that no provincial information had been submitted to the labor department.
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Ottawa
W. A. Gordon
Labor
House of Commons
House
Committee of Supply
Labor Department
Gordon
Wolves Becoming Menace to Trapping Lands in Sask
A. F. Totzke of Humboldt asked in the House of Commons for action on amber wolves multiplying near Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan. Minister T. G. Murphy said a report was awaited before a formal statement. Totzke warned packs were causing extensive damage to trap lines and wildlife near the park.
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Ottawa
Prince Albert National Park
House of Commons
A. F. Totzke
Humboldt
T. G. Murphy
Interior
Park
RCMP chief calls marine section a coast guard potential
Major-General J. H. Mac Brien, RCMP commissioner, told the Canadian Geographical Society that developing the marine section into a regular coast guard service would undoubtedly benefit the nation. He said the marine service aided 76 vessels from April 1932 to the present.
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Ottawa
J. H. Mac Brien
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The
Canadian Geographical Society
New Members Added to Special Committee on BNA Act Amendments
The House of Commons enlarged its special committee studying methods to amend the British North America Act by adding three new members. Hon. Peter Veniet of Gloucester Liberal, J. S Stewart Conservative of Lethbridge, and Henri Bourassa Independent of Labelle join the panel as Prime Minister RB Bennett opens the session and moves the appointments.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Peter Veniet
Gloucester
J. S Stewart
Lethbridge
Henri Bourassa
Labelle
RB. Bennett
Likely to Retain Pension Commission Head
Ottawa contemplates keeping Mr Justice Fawcett Taylor as head of the Canadian pension commission beyond his temporary term. Appointed last July for a year to clear up marriage cases, he must report on pensions machinery. The senate has passed a bill allowing more temporary commissioners, with four to be named to relieve congestion.
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Ottawa
Justice Fawcett Taylor
Canadian Pension Commission
Elment
Senate
Bluenose to Race Gertrude L Thebaud in Atlantic Cup
Local businessman E Fenwick Zwicker released cablegrams with the Royal Ocean Racing Club showing England ready to approve a trans Atlantic fishing schooner race between the Canadian champion Bluenose of Lunenburg Nova Scotia and the Gertrude L Thebaud of Gloucester Massachusetts.
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Lunenburg
NSA
Gertrude L. Thebaud
Gloucester
Mass
E. Fenwick Zwicker
Royal Ocean Racing Club of
England
Soviet stance on European peace pact and Locarno link
The Soviet Union informed Britain and France that a general European peace pact is acceptable if London proposals are carried out. Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov instructed ambassadors to warn that regional pacts like a proposed eastern Locarno are essential for peace, a stance aimed at countering German aggression ambitions.
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Moscow
Great Britain
France
London
Maxim Litvinoff
Paris
Ussr
Europe
Germany
Russia
Four more rebels die in Anhwei mission attack
The foreign office reported four additional Communist rebels were captured and executed in Anhwei last December for the attack that harmed missionaries Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stam. The same period saw four more rebels killed after an alleged leader was fatally wounded in battle.
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Shangha
United States
J.C. Stam
Anhwei
Foreign Office
Siam
Depletion of Waterfowl Warns of Duck Extinction Risk
Manitoba natural resources minister J S McDiarmid reports to the legislature that widespread waterfowl depletion threatens certain duck species. The fix hinges on U S actions as ducks are shot across the migratory corridor to Gulf Coast marshes and Atlantic coasts. Hamilton Bermuda governor Sir Astley Cubitt learns the Duke of Gloucester will cancel his Bermuda visit due to HMAS Australia schedule delays while aiding the schooner Seth Parker off Tahiti.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
J. $. McDiarmid
United States
Gulf of Mexico
Hamilton
Bermuda
Astley Cubitt
Duke of Gloucester
HMSAS
Australia
Seth Parker
Taiti
France Leads Bid for Transatlantic Air Service with Giant Lieu
An intense race among nations to establish regular air service across the Atlantic centers on France. France unveiled the Lieut de Vaisseau Paris, a 304 foot long airliner with six engines and a 70 passenger capacity plus seven crew. It cruises at 145 mph and aims to cross in under 20 hours. Baron Henri de Grange in the United States studies commercial aviation opportunities.
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Atlantic
France
Lieut. de Vaisseau
Paris
Great Britain
United States
Inset
Baron Henri de In Grange
Nationwide plan urged for credit to spur housing
Hon H H Stevens former federal minister advocates a Dominion government mortgage loan corporation to fund a nationwide construction program. The body would issue bonds in Canada and could guarantee them if needed. He argued private control blocks credit and high costs hinder housing, urging a federal industry and commerce commission and farmer producer empowerment.
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Toronto
H. H. Stevens
Ontario Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
Canada
Stevens
Federal Commission of “Industry and Commerce
Greenock Council Declines Jubilee Participation
In Greenock on the Clyde the corporation resolved by a vote of 12 to 10 not to take part in the silver jubilee celebrations of the King's accession. The decision cited unemployment in the town and warned such actions would be inappropriate. Bailie Mrs McLeod likened the King to her father, while Bailie Scott opposed dragging the unemployed into the issue and warned against deterring new industry.
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Scotland
Gre Fock
Clyde
Bailie
Italy Ready War Supplies as 4000 Troops Sail to Africa
Italy’s Council, presided by Benito Mussolini, closes its fifth session vowing no shortage of war supplies. The government says it has prepared indispensable measures for a potential campaign in Ethiopia, ensuring readiness and the possibility of victory.
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Italy
Ethiopia
Rome
Mediterranean
Africa
Penito Mussolini
Ottawa plea for lower tariff on mining machinery
Colin Campbell Frontenac Addington urged the House of Commons to reduce tariffs on mining equipment. He argued rising taxes have strained the mining industry and survival depends on engineers and new methods of operation.
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Ottawa
Colin Campbell Frontenac-Addington
House of Commons
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