Analysis of Canadian employment conditions presented in Detroit
Detroit reports quotes from RH Coats, Dominion statistician, at the American Statistical Association. He notes that half of Canada’s wage earners earn 80 percent of the wage bill and that unemployment is concentrated in a low wage lane. He explains two classes of unemployment, with older workers finding it hardest to reenter work, and discusses shifts in industry employment in 1936 plus cross-border population movements between Canada and the United States.
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Dominion
American Statistical Association
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Bia
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United States
Mr. Coat
Ottawa mulls tax cuts to spur trade hopes rise
Reports from financial circles say the government may slice the eight per cent sales tax to six per cent and seek tariff reductions when budget plans are laid before parliament. The drive backs boosting trade ahead of the season as excise and other levies face potential changes. A budget briefing may appear in February after the house reconvenes on January 12.
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Ottawa
Zona Gale Dies Who Won 1921 Pulitzer Prize
Zona Gale, Portage Wisconsin novelist and best known for Miss Lulu Bett, died at age 65 after pneumonia. She lived in Portage with about 6000 residents and was regarded as the town’s first citizen, famed for portraying midwestern small towns.
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Chicago
Zona Gale
United States
Portage
Wis
W. L. Breese
Lulu Bett
Middle West
Germany plans economic axis from North Sea to Black Sea
Reich secretary Rudolf Brinkman writes in the Berlin chamber of commerce annual review that Germany will push strong economic ties from the North Sea to the Black Sea, maintain preferential tariffs for southeastern Europe farm produce, pay higher prices, industrialize partner nations, and seek long-term trade treaties while resisting Anglo American moves in Latin America and China.
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China
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Reich
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Black Sea
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Vigilance urged against spread of militaristic systema
Correll Hut warned American republics to exercise constant vigilance to counter the spread of militaristic influence in the hemisphere. He noted bitter trust deficits worldwide and argued for strengthening peaceful relations and the Pan American method, stressing timely, clear judgment amid misgivings about broader cooperation.
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Lima
Peru
Correll Hut
Hull
War Commander Hugh Dyer Dies at 79 in Manitoba
Brigadier-General Hugh M. Dyer CB CMG DSO died at his Manitoba home after a two week illness. A prominent agriculturist born in Ireland, he came to Canada in 1881 and settled near Minnedosa. In World War I he led as second in command of the 7th Infantry Battalion and commanded Canadian troops in the Dearfort area. He is survived by four sons, including Harry in British Columbia.
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London
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7Th Infantry
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England
Harry
British Columbia
Explorer Loses Life In Fox Channel Arctic Tragedy
British explorer Toung Britisher Reynolds Bray drowned last September in Fox Channel near Iglooik after their small boat was crushed by heavy ice. Patrick Baird escaped, scrambled to Iglooik, and planned to base winter exploration. They had left Aug 13 aboard the Therese, a mission supply boat, but ice prevented reaching the Arctic settlement.
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Reynold Bray
Patrick Baird
Iglooik
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Canada
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Therese
Tremor Felt Across Helena Area on December 28
A minor earthquake recorded at 3 53 p m on December 28 shook Helena Montana and was felt in East Helena six miles away with no damage reported. The incident was confirmed by the federal weather bureau and described as a three second tremor.
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Slontana
Roosevelt Plans Pilot Training For 20 000 College Students
President Roosevelt announced a program to provide instructors and training for 20 000 college students annually to prepare pilots for civil aviation and support national defense. Civil aviation authorities say the effort would boost private flying and U.S. aircraft productivity, with some graduates potentially joining military reserves.
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United States
Roosevelt
Civil Aeronautica Authority
Army
Navy
Sino-Japanese War Casualties Reported Up To November 30
Imperial headquarters released a communique summarizing 17 months of the Sino-Japanese conflict. It claims 2,000,000 plus Chinese army casualties with 223,300 killed, 47,388 Japanese soldiers killed, and Japanese occupation of 47 percent of China. Population in occupied areas listed as 170,000,000.
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Tokio
Ching Proper
China
De Valera to Open Irish Exhibit at World’s Fair
Prime Minister De Valera of Hire will open the Irish exhibit at the world’s fair in New York on May 10 after an overnight stay at the White House on May 7. He will visit several U S cities during a four week stay. legation attaches say no political significance and the trip had been contemplated since 1984.
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Italian Troops in Franco Offensive Draw British Scrutiny
London reports close government circles say Prime Minister Chamberlain will ask Premier Mussolini during his Rome visit on January 11 to withdraw more Italian troops from Spain. Britain warns it cannot rely on neutrality if trouble with France spreads to Africa, as Blackshirts fan Franco’s Catalonian push and Italian press touts gains.
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Mussolini
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France
Africa
Franco
Lsted
I Duce
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China Will Not Capitulate Says Chiang Kai Shek
General Chiang Kai-shek told the Kuomintang assembly that China would not capitulate and rejected Japan's Konoye plan for an anti Communist pact. He warned against Japanese garrisons in northern China and a special inner Mongolia zone, and said post extraterritoriality abolition would allow discussion of rights for all nations except Japan.
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Chungking
China
Chiang Kal-Shek
Kuomintang
Government Party
Chiang
Pr Mier Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
Manchukuo
Inner
Mongolia
British freighter Stancroft sunk in Barcelona raid
Insurgent planes hit Barcelona harbor in two raids at 10 30 am and 12 30 pm. The 1407 ton Stancroft was sunk after being involved in gun running charges in Gibraltar last summer. Capt. Stanley Scott, master of the Stancroft, faced a Gibraltar court over cargo jurisdiction. No British casualties reported.
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Shanghai Robbery Outrages City Crowd of Fifteen
In Shanghai a bold holdup by five armed Chinese ended with fifteen foreign men and women robbed of money and jewels. The gunmen halted seven automobiles returning to the city from the American Country Club and relieved the occupants of valuables.
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