Acute Labor Shortage Seen For This Year
Winnipeg reports a coming year of severe labor shortages across sectors. Deputy labor minister MacNamara warns the nation must move workers to essential jobs, with 1.9 million examined and 500,000 rejected for armed service, and calls for vigorous compulsory transfers to address pressing needs in agriculture, industry, and defense.
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Winnipeg
Arthur Mar- Namara
Fred J. White
MacSamara
Planta
Aggression Won’t Pay Says Czechoslovak Leader At IL Conference
Jan Masaryk deputy prime minister of Czecho Slovakia told a full plenary of the International Labour Conference that Germany must be taught aggression does not pay. He added the remark also applied to Japan and urged learning from the postwar failure to persuade Germans they were defeated.
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Germany
Philadelphia
Jan Masaryk
Czecho- Slovakia
International Labor Conference
Japan
Will Visit Russia to Inspect Industrial Zone Beyond Urals
New Yorker Eric Johnston president of the United States Chamber of Commerce plans a visit to Russia to study its vast industrial empire beyond the Ural mountains. He intends to visit battle fronts and collective farms and meet Russians to assess private airline operations from the United States.
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New Yorker
Ural Mountains
New York
Eric Johnston
United States Chamber of Commerce
Anid
Russia
Johnston
United States
Prime Minister Church Bi Sets Equal Pay Commission
Prime Minister Church Bi announced a royal commission to study equal pay for equal work by men and women. The issue, linked to teachers, sparked a bitter parliamentary debate last March.
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Equal Pay
London
Church Bi
Air Force Praise by The Daily Sketch
An editorial in The Daily Sketch lauds the Royal Canadian Air Force for its service to Canada the Empire and the war effort noting a strong record of dedication and sacrifice across missions and deployments.
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London
The
Daily Sketch
Royal Canadian Air Force
Dominion
Packing plants recruit conscientious objectors for war effort
In Ottawa and Winnipeg reports note conscientious objectors, including those with families, are being employed in western packing plants for the war labor shortage. Farm labor is shifted to plants as seeding finishes in Alberta and Saskatchewan, with weekly hog processing expected to reach 140,000 for six weeks. Women may fill more plant roles where possible. Col Cornwall of Peace River urges a branch railroad from Prince George to tidewater to unlock Northwest Territories resources and support postwar settlement, estimating 2,000,000 people could work the area while tapping soils, coal, fish, and minerals. He will present the plan to Ottawa.
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Ottawa
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Northwest Territories
James J. Cornwall
Peace River
Alta
Prince George
G.C
Tidewater
Vancouver
Cornwall
United Nations Civil Aviation Plan Conference Discussed
Lord Beaverbrook announced in the House of Lords that a postwar international aviation regulation conference may be held this year. Britain abandons the Canadian draft, favoring U S Britain agreement, with plans for an international authority and flexible enforcement. Ottawa signals Canada may join the postwar talks despite rejecting fixed control and quotas. The aim is an international convention on air navigation and an overseeing transport body.
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London
United Nations
Lord Beaverbrook
House of Lords
Britain
Iord
United States
Dominion
C. D. Howe
Howe
Great Britain
Ottawa
Canada
United Kingdom
Beaver Brook
Canned Goods Stocks Higher in Canada on April 1
Ottawa reports from the Dominion bureau of statistics show Canadian stocks of canned fruits and vegetables on April 1 are larger than a year earlier. Canned fruit totals reach 981,512 dozen cans against 959,085, while canned vegetables total 6,352,969 dozen compared with 5,187,626.
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Ottawa
Domsinian Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Italian POWs in Britain formed into units
London reports that vel ubhered Italian prisoners of war under British control in Britain are being organized into military units. The move signals a broader effort to integrate captured Italian personnel into structured formations within the Allied war effort.
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London
Britain
Canada Wheat Exports To Britain Continue
Geo McIvor, chair of the Canadian wheat board, said in Winnipeg Britain will continue to take large quantities of wheat from Canada.
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Winnipeg
Geo. McIvor
Canadian Wheat Board
Great Britain
Canada
Cosgrave Promoted in Canberra to Lt Colonel Rank
Col L M Cosgrave D S C Canadian Military Attache at Canberra Australia promoted from Lieutenant Colonel He has a distinguished war record and previously served as Canadian Trade Commissioner in Sydney Australia
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L. M. Cosgrave
D.S.C
Canberra
Australia
Sydney
Ottawa eyes Japanese relief plan for war prisoners
Ottawa officials said a Tokyo report that Japan would retrieve supplies left at Vladivostok for U S war prisoners and civilian internees may also aid Canadian prisoners in Japan. No official confirmation was received. A spokesman noted Canadian supplies may be among those at the port from a common outlet.
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Ottawa
External Affairs Department
Vladivostok
United States
Japan
Tokyo
Canada
Jewels Recovered From Sudan Mail Plane Crash
A British insurance company representative recovered about 300000 dollars worth of jewels from a sunken mail plane crash last summer in the Sudan. None of the crew knew part of its cargo. The recovery occurred six months later.
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London
Sudan
Canada foresees higher 1944 farm output despite drought risk
Ottawa reports 1944 production to exceed 1943 with record slaughterings in early 1944. Hog, beef, sheep, and veal gains, a surge in poultry eggs for export, cheese up though butter down, and crop acreage likely to match 1943. Machinery quotas expanded, some delays in rationed gear. Prairie moisture shortages threaten crops but rain could improve outlook.
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Ottawa
Agriculture Department
West
Special Products Board For Export
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Authority
Britain and Canada Aid Russia With Tanks Airplanes and More
Britain supplied Russia with 6301 tanks 6778 airplanes and over 80 million pounds in raw materials and other supplies from Oct 10 1941 to March 31. Churchill disclosed in the House of Commons as an Admiralty note reported nearly 1,250,000 tons of war equipment delivered in six months with minimal losses.
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London
Britain
Russia
Churchill
House of Commons
Admiralty
United Nations
Mr. Churchill
United Kingdom
Canada
Lince
Passenge
B. A. Frazer
Home Fleet
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Hmlc.s. Athabaskan
France
Hmsc.s. Haida
J. H. Stubbs
Victoria
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H. G. de Wolf
Halifax
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Stubbs
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