Canada Denied Labor Seat at Geneva Assembly
The eight leading industrial nations were granted seats on the governing body of the international labor office. Canada and Belgium lost their deputy members while the United States France Germany Great Britain India Italy Japan and Russia gained voting rights. Canada protested, seeking to appeal to the League of Nations council.
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Thenne
Waa
Orcowel Queeling
United States
France
Germany
Great Batan
India
Italy
Japan
Busea
Canada
International Labor Office
W. A. Riddell
Dominion
League of Nathongs
Unemployment Insurance Setup Faces Personnel Choices
The government will form a full time unemployment insurance commission and advisory bodies with equal labor and employer representation. Appointments by the governor in council will use district referees panels with district chairmen, while the advisory committee and referees will serve as needed and be compensated.
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Unemployment and Social Insurance Commission
Mayors From Canadian Municipalities Meet in Montreal
Montreal hosts a two day meeting of Canadian mayors led by Camithean Howde with Ottawa plans reorganization. Proposals urge province led relief funding and direct government action as Premiers and Mayors discuss Dominion relations and cost sharing.
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Montreal
Camithean Howde
Houde
Ottawa
Pre Mier RB
Benpel
Muiyor Houde
Bank of Canada names new board leaders in Ottawa
The newly elected Bank of Canada directors chose Graham Ford Towers as governor and Graham Weers as chairman. Thomas Bradshaw and others join the executive committee along with Deputy Governor Osteyce and Deputy Minister Clark, outlining fresh leadership and committee roles.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Graham Ford Towers
Weers
Thomas Bradshaw
Biadere
purecsor @eputy
Joa Osteyce
Finars- Wuu
Clark
Floods hit Fraser valley as senate defeats protocol
In Washington the Fraser valley endures high water with Sumas River dyke breaches near Kilgore. Two dead in a Kilgand slide as families evacuate to Abbotsford while Chilliwack loses power and interurban lines resume to Abbotsford. The U.S. Senate votes 52 to 36 against ratifying the protocol on work by the court, delaying the court issue for years.
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Vancouver
Sumae Praine
Fraser Valley
Prain
Chilliwack District
Abbotsford Ind
Agassiz
Prairie
Sumas
Fraser River
Kilgand
Abbotaford
Washington
White House
Senate
United States
Ames
Bennett Moves to Establish National Economic Council
In Ottawa the premier announced in the House of Commons that legislation creating a national economic council will be introduced after the royal commission on mass buying reports. Speakman urged national planning, proposing a scientific approach to economic problems and a vast economic laboratory. The resolution was withdrawn after support from MacNicol and Church, with the throne speech forecasting the council’s establishment.
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Ottawa
National Economic Council
House of Commons
Royal Commission On
R. B. Bennett
Alfred Spyakman
United Paro
Red Deer
Toronto
John R. MacNicol
T. L. Church
Speakman
Economic Council
Jap Army Advances In Bitter Mongolian Frontier Fight
A despatch from Hsinking reports Japanese regulars and Manchukuan cavalry pushing into Mongolian territory near Outer Mongolia and Manchoukuo. Temperatures drop to 3 below zero as they seize Kalkha Miao and drive Mongols before them in a campaign aimed at expelling invaders from Manchoukuo.
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Tokyo
Outer Mongolia
Russia
Manchouquo
Hsinking
Moscow
Rengu
Hainking
Manchoukuo
Missing airman found near McLeod Lake mission
Unclear report states airman Coote was found safe at McKee Lake roughly midway between Quesnel and Finlay Forks after Prince George pilot Gil McLaren flew to recover him. Earlier news claimed discovery at Lake Meebe. No further details available. Lipsett Skinner, veteran Ottawa journalist, died after long illness.
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B.C
McLeod Lake Vancouver
BR. Lo “Ginger Tyate
RCL
Juan
Finlay Forks
Gil MeClaren
Prince George
Coote
Mebee Lake
Quran
Oal
Quesnel
Farmers Debt Protection Extended to Ninety Days
Ottawa reports that Hon. E N Rhodes finance minister moves to strengthen the farmers creditor arrangement act. Proposals extend immunity from prosecution for debtors seeking composition to ninety days, allow temporary provincial board members, and empower ad hoc commissioners if permanent members are incapacitated or unavailable.
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Ottawa
E. N. Rhodes
DoMinion
Likely To Receive Pension Ottawa Bill Read First Time
The House of Commons opened with a first reading on a bill to credit a few Royal Canadian Mounted Police members with South African military service for pension purposes. Hon. Hugh Guthrie noted fewer than five would be affected and placed on the same footing as permanent force members.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
South Africa
Hugh Guthrie
Hamilton
Guthrie
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Dominion
Siam's King To Abdicate Singapore
King Prajauvhipok of Siam plans abdication and will not return home. A minor prince will be crowned with a regency to rule in his stead until adulthood, according to a reliable report.
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Singapore
Prajauvhipok
Siam
Russia Prepared For War in Moscow Congress
The seventh all union congress of Soviets heard vice commissar for defence Mikhail Tuehacheffsky claim the Red Army has grown from about 600,000 to 940,000 men over four years. He warned war was being prepared against them and cited large percentage gains in aviation light and medium tanks, submarines, machine guns, and fortifications along frontiers. Voroshilov led the army and borders were strengthened.
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Moscow
Red Army
Mikhail Tuehacheffsky
Soviet Union
Voroshiloff Klement Voroshiloff
Tuchacheffsky
Canada fights to keep Do Minion seat at Geneva
Ottawa reports that Canada will urge retention of its seat on the International Labour Office governing body. Minister W A Gordon said Ottawa has exchanged communications with Geneva and that only League of Nations orders could remove Canada, dismissing any voluntary surrender to Russia. If the league issues a summary order, a long notice would be required.
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Ottawa
Canada
Geneva
International Labor Office
W. A. Gordon
Dominion
League of Nations
Russia
League
London brewer Burns kidnapping linked to Meigner case
London Ontario recounts the two year old $30,000 kidnapping of Charles Burns former Carling Brewery president. Crown witnesses tied the Burns incident to the Meigner trial as detectives pursued the high profile ransom that ended with Burns freed after a single payment at a Richmond Street bank.
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London
Ont
Charles Burns
Carling
David Meigner
John S. Labatt
Inspector Cousans
Ontario
J. C. Newman
G. F. McFarland
Burns
Meisner
Canada
Norman Newton
South London
Richmond Street
Ridout Street
Windsor
Detador
Dundes
Establish Television In Britain This Year
The House of Commons heard that the government endorsed a committee report on television. Sir Kingsley Wood said the British Broadcasting Corporation would broadcast and help inaugurate the service with a London station later this year, with provincial stations to follow and national rollout later. The plan would cost about 900000 through 1936, funded by broadcasting revenue.
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London
House of Commons
Kingsley Wood
British Broadcasting Corporation
B.B.C
Kingsley
Drouth Debate At Canada Engineering Institute Convention
The Engineering Institute of Canada will exhaustively examine Western Canada drouth and outline remedies at its Feb 7 to 9 annual convention in Toronto. Papers will cover water supply, meteorology, prairie conditions, and bridge design aesthetics with leaders from Dominion and Canadian National Railways and government geology departments among the speakers.
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Engineering Institute of Canada
Toronto
Canada
C. T. Johnson
Dominion Water Power Bureau
Ottawa
John Patterson
Meteorological Service of Canada
T. C. Main
Winnipeg
P. C. Perry
Regina
Canadian National Railways
W. Calder
Department of Lands
Alberta
Edmonton
W. A. Johnston
H. T. Wickenden
D. C. Maddox
Dominion
F. P. Shearwood
Institute
Ready For Speed Test New York
Sir Malcolm Campbell returns to the United States aiming for a new land speed record at Daytona Beach with the Bluebird. The English racer, knighted for a 1931 Daytona record, plans to attempt between February 14 and 20 with Lady Campbell and his 11 year old daughter Jean aboard.
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New York
Malcolm Campbell
Prince of Speed
United States
Daytona Beach
Bulden Sands
Tecan
Sir Malcolm
Daytona
Lady Campbell
Jean
Bridge Contract Awarded for Cascade Crossing
A bridge contract for the Cascade crossing on the Calgary Banff highway was awarded to Buchitect Construction Company of Calgary under the Public Works Act. The project cost is listed as 10.505 dollars and was revealed in a ministerial in person session and tabled in the House of Commons by Minister T. OG Murphy.
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Ollawie
Calgary- Banff
Uoder
Buchitect Construction Company
Calgary
Hipise of Commons
Inerior
T. OG. Murphy
Canadian Hail Underwriters Elect New Board Heads
The annual Winnipeg meeting of the Canadian Hail Underwriters Association elected A. Hewart and Pool Torraina as chairmen, with Fonrepeg Or McQuees and Siskive3 as notable officers.
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Siskive 3
Wioisen
Winnipeg
Ine A. Hewart and Pool
Torraina
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