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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1940
Page
2
Ottawa anticipates an early parliamentary session to tackle war measures and funding. Veterans and Liberals seek lengthy sittings to qualify for full indemnities, while debates center on financing the war and supporting unemployed relief as unemployment stretches across urban areas.
The document outlines unemployment and relief concerns in Canada with 375,000 in Ontario and Quebec and 50,000 elsewhere, noting 500,000 unlikely to work again without reform. It calls for a pro war program reducing pork barrel spending, boosting production, and a three way war worker fund. It then describes Labour Income on Manitoba farms from 20 illustration stations, averaging 570 dollars in 1939, detailing farm accounting and the concept of labour income after interest on capital.
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