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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1923
Page
2
An emerging western wheat pool aims to improve marketing this fall though it may not fully solve grain issues. The piece argues producers must unite to set fair prices, criticizing current grain firms railways and financiers and calling for collective action to reduce costs and secure living wages.
Grain shippers on the Winnipeg Grain exchange fear only about 50 million bushels of the 1923 crop can move across the Great Lakes before navigation ends after American vessel owners withdraw from the Canadian carrying trade this year. A prominent exchange member calls the situation the most serious ever faced and notes no remedy is available.
Construction on the Hudson Bay railway proceeds slowly due to shipping delays and labor shortages. Workers on other Canadian National lines receive 35 cents an hour, while Hudson Bay laborers are paid 30 cents. Western MPs face voter backlash as calls mount for early completion to ease farmers’ transport costs.
New York chemists Emil Piron and V. Z. Caracristi report Henry Ford is testing a coal based method to produce gasoline and by products at six cents a gallon. Ford plans Detroit plants to run the process commercially, with coke and steel byproducts made in house as part of the cycle.
Order in Council widens and tightens seasons under the Migratory Birds Convention Act for 1923 24 across provinces. Wood ducks now allowed until January 31 1924 with eider limits adjusted. Manitoba bans shooting from sunset to sunrise. Regional dates for ducks geese brant rails and shorebirds set in Manitoba Alberta Saskatchewan and Yukon North West territories with specific start and end dates.
The Toronto Star argues Canada needs no second chamber and calls for Senate reform or abolition. It criticizes the current system as partisan and self serving with high pay and little public accountability. The piece urges a clear plan from western provinces to start national discussion.
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