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Newspaper
Yorkton Press
Location
Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jun 11, 1918
Page
4
The Yorkton Press urges readers to support Victory Bonds to help soldiers in France and Belgium. It stresses sacrifice, national duty, and the need for physical training as a foundation for youth, urging funds for the war and a stronger home front effort.
Notes discuss proposed reclamelon camps in Canada to train detectives physically for military medical boards. The author questions why so many young men are needed.
In brief chaotic scenes Parliament moved quickly to approve about one hundred million dollars in domestic expenditure within four hours. The Governor General and Prime Minister rushed to trains as MPs pressed to finish the order paper with minimal debate. Hon. W. B. Pickling condemned the rushed deliberations.
The Commons debated repealing the War Times Elections Act. Sir Wilfrid Laurier moved to repeal. vote 74 to 53 with 24-seat government majority. W. S. Fielding voted in favor of the resolution. the Presbyterian Witness urged swift repeal once Parliament meets. The Borden-Unionist government held the act as a test-over measure.
The British Admiralty forms workmen committees for welfare at Royal Dockyards and naval bases. Emphasis on garden cities housing for workers contrasts with wartime expenditures. Amid debates on capitalism and labor, calls for ending child labor and expanding education surface in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
The passage argues that industry and global dairy wealth determine riches and poverty. It notes the master’s income and workers’ wages arise from production, with land and capital concentration transferring wealth into an inherited power over immediate perishable wealth.
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