BRITAIN’S WORKLESS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 7

BRITAIN’S WORKLESS

EMPLOYMENT IN CANADA. MR THOMAS’S MISSION. SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received September 17, 11.15 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 16. Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, whoso tour of Canada lias been watched closely by the British Press, will arrive at Liverpool tomorrow. ■ In a wireless message to the Daily Herald, Mr Tlmmas states that the ono object of his mission was liow to find work for the British unemployed without injuring the Canadian workers. ~ , , The task has been very difficult, but he had succeeded in showing them how to accomplish it. CANADA’S DESIRE. PREPONDERANCE OF BRITISH SETTLERS. (Australian Press Association United Service.) OTTAWA, Sept. 16. In the report of the National Committee on Immigration, which was adopted at the annual meeting of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce at Banff, Alberta, to-day, the importance of securing a preponderance of settlers from the British Isles compared with the minority during recent years, and the belief that assistance would be continued to British settlers in certain classes, were stressed.