i‘7ment;. The government 0 lnore these outcries; The A Canada needs more people to help r thebcountrys develop and to 0 provide esta
w... ‘
+1952 the total asst year, in spite of what was ‘sup-‘ apposed to be a isirable settlers total number
‘ fcently’ T in the Toronto “Suppose 100 man «finds
one out of a job.
‘ref the immif;
beret mm1- s coming to Canada has declined: In that year 194$000 im- miegrantsi came to this country. In slipped, to 164,000.
dI‘iVe*.t0- attract de- to the Dominion, the
only 163,000.
0 p_During the past few years there has been a growing outcryfrom cer-; tain quarters to 4 tion on the
{restrict immigra- rabbed jobseland’: caused unemploy- fact is that
le markets, for industrial and agriculturalproducts.l0 ' e 0 T
A » Immigrants create jobs. The fol-
lowing letter which . appeared Wre- p Star hit the en:ail5.ontthe head: ” " D 0 immigrant families in one town. One employment in the local bakery, but that _doesnot put any-
come to settle
There are T
more"familiesli‘ baker needs
g the schools; of s immigrants was.
i needed to build new
shortage fwhich means
groundthat newcomers foryecarpenters, bricklaY€FS;mais§0I1S,
,§hould ig- .
kirk settlers to this
such an attitude had Tm-evei1ed,i
“ store
'th~ere= becauf g , s familiese *0 ‘ e 0 “Six i eschool teacher M n - - er former
g teed:_the1"e are about 200 news children attending A dozen ilmmigi'!ants‘~
fined employment in lumber camps
and sawmills ’ because lumber" is homes} The
immigrantshavee caused a ho sing
plumbers and electricians. / l ‘‘These examples could be mul-s
\
tiplied, but~suf‘ficee‘to show that if immigrants spend t '
g eir earrnings in this country,as most of‘them“do,
they are not the causeof unem- sployment.” : i 0 c , e ,The outcry against immigration p now being efomented by some labor ~ groups is reminiscent of theout-
cry against the coming of the; Sel-
century and at halffago.
felt their comings would injure the suiilegetrade.
would
i be no province of Mani- today. 0 ’
employment \
area nearly a g The settlers were not welcomed because itiwas