Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-12-31 | Page 6 | Canada Place Many at Work

CANADA PLACES j mm irk Benefits of Employment Machine Ma-chine Described by Labor Minister NEW YORK, Dec 31. Canada's governmental machine for preventing ; unemployment placed 600000 work-, ; ers in jobs without cost to either -ni-' ployers or workmen during the fi ; Tificcn months of its operation which , began in March, 1919. This was re-' vealed Thursday In a speech by the dominion labor minister. G D. Robertson, Rob-ertson, before the American assocla-; I tion for labor legislation, at Its annual! I meeting here. Tho service hail proved an effec-j I live aid In controlling immigration.! Mr. Robertson said, thereby lessening1 ' the present unemployment problem. I This ear, he explained, employei h "i asked to import 55 MO skilled workryen j I but as a result of the government sup-! I plying them fi',,n Canada's own unemployed. un-employed. P as s necessary to bring ! in only 7 7 ar 11 to fill the demand j The Canau.an minister declared his government had employment agencies In ninety cities. Among other measures In operation ' bj ihe dominion, he named federal aid to municipalities In providing emr-( gem relief to the jobless, the pm - pehsse or government suppllee when s particular industry was slack appro-1 ! prlatlpns for federal and local public ; works and the urging of employers to j I reduce hours or days of work eae. ; 'week In preference to laying off any employes. Other speakers included Sidney Hill-man, Hill-man, president of the Amalgamated ' Clothing Workers, who contended that ' I industry should In common justlci take care of employes when y reason of temporary industrial depression ih re is no work for them. In southern Utah is a public road I ouilt by the federal government w hich passes only one house itl jta course ofl forty-five miles. '