Employment in Canada has now reached the highest figure' since December, 1990, but relief costs have not moved downwards in proportion fand there are still more tran 1,000.00 Canadians receiving direct relict Extensive public works have contr! buted to the favourable employment trend during recent months. "whit these in {urn have stimulated activi In" private business. recent report by the Cattadian Woltare Council. In trying to analyze the present conditions. states that "it seems possible that there has been more disturbing enlargement of the Socially "dependent in the urban and industrial centres within As an immediate step to be tak in remord to the railway situation, Sir Charles suncested:—"What cam be done, and what must be done, Feeent months than a first. lance would indicate. This, ther with mounting costs, ests that tke vnon.ploymy and duplication of ser~ great railway systems, In this connection T repeat what T said Inst year, namely, that railways to-day' face extraordinary competl= tion from other means of traneporition, and that. railways competing against each other inthe ruinous way that ours do can never succeed adopting a common. policy to meet these ether forms of competition.
'More than ever it is necessary ce-ordinate all: forms of transports-ten, not by' the throttling of earn petitive systems. but by the elimina Ton. "of useless competition by thens of intelligent direction. A first step isthe ce-ordination of our oilways. "A second step {is the regulation of all forms transportation under a federal boar! of transportation commissioners vested with powers similar to those of the Board of Railway Commissioners, but on a wider and more comprehensive wider hntroduetion many centres, wi polo organization oF adequate investisatio fand supervision services, appears 10. rave added to the costs and the syam~ bers on relief In certain arcas.
The report further states that Canadians must now face the fact that for aver three years the number: the country receiving d'zect retier Tas not dropped below: the 1,000,000 mark, and that per capita relief costs are undoubtedly rising. It is a stagering problem to face, since it has threatened to assume the nature permanent condition.
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