El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-21
Canadian Labor Problems
And Efforts To Solve Them
By
Frederic
]. Haskn
MANY AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS,

needs sinews more than she needs
brains. booklet widely distributed
announces that trainlOad after tram
load Of inexperienced farmhands are
absorbed Immediately upon their ar
rival at WinnepeS or other middle
Canada points.
Immigration of Women
A great effort is being made to en-
courage the immigration of young
women into Canada, and often WhoIe
carload will make its appearance IN
a city like Winnipeg one day and 9e-
fore the next day passes everyone OF
the women will have place in dOmes-
tic service. The rallying cry in Eng
land for the immigration of women
is that the society seeks to connect
the voorhees, woman of the mother
country with the wOmanless work OF
Canada. It is said that the majority
of the young women who come over
do not remain in domestic service
long but in the course of compare
lively few months have homes of their
own. The English society is seeking
to induce the higher class of unmar-
ried women to go to Canada, where
( they are promised homes as members
! of Canadian families rather than as
servants
| Child emigration from England to
| Canada has been occupying the atten-
/ ton of English philanthrOpists for
some time. Thousands Of homeless
| children in England have been sent to
/ Canada, where they have been adopted
4. into homes. and more are coming every
month. 1t is estimated that there are
| 10000 homeless children in England
whose condition would be bettered if
! they were brought to Canada. No
less an authority than Sir Wilfred
Laurier has declared that Canada will
| be glad to receive and adopt every
! one of these homeless waits Of the
mother country, bringing them up and
making useful citizens and empire
| builders of them.
Canada's Problem of Living.
The United States is not the only
country wrestling with the problem or
the high cost of living. Canada has
been facing that problem and has
completed a study Of the living stu
alton for period of 20 years 1t
! finds substantially the same fluctua-
tions in wholesale and retail prices
| that have obtained in the United
States during the same period There
| was no study of the rise and fall OF
| wages in connection with the cost OF
living. but it is the intention OF the
dominion authorities 20 make investi-
cations which will throw light upon
the relative income of the dominion
laborer of a decade ago and OF the
present. 'H
The United States is Canada's prin-
| cipal source of labor supply. 1t is
interesting TO note that during recent
years more laborers have gone from
this side of the international bounda-
ry line than from England and all 9TH
er portions of Europe together. Last
year there were 20S,000 immigrants
into Canada Of those 1O3, 900 came
from the United States, $4,000 being
farmers and farm 1aborers, and more
than 10000 skilled artisans The an
nual influx of mechanics into Can
ada reaches a total of about $4,000
The American who go there carry q
great deal of wealth with them
During 1908 the per capita holdings
| of the immigrants from the United
| States was more than $500, while ii
1909 they amounted to more thar
$11O0. For the first four months
since April l there have been 46.5O(
residents of the United States regis
tered in Canada They took with then
more than s50,OOO00O of American
money.
Scarcity of Labor Felt.
The scarcity of labor is being fel
throughout the dominion Business il
every line is booming. but during the
past year the supply of labor has beer
. insufficient to meet the demand. al
though so cents an hour has been Of
fered to common labOrers on thu
Grand Trunk Pacific railway They
, have only about 1900, and declare tina
if they are not able to recruit tn,
force to q higher degree than that
they will not be- able to finish the
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