The sun., 1919-11-04
DOMINION ENTERS UPON RECONSTRUCTION
CAPITAL AND LABOR MORE HARMONIOUS
Settle Conditions With
the Union Thoroughly Dsceded by Labor se-Contnu-
Relations Development of Canadian Trade

a Canadian workman" The Canadian
Reconstruction Association has full size
posters all over the country urging that
Canadian money, Canadian made
SHOULD stay in Canada for Canadian
trade"
It points out that Canadian imports
in 1918 totalled $9O6,954,9oo and con-
tends that 'if half this money had been
spent on Canadian products 1t would
have given employment to an additional
100000 workmen, with an increased
pay roll of nearly s100.00o,o 900" II
has made use of various other mediums
of publicity to emphasize similar argu-
ments. Through the agency Of manu-.
facturers. wholesalers and retailers II
has some 100000 small colored pic
torial cards In circulation throughout
the country urging development of the
home market In all this movement
there is no necessary antagonism to
the United States but Il Is felt that in
such an economic emergency az the pres
ent Canadian goods of equal quality
should be given the preference.
There is further a growing feeling
against the export of raw or semi
manufactured materials where final
processes OF manufacture can be COM
pleted in the Dominion. Last year, for
instance, 100000 cords Of pulpwood.
valued at $S,500,000. were exported,
which II manufactured into paper at
home would have represented more than
$75 100000 and provided an additional
$25, 900, 900 for wages for Canadian
workmen. SO with other Canadian in
dustries
Plea for Fruit Growers.
In a vigorous plea for the develop
80 tha fr,,tt In,
Canada @. w. Echlin, writing in the
Formers Ma0aEine. declares that with
the development of the canning industry
fruit growers have suddenly become
aware that what was once hobby Is
now a great national asset of untold
commercial value. He contends that
probably no other agricultural pursuit
Is destined to reach 50 dignffled and
important a level as that of fruit grow
ing
1T is a certainty" he says, that
the farmers of Ontario are not awake
to one of the golden opportunities Of
the age when they neglect to plant
new orchards each year or care for
those they already have. Little
more than one-third of the fruit canned
in the Dominion is home gown.
About $4,000 bushels of pears alone will
be imported into Canada from as far
west as the State of Washington this
year, 30 that the orders of the can
neries can be filled. 1t would appear
that there is nothing short of a GRIM
inal short-sightedness on the part OF
farmers to allow such a state OF af-
fairs to exist long.
mine times out OF ten when one
opens a can of strawberry jam or pre-
serves from the Canadian factory the
fruit has come from Maryland. or some
Of the other Southern States. Thou
sands OF tons of strawberries are yearly
imported into Canada for canning pur-
poses. buyers starting early for the
scene OF the Southern crops so as TO
be on the ground when the fruit is at
its best. Every time the customer pur-
chases a can of this fruit he pays for
these expensive trips of the cannery
buyers as well as the duty on the
| goods and the excess price which such
| foreign berries naturally bring. AS
| high as $40 a crate was paid this year
for strawberries imported"
The situation Summarized.
Canada last year exported products,
other than those officially classed as
| manufactures. to the value of more
than $4,000 900. If the manufacture.
| ing processes of even one-third of these
| had been completed in Canada, employ
ment would have been given to at least
1875, 900 more work people, close to Sl25,-
900. 900 would have been provided for
additional wages and salaries and the
net value OF Canadian products would
have been Increased by approximately
$275, 900, 900.
Summarized the economic movement
| In Canada has three phases:
/. Stimulation Of domestic trade.
2. Development of foreign trade.
8. The employment of Canadian mate
rails as far as possible in all stages
OF manufacture and the completion OF
final industrial processes in the Do
| minion.
The first two seem vital to the con-
tinued prosperity OF the Dominion.
Many of the arguments used by the
supporters of these movements apply
with effect to the United States, but
there is no comparison in the trade
problems of the two countries, The
United States has less need OF foreign
markets than any of the other geat
nations. 1t is blessed with a home
market that normally absorbs no less
than 90 to 90 per cent Of Its manu-
featured products. 1t cannot be az
fected appreciably by the economic
movement In Canada