Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-09
WINNIPEG IS
GOOD CITY BUT
NOT BALANCED
Spillane Finds No I'm
employment Now,
but FOresees 1t.
LUMBER VERY LOW
General Industry I'M
: proved Since July,
Say Merchants.
LUMBER VERY LOW
gv RICHARD sPILLANE.


unemployment in Winnipeg. So de
cIares Edward Parne1, mayor. In
fact, there are more jobs than men
In proof Of this he read kilograms
from General Manager Murphy OF
the Canadian Pacific asking for SOC
trackmen at 35 cents an hour and
General Manager Warren Of the Can
adam National, saying he could use
four hundred to six hundred at the
same rate and also required machin
lists and boilermakers.
All the mayor could supply was
five men.
And yet the Dominion and provin
cial authorities and the municipali
ties expect considerable unemploy
ment this winter and are 10 meet
to discuss methods of relieving pos
sible distress.
The explanation is that harvesting the
PROPS takes up the labor slack today, but
with lumber and general industry at very
low production there is no likelihood of
work for all who return from the ag-
ricultural districts to the cities.
Manitoba has a good wheat crop well
above the average in size and of fine
quality. Beef prices are poor and high
rates aggravate this situation The bank
.f-Ns l. +,E-
cattle matter by issuing instructions to
extend generous credit TO stock raisers
where they have anything approaching
reasonable security. There also has been
some modification Of railroad rates on
cattle
While Western Canada gave promise a
month ago Of remarkable grain yields
this vast changed considerably oy ex-
tensive hailstormS- The damage vas not
so great as reported at first and fair re-
turns are certain from near. all sections
except the dry districts Of southern Al
berta and southern Saskatchewan.
WINNIPEG BUSINESS
Is POORLY BALANCED.
Winnipeg is Q great town. There the
East and the West begins. The produce
OF farm belt that stretches 1 600 miles
west pours through Winnipeg and the
supplies for a vast farm region are pur-
chased in Winnipeg. The city has been
through various booms and later depres-
siOns has had its share of growing pains
but is a hustlinS, busting place today.
part English and part American, but
wholly Canadian. 1t does big business
but is poorly balanced 1t has a ire
mendous asset in 100000 horsepower Of
hydro electric energy on the Winnipeg
river at distances varying from 50 to rs
miles from the city, yet it has compare
lively few manufacturing plants Of size.
The city has a power plant of 1900
horsepower and the Winnipeg street rail-
way has a $1,000 horsepower plant They
sell power to consumers at varying prices.
In some instances comparatively large
consumers get power at the almost IN
believable low rate of one half cent per
kilowatt hour
The city sells power to nearly 10000
consumers, and in many housee it is
used for light. cooking, heating, etc.
This municipal enterprise has been a
fine financial success.
Of Industries. -four and grist mill
products are by far the largest. Next
come Strengthening and meat packing
dairy products, bag manufacturing, lum-
Der and foundry and machine shops
works, despite the great traffic in cattle.
The Union Stock Yards are the largest
in Canada and have capacity for 10000
cattle, 5000 hogs and 1000 sheep day.
DUE TO BECOME
MANUFACTURING CITY.
Some day when Winnipeg utilizes its
water power fully it is certain to be a
big manufacturing center, but at present
IT seems content with the trade Of west
ern Canada.
But If It is content with the trade, 1t
protests against some of the forms IN
der which it is compelled to do business.
There is bitter complaint of the bank
ing system. The Lanks of Winnipeg and
western Canada generally are branches of
the great banks of eastern Canada. The
Winnipeg people say the banks Of west
ern Canada are managed by men sent
from the east who have no direct interest
the country and who look forward to
promotion that viii take them back east
The real management Of the banks, they
declare, is remote from the regions
served. They want Manitoba banks for
Manitoba; they~want bank of their own.
at present, however, they are not in
position to furnish them They say the
American system is much better They
would like country banks, such as dot
our West, conducted by men close to
the soil.
They are not satisfied either with the
Ottawa government. They predict an
agricultural majority, or at least, agri-
cultural control. of the next parliament.
I'VE are so far from the seat of gov
eminent" they say, that we should be
put in the strongest possible position to
help ourselves. Things could not be
worse than they are today in legislation
affecting US. Ottawa is out Of touch
with us and is not disposed to learn of
our needs. Conditions in this respect
could not be worse. Ottawa is not dis
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