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Some 14,000 members of the C.I.O. United Steelworkers Union started to walk out of Canada's three basic steel plants (Dominion Steel & Coal at Sydney, N.S., Steel Co. of Canada at Hamilton, Ont., Algoma Steel at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) which supply about 80% of Canada's steel. Although the number of steelworkers was comparatively small, if they stayed out long enough they would ultimately force a serious coke shortage and the laying off of 423,000 other Canadians dependent on steel for their jobs. (Some 36,000 workers were still on strike in rubber, electric works...
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...Britain's economy, Argentina is still the sixth Dominion. The huge British stake in Argentine frigoríficos, public utilities and railways is a healthy hunk of Britain's overseas investments...
...Canada's-wheat farmers, rust is as fearsome a word as death or taxes-and once it was just as inevitable. When the fungus attacks wheat, the crop is destroyed. But after the black year 1935, when 85,000,000 bushels were lost to rust, Canada's Dominion Experimental Farms Service developed two "rustproof" wheat strains, Renown and Regent. Last week, the Service announced that rust, adapting itself to new conditions as Nature usually does, is now attacking the rustproof strains. But Canada's wheat crop was in little danger. Reason: the Service has developed...
They have not neglected some shrewd vote-getting, socialistic tactics. The government has planned 1) a longterm program of socialized health-&-hospital service that will cost taxpayers $5 a head per year, 2) community-housing schemes. Teachers get a minimum of $1,200 a year ($400 more than the Dominion average...