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Wanted: A Change. To assay these reports, Defense Minister Ralston had toured the battlefronts. Now, at a series of secret, full-dress Cabinet meetings in Ottawa, he demanded a change in government policy. He insisted that the Dominion's 70,000-odd "Zombies" (soldiers drafted for home defense service only) should be sent overseas. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and a majority of the Cabinet listened for ten days, remained unconvinced. They felt sure that if they decided to change policy now, they would be opening the door to serious internal ruptures, perhaps even to bloody riots such...
...ally against enemy Drew. No one doubted that Hepburn was ready to step back as provincial Liberal leader-if he were asked. But some wondered whether he might not also be daydreaming. Mitch knows that Prime Minister King is 70 and that someone, some day, must succeed him as Dominion leader of the Liberal Party...
Minister Ilsley had a good reason for reassuring 1,300,000 workers now employed, directly or indirectly, in war industry. Starting Oct. 23, he must borrow another $1,300,000,000 from Canadians in the Dominion's seventh war loan. Because 60 to 70% of Canadian war production is for the British account, many war workers have been expecting cutbacks. Minister Ilsley did not want them to hoard their cash. He counted on the Pacific war needs, plus reviving civilian industry, to make his job prediction come true. But he added a cautious qualification: "In many cases men & women...
...starter the Dominion's Labor Department has begun to recruit 60,000 loggers. High wages in munitions factories have stripped of workers such basic Canadian industries as logging, pulpwood cutting and mining...
This time there was an added incentive: the Empire wanted it too. Already two Dominions-New Zealand and South Africa-were tackling social-security problems. In London a conference of Dominion Labor Parties resolved: "The conference looks forward to a revival . . . of a Socialist [Second] International...