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...camp in Alberta, 100 Europe-bound draftees were missing. In Manitoba, at least 350 had vanished. In Saskatchewan, 400 were overdue from one unit, 200 from another. In British Columbia, military authorities admitted that 250 draftees, plus 232 active service men (volunteers) from that province had deserted. Pacific Command officials announced that action would be taken against sweethearts and relatives who harbored missing soldiers-a violation of the Defense of Canada...
...first try at governing a province (Saskatchewan), the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation is on trial. The challenge of the times to Canada's first socialist government: it must make a substantial show of bettering the lot of Saskatchewan's farmers-and Saskatchewan is largely an agricultural area. The alternative: yeasty, ambitious C.C.F. will never swing the farm vote in other provinces, will remain a minority party in Dominion politics. Last week Saskatchewan's Government turned up with new proof that it understands the challenge and is going out to meet...
Minister McIntosh had been to Britain, talked to the chiefs of the vast and successful British cooperative societies, which have 9,000,000 members, control 24% of England's retail food sales, feed 42% of the population of Scotland. Saskatchewan's farmers knew that the co-ops also have huge investments in Argentine packing houses and creameries in New Zealand. The good news that Minister McIntosh had to tell the home folks was that the British cooperatives were ready to do more business with Canadian cooperatives. They were prepared as a starter to invest in new hog-processing...
Such a deal would assure Saskatchewan farmers first cut at the prime British market for bacon once held by the Danes. But there was a catch in it. Like other Britons, the chiefs of the British cooperatives were also worried about markets for British export goods. Before they invested in Saskatchewan, said Minister McIntosh, the British cooperatives wanted to know whether postwar Canada was prepared to lower its tariffs on British goods. Patently that was a concession that neither the C.C.F. nor Saskatchewan could make: it was a matter, of overall Dominion politics...
...know his Lenin, attacked the C.C.F. for confusing "socialism and cooperation by making them appear synonymous." Then he and his fellow Liberals voted with the C.C.F. for the new bill. This was smart politics, for nowhere in Canada are cooperatives so popular and successful as in Saskatchewan, where 1,000 societies with 250,000 members own and operate their own businesses. Among the most unusual: Regina's Funeral Cooperative Association Ltd., organized July 1, 1943 to combat the high cost of dying...