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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1928.
TREATMENT OF ROYALTY SATIRISED IN
HARVESTERS.
A BOOK.
MEN NOT "KEPT IN A CAGE,"
CANADIAN INQUIRY.
Ottawa, Sept. 7 The mass of conflicting and con- fused reports emanating from Winnipeg and Ottawa about the conditions under which the British harvesters are working, and about the complaints made by them, show the urgent need for an official investigation, and there is little doubt that an inquiry will be ordered.
THE LATE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.
A serious question of literary good taste, to put it mildly, is raised by The Duke of Flam borough" (Jonathan Cape, 78. 6d. net), by Laurence Housman,
The description on the "jacket" of the book surely proves that the publisher must have guessed that it was essentially a caricature of the late Duke of Cambridge.
"In this intimate life of a mem ber of Royalty," this description runs, which Mr. Laurence Hous- man claims to have 'edited, ex- purgated, and arranged,' has more The British Labour members of of the unconventional and unex- Parliament in the British delega pected been left, or been left out? tion to the Empire Parliamentary it would be hard to say. But at Conference protested to-day, valet with a grievance, dismissed through Mr. Tom Johnston, M.Pfor prying after thirty years of and Mr. T. Shaw, M.P. (who was nssiduous service, is hardly likely Minister for Labour in the Labour to be a discreet biographer; and Government against the treat it is safe to say that no blography: ment accorded, to the unemployed of any Royal person who lived in British harvesters at the immi- the last century has made 80 gration sheds at Winnipeg. shrewd and penetrating an inva
sion of the hidden privacles of Royal family life as this has done."
"I have seen these British har- vestera in an, underground cage with an armed soldier at the door," | said Mr. Johuston, warmly. Further quotation is surely un- "They were forbidden to go out, necessary; the publisher and the and they were fiorded together like author sheep. British citizens are not in the habit of being treated in that way," Mr. Shaw said he had been ! witness of the conditions described by Mr. Johnston,
Mr. Johnston declared that the unemployed harvesters were not wasters. Some of them, had only been offered a dollar a day by the
Canadian farmers. · He criticised
must share whatever odlum attaches to the ridiculing of a British Commander-in-Chlef who, whatever his faults and fall- inga, was one of the best friends the British soldier over had,
It is true the story supposed to be told by Benjamin Bunny, the discharged valet, is not marked by the obvious unfairness which the conditions prevailing at the Idolatry," Mr. C. E. B chhofer characterised "On This Side Immigration Ifall at Winnipeg.
Mr. T. Shaw said that any putation of Charles Dickens. In- Roberts' cruel assault on the re- future arrangements for colonisa-deed much of the satire does not
tion should be made between the
Governments responsible and not left to any private organisations.,
Lord Peal thought that Govern- mental action could be advan- tageouely supplemented by private organisations, and said that it should be remembered there must always be a number of misfits whose failures attracted more attention than the successes of the great majority of the men,'
250 Abandon Work,
go beyond the fronteal tone of Mr. Lytton Strachey's Life of Queen Victoria.
No Reticence,
But the details of the Duke's public and private life are not artistically camouflaged, as one would expect from as akilful a Writer as Mr. Laurence Housman, and old stories, which provoked only a kindly amlle, are relold in such a way as to reduce the figure of the Duke to utter "ab- surdity.
The number of unemployed har-] vesters who have reported back to Winnipeg is only 250 These were nake of Cambridge's personal Nobody ever questioned the men who wanted to leave for home because they were discourage, yet wo And his conduct appointed with the promises made in the Crimean War described as to them in Great Britain that they
follows:
would receive from three to five "When outside the range of pounds weekly in addition to their fire, he had an uncontrollable de heep. The party mainly consistedsire to get into it, and when un- of men who had abandoned work der fire an equally uncontrollable. in the harvest fields of Alberta desire to get out of it." and Saskatchewan in the last few days.
The charges made by the har- vesters, who appealed to the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council alleging that they had been turned out of the Immigra- tion Hall at Winnipeg shelterless and without food, are strongly contradicted by the officials in charge of the Canadian Federal Immigration Service,
Commissioner T. Gelley, Local Immigration Commissioner, stated to-day that men who applied were told they must bring an order from the local offices of the transporta- tion company which brought them out before they could receive food and shelter, on the ground that. employment was not available for them. Such an order was easily obtainable in all justifiable casos.
From various places, in the Prairie Provinces there come re- ports of an acute shortage of labour for the harvest and offers of work to all applicants.
Railway Responsibility. The Immigration Departmen; at Ottawa stated to-day that the Department was prepared for any investigations which might be asked for, but so far no request for investigation had been made, The Department says that the Immi- gration Hall at Winnipeg, which was referred to by Mr. Johnston, Is thoroughly equipped with separate rooms for the accommoda- tion of groups of men, the arrange- ments being adequate and very comfortable.
"So far as the responsibility of placing these British harvestera is concerned, that responsibility rests with the railway companies," the statement adds.
When Mr Johnston's statement about the treatment of harvesters at Winnipeg, was shown to Com- missioner Gelley, he emphatically denied the charge that British harvesters were kept in an under- ground cage. "The Immigration authorities," he said, "have not de- tained any British harvester in any shape or form since the harvesters came to this country... There is a grilled gate at the Railway Immi- gration Hall, and three policemen were stationed there, but they were to keep out unauthorised persons, and not to keep in the 300 harvestors who were being given their tickets to return to England. Mr. Johnston was refused admis- alon bacause he had not secured the permission of the Immigration or the railway authorities”
When in retirement, WO are told, the Duke collected buttons, which included, "the hind button of a Life Guardsman's trousers" picked up by him and shown to the Adjutant-General ag "a proof that the Army had lost its former efficiency,
"If you have one fulling off," he said, "you may have 'em all! falling off. You can't conduct a charge of cavalry, if its buttons aren't safe. This sort of thing didn't happen in my day."
The concluding section of the book contains letter from Queen Augusta" which is a very close parody of Queen Victoria's epistolary style,
Royalty cannot reply to such fulsome ridicule of its recently- dead members, and that is why frains from Buch insults and In- every gentleman of letters re-
nundos as are to be found in this roman a clef, which requires no key. It is a pity the publisher consented to ita appearance,
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