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but I am given to understand by our people on the other side that it is a 

 very difficult matter to get girls of the class we have been in the habit of 

 bringing, for the reason that they can get almost as much wages there as 

 they can in this country ; and I find that the wages in Ontario, especially in 

 the larger cities, are very much higher than in the Maritime Provinces. 



HON. MR. TWEEDIE What would the wages be in Toronto ? 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS The girls that we bring from the old 

 country can get in Toronto from $12 to $15 and $18 a month, and this is a 

 larger wage than a great many in the Maritime Provinces care to pay. 



If there are any questions anyone would like to ask in regard to our 

 immigration work I will be pleased to answer them. 



MR. JAMES BEVERIDGE I may say, as one of the employers of 

 labor in the Province, that I have emploj^ed Salvation Army immigrants, and 

 I want more of them. They are well behaved, and although they are not 

 what we would call skilled laborers, yet they are very excellent men. I am 

 told, however, that it is very difficult to get them to come down East here r 

 and I would like to ask Mr. Jennings if it is simply a question of wages. 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS No, I think not. It is pretty hard to tell 

 just what their reasons are. They cannot give a definite reason themselves, 

 only the fact that they have gone up to Quebec, and they say it is going 

 back towards home again. They said they do not care to go back, they 

 want to go ahead. That is about all we can get from them. 



HON. MR. TWEEDIE Of course, the West is more advertised, and 

 naturally they hear more of it. 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS That may have something to do with it ; 

 but their chief excuse is that they don't want to go back. I have been in 

 the Maritime Provinces since last July, and previous to that I had been in 

 Ontario in connection with immigration for about a year, and for twenty 

 years previous to that I lived in the Maritime Provinces, and from my 

 knowledge I am of the opinion that the wages are just as good in ihe Mari- 

 time Provinces, comparatively speaking, for unskilled labor as in any other 

 part of the Dominion. 



A DELEGATE W T hat wages would an experienced farmer command ? 



