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MR. JAMES BEVERIDGE If we required say twenty-five men 

 would we have to make the contract with you or arrange with them when 

 they arrived ? 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS You would make the contract with them 

 .through us. We have a proper application form, and if you ask us to 

 supply you with say 25 men, for a certain purpose, and agree to pay them a 

 certain wage, we act as your agents at the port of landing, and we say to 

 them : Here is a man willing to employ you and pay you so much if you 

 -come up to the standard on that application. It is then for the imnngrants 

 'to say whether they will accept your offer. If they do we send them to you 

 with a card of introduction. 



MR. CONNOLLY If they do not wish to take any of the positions 

 you have for them are they free to go where they please ? 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS Yes, if they don't want to accept our situa- 

 tions they can go where they please. 



MR. JAMES BEVERIDGE Do you think the average laborer coming 

 out from England would consider Si. 25 to $1.75 per day of ten hours 

 attractive here in the East ? 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS Yes, I should think so. We always advise 

 employers of labor to take married men, if they have proper arrangements 

 for housing them, t f or the reason that married men are more likely to stay in 

 a place when they once get settled, and in a great many cases they have 

 families growing up, who will in a few years furnish the labor needed in the 

 Province. 



HON. MR. BURCHILL Did I understand you correctly to say that 

 the importations of the Salvation Army were made almost entirely from men 

 accustomed to working the soil, or do they include men working at other 

 occupations ? 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS The class of people we get from the other 

 side perform all kinds of labor ; but we do not guarantee any but workers 

 of the soil. For instance, we have a number of mechanics coming ; but we 

 <io not advertise on the other side that we can find employment for all 

 skilled labor. 



HON. MR. BURCHILL I do not mean skilled labor. I mean 



