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Governments to maintain employment exchanges, now it endorses their accom- 

 plishment. It has for years condemned the private employment agencies, and 

 is calling for their suppression. 



'9. Consistently believing that rhuch unemployment in Canada resiilts from 

 disproportionate city growth, organised labour has also called for the State 

 encouragement of land settlement, with financial aid and training. Recent 

 federal (legislation is in accord with these demands. 



10. Although trade unions refuse to tolerate the coming of Asiatic labour, 

 there is scant evidence of hostility to European immigration, on the ground that 

 it causes unemploym.cnt. Nor is the view prevalent that it threatens the 

 .standard of life of Canadian workers. Circumstances have altered so as largely 

 to invalidate the premises on which Walker built his famous argument. 



11. Meanwhile, attention is directed in detail to methods of selecting and 

 assimilating immigrants. Tliis is no longer a domestic, but has become an 

 Imperial problem, in which, however, Canada finds her freedom of action limited 

 by tlie ipraclical need of conforming to certain changes in American policy. 



12. The breathing space afforded by the war has enabled the Dominion 

 to strengthen its immigration service. Nevertheless, the great burden of un- 

 employment will fall on immigrants for many years to come. 



