On the same day the Secretary of State for the
Dominions gave particulars . of the arrangements made with commendable speed for 10,000 men, including as many miners as possible, to go to Canada this month to help gather the harvest. There is obviously no time to waste, and we regret that there was a slight hitch over a suggested " guarantee " that the Canadian railway companies should find winter farm work for the men. Such a " guarantee " was hardly to be expected, though we do count upon the railways and other bodies too to do their best to help at the anxious time of the end of the harvest. Difficulties are then bound to arise against which there is little time now to make provision. Rapid progress is being made, and if out of the thousands who go hundreds stay permanently at work, great good will have been done on both sides. And we shall look to those who stay in Canada to act, as they can better than anyone else, as emigration agents, calling to their relatives and friends, not least to their fiancees, who are left less happily behind. In connexion with emigration, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald spoke faithfully to the Canadians on his arrival among them last week, saying that their regulations were too stiff and that they should be content not to skim the cream only of our population. * * * *
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