Canada's Resources and Possibilities: With Special Reference to the Iron and Allied Industries, and the Increase of Trade with the Mother Country |
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Page 226 - No person shall be refused employment or in any way discriminated against on account of membership or nonmembership in any labor organization, and there should be no discriminating against or interference with any employee who is not a member of a labor organization by members of such organization.
Page 30 - It is resolved that, in the opinion of this congress, the bonds of the British Empire shall be materially strengthened, and a union of the various parts of his Majesty's dominions greatly consolidated, by the adoption of a commercial policy based upon the principle of mutual benefit, whereby each component part of the Empire would receive a substantial advantage in trade as the result of its national relationship...
Page 181 - CANADA, and the other British possessions in North America, though apparently blessed with fewer physical advantages, contain a noble race, and are evidently reserved for a lofty destination. Everything there is in proper keeping for the development of the combined physical and mental energies of man. There are to be found, at once, the hardihood of character which conquers difficulty, the severity of climate which stimulates exertion, the natural advantages which reward enterprise.
Page 47 - Locomotives and railway passenger baggage and freight cars, being the property of railway companies in the United States, running upon any line of road crossing the frontier, so long as Canadian locomotives and cars are admitted free under similar circumstances in the United States, under regulations to be prescribed by the Minister of Customs.
Page 180 - Canada, from its vast extent, has been truly said to " possess all the climates of Europe, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic Ocean, as might be expected, seeing that it extends from the latitude of Rome, in Italy, to that of the North Cape, in Norway, and is of almost equal area.
Page 227 - Employers must be unmolested and unhampered in the management of their business, in determining the amount and quality of their product, and In the use of any methods or systems of pay which are just and equitable. 7. In the interest of employees and employers of the country no limitation should be placed upon the opportunities of any person to learn any trade to which he or she may be adapted.
Page 226 - ... when he sees fit. 5. Employers must be free to employ their work people at wages mutually satisfactory, without interference or dictation on the part of individuals or organizations not directly parties to such contracts. 6.
Page 55 - The act of 1897, most fruitful of all, provided for the payment of $3 per ton "on steel ingots manufactured from ingredients of which not less than 50 per cent of the weight thereof consists of pig iron made in Canada...
Page 250 - Canal Company. Their first intention seems to have been to establish a line of communication between the two lakes by a combination of canal and railway, the canal to be of comparatively small capacity ; but this plan was soon laid aside, and it was determined to secure water communication through the whole length and build a canal sufficiently large to admit schooners and sloops. The plan thus adopted contemplated utilizing the Niagara River from Lake Erie to the mouth of the...
Page 215 - ... may occur between them shall not be considered valid or binding until the same shall have the approval of the executive board of the Western Federation of Miners.