Canadian Harvest (British Worker's Expenses).

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 20 March 1929.

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Photo of Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland , Birmingham Erdington

Edward Stevenson received a loan of £10 for his outward journey to Canada. On the 5th September, while the demand for harvest workers was still unsatisfied, he applied for, and received, at Winnipeg, a further loan of £12 to pay his passage home. These advances were made from public monies, and I am afraid I cannot release him from the responsibility of repayment.