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, 1918. No Sentiment About This-- i It's a Cold -Blooded Talk to Em dloyers 3 Tw Let ue be frank." More farm labour were as loathe to try the experiment as other employers _ We even believe that ~ must be found. It serves no purpose 'to ¢on- now are. But the Government said "The munitions efficiently collect fares on s tinually urge the farmer, and repeat "produce must be produced and only women can be secured in and milk routes, more food -- produce more food.' The farmen sufficient numbers to produce them." The experiment stores, etc. did produce more food {ast year --and he will was tried and as a result many a manufacturer is carry- produce more food this year -- al} that he possibly ing on certain operations in his plant with woman can. He is already working fo his limit, and that labour to-day more efficiently than he had done with means for many more hours per day than the men. ; city man works. The farmer says: "I'm willing In Great Britain and France you-don't But make ¢ Dior. mind. to this. - see- able- Cana c For to put more land under cultivation, if you will send me bodied men behind store counters, Wrapping Sa cannot stop short in any effort up neck- for food production the labour to do it. And I'm willing to pay the labour ties, fitting shoes, measuring off calico, dispensing soda must hav Ny and every ea ur iiss good wages, but Without labour I cannot do more 2 water, wrapping up flowers and serving trinkets in determined that food they shall have. than I am doing. jewelry stores. : \ We ask employers, in all respectfulness, to look over their men to-day, and get ready to comb out every one that is able-bodied, even though his muscles are soft, who is doing work that could and should be done by women in war time. Line them up and say: "Some Canadian farmer needs you more than I do. Go!" There's no use evading the issue--Do it" women would gladly and treet cars, take over bread act as clerks in grocery and general We are down to elementals to-day. We either must win, or bow down in serfdom to the German. If we don't seid Our Allies sufficient food we won't win. Now, farm work is a man's work. * Neither are able-bodied men shining shoes for Any willing, intelligent man can be of great help other men. Neither are they waiting on table at lunch on a.farm ; and besides, there are many men work- counters, or hotels. Nor do you see able-bodied male ing "in offices, stores, warehouses - and factories, book-keepers, typists, tailors, street car conductors, in towns and cities, who because of their early elevator operators, etc. In fact you don't see able-:. training upon farms could readily go back to farm bodied men doing any job that a woman can do with- labour and become useful workers in a short time. out sacrifice of true womanhood or health. The old g And remember, the financial obstacle should not saying "Meu must work, and women must weep" has Fill out the form below, and we will undertake be magnified, because the wages plus the board, gone into ti : discard. Jt now is, "Men are fighting, so to get you a competent woman employee for every which a farm labourer gets to-day equals, and women must work. ¢ man you release. often exceeds, the wages paid to office, store, factory, CANADA IS AT WAR, and the sooner ; warehouse, and other general classes of labour. all our people wake up to the fact the v vill be f y | DR.-W. A. RIDDELL, "But," says the factory, store and warehouse em- te - or them and for Public Employment Bureau, "I 't E . : 15 Queen's Park, Toronto. Ployer, San Spare men. My staff is already reduced If some easy-going men object to.being shifted out 0 a minimum. : . : § ? : of their comfortable jobs, when actual national needs To these employers we say, replace some 'must be met, it is high time they should be made to of your men by women workers. OFFER feel that great issues cannot be settled without incon. WOMEN EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK, and venience-to many. The farmer has also been incon- in many cases the women will do the work as venienced. well as some of the men you are now employing. ) men working, whom I am willing to replace with female help if you will ~~ get me the help. And I will undertake to pay the women equal wages where they render equal service. : Our faith is that Canadian women will gladly do When the munition manufacturers in Canada, United the work of these men who ought to go on the farm, States, Great Britain and France wefe told "You must" ~. as when giveh am opportunity, they filled the places get women, and make munition workers of them "they = [eft by many men now overseas. Issued by the Labour Committee, Dr. W. A. Riddell, Chairman. tt" Organization of Resotirces Committee, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. [ Lack of Food--Threatens the Battle Line Sp its Ba - NNN NN, PN ANNA ANA ry Nr NINN i. in, middlings, 48.00 to 50.00; mouillie, | ewt. Hogs--~Receipts, 8,800: irregular; Ham---Large, 32¢ per 1b.; medium. . B ioa.hi 60.00 to 62.00. Hogs, selects. $21.50 to $22 for heavy, $16.25 to $18.50; mixed, 33¢; small, 34c. nn The 4 Hay, No. 2 per ton, car lots, 17.00. long runs and $21.25 to $21.60 for $18.75 to $18.90; yorkers, $18.90 Bacon--Per 1b., breakfast, 42¢: Letters to the Editor oa : short runs. Sows, $19.25 to $10.50] to $19; light yorkers, $18.25 to Windsor, 46¢: Windsor boneless, EEE ; © emm-- Winnipeg. and stags $18.95'to $18 all weighed $18.50; pigs, $18 to $18.50; roughs, 46e, - LL -- 3 Winnipeg, March 26.--Oats--No. | off cars, $16.50 to $16.75; stags, $13 to $14. Cooked ham, per 1b, 47¢. - Returned Soldiers GRAIN QUOTATIONS. 3 CW, 94%; No. 3 CW., 00%e: Calves, milk-fed, $9 to $10 cwt; Sheep and . lambs--Receipts, 7,-] Potatoes 80 Ib. bags, car load Working of the Act! : y extra No. 1 feed, 89%¢; Na. 1 feed. 200; strong. . Wool lambs, $13 to]lots, $1.80 to $2. Warkworth, March 23.--(To the sotdtr% Burpess of Assisting Teluraed Toromte: 88¢; No. 2 feed, 83%¢. Barley Toronto, $19.35; clipped lambs, $16.35; oth- Beans--Per _bushet, Japanese Editor) - Having noticed in the Mail | for he me of &B Association Toronto, Mareh 26.--Manitoba | No. 3: 1.70; No. 4, $1.65: rejected, Teronio, March 26.---3.446 cate, | OFS, unchanged. white, $8 to $8.75, & Empire of date March 2ist in Called "Tug aii, Sommission wheat--No. 1 Northern. . $2.23%: $1.45; feed. $1.40. Flax--No. 1.1448 sheep and lambs, 2 $81 hogs, 135 : , Whig' Editorial re the working of of College St. Terns Offic is 44 No. No. 2, $2.20%; No. 3, $2.17%; No. [N.WiC., $382 1-4: No. 2 C.W., | calves. Chicago. oromta. the Military Service Act, I must say | McPuc:son is the CRAISMAR Sng My 4, 32.10 1-4, including 2% -cent tax, | $3.77%; No. 3 C.W., $3.60. Export cattle, choce, $12 to $12.-| Chicago, March 26.-- Cattle re- Toronto, March 26.--DButter, there is a Jot of dissatisfaction | Joseph Warwick is the Becretary, All instore Fort William. ' - 25; do., bulls, $9 to $10.25; butcher | ceipts, 25,0004 , market weak. £holce iY. Ase Jo 30s; ar around. this section with the ex- Spmmunicwth 8 intend Eine Manitoba oats--No. 2 OW. Chicago. cattle, choice, $10.25 to $11.25; do.,| Beeves, $9.5060" $14.40; stcokers | garine, 2s 40C ta 37c; pRgs, n a0: | emption boards. Cole, Shoe Se Jdrens . ¥, Nickle, 94%¢; No. 3, 90%e; extra No. 1 Chicago, March 26 --Corn, Nos. 2 medium, $9.50 to $10; do., common, | and 'feeders' $7.90 to $11.75: ows dozen, 45¢ lo 50c; Cheese, >, 30¢; I will state two or three instances.] Esq. Ko MP of Hangs ira mem feed, 8934¢cr store, Fort William; gud 2 Jtion. nominal; No. 1 yellow, $8.50 ah bu ra Chotos. and Aten JT to $12; calves, 35. Taney, b. Se Thess. dBc 10 First, a young man, Cecil Sloggar. oy ary i e~namt 4 A ninsion. No. 1 feed, 88¢c. « 0.31.62. ais, No. 4 white, | $9 10 » 40.. medium, $8.7 : . . : PE foe ai Aad family in good circumstances, and in this ay . 'American corn--No. 3 kiln dried; | 91 1-4 to 9c: standard, 91% todo. canuers, $7 to $7.35; do. bulls. Hogs, receipts. 75.009; market Ha, 1° » ates Sucks, SpHue. been clerking in a hardware store IpShtea a US.A. War Board prohibits impor-| 92¢. Rye, No. 2. $2.91. Barley, [$8.76 to $9: feeding steers, $8.50 | slow, Light, $17.10 to $17.75; mx- bi. The te 60c: do. bbl $2.00 to| until the spring of 1837. He then T Pade Rooms, tation. $1.55 to $1.85. Timothy, $5.00 to |to $10: stockers, choice, $8 to $8.75; | ed, $16.75 to $17.70; heavy, $16.15 $6.90; boon. oc: do. to $1.40: do. | Went to a munition factory in Camp. Ths: pubic Are Contially nvited to Ontario oats--No. 2 white, 93c to) $8.25. Clover, $28 to $31. Pork, {do, light, $7 to $7.50; milkers, { to $17.40; rough, $16.15 to $16.45; peck "30c: nent He 60¢ to Tes beliford, worked part of the time 23ioperate with we ¥ aroun Sult- f4c, nominal; No. 3 white, 92¢ to | nominal. Lard, $26.20. Ribs, | choice, sah $90 to $130; springers, a ht 310.50; bulk of sales, poe oo celery. Cal bunch, | 80d ran around part of the time. Bel hl Returned Sold Oe arior--Saltivn. $1.08 to sb | Shoah owis. $13 10 $15: wicks Sheep, receipts. 15.000; market aves do. Can, dozen, Boe: tublnge, le ie Tas force NG heis dc Ontario wheat--No. 2 winter. Minneapolis, 130 culls, 37.60 to $10.50; lambs, | weak. Wethers, $11 fo $15; lambs. od 6 we $13 to $2.00. Was madaged by his umele. 'In the $2.22, basis in store, Montreal. Minneapolis, March 26.--Corn-- | $19 to $20.50. native, $14.50 to $18.65. . E'50c to 6oc ick. meantinte his grandfather died and assy y s : . 0 Hogs, fed and watered, $21: hogs ; 5 do., large bkt., 50¢ to ic; do., pick and Peas--No. 2, $3.60 to $3.70, ac- | No. 3 yellow, $1.75 to $1.80. Oats... (Joey Re » $21; hogs, ; lng, bY. 85c: do. green, bunch, [the farm was left to his father bi cording to freights outside. No. 3 white, 89¢c to 90c. Flour un- op 16 to 317 GENERAL MADE. Ic; parsley, bunch. 10c; parsnips,| uncle. His father sold &is share to Buckwheat--$1.83 to $1.85. changed, Bran, $32.78. Altes, uy bag, $1.25 to $140; do., peck, 30c: | his uncle. then Jurchased jpother Rye--No. 2, $2.50. Montreal, Potatoes, bag, $1.75 to $2.10; rad-| place to put hx Son on: He has flosr--War quality, Duluth, b, Buffalo. Montreal, March 36.-- Eggs, strict-| ishes, bunch, Cc: Rhubarb, buch, Ge: | move sons, both bank 7 Duluth, = March . 26.--Linseed, Buftalo, March. 26.--Cattle--Re-| Iv new laid, per dozen 47c. e, bunch, Sc; savory, bunch, Se. | old enough. the. ! Toronto-Montreal, $10.70, t 4 sage, x Y, , new ; s x $8.08 to 84.17%; arrive, $4.08: | cepts, 2.800: nctive and strong. | Butter, first creamery, per prints, Turning peek. 15¢;. do., bag, 6be: Second, Richard Homey. an Eng- Milifeed--Car. lots, delivered. | Mav: $4.12 'bid: July, $4.10 bid; Prime steers, $11.50 fo $14: ship-1 Ib., 51¢ to 32¢; solids, 50¢ to 51c. watercress, 6 bunches, 15e, lishman living in the towcship of Montreal; shorts, $40.40; bran, | October, $8.58 bid. 1 ping steers, $13 to $13.25; butchers. Oleomargarine, per 1b, 32¢ to 34c. Percy, Dartiord Post. Office. with $35.40; feed flour, no quoted: wid. Now Fou York 33 =. $13.15; flings, $11.75 4 piSheese ker db. large. 22%e¢; twins Sonoioh a abit hres Rundred acres of and. gp dlings, not quoted. New York, March 26.--Flour stea- [1 350 ant Botls, ¥en, Si] Lard 1h tebadi 1b E¥ But a fool he Is auiyl Toc fier Bis. some phe Brey Bogs, Hay--Baled, track. Toronto, car - . yg our o $12.25; bulls, $7 to $11.25; Lard, in tubs, wer 1b., 1c. What a fool he is u Bg after hisisome pure. P lots, No. 1. $17 to $18: No. 2. $14 | 3: springs, $10.75 to $11.25; win- | stockers and feeders. $7.50 to $10.-| Shortening, per 1b. 26 35c. neighbors, lot of grain but Bever.any to $16; mi $3 to $16: straw, | LoS: $10.85 to $11.15; Kansas, $1. 50: fresh cows and springers, $65 to] Honey-- White clover, 20 1b. to $0, Great men have miany friends and | feeds it to his stock. Fab five ¢ & : yd : 1190 10 $11.25. $13 : : Rye flour firm; Ib. tims, 20¢; comb, 23¢. Lm, more enemies. of them able to ots, 3858 to $9. to good, $15 to RE Sou chojce to 335 ii, --t - ~ 2 . . ar 4 -- nals three . Sie fancy, $15.25 to $16.30. White corn . ome i -- wv A Sour steady. $5.40 per 100 Ibs, Bar Ya Lr = ! : 3 ntreal, March 26.--Oats, Can- |iey Sour steady, $11.7% to $13.25 in J Bs NS ia 4 alr s 4 exempted. 2 western, No. 1, 1.071%; extra | 98-1b. sacks, "Hay steady: 1. ; a . Po ; y ; i 3 1 Ey we s No. I feed. 1.07%; No. 2 jocal| $1.50; No. 2. $1.30 tg. $1.35 3 2 gt v » g 3 ; 4 . Third, a young man by the white, 1.07; No. 3 local white, 1.04; | $1.15 to $1.20; shippin un be i. 8 J of Cassam always was clerking until «No. 4 local waite, 1.03. - Hops easy; state, od) yin to shal Sat . X " " fopseription came in force Flour, new standard spring wheat. | 1917, 35 to 43¢; 181 nal; { ; : h ! p His uncle, John Service a 11.10 to 11.20. Pacific coas:, 1917, 20¢ to 23¢c; 191s, : i p hi 1 the township of Perey, : Rolled oats, bags 80 19s. 5.60. I4e to 18c. sLor Es & 3 Warkworth, discharged his Bran, 35.00 to 40.00; shorts, 40; ---- eo Re g § Rd excellent, good man, ang took . LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 3 Bephew. Something wrong msi where. ep > : 2 43 Montreal. > Pi : wi 0 7 F hase neanty two Bundred acre CAS 1 Oo FH IA ~Montidal, March 26 Steers, ex-| 1 3 : 4 ; {and auly one on and 8s is the . : . tra choice, $13.50 to $13 0; choi 3 | ai yo a - | 1 i Royal Flying Corps. i york a - For Infants and Children 311% 311.50; good, 89; - = : («nd a half acres and lot the rest go In Use For 30% medium 93 fo 39.50 wt. Balle us ww -- ae y ; io muscure 43 1 ain follow Use For Over Years chioite, $9.75 to $1 .50; good, $8.75 : : y a : Sa "ad : aps you woul : ways bears 29 gE to $9.50; medium, $7.25 to $8 ew. . ; > > instancos. = There are more & 5! : Sous. aise, hte 3 or ~$11.98:¢ >. 3 $9 to, $10.35; mn to $9; Eanners, $5.50 to $6 | ( stated. : f- we from "Oh, Boy!" the smartest of musical comedies conning fo the Grand on |2ronnd here similar to those and Saturday, with 'a matinee Saturday aflernosn. ; : aa pita 7