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labor delegates confer with federal government the best of them prime minister refers to excellent feeling between em ployers and employees prosperity ahead ottawa labor as represented by of the eight hwr day and improve delegates from the canadian trades considerably the fair wage rejuls- a r i f n j ons if a claim providing for a wor and labor congress recently pad its day excee eight hoursw in- annua call upon the government not m in a f wage contracts only to urge the passing of special j an importan umnedment to the 1m- legislation but also to voice strong migration act is recommended rder commendation for certain acts recent- 1 this proposed amendment any gov- ly passed by the government thoernment company corporation so- curtailment of the veto power of the ciety association person or party or senate tha reenactment of the tech- agents for the same soliciting to bring nical educational act which expires i immigrants into canada shall be re nt the end of nsxt march amendments j sponsible financially for the said im- to the immigration act application j migrants for not less than one year of the eighthour day provisions of it was contended that if thero were the washington conference in so far to be any further ax reductions they as the government is able to do so i should be applied to th sales tax amendments to the britishnorth which is not only an obstruction to america act and also to the criminal trade bat places an unfair financial code were among tho requests of the burden upon the masses of the peo- delegation j pie and not to the income tax many other subjects were touched tom moore president of the con- upon in tho memorandum presented gross complimented tho government including the contention that organ- ion the old age pensions act as for ized labor should bo give membership its establishing the west indies on delegations commissions or boards steamship service amendments to the dealing with matters affecting the in- income tax act raising the exemp- terests of industrial wage earners as tion of dependent children from 18 to for instance the economic conference 21 years for the acts encouraging the geneva 1927 the tariff board and farther une of canadianmined coal so on and that tho trades and labor and for those that extended public congress of canada being- of a truly ownership by the establishment of representative nature is the proper harbor commissions for the ports of body to consult on seeking nomina- halifax and st john tiors for such appointments the prime minister w l macken- with reference to technical educazie king complimented mr moore on tion the memorandum points out that the splendid manner in which the the act provides for the appropriation trades and labor congress had co- tobacco pool endorsed to protect growers interests three thousand fanners were unanimously in favor of cooperative action which is necessary to well being of industry both ministers there tobacco ontario hav trying conditions these they claim are not normal nor have they been growers in southwestern aligning myself with your plana and ave long fretted under believe it will turn out all tight otfawa may help if all tie tobacco growers are not for years the buyers cooperate to at th meetinss today hold further keep tho price down to an unprofitable mafc rtlis i oo not ark them to sign up tnrousrh level and enough growers have to sell j enthusiasm a speaker had pointed to keep the industry going if tho out that tho kingsvillo cooperative growers wero thoroughly organized had n warehouse blown down and under pool arrangements the growers tho minister said when you have could finance on their crop from year tnc p vc11 signed up i dont know to year and play the big tobacco com- j whether or not i could help you in panies at their own game j s respect but you must take the they met in a theatre at first sts vou my find it advisable chatham saturday last to discuss thei to engage in the primary buying and situation and the hon mr mother- i to tho ver same buyers as at world champions dine tho guests of honor at a dinner given for world champions only by tho madison square garden club in new york photo shows eight of tho sport well federal minister of agriculture prc worlds greatest figures left to right seated bill tlhlen bobby jones freddy spencer and charlies winter left to right standing babe ruth geno tunney jolnny weismuller and bill cook hoskoy stor massey proud of canadas growth of 10000000 by the federal govern ment to be expended during the 10- yenr period ending march 31 1929 and urged that dominion assistance bo renewed at he forthcoming session of parliament in order to insure that this important work may be continued further niendments to the fai wage eguuvns are urged in tre nembiandum and it is set forth that operated in the past with the govern ment and at the way in which the delegation had presented its program the representations made would be helpful if today we see a return of pros perity said mr king this prosper ity is due in a large measure to the spirit of conciliation and good will between employers and employees and vrald demonstrate the good faith in that respect canada sets an ex- of tlie govermiicnt on the question i ample to the rest o f tho world gives new yorkers food for thought in recent address another historic house gone canada to have new legation france and the dominion to appoint minister to respective capitals ottawa canadas success in estab- hon vincent massey canadian min- lishing diplomatic relations at wash ister to the united states he was ington has decided the dominion gov- addressing tho canadian society of ernment to appoint a minister pleni- new york at a dinner in his honor j potentiary to france it is officially recently the visitor he continued announced phillip roy the present cannot help but come back from high commissioner at paris will be canada spiritually intoxicated with appointed to the post while the what he has seen j french government will make baron mr massey said that never before vitrolles consulgeneral for france had there been reason to have such tho first minister to canada quotes figures new york if i told you all that i have heard and believe to be true regarding the progress of canada you would believe me to be a liar thus spoke in humorous vein tho the american or the american and tho britisher than there is between two sons of the samo mother dr john h finley introducing mr massey referred to him as the carnation of canada and tho hon j s martin provincial dr j h grisdale ottawa deputy minister worked together to devise minister of agriculture reviewed tho ameliorating action j development of the tobacco industry survey to be made today ho said canadian leaf pending the annual meeting of the tobacco growers the dominion gov ernment will appoint three men to work as a committee with two others representing tho growers and these will begin this week to make a survey of the whole situation one of tho government appointees will bo a j mcphail of tho saskatchewan wheat pool who will address a number of meetings in southwestern ontario and explain tho conditions of a pool dr j w rutherford mp kent presided at a special overflow meeting constitutes about threequarters of all tobacco used in canada our leaf has become better more popular in can ada and is getting into demand abroad we are producing six to seven million pounds of fluecured or cigarette tobacco and these tobaccos sell themselves we import eight to ten million pounds of fluecured to make cigarettes and wrappers and whether we can increase our flue- cured to such an extent as to supply tho demand i cannot say wherever thero is suitable soil i suggest tho farmers go into that line great bri- faith in the future of the dominion as thero was at the present turning to statistics to support his reports to the effect that canada will send a minister to japan are de nied during the visit of l s em- optimism mr massey said that within ery british minister of the dominions tho last 12 years bank deposits in and colonies tho appointment of a canada had increased by 600000000 british high commissioner to canada eighty per cent of the current do minion government loan of 2400- 000000 is held in canada he said al though in 1915 not a dollar of the will como up for discussion paris franco and canada have definitely decided to change the pres ent status of diplomatic representa government loan was held by a can- j tion to tho establishment of legations adian a billion dollars of insurance in the respective capitals was written in 1926 an amount equal tho french cabinet has approved saturday in the griffin theatre which tain 5mports 150000000 pounds of was attended by 1000 growers 2000 1 flumured and 4 of dark fired unable to get in were accommodated ond if producc morc of thes9 at tho armouries where some of the addresses were relayed by telephone and amplifiers and where other speak ers later appeared in person this meeting as reported to theatre gath ering by eccles j gott mp south essex wes unanimously in favor of the pool project the theatre meeting there is a market martin sounds warning hon john s martin pledged the assistance of his department and said that personally he had always been for cooperation among farmers while not ignoring the fact that more co at request of the chairman similarly i operatives have been unsuccessful went on record at the close ono tha successful alluding to the re- severe weather brings too hot fires micholham priory upper dicker sussex england had one wing com pletely wrecked when lire broke out during tho intense cold of late december tho water froze as it felt the hose the house dates back to the 14th century canadas business makes big strides physical volume shows jump of 48 per cent ottawa canadian business reach ed a physical volume at tho close of 1927 48 per cent larger than it reach ed in 1926 an index published by tho dominion buroau of statistics reveals business however was somewhat be low the high point reached in the second quarter tho foaturo of tho year was the rapid advance in industrial stock prices reflecting an easy money situa tion speculative trading was the greatest on rocord the number of ohares sold on the montreal stock exphange in the first 11 months was 14 per cent value of imports was 1005000000 for the first 11 months an increase of s3 per cent exports wore 1107000000 as- against 1144- 000000 a drop of 32 per cent car loading until december 10 shower an increase of 4 per cent over 1926 conspiracy trial opened in india sensational story of revolu tionary plot is related calcutta a sensational story of widespread revolutionary conspiracy bengal and debar was related at the epeulng of the trial of 20 young bengalis at dumka recently tho young men were chargod with glasgow herald cons the num- ited states he said spent 200000 ww der ot foroign immigrants into can- in vmtmg canada last year thi tha past y6ar exceeded the was a part of 701000000 spent by namber from great br by fuuy touring americans j 23000 if the disproportion concln- and the americans felt so muchj at th rat0 tme ig not far at homo in canada he said smilingly unt wlen britlsh clement f that they used american postage constiue a minority of canadas pop- conspiracy to wago war against tho 8651000 an increase ot 42 per cont british forces and banditry over 1926 numorous polico raids followed the volumo of construction was greater by nearly 10 per cont than that of tho previous year mining showed an in crease of 7 per cont nnd the output of forestry an increaso ot 6 per cont tho average of manufacturing activi ty advorsoly affected by decllnos in discovery of a cipher book during a raid on a deogbar boarding establish ment with that knowledge tho po lice were able to dlscovor tho hiding place of tho revolutionists tho polico seized revolvers bombs oxploslves and revolutionary lltora- tho automobile- and steel industries t tho prosecution alleged tho showed a gain of only 4 per cent em- colloction of arms as designed to ployment in wholesale and retail overawo tho government trade averaged 75 por cent higher tho volumo of imports increased 25 per cent whllo oxports declined some peoplo possess tact others toll tho truth to twothirds of that extant in can ada in 1916 of the ten million christmas trees used in the united states annually onethird grow in canadian soil within the last five months the to- a plan to appoint a minister to ot tawa he will probably be the present consulgeneral tho following communication was issued by the foreign office following negotiations under- bacco exports of the dominion wero taken in a diplomatic way and after valued at 2500000 three hundred interviews which took place in paris million bushels of grain were exported in december last between the hon by canada via vancouver and mont- raoul dandurand senator of can- real in 1926 tho canadian wheat ada and minister of state without crop last year was 450000000 bush- i portfolio and m briand minister for els mr massey said and the margin foreign affairs france the canadian of cultivation is being pushed farther and french governments have decided north to create a legation of canada in the prairie provinces of manitoba france and a logation of france in saskatchewan and alberta recorded canada tho minister of france will 240000000 worth of manufactured reside at ottawa products last year mines in north western canada have reached a high mark in output citizens of tho un- settlers for canada stamps on their letters mr justice riddell of tho ontario court of appeals was another ulatlon it the strength of tho im perial bond which unites canada to t the old country is to bo maintained speaker we cannot afford to ignoro tho call there is no more reason he said wh aadre3ged specially to our for rancor between the canadian and pe0 man only objected nnd it was stated that he was neither a grower nor a buyer there were 18 speakers at the grif fin theatre every federal and pro vincial member of parliament from essex and kent as well as west el gin was presented to pledge assistance and concurrence in the pool or any other step deemed advisable to relieve tho tobacco growers practical sug gestions came from hon john s martin ontario minister of agricul ture dr j h grisdale deputy min ister of agriculture ottawa and hon w r motherwell hon mr mrntin emphasized the de sirability of a system of government grading oven to the extent of pro hibiting export of ungraded tobacco and this was applauded new office to be opened hon mr motherwell made the im portant announcement that the do minion government had decided to create a cooperative marketing branch there had been hesitation because his department has no build ing of its own and offices wero lo cated all over ottawa but office or no office space said the minister i think the time has como that i should wait no longer but take the initial proceedings to establish a cooperative marketing branch in tho department of agricul ture if some of you wero thinking i was going to commit thegovern- ment to somo big financial scheme put that out of your mind ninety pel- cent of tho factors of success lie within your breasts get tho co operative spirit and bo prepared to sacrifice a littlo on account of tho cause tho industry is simply suffer ing growing pains i am going to take the risk if i have any reputation of cent wide interest displayed in to bacco growing as instanced by letters even from northern ontario the min ister said wo sounded a caution last spring as to acreage nnd i received letter from the imperial tcbacco co tailing our department to task and saying it was dangerous propaganda and ill advised we still believe we were on safe grounds in urging a little caution and improvement of quality although tho manufacturers were no doubt sincere it is all right to form a pool if that is the proper method but whrt abcut all this tobacco over in thoid coun try unsold there re a graat many things to do before you can siart ci a clean basis dr grisdalo announced that c m slagg chief of the tobacco division 1 ottawa was leaving the department to tako charge of development of a new line in australia chinese artillery in action prince of wales is host to 900 farmers at roast beef dinner melton mowbray england tho prlnco of wales accompanied by tho duko of york nnd prlnco henry all- woarlng lounge suits rubbed olbows rocently with 900 lolcostershlro farm ers they wero guosts of tho british holr at an oldfashioned roast beet dinner at oldul domont fort hall loloostor as tho royal trio cntorod ho guosts waved their tankards and sang for thoyro jolly good follows at tho holrs requost all tho farmors wero in tholr workday clothes and didnt seora to bo ombarrassed tha tho farmors remarked that ho had spent many happy days riding ovor your land t would liko to propose a couple ot now years resolutions ho addod facotlously which nro easier to broak than somo of your tonco rails ono would bo a resolution suggested by tho word now in now yoara do not think i am trying to toach my grandmothor to suck oggs but i liopo you do not rejoct anything now with out thorough investigation in conclusion tho prlnco ot walos oxprossod tho hopo that english agri culture soon would regain a more com- prince ot wales proposing a toast to plote moasuro of prosporlty senate majority of tories small face next session with ad vantage of six in up per house ottawa time has decimated tha conservative numbers in tho senate until the powerful majority in the upper house in 1921 has been reduc ed to six both parties are approach ing equality in nur3is with tho fillireg of three vacancies on tuesday tho party standing is now conserva tive 51 liberals 43 j progressive one ami vacant one tho vacant seat is from the province of quebec in the senate as in the commons thero is always an absentee list so the actual numbers of majorities or minorities cannot be assumed to be inflexible little hope for two aviators new zealand flicrs now miss- ing for more than 32 houre wellington now zealand a galo stopped an intensive aeroplane sarch this afternoon for gantainihaaj and lieut moncrieff ncw zejilaiui avia tors missing on a flight from sydney lo new zealand and observers belieyo that survival of tho filers is impos sible j a search by steamers and aero planes was corjducted over a wide area for tho fliers whoworo very many hours overdue it is tjolioved tho aviators lost tholr way whllo crossing tasman sea and that thoy wero forced to dercend into tho water t the men were last reported off new zealand when they apparently wero having difficulty in finding a landing placo took a long time to effect surrender artillory conouers ancient city of chocliow only after 79day slcgo tho ancient fortldcatlons withstood dally shelling for that timo and tha small shansl garrison surrendered only aftor their last ammunition was gono tho aged king in tho melodrama was blessed with two sons ho was pacing up and down tho stago with a woaricd look exclaiming aloud on which of thoso my sons shall i bestow my crown camo a volco from the gallery why not arf a crown apiece guvnort