Representatives of the Canadian clothing industry ##ft this week for Europe to select from among the DP’s skilled garment workers who will be brought to Canada where the industry faces a shortage. The Government has ##nted permission for the admission of up to 2,500 needle workers.
The delegation, which includes Max E. Enkin, Samuel Posluns, B. Shane and ## Herbst, will survey the DP camps in Germany and Austria. Enkin is vice-president ##f the United Jewish Welfare Fund of Toronto, of which Posluns is a past president. hane and Herbst are leaders in the needle trade unions.
The decision of the Canadian Medical Association to oppose the admission of ##fugee physicians to this country was strongly criticized by the Daily Herald here. ##ointing to Canada’s “scandalously high infant mortality rate” — it is estimated ##hat during the war period the country lost 90,000 infants — the paper asked : “If ## are so well fixed for doctors, why is it that every hospital in the country pleads ##t is understaffed#”
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