The immediate admission into Canada of 5,000 displaced persons was announced today by Reconstruction Minister C.D. Howe who stated that this gesture was “a further and voluntary contribution by the Dominion towards the solution of the DP problem.” The number will be deductable from the DP quota later assigned to the Dominion by the International Refugee Organization.
A German reparations vessel will be used to bring the DP’s to Canada and the transportation costs will be bome by the I.R.O. Displaced persons need not have relatives residing in Canada to become eligible for selection under the new order, Mr. Howe said. Priority would be given to persons with special skills and aptitudes leading to ready assimilation within the economy. Single persons would, because of the continuing housing shortage in the Dominion, receive right of way over married people.
A total of 2,500 tailors, instead of 1,000, will be taken from the European displaced persons’ camps and brought to Canada to ease the shortage of skilled workers, according to information available here. Contracts to hire these workers will be signed next week by manufacturers in Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg.
The plan to bring in skilled clothing artisans from Europe was fostered by the Garment Manufacturers Association, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. Some weeks ago representatives of the unions and the manufacturers journeyed to Ottawa with the proposal. It was approved by the government and details worked out. Representatives of the industry and the unions will travel to Europe to select the workers.
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