1930's in Canada // Financial

Employment Keeps Declining

The number of people out of jobs, primarily the young people, keeps on rising.  Employment opportunities are scarce; fathers cannot make enough to support their families and then leave them, the young are unable to even find jobs and other such horrors.  But there is a growing paranoia in our nation; those without jobs are shiftless individuals.  Idle hands are the perfect tool for the Devil’s work, after all.  Therefore, something must be done to keep these people from being idle.

These individuals are already showing their moral ambiguity.  Rioting on the streets, riding the rails to British Columbia or the Eastern provinces.   The largest and most recent example of their destructive personalities is the riot in Regina, Saskatchewan a few months ago where one police officer died and eighty people were injured.

Crops are Gone With The Wind

Saskatchewan’s farmers have something legit to complain about.  Their crops are being blown away and the grasshoppers are taking over.  The drought has just doubled the effects of the declining economy in Saskatchewan.

Even if the crops would stay in the ground, the price of wheat is so low; the profit margin for the wheat is almost nonexistent.  The average farmer is scrapping away at dirt, barely able to survive by picking up extra jobs.  Unfortunately, those extra jobs are horribly scarce and few people are actually able to afford hired help.