Mr. ROGERS:

Yes.

Mr. MASSEY:

Have all the provinces already indicated their willingness to cooperate during the coming year, and particularly during the coming winter?

Mr. ROGERS:

I have already stated that

all the provinces have indicated their willingness to cooperate. *

Mr. MASSEY:

How many young persons

between the ages of sixteen and thirty, say. are unemployed at the moment?

Supply-Labour-Unemployment

Relief

Mr. ROGERS:

I have not that information available at the moment. I shall be glad to secure it and send it to my hon. friend.

Mr. GREEN:

This is something new. Apparently it is carrying out one of the recommendations of the Purvis commission. What type of rehabilitation is to be carried on?

Mr. ROGERS:

We are following the same course here that we did with the youth training projects. That is to say, we are asking the provinces to submit training projects for older unemployed men, which will be most likely to bring about their reestablishment in the particular province. We are asking the provinces to submit these projects to us for study and approval before .they are adopted.

Mr. GREEN:

Have no projects been submitted yet? .

Mr. ROGERS:

Yes, from one province there have been. But the hon. member will understand that the vote itself has not 'been passed. Letters have gone out to all the provinces asking them to submit proposals.

Mr. BENNETT:

This would seem to be the appropriate place for me to say that since we last had under discussion the conditions of unemployment I have seen the Hon. Wesley Gordon, former minister of labour, and he informs me that the copy of a letter attached to a public file and marked "personal" from Ralph Webb was not to the best of his belief and knowledge on the file when he left the office. Secondly, I have looked in my own personal files, and I find no trace of any such document being received from Mr. Webb. But I assume it did come to the office. He was advised. I notice, that the Hon. Mr. Murphy, then Minister of the Interior, would go to Manitoba and investigate the whole situation there, that he did so, that the very persons who were discussing the matter in this house were publicly in favour of the work being done, and that after conferences with the provincial government the Minister of the Interior did so advise, and that action was taken.

Further, Mr. Gordon informs me that the reason it was determined that no further work should be carried on after the date of the elec-

Mr. ROGERS:

I should add first of all that the letter to which my right hon. friend has referred was on the file. I was not aware that it was on the file until the file was requested. But there is no question whatsoever as to the letter having been on the file.

Mr. BENNETT:

When was it put there?

Mr. ROGERS:

I assume it was there from the beginning; I have no reason to assume otherwise.

Mr. BENNETT:

I have, and so has Mr. Gordon.

Mr. ROGERS:

As to the question with respect to the termination of the work, as I recall it that was not a point at issue. The particular agreement to which the right hon. gentleman refers called for the beginning of the work-

Mr. BENNETT:

No; that the work should not proceed beyond October 10.

Mr. ROGERS:

It was required that the work should begin as of a certain date.

Mr. BENNETT:

October 10.