EMIGRATION TO CANADA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIB, —With
reference to the proposal which was unanimously adopted by your Aberdare Committee that we should endeav- our to organize a party of fifty young men and boys to go out from Aberdare to take up farm work in Ontario, we regret to state that there has been practically no response from the Aberdare young men and boys. Two visits have been paid to Aberdare. On the first occasion I explained our proposals very carefully to the full Committee and obtained a unanimous vote in favour of the adoption of the scheme.
Through the kind help and courtesy of the Town Clerk a meeting was arranged for Wednesday, January 30th, to be held in the local Theatre, which was kindly loaned for the purpose by the proprietors. Between 800 and 400 young men and not many boys attended. Alderman Berry was in the chair. The meeting was first addressed by our Welsh representative, who dealt with the economic situation, and then explained very clearly the offer we were making to those who wished to take up life in Canada.
At the close of the meeting three or four men voluntarily came forward and spoke in hearty support of the scheme. Their own sons had gone out under our auspices last year, and were all doing remarkably well. With this excellent finish to the meeting we anticipated a hearty response. The Town Clerk placed a room at our disposal in the Council ChaMber for the whole of the next day for interviewing purposes, but only two men came forward.
May I ask if your Aberdare Committee is leaving the matter where it is, or whether further steps arc being taken to organize this party ?—I am, Sir, &c., CYRIL BAVIN,
General Secretary.
Y. M. C. A. Migration Department, George Williams home, 18 Russell Square, W.C. 1.
[It is very disappointing to know that there has been such a poor respOnse to the offer of the Y.M.C.A. Migration Depart- ment to find work for fifty young men and boys in Canada.— ED. Spectator.]
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