Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . uringhelp. Women had been engaged tooperate some of the machines, but itwas hard to hold them when other workof a more pleasing nature was procur-able. The labor situation as it appliesto women is best expressed when I saythat householders cannot get help at anycost. Enlistment and the draft havemadeheavy inroads on the man-power,and generally speaking the labor situa-tion was considered bad. Whether the elimination of the smallsize container would be an advantage atthis time was a question. Mr. Andersonbelieved that business shouM be disturb-ed as little as p
Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . uringhelp. Women had been engaged tooperate some of the machines, but itwas hard to hold them when other workof a more pleasing nature was procur-able. The labor situation as it appliesto women is best expressed when I saythat householders cannot get help at anycost. Enlistment and the draft havemadeheavy inroads on the man-power,and generally speaking the labor situa-tion was considered bad. Whether the elimination of the smallsize container would be an advantage atthis time was a question. Mr. Andersonbelieved that business shouM be disturb-ed as little as possible. They had theequipment for turning out the sizes oxcontainers now used, and were a suddenswitch to any one size be made theincreased demand for this one size couldnot be met readily with present equip-ment. Since the representative of CANA-DIAN GROCER secured this interviewwith Mr. Anderson a memo lias comethrough from Washington to the effectthat a ruling has recently been put intoeffect that tin plate mills will now re-. May 31, 1918. CANADIAN GROCER 25 strict deliveries to manufacturers mak-ing food containers for the governmentand its allies. The inference is drawnthat tobacco and paint cans, bottle stop-pers, and other products are thus cutfrom the list. Should this ruling benow effective in the United States thereis no question of doubt but that thesame conditions will be made effectivehere as Canada is now dependent on theUnited States for her supplies of tinplate. JAMS SHOULD BE PLENTIFUL That jams will be plentiful is the viewexpressed by James Wagstaffe, manag-ing director, Wagstaffe, Ltd., Hamilton,in response to a query by CANADIANGROCER on the outlook for the comingseason. We have every reason to be-lieve that prospects for jams are good,stated Mr. Wagstaffe, who had only re-cently returned from a trip to Californiaand along; the Pacific coast to Canadiancoast cities. We purchase an enormousquantity of our raspberries and straw-berries from the State of Was
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