CANADA: Burying the Shovel

In revolt against the clanking, clattering Machine Age last week were leading citizens of Montreal. Solemnly they marched 100 strong to a conveniently open space near the Canadian National Railway tracks. There workmen, spitting on their hands, took shovels and dug swiftly a medium-sized hole. In it was buried a toy steamshovel, symbol of the Machine Age.

Amid lusty Canadian cheers a representative of His Majesty’s Government announced that hereafter the Canadian National Railways “will engage hand labor and scrap machinery wherever possible, to provide more employment.” Until further notice, however, Canadian National Railway trains will continue to be pulled by locomotives.