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Introduces and publishes with minor editorial corrections the long-suppressed Bradley report of 1934 into the living and working conditions of men in the Newfoundland forest industry. The inquiry, which was led by J. Gordon Bradley, was commissioned by the government in response to worker complaints regarding the the country's two foreign-owned pulp-and-paper mills: the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company Limited at Grand Falls and the International Power and Paper Company of Newfoundland Limited at Corner Brook. However, the report's damning findings were kept secret in return for the companies' agreement to pay the workers a minimum net monthly wage of $25; the ruling Commission of Government also subsequently tooks steps to improve working conditions in addition to passing legislation on the logging camps in 1938.