Array THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST INDUSTMAL UNITY: STBHNOTH *4»- OFFICIAL PAPEB- VANCOUVEB TBADES AND LABOB COUNCIL, AND B. C. JPBDBBATION OP I ABO* * ^ ■"■ TENTH YEAR. No. 22 EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 31,1918 No Settlement Yet of Shipyard Strike »»»»»* ****** »>»>»» ****** . ****** ****** ****** ****** Negotiation! Are Still Being Carried On Senator Robertson Still Settlement—Seattle Metal wrights' Action—Agreemei Murphy Board |ng Conferences With Men and Employers, Prospects Look Bright for |ies Council Neither Favors 48-Hour Week Nor Approves of Ship- i—Agreemei t Cached With Coughlan's and Rates Granted as Handed Down by With 44-Hov §;Veek—Action of Returned Soldiers Not Sanctioned by G. W. V. A. ■over The strike in the shipbuilding industry assumed definite shape on Monday morning. The holidays being uvci the effects could be readily seen. All yards and shops were completely tied up both on the mainland and on the island. Coughlan's yard was the only plant that was working, the men having an agreement with this firm until August 1st, and negotiations were being carried on as to the wage question. The Labor Temple assumed an air of greater activity than ever, the members of the various unions attending their respective quarters for the purpose of registering their names on the strike roll. The following statement issued by the Victoria and Vancouver Metal Trades councils early on Monday morning puts the case for the men affected in such a manner that no doubt remains as to what was the issue, and the reason that the men took the action they did, and refutes the statements and inferences that have been made from time to time in the press. E In view of the misrepresentation, either intentional or due to lack of knowledge by the press of the city, which has been made as to tho issuo between the shipyard workers, und tho Imporial Munitions Board, Wooden Shipbuilding Department, the following statement is issued: In June, 19.17, a joint meeting of employers and the representatives of organized labor was held in the Board of Trade rooms. At this meeting organized labor pledged itself to onter into an agreement with tho employers who were then figuring on S&ip and Engine Contracts. The next meeting of any importance was one arranged by Mr. R. P. Butchart in the Vancouver Hotel, August 15th. At this meeting a scale of wages covering the different crafts was drawn up and agreed to, to becomo effective October lBt, and to remain in effect for one year, witb the proviso that in the event of tho cost of living boing advanced over fivo per cent., that the scale of wages would be revised, the proof of the increase in thc cost of living to be based on the figures gathered and published by the Department of Labor. This scale of wages was submitted to tho I. M. B. for ratification, who came forward with a counter proposition, requesting organized labor to await tho findings of tho Wage Adjustment Board, appointed by the United States Government, who were investigating into the conditions as prevailing in the shipyards on the Pacific Coast, the I. M. B. agreeing to put tho findings of the Wage Ad- juiinont Board into effect from September 1st. In addition to this, the I. M. B. agroed that if organizod labor on the American sido was successful in obtaining any increase in wages, that they would grant a similar increase. This wus agreed to both verbally and by letter. Later an apponl was lodged by the members of organizod labor on the American, as well as on the Canadian side, against the findings of the wage adjustment board, and'as a result of this a ten por cent, advance was given in wages on tho American side as a war premium, the dato of this award being December 8th. This premium to become a permanent wnco increase on the 1st of February, 1918. The Metal Trados Council notified tho I. M. B. as tb the award given out by the wage adjustment board on tho American side, nnd Mr. Butchart immediately raised tho question of the award being a bonus and not a wage increase, and did not in his opinion, think the board was morally bound to pay it. Organized labor waB prepared to concede this point, but immediately it bocamo a permanent wage increase on February lBt, then taking the I. M. B. promises both verbal and writton, to the effect that any permanent wage increase on the American side would be granted en this side, they demanded tho f jlfllmont of those promises; still Mr. Butchart contended that in his opinion, tho I. M. B. wero not morally bound to pay tho increase and wired to Sir Joseph Flnvello, who sustained this position, and as a result a strike was called for 1st of March, The Dominion Government then appointed the Murphy Commission, and oa request of Judge Murphy, who appeared before the Metal Trades Councils of Vancouver and Victoria, it was decided that the strike would be called off until such time as the commission reportod. In view oft the foregoing facts it cannot bo truthfully snid that the men have not tried to come to somo amicable settlement, and that they have been unreasonable. Mr. Butchart as representing thc I. M. B. has brokon his promises which were accepted by tho men as thc promises of a responsible official, and had no doubt that they would be livod up to. , The conclusions of the Murphy Commission as to the justico of the demand for the ten per cent, increase as from February 1st, are as follows: "That the mon wonp morally and legully entitled to thc ton per cent, increase. Further, Judge Murphy, in bis report to tho Government, pointed out that if tho men were not grantod tho same rates of wages as paid on the American side, aud they were denied tho right to leave the country in search of higher wnges, that it would mean industrial conscription, which thc Gov- ernment had stated was not their policy." Tho Government has approved of the commission's roport, and has agreed that tho ten por cent, increnso should be paid, same to be retroactive as from February 1st, in addition to this, the commission stated that Mr. Butchart was in error in deducting fifty cents por day from the carpentors while tho Macoy Board's decision was being awaited, and that this money should be refunded to the men concerned. Has these conditions boon granted by Mr. Butchart! The answer is no. Mr. Butchart has not taken any stops to put this into offect; delegations have waited upon him, and have as yet been unable to roach any settlement, and as a result the striko has been called. Tho issue as now put forward by Mr. Butchart is the quostion of tho 44-hour week as versus 48-hour week. It should be noted that the quostion of hours has nover entered into the negotiations until after the Murphy Commission roported, and is only raised at this time, in order to find a loophole for tho I.-M. B. to evado thc payment of the "retroactive pay, which it iB estimated will amount to the sum of a quarter of a million dollars. In proof of this statement we would point to the fact that the shipyards in Vancouver havo never worked thc 48-hour week, and .as Judge Murphy pointed out, were entitled to the retronctivc pay, 'as thoy were novor asked to mork more thnn 44 hours a week. In addition, tho machine shops aVd other works who were affected both in Vancouver and Victoria have not at any timo worked more than the forty-four-hour week, and with six ways in the shipyards in Victoria idlo, and mon being laid off evory woek there is int HE Imperial Munitions Bonrd post-4-for some time, was engaged on Monday- - - in the registration of returned men who wore willing to work in tho yards during the striae. Tho War VetcranB or* Vancouver have issued a statoment which confirms their attitude as adopted ut their con* vention, which does not approve of re* turned men boing used as strikebreakers, and as an organizntion they are opopsed to the action of the men in Victoria. This is as it should be, many of tho returned soldiers being members of the unions affected by the strike. Senator Gideon Robertson, who hns been asked by the Dominion government to net as medintor between the contending parties, nrrived in Vancouver on Monday morning, and His Worship Mayor Gale took the first step towards a settlement by inviting representatives of labor and tho employers to meet tho Benntor at lunch in the Hotel Vancouver. After the vnrious speakers had boen called upon by the mayor to express thoir views, a committoe of six wob appointed to act as a committeo of arrangements, and as an advisory committee to the senator, The committee appointed wns as follows: Gordon J. Kelly, presidont Vancouver Trados and Labor Couneil; D. McCnllum, president B, C. Federation of Labor, ana J. H. McVety as representatives of lnbor; G. G. Bushby, president of the B. C. Manufacturers association; P. G. Shallcross, president of the Board of Trade, nnd J. M. Watson, president of tho Rotary Club, ns representatives of the employers. Othors who attended the luncheon were R. P. Pettipiece, G. D. Ireland, ed the following notice at all its lynrds on Monday morning: This yard is a governmont yard, working solely upon ships to assist the Imperial government and their allies to win the war. The wages offered aro fair and every patriotic citizen of British Columbia should lend all the assistance in his power towards tho speeding np of the completion of tho ships. Those formerly engaged in this work should not permit any cessation of the work. It is the duty of everyone to the government and to his family in this hour of need to carry- on, and it is felt thnt every right- thinking man with Britiah blood in his voins will respond. The notice did not evidently bave the desired effect, and if the return of the men to work is the proof of thoir mving British blood in their veins, hen they are dovoid, but our estimate )f the British characteristics is that hey consist of backbone and determin- itlon to aee that thoy are treated ns nen; that also is evidently the feeing of tho men as they did not ro- ipond. The returned soldiers of Victoria de- lided to work in the yards and to ask he returned men in other parts of tbe irovince, who were capable of taking ip work in the shipyards, to adopt thir lourse. John Day, Victorin, and until lately a member of the Plumbers Local, ind a member of tho TradeB ppunejj of that city, and who has been jn the employ of the Imperial Muni- lions Board . shipbuilding department necessity for the men working an increased number of hours. Further, Mr. Butchart himself has given the yards in Victoria the 44- hour weok, the Cameron-Genoa and Foundation yards, and the Ogden Point plant being at thia timo closed down on Saturday afternoon. ■ In further proof that the 44-hour week is not tho issue, but that the stakes Mr. Butehart is playing for is the quarter of a million dollars retroactive pay, is the notice posted in the yards in reBpect to wages, etc., which calls for the 44-hour weok. And it should be noticed that if the men work 44 hours they only receive pay for 44 hours, and* not for 48 hours. The notico referred to is an insult to tbe members of organized labor after all our efforts to come to an amicable aettlement. It is a denial of our right to collective bnrgnining, giving as it does a tnke it or leave it proposal, and closes tho avenues for labor to have a aay in tho conditions under which they will work, or as to what wages they shall receive. The Murphy Commission in commenting on the men who have carried on the negotiations states that they should bo congratulated on the way ia which they had presented their case. In addition to this, tho statoment was nlBo made that the efficiency of the men wns not questioned. In giving evidence beforo the Commission, Mr, Butchart stated: "May I express ray appreciation of the uniform courtesy given me by the representatives of organized labor at the many meetings I havo hnd with them during tho past year. Thoy will agree tbat the meetings invariably were characterized by a mutually good feeling between us, even if we could not always see eye to eye with eacn othor. On my p*hrt, I have learned to greatly respect the majority of tho men I have met at these meetings, and appreciate that it largely through their efforts that during this unfortunate time of unrest, a striko in the yards has not occurred." Does that statement benr out the inference that the men have been unreasonable? that they have not tried to prevent a tie-up, or doeB it prove that the responsibility now rests on the I, M, B.f On whom doeB the future of the shipbuilding industry rest? Wc are confident that if the same spirit had been shown by the I. M. B., as has been ahown by the men, that tho trouble could havo been averted. In the Commission's report, comment is made on tho statement aB above given by Mr. Butchart as one of congratulation that organized labor has been so reasonable and sincere in its efforts to prevent a cessation of work, and as in con' tradistinction we would point out that on the American side a very different attitude has been taken on these questions by tho people directing the shipbuilding programme, and a more sympathetic attitude adopted. In conclusion it has been stated that the mon are going to kill the shipbuilding industry on thiB const. This, on tho face of it, is a ridiculous statement, as thc demise of shipbuilding would affect their economic position, but with statements in thc press to tbe effect that contracts can be'secured by the contractors for more shipB, we are wondering why six ways are now idle in the City of Victoria, while the Skinner and Eddy Co. at Seattlo can securo contracts to thc oxtent of one hundred million dollars during the last few days, and that firm is nt tho presont time pnying a higher rnte of wages than is being paid here, and why it is that other firms aro not allowed to establish new yards in tho province? Is it a fnct that the contractors in the city could take contracts if the prosent yards were freo from the I. M. B., and thnt a contract from Italian interests for fifty-three ships had to go begging, and that the I. M. B, has stated that it was not possible to have more ships constructed as there was a shortage of labor on this coast. The organized labor movement knows that those are facts, ns they hnve been approached by representatives of people who aro desirous of undertaking shipbuilding on this coast, and wires have been received from New York asking if agreements could bo made with organized labor, which have been answered in the affirmative, and that representatives of tho Norwegian Governmont hnve been informed by the I. M. B. that it ib not possiblo to construct ships on this Const ns there waa a shortngo of labor. This is incorrect. There is no shortage of lnbor, and it is time that the people of this province looked into this question, if they do not desire to see the industry killed, not by organized labor, but by incompetent administration. On the Americnn side of thc line in the shipyards will be found many roturned Canadian soldiers. If the shipyards on thia Coast were run to capacity, there would be no need for mon to leave their owa eountry to seek employment in any other country, and as time goes on, more and moro of our men will be returning from tho front to again tnke up thoir activities in civil lifo, nnd these men should receive every consideration. Tho wuges asked for are not out of proportion to the increased cost of living, many members of our organizations aro returned men, and many nre atill overseas, and we consider it our duty to see that when those men return, that the standnrd of living, and conditions is no worse than it was when they left. We recognize the need of ships, and think wc have shown that we do not wish to retard their construction, and are prupnred to do all in our powor to construct them, but we demand a Bquare deal from the I. M. B., or whoever may have chargo of the shipbuilding operations, meantime, we rest our caso on the fairness of tho position we have taken, und the justico of our demands. Signed on behalf of the Victoria and Vancouvor District Metal Trades Councils Press Committee. W, ELLIOTT, Chairman, Victoria. J. H. CARMICHAEL, Chairman, Vancouver. ►boar on Mr. Coughlan by the employ ers association in order to induce this firm not to concede to the demands of the men, and it is understood that he was asked to withdraw from tho employers ' conference. Under these circumstances he iB to be congratulated for his attitudo, his evident desire to treat tho men fairly, and to see that the ships are constructed as quickly as possible, will no doubt be n welcome chnnge to not only thc men affected, but to the genernl pub- He, and will tend to make for efficiency, and wo trust bring nbout similar conditions to those that prevail in the Skinner & Eddy plant ut Seattle, which hns won so much favorable comment,1 [ not only for the speed in tho construction of ships, but the harmonious relations between thc men in that plant und fhe compnny. Other firms that conceded the men's demands are the Vancouver Shipyard, William Mcnchin, boat builders, nnd Harry Allen, boat builders. These firms have also voluntarily granted the laborers $4.00 per dny, while the Murphy awnrd grants them $3.85. Seattle on the 44-Hour Week. The following item uppenrcd in the dnily press on Wednesday: "The Seattle Motnl Trades Council, snid to represent nearly 20,000 shipyard workers, last night voted ngninst endorsing the action of tho Shipwrights and Joiners union of Seattlo and. the Metnl Trades Council of Portland, in waiving the Saturday half-holiday during June, July and August in order to, (Continued on Page 5.) ' Vancouver Irishmen Object to His Treatment of Ireland Vancouver .Irish Nationalists have been considerably stirred up by events in Ireland, and have held several meet*, ings in the last couple of weeks. They have adopted a resolution to form an' Irish Nationalist association in Vancou* ver, and have already cabled a message to Premier Lloyd George opposing his present policy in Ireland. They have also mailed him the following resolution: "The British people, through their demand of democratic self-government for Ireland, and your predecessor in the premiership, having carried through parliament with large majorities, an Irish Home Rule bill; and delegates from all sections of the Irish people, convened by your government, after months of earnest deliberation, immediately granting Ireland self-govern ment, her right to which has received world-wide recognition, we, the Irish Nationalists of Vancouver, desirous of supporting the brave struggle of our people at homo, protest against the perversion of the demands of the British and Irish people, so clearly expressed, by now reinforcing the system of brutal militarism in Ireland in subservience to a mere faction of political favorites. "We further repudiate the presa propaganda of pro-Germanism in Ireland, and call upon our Allies in the war for democracy to witness that no people have borne more passionately enduring or valiant testimony against Prussianism and autocracy than the Irish people have done, or braver loynlty to kin and country; that bitter experience of English oppression and misrule have schooled generations of Irish men and women in the love of freedom and to instant sympathy with enslaved peoplea everywhere; that your proposed enactment of military conscription in Ireland, in face of the determined opposition of the people and their representatives, and in an atmosphere ringing with your own declarations upholding the right of self- determination for small nationalities, opens yet another chapter in the long and miserable story of English atrocities against our people; and wo call upon Irishmen everywhere to unite to avert the destruction of our race as a nation," The cable and resolution were signed by B. J. McCarthy as chairman of the meetings held. POLinOAL UNITY: VIOTOB1 $1.50 PER YEAR WM. MACKENZIE Who -was re-elected business tgent for the Vancouver local of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees on Wednesday night. Af . Davi •V. R. Midgley, A. S. Wells, J. R, son und E. Mahon, i No conference was hold with the men until Wednesday morning, it being decided to await tho arrival of thc Victoria representatives, who arrived on Tuosday afternoon. The delegation ia made up of the following: J. Dakers, president of the Victoria Motal TradeB Council; H. Huby, secrotary; J. Oliver, Shipyard Laborers; E. Thuroson, Plumbers and Steamfltters; W. Polglnse, Riggers; H. Silver, Electrical Workers; H. Murray, Machinists, and A. Watchman, general organizer for the United Brotherhood of Carponters. The above with the following representatives from Vnncouver, represented the meu in ull the negotiations: H. Curmiehael, Boilermakers; D. MeCullum, Machinists; J. Bromfleld, Shipwrights; J Cowling, Plumbers nnd Steumfltters; C. Rouse, Blacksmiths; H. Grnnd, Painters; H. Nightscnles; Patternmakers; W. Hardy, Shipyard Laborers; W. A. Alcxnnder, Steam Engineers, and W. L. Thompson, Molders. Tuesday 'evening a conference was hold with J. J. Coughlan, Jr., as to wnges in the Coughlan Yard, and on Wednesday afternoon nn ngreement wns arrived at between thc representatives of. the men and thc Coughlan company, the agreement arrived at being as follows: The pnyment of wages ns recommended in the Murphy award, snme to bo retroactive as from the date of the awnrd, viz., April 23, with the 44-hour week; the agreement to be in effect to August 1. Considornble pressure was brought to Old-time Unionist and Has Experience to Guide Him • Senator Gideon Robertson, who is conducting tho negotiations in the shipyard trouble, is not new to Labor disputes, he having been connected with the Railway Telegraphers' union for a considerable numbor of years. He was goneral chairman of this order on the Canadian Pacific system, uud conducted many negotiations for the adjustment of wages for hiB own organization, during his term of office. That he has some ability on these linCB will bo conceded, in view of the satisfactory results achieved in Winnipeg. Thc representatives of the metal trades, who are at present negotiating the shipyard wage schedule, speak very highly of his attitude, and recognize his fairness, and evident desire to bring about a settlement which will bc satisfactory, and at the same time remove any possible chanco for friction in the near future. CM1HJ VETERAN ACCUSED OF INSULTING STRIKER Matter to Be Aired ln Police Court Because Poor Fellow Did Not Like the Truth NEW WESTMINSTER.—Aa an out- come of the shipyard strike, T. A. Barnard, well known labor man and returned soldier, will appear in police court charged with using insulting language to Donald McRae, one of the men who remained at work in the Poplar Island shipyards. It is alleged that thc incident occurred when the men were going into the yard Monday morning. Private prosecution information was laid by McRae. l'te. Barnard was formerly president Great War Veterans nssociulion. Ho ia also a member of the Federated Labor party and strenuously opposed to returned soldiers acting as strikebreakers. He is a veteran of the South African and present war. Warehousemen The wage agreement between the Warehousemen's union nnd the wholesale grocers has been practically settled. A fow minor-points aro yet to be considered, but those will have but littlo effect in making a satisfactory Bottle ment. Its settlement will mean a substantial inerease in wuges, a nine-hour dny and five hourB on Saturday. The wholesale fruiterers have been given till Friday to make a settlement with the union, otherwise there will be a walkout Saturday. Nine now members were admitted to membership at the last meeting. Chief Agriculturist of the Province Becomes Somewhat Caustic Various City Sons of Toil on Hand to "Do the Farmer Good" [By Jas. H. McVety] The daily press announces in a roport of a convention of farmers held on Wednesday in the Hotel Vancouver that the Hon. Mr, Burrow, minister of agriculture in the provincial government, was greeted with repeated applause for his caustic remarks about the men employed in the shipyards going on strike for shorter houra, drawing a comparison between the alleged short hourB worked by shipyard workers (all the year around) with the long hours worked by furmers (for a short portion of the year). Plenty of Work for New Minister. In addition to the farmer audience, there was a considerable number of business men, lawyers and politicians, all apparently desirous of "doing the farmer good," whenever the opportunity occurred. With tho wide field of endeavor open to the minister in tho agriculture department, it would appear that he would havo sufficient work to engage his attention without wandering into a field in which he cannot! possibly have a very intimate knowledge. l£ lie had thc interests of the country so much at heart, ho might, with better grace, have nllowed the Hon, Mr. Farris, minister of labor, to have discussed the question nnd showed the audience what efforts were being made by his department to effect n settlement of the matters in dispute. Whole Matter Sub Judice. As a matter of fact the provincinl department hns not made a single effort to bring about a settlement aud it hus remained for tho fedoral government to sond Senator Robertson, for many years an officer of the Order of Ruilway Telegraphers, to try and effect nn adjustment of the difficulty. Needs a Irfsson ln Etiquette. For rank outsiders, s.ich us the Hon. Mr. Burrow, to mnke criticism of either the employers or workmen, when it cannot but havo the offect of further inflaming an already sufficiently serious situation, muy be excused on tho ground thnt he is new on the job, but sooner he is tnken in hand nnd Grand Benefit Programme Has Been Arranged for Firemen's Dependents There will be no meeting of the Fed* crated Labor Party in the Bex theatre on Sunday next as the executive hu undertaken to arrange a concert at the Orpheum theatre at 8 p.m. on Son- day, in conjunction with the Firemeni union. The whole of the proceeds will be devoted to the fund for the benefit of the dependents of those firemen recently killed, who were members of the Firemens union and the Federated Labor Party. The programme is given here and iB a guarantee of a concert of the very best that can be produced in Vaneoaver. A full house is assured and many are subscribing to the fund who may be unable to attend the concert. The firemen have been, and are, working like Trojans for the success of the effort and the ready response of the public is one of the pleasing features of the enterprise. The Rex meetings will be continued euch Sunday following as usual, of which announcement will be made next week. Whether you can or ean not attend tho Orpheum gathering, subscribe anyhow. , Programme of Concert 1. Orchestra—"Echoes from Metro politan Opera House" (Tobani). 2. Solo—"Friend O' Mine" fWilfrid Sanderson), by Mr. J. A. Hall <l. Reading—A scono from "The Last Days of Pompeii" (Bulwer Lytton), Misb Jessie Pennington. 4. Piano solo by Mr. J. D. A. Tripp. 5. Solo—(a) " Spring Serenade " (Hal lett Gilberte); (b) " Adioux ForetB" Jeanne d 'Arc-Tschai* kowsky), by Madame Enid Mar* tin Hanson, with Miss Tottie Williams at the piano. 6. Orchestra—(a) "Preludium" (Jarnfelt)j (b) "Woodland Whispers" (Cxibulka). 7. Duet—Mrs. Daniel Day and Mr. William Hicks. 8. Violin solo (selected)—Miss Mar jorle SteveuB. 9. Solo—Mt. J. B. Pacey. 10. Duet (piano concerto)—Miss Nellie Harrison and Mr. J. D, A. Tripp. 11. Duet—"The Battle Eve" (Theo. Bonheur), by Messrs. J. A. Hall and H. Sims. 12. Overture—"Semiramide" (Rossini) by the orchestra. 1 given a lesson in etiquette th. it will be for all concerned. bette The Street Rnilwny compnny hns decided to ask for n hoard of conciliators in connection with the wuge demands of the Street and Electric Railway employees. The advisory committees of the three divisions will be culled together to decide whnt uction is to be tnken on Ihe new move on the part of company. tho B. C. Federatlonist Following the report last weok of Ihe uction of the Shipyard Laborors, and Nelson Mine Workers in subscribing for The Federationist in a body, now comes the good news that thc Typo--; graphical union has followed suit nnd lhat the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers will usbobs its membership $1 per yenr for the pnper. The business ngenl of the Amalgamated Carpenters is also busy getting the membership on the list. LABOR TEMPLE MEETINGS FOR COMING WEEK SUNDAY, June 2.—Moving Picture Operators, Soft Drink Dispensers. ( MONDAY, June 3.—Machinists No. 720, Boilermakers, Steam Engineers, Electrical Workers, Tailors, TUESDAY, June 4.—Machinists Ladies Auxiliary, Shoe Workers, Butchers und Meat Cutters, Cignrmakers, Railway Firemen. WEDNESDAY, June 5.—Press Feeders, Tilo Layers, Plasterers, Metal Trades Council, Brewery Workers, Hotel nnd Restaurant Employeos. THURSDAY, June ((.—Trndes nnd Labor Council, Garment Workers. FRIDAY, June 7.—Railwny Cnr- men, Pile Drivers nnd Wooden Bridgebuildors, Civic Employees, Molders, Warehousemen, Minimum Wnge Lengue. H. S. Walsh Is President- Endorse Administration ofl. T.U. NEW WESTMINSTER, May 27.— The unnual elections of the Now Westminster Typographical union. No, 1132, have resulted as follows: President, H. H. Walsh; vice-president, Chas. Uren; secretary-treasurer, R. A. Stoney (by acclamation); rending clerk, L. Netherby (by acclamation); sergeant-nt-arms, Thos. Costollo (by acclamation); delegates to Trndes and Lnbor council, T. Costello, A. I. Lewis, R. A. Stonoy, H. S. Walsh; delegntcs to I. T. U. convention, W. Burnett (by acclamation); label committee, M. J). Billings of Kamloops, J. P, Cnnnock, C. P. Grunt of Mission, W. T. Juckmnn of Chilliwack, and A. J. Oxenbury; delegate to Trndes and Lnbor Congress of Canndn, R. A, Stoney; correspondent to Journnl, R. A. Stoney; apprentice examining hoard, W. Burnett, T. Costello, R. A. Stoney, A. J. Oxonbury; auditors, W. Burnett, L. Netherby, A. J. Oxenbury, VANOOUVER S. P. OF 0. HEADQUARTERS RAIDED Rummaged Around for an Hour But Apparently Found Nothing of Use to Them Tho headquarters of the Socialist Pnrty of Canada on Pender und Dunlevy wus raided by the military and civil police Inst Tuesday evening. The rnid wus miule after the business meet ing, which is held every Tuesdny, hud adjourned. No arrests were made bat u diligent search was made among the books of tho party und nlso the literature. It is not known just what the authorities wero looking for, and it is doubtful whether they knew themselves. Anyhow, nfter rummaging uround for an hour a few samples of literature were confiscated and the offlcors went out into fhe night seemingly down- hearted at not hnving found a wagon lund uf stuff thnt could be used against the officials or membors Of the party. Dining Oar Employeos The locked-out dining cnr employees of the C. P. it, arc still looking forwnrd to an eurly settlement. After several telegrams hud been sent to old mother Crothers, she has decided to appoint an investigation board to look into the reasons why the C. P. R. locked out ils employees und replnced them with colored men from the Stntes. The G. W. V. A. of Vancouver sent u protest to Ottawa, but it Is believed thnt Senator Robertson, who is in the city in connection with thc shipyard strike, hns brought onough pressure on the uld womnn tu bring ubout the above decision. Longshoremen The nogot in tions for a new wnge ngreement between the lulernutionnl Longshoremen's Association and the waterfront employers hns been progressing satisfactorily. The employers have practically agreed to tho conditions, but hnve not taken a great liking to the wuge dt-munded. The old ngreement expires May 81) and the meeting this evening will have io decido either on the nccepfnnce of the bosses' scale or a tie up of the wntcrfront. PAGE TWO THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST PBIDAY. Muy 31, 1918 SLATER'S QUALITY SERVICE FREE DELIVERY 25c .! 25c 15c 20c 20c 25c 7_ ... 25c Seeded Raisins, per package 10c Not-a-Seed Raisins, 2 for 25c Tomatoes, per can *■• 15c Slater's Cheese, per tb ** - 40c Pork and Beans, 3 for.. Sardines, 3 for Peas, per can Peaches, per can Pears, large size tins .. Salmon, 2 for Potted Beef, 3 for. EXTRA SPECIAL Wild Rose Flour, 10-lb. paper sack, Saturday only (with other groceries) 65c SLATER'S 131 Hastings Street East Seymour 3262 830 Granville Street. Seymour 866 3214 Main Street Fairmont 1683 SAVE MONEY HERE ON MEN'S FURNISHINGS 50c Balbriggan Underwear .— $1.50 Summer Combinations . 29c $1.50 and $2 Cambric and Zeyphr Shirts 50c Genuine English Llama Soz, 3 prs. $1.15 $1.15 $1.25 $5.00 Newest Shape Panama Hats $3.00 and $3.50 New Straw Hats $1.50 Jap Crepe Sport Shirts Heavyweight White Duck Pants $ 5 Present this ad. on Saturday, June 1st, and we will accept it as $5.00 in the purchase price of any suit in the store. ARNOLD & QUIGLEY 546 GRANVILLE STREET Men's and Boys' Hats Exclusively Doosn't it stand to roason that a store which sells HATS only should be in a position to do bettor by you than a storo that sella hats merely as a "sido lino" I Think of this whon you want a real choice. Wo'vo got tho shapcR—thc colors—Hid stylos for overy faco and figure. UP-TO-THE-MINUTE SOFT FELTS AND DERBIES 13.00 up to 96.00 COMFOBT-aiVING OAFS.. . .$1.00 to $2.60 Richardson & Potts, Limited EXCLUSIVE MEN'S HATTEES Hear Oor. Hutlngi 417 OBANVILLE MEN'S SUITS IN TWEEDS FROM $20.00 to $35.00 We do not say that these Suits would cost you $10.00 more in any other store, but we do say that we stand behind every garment wc sell, no mattor what the price, and that we give you the best value it is possible to produce for thefmoncy. Working Shirts, Gloves and Overalls in great variety. BOYS' DEPARTMENT—Is well stocked with all that is new and dependable in Boys' Suits and Furnishings. CLUBB & STEWART LTD. Tel. Sey. 702 309 to 315 HASTINGS ST. W. Your Service- Save It Although affected most of all industries by increased costs and war conditions, your street railway is the only industry that has not been allowed to readjust itself to these new conditions. There is only one source of revenue for the street railway—the car rider. How much longer can the service survive the drain upon it for increased expenses? M i (MSlafric SOME MEN WHOM S Imperial Munitions Board Is Evidently a Route to Glory CONSCRIPTION OF LABOR How Ambitious Patriots Do Their Bit for King 1 and Country Out of thc duat and rubbish kicked up by thc present terrific tornado of world mildness, comes forth an occasional straw that tends to show thc real mcaniug that lies behind much of that which tlie world terms patriotism, loyalty and devotion to King and country. During thc sitting of the late commission of inquiry into conditions in the shipbuilding trades of this coast, a veritable flood of light was thrown upon tho manner in which men holding positions of trust in their country's service, took prompt advantage of such opportunities as presented themselves, to make a little hay on thoir own account whilo tho going was good. They Serve Themselves. It will not be forgotten that numerous distinguished gentlemen who were serving upou the Imperial Munitions board, as well as others who with equal fealty and devotion, served King and country in other posts of honor and distinction, were disclosed as being in possession of 'urge interests in various channels of enterprise through which goodly streams of profit must have inevitably flowed into their individual coffers as a result of dealings upon tho part of the aforesaid enterprises with the same Imperial Munitions board, upon which these distinguished and undoubtedly patriotic gentlemen functioned presumably for the good of their King and country. In othor words, these gentlemen, acting as tho representatives of their King in the matter of building ships and other things needful for the uplifting purposos of war, virtually turned rich streams of proflt into their own pockets whilo acting as watch dogs of the King's treasury and agents and custodians of the publie good. Arranging Profitable Connection. Tho interesting fact was disclosed that very large interests wero held by members of the I. M. B. in numerous concerns thnt were reaping much profitable business through the considers* tion and kindness of tho board, and that others in high places in government were also heavily interested in the .same goodly enterprises. There is much to warrant tho conclusion that these same astuto porsonngcB 'havo been industriously busy, ever since the aforesaid discloseurcs were made, in acquiring furthor interests and holdings in still other enterprises that have very profitable connections with the I.M.B. Credit to Whom It Is Due. It may be that during times of pntriotic madness induced by war fever, far groater opportunities are afforded for patriots to feathor their nests with ease, neatness and dispatch. This probably accounts in largo measure for tho swift development of that extreme keenness of vision that enables them to discovor flio main chance once it appears in the offing, and the bold initiative to seizo it and mako tho most of it. But while our Butcharts, our Troups, our Tonkins, our Bernards, and othor shining lights of at least provincial fame, are given duo credit for their magnificent efforts to feather their own nests, and incidentally do what they can ou behalf of King and country, it is by no means fitting and proper that the chairman of tbo Imperial Munitions board, Sir Joseph Flavelle, be deprived of any credit that is due him. In order that The Foderationist may do what it can in tho way of grateful acknowledgment of Sir Joe's meritorious services in this great struggle for domocracy, liberty and a lot of other good things too numerous to mention, tho following, clipped from Saturday Night, Toronto, is unselfishly offered: The Chairman Is Introduced. "Sir Joseph Wesley Fluvolle is entrusted with the spending of $1,000,000 a day of the money of the people of Canada. His profiteering, his defiance of public sentiment, do not fit him to be tho custodian of tho people's money. He has twice been convicted of being a profiteer and a food hoarder. The people of Canada have already paid enough for thc services of Sir Joseph WoBley Flavelle Ho has dcclorcd that he is charging nothing for his services, but he is taking immense tribute from the peoplo for his plants und ho lias been granted a buronetcy. Tho timo is long past duo whon this baronet should bo removed to private life. The prime minister1 should so intimate to the Imperial authorities, who would, I am sure, bo only too glad to perform the service." This was-the conclusion of the speech delivered in the House of Commons on May 2, by D. 15. Mackenzie, of North Cape Breton, in tho course of wliich he summed up the history of the William Davies company disclosures nnd the career of that eminent man, Sir JoBcph Wesley Flavelle, who is head of the compnny, as well as chairman of the Imporial Munitions board. Mr. Mackenzie prefaced his remarks on the subject 'by declaring thut tho people of Canada were entitled to the clcuncst possible administration, an administration freo from all trammels and intluences. A government whicli would administer tho country with equal regard for rich and poor. While the prosent government continued to allow the impression to prevail that the influenco of millionaires controlled its policies, it could not hope to secure and retain tho confidence of the common poople. "It mny be too late," he declared, "to now cut off those leeches and parasites who ure sucking the life-blood of the country, It mny be too late, but let; the government try." Mr. Mackenzie declared that lie had particular reference to the William buvies company, "or in other words, to that distinguished gentleman, Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, Bart." He desired the attention of thc minister of Labor, who. lie believed, wis always on the lookout for infamies against the people. On December 111, lDlfi, the latter had sent a letter to throe cobblers in Chatham, who were forming "a frightful combine" to raise the cost of half-soling. Thoy wore threo men without capital; one had a couple of lasts [Detroit Labor News] We are unalterably opposed to it. Wo will fight against it. We will never ac- eept it in anything but a spirit of antagonism. We shall hold meetings of protest against it. The™ are less workers idle now than there will be in prison camps if we are forced to work with a bayonet at, our back. Labor has furnished eighty per cent, of the soldiers in the trenches whilo 80 per cent, of the officers are rich men's sons. Labor is furnishing 89 por centi of the man powor to manufacture munitions and raise food. After paying the inflated prices for food and clothing, Labor is invosting every surplus dollar they can squeeze out in Liberty Bonds und War Savings INE WAS A Soldiers "Over the Top" in Great Style for the Plutocrats The hordes of hell are all against us, but the hosts of justice are on our side.—Eugene V. Debs. LISBON.—Full amnesty to all politieal, military and minor civil offenders was granted by President Pase upon his inauguration. The net earnings of the common stock of the Baldwin Locomotive Works was $34.53 in 1917 as against $G.10j that is, a person whose income from that stock in 1916 was $1000, in 1917 received nearly $6000. Premier Lloyd George paid a great tribute to the co-operative stores recently whon he said, "There are none of these long queues of people -waiting outside the co-operative stores. That is because there is a perfectly fair distribution among the customers of these stores.'' The big subscriptions to the Liberty Loan by the capitalists, thoir large tax assessments and enormous income tax return arc nothing more nor loss than the accumulated excess profits on lubor —our toil unfairly taken from us by the very same class who are now trying for conscription of labor. It is not from a patriotic standpoint, for these manufacturers whoso factories are producing tho munitions of war, demand their profit. To ten per cent, the government limits them; but they charge every conceivublo expense first and then demand their ten por cent, net and turn their invested capital ovor again. Ship builders who havo fallen down on their jobs had cast about for an alibi and had as a laBt resort claimed that lubor was to blamo. Manufacturers of munitions, greedy to make profits offer highor wagos to mechanics working for other munition manufacturers who pay lower wages; the man quits, accepts the other job, then boss he left lets up a yell for conscription of labor. There are two labor policios for this war; one, the laber conciUation policy, and the other the labor conscription programme of manufacturers and certain reactionary members of congress, led by Bunko Joe Cannon, old and decrepit, but over an enemy to organized labor. Capital is seeking to place all the burden of their failures on labor and in congress bill after bill is being introduced to in some way control labor so as to disparage its efforts, using the present emergency as an excuse to arouse adverse sentiment. If labor and capital are tho two con tending parties to the success of this war, then we say, if labor is to bo con- seriptod, let the government conscript overy dollar the same as they would direct the use of every workor. You will boo the greatest scurrying to the tall weeds our capital has ovor seen. There is one place these men who want to put labor at the mercy of private employers cannot stand to be touched- their pocketbook. and they had one awl between them. The ministor loftily informed them that any agreement for the fixing of prices was punishable by the law. Thus, said Mr. Mackenzie, was an awful incubus on the body politic discovered by the minister, and thus was it shorn off by his trusty sword. It must bo that the minister, so vigi hint in the case of cobblers, could not have had his attention called to tho caso of Sir Joseph and other millionaires. "I proposo to show him," said Mr. Mackenzie, "that not only cobblers but others—holy men who, while raising false hands in prayer, hnd their real hnnds in tho pockets of the peo pie.'' Mr. Mackenzie thereupon proceeded to read from the Toronto Saturday Night, "a paper of very high standing in Ontario and throughout Canada, a paper which had shown public Bpirit in that a certain inquiry it had employed counsel to see that the people were pro perly represented." The editorial in question was critical of the Imperial Munitions board and cited the peculiar connection existing between tho Imperial Munitions board, the Northern Electric and the British Munitions Board, Ltd., "a small company which, us Sir Joseph had stated, 'we succeeded in forming.' Certain members of the Northern Electric had lent thoir services free to the Imporial concern but, it was pointed out in the article, a commission of five per cent, was given to the British Munitions Co." "Technically this may be all right," said Mr. Mackenzie, "but he made the statoment that his friends woro giving their services free, while the contract discloses a five per cent, commission on every dollar expended. "Tho time had come when it was the duty of the governmont to enquire into such transactions. Tbe people of thc country are getting tired of this great plutocrat. Is there nobody in this country who can do nnything but Sir Joseph and his 'boysf It is a weakness on the part of the government to admit that no man can be entrusted with any important position unless ho is approved by this baronet. "I would not hurt tho hair of tho head of the minister of Labor," continued Mr. Mackenzie, "but I am not sntisfled with tho lack of vigor he shows in bringing to tho ringbolt men who have taken too much money with- ut giving value in return. It looks bnd to plunge nfter three little cobblers, while Sir Joseph Wesley Flavollo and ull bis satellites, with thc banks and his pull, is making in a second, moro money than the cobblers could make in a century. "Why," ho continued, "whon an official of the minister of Labor undertook to look into the matters, he was told: 'Thus far shall you go and no further. You cnn monkey with such cattlo as cobblorn, but when it comos to the plutocrats, hands off! I will tako core of them with my velvet hnnds. Know- est thou not, Mr. O'Connor, that Sir Joseph Wesley Flnvello is the political father of the minister of finance! Lay not sacrilegious hands upon him.' " Mr. O'Connor had mado a report on tho packing plant which constituted an indictment against tho baronet. Tho Intter complained, and ho was granted another court. Ho was not satisfied with the jury, so he coolly asked for another, "and'somo people sny," remarked Mr. Mackenzie, "thnt he hud some trouble picking tho judge to stand on the second trial. In any caso he wns not fortunate because the socond man also found him guilty of profiteering. "The pooplo of the country believe, Mr. Speaker, that it Ib the pull this man possesses, and whieh the poople associated with him possess, which constituted the hydraulic pressure that lifted Mr. O'Connor out of office nnd flung, him on tho stroet. ' Sir Joseph had enjoyed certain unique advantages," said Mr, Macken- "His contract provided for a sure Had to Obey Orders As to Voting or Packed Off to Trenches Some months ago, when a reluctant country was drawn into tho maelstrom of a goneral election ,the great device set up by tho government was winning the war and on the principles of logical order, the first move was to win tho election. It is many years since the lato Mr. Tnrtc, speaking from tho soul of fruitful experience, said the elections are not won by prayers. And so, with such supplicntive agencies eliminated, governments have long sinco resorted to more practical and modern methods. Tho War Timo Election Aet was designed especially to provide for taking the soldiers' voto and for hours yesterday parliament was regaled with a long recital of alleged outrages and iniquities committed overseas in the course of the last election. The opposition's representation over there was that shrewd and observant citizen, W. T. B. Preston, and when he came back a month ago, he brought a cartload of papers and documents, affidavits and declarations and other mute testimony in Bupport of his charges that from first to last the opposition party was double- crossed and barred from a look in, Meanwhile, all this documentary evidence has been in process of digestion and recently it was presented to the houBo in the form of an impressive indictment of thirty-three counts. The brief was suppliod by Mr. Preston, and it was presonted by Mr. Arthur Copp, of Westmoreland. He had a lot of material to get off and took full and ample time to do it. Mr. Copp is rarely a man of few words ond ho outdid himself. He talked four hours. A Super-organization According to tho opposition's case, tho election overseas was a moBt wonderful affair. Whatever tho degree of gospel in the charges, the organization for tho Union govornmont appears to hnvo been developed to the point of super efficiency. Nothing, it was charged, was overlooked in the operative de* ■tail of tho election machinery and, iu the palmy days of old, Mr. Proston wob himsolf somo judge of olection machines and election methods. The splendid discipline of the soldiers was, it iB alleged, fully duplicated in tho process of voting. They got their orders nnd they carried them out in exercising, that franchise which iB tho supreme privilege of democratic civilization. t Theirs not ^o reason why; theirs but to vote- right spry. Whatever tho underlying influence, good or bad, tho results certainly indicated that the boyB, or at least the ballots they cast, went over thc top iia grand style. When an honorable member makes a charge in the house and wishes to impress it upon tho commons nnd tho eountry, it is the cub- tom to say that he does it on "his honor and responsibility ns a member.' If he falls down thon the supposed pen alty is effacoment forthwith. Mr. Copp introduced his charges with tho wonted solemn declaration. Charges of Influence The gravamen of the charges was that soldiers wore improperly influenced by superior ofticerB to vote for thc govern ment, that if thoy declined to do so, they were packed off to tho trenches; nnd that, particularly, batches of ballot paperB were switched to tho constituencies where, from thc electoral horoscopo they seemed likely to be most needed. According to the story related to tho house in the 32 charges, tho dice was thus loaded in 45 electoral divisions— nearly all of them in eastern Canada Lord Benvcrbrook was charged with be* ing one of tho dominating geniuses in tho alleged conspiracy, and Mr. Preston says his own fato was to be thrown into a prison camp whilo tho crooked work went on. Mr. Copp presented the charges seriatim, and each one was elaborated with affidavits by the yard, to prove that what was said is truo. They related, almost exclusively to the voting in England as distinguished from that in France or elsowhere. Mr. Copp wanted a judicial inquiry with a couple of learned counsel to assiBt—one named by tho premier nnd tho other by Sir Wilfrid Laurier.—Ottnwa Citizen. An eight-hour day has been inaugurated by tho Puget Sound Traction, Light und Power company. This will affect carmen working in and out of Seattle, Tucoma, Evorott and Beilingham. The wage scalo on the four cities varies from 83 to 40 cents nn hour for regular runs, and 49% to 60 cents for overtime. Ono hundred thousand citizens of West Virginia have signed a petition to be presented to Presidont Wilson protesting against gunman rule in that state. Strikebreakers imported to the oil fields of Qild, La,, when unionists attempted to increase thoir wages are now on strike. They havo discovered thnt pats on the back and songs about "freo and independent workmen" cannot oopo with old H. C. of L. margin on whatever price he paid for his raw product. Ho hud access to shipping which nobody else hnd. There Bhould," ho declared, "be a check on this sort of thing. "Yet nothing was done to puniBli the offenders. If he hnd been a cobbler, ho would'have had no chance. But being a millionaire, and the political godfather of tho minister of finance, he was permitted u full lease on life, and allowed to continue Biniling on his knightly wny. Let the minister get on his cobbler armor, and get after this man with his millions, so thnt the country shall know that there is one law for tho rich nnd poor nliko." Mr. Mackenzie thon recounted the details of the chicken scandal in Winnipeg, where many tons of fowl in tho Willium Dnvies plant wore permittod to rot. Mr. Mackenzie wound up by appealing to tho government to have Sir Joseph removed from tho custodianship of tho peoplo's money. SOU-VAN MILK Should be in the home of every man- is II IN YOURS? —Phona Fairmont 2624— S. T.Wallace's Marketeria "You Benefit" 118 HASTINGS W. Sey. 784 and 1266 Free delivery to all parts of the city. Potatoes, extra choice, every sack guaranteed: Special, 100-lb. sack $1.75 Sugar, B. C. 18-lb. sack 1.80 Flour, Robin Hood, old grade, 24-11). sacks .... 1.60 Shipping orders receive prompt attention. %_ Tho constant irritation, nervousness and inconvenience of ■defoctivo eyes is worse than a handicap—it iB misery of the moBt poignant kind—but unnecessary. Defectivo eyes aro of many kinds, and poor eyesight is but one of tho ills which they cauBe. Defective oyeB require glasses ground to fit them—that is, to offset thoir particular defect. IJ It should bo remembered that eyes fitted with tho wrong glasses arc as harmful to the human machine as thoso, malformed from birth, which have nevor been fitted. In fact, the wrong glasses often greatly exaggerate the trouble. (J There is no need to go without glasses—or to resort to cheap, makoshift glasses, either. You may relieve your misery and your handicap easily enough— this wny: Come hero and have your eyes scientifically examined; secure the prceifio lenses and mounts yon require; pay for them ns you can. No extra charge for this service. Seymour 1903 J. D. GAMBLE Manager GranvUle Optical Oo. 549 ORANVILLE STREET Below Drysdale's PASTIME Pocket Billiard PARLOR —IW1LVB nw TABLES— (BruuwJ.k*Bilke Gollender Oo.) —Btldqoutorf for Union UnloB-udl Tobiccoi, Olfftfl ud Olnr.tt.. Only Whito Blip Emplortl 42 Hastings St. East COWAN & BROOKHOUSE PRINTERS AND PUBLISHEBS Printer, to Tbo Fedtr.tlonlit The Federation!.* 1. produced from onr modern newspaper printing plant. ARGUE! Italian Silk Jersey DOES NOT UNEAVEL It is knitted from heavy Italian silk, which has a deep silky lustre. The chief feature about Italian Jersey, aside from its beauty, is the fact that a broken thread does not cause it to unravel. The colors are as clean cut and pure as eolora should be for sweater coats and outing suits. Oold, emerald, Copenhagen, silver grey, taupe, flesh, rose, navy, purple, black or white; 36 in. CQ OC wide. Special JuiaCw SHOT TAFFETAS In New Colors A new lot of theso good silks camo in nnd tho color effects are rather striking. 38 inches wide. It is special at, por yard $2.25 PHOENIX SILK HOSE ABE $1.26 Saba Bros. Limited the Silk Specialists 652 OBANVILLE STREET ytK^% mm THE UNION TOOL SHOP In tho fow days of leisure you will havo while waiting for a settlement of the shipyard Btrike, why not Bpond a profitable hour in looking over our immenBe stock of— Tools For All Trades Our tool expert will be delighted to show you our new lino of— Drew's Caulking Mallets Each Drew's "Mlsqult" ....'. 110.00 Drew's "Livo Oak," No. 8-0 7.50 Drew's "Live Oak," No. 2*0 6.60 Drew's Caulking Irons "Bent/' oach $2,60 "Rogulur," each $2.00 A new lot of Stnrrett'a flne mechanical tool has just beon unpacked. Don't fail to soe them. J. A. Flett Ltd. TOOL EXPERTS 339 Hastings Bt. W. 41 Hutinf I Street Wilt It Tickles the Palate of every member of the family. It ranks highor than any coffee you can buy in wholosomoness and flavor. Buy "Empress" in the new paper container at 40 cents per pound, and you not only make a saving of 10 cents, but you secure a Oof- fee whose purity is a household word. (AT ALL GROCERS) Greatest Stock of Furniture in Greater Vancouver Replete in every detail THE OPERATOR AND THB TELEPHONE USER WORK TOGETHER Real, holpful, animate service Is what j tho tolephono operator givei. She Is I trained to her work, hor evory movement 1 Ib made instinctively as tho result of con- f stant practise. Hor offorts are always I directed toward giving norvico; it be-1 oomes habit. To do otherwise, sho would I havo to derange her dally courso of ac- f tlon. With considerate cooperation on thoi part of the subscriber, tolephono service! ahould be well-nigh perfect. B. 0. Telephone Oompany, Ltd.' THE LONDON GRILL 7S'-*> robson st On-IOIAL FAPBB VAKCODVEB TliDBS AHD LABOB OODHOIL THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST omoiu, tana nm w uiau mntmi or turn TENTH YEAR. No. 22 EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 31,1918 ( oitjjSST) $1.50 PER YEAR IT is little wonder, when one sees the condition of some persons' teeth, that with them Life Seems To Be a Burden DB. LOWE replaces lost or missing teeth with teeth that in many instances will do the work as well and look better than your original teeth. Dr. Lowe's prices, value considered, are reasonable. DR. LOWE, Dentist (Opposite Woodward's Big Store) 108 Hastings St. W„ Oor. Abbott. 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Phones Sey. 1966 ft 1986 FIVE BRANCH STOBE8 OUR BREEZY WEEKLY LETTER FROM A The Correspondent Takes a Fall Out of a Cheap Skate Critic PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS DR. W. J. CURRY DENTIST soi Doiumoa bdildimq CORNER CAMBIE AMD HABTIN8S STREETS BIND UF SETMOUB 8351 FOB APPOINTMENT SAM M. SCOTT THE BOYS' CLOTHING SPECIALIST I Granville Street Seymour 5715 Fresh Oat Flowen, Funeral Designs, Wedding Bouquets, Pot Plants, Ornamental and Shade Trees, Seeds, Bulbs, Florists' Sundries Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd. FLORISTS AND NURSERYMEN 2—STORES-i 48 Hastings Street East, Sey. 988*672 — 728 Granville Street, Sty. 9513 PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS A Well-dressed Man Is the Man Who Wears a "T. & D." SUIT the kind that always holds its shape, because only the very best interlinings are used in its make-up. You can get them only from us, and they will not cost you any more than the ordinary make. Prices, $14.85, $18.85, $21.00, $26.50 and $31.50. For young bpys, you can save $3.00 on each suit by buying them from us at $4.25, $5.50, $6.85, $8.85 and $13.50. Investigate these statements. We offer special prices on Men's Work Shirts for Saturday and following week, as well as a large assortment of W. G. & R. Fine Shirts, at $1.25, which are worth $2.25. We are agents fqf Peters' "Brotherhood" Overalls. T. B. HILL 117 Hastings St. East An Interesting Comparison Between Wages Here and in U. S. [By Walter Head]. SOUTH WELLINGTON, B. C, May 28.—Tho members of Local 872, U. M. W. of A., at tlieir laBt meeting decided to meet once a month instead of twice a month as heretofore, and your humble correspondent is consequently somewhat handicapped in carrying out his resolution to write to the Federationist every <week, for news in this little burg Is none too plentiful. The definition of a mountain given by a school boy can bo well applied to South Wellington, i.e., it is a piece of land surrounded by air, and if we take a walk all over croation in order to find a subject for our spasm, we hope that this geographical peculiarity will be taken as an excuse. We may have more news noxt weok, as our union meeting takes place on Sunday and officers will bo elocted for the ensuing term. Bro. Dave Bees is a busy man these days. He is making a determined attempt to once more-organize the miners of this island. He held two meetings last Sunday, one at Ladysmith and one at Nanaimo, and some progress was made. Our friend Dave will find that Nanaimo is a tough proposition, a fact that ho is no doubt well aware of, for my mind goes back some ton years when I left Fernie to come to the coast. Davo Bees was then financial secretary of Gladstone local union, and I well remember his expression when I asked him for a transfer card to go to Nanaimo. He shrugged his shoulders and said: "You don't need a transfer to go. thore." We sincerely hopo that he will succeed in removing that stigma from tho name of Nanaimo and once more place Nanaimo on the trade union map. Wo know what he is up against, for while thore are a large number of good men in Nanaimo, there is a coterie of "scissor bills" that can always be relied upon to work against the inter-1 ests of trade unionism. Thoy are thoj class that Joe Hill, the I. W. W. poet, wrote about when he said: "Don't try to talk your union dope to Scissor Bill; Ho said ho never organized and never will; Ho always will be satisfied until he's dead With coffee and a doughnat and a lousy old bed." This class is reinforced by the men "Majah" Cooper helped to bring in, namely, tho so-called alien enemies, who are scared to make any movo for fear of being interned. The "Scissor Bills" are chiefly composed of those who hnve a shack and a piece of dirt that they think they own and to them tho Western Fuel company is guide, philosopher and friend. But if a start is once .made in the right direction the "Scissor Bills" influence will bo negligible, and once the foreign element seo that they arc getting a measure of protection, they will certninly roll up. "Mnjah" Cooper will-then have a chanco to squeal about more aliens in the unions, but we say let him squeal, for if aliens are good enough to work for a master they nre good enough to join a union. That somo form of organization is plainly needed is shown conclusively by a comparison of the following figures. We are not in possession of completo data, bnt we nre giving comparisons where the data is complete. For tho underground men on Vancouver Island wo arc taking as a comparison tho State of Montana. The State of Washington having u similar scale for the surface employees, wc will com- paro theso rates with rates paid for similar work under the Metal Trndes Council ngreement. So hore goes: Underground Day Rates, Mont, and Wash. Van. Island $5.81) Miners $4.72 $5.47 Miners' Laborers $4.19 $5.B8 Drivers $4.37 $5.47 Kope Sliders $4.37 $5.84 Pumpmen $4.6(1 $5.84 Bratticemen $4.(l(i $5.80 Timbermen $4.72 $5.89 Tracklayers $4.72 Surface Employees, Hour Rates. For Vancouver Islnnd add 50 cents per day irrespective of number of hours worked: M. T. 0. agreement United States: Engineers, $6.(10 8 hours; per hr 82VjC Blucksmiths, $5.80 dny; per hr 72-K>e Machinists, $5.80 day; per hr 72^0 Carpenters (ship), $0.60 day; per hour 82Vic Vancouver Island: Apprnximatt Day Rnte. Engineers, 55Vt to 63e hr $4.02-$5.54 Blacksmiths, 40c-52c (0 hrs,), $4,91-$5,1S Machinists (0 hrs.) $4.82$5.18 Carpenters 30c,-54e, $3.74-!j;5..{0 We would respectfully commend these figures to one Walter Foster of Marigold, B. 0,, lest he at any time be tempted to call tho minors of Vancouver Islnnd trnitors, profiteer, etc., us he so glibly calls the shipyard worker* iu his periodical brainstorms publishod in the Vuneouvor World. A Color Scheme We hnvo often wondered whother there wns any connection between the color of thc flower from which Mr. Foster's habitat tnkes its nnme and the yellowness of his effusions in the duily proBs. Mic surely must be looking for u soft job with the Union government, but we would wnrn him to be careful lest ho get thc sume medieine thnt has been handed out to other npologists. Wo have a glaring example of tho faithful boing rewarded in this constituency. A certain school tencher, who, by the OFFICERS OF THB FEDERATED LABOB PARTY President—Gordon J, Kelly, Vancouver. SecreUry—W. R. Trotter, Ubor Temple, Vancouver. Treasurer—Miss Helen* Outterldge, Libor Temple, Vancouver. Vice-presidents — Victoria, J Dakers; Vancouver Island. T Westvell, South Wellington; Vancouver, E. T. Kingsley, R. H. Neelands ; New Westminster, W. Tates; Prince Rupert, Oeo. B, Casey; West Kootenay (north). H. Kempster, Revelstoke; West Kootenay (south), F. FeierUl, Nelson; Grows Nest Pass, H. Beard, Michel; Boundary, Jas. Roberts, Coltern; Slmllkameen, W. Smith, Hedley, THE FEDERATED LABOR PARTY la organised for the purpose of securing industrial legislation, and for the collective ownership and democratic operation of the means of wealth production.. The membership fee la fixed at 91 per year, 50 cents of which goes to the central committee for the purpose of defraying expenses of general organisation work. The membership roll li open In each electoral district and all persons are invited to sign who are willing to and endorse the objects of the organisation. Apply to the vice-president of your district for further information, A Supports City Firemen in Demand for 15 Per Cent Increase way, is a married man, boosted very strongly for tho "Win-the-war" candidato in the Dominion and also for the provincial governments hired man in the late by-election. His salary has been reduced from $70 to $60 per month, and of course ho is squealing like a .stuck pig whon he should be highly delighted, for ho, of all men, has got what ho voted for. I only wish I could get what I voted for once in a while. We notico that our esteemed Marigold product some time ago said that the majority of tho shipyard workers were averse to the down-tools policy, but we have a iaint. recollection of reading about thom voting to strike. He also says tbat a Btriker who strikes for $6.60 a day is a (censored) and we would also add that a shipyard contractor who brags about selling a schooner at a profit, above contract price, of $70,000, is a (censored, censored, ) and then some. This is thc statement mado by Adam B. McKay of Hamilton, Ont., when referring to the schooner Lotitia B. McKay. He was on hiB way then to attend tho launching of the second schooner, and to make a contract for tho third. A Gentlemanly Clean-up Wo also read where tlie following gentlemen (?) made a clean up on the English turf last year: Mr. Fairie, $58,805; Lord Derby, $26,875; Lord D'Abernon, $23,810; Lord Londonderry, $17,555, and D. Frazer, $15,150. We alBO quoto from a patriotic fund advertisomont which refers to the city of Victoria and says: "Think of a city subscribing $3,000,000 to the Vic tory Loan failing to subscribe $250,000 to take care of the dependents of her brnve soldiers fighting for her in France." This being, of course, tho proper thing to do, for do not Victory bonds benr intorest. Isn't it strange thnt the Wnlter Fosters will jump on the working man when he wants to share in this profit und don't say a word about the real profiteers or about the lawyers, renl estate sharks, etc., who are waxing fut upon society. These and kindred parasites arc making more than $6.60 a dny aud don't have to strike for it, either, and they toil not, neither do they spin, or build yot Walter Foster in all his glory never takes a poko at ono of theso. Unless some uuforsecn circumstances arise, the class whom Wnlter Foster and his like support will succeed, on this 28th dny of May, in hurling into eternity another ono of their victims ■in tho person of Tom Mooney, nnd with his denth there will bo recorded another defeat for the reactionary labor movement of tho United tSates, and such defeat will be multiplied until the rank and lile throw their fossilized leaders overboard. But unfortunately thnt dny is slow in coming, for Sammy Gompors is still on deck and Warren S. Stone hus been re-elected for nnother term of six years. Appoints Committee to Aid Firemen in Getting a Square Deal [By Christian Sivertz] VICTORIA, May 24.—The Capital City Trades and Labor council took a decided stand on the demands being made by the city firemen for a 15 per cent, increase in wages. Since tho last meeting of the council the secretary of tho Firemen's union had written to the president and secretary of the council asking for co-operation and advice. The letters having been read, the delegates of the firemen explained the situation from the side of the firo fighters, both as to the nature of their work, hardship and exposure to all kinds of weathor, as well ub continuous duty. A table giving the wages paid to firemen in Victoria and Vancouver, was submitted, which showed a decided difference in favor of Vancouver, wages in that city being from 6 to 7 por cent, higher for the same class of work. Tho council wont on record as favoring tbe firo- mon's demnnds, and instructed the secretary to officially inform tho Firemen's union, and tho city council to that effect. A special committee was also appointed to work for the success of the efforts of tho men to got a square deal. Dels. Wolls and Woodward reported for tho committee re the establishment of a Labor paper for the city, but.that nothing definite hnd been arrived at. Del. Wolls resigned from the committee, Del. C. Norton being appointed to act in his place. Dol, Wells reported that as a result of the referendum taken by the B. C. Federation of Labor, that tho per capita tax would remain as before, and that the membership would not bo supplied with copies of The Federationist each week at 5 ccntB per month per membor, ono of the chief reasons being that the cost of production of the paper would not permit this, and the vote of the membership on the question was not largo enough to warrant the success of the proposal, and that the minors of tho Crows Nest Pass wero about to reestablish the District Ledger, and this would moan that this organization would not subscribe. The secretary was instructed to submit the names of Dels. Woodward, Doo- Iey and Sivertz to both the city council and the provincial govornment ,with a request that one ef them bo appointed on the board of directors of tne Jnbi- loo hospital. A Message To All Workmen- The Government is not only drafting the better men—that is the working- men, they are also taking all the better quality Overall material, especially in plain blue. They insist on Our Carhartt Quality of Cloth. Will you please help them out by asking your dealer for your Carhartt Size in "black" or "blue and white woven stripe?" The stores we boosted in The Fed. of 17th May as carrying Carhartt's Overalls only, of course carry other lines of cheaper makes so as to be able to serve you at a lower price when you need it. You'll get your Carhartt there just the same. It's the Overall with the pre-war quality. UNION MADE IN VANCOUVER PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS THE PERIL OF HIOH HEELS At one of the recont sessions of tho Academy of Medicine of Paris, an interesting communication upon tho subject of high heels wns submitted by Prof. Quenu and Dr. Menard, closing with tho ominous warning: "Ladies, if you vnlue yeur health, give up the high heels of your shoes." Several years ago Dr. Dngron, a noted French physician., called attention to tho injurious effects of wearing high heels, but his warning mado but little impression. Sinco then, however, thc subject has been mure thoroughly studied with tho aid of X-Rays und moving pictures by Quenu nnd Menard, These two investigators have found thnt nn unnaturnl strain is placed upon tho muscles and tendons of the foot, ns well ns upon leg muscles forced to no eommodnto themselves to the tusk of maintaining thc equilibrium of a body unnaturally raised by the heels. The strain caused by this effort is so grout thnt fatigue is experienced evon nftor n short walk, The effects nf wearing high heels arc even farther reaching than was suspected heretofore. The change of the position of the foot disturbs the equilibrium of tho whole body. As thero is n tendency to bond the knees the upper part of the body, tho hend and chest, is thrown back, while the abdomen is forced beyond its normal position. The physicians state thnt the disturbances caused by the wearing of high heels, the disarrangement of tho articulated bones of the foot uud the throwing out of their normal position of the different parts of the body nro serious enough, but thnt in walking these effects nro so nggru voted, that they produce tbo most serious interim! disorders. ■—Popnnlr Science Montrhly, And overy woman will admit nil of this, while nt the snnio time clinging tu the high heels, because they are suppns* ed to be thc fashion. All appeals tn common sense fnll flat in the presence of her brand of logic. Should fashion dictate thut tho too be six inches high and the heel flat upon the ground, she would come through, though the heavens fell. SHOES FOR THE FAMILY We can supply the Footwear requirements of the whole family with Oood Shoes. If you have never tried this store, do so the next time you need Footwear, and then you will make this YOUR FAMILY SHOE STORE The Ingledew Shoe Co. 666 OBANVILLE STREET Union Store "Walk Upstairs and Save Ten" Those "CASH and CARRY" Markets Have the Right Idea YOUR wife can tell you something about these "cash and carry" markets that have sprung up all over town. She's economizing by patronizing them. They're another example of the ROBINSON idea—partially. Robinson runs a "cash and carry" clothing store that pays low second floor rent—that's Robinson's additional saving for his customers. Guaranteed FIT Alterations FREE R OBINSON'S low rent saves thousands of dollars per year. Additional savings are affected by selling for cash—by asking you to carry your purchases. Summed up, these savings, together with centralized buying, enable me to save my customers $10 on their clothing—and give $30 and $32 suits and overcoats for $21. My Guarantee If you con duplicate elsewhere my $21.00 clothes for leu than $30.00 to $32.00, and mv $25.00 clothes for less than $36.00, OOME BAOK ANO OET YOOB MONEY. I Give \0°/o Discount To Returned Soldiers Robinsons (Mies Shop; SUITS,OVERCOATS Thp Lar^es* Exclusive^-j VANOOUVER WINNIPEG OTTAWA TORONTO MONTREAL Two Stores RAINCOATS,DRESS SUITS j^Clothiers in Canada VANOOUVER CORNER HASTINGS AND RICHARDS STS. (Over World Office) Entrance 441 Hastings St. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDED PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FRIDAY. May 31, 1918 THE B. C. FEDERATIONIST Pnoiiahed em very Frldiy morning by the B. 0. Fedorationiflt. Limited A. S. Wells Manager Offlce: Labor Temple, 405 Dunsmuir St. Tel. Exchange Seymour 7495 After 6 p.m.: Soy 7497K Subscription; $1.50 per yetr; in Vancouver Olty, $2.00; to unions subscribing ln • body, $1.00 "TJnlty of Labor: ibe Hope of tbe World' FBIDAY May 31, 1918 NOTICE TO READERS After eight years' identification with tho fortunes of The Federationist, I have this week resigned as its manager and a director ef the company, to resume my occupation as a linotype operator on one of the loeal dailies. Mr. A. S. Wolls, secre- tary-trcasuror of tho B. C. Federation of Labor, will be my successor. He neods no introduction to the membors of organized labor in this provinco or in Canada, and I bespeak for him the hearty cooperation and goodwill of every roador and friond of The Federationist. R. P. PETTIPIECE. CIVILIZATION AS IT haa been known up to the present time ia neither more nor less than human slavery. All of its achievements havo been attained solely at the expense of the unpaid toil, SLAVERY NAKED sweat and agony of AND SLAVERY human chattels CAMOUFLAGED, driven to their tasks either under the laBh difect or by Ineans of other equally effective methods of compulsion. The so-called splendors of ancient empires, thoir hanging gardens, their pyramids, their magnificent temples, were brought forth by chattel slaves driven under the lash without hypocrisy, pretense or camouflage upon the part of their masters. There was no pretenso made of recompense or payment. AH was cold and calculated brutality, undiluted by any pretense of spiritual solicitude or humanitarian impulse. It was slavery in the raw, plain, blunt and unmistakable. The slaves were driven in production and the masters revelled in the products brought forth. Tho slave toiled to feed, clothe and house his master, and to build cities, pyramids, temples, and such vulgar magnificence to glut the ambitions of the conscienceless rogues who wielded the seepter of authority over them. But those empires with all of their vulgar magnificence eventually crumbled in decay. They tottered to ruin, because of the rotten foundation upon which they were built, the rotton foundation of human slaveryfc the fundamental crime from which all social pestilence, miasma, corruption, disease and decay springs. * * * The eity and aty that leads unto it iB .absolutely inconceivable apart from human slavery. The city and all that leads unto it performs no purpose essential to human comfort and well being. The city and all that it contains draws its sustenance solely from tho country and renders no compensation in return. AU of its activities are either in the nature of purely parasitic consumption or parasitic production, i.e., the production of things that are entirely useless in so far as the comfort, health, happiness and well being;, of human kind is concerned. This production brings forth neither food, clothing, shelter, nor any other of the essential things of life. It is as truly turned solely to ruling class (master class) requirements and vainglorious ambitions as was the productive powers of the ancient slaves who builded the pyramids upon the banks of the Nile. It is all as utterly wasted, as far aa conserving any worthy human purpose is concerned, as was the labor of the alaves of antiquity who created the material evidences of their master's pomp, magnificence and power. And the labor of the slaves of this age is no more paid for than waa that of their kinsmen of the days when slavery waa yet un- caraouflagod by thc specious pretense of freedom and payment. * * * There is but one way to profit by slaves and that is to compel them to work and to appropriate their products. To appropriate meana to take without recompense. Somo people call it steal ing. If it wore possible for men to pro duco wealth, as it is termed, and this wealth could be taken from them and bo paid for, it does not require much brains to aeo that nothing could be made out of such a transaction. No profit could be gained by so doing. Profit is something that is gotten for nothing, and to accomplish that precludes all possibility of payment. If that which is to be gained hus to be paid for, it is simply impossible to reap a profit from the transaction. That is a self-evident proposition. Never in all thc history of civilization woro such enormous profits—expressed in figures—gathered as at present. Novor were such huge sums, supposed to reprosent woalth, gotten for nothing as now. And yet it is all dono under the protense that everything taken by one porson from another is paid for. The worker is paid for producing wealth and payment is made all along thc line of travel followod by tho thingB or goods in question in their meandorings through thc world market until either worn out through handling or eaten up by thc hungry horde camped along the trail. That any payment is made, either to the workors (slaves) who produco the woalth, or by any or all of those who subsequently handle or consume this wealth, is the veriest humbug. It is impossible. Thero is nothing with which to mako payment. Tho wealth produced by the workers constitutes all tho exchange valuo there is, therefore, how can it be paid fort In whnt is payment to be mnde? Does it require any greater intelligence than that possessed by evon the dullest member of the Dubb family to grasp that? Of what does this wealth of the world so much talked about consist outside of the food, clothing, buildings, railways, factories, tools, etc., produced by the workers from day to day nnd consumed, eaten up, worn out and destroyed just as fast as it is produced, and sometimes a great deal faster? + * * What about all of this currency, coin, notes, bonds, stocks, debentures, mort- gttgos, loans, investments, cheques, drafts, agreements and other financial phantasmagoria? Nothing but figures representing debt. Orders upon the future that can never bo redeemed for the same reason that called them into existence in the first place. There is nothing and can be nothing with which to redeem them. In the hands of capitalists and financiers this mass of figures alleged to represent wealth becomes the means whereby the musters and rulers command the services of thoir Blaves (the workors) and continuously appropriate that which they bring forth. Undor this delightful process the slaves aro as completely and expeditiously separated from the wealth they produco as were their chattel slavo predecessors of the long ago. And the most pleasing part of tho process is that the slaves of today experience great happiness out of it because of the eminently satisfying delusion that they are being paid for their aorviceB. The rough and rude robbory of chattel Blaves back in antiquity has thus beon modified and made more pleasing and palatable by the camouflage now practiced. The financial joke has done much to smooth the furrowod brow of care among the slavos and turn thoir onc timo lugubrious wailings over thoir hard loi into concatenations of supremo joy because of thoir present felicitious conditions and thoir proud privilege of being paid for what they do instead of having to do it for nothing, us did the slaves of old. But mastors and rulers still eat and drink and strut and swagger and rule and rob to just as good purpose as did their progenitors and somehow or other they get it nil for nothing and great is their joy thereat. This camouflage seemfi to be a good investment for thom. THERE IS great hilarity in the office of Tho Fedorationist. The impenetrable gloom that was wont to pervade these humble premises has been dissipated. A flood of light has penetrated to overy tilth- GREATEST erto dank and dismal FOOL JOKE corner and the atmos- EVER SPRUNG, phere has thus beon purified of the miasma of pessimism, and the entire staff, from office boy down to editorial ass, under the influence of an overwhelming jag of optimism, are gamboling athwart the premises as the festive kid gambo- loth. upon tho village green. And dark- nesB has been deported and the erstwhile gloomy dungeon transformed into a templo of hilarity and joy, all becauso of a "lamp." We have a lamp, a goodly lamp withal, and what would be better calculated to turn darkness and gloom into happiness and an intoxication of spirit than auch an instrument of light, as it were. "Well, this particular "Lamp" cometh to us in the shape of a publication, which openly and un- blushingly upon its title page confesses to being a "Magazine published in tbe interest of the employees of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). * * * Somehow or other there seems to be an invisible hand that often shapes the acts of poor mortals and similar worms of the dust. For what could be more appropriate and in stricter accord with the eternal fitness of thingB, than for a publication dedicated to such a holy purpose, to come forth upon ita splendid mission under title of the "Lamp?" And atill more ao from the fact that its sponsor, the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), is engaged in a line of business that ia, in itself, strangely suggestive of lamps and other illuminating apparatus, and that has already done perhaps more than any other spiritual agency en earth to clarify tho vision and illumine the mental horizon of mankind to a proper appreciation of the virtue of abnegation and sacrifice aB against avarice and the sordid accumulation of things of the earth, earthy. * * * From a study of the light beams of the "Lamp," (Vol. I, No. I), it appears that the aforesaid luminary was born on April 1, the accouchment occurring at 26 Broadway, New York. Upon that memorable occasion there foregathered thereat some 146 accoucheurs, "73 representatives of the staff of the company, and 73 representatives of the various departments of the three refineries." Thoy mot at the eompany'a office, at the company'a request, and they were banquetted and otherwise entertained by tho company. It iB unnecessary to aay how they wore selected for tho important work in hand, the "establishing of a new Magna Charta of American Labor." The "Lamp" naively admits that "the conference held 'at 26 Broadway on the evening of April 1 will be historic, not only in tho records of tho company, but in tho annals of American industry. For tho first time, tho executive of a great industry and its employees of all classes bave voluntarily and jointly erected an institution for the government and control of both." In othor words, for the first timo in history, capital and labor a re to permanently f raternl ze, the irreconcilable is to bo reconciled, oil and water are to be so thoroughly mixed together that they will never again separate. Wator will no longer possess the powor to quench fire; fire will relinquish its previous antagonism for water. All of which is, indeod, an oily proposition. * * * As to the personnel of tbe conference all that is necessary is to gaze upon the pictures of the various delegates there to aud mako note of the posts they oc cupy in the big oil establishment. The Irishman's face haa frequently been likened to the map of Ireland itself. Tho mugs of the membera of thiB olea- ginouB conference (as depicted under the Illuminating rays of "Thc Lamp," are equally faithful maps of oil, and Standard Oil at that. The positions held by tho delegates in the company's servico throws atill further light upon tho compelling influence of the dirty und greasy slaves of the company in thc mntter of the selection nf these sleek delegates. Any one at all familiar with thc way thoso affairs are handled by corporations on behalf of their slaves, will readily recognize that thc conference was made up of official stool pigeons and company boosters. The real workors function for no other purpose than that of being fooled. s* * * Tho chief booster of the occasion, a Mr. A. C. Bedford, chairman of tho board, opened up the auspicious occa* sion in a most, felicitious manner. He said in part: "The greatest asset of the Standard Oil Co. had always been its group of loyal employees nf long service." Now isn't that rich stuff to be peddling tn the very slaves themselves, or to a conference consisting of make- believe representatives thereuf? Perhaps there are some slaves that did not know that beforc, but after thus being told they should no lunger bo in doubt. Thc good man ahould have said that tbo "only asset the Standard Oil Co. or any other piratical concern of its kind ever had was its group of slaves.'' But at any rate this conference was a great success, a howling auccess in fact. It was a veritable "feast of reason and flow of bouI," and an oily flow at that. An excellent list of offences againat the company for which the slaves are to be adequately disciplined was drawn up, but no penalties were provided against tho company in any caae. This is no doubt due to the fact that the king can do no wrong, and Standard Oil is undoubtedly king in all matters dealt with at this conference. Take it all around it waB a good April fool joke, a very good one indeed. These jokes arc being perpetrated with greater frequency as times goes on. Evidently the awakening intelligence of the workers is making it imperative that the masters go thc limit in soapy and oleaginous practice in order to calm the waters of the turbulent sea thut iB being whipped to fury by unrest born of economic pressure. But their efforts aro a joke in more ways than one. They are a joke becauso they do not mean wbat thoy pretend, in the first instance, and again they are a joke becauso they could not bring about what they profess to be after, for the simple reason that tho interests of,slaves and masters can not be reconciled. Thero is and must be eternal war between thom until they go down and out togother. Tbe greater tho amount of oil applied to lessen the friction betwoen slave and master, robber and robbed, the more effectively will thc skids be greased to expedite the launching of this delectable pair of unclean twins into tho sump of oblivion that yawnoth for that which is foul, disgusting and obsceno. Let the good work go on. Oh, for 365 April firstB each year and a good joke cracked upon oach and all of them. But come to think of it, every day in the year is a tragedy for the workers for they are tho butt of all real jokes ever perpetrated, as well as being nothing but jokes themselves., MANY A MAN has bent his brow in thought over the problem of how to settle the differences of opinion that continually crop up between employers and employeos over the matter of wages. JUST AS EASY Oftentimes employers AS ROLLING stubbornly resist the OFF A LOG. demands of their employees for a wage advance. Many bitter and long- drawn out battles have occurred betwoen these apparently antagonistic interests over the vexatious question of wages. Then again i^pon the other hand there has been more or less friction botween those who aro compelled to purchase the things they consumo and those who hold control of the distribution and prices of those thinga. It has long sinco become quite the fashion among all working people and others of moderate means to hate and even curse the big interests, the large manufacturers of and dealers in merchandise, on genoral principles. In fact it has apparently become the almost universal custom to blaspheme the name of any corporation or individual that does business upon a large scale. The C. P. Railway comes in for a generouB portion of the universal cursing that is done here in Canada, and our distinguish fellow bacon curer and dealer, Sir Joseph Flavelle run perhaps a close second. At leaat that has been the case right up to the present. But it is now about to become different, as wc shall presently see. * * * Mr. William McAdoo, whom some facetiously acclaim as the American Crown Prince, he boing a son-in-law of the august head of the great republic, is not only secretary of the United States Treasury, but also 'director-general of the United Statea railways. He is aome gink, is 'William, a versatile genius, in fact. He has long sinco solved the problem of how to borrow money from those who have never experienced any nearer acquaintanceship with the real article than the temporary possession of promises to pay, and other tokens of similar impossible import, and in the doing of it hypnotizing the lenders into thc firm conviction that by ao doing they are laying up treasures in heaven, as a reward for helping to rescue liberty from the stranglehold of wicked autocracy and making democracy safe in a land that ia peopled with submissive slaves and cursed by masters and rulers second in crass brutality ami rapacity to thoBO of no other country on earth. But in solving that somewhat difficult problem, Mr. McAdoo by no means reached the limit of his peculiar power Ito ruthlessly and yet effectively penetrate tho impenetrable, reconcile the irreconciliable, and solve the un- solvable. With ono swift clean stroke he has now made it possible that the troubled waters of tho industrial sea shall be calmed and the lion of labor and the lamb of capital lie down in sweet content together, like unto soul that is linked unto soul by the unbreakable bonds of an affinity thnt is well- nigh perfect. And this is what has happened. * * * In response to the recommendation of u commisaion appointed by him to enquire into the advisability of granting some ndvanco in wagos to the slaves in the railway service, Mr. McAdoo. granted the advunce in question. The amount of this advance will be equivalent to about $300,000,000 per year. With 2,- 000,000 slavos iu the railway harness, thiB would be equivalent to an average of $150 per slave added to the former rations. But happily, however, Mr. McAdoo's ear is evidently attuned to any cry of distress that may arise, no matter from what quarter. It may be readily understood-that unless somo compensating advantage was to bo granted to the railway interests the payment of an extra $300,000,000 would work an intolerable hardship upon the frugal and hard-working owners thereof, and. well- calculated to fearfully wrench their heartstrings and even turn their ordinarily salty sweat into great drops of blood. But McAdoo is not one to allow an injustice to bo imposed upon any onc, not if he can help it, and he undoubtedly can in such simple cases as thc one in question. And ho did. With equally swift and bold stroke, he granted an advance in freight and passenger rates to thc companies that will increase thoir yearly rovenuo by about $900,000,000. Thus they will be $600,- 000,000 better off than before, and that, too, after paying in increased wnges tn thoir slaves the modest little sum of $300,000,000, a mere bagatelle to be sure, at least und-er the circumstances. * * * And thus by his marvelous perspicn- city and bold initiative hath bo opened unto thc tortured and hurried world of brothers capital and labor the pathway tu eternal and lasting peace, fraternity and good feeling between these dear brethren who have an long been held in enmity one against the other by the machinations of evil-minded persons and wilful disturbers and agitators, who have preached class wur and class hatred within the aacred precinctB of this Boon to bo reunited and happy family. Now all that is required is that every employer of labor grant a wage advance corresponding to that granted by Mr. McAdoo in the case at hand, and at the same time advance the price of that which he has to sell in accordance with the formum adopted by tho astute director-general. That is for every advance of wagea three points, advance the price of the things that are to bo sold, and out of the sale of which the wages are to be paid, nine points. And thuB it will be seen that both wage slaveB and their masters have been at one and the same time benefitted. Wages have been increased and, of course, the workers are that much bettor off. And who dares to dispute it. By the advance of prices, the employers will also benefit, as may bo readily seen. Now who dares dispute that. No clearer and more convincing demonstration of the absolute identity of intorest between employers and employees, masters and Blaves, robbers and robbed, has over been offered the confiding public. And who so dull and stupid as not to at once grusp that truth and have base doubt forever removed from his think tank? Once thiB wise course has been followed by all employers and the entire circle of them has been run, if it should perchance happen that things had somehow or other again fallen into the old and unsatisfactory rut that formerly bred suspicion, distrust, enmity and discord between brothers "Cappy and Lnbby," why all that will bo necessary is to start immediately upon another round of the same' curative line of action, and all will be well. At least it will be as well as could bo reasonably expected under tho circumstances. Who was it that 'Uvont a fishing for to catch a whale, and aSl the water ho had got waa in his mother 'a pail.'' At any rate let us hope it was not a modern statesman, and wo may be almost absolutely certain that it was not Mr. McAdoo. Like all the Btateamen of these glorious days, he is not simple enough to pull off such a fishing stunt ns that, with tbe expectation of catching oven a herring, lot alone, a whale. Ye Gods, what a brilliant ago, what an intellectual era. Tho most deadly blow thc food controller has yet struck at the wicked "Hun" wub delivered early this weok. The ordor was issued that no more whipped cream is to be served with strawberries and deop apple pie in restaurants. The cream may be served, but the customer must whip it himself, or lick it up-in nn unwhipped state. Whether this action has been taken aB a retaliatory measure against Gorman frightfulness or as a submarine knockout, the dispatches .do not make clear. A piece of ecclesiastical furniture known aB a bishop recently visited thc battle front in Flanders and enjoyed a ride in a "tank." Out of this rather commonplace incident a certain correspondent of thc daily press makea what purports to be an important news story, weaving njuch romance around the dull sayings'and mumblings of a goodly bishop. And yet there is nothing so very remarkable about a bishop riding in a "tank." They have always been in the habit of riding in the best conveyances in the kind and riding for nothing at that. So what about it? Besides that we have seen more than one of these curios that bore most striking resemblance to tanks anyhow, and useless tanks at that. News correspondents must be hard up for piffle material when they are compelled to fill up apace about such insignificant trifles aB dull and mumbling bishops when a great war is on. Why don't they write about our victories or the shortcomings of our enemies? A groat fuss is just now being made beoause of the large profits made by the milling companies upon their output of flour. In spito of the fact that their profit per barrel has been kept below 25 cents per barrel the aggregate of their profits has been greater during the last year than ever before. This is indeed sad, vory aad and then some. But if the squawkers againat such reckless "profiteering" were but possessed of sufficient reasoning powera to enable them to realize that thia wicked profit consists of nothing but figures and neithor lessens the quantity nor the quality of the flour turned out, they might be led to cease their ridiculous squawking and devote their energies to more fruitful purpose, such ub making faces at the moon for instance. At any rate that would be fully as sensible as squawking raucously about the legitimate and very ordinary resultB of the successful operation of a lawful business, especially when successful operation can only be followed by such a result) The estimated ateel production in the United States for the present year is 50,000,000 tons. That is about a half ton for each person in the country, or throe tona per family. Aa it would ap- pear that a half ton of steel ought to be pretty nearly enough to satiety the legi tiinate requirementa of the average person, the people of that favored land aro to be congratulated upon their splendid prospect for the year's ateel crop. They may feel reasonably su.ro that none nmong them will periah during the succeeding twelve months becauso of a scarcity of steel, though they may go hurriedly over the great divide because of too much of it injudiciously applied. At any rate, the prosent ayatem of property and production is tho greatest ever. Without the beniflcently guiding hand Of capital and ita paternal solicitude for our earthly welfare, what a h—1 of a fix we would bo in, wouldn't wo? We might be abort of ateel and bo compelled to throw rocks at each other, as did the ignorant and benighted savages of yore. Well may we shudder at the awful thought. - In addressing the U. S. CongreaB upon the necessity of passing certain tax mensuros to insuro the raising of money to carry oa the war, Preaident Wilson is quoted as saying that "we need not be afraid to tax them (tho people) if wc lay taxes juBtly. They know that the war must bo paid for, and that it is thoy who muBt pay for it, and if the burden is justly distributed and tbe sacrifice made a common sacrifice from which none escapes who can benr it at all. they will curry it cheerfully and with a solemn pride." YeB, indeed, quito so, quite so. But thero ate quite a numbor nf uncouth souls running wild in the jungles of small knowledgo and still smaller conceit, who know full well that, all tho payment nn account of war thai ean over be mado is made by thnse who suffer its hnrrors either by immolating themselves directly upon its bloody nnd snvage altar or furnish the wherewithal tu carry on the murderous business bv their labor and sweat. That is what slaves aro for, anyhow. It is their mission on earth to pay through the noBe for their own slavery. In times of peace they pay in toil and sweat and aching bones on the instalment plan aa it were, In times of war large numbers of them pay their debt in a lump sum, their livos, quickly at once, thus being relieved forever after of the misery Buffered for their sin of ignorance and servile submission to the lash of their masters. No other payment is possible, either by the slaveB or any ono elae. And there is no other way of making payment, either. In referring to the matter of the amount of financial wind to be raised for the purpose of keeping the war balloon floating during the coming year, Prosident Wilson. suggested to Congross that $8,000,000,000 of the $20)000,000,000 required be raised by taxation. The rest is, presumably, to bo borrowed. As. tho former sum is equivalent to only $80 per head for the entire population of the country, or about $450 per family, it lookB simple and easy enough. A rnero flea bite in fact. At loast nothing for a patriot to kick about, This tax will be paid in figures, credit slips, tokens of debt, all thc same as chalk marks on tho slate at the village saloon, for thoro ia nothing elso to pny with. As those who havo the figuros, credit slips, dead beat tokens, and chalk marks wherewith to pay, got 'this junk for nothing, it wont cost them anything to pay it. As thiB junk comes out of tbo workers, and they never got anything out of it anyhow, it stands to reason that they loso nothing through tbe tax boing paid and gain nothing if it be evaded. So thero you are, and everybody ought to bo satisfied. And whnt is not raised by taxation must be borrowed, As in either case it is merely a matter of mobilizing figures, credits, stage money as it were, and this stuff never waa redeemed and never can bo redeemed, and does not coat anything anyhow, it does not seem to matter by what means these huge sums of nothing tangible are actually raised. Not a pound more of either food or powder can be produced or -destroyed, not a single extra cubic foot of German cannon fodder can be consumed or that of the entento saved, as a result of all thia financial nonsense and torn- myrot. All tho production that is car- Tied on and all of the destruction, death and devastation thnt is spread throughout thc earth is accomplished solely by slaves who get nothing for the doing of it except tho plaudits of their masters, if they do it well, and their curses if they lag at their task or shudder at its horrors. Fine game to be sure. Very fino; very fine. A bill has been passed by the U. S, Congress that is intended to "outlaw organizations teaching, advising,., using or defending force or violence or physical injury to proporty." Is the state about to abolish itself? Ia government to repudiate its own philosophy? Aro these long revered institutions of the ruling class nbout to cast themsolves into outer darkness and commit suicide by refusing to longer joyfully wield the only weapons whereby they ever justified their existence? PROFITEERING IK SHIP BUILDING Not Confined to Canadian Firms—Evidently in Operation in tbe States- Can't Be Run on Patriotism Thc investigations conducted by the Senate Committees on Manufactures, Military Affairs and Commerce, have thrown the searchlight on limited areas of the great field in which so many of the aggregations of corporate power aro "serving the country" in various contract relations with the government. The names of such ardent patriots aB Rockefeller, Armour, Lovett, Corey, Eyan, du Pont, Vail and Vanderlip, directors of The American International Corporation, one of the contracting corporations, ought to be a guarantee that thoy would "do their bit,"—tho government and everything else in sight. Senator Vardamann, a member of one of tho investigating committees, said in the course of debate in the Senato touching operations under one of these contracts: "It is a long story of disloyalty and greed for gain which the Commerco Committeo I hope will bring to tho attention ef the American people." Of the contract which theso dollar scarred worthies taade, the New York Amorican Baid: "Thc government was to provide them with all the money noeded to build tho Hog Island ship yard and the ships, and the govornment waB to take over the product of the loan aa full payment, and allow these self- sacrificing patriots a profit estimated at Bix million dollars. "Tho American International Corporation,-' thon promptly sublet the building of tho ship yard and ships to another corporation organized for that purpose, which iB called tho American International Shipbuilding company—the net result of all thia scheming to put a prospective proflt of six million dollars into the pockets of theBe "patriota," who had not invested a dollar of their own money, and who were not called upon to use thoir time or their crodit or to take the risk of losing so much as a copper cent.1 On croas-examination beforo tho Commerce Committeo, George J. Bald win, vice-president of tho American International company, testified that ho was not interested in government contracts for money: Senator Johnson. "Why then has your corporation from aix to seven million dollars of profit coming to you directly, and touch moro to tho subsidiaries and Bub-contractors?" Mr. Baldwin. "Because you cannot keep a corporation alive on patriotism." —Editorial La Follette 'b Magazine, After reading the above, the profits derived by the concerns building ships on thiB coast, are very small potatoes in comparison with the profits derived from this lucrative industry on tho other Bide of thc line. Tbo yards thnt are building ships in B. C. for thc Imporial Munitions Board wero in most instances fitted out by tho I. M. B.; tbe materials are supplied by that board, and the builders are guaranteed a prnfit 'uf $16,000 per hull, without any risk on the part of the companies. It is a case of beads we win, tails you lose. A Bohemian regiment has mutinied at Leibneh, according tn news reaching Rome last week. Fifty officers who refused to order tbeir men tn entrain were tried by court-martial, sentenced to death and shot within 24 hours. Their men wero present at the executions. Tho enlisted troops were sentenced to terms of from 20 to 30 yoars at hard labor. Diamond Gifts for Gentlemen Some Suggestions: Lockets, Cuff Links, Scarf Vint, Rings IN RINGS there is a wide choice, from* diamond-set plain band rings to those with large gems and elabroate settings. Priced from $16.00. IN SCARP PINS we are showing some new and pleasing styles, in very dainty settings. Prices range from $11.00. We have a fino choico of diamond jewellery for presentations, and invite inspection* ."Tht Boms of Vint Diamonds" Ow. E. Troey, Man. Mr. OranviUe and Georgia Sti. —SAVE Tons Moray— STAB! A BAKX AOOOUHT Dl THE MERCHANTS BANK OF CANADA Don't stow awir yonr spare cash In »ny old eorner where it is ln danger from burglars or flre. The Merchants Bank of Canada offers you perfect safety for yonr money, and will give yon fnll banking service, whether your aeeonnt b large or amall. Intereat allowed on savings depo- slta. a. X. STAGEY, Manager OranTlUa and Pander W. 0. JOT. Manager Hastlnga aid Oarrall IHOOBPOBATBD 1850 Bank of Toronto Assets ..184,000,000 Deposits 63,000,000 * Joint Savings Account A JOINT; Savinga Aeeonnt may be opened at The Bank of Toronto In tke names of two or more persons. In these accounts either party may sign cheques or depoelt money. For the different members of a family or a firm a joint aeeonnt is often a great convenience. Interest is paid on balances. Vancouver Branoh: Corner Hastlnga and Gambia Streets Branches at: Victoria, Merritt, Mew Weatminster The Bank of British North America Established ln 183S Branches throughout Canada and at New Tork, San Francisco and Dawson Savings Department TWfiNTT-riVE TEARS AOO Trades and Labor Council. [June 2, 1803] John Herbert Browne, Typographical union, seated as delogate. John Ruinblo reportod for organization committee. The matter of resuscitation of provincial trndes and labor congress referred to new council. Petition to Federal Government of Fraser river fishermen endorsed. Alderman Salsbury taken to task on his speech in city council on Chinese coming to B. C. from U. S. where the Geary law was being enforced. Owing to shortness of timo the Trades and Labor Oouncll declined to take part in the proposed citizens' Dominion Day celebration. The presidents of the various international unions whose members are engaged in shipbuilding have been holding conferences with the United States Shipping Board at Washington, D. C, with a view to establishing a national standard wage for all shipbuilding mechanics 'excepting carpenters. Roughly, the request is for $6 per day for eight hours' work.. If thero is anything on earth that won't stand discussion, let it crack.— Wendell Phillips. Dentistry! Ormnu, Brldfu ud ramus audi the un ibade ai yoa own utwtl taath. Dr. Gordon Campbell Open eTeningi 7:80 to 8:80. Dental natta in attendance. (JOB. OBAMVIlJiB AHD BOBftOI STBBBI8 Ont Owl Drug Stora Phon Sot. (988 Our Selling System Quality in Fabrics Style Correct Price the lowest possible consistent with value Two Stores: Society Brand Clothes Rogers Building Fit-Reform Clothing 346 Hastings Street Burberry Coats at both stores J. W. Foster Limited J. N. Harvey, Ltd., 127 Hastings W. The J. N. Harvey, Ltd., bas applied for tbe Union Store Card of tbo Betail Clorks' Union. Tho Arrow Store goes straight to the' heart of real values. The Arrow Store carries a big stock of Union Label goods. The Arrow points to a Union merchant. The Arrow points to a Union clerk. f The Arrow points to Union goodaa Therefore the Unions of the city can make an Allied Drive on the Bock Bottom Valves In the J. N. RABVBY, LTD., STOBE 127 Hastings West MB. 3. N. HABVEY PBIDAY. -'...May 31, 1918 Empress Theatre PHONE SEY. 2482 Week of June 3rd A DBAMATIO TRIUMPH "SINNERS" It will make yon think. It grips you from beginning to • end. ORDEB TOUB SEATS NOW Prices: 16c, 30c, 40c. THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST COLUMBIA TLOBENOE BEED in "TODAY" A drama of a woman wbo sells ber soul for a dress, and finds that she has bought in the dearest markot. —Concert Orchestra— Flotsam and Jetsam Cast Up by the Tide — Tidbits of Information As To What Is Going On In the World — Hamilton, Ont.—The G. W. V. A. off New York—Germany's reported ita- Ontario concluded its convention here last week. The afternoon and closing session waB .marked by a debate on the Y. M, 0. A., which ended in the passing of a resolution censuring it in connection with its activities on behalf of soldiers overseas. A number 61 delegates spoke vigorously against the "Y," some calling it an association of four-flushers and hypocrites. The general tenor of the remarks on the work of the Y. M. C. A, overseas was it eharged higher prices than similar organizations for what it sold, and gave very little away with the exception of an occasional cup of coffee near the firing lines. Praise was accorded to the Salvation Army, which was credited with doing excellent work and selling articles to soldierB at much lower prices than were charged by the Y. ORPHEUM GALLERY NOW OPEN Week of June Srd DERWENT HALL CAINE Iron Hand" WELUNOTOIT CROSS FRANCES DOUGHERTY STEART ANO MERGER BLAOK AND WHITE BARRY AND LEIGHTON Bnningi: Matinee: 15c, SOe, 15c, 20c, 56c, 800 and 65c Amsterdam—"The Emperor's Faithful Lieges'' is the name of a new ultra- jingoistic league formed by a number of titled Prussian junkers for whom even the notoriously reactionary principles of the Fatherland party do not go far enough. The leaguo has isaued a mainfesto to the emperor, under the heading: "Emperor hear thy people." It beseeches the ruler on no account to yield weakly to the cry for parliamen- tarization or democratization, saying that to do so would be to alienate the affections of all true Germans. If, on the other hand, he is resolved to "kick to the devil" (translated literally) all those who attempt to interfere with the prerogative of the throne, he will win place in all German hearts. " PlmnaVn-p T-nnVa -Mi-ir ntm-io Emperor, make thy choice, manifesto concludes. the portation and storage in this country of large numbers of Mauser rifles and quantities of ammunition, was declared a myth by Deputy United States Attorney-General Becker at the conclusion of his enquiry into the rumors of the existence of these munitions. He expressed th-e opinion that the stories, which federal investigating agencies have been attempting to run to earth for over two years, wore an outgrowth of tho German plot to foment revolt against British rule in India. This developed during the testimony of Henry Musk, former confidential agent of Capt. Hans Tauscher, tho erstwhile American representative of German munition manufacturers. He said that in 1914 a shipment of 7500 old model Springfield rifles, which he now believes were intended for re-shipment to India, were stored in this city By tho German governmont. A few months ago they were sold by the enemy property cuBto- dian to Francis Bannerman ,a New York broker, in condemned ordnance and military paraphernalia, ho declared. Moscow—Three hundred anarchists, arrested in connection with tho recent uprising here, will be tried by a revolutionary tribunal. M. Ouporoff, chief of the Moscow war department, who is in charge of the movement against the anarchists, said: '' The government has concluded that it is necessary to restore order for the purpose of effecting better organization j of the military, industrial and other institutions of the country. It has been decided to put an end to the constant menace to life and property from people who call themselves anarchists. Among them are a number of hooligans and escaped criminals." London—A Reuter dispatch from Pe trograd says that the anarchist movement in Moscow has been suppressed. No Settlement Tet of Shipyard Strike; Negotiationi Are Still Being Carried On (Continued from page 1) PANTAGES ** a—a WHS TATLOB'S LIONS HEBBEET LLOYD Qthsr Big rettum Jack Warner SHIPYARD INN 130 FRONT ST. Refreshments of every description supplied night and day. f s "The Source of Human Welfare and a Law Written in Human Nature" RAILWAY WORKERS SEEK INCREASES Fifteen Thousand Railway Maintenance of Waymen to Oast Vote on Eight-hour Day Fifteen thousand maintenance-of-way employees of Canadian railways will be asked to vote on the question of pressing for an eight-hour day and a substantial increase and uniform rate of pay for all maintenance-of-way men in Canada. The executives of the International Brotherhood of Maintenance- of-Way Employees met in Toronto to discuBs the advisability of such a step, and passed resolutions embodying these demands, which will be submitted to the membership of tho brotherhood for ratification and endorsement. They claim that the wages paid by the railways is inadequate in comparison to that paid to other classes of labor. Affects AU Railways Formerly the maintenance-of-way men employed by each railway company dealt with that company separately, but it has decided to make a change, and a central committeo was elected to deal with all matters affecting maintenance- of-way employees in Canada, and it is anticipated that tho managements of the railways will be asked to act jointly, instead of individually as formerly, in dealing with their employees. Tho executives also passed a resolution strongly deprecating tho recent utterances of J. C. Watters, president of the Dominion Trades and Labor congress, attacking the British premier, Lloyd George. Mr. Watters' attack is branded as "unjustifiable" and the delegates state that they wish to dissociate themselves from the sentiments he <xprcssed. The attack on Mr. 1 t.>a Goorge re f erred to above was mado by Mr. Wat- tors at Toronto. Th-> Uiitish promier was referred to as tho 'trickiest politician who ever masqueraded as s statesman." The refusal of tho Imporial government to instruct Sir Jo- the Ishrdlu shrdlu ahrdl cmfw cmfwy soph Wesley Flavelle, chairman of thp Imperial Munitions Board, to cooperate with thc Dominion trades congress, of which Mr. Waiters ia president, was thc causo of the outburst. Another B. O. T. ot L, Affiliation. The latest organization to affiliate with the B. C. Federation of Labor is tho Metalliferous Miners' union of Princo Ruport district. CLARKSBURG, W, VA.-~JoBeph N. Craddock, a member of the Typographical union, has been oleetod mayor of this city on a non-partisan ticket. Ho was supported by tho Central Labor and Trades Council. AU of Which Is Pure Piffle and Punk and to Truth a Perfect Stranger It may have been noticed that the noisest prophets on behalf of the virtue of work as a saving grace for mankind aro to bo found umong those who have been thfc most successful in dodging the necossity of doing anything that would cause them to sweat profusely or their [ bones to uncomfortably aohe. Many grandiloquent eulogies have been sung on behalf of work. The dignity of honest toil has been frequently pointed (Ait and sufficiently emphasized to impress its virtue upon oven the most obtuse. In fact the' nobility of work has been so ably expatiated upon by sagos and pundits that it has been generously conceded that he who stinks from his own sweat not only thereby carries with him a certain commendable distinction among men, but stinks honorably and with great credit to both himself and his country. Somo there may be among us, who, not boing in good mental, moral or spiritual health, may perchance have contracted an unseemly antipathy for work and take it upon themselves to decry its virtue as] a moans of salvation for mankind. Evidently for the purposo of correcting the mistaken conceits of such misguided ones, and bringing 'unto them a proper understanding of the hygienic virtuo of the true gospel of work, a certain sowerpipo of misinformation commonly known as newspaper, that spews its noxious contents over a considerable territory within the king's domain, recently gave vent to the following but gussy compound of falsehood and cant. "Work is tho inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. In determining that all idle persons shall be either out in jail or put to work, our legislators do but emphasize and carry out a law already written in human nature." Work iB not tho inevitable condition of human or any othor form of life. Upon tho contrary It is destructive of all life upon which it is forcod. It is not tho source of human welfare, but itB complete negation. It is not a law already written in human nature, but it is a complete nullification of all natural law relating to human or any other life. Work is an unknown quantity to every living thing except such aB has-been cursed with tbe chains of Blavery, and thoso chains are forged only by the cunning brain and hand of man. No animal works except as the penalty is fixed upon him by tho decree and artifice of man. And tho human animal is no exception to tho rulo. It is only when ho has becomo enslaved by others that he attains that boasted dignity which sycophantic and slimy retainers of rulers and robbers promulgate as tho true gospel to bo peddled to slnves in order to assist in making them contented with their miserable lot in the ruling class scheme of things. Work is not a benison and a beatitude; it is a penalty and a curse. It is not a pleasure; it is a pain. It is not a sourco of human welfaro; it is VANCOUVER CARPENTERS AFTER NEW WAOE SCALE Will Make a Demand for 96.60 Fer Day to Go Into Effect on the First of August A special mass meeting called by the District Council of Carpenters and held Thursday evening in the auditorium of tho Labor Tomple, voted unanimously for a wage scale of $6.60 per day to be presented to the contractors and to go into offect by August 1. The big hall was packed to tho doors by an enthusiastic membership of the carpenters. President Hatley presided and the sentiments expressed from many parts of the hall was for a determined atand on the now and necessary wage scale. All contractors will be notified immediately. The Question of tha 44-Hour Week. Ono aspect of the 44-hour week question that seems to have been overlooked by most people, is that on the Canadian Bide of the line there is no latitude for sports or other recreation on Sunday, whilst on the American side all kinds of pastimes can be indulged in, and if the poople of this country desire that Sunday shall be observed in the manner which has prevailed for so many generations, then they must adapt themselves to the necessity of giving the workers timo to indulge in the recreations that are necessary, not only for their physical, but their mental welfare. "All work and worship makes Jack a dull boy." Carpenters local No, 617. Tho raffle for the tools of "Jimmy" Robinson has been unavoidedly post- poned till the next meeting of the local. I speed np ship production. "The couneil likewise voted against endorsing the action of the local Shipwrights union in accepting straight time for working on the half-holiday instead of time and a half for overtime. "President Wilson and members of the shipping board on Monday wired congratulations to the local shipwrights for having decided on the 48-hour week." Since then the following letter has been received from the Seattle Metal Trades Couneil, which shows clearly that, in spite of all tho statements to tho contrary, the men on the other side of the line are with the shipyard workers in B. O. on the question of hours: Oopy of Letter. "Seatlo, Wash., "May 28, 1918. "Metal Trades Council, Vancouver. '' Greetings. "At the regular meeting of the Seattlo Metal Trades Council, held tonight, Bro. Miller gave a lengthy report on your strike situation, going into details of its causes, etc. "I am instructed to convey to you, per Bro. Miller, our heartiest support in any manner deemed necessary by you, in order that your council may be assisted in bringing about a successful termination of your present difficulties. "Again assuring you of our heartiest co-operation, "I remain faithfully yours, , "BERT SWAIN, '' Secretary-Treasurer. *. Organizer Miller of the Steam and Operating Engineers, stated at tho Metal Trades Council meeting, Wednesday night, that Seattle was not only practically solid for the 44-hour week during the four months for which it had negotiated, but that in all probability the men would never revert back to the 48-hour week in September. He also pointed out that endorsement of the 48-hour week in Portland was the work of about three mon on the executive committee and that tho rank and file were strenuously opposed to it. President Dakers of the Victoria Metal Trades Council informed the Vancouver Council that everything was closed down tight around Victoria, that meetings were being held every day in the Labor Temple and that the men were not only standing pat AV the 44-hour week, but for a basic wage of $6.60 por day for mechanics and $4 for laborers. The spirit prevailing among the men is splendid, and although the machinists had been out for some time previous to the present situation, not a single man had even attempted to go back to work. A few black sheep among the returned soldiers had offered their services to the employers but their assistance will have very little effect in stampeding the strikers back to work. Negotiations are still being conducted as wo go to presB. The men are in session with Senator Robertson, and the general feeling is that a settlement is in sight. The power of the union label is proved by its progress. The union label signifies the application in industrial life of those rules which every good citizen applies in individual life—cleanliness, morality, honesty, chivalry toward woman, and caro for the young. the hastening pathway to death and decay. It Is the inevitable penalty that all upon which it is fastened must pay for submitting to the sin of slavery of which thoy are tho perhaps unwilling victims. Tho horso, tho ox, tho nss, the dog, know neither sweat nor yot aching bonos, until thoy-aro harnessed and drivon to thoir task by that most cunning, crafty, treacherous, unscrupulous, unmoral, unprincipled and all round unspeakable rogue in ull tho category of animal kind; that creature unlled man. And rucIi animals ns man' cannot enslave he kills, cither for food or for fun. If ho can find no other oxcubo he will do it morely to get their hides or feathers for tho purpose of togging out the females of his Kind so that they no longer bear likeness to anything in either the heavens, the earth, or the nether regions. This latter eccentricity is perhaps due to the fact, that once he has the females of his kind thus hidden benoath turkey feathers and tho hides of dead skunks, cats and woodchucks, his eyes obtain much needed relief from eternally gazing upon the doubtfully dazzling beauty that is the chief female stock in trade when less effectively covered up, disguised and otherwise adorned. But this foolish talk abtfat tho blessings of work, and its dignity, and its boing a "law written into human nature,"I is enough to mako oven a savage who has never yet experienced it sick unto death. It is quite enough to kill outright, swiftly and at onco, tho tame savage who Bwoats every day of his slave life till he stinks so you can smell him a block, and whose bones so acho from the dignity he totes around, at so much per, that ho can't sleep o' nights, in consequence of the perpetual doso of this-accursed infamy called work that is thrust upon him by his overlords und pious benefactors. And it would no doubt kill him wore ho not so dull, obtuse, thick, tough, and well pickled in that ignorance upon which STRIKE SETTLEMENT IN PRAIRIE OAPITAL Winnipeg Civic Employees Establish Principle for Which They Fought— AU Men Reinstated. It took three special sessions of the Winnipeg city council last Saturday to bring about a settlement of the trouble between the city and their employees, the basis of settlement being aa follows: (1) Striking employees to be reinstated under wage schedules already agreed upon by the city council's special committee and representatives of civic employees, (8) Negotiations on all future disputes and provision for conciliation and arbitration by boards of enquiry. (3) No strikes pending tke report from such board of enquiry. Firemen's Strike Undesirable. (4) Union acknowledgment that a strike by firemen is undesirable and a statement in the agreemont that it should be resorted to only in extreme provocation.'' (5) Officers of the fire brigade not to be eligible for membership in union. The labor representatives aro understood to have fought stubbornly for inclusion of lieutenants in tho union, but finally conceded the point, and an agreement was at once signed by tho members of tho council and T. J. Murray, counsel for the Trades and Labor Council. Senator Robertson, who is now trying to get a settlement in the shipyard dispute was largely responsible for bringing about the settlement. Senator Robertson was roundly criticized by tho Winnipeg press for meeting with tho men beforo ho had mot the city officials or representatives of the employing class. Senator Robertson denies the statements of thc press, but why should he be criticized for meeting with tho mon affected before having met the employing interests no one can say, unless it is true that the workera havo no rights, but tho right to do the bidding of tbe employers without protest. LADIES AUXILIARY MACHINISTS UNION BIO MODERN FACTORY IS SEEN IN ACTION Visitors to Oity Witness' Process of Making "Twin Bute Oreralli" in a Strictly Union Shop. Not the least of the many interesting points visited in Vanconver by some of those who attended the big Board of Trade and farmers' get-together conference was the overall factory operated on Water street by Messrs, James Thomson k Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of the famous Twin Bute overalls and workshirts. Visitors to this modern, sanitary shop found a considerable number of operators busied with the work of running up seams, tacking down pockets, rivet* ing on buttons and doing such outer important work preliminary to turning out the finished work-shirt and overalls which bear the Twin Bute label and Union label. It was remarkable with what thoroughness and precision that an overall was made. It was shown that to make one of theso garments by hand would take four or fivo times the time spent by machine operators, and would cost the wearer probably threo or four times ub much money aB he is now required to pay for what is actually a better garment than that which can be made by hand. Twin Bute overalls and work-shirts, it was, pointed out, are now widely distributed. And although these garments are made in a variety of styles and in every wanted size, it was stated that Vancouver's union workers were singularly fortunate in being able to secure their exact style and fit in a brand that is fully equal to the finest garments of their Kind made in Canada or elsewhere. The Twin Bute shop is of course a Union shop, and Messrs. James Thomson & Sons, Ltd., are to ~ congratulated. PAGE FIVE 0. V. Oook la the Tom Word hu boon received from Chicago to tho effect -that 0 .V. Cook, an old- time Vaneonver man, who took an active part in the Vanconver Island minora' strike in 1918, has beon arretted for alleged conspiracy with Daniel H. Wallace to obstruct the Draft Aet. He is secretary-treasurer of the League of Humanity, and also of the nationalist Association of North America. He ia now out on bail, the turn fixed being 110,000 with a property bond to the ox- tent of $40,000 to cover same. Efforts are being made to secure the servicel of Clarence Darrow as attorney for the defence, and funds are being solicited for this purpose, Union Woolen Industry. Another industry, in which only union labor will be employed, will soon be in operation in Vaneonver. This ia the B. C. Woolen Mills Company, and it will be located on Hastings East. This concern will purchase all the wool that fanners eare to bring or send into the city. The plant will be run strictly on a union basis because 'union men will be in charge of it and are promoting it, Penona intereited in this proposition can secure further information from Edward Tufts at the office of the Business Development Company, 827 Birks Building. Barbara The Barbers have signed up two more shops, and received two more applications for membership in the union. Two more of ita membera have been drafted, and all members are working. The following resolution was adopted! Whereas, the Betail Clerks' association is carrying on an organizing campaign; and whereas, it ia asking for the support of organized labor in boosting the atore card, therefore, be it resolved, that we, Uie Barbers' union in meeting assembled, go on record as giving the Betail Clerks' association our hearty moral support and will render tbem all the assistance necessary to make Vanconver a union city. A 20 per cent, increase hu been given civilian workers in the United States navy yards. MILLINERY BU Reductions to all TRIMMED MILLINERY Panamas and untrimmed straws $1.45 and up JE oMUlinery GOME IN AND SEE FOE YOURSELF 632 OranviUe Street Phone Sey. 3291 Hotel and Restaurant Employees The Hotel and Restaurant Employeos has decided to place all eating houses who refuse to sign the union agreement, on the unfair list as soon as the endorsement of the Trades and Labor council has been obtained. It is hoped that organized labor will get solidly behind this union in its efforts to organize itB craft. An election of officers was held and the following officers elected: President, Harry Wood; vice-president, Joe Oulette; recording secretary, Fred Har- rie; inspector, Geo. Westlake; chaplain, Chas. Davis, and secretary and business agent, Wm. Mackenzie. The local has changed its meoting nights to flrst Wednesday in the month at 2:30 and third Wednesday in the month at 9:30. At the Columbia CriticB throughout the country are ltfud in their praise of "Today," Oeorge Broadhurst 's great play starring Florence Reed, which will be shown at the Columbia theatre on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Ada Patterson, of the New Tork American, saying: "I regard "Today" as the vindication of the motion pictr.ro, and none of the enemies of the silent drama can stand against it." Vivid and startling it lays stark the grinning skeleton of Today's gilded life as told in thc story by Oeorge Broadhurst. It is the tale of a woman who laughing gaily flrst sipped the wine of folly, then drained the cup to its bitterest dregs. Sho toasted Vanity and its court of Peacock retinue—and awoke to flnd that while the primroses faded and died the flower of true love blossomed into the most fragrant bloom of all. ••• l "The Book of the One Law" By A. McKAY JOBDAN A book which throws new light upon the subject which the philosophers of all ages have failed to make clear—Death and the Hereafter. PRESS COMMENTS "Vanoouver Daily Province/' May 23,1918 " The author of this book . . . has here Bet down much that may well make hiB readers begin to think. Originality is impressed on every page, and a considerable command of rhetorical language enables the writer to place his thoughts in a striking way before the public. "Mr. Jordan's book . , , moves in an orbit that is a little above the 'common round, tho daily task/ '' While the general trend of the volume is philanthropic, it combines . '. . a certain distasto for man-made laws, which if carried to its logical conclusion, would lead to anarchistic troubles." "Vancouver Daily Sun," May 4,1918 "It is a remarkable work in many ways ... To sum- .marize . ... it may be said that the 'Book of the One Law' unveils the mysteries of the ages, laying tare the story of life present, Ufe past and life to come. "It scientiflically pilots the reader through intricate mazes with a skill that is equally apparent to the greatest or the simplest mentalities. "It teaches that naught Is created and that nothing dies. "It offers sympathy and consolation to all; judgment and condemnation to none." t "Western Woman's Weekly/' May 18,1918 "... The book is one of tho choicest bits of reading that has ever been printed on this side of the border . . ." News Stand, Hotel Vaneoaver • Now on sale at all First-class Booksellers or at 830 Birks Building PRICE $2.00 To Hold Picnic ln July—Oommlttee Appointed and at Work—Date to Be Announced Later The Ladies Auxiliary of the Ma F.«»«u in mat ignorance upon wttictl j ohlnists' unions of the city, following the saroty of his rulers and masters ... . , ., . , , , , depends and which insures tho stability UP h« 8Ucceflsfjl wh,8t a"v° und danc« and porpetuity of their glorious reign <lluI<1 »ndor tho ausploes of its members over tho human cattle of his ilk and [ recently, hns now launched a pro* Fortunately for those who rulo j gramme for a picnic to bo hold, accord „ j,i™ \.n i—- u_j li_ .-i L.a -ng jQ prcHUtl[ iirrangcmcnts, on July Tho lad it's hnvo appointed a coi kind. and rob him he has had his mental hid.. so completely tanned by tho truo gospel of work, that has been pumped into, him by the press, pulpit and platform squirtguns of his owners and mastors, that it is as impervious to common- sonso as a duck's back is to water or a capitalist editorial liar to tho blandishments of truth. Work is for slaves, and no other animals over yet suffered thc infamous infliction of tho accursed thing upon them. The very word must havo boen invented for tho solo purposo of expressing tho tortures of tlio damned upon whom this supremo curse of slavery had boon inflicted. Of course tho slavos should not bc told the truth about it, for fear thoy might contract nn antipathy ngainst their chains and cultivate a disposition to kick thom off. Hence wo refrain from snying any more about it until tho next timo wc happen tu foci out of sorts. ._ _ com- icJttce nnd have arranged to have it lUtftnented by representatives from the different locals nf machinists. A mooting of thc committee wob hold on Wednesday ovening nud preliminary arrangements nnd sub-committeos arranged for. The policy of the committee differs in somo particulars from thnt followed by mnny organizations in that it hns bOon decided not 10 mnke the oils- tomnry rounds of tlie merchants to bo-* euro refreshments nnd prizes "on the cheap." The members of thc com- ttlHtOO fool thnt if ii picnic or nny olher fiH'm of entertiiiniiLi'iit ennnot be had without Asking for donations (lint it would be bettor to abandon the project. In tlie 110x1 Issue of The Veilerii- tionisl iininninceiiicnt will be mnde of further details, dnte, place, etc. CANADA MILITARY SERVICE ACT, 1917 PUBLIC NOTICE to hereby given that, by The report must be addressed te tke Rcglett-v (| the effect of tht regulation* of the Dover- Dl»u,y o\t_ttm —iet the Military Service Act of the nor *Wal of Canada i» Coundl of tht 30th ^T£%Z!^JLT^Z!^ of April, 1911, and the Proclamation of 4th *^£*£?"* _-tu_ __.!__ i___ . - .' ™™* Young me* so reporting will aot be placed ea active British^ubjeet resident in Canada, bom oo or Hrritt M twika ZttTlkey mu*, however, wtify HM!C the 13th Of October, 1M7, who hai the appropriate Registrar or Deputy Registrar af aay attained or ahall attain the aaa of 19 yeara and ckaiife of residence er address. who to unmarried or a widower without children on receipt of the report an Identification card will be mutt, (llflleat he to within one of the classes of forwarded by the Registrar which wttl protect the bearer peraoni mentioned in the tchedule of Excep- nam aireet. tioni to the Military Service Act) report as Punctual compliance with these requirements la of hereinafter directed on or before the 1st day of treat importance to theee affected. Failure to report June, 1911, or within ten days after his 19th wi-^ the elaae limited wiUeipoee the delinquent to aevsre HrthAw -A.-k....... j.*.. .t.u v. it. i u. penalties end will In addition render him liable to birthday, whichever date shall be the latter. J^, „,*_+__ tor Military Service. Such report must he in writing aad must give his ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, in Bill, the date of his birth aad Ms place ef real- MILITARY SERVICE BRANCH, this 15th dar of May, aad alee hie usual pest offlce address, lttl. IN \JThil The men required to report should address theu- reports as follows: ONTARIO—To the Deputy Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917. London, if they reside in the County of Bssei, Kent, Lambton, Elgin, Middlesex, Oxford, Waterloo, Wellington, Perth, Huron, or Bruce. To the Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Toronto, if they reside in the County of Lincoln, Welland, Haldimand, Norfolk, Brant, Wentworth, Halton, Peel, York, Ontario, Orey, Dunerin, Simcoe, or in the Districts of Muskoka, Parry Sound, Algoma and Nipisiing north of the To the Deputy Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1(17, Quebec, if they reside in the County of Wolfe, Richmond, Compton, Beauce, Bellechasse, Booaventure, Dorchester, Gaspe, Kamouraska, Levis, Lillet, Champlain, Charlevoix, Chicoutimi, Montmorency, Quebec, Portneuf, Saguenay, Lotblnitre, Montmagny, Matane, Megantic, Rimouaki and Temlscouata. To the Deputy Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Hull, If they reside in the County of Timiskaming, Pontine, Ottawa and Labelle. ,.lf lMft .,«,.„ ul „„ ■HuMMM-jug, i-oniiac, uiiawa ana Labelle. Mattawa and French rivers (including the Town- NOVA SCOTIA—To the Registrar under the Military shlpsof Ferris and Bonfield.) s_.,i~ ... »•■>• •**■-■■»-- -- ■■ ■ J.) To the Deputy Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Kingston, If they reside in the County of Durham, Northumberland, Victoria, .Peterborough, Hastings, Prince Edward, Lennox, Addington, Frontenac, Hal-burton, Carlcton, Dun* das, Glengarry, Renfrew, Russell, Stormont, Orcn- ville, Lanark, Leeds, Prescott, or the District of Nipissing south of Mattawa river (exclusive of the Townships of Ferris and Bonfield.) To the Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Winnipeg, if they reside in the Districts of Kenora, Kainy River, or Thunder Bay. QUEBEC—To the Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Montreal, if they reside In the County of ram,.— r~..i.. nr-.-*--.-— Service Act, 1917, Halifax, If they'reside'ln'the Province of Nova Scotia. NEW BRUNSWICK—To the Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, St. John, if they reside in the Province of New Brunswick. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND—To the Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Charlottetown, If they reside In the Province of Prince Edward Island. BRITISH COLUMBIA—To the Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Vancouver, if they reside in the Province of British Columbia. 8A8KATCHEWAN To the Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Regina, if they reside in the , ._, - ... «.v *w«u,i*.y ui Province of Saskatchewan. • Jacques Carrier, Hochclaga, Laval, Vaudreuil, ALBERTA--To the Registrar under the Military Service Soulangcs, Napierville, Benuhamois, Chateauguay, Act, 1917, Calgary, If they reside in the Province of Huntington, Laprairie, Argcnteuil, Terrebonne, Two Alberta. Mountains, Montcalm, L'Assomptlon, Joliettc, Ber- MANITOBA—To the Registrar under the Military thler, Maiikinonge, St. Maurice, Three Rivers, St. Service Act, 1917, Winnipeg, If they reside in the Johns, Iberville, Miisisquoi, Broroc, Shefford, Rou- Province of Manitoba. ville, Chambly. Verchires, St. Hyacinthc, Begot, YUKON—To the Registrar under the Military Service Drummond, Richelieu, Yomoska. Nicolet. Artha- *«> --917, Dawson, if they reside in the Yukon baska, Sherbrookc, and Stnnitmd. Territory. PAGE SIX THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST You can get the overall and work shirt that suits you best, if you insist on TWIN BUTE OVERALLS AND WORK SHIRTS Just ask for them at any of these live stores: Lees & Raybould 1159 Granville Street The London Store 1051 Granville Street M. H. Wright 898 Granville Street T. Rickson 820 Granville Street A. T. Stoddart 2127 Granville Street T. Osbourne 2145 Granville Street Olttbb & Stewart 315 Hastings West Wm. Dick, Ltd 33 Hastings East Dick's, Ltd 47 Hastings East David Spencer, Ltd 515 Hastings West J. N. Harvey 127 Hastings West Woodward Dept. Stores Hastings West Wray & McKee 52 Hastings West Campbell & Griffin 144 Cordova West D. Hunter 74 Cordova West A. W. Pedan 30 Cordova West E. J. Smardon 102 Cordova West F. A. Bingham 2401 Main Street R. Craig :.... 524 Main Street Jeffs & Co 714 Main Street O. S. Wooley 2507 Main Street R. Moore 2211 Cambie Street W. P. Boddy 1874 Powell Street W. McKee, Ltd 3528 Commercial Drive R, A. Parker 1717 Commercial Drive T. Badger North Vancouver Made in a Union Shop By Jas. Thomson & Sons, Ltd., Vancourer "<__& fEDEMnOMST PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS MEN'S HATS FOR LATEST PANAMAS AND STRAWS SHOWING 00 TO THE BLACK and WHITE HAT STORE CORNER HASTINOS AND ABBOTT STS. Kelly, Douglas & Co., Ltd. Vacuum Packing Preserves the Flavor FOB the very same reason that you cork a bottle— NABOB COFFEE Is vacuum packed. Tho resulting smoothness of flavor will delight you. Vancouver, B. C. PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS HAVE YOU TRIED ANY OF THESE WHOLESOME WHEAT-SAVING CEREALS IN YOUR LOAVES? "ROYAL STANDARD RYE FLOUR" "ROYAL STANDARD CORNMEAL" "ROYAL STANDARD OATMEAL" THE SUPERIOR QUALITY OP "Royal Standard Wheat Flour" Enables you to use a 25 per cent, admixture of any one of tlie substitute cereals named above with most delightful results in your baking. —GET THEM AT YOUR GROCERS— —MILLED TN VANCOUVER— (Look for the trademark—the "Circle V" on every sack) How Girls Are Exploited. Editor B. C. Federationist:—I am a constant render of your paper and con* uider it to be the only ono around here that is voicing the interests of thc working peoplo and trying to advance and protect those interests. I am, therefore, sending you this, hoping that you will publish it in order to let other girls know of some shops in this city that they will do well to avoid, There is a hairdreasing and wigmak- ing shop ou Hastings street known as the '' Maison Henri.'' This concern haB another shop on OranviUe street. A good many ladies patronize these shops in the way of shampoos, curling, waving, hairdressing and manicuring. The proprietor, a Mr. Henri, who runB the business, does no hairdressing himself, but employs girl slaves for thc purpose. While theso girls are making a fortune for him they get next to nothing for doing it. The return for their timo and labor is very Btnall, The girls work from 8.3G a.m. to 5.30 p.m. and to 9.30 on Saturday nights. They do the hairdressing, the manicur* ing, the combings, sweeping and clean ing up the parlors and a lot of other dirty work around the shop. The girls must purchase their own tools to work with, Buch aB combs, brushes, curling tongs, manicuring sot, etc. about $10 worth. They get in wages from $1.00 to $5.00 per week. They put in much overtime, for which they get nothing extra.. Tho customers they handle bring to the proprietor at least from $3.00 to $5.00 por day for each girl working. The tools Bpoken of arc purchased from the Henri concern itself and it is scarcely to be supposed that they are furnished to the girls at any lower prices than they could bo purchased for elsewhere. The girls are compelled to pay the concern 15 cents each for the laundry of their aprons, and as they soil two or throe a week and the regular laundry chargo is not above 35 cents, it may be seen that Henri does not lose anything, nor tho girls gain anything, by the transaction. I started to work for this concern at $2,50 per week. When I found out that I had to buy $10.15 worth of tools in order to get $3.50 to $5.00 a week, I decided to quit ot once. I had $2.50 then coming to me. When I went to the office to get my money the very " gentlomanly" M. Henri told me roughly and bluntly thot ho did not owe me anything and if I hung around there looking for money he would chase me out of the shop. Under these circumstances I had to leave, and have thus evidently boen beaten out of the few cents that were coming to me and which I had certainly earned. I hopo that no other girls will bc roped into servico for thiB miserable concern and that somothing mny and will be done to right the wrongs that are daily perpetrated upon thoso who havo been unfortunate onough to fall into its clutches. It is shameful to think that such treatment ean be necorded to girls who are compelled to work out for a living, in these days when wc are all supposed to bo engaged in a struggle on behalf of democracy and decency. MARY PIROSHCO. 940 Pender Street West, Vancouver, B. C. "Honest John" Loves the Engineers. Editor B. C. Federationist:—Those be turbulent times, and tho future docs not look any too bright. Dodging the snares and pitfalls set for us by those profiteering working class creatures makes life anything but a pleasant dream for we whom God ordained to run this world. Iu spito of all our propaganda do livered through our presB and by thc mouth of our prophets, these working jjs, liko Oliver Twist, howl for '"'more soup" ond—blamed if wo don't havo to givo it to them. But there is one bunch of nut crackers that'"really, don't cher know, make mo laugh." They think them selves a kind of a cross betwoen the Pluto and the Plobe, the "missing link," so to speak. They hnvo u union known as the Krank pin local, a busi ness agent , nnd a strong box with the sides bulging from high pressure,' and all tho paraphernalia necessary to jolt democracy, except brains, which their cnlling does not require. When file nutocratic cabal at Victorin wns busted higher thnn Gilroy'B kite, and simon pure democracy flapped "its" (I don't know the gender) wings ovor "our" favored land and all the thieving parasites which infested our temple of truth at Victoria had to take to tho tall timber, thoflo knights of thc oil can thought that now was thc appointed time to present their Buppli cations beforo the throne of grace, upon which God's image, "Honest John," had been ordained to roost. It may not be generally known how Honest John acquired the cognomen, but he possessed thnt Stirling quality to sucl a superlative extent thnt it was roport ed he would take a nickel off tho cu* loction plate in chnnge rather than cheat himself. In days of yore when politicnl ambition first began !o sprout in John's brain, he could not put the fascinating polish on his orations, which character* izcB them now, in fact volume was thoir only distinguishing feature. Jolyi used to blurt, much to the chagrin of his colleagues, aad when the serpent in the guise of the Boiler Inspections Act made its appoarnncc, he jumped on it with both feet, because ho hnd a pot of his own, which he fenrcd was not safo for democrncy, nnd ho also had to hire an engineer, whilo ho wns engaged in routing the forces of evil and oppression. Even at that enrly dnte the ruilrond magnate in him began to kick and he became chief sponsor in British Columbia for na delectable a bunch of New York grafters as ever skinned the nickels from thc hired girls. This was n corporation known as tho "Ollnlii R. R. Co." and proposed to build a road clean to heaven with B. C. on the route. Howover, John's work wns too coarse, and he did not manage to connect with the bucks thnt were to havo been hia if ha mndo a good rnid on the province in behalf of his company. Being nn expert on cranks, and tin nuthority on strnina, stresses nnd B. T, IJ., it logically devolved on him to take the bnt against this infamous Boiler Inspections Act, nnd nobly he responded. As n prophet he has the other John "skinned a mile," for ho predicted j-iBt whnt happened—thnt lazy lot of loafers hnd a "soft snap as it was and would soon be after more pay nnd shorter hours, Just imagine the irony of the situation when this bunch of "holdups" Tcame "wheroasing" and "praying" to I "Honest John" and kicking about 13- hour shifts and other trifling incidents which mar the serenity of their exalted positions. Thank God he promptly put the kibosh on their aspirations and if they try any of their strike antics we will just scrap that infamous document and run our steam plants with Chinamen. It is treasonable for working plugs to try to think, anyway, and John has gone to Ottawa to have an ordor-in- council passed prohibiting the proletariat from indulging in the habit, and providing all the pains and penalties Christian civilization haB invented for infractions thereof, and then freedom tony flap its wingB and Bhrick and crow once more in safety. PAYTRIOT. Kamloops, May 22. A Treatise on Toleration. Editor B. C. Federationist:—Since the dawn of history intoloration has been a curse of the human race, a curso that has crushed evory human effort towards unity. But of late years a feeling of tolerance and solidarity haB begun to manifest itself among tho workers regardless of creed, nationality and color; in spite of all the race hatred that the capitalist press of different countries hns tried to inspire among us workors. But it is true that a certain amount of intoleration Ib to be found yet among the labor leaders of our different labor organizations j but to thoso leaders that are now arguing on tho different abstract ideas of political action, or direct action, or industrial action, or individual action, or any kind of an action, it is our duty to issue a warning, becauso while they nre arguing such hairsplitting propositions, they not only forget to livo together, but they very often lose the real issues that aro beforo them, it destroys their reason and ability to see thc real undercurrent of discontent that is passing liko an electric current through the toiling millions of wngo- workera around the globe. A careful study of tho great economic and industrial forces at work now proves that a mighty wave of discontent is going to sweep away all old traditions and institutions and abstract ideas that hnve so long laid ns a heavy fog on the minds of the workers. It is nearly a hundred years since a clarion call— one of the most beautiful sounds that haB agitated tho air, and that "Workora of tho world, unite"—rang out over thc world, and that call is finding an echo in every wage worker's heart today; that call is the principle that is going to overthrow all the arguing politicians and rulers of the present social structure. Beware! intolerable, arguing lnbor fakers! On the bloodstained pages of history we will flnd that all revolutionary movements havo been like a mighty wave of an ocean, crushing everything that happened to bo in its way—tho innocent with tho guilty—I admit it is cruel, but true. I have the greatest feeling of fellowship for everyone that is studying sociology and trying to bring nbout understanding nnd unity to tho bost of his or her ability—fellowship is not tho right word—lovo would express my feelings better, but I suppose that sounds too sentimental to some of us wnge-workers thnt have been through nil thcBO profit-grinding exploi tntion mills. Intoleration—the most cruel nnd terrible word thnt hns ever passed over human lips. Words have wonderful meaning when we stop to analyze them. Intoleration—excuse mc for mentioning it ngain, conveys a menning of a Niagara of blood and cruelty. Who nre the men that practise intoleration? They are the mon thnt are Bowing discord nmong us workera so they may have a chance of exploiting us either on our work or in onr organizations. I will name the trinity of evil—the employers, the party politicians, and our intolerable labor leaders thnt arc either, in their ignorance, or in order to get material gnin, trying with their useless agitation of the air, to make us-workers believe that, becnuse we did not hnppen to be born on the same spot on this little globe, or being unfortunate enough to be in different labor organizations, that we have nothing in common. When we take a glance at our daily papers we some times hnppen to see such words (ib "Victory" nnd "Ponce." Now the genoral idea every person hns that doos not study the real forces underlying this immense struggle for "freedom" that is going on at the present time— in a subconscious way yot—ns to the menning of tho word first referred to, nnniely, "Victory"—he draws a mental picture in his mind—thnt is if he is n Britisher, of bnnners waving nnd drums boating, and armies marching through Berlin or the capital of Austria. Or if he hnppened to be n German, or an Austrian, naturally, armies marching with beating drums and ban ners flying—but through Paris or London, or somo other city. And turning towards the second word, "Pence," he boob n lot of politicians around a green table drawing mnps of different prov- ln'coOj deciding that sueh and such a provinco shall belong to this republic or that ompire. That is the picture he draws-of "Peace." Of course, this article boing written against intoleration, wc will hnvo to forgive him, the little innocent creature, because ho docs not know better. ThoBe aro the pictures he drawB, but ovory student of different economics forceB nnd nbstrnct idens that led up to this horrible slaughter, the man that digB below the different nntionnl colors that aro represented in this great human drama, will find a picture quito different from the picture thia mental prostitute hns just drawn for ua. He will seo the flames of discontent growing throughout tho world gaining ground nnd momentum every hour and overy day. Aa he follows the struggle month after month he will see a gradual evolution of this horrible human drama from a subconscious struggle—worker ngninBt worker —into a full conscious nnd intelligent struggle, whero the exploiters will be lined ngninst thc exploited, It is our duty to warn every mnn who is practising and preaching intoloration to always keep beforo his mind tho cruel fact that every grent social move thnt hns taken place is similnr to evory other force in tho universe—it acts without respect to persons, nationalities or creeds, unless it is controlcd hy renson nnd toleration. Regarding the different opinions wo workors hnve on the action to bo taken to bring about our emancipation, it matters very little, bOcauso the growing discontent in connection with our growing solidarity will be our lending generals, and those J FRIDAY May 81, WS two generalissimos aro far superior to our industrial leaderB, or semi-politi- cianB. Remember, fellow worrkers, what we have suffered in the past and atill aro suffering on account of metaphysical and abstract ideas of great republics or empires nnd heavens. Of course, regarding the last word, I would be sorry if I Bhould hurt anybody's feelings on religious grounds, because I havo no sneer for the hopeful that believes there is an incomprehensible force that will in some mysterious way turn all the evil into good and reclaim all of us innocent arguing creatures, providing you do not preach intolerance and separation in this life, and the life hereafter—if there iB any. ERNEST LINDBERG. Boiler Makers' Picnic. Editor B. C, Federationist:—I beg to report that tho above organization held its first annual picnic and sports on Friday last, Victoria Day, at Mahon Park, North Vancouver, the numbor attending same boing too grout to form an estimate. Tho sports commenced at 11.30 a.m. and the programme, consisting of 33 events, was run through by 6 p.m. Prizes to the numbor of 200, totalling close upon $800 in value, wero then presented by Mr. Thomas Neilson, superintendent at Coughlan's, and by 7 p.m., when Lives and Reeves' first-class orchestra struck up, overybody was in good humor and ready for the dance. I would liko to mention, through your paper, that as tho programme was in tho hands of the printers when I received Evans, Coleman & Evans' cheque for $25 and Simpson & Balk- well's choquo for $20, that these sunis wore spent in purchasing somo 250 toys, at wholesale prico, for the "wee tots," and many the bairn waa made happy on Friday met, when they recoived Teddy boars, dolls, carriages, trinkets; in fact, toys of every description were handod out to eaeh boy and girl on tho ground, in addition to free candy and lomonnde, and froo tea and coffee for thc adults. Mr. Dunk Neilson handled tho whistle in a capable manner in the football series. Mr. Andy Neilson and Bro. McEachern, asBiatod by Mr. -JHolmca, were tho judges, and Bros. R. H. Wise and Stuort wero the stnrtcrs. Broa. Joe Barber and Harris, Davo Neilson, Carmichaol and others too numerous to mention were highly congratulated on evory hand for the efficient manner in which they carried out so great an undertaking. Fraternally yours, JOE BARBER. Secretary Picnic and Sports Committee, Coughlan's. A BILLION BUGS (Life.) Army life is just ono darned inoculation ufter another. The nverago soldior is as full of holes ns a porous plaster. Thoy are tho apertures through which aU aorta of anti-bugs are introduced into his system. Each soldier iB issued a billion bugs, for whose upkeep he is held responsible. Thoy hike hither and thither through his system. They drill on his spinal column ond hold sham battles on his cerebrum. Ho spends half his time getting inoculated, and the rest of it recovering from the inoculations. Here is the schedule of a typical day in training enmp when thc doctors are in an inoculating mood. 6 a.m. Reveille. 6.15. Roport to Dr. .Tnbb for inoculation against sleeping sicknesB. 6.30. Breakfaat nnd inoculation against indigestion. 7. Drill. 7.11. Report to Dr. Poke for inoculation against baldness. 8. All men must be inoculated in the left shoulder ngninst Tasinnnian cpi- zooty, in case the army goes to Tasmania. 9.01. Report to Dr. Pricker to hnvo 5,765,890 nnti-prickly heat germs injected in the right funny-bone. 11.07. Second inoculation against flat feet and warts. 12. Mess. Men will be inoculated with one plate of stow and four cubic inches of broad pudding. 1 p.m. Report to nearest doctor to be inoculatod with any germs he happens to have around. 2.20. AH men suffering from fox- bite or squirrel-bite roport to Dr. Knccdle for inoculation. 2.30. Drill {if able). 2.55. Ankle inspection by Dr. Slasher. 3.33. Bring your calveB to Dr. Punch 'a tent for inoculntion ngainst frost-bite. 4. Special inoculation in Dr. Muff's tent. All nicn suffering from alimony, pip, cauliflower earB, free verse, persistent sneezing or aversion to work, must report for prophylactic treatment. 5. Mess. Each man will be issued one pill, the equivalent of one plate of beans, one mug of tea and one piece of bread. He may tako it, or use it: for ammunition. | 6-9. All men must stay in their I tents, na the doctors may think up a new inoculation, nnd may wnnt some ono to practice on, 9.16. All mon who aro still conscious will be inoculated against insomnia and mulekick. 10. Taps (for survivors). N.B.—The only thing they don't in' ovulate you against in the army is inoculntion. Lifo is evidently in error in stating thnt "the only thing they don't inoculate against in the army is inoculation." As far as wo ure able to learn no inoculation against Buicide- is included in army niodical practice. True, thore wore bnt throe deaths by suicide in the army cantonements within tho United States during tho woek ending May 3, but just think what might have boen saved for more effective war purposes if proper provision had been mado to forestall such unhappy results, by filth inoculation. The attention of army officials should be called to the evident overlooking of this eminently eaaentiul and sensiblo precautionary measure by the medical staff. Such cnrelesaneas should not bo lightly condoned. It jb too well calculated to give "aid and comfort to the onmy." If "suicide" ia cnrolossly allowed to spread among the soldiery of democracy, victory may be compelled to perch upon the banners of ntournccy, because thero will be no other alternative. If you haven't joined thu Federated Lnbor Party, jirt* in touch with Secrotary Trotter, Room 200, Labor Temple, or any of tho vice- presidents throughout tho province *** OLELAND-DIBBLE ENGRAVING OOMPANT Limited PHOTO ENGRAVERS — COMMERCIAL ARTISTS Phone Seymour 7169 Third Fleer. World Bulldlnf VANCOUVER, B. O. —Tho only Union Shop In Vincouver— Men's Underwear FAMOUS "DELPARK" LINE OF ATHLETIC UNDERWEAR—In a "raincheck"—one of the most comfortable garments one can wear; sleeveless, knee length. 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JOURNEYMEN BARBERS' INTERNA- tional Union of America, Local No. HO— , Meets seeond and fourth Tuesdays is ths month, Boom 306, Labor Temple. President, IL. E. Herrltt; seeretary, S. H. Grant, 1071 Alberni street. BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS, LOCAL No. 617—Meets every second and fourth Monday evening, 8 p.m., Labor Temple. President, R. W. Hatley, phone Fair. 2992L; financial secretary, G. Thom; recording secretary, J. R. Campbell; business agent, Walter Thomas, Room 208, Labor Temple. Phona Sey. 7485. | BBOTHEBHOOD OF BOILER MAKEB8 and Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America, Vancouver Lodge No. 194—MeeU every Monday, 8 p.m. President, M. A. Mo Ekohern, 1245 Alberni St.; secretary-treasurer, Angus Fraser, 1151 Howe St.; business agent. J. H. Oarmlchael, Room! 212, Labor Temple. COOKS, WAITERS AND WAITRESSES, Local 28—Meets every flrat and third Wednesday at 2:80 p.m.; seeond and fonrth Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m., Labor Temple. President, Fred. Harris; seeretary and businoss sgent, Wm. Mackensle, Room 209, Labor Temple. Offlee hours, 11 to 12 noon; 2 to 6 p.m. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF STEAM AND Operating Engineers, Loeal No, 620— Meets every Monday, 7:80 p.m., Labor Temple. President, J. R. Flynn, 810 Moodle street, New Westminster; vice-president, P. Chapman; seoretary-treasurer, W. A. Alexander, Room 216, Labor Tomple. Phone Sey. I 7496. ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOOAL NO. 218 —Meets In Room 206, Labor Temple. every Monday, 6 p.m. President, D. W. MeDougall, 1162 Powell street; recording seoretary, John Murdock, Labor Temple; financial secretary and business agent, E. H. Morrison, Room 207 Labor Temple. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S Association, Loeal 8662—Offlce and hall, 604 Pender street wost. Meets every Friday, 8 p.m. Secretary-treasurer, F. Chapman; business agent, L. Marsh. I. L. A., LOOAL I8-S&, AUXILIARY— (Marine Warehousemen and Freight Handlers). Headquarters. 486 Howe street. Meets first and third Wednesday, 8 p.m. Secrotary and business agent, E. Winch. AMALGAMATED MEAT CUTTERS AND Butcher Workmen's Union, No. 648—Meets first and third Tuesdays of each montb, Labor Temple, 8 p.m. President, B. W. Lano; recording secretary, E. Lofting: financial secretary and business agent, T. W. Anderson, S87 Homer street. PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OP NORTH America (Vancouver and vicinity)— Branch meets second and fourth Mondays, Hoom 204, Labor Temple, ['resident. J. Han forth, Euclid Ave., Colllngwood EaBt; financial secretary nnd business ngent, H. S. NightBCOlos, 'J70—56th Avo Bast, South Vancouver; recording seeretary, E. Westmoreland, S247 Point Grey rood. Phone Bay- view 2970L. SHIPYARD LABORERS, FASTENERS AND Riggers, I. L. A., Local Union 88A, Series 5—Meets tbe 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month, Labor Templo, 8 p.m. President, J. Sully; flnanolal seeretary, M. A. Phelps; business agent and corresponding secretary, W. Hardy. 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Msr.hsll* TlM-prssldsnt W, H Box 66 "■"••"T-trsssnrsr, B. H fcooUndi PROVINCIAL UNIONS B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR—Meeta In annual convention In January. Executive officers, 1018-19: President, Duncan McCallum, Labor Temple, Vanconver; vice-presidents—Vancouver Islsnd, Walter Head, South Wellington; Victoria, J. Taylor; Prince Rupert, W. E. Thompson; Vancouver, E. Winch, W. R. Trotter; New Westminster, P. Peebles; West Kootenay, Marens Martin, Nelson; Crows Nest Pass, W. A. Sherman, Fernle. Secretary-treasurer, A. S. Wells, Boa 1536, Victoria, B. O. VIOTOBIA, B. O. VICTORIA AND DISTRICT TRADES AND Labor Council—Meets first and third Wednesdays, Knights of Pythias Hall, North Park stroet, at 8 p.m. President, B. Simmons; vice-president, T, Dooley; secrotary- treasurer, Christian Siverts, P. 0. Box 302, Victoria, B. C- PRIWOB RUPERT. B. O. PRINOE RUPERT TRADES AND LABOB Council—Meets second and fourth Toes- days of eaeh month, in Carpenters' hall. Prosldent, S. D. Maedonald; secretary, W. 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THE DRINK THAT SATISFIES Si,ver soda Water FULL LINE, PURE FRUIT FLAVORS Vancouver Breweries, Limited I IN SYDNEY, N.S.W. Over a Hundred Delegates in Attendance and Good Work Done [By W. Francis Ahern] SYDNEY, N. S. W.—The third Australian Peace conference waa held in Sydney on March 29-April 1, and was the largest and moat important of its kind ever held in Australia. Over a hundred delegates were present from all parts of Australia, representing all sections of the workers. Rev. F. Sinclaire was elected president; Mr. Cooper, vice- president; Messrs. Stanley Allen and T. J. Miller, secretaries; Messrs. Scott- Griffiths, assistant secretary; Misb $wann, troaBurer; R. S. Robs, Rev. A, Rivett, H. Woods, W. Francis Ahern and Miss I, Swann were elected to a resolutions and standing ordors committee; while A. Rae, W. Francis Ahern and Mrs. Scott-Griffiths, comprised tlio press committee. Peter Simonoff (Bolsheviki consul general in Australia), and Jakov Gunn wero specially welcomed to tho conference as delegates from thc Russinn Workers' associations. Responding to a motion urging the Australian governmont to recognize his appointment as consular repreaentative of the Bolsheviki government in Australia, Mr. Simonoff detailed tho aims and aspirations of the Bolsheviki government. Keen interost was taken in the 'various papers read and discussed beforo the conference, notably the papers dealing witn "Poace and Arbitration," Peace, Imperialism and Internationalism,'' "Peace, Defence and Boy Conscription," "Enforced Peace, and Peace Economics." In between the sessions of conference, public peace meetings were held in the various publio halls of Sydnoy and in the principal park of the city. Resolutions were carried urging peace and international fraternalism and the settling of industrial disputes by arbitration, abolition of tho capitalistic system, censorship, institution of the principle of international fellowship and brotherhood, total disarmament, production for use and not for profit ,and the appointment of vigilance and publicity committees to foster the peaco feeling. It was decided that a manifesto of poaco be prepared, also that a statement Betting forth the decisions of the conference and the objects of the p ace movement in Australia be published and circulated. Resolutions were also carried urging all women to organize in industrial and other bodies opposed to war, also that as war was caused by economic conditions, peace could only be made by tho proletariat of the various countries along lines equitable and just to the workors. The attempt to foster Imperialism was deplored, as alao was tho attitude of the churches and tho capitalistic newspapers on tho question of war. Conference repudiated all desiro to extend the dependencies of Australia by retaining tho captured German colonies in the Pacific, and passed a resolution condemning conscription in any shape or form. Greetings were, extended to the various peace organizations throughout the world for the stand thoy had taken in opposition to war. AFTER SUPPER BY TOM PLAYTON Sir Robert Bordon is as sore as a boil. And no wonderl With a poer- ago after the war an absolute cinch, he finds that the people of Canada don't want to let him have it. It iB too bad! Lord Unionbluffe would be a peach of a title—and the name would havo the added advantage of giving posterity the whole history of its achicvemont in a nutshell, as it were. He got right up in the air when Mr. R. L. Richardson, of Springfield, Man., proposed to do away altogether with titles in Canada. He thought it was rubbing it in when not only wore they wanting to prevent him from securing a peerage but actually proposing to take away tho modest little knighthood of which he hnd been so proud before his bauble-ambitions soared. He got as sulky as the deuce; and ho said that if parliament voted that way he wasn't going to play any moro. And parliament, being composed largoly of mutts,, kopt him in the game by agreeing to let him, instoad of the king, do- cido who was to havo a title and who wasn 't. * -tt * Sir Joseph Wesley Flnvello must havo sighed a mighty sigh of relief, figuring that he still had a good sporting chance to change his obnoxious name—if tho ungrateful eaters of his pork and chickons don't raise too much cain in the meantime. He'll make it a point to keep well in with Sir Robert, in the hopo that Robert will securo him a peerage when he's getting his own. Who'd dream of suspecting that Baron Rotthen was ovor connected with the chickons that stank so badly in his rofrigerator in Winnipeg that thoy couldn't ovon be sold to tho common working man, and, therefore, had to bo convoyed, by gaa-mnsked employees to tho city's public incinorutor? * * • By the way, Mr. Harry W. Anderson makes a little mistake in stnting in his article in this wook's Canndinn Courier that when Mr. W. F. Nickle proposed, in parliament, to do away with futuro titles in Canada, "tho pross heralded hifl campaign and backed Lt, from Ihe Atlantic to the Pacific." He overlooked Vancouver, whoro somo dainty littlo editorials hove appeared standing up for the institutions of "the good old timos" when knights were bold nnd the greator portion of a workmnn'a pay was a swift kick in tlio usual plnco. Oh well, it takes a lot of different-thinking peoplo to mnke a world; nnd, perhnps, thoro will always bo those who delight to bco the "bull" bnron nnd tho hog baronot come to their royal honorB. * • # Tnlk of "Showers of Blessing!" Listen to this from the Province's account of tho last nir mid on London. A number of bombs fell in open places, somo of thom near a hospital. Passers-by saw the nurses at the hospital comforting patients whilo othors woro loading in prnyor nnd singing. The windows hnd been blown out and the pooplo near by could plainly hoar tho choniB singing "Pruiso God From WAB VETERANS ARE ' NOT STRIKE-BREAKERS The action of the returned soldiers in the city of Victoria in the shipyard strike, must not be considered as being a reflex of the opinions of the returned soldiers as a whole. From information to hand from Victoria, it would appear that many of the returned soldiers aro members of the unions affected, and are standing by the organizations. Theso men, in many cases, have been members of the organized labor movement for years before taking up military duties, and have not lost that understanding of the position of the worker on the industrial field, which they gained by that membership. The resolution passed by tho Great War Veterans in Vancouver on Monday, which re-affirmed the stand taken by that organization at their convention, to the effect that they were not in favor of the returned men acting as strikebreakers, shows at least that the action taken by the men in Victoria is not in lino with the policy of the returned men as a whole, but merely the action of a fow individuals. SAN FRANCISCO.—Wages have been increased $3.75 a week by tho Bakery Wagon Drivers union. The new rate is $28.75 a woek. The work day is reduced from nine to eight hourB with an additional holiday with pay, making Beven holidays a year. Overtime rates have been increased from 65 cents to $1 an hour. Whom All Blessings Flow." Curious, isn't it, that they didn't realize that the bombs were coming from the Germans f • * » To return to parliament. No sooner was Sir Charles Fitzpatrick 's mesB cleaned up than Mr. A. B. Copp, of Westmoreland, filthiod tho floor of the house again. He deposited quito a smelly muck of criminal fraud in connection with the taking of the soldiers ' vote. Evidently the stench was too much for Mr. W. H. Butts, of South Cape Breton, for, after the mess had been lying on the floor for some three hours, he implored Mr. Copp to take the vile stuff outside. But Mr. Copp wouldn't do any such thing. He thought a longer sniff at their putridity might make everybody a little more careful in future. He overlooked one very important fact, though. There are forms of life which only thrive in rottenness. * * * The hounds have been out again. A Gorman, of Henryetta, Okla., was foolish enough to admit to his fellow citizens that he still felt loyal to the land of his birth. Wowl Wowl Wowl yap- pod the dogs, and tho fun was on. It was great! It waB glorious! Here and thore they chivvied him, until they woro out of breath with laughing and running. Then they put him in the jail to keep until they had had their suppers. Rested and fed, they returned to tho fun, with everybody in the best of fettle. Thoy had the time of their lives until1 midnight, whon thoy got too tired to keep it up any longer. Then they had a grand finale. They stripped him stark-naked, painted his bodjr red, and gave him twenty enthusiastic lashes across his bare back. He waB Btill alive, so they returned him to the jail, and boat it for bye- bye, to dream their gallant exploit o'er again. Well, there should be no kick coming from Henryetta, Okla., if tho Germans flog nny of its loyal citizens found within their borders. The Scientific American, in its hist isBue, complains that brush manufacturers send to Europe and Asia for hog bristles when they could got lots of them at home. Tako tho hint, barbers! Save their bristios. Did you notice that our old friend Upliftor was. gotting in some moro of his good work? No! Where were your eyes? Why, an amendment has just boen made to tho criminal code making it a acrioua offence against tho law to be so poor that you and your family can only afford one room to live So the Bogey Man'11 catch you if you don't hang on to your jobs. Go another ono Upliftor, old sport! Make it a criminal offence for a man to be so rich that he and his wife and child can't well live in a house of less than twenty rooms. ImpoBBible? Might ns well ask to havo tho big treos in Stanley Park play ring-a-rosieB around tho monkey house? Maybe! But there's a good timo coming, you old fossil, when tho working man is going to take a hand at the game. Rev. W. D. Reid pointed out, nt the annual meeting of tho National Prison Reform association, hold in Montreal last week, under tho presont syatem of administering justice, whether a man was sentenced to one year or fivo yenrs depended largely on tho state of the magistrate's stomach. Suroly, there ought to be more ono year sentences these duys of food restriction. Of courso, if he still makos a hog of himsolf, wo'll have to put up with the five until such time aa thero is a stomach inspection of nil magistrates bofore thoy are allowed to take their seats on tho bench. On Saturday Inst, Director General McAdoo boosted tho United States ruilway men's pay $300,000,000, making tho increases rotroactive as from January. He didn't mako his recommendation because of any great lovo for the working brother, but because there was no getting away from tho fact thnt tho cost of living had gone away up. Our Great Ones aro cither too addle-brain- od to aee what's ns evident as the sun in a clear noon sky, or too darned solflsh (which is much more likely) to do anything to relieve the financial burdens of their less fortunate fellows until tho said follows take the strike trail and show them who is really boss when it comos to a "show down." But wait! What we can do will bo ns nothing to whnt we'll do when every working mnn in Cnnada is it loyal union member, Believe me, thoso'11 bo aome times. Think of the hundreds of millions of dollars sliding towards Mr. Working Mini's jenna thnt now jump! from tho pants pockets of Mr. Plute. Get together, fellows, and hustle those days a Httlo nearer! We're simply aching for thoBe extra bucks. There is an argument being bandied ( about which runs somewhat liko this: Why should the shipyard employees! atriko for moro money whon they aro already getting a good denl higher pny j than tho tnen in the trenches? Here's | anothor argument: Why should tho shipyards employers want to hang on to more profits when they aro already making a great deal moro thun a whole battalion of men in tho trenches? N.Z.LABORPARTY International Conference Is to Arrange Equitable Terms of Peace Wellington, New Zealand—The Labor party of New Zealand has adopted peace resolutions demanding the universal abolition of conscription and of the munitions trado, in addition to the usual labor demands oi other countries. A clause, showing the suspicion with whieh England iB regarded by her colonies, insists that the British self-governing dominions shall be separately represented at the peace conference, Iro- land not excluded. Tho text of the terms follows: Text of Terms "That, as the governments of Europe havo failed utterly to preserve peace, or to bring the present war within measurable distance of a conclusion, we con- tond that only by organized systom of production for use, under democratic control, can a recurrence of auch calamities be permanently avoided. "We, therefore, urge that immediate negotiations bo initiated for an international conference for the purpose of arranging equitable terms of peace, on which conference tho working class organizations shall demand adequate representation, and the inclusion of women delegates, and wo further urge that the British Bolf-governing dominions (including Ireland) shall be granted separate representation thereon. "We submit that in framing the terms of a lasting peace, the following principles shall be observed: Plebiscite for -Alsace "1. The right of small nations, including Ireland, to political independence. "2. That the European countries invaded during the present war be immediately evacuated, and their future territorial integrity guaranteed—provided that the ownership of disputed territories shall be determined by a plebiscite of the inhabitants, under the protection of an international commission. This course would dispose of Alsace-Lorraine, Poland and similar cases on the democratic principle that all just government must rest on the contest of the governed. "3. That prior to tho diabandment of the combatant armies they shall be utilized, under international control, for the restoration of the devastated territories at the expense of tho invaders. "4. That where an amicable arrangement can not bo reached by the peace conference in regard to captured colonies and dependencies, such territories shall bo placed provisionally under international control. Open Foreign Policy "5. That the freedom of the seas be secured on the lines laid down by President Wilson of Amorica in his speech at Washington in May, 1916, in which he advocated: 'A universal association of the nations to maintain the inviolate security of the highway of the seas.' " NEW YORK.—With the ousting of the air craft board by President Wilson sensational disclosures are being mado on the manner in which the government has been looted of nearly a billion dollars. To date tho air ship programme has not developed a single plane. wom^WM^si What Is Your Answer? Out yon not spare 30 centi a day for a standard Canadian piano, now that yon are receiving BIG WAGES! Will you place music in your home, as your friends and neighbors have done? Or will you let this opportunity pass and after awhile pay muoh more for a piano? Our next shipment cannot be sold at our present low prices. We carry the largest stock of choice pianos in Vancouver. We sell The "New" Bell, The Haines Bros., The Williams New Scale—Pianos that are superior, in our opinion, to any other—pianos that are built in Canada. Pianos with good English names that are a credit to any home in the land. Big bargains in nsed pianos—$100 np. WHAT IS TOUR ANSWER? Why not do it now? MONTELIUS 524-528 LPlANO HOUSE Eg Oranville5t. PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS Canadian Northern Railway TBAHBOOHTmBNTAL Lowest Possible Passenger Fares —to— EASTERN DB8TDTATI0NB Modem Bqoipsssnt—Courteous Attendants Travel Comfort Consult Our Nearest Agent or Write dutbiot PAaanram aoent, ecu hastinos w, vanoouvbb Telephone Seymour 8488 PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS 1000 Homes Wanted at Once We have a large stock of Men's and Boys' Clothing—the very beat in Vancouver. We want an equal numbor of men and boys to make homes for our clothing. You want to be the best dressed man in Vancouver—you want a suit that you'll be satisfied with—one that will make you feel and look pleasant whenever you think of clothes. Tou know how you grouch and almost talk turkey when you get a poor suit. Eliminate your troubles—buy your clothes, from ub. 10% Discount to Veterans aad Boys in Khaki—A Dandy Watch With a Boy's Purchase of $10.00 or Over THE JONAH-PRAT CO. GORDON JONAH 401 HASTINOS STBEET FIT-BITE FABLOBS OEO. FBAT COB. HOMES GITV MERCHANTS BOOST the CLERKS' ONION _ OITY MERCHANTS believe the organized workers will respond to the get- together policy. _ CITY MERCHANTS know the value of organized purchasing power of the trades unionists of Vancouver. «J THE CLERKS' UNION stands for a square deal to the purchaser. <J THE CLERKS' UNION will see that thc buyer always gets a square deal. <J THE CLEfeKS' UNION makes it easy for thc purchaser. Tell him just what ' you desire to spend, etc., and he will assist you to make it go the limit and you can be sure of satisfaction. •J THE TRADES UNIONIST is entitled to thc best in the store, at the lowest possible price in return for his co-operation to eliminate thc Bunk from Retail Trade. q THE TRADES UNIONIST will readily comply with the resolution passed at his last meeting as requested by thc Clerks' Union. Confidence, that collective invisible personality, is the driving force in thc labor movement, and the absentees from last meeting can be trusted to sec thc UNION STORE CARD in thc window beforc making a purchase. q THE TRADES UNIONISTS OF VANOOUVER demand thc defoat of all deceiving demagogues of trade. Put your confidence in the Clerks' Union Store Card. $ **T THS PftOPMTY Of ANO I8SUIO H^THC : -Retail Qerblntemational Protective Association CLAMAN'S LTD., 163 Hastings Street West. DICK'S LTD., 63 Hastings Street Wost. WM. DICK, LTD., 33 Hastings Streot West. THOS. FOSTER & CO., LTD., 614 Granvillo Stroot POTTS ft SMALL, 410 Oranvillo Street. RICKSON'S, 820 OranviUe Stloot. FASHION CRAFT, 612 Oranvillo Stroet. J. N. HARVEY, LTD., 125-127 Hastings St. West J. A. FLETT 8s CO., 330 Hastings Street West. Thcflrst and only hardware store fur tho union man. J. BABLOW, Cigars, Cordova Streot. The first and only cigar storo with tlio Clerks' Union Storo Card, und a full line of Labol -cigars, tobacco, otc. THE INOLEDEW SHOE STORE—Two soles with but a singlo thought. Tho Union Man nnd Thc Inglodoiv Sole. Confidence, not Camouflage, is the Union Clerks' Slogan PAGE EIGHT THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FBIDAT. May 31, 3918 ONK VOLUNTEER IS WORTH MANY PRESSED MEN—WE VOLUNTEERED Claman's have faith in the workers of Vancouver WE demonstrated our faith when we established'a precedent and took out the first Union Store card in Vancouver.* Union men aro daily showing their faith in us and are realizing that our values are extreme, and our guarantee of satisfaction, a bona fide one. Help develop the spirit of real unionism between tbe public, the clerk and Claman's by doing your purchasing at this Onion store. . - ___ tba Home of Hart Schaffner k Marx Olothee Claman's Limited 153 HASTINOS STREET WEST SYDNEY UNIONS IN SPLENDID CONDITION Gains Made ln Practically All Trades While Unorganised Oet the Boot The labor condition in Sydney, N. 8., is in splendid condition at the presont time and iB making marked progress. There is not an organization in thc city but has greatly added to the membership during the present year, and in addition, aU have had an increase in their wage scales, and several a reduction in the length of the work day. At their last regular meeting the painters and decorators initiated a number of new members, and arc now organized nearly up to the 100 per cent. mark. When first organized five years ago the wages in this craft were $1.75 for a ten-hour day, at present the minimum is $4.50 and hours nine a day. The carpenters secured a substantial advance'on May 1st, while the plumbers and steaninttcrs have forced the bosses to lift their lockout and come to terms. The non-union workers here get from 30 to 50 per eent. less in wages than union men and work a larger number oi hours per day. Stated in concrete terms, the union label is powerful becauso it accomplishes by peaceful means, with absolute certainty and at little cost, that which the strike and boycott seek to accomplish, always at great cost and sacrifice. —THE— TROGADERO - CAFE ■■ under new management 166 Hastings Street Wert Pbone Sey. 936 IHE BEST PLAOE TO EAI IH VANCOUVER—UNION OABD Value Plus Style—for the Particular Man is the backbone of Semi- ready tailored-to-meas- ure service; and the apparel - individuality of the Semi-ready-clothed man is easily apparent. £ptm-mtng •Jatlorrh GU0.th.e0 FOR MEN for Spring and Summer 1918, embody a wide range of style-effects, from the most modish to the ultra-conserva- tive—at $18 to $50. We invite you to call and make comparisons from every - standpoint of clothes supremacy. THOMAS & McBAIN 655 GRANVILLE STREET VOU can save both time * and money by visiting Fashion-Craft shop, for the next clothes you need. Every style that is correct can be seen, and your tastes as well as your pocket suited. Prices range $20 to $45 SHOP OP U iflasljtmt- Craft" Thos. Foster •# & Co., Ltd. 514 Granville Street AS IHE E Conditions Are Developing Swiftly to the Point of Revolution Some Striking Utterances of Speakers in German Reichstag The situation from an international standpoint iB now more interesting than at any period since the declaration of war. The German offensive has more behind it than appears on the surface. It seems that tho minority group of Socialists are in possession of documentary evidence that convicts the junker clasB of planning the world slaughter, and using the wage slaves of allemaime ns spending money for their aggrandize taient The insistent demand for manhood suffrago in Prussia; the quarrels among tho military commanders; the revolt in Bohemia and tho general disruption in Austria alt point in the same direction. We are on tho eve of Btartling developments in Central Europe. The pleasing feature about all thiB is the courage of the Sociolista. Their boldness is remarkable when we take into consideration the drastic methods adopted by the ruling claBB of Germany to maintain its "law and order," Even Schcidcmnnn, the reactionary, is being forced to attack the governmont aB witness his speech on tho Bussian tragedy: "We (German Social Democracy) fought for tho defence of our country against Czarism; wo fought against the plans of conquest of tho Entente, but we fought as little for tho breakup of Russia as for tho suppression of Belgium independence, or for Langwy and Briey. We think it necessary to announce before the whole world that the policy which is being carried on against Russia is not our policy. "Are we to carry over into the days of poace the hatred of the whole world, wherewith today wo arc burdenedf Truly, it is time that words should go forth from an authoritative source into the world, other than words of terror- ism and confession of the gospel of force; words which might awaken confidence. * * * 'Instead we have had to read a speech in which the announcement is made to tho world that wo would even now make peace, but first it must be acknowledged that we have won. * * "For the great majority of the nation which we represent, I must most distinctly doclaro that we do not share the point^of view it expresses. On tho contrary, we decidedly repudiate it. Wo desire no humiliation of our opponents. We desire no place of power, which could bo won or maintained by gas shells. Wc deaire the peace which rests on the freedom, friendship and mutual trust of nations." Dr. Coin's speech in the Reichstag against thc Ukraine peace is too long to bo reproduced, but a few sentences will show itB quality: "German public opinion is being fed with hypocrisy nnd lies concerning the aim ns well as the origin nnd progress of the war * * * I deeply deplore that we-are rushing into the most horrible event of the war, this gaa offen-1 sive in the west, without the opportunity to make heard the voice of humanity in Germany * * * If tho military party wins on all sides, they will be lords in Europe, but they will freeze under the hatred of the whole of humanity. * * * Thc war is for the rich and the poor pay for it with their corpses * * * but, my lords nnd politicians, at the end of the tragedy, it is you who will be ruined and tho proletariat is sure to win, if indeed it has not already won * * * You may throw up ns many defences as you will * * * The Russian revolution will overleap, them * * * nnd if you cannot end the war by meanB of understanding and reconciliation, then thc peoples will themselves end it, "I bless the day when it will come to this. I bless tho dny when thc people will take their fate into their own hands againBt the princes and againat the statesmen; against the militarists, and nbove all, againat German militarism." Many moro speoches were delivered of a like character, and tbo junkers are despeiate. Tho present offensive ia their Inst throw. The United States iB being forced to line up with tho Bolsheviki of Russia. Tho treaty between Japan and China threatens the Americnn market in the lattor country. Trotsky is quite willing to lend an army against thc Germans if Uncle Sam will provide tho wnr material. It is to bo hoped that Trotsky nnd Lenino will be assisted by the forcea that are working and that their object will bo attained. It seems like a dream and too much to hopo for, but it la possible for an army of Russian Reds to entor Eastorn Prussia nnd be welcomed by tho proletariat of Germnny. Wc may yet bcc a mighty revolutionary power burst into boing in Central Europo; a power that will wipe out, not only tho last remnants of feudalism, but will be the menus of enabling thc workers of all lands to burst asunder the bonds that now bind them. BOILERMAKERS' OFFICIALS STOP FOOLISH ANTICS Speeding Up Fostered by Profiteers Was Progressing Nicely Wben Union Stepped in. LONDON.—An'attempt to cstabliBh- n record for hand rivetting at the shipyard of J. Crichton & Co. nt Snltncy, near Chester, wns stopped by officinls of the Boilcrmukcrs' society, according to the Daily Mail. Thia action was tnkon after a rivetting squad had driven 2125 (ive-cigths inch rivots into frames for ships iti six und one-half hours. The stopping of the attempt is believed to have resulted from tho cir- culnr sent out by Secretary Hill of the Boilermakers' society to branches declaring that rivetting contosts must be stopped and thnt memberB taking part in them would bo dealt with by the society. 20,000 women belong to the British Amalgamated Union of Co-operntlvc nnd Commercial Employees. The Latest and Best Styles in Bathing Suits and Caps FOB WOMEN Cotton Bathing Suits in navy blue at $1.85. Bathing Suits in cotton and wool mixture, in green, saxe blue, pearl grey, rose, brown or black, at $4.50. Wool Bathing Suits in navy, green, heliotrope, salmon pink, saxe blue, red, etc., with contrasting colors to trim, at $6.75 and $7.25. Bathing Caps in plain and fancy color effects at 60£, 751, B<¥ to $1.25 each. 575 Granville 'Phone Sey. 3540 UNION EATING-HOUSES IN THE OAPITAL OITY Official Roster Worthy of tb* support of Vancouver Island Workers VICTORIA, May 15.—Following is a list of cafes and restaurants in this city which are at present displaying tho international union card of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance: Tighe and Wheelers, TateB Btreet; Metropolis Cafe, Yates street; Whito Lunch, Ltd., No. 1, Yates atreet; Delhi Cafe, Yates street; King George Cafe, Government streot; Maryland Cafe, Government atreet; White Lunch, Ltd., No. 2, Government street; Queen'b Hotel, Johnson atreet; White Lunch No. 3, Johnson street; Vernon Cafe, Douglas street; Welcome Restaurant (Shipyards), Victoria West. A DIFFERENCE IN-VIEWPOINT Oa Tueaday the Vancouver Daily Provinco commented editorially as follows on the shipyard atriko: "This journal would not like to aay a word which would make the settlement of tho striko of the shipyard workers more difficult. On Saturday the hope was expressed that the men would resume work on Monday, pend ing the attompt of Senator Robertson to bring about a permanent agreement, giving security nnd stnbility to industrial conditions. But work has not been resumed, and industries which should be engaged in important war construction are standing idle, though many of the men who wero employed in them are enjoying exemption from military servico on tho ground that they are engaged in work necessary to the defence of thc Empiro. "Whilo matters aro in this condition the community is aware of these facts: The pay offered is equal to that earned in the snme industries in Puget Sound ports. It is larger pay thun haB over been earned in British Columbia sinco pioneer days, and is higher on tho average even in proportion to the coat of living than was received by the mon before the war. The most that is asked of the men in the mattor of time is an eight-hour day. The men have refused the terms of the award made by the commission of which Mr. Justice Murphy was chairman, an award that was generally considered favorablo and generous to thc employees. Lastly the work in question is war work, required for tho support of our armies in the field, and men hnve been exempted from military Bervice in order to perform it. The lowest pay in the schedule is several times larger than the pay of the mon who are risking their lives in thc battle line." The Province would do well to take a little study in economics, as the term "wages" is very evidently little 'understood by that journal. Wages aro not expressed in terms of money, but rather in tho amount of the necessities of life that the money wages received by tho workers will purchase. If we tako into, consideration tho fnct that the cost of living has risen nt n very conservative estimate at lease 05 per cent., and if the pro-war wage is considered, in comparison with presont wages, it will be found thnt the wages asked aro not in proportion to the increase in the coat of living by n considerable margin. In the aamo issue of the "Province" thc editor, who, by the way, has Borno understanding of "profits" if he has only a nodding acquaintance with ''wages," makes a pitiful attempt to justify thc position of the millers who have beon charged with making exceptional profits during tho lost year, which haB been estimated at tbe mod- crate rato of 25 per cent. Oh, no, the press would never try to hinder tho settlement of the present labor dispute, or any other for that matter, providing it is settlod in the interests of the profiteering claBB. "Sinners" at the Empress At Inst that \>lg play of human emotions fntitlrd "Hinni-rs" abb reached UN and will he. put in rehearsal Immediately for Its big production noxt week. Every stock company who has played this phenomenal play jironnunces It tho acms of dramatic excellence and asiilo from its great moral lesson, its story grips you from thc beginning uf the first art until the final curtain. Miss Elliott will havo another wonderful emotional pnrt with sunn- dramatic climaxes which will fairly raiso ynu out of your seat. Two new members of the company, Mr. Robert Athon and Mr. flhnnnan Balnbrldge. will make their Initial bow to Vancouver audiences, and both will have excellent parts In this famous atory. Thc book has been read from one end of the country to the other and how It escaped so long from being written into a play U one of those overflights that occur in the dramatic profession which go to make a play havo all the more drawing [lowers when lt does arrive. "Sinners" In iiimnn. Intense and so big In Its theme that every one feolR bettor for having seen It."" CONSCRIPT STRIKERS SAYS PREIENT OF G.W.V.A. Would Have Workers Meekly Submit to Gang of Profiteers Toilers Want to Rise Above the Dead Line of Slime and Poverty [By H. W. Watta] David Loughnan, president of the Great War Veterans Association of Bri tish Columbia, writing in The B. O. Veterans Weekly, saya that'' the act of go ing on strike iB criminal, and the proper course of settlement would be for tho government to conscript every striker, put him in khaki and either allow him to work in the shipyards on soldiers' pay, or go to the front and flght." He belabors organizers and accuses the union official of being the prime mover in the present strike. It seems to me that David haa set out to act as an agont for plutocracy, even if he is laboring under the delusion that it is democracy. The government, of whom the returned soldier is finding plenty of fault, has been expecting much and receiving very little, is called upon to plnco its iron hand on these workmen and crush them into submission. He would not have tho toiling masses rise above the dead line of subserviency. He does not seem to know or realize that these men are striking for freedom on tho industrial field, and for conditions that must prevail after the war is over. Pride, courage, defiance, nerve — norvo, vision nnd decision—these nre whnt tho stunned and weary toilers uoed now, right now, roused by the bold proud fow who are now undermining the thrones of industrial toasters and political parasites. It is absolutely impossible for the rulers of this or any other nation to givo justice and freedom to the toiling masses because they can not think justice and freedom for n class whom they rule and rob. The plutocrats have been "politely approached" and courteously asked to "kindly consider requests" millions of times, and ninety-nine times out of one hundred the plutocrats have told the workers to go to hell. But when tho work- era have taken up the matter of enforcing their demands, by their industrial power, there has always been nnother story to tell. The yellow preBS and' hired thugs have always rallied round the black flag of the profiteers. And this will continue to be the case so long as this society, whieh is composed of millionaires and paupers lasts. Thero is not a wage high enough, nor hours short enough, in effect anywhere today but reflects on tho welfare of the workors as a whole. The higher wages go or tho shorter the houra are made in nny industry, under any condition, has its immediate and lasting effect upon tho under dog—the low paid wage worker—as well as the maimed and crippled veterans of a world bloodfcst. Whatever gains are mado on the industrial field todny will be that much gained for the Have "the label" in your next suit LET the label on your next suit read: "Tom- the-Tailor," and I'll risk your further business. In fact, if I don't please you with it I won't ask for any money or for your order again. I bet my reputation on every suit that goes out from either of my stores. I do this beoause I know I'm betting safe. My label on a suit means that it is conscientiously made of genuine imported British wool; cleverly cut and carefully, tailored, and finished by union craftsmen. It means that I guarantee the tailoring and give tho manufacturer's guarantee for the fabrio as well as my own. When you look at these prices and realize that wool has doubled in value, oan you ask for better reasons fqj- having me mako your suit? Hen's Salts to Ueunre from $35 Womra'i Hu-UUoied Mtt from $45 wbr. 632&WfV/lLE 314HASTIWSW- UNION SHOP toilers and the children of the future. Consider, David Loughnan, the glorious recent and rapid creation of the human brain when it has had opportunity and inspiration. Study too the hunger and passion that now begin to agitate tho toilers of the human race. Study also the conquests that have been made by man over nature to set himself freo, free from uature'a restrictions. Contemplate tho triumphant preparation to release himself from the shrivelling struggles for bread, with leisure and energy remaining for thc many sublime tosks and ennobling plcnsnres above tho dead line—study these things and you will ronlize how petty, stupid and brutal are tbe statesmanship, tho leadership, the aims and plans that propose less than all of life for nil of us. Place side by side the barren sodden eras of thc far gone paat, tho recent era of Bwift achievement, and tho high and potent aspirations pf the urging present, nnd you will realize the swinish savagery of any proposals that the inighty multitude of wage-workers shall now pitch their tentB in stupid sloth in thc slime and povorty nnd declare, "this present is enough. We have marched far—and far onough. Wo have gained all we need, nil we cnn eat and wear. We have had enough pleasure nnd leisure, Let ub "carry on" for thc profiteers;" Nol Novor 1 We say to the present masters of thc earth: We will tear down your legalized power to plunder. Wc will cast your cunning constitutions into tho lumbor room of oblivion. We will explode your arguments made by your purchased prostitutes to support your right to rule and rob us and our childron of the splendid fruits of hnlf a million years of humnn progress. Wo nre just beginning to livo -and it feels good and we want more of it. And to the Great War Veterans we say: Wo know you have black sheep in your organization. They are to be found in overy organization. You know this industrial fight is as much in your interests as in ours. You are not to blame for the actions of n few, nor for tho ran tings of an over enthusiastic old warrior. Ho has probably digested too much of the slobber of the daily pross. Ho is half-way with us now. nnd we hope that he will Btudy our side a littlo more nnd got a larger idea of life —of the struggles of the toiling masses for more of tho big, best thingB in life. ROCHESTER, N. Y.—All motormen and conductors employed by the New York Stato railway, Rochester, left work last Saturday. Not a car wheel turned and thousands of people were forced to walk to work. Bolshevism after the war, • is the* great menace tho United States will have to face, Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, told members of the Denver Bar association In .an address. MR. UNION MAN! Ton owe lt to yourself to economise Would yoa consider tt economic*! to purofcue Teas and Coffees in tins wbetr yoa may hsve the ssme valae from onr store tt % much reduced price t THINE IT OVER We Sou In Balk Only Dickson's Tou, and Ooflwi An of Exceptional Valuo Dickson's Importing Tea and Coffee 317 Columbia St. Phone Sey. 613 Three reasons why Trades Unionists should patronize Dick's Stores for Men 1—Because these stores—all of them—display the Union Store Card and every clerk can show the card of the Retail Clerks' Union. 2—Because Dick's stores carry the largest stock of Men's Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings in the West and these are offered at a price which, in every line, cannot be equalled elsewhere for either quality or price. 3—Because Dick guarantees satisfaction on everything you buy in his stores. Everything is sold under the distinct understanding "Your Money's Worth or Your Money Back.". Patronize Dick's Stores for Men—Do your duty by your fellow Unionist, your own pocket and your personal satisfaction. Dicks Limited 53 Hastings St. West Wm. Dick Limited 33-45-47-49 Hastings St. East 10% Off to Returned Soldiers
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Title | The British Columbia Federationist |
Publisher | Vancouver : The B.C. Federationist, Limited |
Date Issued | 1918-05-31 |
Geographic Location | Vancouver (B.C.) |
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Language | English |
Notes | Publisher changes in chronological order: Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (1912) ; The B.C. Federationist, Ltd. (1912-1915) ; The B.C. Federationist, Limited (1915-1922) ; The B.C. Federationist (1922-1923) ; The British Columbia Federationist (1923-1925). |
Identifier | BC_Federationist_1918_05_31 |
Series | BC Historical Newspapers |
Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2017-03-28 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0345474 |
Latitude | 49.261111 |
Longitude | -123.113889 |
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