THE B. C. TRADES UNIONIST and Union Label Bulletin. ISSUED BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL, IN THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR. Vol. Ill, No. 12. VANCOUVER, B. C, DEC, 190.\ $1.00 Per Tear. *} Vancouver Trades and Labor Council Proceedings t"1'. Vancouver, B. C, Nov. 5, 1908. The regular meeting of the Trades and Labor Council was held tblB evening ln Labor Hall, President Pettipiece ln the chair. Credentials were received as follows: Bro. Carpenters, P. W. Dowler vice Bro. Campbell; Bridge and Structural Ironworkers, Peter Colley vice Allan Foote; Tailors, Bro. O'Connor vice A. B. Paterson; Musicians. A. Evans and Mr. Toombs; Bartenders, Jas. Mclsaacs, Jas. Edwards and Chas. Lees. Communications were received as follows: Musicians' Mutual Protective Union re strike now ln progress. It was decided to extend the musicians what moral support the council could. Tailors' Union re condition of the ball. Go to executive. Invitation from B. C. Antl-Tuber- culosl8 Society re laying cornerstone of sanitarium at Tranqullle. Filed. From parliamentary committee asking that a person be*appointed from this council and he secure the necessary authority to make out naturalization papers. Concurred in. Pattern Makers' Association announcing that they would be affiliated with this council after next meeting. Filed. The parliamentary committee reported having Interviewed Coroner Jeffs in respect to the death of a Hindu near McGee station. The- latter had not considered an inquest necessary, although It was caused by the block of the tackle breaking. He had not examined the equipment'to see If It was in proper condition. The coroner experienced great difficulty ln getting evidence. The committee appointed to Investigate a complaint made by the proprietor of the Gold Dollar Cafe reported that this man had a Just grievance and should be returned his 15. On motion It wss referred to the Allied Printing Trades for a report. ��� Reports from Unions. Tailors���Hewitt on Richards street is now non-union and will employ none hut non-union men. Boilermakers���Delegate announced thai the gasometer being erected for the gas company in Grandview was being done by non-union men. Dele. McVety of the Machinists' Union, and who was one of the executive during the recent C. P. R. strike, addressed the council and showed some of the causes that were responsible for the unsatisfactory settlement. Receipts, $64.70; disbursements, $125.86. ��� ��� * Vancouver, B. C, Nov. 19, 1908. The regular meeting of the Trades and Labor Council was held this evening in Labor Hall, President Pettipiece in the chair. Communications were received as follows: From the parliamentary committee re civic elections. From F. G. Morris re civic elections. From Social Democratic party re' civic elections. That of the parliamentary committee suggesting that we take part in the civic elections, was concurred in and the other two were filed. Accounts were ordered paid as follows: Province, $4.50; J. C. Morti- more, $1.50; interest on mortgage, $14; expense incurred In fixing up committee room, $13.70. The executive committee recommended that steps be taken to redeem all outstanding certificates against Labor Hall and that the question of building be deferred until this has been accomplished. Concurred in. In the matter of the Gold Dollar Cafe affair, a receipt for $5 was read, which completely adjusts matters. Reports from Unions. Cooks and Waiters���Announced that they were getting out cards of the fair houses in the city, bnt before completing these they desired a committee from this council to assist in squaring up a couple of houses. Bartenders ��� Dele. Edwards announced that he was now the business agent of this organisation. Not a bar la the city could live, he said, If the patronage of the union men was withdrawn. He hoped that the union men would assist fn whatever way they could. He also asked that a oommlt- $'&���#.:���:. tee of three be appointed to Patronizing Our them in settling up with several houses. Tailors���Trade still dull. Brooks, a non-union man, had started up again on Georgia street. Lawson, on the same street, is also non-union. The president having called attention to cases of destitution in South Vancouver, he and the secretary were appointed a committee to investigate. They were authorized to spend $10. The bartenders' delegate donated $5 and would come through with $10 more for such a purpose. The delegates were also Instructed to bring the matter .Wore their respective unions. President Pettipiece suggested to the parliamentary committee the consideration of the inadequate supply of free school books; election deposits, and the advisability of getting on the voters' list. The secretary was instructed to write the city council asking that a referundum vote be taken on the question of an eight-hour day for civic employes and the Insertion of such a clause in the civic contracts. The president appointed the organization committee to co-operate with the bartenders and cooks and waiters. AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF CAR* PENTERS AND JOINERS. PRINTERS' HOME LIBRARY. The board of trustees of the International Union Printers' Home at ita recent annual session decided to begin the construction of the library addition ln honor of the late Congressman Amos Cummings, who bequeathed to the home his valuable 5,000 volume library. The basement and first story will now be completed at a cost of $20,000. This wil afford room for 1,000 volumes stored about the building and will otherwise relieve the crowded condition of the home. Later the second and third stories will be added at a total cost of $50,000. The addition will be of stone, to correspond with the main structure, erected in 1892. It will contain an auditorium and other features and will be 40 by 60 feet. The trustees also decided to add several acres to the home site for tents and cottages for the use of printers' families. The home is full of Inmates and prosperous. The first of a series of entertainments to be held during the winter months under the auspices of the above society was held on Wednesday night, November 25th, In the Labor Hall, when a grand concert was given. Alderman Morton presided. The program, consisting of fifteen numbers, included: Selection, "Marl- tania," by orchestra; baritone solo, "The Skipper," by D. Mathleson; tenor solo, "McGregor's Gathering," by Bro. A. Hutchison; soprano solo, "For All Eternity," by Miss Cuttle; cornet solo by Mr. Balfour; humorous song, "All for the Sake of Flnnigan," by Mr. Graham; duet, "Life's Dream Is O'er," by Bros. Key and Phillips; descriptive piece, "The Smithy," by the orchestrs; recitation, "The Last Shot," a tale of the Indian mutiny, by Mr. H. H. Phillips; violin solo, "Echoes from Ayrshire," by Bro. Gray; soprano solo, "Someone," by Miss Anile; baritone solo, "True as the Compass," by Bro. J. Key; humorous song, "The Bruise of the Ancient Lights," by Bro. A. Phillips; "March," by the orchestra. The orchestra, under the leadership of Bro. J. Gray, consisted of eight players and were very enthusiastically received, particularly ln "The Smithy." Each of the other numbers were good, nearly all having to respond to encores. Mrs. Woods at the piano made an excellent accompanist, and a great deal of the success of the evening was attained by the very able manner in which she played at that Instrument. At the conclusion, Bro. Reld thanked all who had ln any way helped to make the evening the great success It was, after which one of the most pleasant evenings was brought to a close by all singing the national anthem. The federal high court of New South Wales on August 6th declared the registration of the trade union label as a trade mark unconstitutional. m^g Forgetto Nation the Trade. Unionist ��� I I I I I 1 ��� ���** iriME&S^l&j&ta'-fflj*^ s- . ��� ������' ��� *'v_.' I ��� .' THI ���. C. TRADES UNIONIST, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. i | I I ��� ��� BSi Uses this label And Union men will yet good Union Clothes and good serTtice from him. No other place Christian ^Peterson 834 Pender St. Opposite Orpheum / THE TRUMPET CALL. HON. FRANK OLIVER. ... By James H. Cotton. Blow ye tho silver trumpet. And shout the rally-call; The long, long night is ending For the tollers, one and all. The breezes on the land, The waters of the sea, Beat time unto a single strain- Earth's workers shall be free. Fling open wide the doors On the sweatshop's baleful air; Proclaim the jubilation To those who'ro dying there. And call the little children Forth from the thund'rlng mill; No golden god shall sacrifice Their bodies to his will. Proclaim a year of jubilee, Throughout the groaning land; And usher In true liberty��� The brotherhood of man. Proclaim the Golden Age Upon old freedom's soil; Let greedy men no longer steal The fruits of honest toll. Away with ev'ry demagogue��� Blind leaders of the blind��� And give us men of heart. Instead, Of conscience, and of mind. The battle of the ages ��� Shall be fought and won; Of they that waste and raven, This race Is almost done. A weakling's blood Is water, A virile man's is red, And sacred is the toiler's cause For which his blood Is shed. Among the speakers who appeared in Kootenay for Mr. Smith Curtis as he had already done for Mr. Duncan Ross in Yale-Cariboo, Is that excellent friend of organized labor, Hon. Frank Oliver, minister of the Interior. Mr. Oliver, as is well known, controls the Edmonton Bulletin which lie personally edited until he was taken Into the cabinet. It is the government organ In Northern .\lberta and does all the official printing for the Alberta government as well as any that Is done in that part of the country for the government at Ottawa. In other words the Bulletin practically lives on the government pap which it receives. Notwithstanding this the Bulletin office is the only "unfair" shop In the city of Edmonton. Every printing office In that city, except the Bulletin, recognizes the union and pays the union scale and therefore has the right to use the union label. Repeated requests have been made of Mr. Oliver's paper to recognize the union but all such approaches have been met with instant rebuffs. Mr. Oliver and his paper are determined that they will have nothing to do with the union.��� Nelson News. THE SIGNIFICANT PARALLEL. :, m ��� i ���:������<��� So blow this silver trumpet And raise the standard high; The day of victory has come. Our triumph now Is nigh. ���...''. , ���N. Y. Call. When A. M. Stirton says (From Star Dust to Socialism, p. 20) of the period of confusion ln which the change from the feudal system to the capitalist system was being made: "The most drastic and bloody legislation was now Invoked to drill this new-formed proletariat into shape as wage-slaves. Men found .without work were branded, mutilated, flogged and hanged. No finite mind can grasp the horrors of this period." Read this over again and then read just the news given in the daily papers and perhaps they will give you some faint realisation of the hell-caldron that Is seething all about us. MENTAL REVOLUTION FIRST. The noise of guns Is not all there is to epochs In the world's history. Physical force is not the essence, but merely the accompaniment of revolutions. The resort to physical force is made by those resisting the revolution. To illustrate: Tho French Revolution was the most thoroughgoing class upheaval known. The oncoming capitalist class overturned feudalism, the then existing social order, and enthroned itself. This was the revolution. It was accompanied by the conquest of the political power by the Third Estate. The battlefields were the hustings, the weapon was the ballot. The elections were hotly contested. Noble and capitalist strove for seats in the Third House. The capitalists won. Tho thousands of heads that roled off the scaffold; the massacres that dyed France purple; these were Incidents that occurred AFTER the peaceful parliamentary victory won by the capitalists over their feudal lords. When the victors resorted to physical force it was for the purpose of keeping what they had won. It was the defeated feudal government that first made an appeal to arms. The Civil War in the United States was the result of the Smith's refusal to abide by the fiat of the ballot box. In the instances given It will be noticed that physical force was not resorted to by the revolutionists. Each revolution was peacefully accomplished by the ballot. It was the overthrown parties thatappealed to the sword, and the revolutionists victorious at the polls were, as a matter of course, victorious on the field of physical force also. Education must precede intelligent action, otherwise a man will not know to what purpose to use his weapon. _ Agitation that would call to arms first is insane. A man does not gain a knowledge of what Is to be done from the means by which to accomplish a purpose. Grabbing a gun will* not make a man better Informed upon the social question than if he seizes the ballot.���The People. THE SAME IN CANADA. The New York World predicted some weeks ago that probably fifteen hundred thousand men would be disfranchised ln the United States this year as a result of the hard times��� workingmen who have lost their jobs during the last twelve months and have had to go from place to place In quest of employment and have not had time to acquire a residence qualifying them to vote. While It Is Impossible to be at all sure as to the accuracy of the figures, there can be no doubt that this has happened ln an enormous number of cases, more than in any previous national election. And it cannot be doubted that the Socialist Party suffered more than any other from this cause. MANY QUESTIONS TERSELY ANSWERED. By Will R. Shier. "What is the difference between the Socialist party and tbe Independent labor parties?" The difference between revolution and reform! ��� ��� ��� "How will the transfer of capital from private to public hands take place���by compensation, confiscation or competition?" In whatever way the majority may decide! ��� ��� ��� "How will this or that thing be managed under Socialism?" The people of tomorrow will doubt* less be competent to manage their own affairs without consulting the cut-and-drled plans we of today may be presumptions enough to draw up. ��� ��� ��� "What have Socialists done besides criticizing the existing order of things?" They have organized a world-wide political movement of the working class whose voting strength has in* creased from 67,000 in 1867 to nearly 8,000,000 in 1907; produced a scientific and philosophical library such as no other organization, the Christian church excepted, can boast of; mould ed public opinion to an extent that Is incalculable; wrung reforms from capitalist governments which only the fear of revolution would have made them grant; prevented wp-s between nations by their timely Interposition; and inspired millions of working people with an ideal which makes them sturdy, think and work in a cause that will benefit all humanity as well as themselves. An iv Pull sre the most comfortable suspenders because the principle st their back adjusts itself to every bend of the body. Every pair guaranteed. Look tor "Pi-wtdemt" on the buckles. Trimmings can* slot rust lladeheavyor light, wide or narrow. n - i Patronizing Our Advertizers ���t Forget to Mention the Trades Unionist ._,,,- ������" tZLYYli rteftt ,��� -��,-��� -rL+j i.atna M';, I i^T^m -���������- - ; THI 1. C. TRADI8 UNIONIST, VANCOUVER. RRITI8H COLUMBIA. ��� r Patronise THE SPROTT-SHAW BUSINtSS INSTITUTE 836 Hastings St., Vancouver. If you wish a first-class course in Bookkeeping, Commercial Law, Penmanship, Gregg Shorthand, Pitman Short hand. Touch Typewriting, Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Telegraphy. Instruction Individual Teachers all Specialists R. J. SPROTT, B. A., Principal H. A. SCRIVEN, B.A., Vice President. J. R. CUNNINGHAM, Sec. XL AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR HA8 CONCLUDED 1908 CONVENTION President Oompers Re-elected���Toronto Convention City for 1909. President���Samuel Oompers, Washington, D. C. First Vice-President���James Duncan, Quincy, Mass. Second Vice-President���John Mitchell. Spring Valley, 111. Third Vice-President���James O'Con- nell, Washington, D. C. Fourth Vice-President���Max Morris, Denver, Colo. Fifth Vice-President���D. A. Hayes, Philadelphia, Penn. 8lxth Vice-President, William D. Hu- ber, Indianapolis, Ind. Seventh Vice-President, Joseph F. Valentine, Cincinnati. Eighth Vice-President, John R. Al- pln, Boston Mass. Fraternal delegates to .the British Congress���John P. Frey, Editor of the Moulder's Journal, and B. A. Larger, of the United Qarment Workers of America. Fraternal delegate to Canadian Trades Congress, 1909 convention at Quebec���Jerome Jones, of the Georgia Federation of Labor and Editor of the Journal of Labor. Convention city for 1909���Toronto, Canada. The above Is the result of the selection of the American Federation of Labor. The Executive Council, which is made up of the officers, shows no change, with the exception of the substitution of John R Alpin for Daniel O'Keefe, who withdrew. Mr. Gompers was re-elected to the office he has held since the organisation of the federation ln 1881, with the exception of one year. LYNCH NOT AN APPLICANT. 8CHOOL TRU8TE6 ELECTIONS. Indianapolis Ind., Nov. 2, 1908. Mr. Frank A. Kenedy, Editor The Western Laborer, Omaha, Nebraska. Sir:���In your issue of Saturday, October 31st, the following paragraph appears: "A. Maurice Low, Washington correspondent of the Boston Herald, in reporting an Interview with Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus, says that President J. M. Lynch of the I. T. U. Is an applicant for Frank P. Sargent's position of immigration commissioner. The Boston Herald is a responsible newspaper and Mr. Low signs his name to his interview. If Lynch made application for Sargent's job he is not even in Dan Keefe's class. Keefe had the nerve to do his stunt in the open." I now Quote from the Washington dispatch under date of October 14th and signed by A. Maurice Low:, "Mr. Straus said he had received at least one hundred applications for tho place, among them being several applications from men who had been active labor leaders. It is stated that these include ex-Chief Lynch, of the Typographical Union." In the paragraph contained hi your issue of October 31st and quoted herein, you say that Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus says "that President J. M. Lynch, of the I. T. U., is an applicant for Frank P. Sargent's position of immigration commissioner." According ^ to the author of the canard, A. Jiaurice Low, Secretary Straus said nothing of the kind. I have an idea that you knew very well when you read the Low despatch, the particular ex-chief of the typographical union Mr. Straus must have had in mind. I am also firmly convinced that you knew that I had. not applied for the position of commissioner of immigration, nor any other position within the gift of the Republican party, or any other party. Stated in other terms, I believe that you deliberately misrepresented the matter. Let me also suggest that if you publish any portion of this letter or make any reference to It, that the letter be given ln full. If It Is garbled, It will be another instance of attempted misrepresentation. Fraternally, (Signed) JAMES M. LYNCH. 8PLENDID LABOR VOTE. Nominations for officers for the ensuing six months of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council take place on the first Thursday ln January; elections, Thursday, January 7th. President Pettipiece will not he a candidate for re-election. A Result of First Socialist Party Campaign . Very Encouraging. The result of Macleod district (Alberta) election was declared at Clars- holm on the afternoon of Saturday last as follows: Herron (Con.) 2,935 Macdonald (Lib.) 2.832 Harrington (Soc.) 662 . Herron's majority over Macdonald Is 802, and over Harrington is 2,273. Total vote polled, 6,229 Our Advertizers Don't The Socialist party at Seattle Is again taking a lively interest ln the educational system of that city. Two candidates are up for the trusteeship. Their platform follows: 1. Enough school buildings to be built immediately to accommodate ali. Ample playgrounds, baths and gymnasiums. Free medical attendance. School buildings to be open for public assemblages when not otherwise in use. 2. Fewer 'pupils to each teached and more and better paid teachers. 3. Teachers to be encouraged to organize along labor union lines. 4. Teachers' tenure, permanent during efficiency. 5. Women teachers to be paid the same salary ~A% men teachers for the same work. 6. Better salaries for janitors and other employes. 7. Compulsory attendance of all chll- dred under fifteen. 8. Free meals and free clothing, if needed, to keep children from necessity of work. 9. Night schools ln every ward to accommodate those deprived of an early education. 10. Greatest attention to be paid to the lower grades. 11. Free kindergartens for all children between three and six years of age. 12. A general, scientific, industrial and physical education guaranteed to every child. 13. Such a general administration of the school system as will best serve the interests of the working class. 14. School buildings to be constructed by union labor. INTERNATIONAL TYPROGRAPHI- CAL UNION. The A. F. of L. reports show the following from the I. T. U., June 1st, 1907, to May 31st, 1908: Charters Issued, 61; surrendered, 8. Increases ln wages were secured through new wage scales In 83 cities. Strike benefits and special assistance'to locals, 1667,776.97. Death benefits, $38,660. Donations to other unions, $1,075. In March, 1905, the eight-hour day prevailed ln the jurisdiction of only 1* unions. As a result of the general strike which was inaugurated In August, 1905, the eight- hour day is now ln force in the jurisdiction of 565 locals. Under the jurisdiction of what union shall we place the airship operators? tf Na :_* It. Sauer Phone 1826. Eagle Sign works Neat, Reasonable and Quick 63 Cordova St. West IN THE INTERIOR. Things have been very quiet In Fernie since the' election, however, there has been plenty of rain, and of course the streets here are thick with mud. It Is about time that the city people got a move on and did something to remedy this state of affairs. Since the fire, Fernie has been the dumping ground for all out of works ln and around this locality, and although a great deal of building has been going on, the labor market has been constantly overstocked, and my advice to labor power pedlars Is to give this place a wide berth, especially as living is very high in this district. Having occasion to visit Cranbrook, I found that the Socialist movement had not taken much hold in that place. However, I hunted up a couple of Socialists and there ought soon, especially for a town of that size, to be a local organized. From Cranbrook I visited all places enroute to Fernie, and I must say I met many men searching for employment, which I am afraid they never found. Most of the lumber companies through here have made their- men sign contracts to the .effect that no wages would be paid until May 1st, 1909, the rate of wages being $1.75 to $2.25 per diem, with incidental stoppages of 75 cents per day for board and other stoppages for poll tax, doctor, library, etc., besides have to buy at the company's store at their price. It is safe to assume that the wages received next May, after six months hard toll, won't amount to a great deal, and it is only on these conditions that the mills and camps can be work* ed this winter, owing to bad trade. The men are enjoined to stand by the company at one particular place, and the bills posted up state that all wages come from labor. Well, who would have thought it, but they omitted that all wealth came from labor. However, I had conversation with quite a few men in my travels, and it Is now a certain fact thst tor them Socialism is the only remedy for unemployment. F. HYATT. sVo*%^l> VtU��U'S'XS^H\SHBlOSSO��S 5T IN H C llO>^ T IN H C the Trades UotakL . jRjn ,'K' >. ,:.; j I . U.v '# fa s \ $ iiitiJU ���**.** iui . THI 8. a TRADI8 UNIONIST, VANCOUVIR, 1RITI8H COLUMBIA. ' I* m, i Suits or Overcoats $15 Made-to-order, made-to-flt, made- to-measure, made-to-satlsfy. Union men should wear Union Made Clothes, If they want the best. Our Clothes are right. Our prices are right. Leave your measure with us. The Scotland Woolen Mills Company Tbe Big Union Tailors 8TRIDE8 MADE BY LABOR MOVEMENT Workers Organizing In Canada, Says Oompers. Dominion Secretary of Trade* and Labor Congress Reports Enthusiastic Progress At the meeting of the American Federation of Labor at Denver, tbe annual report of President Gompers, which deals at considerable length with his so-called political stand, as well as other Important matters affecting the Federation, was read. Referring to the Labor movements ln Canada, Mr. Gompers says: "It Is with satisfaction that I can report the great growth ln the labor movements among our co-workers ln the Dominion of Canada. Those entrusted with the affairs of the movements both local and provincial, in the Dominion, are so earnest and'loyal that they see to it that the interests of the workers are promoted both nationally and internationally. "It Is interesting to note tnat despite the efforts of those who would sunder the reciprocal and beneficial international fraternal relations which exist among the workers of Canada, the United States and the entire continent of America, the bonds of unity and fraternity are constantly and more firmly cemented. The frequent intercourse of representative labor men with our fellows' on both sides of the border, aided hy special organisers. John T. Flett, and the volunter organisers' work of unification of the aims and aspiration of the workers are bringing beneficially economic and material results. The exercise of legislative and political rights must, of course, always he mutually recognised and conceded. "In a report recently made hy the secretary of the Dominion Trades A Labor Congress, whoa we honor and i with us to-day in the capacity delegates to our conference, -P. M. Draper says: "Without ���jy exaggeration it can be said that 688 Hastings St. never ln the history of the labor movements in Canada has such progress been shown in the organization of the workers. The knowledge of power when united has swept throughout the length and breadth of the country and despite the old moth-eaten appeals to prejudice and self-interest, despite misrepresentation, persecution and coercion, the forces of labor have continued to unite. " To-day the organized workers in Canada breathe the same aspirations, harbor the same ambitions and struggle for the same end, namely, the elevation and betterment of the masses of toilers who suffer, not only from the 'slings and arrows' of outrageous fortune, but from the oppressive and unjust laws and their prejudicial ad- niinistraton. uncivilized conditions surrounding the every-day worker, men, women and children and more than the thousands and one ills that affect the flesh. " 'Unbounded enthusiasm Is the keynote of the movement In Canada. In every province throughout Canada, from British Columbia In the west to Nova Scotia in the east, the uplift has begun, the eyes of the tollers are at last opened to the futility of dependence upon others than themselves. They see the necessity for strong international organizations. The urgency for sending their own representatives to the legislature to take part in making the laws which they must obey, has appealed to them as never before. A healthy optimism inspires the whole movement ln such a way as to give promise of the beneficial results. " 'The two strongest features of the labor movement In Canada at this juncture are: First ��� Unswerving fidelity to the cause of international trade unionism; and, secondly, an equal loyalty to Independent political action support of the candidature or representative of labor.'" Money talks all the time. It can be as an effective "striker" if only spent for union- purposes.���Seattle Union Record. MILLI0N8 EXPENDED FOR FIGHTING EFFECT8 ONLY Noted Professor Proves Economy and Wisdom of Spending Lesser Sum and Removing Cause. Acording to Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale, in a paper at the International Congress on Tuberculosis recently held In Washington, the "great white plague" costs In hard cash over $1,000,- 000,000 a year. There are several reasons why the cost is so frightful. In the first place, more people die of consumption than anything else. Professor Fisher estimates that consumption kills 138,000 every year in the United States. This is equal to the death from typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, appendicitis metingitis diabetes smallpox and cancer all put together. Then again, it generally takes three years to die, during which time the poor victim can earn little or nothing. Finally, the scourge picks out is victims when they are young men and young women, at the very time they are beginning to earn money. The cost of such Items as doctors' bills, medicines, nursing and loss of earnings before death comes amounts to over $2,400 in each case, while the earning power which "might" have been" if death had not come brings the total cost to at least $8,000. If this is multiplied by the 138,000 deaths we find the cost is bigger than the almost incalculable sum of $1,000,- 000,000. Professor Fisher estimates that over half of this cost generally falls on the luckless victim himself; but the cost Is over $440,000,000 a year to others than the consumptive. This enormous loss falls on the family and friends, or on charitable or public institutions., As a matter of self-defense it would be worth while to the community, Professor Fisher shows, in order to save merely a quarter of the lives now lost by consumption, to invest $5,500,000,- 000. At present only a fraction of 1 per cent of this money is being used to fight the disease. PRESSMEN'S UNION. The pressmen and assistants make the following showing for the year In a report to the A. F. of L. just published: Charters issued, 32; surrendered, 13. Gain in- membership, 940. Number of strikes, 31; won, 5; compromised, 24. Number of persons involved, 1,152. Fifty cents average gain in wages per member per day. Eight-hour day secured in 174 cities in the past year without strike. Attempt to reduce wages were successfully resisted. Cost of strikes, $3,450. Death benefits, $13,000. Donations to other unions, $1,800. A GOULISH FAL8EHOOD. There Is something particularly hideous in the statement of a Chicago press agency In the statement that "only drunkards' children are hungry in the windy city." As if the fact that the children of those who do the work of the world were starving were not enough of a burden. It is necessary that they should be mocked by those whom their toll has enriched. It would be bad enough even if it were true. Even if it were a fact that the workers, worn out by overwork and the horror of out of work, had sought refuge in the insensibility of intoxication, the indictment would still lie against those who had exploited them. But the whole thing Is a lie. In spite of the efforts of "scientific philanthropists" who have prostituted themselves to the service of those who live upon the labor of the fathers of these children in order to show that the vices of the workers themselves are responsible for the condition of their children, the fact becomes more and more evident every day that it Is lack of opportunity to work and produce that is responsible for the hunger of fifteen thousand school children.���New York Call. BOOKBINDERS' UNION. In an official report the Bookbinders' union makes the following showing to the A. F. of L. for the current year: Charters-issued, 8. Strike for the eight-hour day throughout the trade was inaugurated October 1st. 1907, and it has been successful to the extent of 85 per cent., 550 members still on strike to make the effort entirely successful. Cost of strike, $165,508.95. Death benefits, $8,250. I ��� When Our Advertizers Don't the Trades Unionist ��� I THE B. C. TRADES UNIONIST. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. �� investigate and buy your clothes from tbe stote that handles uuion-made clothes. We carry labels on all our goods. Sole Ag nts tor PEABODY'S RAILROAD KING OVER- ALLS AND SARGENT GLOVES (Johnston, Kerfoot ��Co. 123 and 127 Hastings SL W < THE TRADE8 AND LABOR CONGRESS OF CANADA By P. M. Draper The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada owes Its Inception to the forethought, the wisdom and the active initiative of the organized labor elements of Toronto, exercised through the Central Trades Assembly, the prototype of the present District Trades and Iaabor Council of the centre of patience, perseverance and unflinching adhesion to sound trade unionism and the cause of ALL who work for wages. In 1873���thirty-four years ago���the Trades Assembly of the city of Toronto Issued a call for the holding of a convention of representatives of the trades unions of the country. The appeal was well responded to throughout Ontario, and on the 23rd of September of that year the first organized Labor Congress of Csnsda began Its sessions ln the Trades Assembly Hall, ln Toronto, there being forty-three delegates in attendance. These delegates ��� .Represented trade organizations ln Toronto, Hamilton, London, Ottawa, St. Catharine, Seaforth, Bowmanville and Cobourg, all ln Ontario. * That the "labor men," who met for the first time ln Toronto ln 1873, were fully seised of the needs of tbe time is evidenced by the nature and scope of the subjects upon which the Congress went upon record on that occa- r slon. and among the principal of these ^ -were resolutions in favor of a law -��� against the employment of children ���-S.-''of ten years of sge ln factories, mills end other manufacturing establlsh- a% CjMents where machinery is used; the "\�� ^enactment of an equitable and Just ^^Sleu law; arbitration in law disputes; . bP�� - DEMAND THIS LABEL Ai Printed Matter. r mawmwmojm rnmrn a Saturday half-holiday; a regular system of labor organization throughout the Dominion; a more stringent apprentice law; the appeal of the Criminal I.aw Amendment Act; the abrogation of the contract system in connection with the Dominion and Provincial prisons; a nine-hour working day, and the creation of a bureau of laws and statistics. Resolutions condemning overtime work and Imported cheap labor (labor imported under contract), were also concurred in. The Canadian I-abor Union met at Ottawa (the capital of the Dominion), in 1874, and through the courtesy of the premier���then the Right Honorable Sir John A. Macdonald���held Its three days' session ln room 16 of the House of Commons, and during which It changed the title to that of "The Canadian Labor Congress." The third of August, 1875, found the Congress meeting ln the city of St. Catharines. This session also lasted three days, and the subjects dealt with were mainly those which had engrossed theattehtion of the Toronto and Ottawa conventions of 1873 and 1874. Although the city of Toronto was chosen as the meeting place for 1876, there was no session held that year, nor until seven years afterwards. An epoch of idust rial depression was severely In evidence during these years, and al forms of labor organization suffered more or less as a consequence��� even the Toronto Trades Assembly became dormant. In 1881, however, the International Typographical Union held its annual session in the "Queen City" of Toronto. Taking advantage of the occasion, the "stalwarts" of that municipality called a public meeting of workingmen, and at which the most prominent and eloquent speakers were delegates to the International Typographical Union convention. The result was ss anticipated, and the Toronto Trades Council was ushered into existence, and hss continued doing admirable work ever since. Despite the fact that "The Canadian Labor Congress" had not held a session since 1876, its usefulness within the scope of ita constitution had not been lost sight of, and Its resuscitation was merely a matter of time. Consequently, it was no matter ot surprise ���indeed it was looked for���when Toronto Trades and Labor Council, with Mr. Charles March as president, assumed the responsibility of issuing a call for a Trades and Labor Congress in that city, ln December, 1883. On this occasion some forty-five delegates were in atendance. and Mr. March was elected president. He was also president of the subsequent congress of 1886 and 1887. The principal subjects which called for resolutions at the Congress meeting in 1883, were the organization of trades councils, extension of magistrates' powers respecting employes' wages, the Insolvency Act, cumulative vote, land grants tax exemptions, government aid to colleges, abolition of piece work, board of arbitration in labor disputes, organization of female labor, bureau of labor statistics, the temperance question, Torrens' system of land transfer. Employers' Liability Act, and factory Inspection. The Congress adjourned, subject to call again by the Trades and Labor Council of Toronto. In 1886 Toronto Trades and Labor P. M. DRAPER Council deemed the time oportune, and again summoned a meeting of the Congress, to begin on the 14 th of September of that year. This was the first Congress at which any other province but Ontario was represented, the city of Quebec, in the Province of Quebec, being honored in the person of R. H. Leahy who represented Local Assembly No. 4003, K. of L., of that city. There were no less than one hundred and nine delegates at this Congress ln 1886. Among the principal subjects considered and passed upon at the 1886 Congress were labor representation In Parliament and the Leglsla tures of the different provinces, manhood suffrage, property qualification for aldermen, amendments to the Municipal Act, the publication of assessment lists ln dties and towns, the raising of the exemption of income tax from $400 to 1800, the better enforce ment of existing factory laws, and the abolition of the senat branch of the Parliament of Canada. A resolution wss also concurred ln "that It Is the duty of the Government to enact a law to regulate the hours ot al workers In the employment of the state, as well as the hours of those employed by all public bodies and companies and others obtaining contracts or concessions from Parliament, and that eight hours being the maximum time of the working day in such cases." At this session the name of the body wss changed to that of "The Trades and Labor Congress of the Dominion of Canada." Subsequently at the Congress held in London In 1895, the title was once more changed, this time to "The Trades snd Labor Congress of Canada," which it still retains. Every year since 1886 the Congress has held its annual session regularly, and widened its scope of deliberation and action as the exigencies of time required. ��� So as to be in full accord with both the British Trade; Congress snd the American Federal ion of Labor, the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, at Its annual session ln Berlin in 1902, exchanged the word "compulsory" and substituted the word "voluntarily" ln clause 13 of Its platform of principles. As a consequence, the clause Is now as follows: "13. Voluntarily arbitration of labor disputes." Being an acknowledged necessity, the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada has corns to stay, and Its future usefulness snd power for good will be ln proportion to the confidence reposed in It, the widespread unity behind It, and the willing and steadfast support accorded It. Granted these essential adjuncts, there can be no doubt but thst the Trades and Labor Congress of Csnsda will always be found a vigilant and valiant "sentinel on the tower," watching over and safeguarding the rights and the Interests of the working people of the whole Dominion. %/Lmas {Presents *\ We have now a splendid assort-* ment of Fancy Suspenders, Neckwear and all lines of Men's Furnishings, suitable for the Holiday season. Special Prices on all Lines of Clothing: *} Give us a call and see our die- play before purchasing elsewhere, we can save you money. :-N * CO. 605 Naatla��a Street Waat J Dont Forget to Mention tha Trades Unionist M. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^A^AMMOa aM ���*~w ***m ��������� mmmyavawamm I ���Pi E B ��� THE B. C. TRADES UNIONIST, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 3 m '"���; The Royal Bank Of Canada Capital f 3,000,000 Iteserve Fund .. 4,300,000 Total Assets 46,400,000 Five Branches in Vancouver. Seventeen Branches in British Columbia. Savings Bank Departments At all Branches up-to-date; No delays-���Prompt attention to the Smallest of Accounts. Interest Paid 4 rones Each Year. WAITERS' UNION. The waiters wil lbe Interested to know how their union is progressing, as the following report to the A. F. of L. will show: Number of charters issued, 114; surrendered, 53. Number of strikes, 17; won, 16. Number of persons involved, 12,248; benefited, 12,230; not benefited, 18. In several cities the ten-hour day was secured for members who had formerly worked on an average of 12% hours per day. Gains in other respects: Improvement In sanitary conditions. Cost of strikes, $19,870.30. All proposed reductions in wages were successfully resisted except in one case. Death benefits, $26,150. Sick benefits. $24.- 608.48. Donations to other unions, ��� ELECTION ECHOES. Now that the federal elections, both in Canada and the United States, are over, a few figures in connection therewith will doubtless be of Interest to clarion readers who are so far removed from the scat of war that they were unable lo obtain any details of a reliable nature. The Socialist Party of Canada had eight candidates lu tbe field In eight districts, la four of these districts it was the first attempt of the, Socialist party to nominate candidates, and the second in tbe remaining four. The number of votes polled was 8257, or 15 per ceut. of the total vote or nearly double the vote of four years ago. As an evidence of the almighty cinch the workers have wheu once they get next to themselves, the vote In some of the towns and polling stations in British Columbia aud Alberta sre given herewith: Town or Polling 8ta. Con. Lib. Soc Fernie 126 129 155 McGuigan 3 2 12 Whitewater 14 ��� 13 17 Coal Creek 22 27 105 Silver Cup Mine 5 13 80 Ymir 15 12 18 Salmo 17 12 17 .Michel 23 22 90 West Fernie 2 7 18 Moyie 60 63 85 Phoenix 81 101 88 Bellevue 36 28 64 HUlcrest 32 8 83 Coleman No. 1 53 51 66 Coleman No. 2 55 30 87 Cobble Hill 17 7 19 Ladysmlth 116 129 186 Nanalmo 262 370 715 Northfield 9 15 78 The total vote ln the United States increased about 50 per cent, over four years ago, and while the increase in the large cities was small, the vote in some of the smaller towns and polling stations was remarkable. Here are a few samples: Town or Polling Sta. Rep. Dam. Soc Sharon, W. Va. 392 465 506 Munhall, Pa. 64 27 89 Lead, S. D 57 21 65 Mucla. Colo 23 69 99 Detroit. Minn. 0 1 16 Whittaker. Pa. 64 27 89 Watervllle. Minn 122 55 126 Somerton, Arts. 1 1 12 Hiteman. Iowa 153 134 234 Nuda, Colo 23 46 99 TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION. Judging from the row being kicked up hi Germany becauae of the last out- verbosity upon the part of Bill,** It looks as though brlc- collectors might noon have en opportunity of getting a second hand emperor at a reasonable figure. .^:,, Typographical Union (June 1. 1907, to May 31, 1908).���Charters Issued, 51; surendered, 8. Increases in wages secured, through new scales in 83 cities. Strike benefits and special assistance to locals. $567,775.97. Death benefits. $38,650. Donations to other unions. $1,075. In March. 1905, the eight-hour day prevailed ln the Jurisdiction of only 79 unions. As a result of the general strike which wee inaugurated ln August, 1905. the eight-hour day la now in the Jurisdiction of 565 lo- THE TRUTH. (But He Dossnt Know It!) Speaking of business and sentiment, the Herald would call the attention of tbe individual voter in the Kooienafe und Yale-Cariboo to the tact that In all matters political, corporations are governed ln their actions entirely by business. This is the case In the United States, snd this is the case in Canada. Then why should the laboring man, who has himself to look after, not have the same privilege without fear of criticism or comment. That is why ethe Individual voter of the Kootenay and Yale-Cariboo should stop and consider before he casts his vote on the 12th of thla month. The corporations will cast their votes, or rather their influence, for their own interests and those Interests alone. The sooner that the laboring man does the same, the sooner will he be better off.���Cranbrook Herald. 8HALL UNION MEN BE FINED AND IMPRISONED FOR TELLING THE TRUTHT The Butterlck Publishing Company Is endeavoring to have the New York Supreme Court fine and Imprison the officers of Typographical Union No. 6 because they have told the truth about the unfair stand of that concern toward organised labor. No. 6 has not at any time asked, snd never will ssk, you to boycott Butterlck products; but Big 6 pointed out the fact that on November 24, 1905, this firm locked out their union employees snd have ever since employed non-union men at low wages and for long hours. No. 6 Is a law-abiding body and Insists that It had legal and moral right to tel you that you do not have to purchase goods made by non-unionists. Furthermore, no judge can compel you, by Injunction or otherwise, to give It. When the law is invoked to aid this concern in a purely business disagreement with its employees It Is a sure indication that organised labor is exercising Its in- slienable right to spend the wages earned under union conditions with those dealers who fsvor union conditions. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO. 6. New York. October 1. 1908. According to Bradstreets the number of business failure ln the United States for the nine months ending September 30, was 12,691, with liabilities of $244,835,494. This is an Increase of 55 per cent, in number and 110 per cent, in the amount of liabilities over the corresponding period of 1907. At least the bankruptcy business is showing a marked and healthy increase, even though other lines may he experiencing a dull season. WhenPatr _4ftv ��� m ____ ___��� _��� ��� _^___a m __ft m "If yen git knocked out of one plan, you want to git yerself another right quick, before yer spenite has a chance to fall- sinful to fuse." The Ovsfer Sav Restaurant FOR OYSTERS IN SEASON Cor. of Carrsll & Cordova Sts. P. L. Cancallen, Tel. 798 Proprietor THE AWAKENING. Down through the weary centuries A bitter lot they've borne. The past was one long night to them, A night without a morn. But see. the blsck sky turns to grey, The welcome dawn appears. Our class wakes from the fitful sleep It's slept five thousand years. They wake, they rise, the wide world o'er. By common int'rest stirred; By common hope their hearts are moved. Their swelling shout is heard In fear by master, pope and czar. Who dared the end of night,��� As loathsome things in darkness bred Shrink from the growing light. Clsss rule's long night Is soon to end. Our day Is breaking fast ��� The day ln which Joys shall replace The mis'ries of the pasL Hail to the light of liberty, Hail to the Coming Day, Hail. Sun of Hope, before whose beams The sorrows flee away. WILFRID QUIBBLE. EXPRE88ED IN DOLLARS. The A. F. of L. reports shows the following benefits paid to members during the past year: Death benefits .$1,257,244.89 Death benefits to members' wives 31.390.00 Sick benefits 593,541.34 Traveling benefits 51,093.86 Tool insurance 5,871.63 Unemployed benefits 205,254.31 Total ..$2,144,375.43 .���'*�� 3JKH&*: ��� ������ - .% �� ' ������ - J* ' - ������ raj ���- :Im-w ��� ���' Advertize* Donf Forget to-Mention the Trades Unionist roccr for it. ,- WatfW' ���'" ' wmmma��tmm<ni:A''j*nM*tu t.........:, ,,,.. ''VKSF ��� THE B. C. TRADES UNIONIST. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. [y. 1 ��� |\ . ORGANIZED LABOR ENTERS PROTEST Roysl City Union Men Object to City Council Dealing with Henderson Directory Publishers. A strong protest was made on Fii- day evening, November 30, by thr Trades and Labor Council of Now Westminster against the proposed granting of a contract for a city directory to the Henderson Directory Company by the cily council. The following resolution was passed unanimously: ".Moved by R. A. Stoney, seconded by Walter Dodd: Whereas it appears from reports In the press that city council of New Westminster is In negotiation with the publishers of the Henderson Directory, ln connection with the proposed publication of a directory of New Westminster; be it resolved: That this Trades and Labor Council hereby respectfully protests against the city council entering into any agreement with said Henderson directory publishers, for the reason that said publishers are regarded as 'unfair' by the Typographical Union, and also that their printing for use within this province is sent outside the province to be performed at less than the union rates of wages prevailing here; also that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the mayor and council of New Westminster." Another Protest. The chairman of the executive committee of the local Typographical union forwarded the following letter to the city council, protesting along the same lines against the city having dealings with the Henderson directory people: To His Worship the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of New Westminster: Gentlemen: The executive committee of the New Westminster Typographical union having considered the reports In the press indicating that your honorable body have been ln negotiation with representatives of the Henderson company with respect to the publication of a directory of New Westminster and the numbering of this city in connection with that undertaking, have directed me to communicate with you on the subject, transmitting the protest of the local. Typographical Union. I am directed to state that in the opinion of this union the Henderson Directory Company are opposed to paying a fair price for the labor called for in connection with their undertakings, and also to call your attention to the fact that in all likelihood the printing in connection with the proposed directory will be doue in Winnipeg, at an office leclarcd by the Typographical Union to be unfair and opposed to the interests of labor. Also thut there Is expended in wages by the publishing firms of this city about Eight ' Hundred Dollars per week, for the most part distributed amongst the business houses of the city; and that we respectfully suggest that it would he in the interests of the city to encourage local industry rather than to negotiate with the Henderson Directory Company. Trusting that you will be so kind as to give consideration to the views of the executive of the Union on this subject, I remain, Your obedient Servant, , R. STONEY, Chairman Executive Com. Conditions Improve. The delegates fro mthe various unions reported that busines conditions in their separate linos were improving. The need of a hall ln which to meet was discussed and admitted. It would be used not only for the Trades and Labor Council, but for the Individuals unions. The matter was finally left to a committee to make enquiries and report. A suggestion was made to endeavor to obtain the old Salvation Army barracks, but some one thought that the rent would be too steep. A resolution was unanimously passed instructing the secretary to send a letter of condolence to Ross Jamieson on the death of his brother, the late Ralph Jamieson, killed in the Interur- ban accident recently. The secretary was instructed to s By Insisting Upon cPurchasing Union Stamp Shoes You help better Shoemaking conditions. You get better Shoes for the money. You help your own Labor Position. You abolish Child Labor. Do not he misled By Retailers who say : " This shoe does not bear the stamp, but is made under Union Conditions." - This is False.��� No shoe is Union made unless it bears the Onion Stamp. ' ���NT AM SHOE WORKERS' UNION, 141 lUNMr St, Bastoi, Matt. JOHN F. Tobin, Pres. CHAS. L. Baine, Sec.-Treas. Largest Stock of Men's $15 Suits to pick from in the City We are now showing the largest and best assorted Stock of $15 Suits for men in the City. Every garment is made under sanitary conditions, in clean, well-lighted workrooms, by skilled tailors. DesBrisay Brand Suits represent the very pick of the clothing world. Tne patterns are new, the styles absolutely correct, the tailoring first class and the prices low These $15 suits are the best value ever offered in this city. Come in snd see them. The DesBrisay Wardrobe 613 Granville Street write theacting deputy minister of labor at Ottawa with reference to the appointment of a correspondent to the Labor Gazette. The chair was occupied by the president J. J. Randolph. AND LABOR "GOT IT.' Anxious to secure what they knew to be vital, fearing that "Socialism is too far in the future," the labor men in the United States (and Canada, too) rallied, to Dryan that they might get "something now.' They got it. Their vote was split between the two old parties and the labor men bad the humiliation of feeling that the man who bad been backed by their highest officials has been swept to defeat. Labor proved that hereafter It must be Its own friend. It found out that always a strong enemy receives more consideration, at least more respect, than a weak friend. The panic, too, did Its work In thorough fashion. Thousands who felt Its pangs and were thus forced to do some hard thinking were also forced ln their search for the elusive Job to lose their franchise, because they changed their residence. Those whom the panic hit hardest it also eliminated from political life.���The Call. EVERETT TYP08. AFTER NEW 8CALE. The organizer for the district, F. A. Rust, Seattle, was summoned to Everett last Wednesday to assist ln adjusting Everett union's new scale. The Everett employers have been served with a copy of No. 202'b new scale. Banks are usually the friends of scab labor and not favorable to a high rate of wages. They carry this principle Into their own business and pay salaries,to some of their clerks that will scarcely furnish them with cigarettes, neckties and perfumery. If It were not for the social distinction that goes with a job In a hank few young men could be Induced to accept inch DAVIDSON MAKES GOOD RUN. Socialist Party Vote in Kootenay Riding Doubled in Four Years. Goodeve Curtis Davidson Cranbrook 538 405 131 Columbia 194 155 16 Fernie 291 238 379 Kaslo 225 159 63 Nelson 380 236 167 Revelstoke 396 240 lit Rossland 396 240 114 Slocan 170 77 115 Ymlr 467 245 163 2920 1979 1260 CIGARMAKERS' UNION. The Cigarmakers' International union makes the following showing to the federation for the year 1908: Charters Issued, 8; surrendered. 11. Gain In membership, 200. Number of strikes, 68; final reporta have been received ln but 36; won, 22; compromised, 5; lost, 9. Number of persons Involved, 3,426; benefited, 1,055; not benefited, 170. Thirteen strikes were against reductions in wages, 6 were successful, 1 compromised and 1 lost. Death benefits, $203,500; sick benefits, $173,605.67; traveling benefits. $50.- 063.86; unemployed benefits, 860,000. As result of the Improvement in the conditions of the members brought about by the organisation, death rate from tuberculosis has been reduced 16 per cent, and length of life increased 6 per cent, in males and 8 per cent, in wives of members. MUSICIANS UNION. Y The musicians' report to the A. F. of L. is as follows: Charters issued, 50; surrendered, 10. Marked improvement in conditions of members In the past ten years. . employment.���Greenwood Ledge. ��� ������ ������' -'"..���_. - _ _��� j_ en" Demand Uliis Label ��� On AN Printed Matter ��� i Forget to M ; ��� ************ *******W*iW***a^^ ������ ' ���.' " ��� I" THE B. C. TRADE8 UNIONIST, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, . I The Trades Unionist Issued by the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council. Published first week ln every month. Published first week In every month. Subscription Price, $1.00 per annum; 35 cents to unions subscribing in a body. Mailing list, news and correspondence columns ln charge of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, to whom all correspondence should be addressed, Labor Hall. Telephone 1380. Advertising patronage the property of S. J. Gothard. Advertising rates will be supplied upon application. P.' O. Drawer 1239. Telephone 2258. mam**m*maa*m*am*****mm*m*ummamam*mw.t.t��*nt**'**m*m ��� ��� in���w��ii ��������� ��� .���m.mm*m**m*mmm Contributions are solicited from correspondents, elected by their respective unions, to whom they must be held responsible for contents. VANCOUVER, B. C., DEC, 1908. Tbe British Columbia legislature will meet In January next. It will be the duty of the British Columbia executive committee of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada to wait upon the government executive at Victoria and present the demands of labor for this province. Similar congress committees will do likewise In every province in tbe Dominion. The British Columbia committee, as elected at the Halifax convention of the congress last September, Is: R. P. Pettipiece, vice-president, 2138 Westminster avenue, Vancouver, B. C; Christian Slv- ertx, Box 302, Victoria, B. C; R. A. Stoney, Columbian office, New Westminster. B. C; W. H. Gibson. 2646 Douglas street, Victoria, B. C. Central bodies, or unions, having any measures they desire placed before the government, should st once address any of the above committee. At last session the matter of free text books and the retention of the eight-hour clause in the factories' act were successfully urged and the former at least partially adopted by the government. The abolition of the election deposit, in compliance with a resolution passed at the Halifax convention, will be one of the matters presented In January. Rev. Billy Sunday Is credited with saying lots of good things. At a big meeting at Bloomlngton recently he gave some of the old hard shells In tbe congregation a pointer that will hold them for a while. Here Is whst he said: "Real religion ought to make a man smile. Why, I am almost afraid to say anything for fear I will make some eld deacon's features crack, I will be arrested for wanton destruction of rare end antique bric-a-brac God likes to DATe a little fun. That is attested by the fact that God made the parrot, the monkey���and tome of yon .��.'.���-��� 'V. ��� . '- ���������immm*i i : folks. Some good folks hsve faces bo long they could eat oatmeal out of a churn. That Isn't religion; that's cramp colic. Shine up your faces; 'tis good for what ails you!" There is at least one virtue in the political policy enunciated by Samuel Gompers. It has caused President Roosevelt to omit his name from an "identity-of-lnterests" annual blow-out at the White House. If it will but result in a cessation of all such rot in future, then some good has been accomplished. Other labor '"leaders" who scabbed It on President Gompers by attending the function ought to be ashamed to look a decent wage- earner In the face. Folks that do things are the only ones entitled to the room they take up on this terrestlal plane and perhaps a little bit more. All the rest should be gently Oslerized actuated by motives of utility and with sorrowing hearts having the consciousness that it hurts us more than It does them. We have a theory that a "dead one" takes up a good deal of valuable space that may be as well utilized by a live one.���To-morrow. "Good times have returned!" So tbe workers are assured by one of the Calgary dally papers; one, by the way, which must know the untruthfulness of the statement by experience. The same Calgary papers that prate about prosperity are jumping sideways to pay for power and gas to make possible the publicity of this "whistling to keep their courage up." Thomas Carlyle believed that a man's conditions have much to do with his morality, that hunger oft hampers honesty. He said: "Many a man thinks that It Is his goodness which keeps him from crime, when it is only his full stomach. On half allowance he would be as ugly and knavish as anybody. Don't mistake potatoes for principles.���Ex. "The next time people are cross, unjust or disagreeable I'm not going to waste time to ascertain what is the matter with them, but will find out what is the matter with myself, and perhaps get at the solution of the trouble." Wage-earners who do not know how to vote, will not know where to fight. The working class, once It Is animated by Socialist knowledge, will become a giant Instead of the weakling it is today. Most of the really great men ln America have warmed their bare feet frosty mornings on the spot where the cows have lain down. The old saw, "man wants but little here below," has been revised to read, "The workman gets but little and stays below." TRADE8 COUNCIL AND THE TRADE8 UNIONIST The present arrangement between the Trades and Labor Council and S. J. Gothard with regard to the Trades Unionist, has been the subject of considerable discussion in the council lately. As the agreement was entered into by previous officers and Council and some of the present delegates are not familiar with the text of the agreement, it is herewith reproduced: Memorandum of Agreement made and entered into this 6th day of June in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven, between Samuel J. Gothard of the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, and The Vancouver Trades and .Labor Council. Whereas the said Samuel J. Gothard is the owner of a monthly paper called the Trades Unionist, published ln the City of Vancouver, which paper is devoted to the Interests represented by the Trades and Labor Council, and whereas tbe parties hereto have agreed as hereinafter apepars. Now This Agreement WJtnesseth that in consideration of the agreement to be observed and performed by the respective parties hereto, It Is hereby agreed as hereinafter appears. 1. The said Samuel J. Gothard shall continue to publish the said newspaper for the space of three years from the date hereof in substantially the same manner as the same Is now published. 2. The Vancouver Trades and Labor Council shall furnish all editorial, news and other matter (save and except advertisements) to appear therein before the 25th of the month preceding publication, so as to permit of the publication thereof with convenience. The said Vancouver Trades and Labor Council shall, during the said term of three years, do all ln its power to further and promote the circulation of the said paper and to obtain bona fide subscribers therefor, and shall attend to the delivery of such papers to the subscribers thereto, and for so doing shall be entitled to collect and receive for Its own uses all moneys payable ln respect of subscriptions to the said paper. The said Samuel Gothard shall attend to the printing and publication of such newspaper and shall deliver to the said Trades and Labor Council as many copies thereof as they shall require for the purposes aforesaid and shall be entitled to publish in such newspaper such advertisements not inconsistent with the Interests of the Trades and Labor Council as he may deem advisable, and shall be entitled to receive and retain to his own use all moneys paid for such advertisements. This agreement shall not be deemed or construed to limit or affect the absolute ownership of the said psper by the said Samuel J. Gothard. In Witness Whereof the said Samuel J. Gothard has signed and sealed this agreement and the said Vancouver Trades and Labor Council has caused' TRADES UNION DIRECTORY Officers���Where they meet, when they meet. > s Secretaries *are requested to notify Press Committee of change* of Officers and Addresses. Union Cards inserted for $1. per month. GOUMGLL���Meet* lat and 3rd Thura- day In Labor Hall. Pros.. R. Parm Pettipiece; Vlce-Prea., J. A. Aicken; Oen. Bee., H. Cowan, Labor Hall; Sec.- Treas.. A. R. Burns, Labor Hall; Statistician. H. Sellars; Sergent-at- arnu, 8. Kernighan;. Trustees, W. W Sayer, J. J. Corcoran, P. W, Dowler. YIOTOmiA COUMCIL��� Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month. Officers: Wm. McKay, Pres, Box 507; W. H. Gibson, Vlce-Pres., 2664 Douglas St.; L. Sl- vertx, Secy.. Box 302; A A. Argyle. Tress., Box 303: A. Herbey, Sergent nt-arnm. Chamber* St Executive Committee: Pres. McKay, Secy. Sl- \ert-j. J. Fraser. W. H. Gibson, J. Dugall. BES\ U >ca: ery Friday night at 8:30 o'clock Chas. Davis, Secretary and Business Agent, 166 Hastings St E. Hall for rent suitable for socials, danced and societies. ITOMUJATOMA*WTWBM^ ELBGTMIGAL WySTSSB, LOCAL VMIOW MO. 813��� Meets 2nd snd 4th Tuesdays. Labor Hall, 8 p.m. H. W. Abercrombio, Pres., 148 Gore ave; Geo. Jenkins, Rec.-Sec, Epworth. P.O.. B. C: H. H. Free, Fin.-Sec. 8810 West- minster ave. TAIOOVTIB UMXOM HO. 886���Meets In Labor Hall last Sunday of each month at 8 p.m. Pres., H W. Hunt; Vlce-Pres., R P. Pettipiece: Sec.-Treas., H. C. Benson, box 66. (Hours at headquarters, La- bor Hall, 4 to 6 p.m. Monday: 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Executive committee: J. G. Qulnn, J. W. Ellis. J. G. Hunt W. Jeffry. WOOD, WIM AMD MCBTAL WOBXSM LATMBBS', LOCAL 807���Meets 2nd and 4 th Wednesday. Labor Hall, Homer St.; C. H. Lewis, Pres.; Frank Mahoney, Sec., 314 Cordova St W. EtXBT, WAIST AMD LAUMDST VOUIII1 XMTBBMA TXOMAL UMIOM, LOCAL MO. 105���Pres., J. A. Scott; Sec., W. Roberts. Meets Labor Hall, 2nd and 4th Thursday st 8:00 p.m. each month. ilTBISBM' LEAGUE MO. 676���Meets Labor Hall. Every 1st and 3rd Sunday at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Pres. C. J. Ryan; Fin- Sec., Geo. W. Curnock, P.O. Box 424, Phone 639. YAMCOOTTEB CO TXADBB PEPABTMEMT, AJT. OT L. ���Meets every Monday night room 8. Ingleslde Rooms, 818 Cambie St. Frank Little, Pres.. 520 Richards St.: J. J. Corcoran, Sec.-Treas., P.O. Box Geo. Williams, Secy, S41 Robson St; 600 Union Cards $1 per Month. Its corporat seal to be hereto affixed. M. A. BEACH. President T. A L. Council. ALBERT G. PERRY. General Secretary 8. J. GOTHARD, Signed and Sealed ln the presence of L. M. McKIVOR. The seal of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council wag hereunto affix* ed In the presence of K. T. KINQSLKY. no Our Advertizers Pont' Forqet to Mention the Trades Unionist * 1 <\ i ��� ��� ��� ���-��� ���,������������������"',-��� mmm ssaesasstsBos W**Wr ,\ ��� ' .��������������� -Lj ��� ��� . -ji - r mi,- .njj.fiara.na, wa; ii.ia,. , . i in i>n�� .iT.Bii a ii l i><��l ��� THE B. C. TRADES UNIONIST. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. tyenJ Ot yon wait lo save big money? Do you know that Page is going to move to 47 Hastings St. W. very soon ? He must dispose of his entire stock of Clothing and Furnishings, and has cut prices to the core���you can get an $18.00 Suit for $11.75; a $13.50 Raincoat for $8.- 50; a $i.50 Shirt for 95c, and so on all through the store. Come and see how be can help you make money���this month. 7l/m. JPaye Clothier aad fmrmhoer 156 and 158 Cordova St THE BATTLE OF THE BALLOT8. The battle of the ballots has been fought and King Capital sits upon the throne wielding the sceptre of supremacy. It did not matter that 6,000,000 people were Jobless ln the land of the free and the home of the brave, and It did not matter that every large city of the country swarmed with idle hungry men. The sophistry of quack politicians won the day, and the logic of reason and common sense was consigned to the junk heap. The working class of America are yearning for more injunctions and love to hear the crack of the policeman's club, as It conies in contact with the cupola of the proletariat. Soup houses and bread lines are more preferable than "square meals" In respectable dining rooms. Cotton and rags are more priceless than broadcloth and silk, and the laboring people of America, by their ballots cast on the 3rd of November, have earned the lasting gratitude of a master class, who for the next four years will mock with jeers and derision the walls and moans of the starving and oppressed. The panic and Industrial depression that have swept over the country, caused the most afflicted to think but little, and millions of men enduring a lingering death confiscated their .right of suffrage to further perpetuate the system that converts human beings into sHvea. It seems that labor has not yet been tendered a sufficient number of bull pens. Labor has not groaned enough beneath the yoke of bondage to rise ln Its might and break the fetters that hold ln subjugation, tho multitude in order that Indolent may continue to glut their Insatiable appetites on profit. The brutal lash of poverty must cut deeper and the wall of hunger must grow louder, ere the great mass of people can be expected to break the spell that holds them ln the trance of lethargy. Though the candidate of the Republican party during all his official life made a record that received the unqualified approval of shylocks and Industrial pirates, and though he stabbed labor whenever the slightest opportunity presented Itself, yet labor joined hands with the ParryB, the Posts and the Van Cleaves and crowned Injunction Bill as the emperor of the White House. Little else could have been expected. The labor movement of America Is honey-combed with unscrupulous politicians. The interests of the working class sre trampled under foot, that personal interest may be subserved and that "labor leaders" who love revenue and graft more than honor and loyalty, may secure some petty berths as a reward for the dirty political service rendered to the class of privilege, who knowing the treason of "labor leaders" must exclaim as they think of their deluded dupes: "What fools these mortals he!" The recent campaign will relegate for all time the "peerless one,"* whose policies smack of the days of the ox-cart and the stage coach. The Democratic party has lost Its strength, and Is now disintegrating. Its disintegration ln the future will be rapid, and It Is only a question of a few years until the burial services will be performed at its grave. A time Is coming at no distant day when the real issue cannot be clouded. The future presages a great battle that must be fought, and that battle will be fought by the Socialist party whose principles stand for the economic freedom of man and the Republican party, whose principles stand for the reign of capitalism.���Miners' Magazine. THE SATISFIED MULE. TRUSTEE8 DE8IRE TO IGNORE COUNCIL This is Aim of Resolution Passed st Convention of School Trustees in Revelstoke. "That the board of school trustees in any city or rural municipality may be given full power to handle all the school funds, submit bylaws and generally administer school affairs Independently of the council and In the same manner as the ordinary business of the city or rural municipality is administered by the council." A GEORGIAN LYRIC. Sing a song of sixpence, Pockets full of rye; Nothing In the barrooms��� That's tho reason why. * i t i I, ii ,k Whan Pstironlzlng Our Aitvwtizert mWk * - t -at I haf s mule mlt great big ears. He lives to me next door, For dere I haf a stable built Against my grocery store. I glf him oats, I glf him corn, Und all vat mules can eat; 1 haf a blanket for his back, Und shoes brotect his feet. His saddle fits him all around, Like paper on the wall, I take It off venefer he eats Inside hla whitewashed stall. His bed Is made of stubble straw, So ln winter he don't freeze. In summer he looks the winder oudt Und enjoys de efening breeze. 1 brotect him tight, mit lock und key, De door he cannot pass; Uf I did not, dot foolish mule Would get oud on the grass. He works from morning till in night, I do not let him stop; So long as he behaves dls way He never lose his chob. *- , ' a* I didn't hear him grumble once, * He minds me as I like; "Brotection" makes him satisfied, ������ He doesn't want to "strike." j Vot fer do I brotect dot mule, Und glf him dings vot's goot? Vy stroke his ears and pat his head, Vlch looks like gratltoot? I tell you vy, If you keep still, Und don't say it oud of school, I glf "brotection" efery time, Because I ride dot mule. It was so in de Faderland, I finds it yed dis day, He who brotecls gets hold the reins, Und makes de mule obey. My mule is like some worklngman Who gets a- chob to pull, Or has a saddle on his back, So his "dinner pail" gits full. Who voes de ticket efery time, Whose heart If full of charity For all the loafers riding him, W,ho brag of "our Prosperity." If my old mule had half de sense Vot workmen dink dey've got, He'd lift his legs und take good aim, Und kick my dam brains oud. "Vy don't he kick?" some people say, "Und get oud on the grass?" My mule don't know how to help himself, His fader was an Ass. ���Exchange. The two most noted rat publications ln the country, the Delineator and the Saturday Evening Poet, are making great bids for patronage just at this time through flooding the country with advertisements of the holiday numbers of the magazines, and are seeking to Increase their subscription lists for the new year by various schemes. The union" men and their sympathisers should bear ln mind, and impress upon the women of their families, that these publications are print* ed under non-union conditions, and that their printers were forced upon strike for the eight-hour dsy three years ago. Patronize union-made products ln preference to all others. 8TEREOTYPER8 AND ELECTRO- TYPER8' UNION. The sterotypers and electrotypers make the following report to the A. F. of L. for the past year: Charters issued, 5; surrendered, 2. Oaln ln membership, 378. In Clnnatl an effort has been pending since 1905 to establish the eight-hour-day for the electrotypers, and this year it finally went Into general effect ln that city. The electrotypers of New York have been on strike for the eight-hour day. All members of this branch now employed are working on this basis, and but few members are out of employment. Cost of strikes, $5,265.34. Death benefits, $1,740. Continual improvement ln wages and conditions. A row Is on ln the Trades council at Hamilton, Ont., because one evening $100 was donated to the Labor party for campaign purposes. The old par- tyists didn't like It and have started a fuss. Mi Mention the Trades Unionist. ��� -. r ���T77T!#'lffmnT>S SB S9BB W&*T?*Wk fOMW****��****' i ��� is* t. ��� TNI a C. TRADE8 UNIONIST, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. *:'1 vJfl Padmore's Cigar Store Where everything a Smoker Wants Can be ||n�� 1 0 O 1 r aaiIa V onPflllUOr h/^*"Had. - - Union Cigars a Specialty *****' * �� ��M WUWC, fdllliUUfCl McVETY DEFEND8 HI8 ACTION. Strike Leader Explains Thst Best Terms Possible Were Accented on Behslf of Mechanics. The following statement has boon obtained from J. H. McVety, one of the six members of the executive board of the allied mechanics' organizations who arranged the recent settlement of the C. P. R. strike: The settlement of the Canadian Pacific Railway strike has received a great deal of publicity and newspapers, unable to find space for a single article during the trouble, now devote whole columns to the vilification of some of the men responsible for calling It off, and ln the publication of circulars written at least four weeks before falling Into the hands of the newspapers. This policy has been detrimental ln many ways; the public have been led to believe that conditions are a great deal worse than they really are; officials of the company have been unnecessarily antagonized and the men have been misled by a set of self-appointed demagogues anxious to appear as the champions of the cause sf labor. ��� The Blue Label is on the "Wry Best" "Vancr. BeMe" Cigars Havana hand-made Cigars. Ask for them at all bars and cigar stores. Made by J* 14 Cordova W. ii i ��� ���. '.��� When Patronizing The general impression is that Hard and McVety exercised an autocratic rule to the exclusion of the representatives of other trades and that the full power of calling a cessation of hostilities was assumed by them. A more incorrect impression could not be conceived; the committee who negotiated the settlement in Winnipeg was composed of six men instead of two, and thoroughly representative of the larger organizations and was continually in touch with another committee similarly composed with headquarters In Montreal. Many different opinions have been expressed regarding the condition of the company's power at the time of the settlement, the majority believing' that speedy capitulation was absolutely necessary If the company were to maintain an effective train service. The published statements of the number of strikers re-employed in eastern Canada would, however, lead one to believe the officials preferred the strikebreakers to the old employees, and had they been In such dire distress surely the oportunity of securing their old and tried employees would quickly been taken advantage of. The ability of the men to continue the strike Indefinitely Is another point about which many have expressed opinions snd but few knew anything about, for the strikers were spread over such a vast territory that even the strikers themselves were familiar with their own districts only, the executive committee being the only people In close touch with all points and then only through correspondence. The real financial situation has never ben properly understood even by the membership, who seem unable to grasp the immensity of a problem Involving the maintenance of 8,000 men. Approximately 1400 of these were . . j & cared for by their International organizations, the' other Internationals defaulting payment and leaving tho committee to provide for 6600 from funds contributed by organized labor generally, the total amount received from this source aggregating $9,000, or about $1.30 for each striker. The solidarity of the men during the two months of the strike was unparalleled, but the reader can be safely allowed to determine how long this stand could be maintained by men who receive an average of $2.50 per day when employed and who worked an average of 17 days per month for the greater part of the year preceding the strike. The spirit may be strong, but the flesh is weak and it was a physical impossibility for the men to have remained solid for any considerable period longer, ln fact, two weeks before the settlement the men at a number of points threatened to return to work unless money was immediately forthcoming and from then on the committee was besieged with therats of a like nature. Many will pledge themselves to stand solid forever, when enthused by some eloquent speaker; but this feeling Is of short duration when the pinch of hunger Is felt and lnvarlab- * JAS. H. McVETY ly the men who talk the loudest now were the ones most Insistent and threatening during the strike. The financial situation, together with the daily eviction of the men from their homes on account of their inability to pay their rent, refusal of further credit by grocers snd butchers, the rigors of an approaching winter, coupled with the apparent ability of the company to fill the shops and operate their train service all were Instrumental ln assisting the committee to decide on the necessity of any settlement that would quickly return the men to their work. Hsvlng these conditions always before us, every offer ot mediation was accepted gratefully and when the last offer was presented we considered it very carefully from every standpoint, together with the assurance which accompanied it, one being that 80 per cent, of the men would be reinstated within 10 days and the balance very shortly after, it being also stated that Sir Thomas Shaughnessy had said, "We will make a good job of It and take them all back." Many times the question has been asked, "Why did you not submit the proposition to the membership?" and it may bo well to state here that the offer just referred to had to be rejected or accepted the same after* noon, as the company had told the mediators that they had a large number of men engaged ln England and they had either to be shipper or dismissed at once. During the time the negotiations . were being carried on, the membership had been buoyed up by the hopes of a settlement and we feared the re- j action If the negotiations were declar- << od off and not having time to submit the question to the men (It would have" taken three days), we decided it would be better to accept the terms offered and get the men hack to their work* recognising that the assumption of tbe responsibility would leave us open to the criticism that would assuredly follow a settlement arranged by politicians, tho other side naturally using every known means to belittle the benefits derived by those successful In arranging the settlement. Our expectations at far as the criticism Is concerned have been fully realised, hut as time rolls on we feel confident our position will be better understood by the membership and the public generally, and while the matter might have been left to the membership and the responsibility transferred to their shoulders, we feel it would have been a cowardly action to rlsk;^ the employment of the men merely to save our own reputations, and bitter as the denunciations have been, I personally would act in the same way . again If the circumstances surrounding the case were the same, in the belief that a good general should know when he Is defeated and prepare to save as many of the rank and file as possible. In conclusion, I desire on behalf of the membership to thank the World for the active support given to the cause of the men and to assure i proprietors that the support given as deeply appreciated all over the country as here ln this city. : \ 4 ) ��� At Calgary, Alta., tbe Trades Labor council provides for the right to assess Its affiliated membership, with splendid results. It compels the rank' and file to interest themselves la the central lodge's work���probsbly because they hare to pay for It. The) plan might be adopted in Vancouver the men Forget to Mention th vvitll (vvU iCvUilVi -.V �� ajapni, 11 i.1 ��~ i i t mkW*ow**mmm t��-oj��iwvs��n[r^<Bmte*wsswt***^ ��� > '*'""",'*4.l",y?^lt"T' -���.''���K'f" rWOj.%':'ii<iiy<|.ifaiiMi^i-frwiifc,- .,���,���,*,.$*>��� ~*;Tr:7,:r,\:.Zu~.���, "��� ��� ��� THE B. C. TRADES UNIONIST. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. .' si 9 7?fen.' Ot yos watt te save big Mltyf Do you know that Page is going to move to 47 Hastings St. W. very soon ? He must dispose of his entire stock of Clothing and Furnishings, and has cut prices to the core���you can get an $18.00 Suit for $11.75; a $13.50 Raincoat for $8.- 80; a $i.50 Shirt for 15c, and so on all through the store. Come and see how be can help you make money���this month. tyJm. mPaye Oothlsf __Md |"sjfSaiBsr 156 and 158 Cordova SL THI BATTLE OF THE BALLOTS. The battle of the ballots has been fought and King Capital sits upon the throne wielding the sceptre of supremacy. It did not matter that 6,000,000 people were Jobless ln the land of the free and the home of the brave, and It did not matter that every large city of the country swarmed with idle hungry men. The sophistry of quack politicians won the day, and the logic of reason and common sense was consigned to the junk heap. The working class of America sre yearning for more injunctions snd love to hear the crack of the policeman's club, as It comes in contact with the cupola of the proletariat. Soup houses and bread lines are more preferable than "square meals" In respectable dining rooms. Cotton and rags are more priceless than broadcloth and silk, and the laboring people of America, by their ballots cast on the 3rd of November, have earned the lasting gratitude of a master class, who for the next four years will mock with jeers and derision the walls and moans of the starving and oppressed. The panic and industrial depression that have swept over the country, caused the moat afflicted to think but little, and millions of men enduring a lingering death confiscated their right of suffrage to further perpetuate the system that converts human beings Into slaves. It seems that labor has not yet been tendered a sufficient number of boll pens. Labor has not groaned enough beneath the yoke of bondage to rise In Its might and break the fetters that hold In subjugation. the multitude ln order that Indolent patricians may continue to glut their insatiable appetites on profit. The brutal lash of poverty must cut deeper and the wail of hunger must grow louder, ere the great mass of people can be expected to break the spell that holds them In the trance of lethargy. Though the candidate of the Republican party during all his official life made a record that received the unqualified approval of shylocks and Industrial pirates, and though he stabbed labor whenever the slightest opportunity presented Itself, yet labor joined hands with the Parrys, the Posts and the Van Cleaves and crowned Injunction BUI as the emperor of the White House. Little else could have been expected. Tbe labor movement of America Is honey-combed with unscrupulous politicians. The Interests of the working class are trampled under foot, that personal Interest may be subserved and that "labor leaders" who love revenue and graft more than honor and loyalty, may secure some petty berths as a reward for the dirty political service rendered to the class of privilege, who knowing the treason of "labor leaders" must exclaim as they think of their deluded dupes: "What fools these mortals be!" The recent campaign will relegate for all time the "peerless one," whose policies smack of the days of the ox-cart and the stage coach. The Democratic party has lost Its strength, and Is now disintegrating. Its disintegration ln the future will be rapid, and It Is only a question of a few years until the burial services will be performed at Its grave. A time Is coming at no distant day when the real Issue cannot be clouded. The future presages a great battle that must be fought, and that battle will be fought by the Socialist party whose principles stand for the economic freedom of man and the Republican party, whose principles stand for the reign of capitalism.���Miners' Magazine. THE 8ATI8FIED MULE. TRU8TEE8 DE8IRE TO IGNORE COUNCIL This is Aim of Resolution Passed st Convsntion of School Trustees In Revelstoke. "That the board of school trustees In any city or rural municipality may be given full power to handle all the school funds, submit bylaws and generally administer school affairs Independently of the council and in the same manner as the ordinary business of the city or rural municipality is administered by the council." A GEORGIAN LYRIC. Sing a song of sixpence, Pockets full of rye; Nothing ln the x naii s vuc rvasvu wuy ��� - j- I haf a mule rait great big ears. He lives to me next door. For dere I haf a stable built Against my grocery store. I glf him oats, I glf him corn, Und all vat mules can eat; I haf a blanket for his back, Und shoes brotect his feet. His saddle fits him all around. Like paper on the wall, I take It off venefer he eats Inside his whitewashed stall. His bed Is made of stubble straw, So In winter he don't freeze. In summer he looks the winder oudt Und enjoys de efenlng breeze. I brotect him tight, mit lock und key. De door he cannot pass; Uf I did not, dot foolish -mule Would get oud on the grass. He works rrom morning till ln night, I do not let him stop; So long as he behaves dis way He never lose his chob. I didn't hear him grumble once, - : He minds me as I like; "Brotection" makes him satisfied, \- He doesn't want to "strike." _ Vot fer do I brotect dot mule, Und glf him dings vot's goot? Vy stroke his ears and pat his head, Vlch looks like gratltoot? I tell you vy. If you keep still, Und don't Bay It oud of school, I glf "brotection" efery time. Because I ride dot mule. It was so In de Paderland, I finds it yed dis day, He who brotects gets hold the reins, Und makes de mule obey. My mule Is like some worklngman Who gets a chob to pull. Or has a saddle on his back, So his "dinner pail" gits full. Who voes de ticket efery time, Whose heart If full of charity For all the loafers riding him, Who brsg of "our Prosperity." If my old mule had half de aense Vot workmen dink dey've got. He'd lift his legs und take good aim, Und kick my dam brains oud. "Vy don't he kick?" some people say, "Und get oud on the grass?" My mule don't know how to help himself. His fader was an Ass. ���Exchange. The two most noted rat publications in the country, the Delineator and the Saturday Evening Post, are making great bids for patronage just at this time through flooding the country with advertisements of the holiday numbers of the magazines, and are seeking to increase their subscription lists for the new year by various schemes. The union men and their sympathisers should bear in mind, and impress upon the women of their families, that these publications are print* ed under non-union conditions, and that their printers were forced upon strike for the eight-hour day three years ago. Patronise union-made products ln preference to all others. STEREOTYPER8 AND ELECTRO* TYPER8' UNION. The sterotypers and electrotypers make the following report to the A. F. of L. for the past year: Charters Issued, 5; surrendered, 2. Gain ln membership, 378. In Clnnatl an effort has been pending since 1905 to establish the eight-hour-day for the electrotypers, and this year It finally went Into general effect ln that city. The electrotypers of New York have been on strike for the eight-hour day. All members of this branch now employed are working on this basis, and but few members are out of employment. Cost of strikes, $5,265.34. Death benefits, $1,740. Continual Improvement in wages and conditions. A row Is on ln the Trades council at Hamilton, Out., because one evening $100 wss donated to the Labor party for campaign purposes. The old par- tyists didn't like it and have started a fuss. jisk Your Grocer for Jersey Cream Yeast (makes and take % no other. They are the .Best Hade. Ebery Package Guaranteed. ;m a '��� '��� win mivswuAvie t#yii i vutyvi w hivjiuuii iiio iiauvo ifiiiviiioi* i ��� THE B. C. TRADES UNIONIST. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA 11 P. O. Box 1SSS Telephone-1404 Pacific Coast Pipe Company, Ltd., Vancouver, aB. C. Manufacturers of Water Pipe Systems of Water Works Installed for Domestic Supply, Power Development, Irrigation Plans. Estimates Furnished A local Industry using local m terlal and employing white labor exclusively. LET US BUY A8 WE MARCH. With this cstchy title, the Shoe Workers' Journal calls upon organized workers to remember the union label. We have heard much good advico about "voting as we march," and let us take the hint of a shoe worker and buy as we march. When we demand the union label of all crafts, we strengthen the union fabric. This point Is conceded by all, but another feature, and to our mind, the most Important, Is overlooked ln label agitation, and that Is the moral effect on outsiders of a strong and Insistent union label demand. There Is nothing, save the ballot, more powerful or more effective ln cementing the workers. - Label agitation means solidarity, and when united action is once more se- ' cured, It can be uaxid on the economic field. The label as an educator, is invaluable. makers, tie game enough to say: "I won't buy If the label is not on the box." C0WARD8. ������. v i - The International Association of Plasterers at Its recent convention at New Orleans determined to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. The Canadian textile workers have decided that the weekly contributionr ahould be Increased from 8 to 25 cents. Br- ��� I. ��� The United Brewery Workers of America number about 40,'UtO. The International union was organized in 1888. Three million dollars Is a mighty big sum of money, but that Is lust what lsed labor spends In Vancouver year. It should be spent exclusively for union products. To one who is at all familiar with ruling class characteristics It Is by no means surprising that all sorts of low tricks and cotemptlble methods will be resorted to In order to thwart the workers ln any attempt they may make to lighten the burden of their slavery, or get rid of their chains. When It comes down to a political contest between slaves and masters, It Is a foregone conclusion that the latter will use every power at their command to prevent the former from gaining any point of vantage whatever. Bribery, corruption and brazen rascality will be resorted to with the utmost nonchalance and sang, froid and every precept of honor and decency will be outraged with an abandon that would put a burglar to the blush, or a harlot to shame. This sort of thing will be winked at by all of that eminently respectable gang of hypocrites who prate most loudly on behalf of "law and order," morals, ethics and religion. This sort of thing Is to be expected from those whose chief mission ln life is to apollglze for and defend a civilization, the foundations of which are laid in the enslavement of labor and whose superstructure Is built from the sweat and blood of Its victims. Nothing better could reasonably be expected from the hungry horde which draws Its sustenance from the rich plunder wrung from an enslaved working class. All the vile schemes concocted by the agents and defenders of ruling clsss rascality would, however, fail of their purpose were it not for the un- sufferable and contemptible cowardice The Southern Alberta Labor Bulletin, a strictly non-partisan labor paper, is hAMa published at I^ethbridge next ���HRlff111 ** * nreeplunin. four- prevalent In the ranks fit the enslaved page fortnightly publication, at the start It is under the ownership and - editorship of J. B. Kelsey, "lino" on the Dally Herald. Whenever elgar you a union label union clgar- BSl I i class. Steeped thou. in Ignorance, this mountable obstacU come by persistei by those who ot even a stoat un Patronizing Our Advertiz the workers are s not an insur- It can be over- hammering away become of knowledge and But there are thou sands of slaves, who, though having seen the light, are such arrant cowards, such spineless wretches, as to be utterly Incapable of even assuming the attitude of men. Not only are they too cowardly to take part ln the movement that makes for the emancipation of the workers, between elections, but upon polling day their cowardice becomes so monumental and overmastering that they stay away from the polls and thus make It possible for the dirty tricksters of the ruling class to successfully work their vile schemes ln the Interest of their masters. It Is reported to this office that enough of such cowards Inhabit a certain district not a thousand miles from Ladysmlth, B. C, to have elected Comrade Hawthornthwaite to the Dominion house, Instead of the notorious Ralph Smith, at the late elections, had these worthies been men. Instead of Jellyfish. As one mine manager has aptly said, "such creatures are no good." They are a nuisance to themselves and a curse to their class. Just what such spineless cowards expect to gain by their cowardice Is a mystery. If they wish to hide from their bosses the fact that they have been forced to entertain certain convictions contrary to their master's Interests, the worst thing they could possibly do would be to stay away from the polls voluntarily. The bosses should require no further evidence to prove them guilty of entertaining Ideas treasonable to their employers. Had they gone to the polls like men there would at least be grounds to suppose that they went as good loyal Liberals or Conservatives. As It Is there Is ���very warrant for their discharge from employment for political reasons. ThlB would, perhaps, be done were It not for the very reasonable expectation that such spineless creatures are not particularly liable to develop any backbone worth mentioning ln the future. The time has come ln British Columbia when it would no longer be possible to discriminate against workmen on account of political convictions, were It not for the existence of this cowardly element. By virtue of Its existence those who do take an active part in the Socialist movement can still safely be crucified. This spineless element offers anything but a safeguard against such persecutions. . We are satisfied that in the case of employees of most of the larger employing concerns In this province this cowardice is unwarranted. There is little or nothing to justify it. It may be that petty bosses here and there drop hints of possible discharge ln case of certain events, but these are dropped without warrant from the head otn>,'*>li.. snd *tu*% thr*������N *" M not be carried out even if these petty boosters so desired. Such petty threats could strike terror only to the fevered Imagination of creatures devoid of spines. The. splendid heritage of Ignorance has come down to the modern ���sis through the centuries of to Mention the Trades ruling clsss rapine and robbery, should bring joy and satisfaction to the heart of the capitalist tyrant of Unlay. That Inherited cowardice that converts even an Intelligent slave Into a harmless jellyfish, should raise present day rulers to the "seventh heaven of delight." A plentiful supply of such cowards Insures the perpetuity of their rule.���Western Clarion. It's about time writers ln the labor press quit giving veiled hints as to what the workers must do to solve the problems confronting them. ���Assume your political duty;" "assert your political rights; "we must have clean men;" "we must fight for right and justice;" "stand by your friends and defat your enemies;" "we must use Independent political action;" "get together���what we need Is unity." These and a thousand more such vague expressions are somewhat significant, but ln the last analysis mere twaddle. Under such headings a wage-earner can do any fool thing���and then howl "unity," "come over Into my camp and let's have unity!" Such empty expressions of advice to workers mean little, but is at least an indication that the mind of Labor is in a ferment, unconsciously or otherwise, seeking s wsy out of the dllema in which It finds itself. This Is a hopeful phenomena. It Is fast compelling labor "leaders" to reconsider their old slogan of "no politics." But the issue must be met squarely. Society cannot be change ? ehlnd Its back. If in Socialism there is a remedy��� and this wage-earners rarely dispute t���butdo not vote for���then let "dreaming" cease and concentrated action along those lines begin. Samuel Compels has been put on the "unfair" list at the White House. He hasn't the Roosevelt label.���Leth- bridge Herald. -MM M. Langtry Satisfaction or Money Refunded Up-to-Date Tailor Largest Stock of Imported Goods in Vancouver Suits Made to Order $20 Up 322 Hastings SL W. Vancouver, B. C. 1 ���- ������'" '"��� ������ ' "i' . ���aaaa���il .1' if |3BBS>^B^^8^BS^3 ���'������;' ���> .: ��� j ��� <i " . 10 'm ~i I I M ��� - 1, It TNI 9. C. TRADES UNIONIST. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. I xsx I Horseshoe Hotel F. McELROY, Proprietor Nicely furnished rooms and first-class dining room in connection. Cor. Hastings and Columbia Phone 622 Vancouver, B. C. A REPLY TO BRUCE. ��� Editor Saturday Sunset:��� Sir: In your Issue ot August 22nd. "Bruce" gives the "deluded followers of the shibboleth of Socialism" rather a scathing touch. It seems to me, however, that he treats the subject rather unfairly and very superficially. As a general rule, the figures given us ln Socialist newspapers are pretty near to being correct, and the men that publish them. are not utter ignoramuses. Be thst how It may, we know that throughout the civilized world today vast fortunes are being amassed by capitalists, and we know that these fortunes are the product of exploited labor. We know that the worker produces everything except the raw material in its natural state. We know that everything tbe worker produces Is a source of profit to his employer, whether that profit be one per cent, or fifty per cent. We know that tne worker gives us light, heat, power; that he makes and operates railways and steamship lines and distributes his products all over the world; and from the worker, for each and all of these operations, this toll, called profit, is exacted. Profit, literally speaking, is something for nothing, which means that the other end of the deal is nothing for something. Morally speaking, it is theft Just as Bruce states, the manufacturing concerns, out of their profits pay a small dividend to the shareholders and devote the balance to increasing the size of their plant, "to make more wheels turn snd employ mora hands." He might go right on with the story, "to employ more hands, to make more profits, to build more factories, to make more profits," and so on ad Infinitum. The Socialist has come into being, or evolved from these "hands" which Bruce alludes to. These "hands" are men and women, also children. The "wheels" which turn to employ more hands, unfortunately have the reverse effect. They do the work Instead of the "hands." At tha present time fifty per cent, of the world's civilised worken are out of employment all the time at the result of the introduction into our factories of modern machinery, which, instesd of laving r, freeies the laborer ont of hla Tbe result Is that the entire burden of providing for the unemployed, half of their own class, as well ss for the parasites who exploit them and themselves, falls on the fifty per cent, who are In employment. Now, If modern machinery has got us Into this condition, and science snd invention still continues to Improve machinery, I would ask Bruce what is to be the outcome in say 25 years from now? But there is another viewpoint to this condition also. The population of the civilised world Is at the present time about 87 per cent, of the working class. This being a large percentage, It Is only natural to suppose thst they sre the majority of the consumers. If we freeze them out of their employment by means of machinery, which does the work on a collosal scale, how are they going to get money to buy the necessaries of life; If they cannot do so, where Is the capitalist going to get hla market? Perchance, science will have perfected some means of successful sky travel, and the moon or planets will furnish a market. Otherwise the worker, having been wiped out of existence, the capitalist must sell to his own machine. No, friend "Bruce;" It Is not buncombe, neither Is Socialism a shibboleth. It Is the only cure for the conditions above mentioned, and is the child of education, springing, as it does, from the awakened mind of a class who otherwise would be driven off the earth's face���the workers. Trusting, Mr. Editor, that I have not encroached too much on your valuable space, "C R." A REMINISCENCE. "Every man for himself." There was a time when the doctrine was applied literally to education, and when those children were taught whose parents were able to buy teaching for them (at a high price), and all other children grew up ln the darkness of Ignorance. Now we hold It the first duty of the state to provide for every child within its borders a full and competent education. The change of thought ln regard to old age that Is Indicated by these pension laws is no greater than the change of thought in regard to children, nor can any proposal of old age pensions seem now as strange to the conservative majority as a proposal of free and universal education would have seemed two centuries ago. The world moves. It Is a beautiful Idea, that having begun to recognise Its duty toward those at the outset of life, the world should now glimpse something of Its duty toward the course. It is also a memorable Illustration of the fact that whether we like it or not. men are drawing more closely together and every day finds a wider recognition ot the great community of Interest, obligation, doty and welfare. ���Charles Edward Russell. By Jack Wood. Not more than three hundred yards away were the great gates opening into one of London's great cemeteries, where sleep thousands of London's dead. Well-kept beds of flowers, trees In plenty, acacias, lilacs, hawthorn, beech, elm, oak, willow and the laburnum, with Its long racemes of golden blossom. The mausoleums ot the rich; the potter's field of the poor. Names and no-names; the world and the unknown; all equal ln the arms of Mother Earth; some remembered, some forgotten. There rest so-called "nobility," actors, painters, editors and circus- riders of renown. In the long spring and summer months thousands of Londoners wend their way to this suburban graveyard to visit the resting-places of their friends, and to look upon the mnouments of the great and mighty, who were. Long ago when I was wearing my first pair of knickerbockers (with pockets), when I plunged my hands Into those side-pockets, lo and behold, I found a shilling (25c) ln one pocket and a sixpenny piece (12c) ln the other���put there by "Mother." And "after life's fitful fever, she sleeps well," fevered to death by the worry and strain of running a superior rooming-house, decorated with big bills, "Apartments to Let"���often emptier than full, and the tale of "kept home from school to work" tells Itself. Housemaid, nurse, cook���a boy! And I was taught "to do my duty ln that sphere of life, ln which It had pleased an upside-down-sort of society to pitch me." And I did, and I've been kicking ever since. On that knckerbocker Sunday, of long ago, I was walking around the great cemetery grounds, admiring the flowers and reading the inscriptions of the dead, and to my wonder and delight there stood before me the pedestal and bust of "Tom Hood." and Inscribed around . It were the word, "And he wrote the "Song of the 8hlrt.'" He wrote of the seamstress, who "Was sewing with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt." Tom Hood died ln 1845. His "Song of the Shirt" marked an epoch. His keen sympathy bred an Insight Into the condition of the working class; he worked In company, as It were, with Charles Klngsley, who told of the Chartist struggle In "Alton Locke" ln 1850; Ebenezer Elliott (the Corn Law Rhymer); Carlyle, with his "Sartor Ressrtus" In 1833, followed by "Past and Present," and Dickens, who started his bombardment of conventionalities and shams in 1836, and Hogarth, who, in his wonderful caricatures of the "Harlot's 'Progress," 1884, the "Rake's Progress." 1886, probed deeply Into the masks of respectability and orthodoxy; Ernest Jones, who In prose and poem scathed the upholders of falre; MaailnL who waa caus ing uneasiness by pleading tor elation" versus individualism. "We must strive to make of humanity one single family." All of these, and Tom Hood not least, were precursors of the advent and reception of the teachings of Karl Marx by the people of England. As Sidney Webb says of Carlyle ln the "Fabian Essays," so we say of this coterie: "Though not Socialists, they made big dints in the snield of individualism." And twenty years later brings me again to "three hundred yards away were the great gates." Sunday morning, on a vacant lot where the gas workers most did congregate at Ken- sal Green, a Socialist meeting was going on. On the rough platform stood a tall, wuu-looklng man, yet intellectual, withal, with a fine flow of language, easy to understand and carrying conviction to his hearers. The brogue was rich Irish, and though he dealt out Marxian economics ail the time, his native wit and humor ao tinged his illustrations that he never wearied the listening crowd. It was a misty, half-foggy morning, snd the rain compelled the audience to seek the protecting shelter of an adjacent wall. With the fervor of a missionary, the speaker stood pat. Buttoning his jscket up to the chin���he was bareheaded���he continued his discourse, though the rain made his clothes get closer to him. That's seventeen or eighteen years agone. I remember the points of the speech to this day. The speaker was Jim Connell of the Social Democratic Federation, and author of "The Red Flag." Wherever labor and Socialism are marching to victory���at the meetings, ln the parka, in the halls, at elections, all during Stitt Wilson's phenomenal crusade meetings in Yorkshire and other places���"The Red Flag" la. the song of the present and of the future, Inspiring all to action ln deadly earnest and fidelity to death. It's a poena, and an inspiration. And Jim is still on the firing line I A man who will not contribute to maintain an organisation, political or industrial, cannot be relied upon to support the principles underlying working class emancipation. 11 \ $1.60 per day and up Special Rates by the week American Plan 66 Outside Bright, Airy Rooms j Clarendon Hotel , HARTNEY A McDADE. Prona. HARTNEY * McDADE, Props. r, a a 1 ������'��������� ���" J �� . T..'p..i.��,���.,i1.-I,MU_)_I;I niiniij aiTTin" ���<t r>��w.^rt ! ^ iFiontrrJIgmBSBI , ��� \ ��� 14 THI B. C. TRADEt UNIONIST. VANCOUVIR. BRITISH OOLUMBlA. ���THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING." Many there are ln the ranks of agitators, spokesmen snd writers for the cause of labor ln Its efforts to break the chains of capitalist bondage, who scoff at the Idea that It Is necessary to arrive at a thorough understanding of the present system of production It effective blows are to be struck for its overthrow and abolition. The mastery of economics Is, to them, too great a task and of too little consequence to waste valuable time upon. They often argue that the workingmen cannot be Interested ln the discussion of such a dry subject They'must be served with more piquant sauce, something more interesting and entertaining, something more palatable and tasty than the dry husks of scientific truth. Hence, these worthy ones go forth with voice and pen to do valiant deeds on behalf ot the lethargic labor giant. By the application of fine spun sentiments, funny stories and a string of bald assertions they often succeed in arousing the enthusiasm of the workers to a white heat, presaging, from their optimistic point of view, the speedy attainment of labor's victory and the complete rout and discomfiture of Its enemies. But alas! their erstwhile optimism becomes transformed into a pessimism most woeful and depressing once the election returns come ln showing that this enthusiasm did not crystallise Into the wished for results. The triumph of the working class over its constitutional enemy, the capitalist class, will not be accomplished by a wave of enthusiasm stirred up by gllb-tongued orators and facile pen pushers appealing to the sentiment, the passion, the prejudice of the mob. It will rather be impelled by the cold and calculating conviction arising from searching analysis and careful Inquiry into the nature of the task In hand and the characteristics and habits of the brute beast of Capital, that monster that must be laid low If labor Is to attain its own. To the mentally lazy the mastery of the economics of capitalist production Is a task so heavy It would fain be shunned. Without this knowledge, however, the would-be apostle of freedom Is more than apt to prove a false prophet and the movement for emau- ��� Robi Porter �� Sons FAMILY BUTCHERS Wholesale & Retail Otilsrs of ail Weds. - SHIPPING IS OUR SPECIALTY 136 Cordova St r Tel. 684 VANCOUVER. B. C. ���ma~ ".*���...' clpatlon drift like a rudderless ship upon an angry sea. No matter how disagreeable the task may appear, it is absolutely necessary that the workers arrive at something at least approaching to an understanding of capitalist production if they are to become reliable recruits for the army of emancipation. They must be taught the significance of capital and how It lives and thrives at the expense of their blood and sweat. They must be made familiar with process and method whereby the products of their unpaid toll are transformed into still further means for their enslavement and exploitation. Just how their bone and sinew la translated into surplus value to serve ss a still further accretion to the hideous bulk of the beast Capital, that has Its fangs buried in their quivering flesh should and must be made clear to them. Neither speaker nor writer should leave an opportunity untouched to explain and analyse and then explain again. Like the old, old love story. It will bear repetition times without number and still never grow stale. In fact, nothing will so appeal to the reasoning faculties of men at the present time ss the lucid setting forth of the cold and unvarnished facts relating to the social and industrial life of the race. From an understanding of capitalist production and Its consequences to the working class and through It to all society as well, arises an enthusiasm for the cause that makes for Its overthrow that never lessens even In the face of the most serious obstacles and apparent setbacks. It flares forth with a steady persistency thst can neither be mistaken for the sun glare of optimism, or turned into the murky gloom of a morbid pessimism. It is the enthusiasm of the scientist who having discovered truth zealously obeys her mandate by championing her cause in the interest of knowledge and human uplift. It Is an enthusiasm that is unconquerable and all conquering. The Socialist comrades of Canada may well feel satisfied with the result of the recent elections. In the eight districts in which candidates of the Socialist party were run, 15 per cent, of the total vote polled was cast for those candidates. In four of these districts this wss the first time the party had ever put up candidates for a federal election. In the other four districts candidates were run at the previous election. This is a showing that at least cannot be duplicated upon this western continent. If it can anywhere else in the world. There is a reason for this. From Its very Inception the Socialist Party of Canada has been a revolutionary organization. Its platform is essentially and frankly a revolutionary declaration. The props gs ads of the party has been based solely upon the Marxian analysis of capitalist production and the materialist le romnnotkm of history. ��� Uncoaiamlaared by reform, petch- ��� ! ���>. I ��� work and palliative ideas. It has hewn strictly to the line of the class struggle and thus escaped the taint ot opportunism and the poison of reaction. It haa catered to no faction or factions of the working class, either trade union or otherwise. It has voiced the interests ot the working clsss as a whole and refused at all times to take sides in any ot the petty squabbles that Inevitably spring up within the ranks of that class as a result of the fact that the labor market Is merely a slave pen ln which is sold the flesh, the blood, the bone, the sinew and the Uvea of the workers, to the tune of all the low-down, higgling, bickering, lying, cheating and quarreling that It Is possible for such a noxious sink hole to engender. In spite of the fact that the Socialist Party of Canada has refused to cater to trade union Ideas and prejudices we make bold to state that ln no part of this western continent can a larger percentage of the members of the unions be found ln the Socialist ranks and supporting its program and ticket, than in the province of British Columbia, where the Socialist Party of Canada first came Into existence. At no point on this continent hss it been made more Impossible to bring a "Labor Party" Into existence than here. For the benefit of those hoop-la Claqueurs who fancy the walls of capitalist Jericho can be shaken down by loud noise or undermined by waves of sudden enthusiasm, we beg leave to suggest that the battering ram effects. of sound education of the workers along economic lines will bring quicker and more certain results. The proof of the pudding lies ln the eating, so it Is said. The proof of the efficiency of sound propaganda as the basis of effective political work along class lines is seen in the movement in Canada and the progress made by the Socialist party during the less than six years of Its existence in the Dominion. At the forthcoming elections in British Columbia a further lesson will be given along the same lines. Socialists of Canada have sent a request to the International Socialist bureau at Brussels that the workers of all countries be notified that industrial conditions in Canada are very bad at present and that immigrants cannot hope to improve their lot by coming Into the Dominion. Foreign steamship agencies are charged with having placarded Europe with glowing pictures of wealth and independence in Canada In order to bleed the people for passage money and also furnish capitalists with cheap. Impoverished labor. The Salvation Army is also meeting with general denunciation for making Canada a dumping ground for England's poorest workera. ��� ��� ��� When having tonsorlal work done��� do yon seek tor the union barber shop card? Do you? Thousands Wear * Fit-Reform Clothes WHY NOT YOU? 333 Hastings St. .1 m > > ��� ��� Seattle's central body Is dissatisfied with the organisation service given . them by the A. F. of L., claiming thst Organiser C. O. Young has other . m ��� territory to cover than Oregon, which should be sttended to. Some months . ago Vancouver Trades and Labor council made a similar protest to tbe A. F. of L.. as British Columbia Is also in C. O. Young's jurisdiction; though he has never done any work ln this province. An organiser for British Columbia and Washington seems now in order if results are sought. ��� ��� ��� Judging by the District Ledger, 11 Fernie, the Trades council in the coal city has been revived. It held Ita charter from the Dominion Trades and Labor congress. ��� ��� ��� The recommendations of the parliamentary committee relating to civic elections, at Thursday evening's Trades and Labor council meeting,, promises to be full of Interest to wage- earners. The committee consists of P. W. Bowler, 2848 Scott; W. Sayer. 847 Homer; E. C. Knight, 1333 Keefer; F. Heays, 1836 Triumph; O. Payne, 168 Lansdowne avenue; A. Fen ton, 67? M Grove avenue; S. Thompson, 346 Bar* nard; E. W. King, 695 Cambie; J. H. Ley, 569 Hornby. Every delegate 4 should be present. If the central body Is not all that It should be the fault lies with Its units���the delegates; delegates, too, who are frequently Inclined to stay away from meetings and voice their opinions in the wrong place. Dr. Schaffe, formerly minister of commerce of the Austrian Empire, estimates the initial cost of a gen European war would be $4,000,000,000 and the subsequent coat of carrying It on would be fully $10,000,000 per day. The glorious business possibilities that such an event would open up la enough to make the mouth of every capitalist water most profusely. 1 .��� The nomination, election and installation of officers of Typo. Union, No. 326, will take place at Labor Hall on December 27th. The Horseshoers' union is the latest, local to take out a charter and apply for affiliation with the Tradea council. ���.-Wm-^ - THI B. C. TBABIB UNIONIST. VANCOUVIR, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Wm. Dick has taken over the business heretofore known ss WRAY A DICK. The same high grade of Union Suspenders Union Pants Union Overalls Union Hats and a general line of Union Merchandise will be always on hand. Xmas Presents a specialty. Give us a call and you will be satisfied. li/illiam flick 21 Hastings St. W. J A KNOTTY PROBLEM. . Never wss the power of labor to produce wealth so great as now. Never was It such a simple and easy matter to provide enough food, clothing, shelter and other needful things to satisfy the legitimate requirements of human kind as at present Never waa poverty, misery and degradation has been worked to the limit. capital. The resources of the earth and the machinery of production are held as the property of a small percentage of the entire population. These owners constitute what 1s termed the capitalist class. By this ownership the capitalists are in complete command of Industry and Its operation cannot be carried on without their consent. Being in command of the resources of the earth and the means of converting those resources Into sustenance for human kind, the capitalists are in a position to command the services of the workers and appropriate the wealth they bring forth by their labor. As the workers must have access to the means of production in order to live, they must, perforce, submit to such terms ss Imposed by the owners, the capitalists. The only alternative is starvation. Although the consent of the owners is necessary in order that the worker may be sble to obtain his sustenance, that consent generally speaking, cannot be arbitrarily given or withheld. It Is determined by circumstances over which the capitalists themselves have no control. It new marketa are available, or old ones capable ot further expansion, industry will be carried on at a lively rate and many workmen will find employment. When all available markets have become fully supplied, production must be slackened. This entails the discharge of workmen and the consequent distress that follows In the wake of unemployment The capitalists are as powerless to prevent It as the workmen themselves. American and European capital has spread Its tentacles to the uttermost parts of the earth. Every land has been Invaded by the surplus sweated from the slaves of British. German. French and American capitalists. These great commercial countries have developed such enormous productive powers that unless a constantly expanding market abroad can be obtained, these powers cannot be used and industrial, stagnation and decay must ensue. The market abroad The more widespread throughout the world than today. Millions of workmen and their families are even now at the point of starvation, owing to lack of employment or an insufficient wage when in employment In spite Oriental races which have hitherto absorbed a large volume of the plunder wrung from European and American slaves, are now rapidly rising to modern industrial stature. Instead of continuing as heavy purchasers of for- of ail vociferation to the contrary eign goods; they are now beginning to these conditions are becoming more pour their wares into the world's mar- these conditions are becoming more acute and unbearable each day. Though optimistically inclined persons eagerly scan the social and industrial horlson for promise ot relief, there is none in eight There la ample evidence to warrant the prophecy that capitalist society le now floundering In an industrial depression from which It can never recover, and that the ln- etinct Of self-preservation will compel the human race to parte Itself of capital and Its baneful rule by the meat sweeping and drastic revolution ever recorded in history- 1 The entire world Is now ruled by pour their wares into the world's market in competition with the products ot the slaves of Christian lands. In this struggle between an Oriental capitalism in command of millions of docile and tireless slaves, accustomed to frugal living, and an Occidental cap- Itallsm whose slaves have not been need to the aasae low standard of living. It requires no prophet to foresee the result Under such circumstances the "fittest to viva" will net be foreign marketa undergoing ***** threatening to become totally lost, the situation In Europe and America becomes each day more acute. The great commercial countries are already plastered with capitalist investments at every available point. The United States alone has a productive and carrying power, which. If used to anything like its full extent could supply the reasonable needs ot half the population of the globe and Britain, France and Germany are not far behind. This huge power of production cannot be used In either of these countries because the products could not be disposed of in conformity with the code of ethics peculiar to capitalist civilization. That is. they could not be so disposed of ss to increase the capital, and consequently the power of the modern ruling class. Hence, production must suffer curtailment and millions of workmen be forced Into starvation in order that capital may continue to rule. Just because the tools of production have become so highly developed that they have multiplied the productive power of labor beyond the point where It Is possible for capital to dispose of the product, huge masses of workmen must be doomed to unemployment with all that retinue of horrors that such a condition entails. It is up to the capitalists and their henchmen to figure out a solution for the difficulty. If they do not figure It ouc and that right speedily, the working clsss will be compelled to do It ln Its own behalf. It Is a knotty problem, but It must be solved. Its solution will wipe out the rule ot capital and remove ita baneful sway from the pathway ot civilising influences. As the problem can only be solved by the abolition of capital and Its rule, It Is evident that the solution will not be applied by capitalists and their henchmen. The problem is too knotty for that sort of a bunch. IN8TANCE8 OF ECONOMIC DETERMINISM. By Will R. Shier. Chattel slavery supplanted cannibalism because It was found more profitable to make prisoners of war work than to kill them ��� * ��� According to revelations made In the memoirs of General Kuropatkin, the Russo-Japanese war was occasioned not by national antagonisms, but by the speculations of certain highly placed personages, Including the Russian royal family, in Important timber concessions in Korea, ��� ��� ��� The introduction ot capitalism Into Turkey. Persia aad China has usees sltated recent political changes In meat ot eeaetitntt-onel government to the needs ot the rising bourgeois Notwithstanding the halo ot sentiment which encircled the American civil war and the popular opinion that the emancipation ot the negro waa effected upon purely humanitarian grounds, the conflict waa really one between two types ot civilisation, the one based on chattel slavery, the other on contract labor. Now. though It la apparent to everybody that the South's opposition arose out of the material Interests ot Its master class. It Is not so apparent that the Norths Interference was not entirely disinterested. But such the shrewd student of history knows to be the case. The manufacturers of the North supported the war because they realised, son* * of them consciously, some only by instinct that freeing the slaves in the Confederate states would re-act upon the labor market In their own part of the country, provide them with a plentltude of wage laborers for their factories, and thereby render it possible for them to cut down wages by Increasing the army of the unemployed and lower the standard of living among the whites by importing negro labor from south of the Mason and Dixon's line. There Is no disguise about the commercial character of the American revolution. The mercantile and manufacturing class of England, through their committee, the British government sought to monopolise colonial trade for themselves by various duties snd pieces of legislation calculated to cripple the enterprise of the New England bourgeoisie, which, of course, the latter resented, with the result that rather than submit to the restraints imposed upon them by the mother country, they declared for independence. Why should organised labor continue begging the old parties to do "something" for labor. The something that the old parties do for labor is to "do" it Gompers' policy of begging shows to what degradation labor has come under his generalship. No intelligent worklngman will longer follow such a program: he will Instead cast his ballot with the uncompromising aggressive movement of the revolutionary working class. PHONE 1266. Fancy Groceries and Provisions. S. T. WALLACE FURNITURE Carpets, Linoleums, Curtains, Blinds, Stoves, Go-carts, Baby Buggies, ate. It pot cent oft fOr cash oa Furniture. VANCOUVER, B. C. ImM fjWaWmWMWm^aW ��� ji -J ( - When Patronizing Our Advertizers Don! Forget to Mention the Trades Unionist . 1 . ��� ��� Y{ \r .."'. . THK B. C TRADtS UNIONIST, VANCOUVIR, BRITISH COLUMBIA. LATFORM / ��� Socialist Party of Canada m*. the Socialist Party of Canada, ln convention assembled, affirm our allegiance to, and support ot the principles and programme of the revolutionary working class. Labor produces all wealth, and to the producers it should belong. The present economic system is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of production, consequently all the products ot labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist Is therefore master; the worker a slave. Bo long as the capitalist class remains in possession of the reins of government all the powers of the State will be used to protect and defend their property rights ln the means of wealth production and their control of tho product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream of profits, and to the worker an ever Increasing measure of misery and degradation. The Interest ot the working class lies ln the direction of setting Itself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage system, under which Is cloaked the robbery of the working-class at the point of production. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation of capitalist property ln the means of wealth production into collective or working-class property. The Irrepressible conflict of Interests between the capitalist and the worker Is rapidly culminating in a struggle for possession of the power of government���the capitalist to hold, the worker to secure It by political action. This Is the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organise under the banner of the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic programme of the working class, as follows: 1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, of capitalist property In the means ot wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills, railroads etc.,) into the collective property of the working class. S. The democratic organisation and management ot Industry by the workers. 3. The establishment, as speedily as possible, of production for nee Instead of production for profit The Socialist Party, when ln office, shall always and everywhere until the present system is abolished, make the answer to thla question Its guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance the Interests of the working class and aid the workers in their class struggle against capitalism? If It will the Socialist Party is for it; If It will not the Socialist Party 'is absolutely opposed to It In accordance with this principle the Socialist Party pledges Itself to conduct all the public affairs placed ln Its.hands in such a manner as to promote the Interests of the working class alone. OCFtRREO ELECTIONS IN UP-COUNTRY DISTRICTS I I . The election for members of the Dominion Parliament was held ln Kootenay and Tale-Cariboo districts on Thursday, November 18th. The Conservative candidate in each district waa elected by a heavy plurality. Our candidates, "Bin" Davidson in Kootenay and Charles Bunting in Tale-Cariboo, received 1S7S and 416 votes respectively. This was ln the former case about 10 per cent and ln the latter about 10 per cent of the total vote east These two districts are each of enormous area aad the population la in a large part widely scattered and therefore difficult to reach with our propaganda. In spite of this, however, the showing is an excellent one and shows, upon the whole, a persistent growth of the movement that is most gratifying. The Increase in the vote In the Kootenay district over that of four years ago is fully 100 per cenU In a number of places, such as Iuichel, Coal Creek, Fernie, Moyie, Silver Cup Mine, etc., the vote for Davidson waa greater {nan the combined vote of the two capitalist candidates. These cases afford excellent Illustrations of the over whelm Ing power In the hands get sense enough In their heads to nee It ln their own behalf. The showing made in the Yale-Car- iboo, while not SO good as In the Kootenay. wag a most excellent one under the circumstances. The district around the Boundary, i.e., Phoenix, Grand Forks and Greenwood, has been more completely shot to pieces ss a result ot the Industrial depression than probably any other part of the province. The metalliferous mines and the smelters were either entirely shut down, or their working force greatly reduced during last fall and winter. Many have not yet fully regained their normal activity. Large numbers of men were compelled to lesve the district and search for employment elsewhere, and many who came ln later on were not ln time to get on the voters' list. Then again, the discrimination against workmen snd their discharge for political reasons hss evidently been carried to a further extent ln the Boundary district during recent months than ln sy other part of the province. Taking into consideration these facts and remembering that a considerable portion of Yale-Cariboo Is agricultural, therefore rather Inclined toward Conservatism, the showing made Is a very creditable one and in every way calculated to urge the comrades there to push forward with renewed energy ln order to be fully prepared for the next turn of the political wheel. If there Is one thing that has been satisfactorily emphasized by the result of these deferred elections, it is the complete discrediting of those vociferous Liberal mountebanks who took pains to lay special strees upon their exceeding great love for the worklngman. The blatant Mclnnls here in Vancouver received such a turning down at the hands of those he "loved" that It will prove a miracle if his political pipe has not been extinguished forever, so far as any elective office Is concerned. The malodorous Ralph Smith ot Vancouver Island Infame was repudiated by an overwhelming majority of the workmen - ��� _ �� ot the north end of his district where he waa well known, and hie battered political hide waa only saved by the extreme southern end of the district where he was least known, and even then at the expense of methods that would scarce bear the light of invest.* gation. Bo thoroughly detested Is he by the workingmen of his home town. Nanalmo, that he barely escaped being mobbed at their hands oa election night It la even said upon good authority that no self-respecting dog n Nanalmo will longer deign to bark at him, or extend other canine courtesies, for fear of losing caste with his brethren. Then to round out this repudiation of labor-loving Liberal decoys and skates, the fulsomely affectionate political old woman. Smith Curtis, got what waa coming to her In the Kootenay. Thrown Into the political discard, she can now give way to a similar brand of anguish to that which wrung the heart ot Venus where Adonis failed to respond to her wooing. But while we are overjoyed to know that the wooing of Labor by the political wenches of the Liberal party has been in vain as far as British Columbia is concerned, we are wondering It the reason Adonis spurned the proffered love of Venus was because she wss a scrawny old political Jade of battered appearance and with a bad breath? Though we do not believe she was that sort, the fact still remains that Labor In the' Kootenay district spurned the wooing ot Smith Curtis, no matter what the reason therefor. Comrades of Kootenay and Tale-Cariboo, you did well. Gird up your loins for the next round. Tenement Tessle���And' de novel says de heroine had a willowy form, used to pine for her lover and would spruce up when she seen him coming froo de gate.' Shanty Sue���Gee, where did she work���ln a sawmill?���Chicago Dally News. ^mommm WW *ao uuno When TO HOUSEKEEPERS CJ If you would like to spend less time in your kitchen and woodshed, and have much more time for outdoor life, recreation and pleasure, look into the question of doing your cooking with a Gas Range. Telephone your address to our office snd we will send a man te measure your premises and give you an estimate of cost of 1 ..stalling the gae pipes, Vancouver Gas Company, Limited. i. i i . PM- ��� ; ��� i -.: <j? ���& >���'��� *. ���*M i -'J ''���s2 ��� . '.���A I I V r.-XlM ��� :1H _____ ��� , . _. ��� ��� ��� . Jt.lT.iK.f a�� aa��tMM>l4ata��Hi. sfiL^ 9H I ' B ��� I 1 %��� _ ,'���..' . "'��� ��� ��� THE B, C. TRASH UNIONIST. VANCOUVIR, SRITISH COLUMIIA. ' . >' PLATFORM Party of Canada We, the Socialist Party ot Canada, In convention assembled, affirm our allegiance to, and support of the principles and programme of the revolutionary working class. Labor produces all wealth, and to the producers It should belong. The present economic system Is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of production, consequently all the products of labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist Is /therefore master; the worker a slave. So long as the capitalist class remains ln possession ot the reins ot government all the powers of the State will be used to protect and defend their property rights in the means of wealth production and their control of the product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream of profits, and to the worker an ever Increasing measure of misery and degradation. The Interest of the working class lies ln the direction of setting Itself tree from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the Wage system, under which Is cloaked the robbery of the working-class at the point ef production. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation of capitalist property ln thn means of wealth production into collective or working-class property. The Irrepressible conflict of Interests between the capitalist and the worker Is rapidly culminating ln a struggle for possession of the power of government���the capitalist to hold, the worker to secure It by political action. This Is the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organise under the banner of the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose ot setting up and enforcing the economic programme of the working class, as follows: 1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, of capitalist property ln the means ot wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills, railroads etc.,) Into the collective property of the working class. S. The democratic organisation and management of Industry by the workers. S. The establishment, as speedily as possible, of production for nee Instead of production for profit. The Socialist Party, when in office, shall always and everywhere uutll the present system Is abolished, make the answer to this question its guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance the Interests of the working class and aid the workers ln their class struggle against capitalism? If It will the Socialist Party la for it; If It will not, the Socialist Party is absolutely opposed to It In accordance with this principle the Socialist Party pledges Itself to conduct all the public affairs placed In Its hands ln such a manner as to promote the interests of the working class alone. DEFERRED ELECTIONS IN UP-COUNIRY DISTRICTS ;��'. therefore difficult to reach with our propaganda. In spite of this, however, the showing is an excellent one and shows, upon the whole, a persistent growth ot the movement thst Is most gratifying. The increase in the vote in the Kootensjr district over that of four years ago is fully 100 per cent. In a number of places, such as Michel, Coal Creek, Fernie, Moyle, Silver Cup Mine, etc., the vote for Davidson was greater (nan the combined vote ot the two capitalist candidates. These cases afford excellent Illustrations of area and the population Is the overwhelming power In the hands ln a large part widely scattered aad of the working class once its units The election for members of the Dominion Parliament was held in Kootenay and Tale-Cariboo districts on. Thursday, November 12th. The Conservative candidate in each district wag elected by a heavy plurality. Our candidates, "Bill" Davidson ln Kootenay and Charles Bunting In Tale-Cariboo, received 1S7S and 416 votes respectively. This waa In the former ease about SO per cent and In the latter about 10 per cent of the total vote east These two districts are each ot get sense enough in their heads to use It in their own behalf. . The showing made In the Tale-Cariboo, while not so good as lp the Kootenay, was a most excellent one under the circumstances. The district around the Boundary, i.e., Phoenix, Grand Forks and Greenwood, has been more completely shot to pieces as a result of the Industrial depression than probably any other part of the province. The metalliferous mines and the smelters were either entirely shut down, or their working force greatly reduced during last fall and winter. Many have not yet fully regained their normal activity. Large numbers of men were compelled to leave the district and search for employment elsewhere, and many who came ln later on were not in time to get on the voters' list. Then again, the discrimination against workmen snd their discharge for political reasons has evidently been carried to a further extent In the Boundary district during recent months than ln ay other part of the province. Taking Into consideration these facts and remembering that a considerable portion of Yale-Cariboo Is agricultural, therefore rather inclined toward Conservatism, the showing made is a very creditable one and ln every way calculated to urge the comrades there to push forward with renewed energy ln order to be fully prepared for the next turn of the political wheel. If there is one thing that has been satisfactorily emphasized by the result of these deferred elections, it is the complete discrediting of those vociferous Liberal mountebanks who took pains to lay special strees upon their exceeding great love for the worklngman. The blatant Mclnnis here in Vancouver received such a turning down st the hands of those he "loved" that it will prove a miracle if his political pipe has not been extinguished forever, bo fsr as any elective office is concerned. The malodorous Ralph Smith of Vancouver Island lnfame was repudiated by an overwhelming majority ot the workmen ��� > u SB = ot the north end ot hla district where he waa well known, and his battered political hide was only saved by the extreme southern end of the district where he was least known, and even then at the expense ot methods thst would scarce bear the light of invest!* gatlon. So thoroughly detested Is he by the workingmen ot his home town, Nanalmo, that he barely escaped being mobbed at their hands on election night It is even said upon good authority thst no self-respecting dog n Nanalmo will longer deign to bark at him, or extend other canine courtesies, for fear ot losing caste with his brethren. Then to round out this repudiation of labor-loving Liberal decoys and skates, the fulsomely affectionate political old woman, Smith Curtis, got what was coming to her in the Kootenay. Thrown into the political discard, she can now give way to a similar brand of anguish to that which wrung the heart of Venus where Adonis failed to respond to her wooing. But while we are overjoyed to know that the wooing of Labor by the political wenches of the Liberal party has been in vain as far as British Columbia is concerned, we are wondering if the reason Adonis spurned the proffered love of Venus wss because she was a scrawny old political Jade of battered appearance and with a bad breath? Though we do not believe she was that sort, the fact still remains that Labor in the Kootenay district spurned the wooing ot Smith Curtis, no matter what the reason therefor. Comrades of Kootenay and Yale-Cariboo, you did well. Gird up your loins for the next round. Tenement Tessle���And de novel says de heroine had a willowy form, used to pine for her lover and would spruce up when she seen him coming froo de gate. Shanty Sue���Gee, where did she work���In a sawmill?���Chicago Daily News. TO HOUSEKEEPERS *\ If you would like to spend less time in your kitchen and woodshed, and have much more time for outdoor life, recreation and pleasure, look into the question of doing your cooking with a Gas Range. Telephone your address to our office snd we will send a man to measure your premises and give you an estimate of cost of i .ntailing the gac pipes, ���sssss, Vancouver Gas Company, ���yt: ..���1 i-W ���mJ ���'' "SB - m i -1 -**M gap .; .'5 ��� When , _ , Thrifts Unionist. ��� ��� * ^MMeaBdasflgdsBBi) ' ��� �� <> ��� ess* WPPiPP THI ���. t% THAOBft UNIONIST. VANCOUVIR, IRITISH COLUMBIA. i 1 ���Y ��� \ ' ��� TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Officers, Committees, Delegates���Who They Are, When They Meet, and Their Addresses. m 1 1 5* ��� u ��� E ; BK OFFIOBR8 OF TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays In Labor Ball at 8 p. m. President. R. P. Pettipiece.2138 WestmlnBter Av. Phone 2507. Vice-President, J. A. Aicken 346 Barnard General Secretary. Harry Cowan 880 Homer St. Secretary-Treasurer. A. R. Burns Labor Hall Statistician. H. Sellers 1790 Albert St. (Phone B1965.) Sergeant-At-Arms. 8. Kernighan....820 Twelfth Ave. E. Executive Committee. Above* officers and W. W. Sayer, 847 Homer; P. W. Dowler, 2428 Scott; J. Geo. W. Williams 541 Robson 8t. Executive meets evening preceding Trades and Labor Council meeting ln Labor Hall, at 8 p. m. Organization Committee. J. A. Aiken 346 Barnard J. H. Ley 569 Hornby R. Craig 116 Georgia Parliamentary Committee. P. W. Bowler 2848 Scott W. Sayer 847 Homer E. C. Knight 1333 Keefer F. Heays 1836 Triumph St! G. Payne 159 Lansdowne Ave. A. renton 557 Grove Ave. S. Thompson 346 Barnard B. W. King 695 Cambie J. H. Ley 569 Hornby Meets second and fourth Thursdays in Labor Hall. DELEGATES TO TRADES COUNCIL Bricklayers and Masons. W. W. Sayer 687 Homer St C. Clayton 1286 Hornby V. B. Gordon Geo. Rothney 911 Richards J. Campbell Brotherhood ot Carpenters. & Kernighan . .820 Twelfth Ave. E. P. W, Dowler 2428 Scott 8t R. J. McRae 242 Dufferln St. E. J. W. Schurman 23S0 Cornwall G. W. Williams 541 Robson Hy. Davis... Waverley Hptel Jas. Edwards. Agent.... .Hotel Qulnte G. W. Cumnock...... Qulnto Hotel H. Leyfleld QlaagOW Hotel Q.Mo%att ...515 Dunlevy St. -���-.���_ Whnn Barbers. C. E. Hewitt Grotto, Granville St. Caas. Lear Atlantic J. B. Cameron, Metropole Barber Shop Geo. Debalt ._, Builders' Laborers. H. Sellars 1790 Albert St. G. Payne 159 Lansdowne Ave. (Phone A1214.) John Sully 1885 Eighth Ave. W. R. A. Stalker 976 Hastings E. R. Forrest 309 Westminster Ave. Building Trades Alliance. J. G. Smith J. Duncanson 629 Westminster Av. Brewery Workers. T. A. Bell 228, 9th Ave. E. Cigarmakers. A. Blee Mainland Cigar Factory R. Craig 116 Georgia St. W. Jardine Mainland Cigar Factory Civic Employees. R. Morrison 320 Georgia J. Clarke 1009 Burrard E. W. King 695 Cambie Cooks and Waiters. H. Harder 150 Hastings .St C. Davis 150 Hastings E. A. J. Arnason 150 Hastings E. H. Perkins 150 Hastings E. J. Forshee 150 Hastings E. Commercial Telegraphers. Phillips P.O. Box 432 W J. H. H J. B. C. Knight 1333 Keefer St M. Harger Hotel Delmonlco Geo. Jenkins Epworth P O. Iron Moulders. John Base L. Hlldebrand ����� M. B. Curtis 891 Princess St Leather Workers. W. G. Ward 209 Prior Laundry Workera, W. Roberts. Cascade Laundry J. Scott Pioneer Laundry Mrs. Powell Pioneer Laundry Machinists. J .H. McVety . .1744 Ninth Ave. W. S. W. C. Coen 848 Seymour C. Matteson 832 Helmcken St A. Fenton 557 Grove 8t A. Beasley 564 Sixth Ave. E. Musicians. T. Turner Printing .......���>.���>. G. Johnson I. McWhinnie ....622 Princess St JL H. Cleary COS Drake Street Railway Employees. 8. Thompson 346 Barnard J. Briggs J. A. Aicken 346 Barnard St. F. A. Hoover.. 613 Westminster Ave. G. Lenpesty 232 Lansdowne Ave. Structural Iron Workers. A. Foote P.O. Box 1196 Stone Cutters. J. Bateman Epworth, P. O. W. Mills 648 Granville St. Typographical. R. P. Pettipiece. .2138 Westm'r. Ave. A. R. Burns Labor Hall J. C. Wilton Evans A Hastings H. Cowan 880 Homer St. H. Neelands 603 Thurlow St. Tailors. J. H. Ley 569 Hornby F. Perry A W. A. Mclnnis 790 Granville Garment Workers. Mrs. Walker..W.J. McMaster A Son Nicholson Scotland Woolen Mills No. 1 Branch Amalgamated Carpenters���Alternate Tuesday. Builders' Laborers���Alternate Tuesday. Electric Picture Operators���Every Tuesday morning. Quarrymen���First Wednesday. Barbers���First and third Wednesday. Bricklayers and Masons���First and Third Wednesdays. Plasterers���First and Third Wednesday. Stereotypers���Second Wednesday. Lathers���Second and Fourth Wednesday. United Bro. Carpenters���Second and fourtn Wednesday. Electrical Wire Workers���No. 213 meets 2nd. and 4th. Tuesdays. No. 621 meets 2nd. and 4th. Wednesdays. Paterson .. .............. Leather Workers���First Thursday. Trades snd Labor Council���First and third Thursday. Pile Drivers���First and third Thursday. Garment Workers���Second Thursday. *. : ��� ' 1 i ������"% r Shields J- Electrical Wire Workers. Blacksmiths. T. Hanafln 326 Hastings E. B. Watts J. Outhett 260 1-2 Barnard Boilermakers. Frank Heays 1836 Triumph St. Angus Fraser 1157 Howe St. . Theatrical Stage Employees. A. N. Harrington 401 Harris St. Percy Electric Picture Operators. A. Bard UNIONS MEETING AT HALL AND DATE MEETING. LABOR OP Cigar Workers���Second Thursday. Laundry Workers ��� Second and Fourth Thursdays. ' Tailors���Fourth Thursday. Parliamentary Committee ��� Second and fourth Thursdays. Bridge and Structural Iron Workers ���First and third Fridays. Pressmen���First Friday. Civic Employees���Second and fourth Fridays. Pattern Makers���Third Friday. Granite Cutters���Third Friday. Iron Moulders���Fourth Friday. Letter Carriers���Second Saturday. Bakers���Second and fourth Saturdays. Bartenders���First Sunday afternoon and third Sunday evening. Commercial Telegraphers ��� Second Sunday morning. Theatrical Stage Employees���Second Sunday afternoon. UNIONS THAT DO NOT MEET AT LABOR HALL. Typographical���Last Sunday. Boilermakers���First and third Monday. Bro. Railway Carmen���First and third Monday. Sheet Metal Workers���First and third Monday. Allied Printing Trades-Council���Second Monday. Blacksmiths ��� Second and fourth Monday. Machinists Second and fourth Monday. Stonecutters (Soft) ��� Second and fourth Tuesday. Bookbinders��� First Tuesday. Federal Union No. SS���Third Tuesday- Maintenance of Waymen ��� Third Tuesday. uon i Forget to Mention tne Trades unionist. Painters���Plumbers' Hall, SIS Gamble St. Every Tuesday. Plumbers���313 Gamble St. Every Wednesday. Cooks, Waiters and Waitresses 150. Hastings St. B. Every Friday. Street Railway Employees���Odd Fellows' Hall, Second and Fourth Wednesdays. Musicians���Corner Robson and Gran- viiie, Second Sunday. No. S Branch amalgams ted Car* penters��� Meets alternate Mondays at 56S Granville. No. 3 Branch penters���Meets alternate Mondays At corner ot Seventh avenue and Granville St m ��� i -��� ���������
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Title | The B.C. Trades Unionist |
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Notes | Titled 'The Trades Unionist' from January 1908 through April 1908; titled 'The B.C. Trades Unionist' from May 1908 thereafter. |
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