THE CANADIAN MaawaaaaaampimmamaaWla+f'. LABOR ADVOCATE With Which Is Incorporated THE B ^FEDERATIONIST - __a^__ [Seventeenth Year. No. 37 VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY >V_.ING, SEPT. 1, 1925 Eight Pages 5c A COPY nm .n.m .**> mm*.m* .ininininini . I, „.,„ „ GLIMPSES OF EMPIRE rTHE British press recently -*- announced that the Maharajah of Patlala had taken the whole of the fifth floor of tbe Savoy Hotel. The. rooms are decorated dally with 3000 English roses. The Maharajah has sixteen Rolls Royces, one of them made of solid silver. The Maharanee's bath Is also of silver. .ti.ti.tiitiHiit itiHiitmiHiHiitnUng ,m„t lM,||||M LABOR CONGRESS MEETS Arming Strikers Creates Animated Discussion ,,..!.,,.l,.,,.l,.l,.11.11.11.1 .**.!..I...I.*....«...*.........*.* [Coast Unemployed Notices Scare Winnipeg |VmNNJPE6, Man.—The decision I of the Vancouver City Council [to broadcast notices on the prairies, I warning harvesters that, they need [expect no unemployment relief on .'he Coast this winter, ls sending ■bold shivers down the spines- of 1 Winnipeg aldermen, who fear Van- J-jouver's warning may result in the Harvesters deciding to remain here por the winter. Acting Mayor McLean has informed Winnipeg's unemployment Committee that they "would do veil to have a statement published thp press notifying ail persons bf their policy against helping nonresidents," and that they "should lose no time in getting the news jtbroad". Alderman Kerchar adds p.is voice to the general whine and ays: "We should make haste, to broadcast our Intention of giving [o help to floaters." Thousands ot harvesters are keeded every year to garner the props, and when that job is competed the devil himself could not l*e more unwelcome. No one wants lo have these men around because paving them means they may be Unemployed. In this scheme of filings, men are of no moment, i. hat does count, however, is invest for mortgage holders trom liralrie crops. /"VPTAWA, Ont—Should workers arm to defend themselves against hostile forces during industrial disputes? That question was one of the most heatedly debated proposals that came before the Canadian Trades Congress at its recent sessiops here. The resolution, which was sponsored by Luscar Local 356, U.M.W. of A.; London Trades and Labor CouncU; Glace Bay Local 4718, UJM.W. of A.; Halifax Trades and Labor Council, and Machinists' Lodge No, 235, Toronto, reads: "Whereas, recent disturbances ln Cape Breton, which culminated in the killing of William Davis and the wounding bf several of his fellow workers, was directly attributable to the provocation of BESCO'S armed company police; and whereas, but for their presence and their brutal efforts to cow the workers, there is little likelihood that any violence or disorder would have ensued. Therefore, be it resolved, that this convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada demand Immediate and drastic legislation prohibiting corporations trom maintaining armed forces; and be lt further resolved, that failure to secure adequate legislation to thts effect will compel the trades unions of Canada to take such steps as may be necessary to protect their own members during strikes, lockouts and similar disturbances." After a very heated discussion on the merits and demerits of strikers arming to protect themselves against company police, thugs and state soldiery, the resolution was amended by striking out the last clause, beginning with the words, "and be it further resolved." The vote in favor of the amendment was 95 for, 56 against. A forecast by A. G. Walkden, fraternal delegate from Qreat Britain, that British labor may one day stop the wheels of industry in order to prevent war, elicited a round of applause. Mr. Walkden said:" "We may have some day to say to a reactionary government: Tour policy may result in an armed conflict somewhere in Europe. If you are going to war, we are going to stop the wheels of industry. There shall be no more war." Mr. Walkden also stated that the tide was turning in favor of the British Labor Party, and that he expected labor to be in power as well as in office after next election. He regarded the coal,miners' victory as the "crowning triumph" of the British trade unioni movement. A resolution calling for the amendment of the Trades Congress constitution so that it would admit to membership "any body of workers in Canada who are organized along trade or industrial lines, ln a functioning national or international union," was voted ,down after some considerable discussion. This resolution, if passed, would have permitted Congress to affiliate national and local unions. Resolutions calling for a legal holiday of two weeks' duration, with pay, for all workers in all industries; legal eight-hour day; abolition of injunctions, ajnd prevention of troops being used in industrial disputes, were passed. A resolution favoring autonomy for Canadian locals of International unions, wus voted down after considerable debate. A resolution favoring the prohibition of the sale or manufacture of narcotic'drugs was passed, during the discussion of which some caustic comment on Britain's policy ot forcing opium on the world was made. The number of members affiliated to congress was given as 106,912, as compared with 117,- 060 in 1924. and 81,68 in 1918. Receipts for the year amounted to $23,274.41, and total expenditures 120,938.34. British and Canadian Union Label Campaign Material Basis For Co-ops. Plan Agreement To Cover New York City Animosity To Unions .abor Delegates Not Distinguished Visitors OTTAWA—That labor delegates, I'hether they be "red" or "yellow", ftould not be considered "distin- uished visitors" is the opinion of Ottawa's City Solicitor. Ottawa's City Council voted $400 |. help defray expenses in connec- lon with the Trades Congress con- jntion, ln this city, but now an (fort is being made to have this rant rescinded. In evplainlng the Ituatlon to the City Council, the ity Solicitor explained that it was prmissable to make small grants entertain distinguished visitors, hd that these grants had been |ade to fete "Lord Haig and other ninent visitors," but that in his l.inioh existing legislation did not ermit entertaining delegates to a invention. JThe question now ls: "What lould be the position of the Ot- Jtwa City Council had the Prince If Wales (who some time ago was ]mde honorary member of a cer- iln trade union) attended the Ion vention as a delegate?" TORONTO—It has been announced here that the United Farmer's Co-operative Co., Ltd. is* contemplating an arrangement whereby it will become the distributive agency in Canada for the Co-operative Wholesale Society of Manchester, England. The Co-operative Wholesale Society ls the largest wholesale cooperative Institution in the world, and together with the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society embraces a membership of almost 5,000,000. The United Farmer's Co-operative is asking local co-operatives and farmer organizations throughout Ontario whether they are desirous that the proposal should be carried into effect Don't forget! Mention the Ad- locate when buying. Canadian Seamen Now Cheaper Than Japanese (By Federated Press). MONTREAL—The British Empire Steel Corporation is returning to China the coolies that have manned its boats since the war. The system proved a costly experiment. On one ship four murders were committed ln one night. Many Chinese outwitted the guards employed to keep them on the ships, and the company had to pay heavy fines as well as head taxes. But the company, assisted by the depression, appears to have achieved its purpose. Wage rates have been smashed until Canadian sailors on thei Atlantic Coast are once again preferable to coolies. So for service rendered during the war, the Canadian sailor ls coming into his own again—long hours and a meagre wage. NEW TORK — (FP) — Every trade union, religious and fraternal organization in New York City will be visited ln the union label campaign, the Central Union Label Counoil of Greater New York is conducting, says a statement by that body. Large general committees have been apointed to handle the work ln each of the five boroughs. The drive for label products in the metropolis is part of the national campaign instituted by the Union Label Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor. Open air meetings will be held and moving picture shows used, where possible, for 5-minute talks. Fire will be directed not merely against non-label goods, as such', but at cheap foreign goods and the products of prison labor. MONTREAL—The Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. has a strong hatred of trade union organizers, the material basis for which is revealed in the annual report of the company, recently made public here. For the year ended June 30th, 1925, this company paid 17.7 per cent, on the common stock, and had a surplus of nearly a million' dollars left over when the bondholders received their proportion of dividends. In addition to this, the working capital of the company was enhanced to the extent of -1400,000, a,nd the funded debt reduced by a further $676,386. The owners of the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Co. have very good reasons for being class conscious. GLIMPSES OF EMPIRE TN the House of Commons * on March 3, Earl Winter- ton admitted that 96 per cent, of the children in the Industrial area of Bombay are drugged with opium so that they shall not be able to cry for food during the absence of their mothers in the factories. In one year 661 children out of every 1000 died before reaching one year of age. Wales1 Man Friday Enters Alberta Politics r-DMONTON, Alta.—British roy- alty has entered Alberta poll- tics with a bang, and the hopes of the Conservative party are soaring high. Mr. Carlyle, manager of the Prince of Wales' ranch, has been nominated to contest the High River constituency on the Conservative ticket at the forthcoming federal election. Carlyle told the nominating oonvention that his "chiof" had o.k'd. his candidature. Already the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal have named the prince's hired man as a probable member of the Conservative cabinet. Doubtless Canadian railroads, and other employers of labor desirous of importing an even greater army of unemployed with which to cut wages, will welcome with delight this valuable acquisition to the ranks of the Conservatives. They can be assured that the "smiling prince," and hence his protege, will, do all he can to relieve the labor congestion in the old land and thus make his position as heir-apparent more secure. Mr. Carlyle, if elected, will not be troubled with financial worries. The pi-inco's ranch isn't mortgaged. No great wrong ever yet was righted by the class deriving profit from it, but always by the revolt of the victims.—Lyman Abbott Highlights on This Week's News CANADIAN Page Trades Congress Meets 1 Unemployed Notices Scare Winnipeg 1 Royalty Enters Alberta Politics 1 AMERICAN Capitalism Shaky, Morrison Says.... 2 No Scabs in Anthracite Strike 8 Muiillng the Pulpit 5 BRITISH Businessmen Admit Boycott Hurts.... 2 Labor Plans Boycott on Sweated Goods I British Bosses Exposed 7 AMERICAN Australian Miners Versus Profits.... 8 Textile Strike in India. B Fascists Attack Italian Seamen S "Cape Breton a Lawless Place" Says Roy Wolvin MONTREAL—(F P)— "I am sure Cape Breton ls a most lawless place and the government of Nova Scotia must energetically look to full enforcement of the laws," said Roy Wolvin, president British Empire Steel Corp., on his return from a trip to Sydney and Newfoundland. Apparently Wolvin is not overjoyed at the terms of settlement of the dispute with the miners union. While In Newfoundland Wolvin waa trying to get the government to surrender part of the royalties on iron ore at Bell Island. Not long since a royal commissioner reported that company representatives had bribed members of a former government. Meighen Admits His Colossal 'Ignorance (By Federated Press.) OTTAWA. — Representation of the great railway labor organizations on the board of the Canadian National Railways was advocated by Premier King before tho Dominion legislative board or the Brotherhood of Locomotvo Firemen & Enginemen. Labor, now has a representative in Tom Moore, president Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Arthur Meighen, Conservative leader, speaking before the same body, said he believed in labor unions, but did not know whether he fa- fored International unions. He had not studied the international unions, he added. Among the resolutions was one expressing "regret and indignation at the apparent indifforence and apathy shown by governments of Canada, federal and provincial," ln carrying out thc international labor conventions of Washington and Geneva In regard to the 8- hour day and other social reforms, W. L. West was again elected chairman of the board, and James Pratt of Toronto secretary-treasurer. _fag« Two THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Friday, September 11, 191 LOCAL LABOR NEWS Morrison Finds That British Businessmen Capitalism Is Shaky Admit Boycott Hurts CLASSIFIED AD! City Voters' List To Close On Sept. 14th Is your name on the civic voter's list? If not get busy. The list closes on September 14th, and those who do not take the precaution of registering before that dale will be unable to vote at next municipal elections. This fact was brought to the attention of the Vancouver Building Trades Council at their last meeting, and all delegates were requested to bring the matter before their respective unions and remind them of the date—September 14th. Labor must not be behind in this. The conditions under which certain municipal work will be done next year depends on the composition of the City Council. Get on the list, and see that labor is fully represented! The Building trades committee reported having interviewed the City Council, and enquired whether a fair wage clause was being inserted in the Isolation Hospital contract. The Council replied in the affirmative, and the committee then asked that instead of inserting a fair wage clause it be made union scale of wages. This proposal was refused. Fraser Valley Dairy The committee also interviewed the, Fraser Valley Dairy contractor, and succeeded in having the tinsmith work done by union labor. As a result of this the Sheet Metal Workers have taken in some new members This job is still employing a non-union engineer. The Plasteres reported having initiated three new members, and had fined one man $50, for working on Saturday. The Plasterers have a five day week. The Lathers reported making preparations for an organizing drive, and hoped to be able to report 100 per cent, organization at next meeting. Mill Workers Progressing The Mill Workers reported having initiated 28 new members at their last meeting, and that one shop in New Westminster had signed up 100 per cept. It was* reported that the builders of the Vancouver Heights Theatre had undertaken to make the job fair to all building trade workers. Don't forget that the municipal voter's list closes on the 14th of this month. See that your name is on the list this time. S. P. of C. Propaganda Meetings The Socialist Party of Canada will hold a propaganda meeting in the Columbia Theatre, Hastings Street, on Sunday evening, Sept. ibth, at 8. p.m. Jack Harrington will be the Speaker. Comrade Harrington is a close student of history and of the problems which are perplexing the minds of the workers. This is the first meeting of what is hoped to be a series of meetings extending through the fall and winter months, and with which some of the other political parties may cooperate. F. L. P. Activities Next business meeting of the Vancouver branch of the Federated Labor Party will be held at 319 Pender Street west. The holding of Sunday evening propaganda meetings will be discussed. We have already a number of prospective speakers from Eastern Canada and Great Britain. The Federal election campaign will be going full swing very shortly and the Labor candidates will require all the assistance the workers can give. All members and those wishing to become members are asked to attend and give a hand in the work. C. L. P. Special Meeting (By Federated.Press) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—American capitalists no longer dare operate their machinery at 100 per cent, capacity, said Frank Morrison, secretary of the "American Federation of Labor, in a Labor Day address to the union men and women gathered here from eight cities of northern Florida. He declared that the low wages which these, capitalists insist on paying are insufficient to enable the workers to buy back the things they create, and that they have adopted the regulation of output as a cure for their folly in throwing the* market out of balance. He quoted the Wall Street Journal as urging regulation of production because "the country today can turn out more Steel, more coal, more copper, more automobiles, etc., than the demand calls for. If all of these industries permitted capacity operation, prosperity would be short lived." Company unions, employers' '. schemes for giving group insurance to their employees, and schemes for selling stock in the employing company to the employees, were named by Morrison as three of the chief methods adopted in recent years by ani-union employers to break down existing unionism and to prevent the advance of the labor movement into new territory. He recommended the plan of life insurance adopted by the recent conference of executives of the A. F. of L. unions, as being free from any danger of tying men to their bosses and their jobs regardless of wages and conditions given. NEW YORK—(FP)—That the boycott against British goods which is one of the weapons of the Chinese strikers, is hitting its target, is admitted by British textile owpers,' quoted in -New York textile journals. Before the trouble started, British worsted and woolen manufacturers were finding an Increasing market in <, China, and this market is now badly shot. The Importance of the ma ket now crippled by the Chinese reslstence* is shown in an interview with H. Sutcliffe Smith, member of the executive committee of the directors of the Bradford Dyers' Association. For the year ending December 31, 1924, he said, a total of 9,8.2,163 Pounds Sterling of wool'eri 'and worsted goods was shippe'd to China. "The dislocation of this business with China," he continued, "will be all the more keenly felt, as trade generally in the British woolen and worsted industries is unsatisfactory." BARRISTERS Bird, Bird & Lefeaux, 401 Mefj politan Bldg. BATHS Vancouver Turkish Baths, Pac Bldg., 744 HarUngs StJW BICYCLES HASKINS & ELLIOTT, 800 P«4 Street W. The belt makes of iiof oq eaay terms. - BOOTS AND SHOES Arthur Frith & Co., 2313 Mali BOOTS (LOGGING) H. Harvey, 58 Cordova St. W."] C-VFE Empire Cafe, 76 Hastings St. CHIROPODIST WHY SUFFER WITH SORE FH Hannah Lund, 924 Birki Bldg., i^ instant relief; eveningi by appoints Sey. 1218. chiropractor r. d. a. McMillan, pal! ' Graduate. Open daily and ings. Dawson Blk., cor. Hastings Main. Phone Sey. 6S54. NAMA-MO-WELUNaiON D For live readable news of the farmer-labor movement, read THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE. Emergencies TTTHEN a crisis comes and someone at a distance must be reached quickly, the long-distance telephone will prove its worth. B. 0. Telephone Company A special meeting of the Greater Vancouver Central Council of the Canadian Labor Party will be held in the Holden Building on Wednesday, September 16th, at 8 pjn. Matters relating to the aproaching Federal elections will be discussed and all delegates are requested to attend. SHERMAN LEAVES ALBERTA CALGARY—William Sherman, president of District 18, Uniitjed Mine Workers of America, has resigned his position, and is reported to be leaving immediately for the United States. PROGRESS IN CANADA SCEPTRE, Sask.—It is unnecessary to travel tp Central Europe, or to the semi-feudal southern states, to see women toiling in the fields. This scene can be witnessed any day in this locality, where it is a common sight to see women running binders while men do the stooking. Meantime the mortgage companies are getting ready to rake in the shekels when the crops are harvested. Sey. 486 82 Bastings St. E. The Electric Shop Ltd. RADIO AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Sey. 6789 414 Hastings St. W. FREE* 5-Tube Radio Set FREE Send self-addressed, stamped envelope — for full particulars regarding this OFFER. RADIOTEX 00. 200 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Fresh Out Flowers, Funeral Designs, Wedding Bouquets, Pot Plants, Ornamental and Shade Trees, Seeds, Bulbs, Florists' Sundries Brown Brothers & Co. Ltd. FLORISTS AND NURSERYMEN 8—STORES—8 48 Hastings St. Sast Ssy. 988-672 665 OranvUlt Stmt Sey. 9618-1391 151 Hastings Street West Sey. 1370 "SAT II WITH FLOWERS" CITY OF VANCOUVER Municipal Elections VOTERS' LIST Every porson qualified to vote should see that his name is on the Civic Voters' List, as Tenant, Registered Owner or Registered Agreement to Purchase, on. or before Monday, September Wth, 1925. Application blanks may be obtained and, the necessary Declaration made at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall. The City Clerk's Office will be operf afternoons and evenings to 9 o'clock from Thursday, 10th inst., to Monday, 14th inst., both inclusive, to receive applications. WILLIAM McQUEEN, City Clerk. City Hall, Sept. 9th, 1925. Corporation of The District of Burnaby Tax Sale To Be Held at Municipal Hall Edmonds On Wednesday, Sept, 16, 1925 at 10 o'clock a.m. " Lists Can Be Obtained at the Municipal Hall COAL LESLIE OOAL CO'T Ltd. Phona Sey. 7137 DENTIST Dr. W. J. Curry, 801 Domli Bldg. DFUGS Red Star Drug Store, Cor. ( dova nnd Carrall. GLASS GLAZING, SILVERING, BEVELLI WESTERN GLASS CO. LTD., Cordova St. W., few doors wes Woodward's. Sey. 8687. Wholesale retail window glass. HOSPITAL BETTER BE SAFE THAN SOR1 Grandview Huapital—Medical, . kai, maternity. 1090 Vietoria 1 High. 137. LADIES WEAR Famous Cloak & Suit Co., Hastings West. Hudsons Bay Coy., Granville ! MEN'S FURNISHINGS < W. B. Brummitt, 18-20 Cor< Street. Arthur Frith & Co., 2313 Mali MEN'S SUITS C. D. Bruco Ltd., Homer and Ii ings Streets. W. B. Brummitt, 18-20 Cor Street. MUSIC ■\7IOLINS. ADJUSTED, VOICED, V paired, by expert. WUl Edm 966 Robson St. Sey. 2094. OPTICIAN Pitman Optical H9use. 616 I ings West. PAINTS ETC. Gregory & Reid, 117 Hast Street East. RANGES AND STOVES Canada Pride Range Co., 346 I ings Street East TOBACCOS Mainland Cigar Store, 310 Ca' Street. TRUSSES C. E. Heard, 959 Robson Stree OITT OP VANCOUVER Waterworks Department NOTICE TO BIDDERS CEPARATE TENDERS will be rec O by the undersigned up to Tue September 22nd, 1925, at 2 o'cloi m., for the supply of the followinf terials: A. (1) Approximately 6200 —et flexible joint oast iron pipe; (2) Approximately 3800 lineal plain spigot nnd faucet cast iron B. 6—36-inch Gate Valves. 1—32-inch Gate Valve 6*—24-inch Gate Valves. 9—18-inch Gate Valves. 5—18-inch Check Valvea. Plans, specifications and form ol ders may be obtained Hit. the City neer's Office, Oity Hall, on p'ayme Ten Dollars ($10.00), which will b funded on return of plans, spec tions, etc., in good condition. A deposit by marked cheque, pa to the City Treasurer, of an si equal to five per cent. (6%) oi total amount of the bids submitted accompany each tender. The lowest or any tender not n sarily accepted. JAMES STUART, Oity Purchasing A City Hall, Vancouvor, B.C., August 19th, 1926. Help ui by mentioning tha * vocate. [Friday, September 11, 1925 THE CANADIAN LABOB ADVOCATE =*? Page Thre* • - POLITICS - - bers' Needs Versus Huge Textile Strike Mine Owners' Profits Breaks Out In India - - INDUSTRY Miners Asked To Sign No Scabs As Yet In "Yellow Dog" Contract Anthracite Strike W. Francis Ahern, Federated (By Art Shields, Federated Press) I Press Staff Correspondent) NEW TORK—More than a hun- JAPAN Reaction in Japan has just passed a "Peace Preservation Law" (By Federated Press) NBW YORK--Though Andrew (By Louis F. Budenz, ' Federated Press.) ' SCRANTON, Pa.—With strike- fc .,*•-*' J-Jsss sss ts.ss ai_tt.ai.ttjit *W1 iwuim- .ich coal miners work in Aus- strike September 1 against an 11% j th constitution hut even to year' the mlners ln his Pittsburgh SYDNEY, Australia—Evidence dred thousand cotton goods work- wh|ch ms_i_e_ n a crime not only Mellon's personal income tax was the wretched conditions under ers in the Bombay District went on t0 joln ln an agitation for reform- ll8ted as -U.882,609 for the last breakers, state police and extra "mine guards" conspicuously absent, the 158,000 hard coal miners walked out quietly Sept. 1 ln the Pa*nther Creek, Lackawanna and Lyckens valleys. All day Monday Ilia was given at the Coal Tri- per cent, reduction in their wages, ■nal, Sitting at Sydney, to hear says information reaching the of oppose the existence of capital- Coal Co" are expected to believe ism. The law has two objects: tnat theIr boss 's not makm6 any miners' claim for a 7-hour day, fice of the Friends of Freedom for j,j_,_t to k down the advanc- nioney. A copy of the personal -day week, a minimum wage India here. ing labor movement; and, second, contract that miners must sign be- £$27.50 per week, and a general This is the biggest walkout since to suppress Korean agitators. fore getting jobs^at the Mellon provement of working condi- the great 1922 strike wheti*_£ours Tljese latter are always spoken of P'ts. furnished the Federated Press the men left their mines, as their lis in the mines. were first forced down fronjj.2 to as "Bolsheviks" i*n the best Euro- offloe by Pennsylvania labor men, shifts came to an end, much as were quoted where in 10. It is made necesary by,the re- pean style. The Japan Labor Slves the company's hard luck any other day. Many of them Ires of mines the miners never fusal of the Bombay Mill Owners' Federation is taking the initial story as follows: carried their tools, but others left fned a living wage, while unem- Association to back down from the steps toward organizing a Labor T, being an employee of the these in the higher and drier fyment was very prevalent. In wage cut decision that would leave Party, modelled on the lines of Pittsburgh Coal Co. mine, pie cases the earnings of the the workers with barely enough the British Labor Party. realizing that it is no longer posters were as low as $7 per week, for a rice existence. Bible to operate the mine under the file the time worked was little The strike was called by the CHILE Jacksonville scale, request that the |re than 100 days per year. It Bombay Textile Workers' Union, Recent legislation in Chile pro- company afford me employment the ,™a'*ine1 had not. dr'ven *hem workings or had taken them away Saturday. The mules came out-to see the daylight for the first time in two years, in those mines where shown that owing to the rich- affiliated with the All India Trade vides that every working mother at the November, 1917 scale. lis of the coal seams, miners in Union Congress, and* it will have must have a rest period of 40 "it is my hope that the Coal ptralia could produce more in such support as that body can give days before and 20 days after Company will at once make every hours than they could do in it. It is expected that appeals childbirth, her position being held effort to procure sufficient busi- l.t'aln and America in 8 hours. will be sent to organized workers for her during this period; that ness that will make possible my one case, the miners offered in America and Europe. Such ap- factories, shops, etc., must provide request, which I agree to abide by. out of the picture entirely. A few children gathered to see the mules come up. Strikebreaking, absent in all hard coal strikes since 1902, is not likely in the present struggle. vork a mine and put the coal peals will undoubtedly emphasize nurseries for the care of the it being understood that when a T,hf_ state mlne laws ■**Povi**« ior trucks at $3 per ton. As the fact that low wages in India babies of working mothers, ajid sufficient number of men at the 'selling price of coal at the pit means low wages for the western that mothers must have free pe- min_ have signed similar petitions is $5.22 per ton, it was as- textile workers whose products riods during the day to nurse so that work may be resumed, an led that the coal profiteers compete with Asiatic cotton goods their babies. opportunity will be afforded the uld accept this arrangement, in the world market. representatives of the Local Union by refused, however, contending There are no child labor regu- # RUSSIA which we may form, to meet with If the miners' offer would not lations in the Indian mills and M, Frumkin, assistant commis- the officials of the company for |Nv them sufficient profits! mothers with tiny children ate sar of foreign affairs, is elated the'purpose of negotiating wage among the strikers. The present over the increases made in farm and working conditions." Ilia-inn Ono Thino-• walkout is largely a defensive proMuction in Soviet Russia. In The Loca] Union referred to in |UglOI_ Une ining, measure to maintain gains of the a recent statement he reports that tMs screed is the company union perieflice ' have been "burnt "from Brotherhood Another 1922 struggle but success will mean the excellent crops now being whlch the compa*ny has made a the dynamite blast, and amateur more union influence and lead to harvested in Soviet Russia will weak Btan ,n (ormlngr and )t ls )n handling of the mines would re- /ASHINGTON—(F P)— Should f"rther Balns in the-future. Such bring the value of exports avail- opposltfon to the United Mine suit in a havoc of disaster. 3rican and British missionaries improvements are literally a mat- able next year at $800,000,000. Workers. Unlon. ■ ___. rigid tests and require that a man must work two years as a laborer before he is eligible for a miner's job. The operators have made attempts, without avail, to have these safety laws repealed. Anthracite's particularly hazardous conditions have made the necessity for the legislation apparent outside mining circles. In some instances, miners of 30 years' ex- bh!na live in big houses, and be ter of llfeand death 8ay IndW* Raw material available this year Red upon by. many servants, and The death rate of the children in will amount to $250,000,000. themselves and their children th« Bombay cotton eoods worke,rs from the Chinese for reasons |*ealth protection? hat is the problem disturbing consciences of missionaries liered in resorts in the hills in north of China this summer, rding to private advices from brrespondent. liinese public opinion, stirred lhe strikes and by student ap- t/), has turned against the white families is several times that in the families of the small minority of well fed Indians. Fake .Labor Paper To Aid Coal Mine Barons Alaskan Hell Ships (By Federated Press.) SCRANTON. Pa.—Officers of [hers (By Miriam Allen deFord, Federated Press) SAN FRANCISCO.—The "hell of religion who dare not ships" from Alaska salmon can- children play with Chinese neries are back in San Francisco, GERMANY So bitter is the exploitation of labor under the Dawes plan, and so little hope of improvement ih its condition is there, that the league of German industrialists District 1, United Mine Workers, RetUm With Sainton are Planning to continue their are angered by the appearance ln "technical emergency aid" organ- Scranton of the fake labor paper ization of strikebreakers and are known as the National Labor Tri- urging that the government also mine, published in Pittsburgh, continue Its support of the plan. The edition distributed contains a cartoon attacking the United Mine Workers, and articles prais- INDIA ,,,., In British India the number of lnS """-union conditions In the gsters._ It is becoming der- wJtt^Mj^^J^^-^-W^ persons who are en(ranchised is south. It advised the_™«ne«J° S.8 millions, while the number unenfranchised is 241.7 millions. These figures speak for themselves and show how the great mass of toward the luxury in which and misery. Eight ships came in feionary families live. The at once, and a near riot was caused jiese acknowledge that mission- when the men were paid off by live more simply than do any the contractors. Police were called Latin America In Grip of U.S. Capital WASHINGTON—(F P) — More than $4,000,000,000 of capital from the United States is now invested in Latin American countries, according to an estimate by the department of commerce. This is about 40 per cent, of the total of foreign investments of American financiers. It is represented by railroads, hydro-electric power plants, streetcar lines and othev public utilities, and by mines, factories, land and cattle enterprises and shipping, banking and insurance companies. r class of whites, but they re- when many men refused to accept ^ ^^ ^ debarred thfi tIon wlth the widespread distribu te accept the compromise as their pay, with $50 w ««*•«?■■ elementary rights of citizenship. "on of the paper, but the miners break away from their organization and organize a company union. ' The operators deny any connec- Send In Your Subscription Today. jmonstration of spiritual broth- with themselves. Patronize Our Advertisers Stay at the I0TEL STRATFORD (T_ie Plaoe Called Home [Corner GORE AVE. and KEEFER STREET Phone Sey. «121 GIOVANDO, JOHN THA S00 Elegantly Furnished Rooms. [1 Rooms with Private Bath Moderate Prices | FIRST-CLASS SERVICE ducted for food they had not eaten, "The boss told the cook to spoil the food by oversaving It, so that we couldn't eat it and would be forced to buy from the commis- „ _.„„!„j_,„j T_.ir.oa town have struck as the negotia- sary," one man explained. ...prices » for all articles were two to five t'°"s °f the M<*al Workers' Union times their price in San Francisco, with the employers in consequence POLAND According to reports from Warsaw, all the metal workers of the think <*tt strange that It appeared at this time. Striking Baggagemen Persecuted By Police WEAR- NEW YORK—-(FP)—The strike of New York transfer men against It is claimed that moonshine was of the rejection by the latter of the sold to all comers at $5:4 Pint, and 50 per cent, wage increase demand- ^^ ^ ^ ^ Trana. marihuana (a habit-forming drug ed by the men. used by Mexicans) at $7 a can. BRAZIL Boys as young as 16 were employed, in violation of the federal Stevedoring and deck service la- law which sets 18 as the minimum., bor iB feeling a shortage, due to One young man dying of tubercu- the diversion of labor to the rub- losis was refused medical aid both ber and nut crops; while* higher at the cannery and on board ship, wages in the Brazilian southern A Federnted p,,ess correspondent A school tax of $5 was deducted states have caused additional gaw eJght detectives *fump oUt „f from ench man's wages, though the changes in the placing of labor in three po]._e oar_ _t 4Bth street and fer companies continues one hundred per cent., so far as the regular baggage men are concerned, but Yellow taxicabs ai-e carrying trunks. Service is considerably crippled, however. Police are persecuting strikers. nearest school was 450 miles away. The usual investigation is promised- other lines.' •TOVES AND RANGES, both malleable and steel, McClary's, Fawcett's, Canada's Pride, installed free by experts; satisfaction guaranteed. Cash or $2.00 per week. inada Pride Range Company Limited 346 Hastings Street East Sey. 2399 Third avenue where a group of 10 strikers were standing. The police frisked the strikers, finding nothing. President Martin Lacey of the transfer men's union, declares he will protest to the Police Com- REV01.T AGAINST WAGE REDUCTION GROWING PITTSFIELD, Mass. —(FP)■ Three thousand textile workers are now affected by the strike against missioner's office, if there ls a rep- LECKIE SHOES They are made of first quality leathers on comfortable good fitting lasts. For work or dress a 10 per cent, wage cut. itltlon of the oocurance. He said Strike committees have been the strikers had been remarkably chosen with authority to confer peaceful and were keeping the with emplovers and lay settlement transfer companies' 150 trucks tied proposals before the workers. This up without resort to violence. Is the first sizable revolt aeainst the 10 per cent cut that swept New g0 thlii Is the paper you have England woolen mills In latter July been wanting? Prove it by sup- and early August. porting it with your subscription and those of your neighbors and Petront.ee Our AiJvertleere. friends. At all leading Shoe Stores. J. LECKIE CO. Limited *wa2_Mr- Page Four THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Friday, September 11, 1925 OPEN FORUM &tUtonai ""pa^e QUESTION BOX Addreee All Letters qnd Remittances to the Editor iij* fltottatan fiabnr Aimorafr 1129 Howe Street, Vanconver, B.C. $2 A TEAR $1 SIX MONTHS :: Capitalism's :: Weekly Pageant T BUTTERFIELD, wbo retails "• wisdom and advice, of questionable value, to readers of the Daily Province, takes umbrage at Trades Congress delegates because they cheered on hearing that British Labor might stop tbe wheels of industry if war was declared. Butterfleld's fighting will be done mostly on the keyboard of a typewriter, and not very effectively even with Aat. He states that the workers are the first to catch the "military fever". Probably our observation may be superficial, bnt we have noticed that war is generally declared.by certain gentlemen who lack the physical stamina of doing fifteen minutes bard graft at the bottom of a sewer ditch, or the dexterity of swinging a pick.. • • * WORKERS do not "take" the " military feyer. They have it drilled into them, and pen-pushers of the Butterfield stamp are chief among the drillers, gome of them are even Impervious to the drilling process, and then our journalistic columnists lend their aid in having them forced into the fighting. It is well that Canadian Labor should cheer at such heartening news. It shows that there are at least some workers waking up. Doubtless that fact ls a serious matter to those who write for publications like the Dnily Province. It presages that they may have to perform useful work. Butterfield has good reasons, to feel peeved. * • • TTAROLD DOLLAR, manager of ■'■•*• old "Bob's" Chinese Interests, is now espousing the cause of nn- vlcled dictatorship. China, he says wants a "strong man," meaning one who will prevent the faotory workers from striking against being treated like dogs, and working for less than a living wage. He is troubled because there are too many soldiers in China, and that they act like ordinary human mortals, by not aU fighting on the same side. But what really troubles Dollar is trade, and the Chinese strike nnd the boycott threatens to ruin that. .Should a working class dictator arise, Dollar would be the first to cry out against him. * * • pHINKSE soldiers, Dollar figures, ^ arc not modern-minded, so Western capitalism has little to fear from them. Perhaps not, but they proved sufficiently modern to beat the Japanese mill owners to a standstill, make them pay an indemnity for their atrocities, and recognize their unton. They also succeeded in making even the mighty John Bull bow the knee, and concede at least part of their demands. They have succeeded in doing several things lately that seems to Indicate Harold Dollar's powers of observation are not particularly acute. • « « DOYAJTTJ. is defined by the Van- ■*■*• couver Snn as being "the salt of state". What should be done with lt lf the salt loses Its savor? LABORERS ON STRIKE NIAGRA FALLS, N. T.—Building trades laborers at Niagara Falls went on strike for uniform wages and recognition of their union, including a signed agreement. Six additional building trades crafts went out ln sympathy. The Department's representative reports that the strike was oalled off ln a few days on the old terms. rpHE FEDERAL ELECTION is drawing near, and the sham battle of words has commenced. Mackenzie King is growling across the lists at Arthur Meighen, and the latter is grunting back the same hoary refrain that has served his party for the past fifty years. Meighen charges King with everything from malpractice to common imbecility, and King replies in kind. This constitutes the- only truth the working class of Canada will be told during the election. Neither have anything to offer, nor would they offer anything if they had it. Elections are not held for that purpose. The chief object is to delude the workers into the thought that they are the ones who decide. True, both sides have policies aplenty. They have tariff policies, railway policies, senate reform policies, and a hundred and one other nostrums equally unrelated to the needs of the working class, all of which are proffered as the one elixir that can save the country and the population from perdition, in much the same manner that a quack doctor beguiles the unsuspecting into buying his cure-all medicine. • • ■' • . • • MACKENZIE KING has done his four-year shift, and asks to be returned because of his good record. What this good record consists of is difficult to discover. During his regime the farmers have sunk further in debt to the mortgage companies. Unemployment is, if anything, worse than when he took office. Wages are somewhat lower. Youthful immigrants have been enticed into the country by the luring propaganda of his government, and have met conditions that caused some of them to commit suicide. Under his benign rule the British Empire Steel Corporation announced its intention of starving into submission some twelve thousand workers and their families if they refused to work for less than a living wage. When the miners attempted to defend themselves against armed thugs who had murdered one of their comrades, his government rushed troops into the strike area to beat them back into the mines. While he held court in Ottawa, Jim MacLachlan was sentenced to the penitentiary for telling the truth. One thing Mackenzie King has succeeded admirably in doing, is making the poor poorer and the rich richer. He has been a faithful servant to those who own him. • t • • ' • ARTHUR MEIGHEN, auctioneer of "protection," has an equally lovely record to offer the working class of Canada. Jn the hectic days of the war he was one of those who assisted in sending thousands of Canadian workers to Europe to shed their life blood for the enrichment of Wall Street's financial kings. He was an ardent advocate of conscription of human life for war purposes, but unlimited protection for those who reaped fortunes out of the carnage. He assisted in rushing through the House of Commons legislation for the deportation without trial of those -who dared to fight for a living wage. He was "Bob" Borden's right-hand man when under that gentleman's august sway a number of workers were arrested ami sent to jail for demanding collective bargaining, and at the time when agents of the government—the Scarlet Riders of the Plains—swooped down in the dead of night and ransacked dozens of workers' homes in an effort to secure evidence against those already arrested. • " • • t • T ABOR has nothing to expect from either of these two babbling mental pigmies, who would be more in line with their natural bent if they were operating peanut roasters. They are but pawns in the hands of the money lords and rich manufacturers, who own the country and its vaunted natural resources. They are not" concerned about the working class, except to fleece them as expeditiously as possible. Those who toil in forest and factory, field and-mine, need expect nothing save what they have received in the past—kicks. They have thrown overboard the eight-hour day, old-age pensions, and everything else that might in any way have ameliorated the lot of the working class. This fact is not mentioned in their election speeches, and for very good reason. Whether or not Labor members may be able to 'achieve anything beneficial to their class by participating in the parliament of their masters, they, at least, can do no worse, and offer the possibility of doing better. Election day is drawing near. See that your name is on the voters' list, and when the day comes support the representative of your class. You have nothing to lose by so doing, and everything to gain. Book Review STEPS TO POWER Tim Buck, Toronto A I/THOUGH thousands of books are published every year, yet seldom does one appear dealing with such -a vital topic as the trade union movement; and when such a volume fides make an apearamce, it frequently proves to be either an empty superficial prolusion to the subject, or else the studied poison propaganda of an agent of the master class. Treatises on trade unionism in Canada are conspicuous by their absence. Little if any effort1 has been made to analyzse and put in everyday language the true facts of the many problems confronting organized labor in this country. A need existed for a clear exposition of the fundamental problems with which Canadian workers are grappling. .This requirement has been met by Comrade Tim Buck, of Toronto, in his booklet "Steps to Pow- er," a booklet which, although not as bulky as many of the cenotaphs to twisted intellects that decorate the bookstalls, contains a wealth of facts, relating to Canada's industrial life, carefully arranged and analyzed from the Marxian viewpoint. Only those who have combed through the uninviting pages of government and company reports, and records of various kinds can appreciate the time and patience the author must have expended in collecting his material. Whether it be facts of trade union history, statements by labor officials, viewpoints and philosophies expounded by various organizations, oompany reports, or figures from government publications, if the writer required it to complete the picture he draws, or to prove the point he wishes to make clear, he pursued his quest until lt was secured. These facts have been carefully fitted into their proper plaoe by tiie author, and on this firm rock of realities he builds his arguments and outlines his plan for the betterment of those who toll. Each chapter deals comprehensively yet compactly with the subject allotted to it. No phase of the question ls omitted. Starting with a brief resume of the beginnings of trade unionism, it t-pces the development of this bulw/jfj^of the working class, the ecoppffiic cause of certain moves by, the- capitalists, and the consequent defensive policies of the workers, down to the problems facing us today, and what we must do to protect ourselves from those who in thetr mad haste for plunder, would grind us in the dust. Couched ln Clear cut language, free from ostentatious oratory, and flamboyant verbiage, this Uttle book is a valuable contribution to working elass thought. It is a genuine Marxian product, not trom the point of borrowed phrases so common ln tills country, but in its method of analysis. It is founded on the rock of objective realities, and from that firm foundation, by inductive logic, the author points to undeniable conclusions Tbe price is only fifteen cents, and no student of working class problems can afford to go without reading It.—J. M. C. Orpheum Notes For outright beauty of produc-J tion and artistic talent the sho* coming to the Orpheum next week | will long be remembered. "Rosita" next week's headliner,| is a gay Spanish musical travesty in which Nena Viela plays the! title, role, assisted by a large cast j of artists and dancing girls. This] production will be a revelation td Vancouver in that It ls almost a] road-show in Itself. Harry Delf, another headliner isl a former star of -New York shows. 1 Pasquali Brothers _are probably! the cleverest hand-balancers on] the American stage today and theirj theatrical success has carried themf all over the world. Nathane andl Sully also offer some pretty num-J bers ln melody and terpslchore. Walsh and Ellis take the corn.J edy honores in a presentation that! ls full of laughs and snappy lines.] • —Advt.l The only good laws passed ln the] last three or four hunderd years] have been laws that repealed other] laws.—Buckle (1821-62). UNION DIRECTORY ALLIED PRINTINO TRADES COUNCIL —Meeti leeond Mondty ln the montk. Pretident, J. R. White; leerettry, R..I" Neeltndi. P. 0. Bo*. 118. FEDERATED LABOR PARTT—Roon 111, 819 Pender fit. Weit. Bnilneii meeting! lit tnd 8rd Wedneidty even**) Infi. R. H. Neeltndi, Ohtlrmtn: E. H.l Morriion, See.-Treti.; Angus Maelnnlij 854*1 Prlnee Edwtrd Street, Vancouver* B.C., Oorreiponding Secretary. _ A Any district in Britiih -Columbia ie*. airing Information re lecnring epeakern or the formttlon of loctl hrtnehea, Vlnd-J It communicate with Provincial Secre*! tary 3. Lyla Telford, 524 Birki Bldf.,1 Vaneouvar, B.C. Telephone Seymour] 1888, or Bay-flew 8880. BAKERY SALESMEN, LOOAL 8T1- Meeti leeond Thunday erery montk In Holden Building. Preildent, J. BrlihH well; financial iecretary. H. A. Boi-P ron, 781 18th Ato. Eaat. CIVIC EMPLOYEES' UNION. LOOAI 28—Meets first and third Fridays l_ the month at 145 Hastlnrs W., at p.m. President, R. K. Brown, 252J CharleB St.; secretary-treasurer, Georg Hnrrlson, 1182 Parker St. ENGINEERS — THE INTERNATIONA I UNION OP STEAM AND OPERATING. —Local 882—Meets every Wednesday] at 8 p.m., Room 806. Holdan Building President, Charles Price; business agenl and financial lecretiry, P. L. Hnnt; rt*J cording iecretary, 3. T, Venn. MUSTCTANB' MUTUAL PROTFCTTVlj UNION, L"cal 145. A. F. of M.- Meets In G.W.V.A. Hall, Seymour an* Pender Streetl, sec-nd Snnday tt 1*9 t.m. President, E. C. Miller, 091 NeU son street; secrettry, E. A. Jamleson 991 Nelion itreet; financial secretary W. E. Williams, 991 Nelson street; oil panltar, F. Fletcher, 991 Ne'snn >t.eel| THE FEDERATED SEAFARERS UNION OF CANADA—Headquarter* at Rooms 5, 6 tnd 7. Flack Bnt'dlng] 188 Haatinn Street W.. Vanc-nver. B.OI Tel. Ray. 8898. President. Robert Thomf Vice-President, Dtrld Gillespie; 8ee'yi Treaiurer, Wm. H. Dontldaon. Victoria Braneh, Room 11; Green Block, Broad Btreet, Vlctorit, B.O. Phone^ 1908. '__ TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, Ne. 228- Preiident. R. P. Pettlplece; ylee-preal Ident, 0. F. Campbell; eeeretary-treaii urer, R. H. Neelanda, P.O. Box 8<T Meeti lait Sunday of each month at p.m. In Holden Bulldlnf. 18 Hastinp ' PRINOE RUPERT TYPOGRAPHICA UNION, No. 418—Preildent, S. * Maedonald; secretary-treasurer, J. Campbell, P.O. Box 889. Meets ll Thnrsday of each month. THE CANADIAN Caber AfrttnraU] Wttk Which It Incorporated TK_ BRITISH COLUMBIA FBDHAl TIONIgT £ PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAT ■y tt< Ubor PnhliihlBg Oa. lMiitM Wd Mitoritl OfflM, 1181 Howe St. ■___,. ***> Be thou the first true merit to befriend, His praise ls lost who stays till all commend. —Pope. The Canadian Labor Advocate la a non-1 ftotlontl weakly nowaptper, giving newa] of the firmer-labor movement In action/ Subscription. Rttaai United Statu an*1 foreign, 1180 far year; Canada, M par year, $1 fer alx -Mattel lonaleni aubacrtbtog li a b-J%, Ha pa Mtrn' bar par month. Member Th* Pedarsted Praia tad Th*| Britiih Uhar frail •WUHPII U Stnd In Yoar Subacriptlw Today ■..tii __________ may, September 11, 1925 THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Page Five - WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT - Muzzling the Pulpit Miners' Daughters Get $6 Per Week in Mills Don't Fail To Read— their daughters are being paid $6 to $13 a week in the silk mills in ZI the viciinty of Scranton. Even this represents an increase of 12 1-2 per cent, over a month ago. Then a strike of one week brought out 1500 of the child workers—but few of whom are over 16. Their (By Leland Olds, Federated Press Industrial Editor) .; B Federated 3W great wealth rivets its con- aid from the society or intending to preg8. trol on the public soul and ask aid from the society shall take Jrcdence ls revealed ln the will steps TO SECURE A MINISTER SCBANT0N' Pa—while the [victor P. Lawson, deceased ow- without the advice and consent of hard coal mlners are layin* dow" of the Chicago Dally News, the board of directors" their tools for a llvinB "age and Iwson leaves a $1,800,000 share Iii addition to subsidies the so- decent ™-*<*M°™ in the mines, Ibis estate to the Chicago Con- Vety has hung $122,000 in mort* |;gatlonaI Missionary & Extension gages round the necks of churches slety. Investigation discloses in. their building programs. S»t this pious name, conceals a holds title itself to 16 churches or lldlng-company exercising con- parish houses. pi over scores of churches To Save Capitalism fc00? iltBr ^rtaU°n °f thC The job of the 0(flce and dlrep- ruesiastlca feed ag. tora ig „to convert tlle machinery demands were for a 25 per cent. [Lawson's will further provides and resources of the society into increase, but arbitration by th. lit the society devote the income an aotlve agency tor the christian- conciliation department of Perm- fom $300,000 of this $1,300,000 lzlng of the maasea of this city.'' sylvania led to the compromise. Ind to the New England Congre- Working class sections get chief A new local of the United Textile [.tlonal church of Chicago, but attention. And "the strongest and Workers arose out of the walk- fly "so long as, ln the judgment most impeiung reason" for this out, composed of 300 to 400 new | a majority of the trustees of said v;ork| according to the society's members. It is seeking more liicago Congregational Missionary re,p()rti jg because "the security and members for a further fight. 1 Extension society, such payment peace of jndlviduaiB ana the fam- These facts were given" to The fall be a wise use of the money." ny> the safety and,.perpetuity,of Federated Press by Arthur Mac- "A Business Body" institutions cannot.rest ultimately Donald, organizer for the United ^Recently the minister of . this upon the pro.ec.ion_ of the police Textile Workers. "The wages paid lurch let some members of a and the courts, nor upon education In the valley around. Scranton are laical labor organization use the and business prosperity.". The ob- the lowest in the silk industry in f-emises. He is no longer its min- ject of the society is evidently to the United States," he said. "The iter. Lawson has provided that save the existing social order. B*riB feel that they must supple- J this church won't be good in the No member of a church accept- ment the wages of their fathers, nture It will forfeit $15,000 income Ing the society's doles can sit on which are not enough to support jyear. the board of directors. In other the families." J "The Chicago Congregational words these kept churches have no jlssionary Extension society is a civic status in the councils of their Russian Trade El_VOV ■inservative business organization masters, just as their spiritual , Ihose affairs are directed by a leaders are subject to the veto of Lauded By American loup of substantial business and the society's purse strings. Pofesslonal men of the Chicago Small chance of a minister get- NEW TORK—(FP)—The busi- fea," the society proclaims in its ting a pulpit if he believes in ness relations now existing between Bnd annual report (1925). This preaching that the.man Jesus rep- American Interests and the Rus- Inservative business body, which resented poor and outcast workers sian government are due largely Iceives Lawson's largest legacy, against the oppression of wealth, to the skillful leadership of Isaiah Itends its tentacles far beyond the — —; * J. Hoorgin, late chairman of the Ingle church designated in the ^SPONTANEOUS STRIKE board of directors of the Amtorg p_l. 'Last yeatult -gave .caah to. 43 OP RADIATOR WORKERS Trading Corporation, Russian pur- kurches. The power of the soe?- BATONNE, N.J. (FP) Over chasing agent in America. So says fy's board of directors over such 100 Qf the 600 workers employed a statement by Amtorg following lurches is. described in its consti- ,n the Bayonne piant of the Am- Hoorgin's death by drowning. The felon as follows: eri'can Radiator Co.; are striking loss °f Hoorgin will be keenly felt, Control of Preachers for an 8-hour day and increased say »ls associates, but the work [•'Absolute power rests with lt to hourly pay. Strikers are trying to he engineered will go on success- knt or withhold aid in the case win other workers to the fight, fully The trade turnover between any church or mission. It pos- There is no union among the work- he Uni ed States and Russia dur- sses power to advise churches as ers. The company officials do not ng the last 15 months of Hoorgn's problems of federation or union recognize the strike but extra pol- leadership amounted to $50,000,- |lth other churches, their removal Ice areon duty to watch pickets. other locations or the sale of 000. The ashes of Hoorgin and Ef- ralm M. Sklansky, drowned with eir property. No church receiving Say you saw it advertised in the him, will be sent to relatives in °" I**"** " mu __.__.____.it TOiioaia "Advocate" Russia. jsig Financiers Aided By League of Nations |?y Leland Olds, Federated Press) i Women workers in Austrian jlustries are paid as low as 6.7c |jr hour, while the highest wage Ijr skilled male labor is just over loc, according to a report on Austrian wage trends issued by he U.S. department of commerce. \_e report shows how interna- onal capital is exploiting the ^age earners of a conquered ountry under the receiver ap- lolnted by the ..league of nations | the interest of the big flnan- jers. J The figures in this report give free to British governriient data ■lowing the purchasing power of lages in Austria as about one- |alf British wages and less than no-fourth that in the American forth Atlantic states. }ln all except the building in- ustry Austrian wages fall con- Iderably short of meeting the in- teased cost of living since 1914. ts a result thousands of worker amilles have been forced to lower Iheir standard of living. The cost If living ls about 31 per cent. [hove pre-war, but the hourly vages in the chemical Industry (ere up only 19 per cent., wages In the metal trades 27 per cent., lind In the leather trades 10 per •nt Since regular working hours ave been shortened as much as (LO per cent., actual weekly earnings fall more than 10 per cent. |ihort ot meeting pre-war stand- rflB( .-,.* BRITAIN YIELDS IN SHANGHAI; NATIVE BOSSES NOW UNDER FIRE CHANGHAI, China—Isolated hy the shrewdness of Chinese diplomacy which has played one Imperialist!, power against another,, flrst separating America from Japan nnd British interests, then forcing Japan to settle her end of the Shanghai strike and leave Great Britain to fight alone, the British in Shanghai have finally been forced to surrender, forego their arrogance and yield at least partially to the demands of the Chinese. At a mass meeting of the Shanghai British chamber of commerce and the China Association (alien in composition) the British voted unanimously to abandon their former stiff-necked attitude, to favor the full terms of the Washington conference (which is a wily trick of American imperialism rather than ahy help to China, it must be said) yielding the mixed court to Chinese control and Chinese representation ln the Shanghai municipal counoll. It is to be noted that the Chinese unions are talcing up the strike weapon they* have learned to use against the Japanese and British, and are now demanding and forcing the Chinese owned industries and establishment to grant wage increases similar, to those the foreign imperialists were compelled to grant. The strikers are-demanding: 1. Recognition of th* existing trade unions without waiting for the promulgation of the necessary law for this purpose. 2. Immediate payment of $1.00,000 as payment for the strike days. 3. Immediate payment of $10,000 as compensation to the relatives of those killed and wounded by Chinese soldiers and police during the strike. At the same time the trade union council demands from the government that it pass a law embodying the demands of the workers. Three labor newspapers have been prohibited from publishing, and an order has been issued that all papers must deposit a bail of $1,000. This means the end of he workers press. The strike agalnBt the British mills and shipping still continues, and the capitulation of the British has yet to be put into effect there, but even this is over-shadowed ly the ■ persistent effort of the unions to force the nativo mill owners to grant the wage raises the unions have already forced out of the alien owners. SHOE WORKERS STRIKE WEBSTER, Mass.—-CFP)—-The 600 workers of A. J. Bates shoe factory are on strike against 10% wage cuts. Piece workers are affected by the reduction, the second in two months. Pay was lowered 6% previously. 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The most- popular of all Victor Vic- trolas— CONSOLE style — in all the popular finishes, including mahogany, walnut and oak—with Universal tone arm, automatic stop, etc., and case to hold records—same Victrola exactly as we were selling before this sale at $135.00. Present price— $97.50 VICTROLA NO. 220 FORMER PRICE $260.00. NOW ONLY $7.75 cash delivers it to your home, and $2.85 weekly quickly pays the balance. VICTROLA NO. 400 FORMER PRICE $325. <fcO 1 C NOW ONLY <J>_&__0 $10.75 cash delivers it to your home, and $4.00 weekly quickly pays the balance. VICTROLA NO. 405 FORMER PRICE $325.00. -ftOQC NOW ONLY «P_b_bO $11.25 cash delivers it to your home, and $4.10 weekly quickly pays the balance. VICTROLA NO. 240 FORMER PRICE $160.00. -$ 1 1 C NOW ONLY .:.... «PllO $5.75 caah delivers it to your home, and $2.00 weekly quickly ,- , pays the balance. $155 Page Six THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Friday, September 11, 1925 With the Marine Workers (Conducted by W. H. Donaldson, Secretary Federated Seafarers of Canada.) Fascists Sink Fangs Into Italian Seamen Notes From the Camps SEAMEN'S ACTIVITIES Capilano Timber Co. Camp E able to workers, who are accused by the boss and his paid spokesmen of deliberately setting fire ln order to find employment (at About two hundred men are cents per hour) fighting fire. The GENOA—(FP)—The struggle, of the Italian seamen against the shipowners and their Fascist allies receives a severe setback in . the handing over of the seamen's The S. S. Canadian Highlander The S. S. "Canadian Coaster, of union headquarters in Genoa, the arrived in Vancouver on Friday, the C. G. M. M. Ltd., arrived at Property of the union, to the local employed here, a two-side camp, fact that the government ooin- September 4th. The vessel signed Vancouver on Wednesday Septem- -fascisti, who in joint action with The living quarters are bad, That scripts men for this work, and* a crew of seamen and firemen on ber 9th, after a trip of over three the shipowners have formed what ancient institution, the top bunk, jails those who refuse Ib proof May 20, 1925. The crew complain weeks, touching the ports of Nana- they call a Fascist Seamen's feder- is still ip vogue here, consequent- that workers do not start fires1 that the conditions that they had Imo, Ocean Falls, San Francisco atlon- The consequences will prob- ly the camps are overcrowded and with the object of getting em- to endure during the voyage were and San Pedro. During this short ab-y be that <*he old Italian Sea- need ventilation. This is one of Ployment. abominable, although -it is stated voyage the men were given putrid men's federation will shortly be the few logging camps on the For many years past, during the there did not seem to be a short- food and the deck crew were com- dissolved and all Its property, in- coast where the upper berth is dry season, some of the most de- age of food, a very usual occur- pelled to work cargo (coal) all day eluding the five steamers of the used. structlve and widespread forest rence aboard almost every vessel and received no overtime until Garibaldi Co-operative, consigned The sanitary conditions are fair, Ares have burned over immense^ of the Canadian Government eight hours had been worked. This to the Fascist leaders of the newly- enforced by the authorities, not areas of felled and standing tim- Merchant Marine. What was serv- ** not ship's work. The men hired formed company union, which because of any regard for the ber, and during the years when ed, however, was not in a fit state at the wharf generall receive one means, practically speaking, into health of the men employed, but labor as a whole was fully em-< for the crew to eat. The cook was dollar an hour for their work. The the hands of the shipowners. in order to protect from contam- Ployed at comparatively higher blamed for this state of affairs. C. G. M. M. as usual threaten the This action of the government Ination the water supplied to the wages than is paid at the prese-nt He left the ship at Liverpool, Eng- men that they must obey or be comes after a long struggle to sub- city of Vancouver. time in the logging Industry, or land, and was replaced by another logged. The disgraceful tactics of due the stubborn resistance* of the There is ,no such thing as the any other Industry. Forest fires cook who seemed to give a little this company is worse than that Italian seamen and to break their eight-hour day in the logging have a peculiar tendency to break handed out to Chinese seamen by union. According to the press, the camps at the present time, twelve out in territory near to where occupation of the seamen's head- hours being the average day's logging operations are carried on, quarters recently by the police took work* There can not be an eight- and not in those parts of the place to prevent the fascisti from hour day until the loggers organ- country where little, if any, log- occupying it themselves. But the lze and enforce the demand of ging is done. - ______ , ... Hved herp ,„_t WprtnBHflav nlE.ht seamen's union was deprived of its an eight-hour day, camp to camp, The logging operators are re- *W,***^I?m.* IT Sis is tL sLThartfe foT«; headquarters in February, 1923, and, taking into consideration the sponsible for the wholesale de- off, which was not given The.™* is the £lD »™ the former Co.0perative Shlppi„g production .of the workers, a,pd struction of timber by forest fires men state-they were^ threatened ™m^ °f £«™Q'Sll^Sd society (Garibaldi) was also placed the accumulation of stocks in recurring from year to year, not- with being logged two days pay for °rsUn°"' ™"™' °^ " under the control of a government this industry, the eight-hour day withstanding the yapping of all every one that they might be ab- a meeting to be called for in ref- ^^^^ B ls far t00 long> the daily liars published In Van- bit better satisfaction. Working conditlbns were simply employers in the Flowery King- rotten. The men were compelled om" to work overtime in nearly every The first of the "Empress Ships" port that the "Highlander" touch- to have strikebreakers aboard ar sent from the ship. The Deck de- erence to whlte seamen taking the commissioner, partment was worked a" little bit Places of striking Chinese. The Conditions and hours of labor couver. There are abundant signs throughout the lumber industry ln that the people of the province of Canada are rapidly becoming British Columbia are beginning different. The seamen were work- meeting decided that the Empress yf^ Profiteers To ed hours similar to the days of shiPs were unfair. Tommy O'Nell worse| an(} g_ouni gained has to recognize the truth of the fore-1 Lord Nelson's time, 4 hours on agreed to abide by the decision of Hear V lCtMlS I eilS been ' lost slmply because the eoing statements regarding the duty and 4 hours off duty, when the Union but refused. He was workers have not maintained a origin of forest fires, the vessel was at sea. Imagine men therefore, dropped from the mem- WASHINGTON—(FP)—Protests strong organization to resist the Some Individuals have profited working hard for 4 hours and then hership of The Federated Seafar- by rich owners o country estates attack's on their standard of liv- in the fast by starting a fire, and consider how little ti_ne they get ers' Union of Canada, out of the four hours off for rest, around Northport, Long Island, ing- These 'conditions can be when it got out of their control against construction of a 1,000-bed changed only by the lumber work- diverted suspicion from them- The men who go on watch on the Tbe crew of the g s .*CanadIan hospital for shell-shocked soldiers ers in camp and ml„ taking the selves by turning in an alarm. deck department are called half an nh-.«.vor» nn thB w vnMM tn of the late war nave been over- initiative in reorganizing their The two alarm boxes, one on'Pen- unserver, on me last .o.agc .,ul(,a by the federa- board of hog. ^^ ^ & ntMmal ,front) gemg der west, and the other on Hast- pitallzatlon. These tragic invalids, the aotlve support of the Ca^a- ings West, viz.: The Sun and The* shrieking at the horrors they can- dlan labor movementl organizing Province, have be*,n used by the not forget, will be housed in a the industry with regard to the lossh.g operators to broadcast the $3,000,000 building in the neigh- speolal conditions existing in eaoh "information" that the workers borhood of some of the men whose jocattyi, and at the same time are the ones who are guilty of /.* xr. 1,1 ,._.. „„„„iof„fl ne k a „ . , *, _ * .. fortunes were made, or were mul provld,ng for highly centralized causing forest fires, and not the adian Highlander consisted of 5 A. a„y got peeved, and remonstrated tlplied> whlle the slaughter went LministLiVe machinery logging operators They are so B.'b nnfi hnatswain. two deck bovs. with him l-i ii vnlnhlt n»nni.r Ao aunumsirauve macmnery. _ue_i«i*s vj»o»o,vu«o. i*.*.*.* *.* *w on. The workers i,n the lumber in- 'considerate of the timber re- dustry, irrespective of their poll- sources of the country, those for- hour before they are wanted, so as gan FrancisC0i have sent us a let to be sure they are fully awake. t.r stflHnB. that two nf tha fir-am mi *" '_. te,r stating tnat two oi tne tiremen Bhrieking at the horrors they can These men are over worked ow- had occasion to go to the chief ing to the small number of men steward for an esftra piece of but- employed on C. G. M. M. ships, ter, which the steward refused in The crew on deck of the S. S. Can- SUch a manner that the men natur- B.'s, one boatswain, two deck boys, with him in a voluble manner. As who are expected to do the work a result the men were logged two of A. B.'s, one ordinary seaman, day's pay, and one day's pay re- and one aprentice. The register- spectively. This for simply asking In the list of Strikebreakers pub- tical convictions and theoretical eigners, that they would not even ed tonnage of the vessel is 3260, so for a, piece of butter. The captain "shed in last issue of the "Advo- ideas on organizing the lumber think of taking a chance on burn- it can be easily understood that the stated in the log that it was Vcaus- cate," who have filled tho places industry, should come together on ing up the forests unless there men have "no cinch" aboard ships ing a disturbance". like the "Canadian Highlander". Patronize Our Advertisers. Empire Cafe QUALITY COURTESY SEASONABLE 76 Hastings East HAROLD DEGG and BOB KKAUSE Ute 54th Batt. and 72nd Batt. The daily press has publicly stated that the Chinese crew of the S. S. City of Victoria, who were put in jail for refusing to work, were acting according to instructions received from the Chinese who were instituting a boycott in China. The real facts of the matter are that the Chinese had arranged when they signed the articles oh the S. "Celtic" of Vancouver. C; Hewitt, H. C; Horn; Jo, Henry; "City of Victoria," that a certain Joneg R N.. Klssocki J-; Hesketh, sum of money should be sent to J; Kno>, A; Mahoneyi G-. Mac. their families in China. This part of the agreement was not fulfilled Wm , Patt|son of striking Chinese, one name was this basis, and with a little energy were profits in sight, given as H Bird. This should and initiative the thing can be Scattered throughout the prov- have read H Hird, who recently done—at least a solid foundation lnce of British Columbia, are flre worked on the small freighter S. can be laid for future building. ala«™ bearing the words, "Save The first objective must be to the Forests, It Pays." The de- obtalu a standard of living that struction of the forests is paying, will stand comparison with the and paying big. Those who are standard of the workers in other disposed to doubt it can take a industries that are not of such triP into the logging country. Importance as the lumber Indus- MEMBER L.W.I.U. OF try. Yon are rot receiving it to- CANADA. day. It requires only fifty lumber WOONSOCKET. R. I.—(FP)— workers with a definite objective, Some 2<">« workers employed at and a common program, to or- the Alice mill in Woonsocket and ganize the most exploited of all the Millville, Mass., plant of Woon- kay, J.; McDonald, J.; Osborne, Canadlan worj_ers—the lumber socket Rubber Co., are notified Mail at the Headquarters, September 9th, 1925. Bell, A. G.; Beckett, H.; Cox, A.; Carr, Wm.; Evans, L. F.; Gillespie, D.; Gallacher, P.; Gerachy, J.; Goosey, G.; Harris, C; Henderson, rail, Wm.; Worrell, J. according to the latest reports. The wllUam8> A_. wnlIams, j.; Wor Chinamen were, therefore, quite justified ln refusing to go to the ship. We feel that the Chinese have been let down in this case. Subscribe to Thc Advocate MAINLAND CIGAR STORE "The Place for Pipes" Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention 810 OARRALL STREET VANCOUVER, B.O. E.; Thean.JW; workeri; Let „s marshai our that the 5-day work week is in forces from North, South, East £oroe and wage reductions with lt. and West. When the conditions MlllB have been operating three The following letters have been are favorable, let us follow it up and four day a week, returned to the sender or the Dead by a declaration of war. Let our Letter Office: Ericksen, C. J.; defensive forces take an offensive Fisher, H. J.; Morgan, D.; Thomas, course. It can be done! Let's go. J. One letter forwarded to the A LUMBER WORKER. Whaling Station for Eric Jensen. Send ln Tour Subscription Today. Red Star Drug Store _■ —*__■______.—a3Mi^^aM---m—^ ■■ ■■■■! ■■—^— "The Mail Order Druggists" We Mak* a Special Effort to Get Goods Out by First Mall After Receipt of Yonr Order Oorner Cordovs and Carrall Vancouver, B.O. 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Regular. prices $22.50 to $42.50, now— $15 to $37.65 CD. limited Oor. Homer and Hastings St. VANCOUVER, B.O. ^Friday, September il, 1925 THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Pag* Seven (Britain Main Prop of Seeond International (Federated Press.) ' LONDON.—An affiliated membership of 6,500,000 ln 30 countries was represented at the Becond congress of the Labor and Socialist (Second) International meeting at Marseilles August 22- 27. Nearly half of the affiliated membership ls supplied by the British Labor* party and Independent Labor party, and 40 per cent, of the International's income comes from Britain. In view of .this, it is curious that so much of the report of the secretarat was devoted to attacks on Russia, with whose trade union movement British labor has established the most friendly relations. The 'report discloses that the -international "gravely protested" against the attitude of the British trade union delegation in Russia, and critioized the campaign for international trade union unity. Relief Society Sends Delegation to Russia It is robbery and waste on the part of the minority which keeps the majority poor.—Wm. Morris. OOBPOBATION OF POINT OBBT TENDERS SEALED TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned, will be received by the oounoil up to 8 o'clock p.m, on Friday, September 18th, 1925, for laying the following sewers: . On Beach Street from 53rd Avenue ■-northerly for a distance of 1200 feet. On Lime Street from 51st Avenue to 49th Avenue. 0,1 61st Avenue from Lime Street to Arbutus Street, Form of tender, specifications and full information may bo obtained on application to the Municipal Engineer on payment of the sum of $5.00, which will be returned on receipt ot a bona fide tender. A deposit by certified cheque of ten (10) per cent, of the amount tendered will be required with each tender as security that the tenderer will, if called upon, enter into a contract and provide the required bond for the performance of the work, The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. HENRY FLOYD, O.M.C. Municipal Hall, 5851 West Boulevard, Vancouver, B.C., September 9, 1925. OOBPOBATION OF POINT OBEY Bosses' Plan Exposed By Liberal Economist "The deliberate intensification of unemployment." This is programme which the British capitalist class has laid out to be followed until parity between British and American money prices has been reached, according to the pamphlet, "The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill," just issued by the Hogarth Press. The author is no "bloody Bol- shie," but the very respectable J. M. Keynes of Bloomsbury, Liberal party propagandist, part owner of the Liberal weekly, The Nation, and famed in West End parlors as an economist, Mr. Keynes's argument is, in effect, that since Mr. Churchill, British chancellor, has raised the exchange price of sterling by lu per cent., the Industrial magnates, including tbe coal owners, who now find themselves at a 10 per ceflit. disadvantage in the foreign markets, intend to take that 10 per cent, out of the hides of the workers for the purpose of "evening up." The pamphlet points out that industry (industrial capital) is now at the mercy of the bankers (finance capital), who, through their control of credit, are resolved on the deflation of the price of all commodities, which includes, of course, labor. Mr. Keynes's economics are naturally liberal—that is, they tend to favor the old-style individualist manufacturers—but his exposure is sufficiently cold-blooded to afford convincing proof that British workers must not only unite to hold their present ground, but to abolish a system which has reached the limit in waste, chaos and merciless brutality. British Workers Plan International Boycott Of Sweat Shop Goods LONDON.—Headed by Duncan Carmiohael, seeretary of the London Trades Council, a deputation from the British section of the Workers' International relief has left London for Soviet Russia. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ They are going to report on the —— children's homes and the econ- (By Leland Olds, Federated Press) omic enterprises undertaken by Domination of the newspaper the W.I.R. during the Russian Huge Press Combine Yokes Workers' Minds To Capitalist Ideas "Press Should Dominate" the districts we have 'adopted.' Try Prayer, American Politician Advises the British Communists TENDERS SEALED TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned, will be received by the council up to 8 o'clock, p.m. on Friday, September 18, 1925, for laying Marine . Drive' Trunk and Magee Area relief sewer, requiring: 1542 feet 48-inch concrete sewer 1447 feet 42-inch concrete sewer - 1757 feet 36-inch concrete sewer 797 feet 30-inch concrete sewer* 1734 feet 18-inch vitrified pipe Form of tender, specifications and full information may be obtained on application to the Municipal Engineer on payment of the sum of $10.00, which will be returned on receipt of & bona fide tender. A deposit by certified cheque of ten (10) per cent, of the amount tendered will be required with eaoh tender as security that the tenderer will, if called upon, enter into a contract and provide i the required bond for the performance of the work. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. HENRY FLOYD, O.M.O. Municipal HaU,, 5851 West Boulevard, Vancouver, B.C., September 8, 1925. WANTS UNION MADE VOTING MACHINES NEW YORK—(FP)—New York state could have saved $2,000,000 if Mrs, Florence Knapp, secretary of state, had placed the order for voting machines with the Cummlngs Vote Register Co,, of Crown Point, Ind., a union shop, instead of with United States Automatic Registering Co., ot Jamestown, N. Y„ Hugh Frayne, American Federation of Labor organizer charges. He is bringing the matter to the attention of the state federation of labor convention. The New York factory is open shop. (By Len De Caux, Federated Press) LONDON.—The boycott by *1_t^^^^^^-^^^——-^^^^^^^^^^-^^^^^—l_—-— ternatlonal action of. goods pro- industry by big capitalists as a famine, a,pd expect to be away duced under unfair labor condi- force tending to block the peace- £or a month, tions Is recommended by a special ful progress of democratic insti- "The W.I.R. has been criticized British Labor party committee set tutions toward a new social order by some people," said Mr. Car- up to investigate the problem of is nowhere more obvious than in michael, "because we sent out sweat shop imports. The report England lh the present crisis, tools for the adult workers to provides a definite Labor party Three multi-millionaires control help them restore the districts of alternative to the protectionism most of the great papers of Brit- Samara and Saratoff. Mr. Rhys of the ories and the free trade bf ain, Rothermere, Beaverbrook and Davies, M.P., has made a special the Liberals. On tariff questions Berry wield a power over public Point of attacking us. Why? there has been division in the La- opinion capable of undermining Simply because we do not confine bor ranks, as shown in the vote ip _ few weeks the results of ourselves to relief of the mere on imperial preference, when 20 years of patient education. soup kitchen kind. Labor members of parliament The overthrow of the Labor "However, we are going out to voted with the government tnsup- governMe„t and the manufacture make the Investigation, and when port of tariff preferences for the of a huge conservative majority we return we hope to be able to dominions on dried fruits, tobacco in parliament through broadcast- make an appeal. *° B,rlUsh w°?k- and wine, while the majority of ing the forged zln0viev letter, Is ers to helD *urtb-e,; *» Priding the party voted with the free an ,nstanoe of this power to block tools for the Russian workers in traders. Some favored preference polltlcal development. """ «*--■-—. -.*-* - ~ on this occasion on the ground that it would discriminate against the sweated goods from Smyrna "Both Rothermere and Beaver- and elsewhere that competed with brook-" **»* tne London corres- fatr dominion products. ponde,nt of the Wall Street Jour- . _ . „ „ *., _. nal, "believe that the press should ___________________________________________________________________________________ Protection Repudiated • ,*■■«"_ „ , 1 „ „ „, dominate parliament. They meas- The report emphatically repudi- ure their 8UCcess, as Northcliffe (By Len De Caux, Federated Press) ates protection, and at the same dld> by thelr power to make or LONDON—U. S. Secretary of time rejects the doctrinaire free break gove_nments." Labor James J. Da'vis has been trade of the Liberals, concentra- Rothermere inherited North-' astonishing the natives in his old ting its attention upon banning cllffe.s crown> but ^ he prel!era home town q£ Tredegari WaleB> sweated goods, which it defines ,lvlng peacefuliy on his enormous and some of the natives have been as those produced under "any unearned income, he has sol<J astonishing James J. Moscow conditions of employment, wheth- some of his papers to ^ other must haye glyen orderf) tQ U8e hlg er wages, hours or working ar- newSpaper kings at a handsome vtelt t0 radlcal &outh Wales to rangements which are inferior to profit, His chie£ paper ls the ^^ h*m tQ Con.munl8mi for those established by agreement Dally Malli whlch circulates 1,- Davis himself relates to a London • between trade unions and em- 700(0oo copies a day. paper the story of a sinister at- ployers. Its immediate proposal BrltaMa Polltlcai Boss tempt to acquaint him with revo- is "that each country should un- „ ,„„„„„„„ .u_.„„„ dertake to boycott goods produced * "Beaverbrook," says The Wall lut onary theo y in countries where the terms of ~ *™™* correspondent, "is n my uncles house in Trede- the Washington 8-hour convention *<* a i™™*'* s° much as a J"?' ** "*** * ™J £* T and subsequently such other con- diplomatist. He is a manipulator into' a U tie room and shut the ventions as mav be aereed unon of men and situations. It was he door. I thought he was going to were hot to Oration* who overthrew the Asquith gov- tell me something private. But t Mi _™ i ernment in 1916 and set Lloyd ne started to talk Communism." India s Opinion George up as prime minister. He Davis, It appears, did ,not make This new Labor plan is wel- [S aiways pulling the strings be- the sign of the dollar and say, corned by K, S. Bhat, president hlnd the SCenes." ^Beaverbrook's "Get thee behind me, Bolshevik." Workers' Welfare League of India, chief paper is the Daily Express. He did not even, from force of who criticizes, however, the defl- Berry, the other member of the habit, order the man deported. He nition of sweated goods. He says newspaper triumverate, owns 10 *lust — but these are his own there are no legalized trade un- daiiies, 5 Sunday papers a-pd about words: ions (in India) and consequently 210 weeklies and monthlies. He "-1 *uat said to him, 'Young no agreements to set a standard has the backing of the Rhondda raan- kneel down by your bedside in the cotton industry in India, coai millions. tonight, along with your wife and but the workers are sweated, all Fmj p__,gs Non_Exjstent children, and thank God for the the same. "At present," he says, ' British constitution. Communism This dictatorship of a small majority, through ability to manufacture majority sentiment at will, "the Bombay cotton owners are reducing their already sweated worker wages by 11 1-2 per cent. In*a few weeks over 100,000 cotton workers will be out on will (never get anywhere." The American Loyal Order of * Moose has acquired the cottage ln renders empty Prime Minister wnloh Davls waa born to present Baldwin's assertion that "no mi- to the little mining town of Tred- Fass this copy to your shop- mat* and get him to subscribe. HE BIGGEST BAR-SAIN IH THE WORLD men a $59?slwool $1000.00 BEWABD To any one who will prove that anything stated in this ad is mis- re p r esented or untrue. TAIL.RED TO ORCNLY <_ Ladies' TOUB OPPOETUNITY To purchase direct from the manufacturer a fine quality suit made of pure wool valued at $50.00. Strictly hand-tailored to your measure, sergo or worsted. Latest models. Single or 5R4. OO double-breasted for ONLY *•*TTL . 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N.J.-(FP)- Australla to Assist J°rity rU,B '* * ,? ,, T"« American Federation of La- Australia to assist depend for its power to influence Strong support for the Labor reaPders of the Pdaily press on the »or moving picture will be used party proposals come from Prime Hera,d a,0 which faces ****<& ln th° central «<>«th- Minister Bruce of Australia, who y o£ the c'apitallst prea8 where "there are lewer unions than says the Australian government is ^ \ Davld against a battaIlon anywhere else, according to state- embarrassed in its efforts to as* sist British industries in the Australian market by the fact that of Goliaths. "Britain herself is doing nothing BrancheS May Join to prevent her own industries . Minority Movement from being undermined by countries which permit a low standard for their workers." ments made by William Green, president A. F. of L. The scenario of the picture is being written by a well-known writer and will be brought up at the A. F. of L. convention in October. LONDON.—The final appear PERTH, Western Australia.—(F court of the Amalgamated Engl- p)—At the annual conference of neering Union has upheld the ap- the West Australian branch of the peal of one of its branches against Australian Labor Party, there was LABOR SEEKS ABOLITION OF TITLES H MELBOURNE, Australia—(FP) the decision of the executive board an animated discussion regarding —Labor members in the Federated that no fees could be paid from the working of the 44-houi- week. Parliament are seeking to bring the local purposes fund to the p-*|nauy it was left to the unions to about the abolition of the practice national minority movement. make their own arrangements re- of granting titles to Australians The decision affects many garding the spread of the 44-hours, on the ground that such procedure branches of the A.E.U. who have ____======;^^=^^========: is contrary to the sentiments ot the already affiliated with the minor- 0ITy 0p -tfxsormVEB. people of Australia. The five State ity movement, and ls likely to in- legislatures in Australia, controlled fluence large numbers of mem- -TulE undersigned will receivo tenders by Labor governments, have al- bers of the N.U.R., Shop Assist- £_■$* ^^Lcl'ZoiiZ ready expressed themselves as op- ants, Boot & Shoe Workers, &c„ Wednesday, the 23rd day of September, nosed to the practice. who have been instructed to op- '?r ">* ^v.-r °<* »••» hundred and puaeu io uie y_ m.nte. fifty ornamental cast Iron standards. pose the minority movement. Specifications and details can bo ob- Between the Government which Bunding.0™ th° ^ E'UC"'idan' Ho'd°" does evil and the people who ac- A fighting labor press can't be The right to accept or reject any or cept It there is a certain shameful built by wishing. Send in your o» tenders reserved solidarity.—Victor Hugo. sub today. Purchasing Agent. PagrEight THS CANADIAN LABOB ADVOCATE Friday, September 11, 1 WHAT COUNTS! ANE MAN wrote us: "I hope The Advocate will soon U be an eight-page daily"—and he sent in a subscription. THAT COUNTS Another wrote: "I am boosting for you. You are putting out a Beal Labor Paper"—and he sent in a subscription. THAT COUNTS Still another said: "Send we a subscription book. I am going to get you twenty new readers in my district." THAT COUNTS • HEBE'S THE POINT: The greater our circulation, the more effective will be your work. We are honestly endeavoring to fight for freedom from capitalism, and if you are really desirous of improving your condition and that of your fellow-men, you will boost for THE ADVOCATE. It is that kind of help THAT COUNTS SEND IN A SUBSCBIPTION Get your friends on the mailing list. If they cannot afford the $2 right now, send in their names just the same; they can pay us later, but—do it now. DON'T POBGET: At least one new reader from every one of our friends this week. Address letters: LABOB ADVOCATE, 1129 Howe Street Vancouver The Prelude to a New War (By J. JACOB.) CINOE 1918 there have been ser- ieve are mere playthings in the lous threats of war on several hands of the directors of the occasions. Now Franco has rushed Bank of Paris, and are playing Into a war with Morocco. The their role admirably. They con- Paciiiste of the Left Bloc are tinue to talk about peace apd to bringing' home civilization to the proclaim the pacifist intentions of Kills by means of gunfire and Paris in order to pacify the dis- aerlal bombardment. The Moroc- turbed public opinion, while at can adventure In 1907, which was the same time they continue the forcibly resisted by Jaures, was war. the' prelude to the World War. In any case, a world war might In 1911 the Algerian affair almost break out. If Abd-el-Krim is started a war between France and beaten, the various designs of the Germany. At the present moment imperialist powers will become the fear of the national revolution clear. French, Spanish and Brlt- becoming extended outweighs the ish imperialists will commence international complications which quarreling over the domination of might arise from a Franco-Mo- Morocco. roccan conflict. Great Britain casts an unfriendly glance towards France in view of Gibraltar being on the Mediterranean coast. The Moroccan war has resuscitated Italian designs on Tunis. pARISj France._Ai LosoVsky, At a matter of fact, the present secretary of the Red International conflict which confronts French of Labor Unions. with headquar. imperialism, with the Riffs fight- ters at ^ spoke at the cqn. ing for independence, is a dis- green of the Generar Confedera- turbing influence to capitalists of tion of Labor here> urging world all countries. The Rational revo- trade unlon unJty> and descrlblng lution started by Abd-el-Krim ha» the aotivlties of the RiI.L>u. and aroused the enthusiasm of the the CommUnist International, whole of Islam. It started in j.osovsky was refUsed a passport Morocco, and, if it Is victorious, to enter the country by the Pain. it would extend to Algeria, Tunis, leye government. The delegate Sudan, Benegal, Indochina, Egypt irom Mosoow maflmged to reach and India and all the colonial or the congress> however, and spoke semi-colonial countries. The loss _-.hUe all doors and wlndows were Painters' Convention Shows Healthy Growth (Special Correspondence) MONTREAL — The thirteenth general convention of the International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers opened ..here on Labor day, with about 700 delegates from the United States and Canada present. Those attending the convention declared that in the 38 years of the union's existence, no more optimistic spirit had been displayed than that which marked the opening of this convention. The report of G. F. Hendrick contained a message of progress since the last convention, held in 1921. Mr. Hendrick stated that approximately 30,000 members of the Brotherhood were enjoying the five day week, and emphasized that wherever this condition obtained the results were most satisfactory to the members, because this gave them a better opportunity to protect themselves against the inroads of occupational diseases, such as affect the painter through being forced to work in materials which are injurious. He also pointed out that the Brotherhood was now the fifth largest union in the A. F. of L. General Secretary C. J. Lammert in his report stressed the fact that not only had the Brotherhood weathered the storms in recent years, in the face of aggressive and desperate efforts on the part of the employers to again establish the wages of serfs and mendicants, but showed an actual gain in membership since 1921 of more than 25,000. R. I. L. U. Secretary Outwits Paris Police of the colonies would be a ter- rirble blow for France and Great barred. At the conclusion of his speech, Britain and would shake their whioh iasted an hour> the Ughts were turned out, and Losovsky entire regime. Therefore, this must be prevented at all cost. made hls way out of the hall." they say, Realizing the danger, the entire to lj. press, including both the Right British Seamen Fight Tt^n X BhTinie.for, V?r Shipowners' Wage Cuts to the finish. Herriot and Pain- r ° Open Shop Menaces New York Unionism NEW YORK—(FP)—That jobs of organized craftsmen in New York City are menaced by the abundance of open shop work in surrounding communities is again emphasized by a full page advertisement of open shop plants in Connecticut now appearing for the second time in the Hartford Courant. It blares forth an array of contracting and manufacturing concerns under the 8-column caption "Firms Operated on the Open Shop Plan." The list includes building contractors, electrical, plumbing, painting, printing, lithographing and photo-e,ngraving contractors—all in lines that are predominately union ln New York. This policy of rubbing the open shop stuff into the reading public may provoke an unexpected result. (By Federated Press.) LONDON.—An unofficial strike of seamen in London a,nd Hull against the recent $5 a month cut in wages protests the agreement between the shipowners and the National Sailors' and Firemen's union. Some 2B00 seamen Jt>ave demonstrated in Poplar, London, against the action of the union officials in accepting the cut "without consulting the rank and file." Another incident which has caused resentment is the holding of an "industrial peace dinner" by the shipowners and the National Sailors' and Firemen's union, shortly after the cut, "with a view to marking excellent relations that exist between the shipowners and seamen." American Federation Acts On Immigration WASHINGTON— (F P)—-Among the conferences held very quietly in Washington recently by Moto- sada Zumoto, a Tokio editor who has come to America to promote better relations between the two countries, was one with 20 officials of the American Federation of Labor and affiliated labor bodies. Zumoto urged that American labor help repeal the ban on Japanese immigration. Secy. Morrison for the A. F. of L., replied that American labor would never consent to lower the bars to any immigration from countries of a lower wage standard. Decision that the workers of Mexico and the United States are entitled to freedom of locomotion from one country to the other, but that the labor movements of the two nations must see that they do not impair each other's trade union structures by cheap wage rates or otherwise, was reached in the conference between American Federation of Labor officials and the representatives of the Mexican Regional Federation of Labor, in session in Washington. When a Mexican worker comes to the United States he is to be called upon, both by the A. F. of L„ and the Mexican labor organizations to join the A. F. of L. and maintain its standards. When an American worker goes to Mexico, he is to join the Mexican union and abide by its rules. BRICK MAKERS STRIKE NORTH HAVEN, Conn.—(FP)— Nearly 50 men are striking again at Montowese Brick Co. for recognition of thelj- union and demands for higher wages and shorter hours. The clay worker's walk out is so complete that the company has closed for the season. The advertiser ls always interested in knowing where you saw his advertisement. Just mention the Advocate and you'll see. BUSINESS AGENT INDICTED LYNN, Mass.—(FP)—Linwood P. Hurd, former business agent of the Shoe Workers' Protective Union in Lynn, was given 30 days in the House of Correction upon being found guilty of larceny of $16,239 from local 3. Hurd is appealing, claiming that he took the money the union owed him. MEN! Now is your great opportunity to secure Underwear, Shirts, Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes, etc., at this Monster Saving Sale Which Will Give You Values Extraordinary Sale Starts 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 12th Bemember, come to ARTHUR FRITH & CO. 2313 MAIN STBEET, Between 7th and 8th Avenues You Oan Always Do Better at The Imperial Shoe Store Get Wise Save Money Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes Lots to choose from, and all genuine bargains. 1087 GBANVILLE ST. Opp, Standard Furniture Co. Bird, Bird & Lefeaux BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETO. 101-408 Metropolitan Building 837 Haitingi St. W., Vancouvtr, B.C. Tolephonti: Stymour 8886 snd 8667 RECIPROCATE We support your paper. Where do you buy your Painting Supplies? PAINT THIS FALL —WITH— ANTIMO WHITE Prepare for the winter rains i with a coat of good paint1 IF BUILDING OR REMODELLING USE FIR OR LAMATOO 3-PLY PANELS and get that cosy effect. See' our finished samples and use our free estimate service on paints and panels. Gregory & Reid Paint Co. Sey. 4636 117 Hastings E. WE DELIVER HOW can we sell good solid leather shoes so cheaply? It's no secret! Away from the high rent district— small profits—quick turnover. That's all. You don't pay a proportion of a huge rent when you buy at Kibler's Shoeteria. Boys' School Boots The school boy Is particularly hard on shoes. He needs SOLID LEATHER. Cast iron would be best, but they are not made that way. Our guaranteed Solid Leather is the next best thing. Prices at least 20% less than elsewhere. Sizes 11 to 13% .... Sizes 1 to 5% $2.95 $2.45 KIBLERS' GUARANTEE MEANS SOMETHING MEN'S WOBKING SHOES Solid Leather and Waterproof $3.95 $4.45 $4.95 A Special Line of SAMPLE Slze8 6%, SHOES 7- 7* At HALF PRICE And All Solid Leather KIBLER'S SHOETERIA 163 HASTINGS STBEET EAST ^EVKJ* • GLASSES $5 COMPLETE No Drugs Used ln Examination ■"THIS advertisement means high- •*• grade glasses, with a thorough and advanced eye examination by a graduate specialist. Tou will find that we give the most value for the least money, and we stand back of all work turned out. If your eyes ache, see us. — Bird Eye Service 205 SEBVICE BLDG. 680 Bobson Street Phone Sey. 8955 _________________________________
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