'—■'■ —T 7T ^~_*m~% \ S- THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST INDUSTRIAL UNT or STRENGTH. **&> OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVEB TBADES AND LABOB COUNCIL AND B. C. FEDERATION OP LABOB ^^ POLITICAL UNItT t VICTORYI . ,V . ; _ __ ' ^^****^ ' ■ , SEVENTH /,AR. No. 21 VANCOUVER,B.C.FRIDAY,MAY21,1915. PtJSTmB) $1.60 PER YEAR VANCOUVER, B.C.,|FRIDAY, MAY 21,1915. the m simr OFlHE ISLAND j Mining Journal Says Strike Was Started To Fool English Investors Canadian Collieries One Of Worst Financial Frauds In The Country In one of our recent Issues we referred to the nieeting of the stockholders of the Canadian Collieries Company I (Dunsmuir) held in London, when it i was decided to postpone the payment f of interest rather than have a foreclosure. At the time of the Island strike great stress was laid upon the actions of the ' "foreign agitator" and the officials of the United Mine Workers of America were most severely censured through the press. The article reproduced below from the Mining, Engineering and Electrical Record sheds a flood of light j upon the doings of a "foreign agitator" who was NOT a member of.tue U. M. W. of A. ( Result of Frenzied Finance. I "The coal mining industry of British Columbia is reaping the whirlwind of • frenzied finance. In 1910 there came < along Sir William Mackenzie and Sir Donald Mann, who bonded the Duns- j muir properties on Vancouver Island I for $11,000,000, when they were worth only about half the amount, and as a matter of fact had just been under option to, and turned down by, the C. P. P. on a basis of (6,500,000, including property in San Francisco valued at ( about $1,000,000. Mackenzie and Mann in turn unloaded the property on the | British investor on a capitalization ! stated in Skinner's Mining Manual to i be $15,000,000 in 50,000 7 per cent. I cumulative preference, $10,000,000 in i' 100,000 common shares of $100 each, and £2,054,800 5 per cent, first mortgage gold bonds of £20, £100 and £500 each, which were offered for publie sub- ■ Bcription in London in May, 1910, at 95 I per cent. These sums total a capiatliza- |j tion of $35,000,000.. Sir William Mackenzie swore in the supreme court at I Victoria that of the huge capitalization only $3,000,000 wag to be provided as working capital. If so, Sir • William Mackenzie, Sir Donald Mann I nnd their associates pocketed $21,000,- i 000 on the transaction, less expenses. "Foreign" Manager a Ruinous PoUcy. The company then entered on a policy , whieh has proved ruinous to the. property and to the coal mining industry. It appointed W. L. Coulson, a Pennsylvania mine manager, to the charge of affairs. Mr. Coulson had also made the , examination on which the property .was [ purchased. A British or Canadian ^engineer was not good enough for them, nl- > though operating for British capital, and they even or discharged or brought 1 about the resignation of the engineers j who had managed the properties successfully for years and knew them thoroughly. There are no better coal mine operators in the province than J. Matthews and T. Russell, the managers of the Cumberland and Extension mines, respectively, under the Duns- muirs. Mr. Coulson replaced them with Pennsylvania managers, several of whom, on arrival, saw failure in store for the concern and resigned after • short term of service. Why They Use Oil Now. In an attempt to earn interest on the bogus capitalization, the prices for coal were raised to the C. P. R. and the public, with the result that the C. P. B. was driven to the use of California fuel oil. Shipping and several industrial concerns followed suit, till now California oil has displaced about 750,- 000 tons of coal a year on the coast and thrown about 4,000 coal miners out of employment. The Golden Goose. Steps were taken to elaborately increase the plant and equipment for a business which was now becoming decadent—the goose that laid the golden eggB for the Dunsmulrs was killed. The $3,000,000 of new capital was Spent, and 50 per cent, more besides. Heavy steel cars which were too large for the mine openings nnd Were not economic to operate, were purchased in large quantities, and a new mine opened where it has not been a success. Strike to Fool the Investors. It became necessary to flnd some excuse with which to fool the English investors still further, and a labor trouble, for which there wns neither necessity or reason, was engineered, The provincial treasury was put to the expense of scores of thousands of dol- larB*to employ special police to guard tbe mines for the benefit of the little band of eastern adventurers and frenzied financiers. The locnl managing- director, A. D. McRne, of Vancouver, resigned in disgust, and the resignation of w. L. Coulson, long predicted, Boon followed. The English Investors were appealed to to abandon their claim to a sinking fund in order to enable the $1,500,000 excess expenditure found to exist on Mr, Coulson's resignation, to be financed, and the labor troubles were the convenient excuse. Now we find notices in the British financial papers to the effect that on account of war conditions meetings of these same unfortunate investors are called to extend all payments of interest and sinking fund for another five years. The Wu Not to Blame. This condition of things is a public scandal. The war has nothing to do with the company's financial predicament, and it is a piece of rank hypocrisy that the patriotism of the British Investor should be appealed to under Bitch conditions, It is time that an investor investigated the matter for himself, punished those responsible and took steps to recover the amount which ho hns lost through dishonest financing. A British capitalist of prominence informed ub that when the atock and bonds in the Canadian Collieries, Ltd., were offered in London they were tied up with the Canadian Northern Bail- CHIEF INSPECTOR GRAHAM SHOULD BE PROSECUTED HOMAS GRAHAM, Chief Inspector of Mines for the government of British Columbia should be at once removed from offlce by Acting-premier W. J. Bowser, and proceedings taken against him for complicity in causing the deaths of the nineteen miners who were drowned in the mine of the Pacific Coast company at South Wellington last February 9th. This is the only conclusion to which any impartial minded man can come if the press reports of the inquest last Monday are correct. '■' • • • • • Cause of Disaster. f j IT WILL be Temcmbered that the fatality resulted from water rushing into the South Wellington mine from the old workings of another mine known as the SouthfjeJd, whioh was immediately adjacent. At the inquest, the plans with which the Pacific Coast company had been developing its mine were posted on the wall. Along with them was a plan shewing that part of the Southfield workings near to the boundary line between the two mines. The mine surveyor of the Pacific Coast company declared he had) made his distance calculations on the basis of 100 feet to the inch, which was the scale to which the plan was drawn, • * * * . • Working To Fake Plans. WORKING ON that basis he figured th'at about 415 feet still remained between the two workings. That estimate was based on the understanding that the plans of the Southfield mine were also drawn to a scale of 100 feet to the inch. When the mine was pumped dry after the fatality it was found'that instead of 415 feet remaining, actually only two feet were left between the two workings. The reason for the mistake was that the plans for the Southfield mine had been drawn to a scale of 132 feet per inch, instead of 100 feet as was thought. The plan shewing this fact had been on file in the department of mines at Victoria for some years. • • * • ' • Graham's Word* Condemn Him. THIS MIGHT never have been brought out but for the action of Mr. 3. W. deB. Farris, who appeared, along with other lawyers, on behalf of the relatives of the dead miners, An adjournment was asked for, to enable the original plan to be procured from Victoria. That brought Mr. Thomas Graham, chief inspector of mines, out into the open. He admitted he had that original plan with him right there. 'He also admitted the following facts under the examination of Mr. Farris: Mr. Farris—You have known for over two months that the oompany had been working on plans drawn to different scales! < "Yes." Mr. Farris—And when you posted up theBe two blue-prints in court here, both marked 100 feet to the inch, you knew that one of them was on a scale of 132 Feet to tke inch 7 "YeB." "And you knew that everyone here in court was misled by that faot," added Mr. Farris. The witness said he was not sure that this mix-up in the maps had been the cause of the accident, • • • • «!"'.'' IF EVER a man stood convicted by his own words in a public court it was Chief Inspector Graham when he made the above admission. And if there is such a thing as a man being liable to prosecution for attempting to subvert the course of justice, then Graham should be prosecuted by Attorney-General Bowser in pursuance of the duties of his office.* • • • • • Wai Tool of Companies. CHIEF-INSPECTOR GRAHAM has long been known as no friend of the miners, but as being very partial to the coal companies. One citizen of Nanaimo who was present in the inquest room, and who did not know inspector Graham, actually asked a bystander "Who is the tall sandy-haired gentleman acting on behalf of the Pacific Coast Coal company!" On being told it was Inspector Graham, he said he thought from his actions that he was the solicitor for the company. • • • • • WHILE WE believe Inspector Graham has been guilty of criminal neglect, yet in the last analysis the blame for the disaster lies at the door of the provincial government. While during the past it has favored the companies in every way —even to assisting them to the limits of its power to break the late strike—it has shewn a brutal and callous disregard for the safety of the miners. (Ia Vuooam\ Oltjr, 12.00 ) NELSON METHODISTS BUILDING THEIE NEW * CHAPEL ON THE CHEAP Tbe Metboilst church at Nel son was burnt down last winter much to tbe grief of tbe faithful. For a while ther were like Noah's dote, tbey bad no place to rest. It wu evident that could not go On tor long without seriously endangering tbe eternal welfare of the citizens of Nelson. So tbe building committee got to work and made arrangements to erect another tabernacle. That work is now under way. The main conditions of /the* Job from a working class standpoint are, nonunion labor, non-union hours— meaning of course longer hours— and non-union wages—meaning shorter Wages. Tbe building committee consists of business men and shareholders, They bave announced tbeir intention to break unions and to take every advantage which bard times girt them of getting men to work for as low wages as starvation compels them to do. This is a true saying and worthy of all acceptance—that the average chapel 'building committee' is among tbe meanest aggregation on the face of tbe earth. E $1.50 PER YEAB STARVING WOMEN AND CHILDREN CRY FOR BREAD WHILE OUT-OF-WORK HUSBANDS AND FATHERS SEARCH FOR EMPLOYMENT OF ANY KIND AT ANY PRICE INVAIN TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL WILL SEND ONE MORE DELEGATION OF THREE TO URGE OOVERNMENT TO AOT IS Australian Revolutionaries Attend Labor Party- Meet Believed Way Is Cleared For Co-operation In Future Government Should Aot Now. THE MINERS themselves would have averted this disaster if the government had adopted their suggestion of making it legal for the miners to elect their own inspectors. Instead of that such as Inspector Graham were appointed. They were under tho thumb of the government whieh,. in turn, was the grovelling slave of the coal owners. But putting that aside for the present, unless Attorney-general Bowser wants to prove that there is one law for the rich and one for the poor he will at once commence proceedings against the chief inspector of mines, Thomas Graham. J. W. W. way, guaranteed by the governmont of BrltlBh Columbia, and purchasers of these guaranteed bonds could only obtain them by taking along with them a proportion of the shares and bonds of the Canadian Collieries, Ltd. Bondholders Should Wind Up. Tbere has been no more soandalous financial transaction in Canada than this. The concern cannot possibly be made a financial success under present conditions, and instead of extending tbe payments, the bondholders Bhould insist on winding it up, eliminating the watered capital, and placing the property under the management of an honest and capable British or Canadian colliery manager. - Five-Sixths Bogus Capitalisation. The properties of the company are valuablo within tbe limits of their coal reserves, probably worth about a sixth of the present capitaization of the company. As it is, a valuable Industry has been practically throttled, and in its throes it has adversely affected all other companies engaged in coal mining. The advent of Mackenzie and Mann into this industry In British Columbia has been the worst blow experienced by the province financially, and the iegitimato operator has had to suffer for it aB well aB tho British investor. Now that an election is coming on, it is to be hoped the people will take the opportunity of expressing their determination to put an end to the repetition of such disreputable methods of finance in Brltsb Columbia." Miners Win Big Ohio Strike. A settlement of the strike in the Eastern Ohio coal fields, which has kept 15,000 miners idle for thirteen months has been reached by tho joint scale commission representing operators and miners at the conclusion of their confer* ence in Cleveland, Ohio. The operators bave ratified tho settle* ment, which was on the basis of 47 cents per ton, run of mine, which the minera have been fighting for. British Columbia landlords are not the happiest people in the world theso days. I, [Special Australian Correspondence.] SYDNEY,. N. S. W., May.—During tho sitting of the New South Wales labor conference last March and the first week of April, one of the most notice* able things was'- the admission by the two socialist' bodies of necessity for comma action.. Representatives of the revolutionary body attended the moderate—government—conference and addressed the members. It is thought that the way afidiffs open for a merging of the' two bodies into one common fighting force. Though to be sure there are still some difficulties in tho way. Want the Bevolution. The revolutionary body's delegates said that the difference was that the labor party stood for reform while the extreme body stood for revolution in the way of replacing class ownership of industry by social ownership. They wanted this to come peacefully if possible, and if not that way, then by force. The Difference; And Why. The labor premier, Mr. Holmon, __ reply, said that the points of agreement between tbe two bodies were greatly in excess of the points.of difference. He said that the revolutionary body was concerned with tbe kind of socialism they were going to reach, while the gov- ernment party were more concerned in reaching it. The labor party was turning its attention to the question of overcoming the stage of transition. Naturally there were different ways of looking at it, and the two parties were looking at it from two different points bf view. Education was playing a great part in enabling democracy to manage the affairs of government. One of the things they must not lose sight of was the fact that they should gain better natural conditions for the worker, so that he would havo more time to turn his attention to the improvement of his children, the result being the production of a better education for the rising generation. Development Must Be Gradual. In his opinion the extreme body of socialists should concentrato their attention upon the new industries that modern science was bringing into ac* tlon. A case in point was tho urging of the government tn take over the gas Industry. But why do thiB when the government had control of electricity, which in its own time in the nenr future would replace gas, thus compelling It to die a natural death. Thero must be gradual development, and the pre* mier asked the extremists not to be impatient with the government in its progress. They nil hoped to reach tho same gonl and he hoped they would- get there. Ho wns glad to see tho extremists nt the conference, since it looked as if, nt lust, all would mergo for the com mon good. W. F. AHEEN. "If there is no employment at this time of the year what will it be like this winter?" observed one of the Labor Temple business agents yesterday morning, as The Federationist representative trooped in; after listening to gloomy stories from previous advertisers for two hours. "There is absolutely nothing doing among the building trades and we might as well make up our minds to beat it. But where the —— to beat it to is what is bothering me. It seems to be about the sarnie every place else, as near as I call learn," continued the trade union officia'.who, a little more than a year ago, was busy looking after the interests of a working membership of more than 400, but who is to-day off the payroll and sticking round the Labor Temple for the Bake of a more convenient plaoe to put in time. * No Improvement. - Detailed reports made at last meeting of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council indicate little or no improvement in the situation among the skilled trades, while the plight of the unorganized is, in many cases, pitiable. Practically every union in the city and province has reached the limit of its financial resources, in an endeavor to provide for their unemployed. During the winter months it had been hoped that with the opening of outdoor work in the spring an opportunity to work out the "dead horse" would be provided. But disappointment has been the sum total of such expectations. In South Vanoouver. The Federationist can best describe the conditions in South Vancouver by quoting from one of the local morning dailies: "Though only half of the money loaned to South Vancouver municipality, for relief purposes, haB been spent, it appears to have done very little towards feeding the hungry in a large sense. There is still a great deal of distress in South Vancouver and large numbers of idle men clamor loudly for a few days' work in order to earn enough to provide their families with food. The wolf of starvation is sniffing at many a door in the municipality and if something is not done in the way of relief pretty soon things will be in a very bad way indeed." . What Is To Be Done? Based upon an experience of more than twenty years in this province the writer has never known of so muoh poverty and wretchedness. Every day the Labor Temple is beseiged with applicants seeking an opportunity to earn a living for themselves, their wives and their families. Actual starvation ia only prevented by that despicable term charity. One may theorize all they wish about how the workers' stomachs must be pinched before they will commence to think and turn sooial revolutionists. But present-day experience is proving unequivocally that hunger is having the very opposite effect. There are thousands of men and women-in B.O. today who have been .compelled by sheer force of circumstances to not only undersell eaeh other, but offer their bodies, either in war or prostitution, in return for food for themselves and those dependent upon them. It takes a lot of this sort of "glory of empire" to make a meal. The workers have nothing but their appetites. They are unarmed, defenseless and divorced from the means of wealth production. They have legislatively delegated their collective power to representatives of the propertied class that lives npon the exploitation of wage-workers. And there the workers are! Helpless because powerless. Those in the Labor movement who havet in years past, boasted that the workers of this province would never consent to starve to death, may have to revise their opinions. What, in the name of Labor, is to be the outcome of it all? Central Labor Body Will Try Again. Sinco the abovei wps written the Parliamentary committee of Vancouver Trades and Labor council has decided that one more effort should be made by organized labor to have the provincial government undertake publio works whioh will result in preventing the starvation of women and' children without recourse to unmasked charity. The result of the committee's recommendation is reported in last night's proceedings of the central labor body, elsewhere in this issue. I AND LABOR 1 Will Send Delegation To Ask Government To Start Work Also To Remove The Chief Inspector of Mines From Office WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION-ACT Only ft Draft as Yet, and Too Uncertain of Amendment to Take Seriously, Several renders of The Fed. have written asking that copies of the new B.C. Workmen's Compensation Act be forwarded them, and1 in most cnseB they seem to assume that tho legislation has become law. This is a mistake. Tho proposed draft was merely introduced nt the close of tho last legislature and will lay on tho table until next session. Meantime it is proposed to have suggestions for improvement from both organized labor and the employers of the province.- Even then there is no certainty thnt the amended act will be accepted nnd passed by the government. Tho time for congratulation ie not yet. Best to wait and see. Tho old act is too crude and impracticable to bother about. Labor Convention Monday. The thirteenth annual convention of the Labor Association of Ontario will convene on Monday, at St. Catherines, Ont. Last year the energy of the move- meat was centered on the Workmen's Compensation Act. WITH THE CULINARY WORKERS. Chinese Capturing Many of Cheaper Restaurants. A sparse attendance of members were present when the regular weekly meet-' ing of Local No. 28, Cooks, Waiters and Waitresses' union, was called to order at 8:30 Friday night in Room 200, Labor Temple, Pres. C. Davis in the chnir. Five candidates were present for initiation and were duly obligated. Outside of routine matters the only business transacted of any importance was tbe nomination of candidates for the forthcoming parliamentary election, the slate to be submitted by Local No. 28 being made up as follows: For Vancouver City: J. H. McVety, J. W. Wilkinson, F. A. Hoover, Trotter, Lyon and Benson. For South Vancouvor: Harry Neelands. For Richmond: Wilton, Despite the wretched business conditions prevailing just now the local Chinese are gradually getting a strangle hold on the cheap restaurant trade of tho city, the following places havin^ boen taken over by Chinamen within the past two or threo woks: Tho Paris Cafe, and tho Cordova Hotel Cafe. At the present rate of progress Vancouvor is within mcasurnblo distance of tho time when tho entire restniirnnt, nnd n good deal of the hotel diningroom trnde will be in Oriental hands exclusively— a condition of affairs which could not exist for one moment but for the pu- tronnge and encouragement of the white mon and women who make tho operation of these Asiatic awont-Bhops profitable. Tho signing up of that popular hostelry the Irving hotel, is a guarantee that Vancouvor will hnve at least one thoroughly modern, up-to-date and progressive hotel. Convention nnd entertainment committees please note, Barbers' Smoker. The Barbers' union pulled off a swell smoker in the Labor Tomplo on Wednesday Evening. An orchestra, boxing bouts, songs nnd refreshments, with a jolly crowd of tonsorial artists and their friends, made everybody happy and tho better for having been present. Fred Oocroft Missing. Fred Cocroft, woll known in tho locnl building trade, and lately residing nt Colllngwood East, is listed ns "missing" as the result of recent lighting in which the Canadians took part in Europe. CONGRESS WEEK PROGRAMME. Provisional Arrangements Made for a Busy Week. A grand get-together on Monday evening, an excursion up to Indian river and lunch nt the Wigwam on Wednesday afternoon and evening, and an auto party round Stanley Park and Murine Drive on Friday afternoon, waB the entertainment programme formally discussed at last Wednesday evening's nieeting of the central labor body Trodes and Labor Congress of Canada convention committee, for Congress week in Sepotmber. However, nothing definite will bo fixed upon until tho entertainment sub-committee makes a further report. Dels. Sully, McVety nnd Brooks constitute the finance committee and will devise ways and means of raising further funds, between now and next meeting. Secretary Brooks wns instructed to advise Secretary- Treasurer P. M. Draper, that the Hotel Irving had been designated as oflicinl headquarters, it being the only all-union house of the kind in Vancouver. Tho badge committee reported that thoy would have u design ready to submit ut next meeting. Del. Wand of the Bricklayers' union was selected m chairman of tho accommodation sub committee. Del. Davis, of tho Bartenders' union, took the plnce of Del, Curnock on tho gcnerul committee. It was decided ot meet again on Wednesday evening, June 2, at 7 o'clock, in room 217, Labor Templo. Half Time for Civic Employees. Business Agent Sully of the Civic Employees' union, onco more appeared before tho board of works during tho week nnd asked that the old-time employees of the city be placed on full time, inasmuch as present conditions seemed to have nssumed a permanent nature Tho request was refused on the grounds that somo effort must bo made to provido at least a meal ticket for as many of tbe unemployed ns possible. Longshoremen's Smoker. The local branch of the International Longshoremen's association held a rousing smoker in Labor Templo on Tuesday evening, which wns largely attended. Modnls, won by the Longshoremen's football team, wero distributed during tho evening to the winners by Pres. Leith of the local Footbnll association. The regular bimonthly jneeting of Vancouver Trades and Labor council opened at S o'clock last night with a fair attendance of delegates. Parliamentary Committee Report The Parliamentary committee recom- mended that a systematic campaign ba started by organised labor to secure the success of money by-laws, which are to be submitted to the electors; in order that more employment may be provided for some of the workless men in the city. The recommendation wu adopted. It was also recommended Mat a committee of three be eleoted to interview Acting-Premier Bowser with regard to the prevailing and increasing unemployment, urging that publie works be started immediately to relieve the situation; also to request the Act- ing Premier tb remove from office Chief Inspector of Mines Thomas Graham for his conduct in attempting to deceive the jury at the recent inquest on the miners who were drowned in the disaster at South Wellington last February. This was adopted, after several delegates had voiced their opinion of the action of Chief Inspector Graham in very definite and emphatic language. The Elected Delegation. To make up the above delegation the following were nominated, Sully. Gutteridge, MeVety, Estinghausen and Welsh. The subsequent ballot came out Sully 19, Gutteridge 27, Esting- hauser 8, McVety 22, Welsh 9. Delegates Gutteridge, MoVety and Sully were elecetd. Tradei Congreu Committee. The oommltte reported progress, and stated that plans were going ahead for the reception and entertainment of the _. forthcoming convention of the Tradea and Labor Congress of Canada. President's Report President MeVety reported that he had investigated the rumor that money was being collected in New Westminister by unauthorised persona to aasiat [Vancouver Trades and Labor couneil in ka provincial- -riectkm campaign. H« 'had not been able to discover that there was any truth in the rumor. He had also taken up with the immigration department and Mr. H. H. Stevens, M. P., the matter of M. J. Flyrik, an officer of the United Mine Workers of America, being refused admission to Ca- . nada on a visit for official business. The result had been that the authorities had agreed to admit Mr, Flyzik, on the understanding that the council would be answerable for' his action while in Canada. Reports of Unions. Cigarmakers said conditions were bad. Only a few had jobs and they were working half time. They would like local unionists to buy union made cigars; Sheet Metal Workers and Electrical Workers had had some trouble on the work being done here for the Wool- worth firm. They had taken the matter up with the eastern office of the Wool- worth firm and had secured a satisfactory settlement locally. Plumbers were still fighting the attempt to drop their wages from 65 per day. Musicians said the Canadian Pacific Bailway company had brought an orchestra from England for the Vancouver hotel, although many musicians are out of work bere. Some picture shows were employing nonunion musicians and a list would be supplied. Cooks reported very poor conditions, New Busineu. Under this head Delegate Sully moved that the action of the city council in refusing to submit the question of building a new city hall to the electors be condemned. The same committeo which was appointed to interview the provincial government was instructed to take this question up with the city council. This committee was also instructed to interview Mr. H. H. Stevens, M. P., and suggest that unemployed foreigners be returned to their homo countries by tho federal government. It wns stated thnt nonunion mon were being employed on building work being dono for tho World nnd the News-Advortiser. A motion wns mado to ask tho press to givo publicity to this matter. An amendment wns mado to tako tho matter up with the newspapers in question. Tho motion prevailed. Dolegnte Wand stated tnht in his opinion nit work being done or about to be done for the federal government should bo dono by British subjects. It wns stated thnt men had been brought into tho city by tho firm which is to build tho new grain elevator. Tho whole question was referred to the committee entrusted with other matters mentioned above. That committee hns alrendy wired Acting Premier Bowser asking for an interview on tho various matters which it has to tako up with him. Bricklayers Lost in Lusitania. The locnl union of Bricklayers in Toronto hns been called upon to mourn tho loss of two members in tho Lusi- tnnin tragedy in the persons of Harry Long and William Gough, Both had been members of the B. and M. U. for a term of moro thnn ten years. Secretary Joe Bamber says that times in tho craft were never so bad as at tho pro- sent timo. Organiser Kinney Goes East. Aid. Kinney, of Edmonton, Alberta, gonerul orgnnizer for the U. 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Box 1588 Affiliated with tbe Western Ubor Prut Association. "Unity of Labor; the hope of the world." FRIDAY MAY 21, 1915 INQUIRY WOULD BE A FAROE A GOVERNMENT INQUIRY into tho mining diatiater at South Wellington, na recommended by the jury at tbe inquest this week, would be nothing short of an impudent farce in face of the re- velutions brought forth. The evidence points out one course, and . one course only, for the government to pursue if it has any intention of even trying to give the miners of this province1 anything like an honest deal. That course is plainly stated on our front page this week, and according as the government adopts or rejects our suggestion so may the working class of British Columbia judge of the government's sincerity. e • • • < An investigation, such as was recommended is nothing more than a clumsy and transparent excuse for putting the whole thing off until the memory of it has passed from the public mind. Then some formal and meaningless report could be brought in. That report would most likely be one either actually prepared by, or at least pereviously submitted to the chief inspector of mines. It would be an insult to the dead, and a mockery to those they have left behind. It is up to Attorney-general Bowser to act, and in drastic fashion too. He is master in the premises just now and has ample reason to use the knife. Let him use it, even though the man upon whom he will have to operate is supposed to be either, some kind of a relative or at least a very particular pet of Sir Richard Mc. Bride's. BIB. MATTHEW THE ARGUMENT AGAINST compulsory state insurance of workmen, against accidents sustained by them during the course of their employment, which was put forward at a recent meeting of Vancouver Trades - and Lal)or council -WORKMEN'S by Mr. A. s.MBt. COMPENSATION thew, manager of the Guardian Casualty company, does not strike us as a very powerful indictment at all. That may not be Mr. Matthew's fault. As the representative of the insurance interests he has a very valuable economic interest at stake, which will be practically confiscated by tine state if a Workmen's Compensation act based on the principle of the bill which now HeB on the table of the provincial legislature, becomes law. For that reason it waB hardly to be expected that he would prove able to consider suoh a measure from' a' strictly impartial and unbiassed viewpoint. But we did expect that his argument would jirove a more effective one from the standpoint of the insurance inetrests. Instead of that it seemed to us singularly weak and lacking in 'f-punch."' Ahd we venture* the opinion that, if organized labor has no stronger contentions io meet than those mnde by Mr. Matthew, it will have no great cause for alarm. • * t ■ # Most of his arguments seem to suffer from old age, particularly the first one, wherein he says: - It may be that in the forward march of civilization the state can with advantage play a more important part in our national life. He, however, does not consider that the time is ripe yet for such a move, because politics are too rotten and corrupt. Even so, his contention is hopelessly belated in view of the happenings in Great Britain since last August, where the state hns taken charge of most of those industrial activities which were formerly considered most effective in private hands, but which proved entirely inadequate when the test camo. Banking was saved from bankruptcy, railways were turned into a publie service, shipbuilding and armament manufacture were placed under state control and direction. The Defence of the Realm act practically abrogated all private rights should the state see lit to apply it fully. Shipping was insured by the government up to 80 per STABILITY the Essential Requirement of the Experienced Investor Conservative investors seeking safety nnd a good return will Und the B.C. Municipal Bonds we handle to be a safe and profitable investment. As Fiscal Agents we offer to-day, City of Salmon Arm debentures at a price to yield 7% per cent, net, interest payable half yearly. Circular on request. Canadian Financiers Trust Company HEAD OFFICE 839 HASTINGS ST. W. VANCOUVER. B.C. Patrick Donnelly-General Manager cent. All those setps wero taken as a sweeping measure for the stute insurance of capital. Surely if it is practicable for the state to insure the lives of ships nnd such things, it iB not illogical or undesirable to insure the lives and limbs of workmen against the casualties of the daily' industrial warfare which never censes. # # * » Ab to the danger of political corruption, we do not believe that it could interfere with workmen receiving the compensation due to them, once that was definitely laid down and specifically stated. The evil of having to fight insurance companies and lawyers is infinitely greater. Both, at present, make workmen's compensation a gamble. The companies make a business of taking a chance of defeating a workingman claimant in the courts. The lawyers will only consent as a rule to contest a case when they feel sure that n judgment will be given whieh will cover their foes. To judge' from Mr. Matthew's argument, one might gather that the insurance people wero fighting the proposed principle chiefly out of nn altruistic desire to prevent workingmen from being deprived of something of value. He Bays: The common law was created for the equal protection of all citizens. Under the proposed bill the worker's right of a common law remedy is taken away, but the employer's common law remedy re*, mains intact. The employer can claim against the workman for any amount if the workman negligently injures him, but if the employer negligently inures hia employee,'the latter must take the small amount of compensation Axed in the state compensation act and cannot take action at common law and have his claim assessed by a jury. The law which has been created for the equal protection of all citizens is rendered inoperative when that citizen is a worker. I think that is a very pernicious provision. That argument may appeal to those who believe—or profess for ulterior reasons to believe—that there is any practical value in the theory that all men are equal before the law. But it does not square with the experience of working men fighting the insurance companies in the courts. • * « * Why not strip the whole business of all such make-believe and specious appeal, and say frankly what is known to be the real reason for the opposition bf the insurance inetrests. They know just as well as we do that the principle of state insurance of working men against accident and death will be a fatal blow to a very considerable and lucrative portion of their business. So do the lawyers. But neither say so. For that reason it is all the more necessary that organized labor should keep that aspect of the question well to the front. There is not one argument cited by Mr. Matthew, or by anyone else up to the present, which was not brought forward by the highly- skilled advocates of the Manufacturers! association' when the new workmen's compensation acts of Ontario and Nova Scotia were still in committee stage. Tet those acts were passed and are fast proving the wisdom of the steps which brought them into being. Down at bottom it resolves itself into a question of eliminating wastage. That wastage consists pf premiums paid to insurance companies and fees to lawyers, both of whom are deprived of handsome pickings by the introduction of the principle of'state insurance of workmen against disease, accidents and death in- currei in industry, HON.- W. J. BO\VSEB announced last week that the 154 Germans and Austrians who have been brought down from Fort George district are to" be interned at Vernon. They will be set to work CHEAPER THAN on the £overnraent _______ ___ roiid, which runs HIRING THE {nm Edg0WOod to UNEMPLOYED Vernon. They will be allowed, besides board and lodging, a remuneration of 25c per day, the scale set by the Hague convention. Some 300 enemy aliens are already working there. Bill must have rubbed his hands with great glee when he got the, notion. So cheap. So patriotic. And it will save having to pay out good government money at the rate ol! JS per eight hour day to those loafers, the unemployed. Next to convict tabor it would be. hard to beat it in its own particular Hue. * the illegal and fraudulent transfers. The point is that both of the old political parties are represented among thoBe who have benefitted by the frauds. THE B.C. WE8TEEN Catholic had another pop at ub last week, and is very anxious to know who '' the high church dignity'' is who told us the B.C, Western Catholic does not express the officii 0 WESTERN iul ViUW" °f thfl B. O. WESTERN flhupch ^ excflpt CATHOLIC at BUch tim0B a8 CALLS AGAIN, articles signed by the clergy appear in its columns.We do not intend to-give his name. That would spoil everything. But we will say this: that if the B. C. Western Catholic proposed to enter'into a controversy with us, dealing with the relations between the church ahd the working. clnss, .both in times gone by and also at the present day,1 that same dignitary would put his foot down very quickly on the B.C. Western Catholic. He has sufficient authority—particularly at the present-time—to do it. There, now it Bhould be easy Tor our contemporary to figure it out. When the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness and doeth that which is lawful and right he shall save his soul alive—but he will certainly have to get out of office and quit politics. , That "too old at forty" cry has sustained yet another blow. The British military authorities have announced this week that men up to forty years of age are eligible for enlistment for service in the field nrmies. THE WAIL OF THE WHITE WASHERMAN WHITE LAUNDRY OWNERS are making a plaintive appeal to the public just now, asking for custom which formerly went to the Chinese. People who jump to conclusions might think the object of the appeal is to benefit the laundry owners. But it appears that auch is not the case. The real intention is to find employment for the hundreds of white girls who are out of work. It Ib a piece of pure undiluted philanthropy on the part of the laundry proprietors. « » t . « But it was not ever thus. We recollect about eighteen months ago Vancouver Trades nnd Labor council made a strong attempt to organize the laundry workers. Some of the girls were getting as low as $4 per week then, and very few indeed of them got enough to live on as a woman should be able to do. At the flrst organization meeting seventy men, women and children—yes, '' children,'' for some of them were no more—attended, and things looked very promising for the formation of a good strong union. # * » ' « However, the laundry owners got wind of the proposal, and ln some of the bigger laundries particularly, the girls were either brought into the office or told through the foreman and forewomen that they could make up their minds which they preferred to do, give up the union idea or quit their jobs. The result was that at the second organization meeting instead of seventy being present there were about seven. Poor as their wages were, the only thing between them and starvation was their jobs. Puff paragraphs in the daily newspapers may impress the public, but they do not go with ub, because we know from practical facts and experience just how much real regard the laundry owners have for the material welfare of their female employees. Their object is business, and if they could carry on business without hiring nity help at all they would be glad to do it. MANITOBA'S POLITICAL SITUATION THAT MANITOBA situation strikes tts as being worth a pretty big pinch of salt. "Bob" Rogers is the power behind the Conservative machine there just as much as ever, and it does not strike us that he quit dead cold. It is evident there are two big things which will occupy the political arena there for some time to come yet. One is the graft scandals in connection with the contract for the parliamentary buildings and the other is an unemployed situation which is absolutely beyond the power of the-provincial government to handle. • * * , • The Conservatives have got out of office to dodge both. When the time comes for laying the blame for the first there will be none of those in office who are responsible and it will bo like striking at the Wind. The Liberals cannot do any more for the unemployed than the Conservatives and will soon get themselveB in bad for that reason. Then when both the scandals and the unemployment have passed away "Bob's" Bteamroller will again fired up for another trip. McBride haB gone to the headquarters of the Canadian' army in Europe. If it could only be arranged for him to make two or three of his political speeches to tbe Germans the allies might get a whole bunch of prisoners who would sooner bo interned than have to listen to our champion B. C. artist. Says the Victorian: Mayor Planta, the Conservative nominee of Nanaimo, and at pre: sent mayor of the city, Is looking for a new cemetery site. What does this meun? The McBride-BowBer methods of regulating mines causes a wonderful prosperity in the undertaking business. Twelve funerals in the last two weeks and seven more in sight. The News Advertiser of lust Wednesday, said that Sir Richard McBride is going to Paris .... where he would consult with officials of the French government on the question of British Columbia tinned salmon being placed on the list of army rations of that country. What is the fellow, nnyhow! A drummer for the cannery proprietors who employ only Oriental labor. Even a demagogue has to be careful what he Bays, or he may tell the truth at any-moment. If it be true that worse conditions make better rebels, then pretty nearly two-thirds of the working class of North America should be in revolt at this time. .Elbert Hubbard knew enough about William Morris to, be able to imitate him but not to be in the least like him. Morris waB a craftsman artist. Hubbard was a crafty' artisan. If McBride coul4 only be given a chance to make a speech to the Germans when he gets to France the British would not need to prepare any chemical gas to cope with the enemy. The Liberal party in Manitoba appealed to the electorate last June on a platform which included Woman's Suffrage. Now that the party is in office it will be interesting to watch what it does. Tho result will be very important to women all ov.er Canada. Three hundred of "our allies"—Russians—-who were found starving in Vancouver last week by the police would vory likely be glad to swap places with alien enemies" who are certain of three peals, a bed, and 25 cents wag<->s every day. The rotten Conservative government has resigned from offlce in Manitoba, nnd the Libernls have been entrusted with the job of running affairs. We have. not seen a copy of their platform yet, but it will almost certainly contain a pledge to promote purity in politics and to give the people a square deal. Having carried out those usual formalities then the new party will be free to go-ahr-ad and try to excel the malefactions of its predecessors. Speaking editorially of the recent rcvulations concerning land frauds in British Cplumbia, the Christian Science Monitor, Boston, says: • Through some of the lowest forms of corruption the people of British Columbia have, temporarily nt lecst, been deprived of their inheritance. There is nt present a popular demand for restitution, and one that is not likely to be quieted or silenced until it is fully made. It will be difficult, of course, to prevent tho matter from getting into politics, but there is no liftfe consolation fer British Columbians in the fact that neither of the political parties enn afford to protect The concluding part of the verdict at the South Wellington mine disaster inquest says: "We are unable to place the blame at present on any party or parties but would strongly recommend that the Provincial government take immediate steps to have a re-survey taken and hold a rigid examination and if possible ascertain who is responsible for the lamentable catastropne and place the blame to the right parties." How any gathering of intelligent men could come to such a conclusion in face of the evidence passes our understanding. Westminster Trust Co. NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C, 3. A. EENNIE. Sec-Treta. HEAD OFFICE 3. 3. JONES. Man. Director. ACTS AS ASSIGNEES, LIQTnDATOBS AND EEOEIVEES . INSURANCE IN ALL IIS BRANCHES HOUSES, BUNGALOWS, STORES AND MODERN SUITES FOR RENT at a Big Reduction Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent at $2.50 np Wills Drawn Free of Charge Deposits Accepted ud interest at Four Per Cent. Allowed on Bail]. Balances. BUIINMS AQINT DIRECTORY Ask for Labor Temple -Phon. Exchange, Seymour .7.98 (nnl.ii otherwise attted). Bartender.—Geo. W. Curnook, Room 80S. Bricklayer.—Wm. B. Dagnall, Room 315.. Cooke, Walters, Weltreaaea—Room 203; Andy Graham; phono Bey. 8414. Kluctrlcnl Workers (outside)—E. H. Morrison, Room 207. Eleotrleal Workera (Inilde)—P. L. Eating, hausen, Room 207. Engineer, (ateam)—Room 316; E. Frender* fast. Laborers—John Sully, Room 220. Longahoremen'o Aaaoelatlon — Offlee, 145 Alexander Btreet; F. Payne; phon. Bay. SIM. Mnalelana—H, J. Brasfleld, Rooms 804*306, Labor' Temple. Btreet Railway Employees—Fred. A, Hoover; phone Sey. 608. Typographical—R. H. Neelanda, Rooms 212- 18*14. TRAD! UNION DIRICTORY Allied Printing Tradea Connell—R. B. Nee. lands, Box 06. Barben—8. E. Grant, 688 Georgia strut. Bartenders*—Oeo. w. Curnocn, Room 101, Labor Temple. Blacksmiths — Malcolm Porter, View Hill P. O. Bookbinders—W. H. Cowderoy, 1885 Thirty- fourth avenue out. RoileitnaKi-ra—A. Fraeer. 1161 Howe St. Brewery Worken—Frank Graham, Labor Tomple. Brloklayers—William B. Dagnall, Room 816, Labor Temple. Brotherhood of Carpenters District Counoll—F. L. Barratt, Boon 303, Labor Templo. Clgarmaken—Oare Kurti Cigar Faotory, 72 water Stnet. Cooks, Walten, Waltrmea—Andy Graham, Room 200, Labor Temnle. Electrical Worken (ontalde)—E. H. Morrison, Room 807, Labor Temple. Electrical Worken (Inaide)—Room 807: F. L. Estinghausen. Engineers—E. Prendergut, Room 313, Labor Temple. Oranlte cutters—Edward Hurry, Columbia Hotel. Garment Workera—Labor Temple. Horseohoere—Labor Temple.' Letteroarrlera—Robt. Wight, District 38. Room 220, La- New Verb—To Sundayise. Observing the success of the Billy Sunday methods in *hc matter of conversion, it is suggested that the attempt be made to apply the same methods to othor church, ceremonies nnd nctivities, proposing the following formulas; * PaBtor (christening infant)—"What do you want to call this hunk of excess bacrgnge, Bo?" Presiding Parson—"What miserable mutt giveth this skirt to be married to this gink!" .The Bride' Father—"I'm the guy." Industrious Usher—" Slide, you ice- carts! Slide!" Passing the Plate—"Come across with the iron-men, you low-lived tight wads!" Sunday School Superlnetndent—"All of you little flivvers that want to swat Satan, stand on one leg." Omar Khayyam To Date. "A Book of Versos underneath the Bough, '•B.C. Special,"a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the WildernesB* Ob, Wilderness were Paradise enow!" Peggy—You should have seen daddy when I told him that I weighed 130 stripped for gym. May—Why, what did he sayf Peggy—Sayf Why.he looked dazed, and theu yelled, "Who in biases is JimT" Be sure and patronize thoso who patronize Tho Fed. by advertising in it. " Ask you favorite mixologist for "B. C. Special.'' Oovernment inspected and absolutely pure. *" Whenever you can consistently do so, when you require anything you see advertised in The Foderationist, be sure and explain that you saw his ad. in The Federatlonist, and that it was because of that that he is patronized. Don't forget this. *" What is so rare as a day in June! And what Ib so rare as a cup of de-. lieious coffee, served with real cream f That's what you can get at the Good Eats Cafe, 110 Cordova street. PHONE: SETMOUB 1086 The Man who doesn't put by ft bit from bis wages for hlmielf eaoh pay day has bat himself to blame If hli old age Is spent In poverty. WE PAT 4 PER CENT OK DEPOSITS CREDITED MONTHLY Reference—Dunn's, Bradstreeti, or •ny Financial House of repute tn Vanoouver, DOW FRASER Trust Company 122 Hastings St. West. Vancouvtr, and McKay Station, Burnaby, B. O. Laborers—George Harrison, bor Temple. Lathers—Victor R. Mldgley, Labor Temple. Locomotive Firemen and Engineers—O. Howard, 007 Davie street. Loco. Engineers—A. E. Solloway, 1031 Pacific. Tol. Sev. SMIL. •• ' Longshoremen—P. Payne, 10 Powell itreet. Machinist*—J. H. McVety, Anom ill. Labor Tomple. Musicians—H. J. Brasfleld, Booms 104*905, Labor Temple. Marbleworkers—Frank HaU, Janes Road, B. O. Molders. Moving Picture Operators—L, B. Goodman, Labor Temple. Painters—J. Train, Room 808,' Labor Temple. Plumbers—Room 808 1-3, Labor Temple. Pressmen—P. D. Edward, Labor Tempi*. Plasterers—John James Cornish, 1809 Eleventh Ave. East. Pattern Makers—J. Campbell, 4869 Argyle Street. I Quarry Workers—Jamea Hepburn, ears Columbia Hotel. Railroad Trainmen—A. E. MeCorvllle, Box 248. Railway Carmen—A. Robb, 420 Nelson Btreft i Seamen's Union. Structural Iron Workers—Room 808, Labor Temple, Stonecuttew—Jamea Raybura, P. O. Box 1047. Sheet Metal Workers, Street Railway Employees—James E. Grfffln, IM Twenty-fifth evenne eaat.' Stereotypers—W. Bayley, care Province, City. ,»,i| Telegraphers—E. B. Peppln, Box 482. Tradea and Labor CouncU—Geo. Bartley, Room 210 Labor Temple. Typographical—H. Neelands, Box 68. Tailors—C. MoDonald, Box ROS. Theatrical Stage Employees—Oeo. W. Allln, Box Til. Tllelayers and Helpers—Evan Thomas, Labor Temple. VANOOUVER UNIONS TRADES AND LABOB COUNCIL - leeis nrat and third Thursdays, axe- outlye "ward: Jas. H. MoVety, president, F. L, Mtlughauaen, vioepr.e dint* Ueo Bartley, tumoral secretary, 810 Labor mSP'V _"•" H- Omierliie, ueeiSu;. J^L^'i^l",! ""laUohuii sergeeS**' 8n"5"'J*o? Safe A. J. Crawford, Fred. Knowles, W. R. Trotter, trustees, *oP PRINTINO TRADBS COBS: „„..?»,!" "coond Monday In tbe _______$____*' ,Mr"*"• BARTENDERS'LOCAL No. «»._OJ*: «_."Se' 9mm tot Labor Temple. Meeta P P8l1?v„„J l,oh PP"-"- »"lden" «v -j; ^avlcue; flnanclal seoretary. Geo W. Curnock, Room >08, Lator -Smniii"0- R*-ga?i'inI?0ii 6?' a»**olal s.w.y,ry; F. BROTHERHOOD OF BOILER MAKERS snd Iron Ship BuilderTlnd H?lb5i ol America, Vancouver Lodge So. 1*2 MeeU Un. and third MonJay.fi i _T L™'£„ -.A. "SE^ «s.»« «;»•'•.* seoretary, A. Fraier, 1151 Bows nue west; street. month, l. 8:»0 p. m„ Labor Tamp].. A Or." SSf- ,b,1!lllMJ! raP.raa.ntaUv«. 6a« * __ ?„»• „L*b« T«npl.. Hour.: «*80 ,. 5°C£ i m'JLH &&."■»{,WPl«M!t help funUhed on aftort notice. Phona ee-rmom. 8414^ DISTRICT COONCiiTor"6ABPEiSri5g ond and fourth Thuraday ol ui • ,»*a AND OOMMON ..... .LS.°*,1!»ri Onion, No. flt—Meats fltatW*. ftSfld51t'Uiff ?,' t**. ?'»*£& f«Sl.' rreiident, 18. O. Apnliby, UD p.ndrlll A< • '•"••*7,, 0»'O Harriion/*U__^L™y . John gaily, room sao. Labor T«mS. »!lv laborw, Inyltad to m..tl£?, "'"•■ *" ' ''^ffiPffA SS* »****-*-}***MM SEOOg- Soyttonr T«»i, ' "■* •""'"• 'Mas PLASTERERS' TIONAL .«2£5rat:ve interna » . —. AM0■, »»^«" ► ""o^iffi, EL«)TRIO RAILWifuiJ PLOTEEB, Plonw BMaton; »"l«I- Meale Labor Temple, seeond and four h Wed Subbff 1? *^ -""■ ' " "* frmU.il. Jo. sssr«cst a™ nmt- •*-■*• - »•"»• ■T*^ML-S*SB'n_?**9' ""brnation: a «S, "££»?%;•"?*? •■£•**■ Wedneaday 8 p. m., room Ml, Labor Temple. FlnaS- dal aaoratary, B. Prendergaat, room i" TAILORS' INDUSTRIAL UNION (INT k.u'fW"1; ""*' "o. n»-Meetlnm rSLIiSK'. ^Stir^l "Ji-W"1 month, 8 p. " President, Miss H. Gutter dgei recording aeeretary, 0. McDonald, Bo. totTeSEF. clal sec., K. Paterson. p. TYPOGRAPHICAL LT mHtu___tf',**^*^tmel PROVINCIAL UNIONS B. O. FEDERATION OP LABOR-Meet. In annual convention in January. Kiee, atlv. oalaars, MM-Ml Pwaldant, X W«eh* mam viea-proildanta—Vancouver, W. P. Dunn, J. H ■MoVety; Victoria, B. Slmmona New Westminster. W. Yateej frrlnoe Bun.™ E- .Ei.De5°1.ViJ,,™l"ok?i 3. Lyon? Dta n*-*!—3' -*S,W;. " A* (Vancouver Wend), 8. Guthrie; Dlatrlct 18, U. M. W of A (Crow's Neat Valley), A. J. Carter; 2..™' N»W WM-fMINtTlR. j C~ MW WBOT1PNBTEB TRADES ADD LA- . .JOB Connell—Meeta even aacond aad fonrlh Wedneaday at I p. m. fa Ubor hSr ■&"'*»Ji °* Cropley,- Unanclal secretin inayj general - — •' f-l A. Stoney; ga: "-- ~ 0. Box est. Tiled, jo attend. i-.-jry, aeeretary, W. I. Tha publie Is In* VICTORIA, 0. 0. VICTORIA. TRADEB AND LABOR OOiBP , •. 0IW,f!,..,toJ,, ai M",d Wadaaeday, Labor hall, 1484 Oovernment street, at 8 6 m. Preaident, A. 8. Well.: aeeretary, F. oldrldta, Boa 808, Vletoria, B. O. _____ LABOR COMPA1I118. LABOR TEMPLE COMPANY, LIMITED— Dlrecton: Jaa. Brown, preaident; R. P. Pettlplece, vlce-prealdent; Edward Lothian, Jamea Campbell, 3. W. Wllklnaon. Oeo. Wll* br, W. J. flagle, F. Blumberi, H. H. Free. Managing dlreotor and aeereUry-treamrer, J. H. MeVety, room an, Labor Temple. B. 0. FEDERATIONIST, LIMITED—Meeta at call of president, Labor Temple, Vancouver, B. 0. Dlreotora: Jamea Campbell, preaident; 3. H. MoVety, eeoretarr-treaaurer; A. Watchman, A. 8. Welle. R. Parm. Petti- pleee. manager, 917 Labor Temple. Tela*, phone; Seymour -7481 ■ Union *^* *■- MADE *&> Of America 4^ OPtlHHT 8TM0I HAOfUltTfiia^fot Vole agalnit prohibition I Demand on- aonal liberty In choosing what yoh will drink. Aak for thla 'Label when purchasing- Bear, Ale or Porter, aa a guarantee that It la Un* ■PSSSSgBBgBaSBBBB Pheae Say. 221 i Is Onr Label Day er Night FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS SlOMchardeSt. Vsaeaaver, B. C. mammm 'KIDAY MAT 21, 1915 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST. PAGEPIVB |ecki£)hoes "(ftailt ior We«r,£Me M»dc in ^Sa**! vBritisK Columbia THE firm of J. LECKIB ft CO., LTD., are manufacturers of men'B and boys' QUALITY shoes exclusively. Whether it is the miner's or soldier's heavy boot or Btreet walking shoe, if it's a LECKIE it is the best that can be made. 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JITNEY PRESS Press Correspondent Of The Union States Objections Of The Membership Competition Of The Jitneys Backed By Libellous Statements Editor B. C. Federatlonist: From time to time printed matter haa ap* peared in this city and distributed un* der the guise of newspapers, ranging all the way from four to sixteen page -editions, each with a set policy or platform, expounding this, that or the other principle, but for some reason or other nnd in spite of their fanfaronades their lives have been short lived, surviving only the introductory stage. None of them asBiBted labor's cause. We anticipated that, therefore we were not disappointed. The editors, it must be said, irrespective of the parties to which they belonged, showed some intelligence and education in expressing themselves and their views. Unfortunately for the community, however, '' weakly yellow rags'' have also been bori. One in particular has recently taken unto itself the right to dignify and associate its name with the newspaper world. The Jitney Press. This latest cub is a four page effort thrust gratis on the public.' It is labelled three cents, but nobody with any acumen would buy it, the alleged mouthpiece of a percentage of the jitney and auto interests operating in competition with the local street railway company. It assails in a villifying manner everything Btreet railway. We do not care one iota how much venom is thrust at our employers, knowing thoy are well able to take care of themselves, but when the astute editor (be lenient) indulges unjustifiably in biassed attacks on the railway men we take up the' cudgels in our own defence. VliUfied the Dead. Only a week or two ago this critic threw aspersions on the dead, One of our respected members of long standing, a city conductor, wae suddenly taken-ill on his car. He obtained a relief man and rode ten blocks as a passenger to a doctor's offlce where he expired, not on the ear. Tet thia noble, impartial mind, subsequently tried to make it look as though the unfortunate man was a motorman, and one of many who are not physically fit to be in charge of passengers in this city. He twisted and so construed the facts as to endeavor to persuade' and convince the travelling public that their lives and limbs were in daily danger from the physical inefficiency bf the city streot car crews. ... « No Abuse Too Mean or Childish. This antagonism and tirade of insult iB pursued and reference is made to the danger to passengers (of isolated cases we know of) of motormen smoking. If there is danger in smoking whilst driving a moving vehicle then 99 per cent, of automobile drivers and owners are a serious menace to the public and a bylaw should be passed prohibiting it. Many more insidious attacks are made, each calculated to belittle and'portray the street railway men as a deteriorated thing, mentally and physically. The talk about colored and other eyo* glasses in use by motormen is a feeble stab as anyone possessing the least degree of sanity knows that colored glasses rest and protect the eyes from sun glare and dust. If this is not true, how ia it bo many chauffeurs prefer to make themselves look hideous, or funny, which you like, by wearing goggles? Again the blinding glare of the selfish auto drivers' headlights at night; renders it impossible; to see beyond the focus or rays of the same when passing in opposite directions. In this connection, the authorities will, sooner or later, have to take action-! Street railway men are human and show wisdom in protecting their sight irrespective of what the "jitney" yellow press might think or say to the contrary in its frantic and despairing cry for something to justify its temporary existence. Apparently nothing is too small, therefore it atacka the carman, his appearances, his physique and build, his mentality, nay worpe, the dead are not allowed1 to reBt in peace. And for what reason! What gain! A feeble thrust at its self chosen rival in business. Ohaffeurs Notoriously Shady. When it chooses to make the Btreet railway men of thiB and connected locals the "goat" on which to inflict Ub spite at will, then it has bitten off a mighty big chunk with which it will probably choko, and we emphatically declare that each and every individual bo employed will regard it as a porBonal matter requiring pdrBonnl attention and action in squaring accounts in thoir own way. If we chose to imitate its course Phone: Fairmont 810 Patterson & Chandler Manufacturer! of MONUMENTS Vaults, Curbing, Etc. Offloe ami Works: Cor. 16th Ave. and Main St. Branoh omoe: 40th ft Fraser Aves. VANCOUVER, B.C. of throwing discredit we could write volumes with a degree of corroborative proof by pointing to the police records of any large city, establishing beyond doubt or question the close connecting link aome unscrupulous drivers of autos have had and" still probably have with crime, and the detestable agencies they have lent, and are probably lending themselves and their machines to, a state of affairs totally impossible aboard a street ear. Not All to Blame. We realize there are many "jitney" owners and drivers in this city to-day whose charac/er and general conduct whilst in or out of business 4b beyond reproach, who, no doubt, resent as much as the carmen any personal attacks in order to outrival each other. We must add that the "jitney intellectual '' to literally torpedo the wage working man, who is only a component part of the system, gives one an impression of its weakness and iB an outward and visible sign of its incapacity and inability to cover its pages with its own affairs, an infallible sign and prelude to the fact that it, has entered its death throes whilst still in its illegitimate infancy.. 9 Per T. O. Press Correspondent. May 17, 1915. AFTEB THE WAB. On "What the Ballot Will, Do for Women." What women do with the ballot is far lesB important than what the ballot does with women. The ballot means freedom. And freedom means responsibility. And' freedom and' responsibility mean ' self-respect. And little ever came to i an individual, a class, a race or a sex without these qualities. Women are one-half society. If they have a serf mind society will have a serf mind. The ballot waa the beginning df political, social and industrial Belf-respect for men. It was the flrst articulate organized break with serfdom. The disfranchised sex in the twentieth century haB politically a seventeenth century eerf mind. It cannot be otherwise. Some women know this and feel it strongly. All women, whether they Tcnow it or not, even though they protest against the idea, are affected by it. Political freedom through the ballot is the way out of serfdom. The enfranchisement of women will double the freedom of the world and in so doing double the self-respect of the world. Some people oppose freedom in any form. They fear \t instinctively. The psychology back of the anti-Buffrage movement is fear, fear of freedom, fear of liberty, fear of , democracy.—Harper's Weekly. Your home decanter should be filled with "B.C. Special-" One trial will convince. For sale at all leading retail liquor storea. IN PABIS WbRKBOOMS.""""' Women Miking Army Olothing Sweated by Contractors. Conditions' which | prevail in workrooms opened to enable the wives of soldierB to earn a living, the Petit Par- isien says,' are deplorable. There are how 600 of these estblishments in Paris, half of them Bubventioned. Many of those which are operated under private auspices, are declared to be no better than BWeat shops, even in the best man* aged' of those In the subventioned class. women are able to earn an average of only 36 cents a day for 8 and one half hours Work. Some work'rooms nre conducted by sub-contractors for army ahirts and other military supplies and women get only ten cents a day while many operatives exchange their services for board and lodging, the Petit Parisien says. The hntibhnl council of French women has taken up the question of affording relief. AIMS, PURPOSES, DECLARATIONS of A- F.of L. LABOB PAPER FOR EDMONTON. Trades and Labor Council to Publish a Weekly Paper of Their Own. 'Edmonton Trades and Labor coun-, "cil is about to start a labor paper," writes Secretary A. Farmilo, who is also secretary of the'- Alberta Federation of Labor, nnd, of course, wants the Fed. on exchange. The request will be gladly complied with, and the Fed. is hopeful that the venture will prove a success, for the workers of Alberta admittedly need such a paper. But industrial conditions just now are such that make it tough sledding to pay tne printer. True,'the need of a labor press ib greater during a time \yhtm patriotic employers are ever-ready to take ad- viiiitnge of the physical necessities of the unemployed, but when the wage- workors are idle there is very little surplus vrlue to be divided up among those whose business it is to make profits. Ex-Carmen Operate Jitneys. Union carmen, discharged by the United Railroads, in San Francisco, California, have broached a plan to compete with their former employers by the organization of a motor bus and 5-cent-f a re-automobile Bystem as a retaliatory measure against the refusal of the United Bailroads to unionize the company. The Bun Franeiflco Labor council was petitioned by the new union for its consent to the plan, which officials of the organization declare will be financially supported by tho Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees. Oalgary Unions Agalnit Prohibitfon. By an overwhelmning vote, the Trades nnd Lnbor council, at their last meeting decidod to flght prohibition in tho province. Twenty-four unions, representing 3,200 workerB, supported by the Brew* ery Workera union in its resolution opposing prohibitory legislation, and pledging the council to work against it, while only two locals, representing between 250 nnd 300 voters, voted in favor of a "dry" Alberta. 'B.C. Special"-—beat rye whisky— distilled in B. C. by competent workmen and dispensed nt all leading bars. Aak for "B.C. Special." •- Says "White Hope" Thugged. An article appearing in Clinton, 111., Strike Bulletin of April 21st says: "Josa Willard, who won tne championship from Jack Johnson recently, is one of the thugs who served the Illinois Central during the torchlight nights of the strike at East St. Louis, 111." From the inception of the American Federation of Labor it haa taken the stand that while unions for the various trades and callings must eaeh and all be left entirely free to govern them-v selves within their own borders, yet between the members of all, these unions there Bhould be a bond as great as that between the members of the same organisation. And it is the aim of the A. F. of L. to strengthen that bond by organization, and by education and inculcation of the feeling and consciousness of unity of interest and solidarity to plaoe the labor movement upon a higher and more effective plane. It seeks to organize the yet unorganized workers, the skilled and the unskilled, the permanently located and the migratory. The A. F. of L. holds that whatever a man may be bo long ob he workB honestly and seeks to wrong no other man or to advantage himself at the cost to another, and seeks to maintain this standard regardless of how* any toilers may happen to be employed, he is a man. Though.the A. F. of L. does not advocate strikes, yet it encourages them when all other means to obtain justice for the toilers-have failed. It urges that the workers when struck, strike back as best they cant Though strikes do not alwaya win, even those alleged to be lost at least induce employers to forbear in the future and teacu them a lesson they do not readily forget; namely, that Labor is the most important factor in production and entitled to a voice in the question of wages,, hours and conditions undtfr which work shall be performed. ' The A. F. of L. stands as the moat potent factor in all our country in defense of the right of free assemblage, free speech, and free press. It endeavors to unite all classes of wage-earners under one head through their several1 organizations with the purpose in view that class, race,-creed, political and trade prejudices may be abqlished and that moral and financial'support may be given to all. It aims to allow in tha light of experience the utmost liberty of eaeh organization in the conduct of its own affairs consistent with the generally understood practice of the identity and solidarity of labor. The A. F. of L. establishes intercom-. municntion, creates agitation and educates hot only the workers but the educators. It is in direct, correspondence and conference with the representative workers and thinkers the .world over. It-urges the interests of the toilers in congress, state legislatures, municipal legislative bodies, administrative offices, and judicial agencies. It initiates measures in the name of labor and liberty, and decides upon acts .according as they benefit or are calculated to injure the maaseaof the people. It has secured vast relief from burdensome laws and government officials. It seeks and will' achieve freedom and justice for all. It encourages and has largely achieved the interchange of ideas, ideals and methods. It seeks to cultivate mutual interest, and to secure united action to announce to the world the Wrongs and burdens which tollers have too long endured. It voices the aims and hopes of tho toiling masses. It asks and demands the co-operation of the organizations, co-operation and affiliation of aU wage-workers who believe ih the principle of unity, and that there is something better in life than long hours, low wages, unemployment and all that these imply. The A. F. of L. endorses as basic these economic principles: Thnt no trade or calling can long maintain wages, hours nnd conditions above the common level; that to maintain high wt,geb all trades and callings must be organized; that lack of organization among the unskilled vitally affects the skilled, whther organized or unorganized; that generally organization of skilled' and unskilled workers can be accomplished only by united action— federation; that the history of the labor movement demonstrates the necessity for the union of individuals and that logic implies a union of unions— federation. The A. F. of L. urges the concentration of efforts to organize;all the work* eri within the ranks of the" organized, fair and open contest for the different vlowa which may be entertained upon men su res proposed to move the grand army of labor onward and forward. In no organisation, on earth- is there Buch toleration, so great a scope, and so free n forum as within the ranks of the A. F. of L., and nowhere ia there such a fair, opportunity afforded for the advocacy of -ti new or brighter thought. The A. F. of L. affirmB as one of the cardi* nal principles of'the trade union movement that the working people muBt 1-irpnnizo, unite, nnd federate, irrespective of creed, color, sex, nationality or politics. In the language of the late William E. Gladstone, "trades unions arc the bulwarks of modern democracy." The A. F. of L. stnndB unnlterably for the abolition of nil forma of involuntary servitudo nnd devotes its time and efforts to make every day a day of n better life. Tho trade union movement fosters education and uproots ignorance; shorten hours nml lengthens life; raises Wiigfla und lowers usury; increases independence and decreases dependence; develops manhood and balks tyrnnny; discourages selfishness and establishes frutornity; induces liberality and reduces jrejudice; creates rights and nlmlishes wrongs; lightens toil nnd brightens man; mnkes the workers' workshop eafe and brighter; cheers the home und fireside and makes the world better. ' Drink "B.C. Special" and avoid dis- taateful after effectB. * Britain Wants No Carpenters. The reply to the Inquiry Bont from carpenters' headquarters in Toronto to Great Brltnln to see if carpenters are desired there at the present time, is to the effect thnt none nre required and woodworkers' nre ndvlaed to remain in Canada. CENTER & HANNA, Ltd. UNDERTAKERS Refined Sen ice 1041 SIORQIA STRUT One Blook west of Court House. Use of Modern Chapel and Funeral Parlors free to all Patrons Telephone Seymour 2425 HARRON BROS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Vancouver—omcL* and Chapel, 10IU dranvlllo St., Phono Soy. 3486. North Vancouvor — Olllce and Chapel, 1S2—Sixth St. West, Phone HI; Women Are Enlisting More An Needed to Use Thousands of women ere nuking washing easier hy letting BOTAL CBOWN NAPTHA SOAP do the herd part of the washing for them. Try s cake snd yon will Ion no time enlisting. SEED POTATOES All the Beit for Estly Setting Parsnips, Carrot*, Lettnce, Badlah, Bhuharh, Bitrs Good 2 IM. for Mc. Office Furniture Less Than Wholesale Hastings Furniture Co., Ltd., 41 Hastings St West HOTEL REfiENT **>solutel» Hreyroor. Local and Lon« IlUlEiLl HEiUIilll phone ln Evwy RoomCafe In Connection. Itatea 11.00 per day up. Attractive Ratea to Pi Cetttnihaa * Beatty, Proprietors ermmnent Quests. 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Drug Start—Near Car- rail atreet MAIM STREET— Browne 4 Btaton, Dragglst-i, Pender itreet corner. Law's Diuiitore — Harris atreet corner. CORDOVA STREET— Owl Drugitoro — Abbott stroet corner POWELL STREET - Owl Drugitoro — Dunlevy atroot comer. DENMAN STREET— (English Bar) Torrence Drugitoro — Davie atreet corner. ORANVILLE STREET— Hudson'! Bay Oo. All departments Georgia street corner. Gordon Dryidalo'n (Notion Counter) near Dunsmuir. Owl Drugstore — Dunsmuir atreet. Harrison's Drugitoro — Robson streot corner. Browne * Bolton, druggists, Davie si reet corner. Pill Box Drugitoro — Nelson street corner Low'i Drugitoro — Davie street corner Harrison's Drugstore — Pender street cornor. FAIRVIEW— Harrlson'a Drugitoro — Granville street and Seventh avenue. MOUNT PLEASANT— Law's Drugstore — Near Broadway ORANDVIEW— Campbell's Drugstore — Broadway anil Commercial Drive. STANLEY PARK- MttchlU's Confectionery— Georgia atreet entrance. B.C. ELECTRIC Carrall and Hastings Sts. 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Dr. BRETT ANDERSON Phon* Seymour 3331 Ofllce: 101 Bank af Ottawa Building 602 Hastings Street West BOYS' SUITS from $3,5Q up CLUBB & STEWART, Limited 309*318 HASTINGS STREET WEST Phone Sermon 701 To England Under Neutral Flag American Line from New York-Liverpool Pint #ftp Aft Urge fast American Steamera undtr American flag Clui «P*5.0U ■ "Philadelphia" June Bth S«o"J ere Art \ * "st Loui?" '•■•'•J*"'e "* ClaM $55.00 A |J "St* Paul" June 19th 1». , - '• W "New York" June 2flth Clui $40.00 0I1"" weeltly "-ereafter. Company's Offioes: 619 SECOND AVENUE1, SEATTLE, WN. OB LOOAL BAIL AND STEAMSHIP AGENTS. We ara making a Clearance of all present stock of Olllce Furniture. Oome oarly and make your choice. 1138 Granville St. Near Davie PAGE SIX. THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST. FBIDAT ..:;. MAY 21, 191 May Suit Sale Now On . Our entire stock is selling at about __ 2 Regular Selling Prices $22.50 Suits for $11.98 $27.50 Suits for $14.98 $32.50 Suits for $19.98 etc. flhefiudsonsBau Company. j£? isat-mana it» mauirt i _________ aanaiatmta. ■ \ ^^ GRANVILLE AND GEORGIA STREETS HOTEL ST. REGIS H. TOLFORD FITZSIMMONS, Manager' G*ater Vancouver's Newest Hotel European Plan RATES: $1.00 per Day and Up Seymour & Dunsmuir Sts. Vancouver One Block from Labor Temple Get your Camping Tents Camp Furniture, Canvas Hammocks and other Camping Supplies from C. H. JONES & SON; Ltd. Manufacturers Canvas Goods of Every Description Phon* Soymour 740 110 Alexander Strut opposite North Vancouver Ferry Landing Catalog!!* on request Be sure and place your TEA order to-day with your Grocer for TET LEY'S =T E AS= 40, 50, 60 cents per pound EASTERN MACHINISTS BUSY Organiser McCallum Beports Greatly Increased Activity. Mr. D. McCallum one of the Canadian officers of tlie International Association of Machinists, is in Ottawa to deal with the local situation. Mr. McCallum stated that the machinists were never so busy as they were at present. This wns especitaal so in Eastern Canada, where among other corporations the C.P.R. were manufacturing large quantities of war material. So great has been the recent demand for skilled mechanics in Montreal that the railway company had to secure numbers of men from the West. This greatly increased activity, which has spread from England, has rendered unnecessary the plan of the machinists' union in Canada to send unemployed mechanics to Oreat Britain to help meet the demand for that class of workers there. The Canadian machinists, more than any other trade, are now working at high pressure. Mr. McCallum stated that the agreement between the machinists employed by the- Ottawa Car Manufacturing Company and the Arm expires on May 28, and that the meeting had been called to consider some slight alterations which the men will ask the company to accept. RUSSIAN PAPER .DENIED MAILS, Privilege Restored by Influence of Dominion Trades Congress. At the instigation of Russian officials in Montreal the Russian labor paper published in New York, and known es "Novy Mir," meaning The New World, was refused the use of the mails in Canada for its alleged anti-British tone. The policy of the paper iB anti- Czar. As the result of the action referred to, an arrangement was made by President J. C. Watteres of the trades and Labor Congress of Canada, for a deputation, consisting of himself and the editor of the paper, to interview the Postmaster General at Ottawa, with the result that the paper was restored to its former position in the Canadian mails, The thanks of the editor of the "Novy Mir" are - expressed in the following letter to President Watters: New York, May 8, 1915 Mr. J. C. Watters, Box 515, Ottawa, Ont: Dear Mr. WatterB: Received your telegram. Thanks. We were informed of this by the Postmaster General on Thursday, May 6th. We are sending the paper to Canada since yesterday. No doubt that your attitude on this matter had a great influence on the minister. I want to thank you for all that you did for us. The Russian working man of Canada will get their paper, thanks to the stand that you took in tho name of organized labor of Canada. Thanking you once more and hoping that myself or the paper that I represent may be of service to you, I am, Fraternally yours, • ALEX. GUMBERG. Congress Issues New Charter. The president of the Dominion Trades and Labor Congress, J. C. Wat* tors, last week authorized the issuance of a trades council charter to organizations located at New Glasgow, N. S. Six local unions made the application, two of which are United Mine Workers. Secretary Draper in giving notice of the formation of this new central body, expressed his pleasure at the activity being shown in the eastern section of the country, which has heretofore been one of the most difficult sections of the Dominion in which to uphold solid organizations. With the advent of a trades couneil, - prospects for this section look bright, the amalgamating of the various unions always bringing new organizations in and the strengthening of existing ones. Secure the best whisky—"B.C. Special"—for the least money. Made in B. C. for particular people. Sold everywhere. Ask for it *•"■* Nicholson's Gin is perfectly pure and palatable IT'S REFRESHING AND INVIGORATING TRY IT FOR YOUR STOMACH'S SAKE. WILL DO YOU GOOD. ALL RELIABLE DEALERS 8ELL IT BASEBALL (Northwestern League, 1915) Vancouver vs. Aberdeen May 24,int and pit, 25,26,27 and 28 The Woman Movement and the Working Woman THB TELEPHONE The Adrinee egent of OOHFOBT AND CONVENIENCE Forms » closer union of Home, Boil- nen ud Friends FOR A LIMITED TIME Business or Residential Telephones will be Instilled upon payment of 95.00 BtntsI In Adranct >aceo. HOYT'S 10 Cent Cakes "ALWAYS FRESH" ASK YOUR GROCER PANTAGES Unequalled Vaudeville Meana PANTAOBS VAUDEVILL1 THR*! SHOWS DAILY 8.48, 7.80, 0.1B Seaion'i Prletat MatliiMf 1Bc.( Ivanfngi, l$e., Me. (By Rose Sciineidermann) General Organizer, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Tho women of the business and professional class have helped tremendously to awaken the world to a realization of what the vote can accomplish in furthering freedom for women and society in general. At first sight it is surprising that such women should be so much more alive to the need of the vote than the working women herself; she who requires its protection and the power it confers so much more than do her more comfortable sisters. May not the reason be that the sheltered woman, ao long denied the right to self-support, has had to strive for this right, and in striving hns attained to a sense of freedom, so that she now feels that there should be no barrier to her further self-development? Hence the demand for political expression. f> The working woman, on the other hand, has always had full liberty to work; indeed, from her is demanded the hardest and most exacting kind of ■toil. Work to her spells no gateway to freedom. Question any working girl and every timo she will tell you: "I am tired of going to work every day and coming home just to rest up so as to be fit to go to work again- the next day." Work to her is no adventure but a monotonous reality. What she needs is to bo released from the bondage of overwork, long hours, insufficient pay and dangerous and unhealthy working conditions. Is it surprising that she haB been apathetic and has not responded to the call of her more fortunate sisters as readily as could bo wished? How blind the men of the working classes have been is to be seen in their passive acquiescence in the exploitation of their women :folk. A father will be content to let his young daughter earn no matter how little, as long aa it is something to supplement the family income. He has not taught her to demand a wage sufficient for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Thia is owing to. the prevailing ignorance of the worth of women as wage- earners. A glance at th'e industries in which women are employed today will show that they are as profitable as those in which men are employed. When Alt- mann, of the great departmental store of New Tork City^died lately he left a fortune of $43,000,000, some of it Bure- ly squeezed out of the underpaid girl help. The suffragists have blazed the way for recognition of- the economic value- of women, a value which cannot be enforced without political freedom backed by economic organization. Take, for instance, the girls in the waist-making trade. They can hardly exist on the poor wage they get. Not that the industry cannot afford it, for where they are organized, as they are in New York, good operators earn from $15 to $20 and $25 a week during the season. The unorganized woman is at the mercy of the employer. Whenever there is any reduction in wageB, whenever depression comes along, whenever unemployment becomes more acute she is the flrat to suffer. The only ones who can be depended upon to at least hold what they have are the trade union women. The general women movement cannot advance very much further till the great body of working women are enrolled in it, pledged to work not only for enfranchisement but for complete organization, both economic and political. The working women must also demand that not only the leaders, but that the great mass of working men, who have not given the matter much thought, support women in their demands. On the other hand, it ia impossible for the working woman to get ahead of the general working clasB movement, for with that hen needs and her future destiny are inevitably bound up. "SAFETY FIRST' Warn a man when danger ia near, He may know all about it; if so, no harm is done; if not, you may save him from injury. An old saw says! "A bird in the hand is worth twq in the buBh." Applied to Safety work, it means if you have a whole body and two good eyes, see that some other fellow does not do anything to cause you to lose them. LATE D. D. WILSON. Funeral Attended by Maay Trade Unionists and Others. Washington, May 15.—1). Douglas Wilson, editor of the Machinsts' Journal, official paper of the International Association of Machinists, died at hia home in this city last Monday. Deceased was one of the very remarkable men the labor movement has produced. For twenty years he was editor of the Machinists' Journal. Eleven yeara ago he was stricken with blindness nnd locomotor ataxia. During all this time he never left his house, being confined in a chair. His devoted wife was his principal aid, counsellor nnd assistant. She made' it possible for this sightless invalid to keep in close touch with not only the labor movement, but all other phases of human activity. Deceased wns born in Scotland, where he joined the Amalgamated Engineers as an apprentice. He came to this country thirty-three years ago, and for forty-three yeara had been a continuous good standing trade unionist. He deaves a wife and two daughters. His funeral, last Wednesday afternoon, was attended by large numbers of trade unionists and other friends, In honor of his memory, the offices of the American Federation of Lnbor and the International Association of Machinists were closed Wednesday. Labor Council Invites Bowser. Hon. W. J. Bowaer, atorney-general, has accepted an invitation sent him by New Westminster TradeB and Labor council to address a meeting in that city on the Workmen's Compensation act, but has not yet set a date. Hia letter of acceptance waa read at a meeting of the Labor council laSt week, and the secretary was instructed to write again, asking for, a definite date. The Nova Scotia Assembly has plnced a Workmen's Compensation law on the statute books equal on the whole to the Ontario act. The two acts differ in aome unimportant particulars, some provisions of the Ontario act being superior to those of the Nova Scotia act bo far as the workerB are concerned and vice versu. "Billy Sunday's" Views. We have produced *n America a religious type of men who are religious in the best sense of the word in their private lives, but who in their professional, commercial, social, and industrial relations, where other people are concerned, do not seem to think that their religion need necessarily enter. "In other words, thia idea of rolig- ion has produced men whose private lives are good, but whose public Uvea aro rotten, vile, bad. "While they are true to their marriage vows and virtuous, they are rotten in politics. We have .produced men who, while they would not shoot a man with a pistol, will Bit in New York city or Philadelphia and by a vote in the board of directors' meeting set in motion forces which ultimately may take a man's life out on the Pacific slope months afterwards. "While they wouldn't hand you a a dose of poison, they'd sell you adulterated goods that kill people a thousand miles away. If your religion doesn't make you sell straight gooda, then it doesn't amount to three whoops thia side of hell in the pews, either. "Men who would not pick the pockets of one man with the Angers of their hand will, without hesitation, pick the pockets of 80,000,000 people with the fingers of their monopoly or commercial advantage. "Men in whse hands the virtue of your wife or daughter would be as aafe as in your own will every year drive hundreds of cases of virtue over the line into vice by tlto pressure of the starvation wages they pay. Men who will glaflly draw their chock for $10,000 and give it to a children's hospital, see nothing ridiculous in the fact that the $10,000 for tho children's hospital came out of $200,000 made from a system of child-labor which crushes and kills and maims more children in one year than the hospitals will heal in twenty. "—Billy Sunday in North American. Union Bricklayers' Brickyard. The brick manufacturing plant* of the International Union of Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers, in which that organization has invested in the neighborhood of a half-million dollars at El Paso, Texas, is nearing completion, and Ib expected to be in operation by the middle of next May. When finished, it will be the most complete industrial concern of its kind in America, and the bricklayers expect it will go far toward supplanting the concrete construction which has been taking their trade away. Must Be Total. A clergyman was discussing with an illiterate member of his flock, in an orthodox church of Georgia, religious topics of varied interest. The member said that even the best were none too good in this vale of sin and tribulation, "You believe, thep," interposed the preacher, "in the doctrine of Total Depravity!" "Yea, I do," responded the member, "that is,—er—er—where it's lived up to.''—Christian Register. Now Up to "W. M.O." Editor B. C. Federationist: If your facetiously philosophical contributor W. M. C, who pronounces the long-accepted socialist dogma that the "mode of production determines," etc., etc., may I nsk what it is that determines the "mode of production?" O. V. C. Vancouver, May 18, 1015. Sweet Charity. Wealthy Benefactress (stepping in at the hospital)—"Well, we'll bring the car to-morrow, and take some of your patients for a drive. 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