THE CAM With Which Is Incorporated THE B. C. FEDERATIONIST Seventeenth Year. No. 41 VANCOUVER, B. C, I-UlDAY MORNING, OCT. 9, 1925 Eight Pages 5e A COPY Sacrifice of Virtue Demanded by Mammon tBy W. Francis Ahern, Federated Press Correspondent.) SYDNEY, Australia, — One aspect Of the visit of the American naval fleet to Australia was the manner in which the Big: Business press called upon the girls of the cities visited by the sailors to 'give the boys a good time." Some of the statements in the newspapers came very near to uggestlng prostitution. The following ls an extract of a statement appearing ln the Melbourne Age, a leading Big Business news- >aper: "Every young sailor worth his 3alt has only one question on his tongue—What sort of girls have you got? '.'So it ls up to you, girls, to do your best for Australia. You can lo more for the cause of international peace in the next ten days thap the League of Nations ls likely to do in the next ten years. Human relations are more )owerful than International rela- ions. The amorous reciprocations of youth will draw nations loser together than the trading eclprocatlons that are embodied n treaties." This is a fair sample of the ind of stuff that appeared in the lajorlty of the newspaper. The rouing girls of Australia did mix reely with the American sailor ds. There have been many heavy hearts and sorrowing moth- rs as a result of the fleet's stay ■n Australia.- One point worth noting was •hat as soon as the fleet left Syd- iey and Melbourne the puritans owled for a cleanup of the "red Ight" quarters in both cities, and he police and civic fathers got msy on the Job. But pothlng as said about cleaning up the 'red light" localities while the leet was paying its visit. The Three Ring Circus Premier King Wants Strong Men to Hold Down Tariff Italian Wages Fell Under Fascist Rule WHATEVER may he said of the background, ' unquestionably tlie parade of Mackenzie King and his satellites, from the 0. P. B. station to the Vanoouver-Hotel had a very apt' foreground. A man carrying a sign, bearing the legend: "Don't he a scab, be a man", and announcing that carpenter's wages in Vancouver were $7.00 per* day, but tbat only $6.50 was being paid on the new 0. P. R. Pier, headed the procession for about two blocks, after which he was moved to a less consplclous place by one of the guardians of the law. Local carpenters should be congratulated for having their sign in a place where lt was so much needed. The Arena, where Mackenzie performed for about two hours, was decorated with the usual electioneering slogans, such as "MOre Grain Elevators; More Business; More Work". In spite of the salutary advice set forth on the carpenter's sign no notices were displayed promising more wages or more "eats", evidently that forms no part of King's policy. Grouped around th'e platform was a motley assortment of office holders and seekers, ranging all the way from John Oliver to the latest aspirant for a timber scaler's job. This gang constituted what might be termed the trained an-, lmals; They applauded at regular intervals regardless of whether the remarks warranted lt or not. This, however, was a wise procedure be cause had they waited until applause was merited they would be waiting yet. Loquacity is Mackenzie's long suit, but if ideas were 'trumps he wouldn't take a trick. He started off by telling how glad he was to see such a large and enthusiastic audience, but was careful to say nothing about "Intelligent looking" —ln this case a truthful if albeit strange procedure. No one with a belief in Divine punishment would have dared such an assertion after one look at the gang on the platform. The humble raisin was elevated to a state of International importance, and furnished the voluble gentleman on the platform with material to chew oil for a full fifteen or twenty minutes. Raisins, in some miraculous manner, were so inextricably bound up with the tariff rate On harrows thftt it formed a sort of pivotal point on which was hung this entire display of garrulity. During the entire time this momentous "problem" was being considered, John Oliver's face wore a look of extreme Interest. Probably he was figuring how a market flooded with grape juice would affect the price of "Heather Dew". Anyway the Liberal government has apparently decreed that the Babbits will get their iron in the form of raisins while the miners of Nova Scotia will get theirs ln the shape of cold steel. A pathetic plea for "strong men" from the West to assist King in holding down the tariff, and hewing the corners off freight rates, was made. Evidently we will have to Induce "Strangler" Lewis to stand for nomination, and send him along, even if it should mean withdrawing Jerry McGeer. The audience was informed that the Liberals were hoping to import a number of people into Canada, to fill up the vacant spots; but no mention was made of how those already here were going to be kept eating when jobs get scarce. However, they can console themselves with the reflection that the tariff will be low, and the national debt reduced three dollars on the million, and what more could an unemployed and hungry man ask for? Economy is one of the main planks ln King's policy, although he made no mention of reducing the wages of cabinet ministers. Probably he forgot it. But the gentleman has an insatiable desire not to overfeed the sailors on tho C. G. M. 'M.. He reiterated two or three times that he was unalterably oposed to having every dollar "saved on the railways eaten up on the ocean." According to all reports this ls a continuation of an old policy. The grub pile consumed on the high seas Is watched with due care, as the gnawing feeling ln the stomachs of sailors on government ships can mutely testify This is the one part of Kirjg's policy that Is more than an election promise He means It 16 Labor Candidates Anti-Soviet War Cost Prairie Labor Market In Federal Election Roumania 70 Millions Already Overstocked .erman Labor Sends Delegation To U. S. (Federated Press.) BERLIN. —The Germain trade '.nlon delegation, which is leaving his month for America to study rade union organization in the Jnlted States, includes Husemann, .resident of the Germ&n miners' mlon, and Dr. Berger, a member f the executive of the Miners' nternatlonal. While the official German trade nlon movement has been willing 5 make a study of the American .bor movement, the proposition > send a delegation to Soviot .ussia was rejected by the Bres- iu trade union oongress. The .nffress also refused to hear the sport of the Unofficial delegation t trade unionists which has re- sntly returned from Russia. The German trade unions, -hlch are practically controlled y the Sooial Democratic party, ,ave suffered a severe loss ln lembership. At the recent Bres- oonferenoe of the GermSh 'ederation of Trade Unions, the iembershlp was given as 4,200,- 00, as against a peak member- hip which at one time reached high as eight millions. Mem- ershlp in the Sooial Democratic arty, according to its- owjn fig- ires, has fallen from 1,400,000 n 1922 to 940,000 on April 1, 924, and again to 644,000 on prll 1 of this year. The number of Labor candidates to .enter the federal contest now stands at sixteen, for the Dominion of Canada. These are: Nova Scotia: Jim McLachlan, South Cape Breton. Ontario: A. E. Smith, Port Arthur; Jas. Simpson, Toronto. Manitoba: J. S. Woodsworth, Winnipeg North Centre; A. A. Heaps, Winnipeg North; A. Henry, Winnipeg South Centre; John Kelly, Winnipeg South; Allan Meikle, St. Boniface. Alberta: George Latham, Edmonton; James East, West Edmonton; Wm. Irvine, Calgary. British Columbia: A. Sidaway, Vancouver Burrard; W. W. Lefeaux, Vancouver Centre; A. Hurry, Vancouver South; Dr. W. J. Curry, Vancouver North; Rose Henderson, New Westminster. GENEVA—The Roumanian debt funding commission is coming over here with a claim against the United States for $70,000,000. #hey are going to say that Oscar Crosby, official American representative to Roumania, joined the allies lp ordering Roumania to attack the Bolshevik army in Bessarabia in December, 1917. The Roumanian government had sent 170,000,000 in gold to Moscow for safekeeping, and the attack o-. the Bolsheviks lost them their chance of getting It back. The U. S. state department will very likely disclaim the action of Crosby, and, tin any case, will point out that Roumania occupied Bessarabia and kept lt. Bessarabia ls worth considerably more than $70,000,000. British Labor Speaker Royal Theatre Sunday *The speaker at the Royal Theatre on Sunday night next will be Wilfred Wellock, of Great Britain. Mr. Wellock was one of the Labor candidates at the general election in the Old Country, and is the prospective Labor candidate for Stourbridge at next election. He Is the author of several books, and has been very active In the No More War Movement. During thc war he served two years ln jail an a conscientious objector Recent, ly he has travelled extensively through Europe, lecturing in the interests of peace. Highlights on This Week's News BRANDON, Man. —The labor market in this locality is already overstocked, although harvesting operations are not yet completed. The demand tor farm help is falling off rapidly, and today there are more men than Jobs. Wages are also coming down. The $6.00 per day wage prevalent during the harvest now stands at $4.00, and men are so plentiful that lt is comparatively easy to obtain sufficient farm help at that figure. A number of the eastern harvesters are leaving for home. A few men are wanted for fall ploughing, aind they are being offered a monthly wage of from $40 to $50 per month. A little road construction work is being done, but jobs are gobbled up as quickly aa they come. Mackenzie King hasn't brought prosperity yet to the farm hand. (Federated Press.) MILAN, Italy. —How Fascist union-smashing has affected the wages of Italian workers is shown by carefully complied statistics published in a recent-issue of'La Glustizia, organ of the Reformist Socialists. Since the time whqp the Fascists seized power, breaking up the bona fide trade unions and attempting to substitute for them the class-collaboration fascist "unions," wages have fallen steadily and the eight-hour day has ln fact been abolished ln nearly every industry, although nominally it ls still supposed to exist. The average reduction l,n wages as between 1921 and 1924 In some of the principal industries was: Textile 15-18 per cent. Machine 15-20 per cent. Chemical 16-26 per cent. Building 18-20 per cent Wool 20-25 per cent. Food 20-30 per cent. Taking into account the oost of living, La Gulstlzia finds that whereas the trade unions had forced real wages on an average throughout the country to a standard above that of 1914 in the years following the war, ln 1924, after several years of Fascist dictatorship real wages had fallen to as low as 79.66 per cent of the 1914 standard. The heavy reductions ln wages have compelled the workers to accept two, three or even four hourB a day overtime In nearly every industry, in order to Uve. In the Iron amd steel industry 75 per cent of the workers perform three hours' extra work per day and rallwaymen, post and telegraph workers, employed by the state, work 10 hours or more a day. A 12-hour day is now the rule for agricultural labor, while seamen on some Italian ships work 16 hours a day. Production at Kusbas Colony Growing Fast " (Federated Press.) CANADIAN Page NEW YORK.—Further indus- The Liberal Otaos ~ } *<**• progress in the Kemerovo 16 Labor Candidates In Canada 1 district of Siberia over which the O.L.P. Campaign'Meetinga Kusbas Autonomous Industrial BRITISH polony has Jurisdiction, is report- Labor Women Laud Russia 5 gg fcy tj,e uew York office of that SZTC'fcffi!-.^:-" ? •*""*•■ The ooal m,n,n*pro- gram' as reported for the new AMERICAN year ^jg for 700j0o0 tonBp an ln. A. F. of L. Convention Report 2 —_._,_._. _,* an *.** n*»t .„., thn V. S. Bankers Fatten on Enrope « crease of 60 per cemt. over the Jurisdiction Fight Ends 8 present year. FOREIGN Fascist! Break IUMan Wages 1 Pass this copy to your ultop- Horthy Institutes White Tenor. 8 —-,. ai.a -,» vim »« lubacrlb*. Australian Seamen Whip Shipowner* 3 mu* ma ■" nm l0 •»D-,or'D-»' Discuss War Against British and Japanese WASHINGTON. — Col. William Mitchell, appearing before the board of naval inquiry, foreshadowed impending military conflicts on both coasts of the United States, thus making an excellent witness for American Jingoism. "Japan is Intent*upon the policy of holding Asia and the (ar east for the Asiatics," he said. "Wo are the only ones wj,0 can -hold the Pacific for the white race." Then shifting his testimony .to the east coast, he deolared: "No naval fleet can exist under an air attack. Our navy is inferior to Great Britain's, and I say that 1,000 planes could be rushed across the ocean from England and operate against us within eight or ten days after their arrival in Canada." Mitchell ls the leading figure of a group of young aviation officers who are demanding a separate air force apart from the army apd navy. They have opposed to them the old guard of the war college and the navy school. Mitchell and his fellow dissenters appear to have the backing of powerful groups. Mitchell ls under charges of court martial because of certain unseemly things he Is alleged to have said about the army. Subscribe to The Advocate Page Two THE CANADIAN LABOB ADVOCATE Friday, October 9, 1925 LOCAL LABOR NEWS Auto Mechanics Score C.L.P. Candidates To Local Shop Conditions A. F. of L. Convention Hears Annual Report (By Laurence Todd, Federated Press.) Stage Many Meetings Atlantic city.*—Moderation —— «^hhhH of tone and of claims of recent ,_....', _ ,., progress, coupled with tributes to Industrial efficiency has prob- A C.L.P. campaign meeting will ^ memory Qf Samue, Gompers ably reached a greater stage of be held in the Royal Theatre on an(J ^ warnlngs agalnBt Com. development In the automobile In- Supday next (October llth) at 8 miinlBtg pleag| marked the report dustry than ini any other. Ford p.m. The speaker will be Wilfred Qf the e_.ecutlve 00llncll of the has literally turned the workers Wellock, on the subject: "What Amerloan Federatlon of Labor t0 ln his factories into human ma- a Majority Labor Government ^ mh annua- conV(.ntIoni whlch chines. But whatever may be the Would Attempt To Do. e(J here Qn Monday_ efficiency in the production of All C.L.P. candidates will be on Membershl thls year ,s shoWn automobiles, the repairing of them the platform and speak briefly. tQ b_ , „g m ag agalnst , m is another question.' Angus Mclnnis will be chairman. m mt year_ anfl 2926468 ,n At the last meeting of the Van- 1923. The peak of membership couver Trades and Labor Council South Vanconver wa8 reaohed in 1920 at 4,078,740. the delegate from the Auto Me- a South Vancouver campaign By 1921 lt had fallen to 3,195,633. chanlcs' Union pointed out that it committee meeting will be held New probing was customary ip most garages on Monday, October 12th, ln the _ , ... Company unions, employers' in surance, employee ownership of stock, labor banks, and the B. for the worke'rs when they had Tecumseh School, 43rd and Vic- finished one job to have to sit toria Road. A meeting will also and wait until the next job came be held on Monday, October 12th, „„.-.„*,„„ v„i,„«„„ , .., .. ... _ _ ■■";» ._.' _i_ •» „„., _,_-,, & O. pla October 14th. bona flde trade union movement. held ln the K.P. Hall, 4th street A muslcal program 1b be- . . . Among such undertakings, west, North Vancouver, on Thurs- arranged and a g00d time is against which we hereby give spe- day evening, October 15th, at 8 assured The object ls to ral8e ciflc warning, are: International o clock. Dr. W. J. Curry, C.L.P. the .*slnews of war» whlch will Labor Defense Council, American candidate for North Vancouver, be needed ,_. the North Vancouver Negro Congress, Irish Workers' and others will attepd the meet- conatltuenoyi cbme and heip ln and Peasants' Famine Relief Com- the good work. Collection. mittee, International Workers' ■ Aid, and the Workers' Party. Ing. ,_^^^^__^^^^^_ Come and hear the cause of the world's troubles and how labor could effect a remedy. World Co-operative Bank Now Required (By-Federated Press.) WASHINGTON.—American,, cooperative societies and labor banks would be eligible to affiliation with the movement, reported by consular representatives in Europe to the department of commerce, for a world bank to handle transactions between the cooperatives of the various nations. Need for such an international banking house, owned by the cooperative societies, is indicated by the fact that in 1924 $200,000,000' worth of goods were purchased by the co-operative wholesale societies in Europe. In 1923 the total of such purchases was only $145,000,000. The British Wholesale Co-operative Society, with headquarters at Manchester, Eng., bought $150,000,000 worth of goods outside of Great Britain, and $60,000,000 of these were purchased from foreign co-operatives. British Co-ops. Busy In the first 23 weeks of the present year the British Co-operative Wholesale Society exported four times as many goods to foreign and colonial societies as were exported In the same period ln 1923. The English and Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Societies Jointly own tea plantations In India and Ceylon and frult-buyln* depots in Greece and Turkey. The English society has trade agreements with producers' co-operatives ln Australia, New Zealand and Denmark, and is exporting bicycles to Sweden, while the Scottish society owns wheat fields and mills in Canada. European Development In the same way the Scandinavian, German, French and other European co-operative movements are developing great distributive and productive plants, requiring banking facilities on a big scale. The International Cooperative Alliance proposes that each national movement perfect a bank ' which shall concentrate' Its financial resources,. and that an International bank be created upon the foundation of these -national co-operative banks. In this consular report the Russian co-operatives are credited with handling 30 per cent, of the business of the Soviet Union. Their trade with the English and Scottish societies last year was $2,800,000.* CLASSIFIED ADS. BARRISTERS Bird, Bird & Lefeaux, 401 Metropolitan Bldg. BATHS Vancouver Turkish Baths, Pacific Bldg., 744 Hastings Bt. W. BICYCLES HASKINS 6 ELLIOTT, 800 Ponder Street W. Th* belt maker ot bicjelti on eity termi. BOOTS AND SHOES Arthur Frith & Co., 2313 Main St. BOOTS (LOGGING) H. Harvey, 58 Cordova St. W. C\FE Empire Cafe, 76 Hastings St. B, CHIROPODIST WHY SUFFER WITH SORE FEET I Hannah Lund, 024 Birki Bldg., |Ith Instant relief; evening! by appointment. Sey. 1218. chiropractor Dr d. a. McMillan, palmer Graduate. Open dally and evenings. Dawson Blk., eor. Hastings anl Main. Phone Sey. 8054. ' NANAmO.v7SU___.OTOX COAL LESLIE OOAL OO'T ltd. Phono Ssy. 7137 DENTIST Dr. W. 3. Curry, S01 Dominion Bldg. DRUGS Red Star Drug Store, Cor. Cordova and Carrall. FLORISTS Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd., 48 Has- tings St. B. GLASS GLAZING, SILVERING, BEVELLING WESTERN GLASS CO. LTD., 168 Cordova St. W„ tew doors weit of Woodward's. Sey. 8887. Wholeiala and retail window glass. • Write Today Don't Delay THE BIGGEST BARGAIN IH THE WORLD ■ men a *53J£yiooL When I take into consideration These choices of field activity are the agony of civilized life, the fail- indicative of the methods of the ures, the anxieties, the tears, the Communists. They seek out those Dr. W. J. Curry will address a wIthered hopes, the bitter realities, races and groups with grievances campaign meeting at Gibson's the hunger, the crime, the humilla and foster discontent in the hope Landing on the evening of Satur- tion lho shame, I am almost forced of inciting uprisings and riots. day, October 10th. t0 s'ay that cannibalism, after all, They endeavor to destroy efforts is the most merciful form In which for constructive development In , „ ,,,.„j *,,«,,n his fellowman. order that there may be more Don't forget! Mention th. Ad- man ha lived Upon his fellwm ^^ ^ ^^ ^ vocat. when buyln*. -Ingersoll. ^.^ ^^ Whether slncere in their belief in the need for world revolution, or only maliciously promoting trouble, the Communists seek first the overthrow of the bona flde labor movement." Legislation The only federal legislation secured during the last session of the U. S. Congress, aside from salary and wage increases for certain federal employees and the payment of withheld wages to former-workers In the Bethlehem Steel plant for war work, is a raise of the compulsory school age from 14 to 16 years In the District of Columbia. However, credit is also taken for abolition of visa fees, ratification of the Isle of Pines treaty, and agreement to celebrate the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. War has made many great whom peace makes small.—Milton. $1606.66 REWARD To any one who will prove that anything stated in this ad il mil- re p r eiented or untrue. , TAILORED T( FOR ONLY < TOUR OPPORTUNITY To purchaso direct from the manufacturer a flne quality suit made of pure wool valued at $50.00. Strictly hand-tailored to your measure, serge or worsted. Latest models. Single or $4.00 double-breasted for ONLY -.—u„ ■*■*,_..__. Send No Monoy—Write for onr Special Offer. Pemci Pit and Satisfaction guarantied Ladies' Gentlemen's d»1f|.00 VALUE PURE SILK HOSE FOR ONLY movement, however mild, of the workers. SAN SALVADOR The 'Federation Regional de Trabajadores de El Salvador" has just reached the end of its first. year's activities and it can certainly point to very gratifying results. It has organized many new trade unions. The Trade Unton Federation now has 26 affiliated organizations, two of which have already organized several very successful strikes. The Trade Union Federation- of Salvador pays great attention to the organization of women The wages of women workers are on an average only a quarter of the men's wages, although the women's hours are nearly everywhere the same as the men's. Another useful piece of work done is the institution of a workers' educational club and a library. Chinese Workers Greet Delegates Jb'rom Kussia SHANGHAI, (Tass)-—The delegation of the All-Russian central Council of Trade Unions were tiv- en a hearty ovation by the Shanghai Council of Labor Unions. Although the trade union activities in the international settlement have been suppressed and tne union activities in the town are controlled by the Mukden autnorities, the Chinese leaders pointed out, the spirit of the Chinese workers on strike was excellent. There are over .150,000 operatives employed by the English and Japanese on strike drawing 6 dollars from the Shanghai council. The council spends a sum of $1,- 200,000 monthly in strike relief. So far most of this sum has been collected in the interior of China. It is very necessary that China receive international assistance, as the strike continues to spread and more funds are needed. There are 128 unions affiliated with the Shanghai council. GUATEMALA Shoe Workers in Guatemala are on strike, demanding, (1) that a prohibitive tariff be placed upon -imported shoes, and (2) that the Chinese competition of the industry be forced to charge the same prices as the other shops, five hundred shoe workers continue the strike which they begun early in August. Germany Kicks Out Fiery Crdss Leader BERLIN, Germany—The' German prototype of the Knights of the Fiery Cross were given short shrift in Germany. Gotthard Stroschein of Chicago, was given six days to pack up his bags and leave Germany. This deportation of the former Lutheran minister of Chicago, came as a result of his attempt to found an organization similar to the ku klux klan in Germany. Otto Stroschein, father and accomplice of Gotthard, was given to understand that that kind of nonsense won't go. He is allowed to remain as he proved his German citizenship. Gotthard is now in Warsaw, and Intends to return to America at an early date. SOUTH AFRICA The "Wage Act," passed during the recent sesion of the Union Parliament, seeks to regulate the rate of wages and all other conditions of employment for any employee in any business, excepting farming, domestic service, and one or two other types of employment. COSTA RICA Costa Rlcan cities report an influx of migrant farmers, Whose abandonment of the rural districts and farm labor occupations is said to be retarding the agricultural development of the country. GERMANY German oversea emigration during the second quarter of 1925 has increased by 2,700 persons (from 14,845 to 17,605) as compared with the first quarter of the year. SWEDEN The number of unemployed in Sweden showed a continuing decrease through the past summer, with a commensurate decline in the number of persons receiving State aid. Why is it that 90 per cent, of the people must live In a condition but little, if any, better than that of their ancestors who knew nothing of the methods of wealth production in vogue today?—A. M. Simons. MEXICO The first school of public health to be established in Mexico is authorized by a recent presidential decree. CTOVES 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. Canada Pride Range Company Limited 346 Hastings Street East Sey. 2399 OPEN SHOP EFFORTS (Federated Press) NEW ORLEANS—Backing up the open shop interests the state of Alabama has organized at Gadsden the Alabama School of Trades and Industries and proposes to teach ln three months the rudiments of a trade which the trade unions demand three years shall be taken ln order to thoroughly school the apprentice. Fifty young Americans are on the ground from various sections of the state. All trades will be taught. (Federated Press) SYDNEY, Australia—The Seamen's union has won out in its fight against the Shipping Combine in Australia. The strike has been declared off, and the vesels at the various ports are now being manned as quickly as possible. The shipowners have agreed to endorse the rates of pay and working conditions on the ship's articles, arrange fortnightly payment of wages, and allow time off every month for stop-work meetings. The men, on their part, have given way to the owners on several minor points, but the result of the settlement is undoubtedly a big gain for the seamen. SWITZERLAND Accident insurance for public- school children is to be' provided by the Government of Zurich, Switzerland, as has already been done ln Bern and Bazelland. At present 150 communities ln Zurich are providing this insurance paying an average of 1,000 francs in case of accidental death, 6,000 in case of disability, and 3 francs a day for medical treatment. Profits on Increase But Wages Come Down (By Leland Olds, Federated Press) Industrial profits for the first 6 months of 1925 showed a gain bf 21.7% over the same period of 19- 24, according to an analysis of the income accounts of 42 large and representative corporations by the Cleveland Federal Reserve bank. After all deductions except dividends these 42 companies reported profits of $237,672,332 between January and June, 1925 compared with $195,315,110 in the first half of 1924. This is an extraordinary record in view of the fact that the business world is making considerable complaint about the narrowness of present profit margins. Total wages paid by manufacturing concerns in the same period were more than 1% lower in 1925 than in 1924. Dividend and interest payments on October 1 established a new high record for quarterly disbursements. The investing class received checks for $427,202,000 compared with $402,250,000 on Oct. 1, 1924. The Standard Oil group is paying the largest dividends of any third qbarter in its history. Its stockholders will receive checks for $34,899,348 as their share of. the profits of the last three months compared with 34,712,810 for he same quarter of 1924. This brings total dividends paid Standard OU stockholders so far this year to $110,954,558 with the prospect of over $150,000,000 for the year as a whole. Says The Wall Street Journal: "The owners of the country's oil resources are getting annual dividends equivalent to 113% on their original investment." (Federated Press) CLEVELAND—Heavy layoffs of engine service men as a result of the speeding up tactics of railroad management and motor competition threaten the close relations between the two big engine Bervice brotherhoods that have existed since 1912. A ballot is being taken by divisions of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on the abrogation of the Chicago Joint Agreement. This agreement regulates job relations between members of the Engineers' and Firemen's organizations. The present difference hinges on technical mileage and seniority rights. With .many engine service men being thrown out of jobs these questions are unusually acute and concern the limitation of monthly mileage allowed to any one man and the exercise of the engineer's seniority right to take over a fireman's job in case of a layoff. Railroad Workers Discuss Insurance DETROIT—(FP)—The 600 delegates to the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers are discussing a comprehensive insurance department at their triennial convention in Detroit where the union's headquarters are. The union's palmiest days were during wartime government control of the railroads when it numbered hundreds of thousands of members on the rolls. Following the 1922 shop strike, in which it did not participate though the membership voted over 90 per cent, in favor of a walkout, it was deflated but has rallied since and shows a small but encouraging increase from 1923 to 1924, when it reported a membership of 38,300 to the American Federation of Labor, The brotherhood had been suspended for 3 years from the A. F. of L. for refusal to accept convention rulings. It reentered in 1923. As the people make everything, they are entitled to houses and goods. If they cannot pay an economic rent, obviously they do not get an economic wage.—George Hicks. Patronize Our Advertisers. Anthracite Strike Hits R.R. Companies NEW YORK—(FP)—The success of the anthracite miners in their strike for a wage increase and adjustment of wages of men doing equal work is indicated by the loss of traffic of the anthracite railroads. The roads report a loss of 700 cars a day out of their normal carrying capacity of 1,000 cars of anthracite coal. The 300 cars a day they carry come from stored coal. 15,000 railroad workers have been laid off because of the anthracite strike and consequent reduction of freight. The railroad workers take this lay off cheerfully, believing the miners deserve the increase. Solid Leather Shoes FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN, MISSES AND MEN OUR SHOES are cheap, but we carry only the best quality, whether dress, school or working shoes- You will not find any "juiik" or poorly made shoes in our store. EVERY PAIR IS A BARGAIN Specials For Tills Week Children's Slippers, clearing at $1.46 snd $1.96 Ladles' Sample Shoes, regular to $7 Ior $2.96 Boys* School Shoes $2.16 and $2.05 Men's Work Boots (tho famous "Skookum") $3.96 and $4.96 Men's Dress Shoes, up to $10 values for » $4.95 KIBLER'S SHOETERIA (THE BB8T FOB LESS) 163 HASTINGS STREET EAST . *K_8$5 Ptf• Four THB CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Friday, October 9, 1925 j OPEN FORUM &dikrU& Hpa^e QUESTION BOX I Address All Letters ajnd Remittances to the Bdltor Up (Eattata Sabot Afrrorat? 1139 Howe Street, Vanconver, B.C. ,^!_.?S?.....^,LJi?L. $2 A TEAR $1 SIX MONTHS :: Capitalism's :: Weekly Pageant MAN, ENGLISH, intelligent, wants work. Used to pick and shovel. The above is taken from a recent copy of the "Star," and seems to be wrong somewhere. It might be objected to on tbe grounds tbat George Bernard Shaw takes, tbat "a man cannot be intelligent and English at the same time." That, of course, Is Shaw's objection, but ours Is a more weighty one. We do not see how: a man claiming- to have any Intelligence would advertise for work as a pick and shovel artist. * • » TN THE PUBLISHED list of dele- gates tbat met Mackenzie King at the 0. P. R. depot, (rom the Salvation Army lassie to the janitor of the Liberal headquarters, no mention was made of the most prominent feature of the parade, John OUver not excepted. *, At the head of the procession as it left the depot was the only honest man ln the entire collection He carried a sign bearing the inscription: "Carpenters Wages in Vancouver are $7.00. The 0. P. R. pays $6.60. Be a Man. Don't Scab. Unfortunately he was sidetracked by a "bull" who was blind to the criminals ln his rear. * * » INJUNCTIONS have some utility after all, much as we may hate to admit it. Generally they are applied against Labor organizations only, but recently some warrior like church people ln Edmonton, who apparently do not believe ln turning tho other cheeck, bave taken advantage of this weapon, and havo prevented a priest of the Greek-Catholic Church from holding forth. We do make some progress after all. * * » EDUCATION is a cloak used to J-J cover many strange and weird doctorines, and like charity, it covers a multitude of sins. The latest contortion it has been subjected to, comes from* the meat pocking- industry. A few day ago tlie dally press told us about a gentleman engaged in the lucrative pastime of raising the cultural level of Oriental workers by converting them from cereal eaters to meat eaters, and this is characterized as educating the "masses in China and Japan". Oh trade, what atrocities are committed in thy namet * • * •PEO. D. IRELAND, relief officer for the City of Vancouver, ls badly troubled over the morals of western harvesters. He informed the City Council a few days ago that many harvest workers were gathering in Western towns and cities and spending money recklessly. Evidently a man who works on a farm has no right to spend his wages in ways suitable to himself. One wonders whether Ireland "blows In" more money daring the course of a year than do the men he refers to, and how be would like to have someone watching with eagle eye, every nlckle he spends. Where does the farmer get the honey? From the hive! Where does the magnate get the money? , Man alive. From you and me and all of us, The grime and sweat and thrall of us, That foil and moil and* dig and delve and dive! —Franklin Kent Gifford. npHE CLASS STRUGGLE in Great Britain is daily becoming more acute. The British capitalist class note with fear and trembling the growing might of organized Labor, and are preparing to resist by all means at their disposal any attempt the workers may make to .secure political power. All that coterie of idle vampires who never performed one single useful day's work in all their parasitical existence, but who live on the fruits of those who toil, are preparing with frantic haste for future eventualities. Fearing to risk their own precious skins, they are .not only banding themselves together, but are endeavoring to gather into their ranks their next of kin—the offal of the working class and the hangers-on of capitalist society. The workers, driven with the lash of unemployment and reduced living standards, are also marshalling their forces. Premier Baldwin, after promising that the miners' wages would not be reduced, now threatens that if they refuse the proposed cut they will not be permitted to draw unemployment relief. The 'miners have replied by threatening to boycott the coal commission, and are meeting today to consider the situation. The clouds of class conflict hang low over the Old Land. On one side stands the mighty productive army of Labor, without whom nothing can be accomplished. On the other side stands those who neither toil nor spin, but who live in luxury, knowing no want that can not be satisfied. • aaa* AN ARMY OF REPRESSION is being built up by the British master class. It is not being done secretly or under cover, but in the full light of day, and apparently with the full approval of the government. This army is divided into four separate categories. First, "special constables," who obviously are meant for open struggle. Second, operatives of railway transport. Third, drivers of motor vans and lorries- Fourth, messengers in the' event of strikes in the telegraph, postal and communication service. The president of this aggregation is Lord Hardinge of Penhurst, and his council is alleged to contain such men as Major-General the Earl of Scarborough, the Earl of Ranfurly, Admiral Jellicoe and Viscount Falkland. The purpose of the organization is obviously militaristic; i.e., to subject the workers by force of arms. Although "officially" it is non-political, it has the approval of the British government, not "officially," but the approval nevertheless. Its own officers admit that thc government is fully aware of its action, and Sir William Joynson- Hicks was reported in the daily papers a few days ago to have admitted that he had given the body a "partial blessing," and had advised a certain friend to join the organization as a patriotic duty. Thus the capitalist class of the British Isles are baring their fangs and coming out in their true colors, with the avowed intention of smashing the workers' organizations. * * t * * TVjECESSITY, NOT CHOICE, impels the workers of Britain to move forward in their battle for bread. Unemployment and want is widespread, industry is in chaos, and a number oi those employed in manufacturing find themselves pitted against the coolie standards of the Orient, while these same Oriental workers are in turn held in subjection by white workers in uniform, aided by a native constabulary. Thc countries into which, up until a few years ago, the products of British labor were poured are today exporting the same kind of commodities. Capitalism as a social system can no longer meet the wants of mankind, but the privileged class it has created refuse to conform to society's needs, and are arming to maintain their position. The Canadian daily press remains dumb on this question, but when John Wheatley suggested at a meeting in Glasgow that Labor should prepare for battle, our local papers screamed in glaring headlines that ten million workers were being armed in Britain. Every effort is made to keep the workers in each country ignorant of the position of their comrades in other places. A censorship of silence on truth and a campaign of misrepresentation exists throughout the entire country. Our masters are also preparing to aid their brothers across the sea- Our duty is to make clear to Canadian workers the actual conditions obtaining in Britain, so that they are not fooled into aiding the financiers of Wall Street and London. Saving Uncle Sam WASHINGTON- B. Kellogg, -(FP) — Frank _________________^__, whom organized labor and the farmers of Minnesota kicked out of his senatorial seat at their first opportunity by a majority running toward 100,- 000, was rewarded for his faithfulness by appointment, at the hand of President Coolidge, as ambassador to Great Britain and then as secretary of state. That fact has.to be home in mind when his order of exclusion against Shapurjl- Saklatvala, the only India-born and Communist member of the British parliament, coming as a delegate to the Inter Parliamentary Union, is considered. Kellogg was once characterized, in a St. Paul speech by the late Senator LaFollette, as having cringed so long and so low to do the bidding of special privilege, that Gog Almighty had stamped lt upon him for all men to see. Certainly his black silk knee breeches and dress sword, worn at court functions ln London, delighted his soul. These facts in turn must be remembered when the London tory press appeals to Kellogg in Washington to discredit a man whose speeches in parliament, analyzing and flaying the British imperial enslavement of the people of India, have given high hope to the advocates of actual self government for that dominion. Chairman Borah of the Senate foreign relations committee, who had read the full text of Saklat- vala's most radical speech before hn advised President Coolidge against permitting Kellogg to turn this trick for British imperialism, says the speech is an able and fearless one, showng great learning and high ability. He thinks the exclusion from the international gathering in Washington of the only spokesman of 300,000,000 people in India will be resented by the people of India, and will cost the' British empire a heavy price. He charges that Kellogg simply intervened in a political dispute within the empire. To the extent that he identified the United States with British imperialism he has done irreparable Injury tb American prestige throughout the world. Borah says he will ask Congress to repeal the sedition law under which men who hold "dangerous thoughts" are still subject to wartime restrictions ln coming to our shores. He will also raise the question as to how far the United States government is to serve as errand-boy and detective for the British empire, when the imperial policy is one of training the dark- skinned peoples to manufacture, at coolie wages, goods which shall compete with the products of American white labor. India is important to British imperialism because India has a vast resource of cheap labor, and offers a reserved market for British-made goods, while her raw materials give Britain a special advantage ln the markets of the world. Fascisti Delegates Get Hot Reception (Federated Press.) NEW YORK.—New York ItalJ lans staged three monster demonj strations of protest against fa cism when the Italian delegate to the inter-parliamentary union" arrived on the steamer DuHUo] Despite large numbers of privab detectives, police and soldiers) gathered at the pier at the request of the Italian ambassador, several thousand local Italian workers! gathered two blocks from tha dock when the ship arrived ana caused consternation among the| fascist delegates. The demonstrators were did persed by police reserves after thej delegates had been spirited tq their hotels, but gathered again outside one of the city's largest hotels, where the delegates were supposed to stop. Again thes were dispersed and gathered! around the fascist league head! quarters, where they gave a rousl i*ng demonstration of their hatred for the oppressive government o\ Italy. UNION DIRECTORY Think of the selfishness of "our betters." It forms the background of all their thinking and the very texture of their philosophy of life. The god of their lives ls worldly success, and their whole verbal currency reeks with it. "Get on or get out," "Business is business," "Nothing succeds like success"— such vile catch phrases unveil the naked deformity of their souls ln all their foul Indecency,—E. Brown in London "Justice." ALLIED PBINTINO TRADES COUNCIIJ —Meets leeond Monday in the mom* Preildent, J. ft. White; iecretary, R. " Neelanda. P. 0. Box 86, FEDERATED LABOR PARTY—Rooii 111, 819 Pender Bt. West. BusinesJ meeting! lit and 3rd Wedneiday. eveif Inn, R. H. Neelandi, Chairman; E, H Morriion, See.-Treai.; Angm Maclnnid 8544 Prince Edward Street, VaneouvoJ B.C., Corresponding Seoretary. Any district in British Co.umbl* de] siring information re securing speak*?] or the formation of local branches, king ly communicate with Provincial UecrV tary J. Lyle Telford, 624 Birks BUlgJ Vancouver, B.C. Telephone Beymoul 1382, or Bayvlew 6620. BAKERY SALESMEN, LOOAL 371- Meets second Thursday every montl in Holden Building. President, J. Brighjf well; financial secretary, ii, A Botr ron, 781 13th Ave. East. CIVIO EMPLOYEES' UNION, LOOA« -28—Meets first and third Fridays i| the month at 145 Hastings W., at p.m. President, R. K. Brown, 252| Charles St.; secretary-treasurer, Georq Harrison, 1182 Parker St. ENGINEERS —THE INTERNATlONAIl UNION OF STEAM AND OPERATING —Local 882—Meets every Wednesdsl at 8 p.m., Room 808, Holden Bulldlnf President, Charles Price; business a'gen and financial secretary, F, L. Hunt; cording secretary, J. T. Venn, MUSICIANS' MUTUAL PROTEOTIV] UNION, Loeal 143, A. F. of U.-^ Meets ln G.W.V.A. Hall, Seymonr «U Pender Streets, seeond Sunday' at ll a.m. President, E. 0. Miller, 991 Mel son itreet; secretary, E. A, Jamlesou 991 Nelson street; flnanclal secretar! W. E. Williams, 991 Nelson street; oi yanlser, F. Fletcher, 991 Nelson jtreej THE FEDERATED SEAFARERS UNION OF CANADA—Hcadquarteri at Rooms 6, 8 and 7, Flack Building 188 Hastingi Btreet W., Vancouver, B.U Tel. Bey. 8898. President, Robert Thonl Vice-President, David Gillespie; Bse'j Treasursr, Wm. H. Donaldson. VletorJ Branch, Room 11, Green Block, Broa, Btreet, Victoria, B.O. Phone 1908, TYPOORAPHIOAL UNION, No. 229- President, R. P. Pettlplece; vlce-prei ident, O. F. Campbell; secretary-treal urer, R, H. Neelands, P.O. Box tti Meets last Sunday of saeh month at j p.m. In Holden Building, 18 Hastings PRINOE RUPERT TYPOGRAPHIC*!] UNION No. 418—President, S. Maedonald; secretary-treasurer, J. Campbell, P.O. Box 889. Meets la| Thursday of each month. THE CANADIAN Babor A&worati With Which It Incorporated IHB BRITISH COLUMBIA TBD1 TIOMI8T PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAT By the Labor Publishing Oo. SuilMii ud Bditorlal Offlee, 1199 How* Bt. The Canadian Labor Advocate is a non factional weekly newspaper, giving news] ol the fanner-labor movement In action; Subscription Rates: United States foreign, 12.60 per year; Canada, ti per year, fl for six months; to naion subscribing in a body, 18s per aeml ber per month. f Member The Federated Press and Ttq Brltlih Laber Press tiday, October 9, 1925 THE CANADIAN LABOB ADVOCATE Page fiv - WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT UTISH WOMEN DELEGATES PRAISE War Memoirs Reveal CONDITIONS UNDER SOVIET REGIME Wilsons Treachery fi (By Soott Nearing, Federated Press.)* JNDON. — Four women prominent in the llrltlsh trade union ovemeht paid an official visit to Soviet Uiiio(u in April, May June, 1925. They devoted eir attention particularly to onditions affecting the work, nth and general conditions of women and children of Bus- " Their report has been pub- tied by W. P. Coates, 3 Adam feet, Adelphi, London. /omen, according to the re- tot, are piaying a considerable art in tHe public life of Soviet Russia. They are active in many the traue unions, they are be- S elected to positions of political fesponsibihty, and they have edu- itional opportunities and protec- against ill-health and over- Jork auch as were undreamed of (aider the czar. .Revolutionary Changes The repuw states: "Upiy those tho Know something of the fortier complete enslavement, iilit- racy auu general ignorance of Ihe peasant women in czarist ftussia. can appreciate the cnange nat has been Drought auuut in e cuiiuitions of lue and ouuook tne peasant women of today, pre-ievolutionary days she hau lusonueiy no rights — political, hconouiic or even human. Wow •he peasant woman has ueen g.ven jmuaiuy of opportunity. Thus a ■vouiau may uow worn the land bn aer own beiiaii, she is empowered and encouraged to take part the village meetings and in ao- piot elections, ootn as voter and ka cauuidate. Tue woman has an Bquai rignt to tne harvest and sijpurty of the larm, ol which she ib always an equal member." t'lie peasant women are also taking advantage of educational facilities to a considerable extent. Jn tne question of the family the eport states that, while many iges have been made against Soviet Union .as a destroyer '— tite home and of morality, ''there is at least *no more immorality in the U.S.B.K. today than e;*.ifttB in other countries, and certainly, so fur as we could judge, (here is less immorality there now than there was in pre-revoiution- flays." besides, "all the talk about e destruction of family life and .implications are based on the fact that the Soviet authorities, well as the most progressively unded women ln the Soviet Union, desire the more active a-pd [intelligent participation of women public, trade union, political a.0. international affairs." In or- to bring about this result, the [authorities are making every ef- |tort to "free women from her e-long domestic drudgery — from the constant tyranny of her tpota and pans and washtuba." ■This result ls to be attained [through the development of com- rion dining rooms and of co-operatives. Equality ol Sexes Relative equality exists between [the sexes in legal matters. The DING HOTS GROWING FAST IN SOVIET RUSSIA property of the woman does not go to her husband at marriage. Is or does a woma^p- alter her citizenship by matrimony. "The woman, being looked upon as the equal of tne man, does not on marriage lost her identity ln that of her husband." As a general conclusion, the delegates state: "As to the question of whether the Soviet government is accepted by the people who live under' it, we have no hesitation i|U giving a very emphatic Yes." The reprint ends j with the words: "So far this experiment has resulted in bringing about enormous benefits for the toiling masses of Russia; these benefits are lasting and are likely to become more and more widespread as the economic position of the country recovers from the blows dealt it by world imperialism and capitalism, and from the ruin a)nd miseries it has inherited from the czarist regime." NEW YORK. —Viscount Grey, foreign minister ln Premier As- quiths war cabinet, has just published his memoirs, in which he declares that* President' Wilson, as early as 1916, had decided to join the war on the side of the allies. Lord Grey writes that fyi February of 1916 Col. E. M. House, the president's confidential spokesman, submitted a memorandum to Lord Grey, later approved by Wilson, which pledged America's support to the allies. Lord Grey also * "absolves the kaiser of guilt for beginning the war." He said Europe was an armed camp' and war was inevitable in 1914. 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The right arm of Labor is * strong press. Add power to this , arm by subscribing to THE CAN- IADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE. Naughty Children QUITE recently, one of our local magistrates came to the conclusion that he could solve the problem of naughty children—delinquent adolescents, the reporter called them—by lining the parents instead of punishing the children. Considering we are as yet only in the twentieth century of grace, that is quite an advanced opinion —for a magistrate. If we only wait long enough, magistrates will arise who will blame the state for its naughty children—adult and otherwise. In other words, some time or other, people ,will realize that it is the social system which turns out poor citizens, incapable parents and naughty children. We can take some encouragement from the progress already made, recollecting that it is not so very~ long ago since insanity was regarded as a sin, and treated accordingly. But we still punish the victims of our social iniquities. We still fail to take into consideration all the thousand factors which go to the making of an individual character—factors over which the Individual has no control. We are still content to consider effects— surface results—and care little or nothing for deep lying reasons. The magistrate who decides on fining the unfortunate fathers of unfortunate youngsters reflects the unthinking stupidity of the age, and makes justice what it so often appears to be, merely a sordid revenue hunt. Among the dispossessed and disinherited chiefly. The treatment of delinquent children and delinquent parents for that matter, need not be left to the Mllennium for its solution. There is enough imagination in the world for us to imagine the case of the other fellow; there is enough misdirected energy to seek real remedies, and there is enough scientific knowledge to keep us going for awhile if the same scientific knowledge were only aplied. Unfortunately, our sterotyped education does not cultivate imagination, leisure ls side tracked and modern science Is like modern Christianity, useful in theory, but impossible when it comes to practice. As aforesaid, lt will take some little time before society will deal decently with its naughty children. It remains therefore, for the individual parents to do their best under the circumstances, and when they feel Inclined to. whack Johnny and send him to bed without supper to remember these golden rules: 1. Naughtiness ls really energy— sometimes real intelligence—that school and work and home do not use. 2. There's always a reason for naughtiness. 3. Solomon's golden rule about sparing the rod and spoiling the child hasn't got us very far, after all. 4. Children do' a great deal of conscious and unconscious imitating, and if they parody once in a while, it should be a lesson to adults. 5. As long as grown-ups continue to play the hypocrite; as long as they don't preach what they practice, and practice what they don't preach; as long as they get into vile tempers, and thieve and deceive and tight ^which is really what their trade, commerce, international systems and general jungle show amount to), just so long shall we have naughty children. And whereas, one is justifiable in laughing at the naughtiness of children nine times out of every ten, one cannot laugh at adult greed and pugnacity, 6. Discipline, which is generally another name for bullying, tyranny, "might over right," etc., has given to the world, a willing army of wage-slaves. 7. All mothers and fathers have it in their power, more or less, to turn out another generation of slaves, or a generation of fearless, freethinking, reasoning beings who "call no man master." 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Every year the pei stations indicate that there is very en aSe oi American investment * North West are holding what actual production shows a d* likelihood of a very poor season, empire. Miliio*us of dollars will the "British Columbia Lumber- with n consequent decline as the catches are small. Six whal- *"* wl'un6 annually from the ex- man" is pleased to call the "Log- wages received by the men ing vessels are due to return to Pio'ted workers of Germany, Eng- gers' Parliament", across in the camps. But then that is n> Victoria at any time from now on. lalld' -Fraiice, Belgium, Italy, Po- city of Seattle. This, of course, is garded as a problem, but — laud, etc., only to be turned over perfectly in order. There will be expected everyday occurence; A call from the whaling com- t0 American financiers for rein- no danger of dark and sinister pany for a couple of firemen to vestment in Europe. plots being hatched at this gatner- join the S. S. Gray was received at Mortgaging Europe ing, no dangerous schemes of im- the Headquarters by long distance How will the process work? proving working conditions in the phone from Victoria. The U. S. government will receive camps; and no diabolical schemes ■ the tnoute and will immediately of diverting the flow of profits irom A letter was received from Jack turn it over to private capital by the lumbermen's capacious pockets ln' „ted At one mlll Fowler, who is at San Jose, Calif- usipg it to retire liberty bonds, into the humble jeans of the work- ornia at present, and hopes to be But the payments wiU create a ing logger This atfalr is hailed in back in B. C. at an early date. shortage- ol working capital in the lumber trade Journals as a very Europe, for they will come out of important gathering, which should adoDtln„ the mechanlcal The S. S. Canadian Skirmisher the surpius produced by European be attended by all those who live *m in the course 0f camD owner from what il ls when (That'the'workingTogger is fl dHions aboard the S.S. City of and write home. whlch $10,000,000,000 of public °n« J? a cam» wof£)f F°f "" it increasingly difficult to fi, Victoria were far ahead of any of credits tQ Burope wm be trans. one there is the plaUdits of the, when he does the Canadian Government Merch- The other day a steward, who torme £or tne other the blacklist ant Marine vessels that he has has had considerable service with embodying the domination of Am- been in. Tell us something we do all the shiping companies, came to erican money kings. not know, Herbert. That is no the union headquarters and re- . reason why you should have taken quested to be enrolled as a mem- w a m'mn "K of the lumber barons. This Congress, we are informed, will discuss such weighty problems —for the boss—as "saving time the place of one of the Chinese ber of the Federated Seafarer's Bven -England is coming to New an(J money.._a)so for the b0SSi of who were sticking up for their Union of Canada. York for capital. Recently three oourge The „B c Lumberman- rights. Surely you know that con- * new Anglo-American enterprises states ^ the camp ovam ^ ditions aboard the C. G. M. M. ves- Members are requested to take have been launched in London, a findlng lt increasingly difficult to sels are rotten. That ls what the out subscriptions as this is the last *16,000,.t000 freight subway, a $2,- get „any tanglble reward for their organization has been trying to ex- week free copies of this paper will "00,000 hotel, and a giant movie heayy investmenta(*. and that this is even more difficult to seg a living wage. pose for the past few years and be distributed by the* Union.. the amount of inefficiency that ex- ists in the ranks of the manage- Man Llst at Headquarters ment of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine Limited, the per- Boland, T.; Bell, A. ; Dobbin, H.; Goosey, G.; George, Mr.; Gillespie, secutors of seamen who try to get „ HarriS( c . Hendersoni c, Hes. a decent living. The slaves in the Congo were treated better than are seamen aboard C. G. M. M. vessels. keth, J.; Jones, R. N.; Jensen, E.; Kissock, J.; Lawson, J.; Love, W.; McDonald, J.; Mumford, T.; Osborne, W.; Pattison, E.; Pugh, A. E.; Terry, H. J. C; Threfall, R. J.; A letter has just been received from Herb Doyle saying that the ^^i;VTworrel,"J weather is fine and there is an improvement in the catch of whales at the hunting grounds. theatre. H. N. Casson writer from b becoming ..^^ London to the Wall Street Jour- nal. One wonder what these gentle- "These joint enterprises, with men oal1 a "tangible reward". No an Anglo-American board of di- other grouP °f owners o( indUstr,y rectors, are becoming very com- reaP half the harvest that this mon in England. The four Am- -*ane does, but even at that they erican banking houses that are at are not satisfied, present most prominent in float- The "Loggers' Parliament" will ing these enterprises are the discuss how to save tlme and m°n- Guaranty Trust Co., the National •*• and *"»*..T_°"lL^_ "".l!!. City Ba|pk, Lee, Higginson & Co. Who Ib BILL H0NGERPORI| Ask Any Labor Msn. STANFORD ROOMS 883 SETMOUB STREET Housekeeping and Transient -1 Central—Terms Moderate Under New Management "Bill" Hungerford and M. 0; bridge, Props. NORWEGIAN WORKERS Empire Cafe QUALITY COURTESY SEASONABLE 76 Hastings East HAROLD DEOO and BOB KRAUSE Ute 51th Batt and 72nd Batt. and the House of Morgan." So by economic coercion and alliance with the money aristo- DEMAND LABOR UNITY cracies of Europe the American (Federated Press.) investment empire will grow. The ^.^ll^L^Sl U. S. government may forgive part a still greater exploitation of the men in the camps. That is good business. But when the working loggers talk of increasing the few dollars they receive, that is inter- OSLO, Norway. — International demands, and probably fomented by Bolshevik agitators, certainly trade union unity is called for by «** **«* due from foreign »> ~*»£ »-—• — ^ the Norwegian Trade Union Con- -debtors- but American capitalists ™use* gress meeting at Oslo. The con- wiU demand their pound of flesh. *^>^ The boss overlooks no bets for increasing his income; but the workers do. Had a convention of gress decided unanimously to af- As a result the burden ot empire filiate the Norwegian trade union wU1 become heavier and heavier _ _ movement to the Anglo-Russian °n the working population. The g Qne unity committee, and passed a Wty to carry this increasing J ™ wouW resolution to exert every effort burden wiu not increase and may for the creation of a single trade diminish. The period of great union international, based on the expansion 0f capitalism in Europe have responded. class order. is over. Advertisers are helping us. Reciprocate by buying from them, and toll them you saw lt ln the Advocate. Abolition of Foreign t Rule in China Sought MAINLAND CIGAR STORE "The Place for Pipes" mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention 810 OARRALL STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. This is supposed to be boom daya in the lumber industry, but production at present is only seventy five per cent, normal. Tho American market Is already showing signs of becoming overstocked, and Its effects are being felt over here. BALTIMORE.—Pull, immediate The *-boom days" of the lumber and specific surrender of the inaustry, from the workers point power held by foreign nations to of vieW| apparently have disap- regulate China's tariff rates and to maintain foreign courts for , _.. , foreigners i,n China is'the demand Reduced Demand Uld laid before the conference on Chinese - American relations at Johns Hopkins University by the entire Chinese delegation, It was presented by Dr. Clarence K. S. BRUCE; SUIT SALE Big reductions, splendi] values. Regular pricq $22.50 to $42.50, now-' $15 to $37.6! C. D. BRUC1 Limited Oor. Homer and Hastingi St] VANCOUVER, B.O. Not Cause Wage Cuts Red Star Drug Store "The Mail Order Druggists" We Make a Special Effort to Get Goods Out by First Mall After Receipt of Your Order Corner Cordova and Carrall Vancouver, B.O. (Federated Press) FALL RIVER, Mass.—Recent Young of the Chinese legation at wage cuts in the textile industry Washington. The statement set were not caused by shortening of forth that the 400,000,000 Chinese the demand. Textile mills report are today united in this position, a 60 per cent, operation for fine and that they have- established, print goods and 80 per cent, for by recent events, their power to fine goods, despite the fact that hold it. the season ls almost over. This is Other speakers at the confer- better than local mills have done ence warned foreign governments for some time. The Increase is that China has 2,B00,00i) soldiers centered ln a few mills which have under arms, and she may be kept open steadily while mills that driven to become a military na- shut down eighteen months ago tlo.n, forcing a new war. because, of dull trade are still closed tight. Say you saw it advertised In the "Advoeato". Patronise Our Advertisers. The Original HARVEY Logging Boot] HAND-MADE BOOTS for LOGGERS, MINERS, CRUISERS and PROSPECTORS Quick Servico for Bepiiri All Work Guaranteed Special Atttntlon to Mill Ordtr^ H. Harvey Eetabllihod ln Vancouver In 11911 C8 CORDOVA STREET WJ lay, October 9, 1925 THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Pag* Seven ian Workers Hear ]!ook on Imperialism JIDON—A. J. Cook, General |ary of the Miner's Federa- ' Great Britain and Executive - ' member of the Workers' In- Jtional Relief of England, has ftjompleted a speaking tour., fghout Germany pointing out Sanger of sweated labor as uceb. under the Dawes Plan fcrmany and under the Allied fallst Dictatorship In China, jrfding his hearers that world riallsm was a great menace to (International labor problems, pk called upon the workers to their ranks closer than ever te and referred to the recent Igles of the British miners as Ixample of what labor can do united action ls applied. lEPOEATION OF POINT OBBT (§lh Ckmtttrg KIttbor £fero0 Congress Wallops Dawes' Plan (By Carl Brannin, Federated Press.) [VOTERS' LIST 1926 trSEHOLDBRS and, Licence Holders are hereby notified that, In i to havo their names placed on the Iheir statutory declarations in the pr mnst be lodged with the Clerk |g the month ot October. HENRY FLOYD. Clerk, fclpal Hall, 5851 West Boulevard, nconver, B.C. KT0O-7VER BARBOUR COMMISSIONERS otice to Sprinkler Sytem Contractors ■Advertisement for Tenders for In- | stalling Sprinkler System in No. 3 Elevator Extension of Time Limit ITICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the (time in which tenders for the above will be received at the Office of |iVancouvcr Harbour Commissioners, Seymour Street, Vancouver B.C., been extended from 12 o'clock noon, nesday, the 7th day of October, nn- 12 o'clock noon, Monday, the 12th fof Octobor, 1925. W. D. HARVIE, Secretary, ber 5th, 1925. HOES QUALITY COMFORT DURABILITY SERVICE LOW PRICES rhis Is What You Get lien Buying" Prom Us ■SCARBOROUGH, Eng. — The British Trades Union Congress went on record by a large majority vote as against the Dawes Plan. This is the first time that this matter has come before the official labor movement ln this country. Previously when a similar resolution was presented to the Labor party conference, ways were found to keep it off the agenda. It is. a striking repudiation of one of the acts of the Labor government which Ramsay MacDonald and James H. Thomas and other labor statesmen have defended with vigor. Mr. Thomas sat at his seat as a delegate and never opened his mouth. The resolution declared that the low wages and long hours existing in Germapy were directly due to the successful attempt of the employers to place the burden of this plan on the workers. The congress pledged itself, in adopting the resolution, to "assist the German workers in every possible way in Improving their standard of life and to support the general council ln Its efforts to obtain international trade union purity which will enable the workers to fight ' on an International scale for the repudiation of the Dawes Plan." A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners' Federation, ln supporting the motion against the plan pointed out that in 1913 Britain e*- British Banks Block Russian Credit Orders ported 73.4 million tops of coal. In 1925, according to present estimates, she would not export 60 million. France and Italy, which formerly bought coal from England, had been pushed out of the market by Germany's reparation payments. "In England today," said Cook, "there are 200,000 miners unemployed. We have lived to regret what we have dope. It has damned German workers. We cannot hold the seven-hour day here if the German miners are forced to work 8 and 9 hours. The Versailles Treaty must be revised; reparations must be done away with." Pollitt reminded the delegates that every capitalist government in the world supported the Dawes Plan, surely it could not be very good for the workers. He read an item announcing that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald had been invited to address the Pilgrim Club, an .exclusive New Tork institution, because of the valuable part he had played as the Labor premier in getting the Dawes Plan accepted. West Virginia Scene Of Bitter Class War REAL BARGAINS |Men, Women and Children 7. e Imperial •Shoe Store [,1087 GRANVILLE ST. >pp. Standard Furniture Co. LONDON—That big banking firms In Great Britain are preventing British manufacturers from accepting orders for $25,000,000 worth of textile machinery from Soviet Russia, Is the charge made by M. Eremin, first vice-president of the textile syndicate ofthe Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Eremin states that the Russian textile delegation came to Britain exclusively for business purposes, and found British manufacturers ready and willing to do business, but that owing to the attitude taken by the banks, they had been able to place but a small fraction of the £5,000,000 order they brought over. The firms with which the delegation negotiated stated that they required credit from the banks to fill the ordets but this the banks refused to grant. Eremin states that the delegation is leaving for Germany where they have been offered very advantageous terms. GLASSES COMPLETE Ho Drugs Used in Examination ■T-HIS advertisement means hlgh- ■'■ grade glasses, with a thorough and advanced eye examination by a graduate specialist. Vou 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 SERVIOE BLDG. 680 Robson Street Phone Sey. 8955 (By Louis F. Budenz, Federated Press) FAIRONT, W. Va.—The man who said "there is no class war," has never been to West Virginia. In contrast to the hard-coal regions, there Is a spirit of antagonism and bitterness everywhere In the atmosphere. TheUnited Mine Workers are in the battle for their life up here in the northern .section of the state. The trenches have moved from Mingo and McDowell up- to Marion, Monongahela and Harrison counties. Across the intervening space the open shop operators have been, driving the union men, through the convenient weapon of an overdeveloped Industry." Contracts with employers are not worth the paper they are written on, the experience of the miners hereabouts seems to show. Since last "* April the operators have persistently broken this agreement, cutting wages and altering conditions. Finally; with the union miners opposing their program, they have come out with the "American plan," which is the open shop. The local papers run daily reports showing the extent of the Inroads of the American plan on the union mines. It runs a tabulation each day of the number of cars loaded in each of the districts, under union conditions and the American plan. The spirit of the union strikers around Fairmont Is enthusiastic and belligerent. They seem perfectly willing to go to jail for the union. "We know what union has done for us," Mrs. Eddie Vene.ky, one of the fighting pickets at the New England mine, said: "We have nothing if the union goes." And yet, that ls jnst whnt threatens in West Virftlnia. The union must either make a real advance into nonunion territory before the winter, or It faces complete annihilation in the West Virginia field. British Labor Raps Empire Imperialism SCARBOROUGH, Eng. — "This Trades Union Congress believes that the domination of non-British people by the British government is a form of capitalist exploitation having for its objeot the securing for - British capitalists (1) of cheap sources of raw materials; (2) the right to exploit cheap and unorganized labor and to use the competition of that . labor to degrade the workers' standards In Great Britain. "It declares its complete opposition to imperialism, and resolves: (1) to support the workers in all parts of the British Empire to organize the trades unions, and political parties ln order to further their Interests, and (2) to support the right of all peoples in the British Empire to self-determination, including the right tq choose complete separation from* the empire." This resolution was adopted by the British Trades Upton Congress at its final session for 1925 by a vote of 3,082,000 for and 79,000 against. It was a definite blow at the reactionary opposition led by J. H. Thomas of the Railwaymen. A. A. Purcell (Furnishing Trades), vice-president of the Congress; J. Bromley, secretary of the Locomotive Engineers; Le- malre (Compositors), and Pollitt (Boilermakers), secretary of the Minority Movement, all supported the resolution. Thomas was the only one to oppose. British Army Aids German Capitalists (British Labor Press Service) LONDON—If ever our British troops at Cologne comes Into armed conflict with German Communists, it is certain to be said that the soldiers only fired in self-defense, after they had exhausted every peaceful means, etc. (see recent Press reports of the shooting in Shanghai for stereotyped explanations ahd Justifications). Consequently, it is just as well that there should be placed on record the following Reuter account of a little Rhlneslde incident, ln which British troops one night "rounded up" a number of Communist'literature distributors: "In the course of the "round up" a man who was suspected of having been concerned in the distribution of these leaflets ran away while about to be interrogated, and two shots assisted to speed his flying feet without arresting his flight." As usual, you see, the soldiers only fired in self-defence. Lords, Earls and Dukes Are Preparing To Scab British Coal Owners Break Wage Promise LONDON—War ls again brewing between the Miner's Federation and the coal operators backed by the Baldwin government as the miners claim that the operators, with the consent of the Baldwin cabinet, is violating the agreement not to cut wages during the term of the "armistice" agreement. Baldwin is denounced for breaking his promise, and A. J. Cook, secretary of the federation says the miners "feel very strongly about lt." They claim that the owners are tempering with the basic rates on wages, which they agreed not to touch. Baldwin, In conference with the miner's leaders, tried to excuse the owners by claiming that what he meant when he promised there would not be touching of wages was that the 1924 agreement was to continue, but since the base vates On that were variable, they were variable during the truce. While the miners threaten no immediate strike, thev have called an emererpney meeting for October Oth and have laid down a boycott on the recently appointed coal commission which ls supposed to be examining conditions ln view to final agreement. LONDON—Britain's dukes and lords are preparing to work with their .hands for the first time ln their luxurious lives. But is lt honest labors—No. They only Intend to scab on workers on strike, euphemistically put—to meet a national crisis. A volunteer organization, aimed to supply the necessities of life In the event of a coal strike followed by other strikes, has been organlz- ' ed by some of Great Britain's leading men and it is reported that Lord Harding of Penhurst and Lord Jellicoe, of Jutland fame, are at the head of the organization. Many society folk have Joined the , organization, it is said, and lf a general strike comes thev will man railroad trains and load coal and perform all sorts of menial tasks, ln order that British capitalism may not be paralyzed. BRITISH UNEMPLOYED STILL MULTIPLYING LONDON. — The percentage of unemployed among 11,500,000 British work people by the last return is 12.6 against 11.5 a month earlier and 10.6 a year ago. Cost of living averages, as issued by the ministry of labor; at the beginning of September, show retail prices 74 per cent, pbove July, "1924. as compared with 73 per cent, in August, 80 'n Jnuaary and 72 ln September. 1924, Buildta? Trades Wares Hold Their Standards WASHINGTON — President Green of tho American Foderation of Labor has held oonfer»nees with the general executive hoard of the Brlcklavers' International Union and with executives of the Operative Plasterers' International with a view to settling tbelr controversy over jurisdiction over Plasterers in towns where the Bricklayers were first to organise. Australian Emoloyfirs Seek More Immigrants' SYDNEY, Australia. — Employers nre demanding that the N.S. W. State Labor government allow the Importation of skilled workers into the country, but the government refuses to allow this on the ground thnt there are many thouonnds of skilled workmen al- readv jobless. Among these un- emploved at tbe present time are carpenters, bricklayers, painters, machinists, fitters, trimmers, engineering nss'stants, boilermakers, electricians, blacksmiths, coach- workers, saddlers, textile workers and boot trade operatives. Much unemployment ls reported In the following Industries: Building, clothing and textiles, woodworking, Iron, leather and general manufacturing trades. (By Federated Press) ATLANTIC CITY — ■ Building tradesmen's wages have held their standards during the last year, says retiring president George F. Hedrlck of the Building Trades Department and a report on wages of building craftsmen throughout the country tends to bear out his optimistic assertion. St. Louis, Mo., ranks at high, the department's statistics show, with bricklayers and plasterers listed at $1.75 an hour; granite cutters at $1.66; iron workers, carpenters, electricians, cement finishers, plumbers, steam fitters and stone masons at $1.05; building laborers get $1.00 an hour in 21 cities, with New York credited at $1.06 and Hamilton, Ont.. and Harrlsburg, Pa., scaling at low with 40 cents an hour. "In many cities and towns," says Hedrlck, "the affiliated local unions of our Department are receiving a higher scale of wages than was paid at any time In the history of their organizations. Send in Tour Subscription Today. Page Eight THB CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Friday, October 9, 191 SCIENCE DEMONSTRATES NEED FOR POWERFUL LABOR PRESS (By Leland Olds, Federated Press.) •■THE vital importance to labor 7 minutes exposure to propaganda (By Art Shields, Federated Press) - of a well organized labor press were: ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. to combat the propaganda con-* Percent of Persons on Increase toughest Jurisdictional A. F. of L. Jurisdictional Fight Em Terms of the treaty include ar- adopted at the meet and presidi The bitration of all points at issue by Green of the A. F. of L. pledi conflict 'a board consisting of executives of his assistance in getting the stantly pouring * from"~capltalist confOT__iit"y 1st Mot" c^to-_\y within the American Federation of the two unions and the president of penters back if it were possli organs of publicity is shown Ip a study made by H. A. Sturges of Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, of the increase in conformity due to even a short exposure to propaganda. Sturges found that even 7 minutes silent reading of propaganda resulted in an average gain of more thap 5 per cent, in conformity, and that conformity steadily Increased as the time spent ln such reading was lengthened. His experiment consisted In getting 680 persons to vote a ballot containing 25 questions connected with the general Issue of extreme patriotism versus pacifism. Those ?er ,oent' questions included: Is lt right or wrong to hate other countries which do no wrong? To injure noncombatant citizens of countries which do wrong? Is it 0-19 26- 2.3 points 20-39 207 3.0 40-59 200 2.3 60-79 204 2.0 " 80-99 40 0.5 100 3 0.0 after reading Labor, ends with the signing of a ^ A- F- °f L.- The »H treaty but the prospects for peaoe peace pact between the bricklayers' dividing up the work between these only be conjectured. The carft-i and plasterers' unions, officially two unions which both claim plas- ters stand pat pn their right tor known as the Bricklayers, Masons, terinS operations Is hereby renew- the metal trim work assigned and Plasterers International Union ed an(i each un,°n agrees to keep the sheet metal men by the boa! and the Operative Plasters and Ce- out of territory allotted to the oth- of Jurisdictional award, ment Finishers International As- er- Some vestige of the affair Ah attack on the craft lsolatfl sociation, and as a result work' will llnscrs, however, with a few local which in some cases has allow! be resumed on millions of dollars strikes continuing . where contrac- cne union to fight alone while ot] of construction In New York, Chi- tors attempted to operate with non- ers work on the struck Job was ! cago, Miami and other cities which unionists. by the Brotherhood of Palntq had been hit by strikes called in But though this worst Jurisdic- wnose nevrty elected preside the Inter-union fight. tlonal knot ls unravelled, the long George F. Hedrlck, Is retiring pij The peace settlement came in established dispute with the car- sident of the Building Trades slightly over 60 per cent. After the. closing day of the annual con- penters continues, though on less ParttT'*?'*t. The convention ord« 7 min. reading of propaganda the vention of the Building Trades De- hostile lines. The carpenters re- the department to use all possltj average rqge 2.3 points or about 5 partment, and is hailed as saving main outside of the Building Persuasion against the signing the building trades from a disas- Trades,. Department, which their Individual agreements by local ul trous situation, with a movement power as the largest building ions without the sanction of bullj rent by strife within and open shop trades union would greatly streng- 1nt? rrades councils and against employers eager to seize the then. Conciliatory declarations Inclusion of anti-strike clauses th Thus before reading the propa-, ganda the bulk of the persons voting ranged between 20 per cent, and 80 per cent, of full conformity with the 100 per cent, militarist patriot. The average was After 14 minutes reading it rose 3.5 points and after 23 minutes reading 6.5 points or nearly 15 per cent. The daily papers, the leading chance for a big push weekly and monthly periodicals the ■== about the saw and level men were right or wrong to make war on any movies, all are filled with propa- ' country which opposes American ganda against the point of view policy? Was it right or wrong for oi organized labor. And the pub- American soldiers, to sink German llc Is exposed to this propaganda submarines, killing their occu- not 7 minutes or 14 minutes but pants? to drop bombs on German a11 the time. cities where military supplies were Sturges' study shows how this kept? etc. Irish Enliven Lawmakers' Meet (By Laurence Todd, Federated make a catspaw—as regard Saklat- Press vala the anti-imperialist firebrand WASHINGTON— "Mulcahy the —of the American government. enables the big interests to mold Irish Benedict Arnold is Opposed But they declined to take a hand in that let union men Into the role * strikebreakers. That there much sentiment for solidarity the industry was shown this ye'l In Boston and Connecticut whej other crafts went out in behalf I the hodcarriers and building ll borers when the latter had flgh on. Each individual voted e^her public opinion In spite of the ef- to the American Form of Govern- - right, wrong or in doubt, opposite forts of organized labor. Only as ment. Why Receive Him?" each juestion.. The ballot were labor is able to counter with well That was the challenge, and one graded from 10.0 per cent; con- organized propaganda of its own of the most moderate among a formity down based on the an- actually reaching the public mind dozen painted on white pasteboard swers. The results of the first bal- can It hope to obtain the support signs borne aloft by a picket line lot and of the ballot taken after which It needs. of Irish republicans, which march- ' ed to the door of the HoUse cham ber In Washington, on the third morning of the Interparliamentary Workers' Indifference Un,on conference, to protest the - presence of the Free State com mander-in-chief ln this country. Policemen, all Irish by birth or descent, rushed to prevent the pho- the Internal disputes In Ireland. The German and French and Scandinavian radicals were Intent on continental affairs. Plan To Organize the Automobile Industry European Puzzled At (By Art Shields, Federated Press) ATLANTIC CITY.—The outstanding decision at the Metal (By Federated Press) WASHINGTON—Anton Erkel- enz, chairman of the national Dem- Ban Communists From Bldg. Trades Councils (By Federated Press) ATLANTIC CITY—The privileges of Communists holding membership in building trades unions were narrowed when the building trades convention ruled that no Bird, Bird & Lefeaui BARRISTERS. SOUCITORS. BTO. 401-401 Matropsltttll Buildta* 887 Hastingi St. W.. Vineoovw, B.OJ Telephone!: Stymour MM and 66671 Trades Department convention of ocratlc party of Germany, member the A. F. of L., was to call a con- of the reichstag from Dusseldorf tographers from taking a picture avowed Communist may sit in a of the placards on these forbidden local building trades council. This #„...„_, . ii . ... „„i*i .t ._,*.,*, *, •**, _ _* , premises. Meanwhile Gen. Mul- ruling strikes at W. H. Jones, reg- ference of all international unions in the Ruhr, and president of the _. _■„■"■ „ - __, _1" i _,_, , , ,__,__, _, ... ' ■i„,r..i„_,.. tn* «,„ r.„*-n„_o ... ■*„*.. I * jj _ i T . , i oany was safe,v ,nside the bulm" ularly eIected to the Seattle Coun- Involved for the purpose of start- Independent union of metal working a campaign to unionize the ers is attending the Interparlia- great open shop Industry ruled by mentary Union sessions after a Ford, General Motors and other three months study of industrial automobile manufacturers. conditions in the United States. The conference Is intended, to He confesses himself puzzled Ing, and was listed to take part In cil and informs Jones that the ac- a. discussion of ways to make neace tion now taken ls based on the In the world through codifying precedent set at Portland. In that, international law. city two years ago the A. F. of L. "Mulcahy, Murderer of 77 Irish convention bnseated William F. Republican Patriots," shouted an- Dunne, Communist and delegate work out a program that will get over one fact more than any other otj,er p,acar(3i waved bv a W0Tnan from the Silver Bow Trades and the co-operation of all the unions, he has observed—the fact that the from Oklahoma. And a bigger Labor Assembly This Is a ticklish, but a vital mat- American workers have done al- banner carrled this query and re- A striking feature of the depart ter If the program is to succeed. most The automobile industry, Presi- their dent James O'Connell of the de- their partment, explains, ls so highly and political action. He scientifically specialized that lt them largely Indifferent to the con would be easy to run Into a Jumble nectlon between governmental pol- of Jurisdictional disputes that lcies and their chance to earn a would be almost impossible of un- livelihood under favorable condl- ravellng unless a proper working tlons. method ls devised. Saving that he Another mystery to the German is not a "one big union" man he moderate leader Is the Indifference threat to call the patrol wagon lf says that he sees a possibility of the of American workers to trade un- the placards were not promptly "amalgamation of some unions Ion protection. Whereas in the gt^^ed or the pickets taken off with other unions where their re- Ruhr all. labor ls strongly'organlz- the cap|to, ground, photographers latlons are very close and the kind ed, in American Industrial citadels were fort,iaaen to use their camer- of work to be performed is very he finds It afraid to Join unions, similar." He believes that "there nothing, ln comparison to ply. "why did Mulcahy murder ment's ruling is that the, Commun- opportunities, to strengthen h*s former comrades? Because ists are barred from delegates seats economic position through they were trUe whl]e he was a though no action leading'towards has found traitor." Further along the line taking up their cards is hinted at. was this tribute: "General Dick It still leaves them citizens of the Mulcahy—Butcher to His Majesty, The King." There was good-natured parleying between the police and the plcketts, with a mild-mannered unions but on a restricted basis. Help us by mentioning the Advocate. RECIPROCATE We support your paper. Where do yon bay yonr Painting Supplies? PAINT THIS FALL, —WITH— ANT1M0 WHITE' Prepare for. the winter rains'■'** with a coat of good paint IF BUILDING OR REMODELLING USE FIR OR LAMATCO 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 as. are a tremendous number of occu- Some day, without a trumpet's call patlons in the automobile industry This news will o'er the earth be which could well be combined and blown: put under the Jurisdiction of one "The heritage comes back to all, organization to be chartered by tbe The myriad monarchs take their American Federation of Labor," own." —T. W. Hlgglnson. with skilled craftsmen assigned to the respective International unions. Patronize Our Advertisers. Gee, It's Getting Cold! Where's My WINTER TTNTWRWFAR AND TOP COAT Stanfield's Underwear—In An Overcoat is hard for many weights; suit $3.50 anyone to understand by quoting prices in a news- Stanfield's Combinations paper. —$3-00, $3.50 $4.00 Please call and we will show Watson's Combinations — Suit $3.50 you real values. Carss Mackinaw Shirts, Coats and Pants. Headlight Work Shirts and Overalls Are All Union Made W. B. BRUMMITT 18-20 OORDOVA STBEET WEST At the front was a woman from Newark with the slogan: "George Washington—Eamon De Valera. Benedict Arnold—Richard Mulcahy." At the rear was a man from Columbus with a reminder that "One of Mulcahy's Victims" was Harry Boland, former Irish envoy in America, who was "Murdered In Bed, Aug. 1, 1922" while a prisoner of Mulcahy. A banner which was held ln reserve announced that "American Citizens Protest desecration of Capitol of Washington and Lincoln by Reception of 'General' Mulcahy. bloody suppressor of Parliament of Irish Republlo". No heed to this protest was paid by the state department, nor by any of the delegations In the conference. The radical delegates on the floor had shown, by aplaudlng the speech of Ben Riley, English Labor Party memeber of parliament, their disapproval of the barring of any delegate because of his political views. The Labor Party group had made clear their repudiation of the Intrigue of the Tory government in London to Our 15th Anniversary OCTOBER 1910 we opened at 150 Broadway E. OCTOBER 1912 we moved to 10th and Main OCTOBER 1918 we moved to 2313 MAIN ST., our present location THROUGH the aggressiveness of the Mt. Pleasant Chamber of Commerce we will be able to remain open on Thursday and Friday evenings in commemoration of our 15th Anniversary to meet our many friends, and we hope as many as oan will drop in and see us. No selling after 6 p.m. Men's first quality Enee Gum Boots, sues 6-11; $4.25 Children's first quality Knee Gum Boots, sizes 5- ioy2 $1.95 Men.'s All-Wool Mackinaw Coats; cat price $7.25, $8.00 Men's Cottonade Pants; regular $1.95, for $1.75 Men's Military Grey Work Shirts; cut price 95c Arthur Frith & Co. Men's and Boys' Furnishings, Hats, Boots and Shoes 2313 MAIN STBEET, Between 7th and 8th Avenues Phone Fair. 14 t ■ ■ ■■-■ ■ ■*■ - ■ ■'■