"6c681df1-b569-498d-bc17-4a24a6d1d64a"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2017-03-28"@en . "1916-02-04"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcfed/items/1.0345127/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " nnttSTBIAL UNITY: STRENGTH.\nOFFIGIAL.PAPEB i VANCOUVEB TBADES AND ^ABOB. COUNCIL AND B, 0. FBDEBATION OP LABOB\nEIGHTH YEAR, No. 5\nVANCOUVER, B. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4,191*6\nm\nllfiitSE\nWhere Did Asquith Get the\n\"Pledge of Honor\"\nFrom?\nBiographical Sketches of\nthe Personnel of the\nHoly Trinity\n[By W.M.O.]'\nConBcrijition, partial conscription of\nthe \" single slackers,\" may be considered an accomplished fact in Britain;\nand what a howl of joy from the Mil-\nner-George-Carson-North cliffe combina-\ntionl\nTook It for Granted.\nThere was very litle pretenee made\nthat Derby's \"voluntary\" scheme had\nfallen flat, or that there was an actual\nshortage of the necessary material to\nfill the gaps at the front, or provide for\ncontingencies: but a \"pledge of honor\"\nhad to be fulfilled, and there you are!\nWho gave the premier permission to\nmake'this \"pledge of honor\" history\nrecordeth not, nor can it be found in\nthe pages of Hansard; but the plighted\ntroth^ a peered thing, much more than\nthe ten commandments.\nAbout Industrial Conscription.\nAssertions have been made by disreputable labor leaders and journalists\nthat the main idea is to procure industrial conscription, and thus put all labor opposition to the profiteering pilfering of the patriots down and out for\nthe count; but, of course, no sane per*\nson Would believe such calumny of our\nworthy pilots of the ship of state. Have\nthey not denied the allegations, and, as\nthe Irishman put It, proved the \"alle*\ngators\" bosom friends of Judas ahd\nAnanias, f Well, we shall see what we\nshall see.\nTh* Precious Trinity. -\nA brief synopsis of the Milner*\nGeorge-CarBon-Northcliffe combination\nmay elucidate much to those personally\nunacquainted with the gentlemen, Milner, born in Germany, was the organizer\nof the South African campaign against\namall nationalities,\nGeorge ia the defender of liberty by\nand- through the insurance and munitions acts. Carson is the modern St.\nPatrick of the Emerald Isle, whose incantations are guaranteed to charm the\nsnakes of the Vatican from the land of\nthe Shamrock; and is the associate of\nthose who declared they were in negotiation with the German emperor during the Ulster campaign.\nAnd NorthoUffe, well, he controls\nfifty newspapers and magazines, and\nhas a deep and abiding love for the\nworkers, and their liberties, anl all tho\nrest of it\u00E2\u0080\u0094we Bhould say not. Anyhow\nhere are a few opinions in regard to the\nnecessity of the action taken:\nA Few Opinions Expressed,\nSaturday Review, 21st Aug., 1915:\n\"National service is required as much\nfor the effect it will have upon miners\nand munitions, as for the part it will\nplay in the actual raising of armies.\"\nSpectator, 28th Aug., 1915: \"Not\nevery man will be wanted as a soldier,\nbut. all will be ' fetched' to do what is\nwanted of them, whether in work shops,\nor government departments, or mines,\nor merchant ships.\"\nLieut-Col. W. H. Maxwell, in the\nOutlook, Sept., 1915: \"Trade unionism\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094that shelter for slinking shirkers\u00E2\u0080\u0094is\nimperilling our existence, and by its action a rot of our national soul has set\nin. Que remedy, and one alone, can eradicate this state of- rot\u00E2\u0080\u0094martial law\nwill cure it.''\n\"Our national soul\" sure needs saving!\nA Typographical Error,\nThe presB now report's that the\n\"Welsh rarebit\" is now campaigning\nfor the \"dilution of labor.\" This Ib\napparently a case of \"printer's pie.\"\nShould be .\"Delusion of labor,\"\nCertain leading financiers and bankers have issued a statement declaring\nthat the one thing now needed to finish\nthe war is money. Very well, since the\n\"worst has now come to tho worst,\"\nwith a heavy heart we submit to the\nconscription of wealth.\nWhile there have been many casualties among the lives lent to the atate,\nthere have been no casualties among the\nsums of money lent to the state, In\nfact, they wax exceeding fat with the\nprogress of time, and maturity.\nSays the London Times, in relating\nthe capture of Kum, in Persia, by the\nBusBians, it iB a place where \"the population is much addicted to bigotry.\"\nOttawa, we are pleased to say, has escaped capture so far.\nWorking for a \"dead horse\" is a labor of love compared with working for\na total imaginary horse, and never getting out of debt.\nThe more the capitalist can. cut down\nthe .cost of production and the higher\nhe can raise the selling price of his commodities, the greater is the proflt. Their\nbusiness ideal, therefore, is '' nothing at\nall\" to the worker.\nMACHINISTS FORGING AHEAD\nToronto Joins the Big Procession for\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Shorter Hours and Longer Pay.\nThe International Association of Machinists in Toronto is in a position to\nenforce the fifty-hour work week, and\nthe union rate of wagea, says the Banner. Already fifty-three local establish -\nments have conceded the shorter workday, and will pay the recognized union\nrate, of wages.\nDuring the past week four of the\nmost important firms in the city were\nsigned up, and in two cases the men\nhad decided to lay down their tools on\n' the following morning if their demands\nwere not complied with.\n. A. S. Wells to New Tork.\n'Secretary-treasurer A. S;J Wells, of\nthe B. C. Federation of Labor, has gone\nto New Yo^k in connection with the affairs of the Amalgamated Society section of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.\nW. TATES\nSecretary, of New Westminster Trades\nand Labor council and a delegate\nfrom the Street Railway Employees''\nunion\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vice-president of B. C. Federation of Labor-\u00E2\u0080\u0094Royal City representative of The B, C. Federationist.\nRailway and Tramway Men\nWiU Amalgamate in a\nJoint Union\nDay of Craft Organization\nIs Fast Coming to\nIts Close\nSYDNEY, N. S. W., Jan 14.\u00E2\u0080\u0094One\nmore link in the chain of big unionism\nin Australia haB been forged.\nAn important move has been made\nwhich will amalgamate the railway and\ntramway men of Australia into one\nunion, each state becoming a branoh\nwith autonomous powers in itB own\nlooal affairs, the whole to be governed\nby a council of representatives from\neach state, which will direct the policy\nof the union, with power to affiliate\nwith other units of the big union movement.\nHeadquarters at Melbourne. ... .\nThe headquarters for the present, at\nMelbourne, where for several days past\ndelegates have been in conference\ndrawing up tbe new constitution. The\nmatter has to go to the members for a\nfull vote on the matter, but I am em-\npowered'to say here that the verdict\nwill be unanimous!\nThe only difficulty in the way is the\nseveral Btate arbitration awards, but it\niB hoped that soon these will be consolidated. At any rate the council is now\nin existence, and awaits only the mandate from the members, legal recognition and registration.\nEre long, it is safe to say, that every\nstate railway and tramway man will be\nunder the banner, of big unionism.\nAustralian Craft Union Dead.\nWith thiB consummated it will take\nits place in the labor movement and by\nits power and Influence speed the day\nwhen democracy shall strangle the octopus of capitalism that today holds the\nmasses in its tentacles and deprives\nthem of the fruit of their industry.\nThe move by the railway and tramway men is full of purpose and progress, and it is welcomed by other bodies\nof unionists in Australia. The big\nunion movement is surely growing, and\nat no distant date we hope to be able\nto say that Australia has over half-a-\nmiliion workers under the one big banner. The day of the craft union is past\nin Australia.\nW.' FRANCIS AHERN.\nSTREET BAILWAY EMPLOYEES\nPungent Paragraphs by Correspondent\nNo. 101, A. A. of 8. and E. B. E.\nEvery week sees 'more enlistments\nfrom our ranks. One of the latest is\nW. Shankster, our bantamweight from\nthe barn department, who has joined\nthe D. C. 0. R. as a bugler.\nThe names of the tailors who were\nsuccessful in obtaining the contracts for\nmaking the uniforms for tho next year\nwill probably be announced in a few\ndays,\nNo person can accuse the conductors\nof being too fresh any more. They\nhave boen standing in salt water ever\nsince the beginning of the cold spell.\nMany of them are packing various\nkinds of mats around with them for use\non the cars rather than stand several\nhours; on' the wet floor. If, Foster 'b prediction regarding the weather this\nmonth turn out correct, it's a cinch\nthat the division will have to provide\nseveral wreaths. Maybe the Vancouver Auto Club will supply us with rub-\nber mats. '\nSpeaking about records. Bro, Beattie\nholds the moat unique. He has. seven\nbrothers-in-law at the front. Bill evi- j\ndently believes in Bending his wife's)\nrelatives first, and \"tho cynic at our\nelbow\" remarks: \"J-UH come pretty\nnear joining the 72nd himself\u00E2\u0080\u0094once.\"\nThe division donated $100 to the\nDanbury Hatters. This is very unsatisfactory to some of the memberB, who\nclaim the educational\" value of the appeal is lost through not making individual donations. Another good reason\nwhy all hands should attend tho meetings and have a say in disposing of\ndivision funds.\nMonth's Building Recdrd.\nTbi smallest month for building permits since the establishment of the civic\nbuilding department is recorded for\nJanuary this year. During tho month\nonly 18 permits were taken out and\nthese were for repairs amounting in\nvalue to but $8315. In January, 1915,\nthere were 49 permits1 issued for a total\nvalue of $48,525.\nLETTER\nOF VICTOR\nAsk Co-operation of Other\nBranches to Secure\nBetter Conditions\nDelegates Elected to Van-\ncouver Convention\nNext August\nVICTORIA, B. C., February 2.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThe letter carriers of Victoria are\nasking the post office department for\nseveral improvements in the conditions\nof their employment. Loyal imperialists\nas they are to a man, they do not intend\nto permit the interests of their members\nto suffer through any false sentiments\non the point of citizens' duty, or patriotism. The fact is that they feel that\nthe better the legitimate interests and\nthe obvious rights of the membership\nis protected, a higher conception of citizenship and patriotism is developed.\nThis idea, having once taken hold, the\nVictoria branch association goes right\nahead seeking to improve here and\nstrengthen there, as the occasion may\ncall for. Accordingly they are asking\nthe department, through their federal\nexecutive, to grant holidays to the extra\nmen now working in the various ppst\noffices throughout the Dominion, on the\nsame conditions as the annual leave\ngranted to the permanent carriers.\nEvery branch association will be communicated with on the subject, and\nasked to take such steps as seem best\ncalculated to secure the object sought,\nIt is suggested that the postmasters in\nthe respective cities be asked to endorse the request to the department.\nWant Priority System.\nAnother matter of Dominion-wide importance which the Victoria branch association is bringing to the attention\nof the department, through the federal\nexecutive, is the question of priority in\nappointments, etc. The carriers wish\nthe department to adopt as a rule, a\nmethod somewhat along the following\nlines: Any vacancy among the permanent staff, or new position created by\nextension of the service, to be filled by\nthe man who has been longest on the extra or waiting list. New appointees,\nusually recommended by the members\nof parliament,.for their respective cities\nto be placed at the foot of the waiting\nlist.\nElection of Delegates.\nThe- last meeting of the branch decided to ask for several items in the\nway of betterment, among which the\ntwo subjects referred to above are the\nmore important. Election of delegates\nto attend the bi-ennial convention of\nthe Letter Carriers' of the Dominion in\nthe city of Vancouver, next August, resulted in the selection of A. J. Bird and\nChristian Sivertz, president and secretary respectively, with Bro. F. Hold-\nridge and G. Pretty, as alternates.\nSix Terms as President.\nPres. Bird is a thrice-blssed man thiB\nseason. In the flrst place, he was elected as president of the branch association for the sixth time. He was also\nelected a delegate to the general convention of the Federation for the second time, and just about tho same day\nfound himself in the very pleasant position of entertaining a blue-eyed young'\nlady at his home, as a permanent\nboarder. Both are doing well.\nTYPOS. IN SESSION\nShort, Lively Meeting Last Sunday\nwith Good Attendance.\nThe regular meeting of Vancouver\nTypographical union was held on Sunday afternoon last. President Pettipiece was in the chair, and a good representation of the members was present. Ab only regular business was on\nthe table, the meeting was a brief one\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094lasting only about forty-five minutes.\nAs evidence of the promptness with\nwhich the mortuary benefit of the International Typographical union is paid\nto the beneficiaries of it's members by\nthe head officers at Indianapolis, it .is\nstated that within eleven days from\nthe time the local officers received the\ndocuments proving death of the late\nLieut. R. P. Latta, who was killed on\nactive service in France, a cheque for\n$400 was placed in the hands of the\nexecutors of his estate. The local union\nis paying the duos of all its members\nwho may enlist for military duty, and\nis thereby guaranteeing to them and\ntheir families all tho benefits of the organization.\nDuring the past week, Mr. Joe Tylor\nand Mr. Craig, of Nanaimo, passed\nthrough Vancouver on their way to\nChicago. Mr. Craig just completed his\napprenticeship in the Coal City, and\nJoe took him in charge as a travelling\ncompanion.\nClarke W. (\"Pat\") Pettipiece, oldest son of President R. P. Pettipiece, a\ntwo-third member of No, 226, and a\nmember of the Dally Province chapel,\nis confined to the General hospital,\nwhere he underwent an operation last\nMonday.\n____*.^_\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094 %\nHospital Working Overtime.\nNurses in the Vancouver General\nHospital are working twelve hours and\nmore a day and are poorly paid considering tho work they are called upon to\ndo. The institution is full to overflowing, and is working short-handed. Sure-\nly the directorate could devise some\nmeana of placing the burden where it\nwould not be so keenly felt.\nDeath of Junes Brown, Jr.\nJames Brown, the only son of \"Jimmy\" Brown, the well-known old-time\nmember of the local Bricklayers' union,\ndied at his father's house, 1840 Sixth\navenue west, last Tuesday. The cause\nof death wns grippe. The deceased,\nwho was only 24 years of age, was interred at Mountnin View cemetery yeB-\ntorday, members of the Bricklayers'\nunion acting as pallbearers. \"Jimmy\"\nBrown is well-known throughout the\nlocal trade union movement, and the\ndeepest sympathy iB expressed for him\nin his bereavement.\nJAS. H. McVBTY AT\nPEOPLE'S POBUM . ''\n: SUHDAY EVENING\nNext Sunday evening in ths\nLabor Temple, at 7:30 p.m., the\nregular matting of the People's\nPorum will be held.\nThe speaker'wiU be Mr. J. H.\nMcVety, president of Vancouver\nTrades and Labor council, and of\nthe Britisa Columbia Federation\nbf Laber.\nThe subject of Us address will\nbe \"Workmen's Compenaation.\"\nIn view of the new Workmen's\nCompensation act, which Is to be\nIntroduced at tbe coming session\nof the provincial legislature,-this\nmeeting has an especial Interest\nfor working men as being directly affected, and also for those\nwho may not be included In its\nprovMons, but are Interested In\nit as a piece of legislation.\nMr. McVety ,1s considered ln\nthe labor movement as the leading authority on this Und .of legislation, and all who wish to\nlearn something or more about it\nshould make a point of being pre-.\nsent at this nieeting.\nmm\nm\nCity Council Reduces Salaries from Last Day Laborer to Mayor\nPrices of Foodstuffs Is Still\nGoing up\u00E2\u0080\u0094Unemploy-'\nment Increases\n[By W. Yates]\nNEW WESTMINSTER, Feb..l.\u00E2\u0080\u0094At\nthe regular weekly meeting of the eity\ncouncil laBt night, the third and lsst\nreading was given to the salary reduction bylaw, which outs all salaries paid\nby the city from thp mayor down to tha\nlast day laborer. The original cut for\nlaborers wat a reduction from t3 per\nday to $2.40, but the only representative of the laboring men* on the council,\nAlderman Dodd, succeeded in getting\nan amendment through making the\nrate t2.50 per day... She .mayor received\na cut of $400 per year and the aldermen\n4100. The firemen were cut 10 per\ncent.; tho linemen, in the electric light\ndepartment, were cut to $4.10 per day,\nand everyone else got a cut that will\nput a considerable crimp in their pay\ncheque.\nThe \"Commodity\" Labor.\nWhilo most of the employers of labor\ntheBe days are taking advantago of the\ncongested condition of the labor market to reduce wages and thereby increase their profits one hardly expected\nrepreseatatives administering the city's\nbusiness to do likewise, especially at a\ntime when the cost of living is going\nup day after day as it is in this city\nat' present.\nLiving Oost Still Going Vp.\nTho price of the best grades of flour\niB still going up, thero being an advance of 40 cents in the last six days.\nLocal wholesalers are quoting flour at\n$7.50 as against $6.50 last Nov. 30, a\nraise of $1.00 in two months. Retailers\nhave had to increase prices, the best\npatents selling from $1.85 to $2 per\nsack. Sugar -has increased 15 cents\nper 100 lbs. in the laBt month, 18*11),\nsacks now selling for, $1.55. New Zealand butter soils now at 47*4 to 50 cents\nand local creamery at 45 cents..- Potatoes are going up, the price of Ashcrofts\nrising 25c last week, and they are now\nselling at $1.50 for 100-16. sack retail.\nApples are selling at $1.35 to $2 por box\nand eggs at 50c per dozen. At the\nweekly market last week there was an\nadvance in the wholesale price of near-\nly all meats and poultry.\nUnemployment Increases.\nThe amount of unemployment in this\ncity is probably worse now than it has\nbeon for the last ten years, in spite of\nthe large number of enlistments, but\nthis ia partly accounted for by the\nmills being most all closed down by tbe\njlieavy snowfall, but even then it is a\ngood place to keep away from for any\none in need of work.\nLook! Votes for Woman!\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A mass meeting to celebrate tho enfranchisement of the women of Manitoba, with Mrs. Bongough as principal\nspeaker, will be held under the auspices\nof tho United Suffrage societies, on tho\nevoning of February 8, at 8 p.m., in\nLester Court, Davie street.\nROW TBE WINTER\nWEATHER AFFECTS\nLOOAL WOBKEBS\nTh. heavy snowfall hu at\nleast made it possible for many\nof tha unemployed to secure a\nten days' work. All the extras\naround the B. O. E. B. cu barns\nhave been busy and trafflc on the\nentire system has been maintained, with the assistance, of these\nand ten mow plows. The plumbers and steam fitters are happy,\neven if Dad hu to foot the bills.\nPhysicians are working overtime.\nBuilding trades continue at a\nstandstill. News printers fairly\nwell employed. Metalliferous miners seem to be somewhat ln demand. No coal miners needed, as\nOrientals are taking their places\non Vancouver island. Despite the\nincrease ln enlistment for overseas service, the unemployed problem is Increasing. Ooal and\nwood has increased in price, and\nis mighty scarce at that. Ex-Premier McBride's \"confidence\"\nabounds in plenty, but it takes a\nlot of it to make a meal.\nWW Again Protest the Ho-\ntels Employing Asiatic\nLabor\nChinese Take Places! of Island Miners Who Have\nEnlisted\nFrom the' standpoint of numbers present, laBt night's meeting of Vancouver\nTrades and Labor council was not as\nlarge as the previous one, at which the\nelection of officers was the great attraction. But for lively and intelligent\ndiscussion, it was one of the best held\nrecently.\nNew Officers Installed. .\nOwing to the lateness of the hour at\nwhich {he previous meeting adjourned,\nthe newly-elected officers Were not in-\nstU'ed, so this formality was made one\nof the first orders of business last\nnight.\nExecutive Board Report.\nAn appeal from the Danbury hatters\nfor financial assistance was reluctantly\nfiled. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nThe American Federation of Labor\nwrote, pointing out that the war in Europe would likely entail some alterations in the maps of that continent,\nand in. the text books used in schools.\nOrganized labor was urged to get busy\nand Bee that the new' maps and literature was printed under union conditions.\nThe same body also advised the\nstrongest of protests against any attempt to repeal the Seamen's aet, recently passed in the United States.\nStanding Committees Appointed.\nBe, .legates Pipes, Wight and McDonald were appointed auditors of the\ncouncil's-finances. . * ;\nDelegates Sully, MeVety and\nKnowles will attend to organization\nwork and grievances.\nThe parliamentary committee for the\nensuing term is composed of the following delegates: Graham, Hardy, Sully,\nDavis, Pettipiece, Crawford, Brooks,\nTrotter, Orant and Burns. In addition\nto these, each union is entitled to send\none .delegate to the committee meet-'\nings, which take place on Wednesday\nnight's previous to each council meeting.\nParliamnetary Committee Beport\n: The committee reported that at the\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2factory of Hanbury & company, Chinese\nwere being employed making ammunition boxes for the government contractors. ThiB will be brought to the attention of Mr. H. H. Stevens, M. P. and\nthe Dominion government.\nA letter was ordered to be sent to\nMr. Lome Campbell, M. P. P., calling\nattention to the fact that the number\nof Chinese employed in the coal mines\nof Vancouver island was increasing,\nand tbat they were taking the places of\nmen who have enlisted.\nThe People's Forum.\nAnother good meeting had been held\nat which union men were conspicuous\nby thoir absence. President McVety\nwill be the speaker at the meeting next\nSunday.\nUnder New Business.\nPresident MeVety, along with Delegate Sully and Graham, will appear before the next meeting of tho license\ncommissioners, to again request that\none of the conditions, of that body\ngranting- an hotel license shall be that\nthe person to whom it is granted shall\nundertake not to employ Asiatic labor\non the licensed premises.\nThe council's library will henceforth\nbe established in itB office\u00E2\u0080\u0094210 Labor\nTemple.\nGait Brothers were alleged to be operating a garment factory putting out\ngoods bearing the label \"Made in B.\nC.,\" and which were chiefly made by\nChinese labor. It was stated that in\nthe factory were about \"a baker's\ndozen\" of Chinese and one white girl\nand a white man.\nThis gave rise to a general discussion\non the) Oriental labor question as a\nwhole, and resulted in Delegates Hardy,\nTrotter and Sinclair being selected as a\ncommittee to report on the 'matter, not\nonly locally, but ob it applied to tho\nprovince.\nThe secretary was instructed to write\nthe federal department of labor asking\nfor a copy of the report of the investigation into the conditions prevailing in\ntho factory of Bamsay brothers.\nThe attorney general will be informed\nthat tho factory inspector is not enforcing tho sanitation clauses of the Factory act, especially as they apply to\ntailor shops.\nB. S. Sexton, one of the international\norganizers of the Cigarmakers' union\nwas at this time present in the meeting,\nand upon invitation from the chair,\nmade a short address, after which adjournment was taken at 0.45 p.m.\nSheet Metal Workers' Convention.\nThe Northwest District council of\nthe Amalgamated Shoot Metal Workers hold their annual convention at Taeoma during the past week. Fourteen\ndelegates, representing seven cities,\nwere in attendance. A. J. Crawford\nwas the Vancouver delegate.\nColossal Stupidity of the Past.\nMost men are workingmen, Workingmen need not argue about war.\nThey need only refuBo to be used in\nwar. That they are not yet prepared\nto refuse-is altogether too obvious. It\nis quite possible that a carefully aimed\nemotional appeal would sweep the\nworking classes even of the United\nStates into wholo-hearted support of an\nunjust war. \"Yet it Ib clear to nil of us\nnow, Whether we nre workingmen or\nnot, that the working people of Europe\nare doing themselveB, collectively,\nghostly harm, and that' their possible\ngains from war, whether economic,1 political or moral, are at the most an infinitesimal fraction of their cortaln\nlosses in aill throe of those ways; Thoy\noven know this themselves, but they\nhave been trained and organized in such\na way that this knowledge is of no ubo\nto them.\u00E2\u0080\u0094-San Francisco Bulletin.\nJOSEPH BUBBLE\nEx-presldent and acting business agent\nof Pioneer Division, No. 101, of the\nStreet Bailway Employees' union,\nwho also takes an active interest'in\nthe affairs of the central labor body.\nDemands Same Freedom as\nthe Other Workmen\nto Quit\nBus. Agent Burns Points\nWay to Solution of\n.'.'i theProblem\nDiscussing editorially the question of\n-building wooden or steel ships on the\nPacific coast, a few days ago, the News-\nAdvertiser concludes:\n\"The problem is to find the sailors. Able seamen and ordinary seamen may yet be found In large\ncities, but those now sailing before\nthe mast are represented to be\nmostly derelicts. It will be part of\nthe business of the directors or committee of the proposed British Columbia organisation to consider the\n. human element in the eut.\"\nMr. W. S. Bums, local business agent\nof the Sailors' Union of the Pacific,\nthrew some light on, the subject when\ninterviewed b^sThe Federationist.\n\"As the News-Advertiser states, the\nproblem is to find the sailors,\" said Mr.\nBurns. \"It is the same problem that\nconfronts every maritime nation today.\nThe white man Ib leaving the sea, and\nhis place is being taken by the Oriental.\nSailors Seek Freedom.\n\"Why! Because the sailor no longer\nwishes to be a slave. He wants to be\nas his fellowman ashore, free to quit\nhis job if he does not like it; to be'able\nto earn a wage that will keep him in\nthe necessaries of life/ and to have a\ndecent place to live in.\n\"Any seaman will tell yon which he\nwould sooner go in, sail or steam. The\nanswer would usually be steam. His\nwages are usually a little higher and\nthe work a little easier. It Ib usually\nthrough force of circumstances that\nthey go in sailing ships and he stays no\nlonger than he can help.\nThe Sweet Here and Now.\n'' We have sailors' homes and churches\nand everything else to look after his\nspiritual welfare, but nothing is ever\nthought of for Mb comfort while on\nearth. Give the sailor the same freedom as his fellowman enjoys.\n\"The United States has taken the\nfirst step in that direction, by passing\nand placing on the'statute books a law\ndeclaring all men who sail on United\nStates ships free men and giving them\nbetter accommodation, better food and\nmany other improvements. The results\nwill not be noticeable for a few years,\nbut wehn it does, it will be seen that a\nbetter class of mon will man tbeir ships,\ncither sail or steam.\nThe Solution.\n\"Canada can do no other than follow\ntho example set by the United States,\nif sho wishes to havo a merchant merino. Make the sailor a free man, and\nthu problem of where to find sailors will\nnot exist for long.\"\nBBICELATEBS AFFILIATE\nTheir Entire Membership in Canada\nwith Trades and Labor Congress.\nTho Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers ' International Union of North\nAmerica has voted to affiliate its mem-\nbcrtihip in Canada with tbe TradeB and\nLnbor Congress of Canada. This action\nwas taken at the Toronto convention\nlast week, after the large delegation\nhnd been addressed by Mr. Jamea Simpson on behalf of the Congress. According to Business Agent Dagnall, the affiliation will mean an addition of somo\n8000 to the membership of tho Congress.\nAustralian Typos. Amalgamate.\nThe printers of Australia have decided to link into one national union,\nand do away with the stato sectional\ncrafts ns they before existed. It is to\nbe known undor the name of the National Union of Printers.\nA provisional council has been appointed to carry out the necessary details, and the first meeting of the now\nbody is set down to take place at Sydney early in 1016. Prior to this date\nthu various bodies have never been an\neffective organization, but merely a\nloose affiliation of various unions.\nRailroads and Electricity,\nIn the annual report of tho United\nStates bureau of mines prediction is\nmado that the railroads of tho country\nwill be operated by electricity during\nthe present generation. It Ib stated\nthat tho power to create tho electricity\nwill bo obtained from gigantic plants\nat big coal mines.\nLABOR'S EFFORT^\n$\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 EtH\nStill in PoeMnion of Militant Minority on the\nCivic Board '.--'A\nThe Central Labor Body Wt>\nElectsMostoftheOM\nOfflcen \u00E2\u0096\u00A0' '.:!,\nPBINCE BUBEIJT, Feb. L\u00E2\u0080\u0094Al. S\ncommentary on the recent *\u00C2\u00ABnWf\u00C2\u00ABl\nelection*, which changed tho pensonaal\nof tbe civic board, placing Labor'*\nrepreaentativee on opposition beach**,\nusing the phrue in the Mtn Vtm'i\nLabor'a representative are in the minority. Prior to tho election tho labof j*\nmen believed, ud atlll belie?*, thnt\nthe policies which the, advocate! wei* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nsuperior in quality and more conducive'\naenee df criticism on the part of i\t\ncoalition adminiatration, now in power,\nwaa proof conclusive that the bosine**\nacumen, in which they claimed * mo***'\nopoly, could not detect any lawa te'.\nthe late adminiatration, controlled, aa\nthey itated, by \"a bunch of Insignil-\ncant working men.\" Neither eonM\nthey advance reaaona that a change at\nadministration waa deeirable. . HOMO*\ntheir reaaona muat \u00E2\u0096\u00A0bo sought in tht\nunderground workings to which it\nwould not be deeirable to ball on tha\ndear elector to sample the concoction*\nprepared until they wero safely ea-\nechoed in offlce. ; \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .->,,- - '\n. \"forewarned\u00E2\u0080\u0094Forearmed/\nIt would not have boon good politic*\nprior to tho election, to have told tha\nEublic they intended to make change*\nI tho administration of tho public\nmarket, with the hope that tho medicine thoy had ao carefully prepared\nwould ao cripple that institution that\nit would.not aurvive the dose, thua leaving the Held clear to demand whatever '\nprice they care to aak.\n- Neither would it,have been conducive in securing their election to offloa.'\nif thev had frankly intimated to th*\nhorny-handed aon of toll their till at\nretrenchment, to reduce the wagee of\nelty employee*, a* ia contemplated la\ntho light department, \",','j\nDecided on a Chang*.\nBut ajnajority ft tho elector* decided that a change wa* neceuary, aad\nthey wero only fooled ln one particular.\nThey expected that the service of tha\ngentlemen elected were going.to ba\ngiven freo gratia, in the Intereat* of\nthe city; but the benevolent publie\nspirited gentlemen in question decided\nat a recent meeting that the impression .\nwas entirely incorrect and felt deeply\naggrieved that auch an impreaaloa\nshould have gone forth, as they intended doing business at the old ratea.\nMerely Strategic Retirement.\nIn the minds of some of Labor's more\nvindictive opponents, with especial\nreforenoe to the activities of members\ncomprising the Trades and Lnbor council,, giving vent to their high glee at\nwhat they consider Labor's croahlag\ndefeat, which, in choioenes* of language, is described as the blow quietus\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the solar plezua wallop.\nIt is to be regretted that the Labor\nmovement does not make a very well-\nbehaved corpse. To be fashionable wa\ncould say, with the military leaden of\nthe day, that we had accomplished \"a\netragetic retirement,\" but that would\nbe expressing so much piffle.\nHowever disquieting It may be to\nthose who have entertained these day\ndreams of Labor's demise, we again\nannounce that we are still very much\nolive, with all the vitality of Kilkenny\ncats, refusing to leave this mundane\nsphere, however harrowing it may bo\nto that estimable aggregation who insist that we indulge in a respectable\nburial.\nTrades and Labor Council Meets\nA good live aggregation of delegates\nassombled at the Carpenters' hall at *\nthe semi-monthly meeting of the Tradea\nand Labor council. President Macdonald presided, with all officers present.\nThe regular routine of business Wl*\nspeedily attended to, the bulk of the\nevening being turned over to the election of officers for tho ensuing term*\nMatters pertaining to tho city market\nwere discussed, along with proposed\nchanges contemplated by tbe new administration at tho city hall, re the proposed reductions affecting the englneera *\nemployod in tho light department\nPlans wero approved to meet the contemplated changes. Upon motion the\nlast meeting night of ench month will\nbe set osldo on lines suggestive of a\npublic form. Aid! Cnsoy paid the\ncouncil a visit, addressing them\nin his own appropriate way on matter* '\nof general interest. Aid. Barrie, th*\nnew Labor representative, thanked the\ncouncil for the support tendered him\nin securing his election. Tho balloting\nfor officers resulted in most of the old\nofficers being re-elected: President, 8.\nD. Macdonald; vice-president, Dan.\nMcLean; recording secretary, Wm.\nThompson; financial secretary, Anderson; treasurer, O. Rodderham; legislative committee, Dels. Anderson, Mo-\nLean, Donning; press committee, Dels.\nDenning nnd Thorfole.\nBEID GOT FIFTEEN MONTHS\nAlbeit* Socialist, ox-Soldier, Fay* for\nHaving an Opinion\nJohn Reid, socialist candidate for .the\nAlberta legislature for Red Deer riding, was sentenced to fifteen months ia\njail, last Friday, after having been\nfound guilty of sedition by a jury in the\ncriminal court at Red Deer.\nIn tho course of speeches on the public platform last year, Beld, who la a\nScotchman and a veteran of the Boer I\nwar, had said tho British equalled th*\n(tomans when it enmo to atrocities.\nHo had also advised people neither ta\nenlist nor give to the patriotic fund.\nThe average British capitalist teem*\nto expect every British workman to do\nhis duty\u00E2\u0080\u0094whilo he doe* hi* eountry. V\n___\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nlSI^ PAGE TWO\nTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST\nFBIDAT, FEBRUARY 4, 1816\nINCORPORATED 18S5\nMolsons\nBank\nCAPITAL and RESERVE\n$8,800,000\n96 Branches In Canada\nA general banking business transacted. Circular letters of credit.\nBank money orders.\nSavings Department\nInterest allowed at Highest\ncurrent rata\nPublished every Friday morning by tbe B. 0.\nFederatlonist, Limited\nR. Parm. Pettipiece Manager\nJ. W. Wilkinson Editor\nOfflce: Room 217, Labor Temple\nTel. Exchange Seymour 7405\nSubscription: $1.50 per year; tn Vancouver\nOity, $2.00; to unions subscribing\nIn a body, $1.00\nREPRESENTATIVES\nNow Westminster W. Yates, Box 1021\nPrince Rupert W. E. Denning, Box 581\nVictoria A. S. Wells, Box 1538\n\"Unity of Labor: the Hope of the World'\nThe Royal Bank\nof Canada\nINCORPORATED 11M\npaid-up Capital <\nReaerve \t\nTotal Aaaata \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n. | 11.\n. 12,600,006\n. . 110,000,000\n\" WE ALLOW INTEREST ON DEPOSIT! IN OUR\nSAVINGS\nDEPARTMENT\nOn* Dollar will \u00E2\u0080\u00A2***\nth* aoeount, and your\nbualneaa will be wai-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2em* b* It l\u00C2\u00BBrg\u00C2\u00BB ar\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0mill\nBranch** and eoaaratn-\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\naroagbont th* motlA\nTHE\nINCORPORATED\n1S5S\nBANK OF\nTORONTO\nAssets ..\nDeposit! .\n,,,909,000,000\n,.,, 48,000,000\nSAVINGS and PR1VAVE\n ~ ACCOUNTS\nStylus .nd keufbUi aeeowett in*\n.lted. Jetat aeeonnt. oponsd whsn \u00C2\u00BB\nMired for two or mor. penom. W\non. ol wnom >\u00E2\u0096\u00A0! deposit or wlthdrw\nmon.j. Intorost is paid on betonow.\nBsnlins sec-rant, opened tot Sooie-\nU.s, Lo4|ss, Trnst.es, Executors or\n{or private pnrposes.\nMd np Mpltel WW00\nEwerr. hnd MS\u00C2\u00BB,8B2\nFree\nTERMS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Eealdeaee en the land\nfer at leaat three yeara; UnproTe-\nmente to tb* *xt*nt of tt per\naere; bringing nnder enltlvatlon\nat leaet St* aere*.\nTBI TBLBPHOm MEM\nibb mum out or DISTANCE\nWish ron want to phon. to V\u00C2\u00ABneon*\n..er Istond, to th. Kooteaay \"down\nIhe eoMt. ns. tie telephone \u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3>*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\nside yon. Ewrr telephone is a lon|\ndistance telephone. .\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 .-\nThere is ni dlllsnHr In hewing the\nPKtr it the other end. .\nP Bo when yen wsnt to telephone.long\ndlstanso, do so from yonr own boose\noi* offlce. j I*\nTon get yonr p.rty, or yon don \u00C2\u00AB\noar. That means yon get yonr answer. And .11 in a tar moments, too.\nBBRISB OOLtTMBU TELEPHONE\nOOKPABT, UMRBB\nUbor Ttmple\nBuilding\nPhone Sey. 4410\npriater.otT1.tPBP.\nPANTAGES\n. VaevnaUed VaudnilgUmt\nPANTAOES VAUDEVILLE\nTHBEfc SBOWS DAILY\n3:48, 7:20, \u00C2\u00BB.18 Suaoa'i Fiicai:\nMatin.., ltei Etsnlngs, 100, SSe.\nBritish Columbia\nLAND\nBplendid opportanltlei iB Mixed\nFarming, Dairying, fltoek ind\nrottltry. Brltlih Colombia\nGraata Fre-emptloni of 160 acrea\nto Aetual Settler*\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFor further Information apply to\nDBPUTY imflSTHB Or\nLAND*. VIOTOftU, fttt\nenterprise is the rule in industry. It is\nwasteful, senseless and unjust. It gives\nthe maximum of reward to the non-\nproducer, and the minimum of sustenance to those by the labor of whose\nbrains and hands the daily life of the\nworld is made possible. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nFRIDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1916\nONTARIO UNEMPLOYMENT\nhas reached such a chronic\nstage, that some time ago the\ngovornment of that province appointed\na commission to inquire into its causes,\nand to devise reme-\nWE BEG dies, if it could think\n_q of or find any. The\nREPORT. first reP0C* \u00C2\u00B0* *na\ncommission was published recently, and contains numerous\nrecommendations as to dealing with the\nevil in question. In thiB respect it resembles a few thousand other reports\nby similar bodies on the same subject,\nand in the end it will achieve just about\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2is much of real value to the working\nclass as the' others did\u00E2\u0080\u0094which \"was nothing,\n* # \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '\u00C2\u00BB\nThe altitude of the ruling class mind\ntowards the unemployed is not really a\ndesire to entirely abolish them. And\nwhen governments Bay that unemployment is an evil, they generally mean it\nis becoming too prevalent for political\npeace. They know thut practical personal experience of misfortune iB the\nmost likely thing to make those suffering it inquire into its causes, and that\nif the habit of inquiring into the causes\nof unemployment were to become a\nhabit among the workers, the makeshift methods which politicians use in\nhandling it might be exposed to thoir\nsubsequent inconvenience.\n* * \u00C2\u00AB\n' They also know that the vast'masses\nof the workers will not take the trouble\nto think out, or otherwise find out, the\nprecise part they play in the economic\nfabric of nations, aB long as they have\ngot! that glbrious possession whieh con-'\nstitutes about nine-tenths of what they\ncull happiness\u00E2\u0080\u0094a job. So their efforts\nare directed to the devising of conditions so that at least a good clear majority of workmen have jobs. They aro\nalso not directed to the formulation of\nplans whereby all workmen would have\njobs\u00E2\u0080\u0094for which there is, in their estimation, and out of regard for their\neconomic interests, a very good and\nsufficient reason.\n* . \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 *\nThis is the reason. Industry is car*\nried on with one main idea\u00E2\u0080\u0094to make\nprofit. If it cannot make profit no\nother reason can keep it in existence.\nIndustry cannot be carried oh without\nworkmen, wherefore they arc looked\nupon as a necessary eyil in the scheme.\nThe higher i the wages they are in a\nposition to demand, the greater are they\nconsidered as an evil. Workmen can-\nact, be too oheap\u00E2\u0080\u0094providing their productive capacity iB not unpaired\u00E2\u0080\u0094in\ntho eyes of the owners of industry. For\nthat reason it is only natural they are\ninterested in promoting or maintaining\nany condition which will give them an\nample supply of cheap workmen.\n* ' '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0# *\nWorkmen are cheapest when thoy\naro more numerous than the jobs they\nseek. In other words, unemployed\nworkmen are on economic advantage to\nemployers of workmen. The government of Ontario, like most other governments, is composed of employers or\nmen with the' economic interests nnd\noutlook of employers, elected to their\npositions in the house of legislature by\nworkingmen'b votes. That is why it Ib\nabsolutely useless to look to such people\nto devise or even attempt to deviso,\nmoasures having for their object the\ncomplete abolition of unemployment.\n* \u00C2\u00AB c\nUnder the capitalist form of industry, unemployment is just as much a\nnecessary part of the economic Hy stems\nof nations, as aro markets for the disposal of the products of industry. Employers know that the most effective\ncurb on tho aspirations of workmen\nfor higher wages is tho threat that if\nthey persist they will bo dischurged and\nothers taken on in their plnceB, ileum;\nthey favor the continual existence of\nan element of unemployed workmen\nwho, pressed to it by the hunger urge\nwhich knows no answer but food, can\nbe relied upon to take the places of\nthoso who ask for more wages in case\nthey go to the point of striking to enforce their demit mis.\n* * \u00C2\u00AB\nPutting it in shortor terms, that\nmeans that it Ib not the mnn who bas\na job who determines what ho shall get\nfor doing that job. The man who hns\nnot got a job, is tho man who determines the wagos of tho man who has\ngot a job. The truth of this demonstrates itself so practically and plainly,\nthat employers look upon the unemployed as an industrial factor which\ncould not be abolished without serious\nresults to their yearly balance shoots.\n* \u00C2\u00AB *\nCommissions may come and commissions may go, but it will mako no difference to the unemployed as long as\nthe labor of men is an articlo of mor-\nchundiso bought and sold just like\nbricks and bacon, and, like thom, subject in price to tho laws of supply nnd\ndemand. That will continue as long as\nthe chaotic jumble known as private\nNANAIMO BOARD OF TRADE\nwants the Dominion government\nto put a heavy duty on fuel oil.\nSo do similar bodies in other coal mining districts of British Columbia. Their\nobject iB to subsidize\nFUEL OIL the coal mine own-\nAND THE ors in their competi-\nMINE OWNERS, tion with the oil\nmerchants; and\ndoubeless, if they hod thoir way, they\nwould put such a prohibitive tax on\nfuel oil us to, drive it out of the market\naltogether, thus leaving them an absolutely free field for exploitation.\nTo those who know the history and\npresent conditions of coal mining on\nVancouver island, this .request of the\nNanaimo merchants really means that\nthe coul mine owners want the Dominion government to give the utmost\nmeasure of economic advantage to the\nlargest and most consistent employers\nof oriental labor in Canada. Backed\nby the silent support and administrative apathy of the provincial government, the mine operators of the island\nare gradually driving the white miner\nout, and putting Asiatics in his place.\n# # *\nWith the armed assistance of the\nsame authority, they broke down the\nresistive power of the miners' union.\nThe only thing that now seeuiB to them\nto offer any obstacle to their complete\nmonopoly is the competition of oil and\nfuel. We hope 'they will not get what\nthey are asking for, and in so doing we\ndo not feel we are expressing an opinion\nwhich, if realized, would make any detrimental difference to the position of\nthe white \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 miners working over there\nnow.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 . .\nThe ideal of the coal owners of the\nisland would be to have every white\nminer enlist in the army, and his place\nfilled by an Asiatic. That would bring\nthe price of coal production to the minimum. They would like oil fuel taxed\nout of tbe market. That would enable\nthem to fix the selling price at the maximum figure the purchasing public could\nbe made to pay., Such a combination in\ntheir eyes would be ideal. In seeking\nit they are true to their record as one\nof the most gluttonous aggregations of\nexploiters to be found from here to the\nAtlantic.\nSTREET RAILWAYMEN were disappointed last fall, when the international office of their organization advised them not to go to the\nlength of a strike in resisting the terms\noffered to them by the\nSAID THE B- c* Electric Railway\nSPIDER TO company. A consider-\nTBE FLY. Qble amount of sore\nness and dissatisfaction resulted from it, which was quite\nnatural. Tbis feeling iB being taken\nndvantage of in a quarter which has no\nreal sympathy with the men\u00E2\u0080\u0094indeed,\nit is the opposite\u00E2\u0080\u0094to create a sentiment among them to drop their affiliation with the international union, and\nform a Canadian organization.\n\u00C2\u00AB * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThis proposal is not a new one, as\nmany of tho older members of the\nStreet Railwaymen's union know. But\nthe time Is considered, by some of those\nwho favor the step for reasons they do\nnot mention in their arguments, aB a\ngood one to revive the idea. It is a\nplan which has- been advised at ono\ntime or another to every union in Canada which is afflliated with the American Federation of Labor.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00AB\nIt is also an object! vo which has been\nthe ideal of Canadian employers for\nmany, years, and several attempts have\nbeen made to get legislation through\nthe Dominion parliament whieh would\nbring about the severance of the Canadian locals of the International unions\nfrom their parent bodies. It is a movement which we have always opposed,\nand shall continue to opposo, because\nwe are convinced that it would, if successful, be to the detriment of organized labor in Canada which, up to now,\nhas drawn far more money in the way\nof strike, organization and other financial assistance from the internationals,\nthun it has paid in.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00AB \u00C2\u00BB\nSo fur as the particular instance of\nthe locnl street railwaymen is concerned, we will mnke this statement. If\nthey hud actually gono out on strike\nlust fall, they would have received the\nconstitutional amount of strike pay\nftom tho international office. Thut\nwould havo happened despite the tele-\ngra n which came advising them not to\nstrike. It is a very definite statement\nto mnke, but wo mako it because it\nwub made to us by one of the highest\nofficials of tho international union, in\nfact by a member of the international\nexecutivo board, who was present when\nthe telegram referred to wns sont to\nVancouver last fall.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nFor tho street railwaymen to learn\nthis now, may not be of any practical\nvalue nt tho moment, but it Ib a fact\nwell worth knowing, and filing for reference Thoy are not at the ond of\ntheir troubles by a long way if we judge\ntho signs aright. Indeed, they aro probably only at thc real beginning.' Tho\nfuture shows the need for them to be\nready to moot it with a strong and well-\nknit organization wherein every member Is fully apprised and alive to the\nnature and extent of the difficulties facing them.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 t\nAnother thing whieh will need care\nful watching is the possibility of espionage right inside the union itself.\nSeveral instances have occurred lately\nin various parts of this continent which\nshow tho danger of paid Bpies within\nthe ranks of the street railwaymen.\nThey aro a Bteady1 and indispensable\nadjunct to the companies in their dealing with the unions, and must be looked\nfor everywhere. The more they are\nlooked for the'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 less of them there are\nlikely to be. Thoy flourish most where\nthe membership iB most apathetic and\nndifforent to what iB going on and boing dono on their behalf in the union.\n\u00C2\u00AB *- *\nThese men, so fas., as the Canadian\nunion is concerned, are not likely to be\nhoard loudly advocating such a course.\nTheir work Is of a mere cunning typo,\ndono below the surface. They would\nstrive to use other mombors who wero\nperfectly sincere in thoir views about\nit but who, being entirely honest themselves, would not suspect they were being used. The main argument in tho\nwhole question ia contained in the fact\nthat Canadian employers\u00E2\u0080\u0094and particularly street railway companies\u00E2\u0080\u0094would\nbe delighted if the labor unions of this\ncountry would sever their connection\nwith the internationals.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 , * * *\n' What they want in this respect must\nof necessity be something which they\nconsider would give them more strength\nwith which to oppose the unions. For\nthat reason it is obvious the unions\nshould not want it. And despite many\nminor complaints which they may just'\nly make against somo of the methods\nof the international executive board,\nwo nre satisfied that in the long run\nthe local Btreet railwaymen will not\nwant it. It is a would-be gift horse\nwhoso mouth will well repoy for exami\nnation.\nSYNDICALISM, in Latin countries,\nnccording to the reported statement of Dr. Muck Eastman, pro-\nfessor of economics in the University\nof British Columbia, is \"similar to\nwhat is known as in-\nTHST ABE duBtnal unionism in\n2fOT America.\" That is a\nTHE SAME. very sweeping assertion, and one whioh\nwe do not believe to be correct. It\nmay be partly true, but in any case it\nShould not be tnken to imply that syndicalism and industrialism are one and\nthe same in their meaning and objectives.\n* * *\nIndustrial unionism means the organization of aU the workers in any\none industry into one union. The machinery used in the industry, and the\nfinished product of that industry, would\nstill be the property of the private individual or public company which\nowned the enterprise. Syndicalism\nmeans that the men engaged in an industry would own both the machinery\nused in it and also the finished product. The latter form of organization\nseeks to eliminate the exploitation of\nthe workers, at least insofar as their\nposition as workers in that industry is\nconcerned.\nIndustrial unionism would not change\nthe fundamental relation between employer and employed, because it would\nnot interfere with the ownership of\nnatural resources, or the machinery,\nnecessary to make them into things of\nsocial usefulness or demand. In a word\nit would leave the proflt system essentially intact, although perhaps a little\nless powerful by reason of the increased\neconomic strength of an industrial\nunion, ns compared with the weakness\nof a dozen different unions trying to\nlook after the interests of the workmen\nin one industry.\nWHAT WILL LABOR DO in\nEurope after the war ie over!\nThat ia the all-absorbing\nquestion which is exercising the minds\nof politicians, rulers, governors, financiers, and others in-\nBUT WE terested in a return to\nABE ON as far as possible,\nOUR WAT. s i m 1 i a r conditions\nwhich prevailed before August 4th, 1914. They are troubled chiefly about thoir property and\nclass status. The molting pot seems so\nnear, and the fumes of it waft their\nway with most disquieting frequency\nand disagreeable odor. None of the\nexhaustive data and statistics of the\npast look like being of much practical\nuse in laying plans for tho future.\n#.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*,*.*\nThe war in the abstract struck them\nat first as being very much like previous troubles of its kind. It was bigger,\nbut that seemed the only difference.\nThey had neither the imagination nor\nthe knowledge of economic history and\nprocesses, to aid them to even remotely\nconceive some of tho possibilities which\ntho conflict might hold. Their deficiencies in that respect have boen considerably reduced by practical demonstrations since thon. Discomfiting facts\nhavo been forced upon thom. They\nthemselveB havo discovered, and have\nbeen obliged to declare more facts,\nwhich were doubly discomfiting beeause\nwhile they did not like them, they had\nno option but to declare them.\n# # \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nAmong these disagreeable revelations\nthe one thoy like least iB that labor\nholds the entiro situation in its hands.\nAs long as it continues that way, thoy\nfeel there Is a gleam of hope left. But\nthoy nro very afraid that labor may\nhold the situation less In Its hand, and\nbegin to consider it more in itB head.\nThat is why they are uncertain to an\nalmost panicky degree about the future. They do not know what will\nhappen. Nor does labor know what it\nwill do. We might try to forecast what\nIt will do, but the events of the past\neighteen months have bred in us a caution about the working class where war\nis concerned. The condition of economic pressure which will be upon the\nworkers after the war, will provide the\nanswV to the riddle. *\nBUSINIM AQINT OIRKCT6RY\nMagistrate South has proved that he\nis not too inefficient to take a warning\nwhen it comes from the Trades and Labor council.\nIf it were not for unemployment,\nmany a political party hack would havo\nbeen unemployed inBtead of'getting u\njob \"for value received\" on a commission to inquire into the causes and extent of unemployment.\nAsk for Labor Temple 'Rhone Exchange,\nSeymour .74i\u00C2\u00BB6 (unlesa otherwise stated).\nCooks, Wait cm, Waitresses\u00E2\u0080\u0094Boom 804;\nAndy Graham,\nElectrical Workers (outalde)\u00E2\u0080\u0094B. H. Morrison, Room '-U7,\nEnglneera (steam)\u00E2\u0080\u0094Room 310; E. Premier-\ngam,\nHalibut Fishermen's Colon\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ruaaell Kear\nley, 437 Uore avenue. Ufflcu phone, Seymour 4704; residence, Highland 1844L.\nLongshoremen's Aaioclatlon\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thomai Nixon,\n10 Powell street; phone Sey. 6i!59,\nMusicians\u00E2\u0080\u0094II. J. Braifleld, Room S06.\nSailors\u00E2\u0080\u0094W. 8. Burns, 213 Heatings etreet\nwuai. Soy. '87UH.\nStreet Railway Employee!\u00E2\u0080\u0094Fred A. Hoover;\ncor. Main and Union. Phono Exchange\nSeymour 5000.\nTypographical\u00E2\u0080\u0094R, H. Neelanda. Room 306.\nThe working class, owing to centuries\nof servile labor for the upper and capitalist classes, haB grown to regard* its\nposition as the right order of society,\nund cannot conceive of (he sense of\nsuch a suggestion us that the wealth of\na country should be of no more importance than human Uvea.\nThe crowd lift up- a man to serve\nthem, and then, forgetting that he is\nnot over their heads by his own transcendent merit, are dazzled by his eminence. He in turn, being flattered and\noverbalanced by their adulation, forgets that he was elevated for their service, and not for his own glorification,\nand\u00E2\u0080\u0094well, and that's how it happens.\nWhen an infraction of law is brought\nto the .attention of the provincial government by a labor organization, formal\nreply' asks for information which will\nestablish the allegations made. That\npractically amounts to the government\nBaying it is no part of its duty to look\ninto the administration of the laws it\nmakes, or to see that they are enforced.\nWhat is a government for thenf\n* At the meeting of the industries committee of Vancouver city council last\nWednesday, it was stated that in normal times many householders had' purchased their wood supply from Hindus,\nto the detriment of the \"white\" yards.\nWe hold no brief for the. Hindus, but\nwe know many '' white'' yards as they\nare called, 'which have no use for white\nmen either in their yards, or on their\nwagons as drivers. In ordinary times\nit is customary for citizens of this city\nto see quite as many Asiatic drivers of\nwood wagons as white drivers. A\n\"white\" yard often means a woodyard\nrun by a white man who employs only\nAsiatic labor.\nEnglish papers announce the doath of\nG. W. Foote, editor of tho Freethinker.\nHe wns probably the ablest writer\nwhich religious criticism in Britain has\nproduced) and many British papers have\nprinted kindly notices of his death. The\nDaily Chronicle, after reforring to him\nns \"a scholar of ripe judgment and\nwido learning,\" added: \"There have\nboen, in recent years, few men of such\nuncompromising honesty nnd candor of\ncharacter; few men whose public utterances seemed anti-Christian to the point\nof intolerance, yet whose private actions wero so tolerant, generous, and\nfree from malice nnd personal nmbi\ntion.\" G. W. Foote wob a keen critic,\na polished satirist .;nd a sound reasoner.\nThe Ottawa Evening Citizen, in an\ninquiring moment, makes the following\ncomparison:\nWilfrid Gribble, a socialist agitator in St. John, New Brunswick,\nis alleged to have referred to the\nking as \"a puppet.\" For this alleged offence, on tho evidence of\none man, Gribble has been sentenced to two months imprisonment.\nHon. J. K. Flemming, a year or so\nago,' while premier of Now Brunswick and, of course, the king's flrst\ncitizen in the province, was found\nguilty by a royal commission of\ntaking money from governmont\ncontractors, the royal commission\nBaid that, by virtue of the position\nof public trust Premier Flemming\nheld in the province, he might' bo\nsaid practically to havo compelled\nthe contractors to pay him tho\nmoney. What sentence has the loyal\nprovinco of New Brunswick imposed upon Hon. J. K. Flemraingt It\nhns nominnted him ns Conservative\ncandidate for tho federal house of\ncommons, to represent tho county\nof Carletonl\nThe point ns we see it is, that If\nthere wero more working men in tho\nfederal house or legislatures in this\ncountry, such anomalies would be less\npossible. The existence of them proves\nthat tho class responsible for thom feels\nitself in uncontested possossion of tbe\nadministrative power whereby thoy are\nperpetrated.\nTHE\nSUN\nLEADS THE WAY\nA PAPER FOB THE PEOPLE,\nnot for any class of the people.\nCJean, newsy and bright\u00E2\u0080\u0094n news-\npnper you can trust. THE SUN\nupholds the principle of government by tho people.\nKEEP IN TOUCH with tho\nnew3 of the day by reading THE\nSUN. 8\nSubscription Bates.\nBy carrier 10c por week, or 45\nper year in advance, in Vanoouver\nor Vicinity.\nBy mail, 25c. per month, or 43\nSer year throughout Canada,\nrent Britain ana all countries\nwithin the Postal Union. United\nStates, 50c. per month.\nTRADE UNION DIRECTORY\nAllied Printing Trades Council\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. H. Neelanda, Box 06.\nBui-burs\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. H. Orant, 1801 7th avenue weat.\nBartenders\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. Oaf is, Box 4514.*\nBluuksmiths\u00E2\u0080\u0094Malcolm Porter, View Hill\nP. 0.\nBookbinders\u00E2\u0080\u0094W. H. Qowderoy, 1S85 Thirty-\nfourth avenue eaat. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n;>ijilcnnakitrB-*A. Fraser, 1151 Howe Btreet.\nBrewery Workers\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ghaa. G, Austin, 782 7th\navenue eaat.\nBricklayers1\u00E2\u0080\u0094William S. Dagnall, Labor Temple. .\nBrotherhood of Carpenters Dlstriot Counoll\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094F. L. Barratt, Room 208, Labor Temple.\nCiRannakers'\u00E2\u0080\u0094W. H. McQueen, oare Kurts\nCigar Factory, 72 Water Street. *\nCooka, Waiters, Waitresses\u00E2\u0080\u0094Andy Graham,\nRoom 804, Labor Temple,\nElectrical Workers (outalde)\u00E2\u0080\u0094E. H, Morrison, Room 207, Labor Temple.\nEleotrleal Workers (Inilde)\u00E2\u0080\u0094S1. L. Estinghausen, Room 207.\nEngineers\u00E2\u0080\u0094E. Prendergut, Room 218, Labor Temple.\nGranite Cuttors\u00E2\u0080\u0094Edward Hurry, Columbia\nHotel.\nGarment Workers\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mra, Jardlne, Labor Temple, i\nHalibut Fishermen's Union\u00E2\u0080\u0094Russell Kearley,\n487 Gore avenue.\nHorseshoers\u00E2\u0080\u0094Labor, Temple,\nLetter Carriers\u00E2\u0080\u0094Robt. Wight, Dlatrlct 88.\nLaborers\u00E2\u0080\u0094George Harrison, Room 220, Labor Temple.\nLocomotive Firemen and Englneera\u00E2\u0080\u00940. Howard, Port Coquitlam.\nLocal Engineers\u00E2\u0080\u0094L. T. Sollowey, 1167 Har-\nwood. Tel, Bey, 184BR.\nLongshoremen\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thomas Nixon, 10 Powell St.\nMachinists\u00E2\u0080\u0094J. Brooks, Room 211, Labor\nTemple.\nMilk Drivers\u00E2\u0080\u0094Stanley Tiller, 812 Eighteenth\navenne west.\nMusicians\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. J. Braifleld, Room 805, Labor\nTemple.\nMoldera\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMoving Picture Operators\u00E2\u0080\u0094L. B. Goodman,\nLabor Temple.\nPalntera\u00E2\u0080\u0094Geo, Weston, Room 808, Labor\nTemple.\nPlumbers \u00E2\u0080\u0094Room 208%, Labor Temple.\nPhone Seymour 8611,\nPressmen\u00E2\u0080\u0094P. D. Edward, Labor Temple.\nPlasterers\u00E2\u0080\u0094John Jamea Cornish, 1809 Eleventh avenue Eaat.\nPattern Makers\u00E2\u0080\u0094J. Campbell, 4869 Argyle\nStreet.\nQuarry Workers\u00E2\u0080\u0094James Hepburn, ears Columbia Hotel,\nRailroad Trainmen\u00E2\u0080\u0094A. E. McCorvlllt, Box\nRailway Carmen\u00E2\u0080\u0094A. Robb, 429 Nelson\nStreet.\nSeamen's Union\u00E2\u0080\u0094W. 8. Burni, P, 0. Box\n1885.\nStructural Iron Worken\u00E2\u0080\u0094Room 908, Labor\nTemple.\nStonecutters\u00E2\u0080\u0094James Rayburn, P. 0. Box\nStonecutter*\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nSheet Metal Workers\u00E2\u0080\u0094J. W. Alexander, 2120\nPender street east.\nStreet Railway Employees\u00E2\u0080\u0094James E. Griffin,\n166 Twenty-fifth avenue east.\nStereotypers\u00E2\u0080\u0094W. Bayley, care Province.\nTele&rapherB\u00E2\u0080\u0094E. B. Peppin, Box 842.\nTradea and Labor Council\u00E2\u0080\u0094Miss Helena Gutteridge. Room 210 Labor Temple.\nTypographical\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. Neelanda, Box 66.\nTailors\u00E2\u0080\u0094C. McDonald, Box 508.\nTheatrical Stage Employees\u00E2\u0080\u0094Oeo. W. Allln,\n\" Box 711.\nTllelayers and Helpers\u00E2\u0080\u0094A. Jamleson, 540\nTwenty-third avenue east.\nm\n~to\;oobaceo.\naurora\n0LOVBS\nBEE VXA*\ni THB AABBL '\nI UNION LABEL ) \u00C2\u00BB OK\nSAOKFAXB\nSYNOPSIS Of OOAL MINING REGULATIONS.\nCoal mining rlghta of tht Dominion, ln\nManitoba, Saskatchewan and Alborta, the Yukon Terlrtory, the Northweit Territories and\nIn m portion of the Province of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-one\nyears at an annual rental of $1 an aere. Not\nmore than 2,660 aorei will be leased to one\napplicant.\nApplications for lease muit be made by the\napplicant In person to tke Agent or Sub-Agent\nof tbo dlstriot. In which the rlghta applied\nfor are situated.\nIn surveyed territory the land must be described by seotlons, or legal subdivisions of\nseotlons, and ln unsurveyed territory the\ntract applied for shall be ataked by the applicant himself.\nEach application mut be accompanied by\na fee of 15, which will be refunded If the\nrlgbti applied for are boi available, but not\notherwise, A royalty ahall be paid on the\nmerchantable output of the mine at the rate\nof five centa per ton,\nThe penon operating tht mint ihall furnish the Agent with iworn returni accounting for tbe full quantity of merchantable\ncoal mined and pay thl royalty thereon. If\nthe ooal mining rights an not being operated,\nsuch returns ihould be furnished at least once\na rear.\nThe lease will include tht coal mining\nrights only, but tht lessee may be permitted\nto purchase whatever available aurface rights\nmiy be considered necessary for the working\nof the mine at the rati or 110 an acre.\nFor full Information application should be\nmade to the Secretary of tha Department of\nthe Interior, OUawa, or to any Agent or Sub-\nAgent of Dominion Lmds,\nW. H. CORY.\nDeputy Minister of the Interior.\nN. B.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Unauthorised publication of tbls advertisement will not bt paid for\u00E2\u0080\u009480690\nVote against prohibition! Demand personal liberty In choosing whit you will drink.\nAsk for thla Label when purchasing Beer,\nAlt or Porter, aa a Atarantee that It li Union Madt. Thli la our Labil\nWestminster\nTrust Co.\nHead Office:\nNew Westminster, B.C.\nJ. J. JONES, J. A.\nMu. Director Bec-Treas.\nACTS AS ASSIGNEES,\nUQUIDATOB8 AND\nKECEIVEES\nINSURANCE IN ALL\nITS BBANOHES\nHoimi, Bungalows, Store,\nud modem mltei for rut\nM t tig reduction.\nSafety Deposit Boiei for rest at\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6a.50np. Will, drawn ap free of\ncharge.\nDepodti accepted ud Interest M\nFour per cut allowed; on dally\nVANCOUVER UNIONS\nTRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL\u00E2\u0080\u0094MEETS\nflrst and third Thursdays. Executive\nboard: James H. MoVety, president; R. P.\nPettipiece, vice-president; Misc Heiona Gutteridge, general secretary, 210 Labor Temple;\nFred Knowles, treasurer; W. H. (Mterlll,\nstatistician; sergeant-at-arms. John Sully; A.\nJ. Crawford, Jas. Campbell, J, Brookes, trustees.\nALLIED PRINTING TRADBB COUNCIL.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeta aeoond Monday ln tha\nmonth. Preildent, H. J. Bothel; leeretanr,\nR. H. Ntelaadi, P. 0. Boa 68.\nBARTENDERS' LOOAL No. 676.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Office,\nRoom 208 Labor Temple. Meets fint\nSunday of ench month. Preaident, Jamea\nCampbell; financial seoretary, H. Davia, Box\n424; phone, Sey. 4752; recording secretary,\nWm. Mottlshaw, Globe Hotel, Main street.\nBRICKLAYERS' AND MASONS', NO. 1\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeta every let and Srd TuemUy,\n8 p.m., Room 807. President H. P. Wandj\ncorresponding secretary, W. 8. Dagnall, Box\n83; flnanolal aeeretary, W. J, Pipea; bualneaa\nagent, W. S. Dagnall, Room 218.\nBROTHERHOOD OF BOILER MAKERS\nand Iron Ship Builders and Helpen of\nAmerica, Vancouver Lodge No. 194\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeta\nfint and third Mondaya, 8 p.m. President,\nA. Campbell, 73 Seventeenth avenue weat;\naeeretary, A. Fraser, 1161 Howe stnet.\nELECTRICAL WORKERB, LOOAL NO. 21*\nmeeti room 205. Labor Ttmple. every\nMonday, 8 p.m. President, D. W. MoDougall,\n1162 Powell street: recording secretary,\nR. N, Elgar, Labor Temple: flnanclal aeon-\ntary and busineu agent, E. H. Morriion,\nRoom 20T, Labor Temple.\nHODOARRIERH, BUILDING AND COMMON\nLaboren' union, No. 85\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meats first and\nthird Friday of each month, Labor Temple.\nPresidont, E. C. Appleby; secretary, George\nHarrison; business agent, Jehn Sully, room\n220, Labor Temple. All laborers Invited to\nmeeting.\nINTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION, Local 3852. Office, Association hall, 10 Powell stnet. Meets every\nSunday, 2:80 p.m. Thomas Nixon, secretary.\nPATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF NORTH\nAMERICA\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vancouver and vicinity.\nBranch meets 1st and Srd Fridays at Labor\nTemple, Room 205. H. Nlghtscalea presidont, 276 Fifty-sixth avenue east; Jos. O.\nLyon, financial secretary, 1721 Grant street;\nJ, Campbell, recording secretary, 4860 Argyle\nBtreet.\nSTREET AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY EM-\nPLOYEES, Pioneer Division, No. 101\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMeets Labor Temple, second and fourth Wednesdays at 2:80 and 8 p.m. President, W.\nH. Cotterill; recording secretory, Jaa. E. Griffin, 166 Twenty-flfth avenue east; financial\nseoretary and business agent, Fred A.\nHoover, 2400 Clark drive.\nJOURNEYMEN TAILORS' UNION OP\n, ,. AaMERL0A' Lom1 No- 178\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meetlngi\nheld flnt Tuesday In each month, 8 p.m.\nPreaident, Francis Williams; vice-president,\nMiss H. Outterldge; recording sec, C. McDonald, Box 508; financial aeeretary, K.\nPateraon, P. 0, Box 808,\nTYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, NO. 226\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMeeti list Sunday of each month at \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\np.m. Pmldent R. Farm. Pettlpleoe; vice-\npwldent, W. 8. Metsger; lecretary-tnaiunr\nR. H, Neelandi, _. 0. Box 60.\nPBOVINOIAL UNIONS\nB, 0. FEDERATION OF LABOR\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meet!\nIn annuil convention In January. Executive officers, 1016-17: President, Jas. H. McVety; vice-presidents \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Vancouver, - J,\nBrookes, E. Morrison; Victoria, C. Siverts;\nNew Westminster, W. Yates; Prince Rupert,\nW. E. Denning; Revelstoke, J. Lyon; District 28. U. M. W. of A. (Vancouver Ialand),\nW, Head: District 18, U. M. W. of A.\n(Crow's Nest Valley), A. J. Carter; secretary-treasurer, A. 8. Wells, P. 0. Box 1588,\nVictoria, B. 0.\nVIOTOBIA, B. 0.\nVICTORIA TRADES AND LABOR COUN- '\nOIL\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets flnt and third Wednesday,\nLabor hall, 1424 Government street, at 8\np. m. President, A. S. Wells; secretary, F.\nHoldrldge, Box 302, Victoria, B. 0.\t\nNBW WESTMINSTBB\nBARTENDERS' INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE\nof America, looal 784, New Westminster.\nMeets lecond Sunday of each month at 1:80\np.m. Secretary, F, W. Jameson. Box 498.\nOFFIOBBS OF THB AMERICAN FEDEBA-\n TION OF LABOR\nPresident\u00E2\u0080\u0094Samuel Gompers, Washington, D.\nC; Clgarmaken International union,\nFirst vice-president\u00E2\u0080\u0094James Duncan, Quincy,\n.Mass.; Granite Cutters' International\nunion.\nSecond vice-president\u00E2\u0080\u0094James O'Connell, of\nWashington, D. C; International Associa-\n* tion of Machinists.\nThird vice-president\u00E2\u0080\u0094D. A. Hares, Philidel-\nphia; Glass Blowers' association.\nFourth vice-president\u00E2\u0080\u0094Joseph Valentine* of\nCincinnati; Molders' union of North\nAmerica.\nFifth vice-president\u00E2\u0080\u0094John R, Alpine, Chicago; United Association of Plumbers.\nSixth vlce-prealdent\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. B. Periiam, St.\nLouis; Order of Railway Telegraphers.\nSeventh vice-president\u00E2\u0080\u0094Frank Duffy, Indianapolis ; United Brotherhood of Carpenten.\nEighth vice-president\u00E2\u0080\u0094William Green, Ohio;\n- United Mine Worken,\nTreasurer\u00E2\u0080\u0094John' B. Lcnnon, Bloomlngton,\nIII.; Journeymen Tailors of North America,\nSecretary\u00E2\u0080\u0094Frank Morrison, Washington, D.\nC; International Typographical union.\nFEDERAL LEGISLATIVE BOD7\nTRADES AND LABOR CONGRESS OF CANADA\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets in convention September of\neach year. Executive board: Ju. C. Wattera,\npresident; vice-^reaident, A. Watchman, Victoria, B, c.j aecretary-treaaurar, P. M, Dra-\nper, Drawer 515, Ottawa. .Ont.\t\nOROAN1EEP LABOB COMPANIES.\nUBOR TEMPLE COMPANY, LIMITED-\nDlrectors: R. p. Pettlplece, Jamea\nCampbell, J, W. Wilkinson, Geo. Wllby, W. J,\nNagle, F. Blumberg, H. H. Free, Mlsa Helena\nGutteridge, J. Byron. Managing director:\nJas. H. McVety, room 211, Labor Temple,\nB. 0. FEDERATIONIST, LIMITED\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeta\nat call of president. Labor Templt, Vancouver, B. 0. Dlrecton: James Campbell,'\npresident; J, H. MeVety, leentarytnuurer;\nA. Watchman and A. 8. Weill. R, Parm.\nPettlplece, managing director. Room 217,\nLabor Ttmplt, Telephone Seymour 7496, Tn**^!t^^\ntama******\nFRIDAY, PEBBUAET 4,1916\nTHE B fiTffgff CQLUMglA F\n|eckie5hoes\nftoilt An- We\u00C2\u00AB,\nMade In\nBritish\nColumbia\nThere* tre a number of\nreasons WHY you should\npurchase LECKIE\nSHOES in preference to\nothers. One good reason\nis that LECKIE SHOES\nare made in British Columbia in a British Columbia institution by British Columbiana.\nEveiy penny you pay for LECKIE SHOES remains\nhere in British Columbia. You pay no duty.\nAnother reason is that you can not purchase a better\nshoe on the market Any man who wears a LECKIE\nwill testify to that.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094At Leading Dealers Everywhere-!* .\nNamed Shoes are frequently made in Non-\nUnion Factories\u00E2\u0080\u0094Do Not Buy Any Shoe\nno matter what its name, unless It bears a\nplain and readable Impression or this stamp;\n. All shoes without the Union Stamp are\nalways Non-Union.\nBOOT A SHOE WORKERS' UNION .\n!M Bummer Street, Boston, Mass.\n3. F. Tobln, Pres. C. L. Blaine, Seo.-Treae.\nTelephone 808\n/\nu\n!\na\n(.*\"\nE. G. McBRIDE\nWbolsssls. rsttll ud family trsds\nWINES AND SPIBITS\nOonur B\u00C2\u00ABMa ul Tnat Stmts\nMEW WXSTMJSSTEB. B. 0.\nASK FOR\nB. C. Special\nRYE\nWhisky\nNine Years in Wood\nUNSURPASSED\nIN QUALITY\nAND FLAVOR\nEstablished 1903\nTEMPERANCE\nis good for nil mon; total abstinence is a matter of expediency for some\nmen. Tbe total abstainer hns no more right to compel the temperate\nman *> i abstain by force of law, thnn the temperate man has to compel\nthe abstainer to drink what he neither likes or chooses by force of law.\nBeer is the temperate mt }'s drink; it's'a food. Ask your dealer for our\nbrunds.\nBRITANNIA, PALE\nOK\nPREMIER\nWESTMINSTER BREWERY\nLIMITED\nA. E. SUCKLING & CO. LTD.\nVANCOUVER DISTBIBUTOBS\nThe Name\nstands for all the essential requirements of a first-\nclass bottle beer. CASCADE on a bottle of beer is\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nlike the Sterling mark on silver\u00E2\u0080\u0094proof that it's good\nhonest beer, brewed right, bottled clean, in the most\nmodern plant on the Pacific Coast, by CANADIAN\nUNION WORKMEN. We also manufacture high-\ngrade\u00E2\u0080\u0094UNION MADE\u00E2\u0080\u0094aerated waters.\nSILVER TOP SODAS\nYou'll find they are of the same high standard as\nyou are accustomed to in our brand of CASCADE\nBEER. On sale everywhere.\nVancouver Breweries Limited\nI\nObjects of the Movement\nAre Outlined by Fed.\nCorrespondent\nThe Conscription of Wealth\nBefore Human Life Is\nDemanded\n[Special Australian Correspondence]\nSYDNEY, N. 8...W., Jan. 14.\u00E2\u0080\u0094In the\ncolumns of this journal) under date of\nOctober 15 last, I gave some particulars concerning the movement on the\npart of the Australian women for peace,\nat the same time asking for co-operation\nin the United States and Canada. I\nurn glad to say at thla date that my appeal has not fallen on deaf ears.\nLetters are now reaching me, offering\nco-operation in a movement that, I\nhope, will not have been started.in\nvain. The Women's Peace Army of\nAustralia desires me, at this date, to\nthank one 'and all, for the proffered\nassistance. Steps will bo taken in due\ntime to get the movement in an international footing.\nObjects of the Movement.\nAs many readers will doubtless wish\nto know just what our objects are, I\nthink it well to state briefly the salient\npoints of same.\nWe intend to bind together all the\nforces that are sympathetic to the establishment of peace and the maintenance of same, by means of international\narbitration and such other methods ob\nmay be favored.\nIn Australia we intend, to create a\ncentral council in each state of all organizations which are in sympathy with\nthe movement. ThiB for the purpose of\nconsolidating interests to secure the one\ncommon goal. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nIu addition we wish to co-operate\nwhenever possible with international\npeace and kindred, organizations in\nother parts of the world.\nWe appeal for the establishment of\nan effective and permanent international arbitration court, elected on a democratic basis, including women delegates;\nthe setting up of adequate machinery\nfor ensuring democratic control of foreign policy; general reduction of armaments and the nationalization of their\nmanufacture; organization of the trades\nunions and workers' associations with\na definite view of ending war; termination of the present war at' the earliest\npossible moment.\nWe consider that the principles that\nshould govern the terms of peace are\nthat no territory or province shall be\ntransferred from one government to another without the consent, by plebiscite\nof the population of such province; control by the British parliament of treaties and foreign .policy, and the abolition of conscription and compulsory.\nmilitary training.\nParliamentary Action Requested.\nThose, briefly are our objects. Apart\nfrom the lecturing tours that have been\nundertaken to further the government,\nthe central bodies at present located at\nthe seat of Commonwealth government\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094that is, at Melbourne, Victoria, have\nlost no time in getting some very concrete proposals before the national government. At a recent meeting, December 2, 1915, the following resolutions\nwere authorized:\n'' That the Women's Peace army asks\nthat the Commonwealth parliament be\nsummoned immediately to consider the\nprime mintBten's mission to England,\nand give him a peace mandate from tho\npeople of Australia.\n\"That the method by which it is\nproposed to raise a new army of 50,000\nmen in Australia is nothing short of\nconscription for military service abroad\nand we are prepared to support those\nwho in their love for humanity and\nfreedom, desire to resist this shameful\nviolation of the rights of mankind.\"\nOther Resolutions Adopted,\nA further series of resolutions have\nalso been carried, as follows:\n\"That in view of the possibility of\nthe terms of peace being considered by\nthe forthcoming Imperial conference,\nthe Australian peace alliance places on\nrecord its opinion that, as the peace\nsettlement should aim primarily at\" the\nmaintenance of world peace upon the\nlines of the democratization of foreign\npolicy, tho prime minister should officially represent democratic views at the\nsaid conference, nnd in this connection\nbear a mandate from the federal parliament or from a specially-convened\nfederal labor conference; and as a basis\nfor such mandate the alliance suggests\nthe following as necessary provisions in\nthe event of the peace settlement being\nconsidered:\n'' No province or terirtory in any part\nof the world shall be transferred from\nT. A. BARNARD\nA Royal City trade unionist, and aldermanlc candidate, who has enlisted for\noverseas service, and is now in the\ntrenches.\nTWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO\nTrades and Labor Oouncll.\n.February 1, 1891. .\nput up in\npint bottles r\nB.C. VINEGAR WORKS\nFactory: 1365-7 Powell Street\nTelephone Highland 886\nEst 19Ci4 Vaneoaver, B, O.\nHon. Robert Bevan, M. P. P., gave\nnotlco of motion in the legislature:\n\"That the committee on standing orders and private bills, and the committee on railways, should see that all private bills granting franchises or rights\ncontain sections providing against the\nemployment of Chinese on any work to\nbe undertaken in pursuance of the\nbill.1' The trades and labor councils of\nVancouver and Victoria endorsed same.\nParliamentary committee appointed)\ncomposed of Messrs, Wm, Towler, 3, L.\nFranklin, Wm. Pleming, A. B. Campbell and J. Qale.\nResolution carried: \"That the principle of eight hours constituting a day's\nlabor should be adopted in carrying on\nprovincial works; and that a clause\nshould be inserted in aU contracts for\nsuch, to the effect that the hours making up a day's work of the workmen\nand laborers to be employed under it\nshall not be more than eight; and a\npenalty for the violation of Buch provision by the contractor or sub-contractor should be included.\"\nWhere Is PhlL Obermeyer?\nWhat has become of Phil. Obermeyer\nand the labor page in the Hamilton,\nOnt,, Herald every Saturday t Without\nthiB feature, the Saturday Herald is too\nhumdrum to bother with.\n''Jim\" Oreer and the \"Plague.\"\nNext week there will be no issue'of\nthe Slocan Record. With an epidemic\nof la grippe in the district, people need\nlinament outside and dope inside, and\nthe publisher wants a whole week's\nrest.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Slocan Record.\n\"The man who has no enemies has\nno following.\"\nThc Vancouver woman who divorces\nher husband to marry a Winnipeg man\nand goes to that town to live is certainly making an awful sacrifice for love.\none government to another without the\nconsent of plebiscite of the population\nof such province.\n\"No treaty, arrangement or undertaking shall be entered upon in the\nname of Oreat Britain without the sanction of parliament. Adequate machinery for ensuring democratic control of\nforeign policy shall bo created.\n'' The foreign policy of Great Britain\nshall not be aimed at creating alliances\nfor the purpose of maintaining the balance of power, but shall be directed to\nthe establishment of a concert of Europe and the setting up of an international council, whose deliberations and\ndecisions shall be public,\n\"Oreat Britain shall propose as part'\nof thc peace settlement a plan for tho\ndrastic reduction of armaments by the\nconsent of all the belligerent powers,\nnnd to facilitate that policy shall attempt to secure the general nationalization of the manufacture of armaments\nand the prohibition of the export of\narmaments by one country to another,\n\"The universal abolition of conscription and compulsory military service.\nCountry Faces Conscription.\nMeanwhile pressure is to be brought'\nto bear on the matter of compelling\nmen to answer certain questions as to\nwhether they are prepured to enlist now\nor at some future date.\nIt is as well to say here, that we nre\non the eve of conscription in Australia\nund as a preliminary the government\nin offering to provide an extra 50,000\nmen for the battle front from Australia, havi' decided to enter on a monster\nrecruiting -campaign.\nEvery man between the ages of 18\nand 60 is to bo circularized by tho government and asked thc following quostions: (1) Are you prepared to enlist\nnow for service outside of Australia?\n(2) Are you prepared to enlist at a\nlater datef (3) If you are not prepared to enlist, state the reason?\nNo Conscription Fellowship.\nTo deal with this matter a No-Conscription fellowship has been formed.\nBriefly it' has decided that it wiU not\nanswer the first two questions, but shall\nanswer the third in thiB wise:\n\"Because I am a member of the No-\nConscription fellowship, an organigation\nof men, likely to be called upon to undertake military service in the event\nof conscription who will refuse, from\nconscientious motives, to bear arms.\nWe deny the right of 'governments to\nsay, 'You shall bear arms,' and will oppose every effort to introduce compulsory military service, and whatever tho\nconsequences may be, shall obey our\nconscientious convictions rather than\ntho commands of governments.\"\nWealth Conscription Wanted.\nSince the ugly head of conscription\nseems to bo showing in our midst, there\nis a great force behind the peace and\nno-conscription movement. Besides the\npresent arrangement is by no means\nlogical.\nAs the official organ of thc labor\nparty in Australia point's out, what iB\nwanted is conscription of wealth beforo\nconscription of lives.\nThe wealth can be made all over\nagain, but life, once taken, cannot be\ngiven back again.\nV?. FRANCIS AHERN.\nSwitzerland Alone Makes\nProvision for Other\nEmployment\nDisplaced Workers Demand\nEqual Opportunities\nto Work\nThe idea of demanding compensation\nfrom the state where property was confiscated through prohibition legislation\nis not new, says the Brewery Workers'\nJournal. When in 1910 the manufacture of absinthe was prohibited in\nSwitzerland, provision,* were made for\ncompensation of all concerned\u00E2\u0080\u0094landowners/ employers and employees. \"In\nEngland, in France and in some parts\nof Canada, after prohibitory laws were\nadopted, compensation of the license\nholders for the loss of their property\nwas provided for. In a decision given\nin 1887, Judge Brewer, of the United\nStates circuit court of Kansas, held\n\"that the state can prohibit the defendant1 from brewing, but before it\ncan do so it must pay the value of the\nproperty destroyed.\" All these precedents are encouraging the employers in\nthe manufacture of alcoholic beverages\nto demand compensation wherever prohibition compels them to go out bf business; in fact, bills to that extent have\nbeen or will be introduced in the legislatures In several states. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nWage Workers Overlooked.\n, But in all'these cases, with the exception of Switzerland, the wage-earner is\nnot considered, the one who loses not\ncapital in the common sense of. the\nword, but capital consisting of his\nworking power and his acquired knowledge in his trade. He has only his\nlabor and his knowledge for sale, and\nif the market for that is taken away,\nhe is left helpless, as he cannot compete, for lack of skill and experience,\nwith wage-earners in other industries;\nat least not without being compelled to\nmake undeserved sacrifices and injuring\nthoBe with whom he nas to compete.\nCompensation of Jobs.\nWhen it appears that the principle of\ncompensation has been recognized for\nthose who lose their business through\nprohibition lnws, why should the worklngman not be compensated who loses\nforever . the opportunity to make an\nhonest living in his accustomed way?\nThe only just compensation is, providing or creating an opportunity to\nwork. Any other form of compensation\nmight be looked upon as some form of\ncharity. But they do not want charity,\nthey demand justice and work.\nTHR LABOR PRESS\nA. F. of L. Suggests That Even Its\nEditors Should Have Decent Wages.\nThe 1915 report of the executive\ncommittee of tho A. F, of L. to the San\nFrancisco convention, says of the Labor press:\n'ThoBe conditions made labor papers\nnecessary and they have struggled\nagainst tremendous obstacle*\u00E2\u0080\u0094hampered .by lack of appreciation, friends,\nfacilities and opportunities.\n\"Each year brings increases in tho\npower and number of the labor pnpers\nof the land. They are tremendous dynamic forces giving publicity to the\ncause of human welfare and tho struggle of the workers for justice and a\nbetter life. They herald abroad the\nnews of Labor\u00E2\u0080\u0094the idoals that touch\ntho things of daily life and make\nthem to glow with the- glory of humanity. They tell tho facts of tho workers' lives and of the struggles for a\nbetter life.\n'Usually in a secluded office, work\nthe labor editors who dedicate their\nlives to the cause of publicity for Labor. Their reward has been frequently\nbut a meagro living nnd the satisfaction of a great work done. The Labor\nmovement stands for decent wages\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nan ideal that must be extended to labor\neditors.\n'The labor papers by bringing about\nunderstanding of conditions, are a powerful element in helping to unify and\ngive direction to the Labor Movement.\nThey journey throughout the length\nand breadth of tbe land entering into\nthe mentnl life of each reader, expanding in some way his thought and\nconsequently his acts. They nre an\nincalculable power in the Labor movement and ought to be supported financially and morally by all the workers,\nand those who genuinely sympathize\nwith the great causo of Labor.\"\nFloral Art-\nFUNERAL DESIGNS\nWo mako a specialty of wreaths,\ncrosses, harps, anchors, pillows,\netc. See us for subscription designs. We can give you Bpecial |\nprices.\nRITCHIE'S\n840 Granville Street\nVANCOUVEB, B. 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The advertising value of a brilliantly\nlighted show window cannot well be estimated.\nTrade follows electric light wherever, and in whatever form it appears, and the strong appeal of brilliant electric illumination, and of electric signs, is\nbut the working of a natural law.\nTempting show window displays enhanced by electric light indicate the progressive store.\nO^C&icclHc\nSalesrooms\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Phone Seymour\nCarrall and Hastings Streets CAAA\n1138 Granville St., Near Davie OUUU\n|Ten Fed. Sub. Cards for $10\nA PAGE SIX\nTHE \"BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST\nFRIDAY. 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Remit when soil.\nSafeguard\ngoo* Of \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0gr\nNoumhin^jr )\nFood\nOgilvies Royal Household\nCanada's Best Flour\n)S OF LABOR\nAT\nSaskatchewan Congress Executive Met Cabinet\nv Last Week\nAgenda Comprises Subjects\nVery Familiar to Organized Labor\nA minimum wage of not less than $8\nper week for women; equal suffrage\nand state accident insurance are among\ntbe matters upon which the Trades and\nLabor Congress of Canada labor executivo of Saskatchewan are seeking legislation at the present session of the provincial legislature. When the members\nof the Saskatchewan labor. executive\nwaited upon the representatives of the\ngovernment last week, twenty-two\nitems were on the agenda paper in regard to which legislation was sought.\nThe Labor Deputation.\nThe labor deputation consisted of\nMessrs. B. H. Chadwick, vice-president,\nMoose Jaw; F. B. Judson, Prince Albert; J. D. Wallace, Saskatoon, and Alderman H. Perry, Regina, and they were\nintroduced to the memberB of the government by T. M. Molloy, provincial\nlabor commissioner. Hon. J. A. Calder,\nHon. A. P. McNab and Hon. Oeo. Bell\nreceived the deputation on behalf of\nthe government.\nPrior to the meeting a short session\nof the labor executive was held in Be-j\ngina on Thursday, when a programme\nof the matters requiring attention was\ndrawn up.\nIncluded in the list are such items as\ndirect legislation, ammendments to the\nCities act, compulsory contribution to\nthe Patriotic Fund, standardizing of all\nschool books and compulsory school attendance.\nComplete Agenda.\nThe complete agenda was as follows:\n1. ' State accident insurance a\u00C2\u00AB in Ontario. In regard to this clause in waB\nsuggested that it would be advisable to\nlook into the provisions of the Ontario\nWorkmen's Compensation act, which includes this feature, with a view to\namendments ta the Saskatchewan act.\n2. Compulsory inquest into all fatal\naccidents. \" \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n3. Minimum wage for women not\nless than $8 per week.\n4. Equal suffrage for men and women over 21 years of age.\n5. Abolition of the election deposit.\nIt was explained that at the present\nsession of the house the election act\nwould probably be up for amendment,\nand this will be one of the things which\nwill be considered.\n6. To enact a law providing for direct legislation. '*\n7. Abolition of nil private employment agencies.\n8. Union label on all government\nprinting, including school books and\nthat all government printing, ruling\nand book binding, in so far as Ib possible, be done in the province and that\ncontracts for government printing\nshould contain a clause stating that all\nwork be done in the province.\n9. That the Building Trades Protection act bt) amended by adding a new\nsection providing for the proper disin-\nfection of workmen and their clothing j\nwhen engaged in plumbing, renovating,\nor altering plumbing or any other work\nin hospitals or similar institutions,\n10. An act calling for the licensing\nof all plumbers. ,\n11. Amendments to the Cities act.\nSeveral-amendments to this act were!\nasked for, including the lengthening of\nthe period up to which a householder\ncould register his name on the voters'\nlist, -and also -asking for reduction in\nthe amount of rent whieh must be paid j\nannually by a tenant before he eould\nbe placed on the list. In addition it\nwas asked that the office of the city\nassessor be open for thirty days prior\nto the last day on which names could\nbe placed on the list from 9 a.m. to 5\np.m. and during the hours of of 7 p.m.\nto 9 p.m. Another amendment asked\nwas tnat any. person oh paying taxes\nfor thevcurrent year or poll or income\ntax should be automatically placed on\nthe voters' list. Another feature of the\nCities amendment was the request that\nin addition to the lock block plan, etc.,\non the voters' list, there should be\nadded the last known address of the\nvoter.\n12. , Compulsory contribution to the\nPatriotic fund. This clause asks for an\nact to provide for taxing, for the funds\nof the patriotic fund, so as to include\neveryone on a fair and equitable basis.\n13. The enforcement of regulations\nfor the protection of the Electrical\nWorkerB as provided for under the order in council passed at the 1914 session.\n14. An amendment to the Cities act,\ncalling for a change in the amounts paid\nto aldermen, changing the amount per\nmeeting from 43 to $10, and fixing the.|\nmaximum amount which may be paid in\nany one year as 4500 in place of 9150 as\nformerly.\nId. Asking for a pamphlet to be\nprinted outlining the rights of farm laborers and harvest help.\n16. That justices of the peace be\ncompelled to hoar all cases laid before\nthem.\nIn this respect the ministers had before them correspondence in regard to\nthis matter, citing an example where a\njustice of the peace refused to hear a\ncase. It is understood this matter will\nbe tnken up and investigated.\n17. Bureau of labor to have control\nir\n$12.00, $15.00\nor $18.00\nIs your limit for\nA NEW SUIT\neee what we have to offer.\nOood Variety, New Styles\nPEABODY'S OVERALLS\nUNION MADE\nW.& J. WILSON\nThe Men's Clothing Centre\n1217-1219-1221 Oovernment Bt.\nand Trounce Arenas\nVICTORIA\nA. J. CARTER\nSecretary-treasurer of District No. 18,\nU. M. W. of A., Fernie, who attended\nthe recent Vancouver convention of\nthe B. C. F. of L., and hurried home\nto attend both the District and International conventions.\nof the granting of licenses to moving\npicture operators.\nIS. Standardizing of all school text\nbooks, the said books to be provided\nfree to scholars, or sold at actual cost.\nAlso urged school attendance to be\nmade compulsory,,\n19. Medical, surgical and optical\ntreatment be made free to school children and that no school board be allowed\nto make vaccination compulsory.\n20. That the, teaching of the English langauge in all public schools of\nthe province be made compulsory.\n(With regard to the two above matters it was thought that aa the whole\neducational question was now being\ndiscussed it would be good policy to\ncontinue co-operation with the educational league and that as this matter\nwould probably be taken up at the next\nsession the view's of the labor organization could be presented at that time.)\n21. That situations advertised as vacant shall in all cases state .the name\nof the prospective employer.\n22. That the Factories act be amended by adding certain regulations for\nthe controlling of metal and gas fumes\narising from typesetting machines in\nprinting offices and providing for the\ninstallation of proper systems of ventilation;\nDelegates Speak.\nThese matters were gone into in detail\nby the delegates .of the congress provincial executive and each delegate spoke\nin behalf of several of tho items on the\nagenda paper. The cause of state accident insurance was championed by Delegate R. H. Chadwick of Moose Jaw.\nAlderman Perry waB the speaker on behalf of the clause relative to minimum\nwage for women; equal suffrage was\nchampioned by Delegate F. B. Judson\nof Prince Albert, while Delegate J. D.\nWallace spoke on behalf of direct legislation.\nrThe prevailing severe weather is responsible for the temporary * closing\ndown of sewer work' throughout the\nmunicipality of South Vancouver, Between three and four hundred men are\nthereby thrown out of employment,\nThere is considerable speculation\namongst the municipal employees as to\nthe probable outcome of a resolution\npassed by the new council giving one\nmonth's notice to those in all departments. The notice expires on February\n29, and is given with a view to reorganization. For the purpose of inquiring into the systems prevailing in the\nsurrounding districts, Reeve Winrara\nand his council visited Point Grey, Burnaby and New Westminster during the\npast week.\nAt a meeting of the school board\nI held on Friday, January 28, estimates\n''for ordinary expenditure for the year\n1916, aggregating $158,085.60 were\n.passed. This amount is made up as follows; Teachers' salaries, $83,140; janitors' salaries, $10,585; school supplies,\nrepairs, etc.,.$37,000; officials' salaries,\nmanagement expenses, etc., $21,300.50.\nSeveral times during the meeting,,\nChairman -Neelands was called upon to\nexercise his casting vote\u00E2\u0080\u0094chiefly in\ncases where drastic reductions in salaries were proposed, his decision'always\nbeing against any unreasonable cut in\nfavor of the salary more-in keeping\nwith the services rendered, and that\nwould make for a continuance of the\npresent high standard of efficiency of\ntho school system of South Vancouver,\nLETTERS TO\nTmrntfld.\nReflections on War and Peace.\nEditor B. C. Federationist: The argument's against war have changed with\nthe age in which they have been put\nforward. And so, in this capitalistic\nage they amanate from the profit and\nloss theory that nowodays wars do not\npay even the victor.\nThis argument, though it may be the\nmost obviouB and indisputable ever put\nforward against war, will not abolish\nwar, because it ascribes war to a most\nsuperficial cause, the lust of material\ngain.\nIt iB said that capitalistic interests\nnre the real causes of wars nowadays,\nbut in reality they are an ephemeral\nincentive for the real causes of war td\nassert themselves.\nTbe real causes of wars, at least of\nall wars of today, are conflicting ideals\nand the will of man to fight, to suffer\nand to die for an ideal. When such\nideals are lost, .wars, will cease, and\nthen humanity oh our planet will live\nto fill its stomach and obey the rules to\nprevent indigestion. Such a humanity\nit is abject to conceive.\nSo when in a perhaps not distant future socialism will have achieved its\nend, and will have endowed everyone\nwith roof and bread conflicting ideals\nwill be the torches that will light futue\nwrars.\nUntil one supreme ideal is conceived\nby all humanity, conflicting ideals will\npreservo war. Yet what may ty the\none supremo ideal, absolving humanity\nfrom wars without precipitating it into\nabject meanness? Perhaps it may be a\nworld religion. Yet for us today such\nan ideal it is affirms life, is as yet inconceivable and It being so it is a question if its existence is possible at all;\nYet this world deligion may 'be a\nnegation of life come to through a\nweariness of the strife of conflicting;\nthere are such, and their being recognized as the supreme error, the essence\nof life, the trick the world spirit has\nplayed upon us.\nOr else such recognition, if it refuses\nto negate life, may come to exalt it and\nall It means into a religion of life. Then\nlife will stand for its own sake, be\naccepted as its own meaning and its\nconflicting ideals as a means to attain\nlife's fullest realization which may\ncome tq man only in a supreme contest\nwith himself, a conflict where only\nthrough readiness to throw away life\nhe may attain the heights of its realization\u00E2\u0080\u0094in the end a negation of life, indeed, but through its first fullest and\nmost primitive realization\u00E2\u0080\u0094heroism.\n(MRS.) C. B. h.\nPorcupine Bristles -with Profits.\nNotices are again appearing in the\nnewspapers containing the information\nthat the Hollinger Gold Mines, Ltd.,\nof Porcupine, Ont., have declared a four\nper cent, regular four-weekly dividend,\npayable on January 28, 1916. This, it\nmay be said, is the 43rd dividend that\nhns been paid. Four per cent, on a\nfour-weekly basis would mean 52 per\ncent, per annum.\nThis is the corporation that imported\nThiol private detectives and gunmen a\ncouple of years ago to overawe the miners in its employ who were striking\nagainst a practical reduction in wages.\nIt would appear to be up to the federal\ngovernment to raise a part of the war\nexpenditures by the taxation of big\nprofits, If men are asked to sacrifice\ntheir lives for the country, wealth\nshould be forced to sacrifice, at least, a\nSart -of its fat dividends,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Industrial\nanner.\nTen Sub. Cards for $10.\nTen yearly Fed. sub. oards for $10.\nPay as sold. Order ten at once and help\nto push the Fed's, circulation.\nSpeculation Amongst Employees as to Outcome\nof Notice\nEstimates of School Board\nfor Year\u00E2\u0080\u0094No Drastic\n. Reductions\nA MENACE SAYS MR. BIGG\nPrivate Detective Agencies Should Be\nLegislated Out of Existence.\nR. A. Rigg, M. P. P., Winnipeg, in\nthe law amendments committee, when\ndealing with the Private Detectives\nbill, suggested that they ought to' be\nlegislated out of existence, was a very\ngood-1 one. These institutions aro dangerous to any community in which they\noperate, as Winnipeg has learned from\nexperience. During a street car strike\nhere some-years ago a bunch of these\nprivate detective thugs' was imported\nfrom the States and sworn in as special\nconstables, and given authority to club\nall and Bundry citizens. They aupply\nspies of all descriptions\u00E2\u0080\u0094gunmen, slug,\nartists and any old artist at a price.\nReports also to suit the price. Eliminate them, the community would be the\ngainer.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Voice.\nTho mysterious suicide, a .couple of\nweeks ago, in the local Thiel office, Rogers' building, as a result of which one\nof the officers has been committed for\ntrial, lends additional interest to tho\nstand made by Mr, Rigg.\n\"Saving the Empire!\"\nF. B. Carvell, member for Carlton, N.\nB., certainly got after the federal government in regard to shell contracts\nand other easy money propositions. He\nquotes some of the firms and some of\nthe profits that were made in \"saving\nthe empire\" at so much per save for\nthe political friends of the government.\nHe took a crack at the government's\ntravelling whitewash machine that has\nbeen soothing tke minds of the disturbed citizens, but it is quite evident that\nthe shell scandal is of such proportions\nthat it will not bo downed.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Winnipeg\nVoice.\nMore Women Workers Wanted. ,\nThe British Labor Gazette for December says: \"The shortage of both\nskilled and unskilled labor became still\nmore marked. To some extent women\nhave been used to make good the deficiency, but there is room for further\ndevelopments in thiB direction during\nthe war. The number of women ordinarily employed is not, however,' sufficient to meet all the demands of the\nsituation created by the withdrawal of\nso many men from their usual occupations, and by the requirements of the\nforces. A new supply of labor is therefore required, which, in the present circumstances, can only be drawn from\namong those women who have not hitherto been engaged in industry.\"\nMen and Mules.\nUnder a new law in Pennsylvania,\nsaid to have been enacted to protect\nminers, it is provided that no less than\n200 cubic feet of air por minuto must\nbe pumped into a mine for each man\nworking therein, and it is likewise decreed that each mule employed shall be\nthe recipient of at least 700 cubic feet\nof air per minute. Perhaps if the miners live long enough and the \"working-\nman'b friends\" in the legislature remain sufficiently diligent .and stick to\ntheir task as saviors of society the men\nmay yet be placed upon a parity with\nthe mules. Pennsylvania has long, very\nlong, enjoyod the distinction < of being\nthe foremost state in the union in the\nmatter of harboring within its confines\nthe most' shameless plutocrats and jackass voters that ever nave come into juxtaposition anywhere.\u00E2\u0080\u0094American Socialist.\nT. B. CUTHBERTSON & Oo.\nMen's Hatters and Outfitters\nThree Storei\nFurniture\nLargest and molt select itock ln\nWestern Canada. Easy Terms\nand decent treatment, at war\nUme prices.\nHastings Furniture Co.Ltd.\ntl HASTINOS ST., WEST\nDAVID SPENCER, LTD.\n1\nDAVID SPENCER, LTD.\nBest Selection in the West in Men's\nBetter Grade Goat Sweaters\natgpencer's \"\nToil can discriminate all you wish for there is ample choice here. Pay\nthe price-that suits your purse. You can't get a poor coat or one that\nis not -worth every cent of the price -asked. To enumerate a few\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nAT $3.96 we have a heavy weight two-ply worsted coat. It looks well\n- keeps its shape well and.is a splendid wearer. For conductors, chauffeurs and men working in factories and shops this is a coat we recommend. Shawl collar. Colors plain and contrasty trimmed.\nAT $4.50\u00E2\u0080\u0094A heavier weight 3-ply worsted coat, with a shawl collar,\nin plain colors;\nAT $4.76\u00E2\u0080\u0094A medium weight coat in two-ply yarn\u00E2\u0080\u0094pure wool, soft and\nspringy. Also a three-ply pure wool in a fancy stitch, heavy weight.\nBoth excellent coats.\nAT $6.60\u00E2\u0080\u0094An extra heavy largo roomy coat in three-ply yarn\u00E2\u0080\u0094very'\nfirm.and calculated to wear splendidly.\nAT $6;76\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Pride of the West\" pure wool coats. A boautifully finished garment that has every good attribute a sweater coat can have,\nWe have sold thousands and never one complaint.\n\"Pride of the West\" heavy \"jumbo\" knit $9.60\nSportsmen's coats, with leather reinforcements at $8.60\nDavid Spencer Limited\nDAVID SPENCER, LTD.\nDAVID SPENCER, LTD.\nPhona Seymour 8880\nNew Blectric Auto Bu. Meets all Beats Md Trsins Free\nHotel Dunsmuir\nVancouver's Newest and Moat '\nComplete Hotel\n250 ROOMS ; 100 with Private Baths\nEUBOPEAN PL&T, \u00C2\u00BB1.00 per Day op.\nCOB, DUNSUDIB and BIOHABDS STEEETS VAHOODVEB, B.O.\nTHE CANADIAN BANK\nOF COMMERCE\nCapital. 815,000,000 Bait.... 113,000,000\nMain Offlce; Oorner Hastlngi and Qranvllle Streeta, Vancouver\nOITT BBANOHES LOCATION\nALMA ROAD Oor. Fourth Avenue and Alms Bosd\nCOMMERCIAL DRIVE, i Oor. First Annus .nd Comment.] Drive\nEAST END Oor. Fender and Main Streets\nFAIRTIEW Cor. Sixth Annus and Granville Strset\nHASTINOS and CAMBIE Cor. Hastings and Cambie Streets'\nKITSILANO , Cor. Fourth Avenu, and Tew Street .\nMOUNT PLEASANT Cor. Eighth Avenue and Main Street\nPOWELL BTREET Cor. Vletorl. Drive and Powell Street\nSOUTH HILL Cor. Forty-fourth Avenue and Frsssr Read\nAlio North Vancouver Branch, Oorner Lonsdale Avenue ud Esplanade\nUNION \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 OFFICES\nThis Official List Of Allied Printing- Offices '\nCAN SUPPLT TOU WITH THB ALLIED PBINTDIO TBADBS UNION LABEL\nBAOLET * SONS, Itl Hestlnts Street Sermour 810\nBLPCHBEROER, F. R\u00E2\u0080\u009E ait Broadway East Fairmont 108\nBRAND * PERRY, 620 Pender Street. West Seymour 9676\nBURRARD PUBLISHING CO., 711 Seymour Street ....Seymour 1580\nCHINOOK PRINTINO CO., 4001 Main Street ..Fairmont 1874\nCLARKE A STUART, 830 Seymour Street Stymour 8\nCOWAN 4 BROOKHOUSE. Ubor Temple Balldinf Seymour 4400\nDUNSMUIR PRINTINO CO., 487 Dunsmuir Street Seymour 1109\nEVANS tt HASTINOS, Arts and Oralis Bids'., Seymour St Seymour 6650\nJEWELL, M. L., 841 Pender St... Seymour 1444\nKERSHAW, J. A., SSO Howe St Beymour \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB74\nLATTA, R P., 983 Gore Ave Beymour 1080\nMAIN PRINTINO CO., 8851 Mala St Fairmont 1088\nMoLEAN A SHOEMAKER. North Vancouver N. Van. 68\nMOORE PRINTING CO., Cor. Granville and Robson BU Seymoar 4848\nNEWS-ADVERTISER, 901 Pender'St Seymour 1038-41\nNORTH SHORE PRESS. North Vancouver N Van. 60\nPAOIFIO PRINTERS. World Bulldlnf Seymour 0503\nPEAROE A HODGSON, 619 Hamilton Street Seymoar 3036\nROEDDE, O. A., 916 Homer Street Seymour 364\nSCANDINAVIAN PUBLISHING CO., 817 Csmble St Beymour 6603\nTERMINAL OITT PRES8, 3408 Westminster Road Falrm\u00C2\u00BBnt 1140\nTHOMSON STATIONERY, 835 Hsstings W Seymour 8610\nTIMM8. A. H.. 280 Fourteenth Ave. E Fairmont 68IR\nWESTERN PRESS, 838 Cordova W. Seymour 7666\nWESTERN SPECIALTY CO., 881 Dunsmuir 81 Beymour 3636\nWHITE * BINDON, 167*163 Cordova St Seymour 1815\nWrit. \"Union Ubel\" oa Tour Oepr whan Tn Sand It ta the Printer\nTwo Stores and Three Offices To Let\nAt Low Rentals,! in the\nLABOR TEMPLE\nCor. 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