"1503f578-50db-4e43-96f5-d2f72b8d8643"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2017-03-28"@en . "1925-06-05"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcfed/items/1.0345396/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " INDUSTBIAL UNITY: STRENGTH\nOFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE FEDERATED LABOR PARTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nPUBLISHED XS INTERESTS OF ALL WOBKEBS\n.4 POLITICAL UNITY: VICTOBT\nSEVENTEENTH YEAR. No. 23 SIX PAGES\nVANCOUVER, B. C\u00E2\u0080\u009E FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 5,1925\n5c A COPY\nLABOR VICTORIOUS RE BRITISH PENSIONS\nGeneral Elections Held in New\nSouth Walea Last Saturday.\nFIRST WOMAN M.P.-ELECT\nMr. J. Carlton Succeeds Former\nPremier Dooley As Labor\nLeader.\nf[ ABOR waa victorious in the New,\nSouth Wales election last Saturday and it will probably have a small\nmajority over all the other parties.\nThus far in the returns the labor\ngroup haa gained six seats. The re-'\n.suits thus far show the return of the\nparties as fallows; Labor 43: natlon-\nalists,13l; progressives, 8; Independent, 2: 'doubtful, 6. The legislative\nassembly consists of ninety members\nfrom twenty-four, districts. .\nAll the members of Sir Qeorge Pul-\n. ler's -national cabinet were returned\napd Miss Proston Stanley appears to*\nbe the flrst woman 'elected to the\nlegislature of New South JVales.\nNew South Wales had a labdr government with. J1. Dooley at its head\nP-lor to the general election of March\n1924, when the labor party was defeated: at the'polls by a coalition of\nnationalists and .progressive's, headed\nby the nationalist- leader, Sir deorge\nFuller. The labor government resigned early\u00E2\u0080\u009Ein Apjjl last and Sir Qeorge\nFuller became premier, with Wlalter\nE. Wearne,. head of thl progressive\nbranch of the 'coalition, as deputy\nleader. The present tabor loader in\nJtew South Wales, J. Carlton, succeeds\nformer Premier Dooloy, who resigned\nowing to ill health. '\nNew Scheme Established on\nContributory and Compulsory Basis.'\nPAID TO THREE CLASSES\nIf\nBeing Ruined By \"Insane Com-\npetition,\" Says Sir Fred-\neriok Mills.\nWIPE OUT COMPETITION\nRemedy Not the Trust, But Reorganization Under National\nOwnership.\n[Glasgow Forward]\npHCKNTLY Mr. Baldwin met a\ndeputation from the A. E. U., and\naccording to tho official report, Indicated, that the government fully \"appreciated the severity of unemployment ln the engineering trade, and\nwould lose no opportunity of forwarding any practicable plan that seemed\nlikoly to load to Ub alleviation.\"\nUnder those circumstances we\nmight direct Mr. Baldwin's attention\nto a remarkable speech delivered to\nthe annual meoting of the Iron and\n<\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Steel Institute on 7th May, by its\npresident, Sir Fredortck Mills, who is\nalso tho chairman of one of the biggest iron and stoel companies in the\ncountry.\nSir Frederick told the Iron and\nSteol institute lhat it was all nonsense\nto talk nowadays nboul tho benefits of\ncompetition and that tho time had\ncome to realise tha. lho groat hope\nof saving tho iron nnd steol industry\n' which gavo direct employment to 300,-\n000 persons and indirectly to another\n1,000,000 in tho shipbuilding nnd engineering trades, was lho merging of\nall tho Iron and steel compnnies in the\ncountry into one big trust. Here is\nSir Frederick's statement:\n\"It will be of benefit if our pro-\n' prletors cnn nmnlgamnte their interests, and arrange for the segregation\nof orders and concentrate them into\nthose areas and thoso works most\nsuitablo Cor their production; our\nprosont practico\u00E2\u0080\u0094lho survival of former years\u00E2\u0080\u0094whereby a great variety\nof shapos Is rolled In tho same works\nis wasteful; specialization is the order\nof tho day\u00E2\u0080\u0094we must adopt it.\ni \"Can wo not, go even further. Ts\nit beyond the wit of those who control\nour hundred and one iron and steel\nworks to deviso means for the physical amalgamation of those plants\nwhich are geographically suited for\nthe purpose ? The public may be\nafraid of a trust\u00E2\u0080\u0094they need not he;\nthero are real trusts all around them,\nunobsorvnble, or at least unremarked.\nBut, apart from that, should such\ngrouping result in grenter efficiency,\n1 venture to suggest grouping, combined with prosperity nnd progress,\nis of greater use to a country than\ninsane competition and stagnation.\"\nThis is a frank confession that the\ninnofflciency of tbe iron and steel industry in face of intensified International competition can only be met by\nthe entire reorganization of th'e iron\nnnd steel and engineering industries\ni nnd the wiping out of tho competition\nbetween indlvldunl firms.\nSir Froderick is demanding the unification of the heavy Industries of thc\ncountry (under private ownership, of\ncourse) and -tho elimination of the\nwnste of competing capitalism.\n\"The public,\" snys Sir Frederick\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*' naively, \"mny he nfrnid of n trust.\"\nExactly. Sir Froderick is out for a\nbig Iron nnd steel trust, which would\nwipe out competition, and with in-\nTerms of Widows', Orphans' and\nOld-Age Contributing\nPensions Bill,\nIntereat has been expressed In Canada in the terms of the Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions bill recently Introduced ln the\nBritish parliament by Mr. Winston\nChurchill to extend the existing social services provided for the working\npopulation by adding to the present\nschemes of health insurance, unemployment insurance, and workmen's\ncompensation, a scheme of:\n(a; Pensions for widows and dependent children, and\n(b) Old-age pensions starting at the\nage of 65 instead of. 70, and passing\non the attainment of the age of 70,\ninto pensions under the Old Age Pensions acts, freed from the restrictions\nand disqualifications at present ap\nplied to such pensions.\nThe bill establishes the new scheme\non a contributory and compulsory\nbasis, interlocked with the present\nscheme of health Insurance. The beneficiaries are the survivors of members\nof the working population insured\nunder that soheme In Great Britain,\nwho now number approximately fifteen million persons.\nAll members of the community who.\nat some time In their lives pass\nthrough a substantial period of Insurable employment (not less than\ntwo years) will have an opportunity\nof taking advantage of the scheme.\nThe voluntary contributor, like 'the\nemployed contributor, must be Insured\nboth, for health Insurance and for\npensions.\nThe Benefits\nThe sums payable In the three\nclasses of pensions provided for by\nthe bill are:\nWidows' Pensions (beginning on\nJanuary 4th, 1926): Ten shillings a\nweek for the widow of an insured\nman who dies after the date of the\ncommencement of the scheme and\nWaB under 70 years of age at the date\nwith an additional allowance for children up to the age of 14 at the rates\nof five shillings a week for the eldest\nchild, three shillings a week for each\nof the other children.\nOrphans* Pensions beginning on\nJanuary 4th, 1926): Seven shillings\nsixpence a week for the eldest child,\nand six shillings a week for each of\nthe younger children\u00E2\u0080\u0094up to the age\nof 14 in each case\u00E2\u0080\u0094of an insred man,\nbeing ti married man or a widower,\nor of an insured widow.\nOld Age Pensions (beginning 'on\nJanuary 2nd, 1926): Ten shillings a\nweek to insured men and Insured\nwomen between the ages of 65 and\n70, and ten shillings a week to the\nwives between the ages of 65 and 70\nof insured men who aro themselves\nentitled to pensions.\nWoodsworth and Stirling to Contest Winnipeg Federal Constituencies.\nAt a convention of tho Centre Winnipeg, Bi'ooklnnds and St. James\nmembers of tbo Independent Labor\nparty in the Woat End labor ball on\nThursday evening, candidates wore\nselected to contest the North Centre\naud South Centre Winnipeg seats in\nthe noxt federal election. For North\nContre thore was only ono nnme mentioned, the nomination going unanimously to J. S. WondBWorth, M. P.\nFor South Centre five names were\nprpposod: Aid. James Simpkin, R. B.\nStirling, Mrs. Iteed, V. B. Anderson,\nand S. J. Farmer. The two last mentioned declined to stand, and on a ballot being taken on the othof'threc, R,\nB. Stirling received a majority and\nwns declared the candidate The election committee will immediately\nproceed to organize.\nCanadian Corporation to Recognize\nUnion\nCalles' strong arm government in\nMexico Is cutting both ways so far as\nit affects the labor movement. He\nhas denied the right of railway workers to strike but bas balanced this\naction by ordering the Canadian-\nowned corporation operating the\nstreet car lines to recognize the\nunion.\nA starving man has a nntural right\nto his neighbor's bread.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cardinal\nManning.\ncreased efficiency and massed production, exploit tho nation for the benefit of ils shareholders.\nWe aro much obliged to Sir Frederick for liis testimony to tlie fact\nthat \"insane competition\" is ruining\nBritish industry, lint suggest thnt tbe\nromedy is not tho handing over of\niron, steel, and engineering industry\nof Great Britain to a huge trust, but\nits reorganization under national ownership.\nA New Instrument of Progress\nAFTER seventeen years'of valuable service to the labor movement, The B. 0. Federa-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 tionist with the nest issue beoomes a bigger and better paper, and as THE CANADIAN FARMER-LABOR ADVOCATE will enter a sphere of greater usefulness to the\nfarmer and labor movements.\nThe new paper will be an innovation in Canadian labor journalism, in that it will\nfeature farmer and labor news, rather than long articles. It will emphasise what the\nfarmer-labor movement is doing rather than what it intends to do.\nTHE CANADIAN FARMER-LABOR ADVOCATE will not be the official organ of\nany special wing of the farmer or labor movement, but will attempt to serve the needs\nof our movement as a whole without factional bias.\nThat there is a need for such a paper has been repeatedly stated. The advisory\nboard issuing THE CANADIAN FARMER-LABOR ADVOCATE is a further proof of this\nfact, inasmuch as its members hold many divergent views as to tactics and policies, but\nthey are unanimously agreed that the farmer and labor movement of British Columbia\ncan only build up a strong press by united effort. j ...jjj\nTHE CANADIAN FARMER-LABOR ADVOCATE is the lirst step towards remedying the present moribund state of the labor press of this oity.\nWe will let the contents of the forthcoming paper speak for itself.\nOID NOT HATERIALIZEBACK-DOOSIMHIGRATION\nBe Glad That the \"Big Boom\"\nHas Passed By Without\nTouching Us.\nThe great'boom anticipated last fall\ndid not materialize. The stock market tried to leap over the moon, stubbed it toe and fell back. Wheat leaped\nto a two-dollar peak and .dropped\ndown again faster than It went upt\nThe steel and iron Industry accelerated Its pace tremendously, but slowed down again. And calmly facing\nthe facts, it Is best that the anticipated hectic activity did not come\nthrough.\nWhy do we all crave a boom? To\nmake more money with less effort;\nto increase profits at the expense of\nthe buyer; to get more for giving less,\nOf course these desires to escape from\nthe curse of labor are natural and\nuniversal, but the percentage, of. hap:\nplness in the homes along Easy street\nis not high. Real contentment is the\nfruit, of earnest and persistent effort.\nThe orgy of the war profiteers ended\nln the head and stomach ache of 1920.\nLike the drunkard we are longing for\nanother grand and glorious profit debauch even though we ought to know\nthat It will impair our economic and\nspiritual health.\u00E2\u0080\u0094June Sunset (San\nFrancisco.)\nHOT ALL LIKE THE DOLE\nEight Thousand Girls Apply for\nForty Jobs at Wembley\nExhibition.\nA recent London cable says that\nan answer to tlie question so frequently asked In certain quarters, whether\nghis would rathor draw the insurance benefit than tako a job, was\nsupplied recently. In response to an\nadvertisement by the Dominion Catering company for 40 soda-water fountain attendants at Wembley, at a wage\nof \u00C2\u00A32 10s. a week, no fewer than 8,000\napplicants presented themselves, and\nlt was not until 3:30 in the afternoon\nthat the work of selection was finished. A large number of tbem actually\nrushed tbe gates of the administrative offico in their eagerness.\nNominating Convention for New\nWestminster Discussed-\nWill Hold Picnic.\nThe Vancouver district federation\nmot on Tuesday, June 2nd, In the Holdon building. Delegates were present\nfrom the Vancouver branch, Collingwood, North Burnaby, South West\nBurnaby, and Broadview,\nIt was decided to invite tbe Westminster labor group to meet a committee from the Burnaby brandies to\nset a date for a nominating convention for tbe New Westminster riding\nin the federal elections. This riding\nIncludes Burnaby, New Westminster,\nand a part of the Fraser valley.\nPlans were also advanced for the\nholding of a picnic on Sunday, June\n28, at Old Orchard or some other\nconvenient place.\nDefinite arrangement will he announced next week and all wnrkers\naro invited to come and make tlie\naffair a complete success,\nChild Study, Iowa\n\"Summer Courses In Child Life\" are\nbelijg offered by the uhlvu ity of\nIowa for the coining summer. The\ncourses will be given by tho Iowa\nChild-welfare Research station In conjunction with the extension M* ..ion\nand other departments of tlio university.\nPatronize Federatlonist advertisers\nUnited States Excluding Whites\nand Admitting Mexicans\nand Indians.\nThe back door is still open. Though\nwe bar the front gate and exclude\nthousands of Europeans because the\nnational stomach can't digest them,\nthe back door admits a wide stream\nof Mexican-Indians. And nobody\nseems to note the paradox in excluding whites and admitting \"Indians, os*\ntensibly to keep our bloodstream pure,\nTwo years ago we remarked that the\nhorde of Mexican-Indian Immigrants\nwas swelling. Now a survey made by\nseveral .Western universities demonstrates that \"the rise in Mexican immigration is likely to increase disease, crime and, poverty,\" in the area\nof the survey, the Coast states and\nBritish Columbia. Are we wise to admit Mexican-Indians practically with\nout restriction wfi'ilo-we bar Europ\nean whites?\u00E2\u0080\u0094June Sunset (San Fran\nCisco.)\nJunior Lnbor League\nThere will be a business moeting of\nthe J. L. L. this Friday evening at\n6262 Chester street.\nThe League Is holding another\ndance on Saturday, June 6th, at the\nElks hall, Forty-ninth and Fraser\navenues. Admission by collection at\nthe door. Good music.\nMembers of the League have been\ntaking advantage of the fine weather\non tho week-ends by hikes and picnics. Tho organization is still growing. Six nuw members were accepted\nat tlie last meeting. Let's have a few\nmore.\nBritish Organized Labor\nBi-ltish trade unions have increased\ntheir membership sinco la23 by 1,-\n000,000, according to figures mndo\npublic in Washington by the North\nAmerican agency of the International\nlabor office of Geneva, Switzerland.\nThere nre some 1135 trade union organizations in Great Britain, with a\ntotal membership of 5,461,000.\nBritain Hard Hit by Gorman Tariff\nThe new German tariffs although\nfully expected are regarded as one of\nsovorest blows yet at British industry\nfor a long time particularly in tho\ntextile industry, says a London cablegram. Canada will be particularly\naffected in canned products, wheat,\nrye, barley, artificial silk material,\nfrozen fish etc,\nWc want something more than n\nprogramme; we want something oi\nthe nature of a gospel,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Hamsay McDonald,\n\"MIND YOUR\nOWN BUSINESS\"\nA SUGGESTION TO TIHED\nFARMERS\nTHOSE Individuals, or groups,\nwishing to get pamphlets\nwhich have just recently been\nprinted are urged to send in\ntheir orders at once. There are\nonly a limited number printed.\nThey are the following:\nWOMAN AND WAR\nBy Mrs. Roso Henderson\n10 cents.\nMIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS\nBy George P. Stirling\nfi cents,\nTheso pamphlets are well writ-\nton. They contain a wealth of\ninformation, and are, to say\nthe very least, thought-provoking.\nSend in Your Orders at Onco\nYou Cannot Afford To Bo\nWilli.ch, Thein\nRestricting Food Supplies in\nOrder to Raise Prices of\nNecessities.\nSir Auckland Geddes and his commission may not have heard bf it, but\nsupplies of foodstuffs are destroyed\nIn England in order to keep up market prices. The agricultural correspondent of the London Times says\n* \"It wilt pay to sacrifice part of tl\noutput in order that the markets wtl\nnot be so depressed by over-suppl;\nas to lower prices unduly. One hean\nviews of this description uttered re-|\nspecting such products as potatoes,\nfruit, green vegetables, milk and other perishable articles. . . The farmer\nis only acting'in conformity with\nother classes of producers and trad\ners.1'\nA bright system isn't it, in which\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0foodstuffs are deliberately destroyed\nIn order to maintain scarcity prices.\nIn the midst of plenty tho people\nperish.\nFASCISTI JAPANESE WORKERS\nHold Anti-Socialist Meetings aad\nAdopt Aggressive\nTaction.\nWAVE THE \"UNION JACK\"\nKnock the Hat Off An Old Han\nAnd Are Chased By\nOrowd.\nA correspondent writing ln the\nGlasgow Forward relates the following: \t\n. For two Sundays running the British fascist! have been holding anti-\nsocialist meetings at Alexander park.\nThe first Snday they knocked the hat\noff a young man who kept lt bn whilst\nthey waved the union jack and sang\n'God Save the King/ Last week they\nknocked the hat off an old man and\nwere chased by the *rowd. A huge\nposse of police were brought out, and\nthe threat Is made to close down\nmeetings there. This cannot be tolerated.\n'Our loyal comrades of the I. L. P.\nrallied round splendidly, and showed\ngreat solidarity. Under these circumstances lt would be stupid to debate\nour differences there. May I suggest\neither joint meetings at this stance or\nalternate Sundays with oomplete solidarity of co-operation? This could be\narranged by delegates.\n\"Also, may I appeal to all socialists\nand workers, to boycott the fascisti\nmeetings completely. Let us provoke\nno disorder.\n\"If the I. L, P. has a meeting fixed\nfor Sunday first, Comrade J. H. Murray (our speaker) and our stewards\nwill co-operate loyally.\"\nHarked Increase in the Member.\nship of Trade Unions in\nJapan.\nTHIRTY TEARS' GROWTH\nMaternity and Infancy Act,\nRhode Island\nRhode Island has accepted the provisions of the federal Maternity and\nInfancy act. Forty-three states and\nHawaii now co-operate with tho national government under this act.\nUnited States Rails Manufactured\nUnder Anti-Union Conditions Ruled Out.\nThe town council of Glasgow,\nScotland, has refused to buy United\nSlates Steel Corporation rails for uso\nin its tramway system. Tbis action\nwas taken because American steel\nrails are manufactured under unfair,\nanti-union conditions, Labor members of tho council used tho Interchurch report on thd Sleel Striko of\nlitis to prove their cuse.\nTiie wickedest, the most damnable\ntraitor In tbe country Is the food profiteer.\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. Dennis Bradley,\nWisdom lies only in truth.\u00E2\u0080\u0094-Goethe,\nPremier C. A. Dunning's Party\nWill Havo Majority of 43\nin New House.\nLast Tuesday's general elections for\nthe provinco \u00C2\u00BBf Saskatchewan resulted\nin re-electing tlM> government of Premier C. A. Dunning (liberal), with\nthe exception of Attorney-general J.\nA. Cross, defeated at Keglna by M,\nA, Macpherson (conservative), Standing of tho parties in tho new parliament follows:\nLiberals fil\nConservatives 8\nProgressives 5\nIndependents 2\nDeferred _\nTotal 03\nGovernment strength 53\nopposition Btrength io\nGovernment majority 43\nAlderman Enst to Lecture\nAlderman James East, of Edmon\nexpects to spend some time next\nLecturing under the auspices of\n[mors' Unton of Canada, In\nwan and Manitoba. Mr.\n\t. several weeks during the\nin lecture work for the\nIon ln Saskatchewan and\non the \"Nationalization\n[e bo well received that\npranging a more ex-\ntensTWWWBf for him on the coming tour. Airman East haa made\nan extensive study of the money and\ncredits question and his lectures are\nfull of Interest for students of econom\nics.\nSocialism Inevitable\nSocialism Is the only theory of re\nform receiving wide support from capable thinkers; and if, as the socialist and the advocate of the trust systom contend, tho inevitable tendency\nand result of economic competition be\nthe monopolistic domination of Industrial activities by private corporations, then socialism Is Inevitable,\nProfessor Ely.\nAs labor is the common bip-den of\nonr race, so lho effort of some to\nshift tlieir share of tho burden on to\nthe shoulders of others Is the great\ndurable curse of the race.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Lincoln\nDecided to Support Australian\nLabor Party in N.S.W.\nState Elections.\nIt was decided at tho annual con\nference of the Commonwealth Publli\nService Assistants' association, reeently held at Sydney, X. fl, \\'., ttiat the\nassociation should, through its official journal and its members, support\nthe Australian labor party at the N.\nS. W. state elections.\nAn official report of proceedings\nshowed that the delegates adopted\ntbis course becnuse they considered\nthat the labor parly supported tbe\nprinciples of ettual pay for equal work,\npreferences In unionists, and the\namondmont of the Superannuation act\nto make belter provisions for single\nmen.\nTbe conference also decided to bold\nits next annual sitting ut Canberra.\nPrevention <>f Accidents, New York\nSerious injuries lo nearly 2,000\nchildren In New York factories in one\nyear, reported by the state department\nof labor, have resulted In the Inauguration of n campnlgn for the prevention of accidents to children In Industry by iho American Museum of Safety, aad (lie state departments of labor\nand education.\nTeach history ami economics truthfully nnd men will bate war.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Bishop\nof Birmingham,\nLondon Tmnmays Profitable\nThe municipal tramways of London\nmade nn actual profit of \u00C2\u00A3028,000\nlast year despite th'e auditor's report\nshowing a deficiency ot \u00C2\u00A3100,000, ac\ncording to Angus Soott, municipal reform momber in the London county\ncouncil. Scott points out that the\nauditor included charges for repay-\ntent on capital which If they had\nbeen deducted would have shown n\nprofit of \u00C2\u00A3586,000. In addition tho\ntramways made road Improvements\nlOStlng fSan.OOO. which nre improperly charged against tho tramways. \"By\ntaking these items out 'if tho expense\naccount, (In; tramways show an actual profit of \u00C2\u00A3028,000,\" Scott says.\nShoo Workers1 Coin cm ion\nMontreal, P. Q.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Shoe Workers\nwero In convention in this city all this\nweek al tho Mounl Royal hotel. Dele-\ngales from all parts of tho continont\nwcro present, ami tho whole shoe\ncondition was discussed thoroughly.\nThe convontion\u00E2\u0080\u009410th in number\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwas of great interest being of international character, Owing to trade conditions It wns the first held in four\nyears, and mnny problems wero faced.\nLast Year Government Adopted\nNew Polioy Toward Organised Labor.\nrTHERG has been of late a marked \"\nacceleration of the rate of Increase In the membenhlp of trad*\nUnions ln Japan, states Induatrlal nnd\nLabor Information. According to the\nfigures of Japan's Police bureau, ther*\nwere, at the end of l\u00C2\u00BB2l, SO, year*\nafter the Japanese workers began to\norganize themselves only 109,009\ntrade unionists in Japan. At th* end\nof 1S28, according to the returna of\nthe Bureau of Social Affairs, there\nwere 430 trade unions, with a total\nmembership of 126,000\nThe adoption by the government, in\n1924, of a new policy toward organised labor, gave a great impetus to the\ngrowth of trade unionism with the\nresult that by the end of 1924 there\nwere 600 unions with an aggregate\nmembership of 230,000; this represents a growth in one year almost\nequal to the growth of the previous. SO\nyears. In spite of this expansion, the\ntotal membershipr of trade unlona ln\nJapan amount still to only one-twentieth of the total number \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 of wage\nearners of Japan, whioh excluding the\nrural districts, is something over\n4,160,000.\nThe holder of a monopoly is a sinner and offender.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Koran.\nSAMUEL i CHILDS\nHead of Vast Chain of Restaurants Dies Leaving Large\nFortune.\nHE WAS A GOOD EMPLOY!\nAll Employees Under New Management Lose Time-Honored\nBonus.\nCAMUKL S. CHILDS, head of a vast\nchain of restaurants, with employees numbering well over 5,000,\ndied recently after mnking a fortune\nout of a new type of eating establishment that began as \"the poor man's\nrestaurant\" and ended \"as the restaurant whore only a rich man could\nafford to eat regularly,\" Judging by\nsome of tho prices.\nVarious attempts were made to organize these employes. One of the\nobstacles wns the woli-lntrenchod bonus system, tho waitresses sacrificing a\nstandard wage for the promise of a\nbonus which they got year after year.\nIf the girls worked 30 days continuously tbey recoived a bonus. Where\ntbe wage averaged about 30 cents an\nhour tbe \"gift\" thoy received at tho\nend of tbe month amounted to from\n$10 to $15. Out of this thoy contributed r\u00C2\u00BB0 cents a week by a check-off\nsystem to an insurance fund. Millions wore collected in the courso of\nyears to provide medicul attention for\nthem in cases of sickness.\nThe plan, based entirely on the good\nwill of one man, kopt tbe girls from\ntrying to help themselves. It served\nalso to tie them to their John in tho\nhope of getting the deferred payment, tbe bonus.\nThen the good employer died. Immediately the enormously wenlthy\nrestaurant company cut out the bonds\nand notice was posted on the bulletin\nboards to that effect, Nearly 20 per\ncent of the employees' Wnges was thus\ndipped off.\nWbat recourse have they'.' None.\nWhat the good employer gives in tho\nform of a bonus, be can also take\naway.\nMachinists Re-elccl orrkvrs\nA Washington, I>. <\ press despatch\ntales that all the high officers of\nthe International Association of Machinists, including Wm. II. Johnson,\npresident, were re-elected it was announced today, after an official count\nof the ballots. Johnston's majority\nwas 946 votes. B, C, Davison was reelected secretary-treasurer. Davison\nled nil other officers with a majority\nof 0603 votes.\nChildren in Moving Pictures, Germany\nBaby \"movie stars\" are frowned up-\n*n in Germany, where a recent police\nirdor forbade the employment of ehli-\nIren under 3 in Berlin movlng-picturtj\nstudios, according to the international\nlalior office. A police permit is required for the employment of children\nbetween 3 and tbe school-leaving age,\nTills permit is given on condition that\nchildron nre not exposed to con-\nons Injurious to health or morals,\nto unhealthy exci 'mont of tho\nigin atlon. Children attending\nschool mny bo employed only outsido\nschool hours.\nPauperism is tbo general loakago\nthrough every Joint of tho ship that\nis rotten.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Carlyle. T-2P- Two\nSEVENTEENTH TEAE. No. 23 BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST VANCOUVER, B. 0.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0FRIDAY June 5, 1925\nPublished every Friday ny\nTke Britlah Columbia Federatloniat\nBmImm and Editorial Office. 1120 Howe St.\nTho policy ol Tho B. C. Federationist I.\neontrolled by the editorial board of the\nFederated Labor Party of British Columbia.\nSub.cription Kate: United States and Foreign, \u00C2\u00BB3.00 per year; Canada, $2.60 per\nyear 11.60 for all months; to Unions\niubscriblng in a body, 16o per momber\nper month.\t\nThe Federationist is on salo at the following news stands:\nVAHOOUVEB\nB. J. OALLOWAY BIO Granville Street\nKELSON'S NEWS STAKD.*** \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094 *jj~ ,\nMja_,->v\u00C2\u00AB a .___ anmyijie street\np 0. SBWS Bliiw) S2B UranYille Streat\nTOHN OEEEN 206 Oarrall Street\n\u00C2\u00BBIE^;0r,,nB8.\u00C2\u00B0.ndS0TSii-A,\u00C2\u00AB..\nWW'BKBWSM^iffi;i-*-gSa;fBirt\nwStbb oallowat^Ki-gSi-a-*r._t\n^----.-iT-^\u00E2\u0084\u00A2**'***\nmWS \"^r. Ha\u00C2\u00ABtagiS\"Abbott'stt.eti\nw \"i AEMSTEONO 2102 Main Btreet\nBEK TOON'S BOOK SBOF....121 OranflUe\nBOULT'S BOOK STOBE....S13Vi Cam-la St.\n8B0BOIA OONraOTloraBY.;.._i*.wirt\nSTMND CONFEOTIONEBY ..-..--g^\nFBOOBNAU S OATES....188 Broadway Eait\n\u00C2\u00BB TUENEE 816 M*1\" 8ttM'\nT_\ A WEBSTEB 6983 Fraaer Streat\nNOBTB VANOOUVBB\nIBOEMAKEE it M0LEAN....6 lonadale AW*\nNEW WESTMINSTEB\nA. MUNOEAM 764 Columbia Street\nDEPOT NEWS STAND .Interurban Depot\n\u00C2\u00BBAN MACKENZIE Oolumbia Street\nVIOTOBIA\nOBEENBAUOBmW^AOENCY^--^.\nM&NAIMO\nI. A BABNAED 83 Commercial Street\nPOBT ALBBBNI\nW. K. DEKHAM , *\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\u00C2\u00BB flUnd\nFBIHOE GEORGE\nXABIi ANDERSON.\ndeplored. It playa into the hands\nof self-seeking individuals.\nAn earnest effort was made to\namalgamate The Federationist and\nthe Labor - Statesman \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the local\ntradea union organ\u00E2\u0080\u0094aome months\nago, but it was futile. A letter was\nforwarded to the Trades and Labor\nCouncil from The Federatloiplst-\nletter, wo hope, they will publish\nshould any discussion arise on this\nsubject\u00E2\u0080\u0094but of no avail. It would\nappear to us, and we feel we aro\nfar from being alone In this regard,\nthat a few officials were desirous of\nhaving control of their paper so\nthat nothing would be said or done\nthat would be injurious to their\nown personal aims and ambitions.\nUpon this rock, all too ofte*p, many\nlabor movements are wrecked, for\na time at least.\nThe Canadian Farmer-Labor Ad\nvocato, wo hope, will servo to unite'\nthe various groups in the labor\nmovement. It is, to say the least,\na worthy venture, and one, we hope,\nthat will not meet with tho general\napathy and Indifference that has\nbeen the lot of so many such ven\ntures. Until the great mass of the\nworkers come to realize that they\nowe a duty to themselves and to\nthose who are honestly striving to\nserve their best interests, the miserable economic conditions which have\nbeen their lot for so long will likely\ncontinue until they do. The remedy\nrests in their own hands; they can\nblame none other than themselves\nfor the miserable state that Is now\ntheirs. Workers, the future is yours\nfor the taking. Arouse yourselves!\nA\n.News Stand\n .Box 022\nVERNON\nX0GENE BELLEVUE\t\nALBERTA\nVALLEY CONFECTIONERY .DrumlrtUM\nHAWOHAL NEWS ^^^^c^ty\nSWB SMOKER^^^^S^\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0084\u00A2^\"i8qt SStranrsw\nSASKATCHEWAN\nXAT0OCK STOBES LTD. Swift Ouitnt\nSEATTLE, WASH.\nE0KHA9T NEWS STOBE. Seattl*\nFRIDAY J\"ne 5' 1925\nREORGANIZATION OP OUR\nPAPER\nWB BELIEVE that our frienda\nand supporters will appreciate\nthe proposed reorganization contemplated by The Federationist, which\nwill take place next week. For\nsome months the management committee haa been in consultation with\nrepresentatives of different labor and\nfarmer groups, and it was felt that\nThe Federationist\u00E2\u0080\u0094or Its successor,\nby o,n amalgamation of other publications\u00E2\u0080\u0094must havo a field of larger\nscope to function as a real driving\nforce in the political arena of British Columbia\u00E2\u0080\u0094thus solidifying far-\nmors, wage-earners and others supporting tho labor party.\nSince The Federatlonist has been\nunder the present editorial management It has endeavored to consistently Oflid persistently advance in\nevery way the best interests of the\nworkors. That it hae fallen short\nof reaching tho Ideal, that thoso\nwho were responsible for Its news\nand editorial policy had at heart,\nIs admitted. This work has been\ndono entirely voluntarily for over a\nyear, and often under most adverse\nand trying circumstances.\nIt ls our earnest wit.li that our\nnew organ, The Canadian Farmer-\nLabor Advocate, will meet with every success. It Is rather a new departure In the newspaper realm. It\nls, wo earnestly believe, an honest\nand Hlneoro attempt lo co-ordinate\nthe efforts of tbo various trades\nunioiiH and other labor organizations\nund the farmor movement of B.C.\nUnless such a combination can be\nHueccHsfully arranged, our presont\npolitical pariiHiles can carry on with\nImpunity. Certainly the present economic situation in whicb both the industrial workers and farmers find\nthemselves is sucb as to demand\nthe earnest consideration of every\nthinkMig individual hi both groups.\nLocally, wo sincerely hope that\nthe same spirit of co-oporation which\nwe believe actuates IIioho who are\nondeavorlng to organizo tho no'V\npaper will predominate in the futuro la the labor movement in thl;.\ncity. Frankly, wo are of the opinion that personal greed and personal\nambition to a largo extent is tho outstanding feature in many of our\nlocal labor circles. There aro too\nmaiiiy of our Irndofl union officials,\nin our opinion, In the movement\nsolely witb tbo object of personal\ngain. Tbelr ideals begin and end\nthere. As a rulo they manage to\nmanipulate tilings to that end. The\nrank and file of labor, wo are sure,\naro aware of this condition, and, ns\na result, they turn from the movement In disgust, or elBo they have\nnothing moro lo do with it than Is\nabsolutely necessary. Tills attitude,\non the part of tho masses, is to he\nLIBERALS SWEEP SASKATCHEWAN\nWONDERFUL victory for the\nLiberal politicians of Saskatchewan\u00E2\u0080\u0094but what of the people? The\nLiberal politicians have boen able to\nconvince the majority of the voters\nof that province that they hold in\ntheir ha,nds the \"sure cure for what\nails them.\" Once again the people\nwill have to become disillusioned.\nSooner or later they will have to\nlearn that neither of the old-line\nparties have any remedy for their\neconomic ills, They are out for the\ngood of themselves, and not for the\ngood of the people who elected them.\nWith business conditions as they\nare throughout the Dominion, it Is\nnot to be wondered at that people\nare upset and more or Jobs unbal\napced. They grasp atyfcvery straw\nthat comes their way. .JThis one wlU\nfail them, as have all others In \\npast. Our whole ecou-Bl-ltt-fr^ftSmem,\nbased, as it is, upon competition and\nprivato profits, without any regard\nto human needs, must collapse. A\nsystem that puts a premium on the\ncrudest forms of shrewdness, rather\nthan on honest toil, can hardly be\nexpected to survive for long.\nCertainly there is a great need for\ntho gospel of LABOR to be preach\ned. Unfortunately the dally capital\n1st or big business press is the one\nwhose influence predominates at the\npresent time, and in the interest of\nself-preservation it continues in Its\ncampaign of lies and falsehoods. In\nthis way It is keeping the people\nln ignorance of the true state of\naffairs. If the Liberals have enough\nmoney, It swings Liberal, and extols\nthe virtues of Liberalism. When the\nConservatives grow wealthy, it advises the people to support them,\nand so tho little game goes on. Until\nlabor becomes united and strong\nenough to enablo them to publish a\ngood paper of their own, and one\nthat will give to the people the\nfacts, there is little hopo for the\nemancipation of mankind outside of\na revolution, Judging from the way\nthings look at tlio present time.\nIUKT1I CONTROL\nNO SUBJECT is coming more to\ntho forofront today than the one\nof birth control. It Is high time that\nIt was coming into Its own. Children\nire being born Into this world who\nare not wanted. They aro being\nborn into homes whero thero Is\nnothing whatever to look forward\nto. The standards of 'educalloin aro\nbecoming higher and higher, In lhat\nmore and more utterly useless learning and memorizing is being demanded of the pupils, and a greater\ntime required, all of which requires\nmoney. This latter commodity Is\nbecoming scarcer In tho average\nhomo every day. Even though it\nmight bo possible for the average\nparents to give their children suffi\ncient education to lit them for some\nof tbe professions, their difficulties\nare by no means solved. The professions aro most decidedly overcrowded at the present time. All\nthe tradea have onough men and to\nspare for every vacancy that might\nbo offered. What, then, has the\naverage young person to look forward to in this life? Certainly the\nprospectB nro not ut all rosy,\nHonk' of our ignorant leaders\nwould try to mako us bcliove lhat\nwe must have moro childron If wo\nwould preserve our empire. It would\nappear thai, right now, ils preservation Is more riopemUipt upon numbers than upon tlieir Intelligence.\nEven It' that woro so, one would\nthink that an empire worth preserving would consider tbat its manhood\nought lo lie worth being provided\nfoi-. That Is not so. Children horn\ntoday, In the average home, have\nlittle to be thankful for, because\nthey are born. Certainly it is high\ntime that the parents of this land\nwere taught the methods1-of birth-\ncontrol. It is unfair, not alone to\ntho children, but to the parents as\nwell. It is an urgent need today.\nWe hope that the day will soon come\nwhen we will have birth-control\nclinics ln this province, to which\npeople can go for such information,\nalong these lines, as they might desire or be In need of. Children who\nare wanted by their parents will find\nthings hard enough. Those who are\nnot, may the gods be with them!\nMEANDERINGS\nINTERFERING IN SHANGHAI\nTF7E WONDER how long we are\n\" going to consider ourselves the\nall-superior race. We wonder how\nlong we are going to feel Justified\nIn going Into and exploiting the territories of other peoples, while we\ncontinue to rosent any interference\nby them In our affairs. We wonder\nhow long we are going to talk \"Asiatic exclusion,\" while at the same\ntime we rese-nt the educated Chinese\nstudents aiding the Chinese workers\nin their struggle against their \"foreign exploiters\" in Shanghai. What\nis more, we wonder how long our\nhypocritical daily press manipulators are going to keep on insinuating, either directly or indirectly,\nthrough fake or colored news reports, that the Soviets are behind\nevery effort that is made, in any\nand every land under the sun, to\nprevent our super-Intelligent business exploiters from robbing the natives of that which is theirs\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\ntheirs alone. How long, oh, how\nlong, are we going to carry on in\nthis disgusting manner! Is it to bo\nwondered that the little prestige we\nmay have had among the citizens of\nother countries Is going!\nIn these days of unscrupulous\njournalism It is indeed refreshing to\nread a great daily journal exempt\nfrom that morbid and scandalous\nstuff dubbed and printed as news by\nlegions of newspapers. The Boston\nChristian Science Monitor is ths\ncleanest, best edited and most reliable newspaper that we know of.\nIt accords labor a pretty fair deal\nIn its news, which Is more than can1\nbe said of hundreds of other big\ndallies. Its editorials and articles of\na literary character a.*e prized above\nill for their educational value. The\n^Vlonitor is a real high-class family\npaper.\nnnfiopnn_>nn__c.nn_)_Tf>\nwx\n[Note\u00E2\u0080\u0094As many enquiries reach\nthla offlce from time to time, the editor wtll reserve space to deal with\nsuch matters, under tbe above heading. Communications addressed to\n\"Notes and Queries Editor\" will be\nhandled aa quickly aa space permits.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ed.] \t\nJ. ROBERTSON: Referred to a\nfew weeks ago in Ramsay MacDonald's speech at St. Ives (Cornwall);\nhe also then appealed to the young\nconservatives to join his party as the\n\"only progressive group in the house\nof commons.\"\nW. LEE: For us to have success\nquickly and thoroughly requires the\neffort of all sides of thought united in\nthe one slogan that capitalism and all\ntlie system stands for must go. The\nrule of thc people by tlie people, nol\nby a class,\nW. HICKS: We published the figures you refer to In our issue of Apvil\n24th.\nL. (New Westminster): Yes. Probably on June 12th,\nHARRY L.: Don't listen to such\n'ot. Sam Scarlett is a groat forco, a\npowerful speaker with lost of sound\ncommon sense,\nTIIE TAILOR\n[Written for The Federationist]\nIf you would seo a tailor work\nHeboid the way he sews;\nWhile stitch by stitch ho cannot shirk\nHis toil is not repose.\nPerceive this ninth of one the man\nTo dally work doth cling;\nA man ho makes the best ho can\nIn clothes boeome a king.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094G. B.\nVancouver, June, 1825,\nInconsistent Ijabor Man\nHo was a Union man\u00E2\u0080\u0094tbat Is\nHe had a Union card.\nAnd on tho floor at meetings\nWith his voice be always starred\nUnfair employers he'd denounce\nAs \"fakirs,\" \"kikes\" and \"beats\".\nHis roar would almost Jar tho\nOther members from their seats.\nHut when he went to purchase goods\nHe did not seem to care\nAbout the Union Label\u00E2\u0080\u0094-\nNever askod if it was thore.\nWhile to bis brother unionists\nHe did a grlevlous wrong,\nTbe people whom lie howled against\nHo boosted right along.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thos. II. West\nPolice Tower Condemned\nThe firing on unarmed workers\nstriking against being swindled out\nof a bonus by the Cawnpore Cotton\nMill company, of India, is condemned\nas a gross misuse of polico power by\nan unofficial committee of enquiry\nconsisting of Cuwnporo lawyers and\nbusiness men. The police killed six\nand wounded 18 workers.\nTho cure for democracy Is more\ndemocracy. The danger to tho world\nlies In autocrats and autocracies and\nprivilege.;! classes.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Walter Pago, Eng\nland.\n[By Our Peripatetic Pagan]\nCOCIALISTS should be proud of our\nrepresentative at Ottawa, J. S.\nWoodaworth. Once again he has delivered a splendid speech; this time on\nwar and war preparations, and as\nusual, he has not bcen sparing in his\nindictments of those who told us that\nthe last war was a war to end wars,\nbut that commerce is behind the\nwhole of our military preparations.\nEvery word of this speech should be\nread and digested.\n* * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nNote the following excerpts: \"For\na good man years in Canada thoso\nwho believe fn military preparation\nhave had their Innings, and they have\nalmost come to tako it for granted\nthat their policy is the correct policy\nand tho one that must be maintained\nindefinitely In this country. In fact,\nduring the war it became a crimo for\nany body to question the cause that\nled to hostilities; and the press and\nother agencies effectually silenced\nanyone who was opposed to that pol\nicy. It seems to me that now that\nwe have had this great war, which has\npractically led to the bankruptcy of\nthe world; and when we are faced\nwith the possibility of another war\nwhich as Winston Churchill has said\nwill be the potential destroyer of the\nhuman race, It ls well that we should\ntake time to consider the claims of\nthe militarists before passing as a\nmatter of form from year to year\nthese military estimates.\"\n* * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\"And now the countries of the world\nare again making ready for fresh war.\nScience Is busy seeking new and even\nmore terrible methods of dealing\ndeath and destruction. We all know\nthat the next war will bring with It\nwholesale slaughter to a degree undreamed of before. The very air will\nbe laden with death and will bring\npestilence and destruction to countless multitudes far remote from the\nactual centres of war. The next war\nwill be the final triumph of barbarism; it will sweep from the face of the\nearth the last traces of civilization.\n*****\n\"In tho noxt war there will be ho\nplace for personal heroism. The days\nwhen man could show prowess on the\nbattle-field , are for ever gone by.\nHenceforth he will be killed by a system of mass destruction, which will\nwork unerringly as the machinery he\nnow uses for mass production. Tho\nsole use of the mechanical perfection\nto which ho will have attained will ho\nto doom millions to horrible and inevitable death.\"\n* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nHe attacks the horror of how\ntwenty-five Canadian soldiers were\nexecuted for offenses committed during their connection with the army.\nNo Australians were so punished, because their command refused to allow the imperial authorities to impose the death penalty. He criticises\nGeneral Currie's disapproval of the\npublication of these details and says:\n\"Sir Arthur\u00E2\u0080\u0094who gathered many\nmedals, a title, and much appreciation\nfrom his connection with the war\u00E2\u0080\u0094\napparently does not think it a good\nidea that the public ln general should\nactually know and realize what war\nIs and what it means. He apparently\nbelieve that If it Is possible to hold\nthe public to the idea that war is a\ngreat and glorious occupation, in\nwhich the flaunting of banners, the\nplaying of bands and the shouting of\nheroes\u00E2\u0080\u0094and not the misery and horror of death\u00E2\u0080\u0094are the main consideration, it is a good thing for the country. As a matter of fact it Is just as\nwell that the people should know\nwhat thoy are talking about when\nthey talk about war. It is well that\nthey should know who these men are,\nwho were shot down by their comrades in France; well to know why\nthey were shot down.\" ..\n* * * *\nHe appeals to Canada to strike out\nfor peace. \"Why should Canada not\nstrike out along new lines? The hon.\nmember for Southeast Grey (Miss\nMacphall ) had on the order paper\na resolution, which, I am very sorry,\nwas not reached, suggesting a peace\nbureau to foster and promote international goodwill and understanding\nWhy not? We are spending millions\nupon war preparations, why not spend\nat least a few thousands in trying to\nflnd if there is not some other way?\nWe have trodden the hard paths of\nwar; why not explore thc avenues\nthat may lead to peace? You want\nthe thing put on a business basis? Mr.\nChairman, if Canada adopted an attitude of this kind and was foremost\namong the nations that definitely set\nthemselves against war and assured\nher citizens that they would keep out\nof those great struggles, It would be\ntho biggest advertisement that Canada could ever make bofore the nations of the world.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * *\nIn concluding this remarkable and\npowerful appeal he said:\n\"I would like to appeal to the men\nand women who have dreamed of a\nbetter future for their children and\nfor humanity, and who are willing to\ntake some risk to make their dreams\ncomo true. I recognized that the pol\nicy which I have advocated would\nInvolve risks, but the present policy\nInvolves not only risk, but almost cer\ntalnly a failure. Why not take tiioso\nrisks which are incident to tho de\nvelopment of the new means of pro\ntecting our nation?\"\n'**\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe scathing denunciations we see\nso often quoted by the capitalist press\non the \"doles\" and how it is pauper\nizlng tho manhood of Britain takes\nsome explaining away when we read\nthat: \"An incident reported from\nColchester (Essex), In wliich unemployed men fought for work, provides\nyet another contradiction to those\npeople who assert that tlie unemployed man has no desiro for a. job,\nFifty men were required in connection with the laying of electric cables,\nsonic 200 men turned up to be taken\non.\nThe man in charge told them that\nthe flrst CO who got the tools would\nbe put on the job and Immediately\nthero was a wild rush for the implements. In consequence many received\nhard knocks.\"\nIncidents like these rather give the\nlie to the statements wo read so frequently.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nOwing to the terrible distress prevailing among the agricultural workers in Hampshire (England), A. C.\nParry, a rate colector, has resigned\n\"My reason for resigning ls that I\nam forced to the conclusion that tho\nrural district ls utterly unable to meet\nthe demands made upon lt without\ncausing a considerable amount of distress to the children through agricultural laborers having to find money\nfor the rates out of their meagre\nearnings,\n\"The action of the county council\nIn increasing the assesable value by\nsuch an enormous amount without\nmaking a corresponding reduction ln\nthe rate in the \u00C2\u00A3 will cause greater\nhardship than ever.\n\"I can not conscientiously go on\nforcing these sums of money out of\npeoplo who have but a mere existence.\"\n* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nMr. Parry's resignation was accepted wilh regret, the guardians being\ninformed that he refused to reconsider hii decision.\n\"The majority of tho ratepayers In\nmy five parishes are agricultural laborors and small holders,\" Mr. Parry\nexplained.\n\"Thero average wage Is about 2fis.\n(about $6) a week out of which rent\nand rates had to be paid.\n\"There Is no question as to ; the\npoverty existing, and the general conditions of families was poor, and I\nhave always experienced great difficulty in collecting rates.\n\"During the last six months I have\ntaken no fewer than 628 Instalments\ntowards amounts due, and I had juBt\nhanded eighteen commitments to the\npolice. People did their best to pay,\nbut the work was heart-breaking.\"\nOh! This capitalist system! Oh\nthis imperialistic stuff\u00E2\u0080\u0094and, hats off\nto Parry for his manliness, courage\nand sympathy.\n* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nMaeterlindk says: \"There needs but\nso little to encourage beauty in our\nsoul; so little to awaken the slumbering angels. There is no soul but ls\nconscious of this. And yet must one\nof them 'begin'. Why not dare to\nbe tbe one to 'begin?\"\nLet's begin with all our strength\nand determination hy united efforts\nto advance the cause of labor and\nsocialism. That means all of us\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nnot a few Georges\nFresh Cut Flowers, Funeral Designs, Wedding Bouquet*, Pot Plants,\nOrnamental and Shade Trees, Seeds, Bnlbs, Florins' Sundries\nBrown Brothers & Co. Ltd.\nFLORISTS AND NURSERYMEN\n1\u00E2\u0080\u0094STOBES\u00E2\u0080\u0094I\nt, Hutlngi Stmt Eut 0.,. 981472 665 Onn-mit Strut lay. 1611*1311\n151 Hutlngi Strut Wut. Sty. 1370 10*17 Georgia Strut Wut. 6.7* 7*111\n\"SAT IT WITH FLOWEEB\"\nOTOVES AND RANGES, both malleable and steel,\n\" McClary's, Fawcett's, Canada's Pride, installed\nfree by experts; satisfaction guaranteed. Cash or\n$2.00 per week.\nCanada Pride Range Company Ltd.\n346 Hastings Street East Sey. 2399\nHave You a Friend?\nTo whom you would like us to send a sample oopy of\nthe British Columbia Federationist\nSEND US HIS NAME AND ADDRESS\nWe want NEW READERS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Help us to get them\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094USE THIS COUPON\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nI have a friend whom I think could he induced to subscribe\nto the British Columbia Federationist. Please send him a\nsample copy to the address below:\nNAME\nADDRESS\nCITY\t\nPROVINCE..\n[Tb. opinion, and ideas uprMMd\nby corr..pond.nt. ar. not neceaearlly\nendorsed by Tb. Federationlit, and\nno responsibility for tb. Ti.wi upraised 1. accepted by th. management.]\nWould Eliminate Punishes\nEditor B. C. Federatlonist: Will\nyou please allow ine to thank you for\nprinting tlio articles written by.Comrade Harris, and also to say how much\nI enjoyed reading thoso articles. 1\nagree witli Comrade Harris lhat the\ntime is now ripe to weed out, os many\nas practicable, from the non-producers who are living on tho production\nof others. As a start, I think we\nought to bring pressure to bear on\nour educational authorities to direct\nthe future students. For instance, we\nare making girl stenographers by the\nhundreds whon the domand ls only\nfor dozens, and out* girls would be\nbetter employed in other walks of life\nand could be mado into producers,\nproducing clothes and foods, cooked\nand uncooked. Wo should regulate\nthe professions for our boys, too. Why\ncontinue making lawyers to bc rounil\nour necks, surely we have sufficient\nright now. Tho same law could apply to real estate men, parsons and\ndoctors. With regard to real estate\noperators, I would suggest that we\nget busy nnd tell thoso in authority\nto stop Issuing licenses to real estate\nmen and gradually limit them out o;\nexistence. Some of our municipalities\nhave real estate offices to dispose ol\ntheir tax property, and I submit thai\nthose public offices could bo mado lo\nhandle all real estate, and If there\nare to bo any fees or comissions, lei\ntho same go Into the municipal treasuries. I would also liko to see Insurance agents, solicitors, (known ns\ncommercial travellers), and all other\ncanvassers, taken oft the streets nnd\nour door steps. Tho sooner lho workers realise the number of parasite;*\nthey are carrying the better it will be\nfor us and the future generations.\nYours etc. w. W.\nVancouver, B. C, June 2, 1925.\nWEAR-\nLECKIE\nSHOES\nThey are made of\nfirst quality leathers on comfortable\ngood fitting lasts.\nFor work or dress\nAt all leading Shoe Stores.\nJ. 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No. 23 BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST VANCOUVER, B.\nPage Three\nBRITISH COLUMBIA'S METALLIFEROUS MINES\n=\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vast Possibilities for Prospectors and Investors\u00E2\u0080\u0094=\n*'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2--\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-<\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*>\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2**(\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00BB..\u00C2\u00BB..\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2>\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2..\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 M|\nBritish Columbia Mining\nTWINING is the outstanding industry ol. British Columbia\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nfuture development of which is foreshadowed on a tremendous\nscale. The mining' possibilities of this provinee are now receiving\nmore attention than ever. This fact has resulted in a gratifying\nflow of capital for the exploitation'of thc natural mineral wealth\nol' our great mining districts, Also, {further capital is promised for\nfuture activity and expansion of the industry. To a greater extent\nthan heretofore our mining possibilities are being recognized. The\nmining resources ol' this province forcefully demonstrates the further faet that it is a great mineral producing country, whose future\nsuccess is at once assured.\nTlie year M'*M has been ji remarkable duo Cor mining In this\nprovince, both as lo actual produe-\niion und future development for-\nt.ha .lowed.\nBritish Columbia la Canada's second mineral producer in point of value wilh an output in 1923 valued\nat $44,143,390 or 20.11 per cent, of the\nDominion's total, against $79,910,830\nor 37.4 per cent. In Ontario. British\nColumbia's mines are producing two-\nthirds of Canada's output of copper;\nninety per cent, of its production of\nnine; one-half of Hs total lead production; one-fifth of Us gold und silver;\nabout one-third of Its total metal output; and one-filth of Its production\nof coal.\nSomo Ou Isn ml fug Mines\nSome interesting Information hus\nrecently been collected on the outstanding mines of British Columbia.\nThe Sullivan Mine at Klmberely is the\nsecond largest Bilver-lead-zlnc mine in\nthe world, producing yearly ovor 50,-\n000,000 pounds of lead, 50,000,000\npounds of zinc, and 1,000,000 pounds\nof silver. This mine, whieh is owned\nby the Consolidated Mining and\nSmelling company, has, It is understood, ore reserves blocked out to\nmeet the demands for many years to\neome. Thc Premier Mine, Portland\nCanal, produces yearly about 125,000\nounces of gold and 4,275,000 ounces\nof silver. Deposits in sight guarantee\nUs open) tion for another ten years at\nleast. The Britannia Mine, Howe\nSound, has produced since 1910, 1-14,-\n715,880 pounds ofl crtpper, 796,650\nounces of silver, and 16,816 ounces o:\ngold. A new mill recently erected\n.and ore uncovered guarantees an annual production of 30,000,000 pound.'\nof copper.\nOf other British Columbia mines,\nthe Granby Mine, Observatory Inlet\nhan sinco 1914 produced 223,481,462\npounds of copper, 2,610,857 ounces >>.\nsilver, and 51,141 ounces of gold, and\nhas oro in sight to keep the mine operating for anothor twenty years. The\nBe'mont-Surf Inlet Mine, Princess\nRoyal Island, has since 1916 producod\nabout 750,000 tons of ore containing\nabout 3,500,000 pounds of copper,\n220,000 ounces of gold, and 125,000\nounces of silver. The Nickel Plate\nMine, Henlof, has produced gold to\ntho value of $7,750,000 since 1904.\nIN REVELSTOKE DISTRICT\nSixteen Companies Signify Starting Operations This\nYear.\nJ. M. Humphrey, of Malakwa, near\nRevelstoke, is doing much to advertise the mineral possibilities of thc\nRevelstoke district. Recently he gave\nsevoral Illustrated lectures before\nboards of trade and mining organizations ln the coast cities. He, spoke in\nthe Board of Trade rooms, Vancouver,\non mining and other resources of the\nRevelstoke end Lurdeau mining division, and states that those areas will\ncome into their own this year on a\nmore solid basis than ever before.\nThis progress, he declares, is not only\ndue to the enhanced value of base\nmetals, but also to the fact thut a\nnumber of large companies with adequate capital plan to enter this field\nand get out the metals which this\ndistrict possesses In such rich quantity, rather than for the purpose of\nselling stock.\nWhile last yoar not more than three\ncompanies were operating, and those\nIn a small way, this year sixteen companies have signified their intention\nof starting operations, most of whieh\nwill be of an investigatory nature.\nHON'. WM. SLOAN,\nMinister of Mines, Victoria, B. C.\nTo Establish Chamber of Mines\nFor Eastern British Columbia.\nThe move to establish u Chamber\nof Mines for eastern British Columbia, with headquarters at Nelson, is\na good one, observes the Western\nCanada Mining News. The B. C.\nChamber of Mines in Vancouver is\ndoing fine work for mining in the\nprovince, and an organization on a\nsimilar basis, giving particular attention to Kootenay, Boundary, Slocan\nand Lurdeau districts, could also do\nmuch. Hon. William Sloan, realizing\nthe importance of such an organization, has forwarded $500 of provincial\nfunds to help finance the coming interior convention, when this matte1'\nwill be taken up.\nIn this connection, the Kaslo Koo-\ntenaiain appropriately says: \"Mining\nIn the Kootenays ln the past has contributed a large share of the total\nmineral wealth of the province, There\nBritish Columbia Producers Are\nPaid For Them at London\nPrices.\nAS AN Instance of the variable methods of compiling statistics of the\nmineral industry, the Mining and\nEngineering Journal-Press points out\nthat at New York quotations the\nlead production of British Columbia\ntor the past year had a value of\n$13,437,766, or $1,021,849 over the\nestimate of the provincial mineralogist\nat Victoria. Similarly, the authority\nplaces the value of the zinc production for the province at $6,976,000, or\n$1,708,259 over the estimate of the\nprovincial mineralogist. On those estimates the value of the mineral production for the post year would be\n$52,157,348, as compared with $48,-\n627,097, as estimated by the provincial\nmineralogist.\nIt must be remembered, says the\nVancouver Mining and Engineering\nRecord, that the Trail Smelter pays\non Lodon quotations, and although\nthe American Smelting and Refining\nCompany marks the New York rates\nup or down, it does not follow that\nthese are the true world market rates,\nThe Record continues: London is\nstill the centre of the world's metal\nmarkets; British Columbia producers\nare paid for the metal in their ores\non Loudon quotations; and these\nshould rule, despite the effort of the\nEngineering and Mining Journal to\narrogate to itself a policy of setting\nup New York rates as the standard.\nOn Vancouver Island\nA correspondent writes: \"There is\nas much gold in the vicinty of Leach\nriver as there is in most places in the\nprovince, and an outfit with machinery, operating where I was last spring,\nwould do well,\"\nDividends of B. C. Mining Companies\npHE following dividends were declared for mining companies\noperating in British Columbia for the years 1923 and 1924:\nMAYOR L. D, TAYLOR\nVancouver, B. C.\nis an abundance of good properties\nhere in the making that require capital to mako them mines that will\nequal or excel anything that has been\nuncovered in the past. But we must\nhave capital, and a good, live mining\nbureau in the district will help some.\nEvery interior mining man should get\nbehind the new venture, and a good\nlive organization formed that will look\nafter all the districts of the interior,\nwith favor to none.\"\n\u00C2\u00A5\nMEW No. 3 Britannia\nmill, whicli started\noperating March, 1923.\nPhotograph shows incline\nfor freight and passengers to in i n e, power\nhouse (hydro - electric),\nbeach hotel, beach store,\nbeach offico in foreground.\n\\nBritannia Mining and\nSmelting Company\nLimited\nBRITANNIA BEACH, B. C.\nMarmot Mela Is Ools Under Way\nStewart, li. C.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A start was made\nlast week on the Marmot Metals Mining Company's operations, a quantity\nof supplies and equipment hnving been\nlanded and taken up to the silo of the\ntemporary camp on the south fork\nof Marmot river at the foot of a precipitins mountain side which is covered by part of the company's claims.\nThe eamp will be 1800 feet above the\ncreek and a tram of this longth will\nbe put ln us soon as possible.\nALD. FRANK WOODSIDE\nChamber of Mines, Vancouver, B. c\nFor Mining on Dease Biver and\nElsewhere in British\nColumbia.\nAT THE February meeting of the\nB. C. division of the Canadian\nInstitute of Joining and Metallurgy,\nheld in this city, H. G. Nichols said\nthat placer mining at Carcross and\nCasslar and hydraulic mining on\nDease river offered great possibilities,\nand that there would be a great influx of prospectors into that country\nthis spring.\nZinc, lead and silver occurred on\nHaskins mountain; silver and lead on\nBabinc, in veins two feet to ten feet\nwide; narrow veins carrying 100 to\n200 ounces silver as well as milling\nore on Nine-mile mountain; lead, zinc,\ngold and silver on Glen mountain,\nwith values of $150 a ton; arsenic,\ngold'and cobalt at Hazelton; silver\nat Kltsault; complex ores at Kitsum-\ngallum. High-grade zinc, guid and\nsilver occurred at Portland Ce.nal.\nTho cupriferous pyrite of the Coast\nrange mountains had posaibH'. oa.\nSeveral million yards of dredging\nground has been proved up In Carl-\nboo, where gold dredging is being\ninaugurated. Eutsuk lead and zinc;\nTatlayoco gold quartz; Bridge river,\ngold; Cun creek, arsenic-gold, and\nlead-zinc on the coast; high-grade\ngold-zinc on west coast of Vancouver\nIsland, and realgar at Comox were\nenumerated.\nIn Slocan the Silversmith shoot has\nbeen proved to depth. The Bluebell\nmine has been re-opened.\nSeventy-six outside producers shipped ore to the Trail smelter last year.\nNickel has been found on Emory\ncreek ln a dyke 300 feet wide, resembling tho Sudbury occurrences.\nThe small high-grade deposits in\nthe Boundary are being successfully\ndeveloped.\nZinc and lead are now being shipped to Europe In large quantities.\nThe mining industry of this province continues to grow and what is\nneeded is more real and thorough\nprospecting, as mineralization is wide\nly distributed over the country.\nThe B. C. Electric Railway and\nCompany\nPremier \t\nConsolidated Mining mid Smelting..\nSilversmith\t\nCrows Nest Pass Coal\t\nHowe Sound Co. (Britannia)\t\nBelmont-Surf Inlet \t\nSurf Inlet Gold\t\nRate\n%\n34\n6\n20\n8\n15\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 %\n1S23\nAmount\nSI.738,000'\n028,907\n150,000\n372,690\n297,622\n62,600\n14,814\n$3,264,533\nRate\n1924\n%\nAmount\n34\nll.73H.000\n6\n632,022\n30\n225,000\n3\n186,345\nr,\n09,207\n2Vj\n62,600\n1\n0,876\n(2,952,960\nRUSH TO NEW DIGGINGS OUR NJITUIIIll RfSOURCES\nRich Oold Striko Discovered at\nCasslar on Stickine\nRiver.\nA rich gold strike has been discovered at Casslar, B. C, 150 miles up\nthe Stickine river from Wrangell. This\nwas recently confirmed by Oscar\nSlther, a Petersburg lumberman.\n\"Wrangel stories we'e that 1000\nmen mushed through since Christ\nmus in spite of snow and ice,\" he\nsaid. \"No reports have come back\nand no one knows what is there, but\nlast fall advices came out of Casslar\nand spread over Alaska and British\nColumbia that a 26-mile strip of rich\nplacer gravel hud been found on a\nbar In Cassiar Creek. Sourdoughs and\nprospectors have been collecting for\nthe rush ever since.\"\nBoats now leave Wrangel for up-\nriver points every eight hours.\nDevelopment carried on during the\nwinter on the Independence has resulted most encouragingly. This property wus located and is controlled\nby Sam und John Fitzgerald, two ot\nthe pioneers of the district.\nPreparations are in hand to drive a\n200-foot tunnel on the Eagle group ol\nclaims belonging to the Gold Ore\nMining Company.\nRecent Incorporations\nIncorporations of mining companies dur'ng the past month were:\nSilver Tip Mining Dovelopment\ncompany, limited, $1,000,000, Victoria.\nSilver Premier Mining company,\nlimited, (260,000, Vancouver.\nAlaska Amalgamation Mining Corporation of British Columbia, limited,\n$5,000,000, Vancouver.\nDalhousie Mining company, limited,\n$1,000,000, Victoria.\nSalmon River High Grades company, \"limited, $500,000, Victoria.\nRt-iiuirkabli. Showing\nEngineers who have examined the\nEngineer mine at Atlin believe that,\nwhen dovelopment work Is completed\nthis month, it will have tho largest\nreserve of high-grade gold ore on thc\ncontinent. Three veins have been cut\nat depth and show remarkable value.\nThe main tunnel should Intersect all\nthe large veins on the property, and\nIs about completed.\nPower company are developing 400.\nooo horse-power on Bridge river, anc\nWill eventually develop 700,000 h. p.,\nthere. In this work they will dam\nthe river, creating a lake 26 to U\nmiles up the valley, which will mak<\nthe country more accessible.\nPublic Should Take Chances and\nInvest in Developing\nMines.\n[Western Canadian Mining News]\nWith successful mining companies\nopening up productive properties\nin various parts of British Columbia,\nthe point has arisen if advertising\ncompanies not yet on a producing basis is questionable. The Seattle Times,\nfor instance, takes the stand that It\nwill not insert any advertising having\nto do with the sale of Block ln any\nmining proposition not a producing\nmine. That ls too lofty. When a\nmine is producing it does not have to\nadvertise stock for sale. The trouble\nthen Ib to get It at all. How Is a\nproperty to become a producing mine\nif there is no money for development\npurposes ? lf certain shareholders\nput up all the money necessary, without advertising stook for sale, stook\nwill never be offered to the public.\nIf the operations are unsucessful, that\nIs the end of lt. If successful, then\nthe public will not get a look in.\nit Is proper and legitimate to offer\nstock ltt a mining company tor sale,\neven if that property is In the prospective stago. It has proven a fine\nthing in the past to numerous small\nInvestors in every country, and will\nbe the means of introducing many ln\nthe future to the possibilities in mining.\nThis method of raising money for\ndevelopment purposes applies to nil\nindustries, and is ln vogue the world\nover. There ls no reason for the\nSeattle Times to take a particular\nstand against mining. No paper can\nbe consistent in taking auch an ultra\nstand. In the columns of the Times\naro to be found classified ads. offering shares In businesses upon payment of a certain sum of money. What\nIs the difference betweon such an ad.,\nand that of a mining comnany which\noffers a share in its business for a\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ertaln sum of monoy?\nA writer in the local Vancouver\npress suggests that when a man invests in mines there should be some\nlegislation to protect him. His suggestion called forth an answer from\nanother newspaper correspondent,\nwho says that, after fourteen years\nof prospecting and mining in British\nColumbia, (he way to get the benefit\nof development of natural resourcos\nIs to take a chance; If une chance\nfails, then take another.\nThat is the principlo of all business,\ndo to ;t until you win. It does not\napply to mining more than to any\nother line of endeavor. Mining, however, is a big Industry In British Co-\nlumbla, and it Is along this line that\n(be people have the most opportunity.\nMining Speculation in the\nPortland Canal District\nUNDOUKTEDIIY in the course of tlie next twenty-four months largo amounts of\nmoney will bc mado by participating in ground floor issues of Mining Companies in this area.\nYOUR PROFITS\nwill bo assured providing you are in with the right eompany and if you know that at\nleast 80% of your money is actually spent on tho development of thc mine.\nOUR POLICY\nIn our past promotions we have the reputation of spending 00% of monies Invested with us\nln tho actual development of tho mines. A RECORD, NO DOUBT.\nYou will bo assured of offfclent management.\nYou will be assured that your money is being spent on tho mine.\nYou aro assured by coming into this company that you are goi.nn to have a quick return on\nyour investment, as we have both high and low grado ore only .'(OUO feet from deep water nt\nStewart. Do you realize what this means to you? No transportation difficulties to be overcome and low costs of hauling the ore to tide water.\nTHB LOCATION of the property held by this company is undoubtedly (he finest In iho entire\nPortland Canal District,\nTIT13 COMPANY Is one of tho strongest of the now organizations recently Incorporated In\nthis province, and will stand the closest Investigation.\nSign the attached coupon and, without any obligation to you, a prospectus will be mailed,\nwith one of tbe latest maps of this district.\nSilver Slipper Mining Co., Limited\n620 VANOOUVER BLOOK\nTelephone Soy. i\u00C2\u00BBsn\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nCUT COUPON ON THIS LINK\nMull, without any obligation to mo, yonr prospectus ami map.\nNAME\nAUI.K13SS\nCITY \t Page Four\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0seventeenth year. No. 23 BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST Vancouver, b. c.\nFRIDAV Juno 5, 1.25\nGovernment's Statement\nOf Mining Dividends\nOON. WILLIAM SLOAN, minister of mines, hua Just issued a statement\nut Victoria showing lhat lih'ldends declared by mining companies ln\nBritish Columbia in the year 1924, compared with 1923, a. e us follows:\n1624\n$1,715,000\n041,043\n198,416\n175,000\n59,400\n50,000\n48,000\n1,834\n1,482\nCompany\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nPremier Gold Mining .Company, Ltd\t\nConsolidated M. & S. Co. of Canada\t\nHowe Sound Copper Co\t\nSilversmith Minos Ltd\t\nWallace Mountain Mines Ltd\t\nI. X. L. (Trail Creek Mining Division)\t\nHell (Greenwood Mining Division) \t\nApex (Slocan Mining Division) \t\n.Mountain Chief Mines (Slocan mining division)\nDel Monte-Surf Inlet Mine \t\nTotals 82,809,295 J2.890.174\nThe amount of J'1.890, shown above us distributed In 1924, by no means\nrepresents the total f ,uet profit earned during lhat year. In nearly all\ncases substantial su.ils are set aside from profits lo the credit of surplus\nand reserve accounts, Profits accruing through private companies and\nIndividual mining enterprises us a rule are not given publicity as dividends,\nas is thc case wilh larger companies, so that no record ol\" these profits,\nwhich in the aggregate are considerable, is available.\n02,500\nDIVIDENDS 1896 T01924\nEstimated Total Tonnage of 48,-\n529,556, Valued at\n$72,233,998.\nDividends Pnid 18U6-1924\nCompany Amt. of Dividend\nWellington Collieries $10,000,(100\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal Co. 7,571,609\nCopper\nGranby Consolidated M.\nS. & P. Co $10,761,438\nHowe Sound (Britannia).... 1,587,313\nB. C. Copper 615,349\nTyee Copper Co 291,325\nHnll Mines 187,600\nMarble Hay 175,000\n(iold\nPremier $ 6,961,125\nLe Rol No. 2 Ltd 1,620,000\nLo Hoi 1,476,000\nWar Eagle 1,245,250\nDaly iteduction Co 881,570\nBelmont, Surf Inlet 760,000\nCarlboo-McKinney 509,337\nCariboo Gald 600,000\nSurf Inlet Oold 409,453\nLondon & B. C. Ooldflolds 360,000\ni.'enre Stor 210,000\nYmir Gold 200,000\nMothorlode Sheep Creek.... 181,300\nCan. Pac. Exploration 37,500\nPoormnn 25,000\nPern 16,000\nSilver-Lend\nStandard Silver-Lend $ 2,700,000\nPayne 1,420,000\nQu. Bess, C. Cunningham .. 1,000,000\nWhitewater 600,000\nSlocan Star 575,000\nRambler-Cariboo 560,000\nSilversmith 600,000\nIdaho 400,000\nNorth Star 37J.0O0\nCan. Ooldflolds Syndicate.. 291,000\nReco \t\nRotallack lit Co\t\nLast Chance \t\nSt. Eugene \t\nGralena Farm, p. Clark.\nRuth \t\nSunset \t\nUtica\t\nNoble Five \t\nGoodenough \t\nWashington \t\nFlorence \t\nMonitor \t\nQueen Bess \t\nProvidence \t\nJackson Silver Lead \t\nSurprise \t\nBosun \t\nAntolne \t\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Usk\nLucky Jim \t\n287,600\n230,000\n213,109\n210,000\n200,000\n105,000\n00,000\n04,000\n60,000\n45,188\n38,000\n34,716\n27,000\n25,000\n20,000\n20,000\n20,000\n12,000\n10,000\nMining and Smelting\nCons. Mining & Smelting..$ 8,\nGrand Total Dividends..$72,\nStatistics of Tonnage Mined fan\nColumbia\nTons\nYear\nmined\nYear\n1838...\n750\n1909\t\n1804...\n3,500\n1910\t\n1896...\n.. 30.490\n1911\t\n1896...\n86,460\n1912\t\n1897...\n.. 169,302\n1913\t\n1898...\n.. 215,944\n1914\t\n1899...\n.. 287,343\n1916\t\n1900...\n.. 554,796\n1916\t\n1901...\n.. 920,416\n1917\t\n11)02...\n.. 998,999\n1018\t\n1903...\n..1,286,176\n1819\t\n1904...\n.1,461,669\n1920\t\n1905...\n..1,706,679\n1921\t\n1006...\n..1,963,872\n1922\t\n1907...\n..1,804,111\n1923\t\n1908...\n..2.083,606\n097,781\n233,998\nBritish\nTons\nmined\n067,713\n216,428\n,770,775\n.088,632\n.663,809\n,176,971\n,690,100\n.188,806\n,761,579\n,892,849\n,112,976\n,178,187\n.562,045\n,573,186\n,421,839\nTotal 48.529.556\nTho Golden Star group, close to thc\nDunwell and L. & L. Glacier, has been\nacquired hy (he Gold Ore Mining\nCornpnny.\nIM PORTLAND Cil\nMining Briefs As Gleaned From\nthe Western Canada Mining\nNews.\nGeorge druggy, of Alice Arm, who\nspent three months in Vancouver anu\n\ ietoria, organized the Marmot River\nAlining company to develop the Montana group on Marmot river. This\nproperty was the flrat staked in the\nMarmot river section, and it is claimed to be the first of the Portland\nCanal mines to ship ore to a smelter at\na profit. Angus McLeod, Stewart, will\nbe managing director.\nPhoenix Silver Mines, whose property adjoins the Dunwell, have refused an offer of a London financial\nhouse of $100,000 for the 300,000\nshares uf stock so far issued. The\nowners decided to proceed un a larger\nscale with thet development of the\nproperty.\nDiscoveries on the Ji. C. Silver, controlled by the Selukewe company,\nLondon, are of special interest to the\nSalmon river area, since they prove\nthat the high-grade ore is not confined to any particular property.\nOfficers of the Northland Mining\nCompany, operating tho Troy group,\nare; Robert L. Forrest, Minneapolis,\npresident; Walter C. Pope, Vancouver,\nvice-president; 1_. O. Weston, of Victoria, and Neil McDonald, Stewart,\ndirectors.\nSterling Silvor Lead Mines, Limited,\nhas been organized with a capital ot\n$2,500,000, controlling groups formerly known as the Wire Gold, Fraser,\nCrawford, Dwyer and Forks, in the\nMarmot river section.\nThe Hobo group, rocently purchased\nby Rosa & Davles, Ltd., Victoria, has\nfour veins of commercial ore opened\nup. Compressor and tramway will be\ninstalled this season.\nA new strike of ore in No. 3 tunnel,\nwhich does not show on the surface,\nhas been made on the Lakeview. New\nmachinery was recently installed, on\nthfls property.\nThe Riverside, owned by a small\ngroup of Ketchikan nnd Seattlo people, is shipping concentrates, and production is about $3,000 per day. Sixty\nmen are employed.\nLittle news has been coming out\nabout the Indian mine of late, but it\nis, reported from Stewart that shipments of ore are to be made immediately.\nChristopher R. Reid, of Kelowna.\nB. C, who represents Bngllsh capital,\nwas a recent visitor to Portland Canal\nto look over some of the properties.\nIt is planned to bring the Alaska\nPremier, which was taken over by\nBenjamin Guggenheim, New York, into) production this season.\nA contract for 3,000 feet of diamond\ndrilling on the Daly-Alaska property\nhas been commenced.\nShipments of high-grade ore from\nthi Terminus will be made ns soon ns\nspring operations are under way.\nL Ml\nLarge Sums Spent in Developing\nProperties\u00E2\u0080\u0094Fuel Oil\nCompetition.\nCoul Mining Is an industry uf -Importance in British Columbia, but\nfull development has been retarded by\nthe Importation of fuel oil, which is\nproviding serious competition. The\nlabor troubles in tlie Crow's Nesi Pa3i$\nregion have greatly reduced tlie output of the mines there, but a settlement has now been reached.\nThe history uf mining in British\nColumbia is filled with siories of sun\nsatiunal successes, bitter disappointments and courageous efforts. Fortunes have been missed by Indies.\nMen have sunk large sums of money\nIn developing properties wliich thoy\nhave eventually dropped In disgu-a,\nonly to have someone else who followed them\u00E2\u0080\u0094more lucky or more skilful\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094stumble upon wealth. It was su\nin the case of the Premier, and lt lms\nhappened elsewhere.\nThe faith of men in \"a hole hi the\nground\" is inspirational, and sometimes tragical, lt is a good tiling fo\nHritish Columbia that there has 6eon\ntliis faith for It has overcome obstacles and led to development, and\ngradually prospectors and others interested In mining are attaining\nscientific knowledge which will aid\nthem in their penny-matching wilh\nNature.\nSpecially Prepared for Prospectors doing Into Dease Lake\nCountry.\nSpecially prepared for the use of\nprospectors going into the Dease Lake\neountry, a map of the area prepared\nby the British Columbia department\nof Mines, ls proving one of the most\nvaluable aids those taking part in the\nrush to Telegraph creek and the original strike on Gold Pan creek have\nin locating the new placer fields.\nThe map is compiled from data\nfrom the Geological survey of Canada,\nfrom the department of railways and\ncanals, the department of lands of\nB. C.j department of mines of B. C,\nand from data sent in b.v H. W. Dudd,\nB. C. government agent.\nDr. G. M. Dawson's survey of 1887\nand J. S. O'Dwyer's survey of 1900\nhave been used as the basis of the\nmap which has been brought up to\ndate with information secured in surveys of 1912 and 1917 aud by Mr.\nDodd's reports including those of\ni y a fi.\nTlie Gold Pan creek district, where\nthe strike occured is shown us\nswampy, with very little timber. Tlie\ncreek is from GO to 200 feet wide,\nwith sloping banks abotif 100 feet\nhigh to the benches above.\nCastle creek, Squaw creek. Dome\ncreek, Grady creek, Jimmy creek and\nLittle Gold Pan creek are all in tho\nsame area.\nIll KOOTENAY DISTRICT RECOUNTING SOME FACTS\nDevelopment Work Active\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ex-1\npect to Cut Ore This\nSummer.\nU. C. Thompson, of the North Star\nand Steiuwinder mines, at Kimberley.\nhas secured controlling interest in the\nAlice mine, three miles north of Creston, and work resumed on the property. This mine was worked years\nago by an English company, who put\nin an aerial tramway and a concentrator. Leasors operated the property for a short time smce then. It is\nlead and silver.\nRossland and Trail men who leased\nthe Midnight claim at Rossland, and\nIVho have been developing it for the\npast year, have been encouraged by\nstriking a. rich vein of ore. This properly adjoins the 1. X. L.\nThe Marsh Mining Company, running through the Daybreak's ground,\nhus been working steadily. This property is about twelve miles from\nKaslo.\nJ. Carter and W. McBroom, of Spokane, owners of the Martin group,\neight miles from Kaslo, expect to\nlake out ore and develop this summer.\nCol. Armstead, of the Utica mine,\ntwelve miles from Kaslo, recently let\nanother contract to T. Garrett to continue developing this long tunnel.\nThe rich vein struck In the shaft ol\nthe Molly Hughes at about one hundred feet indicates that values continue with depth.\nB. 0. Produces $810,722-782 in\nMinerals\u00E2\u0080\u0094Coal Mining\nActive.\nPROM 1852 lu 1923, Brlt.sh Columbia has given to the world $810,-\n722,782 In minerals, including $190,-\n000,000 In gold; $03,000,000 silver;\n$179,000,000 copper; $58,000,000 lead;\n$28,000,000 zinc, and $250,000,000 coal\nand coke.\nActive coal mining is being carried\non chiefly on Vancouver Island, in\nNicola Valley, and in the Crow's Nest\nPass district, close to the Alberta\nboundary. There are large undeveloped coal fields to the North or the\nCrow's Nest Pass and in the Groundhog district to the north of the Grand\nTrunk Pacific Uranch of the C. N. R.\nGold mining really began with tlie\nrush to the Cariboo alluvial or place;'\nfields In the early sixties, and, later,\nplacer areas were discovered stretching from the 49th to the fiOth parallel and beyond to the Yukon.\nThe most important placer gold\nproducing fields in British Columbia\nare In the Atlin and Cariboo districts,\nwith smaller amounts produced from\nscattered localities. The chief loilo\ngold producing districts are Portland\nCanal, Naas river, Skeena (Princess\nRoyal Island), Rossland and Osoyoos\n{Hedley mine) mining divisions. Copper producing districts are at Anyox,\non Observatory Inlet, Howo Sound,\nRossland ami Boundary.\nt\nTRAIL SHELTER, TRAIL. IB, C.\nBRITISH COLUMBIA\nThe MINERAL PROVINCE of Western Canada\nTO END OP DECEMBER, 1924\nHas produced Minerals as follows: Placer Gold, $77,382,953; Lode Gold, $118,473,190; Silver, $68,824,579; Lead, $70,548,578:\nCopper, $187,489,378; Zinc, $32,171,497; Miscellaneous Minerals, $1,431,349; Coal and Coke, $260,880,048; Building Stone, Brick,\nCement, etc., $42,225,814; making its Mineral Production to the and of 1924 show an\nAggregate Value of - - $859,427,386\nProduction for Year Ending December, 1924 - - - $48,704,604\nTHE MINING LAWS OF THIS PROVINCE ARE MORE LIBERAL AND THE FEES LOWER THAN THOSE OF ANY OTHER PROVINCE\nIN THE DOMINION, OR ANY COLONY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.\nMINERAL LOCATIONS ARE GRANTED TO DISCOVERERS FOR NOMINAL FEES.\nABSOLUTE TITLES ARE OBTAINED BY DEVELOPING SUCH PROPERTIES, THE SECURITY OF WHICH IS GUARANTEED BY\nCROWN GRANTS.\nGET YOUR INFORMATION OFFICIALLY\nAny who are interested in authoritative information regarding mining properties situated in the Province, are referred to\nthe Annual Report of the Honourable the Minister of Mines\nThu all. nil..n tir mlnlim corporations placing stook on the market is directed\nto Sections l\u00C2\u00AB unci 17 or tlie \"Mineral Survey and Development Aci,\" which read:\nifi. \"Ka-vh Resident Engineer shall, upon receiving notice oC any ud vor Used or\nsolloltod mile or shares In nny company or In nny claim or mine or mineral property\nWhatsoever, upon statements or terniH not In accordance with actual facts and conditions) notify the Minister of Minos, who upon Investigation may, ir found neces-\nnary, glVO flUch notices, cither personal or public;, as may he nocessary to prevent\nany Injury to Investors; und every notice given under this section hy the Minister of\nMilieu Hiniii bo absolutely privileged.\n17. \"(I.| Wher.. a corporation, other than a private oompany under the\n'(.umpunlCH Act,' acquires un Interest Jn or title to, or engages in work on any\nmining property situate ln a mineral survey district, It shall forthwith notify tho\nResident Kngineer of that District, and file with him full particulars thereof, and\nshall ulso file witli him as soon as it Is Issued, a copy of every prospectus or statement In lieu of prospectus which is required hy the 'Companies Act' to he filed\nwith tho llogistrur of Companies.\n\"(2) If a corporation makes a default In complying with any requirement of\nthis section, it shnll be liable, on summary conviction, lo a fine not exceeding\ntwenty-flve dollars for every day during which the default continues, und evory\ndirector and every manager of tho corporation who knowingly and wilfully authorizes or permits the default shall be liable to the liko penalty.\"\nFULL INFORMATION, TOGETHER WITH MINING REPORTS AND MAPS, MAY BE OBTAINED GRATIS BY ADDRESSING-\nTHE HON. THE MINISTER OF MINES\nVICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA FRIDAY.. Juno 5, 1925\nSEVENTEENTH YEAH. No. _3 BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST VANCOUVER, B. C,\nPage Five.,;\nPREVENT FOREST FIRES-IT PAYS\n$10.?2\nPer Ton, Delivered\nNanaimo-Wellington\nWASHED\nNUT\nCOAL\nLeslie Coal\nCo. Ltd.\n944 Beach Ave.\nSey. 7137\nCommunism In IJ. S. Schools\nWest Baden, Ind.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mrs. John D.\nSherman, of Estes Pnrk, Colo., presi-\n[ dent of the General Foderation of\nI Women's Cluhs, spenking before this\nI board of directors of the federation,\n| said that soviet Russia is attempting\nto spread communistic doctrines\n! among young Americans of grammar-\nschool age. They were working\nthrough an organization known as\nthe Young Workers' League, she\nstated. Apparently the capitalistic\ndoctrines were failing in their appeal\nto the minds of the rising generation.\nThc appeal of selfishness Is losing\n.while tho desire to co-operate with\nI and serve their follows is ever grow-\nI Ing day by day. 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I. etc.]\n(All Rights Reserved)\nCHAPTER XXIV (Continued)\nTT7E saw ln Chapter X how strong\n\" were the regenerative powers of\nsomo ot the lower life-forms; that\nChild, for example, was able to bring\ninto existence new fully-formed planarians from small bits of these creatures; and that Hydra could renew itself from the tiniest particle of Its\nown body that had been strained\nthrough a cheese-cloth,\nIt is undeniable that the more lowly\nlife-forms, both plant and animal,\npossess this power of reconstructing\nlost parts and of renewing themselves.\nExactly to what extent this regenerative power is latent in the somatic\ncells of the higher Hfe-forms has\nnever yet beon definitely demonstrated; but the case bf the stork regenerating the lost portion of Its bill,\ncited in the tenth chapter, would seem\nto show that the somatic-cells retain\npotentially the powers of the original\ngerm-cell from which they are der\nived; and that in certain abnormal\ncircumstances these latent powers be\ncome active and manifest themselvea\nin relatively highly-organized life-\nforms.\nThe greatest opposition to Wels-\nmann's gorm-coll theory, which has\npractically dominated biology for\nnearly two generations, comes from\nphysiologists. They are not willing\nto admit that the germ-cells aro so\nabsolutely differentiated and insulated\nfrom tho body-cells, or vice versa, as\nWeismann claimed. Child has pointed out that in somo of his experiments\ncertain somatic cells, after they had\nbecome distinctly differentiated into\nmuscle-cells, lost this definite character and returned to a germinal condition.\nNow it becomes quite clear that if\nthis kind of reversion on the part of\ndifferentiated cells can take place\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand on this point there appears to be\nno doubt\u00E2\u0080\u0094it is quite conceivable and\npossible that new germ-cellB might\narise from soma-cells In this manner;\nand thus a mechanism or way would\nbe provided for the transmission of\nacquired bodily characters, or for the\neffects of Use and Disuse.\nVfo know that among plants this\ncan and does come to pass. Begonia,\nfor instance, can reproduce itself from\nthe smallest part of one of its own\nleaves, and the leaves of many other\nkinds of plants can do the same. We\nhavo therefore to admit ln the case\nof these plants either that the leaf-\ntissues contain undifferentiated germ-\nplnsm or that soma-cells can give rise\nto germ-cells. And when we leave the\nworld of plants and enter the animal\nworld, Kammerer's experiments with\nfrogs, newts, salamanders and asci-\ndians make It very clear that the same\npower lies in the soma-cells of animals.\nKammeror belongs to that school\nof biologists who believo that environment has more to do with the calling forth of new functions and bodily\nmodifications, that are of a transmissible nature, than Welsmann's\ntheory of the independence and insulation of the germ-plasm admits; and\nhe set himself tho task of proving his\ncontention.\nThe most noteworthy of his experiments along thoso linos include the\nrestoration of the lost vision of the\nblind newts; changes in the coloration of certain salamanders; and modifications in tiie tissues of the organs\nof sea-squirts; all of which were\nshown to bo heritable by tho offspring of thoso animals in tho following generation.\nThe newt Proteus is blind by nature\nbecnuso of Its ll'Vhablts. It passes\nIts existence In dark subterranean\ncaverns. Kammeror, by alternately\nexposing some of these animals to\nordinary sunlight nnd to artificial\nlight (red) succeeded ln redeveloping\nboth thoir eyes and their sight. He\nfound that by interbreeding these modified newts, thoir offspring in the\nflrst generation possessed normal eyes\nand vision. Theso cavern newts had Inherited blindness from a long line of\nancestors and this tack of eyes and\nsight was thus clearly a transmissible\nquality and could only havo arisen\nfrom non-use, unless we suppose they\nwore specially created sightless for\nexistence in dark caverns. Tf wo take\nthis view then Kammerer's experiment shows conclusively that altered\nconditions of life can change the organs of tho body and that these\nchanges can lie transmitted to and\ninherited by the offspring.\nRut Weismnnnlnns are evolutionists\nand would never allow special Creation of this It Ind for a moment,\nNoither would thoy allow the caso to\nbe ono of accjulstloti of now characters; but merely the restoration or a\nlost ono. The remote ancestors of\nProteus wore for thom creatures with\nnormal eyes and vision.\nBut in taking this position'thoy\nseem to havo lost sight of tho fact\nthat they are hanging themselves on\ntho other horn of tho dilemma. For\nIt must necessarily follow that If Pro-\ntous bo descended from newts which\noriginally ppBsesBod normal eyes and\nvision, tho modern sightless-nowtB\nmust Inherit sightlessness In eaoh generation. There has thus been a transmission here of blindness, which on\ntheir own showing was not an origin-\nProteus was clearly either brought\noriginally Into existence eye-lese and\nblind, or it possessed eyes and sight\nlike other animals. If the former\nview be held then by gaining eyes\nand sight, they had acquired new\ncharacters which they were able to\npass on to their offspring. If the\nlatter view be taken then they had\ntransmitted thc acquired character of\nblindness to their offspring. Thus\nwhichever way one looks at the mat\nter there ls no- escape from the con\nelusion that there has been an acquisition of new characters, which In each\ncase have been transmitted to the\nnext generation.\nBut, Kammerer was not content to\nrest his claims on one set of experiments alone; he undertook others;\nthis time with Salamanders as subjects.\nThe Firo Salamander Is normally\nInky black in color with yellow markings consisting of irregularly distributed yellow spots. Now if these\nspotted salamanders be kept ln an\nenvironment with a black background,\nthat is, in black surroundings, those\nyellow spots In a few years gradually\ndisappear and the creatures become\nwholly black; thus showing that external conditions can affect the color\nation of their bodies. Conversely lf\nthey are kept ln a yellow environment\nthe yellow spoU; arc. seen to melt into\neach othor, and ln a few years yellow\nbecomes the dominant color of the\nanimal's body. By interbreeding\nblack with black and yellow with\nyellow It was shown that the young\nof these modified salamanders inherited the newly acquired color characters of their parents and passed them\non likewise to their progeny.\nSurely we have here a clear case of\nthe acquisition, transmission and Inheritance of new characters.\nBut, Kammerer was still not satis-\nfled. Desiring to remove all possible\ndoubt about the matter he Instituted\nanother set of experiments, this time\nwith Siona intestlnalls, one of the\naBddlans or sea-squirts. This animal\nhas a habit of anchoring itself to the\nbottom of the sea by Ub stolons which\nnre very like the \"holdfasts\" of the\nsea-weed. Its outstanding features\nare two siphon-like organs whioh ox-\ntend from the head of its cylindrical\nbody. The longer of these siphons is\nthe ora! or Inhalant one; the shorter >s\nthe anal or exhalant one. It draws\nin the water with the one and emits\nit through the other after extracting\nthe nourishing particles it contains.\nLow down in its body lie the intestines and the generative organs. Theae\nlatter consist of a hermaphrodite\ngland, Siona being a bisexual animal.\nThis creature has astonishing regenerative powers, and lends itself\nreadily to experiments of the kind\nKammeror contemplated. Thus If the\ntops of the siphons be cut off they\nspeedily grow again becoming a little\nlonger than before. Repeated amputations on the same specimen finally\nresulted In an elongation of the tubes\nmuch beyond the normal length, the\nsuccessive new growths exhibiting a\njointed appearance.\nBy breeding with these modified\nspecimens it was found lhat the offspring ln tho next generation had\nsiphons of abnormal length, but that\nthe jointed features seen in the parent\nhad in the young forms been smoothed out.\nHere again there seems to be\nclear case of the acquisition and\ntransmission of new characters.\nThe Welsmanninn school of opinion\nmet this new experiment with the\nobjection that tho transmission of the\nelongated siphons to the offspring\nmight be accounted for by regarding\ntho relation between the soma-cells\nand germ-plasm as not yet fully and\nentirely severed; that the insulation\nof the lattor from the formor was\nimperfect ln this instance; and thus\ntho germ-plasm had boen affected by\nthe bodily mutilation and so was able\nto pass on tlie modification to thc\noffspring. In other words thoy would\nnot allow that the independence of the\ngerm-plasm claimed by Weismann\nhad been In any way impugned by\nthese experiments.\nTo prove that tlie transmission of\ntho elongated siphons was not brought\nabout, as his opponents claimed, by\nthe Intervention of the germ-plasm\nstored in the generative organs, Kammerer now amputated the whole of\nthe lower part of tlie sea-squirt containing tlie generative organs, leaving to tho mutilated creature only\nthat part of Its body which carried\nthe elongated siphons.\nFrom this upper portion tho specimen reconstructed Itself afresh, growing a new lower pnrt with mnv intestines and new generative organs; and\nwhen later tills regenerated creature\nproduced young it was found that they\nhad inherited the elongated siphons\nof the parent as before.\nThose experiments seem to (ihow\nconclusively thnt all lho powers pos-\nsossQd*by the gormplnsm lli> dormani\nin evory cell of tho body, and cnn nl\ntimes and under certain unusual conditions bo called forth and brought\nInto activity. When wo romemhor\nthat evory somatic-cell of which the\nbody Is composed, has boon derived\nfrom the original germ-cell by division of Its substance, there Is nothing\nunreasonable or Impossible In this\nview of the matter; indeed it does nol\nseem reasonable to expect that lt\nshould be otherwise.\nIf these conclusions be granted, as\nit seems they must be, then it follows\nas a natural corollary that transmission of acquired characters can\nsnd does take place; and that Weismann went too far in declaring that\nno bodily modifications arising from\nwithout can be passed on.\nIt should be added that these experiments of Kammerer do not stand\nalone. Many similar experiments\nhave been carried out by other Investigators; and some at least of Kammerer's experiments have been confirmed by Durkhem and Pavlov. Other\nexperiments along somewhat different lines have alBo been carried out.\nThus Doctors Ouyer and Smith instituted a series of experiments of their\nown that appear to lead very decidedly to the conclusion that there is a\nway or mechanism by which the\ngerm-plasm or heredity material may\nbe modified by external agencies, as\nwell as by i the spontaneous changes\nfrom within postulated by Weismann.\nGuyer himself thus remarks in this\nconnection: \"No one today, qualified\nby his knowledge of embryology nnd\ngenetics to the right of an opinion,\nwould think, deny that the new organism is in the main the expression\nof what was In the germ-line, rather\nthan what It got directly from the\nbody of its parents; but does this fact\nnecessarily carry with it the implication that the germ is Insusceptible to\nmodification from without? Is not\nthe serum of organisms possessing\nblood or lymph an excellent medium\nthrough which external influences\nmay operate upon it? Is it not more\nreasonable to postulate the origination of germinal changes through\nsome such mechanism as this than to\nattribute lt to mysterious 'spontaneous changes?\"\nThe experiments of Guyer and\nSmith were carried on with various\nkinds of Sera. Thus, for example,\nthey took the lensos of newly-killed\nrabbits and pulped them thoroughly\nin a mortar and diluted tho pulp with\nnormal saline solution. A small quantity of this immulsion was then injected intraperitoneal^ or Intravenously Into each of several fowls. Four\nor five weekly treatments with this\nlens-immulslon were given. A week\nor ao after the last injection the blood-\nserum of one or more of theso fowls\nwas used for injection into pregnat\nrabbits,\nThe rabbits had been so bred as to\nhave the young advanced to about the\ntenth day of .pregnancy; since from\nthe tenth to the thirteenth day seems\nto be a particularly important period\nin the dovelopment of the lens. It is\nat that period growing rapidly and\nls then surrounded by a rich network of blood-vessels that later disappear. A certain quantity of this\nprepared fowl-serum, was injected at\nintervals into the veins of the pregnant rabbits. Several of these died\nfrom the effects of the serum and\nmany of the young were killed in\nutero. But of sixty-one surviving\nyoung from mothers so treated, four\nhad one or both eyes conspicuously\naffected and five others had eyes\nclearly abnormal; and lt was found\nlater that many of those which ln\nthe earlier period of their lives had\nseemed normal, developed defects in\nthe lens or other parts of their eyes.\nThat these defects in the eyes of the\nyoung rabbits were true Inheritances\nwas proved by mating defective-eyed\nmales with normal females unrelated\nto the stock used for the experiments.\nThe first generation produced by\nthis crossing all had normal oyes;\nbut when females from this genera\nUon wero mated With defective-eyed\nmales again the resultant offspring\nwere defectivo-eyed.\nAs pointed out by Guyer it is obvious theso defectivo characters could\nonly have beon conveyed through the\ngerm-cells of tho male and therefor\nthc abnormality is an example of true\ninheritance. Ho furthor remarks\n'The point T wish to emphasize is that\na certain specif'c effect has beon produced; und, what Is of greator moment, once the condition Is established\nit may not be merely transmitted but\ninherited. Whother tho lens of tho\nuterine young is first changed and\nthen In turn Induces a chango ln lens-\nproducing antecedents In tho germ-\ncells of these young, or whethor the\nspecific antibody simultaneously affects the eyes and the gorm-cells of\nthe young, is not clear. In any event\nIt is evident that thore is somo constitutional Identity betweon the substance of the mature organ in question and the material antecedents of\nsuch an organ as It exists in tho germ.\nBiologically considered the most significant fact Is that specific antibodies can Induce specific modifications In lho germ-cell. . . Truly\none may pronounce that social complex of reciprocating Ivfllvjiftato\ntermed cells, which make up an organism, \"members one of another.\"\nAnd with all these co-operntlvo activities of the various ports of the\nbody It Is Inconcolveable to me, at\nleast, that the germ-eclls, bathed In\nthe same fluid, nourished ,-Uh tin-\nsame food, stand wholly apart.\nMny wo not surmise, thon, that as\nregards Inheritance and ovohillnn,\nLamarck was not. Wholly In error\nwhen he stressed the importance of\nuso and disuse of a.part, or of modifications due to environmental ohatlgo,\nIn altering tho courso of tho hereditary stream, particularly If wo conceive of these Influences as being\nprolonged, posslldy over many generations? Have we not In tho Serological mechanism of tho body of\nanimals an adequate menns for the In\ncitement of the germinal changes\nwhich underlie certain aspects of\nEvolution\"?\nThis very reasonable conclusion\nreached by Guyer, it may be added,\nreceives strong support from a long\nseries of other, more or less, similar\nexperiments. And while Welsmann's\nmain concept of the germ-plasm, as\nthe material basis by which our hered\nitable qualities and characters are\npassed on, remains unimpaired and\nvery rightly still holds the biological\nfield; it would seem that his second\nary theory of the Independence and\ninsulation of the germ-plasm from the\nother cells of the body can no longer\nbe maintained without, considerable\nqualification.\nIt ls ln questions of this kind that\ndifferences of opinion arise among\nbiologists; and one can see that in\ndealing with this aspect of the evolutionary problem such differences from\nthe very nature of the subject, are\nalmost Inevitable.\nBut as our modern experimental\nmethods come more and more to replace the theoretical methods of the\npast, as they are now fast doing,\nmany If not all of these differences\nwill gradually disappear as our knowledge Increases and we get a clearer\ninsight Into the actuating factors\nwhich underlie organic evolution.\nBrandon Opera Company at\nthe Orpheum\nThe tuneful comic opera \"The Pirates of Penzance,\" the third offering\nof the Brandon opera company at the\nOrpheum theatre, served a double\npurpose to the music lovers and\ntheatre-goers of Vancouver and vicinity. Miss Ethel Codd, a new prima\ndonna, made her debut on Monday\nevening, in the leading soprano role.\nHer grace, stage presence and wonderful voico immediately endeared her\nto the audience and she sang her way\ninto the hearts of all, who were fortunate enough to be present. The entire company gave a most satisfying\nperformance of \"The Pirates\" which\nis regarded as the cream of Gllbert'i-\nhumor and satire and Sullivan's catchy lyrics, prominent among them being \"Poor Wandering One\" and \"The\nSollicking Policeman's Lot Is Not o\nHappy One.\"\nNext week starting Monday, Juno\n8th, will be mother week of Gilbert\nand Sullivan when the perronnlal favorite \"The Mikado\" will be the offering. \"The Mikado\" and, in fact,\nall the works of Gilbert and Sullivan\naro replete with music that is as much\nwound up in the home life of the\nAnglo-Saxon race as are the sayings\nof Shakespeare. For a young boy or\ngirl not to hear and know \"The Mikado\" would be as sorry a matte' as nol\nto read 'Robinson Cruso\" or learn\ntho story of \"Cinderelln\". It becomes\ntherefor'. :: pleasure and a duty to\nhear thd Urandon opera company In\nrevivals of these comic opera gems.\nTry your neighbor for a subscription.\nTo live straightforwardly by your\nown labor ls to be at peace with thp\nworld. To live on the labor of others\nIs not only to render your life false\nat home, but lt is to encroach upon\nthose around you, to incite resistance\nand hostility.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Edward Carpenter.\nThe Federatlonist ls out to heli\nthe workers, There is no noblei\nwork. Join us ln the fight. 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For nle at all Government Liquor Stores\nTill tdTorUfomont Is not published or dl_pltyo_ 0, tbt Liquor Control Bout or\nby tbo OoTonunent of Brltlih Oolumbio\nNanaimo and District\nWide interest is being manifested in the splendid Educational Articles now\nappearing as regular features in\nTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST\nOfficial Organ of the\nFEDERATED LABOR PARTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nThese Articles of Advanced Thought are highly appreciated and extensively\nread by many labor men and women who think as well as work.\nSubscription Price: Year, $2.50; Six Months, $1.50 5 Cents per Copy.\nThe Federationist will be pleased to receive News Items, aa well as Manuscripts bearing upon the Labor Question in Its Widest Application\nto Society Today.\nSample Copies may be obtained from the representative of the B. C. Federationist, who will also be pleased to receive copy and subscriptions for the\npaper, by undersigned.\nJUST RECEIVED\nTHE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BRITISH TRADE UNION DELEGATION TO RUSSIA-234 pages, with Maps and Illustrations. Price, $1.50\nPost Free.\nTHOS. A. BARNARD\nBook Seller and Stationer\n63 COMMERCIAL STREET, NANAIMO, B. C.\n______ Page Six\nSEVENTEENTH YEAR.\nn\u00E2\u0080\u009E. 23 BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST Vancouver, b. c.\nFRIDAY June 5, 19_E\n_MM\n_______m______\nm\nm\nFarmer - Labor\nThe time has come when these two great groups must unite-\nThere must be a greater understanding of each others problems\nBOTH GROUPS ARE BEING EXPLOITED. BOTH ARE BEING ROBBED OF THE\nFRUITS OF THEIR LABOR. BOTH ARE FEELING THE PINCH OF PRIVATION,\nSOME OF ACTUAL DESTITUTION. FOR EVERY EFFECT THERE IS A CAUSE. WE\nKNOW THE EFFECT; LET US SEEK THE CAUSE AND ERADICATE IT.\nTHERE never was a time in the history of the Dominion of Canada when the Farmers\nWere finding it harder to bear up under their burdens than they are today. Why\ndo such conditions exist? There is to be found in this Province of British Columbia\nsoil that is unsurpassed for its productivity; a climate that is well adapted for the growing of an unlimited variety of farm products; the farmers themselves are a thrifty, industrious, hard-working group. As the result of all this, there are grown in this province\nfruit and vegetables and other farm products, world famed for their quality and appearance.,\nin spite of all this, such a state of affairs as is depicted in the following, taken from\nthe Duncan report, published by the Department of Labor of the Dominion of Canada, exists.\nTELLING EXCERPTS\nExtract from a letter from A. C. Stephens at Vernon, who was collecting Summerland\naccounts:\n\"To W. E. Carruthers, Nash Supervisor, Calgary, Alta.:\n\"I sure stepped into a nest of hornets there, without knowing where I was going till I was up agaihst them. The way\nfeeling is running down there it is a wonder I got anything at\nall. Charlie Brosi was well spoken of, and the mutual organization generally, but it was largely a matter of a lot of them being\nright up against it, watching their families starving, and\" they\njust naturally turned 'red.' It is a bad time to ask a man for\nmoney or for a note.\"\nAnother extract: Mr. Snow, of Mutual Limited (Vancouver), writing to Carruthers, states as follows: \"The writer is\nmeeting the local growers daily, who are talking as though they\nwere a bunch of starved Russian refugees.\"\nMr. Snow, to Mr. Carruthers, further quotes: \"Do not think\nfor a moment it gives the writer any pleasure to advance money\nto the growers. We would have been much better today if we\ndid not have to worry about some of the advances we are con-\n\" tinually being asked for. You ask if they are absolutely broke\nat Victoria. We do not see any difference between the Growers\nover there and those in any other place, only that they are just\nbent, not broke.\"\nPLAYIN^ ONliAGAINST THE OTHER\nThe people who have been living off tii* farmer and the industrial worker have been\nplaying the one against the other. Long tirades have appeared in the public press for the\nconsumption of the farmer, pointing out the short working hours and high wages which the\ncity worker, it is claimed, through the medium of his various trade unions, has been able\nto command. This was the \"red herring\" that was drawn across the trail to divert the attention of the farmer from his real exploiters.\nWhen, as is admitted by all, there is such a marked difference in price between that\npaid by the worker for the farmer's products, and that received by the farmer for those\nproducts, it is evident that the worker is little, if any, better off. It is obvious that a large\namount of this \"spread\" is being absorbed along the way and in a manner that works\nequally to the disadvantage of both the worker and the farmer alike. Evidently the farmer\nis beginning to see this, as is shown by the following communication received by the Duncan\nCommission from a grower:\nA RANCHER'S INVESTMENT\n\u00C2\u00AB* * * a rancher's investment brings him no interest, small or large, and his time is\ncounted for nothing. Yet we go to Vancouver and elsewhere and see with our own eyes\nour fruit being sold at very high prices\u00E2\u0080\u0094yet we dare not spend a cent other than for dire\nnecessities. * * * We must go on working or let our ranches die, or go elsewhere and\nearn money, as several are doing right here (I could give their names) to live and pay help\nto keep the trees alive.\"\nCO-OPERATION\nAnother thing that the farmer is beginning to see is the benefits that accrue to him\nthrough co-operation. The following extract from the Duncan report: \"The producers of\nBritish Columbia may be classified as organized and unorganized, and are known as co-operatives and independents. The co-operative associations, which represent an achievement in\norganization, have made possible what slight amelioration there has been in the condition of\nthe growers. The independents are enabled in some cases to avoid c-tain of the overhead\nto which the co-operatives are subject, but, in so doing, they take the benefits created by\ntheir fellow-growers without contributing to the cost; and, in many cases, by their unregulated marketing seriously disorganize the market for both parties. Like some fungus, they\nsap* the strength of the tree which shelters them.\"\nFARMER AND INDUSTRIAL WORKER\nThe problem that confronts alike the farmer and the industrial worker is how to free\nthemselves from the control of the big financial interests that are today robbing them of\nthe fruits of their labor, without rendering any necessary service to society. As the necessary factors in production, there are two parallel paths by which the farmer and the worker\nmust proceed to become the masters of their own destiny. First, through co-operation in the\nproduction and distribution of the fruits of their labor. Second, by co-operating upon the\npolitical field, securing control of the various legislative bodies.\nTHE FIRST STEP\nA Dominion election is a possibility during this year, and must come in 1926. As a first\nstep, the farmers should organize on a political basis for the purposes of united action on\ntheir own behalf. It is a case of \"their minding their own business.\" They have allowed\nthe old-time politicians to run their affairs quite long enough and now they should take a\nhand in it themselves.\nLABOR WILL CO-OPERATE\nWe are quite sure that labor will meet them more than half way. We would suggest\nthat the matter of organization of the farmers be left in their own hands. They understand\nthe conditions as they exist in their own localities and can the better organize to meet their\nparticular needs. With a programme of co-operation they will, undoubtedly, find that labor\nwill be more than ready and willing to co-operate with them.\nWRITE THE B. C. FEDERATIONIST\nTHE B. C. FEDERATIONIST does not attempt to lay down a programme or platform\nfor either the farmers or the industrial workers. Sufficient for us is it if they accept the\nprinciple of co-operation as opposed to individual action. The actual policy will be worked\nout as time goes on. However, we are anxious for n di^crssion on this matter by the farmers, and we would suggest that they write to THE B. C. FEBEItATIONIST, giving us\ntheir various viewpoints and suggestions. It is by an interchanging of ideas that we hope to\nmake any advancement along the lines of real progress.\nMH \" vISHilllilifllgllllEIBIl'lllilill\nTabloid Issued by United States\nDepartment of Labor, at\nWashington, D. 0.\nEngland\nCensus of Workers.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The British\ngovernment la now engaged in making\na comprehensive survey and census to\nascertain the number of operative\nworkers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the wages received\nby them.\nSubsidizing Industry.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A committee\nIs now being formed by the federation\nof British Indusries to examine the\nproposals for alternative methods of\nrelieving unemployment by devoting\nthe money at present expended on\nthe dole to the purpose of subsidizing\nindustry and thereby enabling employers to give a larger measure of\nemployment.\nUnemployment.-\u00E2\u0080\u0094Among the 11,-\n500,000 workpeople insured against\nunemployment in Great Britain under the unemployment insurance acts,\nthe percentage of unemployed on\nMarch 23, 1925, was 11.4 compared\nwith 11.6 per cent on February 23,\n1925, and 9.9 per cent, on March 24,\n1924.\nGermany\nFew Building Apprentices.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ten\nand three tenths per cent, of the boys\nand 8.2 per cent, of the girls now\nleaving school at Duesseldorf desire\nto take up commercial business training, and 13.3 per cent, of the girls\nwish to become shop-girls, making\nIt evident that this will result in an\novercrowding of commercial occupations. On the other hand it is unfavorable that only few boys choose\ntho building trades and other professions of importance to the Rhenish\nindustries.\nSenmen's Relief Act.'\u00E2\u0080\u0094Under tho\nterms of a law recently enacted by\nthe Reichstag the decree for the relief of unemployed seamen, of Ootober 30, 1924, which was to expire\nthis spring, is extended for an unlimited period.\nNetherlands\nMine Workers.\u00E2\u0080\u0094During the past\nfive years the number of persons engaged in the mining of coal Increased\nfrom 24,944 to 30,000.\nParaguay\nColonization Schemes.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Current reports indicate the possible colonization in Paraguay of Japanese and\nGerman immigrants.\n\"Baby Fnrnis,\" Pennsylvania\nInfant boarding homes in Pennsylvania must now be licensed by the\nstate department of public welfare,\naccording to provisions of a \"Baby\nFarm\" act recently signed by the\ngovernor. The licenses must first bo\napproved by tho local health authorities, or, in the smaller towns and\nvillages, by the person or agency designated by the welfare department. The\nact also provides for the registration\nof all childron in boarding homes.\nInfant Mortality, Scotland\nNinety-eight out of overy 1,000 babios born in Scotlnnd In 1924 died bofore reaching their first birthday, according to tho latest report of the\nScottish registrar-general. The birth\nrato for 1924 was tho lowest recorded\nsinco the war. Tho United States infant mortality rate was 77 per 1,\nbirths in 1923.\nWealth alono never will nor can\nsustain a State.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Joseph Cowen.\nHealth Teaching, England\nPublic-health pictures are shown\non one of tho busy streets of the\nBorough of Bermondsey (London)\n(jyery day from 7 a. m. till 11 at night\nunder the direction of the medical\nofficer of health. A short rhyme is\nattached to each picture emphasizing\nand explaining its meaning. The public health department alao has a\nmoving-picture van which is sent\nabout the city showing films on health\nsubjects. A lecturer travels with tho\nvan.\nGet your workmate to subscribe for\nThe Federatlonist.\nI can only hope that, as time passes\nand our people become better educated, they will be more just, and that\nin the future all that love freedom in\nEngland will hold converse with all\nthat love freedom elsewhere, become\nunited in soul, and make together\nevery possible effort for the advancement of the liberties and the happiness of man-kind.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The late John\nBright, M.P.\nIf you are really in sympathy\nwith labor, be a booster. The\nFederationist ia out to do its bit.\nHelp it.\nLahorltos will be greatly helping\ntlio Labor Movement by pushing tho\nsale of The B. O. 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