"60ee127f-b81a-4228-a219-c25b99ebed26"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2017-03-28"@en . "1919-12-05"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcfed/items/1.0345455/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE BRITISH COLUMBIA\n'INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STBENGTH.\nOFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL, AND B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR\nPOLITICAL UNITT: VICTORY\nELEVENTH YEAR. No. 49 EIGHT PAGES\nVANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1919\n$2.00 PER YEAR,\nMINERS DU 10\nCounsel for Prosecution\nAsks That Witnesses Be\nNot Tampered With\nWitness Produced Who\nCould Not Be Procured\nat Deportation Trial\nVary Doakoff, the rating Bussian\ner Asatinien girl, wu a witnoss at\ntho resumed hearing of the perjury\ncharge agalnit Dourasoff and Both\nIn the police court oa Wodnesday\nafternoon.\nUr. Bubinowiti began by ashing\nabout Dourasoff bringing things to\nker house.\n\"Yes,\" she said, \"newspapers,all\nBussian, and ho would sit and road\nthemf\" He had one, all covered\nwith marks which the witnoss described. It was to show hor slstor,\nwho wae out; but he wouldn't leave\nit. Ho nover brought it back. On\nanother occasion he and her sister\nwere sitting together st night reading a paper with a Bussian name.\nMr. Bubinowiti: \"For whom were\nthese papers brought t\"\n. Witness: \"Why, my sister is tho\nonly ono who-reads and writes Bussian.\" Questioned further, ahe\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0aid: \"Ho read them, and told us\nwhat things wore liko in Bussia.\"\nMr. Bold objected; and Mr. Bubinowitz submitted that snch matters were relevant in order to moot\ntho sworn statoment of Dourasoff\nthat he never brought sueh papers,\nbut was the recipient.\nMr. Beid still objected and tho\nmagistrate agreed with his view.\nMr. Bubinowiti: \"As to the contents of theso papers\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMagistrate: \"The quostion ii\nwhether he is telling the truth when\nhe says he didn't bring the papers\nthere.\"\nMr. Bubinowiti: \"I don't want\nto press tke matter, Dourasoff says\nthere were political meetings and\n* discussions, and these newspapers\nwere read by Chekoff, and so forth.\"\nThe niagiitrato atill demurred.\nMr. Bubinowitz (to witness):\n\"This newspaper with the red\nspots oa it; did bt tell yon any*\nthing about it being a forbidden;\nnewspaper!\"\nWitnesa: \"Ke.\"\n, \"Did you or, your sister. \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BBor ask\nUrn to bring these newspapers\ntheref\"\n\"No.\"\n\"Where did he carry themf\"\n\"In tis right pocket.\"\nWitness wu then uked about\nBussians coming to -her heme, and\nshe said they were mostly returned\nsoldiers. .\nMr. Beid blocked further questioning, and Magistrate Shaw said: \"To\nbuk it up doesn't strengthen the\nimprobability.\"\nMr. Bubinowiti: \"Whore did\nDourasoff say he get those news*\njanersf\"\nWitness: \"Ha told me . ke got\nthem from New Tork.\" '\nMr. Bubinowiti: \"About meetings in June\"*\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMr. Beid: \"Now whatt\"\nMr. Bubinowiti: \"Page ene,\nDourasoff said there was a meeting\nin yeur house, when a Bus-din read\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 newspaper about tke Soviet com*\nmittoe in New Tork.\"\nWitness: \"Not true.\"\nAfter another objection, Mr. Bu\nbinowitz continued: \"Have you\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ver had any discussions in your\nhouso about hew to bring, about a\ninvolution in Canada! That's what\nDourasoff uid.\"\nWitness: \"Not true.\"\nMr. Bubinowiti: \"About government!\"\nWitness: \"No.\"\n\"Ever heard Chekoff take part in\niuch discussions!\"\n\"He couldn't, I know ke hardly\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2peaks Bussian.\"\n\"How would ke speak te yeur\nmother!\"\n\"He'd speak tkrougk ono of the\n(Continued en page 3)\nAJMIW\nAttempts to la ute Marxian Economk Velcome\nat S. P. C. fc Jings\nCapitalism must bd _i up for\napologists, whon old III . like Mrs.\nPunkhurst can travel i ..oss continents, and entertain some of the\n\"upper class\" at $1.10 per. She has\nmado an important discovery, nothing less than that Earl Man and his\nwritings, were the cause of all the\nstrikes and industrial unrest, and\nthat it wu made in Qermany. Later\nwe shall probably be Informed that\nKarl Marx and not thc Kaiser causod\nthe war of 1914-1918. It will take\nmore than Mrs. Pankhurst and tbe\nBorden government to step the propaganda of Marxian Socialism. We\nnotive very fow of the capitalist intellectuals attempting to refute\nMarxian economics, and the necessary\nconclusions drawn therefrom. They\nwould be heartily welcome on tho\nplatform of tho Sunday night propaganda mootings of tho Socialist\nParty of Canada. Workingmen and\nwomen should attend the history\nclass on Wednesdays at 8 p.m., and\neconomic class Sundays at 2:30. Sunday night meetings at Kmpress, 8 p.\nro. Doors open at 7:30. Jack Kavanagh will speak Sunday.\nOFJM\nWill. Return AU Charters\nto Internationals\nat Once\nlnl I I . I HI I I Ull \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nWorkers' Liberty Bond Campaign\n\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB*\n******\n******\n******\nSTINGING DEFEAT\nTroops Strung Out in a\nPanic-stricken Flight\nin Siberia\nStockholm.\u00E2\u0080\u0094In spite of all attempts on the pnrt of Kolchak to'\nexplain Mi backset at Omsk the\nstinging defeat looms up as probably\nthe turning point of the war and\nthe ultimate triumph of tho Bolsheviki. It has now been learned that\n11 generals, 1,000 officers and 39,-\n000 troops besides 8,000 machine\nguns, 30,000 uniforms, 4,000,000\nrounds of ammunition, 76 locomotives and 5,000 carloads of miscellaneous war material fell into the\nhands of the.Soviet forces.\nSo acute has become tho situation\nin Siberia that it has boen. deemed I ^\"\"^^J\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 \u00C2\u00A3te\"\nSend Greetings to the Men\non Trial and Nova\nScotia Miners\nThe three-day eonvention of the\neoal mining unit No. 1 of the 0. B.\nU., held at Calgary, concluded its\nlabors on Wednesday evening. There\nwere in attendance 22 delegates\nfrom the various mining camp* of\nBritish Columbia and Alberta.\nAlderman Broach called tho convention to ordor, and in a brief\nspeech, welcomed the delegates. V.\nR. Midgley, secretary of tho 0. E.\nB. of tho 0. B. U., who was presont\nat the request of President Christophers, addressed the convention, and\ngavo a resume of tho progress made\nby the new organization sinco its\ninception, Albert Gill, a returnod\nsoldier, and tho possessor of the\nMilitary Medal, gained for services\nin Franco, who represented tho me*\ntallifcrous miners, addressed the convention on the situation at Kimberley, and the strike issuos there.\nGeneral dissatisfaction with the\nInternational wns the gist of tho reports of the delegatus, and a strong\ndetermination on tho part of the\nrank and file to becomo a part of\ntho O. B. IJ. Tho convention took\nup the mattor of n constitution to\ncoriiply with tho 0, B, U. constitution, and a new constitution was\nadoptod and the following officers\nelected: Chairman of the district\nboard, Harry Beard Michel; secre\ntary, Ed Browno, Tabor; board mem\nbers, W. Sherman, Fornie; John\nBrooks, Bellovue; Porcv Spohcer,\nCoalhurst; Frod Whitford, Wayne;\nW. Kolling, Kdmonton.\nP. M. Christophers was elocted\nspecial organizer for the northern\ndistrict, and Albort Gill, M. M., was\nelected special organizer for the\nDrumhollor district.\nIt was decidod that the annual\nconventions- should be hold in 'December oach year, and that a referendum election of officers would bo\nB. C. Is Getting'Into Its Stride\nWit.t. THE WOBKEBS of thii Province go orer the\ntop? Well, it looks like it. The Defenie Committee\nin Vancouver hu to date received $7000, and many outiide points have not yet got into their itride, and no returni have been made by the committees handling the\ncampaign at theie placei. Britiih Columbia'i quota is\n$20,000. With |7000 already in hand, and a little pub,\nat least $26,000 should be raised. Many of the loggers\nare lending their contributions in lump sums from the\ndifferent eamps in the most out of the way placet. This\nis due to the faet that they, are reached by The Federationist. In the correapoadmce the committee has found\nthat non-unionist*, returned soldiers and men from all\nwalks of life are contributing tb the defense of the men\nin Winnipeg, aad splendid aiiiitance is being rendered\nby International unions in all parti of the Province, and\nthe Vancouver locale are not behind any other point in\nthe Province. Thii demonstrates that in spite of opinions\nas to the O. B. V. or International unionism, the workers\nare lining up in one common cause for the protection of\ntheir fellow workeri arretted as a remit of the Winnipeg\ngeneral strike. There is now only ten days of the time\nfor the campaign left, and it is expected that at least\n$1000 per day will be the average for the time now left\nbefore the 16th. Outlying points may not be heard from\nfor some little time, so it is up to everyone to get in and\ndig, and go over the top lbr liberty. Everybody get\ninto this campaign. It is the business of every worker,\nMR.CASSIDYWOULD PETTIPIECE AT\nNOT APOLOGIZE\nTO\nSays His Position As Important as That of\nJudge\nlively Clashes at Winnipeg Trail\u00E2\u0080\u0094Court\nCrowded\n(Special to Ibe Federationist)\nWINNIPEG, Man., Deo. 3\u00E2\u0080\u0094A\ncrowded court eaeh day denotes tho\nintereit that haa boon aroused in\nWinnipeg by the trial of the eight\nLabor men charged with seditious\nconspiracy. During tho last twenty-\nfour hours tho sheriff has been callod\nto remove Mr. Cassidy, K. C, who\nii leading counsol for tho defense.\nThere havo beon frequent clashes between Hr. Justice Metcalfe and Mr.\nCassidy, over counsel for tho prosecution continually rending passages\nfrom striko bulletins taken from the\ncontext, and giving wrong impressions to the jury. However, there\nhas been no bloodsbod to date, and\nMr. Cassidy is still in court. On\nTuesday night, during the late session of the court, Mr. Justico Metcalfe called for the bailiff to wunovo\nMr. Cassidy, counsel for tho defense,\nwho calmly stated he was quite\nready for bed.\nThis morning, Dec. 3, he refused\nto apologize, and stated that his position was quite as important as tbat\nof tho judgo's, and that he would at\nonco Btart habeas corpus proceedings\nif ho were put in jail, aud was confident that ho would bo out -immediately. TMb incident causod great\noxcitemont in court. William Percy,\nmember of tho strike committee, wns\nthe witness on thc stand. Mr. Andrews, counsol for the prosocutiou,\nwss reading from tbo Striko Bulletin and the Wostorn Labor Nows.\nMr. Cassidy insisted upon the qualifying passages being rood.\n1 NATIONAL\nPostponed Meeting of\nF. L. P. Debating Club\nto Be Held Saturday\n\"Where tol\" is to be the subject of Comrade E. P. Pottipiece's\naddreu at the Federated Labor\n-party at the National Theatre on\nSunday evening. The meeting begina with recital at 7:30 by Mr. Julian Haywood.\nThe meeting of the F. L. P. Debating Club, which waa postponed\nfrom last Saturday, will be held tomorrow (Saturday) night in tbe\nparty rooms, 510 Dominion Building. The subject to bo dobated is,\n\"Bcsolved that it would bo in tbo\nbest intorests ef the Federated\nLabor Party to adopt a reform platform.\" The usual address'and discussion on \"rulos of ordor\" will\nprecedo the debate.\nThe membors ef the Junior Labor\nLeague are co-operating with the\nmembers of tho Labor Party School\nin arranging for a joint Christmas\nconcert. The school last year put\nnp a good programme and it is\nhoped that tho concert thia year will\nbo evon better. The Labor School\nmeets every Sunday afternoon at\n2:30 p.m. in O'Brien Hall.\nLifting of Censorship Re-\nWar-time\nSecrets\nStrikers in B. C. Are All\nDetermined to\nStick Tight\nimperative to send at onee 30,000\npicked troops to extricate the Whito\nOuard from itt precarious position\nbetwoon Omsk and Vladivostok. The\nrtmnante of Kolchak'a former wall\ntrained and equipped army is strung\nout for milea along the Trans-Siberian railway in aU but panic stricken\nSight.\nBuy at a union store.\nTho following\nIN SUNNY ITALY\nworo cicoted m deletes to tbo Premier Hughes Violated Splendid Response to the\nOfficers Are Abo Charged\nWith Violation of the\nEspionage Act\nBench warrants issued Wednesday\nu .Uie result of secret indictments\nreturned by tlie federal grand jury\nTuesday, were served upon E. B.\nAult, Frank A. Bust, Georgo P. List-\nman and Anna Louise Strong in the\noffices of the Union Becord Wednesday.\n\u00C2\u00A3. B. Ault is the editor and manager of the papor, and Liftman and\nBust are 'directors. Miss Strong is\nan editorial writer.\nThe Union Becord corporation, by\nListmnn, its president, was also cited\nto appear in court to answer \"espionage\" charges.\nCirculation Increased\nThe Union Becord has been allow*\ned to resume publication in its own\nJ riant. Tor a time it was being pub-\nished outside of Seattlo. The Seattle Union Becord has the largest.circulation of nny daily in Washington. Tho capacity of tho plant is\nnot enough to meet tho needs, but a\ncampaign is now on to raiso enough\nmoney to equip a new plant. Ten\ndays after tho plant was closed down\nthe circulation had gone up 8,000\nand was 5d,U.H0.\nO. B. U. convention: P. M. Christophers, H. Beard anti John Brooks.\nIt was decided that all International charters were to bo returned\nimmediately to Indianapolis, and\nmass meetings' are to be called\nthroughout the district to discuss\nthe demands on the oporators in the\nimpending wage scalo conforonco.\nTho domands are to bo not less than\na basic increase of 30 per cent.\nBeforo tho convention closed\ngreetings wero sent to tho eight\nmen now on trial in Winnipeg, assuring them of the continuation of\nthe solid support of thc coal miners\nof British Columbia and Alberta.\nGreetings woro also sont to the\ncoal miners of Nova Scotia, and an\ninvitation to tho eastern miners to\nbecome part of the 0. B. U. was\nalso forwarded.\nU.-.1-1\u00E2\u0080\u0094-L- '' K'* ' n_n\nHave you got your bond yotf If\nnot remember that the campaign\ncloses December 15. Now is the\ntime to do your bit.\nION ACT\nthe Free Institutions\nof the Country\n[By W. Francis Ahern]\nTho ideal of the peoplo of Australia, ovor sinco thoy have had a\nconscious existence has been the\nbuilding up of a free, enlightened\nand self-reliant community\u00E2\u0080\u0094a white\nman's country\u00E2\u0080\u0094in tho Southern\nHemisphere, It formed tho first\nplank of the objective of the Australian labor party, and is subscribed to by overy Australian worker. .\nWhat does this national ideal involve f People who do not live in\nAustralia ean have no conception of\nit. In the ilrst place it stipulates\nfreedom, and involves, not only personal and political froodom, but also\nfreedom from industrial handcuffs.\nLabor in Australia, because of it, has\nalways fought consistently agninst\noppressive conditions of employment\nIt has gradually secured the enactment of a whole sheaf of ameliorative legislation, limiting hours of labor, guarding against sweating, particularly of fomalo workers, and\nestablishing wage tribunals. It has\nWill Hold Another Meet\ning Tonight in the\nLabor Temple\nTho flrst rogular meeting ot the*\nWomen's Auxiliary of the O. B. U,\nwas held lut Friday in room 404,\nLahor Temple. About twenty membors were preaent, and while no business of any importance waa trainee*\ntod, thoie who did attend showed\nconsiderable enthusiasm in the work\nthey aro undertaking.\nOwing to the defence dance com*\nmlttoo having decidod to let out the\ncatering for the daneo to a private\nparty, the social committee, whioh\nhad boon appointed at the organization meoting to tako charge of the\ncatering for the dance, were unable\nto act in that capacity, but volunteered their services to look after\nthe cloak room on that evening.\nTbo committoe appointed to assist\ntho defence fund committee, report*\ned that they had beon able to render\nvaluable assistance to thnt committee by going around with them to\ntho various union mootings,\nTho next moeting of tho Auxiliary\nwill bo hold in room 204, Labor Tomplo, Friday, the 5th inst., commonc*\ning at 8 p.m., and all women who\nare Interested in the Labor movement from a working elass point ef\nCourts of Justice Are Sup.\nerceded by Star\nChamber\nDebate Ia Postponed\nTho usual weekly dobato of tbe\nFederated Labor Pnrty Debating\nClub that was to have beon hold\nlast Saturday ovoning was postponed ono week in order to allow tbe\nmombers of tho club to attond the junky, -mi, viui.-r-.--i *. -.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*<-- uuvw\nI opening social of thc Vancouver Co- ists are the more remarkoblo when\nTrades Council to Call\nMeeting of\nO.B.U. Units\nMany False Impressions\nof O. B, U. Dissipated\nat Council Meeting\nThose individuals who aro of tha\nopinion that tho O. B. V. Central\nLabor Couneil of this city, and the\nofflcors of the 0. B. U. units are\nconspiring to bring about a revolution, amongst whom are thoae who\nformed tho citizens' committee in\nWinnipeg and other winces during\ntho general atrike, could have learned much that would havo put any\nsuch nonsense out of their heads at\nlast night's meeting of tho Vancouver Trados and Labor Council. When\nthe rogular business had been disposed of thero waa a general discussion of many questions that are\nof vital importance to the workers,\nand ono of tho waa the functions of\nthe O. B. tf, and its relation to the\nworking elass movoment towards' I\nnew ordor of society. The opinion\nwas expressed that thoso who'\nthought the new organization was\nformed for tho purpose of building\na new Boeioty within the shell ol\ntho old did not understand the pres*\nent systom of socioty and were talk,\ning a lot of nonsense.\nIn the abaonco of President\nMidglr^, who has not yet roturned\nfrom Calgary, where he hns been attending tho miners' convention,\nVice-president Winch occupied the\nchoir. The wago scale submitted by\ntho Engineors and. Millmen, for\nportable and hoise engineers, was endorsed by the council on the recommendation of the executive.\nBusiness Agent Wood reported\nthnt ho had been ablo to place a\nnumber of unemployed into jobs\nduring tho past week, and that he\nhad had two applications from international unions for charters from\ntho 0. B. V, He .explained that ht\nhad pointed out the conditions ol\naffiliation with the now organization,\nand had been invited to address\nMake Great Gains in the\nLarger Centres of\nthe Country'\nBome,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Though the final results of\ntho general olections held throughout tho kingdom aro. still in doubt\nnt tho presont writing (November\n18), it appears certain that 'somo\n150 parliamentary seats have been\nwon by tht Socinlists. Already 126\nseats aro conceded to the Socialists\nby the Borno correspondent of tho\nNow York \"Times.\" Their strongest leads are in Bome, Turin, Milan,\nFlorence, Ancona, and Parma. Ink\nsoutnorn Italy and in the mml districts, os the othor hand, tho Catho- theso'union^ and that\" he'wasof the\nlio party appeara to be in the ma- opinion that in a vary short time\n30rity. Tho victories of the Social-1 ^^ wduM affiliate with the\nCall for Defense\nFund\nMore men are in town now than\nfor somo considerable timo past.\nThis & partly duo to tho strikes at\nBoberts Lake camp, Bock Bay, and\ntho three camps of thc Hump Fish\nCompany at Alort Bay, and also tho\nclosing,of various cumps owing to\nwoathpr conditions, and in preparation for the usual holiday shutdown.\nIt is also bringing in to town the\nmen who wero responsible for bringing the orgnnization into existence.\nBome of them have been in camp\never since, and they are exceedingly\ngratified with the development\nWhicli has taken placo in their offspring sinco its birth. They realize,\nhowever, that thcir work is not yet\n4ono; that Ihey have to keep a\nwatchful eye and soo tbat the organization grows and functions in thc\nmanner which will best fulfil the pur\nposo for which it was eroutcd, numo-\nly; \"to advance and maintain tho\nsocial and economic interests of its\nmembers.\" Naturally, in an organi\nkation of this size, there will be\nOperative Society which waB held\nthe same night. The subject which\nwes to havo boon, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2dobated, *' Bcsol v-\ned, that it would bo in the best interests of tho F. L. P. to adopt a\nreform platform,'' will thereforo bo\ndobated next Saturday, December 6,\nThe debates aro hold in the party\nrooms, C10 Dominion Building.\nMeeting of Janitors Sunday\nA meeting of Janitors and Elevator Employeos will bo held in the\nO'Brien hall on Sunday afternoon\nfor the purpose of organizing those\nworkers. This meeting is not being\ncalled by any organization, but is\na spontaneous movement on the part\nof the workers affected. The meeting will eommenoe at 2:30.\nWhere is your union button!\nLIMB\nII\nLaw and Order Mob on\nRampage Again in\nLouisiana\nBOOALUSA, La.,\u00E2\u0080\u00948. J. O'Rourke,\nsocretary of tho local trades and labor council, died today ns a result\nof wounds received Saturday In a\nbattlo between labor loadors and the\nlaw and order committee. This\nbrings the total dead to four. Three\nothor labor leaders wero killed outright during the battle. Federal\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u009E, .,\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\u00E2\u0080\u009E \u00E2\u0080\u009E ....... . \u00E2\u0080\u009E r..._. \u00E2\u0080\u009E troops rushed here Wednesday for\nviow, are respectfully invited to at | possible riot duty will be kept hero\nseveral dayi.\nFrom a report by Mr. Bubinowitz\nwho acted as counsel on behalf of\nthe Hussion deportees in tho Habeas\nCorpus proceedings recently beforo\nMr.' Justice Morrison, fuller information has been gleaned of the facts\nas to what occurred in tbo Supreme\nCourt chambers. So that no erroneous impression as to thc position\nmay prevail, tho following facts\nfrom tho report aro published:\nMr. Justice Morrison did not givo\nhis approval of lho omendmonts to\nthe Immigration Act, which had\nbeen challenged by counsel upon\nbroad grounds of public policy.\nUpon an application of this kind\nfor Habeas Corpus, the courts are\nnot in a position to act as an appeal court from the decision of tho\nImmigration officials.\nAccording to the act, the rival\ncourts of justice down in the Immigration sheds aro supreme, and the\neld British courts of justice must\nbow to the superior jurisdiction of\nthe new tribunals. This, however, is\nnot tho fault of the courts. It is tho\ndecree ef parliament that a star\nchamber method of justico should be\nintroduced in Canada. The courts\nare, therefore, restricted by the Im*\nmigration Act, in thcir powor to intervene. The construction placed upon the Immigration Act is that tho\nordinary courts aro impotent to interfere\u00E2\u0080\u0094'parliament has so decreed.\nUnder these circumstances, Mr. Justico Morrison suggested that if tho\nmatter was to be rectified that\nParliament alone could' do it.\n'His hands woro tied and he\ncould not even givo his opinion as\nto whether tho net was proporly carried out by thc Immigration nulkorl*\ntios. Mr. Bubinowitz hns, at loast,\nby bis actions in bringing haboas cor*\npus proceedings, established tho fact\nthat tho courts are impotont to doal\nwith matters arising out of tho infamous amendments to tho Immigration net, and undor which no person born outsido of this eountry Is\nsafe from deportation, no matter\nwhether he be British born or not,\nfurthermore, consistently aimed atjfoucl certain individuals, tho pur*\nthe building up of protective indus- pone of whose membership is open to\ntrial organizations of workors\u00E2\u0080\u0094the> question,.* ,\nunions, wliich havo proved most ef- { * 'J'he master class has always been\nfootlvo weapons iu labor's defense, able to find stools and fools to do\nIt is here thnt the Australian poo*!their dirty work, and naturally tho\npie register their lirst indictment \"->\u00C2\u00BB'-' who is uble most effectively to\nagainst tho present primo minister .disguise his real purpose, js thc one\nof Australia\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mr. William Morris' most valuable to those on whoso be-\nHughes, who, it will bo romomhorc'fchotf thoy are working. Ono infalli-\ntricd to onslavo thcui in the meashes ble test can be applied to this typo\nof conscription\u00E2\u0080\u0094happily, without of individual, thnt is, do their ac*\nsuccess, tions aud tho policy they advocnte,\nAfter Hughes loft the labor party tend-to tho grenter strength nnd so*\nin 101(1\u00E2\u0080\u0094thnt is, after labor hnd Hilarity of tho workers in their flght\nkicked him out for starting tlio com*| ngainst' the employers!\nLoggers Are Doing Their Bit\nTho salo of Liberty Bonds nmong\ntho loggers goes on apace.. The dofenso committee received a check\nInst wook for $2084 for bonds sold\nto members of this organization. The\nmembors Bt' Arrow Park sont along\n0\u00E2\u0080\u0094 and thero is still moro to como\nfrom various points. These sums do\nnot include individual subscriptions\nfrom mombors of this organization,\nwhich aro arriving almost daily at\nthe committee headquarters.\nHave you got your bond yet I tIf\nnot romembor that tho campaign\ncloses December 15. Now is the\ntimo to do your bit.\none considers that tho laat parliament onded with only 45 Socialists\nParty Members as deputies.\nDefense Committee Meet Friday *\nAll members of tho defenso -committeo are requested to attend' the\ncommittee meeting tonight (Friday),\nas important business will como before the mooting.\nLEASE Of LIFE\npnign in fnvor of cowieriptioii\u00E2\u0080\u0094ho\nranged himself behind tho reactionaries in Australia -in the introduction of the most vicious sweating\nsystem ever devised by human ingenuity\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Tuylor card system.\nWhen tliis oulrago on the Australian\nidoul produced a gigantic upbeat ul\nHughes showed himself tho enemy\nof tho workers by fostering the formation of hlachleg labor unions\nwith thc deliberuto intentions of destroying bona tide unionism.\nBut thnt is not all. Ho violated\nthe froo institutions of tbo country\nby abusing tlio powers of tho military censorship in ordor to suppress\ntho political viows of hia opponents.\nHe refused to allow Australians to\n(Continued on page 8)\nAll strikes ure being maintained\nnt Capilano, Chase, Boberts Lake,\nAlert Hay, Kimberley. Also 150 employees of tho Northwest Lumber\nCo, nt Hylo, Alberta, are on strike,\nThey may try and get scabs from\nOnlgpry and other points.\nAn apology is dim to thn boys ut\nBhiin's camp, Forman. Last week,\nin. reporting conditions in thoir\ncamp, it was stated that they wcro\njust card curriers, and lacking in the\nBpirit of tho times. That isn't tho\nease now. Last week they got busy\nand havo delivered tho goods,\nj the men at Wain's camp at For-\nmnn called a strike on the 2$rd, and\nnfter several negotiations and meetings, at each of which additional dc-\n(Continucd on pago 7)\nOUR SIDE OF THE CASE\nAt last night* meeting of the International Tradea Council, It waa\natated that report* of O B. U. actlvllica In Edmonton,* appearing In the\nFederatlonist, were untruthful. A atatement waa also made aa to the\nminera in the Crows Nest Pase. In thla Issue will be found a telegraphic dispatch from Calgary reporting a* to the action of the minera\nIn the dlatrlct referred to. Other reporte which have appeared In thla\npaper from time to time aa to the growth of the O. B. U. have been for*\nwarded by reliable correspondents Ih the respective district*, and in\naddition have alwayi been verlfltd by the report of supplies lent out\nto the districts from th* headquartera of the 0, B. U. With reference\nto the atatement* made a* to th* Prinoe Rupert dlatrlct, we are In\npossession of the certain knowledge that there are over three hundred\nmember* of the 0. B. U. In that olty, and thla doea not include membera of the Loggera' organization. It all the members of International\ntradei unions, who are carrying cards In theae organizations because of\nthe coalition between the employer and the Internationale who ar*\nmembera of the 0. B. U., were to be taken away out of the membenhlp\nof the International looal unloni, many of them would aoon cease to\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2xiit. Theie an fact! and we hav* full Information aa to their reliability, and any reporte appearing In thli piper an a* far ai pouible\nverified with Indisputable evidence-\nLarge Crowd Attended\nWhist Drive and Dance\non Wednesday\nOno of tho largest crowds thnt\nevor attended a *danco at tho Dominion Hall was present on Wodnesday\nevening last nt tho whist drivo and\ndanco that was got up by tho Van*,\ncouver Trades ond Labor Council in\nnid of the Winnipeg defense fund.\nBoth the hnll used for whist and\nthe dance hall wero crowded tn capacity and everyone present seemed\nto enjoy themselves immonsely.\nQuite u number present desired thut\nthe council would hold another such\naffair in the very near futuro,\nThe committee from tho Women's\nAuxiliary of tho 0. B. U., who were\niu chargo of tho cloak room, sure\nhad a busy timo in checking the\ncoats, etc., belonging to tho largo\ncrowd, and aro to be complimented\nfor tko spirit in which thoy executed\nthcir duties, as they gave their services gratis and wero so busy that\nthoy did not even get timo to havo\na dance. ,\nTho winners of tho whist prizes\nare ns follows: First ladies' (tabic\ncloth), Mr. Sinclair; second ladies\n(pair of bath towels), Miss Menzies; first gent's (umbrella), Mr.\nNewman; second gent's (gent's\nscarf), Mr. Bnrrat; ladies' booby,\nMiss Fane; gent's booby, Mr. Marshall.\nA statement of the amount collected by solo of tickets for the\ndance will bo published in next\nwcok's Fed,, and all those who have\nhad tlckots issued to tliem fer sale\naro requested to turn same ia at the\ncurliest opportunity to Sbom i!10 or\n210 Labor Temple.\nInternationals Are Trying\nto Give Encouragement\nto Members\nA communication trom the Kdmonton Trades and Labor Cauucll\nta the Vancouver International\nTrados and Labor Council gavo encouragement to the delegates ot\nthat body oa Thursday evening,\nthe communication stated that the\nnews in tho 8, C. Federationist\nabout the Udmonton O.'B. U.\nuntruthful and that the true facts\nwero that the 0. B. U. waa practically lion exlstont. On top ot this\ndelegate McVety read on almost\nsimilar nows item from the Indus*\ntrial Banner of Toronto and further\nInformed tlio delegates that Andy\nShilland wus attending to tho reorganization of the miners In the\nCrows Nest Pass. President Welsh\nadded further to tlie news by in.\nforming tho council that tlio International animations in rrlneo Du*\nport wero stronger aud tlio Trades\nCouncil more largoly attended than\never beforo in its history.\nDolegato Kusscll of the Steam\nand Operating Hnglncers Ilrst made\ntho dolegates elated by the report\nof the doing of his organization and\nthen made them feel uncomfortable\nby referring to tho radicals of tho\n0. B. V. as pigs and persons with\ndeceased minds and that hia local\nhad no intontlon to back up or\nsupport tlio defense fund which\nwas simply for the \"purpose of\nbreeding undesirables.\nDelegato McVety interrupted the\nspeaker in an objection to his lino\nof abuse and suggested that dele*\ngates try and reach a higher tone\nthan to rofer to other people as\n(Continued on pago 8)\nO.B. V.\nThe dance committee reported\nthat the danee held la the Doml.aiea\nHaU had been a spleadid smeeaar\nTo Ma Fortes\nDel. Kavanagh stated that he\nwas of tho opinion that to save expense and to mako for o cieney,\nthc different units should bo brought\ntogether. He movod that a mass\nmeeting bo called of all units to\nbring tho amalgamation about. The\nmotion was adopted,\nIDel. Wells moved that a committee bo appointed to collect date to\npresent to the Social Service commission when thut body, whieh was\ndealing with stato medical aid and\nother measures, held its sitting in\nVancouver. The motion was adopted, and Delegates Kavanagh, Wood\nnnd Bowers wcro elected to the\ncommittee.\n17000 Bailed\nThe defenso committee reported\nthat $7000 had beon collected to\ndate, and Del. Wolls urged the delegates to follow tho caso now being\ntried in tho police court in which\ntwo secret agents of tho Mounted\nPolice were, charged with projury in\nconnection with tho local Russian\ndeportation cases. He suggested\nthat membors of organized labor\nshould attond the court when tie\ncaso was being heard so that they\ncould get first-hand information, aa\nthe press was not giving any great\npublicity to it.\nUrges Education\nDel. Kavanagh stated that he had\nnoticed in tho Daily Horald thero\nwhs a good deal of nolso being\nraised in the old land, owing to tho\nactivities of the govornment there\nin investigating the activities of\n(Continued on page 8)\nLESTOR WILL\nEven tho Children Help\nOn Monday morning a littlo girl,\nnot moro than eleven yoars of age,\nwalked into the Foderationist oflico,\nand when asked what could be done\nfor hor, sho said \"I want a button\nto help tho men who ure on trial in\nWinnipeg.\" She bought a dollar\nbond and received her button and\nwent away happy lo think sho bad\ndone her bit for tho boys now facing\niritb\nSoldiers and Sailors Labor\nCouncil Meetings Are\nWell Attended\nClinrlcs Lestor will bo tho speaker\nat tho Soldiers' and Sailors' Lnbor\nCouncil meeting on Sunday after,\nnoon in tko old Knox Church, Cordova Street Enst. Last Sunday's\nmeeting, which was addressed by\nJack Kavanagh, was well attended,\nmid it is expected that Sunday's\nmeting will bo even better attended.\nThe choir will bc taken at 2:30\n.prompt**\nResent Attitude of Capital\nto Labor in the\nUnited States\nThat labor tho world over is taking more and moro intorest iu the\nposition of tlio internntionnl working class is onco again evidenced\nby tho attitudo of tbo Nntionnl Foderation of Shop Stewards Building\nnnd Aircraft section in Grnnt Britain, towards the situation in America, At a meeting of tbis orgnni7n,\ntion held in thc curly part oi November, thc following resolution wns\npassed:\nThat, this mooting of Building nnd\nAircraft Shop Stowards, being l'uKy\nacqnniutod with tho brutnl treat-\nment meted out to tho I. W. \V.\nprisoners nnd tho savage sentences\nimposed on industrial workors whoso\nonly \"crime\" was carrying on tho\nlegitimnto work of thoir organisations, resolves that until theso por-\nsccutions cense und nil suid prisoners nro released, tho Shop Stowards\nwill opposo tho uso of nil American\nmanufactured building matorial ou\nall jobs under their control. Copies\nof this resolution havo boon forwarded to tho president of the U. 8.\nA\u00E2\u0080\u009E the Foderation of British Industries, tho parliamentary committee of tho Trades Union Congress,\nPremior Lloyd Qeorge, and to labor nrr--\u00C2\u00BB:xntions in othtr parts of\nthe world* PAGE TWO\neleventh YBAB. \u00C2\u00BBo.a THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vanoouvib, b. a\nThousands of Christmas\nTies for Men Ready\nXJERE unquestionably you will find the broad-\n*** est showings of handsome gift neckwear\nfor men, and at prices that make buying easy\nand profitable to you. 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If\nLenin es.capea misanthropy, however,\nsome of the rest of us rind it hard\nto retain faith in human naturo jas\nwo watch tbe class war between the\nEntente and Socialist Bussia. Tho\ncivilized world haa sottled down to\ntho tusk of organizing hunger ovor\nvaat continental spaces.\nIt seems as though idealists had\nput into the hands ef the world's\nrulors tho new instrument of an international league, and ther can nse\nit, so inveterate ia the habit of\ncruelty, only to dostroy. Science waB\nprostituted long ago, and now lt is\nthat very advance in morals which\nmakes a Leaguo of Nations conceivable, v Inch is degraded into nn en*.\ngino of ruin and death. Nevor aince\nhistory waa written havo ita daily\npages roscntbled so nearly the ohron-\niclos of Swift's Yahoos.\nTho blockade of Soviot Bussia and\ntlio war upon an idea aro horrible\nonough in themselves, but there is h\nfurther horror undor the surface.\nWhat is the motivo of it all) Wo\nhave all boen puzzled to oxpluin tho\nrather suddon action of tho Supreme\nCouncil in forbidding the use of German legions under Von der Ooltz and\nBcrmond in tho sorvico of the Russian Countor-Rovolution. Ono recollects that it was tho Allies who first\nordered this force to tako up its station in tho Baltic provinces. On May\n25, when tho Berlin government\nwished to rccull these troops, the\nEntonte actually ordered thom to re*\nmain. In August tho lino they wero\nto occupy was agaiu defined, In an\nordor signed by the British Genernl\nMarch. It is only when one collects\nthe fragmentary nows from this part\nof the world that one begins to\nreach an explanation for this sudden\nrojection of German help in the war\nupon the Bolsheviks. Half tho atory\nI told last week, when I quoted the\ndocument in which ono of the .German commanders boasted that Gorman, Bussian, neutral und American\nfinanciers stood bohind his outor-\nprisc.\nBritish Naval Bases\nThe othor hnlf of tho explanation\nconcerns our own scheme's. It ia, of\ncourso, common knowlcdgo thnij pur\nnaval atrategiBta aro looking forsrar 1\nto the permnnent establishment o f\nour fleet in tho Baltic. Its bnse' <|i\nliases will bo somewhere on the-toasl\nlino of the Baltic States; the i\u00C2\u00ABnu 1\nof Oosol is often mentioned asuJsul \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nnblo staliou. Conventions whigji e \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ntobllsh our \"right\" to thoae,;f\u00C2\u00BBcjl*\nties arc said to havo beon ooqjlp.ro 1\nwith tho provisional governments* f\ntheso very provisional statos. tjLt :\u00C2\u00BB\nobvious that scheraos of tliia-fciiiH\nwill bo most unwelcome to KpWV'\nand tho rovivod Empire of AH*tho\nBusaios, whioh claims these SJati s\nfor Czardom. Our British polioy.is\nrather to make them \"independent\nbecauso thoir weakness, and tkff<\nantipathy both to Bussia and^i-\nmany, will oblige them to Icon upon\nus. That is why we cannot now tol-\nTurner, Beeton\n& Company, Limited\nWHOLESALE MERCHANTS AND IMPORTERS\nDry Ooodi, OtrAa' Furnishings\nVICTORIA, B. 0.\nMANUFACTURERS OP \"BIG HORN\" BRAND\nSHIRTS, OVERALLS, Eto.\nFactory erguliel under \"United Garment Worken of America\"\nA. H. Timms\n- Show and Commercial Printer\nWE DO THE LABOE8T VARIETY OF\nPBINTINO IN THE WEST\n228-230\u00E2\u0080\u009414th Ave E.\nVancouver, B. C.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094GOODWIN'S GOOD SHOES-\nAlways\nThe Shoe You Like\nAt the Price You Like to Pay\nTHIS SHOE STORE lias a reputation for carrying\naccurate sizes. But we guarantee our men and\nwomen patrons something more. We give you absolute\nvalue for every dollar you expend.\nGoodwin Shoe Co.\n119 HASTINGS STREET EAST\nBallot Is Only Effective\nWhen Backed by Industrial Action\nDr. W. J. Carry bad something to\nsay about \"Who are tho Traitors!\"\nat tho National moeting on Sunday\nnight, and also some observations as\nto why tho ruling class wero on-\ndeavoring to incarcerate comrades\nof the higheust idculs, in prison\ncells.\nNature had provided abundantly\nfor human comfort, nnd nobody\nwanted human suffering; yot the\nworld today was aptly described as\na combination of hell and a lunatic\nasylum! Ignorance alono was the\n.'it'iiHi' of ihu trouble; and that ig-\nnorauco was deliberately organizod\nto clog tho brains of tho peoplo.\nSocial forces, liko natural forces\nin genoral, when not understood,\ncnused lots of trouble; wben undor-\nntood, thoy could bo mnde to sorve\ntho purposes of humanity. Hence,\ntho real traitors wore those who\nkopt tho truth as to these social\nforces from the peoplo, aa was dono\nby the government at Ottawa whon\nthey forbade works on such subjects to he circulated. That class\nwas, in fact, the greatest traitor\nthoy had in this country. (Applause.)\nTho traitors of ono day were tho\npatriots of anothor. Patriotism,\ntreason, and sedition wero a matter\nof different viow-points. Woods-\nworth was one of tho finest men\n(applause); he hi^tf left the pulpit,\nknowing he could not servo God and\nMammon. Yet there wore peoplo\nnow praying that ho and his comrades might spend years in a lousy\ncoll.\nThe speakor did not blamo anybody\u00E2\u0080\u0094' ' or say thoy are a bit worse\nthan we are.\" Poople woro all the\nproduct of conditions. Ho was\nsimply trying to analyze the situation, in order that thoy might understand und act accordingly.\nIsaiah, whom Woodsworth was\nprosecuted for quoting, was one of\nthe old rebels ngainst the sumo class\nas wore now riding on tho ImckB of\nthe people. His preaching was sedition today, according to the views\nof the ruling class. Ho preaidiod\nthat onc should not build and another inhabit, one sow und another\nreap the fruit thereof. There were\ntwo classes\u00E2\u0080\u0094one living by virtuo of\nthoir ownership of tho means of\nlife, and the othor by tho lnbor\npower which thoy sold to them.\nHence, thero was a class wur; and\nthere could be no poaco on earth\nwhile theso two classes existed id\nopposition to one another. Those\nwho wero trying to abolish those\nclasses were the true patriots, in\nspite of what the ruling class at\nOttawa or anywhere olso might say.\nThere was a time when this clnss\ndistinction did not exist; pooplo\nlived comfortably together, there\nwu ao oold storage to force prices\nup, and everything was froe. Thon iubc w nu/\t\nthoy learned tcf domesticate ammals, te Qorman troo'ps in this regiorf,\nboth tpr food and for burden; tho cu if tij0y OT0 acting undor Deni-\nenslavement of captives in war fol- ^\nlowed. Thus camo tho two clauses\nin socioty\u00E2\u0080\u0094thc great curso of the\nhuman race. Tho irony would never\nbo righted until tho ruling class wns\nswopt off thcir backs, and tho human family was free from poverty,\nexploitation, and war.\nThe claim that government represented thc peoplo was mere camouflage. It represented tho class that\nelected it\u00E2\u0080\u0094that put up the campa'gu\nfunds and subsidized tho press,\n'' That class which owns tho means\nof life is the only thing tho govern'\nment represents.\" Governmont nover\ndid, and never could, represent all\ntho people. Its germ was thero whon\ntho ilrst muster wioldod tho lash\nover the back of tho first slavo.\nMoses was a \"traitor\" to the\nruling class of Egypt; ho ultimately\ngot the slaves freo from their control. Spartacus and Eunua were\n''traitors\" to Rome. Anothor great\n\"traitor\" was the Carpenter of\nNazareth. Tho early Christian\nmovement, though looking to a\n\"miracle\" rathor than brute force,\nwas a slave movement to throw ofl\nthe yoko of Eome and be froe.\nTheology and suporstition nad been\ntrying to pull tho wool over, tho\npooplo's oyes in pretending that it\nwas not like othor class struggles\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthat thero was, in fact, no class\nstruggle.\nOliver Cromwell, ngain, wns a\n\"traitor\" in his day; ho raised a\nrebel army, and they eventually cut\n|off a king's hoad. Tho speaker\npresumed that thoy did it by \"constitutional\" methods, sinco nobody\nhod anything to say against Oliver\nCromwell today.\nGeo. Washington was another of\nthe \"traitors,\" who overthrew the\nking of Great Britain and tho forces\nof that country. Abe Lincoln was\nanother such, and so was John\nBrown, whoso \"soul gooB marching\non,\" although ho was hanged as a\n\"traitor.\"\nFinally, thoro was an organization\nhero today, callod the 0. B. TJ.\n(Applause.) It was only necessary\nto see who wcro its enemies, to\nrealize that it was a good thing for\ntho working class.\nThere was, however, another class\nof traitors, represented by Judas Iscariot; though ho at least had a certain nmount of decency and, aftor\nhis treachery, went out and hang-\nod himself. \"We have in the labor\nmovement Judas Iacariots\u00E2\u0080\u0094lots of\nthem. They would probably hang\nJesus Christ and hit twelve disciples\nfor thirty cents.\" (Applause.) Yet\nthey were the products of society;\nnobody was to be blamed. On tho\nprinciples of \"Love your enemies,\"\nsaid thc spoakor, \"we* aro trying to\ndo good to tho ruling class, and even\nto theso modorn Judases.\"\nTouching briefly on the older\nslave systems, leading to the modern development of capitalism, tho\nspeaker declared that \"chattel\nslavos and serfs always had enough;\nbut now, many aro dying of want.\"\nAs to the remedy, he said, \"tho ballot is the way to express our knowledge, our determination, and our\ndemands; but I don't believo the\nballot by itself ft of any use,\nYou've got to have somothing at tho\nbnck of that ballot; you'vo got to\nhave nn 0. B, U. at the back, or\nthat ballot is absolutely useless.\"\n(ApplttUBO.)\nIn the conflict botwoen \"constitu-\nwhen the blockado is lifted, But all\n\"important purchases\" are reserved\nfor ua. The immense busineu of replenishing half * continent, which\nfor five years has been cut off from\nall supplies of tools, spare parts, wagons, locomotives, textile and agricultural machinery\u00E2\u0080\u0094all the thingB in\nwhich German industry used to outbid ours in the Bussian market\u00E2\u0080\u0094this\nvest and profitable business is reserved for us. It will necessarily be a\nciredit operation, and that means\nthat, by way of security for repayment, wo shall acquire all the concessions for mines, railways and oilfields that are to be had, and shall\ncontrol tho export of Bussian grain,\nflax, copper and oil.\nThat then is the state in Bussia,\nThoso are the fruits of victory for\nwhieh we are contending, and it is\nto ensure our secure possession of\nthem that we have again imposed a\npartial blockade of Germany, and\ntightened up our organization of the\nblockado of Bussia. Theae are the\nprofits whieh we receive as the re*\nsuit of that \"cordon of death\"\nwhioh excludes even drugs and medicines from besieged Petrograd, and\nforbids the charitable Swedes to give\nhospitality to the hungry childron of\nBussian workers. It is to mako Bussia safo for British profiteers that\nwe are trying to impose upon her the\nrule of a elique of Czarist soldiers,\nand to bring back after two years\nof an intellectual renaissance the\ndark ages of pogroms and miraoles\nand priest-ridden schools.\nIs there another motive f Perhaps\nthere is, but it is not a better one.\nOur middle-class dreads the spread\nof Communist Socialism. That is\nwhy it intervened. It did not interfere with Czardom; that was too bad\na thing to spread. It itnerfores with\nSocialism because it knows its force\nof attraction. In other words, it j\nfights the Workers' Republic in Bus-1\nsia becnuse it must defend class privilege here. It starves the children\nof Russia in ordor tho more securely\nto fasten its yoke An tho wage-earner\nat home. Tho spectacle will make\nmisanthropes unloss it makes rebels.\nDecember 5, 1919\nIM AUW1\nI\nLATE ENEMIES\nBritish Firms Flood Germany With Luxuries\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA Skeleton at Feast\nNow, it is a safe axiom that the\nBritish navy rarely extends the\nscope of its operations without somo\nmoro or less definite economic do-\nsign. Tho desigvis simply the COO'\nnomic penetration of Bussia, which\nwill work inwards from the Baltic\nports, and also doubtless from Archangel. ' Thc Times in a fit of nngor,\ngave away tho design very naively\nlost woek. It compjoinod that the\nGermans wero actually scheming to\nsnatch from us tho fruits of our victory in Bussia. In war ono docs not\nnecessarily reap one's harvest directly in the fields of one's vanquished\nenemy. In war onc reapB whero one\nhas not sown. Wnr is harvest timo\nfoT a capitalist society, and it reupB\nwhere it can. Apart from the Gorman colonies (a small booty) and\nMesopotamia, our big harvest, it is\nexpected, will be in Russia. . The\nnews already begins to leak out that\nBritish investors aro buying land for\nthe erection of dockyards iu tho Br 1-\ntic ports, and that British companies\nhavo secured concessions for the\nbuilding of railways.\nThe Fruits of Victory\nThore is much clearer ovidence in\ntho text, of tho agreement said to\nhave been concluded between our\ngovernment and that puppet combination under the Moscow bunker, Li\nanosov, known as the Bussian Northwest Russian administration. Tho\noutlines have been published in the\nFrench press, end rather more fully\nin th'o Berliner Tugcblatt (see Cambridge Magazine, October IS). Thia\nagreement begins by recognizing our\n\"special interests in tho Baltic.\"\nWhat on earth arc thcyt Havo wo\nany ciVzcna or subjects hero? This\nsea, alone of nil tho world's seas,\nwushes tho shores of no British possession. Our '' special interests''\nmoan, of coin-no, our design to mako\na naval gateway here, whieh-vill\nserve to guard the economic entry\ninto Rusniu. The agreement goes on\nto renounce in Persin in our favor\ntho former interests of Russia\u00E2\u0080\u0094T. \"cfT,\nto recogrTzo that Persia has beitttye\nn Britifth protectorate on tho Egyptian model. Nor is this all. _%o\nNorth-Wost Russian government ie-\ntually promises \"to refrain from \"any\npnrticnlarly important purchases in\nGermany.\" There, I think, you hnvo\ntho koy to tho wholo myBtcry. Germany is not to bo absolutely boycq|r\ntod; she may bo allowed to sell a few\ntional means\" and \"direct action,\"\ntbo master class wanted somefttng\nthey could handle and change to suit\nthemselves. At Winnipeg, proporty\nowners could voto soven times in\ntho recent election; at Victoria,\nworkora woro \"firod\" or prevented\nfrom voting, The ruling class only\ngave women the vote because they\nknow they would uae it the way they\nwore wanted, as whon they voted for\nthe Unionist Govornmont. \"They\ncnn manufacture trumps at a minute's notice, and make you discard\nexactly as thoy want you.\" Thoy\ncould divide up constituencies as\nthoy pleased, and play the tricks\nthey had played, again and again.\n\"Our party stands for the ballot,\nfirat, laBt, and all the time; but\nwe'vo got to havo somothing at the\nback. We can win by the ballot,\nwhen tho ballot >s backed up by industrial orgnnizntion and by intelli-\neenco,\"\nMr. Philips Price, special correspondent to the Duily Herald, writing\nfrom Prankfort-on-Main, gives an interesting study of capitalist methods\nHo says:\nThere Js an old German fairy story\nof a oountry called Schlaraffenlaud,\nwhere tho visitor has to oat his way\nthrough streots barricaded with rice\npuddings, and from the trees of\nwhich delicacies of all sorts fall into\n| the mouth and can be eaten for nothing.\nComing to Frankfort from middlo\nGermany, one sees for the flrst time\nthe shop windows stuffed with dainty confectionery, fresh baked from\nsnow-white flour, with butter, cream\nand chocolates, whilo sides of Dutch\nand American bacon grip your attention. Schlaraffenlaud indeed!\nBut only at first sight, for those\ntempting dclicacios do not fall automatically into the mouth, but require\nthe aid of a purse, and, moreover, a\nlong purso. In a word, Frankfurt is\nSchlaraffenland for the bourgeoisie,\nbut not for the sons of toil.\nWhen I arrived 1 found all the\nhotels filled with visitors for the International Import Fair, and I secured u room in the working class quarter. My hostess is a widow pensioner, getting 50 marks a month, with a\nson working on the railway who\nearns 500 marks a month.\nThe Bailwaymen's Menu*\nThe kitchen is a modol of orderliness. Pots and pans are arranged in\nrows with perfoct symmetry. Bht\nwhere is. the butter and the Amorican bacon of tho Frankfurt shops!\nThey nover find thoir way into these\npots and pans. Breakfast consists\nof coffco and black bread, dinner of\npotatoes and vegetables, and supper\nof black bread again, with coffee\nfaintly sweetened with sugar.\nBacon at Id marks (at presont\nrates 54c) per lb. and butter at\n22 marks (74c) are not articles\nwhicb can find their way into tho\nkitchens of tho workers. Proximity\nto tho occupied districts of the Rhino\nwhence all thoso -dclicacios como, favors only those who havo done woll\nout of tho war.\nIf tho hand workers of Frankfurt\nsoo no Schlaraffenland, neither do\ntho bruin workers. The other day I\nvisited a journalist friend of mine,\nwho has a wifo and six children.\nTheso childron get on the cards lc3S\nthan one litre of milk a day, all of\nwhich goos to tho two youngest. A\ntin of condensed milk from abroad,\nbought at freo prices, costs soven\nmarks (at prosent rntes 25c) a tin,\nand it lusts for just onc meal.\nAnd yot it is a fact that all over\nGormany now tho Junkers and agrarians aro feeding calves and pigs on\nmilk, and refuse to soil to the workers in the towns becauso of tbo fixed\nprices, These same gentlemen aro\nloudly complaining because they are\ncompelled to deliver cattle to France\nand Belgium under the poace treaty.\nA Tear Ago\u00E2\u0080\u0094and How\nFrankfurt is just now invaded by\ncommorcial travellers and traders\nfrom all over Germany and from\nneutral countries. I visited the fair\nand found tho big Feat-Halle full of\nexhibits,\nIs there not a germ of the White\nInternational in the Frankfurt Falrf\nFor English and French firms now\naro flooding tho Gorman cities with\narticles of luxury, although twelvo\nmonths ago they wore declaring thnt\nnever again would they trade with\nthe Huns.\nAnd German industrial and trade\ncapitnl Is finding refuge from taxation bji flying to tho districts occupied by the foes that it lms just bceu\n\"strafing\" with Zeppelins and submarines. The German proletariat\nalono is the skeleton at the feast.\nOET BEHIND A BUTTON\nWorkers' Liberty Bond Buttons\nare issued to every purchaser of a\nbond. Have you got yours yet, Oet\nbehind a button aud show that you\nare willing to help all you can the\ndefenso of tlie men arrosted tn Win-\nninee.\nAre Being Sent to Odessa,\nWhich Was in Hands\nof Reactionaries\nYears ago, when Australian governments wero desirous of getting\nfarmer settlors for the purpose of\nsottling the Australian continent, immigration agents were sont to the\nvarious countries of Europe in order\nto induce rural workers to emigrate\nto Australia. A great many Russians\nwero induced to come from thcir own\nland to Australia\u00E2\u0080\u0094the majority willingly availing themselves of the opportunity of escaping the existing\ntyrannies of their own land on\"\nstarting life anow in a country\nwhero demooraoy was an acknowledged fact.\nWhen the, Soviet government gained control of Bussia, the majority of\nthose people, smarting under the\nwar-time autocracy that had sprung\nup in Australia, -desired to return\nto their own country. They wore\nnot allowed to do so, however.\nBut when unrest becamo deep\nrooted in Australia, and those opposed to the workors commenced to\nhowl about \"Bolshevism\" a roign\nof terror sot in against tho Russians\nin Australia who were openly sympathetic to the Soviet government\nThey were hunted down and a great\nnumber of them were interned. Here\nthey wore kept till such times as\nthoy could be deported. They asked\nthat, if they wero to bo deported\nthat they bo sent to thnt part of\nRussia to which thoy could look to\nfor protection and protected against\nboing landed in any port of Russia\nin tho hnnds of reactionary troops,\nfearing that their life would be in\njeopardy. This was refused by the\nAustralian anti-labor government.\nThey woro being deported at the\ntime of writing (mid-September) and\nto mako matters worso they are being sent to Odessa, which, as most\npeoplo know iB in the hands of reactionaries opposed to the Soviot\ngovernment. What thoir fate will\nbe when thoy get thoro remains to\nbo seen.\nConsiderable callousness seems to\nbe shown to theso men and their relatives in the deportation. In many\ncases men have boon parted .from\nthoir wivos and children on thc flimsiest of excuses\u00E2\u0080\u0094not even being allowed to speak to them prior to deportation. As an instance of how\nthoy nro treated the following typical case may be quoted. About the\nmiddlo of the year a Rusaia named\nSuzenko was deported. His wife was\ngiven an assurance that sho would\nbo allowed to accompany her husband. But ho was taken out of thd\ninternment camp and spirited away\nwithout his wife. When sho learned\nthat ho had gone, the government\nassured here it was very sorry and\nwould make arrangements for her to\nfollow on a later boat and meet her\nhusband en route. She was allowed\nto follow on a later boat, as promised. She got as far as Egypt and\nwas then thrown ashore without\nmonoy, friends or resources of any\nkind. She was taken up and thrown\ninto the native gaol at Alexandra\nthere. To mako matters worse she\nis an expectant mothor. Thon she\nlearned that instead of meeting her\nhusband, ho had been taken off his\nship at Bombay (India) and re-interned, awaiting a chance to be Bent\nto Russia, via Turkestan. Meanwhile\nMrs, Suzoko is to bc sent to Russia\nvia Odessa. This is callous and hardhearted treatment with a vengeance.\nAnother cnso may be quoted\u00E2\u0080\u0094that\nof the Klushen family.\nKlushen was deported roeently,\nand prior to deportation, his wife\nmado application to accompany him.\nSho was told to produce her marriage certificate, giving proof of\nmarriage. Now, as Klushen and his\nwife were married according to\nDoubkhour rites there was no written certificate to produce, consequently the Australian government\nrefused to recognize thom as man\nand wife. The result is that Klushen\nhas been deported and his wife forced to remain in Australia\u00E2\u0080\u0094without\nfriends, and depending on the charity of anybody who takes pity on\nher. The same kind of thing ean be\nquoted in many cases.\nWhat makes tho matter worse is\nthat the Australian government\naome time ago denied that it would\nprovent wives from accompanying\nthcir husbands when the latter were\ndoportcd. But while it gives its assurances to the public thus, it, at\ntho same timo, commits in private\nthe very outrages it wishes to .appear innocont of. The deportation\nof theso Russians under such callous\nconditions Is strongly resented by\ntho labor movements of Australia,\nnnd will have a great influence on\nthe votes of tho peoplo of Australia\nProvince of British Columbia\nMinimum Wage Board\nNOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to the provisions of the\n\"Minimum Wage Act\" a public\nmoeting will be held at the Provincial \u00C2\u00A3ourt House, Georgia Street,\nVancouver, B. C, on Thuraday, tho\nllth day of December, 1910, at 10\no'clock a.m., for the purpose of hearing any person interested in the\nestablishment of ft minimum wago\nand maximum hours and the conditions of labour for womon engaged\nin the \"Fishing Industry,\" which\nincludes the work of females engaged in the washing, canning, preparing, preserving, drying, curing,\nsmoking, packing, or otherwise\nadapting for snle or use, or for shipment, any kind of flsh.\nA cordial invitation to be prosent\nIs extended to all those who dosire\nto be heard on the above mattors before a minimum wage and maximum\nhours and the conditions of labour\naro determined.\nMinimum Wage Board for the Province of British Columbia.\nJ. D. McNIVEN, Chairman,\nHELEN GREGORY MacGTLL,\nTHOMAS MATHEWS.\nVlotoria. B. C. Nov. 21, 1010.\nThe Famous\nAnniversary Sale\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u00A2the last word in Values on Ladies' Ready-\nto-wear Garments\nFor years the Famous has been able to offer far greater\nvalues than its competitors because of its dealing on a\n\"Maker to Wearer'' basis.\nAt our Anniversary Sale we've gone one better\u00E2\u0080\u0094reduced even our own prices\u00E2\u0080\u0094established a new record for\nValues in Canada.\nOome and See\u00E2\u0080\u0094Suits, Ooats, Dresses, Skirts\u00E2\u0080\u0094ln\nthe height of style\u00E2\u0080\u0094for less than you'a pay for the\nmaterial today.\n623\nHASTINGS ST. W,\nHeat Oranvlll*\nat the coming elections whioh are\ndue to* take place about the beginning of December next.\nNew York.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Organized tunttol and\nsubway constructors havo raised\nwages .2 a day effective the Irst of\nthe year.\nBO TOP WAKT TO BMOT LOT\nFollow thi Crowd tt tke\nPatricia Cabaret\nOn, blook earn of EmproM Theatre\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094AND HEAR\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMISS LILL1E BOSS, ASA\nSMITH. B. 10VE ul Uu EEL\nIntarpnt tb* ut.it iodi hits, ti*\naiit.d br Tbt Bronu Jul Bud\n111 HASTINOS STBEET B.\nMnsic, 6 p.m. to 1\nFOR MEN\nSuits, Overcoats, Bain.'\ncoats, Mackinaws, Gloves,\nShirts, Socks, Underwear,\netc, etc.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 UNION STORE\nG. B. Kerfoot\n155 Haitingi Si East\nHicks & Lovidt Piano Co.\nLimited \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nHIT aruwm Si, Vuetanc, B. 0.\nWW Unt DPHIOHT FIAKO b\nPlata Mihotur Out, T!i Oa-\nut\u00C2\u00ABi. H.w Mt .lithilr BtrM.\n1100 EVANS PIANO, mad. In In*\nnrioll, Ontlrio. Too. ll the,\nout oil, old llBhlonid ud heja\ndlaeolond.\nltd Upwarda ORGANS, br Dominion Organ Co. Now. NOW il\nthe tint-to tny. Price, rialnf.\nOld Tunoi ar. Swoetcst\nOld Firm, in Sureit.\nAtuti ftr Mtwymbt PittoS\nDEMAND\nKIRK'S\nNanaimo-Wellington\nCOAL\nAlwayi Dependable\n\"Ask the woman who buns\nIt\"\nKirk&Co.\nLIMITED\n929 Main Street\nPhones Seymoar 1441 aal MS\nUNION MEN ARE\nMADE WELCOME\n-AT THE-\nBank\nBuffet\nSoft Drinks and\nFresh jCool Beer\nThe right treatment\nand best service.\nnuii: by. 77SJ0.O. Sty, eiML\n0. B. LBBE, Pf.pH.tor\nLABOB TEMPLE\n-.TAXI-\nSOFT DRINK PARLOR\nOIOABI. OIOASOTTBI AW SOP*\n401 DUNSHH1H STREET\nGreateit Stock of\nFurniture\nin Greater Vancouver\nReplete in every detail\nButiHgiFmtareCalii\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2i\nsb rail Ton an\nVAN BROS.\nwb_s too __ torn\n-CIDER-\nand Non-alcoholic wlate of \u00C2\u00ABU\nunion mar's attention\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094THB\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTROCADERO\nGAFE\n* For Union Ilea\n1S6 HASTINGS STBEET WEST\nPhone Seymour Ml\nTHE BEST PLACE TO EAT IN\nVANCOUVEB - UNION OABD\nWhite & Bindon\nPBINTEB8-STATI0NEBS\nPhon. Si/. 1114\u00E2\u0080\u0094GoutoUlf IB\nDipirtniantl\nSEBVIOB ADS QUALITY\nOIHc Purnltare, Filing DlTioM,\nBlank Book,, Looao Latt Syitini\n62S PENDEB STBEBT WBST\nVuconnr, B. 0.\nOLELAND-DIBBLE ENOBAV-\nXNO OOMPANT\nPHOTO EVOBAVEBI\nCOMMERCIAL ABTISTS\nPbona Simon 7US\nThird Flow, World Bnlldlns, Vu-\nconTir. B. 0.\t\nA REAL TREAT AWAITING Y00\nrA^TSriASl^ina\u00C2\u00ABif-\"'\nt.e.s.rt*.tnm\"n.ti*ur.otitUftca\nftm. S HwhS it*. 0* jB**m_ It mm. 3 PCTliOi ,\nt*lt rf ENGLAND ul AMUICA.\na 4wM w I****. I*, <~t jw... w -\n^*** MBTIHUVW\n1.00 Bod Opto -.. -7flc\n500 Brooks Barley ...^~.~....~.~~..&Be\n25c Mlnnrd'i Liniment ....17c\n60o Peps *. ~ 880\n$1,50 Scott's Emulsion fl.O*\n50a Reid'B Ecsenm Ointment 28c\n2fia Mentholatum ._ JM\n|1.00 Herptcida* 69c\nSOo Reid's Kidney Pills 20c\nOOo Murine 89c\n26c Reid's Corn Cum - 17c\n50c FruitAtives -. 380\n25o Boeckam's Fills - 10c\nJ 1.00 Reld'i Liver Tonic 52c\n1.75 Sanagen %-*\"\n50c Fbrmainint - 87c\n60o Limestone Phosphate 36c\n250 Mennen's Talcum 14c\n500 Syrup of White Pino and Tar.SOc\n25c Aromatic Cascara 17c\n26o Aspirin Tablets, 1 doi 40o\n8 (or 25C\n25o Castor Oil 170\n26o Msiol .... e WC\n500 A: B. 8. * C. Tablets 250\nlOo Vaseline \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Be\n10c Epsom Salts, Boracic Acid, Sulphur, Camphorated Chalk ........ SO\n20c Empiro Bath Soap -..-100\n25o Snap 180\n500 Bland's Pills ~ 26c\nAbove Prices Include War Tu\nVancouver Drug Co.\nI LIMITED\nTHB OBIOIK1L OST-BATB\nDJOOOISTS OF VAHOOUVEB\n\u00E2\u0080\u009481x Stores\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n406 Ha>llci|a St. W Ser. 1\u00C2\u00BB0S\n7 Heitlnm St. W.... Bey. 96S3\n412 Main St : Sej*. 8088\n782 Oranvllle St Ser* 7018\n1700 Commercial Dr High. 338\nOranvllle and Broadway ... Bay. 8314\nSEMI-READY\nSHOP TALK\n\"Rich texture treatments are combined with\nexceedingly tasty pattern\neffects.\n\"Precise tailoring emphasizes the distinctive\nstyle innovations of our\nSemi-ready Suits.\n'' Characteristics that\nare desirable and pleasing\nhelp make these the highest quality clothes.\n\"The finest impression\nyou obtain from their outward attractions is lived\nup to by the inside tailoring\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"Tho integrity of ths\nprice iu the pocket\u00E2\u0080\u0094tho\nsame price West as East\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094has never been questioned.\"\nTHOMAS ftMcBAIN\n6S5 Granville\nPANTAGES\n*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 KBZT WEEK\nBOBINSON '8 ELBPHANT3\nINTHUNATIONAL NINE\nOther Big Foatnwe\nORPHEUM\ntheatreIYI\nTHE HOME OF GOOD\nVAUDEVILLE\nMatiaeo 2.30\nEveningi 8.20\n\"WHAT SHALL I GIVE?*'\nA Birks' Watch is one of the best Christmas gifts\npossible. Wo give just one or two examples!\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA Bracelet Watch In fineat fold-fillod caee,....|B0 up\nA Bracelet Watch In ft eolld gold case 115 np\nSolid gold Wrlitlet Watch 125 np\nStorling Silver and Flnt French Enamel Watchel,\nin exquisite design! ...\u00C2\u00BB . (80 np\nSolid gold Watches ln excluaire shapes, with fint\nleather straps ..f 70 np\nOur Watch Department offers suggestions of Christmas\ngifts for everyone. But the same advice applies: SHOP\nEARLY.\nGeo. E. Trorey\nManaging Dir,\nfj$P\nOranvllle and\nOeorgia Sts.\nJ.&*\u00C2\u00BB*<%\nPURE\nBAKING\nPOWDER\nContains No Alum\nPuss The' Foderationist along and\nhelp get new subscribers.\nDuring the week Mr. H. H. Stevens,\nM. P., has expressed his views on the immigration question as it affects this country. In thc course of his remarjes he\nstated that the British immigrants were\ntho best, and that Americans who came\nto this country had only to be taught that\nthey were not leaving behind tho only\nhome of freedom and truth on thc face of\nthe earth. He also referred to the foreign\nImmigrants that had come to this country before the war. We, regret that Mr.\nStovcns did not deal with the amendments to tho Immigration Aot passed at\ntho last session of the House, and we\ntake it that nothing was said about them,\nas no roferenco is mado in the press to\nhim having dealt with them. He niight\nhave pointed out that British immigrants\nare subject to thc same treatment under\ntho amendments referred to as are those\nfrom southern Europe, and that they can\nbe deported without triul in a court of\njustice, but by order of government employees, who sit en camera, and the subject of investigation has no chance of appeal from the findings of thc tribunal. It\nis a pity Mr. Stevens did not give\nviews on the necessity for the amendments in question, and which were passed\nby tho House without debate. He must\nhave known that they were passed, and\nwe can only wonder ot his silence on these\nmatters, especially when he has referred\nto the desirability of tho British settlor*.\nHe might also have pointed out that the\nimmigrants from southern Europe, thfd\nother parts of the world, came to t)\u00C2\u00BBs\ncountry on solicitation by the Canadian\nGovernment, and that considerable monfly\nwas spent ill the inducing of these people\nto come to this country. Thc cry was f o\u00C2\u00BB\nmore and cheaper labor. Labor organizations raised a protest against tho iqi$$;\ngration polioy of tho country, but it .iyaij\nwithout avail; tlio employing class ooni\ntrols the government, and its wishes jft'e-\nvailed. Will Mr. Stevens, when ho rMt\nspeaks on the question of immigration\ngive us an assurance that the employer^\nwish will not again determine the kind\" of\nimmigrant that shall come to tliis country? Will ho assure us lhat they will not\nbo deported under the infamous amendments to tho Immigration Act if they\nraiso thcir voices in protest against thc\nsystem of cxploitaton and wage slavery?\nTheso are questions that prospective immigrants in the old land aro now considering, for they have heard of these amendments.\nEnthusiasm for Co-Op.\nThe Board of Directors and the membership of \"OUB\nSTOBE\" aro very much enthused over the way thc store\nis being patronized. The entire staff have been on the\njump since last Saturday and the orders are piling, up\nfaster than they can be attended to and despatched. This\nwill be remedied as soon as everything gets properly organized and the needs of the membership known.\nIn the meantime \"stick to the Co-op.\" and if there is\nanything that needs to be remedied help to have it remedied hy talking it over with the manager or the Board of\nDirectors.\nVancouver Co-Operative Society, Ltd.\nPhone Sey. 493 41 Pender St, Weit\nHighest Grade Mechanic's Tools\nFOR ALL TRADES\nMartin, Finlayson & Mather Ltd.\n45 Hastings St. W. :: Vancouver, B. C.\nIn spite of injunctions the coal itrike\nstill continues in tho U. S. A, Poople are\nfreezing to death, and cndlcsi suffering ie\nentailed. This is not Socialism, or in\nSoviot Russia. And then thc ruling olasi\ntalks of anarchy under labor rule, .\n-At J. N. Harvey's Olothing Store-\nMen's Rubberized\nTweed Coats $22.50\nON SALE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY\nThis opportunity comes only once in a long, long time.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Buy yourself an extra good quality\u00E2\u0080\u0094heavy rubberized-\nlined Coat now\u00E2\u0080\u0094bo warm and comfortable\u00E2\u0080\u0094and save\nmonoy\u00E2\u0080\u0094all sizes.\nON SALE\nFBIDAY AND\nSATURDAY\n$22\n.so\nJ. N. Harvey\nLIMITED\n123-125-127 Hastings St\nWest\n614-616 Yatei Street, Vletorit\nLook tor tbe Big Bed Arrow Sim \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nIts greatest gas strength\nmakes it moro economical\nin use, and it is absolutely\npure and wholesome,\n(Save Coupons for\" premium!)\n-THE-\nW. H. MALKIN CO., LIMITED\nVANCOUVER, B. 0.\n\"Malkia's Bnt\" Baking Powder li absolutely para (contains no alum) and the ingredients are plainly marked oa\neverv tin.\nia exemplified ia the highest\ndegree at thla establishment.\nTHE 0HABOB8\naro as pleasing as the servlot\ngiven.\nDR.G0RD0N\nCAMPBELL\nDeotel Nurse in Attendance\nOBANVILLE STREET\nCorner Robson Btreet\nOVEB OWL DRUG STOBB\nOpen Evenings 7 to 8\nPhone Seymour 6238\nThe Not line et \u00E2\u0080\u00940\nGREATER VANCOUVEB\nTELEPHONE DIBECTOKT\nOlosea en December 10th, 1119\nK Von \u00C2\u00BBr. contemplatta uMaf\nnew icrvlM, or making ur eheojee\nln or addition! to yonr pniant aar*\nvlca. yoa ahonld Band la notification,\nin writing, not later tban tta abera\ndate, in order that yon may take advantago oi tb. new directory llatingl.\nB. 0. TELEPHONE COMFAMT, ItB.\nlNOOBFOBATED MM\nBank of Toronto\nAueta over 1100,000,000\nDeposit! 70,000,000\nJoint Saving! Account\nA JOINT Ballon Account aay ba\nopined et Tba Buk el Torento\nla tba nam. ef twa or mora\npenoni. In Iktee aeewuts ettkar\nparty mar algn cheqt-.ee er dopoill\nmoney, hr the dUTerent maabora\nor a family er a Ira \u00C2\u00BB Joint aewut\nla altn a treat convenience. Intereat\nla paid en balaneaa.\nVanconver Branek:\nBranebee atI\nTIrt.ua, Merrill, Bew WaiMMat\nT. B. CUTHBERTSON ft Oo.\nMen'i Hatten and Outfitter!\n630 Oranvllle Street\n619 Haitingi Street WM\nRob Roy\nHotel\nModem\u00E2\u0080\u0094Every Convenience\nBot end Oold Water in Every\nBoon\nFIBST-0US8 BAB /\n17 OOBDOVA STBBBI WBBt\nProprletren: UBS. WRIGHT\nLate ol tba Victor Hotel\nTHE BBOTHEBHOOD HOUSE\n833 Ahhott Btreet\nMBB'S BBOTHEBHOOD\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sunday I fM.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'THE OBY OP SERBIA\"\nSpeaker, MB. THOMAS HOWELL\nof Toronto, general secretary Canadian Brotherhood Foderation. Solo,\n'Oro Pro Nobis/ Mr. James Dunlop,\nPoors Open 2:30 p.m.\nOur Selling System\nQuality in Fabrics\nStyle Correct\nPrice the lowest possible consistent with\nvalue. *\n3,1 Two Stores:\nSociety Brand\nClothes\nRogers Building\nFit-Reform\nClothing\n845 Hastings Street\nBurberry Coats\nat both stores\nJ. W. Foster\nLimited\nFIRST CHURCH OF\nCHRIST SCIENTIST\n1110 Oeorgt\u00C2\u00BB Streel\nSunday iorvioos, 11 a.m. nnd 7.80 p.m.\nSunday school immediately following\nmorning sorvice. Wednesday testimonial\nmeeting, 8 p.m. Fret reading room,\n001008 Dirks Bldg.\nDQOTMQUC!\nfldbfaAoSScM\nPBOTBOT TOUB FAMILY\nPBOTBOT YOURSELF\nOu buainess li saving\nmoney fer your family ana\nfor yos.\nCrowhLifelnSeCo.\nPhone Sey. 710\n421-86 B0OEB8 BLDtt\nBEENTON S. BHOWN,\nProv. Manager.\nBlag ap Plone Seymour B3M fer\nappointment\nDr. W. J. Curry\nDENTIST\nMM SOI Dominion Building\nvancouveb, _, a\nMr. Un'.on Man, le yoa buy at a\nunion itorel v. L'T**-_t-*ta_i!_i___\n\u00C2\u00BBX-9*ef_v-r*?i-r_t:\nFRIDAY...\n...December 8, 1019\nblevbmth tBAB. Ko. a THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vancouveb, b. &\nPAGEFIVl\nFraser\nButter\nValley\nWe make the straight claim that then is no batter\nsold in Vanoouver that equals Fraier Valley Butter.\nHere's the Proof\nIt is today bcing'used on the tables of the best families in the city.\nThe sales are increasing week by week\u00E2\u0080\u0094-practically\nevery trial order means a steady customer.\nIt took Four First Prizes at the New Westminster\nExhibition\u00E2\u0080\u0094in open competition, to whioh all\ncreameries were eligible.\nWe deliver tliis Butter from ou wagon* \u00E2\u0080\u0094 order yonr\nweek's supply tomorrow when our wagons pass\u00E2\u0080\u0094or call up\nFairmont 1000.\nFraser Valley Dairies, Ltd.\n\"The Sunlit Dairy\" '\nEighth Avenue and Yukon Street\nR-esh Churned\nmttamim ma mtom \u00C2\u00AB*i hmtc\nThere's no\nButter \"just\nas good.\"\nSpiritualism and the Church\nPATRONIZE FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS\nThe Royal Bank\nof Canada\nINCOBPOBATED IMS\nCapital Authorized $ 25,000,000\nCapital Paid-up \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E.\u00E2\u0080\u009E..__.\u00E2\u0080\u009E___.\u00E2\u0080\u009E.$ 16,000,000\nReserve and Undivided Profits $ 17,000,000\nTotal Assets $460,000,000\n690 branchei in Canada, Newfoundland ud Britiih\nW\u00C2\u00ABt Indiei. .\nAim branches in London, England; New Tork Oity and\nBarcelona, Spain.\nFourteen branches iB Vsncouvsr:\nMain Oflico\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cornor Hastings and Homer Streets.\nCorner Main and Hastinga Streets.\nCorner Oranvllle and Bobson Streete.\nCornor Bridge Street and Broadway West\nCornor Cordova and Carrall Streets,\nCornor Granville and Davie Streots. *\n- Cornor OranviUe nnd Seventh Avenue West.\n1050 Commercial Drive. f\nCorner Seventeenth Avenue and Main Street. v\n3016 Yew Stroet.\nCornor Eighth Avonue and Main Street.\nHudson Street, Marpole.\nKingsway Branoh and 25th Avenue Branch.\nAlso\u00E2\u0080\u0094North Vancouver, New Westminster and 29 other\npoints in British Columbia.\nSPECIAL ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO SAVINGS ACCOUNTS\nOne dollar opens nn account on which interest ia paid half-yearly\nat current ratea.\nTHOS. 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Vancouver, B, a\nOr any CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS AGENT\nNamed Shoes are frequently made\nin Non-union factories\nDO NOT BUY ANV SHOZ\nNo matter what itB name, unless\nit bean a plain and readable impression of this UNION STAMP.\nAll Shoea-.without the UNION STAMP are always Non-union\nDo not accept any excuse for absence of the Union Stoop\nBOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION\n246 SUMMER STBEET, BOSTON, MASS.\nCOLLIS LOVELY, Oenonl President\u00E2\u0080\u0094OHAS. L. BAINE, General 8m.-Tt\u00C2\u00ABm.\nIn the innermost fold of the?\nchurch thore ia much pertuberation\nand the mitred end gait ered prelates,\nthrough the combined wisdom and\nindignation of a convention are to\nevolve methods to combat the growing ovil of Spiritualism; and doubtless this convention will result A3\ntho majority of conventions do in\nmuch solemn posing, in torrents of\nplatitudinous vorbiuge; in many\nforms of self-demonstrated wisdom\nand rectitude and in smoke.\nUntil tho last decade or two the\nchurches have had a monouoly of the\nspirits and havo disposed of them in\ntho various ingenious ways which\nsuited the peculiar tonets of each of\nthe sects; but out of the mysterious\nrapping* of a table, which may have\nbeen the result of any one of sevoral causes, has giWn a spirit\ntheory accredited by a groat host of\npoaple who aro anxious to supplement the faith imposed by their\nchurches by a Uttle practical proof\nand luJnco the ouija boards, plan*\nchottes aad shadowy seances with\ntheir \"various modes of procodure.\nBut this desire for supplementary\novidonce ,ultLough reasonable and\nlegitimate, .does not please the dignitaries of tho churches, who stigmatize the phenomena of spiritualism\ndiabolical and assort that its\nstudy must induce insanity in the\nstudent.\nIt mar certainly, but to assert that\nthese phenomena are the work of\nevil spirits is a two-sided soft of argument, which may bo turned\nagainst themselves, for if the evil\nspirits are, able to demonstrate thcir\ncontinued existence through these\nchannels, then it cannot be open to\ndoubt that the souls of the righteous\nalso, tho departed bishops, politicians and rulers genorally can use\nthe samo channels, unless the just reward for thoir earthly perfection,\nwhich they aro enjoying now, are\ntoo absorbing to allow them to remember thoir former friends. I\nthink this may be possible, and that\nthe erratic and trivial revelations\nmay bo ill-timed practical jokei of\nthe evil spirits, probably O. B. tJ.\nmen or other lost souls, who may\niind in them some little distraction\nfrom their woll-doservcd miseries.\nI am only theorizing, of course, as\nare the Spiritualists with their\nspirits, and the churchos with their\ndiabolism.\nHowever, it will be interesting to\nwatch tho proceedings of thcir convontion, and note tho form which\nthcir resolution will assume.\nIf it ends in prayers for light, and\na greator gift of logical oloquence to\ncombat tho alleged evil, a lack of\nwhich gift the convention itself is\nthe proof ,thcn all sensible men will\ncommend them for their attitude,and\nadmire them for their fervor; but if\nthey attempt, by any means, to gaih\nthe intervention of the legislature in\nthe matter, they will have to ad-\nvanco more than mere theories to\nsupport their claim.\nTo assert that the phenomena of\nSpiritualism is a form of diabolism,\nis to assert nothing, unless the proof\nof the assertion is forthcoming and\nit is lifted out of the haze of theory\nand into tho reality of fact To assert that it is tho cause of insanity\nand bring proof of that, statemont,\nwould constitute certainly a good\nreason for its suppression, but the\nsame argument applies, to religion,\nfor many terrible crimes can be\ntraced to religious mania, and ao\nquito as logically the spiritualists\nmight demand a suppression of the\nchurches.\nWhen wo have men liko Lodge of\nEngland and Hyslop of America,\neminent men of scionco trained to\ntho highest skill in methodical Investigation, with minds unprejudiced\nto the last degree, seeking truth\nonly, after long years of patient\neffort announcing that thoy are convinced of the survival of tho spirit\nafter death, it is plain that our\nclerical friends are up against a serious problom to prove thoir pet theory\nof diabolism or to gain the support\nof the publio by a process of persuasion.\nWho is thoro among ns that has\nnot lost a friend, a relative or a\nlover, and who wonld not exchange\nall tho treasures tho world can give\nfor the eortain knowledge that death\nis not* death but,the glorious gateway beyond which is . reunion of\nbroken ties and severed love; and\nfaith only, though as beautiful and\nas essential as it has bcen described,\ncan not give this assurance; and if\nthere is a possibility, aa those trained investigators assert, that spirit*\nualism may ultimately roveal the\nexistence of that world of waiting\nspirits, then our spiritual dignitaries\nmay rest assured that in spite of all\nthoir efforts of suppression that\nproof will be long and earnestly\nsought for\u00E2\u0080\u0094and in spite of the faet\nthat a few of the weaker vessels\nmay faltor into madness in the attempt.\nA reason always precedes a resolve, and it is a legitimate proceeding to try and discover the reaeon\nof any undertaking which may ultimately affect the livos an dthe lib\nertios of the people.\nThero can only, I think, be one\nof two reasons which hai urged our\nspiritual masters and guides to\nbring their massed intelligence and\n-Influence to bear upon this question\nof tapping the spirits for information.\nEither they are seriously and anxiously concerned for the spiritual\nwelfare of the souls entrusted to\ntheir care and whom they truly believe this unchristian table-rappinp\nmay bancfully affect, or they see in\nthe wholo business an influence\nwhich mny ultimately woakon their\nhold upon their flocks and so undermine the very foundations of their\nmighty structure, the Church, and I\nam of tho opinion that tho former\nconsideration ha\u00C2\u00BB influenced them\nmost in forming their resolve,\nthough the latter probably has exercised some subconscious influenco\nupon thcir deliberations.\nIn tho past I have recoived much\ngood advico and some consolation\nfrom tho officers and the ceremonioi\nof these same churches, and as most\nof thoso officers now are in the land\nof tho spirits, whioh fact deepens\nand Softens my gratitude, I am going in return to offer a little advice to the present leaders and officers of these churches.\nI do so humbly and respectfully\nus becomes a poor, obscure working\nman, yet I do io conscious that I\nspeak under the influence of that\nflood of light that is shining into the\nminds of man today, revealing the\ngreat truth whieh is ultimately to\nregenerate the whole of mankind\nand convert our sin-ruled world into\n[By Nemesis]\na moral paradise that ahall match its\nphysical excellence and ennoble iti\nbeauty.\nOI ye priests and prelates who\nlook upon the struggling worid of\nhumanity from your eminence\nspiritual knowledge and by your\nsaintly love for yonr fellow men are\neager to array your forces on their\nbehalf when the powers of the master of evil are exerted for their undoing, do you ever in your moments\nof meditation lot your thoughts\ndwell on the genoral state of anarchy which prevails on the earth today and calmly and logically seek\nthe cause for that state of thingaf\nTou are aware, of course, that\nthere is a cause\u00E2\u0080\u0094one fundamental\ncause\u00E2\u0080\u0094for the violence, the bloodshed, the poverty, tho disease, the\nsuffering and the tears we flnd so\nuniversally in evidence in evory misnamed civilization on earth.\nThat you have some concern for\ntha miseries of mankind is evidenced in your relief committees\nand soup kitchens and othor sticking-plaster methods of roHef which\nmay alleviate but eannot oure and\nare administered in the name of\ncharity, which leaves a sting bohind\nin the conscious of the recipient and\nhence the exhibition of ingratitude\nyou so often doploro.\nAs long as tho causo of any ovil\nis obseuro thore can bo little hopo of\nany permanent and radical alleviation of its results, and for long ages\ntho dark curtain of ignorance has\nveiled the truth from man's eyes\nand his child mind has been misled\nby the mystical explanations to account for his miseries and his attitude has been ono of hopeless resignation; but tho curtain is lifting and\ntho, illuminating rays of the rising\ntruth already are ^dispelling his\ndarkness and fllling his future with\nu bright and glorious hope.\nAlready he sees that a conception\nwhich created him in sin and mado\nhim responsible for that sin and its\nresulting miseries is illogical and\nheathenish and cannot any longer be\ntolerated.\nHo sees with elear and convincing\nvision that his1 destiny is in his\nown hands and must be worked out\nby his own efforts, and he knows\nthat is tho meaning of his reason\nand his self-consciousness.\nHo sees that the usurpation of the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA\u00E2\u0080\u00A2arth by a few is the primal cause\n\u00C2\u00AB the evil in the world, for it has\ninevitably resulted ih one portion ot\nmankind taking the products of tbe\nlahor of the other portion and thereby converting them into veritable\nefaves, while at the same time bf\nraise teachings obscuring the crime\nahd adroitly concealing their chains.\nThe great physical law of nature is\nthat organisms must work and produce or perish, and this earth-ownership is a contravention of that\nlaw as it allows organisms to live\na parasitical life on the labors of\nothors.\nIt was not man, who was born in\nsin, but the system of private earth-\nownership with its consequent exploitation which was conceived and\nfounded in sin, and out Of Which\nsin and corruption, strife and sorrow have sprung \"ah naturally as\ngrasses from the warm alluvial\nmuds, and must continue to spring\nin ever-increasing ratio as long aa\nthe abomination Ihsts; and no\namount of sticking-plaster and sophistry and mysticism can much\nlonger bolster up a system built on\na foundation of broken law. Already\nis that foundation crumbling and\ntho structure swaying to Its fall\nFor long centuries you have\nprayed \"Deliver us from evil,\" but\nprayers without action are Uke a\nplough without its horses, inert and\nuseless.\nNow, aU ye vicars of Ood, arise\nand oxert yourselves, or you will\nbe awakened from your deep, complacent slumber of centuries to flnd\nyour authority gono for ever and a\nsimple, moro militant and truer\nchurch\u00E2\u0080\u0094a' church of prayerful\naction aimed at that fundamental\nevil\u00E2\u0080\u0094reigning in your stead.\nToo long has your arch enemy,\nthe princo of evil, triumphed on his\nthrone and defied your puny efforts\nand mocked at your barren prayers,\nfor from that throne built on\nearth-plunder, and the exploitation\nof God's groat handiwork, immortal man, has poured through the\ncenturies that incessant stream of\nsin and sorrow over the earth.\nTurn, in God's name, your conventions to that torrential abomination\nin which exploited man is helplessly\nfloundering and perishing and let\nyour rill of spiritualism meander\nwhere it will.\nMcLeod-Nolati and Co,\nhav* manufactured nothing htii\nUnion Made Cigars\nii, ___ \u00E2\u0080\u009E for 20 Years \u00C2\u00B0 \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB\n, El Doro x\nEl Sid elo\n\"I no ortio'\nC i gars of Quality\nSEATTLE FINNS\nFAVOR S6VET\nSix Thousand Ask Passage to Free Russia\non Soviet Ships\nSix thousand Finns of Seattle ud\nvicinity, admittedly possessing rait\ncal ideas, want to go to Soviet Boi\nsia. Just how maa, of these belong\nto ihe Bussian societies who announced Friday that they had 12,000\nmembera desirous of joining the Bolsheviki, is not known at thia time.\nBut, ia a separate moss meeting, attended by 200 dolegates who claim\nto represent 6,000 looal Runs, resolutions wero adopted and a committee appointed to arrange for transportation to Bussia.\nA resolution says:\n\"The ships of Soviet Bussia are\nwaiting to take us over there.\"\n\"We are ready to free the government of all expenae and aid it in\nDon't forget OUB advertisers.\nTHI IS 1\nI\nFrench Socialist Deputy\nSays Clemenceau Has\nNot Kept Faith\nWriting in La Vogue, Paris, the\nFronch Socialist deputy, Pierre Bri-\nzon, in an article ontitled \"The\nGreat Betrayal,\" says:\n\"We havo won the war.\"\nTou have lost tho peace.\nFor in the long run, peace is disarmament, and where is disarmament! Everywhere you havo promised to the martyred peoples to go\nthrough with it; to wipe out Prussian militarism ,aftor which wo will\ndisarm tho world. Forward! It is\nthe last war.\nOn Jan. 18, 1818, in his talk to\nthe trade anions, Lloyd Oeorge said:\n\"This ia exactly why we aro lighting. It is In order to establish eon.\nditions whioh will make universal\nmilitary aervice useless, not only in\nthis country but in every country.\"\nThe premier of England insisted:\n\"We wish to render compulsory military aervice definitely impossible.\"\nAnd the poor people have had confidence enough in your words, despite your past lies. And the martyrs have gone to their death\u00E2\u0080\u0094in\norder that nover again ahould men\n\"e on the fiold of battle .\nThen, aftor four years and three\nmonths of massacre, revolution has\nbroken out. War hu stopped. Tho\narmistice haa come. Now nobody\nhas boen disarmed., Not even. Germany. They say M .Clemenceau,\nthat you have permitted \"the enomy\" to retain an army ot a million\nmen.\nOn tho llth of Novomber, 1918,\nyou might have disarmed everybody.\nIf you have not accomplished goneral disarmament: if you have not\ndisarmed evon \"the enemy;\" if yoa\nhave sabotaged your \"victory;.\" if\nMarshal Foch has not bcen able to\nsocure the demobilization of the German army, it is because you have not\nwished it; neithor you, nor your generals, nor your conference.\nAnd If you have not wished it,\nyou, tho granl master of revenge;\nyou, the patriot; you, who, since\n1871, have passed all of your life in\norder to show, u you said, \"the German dangor tunning through En-\nrope\" in order to inform statesmen\nto make efforts to say to them, \"the\ndanger lies there\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094it is beeause\nyou, tht minister of the bourgeoisie,\nand your friends and allies of Jewish\nflnaaoo and steel supremacy and of\nPatroniie Fed. edvertlsere.\n|tory in Figures Shows\n, flow the Workers Are\nI1; Exploited\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0_,.\u00E2\u0080\u009E. [By Scott Nearing]\ni Arriving at the Union station in\nAkron, Ohio, you are confronted by\na large sign: \"Tho City iii Opportunity.\" Across the track ia another\nsign:\n\"Goods produced in 1918\n.480,000,000.\nWages paid in 1018\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A670,000,000.\"\nThoso simple facts tell tho story.\nAkron ia a city of a quarter of a\nmillion, splattered over the hills that\nborder tho Cuyahoga river. Akron\nlives by the manufacture of rubber,\nand it has grown with the recent\nphenomenal growth of the rubber industry. Thero aro no houaea to bo\nhad anywhere. Singlo rooms, equipped with a bed and a chair, eost\nfrom H to (7 a week. The hotels\nan crowded. During a recent strike\nan organieor for the Machinists\nUnion secured a room in a second-\nclass hotol for $120 per month. Many\nof tho buildings that are being used\nas homes for families an unit for\nhabitation.\nPricos are high in Akron\u00E2\u0080\u0094so high\nthat despite the high wagoa paid to\nmany of the men in the rubber\nplanta, thousands of families are unable to make ends moot. Tho Charity Society has over 250 families on\nits booka at this early period of thc\nwinter season. Besides these families it ia carrying ovor 200 single\nwomon and mon,\nThe Labor movoment is woak in\nAkron. A conservative estimate\nplaces the total number of unorganised rubber workers at 80,000. The\ntotal number of moa.and women affiliated with Labor organizations does\nnot eioeod 6000, of whom about 2500\nare machinists. Of the 22,000 votes\neast at the last election the Socialist candidate ncoived 1100.\nAkron haa made many millionaires.\nAmong them are eeveral who are\ninclined to be philanthropic. They\nhave provided various schemes covering welfan work for their employeea. They are genorous to the\neducational and oharitable instltu\ntiona of the eity, \"publio aplrited\"\nin tke bost capitalistic aenae of that\nterm. But aa the viaitor to Akron\nboarda the train, ht faces a big advertisement for a football gamo,\n[Which is tt bt held \"to Goodrich\nPark (formerly Liberty Park)\ndynamite and of reaction, havt had throughout tht eltv '\"r'a\nterm of six months. jj\nThat officials can be \u00E2\u0096\u00A0electee^ for\nunlimited successive terms iTthe\nmembership bo desiro. (Noto: This\nis not an ordinary union where the\nmembership meet undor the ,'jlamo\nroof at given intervals, and were\nofficials can be changed every \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 rec\nor six months with benefit to tm orgnnization. In this union, bf tho\nnaturo of things it generally takfes\nabout six months to at all get acquainted with tho delegates and the\nlocation of tho various camps and\nto administer tho duties of the office\nefficiently. Whoro it would . work\namicably in the one instance, it\nwould spell confusion in the other.)\nThat officials can be recalled at\nany timo, if it can be proven in\nwriting nnd by the signatures of\nthose mnking tho accusation, that\nsaid official has failed in his duty,\nor broken union principles. Tho executive board having power to do so\nwhere tho evidence is beyond doubt.\nIf in doubt, the membership will\nhave to bo appealed to in district,\nif a district official. To tho entiro\nmembership if a membor of the exeoutlve board,\nIn tho event of officials wishing\nto resign thoy muBt givo two weeks'\nnotice. In the event of a vacancy\ncaused by death or other unforeseen\ncauses of any official, if a district\nsecretary the executive board shall\nfill the vacancy so caused for tho\ntime being until another official can\nbe elected. In the case of the executive board the next membor who\nreceived the largest number of votes\nto the elected momber.\nThe wagos of all officials to be determined by the semi-annual conventions.\nThe above are only suggestions to\nhelp mako our organization more efficient.\nI would strongly suggest that wo\nsupport tho idea of establishing a\nlabor college to teach the workors\nin the sciences. Especially those sciences pertaining to sociology, history\nand economics. We certainly need\nall the education we can get, and it\nwill not drop liko manna from\nHeaven.\nNow, Fellow Workers, it rests with\nyou what kind of organization you\nwant. Don't simply carry a card to\nshow that you are a union man. Be\nup and doing. Take an intereat in\nyour organization. For myself, I\nshall fight tho forces of anarchy on\nevory occasion possible.\nMany of you will wonder why this\ndoeB uot appear in our official organ,\ntho \u00E2\u0080\u00A2'Worker.\" Well, tho oditor\nmight consider it unfit for publication or maybe lack of apace, or something elso. I havo already sent him\nan article, ln reply to McKinnon's\n\"Philosophy of Industrial Unionism,\" which, for some reason or\nothor, did not appear. I do not\nblame him for not publishing it,\nwhatever his reasons may be. Ho has\nthat privilege. But he might havo\nh victory all\n['along the line; 8-hour day, 18c per\nI tie, teamsten OW snd board .other\n, day mon, $5 a day; bull cook, .70,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 one cookeo *75, the other $80; pay\nwhenever called for and big improvements in camp conditions.\n, As reported In last issue, Merrill\nBing & Moore, at Duncan Bay had\n'managed, after four months' Itrike,\nto get togethor a bunch of strike-\nli breakers, ranging in age from 15 to\nii ovor 70, and it may bo that to the\nI' .typo \u00C2\u00B0f erow working in the camp\nwas duo the accident on Friday last,\nby which two men lost thoir lives,\n. and two others, we understand, were\n' seriously injured. The men were\nriding on a flat car on a train in\n|, which were loaded ears; of courso\nsomething went wrong and two sion\n. an now buried. Thore is a law\nagainst carrying mon on flat cars on\nloaded trains and same ono broke\nthat law. Who was it! Whose duty\njUii it to see tht the laws nre en-\n|j, forcedf Tho lnwyors wero instructed to attend the inquest at Campbell\nBiver but before they could get\nthero the inquest was over. Of\ncourso tho verdict wes \"accidental\ndealk.\" But tho case is not dono\nwith yet; it may be necessary for\n' the union to spend a thousand or\ntwo, not on behalf of those who\naro dead, but to protect those who\naro living, and this can host bo done\nby seeing that those responsible for\nbreaking the law aro punished.\nThis organization stands for tho on-\n(K forcoment of tho Ibws, and if those\n' who are supposed to look after thom\ndo not do their duty, then the\nunion itself must act, and where\ntho laws are inadequate to give the\nworker that protection and those\nconditions to which he is entitled,\n.'then the mombors themselves must\n[;> writo these lawi into their own\nl''' \u00C2\u00ABodo.\nWo anticipate that the laws re-\n.' luting to camp conditions and camp\n: and mill workors generally will bo\nR\u00C2\u00BB better enforced during the coining\na-jf. year than thoy havo been in all tho\nprevious history of this country.\nParticularly will this be truo of the\nprairie and oastern provinces.\nMany of the members did sot\nrealizo how much fact there, wai in\nthe ropoated statements that the em-\njj ployers woro preparing a black lilt\nof active union memberB, but this\nhas boon forcibly brought home to\ntmnny of them this week when, after\napplying for jobs listed at tho employers' labor agenoy, and having\nanswered many questions as to their\npast history, all of which wai written down, including height, weight,\ncolor of hair, ete. they were thon\ntold that the employen had given\ninstructions that no mas who had a\nstrike record against him would be\nfat to work in an association camp,\nhat's the stuff to muke a lighting\norganization of it. A man who\nV hasn't backbone enough to striko, if\nI' necessary, to improve his working\nconditiona, isn't worth having in an\norganization, but it must be im-\nircssed npon the membors that ia a\nlunger strike the one with the big-\n-it purse can hold est the longest,\nat'i tlie boas. But the strikes\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0eed sot be huagrr strikes, and tho\nboss alwayi coatee through with the\ndemands when it ia cheaper to pay\nthan light.\nThe memben Is eatnp must bo\nsure and elect their delegates bofore\nthe eaap closos dows. Camps with\nCO or more paid-up memben can\nelect a delogate whole transports-\nlion only will be paid by the or-\n; ganization. Hit espouses must be\npaid by tlie men whom he represents. Hia credentials must be signed by at least 60 of the men who\nelect him. Smaller camps ot 25\nmemben can elect delegates if they\nwish, but tho organization will not\ndefray hia transportation. 'This is\nsot to penalize the small camp and\n-tgivo the preference to the large one,\nbut simply because the expense of\nsuch a large number of delegates\nwould be so tremendous, and seeing\nthat tho questions must go to refer\nesdum, there is no good purpose\nserved in piling np unnecessary expenses. (Delegates meet January 5,\n9 and 7. Convontion opens 8th.\nOrganizer Golden ln Ontario re-\nJ ports remarkable success being mot\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0' with hearty welcome in nearly every\n..camp, is each of which he gcti\n\ many memben and appoints a Sola-\ngate. At Bonoits the old man raised Cain and ordered him out of the\ncamp, saying that as he was neither\npriest nor doctor he was not wanted\nthore. Jim paid-. 50 conts for his\nsupper, and then whon the men\nheard how tho old man bad treated\nhim thoy insisted upon him staying\ntho night, one young Frenchman\ngiving up his bed for the purpose.\nQuite a number of the men signed\nup and a delogate was appointed.\nWhilst walking the track the next\nmorning tho organizer mot a young\nreturned soldior who willingly\nagreod to join, was just boing fixed\nup with tho necessary receipt, when\ntenring along came a big boss who\njumped the young fellow' for his\nlonrd whoro ho hud stayed over Sun-\nlay. Tho young fellow handed over\nids last 02, which went into the\nlosses' joans instead of the union\n.rensury, but that now member is\nvorth more to us than dollars snd\nt was about tbo worst investment\nhe boss mado when he took over\nhat last two dollars. At the noxt\npresi\nlung\nGat!\ni!\n>t\\ncamp 17 toes were Used op, aad\nso the good work goes oa.\nFellow-worker J. IL Clarke It at\nFort Francis and haa opened a diatrict office there at taa Webster\nHall, 619 Mowat Street. Their district will cover Rainy Biver County from Keshaboiwe, westward. He\nfound that Fellow-worker La Bell\nwas able to handle tk* Edmonton\nsituation, and Cowas, McKuight,\nLamont and Merd had Prince Albert so woll in hand that there was\nno good purpose tto be served ia going there.\nTom Mellows is looking aftor Sudbury district; he ia at present located at the Sudbury Hotel. Fellow-\nworker B. Lockheed at 314 Bay\nStreet, is looking after Port Arthur\nheadquarters.\nFellow-workers Baxter and W. A.\nNicholson took a trip to Merritt and\nafter doing some good organizing\nwork, got a local branoh established\nwith local Becrotary and full equip-'\nment. All districts are notified that\nI. Weinstein, who was acting as organizer, is no longer ia that capacity, and is sot to be. recognized in\nany way without flrst communicating\nwith headquarters.\nMembers' attention if drawn to\ntho fact that heavy demands are being mado oa the central atrike\nfund, but that ia their interest in\ntho defense fund this matter haB\nbeen overlooked.\nDuring tie past week contributions to the defense fund have come\nin from Kingcome Biver, $171; Myrtle Point, $123.15; Bainbridgc, $87;\nUnion Bay, $211.50; Hordwiek Island, $180; Simeon Sound, $26; Jackson Bay, $102,5)1; Jackson Bay\n(boom camp), $55; Headquartors,\nCamp 3, $107.45, and a large numbor\nof smaller amounts from camps and\nindividuals. Also $152.75 from\nHeriot Bay, without information\nwhat for. Will delegates in sending\nin give name and amount of each\ncontributor, so that liberty bonds\nto the amount can ba sent him.\nAs old-time logger, Jack Woods,\nwho wus active in forming the organization, wants the boys to know\nthut he is getting busy on his usual\nChristmaa Day arrangements for giving the loggers in St. Paul'i Hospital a good time. There ii a large\nUst of them at present, so a lot of\nassistance is asked for by him.\nIt il sot the intention of the eecretary to roply either through the\nFed. or tko Worker to tho peraonal\nattacks that are boing made upon\nhim by certain individuals, sometimes using their own names, sometimes assumed ones. Ho prof en to\nmoot then real individuals face to\nface before tho entire mmbenhip.\nAll he asks ia that thoy attond tho\ngeneral meeting is January; he will\nbe there, and hopes that they will.\nUP\nMillmen Must Get Together If They Are to Get\nDecent Conditions\nEighteen new applicants were ae.\ncopted into membership at the last\nmeoting of the Engineers and Mill\nWorkors Unit Of tho O. B. U.' Whilo\nthis progress ii satisfactory tor tho\nprosent, it will be necessary for tho\nMill Worken to got a hustle on, and\njoin tho organization if they want\nto take advantage of the present\nboom in the lumbor industry by securing for themselves a little of the\nprofits that their employen are now\nmaking out ef their labor.\nTho prico of finished lumber has\nalmost doubled dining the past two\nyoars, yot wagea for mill worken\nhave remained practically the same,\nand unloss they recoive an increase\nis wages pretty soon .there is some\ndoubt among thoso who ara organizod as to whether the wages now\nboing paid will be sufficient to purchase the necessities of life to es-\nablo them te reproduce their power\nto labor.\nThe attendance at th* various\nbusiness meetings of late is very\namall, asd whilo thoso who do attend realize the nights are cold, and\nthat it would be much more comfortablo sitting at home by the fire, thoy\nalso realize that if no one took as\nactive part in the Labor movement,\nit would not be long until thoy could\nsot afford to have a home and a fire\nto lit by asd consider, it la up to\nevery momber who can manage to\nattend a business meoting, to do so\nat loast once each month.\nMeetings an sow being held as\nfollows:\nVancouver\u00E2\u0080\u0094Evory Monday, room\n302, Labor Templo.\nNow Westminster\u00E2\u0080\u0094Second and\n4th Wednesday, room 8, Labor Hall.\nPort Moody\u00E2\u0080\u0094Second and 4th Fridays, Orange Hall. .>\nMaillardvillo\u00E2\u0080\u0094Second aad 4th\nThursdaya, Moving picture theatre.\nA copy of The Fedorationist is\nmailed to eaoh momber woekly, and\nln futuro any membor who does not\nreceive a copy of same should look\nup his membership book and see If\nis paid up to date, aa if so. he\nshould put in a kick to the secretnry,\nW. A, Alexander, who will investigate tho cause as to why the paper\nhas not been delivered.\nAsk your grocer If Us clerks are\nin the unioni\nClubb & Stewart\nLimited\nVANCOUVER'S PIONEER CLOTHIERS\nEstablished SO Tear*\nUNION STOBE\nMen's Overcoats and Raincoats\u00E2\u0080\u0094New arrivals\nof all the new models in young men's Overcoats,\nRubberized Raincoats, Trench Coats for men\nand women.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094SBB OUB\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nSweater Coats for Men and Women\u00E2\u0080\u0094the best\nyet. Boys,' Youths' and Children's Clothing\nand Furnishings\u00E2\u0080\u0094none better.\n309 HASTINGS STREET WEST\n_ LETTERS TO\nm)\n(Continued from page 8)\naot abuse the right of collective bargaining as organized labor had done\nand adopting resolutions to that effect.\nI shall sot agree that all members\nof the institute are boing deceived\nbut the resolution and the unanimous support of such showed a gross\nignorance of the \"crisis\" on the\nright of collective bargaining or else\nthey were purposely promulgating\nlying propaganda against tho working class in bohalf of the selfish and\ngreedy interests. If such is not the\ncase it would be well for the memben of tho institute to get better\nposted on the \"crisis\" of the right\not collective bargaining, before they\nmisinform othen after being misinformed themselves lay the blame on\ninnocent people's shoulders and aot\non the class who did really abuse\nthe principles of their owa laws al\nthoy most usually do oa inch mat\nten.\nThe truth cuts aa a, two-edged\nsword asd there win be some who\nwill turn their backs to the following statoment. Tho right of collective bargaisisg at Winnipeg was denied by the employers to the employees when tho workon demanded\nan agreement for higher wages to\nmeet the increasing costs tt living.\nThe employer rofused to bargain\nwhich resulted in a general strike\nat Winnipeg. The strikers expocting\nthat on the faet of the right of collective bargaining clause regarding\nlabor disputes in the International\nPeace Treaty that the government\nwould intorvoso In bohalf of the\nstrikers and compel the employers\nto abide by tho clause in tho treaty\nas it was their duty to do bo in upholding tho Poace Treaty but instoad\nthe governmont truncd traitor against their own Peace Treaty clause and'\nassisted tho selfish interests in Winnipeg to spread the lying propaganda\nabout the crisis and slandered and\ndefamed the brafniest and most sin-\ncore of tho workors and now if the\nPeace Treaty is ratified oo the 1st\nof December, I do not know how\nthey can justly keop these poor victims of tho monied powors in prison\nor even find them guilty since thoy\nwore intimidated by the monied\nclass.\nIt would be much better for the\nmonied class to read more of the\nlabor papers than they have boos\ndoing and get posted en working-\nclass conditions which to a great\nextent are undeBcribable by words\nor print and a good way for them\nto get posted would be to subscribe\nto the B. C. Federationist or some\nof the many small publcations of the\nworking class. Not being subsidised\nthoy eannot publish a vet/ large\npublication or yot a daily, and being opposed by such powers that be\ninstoad of being assisted, ia their\neducational work among the masses\nrogarding a elass struggle asd being restricted there is sot a great\namount of reading to be done to\nstart a reader thinking, bat most of\ntho people are so far behind on the\nsubject that thoy would need to secure some kind of a primer ta coach\nthem into Use to gain aay gnat\nknowledge -of class sooioty.\nI would recommond the memben\nof tho Canadian Mining Institute to\nsubscribe to as many of the labor\npublications as possible and keep;\nposted en the labor situation and not\nplace themselves open to criticism\nof tho working class as they have\ndone at the Vaneouver convention\nand do not cater .too much to that\naide of society which binds the othor\nside down, but suroly you can place\nyounelvos in i position for the uplifting of humanity and surely the\nmembers are humane enough to read\nboth sides of the subject and collect\nthe concrete facts for what thoy oro\nworth and quit flirting with tho selfish evil powors bnt fill the measures and weigh the truth In the balance of justice and judge with\nequity and you will ceaso to- bow\nto the eruel selfish interests who defy and stamp at justice with as iron\nhool In their profiteering and oppression of tho working class.\nTHE PBOSPECTOB.\n(The following letter has been\nsent for publication. We are aot\nablo to say whother our correspondent is a wag or whethor he is as\nhis letter would donoto, but having\nroad the letter with a good deal of\namusoraont, wo do not desiro to prevont our renders from enjoying its\npeculiarities ,and so we print it just\nas it wns written with all its misspelling, and other errors. Our readers can tako it aa they wish, to us it\nlooks like a very elevor piece of satire, and a very elevor tilt at the\npresont syBtom.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Editor.)\nCelista, Nov 28, 1910.\nDear Sir and Brother,\nEditor B, C. Federationist: I\nam writing you in haste, and in\ngreat distress, of mind. I am fifty\nfour yours paat, and am just about\ntottering on the verge of the gravo,\ni evon fear i am beginning to in\nsomo small way losing faith in\nprayer.\nIt ia tliis way with mo.\nFor tho lost fifty years, i have\nboon praying to tho good Lord to\ngivo me this day my daily broad\nand lately it has como to me that\ntho bread varies in proportion to\ntho animount of work i am paid for.\nthat is to soy, No work, No Broad.\nNotwithstanding 1 have still an\nabiding faith in prayor, For the laat\ntwenty years all efforts in that direction i have concentrated in just\none Tho following Prayor. (It ll\nnot copyrighted)\nOb Gi> I our Heavenly Father,\nWho Art in Heaven,\nGivo me I pray you\nOne Hundred thousand dollars,\nAnd i promts to give\nfifty thousand to the Poor.\nAmen.\nMy neighbour, Harold Noakcs, who\ni fear is onc of thoso qucor aggita-\ntors, has told mo I must bo drunk\nor'crazy to think that Ood would\ntrust mo with so largo an ammount\nof monoy as that, this occured about\nthroo months ago, and he has not\nvisited me since\nOh, well, I muy havo boes over\nhasty, and no doubt twos an occasion whoro Christian humility demanded vi should havo proforod the\nother cheek, Well, well, evou tho\nApostle Paul found troublo with his\nthorn.\nA few dnys since 1 was visited by\nNeigliboor Cliarly Johnson and 1\nwas not surprised whon\ho brought\nthe conversation around to my Equable with Noukca, no:ther of them it\nseems, deny the power of Prayor.\nJohnson puts the case this way.\nAddmitting, that. God gavo mo one\nhundred thousand dollars, say in\ngold coin- inch ooin not coming from\naoy of the oxisting Mints, so matter if it waa standard in every respoct would still in Law be counteract. (By Hing i had not thought\nef that)\nAgain, were the ammount in Canadian Bank of Commerce Bills, those\nBanks he tells me have all their bills\nnumbered and is the evest that two\nbill bearing the same ssmber appears at tho bank one of them muit\nbe a forgery, and furthermore,\nwhen the mountiei traced the. bills\nor coin back to me, that he did not\nbelieve that thore could be found in\nall this Christian world a court that\nwould except my unsupported word,\nand it would be up to mo to produce\nOod in Court to prove my Alibi,\n(Woll i declare, i sever saw it is\nthat light before) At this poist\nJohnson i suppose noticed that 1\nwas displeased with his Impious reference to the Qod hoad, He took hii\nhat aad weat.\nWell after hi* departure, i mused\nfor wme time, aad concluded to\ncarry my trouble to th* Divine\nHealer, to strapped oa my knee\npads asd assumed an attitude of de-\nvotlos asd adorstioo, yoa know 1\nfind it asoeiitry to wear pad* os\nmy kseei, two part* sf my garment\nlooms to wear oat astonishingly\nfast, the seat asd the knees, to protect the latter i wear pad*.\nI dos't think i hsd been prayisg\nlonger than four or five houn when\nea in a vision it seemed to me i\ncould ice the way to my hearts de-\nsire.\nTon must hsve become acquainted\nwith the faot, a fact that all the\ngreat Eddetors are awaro of, namely, that mighty sums of Bolshevik\nmosey is boing distributed far and\nwide throughout the world, it ia indeed fortusste that they or your\nsolf or thoir or your readen have\nno use for the money, i see in this\nthe hand of Ood, and at last, and in\nthe very sear future i will have\nabundant proof to eosfousd those\nscooters who heretofor have oaused\nmo much pain.\nOnly one small difficulty remains\nto be overcome, the Oood Lord has\nnot informed me just where the\nLucre is stored, and who is there\namong you who woald question the\ndivine wisdom\ni confess i don't care to bother\nthe Edditors rofered to they are\nkopt bo busy those dayi. being a\nsubscriber to your valued paper for\nsome time and feeling tore you eaa\nsot only holp me. But at the same\ntime can prove instrumental in no\nmean manner of making his divine\nwill manifest to tho ungodly. Almighty Honour indeed, and a virtue\nthat should provo ita own reward -\nSo dear Bir, i hope you will let\nme ksow aa soon as yon can just\nwhen thoae huge sums are being disbursed, aad just how i should proceed to acquire the mazuma.\nMy seed ia at this time indeed\ngreat, a person named Law is con-\ntinually sending mo letters begging\nmo to sond him all' i can spare for\nthe Winnipeg Defence fund, Judging by tho amount of mail he sends\nme i am begissisg to fear lome mis-\nohieveus penon haa been tolling\nhim thst I sm the person is charge\nof thst treasure chest. Why mas, st\nthis time a five dollar bill to ae\nwould Mem large enough to cause a\ntotat Eclipse of the Sun.\nI think it might be ssfe to publish thia letter io case you have\nforgotten the address of that treasure house.\nis that evest, it might be, some\nof your readen could recall it to\nmind.\nHoping for a reply by return\nmail or aa soon as possiblo, i remain\nYoun Fraternally\nWILLIAM J BEDDY,\nCelista, B, O.\nEditor B. C. Fedorationist: Be\nresolutions appearing in last issuo of\ntho Workor by Follow-worker All-\nmas, According to Allman, the\nonly thing ho is desirous of is that\nthe membership should read, study,\nand digest aforesaid resolutions. If\ntho 10 points had boen written as\ncomic opera, it might be possible to\nset them to music. President Wilson ssd his 14 points, which were\nthe acme of Bourgeoise, idealism,\nwhile on the othor tho 10 points ss\nput forth by F. W. Allmau, read,\nlike the vaporings of an illogical\nmind whieh has ceased to function-\nAfter reading and re-reading, as\nhe requests, it occurred to mo that\nhe might mean and think the resolutions are all right, whioh I doubt.\nHence this lettor.\nIf they are written with serious\nintent, thon the wont fate he could\nOBk for them would bo that the membenhlp read them over. Thoy would\nnot have to think vory dooply ovor\nany ono of his resolutions. Tho 10\npoints will dio a nice quiet death\nafter the rank and file rend them,\nas they aro full of contradictions,\nnnd those that do not conflict aro\nsimply foolish. It is about the worst\ndrivil that haa appeared in the\nWorker since the convention, and\nthat ia going some. The Worker\nhns cost the organization $1830.37 in\nthroe months, sot including postage\nand the editor $40 per week. The\nsame monoy could havo bcen spent\nto greater advantage on organization work.\nAfter careful consideration of the\nresolutions tho worker on tho job\nwill como to the same conclusion as\nthe writer.\nClause 1 reads: A paid official of\nthe L. W. I. U. shull not hold office\nlongor thon six months, nnd must go\nback to work in the industry for on*\nyear, before ho can hold oilice again,\nClauso i reads: The sccrotury-troas.\nurer and all officials of tho L. W.\n1. U. Bhall be nominatod from tho\nfloor of tho annual convention. 'Does\nF. W. Allman sot know that annual\nmeans once a yoar I If he does not\nthen I would advise a coune in\nEnglish for him. When the secretary-treasurer's six months of offloe\nexpire, how aro they going to eleot\na now secretary-treasurer when1*\nthoro will only be a convention onco\na yoar, according to Clauso 9f\nThink again, fellow worker; something slipped somewhere. Of course\ntho oflico of sccrtary-treasurer could\neasily remain vucuut for six montlis,\nor for that pnrt, bc could stop boldly into the breach himsolf.\nJust about the time tho secretary-\ntreasurer was getting acquainted\nwith the work ami had things running smoothly, yank: out he comes\nund in goes somo dub who knows\nnothing, and everything is upside\ndown. Tho system wc have at presont seems to work all right. Whon\nyou got a SBcretnry-troasurer who\ngives results, keep him there; but\njust as soon as ho doei not satisfy\nthe membership pall him out,\nI\n',' Twelve years ago I came to the conclusion that there was only one way to make shoes uid that was\n*M of solid leather. Since that time I have stuck to this principle and have found that it was the right\none. In my repairing and making the best of leather is used As a conclusive proof look at my ever-\nincreasing stream of customers who go out of my store satisfied that they received their money's\nworth.\nIs PARIS in Vancouver\nREPAIRING that will double the life of yonr Shoes\nMen's Blaok Chroma Boots; good\nstrong work boots at a reasonable\nprice .\n155.95\nHen's Black and Brown Boots;\nlight weight, recede and round\ntoes _. ji 97.45\nMoulders Plain Toe, Elastic Side\nBoot 96.50\nMen's Bunion Last Kid Bluchers; a\nsoft, easy fitter; has kangaroo toe\nto prevent chipping.\nP. PARIS\nLadies' Black Sealette Kid bal.\nLeather Louis heel; 9-in. top.\nRegular $8.50, now $6.95\nGirls' Brown Elk Boots; high top,\nhalf bellows tongue f 5.50\n.Boys' Chrome Strong Boots; solid\nleather double toe-caps; .'nailed\nand stitched soles; sizes 1-5%,\nfor .'\u00E2\u0080\u009E ?4.20\nFelt Slippers in every variety; leather soles, fur trimmed, with or\nwithout heels:\nParis\nCombination\nLast K\nkK\nA boot made ftr '\nIA\nbis who le aot\nwest a pointed\ntoe. Vtry short\nBS m\,\nand wide fitting.\nSmall is keel. '\nBlack sad brows\nJt~.j/ mi\ncslf. J\nZ^\"' __W \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 emmaaamt\nShoe Manufacturer and Retailer\n51 Hastings West\nwhether it be Bix days or six\nmonths.\nClause 2. That no paid official\nshall have s vote whilo holding\noffice. It'a too bad ho would not\nmake himself clear. A vote on\nwhat! Does he moan the city elections, or the Dominion! I would\nlike to know. '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nClause 4. That no official or employee shall hold office in this organization unless he is an actual\nwage workor is the lumbering industry. What this organization needs\nia efficiency in tho conduct of its\nbusiness. If the above resolution is\npieced in the constitution it will\noreate oertais jobs for men who\nhaye been looking for samo for some\ntime. It seems they aro willing to\nsocridco the affaire of tho office so\ns tew individuals can get a job.\niifllauso 6. Businoss meotings shall\nlit Veld every Sunday at 2 p.ra. The\nill W. I. U. hu eeased to be cen-\nti*d around the coaBti It's members\ndreto be found sll over the Dominion of Canada. The workers on the\nMist wast to viow this organisation as it really is, an orgasization\nstiWehlsg from the Atlantic to the\nPhoto, also from north to south.\nOne year from now the L. W. I. C.\nStoat to have the groatset organiza\ntion on the North American continent. Of courso that depends on\nhow tho individuals buck or try to\nstop progress, as they have dose in\nthe paat. In dealing with tl)e busi-\n'neas meeting, he says that by giving\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 houn' notice any seven members\ncan call a special business meeting\nin any branch! The idea is simply\nfoolish; st thst rste they could call\na special business meoting every\nother day asd pass motions whioh\nwould probably affect members they\nhad novor soon or heard of. Bomom-\nber seven men dictating tlio policy\nfor 18,000 mombers, some idea, ohf\nTho coast ought to bo made s district, with secretary-treasurer, executive board asd other committees\nso as to conduct the business for\nthe lumber workers on the coast. A\nbusiness meeting every seoond snd\nfourth Snnday is enough to conduct the business of the L. W. 1.17.\nThe organization being rus on the\njob, that ia the place to become acquainted with its workings.\nClause 14. No organizer ihall advocate s politieal party platform.\nWhen an organizer is elected he is\nsupposed to bo elected for his ability to orgasizo snd sis knowledge of\nindustrial unionism. What hia political beliefs and ideals are should\nnot be of ssy interost to s man who\nclaims he understands* hli position\nin society.\nThe way the above clause roads,\nthe L. W. I. tl. would own ss organizer body asd soul for 24 hours\nper day and seven daya s week.\nWould it be breaking the rules to\ngo to s picturo ahow. A man who\ncould think straight would not be\nbound by uy eueh'bunk.\nClause lt. If some Of the mem-,\nben would practise whst they\npreach about subordination and discipline the union would bs better\noff today.\nFollow workers, like Fellow Worker Allman, I ssk of yos te read carefully, get to the bottom, Ind ont\nwhst it means. Believe nothing you\nhoar or read; investigate, find out\nfor yoursolf, tako nothing for granted\u00E2\u0080\u0094you know or you dos't Know,\nNow is the time to prepare yonr\nresolutions, have them published in\nthe Workor ao the memben st large\ncan discuss them, also instruct their\ndelegatea to the convention to obey\nthe wishes of the men who load\nthom there.\nCome on sow, fellow worken al-\ntogether, let ns sll get into the business snd pull, and m the very near\nfuture we will hsve sa organization\nw\nwhich will be second to none in the\ncountry.\nAll it needs, boys, Is sll poll together and s little work!\nToon for economic freedom,\nWALTEB COWAW.\nItcEenzie and the I. W. W.\nEditor B. C. Felmtioslst: Sne* I\nwrote that open letter to* all membors of the L. W. 1 IT. of the 0. B.\nV., the Worker hss arrived, ssd eon.\nsiderable ipse* is taken up witk\n\"resolutions for your consideration,\" which la nothing more or leas\nthan the t W. W. constitution, although the cowardly plsgsrists' who\nput it there were sot mon enough\nto state where they got lt from.\nHaving noither the initiative ra\nthe intelligence to bring forth nnything of their own, they must copy\nthe constitutes of another organization.\nEvon ss honest 1 W. W. must, look\nwith disgust os saeh tactics, sad ss\noeo of those elected to tho 0. 8. V.\neonvention from the L. W. I. V of\nthe 0. B. V., I hereby declsre thst\nI shall neither by set or word\n(spokes or written) advocate tk*\nsail constitution. Asd I feel oertais\nthst ae other unit of tke 0. B. IT.\n (Continued aest page)\n**r\nLiberty Bonds\nS^SSm^mmssmssmmSSmSSMSmsmaSSWSSmSSWSSm \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0a\nFor the Defense of the Men Arrested as a Result\nof the Winnipeg Strike, in Denominations of $1,\n$2 and $5. Have You Got Yours Yet?\nA Day's Pay for Winnipeg\nLiberty of Speech and Action Is\nWorth Paying and Fighting For\nMake all monies payable to A. S. WELLS, Secretary of\nDefense Committee, 405 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, B. C. PAGE EIGHT\neleventh TEAR. No. io THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vancouveb, b. o.\nFRIDAY .December 5, 191\nGROCERIES\nFOR LESS\nOur Self-Serving Non-Delivery Flan saves you money.\nLook over this list and be convinced. 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Back....49c\nSPECIALS FROM THE FRUIT DEPARTMENT\nMcintosh Beds, No. 1, three\nlbs. for 26c\nJap Oranges, per box $1.16\nSoft Shell Walnuts, lb 46c\nline Chestnuts, per lb 46c\nFresh Peanuts, per lb 25c\nNow Figs, per lb 38c\nGET IT AT WOODWARD'S\nFTOTHEE HBAMNO OF\nTHB PERJURY CHARGES\n(Continued from psge 3)\nbeing in Deakoff's house one night\nwhen Dcakoff gavo him a revolutionary song to read!\"\nReply; \"He never give mo anything of tho kind.\"\nMr. Beid: \"And you said,\n\"There sre msny mlstskes in\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2polling!' \u00C2\u00BB.\nReply: \"I sever ssy snything of\nthe sort.\"\nUr. Beid here hunted apparently\nfor the \"song,\" Mr. Rubinowitz\nremarking that it was scribbled on\na half-sheet of paper. It was not\ntound.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Mr. Reid: \"Who told you to como\ndown here!\"\n' Witness (pointing) \"Lawyer.\"\nThen he added: \"I hear thoy look-\nChristmas\nGifts at\nAllan's\nThere is a surprisingly largo\nnumber of articles\u00E2\u0080\u0094say. from\n$1.00 to $5.00\u00E2\u0080\u0094throughout our\nvarious departments, that are\neieeUent for Christmas tokens.\nThero is not an unworthy article among them \u00E2\u0080\u0094 nothing\nshoddy\u00E2\u0080\u0094but aU in good tasto\nand good quality.\n\"The Houso of Diamonds\"\nTho Btore of the Christmas\nSpirit\n480486 OBANVILLE 8T.\nAt Corner Ten-der\ning for mo and I sent a lotter to\nmy friends, and they sent mo word\nto come. They sent mo a telegram\nto come to Vnncouver, becauso they\nknew I was a good friend to Dcakoff.\"\nMr. Reid. \"Where's the telo-\ngrain V i\nWitness looked among his papers\nwithout success, beyong finding tho\nenvelope (undated).\nMr. Beid: \"When did you get\nthat telegramf\"\nBeply: \"Friday week.\"\nMr. Beid pressed witnoss as to\nwhether he hod received any letters\nfrom Vancouver, or seen any Bussians and talkod to them, beforo\ncoming down hore.\nBeply: \"Yes, they told me to\ncome down here because I was a\nfriend of Dourasoff.\"\nMr. Beid: '' They threatened\nhim!\"\nReply: \"No; told mo I had to\neome down. Lots of people told mo\nthey were looking for me.\"\nMr. Reid: 'LDid you know the\nMounted Police wcro looking for\nyou up theref\"\nBeply: \"No.\"\nWitness gavo his present address\non Union Street; ami Mr, Reid asked to havo him .back at tho next\nhearing.\nMr. Rubinowitz hnd no objection,\nbut stipulated thut Dourasoff was\nnot lo try meanwhile to get into\ntouch with him and tamper with\nhim. Counsel explained that ho had\nreasons for this; while Mr. Reid\nraised a great rumpus about it being a reflection on himself. Tho\nmagistrate duly warned \"the accused and any other witness;\" but\nMr. Roid still kept up the racket,\nin spite of Mr. Bubinowitz's repeated assurance that ho was not suggesting anything against counsel\nhimsolf. Ho had -discovered thftt\nthe summing of this witness had becomo known beforehand to Dourasoff, and he wantod him safeguarded. Finally he characterized Mr.\nBoid's fuss as \"sham indignation.\"\nMr. Beid continued the cross-examination, dieting that witness\nwitness-knew that Porfiry could\nread Russian, because ho had seen\nOvercoats\nWE have an overcoat waiting for\nyou to move into at a moment's\nnotice.\nWhy not get it at once and enjoy it\nduring the cold snap we are now\nhaving.\nWe offer you a large selection to\nchoose from of the best British and\nCanadian makes.\nFASHION CRAFT, BURBERRY,\nKENNETH DURWARDS\nThos.Foster&Co^Ltd\n514 GRANVILLE STREET\nHow Australian Ideals\nWere Sacrificed\n(Continued from page 1)\nread articles reprinted from English\nnowspapers\u00E2\u0080\u0094including the London\nTimes\u00E2\u0080\u0094that had already, passed a\nBritish censor in London. Worse\nthan that, he refused to allow labor\npapers to publish articles that had\nalready appoarcd in other non-labor\npnpers in Australia. He prohibited,\nby means of tho censorship, any reference to the possibility of the introduction of colored lnbor into Australia. When boatloads of Maltese\nlaborers reached Western Australia,\nhis censors forbade any reference to\nthe fact. Finally, lio issued an order\nthat no newspaper was to be permitted to reflect \u00E2\u0080\u00A2disparagingly upon\nWilliam Morris Hughes eilher by\ncartoon or by letterpress.\nNot. ono of theso censorship restrictions\u00E2\u0080\u0094and BcoreB of them could\nbo quoted\u00E2\u0080\u0094had tho faintest justification from a military point of view..\nThey wcro purely and simply acts of\npolitical despotism, and brand forever thoir author as an enemy of\npoliticnl freedom and democratic institutions.\nAnother blackardly abuse of power waB his rofuBnl to allow'thc establishment of a labor newspapor in\nQueensland. This was dono under\ntho mis-use of a regulation prohibiting the formation of a company\nduring war-time, without tho consent of Mr. Hughes\u00E2\u0080\u0094and which he\ntook fino care did not get his consent. But at tho samo time at least\nthree anti-labor papers woro allowed\nto establish themselves throughout\nAustralia,'and ho wasn't even asked\nfor his consent. In this, matter\nHughes showod a most vicious spito\nthough he claimed to havo sunk\nparty differences for tho sake of his\nhim read a Russian newspaper in a\npoolroom. Counsel rather eagerly\ngrabbed tho opportunity tb make a\n\"meoting\" out of this, but the best\nhe could get was thnt there wero\n\"two or throe men togother.\" Witness mentioned tho namo of the\nnowspaper in question, but haa not\nseen Porfiry reading another mentioned by counsel.\nMr. Reid: \"Did you soo any\nRussian papers from Seattle in\nDonkoff's house?\"\nWitness: \"No.\"\n\"Or anywhere?\"'\n\"Ono paper, brought by Doura-\nff\" namo given).\n\"Where was it published?\"\n\"New York.\"\nWitnoss how retired from the\nstand, and next Wednesday was suggested for his further examination,\nwitness to remain in Vancouver.\nThon he was recalled by Mr. Rubinowitz, who elicited that ho had written two letters to Dourasoff, who\nhad formerly gone under the nanio\nof Terasoff; also thut witness had\n\"entree\" to tho homes of Russians\nhere, and took Dourasoff with him\nwhen ho visited thom.\nMr. Roid hero objected again, and\nMr. Rubinowitz explained that ho\nwanted to show tho circumstances\nunder which the letter to Dourasoff\nwas written, tho wives of the arrested Russians blaming witness for introducing Dourasoff among thom.\nThe opposition wns maintained, and\nMr. Rubinowitz turnod to the disputed passage in the letter and asked for witness's own translation.\nTho magistrato ridiculed tho idea;\nand after some further suggestions\nas to an \"independent\" interpreter\nthat matter was also dropped.\nMr, Rubinowitz: \"You enmo\ndown here specially to give evidence?\"\nRoply: \"Yes.\"\nMr. Rubinowitz: \"Because you\ngot this\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"\nMr. Beid objected.\nMr. Rubinowitz: '.'.Why did you\ncomo here?\"\nReply: \"(They knew I knew Dourasoff, and they wanted me to come\ndown here.\"\nMr. Rubinowitz now wished to\nquestion witness further about the\nreading of newspapers nnd tho remarks of Dourasoff. This ho explained was in view of tho contention that Dourasoff was an\n\"agent provocateur.\"\nMagistrate: \"I'm not trying Dourasoff for boing revolutionary. I don't\nknow anything ubout his politics,\nand don't caro. Why wasto titao\nin talking about what was said, except so far as it boars on theso\nCOBCS?\"\nMr. Bubinowitz: \"To explain\nwhy the Russian women said somothing to him.\"\nMagistrato: \" What's that got to\ndo with thc caso?\"\nMr. Rubinowitz: \"To show thnt\nthis witness is not giving his ovidenco because ho is afraid.\"\nMagistrate: \"I can't seo how\nit's going to help mo to decido\nwhether Dourasoff and Roth woro\nguitly of porjury or not.\"\nMr, Rubinowitz argued that if\nthe allegations generally wero shown\nto bo tho results of imagination and\ninvontion, then tho Dourasoff charges\nwero also to be taken as false.\nThe magistrato could not apparently got tho samo point of view,\nand remarked: \"Wo got so fnr\nafield, we'll some time get so.fur\nthat wo '11 nover find our way\nbock.\" '\nMr. Boid again mentioned tho two\nlotters witness had written to Dourasoff from Vancouver und Granby\nBay. one of which eame back. This\nled to' an iutorosting bit of additional testimony in view of the fact\nthat the authorities had been \"unable\" to produco this witnoss at tho\nimmigration inquiry.\nMr. Rubinowitz: \"You say that\nDourasoff wroto a lettor to you?\"\nWitness: \"Yes.\"\n\"Whoro were you?\"\n\"Anyox, B. C.\"\n\"Dourasoff knew you were at\nAnyox?\"\n\"Sure.\" \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nMr. Reid: \"Why not produce the\nletter and ask him? That's what\nI'd\" do.\"\nMr. Rubinowitz: \"Dourasoff\nknew where ho was.\"\nMr. Reid: \"I object uulesa tho\nIt iter is produced.\"\nMr. Rubinowitz: '' When was\nit?\"\nWitness: \"About tho beginning\nof September.\"\nMr. Reid: \"Did you ever answer\nit?\"\nWitness: \"Yes; thc letter carno\nback.\" Everybody wus apparently\ndesirous of having auy documents\navailable produced, but witness hnd\nnot got tbe letter iu question. Ho\nsaid, however, \"I've got the letter\nI wrote Dourusoff in May.\"\nMagistrate: \"Oh! that's of no\nvalue.\"\nChristmas\nRibbons\nJn\nExtraordinary\nAssortment\nPresenting unusual variety in both plain and novelty effects, suitable for\nvarious requirements.\nNote thc following:\nDuchesse Satin\nRibbons\nShown in a complete\nrange of colors in the following widths:\n3-16 in. wide, Oti per\nyard.\n3-8 in. wide, ly\u00C2\u00AB$ per\nyard.\n7-16 in. wide, 10^ per\nyard.\n5-8 in. wide, 15\u00C2\u00A3 per\nyard.\nPure Silk Taffeta\nHair Ribbon\n4 ins. wide. Special 89^\nper yard. Shown in pink,\nrose, sky, Copenhagen,\npaddy purple, scarlet, cardinal, ivory and black.\n675 Granville Street\nSey. 3540\ncountry.\nIn the domestic policy of tho eountry, wo know him as a strike-breaker, a union smasher, a destroyer of\nfreo speech and press, and an -unscrupulous abuser of tho functions of\ngovernment. But how docs ho figure\nin foreign uffairs. No better, bo assured of that.\nWhether he was privy to the secret treaty between Britain and Japan, whereby the latter got certain\nof the Gorman Pacific islands, it is\nnot known for certain. But the Australian people havo a bettor opinion\nof Groat Britain thnn to believe that\ntho* treaty was mado without seme\nunderstanding with tho Hughes government in Australia, especially\nwhen the latter was so vitally concerned in, the matter. At any rato,\nwhen thc Peaco Conference came up,\nHughes showed his hand. Ho demanded all the former German possessions for Australia es though they\nwero so many ornaments to hang on\nhis watch-chain. Of course, Japan\nthen insisted her \"rights\" under\nthe Bccrot treaty\u00E2\u0080\u0094and which, by tho\nway, she had automatically denounced by agreeing to President Wilson's fourteen points.\nWhat is tho rosult of this? Australia has an enormous expanses of\nblaek man's land placed under her\ncharge. In its present stato the cost\nof upkeep will bo terrific, and thc\nonly way to improve tho position\nwould be to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in development, and\nas many moro in armaments. But,\nworst of all, it is a black man's land\nand can only bo developed in a\nblack man's way. Our national ideal\nof an all-white continent is to bc\nflung away for tho sake of these\nexponsivo and dangerous territories.\nOur national escutcheon threatens to\nWill Bring About\nAmalgamation of Forces\n(Continued trom page 1)\ntho unions. Ro said that it struck\nhim as being peculiar that this was\nonly facing started in tho old land\nin 1919, when tho spy and socrct service men had boon so long in tho\ngame in this country. In a jocular\nmanner ho stated that this again\nshowed how backward they wero in\ntho old land. Ho stated that th'e\nruling class of the old land had\nsomo traditions bohind them, and\nwero used to ruling, but thet the\nruling class of this country worked on the basis that while tho meetings wero opon, that thoro was somo\nBccrot telepathy by which tho work,\ners passed on their desigus.\nDol. Wolls said that any member\nof tho O. B. U. who thought tho\nnow organization could function to\nbring about a change in tho system,\ndid not understand tho capitalistic\nsystem, and that talk of forming a\nnew socioty within tho shell of the\nold was so much nonsense Ho urgod\ntho workers to endeavor to undep\nstand thc system, and not to make\nsilly statements which eould be used\nio causo mon to be arrested for attempting to bring about revolutions.\nDol. Kavanagh also pointed out\nthat tho matorial conditions of \"a\npeoplo was tho cause of tho actions\nof society, and that peoplo reacted\nas the causo of furthor movements,\non conditions, and the conditions\nagain acted as tho cause of further\nmovements.\nA general discussion then took place\non many mattors in which it was\npointod out that littlo knowledge\ncombined with much misguided enthusiasm was dangerous, and that\nrevolutions woro not made or plotted, but came about becnuse of tho\nconditions thnt prevailed.\nSocretary Wood reported that\nefforts wero being mado lo have Professor Angus address tho next couneil meeting, and ns this moeting was\ntho rogular oducational meeting, if\ntho profossor could not bo secured\nanother spenker' would bo on hand\nto address tho council.\nGET BEHIND A BUTTON\nWorkers' Liberty Bond Buttons\nare Issued to every purchaser of a\nbond. Have yon got yours yet. Oet\nbehind a button and show that you\nare willing to help all you can the\ndefense of the men arrested in Win\nnipeg.\nCOUNCIL GETS NEW\nLEASE OF LIFE\n(Continued from Page 1)\npigs and men with deceased minds.\nThia seemed to be the consensus\nof opinion of other delegates but\ndelegate Russell asked for an apo-\nllgy from dolegate MeVety and it\nwas given.\nConsiderable discussion took\nplace over the Insertion of a clauso\nin'the constitution that was being\npresented for adoption ot a clause\nin the constitution that was being\npresented for adoption by the\ncouncil. The constitution commlt-\nI tee were desirous of inserting a\nI clause which provided that no person be seated who had advocated\nsecossion from the afflliated A. V.\nof L. movemont. In objecting to\nthis it was pointed out that a great\nmany of the live wires who are still\nwith the International, advocated\nsecession. The clause was Anally\nmado to read that auy delogate\nwho advocated secession whilo a\ndelegate to the council, shall be\nunseated and his organization\nasked to appoint a delegate in his\nor her place. With the addition ot\nthis clause the old constitution of\nJuly, 1917, was adopted.\nThe question of the name of the\ncouncil also came up for discussion\nand It was decided to stick to the\nname of the Vancouver Trades and\nlabor Council.\nDelegate Sully In referring to\nwhat the Federationist reporter\nhad quoted him as stating at the\nlast council meoting (daily paper\nreporters made the same statement) informed the council that\nhe would like to see the men on\ntrial lir. Winnipeg discharged because it would be the \"best way\nto kill them.\" If they were sentenced they would become martyrs\nand would boost their movement.\nHe wus therefore oppsed to the\nscheme that the \"sharks had of\ncollecting money\" because It would\nonly tend to build up the O. B. 11.\nmovement.\nThe new bridge\nis firm\nJust ns the locked door of a\nsafo is firm so tho new Be-\nmovable Bridge Ih firm and\nsolid when in place. Patients\nnot having seen this new\ndenture, whieh represents the\nlatest advance in tho Science\nof Dentistry, are inclinod to\nthink of it as loose or shaky, bt-\ngsuho It In nnovabla. An exm*\n.nation of the bridge itielf will\nremove this impression at once.\nThe secret of tbe firmness \u00C2\u00ABnd\nsolidity io uso lies In tbe nbsotau\naccuracy with whioh it is m\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00ABi\u00C2\u00BB,\nand the peculiar quality of the\ngold which In used\u00E2\u0080\u0094a Bpeoial\nhardnoBs and ronlHoncy being\nnecosHDry. Also tn tbe method'by\nwhich it Is attached or \"locked'*\nin tbe mouth.\nTbls new bridge cnn be worn by\nthoso whoso tooth lasses do not\npermit of tbo regular bridge. Boo\nit liure. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nDr. Lowe\nFine Dentistry\nHASTINGS AND ABBOTT\nPhost Bey. S144\nOpposite Wooflward'i\nGET BEHIND A BUTTON\nWorkers' Liberty Bond Buttons\nare issued to every purchaser of a\nbond. Have you got yours yet. Get\nbehind a button aud show that you\nare willing to help all you can the\ndefense of the men arrested iu Winnipeg.\nbe besmirched with tho . stain of\ncoolisism.\n-Wilson's idea of internationalizing tho Gorman possessions in the\nPcciflc was tho ideal of tho Australian labor party. Had it boon\ndono, tbo Australian people would\nhavo bcen saved an enormous burden, and would havo had in its plncc\ntlio welcome, barrier of an internationally mnintniuod armament pieced betwoen her. and Jnpnn. As it\nnow happens, Jupnn's dominion\nstretches to within a slonn's throw\nof Australia, and provided for Iter\na handy jumping-off ground whenever sho desires to mako tho next\nleap in tho future.\nThus it comes about that, mainly\nthrough tho anti-labor trickery of\nPrime Minister Hughes, tho white\nAustralia policy is today in doadly\ndanger. Tho centre of navalism has\nbeen shifted to thc Pacific ocean, aud\nlater on we may find tho warships\nof foreign nations bombarding our\ncities and towns, and colored races\nmaking their entry into our midst.\nAnd when that happens, wo cnn lay\nmuch of tho blame nt tho door of\nWilliam Morris Hughes, tho present\nanti-labor Australia prime minister.\nLetters to The Fed.\n(Continued from page 7)\nwill stand for it eithor, whotver thc\nloggers may do. I would rather\nwithdraw as a delegate to the said\nconvention, than snerifleo tho principles of tho school of thought to\nwhich I Mlong. But believing that\nthat gang of disrupters do not express the sentiments of the majority\nof our union, I shall ,unlcss a reelection takes placo which would put\nme out of count, act as a delegato\nto that convention.... -.\nWhen a nolice titRaar. nv oimlVu\n__\u00C2\u00BB__\n* VTpQ I You Can Use Your Credit To\n1 X XjO! Advantage This Christmas If You\nACT ON OUR SUGGSTION\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094besides, your gift will be more appreciated if it is something practical.\nFOB INSTANCE\u00E2\u0080\u0094The gift of a Coat, Drew, Sweater or a beautiful aet of Fine Warm\nPun, would be greatly appreciated by mother, sister, daughter or wife, and for father, brother, son or husband, a smart up-to-date Suit, Overcoat or Raincoat would be\na worthy gift. And if you buy it at the \"New York,\" you won't require much ready\ncash, because you can pay the \"easy way.\" Simply pay us a small deposit, and the\nbalance eau be arranged to suit your own convenience. The following will give you\nan idea of our Chriatmai Specials:\nFOR LADIES\nOOATS\nIn aU tke leading etyles and\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2hades; made of tbe very\nnewest Materials,\nUp from .....\nSWEATERS\nIn silk asd in pretty shades\n01W001 $20\nFOBS\nBeautiful Neck Pieces and\nHuffs, mado up in a variety of\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2elected pelts in exclusive\n222* $19.50\nDEESSES\nFor evening and stroet wear,\nin serges, silks, satins and\nchiffon, ete. AAA\nUp ftom .. 9**\f\n$20\nUp from...\nPLUSH OOATS\nMado of Bed Silk Plush, trimmed with opossum und othor\nhigh-class furs. AAA\nUp from _: ejtemtXJ\nBAINCOATS\nMade of solected materials,\nup-to-dato stylos, rubbor lined.\nUp\nfrom.\t\n$15\nFOR MEN\nSUITS\nNew York's latest models in\nup-to-dato cloths. Priced from\n$25 T0 $60\nOVERCOATS\nIn the very newest and smartest stylos; selected materials.\nUp\nfrom\t\n$15.00\nRAINCOATS\nIn Bubberizod Tweeds, etc.;\nnewest patterns, rubber lined.\nUp\nfrom\t\n$15.00\nOur Slogan: \"PAY THE EASY WAY\"\nDrew Well on Eaay Terms at ths\nim-rn\nNew York OutfittingCo., Ltd.\n143 HASTINOS STREET WEST\nOpposite Province Offlce\nSeymour 1361\nI\n*\npmm\nagent of tho government, asks any\nof theso follows whother thia is an\nI. W. W. organization or not, thoy\nanswer thot it is not, but they know\nthat it is their earnest desire that\nit should be, if thoy could have their\nway. , How; aro we, who. know that\nit is not, going to bo able to state\nthat with assurance in futurel If I\nwcro an I. W. W., I would not be\nashamed to declare myself. Nor\nwould I descend to such literary\nstealing or underground tactics to\nruin an organization which doos not\ncall itself the I. W. W.\nFollow workers, if you wish to join\ntho I. W. W., do bo honestly. There\nis no nood of having two O. E. B.'s.\n(goneral executive boards). There\nis one in existence in Chicago, United States ,at presont.\nI hopo by theso few lines that I\nhavo doclared myself sufficiently so\nthat you may know what I stand for.\nTours fraternally,\nA. McKENZIB,\nSecretary-treasurer,\nKamloops District.\nOn Just Laws\nEditor B. C. Foderationist: Tour\ncircular lettor camo duly to hand.\nI seo by the Federationist that Eel.\nBussell says thot our Canadian laws\naro just. Possibly ho means something very different from what I\nunderstand by that word. If I\nthought our laws wore just, and\njustly carried out, I would not be\nin any union that was seeking to\nchange thoso laws. When I resigned my position as J. P. in 1914, I\ngave as my reason that I was fully\nconvinced that a numbor of our\nlaws, and certainly tho goneral practice of our courts, oncouraged dishonesty and crimo. I havo not\nweakened in my opinion. I beliove\nthat justice is practically impossiblo\nunder the present systom. First, because, thero is no. thorough and impartial investigation, and secondly,\nbecause the expenses of courts aro\nsuch that a poor man has no show.\nI have no sympathy with tho crazy\npeople who would attempt to cost\nout our system, bad as it is, until\nthey wero pretty sure they had somothing better to put in the placo of\nit. I bolieve in hitting one nail at\na time. I think if wo eould bo assured of justico in our courts it\nwould bo a great reform that would\nbring many others very soon.\nNow a short timo-ago tho International Union of Steam and Oporating Engineers demanded a higher\nscale of pay, in oonsequenco of\nwhich, as I would not buck agaius\ntho union, I havo boon dismissed\nand a non-union man put in m;\nplaco. That scorns quite logal, an\nI supposo Mr. Russell would thinl\njust, and as far as I can see a\nprosent tho union has not power t\nprotect or help mo. I do not knot\nif the 0. B. U. woilfd bo any bette\nor not, but it puts ine in a very tigh\nilx. I hnd just bought a piece o\nland and if I had kopt receiving m;\nwages for anothor four or flv\nmonths I would havo been in a poai\ntion.to have put something on it tha\nwould hnvo helped to make my liv\ning. Now, knowing there are quit\na few engineers out of work, I so\nno wny of making a fow dollars un\ntil tho spring and 1 paid nearly al\nmy available cash for my land, bui\nI beliove that a fair trial in all easei\nahould bo had and without it W(\nhave no security or foundation foi\nstablo government. I have previous\nly given $5.00 (more thin a day'i\npay); I herewith forward WOO more\nand if I should see any means oi\ngetting money boforo tne affair ii\nclosed I will send some more, le\ncause I bolieve a vital principle ii\nat stake. \" '\nTours respectfully,\nALFRED W10G8.\nDon't take our say-so for it, but malic the investigation for\nyourself\u00E2\u0080\u0094that's thc way to know, the how\about values.\nSHOES\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094that have real Value\u00E2\u0080\u0094that have style and yet. the prioe is lower\nthan the same shoe will for at other stores\u00E2\u0080\u0094and with onr unlimited\nassortment there's a shoe here for every man\u00E2\u0080\u0094our lines comprise\nsuch makes of men's shoes as have a universal reputation for being\nthe best in footwear\u00E2\u0080\u0094Regal, McPherson, Copeland A Ryder, Slater,\nleckie and others.\nHere's an A rich Brown calf boot, Goodyear wolt \u00E2\u0080\u0094 rubber heel\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00C2\u00BB\nExample orackcrjock\u00E2\u0080\u0094other stores sell this boot for $18.00.\nOUB TBICE, IN BROWN\nOUR PRICE, IN BLACK\nCanadian\nBoy Shoe\nEvery mother knows this shoe\nto bo aeo high in boys' boots,\nfor hard, rough wear\u00E2\u0080\u0094a shoo\nthat simply ean't bo equalled\nat tho price\u00E2\u0080\u0094sizos 1 to 0%\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n$5.00 and $5.50\nMnny other lines of Men's and\nBoys' Footwear that are the best in\nvalue at lower prices. **\nWM. 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