"2c8996ec-9979-4e6f-aa8d-1006ace90e44"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2017-03-28"@en . "1920-10-22"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcfed/items/1.0345501/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST\nINDUSTRIALCNITT: STRENGTH \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nTWELFTH YEAR. No. 43\nEIGHT PAGES\nOFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL.\nVANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MOVING, OCTOBER 22,1920\nPOLITICAL UNITT i VICTOBT\nii \" i i in\n$2\u00C2\u00A30 PER YEAR\nWALL STREET THROWS\nFINANCES AGAINST\nPOLITICAL STORM\nBankers Want Producers to Pay Gambling Debts-\nPrices Taking Big Tumble\u00E2\u0080\u0094Revolt Sweeping\nCountry\u00E2\u0080\u0094Panic in Agriculture Industry\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Political Tornado Generated\n\u00C2\u00BBt\u00C2\u00BB|.,|ii|\nPress States No Clemency\nWill Be Shown Teg\nVictims\nFinancial Post Quotes\nFrom Moore on \"Moscow Propaganda\"\n-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The two following articles taken\nfrom widely different papers may\nbe very easily coupled up by those\nthat understand Tom Moore, and\nthe connection that the Trades\nCongress of Canada has with the\ngovernment. The first article was\nclipped from the Daily Province,\nand the second from the Financial\nPost published In Toronto:\nBy JOHN OONKLIN\n(In The Daily Province)\nWinnipeg, Oct. 18.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Hope that\nWinnipeg strike leaders, serving a\nyear sentence at Manitoba's prison\nfarm, might be released before*the\nexpiration of their sentence, was\nabandoned Saturday night when\nword was received from counsel in\nOttawa that there was no bright\noutlook and Premier Melghen's\nopposition to release was adamant.\nFull sentences of George Armstrong,- Rev. William Ivens, Alderman John Queen, R. J. Johns and\nW. A. Pritchard of Vancouver\nwill expire April 0, but with a\nmonth deducted for good conduct,\nMarch 6 is the earliest date on\nwhich their release can be expected, lt Is said.\nFollowing the visit of western\nLabor members to Ottawa ln August, It was expected that the government would wait a reasonable\nlength of time and then liberate\nthe prisoners. Since this visit failed In Its object, no official efforts\nhave beon made by labor men or\nthe Winnipeg defenso committee to\nobtain early release of the imprisoned leaders.\nThis committee, organized more\nthan a year ago for the purpose of\nraising funds to defend persons arrested for participation In the\nstrike and to assist their families,\nand which secured $300,000,* has\nceased to function in its former\ncapacity, and for the reason that\nnothing remains to be done. The\ncommittee pinned its fuith to the\nresult of the Russell appeal before\nthe Privy Council in July, and\nwhen this action tailed, sent the\nlabor delegation to Ottawa to request executive clemency.\nTHE POST ARTICLE\nThe dangers to Canadian business and to the welfare of the community generally of persistent\npropaganda of unrest which finds\nIts inspiration in the actvities of\nSoviet agents have frequently been\nemphasized In the Financial Post\nand In recent issues actual evidence has been submitted to show\nhow these activities are carried on,\nAttention has frequently been called also to the fact that a great\nstabilizing factor in offsetting the\nRed propaganda has been supplied\nby the old-fashioned labor organizations under their conservative\nlenders. That these leadors have\nfully realized and still realize the\nresponsibility which they are\nshouldering Is indicated in the\nweek's statement of Tom Moore,\npresident of the Trades and Labor\nCouncil of Canada. Mr. Moore\nsays that the movement today Is a\nfar - reaching one, although\nthought of little consequence by\n(Continued on page 8)\nShipyard Laborers Not\nWanted in Portland\nMetal Trades\nShipyard Laborers' Unit of the\nOne Big Union' of Portland, Ore./\nwith a membership of over 60d,\nhas been ousted from the Metal\nTrades Council of that city. Delegates from the Vancouver, Wash.,\nlocal were also denied Beats on the\ncouncil. This action'came as the\nresult of recent Machinist and Boll,\nermaker conventions. The president of the council recently attended the machinists convention and\nwas also in conference with president O'Connell of the Metal Trades\ndepartment of the A. F. of L. and\nhad been advised to oust the O. B.\nU. local. This he proceeded to do\nat the meeting of the council. Joe\nRead, an International officer of\nthe Boilermakers' Union, informed\nthe council that his organization\nhad decided to oust all O. B. U.\nmembers as per instructions from\ntheir convention.\nThe shipyard laborers, with\nheadquarters at 247 1-2 Stark\nstreet, Potrland, are not perturbed\nby the action, but will build up\nthetr organization by admitting to\nmembership, workers of any and\nall crafts and should the growth\nwarrant it, other units will be formed to carry on the work of the particular Industry.\nFederated Labor Party to\njj Hold Sunday Evening\nMeetings\n'Next Sunday evening at 8\n.o'clock Comrade E. T. Kingsley will\nopen the winter meetings of the\nFederated Labor Party.. The meetings ore to be held In the new\nheadquarters of the F. L, P. at 148\nCordoya 'Street West. Comrade\nKingsley will take aa his subject,\n\"The Break of Capitalism.\" There\nw[ll be a large stock of literature\non sale at all meetings.\n' Contributions to the lending\nlibrary being organized by the\nnatty are piling up steadily and\nfrbm the class of books that has\nbeen (secured so far It is safe to\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ay that the library will be \"one\nof the best.\" The books will be\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2made available as soon as proper\naccommodation and cataloging are\narranged.\nv, :A Hallowe'en social and dance\nwill be held at the party headquarters on Saturday, October 30, at 8\np.m. A good programme is being\narranged, which . will Include\nshort Informal concert and a dance\nfrom 10 to 12 p.m. Refreshments\nwill be served. A general good\ntime is the idea.\n? /Put a one-cent stamp' on this\npaper and mall It to a friend.\nFind That Wisely Managed Direct Action of\nMuch Value'\nThird Anniversary of\nRuss. Revolution Soon\nto Be Celebrated\n(Special Moscow Radiograph to the\nFederated Press and . London\nDally Herald.)\nMoscow.\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. O. Wells, the English novelist, now visiting Russia,\nmade an address at the October 7\nsession of the Petrograd government..\nWells' said that he and others ln\nEngland are working for the samo\nideal as the Communists\u00E2\u0080\u0094the ere-,\nation of a universal regime of social equality which will minister to\nevery citizen according to his needs.\n\"My government,\" he Bald, \"caused, and ls causing, destruction and\nmisery to your country. The welcome you have given me shows me\nyou understand our difficulties.\n\"I am sure that in spite of the\nmistakes which have been made on\nboth sides we can love and understand each other and can work together for the benefit of humanity\nln the new world which Is being\nborn out of the darkness of calamity.\n\"The British people wish peace\nand they will have peace. They\nwill Increase their agitation for\npeace until they get peace.\"\nThe third anniversary of the\nRussian revolution will be celebrated with special festivals. All tho\nslok and wounded will be given\npresents and special performances\nwill be given at all the theatres\nand moving picture houses.\nElectrification Is proceeding rap-\nIdly la Russia and loon every Russian Tillage will have (Metric Ights,\nDream of Militant Workers May Soon Be \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nRealized\n(By. Max Worth, European Staff\nCorrespondent for The Federated\nPress.)\nParis.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Italian metal workers, by\na voto of 127,904 against 44.531,\nhave accepted the agreement made\nln their name by the Italian Federation of Labor, ln its dealings\nwith the government and the manufacturers; the Italian prime minister has made'his report to the\nsenate and has announced the\namicable settlement of the whole\naffair.\nThe workors have found that\nwell-jogulated and wisely managed\ndirect action may gain for them In\na month what bargulnlns and legal action would not achieve |ri\nmany years. The victory Is a moral\nono. Tho . workers have . learned\nsomething of the force that their\nindustrial movement possesses.\nThe Italian owning class has\nlearned a lesson.\u00E2\u0080\u0094that the time has.\npassed, In Italy, whon the government can be counted on to rubber-\nstamp the acts of the manufacturers. The revolution .there has gone'\ntoo far.\nThe militant workers have not\nseen their dreams of a complete\nrevolution realized. The militant\nowners huve lost tho edge of their\npower. The red Hag has floated,\nunchaiienged on the largest establishments of Italy, and even the\nrural workers have begun to realize that a free man must count on\nowning his Job.\nLondon Central Labor\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Council Decides to\n'. Make Change\nAuxiliary to Meet\nThe regular meoting of the Women's Auxiliary of the O. B. U.\nwill be held tonight (Friday) In\ntho O. B. U. hall, comer of Pender\nand Howe streets, when the final\nroport on the defense dance will\nbe made. In addition to the regular routine business, tho study of\nWage, Lnbor and Capital by Marx\nwill be taken up, and It Is also\nexpected that Jack Kavanagh will\ngive an address on this work.\nORANGE OF ADDRESS.\nOwing to tho sale of the Vancouver Labor Templo, the offices of\ntho Fcilciatlonlst have been moved\nto Rooms 1 and 2, Victoria Block,\n343 Pender Street West. Correspondents are requested to make\nnote qf this.\nFrom present Indications and\nballots taken by several newspapers, notably the Cincinnati Enquirer, Eugene V. Debs will get a\ntremendous vote in Ohio, tn many\nfactories he gets more on the straw\nballot than either Hnrdlng or Con.\nQuestions Advisability of\n1 Affiliation With\nAF.ofL.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ^London, Ont. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 London Trades\n'itnd Labor Council at its lost .meeting decided to eliminate the singing or \"God Save the King\" at the\nclose of its sessions hereafter. The\nformer local organizer, ex-Sergeant\nFTed Young, who was responsible\nfor the Introduction of the anthem\nInVo the council's closing ceremonies two years ago was for the ser-\noii.l time refused admission to the\nCouncil, the vote standing 23 to 10,\narid the minority Including several\nradical extremists who, while\nstrongly opposed to Young's reactionary agitations, did not favor the\nIdea ol! the council refusing to seat\nany delegate elected and accredited by a subordinate local. The ousting of Young from the council Is\nattributed to his action last January In pledging support to the Independent Labor party nominee for\nthe mayoralty, Harry B. Ashplant,\nand his subsequent right-about-\nface to work for the citizen's candidate. Mayor E. S. Little. Young,\nafter accepting office in the Labor\nRepresentative committee, refused\nto abide by the committee's choice\nOf a candidate becnuse, he declared,\nhe would not support a Socialist or\nfbrmer Socialist,\nThe vote to cut out \"God Save\nthe King\" waB unanimous. Objection had been taken to lt by Nationalists ln the council who wanted \"O Canada\" substituted. A sur-\np^lso was sprung when Joseph Hill,\na '.war veteran, moved that the Imperialist anthem be omitted, claiming that he was not disloyal, In fact\nhad lately received a letter from\nthc Prince of Wales, but as the\nwar was over, he thought the cere-\nnuuioy of singing \"God Save the\nKing\" would very well be dispensed\nwith.\nCriticisms levelled nt tho American Federation of Labor for failure\nto answer communications from\nthe London council asking why\nYoung wan appointed local organizer Instead of Hnrry Wray, the\nnominee of the council, were numerous and severe. Sevoral speak-\non openly raised the question of\nWhethor nny benefit accrued from\naffiliation with the A. F. of L. but\nWere called to order for their remarks by tho chairman, Frank McKay, a member of the Typographical Union.\nSupport was voted to the new\nLabor Forum, organized by Prof.\nLouis A. Wood, Ph.P., head of th'e\ndepartment of economics In tho\nWestern University which forum\nwill be opened October 10, by J. J.\nMorrison, secretary of the United\nFarmers of Ontario.\nE FIRST\nIN\nMeetings in O.B.U. Hall\nFor the Coming Week\nSUNDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094People's Sunday Evening Meeting,\nMONDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094Piledrivers.\nWEDNESDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094General Workera.\nBig Demonstration Held1\nBy Rebel Mexican\nWorkers\nRed Flags Fly and Many\nSpeakers Address Big\nAudiences\n(By Roberto Haberman, Mexican\nStaff Correspondent for thc Fed'\nerated Press.)\nMexico City.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sunday, September 26th, was Mexico's flnt real labor day. Tha hosts of labor marched throughout the republic. From\nSonora to Yucatan, with their red\nflags, amid the shoutings of \"viva\nObregon,\" \"viva de la Huerta,\"\n\"viva Russia,\" \"viva Italia.\" Everywhere the same protests, the same\ndemands: the enforcement of constitutional article 27 which gives\nthe lands to the people, of article\n123 whloh gives Justice to the\nworkers, the regulation of food by\nthe creation or a food commission,\nviolent attacks on the capitalist\npress\u00E2\u0080\u0094in Mexico City direct threats\nagainst the Excelsior and Universal\nfor their campaign of vilification\nand misrepresentation of the alms\nof the workers.\nThe parade was made up of thousands of men and women, wearing\nred carnations, marching back to\ntheir union banners Inscribed with\ntheir demnnds. Luis Morones, labor leader, and Colonel Flliberto\nVillareal, on horseback, dressed ln\nthe gorgeous Mexican charo costume, with, flowing red' ties, and\nholding aloft the red'flag of Tlaa-\npan, headed the procession.\nForty Congressmen In Line\nThe flag of Tlzapan, a medium\nsized red banner with a three Inch\nblack stripe running diagonally\nthrough lt, received its baptism\nonly three months ago after one of\nthe hardest fought strikes in Mexico\u00E2\u0080\u0094that of the textile industries of\nTlzapan (a suburb of Mexico City)\nwhich Included about 16,000 workers.\nFor the first time ln Mexico congressmen took part ln a workers'\nparade. Forty disputados, part of\nlhe Socialist block of congress,\nmarched behind a banner announcing in bold red type: \"All justice\nto the workers,\" and making\nspeeches at every corner, explaining to the crowds tho necessity for\nan efficient organization.\nThere was Sotoy Qama, who, as\nIntellectual* leader of the Zapata\nmovement, fought In the mountains\nof Morelos for six years: Felipe\nCarrllo, president of the Socialist\nparty of Yucatan; Luis Leon, chief\nof the Obregon propaganda; Man-\nllo Altomlrano from the hills \u00C2\u00ABf\nVera Cruz, \"who, a month before\nthe fall of the Carranza regime,\nshouted In congress In the presence\nof somo cabinet ministers: \"We left\ntho horse and tho _rifle believing\nthat would give us land, bread and\nJustice, but we see that we have\nto go back to our horse and rifle\nto get them!\"\nPalace Guards Present Arms\nWhon the parado reached the\nPlaza de Constitution, the workers\nwere received by Eduadro Moncda,\nsecretary In chargo o\u00C2\u00A3 labor, ln\nplace of the president, who was\nill In bed. Tho guards of tho Fa-\nlacl.o Nacional presented arms, and\nthe palace wns thrown open to tho\nparadcrs. Suddenly the red flag of\nTlzapan appeared flying from _pno\n(Continued on page 8)\nRAILWAYMEN BACKING\nBRITISH MINERS IN\nNATIONAL STRIKE\nUltimatum to Premier Expires Midnight Sunday-*\nTransport Workers to Get Into Scrap\u00E2\u0080\u0094Welsh\nMiners Would Seize and Operate Mines\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Blames Government\nLondon\u00E2\u0080\u0094Orders have been Issued\nfor Britiah rallwaymen to strike\nSunday at midnight In sympathy\nWith coal minera. The transport\nworkera are also prepared to take\nsimilar action within 24 hours.\nUnder the orders sent out, rail\nwaymen throughout the United\nKingdom wlU walk out Sunday\nmidnight unless specific Instructions to the contrary are Issued ln\ntbe meantime.\nThe rallwaymen have served an\nultimatum on Premier Lloyd\nOeorge demanding Immediate\ngranting of tlie minera' wage de-\nmands or re-openlng negotiations,\nwith the alternative of the sympathetic strike. If Lloyd Qeorge capitulates, the railway strike will'\nbs called off.\nTransport Workers Next\nTransport workers, the other division of the \"triple alliance,\" announced .through their secretary,\nRobert Williams, if negotiations\nwere not re-opened within twenty-\nfour hours the Issue would be clearly drawn between the government,\nand the workera.\nA move to force nationalization\nof British coal mines is seen in the\ndemand of Welsh miners that pita\nln South Walts be occupied and\noperated.\nThe threat was made at a meet-\ndom announcing delays In material\nscheduled for Immediate shipment\nThere are signs that foreign customers refuse to wait settlement of\nthe strike ahd already are placing\norders ln America, France, Bet*\nglum and Germany.\nGovernment to Name,\nThe government decided that\nrather than give the miners the two\nshillings per' shift lncreaae it will\nexpose the country to the results ot\na strike. \"The miners,\" says their\nmanifesto, \"offered concession after concession, but the government\nwas inspired to treat every concession as though it had never been\noffered.\"\nNo device haa. been spared In\nthe government's manoeuvers for\ndelays. It obtained the postponement,, but it failed to bring about\nthe division within the miners*\nranks which lt hoped- for. The\nminers are united to the last man\nand .determined to carry through\nthe fight. They feel that this is\nnot a mere wage contest but that\ntt is a deliberate attack on the\nMiners' Federation Itself.\nCalU for Strikebreakers.\nThe government Is already call*\nIng for volunteer blacklegs (strikebreakers) for transport work.\nIn the referendum on the term*\noffered the miners by the coal op\ning ln Coedely, which decided to era*or!' \"M?8 vot\" JI?* ***\naak the South Wales conference\nmeeting Friday to expel owners and\ntheir representatives from the\nmines, seize and operate them until\na settlement has been reached.\nBig Business Losses.\nCity business circles stand to\nlose enormous amounts In cancellation of orders already pouring ln.\nMerchant offices are receiving\nwires from all parts of the king-\nMAY REFUSE TO\nGermany and U. S. Contest With England for\nWorld Trade\n(By Helen Augur, Staff Correspondent for the Federated Press.)\nNew York. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Will \"Britannia\nItuleB the Waves\" soon be as obsolete a song as \"Doutchland Ueber\nAlles\" as a result of shipping al-\nllancos between America and Germany such as the W. A. Harriman\ncontrnct with the Hamburg-American line? \u00E2\u0080\u009E\nThe query is being taken seriously In England, whero mastery of\nworld trade and shipping fs as\ndominant an ambition as control\nof the world's oil supply. Great\nBritain Is feeling out the strength\nof her new commercial rival-\nAmerica, who is challenging her in\nthe field whore her pride runs hottest\u00E2\u0080\u0094the seas of the world.\nTho fact that it is her former\nsea-rival, Oormany, who is aiding\nthe building up of America's merchant marine with her expert advice and todlously-won prestige, is\nan artistic pang added to England's\nJealousy,\nBeal basis for England's uneasiness exists in the fact that American tonnage has grown In the last\nsix years from 1,000,000 tons lo a\ntotal of 12,000,000. In 1914 England had double Germany's tonnage, or 13,000,000,\nIt Is because \"Thc King cnn do\nno wrong\" that soldier organizations attack the government for\nthe treatment aocordejl them aud\nthen wind up by lustily singing,\n\"God save the Ring.\"\nOrganized Metal Workers\nto Hold International\nConference\nWashington\u00E2\u0080\u0094Organized metal\nworkers throughout the world arc\nto meet wthin a few months to\nreach an agreement on a refusal to\nmake armaments or munitions,\nthereby preventing wars, President\nJohnston and Sec-treas. Davison of\nthe International Association of\nMachinists, announced.\nResolutions adopted at the\nRochester convention October 4,\ninstructed them to ask the International Federation of Trade\nUnions to arrange this direct action anti-war conference, and to\nsee that the machinists of America\nwere represented.\n\"I agree with Presldnet John\nston that Mr. Gompers' rejection\nof affiliation of the A. F. of I., with\nthe European movement does not\nreflect our position nor that of the\nA. F. of L. membership\" said DaV'\nlsoh. \"United States Labor stands\nfor affiliation and co-operation\nwith Labor abroad,\"\nJames Simpson, A, F. of L. lead\ner In Toronto, here today, deplored\nthe Gompers' action as \"a most\nunfortunate blow to the prestige\nof the A. F. of L. in Canada, doubly unfortunate because tt gives thc\nElectrical Workers and thc butcher\nworkmen of Toronto, who have\njust seceded from the A. F. of L.\nIn a body, the argument that Mr.\nGompers has himself ordered n\nsecession from the I nter'national\nFederation of Trade Unions, with\nwhich a very targe part of our\nCanadian membership Is in close\ntouch due to political and racial\nties.\"\nagainst acceptance and 110,428 in\nfavor of remaining at work on the-\nowner's terms; The conference of\ndelegates which met to consider\nthe returns, decided by 1154 tb 17\nto allow the notices to the ownen\nto expire Saturday.\nFrank Hodges, secretary of tho\nMiners' Federation, In a stateemht\nto the public In the Dally Herald,\nsays: \"The miners/have gone to\nthe extreme limit of reasonableness without the slightest manifestation of reciprocity on the part of\nthe operators or the government\nThia, spirit of reasonableness haa\nbeen exploited by the government\nleaders and the men are determined to stand four square until justice\nis done.\"\nWelsh Bailway Clerks Protest.\nThe railway clerks of Wales\nhave wired Thomas their emphatic\ndisapproval of Ute instructions they\nhave received to remain neutral,\nand they passed a resolution urging\nthe clerks to link up with the other\nunions In support of the miners,\neven to the extent of leaving their\nwork.\nLabor Party Gets Busy.\nThe national council of the Independent Labor party passed a resolution expressing grave apprehension over the attitude of the government toward the miners, \"conveying, as It does, an aggressive challenge to the whole working class\nmovement\" The resolution requests the Labor party to convene\na special conference.\nMilwaukee. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"A municipally\nowned heating plant for homes Is\na project which eventually will\ncome true,\" said Joseph A. Meslroff\nIn speaking of thc plan Indorsed\nby Walter J. Polnkov, New York.\none of tho best known engineers, In\ntho country. The time will come\nwhen a plant owned snd controlled\nby the city will supply the heat for\nall the homes and business houses.\nIt Is a blgi engineeringing project,\nbut It will come.\n20,000 American citizens havo\nsworn that their incomes during\n1919 was at least $R0,000 a year.\n295 have incomes of over $760,000.\nNo wonder the communistic spirit\nis growing.\nWhere ts your union button?\nOfficial of I. W. W. Says\nHe Would Like General Strike\n(By the Federated Press.)\nNew York.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Declaring that the\n94 convicted members of the I. W,\nW. will fight their case through to\nthe end\u00E2\u0080\u0094if necessary carry it to\nthe Supreme Court of the United\nStates, William D. Haywood, former general secretary of the 1. W. W.\nmude his farewell uddress ut a\nmeeting of I. W, W. friends gathered ut the People's House to bid\ngood-bye to the 10 defendants in\nthc case who nre about to leave this\ncity for Chicago. Following the denial of their appeal from conviction\nunder the Espionage Act by United\nStales court of appeals of Illinois,\nthey wtll return to Chicago for a\nrehearing of the case in the same\ncourt.\n\"My greatest desire Is to see the\ndoors of the penitentiary opened\nand Gene Debs released,\" William\nD. Haywood declared.\n\"Jail Is no place for any human\nbeing, and It certainly Is no place\nfor such men as the government\nis now committing to the penitentiary,\" he continued. \"If I were not\nmyself a political prisoner I should\nlike to go out to tho workers and\nurge that 10.ooo,ooo men and women Iny down their tools and refuse to do a stitch of work until\nDebs is released.\"\nPEOPLE'S SUNDAY\nEVENING MEETING\nPENDER HALL, OORNER OF PENDER AND HOWE\nSTREETS\nSunday, October 24th, 1920\nAT 8 P.M.\nSubjeet:\n\"Passing of the Old Religions\"\nSpeaker: J. S. WOODSWORTH. Discussion Invited\n< \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB.>..\u00C2\u00BB.>'H\"\u00C2\u00BB.*->\">M\u00C2\u00BB\"t\">i'>\"\u00C2\u00BB'*\"i\"fi\"i\"i\">M\"\u00C2\u00BB'i\"\u00C2\u00BBi\u00C2\u00BBi\u00C2\u00BBi<\"\u00C2\u00ABw*\"t-\u00C2\u00BB.\u00C2\u00BB11 iiiitiitt\u00C2\u00BBa*p+++ rmxB |Yifu\ntwelfth year. no. 4\u00C2\u00BB THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST\nVANCOUVER, B. 0,\ni FRIDAT Ootober tt, 19!o\nGenuine $25 Tweed\nRaincoats, $15.95\nOn Sale Saturday Only^-50 men's heavy weight\nvulcanized, rubber-lined Tweed Raincoats in\nsmart dark colors\u00E2\u0080\u0094Regular $35 everywhere\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nAn extraordinary Saturday Special\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 $15.95\nARNOLD t QUIGLEY\n546 GRANVILLE ST.\nSEAM'S Ml\nI\nPig Labor War Comes to\nan End \u00E2\u0080\u0094.Antis\nDefeated\nSeattle\u00E2\u0080\u0094-Seattle's Associated Industries, the mammoth anti-Labor\norganization of capitalism, which\nsprang Into prominence here'shortly\nafter' the close of the general etrke,\nls passing out of existence, and with\nIt the anti-Labor war. In future,\nthe chamber of commerce will\nspeak for the organizod employers.\nThe close of tho antl-Laboi' war\nby the employing interests was\nonly' effected after Labor had marshalled all Its resouroes and or\nganized Its buying power to such\nan extent that openly unfair firms\nlost an untold volume of business.\nChief interest In-this phase of the\nbattle centered around the big department stores, which were prominent In the fight on the workers.\nOkmulgee, Okla. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Oklahoma's\norganised workers will not indorse\na political party according to a-ruling of President Edgar Fenton of\nthe state foderation of labor which\nis in session here. He declared out\nof order a resolution denouncing\nthe Democratic and Republican\nparties and committing the state\nfederation to the Farmer-Labor\nparty.\nSLATER'S\nThe Stores of Plenty and Free Delivery\nFRESH MEAT DEPABTMEHT\nMe. 1 Stoer Pot Roast, from, lb...lto\nNo. I Blur Oven RotsU from, lb. 800\nMo. 1 Steer Boiling Beet from, lb.lBo\nNo. 1 Steer Stew Beef from, lb 180\nSPUDS\u00E2\u0080\u0094SrUDS-SPUDS\nSPECIAL \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nPin.lt Kamloops Simds, beautiful\neyttte, aptcial, delivered 18.70\nCANTERBURY LAMB SPECIAL\nCanterbury Lamb Stow, lb BOo\nCanterbury Lamb ShouWers..i61/,o\nCanterbury Lamb Loina, lb.-S2Vie\nCanterbury Lamb, Lata, lb Sle\nTOBK\u00E2\u0080\u0094POBK\u00E2\u0080\u0094PORK\nFinest Pork Shoulders, weighing E te\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A00 lba., \u00C2\u00BBg. 88. Ib.,,\u00C2\u00BBpeeial....38i40\nJuat whut you want for roasting.\nSLICED BACON\nSlater'a Slleod Streaky Baooa,\np.r lb. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 55c\nSlater'a Sliced Streaky Bacon,\nper lb. .80,\nSlater'a Sliced Ayrshire Bacon,\nper lb. ,50\nSlater'a Sliced Ayrshire Baeon,\nft lb. ue\nSlater's Blind Boneless BoU, per\nlb. .;....\u00E2\u0080\u0094 .500\nCHICKENS\nLight Bowing Chicken* lb..J8\u00C2\u00AB\nModiu Weight leaetlng GUek-\nens, lb. J00\u00C2\u00AB\nHeary Boasting Ohickns, lb...Me\nAll fresh killed.\n\"EXTRA SPECIAL\nHon you tried oor famoua Sliced\nBaeon. It to Tery mild and we are\nour. lt will plea., yeu. Reg. 600\n'_ lb., Trt. pad 8at\u00E2\u0080\u009E special, Ib 800\nFineat Bool Suet, lb. ,\nFineat But Fat, Ib. .\nFinest Roott Beef Dripping, lb...25o\nFtauel Fan Ujd, lb. JBo\nBUTTBR--BUTTEH\u00E2\u0080\u0094BUTTER\nOm Saturday morning from 8 o.m.\nla 11 a.m. wo will tell oar\nfhmooo Alborta Creamery, reg.\nMo tt, atoelal, lb. 880\nOB00XB7 DEPARTMENT\nSlater'a Famoua Tea, lb. Me\nSlater'a Pure Oeyloa Tu. lb...80o\nBlater'o Palo Coffee, lb. 800\nMm. Ponud'a Marmalade, jar..40o\nPinett Melatoah Red Af pies, per\ndoien .... . .i : _60o\nFinest Fink Salmon, \u00C2\u00AB for ....SSo\nQnafcer Ports aad Beano, I for..25c\nFineet Pastry Floor . ISo\nFineit Bardines, 8 for 350\nBlrd'o Custard, large tins \u00E2\u0080\u0094.<0c\nBlrd'o Custard, packets ISO\nHolbrook'a Custard .150\nSPUDS\u00E2\u0080\u0094SPUDS^SPUDB\nFineat Highland Spuds of finest quality, la 1001b. seeks, reg. 88.00\neach, Friday aad Saturday, special,\ndelivered :._ 88.30\nThe Biggeet Tea Speeial we over\nhad. .We will aell tho famoua\nNabob Tea, aad It'a good tea,\noa Saturday all day, reg. 65c\nlb., apeclal, lb. B5o\nHAMS\u00E2\u0080\u0094HAMS\u00E2\u0080\u0094HAMS\nOet ono of our famous Plcnio Ham.\non Friday and Saturday. Reg. 850\nlb, special, lb. \u00C2\u00BBVie\nThree Bi; Stores\n198 HtHtlnis St. B.....Phwic Sey. 8383\n880 Granville St.....Phnn\u00C2\u00AB Buy. 866\n8260 Main flt. Phone Fair. ItfIB\nFineit Compound Lard from 8 t.m.\nto It a.m. R*|. BOo lb., special,\n8 Hm. for 780\nFlank Canadian Cheese, lb 38c\nB. 0. Freah Eggs, dosen ........SSe\nB. 0. Storage Bggs, dnion \u00E2\u0080\u009485c\nAlberta Freih Eggi, doaen ....78c\nDR. BRETT ANDERSON, formerly member of the Faoelty of tha\nCollege of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Lecturer\noa Orown and Bridgework, Demonstrator la Platework and Operative Dentistry, Local and Goneral Anaesthesia.\nInsure Yourself Against\nTrouble From Your Teeth!\nexamination now\u00E2\u0080\u0094poisibly a little attention\u00E2\u0080\u0094will\nguarantee you tooth comfort for the winter.\nEvery Winter many suffbrors from acute\ntooth trouble come to me\u00E2\u0080\u0094cases which\nare painful and difficult and tedious to\novercome. All this trouble could have\nbeen saved if the sufferer had come\nearlier.\nDon't put it off\u00E2\u0080\u0094do it TODAY\nDr. Brett Anderson\n003 HASTINGS W., Oor. Sojiuour\nPhone Seymour 31131\nOfflco Open Tucwluy and Friday\nEvenings\nPhono Sey. S331. I will\nwake ' an appoln uncart\nfor examination at your\nconvenience.\nHELP SOVIET RUSSIA\nand SOVIET UKRAINE\nOur brothers and' sisters there need immediate Medical Aid. Mail your contribution at\nonce. If you are willing to help, write the Secretary for a subscription list\nM. POPOVICH,\nSecretary, Medical Relief Committee for Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine,\nBox 3591, Postal Station B.,\nWinnipeg.\nEnclosed please find the sum of. \t\n Dollars towards purchase of'\nMedical Supplies for Soviet Russia and Soviet\nUkraine.\nName ..\u00E2\u0080\u0094 - \u00E2\u0080\u0094-\t\nAddress \u00E2\u0080\u0094 - \u00C2\u00AB\t\nSoldiers and Thetr Problems\nEditor B. C. Federatlonist: Whllt\nadmiring the courage of the gentleman who wrote the article regarding the incompetence of the Soldier\nSettlement Board in your issue of\nOctober 1st and while believing the\ninstances he quotes\u00E2\u0080\u0094which might\nprobably be added to; I woulul have\nliked his contribution better if he\nhad told us what that \"day of\nreckoning\" which he says is \"fast\napproaching\" will be like. Does he\nmean to say that the present officials of the S. S. B. will be ousted\nand others put in their nJace?\nWhat difference would that make?\nAfter all, the main charge he\nbring* against the S. S. B. officials\nis that they are luoking after their\nown interests rather than the interests of the soldier settlers; at least\nthat ls the lmpreselon-I get from\nreading his story of the horse deal.\nThat, I will admit, is.a sufficiently\ngrave charge, but why do they act\nthat way. Assuming-that they are\nacting that way I will say that the\nreason they do so Is because we\nare living under a system where\nthe standard at which a person\nlives is determined by the amount\nbf money he gets Irrespective of\nwhether he performs any useful\nfunction In society or not. That being the case it ls to a person's individual Interest to get the most\nmoney he can in the easiest way he\ncan. and if the 'present very human\nofficials of the S. S. B. were fired\nand other very human officials put\nin their, place would they, being\nproducts of the same system and\nliving under -the same system, act\nvery differently. I think not. So\nlong as people live by the money\nthey get or the property they own\nand not by the service they render\nhumanity so long shall we have the\ngrafter, the parasite, the profiteer\nand the other unlovely products of\nan evil system. \"If the tree itself\nbe evil how then can the fruit\nthereof be good?\"\nThe'writer of the artfcle dwells\nat some length on, the cost to the\ntaxpayer but, I must confess that\nthat part of his article leaves me\nsomewhat cold. Personally I am a\nwage earner and, like other wage\nearners, I do not get paid according to the value of the commodity\nI produce but rather according to\nthe cost of ekelng'out my miserable\nexistence thus, when the cost of\nliving Is high my wages are higher\nthan they were when the cost of\nliving wai lower. Like many other\nwage earners I am not a direct taxpayer to any appreciable'extent. If\nI were my wages would have to be\nincreased to pay the taxes as they\nwould be part of my cost of living\nso my position would not be alter,\ned. But ai I only draw, ln wages,\na part of the value of the article\nI produce it follow* that there Is a\nsurplus value\u00E2\u0080\u0094i.e., the part I produce but do not get This surplus\nvalue goes to the class who own\nthe implements oi production necessary for me to operate in order to\nearn my living. Out of this surplus\nvalue the taxes are paid, but, as\nthis surplus value Is lost to me ln\nany case what difference does lt\nmake to me whether it goes to the\nofficials of the S. ST B.. or the officials of some other department or\nentertaining the Prince of Wales?\nSo long as It is lost the place where\ntt is lost does not matter.\nThe position of the farmer who\nworks his own farm ts essentially\nthe eame as the position of the\nwage slave. The price he gets for\nthe article he produces is set for\nhim as is also the price he pays for\nthe article he consumes. The price\nhe gets for the commodity he produces U not the value of that article as a moment's reflection will\nconvince\" him if he compares the\nprice he gets for the article with\ntho price the ultimate consumer\npays for lt. So the farmer also gets\npaid according, to his cost of living.\nThe writer's reference to the unity shown by the soldiers in -France\nbrings back to my mind the large\n'amount of British arnyy rations I\nsaw in the homes of French civilians, taken there by the* soldiers\nwho handled the rations while the\ncommon privates went hungry as a\nconsequence. I know because I was\none of the hungry privates. It also\nreminds me of the different food\nIn officers' messes, sergeants'\nmesses and men's messes. Such\nthings are, perhaps, better not discussed\u00E2\u0080\u0094I make this passing refer-\neitee to them in order to express\nthe thought that if such \"unity\"\nIs dead it is better to let it rest in\npeace; or pieces.\nThough returned soldiers have\nnever had an effective organization\nthere are a few who seem to think,\neven at this late,date, that such an\norganization Is possible. I will quote\none littlo incident which, to my\nmind, seems to Dustrate why it is\nimpossible for the returned soliliors\nto organize solidly.' Twelve months\nago I and my fellow workors wore\non striko trying to raise our standard of living, we were stnying in\nthe small' town nearest where wc\nhad been working, and while we\nwore there the townspeople Kave a\nbanquet to the roturned soldiers,\nI was Invited to attend and I attended. After thc banquet a gentleman addressed the gathering. I\nwas told that he was an cx-brlga\ndier-general and a \"big bug\" of the\nG. W. V. A. and that ho had\nranch near there, but that does not\nconcern me, the part that concerns\nme is the fact that he was a returned soldier and the remarks he made\nalso concern me. He dealt with\nthe possibility of the returned soldiers getting a further gratuity but\nwarned them against expecting too\nmuch. He said the trouble with the\nreturned soldiers was that they did\nexpect too much. Cases had come\nto his notice of returned soldiers\nrefusing, jobs at three and four dollars a day. \"Refusing honest toll,\"\nhe exclaimed. Now you see the.slt-\nuation. On the one hand was a\nreturned soldier trying to induce\nreturned soldiers of the working\nclass to accept the lowest possible\nwages, and thereby lower their own\nstandard of living and Increase the\nprofits of the master class, and on\nthp other hand, were roturned soldiers of the working class trying by\nmeans of a strike to raise thoir\nstandard of living. Will the writer\nof the article I have referred to, or\n'any othor returned soldier, or any\none at all, who believes It possible\nfor returned soldiers to organizo\nsolidly, explain to me how one organization oan function inv the interests of those returned soldiers\nwho wish to buy labor power at Its\nlowervthe standard of llvlng'of'the\nworking man, and at the same time\nfunction ln the Interest of those returned soldiers who wish to sell\ntheir labor-power at . its Wghest\npossible price, and thereby raise\nthe standard of living of the working man. - '.' l\nIf tt is impossible for one organization to function ln the interest of\nboth classes, then it behoovesthe\nreturned soldier to determine\nwhich class he belongs to. DoOb he\nbelong to the class- who sell^heir\nlabor power or the class who buy\nit? Does he belong to the class\nwhich receives a small portion of\nwhat they produce, or the close who\nappropriate the surplus value that\nthe worker produces? In short,\ndoes he belong to the master claBS\nor the working class? If he decides\nthat he belongs to the working\nclass, then lot him join a working\nclass organization, an'd help to hasten that day when this vicious system of working for proflt, parasites,\nprostitutes, pimps and paupers, this\nsystem which fills Jails, insane asylums and slums shall be abolished,\nand a system of production for use\nshall be set up In its place, a system where man will live, not by virtue of what he takes from socioty\nbut in virtue of what he gives to society, a system .whore the incentive\nto traft and profiteer will be taken\naway because the implements of\nproduction being publicly owned,\nno man will have the power to exploit the labor of another, but all\nwho arc able to work shall earn\ntheir own living.\nIf the returned soldiers can net\nget their grievances against the-S'.\nS. B. printed in the ordinary press,\nwhat does it show? Merely that the\ncapitalist press will not print the\ntruth when it displeases their masters. Then why believe thom at\nall? Why accept the. capitalist\nphilosophy wblch permeates their\neditorials and spreads to their news\ncolumns. if the wage-earners\nstrike in an attempt to improve\ntheir standard of living, they are,\naccording to the capitalist press,\nholding up production and starving\nwomon and children, they /are\nnever satisfied, but are always making trouble and it is all their own\nfault, since any man can get on If\nhe Is only sober, Industrious and\nambitious. Now apply that line of\ntalk to the soldier-settler who has\nfailed or is falling under the S. S.\nB\u00E2\u0080\u009E and you will say: ''it Is all his\nown fault. He shouid get up an\nhour earlier each morning\u00E2\u0080\u0094incidentally increasing production; He\nshould work harder during the day\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094again increasing production* He\nshoirid adopt more up-to-date methods of farming\u00E2\u0080\u0094still further Increasing production, and he should\npractice more rigid economy\u00E2\u0080\u0094decreasing consumption.\" The soldier-\nsettler will know, whether that kind\nof philosophy fits his case, -or\nwhether It is pure bunk. Then Jet\nhim ask himself does he belong to\nthe producing class or the consuming class. If he produces move\nthan he consumes, then whorls to\nblame that he does not get thp opportunity to consume the equivalent of what he produces? , Why\ndoes he not aet the full value of\nthe article he produces? If he follows this avenue of thought to its\nlogical end, he will soon be out for\nthe abolition of the system of production for profit.. Yours, etc.,\nF; KftOWLBS.\n. Rupert Dry Dock\nEditor, Federationist; Sir,\u00E2\u0080\u0094The\nwriter in a previous letter gave a\nshort account of the conditions at\nPrince Rupert dry dock as far as\nthe coumpuny's boarding house is\nconcerned, It might further Interest Federation!^ readers who have\ntheir eyes on the Prince Eupor't\nDry Dock and Engineering Co. with\nthe idea of going after a job to\nknow something about the working conditions as well,\nThere aro in the neighborhood\nof ubout 750 men working there\nu^w, about 100 being young Indians, the conditions, are neither\nbotter nor worse than any other\nshipyard on the Coast as far as\nsafety precautions and liability to\naccidents are concerned, however\nthe pay scale might be open to Improvement; laborers get GO cents\nan hour including'bolters up, ream.\ners and drillers slightly mor'e rising to a piece rate fnr rivetters\nwho are guaranteed $6.60 per day\nand make, when lucky, two' or\nthree timos as much. In the various shops, somo of them anyhow,\naccording to a man's ability In thc\neyes of the boss he is paid more\nor less than his fellows there being a carefully graduated rate, one\nresult of this is that tt creates a\ncertain amount of jealousy and\nheartburning and Inula to keep\ntlie men from getting together,\nprobably one of the results aimed\nat by the powers in control.\nThe boarding house or \"commissary\" still lives up, or down, to its\nevil reputation; within the lost\nfow weeks there hus been a slight\nimprovement in cleanliness as far\nas tho plates, dishes, etc., aro concerned, but the food and cooking\nnre of tho same execrable quality*;\nIn addition, v/iip tho lncreaSo In\nthc number ot men on the wimt\nther? has to be two sittings inJthe\ndining room, th'e first table'. gCT!\nthe best of the deal ond the r'estilt\nis a terrific rush for It, particularly at the noon hour. It ts a hT&l^y\nedifying and Instructive sight .^o\nsee' the stampede which ttfkes\nplace tho instant the -whistles\nblow, lt ls sever'al hundred yfctita\nfrom the ships to the boarding\nhouso with lots of obstacles ln\"tTie\nway but the timo made to \"the\ngrub pile would be hard to beat on\nany track; a surging, purflng,\nsweating mob of white collrfrfed\nJoiners and pattern makers, groasV\nmachinists, grimy moulders, blacksmiths and ship workerB, and;1 to\nall appearances, verminous Indians,\nIn one furious mass roll on the foe\nIn the shape of the one door Into\nthe dining room; there the congestion is terrific, but tho lucky ones\nget ln somehow and rush for all\nthe available seats. It only needs\nthe exhortation of Timon at Athens to the' guests at his feast,\n\"Uncover' dogs nnd lap,\" to complete the picture and, if the writer's\nmemory is not at fault, tho viands\nat the said feast conststed of dirty\nwater, Just about on a par with\nwhat the gang finds on the taliles.\nSeriously, looking nt the situation\nfrom 'the employer's viewpoint It la\nhard to understand why some\nanimal contented Is te \"feed the\nbrute7'; the labor turnover at this\nyard up to the present hu been\nenormous and according to the\ntrade and technical journals one of\nthe main causes of inefficiency and\nexpense on any plant is the necessity of continually breaking In new\nmen; that up to recently the company has not been able to keep any\ngreat percentage of its men for\nany length of time Is proved by\ntheir employing Indians who certainly are not up to standard of\nwhite men who know the game,\nHowever, that Ib the employer's\nbusiness, ours is to try and make\nsome change for the better. The\nonly way to effect a change is to\norganize and the only organization that can and will get results\nis the O. B. U. The International\nas the Writer remarked ln his previous letter is emasculated, Impotent, and besides; its present members are, fr'om the nature of the\ncase, all master's men, those of\nthem with any backbone or self-\nrespect long since went over to the\nO. B. U.\nThe O. B. U. Is slowly but surely\ngaining strength here; a shipyard\nunit has come into being and if\nconducted on safe and sane lines\nwill certainly make headway, and\nIn due time will produce results.\nYours for the worker's betterment,\nJOHN KNOX.\nPrince Rupert, B.C., Oct, 9, 1920.\nOn Dooze\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Editor, B. C. FederationisH Sir,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094With the development of capitalism small Industry along with\nits counter-part local competition\nis eliminated by powerful Industrial combines. The so-called \"life\nof trade\", then assumes an ini por\nialistlo character. Markets are\ncaptured by cheap commodities,\nconsequently, the various groups of\nindustrial capitalists cnguge in\ncompetitive warfare, the victory\ngoing, to those who can produce\ncommodities at the lowost cost.\nAfter allowing for efficiency in\nproduction, and advantages acpru\ning from natural resources it ls\nmore or less obvious: that In the\nultimate analysis ther'e Is but one\nmethod by which this result can\nbe attained, viz. by reducing the\namount of commodities consumed\nby the laborer.\nCompetition, has thus placed\nbooze on the list of the proscribed,\nand In so doing, it has proved a\nlife saver to those individuals who\nare ever ready to. profit by the\nslaves ignor'ance, and who are\nnever io happy or better employed\nas when engaged in diverting tho\nslaveB political activity from the\nconfines of the class struggle.\nHence to paraphrase the latest\nthing ln preambles:\nThe province ts apparently dtvld\ned into two classes, those who\nwould prohibit, and those who\nwould prohibit prohibition. Alongside thli main dlvs'on all other\nclassflcatlona fade Into insignificance. Between these two classes a\ncontnual struggle on the one hand\nof the pro to convince or defeat\nthe anti, and on the other hand\nfor* the anti to convince or defeat\nthe pro, so with the pro and anti\nof the \"prohibition question.\" In\nthe struggle over the purchase and\nsale of booze, the prohibitionist, If\na worker, Is attending his master's\nbusiness to the detriment of his\nown; while the antiprohlbltlonlst,\nlf a worker, Is another Luddite\nvainly opposing the economic development of his time.\n*From these facts arise the Inevitable bone-head struggle.\nN. BOOTp.\nVoters' Lists.\nEditor B. C. Federatlonist: t\nwish to tiall your attention to four\ninstances which havo come under\nmy notice where husband and wife,\nat the same address, are officially\nlisted in the South Vancouver district, under different polling stations. A* this may cause those\npeople to lose their votes, through\nIgnorance of the fact, I am giving\nthe particulars. There may be\nmany more which I do not know\nof^but by calling attention to\nthese particular cases it may cause\nInvestigation:\nPolL\nPage. Name.\nRoll No.\nSts\n26 Findlay\n1.102 (wife)\n4\n35\n1745 (hus.)\n5\n103 Gage\n5095 (wife)\n10\n186\n10411 (hus.)\n15\n103 Fuldge\n5090 (hus.)\n10\n186 \"\n10407 (wife)\n15\n117 Touzeau\n6064 (hus.)\n10\n199 '?\n11323 forced to\nsay a word or two to try and clarify the minds of the readers of our\npaper, not because I want to, but\nbecause I must, for if I had my\nway, the foolish \"actions of these\nmen would have been buried In. the\npast, for I am sure that the more\nthey stir it up, the more it will react upon themselves. They would\nhave you believe that they were\ntreated badly at that convention,\nwhen a few of them are tho real\nculprits.\nThis.trouble of not paying per\ncapita tax was brought up, and discussed at the. January convention,\nand I for one, left that convention\nthinking the secretaries of the\nLumber Workeri would ln future,\ntry to live a little nearer to the\nprinciples of the O. B. U. and try\nto fulfill their obligations. But,\nalas! my hopes were blasted. Instead of doing a littlo better, they\nreally dropped out of the organization altogether, for none of you\nexpects to be a member without\npaying dues, unless you are sick or\nunemployed ,and I am sure the\nworking members of the loggers\nwere not,sick, for they hare kept\ntbelr dues paid up all the time,\nand with the understanding that\ntheir1 capita tax waa being paid regularly ,but their secretaries hare\nbeen sick wtlh a drunken orgy of\npower, and the squandering of\nmoney like capitalist politicians,\nwhile their blacklisted delegates\nwere roaming the country for jobs.\nTou have read of tyinch offering\nto pay to the executive board $500,\npromises of further payments, coupled with a threat that the loggers\nwould withdraw all their support\nfrom the working class papera of\nthis country. The writer of this\narticle was the man that told him\nhis threats didn't amount to a\nbean, and the rest of the executive\nmust hnvo agreed with me, or else\nthey would not have let It pass at\nthat. I told him at the same time\nthat we had a secretary; that it\nwas his duty to take per capita,\nand that if ever he refused to take\n(Continued on page B)\nUNION MAN!\n-Jn that dark hour when sympathy and best service count se\nmuch\u00E2\u0080\u0094call up\nMOUNT PLEASANT\nUNDERTAKING CO.\n283 KINGSWAY, VANCOUVEB\nPhone Fairmont 68\nPrompt Ambulance Service\nVeterans of the Great War\nNOTICE!\nWe will dye your great coat bottle green, brown or black, take\noff shoulder straps, put on new\nbuttons and make It look like a\ncivy cOat, all for $5.90.\nMall Orders Promptly Attended\nto.\n7 Little Tailors\n330 Cnriull Street\nVANCOUVEB. B. C.\nStanley Steam\nTaxi Co.\nHENRY HAUL, Prop.\n(Old tijne Lumberjack)\nPrompt Sorvice\nFine Cars\n331 Abbot* St. Vancouver\nPhone Sey. 8877-8878\nOLELAND-DIBBLE ENOBAV-\nINO OOMPANT\nUnited\nFHOIO ENOEAVEBS\n0OMMBB0IAX. ABTIST1\n-Phont Oeymets 7160\nlUrl noor, World BnUdlai, Taa-\nconvtr, B. O.\nKIRK'S\nGuaranteed Coal\nMeans-\nit our eoal is not satisfactory to yon, after you\nhave thoroughly tried it\nout, we will remove what\neoal is left and charge you\nnothing for what you have\nused.\nYou to be the sole judge.\nKirk & Co.\nLIMITED\n929 Main Street\nPhones Seymour 1441 ud 466\nGreateit Stock of\nFurnitul-e\nin Greater Vancouver\nReplete in every detail\nHastings Furnitiire CaLti\n*1 ButUii Street Weil\nBB SUBB TOW OET\nVAN BROS.\nWH^N 70V ASK 70B\n-CIDER-\nand Non-nlcohoUc wlnoi ot all\nkinds\nUNION MEN'S ATTENTION\nb Economical. The Coupon* which\nit earrief \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0redeemable for eeelj\narticle! \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 are a further economy. .\nFOOTBALL-\nThis season we are bettef prepared than ever to take oar*\nof football players.\nHigh-grade English Jerseys in many colors and designs.\nA splendid stock to choose from.\nBe sure to see the now Improved McGregor Boot. This\nboot is a winner. All sizes ln stook.\nFOOTBALLS-\nFrom the best English makers, including the genuine Mo-\nGregor, the finest ball made.\nEVERYTHING rW THB FOOTBALL PLAYER\nTISDALLS LIMITED\n(IIS HASTINGS ST, W. TEL. SEY. 152 T OF THE\nTHIS PAGE IS PAID FOR BY THE LUMBER OAMP AND AGRICULTURAL WORKERS DEPARTMENT OF THE ONE HtCMINION. OPINIONS EXPRESSED THEREIN ARE NOT NECESSARILY ENDORSED BY THE FEDERATIONIST.\nTWELFTH YEAR. No. 43\nEIGHT PAGES\nVANCOUVER, B. C.( FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1920\n$2.50 PER YEAR-\nCamp Reports\nKAMLOOPS DISTRICT\nI WEEKLY BULLETIN\nSick Benefit Report to October 1st,\n1920\nAmount collected $732.76\nDiebursementa 824.80\nBal. on hand in bank 407.80\nCome on, fellow workers, and\nbooBt the hospital fund by carry-\nIng your own protection agalnit\nsickness. Just think the amount\nthese companies are making on\nyour hard-earned money, and when\n'you leave the employ of the company the hospital ticket is void as\nsoon ae you qnlt work. But lf you\ncarry an O. B. U, sick beneflt ticket,\nthen you are protected at all times,\nand you don't have to take any old\nquack doctor that the company employs, who may give you a pin for\na broken leg the same as he would\n, for a headache. Come on and keep\nyou dues and hospital fees paid up\nto date.\nThe Northern Construction Company Is starting a camp at Beaver\nCreek, and is trying to hire men\nat $76.00 per month with no set\nhours. So now, fellow workers, Is\nthe time when organisation will\nahow what oan be done. Don't let\nthe lumber barons dictate to you\nall the time. Do a little of the dictating yourself, and the first thing\nyou want to do is to get them to\nfurnish the blankets and single Iron\nbeds, and see that they are kept in\na sanitary condition after you do\nget them.\nBlankets bave been aaked for by\nall the camps at Herrltt, and Andy\nFaulkner has agreed to put them\nln, but they have no promises yet\nfrom the other camps, but will\nknow pretty soon.\nThe little walkout at Blcamous\nat the Carney pole camp, was the\neause of their putting in six iron\nbed springs and mattresses ln said\neamp. Now, fellow workers, they\nwill do all that If you go after them\nand ask them to do It, and If they\nwon't, then you are not tied. You\ncan do the same as the boys at Slc-\namous. These contractors can not\n' log without men, and in order to\nget men, they- will have to Improve\nconditions a whole lot before the\nreal lumberjack will take on any\nof their work and logging with ln-\nj experienced men always costs more\nthan good conditions and high-\npriced men. So let us keep up the\ngood work, and don't' carry your\nbeds. Let them furnish you a bed\nto sleep in, if they want you to.\nwork for them. Come and Join the\nO. B. U., and help get better conditions; $1 fees and $1 monthly dues.\nA very successful meeting was\nheld at the L. C. W. I. U. haU at\nNo. 8 Victoria street, Kamloops, B.\nC, by the Federated Labor Party,\non Oct. 6. As there is an election\ncoming off soon. By the way, both\nthe Liberal and Conservative parties are canvassing the same old\nline of bosh as they used to use,\ntelling the people what they are go\nIng to do for them, and not toTIet\nthe Labor agitators fool them Into\nbelieving that tney can do them\nmore good than they can. Now\nwhat we want to get aMs when the\nelection does come off, be sure and\neast your vote for the Labor man,\nand give him all the support that is\nin your power.\nA report comes from Chase that\nthere has been a cut In wages at\nJack Murray's camps, and a few\nmen have pulled out of that part of\nthe country. There has also been a\ncut of 10c per hour at the Nicola\nValley Pine Mills at Merritt. I wonder how does the 10-hour mill men\nlike that. Wake, you mill men,\nfore the lumber barons add two\nhours on your day in place of taking off houra Well, there was another little spill at Fusseea' camp\nat Chase the other day .and by all\nreports he has only a few menfrt\npresent.\nFellow workers, always keep this\nname and No. K. G. 13, Malcolm\nGlllls In your note book. He had\nthe nerve to write and ask to be\nreinstated Into the organisation, but\nhe waB told that there was no\nehance for him, but to keep hiking,\nand not give him a ohance to mingle with real men. I also sent him\na leaflet entitled \"The Shame of Being a Scab,\" and told him to study\nlt carefully, and learn his standing\namong men, and what men think\nof a traitor and their class.\nI remain, yours for organization,\nJAMBS L. PETERSON,\nSer-treas. Kamloops District.\nBox 612. Phone 611.\nNELSON DISTRICT\nAfter getting all possible Information from the dlstriot socretary\nI went to Meadows, 27 miles from\nNelson; this eamp ls 76 per cent,\norganized, but like the majority In\nthis district, are working by contraot Held a meeting and did very\nwell, considering all circumstances.\nTook in Park Siding, five miles\ndown the track. This bunch pack\na nose-bag for lunch. There are 20\nmen, all In union and paid up, except the cook, who I tried to educate to the value of joining up; he\nwas hopeless, however, and this\nmay account for the deplorable\ncondition of the camp, although\nwith the rest of the men organised\nthere should be no difficulty in getting the laws enforced governing\ncamp conditions. There are wooden bunks, no springs, straw mattresses.\" The barn ls ln front of\ndining room and has a heap of\nmanure ln front of It about which\nmillions of flies were busy, between\ntimes making frequent visits to the\nkitchen and dining room from\nwhich no attempt was made to ex-\nelude them.\nAn eight-mile hike to Brie took\nin the shingle camp. Some men already had cards and others willing\nto join as soon as the price ls available. Then on to the Northern\nCedar Camp whloh has now a 100\nper cent, organization. This ls the\nbest camp in this part of the country, although double tier bunks are\nstill ln use. Company, supplies\nblankets, sheets and pillows. Four\nmen to a room, electric light, two\n.sitting rooms, board $1.26 a day.\nFood good and plenty of It. Bight-\nhour camp. The foreman says If a\nman cannot do a day's work ln\neight hours he certainly cannot in\nten.\nAfterwards took ln Salmo where\nthe shingle mill is closed down.\nThen to Boulder Creek, which ls a\npole and sawmill outfit. At Camp 3\nwas told I should get a permit from\nthe boss before holding a meeting,\nbut sufficient of the boys with backbone.enough to make this unnecessary. But tt Is a pity they do not\nuse their strength to remedy the\nfilthy conditions which exist. It's\nthe worst camp I have been ln. Got\na few new members and a delegate\nso hope for Improvement in the\nfuture. Men get up at quarter to\nsix, breakfast quarter past and then\nout to work. All work contract and\nmost of the alaves are from the\nsouth of the line. They could get\nan eight-hour day but haven't guts\nenough ^to do it, so let them sweat\nuntil they get fed up with it\nAfter leaving camp was interviewed by his majesty's representative, who came on horseback to arrest me, haying been notified by the\nbosses that an agitator was going\nthrough the camps. He offered to\nlet me off this time lf I would\npromise not to hold any more\nmeetings. I told him that was up\nto the boys. If they wanted a meeting I would certainly he In lt. Wo\nparted good frienda and I wondered If he would, for a ohange, arrest one of the bosses for breaking\nthe laws relating to sanitary regulations, semi-monthly pay ac;,\nTruck act, first-aid regulations and\na few of the other laws which were\nsupposed to be written for the protection of the man on the job. But\nwho ever heard of a stool arresting\nhis own'boss. I had never heard\nof having to pay for an odd meal\ntaken tn camp so got Into trouble\nbecause,I left without paying. At\none outfit the boss came after me,\nand at another the mounty was\nalso after me for the same reason.\nThis sure Ib a hell of a country.\nIts all very well for the boys on\nthe coast to say what should be\ndone and how to do lt, but the\nwhole conditions are different This\nis too close, to the boundary line\nand the four L's and the rest of\nthe scabs and scum from the other\nside fill the country. Added to this\nthe outfits are mostly run by U. S.\ncapitalists who are the biggoBt\nblood suckers In existence\u00E2\u0080\u0094with\n100 per cent Americanism\u00E2\u0080\u0094which\nmeans 100 per cent, ignoring of Canadian laws, and a healthy contempt for the 2x4 local politicians\nwho think they run this country.\nThe worker who wantB to live like\na human being la certainly up\nagainst it good and plenty.\nORGANIZER J. GRIEDER.\nNELSON DISTRICT\nReferring to a report sent In by\none Provincial Pofice McLaren,\nwhich I intend to publish with thla\nletter, the report Is a false statement as I am here to prove that\nthe camp was filthy when I report-\ned and Is not much better yet, as\nanyone can understand where typhoid fever exists It muat be the\ncase. However, the men are to\nblame to a considerable extent, although we have a few good O. B.\nU. men ln there, but a good many\nof them are what you might term\nscabs from the American side of\nthe line who are not willing to belong to an organization to better\ntheir condition. Some time ago we\nblamed the prairie chicken, but I\nam pleased to say that after the\norganization was explained to them\nthey were willing to become members. Of course, they were not very\nactive but were willing to accept\na certain amount of responsibility.\nBut those men who claim to be\nfour L's from that so-called Free\nCountry, U. 8. A., are traitors to\ntheir class. In my estimation there\nis only two classes in society, the\nworker and the master, and I fall\nto see where the four L's Is a beneflt to the worker. There has developed 13 cbsb of typhoid to my\nknowledge, with two deaths. Docb\nthat sound sanitary when the maggots are crawling around tho\ncamps 7 Workers, It Is high time\nyou woke up and demanded the\ncondition flt for human beings,\nYour master will turn up hla noae\nat tho waiter If he or she should\nneglect to give him a napkin; this\nI saw with.my own eyes a few days\nago, but you sit down like little\ndoge and put up with anything he\nwishes to deal out to you. Wake\nup and organize yourselves Into a\nOne Big Union whieh means solidarity, so that you can fight tho\nOne Big Union of the Master Class,\nand you will be able to demand\nbetter living conditions; equal to\nyour master's. .\n(Copy of Provincial Constable\nMcLaren's report):\nJune 80, 1920.\n\"To B. Gammon, Chief Constable\n\"Nelson, B. C.\nRe Filthy Condition of Camps,\ng: n. r. r.\n\"Sir: I beg tb acknowledge receipt of your letter of the SOth\ntnat, together with file of correspondence between one Mr. R. Barrow and the Provincial Health department re the filthy condition of\nthe camps between Nelson and\nWaneta, B. C, Waneta being on the\nInternational Boundary Line and\non the Canadian Bide.\n\"The camps ln mention have\nbeen Inspected by me, and I fall to\nsee the conditions as set out In Mr.\nBarrow's letter as filthy, We have\nsome of the beat camps. In the interior- of B, C. with, the exception\nof' Section 12 of the regulations\nwhere double tier bunks are used\nand these are iron frames with\nsprings and mattresses, and In one\nInstance where I visited a camp It\nwas early ln the spring and they\nhad started cleaning up, and burning rubbish, but could do very lit\ntie till conditions were better, This\ncamp Is the Salmo Cedar Co.'s at\nPark Siding, B. C. As you will see\nIn my sanitary repirt all these\nbuildings are Bomewhat closer than\nthey should be but if kept clean,\nas they informed they would do, I\nwould consider It O. K. They also\nhave the double tier bunks.\nWhen inspecting the camps In\nthe different places, and at different\ntimes, I went amongst the men nnd\nmade enquiries re any complaints,\netc., they might have en-i 1 fyund\nat all times the men were satisfied.\nNow I wish to draw your attention to Mr. Barrow's letter where\nhe states all the camps are in a\nfilthy condition which is absolutely\nwrong, the fact that wme use the\ndouble tier bunks does not constitute filth, and further, If Mr. Bar.\nrow will name the campa he soys\nta filthy I will be pleased to visit\nand inspect over again to ascertain.\nIf auch is the case or not, hut'I\ndo nay It is wrong when he says all\nare filthy.\nObediently yours.\nHARVEY McLARBN,\nProvincial Constable, Salmo, B. C.\"\nIn further reference to Mr. Mc\nLaron's report.I'wish to state that\nI instructed him, after reading his\nreport, of the camps which were\nnot sanitary and I drew his attention to Boulder not having a bath\nhouse and he made the assertion\nthat he would see that they put one\nln, shower bath included, which has\nnot been done to this day.\nHe referred to Iron bedsteads,\nwhich was a false statement, for\nI have failed to see ont In Boulder\ncamp. Mr. McLaren cannot Bhow\nmo a camp on -the Great Northern\nthat Is In compliance with the aan\nItary regulations of B. C. I also\nhave my doubts about the mon saying they were satisfied with the\nconditions, as I visited the camps\noften and thore was a continual\nhowl about the condition and the\ndoctor refused to let me In without\nbeing Innoculated.\nYours for conditions,\nR. BARROW,\nSecretary-treasurer.\nSTRIKES\nACTIVE ENGAGEMENTS ON THE\nFIRING LINE\nFirs, Limited, or Rees & Black.. .Whonnock\nMetalliferous Mines. Silverton and Sandon\n(Slocan District)\n..Drury Inlet\nGambier Island\n^ UNFAIR LIST\nDempsey-Ewart's, Camp 2\t\nLOCKOUT\nMcLeod Timber Co.\t\nVictoria Lumber Co........\t\n...Camp 5, Ladysmith\nDISCRIMINATING\nCargill Co. of Canada, Broughton Island, actively\ndiscriminating against union men.\nORFORD BAY 4\nBernard Timber Co., Camp i\nConditions poor. Five bunkhouses 36x14, with car roof, con\ntalnlng 11 or 12 beds. One combined bath house, wash room and\ndry room for the use of over 50\nmen. Sufficient for five only. Stove\nfor drying Ib so small that not\nmore than six men can dry their\nclothes with It at one time, consequently the old system of hanging\nclothes to dry in the bunkhouaes is,\nbeing followed. What about the\nhealth act? Who la looking after\nthe enforcement of this? There is\na large bunkhouse\u00E2\u0080\u0094barn Ib a better name\u00E2\u0080\u0094with two partitions In,\nmaking three parts, In which are\neight and eleven men. This building ls some distance from the\nothers, lt haa no dry room, so of\ncourse the bunkhouse stove Is used\nfor this purpose. This causes a\nvery unhealthy smell to Inhale\nwhile sleeping. How long are you\ngoing to stand for these condltlona?\nIt Is claimed this ls a 100 per cent,\ncamp, therefore the question arlseB,\nis lt 100 per cent, union or 90 per\ncent, card packers? The delegate\nand another worker have Just been\nfired. Bernard said for Inefficiency,\nand this was after the head boom-\nman had stated at a meeting before Bernard that these men were\nan good at their work as any of the\nrest.\nThe men thought Bernard was\nlying, but I take a different view\nof what the boss means by Inefficiency. By an efficient worker he\nmeans a docile slave who will keep\nhis mouth shut and does what he\nIs told under any old conditions,\nSome members decline to act as\ndelegate becauae they say thetr\nfellow-workers exploit them. This\nis undoubtedly the case, and consequently the work of emancipation\nis made harder than lt would be lf\nevery one did hla bit, but at the\nsame time It makea good fighters\nout of those who do the work and\ncarry on the flght, No one Ikes a\nquitter.\nW. H. WATSON.\nORFORD BAY\nBernard Timber & Lumber Oo.\nThe regular business meeting\nwas held Sunday, October 10. Meeting called to order at 7 o'colck under election of officers. C. Lindstrom was elected to camp committee and F. W. Mawhtnnle as\ndelegate. F. W. Watson gave an\naccount of the O. B. U. convention\nat Port Arthur. The following demands were made:\nThat a plentiful supply of hot\nand cold water be on hand at all\ntimes In wash room.\nThat wash tubs be Installed Immediately, ^-y.^.\nThat the lavator\u00C2\u00ABMf,\nand float be kept lfTWHJ\ndltlon.\nThat a toilet bd\nhouse employees and the sidewalk\nbe extended to railroad track.\nThat the management be Interviewed about a flrst aid man being\ngot for the camp right away.\nThat a flre be kept on in dry\nroom all day.\nThat the lights should not be\nturned out \"before 10 o'clock on\nSaturday and Sunday nights.\nIt was also moved and seconded\nto hold meetings every Sunday\nnight at 7 o'clock sharp.\nAlso that the demands be written\nout for the committee to hand to\nthe management,\nAnd that he minutes of the meeting be sent to the B. C. Federatlonist for publication.\nIt was moved and seconded to\nflne everybody who didn't attend\nthe meetings. Motion lost.\nMoved and seconded that meeting adjourn.\nDELEGATE 489.\nBDMONTON DISTRICT\nThe Northern Conatructlon Co.\nIs sending a lot of men out from\nVancouver to work on the Great\nWater Way Railway out of Edmonton at a place called Lac La\nBlch. From what ls reported by\nmembers who haye been shipped\nfrom the coaat, the agent of the\ncompany - claims, among other\nthings, that the camp is only 24\nmiles from Edmonton and that the\nworkers can take a car In to the\ncity at any time, also that condi-\ntlons ln the camp are flrst clasa.\nNow the condltlona might have\nbeen considered flrst class by some\nworkers about 60 years ago, but\nthat auch camps should exist today and that men ahould be ahang-\nhled up there ln the way that some\nof the workers have been sent there\nfrom Vancouver, is hard for any\nof the workers ln the coast, who\nthrough the Induatrlal organization\nhave secured the conditions that\nthey work under today, to believe.\nIt Js reported to this office by\nmembera whom me have no reason\nto doubt, that when the train leaves\nEdmonton, two members of the Al\nberta Provincial Police board the\ntrain and aee that no man leaves lt\nuntil they arrive at their destination. Lac La Blch is 140 miles\nnorth of Edmonton, and Is known\nas the coldest town in this province\n(I have seen lt 82 below zero in\nthat burg), anfl the work that these\nmen are being shipped to Is located 48 miles north of that town,\nIn a country which Is nothing b^t\nmuskegs.' After the men get there,\nIf they are not satisfied with conditions (which no member of the\norganization can be) and If they\nhave worked thoy are paid off with\na check payable ln Edmonton,\nnearly 200 miles south from tho\njob; no provision1 Is made to take\nthem to the city. There are no\ntroina except the work trains, and\nsome men haCe been refused to\nride on theBe as they are owned\nand controlled by the company,\nconsequently they had to walk 48\nmiles in a country.where there are\nhardly any settlers and no town\non the way after leaving Lac La\nBlch.\nAa the company ia sending In\nas high as 200 workers a week\nfrom the west, mostly from Vancouver, this Is written In the hope\nthat all of our members will take\nnotice and stay away, alBo to warn\nall other workera to stay away; in\nthe meantime a couple of good\ndelegates have gone there to see\nwhat can be done to organize the\nslaves and get better conditions.\nAs soon as theae delegates report\nto the diatrict office further newa\nwill appear in the official organ of\nthe Lumber Camp and Agricultural\nWorkera Department.\nBUCKLEY BAY\nResolution adopted at a meeting\nof the memberahlp at Camp 6,\nBuckley Bay, September 20.\n\"Whereas we, the members of\nthe L. & C. W. I. U. at Camp 6,\nMasset Timber Co., nave decided\nthat we are entitled to review the\nproceedings of the recent general\nconvention of the L. & C. W. I. U.L\nand feel that every member of the\nL. & C. W. I. U. Is In the same\nposition.\n\"And whereas, we realize lt\nwould be too great an expense on\ntho general headquarters of the L.\n& C. yt, I. U., In view of the expense Incurred by holding the recent convention, to publish a verbatim report from the transcript of\nthe proceedings of that convention,\n'Therefore, be It resolved, that\nwe recommend to the central executive committee of the L. & C. W.\nI. U. that they levy a fifty cent\nassessment on each member of this\nIndustrial Union for the purpose of\nIlmChring the publication of the\nproceeding of the recent convention, held ln July, 1920.\n\"And, be lt further resolved, that\nwe Instruct them to send a copy of\nthis resolution and recommendation to each of the official publications of the O. B, U., and a copy to\neach diatrict headquartera, to be\nacted upon by the executives ot\neach district of the L. &. C. W.\nI. U.\"\nWM. MORRIS, Delegate,\nCamp 6, Buckley Bay, B. C.\nBEAVER COVE\nBeaver Cove Lumber A Pulp Co.,\nWlilte's Camp\nWhat's the matter with this mill\noutfit? Poor food, getting worse;\ncatering let by contract at lean than\nthe men are paying, and then a\nproflt to be made out of them at\nthe contract price, which can only\nbe done by cutting quality and\nquantity of food and the service.\nWorking ahort-handed in kitchen\nand dining room. Night cook flred\nand one put on who combines theae\nduties with that of vegetable man.\nDishwasher flred and the previous\nvegetable man put on the Job.\nSecond cook dons away with. Cook\ngets $166, waiters $55, and the\nthreat has been made to reduce\nthis.\nMon paying $1.60 a week for\nrent, which includes blankets and\nsheets. No bath in camp. Putting\nup what they are pleased to call\na hotel! More bunki What's In a\nname? Fifty men carrying cards.\nNo delegate. Had one and he got\nflred.\nWhat's the matter with thla\ntflt?\nE Buy at a union stor*,\n._, PROPAGANDA MEETING\n_ Regular propaganda meeting\nheld In Vancouver, September 26,\nmo.\nFellow-worker C. L. Miller ln\nthe. chair,\n-Minutes of previous meeting\nread and approved.\nFinancial report giving in\n' detail showing balance\non hand, Sept. 10 $2,690 10\nReceipts 8,289 04\n$6,979 84\nLess expenditures 2,241 96\nLeaving balance on hand,\nSept. 23 \u00C2\u00AB $8,787 99\nReport received and deferred to\naudit\nFellow-workers Watson, Keane\nand Clarke reported on the O. B.\nU. Convention at Port Arthur,\nstating that owing to the fact that\nthe convention had cut down the\nvoting power of the seven logger\ndelegates fr'om the Coast to 610\nvotea each and the delegate from\nPrince George to .100, that the\nLumber Workers' delegates had\nleft the convention. The convention had seated certain delegates\nwith a voting power equal to the\nnumber of members they had*pald\nper capita on for the last month,\nother delegates had been seated on\nthe average number that .they had\npaid per capita.on aince January\nwhile the constitution clearly\natated that the basis of representation should be \"one delegate for\nthe flrat one thousand membera or\nless and one additional delegate for\neach additional one thousand\nmajor fraction thereof,\" nothing\nbeing stated about- per capita. The\nLumber Workers' delegates had\nmade repeated offers to pay their\nper capita inside of 30 days if their\ndelegates wer'e seated with full voting power, but the offer had not\nbeen accepted. The Lumber Workers' delegates with the exception of\nFellow-worker Alexander had\ntherefore left the convention.\nMoved: \"That the report be accepted and the action of the delegates who withdrew endorsed.\"\nCarried.\nA member of the Gas WorkerB'\nUnion asked for the floor which\nwas, granted. The member stated\nthat the organization was on atrlke\nand that the fu'nds of the union\nwcrw low at preaent, and asked If\nthe Lumber Workers could give\nflietfi any support\njcl'Mdved: \"That this meeting recommend to the Coast Executive\nttffct5'they devote the sum of five\nMintired dollars to lhe Gaa Work-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Afs^Vho are on Btrike.\"\naftAmendment: \"That this meet\nInglrecommend to the Coast Executive that the donate whatever\ntondtint they think the treasury\nfchn! afford.\"\n3 Amendment carried.\ni^Mbved: \"That a collection be\nlakkn up at thla meeting for the tld\nbf thc Gas Workers who \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 are on\nBtrike.\"\nBiGArrIed.\nlLlA collection amounting to. $77,93\nwas taken up.\nMoved: \"That all fellow workers going out on the job be asked\nto take out credentials.\"\nCarried.\nMeeting adjourned at 4.45 p.m.\nSCABBING CARD PACKERS\nThe employeea of the McLeod\nTimber Co., Gambler Island, held\na nieeting on Saturday, 16th. A\nfew of them were very anxloua to\nhave this meeting held, and as\nnear as can bc understood, the purpose waa to try and get the camp\ntaken off the unfair list. With a\nfew exceptions this was the same\nbunch who voted to put the camp\non the unfair list before they left\nthe job. A representative of the\ncompany was present at the meeting, und he stated the company\ncould not afford to furnish bedding for the crew. In view of that,\nthe meeting decided to leave the\ncamp on the unfair list until the\nbedding Is furnished. Then the\ncard packers of the bunch sneaked\nput of town to get back on the Job.\nThe late bull bucker, A. McKinnon,\nwas one of the first to get on the\nbbat, with two or three more spine-\nless slaves that have no principle,\nwho wero picked up on the atreetB\nor in the employment olllce which\nIs supposed to be fair to the L. C.\n& A. W., and Is run by Joy. He la\nhiring men for the above company\nwith tht slogan \"union men preferred,\" and this ls for a camp that\nis on the unfair list.\nA UNION MAN.\nHUTTON\nU. G. G. Camps\nJust a word ln season re the deplorable conditions that exist in\nthese camps. Camp No. 2 still adheres to the double-decking, muzzle-loading syatem of packing the\nslaves away for the night in bunka\nwhich aro Infested with bed-bugs.\nThere la no bath or dry house*\nwhere the men can change or dry\nyiclr clothes, which has to be done\nIn the bunk houso. \"'Nuff sed,\"\nfor the pleasant aroma of the pen.\n' Camp No. 4 at Dewey la built\nalong the same lines, a little more\npn the cold storage plan, Maybe\nthat is meant so the boys will\n''keep\" a little longer, as the U.\nO.'G. has been having lots of trouble keeping men.\n;The price of board Is $1.50 a\nday. The menu consists of eggB\nWhich ought to have been hens\n(long ago; meat once In a while,\nand canned fruit. The cooking is\n\"bum,\" the only thing that tastes\npalatable Is the water and aome\n_time\u00C2\u00AB they put enough milk in it\n,to Bpotl It. No \"bull cook,\" the\nmijn have to flnd their own wood\nand water .and build the flres. On\nquitting the men have to hike sjx\nmiles, nnd then get paid off by\ncheque.\nDon't be fooled by advertisement of scale nf wages, as It doea\nnot exist. 'Most all piece-work.\nE. K. DELEGATE 3927.\nNOTICE\nFellow Worker H. Ellison was\naccidentally killed at Dumaresq's\ncamp, Wellbare Channel, by a falling tree.\nCassel, Germany. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Majority Socialists ln conference here are evidently looking for a split In lbe\nranks of tho Independent Socialists.\nThe Herald correspondent Is Informed that the right wing of the\nIndependents will probably reunite\nwith the Majority Sr.c'alista,\nCOAST DISTRICT CONVENTION\nREFERENDUM RESUI/TS\nQueatlon.\nYel.\nNo.\n1 ., i,\n2421\n1,1\n1 \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094....\t\n2211\n161\nt mImm.\t\n1940\n628\ni\t\n1045\n1614\ns . \t\n1261\n128!\n129(\n660\n7 . \u00E2\u0080\u0094..\n2648\n20\n% ..... \u00E2\u0080\u009E\t\n2071\n268\n0 -.\n1,42.\n(85\n10 \t\n242S\n81\n2424\n125\n11 .. \t\n2208\n288\n11 \t\n2467\n82\n14 ...'.\t\n2122\n187\n11 \t\n1,66\n684\n2476\n101\n17 \t\n1624\n66\n. 18 _,.......\n2688\n11,\nia\t\n2144\n440\n20 \t\n2867\n114\n21 \t\n2613\n61\nFellow Workers Malcolm George\n(1134), Joe Grace (1116). W. H.\nWatson (1009),.C. Llnder (886)\nwere elected to the executive. The\nvotes for the other candidates\nwere: John Clark, 882; M. J.\nKeane, 810; G. Smith, 764; J.\nSimpson, 706; W. Head, 664; E.\nDahl, 553; E. Lamey, 336; A. Van\nRuyven, 260. For secretary, J. M.\nClarke, 1230.\nTotal votes cast, 2628.\nBallot counted by W. Reed and\nC. B. Abbott.\nAGRICULTURAL WORKERS\nOF EUROPE ORGANIZE\nIn the name of more Mian 2,-\n000,000 farm workers, 21 delegates\nfrom eight countries organized the\nInternational Federation of Agricultural Workers Union at a three-\nday convention concluded at Amsterdam, Holland, August 20. The\nseat of the new International will\nbe located at Amsterdam, and the\nmanagement of that organisation\nwas entrusted to an executive committee of five members from Holland, Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia and Italy. The Dutch\nmember, Hlematra, was chosen as\nInternational secretary.\nThe organizations represented\nwere the National Agricultural Laborers and Rural Workera Union\nof England, with 180,000 membera;\nthe Workers Union of England,\nwith 30,000; the German Farm\nWorkers Union, with 780,000; the\nSwedish Farm Workers Union,\nwith 20,000; the Farm Workers\nUnion of Denmark, with $0,000;\nthe Farm and Forest Workers\nUnion of Austria, with 61,000; the\nBelgian Farm Workers Union, with\n1700; the National Federation of\nFarm Workers of Italy, with 845,-\n000, and the Dutch Farm Workera\nUnion, with 15,500 membera. The\nFarm Workers Union of Czche-Slo-\nvakla sent word that' Its representative had been prevented from\ncoming through pass difficulties,\nthe French union reported financial\ndifficulty, the Polish union sent a\ntelegram of congratulation and the\nSpanish farm workers reported\nthat their organization was still too\nconfuted for untted action.\nTht congress adotped resolution?.\ncondemned the war, and worked\nout a programme for the promotion of the Interests of the farm\nworkers of all countries and the\nsupport of all struggles, either national or International, against the\nexploitation of Labor. Discussion\nof a resolution favoring the Socialization of the land revealed almost unanimous approval of the\nIdea, but the difficulties faced in\nthe various countrlea hindered Its\nadoption and the matter was pi\nover to the next congreBa. The\nnew International ts to form part of\ntho International Federation.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTrade Unions.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Federated Press,\nln the Industrial worker.\nONTARIO ORGANIZATION\nAt first Higgins and I started together, but after visiting the\nHope camps we split, Higgins going\nto Malloy St Mc Fad den's, and I\nwent on the route shown on report.\nHiggins was chased out of one\ncamp by the walking boas, and I\nmet him again ln Dean Lako, and\nwe went together to the Soo. On\nleaving the Soo we both got off at\nMile 67, he taking one camp and I\nthe other. We decided lt wob best\nto split up again, so we can cover\nmore ground. I left Higgins to\nwork the A. C. R., and I will go\nnorth till I hit the C. N. R., and go\neast on that till I get back to Sudbury. This will prevent overlapping and save a lot of walking. We\nare handicapped by our Inability to\nspeak French, but at that we can\nmake ourselves fairly well understood. If ever I get back to BrltlBh\nColumbia, any one who talks to me\naBftut coming back here again, ts\ngoing to get a bat on the nose.\nSome of the camps down here look\nas though Noah had built them\nwhen he get out of timber for the\nark. I would not work ln the camps\nhere. The men are very dissatisfied this fall, but atlll It Is hard for\nsome of them to understand how a\nunion could help them. Another\nthing that ls In our way, Is that the\nboys are broke (which happens to\nall of ub onco ln a while), and the\ncompanies refuse to Issue time\nchecks for union dues, to some of\nthem will have to wait till they go\nto town before joining. Well, the\nmain thing for us Is to explain\nwhat the union ls ,and the Joining\nwill take care of Itself. It la 10\no'clock, and I have to catch a\nfreight or walk 60 mites over to the\nC. N. R\u00E2\u0080\u009E as there Is no passenger\ntill Tuesday.\nYours for solidarity,\nORGANIZER J. SIMPSON.\nli. C. & A. DEPT. KEEP FLAG\nFLYING IN PRAIRIE\nCOUNTRY\nOrganizer Stanley reports good\nconditions -in his territory. Not\nonly Is he getting definite results,\nbut, In addition, the electricians\narc pulling out of tho International\nand will form either an Independent or O. B. U. local. If lt should\nbe the former they all admit that\nIt ts only a matter of a ahort while\nbefore they come Into the O. B. U.\nTho Civic Employeea and Street\nCarmen are getting hot under the\ncollar and the C. P. R. baggage\nmen are dropping the International.\nWANTED\nSmith who has cose against\nMainland Cedar Co. report at onoe\nto coast headquarters.\nCORRESPONDENCE\nMORE ACTION IN CAMP\nI noticed in tho Federatlonist of\nSeptember 24, tbat at a propaganda meeting that waa held, tt Was\nmoved that we start a campaign,\nand.publish leaflets against Htck's\nBlacklist; and recommending that\nperiodic strikes agalnit the agency\nbe called at intervals, and employment offices be picketed well. I\nthought Hicks had moved out of\ntown, baving heard nothing of htm,\nbut being on the blacklist with a\nfew handled others. His blacklist did not concern me much, but\nI notice you are wakening up; tt ls\nbetter late than never. Why ls it\ntho workVs do not wish, In quite\na few camps, to act aa delegates or\non the Camp Committee; Juat for\nthe simple reason there la no\naction among the rank and flle\nwhen a worker\" i\u00C2\u00BB blacklisted for\nhis union activities and let drift to\nthe four winds. I would suggest\nthat whenever a worker finds himself on the blacklist, ha report to\nHeadquartera and notify that camp\nhe Ib blacklisted from, and that\ncamp take action and produce no\nlogs until the blacklist has been\nlifted, and Headquarters and employment offices have bsen notified.\nI would also suggest for Headquarters to have several thousand\nstickers printed and stick thero\neven to Quebec, if need be, to Inform the workera what Hick's\noffice Is and to stay away from It,\nand also blacklist the Europe\nhotel and Its management for renting that offlce to Hicks. Fellow\nworkers, do not let us read how\nbad your camp conditions are, We\nhave heard about them for this\nlast generation, but how good conditions you have, and how satisfied you are, for remember we\nmake the camp our home. An engine won't run without ateam; Its\nCENTRAL EXECUTIVE REPORT\nThe executivo have made arrangements for Fellow Workers\nHiggins and J. Simpson to organize throughout the Bast each, If\nfound possible, doing so tn company with a local French-speaking\norganizer. W. Cowan was instructed to make his central point at\nMontreal, endeavoring to get as\nmuch as possible tn touch with the\nlongshoremen and teamsters of\nthat city who, when transportation\ncloses, usually make for the camps.\nFellow Worker J. Grieder was Instructed to organize throughout the\nNelson, Penticton and KamtoopB\ndistricts on hts way to the coast\nfrom the Port Arthur convention.\nUpon request of the delegates attending Port Arthur who desired\nthat a referendum should be issued\nto the membership asking If they\nendorse or not the action of the\ndelegates In withdrawing from the\nconvention, the executive circularized all district executives asking\nfor the necessary authorty. In addition they requested authority to\nsubmit the following questions:\n2. In view of t.he action of the\nconvention, do you dealre this organization to take part ln any referendum on the convention proceedings If same is laaued by the\nO. B. U. executive?\n3. Are you In ravor' of maintaining a Lumber, Camp and Agricultural Workers' Department ot\nthe One Big Union, and retaining\nthe right to maintain your own\nheadquarters for the purpose of\ngiving apeclal attention to the\nneeds and requirements of the\nworkers within those Industries,\nand to issue such supplies as the\nspecial needs of the organization\nrequire?\nThe authority having been forthcoming, the referenda has been Issued and owing to all members of\nthe executive b\u00C2\u00AB.lng affected by the\nresult It has been deemed advisable that all ballots shall be sent\nto headquarters, addressed to the\nchartered accountants who will\nopen and count the votes, reporting\nthe result to the membership.\nAs a result of the recent referenda on general convention proceedings all motions submitted\nwere carried In tho affirmative.\nCarl E. Berg was elected to the\nvacancy on the executive. Arrangements have been made to use for\nLumberworkers and O. B. U, news\ntwo pages each Issue In thc Swedish paper, the Forum, Issued at\nWinnipeg. JCb soon as circumstances permit a similar arrangement will bo made with a working-\nclass paper ln the Italian language.\nGOVERNMENT PAYS SCAB\nWAGES AT HARDY BAY\nThe governmont road Job between Coal Harbor and Hardy Bay\nIs run as one might expect from a\ngovernment such as exists in this\nprovince. $4.50 a day, bum tents,\nsmall box stoves or none at all,\noheap mattresses on shakes, no\nsprings. Men work on job with\nbosa patrolling along the line as\nIf they were a bunch of convicts.\nPerhaps they feel like lt Any normal man would who realized that\nhe was assisting In reducing the\nstandard of living and working\nconditions which his fellow-workers had organized to get.\nFriend Stevens ls boss and Kelly\nls straw. Have not heard any one\natate yet that either of them Insisted upon having union men or\nenforcing the union standard.\nHaven't seen any copies of the\nHealth Act posted up around the\ncamp.\nIt's time aomethlng was done to\nhandle the booze Joint operating In\nthis district The boya don't want\nit, but while lt Ib here aome of\nthom will probably mnke use of Jt.\nIf the so-called forces of law\nand order\" won't act the organization must And If there is no other\nway of doing so they may have to\nbuild a prace of their own and\nrun lt In the Interests of the men\nwho will at least get a full plate of\ngood food and a clean freah bed,\nInstead of the claas of accommodation handed out to them now.\nWANTED\nA. McFarlane, compensation\nclaim No. 661006, previously working for Whalons at Port Alice.\nAny one knowing the present\naddress of Ralph Mitchell, please\ncommunicate with Vancouver htad-\nquartcrs, 61 Cordova street west.\ntime to get aome steam Into your-\naelvea and go againat the avalanche of rotten^condltions with tia\ncans all over the cook houae and\nbunk houses over run wtth bed\nbuga, and In tbe future let ua hear,\nof more better results. The slave*\nthat are going out for piece work,\nyou do not know what harm you\nare creating. Remember the Httla\nfellow that la going Into.,theae industries. A nice condition you aro\ncreating with . yoar .. speed-up\nsystem, all for a few dollars more.\nFor when you lay down and turn\nthe lights out, not one red cent\nwill you have more, for aa sure aa\nheaven Is above when the depression comes you will be the guilty\nonea of putting theae camps back\nto a ten hour baals. Fellow work-\nera don't pack a card and call\nyourselves Union men, but come into the ranks of Industrial Unionism and Solidarity,\nYours for Industrial Unionism,\nMEMBER H696.\nTHE O. B. U. AND ITS\nFUNCTIONS\nThe alma and object of the O.\nB. U. la to organiie the working\nclass of Canada regardleaa of race,\ncreed or\" sex, or at lea\u00C2\u00ABt that la\nwhat somo of ua were led to be-\nIteye.\nThe particular braneh of the O,\nB. U. that la singled out for abuse\nand blind criticism by the officials\nbig and amall of the O. B. U. is the\nL. C. and A. W. department. If\ntheBe officials do not understand\nthe structure, of the L. C. and A,\nW. department It la roughly aa\nfollows.\nThe organisation- la built from\nthe job lip, and the back bone ot\nthe organixatton Is the camp delegate and camp committee who are\nelected by the membera on the job,\nand are responsible to none but the\nmembers who elected them, and\nwho can be flred any time they do\nnot carry out the Instructions, of\nthe members on the Job; not the\ninstructions of officials sitting in\nbig offices.\nThe tuncton of the camp delegate is to take ln new members, .\ncollect dues and remit eame to dlatrlct Headquarters, distribute all\nliterature and correspond with dlitrlet Headquarters as instructed by\nthe members on the Job.\nThe function of the camp committee ls to Investigate all grievances, place all demands of the members before the employers or their1\nrepresentatives on the Job, arrange\nfor -camp meetings, Interview all\nnew men coming on the job as to\nwhether they belong to the union,\nand generally look after the Interests of the members on the Job.\nDistricts are composed of the\ncamps In a particular area, and\nhold conventions every six months\nwhich are composed ot delegates\nelected for that purpoie by the\nmembers on the Job. They nominate delegates-for the position cf\nsecretary treaaurer, and Executive\nCommittee, discuss the problems of\nthe workers In their own district,\nelect, tf they wish, delegates to\nthe General Convention of the L. C.\nand A. W. department and the O.\nB. U. Conventions draw up by-lawi\nfor running the district. All decisions arrived at are submitted to\nthe membership for ratification or\nrejection as they aee flt\nThe duties of the Secretary Treasurer are of a various nature and\nonly those who have had the job\ncan really understand what a man\nhaa to put up with, being balled at\nleast twelve times a day Is one ot\nthem, look after the literature, office ataff, and correspond with all\nthe camp delegates on the business\nof the members on the job. If he\never forgets, which ts seldom, he\nnever forgets the balling out he\ngets .from tho delegate..\nThe duties of the Executive\nCommltte are to carry out the Instructions of the convention when\nendorsed by the members and they\nare responsible for the conduct of\ntho organization between conven-\nt!on\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB.\nGeneral conventions have been\nheld every six months, and are for\nthe purposo ot linking up the different districts and for the purpose\nof discussing the problems that\nconfront the camp workera as a\nwhole, methods of organizing and\neducating the workers in the lumber Industry and the nomination\nof Secretary Treasurer and Executive Committee, All dicisiiuis arrived at are submitted to the mem.\nberahlp for their approval or rejection.\nThis ls ai near thc Shop Steward\nmovement as It Is possible to make\nlt, tuking Into consideration that\nwo work in a peculiar Industry under peculiar conditions as a whole.\nIf the officials, big and small, who\naro suffering from an acute attack\nof the green-eyed monster, tinged\nwith a dash of envy, would spend\nthe time uaed In criticising .the L.\nC. und A. W. department and howling outside the portals of the A. F.\nof L. like a bunch of coyotes, tn\norganizing the unorganized workers ln the main industries of Canada, the O. B. U. would be ln better position ln regard to membership.\nIn regard to geographical organization we are ready In several\nplaces In Canada to form councils\nof thc different Industries, but tf .\nthc critics will point out to the L.\nC. and A. W. department where\nthey have ever refused to co-operate with them, we will be only too\nglad of the Information, aa wo can\nthen place the blamo where it belongs, but at the present time it ta\nan Impossibility to\" link up with\nsomething that does not exist\nTho majority of the members ot\ntho L. C. and A. W. department\nhnve noi evoluted from the craft\nunions, never having beep members of such an organization, and\nwtll be only too pleased to have\nany ono show them how they can\nImprove their organization, but until BUCh time as thc self-appointed\ncritk's have piot'cn to the satisfaction of tho L. C. and A. W, department that they are able to organise\ntho other industries to at least the\nstandard of his department we are\nquite willing to do \u00C2\u00ABur own organizing, and can very well dispense\nwith the unsolicited advices of the\nwould-be H.iv.t'iii's of the working\nclass of C&nada. Organize anti\neducate the workers first.\nh. w. Mcknight.\nm&i 7SGEFDUR\ntwelfth thar. no. ,3 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vancoutbr, b. a\n' FRIDAY .Ootobor 82, 1920\n1 B.C. FEDERATIONIST\nPublishod evory Friday morning by The B. 0.\nFederationitt, Limited\nA. S. WELLS-\n-Manager\nOffloe: Room 1, Victoria Block, 1,2 Pender\nStreet Wost\nTolephono Seymour 5871\nBubsoribtion Bates: United States and Foreign,\n13.00 per year;,Canada, ,2.50 per year, $1.60\nfor six months: to Unions subscribing in a\nbody, 16c per member per montb*\nUnity of Labor: The Hope of tha World\nFRIDAY...\n..October 22, 1920\nCAPITALISM is in for another, Wige\njolt. Whether it will survive it wfll\nremain to be seen, but in the meantime\nand during the coming' depression the\nworkers are going to have strenuous\ntimes, and the eats will be\nSTORMY mighty scarce. The finan-\nDAYS cial magnates who now oon-\nAHEAD ' trol industry are up against\na proposition that cannot be\navoided, and which Socinlists have pointed out must eventually be faced, and\nthat is the stoppage of industry because\nof the lack of markets. The United\nStates has been shipping commodities\nto Europe for which no payments have\nbeen made and cannot be made,' due to\nthe fact that Europe is bankrupt financially, morally and intellectually. The\nstatesmen of the old world have in their\nignorance hastened the fall of the capitalistic system by their actions, which\ndemonstrate that they do not even understand the system that gives the ruling class its profits. Great Britain is\nalso facing a crisis that will shake that\ncountry to its depths, and the outcome\nof the miners' strike may be more mo-\nmentuous than the government had any\nidea of when it forced the miners into\nthe position that they could do nothing\nelse but cease work.\n* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe capitalist press has stated that\nthe strike will not affect the United\nStates, but it will affect all European\ncountries, and by so doing must affect\nthat country as well, for no nation can\nescape the results of a stoppage of industry in any part of the capitalistic\nworld if it is on as large a scale as it\nwould appear likely to be in the Old\nLand. In their desperation the Allies\nmay attempt to increase'their supply of\ncoal from the Bhur district in Germany,\nand by so doing cause such a turmoil in\nthat country as to cause a political upheaval, and no matter which way they\nturn the present rulers~can only speed\nthe day when their continued rule must\nend by the break-down of the present\nsystem. Contrary to the misinformation\nwhich, has appeared in the press of this\ncountry, the miners of the Old Land are\nnot responsible for the strike. The cause\nof the strike 'is the industrial depression\nin the Old Land. The government, realizing that a general curtailment of industry would cause resentment against\nit,, has deliberately engineered the striko\nso that the blame for the consequent unemployment could be thrown on to the\nminers. The Daily Hfcrald, in an editorial\na short time before the strike was called,.\n. had the following to say:\n.* * ' <\nThere is' a slackness of trade at the\npresent which is due solely to the\nmuddle and waste of the capitalist\nsystem. As a result of this it is generally believed that the big employers in many industries would welcome the opportunity of closing\ndown temporarily. This would cause\nimmense distress to the workers, and\nthe employers would of course shift\nall the blame on to the miners if\nthere was a strike.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2In spito of \"Sir Eobert Hume's disclaimers, the workers of the country\nwill connect these rumors with the\npresent temper of the employing\nclass and with the government's bitter obstinacy in the negotiations, and form a shrewd idea as\nto who it is that really \"wants a\nstrike.\"\n*'*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWhile this country may not be affect-\n' ed to the same extent as will the U. S. A.\nand Grent Brtiain by the coming financial panic, which is indicated by the fall\nin prices of cotton, wheat and many\nother things, yet it will be felt here, and\nthe same tactics will bo employed by the\nruling class as will bc employed in the\nStates. Wages will be cut, the workers\nwill be accused of all manner of crimes,\nof sabotaging production and bringing\nthe country to destruction, etc., etc., but\neven while thc employing class has beea\ncrying for greater production, the system itself has demanded that production\n: should be curtailed. The near\nfuture will demonstrate how far\nthe ruling class will go in its madness, injunctions will become common, and cool heads and a clear.understanding will be needed in this oountry\nas the depression develops or the work-\n' ers will be subjected to the iron heel\nof capitalism. Today more than ever\nknowledge is power. Knowledge of the\nsituation on the part of the working\nclass will prevent tho workers walking\ninto pitfalls, and in this country which\ncan only be compared to a village in\nthe' capitalistic world, the workers\nshould be prepared to meet the employing class with a knowledge and under.\nstanding that will be thcir stand by iu\nthe coming days. It must ever be remembered by the workers in this country that nothing can be done to bring\nthc system to an end in Canada, that\ncapitalism must collapse in the older\ncountries before the end of the system\ncan be accomplished, and with a working1 class that has a thorough _ under-'\nstanding of the coming events, this country should go through the transition period with less trouble than will be possible in the more crowded and indus\ntrialized portions of the world. The\ngreatest work before all working \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 class\norganizations in this country is to spread\nthe knowledge which will explain the\ncoming events in the light of the materialistic conception of history, and the class\nstruggle that is now more manifest than\never before.\nNOW that it is practically assured that\na provincial election mil take plaee\nbefore the end of the year, the necessity\nof considering what aetion the working\nclass will take in the elections must be\nconsidered. As we\nTHE COMING have already pointed\nELECTION AND out in these columns,\nEDUCATION there will be differences of opinion on\nthis subject. The fact, however, remains\nthat there will be a large number of workers who will favor the running of working class candidates. The type of candidates nominated by the workers will show\nthe extent of the knowledge of those that\nnominate them, and will also demonstrate\nthe need of propaganda on working class\nlines. There are numerous men that can\nbe chosen who could be \"elected,\" but\ntheir election'would men nothing unless\nthey are capable of carrying on the education of the working class on class lines,\nand whieh must, to be of any value, be\nbaseoton a'thorough understanding of the\nworking class position.\n* * \u00C2\u00AB\nWo are given to understand that the\nlabor candidate in the Yale constituency\nhas withdrawn from the field because of\nthe opinion expressed by many workers\nin that district that his candidature with\na farmer and a government candidate in\nthe field would ensure the eleetion of the\ngovernment candidate. The Fanhers,\nhowever, have oMered the platform to\nlabor speakers during the campaign so\nthat the industrial workers may voice\ntheir views. This is a peculiar situation.\nNo section of the working class needs to\nthoroughly understand their position\nmore than the farmers, and while very\nlittle educational work may be done in\nthe by-election, the ooming provincial\nelections will offer an opportunity that\nshould not be missed. The coming days\nwill be full of turmoil and hardship; the\namount of understanding the people have\nof the causes of their miseries will largely\ndetermine their actions, and every constituency should, if possible, be contested,\nnot with the idea of electing men, but of\neducating the members o'f the working\nclass, and this is the most pressing need\nof the time. Working class representatives in the legislatures could do but little\nif anything to alleviate the pressure, they\nmight, -however, have an influence on the\nactivities of the government with respect\nto the working class actions,' but the\neducation of the working class will have\nmore to do with the actions of the\nworkers than all the governments eould\nhave. Fore-warned is forearmed, and the\neducational work that could be done in an\nelection is considerable, but the candidates must be men that understand the\nposition of the working class, or they can\nnot carry on'this necessary work, and\ncare in their selection is as important as\nthe work they will be called upon to do.'\nTO the student of human nature, and\nparticularly of the psychology of the\npeople, the manner in which the multitude is swayed by things that don't matter is the most noticeable. The number of\npeople that turned out oy\nA LITTLE Wednesday night to get\nFOOD FOE the results of the plcbis-\nTHOUOHT cite, when it was raining\nconsiderably, was one instance. Another was the outcry when it\nwas announced that the Board of Commerce had raised the price of sugar to\n21 cents per pound. The racket that was\nmade - on . both occasions was great\nenough to have been caused by some happening that was of vital moment to the\npeoplo, while as a matter of fact neither\nof them was sufficient to warrant an extra headline, Prices havo bcen soaring\nfor a number of years now, and nothing\nmuch has been heard about it except from\nthose that least understood the upward\ntendencies, and naturally they made the\nmost noise, and had the least to offer as\nto the.cause. In the case of thc plebiscite,\nthe situation still remains thc same. Under the Prohibition Act liquor could bc\nsecured, and under government e6ntrol it\nwill also be obtainable.\n\u00C2\u00BB * \u00C2\u00AB\nThis peculiar psychology demonstrates\nthat the mind of the average individual\nis not overtaxed with work, and that instead of being a thinking individual the\naverage person is a creature of habit, and\ndue to this fact, the present ruling class,\nthrough the press, is able to keep the\nwprkers at all times chasing rainbows,\nsuch as the high cost of living, tariffs, and\nother things that do not concern them.\nWhile the people of this country became\nunduly excited over the Board of Commerce order concerning sugar, events that\nwere happening in Europe that are of\nvital importance were hastily passed\nover. The uprising of the Italian workers had little significance to the average\nperson, except for them to express such\nthoughts as, the workers are becoming unreasonable, or some, other such monumental expression of ignorance.\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6 * *\nThere never was an uprising ^without\na causo. There was never a strike without some real, and in the eyes of those\nconcerned, vital reason for it. And there\nwill never be a revolution unless tho conditions #compel the people to rise and\noverthrow their rulers. There could not\nbe a class struggle unless there was an\nexploited and oppressed class in society,\nand strikes and uprisings such as took\nplace in Italy aro all manifestations of\ntho class strugglo that is going on in society, and it is the workers tn the mine,\nmill and factory ..that aro beginning to ask\n' questions, and to use their brains, and are\nattempting to understand the underlying\ncauses of their miseries. In spito of these\nfacts, the average small busiui*. man. the\nfarmor that \"owns\" his farm, -and the\nsmall property owner, all put these indications of a class struggle down to^the\nperversity of a buneh of agitators aiid\nanarchists. The struggle that we see between the working class and the ruling\nclass all over the world, and which is\nmanifested in different ways, in different\ncountries, by the seizing of the factories\nin Italy, and the minors' strike in Great\nBritian, all arise out of the one cause, and\nthat is the class ownership of the means\nof wealth production. Opponents of Socialism take the position that if the working class ever get control of the state,\nthat it will only mean a change of ownership from one class to another. But when\nthe means ef wealth production are taken\nover by the working class, the workers\nwill abolish the private ownership of the\nwherewithall by which the necessities of\nlife are produced, and wipe out human exploitation, which in the last analysis is\nhuman slavery, and along with it classes.\nThe uninitiated, classes the uprisings of\nthe workers as anarchy, and calls for\nlaw and order. At the same time millions\nare starving to death ns a result of anarchy that reigns throughout the capitalistic world. Here are a few figures as to\nwhat the late war under \"sane statesmanship\" did for democracy, the figures\nare not ours but were clipped from an\narticle in the local press.\nThe cost 'of the world -war to the\nhuman race is estimated at 35,000,000\nlives, according to the figures of the\nDanish statistician, Doring. The figures, published here with comment on\nthe losses, about equal the present\npopulation of France., Of the total,\nDoring counts 10,000,000 killed in action or-died from wounds, 5,000,000\nfrom the increase in mortality among\n4he civilian population during the\n.war, but the largest group estimated\nis the loss of 20,000,000 due to the\nabnormal decreases in the birth rate..\n\u00C2\u00A5 * *\nApathetic as the average\" individual\nmay be, these figures should at least get\nsomeone to think, and to investigate a\nsystenj of society that produced sueh conditions as made it possible for so many\nlives being offered on the altar of profits,\nand ruling class democracy, which dictates that there shall be a slave class in\nsociety, in order that the ruling class may\nrevel in luxury that the world's workers\nhave made possible. Surely the price of\nsugar cannot be looked upon as very vital,\nor whether the government is debased by\nthe selling of liquor cannot be considfered\nimportant when these facts and figures\nare considered, along with the dying.millions in Europe who have been condemned\nto death by capitalism. If this is not anarchy, then we don't know what it means,\nThe Carpenter, the official organ of the\nUnited Brotherhood of Carpenters in a\nrecent issue published an editorial on reciprocity. Not, however, reciprocity1 between nations but between the members\nof that organization and its general officers. The reciprocity advocated being an\nincrease of wages for these officials. In\na plaintive wail, the, Carpenter \"states thnt\n\"business agents are paid more in some localities than any of our general officers,\nand one cannot help but feel that the\ntime has come to remedy sueh conditions^' As the general president of the\nCarpenters gett $5000 per year, some of\nthe business agents must be doing well\nand all we can say is that if the members\nof that organization have no more sense\nthan to pay those fancy salaries, then they\ndeserve all they get, for neither the business agents or the general officers are\nworth it, judging, by their actions.\nSome considerable comment has* been\nmade by the press of this country on the\nfailure of Canada to send an ambassador\nto Washington. Whilo this may have\nbeen an oversight on thc part of the Canadian Government, the U. S. financial magnates have made no mistake in having\ncontrol of affairs in this country. Jjvery\nact of the present government is dictated\nby Wall Street, even the passing of the\ninfamous amendments to the Immigration\nAct followed immediately after a visit to\nOttawa by Pibrpont Morgan.\nPritchard Gives His Views\non Differences in 0. B. U.\nWHILBJ Comrade W. A. Pritohard la atlll ln gaol, yet he hai\nnot lost hla Intereat ln the\nmovement that he haa at all tlmu\nstriven to advance-^-tha working\nclaaa movement\u00E2\u0080\u0094aa the following\narticle,' written in gaol, on the differences In tho O, B. U\u00E2\u0080\u009E will ahow:\nPresent address and occupation\npreclude possibility of an extended\nstatement from me bu* noticing the\ngrowing dimensions of the dispute\nbetween the L, \v. X. U. and the\ngeneral executive board of the 6.\nB. U\u00E2\u0080\u009E I considered a word from\nyouri truly might not be \"out of\nplace.\"\nPerhaps, owing to circumstances,\nI may laok perspective or reveal\nlack of knowledge of details, but\nas It seems to nre behind all the\nverbiage Ilea an issue which I perceived at the one or two executive\nmeetings held ln Winnipeg last\nwinter at the time of \"our\"\ntrials.\nWinch, who was a member of\nthe board at the time, frankly\navowed that apart from the general movement and its needs he\nwould be for the lumber workera\nall the time. We attempted to\npoint out that where the workers\nof Winnipeg to adopt the Same outlook, proceedings-would be impossible and only chaos could result.\nOf course I 'know that in the\nminds of some of the spokesmen\nof the lumber workers resides the\nconcept that as far aB the O. B. U.\nIs concerned we (the L. W. I. U.)\nare lt. All of which may be so, but\nit does not carry us ahead.\nAt the provisional convention\nheld early ln June, 1919, at Calgary, where the O. B. U. tentative\nconstitution was drafted, we had\nto combat some of the freakish no-\nEASTERH MINERS\nREJECT REPORT\nRoyal Commission Report Turned\nDown By Minors of Sprlngli.H1,\nNova Scot!\u00C2\u00AB\n(By the Federated Press.)\nSpringhiil, Nova ^Scotia. \u00E2\u0080\u0094-By a\nvote of 643 to -3 the miners of this\ndistrict rejected as a whole the report of the royal commission which\nrecently Investigated the mining industry in Nova Scotia and New\nBrunswick. By 482 to 58 the miners also rejected the recommendations of the United Mine Workers\ncxocutivo. The miriers want the increased pay retroactive to May 1\ninstead of June 1. Over 60 per cent\nvoted.\ntlons that apparently contribute\nmuch of the difficulty to the present misunderstanding. We had to\npoint out then, that no creator\n(worshipper) of fortittoui wheels\ncould come into Western Canada\nand make such wheel .fit (west of\nlhe Great Lakes only was represented at that convention). That\nmuch aa members of, say, the\nbuilding industry might have in\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2common in Winnipeg with the\nsame industry In Vancouver, tho\nproblems of every day Ufa made\nmore oommon the interests between them and other workers of\nother trades, working ln the same\nlocality.\nPractical experience teaches\nmore than idealistic recipes for\nthe restaurants of the future, whether the diagram bo circular or\nrhomboldal and the.lumber workers or miners of Nova Scotia may\nhave need of greater co-operation\nwith the workers of that locality\nthan with the minera or lumber\nworkers of Vancouvor Island.\nAfter all, the real question Is:\nWhat is the most effective form of\nweapon to deal with, tho encroachments of capital?\nHow best can the sellars of labor\npower fight the buyers of labor\npower?\nWhatever merit may exist in the\ncontention of the Lumber Workers\nre the form of organisation could\nprovide no excuse for the deliberate sabotage of the general treasury, moro particularly when the\nneed .for initial organization work\nis as urgent as at* present.\nEMPRESS\nPhone Seymoar 2492 \u00C2\u00AB\nnext Week\nRalph Connor's Famout\n\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB\nThe Sky Pilot\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094OR\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"HIT-THE-TRAIli\nHALLIDAY\"\nFoaturlng Ray Collins\nPANTAGES\nNtxt Week\n\"THE MELODY OP YOUTH\"\nWith Six Olevor Youngsters\n Other Big Features\nECONOMIC AND\nHISTORY CLASSES\nS.>P. OF 0., 401 PENDER ST. E.\nEconomic class every Sunday afternoon, commencing at\n3 o'clock.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2History class every Thursday evening, commencing at\n8 o'clock.\nThese classes are of paramount interest and necessity to ,\nthe working class, and are conducted and assisted by\nthoroughly competent instructors.\nALL WELCOME NO CHARGES\nNaturally, after the example of thc\nCanadian government in the Winnipeg\nstrike, the British government will have\nall the strike leaders arrested to save the\ncountry from revolution. But. it is possiblo that British statesmen are not as\nnervous as the Canadian variety. In that\nevent thero will bc no arrests unless the\nHon. Arthur should go over and show\nthem how it is done in this country. He\nmay yet' be hailed as tho savior of the\nEmpire. _.\nHenry Ford has conferred a \"staggering\" blow to the high cost of living by\nreducing the soiling costs of his cars,. In\nfact, it has been bo staggering that the\nworkers are at this time wondering\nwhether they will put their saving* in\nthe bank or buy another flivver. A monument should at once be erected to this\nbenefactor of the human race, before\u00C2\u00BBthe\nprice of marble or other material used in\nmonuments goes out of sight. |'\u00C2\u00B0 :\nNow that the \"wets\" hav\u00C2\u00BB\" won,1 the\nworkert may be able to take a little tjiirf.e\noff to study their conditions under prohibition, and find out just how far they\nhave advanced on the road to prosperity.\nIf brains could produce wealth without\nlabor power the present ruling class\nwould starve to death if all they had to\ndo was to pick what they needed from\ntrees.\nIt would appear that it was about time\nthat the old gag of capital and labor getting together was trotting out again. We\nhave not heard it fir at least two weeks.\nThe Soviet regime has not been overthrown this week. 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District ofllcei\n701 STANDARD BANK BLDG.\nPhone Sey. 1759\nOlve a little encouragement to\nour advertisers* *RIDAS: .Solober 28, 1\u00C2\u00BB80\nTWELFTH TEAR. NO. 13 .\nTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDBRATIONI8T tancouvbr. b. _\nPAOEITO\n(TT Clubb & Stewart are\nmaking a special\nshowing of OVERCOATS\n\"this week, warm, yet light\nto carry, reliable makes\nfrom $30.00 up.\nPurchase early and preserve your health\nClubb & Stewart Ltd.\nMen's and Boys' Clothiers\n2 Stores\n309 HASTINGS W. 623 GRANVILLE ST.\nLETTERS TO\nED\n(Continued from page I)\n' any, we would have to deal with\nhim.\nSecretary Clark brought thii\nmatter up on the floor of the convention ln the aame manner as\nWinch, but with a different threat\nThla time lt waa that, It the per\ncapita was not accepted, somothing\nlerloua was going to happen. What\nthat meant, none of ua knew, but\nbe waa told the same as Winnh,\nthat we had a secretary for that\npurpose to whom he could take\nthe money. But he did not take\nadvantage of this, nor did he take\nadvantage of two or three other\nopportunities, especially one when\nDelegate Beard aaked him to come\ndown from the gallery and pay the\nper capita lf he had any intention\nof so doing. Ns, boys, they did\nnot want to, because they had come\nfor a purpose, and they were not\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ure of making that purpose stick.\nTou ask why I say thlsT On my\nway to Port Arthur I called, as I\ngenerally do, at the Lumber Workers qfflces ln Vancouver. X was\ntold by J. M. Clark that we were\ngoing to be flattened at the coming\noonvention. At the time I thought\nIt wu a joke, and took .It as such,\nbut what can I think now? We\nalso flnd from a Swedish paper\nthat Berg was boasting that they\nwould capture the organization at\nthe coming convention at Port Arthur. Na doubt, you will hare the\npleasure of reading it for yourselves, as I am hoping this letter\nof Berg's will be published now\nthat this matter haa come Into the\nopen.\nIn closing, I want to say that lf\nwe wanted anything but smoothness in this organization, we could\nhave objected to all -tye Lumber\nWorkerB' credentials, as although\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 we have no hidebound law in our\nconstitution regarding per capita\ntax, every person knows that so\nlong as we have a per capita tax\nsystem, we must be ruled on a per\ncapita tax basis. But we had no\nObjection to the men who had\nbeen eleoted at the Logegsr' oonvention and why they should walk\nbut ls beyond my comprehension,\nu lt did not change their voting\nstrength one lota. The constitution does say that a delegate must\nbe elected from a Central Couhcll,\nDistrict Board or Isolated unit\nEvery one knows that Winch has\nlived and worked on the .coast\nsince the' founding of the Lumber\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Workers' organisation jand that\nhe was not elected as a delegate\neither at the coast of the general\nconvention, and lf he was eleoted\nby Cranbrook district, why were\nhis' credentials not marked by\ncranbrook officials? With reference to Cowan, the officials did' not\nknow what to do with him, as\nSudbury dlstriot, whioh ho had\nbeen elected to represent, were not\nentitled ts elect a delegate, as no\nper capita had been paid on that\ndlstriot to the O. B. B., and they\nendeavored to secure credentials\nfor him from Prince Upuert. The\nboy from Fort Francis (Nell) told\nme that he had been sont for by\nGet the\nLove Habit!\nBuy FtnunnJiiE, stoves,\nBEDS, Etc, at cost. Our stock\nIs Big ,and so are our Bargains. Watoh our Auction\nSnaps. Furniture Bought ana\nSold,\nLove & Co.\nAUCTIONEERS\u00E2\u0080\u0094 DEALERS\nPhone Seymour 3745\n570 SEVMOCIt STREET\nWinch and that was all he knew,\nand I understand that hli credentials, were signed by Winch .and\nHiggins. The Thunder Bay Council had paid their per capita, and\nthe two delegatea had only a voting strength of one, whilst a roll\ncall vote could' he demanded on\nany point or question. This scrap\nhad to come, and In my opinion,\nshould have been tackled in earnest at the January oonvention, but\nat any rate, lt has made us put one\noi* two hard and fast, rules Into our\nconstitution, which may be the\ncause of temporarily losing a few\nmembers, but ln the end the organisation will be the gainer, for irrespective of our petty squabbles,\nwe shall be forced ahead by our\neconomle condition, and will move\nalong until our historic mission Is\nfulfilled.\nMisleading Propaganda\nEditor B. C. Federationist: The\nperson who ls responsible for the\narticles appearing on the Lumber\nWorkers' page in The Federatlonist\nIs disseminating a great deal of\nfalso and misleading propaganda.\nThe chief object of which Is apparently to bolster up the official positions which are menaced by the\ndecisions of the Fort Arthur convention ln favor of a one general\nheadquarters, one general executive\nboard, and ona common membership receipt.\nAn Indication of ths misleading\nnature of this propaganda may be\ngathered by the cuts that Were run\nIn the Lumber Workers' page last\nweek depicting the receipts Issued\nby the Oeneral Exeouttve Board and\nthe Lumber Workers' Executive.\nThe One Big Union Receipt was out\ndown to the quarter ot its actual\nsize while that of the lumber workers was shown nearly full size. The\ncut of lumber workers' receipt\nalso shows part of their bookkeeping system.\nIn referring to the O .B. U. official receipt, the writer ot this\narticle (which ls unsigned), In referring to the O. B. U. official receipt, says that It li \"unnecessarily\nexpensive' and In referring to the\nlumber workers' receipt, he states\nthat\u00E2\u0080\u0094'the printing saves unnecessary expense,\" These two would\nlead one to believe that the One\nBig Union receipt was more expensive than thai; used by the lumber\nworkers; when aa a matter of fact,\nthe reverse Is the case, the lumber\nworkera receipt books cost a gr'eat\ndeal more to print than those Issued\nby the One Big Union.\nAgain he deliberately misstates\nthe tacts when he refers to clause\n28 ot the O. B. U. Constitution.\nClause 21 reads as follows:\n\"Each organization affiliated with\nthe O. B. U. must use the official\nmembership receipt, unless exempt\nby tho General Executive Board.\"\nThe general exeoutlve board have\nnot granted exemption to the lumber workera or any one else.\nOne oonvention of the lumber\nworkers passed a resolution that the\nofficial membership receipt should\nbe used by the lumber workers, but\nthe ambidextrous Lumber Workers' Oeneral Secretary, got around\nthat little difficulty by having a\nreceipt printed that looked like the\nofficial receipt and had the untrue\nstatement printed thereon, \"Ono\nBig Union, Official Membership\nReceipt,\" Down at the bottom of\nthe r'ecclpt, as can be seen ln the\ncut, Is printed a statement that\n\"This receipt oan be Issued to any\nwage worker, etc.\"\nThe One Big Union has never\ngiven the Lumber Workers' General Secretary permission to print\nsuch a receipt.\nThe Port Arthur eonvention (Including the Lumber Workers' delegates, who did not walk out), approved of the present triplicate\nmembership receipt and the method of bookkeeping was referred to\ntha executive to make some necessary changes In the ledger sheet.\nBut what lies behind all this attack on the One Big Union by the\nofficials of the lumber' workers.\nThe lumber workers' delegates\nwho walked out of the Port Arthur\nconvention did not do ao because\nof any difference of opinion over\nbookkeeping methods, but because\nthoy demanded a voting power In\nexcess of all the other dolegates\ncombined, and because they de-\nSHOE REPAIR SERVICE\nExpert Work and Satisfaction Guaranteed ,\nTHE NEW METHOD SHOE MAKING AND\n-SHOE REPAIRING COMPANY\nThe O.B.U. Shop\n337 CARRALL STREET\nJust off Hastings Street. Phone R. F. 954\nMAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION\nmanded the seating of three delegates who had not been Regularly\nelected according to the constitution, from their own dlstriot, both\not whioh propositions the credential oommlttee refused to entertain\nand their report was adopted by\nthe convention.\nThe credential committee were\nwilling to seat every delegate who\nhad been regularly elected, and\ngave them voting power according\nto the per capita tax that had been\npaid since the previous convention.\n' The lumber workers organisation\nwas three monthi In arrears for\nper oaptla tix, not because.the\nmember* had not paid their dues,\nbut because their officials had used\nthe money in various adventures in\ndifferent parts of the country. Not\nln organizing lumber workers, but\nln many cases the money was spent\nln competing with other branches\nof the O. B. U. for membership outside ot the lumber1 Industry entirely\nand thousands of dollars have been\nspent ln sending aeoretarys from\nVanoouver to open up unnecessary\noffices,\nThe. Oeneral Seoretary of the\nlumber workers has admitted that\nthey spent thousands ot dollars.-ln\nthe Cobalt district. The Cobalt la\na metal, mining district and the\nOeneral Executive Board of the O,\nB, U. had commenced organization\nwork thero when the lumber workers' organizers, sent from Vancouver at considerable expense, went\nther'e and reorganized these metal\nminers Into lumber workers, offices\nwith lumber workers' receipts. At\nthe first opportunity the minera\ntook possession of the organization\nand attached themselves direot to\nthe O. B. U. and the men ..sent out\nfr'om,the lumber workers' headquarters in Vancouver had to be\nrecalled at more expenae.\nWhat the metal miners of that\ndistrict think of the lumber workers' organization is shown ln the\nfollowing resolution adopted at*the\nPort Arthur convention:\nResolution, No. 16. By Kirkland\nLake, Ont., Metal Miners' Unit.\n\"Resolved, That Whereas, the.\nstructure of O. B. U., as stated in\nthe Constitution, leaves no room\nfor Jurisdictional disputes, the fact\nthat same have arisen, indicates\nthat the Constitution Is not being\nlived up to, and\n\"Whereas, passive acquiescence\nin this violation of the basic structure of the O. B. U. can only lead\nto separation and development of\norganizations similar to the Internationals; bo It\n\"Resolved. That this convention\ngo on record as favoring one Central Office, through which both industries ,and districts composing\nthe O. B. U. will transact their business, and further be -it\n\"Resolved, That the Lumber* Workers be asked to adjust their structure or Constitution to meet the requirements of the O. B. U. Constitution, so that unity of action and\npurpose may be possible.\"\nThlB* resolution ^ was adopted\nunanimously by the convention,\nand upon motion, a special committee was applnted to draft amendments to the constitution, ln accordance with the policy laid down\nin Resolution No. 10.\nThe General Secretary of the\nLumber Workers haa also admitted\nthat a large sum of money has been\nexpended in opening and maintaining an office at Winnipeg.\nThe Winnipeg Lumber Workers'\noffice has competed for membership with the established O. B. U.\nUnits ln that city and the seoretary has admitted having enrolled\na number of members that art not\nengaged In the lumber Industry.\nThe Winnipeg office was opened\nafter .the Port Arthur Lumber\nWorkers had decided to withdraw\nfrom the Central Executive Board\nof the lumber worker's and attach\nthemselves direct to the Thunder\nBay Central Labor Council at Fort\nWilliam, and literature was Issued\nfrom this Winnipeg office to the\nemployera that would disgrace the\nmost reactionary A. F. of L. organization, and attacks\" were also\nmade on the Port Arthur lumb.er\nworkers for withdrawing from the\nVancouver headquartera.\nA resolution was adopted by the\nWinnipeg Central Labor .Council\nsimilar to the one adopted above.\nThe Princeton Unit has also\nbeen the target for the attacks of\nthe lumber workers' officials becauae they had the temerity to\nwithdraw from the Central Executive Board of the lumber workeri.\nand attach themselveB to the One\nBig Union. After Princeton had\ncommenced organization work at\nPenticton among the Irrigation\nworkers, the Cordova street office\nsent delegate into Fentlctlon and\nreorganized the O. B. U. members\ninto members of the lumber workers. Many other Instances could be\ncited to show that the main object\nhas not been to organize the lumber Industry/but to grab membera\nIrrespective ot their1 occupation.\nIf the lumber workers' delegates\nWho withdrew frpm the reoent convention really dealred \"rank and\nfile control,' why did they walk\nout? All the. amendments to the\nO. B. U. constitution are being submitted to the \"rank nnd file\" to\nvoto upon, and the lumber'workers'\nofficials are showing their anxiety\nfor \"rank and file control\" by trying to prevent their membership\nfrom voting on the amendments to\nthe constltutoln that haa been sent\nout by the G. E. B. of the O. B, U.\nIn another artlole on the Lumber Workers' page, entitled, \"Sabotaging the Per Capita,\" the writer makea another misstatement\nwhen he states that they \"offered\nto give checks to cover the arrears\nfor the two last months.\" As has\nbeen pointed out before, at no stage\nof the proceedings was a check\ntendered ln payment of the per\ncapita. This article concludes with\ntho question, \"Who says that the\nlumber workers are sabotaging?.\"\nNo one said that the lumber workers were sabotaging,fbut we do\nsay, and are . prepared to prove,\nthat the responsible officials of the\nlumber1 workers' organization have\nsabotaged on the One Big Union.\nIn fact, the officials have withheld\nsupport to the general organization\nfor nearly five months now and lf\nthe rest of the membership had\nacted in tho same manner the recent convQntlon would not have\nbeen held because the general\nheadquatrers would have been out\nof business,\nV. R. MIDGLEY.\nCUANGE OF ADDRESS.\nOwing to tho sale of the Vancouver Lnbor Temple, the rffloes of\nthe Fedorationist have been moved\nto Rooms 1 and a, Victoria Block,\n343 Pender Street'West. Corrc-\nspnwlents are requested to makn\nnote ol litis,\nIN AUSTRALIA\nThreatens to Strangle the\nliberties of the\nPeople\nThe war that we were told wM\nto end war hu turned out to be a\npretext for turning Australia into\nan armed camp with a greater\nnaval and military fores than ovot\nbefore. Tha present anti-Labor\nfederal government was hardly ln\npower ln Australia than a committee was set to work to carve out a\nfuture naval and military polioy foi*\nthat oountry. The report of- this\ncommittee has made recommendations to the government which if\naccepted, will make Australia a\nvast armed camp ahd burden lt\nwith a terrific load of expenditure.\nThat the Australian government has\nnot so far endorsed the recommendations Is only becauBf lt fears the\nstorm of protest whloh will ba\naroused by the people were lt to\ndo so.\nBut it can be taken fox* granted\nthat in the end the aim of the\nmilitarists and navallsts wlU be\nachieved. Already leading speak'\ners and orators have been brought\nto Australia in the person of Qeiir\neral Blrdwood, Admir'al Jelltcoe,\nand such like folk who make it\ntheir speolal duty to apeak on the\nneed for an Increased army and\nnavy. At the same time comfortable positions at high rates of\nsalary are being found ln Australia for leading generals In the Australian armies at the war, and little\nby little the schemes of the militarists a'nd navallsts are being put\ninfo action\u00E2\u0080\u0094without even the Gpv-\neriiment declaring Itself on the\nmatter.\nAlready the military and naval\nmachinery Is being built up. Gifts\nofP torpedo boat destroyers and\nother craft have been made to Australia and some art already here,\nwhile others are on the way. This\nis a convenient way for England\nto get rid of the upkeep of them,\nfor when war broke out, England\nwill again have the use of them\nfree of charge while another nation\nwill be doing the paying. We\nknow, to, that vast stores of military equipment for Australia's\nfighting forces will shortly arrive\nin Australia. These include 'not\nonly clothing which was In store\nfyr Australian troops when hostilities ceased, but also a great deal of\nBrltlBh material of war handed\nover to Australia by the British\nGovernment. Thla comprises practically the fighting outfit of an\narmy, and ln the near future, ships\nwill arrive carrying army waggons\nand' transport vehicles, rifles, machine guns, artillery, web-eqiilp-\nment, and a complete outfit for infantrymen's medical stores and\nsignalling apparatus and a variety\nof other supplies. These materials, according to present.. plans,\nare to be distributed amongst the\nvarloua Australian states, where lt\nwill be housed in special ordnance\nstores, sorted out, and made ready\nfor distribution in cose of a war\nmobilization of the forces.\nNaturally the people of Australia want to know why they have\nto be prepared for a war mobilization. What war is brewing in the\nfuture? Whom Is it proposed that\nwe shall fight? It ls all very woll\nto explain away the gifting of ships\nbecause England cannot pay for\nthe upkeep of them, but the same\nkind of excuse cannot be made for\nmilitary equipment or stores, for\nwhich little cost of upkeep ls necessary.\nIs tt that England expects that\nsome day, the oppressed people of\nIndia will be forced into revolt, and\nthat Australian soldiers will be\nhandy to slaughter them, or drive\nthem into submission? Or does\nEngland plan a war of conquest in\nother1 directions?\nWhatever the reason, It Is patently plain that either England\nthinks that lt may be necessary to\nuse t' n manhood of Australia in\nthe fu.ire aa cannon fodder or else\nIs already planning something\nalong those lines. The fact that\nthe people of Australia are not\nconsulted does not matter.\nThen'there is the growing conviction that the lime la coming\nwhen the anti-Labor Government\nmay try and force conacription on\nthe country. The present plans of\nAustralia's future army Is fora larger army* than Australia placed in\naction during the war. While it is\ntrue that ths Australian Government haa not yet dared to declare\nItself ln favor of the Defence Committee's recom men datlffns, there Is\nlittle doubt but that lt wttl Insidiously place lt into practice without\nconsulting, or Indeed without even\nthe knowledge of the people of the\nAustralian Commonwealth.\nIt la true that labor writers and\nspeakers are doing their beat to\nwarn the people of that country of\nthe Impending danger, but the people of Australia, like thoae of other\ncountries, feeling that they are safe\nat thla moment, take no notice of\nthe future. At this date they do\nnot seem to realize the gigantic\nweb being spun around them to\ncatch them and hold them fast In\nthe mesh of militarism. Meanwhile\nthe millionaires and navallsts of\nAustralia are not spoeling on the\nJob, and unless the Australian people Boon wake up to what Is boing\ndone they will find themselves on-\nmeshed in tho wob of Prussianism.\nAnd whatever attempt they may\nmake then to disentangle themselves may prove to he too late.\nFRANCE TO CONTROL\nHUNGARIAN ARMY\nTreaty Signed Between Nations\nGives France Complete Control\nof Legalized Murderers\n(By the Federated Press) \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nBerlin,\u00E2\u0080\u0094-Amazing stipulations .of\nthe treaty concluded between\nHorthy of Hungary and the French\ngovernment, which practically sign\nthe wealth and man-power of Hungary over to the capitalists of\nFrance, are revealed by Az Ember,\na bourgeois paper published here.\nThe real Intent of' the whole\ntransaction is made shamelessly\nclear In a provision which states\noutright that \"In the campaign\nagainst Soviet Russia\" the French\nshall have oomplete control of the\nHungarian army.\nWhere Is your Uuion button T.\nON LIVE TOPIC\nInteresting Address on\nMethods of Production\n1 At thi F. h. P. open forum held\nIn the Federated Party Hall on\nSunday, October 10, Dr. W. J.\nCurry took for his subject, \"WUl\nproduetion for uso abolish poverty?\"\n; The subject proved very Interesting and occasioned considerable\ndiscussion. Tha speaker flrat described briefly the methods by\nwhich our ancestors produced thoir\nfood, olothlnf and ahelter, oto.,\nwith the old primitive tools, tho\nspade, the flail, the spinning wheel,\nthe hand-loom, and- the whlp-taw\nwith which lumber was often out\nProduction was extremely slow\nln those days as compared wtth today, and yet, it waa ahpwn by the\nspeaker, the average workera were\nfed, clothed and sheltered oh thla\ncontinent of America in colonial\ndays better than the average work-\ner la today.\nThey owned tho principal tools\nof production and the products\nwere thelr's to use, barter or sell.\nIn early colonial daya, rent, interest and proflt were almost unknown\nexcept in the towns, and the vast\nmajority of people lived In .the\ncountry. Trye, they struggled with\nthe forces of nature, but they usually won In that fight and the contest made them strong and self-\nreliant. Very different from tlie\nmiserable narrow workers ot today.\nTha speaker\" displayed a set of\ncharts demonstrating his' chlff\npoints. These charts and the facts\nand figures presented were takoji\nfrom the eighteenth annual report\nof the Commissioner of Labor of\nthe U. S. A., Carrol D. Wright. -\n: The pamphlet from which the\ncharts were reproduced was termed \"suppressed Information\" from\nthe fact that thla information Is ao\ndamaging to the present economlo\nsystem and therefore dangerous for\nthe workers to understand. It waa\nsuppressed to such an extent that\nlt was out of print a few months\nafter its issue and no more' copies\ncould be obtained. However, Fred\nbarren, then on the Appeal to\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Reason staff, complied this report\n-and published in pamphlet form\n\"suppressed information.\" It Is undoubtedly amongst the most valuable as well as damaging productions ever Issued by tke governmental puppets of American plutocracy.\nThe Four Charts\n:;:;The flrst chart displayed showed\nthe increase In production of the\naverage man engaged ln making\nplg-tron due to improved methods.\nIt \"also showed the relatively small\nadvance in wages and also the\nenormous gain in profits.\nJ In 1870 each Worker ln this\nspecial industry produced 6fl tona\nof pig-iron. 'His wages was $453\nper annum aiid the average profit\nWrung from the. hide and muscle\nof the average slave of the smelter\nwas $522.\nIn 18\"0 it had Increased to 81\ntons, while the average wage fetl\nto $304 per annum, yet the profits\nIncreased to $560.\nIn 1890 such Improvements tn\nmethods were adopted that the\navernRp product per man aroso to\n160 tons. The wage went to $460\nWhile the shareholders, \"owing to\ntheir thrift,\" enjoyed a reward ot\n$405 profit.\nIt must be remembered that during alt this time the cost of living\nhad increased constantly, ao that\nthe apparent rise In wages was only\napparent. The actual wage or purchasing power probably fell.\nIn 1900 another remarkable\njump took place. The smelter\nhands were speeded up to such an\nextent that they averaged 865 tona\nof plg-lron per man. Wages Increased to $606, and profits Jumped\nto the value of $900- for eaoh\nworker.\nChart No. 2 showed the powers\nof production of hand tools as\ncompared with machinery, but It\nmust be remembored that this machinery of 20 years aj;o would today be slow and antiquated, yet\neven this ohart demonstrates fully\nwhat the Industrial revolution,\nmeant and the ever-increasing exploitation of the worker under capitalism.\nFor Instance, ten pairs of men'a\nfine shoes, hand-made, required 222\nhours of labor time, with machinery only 29 hours. One hundred\npounds of Graham crackers made\nb$ hand occuplod 160 houra, with\nthe machinery of 20 yeara ago only\n35 hours. Three hundred potinda\nof rope used to consume 134 houra,\nwith machinery only 17 houra.\nFive hundred bushels of potatoea\nneeded 247 hours of back-breaking\ntoil, with machinery only 86 hours,\nand yet that was before electricity\nor the gasoline tractor was heard\nof on the farm.\nIn textile production the Increase\nwas even mors marked; the modern loom can do the work of a\nHundred of our ancestors who uaed\nthe hand-loom, and yet who can\nsay that we are clothed more comfortably than our grandfathers\nWere.\n' But the climax of the Industrial\nrevolution seems to have been\nreached In the art of printing. The\nmodern machine haa done away\nwith over 99\" per cent, of the\nlabor that was required In the\nprinting art of fifty yeara ago, but\nWhat shall -we say of the quality\nof this product of the modern\npress?\nUnemployment\nThe next chart showed the Inevitable sequence tot the development of the machine. It showod\nhow unemployment had Increased\nsince tho workor lost control of\nthe tool of production.\nIn 1890 only 15 per cent of the\nworkers of tho U. S. A. were unemployed at any time during the\nyear. In 1900 thla had Increased to\n22 por cent, while In 1908 80 per\ncent of the wage earners of\nAmerica were unemployed part of\nthe yoar.\nThe fourth and laat chart gives\nus the causes for unemployment.\nWe find that 87 per cent of tho\nIdle poor were ln that condition\nthrough the worka closing down.\nSickness kept 23 per cont away\nIN OPERATION\nDirect Action Tactics Will\n- Lead to Overthrow\nof Government\n. (By Taraknith Das)\n(Staff Wrter for tho Federated\n?ross>\nIn Inda there aro two distinct\nforces, ln tho field of politics; tho\nConstitutionalists and the Revolutionists. The story of the Indian\nrevolutionary activities during tho\nworld war Is more or Iobs familiar\nto tho publlo. The Indian revolutionists established vory olose relations with the Central Powers\nagainst Great Britain. Their emissaries were active ln Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, China, Japan, tho\nUnited Statea and Mexico. Even\ntoday they are in very close relation\nwith Soviet Russia, and thslr representatives participated In the Third\nInternational and.also In the Baku\nconference.\nThe Indian revolutionary movement has its outposts all over tho\nworld, Indian revolutionists demand tho absolute Independence of\nIndia, and they do not conceal tho\nfaot that they expect to achieve\ntheir alms through conflict, since\nlt is sure that Great Britain will\nflght to retan mastery over Irtflia.\nThe Indian Constitutionalists are\nworking* for \"self-determination,\"\nor some kind of Dominion home\nrule within the British Empire.\nYet, it is moat significant that the\nIndan constitutionalists today are\nao distrustful of the British government in India that they have decided to adopt a programme of\nnon-oo-operatlon, whloh virtually\nmeans a boycott of tne British administration.\nLejpat Ral and hundreds of Indian leaders are ln full accord with\nthe movement headed by N. K.\nGandl to boycott the so-called reformed councils to bc Inaugurated\ntn India as a part of the Montague-\nReform, or the Indln Reform .Vet\nOn July 3, 1920, Maulans Shail-\nkat All, of the non-co-operative\nsubcommittee, gave out the following detailed plan of action to be\nfollowed' by the Indian constitutionalists at the flrst stage (jf/'hon-\nco-operation:\"\n1. Surrender of all titles of honorary offlcors.\n- 2. Non-participation In government loans,\n3. Suspension hy lawyers of\npractice ln British courts.\n4. Boycott of government\nschools by parents.\n5. Boycott ot reformed councils.\n6. Non-partlclpation in government social affairs and -similar\nfunctions.\n7. Refusal to accept any civil ot\nmilitary posts ln Mesopotamia .or\nto volunteer for the army, especially for Bervice in Turkish territories.\n8. Prosecution of Swadeshi' (revival of home industries) and refusal to buy European products.\nThus lt Is quite evident that the\nIndian constitutionalists are advocating direct action tactics which\nwill ultimately lead to the complete overthrow of the government\nIt Is certain that either* the British government will have to make\na series of concessions to the constitutionalists or It will have to\nfaco the same situation as now ex-\nsta In Ireland. It la quite logical\nthat the Indian constitutional\nmovement will be forced to merge\nivith the revolutionists into a gl-\ngontio revolutionary movement advocating absolute Independence for\nIndia just as the Irish Home Rule\nmovement has r'esulted ln the present de facto Irish Republic.\nChina\nWe hurt a delightful anortmmt et ent .\nfancy Ohio*, ete., tad a full Umt Of e\u00E2\u0080\u0094ner eeta-a\nopen rtock or excluilTe patten.\nBWIE TUAIC\nl> a treat etea itook favorite, with rioh dark Ma\u00C2\u00BB\nChina, dudfa and lleeMns octecoaal \u00E2\u0080\u00A2haaot\n60-plece dinner let for (9Q 7ft\nOOMPLETE WORLD-WIDE\nDISARMAMENT WANTED\nWomen's International League\nNow Working to Bring About\nUniversal Peace\n(By the Federated Press.)\nNew Tork.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Complete worldwide disarmament ia one of the\nobjects for which the Women's International League is working ln\nIta etlorta to bring about universal\npeace,\" said Mrs. Emmoline Ve-\nthick Lawrence, famous English\nsuffragist and member of the British Labor party, in the flrst interview given since her arrival in this\ncountry a short time ago. Mrs.\nLawrence and Frau Yella Hertzka,\nan educator and social worker of\nAustria, will tour the United States\nunder the direction of the Women'a\nPeace party which ls conducting a\ncampaign to rouse Public opinion\nagainst militarism, and in favor of\nworld peace.\nfrom work; six per cent were on\nvacations; strlkea were accountable\nfor two por cent, and in spite of\nour temperance advocates thla government report showa ua that only\nona quarter of one per cent were\nunemployed through drunkenness.\nIa there any wonder that thla Information was suppressed by the\nmasters of the machine and tho\nrulers of America?\nThis pamphlet also describes the\nhomes of millions of \"froe\" citizens\nof America. It would bo well If\nSocialism or some other agency\ncould destroy these homes and\ngive the people decent habitations.\nEven twonty yeara ago only two\nper cent, in New Tork city owned\nthcir homes, and most of those\nowners were being bled by the\nmortgage companies. Tens of\nthousands of families just oa ln\nthe old country are doomed to bo\nborn to live and to die In one room,\nand millions know nothing bettor\nthan a home of two or three miserable rooms in a mining town, or\nthe working-class districts of the\ncities.\nThe speaker declared that conditions were becoming desperate and\nthat the white race would either\nperish, even as paat civilizations\nsickened and died, or that ln some\nway once moro gain control of the\nresourcei of the earth nnd the\ntools of production and produce lor\nthe needs of humanity, and not\nkeop a parasltcd class In. luxury.\nWhether this would bo done\nthrough political or dlroct action ln\nthis country none oould tell, but\nonly understanding of economic\nfacts and the lash of necessity\ncould Induce the common people\nto free the world from the last and\nmost vicious form of alavery that\nhistory has known.\nToys\nBring tho klddtee late \"Joyland.\" Oar Ohrlrtapt\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0took li quite completo. Plok oat a food gan*\n(or tho family to ihortoa thooo long emalnaa. AM\ntho (ood old tarorltoo\u00E2\u0080\u0094ParohoU, ote. Aft*, ***\nTlddloywlnki : *IU .5\nMILLAR & COE\n\"HMMlqnartoro for China\n41* HaKincs street Woo*\naadTojo\"\nMl\nGEDDES SLAPS\nBritish Ambassador Likely to Become Unpopular to Plates\n(By J. A. Stevenson, Canadian\nStaff Correspondent for tho Federated Presa.)\nOttawa, Ont.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Unleu Sir Auckland Geddes, tho British ambassador, It careful he will soon bo on\nthe blacklist of A. Mitchell Palmer\nand the Canadian government as a\ndangerous political character. At\nthe annual meeting of the Canadian Bar Association, the ambassador's speech war recoived with\npained amazement by a somewhat\nreactionary audience. I\nSir Auckland swept aside much\nof the superficial thinking about\nthe war and about Industrial unrest. In his view the war has simply intensified an Intolerable economic condition ln an International\nsystem of competitive industrialism. The ambassador hai scant patience with the favorite governmental theory at Washington and\nOttawa that Bolshevist agitators\nare responsible for Industrial unrest.\n\"There are conspirator!, agitator! stirring up trouble but they are\nilka the mosquitoes that come from\nthe swampy pools, Thero is a pleasure to be got from swatting them.\nBut yon will not get rid of them\nuntil tho iwampy pool! wherein\nthey breed aro drained and the\nplacea where they 'draw their poison aro cleansed.\"\nHo went on tho ascribe world unrest to the industrialization of nations. Tho Investment of capital In\nIndutsry and the private monopoly\nof credit havo made possible tho\nIndustrial rovolution not only in\nEurope and America but also tn\nthe east, and no reasonable effort\nhas been ma'ile to make Industrialism conform to humanitarian Ideas.\nHe described tho Impression\nmade on him by his experiences aa\ndirector of recruiting In Britain\nduring the war. Ho spoko ot tho\nphysical Ill-being, tho destruction\nof family life and tha warping ot\nmen's minds by their dai]y occupation, \"I have no doubt,\" he aald,\n\"that tho aame ia true of million!\nof men ln similar pursuits among\nthe other nations.\nHe offered no speclflo remodlei\nbut emphasised clearly hli view\nthat the propertied daises must\nconsent to some Intelligent and\nrirastio readjustment of the present\n.system.\nHli speech In Canada throw! a\ncold douche upon the government's\npropaganda to frighten the voters\nInto reaotlon by pamphlets hinting\nat vast revolutionary conspiracies\nto over turn tho existing political\nand social fabric. If Sir Auckland\ncontinues to make speeches of thla\ntype he will soon cease to he popular either at Washington or Ottawa,\nDEFENSB rtlND UTKS&TVBB\nTho prlc* of ooplee ol Ptttch-\nart'i addrea to lb* Jan, Dfcrart\naddreu and tb* t-tUr/y ot Sm\nWinnipeg striko hM ben' reduced\nto 10 eta. per oopj. Ib* Winnipeg\ndefense committee to ato* tooateg\nDetenu Fond Stamps, Ibo price of\nwhich li 35 oo*U oaoh.\nWhat doei lln. Pankhunt I\nby her atatement that owing te\nthe Russian pooplo not being nolo\nto road, tho Bolshevik partr deceived them hy flooding the country with misleading literature?\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTorkton Pros* (Canadk). '\nBay at a aat\u00E2\u0080\u0094 tuna.\n(By the Federated Presa)\nSydnoy, N.S.W.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The New South\nWales Labor government intends to\nextend the operations of the Fair\nRents Court throughout that state.\nHitherto the court hae only operated ln fixing the rental! of houses\nIn tho olty of Sydney, and exercising no Jurladlotlii on the country\ntowns of the state. The Labor governments' Intention now la to establish court! at all the populous\ncentre!.\nOpen Forum\nt p.m.\nF. Ii. P. HALL\n141 OORDOVA W.\nR. P. Pettipiece\nWill tpeak on Uie imnoa of the\nComing lulcition\nDRUGLESS\nHEALING\nDOWNIE\nSanitarium Lti\nfifteenth Boor Standard\nBuk\u00E2\u0080\u0094Oor. of Hutingi\nand Rieharda\nPhonei Seymonr ,608;\nHighland 21841\nWe ha?* treated successfully what others\nhairs diagnosed as\nANAEMIA\nARTHRITIS\nbiliousness\nQOTJT\nLUMBAOO\nRHEUMATISM\nSCIATICA\nINSOMNIA\nNERVOUS DEBILITY\nIMPOTENOY\nIMPERFECT\nCIRCULATION\nBLOOD PRESSURE\nECZEMA\nand * host of other so-\ncalled ailments.\nDr. Downle,\nDur Sir\u00E2\u0080\u0094I would Ilk* te\ngtre a testimony respecting\nPar Drugless trertma.it. When\nwun* te Vaneourer lut Va*\nvembw I wh suffering from a\nnervous breakdown and high\nblood prusar* ud wm not\n\u00C2\u00BBafo to go ont Alono. I had\nheen under a doctor'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 sate\nsince enrly ln September, bnt\nover/ tlm* I tooV the drngt\nprescribed I wu prostrate th*\nrest of tb* day,\nTh* day befer* Chrlitmu I\nnearly collapsed on th* strut,\nud wu not out again for tw*\nweeks. On seeing yur advertisement I decided t* SM II\nyou could do anything for mn,\naad yon told me all yon eonl*\ndo wu cure m* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 I told you te\ngo to It. I muat iay 1 felt beneflt from th* first treatment,\nand after tw* month* yon told\nmt lt wu no ns* coming again\nas It waa only waiting yoir\ntlm* and my money. I am glad\nto tell yon X am feeling u fit\nas I ever did and hop* yon\nwill have the sara* success with\nall yonr patients as you did\nwith me. Tou ar* at liberty\nto mak* what uie yon wish of\nthis letter aad I will bt pleued\nto answer anyone enquiring of\nm* respecting yoar treatment.\nTours truly,\nWU. 1IATHEW.\nWhltewood, Sask,\nRussell and His\nComrades\nAre to Serve Their Pull Sentences. This means that\nMORE FUNDS ARE NEEDED-THEIR WIVES AND.\nFAMILIES MUST BE OARED FOR\nThe Local Committee Has Also Incurred Some Expense\nin Looking After the Looal Russians Under Order of Do.\nportation.\nSend Your Contributions to A. S. Weill, 842 Pender W. PAGE SIX\nTWELFTH YEAR. NO. 43\nTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST Vancouver, b. c.\nFRIDAY October 22, -/.e\nONE OF THE FINEST TONICS\nGood for Health Improves the Appetite\nCHEAP PRODUCTION .\nEveryone knows that cheap goods ean only-be procured\nby using cheap materials and employing cheap labor.\nCASCADE BEER\nii produced from the highest grade materials proourabie\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cascade is a UNION produce from start to finish.\nVANCOUVER BREWERIES LIMITED\n10 Sub. Cards\nGood for one jeer's inscription to Tk.\nB. 0. r\u00C2\u00ABa\u00C2\u00ABr\u00C2\u00ABtoBl>t, will b. milhd to\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2nr .ddtn. in C.n.d. lor 182.50\n(Oood .nywhero onUid. of v\u00C2\u00BBB\u00C2\u00ABro.\u00C2\u00ABr\ncity.) Order tan tod\u00C2\u00ABr. Romll whtntold.\nWanted\u00E2\u0080\u0094Two Million Husbands\n(By Alnse, the Federated Press)\nJ read ln the papers\nHow over_ In France\nThey want\nTwo million HUSBANDS\nAnd they think that maybe\nBome ot the men\nIn OUR western states\nWhere men are plentiful\nMight like to come over and marry\nThe extra women\nLBFT OVER\nBy the war!\nX read the short account\nQuite carefully\nBut It said not a word\nOt making those women HAPPY\nOr saving them from\nLONELINESS!\nOh, no, the reason they gave\nWas nothing so sentimental,\nWhich maybe was Just as well,\nFor sometimes getting married\nHakes women HAPPY\nAnd sometimes again\nIt DOESN'T!\nThe article aaid not a word\nAbout MORALS, either,\nAnd how a sound society\n. Demanded HOMES\nAnd not so many lonesome folks\nHanging about town!\nNo THIS was the reason\n.They wanted those husbands;\nThey said :\"France needs\nSix million CHILDREN\nTo become again a STRONG\nAnd PROSPEROUS nation!\nAnd we ftp\"\"\" \"'it oecn^\nOf these couples \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ; '\nWill average THREE babies!\"\nYes,\nIt was Just like that,\nJust calm like that!\nThey didn't promise to make\nThose babies HAPPIER\nThan the sons of France who died\non the fields of the Marne!\nThey didn't say: \"These babies\nShall be PROSPEROUS\"\nBut \"FRANCE\nShall be more prosperous .\nBy their coming!\"\nAnd I thought: \"What Is\nThis France of which they speak\nThat needs two million husbands\nTo breed babies?\nWill the French PEASANTS\nBe RICHER\nOn their little farms\nWill the French WORKERS\nBe more prospefrou.\nIn their little shops,\nBecause of six million\nNEW babies to bring up?\nWhy, not at all!\nBut the French capitalists\nWould like six million more\nTo LABOR for them,\nAnd the French politicians\nWouid lilfc six million more\nTo FIQHT for them!\nRICH business men\nAnd an expensive ARMY\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTHAT is what folks mean\nBy a STRONG\nAnd PROSPEROUS NATION!\nTHE PETREL\nPatronize Federatlonist advertisers and tell them why you do so.\nVancouver Unions\nVANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR\nCOUNOIL\u00E2\u0080\u0094Pmident, J. M. Clarke;\ntiee-president, R. W. Hatley; iecretary\nJ 0. Smith; Ireasurer, A. S. Wells;\nsergeant-at-arms, E. Homo; trustees,\nCarr, Vanroblen, Sleverwright and Midgley. Meets Srd Wednesday each month\nIn the Fender Hal], cornor of Pender snd\nHowe streets. Phone Sey. 201.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ALLIED PBINTINO TRADEB COUN-\ncil\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets seeond Monday in the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0onth. Pretident, J. F. McConnell: seoretary, R. H. Neelands. P. 0. Boi 66.\nBRIDGE STRUCTURAL ORNAMENTAL\nsnd Reinforced Ironworkers, Local 97\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-Meets second and fonrth Mondays.\nPmldent Jas. Hastings; financial seo-\nretary and treasurer, Roy Massecar, Room\n118 Labor Temple.\nBNGINEERB EMPLOYED IN THE\nLnmber Industry (camp snd mill)\nneet with fellow workera ta that industry. Organiie into the Lnmber Workers\nIndustrial Union of the 0. B.JJ. Headquarters, 61 Cordova St. W., Vancouver.\nPhone Sey. 7656,\t\nGENERAL WORKERS' UNIT OF THE\n0. B. V.\u00E2\u0080\u0094President, R. W. Hatley;\niecretary, J. G. Smith. Meets 1st Wed-\naesday In each month in Pender Hsll,\near. of Pender and Howe streets. Phone\nBoy. 201.\nHOTEL AND RESTAURANT EM-\nployees, Loeal 28\u00E2\u0080\u0094MeeU every eecond\nWednesday in the month at 2:30 p.m.\nand every fourth Wednesday in the raontt\nat 8:80 p.m. President, John Cumrainga,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0eoretnry and business sgent, A. Graham.\nOfflce and meeting hall, OU Pender Bt.\nW. Phone Bey. 1681. Offlce hours. 8\nbjb. to 0 p.ia. ____________\nINTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S\nAssociation, Local 88-52\u00E2\u0080\u0094Offlce and\nhall, 152 Oordova St. W. Meeta flrst\nand third Fridays, 8 p.m. Secretary-\ntreasurer, F. Chapman; builneia agent,\nB. Richards.\nJOURNEYMEN TAILORS* UNION OF\nAmerica, Loesl No, 178\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meetings held\nflrat Monday ln eseh month', 8 p.m. Preaident, A. R. Gstenby; vice-president, D,\nLawson; recording seoretary, 0. McDonald, P. 0. Box 608, Phono Seymour\n8281L; flnanclal secretary, T. Templeton,\nP. 0. Box 508.\nbhli'VAKD LABORERS, RIGGERS AND\nFasteners, I.L.A., Local Union 88A,\nBeries 6\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays\nsf the month, Lsbor Temple, 8 p.m.\nPresident, William Maylor; flnanelsl seeretary and busineu agent, M. Phelpa;\ncorresponding aeeretary, W. Lee. Ofliea,\nRoom 207 Labor Temple.\nTYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 226\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMeets last Bunday of eaeh month at\n2 p.m. President, A. E, Robb; vies*\npresident, 0. H. Collier; seoretary-treasurer, R. H. Neelands, Bos 66. .\nSTREET AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY\nEmployees, Pioneor Division, No. 101\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets A. 0. F. Hill, Mount Plcaiant\n1st and Srd Mondays at 10.15 a.m. and t\np.m. Pnsldent, B. Bigby: recording\nseeretary, F. E. Griffin, 447\u00E2\u0080\u00946th Avenue\nBast; treasurer, F. Sidaway; Inanelal\nseeretary and business sgent, W. H. Cottrell, 4808 Dumfries Btreet; offlce comer\nPrior aai Main Sts. Phoas Mr. 1604 R.\nProvincial Unions\nVICTORIA. B. 0.\nVICTORIA AND DISTRICT TRADES\nsnd Labor Council\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeta flrst and\nthird Wednesdsys, Knights of Pythias\nHall, North Park Street, at 8 p.m. President, E. B. Woodwsrd; vice-president,\nA. 0. Pike; seeretsry-tressurer, Chrlitlaa\nBiverls, P. 0. Box 802. Victoria, B. 0.\nVICTORIA LOCAL UNIT. 0. B. U.\nMeets first and third Friday eaeh montb\nat 1424 Government Street. Third Friday\nopen forum. Secretary, E.-Wsterson.\nPRINOE BUPEBT, B. 0.\nINTEBNATIONAL JEWELRY WORK-\nmi' Union\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets 2nd and 4th Fridays, 205 Labor Temple. President, W.\nWllion, 2280 Oranvllle Street; seoretary,\nX. T. Kelly, 1850 Hastings St. E.; re-\neordlng-iecrctary, L. Holdsworth, 639\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n14th Bt. W., North Vanconver.\t\nLUMBER AND CAMP WORKERS' IN-\ndustrial Unit of the One Big Union\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nAn Industrial union of all workers In logging snd construction camps. Coast District and General Headuuarters, 61 Cof\ndova St. W., Vanoouver, B. 0. Phono Sey.\nT866. E. Winch, goneral secretary-\ntreasurer; legal advisers, Messrs. Bird,\nMacdonald A Co., Vancouver, B, C.; auditors, Messrs. Buttsr * Chfcne, Vancouver. B. C.\nPRINCE RUPERT TRADES AND LA-\nbor Council\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets second and fourth\nTueadays of each month, ln Carpentera'\nHall. President, B. D. McDonald; vice-\npresident, A. Ellis: secretary, Geo. Wad-\ndell. Box 278, Princo Rupert, B. Q.\nMARINE FIREMEN * OILERS UNIT of\ntbe 0. B. U. meet ta their union hall\nat Rooms 8 and 4 Empire Hotel, 70 Halting! East, flrst and third Wednesday In\nthe month. President V. Owens: vice-\nK'lLdent, D. Csrlln: aeeretary, Earl King.\none Sey. 8698. ___________\nMILLWORKERS EMPLOYED IN THE\nLumber Influntty, organise Into the L.\nW. I. U. of tho 0. B. U. Millworkers, branches meet aa follows:\nTancouver\u00E2\u0080\u0094Lumber Workers' headquarter!, 61 Cordova Bt. W. Every Monday\nBew Weetmlnateiv\u00E2\u0080\u0094Labor Hall, cor. Royal\nAve. and 7th St. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 8 p.m.\nfraser Mills\u00E2\u0080\u0094Old Moving Picture Thea-\ntre, Maillardville. 2nd and dth Thuraday, 8 p.m.\nFort Moody\u00E2\u0080\u0094Grange Hall, 2nd Friday,\nevery month, at 8 p.m.\nPRIXCF4 RUPERT CENTRAL LABOR\nCOUNCIL, 0. B. U.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeta every Tuesday in the Mclntyre Hall at 8 p.m. Meetinga open to all 0. B. U. memberi. Secretary.treasurer, N. Booth, Box 217\nPrince Rupert. B. C.\t\nNew Tork.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The cap makers organization of Buenos Aires hns sent\na letter tu the United Cloth Hat and\nCap Makers of America requesting\nadvice and information concerning\nthe methods to adopt ln organization work. The letter states that\nthe Argentine workers after several\nunsuccessful attempts at establishing a permanent organization are\nnow celebrating the fifth anniversary of their union.\nWhere ls your Union button?\nMINE, MILL AND SMELTER WORK-\nera' Unit of the One Big Unloa, Metal-\nBferois Miners\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vancouver, B. C, head-\nSjisrters, 61 Cordova Stroet West. All\nWorkers engaged tn this Industry sre\nBifed to Join the Union beforo going on\nIke Job. Don't wait to be organised, but\norganise younelf.\nPATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF\nNorth America (Vancouver and vloln-\ner)\u00E2\u0080\u0094Branch meets aecond and fourth\nondayi, Room 204 Labor Templo. President, Wm. Hunter, 818 Tenth Ava. North\nVancouver; flnanclal aeeretary, E. God-\ndard, 166 Richards Street; recording secretary, J. P> Russell, 928 Commercial\nPrive. Phone High. 2204B.\n0. B. U. UNIT PILE DRIVERS, WOOD-\nen Bridgemen, Dorrickmen and Riggers\nof Vanoouver and vicinity. Meets every\nMonday, 8 p.m., ln O. 8. U. Hall, 604\nPender St. W. President, T. L. Hewitt;\n6 uncial seeretary snd buainess sgent, E.\nome. Phone, Seymour 201.\nPULP, PAPER AND 8CLPHITE WORK-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ra\u00E2\u0080\u0094You need ths Camp Workeri of\nyour Industry. Tbey need you. Organise\ntogether ta the 0. B. U, Indntsrlal Unit\nof your occupation. Delegatea on every\nVlb, or write the District Headquarters,\n1 Cordova Bt. W., Vaneouvar. Entrance\nSV 11.00; monthly dues, $1.00,\nMORRIS SOSKIN\nBABBISTHE. BOMOITOl. KOIABI\n- PUBLIC\nTolephon. 8ej. 9401\nBom. Phon. B-P 1887L\n316 Bt.nd.r4 Buk Bulldlnf\n510 Halting. St. W., Vucouw. B, 0.\nDr. De Van's French Pills\nA nllabl. Rtgulstliig PHI for Women, IS\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 box. Sold .t .11 Prng Storoi, sr m.llrd\nto .ny ftddro,, on receipt ol prico. Th.\nScobell Drug Co., St. O.therlnei, OnUrlo.\nPHOSPHONOLforMEN\nRestores Vim ind Vitality; for Nerve and\nBrain; Increases \"gray matter;\" a Tonic\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094will build you np. fa a boi, or two for\n|6, st drug stores, or by mall on receipt\nuf price. Ths Scobell Drag Co., St. Oath-\nnines, Ontario.\t\nBallard's Furniture Store\n1024 MAIN STREET\nPhons Ssy. 2187\nWe alwayi esrry in itock a good\nselection of dining-room, parlor, kitchen and bedroom furniture, also\nlinoleum and medium priced carpet\n(.quart's, rugs, etc. Wo can lave you\nmoney as wa ara out of tho high rent\ndlitrlet.\nT must be more than fifty years\nsince the mocking' voice of Mr.\nMatthew Arnold confounded the\nVictorian optimists by Ingeminating as a aort of refrain ln proof of\nthe wretchedness of society, Wragg\nis in custody. The pert inconsequence of the trick is not without\ncertain schoolboy effectiveness,\nand there is something In ita very\nrudeness, in its genteel adumbration of a \"Come off It\" or a\n\"Gam,\" which must commend it\nto a less elegant later age.\nOne is singularly tempted to apply the method to a modem diarist* whose brilliance combines in a\nremarkable degree the military\nwisdom of Clausewltz with the\nsocial Ideals of Mr. Stephen McKenna, Colonel Replngton introduces himself with the roguish intimation that his best things have\n\"been omitted on the recommendation of eminent counsel\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094happy\ncounsel!\u00E2\u0080\u0094and proceeds to answer\nwith unlimited gusto the old, old\nquestion as to what he did ln the\nGreat War. Being a soldier of recognized ability, he waB not employed in any military capacity,\nbut was retained in London to direct the operations on all fronts\nIn thc columns of the Times. His\nrevelations are fltllluting; his daily\nappreciations of the slowly broadening, deepening, thickening,\nblackening situation are full of Interest, but one feels that posterity\nand its historians will value his\ndiary less for its Revelations (they\nwill know the facts) or for its\njudgments (they will know the\ntruth) than for his contribution to\ntho social history of England In\nwartime. He ls perpetually lunching with a few people at the Ritz,\ndining with a few people at the1\nBerkeley; he sees Lady Diana\nManners' last appearance In her\nhospital clothes (they \"suited her\nbo well; she Is very sad about tt\")\nhe hears \"Lady Randolph in great\nform, and most bitter against Lord\nK.\" One gets through tt all the\nqueer Imprest.ion that one ls\nwatching an earthquake from a\nseat in a cabaret: the singers grimace and the flat piano tinkles as\nthe great buildings go crashing\ndown outside and the smoke goes\nup and the flames beneath it and\nthe cries, but one can still hear the\npiano playing Btalo rag-time.\nThat Is where Colonel Replngton almost provokes one to set the\nwar to a refrain In the manner of\nMr,. Matthew Arnold and his in\ncarcerated MIbs \"Wragg. A man\npulled a Browning pistol on an\nArchduke and Europe fell ln\nitself. But Lady Mllly was ln\nsplendid form. Tljree nations reeled fighting across France and\nyoung men were taken In ships to\ndie on beaches In Turkey; the\nlights of great cities were turned\nlow because the world was mad.\nBut 'Lady Mllly was In splendid\nform. Neuve Chapelle, Loos, Qal-\nHpoII, Kut, the Somme. But Lady\nMllly . . That Is how it strikes\none. Colonel Replngton has unintentionally etched his background\nwith an acid that is more biting\nthan his design. Because It Is the\nacid of bitter truth.\nThis ingenuous diarist 1s perpetually taking us behind the\nscenes of the world's tragedy, and\nthe visit to the coulisses Is fascinating to the last degree. One sees\nthe coryphees making up for their\ndazzling appearance behind the\nfootlights f'Wlnston gave me bits\nof the sort of remarks he would\nmake on the points\u00E2\u0080\u0094very good\nand penetrating and clever, wtth\nsome flne language. I was told\nthat he has sat up until 4 a.m. with\nGarvin before his Navy speech.\nThis accounts for the mess he\nmade of lt.M) The sceneshlfters\nmutter aa thev elbow their way\nby (\"We discussed Max Aitken's\npeerage. Max had said he was\nsure there was something coming,\nfor he had cut himself shaving tn\nthe morning and hts blood had\nbeen blue.\") And sometimes, as\none stands wtth Colonel Replngton\nIn the wings, one can catch -a\nword flutig by a diva to her dresser\nwhich explains more than all her\ndivtne roulades: (\"R,\"~Str William Robertson\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"says that L. G.\nwants a victory quickly, a victory\nwhile you wait. He does not care\nwhere. Somewhere 'where opinion\nwill be Impressed, like Damascus.\nR. has told him that Damascus\nmay come in time, when rail and\npipe lines are laid, and meantime\nwhat about Beersheba? L. G.\ndidn't fancy that Beersheba\nwould catch on, but Jerusalem\nmight! This ts War Cabinet strategy at the close of 1916, and lf\nwe can win on lt we can win on\nanything.\") That Is how they\nwere talking behind the scenes and\nround the prompter's desk, while\nthc poor simple souls packed ln\nthe crowded, darkened house ln\nfront were cheering and hoping\nand praying\u00E2\u0080\u0094and some of them\neven working and dying.\nBut the collection of anecdotes\nls as barren a business as the Juxtaposition of amusing bric-a-brac\nexcept when lt illustrates the temper of our present masters. There\nIs a glimpse of Mr. Lloyd George\nthat ls well worth remembering:\nHe asked me whether there\nwas any single military book\npublished before the war which\nI found worth reading, I said,\n\"The Book of Joshua and\nClausewltz.\" \"And Clausewltz\nIs only principles,\" added L. 0.\nThe black Is not Mr. George's.\nAn atmosphere of broader farce\nis created by a conversation with\nMarshal Foch\u00E2\u0080\u0094until one remembers that he is not an honored\nefllgy In the War Museum but an\nactive counsellor in the affairs of\nEurope:\nThe closo of one day which\nI spent with him ln 1914, he\ntook me Into his sanctum, and\nhaving shut the door, said, ln\na most Impressive way, that\nthere was one subject upon\nwhich he sincerely desired my\nopinion. ... I wondered\nwhat it could be. Ho took- up\na map of northern Europe,\nspread it out and asked me\nsolemnly how much European\nterritory we should expect for\nourselves at the end of the\nwar.\nIn a conversation wtth Francis I.,\nFrederick the Great or Napoleon\nthis enquiry would have had its\nhumor. But In the mouth of Marshal Foch lt Is too rich for laughter, because Marshal Foch Is still\nalive One does not wonder whon\nho complains ln 1919: \"President\nWilson leads tho Conference and\ndoes what he likes. I may not\nhave my Rhino frontier because It\nts against Wilson's fine principles.\nThe Right of Property\nand so when war comes again\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094\none admires the flne, downright\ncertainty of it\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"we shall have flne\nprinciples In place of a natural\nfrontier.\" Observers had always\nsuspected that Marshal Foch regarded the war as a simple episode\nIn the history of France; but the\ncertainty is somehow a trifle disquieting.\nOn the impersonal side Colonel\nReptngton's diary la an equally\nvaluable record of tbe war. He\nhad rotated for years ln what are\ncalled \"well-informed circles,\" and\nhe had written on military subjects\nwith an intelligence to which they\nare rarely treated, so that- one is\nnot surprised to find real-Insight ln\nthe thumb-nail appreciations of\nthe changing situation which he\nentered In hts journal. They show\nvery clearly how the war looked,\nat every hour of it, from the angle\nof Whitehall. For 'Colonel Replngton Is pre-eminently a War Office\nsoldier of the most brilliant type.\nThat ls perhaps why he finds little\nroom for praise of Lord Kitchener.\nHis intimacy with the military\nbeau monde enables one to get a\nunique glimpse at the temper of\nthe British higher command. One\nis perpetually elbowed as one follows him into the Holy of Holies,\nby a succession of genial gentlemen with nicknames. There Is\n\"Fatty\" Wilson, and \"Scatters\"\nWilson, and \"Bockus\" Nlcol, and\n\"Putty,\" and \"Rawly,\" One seems\nto get the keynote of it all when\nthe diarist adjures Sir William\nRobertson to \"let Archie invade\nPalestine.\" It is quite a comfort\nwhen one remembers the uprooting\nof humbler persons to see the cosy\nbonhomie of high quarters'. And\nColonel Replngton would not\nchange lt for worlds even when a\ncasualty list showed that some\nthoroughly good'fellow had not\nquite come up to the expectations\nof his friends: \"I cannot get to\n.hear yet whether there are any\nmore generals who have been kicked out, besides X., Y., and Z. I\nhope there are no more: it'1ft not\nat all satisfactory.\" And it was\nnot.\nThere are moments when one\nwonders whether Colonel Replngton was living ln reality or In an\nearly story by Mr. Kipling. Whole\npages of his brilliant record are\nUttle more than cumulative evidence that the perspicacious Mr.\nBrltltng had seen through lt when\nhe grumbled about the military\nclique: \u00E2\u0080\u00A2< <\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0The army had been a thing\naloof, for a special end. It Had\ndeveloped all the characteristics of a qast. It had very high\nstandards along the lines of\nIts specialisation, but it jtu%.\nlnada$able and conservative..^\nIts exclusiveness was not W;\nmuch a deliberate culture is k'\nconsequence of its detached\nfunction. ... It saw the\ngreat unofficial civilian world\nas something vague, something\nunsympathetic, something possibly antagonistic, which It\ncomforted Itself by snubbing'\nwhen It dared and trlcWmg \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nwhen it could, something that\nprojected members of Parliament towards lt and was\nstingy about money.'\nWhilst Mr. Wells was writing\nthat In 1916, Colonel Replngton\nwas restating lt night after night\nIn the social entries of his diary.\nIt Is on the social side that this\nbook will live, If posterity knows\nIts business. One would give whole\nbooks of Polybtus for one good picture of a Uttle dinner at Carthage\nln the Second Punic War. The\ntalk ln the Saracen tents during\nthe First Crusade, a political host-,\ness's diary In the Hundred fears'\nWar, Parisian gossip when the\nGrande Armee was In the field,\nthese would be tho original sources\nof true history for which no\namount of despatches, documents\npour servir, and military biographies are a substitute. Colonel Reptngton's diary will perform that Inestimable service for the historian\nof the future. Those corner tables\nat Clarldge's, that charity matinee\nat the. Alhambra, what the lovely\nlady said to the statesman, how\nthe pretty widow looked in her\nweeds, these and these are the ma-\nterlals which Colonel Replngton\npours Into the lap of history with\nthe happiest disregard of solemnity,\ndiscretion\u00E2\u0080\u0094and the war. \"The\nonly visible signs of war,\" he wrote\non a Sunday In 1917, \"are that the\nmen now wear usually short coats\nand black ties In the evenings, that\ndinners are shorter, and that servants are fewer and less good.\"\nThose, In the happy dlariPt'i\njudgment, are the only visible\nsigns of war. Well, perhaps.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Philip Guedalla ln the \"New\nStatesman.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2The First World War, 1914-\n1918: Personal Experiences' of\nTJcut.-Colonel C. a Court Replngton. Constable, 2 vojs. 42s. net.\nMICHIGAN LABOR\nENDORSE SOVIET\nFederation of Labor Demands\n' /hat Government Keep\nHands Off Russia\n(By Nate L. Welch, Federated\nPress Staff Correspondent)\nFlint, Mich.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Unqualified' jep-\ndorsement of Soviet Russia with a\ndemand upon the United States\ngovernment for a hands off policy\nand the lifting of the blockade, recognition of Irish independence,\nthe release of Eugene Debs and all\nclass war prisoners, was demanded\nin resolutions passed by the Michigan State Federation of i#^or\nwhich concluded a five-day session\nhere. The state constabulary and\nantl-syndlcalist law condomned in\nvitriolic terms. Political blckjrftig\nwith the old parties by Federation\nofllclala was tabooed by an amendment to the constitution prohibiting any officials from bargaining\nin any wny, shape or form with\nthe old parties. The Farmer-Labor\nparty adherents did not press for\nan endornement.\nCarey Ferguson, buslneas agent\nof the Detroit street car men was\nelected state president.\nTIIE MEIGHEN PROPAGANDA\nThe government's scheme of propaganda ls to build up an Imaginary Bolshevik menace In Canada,\nfor the purpose of scaring 'people\ninto voting Conservative, By this\nmisuse of public funds it is evidently hoped that the present dlstator-\nshlp of thc caucus mny be returned\nto offlce for anothor five years to\ndraw ministerial salaries of $14,000\nand extras per year.\nCERTAINLY the most Important of the legal rights,\nfrom the point of view of\neconomics, Is that of Property.\n\"The right of private property\nIs the mainspring of the whole\nmechanism of distribution (of\nwealth) ln civilized societies.\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nGide.\nAs we have already seen, there\nate ooncerned ln this right:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n1. The \"subject\" of the right,\nthat la, the person In whom the\nright ot ownership is vested. This\nmay be either a natural person or\na partnership, or a corporation,\nwhich, by the act of incorporation\nbecomes a legal peraon empowered\nto hold property and other rlghta\nand, In consequence, to sue or be\nsued. This person, whether\nnatural or legal, possesses the exclusive right to use and control\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n2. The \"object\" of the right.\nThis may consist of tangible or Intangible goods. Tangible goods\nwould be represented by such\nthings as:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nLand, Including water, minerals,\ntimber, hunting and fishing rights.\nSlaves u'nd other working and\ndomestic cattle.\nBuildings, machinery, food and\nclothing.\nIntangible goods would include\nsuch things as:\nFranchises, copyrights, patent\nrights, trade marks, \"good-will'\nand special privileges of one kind\nand another.\nThen there are stocks, bonds and\nshares\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"credit documents to bearer*.\" These, of course, are .not\nthemselves wealth but merely legal\nclaims, or evidences of ownership.\nThey are, however, pf very great\nand increasing Importance In E\nsociety'tn which \"possession,\" properly so-called, is giving place to\nmere ownership. Then there Is:\n3. The act or forbearance. This\nln the case of property, means\nthat:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n4. The person or persons against\nwhom the right 1b effective must\nforbear from the use of the object\nof the right, or forbear from acting in such \u00C2\u00A7 manner as to Interfere with ItB use by the owner.\nThis means everybody else.\nThe whole thing boils down to\nthe statement that Property is a\nright of ownership vested In one\nman, or set of men, as against the\nrest of society in respect of some\nobject. In the words, of Marx, lt\nis a \"social relationship.\" The\nState conserves and enforces this\nright. A right without the might\nto enforce it is no right at all.\nConsequently, the right lapses\nwhen the State withdraws its sanction, or when the State ls destroyed.\nThere ls here no question of\n\"moral rights,\" These are alleged\nrights which have no legal sanction or what is left of a legal\nright upon the subtraction of the\nlegal sanction. They are a matter\nof ethics or sentiment and, for\nour present purpose, may be disregarded.\nProperty may be legally acquired by purchase, gift or Inheritance.\nIt may also be acquired by chance\nor theft which, while not always\nIllegal, are not generally recognized by law. These means, however, Imply the existence of property rights a'nd do not, therefore,\naccount for them. It la the \"original accumulation\" for which we\nhave to account.\nIn the last analysis property depends on possession: in the case of\nland, of occupancy. Possession or\noccupancy was, as a rule, the result of appropriation generally accompanied by force. The fact of\npossession is fortified by prescription. That ls to say that undisputed possession for a certain\nlength of time gives a legal right\nas, for instance, the squatter's\nright. Then there ls what the lawyers call the right of accession by\nwhich\n\"Property In an object, whet*\nher movable or Immovable,\ngives a right to all that lt produces, and to all that Is connected with It accessorlly, either\nnaturally or artificially.\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094Code\nCivile, Art. 546.\nThis principle ls so Important\nthat Prof. Jenks, In his \"History of\nPolitics,\" defines property as \"the\nright to absorb the various advan\ntages (known and unknown) which\nare derivable from a thing.\" It ls\nby virtue of this right that the\nland-owner may claim any Improvements effected on his land, or\nbuildings which may be er'ected by\nhis tenants: that the slave-owner\ntook possession of the'product of\nthe slaves' labor and of any children they might procreate, and that\nthe employer of labor owns the\nwealth produced by his employees.\nWe see then, as the common saying has It, that possession Is nine\npoints of the law. It ta a fact,\nhowever, possessing no moral value\nwhatever. This, of course, does\nnot concern us but is, nevertheless,\na matter of some concern to the\napologists of the system. For this\nreason lt has been sought to give\nthe right of property some kind ot\nmoral sanction. We have, therefore, the doctrine of \"Natural\nRight\" now, as we have already\nseen, largely given up. As to this\nit Is gufflcclent to say that It property be a natural right then lt\nwould be possessed by all men,\nwhich Is notoriously untrue, If it\nbe answered that the right of property is merely the right to possess property if one can get it, then\nthe dictrlne of natural rights ls\nabandoned.\nThen, again, lt has been attempt*\ned to show that property is the result of labor. This also Ib untrue,\nas It ls notorious that those who\nlabor do not possess, and that\nthose who possess do not labor.\nLastly, there is the \"Social Utility\"\nargument. That is to say, that tt\nis In the interest of society that\nprivate property should exist. ThiB,\nas we have already seen, makes\nproperty a legal right resting on\nthe general consensus of opinion.\nIn earlier times, as everyone\nknows, men acted o'n the\n\"Good old rule, the simple\nplan,\nThat they should take who\nhave the power,\n, That they should keep who\ncan.\"\nProperty was then a matter of\nactual possession. The owner of\nproperty had to occupy lt and be\nprepared to defend lt, arms' in\nhand lf necessary. The rise and\ndevelopment of the State, however,\nchanged all this, and with the security thus brought about we flnd\nthat possession has given place to\na form of ownership depending on\nthe possession of legal documents\nvalidated by the State, which en\nforces the due performance of tho\nacts or payments indicated tKerein.\nAll of this made necessary a strong,\ncentralized State which has made\npossible the change from the\n\"money economy\" to the \"credit\neconomy\" In which the exchange\nof values takes place. It has also\nbrought into being forms of property by means of credit documents and book entries. It has\nalso brought Into being forms of\nproperty undreamed at one time.\nMany of these are of a somewhat\nunstable nature, such as stocks,\nbonds and shares, baBed as they\noften are on such Intangible forms\nof property as patents, copyrights,\nfranchises, business \"goodwill\" and\nso forth. Nevertheless, these\nthings give their possessors the\npower to levy tribute upon the produce of labor to the extent of thetr1\nclaims.\nIt will be observed that while\nthis question appears to resolve\nabout the ownership of the land\nand the accumulated \"savings,\"\nmore or less mythical, of the capitalist class, it is, In reality, a question of the claim of that class to\nthe product of labor. As we have\nseen, \"the occcssory follows the\n.principle.\" Thc wealth of the\nworld is produced annually. The\nmachinery of wealth production\nmust be continually renewed from\ntho same source. This applies even\nto the land, apart from it's attribute to mere extension (standing\nroom).\nIn brief, the owning classes have\na lien \"on the entire product of\nlabor extending to alt eternity. In\nlate years this Hen has grown to\nsuch an extent that the entire an\nnual product Is inadequate to meet\nthe Interest. This fact alone Is\nstrangling the system. This explains why the capitalist class cries\nout so Insistently for Increased production and greater economy\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe part of the laborer.\nIt has probably never been true\nthat \"a man could do what he liked\nwith his own\" and it is leas true\nnow than ever. There are certain\nlimitations Imposed by the State on\nthe right of property, and the\nnumber of these hus Increased\ngreatly ot recent years.\nThere Is the right of \"eminent\ndomain,\" by which the State may\nexpropriate land or other property\nfor its own use or1 ln the Interest\nof some coporation. There are taxation, fines and forfeitures by\nwhich the State .confiscates all or\npart of the property of its subjects. Further, no man may keep\nhis property in a condition or-use\nlt In such a manner as to constitute a nuisance. These considerations provide further proof that\nthere is nothing sacr'ed about the\nright of property. The State,\nwhich has created theBe rights,\nfinds lt necessary to modify them\nin the interest of public necessities. Society will have to do a lot\nmore drastic work: of the same\nkind lf tt desires to avoid the fate\npredicated for It.\nL, H. Morgan In his \"Ancient\nSociety\":\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"The dissolution of society\nbids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim; because such a career contains the\nelements of self-destruction.\"\nThe capitalist class does not possess the grace to choose the better\npart. It Is doubtful if\" they have\nthe intelligence. I father suspect\nthey may not have the time.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Geordie, In the Western Clarion.\nTurner, Beeton\n& Company, Limited\nWHOLESALE MERCHANTS AND IMPORTERS\nDry Ooodi, Oents' Furnishing!\nVICTORIA, B. 0.\nMANUFACTURERS OF \"BIG HORN\" BRAND\nSHIRTS, OVERALLS, Eto. .\nFactory organlied under \"United Garment Workers of America\"\nPATRONIZE FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS\nHELP ALONG!\nPatronize Federationist Advertisers\nHere TUe? Are, Indexed for Tea\nMr. Cnlon Man, Out This Out and Olve It to Tour WU*\nTisdalls Limited-.\nBicycles\n1\nBilliards\nOon Jones (Brunswick Pool Booms)\t\n..618 Hastings Btreet West\n\\n .Hastings Street East\nBook Stores\nInternational Book Storo Cor. Hastings and Columbia Streetaj\nIngledew Skoe Store...\nBoots and Shoes\nJohnston's Big Shoe House...\n\"K\" Boot Shop\t\nPierre Paris....\t\nWm. Diek Ltd...\n16 OranviUe Street.\n 409 Hastlngi W.;\n...319 Hastings Street West!\n...64 Hastings Street West;\n...Hastings Street\nUnconventional\nSermons by\n3. 8. Woodsworth\nVancouver Co-operative 41 Pender Street Weet.!\nMacLachlan-Taylor Company 63 Cordova Street Weat!\nCornett Bros. _ clarko 56 Hastlnga Street West]\nBoot Factory\nChristie Boot Factory BI Cordova Btreet Weet\nCafes\nGolden Gate Cafe Hastings Street\nO. B. U. Model Cafe 67 Cordova Street Weat;\nOrpheum Cafe Opp. Orpheum Theatre\nChiropractors and Drugless Healers\nDr. Wlllard Coates 30-32 Burns Bldg., 18 Hastings Street Weat)\nDownle Sanitarium, Ltd 16th Floor Standard Bank Bide.\nDr. Lee Holder \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 74 Fairfield Bulldlnf\nDr. Edgar W. Moore... 403-406 Carter Cotton Bid*.,\nVancouver X-Ray Institute 014 standard Bank Building1\nDr. H. Walton 310-311 Carter Cotton Bldg, 188 Hastings St W.\nDr. H. Simpson 0 Flack Block\nCleaners\nRay 233 Keefer Street ]\nClothing and Men's Outfitting\nArnold te Quigley... 646 OranviUe Street\nClumans, Ltd 163 Hastings Street West J\nClubb ft Stewart 309-318 Hastings Stroet West\nB. C. Outfitting Co. \u00E2\u0080\u009E . - 842 Hastings Street Weat\nB. C. Tailoring Co 342 HaBtings Bast\nWm. Dick Ltd 83-49 Hastings Streot laat\n 614 OranviUe Street I\n-.346 Hastings Street West\nThos. Foster A Co., Ltd...\nJ. W. Foster ft Co, Ltd...\nJ. N. Harvey Ltd\u00C2\u00BB_ 116 Hutings West and Victoria, B. a\nC. D. Bruce .-._ \u00E2\u0080\u009E 401 Hastings Street West\nNew Tork Outsitting Oo. 143 Hastingi Street West\nW. B. Brumitt.... \u00E2\u0080\u0094 .Cordova Street\nThomas ft McBain...... . .......\nWoodwards Ltd. . \u00E2\u0080\u0094. \u00E2\u0080\u009E\nD. K. Book . \u00E2\u0080\u0094_ 117 Hastings Street West\nVancouver Co-operative 41 Pender Street Weat\nCoal\nKirk * Co, *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00C2\u00BB 929 Main Bt, Seymour 1441 and 461\nDentists\nDr. Brett Anderson ......... .'. 602 Hastings Weet\nDr. W. J, Curry..........\u00E2\u0084\u00A2..\u00E2\u0080\u0094 ._ 301 Dominion Building\nBritannia Beer-\nCascade Beer-\nDrinks\nTaxi\u00E2\u0080\u0094Soft Drinks...\nVan Bros\t\n...Westminster Brewery Co.\n Vancouver Breweries Ltd.\n.....409 Dunsmuir Street\n...Ciders and wines\nThe Acme of Heroism\n_t\\ THERE liberty dwells,\n\A/\u00C2\u00BB there is my country,\" said\n*\" Franklin, but Thomas\nPaine soared far above him when\nhe exclaimed, \"Where liberty\ndwells not, there ls my country.\"\nFrankly, that is the expression ot\nthe highest and most heroic idealism. It reminds one of the teaching of Jesus who was willing to die\nnot for his friends but for' those\nwho rejected and persecuted him.\nIt reminds us of those words of\n'Gene Debs repeated at his trial,\n\"While there Is a lower class, I am\nof it; while there Is a soul In gaol\nI am not free.\" (I quote from memory). Paine, the Englishman,\nstruggled for liberty for America\nand then, voluntarily threw himself Into the surging stream of revolutionary activities ln France.\nThe world has always had lta\nknights errant. Perhaps they have\nnever directly accomplished much,\nbut surely they have Inspired many\nof the more practical leaders and\nmaintained the morale of the rank\nand flle. But much more, they\nhave been able to express the hitherto Inarticulate ideas of the new\nday. They have uttered a rallying\ncry; they have held up a standard;\nthey themselves have become a\nsymbol of that for which they\nstrove.\nBut underlying the somewhat romantic Idealism of Paine's words\nthere la discoverable a great social\ntruth. No country any longer lives\nto Itself. The destiny of England\nmay not be decided by Englishmen,\nIt may be decided by Russians; No\nRussian armies will not' invade\nEngland or conquer India. But the\nIdeas that have found expression In\nRussia may determine world fala-\nciea and thua ultimately decide the\nfate of England. One nation cannot\nrise or fall without involving all\nothers.\nAt our peril we neglect the least\nimportant part of our body. The\neye cannot say to the feet, \"I have\nno need for you.\" So In the body\npolitic\u00E2\u0080\u0094as Blake says, \"A starved\ndog at the city's gate fort oils the\nruin of the state.\"\nLittle Englanders and little Canadians are living in a false security when they complacently view\nthe world's storm, saying, \"It will\nnot come nigh ua,\"\nBut among our young men and\nwomen are there not thoso of the\nspirit of Paine who Instead of seeking soft snaps chose rather the\nmost difficult job\u00E2\u0080\u0094are willing to\nlend even a forlorn hope.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 they\nhave their reward!\nVanoouver Drug Co..,\nDrugs\nDry Goods\n..Any of their six storei\nFamous Cloak ft Suit Co 623 Hastings Btreet Wert\nVancouver Co-operative 41 Pender Street West\nEducational\nPltmans Business College 42 Richards Street'\nSprott Shaw Business Institute 888 Hastings West\nSuccess Business College .Cor. Tenth and Main\nThe Sheldon Institute of Business Science 42-43 Canada Life Bldg,\nWestern Collegiate Institute Third Floor Duncan Building\nLasalle Extension University 701 Standard Bank Bldg.\nB. C, School of Pharmacy and Science 615 Pender West\nFlorists\nBrown Bros. ft. Co. Ltd.......\u00E2\u0084\u00A2.\u00E2\u0080\u009448 Hastings East and 728 OranvUle Street!\n' Funeral Undertakers\nHarron Bros 2898 Qranvllle Stree;\nMount Pleasant Undertaking Co ,. 233 Kingsway\nNunn Thomson ft Glogg................................................ 631 Homer Street\nHastings Furniture Co...\nFurniture\n...41 Hastings Street West\nBallard Furniture Store 1024 Main Street\nHome Furniture Company 416 Main Street\nGroceries\nBroadway Table Supply 522 Broadway East\nCal-Van Market '. .'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ~\u00E2\u0080\u0094Hastingi Street Opposite Pantag'oe\n\"Slaters\" (three stores)....... Hastings, Oranvillo and Main StreeU\nVancouver Co-operative 41 Pender Street '\nUnion Public Market 86-37 Hastings Street West\nS. T. Wallace 118 Hastings Street Wes)\nHatters\nCalhoun's, Ltd 61 Hustings Street Eas.\nHotels\nCentral Hotel 42 Cordova Street Baa'\nJewelers\nO. B. Allan 480 Oranvllle Btree\nMasseurs, Etc.\nM. F. Eby, B.A., M.B 999 Broadway Weal\nMusical Instruments\nSwltjer Bros 312 Hostings Street Wes-\nOptometrists\nJ. H. Healey 824-825 Birks Building\nMorris Optical Co\t\nChicago.\u00E2\u0080\u0094More than 1,000\ntive Russians has applied at the\nChicago passport bureau for per-\nmission of the-governmont to return to thoir home land. All of\nthese are going to parts of RusBia I\nunder the control of the Bolehe-I\nLyttleton Bros...\n..549 Qranvllle Street\n..119 Hastings Street Wee'\nvlka.\nOveralls and Shirts\n\"Big Horn\" Brand. \u00E2\u0080\u0094(Turner Beoton ft Co., Victoria, B. 0.)\nPalmists\nMadame Hlnger 561 Granville Stree;\nMadam Johnson 136 Hastlnga Street Wes\nPrinters and Engravers\nCowan 'ft Brookhouse .*. . ...............Labor Tempi\n(Jelland-Dibble. , Towor Buildln/\nSolicitors\nMorris Soskln 316 Standard Bank Bulldlni\nStove Repairs\nCentral Sheet Metal Works, Royal Stove Repair Works....560 Cambie Bi\nTaxi Service\nStanley Steam Taxi Co 334 Abbott Strec,\nTheatres and Movies\nEmpreis Orpheum Panti-f'\nTransportation\nI Terminal Steam Navigation Co., Ltd ., .Union Doei FRIDAT Ootober SI, 1980\nTWELFTH TEAR.\nrto. \u00E2\u0080\u009E THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vanooovbb, b, c.\nPAGE SEVEN\nCREDIT\n/\nTOOK PROMISE TO\nPAY IS OOOD\nENOUGH FOB US\nMen and Women\nwho have\nLarge Families\ndeserve all the -\nCREDIT\nthey eaa get .\nAnd We Give It to Them GLADLY\nOur stook otters an unusually oomplete showing of\nWOMEN'S Suits, Dressea, Coats and Waterproofs;\nMEN'S Suits, Overcoata and Raincoats In oholce profusion, and a complete line of Boys' Clothing. All\nmoderately priced. A SMALL DEPOSIT, the balanee\non EASY TERMS.\nutfithng^\n342ne$ti^3 3tWe3t-\ncon. MOMtie ar\nphonc aevetss.\notters from an Okanagan Rawnch\nMy Dear Percy,\u00E2\u0080\u0094I wrote yoa\nibout the farmera' convention at\n'entlcton and the trouble we had\nIn drawing up our platform. I un-\naerstand all phases of the Oriental\nquestion, the Japa and Chinks, you\nknow, but this tariff board in our\nplatform gravels me completely.\n}ld dear. Now that the farmers are\ngoing Into politics I will have to\nbrush up on political economy and\nill that sort of thing because,\nreally, old chap, the more I think.\nIt ovor the worse I get balled up.\nWhen we were together at dear old\nOxford you always were a dab at\npolitical economy and perhaps lf I\nexplain the situation you can help\nme to get lt straightened out.\nNobody wants to bother about\nthe beastly tariff anyway, aa lt la\nan awful bore, I assure you, old\nthing, but MaoKelvie saya lh the\nVernon News that lt le to be the\nmain Issue ln this campaign and so\nof course we will have to discuss lt.\nIt seema that in every campaign It\nla quite the proper thing to have\na burning Issue, the hotter the bot*\nter, and the tariff la alwaya handy\nwhen needed. The government\nlends a tariff commission all over\nCanada tn prove to us Juat how\nhot an isaue it really la. When the\ngovernment here rune up agalnit a\ntroublesome proposition whloh lt\n\u00C2\u00ABannot solve lt appoints a commla-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2tbn to travel over the country at\nconsiderable expense, heaves a sigh\nof relief and says. \"There, thank\nOod, that's settled.\" Nobody ever\nheara of the commission after-\n\"warde, but the members have a\nnice trip anyway.\nThe whole thing reminds me of\nthose slap-stick articles actors\n.sometimes use on the stage In low\nComedy. They make an awful row\nhut don't hurt any to speak of. The\ngovernment brings out Its slapstick marked \"Protection\" and the\nLiberals have a e!m!..ir one whloh\nused to be labeled \"Free Trade aa\nthey have it in England,\" but\nwhich ls now \"Tariff for revenue\nonly.\" The noise ls deafening and\nthe air la simply full of feathers\nand gore, but after lt Is all over\nthey -wink at each other and put\ntheir slap-sticks carefully behind\nthe door ready to be dragged out\nagain at the next campaign.\nHowever, the protective tariff ii\na splendid thing for us rawnchers\naa lt gives us thirty cents a box on\nour apples, ao those bally American\nfruit growers will not be able to\nsell their applea to the prairie hayseeds below the cost of production.\niThls ts one of the main boards in\nbur platform, but I want to know,\nold chap, does that mean below\ntheir cost of production or uurs?\nIf they sell applee below their coat\net production how are they going\n,to make a proilt unless they make\nIt on the wrapping paper and the\nbox? And If their apples are not\nvrapped they can't mako so much,\nia they have only the bally box to\n;o on. If it means that thoy can\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ell below our cost of production\nhen they must be ablo to produce\nor less because their automobiles,\nfarm machinery and material of\ntil kinds cost them less. It puzzles\nmo completely, old chap.\nCholly Pltz Herbert and I have\ntalked It over by the hour, but we\ndon't seem to be able to flnd the\nanswer. Cholly went down to Cro-\nville not long ago and discovered\nthat, the Overland car which cost\nhim |H85 could be bought there\nfor $1010. Now he spends all his\ntime figuring how many boxes of\napples at thirty eents a box lt\nwould .take to make up that difference ot $446. He saya it looks to\nhim as it the manufacturers soaked us up to the limit and then gave\nus back thirty cents as an exact\ndesignation of what we looked like.\nHe alao says that the manufacturers give us a little protection so\nthat we will think our Interests are\nnot the eame as the hayseeds on\nthe prairiea. Divide and rule, you\nknow.\nCholly belongs to on* of our best\nfamilies, but the poor boy always\nwas more or leas ot a' silly ass.\nEveryone knows that the manufacturers don't beneflt by protection,\nThey have full page advertisements\nIn all papers to prove tt and of\ncourse the newspaper* wouldn't He\nabout a little thing Ilk* th* tarlS.\nO sugar, of court* notl\nI listened to one of thoae beastly\nSocialist agltatora the other day\nand really, old chap, I waa quite\nput out at hi* remarks. Thl* Is\nabout what he said and I leave It\nto you, old dear, If.b* didn't treat\nour 'sacred thrift Issue with disrespect:\n\"Th* who!* industrial world la\nIlk* a volcano which may erupt at\nany moment, and all you Okanagan\nrawnchers can do Is to sit on the\nedge, twiddle your thumbs and\nconcoct a platform which Is Just\nabout a* virile a political document a* a gam* of eeny, meeny,\nmlney, mo. w* told you what\nwould happen to you with the\nOriental question, but all you\ncould ae* was th* patty gain ot the\nmoment. Now whil* Anatole\nFrano* aays that Europe ls dying\nand the capitalist, system Is tottering to Its fall, all you have to offer\nas a measure of statesmanship ls\n'thirty cents a box tariff on apples.' If you had sense enough to\norganise your distribution In order\nto eliminate the middleman you\ncould save a spread of five or six\ntimes that amount.\n\"Aa a matter ot fact the whole\nprotective tariff la simply one ot\nthe ways ln which the farmer ls\nscientifically and remorsely skinned\nwithout making lt too plain where\nall his epidermis is going to. So\nfar aa you Okanagan rawnchers are\nconcerned, you take fn thirty cents\nwith one hand, pay out a dollar\nwith the other, and then holler\nyour heade off for \u00C2\u00ABur glorious protective tariff and the system which\nbleeds you. After all, what does\nthe tariff amount to, anyway? England has free trade and Canada\nprotection, and In both countries\nthe rich are getting richer and the\npoor poorer. As soon as you know\nenough to take over the means ot\nproduction and distribution so you\ncan realise the fall value of your\nproduct, your tariff Issue will vanish into the thin hot air from\nwhich lt-springs.\"\nNow, I admit, old chap, that\nthere ls a great deal of tosh, about\nthe tariff question, but those 'Socialist ohap* have such a rude way\nUNION \u00C2\u00AB OFFICES\nThis Official List of Vancouver Allied Printing: Offices\nCAN SUPPLY TOU WITH THB ALLIED PUNXXNO TEADES UNION\nLABEL\nBLOCHDERQEB, P. R. 819 Broadway East..... Fairmont 208\nB O PRINTING ft LITHO. CO., Sroytho and Homor.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Seymour 3283\nCITIZEN, The, 1461 Broadway ,W -~ BnyVlew 3fi7\nCLARK & STUART, 320 Soymour Street \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0080\u009E.,.Beymirar d\nCOWAN & BROOKHOUSE, Labor Templo Building Seymour MOO\nDUNSMUIR PRINTINO CO., 487 Dunmnulr Street Seymour 1108\nKVANS k HASTINGS, 578 Seymour Btreet Seymour IM\nJEFFEKV, W, A., 2108 Parker Sireat\u00E2\u0080\u0094. 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HOUSTON, Bame address.\n!\nE\nNew Ideas Demand\nFull Medical\nFreedom\nThe question of medical freedom\nIs one that la causing considerable\nthought throughout thla Province.\nIn view of the prosecution of drugless healers, whose cases have not\nyet been settled. Numbers of oeo-\nple have been bneflted by the treatment that they have .received by\ntht drugless physicians, and are\ndetermined that some remedy must\nbe provided by legislation for the\npresent situation, claiming that the\npeople have a right to be treated\nby whom they desire for thoir ailments. In the United States, the\nflght for medical freedom is also\nbeing carried on as witness the\nfollowing indications:\nDown In Texas, plain Pat Neff\nwho believes and supported medical frbedom, had a plurality of\n80,000 over Senator Bailey, a prominent politician, who wa*s closely\nallied with the medical trust. - In\nMichigan the medical trust fought\nGeneral A, G. Grossberk. Mr.\nGrossberk got in bad with the medicos because he would not consider\nall children wards of the state, and\nannounced that he believed in the\nfullest freedom of thought for all\ncitizens alike. He'was therefore\nnominated for governor, and will\nbo elected by a vast majority.\nIn Washington, Governor Louis\nF. Hart, who signed the drugless\nphysicians' bill, rectlve.d the nomination in the primaries by a plurality of 8000 votes.\nIn Austin county, Washington,\nDr. Frank P. Lint, a prominent\nohirapractor physician received the\nnomination for state senator.\nThe following article appeared\nIn a recent issue of the Christian\nScience Monitor:\n\"Urging parents and citizens to\nstand for medical freedom and\nagainst the domination of professional and commercial medication\nthrough aggressive medical propaganda, the Public School Protective\nLeague calls attention to a'bulletin issued by the County Medical\nAssociation of Los Angeles^ which\nproposes to perfect an organization\nfor the 'Conservation of Public\nHealth/ and the immediate objec*\ntive' of which Is to defeat the\nanti-vivisection bill and the constitutional amendment for anti-\ncompulsory vaccination. The organization ia not to'be temporary,\naccording to tha Bulletin, but 'permanent, efficient and \u00E2\u0096\u00A0eml-mili-\ntary,' for the purpose of defensive,\noffensive and constructive work.\n\"Let each old member and each\nnew( member of the league tax\nhimself to the uttermost la this\nyear's contribution/' states tho bulletin, and continues: \"it ls a crucial moment. Failure means the\nretardation of medical progress in\nCalifornia for perhapi a generation. Success meana that the\nforces of darkness, reaction and\ngreed, which have massed against\nscientific medicine, will be so curbed and chained that they will cease\nto be, hereafter, a serious menace\nln the life of the community, and\nscientific medicine can continue its\nnormal evolution without the hn-\ndrance and distractions it has been\nsubjected to in the pastf\nIn a debate on the anti-compulsory vaccination amendment at the\nCommonwealth Club of this city,\nthe following statements were\nmade:\n\"The question of the amendment\nIs not as to the virtue of vaccination, but whether vaccination\nshould be forced on those that do\nnot care for it. The amendment\ndoes not Interfere with the right\nof people to enjoy vaccination, lf\nthey believe in it, but this is a proposition of forcing lt upon others\nwho do not care for t. So I fepeat\nthat the Issue ls not as to the virtue or the necessity of vaccination\nin any sense. The lsue is on whether vaccination should be compulsory. Everybody knows that\nvaccination carries extreme risk to\nthe subject. It ls not a safe remedy, it is not safe in. any sense.\nVaccination ls a debatable measure,\nany way you put it. The medical\nauthorities are divided upon it;\nperhaps a majority of doctors\nagree that It is better th?\u00C2\u00A3\nnon-vaccination, but they all understand and everybody knowd\nthat vaccination carries ' extreme\ndanger. It brings sickness, it in-\nnoculates sometimes with loathsome diseases, and incidentally\nIt brings death to the subject. Now,\na practice that carries so much\ndanger and is, debatable as to Its\nbeing a good preventive, certainly\nought not to be forced upon people\nwho don't want it, especially when\nwe. remember that those who believe ln It may have it.\"\nThe Public School Protective\nLeague calls special attention to\nthe fact that the amendment la\nseeking exemption for all those\nwho depjro exemption, and especially the students of tho universities we at present must submit to\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Vaccination as a rule of entry, the\nuniversity claiming to be above the\nlaw of exemption which obtains in\nthe lower schools.\nWhy did all patriotic corporations\nwait for Henry Ford, whose patriotism has always beon under a\ncloud, to start serious price-cutting?\nThe U. S. department of justice\nha to ntake an Inquiry Into what\nuse Bolshlviki money, now entering the States, ls being ptft. Propaganda is suspected.\nof putting things. They ought to\nbe abolished, they really ought.\nEelshaazar, my pet goat, ls quite\nrecovered, but. I am afraid he will\ncome to an untimely end some day.\nHe wasn't satisfied with eating a\nwhole copy of the Vernon News\nand nearly killing himself, but I\ncaught him the other day eating\nte labol off a tin1 of lye, no doubt\nbecause the taste was so similar.\nTou wanted to know how I came\nto call him Belshazzar. Well, I\ncal Ihlm Belshazzar, old chap, because, like most of the other\ngoats In the Okanagan, he can see\ntho handwriting on the wall but\nhasn't brains enough to know what\nIt means.\nWell, Ta! Ta! old chap. Cheerio.\nYours,\nCHAUNCEY.\nMEXICO AND: I\nOf\ntl\nImperialists of America\nHare Their Eyes On\n. Political Wealth\nIf War Is Necessary Then\nOn With the War\nfor Oil\n(By Arthur Thomson)\nIn faoe of all the favorable\nnewspaper reports about conditions.\nln Mexico, lt may seem ridiculous\nat this time to talk of intervention.\nBut things are not always what\nthey seem. It so happens that ln\nface of all this eulogistic talk there\nls the same grave menace of Intervention hovering over Mexico\nthat has threatened the Mexican\npeople for the past ten years, air\nthough lt has not yet openly showed its hand. ,\nNow, the most menacing for'elgn\nIntervention Mexico has had to\ndeal with have been the oil interests of tlio United States and Great\nBritain, particularly those of the\nUnited Stages. These oil interests\nhold vast oil-producing lands in\nMexico, principally in the Tamplco\ndistrict, and they have been of re-.\ncent years the backbone of the intervention drives against Mexico.\nDodging the payment of taxes to\nthe Mexican authorities has been\na favorite eport of their.\", and\nwhich they threaten to do against\nthe present Mexican government.\nAnd on top of that they have long\ndesired free and unbridled reins, to'\nexploit the oil lands of Mexico to\ntheir hearts' content, but which the\nMexican poople have not seen flt\nto allow them to do.\nAnd because theso huge petroleum octopuses have not been able\nto suck the oil out of Mexico unrestricted, their agents have carr\nried on a propaganda, insidious\nand otherwise, for armed intervention by tht United States. They\nhave been quiet for the past few\nmonths, but how long will they\nstay quiot?\nOil is the most valuable product\nin the world today. Millionaires\nare being made almost overnight\nby oil. The oil Industry has supplanted the steel Industry as the\nmost profitable and valuable. Industry must have oil. And oil magnates of the world are struggling\nwith each other for control of that\noil\nMoney in Otl\nThe oil imperialists are the most\npowerful in the world today; certainly they are ln the United States.\nThe Standard Oil Co. is the richest\nthing in America.\" Standard Oil\natock ls quoted away over 600. Dividends are tremendous. The Standard declared about 600 per cent,\ndividend, while one oil concern declared a dividend of over 1100 per\noent for the past year. There is\nmoney lo oil\nAn because there is money In oil\nflnanclal magnates are straggling\nfor control of that oil. The oil financiers of Great Britain are stir-.\nveylng the world for prospective xoil\nfields, and are buying up all prospects they can lay hands on. The\nsame with the United States. Only\nthe British financiers have the al-\nvantage of the Americans on -account of the world-encircling state\nof the British Empire, while American Imperialism is much moVe\nlimited. There has even been talk\nof this struggle for oil supremacy\nleading to war between England\nand the United States.\nNow, Mexico has the most valuable oil fields ln the world. Wells\nIn the Tamplco district are known\nto produce 75,000 barrels\"t.nd more\na day, while the largest wells In\nthe United States fall far1 below\nthat. In California the Standard\nOU Co. owns the largest and most\nproductive well and that only flows\nabout 5000 barrels a day.-\nSo Tamplco means money! And\nbecause it means money, oil financiers are prepared to go to the\nlimit to'control that oil. If obstacles come ln their path, then those\nobstacles will be ruthlessly brushed\np.side. If wai* is necessary to remove thest obstacles, then on with\ntho war! \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWorked for Intervention\nDuring the past throe years the\notl producers of America, with'Interests in ^Mexico, have worked.\ntooth and nail to bring about intervention In Mexico. Most of their\npropaganda has been of ap insidious and underground nature.\nThey have had paid writers flood\nthe press with articles and \"news\"\nabout conditions below the Itlo\nGrande, mostly of a lying and misrepresenting character. A director of their propaganda admitted\nbefort a senate Investigating committee that he was paid 920,000 a\nyear. They have organized asso-\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nciations for the \"protection of American rights\" ln Mexico, and enlisted membership all over the\nUnited States. And with this powerful organization they have wielded the big stick before Congress\nand the Mexican people.\nParticularly Offensive\nThe Mexican constitution contains an article\u00E2\u0080\u0094Article 27\u00E2\u0080\u0094that\nis particularly offensive to the oil\nInterests. This article put final\ncontrol of the otl and other mineral deposits in the hands of thai\nMexican people. This'the oil Inter-\nests don't like, because it means\nthat they cannot have free and unbridled reins to do as they please\nregardless of the Interests of the\npoople. pertain spokesmen of the\noil people have recently openly\nsaid that the Mexican government\nmust not be recognized until\nMexico radically changes its constitution, particularly those articles\noffensive to capital. Which mennfl\nthat lf the new regimo will allow\nthe oily Johns and other foreign\ninterests to overrun Mexico such\nas they did during the Diaz dictatorship, these interests will withdraw opposition to recognition.\nOtherwise look out for squalls.\nBut it is not likely that the Mexican government will allow Mexico\nto be overrun by these Interests.\nThey may as well tell Washington\ntr, hoist the Stars and Stripes over\n5 ON I CM\n\u00C2\u00ABj\u00C2\u00BB \"Yellow Peril\" Be-\n-comes Costly to Cans-\n'\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'. ' dian Railroads\nMuch has b.en spoken and writ-\nton regarding the dangers et an\ninvasion from the Orient. Labor on\ntke western side of this continent\nhas persistently endeavored to stop\nor at least lessen the coming in of\nChinese and Japanoso workers.\nSuch endeavors have not been very\nsuccessful.\nThe C. P. R. and the C. N. R.\nhave recently been importing great\nnumbers of Chinamen for work on\ntbe roadbeds. All along the railways are groupa of the \"heathen\nChinee\" grading, laying rails, replacing ties, ete. Once this work\nwas considered a elosod shop for\nthe Italian, and then eame other\nEuropean races; now section work\n1* passing almost exclusively into\neelestlarhonds.\nAnd how Is It working out?.\nA section foreman of long experience Informs The Searchlight that\nhe has now under/ his control a\nparty of \u00C2\u00A38 Chinamen. With thla\nnumber he tells us he Is only able\nto keep In repair a stretch of track\nwhich formerly was well kept up\nby 11 European workers. We asked\nhim lf this was becauso the Chinamen did not have the necessary\nstrength and skill. His reply waa\nbrief, and it set us thinking: .\n'Wo,\" said he, \"that Is not the\nreason. The Chink savees.\"\nThe Chink \"eaveea\"!\nA few days later it was our privilege to meet a Chinese Interpreter,\na bright-eyed, emlling, woll-groom-'\ned Individual. Wo had a talk with\nhim in regard to the labor situation and the coming in of so many\nof his countrymen to tlie industrial\nlife of this country. We found that\nthe interpreter knew the ways of\nthe' world and was neither provincial nor national In his outlook. He\nknew more of the labor problem\nthan any coal operator in this district\u00E2\u0080\u0094which, really, la not saying\nvery much, after all.\nThe Interpreter assured us that\nthe \"white worker\" need not fear\nthe competition of the Chinamen hi\n,the labor market. \"You will find,\"\nsaid he. \"that the Chinaman Is not\nsuoh a fool as many might think\nhe is; he will not ln the hour he\nworks for forty cents do more than\nfo^ty. centa' worth of work.\"\n'And there we leave the question\not.JlThe Yellow Peril\" for our read-\nern^to ponder over.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Searchlight.\nHOUR DAY\nConvention Instructs Offi-\n'Cers to Study Indus*\ntrial Unionism\n(By Nicholas Klein, Federated\nPress Correspondent)\nCincinnati. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The six-hour day\nand the abolition of night work will\nbe the object of a nation-wide campaign by the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International union. Speakers in favor of tho resolution denied that the' adoption of\na six-hour day and the elimination\nof nght work would justify increased prices for bread or cause derangement in the baking industry.\nCloser affiliation of workors In all\nthe food industries was favored, as\nwasf closer connection with the bakery and confectionery workers of'\nMexico, A resolution calling upon\nthe United States government to\nrecognize the SoVlet government of\nRussin was adopted 'at the closing\nsession.\nProtest was recorded against all\nanti-strike legislation.\nAfter an address by Miss Lucy\nRoberts of New York City, the convention instructed its Goneral executive board to donate $500 to the\nfund being used to secure amnesty\nfor'all political prisoners.\nThe officers were Instructed to\nstudy Industrial unionism und report at the next convention.\n(By the Federated Press.)\nAuckland, N. Z.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\" Hois' Monthly\nMagazine, a paper published at\nMelbourne, Australia, \Vlth rationalist, Socialist and antl-mllltarlst\nviews is still prohibited; from importation In New Zealand. The\ncomptroller of customs announces\nthat the war-time ban wtll be continued.\nBremerton, Wash.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A movie theatro owned and controlled by or-\nganfssefl labor, with a capital stock\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ot ?100,000, is being started here,\nfollowing the success of a similar\nvertluro in Soattlo.\nWhat about renewing your sub.T\nMexico City and bo dono with It,\nagsip allow American oil and othor\nInterests to do as they pleased and\nexploit the Mexican peoplo unchecked.\n.JJ., looks very much liko troublo\naheud for Mexico. When tl.e_j>il\nInterests seo that they cannot go\nlit .and plunder unchecked, they are\ngpljig to call for intervention. They\nhave already disputed the* fact that\ntiiey. owo money to Mexico for\ntaxes. It la not settled yet. Thoy\nkep,l a paid bandit for months dur-\niijg'llie last adminiatration to keep\ntaxation from tlieir door and they\nmay try to do the same thing again\nilf.lpey don't get their own way,\nAnyhow, keep your eyes peeled\nafter the presidential election. If\nMr. Harding gets elected, you can\nexpect a \"severe\" policy towards\nMexico\u00E2\u0080\u0094something along tho order\nof \"Blood and Iron.\" Tho Republicans are strong on that, and they\nall endorse Senator Fall's report on\nMexico\u00E2\u0080\u0094Including Mr. Harding.\nSenator Fnll owns $75,000 worth\nof mining stock ln Mexico, and believes that Mexico will no(ver bo\nfree nnd flt for, civilization until ll\nflies tho American flag. T imd particular occasion to flnd this out, al\nI went beforo his Bentite \"inveh*\ntlgatlng\" committee to testify when\nit Was In Los Angeles last March.\nIf the next president and congress\nadopt Senator Fait ns their guide,\nthen its rocks ahead for Mexico.\nSTART ESPERANTO\nCLASSES IN MY\nCampafgn for International Language Is\nLaunched\nA meeting of those Interested ln\nEsperanto was held ln the Electrical Workere (Looal 218) quarters, at 440 Pender Street West, o%\nWednesday, Ootober 13, lit t p.m.\nMeetings will be held'at the same\nplace every Wednesday evening\nuntil further arrangements are\nmade. The thanks of the Esper-\nantlsts are due to the members of\nLocal 213 in placing the hall at\ntheir disposal for these meetings.\nThere aw a good many students\nand advocates of Esperanto in\nVancouver and it ts. expected to\nhave a well organized and healthy\nbody here In the near future. It\nIb hoped to have several . classes\ngoing shortly, depending of course\non tlie amount of pupils desirous\nof learning the language.\nIt Is often asked what ts Esperanto and who started it, and so on.\nEsperanto is an International auxiliary language and the aim ls not\nto supplant, but to supplement all\nothers. Esperanto was Invented by\na Polish Jew, Dr. Zamenhoff by\nname, who afterwards called himself Dr. Esperanto, the word meaning \"one who hopes,\"\n-The flrst mention we have of a\nlanguage of this sort Is ln 1029,\nwhen a monk conceived the Idea.\nLater another monk invented a\nlanguage callod Volapuk. This was\na German, and his language gained\ngreat popularity, but waned owing\nto It not being scientific and being\nconstantly ohanged at each succeeding convention. On-the contrary, Esperanto has not been\nchanged, nor has it been found\nnecessary to change It except ln\nsome very small particulars, since\nIts inception. The language is\nsimple, helng scientific, easily\nlearned and easily remembered.\nPerhaps to -no one Is Esperanto of\nmore service than tq the non-\ngrammarian. It gives him for a\nminimum expenditure of time and\nmoney a valuable insight into the\nprinciples of grammar and the\nmeaning of words, while enabling\nhim, after only a few months of\nstudy, to get Into communication\nwith hla fellow men ln all parts of\nthe world.\nZarftenhoff conceived the Idea\nthrough being brought up ' in a\ntown whose population was of four\ndistinct races: Poles, Russians,\nGermans and Jews, each with their\nown language and mostly at open\nenmity with each other, therefore\nhe reasoned they hated because\nthey did not understand each other.\nThe movement has grown since\n1887 until today tt ls spoken and\nread tn almost every country In the\nworld. It is taught at public\nschools, at colleges, labor schools\nand classes, Socialist schools,\nchurch schools, publicly and privately in every country. The idea\nappeals to every Internationalist,\nbe he or she a worker, a Christian,\na social reformer, a League of Nations enthusiast, or what not. It\nwill also appeal to the banker and\nbusiness man when he sees the\nvnluo of It Our mathematics ls International, - scientific terms are\nwritten In Latin by scientists the\nworld over, and our music ls the\nsame, wherever music is played or\nsung. Who has not listened to and\nenjoyed a piece of music and never\nuven thought of it being French,\nGerman or anything else? It is\nmusic and Is the same In all lands.\nTet once every country had different notation and we may well suppose a great deal of criticism was\nlevelled at the man who advocated\nand finally accomplished the Idea\nof making our music like we have\nit today, international. So by all\nmeans learn Esperanto. You will\nbeneflt yourself, you will Improve\nyour mind and memory, and holp\nto brihg nearer the day when men\nBhall be united together In a real\nLeague of Nations.\nBY PEACE\nMilitarists Have Much to\nLose by Kusso-Polish\ni Peace\n(By Laurence Todd)\n(Staff Correspondent for tho Fed-\n. crated Press)\nJapan's militarist Imperialism\nhas much to lose by the making\nof peace between Russia and Poland, In the opinion of diplomats\nhero.\nTheso diplomats will not at present permit themselves to bo quoted\non so grave a situation as that in\nlho Far East, but thore is coming\nInto their hands every day a mass\nfif information which proves that\nthe triumphs of the Nipponese\nmailed flat In Asia, as against their\nsister nations, nA) to ho short-lived.\n.Even that war-tested compact, the\nAnglo-Japanese alliance, now run\nnlng out, may not bo renewed in\nits old strength. When Britain\nceases to back up Japanese conquests ln China, Korea and Siberia,\nand when Russia ls free to restore her old Siberian bonudaries,\nand to establish friendly relations\nwith her neighbors ln Asia, the menace of militarist Japan to Asia,\nand to the United States, will have\nRussian peaco In Europe spells\nultimate authority in Vladivostok,\nwhich will moan a free Korea, and\nwill hasten the day of a free, unit\ncd and sovereign China. It may bc\nyears, but lt Is on the way.\nAssayers, Prospectors and Surveyors\nThe B.C. School of Pharmacy & Science\nCrow.BtiI.un, 615 PENDER ST. W. n\u00C2\u00ABtS\u00C2\u00ABjr.U4l\nA separate Department to fir. PRACTICAL training to ttf. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\npcetors, Assayera aad Surveyor* \u00E2\u0080\u0094I. heen aataMtabad IB IM <\nabove institution. .','*\nINDIVIDUAL HELP W OUR MOTTO.\nAny nan who haa ambition ta Improve hit poeltlon yrtli tai tM\nopportunity here.\nTheae are PRACTICAL eoureee Mr PRACTICAL maa by PRA\u00C2\u00BB\nTICAL Lecture\u00E2\u0084\u00A2. It la not merely theoretical work -which could\nbe obtained from books,'\nThe department la ln charge ot Mr. Stanley Poulda and Mr. M-\nP. Wilaon, D.L.S., who have apent many yeara at tha work.\nPor particular! writ* or call on the Principal, P. J. BAIN.\nNOTE\u00E2\u0080\u0094Aa a prool ol en mttbodi, Ike fellnrle, ni.lt. wn* eUalaed if aa\nduiln, th. put yeu: lit pl.ee la the B; O, Un* lemren' Maall Iat\npise, in B. O. Laid flurv. jrori' Preliminary; at plat* ta A. 0. Vait. AMMed\nSolent. Ent.; lit place in B. G. Minor aal Major Fkanaaeri Iat plaee fa B.\n0.. Law Preltnln.iT. ' __^__^__\nFEATHERSTONHAUGH A CO.\nlite Old Established firm .\nPatenta Trade Marks Designs Copyrights\n10IS ROGERS BUILDING BUY. MM\nOther \u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00ABcei\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ottawa, Toronto. MontMaL BamllMa, WlaalpM, Hslltll. Bt.\n JohOj In Q*..d.j New Tork .el WMbl.etq.. P. O . U. 0 A.\nWill Send Organizers\nEast and West to\nOpen Branches\nWinnipeg, Man.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Th* medical\nrelief committee for Soviet Rusaia\nand Ukraine in thla dty la going\nahead with lta work. Tha road la\nhard, but lt ia being gradually covered. At the last meeting held on\nOctober 7 it whs decided to print\na small pamphlet, giving ae wide a\nrange of information aa possible, aa\nto the reaaona for the necessity of\nRussia and Ukraine now appealing\nfor aid. This pamphlet la now on\ntha press and will be ready for distribution about the end of thta\nweek. The committee also deolded\nto send delegates East and West,\nwho will form local committees it\nall possible points and hold meetings wherever possible. Comrade\nG. B. Currle, who recently arrived\nfrom Great Britain, and another\ncomrade not yet appointed, will undertake the work In the Bast Comrade P. W; Kaplan,' chairman of\nthe preaa oommlttee, la leaving In\na few daya for the West. In the\ncapacity of apeolal organizer. It la\neipeoted that thai*'delegatea will\nbe successful ln forming locals and\ngenerally enlarging tha scope and\nelforta of the Canadian branoh of\nthe medical relief committee for\nSoviet Rusaia and Soviet Ukraine.\nThe committee In this city at preaent constitutes a committee of all\nbut one ot the loeal labor organisations, and meeta every Thursday\nevening In the Ukrainian' Labor\nTemple.\nAre TOU, fellow workers, willing to asalst In thia effort to relieve, to aome extent, at least, the\nsuffering . of the Russian and\nUkfalnlen working people? There\nis a blank In this paper for TOU.\nFill It out with the largest sum you\ncan possibly afford and mall same\nto the secretary. See \"that the\nsecretary sends you a canvasalng\nreceipt book and then proceed to\nsolicit contributions from your\nfriends, acquaintances and fellow-\nworkera you meet, and by doing\nthla work of relief you will ba contributing towarda humanity, toward* th* aafeguardlng of tk*\nwhole world agalnat the apread\neast and w\u00C2\u00AB*t of th* plague now\nraging In Russia and Ukraine, Tea\nwill be doing service-to thi {lusalaa\nand Ukrainian brothers and abv\nt*i\u00C2\u00BB, \u00C2\u00ABad will ther.br be doing a\nservlo* to yourself. Work for tM\nfund. Se* that It grow*. It I* to\nyour beneflt\nJust to remind you lhat It only\neotta to cent* to get \"Behind tM\nBare\" from thla office.\nPAY\nTHE\nEASY\nway;\nTOU CAN \\nFurnish\nTOUR HOME ON\nCredit\nWe Truat Ton\nW* allow very SABT\nTERMS and wa treat you\nright la \u00E2\u0080\u00A2very way, aell-\nIng you th* bast ot gooda\nat Ih* moat moderdt* of\nprice*. Com* and an.\nHOME\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Furniture Co. I\nH^ 41* MAIN ^M\n^^ Opposite City Hall)|^r\nFor Twenty Tsars w* tave Urns* this Uaiea Slam, tu tte aadar on\nVOLUNTARY ARBITRATION CONTRACT\nVWORKERS UNION\nOUB STAMP HNTOBBII\nPMCtfBl Oellertlr. Bargaining\ntabids Beth 8Mke< aad Lockoeta\nDispute, Settled by ArMtwtion\nSteady Emtiojmeet aad Skilled Werkaaasalf\nPrompt DMlMrtM to Dm1.m aad PaMle\nPeace nnd Sncceis to Worksrs aad Employers\nProsperity of Skoe KsUng OmmunlHM\nAs loyal anion men sad veaen, we ask\nyon to demand shone tearing tk. above\nUnion Stamp oa Sole, Insolo or Lining.\nBOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION\n246 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON, MASS.\nOolUs LoTely, O\u00C2\u00ABno\u00C2\u00BBl Preildwrt. Ohatlw L, l\u00C2\u00BB.n\u00C2\u00AB, Choml Sic.-Trwj,\nUNIOI^TAMP\nUUION MADE\nThe 1 M.T. Loggers' Boot\nHall ordm personally attended to\nGuaranteed to Hold Caulks and Are Thoroughly Watertight\nMacLachlan-Taylor Co.\nSuccessors to H. VOS & SON\n03 CORDOVA STREET WEST, VANCOUVER, B. O.\nNext Doon to Loggers' Halt\nPhono Seymonr SSO Repairs Done While You Watt\n-!-\nPATRONIZE FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS\nFresh Ont mowers, Funeral Designs, Wedding Bouquets, Pot Plant!\nOrnamental and Shade Trees, Seeds, Bulbs, Florists' Sundries\nBrown Bros. & Co. Ltd.\nFLORISTS AND NURSBBTMEN\n8\u00E2\u0080\u0094STOEEB\u00E2\u0080\u00948\n48 Baitings Street Eait 728 OranvUle Street\nSeymoar 988-672 Sermour 0613\nAfter .being on strike since September, 1919, lho demands of the\nTailor's Union of Portland, Ore.,\nhavo been granted. This is thc\nlast union of all the coast cities to\nreturn to work. Tho union has\nbeen running Ub own tailor' shop\nnow be converted Into a co-opera-\nfor a considerable timo; this will\ntivo shoD.\nUNION-MADE\nFOOTWEAR\nWhen you co to buy a pair of shoos do\nyou insist on seeing the label? When\nyou come to this store you can get Just\nthe shoe you want and It wtll have tha\nlabel\nTHT C9 THE NEXT TIME\nThe Ingledew Shoe Company\n000 GKANVIIJjE STHEKT\n\"Unlon-Mndo Footwear\" PAGE EIGHT\ntwelfth year. no. ti THE BHTITSH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST Vancouver, b. o\nFRIDAY...\n...October 11, Itlll\nCLAMAN'S STORE NEWS\nBoyi' Dept., Seoond Floor\nHere's Big\nOvercoat News\nTHERE ate three styles to select\nfrom. The Young Men's Double-\nbreasted, form-fitting model, with\nsilk yoke lining; a big storm-proof\nUlster, full lined' and belted; the\nfavorite loose-fitting Raglan with\nwide skirt and full back, Shown\nin all sizes, and the newest weaves\nand .\npatterns\t\n$30 and $35\nOTHERS AT\n$37.50 140 $45 $50 to $75\nTHE HOME OF\nHart Schaffner and Marx Clothes\nClaman's\nLIMITED\nCopyright 1920 Hart Schaffner & Man\nThe Home of\nDURWARD OVERCOATS\n153 HASTINGS STREET WEST\nCanada's Largest Exclusive Storo\nfor Meu nnd Boya\nFull Term Will Have\nto Be Served\n(Continued from page 1)\nthoie who do not see below the\nsurface. He adds:\n\"The trades unions continue to\nbe the centre of attack by those ln\noil countries who would substitute\ndireot action and revolutionary\nmethods for orderly progress\nthrough constitutional changes.\n.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nx\nDANCING LESSONS\nPRIVATE OR CLASS\nv W. E. Fenn's School\nCOTILLION HALL\nPhonea: Bey. 101\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sey. SOM-0\nSocial Dances Monday, Wedneaday and Saturday.\nNot only are the trades unions being attacked by these groups locally and nationally, but attempts are\nnow being made to destroy the International Federation ot Trades\nUnions itself, in which the Trades\nand Labor Congress of Canada\nholds membership, by substituting\nanother federation with headquarters at Moscow, and then through\nthat body destroying the effectiveness of the International Labor\nOfflce, a connection of tha League\nof Nations.\"\nA Russian Campaign\nThe extent of the propaganda of\nthe Russian radicals ls Indicated ln\nthe following statement issued by\nthe body which ts working to supplant the present International\nFederation:\n\"Be lt .known that we regard\nthose leaders of tradea unionism as\nour claas enemies who are ot\nopinion that negotiations and compromise will solve the social problems; who seriously think that\ncapitalists will hand over the\nmeans of wealth production on the\nachievement of working-class ma-\nBLUE SERGE\nSUITS\nAT\n$50.00\nColor absolutely guaranteed at\nFASHION-CRAFT\nThos. Foster & Co., Ltd.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094ONE &TOHE ONLY\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n514 GRANVILLE STREET\nBURBERRY O'COATS DURWARD O'COATS\njorlty in Parliament; who think\nthat trades unions can remain neutral at a time of collapse of the old\nsocial order and at a time when\nthe destiny of the world ts being\ndetermined; and who preach social\nreconciliation at a time of rabid\nclass warfare.\n\"We shall employ the moat stubborn resistance tn order to defeat\nthem and their manoeuvres.\nThe International Council of\nTrades Unions and the International Federation of Trades Unions\nat Amsterdam stand on different\nsides of a barricade: one on the\nside of social revolution and.the\nother on the side of reaction.\n\"What have the trades unions of\nboth great and small nations done\nduring the course of the war? How\nhave they carried out the solemn\npledge of international solidarity of\nthe working class fraternity? The\ntrades unions mostly became the\npillars of Jingo policy on the part\nof their respective governments;\nthey worked hand ln hand with\nbourgeoise national rogues hnd\naroused in the minds of the workers the basest of chauvinist Instincts.\n\"It is well that the source from\nwhich this Red propaganda\nsprings should be macfe known,\ncontinues Mr. Moore's statement.\nThe stabilizing influences of bona-\nflde trades unions is fully realized\nby these would-be wreckers of society, and lt Is necessary not only\nfor trades unionists, but all other\nclasses, to realize the dangers that\nHe ahead. The* propaganda directed from Moscow cannot be killed\nby ignoring it. The boat method\nIs the fullest publicity and trust ln\nthe sound commonsense of Canadian citizens to do the rest when\ntbey once fully understand its final\nobjective.\"\nCelebrate First Labor\nDay in Mexico\n(Continued from page 1)\nPAY THE EASY WAY\nFLUSH OOATS\nIn ths newest Fall style*. A\nrare bargain at from 148.00\nA Perfect\nCredit Service\nTHAT IS A\nCredit to Vancouver\nIT'S the ono grand Bystem thot\nhas made thousands of poople\nin this city happy tind contented, because there are no obji-c-\ntionablo features In buying\nclothes the \"NEW TORK\" way-\nIt's simply a mutual method\nwhereby you can obi ain the best\nof clothes to wear on terras M\nlow as 16.00 down and the balance\nat 9&;6Q par week.\nYou pay nothing for tbe convenience of oredit because oar\nprices, considering quality, aro as\nlow, If not lower, than you aro\naaked to pay in many cash stores.\nAs an example of values we offer\nthe following .specials for to*\nMorrow:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMSN'S OVEBOOATS\nAnother big shipment has Jnst\narrived. Styles and cloths to\nsuit all ages, epeeial from\n936.00 ap.\nAlso many other lines of Ladies' Coals In various fnahlonahlo styles\nsnd fabrics, at popular prices.\nI\n_____ I\nTHE CREDIT STOBE OPPOSITE PROVINCE |\n14a HASTINGS STBEBT WEST Soymour 1361\not the balconies of the ptilacc. Col.\nVlllareal had carried the banner\nInto the palace and coming directly out on the balcony, planted lt\n(Irmly beside Sotoy Guma who,had\nbegun to speak.\nAt tho same time a group of\nworkora had Invaded the Cathedral\ntowers, and taking possession of\nthe forty immense chimes, began\nto ring them in honor of the occasion\u00E2\u0080\u0094the (Irst time they had\nrung since the triumphal entry of\nObregon into Mexico City last May.\nViva Russia!\nSotoy Goma, the first spoaker,\ncould get no further after he announced \"On the horizon we can\nsee the red dawn that riBes from\nRussia .... for his speech\nwas lost In.the din of the cathedral\nbells and the shoutings of \"Viva\nRussia.\"\nLuis Morones followed with, a\nmasterful attack on tho presB; he\ngot ns far as: \"We have but one\nwatchword\u00E2\u0080\u0094organization; but one\npurpose\u00E2\u0080\u0094the destruction of the\ncapitalist system and all it stands\nfor; but one ling\u00E2\u0080\u0094the red Hag .\n. . \" and his speech, too, was\ndrowned out by tho ringing of bells\nand the \"vivas\" of the crowd.\nPoliticians\u00E2\u0080\u0094Gentlemen Rums\nThen came Felipe Carrllo advising the paraders that manifestations backed up by solid political\nand industrial organization will do\naway with congresses\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Conglomerations of gentlemen bums,\" with\nsupreme courts, with private commerce and Industry . . . and.\nacross tho broad plaza, burning tn\nthe midday sun of the tropica, the\nboils rang out their delirious approval.\nThe din of the chimes made further speaking impossible and the\nbig crowd dispersed as peacefully\nas It had gathered agreeing with\nMorones that the \"bells were ringing the death knell of capitalism,\"\nDEFENSE FUND LITERATURE\nREDUCED.\nThe price of copies of Prlteli-\nard's address to the Jury, Dixon'*\nmlclrcs and tho history of the\nWinnipeg qtrlke lias been reduced\nto 10 ots. per copy. Tho Winnipeg\ndefense committee Is also issuing\nDefense Fund Stamps, the price of\nwhich is 25 cents eaeh.\nWhen through with this paper,\npass lt or.\nGERMANY STILL\nFULL OF HD\nYank Describes Plight of\nEuropean Labor to CaL\nLabor Convention\n4.70\nRegular J10.00 American makes. Silk nnd plain finish. AH\nshades and sises. These hats have been In strong demand\nheretofore at thc old price. CfmtT\nYou'll appreciate the saving , .' $0.75\nRogular up to (15.00 lines of Tress, Christy, Stelson,-Bor-\nsallno, Knox, Mallory and other top-notch makes. These\ncomprise spine beautiful beavers, richly Ao mm\nfinished. All sizes and shades _ VO.75\nAs this huge\nstock comprises\nabout 140,000\nworth of choice,\nhats, out-of-town\ncustomers may\nfeci assured of\ngetting their particular kind of\nhat if they visit\nus at any time in\nthe near future.\nTWEED HATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Many good, serviceable ones, nice shades and\nmaterials\n$3.75\nHIGH-CLASS CAPS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tress, Christy and other first-grade makes.\nRegular up\"\nto J5.00\t\nWORK CAPS\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nYour choice\t\n$2.75\n75c\nCalKoun?\nWinnipeg\n81 Hastingi East\nlargest Men's Hattcri\nin the West\nHamilton\nJUNIOR LABOR LEAGUE\nNOMINATING OFFICERS\nNomination ot Officers Takes\nPlace Tonight; Will Have\nIleal Campaign\nTonight (Friday) the Junior\nLabor League will hold ItB regular\nmonthly business meeting. Nomination of ollicers for the coming\nyear Is one of the most Important\nmattors to come bofore the members, tonight. The class ln Industrial History, led by Comrade J. S.\nWoodsworth, will meet as usual at\n7:30 prompt. Tho league meeting\nwill convene at 8:30 p.m. The\nmeeting will be held at 020\nEleventh Avenue East. The members Intend staging a real live\ncampaign and campaign speeches\nwill be heard for the next three\nmeetings by the members. The\nelection takes place on the fourth\nFrldav In Novembe\"\nALL SUITS\nReduced 15\nper\ncent.\n$30 SUITS NOW $24.75\n$35 SUITS NOW $29.75\n$40 SUITS NOW $33.75\n$45 SUITS NOW $38.25\nOther Suits in same proportion\nC. D. BRUCE\nLIMITED\nCorner of Homer and Hastings Streets"@en . "Publisher changes in chronological order: Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (1912) ; The B.C. Federationist, Ltd. (1912-1915) ; The B.C. Federationist, Limited (1915-1922) ; The B.C. Federationist (1922-1923) ; The British Columbia Federationist (1923-1925)."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "BC_Federationist_1920_10_22"@en . "10.14288/1.0345501"@en . "English"@en . "49.261111"@en . "-123.113889"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . 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