"2c8996ec-9979-4e6f-aa8d-1006ace90e44"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2017-03-28"@en . "1920-12-03"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcfed/items/1.0345579/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONS\nINMJSTMAL UNITT: STRENGTH.\nOFFICIAL PAPEB: VANCOUVER tfrfCS AND LABOB COUNCIL.\nPpHTICAt UNITT: VIOTOBT\nTWELFTH YEAR. No.\nEIGHT P*GES\nVANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MOElflNG, DECEMBER 3, 1920\nWiO PER YEAR\nBJWOFHER\nWILL BE HELD\nThree Labor Candidates\nAre Elected\u00E2\u0080\u0094Three\nStill in Doubt\nLabor Polls Bile Vote in\nVancouver\u00E2\u0080\u0094OM Par-\"\nties Surprised\nThe Federated Labor Party\nnme well to the forefront In\nWetaee4ey'\u00C2\u00BB eleotlon In Brltlih\nColumbia.' Three candidates have\nbMn eleoted and a very large vote\npolled In the city. Geo. Dingwall\nof Roesland waa defeated by 14\nvetee but the counting of the ab-\nMates ballota may affect thla result,\nThe Liberals have been returned with a small majority which\nWD1 threw the balance of power\nIs the Independents, whioh with\nthree labor elected and three still\nIn doubt and four other Independent! will make the government very unstable. The standing ts date la Liberal, 32; Conservative, Hi labor1, 8; Independents, 4; doubtful, 4,\nThe results up to date whloh do\nsot Include the absentee votes are\nas followa:\nSouth Vancouver\nH. Neelands, F. L. p., 3,022;\nHadgson, Con., 2,324; Russell, Lib.,\n1,742; Mcintosh, 866.\nNewcastle\nGuthrie, F.-\u00C2\u00BBL. P.. 616; Fraser,\nInd., 112; Hawthornthwalte, Labor,\n112; Blckle, soldier, 146.\nFernle\nUphill, F. L. P., B40; Herschmcr,\nCon., \u00C2\u00ABTI; Flahei. Lib. 648.\nThe voting in other districts in\nwhich Labor and Socialists were\nrunning waa aa follows, which,\nwith the 'absentee ballots yet to\nbe counted, still leaves a chance\nfor further labor representation.\nAtlln dlstriot: Geo. Casey, Socialist, is leading.\nPrinoe Rupert: Burrough, 8. P.\nof C, la keeping well to the front.\nComox: MentleB, People's Party,\nnominated by Loggers' Union delegates, has a lead of 160.\nDewdney: Catherwood, Con.,\n1,487; Martyn, Lib., 1,287; Curry,\nF. L. P., 848.\nNanalmo: Slocan, Lib., 1,296;\nBarnard, P. L. P., 1,181; Gilchrist,\nCon., 767.\nSlocan: Hunter, Con., 464; Nelson, Ub., 292; Smith, F. L. P., 266.\nRlohmond: Pearson, Con., 2,764;\nMcCraney, Lib., 2,670; Cassldy, F.\nL. P., 1,470; Abbott, Ind. Far.,\n866; McBride, Ind., 190.\nRossland: Baling, Con., 248;\nDingwall, F. L, P., 229;-McLeod,\nLib., 178.\nTba vote ln Vancouver City with\nabsentee voters yet to be heard\nfrom, ls as follows, with Ave Liberals and one Conservative elected:\nSmith, Mary Ellen, Lib 17,490\nMackensle, Ian, Lib 13,620\nFarris, J. W. deB., Lib 12,151\nRamsay, James, Lib 12,298\nMacdonald, M. A., Lib 12,064\nBowser, W. J., Con 11,606\nBlaok, Ueorge, Con 10,389\nDougherty, J. P., Lib 10,374\nWarden, J. W., Con. .:. 10,316\nCowe, S. L., Con 9,813\nPatterson, Edith, Con. ....... 9,588\nMartin, Joseph, Ind 9,134\nMahan, J. W.,Con 8,829\nTrotter, W. R\u00E2\u0080\u009E Labor 7,602\nWoodsworth, J. S., Labor .. 7,451\nRichardson, Thomas, Labor 7,220\nCotsworth, Moses, Ind 6,221\nCrosafleld, Mrs., Ind 4,193\nAshworth, a. ].. Rentpay-\nera 8,466\n< Smith, J. F., Boo. ., 8,184\nHarrington, J. D., Soe 8,011\nMiller, b. L., G.A.U.V 2,784\nI North, P. H., G.A.U.V., ....... 2,648\n! Smith, J. F., Boo 2,134\n; Earp, S\u00E2\u0080\u009E Soo. 1,718\n, Stephenson, C, Boo 1,718\nI MoQuold, W\u00E2\u0080\u009E Boo. 1,622\n! Thomas, T. B., Ind 1,497\nI Dennis, J., Soo 1,446\nHELP TEXTILE\nTO\nSAM GUTHRIE\nM, L, A. elect for Newcastle.\nF. L. p. nominee who defeated\nJ. H, Hawthornthwalte.\nMillions Eating Grass as\nProfits of Few Pile Up\nEnormously .\n(By Philip Salter, staff correspondent for the Federated Press)\nPeking, China. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Business is\nbusiness In both hemispheres.\nThere Is famine now ln China,\nfamine on a scale that threatens\nthe loss of life t>f a world war.\nMillions are eating leaves and grass\nand woods and even Belling their\nchildren ono by one for a sum that\nwill eke out a few daya. Hundreds\nof thousands are migrating, going\nln all directions in search of work\nor\" begging\u00E2\u0080\u0094futlleiy for the most\npart, since this ls an already over-\npopulated country.\nAnd with a vast region parched\nby a year of drought and grain so\nscarce only the rich eat It, millet\nthat ls bought for tl a Chinese\nbushel is sold fifteen miles away\nfor |2.20. While the profits are\npiling up fabulously for the few\nwho are rioh, millions will go\nhungry and hundreds of thousands\nwill die. Withal, the ChlneBe profiteer doles out his charity with\nthe same unconsciousness as his\nOccidental brother. For every dollar he squeezes out of a crushing\nbargain he gives one to famine\n\"relief.\"\nHand the Fed. to your shopmate\nwhen you are through with It\nTO I GOMPERS\n[NO DELEGATE\nAT\n| U. S. Socialists WUl Not\n, Be Represented at\nConference\n(By ths Federated Press)\nChicago, III.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Although ths So-\n' cialist party ef the United States\nI by vote of tha National Executive\n1 committee, deolded to send a dele-\n; fate to the Berne conference of\n| tbe Socialist party, there will be no\n> American delegate ln attendance\ni when the conference opens Decem-\n' bar 5, lt waa announced at national\n' headquarters. Insufficient time to\nI select a delegate is the explanation\n' made by the national executive\ncommittee.\nAll three International delegates\nand Morris Hillquit, International\naeoretary, were unable to arrango\ni tbelr affairs to go Jto Europe on\n: suoh short notice arm the committee was unable to select an alter-\ni MS* in time to arrange for pass-\ni PorS.\nThe national office has cabled\n; credentials to Joseph Oollomb,\n' American Socialist now ln Paris.\nI He wtll Co to Berne aa an observer\nLand as a correspondent for the Se-\n| cialist press.\nJ. H. Thomas Takes His\nPlace and Defends the\nInternational\n(London Dally Herald to the Federated Press)\nLondon\u00E2\u0080\u0094The sensation of the\nconvention of the International\nFederation of Trades Unions,\nwhich is meeting here, was the resignation of W. A. Appleton, for\nseveral years its president, and the\nelection of J. H. Thomas,- secretary\nof the National Union of Railway-\nmen, ln his place.\nAppleton's designation was conveyed In a lotter to Edo Flnmen,\nsecretary of the Federation, and\npresident of the International Federation of Transport Workers. The\nlotter announced that Appleton's\ndecision to resign waa taken after\nconsultation with Samuel Gomp\ners, president of the American\nFederation of Labor, who has recently repudiated the International\nFederation for Its action ln boycotting munitions destined for use\nagainst Soviet Russia. Appleton\nstated that while he did not endorse Gompers' stand completely,\nand did not agree in all the statements made by Gompers about thc\nFederation, he nevertheless felt\ncompelled to rttnge himself on thc\nside of his American colleague,\n-Leon Jouhaux, president of the\nGeneral Federation of Labor or\nFrance, presided at the opening\nsession, and welcomed the delegates. After the resignation of\nAppleton had been accepted, J. H.\nThomas was elected president,\n\"The International Federation of\nTrado Unions has been called 'yellow' In some quarters,\" said Thomas. \"But we want liberty and Justice for our class aa much as the\nmore radical unions. We want to\nfree the worker* from our present\nBuffering, not by a bloody upheaval, but-by tho scientific application -of our minds to specific problems which confront us. That Is\nthe only difference between us and\nour attackers.\"\nWant to Cut Up Germany\n.\"; Into Federated\nStates\nWill Stage a, Revolution\nin Bavaria and\nElsewhere\n(By Helen Augur, staff corr'espond-\ndent for the Federated Press)\nNew Tork.\u00E2\u0080\u0094French \"thrift\" Is\nJoining forces with the old German\nJunkers for one of the strongest\nand least noble expeditions of high\npliacy whloh has oome out of the\nwar. Hand ln hand thr bitter enemies of the Btlll yawning trenches\nare out to bury the hatchet\u00E2\u0080\u0094lr. the\nthroat of Germany.\nlhe French tinanclers and tbe\nGerman caarlsta want rich Bavaria.\nThey want the coal-filled basins of\nthe Rhur and the Saar. They want\nto cut up Germany Into a series of\nlittle federated states controlled by\nthis strange entente of Ludenlorit\nand Foch. They want to form buffers along the eastern border of the\nregained French provinces. With\nRussia looming and throwing a\nglow of hope Into the chilled dark\nhomes of Austria and Germany,\nthey want to erect a barrier, to\nkeep that new glow out of France\nand England, to hide it from the\nAtlantic. With the silliness of fear\nthey are erecting a block-house\nagainst the spread of working-class\ngovernment.\nEverything ls ready for the Bavarian \"revolution.\" men, guns,\nmoney, leaders and general Btaff aro\nwaiting orders for the moving-picture war which they hope will put\nInto power over Bavaria a monarchal family controlled by\nFrance.\nDr. Escherlch, founder of the\n\"Orgesch\" or Bavarian Home Mllltla, whose strength Is about 100,-\n000 men, and which is backed by\nthe old German staff officers from\nGen. Ludendorff down; is waiting\nbis orders. One plan for the revolution will be to have French troops\n\"occupy\" the Rhur district, and the\nOrgesch start into action.\nThe next thing that will happen\nwill be the opposition by the workers in the form of a general strike,\nso the French-German entente\nplans. It would seem that the\nworkers might not like the idea of\na restoration ot a monarchy, which\nwill be less pleasant than the mon\narchy they shed thetr blood to\nshake ott, because It will be \"bossed\" by French militarists and )i'gh.\nflnanoters who could not be expect,\ned to care how workers fare.\nThis united opposition by the\nworkers will give the plotters the\nchance they ere looking for. The\nFrench troops in the Ruhr and the\nOrgesch can unlimber their guns,\nand kill off the more, troublesome\nworkers, and promptly declare that\nBavaria ls an Independent state, because lt has Its own army.\nFrom the French legation ln Munich, which is the centre of the\ncontemplated \"resolution\" Is\nstreaming inspiration to start similar revolutions in other parts of\nGermany, It is planned to establish separate states in Hanover,\nWurtenbor*g, Hesse and Thurlngia.\nIn Europe the old war is dear.\nLong live the war.\nBE\nAustralian Jails to Be\nGiven to Union to'Start\nEnterprise -\n(By the Federated Press)\nSydney, N. 8. W.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Federated\nTextile Workers unton, with headquarters at Sydney, Australia, baa\ndecided to start a woolen mill on\nthe co-operative plan. The proposition is that the union will take\nover one of the large unused Jails\nbelonging to the New South Walea\nlabor government, turn lt Into a\nhuge faotory, and produce woolen\nmaterials, Srat for all government\nofficials, railway employees, and the\npolice, and later on engage ln trade\nto the public.\nThe company ls to havs a capital of 81,000,000, half of the ahares\nbeing vested In tha labor government as payment for the premises\nand the other half vested ln the\nunion memberB.' Special care Is being taken to prevent the shares getting Into the hands of speculators^\nthe number of shares to one member of the union being restricted.\nThe government has consented to\ncome Into the scheme on these\nterms.\nGerman Workers Are\nUniting Forces for Con-\n';* trol of Industry\n: (By the Federated Press)\nBerlin.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A big step toward unit-\nall the workers engaged in\nimportation and communication\nibe ln Germany waa taken at\necial convention of the German\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2oad Men's union held recently\n-eaden. Resolutions were adop.\n.by the 263 delegatea calling for\nmediate action toward forming a\nwepking alliance with the employes\nof the postal and wire services, ss\nwell aa with the unions embracing\nt%t workers on the narrow gauge\n'and prtvately-owhed railway lines.\n-With the combining of the Railroad Men's,ynion wtth tbe Transport Workers' union, which ls being worked for energetically, the\nproposed \"German Traffic union\"\nWill have at least 1,600,000 mem.\nbars. - -\nThe convention adopted resolutions calling for the immediate socialization of such German Industries aa were ripe for that action,\nand urging the workers of hand and\nbrain to labor for the establishing\nof the co-operative commonwealth.\nI COLONY\nITI\nNew O. B. U. Central\nCouncil Formed at\nEdmonton\nOwing to the split tn the O. B. U,\nat Edmonton, duo to the actions of\ncertain Individuals, the general\nexecutive board of the O. B, U. has\nissued the following statement:\nThe transportation and building\ntrades units of Edmonton have\nwithdrawn from the council of\nwhich C. E. Berg is the secretary,\nand they have formed a new council and requested recognition from\nthe general executive board.\nThe units of whloh C. E. Berg ls\nseoretary have, repudiated the executive of the One Big Union and\nhave failed to carry out their obligations to this organisation.\nTha executive will, therefore, In\nfuture only recognise the council of\nwhich B. T. Palmer, 10224\u00E2\u0080\u0094122nd\nStreet, la at present secretary, and\nadvices all those who desire, to retain membership in the One Big\nUnion in the Edmonton district to\ndo likewise.\nWorkers; Will Fight the\nFounding of Japanese\nSettlement\n(By the Federated Press) '\nOttawa, Ont.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Canada's organized workers will fight tb a finish\nefforts of Japanese and Canadian\ncapitalists to' found a colony of\nJapanese In Northern Ontario.\nThey will do so because of the\nacute labor situation here already\nrather than through any hostility\nto men of another race.\nBar'on N. Hasituro, who was\nformerly with the Japanese legation at Washington, and party have\nJust completed a tour of Northorn\nOntario. They have the backing\nof influential Canadian capitalists\nand politicians. Chambers of Commerce, Klwanis and Rotary-Clubs\nand other associations of business\nmen have adopted resolutions favoring introduction of \"coolie\" labor.\nDONT FORGET THE DANCE\nDon't forget thc dance In the\nPendor Hall on Saturday night.\nThe floor Is good, the music will be\nthe best, and the admission Is easy.\nGents SOc, ladles 26c.\nil\nOklahoma State Votes in\nfavor of Medical\nFreedom\nThe state of Oklahoma at the\nrecent election by popular vote of\nover 40,000 majority, wiped off all\nth\u00C2\u00AB medical laws and gave drugless\nheal.ru the same rights and privileges of any ether class of physicians,\nThe same spirit seems to prevail\nin British Columbia, as ls proved\nby; the many signatures to the petition for the enactment of a medical freedom bill which seeks to\naboliih medical monopolies of any\ndescription and give the people the\nright, to choose tne treatment they\nwant' in case of sickness..\nFRIDAY, DEC. 10\nCommittee in Charge Has\nAbout Completed All\nArrangements\nThe smoking concert committee\nappointed by the General Workers\nUnit of tho 0..-B. U-, has nearly\ncommpleted the arrangements for\nthe smoking concert, that la to\nbe /held on Friday, the 10th, A\ngood programme Is assured. Several talented singers and elocutionists have already promised to\nbe present, and thero is no doubt\nas to the success of the entertainment. The refreshment committee has made ail arrangements for\nthe inner man, tho old clay pipe\nwill be in evidence, and smokes of\nall kinds will be provided. All\nmembers of the O. B. U. and thoir\nfriends aro 'Invited. The charge\nfor admission Is 60 cents.\nPatronize Federatlonist advertisers and toll them why you do so.\nMETAL WORKERS\nMadison, Wis.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Eugene Debs,\n, Sooialist candidate foi* president,\n' polled 80,686 In the state. Benson,\ni four years ago, polled 27,846.\nMeetings in O.B.U. Hall\nFor the Coming Week\n804 PENDER STREET WEST\nMONDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094Piledrivers. *\nTUESDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dance, 9 to 12.\nWEDNESDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094General Workers.\nTHURSDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dance, 9 to 12.\nFRIDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094Women's Auxiliary and Sraolung Concert.\nSATURDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dance, 9 to 12.\nSah Francisco\u00E2\u0080\u0094Two of the Jurors Who convicted Warren K. Bil-\nHnfsin tho preparedness day bomb\ncase, have thrown their support to\nthe demand for a retrial of Billings\nand Tom Mooney, following the\nconfession of Policeman Draper\nHand'of his part\"in the coaching\nof witnesses ln the conspiracy to\nsend both defendants to the gallows.\nINCH UY\nFrench Commissioner\n''\"' Has Orders to Deal\nWith Rebels\n(By Frederick Kuh, staff correspondent of the Federated Press\n; anJXondoti Herald.)\n. Vienna.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"French policy towards\nWrangle hag undergone a complete\nreversal during the past week. Ha*\nlog been - the first to rush to the\nassistance of the South Russian,\nFrance la the flrst to run to coyer\nnow that Wrangel has been ship-\nwricked. Martel, French commissioner to South Russia, had lnatiuc.\ntlons, When he left Paris, to deal\nexclusively with Wrangle. These directions have been changed, and\nMartol has been empowered to\nestablish relations with the Social\nRevolutionaries. His Initial step,\nhas been to engage as his adjutant\nMaxim Gorky's son and leader In\nthat party.\nPresident of N. Y. Build\ning Trades Council\nWas a Slick One\nNow Facing a Seven-year\nSentence for Attempted Extortion\n(By Mary Senior, staff correspondent for the Federated Press.)\nNew York.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Robert P. BrlndeU,\npresident and \"czar\" of ihe building trades council, who was charge\ned In testimony taken by the Joint\nlegislative committee with having\nenormous sums in bribes from\nhousewreckers and builders dependent upon men of his union for\nlabor, has been Indicted for attempted extortion.by the additional grand Jury and ls being held on\n1100,000 ball. In court it was asserted by the state that BrlndeU\nhad extorted more than $1,000,000\nwithin the last year.\nAttempted extortion is a crime\nfor whloh the maximum sentence\nla seven and one half years in prison, with no flne as an alternative\nfor the prison sentence. It is understood that BrlndeU is facing a number of other Indictments resulting\nfrom testimony given by 14 witnesses before the joint legislative\ncommittee;\nThe present indictment is based\non the charge that BrlndeU attempted to extort $7,500 from Jacob Fradus, excavator and general\ncontractor, through Qeorge H.\nClark, a civil engineer, who went\nto Brindell's headquarters oh April\n16, to Intercede for Fradus, who\nwas unable, because of labor trouble, to continue hts $300,000 contract with the Garment Centre\nRealty company,\nRobert Brindell's rise to power\nhns been as rapid as It has been\nremarkable. Fifteen years ago\nwhen he flrst drifted into New York\nhe was working as a clerk ln a\ndrug'store. Finding the space behind the counter too narrow for\nthe expression of his expansive personality, BrlndeU took a job along\nthe waterfront as a member, of the\nMunicipal Dock Workers' union.\nlie strengthened and enlarged this\norganization Until it received recognition from Samuel Gompers and\nbecame afflliated with the American\nFederation of Labor.\nBrindell's position was now secure. He became the fast friend of\nGompers. He also joined the Central Federated unton of New York\nwhere he palled with leaders of the\nold school.\nIn 1919 BrlndeU found his chance\nIn the Informal organisation of the\nBuilding Trades Council, then\nknown as the United Board of Business agents. Using approved \"boss\"\npolitician tactics, BrlndeU got himself elected president of this body,\nin which position he conducted a\nbrief but bloody administration for\none year.\nHis tactics have been to play off\nthe labor unions against the employer and contractors and the em.\nployers against labor, with the sole\naim of fllling his own pockets from\nthe resulting conflict. When a union became too independent to suit\nhis purpose, BrlndeU who had the\nbacking of most of the trades In\n(Continued on page R)\nHARRY NEELANDS\nM.L.A. elect for South Vancouver.\nNominee of the F. L. P.\nIK\nF.LP.\nGet-together Meeting to\nCelebrate Election\nof Neelands\nA P. L. P. rally and sooial will\nbe bold tt Headquartera, 148 Cordova Street West, tomorrow (Saturday), at 8 p.m. Soutli Vancouver membership will make thla a\ncelebration and the city membership will hold a rally at a date\nto be announced later.\nTonight (Friday) the Junior Labor League will meet at 642\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n10th Ave. East to complete the\nelection of officers and convenors\nof committees. The full list of officers will be announced next week.\nTonights meeting will convene at\n7:80 p.m.\nSTORY Of RE\u00C2\u00A7\n1\nPeking, China\u00E2\u0080\u0094Plrtt among the\npowers, China has made a clean\nbreak with Czarist Russia. She has\nInformed Prince Koudachelt, hlth\nerto Russian minister, lhat henceforth he will be regarded as a private Russian national dwelling on\nChina's soil.\nWashington\u00E2\u0080\u0094J. N. Tristan,\nofficer of the Mexican Federation\nof Miners has been barred from\nadmission to the United States by\nthe Immigration authorities at\nLaredo, Texas,\nU. S. Workers Consider It\nWill Relieve the\nUnemployed\nii\nInternational Federation\nto Take Up Subject\nof Armaments\n(By the Federated Press)\nWashington \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Reorganization of\nthe International Federation of\nMetal Workers Unions, with headquarters In Berne, Is under way,\nand the American delegates to the\nfirBt conference\u00E2\u0080\u0094probably to be\nheld In the summer of 1921\u00E2\u0080\u0094wtll\npresent a programme of worldwide cessation of the making of\nmunitions and firmaments, according to E. C. Davison, general secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Machinists,\nCorrespondence with Secretary\nIlg, at Berne, shows that the Italian, German, French, Spanish and\neven the Japanese metal workers\nare ready for such a programme.\nThe British, organized tn the great\nAmalgamated Society of Engineers\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094are likewise sympathetic. They\nhave a discussion with the Federation at present, as to back dues,\nbut will doubtless be fn full affiliation by the time the conference\nmeets.\nMetal workers ln most of the\ncontinental countries are now affiliating with Berne,\n(By tho Federated Press)\nDetroit, Mich.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"In consideration\nof the present widespread unemployment situation In this country\nand looking to the most Immediate\nrelief of that situation,\" the Detroit\nFedoration of Labor ln Us weekly\nsession on November 24, passed a\nresolution demanding that the\nAmerican government permit trade\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 relations with Soviet Russia.\n___,_.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u009E_. A**\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB-,*\u00E2\u0080\u009E Dnvlr Affiliated unions In Detroit will\nl*MXiCl AUOrney flOrKeS be requested to pass similar resolutions and forward copies of same\nto the governmental heads In\nWashington and to the American\nFederation of Labor executives.\nI FED\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA\\nIntroduces the\nMotion\n(By the Federated Press)\nMew York.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Nine of the 12 allseed Communists who appeared\nCentral bodies throughout the\ncountry will also be circularized by\nthe Detroit federation with a re-\nbefore Judge Bartow S. Weeks In Jue.at for ,lmllar actlon on their\ntha criminal section of the supreme\ncourt have been set free on motlofi\nof Assistant District Attorney Alexander I. Rorke.\n.The 12 men had been held ln\nbail, under the Criminal Anarchy\nStatute, Bince the raids of November 7 and 8, 1919. They were indicted for holding Communist principles.\nTwo men, Harry Israel and Isa-\ndore Cohen, were held for a closer\nInvestigation by Rorke, at Judge\nWeeks' Instruction. A third, Ellas\nMarks, repudiated his opinions and\nreceived clemency.\nBall .was discharged in the case\nof eight men, A discharge of ball in\npractically a withdrawal of the Indictment, one of the lawyers, acting for the Communists said. The\nIndictment against the ninth man,\nJ, Lovestone, was dismissed for\n'service rendered\" ln testifying In\nthe Harry Winitsky cate.\nLatin-American Labor\nOrganizations9 Attitude\nToward International\n(By Laurence Todd)\n(Staff Correspondent for the Fed\nerated. Press)\nWashington\u00E2\u0080\u0094Twelve countries\nof the Western Hemisphere will be\nrepresented by delegations at thc\nthird annual convention of thc\nPan-Amer'ican Federation of Labor\nin Mexico City, beginning January\n10, at which the improvement of\nrelations between the Labor movements of these countries and their\nattitude toward the Labor internationals of Amsterdam and of Moscow will bo under discussion.\nPresident Oompers and Vice-\npresidents Woll and Rickert, and\nTreasurer Tobin of the American\nFederation of Labor, with John\nFrey of the Molders Union, will\ncomprise the delegation from the\nUnited States. They represent the\nantl-SoclallBt element In the A. F,\nof tt,, and as such are anticipating a lively, time when the Socialist delegations from the. eleven\nLatin-American republics open flre\non their social and political theories. Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, San Domingo and the\nCentral American countries will\nsupport the Mexican delegates In\nthe argument.\nEven If the delegates wished to\navoid discussion of the action of\nthe A. F. of L., In refusing to affiliate with the International Federation of Trade Unions of Amsterdam, that subject would be forced\nupon the floor by thc fact that the\npowerful Argentine Labor, co-op-\ner'atlvo and Socialist movement has\naffiliated wtth Amsterdam and has\ndeclared the Pan-American Federation of Labor to be unnecessary.\nUruguay and Argentina are proud\nof their direot and fraternal connection with the European Labor\nmovements, but the Uruguayan\nleaders go so far as to refuse to\naffiliate with any foreign group of\nworkers which supported the lato\nwar.\nNeutral Organization\nLost Sght of Its\nTraditions\nWorked Under Direction\nof United State and j\nKolchak.\n(By Helen Augur, *taft correspond,\nent fo. the Federated Press)\nNew York.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The story of the R\u00C2\u00ABd\nCross in Siberia' Is a story ot how\nthe greatest \"neutral\" organization\nIn the world forgot Its neutrality\nand Its traditions of mercy and\njustice, aad took its orders from\nthe American State department,\nwhich ln turn was taking lta orders\nfrom Admiral Kolchak. That at\nleast, waa .the conviction given by\nOtto W. Lowe, a New York pharmacist, during a year's service aa\nlieutenant in the Bed Cross, spent\nbetween Irkutsk and Omsk.\n\"In Irkutsk came my first Jar,\"\nsaid Lotfe, \"I had certain Illusions\nabout the role of the Bed Cross,\nwhich began to shake when I saw\nhow by a combination of race-prejudice and graft and Ignorance and\nplain inefficiency, money and lives\nwero wasted, and hundreds of Oerman prisoners made miserable.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2But lt was In Omsk that the situation was suddenly dramatised\nJust as I arrived, the Bed Cross\nwas in the act of dismantling a\ngreat hospital only then completed,\nand equipped to wrestle with the\nterrible scourge of typhus raging\nthere. The Red Cross which is to\nstay ln the thick of the battle with\ndeath, waa running away with the\nKolchak armies. I went to Major\nEversoll, commander of the west'-\nera division of the Bed Cross, and\nasked him what this extraordinary\nthing meant.\n\"Ordors of tha State Department!\" he answered. Later I learned that Kolchak was behind that\norder, that he had commanded the\ntown cleared of aid. We took away\neve'ry yard of guase and every\nnurse on a 43-car train, and left\nthe town to die.\nLowe said that the refugees\nspread typhus all over the line j>f\nretreat, and that they starved and\nfroze and died ln hundreds. When\nthe Red Cross train arrived. In\nKrasnyarsk, there were 3,000 dead\nhorses lying on the streets with\ndead men and women and children\nwho had run away from the Bed\nArmy.\n\"Four of us stayed behind with\none car of supplies to take core of\nour wounded,\" said Lowe. \"The\nnext day, Red troops paraded the\ntown, ond posted notices savins\nthnt the Red Army was in charge.\nAll foreigners were arrested, and\nnsBcd to report to the Fifth Army\nheadquarters. Tho town was perfectly quiet. A local soviet was already functioning.\n\"I was allowed to act as a com-\nmlssnr, and to assist the civilian\npopulation with medical service\nand with our supplies. The chief of\nthe medical division ^f the Fifth\nArmy, whom 1 liked very much,\nsaw that we were anxious to prove\nthat Bed Cross men as individuals\nwere really neutral, and he gave us\nour chance.\"\nLondon\u00E2\u0080\u0094Hiss Sylvia Pankhurst\nhas been released on ball pending\nher appeal against the sentence of\nsix months' imprisonment passed\non her recently, for alleged seditious articles in the paper, The\nWorkere Dreadnought.\nFEDERATED LABOR PARTY\nColonial Theatre\n(Corner Dunsmuir and Granvillo)\nSunday, December 5th\n8 P.M.\nJ. Si WOODSWORTH\nWIU Address Meeting\nChairman, lt. P. PNTTH'llrt'K\nDOXT FORGET THE DANCE\nDon't forget the danco In the\nPender Hall on Saturday night.\nTlie lloor Is good, the music will be\nthe best, and tlie admission Is easy.\nGents SOc, ladles 25c.\nReading Becomes a Torture to Anti-Russian\nBureaucrats\n(By Paul Hanna)\n(Stall Correspondent for the Federated Press)\nWashington\u00E2\u0080\u0094There is consternation In the state department at\nthe victorious sweep of Soviet Russia across tho Held of business,\npolitics nnd Journalism, whicli President Wilson ond his successive\nforeign ministers had so carefully\nmined and barb-wired to shut out\ntbe Slav Idea,\nReading thc dally papers has becomo a torture to the anti-Bussian\nbureaucrats at Washington. Pago\n1, column 1 of the New York Times\nflaunts thc diary of a highly-placed\nBritish artist, who with zeal and\ndistinction reveals tho strength, Intelligence and democracy of tha\nSoviet Republic.\n\"We will soon be rnising monuments to Lenin, who combines the\nvirtues of George Washington and\nAbroham Lincoln,\" one headline\nproclaims. \"Business men besiege\nVanderlip to share, In great contract with Russian Beds,\" says another. \"Brouslloft announces end\nnf civil wur.\" \"Russian peasants\neating more than ever before,\" and *\nso on, through the flnanclal pages\nI and into the Sunday supplements. 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If you are willing to help, write the Secretary for a subscription ..Ust\nM. POPOVICH,\nSecretavjT; Medical Relief Committee for Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine,\nBox 8591, Postal Station B.,\nWinnipeg.\nEnclosed please find the sum of... __\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n..Dollars towards purchase of\nMedical Supplies for Soviet Russia and Soviet\nUkraine.\nName \t\nAddress .....\nOAHHOT BE STOPPED !-By Ryan Walker in the New Tork Call.\nMr. George and the Constitution\nSince the accession of Mr, Lloyd\nGeorge to supreme power, a notable\nohange haa come over the office\nthat he holds. Older prime ministers, Peel and Palmerston, Gladstone and Dlraaell, were dependent\nfor the prestige upon the confidence of their party and their own\nskill tn the management of the\nHouse of Commons. Their cabinet\nwas a body of trusted advisers who,\nthrough long years of faithful apprenticeship, Ijad become accustomed to the* making of policy.\nThey were, with rare exceptions\nlike Lord Cardwell, leas men with\na special problem in hand, than\nefficient Judges of the general effect that legislation would have\nalike upon the desires of the electorate and what, at some given moment,, might be deemed the welfare of the country. The prime\nminister waa, indeed, their chief;\nbut he waa rather the chairman of\na board who knows that his power\ndepends upon the careful weighing\not his colleagues' Judgments than\nan American president who, like\nMr. Lincoln upon a famous occasion, may follow his own decision\nln defiance of his cabinet. The essence of the system was an arrival\nat collective Judgment. The prime\nminister was a superior, but he was\nnot supreme; and he took his part\nln the cut and thrust of debate In\nthe House of Commons. Policy,\nthat Is to Bay, was broadly the result of a considered Judgment\nwhich had to be weighed In view\nof a passionate1 criticism in the\nhouse; and, as the ultimate source\nof responsibility for all decisions,\nthe pivot of the edifice was the\ncontinuous relationship between\nthe prime minister and the private\nmember.\nThat system has completely disappeared. The prime minister,\nfrom being, as with Mr. Gladstone,\nthe most accessible member of tho\ncabinet, has become the most aloof.\nHis colleagues; from the threshold\nof equality, have been removed to\nthe outer door; and they are today less men who watch the stream\nof general tendency In affairs than\na body of departmental chiefs who\nsit In the House of Commons. -The\nresult, In general, Is what- it would\nbe if the American cabinet had\nseats ln congress; with the difference that the prime ministor preserves his prestige by reserving all\nfundamental decisions to himself\nand Disking appearances upon the\ndoor of the House sufficiently infrequent to give his speeches tho\ndramatic quality which attaches to\nthe unexpected.\nThe primo minister, that Is to\nsay, Is virtually the president of a\nstate;' but he-Is president In a community where the remaining institutions are totally inapt to the\ncharacter ot his office. He Is, for\nexample, his own foreign socretary;\nbut no primo minister can hope to\ngive continuity to foreign affairs\nand copo with the varied mass of\nbusiness that otherwise comes beforo him. He Is tho deciding factor\nin labor policy; but that is to reduce both the minister of lalior and\nthe prosldent of the Board ot Trade\nto non-pormanent officials who\nlearn the content of his mind when\ncrisis arise upon which his decision\n1s necessary. But that, at bottom,\nls to say there Is no cabinet policy\nupon labor, and that the prime\nminister can never really know\nenough of the atmosphere of the\nIndustrial position to give more\nthan a partial Judgmerlt upon somo\nparticular set of facts entirely unrepresentative of It. It means more.\nIt means that, with evory problem,\nthe cabinet minister to whose department lt may belong can never\nbo genuinely responsible for its solution; for the prime minister remains always as a contingent court\nof appeal who may be moved by\nconsiderations different from thoss\nwhich Impressed the permanent officials. That is a serious loss to the\nprestige of government, and it was\nnoteworthy that the Triple Alliance\nwhen It intervened In the prosont\ncoal dispute, ignored the president\nnf the Board of Trade and negotiated directly vjtth the prime mln\nister.\nThe result of this change upon\nthe structuro of the cabinet ls ob\nvlous. It gives the prime minister\nnot colleagues who can weigh decisions, but subordinates who can\naccept them. It makes the Individ'\nual member not an Independent\nmind and, within the ministry, a\ncareful critic, but a departmental\nchief who obeys his instructions\nand does not go outside their boundary. In that sense, the prime\nminister Is not troubled by the need\nfor a coherent policy. He can be\ngenerous to the Hindu at the India\noffice; he can introduce slavery undor a thin cloak in the next street\nat the colonial offlce. He himself\nmay be in favor of peace with Bussia; and his secretary of war.may\nIssue bloodthirsty pronouncements\nin the dally press. The system,, indeed, has obvious advantages;,, for\nby a careful scrutiny of the I -\npers the policy upon which the\ngreater degree of eulogy is bestowed may be selected as most likely\nto succeed. And since that, ultimate\nselection must rest with the prime\nminister, the result, at every point,\nis to exalt his1 power in th. eyes\nof the different interests competing\nfor his attention. \t\nBut tin* Involutions of the-system\ndo no.. 000. tBOSB. Tttd prtmo minister mmt ait once keep 'himself Informed and retain his predominant\nplace In the eyes of the country.\nHe must have a check upon the\nadministration of the departments,\nand an offset to his virtual disappearance from the House of Commons. The first need has been supplied by the prime minister's secretariat. In another form, indeed,\nthat department has been, obviously\nwanting for a generation; for a\nmuch more thorough sifting was\ndemanded of tho material which\neager colleagues with a zeal for\ntheir own office were anxious tlmt\nthe prime minister himself should\nInvestigate. But in the hands of Mr,\nLloyd George the secretariat serves\npurposes.. unconnected with so\nsimple an aim. They are, first and\nforemost, the liaison with tho press.\nThey drop the half-hints and obscure suggestions by which a, public opinion 'may.bo formed to secure some change in plan which\nmay then be represented aa- a concession to popular demand. They\nsecure the Information By i which\nthe prime minister keeps In touch\nwith th'e current of feeling in the\ncountry. They advise that a letter\nmay usefully be sent to Spen Valley; they hint at Its possible failure\nln Paisley. They are the avenue of\nIntercourse with the prime minis\nter. An unimportant minister may\nsee them, and spare the time of\ntheir chief; and they will^report\nback a decision founded upon such\n.evidence as they choose to deliver.\nIn fact, they get control of two or\nthree departments each; and even\nan able observer may flnd it at\ntimes difficult to discover whether\nLord Curzon or Mr. Phillip Kerr\nIs tho minister' for foreign affairs.\nTho result upon tho prime minis-\ntor's colleagues is obvious. Some\nare important enough to Ignore the\nsecretariat. They can breakfast at\nDowning Streot, or threaten their\nway across tho barrlor. The loss\nfortunate will either comply, or, Ignoring it, will let things drift their\nway until either an unlooked for\ndecision, or a quarrel with some\nothor office, compels an adjustment\nof the situation, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 B\nTho secretariat has not supplanted the cabinet; but at least-it -has\ndestroyed its utility. The necessity\nof counter-balancing absence from\nthe House of Commons has been\nfound ln still more devious paths.\nIn part, it has come from thjft prestige which always attaches to- negotiations with foreign powers; - Diplomacy ha's always the Special\nglamor of the mysterious; and if\nLord Curzon remains in London\nwhile Mr, Lloyd George Is closeted\nat Lympne or Spa or Boulotl* It\nIs obvious in whose breast the'truo\nsecrets are really locked. In part\nthe equilibrium Is maintained by a\ncomplicated systom of press work,\ninterviews, deputations, ex cathedra\npronouncements, and appearances\nat the critical stage as the god in\nth. machine. Anyone who watches\nover a period of months the activities of Bir William Sutherland will\nunderstand the Journalistic mechanism. No one oan resist a special\npamphlet or a new monthly In\nwhich the policy he cannot glean\nfrom debates ln the Commons is\nsnld to be expounded. Unionists\nwho are exasperated with Ireland\ncan gain solace from a visit to\nDowning Streot. A great publio\nmeeting, with a slashing attack\nMr. Asquith, la always sure to attract that typ. of audience which\nloves nothing ao much as a flght,\nand te utterly careless of lta outcome. And, where a crisis comes,\nto remain aloof until the moment\nwhen a settlement ls Imperative\nwill\u00E2\u0080\u0094if the stage-management be\nprepared with sufficient care\u00E2\u0080\u0094always give a factitious appearance\nof success which conceals the poverty of thought behind. It all Involves government by momentary\nImprovisation. But no government\ncan have a coherent polloy when\nby ita very nature it despises the\ncontinuous colleagueship of able'\nminds.\nThere are other ramifications of\nImportance. What, at bottom, the\nsystem implies ls personal govern\nment; and personal government, as\nthe history ot George III. has\nshown us, involves a mean dependence upon the part of the House\not Commons. Particular Interests\nmust be conciliated; as where the\nland taxes are replaced, or the San-\nkey report Ignored. Personal affiliations must be encouraged; so that\nthe honors list Is swollen out of all\nproportion to merit. The House of\nCommons itself is, without difficulty\nignored. Mr. Bonar Law, as leader\nof the House, doubtless means well1\nenough; but he has no final say,\ntfnd he has not the strategy or eloquence to make him the equal of\nhis opponents.\n- Nor should lt remain unnoticed\nthat, In the period of hla manage-,\nment, the ablest minds ln the government are withdrawn from Its\ndiscussions. Mr. Balfour Is Absent\nfor weeks together; Mr. Churchill\n-*-tor him a remarkable experience\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094ls narrowly limited to the confines of his office. The reason ls\nclear enough. The House of Commons ls by nature such an assembly\nthat lf any minister obtained overwhelming prestige thore, he would\nchallenge the pre-eminence of the\npremier himself. From Mr. Bonar\nLaw such competition need not be\nexpected; from Mr. Balfour and\nMr.\" Churchill lt ls reasonably dangerous. As a result, the main ministerial ability is withdrawn, from\ntho House lest the presence of the\nprime minister become, for his own\nsake, imperative there; for once he\nattended continually the system of\npersonal government would come\nto an end. The result Is the modern practice of resource to direct\naotlon. No assembly which the\nprime minister despises ls likely to\nattain respect from those with Interests to promote; and the longer\nthe system continues the further\nmust direct action go. A government which rests upon the considered support of the House of Commons will always have the foundations of stability, and Its decisions\nwill' command a large degree of\ncommon acceptance from that safeguard; but a government of which\nthe basic principle is neglect of the\nbody from which lt derives its life\nwill be open to every gust of changing wind which happens to blow.\nNor Is this the end of the evil.\nA system built upon porsonal as-\ncendenoy cannot, unless lt be a dictatorship, be built upon principle;\nIts ossenco Is inevitably the spirit\not accidental accommodation. Determined men will not serve under\nIt; for they lack the power which\noffice ought, in theory, to confer.\nMen of character will despise it for\nthe simple reason that it will lack\nthat which ls the foundation of\ntheir own strength. What,\nconsequence, it will Inevitably do\nis to build upon the second-rate\nmen and attempt to succeed by the\nprofession of indifference to vital\nopinion. It will, for example, Insist\nupon the evil of parties; and Instead of principles It will search for\nmeasures. It will seek not the fun\ndamental points for reform, but the\nImmediate concessions which may\nbe made without recourse to them.\nIt will not seek tor the men who\nhavo been tried and trusted by public experience, for that would be\ndestructive of Its leader's personal\npower. Rather, It must depend up\non the assistance ot what Americans call \"available\" men; of men,\nthat is to say, of whom sufficiently\nlittle la known to leave the public\nIn ignorance of their defects. With\nout principle and, save tor the\nPrime minister, without effective\nPersonality, the character of cabinet opinion will be unimportant.\nThe cabinet may meet: it has, indeed, held meetings for over a year.\nBut, though It meets, lt cannot,\nfrom Its composition, hope to decide. It will be like a meeting of\nthe American cabinet In which re>\nports are presetted and discussion\nrelegated to insignificance. By definition, therefore, it must suspend\nthe operation of-principle in order\nthat lta administration may continue. It will represent not opinion\nbut guesswork. Its frankness will\nbe sinister and Its cordiality without meaning. The adherents of th.\nprime minister will cleave to him\nso long as he seems secure, but th.\nbond of union will not be kinship\not conviction or community of purpose. The basis of alliance will b.\nmerely that tenure ot offlce hli\npersonal ascendancy can control.\nAnd its effect upon th. machinery of legislation must ultimately\nbe disastrous. An assemply of seven hundred persons can only legislate it it ia under th. control of a\npredominant opinion. Immediately\nthat stimulus is withdrawn, parliament is not merely a cumbrous mechanism, but is In grave danger of\nbecoming an engine of corruption.\nHere, indeed, Ita essentially vocational nature reasserts Itself; and\nthe absence of any regulating principle of policy drive. Its groups of\nparticular interests either to promoting their private end, or preventing concessions which may de-.\ncrease their power. And It ls an\nenhancement of thla danger that,\nln such an atmosphere, the assembly should be elected upon a basis\nof universal suffrage. Th. abssne.\nof principle ln th. House of Common, is the absence of that whicb\ngives cohesion to It From a body\nwith a well-knit structure, lt become, an incoherent mas* of individual members. Responsibility Is\ndissipated, because ther. is no\ngroup to defend; aelf-respect Is\ndestroyed becauae ther. tt no concerted adtlon t. giv. significance.\nMost fatal ot all, perhaps. It tta.\nconcealment-of thea. dangers beneath the cloak of popular origin.\nFor nothing is more difficult than\nto persuade the people to a measured appreciation ot what Is of its\nown- making. Th. result te t. divert th. disgust whloh should b.\nconcentrated upon the systom\nwhieh has engendered It to cause,\nwith whloh It is essentially unconnected.\nSueh a system. Indeed, ean not\nhope tor permanence; but every\nweek of its existence Is a continuous assurance of publio misfortune. And It has come at a peculiarly unfortunate time. Three\nwas never a period in Bngllsh history when men were so clearly divided by gerat principles; never, as\na consequence, a period in which\nthe association of one set br anoth.\ner with government wes so clearly\nnecessary. A prim, minister whose\ncabinet was a band of tried and\ntrusted men, translating through\ntheir common counsel the convictions of a national majority Into\nterms of legislation; a House ot\nCommons eager to set the opposing theories tn the clearest light,\nwatchful of the national welfare,\nsensitive to publie opinion, had\nnever eo magnificent an opportunity. Mr. George ia the author of\na system In whioh neither such a\ncabinet nor such a parliament is\nconceivable. He demands' compr'o-.\nmlse of principle -from the one\nand Indifference in conviction from\nthe other. We stand at a parting\nof the ways, and we cannot halt at\nthe signpost It Is the fundamental disaster of our Hr\"\u00C2\u00AB that the\nmethods by which we are govern-\ne\" leads, by its Inherent nature,\neither to the violence of civil disruption or the Inertia wmch Its defeat exacts from despair. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Harold\nJ. 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Tne pardon office\nof the department of Justice Is making separate reports on all cases\ninvolving war activities, and as fast\nas they are completes the favorable ones are being submitted to\nAttorney-General Palmer for his\napproval and forwarding to President Wilson.\nBerlin.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A clean flght against tho\npolicies of President Pllsudskl has\nbeen declared by the left wing of\nthe Polish Sociulist party, which\nhas broken, away from the main\nbody; according to reports from\nWarsaw. All left wing) members\nvyho have held government positions have now left them, and have\nfounded a new paper called Nowa\nPolskl, whioh will be the Instrument for a vigorous fight upon the\ngovernment\nX RAYS Locate Ills\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094AT THE\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nVancouver X-Ray\nInstitute\nSU STAHDAED BARK BOILDWO\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094BUSMBIBH TO\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThe One Big Union\nBulletin\nPubliihed by tbe Winnipeg Central tabor Oonneil\nBead th. 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', PHONE SEYMOUR 8152\nFresh Out Flowers, Funertl Designs, Wedding Bouquets, Fot Plants\nOrnamental and Shade Treat, Seeds, Bulbs, Floristt' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0undrlsi\nBrown Bros. & Co. Ltd.\nH.OBISTS AND K0B8BBTMEN\n_ ElTOBEB fl\nt\u00C2\u00BB Hastlngi Stmt Bui , 728 OranvUlt Ami\nSeymour 08M78 Seymour uu\nTetchsr ot Drugltis Htsllnf\nFREE CLINIC\nFor tbe treatment of non-contagious\nohronlo Ailment! hy Natural Methodi.\nThs clinic it supported hy voluntary\ncontributions.\nOfflce houra: 10*12, and hy appointment.\nPhone Sey. 1977 FRIDAT .December t, 1920\ntwelfth tear. no. 49 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vam.\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB.\u00C2\u00AB, b, a\nPAGE THREE\nLumber Camp and Agricultural Workeji' Department of the One Big Union\nTHIS PAGE IS PAID FOR BT THE LUMBER OAMP AND AGR1CUL TUBAL WORKERS DEPARTMENT OF THE ONfc Bti\nHON. OPINIONS EXPRESSED THEREIN ARE NOT NECESSARILY ENDORSED BT THE FEDERATIONIST.\nCamp Reports\nCRANBROO KDISTRICT\nWann, B. 0., Jordan's Cnmp\nOne of the worst caaea of the\nexploitation of the wage slave, the\nbreaking of a verbal contract given\nbefpre witnesses has Just occurred\ntt the above camp.\nThis camp or ranch la situated\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 miles from Wasa, and 23 miles\nfrom Cranbrook, on the Kootenay\nCentral, and occupies the old\nbuildings of the old Hanna's mill\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2lte. An attempt of a new bunkhouse was commenced and hus\nended ln a dismal failure up to\ndate,\nThe office, dining room and\nkitchen occupies thc old log house,\ntwo airy shacks In the rear of\ntame, the new bunk house not fln-\nIthed up to date; with beds for\ntbout 80 men, (New bunk house\ntingle boards of No. J cull lumber) la the whole of the accommodation.\nNo toilet or any conveniences\nwhatever, and the health laws of\nBritish Columbia absolutely disre-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 forded.\nStablea ar. 80 yarda (rom the\ndining room, tnd th. intervening\napace between atablea and aald\ndining room. A foot deep In manure, the accumulation of thirty\nyeara, tnd In fly-time the place\nwas a horror*.\nTh. contractor, Howard Jordan,\npresumably took a contract from\nth. Loverlng Lumber Co. (late the\nTthk Lumber Co.), of Wasa, B.\nC, to but, skid and haul a limit\nbetween Mile 40 and 42, the eaat\naide of the Kootenay railroad,\nH. hired men tt t< for. tcam-\natera, and 16.60 for swampers and\nrollers. The teamsten to attend\ntheir own teams. After a varied\nP_ experience, extending from Oct, 6\nI to the end of the month, in which\nwe had three cooks, he hired more\nmen at the rate 0f 85 per day, and\nmade her go Jlppo. All work that\ncould be made contract waa to go\ncontract or go down the road, and\nthe only day work was road work\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E tt 86; sawyers, 18 cents per log;\nI skidding gang, 15 cents per log on\nthe skldway. A new cook was\nprocured, and he la a good one.\nOn Sunday, Nov. 14, the contractor1, Jordan, came to the camp and\ntold the boys he wanted a meeting\nIn the bunk house atter aupper, aa\nowing to the change of condltlona\non the labor market, he had a few\nwords of cheer to dispense,\nWhen the boys met, the worst\ngrafting proposition ln history ot\na lot of men here, waa propounded.\nHe claimed that he had one-third\ncut off his contract, commencing\nfrom the date the work was started, and that he was going to cut\nthe wages of the men $1 per day,\n.tor the time they worked by the\ndty since the Ume they had been\non the Job, which waB from about\nOot, 0, to Nov. 81; and all contract\nwork from Nov. 1 on was to be paid\ntt the old price of 16 cents per\nlog, but they would have to pay at\nth. rate ot 840.00 per month\nhire of the team to pay for' the\nfeed of the team at the rate of\n12.76 per day, and this waa to be\nthe future price, and for all the\nwork previously done. Of course\nthe men would not stand for this,\ntnd formed a committee to investigate the conditions. They found\nthe contractor had not signed a\ncontract up to the present date,\ntnd that he was using theae means\nto cut down the wages, etc., and\nwhen tackled on the matter', said:\n\"Well, who's going to pay for the\nnow sleighs I have got to build\ndo you stiffs expect me to atand\nall tho expense?\"\nHe has been up to the camp\none day, and tried to get the boys\ntogether again to sign some kind\net a paper, but they keep away\ntrom him, and will not listen to his\nttl. of woe; he was holding tight\nto His bluff on his last appearance,\nbut th. company's manager, Mr.\nNewman, aald this morning that\nth. company would pay tor all the\nloga, etc., cut and they would pay\nAt the rate ot wagea the men were\nhired for.\nWe hav. not got settled up ao\nfar, but we expect to In a day or'\nto. The contractor tried to run ln\na now bunch of men (prairie\nchickens), but the boya refuted to\ngo to work, and would not give up\ntheir places at the table, or in the\nhunk 'houaea.\nIn (act, to ihow you how con-\ntlderate he la (or the men, he\nbrought four men out with him\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nOffioo euppliei anil portage \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094..\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2..\u00E2\u0080\u0094.-\t\nOrfanlilng .....\u00E2\u0080\u009E__...\u00E2\u0084\u00A2..._\u00E2\u0084\u00A2.-...\nConvention expeniei \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00C2\u00AB ....\nA. 8. Weill, for Winnipeg defenie fond ....\nSundry expeniei \u00E2\u0080\u009E.....\u00E2\u0080\u009E.\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nRemitted to headquarter! ......_.._._\nUalance on hand Oct. 31 -..*.\n207.50\n12.70\n28.85\n179.60\n62.73\n40.00\n1.84\n100.00\n408. ft 5\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A21,117.00\nPRINOE RUPERT DISTRICT\nStatement for October. 1220\nReeeiptl\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nDuei I\nFees \u00E2\u0084\u00A2 ..\t\nDelegate!' remittance! 1470.40\nLeia commluion and expenies 8.50\nRefund* \t\n0. B. U. buttoni, foldcra, eto. ... ...\n105.00\n1.00\nBalance od hand Sept. 80,.\nExpenditure!-\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nRent .-\nWagei\n461.00\n12.00\n17.25\n486.00\n91,088.80\nOlllce inppliei ud poitage ,\nTypewriter (part payment) .\nO. li. 0. per capita .....\t\nOrganiiation \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0....'.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0....,\nSundry expeniei\nConrentlon expeniei .....-_.\nBalance on hand Oet. 81.\n25.00\n120.00\n26.06\n76.00\n80.00\n13.80\n12.85\n387.15\n646.85\nRent, heat and ofllce repalra\t\nOflee luppllei and poitage\t\nOrganlutlon\t\nPrinting ballota \t\nFinnish Bociety, on amount loan .\nSundry expeniei ......................,.._\nTapau Publishing Co, ...\t\nnnlanoe on hand Oet. 81 \t\nReceipt!\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nDues .......\nFeci\nPBIKOE OEORGE DISTRICT\nStatement fox October. 1820\n91,088.80\nDelegates' remittancei _\nLeia comtnlisloo and expenses .\nDistrict members\nSundries\n...f 172.00\n9.00\nDonation to District Fond (William A Uercret\nCimp ) uueieum\nBalance on hand Sept. 90 \u00E2\u0080\u009E.\u00E2\u0080\u009E.\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\n186.85\n67.00\n4.40\n98.00\n378.29\nExpenditure!\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWages \t\nRent and light \u00E2\u0084\u00A2_\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB\t\nOfflee suppliei\t\nSundries _...._.....\nRemittance to headquartera \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nBalance on hand Oct. 81 ......\n9740.01\n.... 9160.00\n86.85\nnut 6.60\n\u00E2\u0084\u00A2. 5.63\n.... 300.00\n_. 883.04\nSUDBURY DISTRICT\nStatement fot October, 1980\n9740.01\nReceipts\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nDuei \t\nFees ___\u00E2\u0080\u009E,______\nDelegatea' remittance! 9798.83\nLeas cominUeltn and expenses \u00E2\u0080\u009E .. 90.28\n...9 2M.00\n18.00\n999,69\nRent of room \u00E2\u0080\u009E.\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\nS. R. Flower Fund .\nWinnipeg defenie stamps\nBnttoni and folderi .\nBalance on hand Sept. 80 .\nExpenditure!\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWegei\n16.00\n42.85\n2.20\n20.70\n446.98\nWinnipeg, Man.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Canadian National Railway Employees Union\nofficials have refused to listen to\nthe request of D. B. Hanna, president of the government's railways,\nthat they send a deputation to talk\nover the dlsmiwial of members of\nthe Legislature who worked In the\nser'vlce. They deelare a referen\ndum upon the issue involving direct action by \u00E2\u0082\u00AC0,000 employees, cf\nthe system will bring the dispute\nto a final showdown. Union representatives are preparing for a\nDominion-wide conference to deal\nwith preliminary procedure.\nSheboygan, Wis.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Plana for the\nnew dally to be published here by\nSocialists, trade unionists and\nother Interests independent of the\ntwo old parties, was completed at\na meeting of stockholders of the\nnew enterprise held Nov. 16.\n91,644.32\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0..9\n860.00\n66.15\n2B.17\n19.80\n47.08\n150.00\n15.82\n81.80\n653.05\nReceipt!\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nDuea\nMBLSOH DISTRICT\nStatement for October, 1920\n91,644.32\nFeei, leia eommission\t\nBalance on hand Sept. 80 .\n9106.00\n16.00\n804.12\nExpenditures\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWagea\nRent, heat, phona .'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0......\nOflee furnishing! ................\nOflee supplies and postage .\nOrganiiation\nAdvertising and literature ...h,,,.\nBalance on hand Oct. 81 ......\n9518.42\n9 80.00\n24.40\n15.85\n6.76\n2.60\n18.60\n876.43\nCOCHRANE DISTRICT\nReceipt!\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nDues -\t\nDelegates' remittances I\nLeaa eommission and expenaee ...........\nO. B, U. Buttons \t\nBalance on hand Bept. I\nExpenditures\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWagei\n9516.42\n9186.00\n16.00\n77.50\n17.15\n56.18\nRent, light, heat _. .........\nOflee luppllea and postage\t\nOrganisation\t\nTelegrami and eiprem on literature .\nBalance on band Oct. 31\t\n9301.76\n9200.00\n25.65\n19.87\n8.00\n8.33\n40.43\nthe camps built in compliance with\nthe laws of the country?\nIn order to cut down expenses,\nwe would suggest that a caucus of\nthe eastern dolegates may be held\nIn Winnipeg a few days prior to\nour general convention; and if that\nlt not possible, then they can hold\na caucus in Vancouver during thc\nconvention. (We are of the opinion that the delegate*, to the con\nventlon may be also authorized to\nact as delegates to our proposed\nexecutive council.)\nOur intentions are not to con\nflne the executive council only to\nthc eastern territory, but to the\neast is, in a position wher'e such a\ncouncil Is a burning necessity.\nIt is needless to state thut our\ndistrict favors the affiliation of the\nO. B. U. wtth the International\nCouncil of Trades Unions for the\nfollowing reasons:\n'The International Council of\nTrades Unions Is built on revolutionary principles, ln opposition to\nthe International Labor bureau,\nformed by the League of Nations,\nns well as In opposition to the A.\nP. of L.\n'During its few months of existence, It has already assimilated\na membership of 8,000,000 workers, representative of England,\nFrance and Itussla,\n\"The A. F. of L. In this country\nwtth tho opportunists and working\nclass traltois the world over, have\nr'alscd a hysterica] cry against this\nnewly-formed organization of militant workers.\n\"The ultimate object of the International Council of Trades\nUnions is, the workers control of\nthe means of wealth production\nand distribution, I. e., the democratic direction and control of Industry. \u00C2\u00BB\n\"Therefore, we request the secretary of tho Lumber, Agricultural\n& Camp Workers department, to\nget In touch with the executive of\ntho council In question and obtain\nthe necessnry Information as to the\nconditions which our affiliation\nwould be acceptable to them.\n\"We would also be glad to beat\nfrom other members on the above J Put\nWEEKLY BULLETIN\nA Letter from lhe District '\nOrganizer\nTours of the 19th to hand, and\ncontents noted. Re calling organizer ott the road, I am quite in favor\nwith the decision of the executive'\nin so doing, as I have found it\nvery hard to do any organizing\nwork under the present state of *\nfalling labor market. I have travelled from Penticton to Oolden, tBe\neastern boundary of the Kamloops\ndistrict, and have found the same\nstate of affairs prevailing throughout the whole of this.route. I\nhave come in contact with hundreds of workers looking for Jobe,\nworkers carrying cards from different craft organisations \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 in the\neast, and the O. B. U. in the west*\nand all on the same errand,. a\nchance to exchange labor power\nfor a meal ticket, as eat . McKinnon, on trips\nto camps 15.00\n9 95.70\n600.70\nTotal expenditures 1696.20\nNow, fellow workers, us the\nstrike ls over with the Northern\nConstruction Co., on the North\nThompson rtver, and the men have\ngone bnck to work for less money\nper day, and a nine-hour day. So\ndon't get the blues, for with the\nInflux of prairie scabs, we were\ncompelled to call the striko off for\nthe time being, and as you all\nknow that lt is useless to try to\nfinance a hunger strike with the\nnmount of unemployed workers\nthat are in the country at the present time. So, now, let us dwell\non thd district convention to be\nheld here on the 23rd of December,\n1920. Convention to be called at\n10 n.m. ahorp. So now Is the time\nto decido on your new secretary-\ntreasurer, as I am a candidate for\nan easier Job than this. Now, what\nI would like to see Is a married\nman as secretary-treasurer In thli\ndistrict.\nA detailed report of the district\norganizer will be In next week's ls- <\nsue. Don't forget the convention\ncall December 23, 1920.\nJAMES L. PETERSON,\nBec.-trens. Kamloops Dlstriot.\n9301.78' subject.'\na one-cent stamp on this\n| paper and mall It to a friend. t*?ACEFOUlt\ntwelfth tear. no. 49 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST Vancouver, b. c.\nFRIDAT December t, MO\nliCFEDMK'\ntobllBhcd every Friday morning by Tie B. 0.\nFederationiBt, Limited\nA. a WELLS Manager\nOffloe: Room 1, Victoria Block, 342 Fender\nStreet West\nTolephono Seymour 5871\nBubscribtion Ratos: United States and Foroign,\n*3.00 por year; Canada, $2.50 per year, J1.50\nfor six months; to Unions subscribing in a\nbody, 16c per member per month.\nUnity of Labor: The Hope of the World\n..December 8, 1920\nTD RITISH COLUMBIA, aaid Vancouver\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*-\"^ particularly, has for a long time bcen\nlooked upon as the reddest territory in\nthe Dominion. After the provincial elections, one can only wonder where thc\nreds were; in fact it\nTHE LESSON would be difficult to lo-\nFEOM THE cate the pale pinks. Van-\nELECTIONS . couver, with an industrial population, has\nvoted Liberal. It is true that a fair-\nsized vote was cast for the candidates of\nthe Federated Labor party, but that signifies nothing, for not one of them, were\nelected, and the Socialist party candidates did not do As well as in formerelcc-\ntions, wh6n the women's vote is considered. Taken in all, the election has proven without doubt that the tactics of the\nworking class political movement in this\nprovince are a failure: It may b\u00C2\u00BB said\nthat tlie Reds did not vote because they\ndid not havo a chance, but that argument\nwill not stand investigation, In Vancouver they had every chanee, and if a man\nis so red that he will not vote if only to\nmerely register his protest against the\nsystem, then he is suffering from some\ncomplaint that closely affects his reasoning power.\n* * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe troublo with the working class\nmovement in this province, is that it haB\nbecome fatalistic' Taking the position\nthat the conditions that prevail will bring\nthose things that the working class are\naiming for,, the members of the working\nclass, who should know better, think\nthat there is no necessity for any active\npropaganda work. With the exception\nof Vancouver, very little propaganda\nwork is carried on in the province, due to\nthis fatalistic attitude, and even in Vancouver the propaganda is confined to\nSunday evenings, or a little spurt in the\ntime of an election., While it is yet too\nearly to state whether George Casey has\nbcen elected or not in Atlin, yet we can\ncount on at least three working class\nrepresentatives in thc provincial house.\nOn their shoulders falls a responsibility,\nand it is a big one. They must realize\nthat their first duty to the working\nclass ii to fit themselves to carry on work-\nfag class propaganda on the lines of the\nSocialist philosophy. The class struggle\nil becoming keener every day, men who\ndo not understand the trend of modern\nevents cannot act in the interests of the\nworking class, and only study wBl fit\njay man to carry 6if the working class\npropaganda, therefore the first duty of\nthe elected representatives of the workers il to fit themselves for the work beforo them. The next step is to see that\nthe knowledge they have is freely spread\namongst the worken, ahd this cannot be\ndone in the provincial legislature; the\nwork of the new labor members lic3 in\nthe districts of the province wherever\nworkers congregate, and if we 'Can presume to offer them any advice, we would\nsay, carry the word to the workers, by\nthat method you can accomplish more\nthan ever could be done by any other\nmethod. We look for action from' now\non on the part of the militant working\n' \"class movement, so that in the trying days\nto come, the workers will be prepared to'\nact intelligently. Propaganda should be\nthe slogan of the Socialist from this time\nuntil the world is freed from capitalistic\nexploitation. The elections have at least\ngiven a lesson the workers should learn.\nLORD LEVERHULMB, who the press\nhas described as the \"prince of business optimists,\" has spoken. His optimistic outlook at this time, when unemployment is staring large numbers of\nthe workers in tho face,\nA' QUESTION will no doubt be greatly\nOF STATES. - appreciated. No doubt\nOF HIND a jobless and hungry\nslave will get a large\namount of satisfaction, out of this optimistic gentleman's statement, to the\neffect that unemployment is not a necessary condition in industrial or economic\nlife, but is tho result of a state of mind\nof the people. Naturally the state of mind\nthat the slave has at the time when he\nis looking for a job, and is suro there is\nno such animal, will be such as to allow\nhim to live on the optimistic words of one\nof the greatest captainB of industry that\nthe modern world has produced. His optimism will no doubt fill the aching void\nthat lies somewhore in the region of the\nlast kitton on the vest, that is if the\nBlave has such a garment, otherwise it\nwill rest somewhere in the region of the\ntop button of his overalls. In any case\nwe can imagine the hungry slave starting\n. out on a campaign to bring about a change\nin the \"state qf mind of the people,\" and\nnaturally, as the only people that can give\nhim work, the only thing by which he can\nsecure the eats, are members of thc employing class, he will start to chango the\nstate of mind of that section of the community. Wc may be pessimistic, but we\nhave an idea that thc changing of the\nstale of mind of those peoplo will be somo\njob, and can only be accomplished by the\ncreating of certain economic conditions,\nthat even the ruling clnss, or any member\nOf it, no matter how much optimism he\nmay have, cannot create or change, those\nconditions being the result, of tho produc\ntivity of the very slaves that are jobless\nand hungry.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 .\nProduction under capitalism is carried\non for profit. It is never carried on for\nthe purpose of supplying the people with\nthe necessities of life. ThiB is not a state\nof mind, but an actual fact. The productivity of the slaves is so great with the\nmodern methods of production that they\ncan in a very short time produce more\nthan thc mai'ket can stand, not more than\nthe needs of thc people, but more than the\nworld's market can assimilate. Thc result is the market becomes overstocked,\nand there is a general cessation of production. In other words slaves are\nstopped from producing the very things\nthat they neod. This is, however, none of\ntheir business, as they are only allowed\nto produce things for their masters.\nHaving nothing but their labor power to\nsell, the slaves sell their only commodity\nto an employing class, the products of\ntheir toil consequently becomes the property of the employing class. And if that\nis so, then the workers have no kick com-,\ning when the master class determines that\nthe necessity for production has ceased\nto exist, and the factories are closed. That\nis the business of the master class, con-\nequently the state of mind that determines the question of unemployment for\nthe slaves is brought about by the very\nfact that slaves have produced more than\nsufficient to supply their masters' needs,\nand it naturally followa that the state\nof mind does not exist, as suggested by\nthe soap king, in the minds of the people\ngenerally, but only in the minds of the\nmembers of one class in society. If the\nstate of mind of the workers, who are the\ngreater in numbers, was a deciding point,\nthen the factories would not close, as\ntheir state of mind is such that their\nstrongest desire is to have a job. In\nfact, it is not a state of mind that causes\nthe cessation of production; it is a state\nof market. The market is glutted with\nthe things that the people need. They\ncannot, however, get them, as they do\nnot own, them. The commodities the\nslaves have produced belong to their masters, who take very good care that those\nthat produce them do not get them. They\narc guarded under lock and key and by\nall the forces of the state. They are part\nof ruling class property. They are\nsacred. Millions may die for the lack of\nnecessities, but the property rights of the\nruling class must be safeguarded, although the heavens fall. Is not property\nthe very basis of capitalism? And is not\ncapitalism the source of ruling class profits'? But we can conceive of a state of\nmind being created by the present system. In fact, that state of mind is slowly\nbut surely becoming predominant in working class ranks. It is a state of mind that\nrevolts at being compelled to starve to\ndeath in the midst of plenty, and while\nthe captains of industry fear this state\nof mind, yet the fact remains that the\nsame conditions \"that compel the employing class to close the factories will compel the working elass to realize that there\nis no hope for the workers until the property rights of a ruling class in the means\nof wealth production are replaced by the\nco-operative commonwealth and the\nworking class ownership of the means of\nwealth production and consequently the\nwealth which those that operate that machinery produce. This state of mind will\nsolve the question of overproduction and\nunder consumption, and Lord Lever-\nhulme's state of mind also, or at least his\npeace of mind, as in that day he may have\nto work, something which today he considers very good for the workers, but a\nbad thing for the class to which he belongs. In the meantime the state of the\nmarket determines that production shall\ncease, and not be increased, as thc ruling\nclass press and politicians have been crying for, and the workers will be compelled\nto suffer unemployment and the consequent shortage of necessities which that\nentails.\nTHE meeting of the International Federation of Trades Unions in London,\nEngland, has been illuminating. It has\ndemonstrated that the split between the\nleft and right wings\nHALFORD of the working class\nAND SAVING movement has enter-\nTHE WORKER' ed into every working\nclass organization in\nthe capitalistic world, aud that the slogan of the working class will in the near\nfuture bc \"Iho world for Ibo workers.\"\nIt has also demonstrated that the representative of the Dominion Trades Congress has lived up to the reactionary\ntraditions of that organization. We cannot say that we havo much sympathy\nwith many of the ideas of the different\ndelegates attending the International\nFederation of Trades Unions now in session, bnt we have a fellow feeling for\nthose who have been compelled to listen\nto the utterances of the Canadian Trades\nCongress representative in thc person of\nHalford of Hamilton, who is a barber\nand would be better employed\" in shaving,\ninstead of saving the working class.\n* * #\nHalfotjTs tender solicitude for the\nsafety of the raw materials of tliis country is almost touching. In fact' it is\ntouching the policy of the Dominion government, but the gross ignorance displayed by the Canadian representative of\nworking class conditions or position is\nalmost monumental. Standing alone he\nopposed the following resolution: -\n1. That the capitalistic system of society is a hindrance of the efficient distribution of raw materials.\n2. That it is the constant duty of organize* labor to work for the disolution\nof the present day society.\n3. That it is the solemn duty of mankind to ensure equal distribution of all\navailablo raw materials, and\n4. That the international labor office\nof the League of Nations should appoint\na committee to ensure this fair distribution among the different countries ac\ncording to their prosent and future requirements, s'j\nOf course, the above resolution qrjparts\nof it could be well opposed or it least\nanalyze it from a working class |view>\npoint, but Halford's position was;(yearly\nplaced when he pointed out: j\nThe congress of Canada existed as\na legislative body concerned j only\nwith the industrial welfare of toj 4on-\nstituents. On the other hand the International Federation of Ti-ades\nUnions appeared to him to be a\nfrankly revolutionary organization,\nwhich was attempting to achieve po-\nliticaraims altogether at variance\nwith the Canadian viewpoint.\nHe had persued carefully various\nresolutions to be brought before the\ncongress and was dismayed to find\nthat eaeh contained somo distinctly\nrevolutionary principle to which he\ncould not commit the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. He felt he\nmust vote against them all.\nWhile Halford may have been voicing\ntho view of the executive of the Dominion Trades Congress, which is merely an\nadjunct to the Unionist government, he\nwas not voicing the views of even the\ntrades unionists' of this country. A reactionary ol the reactionaries, his antics\nmust have been as good as a vaudeville\nshow to the Italian and even the British\ndelegates of the J. H. Thomas type. Nat\nurally the Canadian press has given Halford lots of apace. He never waa so\nwidely quoted before, and possibly the\npr/iiso of his masters will recompense him\nfor Wb efforts to save the working elass\nof this country from revolutionary tactics, but we. would like to suggest to\nthe .Canadian trades unionists, and' particularly to the members of the Barbers'\nUnion, that the best days' work thoy\ncould do would be to see that Mr. Halford\nwas interred in a barber shop where he\nno doubt could converse and propagate\nhis reactionary ideas without in any way\nreflecting on the intelligence of the workers of this country.\nDealing with the very apparent busi\nness slump, the Vancouver Sun states\nthat it has boen put down to overproduction. It then has the following to say:\nWhat is \"overproduction?\" Does\nit mean that everybody in the country has all he or she wants to mak^ a\ncomfortable life? Does it mean that\nCanadians have have \"too much\"|ef\nthc things that go to make life livable\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094food, clothes, houses, amusements?\nNot at sll. The country is a millron\nhouses short of enough roofs to keep\nits people comfortably housed. /BiqA-i\nsands of men, women and children,\nif official reports are to be believ^,\nare living below the level of a decejnt\nand comfortable existence\u00E2\u0080\u0094artf1,:iiln-\nder fed, underclothed. \u00E2\u0080\u009E',;!\nOverproduction in any real sense\ndoes not exist. What does exist -ttt inability to market goods at a profit;\ninability to sell back to the men and\nwomen producers of the country the\ngoods they have produced. There is\nsomething wrong with the industrial\nmachinery wheri. all the people cannot get sufficently fed, clothed and\nhoused.\nWhen will the world find a solution 'of this perpetually recurring\nproblem?\nWe quite agree that something is radically wrong with the system which creates\nsuch a condition as the Sun points out,\nand for the information of the writer of\nthc editorial, we beg to state that the solution for such conditions will be found\nwhen the working class understands the\nsystem that compels thc workers to starve\nbecause they have produced loo much,\nnot for themselves, but for ajnaster class\nthat is parasitic, and never created anything but trouble and misery for the\nworking class, and which master class the\nSun represents.\nThe hospital authorities are faced with\n\"having to curtail the service owing to\nlack of funds-. It has )>een stated that\nthere is not sufficient room for the taking\ncare of expectant mothers. In Soviet\nRussia women and children come first,\nand yet we are told that the Bolsheviki\nare a barbarious bunch.\nThe city school board has fired some\nof its officials and there is much talk\ntalk about British Fair Play. Thousands\nof workers havfe been laid off in the Province recently. We suppose they got all\nthe British Fair Play that was coming to\nthem.\nWORKING Men and women\nThe election ls over. The pale\nspeotre ot the publlo platform, according to Immemorial custom\n| has mined, mowed and gesticulated their vote catching plausibilities. And now, we of the working\nclaas, ln the raw chin of the\n\"morning after,\" are out ln the\nstreet again, with the old problems\nas thick a* ever upon us. Nothing\naltered. And even while we\ncheered the spectre and the plausibilities at the back of our heads,\nwe knew that no solution to our\nproblems could come from that\nquarter, lflvon while we obeyed\nthe sheep-Itke habit of conformity\nto reiterated suggestion and old\nuse and wont, we dimly realized\nthat we were being shepherded.\nIn the \"mor'nlng after\" we are\nconscious again thut, while politi\nclans come and go throughout tho\nyears, to have worked hard, to\nhave lived poor and gained nothing, to have died slowly all our\nlife long, Is the common experience of our class. Touching these\nIntimate experiences of our lives,\nthe harsh realities ot the grim\nstruggle for the primal necessities\not life to men, women and children of the working class, the politicians.have nothing to say. On\nconditions ef work, of wages, of\nunemployment, the miseries of insecurity, of bare, demoralizing poverty, they are afraid to speak. \"Let\nsleeping dogs He.\"\nHere are some statistics covering 1912 to HM, on thd conditions of the workers tn the United\nStates, where they boast of the\n\"American standard of living.\"\nCost of living studies for that period are unanimous in naming $800\nas absolutely necessary for the ad-\neqdate minimum of subsistence\nfor an American labor class family. To quol,\u00C2\u00BB the authoritative re\nsearch of \"Warren and Sydenstrlck-\ner, of the Federal Publlo Health\nService, \"In the principal industries, fully one-fourth of the adult\nmade workers who are heads of\nfamilies, earned less than 1400,\none-half earned less than $600,\nfour-fifths earned less 'than $800,\nand less than one-tenth eiirh as\nmuch as $1000 a year. Approximately one-fourth of the women\nworkers 18 years of ago, and over-\nemployed In the principal manufacturing Industries, earned less\nthan $200 a year, and two-thirds\nless than $400.\" In reference to\ntho even more vital statistics of\ntotal family Income, these two Investigators say, \"the conclusion \"Is\nalso. Indicated that one in every\nten or twelve working class families had at the time of the investigation an annual income of less\nthan $300 a year; that nearly a\nthird had less than $500, and over\none-half of the families had incomes of less than $750 a year.\"\nIn case any one may think there\nlias been improvement since, in the\nprosperous (sic) war* yoar of 1916,\nan investigation, tn a brief before\nthe supreme court in tho minimum\nwage case (1916) alleged that half\nof the wage-earners' families In the\nUnited States have an Income below that needed for subsisteance.\nIt Is reasonable to argue that\nworking class parents suffer ln the\nconventional way in the death of\ntheir children. The Federal Children's Bureaa, reports \"for all live'\nbabies born In wedlock the Infant\nmortality rate ls 130 7-10 In a thousand; it rises to 255 7-10 when the\nfather earns less than $521 a year,\nor' less than $10 a week, and falls\nto 84 when he earns $1200 or more.\n'Men and women, when you vote\nfor capitalism, you vote that the\nUvea of the children of the poor\nbe coined Into profits!\" Dr. De-\nvine, another investigator, says\nthat unemployment heads the list\nof the causes of American destitution. Tho American coal miner\nmust expect unemployment one-\nfourth to one-third of his time.\nIn 1908, the unemployment ln all\ntrades was'35.7 per cent. Statistics point to nearly a 20 per cent,\nloss for all , industrial workers\nthrough unemployment during this\nperiod. The above statistics are\ntaken trom the Casual Laborer, by\nCarloton Parker, \" published by\nHarcourt, Brace A Howe. Now\nTorlc.\nThs conditions of life of the\nworking class are not to be removed by voting for bankers, brokers,\nlawyers, colonels and captains, or\n__\nVice is stopping commerce in San Francisco, so the vice district is to be Swept\naway. The area affected covers fortt'eity\nblocks. No steps, however, has becij 'taken to clean up this district before^ but\n\"business\" demands it now. How ifo do\nprogress.\nOne voter stated that he voted Ijtjirce\nLabor and three Liberal, and eonsi^red\nthat he had done well. He was a) Wise\nguy. Possibly he will be able to gftthe\nwhole way some day; no one oouldllow-\never, claim that he was a whole hogfi^r.\nThe voter that voted for BowsefyjJoe\nMartin, M. A.. MacDonald, J. Harrington,\nMrs. Ralph Smith and 3. S. WoodsWorth\ndisplayed such a depth of intelligence\nthat it has us staggered. The depth of it\nmust be at least a foot.\nNow that it is all over, and the ins are\nstill in, and the slavos are still slaves, that\nelusive job will be the next thing that will\nget the jobless workers excited.\nSam Guthrie's election in Newcastle\nis a sjgn that the workers cannot be fooled all the time. Sam has a chance to\nmake good, and we think he Will.\nIt is quite evident from the way the\nworkers voted that they still hug their\nchains. ,\n\"King's Daughter*.\" Study the\neconomics of capitalism, and you\nwill flnd out that they are the Inevitable outcome of the dominion\nof capital ln social life.\nSome time the working class\nItself will be forced to take\nIn hand their removal by removing the cause,. Men and women\nare needed who' understand and\ncan explain the working class problem to their fellow workers, wherever they meet them.\nYou are asked to attend the educational classes of the Socialist\nParty of Canada,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Local Vancouver No. 1, Pender\natreet east.\nEconomlo class on Sundays, 3\np.m. ' k\nHistory class on Thursdays, 8\np.m. - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nA beginners economic class will\nmeet for the flrst time on Sunday,\nDec. t, at 3 p.m.. See ad. ln The\nFederatlonist. Do not miss this\nopportunity.\nCHARGED WITH\nBOLSHEVIST INTRIGUE\nThirty-Nino Bessamblan Socialists\nThrown Into Jail and Badly\nAbused .\n(By the Federated rese)\nBerlin.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Reports received by Dl*\nRote Fahne, the organ ot the Communist party from Czorhowltz tell\nof the criminal prosecution In Jas-\nsy, Rumania, ot thirty-nine Bessa-\nrablan Socialists charged with \"Bolshevist intrigues.\" The prisoners\nare said, on the oaths ot several\nBesaarablan members of the Cham.\nJ>er of Deputies, to suffer frightful\nabuse by their jailers.\nWhen their wives attempted to\nvisit them In ,prlson the women\nwere assaulted by the guards. Several of the Socialists have died\ntrom hardship and others art on\nthe point ot death,\ni% Btott of % (Eljnatmaa &p\v\t\nPlatinum and\nDiamond Jewelry\nfor Christmas\nWe are constantly engaged on special\ndesigns of Platinum and Diamond\nJewellery for customers who want\nsomething out of the ordinary.\nWe make any design from your or\nonr own suggestions.\nSketches and estimates cheerfully furnished.\nW\u00C2\u00AB SdTiH \t\nMtdlng ipacUl jtw*\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2lry picoti m\u00C2\u00BBds tty\nfor Obrlitmu Gifts\nto in iw ibont it\nnow \u00E2\u0080\u0094 before tht\nactual Ghrlstmti\nnib beg ini.\nQJlLWrn\nThe House of Diamonds\n.18(1.(80 Granville Street\nAt Oorner Fender\nRUSSIAN INVENTOR\nBEATS WORID RECORD\nElectrio Train Rnns Twelve Hours\nWithout Recharging\nMoscow.\u00E2\u0080\u0094An electrio train invented by the Russian engineer\nMakhonln has beaten the world's\nrecord for distance.- It covered the\n150 versts from Petrograd to Moscow in about twelve hours without\nrecharging.\nThe flrst Russian vessel of re-ln\nforced concrete was recently\nlaunched at Samara. Concrete vessels will gradually replace the\nwooden barges of the Volga fleet.\nEMPRESS\nnana Seymour Mil\nNEXT WEEK\n'Salome Jane'\nCOMEDT\nFeaturing EDYTH'ELLIOTT\nPANTAGES\nNeit Weak\nRIGOM3TO BROTHERS\nAH llu Swanson Slaters, la\n\"ABOUND IBB WORLD\"\nOthw Big Pastures\nLabor and Socialist\nLiterature\n' IX ALL LANGUAGES\ncan be obtained at\nTHE INTERNATIONAL\nBOOK SHOP\nComer Hastings and Columbia\nMall Orders Promptly\nECONOMIC AND\nHISTORY CLASSES\n. S. V. OF 0, 401 PENDER ST. E.\nEconomic class every Sunday afternoon, commencing at\n3 o'clock,\nHistory class every Thuraday evening, commencing at\n8 o'clock.\nAn Elementary Economic Class for heginners will commence the first Sunday in Decembor (thc 5th), at 3 p.m.\nThese classes are of paramount,interest and necessity to\nthe working class, and aro conducted and assisted by\nthoroughly competent instructors.\nALL WELCOME NO CHARGES\nSome Snaps\nStanfield's Blaek Label lien's Work Hats ......$2,00\nUnderwear, garment ?4.M \u00E2\u0080\u009E , \u00E2\u0080\u009E, fllu\nMen's Gloves - - 6S0\nMen's Overalls, pair....$2.00 \u00E2\u0080\u009E , - _ _.\n__'a Work Shoes, per\nRibbed Underwear, per psir' *460\ngarment ?1.25 Mjn,. piM ghoM) pep\npair -.../. $4.00\nHeavy Ribbed Sox, 3 pairs\nfor .....$1.00 Men's High Top Boots, per\npair $5.76\nKhaki Shirts ... $1.00\nLeckie's Boots for Men and\nMen's Sweater Coats..$6.00 Boys.\nw. b. brummitt\n444 MAIN ST.\u00E2\u0080\u009418 and 20 OORDOVA ST. W.\nDENTAL PLATES\nExcellent quality, perfect\nfitting, correct articulation, pleasing appearance,\nskilled attention, features\not dentistry at\nDr. Gordon Campbell\nDental Art Parlors\nS05 Granville Streot\nOpen openings between 8 and ft\no'clock,\nOor. BobioQ. Onr Owl Drag Ston\n Phone Stymour 6258\nStanley Steam\nTaxi Co.\nHENRY DAHL, Prop.\n(Old time Lumberjack)\nPrompt Service\nFine Cars\n334 Abbott St. Vaneoaver\nPhone Sey. 8877-8878\nOur Selling System\nQuality in Fabrics\nStyle Correct\nPrice the lowest possible consistent with\nvalue.\nTwo Stores\nSociety Brand\nClothes\nRogers Building\nFit-Reform\nClothing\n345 Hastings Street\nBurberry Coats v\nat both stores\nJ. W. Foster\nORPHEUR/I\ntheatreIiI\nTHE HOME OF OOOD\nVAUDEVILLE\nMatins* 2:80\nEvenings 8:20\nRing op Phone Seymoar HM\nfor appointment\nDr. W. J. Curry\nDENTIST\nSuite SOI Dominion Building\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nGet the\nLove Habit!\nBuy FURNITURE, STOVES,\nBEDS, Etc., at coat Our stock\nle Bin ,and lo ar* our Bar- '.\ngalni. Watoh our Auction\nSnaps. Furniture Btught and\nSold. I\nLove & Co.\nAUCTKWEKRS\u00E2\u0080\u0094 DEALERS\nPhons Seymour 3745\n570 SEYMOUR MREET\nUNION MAN!\nIn that dark hour when sympa-\nthy and beat aervice count n\nmuch\u00E2\u0080\u0094call up\nMOUNT PLEASANT\nUNDERTAKING CO.\n2SS KINGSWAY, VANCOUVER\nPhona Falnnont 68\nPrompt Ambulance Service\nOffice Hoan: io to 13 a.m., 3 to 6\np.m. Evenings: 7 to 8 p.m. Hon-\ndsy, Wednesday tad Friday.\nPheae Sey. M76.\nDr. Willard Coatea\nChiropractor ead Drugleaa Fhyilolaa\n(Successor to Dr. John Ony)\n30-81-33 P. Burnt Bldf., II HSsUais\nSt., W., Vucouver, B, 0*\n(Between Pantagee Theatre ud B. ti.\nE. B. Btaiioaj\nPhone Sey. itt Day or Night\nNUNN AND THOMSON\nFUNERAL DIRECTORS\n531 Homer St, Vancouver, B. C\nFIRST CHURCH OP\nCHRIST SCIENTIST\n1180 Oeorgia SUM\nSunday aenrleea, 11 a.m. ud 7.80 \u00C2\u00BBja.\nSnndar achool Immediately follawbf\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0unlit serrloe. Wedneaday leaf-\nfSS\u00E2\u0080\u0094i \u00E2\u0080\u009E*, JT*\u00E2\u0080\u0094.1\u00E2\u0080\u0094 w\u00C2\u00AB*lat\njOI-008 Blrte Bldi,\nHARRON BROS.\nFuneral Directors\nand Embalmers\nFunerals of Dignity al Fair\nPrlcea\nFalrvlew: Office and Chapal,\n2398 Oranvllle Street.\nPhone Bay S200.\nNorth Vancouver: Office and\nChapel, 132 Sixth St, W.\nPhone N. V. 134.\nMount Pleasant: Office aa\nChapel, 2123 Main St\nPhone Fairmont 88.\nC. HOLDEN CIGAR STANI\nIS Haatinga St. fl.\nO. B. V. (USD\nPatronlia Thoae Who Fatronlaa Teal\nWHTWJOUET\nadbfartSSoos\nOENTBAL'S EFFOBTS\nAPPBEOIATBD\nThe telephone business ta now feel\nIng the effect of tho stoppage of te\ndustry during the war. Equipment I\nbeen bard to get, with the result tl\nall orer the country applications\ntelephones cannot ba filled. Za Bt\nIsh Columbia, however, there la pn\ntlcally no waiting Hat. Tha girl a\nCentral la doing her very haat to hai]\nout in a difficult situation, and tha\nher efforts are appreciated ls ehoi\nby tha thoughtful conslderatloi\nwhich la being accorded hor,\nBBITISH COLUMIBA TELEFBOE1\n. OOMPAHY ***\nM.F. EBY.BJL.M.E.\nEXPBBI PETBIOTHEBAPISf\nSwedish Ifaasage, Radiant Haat ui\nElectrical Treatments ef all Midi,\nPhoae lar I770L. Boon s te S uel\nBvtalaia,\n1)1 BBOADWAT WEST (Oer. Oik)\nTake Belt Uae Oar\nDoa't Be a Drudge!\nLa Salle Extension Cnlvi\n(Home Study) offer* you\nchance you need for compl\ntraining In Traffic Management,\nHigher Accountancy, Salesmanship and other Special coursei\nthat mean Highor Salaries.\nEither soi. Any age. Convent\nent terms. Write or call for\norature. District offlce!\n701 STANDARD BANK BLDO\nPhone Sey. 1750 FRIDAY. December 8, 1980\nTWELFTH YEAR. NO. 41\nTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDKRATlUNiST\nVANCOUVER, B, C.\npagbhv*\nSLATER'S\nSPECIALS\nFREET DELIVERY\nPROVISION DEPARTMENT\nSlater's Sliced Streaky Bacon, lb...46o\nSlater'a Sliced Streak; Bacon, Ib...60c\nSlater's Sliced'Streaky Bacon, lb...5flc\nSlater's Sliced Ayrshire Bacon, lb...45c\nLABD LABD LABD *\nOn Friday and Saturday wa will\nsell Burns' White Carnation\n' Compound Lard, regular 25c per\nlb. Friday and Saturday, S\nlb*, tat _ .Ota\nBUTTER BUTTEB BUTTEB\nOn 'Saturday morning we will sell our\nFamous Alberta Creamery Butter,\nregftlnr 60c lb. Speolal Saturday\nmorning fron 8 to 10, lb. \u00E2\u0080\u0094...59c\nBAOON BAOON BACON\nSlater's famous Streaky Bucon,\nhalf or whole slab; regular 64o\nper lb. Friday and Saturday\nspecial, lb. -.440\nTMs Ik. great value.\nPEAUBALBS BAOK. BAOON, NIOB\nAND LEAN\nOn Friday and Saturday we will sell\nour finest Peamealedi Baek Bason,\nregular 65o lb. Friday and Satur*\nday special, lb 531-20\nBall or whole slab.\n tidftfllAte)\t\nOn Friday and Saturday yoa can\nbuy* onr Famous Pienio Hams,-\nregular SSo lb. Special for, per\nlb 30 l-2c\nB. 0. Fresh Eggs, dos. ..................90c\nAlberta Fresh Eggs, doi. _..\u00E2\u0080\u009E.......78o\nNuco Oleomargarine, 2 lbs 780\nFinest Roast Best Dripping, lb. ...-200\nFBBSH MBAT DEPABTMENT\nOn Friday and Saturday wa will\nagain sell onr Famous Pork\nShoulders, weighing from A to 6\nlba, regular 38 o lb. Friday and\nSaturday, lb. ...\u00C2\u00BB 31 l-2c\nThe abore are all .'rrsh killed and\ngovernment inspected.\nNOTICE\nIt will pay yon to look around' our\nFresh Meat Department on Saturday. We are going to aell Pot\nRoasts from, por lb. ..........._.....16c\nOvon Roasts from, lb IBo\nBoiling Beef from, lb. ISo\nUAL LOOAL LAMB\nLoeal Lamb Stew, lb -20c\nLocal Lamb Shoulders, lb, ..20 l-2o\nLocal Lamb Loins, lb - 34o\nLoftal Lamb Legs, lb 33o\nLI3TBN\nWe ara going to sell onr Famous\nPrima Rib Boneless Rolled Roasts\noa Saturday, regular SSe lb. Spa*\netal a, - 28 1-flt\nW* advlsa you ta gits our Meat Department a looV-over.\nFinest fltew Beof, boneless^ lb. 20e\nFinest Stew Beefc bona in, lb. 18o\nFinest Round Steak, lb _...36s\nFlneet T-Bcme Steak. Ib. 8tfl\nFines* Shoulder Steak, lb 22o\nFinest Sirloin Steak, lb aw\nBZTBA SPBOIAL\nFrom 12 o'clock on Frfday until aold\nout, we will hava on finlfr 300' roasts\nof Pork, all small middle cut, from\n2 to 8 lbs. eaeh, regular 42o lb.\nSpecial while tbey last, lb. ..871-flo\nOBOOBBT SPECIALS\nNot-a-Seed Raisins, la bulk, 2 lba.\nfar \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00C2\u00AB8\u00C2\u00AB\nNot-a-Seed Baisins, ia packets, 2\nfor \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB\nFinest Seeded Raisins, in packets,\n2 for tte\nNabob Finest Tea, 2 lbs. -....$1.06\nFinest Lemon Feel, lb. .-,. 460\nFinest Highland Spuds. 100-lb.\nsacks for $2.28\n3 BIG STORES\n123 Hasting. Si B. Pkoae Ssy. SMI\nno Oranvllls St. Pious Ser. Ml\n3280 Kala St Phona Pair. 1188\nWE TEACH YOU\nTO DANCE '\nPender Hall\nPrivate or Clau Afternoon\nEvenings\nCorner no WE and 1'K.NUEll\nSoy. SSI\nWINTER CLASSES\nDAY AND EVENING\nA targe, Efllulcnt, and Enpert\nStall gives Instruction In tha\nfollowing brandies:\nPractical Assaying, Prospecting, and Survoylng.\nAnyone Interested la mining will\nAnd these classes of undoubted\nadvantage In deciding the relative\nvalues of thalr prospect, oa the\nground^.\nTHIS IS A PBA0T10AI OOUBSI\nPor particulars, writs tt pittas to\nths Principal, T. 1. BAIH.\nR C School of\nPharmacy & Science\n015 Pender Street Weft\nVancouvaf, D, 0.\nPhone Sey. itio\nI CLELAND.DIBBLE ENQRAV-\nDTO COMPANY\nUnits*\nPHOTO nOBAVUf\nOOMOMUL ASTISTI\nPhoae Ssiaaat TIN\nThirl Plssr, World Balldtofc Vaa-\naonvsr, B. 0.\nIn Praise of Lenin\n(By Maxim Gorky)\nVLADIMIR ILYITCH I*HNIN\nappears to me a source 'of\nenergy bo powerful that without hla dynamic Influence the Russian revolution oould not have\ntaken the form lt actually has\ntaken. I aay this in spite of my\nbelief ln, a theory of human history which assigns to the Individual\nan insignificant role ln the great,\nprocess of cultural development.\n>To Lenin's will, hiBtory has given\nthe terrible task of digging up from\nthe bottom this desultory, misbu.lt,\nslothful semi-human ant-hill whioh\nwe call Russia. But to melt seems\nthat the significance of Lejitn as\nthe Initiator of social change In\nRussia ls of less moment than his\nimportance aa a world-revolutionary. The terrific energy of his will,\nthe impact of whloh is remoulding\nRussia, goes farther; lt ls a tireless\nbattering ram under whose blows\nthe monumental architecture of the\ncapitalist states ot the West, and\nthe ancient piles of those execrable\ndespotic empires of the Eait, are\nalready staggering to their downfall.\nI think sow, as- X thought two\nyears ago, when I opposed Lenin,\nthat to htm Russia ls only the first\nmaterial to hand ln ft gigantic ao-\nclal experiment conceived oa a\nplanetary scale. In the faoe of\nthis- Idea Z waa overwhelmed by a\nsentiment of pity for the Russian\npeople, the victims aB it seemed to\nme of this experiment, and I was\nIndignant against the experimenter.\nBut since then, observing the\n: course of events ln th* Russian\nrevolution, seeing its/ revolutionary\neffects broaden and deepen, I hare\nrealized that lt ls actually awaken-\nIng and organizing more and more\neffectively such forces as are really capable of destroying the foundations of capitajfsm. I now feel that\nlf Russia la destined to serve as an\nobjeot of social experiment, lt\nwould be wrong to blame the man\nwhose endeavor it Ib to hasten the\ni progress of this social experiment\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 by transforming the potential\nenergy of the working masses of\nRussia Into effective, kinetic\nenergy.\nI have no hesitation In writing a\ndiscourse ln defense or justification\nof Lenin. That Is not necessary\neither to htm or to me* But I\nknow him a little. Mistakes\u00E2\u0080\u0094if it\nis necessary to speak of them\u00E2\u0080\u0094are\nnot crimes. The mistakes of Lenin\nare the mistakes of an honest man,\nand the world has yet to see an Infallible reformer. But those who\noppose and condemn Lenin, the\nLloyd Georges and the Clemenceaua\nand their followers, are infallible\nln, their own role of criminals and\nassassins; they aro condemning a\nwhole people to the torments of\nhunger and cold, by supporting the\ncontinuation of an insane civil war.\nYes, Insane\u00E2\u0080\u0094for aside from the\nBolsheviks there are no parties In\nRussia able to take the powers of\ngovernment Into their own hands,\nable to awaken the forces of the\nexhausted country, able to call out\nand use the energy Indispensable\nfor productive labor.\nIn considering Lenin I put aside\nmy personal affection for the man\nand consider him as a human being\nunder my observation, a phenomenon Interesting to me as a writer\n, describing tha life of my own. coun.\ntry. x\nI see him making a speech at a\nmooting of workers. He uses extremely simple terms; he speaks\nwith a tongue of iron, with the\nlogic of an ax; but in his rude\nwords I havo never heard any vulgar demagoglsm, nor any banal\nseeking after the beautiful phrase.\nHe nlwnys speaks of the same\ntiling; of the necessity of destroying to the root the social lnequali\nties of men, and the means of ao\ncomptlshlng the task. This ancient\ntruth resounds upon Mb lips with a\nsound harsh, Implacable; ono feels\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 always that' he belloves unshakably\nIn it; ono feels how calm la his\nfaith\u00E2\u0080\u0094the faith of a fanatic, but\nof a fanatic-sulenlist, and not of a\nmetaphysician or a mystic,\nTt sooma to me that what ls individual intorests him hardly at all;\nho thinks only of parties, of\nmasses, of states. And ln dealing\nwith those he has the gift of foresight, the intuitive genius of the\nexperiment-thin ker. He possesses\nthat happy clarity of thought\nwhioh Is attained only by means\nof intensive and constant Intellectual labor.\nA Fi-unchinun asked me one day;\n\"Do you not find that Lenin Is a\nthinking guillotine?\"\nFor my part, I would compnre\nthe work of his thought to the\nblows of a hummer endowed with\nvlHion, shattering and destroying\npreclsoly those things which for so\nlong hnvo needed to be destroyed.\nTo the petty bourgeois of all\ncountries, Lenin must naturally appear as an Atllla come to destroy\nthe Rome of their prosperity and\ncomfort. Their comfort, founded\nns It la on slnvory, blood and pillage, Is Indeed In danger. But just\nas ancient as Romo deserved to\nfall, so the crimes of the contemporary regime Justify the necessity\nof Us destruction. It ls a historic\nnecessity; no thing and no person\nTIIE ,ONLY UNION AIADK\nGLOVE IN 11. 0.\nWholesale\u00E2\u0080\u0094Retail\nBest Quality\u00E2\u0080\u0094Right Prices\nVANCOUVER GLOVE CO.\n223 Carrall Street.\nSey. 1250\t\nTo the Electors:--\nI wish to expreii my\nthankg to the citizens of\nVaneoaver for the support\n' Mfiordcd me in Wednesday's election. At one of\nyour representatives at\nVietoria, I will spare no\neffort to merit the confidence reposed In me, It\nwill be my purpose to assist in scouring sane\nand progressive legislation, that all sections of\nthe community may\nbenefit.\nJames Ramsay\ncan evade It We hear from high\nplaces the plea of the value of\nEuropean oulture and the necessity\nof defending it against the Invasion\nof the New Run. Buch sentiments\nwhen uttered by a revolutionary\nhave sincerity and value. But upon\ntho Ups of the organisers and accomplices of the shameful massacre\nof 1914-1918 they are heartless\nhypocrisy.\nAs for the development of culture, lf we understand this ta mean\nthe progressive development of art,\nof science, of technique, and of the\nImmunization of the.beings who are\ncontemporary with this development, suoh a process cannot be retarded hy the new fact that not\nonly tens of thousands of Individuals, but vast masses of many millions will take an active part in the\ncultural task,\nSometimes that audacity of\nImagination necessary fa a man of\nletters puts before me thta ques-\ntlon: \"How does Lenin, visualize\nthe new world?'* And before me\nthere unrolls the splendid picture\nof the earth becoming a glgantlo\nJewel, faceted with beautiful evidence of the labor of a free human-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ity. In Chi* new world alt men are\nreasonable, and each has the feeling of personal responsibility for\nall that is done by him' and around\nhim. Everywhere olty gardens enclose majestic palaces. Everywhere\nthe forces of nature, conquered and\ni organized by man,, work for him.\nAnd maa himself' has become at\nlast\u00E2\u0080\u0094the real master of tha world.\nNo longer ls his physical energy;\nlost in a coarse and filthy labor. It\nts transformed into spiritual energy\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094and all the power is consecrated\nto the struggle with the fundamental problems of life, to the solution\n; of whieh hts thought has vainly devoted itself for so many centuries.\nVainly, for lt was shattered ln the\nsocial strugglo which it was helpless to explain, it was exhausted by\nthe inexorable conflict of irreconcilable principles,\nMore noble in technique, mora\nsocially Just, man's work In this future world has become a Joy, Man's\nreason, the most precious thing in\nthe world, being set free, has become fearless.\nI do not think that I have here\nImputed to Lenin a dream which\nIs alien to his mind. I do not think\nthat I \"romanticise\" this mam I\ncannot represent him to myself\nwithout this superb vision of the\nfuture happiness of all mankind, of\na life become bright and Joyous.\nThe greater the man, the bolder\nhla dream. Lenin Is more a maa\nii tban any other of our contemporaries. And although his thoughts\nare obviously occupied in: the main,\nwith political problems which romantic minds would describe as\n\"narrowly practical,\" I am per*\nsuaded that ln his rare moments\nof release this militant spirit .allows himself to ba carried ln\nthought far away towards a future\nof beauty, where he sees - mueh\nmore than I myself can imagine.\nThe fundamental purpose of all\nLenin's life is the happiness of humanity. And for that reason he\nmust have glimpses in the distance\nof the age to come, of the end of\nthis magnificent process, to the unfolding of which he has consecrated all his energies with the\ncourage of an ascetic. He is an\nidealist, if one understands by that\nthe devotion of all the forces of\none's nature to a single Idea\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nidea of worldwide human happiness Hla private life is such that in\nan epoch of great religious faith\nwe would have regarded Lenin as\na aalnt. \u00E2\u0080\u009E__\nI know that'this statement will\nput the petty bourgeoisie in a fury.\nAIbo, many of the comrades will\nmuke fun of. me, and Lenin himself will greet my statement with a\njoyous burst of laughter. Saint!\nthat ls Indeed a paradoxical and\ncomic term, applied to a man for\nwhom, as the old nmn-of-God, the\nex-revo lutlonary N. Tschaikovsky,\nsalfl, absolutely nothing is holy. A\nsaint, Lenin, whom the chief of\nthe English Conservatives, Mr.\nChun-hill, a man of the best British education and the highost British culture, considers \"the most\nferocious ami the most execrable\nof menl\"\nAlthough himself a severe realist,\nLenin is becoming little by little a\nlegendary figure. And that Is well.\nFrom the far-off villages of India, coming hundreds of miles over\nmountain paths and through forests, hiding, risking their lives,\nthere arrive at Caboul, at the Russian Soviet embassy, Hindus representing the millions crushed under\nthe ancient yoke of British officialdom; they Arrive and ask:\n\"Who Is Lenin?\"\nAnd at the other end of the\nworld we hear Norwegian laborers\nsay;\n\"Lenin Is the honest lad. There\nhas nover been his equal on earth,\nI say lt is well. The great majority of men have an absolute\nneed of personal faith to enable\nthom to begin to act. It would be\ntoo long to wait until they began\nof themselves to think and act,\nwithout such assistance; and during that time the evil genius of\ncapitalism would crush them more\nand more with misery, alcoholism,\nand lhe stupor of weariness.\nIt Heems to me neoessary to note\nalso that Lenin Is not exempt from\nthe sentiments of friendship, and\nthut in general nothing that Is\nhuman is alien to him. I feel a\nlittle cmbtfrrassed and ridiculous ln\nmentioning this, but the petty bourgeoisie of the wholo world are so\nfrightened at Lenin's Inhuman intellectuality\u00E2\u0080\u0094and Mr. Churchill,\nwith his gaze fixed anxiously on the\nOrient, rages so furiously that one\nfears he will do injury to hts health\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094and as I have a tender heart, X\nfoci obliged to give some slight reassurance to those frightened and\nfurious pooplo.\nIt sometimes happens that Lenin\nJudges the virtues of people too\nmuch In their own favor, and to the,\ndotrlment of the cause. But his\nunfavorable Judgments\u00E2\u0080\u0094even those\nwhich noom at first without foundation\u00E2\u0080\u0094are nlmost always confirmed uttorly by the conduct of tho\npeople. This porhaps proves thot\nLenin senses tho faults of mon\nhotter than thoir virtues; but also\nthat ln genoral there are many\nnmro harmful than useful men.\nTt must bo understood that one\ncould suy of him as an Individual\nL many more thlnsa tb\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB$\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB fc\u00C2\u00BB\nConditions Won by Wash*\ningtoit Theatre Workers\nAfter Bi? Fight\n(By the Federated Press)\nBeattle, Wn.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The itrike of the\nAmerican Federation of Musicians,\nInternational Alliance of Stage Employees and Picture Operators and\nJanitors' union in Seattle, Portland,\nButte, Bremerton and Taklma\nagainst the Jensen A Von Herberg\ntheatrical Interests haa been ended\nthrough a two years' agreement in\nwhich tha musicians union wins a\nsix-day week and a six-hour day\nfor tha same pay as was formerly\npaid for aeven days\u00E2\u0080\u0094160 per week\nfor side men and $7B for leaden\nand the operators get a simiBr\nweek and day.\nIn Taeoma, Where tha strike originated, the operators get thslr\nworking conditions, starting twa\nmonths' henee and a. Wags scale\nranging ftom $1 to $1.21 per hour.\nTko Arm agrees to reinstate all\nwho left its employ because of tha\nstrike without prejudice.\n* Tha strtks started July t, whea\nthe Taeoma operators demanded a\nsix-hour day and six-day week. Tha\nTaeoma Musicians union struck ia\nsympathy aad tha striko extended\nto other cities te tha northwest\nwhere ths firm has theatres.\nWorkers of Europe Are\nGetting Wise to War\nBy Paul Hanna\n(Btaff Correspondent tot tha\nFederated Press)\nWashington.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Immediate, militant and triumphant protest by\nSpanish labor, led by tha Barcelona unions, has thrown a\nwrench into the League of Nations machinery and stopped thai\nmovement of Spanish troops]\ntoward Russia,\nAmerlosa diplomatic and consu-;\nlai* agents have reported to the\nstate department hers soma ds-'-j\ntalis of ths action by j Spanish:]\nlabor whioh forced the Madrid\nOovernment to reverse itself within 72 hours after giving a pledge\nat Geneva that Spain would help1\nmake up the League of Nations-\narmy assigned to supervise the\nplebiscite between Poles and\nLithunlans at Vllna.\nRailway and marina transport\nworkera at Barcelona called meetings oa receipt of tha news from*\nGeneva, and adopted resolutions\nproclaiming their determination to\nresist the movement of Spanish\ntroops, either by land or sea, to\nfulfill the League of Nations'\nscheme.\nSimilar moves were made also\nby the wor'kers at Bilbao, Tarragona, Cadiz, Madrid and elsewhere.\nWithin two days lt was apparent\nthat the government could not attempt to comply with its hasty\npledge at Geneva without the risk\nof a general strike at home,\nNo less alarming to League of\nNations advocates are the reports\nmade to Washington of widespread\nmutiny among Greek troops In\nAsia Minor. Advices' fr'om Smyrna\nstate that Greek soldiers there\nhave begun to \"demobilize\" themselves, and are demanding Imme\ndlute shipment home. The Greek\nadvance into Asia Minor was directed by Venlzolos,, whose leadership- was rejected by the Greek\nvoters last week as crushlngly as\nthat of Woodrow Wilson was rejected ln the United States three\nweeks earlier.\nDiplomatic circles at Washington are giving attention almost, exclusively to the wrecking of the\nEntente programme in Turkoy, enforcement of which depended very\nlargely upon the use of, Greek\ntroops against bhe Turkish Nationalists. Encouraged by their' new\ncontact with Russia, the Turks are\nlaunching continuous attacks\nagainst the half-hearted Greek legions.. -\nFurther distressing advices are\nat hand concerning the demoralization of British Colonial forces in\nMesopotamia. Announcement made\nat London several days ago that\nthe offensive above Bagdad was\nabandoned fs declared to r'eflect a\nflat refusal by several Indian regiments to advance agalnBt their Mohammedan brothers, the Turkish\nNationalists.\nMilwaukee, Wis. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Eugene V.\nDebs, Socialist candidate for presl-.-\ndent,, ran second ln Milwaukee]]\ncounty In the race for president,\nthe vote, with a few precincts\nmissing gave Debs 35,053, Harding polled 57,569 ln the county,\nwhile Cox deceived only 16,467.\nsaid hers. But the modesty of this\nman, so completely devoid of ambition, embarrasses me. I know\nthat tha little I hava said will appear to him superfluous, exaggerated, and ridiculous. All rjpht\nLet him laugh, as he knows so well\nhow to do. But I hope that many |\npeople will read these lines notf\nwithout proflt to themselves.\nIn these lines I have discussed a\nman who has had the audatty to\nbegin the process of European social revolution In a country where a\nvast number of peasants wish to\nbecomo well-fed property holders,\nand nothing more. Many regard\nthla audacity of Lenin's as madness.\nI began my work as an instigator\nof tho revolutionary spirit with a\nhymn to the madness of the brave.\nThere was a time when a natural\npity for the Russian people compelled me to consider this madness\nas almost a crime. But now when\nI see that these people know muoh\nbetter how to suffer la patience\nthan to work consciously and honestly, I sing anew my hymn to the\nsacred madness of* ths brave. And\namong thdn Vladimir Lenin Is the\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u0094* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2<\u00E2\u0080\u00A2<\u00C2\u00AB tha maddesb\nSHOE EEPAIBING\nIf shoes had tongues thut\nBpeak they would say; '\n\"PARIS DOES THE BEST\nWORK AND USES THE\nBEST MATERIAL. TRT\nHUL\"\nSOUND MERCHANDISE\nAT ROCK BOTTOM\nBoys' School Shoes\nEvery Boys' Shoe ia the Store\nup to $7.00 at\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n$3.95\nSizes 1 to 5 1-2\nGirls' School Shoes\n. Any Girls' Shoe in the store\nup to $7.00 at\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n$3.95\nSizes 11 to 2\nPRICES\nParis Says-\nGo Ahead and Sett Them\nSURGICAL SHOES\nThe art Af shnwaMng ooniiiti\not providing* good, looking,\ngood fitting aho*, n\u00C2\u00BB matter\nwhat the shape of fool This\nii a one-mag job whioh I hay*,\nstudied by 18 yean of making.\nCOME IN AND SEE\n$6.95\nBuys a pair of Men's Dress or\nWork Shoes, in all grades of\nleather; $9, $10 and $11 values-\nAll sizes\n$7.95\nBuys a pair of Men's Mahogany Calf, Brown Calf or Blade\nCalf Shoes, in 5 different lasts.\nAH sizes.\n$5.95\nLadies' Brown Calf or Eld, Black Patent or\nKid Oxfords. Any in the store\nup to $9.00, now._\t\nM S-On__________M\nLadies' Black Calf Boots, Louis heel, and Brown\nCalf with Cuban heel; $9.50 *an QC\nvalues at epU.aJaJ\nk- sizes.\nRegular $460 values in\nChild's Shoes to be all\nsold at this price. Sizes\n4 to 101-2.\n$2.95\nP.Paris\n51\nWert\nCUSTOM 8HOI8\nWhether tor dnae or tntie,\na correct Ottlnc hoot mem\nwild oomfon. My prices\nwtn \u00C2\u00BBurj>rt\u00C2\u00BB joa. lot aw\nhaw a chance to ihow what\nI do.\nLABOB EDITOB BABBBD\nPROM ENGLAND\nAnother labor Editor Not Allowed\nto Trespass on Brltlih .\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ', Capitalist! SoU.\n(By The Federated Frew)\n'New Tork.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Two river iteam-\nVete crowded to the rails with cloth-\n| Ing workeri greeted Joseph\nSchlossberg, general seeretary ot\nthe Amalgamated Clothing Work-\n'ers, who was returning after a four\nmonths' trip through Europe.\nSchlossberg, ln an address at a\n.banquet In his honor, made a passionate plea to labor to Bave Itself\nfrom tho dangers which threaten\nftom the reactionary elements\nstriving to control the world,\n. The union official, tot an unexplained reason, was prevented\nfrom entering England to sail from\nSouthampton. When he arrived\nat Dover, and gave hie name to\nth* immigration agent *\u00C2\u00BB was Informed that he would not be allowed to land. In the hand of\nth* agent waa a typewritten slip\non which he recognised his own\nnam*, but no inkling was given of\nreasons for debarring him. Th*\nonly hint that waa dropped was\nthe question ot on* ot the British\nofficials: \"You're editor of Advance, are you not?\" Advene* ls\nth* official organ ot th* Amalgamated.\nB. J. Costello ot the Federated\nPress waa alio deported from England a few weeks ago.\nAuckland, New Zealand.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The\nmoving plctura fllm \"Cheating th*\nPublic\" has been banned ln New\nZealand because lt show* up th*\nmethods of big business.\nBuy at a union store.\nFOOD SITUATION nr\nBUSSIA IS BASH*\nScant Possibility ot\nWrecked by Cause ot\nFamine\n(By tb* Federated Frees)\nParia\u00E2\u0080\u0094In refutation ot rteent\nstories to the effect that the food\nsituation In Soviet Russia waa\nmenacing; an official report on conditions there haa Just been received from Moscow. Thia report\nshowa that ther*' ia nam possibility of the Soviet government being wrecked upon tha rook* of\nfamine.\nIt is pointed out that th* rich\nharvests of the Caucasus and Siberia will suffice to mak* good\nth* shortages du* te th* drought\nIn Central Russia, and that thla\nyear tha government will b* able\nto look after the food supply of\nth* army and tha dty population,\naad also to tranater foodstuffs from\nth* mor* favored itgiona to noh\nparte of central and eastern Rua-\nsia ai will need aid.\nSeattle, Wish.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Trades Unloa\nSavings and Loin Association, et-\ntabllshed by union labor In Beat-\ntie, haa steadily Inoreaaed It* deposits alno* It started bmlnssa\nNovember * Ita resources had\nReached $866,\u00C2\u00BB18. On* million\ndollars la th* goal aet for January\n1. The association has Just moved\nInto tta new quarters, mor* cea-\ntraliy located. ' \"\nAnother campaign haa ban\nstarted la B. C Ita tha campaign\nta donbl* tha circulation ot tha\nFederatlonist. Rustle your artffc.\nbor** sub.\nWher* Is your Union buttont\nEvery Suit, Every Overcoat\nHas gone back to the Price Days of 1913\nHere's the chance for a man to get a real Christmas Gift at practically gift prices. The period of readjustment so long\nheralded is here.' The drop in prices is here\u00E2\u0080\u0094for this great stock of Semi-ready Tailored Olothes, with aU their pride\nof quality and superiority, will ji\u00C2\u00BBt pocket their pride for a few days.\nWhat dare we? Oheap clothes have been offered you at tumble-down prioes. Now, in place of shoddy, we offer Oa\nreal QUALITY OLOTHES, in fabrio, material and workmanship unattainable elsewhere, and unknown to the merchant\nwho lives his days with the other kind. Look these prioes over:\nAll English Worsted and Tweed\nSuits Go\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094No Matter What tbe Price\nALL |35 LABEL SUITS d>OB AA\nALL M0 LABEL SUITS \u00C2\u00ABOA f\ft\nALL |46 LABEL SUITS dJOE AA\nALL $50 LABEL SUITS *q7 BA\nAt^\u00E2\u0084\u00A2^$4o!oo\nALL |60 LABEL SUITS &AC AA \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nALL 165 LABEL SUITS (tAJ GA\nALL 170 LABEL SUITS d>BA A A\nALL $75 LABEL SUITS d\u00C2\u00BBBC A A\nALL $10 L;\BEL SUITS \u00C2\u00AB/>A f\f|\nALL $16 LABEL SUITS Ann \u00C2\u00A3A\nUl sises and physique types; fitted and\nfurnished to i\nBritish Serge Suits\nNavy blue and Mack serge, In sises from\nM te M breast measure\u00E2\u0080\u0094over SOO pun\nwool navy blue serges In thla lot.\n$60.00 SEMI-READY &*>*_ CA\nSBROB SUITS for VV f \u00C2\u00ABOU\n$69.00 8BMI-READT a_A_\ AA\nSBROB SUITS for 4>4UeUU\n$60.00 SBMI-RBADY a_AC. AA\nSBROB SUITS for wtOlUU\n$66.00 BBMI-RBADT a_A*7 CA\nSBROB SUITB far \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 91 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 *WV\n$70.00 8EMI-RBADT CCA AA\nSBROB SUITS for 90U.UV\n$76.00 8BMI-RBAOT 0CC AA\nSBROB SUITS for . VOO.UV\nLeather Ooats\nIEATHER MOTOR COATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Aviator\nmodel, with belt. Sises 36 to dJCC\n39 only. Worth $85 (or...,. WvO\nREVERSIBLE TWEED OVERCOATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFor motor owners* wear. AlAff\nWorth $150 for 9IvO\nREVERSIBLE GABARDINE AND\nLEATHER OVERCOATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094 *QC\nWorth $135 for $i)D\nWinter Overcoats\nrino Millions and Tweeds, with and\nwithout velvet collars\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n$35 WINTER O'COATS tf>OC AA\n$40 WINTER O'COATS *AA f|f|\n$46 WINTER O'COATS \u00C2\u00ABtOC AA\n$60 WINTER O'COATS &A(\ f|A\n,{^!i\"'\u00C2\u00B0:i^\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 $45!oo\n$60 WINTER O'COATS &AC A A\n$65 WINTER O'COATS d>CA AA\n$70 WINTER O'COATS d>BO CA\n$76 WINTER O'COATS d\u00C2\u00BBBC AA\n$80 WINTER O'COATS \u00C2\u00BB/>A ftft\n$86 WINTER O'COATS */>A gA\nAll Sliea M to 41\nThe Celebrated English Toga and\nNicholson Overeoats\nFavorably Known the World Over\u00E2\u0080\u0094la\nMany Oolon and Weight* to Suit Doyen\nENGLISH COATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth |\n$100.00 for\t\n$70.00\nENGLISH COATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth \u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3 CA\n$95.00 for 900.UV\nENGLISH COATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth *\u00C2\u00A3A AA\n$90.00 for 90U.UU\nENGLISH COATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth #C7 BA\n$86.00 for VWMWU\nENGLISH CO ATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth *EC AA\n$80.00 for \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 VWU'VV\nENGLISH COATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth * f*e* CA\n$78.00 for *OOe*,o%W\nENGLISH COATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth \u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3A AA\n$70.00 for 90U*Uw\nENGLISH COATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth *y| Q AA\n$66.00 for 9*K>\u00C2\u00BBUU\nENOLISHCOATS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth t>AO_t CA\n$60.00 (or 9**&*Ov\nEnglish Trench Ooat\nALL-WOOL ENGLISH TRENCH COAT\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Regular $50.00 value &OC AA\nWool Gabardines\nALL-WOOL OABAR-. *OC A A\nDINES; reg. $48 tor......9dOa\IV\nALL-WOOL GABAR- *AA AA\nDINES; reg. $30 for. 9a_\Jt\I\l\nALL-WOOL GABAR- CI ft AA\nDINES; reg. $25 for 910.UU\nFirst Long Pant Suite\nOood Streot, AH Wool\nsuits\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth $$5.00 _Of\ AA\nSUITS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Worth $30.00 Ci ft AA\nSuperfine Scotch Wool Ulsters\nOromMo\u00E2\u0080\u0094th* maker ot high-class Ulster.\nIngs, which were seldom ae*n In Oaaada\nbefore our Importations.\n$186.00 SCOTCH WOOL * _ f\*\ AA\nULSTERS for 91vU*UU\n$140.00 SCOTCH WOOL * | Ai AA\nUL6TBR8 for tplVOtW*\nCASH ONLY! POSITIVELY NO GOODS OHABGED AT THE BEDU0ED PBIOES\nThomas & McBain, Limited\n655 Granville St. The Service Shop 655 Granville St.\n- PAGE SIX\n(Twelfth yW no. 49 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST\n*\nVANCOUVBR, B. C.\nFRIDAY .December 8, llitf\nunion nans\nThe | MLT, Loggers' Boot\nMall ordera panonally ittnded to\nGuaranteed to Hold Caulks and Are Thoroughly Watertight\nMacLachlan-Taylor Co.\nSuccessors to H. VOS & SON\n63 CORDOVA STREET WEST, VANCOUVER, B. 0.\nNext Door to Loggers' HaU\nPhone Seymour 556 Repairs Done While Von Walt\nVancouver Unions\nVANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR\nCOUNCIL\u00E2\u0080\u0094President, J. M. CUrke;\nVice-president, R. W. Hatley; secretary\nJ G. Smith; treasurer, A. S. Wells;\nsergeant-at-arms, K. Home; trustees,\nCarr, Vanrubien, Bleverwright and Mldgley. Meets Srd Wednesday each month\nIn the Pender Hall, eorner of Pender and\nHowe streeta. Phone Ser. 281. '\nALLIED l'BINTIMO TRADES COUN*\nell\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets second Monday la tha\nMonth. President, J. P. MtOonnell: aec-\nfetary, R. H. Neelanda. P. 0. Boi 68.\nKNOINEEBS EMPLOYED\nIN THE\nand mill)\nLnmber Industry (camp \u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0tet with fallow workera in that industry. Organiie into the Lumber, Camp *\nAgricultural Workera Dept. of tha 0. B.\nU. Headquartera, 61 Cordova atrett weat,\nVancottTer. Phone Bey. 7166.\t\nOENERAL WORKERB' UNIT OP THE\n0. B. V.~President, R. W. Hatley;\niecretary, J. 0. Smith. Maeti lit Wedneiday in each month tn Pender Hall,\ncor. of Pender and How* streetl. Phone\nSay, aai. . -\nHOTBL AND RESTAURANT EM-\nployeei. Local 28\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeti awry \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB<\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB\nWedneiday In the month at 3:80 p.m.\ntad a\u00C2\u00ABry fourth Wednesday In the month\nM 1:80 p-m. President, John Camming!,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2M\u00C2\u00BBtn'-y and bnilnais agent, A. Oraham.\nOAct and moating ball, 441 Seymour St.\nIf. Phono Soy. 1081. OBce hoan, 8\nm. to 6 p.m.\nSeattle, Wash.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Organizer Trum-\nmer, of the International\nTailora Unions, urged the Seattle\nLabor Council delegates to educate\nthemselves so as to take charge ol'\nthe management of business. He\ndeclared the movement for Industrial democracy was growing fast\nand workers should be prepared for\nlt He argued that the co-operative movement offered the beet opportunity for obtaining this training ln buslneas and cited the success of the Co-operative Tailors ln\nSeattle.\nFOR REAL OOOD\nFurniture\nINTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S\nAllocation, Local 88-52\u00E2\u0080\u0094OBee and\ni Ull Ut Cordon St. W. MeeU Int\nud third Frljayi. I p.n. Beentwr\ntreuurer, I. Chapmen; builneei .lent,\nB. Rlcharde.\t\nI\nINTERNATIONAL JEWELRY WORK-\nera' Union\u00E2\u0080\u0094Moots Snd and 4th Mondays. Prosidont, J. E. Dawaon, 1646 Yew\nflt, Kitsllano; Moratory, E. T. Kelly,\n1110 Hastings St E.; recording secretary,\nIi. Holdaworth, 689\u00E2\u0080\u0094 14th Bt. W., North\nVancouvor. \t\nLUMBER, CAMP * AGRICULTURAL\nWORKERS Dept. of tho 0. B. U.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nAn Induitrlal anion of aU workers ln log-\ngine aad construction camps. Coast Dls*\nMet and General Headquarters, 61 Cordora Bt. W., Vaneoaver, B. 0. Phona Bey.\n7866. E. Winch, goneral secretary-\ntreasurer; legal advisers, Messrs. Bird,\nMaedonald A Co., Vancouvor, B. Oj auditors, Messrs. Buttar * Chiene, Vancou-\nvor, B. p.\nlliRINE FIREMEN k OILERS UNIT of\ntho 0. B. U. most ln thoir union hall\nat Rooms I and 4 Empire Hotel, 76 Hut-\nlags East flrst and third Wedneediy In\nths month. Presidont V. Owens: vice-\ninsldont, D. Carllni secreUry, Earl King.\n'hone Sey. 8606.\nK\nPi\nfMM pay, ovwu.\nBll-OlOBtBBO IMPLOYED IN THK\nUmber lolo.tr,, org.ulic loto tbe\nL, 0. * A. W. Dept. ol tbe 0. B. IJ.\nMUlworken, Brinchee meet te follow.:\nTueo.ver~L.mtMr Workers' headquar-\nten, ,1 Cordon St. W. Every Monday\nI p.m.\n(nr Weitmlniter\u00E2\u0080\u0094Labor H.ll, eor. Boyal\nAn. ud 7th at. Snd ud lth Wed.ee\ndaya at 8 p.m.\nFreeer Villi\u00E2\u0080\u0094Old Moving Picture Thea-\ntre, HiUludrUIe. Sod ud dth Thoro-\nPor/'Moo'SW-Orann HeU, Sid Friday,\n.nr, month, .t 8 p.m>\nUme, mill mo shelter work-\nere' Unit at the One BI, Union, Metal-\nUlerou lllaen\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tuoonnr, B. 0., bead-\n,urters,-dl Cordon Street Weet. All\nworkere enlaced in tbl. lnduitry art\nused to loin the Union before lota, e.\nth. Job. Don't wall U ba ortulaed, bot\naigaalaa youmlf.\t\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094-_\u00E2\u0080\u0094 MAKERS' LEAGUE 0,\nBerth America (Vuenm aai vleln-\nly)\u00E2\u0080\u0094Branch meeta _ eecond ud fonrth\nfueoBvar: inanelal aeeretar,, E. do?\ndard, H| Bleharda Street; recordln, eeoretarr, J. D. Rne.eU, ,38 Commercial\nDrln. f bone Hl,h. 8204B,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 6.1. tr. Omit file drivers, wood-\n\u00C2\u00AB. Brtdfemen, Derrlckmen and Riigero\nef Vaneonver ud vicinity. Meeta ever,\nMonder, 8 p.m., in 0. 8. 0. HaU, 80.\nPander St, W. Preeldent, T. L. Hewitt;\n,nuelal aeeretar, and bueineee atent, E.\nHorn.. Phone, Seymonr 2P1,\nPDLP. PAPIR AMD SULPHITE WOBK-\noi.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tou need tbe Camp Workera of\nfear Induitry. The, need yon. Organiie\nioletker In the 0. B. U. Indoterlal Cult\nef your oceopatlon. Delegatee on every\ntob, or write the Dlatrlct Headquartera,\nll Cordon St. W., Vaneourer. Entrance\nfee, ,1.00; monthly doea, ,1.00.\nSHIPYARD LABOBEBS, BIGQER6 AND\nPuUnort I.L.A. Local Union KA,\nioriea 6\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meete tha Sad ud 41b frldaye\naf tha month. Labor Temple, 8 p.m.\nhealdent, WUl tam Maytors lauelal ie*\nMary ud bueineee agent, M. Phejpij\naarreapeadln, eeeretary, W. Ue. Ofllce,\nlew SOT Ubor Temple.\n-rOQBAt-Oii tmSi Ve. 230-\nMeeta IhI Sunday af oach month at\nS p.m. Pruldent, A. E. Robb; vlee-\nfrealdeat, 0. H. Collier; aeeretary-treu<\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0lar. B. H. Neelanda. Boa 88.\nHktkf ZE5 ELECTRIO BAILW1V\nBmpleyeea, Ploaeer Dlvlelon, Mo. 101\n-aUita A. O. P. Ball Mount Pleasant\nUl ud ird Meadays at 10.15 a.m. and i\n,M. FmU.it, R. Rigby; taoardlug\nMSMtwy, t. B. B\u00E2\u0080\u0094la. U7-\u00C2\u00ABth_Av.iiua\nlaat; tmnnr, t. Hdae\nIIHII.it ud bueineee atent, W. H. Cot-\nhell, 4,08 Domfrlee Street; offlce corner\ntit*, ud Main SM. Phone Pair. 8804 R.\nlACUIltMtN JAILORS' UNION Ot\nAmerica, Ueal Mo. 171\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeting, held\nbet Mender in eaeh month, 8 pjn. Proa-\nMeat, A. R. Osteaby; rlce-prealdent, D.\nlAwsea; reeerdlnt eeeretery, - 0. MoDonald, P. 0. Bon 508; flnenelel I\ntory, T, Templetoa, P. 0. Box 508.\nProvincial Unions\nVIOTOBIA. B. 0.\nVIOTOBIA AMD DISTBIOT TBADES\nud Ubor Connell\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meete flret ud\nOM Wedaeedaye, Kaifbta of Pythias\nHall, Berth Perk Street, al , pm. Pi\ndent, A. 0. Pike; tlee-prealdent, 0. E.\nCopeland; aeeretary-treaaurer, E. 8.\nWoedwerd, P. 0. Box 808, Victoria, B.O.\nPBINCB BUPERT, B. 0.\nPRINCE BUPERT CENTRAL LABOR\nCOUNCIL, 0. B. U.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeta erery Tueeday in the Mclntyre Hell et 8 p.m. Meet-\nInge open to ell 0. B. U. membere. See-\n- retery-treeenrer, N. Booth, Box 217\nPrince Bupert, B. 0.\nPRlHOE RUPERT TBADEB AMD LA-\nber ConneU\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meete seeond end fourth\nTaeedeyo of eaek montk, In Carpenters'\nBall. Preiluen t, B. D. McDonald; rice-\nweeldent, A. Elite; eeeretery, Oeo. Wad'\ndell. Box 273. Prince Bupert, B. 0.\nyou should buy here,\nWe Bell the very best\nand we give you\nEAST TEEMS OF\nI\nCredit\nWe trust you and give\nyou all the time you\nneed. Courtesy and civility go with our service.\nHOME\nFurniture Co.\n416 MAIN\nOpposite Oity Hall\nA Denial\nEditor B. C. Federatlonist: I desire through your paper to reply\nto the untrue statements being\ncirculated that all members of the\ngeneral executive board of the O.\nB. U. are drawing a salary for acting Jn that official capacity.\nAt. the present time, not one\nmember of, the Q. E. B. is receiving a salary, and lt Is only when\nactively engaged in or'ganlzation\nwork that they receive pay.\nPersonally, I have not received\na week's wages from any source\nsince quitting the job as Mill\nWorkers' organizer for the Lumber Workers Union, and lf any\nmember knows where X might secure a master willing to pay wages\nsufficient for my wife, family and\nself to exist upon, he would not\nonly be doing me a personal favor,\nbut would demonstrate a proper\n0. B. U. spirit.\nSome members use up all their\nsurplus energy attacking what they\nterm \"pie oafd artists.\" They\nseem more ooncerned over who is\ngetting a meal ticket out of the ^1\nper month they pay ln dues, than\nthey are ever the whole bunch of\ncapitalist parasites that live on the\nsurplus values they seem willing to\nprovide...\nThe real purpose of the O. B.\nU. Is to unite the working olass\nInto one organization, whereby\nmember's might help one another\ntn the everyday struggle for existence against the capitalist class;\ntherefore, seeing that this struggle for existence hns become very\nacute, lt ls up to the membership\nto demonstrate their sincerity by\ngoing after the cause and not the\neffect. This can only be done by\nabolishing. the present system of\nsociety that breeds parasites.\nYours for the One Big Union,\nW. A. ALEXANDER,\nChairman O. B. U.\nEDERATIOMSTI\nDRUGLESS\nHEALING\nDOWNIE\nSanitarium\nLimited\nFifteenth Floor Standard\nBank\u00E2\u0080\u0094Oor. of Hastings\nand Bichards\nPhones Seymour 608;\nHighland 2134-L\nElectric Laundry\nWORKING MEN'S TRADE A\nSPECIALTY\nNo Chemical! Used\nIMS ALBERT STREET.\nVeterans oi tke Great War\nNOTICE!\nW. will dye your treat coat bottle green, brown or black, take\nott shoulder etrape, put on new\nbutton, and make lt look like a\nelvy coat, all (or 16.60.\nMall Orders Promptly Attended\nto.\n7 Little Tailors\nSSS Oarrall Street\nVANCOUVER, B. 0.\nWe patronize those who patron-\nlee ue.\nWe have added to our\nequipment one of the most\npowerful electrical machines on this continent.\nTo introduce it we will\ngive during the month of\nDecember one week's\ntreatment\nFREE\nThis machine has been pronounced by specialists on\nelectricity to be one of the\nmost Invigorating and stimulating electrical appliances on\nthe market, and we have\nthe only one on the Paelfle\nCoast. Don't forget we are\nqpeciallstfl. What has been\npronounced Incurable by\nothers has given way to our\ntreatment. Call, If In town;\nlf out of town, write.\nBy Appointment Only\nof the game, absolutely nothing to'\ndo inside the house. His task lies'\noutside, among his own class,-thjs,\nworking class; educating them* to\na full understanding of the fact,,\nthat they ore an exploited class.\nAnd that their exploitation will last\nJust as long as they tolerate and\ncondone It, That only by their own\nefforts as a class, will they be so\nable to organize their social life,\nthat the want and misery which\nnow prevails amongst they will disappear, and give place to a condition of economic freedom and social welfare for all. I ask A. S, to\ngive my remarks his best attention,\nand not to be scared of signing his\nname to his next letter; also to\nstate why it was that the F. L. P.\ndid not take up the, challenge\nthrown down to them to debate the\nQuestion, \"That lhe Federated Labor Party does not represent the\npolitical Interests of the working\nclass.\"\nTours for Socialism,\nSID EARP.\ni\nThe Soclaliit Party\nEditor B. C. Federatlonist: The\nletter appearing In your last Issue,\nsigned \"A, S\u00E2\u0080\u009E\" and dealing with the\naction ot the Socialist Party ot\nCanada In running six candidates\nfor the provincial election, has sue\nceeded very well ln presenting the\nstate of mind, and the political intelligence of the working plug, who\nis feeling an Increasing economic\npressure and becoming Irritated,\nand anxious for his future welfare,\nA type to whom the term \"class\nconsciousness\" appears vague, and\npossessing little or no significance.\nIn the flrst paragraph of his letter \"A. S.\" says, \"I have yet to flnd\nany fundamental difference in the\ntheoretical principles of the P. L.\nP. and the S. P. of C.\"\nTo this I would say, that when an\nearnest and impartial enquiry ls\nmade, a difference will be found,\nnot only ln the respective platforms, but also a decided difference\nin the character of the statements\nmade by Socialist speakers and\nLabor orators.\nFurther on A. S. glibly remarks,\n\"that both parties stand uncompromisingly for the abolition of the\ncapitalist system, and all that it In-\nvolves.\" If this be so, why, may I\nask, do the speakers of the labor\nparty still attempt to lpterest and\namuse their audlenceB by referring\nin horror-stricken tones to the price\nthat the Fraser Valley farmer Is\ngetting for his milk, and with smug\nbenevolence to the work which may\nbe supplied to the unemployed if\nlabor candidates are elected to Victoria. And the liquor, ah yes! the\nliquor question; though avowedly\nprohibitionists, they will stand for\na complete government control,\nwhatever It might be. Not forgetting Industrial legislation. Oovernment coal yards, etc., etc\nThese statements, and tho charactor of their election literature\nand advertisements, stamp (Jie F. L.\nP. for what they really are, and office-seeking, reformist party, who,\nlike the capitalist class Itself, exist\nonly by reason of thc credulity and\nclaas Ignorance of the workers.\nA. S. further states \"that the F.\nL. P| Ib not acting inconsistently\nby participating in this election.\nCertainly not! They have been participating ln everything but revolutionary action, during the whole of\ntheir short existence. I was, indeed,\nsurprised to know that they wore\nnot running a candidate for the\ncity police chief's job, which was\nvacant a while ago.\nRight here I want to ask A. S.\njust what does he mean, \"by giving other organizations marching\nalong similar lines their oppnrtun\nity?\" This remark has a flahy, par\nUamentarlan odor and A. S. would\ndo well to explain himself. He deplores the fact thnt the labor vote\nIn Vancouver will be needlessly\nsplit. Let me assure him that lt\nwill not.\nA lobor vote Is not a Socialist\nvole, neither is a labor candidate a\nSocialist candidate: and thero is not\none thing ln common between'them,\nGet that fact pasted In your mental\npicture gallery, A. S., you will appreciate it later on. Listen! That\nsection of the working clnss who,\nby a careful Investigation Into the\ncharacter and mechanism of the\ncapitalist system, and who, as a\nreeult, have acquired an understanding of the laws governing capitalist society, are\u00E2\u0080\u0094Socialists; no\nless.\nKnowing that the working class,\nas wealth producers, Is an exploited class; and further, that this exploitation must of necessity become\nmore Intensive, and their hold upon\nlife Itsolf must become more precarious as the days go by, the Socialist will vote the straight Socialist ticket, no less, regardless of the\ncandidates' lack of experience aa\nplatform speakers, the color of\ntheir eyes, or the depravity of their\nfeatures. He will vote as a revolutionist, keen and eager for that Socialist rovolution, which alone cnn\nbring relief to him, conscious and\nweary of his servitude to a master\nclass, effete and useless. To charge\ntho Socialist party with holding\npersonal animosity against the F.\nL. P. Is but a furthor display of\nclasa Ignorance, and contains an\nappeal to the gallery, a tactic commonly followed by office-seekers on\nthe eve of on election. Tho rest of\nthe letter Is of small consequence,\nbut I would point out this to A. 8.;\na representative of the revolutionary working clais, If elected to parliament, would find, at this stege\nConditions in Slocan Dlstriot\nBdltor B. C. Federationlit!'I am\nwriting you about condition! In the\nSlooan dletrict. If you hav, apace\nin your splendid paper, I wlih you\nwould kindly Insert same.\nOn May 1, we came out on strike\nfor better conditions, and an advance ln.wages, all compahiee saying we were just ln our' demands,\nbut Would not concede to the demands for blankets. However, one\ncompany came through, gave us an\nadvance and blankets, but the'rest\nare stm holding out, and will not\ncome through. The Noble Five\ncompany, I call them the dirty\ndozen, has had blanket. In their\nstore-room for a month. their\nadvertisement on the coast for men\nsaid everything was o. k.,' and\nwhen the men reached here without blankets and dead broke, the\ncompany will sell them blankets\nat' fli each, and hold the amount\nout of the first pay cheque. They\nhave at present two miners and 45\nprairie chickens. Tou couldn't\ndrag them Into the mine.\nThey are doing outside chores.\nSis Hopkins oldest eon and' Si Perkins, chore boy, let them oome and\neat their heads off. All we ask is\nthat you keep on contradicting\nadvertisement. Try and keep miners away from this district, until\nwe have won the strike, and tiiot\nwon't be long. They haveothe-\nblankets In the store-room, 'but'\nwon't give them out free of charge.\nI am a married man, had my blan-'\nkets 16 years ago, but I am going'\nto stay with the boys until the last:\nthread. We have got to win, and.\nwe are going to wtn. The coadi-'\ntions here are good for' a winjjifi\nwe don't win now, we will fn.,the\nspring. The boys that are left here\nare made of good stuff. They eay\nthey Intend to stay with the fight\nYours for the' O. B. U. _ ;,\nONE OF THE\u00E2\u0080\u0094' i\n 'Ojf,\nA Gala Day in Moscow\nParty Government and Its Effeffs!\nEditor B. C. Federationist: The\nparty system'of government has\nshown many defects, and Is not\n\"in fact\" representative of a majority of the people. A casual\nglance at the members of a Legislature and their callings, show\nthat they are drawn largely from\ninfluential minority bodies, comprising Small proportions of the\npopulation, and are not, and cannot be representative of the publlo\ngenerally, except in the remotest\nsense. And that such conditions\nare conducive to, and result in rule\nby an olhircliy, wherein the interests of privileged and influential\nclasses alone, are seriously consulted.\nIn proof of such statements, lt\nIs necessary to view one phase of\ntho question only. In the,last legislature, a professional class (legal\nand medical) whose ties of association are well understood, comprising not more than one per cent,\nof the population, occupied nearly\n40 per cent, of the seats thereof,\nbeing placed in a position whereby\nthey could advance their Interests\nat will, and to the detriment of\ntho people. In respect to some\nmembers of the legal profession,\ntheir methods of operating are so\nwell known that comment thereon\nwould be superfluous.\nThat medical practitioners who\nare dependent upon and obtain\ntheir livelihood from the people,\nshould not be permitted to prevent\nthem surrounding themselves with\nreasonable and necessary precautions against the dangerous practice of some members of this calling, such as, unnecessary opera\ntions, hiding their blunders, and\nescaping from the just consequences of their acts; dangers arising from rivalry that exists among\nmembers; prescriptions written In\na dead language und retained hy\nothers thon the purchaser afford\ning an easy means of destroying\nevidence that might be used\nagainst them.\nThen their law the \"Medicul\nAct,\" which confers special pifl^i-i\nleges nnd grants thereto, a mdh'iW\npoly of the heeling nrt, osteoma-j\nthy alone excepted (almost n6Vi-\nexlstant), and their wreeklng'M\nvengeance upon any who may h'aVe\nthe temerity to interfere with tills\nmonopoly.\nThat the helplessness of 4hi\npeople to protect themselves'''Ir\nsuch cases Is not only due to-thc\npolitical ascendancy of these\nclasses, but particularly so to the\nlack of aotual representation ir\nthe legislative halls, and toWt\nserious reflection upon their abllitj\nto properly exercise the powei\nwith which they are accredited,\"\nThe remedy, however, ls In independence of the party system\nand a recognition of the necessity\nof olass Representation, which Is\nthe only plan so far advanced\nwhich can protect them from aggressions by privileged minority\nclasses, and secure for them representation In reality, and it is\nhigh time the electors should ceaeo\nto do the bidding of the party\npoliticians, and follow the- course\ntheir Interests dictate.\nD. J. SULLIVAN.\nAnyox, B. C, Nov. 18, 1020.\nSeattle, Wash.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Carrying out\nsuggestion made In the Seattle\nCentral Labor Council three months\nago, organized labor of this city\nhae Its own legal department, with\nBruce Rogers in charge. The legal\ndepartment will see that the union\nmen are In a position to properly\nsafeguard thai*4 right* In aourti.\n(By the Federated Press)\n(Ed. Note\u00E2\u0080\u0094This is a translation\nof portions of a letter from a Russian-American student, at the\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology, who was in Moscow for the\nmeeting of the Third Internationals, to a friend ln New Tork. The\nFederated Press does not, however-\nassume tne responsibility for the\nviews expressed.)\nTWO SOCIALIST Internationals\nhave held their conventions;\none in Geneva and the other\nin Moscow. Geneva and Moscow\nare two hostile camps, as far fr'om\neach other as the poles. Last year\nMoscow was considerably weaker\nthan Geneva. Now It Is just the\ncontrary. \u00C2\u00BB\nIn Moscow have gathered the\nyoung representatives of new tendencies ln the Labor movement,\nIn Geneva all the delegates had\nreal passports Issued by the ministries of foreign affairs\u00E2\u0080\u0094passports\ncertified by signatures and government seals, Uke real nice people.\nIn Moscow there are only about ten\nlucky ones who received passports;\n95 per cent of the delegates arrived \"Illegally\" in spite of bourgeois\nlaws about frontiers and regulations regarding foreign passport's.\nBut the S58 delegates at Moseow\nhad \"real\" credential! Issued by\nLabor organizations, with \"real\"\nsignatures and seals of Labor organization. This is ii real convention whose deolslon is the choice\nof the masses; the will of millions.\nAs I was sitting ln the luxurious\nthrone hall of the grandloBe palace\nof the Moscow Czars, In .the Kremlin, I recollected the first convention of the Communist International. We were a few then.\nTwenty delegates laid the foundation for thiB great movement. We\ndid not dream .that IS months later\nwe would have a representative\nconvention of 253 delegates from 32\nEuropean, Astatlo and American\ncontinents.\nNext to the throne hall of the\nKremlin palace where our convention is taking place, Is the Uspen-\nsky Cathedral, where the coronation of the Russian Czars used to\ntake place, beginning with Ivan the\nTerrible, and ending with Nicholas\nII. In this'cathedral there are\nmelodious bells and ancient musical clocks. Every half-hour these\nclocks play the \"International\" to\nthe accompaniment of the cathe'\ndral bells.\nNear the open window next to\nme ln a glided chair of state that\nonce belonged to the Czarina, Is sitting the 63-year-old woman delegate Dalstrem. The old woman,\nWho has spent all her days ln a\nfactory ls in a seventh heaven.\nTears glisten tn her eyes\u00E2\u0080\u0094tears of\nJoy.\n\"Say what what you will,\" she\nexclaims In ecstasy, \"an interna*\ntlonal Communist convention in a\nCzar's palace\u00E2\u0080\u0094this ls more than\never'I dreamed or hoped for.'\nToil look out from the window\nand see the Kremlin and old Moscow, the ancient cathedral and\nchurches, the historic Red Square,\nThere is the Alexandrovsky Cathedral, there Is the Cathedral of Vas-\nslly Blazhenny, the belfry of Ivan\nthe Great, the \"Czat\" bell, an. Seybour 1516\nWESTERN SPECIALTY CO., 672 Oranvllle Street Soymour 3528\nWHITE A BINDON, 528 Pender Street Welt - Seymour 1211\nWrit. \"Union Label'' on Tour Oopy Whan Toa Snd It to tha Printax\nPATRONIZE FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS\nD. K. BOOK\nTurns Back\nthe Almanac\nTake a\nWalk\n1914 Prices\n$19, $23, $27, $35\nExamine all the CLOTHING\nSALES, the HALF-PRICE\nSALES, STOCK-REDUCTION\nSALES and all the rest of\nthe wild statements made by the\nclothing men, who say that the\nbottom has dropped out of the\nclothing market\nThen come and see D. K. BOOK'S\nimmense stock of Suits and\nOvercoats at his new daylight\nstore, 137 Hastings Street West,\nand examine and compare his\nprices and values with all the\nothers.\nYou will be convinced that you\nwill save money 4f you buy\n\"CORRECT CLOTHES\"\nAll Suits Guaranteed\n$19, $23, $27, $35\nHand-tailored .Suits by\nLeishman\n$45 $50 $60\nD.K.B00K\n\"Correct Clothes\"\nNew Daylight Store\n137 Hastings Street West\nOpposite Province Office. FRIDAY .December >, 1929\ntwelfth year. no. 49 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vanocvvbr, b. _\nPAGE SEVEN\nCREDIT\nYOUB FBOmSE TO PAT\n18 GOOD ENOUGH FOE PS\nWF, LEAD\u00E2\u0080\u0094OTHERS FOLLOW\n$10\n$5\nDown and $2 .per week takes\nany garment in the store up\nto $35.\nDown and $2.50 per week tak^s any garment in the store up to the value'of $60.\n' SPECIAL TERMS\nJust before Christmas Is the ttme we (eel the\nraon\u00C2\u00BBy shortage moat. Our liberal credit syatem\nenables you to give auch gifts aa Fox Fur* ,\nCoats, etc. You buy them now and pay during .\nnext year!\n4WE\nCO*. MOMCIC St ^^ mu**\u00C2\u00BB mm.\nmow Sanaa.\nOttawa\u00E2\u0080\u0094A referendum op the\nquestion ot affiliation with Labor\nheld by the members of the Federal Clyll Service stationed here,\nresulted ln a decisive victory for\naffiliation. The Bnal vote stood\n8636 for and KIT against alBlla-\nllon.\nSam Sadler, of Seattle, hu been\nreleased at McNeil Island by order\nof Preaident Wilson, after serving\nIT months. Re was arrested under\nthe old Disk military aet tar distributing anti-conscription pamphlets before the draft bill waa passed.\nHELP ALONG!\nPatronize Federationist Advertisers\nTHE BURDEN OF ILFORD jfSOCIALIST PARTY\nIS\nHero They Are, indexed tea Ton\nUs. Union Man, Ont Ihis Oat and Olve It to Ton Wtf\u00C2\u00BB\nTlsdalls Limited.\nBicycles\n-818 Hastings Street West\nBilliards\nCon Jones (Brunswick Pool Booms).\n-Hastings Street Diet\nIngledew Skoe Store...\nBoots and Shoes\nJohnston's Big Shoe House...\nPiorre Paria _.._\nWm. Diek Ltd-\n~668 OranviUe Street\n 409 Hastings W.\n-84 Heatings Btreet West\n...Hastings Street East\nVancouver Co-operative 41 Pendor Street West\nMacLachlan-Taylor Company (S Cordova Stroet West\nCornett Bros. & Clarke \u00E2\u0080\u009E. t< Haatings Street West\nChristie Boot Faotory.\nBoot Factory\n..51 Cordova Street West\nChiropractors and Drugless Healers\nDr. Wlllard Coataa 30-H.Burns Bldg., II Hastings Street West\nDownle Sanitarium, Ltd 15th Floor Standard Bank Bldg.\nDr. Lee Holder _ 7* Fairfield Building\nDr. Edgar'W. Moore. _ 498-405 Carter Cotton Bldg.\nDr. H. Walton 310-311 Carter Cotton Bldg, 198 Hastings St. W.\nCleaners\n..2SS Keefer Street\nRay _\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Clothing and Men's Outfitting\nArnold A Quigley 648 Granville Street\nClatnans, Ltd 153 Hastings Street West\nClubb A Stewart 809-318 Hastings Btreet West\nB. C. Outfitting Co 343 Hastings Street West\nB. C. Tailoring Co _ : 342 Hastings East\nWm. Dick Ltd \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094. 33-49 Hastings Street Eaat\n J14 OranvUle Street\n...315 Haatings Street Weat\nThos. Foster ft Co, Ltd-\nJ. W. Foster ft Co, Ltd _\n: S. N. Harvey Ltd '.\t\n:C. D. Bruce. _._. \u00E2\u0080\u009E.\n'New Tork Outfitting Co\t\nVV. B. Bromitt.\t\nD. E. Book .\n-188 Haatings West and Victoria, a 0.\n... 401 Hastings Street West\n 143 Hastings Streot West\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Cordova Stroet\nUT Hastings Street West\nVancouver Co-operative 41 Pender Street West\nKirk ft Co, Ltd-\nCoal\ni Main Bt, Seymour 1441 and 486\nDentists\n' Dr. Brett Anderson . _ 608 Hastings West\nDr. W. J. Curry 301 Dominion Building\n; Britannia Beer-\n; Cascade Beer..\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nVan Bros. ....\nDrinks\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Westminster Brewery Co.\n-Vancouver Breweries Ltd.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094.\u00E2\u0080\u0094.Ciders and winss\n! Vancouver Drug Co...\n.Drugs\nFamous Cloak ft Suit Co...\nDry Goods\n..Any of their six stores\n..683 Hastinga Street Weat\nj Vancouver Co-operative .-.',.;' 41 Pender Street West\nEducational\n; Lnsolle Extension University ....:........ 701 Standard Bank Bldg.\nB. O. School of Pharmacy and Science ..615 Pender West\nFlorists\n' Brown Bros, ft Co. Ltd.. 48 Hastings East and TU Oranvillo Streot\nj Funeral Undertakers\nj Horron Bros _ .:; .... .....2398 Oranvllle Stroet\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Mount Plensant Undertaking Co , : 233 Klngsway\nNunn and Thomson..... ; 531 Homer Street\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Hastings Furniture Co...\nFurniture\n-41 Hastings Street West\nBallard Furniture Btore 1024 Main- Street\nHome Furniture Company............................416 Main Street\nGroceries ,\n\"Slaters\" (three stores)\u00E2\u0080\u0094.-, , Hutings, Oranvllle and Main Streets\nVancouver Co-operative ^..,......'...-, .'..41 Pender street West\nS. T. WaHa.ce -;.: :,;. 118 Hastings Street West\nHatters\nCalhoun's, Ltd ... .........*,...\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u009E..0i~,Hastings Street East\nHotels\nCentral Hotel -. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 ..............42 Cordova Street East\nJewelers \"\nO. B. Allan ?480 Granville, Street\nMasseurs, Etc\nM. F. Eby, B.A, M.E., ....;. J\". .- .....998 Broadway West\n| Musical Instruments\njSwttzer Bros \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094 :.i.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sll Haatings Street West\nOptometrists\nJ. H. Hooley \u00E2\u0084\u00A2 : 884-826 Birks Building\nMorris Optical Co. .'. I : 648 Qranvllle Street\nOveralls ahd Shirts\n\"Big Horn\" Brand. ! (Turnor Beeton ft Co, Victoria, B, a)\nPrinters and Engravers\nCowan ft Brookhouse -..\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094Labor Temple\n(Mlund Dibble .... \u00E2\u0080\u0094 , \u00E2\u0080\u0094Tower Building\nSolicitors\nMorris Soskln..\n.,316 Standard Bank Building\nTaxi Service\nStanley Steam Taxi Co _ 384 Abbott Street\nTheatres and Movies\nEmpress Orpheum ....._\u00E2\u0080\u0094.... Pant' ges\n(Ed. Note\u00E2\u0080\u0094There was a bye-,\neleotlon in Ilford, England, recently. The government candidate wae\nelected, The following article,\nfrom the London Nation will give\nsome idea of the reason for the\ngovernment's victory, and at the\nsame time a sidelight on that aeo-\ntlon of the people, which rightly or\nwrongly is named the \"Middle\nClass.\") i\nILFORD la not a olty or an Illusion or a. dream.. It is a civilization,, or, rather, a piece of a\nclvillatlon, artificially delimited by\nthe caprice of men who draw boundaries between one similar street\nand another. And when it speaks,\nthat clvillutton speaks, Just as similar Instruments, tuned to a almUar\npitch, 'v.n give out the aame note\nwhenever tested. AU the streets\nare tue same. All the Uttle villas\nwith front and back gardens are\nthe eame. The furniture inside\nand the cultivation outside are the\nsame. And the same also the mental furniture and cultivation, alike\nin the Residence and the front and\nback gardens of the mind. All the\npleasant, affable little men aad women that live there have the aame\nmanner of life, the aame attitude\ntowards lltt_ the eame oomblned\ncowardice and courage In face ot\nlife, with the aame fundamental refusal te face Ute Itself. Tou ean\nimagine breaking oft a chunk of\nIlford Juat as yeu break oil a\nchunk of a wasp's neat or honeycomb when the beea er wasps have\ngone. Ton can Imagine that being\nexhibited tor the curiosity ot eome\nwondering new rhoe two thousand\nyear* hence, Juat as the Uttle cells\nand dwelling places of Pompeii oan\nbe exhibited today. And you oan\nImagine a collection to reveal the\nkingdom ot the mind ot those who\nonce populated these symmetrical\nstreets. Here waa the station which\ntook them away by the railway ln\ntha morning and brotrght them\nback at. night. Here the shops\nwhere they bought similar products,\nmanufactured ln bulk on a pattern,\nto eat, to drink, to wear, to display\non the walls and floors ot their\nhouses, and to rest ln the end in\nthe standard, polished, brass-hand-\nIde coffins, in which they were all\nburled. Here again, would be\nspecimens ot the town hall in\nwhich their civic lite was carried\non, a life ln which they took little\nInterest or pride. And here the\ndrinking fountain or clack tower\ncommemorating Queen Victoria, or\ngood King Edward, or some local\nspeculative builder who had be\ncome mayor and \"developed\" the\ntown, or the mon who had fallen\nin the great war. And here would\nbe -the schools for their children,\nrising like towers out of the maze\nof two-stoyeyed buildings which\nformed their homes. And the\nplaces of jumbled architecture almost Indistinguishable ln design,\nand even in opinion, in which, under the titles of varloua religious\nbodies, they worshipped, or acquiesced In the worship of the god of\ntheir fathers. On the one elde waa\nthe park, ln which, their worship\ncompleted, they strolled on Sundays on their one day of leisure,\nthrough avenues arranged with\nshrubs and appropriate flowers.\nHere, on other evenings, their children played games suitable to the\nseason, until the hour arrived when\nthey, too, commenced to journey\nby the Oreat Eastern Railway\nbackwards and forwards ln and out\nof Ilford for the remainder of their\nUvea This for 48 or 50 weeks of\nthe year1. . You may have, as a\nseparate exhibit, the place to which\nthey went when they were free ln\nthe remaining period; a Claoton or\na Margate, which was, ln effect, an\nIlford by the Sea; where they stayed ln the same little houses ln the\nsame little streets and gazed at\nthe same shops selling tive same\nstandards of goods; where they\nread tha same newspapers and listened to the same musical selections, and looked at the sea; tamed\nabroad, as all the rest of their lives\nthey looked upon nature tamed ut\nhome.\nBut for the railway, with Its\nthree commodious stations, Ilford,'\nSeven Kings, Goodmayes, each re-\npresentating a slightly Increasing\ngrade of respectability' because\nslightly less remote from its birth\nat the .hands of the speculative\nbuilder, Ilfbrd would never have\nexisted at all. And but' for that\nfree trade'in commerce and Industry which made London the centre,\nwhore all the accounts of the world\nwere kept and all the shipping and\nbanking, and exchange transac-\nactlons of the world effected, no If-'\nfords would ever have existed at\nall. This ls not to vindicate free\ntrade. It Is \"to explain Ilford.\nEvery morning that progeny of\nfree trade; th* city st London,\neucks ln from aU the Ittords overcrowded tralnloads, hurrying rapid)- V\nably and dingily garbed human be- 1\nings.. They spread themselve* _\\nfrom attlo to underground cellar,\nwith nlmbleness aad apparently\nwithout repugnance, to spend this1\".\nbest part of their daya In copying*'\nother men's letter!, adding up other* f\nmen's accounts,, or distributing, iu\nvast numbers, ln written or printed\ninstructions, the requests and demands of other men for the alteration of universes whloh they have'\nnever known. Every evening they\ntrample their way baok again to\nIlford. And the evening and morning ara one day. They are all\neither olerke ln banks'or shipping\ncompanies, or chartered accountants, or insurance officials. And\nthey ate all rearing ohlldren to be\nInsurance officials,, or chartered\naccountants, or clerks in banks or\nshipping offices.\nTheir period of articulate speech\nIs the time spent between their\nplace et work and their place of\n'sleep. And also in the midday Interval when they crowd into underground eating houaea and play\ndominoes or discuss the affairs of\nthe world after a limited lunch.\nAt these times the public opinion\nof the Ilford* ts formed, and they\ndenounce the government aad denounce the Labor leaders, and the\nmor* vigorous of them denounce\nboth. And Just at one time they\nthought that Lloyd Qeorge was the\nlimit, and another tlm* that th*\nKaiser wu the limit, and at another, when the Dally Mall denounced Kitchener, that th* Dally\nMall wa* the limit, so lately they\nhav* thought Smillie (whose name\nthey pronounce tq rhyme with\nchilly) the limit; though now that\nthe eoal strike may he settled, they\nthink there may be some good ln\n\"Smlliy\" after all.\nWhat would happen If the nerve-\ncord of the Qreat Eastern Railway\nwaa suddenly severed remains conjectural. What would happen It\nLondon no more provided payment,\nhowever Inadequate, for bank\nclerks and chartered accountants\nand Insurance officials, still more\nconjectural. Ilford can make nothing with its hand*. It has no\ncapacity for sustained thought It\ntakes Its opinions fr'om the newspapers and Journals which gain\nsuccess ln its service, and Its opinions and the work of'the editors\nof-these spirited publications act\nand react the one against the other,,\neach mildly Inflaming the other. ;\nSo that Ilford all unconsciously'\nhelps to make the verdict of these\nthese newspapers help to make\nthe verdict of Ilford. Its.\nchief aim has been to abolish:\nthe old disturbing element* that\nconfuae and trouble human life,\neven, the three disturbing elements\nof th* Lucretlan philosophy\u00E2\u0080\u0094the'\ndoings of kings, the passion of love,\nthe nature of the gods. It la willing to settle down, making no extravagant demanda on the universe\nlf only the universe will let lt live\nIn peace. If lt can escape the\nearthquake, the pestilence and the\nflre, and Just hog on through life\ntilling its-allotment*\u00E2\u0080\u0094lt taut oul-\ntlver son Jardin\u00E2\u0080\u0094It ls willing to\npay the prioe of abandonment of\nall life's difficult achievement; the\nlarge unrest whloh carries men to\nthe heights and depths, the wonder and experience of the mysteries of life and death, and the amazing ways of men. It only asks that\nthia compact may be fulfilled by\nany unseen and now but dimly\napprehended ruler of human destiny. And It wtll gladly fulfil Its\nhaf. of the bar'galn, drifting through\nthree score years and ten with revolt and high ecstasy alike rejected,\nand raising up children themselves\nto drift through a simitar' universe\nof security and routine.\nThis particular Ilford has recently been challenged by a parliamentary election, and mon and women have appeared ln lta streets,\ntelling incredible stories of kingdoms remote'and alien; of what ls\nhappening ln Poland, and, in Iceland; of huge tides hnd tempests\nwhich are tormenting humanity.\nInford has listened\u00E2\u0080\u0094such Is the\nuniversal testimony\u00E2\u0080\u0094^lth respect\ntnd nut without curiosity to these\ntangled* tales. But Ilford, In the\nmain, as ln past similar challenges,\nIs concerned with none of .'these\nthings. It is true that lt ha* been\nthrough the experience ot the\ngreat war*whero Its young men\nvolunteered almost to a man, and\nfought magnificently; and their sisters, for the first time, went to\nwork Instead of their brothers, by\nthe Qrest Eastern Railway, in the\ncellars and attics et the city of\nWould Not Publish\nIt/Vfter Copy Waft\nSupplied\nJ. Harrington and S. Earp\nSpeakers at Large\nMeeting\n(By B. tf. et C. Correspondent)\nBy the time this appear* in\nprint, the hum and excitement of\nanother eleotlon will hav* died\naway. Th* victors, proud nnd\nhappy, -W.IU be muoh sought after.\nTh* defeated candidate*, with at\nleaat ft sense 0t Importance, due\nto * new-won notoriety, will rap-\nIdly disappear into that obscurity\ntrom whloh they came.\nTh* SociaUst Party ot Canada,\nwin or lose, will hav* no regret*.\nTh* campaign haa beea worth th*\neffort* made, and much, good litar-\natur* and sound educational propaganda has been distributed.. The\ndally press hav* not given muoh\nspace to report* of our meeting*\naent In, even when they had aaked\ntor copy. Below can be seen a report of one of our meetings, whloh\nwa* sent In the Daily Provinoe,\nand Vanoouver World. A three-\nInch paragraph was all that appeared as a result. However, this\ncan be taken as a compliment to\nthe Socialist Party, and th* position to whloh they hold fast\nIn comparison with th* audiences in evidenoe at the various\npolitical meetings held to this city\nduring the past few weeks; ft well-\nattended meeting was oa hand at\nthe Pender hall Thursday, Nor. 25,\nTwo' ot Ae candidates ot the\nSocialist Party of Canada\u00E2\u0080\u0094S.\nEarp and J. Harrington\u00E2\u0080\u0094were the\nspeakers for the evening.\nB. Earp opened his address by\npointing out that there was yet an^\nother week to go through before\nelection day, and after that day\nthere would doubtless be a certain\namount ot jubilation ln the\nranks both of the master olass and.\nthe -working class; and, of course,\nthe latter will take their defeats\nhs they usually do, with a certain\namount ot indifference. The questions being put up to the electors\nnewspapers, and the writers ptfafre very small, and of no vital in-\n\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \" \"~ ' \"\" -terest ln face of the more menac\ning problem that is coming Into\nview on the industrial field. Beyond the well-staged meetings of\nthe Liberal and Conservative parties ln thia city, there is a noticeable spirit of indifference amongst\nthe meetings In outside places.\nHowever, the Socialist Party doea\nnot oome before the electorate as a\nvote catching party, so much ae\nCard of Thanks\n*\nTo the Electors of Vancouver:\nAs thc candidate leading at the polls for the City\nof Vancouver, I wish to express my sincere thanks\nfor the honor which the citizens of Vancouver have\nconferred upon me.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nI assume it a compliment to my efforts during my\nrecent term of offlce that I should be returned with .\nsuch a majority, and can assure the people of British\nColumbia that I will strive to the uttermost to prove\nworthy of their trust.\nMARY ELIiEN (MBS. RALPH) SMITH.\nCard of Thanks\nElectors of Vancouver: \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nI thank tho electorate for the generous support\ngiven me on \"Wednesday, and the workers, whose\nuntiring efforts contributed to the result.\nI give them my pledge that I will work unremittingly to the end that Liberalism shall triumph\nover selfishness and greed.\n' M. A. MACDONALD.\nLondon, and greatly enjoyed the\nexperience. And their fathers and\nmothers worked on the land and ln\ngardens to produce food, and were\nconsumed day an night with a\ngreat anxiety. It ts true, also, If\nthe old symbols of massacre were\nrevived, there Is not one of these\nUttel tree-lined streets of bow-windowed houses which would not re-.\nveal the red crosses of sacrifice. It\nts true, also, that from some far-\noff region from which the war was\nproduced, discomfort is now produced, and a continual rise in\nprices provides as much astonishment and alarm as the continual\nrise of the ocean must have astonished and alarmed primitive people\nin the ancient deluges of ths world\nin srhich they were all destroyed.\nBut faced with th\u00C2\u00AB challenge,\nthe great bulk of Ilford passes back\nfrom the argument of the moment\nand even from the experience' of\nthe moment, to the Blow built-up\nconvictions of a lifetime. Ilford\nhates and despises the working-\nclasses, as all Ilfords hate and despise tho working classes. Ilford\nhates and despises them, partly because It has contempt of them,\nand partly because it has fear of\nthem. It has established its standard of a civilization, modest In\ndemand Indeed, In face of life's\npossibilities, but very tenacious ln\nIts maintenance of Its home and\ngarden, its clean street, and decent\nolothing, and agreeable manner's\nand ways. Just on its borders,\nand always prepared seemingly* to\nengulf lt, are those great masses of\nhumanity which accept none of Us\nstandards, and maintain life on a\ntotally different plane. Its apprehensions and disgust are similar to\nthut which occurs ln all similar\nconflict of ideals; botwoen the white\nand tho negro in the Southern\nStates of America, or even between\nthe white and yellow and black In\nthe Eastern Arlicipclagos. Labor\nonly enters lta kingdom as a coal\nsupply, rondered ever more limited\nand expensive by the insatiable de-\niTiand of coal miners to work short\nhfinrs for Immense wages; or as the\n.Increase of its necessary season\nticket to \"town.\" owing to the demand of the railway workers for\n,htgher pay ;or as the plumber,\n,yiho is unable to mend Its jerry-\nikullt houses; or the bricklayer,\nwho refuses tp build any alternatives. In such case, although it\n:has damned the government, and\ndamned Labor alike, the appeal of\ngovernment against Labor can destroy among the majority the ap-\nrpeal of Labor against government.\n>For it Is chiefly opposed to government when that government Is\nVtruckllng to Labor.\" Labor represents for it literally the flgure\nOt the Bolshevik of the cartoons,\nan unwashed, ill-dressed, truculent\nImmigrant from the neighboring\nLabor cities tearing up the troe-\navenues of Its streets, trampling on\nIts (lower beds, thrusting Its\nclumsy feet through the bow windows and aspidistra of ItB front\ndrawing r'ooms. In face of such a\nvision, it falls back on,the protection of government wltn\"somethlng\nof the same Bpirit as the Psalmists\nof old, In their uncertain praise of\na possibly angry Ood, proclaiming\nhopefully, \"Ye are the people of\nHis pasture and the sheep of His\nbond.\" For government, at worst,\nprotects ths hutch, the kennel, and\nthe safe feeding ground; and life\nls a hazardous and dtfllciilt busl-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2s outiide\nto cany on the educational campaign that haa been In progress In\nthis country during the past sixteen years. The outcome of thli\nelection Is of no gteat moment,\noutside of tbe extension of our propaganda. Tba material condition!\nof Uf* today were compelling the\nworkers: to take more Interett lu\nthe matters tbat affected them. A\ncomparison between the conditions\nthat existed prior to, during and\nafter the great war, as well aa the\nadvertised stories of destitution\nand suffering In the Central European states, whicb wae even spreading to France and Oreat Britain,\nwere matters that were becoming\neveryday knowledge. The compulsory labor enforced by law during\nthe period of war had now entirely disappeared, and the hunting\nfor the Job waa more In evidence.\nThe conditions ln the United States\nwere not very optimistic from the\nwage workers point of view, after\nthe somewhat unique position they\noccupied amongst the tollers of the\nworld until only recently. The\noverttocked markets of the world,\nand the financial embarrassments\nof the leading industrial nations,\nwere indications of the impasse\nInto which the capitalist syitem\nwaa leading. What action tbe\nworkera were going to take ln their\ndays of extremity depended to a\ngreat extent on the knowledge they\npossessed. Even in Canada, with a\nsmall population, and vait riches,\nthe question of wdrry over tbe future vaat nol by any meant banished from the minds of * vaat\nnumber of tho' people.\nJ. Harrington opened up hit address with tbo (act that being a\ncandidate, brings a full mall bag ot,\nquestions from all sorts of Individ\nualt wbo don't generally writo to\nthe exponents of the principles of\nScientific Socialism. The Navy\nLeague of Canada had not overlooked our candidate!, and tbey\nbad a beautiful little book giving\nua the opportunity to express eur\nopinions on the need of a navy f of\nCanada. As a work of art, It compere! favorably with the' splendid\npamphlets issued by the Russian\nSoviet government. Thli pamphlet hss the astounding information\nthat \"HS created the sea; ENGLAND keep! lt FREE.\" (Note the\npredominating power.) When we\nwere at war, wo needed protection\nfrom the Hun, but the Navy\nLeague says we need this navy so\nthat our merchants may carty\ntheir good! to any part of the\nworld, and not be afraid about receiving payment for them. It is\nwell for the working people to understand this frankness. The late\nSir Richard McBride once asked\nOttawa how they expected us to\npr'otect the Western Coast with\ntwo battleships? He had an idea\nwe wanted to project our coast.\nHo was mistaken, it was wanted to\nprotect our commerce,\nThe Hospital Association was another group that wanted to know\nwhat we thought about their troubles. It ts very remarkable that\nthis humanitarian institution\nbreathes no spirit of idealism ln\nits literature to our politicians\nThey tell ui that you cannot get\n100 per cent, efficiency In produc\ntion If you have only 6.0 per cent\nhealth. The appeal of the hospital\nthen to the politician is to keep\nthe individual slave and the collective slave In a position of 100 per\ncent health, not for humanitarian\npurposes, but tn order to get 100\nper oent result! ln Industry. No\nIdealism or humanltartanlsm;\nevery proposition Is laid down In\neconomlo termi. Every communication we have received has been\nset down in economlo terms, and\ncan be wen at our headquarters,\nbut listen to them, and what a\ndifferent atory.\nIf we are elected to Victoria, It\nwill be by a fluke, and we will be\nrepresenting people who do not\nwant us Xbeta, and immediately we\nstarted in to do anything on the\nproposition we stand for, they\nwould be dissatisfied with us, and\nthat will be unfortunate for us, It\nls a very noticeable fact that the\nmilitary officer! who are running\non the old party tickets, steer clear\nof alt reference to the wai*, and\nit may be as well to bear in mind\nthe disastrous results that befell\nall the warriors who ran In the\nUnited States elections\u00E2\u0080\u0094they were\nabsolutely snowed under. The\nspeaker then dealt with the minute care with which the worker\nkeeps tab on the smallest actions\nof any number' of his class who\nhappens to get thrudt Into a position of Importance; 1. e\u00E2\u0080\u009E a position\nthey think makes the individual\nmore important thnn themselves.\nThe scandals of the expert politicians cause the worker a Joy that\nhe never seems to get over his own\nrepresentatives so-called lapses\nfrom morality or honesty, The\nbusiness of the workor1 is to work.\nHe Kas nothing to do with stealing\u00E2\u0080\u0094he is not a stealer, but a\nworker\u00E2\u0080\u0094let the other fellow attend to his own particular calling.\nThe working class keep an eye on\nevery nickel they part with to any\nindividual who has the ear marks\nof being a worker, but thoy part\nso willingly with millions to tho\nC. P. R., the Grtuiby kitting outfit\nIn a process that looks 'to them\nquite reasonable.\nIn no part of the world's history,\nfor any very lengthy period, has\nan Individual leas powerful than\nanother made thatoindlvidua! produce wealth for him or givo him\nthat wealth. The only peoplo who\nhavo ever done ao wete Induced\nto do so undei1 coercion, It was\nalways the strong who preyed upon\nthe weak, and lho race was always\nto tho swift. Tho slave was a thing\napart from the unit, and those who\nkopt him in his pluce wero a thing\napart from society (the individual\nwho stood with arms In., hand to\nkeep the slave to his tusk.) Thc\narms were always in thc hands of\nthe master. Under civilization today, the arms are In the hands of\nwage workers.\nThe meeting last Sunday was\none of tho largest that wus ever\nheld at the Empress theatro. J.\nSmith and J. Harrington were the\nspeakers. Sunday next, Dec. 5, tlie\nspeakers will be the candidates who\nwill give theft* views on tho result\nof the election.\nDoes Good Shoe Repairing\nMean Anything to You?\nIF IT DOSS TOU MUST EVENTUALLY SEND YOUB\nSHOES HERE\nWe guarantee that satisfaction whieh you would\nexpect ,\n, We alao make Boots and Shoes la any style to yonr ow*\nmeasure, guaranteeing that aame satisfaction.\nOnr Help Is Entirely 0. B. V.\nThd New Method Shoe Making\nand Repairing Co.\n987 OAERALL STEEET (Just Off Hasting* Street)\nPHONE E-F 964\nSkates Attaohed and Sharpened\nCard of Thanks\nTo the Electors:\n. take this means of expressing my appreciation\nof the support accorded me at the polls Wednesday,\nand to aay that I will try in every way possible to\nmerit that confidence.\nJ. W. deB. FABBIS,\nAttorney-QeneraL\nSeattle\u00E2\u0080\u0094Warlike statements featured the visit here of tho joint\ncongressional committee on naval\naffairs, which will have much to\nsay regarding thc millions to bc\nspent tn developing Immense defence flystcms in the Puget Sound\nregions. Congressman Fred. A.\nBrltton, Illinois, declared that the\ntime wilt come whon America will\nbo called upon to hold her own\nagainst the world on thc high soaa.\nDoaatlMM loOrgulaatfoa tad\nThe general exooutlre board oJ\nthe 6. B. U, ha* received frt>m J.\nGlllls, Cardigan Bar, B. C, ths\naum of .12.(0 for organiiation\n(Ond stamps, subscribed (or by O.\nB. U. membor* In camp hen, aa\ndetailed below:\nC. Foterson, f 9; H. O. Johnson.\ntt; It. ycDonald, $1; T. Arnoll,\ntl; J. Olllls, It; H. Holkln, 11;\nBen Neill. |1; Bill Fltaron, \u00C2\u00BB1;\nRobort Ball, ft! W. Btodwar, Mi\na Nirtrom. II; J. Schlacal, It;\nJ.. Hillyer, 11.50; A. Dohlgrem, It;\nChaa. Barloott, tl: Ohas. Edward*\n11: A. Bunbory, 11; O. Montgomery, II; R. Lamont. tl; M. O.\nKelly, |1; C. Arnoll, tl; A. Chadwick, |1; a. Whito, |1; and P.\nMire, |J.\nAlso from D. M. Fotaraon, LoUsfe-\nboro Point, B. C. II; H. M. Wllkla,\nLumbor Workora, Vanoouvar,\n11.60.\nu mu tou an ,\nVAN BROS.\nW\u00E2\u0080\u0094-i 70V ASK ros\n-CIDER-\nand HoMkokotto vtaas et an\nUNION KEN'S ATT1NTION\nBallard's Fiirmtnre Store\nKM HAW STBBBT\nnone Soy. JUT\nWo always corry la atook a good\nBlleetloB of dining-room, parlor, kitohen and bodroom furniture, alio\nlinoleum sad modlam priced carpet\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0quorel, rags, eto. Wo ooo ooro yoa\nmonoy as wo art oat ol tko high rent\ndlitrlet.\nDr. De Van's French Pills\nA relloble Regulating Pill for Women, |5\na box. Sold at all Drag Storei, or moiled\nto any addreu oa reoelpt e, prioe. Tho\nScobell fiiag Co.. St, Oothorinee, Ontario.\nPHOSPHONOLforMEN\nReitorei Vim :n. Vitality; for Narr* nd\nBrftlo; taeniae! \"gnr matter;\" a Tonlo\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094will build you op. |3 a bo*, or two for\n$6, at drug atorei, or br mail on receipt\nof prie* Tht Scobell Drug Co., Bt. Oatb-\narlnai, Ontario.\nKIRK'S\nGuaranteed Coal\nMeans-\nit our eoal is not satisfactory to yoa, after you\nkave thoroughly tried it\nout, we will remove what\neoal'is left and charge yoa\nnothing for what yoa hart)\nused.\nToa to be the sole judga,\nKirk & Co.\n... LIMITED\n929 Main Street\nPhonoa Sejrmotft 1441 and 401\nCOWAN & BROOKHOUSE\nFBIBTIU, rDBLISHSBS, STB-\nEEOIYrKBB ADD BOOKBDIDBBS\nUnloa nfflclels. write for prices. Wo\ngin diTisnonoif\nr\nBe lure to notify tho post office\nu eoonaa you change your addreu.\nFor Twtnty Teata %ta hare lined thla Union Stamp for we aider ear\nVOLUNTARY ARBITRATION CONTRACT\n\W0RKERS UNION/\nOUB staot msuaas:\nPoicefal Collective Bargaining\nForbldi Both Strikes sal Lockoita\nDliputei Sottled hy Arbitration\nSteady Employment aad 81UBod Worf anaHl\nPrompt Deliveries to Desloia sad Pnblio\nPeace aad Bocceaa to Workoto and Baulorsoa\nProsperity ot Shoo Making Coawsltloi\nAa loyal union bob aad women, ws aak\nyou to demand ahoea healing tho ahow\nUaion Stamp on Solo, Znaols ot Lining.\nBOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION\ni 246 SIMMKIl STREET, BOSTON, MASS.\nOolUa Lowly, Ooneral Preildant.' Chariot L. Balne, Oenaral Sac.Troaa.\nUNIOWflsrAMP\nfactory\nFREE\nto\nBoys\nand Girls\nAny Boy who sends us the\ncoupon end ol a package ol\n\"Royal Crown\" Soap or Wash-\ning Powder will iw sent a\nSquawking Balloon, absolutely\nfree. See the picture\u00E2\u0080\u0094blows up\nbig\u00E2\u0080\u0094squeals like a pig.\nAny Girl who sends ua* the\ncoupon end of a package of\n\"Royal Crown\" Soap or Washing Powder (plus ISc for postage and packing) will be aent,\nabsolutely free, a 6-inch heavy,\nweight celluloid Kewpie Doll,\nworth 6S cents.\nMothers! Gather your \"Royal Crown\" coupons together\nand write for om Premium Catalogue and special offers\ntoday while stocks are full. Many folks select their entile\nliat of Christmaa gilts from this catalogue.\nRoyal Crown Soaps Ltd.\nPremium Dept., 308 Georgia Street East VANCOUVER, B, C.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094' PAGE EIGHT\nTWELFTH YTCATt. NO. 41\nTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST Vancouver, b. c.\nFRIDAY-\n...Deeember \u00E2\u0096\u00A0!.' 1920\nm\nCLAMAN'S STORE NEWS\nBOYS' DEPT.-i--SECOND FLOOR\n!\n' !\nn\ns Greatest\nLegitimate Sale\nOffers Sensational Values in\nMen's and Boys'\nSuits and Overcoats\nHART SCHAFFNER & MARX SUITS REDUCED\nTO $44.50\nMen, you are offered here an exceptional bargain\u00E2\u0080\u0094genuine Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits; for Men and Young\nMen, featuring that superb style and consummate cut for\nwhich Hart Schaffner & Marx are famous. In pure, soft\n\"virgin\" wool. Replar $75 models. Sale price.\u00E2\u0080\u009E..$44.50\n54 Only Boys' Suits Reduced to $8.95\n' Mothers, this is an extra special\u00E2\u0080\u0094a sweeping reduction to below half price. Beautiful pure wool suits\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094tweeds and navy serge. Exclusively cut and splendidly tailored; seams double sewn. Pants have four\npockets, belt loops and Governor fasteners. Begular $16 and $18 superfine suits. Sizes 24 to 35. Sale\nprice , $8.95\nMen's and Young Men's Overcoats\nReduced to $24.50\nBig, handsome- Overcoats in heavy weight pure woo/,\nsingle and double-breasted models. Including the full\nand easy raglan with full, swinging lines, and the big,\ndouble-breasted motoring ulster. Begular $35 and $40\n. Overcoats. Sale price .\u00E2\u0080\u0094 $24.50\nCopyright 1920 Hart Scliaffner & Mara \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nHart Schaffner & Marx Overcoats\nReduced to $35.00\nYou know the splendid lines of a Hart Schaffner &\nMarx Overcoat\u00E2\u0080\u0094its wonderful eut, and the thick,\npure wool it's made of. Here's Men's and Young\nMen's Overcoats, single and double-breasted j regular $55 to $60 Hart Schaffner & Marx models. Salo\nprice $35.00\nYoung Men's Suits Reduced to $22.50\nKeenly cut Suits in pure wool. Newest weaves and\npatterns! single and double-breasted styles; full of\n\"pep\" and \"go,\" but not extreme. Tip-top regu-\nlar $35 Suits. Sale prioe $22.60\nThe Home of\nHart Schaffner & Marx Clothes\nCI\nJ\namans\nLIMITED\n153 Hastings West\nCanada's Largest Exclusive Store for Men and Boys\nPATRONIZE FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS\n\"WE GROW WHILE OTHERS CROW\"\nTHE NEW YORK'S\nl-2PriceSale\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094OF\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMEN'S, WOMEN'S AND\nCHILDREN'S BETTER\nCLASS CLOTHES\nla a Record Event That Demonstrates\ntbe Value-Giving Supremacy ol Tills\nBig Organization\nTHB SAVINGS OFFERED HERB\nARE TRULY WONDERFUL\u00E2\u0080\u0094COMB\nAND PROFIT \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nmen's surra\nPopular styles in Navy Blue Sergei, Tweeds, Worsteds, ete.\nReg. |50, sale price ...125.00\nReg. 940, sale prlce....$10.00\nReg. 130, sale Jrice....\u00C2\u00BB15.00\nRet. Ill, Hie price....$42.S0\nReg. ITB, sale price....$37.50\nReg. $66, sale price... $32.60\nMEN'S OVERCOATS\nAll the newest models and\nfabrics,\nReg. 110, sale price... $.10.00\nReg. Ill sale prlce....$27.50\nReg. 110, sale price....125.00\nReg. 145, sale prlee....$22.50 at 1 O D_}\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nReg. 140, sale prlce....\u00C2\u00BB20.00 Just Vane JTIICC\nLADIES' COATS AND\nDRESSES\nNewest styles and materials.\nA choice assortment of\nthese smart models offered\nBOYS* SUITS AND OVERCOATS\nIn. smart juvenile styles and hard\nwearing cloths. Our entire stock ls\nbeing offered at _ re TO'*-_,_,\nexactly I\"* FTKB\nCRKDIT STORE OPPOSITE PROVINCE\nVOLUNTEER ARMY OF\nTHUO ADVENTURERS\nAnti-, Bolshevik Army Was Composed of Plunderers and\nMob of Murderers\nScott Littell, a well known war\ncorrespondent, who has just returned from Southern Russia, says:\n\"The truth about tho volunteer\narmy opposed to the BolBhevik\nnever has been told. But when the\nreal story Is written It will be found\nto be a record of courage and endurance on one hand, and on the\nother a shameful tale of bribery,\n; corruption, stupidity and blundering, and of cr'uelties and atrocities\nunsurpassed evon by the Soviet\ntroops.\"\nBut when Correspondent Littell\nhas said this he has only described\nwhat wur generally Is, made some-\nwhnt worse In this case by the fact\nthat the volunteer army was made\nup chiefly of adventurers who had\nno great principles at stake but\nrather the motive of personal gain\neither*by plundering or by grants\nof land or concessions ln case of\nvictory.\nWILL FRANCE OCCUPY\nTHE RUHR BASIN?\nGerman and French Capitalists Will\nBlock Socialization\u00E2\u0080\u0094Miners\nWIU Strike.\n(By The Federated Press)\nNow Tork.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Persistent .reports\nthat France Intends to send troops\nto occupy the Ruhr basin, havo\ncaused an investigation by the International Federation of Trado\nUnions, according to a despatch to\nthe New York Globe.\nLeon Jouhaux, president of the\nFrench General Federation of Labor, who helped make the investigation, has returned to Franco with\nthe report that If French troops\noccupy the Ruhr, there will be an\nImmediate strike of the coal miners\nthere.\n\"We aro convinced that French\noccupation of the Ruhr' basin Is\ngreatly desired by the German capitalists, particularly the group led by\nHugo Stlnnes,\" Jouhaux said.\n\"Why? because suoh occupation\nwould end the project for socializing the mines. We were able to see\nthat the German employers are\ncounting on the entente aoldiers to\naid them In their reactionary\nplans.\"\nIn vlew^ of the fervid exhortation In behalf of destitute Europe,\nattention has been called to the official announcement by' the Red\nCross at Washington, November\n18, that 700 tone of food, clothing\nand medicines were put to the\ntorch ln the Crimea on November\n18. Some two weeks earlier the\nBed Cross at Washington assured\ntho Federated Press that it was\nanxious to carty relief into Soviet\nRussia. Its later announcement\nsayB that that the 700 tons of supplies were burned up to keep the\npeople of Soviet Russia from getting them after Baron Wrangels\narmy was beaton.\nSt. John's, Nfld.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dock workers\nhoro have struck for Increased\nwages and have tied up the loading\nof coal for the use of the Newfoundland Railway.\nTl\nRetribution Waits on the\nBanks Opposed to Nonpartisan League\nWashington.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Punishment, swift\nand crushing, has' fallen upon,\nthe reactionary - forces who put\nthrough an amendment- to cripple\nthe Bank of North Dakota and\nthus to injure the Nonpartisan\nleague.\nFourteen private banks, ownefl\nin most instances by enemies of\nthe Nonpartisan league, failed and\nclosed their doors ' within three\nweeks after theTaw was amended\nso that communities hostile to the\nleague could withdraw their public'\nfunds from the Bank of North\nDakota These bankers, like their\nilk the world over, held the tbrny-\ners in their clutches by means of\nloans, which for seyeral years had\naccumulated because of crop fall\nures, etc. This year the crop was\nexceptionally good and the bankers looked forward with glee to the\ncleaning up 0f the farmers funds,\nhut pricts for farm products sud-\nuemy took.u slump, and railroad\nrates Increased, so the farmers refused to sell at the ruinously low\nfigure because lt meant, further\ndebts to the banking . Interests.\nThe banks could not collect, the\nState Bank of North'Dakota, or*-\nganized this year by the farmers-\nlabor government ' ,coiild have\nsaved the situation by loans to the\nbanks, but refused to do'so because the banking interests had\nbeen very active trying to cripple\nthe State Bank and were expected\nto make further attempts in the\nfuture. Hence there was only one\nthing for the private banks to do\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094close their doors\u00E2\u0080\u0094and this they\ndid.\nICAN L\nDelegates of Half Million\nWorkers Begin New\nMovement\n(By Helen Augur)\n(Staff Correspondent for the Federated Press)\nNow York.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Delegates fr'om half\na million organized workers, Nov.\n24, enunciated the first clear demand for the resumption of trade\nwith Russia, which has come out\nof the American Labor movement,\nwhen they adopted resolutions calling for the lifting of the blockade ngainst Russia, and for the\norganization of a nation-wide\nmovement to force a new policy toward the Soviet Republic on the\npart of thq State department.\nThe 600 delegates, who represented about 100 New York unions,\nelected an executive committee of\n25 empowered to carry on the flght\nfor Russia's life Into the Western\nStates, and pledged moro than\n$2000 for Immediate expenses. The\nnieeting was called by a temporary\ntrade union organization, the American. Humanitarian Labor Alliance.\nThe impression whioh speakers\nand audience shared was of onc of\na great country, in dire need of\nfood, clothes, machinery and ovory\nproduct of modern labor, while in\nAmerica factories and shops and\nwarehouses are closing one after\nthe other. In order to solve tho\nproblem of unemployment and\nwant looming in America, Labor\nmust, by its own power, force the\nopening of the grent Russian mai-\nkot. speaker aftei' speaker declared.\nTimothy Healy, International\npresident of thc Stationary Firemen's Union, who returned tuts\nweok from England,' where ho attended the Brltith Trades Union\nCongress as tho representative of\nthe American Federation of Labor,\nwas applauded when he declared\nthat American Labor was far behind European and Bngllsh Labor\nln its realization of the Heed for\nfriendship with Russia. Reading\nextracts from the report ot thc\nBritish Labor1 delegation to Russia,\nhe said: \"These sentiments have\nthe approval of workers In every\nindustrial nation of the world, except the American Federation of\nLabor.\" It ls a shame.\"\nJames Mouer; president of the\nPennsylvania State Federation of\nLabor,- which, had taken action\nsimilar' to that of the delogate\nbody, pledged his aid to the movoment for lifting thc blockade. \"In\nRussia there are 180,000,000 peoplo suffering because they are living the ideals which America entered the war for and abandoned,\"\nsaid Joseph Schlossberg, general\nLARGEST MEN'S -STORE IN THE WEST\nDriving Away With tke Greatest Men's Clothing\nSale the West Has Ever Known\nMen's.Suits at\nHALF PRICE\nHundreds of models\u00E2\u0080\u0094styMs for men and young men-\nall backed for quality and workmanship by Dick's guarantee. If it isn't what youwant, bring it back. You pay\nthc actual half price.\nAll Lines of Men's Furnishings\nClearing Below Wholesale Cost\nWm. DICK\nLimited\n45-47-49 Hastings St. East\nIN\nSome Insight Into the\nReign of Terror Being\nIndulged In\n(By Paul Hanna)\n(Staff Correspondent for the Fed'\nei-ated Press)\nWashington\u00E2\u0080\u0094Not one witness\nthus far has volunteered to appear\nbefore the American Commission\non Ireland with evidence to refute\nor extenuate the atrocities attributed to armed British forces in\nIreland. Many invitations have\nbeen sent to known opponents of\nIrish freedom, both in this country\nand ln Great Britain, without res\nponse from any of them.\nMeanwhile stories of whloh the\nfollowing aro typical, are being recounted by Irish town officials, and\nby Americans lately returned from\nIreland.\nMrs. Agnes B. King, of Irbnton,\nOhio, went to Ireland In July to\nvisit the birthplace of her parents.\nBetween then and September, she\nvisited some fifty towns. In all\nbut one town, the terror was being\npracticed on the population. Unable to endure the .continuous\nnight firing: in the streets of Cork\nby the \"Black and Tan\" Constabulary, she fled with' her daughter\nand niece to the town of Bantry,\njust ln time to encounter the following tragedy there:\nShooting the Defenceless\nConstabulary went at night to\nthe home of a widow to seize her\nson, suspected of being a member\nof the IriBh Volunteers. The son\nthey wanted was away fr'om home,\n'on the run\" for his life, when\nthe soldiery entered. Through the\nlad's uplifted hands the soldiers\nfired, killing him before hla mother's eyes.\nMrs. King fled next to Qalway,\nwhere there had boen no disorders,\nand where even the curfew was not\nin force, and took refuge in a hotel frequented by British officers.\nBofore the hotel two Black and\nTans walked up and down together, ln the presence of many citizens, including a woman and three\nchildren. Suddenly one of the constables opened flre on the crowd.\nA boy fell with a shattered leg. A\nyoung man sprang for'ward to disarm tho thug, but fell mortally\nwounded a moment later. Two\nshots from somewhere behind hlin\nkilled the murderer.\nMostly Young Irishmen\nThat night the Black and'Tans\nloosed the terror ln Galway. A\nlad named Quirck, \"on the rUn\"\nfrom Cork, was dragged from his\nshelter to the scene of the shooting described above, and there\nriddled with bullets,, all flred Into\nhis abdomen. Quirck dinggid his\ndisemboweled body on Ins hands\nto his own doorstep, and there\ngave up the ghost.\nMrs. King stood beside somc^\nEnglishmen in the hllcl lobby\nwhen the thug who flred the flrst\nshot was Identified after his death.\n\"My God! That Is my\"brother:\"\nexclaimed one of the Englishmen.\nLate one night the American\nwomen was awakened by the cry:\nHalt! Hands up! Flre!\" In the\ncourtyard below her window, Mrs.\nKing could see nobody. Again the\ncry rang out, \"Halt! Hands up!\nFire!\" A third time the fearsome\ncommand was repeated, this time\nvery near.\nQuite distracted, Mrs. King ran\nfrom her room and appealed to\nthe clerk of the hotel, a woman.\n\"It ls all all right,\" tho woman\nsoothed her guest; \"in the room\nnext yours thefe ls a boy 'on the\nrun.' In his nightmares he always keeps shouting: 'Halt! Hands\nup! Fire!*\"\nfeven Animals Must Suiter\nAnother witness told of reprisals against a farmor suspected of\nhaving given shelter to men \"on\nthe run\" from town to town lo escape the king's soldiery. Fr'om,\ntheir army lorry Black nnd Tan\nconstables daBhed into his Holds,\nand cut tho tails oft six steers. Tho\ntortured animals had to bs killed\nat once.\n\"Do the Blaok and Tans burn\nand loot Indiscriminately, or do\nthey select the homes of Republican sympathizers?\" a manlier of\nthe Committee asked of John Der>\nham, of Balbriggan. \"Thoy plok\nthe homes of Republicans better\nthan I could do It myself,\" replied\nDerham, whose home was covered\nwith petrol and burned to the\nground while he, his wife and\nthreo daughters Btood hands up\nbefore the gunmen.\nAt the press table a Boston corespondent turns to a colleague.\n'Do you remember how the cables\n*erc burned up a few months ago\nwith\" British accounts of German\natrocities in Belgium?\" ho asks.\nThe other smiles grimly. \"Yes,\nthat's what my wife was srylng\nlast night,\" he answers.\nBrindell Cleaned Up\nMillion Dollars\n(Continued from page 1)\nthe council as well as the Building\nTrades Employers' Association,\ncould break lt. Similarly Independent employers were caught between\ntwo great forces,' labor aB managed\nby Brindell and the big employers'\ngroup which was unconcerned\nabout the smaller fry.\nDespite the public scandal and\nthe charges brought against him,\nBrindell still has the backing of\nhts little picked group of \"business\nagents\" whom he forcod the unions\nto elect for three years at a minimum, salary of $75.a week. The\nbig leaders of the American Federation of Labor have not repudiated Brindell.\nEverett, Wash.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Pat Cantwell, a\nmember of the I. W. W., has been\nfound guilty here of violation of\nthe state criminal syndicalism law,\nafter a trial lasting more than a\nweek. The prosecution was based\non the contention that the defendant was a member and organizer\n'it the I. W. W.\nsecretary of the Amalgamated\nClothing Workers of America, who\nhaB Just returned from Europe.\nThe\nWilliams\nShoe\nFOR MEN\n$6.45\nThis shoe'has been regularly sold at $9.00; ma^e\nof the very best heavy chrome leather that will\nstand up to the hardest kind of */\u00C2\u00BB My*\nwear. Regular $9.00. Special ......;. \u00C2\u00ABpO.^O\nShoe Satisfaction at a Fair Price\nCORNETT BROS. & CLARKE\nLIMITED\n33 HASTINOS STBEET EAST .\nFl\nGarment Workers to Consider Amalgamation\nat Conference\n(By the Federated Press)\nNew Tork.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Organization of the\ngarment workers of the United\nStates Into one great alliance will\nhe perfected at a convention to be\nheld ln this city December 6. .according to plans Just announced by\nBenjamin Schlesinger, president\nof the International Garment\nWorkers. The chief unions which\nwill comprise tho new alliance will\nbe the International, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the\nUnited Cloth Hat and Cap Workers, the International Fur Workers'\nUnion, and possibly the Journeymen Tailors' Union and the United\nGarment Workers.\nDecision to call the December\nconference was made at the quarterly conferenco of the International, which has Just ended in Baltimore. Among other important decisions, the general executive board\nauthorized the opening of co-opera,\ntivo factories to demonstrate the\nability of the workers to control\ntheir Industry, at the same time\nproducing superior clothing at\nlow prices. New York or Chicago\nwill be chosen as the scene of the\nexperiment, it Is believed.\nDeclaring that tho present campaign by the clothing manufacturers to cut wages and stretch hours,\nwas caused by their own ruinous\nprofiteering during the war.\nSchlesinger said that his union was\nperfectly willing to \"readjust\"\nwages If the manufacturers would\nallow the workers In turn to readjust thcir profits. \"Why should\nonly wages be readjusted?\" he\nasked.\nNew York\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tho statoment in the\nHouse of Commons by Premier\nLloyd George that America Is experimenting on deadly war gases ls\nfully bore out by the facts. The\nUnited States government, lt Is understood, will not agree to abolish\npoison gas as part of Its military\nsystem, ln the next war,'Unltod\nStates soldiers will all carry packages of poison gas as part of their\nequipment.\nOlve a little encouragement to\nour advertisers.\nMilwaukee.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"I have become a\nSocialist and will be the Labor -\nparty candidate for Parliament -\nfrom Nottingham at the next ion- i\neral election,\" declared Norman 1\nAngell, world famous paciflst, tn an '\nInterview here.\nPatronize Fed Advertisers.\nB. F, Jones, M. D., noted Eye\nSpecialist, says 00 per cent, of\nall eye trouble to due to\nspinal causes.\nDr. W.Lee Holder\nSPINE SPECIALIST\nHours. 1-5; Mon., Wed., Frl.,\n5-8.\nA TEACHER OF NATURAL\nHEALING\nSey. 8533 Bay. 4023R.\nFAIHFIELD BUILDING\nGRANVILLE AND PENDER\nDANCING LESSONS\nPRIVATE OR CLASS\nW. E. Fenn's School\nCOTILLION HALL\nPhones: Sey. 101\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sey. 3458-0\nSocial Dances Monday, Wednesday nnd Saturday,\nH. 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