"1503f578-50db-4e43-96f5-d2f72b8d8643"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2017-03-28"@en . "1923-11-16"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcfed/items/1.0345589/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST\nI industrial unity, strength *_*. Official Organ Vancouver Trades and Labor Council (International)\n.4 POLITICAL UNITY: VICTORY\nFIFTEENTH YEAR. No. 46\nFOUR PAGES\nVANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16,1923\n$2,50 PER YEAR\nCandidates in Civic Election to\nDemand 44-hour Week at\nCOMMITTEE MEETS NOV. 18\nWorker* Urged to Sluggett Labor\nCandidates aa Only Logical\nCoune to Adopt\nj AT the general meeting of the\ni Labor Representation committee last Friday night, the following platform for the acceptance of labor candidates for the\ncivic elections was Unanimously\nconcurred in:\n(1) That the unton rate of\nwages he the minimum.\n(2) That forty-four hours a week\nbe the maximum.\n(S) That we are in favor of day\nlabor on all civic and municipal\nwork.\n(4) That we are in favor of owning and controlling all public utilities each to be organized and administered by .separate departments.\n(5) That public service should be\nrendered at cost.\n(6) That police commissioners\nbe elected by popular vote,\n(7) That we are In favor of the\nabolition of property qualifications\nfor publlo office.\nA further meeting will be held on\nMonday next, to finally deal with the\nmatter of nominations of aldermanic\ncandidates for the city and reeves\nand councillors in surrounding municipalities, Aid. R. P. Pettipiece having been chosen as standard-bearer\nfor the mayoralty.\nThere was a full .attendance of\ndelegates. J. R. Flynn occupied\nthe chair. A. S. Wells tendered his\nresignation as secretary, which was\nduly accepted and Frank I#. Hunt\n| elected to nil the position. A lot\nof detail work was disposed of. The\ni report of the Policy committee after\na lengthy discussion was concurred\nIn.\nThe concensus of opinions of the\nI delegates is that a vote by the elector\nfor the labor candidates ls not lost,\neven though they are not elected.\nThe labor voter' wins, no matter\nwhich way the election goes, because\nseveral things are accomplished.\nFirst, you help to build up the labor\nparty, whose sole object is to point\nout to the workers of Vancouver the\nevils of a corporation-controlled\ncouncil, so that they will join in the\nmovement to replace lt by working\nclass legislation. Second, by helping to build up the labor representation committee, you make it possible to train a large body of workers\nto be capable of transacting muni'\nelpal business for the beneflt of all\nat the opportune time. Third, you\nhelp to elect our candidates and\nthus create an opportunity to im\nprove the condition of the workers\nI even under a corporation-ruled\ni council. Fourth, and not the least\nj important, Is, you help organized\nlabor to roll up a big vote, so that lt\nvhas a standing' in the communit.y\nj which must be reckoned with. Or-\nf dinarlly, the last assertion Is difficult\nI to demonstrate, because events are\n[ slow to shape themselves into defin-\nite -results within the short time\nnecessary to make the cause of labor\n| plain to the whole electorate. Also\n\ remember that eleotlon day is on\n^December 12, and to vote early and\n[ not be debarred from voting like\nBthey were last year when \"the bird\n[shut oif the juice\" and the street\n[ cars stopped running till after the\nI poll was closed.\nEELANDS' SPEECH\ntoe Legislature Discusses Un-\n\ deployment, Immigration\n\* ' -and Other Problems\nV*'\nY \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nLONGSHOREMEN'S STBIKE\nProtected by Labor Purty\nIf it had not boen for tho labor\nJparty thousands of poor peoplo would\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 have been ejected from their houses,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 says C. P. Trevelyan, M. P.\nRuhicd Trgdo\nTho great \"oaptlaiiB of Industry\"\nI throughout the world have brought\nI trade and commerco to ruin, says\nI Qeorge Lansbury, M. P.\nMINIMUM WAGE BOARD\n[ Wages and Hours for Experienced\nFemales in Manufacturing industry\nThe Minimum Wage Board of Brlt-\nI ish Columbia has established the foll-\nI owing minimum wage schedules for\nI experienced female employees in the\nI manufacturing industry; effective\nI November 20:\n\"The minimum wage for every experienced female employee, whether\nIon a time-rate or piece-rate basiB,\n.[shall be $14 for a week of 48 hours.\n\"No such employee shall be employ-\nled for more than eight (8) hours in\nlany day nor more than forty-eight\n1.(48) hours in any week.\"\nImperial Preference\n\"Imperial preference\" presupposes\nla community of Interests which is\n|*non-exlstent, and tariff tinkering only\n[increases the conflict, says A. Hen-\nI derson, M. P.\nBoys' Minimum Wags\u00E2\u0080\u0094Printing\nText Books\u00E2\u0080\u0094Eight-hour\nBill\u00E2\u0080\u0094Test System\nTD H. NEELANDS, labor member\n*\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 for South Vancouver, delivered\nan able speech ln the legislature at\nVictoria on Thuraday. It Is as follows:\nMr. Speaker: We take up the subject of unemployment where we left\noff a year ago. As long aa labor members occupy seats upon the floor of\nthis house, this matter will be up for\ndiscussion. For many years labor\npleaded for workmen's compensation\nand other social legislation, some of\nwhich has been made law, but not\nwithout persistent campaigning on the\npart of the workers. So with the\neight hour bill, which, as indicated lh\nthe speech trom the throne, ls to be\nbrought down during the present session, after being repeatedly turned\ndown at former sessions of the legislature, although lt had the fullest support of labor. The same with unemployment. We shall constantly bring\nforward this matter until it receives\nthe attention it deserves. A system\nunder which some degree of unemployment exists in normal times, and\nln bad times gives us thousands of\nmen and women who can flnd no\nwork, is wrong. We are out to securo\na change which will give us a system\nhaving1 in view a social purpose; a\ncommunity in which there is no one\nstarving or in need of the necessities\nof life, because it recognizes that starvation Is an injury not only to the individual alone, but to the whole body\nof which he is a member. The system\nof capitalism, of which unemployment\nis a part, has to go. It is not good\nenough for us to endeavor to satisfy\nourselves with the statement that\nthere is less unemployment this year\nthan last. Unemployment is a recurrent social disense, and should be\nguarded against in normal times, In\nstead of waiting until it breaks out as\na serious epidemic, and then tinker\nwith the situation by hnnding out\ndoles, etc. It is difficult to flnd anything now to say on this subject, but\nI feel lt is a matter which must be\nbrought to the attention of this house\nbecause there are a great numbor of\npeople suffering because of it. It is\nsuffering which they do not deserve;\nIt is suffering which a large part of\nthe community is ignoring; and, I am\nafraid, it is suffering which a large\nnumber of men who have always been\nIn work themselves, have not sufficiently recognized.\nDoles and ltellcf Work\nAt every turn we have found how\ninadequately the government has met\nthe situation. For a long while, when\nunemployment was at its worst, the\nquestion was passed back and forth\nbetween the provincial and federul\ngovernments, each attempting to rid\nitself of responsibility In the matter\nuntil eventually the condition develop\ned into such a state that something\nhad to be done. Now what do we\nflnd is offered by our government\nwhich are composed of supposedly intelligent business men\u00E2\u0080\u0094nothing but\ndoles, and the performance of what\nthey called \"relief work,\" but what I\ncall useless work, which resulted in\nenormous waste of man-power at\ngroat cost to the country. Now is the\ntime for the government to take such\nBteps as will protect the workers\nagainst sickness and unemployment,\nas well as injury, While we are glad\nto note that there has been a Blight\nreduction in tho numbor of unemployed persons during recent months,\nwe are unable to draw much satisfaction from this improvement, as there\nare still largo numbers of men and\nwomen out of work.\nAftor more than threo years of depression, with unemployment on an\nunprecedented scalo, It is not unreasonable to expect that somo mention\nwould have been made in the speech\nfrom the throno that the government\nwould come forward with some plan\nwhich would lighten the burden of the\nvictims of unemployment. Yet there\nis nothing In tho speech to show that\nyou are prepared to deal with the problem in any way. Work or adequate\nmaintenance Is the demand labor\nmakes upon the government. It ls the\nfoundation of our proposals for dealing with the unemployment problem,\nand we will continue to press for its\nfull acceptance by whatever government which may be in power, so long\nas thia evil remains to torment the\nworkers and their families.\nImmigration\nNow we come to the question of immigration, a question which is closely\nallied to that of unemployment. Provincial and federal governments are\nspending large sums of money in sending emissaries abroad in their offortB\nto encourage immigration to this\ncountry, under the guise of settling\nthe newcomers on the land. On more\nthan one occasion already this session,\nwe have heard of the fate of numbers\nwho have attempted to get back to the\nland so that lt Is unnecessary for me\nto enlarge upon that point, although I\n(Continued on p**e I)\nWhy You Should Subscribe for the\nB. C. Federationist\n1. Ever since its establishment 15 years ago, it has worked in the interests of all people\nwho work for a living, and endeavored to obtain fair wages And fair hours for all\nworking people.\n2. It agitated for and helped obtain suoh valuable laws as the Workmen's Compensation act, the Minimum Wage act for women and Mothers' Pensions.\n3. It is the only paper in B. C. that gives Labor's side of public questions.\n4. If you want all the news, particularly labor's aide of itrike troublea, politieal\ncampaigns and efforts to obtain better labor laws, as well as labor news of interest and importance from all over the world, one has to have a labor paper.\nSUBSCRIBE FOB THE PEDEBATIONIST.\nBOOST FOB THE FEDEBATIONIST\n5C\nShipping Federation Make Fortunes, But Balk at Modest\nWage Increase\nBEAL CAUSE OF TROUBLE\nStevedoring Superintendents Going \"Batty\" Result ofthe .\nScab'\n(Editorial Longshoremen's Strike\n(Bulletin)\nSO MUCH haa transpired, and so\nmany new controversial points\nhave been introduced into the present dispute, since the Inception ot\nthe strike, that many people are apt\nto forget at this time the original\nstumbling block to an amicable arrangement in the early days of last\nmonth. That was the refusal of the\nShipping Federation to meet the extremely modest demands of the longshoremen for the re'lntroductlon of\nthe lumber bonus lost In the spring\n9f J.922. .It is a point not lightly to\nbe ignored just now when a perusual\nof the financial columns of any of our\ndaily newspapers shows the present\ncharter rates for lumber to the Orient.\nThe present westbound conference\nrate on lumber to Japan is $13.50 per\nthousand feet\u00E2\u0080\u0094a raise of $1 per thousand since we came out on strike\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nbut that is merely the minimum\nwhich may be charged. According\nto the Sunday Sun (Nov. llth):\nLumber exporters are divided in1\nopinion as to the possible condition\nof the freight markets on the North\nPacific early next year. One faction\nis taking all the tonnage that can be\nsecured even paying $14.75 and $16\nfor ships to take lumber from this\ncoast to two ports in Japan. The\nother element has refused to tako\nany ships and is holding out for what,\nthey call post-Christmas snles in\nfreights.\nAt the time when we executed our\nlast six months' agreement with the\nShipping Federation (April, 1923) the\nchartered rates approximated,. $12.50\nand were subject to slight oscillations\nuntil the month of August, when the\nC.G.M.M. took tho highest rates on\nrecord for lumber on a shipment to\nIndia. The justice and reasonable\nness of the longshoremen's plea should\nbe apparent to all, especially when we\nconsider tho feverish bookings now\nbeing made for charters to the Orient\n(Continued on page 2)\nBritish Labor Party Leader Flays\nOovernment for Sidestepping by Election\nLABOR IS LIKELY TO GAIN\nJAIL FOD \"SEDITION\"\nNova Scotia Needs Another Jos.\nHowe to Defend Free Speech\nand Free Press\n[Editorial Halifax Citizen]\nThe jury and trial judgo In the McLachlan caso havo completed their\n\"glorious\" work and, for the flrst time\nin Nova Scotia, a man is sent to Jail\nfor \"sedition,\" unless tlie appeal of\nwhich notice was given, should succeed. The attorney general got in his\nshare of thc \"splendid\" work ln characteristic style, and no doubt tho\nwholo group\u00E2\u0080\u0094jury, judge and prosecutor\u00E2\u0080\u0094are thoroughly happy and satisfied with themselves. Possibly they\nare not aware that they have struck\nlhe first serious blow agninst freedom\nof speech since the days of Joseph\nHowe, and have turned back the\nwheels of progress one hundred years.\nWould that this province had a Joseph\nHowe In order to show up thoso who\nwould destroy free speech and a free\npress, no matter what the provocation\nor pretext might be. There Is a deep,\nBerious principle involved which Bmall\nbrairfs cannot see, altogether apart\nfrom tho question of McLachlan, and\nhad wo a Howe In our midst today,\nthose who are so wantonly and unnecessarily casting this principle to\nthe winds would be shown up In their\ntrue colors and the eyes of the public\nopened to the real truth to which\nthey are now blinded by prejudice\nngainst McLachlan. When tho appeal\nhas been decided we shall deal with\nthis subject further.\nMotion Brought Before Commons\nby Labor Leader Discloses\nLabor Election Policy\n(Special to The Federationist)\nT ONDON, Nov. 15.\u00E2\u0080\u0094That the gov>\nernment, in calling a sudden election, was deliberately side-stepping\nthe stupendous unemployment problem and the European/ embroglio, and\nthat the instituting of the tariff issue\ninto the election 'is merely an effort\nto bring about a false and unimportant issue in the election in an attempt to get the people's minds off\ntheir real problems, Is the charge\nmade to-day in the House of Commons by J. Ramsey Macdonald, leader of the opposition labor party. His\nm,otion follows:\n\"This house cerisiffi_s the neglect of the government to deal\nwith the pressing needs of the unemployment question, regrets its failure to devise and pursue a national\npolicy calculated to restore the interests of the country abroad and re-establish international peace and trade,\nand condemns the decision of the government to leave millions of British\npeople in want in order to fight an\nelection on an undisclosed Scheme\nof tariffs and preferences conceived\nby sections of capitalists in their\nown interests, the effect of which\nmust be to Increase the cost of living and encourage the formation of\nanti-social trusts and combines.\"\nTho motion is interesting as Indicating the line labor will pursue\nin the coming elections. The action\nof the government in calling an election so suddenly and in the midst\nof European confusion, and tjie dis*-\nbanding of parliament before it had\nsettled down to work, is meeting with\ncriticism on all sides in England. It\nis being predicted by political experts\nin close touch with the labor party\nthat the conservatives stand to lose\nthe most ground as a result of their\nprecipitate action. Their present\nstanding; of 342 members in the house\nof commons may be cut down to such\nan extent that there would be the\npossibility of the labor party outnumbering them and capturing the govornment. This has been considered\na possibility for long by both friends\nand enemies of the labor party; and\nWith tho reversion of feeling arising\nagainst tho government for bringing\nabout an election at such an Inoppor\ntuno time, this possibility of labor\nparty triumph Ih more near a prob\nability than It linn been beforo. It\nIs oxpected that the unltod liberal\nparty will obtain not more than lfiO\nmembers, but at all odds they should\nbe Inferior in numbers io tho labor\nmembers when the votes are counted.\nTho state of parties in the prosont\nhouso of commons Is aH follows:\nUnionists. 342; Labor, 144; Unltod\nLiberals (comprising B9 Asqulthfans\nand 59 Lloyd Georgians), 118; other\nparties, 7; vacant 4; total, 615. For\ntho total 616 scats in the house of\ncommons there will be about 1350\ncandld.-itcs in the field, including\nabout 30 women. The Conservative\nand the Liberal parties will each nominate about 480 candidates and the\nLabor party about 300.\nUNIONS MOVING TO HOLDEN\nBUir.MNG SATURDAY,\nDECEMBKIl 1\nSATURDAY, Dec f will bo\nmoving day for nil union offices now local-Ml ot 310 Pender\nstreet west. The entire eighth\nNoor of thc Holdon building, 10\nHastings street east, lias boon\nIcomxI fnr tlio unions affiliated\nwith lho Vanoouver Trades and\nLabor Council. Monday, Doc. 8,\ntlio soorotarlos of the unions\nwill he \"at homo\" In tlicli* new\nquarters. The now location will\nprove a brighter and more modern headquarters for tlie organized labor movement In\nVanoouver.\nUnemployment Insurance Drives\nSkilled Women Into Domestic Service\nABUSE BECOMES FLAGRANT\nTypical Oase of This Kind with\nRespect to One of Union's\nMembers\nT-HE alternative of accepting employment aa domestic servants or\nhaving their unemployment beneflt\ncut off is being presented to skilled\nwomen workers in Great Britain by\nthe administrators of the unempoly\nment insurance law. This abuse has\nbecome so flagrant that the 1523 Brit\nish Trades Union congress protested\nagainst women who have served an\napprenticeship or received proper\ntraining for some trade or calling being refused unemployment benefits the\npremiums for which they have duly\npaid, because they refuse to go Into\ndomestic service when unemployed.\nThe National Amalgamated Union\nof Shop Assistants, Warehousemen\nand Clerks now has a typical caso of\nthis kind with respect to one of tho\nunion's members. The woman had\nhad 15 years' experience as a saleswoman in the distributive trades, during\nthe last six of which she had held th.\nposition of manageress. She became\nunemployed and registered at the employment exchange, which offered her\na situation as a general servant at\nwages approximating nine shillings to\ntwelve shillings a week. She refused\nto accept this type of work and the\nlocal court of referees suspended her\nunemployment beneflt for six weeks.\nThe union appealed the decision to the\numpire, stressing the points that tho\nwork was entirely unsuitable to one\nwith the experience mentioned and\nthat it was a great Injustice to bring\nsuch undue pressure to bear upon her\nto forego the training gained and to\naccept work In an occupation ln which\nshe had no previous experience and\nno desiro to enter and which would\nhave the effect of rendering a return\nat o. future dato to her appropriate\noccupatjon almost impossible. Tho\numpire reversed the decision of the\ncourt of referees and allowed the\nclaim in full.\nHand your neighbor this copy or\nThe Federatlonist, and then call\naround next day for a subscription.\nLongshoremen Standing \"Pat\" at\nAll Affected Ports Are\nConfident\n(Longshoremen's Strike Bulletin)\nVICTORIA\u00E2\u0080\u0094The scabs they had\nrecruited here last week have formed\nsome kind of an organization. They\nbave duly elected a president and secretary. They don't need a treaasiirer\nas tbey couldn't trust ono of their\nnumber with any money out of their\nsight. Anyway a scab would sel] his\nwife for money so why expect him\nto part wilh even two bits a month.\nThe boys there nre still standing solid\nand ar\u00C2\u00A9 confident of victory,\nGENOA BAY. CHEMAINUS AND\nNANOOSE BAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094The situation remains unchanged.\nA LB li! UN I\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thc boys here are\nstanding firm.\nKltASER MILLS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Everything remains quiet. The boys are ln good\nspirits.\nVANCOUVEB\u00E2\u0080\u0094According In all\nreports the \"Empress de Fink\" Ih\nyielding to the influences within hy,\nThy smoll is even quite noticeable on\nHastings street, when the wind Is In\na favorable direction. There is n rumor running around that those little\ncompanions of every soldior in the\ngreat war aro gaining a foothold In\ntho underwear In use on the late liner.\nHowever she has lots of stanchion*\nthat may bn put to a now uso now\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094thesamo use that Is made of tho\nposts so thoughtfully erected in the\nSPEECH LABOR NOW UNITED\nEight-hour Bill and Workmen'i\nCompensation Discussed\nBefore\nCUMBERLAND MINE HOBBOB BAKE $1460 FOB THB t L. A.\nImmigration Polioy Lacks Logie\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Residents Leaving the\nCountry\nrjURINQ the course of Mb remarks\nIn the* Legislative Aaeembly at\nVlotoria last week, Sam Outhrle, member for Ladysmlth, severely censured\nthe department of mines under the\nHon. William Sloan as minister of\nthat department for laxity ln enforcing the safety provisions of the mines'\nregulation act, for the protection of\nlife and limb of those who work within the bowels of the earth producing\nprohts for the coal barons of the province.\nBeferring to the immigration policy\nand the efforts being made by the various governments to Induce Immigrants to come to this country, Mr.\nGuthrie asked If it was tho internum\nof those responsible for this movement to bring these people hore to\nstarve, nnd pointed out. that workers\nwere not found to be lea. Ing any country if conditions wero good, as they\nare doing at the present time. \".Make\nconditions flt for tho people to HVe\nunder\" said _$_. Outhrle, \"anil lt will\nnot be necessary to send agents to\nthe old country, at great expense, as\nemissaries to encourage immigration\nhere.\"\nEight-hour Bill\nOn the eight-hour bill, which Is\nto be brought down this session, he\nBaid he was glad to notice that at\nleast it had been found not to be necessary to await similar act sn by\nother provinces, and suggested that\npossibly lt was an indication of an\nearly election. He went on to say\nthat if the government was bringing\ndown the measure as a vote-catcher\nhe would recommend that they at the\nsame time provide a seven-hour day\nfor miners.\nClosed towns also received his attention. These he described as \"slave\npens\" and pointed out that for years\npast, tho question of whether these\nplaces eome within the jurisdiction of\nthe federal or provincial government\nhad been bandied back and forth.\nNow that that question had been settled by a statement of the premier of\nCanada, Hon. McKenzie King, to the\neffect that the provincial government\nhad jurisdiction over these towns he\nhoped that tho government would\ntake the necessary Bteps to have these\nplaces opened up. and the full rights\nof citizenship given to the people residing in such towns.\nWorkmen's Compensation Act\nDealing with the \"Workmen's Compensation act, Mr. Outhrle urged an\namendment to tho act to provide for\nthe elimination of the three-day wniting period In cases of Injury to a\nworkman, and Increasing the rate to\n75 per cent.\nThe conditions surrounding the\nCassidy school also came in for criticism, owing to the fact that notwithstanding the expressed wishes of the\npeoplo of the district on two seperate\noccasions, asking that thc school he\nlocated at Waterloo, to meet the\nwishes of tho manager of thc company\ntho education department hnd the district divided, nnd established a school\nat Cassldy In nn old bunk house,\nwhich hnd bcen condemned by th*\nmedical inspector, In a location not\nIn complinnco with the school act, in\nthat It is situated less than 500 yards\nfrom a powdor magazine.\nCumberland Mine Dlrautor\nThc report of Inspector Wilkinson\nof tho mines' department into the\nCumberland mine disaster ot i*-oh-\nruary last, was donit with nt considerable longth by tho Newcastle member. Ho described the report as\nnothing more or less than n \"whitewash,\" consisting largely of praise\nfor department olllclals nnd senior\ncompany olllclals and condemnation\nfor those in minor positions. Mr.\nOuthrlo drew particular attention to\ntho finding of the Inspector which\nplaced responsibility for tho accident\nupon a dead olilnaman. One of tho\nvory people whom lho liberals, tn\ntheir platform during lho 1910 election, had declared would not be permitted to work In tho mines If they\nwcro elected.\nWith regard to tho glorification of\ntho higher up officials of thc Canadian\nCollieries company. Guthrie quoted\nfrom a speech made by Mr. Farris on\nJanuary 21, 1916, to show (hat lho\nliberals had not always thought Ho\nmuch of these high up olllclals. Tho\nquotation Is as follows:\n(Continued on page 2)\nWorkers in Vaneourer Helping\nLongshoremen ill HgW for\nfoUectire Bargaining\nSpecial Meeting Tradee aad Labor\nOounoil Btarti Move to\nBnd fhe Trouble\nQRGANIZED labor m Vancouver\nla presenting a unite* front in\nthe battle being waged io determine\nwhether collective bargaining and juat\nconditiona ahall prevail bn Vanvou-\nver'e waterfront, or whether the open\nshop, scab labor and unjust conditions shall be the rule.\nIt was announced at * the apeclal\nmeeting of the Trades, and Labor\ncouncil on Tueaday night, which waa\nwell attended and presided over by\nvice-president S. G. Smillie, ihat already 11460 had been raised by organized labor Ih Vancbuver to aaalat\nthe longshoremen In their light with\nthe Shipping Federation. To guarantee further and more substantial financial support for the longshoremen, It\nwas decided at the meeting to endeavor to have members, of organized\nlabor In Vancouver contribute half\na day's wages each week to a strike\nfund for the longshoremen.\nRepresentatives of the Longshoremen's association, the Shipping Federation and a representative of the minister of labor, as well ae Mayor Tlsdall, will be Invited to a public meeting next Sunday, held under the auspices of the Trades and Labor council.\nA committee composed of Aid. R. P.\nPettipiece, S. O. Smillie, Percy Bengough, W. Cottrell, E. Jamibson and\nW. Dunn waa appointed to interview\nthe Shipping Federation and confer\nwith a representative of the minister\nof labor ln an attempt td-bring about\nnegotiations for an ending of the\ntrouble on the waterfront.\nAmong tho speakers at the meeting were W. A. Pritchard, business\nagent for the I.L.A.,. nnd George\nThomas, secretary. ..\nMrs. James Borland Baid she was\ntrying to obtain the First Presbyter.\nIan church for a. public rag-ting in\nbehnlf of the longshoremen.\nConcert nnrl nni'ir o\nBurnaby branch of the Federated\nLabor party will hold their first\nconcert and danco _\u00C2\u00BB tnts season in\n1. O. O. F. hall, Kingsway and McKay,\non Thursday, Nov. 'ii, at 8 p.m. Oood\nmusic will be provided by the orchestra and an enjoyable evening is promised to nil who come. Admission is\nfree, but a collection will be takon to\ndefray expenses.\nTo Restore Lanil to People\nIf thc thefts of land committed by\nthe landowning interests could be\nlegalized becauso the possessing\nclasses were makerB of law, now that\nwo have a voice In tho mnking of\ntho laws it will be Just and fair to\npasB a law restoring the land to the\npeople, says Robert Smillie, M. P.\nsheep pastures In the \"Oubl Sod.\"\nHeading is gelling to bc a favorite\noxoreiso with tbe scabs. Tho har-\nhor Is quiet but what work Ib to be\ndono is helng dono In thc usual\nscabby fashion.\nAt the end of the fifth weok there\nis still no sign of weakness In any of\ntho nffected ports nnd the bosses are\nbeginning to sit up and take notice.\nThoy will sit up nnd take moro notice when tho lads go back\u00E2\u0080\u0094NOT\nthrnugh thc Fink Hall. Are wo down-\nhenrtod ?\n\"The Hat\"\n\"The Bat,\" greatest mystery play of\nall times, which Is now making Its\nthird triumphant tour of the country,\nhas bcen witnessed by more than 1,-\n000,0110 porsons thus far this season,\nwith thc gross box otlice t-ccclpts being close to *_,000,000, and tho season\nonly two months old.\nParents' sacrifice\nOver 100,000 young men of England whose parents have sacrllioed\nmuch to give Ihem a trade have nover\ndone a day's work from the time thoy\nfinished their apprenticeship, and\nhave not only lost their trade but are\nlosing tlieir characters as woll, saya\n.1. II. Thomas, M, P.\nYou may wish to help The 1-V.ler.\nallonlsi. Vou can do so hy renewing\nyour subscription promptly nnd Bending In tho subscription of your frlenil\nor neighbor.\nBELGIAN Mr PARTY\nIssues Manifesto on International\nSituation\u00E2\u0080\u0094Qermany May\nEnd 8-hour Day\n[Labor Press Sorvico]\nLondon, Nov, 11\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Tho consequences\nof thc conduct of M. Poincnrc's government are to create formidable centres or destitution and anarchy ln\ncentral Kurope and tu .threaten the\nconquests reullzod*by * Uio Herman\nworkers Immediately 'after, tho war,\"\ndeclares tho general oouncll of tho\nBelgian labor party |\u00E2\u0080\u009E. ._ manifesto\ndrawing Ihe atlontldn of tho workers\nto tho Increasing gravity* of thc International situation. ''The end of\nIhe eight-hour day In Germnny would\nmean lhe return of long working\nhours throughout Europe.\" Demands\nput forward hy tho council arc lho\nImmediate and unconditional resumption of negotiations bctwoon the\nnllloB and Oermany and a genoral\namnesty for Ruhr oxllos and \"offenders\" against tho Franco-Belgian\ncontrol. PAGE TWO\nfifteenth year, no.-in BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST Vancouver, b. c.\nFRIDAY November 16, 1M8 ]\nBritish Columbia Federa'ionist\nPublished every Friday by\nThe British Columbia Federatloniat\nBusineu Office: 1129 Howe Street\nEditorial Office: Room 906\u00E2\u0080\u0094319 Pender W.\nEditorial Board: P. R. BenROugh, it. H. Heel\n ands, Oeorge Bartley.\t\nSubscription Rate: United States and Foreign. -$3.00 per year; Canada, $2.50 per\nyear, $1.50 for six months; to Uniona subscribing in a body, 16c per member per\nmonth. _\nNeelands' Speech\n{Continued from Page 1)\nACTIVITY OF STATE\nTJnlty of Labor: Tha Hope of the World\nFRIDAY...... November 16, 1923\nFORTY-li-OUR HOUR \XKl_.\nTHE Labor Representation committee in ita platform for the\napproaching* municipal elections,\nprovides \"that forty-four hours shall\nbo the maximum for a week's work.\"\nTo the average reader this would\nseem to be quite a modest, demand.\nBut experience teachos that what\npromised a few yoars ago to become\na reality appears to have lost much\not its importance in the light of\ngreater evils than existed when the\nforty-four-hour work-week was first\nagitated. if there were reason for\nthe workmon of the country do\nmandlng shorter hours, It has be\ncome intensified by the occurrences\nof the past few years\u00E2\u0080\u0094ever since the\nwar\u00E2\u0080\u0094that have deprived thousands\nof employeos ot the power to remain\nself-sustaining through their efforts\nas producers. A complication of\naffairs haa decreased the number\nof men employed, and further, it has\nalmost destroyed thto possibility of\ntheir again .securing employment\nUnder these conditions the necessity\nfor adopting every method of giving\nemployment should be earnestly advocated, that the number of the unemployed may be decreased and the\ndestitution existing among thousands\nof workers be removed. Every little\nhelps, and if a- universal forty-four-\nhour work-week were adopted it\nwould materially lessen the number\nof the hopelessly destitute and\nfurnish employment for more than\none-half of the present unemployed.\nThe employers of labor are, very\nnaturally, opposed to any such agitation as will shorten the working\ntime, and in too many instances they\nare supported by their employees,\nwho forget that there are others demanding their portion of a livelihood. The desire to earn all that\none can ls largely responsible for the\noppressive condition that exists among\nso many of the trades. Overtime\nmay look promising, but the \"overworked\" does not appreciate tho\nenormous results for evil until,\nbowed down by sickness and overwork, he realizes that with all his\nefforts his pay is hot one cent more\nthan It was with his aix days a week\nand his Sunday rest.\nIn the legislature the other day\nR. H. Neelands, H.L.A., pointed out\nthat there had been reported to the\nB. c. labor department, that some\n34,000 were working more than 48\nhours a week; that 8,000 worked 54 hours a week, 10,700\nworked 60 hours, 381 worked 72\nhours, 256 worked 90 hours, ono 91\nhours, one 94 hours and one 104\nhours. \"Why send missionaries to\nChina?\" asked the labor member,\nthero Is a bare possibility that the\nprovincial government in the face of\nthese figures may put through an\neight-hour law this session.\nU.S. COAUNOUSTRY\nFinal Report of \"Sankey Factfinding: Commission\" Is\nNow Published\nPUBLICITY OF ACCOUNTS\nState Must Know Cost of Production, Profits, Wages and\nWorking Conditions\n[Labor Press Sorvice J\nt\Kli of the most useful acts of the\nInto Presidont Harding was tho\nappointment of a \"fact-finding\"\ncommission lo inquire into the organisation of the coal industry of\nthe Unltod Stales. The final report of\nthis \"Sanky commission\" has now\nbeen published, lt Is an interesting\ndocument. It declares plainly for a\nstricter use of tho powors of the federal authorities to protect tho public\niUnd to promote tho development of\nHio Industry. One of its recommen\nrlatlons is the enactment of a taw to\nprovide for completo and compulsory publicity of the accounts. The\nstate, it asserts, has a right to know\nwhat the cost of production ls,\nwhether the investment of capital!\non which a roturn is made is fairly,\nestimated or inflated, what profits\nare mado by tho owner, operator, and\ndealer, nnd what aro tho earnings\nand working conditions of tho miners.\nRome of this Information is now collected by voluntary agencies. The1\ncommission believes that this factfinding service should now be placed\non a permanont and woll co-ordinated basis, It points out, further, that\nthe fundamental ovil In tho Industry,\nnaming tho anthracite Industry, Is\nmonopoly\u00E2\u0080\u0094tho treatment of limited\nnatural resources as If they were like\nothor private proporty. It suggests\nas a remedy for high pricos for fuol,\nshort of price-fixing or public ownership, tho levy of a graduated tax on\nroyalties and differential profits.\nknow of many instances where genuine\nattempts were made but proved failures. At any rate, Mr. Speaker, would\nit not be much better, would it not be j\napproaching the whole question in a\nmore intelligent manner, if.some eiTort\nwere made to retain the natural increase of our population, as well as\nthose who may voluntarily come to\nthis land? Now, Mr. Speaker, what\ndo we flnd statistics to show on this\nphase of the subject The population\nof the dominion in 1911 was 7,206,000\nIn the last decade, the total number of\nimmigrants entering the country was\n1,812,000, and the natural increase of\nbirths over deaths was 1,140,000, so\nthat Canada should have had ln 1921\na total population of over 10,000,000.\nActually, however, the population at\nthe 1921 census was shown to be 8,-\n774,000. It is, therefore, clear that\nCanada not only failed to hold the\nimmigrants who entered the countrj,\nbut also lost 244,000 of tne natural try-\ncrease. These people do not leave because they would not like to stay.\nTho Deadly Parallels\nI bring to your notice, Mr. Speaker,\ntwo most paradoxical announcements\nwhich have appeared in the daily\npress, namely:\nLand of MUk! Public Notice :\nand Honey: FromjThe council of the\nLand's End tojclty of Regina has\nJohn o' Groats.! by resolution, de-\nBritons are to bejclared that the\ntold of the great! policy of the city\nlife which awaits) will be one of ut-\nthe willing worker) terly refusing rein the Canadian) lief to any person,\ndominion, Capt.]Notice Is further\nMilton states, an! given that there ls\narrival from Can-jnot sufficient work\nada is to be the) during the winter\nlecturer quoted as) months for the\nsaying I am confl-jpresent residents,\ndent this my visit,|and the public are\nwill be helpful tojwarned against\nmany, inasmuchjeoming here ln\nas Canada proves)search of work.\na land of milk and) Jas.' Orussick,\nhoney to the per-| Mayor,\nson not afraid of) Ceo. Beach,\nwork, | City Clerk.\nTimber nnd Twenty-flve Cents\nSpeaking of our great natural resources, I feel that I must say something about the timber. During 1921,\nthe provincial government received a\nrevenue from the forests of British\nColumbia of almost $2,000,000; in\n1922, $3,000,000; during the period of\nfive years\u00E2\u0080\u00941917 to 1922\u00E2\u0080\u0094a grand to\ntal of almost $18,000,000 was received. A wonderful revenue producer\nfor the province, and yet the value\nplaced upon this great asset is 25c an\nhour for protection against flre. Tou\nwill remember how at last session the\nlabor members fought to have some\nprovision made for payment for services rendered ln cases where men\nwere called upon to flght forest fires.\nLittle did we suspect at that time\nthat the value of such services would\nbe placed at so insignificant a flgure,\nparticularly In viow of the fact that\nmen are compelled to undertake this\nwork whenever called upon by a fire\nwarden to do so or face a penalty of\na fine of from $50 to $300. Surely\nthiB, together with the 35 cents per\nhours paid for land clearing at the\nuniversity site, will go far towards\nkeeping green ln the memory of the\npeople of thfs province the term of\nofflce of the liberal party.\nMinimum Wage for Boys\nAnother question which I wish to\ntouch upon ls the operation of the\nminimum wage act. Amongst the social legislation on the statue books of\nthe province the minimum .wage for\nwomen stands out as one of the best,\nbut unfortunately, just as in a great\nmany other instances, we run up\nagainst unscrupulous individuals, the\nmost of whoso time appears to be devoted towards finding ways and means\nof defeating the purposes of such acts,\nand destroying thoir usefulness. Wo\nfind that certain employers are engaging boys to do work that is. ordinarily\ndone by women and girls, at less than\nthe minimum wago for women. This\ngives rise to the necessity of making\nprovision for a minimum wage for\nboys, which I trust the government\nwill take steps to bring about.\n\" Longshoremen's Strike\nNow i would like to say a word or\ntwo in referonco to a very serious situ\nation which exists on the waterfront\nof our coast citios, where a strike con\ndltlon obtains, and a powerful Shipping Federation stiffens Us neck, and\nabsolutely refuses to meet an organization of its omployeos ln scale negotiations, notwithstanding tho fact that\nas has bcen pointod out by officials,\nparticularly In the city of Vancouver,\nthat serious loss Is suffered by that\nolty, as well as others. In the first\nplace, the Shipping Federation, and\nby the way, Mr. Speaker, ono of the\nmost activo membors of that federa'\ntion is the Robert Dollar compnny, a j\nvory patriotic concern that transferred\nits shipping from American to BrltlBh\nbottoms so that Chinese instead of\nwhite crews could be employed, objected to meeting officials of the Longshoremen's union. Then in reply to a\nletter written to both the union and\nthe federation by Acting Mayor Owen\nof Vancouver, ln an attempt to got\ntho two parties together, tho Federation reiterated Ub refusal to nogotiate\nwith tho Longshoremen's union, but\nstated that should a committeo representing former longshoremen employed on the waterfront desire to meet\nthe representatives of tho Fedoration,\nwe aro quite prepared to moot thom.\nAs a result of this letter, tho union\nuppolnted another committee (a practice almost unheard of ln organized\nlabor). From information I have recoived, tho Fedoration evon refused\nto moot this committeo on tho ground\nthat tho men comprising tho committee woro members of tho union. This\n'Lotion casts considerable doubt in the\nsincerity of tho Foderation in making\nsuch an offer and places responsibility\nfor the prosont stato of affairs upon\nit. In this ago when the right to or-\nAdjusting Industrial Relations by\nLaw Works Against Australian Unionists\nBAKERS GET A DOSE OF IT\nGuthrie's Speech\n(Continued from Page 1)\nNothing Happens When Bosses\nAot Contrary to Law\u00E2\u0080\u0094Encouraged to Do So\nCYDNEY, N. S. W., Nov .16.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Adjusting industrial relations by statute\nlaw instead of by the organized economic power o' the workers is quite\nfrequently referred to as working to\nperfection Jn Australia. The Operative Bakers' union of this city ls gel-\nting a dose of this kind of political\nstate activity right now. The bakers\nare working under a bread law and an\naward of the industrial arbitration\ncourt which fix the length of tho\nworking day and the starting time.\nThe master bakers carried on their\nplants outside the hours fixed by the\nbread law. The bakers initiated proceedings to have the law enforced.\nWhereupon the government issued instructions to the police restraining\nthem from taking action in the matter and the minister of labor suspended investigations into alleged\nbreaches of the bread act. The Australian Worker charges the New South\nWales government with \"aiding and\nabetting employers to break the law\"\nand with \"deliberate attempts to prevent the employers from being prosecuted for their wrongdoing.\"\nIn regard to the enforcement of\nNew South Wales labor laws, the\nWorker says \"lt is well known that\nevery time the workers overstep the\nmark they are drastically dealt with,\nbut nothing happens when the bosses\nact contrary to the law. _5!hey are actually encouraged In their unconstitutional actions.\"\nNovel Scheme for Dealing with\nOut-of-works at Bengal\nand Calcutta\nA meeting of the Pengal Unemployment committee nt Calcutta recently approved a scheme for dealing\nwilh unemployment The plan ls to\nstart, according to a report publishes\nby the international labor office, an\nIndustrial and agricultural colony;, to\nInvite people to Join with their own\ncapital and to request Influential per\nsons to give the pioneer group the\nsupport of their custom for a few\nyears in order to give the colony\ngood start. Public-spirited persons\nwill also be asked to take shares\nwhich will bear interest to a maximum of 12 \_ per cent. It Ib hold that\nthe establishment of such colonies\nwould show the way to the solution of\nthe problem of unemployment In\nBengal.\n\"That the miners.on Vancouver Island have been unfairly treated; that\nthere has been a failure to enforce the\nproper precautions for the safety of\nhuman life in these mines; that the\ngovernment of this province is responsible; that there has been, and there\nis, a bond of sympathy and understanding between the coal mine operators and the government of this province, which Is a menance to the interests of labor, and a crime against\nthe coal miners and their families,\"\nChief Inspector of Mines\nAt the public inquiry re tho drowning of 19 men in South Wellington\ndisaster in 1915, Justice Murphy had\nthis to say of Mr. Tom Graham, who\nwas chief Inspector of mines:\n\"I want to say this in Justice to Mr.\nGraham. I am not at all satisfied\nwith the explanations put forward by\nhim as to the suppression of the evidence at this inquest, and if he has\nany further explanations to give, I\nthink he should do so. If you have\nany other explanation, Mr. Graham,\nmake it now, in Justice to yourself.\nYou know what a coroner's Inquest\nIs, and that the object of It Is to flnd\nout, not that people were drowned, but\nwhy they were drowned, and you had\na vital piece of evidence there and did\nnot adduce it. Why not?\"\nAt the Inquest covering same disaster, Graham admits crimes:\nHe then went into the witness box,\nand admitted that he knew, and had\nknown for two months, that\nmaps were on a different scale, and\nthat- he knew that the maps produced\nat the coroner's inquest were false\nstatements, and that he intended lt\nto go through the coroner's inquest,\nso far as he was concerned, as lf the\ntwo maps wore on the same scale.\nTho chief mine inspector of this province had deliberately come to this!\ninquest, and with malice aforethought\nlet the witnesses givo evidence, all I\nthe time himself knowing that these\nmaps were on two different scales.\"\nImmigration\nOn the question of immigration, .Mr.\nGuthrie Informed the house that he is\nat a loss to understand the logic of\nencouraging aliens to come to this\ncountry when conditions are such as\nto make it necessary for those already\nhere to leave for other parts in order\nto obtain a Uvllhood. Referring to\nthe \"back to the land\" movement he\ndrew attention to the position of the\nfarmers already on the land who\ncould scarcely obtain the price of a\npair of laces for a hide. He also\nmentioned the case of a fruit-grower\nwho for 2300 boxes of apples received\nthe magnificent sum of $23, of which\nthere are many similar Instances. \"If\nthere ls a desire,\" said Mr. Guthrie,\n\"to place old country people on the\nland, why do they not open up the\ndeer parka and make them available\nto the people there.\" He pointed out\nthat while one-fifth of the popula\ntion of Scotland fought in the great\nwar, one-fifth of the land Is reserved\nfor deer forests.\nHas Experienced Nothing But\nHostility from Western\nDemocracies\nBETRAYAL AT VERSAILLES\n\t\nDream of Monarchists Become\nFeasible Because Breakup of the System\n[Labor Press Service]\nT ONDON, Nov. 9.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A disarmed Ger-\n^ man democracy has experienced\nnothing but hostility and oppression\nfrom the western democracies, and\nit would hardly be surprising If this\nwere to lead to a revulsion of feeling\nin favor of a militarist empire,\nwhich, when it existed before, was\ncertainly able to protect Us citizens\nfrom outsido attack until lt began its\nown mad march against the world.\nTho vain dream of the monarchists\nhas become a feasible proposition because of the disastrous betrayal of\ndemocracy at Versailles. The early\ndisappearance of the German reich,\nthe dissolution of Us post-war political ties, and tho break-up of its Industrial and economic system seem\nalmost inevitable because of the vindictive Bpirit which was shown by tho\nallies some of the time , and by some\nof the allies all the time since the war\nended. Is It to be wondered at that\ngeneral Smuts, the chief representative of a self-governing community\nthat ls the outstanding illustration of\nthe wisdom of a defeated people being Justly treated by the victors,\nshould have been impelled to denounce in the most vigorous terms\nthe reckless handiwork of the states-\nmen who dominate Burope? General\nSmuts warned the world that it was\nno use resorting to a process of patching, or temporising, of playing with\nthe dreadful reality which has already made possible the slow, steady,\nfatal deterioration of conditions all\nround. A thorough overhauling of\nthe position is wanted. A radical reconsideration and where necessary,\nrevision of existing arrangements are\noverdue. The only real hope for the\nfuture is a clean break with the past,\nand a concerted effort made in a spirit\nof peace and understanding to avert\nthe destruction that threatens to engulf all, and to restore the conditions\nof a healthy life to Europe.\nganize is conceded by everyone, and\ncollective bargaining generally recognized, tho attitude taken by the Shipping Federation in refusing to meet\nthe men in negotiations, is to say the\nleast, most unreasonable.\nPrinting Text Books\nA matter which I believe Is well\nworthy of the consideration of the\ngovernment is the question of printing and manufacturing school text\nbooks. Here we are particularly fortunate In having the timber from\nwhich to make the paper, and a printing plant in which the books could be\nmanufactured and distributed to the\npupils at cost of production, lf not\nfree. In my opinion, It would be a\nsource of pride in our children to bo\nable to say, \"Here, I have a book produced entirely in the province, from\nraw material to tho finished article,\nand in addition I am sure would effect\na great saving to the people.\nEight Hour Bill\nI am pleased to note In the speech\nfrom the throne that at least there Ib\na possibility of this measure becoming effective. Reference to the report\nof thc department of labor shows that\novor 34,000 persons In this province\naro working over 48 hours a week.\nIn this category\n8,000 work li4 hours or 9 por day.\n10,700 work 00 hours or 10 per day.\n381 work 72 hours or 12 per day.\n25G work 84 hours or 14 per day.\niW6 work 90 hours or IT. per day.\n1 work 91.\n1 work 94.\n1 work 104.\nWhy send missionaries to China?\nTest of the Economic System\nMr. Speaker, the test of any economic system must be: \"Does It deliver\nthc goods?\" Does it give the poople\na good world to live in? When we I\nlook about us and see the amount of\nmisery, want and suffering, how on\nthe ono hand we have a large portion\nof the peoplo working hard under\nunrealthy conditions, for low wages,\nand a groat number who would work\nbut are unable to procuro It; and on\nthe other some living ln Idleness and\nso rich that they arc at a loss to devise ways and means of spending their\nill-gotten woalth, wo cannot but Bay\nthat capitalism has failed to give thu\npeople a good world to live In. Not\nonly has capitalism failed to provide\na decent standard of living for those\nIn work, but it is responsible for war\nand all its attendant evils, oa well as\nfor tho numbers of workerB boing out\nof employment Our mission ls to\ndevote our energies towards bringing\nabout a change In the social order,\nwhich will make this world a better\nPlnco In which to livo, eliminating n\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2onditlnn whoro with Bome there Is\nendless suffering whilo others are rolling In luxuar...\nNORWEGIAN WORKERS\nLabor Party Is Divided as Result of\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Ultimatum of the Moscow\nInternationale\nChrlstlanla. Nov. IB.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Norwegian labor party has split as a result\nof an ultimatum by the Moscow Internationale calling on Its Norwegian\ncompatriots to ceaae from adopting\nmotions hostile to the Russian organization whose decisions, the communication s. ys, the Workers of Norway are bound to carry out loyally,\nThey should also refrain from expelling or suspending any members of\nthe party without the consent of the\nInternationale. The decree submitted\nto the national congress of the labor\nparty In session here, was rejected by\na vote of K9 to 103, Thereupon the\nRussian representative present at the\nmeeting said that the minority section henceforth would be regarded as\nthe Norwegian section of the Moscow\nInternationale; The minority faction\nleft the meeting.\nStore Opens at 9 a.m. and\nCloses at 6 p.m.\nNightgowns Very\nModerately Priced\nOF Cotton Crepe in bluebird, butterfly and floral\ndesigns; slipover styles wth kimona sleeves;\nsome with shirring in front; colors blue, mauve,\nyellow or pink; all sizes\u00E2\u0080\u0094$1.95 each.\nOf fine mull in slipover style; daintily hand-embroidered and finished with hemstitching; also\nsleeveless styles with faney stitching in honeydew,\nmauve, blue or flesh\u00E2\u0080\u0094$2.50 each.\nOf fino grade cotton crepe in sleeveless style, trimmed with lace edging. These can be had in honeydew, mauve or flesh with broken white stripe, at\n$3.50.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Drysdale's Lingerie Shop\u00E2\u0080\u00942nd Floor\nI\n575 Granville Street Phone Seymour 3540\nto the days of normalcy. Nor even\ntheir own stevedoring superintendents, driven nearly crazy by the super-\nefficiency of the \"experts\" locked in\nthe steel confines of the \"Empress de\nFink.\"\nPatronize Federatloniat advertisers.\nRefuses 5c Bonus\n(Continued from page 1)\nShe\u00E2\u0080\u0094You went shooting with\nSmith?\"\nHe\u00E2\u0080\u0094Yos.\nShe\u00E2\u0080\u0094Shoot anything?\nHo\u00E2\u0080\u0094Only Smith.\u00E2\u0080\u0094London Mall.\nnext year. We know pretty well\nwhat kind of a mess Is being made\ndown on the waterfront now by the\npettifogging storekeepers, exaccount-\nants, lawyers without briefs (or con\nsciences), \"cullud gen'men\" from the\nU.S., Swiss and Italians so recently\nIn the country that their Ignorance\nof the English language ls equalled\nonly by their lack of knowledge as\nto the location of Granville street in\nthis city, to realize the alarming cost\nof stevedoring under these conditions.\nBut the Shipping Federation,\nthrough it bought and paid for newspaper stories, tell us they are satisfied and are making money. If that\nbe so, they certainly made a hell of\na pile when they had the I. L, A.\nmembership to draw upon. All of\nwhich tells us that we were far. far\ntoo modest and reasonable in our\ndemands.\nHowever, they might fool some people, but they don't fool us. Nor, we\nmight add, do they fool Alderman P.\nC. Gibbens, who views the congested\nstato of the harbor from his verandah. Nor, yet again, do they fool\nthe shippers, despairingly wringing\ntheir hands and beseeching a return\nAMAZING VALUES AT\nFIRE SALE\nWHATEVER you buy at this wonderful\nwile you are certain of saving big\nmonoy, Fresh lines on display every day\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ncome and supply al) your winter needs tn\nready*to-wonr garments at unique low cost.\nWatch for salo of piece goods, etc., shortly-\nFumous s^TL.\n088 HASTINOS STBEET WEST\nRing np Pbone Seymonr ISH\nfor appointment\nDr. W. J. Curry\nDENTIST\nSuit* 801 Dominion Bulldlnf\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n\"Wonderful Indeed is the power cf\nthe voice.\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cicero.\nTHIS power of the voice is the success\nof the telephono. It was in the endeavor to transmit sound that Ihe telephone was invented, and the great factor\nof its development into an article of very\ncommon use is lhat direct conversation\nmay be carried on.\nBecame it enables one's personality to\nbe sent i* the reaion that the telophone\npromotes friendships and intimacy, and\nbrings about closer relations between\nthose la business. The pleasure of hear\nIng the voice yeu know makes long dis*\ntance the casual practice of every one.\nB. 0. TELEPHONE OOMPANT.\nHAVE you ever bad a real drink\nof Puro Apple Cider daring tbe\nlast few years?\nTo meet the desires of many clients,\nwe hive introduced reeently a pure clear\nsparkling apple cider ln pint bottles,\neither pore sweet or government regulation 2% hard apple cider. These drinks\nare abaolutely pure and free from all\ncarbonic aeld gas or preservatives of\nany nature. Write or phone your order\ntoday, Highland 00.\nVAN BROS. 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RIDAY November 16, 192S\nH1JTBBNTH TEAR. No. 46 BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST VANCOUVEB, B. c.\nPAGE THREE\nThis Weather-\nTeeth Troubles\nj LETTERS TO\nExpression Plates\nMy special feature\u00E2\u0080\u0094efficient as your natural teeth\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094perfectly moulded\u00E2\u0080\u0094will\nnot slip\u00E2\u0080\u0094perfectly comfortable, giving full use of\nJaw when biting\u00E2\u0080\u0094eradicate lines of age from the\nfeatures. *\nHT METHODS\nof extraction and other\ntreatment are absolutely\nsafe\u00E2\u0080\u0094only the most approved\n*_^_^^___, PAINLESS\nmethods are used.\nDr. Brett Anderson\n117 Years' Practice in Vancouver\nFormerly member of the Faculty of the College of Dentistry, University of Southorn\nCalifornia; locturor on Crown and Bridgework; demonstrator in Platowork and\nOperative Dentistry, local and general anaesthesia.\n602 Hastings Street West Phone, Seymour 3331\nOpen Tuesday and Friday Evenings\nARE more than ever apparent. Neglect\nmeanB more discomfort, greater cost.\nTake advantage today of my high-standard\ndental service\u00E2\u0080\u0094get your teeth put right\nonce and for all.\nAn examination at my offloe, with advice and estimate, will eost you nothing. Call or phone today.\n15-YEAE WRITTEN GUARANTEE\nGIVEN ON ALL WORK\nVancouver Unions\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ANCOUVER TRADEB AHD LABOB\n, Connell \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Preildant, R. H. Neelanda, U.\nA.; general iecretary, Percy B. Bengongh.\nice: 808, 810 Pender Bt. West, pkone Sey.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0106. Meeta in Labor Hall at 8 pjn, on\n|t flrat and third Tuesdays in month.\nkw^IBD PBINTINO TBADES COUNCIL\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nJ MeeU aeoond Honday in the montk. Pre*\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0dent, J. B. White; aeoretary, R. H. Neel-\n\&t, P. 0. Bqi 66.\t\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0DERATED LABOR PABTT, Ub OOK-\n|dova Street West\u00E2\u0080\u0094Basinets meeting!\n1 Wednetday evening. A. Uaelnnfa,\nairman; E. H. Morriion, tec-treee.; Geo.\nHarriion, 1162 Parker Street, Vancouver,\n0., corresponding aeeretary.\nAny dlitrlet In Brltlih Colombia deilring\n'ormatlon ro securing speakers or tbe for-\nitlon of looal brauekei, kindly communicate\ni Provlnolal Seeretary J. Lyle Telford,\nr Blrki Bldg., Vancouver, B. G. Tele*\nfont Seymonr 1882, or Fairmont 4tfS8.\nJiKEF.t SALESMEN, LOCAL 371\u00E2\u0080\u0094tfsrta\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0second Thunday every month, 319 Pender\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0reet West. President, J. Brlgbtwell;\n|anclal secretary, H. A. Bowron, 929\u00E2\u0080\u0094llth\n. East. \t\n*UR*NEYM*Kji' BABBERB' INTERN ATION-\nUi Union of America\u00E2\u0080\u0094Local 120, Van*\nver, B, 0., meett leeond and fourth Toes-\na in eaeh month in Boom 818\u00E2\u0080\u0094819 Pen*\nBtreet Weat. President, C. E. Herrett,\nHa\u00C2\u00ABtlnga Street East; aeoretary, A. B,\nii, 820 Cambie Street. Shop phone, Sey.\n02, Residence phone, Dong. 217 IR.\nVERNATION AL BROTHERHOOD OF\nRoller-makers. Iron Shipbuilders and Help-\n^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0) of America, Local 191\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meetinga flrst\n^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0d tklrd Mondays In each montb. Presl*\nat, P. Willis; eeentary, A. Fraaer. Offloe:\nbm 808\u00E2\u0080\u0094819 Pender Street West. Offlee\nin, 9 to 11 a.m. and 8 to 6 p-m.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0iOKLATBRB AND MASONS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ir yon need\nfbrioklayert or maions for boiler works,\nr marble setters, pbone Brlcklayen\nLabor Temple,\nva__* BROTHERHOOD OF CARPEN*\nI .'ERS and Jolnera, Loeal 462\u00E2\u0080\u0094President,\nW. Hatley; reoording aeoretary, W. Page;\nincas-agent, Wm. Dunn. Ofti\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0319 Ponder Btreet West. \"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 fourth Mondays, 8 p.m.,\njadir Btreet West.\n Room\nMeets socond\nRoom S, 810\nVIO EMPLOYEES UNION\u00E2\u0080\u0094MMta flnt\n,d third Frldaya in eaoh month, at 148 Oor*\nba Street Weet. Pnsldent, David Cuthlll,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A23 Albert Stnet; eeentary*treasurer, Oeo,\n1182 Parker Street.\nloiNEKRS \u00E2\u0080\u0094 INTERNATIONAL UNION\nBteam and Operating, Loeal 844\u00E2\u0080\u0094MeeU\nfcnr Thunday at 6 p-m., Room 807 Labor\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0mple. President, J. Flynn; business agent\n^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0i flnanelal teentary, >. S. Hunt; recording\nKfttary, P. Hodges. __\nKTY FIREPIQHTER8 UNION NO.\nTPresident, Neil MacDonald, No. 1 Firehall;\njretary, 0. A. Watson, No. 8 Firehall.\nCOFFEE\n''In the Flavor Sealing Tin\"\nYou may wish to help The Federatlonist.' You can do bo by renewing\nyour subscription promptly and sending in the sr'ttH-rlptlon of your friend\nor neighbor.\niNEBAL LABORERS UNION\u00E2\u0080\u0094MEETB\nivery flnt and third Monday in room 812\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nj) Pender Street West. Prucident, J. B.\n| wthorne; flnanclal aeoretary, A. Padghara,\nree Road Post Office, Vanoouver, B. C;\n| ordlng seeretary, 0. Tether, 2249\u00E2\u0080\u009446th\n, East, Vancouver, h. 0.\t\nBTEL AND RESTAURANT Employees\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0talon, Local 28\u00E2\u0080\u0094441 Seymour Btreet.\n>W first and third Wednesdays at 2:80\nBecond and fonrth Wednesdaya at\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A00 pjn. Executive board meets every\nladay at 8 p.m. Preaident, W. A. Colmar'\nfnesa agent, A. Oraham. Phone Beymour\nI'/INEERS \u00E2\u0080\u0094 INTERNATIONAL UNION\nI Steam and Operating, Local 882\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nts ovory Wodnesday- at 6 p.m., Room\nLabor Temple. President, Charles Pr'ee;\nness agent and financial secretary, F. L.\nrecording secretary, J. T. Venn.\t\nJCHINISTS LOCAL 182\u00E2\u0080\u0094Preildent, Let\nleorge; aeeretary, J. Q. Keefe; buainess\nltt, P. R. Bengough. Offloe: 809, 819\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0der Street West. MeeU in Room 818\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\ Pender Street West, on flnt and third\nad-ays In' tnonth.\t\n(1H1NI8T8 LOCAL 692\u00E2\u0080\u0094President, Ed.\nsecretary, R. Hirst; business\nfc_, _. R. Bengough. Offlce: 809\u00E2\u0080\u0094819\nAer Street West. Meeta In Room 8\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nf Pender Street West, on second and 4th\nlidayn In month.\t\nHCIANS MUTUAL PROTECTIVE\nNION, Local 145, A. F. of M.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets at\nie Hall, Homer Btreet, aecond Sunday,\n6 a.m. President, Ernest 0. Miller. 991\nbn Street; aeoretary, Edward Jamleson,\nNelson Street: financial aecreUry, W, E,\nlama, 981 Nelson Btreet; organiser, F.\nther. 991 Nelson Street.\nWorld's Strongest Man at Orpheum\nThe Orpheum Circuit haa booked\na number of spectacular European\nfeatures for the preaent season, and\ntho first of these will be seen at next\nWednesday's opening vaudeville bill\nIn the person of Kronos. The\nname may not signify much, until\none remembers press reports drift*\ning from various European capitals\nanent a new discovery\u00E2\u0080\u0094the strong-\neat man ln the world. In the past\nyear Kronos has been the sensation\nof England and the continent. With\nsteel and iron bars provided by the\npublic, he twists the metal about his\nforearm into springs. With his\nnaked hand he punches four-Inch\nspikes through stout oak planking.\nLifting a six-cylinder automobile\ncontaining four passengers Is for him\na sinecure, and he has many other\nsensational feats which easily Justify\nhis billing as a modern Samson. He\nheadlines an exceptloanlly alluring\nbill of vaudeville in which Emllle\nLea, with Clarence Rock and Sam\nKaufman, In their -entertaining;\nsketch, \"Rehearsing for Vaudeville.\"\nThen there are those versatile entertainers Dave Seed and Ralph Austin\nin \"Things and Stuff/1; Zuhn and\nDrels, two of the funniest men in\nvariety today\u00E2\u0080\u0094and several other big\nacts of tip-top and highly entertaining character.\n[The opinions and Ideas expressed\nby correspondents are not necessarily\nendorsed by The Federatlonist, and\nno responsibility for the views expressed is accepted by the management,]\nSpiritualism and Clirlstlan Science\nEditor, B, C. Federatlonist: In\nviewing the healing work of Christian\nScience, an.d reluctant to acknowledge\nltd divine source, the average bystander has fallen Into thu somewhat careless habit of attributing lt\nto mental suggestion, and especially\nso If he happens to have been educated along medical lines, A case in\npoint Is found in an address on\nsplrtualism, as reported In your issue\nof Nov. 2, wherein the speaker\naverred, ln substance, that tho curative power of Christian Science lies ln\nappealing, through suggestion, to the\n\"subconscious mind,\" Although the\nspeaker's opinion was apparently\nstated in good faith, It Is quite as apparent that lt was based upon an Insufficient acquaintance with the sub'\nJect. Christian Science accepts the\nplain teaching of the Scriptures, that\npower and Intelligence belong to Ood,\nand can be obtained from no other\nsource, a teaching which has not been\nmodified or annulled by modern\ndelvings Into so-called psychic phenomena, or the workings of what St.\nPaul called the carnal mind. The constant effort to persuade oneself that\nhe Is not Ul, may result In a change\nof physical conditions, but without\nlessening his faith in evil or removing his fears, and, therefore, without\naffecting the underlying mental cause\nof the disturbance, which is thus left\nfree to work in some other direction.\nChristian Scientists do not appeal to\nthe fleshly human mind, but to Qod,\nfor deliverance from disease and sin,\nand the answer to their appeal comes\nfrom the divine source of healing, not\nfrom that would-be mentality which\nbelieves it can impart evil as well as\ngood. The attempt of the erring\nhuman mind* to save itself, Independent of divine influence, is, to use a\nrather hackneyed illustration, very\nmuch like a man attempting to lift\nhimself above the earth- by pulling at\nhis shoe straps. The writer has no\ndesire to question the motives or the\nsincerity of the lecturer, but it is\nsimple kindness as well as justice to\nthe public to point out that Christian\nScience, in Its method of healing, has\nnothing in common with other systems. It Is not mental suggestion, but\nconformity to Jesus' teachings In\nthought and life that can make men\nChrist-like, and to accomplish ' that\ntransformation is the aim and effort\nof Christian Scientists. Thanking you\nfor your courtesy, I am, very truly\nyours,. SAMUEL GREENWOD.\nVictoria, B.C., Nov. 6, 1923.\nDr. Curry Deals with \"Natter and Motion\"\nTHE VASTNE8S OF THE UNIVERSE.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0e-n-e'-e\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 unii nnimn'i i \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 i ai,a\u00C2\u00ABe\u00C2\u00ABeit\u00C2\u00ABt\u00C2\u00BBe\"a\u00C2\u00ABa<'e-e:e*e\u00C2\u00ABe Btreet West. Branoh agent's address:\nFaulkner, 57tt Johnson Street, Vic*\nB. P.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0EST AND ELECTRIO RAILWAY EM*\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0oyees; Pioneer Division, No. 101\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meets\nr. Hall, Eighth and Kingsway, 1st and\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. Pre-\nlit, F. A. Hoover, 2409 Clarke Drive;\nMing seeretsry, F. E, Griffin, 447\u00E2\u0080\u00946th\ng East; treasurer, A F, Andrew; linen-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0aeeretary and business agent, W. H. Cot*\nH 186\u00E2\u0080\u009417th Ave. W, Offlce, comer Prior\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Main Btnete. Phone Fairmont 4604T\n'oApkium \ cmcwiiVAuoEviLLta\nSTARTINO WED. NIOHT NOV. il\nMATINEES IHTOB, TBI. SAT.\nSUFBEME EVENT of th. SEASON\nKRONOS\nSTRONGEST HAN in th. WORLD\nSensation of Europe\u00E2\u0080\u0094Canadian Delut\nLynn-Dllion Oo. Th. Awkward Ag.\nDAVE SEED AND RALPH AUSTIN\n \"ThingB and Staff\"\t\nZUHN and DREIS\n\"Domantua AmarlcanoB\"\nEMMETT OMAHA\n Ooldon Volood T.nor\t\nCATHARINE SINCLAIR and 00.\nAthletic Pot Pourrl\t\nEMILIE LEA\nWith CLARENCE ROOK and SAH\nKAUFMAN\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Rehearsing for Vaude-\nTU1\u00C2\u00AB.\"\t\nPictar. Attractions Ooncrt Orchoitra\nBook Seats Eirly Seymour SS2\nRMSYMEN TAILORS' .ONION OP\nfteWea. Loeal No. 178\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meetlnge held\n(Mender In eaeh month, 8 p.m. Preal*\nA. R. dalenbri Tice-prjsldjnt, Mra.\n! reeordlng aeerelarr, 0. MoDonald, P.\n|o_ 608; 8nanolal eeoretarr, P. \"*-\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n. Bn toe.\n. MeNelih.\n! VANCOUVER THEATRICAL FEDMt-\nTON\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meeta at 91)1 Ni.l-.in Street, at 11\non the Tueidar preceding the let Ben*\nif the month. President. K. A. Jamie*\nttl Nelson St.: Secretary. 0. H. Wll*\n, OBI Ne'.on St ! Business Agent, F.\nira, Ml Kelson St, \nlARAPHIOAL UNION, No. 8JS\u00E2\u0080\u0094Preil-\nit, R. P. Pettlpleoe* vico-presldent J.\nH. Nee\n __ni\nln Ubor Hall, 91\u00C2\u00B0\nBryan; secretary-treasurer, ... \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \t\nI, P. 0. Box 08. Meets last Snnday of\n{'month at 3 p.m.\ner Street West.\nfOE ROPERT TYPOGRAPHICAL\nHON. No. .413\u00E2\u0080\u0094President, 8. S. Mac*\n%i. secretary-treasurer, J. M. Campbell,\n]. Box 089. Meeta laet Thursday of eaoh\nilKERS' PARTT OF CANADA\u00E2\u0080\u0094989 H\nmder Street West. Business meetings\ny let and 8rd Wodnesday ...ry month.\nTO THE MEMBERS OF\nLABOR\nORGANIZATIONS\nBoost for\nThe Fed.\noril CIRCULATION IS\nINCREASING\nGET ANOTHER\nNEW SUBSCRIBER\n\"Materialism vs. Spiritualism\"\nEditor B. C. Federationist: Are we\ninterested in facts, or In the propagation of some pet theory or system of\nphilosophy? This Is the problem\nbrought to the writer's mind In perusing the article bearing the above\ntitle head. If the vast, overwhelming\nmajority of humans, both of ancient\nand modern times believed most surely In such things as the Immortality\nof the human spirit, then it behooves\nus to endeavor to find if there is any\nfoundation to it or otherwise. The\nwriter of the article in question says\nthat \"the majority of scientists and\nthinkers accept the materialistic basis\nof life. \"Who are this majority?\"\nThey most emphatically are not such\nmen as Flammerion, Wallace,\nCrookes, Coue, Mills, Edison, Stelnmetz, etc. In every walk of life, the\nleading thinkers are thoae who believe, and somo who know, that the\nspirit of man Is immortal. Evolution\nis a fact, both of form and of spirit,\nbut don't pause here and let it go at\nthat. *\nLet us ask ourselves how is it that\nthe Neanderthal men, who are presumed to have lived some 60,000 years\nago ,are less like animals than we are\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094for instance.they had no Incisor\nteeth. Or, ask ourselves what manner\nof men hewed out the rock temples\nof Elephanter, of Nasslk, who raised\nthc statues on Easter island; or to\ncome down to a latter date, the pyramids of Egypt or Central or South\nAmerica?\nRegarding- the presumed-to-be fallacies of \"Raymond\" and the degeneration of tho ancient philosophers after\ndeath, it is too long an explanation for\nthis article, but if anyone is interested\ntho writor would be pleased to give\nany honest inquirer what he regards\nas a fair working hypothesis.\nJust ono more point of correction:\nNirvana is not oblivion (except perhaps to things of earth) it is the absolute antithesis thereof. And to\ncloso this article: Man is a triple entity on this sphere of existence\u00E2\u0080\u0094spirit\nsoul and body,\nThe body Is of the dust and to the\ndust it returna usually. Soul, which*\nmay or may not be immortal, conditions determine. Spirit, which always was, ls and always will be\u00E2\u0080\u0094Immortal.\nF. L. HUNT.\nlogical or duallstic philosophy,\nwith what Ernest Haeckel terms \"materialistic monism,\" and showed that\nthese two positions were necessarily\nantagonistic, notwithstanding the grotesque efforts of metaphysicians, Uke\nSir Oliver Lodge, to reconcile them.\nInstead of mind creating the material\nuniverse, mind ls now recognized by\nthe greatest biological specialists to\nbe one of the many manifestations of\nmatter and motion which are Inseparable, and the speaker declared that\nProf. John Tyndall gave the reply\nwhen he asked this question: \"Divorced from matter, where is life to be\nfound?\" The speaker read and quoted from Edward Clodd's \"Story of\nCreation,\" and from Haeckel's \"Riddle of the Universe.\"\n\"Imponderable and Ponderable\nMatter\"\nIn the analysis of matter, lt ls divided into two classes\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"imponderable,\nand ponderable.\" The nrat Is that essential, yet hypothetical substance,\ntermed \"ether,\" the medium through\nwhich electrical, and radiant energy\ntravel, the substance whloh Alls infinite space, and is'even the vibrating\nmedium between., atoms and molecules.\nThen there are the ponderable\nforms of matter, known as gas. liquids\nand solids, and the spectroscope has\nshown that our sun and thousands of\nother suns contain the same forms\nof matter, as the earth, and even our\nbodies are composed of. The discovery of the \"indestructability of matter,\" suggested centuries B. C, was\nproven and given the'world by Lavoisier, a -Frenchman. The law of the\n\"indestructability of energy\" was first\ndiscovered by Robert Mayer in 1842,\nand the influence ls \"that which cannot be destroyed, cannot be created.\"\nIn the opinion of Clodd, Haeckel and\nnumerous othe%scientists, ether is\nprobably the raw material out of\nwhich ponderable substance evolves.\nMany interesting illustrations were\nshown on the screen, among them a\nlist of the chemical elements, beginning with aluminum and ending with\nzerconlum, while pictures of the\n\"Fathers of Chemical Science,\" including Dalton and Priestley ,the discoverer of oxygen, were shown. The\nspeaker explained that a few years\nago, the atom was said to be the ultimate division of matter ,but experiments with that new element, radium,\napparently show us that atoms are\nmade up of eleotrons, and according\nto the \"Story of Creation,\"; an atom of\nradium contains 160,000 electrons,\nand yet a molecule of water, consisting of two atoms of hydrogen and one\npf oxygen ls about one billionth of an\ninch In diameter.\nUnlike theology, however, being\nembalmed and sepulchred in inspired\ntexts, and must be the same yesterday, today and forever, science keeps\nthe \"open door\" for revisions and\nchanges. Three centuries ago, Bruno\nwas burned to the stake for teaching\nastronomy, now everywhere recognized, and since that day millions of\nfacta have been secured by science.\nThe unknown is becoming less, but\nthere will ever be the great \"unknowable\" which Spencer claimed would\nbe an object of worship.\nMotion Divided Into Force and\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Energy\nThe speaker then showed the divisions of motion. The persistency of\nforce and the conservation of energy\nare grouped under the doctrine of the\n\"indestructability of motion,\" but In\nthis sense force and energy are the\ntwo antagonistic powers which keep\nthe universe moving. Forco is the attracting or pulling power, expressed\nin gravity, cohesion and chemical affinity, while energy Is the repelling or\npushing power known as heat, electricity, etc.\nIsaac Newton showed that every\nparticle of matter, attracts every\nother particle of matter, in proportion\nto the mass and in inverse proportion\nto the square of tho distance which\nseparates them. Tho earth pulls the\nsun, and the sun the earth; tho earth\npulls the moon, and thc moon the\nearth; the latter pull fs evidenced in\nthe flow and ebb of tides. The moon\nwould fall to-the earth and the earth\ninto the sun, were it not for the energy of their orbital motions. On tho\nother hand, if force had unrestricted\nverso would In time gravitate Into a\nperfect sphere, In which no life, nor\nactivity would be possible. \"Life Itself,\" said the speaker, \"Is a fight from\nour flrst to our last breath.\" Motion\nand matter are Inseparable .eternal,\nand limitless from the electron and\natom to the great galaxies of suns and\nIn that universal medium termed\nether, there ls constant motion.\nEnergy Changed, bnt Not Created\nNor Destroyed\nThe amounts of force and energy\nare constant, but the form of energy\ncan be changed, A mountain stream\ncan turn a water wheel, which will\ngenerate light and heat, through electrical power, and the latter through a\nmotor, can be transformed back again\nto mechanical energy, but there is no\ncreation, nor destruction of power, and\neven our patent offices today will not\nlisten to the \"perpetual motion\ncrank;\" so prominent a generation or\ntwo ago.\nThe vastness of space was also\ntouched upon. Light travels at 186,-\n000 milea per second . The nearest\nstar outalde of our solar syatem ls so\nfar away that lt takes three yeara for\nlight to come from that star. Stars\nare really suns like oura, aome entailer, aome vastly larger. The speaker\ngave a brief Idea, of comets and meteors, or shooting stars.\nThe subject for Friday evening will\nbe: \"The Solar System.\" Many beautiful pictures of the planets and of\nthe moon's great craters and mountains will be shown.\nEmphasizing Our Unmatched Values in\nWomen's Coats\nand Dresses\nGarments of the season's latest mode, fashioned of\nfabrics that take their place in the front rank of the\nseason's most desired novelties, and well fiinshed.\nFor style, appearance, nowhere else can you find\nvalue to equal these.\nWOMEN'S COATS, $29.50\nMade of velour with far-trimmed collar and lined throughout,\nshowing the popular side fastening, in sizes\nto fit women and misses..\nL-I2&50\nWOMEN'S AND SUSSES' COATS, AT $39.50\nA collection that offers almost unlimited choice for selection.\nMade of good quality velour with fur collar and cuffs, and\nattractively embroidered.\nExtra value..\n$39.50\nVictims of Home Bank of Canada\nShould Get One Hundred\nOents on Dollar\nT. 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