British Columbia Musician
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Miller, Ernest C.
issued: 2024-03-26
issued: 1924-02-04
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note: * j t mmssmv Vancouver, B. C, February 4, 1924*^^>« Official Journal of the Musicians' Union, Local 145, A. F. of M. Vol. I., No. 10 wmm WML â¢ m FIRST PRIZE ESSAY &y WALTER MACARTHUR rJ^'llE power of the union label is proved by its progress. The ^^ union label signifies the application in industrial life of those rules which every good citizen applies in individual lifeâcleanliness, morality, honesty, chivalry towards woman, and care for the young. Originating in 1874, in the white label of the San Francisco cigarmakers, followed in 1875 by the red label of the same craft in St. Louis, and permanently established in 1880, at the convention of the Cigarmakers' International Union, by the adoption of "the other color in the.flag"âthe familiar blue label of to-dayâthe union label has become the emblem and "guarantee of fair labor in three empires, the United States, (heat Britain, and Australia. During less than 25 years' use in national trade unionism the scope of the union label has extended from a single industry so that it now includes more than fifty crafts in North America, whose products enter into almost every article of household and personal -use. The union label derives its power from the fact that it is based upon the first law of nature, the law that "motion seeks the line of least resistance."' Stated in concrete terms, the union label is powerful because it acomplishes by peaceful means, with absolute certainty and at little cost, that which the strike and boycott seek to acomplish, always at a great cost and sacrifice. The workers who strike in protest against their wrongs may be defeated, but the public protest registered in the demand for the union label is invincible. The union label enlists and arms in labor's cause those elements which determine the issue of every cause in civilized societyânamely the women and children. The instincts of woman and the interests of labor are conjoined in the union label. Both stand for cleanliness, morality, the …
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 49.2611110
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provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Musician's Union, Local 145, A. F. of M.
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