"8b63162c-3eb1-4ca0-a925-9c75c24cdc35"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2017-04-03"@en . "1925-10-30"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/cflacla/items/1.0344570/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " ?HE\u00E2\u0082\u00ACANAD>IAN\nWith Which Is Incorporated THE B. C. V* iSRATIONIST\n\" \" ' ' \"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - \"-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"\" '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\" \":\" \"' \" \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ''at\nI Seventeenth Tear. No. 44\nVANCOUVER, B.C., ERIDAY MORNING v jT. 30, 1925\nEight Pages.\n5c A COPY\nALBERTA MINERS MENACED\nRECENT EXPLOSION A FRAME-UP\n^RUMHELLER, Alta.*\u00E2\u0080\u0094The re-\ni cent explosion in the village ot\nI Newcastle, ia which William Hop-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 kins had the windows of his house\nsmashed, and the outside door\nblown off its hinges, bears all, the\near-marks of a frame-up by the\neoal operators to drive all the\n' fighting workera out of the Drumheller Valley. No serious damage\nwas done to the house.\nOwing to the severe wage cuts\ninflicted upon the miners, and the\nlarge number that have been blacklisted, the mine owners are becoming afraid that they may have another strike on,their hands before\n1 the month of November is over.\nThe owners know that they have\nbroken their agreements with the\nmen In the past, and they are\nafraid that the workers will strike\nback at them in kind; and knowing\nthat offensive is better than defensive to ail appearances they\nplanted dynamite in front of this\nhouse knowing that the occupants\nWere at the back, being careful just\nto place sufficient to break the\nwindows and shake loose a few\n' shingles. To make the story seem\na little more plausable they had\nthe powder house broken up the\n. night before the explosion.\nAfter the explosion was over the\npolice found some more dynamite\n|, At the Brewery, which ls situated\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA right at the back of the house occupied by \"Kid Burns,\" an active\n' fighter on behalf of the eoal dlg-\nPgers, and a man who had been\nblacklisted from the mines in the\n^Alberta coal fields. This incident\n, in itself is sufficient to show what\n.the mine owners are trying. Unable to houira \"Kid Burns\" out of\n', the district they are now endeavoring to railroad him by means of a\n; frame-up.\nThe \"Calgary Albertan\" came\nout openly with a call on behalf of\nI the mine owners, when in a recent\ntissue it stated: \"A clean up must\nbe made.\" Clean up who;. Obviously the men who have Ween\nbhlackllsted by Mr. J* Gouge, and\nk prevented from earning a livelihood.. These men are mostly re\n' turned soldiers and Gouge is be-\n[ coming afraid.\nIn a letter to the press dealing\nwith this matter \"Kid Burns\" says:\n\"Mr. Gouge feels that if he can\nget his citizen's army working good\nthey can run a number of men out\nof town (as was done in 1910) intimidate the other minera, keep\nthem in their places.all winter, and\nhave them ready for another reduction next summer. But this is\nnot 1910. Some of us returned\nfrom war expecting to find a land\n\"fit for heroes to live in.\" In 1921\nwe found ourselves ln the bread\nline, ahd our standard of living has\nbeen falling ever since. Next time\nwe will fight, for ourselves, so\ngentlement of the Black Shirt Brigade BEWARE.\"\nPass this copy to your shopmate\nand get him to subscribe.\ntiHiHiitininiii,Hii|n|\u00E2\u0080\u009E....>M|iitii\u00C2\u00AB,itM-.i*/ *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*%\nHow Labor Fared\nELECTION results _ show that;'\nlator fared better ln the\nmiddle wert than on the Pacific\ncoast. In Winnipeg North Centre, 3. 8. Woodtworth waa elected by a majority of 1,200, and\nin Winnipeg North, A. A. Heaps\nreceived a majority of 914.\nWhile all the labor candidates\nIn Vancouver and environs lost\ntheir deposits, yet tho total vote\nreceived by each candidate shows\nan increase over all previous\nelections, a clear sign that a\nswing to the left ls taking place\nand that the workers are coming\nto an understanding of the fact\nthat they can rely only on their\nown class..\nAt the time of going to press,\nLabor's voto ln this district\nstands as follows: Vancouver Centre, W. W. Lefeaux, 1,799. Vancouver Burrard, J. Sidaway, \u00C2\u00AB,-\n286. Vancouver South, A. Bnrry,\n2,724. Vancouver North, Sr.\nCurry, 932. New Westminster,\nBose Henderson, 3,276.\nAll the Labor candidates ln\nAlberta were defeated.\n\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BBH>..l..ll,l.l>***\u00C2\u00AB..*\u00C2\u00AB.\u00C2\u00AB\nANOTHER SAILOR FLEECED\nWIFE AND BABY LEFT TO STARVE\nrr___ Canadian Government Mer-\n1 chant Marine recently added\nanother chapter to their lurid record by confiscating the wages of\na sailor, and bringing his wife\nand 14-months-old baby faoe to\nface with starvation.\nWhile the S.S. Canadian Seigneur was in London, England, on\na recent voyage, a young man\nnamed Sydpey* J. Collings was\nsigned on as trimmer. Before\nsigning articles Collings received\nthe assurance of the .Seigneur's\ncaptain that, although the crew\nwould be paid off in Canada, he\nwould have no difficulty in securing a ship going back to England.\nCollings said adieu to his wife\napd baby boy and sailed on the\nSeigneur, expecting to be back\nVancouver Open Shop Printers Whine\nFor Larger Share of Election Trade\nTj'VEN Vancouver has its open\nshop brigade. True, in the\nmain they are but dwarfed caricatures of such living embodiments\nof industrial despotism as Judge\nGary of U. S.. Steel,, or John D.\nRockefeller of Standard Oil, but\neven at that, In their own barnyard, village pump style, they do\ntheir best to emulate their prototypes at the top of industry's\nladder.\nTaking advantage of the rush\nfor printed matter during the federal election campaign, the Open\nShop Printers of Vancouver have\nsent a letter to the headquarters\nof the candidates for privileged\ninterests\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Liberals and Conservatives\u00E2\u0080\u0094 clalmlpg that no benefit would accrue to them from\nusing the union label on their\nprinting, and, stating that in the\ninterests of freedom election printing should be given to Open Shop\nPrinters.\nA copy pf the letter in question, printed op the stationery of\n\"The Open Shop Printers of Vancouver,\" has been secured by the\n[Bombay Workers Close Mills\n(By Federated Press)\nNEW YORK.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Bombay's cotton\n1 mills aro completely closed by the\nI strike of Indian workers, according\nj to latest reports received by the\n[Friends of Freedom for India in\nLNew York. The four out of 82\nlinllls which were still trying to run\nwhen reports were sent are un-\n} doubt edly shut down. Thousands\n[of the workers, recruited originally\n[from agricultural districts, who re-\n[turn to their fields from March to\nI June, are again going back to their\n(homes inland or on the coast.\nThe 150,000 strikers, organized\nlln the Textile Workers Union af inflated with the All-India Trade\nf Union Congress, say that the 11%\nI per cent, wage cut ls really a 20\nr per cent cut; that living costs are\nI still way out of proportion; and\nthat the part time threatened\n' would reduce wages 16 per cent,\nfurther. Wages in Bombay cotton\ntextile workers average from $2.50\nto $4.50 monthly for women;\n$10.50 for men on full time. There\nare some 30,000 women workers\nand 2,000 children, all supposed to\nbe 12 or over and on half time\nuntil 15.\nBombay cotton mills made 126\nper cent, profit on $40,000,000 invested in 1922; 170 per cent, in\n1921; and over 200 per cent, during the war. Most of the mills are\nIndian owned. The Bombay Mill\nOwners Association flatly refused\nto consider the strikers' demands.\nSome of the workers believe that\nthe owners wanted the strike, hoping to force the government to remove the excise duty upon every\nyard of goods produced in India.\nThe duty and Japanese competition were the mill owners' excuses\nfor the wage cuts.\nThe workers live for the most\npart in wretched \"chawls,\" or tenements where several families are\ncrowded into each room and sanitary conditions are unspeakably\nvile. One English writer describes\nthe situation as \"warehousing\"\nrather than housing the workers.\nThe workers are kept constantly in\ndebt, because they come to the city\nwithout money and .are forced to\nbribe someone for a Job and be-\n(Continued on pago 1)\nLabor Advocate, and reads, ln\npart:\n\"Dear Sir: Since the present\nfederal election campaign commenced lt has again come forcibly to the notice of commercial\nprinters running opep shops In\nVancouver that campaign managers and candidates are demanding the union label on their election work, thereby discriminating\nagainst those open shops.\n\"We are of the oplpion that\nthis discrimination is done thoughtlessly and without consideration\nof the fact that it is merely the\nsurvival of an obsolete custom,\nand that the net results of putting a union label on election\nwork are S, bit less than nothing.\n\"Even in politics men of courage and Independence refuse longer\u00E2\u0080\u0094and with good results\u00E2\u0080\u0094to be\ninfluenced by this (union label)\npropaganda, since it has* been\npretty well established that in apy\ngiven community not more than\n3 per cent, of any vote is an organized labor vote.\n\"Locally, the situation is that\nin all four constituencies organized labor has\u00E2\u0080\u0094as lt consistently\ndid in past elections\u00E2\u0080\u0094put candidates ip the field to oppose you.\n\"We believe, if an analysis were\npossible, it would be found the\nuse of the union label on election\nprinting ln all campaigns for ten\nyears past never made nor lost a\nsingle vote for either the Liberal\nor Conservative parties. Its influence ls a myth and should be\ntreated as such. , . .\n\"May we say further, the opep\nshops ln Vancouver produce from\n65 per cent, to 70 per cent, of\nall commercial printing done in\nthis city; that they pay union\nwages, or better; have the very\nbest working conditions; that they\nemploy many good union men\nwithout discrimination, but also\nwithout ..th^. everlastlpg fear of\nstrikes, the imposition of foolish\nconditions, or the intimidation of\norganized labor tyranny. Our independence was purchased at a\nprice that makes lt Invaluable,\nand it is part of your freedom as\nwell as ours.\n\"In all probability the open\nshops of Vancouver control more\nvotes than you could ever expect\nfrom organized labor with their\nowp candidates in the field. It\nls certain, too, that more support\nfor the old political parties can\nbe expected from responsible men\nof moderate opinions than from\nextremists.\n\"It is high time this union\nlabel bunk was taken at its true\nvalue in the field of politics as\neverywhere else.\n\"A committee of open shop\n(Continued on page 5)\nhome with them ln a few months,\nConditions on the trip wore a repetition of the abominations for\nwhich the C.G.M.M. is so notorious. While in the tropical zone\nno cold drinking water could be\nsecured, although plenty of ice\nwas available.\nWhen Vapcouver was reached\nCollings was paid off. When asked by an immigration officer if\nhe wished to stay in the country\nCollings stated that he desired to.\nreturn home at the _earliest opportunity. Eventually he shipped\non another C.G.M.M. ship stated\nto be going to the United Kingdom and the continent, but the\nsailing was cancelled and the\nship's articles changed to Montreal and Quebec.\nWhile the vessel was in New\nWestminster, Collings missed his\npassage. The ship was under orders to sail for Union Bay, B.C.,\nand left New Westminster four\nhours ahead of time, thus causing Collings to miss the ship. He\nimmediately applied to the C.G.\nM.M. shipping agent, requesting to\nget back on the ship, but was\ntold to wait in Varrouver until\nthe vessel returned. Three days\nlater, when 'he vessel arn.**d\nback' in Vancouvtr 'rom Nn'.nn\nBay, he was chn.ged with desertion and his wages turned 6ve\u00C2\u00BB-\nto our government-own ad steamship line.\nToday this young main is wall'\ning the streets of Vancouver tormented with thoughts of how his\nwife and child are fai-ine-. now\nthat the bread hat, been torn from\ntheir mouths to pay interest to\nC.G.M.M. bondholders.\nThis ls a sample of \"life on the\nocean wave\" under t'he benign\nrule of the corpulent Mackenzie\nKlpg\u00E2\u0080\u0094Western Canada's prosperity protagonist. The money which\nshould have gone to buy milk for\nthe baby and food for Its mother\nwill now help pay the fat salary\nof Sir Henry Thornton. Truly did\nMackenzie King speak in Vancouver when he said: \"I am opposed to having every dollar saved\non the railway eaten up on the\nocean.\" There will be little eatcp\non the ocean if King can do it\nReactionaries Break Poland\n(By SCOTT NEARING, Federated Press.)\nTJPTAKSAW. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Capitalist papers\n\" have taken mnny opportunities to describe bad economic conditions in Russia nnd to attribute\nthem to the Soviet regime.\nAmerican workers who have read\nThe ploughing is dono by,barefoot peasants-* driving single horses\nbefore ancient plows. The furrows\nare from two and a half to three\ninches In depth. In some places\nthe sod is little more than brokon.\nthese stories might like to know Seeding is done by hand and the\nHighlights on This\nWeek's News\nhow things look ln capitalist Poland.\nThere has been no Soviet there, no\nallied blockade and no famine, but\nIn a three-day journey across the\ncountry, from Warsaw to Ctolpcc,\nI came across an economic situation that I have not seen equalled\nfields are harrowed with homemade one-horse harrows.\nWomen Workers\nPotato harvesting was at its\nheight. Women in their bright\npeasant costumes were doing most\nof the digging. Some used short\nanywhere in thc temperate belt of mattocks. Most, however, did their\nCANADIAN ' Pace Eur0Pe 0r North Amerlca' digging with short straight-handled\nElection Results '- 1 The Iand ls maSnlflcent-- U ls shovels. Every woman that I saw\nAlbert* Miners -:fn--':''X.ZXZZ\ 1 slightly rolling, free of stone and working in the potato fields of\nScab Printers Solicit Trade :, 1 very ricy__ There were places where Eastern Poland, was bare-foot. For\nana an \"\"\"\"\"\"\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \"\ ' : a furrow could have been run for the eight or nine hours of their\nMother Jone ' tonoirs '..Vj*two or three miles as the crow flies, work-day they bent over this ex-\nCoal Barons Fleece Scabs!\"!..!.\".\".\"..! VCentral Ohio and Southern Indiana acting toil and as a wage, they re-\nV. S. and Locarno 4 and Illinois have such farm land. ceived from one and a half to\nBRITISH ___ The s^p System three zloty per day (6 zloty, $1.)\nG... 7 ever. Instead, the land Is cultl- through the streets of Warsaw.\nFOREIGN * vated on the strip system \u00E2\u0080\u0094 one Peasant men ln rags, barefoot, fol-\nBombsy Cotton Workers Strike 1 gtrlp to grass; the next to potatoes, lowed their carts to the Warsaw\nPuppet Poland Bankrupt 1 Ld,-* \u00C2\u00BB. _.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2._.<_ __r _. \u00E2\u0080\u009E.. ,,. .. ~\nGerman Postal Workera Unite 8 a third to grain and so on. (Continued on Page 2) Page Two\nTHE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE\nFriday, October 30, 1925\nMother Jones' Memoirs\nBOMBAY WORKERS REACTIONARIES\nCLOSE MILLS BREAK POLAND\n(By Federated Press.)\nA/IT. OLIVE, 111.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Too ill to be\nwith her miner boys at the\n27th annual commemoration of the\nheroic defense of Illinois unionism\nat Virden, Mother Jones dispatched\na letter to the arrangements committee in which she picks her last\nresting place and tells the rank\nand file to carry on.\n\"They stood bravely on the hill\nand told the scabs to return to St.\nLouis,\" Hother Jones writes of the\nmine battle of Oct. 12, 1898, when\nthe openshep drive, though\nlaunched by bullets that killed 4\nMt. Olive union miners, failed to\nbreak the resistance of the workers, \"i wish every state would follow Illinois in organizing its workers. My heart beats today with\ndevotion to those boys as it did the\nmorning that they gave up their\nlives for a holy cause.\n\"When I am called I want to\ntake my last sleep with my brave\nboys in Mt. Olive. Under no circumstances would I choose to take\nmy final rest in Sleepy Hollow with\nCarnegie and the rest of the capitalist exploiters,\" Mother Jones\nwrites. .\n\"To be with my boys both living\nor dead is all that life means to\nme now. Be it to their credit the\nworkers have always rung true to\nthe cause, while the same cannot\nbe said of thei leaders who in some\ncases have bartered their principles\nfor a mess of pottage and prolonged the struggle of the workers\ninstead of standing like men true\nto their pledge.\n\"And now, my dear boys, I wish\nyou success and the final triumph\nof labor. Stand by your guns when\nthe cause is a just one.\"\nFormer International President\nWhite spoke to the assembled miners in behalf of President John L.\nLewis, who was detained in the\neast. A parade to Miners Union\ncemetary where the murdered defenders lie buried was a feature of\nthe commemoration.\nDanish Bosses Make\nBid For Soviet Trade\n(Continued From Page 1.)\ncause they have to borrow at 30\nper cent, to 150 per cent, a month\ninterest in order to live until their\nfirst pay from the mill. One of\ntheir chief grievances is that they\nare paid monthly and 15 days late!\nThe strike did not become general\nuntil the middle of September,\nthough set for the first, because\nworkers waited to get their August\npay. Then many of them complained bitterly that.their employers had put the wage cut into effect on August wages instead of beginning Sept. 1.\nSickness keeps the workers from\ntheir jobs so much that the mills\nemploy 16 per cent, extra substitutes. Foremen have to recruit\ntheir own workers and misrepresent mill conditions to hold their\njobs. Forewomen may even force\nsubordinate women workers into\nprostitution for their mill jobs. Unjust rules of all kinds exist in the\nmills and every advantage is\ntaken of the workers' ignorance\nand illiteracy. A month's notice is\nrequired of workers before leaving,\nIn order for them to get paid in\ntime. Many pay a clerk highly to\nwrite their notices. Many leave\nwithout their wages. The notice is\nvoid if the worker is absent any\ntime during the month before he\nquits; etc.\nIndian labor leaders asked the\ngovernments of Bombay and of\nIndia to-appoint a committee to in\nvestigate the textile Industry. They\nasked the British government of\nIndia not to abolish the excise\nduty unless the mill owners\npromise to restore wages. However,\nunless the Indian textile strikers\nget outside aid they will probably\nlose their strike as the Northwest\nRailway strikers did a few months\nago. The Russian Textile Workers\nUnion sent fraternal greetings and\n10,000 roubles as a demonstration\nof working class solidarity but this\n$5,000' ls all the help the Indian\nworkers have received so far.\nCOPENHAGEN.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A trade and\nindustry organization has appointed a committee to find means to\ninduce Soviet Russia to do more\ntrade with Denmark/ While in\n1924 Denmark's exports amounted\nto 400,000 crowps- (about $100,-\n000), showing that this country\ncan compete with other nations,\nRussia bought; only 2,000,000\ncrowns (about $500,000) worth,\nas against 2,000,000 crowns\n(about $18,000,000) in exports it\nsent to Denmark,\nTrade and Industrial interests\nare taking all possible steps in\norder to induce Russia to buy\nmore goods in Depmark.\nA fighting labor press can't be\nbuilt by wishing. Send in your\nsub today.\nNew Jersey Textilers\nFighting Wage Cuts\n(By Federated Press)\nPASSAIC, N. J.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The 400 striking operatives of the Passaic Worsted Spinning Co. refuse to accept\nthe compromise of 8 per cent, instead of 10 per cent, wage reductions offered by their employers\nand have succeeded in getting the\nmachine shop employes and painters In the mill to join their walkout. This is the first group of textile workers in Passaic to resist\nthe wage cuts which have been\ngoing into effect since Oct. 5. Only\nabout 30 loomfixers, affiliated with\nthe United Textile Workers Union,\nare striking at Gera Mills where\n1,200 workers were given wage reductions.\"\nForeman Harry Wattmuff of the\n(Continued from page 1)\nmarkets. Through the countryside were boys and girls tending\ncattle, sheep and goats. It was late\nin September. The nights were bitterly cold. Early in the morning\nthey were at their tasks, barefoot,\nshivering.\nHousing Conditions\nThe vegetable gardens beside the\nhuts are wretchedly kept. It was\nshocking to see the great stretches\nof untille^ or partly tilled land\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nsuch unused opportunity.\nAs for the peasant cottages,\nsome were built of hewn logs. A\nfew were shingled. Many were\nthatched. Some of the people are\nliving in dugouts, half buried under\nthe earth. They had the tiniest\nwindows. Living conditions could\nscarcely be worse. x\nOutside of the cities I did not\nsee a single road in Poland that\nwould pass in the United States as\na second-rate macadam highway.\nMost of the roads were mud trails\nacross the countryside.\nArmy is Prosperous\nOne thing in Poland is prosperous\u00E2\u0080\u0094the army. The soldiers have\ngood boots. They carry swords and\nautomatics. The officers are decked\nout In gorgeous plumes, gay uniforms, immense swords. They are\neverywhere\u00E2\u0080\u0094in the streets, in the\nstations, on the trains, armed to\nthe teeth. This little country with\nits 17 millions and its army of half\na million is draining a large part\nof its surplus' into this absurdly\nextended military machine.\nFriends of Poland may insist\nthat these miserable conditions are\nthe product of war. In part this\nis true, but most of the country\nexhibits the results of backward\neconomic organization, not of war.\nPoland has had- no Bolshevik\ngovernment. During the past five\nyears it has been the ward of\nFrench diplomacy and British\ncapitalism. Perhaps that Is why\nthe Polish working people are living in a state of physical wratch-\nedness\" that contrasts painfully\nwith the vastly better economic\nconditions that exist just across\nthe border in the Soviet Republic.\nMen are born to be serviceable\nto one another, therefore either\nreform the world or bear with it.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMarcus Aurelius.\nMen are never so likely to .settle\na question rightly as when they\ndiscuss it freely.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Macaulay.\nWatch Your\nEYES\nYOUR EYES mean everything to you. Don't\nneglect them. If your\nvision is not good, if you\nhave eye strain or headaches, it will pay you to\nconsult us.\nWe will advise you accurately. Our pi-ices for glasses,\nif required, are very reasonable.\nVancouver\nOptical Co.\nA. Higginbotham, O.D.\nExperienced Ontario Graduate\nJ. R. Higginbotham, O.D.\nGraduate Los Angeles Medical\nCollege for Eyes\n806 Granville Street\nVancouver, B.C.\nAll Labor Men Patronize Va\nCLASSIFIED ADS.I\nBARRISTERS\nBird, Bird & Lefeaux, 401 Metropolitan Bldg.\nBATHS\nVancouver Turkish Baths, Pacific\nBldg., 744 Hartings St. W.\nBICYCLES\nHASKINS A ELLIOTT, \u00C2\u00BB00 Pindar\nStreet W. The belt maku of blcyclae\non eaay termi. _]\nBOOTS AND SHOES , ,\nArthur Frith & Co., 2813 Main St.\nBOOTS (LOGGING)\nH. Harvey, 68 Cordova St. W.\nNONE BUT WHITE HELP\nEMPLOYED\nCAFE\nEmpire Cafe, 76 Hastings St. B.\nCHIROPODIST\nWHY SUFFER WITH SORB FEET!\nHannah Lund, 921 Birki Bldg., fivei\ninstant relief; evening! by appointment.\nSey.*- 1218. *_. \t\nchiropractor\nDr. d. a. McMillan, palmer'\nGraduate. Open dally and evenings. Dawson Blk., cor. Hastlngi and'\nMain. Phone Sey. 8954.\nNANAIMO-WELLniGTOM\nCOAL\nLESLIE OOAL CO'T Ltd.\nPhone Sey. 7187\nDENTIST\nDr. W. J. Curry, 801 Dominion\nBldg.\t\nDRUGS\nRed Star Drug Store, Cor. Cor-\ndova and Carrall.\t\nFLORISTS\nBrown Bros. & Co. Ltd., 48 Hutings St. E. \" \t\n*-* \u00E2\u0080\u0094'\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094-\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nGLASS\nGLAZING, SILVERING, BEVELLINO\nWESTERN GLASS CO. LTD., 181\nCordova St. W., few doora wait af\nWoodward's. Sey. 8687. Wholeiale ani\nretail window glass.\nHOSPITAL\nBETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nGrandview Hospital\u00E2\u0080\u0094Medical, snrg*\nleal, maternity. 1090 Vlotoria Drlve.a\nHigh. 137. \"\nEveryone, can see the ill effects\nof bad theories. It is only about\ngood theories that they are sleep*-*\ntlcal.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Hobhouse, in \"Social Development.\"\nCOAL\nAND\nVWOOD/\nSay you saw it advertised in the\n\"Advocate\".\nPassaic Worsted mill was acquitted\nof an assault charge preferred\nagainst him by striking girl workers against whom he had turned\na fire extinguisher. The girls were\nfifth floor employes *jnd the foreman was from the third floor; so\nthe court decided that the foreman\nwas right to defend his section\nagainst possible attack by the girls!\nNONE BUT WHITE HELP\nEMPLOYED\nGeo. McCi\nieo. mc^uaig\nAUCTIONEER and APPRAISER\nPhona Sey. 1070\n748 Richards Street, Vancouver, B.O.\nCORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH VANCOUVER\nPUBLIC NOTICE\nThe Ratepayers of South Vancouver are being called upon to exercise their franchise on\nSaturday, November 7th, 1925, to decide'the question:\n\"Are you in favor of the creation of\na Greater Vancouver Water District?\"\nThe Corporation of the District of South Vancouver are calling meetings at the following\ntimes and places to explain the Act.* A good attendance is,requested., '*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\nG.W.V.A. HaU, Cor. Cecil ahd Kingsway-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd\nCommunity.Hall, 44th: and Victoria\u00E2\u0080\u0094WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4th\nI.O.O.F. Hall, 30th and Main Street-WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4th\nAt 8 o'Clock P.M.\nLADIES WEAR\nFamous Cloak & Suit Co., 618\nHastings West.\nHudsona Bay Coy., Granville St.\nMEN'S FURNISHINGS\nW. B. Brummitt, 18-20 Cordova\nStreet.\nArthur Frith & Co., 2313 Main Bt.\nmen's suras\nC. D. Bruce Ltd., Homer and Haatings Streets.\nW. B. Brummitt, 18-20 Cordova\nStreet.\t\nMUSIC\n\"I7TOLINS ADJUSTED, VOICED, BB-\nV paired, by expert. Will Edmnndi,\n965 Robaon St. Sey. 2094.\t\nOPTICIAN\nPitman Optical House, 615 Hast-\nIngs West. _^\nPAINT AND S-PLY PANELS\nGregory & Reld, 117 Hastings\nStreet East.\t\nRANGES AND STOVES\nCanada Pride Range Co., 346 Hast-\nlngs Street East.\t\nTOBACCOS\nMainland Cigar Store, 310 Carrall\nStreet.\t\nTRUSSES\nC. E. Heard, 9B9 Robson Street.\n. ==\nCORPORATION OF POINT GREY\nTENDERS\nSEALED TENDERS, addressed to thc\nundersigned, will be received by thc\nCouncil up to 8:00 o'clock p.m. or\nMonday, November 2, 1925, lor paving\nthe following streets:\n10th Avenue (south side), Blanca\nDrive to Imperial Street.\nDunbar Street' (west side), 25tb Ave\nnuo to 29th Avenue.*\nKing Edward Avenne (north side)\nGranville Street to Oak Street,\nForm of tender, specifications and ful!\ninformation may he obtained on application to the Municipal Engineer on\npayment Of the sum of $5.00, which\nwill be returned on receipt of a bona\nfido tender.\nA deposit by certified cheque of ten\n(10) .per .cent, of the amount tendered\nwill he .required, with each tender as\nsecurity that the tenderer will, If called\nupon, .enter into: a-Contract,' ttni provide\nthe. required .bond for. the performance\nof the work. \" ' '\nThe lowest ot*any tender not necessarily accepted.\nHENRY FLOYD\nC. M. 0.\n.Municipal Hall,\n5851 West Boulevard,\nVancouver, B.O.\nOctober 27th, 1925. . -Friday, October 30, 1925\nTHE CANADIAN LABOE ADVOCATE\nPage Three\nluge Electrification N.Y. Teachers Question\nPlan For Donetz Basin Mayoralty Candidates\n--INDUSTRY--\nGerman Postal Workers Belgian Labor Starts\nAre All in One Union Central Strike Scheme\nMOSCOW.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The present year\nvill see the completion in the Donetz Basin of the powerful Scher-\n|if electrical power station, which\ntvill provide about 100,000 kilo-\nvatt electrical power. But thta\nIs not all that is done for the\nelectrification of the Donet* Basin.\njit is also being electrified now by\naother method, that of an electrical ring.\nAll the existing electrical power\nStations in the Donetz Basin are\nnow being extended and connected\nvith each other, into one ring, by\nleans of electrical transmission\nlines. When this work has been\ncompleted the combined power of\nJhese electrical 'stations in the\n.opetz Basin will be 670,000 kilo-\nIvatt. It is estimated that this\ntreat work will take 15 years, but\npome results have already been\nAchieved. In some parts of the\nJonetz Basin parts of the great\nling, which will embrace the\nIvhole basin, already exist. Here\nInd there these parts are already\nbeing linked up into one whole.\nStrenuous work is going on in the\nJonetz Basin which will put everything on ap electrical basis, in-\nbludlng ploughs and trucks.\nlinety Women Lynched\nIn Thirty-six Years\n(By Federated Press)\nNEW YORK.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ninety women\nlave been lynched in the United\nItates since 1889, the National As-\n\"pciatlon for the Advancement of\nfolored People announces from its\npmpllation of lynching statistics.\nlost of the women were colored.\npcept for one case ln Nebraska,\nne in Wyoming and two in mis-\nfrurl (only one of the Missouri\ntimen colored; three others white)\nthe cases are from southern\nfates: Alabama, 9; Arkansas, 9;\n[lorida, 3; Georgia, 8; Kentucky,\nLouisiana, 5; Mississippi, 16;\n|orth Carolina, 2; Oklahoma, 3;\nDUth Carolina, 6; Tennessee, 7;\nlexas, 11; Virginia and West Vir-\n|nia, one each. A full list of\names, dates and places Is issued\nthe N.A.A.C.P. The last case\nincurred ln 1923.\n(By Federated Press)\nNBW YORK.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The New York\nTeachers Union is asking pertinent\nquestions of all mayoralty candidates in the city; whether as\nmayor each would favor a fiscally\nindependent board of education;\nwhether as mayor he would try to\nsecure legislation towards electing\nthe board of education; whether he\nwould try to eliminate partisan\npolitics in the administration of\npublic schools; whether he would\nbuild up the merit system of promotion instead of using political,\nracial or religious connections of\naspirants as a guide to promotion;\nwhether he would stand unqualifiedly for a reduction in the size of\nclasses and fdr a radical change in\nthe school building program to prevent erection of more large factory-like buildings; whether he\nwould favor basing salaries on the\npre-war dollar's purchasing value,\nwhich would mean an increase in\nteacher's pay; whether he would\nfavor the representation of organized labor and of teachers on the\nboard of education. The Teachers\nUnion charges *the present city\nschool administration of political\nfavoritism and partisan domination\nwhich greatly hinders educational\nadvancement.\nDENMARK\nThe labor unions of Soviet Russia have invited the Danish unions to send a delegation of twenty members to visit the Soviet\nworkers and investigate the conditions under which the Russian\nworkers live. The invitation includes attending the gigantic anniversary celebrations in Rusila of\nthe establishment of the Soviet\ngovernment on November 7, 1917.\nand the1 Russian congress of metal\nworkers. A number of Danish\nworkers are expected to participate.\n. .1\nINDIA\nThe 1924 apnual report on the\nIndian factories act shows that\nduring the year the total number\nof registered factories increased\nfrom 434 to 465, and the number\nof those actually working from\n399 to 434; while in the same period the number of operatives increased from 49,110 to 59,842. The\nreport makes claims of improved\nworking conditions for all factory\nhands, but it is known those conditions are incredibly bad.\nSocialism is the movement of the\nroducers whose labor of hand and\nrain provides the necessities of\n^e for all and dignifies and ele-\nates human existence.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arthur\nlenderson.\nHungarian Consulate\nPickets Are Arrested\n(By Federated Press)\nNEW YORK.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Five more pickets\nplaced by the International Labor\nDefense New York Section in front\nof the Hungarian consulate on\nMorris street near Wall were arrested and given suspended sentences on charge of disorderly conduct. The pickets carried banners\ndemanding release of Mathlas Ra-\nkosi, Hungarian communist imprisoned in . Budapest by the\nHorthy dictatorship. The judge\nruled that their picketing was not\nallowable In spite of the fact that\nthe judge who gave suspended sentence to 15 workers arrested last\nweek for similar picketing ruled\nthat five pickets was permissible.\nFurther demonstrations against\nHungarian injustice will be continued. .\nROUMANIA\nNineteen leaders of the Unitarian Confederation of Labor were\narrested in the Bucharest trade\nunion local. These workers, who\n,t\nwere arrested, form the Oeneral\nTrade Union Commission, and had\ncome to an ordinary meeting\nwhere the following questions\nwere on the agenda for the day:\nThe trade union position, election\nof members\" for the labor councils, council election, trade union\ncongress, the press, trade congress, industrial internationals,\netc.\n(By Federated Press)\nBERLIN. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The amalgamation\njust effected between the German\nGeneral Postal Workers union and\nthe post aud telegraph section of\nthe big German Transport union\nunites in a single union all German\npostal workers, of whatever grade,\nwho are organized in the regular\nunions. It had been feared that\nthe prejudices of some of the functionaries would stand in the way\nof complete unity between white-\ncollar and manual workers.\nThe principle of amalgamation of\nexisting unions into industrial\nunions has for some time been fully\naccepted by the German labor\nmovement, but of late opposition\nhas arisen. The recent Breslau\nconvention of the General Federation of Trade Unions, while again\nendorsing the principle of industrial\nunionism, made certain provisions\nfor averting friction between unions\nin the transition period, which it\nrecognized would take some time.\nRegulations were therefore approved restoring the previous mutual agreement system between\nunions in the same industry, and\nit was decided that \"No trade union\nshall formulate demands for itself\nindependently, without first endeavoring to come to an agreement with the other unions involved.\"\nCoal Barons Intend\nTo Skin Their Scabs\nGERMANY\nA lockout of 30,000 German\nglass workers is threatened by\nthe glass manufacturers' association in its campaign to increase\nthe working day. Over 5.000\nBerlin glass workers have been\non strike since August 31 for\nrestoration of the 4 8-hour week.\nIt is to break this strike as well\nas to enforce a 10 or 12-hour\nday throughout the industry that\nthe lockout notices have been issued.\nRoumania Prosecutes\nTrade Union Leaders\nSo this ls the paper you have\ncen wanting? Prove it by sup-\norting it with your subscription\nnd those of your neighbors and\nfriends.\nStay at the\nHOTEL STRATFORD\nThe Place Called Home\nCorner GORE AVE. and\nKEEFER STREET\nPhone Sey. A121\nf. GIOVANDO, JOHN THA\n200 Elegantly Furnished\nRooms.\n10 Rooms with Private Bath\n. Moderate Prices\nFIRST-CLASS SERVICE\nReaction is well on the ramp in\nRoumania, where, under the\nscreen of martial law, every sort\nof empty and out-dated charge is\nbeing raked up against working\nclass leaders.\nA court martial is trying tho\nGeneral Council of the National\nTrade Union Centre for circulating the May appeal of the International Federation of Trade Unions on behalf of the universal\neight-hour day and the demand\nfor general disarmament, while a\nnumber of miners' leaders have\njust been arrested for the \"crime\"\nof holding a meeting last April to\nsign a petition asking for permission to hold a May Day celebration and for assisting the unemployed.\nThe minimum penalty to which\nthe accused are liable Is two\nyears' imprisonment.\nITALIf\nA 24-hour general strike took\nplace in Milan September 23 as\na protest against grafting a monopoly to the fascist unions in\nwage negotiations, but not a word\nabout it was published in any\nItalian paper, labor or capitalist.\nThe fascist censorship was right\non the job, and only indirectly\nhas the news reached German labor center*.\n(Federated Press.)\nEVERETTV1LLE, W. Va.\u00E2\u0080\u0094That\nthe coal operators mean to fleece\nthe scabs doubly by controlling\ntheir purchases as well as then-\nwages is evidenced by the experience of Dewey Miller, a farmer\nliving two and one-half miles\nfrom Everettville. Miller complains to W. French Hunt, prosecuting attorney, that he has been\nordered off the property and\nroads of the New England Fuel\nand Navigation Co. for selling apples and beans to the local mining\ncommunity.\nMiller charges that his low\nprices\u00E2\u0080\u0094in the case of apples his\noffering was $1 a bushel in contrast to $6 per bushel charged by\nthe company\u00E2\u0080\u0094were the cause. H.\nClay Miller, a neighbor of Dewey\nMiller, made' a similar complaint.\nThe prosecuting attorney stated\nhe was powerless.\n(By British Labor Press Service.)\nLONDON.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Considerable interest\n\"attaches to the main points of tne\nscheme for a Central Btrike Fund,\nthe principle of which was approved by a large majority at the\nlast Belgian Trades Union Congress.\nThe project provided for:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nCompulsory contributions from\nall affiliated bodies, who would be\nresponsible for regular subscriptions.\nContributions to be levied in two\ncategories: one for men. and for\nwomen on the same wage level as\nmen (who pay l&d. to 2__. per\nhead according to mean.*!), the\nother for woipen and young persons, whose rate of contribution\nwould be from about %d. to 1-ftd.\nThe right of the National Centre\nto call for special levies.\nStrike benefits to begiii after the\nsecond week of a dispute, as the\naffiliated bodies are expected to be\nable to maintain strikes for a fortnight from their own funds.\nOne of the most important points\nof the scheme is that organizations\nentering upon a strike without the\nconsent of the National Centre will\nrecieve no benefits from the central\nfund.\nIf the consent of the National\nCentre has been given, it is to be\nrepresented on the strike committee in its capacity as representative of all the affiliated organizations, and it has the right to decide\nto terminate the strike, if it thinks\nsuch a step necessary.\nIn this case also the organizations on strike are nevertheless still\nfree to continue, but in so doing\nthey again surrender their right to\nassistance.\nChicago Bank Clerks\nOust Radical Member\nSend in Your Subscription Today.\nFresh Ont Flowers, Funeral Designs, Wedding Bouquets, Pot\nPlants, Ornamental and Shade Trees, Seeds,. Bulbs,\nFlorists' Sundries\nBrown Brothers & Co. Ltd.\nFLORISTS AND NURSERYMEN\n8\u00E2\u0080\u0094STORES\u00E2\u0080\u00948\nlit HMttafs St. But, Sty. 918-872 886 OranvIUi Streit Sey. 9018-1391\n161 Halting! Street West Sey. 1870\n\"SAY II WITB FLOWERS\"\nFRANCE\nThe French losses in the war\nagainst the Riffians in Morocco\nhave, up to October 1, amounted\nto 2,176 killed, including 37 officers and 8,297 wounded, according to the report made by Premier Painleve before the finance\ncommittee of the chamber of deputies in an appeal for more\nfunds to carry on the war.\nFINLAND\nThe governor of the Finnish\nprovince of Hjuland has refused\nvisas to the Finnish trade union\ndelegation to the Soviet Union.\nThe delegation has been ready to\ngo to Russia for a month now.\nbut it is hindered and sabotaged\nin every possible way by the Finnish authorities.\nBULGARIA\nThe cabinet has decided to terminate the state of martial law\nwhich has been In force since the\nbomb explosion in the Svetl Krai\nCathedral on April 16, ln which\nmore than 150 persons were killed.\n(By Federated Press)\nCHICAGO.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Explusion is the\npenalty meted out to President Joe\nShafir by the Chicago Bank Employes Association for sponsoring\nradical resolutions at the American\nFederation of Labor convention\nwhich he attended as the union's\ndelegate. Shafir was accused of\ndisobeying instructions and of making organization work in Chicago\nbanks impossible by his act.\nAt tho union meeting whicli\nvoted by a large majority to expel\nhim Shafir maintained his right to\nact independently. He also reminds\nhis accusers that they knew he was\na Workers party member when\nthey elected him delegate to the A.\nF. of L. He attributes the hostility partly to counter revolutionary\nRussians employed with him in the\nAmalgamated Trust & Savings\nBank, whero the union's membership is largely concentrated, and to\nzeal on the part of certain union\nmembers for the interests of the\nbank as distinct from that of the\nworking class.\nThe union Is chartered directly\nby the A. F. of L. executive council\nas Federal Local 17,709.\nUnskilled Workers Are\nOrganized in Germany\nATLANTIC CITY, N. J.\u00E2\u0080\u0094German chemical workers, most of\nthem unskilled workers, are organized in the general Factory Workers union says, Otto Iserland, accompanying president Schumann\nof the German Traffic Workers\nunion at the A. F. of L. convention.\nIserland is surprised to discover\nthat the American organized labor\nmovement does not include any\ngeneral union of unskilled or factory workers. \"For the \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 last 30\nyears we in Germany have had\nthese workers in a union,\" he says.\nCertain groups of American factory workers are organized under\njurisdiction of different international unions, Iserland was told,\nbut the lack of general organization among American factory workers makes it more difficult for\nGerman and American labdr to\ncome\" together against tho growing\ninternational combinations of capital, Iserland sees.\nEnraged Boss Attacks\nUnion Business Agent\nCHICAGO, III.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Harry Wlnnick,\nbusiness asent of the Retail\nClerks' Union Local. 195, is in hospital following an attack with a\nrazor made upon him by Meyer\nOssey, part owner of the Ossey\nBros. Department Store. The union had Ossey arrested, but he\nwas later released on $3,000 bail.\nThe employees of Ossey Bros,\nstore had walked out after the\nunlO|P representatives had failed\nt\u00C2\u00BB get the company to sign an\nagreement with the union. Pickets had been placed at the store\ncarrying banners telling prospective purchasers that the store was\nunfair to union labor and that a\nstrike was on. Ossey, in desperation, seeing that.** no customers\nwere entering his establishment,\nattacked the business agont, who\nwas one of the pickets, with a\nrazor, attempting to kill him. Page Four\nTHE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE\nFriday, October 30, 1925\nI i\nOPEN FORUM\nfedlkriol /pft^e,\nQUESTION BOX\nA depress All Letters apd\n' :amittances to the Editor\nWs\t (Eanatatt ffiator Afctwraft\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Ma '\n/lUlllllll' *\n1128 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C.\nPhone Sey. 2132\n$2 A TEAR\n$1 BIX MONTHS\n:: Capitalism's ::\nW-ekiy Pageant\n_\n-TTHREE former British premiers.\nAsquith, Balfonr and Ramsay\nMacDonald, are reported to have\nformed a society in the British\nIsles for the purpose of bringing\nabont a \"golden age of health.\"\nHow this is to be accomplished is\nnot stated, bnt to the average mind\nthc logical path to follow would be\nto furnish tlie inhabitants with suf-\nf icient food to enable them to retain their physical strength. That\nthis society intends doing this obvious thing need hardly be expected.\nIt can only be accomplished by\nwiping out tlie cause of unemployment and hunger\u00E2\u0080\u0094the capitalist\nsystem\u00E2\u0080\u0094and there is nothing to in-\ndicate that either of the threo\ngentlemen will take such a step.\n* * \u00C2\u00BB\nUNCLE SAM is sparing no effort\nto have the mind of the people\nof America prepared for a war with\nJapan. This necessary ideological\ngroundwork is being carefully attended to. At a university debate\nhi Illinois American imperialists\nsecured the services of three British\ndebaters who informed the audience\nthat Japanese imperialists were\nstating that the United Stntps would *\nsoon be theirs by right of conquest.\nAfter a few more doses like tlmt\nthe two Imperialist groups concerned will be about ready to lead\nthe workers of both countries to\nthe shambles. So long as the workers fight each other the boss is\nsafe.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\npOOD crops on tlie prairies is\n*** causing tlio Vancouver Publicity Bureau to get busy. Extensive\nadvertising will be done among the\nfarmers telling them the advantage\nof spending the winter on the coast.\nMeantime the City of Vancouver\nis busy advising the men who have\nreaped tho harvest that they had\nbetter keep away from here if they\ndesire to escape hungr. Those that\nhave money ure welcome. Those\nthat have none should be put in\ncold storage until required. \"For\nmon don't count, and women don't\ncount, there's nothing lhat counts\nbut cash.\" Deny it who can.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00C2\u00BB\nnow LEGS, stooped shoulders,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*-' and sunken chests are the results of eating the wrong kind of\nfood, according to an American lecturer. If the gentleman had ever\ntaken a good look at a group of\nmen doing real hard work perhaps\nhe might ring that in as a contributory cause, that is, providing he\nwas willing to be truthful, which\nis somewhat unlikely. The man\nwho hus only 15 tents with which\nto buy a \"coffee an'\" has very little choice as to wliat he shall eat.\nThe main consideration is what will\nfill up most.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nTHE SUK, in referring to the election results, remarks that: \"A\nchange of doctors does not necessarily cure disease.\" That is perfectly correct, especially when one\nswitches from one quack doctor to\nanother. Neither King nor\nMeighen have the inclination or\ndesire to perforin u surgical operation on the body politic, and in this\ncase the disease can be cured only\nby am operation. The real means\nof remedy lies in changing* from\nquack doctors to qualified surgeons, i.e., the Labor Party.\nThe lands of England have been\ndisposed of according to two laws\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the law of the strongest and the\nlaw of the most cunning; hence\nEngland's pauperism and England's moral degradation.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Patrick\nEdward Dove.\nLabor's Post-Election Objectives\nTTNLIKE the Liberal and Conservative parties, Labor's, campaign does not end with the eleetion. Polling day is\nmerely the place from where we note our gains and losses,\nand from where we make a fresh start. Our campaign must\ncontinue until capitalism is uprooted. Labor has no preelection promises to bury and conveniently forget, nor fraudulent nostrums to lock in the cupboard until next election.\nThe task of educating and winning over those members of\nour class who still adhere to the gilded dogmas voiced by\nUie representatives of a moribund social system is as necessary on the day following an election as on the day previous.\nThis task is not one that can be accomplished in a few\nhectic weeks of parliamentary campaigning. The work of explaining and implanting in the minds of our fellow workers\nai-knowledge and understanding of the complexities and interrelationships of our social life is an undertaking requiring\nyears of unremitting effort. But although it may be a task\nof stupendous proportions, yet that merely proves that greater\neffort is required. The forces of social development marches\non our side, and we are not dismayed by the colossal dimensions of the work to be accomplished.\nTo the spokesmen of capitalism, education has no relation to politics. To them politics is electioneering, holding in\nthrall a subjeet class, and perchance lining their own individual pockets. To their alleged institutions of learning is allotted the task of stultifying the hopes and aspirations of the\nworking class by keeping them in ignorance on important\nsocial questions. To a Liberal or Conservative, an educated\nman is a social menace who should be jailed at the first convenient opportunity; to Labor, a working man with an understanding of social questions is a priceless asset. In education, as in everything else, the party of Labor and the parties\nof capitalism are diametrically opposed, because an extension\nof knowledge in the former spells the extinction of the latter.\nThe ideological battle is the crux of Labor's political activities. While a worker's mind is warped with a bourgeois\ntraining he is an easy prey to the platitudinous shibboleths of\nour adversaries, but, armed with a knowledge of history,\neconomics and sociology, he can hold his own against all-comers and glib election slogans fail to impress him.\nThe mental, strings that fetter the minds of the workers\nmust be broken. Capitalist concepts must be replaced with a\nworking class perception. The traditions, prejudices and fears\ngenerated by years of mental slavery must be broken down\nand the workers' thought process freed from the yoke of\nbourgeois restrictions. The line which separates the problems\nand \"issues\" of capitalism from questions directly affecting\nthe well-being of the working class is not always easy to distinguish; nor is it always easy to tell paths that lead to the\nfortifying of bourgeois institutions from roads that incline to\nworking class control. To dissimilate the one from the other\na theoretical training is necessary, and this must be carried\nout if we are to avoid the numerous pitfalls and blind alleys\nthat lie ahead and the pitiful spectacle of working class representatives wasting their time and energy attempting to solva\nthe unsolvable contradictions of capitalism. For this a Marxist\neducation is necessary.\nThe task of rallying the workers and uniting them in industrial organizations is as necessary as educational activities,\nand is of equal political importance. The one is complementary to the other. The political and industrial movements of\nthe working class are not two separate things which, like oil\nand water, cannot be mixed. Both are part and parcel of one\nand the same thing\u00E2\u0080\u0094a subject class struggling upward and\nonward, fighting for liberation against tremendous odds.\nTrades unions are not only centres for fighting for improved\nliving standards, they also serve as the place where masses of\nworkers are brought under working class influence, and where\nthr ragh experience they learn the need for independent working class political activity. Canada has a huge mass of unorganized workers who must be rallied under the banner of then-\nclass and thus brought into the struggle.\nLabor's campaign did not end on October 29th. It only\nbegan.\nU. S. AND LOCARNO\n(By LAURENCE TODD, Federated\nPress.)\nWASHINGTON.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Signing of the\nLocarno security pact by\nPrance, Qermany, Belgium, Britain\nand Italy has given great satisfaction to official and financial Washington, which speaks for financial\nAmerica,\nPresident Coolidge is pleased because he sees in the peace agree-\nmtnt the removal of one or more\nexcuse for non-payment'of French\nand Italian debts to the American\ntreasury. That excuse is the German 'peril which requires that\nrequires that France and Italy\nmaintain big armaments. That is\nto say, France fears the Germans,\nand Italy will not disarm while\nFrance is armed. Now they are\nall under bond to keep the peace,\nand Coolidge sees no reason why\nthey cannot promptly cut their\nmilitary budgets and turn the savings over to Secretary Mellon.\nThe state department is pleased\nbecause diplomacy has scored.\nTrue, the British tory diplomats'\nscheme of making Germany agree\nto let French armies pass through\nGermany to defend Poland and\nCzecho-Slovakia against the Soviet\nUnion was abandoned. Tchlcherin\nhad seen the Germans first, and\nhad shown them the advantage of\nholding aloof from the anti-Russian combination at Locarno. But\nat least Germany has signed up\nwith the other western powers, and\nprofessional diplomacy will get\ncredit for having saved Europe\nfrom chaos. Germany has been\nbrought into the League of Nations.\nGermany will begin the process of\nremaking the league from within.\nNo longer is the league the combination of conquering allies that it\nhas bee'n. Germany is making the\nLeague safe for America\u00E2\u0080\u0094unless\nshe makes it safe for Russia instead\u00E2\u0080\u0094and American politics may\nnow take a turn which will make\na pro-League attitude safe for the\nstate department. That will please\nthe department, *,\nThat Germany will proceed, as a\nmember of the League council, to\nmove for a change in the terms of\nthe covenant which will remove\nthe danger that the penalty clause\nmay be used to justify a war on\nRussia, is felt to be certain. That\nAmerican influence will be used,\nthrough London, to counteract this\nmove, is equally certain. Through\nthe screen of guaranties and\npledges the Washington government sees one thing very clearly\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthat the western European powers\nare in so serious an economic situation that each one of them will be\nmore tempted to enter into close\nrelations with the Soviet Union, and\nhence to take steps to bring the\nSoviets into the League, than will\nthe United Sates in the next few\nyears. Washington ls glad that\nMoscow had no direct part in the\nLacorna pact, and it hopes that the\nnew treaties will swing all of western Europe into an anti-Russian\nentente in which the German nationalists will force their government actually, if not formally to\naccept. It is their dream of a\nleague to defend private property.\nInsurance Mongers Real\nGood Harvest in Canada\n(By Federated Press)\nMONTREAL.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The A. F. of L.l\nplan to develop labor life insurance!\ncreates interest in Canada, as many|\nCanadian companies with small!\ncapital have made amazing profits.]\nThe Confederation Life Associa-f\ntion pays 20 pey cent, dividends onl\na paidup capital of $100,000 and]\nhas created a net surplus of $4,-|\n588,000. Tfte London Life Insurance Co., with a paidup capital ot\n$100,000, pays a dividend of 16 per|\ncent, and has a net surplus of\n$866,000. The Dominion Life In-J\nsurance Co. has a paidup capital of\n$200,000, a net surplus of $880,001.\nand pays dividends 16 per cent. The!\nGreat West Life Insurance Co. witl*|\na capital-of $1,000,000, pays 20 per\ncent, and has a net surplus of $l,-j\n741,000. The Sun Life Insurance\nCo. of Canada, pays 15 per cent J\ndividends on a paidup capital oT\n$2,000,000 and has a surplus of\n$20,957,000, being the most import-J\nant life company In Canada.\nPatronize Our Advertisers\nUNION DIRECTORY\nWhen machines were firBt used,\nthe laborers were an ignorant mob\nwho had not yet learned to work\ntogether. But their work-trained\nthem to act together. Their sufferings soon taught them to rebel\ntogether.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A. M. Simons.\nIn improved methods of efficiency ln confiscating the products\nof industry, the modern capitalist\nis far in advance of the feudal lord\nand tribal chieftain.\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. E. Branch\nALLIED PBINTINO TRADES OOUNOIlI\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094MMta ucond Monday in tht montk]\nPruidtnt, J. B. Whit*; unitary, B.\nNeelandi. P. O. Box 68. '\nFEDERATED LABOB PARTY\u00E2\u0080\u0094Roon\n111, tie Pender St. Weit. Buiineii\nmuting! !\u00E2\u0080\u00A2> \u00C2\u00BBnd Srd Wednuday evenl\ninft. B. H. Neelanda, Chairman; I. }T\nMorriion, Beo.-Troai.; Angui Maelnnfl\n8514 Prinot Edward Stroot, Vancouver\nB.C., Correiponding Seontery.\nAny dlitriot ia Britiih Columbia i_\nilrlnf information ro locuring tpnktf\nor tbo formation of loul branohu, klnf\nIt oominunioatt with Provlnolal Sio.f\ntary J. Lyla Tolford, 624 Birki Bldf!)\nVuoouvor, B.O. Toliphono Seymou*\n13W, or Bayvlow 6680.\t\nBAKERY SALESMEN, LOOAL 171\nMooti noond Thunday every montl\nln Holdon Building. Proiidont, J. Bright!\nwill; Unanolal loorotary, H. A. Bow]\nron, 781 18th Ava. Eait.\t\nOIVIO EMPLOYEES' UNION, LOOA\n28\u00E2\u0080\u0094Moot! flnt and third Friday! ii\ntha month at 145 Haitingi W., at i\np.m. Preildent, R. K. Brown, 2531\nCharlei St.; leoretary-treainrer, George\"\nHarriion, 1182 Parker St.\nENGINEEB8 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 THE INTERNATIONA ^\nUNION OF STEAM AND OPERATING\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u0094Looal 182\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mooti ovory WedneidaJ\nat I p.m., Room 80S, Holdon Bulldlnf\nProiidont, Oharlu Prloo; buiineu agon]\nand finanoial loorotary, F. L. Hunt; Mf\ncording iperotary, J. T. Venn. \t\nMUSICIANS' MUTUAL PBOTEOTIV1\nUNION, Looal 146, A. F. ot M.-1\nMoit! in G.W.V.A. Hall, Soymour aal\nPondor Stroota, leoond Sunday at 11\na.m. Proiidont, E. O. Millor, 991 'Hot\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0on itroot; iecretary, E, A. Jamloion\n901 Nelion itreet; finanoial Heritor*\nW. X. Wllliami, 8S1 Nelion itroot; ei|\nganiior, F. Fletcher, 891 Nelion iteul\nTHE FEDERATED BEAFABEM]\nUNION OF CANADA\u00E2\u0080\u0094Headquarto-\"\nat Roomi i, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 and 7, Flaik BnUdli.\nltt Haitingi Stroot W., Vanoouver, B.C\nTol. Boy. 1698. Proiidont, Bobert Tho_r\nVloo-Proiidint, David GUIoipli; Boo';\nTreaiunr, Wm. H. Donaldion. Viitan.\nBranoh, Boom 11, Green Bloek, Brea]\nStreet, Viotorla, B.O. Phone 1908.\nTYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\nPniidont, B. P. Pettlpleoe; vloo-prei\nident, O, F. Campbell; iioretary-treeJ\nurer, B. H. Neelandi, P.O. Box \"\nMeeti lait Bunday of eaeh month at I\np.m. in Holden Building, 18 Haitingi '\nPBINOE BUPEBT TYP0GRAPHI04\nUNION, No. 118\u00E2\u0080\u0094Pnildont, 8.\nMaedonald; iecretary-tnaianr, J.\nCampbell, P.O. Box 889. Mooti In\nThunday of eaoh month.\nIHE CANADIAN\nSlabor JUmorati\nWith Which Ii Incorporated\nTHE BBITISH COLUMBIA FEDBRA|\n TIONIST\nPUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY\nBy tho Labor PnbUihiag Co.\nBuiineu and Editorial Office\n 1129 Howe St.\nThe Canadian Labor Advocate ii a non|\nfactional weekly newspaper, giving new\nof the farmer-labor movement In action!\nSubscription Rates: United States and\nforeign, (2.50 per year; Canada, fl\nper year, $1 for six months; to union]\nsubscribing in a body, 16c per* men\nber per month.\nMember Tha Federated Press and Thl\nBritish labor Press pay, October ,30, 1925\nTHE CANADIAN LABOB ADVOCATE\nPage Five\nArt In Russia\nAmerican Dance Halls\nShock German Visitors\nSCOTT NEARING, Federated\nPress.)\nfOSCOW.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Yesterday at one of\nthe Moscow art schools I had\n{opportunity to look over the rett work of the younger Russian\nIsts, the artists who have been\nftlcularly influenced by the\nfesian revolution. While much of\nenthusiasm of the revolution\ngone into posters, of which\nfisians have produced some\nfendld specimens, painting also\nllects the revolutionary enthusi-\nn.\n.Strength of line, color and de-\nIn was the dominant character\nfthe exhibition. There was noth-\nflat. Enthusiasm, vigor and\nrpose were everywhere.\nThe picture varied greatly in\nathod. Cubism was there and\nInple realistic painting. But all\nfqwed creative eagerness.\nThere were a few portraits, some\ncellent landscapes and a large\nImber of pictures depicting strug-\nI\u00E2\u0080\u0094a group of miners, lamps\nfhted, in the early dawn, enter-\nthe pit for their day's work;\nl firing squad executing three\nlisoners;\" Budenny, surrounded by\ncavalry, riding through the\n|sk; a city rising triumphant\nom the effects of a fierce snow\nprm.\n[One picture, entitled Composi-\njin, stood out vividly among the\nst. It was a large canvas, done\nvery dark colors. Instead of\noving from the left to the right\n| moved from the bottom to the\nAt the base of his picture an\nfctomobile climed a steep hill. A\nnn in a silk hat, his eyes wide\nwith terror, was leaning from the\ncar. Another well-dressed man was\nraising his hands in protest against\nthe struggle proceeding above him.\nThere, rising through the picture;\nwas a fascist, pistol in hand, defending the car and its inmates.\nIgnorance was threatening everybody with an automatic. Already,\nhowever, a soldier of the red army\nhad him firmly by the wrist. Higher\nup another fascist was attacking a\nred figure, the proletariat, strong,\nluminous, emerging out of the\nbackground and throwing a red\nglow. At the extreme top was\"\nfamine reaching skyward, his\nthroat clutched by a worker carrying the Soviet star on his cap.\nIgnorance is in hand. Famine is\nbeing strangled. Fascism remains\nthe only danger. There is not a\nsuggestion of beauty or gentleness\nor love. It is a stark and terrible\nportrayal of the last decade of Russian life.\nPeter Williams is the artist, a\nRussian in his early twenties.\nLast spring I looked at the art\nexhibit in the Chicago tet Institute.\nLovely wood scenes, pretty children, graceful women, pleasure\nparties were the themes. ' It was\nthe reflection of leisure class folks\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094at home and at play. One who\nlooked at this Chicago exhibition\nwould not dream that there were\nstockyards and steel mills In Chicago.\nBut a visitor to this Russian exhibit can be under no misapprehension. There.has been a revolution in Russia and Russian life\nis struggling forward to new forms\nof expression\u00E2\u0080\u0094struggling and winning.\n(By Federated Press)\nATLANTIC CITY, N. J.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The\nmost shocking sight two of tjie\nGerman trades union delegation attending the American Federation\nof Labor convention have yet seen\nis an American dance hall. One\nof the two visitors tells that they\nwent out unattended one evening\nahd ventured into a dance hall.\nWhen they *found young girls employed by the dance hall manager\nto work from noon to midnight, an\nalmost unbroken 12-hour shift,\ndancing with all comers at two or\nthree, cents a dance, the German\ndelegates could scarcely believe\nthey were in the United tSates\nwhere labor is supposed to be so\nwell paid and have such fine conditions, Feelingly the delegate declared that the girl dancers were'\"\nnearly distraught with the strain\nof their work.\nNot even New York's eastside\nmade so great an impression on\nthese two German unionists. They\nwere shown the crowded Jewish\nand Italian tenement district by\ntheir guides and commented \"How\ndirty!\" But they did not see the\nsweatshops where old men and\nwomen and young boys and girls\nstill toil early and late pulling bastings, sewing on buttons, and performing other unskilled tasks on\nmen's and women's and children's\ngarments. If the German union\nvisitors saw these workers on the\nstreets carrying great bundles of\nfinished work back to the shops, or\ndragging bundles of work to be\ndone in little children's carts, they\nprobably did not realize what they\nwere seeing.\n[Instalment Flood Presage\n(By LELAND OLDS.)\nBILL labbrd.prepare to weather\nthe storm which bankers fore-\nas a result of the stupendous\n|lation due to instalment buying?\nWs question is suggested by read-\n' the more farseeing business re-\n\u00C2\u00A3ws. They hold that the present\nilfway prosperity will crack as\nfon as the speculative building\nom ceases producing the wages\ntilch carry the part-time pay-\nants along from month to month.\nhe outlook beyond 1?2B is not\nfomising.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BAinstalment buying,\" says the\nJitionaf City Bank, \"is creating a\nfeat body of indebtedness which\n111 have a first claim on earnings\nithe future, and while it stimu-\nfes business in the present there\nJty be unpleasant after effects.\"\n[\"The almost phenominal growth\n[retail buying based on easy pay-\nJsnts extending over long terms,\"\nlys the Cleveland Trust Co., \"has\nJen promoted by a multitude of\nBance companies that have\nIrted up and continued in busi-\nEss because they found it easy to\nIrrow the money with which to\nferate. This new extension of\nay instalment purchasing has\nleatly aided in lifting auto sales\n^new high records and in bring-\nabout a great increase in the\nEe of electrically driven household\npliances.\"\nThe National Bank of Commerce\nIds: \"There is no doubt that an\nIportant proportion of the Urban\nIpulation of moderate means is\nfeady obligated heavily for in-\nllments on -homes, automobiles,\nJlio outfits, furniture and even\nJthing.\"\nCommenting on these various re-\nbwa Benjamin Baker of The An-\nllist says; \"This is the dominating\nliture in the business of today,\nId it is certainly in large part an\nJsound feature, both in its social\n[Suits and purely as business. A\nasoning scrutiny of the current\natistlcs of business shows pretty\nlearly that both hopes and pros-\npets of heavy business for the rest\nthe year are founded mainly on\n[ie belief that the forced buying\ni an inflated credit basis will con-\nnue ior at least that length of\nIme, and without any shock severe\n|iough to tip over the pyramid.\nThat it will topple over, ultimately,\nis ail but certain.\"\nBaker quotes a' banker in one\nof the western federal reserve cities\nwho saysV \"There is at least $5,-\n000,000,000 of part payment paper\noutstanding\u00E2\u0080\u0094about 1|12 of our entire national income for a year.\"\n(It ls about % of the annual wages\npaid factory workers and \u00E2\u0096\u00A0& of the\ntotal wages paid by mines, factories\nand land transportation).\nBaker says: \"It is probably not\nan overstatement to say that the\nmost Judicious bankers, all over the\ncountry, are making preparations\nto weather a storm of which there\nis yet no visible and material indi-.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 cation.\"\nHow about labor?\nVancouver Open Shop\nPrinters Whine for Larger\nShare of Election Trade\n(Continued from Page 1)\nprinters will have pleasure in interviewing you within a few.days\nto get an expression of opinion\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 from you on this matter. Yours\nvery truly,\n\"THE OPEN SHOP PRINTERS\nOF VANCOUVER.\"\nThe letter itself requires but\nlittle comment. Like Limburger\ncheese, it speaks for itself in a\nvoice that stinks in the nostrils\nof any self-respecting working\nman, but it may not be amiss to\npoint out a few of the more outstanding prevarications.\nOpen shop printers do not produce from 65 per cent, to 70 per\ncent, of all commercial printing\ndone in Vancouver, as can be verified by a glance at the number\nand capacity of non-union establishments as compared with union\nones. Where uniop wages are\npaid it ls because of the standards set by the Typographical\nUnion, and would not exist but\nfor that body; and the \"very best\nworking conditions\" enjoyed in\nnon-union shops means that the\nmen concerned must work 48\nhours per week, as compared to\n44 hours ln union establishments.\nIt is apparent from the above\nthat open Bhop printers. have received but a small part of elec-\nBritish Delegation\nVisits Soviet Union\nMOSCOW.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The English .parliamentary delegation, consisting of\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 several members of the Labor\n' party, including Messrs. Walhead\nTaylor, Grenfell and others, that\nlately arrived at Moscow, visited\nthe session of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R.\nWhen the delegates appeared ln\nthe hall, Kalinin, president of the\nC.E.C., suspended the sitting and\nwelcomed the English guests. Mr.\nWalhead, as chairman of the delegation, said ln reply:\n\"We are very grateful for the\ncordial reception accorded to ua\nand we congratulate you on the\nDrllllant success of your work of\nreconstruction of Russia. Your\nunion must unite all peoples ipto\none strong union. We intend to\nstudy your methods and follow\nyour path. We are trying to bring\npressure on our government in order that it put relations with\nyour eountry on the same level\nwith other cou*ntrieB.\"\nKalinin replied by stressing the\nsignificance of the closer re-ap-\nprochement between the English\nlaborers and the U.S.S'.R. that ia\ntaking place .-lately. \"We should\nlike you,\" he said, \"to study alJ\nthat is being done ln the Soviet\nUnion, and, after your return t\u00C2\u00AB\nEngland, to use it i*n the interests of the working class.\"\nBOOTBLACKS STRIKE\n(By Federated Press)\nNEW YORK.\u00E2\u0080\u0094About 800 bootblacks of upper westslde New York\nshops are striking for $22 to $26 a\nweek; one day's rest in seven;\nhours of 8 a.m, to 8 p.m., except\nSaturdays,\" 8 a.m, to 10 p.m., and\nSundays or holidays, 8 a.m. to 3\np.m. The workers are members of\nthe newly organized United Hat\nCleaners, Shoemakers and Bootblacks Independent local union.\nWhat is the matter with the poor\nis Poverty; what ls the matter with\nthe rich is Uselessness.\u00E2\u0080\u0094G. B.\nShaw.\ntlon printing, and are making a\nbid to draw attention to themselves. If they are already doing\n70 per cent, of tho printing, why\nbe a hog apd whine for more?\nBusiness Is Good\nbecause we are in the low.\nrent district and thus able to\nfigure close.\nGreb Work Boot, tan or black,\nwith or without toecap; sizes\n6 to 11; special $1.06\nMen's first quality Knee Gum\nBoots, new stock; sizes 6 to\n11 $4.26\nMen's 5-Eyelet Lace Gum Boots\nfor .\". $3.96\nChildren's Knee Gum Boots, sizes\n6. to 10,% ., $1.96\nMen's Dress' Sain Coats; $12.60\nvalue for $8.46\nFlannelette Blankets, white or\ngrey; 10-1, $1.90; 11-4, $2.26,\n12-4 ,. $2.76\nMail Us Tour Orders.\nLlama Socks; pair. 46c\nArthur Frith&Co.\nMen'a and Boyi' Purniihingi,\nBati, Boota and Shoei\n2313 MAIN STREET\nBetween 7th and 8th Avenues\nPhono Fair. 14\nH. NEIL\nHand Made Loggers' and\nSeamen's Boots\n136 LONSDALE AVEKOT\nNORTH VANOOUVBB Phono 1181\nAUTOMOBILES\nWe Havo Soma Ctood Boyi in\nGUARANTEED USED OABB *OC\nCash Payments Aa Low Al -?mw\nPATTISON MOTORS Ltd.\nPhono Soy. 7406 1386 OranviUe 81\nSoy. 486 32 Hutlngi St. B.\nThe Electric Shop Ltd.\nRADIO AND\nELECTRICAL SUPPLIES\nSey. 6789 414 Haitingi 81 W.\nBird, Bird & Lefeaux\nBABBI8TBB8, SOLICITORS, BTO.\n401-408 Metropolitan Building\nIS7 Haitingi 81 W., Vancouvor, B.O.\nTelephones: Soymonr (666 ul 6667\nEmergencies\nWHEN a crisis comes and\nsomeone at a distance\nmust be reached quickly,\nthe long-distance telephone\nwill prove its worth.\nB. 0. Telephone Company\nVancouver Turkish Baths\nWill Cure Tour BheumaUim, Lumbago, Neuritis or Bad Oold\nMASSAGE A SPECIALTY\nPACIFIC BUILDING\n744 Hutlngi St. W. Phono Soy. 2070\nRUPTURE\nSpecialist in Ttusiei for Mon, Womia,\nChildren and Infant! '\nO. E. HEARD\nPhona Soy. 3880\n969 Eobion Strait, Vaneouvar, B.O.\n23 Tears Established ln Vaneonver\nIs There Any Painless Dentistry?\nDr. W. J. CURRY, Dentist\nOFFICE: 301 DOMINION BUILDING\nPhone Sey. 2354 for Appointment\nT CAN remember when chloroform, other and gas were the sole\nagents used to reduce the misery attending dental operation*.\nAbout ten years ago NOVOCAIN was Introduced, and it ii safe to 01*1\nthat this is one of the greatest boons to humanity yet discovered, and\nmakes Dentistry almost a pleasure. It Ib a great thing to lay truthfully:\n\"These extractions, fillings, or removing this nerve, will not hurt.\"\nWith the use of Novocain, work can be done thoroughly, time ll laved.\nand the cost Is less than before.\nGLASSES\n$5\nCOMPLETE\nAUE eye examination is as\n^ perfect as skill, scientific\ninstruments and years of experience can devise.\nBird Eye Service\n(UPSTAIRS)\n205 SERVICE BLDG.\nROBSON at GRANVILLE\nEntrance 080 Robson St.\nPhone Sey. 8855\nHere We Are Again\nThis time with Weatheral Coats, 45 inches\nlong, belted; grey and fawn $10.00\nMen's Heavy Tweed Pants;\npair .11.05\nKhaki Coveralls , $2.05\nStanfield's Underwear, heavy;\nat $1.75\nBlue Blb-Overnlls $1.45\nMat'lvljinw Coats $6.05\nMen's Overcoats from $12.00\nKhaki Pants .: $1.65\nCarss' Henvy Tweed Pants;\npair $6.75\nSuits up from $15.00\nW. B. BRUMMITT\n18-20 OORDOVA STREET WEST BBS\"\nPage Six\nTHE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE\nFriday, October 30, 191\nWith the Marine Workers\n(Conducted by W. H.\nDonaldson, Secretary Federated Seafarers\nof Canada.)\nBricklayers Compel\nContractor To Eat\nHis Open Shop Ads\nNotes From the Camps\nSaw Mill Workers Win\nSEAMEN'S ACTIVITIES\n/\"YN Friday an A. B. applied for a ai'e supporting non-union labor.\njob on the motor-ship \"Haur- Wake up working men and women.\n-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u009E \u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 *\naki, and was told to get his gear <_,,.*\u00E2\u0080\u009E__\u00E2\u0080\u009E T n ...\n, ' Sydney J. Collings, who was a\nand be aboard on Saturday morn- victim on the Canadian Governing (Oct. 24th.) But there was a ment Merchant Marine vessels, S.\n\"But\" in the question, and the s- Ca-n&dlan Seigneur and S. S.\n\"but\" was that the crew demanded Canadian Miller, was very badly\nthat only a \"union man\" should oii through the actions of the\nget the job. When the individual comPa--y leaving him stranded, m;\u00E2\u0080\u009E(\"wm ^nZ^i\u00C2\u00BB'\"*D<\"\u00C2\u00B0r Z\"\nwent aboard the \"Hauraki\" there after ^king him from his home it: Z u \u00C2\u00B0PeratiVe plaste\u00C2\u00BB the\nvZrl 7 a * aauraKi theie wT!, ers wnloh recognized the claims ceiving but $3.25 per day.\nwere two delegates with a man lj0naon to suffer the hardships nf t,,\u00E2\u0080\u009E ,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E.\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E \u00E2\u0080\u009E_>\u00E2\u0080\u009E_,*,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E.. . ,\nfrom The Federated Seafarers' that h\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 t\u00C2\u00B0 be endured aboard C. \u00C2\u00B0f the latter or-*aniza\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00B0n durinS\nUnion, and a man from the Na- G- M- M- vessels. Having applied\ntional Sailors' & Firemen's Union. for relief at tne clty re\u00C2\u00BBef office\nAs the man from the National was he was referred to the Immigration\n(By Federated Press.)\nWASHINGTON.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Becaifce it ad- '\nvertised for bricklayers to work The saw mill* workers at Aber-\nunder \"open shop\" conditions in deen.^Wash., who have been on\nFlorida and in Rochester, the Geo. strike slflice September 28th for\nA. Fuller Co., one of the largest an increase of wages, have reach-\nconstruction companies in Amer- ai a settlement with the compa-\nIca, has been compelled to make nies concerned and are returning\nspecial terms of peact with the to work.\nBricklayers, Masqns & Plasterers The men came out on strike for\nInternational union. The Fuller a minimum wage of $3.75 per\nconcern was struck by the Brick- day, which was refused by the\nlayers because it signed an agree- companies. A large number of\nmen were at that time re-\nWhen the strike commenced\nits recent quarrel with the Brick- only sorae 300-odd mep were af-\nlayers- fected, but the strike spread rap-\nPeace between the Bricklayers idly to other mills and at the time\nfirst he got the job, and the other -Department, where he was as-tin and the Operative Plasteren was of the settlement about 1,300 men\nreferred to the city relief office, restored by an agreement at At- were out.\nwhere lie leceived a small amount la*ntic cit>r restoring the former The men were completely un-\nterms of allotment of work be- organized. Practically the only\ntween the two. But the Brick- organization existing in the local-\nman who did not have a union card\nwas backed out.\nThe man who was backed out ?f alubsi\"tence, although the C. G.\nlayers refused to work on the Ful- ity is the 4-L's (Loyal Legion of \u00C2\u00B0\u00C2\u00AB 4* and B0 marks a week?\"-\nstated that he did not know there JJ' M' t'U'uld have been responsible,\nwas a Seamen's Union in Vancou- He has jolned the s- B* Cil*V \"f\nver. He came out here on either BaSdad- al>\" *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 get back to lithe S. S. Princess Kathleen, or the Wlfe ani chUd w\u00C2\u00ABhout sufror.ng\nS. S,\nC. P. R. coasting fliers, and was\napproached to join the union but thls man worse than a dos- He Geor&e A. Fuller Co.,\" says this\nthought that it was not necessary left wurd to thank those who were d\u00C2\u00B0cument .of apology, signed by eration of Labor iwere on the\nOnce again a non-union man has kind en0U8'n to assist him \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB <\u00C2\u00AB- High White, president, and R. C. scene- but an Aberdeen attorney\nbeen deprived of a job in favor of P\u00C2\u00B0slnS tactics such as he had to Whiting, vice-president, of the aoted as mediator,\na union man. The men aboard the endure throu^h no fault of his concern, \"make the following Under terms \u00C2\u00B0*f the settlement,\n i..\u00C2\u00AB..i,.\u00C2\u00AB-t..t.*\u00C2\u00BB..*>..t.*\u00C2\u00AB..i..\u00C2\u00AB..\u00C2\u00AB**i O.H\"\u00C2\u00BB\"\u00C2\u00AB*l\nDOSED BY DAWES]\n|\u00E2\u0080\u009EtiHH,.BHlHiHHii*,.it.H,H\u00E2\u0080\u009Et.H..tMtH<**t**>*\u00C2\u00ABt'-1\n(By Scott Nearing, Federated\n\ Press)\n/COLOGNE, Germany.\u00E2\u0080\u0094I spo]\nwith a railway car cleaner J\nCologne. He was a young mq\nwithout a family.\nFor a nine-hour day, six days]\nweek, he receives 8.3 marks\nday ($1.98). His fellow worke\nwho do the heavy track labor a]\npaid 6.6 marks per day ($1.66\nThus their weekly full-time earj\nings are about $12 and $9\n\"Is work easy to get here In C(|\nogne?\" I asked them.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Very dif_|\ncult,\" they replied.\n\"There are many men out\nwork?\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Indeed, we are lucky\nhave a job.\"\n\"But can men care for famllid\ns ler jobs, involving $250,000,000 in Loggers and Lumbermen), which\nbuilding contracts, until the Ful- is a company union controlled by\nPrincess Marguerite the new any more hanlf-hiPs at the handc lers retracted their open shop talk, the lumber barops. During * the\nof the C. G. M. M. who have treated \"We, the representatives of the strike representatives from the\nGeorge A. Fuller Co..\" aava this 4-L's and from the Ameriacn Fed*\n\"Make it 100 and a fellow woui]\nbegin to have a chance.'\n\"Do all the railroad workei|\nwork 9-hours? Where is the\nhour day?\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Flown away,\nwork 8-hours for the railroad ani]\none for Dawes.\"\n\"But where are your unions,'\nasked them. \"Cannot they defenl\ntional Sailors' & Firemen's Union of the B. M. & P. I. U, of A\u00E2\u0080\u009E and\nof Great Britain. Although -not fully agree to its terms:\ntransferred to the Federated Sea-\n\"We have always been sympathetic to the employment of union\nlabor in the building industry and\nmore particularly to the employ\nment of members of your organization, and indeed we believe the fre not satisfied with the settle-\n..... ment, claiming that they should\nbest thrive ' ... .\nhave received a larger wage in-\nmeet a committee of their em*\nployees to make further wage adjustments in the immediate future, and every striker is to be\ntaken back without discrimination. ;\nA large number of the strikers\ndropped out. Those who remais\nhave lost hope. Our unions do nothl\ning for us now. The bosses do witj\nus as they will. Dawes? Yes, thcM\nIt what the Dawes plan has donj\nto us.\"\nHauraki\" are to be congratulated own- He is a member of the Na- statement to the executive board the operators of each mill are to ybu ?\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Not a bit of it Many ha\non their efforts to,* maintain union\nprinciples.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * *\nfarers' Union of Canada, he stated\nIt is only a few weeks back since he will always remember the as-\nanother A. B. who applied for a Stance given to him by that or-\njob on the S. S. Anyox was backed ganlzatlon.\nout in favor of a member of the \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 *\nFederated Seafarers' Union, and it A repol.t from the s, g Canaalan bulwln' 7nV\"7;\nis believed that the man who was Rover states that the co\u00E2\u0080\u009EdltionS as under union nnnLinn,* ,.\u00E2\u0080\u009E._\u00E2\u0080\u009E \u00E2\u0080\u009E \u00E2\u0080\u009E\nbacked out of the \"Anyox\" had far as food ls concerned aboard unde \"nlon conditions; open shop\nbeen sailine on the Coast without Jt . , c\u00C2\u00B0noerne? aboauJ conditions where tried in the past u\u00C2\u00B0*se'\nDeen sailing on tne coast witnout tnat vessel was at,soiutely rotten. have in _,._ nninir>n , . t \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E \"\"*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\na union book. Let Union men de- The cook gets the Wame this ^ f.a:!'_ln_Jour_\u00C2\u00B0Pini0n' led to COn\nmand a book of any men who join gome of the crew were so alSgUgted\nthe ships, and there will then be that they deciaea to quit.\na chance of improving the condi\ntlons of the seamen sailing out of\nall ports in the Dominion of Canada.\n* \u00C2\u00BB *\nThe secretary of the organization\nhas just received a letter from the\nHospital Notes\nJamie Scoular is at St\nHospital suffering from an injui-e3\neye. Jamie was hurt aboard the S,\nS. Canadian Farmer of the C. G.\nM. M. He is improving and ex-\nOntario and Quebec Conference pects to be out ,\u00E2\u0080\u009E a week or so\nof Typographical Unions stating Taffy EyanS) off the g g B D\nthat efforts to have the Liberal\nParty and the Conservative Party\nfusion and loss.\n\"The employment by us in Florida, Rochester, N.Y., and Ottawa,\nCanada, of open shop blicklayers\nis not to be-construed as a devi-\n;au_f ation from our policy to live in\npeace and harmony with union\nlabor and particularly with the\nBricklayers' organization. Such employment was a direct result of the\nunfortunate controversy between\n_ _,_ t, \u00E2\u0080\u009E TT the Bricklayers and the Operative\nKingsley is also at St. Paul's Hos- Plasterers\nThe action of the Aberdeen sawmill workers in fighting for and\nwinning an Increase is in marked\n\"ontrast to the docility of the sawmill workers of Vancouver, who\nare content to work for a wage\nin many cases a dollar a day less\nthan that betug paid across the\nline. Although unorganized, and\nin that respect like the sawmill\nworkers here, yet ths Aberdeen\nworkers have exhibited a militancy completely lacking in this\nWho Is BILL HUNGERFORD.\nAsk Any Labor Msn.\nSTANFORD\nROOMS\n86S SEYMOUR STREET\nHousekeeping snd Trsnslent\nCentral\u00E2\u0080\u0094Terms Moderate\nUnder New Management\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Bill\" Hungerford snd M. Cambridge, Props.\nsupport organized labor by taking but la lmprovjngi\npital. His condition was very bad\ntheir literature from union shops\nhas been ineffective. This means\nthat Liberals and Conservative?\nEmpire\nCafe\nQUALITY\nCOURTESY\nREASONABLE\n76 Hastings East\nHAROLD DEGG snd\nBOB ERAU8E\nLsts 54th Batt. snd 7fnd Batt.\nMail List.\nBell, A.; Crocker, L. R.; Flanagan, H. O.; Gale, T.; George, Mr.;\nHannah, T.; Hynes, A.; Henderson,\nC; Hodson, J.; Horn, R.; Mot, E.;\nJones, N.; Kissock, J.; Knox, A.;\nLarsen, Ci Maekay, J.; McLeod,\nM.; McDonald, J.; Osborne, Wm.;\nPugh, A. E.; Worral, Wm.; Worrell, J.; Warren, S.\nneck of the woods. This wage\n\u00E2\u0084\u00A2--\u00E2\u0084\u00A2t?\u00E2\u0084\u00A2ay,_\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 ^crease should be kept In mind\nby loeal sawmill workers when\ntheir employers tell them thnt\nthey cannot afford to raise wages.\nhappily ended, we sincerely invite\nthe resumption of friendly relations\nwith your organization to the end\nthat our jobs may be manned by\nyour members.\n\"We also want to assure you that\nthere will be no discrimination by\nour company, or its representatives, against sub-contractors employing members of your international union or any of the component parts affiliated with you . , .\nGenerally speaking, we pledge toward your organization an attitude\non our part such as might be expected from a friendly contractor\nNo reform under the present system but a decided step out of and\nabove that system Is the fit and ^^^^^^^\"\u00C2\u00A35^ ^^*^-\nenduring remedy for the wrongs organlza..on\u00E2\u0080\u009E - -\nCOMPENSATION WORRIES\nThe high cost of crippling loggers is beginning to trouble the\nlumber companies. The fact that\nhundreds of men are injured foi\nlife every yea.* while working in\nthe woods couee. *\"s the lumbei\nkings but little, t-u* when it comes\nto the question of reducing the\nexpenses of pay.ng these men\ncompensation, - thai is another\nand oppressions of Labor'by Capital.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Stephen Pearl Andrews.\nA fighting labor press can't be\nbuilt by wishing. Send in your\nsub today.\nBoston Taxi Strike\nBreakers On Trial\nMAINLAND CIGAR STORE\n\"The Place for Pipes\"\nMail Orders Receive Prompt Attention\n810 OARRALL STREET VANCOUVER, B.O.\n(By Federated Press)\nBOSTON.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Strike breakers who\nThe Mountain Lumbermen's Association held a, meeting reeently\nin Calgary, and according to reports that question figured prominently in the discussion. The\nmeeting went on record as favoring the inauguration of a system\nwhereby companies that injure but\na few men will have . their com-\nRed Star Drug Store\n'The Mail Order Druggists\"\nWo Make \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Special Effort to Oet Goods Out by First Mall\nAftor Receipt of Your Order\nCorner Oordova and Carrall\nVanoouver, B.O.\nattempted to take five Checker pensation assessment reduced, Ap-\nTaxis out of the company garage to parently each one is willing to\nrun them for business failed in blame the other fellow for caus-\ntheir efforts and only succeeded in ing the trouble, and in any case\ngetting to court when the mix up it serves to keep modern speed-\nwas over. The men claimed that up methods out of sight,\nthey had been brought in from out Of course, killing loggers does\nof town, not told what the situa- not enter very much into the\ntion was, held in the company gar- Question. Most mein who work\nage until directed to take the five in the woods have no dependents,\ncabs out on the streets. Two al- \u00C2\u00ABn i* they are killed outright com'\nBRUCE'S\nSUIT\nSALE\nBig reductions, splendid\nvalues. Regular prices\n$22.50 to $42.50, now\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n$15 to $37.65\nC. D. BRUCE\nLimited\nOor. Homer and Hastingi St.\nVANOOUVER, B.O.\n,leged \"loyal\" drivers of the company pulled guns and one threw a\ntear-gas bomb at the crowd which\ncollected when the first cab driven\nby a strikebreaker hit a private car\nparked on the street.\nDensatlon charges are small.\nKnowledge is both a weapon\nand an armor, and it is the fear\nof this fact that has led tyrants of\nall ages to foster ignorance among\nStriking taxi men succeeded in their peoples.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Alfred E. Hunt,\nexplaining the situation to the ;\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nstrikebreakers so that not one returned to work. The drivers are\nou t against wage cuts and for\nseveral minor reforms in conditions. They are members of Taxi-\ncab Drivers Union No. 126.\nTo get money that we have not\nearned by some service of love to\nour fellow-men, by contributing to\nthe total well-being, which is the\ntrue wealth of society, is dishonest.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dr. Horton, Eng.\nThe Original\nHARVEY\nLogging Boot\nHAND-MADE BOOTS\nfor\nLOGGERS, MINERS,\nCRUISERS and\nPROSPECTORS\nQulok Bsnrlss for Bepairs\nAil Work OnsrsntMd\nSftelsl AMntlon to Mall Ordsra\nH. Harvey\nlitsbliiksl in Tsatonvn in HOT\nU OORDOVA STREET W. Way, October 30,1925\nTHE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE\nPage Seven\nA Pioneer\n(SCOTT NEARING, Federated\nPress.)\n_.NELLT, Wales.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"You're not\nvorklng today old Tom,\" said a\n^ger member of the unemployed\ny, as Tom Morris came into the\njielly office of the British labor\n|ty.\n(BUi (Efltmtru labor' Nrota\nOrganized Scabs Get\nGovernment Blessing\n'Mid Palaces and Pigsties\n(By Federated Press) -\nLONDON. \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0The government's\napproval of O. M. S. (Organization\nfor the Maintenance of Supplies), a\nDemand Wage Increase middle-class strikebreaker ayency\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 which is preparing to meet a gen-\nLONDON.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Despite a protest eral strike next May when the mine\nBritish Land Workers\n(By British Labor Press Service.)\nT ONDOSr. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 How, beneath the not to cry out, and wake them all sent by the Trades Union Congress truoe ends< ls revealed in a letter\n0,\" agreed old Tom pointing veneer which gilds the surface up; and only the elest girl, who General Council in the name of of home secretary Joynson-Hicks\nis lungs \"The old bellows will of One City of Westminster, there was twelve, did, as a matter of four and a half million organised to a correspondent. While stating\nLwork right anyniore A man is nests the \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0084\u00A2m*lne s0\u00C2\u00AB*> ot BOCiei *n' faot. wake and look on . . .\" workers, the Norfolk Agricultural that his own plans for such an\nfor precious little after 50 e\u00C2\u00ABuaIity' starvation and rank in- Mra. gmith has \"not really de- Wages Committee have refused to emergency have long since been\nin the tin mills. I am 67 now JusWce- ta shown by Lucy E- Beach,,.scended to the level of the typical increase the rate of wages which approved by the, government Hicks\nu.... v. i.v\u00C2\u00BBt __w ^ ___ ^ ^ ^l_,_ \" _.__ \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u009E_,_._.-. -\u00C2\u00AB,. an. t eft I*...*.-.. t_ aqva rnfirft nnn hp \u00E2\u0080\u009En nhtnntlnn hsr\nmills\" \"Child Life ln Westminster.\" wen. set.\n\"\"' *\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *\"\" \u00C2\u00B0 winter# that \"it would be a very great as-\nThe workers' representatives stance to us to receive from the\nO. M. S. or from any other body\nworked in your mills,' t tm/i Geneva tliat \"Mankind owes to the the Unborn, had he the privilege but desirous of a peaceful settle* of well-disposed citizens classified\nit was as a boy thatTbegan'in M A\" m her recently l8SUed book' slum mother.\" Mr. Smith is \"a a* Present are 29s- for B0 h\u00C2\u00B0\"rs ln \"ays there C'an ,be. n\u00C2\u00B0 obJec\u00C2\u00BBon **\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2up, respectable-looking \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\u00E2\u0084\u00A2*-- \u00E2\u0084\u00A2* **\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB 49 *\u00C2\u00B0\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 ln *e. !,r\u00E2\u0084\u00A2Lto\u00E2\u0080\u009E |L J^\nPom chuckled. Tne Right Rev. Bishop Gore, R. working man, who served all\nITou should have seen the boss Dl' m * forewald> says that the through, the war, and is used to\nIn I went in to him 'Fifty years Princ,Ple of the declaration of fresh air and clean living.\" But originally demanded 32s. a week,\n(worked in your mills,' I told Geneva tlmt \"Mankind owes to the the Unborn, had he the privilege but desirous of a peaceful a. itlc\n5 'Flftv vpars\u00E2\u0080\u0094n-nrt T'm tnn mn c**m \u00C2\u00BBne best \u00C2\u00BBt has to give,\" is of choice, might well decline to ment, they came down to the low \"sl8 0I men in ouierent parts or\nL the wZ anv mo^e' Vnd \u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 generaUy accepted in theory. seek a place in the Smith's home, \u00C2\u00ABgure of 30s., but this figure va, \u00C2\u00ABe country who would be willing\n|uo me worn, any more. And -\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0* .. ., _.. ,, , r. vninntnn to place their services at the dis-\nKt do you want now?' says he. vlMit lt \u00E2\u0080\u00A2s not genorally accepted albeit amid the palaces and gar- rejected.\nvant a lighter job,' says I. 'Don't ln fnct> however, is amply demon- dens of Westminster. Shoals of letters from agrlcul\n. think you owe me that?'\u00E2\u0080\u0094'Owe strated by the author and her col- TnIs report lays bare many such tural laborers, their wives and de\nhe says, 'Owe you nothing laborators in the course of some of soc-al sores. It makes one ashamed pendents, protesting against the re\nyen't we paid you your wages all the Pen pictures which are given of the social system which permits fusal of the increase, have been re\ni time?'\u00E2\u0080\u0094'And haven't I put my of the dingy and dismal hovels in such a state of affairs to continue, ceived by the Committee.\t\ni into the job?* I asked him. But which many of the working men ~ ~~\nlhad nothing to say. and women of Westminster have to\nfit is a great system,\" said Tom, exist-\nJning to us, \"that takes fifty \"Westminster presents an amaz-\nts of a man and leaves him ing variety of social classes and\nlight, not even his bed and keep, homes,\" says Mrs. de Bunsen.\nfland fit for heroes, they talk \"Buckingham Palace itself is\nEmpire or Working Class\n(By NELLIE SEEDS NEARING, Federated PreBS.)\nLIVERPOOL, England. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The . ment without the consent of parlia- Meanwhile 0 M S has a rival\nBut! A flower pot in the window flanked, on one side, by Wallis's party and the nation was the most ment, continuous arbitration of tho ln the Natlonal citizens union. This\nposal of the government.\"\n0. M. S, has had a mixed reception in the London Press. While\ngreeted with delight by such \"a bitterly anti-labor paper as The Daily\nMall, it has been coolly received by\nthe conservative Morning Post and\nDaily Express. The latter papers\nare as hostile to labor as The Dally\nMail, but they consider that O. M.\nS. is butting into something wholly\nthe function of the government.\nimportant business before the Brit*\nish Labor party conference at\nMl the land that has come to Yard' of unsavoury repute even in\nslumland; on the other by Belgrave\n['There's one satisfaction I've got. Square, magnificent still in spite of Liverpool the\"end of September\n|ey never f6bled me. I always lts numerous untenanted mansions. Ramsay MacDonald, first Labor\nthem the kind of system it And, mixed up with the close-\nFrom those early days when Pa\u00C2\u00B0ke\u00C2\u00ABJ ranks of middle-class the pal,ty and sald the \u00E2\u0080\u009Eatlon\nfheld our first union meetings, homes in Pimlico and down by the wanted to know how the Labor\ndark room, secretly, around a rlver> are the overcrowded tene- government would act on the coal\n^dle, I've gone through life with ments and decaying pestiferous mlne question, foreign affairs and\nnbshells in my pocket. Many's slums of the Poor.\"\n! thousand pamphlets and papers The housing shortage looms hig record in office drew fire.\nslipped to my fellow workers. large ln many chapters of the book. ..The modern example of crawl-\n>'re beginning to see the results Read this\u00E2\u0080\u0094a description drawn .by lng> snivelling gradualism,\" cried\na member of the committee from. Ferguson of the Glasgow Trades &\nBent and twisted by his fifty her own observation:\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Labor council. - ..\nin the tin mills, he Is a living \"Mrs. Smith's home is one small '\"My quarrel with the resolution,\"\nbodiment of the doctrine he back room upstairs, in a house that said Henry Pollitt of the Boiler-\n^ches. \"One of the pioneers,\" was once a decent foUr-roomed makers, \"is that its analysis of the\ncall him.\nI'om Morris is still pioneering off one of the main streets of believe that during the next period\nra new social order.\nPass this copy to your shopmate\nget him to subscribe.\nrike-Breaking Body\nPreparing Por Trouble\nreparations, problems.\nDebate Dawes Plan\nFierce denunciations of the\nDawes plan were launched by Gal-\npremier, defendedthe ^PSitlonof lacher po]Utt and RobinsoI1| Po,_\nlltt declaring that MacDonald's\ncrowning glory did not consist tn\nhaving got the Dawes plan accepted. Rather, he said, the Lib-\nthe franchise. His justification of era, and Tory poUtic!ans carefuiiy\nprepared the stage, so that MacDonald would have that thrust\nupon him.\nMacDonald replied: \"My defense\nof the Dawes plan is, that surveying Europe as it is today, tied up\nas it is, bad as it is, one thing that\n,,_._,. if properly worked would have\ncottage. It stands in a dingy row whole situation is a wrong one. We . ' . \u00E2\u0080\u009E ,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E,, . .. __,.\u00E2\u0080\u009E\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E.<* \u00E2\u0080\u0094 -<* .!,_ \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u009E -. .\u00E2\u0080\u009E \u00E2\u0080\u009E. v.,,.... _,.__ _,.._, u ..-_,._ been a step forward in the emancipation and freeing of the European working classes would hat-e\n,_.\u00E2\u0080\u009E__, ... been to make reparations an eco-\nserves four families and the that we now have. Is capitalism , , . . ,\n... . ,, .. . ... . , . ; . \u00E2\u0084\u00A2* \u00E2\u0080\u009E ,\" . nomic experiment and no longer a\nclothes of all the families are hung going to reconstruct itself? No! It\nup to dry. Mr. Smith sleeps out will compel us, whether you like it\nthere all the summer . . . Hj or not, to face new conditions.\"\nhas now lived five years in the one Loud applause greeted Pollitts'\nroom where he found his wife and speech, even from those who disagreed. But the amendments were\nlost by a vote of 106,000 to 2,844,\nbody is also\u00C2\u00AB preparing a list\nwould-be strikebreakers.\nof\nWestminster. The room looks into our energies will be expended in\na small back-yard, where the one defending the miserable conditions\nw.c\nthe elder children installed at the\nend of the war. The room is,\nroughly, twelve feet long by nine\nBritish Labor Press Service)\nBNDON.\u00E2\u0080\u0094If the account of the feet\" wide, and \"has 'one window\ninisation for the Maintenance . . , Everything in the room\napplies (the new strike-break- and on the staircase indicates slum\nbody), given m the Daily Mail, property . , , As in all houses\n,nt anything-whlch, of course, where one room is used for all th6\nreader of the paper has any purposes ot lift)i there are no con.\nTXT}~, lS Perfe0Uy \u00C2\u00B0lear veniences for cooking-nothing but P\u00C2\u00B0\"\u00C2\u00B0y \u00C2\u00B0f the graVeSt lmP\u00C2\u00B0rt^ce'\nthe intention is to coerce a small( open flre. nor (or wash. The answer was a five to one\nile into \"joining up\" by veiled ing_no water> no sink nor for\nm that unless they do so they sanltary purposeS- The furnlture\nbe starved by the withholding ,. aho yery scanty_one smallbed.\nthem of supples in aVor of stead a M t Qr three ^\nbers of the O. M. S. itself. .. . ; . .. '\nthe one basin standing on one of\nooal organizations (sports clubs them. Heaps of clothes lay on the\niientioned) will, it ls suggested, _ioor_ others were drying on a cord\nble to supply the names of across the room,\nly recruits, and to obviate the \u00C2\u00ABThe youngest child, who is now\nusion of people not likely to be eighteen months old, was born in\npathetic. This can hardly im- this room> and at nlght. Hls four\nnything less than an impudent brothers and sisters were all there\nisltion into the politics of the at that time. His mother\nyidual which is likely to be\nrally resented.\npolitical prejudice.\" No vote was\ntaken on the Dawes plan.\nSidney Webb urged public ownership of banking and credit systems. Confiscation without compensation was defeated. With the\nGerman Bosses Kill\nEight-Hour Work Day\n(By Federated Press)\nCHICAGO.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The old-time 8-hour\nday in Germany has pretty largely\ndisappeared says Wm. Eckert, \"a\nveteran of the German machinist?\nunion who is one of the delegation\nof German labor men now investigating America. Through an interpreter he told the Chicago Federation of Labor at its regular meeting\nthat speeding up of workers is the\nrule now in Germany, with wages\nabout half the American standard\nfor skilled workers.\n\"Though conditions seem to be\nImproving today after the terrible\npost-war sufferings, they may\nbreak down again tomorrow,\"\nEekei-t said, \"because they are built\non very insecure foundations.\"\n000, and the general statement of Passa-^e of the banking resolution\nprinciples was adopted. the \"capltal levy waR priven a\nFuture Policy\n\"Shall Labor ever again take office without a majority behind it?\"\nThis was a matter of practical\nWhen a man descends from\nheavenly things to human he will\ncertainly both speak and feel more\nloftily and nobly on every theme.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nCicero.\nwas\ntaken ill at one in the morning,\nand the baby arrived before the\n{lie names of the promoters of midwife she had\" settled with could\n(scheme (which is believed, says get there. She fought her hardest\n[Mail, to have the approval of \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ngovernment) do not inspire\nlh confidence. They include\n[ Jellicoe and Sir Francis Lloyd,\nj a few other peers and popln-\n: who are none the less nonen-\nbecause their names appear\nfrlnt in the Daily Mail.\nmajority opposing the resolution'\nintroduced by Bevin of the transport workers that \"this conference\nis of the opinion that in view of the\nexperience of the recent Labor government it is inadvisable that the\nLabor party should again take office whilst having a minority of\nmembers in the house of commons.\"\nBevin was ably supported by\nBromley, Neal MacLean and Ben\nTillett. Tillett particularly emphasized this issue when he re\nferred to MacDonald as a\ndecent burial service,\" delegate W.\nJ. Brown commented.\nAgain Bar Communists\nBy an overwhelming vote the\nconference excluded the Communists from all direct or Indirect affiliation with the Labor party. In\ndefinite contrast to the resolutions\nin favor of international trade ====:===:====:=======^^\nunion unity passed by the Trade \u00E2\u0080\u00A2'TENDERS WANTED for School Sta*\nUnion Congress at Scarborough, LoTbIJX^ Z IZtlJ^l\nthe Labor Party at Liverpool was Tenders close Monday, 30th November,\nAdvertisers are helping us. Reciprocate by buying from them,\nand tell them you saw it in the\nAdvocate.\nunmistakeably opposed to a united\npolitical front.\n\"We are poles asunder In our\noutlook and philosophy,\" said MacDonald. \"Nothing that this conference can do,\" said Pollitt, \"cnn\nprevent the rise of communism. As\na member of a trade union the\nlittle Communist may and will come inlo\n192!.. Lowest or nny tender not necessarily accepted.\nB. S. WOLFE-MERTON.\nBusiness Manager, Vancouver School\nBoard.\nCORPORATION OP POINT GRET\nTENDERS\nAmalgamation Swallows\nAnother British Union\nLONDON.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A four to one majority for amalgamation with the\nTransport & General Workers union is shown in the ballot of the\n\u00C2\u00BB , National Union of Enginemen,\nlambling promises the poor Flremeri| Meohanlcs> Motormen &\n}t property performs for the Electricai workers. The unionhas\nsomething for nothing. That R memberahlp of 21i000| and over\nvhy the bishops dare not de- 70 per oent of the members voted.\nInce \" \t\n\u00C2\u00A7w.\nthe Labor party. The Trade Union\ncan decide, for itself who will\n__ _. ,,,.,_\u00E2\u0080\u009E , , represent it. If the basis of mem\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nMacDonald skilfully glossed over bershlp ,_. the Labor party ._ ^\nenough to admit those who dine at\ncan admit those SiY$\u00C2\u00A3\nof us who do not.\"\nPollitt was supported by Ben\nwith a majority you cannot always Turner the veteran ,eader of thfc\ndo that. It may be that it wouldbe Texti]e Workers. \u00E2\u0080\u009ENot because x\nam a communist,\" said Turner,\n\"but because I believe in constitu\nSEALED TENDERS, addressed to tho\nunder;\ngrey mouse instead of the lion he\nwould like to see him.\nMacDonald skilfully\ntheir arguments in his sauve reply\n\"Did we compromise with political ^m=orai\"ca^ it\nparties? No! never. We did not\nalways do what we liked. But even\nreigned, will bo received by tho\nCouncil up to 8:00 oiclcck p.m. on\nMonday, November 2, 1925, for tho\nconstruction of thn following aewors:\nGranvillo Stroet, 41st to 45th Avenues.\nA\u00E2\u0096\u00A0<-* tenderer will, if called\n*..._._. \u00E2\u0080\u009E.,.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2__\u00E2\u0096\u00A0_. \u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2__\u00E2\u0096\u00A0_, \"I\"\"1* cntcr lnto \u00C2\u00BB contract, and provido\ners union, which now has 400,000 party urged an effort of nations; with those of evolutionary demo- the required bond for the performance\nmembers, is the product of sue- an international conference for the cracy.\" \"*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2}*\u00C2\u00A3 Z\te\u00C2\u00BB\ or\nlo this ls the paper you have cessive amalgamations. In the simultaneous and complete aboli- The vote was 321,000 'to 2,870,- sarilyC accepted\"' \u00C2\u00B0\"y P\" . n\u00C2\u00B0 \"CCC\"\nIn wanting? Prove it by sup- four years of its existence it has tion of armaments; no diplomatic 000 against the Communists. HENRY FLOYD\n|tlng it with your subscription been one of the most successful arrangement with a foreign state, The opening speech of President Municipal HbII, '\nthose of your neighbors and British unions in securing wage involving national obligations to be C. T. Cramp excited but little com- -\"'s''i West BoliJovard,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 j j, ...,.,. \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00C2\u00BB Vancouver, B.O.\n|nds. advances. concluded by any Labor govern- ment. October 26th 1925. Page Eight\nTHE CANADIAN LABOB ADVOCATE\nFriday, October 30, _\nBurnaby\nConfectionery\n3970 Hastings St. E.\nREMEMBER THESE NAMES\nTHE NATURAL LAW OF CO-OPERATION IS PROGRESS\nENGLISH and AMERICAN\nMAGAZINES and Periodicals\nSTATIONERY and SCHOOL\nSUPPLIES\nConfectionery and Tobaccos\nLight Lunches Served\nTHE business houses whose advertisements appear in The Labor Advocate are interested in the welfare of not only their own help,\nbut of workers generally.\nGIVE THEM YOUR SUPPORT AND GOOD-WILL\n\"tmmmmm.mmmimammam\n.jiiraiiiiEiifflasi*!^^\nPbone High. 167\nMitchell's Transfer\nFURNITURE MOVING\nBaggage\u00E2\u0080\u0094Express\n8711 Hastings St. E., Vanconver, B.O.\nTHE PUBLICATION OF\nTHIS PAPER IS MADE\nPOSSIBLE BT THE FIRMS\nWHTCH ADVERTISE IN IT.\nWHEN MAKING PURCHASES PATRONIZE THEM\nAND TELL THEM WHV.\nR. E. Stewart\n3828 Hustings Streot East\nBoots, Shoes, Rubbers\nAgents for Kirk's Nanatmo-Wel-\nlington Ooal\nAlso for AU Kinds of Wood\nREAL ESTATE\nPhones:\nHighland 2977, Residence 3836L\nSUTHERLAND'S\nDRY GOODS\n3916 HASTINOS ST. E.\nSfJll selling the largest Flannelette Blankets at $2.20.\nGet yours before they are all gone,\nStamped Goods at specially low priees.\nr\OES Father or Moth,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'-' need.glasses? They wl\nmake a very acceptable Xm|\npresent. Get them from ,\nT.TMei\nR.O.\nRegistered\nOPTOMETRIST I\nand OPTICIAN >\nSee our Xmas stoek\nWaliches, Clocks ond\nJewelry boforo buying\nREPAIRING\nWatches, Clocks and Jewelry\nIs a Specialty. Satisfaction Guaranteed \"\n3812 HASTINGS EAST\n(Next to Bank of Commerce)\nWINNIPEG TAILOR;\nCLEANING, PEESSING and\nREPAIRING\nWe Collect and Deliver Free,\n3766 HaBtings Bast High. 39.\nSay you saw it advertised in the \"\n\"Advocate\".\t\nI - ' i n i i i . ,\t\nTHE VETERAN (Arthur Clayton)\n4088 HASTINGS STREET EAST\nGROCERIES, CONFECTIONERY, Ice Cream, Drinks,\nTobacco. Light Lunches Served\nART NEEDLEWORK STORE\n(Moved to Our New Store, 3872 Hastings Street East)'\nBath Towels (to work),\nTan Scarfs and Centers;\neach $1.25\nPillow Slips from, each, $1.00\nto $1.45\nGuest Towels, each SOc\n2 for ..., 95c\nVanity Sets np from 35c\noach $1.00\nStamped Aprons (different\ndesigns), each 50c\n2 for 95c\nStamped Scarfs, best quality\nMarble Head; each. 60c\nHEMSTITCHING and STAMPING\nMRS. E. STYLES 3872 Hastings Street East\n3798 Hastings Street East\nPhone Highland 299\n1114 Bastings E. Phone Glen. 369\nHeights\nFurniture Co.\nNew\u00E2\u0080\u0094LURNITURE\u00E2\u0080\u0094Used\nSTOVES\u00E2\u0080\u0094BANGES\u00E2\u0080\u0094HEATERS\nWe Bay, Sell or Exchange Goods\nFREE DELIVERY\nMOVING TRUCKING\nTHERE IS NEWS\nHAP-\nPENING WHERE\nYOU\nARE, WHETHER IT RE IN\nTHE MILL, MINE,\nFAC-\nTORY OR ON THE\nLAND.\nMAKE YOURSELF\nTHE\nCORRESPONDENT\nAND\nSEND IT IN TODAY. BE\nCONCISE, ACCURATE AND\nMILITANT! J*\nRODNEY\nNEWMAN\nMeat\nMarket\nPhone Glen. 59\nWE SELL\nNO. 1 MEAT\nONLY\nEburne Sash, Door &\nLumber Co., Ltd.\nHASTINGS EAST YARDS\nManufacturers of and Dealers in\nROUGH AND FINISHED LUMBER, SASH,\nDOORS AND FRAMES,\nMLLWORK\nBUILDING PAPERS AND ROOFINGS\nOur experience is at your service, and we will be glad to give you\nan estimate on your bill, however large or small.\nWe .have always some special prices on various grades of Lumber.\nIt will pay you to see us FIRST.\nQUALITY LUMBER\nSHOES CAN YOU BEAT THIS?\n**^tM%**w ***** **t^.-- ^^t^^ ^^^^^\u00C2\u00BB ^**W^r Tumrnwi imyvb sni.m t.pathup roots\u00E2\u0080\u0094 nnnwrivn __im,s> snirnnT, nnrvra 1*0-1\nFull Line of Women's, Children's and Mens\nDress and Work Boots at Special Prices\nLECKIES' BOYS SOLID LEATHER BOOTS\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nGuaranteed d\u00C2\u00BB0 *J&\nGROWING GIRLS' SCHOOL BOOTS \u00E2\u0080\u0094Tan\nCalf, Low Heel.\nSpecial This Week\t\nSpecial This Week **?\u00E2\u0080\u0094iat9t Special This Week \u00C2\u00ABP\u00C2\u00AB5.40\nMen's Worlr Boots, Leckie \"Skookum,\" Special $4.95\nWE CAN PIT ANY FOOT\nWe Wish to Tliank \"Lubor\" for the\nPatronage Given ns. 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