The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-23
issued: 1925-08-28
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note: Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council Official Organ of The Canadian Labor Party No. 71âEIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B.C., August 28th, 1925 FIVE CENTS PER COPY The Financiers, the Trade Unions and the Rest of Us What the Coal Mining Dispute in Great Britain Has Brought to LightâTwo Big Opposing Forces Shaping for a Gigantic Struggle on the Industrial and Political Fields. if 1 Whoever comes well out of the mining settlement, the Governmen- ment certainly comes out very ill. It has mismanaged the situation from start to finish, and has lost prestige with its opponents and its supporters alike. We say this, not because we think .Mr. Baldwin was wrong in offering the mine-owners a subsidy, for in the circumstances tb ... was his only possible course. f^Jr. was he wrong in holding up the "fer of a subsidy till the eleventh aur, for to offer it sooner would ,.ve brought all the other industries lzzing aoout his ears, and might isily have wrecked the proposal and â ought down the Government. Mr. p-ildwin's mistake lay, not in his tions of last week, but in that ''ilure to handle the situation sooner iich made last week's impasse un- voidable. It was surely easy to : .-le the deadlock approaching} and ato. recluse :the.i(fflpo8»ibility..-pof'-agsee-- t fnent between the miners and the ^ owners in the existing condition of jjthe industry. Mr. Baldwin ought to |haye understood this months ago, /and to have set on foot then the big I inquiry into the position of the mines jf to which he is now committed. Hav- * ing let his chance go, he could do ho pore last week than bow before the storm find devote many- -fti3tidf»i of the taxpayers' money to a settlement which gives no more' than a respite. It remains as true now as it was [before the settlement that, without some form of unification tiie mining "iroblem is simply insoluble. The buntry has to go back to the Sankey Sejort, and to go back under conations far more difficult than those bf 1…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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