The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-26
issued: 1927-05-06
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note: or OWNED AHD CONTROLLED small BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Supported by Fifty-three Local Unions ; No. 159âEIGHT PAGES * VANCOUVER. B. C. MAY 6th. 1927 Trades Council Working Button (Red) for the' Second Quarter of 1021 14 FIVE CENTS PER COPY I Water Board Has Got No Control Over Contractor Men Can Be Worked for Any Wage Under Any ConditionsâNewly i^ Arrived Immigrants Get First Choice of Job âCleveland Censured. f < rpHE VANCOUVER DISTRICT WATER BOARD has no cp^frol i* X dver the men employed, and wages paid, by contractors who obtain work from the Water Board. This has been admitted to the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council, yet the Board persists in dodging the demand, made many months ago by the Trades Council, that a fair i" wage clause should be placed in all contracts, so that decent wages and conditions shall obtain on City work. Commissioner Cleveland's attempt to deny the accusation of the Trades Council, was discussed v* by the delegates at the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday: and his I attitude was roundly condemned. The City Council's efforts to dodge snd deny the charges, that newly- arrived immigrants were employed n in large numbers on the Seymour il Creek job was also condemned, and V>ther delegates not only verified the 'committee's charges, but made new ones. , â¢fl Del. President Smith of the Street Railwaymen's Union, informed the [^'Trades Council that a majority of ^jiithe men working on the sewer job in tf'l iSouth Vancouver are newly arrived / foreigners, who, upon being; -spoken i to could not answer, but pointed to .''jtthe foremen. ',.! Del. Harris of the Civic Employees j )jUnion, stated that while we did not « object to the employment of foreign- I era, the lowering of the standard of * living was to be opposed with all the means in our power. Del. Bartlett informed the Ooun.il, that some person in an official capacity has approached the manager of a machine shop and had offered to i, supply him with Swedes who would '"…
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.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0438963
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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