The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1929-04-26
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note: OWNED of Statesmai nMn m^m^wrrx ^^^W BY TOE vANCqUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Supported by Sixty_-two Local Unions ^H /JW ENGR4V/NG CO. _ <L s^mmim ./ -\nTHE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, April 26, 1929 A . 100 Per Cent. Western Canadian Company GAS [CheStandardof Quality Better Gasoline * Refined in North Vancouver Your Money Remains at Home When You Buy HOME GHS \nHOME OIL DISTRIBUTORS LTD. *-â!â¢â¢ 7 -^ât:â --â-,- Pffi^rs Refine^#,JDistributors < ) ' * ' â "; . .:,,;: -~ Clip the wings of your gasoline dollars! JtaEr^*. -â¢-â «*â¢â â - Use this superior gasoline â increase Keep them at home and help British 5b7 burrard street - B c »8 payroll and you own Columbia progress! VANCOUVER, B. C. ^ _ prosperity! Let Facts Determine Industrial Policies Fact-finding, fact-facing, and fact- using are practices Dr. George Otis SmitJ), Director of the Geological â Survey, recently urged as methods ' of dealing with all problemsâmaterial or intangible. He was addressing an institute of engineersâmen trained to grapple with the realities of life. If we hold ourselves rigidly to conclusions based on facts we make our solutions of all problems a search for facts. We lift our problems out of the domain of theories and force when we use facts to build a foundation upon which to develop relationships. There are many practices that grow up in personal relations because there is a hunch or, a tradition that these practices bring good results. Habits of this sort account for industry's attitude toward the older worker. Because tools or methods are changed, management assumed it was easier to train new workers than old ones. They failed to balance the accrued advntages of knowledge of materials and their behavior under varying conditions and handling, and experienced craftsmanship which is the basis of industrial judgment, against the assumed advantage of training new workers rather than re-training experienced ones. This problem Labor would like to see submitted to fact-finding, fact- fa…
note: Annual Edition. 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: 10.14288/1.0439056
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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