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ujmmnMJiBXvmw DEPARTMENT Â«tuÂ»yuÂ«M ^ OWNED AND CONTROLLED Supported by Fifty-eight Local Unions NO. 225âEIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C., SEPTEMBER 7, 1928 Labor Day Sports Bigger and Better Than Ever Huge Crowd Witnesses Sports at Hastings Park â Vaudeville Attractions Were Greatly AppreciatedâLots of Valuable* * and Useful Prizes Were Taken Home. T^HE BIGGEST AND MOST ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD ever recorded in the history of Labor Day Sports in the city of Vancouver was on hand at Hastings Park on Monday to witness the thirty-four athletic events and other attractions held under the auspices of the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. The weather was ideal, the crowd was jubilant and the committee worked like trojans to obtain the best of results. During the athletic events the Netty. Nichol dancers gave some very interesting and thoroughly appreciated dances in front of the grand stand. There were six of these dances, and the boys and girls received splendid applause for their very clever efforts. This was a wonderful attraction und was a big asset to the programme. The Rube's Band Another attraction that created a great deal of amusement was the Rubes' Band, consisting of members of the Musicians' Union. This band pulled off some very laughable stunts while playing some real good music and made themselves very popular with the audience. The children were unanimous in giving this band the first place on the programme in spite of the free distribution of candy. Josh Bowyer's Rube Band was com- ^ posed of the following: Trumpets, H. Bayliss, J. McLuskie; clarionette, F. Jorse; trombone, J. Stark and T. aid; saxophone, H. McDonald; bass, Hoggrad; drums, A. Clark and E. h.i*'- baritone, "J. Bowyer. very exciting Japanese fencing batch took place during the sports Jtjfi which two Japanese attempted to pound each other to pieces with bamboo rods. They both came out of the battle, however, unscathed because they were pretty well covered up with pads and masks.* A. Scott and his family gave some very interesting step-dancing which caused the crowd to call for more. * + * Ed. Smith of the Painters Union once again proved to be the delight of the youngsters at the Labor Day sports. He was ably assisted by many others, all dressed up as clowns and keeping the kids in a constant roar of laughter. Every olice in a while Ed. took enough time off to compete in some of the events and managed to get a couple of prizes, for which he says he is truly thankful, as he lost a great deal of weight in his perigrinationa. Among the other clowns were W. Meridith, Geo. Booth, J. Parker, R. Brown, R. Carter and Pat O'Hara, all of Painters' Local 138, and Roy Fin- lay of the Engineers. J. Parker was tripped up by one of the children and had to be treated at the hospital for a badly sprained ankle. * * * Members of the Musicians Union helped to make Labor Day at Hastings Park the best ever held. Forty musicians provided music during the entire programme, and although there were very few dull moments, the band helped to span the time between events that otherwise might have been dull. Seated in the centre of the grandstand, which was packed to the last tier, Bandmaster Ted Cox and his fellow musicians put the finishing touches to the splendid programme provided by the Trades and Labor Council on Labor Day. * * . Fred Welsh of the Plumbers Union, acjting as chairman of the track commitjtee, was one of the busiest men on the field. He had to keep everything moving smoothly and to schedule, as well as distributing the prize cards to the winners. Bob Thompson of the Carpenters Union acted at the other end of the field as starter and his gun never, went off until everybody was in the proper place. Jack Price of the Street Railwaymen's Union acted as assistant starter. F. Dawe, A. Hodge, R. Mc- Aulay, F. Phillips, J. McCaughran and G. Pearson acted as tape holders and judges. Mention of all who helped in the Labor Day sports would fill up this entire paper, but as a large number of our readers were at the sports, we feel that they know who was on the job and will credit them with helping to make it the grand success that it was. Typo's Member Wins Racing Ass'n. Cup The Union Men's 220-yard race was won by J. Pollard, 2439 Pandora avenue, of the Typographical Union. He wins the cup that was donated by the Vancouver Racing Association for this event in annual competition. His name will be engraved on the cup and he will hold it rill, next year's event. Besides the cup he received an $18 suit length donated by F. W. Sterling. C. Poulter, 2135 Quebec street, of the Electrical Workers' Union, came in second and receives half a ton of coal donated by Kirk & Co. C. Tyrell, 5980 Joyce Road, also of the Typographical Union, obtained third prize, consisting of a 49-lb. sack of flour from the Lake of the Woods Milling Co. City Fire Fighters Win Relay Race Cup The fire fighters succeeded in getting one cup on Monday in the Labor Day sports when they won easily in the relay race, taking the cup away froni the Railway Carmen, who held it till this date. The Typographical Union's team came "in second. The Big Prize The big Labor Day prize, consisting of a $345 Chesterfield suite, was won by Ticket No. 8877, held by Miss M. A. Syrer, 4128 Knight Rd., South Vancouver. Ticket No. 15646, held by S. Kero, 1122 Hastings street east, won the second prize, and Ticket No. 8628 won the third prize. VANCOUVER TRANSFER CO. SIGNS UP WITH UNION The Vancouver Transfer Co. has signed up a closed shop agreement with the Teamsters & Chauffeurs Union of this city. The union urges all union men to put as many jobs in the way of this firm as they can. Trades Council Working Button (Orange) for the Third Quarter of 1928 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Wins Labor Pay Marathon Race Alfred Endersby Comes in an Easy Winner of the 13-Mile Road RaceâTwelve Competitors Finish Within One Hour and Thirty-seven Minutes of Long, Hilly Grind. WITH THE GRANDSTAND PACKED to the highest tier and hundreds around the oval, the 13-mile road race runners received an ovation that they will remember for many a day when they entered the grounds at the end of the grind. A. Endersby of the Trail Athletic Association led the field of fourteen, doing the distance in one hour and 14 1-2 minutes. He was followed to the tape two minutes afterwards by H. Jones of the Vancouver Athletic Club, and H. Small of New Westminster followed three-quarters of a minute afterwards to take third place in the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council sports on Labor Day. The sterling silver cup donated by Dr. G. H. Worthington for annual competition was presented to A. Endersby by President Thomson at the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday, and it will be on view in the Memorial Hall at Trail, B. C, untir the next event. A $55 gold engraved watch was also presented with the cup. H. Jones receives a $37.50 gold engraved watch, and H. Small receives a $30 gold engraved watch. Those next in order were John Wren of the Haney Athletic Club, time 1.20 1-2, prize $25 camera from Hazelwood Creamery; J. Dunn, cx- Connaught Club, time 1.23 1-4, prize $5 order on Johnstone's Shoe Store of Vancouver, time 1.24; W. Russell, V. A. A. C, time 1.27; Thomas Jones, Riverview United Athletic Association, time'1.28 3-4; William Ward, Gault's Athletic Club, time 1.29 1-2; Robert McGiverson, Gault's Athletic Club, time 1.32 1-2; D. Campbell, Y. M. C. A., Vancouver, time 1.34 1-2; Harry Watts, Amateur Card No. 1097, time 1.37; Thomas. Laurie, Card No. 1007, and E. L. Hilbert, Card No. 821, dropped out. Encouraged by the operator of the Austin-Chamberlain public address system, each competitor was loudly cheered from the time ho entered the gate until he reached the tape. A. Wells Gray started the race in the New Westminster Exhibition Grounds VV.'B. Heald, Amateur Card No. 960 before a large audience. To Ask Policy of Vancouver Creamery At the request of the Milk Salesmen's Union, the Trades and Labor Council will ask the Vancouver Creamery Company what its policy is going to be in respect to hiring union men. At the meeting of the council on Tuesday, Birt Showier announced that this company was put- t^lg on an active campaign for more customers, but to this_date the company had refused to" hire union men. This same company makes the ice cream known as Palm Ice Cream. Vancouver West End from the Air. Action Taken to Plan Labor Temple A committee which will be selected by the Executive Committee will work with the executive in drawing up plans and a campaign for the building of a labor temple to be owned by organized labor in this district. The subject has been under discussion for some time, but owing to other plans the ownership of a temple has been left in abeyance, but as the need for more room and better quarters is becoming seriously urgent, the delegates felt that action must be started at once to arrange for suitable quarters. The committee will attempt to bring in a report for the first meeting in Octobejjjjj-. ROGERS ENDORSED FOR OFFICE OF SCHOOL TRUSTEE Ed Rogers, member of the Point Grey School Board, has been endorsed by Carpenters Union 452 as a candidate for school trustee in the amalgamated city elections. He was also endorsed by the Building Trades Council, and at the request of the Carpenters Union was also endorsed by the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council. New York.âTwo hundred delegates representing 300,000 organized Bay State workers met in Salem at the 43rd annual convention of the Massachusetts branch of* the A. F. of L. Labor's attitude toward public ownership of the Boston elevated lines and toward co-operation with the Associated Industries were main issues, with the rallying of local union support behind the New Bedford textile workers. Unfortunate is the born genius. Nobody will believe him while he is alive and everybody is jealous of him until he dies. Don't snub the red-headed kid who sweeps the office and empties the waste-basket. He may be your'boss some day. <*^ It is* announced that the embargo *on arms to .Mexico has been tightened along the border to prevent rebellious groups from gaining munitions strength. i Â§.. L.. . Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, September 7, 1928 Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealer* IBS Cordova W. Plione Sej*. 8637 See Us About Broken Glass ln Windows, Automobiles, Mirrors, Showcases, eta Art Glau Repaired Mirror* Re-silvered ID, MhUI^oi, *^^ rqnizeJJ wnole Wheat FLOUR EVERY HOME NEEDS IT MAKE SURE YOU GET IT âAND NOTHING ELSE It Ii Rich in Nourishment âDELICIOUS THE GOWMKEHT Or THÂ£ PROVINCE Or BRITISH COLUMBW. Synopsis of Land Act Amendments - FKE-EMPTIONS Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown lands may be pre-empted by British subjects over IS years of age. and by aliens 'on declaring Intention to become British subjects, conditional upon residence, occupation and improvement for agricultural purposes. . Full information concerning regulations regarding prd-emptions is given ln Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, "How to Pre-empt Land,'* copies of which can be obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of Lands, Victoria. B. C, or to any Government Agent Records will be granted covering only lands suitable for agricultural purposes, and which is not timberland, I.e., carrying over 5.000 board feet per acre west of the Coast Range and 8,000 feet per acre east of that range. Applications for pre-emptions are to be addressed to the Land Commissioner of the Land Recording Division In which the land applied for is situated, and are made on printed forms, copies of which can be obtained from the Land Commissioner. Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years and improvements made to value of $10 per acre, including clearing and cultivating at least five acres, before a Crown Grant can be received. For more detailed information see the Bulletin, "How to Pre-empt Land." William Harvey and the Heart of Man PURCHASE Applications are received for purchase of vacant and unreserved Crown landa, not being timberland, for agricultural purposes; minimum price for first-class (arable) land Is $5 per acre, and second- class (grazing) land {2.50 per acre. Further Information regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands Is given in Bulletin No. 10, Land Series, "Purchase and Leane of Crown Lands." -Mill,- factory or Industrial sites on timber land not exceeding 40 a.-re** may be purchased or leaned, the conditions Including payment of stumpage. HOMESITE LEASES Lnaurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 acres, may be leased as homesites, conditional upon a dwelling being erected In the flrst year, title being obtainable after residence and. Improvement conditions are fullfllled and land has been surveyed. . * LEASES For grazing and Industrial purposes areas not exceeding 640 acres may be leased by one person or a company. GRAZING Under the Grazing Act the Province Is divided Into grazing districts and the range administered. under a Grazing Commissioner. Annual grazing permits are ' issued based on numbers ranged, priority being given to established owners. . Stock owners may form associations for range management. Free, or partially free, permits are available for settlers, campers and travellers, up to ten head. == british co-optratives show 12 per Sent, increase for first half of 1928 Report? received by the Department, of Commerce show that the English Wholesale Co-operative Society, the largest concern of its kind in the world, increased the volume of its sales 12 per cent, in the first quarter of 1928 as compared with the same period in 1925. Out of total sales of about % 105,- 500,000, nearly 140,000,000 represented the output of the society's own plants. All successes are the result o.L constructed air-castle building?*' (Three hundred years ago William Harvey's discovery of the systematic circulation of the blood was published. The tercentenary was recently celebrated). â * By DR. C. W. SALEEBY "There is no wealth but life," wrote Ruskini and of all living creatures man is the master, "the paragon of animals," "a little lower than the angels." He begins with his body, though he should not end there, and this body of his is^jjiu- incomparably the most wonderful and valuable and amazing and complex and nearly de- vine of all things in the known universe. "The proper study of mankind is man;" and the men who teach us to know ourselves are foremost among bur benefactorsâin the long run, if not on the morrow. Hippocrates, the Greek, pSie Father of Medicine," knew much, 400 years before Christ, about the way in which to heal the body, using unpolluted sunlight and pure air and water and fresh food. "Back to Hippocrates" has been a slogan of mine these many years, and, indeed, every modern hospital in its construction and practice aiyf, convalescent homes, is going bacl^to him fast. Waiting for Harvey But Hippocrates and his followers, through long ages, were dreadfully hampered by their ignorance of the way in which the body works: they had much anatomy, derived from study of the corpse, but little physiology, which tells us what the anatomy is for, and how it acts. Indeed, they had much less than none at all, for they believed in absurd falsehoods, leading perpetually to disastrous practice. Everything had to wait for Harvey, the tercentenary of whose discovery we celebrate this week. It was thought that the arteriesâmen- ing air-carriersâbeing found empty after death, carried air or spiritsâ "vital spirits." And the heart contained these spirits, being highhearted or high-spirited, as we still say, when in best order. The brain's function was to cool the heated vapors arising from the heart. It is true that the idea of the heart as a pump,^ which moved the Mood, was not absent from the minds of these too-orthodox followers of whatever Aristotleâa genius but a wild writerâhad happened to 'suppose. People have argued that Shakespeareâwho certainly knew everything, in a senseâ-anticipated Harvey in those lovely lilies where Brutus calls his wife, "As dear to me as are the ruddy drops, That visit my sad heart." But, in fact, Shakespeare was alluding to the idea that the blood moved to and fro, from veins to arteries and hack again, through the heart. No progress could be made on so false a notion. Then there came a pioneer, whom we know as Michael Servetus, in the Latinized form of his name, which was Servet. He was burnt by that horrible brute, John Calvin, one of the most odious tyrants that ever lived, filled with cruel ideas which he named after Jesus Christâan abominable blasphemy*âand of almost equally cruel practice. His followers have recently made a monument in apology and contrition to the memory of Servetus, and you may see it on the outskirts of Geneva today. Servetus showed that the blood travels from the right side of the heart, as we often call it, through the lungs, back to the heart againâthe left side, or left heart, now. He discovered the pulmonary circulation. What Schoolboys Know Nowadays every schoolbody knows why the blood is thus sent through the lungs, to be rid of carbon dioxide, the product of our internal fires, and to get oxygen to fan their unique flames which thrive in water. But it remained for Mr. William Harvey,* the Father of Physiology, to discover that the blood is pumped from the left side of the heart through all the bodyâincluding the muscular stuff of the heart itself, and the tissues of the lungsâ-to supply food and oxygen, and for many other purposes; and that this blood travels in a closed circle, returning to the heart, now to the right side. This is the systemic circluation of the blood, the master key to physiology. Space does not avail here to discuss the long and laborious observations and experiments whereby Harvey was enabled to publish in 1028 his masterpiece, "De Motu Cordis"â concerning the movement of the heart. * We. must remember that he had ttv-rt^WWf'-fft^^-Si witho'ut an instrument which would have revealed it to anybody in a moment The Unseen Miracle He had no microscope. He discovered, and proved, that the blood passes from the arteries to the veins, on its way back to the heart, without seeing it do so, or seeing any vehicle for its passage. He died without seeing the simple revelation of the microscope, that there are tiny bloodvessels, invisible to the naked eye, hair-like in appearance, and therefore called capillaries, which lead the blood from the smallest arteries into the smallest veins. During this part of its journey everything happens that matters, for through the thin walls of the capillaries the blood yields all it has to 'yield and receives all it has to receive for the maintenance of the life of man. It goes without saying that when Harvey announced this truly epoteh- making discovery, "he fell mightily in his practice; 'twas believed by the vulgar that he was crack-brairfed, and all the physitians were against his opinion and envied him." Three hundred years after the event he is honored by all mankind, his heirs and debtors for ever. FIRE DESTROYS VALUABLES i BURGLARS STEAL THEM! Safety Deposit Boxes Protect Them! for the small cost of only $3âThree Dollars per Yearâ$3 Hours from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday 1p.m. VANCOUVER SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING BLDG., PENDER AT HOMER Workable Remedy For Unemployment Great Britain is in severe distress because she has about 1,250,000 too many willing workers. Some of her so-called rulers, however, believe that if she could ship out of the islands 200,000 of these workers, mostly skilled, she might manage to worry along with the rest. That is a fair, though unusual, statement of the unemployment problem of Great Britain, and-the way it is approached by the Tory government of Mr. Baldwinâour own Tories would do just the same under the same circumstances. It soundsâ and isâincredibly idiotic. But it is the orthodox conservative method of looking at such things. Has Britain too large a stock of the goods which could be made by those idle workers? All the jobless people of that country could be kept busy for 20 years producing the things needed to.raise British standards of living to those which prevail in Canada and U. S.âand ours need raising themselves. Britain is below par in housing, diet, recreation. Yet her premier actually thinks to help the country by shipping out of it 200,000 of its best workers! Andâ let this be made very clearâthe British Tory is not a whit more stupid than the American one. Unemployment is the inevitable, invariable result of too low wages. No privileged class, no little group of ultra-luxurious rich, can buy all the goods which our mechanical age can produce. Only the mass of workers can do that, and they only if they get wages that keep their buying power up to the highest possible notch. Unless they can buy and consume the goods which the machines produce, the machines will stop, and the machine tenders lose their jobs. Emigration cannot solve Britain's unemployment problem. High wages canâand will, if it is solved at all. English workers could be kept busy from year's end to year's end, making goods for each other to useâif their wages were high enough to enable them to buy the goods they make. It is about time that statesmanship, here as well as abroad, began to grapple seriously with this problem. The workers of the world wttt^iot always submit to long periods of enforced idleness and semi-starvation. If our present industrial system cannot stabilize employment, some other system will be tried, and academic protests will count for nothing. Poverty and unemployment are preventable social diseases. * They must be abolished. Union men must take an active part in helping to change the present system of wealth production. -Â© Thirsty? DRINK WHISTLE CROSS & CO., Mfrs. FAIRMONT 1173 STOCK-REDUCING SALE QUALITY, STYLE and LOW PRICES DOMINION FURNITURE CO. 1082âGRANVILLE STREETâ1082 - . 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Thomson; general secretary, Percv It. BcriKOUKh. Office. 803 Holden Uldlf.. 16 HaatinKH E. Phone Soy. 7-195. Meets In Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays In month. .â â¢veragre Dispensers Union No. 676â Meets last Sunday at 8 p.m., I-toom 313 Holden Hid*,-. President, W. H. Clancv: Secretary and Business Apent, T. J. Ilanotm. Office: Room 14. Fl.-ick Block. Phones: Sey. 4738 and Bay. 16E6-II. Hours*. 9 to 12 a.m. Bridge & Strnctnrftl Iron Workers, Local 97, Int. Abio.âMeets every Monday. P.oom 801, Holden HldR.. at 8 p.m. President, W. L. Yule, 5821 Ar- pylo St.; Secretary. P. Laurel, Box 302, City. Phone Pair. 2108L. i Building Trades Council, Vancouver-^- Meets second and fourth Tuesday in llolden.'HulldlnR. President, Vt. H. i Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers Millwrights' Local 1638âConstruction and Operating â Meets second and fourth Wednesdays inlHolden Bid*-*. J. H. Campbell, President; P. H. Edge, Pin. Sec; J. Murray' Ure, Hoc. Sec. Box 127. Motion Pictures Projectionists' Union, Local 348, of I.A.T.S.E. & M.P.M.O.â Meets lirst Friday in each month at 11:30 p.m. In the Holden Bldg. President. J. R. Foster; Secretary, Goo. flerrard. Box 3*15. Business Phono, Sey. 3923. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, Local 14S, A. P. of M.âMeets at the O.W.V.A. Auditorium, second Sunday at-10 a.m. President, E. C. Miller: Recording Secretarv, W. Edmunds; Financial Secretary, W. E. Williams; Organizer. F. Fletcher, all at '991 Nelson Street. Morrison; Secretary - Treasurer. W,< Page, Room 815, Holden Bldg.; Phone, Sey. 7495. j Barbers' Journeyman International Union .of AmericaâLoeal 120, meets second and fourth Tuesdays In each month, In Room- 310. Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. President. Fred Dawe; Sec.-Treas,, C. E. Herrett. Office, 814 Holden Bldg. | Bookbinders' Local No. 105, Int. Brotherhoodâ'Meets second Tuesday in month at Professional and "Business Woman's Club, Empire Bldg., 603 Hastings W. President, G. Low, Glâ53rd Ave. W.; Secretary, Thos. Carroll. 842 Hamilton St. | Brlo'ilayera'. Masons' and Tile Setters' Int. Union No. 1âMeets second and fourth Wednesday, In the Holden Bldg. President, O. E. Hallldny; Secretary. W. S...Pagnall, 1244â20th Ave. E. Phone Fair. 845R. J. H. Riley, Fin. Sec, 5884 Inverness St. I Camp and Mill Workers Federal Labor Union No. 31âVancouver and vicinity, meets every second Wednesday at 8 p.m., at 544 Powell St. E. President, H. Miyatawa; Secretary, K. Tsuyukl. Local 138â.Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 16 Hastings St. 10. President. H. Bdwards;-R*ec Sec, A. E. Varah, 1442 Clark Dr.; Business Agent, A. B. Hodge. Office, Room 812. 16 Hastings St. 10. Phone Sey. 8609. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Dooi Builders, Local No. 340-1âMeets every Friday night at 8 o'clock In 122 Hastings St. W. ' President, R. McDonald: James Thomson. Secretary, P. O. Box 320. : Plasterers, Local 89âOperative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International AssociationâMeets first and third Wednesday In month at Holden Building. President, Wm. Broomhead. Secretary, A. Htirrv. 861â34th Ave. E.. Phone Fair. 3222R. Cement Finishers' Secretary, J. Keillor, 181â53rd Ave E.,' Phone Fraser 487L. Plumbers and Bteamflttera, No. 170, International AssociationâMeets every second and fourth Friday in the Holden Bldg. President, R. Simpson; Secretary and Business Agent, W. Watt, 813 Holden Building. | Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Local 462âPresident, J. G. Smith; Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley: Business Agent, W. Hargreaves. Office, Room 809 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m. i Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Local No. 69â'Meets every second Tuesday In the month at 8 p.rri, in Room 213, Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President. Max Ernberg, 2035 Georgie 10.; Secretary. Thos. S. Kzart, 1603 40th Ave. E., So. Vancouver. | City Hall Employees' Associationâ Meets flrst.Wednesday of each month at 251H' Hastlngs_East at 8 p.m President, W. H. Lewthwalte; Treas. urer, W. .1. Scrlbblns, 3208 Pender St. "E,; Secretary, J. Tarbuck, 279 Pender East. | Civic Employees' Union, Local 28â Meets first and third Fridays In the ; month nt 25114 Hastings Enst at 8 I p.m. President, R. N". Hogg.. 1718 [Commercial Dr.; Secretary-Treasurer, George Harrison, 1182 Parker St. lectrical Workers, Local 213, Interna- ilonal BrotherhoodâMeets every Mon- lay at 8 p.m., 404 Homer St. President, J. B. Brown; gsgXA' â Agent, H.* Morrison. OffieeTi" " 14" Homer St, IngineersâInternational Union Steam 1 and Operating Local 844âMeets every Friday at 8 p.m. Room 806. Holden Bldg. President, Geo. Pettaplece; Rec.-Sec, Roy Finley; Business Agent and Fin. Sec, T. A. Newblgglng. Office, Room 806, Holden Building. rire Fighters, No. IB, International Association ofâM--ets everv month at ca)l of president nt 251% Hastings E. President, N. facDonald. 1136 McLean Drive; Financial Secretary, C. A. Watson, 1329â13th Ave. E. Railway Carmen of America, Lodge No. 58â-Meets first and third Friday in month at Cotillion Hall, Granville and Davie streets. President, II. Wnrde, 1102â23rd Ave. E.; Secretary, J. D. Vuliamy, 2215â15th Ave. E. Street and Electric Railway Employees, Pioneer Division No. 101âMeets K. P. Hall. 8th and Kingsway, first and third Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, H. W. Speed; Recording Secretary. J. Price; Treasurer, E. G. Kermode; Financial Secretary and Business Agent, A. J. Harraway. Office: C6rner Prior and Main streets. Phone Sey. 6000. Sheet Metal Workers Association, Local Union No. 280âMeets second and fourth Thursdays In month in Holden Building, 16 Hastings St. E. President, A. Fisher. 1952â4th Ave. W.: Business Agent and Secretary, D. MacPherson, 807 Holden Building. Floorlayers' Union, No. 1875, U. B. of C. It J. A.âMeots flrst and third Thursdays In month at Holden Build ing. President, G. Mayne; Fin. Sec, T. H. Hamlin; Rec. Sec, W. D. Wilson, 1535â6th Ave. W. Hod Carriers and Building* Laborers, No. 60S, InternationalâMeets first and third Fridays In month at Holden Building. President, C. Lawson, 1832 Jrd Ave. W. Fin. Sec, J. A. Barring- ton, 4293 Welwyn Street. Business Agent, A. McEwan. Phone Sey. 7495. Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Marine Cooks ft Stewards, Local 28â 441 Seymour St., meets second Monday each month at 3 p.m., last Monday at 9 p.m. President, Thos. Edwards; Sec.-Treas. and Bus. Agent, J. Cumming. Phone Sey. 125. Ladies' Auxiliary, Looal 171 â United Brotherhood of Oarpantortsâ Meets earery first and third Wednesday of each month In 810 Holden Building, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. C. J. Atkinson, 730 19th Ave. W.: Secretary, Elisabeth J. Hope, 1138 Seymour St. Phone Sey. 9074L. Lathers, Wood, Wire and Metal, International Union, Local 207âMeets second and fourth Mondays In month at Room 209, Holden Bldg. W. Fontaine, Secretary, 1828 Commercial Dr. Phone High. 3169R. Machinists' Loeal 692âPresident, Thos. Sills, 1352 Burrard St.; Secretary, P. R. Bengough. Office, 807 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays in month. Shingle Weavers, Local 17813âMeets second Tuesday in month ln Room No. 2, Labor Temple, New Westmln ster, and fourth Sunday, 7:30 p.m., in Room . 313, Holden Bldg., Vancouver. President, J. N. Chute, Phone High. 1982-Y; Secretary, W. H. Matthew, 3436 Irving St. icago Painters in Fight With Govt. The Department of Justice has filed a suit in equity to restrain the Chicago locals of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhang- ers from "restraint of trade" in finished built-in kitchen cabinets. A number of officials are named, as well as the union with its 20,000 members in the Chicago district. The essence of the charge is that members of the Brotherhood will not work on any building which installs 'certain types of finished built-in kitchen cabinets. The Brotherhood is willing to work qn the buildings if the cabinets are finished on the job, instead of at the factory; but that is a minor detail. The real issue is : Can men be forced to work where tjiey don't want to work by a perpetual federal injunction, such as the Department of Justice is asking? I Where "Justice" Is Partial Another side is worth considering. Apparently, the Department of Justice has taken the assertions of .the manufacturers of these kitchen cabinets as gospel truth, swallowed every statement without discrimination, and now certainly is doing all that the most hard-boiled anti-union employer could ask to Cripple and damage the union. The Bortherhood must hire attorneys and undergo heavy legal expenses, while the manufacturers have their work done for them by the United States government. And this from the department that never lifted a finger to stop the oil frauds, and that lets big tax dodgers get away with murder! Another Bedford Stone Case Of course, the Department of Justice is relying on the decision in the Bedford Stone case, where men were forbidden by the Supreme Court of the United States from refusing to work on materials partly finished by non-union labor. In a vigorous opinion in that case, Justices' Brandeis and Holmes declared that the condition produced by the decision of the majority of the court "-reminds of involuntary servitude." Attorneys for the painters are expected to stress this feature strongly when the suit comes up for hearing. They claim that the. Chicago case is even more of an example of involuntary servitude than the Bedford Stone ca3e. Company Insurance Costly To Workers MINNEAPOLIS. â The sickness and death insurance- that General Motors Corporation provides for its 200,000 employees will prove costly to these workers, says the Labor Review. The plan provides a $2,000 life insurance and a $15 weekly sickness and accident insurance. The cost of 5 cents a day for each employee is paid by the company. "If these employees," .says the labor paper, "believe they are receiving a gift, a comparison of their wages and work conditions with what they would be if General Motors was strongly organized will prove the opposite. "Workers who trade the right to organize for life and accident insurance are as foolish as the Indians who exchanged their, vast domains for. glass beads. * "Insurance is a splendid thing, but. the worker who is fairly paid is in a position to buy his own insurance without sacrificing his independence1. Insurance bought by the individual worker increases the independence of himself and family. When the employer pays that insurance it makes the worker dependent. "General Motors buys this insurance at a low rate, but employees will find it expensive. The plan insures that they will continue to receive infamously low wages and work under inhuman speed-up systems." Correspondence Tailqfc^Journeymen Union of America, LocRBNo. 178âMeetings held first Thursday, each month, 8 p.m. Executive meets third Thursday of every month in Labor Hall. President, Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. W. Hocken, 1582 13th Ave. E.; Financial Secretary, H. Nordlund, 1930 12th Ave. E. Teamsters, Cnanffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, Looal 466âMeets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 310 Holden Bldg. President, A. A. McKay, 766 Cambie St.; Secretary-treasurer, A. P. Black, 180 Homer 8L Theatrical Star* Employees' Union, Looal 118 of the I.A.T.S.E. ft M.P.M.O. âMeeta at 991 Nelson Street on the second Friday in month, at 9:30 a.m. President, Walter Copp; Secretary. H. Pearson: Bus. Agent, A. Harrington: Address P. O. Box til. Typographical Union, Ho. 326âPresident. C. S. Campbell; Vice-President, R. Gouthro; Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neeiands, P.O. Box 66. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., In Women's Bldg., Thurlow street. Vancouver Mailers, Local Ho. 70âMeets flrst Tuesday In each month, 6:30 p.m.. In Room 804, Holden Building, 16 Hastings St. E. President. A. R. C. Holmoa, 8439 Cypress St.; Sec.-Treas, H. E. R. Fader, 2718 Oxford St. Phone High. 4110R. Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees, Looal -164âMefets second and fourth Fridays In Labor Hall, 16 Hastings SL E. President, J. A. Parry; Secretary - Treasurer, **Birt Showier, 2841 Triumph. Phone High. 6327. Mill.and.ractory Workers' Union, Local Mo. 1699 âAffiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. Meets first and third Thursdays In Room 213.Â« Holden Bldg. President, J- W. Mclnnis; Secretary-Treasurer, H. O. Avery, 7964 Montcalm Street. Phone Marpole 6*8Pi . . WOMEN'S AUXILIARY HO. 76 to Vanconver Typographical Union meets flrst Thursday of each month, in tha Vancouver Woman's Building, 762 Tliurlow Street. President, Mrs. X. 3. Trumper, â Oita 41, 640 Nelson Street; Secretary, Una A. Pettipiect. 1846 Balaclava Boad. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council ltf I'KTS second Thursday in each 1,1 month. President, S. D. McDonald, Box 268. Secretary, Frank Dcrry, Box 498, Trlnce Rupert, B.C. Editor, Labor Statesman. Dear Sir,âDo you not think that if Vancouver Labor would only start to put some of its ideas into practice it would advance more rapidly than at present? For example, form limited companies, as there must be someone amongst the labor men capable of honest business executive ability. As a starter, form a Building and Contracting Association. This would ensure the fulfilling of contracts, as all necessary trades would be involved, thus being an advantage to owners and contractor. Shares in said company could be sold to members only to a limited amount, con trol being held by the Building Trades Council, ensuring control remaining in labor's hands. Farmers have made a success of co-operation, as shown by the Grain Growers' Association and Fraser Valley Dairy Association, and surely labor can do likewise. Therefore do you not think-some active practical method like this is more advantageous than continually bucking theories. J. GANNER. 3895 Venables Street, Vancouver Heights. Harvesting Machine Displaces Workers NEW YORK.âMachinery is cutting costs and displacing agricultural labor, says F. M. Russell, assistant to Secretary of Agriculture, writing in Forbes' Magazine. Last year one-half of Kansas wheat was cut and., harvested with the combine, and this year, it is estimated,- the wheat crop of entire counties will be handled in this manner. Texas, Oklahoma and other wheat areas are using the combine. This machine enables two men to harvest from 400 to 500 acres of grain in 15 days of actual work. It reduces the amount of labor for harvesting 400 acres from 120 days of man labor to 30 days. "Use of large scale machine units is revamping the cotton belt," says Mr. Russell. "Cotton production has increased in Texas and Oklahoma through use of large machine units. By this means one man can plant and care for 75 to 150 acres of cotton without hiring labor up to time of picking. In the old cotton belt one man handles from 10 to 20 acres. "The cotton sled or stripper has come into general use in the Southwest. With this device one man can gather as much cotton in a day as eight or 10 men can pick by hand." OUR MEAT PIES *.*ill make your picnic more enjoyable THE ESTHER BAKERY 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST HIGHLAND 1309 R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor and Dealer House Wiring, Fixtures, Lamps, Batteries Glen 370 4099 Hastings St. E. MILLIONS FOR SCHOOLS NEW YORK.âThis city spent $125,258,403.22 on its school system last year, according to the Board of Education's annual report. This was $10,000,000 more than in the previous year but less than the totals for 1924 and 1925 by $32,000,000 and $18,000,000, respectively. MOLDERS RAISE WAGES SEATTLE.âMolders raised their minimum wage to $7.50 a day after ashort strike. The former minimum was $6.40, but several employers paid more than this rate. The average increase is 60 cents a day. Object Old Contract Toronto.âOrga'nized street |car employees rejected the company's offer to renew their present agreement The vote was 1,633 to 677. HAVE FIVE-DAY WEEK DALLAS, Texas, lathers and electrical workers city have established the five-day week. Bricklayers, sheet metal' workers, carpenters and painters are next in line. "â*" "* ss-sss Far-away Australia Facing "Red" Sweep SYDNEY, N. S. W., Aus.âCom munists have taken charge of the Australian Labor party and are subordinating the welfare of Australian workers to those of the Asiatic countries, according to a resolution passed by the Australian Workers' Union. This organization is the largest trade union in the Commonwealth. The unionists charge several organizations have been set and financed by Moscow to divide labor's political power and to oppose the "White Australian" policy of trade unionists who are fighting against waves of Orientals and African blacks who would destroy their Hying standards. The Communists are pleading that it does not matter "whether a man is black, blue, brindle or any other color so long as he works under the same conditions as the Australian." The trade unionists answer this by pointing to their experience that the alien hordes, when * once admitted, will ignore fancy word pictures of universal brotherhood, and that they will oust the whites in the struggle for jobs. Reaction is in hearty accord with the "red" program. Fairmont 1000 V3L CWEtAMO wagon on EVERT street EVERY mornings "Build B. C." YEAST WORKERS GAIN BALTIMORE.âA week's vacation with pay every year is included in the new agreement between the Yeast Workers' Union and the Fleisehniann Company. GUARD 40-HOUR WEEK , New York.â-Union coal manufac- l.asterers^^tttters arc aiding locals of the Inter- >rkers_in this]national, f^adies' Garment Workers' Union in protecting the 40-hour week. Long-hour employes are warned against attempting to re-estab To the Last Drop Mrs. K. Harris in her letter from Shushartie Bay, says "Pacific Milk is always the same in quality to the last in the can." Mrs. Harris has compared Pacific Milk to other brands and gives the results of her findings. Her discovery coincides with the experience of thousands of other women. Factories at Abbotsford and Ladner, B. C. Pacific Milk 338 Drake â¢treat Vancouver, B.C. FAVOR OLD-AGE PENSIONS Sydney, N.S.âAt the annual meeting of the Nova Scotia municipalities here last week a resolution was unanimously adopted favoring the establishment of a system of old- age pensions. * * MAKE SCAB BREAD COSTLY Spokane, Wash.âIt will cost any member of Local 83 of the engineers $5 to eat scab bread or cake in Spokane. The fine will be levied to help the locked out bakery workers of a former union shop. The bakers' union is fighting strong, paying $21 a week to each locked out member who has not found a job in some union shop. The local has signed up 50 bakeries, compared with a previous peak of 43. lish Saturday work: STATE UNIONS TO MEET Frankfort, Ky.âThe annual convention of the State Federation of Labor will convene in the State Capitol on Monday, Sept 17th. The unionists will consider pending indictments against officials of the Federation for "pernicious lobby- ng." They are charged with, violat ing, a state law. Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, .September 7, 1928 The Labor Statesman rV" Published every Friday, at ffU Holden Bldg., Vancouver, B. C. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. H. W. Watts, Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE Chairman Wm. Page (Carpenters), W. Watt (Plumbers), P. R. Bengough (Machinists;, Tim Hanofln (Beverage Dispensers), R. H. Neeiands (Typo, graphical), Geo. Oerrard (Theatrical). W. Deptford (Street Railwayman), Blrt Showier (Dairy Employees). Phone Seymour 6379 Vancouver, Friday, Sept. 7, 1928 NOT SATISFIED YET C. P. R. BEATTIE, the champion marathon belly-acher of Canada, has arrived in town. Mr. Beattie pulled in on a special train composed of his own private car and that of half a dozen C. P. R. directors and shareholders who, between them, own and control Canadian industries valued very close to a billion dollars. As usual Mr. Beattie saw unmistakable signs that everybody and his wife was highly prosperous; the only fly in the ointmentâand this one Was as big as a hippopotamusâwas the tragic condition of the poor railway. The C. P. R. is only paying a miserable, lame ten per cent and there has been no stock bonus since the last one. Some' couple of years ago a portion of the C. P. R. employees, whose work could not be handled by new European immigrants, secured an increase in wages, and the railway commission ordered a microscopic reduction in grain rates. Since then the C. P. R. has continued to pay the agreed interest on its bonds, ten per cent on its shares, issued thirty-two and a half million dollars worth of stock to themselves at nine million dollars less than it would sell for in the open market, and added several million dollars to a superprofits fund, which the company is building up in preparation for a future potlatchânotwithstanding all this from the date of the events referred to, all Mr. Beattie's talks and interviews take on the stock form of a preliminary description of the prosperity of the people who do business with the railway and the balance a lament over the manner in which the poor, dear, weak railroad got it in the neck when wages were increased and wheat rates reduced. When the present visit is completed at Victoria, this will make the second complete round trip that Mr. Beattie has wailed this Jeremiad from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is a fortunate circumstance for corporate wealth that Mr. Beattie was bom with the mental kink that led him to devote his life to accumulating wealth through industrial con trol. If the man's mental outlook had remained as it is, but some fate had cast his lot among the wage workers, the greed that now causes him to so bitterly complain of the insufficiency of a rate of profit several hundred per cent higher than the average of the country or the world, for that matter, would make it impossible for him to put up with the slow heartbreaking task of securing a competence by wage labor. He would be a rebel, but not the kind of a rebel who would be useful in the Labor***. Movement, for there is much of. sacrifice demanded in the Labor Movement. Mr. Beattie was born under the sign of the "gimme's" and would not know what sacrifice meant. . Presuming that his nerve remained just exactly as it is, the only place the man would fit would be that of a high-class bank and train robber. This would be the only direction in which he could accumulate wealth with the rapidity which he'desires. âM. In a press interview Lieutenant Governor Bruce commendingly hopes that a majority of the British "har vesterers" will find a permanent home in Canada. His Honor does not know of any place in Canada where for the conling winter,one solitary workman can be placed who does not push a Canadian workman into the breadline. The equanimity with which, His Honor would boot into the discard a majority of [ ten thousand Canadian workmen very clearly in dicates the absence of feeling between the top and the bottom dog. - âM. Notable Group of Statesmen in Canada By J. A. P. HAYDON All Canada is playing hoist to the members of the Empire Parliamentary Association. The party arrived from England last week and were officially welcomed to Canada by. Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, speaker of the House of Commons. In the distinguished group are representatives of all the parliaments in the British Empire, including Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, India, Southern Rhodesia and Malta. The association is, of .course, non- partizan, and among the visitors are menibers of all political parties. Famous Labor M. P.'s ~~"Among the spokesmen for the British Laboriparty are David Kirkwood, one of the best known of the Scottish M. P.'s; "Tom" Shaw, who was minister of. labor in the MacDonald cabinet, and Lord Thomson, a great soldier and internationally known as an advocate of peace, who* acted as air minister when the Labor party was running the Empire. During the sessions here this week the debates will deal with development of. trade within the empire, migration and settlement, and other subjects calculated to draw the various parts of the empire closer together. The party will cross the continent to Vancouver and will, of course, be hospitably received in all the large cities. Have Enough Harvesters Last week the railways announced that many of the harvester excursions to Western Canada had been cancelled on the ground that western farmers had all the help they need. This bears out the contention of organized labor that sufficient labor is available in i Canada without the necessity of importing Britishers for this seasonal work. Many Canadians who had looked to the west for-a few weeks' employment are now denied cheap transportation, their places having been taken by workers who were sent to Canada by the British government in its effort to relieve an embarrassing unemployment situation which threatened serious results for the Tories in the coming general election. More will be heard on this subject when the workers assemble at the convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada at Toronto this month. Winnipeg Labor Speaks In the meantime, the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council has expressed the sentiment of organized labor in a series of resolutions. The council declares that the men brought from abroad, ostensibly to assist with the harvest, drift into the cities, "lowering the standard of living by their willingness to work long hours at smaller rates of pay." The council urges the adoption of a quota law similar to that existing in the United States. The workers of Winnipeg are probably as familiar with this problem as any other section of the labor movement. Winnipeg is the distributing centre for the whole of Western Canada. Every winter large numbers of unemployed crowd into the city from the rural sections and the municipality has been obliged to expend large sums for the relief of the unfortunate workers. Victory for Power Trust Apparently the Winnipeg Railway Company, acting for the Power Trust, is about to secure a lease of the Seven Sisters Falls on the Winnipeg River, one of the most valuable waterpower sites in Manitoba. For some time the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council, the members of Parliament from Manitoba, and some of the municipalities, have been insisting that this site should be reserved for the publicly owned Hydro. The Bracken government, however, seems to have gone over to the trust and will probably be able to put the necessary legislation through the Manitoba legislature. Wisdom Justice is an ,unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which catvostt.be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.âFrojn the Koran, Bible of Mohammedanism. Good-bye, Old Overalls Good-bye, old overalls, goodbye. Many's the time and oft you befriended me, you beautiful old dears! âbeautiful, like thoroughbred bulldogs because of your ugliness. But how can you help your patches? And now as I rest peacefully in the Victoria Public Library admiring through an enormous semi-circular window two beautiful architectural piles emblematic of salvation and damnation I can only think of you, my dears, shut up in a dark closet on Boundary road condemned for a year at least to solitary dark confinement. I am afraid I imprisoned you prematurely, for never did I work harder than today. The temperature on beautiful Yates street must be about 75 degrees. It surely approximated that on the Princess Marguerite. Tift decks looked more like a minature city than the floors of a passenger boat. Flambuoyant coldrs added a brilliant! effect to a scene where everybody dressed in the best imagined en masse that the lordly independence and "do as you please" air of a hog on ice were in no way superior to the delightful freedom they enjoyed by virtue of spending', instead of earning money. The crowd were the bosses and ordered everybody who wasn't of it, to do them some service, politely, of course, for a moneyed crowd is always good-natured. To really be as independent as a hog on ice, one must control the means of life, whereas the proverbial pig only controls his means of progression. He is independent, grand and noble, according to tradition, because "if he can't walk he can slide." As for me, I had no ice today, so I had to walk at one time steadily for a couple of hoursâall on account of a roaring trade in "short-order" lunches. Plutocratsâthat is those who could spend a dollar for lunchâ were marshalled in squadrons outside the dining room and were led therein by a well-trained official in turns. But away down in the outskirts of the beautiful vessel, resplendent in her accommodations and entertainments, was a lunch-counter where "ham and," etc., could be had at a figure suited to the pockets of the proletarian nickel-squeezers, and that s where I did my stunt. Yea, old overalls, ye accompanied me in many battles and I just could not help thinking of you in your dark lair while I patrolled backwards and forwards through the dense masses that lined the passage in front of the lunch-counter. I must have gone on that gastronomic patrol at least two dozen times when I thought it high time to take a rest. Then I once more began to march, but I found the crowd had gone and the door was locked. I thought, my dear overalls, if I had only "sported" you the very busy waiter might have noticed my dejection. But alas! he only saw a strange new suit, emblematic to him of bloated plutocracy. How could he think of handing me a cup of coffee? Is it any wonder I grieve for you? Shortly after that a new kind of work commenced: the whole floating city surged from side to side of a long passage with bags in their hands waiting to disembark. Personally, I carried four pieces of dunnage as I staggered hither and thither, dodging the forces begotten of the surging masses. Hard work it was, but pleasant because unusualânot so unusual, though, that I didn't remember you, my dear friends, whose presence was a balm to me in all cases of strenuous exertion. Wherefore, I miss you, my dears, more than overalls are capable of imagining. Finally we got off the boat at 3 p.m. and must wait until 9 to go aboard the Macquinna, which starts on its north-western trip at 11 p.m. Perhaps, there is still plenty of exertion in store. The thought of it reminds me of you, my comrades. Good-bye, old overalls, good-bye. 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INVESTMENT BANKERS 823 Hastings Street West Vancouver, B.C W âFOR BETTER FIREWOOD, C q , and COAL THAT PLEASES Q rt Phone High. 498 Â« " SERVICE, QUANTITY AND QUALITY GUARANTEED " Q ABBOTSFORD WOOD & COAL CO., |_ CANADA LEADS WORLD IN PRODUCING COMMODITIES Ottawa, Ont.âCanada now leads the world in the production of nickel, asbestos,. hydro-electric power and newsprint The first two commodities are almost wholly exported in their raw state to the United States. The Dominion has â¢ the second greatest number of telephones in use, the Second greatest number of automobiles and the second greatest coal resources, and is third in the produc*- tion of silv^^^'a'ga^atowinuffl' -'â - , Children can fool the parents, but the parents can't fool the children. WORD "SCAB" NOT ABUSIVE New York.âYelling "scab" at a strikebreaker is not "disorderly con duct," nor is it "vulgar, obscene or abusive language," according to a Kenosha, Wis., jury. After eight minutes' discussion, the jurors freed Theodore Carlson, striking hosiery worker who had been arrested in the act of shouting the mooted word. Four hundred and seventy-two other workers, awaiting trial for demonstrating in front of the Allen-A mill in Kenosha, are affected by the ver- diet. In New Bedford, commented* civil liberties observers in New York, Shouting the word "scab"'wo'uId have, been a riot and in Pennsylvania not less than a revolution. â , Two "Rump" Unions Give Up the Ghost CINCINNATI, 0.âThe Brotherhood of Railway Clerks has arranged to take over some 7,000 railway express employees who have been affiliated with two "rump" organizations, according to a statement issued here by President George M. Harrison. This wipes out the last vestige of the "rump" opposition to the Brotherhood. Forrester's Federation Defunct Some three years ago James J. Forrester, one-time president of the Railway Clerks, formed the American Federation of Express Workers and sought to negotiate a wage agreement with the company. In this he was unsuccessful, the company continuing to recognize the Brotherhood, which retained a majority of the express employees. It is now announced that Forrester's federation will close up shop and go out of business. Another "rump" organization of express employees, the Order of Railway Expressmen, headed by A. Bollinger, will also cease to function next month and its members, so far as they may be eligible, will be taken over by the Brotherhood. Will Join the Brotherhood The statement issued from Grand Lodge headquarters by President Harrison says: "I am glad to officially advise that the Grand Lodge officers of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks have succeeded in arranging for the taking over of all members of the Order of Railway Expressmen, and that similar plans have been made to take into the Brotherhood the membership of the American Federation of Express Workers. "These organizations will discontinue operation shortly after the month of September. Have Uncontested Right "For the first time in the history of organizations among railway express workers our Brotherhood will enjoy the uncontested right in conducting negotiations on wages and working conditions, except at points where vehicle employees are members of the International Brother hood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs.' Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.âHenry Clay. THE TRIAL OF MARY DUMN," EMPRESS THEATRE, VANCOUVEl| Wltn The Curtain Always TTp When Bayard Velller wrote In lil-i manuscript of "The Trial of Mary Dug! an." which 1b due at the Empress Theatre for an engagement of three days, beginning Thursday, Septcmbef 6th. that the curtain' remained u| throughout the entire performance, it Introduced an effective theatrical trl* that was not without Its drawbacks. / To begin a play with stage setting if vealed, after the fashion of a prestldl*-) tator who rolls his sleeves to the elbo* I* to prove there is nothing concealed, WiJ' a refreshing novelty to tho public an) one that caused much profitable com ment. But to the actorB in the play and the stage-hands of. the production. It was not a comfortable Innovation] Ordinarily, the proscenium curtain of : theatre shields a multitude of back; stage relaxations that are nobody's bus j iness because whatever occurs whll.: the curtain Is down is not part of tlit performance which tho audience hai paid to see. Here, before the play begins, thi. stage-bands may look after various details of their respective department: and when everything Is "set" may taki their ease on soft stage furniture am gossip to their heart's content. "Tlui Trial of Mary Dugan" has changed this Not only Is tho curtain full up whet tha play beginsâIt Is raised on high al the time with the exception of severaI curtain calls at the end of each per' formance. It Is up when the audlcm, assembles and It remains up through out the three acts of the famous trial In consequence, the performers, tin' stage-hands and the supernumerari**: are considerably restricted In then comings'and goings. They must remain in dressing-rooms, stroll out Into tin alleyways or huddle themselves together In one corner of the stage behln* < the scenes where they are compelled tt talk In whispers because tho curtail is up. The company which is a Now Yorl. cast Is headed by Pam Browning wh< portrays Mary Dugan. Wm. Bonelll I* the district attorney, and comes to th- Empress Theatre to open tho road show season after breaking every exlstin*.- attendance and box office record at the Columbia Theatre. San Francisco, ant the Mason Opera House In Los Angeles Other companies are playing In London, England, Australia, Berlin, Parle and New York City, with 14 othei American companies in rehersals. Young fellows not so young used to congregate on street corners on windy days to get a glimpses of feminine ankles. What we dread to think of is th' day the five and tens begin selling cigars. â¢Â» â¢ A man who was sentenced to be hanged was visited, by his wife, who said "My dear, would you like the children to see you executed?" "No," he replied. , "That's just like you," said she, "you never wanted the children to have any enjoyment." "Most any poor fish can float an l! drift and dream, But it takes a regular live one t" > swim against the stream." I would rather be a dead dog than ' an ignorant workman knowing nothing of and doing nothing for his class.âThomas Cooper (Chartist). When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God;ai|!pd^.manj.think worst of him.-âHorace 'STWCfi-r Because"Willie was told by daddy! Our advertising man says the gal to always take his little sister's part, who marries a millionaire has a mil- he ate her share of the candy. lion reasons for so doing. .... [ / ~'4t>r. Friday, September 7, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five Commence Autumn Term Now PROTT HAW CHOOLS MAIN SCHOOLâ336 Hastings Street Wait. CENTRAL SCHOOLâCorner Bobson and Granville Streets MT, pleasant SCHOOLâCorner Main and Tenth Avenue WIRELESS AND RADIO SCHOOLâFender and Hamilton The choke of a school Is a-WSR-*Â». IMPORTANT MATTER A bungled education means a blighted career. Therefore a school record the success of Its output, and its standing with the employing business public should be made the prime consideration. Price should be entirely secondary, for what is $19 or J20 In a business career? A rtW OF THE MANY OUTSTANDING FACTS WHICH ABE WORTH CONSIDERATION BY ALL INTERESTED IN A BUSINESS EDUCATION -r. - Sprott-Shaw Schools place in positions all their graduates. Sprott-Shaw Students always stand high In public competitions They have won nearly everything there is to winâgold medals, dozens of them, cups, pins. etc*.âand now one holds the Senior Championship In Typewriting for all Canada, Sprott-Shaw Student* are filways in demand. Ask their employers. Sprott-Shaw Schools have a most efficient Employment Department to which employers may apply and receive courteous treatmentâthe proper person for tho proper place and the proper place for the proper person, No square pegs In round holes. Sprott-Shaw Teachers ara all highly educated peopleâone a chartered accountant: six. university graduates; six, university undergraduates and five with brilliant teaching records, all In Vancouver. Sprott-Shaw Schools train up to a standard, not down to a price. That Is why they may quite properly be termed 'The Schools of Champions." . PHONESâSEY. 1810, 7145, 8778, 7451 and "FAIR. 41 Bombings Fail To Break Strike Kenosha, Wis.â"We can expect any kind of frameup with all these private detectives, including the William J. Burns assortment, on the job for the Allen A Co.," declared Organizer Louis F. Budenz of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers as soon as the last alleged bombing of scabs' houses was reported. "You will note that these bombs do no material damage and do not injure anybody, least of all the strikebreakers," he pointed out. "It is familiar private detective tactics. It scares the boss into shelling out more money for more operatives to protect the plant. In the Lawrence textile strike the company officials themselves planted the dynamite to frame up on the strikers. When the frameup was exposed one of the company hirelings committed suicide." Jne Finest Canadian <Â© Rye Â«â¢ Whisky 31 ThiÂ« advertisement iÂ» not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of Britishi Columbia. - War Psychology Is Stronger Than Logic Although Herr Stresemann will be given little opportunity during his Paris visit of discussing the evacuation of the Rhineland, he will raise this question officially at the September meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations. To the Germans evacuation is a political question of paramount importance, and the most successful form of attack which the German Nationalists have been able to employ against the Republicans is the taunt that, in spite of Locarno, in spite ot the fact that he has been Foreign Minister for five years, Herr Stresemann has been unable to secure the withdrawal of the enemy from German soil. It is something of a surprise, howe-fer, to learn that the Wilhelmstrasse is inclined to blame England for this failure. It is true that Sir Austen Chamberlain has handled the subject weakly, and that Great Britain has not supported the Republican movement in Germany as whole-heartedly as it deserves os as British interests demand, but, if Herr Stresemann really believes that a word from London can influence M. Poincarc to evacuate the occupied territories, his judgment is sadly at fault. The evacuation of the Rhineland is almost entirely a Franco-German question. From a purely logical point of viewâand M. Poincare prides himself on his logic âthe present moment would appear to be an admirable one for the French to strike a bargain over the Rhineland. Today, the Germans would be willing to pay a high price for evacuation, and, in addition, France would have the moral advantage of a cheap beau geste. In a year's time the situation may be entirely different. We fear, however, that, in spite of a certain progress, M. Poincaire's war-psychology is still stronger than his logic.:âNew Statesi- man. Union Men Guests at Westminster Fair Executive members of the Trades and Labor Council and Building Trades Council were invited to the New Westminster Exhibition on Wednesday as the guests of the City of New Westminster. Mayor Wells Gray took the party in hand and showed them all over the exhibition as well as taking them to lunch. The Bee Keepers Association were having a luncheon at the exhibition, and hearing of the presence of the officials invited them over, and in reply to a speech made by-President Straight of that organisation, President Thomson complimented the association on its efforts and pointed out that the Trades Union movement was also one of co-operation and hoped that the industrial and agricultural movements would become more closely allied in helping to make this world a better place to live in. War mends but few, and spoil: multitudes.âJeremy Taylor. ;â The man who lets his pick hang in the air because the whistle blew for dinner is a close second to the man who stopped his clock to save time. â¢ * * Render more service and better service than you are paid to render and sooner or later you will be paid for more than you do. * # * Turkish women never see their husbands before marriage. We reverse it in Canada, unless the unfortunate woman plays golf also. Magistrate at Willesden: "Why does your husband threaten you?" Woman: "To make me hit him first." If you manage your business successfully the world will wear a path to your door. The advertising experts have met in Detroit to tell the cock-eyed world that, when ideas fail, there is always the picture of a girl in a bathing suit. "Ben Junior" Captures Whippet Race Cup J. Mallandain's "Ben Junior" won the first prize, consisting of a sterling silver cup donated by Dr. Tolmie, Premier of British Columbia, for annual competition, and a $25 prize from the Whippet Gar Co., in the whippet race on Monday. There were four exciting and interesting heats, but the Mallandain dogs proved superior to the others. J. Mallandain's "Ben Gal" took the second prize, consisting of a $10.60 coffee percolator, and his "Sahra Porta," came in third, winning a waffle iron, value $9, from the Vancouver Hotel. R. Simpson's "Cumberland Lass" caught the fourth prize, consisting of a toaster stove, value $6, from the Vancouver Hotel. Eighteen dogs were entered in these events. A bright little girl is suing her barber for breach of promise because her permanent wave straightened out after six months. rf Arabian Nights "What, married? Don't make me laugh, stupid. How did you ever get a wife?" "I just sobered up and there she was."âToronto "Goblin." In Turkey a woman never sees her husband before the marriage. In Canada she doesn't see him much afterwards. Our objection to a thirteen-month year is that it will give us at least four more blue Mondays. "What did father say when you asked him for me?" "He didn't say anything. He fell on my neck and wept." Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.âHazlitt. (Isn't this funny today!' CANADA NOW BOASTS OF 272 MILLIONAIRES Ottawa, Ont.âOut of an estimated population of 9,658,000 in Canada there are 272 millionaires. Of these, 76 reside in Montreal in the shadow of St James Street. Ontario is credited with 138; Manitoba, the home of the grain exchange, with 21; British Columbia, 9; New Brunswick, 5; Alberta, 4, and Nova Scotia, 4. Neither Saskatchewan nor Prince Edward Island has a millionaire. Tn Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba, between 70 and 80 per cent, of the farming population own their own homes. â¢///4M/J& Come tonight and be a kid for a night! Hastings Park, Cars 8 or 13 2:30 to 5.-30 7:00 to 12:00 "The best thing for you to do," said the doctor, "is to give up smoking, drinking anything but water at your meals, late hoursâ" "Wait," entreated the. patient, "what's the next best thing?"âAnswers. TRAIN DISPATCHERS WILL GO AFTER A SIX-HOUR LAW Chicago.âTrain dispatchers are preparing to ask Congress for the enactment of a law fixing six hours as the maximum day's work for this class of rail employees, according to J. G. Luhrsen, president of the American Train Dispatchers' Association "The greatly augmented traffic carried by the American railroads makes the train dispatcher's work a nerve-wracking job which only can be improved by shortening the hours," said President Luhrsen. "There is no other way out. The public has a big stake in this needed improvement. "The train dispatcher must have a clear head and steady nerves to efficiently direct the movement of trains. If the dispatcher is not in good mental and physical condition the hazard of wre,cks is greatly iri- creased^wfth consequent loss of life and property." A Lincoln Story It is said that when Lincoln was stricken with smallpox he told his attendant to "Send up theâoffice Seekers and tell them I have some thing I can give each of them." Beautiful and Industrious Vancouver VANCOUVER is singularly fortunate in her possession of a magnificent variety of scenic charms, while her port development and industrial pTa^ress is establishing her as one of the leading business cities of Canada and the Pacific coast Both the scenic attractions and indications of her industrial prowess arj illustrated in these photographs. -0). -Locarno Park beach, easily reached by Sasamat streetcar and ihe mecca of thousands. -^p-TIie Pavilion and a section of the alluring gardens in Stanley Park. (3) Construction of the new grain elevator for the Alberta Wheat Pool, near the Second Narrows bridge, is'fast nearing completion, (4) Seymour Canyon, one of the many attractive picnic resorts and beauty spots in the North Shore foothills. Street-cars from thi ferry wharf bring these places within th*. reach of all. (5) The heart of a growing.metropolis, Granville street, Vancouver. (6) English Bfcy, adjoining Stanley Park, and Vancouver's most frequented bathing beach. .. . . âBy courtesy of B. C. Electric Railway Co. â¢â¢ Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, September 7, 1928 1,191.571 more Car Miles than in 1924 \nTHE best measure of car service is the number of "car miles" run. In 1927, B. C. Electric cars on the mainland' ran 12,350,204 miles; in 1924, they ran 11,166,633 miles. Today, a maximum of 354 cars are in use on the mainland system, carrying nearly 6,000,000 passengers a month. B.C. Electric service always endeavors to keep abreast of the needs of the public. British Columbia ^EiEcmcfoniMiyCo. VANCOUVER VICTORIA BUY UNION STAMPED SHOES W'E ASK all members of organized labor to purchase shoes tearing our Union Stamp on the sole, inner-sole, or lining of, the shoe. We ask you not to buy any shoes unless you actually see this Union Stamp. Boot & Shoe Workers' Union Affiliated with American Federation of Labor 246 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON, MASS. (,'OLLIS LOVELY General President CHARLES L. BLAINE General Secretary-Treasurer Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.' CIDERS PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER "Made from B. C Apples" TRY OUR GRAPE, LOGANBERRY, ORANGE, PUNCH, ETC IDEAL FOR PICNICS AND PARTIES PHONE HIGH. 90 PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS., LTD. 1955 Commercial Drive Labor Bank First To Shorten Hours The Mount Vernon Savings Bank of Washington, D. C, founded by the International Association of Machinists and the first labor bank in the United States, has just made a sharp cut in the hours of its employees. In connection with this reform the bank will not be kept open Saturday evenings, as has been customary. All the other savings banks in Washington are preparing to follow the Mount Vernon'B iead. "This improvement in our working conditions is intended as a step toward the five-day week," said Frank Lee,, vice-president of the bank and member of the I. A. of M. "It is also an interesting evidence of the advances made by the workers in the direction of shorter hours. A few years ago the retail stores were forced to keep open evenings because ' the workers had no other time in which to make their purchases. "If there had been any labor banks at that time they would Â»have had to do the same. "Now the retail clerks have as good hours as other classes of workers, and, in some instances, better. Many of the stores close one entire day during the week, and this practice will undoubtedly increase. "Improved conditions^, awong the unionized workers have made it possible for us to materially shorten the hours .of our own employees without injuring our business1." LET'S HELP Up the road and down the road, Whatever the way we take, We'll meet some soul with a weary load, Some heart that is torn with ache, We'll hear some voice that has dulled its song, Some spirit that's lost its cheerâ For roads are rugged and roads are long, And many a track is drear. "We can't do much and we can't give muchâ We're poor folk," we may say! But the little we can with a friendly touch May brighten the world's highway. So out with your smiles and your neighbor-strength, Your song and your sympathy, too! We can't do much on the journey's length, But the little we can, we'll do. âLillian Card, in. Tid Bits. BRITISH RAILWAYS KILLED 27 PASSENGERS LAST YEAR London.âThe number of passengers killed in British train accidents, laBt year was 27, the highest figure for many years. The average for the past seven years was only, ten. A total of 518 passengers was injured last year. Based, on last year's figures, onljj, one passenger was killed' to fil.OOp,- 000 carried, and one injured in 3,- 200,000. Brains countâif you're willing to work. Revival Meetings "Oh, ho!" the radical will say, "he's going to warn us about Hell!" But I'm not. I wouldn't have the presumption to try to prevent you going where you wanted. I rather fancy at the meetings under discussion they talked more about the hells on earth than of Dante's Inferno. They called themselves "Methodists," but they really came nearer the cosmopolitan standard than any congre-- gations I've heard of since the time of Christ. It was a revival meeting of a kind to interest the people. I had never heard of such before and instantly realized that it was just the sort that was needed. It was conducted by a parson, but I feel quite certain if it had been in Vancouver the meetings would have had as many Communists (I use the word in an academic sense) as orthodox members swelling its numbers, provided everybody knew what it was all about. And just as there are thousands of Communists who imagine a Methodist is a "son-of-a-sea-eook" so there arc thousands of Methodists who wouldn't be seen at a dog's funeral with a Communist, and thu is the world kept apart. One can see the tremendous importance of bringing the extremists of all descriptions together so that friction may wear their uncomplementary edges off. The meetings were held at Geneva, Ohio. They constituted the biggest "revival" known to the town for 35 years. Now listen: In other revivals they call "amateur" sinners to repentance, such as tobacco chewers petty larceny experts, virtuosos ir wife beating; bootleggers, blasphemers, liars, boosters, bunko steerers and other examples of a compare tively insignificant turpitude; a turpitude, bad enough in its way but compared with the wholesale wick edness discussed at the revival one could only think of their relative dimensions in terms of midges and mountains. The fact of the matter is that at this revival they called men to "social" repentance. They empha sized the wholesale gigantic sins of groups of professional diplomats, politicians, industrial magnates, and even the public in general. Race prejudice, for instance, was wrong; it was an internationally wholesale delinquency differing in magnitude from "one-man" prejudice as the whole population differed from one person. War was ineffably, uncompromisingly atrociousâthe internationally legal crime of crimes, which was just as much greater when undertaken predaceously than a single robbery and murder, as the population of the countries engaged were greater than one man. The pagan conception of property was exemplified in the inequalities of incalculable extent that distinguish the difference in condition between man and man. I didn't hear the sermon, but I feel quite sure Mr. Brown dilated on the malign results of inequality of opportunity, comparing them with what one would expect from pagans or savages. Of course, that means the imaginery savage of the Cacausian imagination; for the real primitive brother lived, and lives today, where not influenced by civilization, the Communistic life of the early Christians, with his own peculiar customs added.âSee Paul Lafar- gue's "Evolution of Property," and Morgan's "Ancient Society," 454. But that is a digression and has no relation to the revival meeting. Night after night the church was packed and sixty-five decisions on social subjects were reported. The sermon that got the most widespread discussion, so that the local editors printed it and subsequent sermons, was an indictment- of those responsible for ten dollars a week wages in some of the local industries. The meeting was followed by a "clinic." For eight days in April the congregations' of six Geneva churches kept up the new kind of evangelism, discussing the problems of war, internationalism, industry, the breakdown of law, marriage, Christian unity, and luxury in a world of want. The clinic has pushed back the frontiers in many minds.âSocial Service Bulletin, May 15th: The Bulletin is always in evidence at such meetings and will be read with interest where a labor paper giving the same information would be pushed aside with disgust. ' (150 Fifth Ave., N. Y., $1, with the Labor Letter, $2). To show its democratic nature I shall give here a notice or two from its pages: "Do you want to know what's happening in China? Write the American Committee for.Justice to China, room 931, 70 Fifth Ave., New York, for its 'News Letter' of June 4th. Do you want information on the power lobby? Write to the National Popular Government League, room 931, 70 Fifth Ave., New York, for its 'News Letter' of June 4th." Some -revival! Eh, what? F. W. MOORE. North and South Irish Labor Unity Alone amongst our political parties Labor has succeeded in establishing itself upon an all-Ireland basis, and at. its annual conference, which is being held in Belfast this week, members of both parliaments are taking an active part in the discussions. This in itself is proof that where the will to" unity exists a way to give expression to it can be found. So far the difficulty has not been so much that the existence of the border effectively bars co-operation as that people are content with vague declarations of good-will instead of making a real effort to tackle the practical problem. Farmers, for instance, who constitute the, bulk of the nation, have quite as much in common as trade unionists, and had they the insight to link forces not only would they be in a better position to exercise pressure on both governments, but their union would do much to demolish existing barriers. The* example -"set by Labor is the niore valuable as the measure of independence which its Northern and .Southern groups enjoy removes the fear, so strong in the Ulster mind, that any movement of this kind merely masks a plot to manoeuvre the North against its will into a Dublin parliament. At the Belfast Congress there was much sharper criticism of the Free State than of Lord Craigavon's cabinet. This is natural in view of the fact that social benefits are much'more rigidly restricted in Southern Ireland, though it is not quite fair to saddle the blame on Mr. Cosgrave, who, unlike the Northern premier, is not in a position to draw subventions for his unemployed -from British funds. While Labor policy is saner and sounder than that of any other Irish policy, it .has failed up to, the present to attract support from moderate elements, and, that is still more disheartening, it does not command in either Irish enclave the votes of the great body of organized workers. In his presidential addresses, Mr. M. McMullen, a Northern Labor member, put his finger on the root of the evil when he said that Irish Labor tended to concentrate on metaphysical rather than economic issues, but it is easier to diagnose the disease' than to discover a remedy. New Statesman. 'â-1- Ford Ships Sail in Search of Rubber Two ships are on the way from Detroit to Brazil to launch the first big rubber plantation of the western hemisphere. They belong to Henry Ford, of course, and their voyage may be the start of the greatest development that tropical South America has known. Some time ago Ford bought from the Brazilian government a tract of land containing approximately six million acresânot quite so large as Vancouver Island. To reach this great farm you sail to the mouth of the Amazon, go up that huge river about 500 miles, and turn southâto the leftâ^up the tributary stream called Tapajos river, three times as large as the Fraser River. A little over 100 miles up the Tapajos, the Ford plantation begins. Millions of Acres Available The town of Santarem, on the Tapajos near the junction with the Amazon, is the nearest established port, but a new one will be built on the plantation itself. Ocean steamers habitually travel 2,000 miles up the Amazon, and ordinary freighters will have no trouble in coming to Henry Ford's dockâwhen he gets it built The land is almost under the equatorâtwo to four degrees south. Probably some of it is subject to the annual overflow which turns the Amazon valley to a vast lake every year. It is estimated that about 5,000,000 acres are suitahle for rubber growing. At a full crop, this would produce several times as much rubber as the whole world has now. The native forest contains many valuable hardwoods. Will Use Native Labor The Bhips are equipped with everything needed for a battle with the tropics, from mosquito screens to quinine. One is fitted up as a hospital ship. A base will be established, a survey made, a dock built, and some of the ground nearest the port cleared and planted. Native laboY will be used throughout, the white men being directors of the work, and technical experts. If successful, and the venture bears every indication of success, this will open a new era in the exploitation of the tropics.â : â It is said that a joke will travel around the world in sixty-seven days. Some of them seem to be well-seasoned -globe trotters. UNION CAFES & MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 Always Open Empir ire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE Late 72nd Batt. 76 Hastings St. E., Vancouver, B. C. When in a Hurry, Drop ln at Egg Order. FRED'S Are Always t-v . v â "o.k." at Dairy Lunch "It's the Co.ffe'e"- 72 Hastings West Always Open R. WILKINSON, Pril. D. DUNCAN, tn. Reynolds' Cartage Co- LIMITED Ptaonai Seymour 3377-337B Orating, Packing, Shipping an 4 8 to rag* Furniture and Piano Movinc Long Distance Moving Pool Car Shipments Of Hoe and WaxehonMi 733 â CAMBIE STREET â T3> PERRY & DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33' The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. TENDERS FOB DREDKIKU Sealed tenders, addressed to the undersigned and endorsed "Tender for, dredging Burnaby Shoal, Vancouver. First Narrows. Vancouver, B.C.," will In- received until 12 o'clock noon (daylight saving), Thursday, September 20, 1928. Tenders will not. be considered unless made on the forms "supplied by the Department ;vnd In accordance, with the conditions set forth therein. ' Combined specification nnd form, of tender can be obtained on application to the Undersigned', also at the office of the District Hnglneer. Post Office Building, New Westminster, B. C. Tenders must include the towing of the plant to and from the work. The dredges and other plant which are intended to be used on the work shall have been duly registered in Canada at* the time of tho filing of the tender with the Department, or shall have been built ln Canada after the filing of the tender. Each tender must he uceompanied by an accepted cheque on ft*' chartered hank, payable to the order of the Minister of Public Works, for 5 per cent, of the contract price. Ponds of the Dominion of Canada or bonds of the Canadian National Hallway Company will be accepted as security, or bonds and a cheque If required to make up an odd amount. NOTE.âThe tenderer must submit a separate security deposit for each -work tendered for. By order. Si. E. O'BRIEN. Secretary. Department of Public Works. Ottawa, August 31, 1928. SONNET FOR AN ANNIVERSARY This road is level; we have won thus far Through storm's made splendor, by uncharted ways >â¢ Alive with morning thunder, to these days Of tempered sun, lamplight in lieu of star, Unmenaced by the sliver scimitar Of any moon, or by that whip which flays Young love to reckless questing through amaze And terrorâsee, how very safe we are I iBeyond, the road's downhill; here, rest awhile And kiss my mouth in wisdomâsoâ and look ahead .... This drowsy noon of peace declines toward .night, .__..... ..,.â. When dusk flies warning-signalspwB'7' shall smile . . ... Kor dare look back along the old , paths, red . With blossoms of a perilpus delight. âFaith Baldwin, ih Poetry. Friday, September 7, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Seven Weak Men and All Diseases of Men Take our Herbal Remedies SEND for Pamphlet on Loss of Manhood and Disorders of Men. Free by mall. Advice free. "Open 2 to 6 and 7 to 8 dailv except Wednesdays and Saturdays, when closed all day. Phone Douglas 3394 The English Herbal Dispensary, Limited 1359 Davie St., Vancouver, B.C. Canada's Oldest Herbal Dispensary Classified Adverts. BARRISTEBS AND SOLICITOUS "Watlls W. Lofeaux, 402 Metropolitan Building. Phone Sey. 6667. BATHS Hastings Steam Baths Price 35c Only 766 Hastings Street Bast DENTISTS Sr. w A. Bntledge. 108 Hastings W. NOTABY PUBLIC P. B. Bengough. 803 Holden Bldg PBINTESS Labor Statesman. 803-816 Holden Bldg. RUPTURE SPECIALIST C. B. Heard. 812 Bobson UNDERTAKERS Armstrong It Hotson, 304 Snnlevy Ave. Burnaby Broadcast Weekly on Thursdays The only newspaper carrying the Union Label published in Burnaby. a Year BURNABY BROADCAST 4091 Hastings St. E. Vancouver Neutral The American Federation of Labor â is taking a neutral stand ip the presidential election. What else could it do? True the record of Al Smith in the matter of labor legislation is a good one and an extensive one, and it is reported that some members of the executive of the A. F. of L. were anxious to have the New York Governor endorsed. But it was also pointed out that Hoover's less extensive record is good. He has befriended the miners; he went on record years ago as favoring trade unions as a public necessity, and the railway unions remember his attempts to induce the railway employers to make a reasonable settlement of the shopmen's strike in 1922. And when it's a ease of "reward your friends and defeat your enemies," it would appear that there should be no discrimination among, friends. But if the A. F. of L. is preserving its neutrality in the presidential fight, it certainly appears to be carrying the battle into the camp of its enemies in the congressional elections, and a hot fight is being made against candidates whose labor record has been bad, regardless of the party label they carry. The primary election results show, too, that the labor campaign is not without results to show, a number of die-hards having been defeated for the party nominations in both parties.âAlbera Labor News. Floorman,; "I don't believe that new girl is ever going to be a salesperson." Department Manager: "Oh, I don't know. She's only been here three weeks now and if she ever succeeds in getting her hair fixed the way she wants it, she may start,in and surprise us!" :' Flattery: Men are like stone jugs âyou may lug them where you like by the ears. . U. S. Smugglers In Thriving Business The business of smuggling aliens into the United States received startling publicity last Friday. The steamship Steel Inventor, from South American ports, arrived at Baltimore, and was held in quaran tine for fumigation. Hydrocyanic acid gas, one of the deadliest substances known, was -released in the. hold to kill mosquitoes, which carry yellow fever, and' rats, which carry plague. But the lethal gas killed seven men who were stowed away in the hold, and came near killing nine others. Five of these clambered out of a ventilator, and the other two were brought from the hold by the quarantine authorities. All were overcome. Had Paid $350 Each Revived at the hospital, the men were questioned, and said that they had paid $3">0 each at Rio Janeiro to be Smuggled aboard and stowed away in the hold. They were told to leave the ship as soon as it docked, and run as hard as they could. Four members of the crew have been identified as taking part in the smuggling scheme. This incident follows closely on a less tragic story that received little attention. Not long ago, 25 aliens were discovered on a barren islet off the Florida coast by a patrol boat. They said that they had paid a "bootlegger" ?1,000 apiece to smuggle them into the United States. The smuggling craft was chased by a government launch, and, fearful of capture, the "bootlegger" forced his luckless passengers to land on this islet, took all their money, and vanished in the night. The aliens were fed, clothed and sent back home by Uncle Sam's representatives. Brutal System of Smugglers It is claimed that as high as $5,000 has been paid by some Chinese to men who smuggled them into the United States. This probably includes blackmail after the Celestial is settled. An old story, probably true, tells of a cargo of Chinese being thrown overboard when capture was imminent. It is whispered that the same thing has happened recently with other aliens. â 'â The big "leakage" across the border, however, is from Mexico. Immigration authorities in Texas class Mexicans as "wet" and "dry." These terms have nothing to do with alcohol. "Dry" legally, through recognized channels; "wet" Mexicans are those who have waded over the Rio Grande. The term has been extended to include all smuggled natives of our neighbor on the south. Cross Mexican Border Estimates of the number of illegal immigrants run as high as 175,000 per year. A heavy majority of these probably come over the Mexican line, though some arrive from Canada, and enough are carried in from Cuba to originate another group of "millionaires" in Havana. Housewives' Affairs Have Never An End An excellent intention to lessen the labors of housewives no doubt impels a certain national institute in England, if, as reported, it has unleashed its savants for an extensive and intensive study of the means, methods and environment of housewifery. The poet Tusser, writing the preface for his "Book of Housewifery" in the sixteenth century,- was of opinion that "housewives' affairs have never an end." The' opinion comes down into the twentieth, and is evidently the force behind the forthcoming study by the institution in question, which proposes, by co-operation with architects, builders, householders and housewives, to do something about it. What with various happy inventions folfsetting the giant electricity to woijyas a' cook, housemaid, laundress or "general," the housewives seems to have done something about it themselves; but they have omitted the mood of study in which the savants will attack Mr. Tusser's position. These will determine accurately, for example, , the amount . of energy wasted by "carrying heavy loads up and down unnecessary stairs," establish the mjnimum number of steps required to accomplish the maximum amount of housekeeping, find out the proper relation between the height of the chair on which and the table at which a properly seated person is sitting, and otherwise more nicely adapt the home to the mental and physical requirements of the family. To the layman, this looks like an almost desperate effort of the savants to determine the most convenient kind of a house and domestic equipment, and then to standardize the home. Even so, it will be another problem to standardize ' the housewife. Meantime, those who have in-1 vented the "mechanical servant" are undoubtedly doing their best to widen the scope of its activities. Per- i haps it will* eventually become a question in domestic economy whether to build a new house for the housewife, or keep the oid one, and get her a mechanical servant that won't object to the inconveniences. Bitter Feeling Is Created By Wage Cuts America's medieval policy in regard to collective bargaining, both industrially and legally, could hardly be better illustrated than by the recent events in New Bedford. A wage cut of 10 per cent, which would certainly have been unnecessary under any kind of enlightened management, was decreed without consultation with the union. A unanimous strike followed. Opening the mills, after several months of attempting to starve out the workers, failed to induce them to return. Then, as is usual in such eases, the repressive forces of government were called into action by the employers. A judge was induced to issue an injunction against picketing, and to declare mass picketing illegal, although it had been practised in an entirely peaceable manner. Mass arrests followed, which enraged the strikers. When the jail cells were overfilled with pickets, a protesting crowd of strikers was met by a body of the national guard, called out to ..keep a peace which had not beenjbroken except by the authorities themselves. The riot act was read to the strikers. If all these provocative measures do not cause serious violence, it will not be the fault of the officers of the law. Meanwhile the mills are idle; bitter feeling is being engendered, and nothing is being done to improve the bad industrial management which was, in the first place, responsible for the whoiexaffair.âNeÂ« Republic, College Girls in Wage Experiment CHICAGO.âAn average weekly wage of $12.62 for working girls will pay for fond and lodging, but leaves nothing for clothes or other essentials of a normal life. This is the conclusion reached by 24 girls from Middle Western colleges who came to Chicago to find employment as wage earners this summer and to learn just how working girls live, in a big city. They conducted the experiment under the supervision of Miss Freda Seigworth, Y. W. C. A. industrial expert. They hunted jobs in the unskilled labor fields and after toiling a month, riled reports. Their average wage for the month was $12.62 a week. This provided for meals, carfare and room rent, but buying clothes on,their pay was out of the question, they said. "Nineteen of the 24 girls found jobs the first day they were out seeking work," said Miss Seigworth. "The girls were employed at various types of jobs. They nested ice cream pails, wired radio coils, fed' envelope machines, iced cakes, fed hog3' hair to a machine, gummed and pasted paper boxes, waited on table in restaurants, sorted and marked laundry, jogged and inserted printed slips in a bindery, sprayed paint on 10-cent ash-trays, sewed lamp shades, bleached soles of shoes and soldered radio connections." The lowest paid work was lamp shade fashioning. This piece work gave the girls an average of-only $6 a week. Satisfied Customers â eji ATISFIED customers have been largely *â¢*â¢*â¢* responsible for the growth and progress of this Bank for sixty years. Today, more than ever, we try to bring a human sympathy and an intimate understanding into our daily business contacts. You vcill like banking al The Royal The Royal Bank of Canada Vancouver Branch - - B. L. Mitchell, Manager 17 Offices in Vancouver, 53 Branches in British Columbia SUBSCRIBE TODAY We invite you to subscribe or get a friend to sab- scribe for The Labor Statesman. The rates are two dollars for one year, one dollar for site months. I enclose dollars, for which please send the Labor Statesman to the address below for months, commencing with the next issue. name. ....: :. : â ........ ADDRESS , ;..'. '. Flense Writs Plainly to Avoid MHutakes. Address: Labor Statesman, 816 Holden Bldg., Vancouver Telegraphers Sign Up With Govt. Railways St. John, Newfoundland. â The first conti-act between the Newfoundland government-owned railways and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers was signed recently as the result of direct negotiations between the management of the railways and E. J. Manion, president, and G. D. Robertson, vice-president, O.R.T., on behalf of the men. Under the contract seniority has been established as well as a basic day,_ pvertime rate's and atiier progressive reforms in rules arid working conditions. Â»-\nWages were not altered, but full recognition was given the O.R.T. Cautious Cora says that maybe ber Married men have one advantage boy friend isn't an orchestra leader, over bachelors. ' The mee.k shall in-.j but he certainly knows how to make herit the earth.- . â â â¢**..â¢. >' (overtures. German Workers May Not Be Caught Again Those foreigners who are inclined to sneer at the sincerity of the Republican movement in Germany, and who see in the present-day German Social-Democrats the same subservient â¢ nationalist "compromisers" who in 1914 voted the necessary war credits without a protest, would do well to study ther ecent crisis which has arisen out of the decision of the German government to proceed with the building of the new 10,000-ton armored cruiser. Although Hen- Mueller and his Socialist colleagues, yielding to the arguments of the Minister of National Defence and to the necessity.of keeping the unweild- ly coalition together, gave their consent to the payment of the first instalment for the new cruiser, which incidentally had, already been sanctioned by the former Reichstag, their decision came near to wrecking the government, and almost involved the resignation of the four Socialist'ministers. The crisis has been temporarily settled. Germany will have her ehuiser, and the temporary government of Herr Mueller will continue until the autumn. The Chancellor, however, and his three Socialist colleagues are not likely to forget the severe hauling over the coals which they received from their own party. The addition of the new cruiser to the tiny German fleet has little significance, but the storm ..whicji its building has provoked shows how strong is the opposition of the German working classes to ahy, form of military or naval expenditure.âNew Statesman; â -.. -; In the'old days every girl used to hide her instep'; today their, step-ins are np secret. FIVE-DAY WEEK IS LOGICAL Business men and government officials continue to remind the public that the nation faces too much production; that 100 per cent, efficiency is out of the question. Dr. George Otis Smith, director of the United States Geological Survey, says the country is "overengined," that to slow down industry is a safety measure urgently needed. In every industry the cry for "stabilization"âa soothing definition for slowing downâis raised. | T^e latest call for less production is by Oklahoma oil op'erators, who ask the state to aid them. Capitalists, as a rule, however, depend upon "gentlements agreements" to accomplish this purpose. ""** Dr. A. F. Woods of the Federal Departfnent- of Agriculture warns dairymen not to overproduce. He says this industry has "reached a stan-gj of development where its future must be c-jrefully considered if we are to avoid trouble." Workers should awaken to the significance of this silent revolution, which is yet in its infancy. Workers should also note the abandonment of individualistic theories by business men and government. These revolutionary changes sustain labor's five-day week demand. â Labor. MAKE PLANS FOR AIDING IMMIGRANTS TO ARGENTINA In the first Israelite Immigration Congress to be held in Buenos Aires resolutions were adopted establishing a fund for loans to new arrivals. Plans were made for experimental farms, garment factories and homes, and, for Ultimate, aid to relatives to immigrants ts' join - their famitfe? in Argentina. Dpri't gi-fe thei wife too riiuch r.ope. She is -liable, to drip;,.-"; / w^m^. Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, September 7, 1928 NOTARY PUBLIC * P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades b Labor Council Boom 803, 16 Hasting*Â« Street East Phones: Sey. 7495-6279 EAT TODAY AT THE RICHMOND CAFE 100 Per Cent. Union. All White Help 1033 Granville St. (Nr. Nelson) The Only Union Fish and Chip Shop In the City! Ye Olde JEnglish Fish * and Chip Shoppe 814 rob son (Hear OrurUle) VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Bad Cold MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. SET. 3070 wm $500 AND NO SENSE Doctor:â"What did you operate on Jones for?" Surgeon:â"Five hundred dollars." Doctor:â"No; I mean what did he have?" Surgeon:â"Five hundred dollars." The Spirit of St. Louis Teacher: "Can any one.name our national bird?" Little Missouri Child: "Lindbergh!" 100 p. c. Pure Coal "Second to the Sun" Leslie Coal Co. Ltd. 944 Beach Aye.. â , SttynJ37 Labor Day Sports Prize Winners Boys 7 to 10âV.' McKenzie, 1976 11th west; Stan Alford, 4087 Charles St.; N. Swan, 591 59th east Girls 7 to 10âJ. Caird, 4522! Main St.; C. Shawcross, 1342 15th ea3t; Hose Corbett, 1750 5th east. Boys 10 to 14âS. Wilson, 1542 1st Ave. east; A. Read, 5701 Carlton Girls 10 to 14âA. Fort, 318 Al- St.; H. Paine, 3641 14th Ave. w.' berta St., New Westminster; C. Reid, 5701 Carlton St.; M. Pare, 524 26th St, W., North' Vancouver. Boys 14 to 16âM. Hambley, Lynn Valley; W. McNeil, 1233 Victoria Rd.; G. McRae, 3609 15th Ave. W. Girls 14 to 16âM. Cowan, 1749 49th Ave. E.; E. M. Logan, 5570 Carlton St.; M. Scott, 3151 Heather. Bicycle Racing-* Half mile bicycle racing under auspices of Vancouver Cycling Clubâ 1st, D. McCreedy; 2nd, F. Elliott; 3rd, F. Carlson. Single ladies, 75 yardsâE. Hall, .236 46th Ave. E., Civic Employees; E. Andrews, 45 15th Ave. W., Street Railway Emp.; A. Fort, 318 Alberta Rd., New Westminster, Brotherhood Railroad Trainmen. Apprentices, 100 yardsâC. Wake- ley, 19 51st Ave. E., Machinist; S. Palmer, 2146 1st Ave. W., Machinist; J. Pollar, 2439 Pandora, Typo. Journeymen's Novelty Bag Race âJ. S. McNab, St. Ry.; E. Smith, Painters; H. W. Watts, Electrical Workers. One-mile bicycle raceâS. Cook, D. McCreedy, W. Carson. . Married ladies, union, 75 yardsâ Mrs. Harrison, 1745 40th Ave. W.; A. Spier. 78 38th W.; Mrs. Lough- heed, 4128 Knight Rd. Married ladies, open, 75 yardsâ Mrs. Noble, 1248 Union St.; Mrs. Harrison; Mrs. Spier. Two-mile bicycle raceâN. Robinson, H. Johnson, L. Brewer. Broad jumpâS. Kero, 18 ft. 7 in.; G. Tingley, 18 ft. 1 in.; C. H. Hagman, 17 ft. 11 in. Ladies' novelty, 50 yardsâMrs. E. Corbett, Mrs. Proctor, Mrs. Dum- machie. Men's open, 220 yardsâA. Massey, C. Tyrrell, S. Palmer. One-mile open raceâE. Thompson, C. Wakeley, H. Naylor. Horseshoe. Pitching Horseshoe pitching competition was won by T. Dooks, senior and junior; 2nd, E. Smith and J. Talbot. Boys' sack raceâD. Robertson, J. Broadbent, A. Comparelli. / Girls' sack raceâL. Johnson, C. Wilson, M. Clarke. Bandsmen's raceâE. Brcssler, B. Griffin, C. Fitzgerald. Clowns' raceâR. Carter. Largest Family on Field A. McKay of the Teamsters' Union won the prize for having the largest family (6) on the field. Youngest Baby Ramsay McDonald Skinner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Skinner won the prize for being the youngest baby on the field, 11 days old. Other young babies on the field were Mayne Finlay, 1 month; George Christian, 1 month, 1 day; Rose Doppen, 2 years and 2 months. Policemen Capture Tug-of-War Cup The Policemen's Union succeeded in taking the Gen. McRae tug-of-war cup from the Firemen's Union after a strenuous battle at Hastings Park on Monday. There was some hard and long pulls, and although the policemen were defeated in some of the pulls they came out on top in the end. The South Vancouver Civic Employees' Union captured the second prize" and the Plumbers and Steamfitters were third. Shirley Wins Cup in . Very Close Race The E. G. 'Baynes 100-yard cup was won by D. Shirley of the Policemen's Union. A Congoleum rug, value $8.75, also went with the cup, R. Parkin of the Electrical Workers' Union won the second prize, consisting of half a ton af coal from the, Leslie Coal Co. C. Edwards took the third prize, consisting of a pipe, $2.50, from Con Jones. j Two heats had to be run for this because these three came in neck and neck in the first run. The judges were unable to pick the winner, so it had to be run again. The second run was very close, but the positions were picked out without difficulty. âCourtesy Canadian National Rlys. Photograph, transmitted by wireless of the launching recently at Birkenhead, England, of the "Lady Nelson," first of five passenger .steamers being built by the Canadian National Steamships for service in the Canada-West Indies trade. I. L. P. MEET FRIDAY Members of the South Vancouver, Mount Pleasant and Central Branches of the Independent Labor Party will select candidates for the civic elections at a meeting to be held in the Horticultural Hall on Friday evening, September 7th, At a meeting held last Friday it was deemed to contest Wards Five, Seven and Eight, to run four candidates for school trustees and two for Parks Board. VANCOUVER Announcing the Opening of a Battle Creek Sanitarium Health Food Department with a complete stock of foods as used in the famous sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. âMain Floor, H. B. C. THINGS FOR MEN HAVE YOU GOT YOUK MILLION-DOLUAR AUTOSTROP RAZOR YET? Buy 10 blades for Jl-00 and get Razor and Strop free. Still a few left. Hurry and get yours. PREP. FOR A PAINLESS SHAVE. SOLD ON MONET- BACK GUARANTEE 50c BRITISH-MADE Cigar Lighter $1.75 Art "^forocco Covered EVER-READY SEARCHLIGHTâ200 feet; was $3.90, now $2.25 EVER-READY UNIT CELLS 3 for 35o KRISS-KROSS STROPPERâMakes old blades like new Indefinitely, $3.50 AUTOSTROP STROPSâShell horsehideâa winner :... 76o POCKET KNIVESâCrane brand 50c to $3.00 B. C. Barber Supply & Sundries Limited PBOHE SET. 4401 BETAIL STORE â 64 HASTINGS STREET WEST â VAKCODVBB, B. O. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION amuruni^^ DRUG SAVINGS The people's appreciation of onr QUALITY, SERVICE and SAVING POLICY is evidenced by the number patronizing1 onr stores. Friday and Saturday Specials .SO Reudel's Bath Snltrates 33 .'it, Olive Oil. 4-oz. tins 14 .2', Tincture of Iodine. *.' oz 13 .."in Camphorated Oil, 4 oz .26 .50 Finest Australian Eucalyptus on, 4 oz as .50 Mecca ointment 33 *.r>0 Pebeco .;l*ooth Paste... sal- .50 Red Pepper Ointment 27 l.oo Blondex 61 1.00 Dr. He-id's Syrup of Hypophosphttes 51 .10 Palm Olive Soap .......,3 tor .21 VANCOUVER'S OWN DRUG STORES â THIRTEEN IN THE CITY â AT YOUR SERVICE. WE SAVE YOU* MONEY. VANCOUVER DRUG COMPANY, LIMITED 15 STOKES .50 Dr. Reid's Pile Ointment .28 .14 .25 Emulsified Cocoanut Oil 1.00 Cod Liver Extract .54 1.00 Dr. Reid's Blood Purifier.... .52 J.-, Cascarets .16 .00 McCoy's Cod Liver Extract :::, .24 .25 GIANT DIPPER AND SHOOT-THE-SHOOTS AT HAPPYLAND *n FIRST CHURCH â "-The Church of the Open Door" HASTINGS STREET EAST AT GORE AVENUE Minister: REV. J. S. HENDERSON, D.D., will preach. Organist: Mr. F. Newton 11 a.m.: "Faith and Life's Adventures" 7:30 p.m.: "Good Citizenship" CANDIDATE FOR WARD 5 J. B. Brown, president of the Electrical Workers Union No. 213, announces that he is running as an aldermanie candidate in Ward Five at the forthcoming civic elections. Another Scotsman A Scotsman was leaving on a business trip, and he called back as he was leaving: "Good-bye, all; and dinna forget to tak' little Donal's glasses off when he isn't lookin' at anything." Too. Long; A farmer came to town to insert a death announcement. "How much do you charge?" he asked. " A dollar an inch," was the reply. "Heavens! He was over six feet high!" "We Do Not Patronize" VANCOUVER BOYS' AND GIRLS' BAND. STEEVES DAIRY. CRYSTAL DAIRY. v AVENUE THEATRE CHANTICLEER CAFE. METROPOLITAN LUNCH. TROCADERO CAFE. NATIONAL LUNCH. ALL WHITE LUNCHES. WALDORF CAFE. COLLARD, the Clothier, 803 Hastings W. LEN A. DAVIS, Lathing Con- tractor. CLARKE tt STUART. MURPHY tt CHAPMAN. ROSE, COWAN tt LATTA. GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G. A., LTD. J. W. BOYD, LTD. Authorized by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trader una Labor Council, for the Information ot all union members. ' A teacher asked her class the meaning of the Iword "furlough." Jack held unpnis hand and said: "It means nyfie it says so in the book." ^uv"â The. trocher asked for the book anff'jaek-fo^t$-"ft>T her.-the pietui'c'tjjle. one you of a soldier* sitting on a mule. ~"f Clerk: "That is' the shortest we * Below the picture was written: have. Have you tried the collar de- "Going home on his furlough.""' partment?" -..slaitf^JX-Safli Ajsh'orter -skirt %Â»,n* ' Tieoiie you showed me,"0*-,* Â»' ' #
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