The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1929-05-31
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note: or TROWED AND OJNTROLLED Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL 14 XO. 2(>7â EIGHT PAGES. VANCOUVE FRIDAY. aMAY 31, 1929 FIVE CENTS PER COPY .abor Party Promises Many Important Changes ^British Labor Loos Forward to Victory at the Polls as Beginning of Important Changes in British Industrial Life. R AMSAY MacDONALD gives a brief outlinrrcrHhe task which the Labor Government would set itself. Conditions are so chaotic for the worker.that many drastic changes will have to be made and much important enabling legislation enacted.. This the Labor party unflinchingly and unselfishly sets down as its task to make Britain a "fit place for workers to live in." MacDonald's Prophecy Ramsay MacDonald says: "On I May 31 it will be seen that we have (marched, fought and conquered, and [that the battlefield remains in onr [possession." Philip Snowden, having silenced j Winston Churchill, now has launched la terrific attack on Premier Baldwin, Iwho was foolish enough to say reA Icently that Labor "is not fit to gov- lern," because of lack of education land experience, and would not be fit I for five years. "Baldwin is getting positively nauseating," say***. Snowden. "His assumption of superior wisdo'm and intelligence ill fits a man who never shown the least intellectual capacity , to understand political or | :in:mi'i;il questions. Calls Premier "Greenhorn" "No prime minister within my per- Isonal acquaintance has ever shown [such utter incompetence. "He is the man who went to Am- lerica to negotiate an important â funding operation, and was made Ithe laughing stock of- every United [States official who came in contact I with him. "The United States Treasury was I prepared to fund our debt at two land a half per eent., but when they I discovered what a 'greenhorn' they lhad to deal with they asked three [and a half per cent.âand Baldwin ^agreed." "Old Joe's" Boys in Trouble Labor will win many seats in Tory Strongholds in Liverpool and Bir- I…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439085
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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