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lalwr Statesma ^B^^/hoWNED AND O)NTR0LLÂ£D ^^#.6/ THE VANCOUVER TRADES AMD LABOR COUW Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions NO. 341âEIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, CANADA, NOVEMBER 7th, 1930 Shorter Hours and More Pay Will Aid Situation Organized Labor Movement Stressed Demand of the Great Need For Shorter Work WeekâIncreasing Use of Machine Will Now Force It 'pHE INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION of labor-saving machinery has been one of the principle causes in the chaotic conditions now confronting an ever-growing army of unemployed. Labor economists saw this coming and urged, as one of the remedies to meet this condition, shorter hours of labor and higher pay. They were laughed at, but now we have the present situation to face, where there are thousands of machine-displaced workers clamoring for jobs. This condition was described by Organizer Bruce of the International Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters, in addressing the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council on Tuesday. During the recent election, he said, the politicians bandied about with the unemployment situation. One party said there was no unemployed problem, and the other said that they would call a special session of Parliament to deal with it. The special session politicians won, but the unemployment situation is looming up larger than ever. There are at (east 200,000 out of work in the Dominion of Canada, and the Federal Government's measure cannot provide for more than 25,000 or 30,000 this winter. In the meantime what is the worker to do? He and his family must have food and clothing, and the rent must be paid, for the landlord is the hardest to face. But politicians say that it is not their responsibility and turn you over to the relief department. Industrial barons have reaped the full reward of machine production and have all the profits. Now the barons and industrial capitalists ask the worker to bear the brunt of unemployment, and offer no help in the "situation "except "to siiggesT a reduc" tion of wages and a lower standard of living. These industrial barons, he said, developed the machine age, reaped enormous profits and gave nothing to society. Now they find an unsolved problem on their hands in the shape of a huge army of hungry unemployed workers. Helping the Boaa r Desperate efforts have got to be taken to get out of the present condition. The union labor movement has strived for higher wages and I reduced hours of labor. It has led the way in these demands and has managed to obtain better conditions than are generally applied to the unorganized. We find ourselves, however, now faced with a dual movement, calling itself the All-Canadian Congress of Labor, and they have been busy destroying the conditions we have built up. But now they are admitting that our demands were right, and they are asking for the same things. Just at the present time the press is full of a lot of piffle emanating from, the All-Canadian convention, but our movement is going to grow in spite of the obstruction, and the labor movement all over the world is growing. Condition! Back Eaat Industrial conditions are getting worse from day to day, and a lot of I people are wondering how they are I going to stop it. Some people fear the worst and are whistling to keep up their courage, but they refuse te > adopt the best remedies. ; Conditions here are "better, than I in any other city in Canada. I have come right through, he said, and know what I am talking about. Con- â¢i ditions back East are tragic, and in ' Toronto the Plumbers' Union had to -get the employers to adopt the three- day rotation week so that each plumber could get a few days' work to keep from starving. All the pliilding tradesmen who were ' e*K .- ployed 6ii last year's $400,000,000 building program are available', "hut- there is only a $100,000,000 program now in Canada. More Militancy "I. could tell of terrible cpndi- tions," he said, "but you know of them. I feel that the movement should be more militant. We should make more protests. We should not be kept quiet on a relief basis. The time has arrived for drastic action. A few hundred men have incomes of from five to ten million dollars a year, while the most of us face every winter with.dread. "I believe that Sir Henry Thornton has shown the way for improvement. The fundamental idea of cooperation and workers' councils will pave the way to a better understanding of the needs of the worker. If this is not done the worker will have to decide whether industry is going to be carried on an individual basis or on a co-operative basis." Will It Be War 7 Forces are struggling for another war to relieve the situation. Propaganda campaigns are actively going on despite the desire for universal peace. In peace time, however, the workers are left to starve, but when war is on they are well cared, for aud-have-jobs.Those who took tht) risks of war knew that their wives and children were being taken care of and would not starve as they do in peace time. Peace is only possible if the workers refuse to fight, but when large numbers of workers are unemployed, they act differently and take part in any war that is staged, he said. Union Meetings at Labor Headquarters TODAY, NOT. 7th Railway Carmen, No. 58 _ Moving Picture Projectionists, 11:30 p.m 2 Plasterers' Helpers 3 Molders , ,. 311 Lathers ., 313 Engineers,., 84. 315 MONDAY-HOMDAY Tux! Drivers, 11:30 & and 4:30 p.m. 3 TUESDAY Printing Pressmen ....- â . 1 Ironworkers 2 Barbers -.,. , 3 Upholsterers ...* 4 Machinists, 692 ". 201 HuildlnR Trades Council 315 WEDNESDAY Carpenters _ . i_ 1 Tailors - â 2 Bricklayers _ - 3- Millwrights 311 Tilesetters /.:.:. :. 315 THURSDAY Painters 2 Sneet Metal Workers 3 I'nion Label Trades r-niincfl. 4 Stone Cutter* ,- -...: 315 FRIDAY.fi NOVEMBER 14th Milk Salesmen .- 1 Plumbers and Steamfltters..., ^ Theatrical Stage Employees, 9 a.m. 3 Machinists. 182. 8 p.m 3 Asbestos Workers, .;. 201 Sheet Metal Workers. 314 -311 Engineers, 844 315 Diseased Food in Non-union Restaurants Working conditions in some of the Greek non-union restaurants in this city are at the lowest point, said a delegate at the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday,, The employees have to put up with all kinds of abuses as well as the lowest scale of pay, and in soine instances take the leavings for'their eats. The cheap meal signs displayed by some restaurants mean not only cheap food but diseased food. 800 chickens were recently sold to a nonunion place that were undoubtedly unfit for human consumption. They were so diseased that their feathers had all fallen off. In another instance pigs with the German measles had also found their way into a nonunion restaurant, after having been turned down by a union firm. It was charged that lack of co-operation of the provincial authorities with the headth office had prevented the destruction of these animals. Taxi Drivers' Union Gets 22 New Members Dal. Shaw reported to the Trades and Labor Council on Tuesday evening that the Terminal City Taxi Co. had signed up with the union after its 22 men had joined the union. This is the firm which handles the taxi work from the Vancouver Hotel, and is known as the)p stand in the city. The agreement ihvolves hours, wages, and a closed shop. Non-union Bakers Are Losing Heavily Here The demand for union bakery products is still growing, says Del. Warren, and a little more effort will force at least one of the big firms out of the bakery combine in an effort to cater to union men and women. Bakery salesmen working for thesr-non-Tinion" ~firms~are getting tired of being turned down and report losses on almost every block in the city. They are powerless, however, to convince their |irms of the need for a change of tactics. Apparently these big firms are afraid if each other and prefer rather to hang together than be.crucified by the onslaught of the others should any one of them pull out of the combine. Trades Council Notes Del Hargreaves reported that he had been ignored by the Unemployment Conference, to which the City Council had asked the Trades Council to send delegates. This will be taken up with the City Council. * Â« Â« Â» Del. Hougham reported on his address to the congregation of thc Jubilee United Church, based on a recent editorial in the Labor Statesman. He stated that the minister will reply to this on Sunday, October 19th. Â» â * Â» * "The sum of $100 was loaned to the 1931 Convention Committee to meet initial expenses being undertaken by this committee. * . â > * Del. Miss Fletcher reported negotiations with B. C. Egg Pool for a .renewal of old agreement was being carried on by the Egg Graders' Union and Secretary Bengough. * â¦ * Hotel & Restaurant employees report trade quiet and urged organized labor's help in keeping their friends out of non-union restaurants. * * $15 was donated to the I. L. P. campaign fund. .* -Â» * Painters reported trade slack, and men would appreciate small jobs. * * + The Ritchie Seed Catalogue was not printed in a union shop, and the firm says there is no demand that the catalogue should bear the union label, says Del. Neelands. He asks union men who buy seeds to take this up with the firm. * # * Business , Agent Goodwin of the Teamsters' Union asked for the help of a committee in attempting to get firms hauling steel and stone to the C. N. Hotel to use union -teamsters. Agreed to. * * â¢ The locked out bakery salesmen working for a Saskatoon bakery, as -reported "nra previous aKlcie~irrtrfe Labor Statesmen, are drawing strike pay from the international office. CENTS PER COPY orkers Send or Union Charter Secretary Bengough reported to the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council on Tuesday that he and president McDonald, after several weeks of work had succeeded in organizing the weavers employed by Gordon Campbell, Ltd. These weavers turned out 100 per cent, at a meeting held in the Labor Headquarters and signed up for a charter in the United Textile Workers' Union. A charter has been applied for and is expected to arrive in Vancouver in due course. It is only recently that weaving has been attempted in Vancouver, and this firm is apparently meeting with success in the manufacture of cloth. Some other firms in the city launched into the weaving business, and efforts will be made to get the employees into the union. The Duke of Northumberland died not long ago; his will was made public theTOtlier day, A wireless dispatch fixed the value of the estate at $12,- 5^0.000. and said that the British treasury would get something over $5,000,000 in inheritance taxes. Love's Cafe Gets Firemen's Banquet Job Love's Cafe has secured the catering contract for the Firemen's Annual Ball, which is to be held in the Auditorium on Wednesday, November 12th. A fine bunch of turkeys from Lulu Island have been selected by Bert Love for this banquet, and all the help on the job will be wearing the Trades Council button. All Set for Building Trades Carnival > It won't be lonj* now! The big annual dance carnival of the Vancouver Building Trades Council is getting pratty near and its going to be just as big as ever because we have got to have something like this occasionally to take our minds off cconpmic conditions, says Ed. Smith, he chairman. The hundred dollars in gold will be there for some lucky person, just as it has been for tho past few years, and there will be another $150 in prizes, to make a grand total of $250.00. Pill Garden's famous six-piece union orchestra will handle the music for the dancers, and there will be 100 tables for the whist drive, which starts at 7:30 p.m. There will be many noTelty and surprise events during the evening. The date ..is Friday, December .4th." "-Tickets are 50c each. Get- one now from your union secretary. Culinary Workers Elect Officers The membership of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union, Local 28, are taking an active part in their union affairs, and, on Monday last the union hall was packed with culinary workers attending their regular business meeting. A by-election for officers was held, this being necessary because, during, the dual union trouble, these officers were only temporarily appointed. Flo. Allen was elected president to succeed T. Edwards by a majority of 6 votes. T. Edwards declined to accept nomination. Harry Wood was elected Secretary and Business Manager by a majority of 51 votes, and T Edwards and Rone Hugh were elected to fill the vacancies on the Executive Board. A full slate of delegates to the Trades Council includes Alice Murray, Wm. Harper, James Hood, Ed. McIIugh and Walter Allen, R. Mc- Hugh and Harry Wood.- Egg Pool Co-operation The B. C. Egg Pool appears to be trying to work both ends against the middle. Recently we noted that they had raised the price of eggs to the stores, and now we discover the management trying to cut the wages of their already low-paid employees. We fail to see how the Egg Pool can expect to get the support of either organized labor or the general public in such tactics. While it is usual for the price of eggs to go up at this time of the year, we fail to see 'shy reason for the attempt to cut wages frt an agreement with the JKHBlayeea .which lasts for one year. This is no time to slasli wages, and a co-operative body like the Egg Pool should I be the last to adopt tnose tactics. Four More Barber Shops Use Union Cards There is more demand for thc union label and sho- card ...an ever before, said C. E. Herrett, business agent for the Barbers' Union, at the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday. Three more barber shops had been signed up in the city and one more in the province just recently. A union shop card is being displayed at 5741 West Boulevard, 2474 East Hastings, and 1214 Granville street.. The last named shop was taken off the union list some time ago, and the owner had to sell out through loss of business. The new owner put in a union card and has obtained good support from the C. P. R. shop em- ' ployees who work and live in that locality. A list of union shops will be found on page 2. 1931 Conventions â¢>' Committee Organizes The convention committee appointed by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council to handle the arrangements for the A. F. of L. arid the Dominion Congress Convention, met last Friday in the Labor Headquarters. Members present were R. P. Bengough, Ed. Smith, Geo. Pettipiece, E. H. Morrison, C. E. Herrett, T. Hanafin, H. W. Watts, Colin McDonald, W. Hargreaves, P. Laurel. H. Wood, R. H. Neelands, D. McPher- son, B. Showier, W. Page and W. Watt. P. R. Bengough occupied the chair. Birt Showier was elected secretary. After dealing with some communications relative to the convention, the fbllowing chairmen of committees were elected. Finance, P. R. Bengough; refreshments; W. Watt; banquet entertainment, Ed. Smith; badges, W. Page; ladies C. Herrett; transportation, B. Showier; printing, R. H. Neelands; publicity, H. W. Watts; sightseeing, W. Horgreaves. The committee decided to ask th.. Trades Council for a donation of $100 to meet initial expenses. Johnstone Cartage With Non-union Men The Jphnstone Cartage Co. have the contract for delivering Home Oil to the gas stations, but all efforts to have them employ union drivers' on I he gasoline trucks have been use- ess. The union cannot put the Home Oil Products Co. on the-unfair list,* as the firm is unavoidably tied up with the contract, but this informa- t:on is given to readers of The Labor Statesman because we are run- -riing a Home Oil adv., while the Teamsters' Union is, at the same time, informing organized labor that "Home gas is being delivered by non-unipn truck drivers." 3Â» f- Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, November 7th, 1930 RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggist" We Make a Special Effort to Oat Goods Ont by Tint Mall Attn Receipt of Your Order. - CORNER CORDOVA AMD ClHII.T, - VANCOUVER. B. O. Union Barber Shops List of all Union Barber Shops in the jurisdiction of Vancouver. Frank Bigmore 320 Granville Street Wm. Brennan ..464 Oranvllle Street Louis Mallln 736 Granville Street Francis Federicl Hotel Vancouver McLeod & Burkâ 818 Granville St. Pearle Ferria 978 Granville St. Harford E. Harris 1006 Granville SL Ernest Oakes 1114 Granville St. Joe. Watson 1157 Granville St. K. T. Jansson 1164 Granville St. Ed. H. Weaver 2038 Granville St. Thomas Gaftney 2215 Granville Alex. Hammerer, n 2402 Granville St. Geo. Heyes 2714 Granville St. Ham. Poff 1214 Granville St. Hastings St. West. Morris ft Montcreln* B. C. E. Ry. Sam. Rose 47 % Hastings St. West Geo. Gibson 6, 165 Hastings St. W. C. D. Morgan Standard Bank Bldg. R. D. McDonaldâ837 Hastings St. West Chas. Smalley __ Pacific Bldg., . Hastings Street East. Ben. J. Sanderson 71 Hastings St. E. Wm. Korlle 117 Hastings 8t E. Alfred Llndahl 159 Hastings St. East Jas. I. Smith Royal Theatre Bldg., Fred J. Sehlle 244 Hastings SL E. Henry Hopper 2603 Hastings St. E. Archibald I. Leach-3785 Hastings St. 10. Fred E. Rutqulst 3825 Hastings St. E. Ed. Dann 4003 Hastings SL E. John A. Lind â.4098 Hastings St. E. Frank E. Townsend.2474 Hastings St. E. Walter Westwood 425 Abbott St. J. P. Doherty 120 Abbot.t Street A. Adams Lotus Hotel Barber P. J. Kalley 140 Broadway East James Paton 2528 Main St. A. E. Gawne 2528 Main SL J. W. Green 626 Broadway West Chaa. Wheeler 2792 Broadway W. K. Gardiner 3287 Broadway W. V. Peterson . 341 Cambie Street Thos. De Merchant 346 Camble Street Jas. A. Jackson 2207 Cambie St Don. Robertson 320 Camble St. A. E. Gilbert _ 306 Carrall St. Felice Ciancl 309 Carrall Street Frank Caslsca 335 Columbia Ave. Thos. Bablos 380 Columbia Ave. Thos. Federicl .1834 Commercial Drive John F. Gerrlc 1433 Commercial Drive H. F. Moody. â620 Cordova St. Wm. K. Burns SL Frances Hotel John A. McLeod 562 Dunsmuir SL J. B. Hughes 565 Dunsmuir St. H. Odlln : 602 Dunsmuir SL Sid. Cutt _J : 761 Dunsmuir St. Arthur J. North 3291 Dunbar St. Jesse Workman 1191 Davie St R. H. Parliament 666 Drake St. Nlcoll ft Scott 560 Georgia SL W. Adolph Prlceppl Randall Bldg. Silverwood ft Marsh Hotel Georgia Elmer Da. Motta 2558 Heather St. Thos. Patterson 312 Homer St. Joseph Pratt ..- 434 Homer St. R. Gardiner :.812 Howe SL Taylor Hanna ...Stock Exchange Bldg. H. H. Blaker-Hotel Grosvenor, Howe St. J. Clark 260 Kingsway G. W. Gats 1837 Main Street Conrad Magneison 2341 Main Street (-.iil.it & Rossâ 2406 Main Street S. F. R. Cuddeford 6482 Main St. David Willlngton Jr._ 4"44 Pender W. Eburne & Dletz: 733 Pender W. Andrew Colwell 733 Pender St. W. Griffiths & Cheyne 607 Pender St: W. Geo. W. Cliff. -1879 Powell Street Evans Bros 609 Robson St. Alex. Monroe â716 Robson SL Jas. McGhie _ 746 Robson Street C. G. Blerney :850 Robson Street B. F. Dennison _ 611 Smythe St. Jas. Stevens 713 Smythe SL Hedley V. Tuff 523 Seymour SL Offa A. Hawes 425 Seymour SL Thos. Henderson 2139 Yew-Street W. A. Parkin- 1620 Yew Slreet Alexander .McLennan 5987 West Blvd. J. Wilcox 6031 West Boulevard Richard Harris 5351 West Blvd. Felix Frayle 5741 West Boulevard Chas. Oulton- 2202 Fourth Ave. W. John Bennett 2720 Fourth Ave. W. A. W. Patrick 2924 Fourth Ave. W. John Bennett 2720 Fourth Ave. W. Arthur Reid 3713 Tenth Ave. W. Herman & Bob 1482 12th Ave. W. Henry Beaupre 2157 41st Ave. W. North Vancouver, B. C. George Or Range. 57 Lonsdale Ave.. Ed. Graham....eâ 210 Lonsdale Ave. Morris R. Whlttaker-1107 Lonsdale Are,. Jas. Wm. Colwill 1535 Lonsdale Aye., Frank Underwood ....124 Esplanade, Nanalmo, B. C. Don. Penneway Davenport Barber Dan. Dailey 142 Commercial SL, P. Brennan _ 112 Commercial St., Louis Perry 27 Victoria Crescent, Wm. Bate 40 Victoria Crescent, R. G. McMillan _ Courtenay. B. C. Arthur HBk-Gat-:â-..â- Cumberland, B. C. Chas. Spooner Cumberland, B. C. H. W. Shelby Campbelton. B. C. Ed. Lowe _ Ladysmlth, B.C. Henry Wlnstanley Ladysmlth, B. C. Nick Cameron ...Ladysmlth, B. C. John Mintalnsky Port Albernl. B. C. J. Burns Port Albernl, B. C. H. Du Hamel -Prince Rupert. B. C. Barnes ft Judge _...-. 213 Sixth St. Prince Rupert, B. C. Hugh Young Powell River. B. C. Ernest Marsh Marine Drive, West Vancouver. A. Beryl Afflack 106 Second St. E. Look For the Union Label This paper, in co-operation with International Labor News Service, is presenting illustrations of all the union labels. A group will be printed each week. The labels were furnished by Secretary- Treasurer John J. Manning of the Union Label Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C. , _^f^_^ |*SSWTBffla: W0flKERS UNION/ Patronage Politics and Unemployment By "OBSERVER" Four years ago I found a good and sufficient reason, for calling the attention of the citizens of Vancouver, in the columns of the Labor Statesman, to the very dirty and graft-like system of political parties that I then found in practice. Looking carefully over the party political activities of the two orthodox parties (Liberal and Conservative), I find there has been no change, with one single exception. That exception I will deal with at a later stage of my story. In the meantime, I would draw Vancouver citizens' attention to the Harbour Board's activitiesâhow they "pass the buck." The Vancouver Sun, in its leading article of Monday last, said:. "Why not speak out?" In effect they said the Chairman of the Harbour Board, Sam McClay, had said that any changes that would be made in that department would be on efficiency grounds only. Briefly, the inference is that thirty-eight men are inefficient. I do not know the qualities, or qualifications of these thirty-eight men, but I do know, and the Vancouver public are aware, of the real reason for these dismissals. In a word, these Harbour Board officials are inefficient Tories. They have been very efficient Liberals. These are my findings in this case, and my reply is, as a judicial authority would say, . ">l find the charges proved on the corroborative evidence before me." That the whole thing is ultra vires, which means, in excess of one's legal powers, is beyond question. But Liberalism and Conservatism as practiced in Canada and in British Columbia do not care one iota for law if it does not suit their purpose. In the meantime, suffering, and possibly privations, await the dispossessed. I am, however, mindful of the fact that the Vancouver people at the last federal election voted in the main Liberal and would have voted the other way if they thought there was a job or a meal ticket at the end of it. So long as the public supports this method, they will get all they ask forâand I am not so sure that they do not deserve it. If it were not for the minority of the workers, who I am sure are innocent, I would say let us have it more intensified, more ruthless. But lis I am somewhat of a humanitarian, I prefer to again make a plea that commonsense may once more reign among our citizens. . Vancouver's Unemployment In all this connection, unemployment within this city has far exceeded the figures -1 quoted a week or so ago, and by the time this is in cold print there will be at least 20,- 000 unemployed here in the city. It is, however, very interesting to note that we have at least one official who is handling the unemployed situation here fairly, fearlessly, and honestly, without the interference of party politics.. I refer to the relief officer. Colonel Cooper, who, by the way, should be really termed the chief employment officer. He is really out to find work for all the men, both married and single, rather than dole out relief. Will the local party politicians, who persistently parade under the disguise of welfare societies and fraternal organizations and other rat-like institutions, let him proceed with the very fine impartial work he is doing? ,1 trust that on this occasion they will have the decency to lay off this partisan business. If they do not, the wrath of a right-minded people is likely to come down on the heads of the meddlers and job grafters. Of course, I shall be faced with the usual question: What is the alternative? My answer is: Send back to the City Council and to the other bodies the new blood that the Independent Labor Party offers and places before the citizens, and thereby get real efficiency, real economy, and, above all, no interference with the city's local officials-, providing they are doing the right thing. And it i must not be forgotten that right is right, and net might, and wrong is no man's right. I hope to duly place before thinking citizens the list of men and women who I think will prove of real service to the city in the days to come. J,.dâ HNIIN -Young: Of" course I know marriage is a very grave step. Oldun: Step! My dear, it's more like * flights steps- and eyeryrpne of 'em greased. Up to Date VisitorâI see you are putting up many new buildings in these parts. WorkmanâYes, sir. New is the only kind we put up. BIRTH RATE DROPS Washington.âThe nation's birth rate last year was the lowest since 1915, when the registration area was established, according to the Bureau of Census. Infant mortality rate was the lowest on record. Oregon had the lowest birth rate, and for the sixth consecutive year had the lowest infant mortality rate, j, A London editor- suggests mirrors Yes, sir. New buildings at street..comers. .His .brother must i be a traffic officer out of a job. - A Wonder Plant That Rivals Niagara By LOUIS FISCHER A new hydro-electric plant on the Dnieper river, which will be completed in 1932, will cost approximately $500,000,000. It will employ 30,000 men, who will produce a million tons of cast iron annually. And another Russian hydro-electric scheme for which plans are being prepared will be, it is stated, ten times as big. Dnieperstroi will be the second largest hydro-electric power plant in the world when it is completed in May, 1932. The dam is being built where the Dnieper River is a third of a mile wide and will raise the level of the water 100 feet. It is nearly 200 feet high and more than 100 feet thick at the base. But figures give only a partial impression of the immensity of the work. The electrical station at the dam will produce two and a half billion kilowatt hours of energy. Nine turbines, each of 90,000 horse power, are arriving from the United States. Each costs. $250,000. Each of the nine generators, also of United States makeNcosts $450,000. When completed the dam will represent a total outlay of over $100,- 000,000, and a huge metallurgical plant is to cost $400,006,000. The total outlay on Dnieperstroi will be a million roubles. Erasing Villages But only the eye can tell the entire story. At present the Dnieper is navigable from Kiev down to Dnieperpet- rovsk (Yekaterinoslav), a distance of 450 miles, and from Zaporozhie to its mouth at Kherson, a distance of 180 miles. But for 45 miles between Dnieper- petrovsk and Zaporazhie there are many wild rapids, which prevent the passage of ships. The new dam will cover these with water, so that navigation may be carried out from the Black Sea far up to the ancient city of Kiev. The rise of the river will inundate 50.(100 acres of land. Many villages and bridges will be erased, and villages are now being moved bodily to unaffected areas. All this happens above the dam. Below, no changes occur. The metallurgical plant is, of course, the reason for the construction of the dam. Together, the new plants will employ 30,000 men when working at full speed. They will produce 1,000,000 tons of cast iron, 10,000 tons of special steels, and 15,000 tons of aluminum, nitrate fertilizer, and ferrous alloys. But excess current will remain even after the construction of this plant. That surplus will be carried, by a 150,000-volt transmission .line, to Dnieperpetrovsk factories/ 80 miles away, to the Donetz coal'basin and the Krivoi Rog metal foundries. Largest Turbines The plans for Dnieperstroi were drafted by one of Europe's/best electrical engineersâthe Russian Professor I. G. Alexandrov. Winter, a Russian, directs the work. And the chief consultant is Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, an American of many years' experience, who spends one month out of six at Dnieperstroi. As we climbed up and down the huge trestles, watched the workers mounting the largest turbines in the world, or looked down into the dry bed of the river, we were amazed. Our young Soviet engineer guide smiled. "We are already working on the plans for Angara-stroi," he said. "It will yield ten times as much horsepower as Dnieperstroi and will be ten times as big!" Mammoth Lake Angara, the Soviet Niagara, is a river that flows out of Lake Baikal in Siberia. All rivers feed into the mammoth lake. Angara is the only stream that leaves it. ' Its water resources .therefore, are endless, and there is a natural fall. The dam that is planned will, according to authorities, produce nine million horse-power of electrical energy.- Our Soviet engineer likewise spoke of Volga-stroi, for which Mr. Davis, an American consulting specialist, has already been retained. It will be twice as powerful as Dnieperstroi. PENNSYLVANIA LABOR BACKS INSURANCE PLAN Unemployment insurance is a headliner in the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor's list of demands for the next session of the state legislature. The insurance plank has- the approval of President John A. Phillips of the State Federation, the coal miners and other progressive sections of the labor movement. .- - For Healthy Strength and Beauty, eat our Whole Wheat Brown Bread. A wholesome body builder. Doctors recommend it. Fruit and Raisin Bread, Pastry and Meat Pies, Pumpkin Pies. THE ESTHER BAKERY Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST R. C. HIRST EUECTRICAI. CONTRACTOR Electrical Fixtures Hardware Mechanics' Toola Paints, OUa, Lamps Radio Supplies Pipe Fittings Toola Olen 370 4097 Hasting! St. B. VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Bad Cold MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744, HASTINGS W. SEY. 3070 INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY VANCOUVER BRANCH Chairman - - A. J. Turner Secrctary-Treas.. R. E. Tlmmlns 536 Drake Street. Meets Second and Fourth Fridays 135 West Hastings tl Par Year Membership Pa* - Union Tailor Shops BRADSHAW, A.â436 Hornby St. BEATON, F. W.â555 Georgia West. BUTT, CHAS.â1066a Pender West. CALLADINE, W.â4349 Main. CREELMAN tt MARSHâ603 Duns- CREASEY, J.â718 Robson. ion. GRAY; DAVIDâ164 East llth. HARTLE BROTHERS â662 Soy- j mour. HASTINGS TAILORSâ2560 Hast- ' inga East. JEFFS, A.â2532 Main. MORGAN, T. Câ1335 Granville. PERRIN tt CO.â200 Blk. Georgia E. PERRY tt DOLKâ16 Hasting* W. PETERSON, A.â14 Cordova W. PATERSON & NUTTALLâ811 Dominion Bldg. RAY BROS. TAILORING CO.â80 Haatinga W. SLOWIN, F. M 825 Granville. SMALL, DAVIDâ4021 Kingsway. STORRY, H. F.â653 Georgia. VAN THE TAILORâ856 Georgia. TOM THE TAILORâ1542 Lonsdale, i North Vanconver. COONEY & FOTHERINGILLâHart Block, New Westminster. Would Use Armories To House. Feed Idle Albany, N. Y.âGovernor Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the War Department for permission to nse 16,000 cots and blankets in the event that it became necessary to open State armories to shelter unemployed this win- ' ter. The Governor will ask for the use of army field kitchens and mess kits with which to prepare and serve breakfast and supper. The armories can house 11,900 persons, but these buildings will not be used until all municipal and private charity facilities are exhausted. In his letter to Secretary of War Hurley, the Governor said: "Present indications point to the probability of an emergency in this State during the coming winter months, in connection with the care of unemployed and homeless men and women who may require shelter." Our office boy says he is interested in television, because he wants to see what static looks like. : .' . I" A lot of folks believe the way a newspaper ought to be run is out of town. - / V ' ii|iriT7wrnÂ»iTOittiiiiÂ»iiiiiiiiiipwnimiin)iii iimi|iiiiMniiiiiai Friday, November 7tb, 1930 i '. L THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory LABOR HEADQUARTERS, 529-531 BEATTY STREET Vanconver Trades and Labor Conncllâ President, C. McDonald: general secretary, Percy R. Bengough. Office; 200 r Labor Headquarters, 531 Beatty St. Phone Sey. ,7495. Meets In Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the flrst and third Tuee- days In month. Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union, Local No. 468, meets first and' third, Saturday In month at 7:30 p.m. at Labor Headquarters. President, Fred Cashman; Secretary's Office, Room 304, Labor Headquarters; Hours: 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. I'hone: Sey. 3349 Beverage Dispensers' Union, Vo. 676â Meets last Sunday at 8 p.m.. Room No. 2, Labor Headquarters; second Friday at 2 p.m. at the office. Pres., It. T. Kane; Secretary and Bus. Agent, T. J. Hanafin. Offlce:-Room 1; Eagles' Hall, 635 Homer Street. Phones Sey. 4783 and Bay. 1666-R. Hours: 9 to 12 noon. Bridge sad Strnctnral Iron Workers, tooal 97, Int.. Assoc.âMeets every Tuesday, Hall 311, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. President,. James F. Burns, 2833 Turner St.; Secretary, P. Lauret, Room 311, Labor Headquarters. Phones: Office, Sey. 7496; Residence, Fair. 6167 R. Building Trades Council, Vanconverâ Meets second and fourth Tuesday In Hall 315, Labor Headquarters. President, W. D. Wilson; secretary-treasurer, W. Page, Room 301, Labor Headquartera. Phone Sey. 7496. Barbers' Journeyman International Union ot Americaâ Local 120, meets second and fourth Tuesdays in each month, In Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. President. Fred Dawe; Sec- Treas., C. E. Herrett. Office, .304 Labor Headquarters, Bookbinders' Local No. 106, Int. BrotherhoodâMeets second Tuesday In month at Professional and Business Woman's Club, Empire Bldg., 603 Hastings W. President, G. Low, 61 53rd Ave. W.; Secretary, Thos. Carroll 842 Hamilton St. Bricklayers', Masons' and Til* Setters' Int. Union, Vo. 1âKoom 309, Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Wednesday, In Hall No. 3. President, L. I'adgett; .2066 W. 8th. Phone Bayvlew 1658 It; Secretary, W. S. Dagnall, 1244 East 20th. Phone Fair. 845 It; Fin. Sec, Albert Wright, 1050 East 25th, I'hone Fair. 6582 X, Camp and Hill Workers' FeF-or.il labor Union Vo. 31âVancouver and vicinity, meets every second Wednesday at 8 p.m., at 544 Powell Street K. President, H. Mlyazawa; Secretary, K. Tsuyukl. Carpenters aad Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Looal 452â President, Wm. Page; Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley; Business Agent. W. Hargreaves. Office, Room 310, Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m., In Hall No. 1. City Hall Employees' Association Meets first Wednesday of each month at 251% Hastings East at 8 p.m. President, A. J. Harrison; Treasurer, W. J. Scribbins, 3208 Pender St. E.; Secretary, J. Tfcrbuck, 3617 West 25th. Civic Employees' Union, Local 38â Meets first and third Fridays In the month at 25H4 Hastings Ea-st at 8- p.m. President, John McRitchie, 604 West Twelfth; Secretary-Treasurer, Oeorge Harrison, 3427 Triumph St. Egg Graders' Union, No. 11âMeets In the Labor Headquarters, first and third Monday In month. 'President. H. Gela, 3287 West 21st; Record Secretary, Miss D. Simpson, 627 Carnar- . von Street, New Westminster; Financial Secretary, Miss Marjorie Deyell, 555 East 20th, City. Electrical Workers, Looal 213, International BrotherhoodâMeets first and third Monday, at 8 p.m., at Labor Headquarters. President, P. Mc- Kougal; Business Manager. E. H. Morrison. Office, 201 Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 3510. Engineer*âInternational Union of Operating Engineers, Looal 844âMeets every Friday at 8 p.m., Hall (16. President, F. L. Hunt; Rec. Sec, (I.E. Jones; Business Agent and Fin. Sec. Oeorge Pettipiece. Office 306, Labor Headquarters, Phone Trinity (414. i Fire Fighters, Vo. 18, International Association ofâMeets every month at call of President at 251 % Hastings E. President, N. McDonald, 1136 McLean Drive; Financial Secretary, C. A. Wat- son, 1329 Thirteenth Ave. E. Floorlayers' Union, Vo. 1876, U. V. of C. * X AâMeets first and third Thursdays In month at Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President, Oscar Soderman; Fin. Sec, Jack Nelson; Rec. Sec, John McDonald, 2905 West Twelth; BuBiness Agent, W. D. Wll- son, 1535 Fifth Ave. W. The Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Marin* Cook* aad Stewards.â Local 28, Suite 39, 413 Granville St, nu't-tH .s.-ootid Monday each month at 3 p.m., and last Monday at 9 p.m. President. Flo Allen; Secretary- Treasurer- and Business Agent, Harry Wood. Phone Seymour 126. Ladle*' Auxiliary, Local 171 âUnited Brotherhood of Carpenters â Meets every first and third Wednesday of each month In Hall 201, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. C. J. Atkinson, 730 19th Ave. W.; Secretary, Elisabeth J. Hope, 1042 7th Ave. E. Lather*, Wood, Wire and Metal, later- national Union, Local 807âMeets first and third Mondays In month at Labor Headquartera. Secretary, F. Macey, 2456 West Seventh Ave. Phone Bayvlew 6831 L. Mao: < HI hlnlsts' Local 8MâPresident, Thoa, Sills, 1362 Burrard St.; Secretary, P. It Bengough. Office, Room 200, Labor. Headquarters. Meets on second and fourth- Tuesdays In Hall S13 Milk Wagon Drivers aad Dairy Employes*, Local 464âOffice 308, Labor Headquarters. Meets, aecond ' and â fourth Fridays In Hall No. 1. . Presl- â -'- dent, T. P. Harbottler r "Secretary- Treas., Blrt Showier, 2841 Triumph. Phone High. 5327. MUl and Factory Workers' Union, Local Vo. 1698 â Affiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. Meets first and third Thursdays in Hall No. 3. Labor Headquarters. Pre*,, O. Campbell. Secretary-Treasurer, H. G. Avery, 2832 West 35th. Motion Pictures phojectlonlsts' Union, Local 348, of I.A.T.S.E. * M.F.M.O.â 11:30 p.m., first Friday in month, in Hall No. 1 Labor Headquarters. President, J. R. Foster; Secretary, J. C. Richards, Box 345, Phone Douglas 1574-R; Business Agent, F. W. Simmons. Phone Trinity 5708. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, Local 146, A. F. of M.â.Meets at the G.W.V.A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President, E. C. Miller; General Secretary, W. Coullng; Organiser, F Fletcher. Office, Suite 307-319 West Pender. Phone Douglas 2290, Painter*, Decorator* and Paperhangers, Local 139âMeet* second and fourth Thursday* at Hall No. 2. President, W. Hunt; Rec Secretary. A. B. Varah. 1442 Clark Drive; Business Agent, Ed. Smith. Office: Room IK, Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 1(09. Pile Driver*, Bridge, Wharf and Dock Builders, Looal Vo. 8404âMeets every Friday night at 8 o'clock In 122 H/ast- Ingsg St. W. President, S. Goy; Jas. Thomson, Secretary, P. o. Box 320. I'hone Sey. 7874. Plasterers, Local 89âOperative Plaster- ore' and Cement Finishers' International AssociationâMeets first and third Wednesday in month at Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President. Mark Gal way. 829 East 57th; Phone Fraser 964 R. Cor. Sec, Harry West, 3276 West Sixth. Fin. Sec. E. A. Williams, 830 East 12th; Phone Fair. 5219 X. Cement Finishers' Cor. Sec, R. Welse, 1079 West Hastings; Doug. 848 It. , Production and Consumption Plumbers and â tuuanttera, Vo. 170, International AssociationâMeets every second and fourth Friday in Hall No. 2. President, Art Jane: Secretary and Business Agen t,W. Watt, 305-7 Labor Headquarters. Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Local Vo. 69âMeets every second Tuesday in the month at 8 p.m. In Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President, W, W. Quigley, 2047 West Second; Secretary, Thos. S. Ezart, 1807 East Thirty-eighth. i Railway Carman of America, Lodge Vo. 58âMeet* first and third Friday in month at Labor' Headquarters. President, A. S^ Ross, 5806 Sophia Street; Rec Secretary, J. D. Valliamy, 2215 West 16th. Street and Electric Railway Employee*, Pioneer Division Vo. 101âMeets K. P. Hall, 8th and Kingsway, first and third Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, ' J. E. Smith; Recording Secretary, J. Price; Treasurer, J, Auton; Financial Secretary and Business Agent, H. W. Speed. Office: Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Sey. 6000. Sheet Metal Worker*' Association, Local Union Vo. 380âMeets second and fourth Thursdays In Hall No. 3. President, Jas. Strachan, 2205 W. llth; Business Agent' and Secretary, D. MacPherson, 308 Labor Headquarters. Tailor*' Journeymen Union of Local Vo. 178âMeetings held secon Monday, each month, 8 p.m. Executive meets fourth Monday of every month in Labor Headquarters. President, Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. W. Hocken. 1582 13th Ave. S.; Financial Secretary, H. Nordlund, 1930 12th Ave. E. Taxi, Stage aad Bus Drivers, Local 181 âMeets second and fourth Mondays at 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. President. A. C. Shaw. Office, 306 Labor Headquartera; Phone, Sey. 7495. Teamsters, Chauffeur*, Stablemen aad Helpers, Local 466â311 Labor Headquarters. Meets every First and Third Monday. Labor Headquartera. Business Agent Goodwin: Secretary-Treasurer. Blrt Showier, Room 306 Laobr Headquarters. Stag* Employ see' Union, Of th* I.A.T.B.B. ft M.PJC O Theatrical Local 118 of Meet* second Friday In Labor Headquartera at 9:30 a.m. President, A. Harrington; Secretary, W. Park; Business Agent, H. Pearson, address, P. O. Box 711. Typographical Union, Vo. 336âPresident, C. S. Campbell;- Vice-President, E. R- Bay ley; Secretary-Treasurer. R. H. Neelands. (00-2 Labor Headquarters. Meeta last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m.. In Hall No. 1, Labor Headquarters. Union Label Trades Council meets in Hall No. 4, Labor Headquarters, 529 Beatty Street, second and fourth Thursdays In each month at 8 o'clock. President, Colin McDonald. 2(34 St. George Street. Phone Fair. 3317-Y. Secretary, Mollle Dolk. 1587 Fifth Avenue East. Phone High. 477-Y. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday in each **â month. President, S. D. McDonald, Box 268. Secretary, Frank Derry, Box 498, Prince Rupert.B.C. NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH -Secretary Trade* A Labor Council _ â *>oiÂ»vÂ«_*--m*!!Â§^.*BÂ«t^- .Â«â Phones: Sey. 7415-627* By A. E. NIGHTINGALE, in Alberta Labor News. The problem of unemployment is On its way to solution, of this there can be no doubt. Whv this optimism? Apparently conditions look as black as ever, if not more so, with governments and all concerned groping in the dark and getting nowhere. But with everybody thinking and searching with the one object in view, the outlet must and will be found eventually. It is almost impossible nowadays to pick up a magazine or newspaper without finding some discussion covering the problem of unemployment. All are agreed on one point, viz., that great changes are absolutely necessary to meet the requirements of this mechanical age. Science and invention has brought machinery to the point where man-power, insofar, as actual production is concerned, is iike the horse, "more and more becoming unnecessary." Already, it has been estimated, machanical devices have cut down man's usefulness by almost 50 per cent! But, refusing to recognize the signs of the times, or in a hopeless attempt to resist, the result has been an "overproduction." â â Under-Consumption But while this is true, it is a mistake to make over-production the bogeyman of the problem and let it go at that. Rather, let us consider it from the point of view of underconsumption. The whole economic fabric is built up and based upon production and consumption, consumption and production. Just as an individual works so that he may eat, and eats so that he .is able to work, so we produce to consume, and consume to create the. necessity for more production. The Real Difficulty The real difficulty lies in the fact that producers are in far greater proportion than consumers. The latter, under existing conditions, compose only a favored few, and the solution lies in a readjustment of these conditions. In other words, production and consumption must of obvious necessity be e fifty-fifty proposition. To illustrate with<rath- er a far-fetched example: If lv men produce 10 cars and only one is in the financial position to purchase a car, there is an over-production of nine cars. But if the other nine men were able to purchase their own product a different picture is presented. The answer might be that manufacturers would not permit the building of 10 cars where there was a demand for only one. True. But unfortunately there are sufficient men available to build the other nine, but there being no demand for them they are unemployed. This could apply, of course, _to_ all_ industries. Labor thought all over the world is advocating higher and still higher wages and shorter hours, not in a spirit of greed, but in a sincere belief that it is practicable. Others, too, are having their thoughts directed in the same channel. Henry Ford has given it as his opinion that in 20 years the minimum wage paid to a workman will be $4 an hour, or even more. This, of course, has been received with considerable skepticism and even ridicule in certain quarters. But Mr. Ford is far-seeing. i hat -trait has .placed him where he is today arid while he may be moving too fast when he gives figures of this kind, there is no doubt he is more right than wrong. Higher wages and a more equal distribution of the world's wealth is fast being recognized not only as a social advantage, but as an economic necessity. The Direct Result Double the average man's wages and what is the direct result? He immediately adopts a higher standard of living. He builds or purchases a bigger and better house, increasing the demand in the building trades; he buys more and better furniture, to the advantage of that industry; he gets a carâprobably Mr. Ford had this in mindânut nevertheless the industry is boosted; he supplies his family and himself with more and better clothes, boots, hats and all wearing accessories, thereby turning the wheels of the cotton, woollen and silk mills, leather industries, milliners, and so forth, all of which soon have urgent ads in the "Men Wanted" columns, pleading for more help. And so it could go on through all the requirements of everyday life. There is a market right at home if only the opportunity was there. And would the investors who make the industries possible benefit? Certainly! Everybody would become consumers, automatically making it necessary for all to be producers in order to keep the pot aboiling. And once the period of readjustment was overcome â admittedly a difficult period which the government could subsidize Instead of using millions for reliefâthe profits would come rolling in, for the demand from millions of newly-added consumers soon exceed the supply, and then the wheels of industry would begin to turn once again with a vengeance. Greater efficiency from the workman would naturally result from higher wages. He would be contented, a more comfortable home; good clothes; plenty to eat for himself and his family; hospital bills easily met in times of sickness; his morale would be raised, the effect immediately showing in his daily output But, like Henry Ford, I am' moving too fast. An idealistic dream, perhaps. But is it an impossible one? Think it out for yourself. UNION CAFES & MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 Always Open Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE 76 Hading* St. E., Vancouver, B. C. K. WILKINSON rtSm. O DUNCAN SIC. Reynolds' Cartage Co. Phons*: Trinity 1227-1238 Crating-, Packing, Shipping- and â ton**. Furniture and Piano Moving Long instance Moving Pool Car Shipment*. one* aad Wanaoaaei 722 â CAMBIE STBEBT â 722 Snowden's Blow at the Imperial Tariff Scheme England's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable Philip Snowden, is a small, spare, pale man, who is so lame that he has to use two' sticks in walking. But it ?eems there is nothing feeble about the belaboring he can give any time to any form of tariff protection. Behind the present protection movement he declared in a speech at Manchester, is "a sinister attack on British wages, and he added: "I speak of what I know. "The introduction of a tariff system into this country would strike at the purity of the political life of this nation. "Parliament would become a sink of corruption. * "Members of Parliament would go there not to represent national interests, but pledged to support the selfish interests of particular industries." This from the man who is sometimes called "the watchdog of the treasury," and is said practically never to smile. In the House of Commons he usually sits with his head down, peering up occasionally from under his white, beetling brows. He has a large weighty forehead and a rather small' face. When speaking he leans with the knuckles of one hand on the table, and his favorite festure is pointing down with one orefinger. But to return to Mr. Snowden, we find him declaring: "Protectionist propagandists have said wages in protected countries on the Continent are only half what they are in Britain. '"That is surely a poor, recommendation for protection here. We are also told the importation of foreign articles is robbing British workmen of employment. "But while one and a half million workmen here are robbed, we are robbing three million foreign workmen of their work by our exports. Protectionists want to have the best of both worlds. "An unfounded rumor has appeared in the press that the government was considering an all-around 10 per cent, import duty for revenue purposes. No government in which I am in charge of the national finances will ever give serious consideration to a proposal like that. "If we alone were suffering and all protectionist countries were prosperous, there would be a prima facia case for inquiring whether it was our fiscal system which was responsible for our depression. "The world crisis is temporary. "Before we have a change it must be proved beyond all dispute that the policy we have pursued for the last century is not the best policy for the country." PERRY&DOLK Men's Tailors IS Hastings West Room 33 Wilson & McNeill I Painters and Decorators Everything pertaining to the trade. 3016 V1CTOBIA DBIVE I Phones: High. 106 and Fair. 4148-B Castle Hotel Limited Visit the Finest Parlors in Vancouver; seating 500. Meeting Place of .Union Men! 7SO Granville St., Vancouver Pbone: Sey. 7907 Union Restaurants AMERICAN CAFEâ796 Main St. BLUE GOOSE CAFEâ1043 Granville. BAILEY'S CAFEâ322 Cambie. BOSTON CAFEâ634 Pender W. BELMONT CAFEâ1000 Blk. Gran villo: Too Muck For Them Here's a story from an English paper: Bill and Bob were engaged upon a little burgling job. Bill was keeping watch at the street corner, while Ho b- ope ra t ed i nside â,a large ho use. After being inside for only a few moments, however, Bob rejoined his pal at the corner. "Been quick ain't yer?" the watcher asked. "Did yer git Â«nfing?" "No;" Bob panted in reply; "that there 'ouse belongs to Grabbeâthe big lawyer bloke, yer know?" r-'fOHrf-Grabbe** 'ouse?" Bill exclaimed in horror. "Did yer lose anyfiink?" BANCROFT'S CAFEâ338 Hastings W. BROADWAY CAFEâ105 Hasting. E. CENTRAL CAFEâ608 Pender W. DOUGLAS CAFEâ844 Main. EMPIRE CAFEâ76 Hastings E. FRED'S DAIRY LUNCHâ72 Hast tug* W. GREEN MILL CAFEâ41* Abbott. GOLDEN GATE CAFEâ130 Hastings E. LEONARD'S CAFEâ831 Granville LIDO CAFEâ732 Main St. LOVE'S CAFEâ823 Granville. MELROSE CAFEâ724 Hasting. W. NEW ORPHEUM CAFEâ762 Granville. NEW GOOD EATS CAFEâ619 Pender W. OAKS CAFEâ326 Abbott. OLYMPIC CAFEâ720 Pender W. PETER PAN CAFEâ1138 Granville. PRESIDENTS' CAFEâ938 Gran- villa St. PROVINCE CAFEâ736 Main St. STANDARD CAFEâ618 Dunsmuir. YE OLDE ENGLISH FISH * CHIP Restaurant No. 1â614 Robson. YE OLDE ENGLISH FISH A CHIP Restaurant No. 2â44 Hastings W. ALLEN'S CAFEâNow Westminster. FRASER CAFEâNew Westminster MINTO CAFEâNow Westminster. The Answer A young couple who had just married, received many presents after establishing their home in a suburb. One morning they received two theatre tickets, with a note which read: "Guess who sent these." On the appointed evening. they went to the theatre, returning very late. To their astonishment everything of value in the house had been j carried away. " " - On a table in the dining room they found this note; "Nov you know." JL fi, Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, November 7th, 1930 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at Labor, Headquarters, Vancouver, ,B. C. ' Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. from twenty to twenty-five thousand men in British Columbia taught in the most realistic way that could be devised, that there is something fundamentally wrong with the scheme under which we live. The situation is one in which those who fare well, under the existing order of things, might profitably look beyond their tax papers. H. W. Watts, Man. Editor, PRESS COMMITTEE: Walter Deptford, Chairman; W. Watt (Building Trades Council); P. R. Ben- eouch (Machinist Trades). R. H. .Neelands (Printing Trades), Dan McPherson (Building Trades), B. Showier (Teaming Trades), T. Hanofln (Beverage Trades), C Herrett (l.;.t,..-l Trades). Subscription Rates: $2 per Year"; to Unions, 16c per month per member. Phone: Seymour 6279 Vancouver, Friday, Nov. 7, 1930 THE BREAD LINE During the recent elections, Mr. R. B. Bennett, in a pathos tremor, said that he could hear "the cry of destitute and hungry mothers, fathers and little children, appealing for aid." This was during the earlj summer, and the one most powerful factor in carrvine Mr. Bennett and his party through to success was the fact that Bennett acknowledged the condition and promised a remedy. The Bennett Government has taken , the steps which it believes are necessary to meet the difficulty, and, while it is not yet time to condemn the Government, it is an indisputable fact that there are, at least in Western Canada, at the present time, more hungry mothers, fathers and little children than there were at the time that Mr. Bennett spoke. Vancouver has 7500 unemployed registered, and the combined activity of the City and the Provincial Government in this locality has offered work to a trifle over 10 per cent, of this number. It is admitted that the number of unemployed in the city is more than double the number registered, but so long as the net result, to nine out of every ten who "registers" is to establish an official record of who they are, where they come from and the fact that they are down and out, the Vancouver"'register of unemployed will remain at 50 per cent, complete. At this stage of the proceedings there is nothing in sight to justify the hope for improvement. Vancouver City Council entertains itself with a daily lamentation that somebodyâwe don't know whoâasks it to care for outside unemployed that drifts into the city, but, in view of the fact that the city is not yet caring for 10 per cent, of its own resident unemployed, it's whine about the outsider is merely evidence of an aldermanic bellyache. The Provincial Government's scheme shows no signs of expanding to take care of a tithe of the men who may fairly look to the Government and not to the city. At this point, however, we might ask whether the Provincial Government work on the University site is intended to care for outside workmen, or is it designed to take a part of the city's load off its back? If intended for workmen who have no claim on the City of Vancouver, we would respectfully suggest that the selection of men for this work be taken out of the City Relief Officers' hands. We are fully aware of the magnitude of the problem that the city and Government are asked to face. Fifteen thousand men at $4 per dayâ this will account for a payroll of $60,000 per day; at four days per week, until April 1st, this will amount to $5,000,000, and we have not yet gotten off Burrard peninsula. The figures are startling, but they do not get any less by refusing to face them. He who chooses to say the thing can't be done, should well consider the logic of such a statement. The cause of the present trouble is that we have too much of all the things which we want; too much wool, wheat, cotton, rubber, timber, iron, copper and so on. The panhandler on the street corner knows this as well as we do, and an un- " healthy number of them know that the fortunate people who live by interests and profits are doing just as well this year as they did last year. In other words, the present suffering is all at the bottom. If the present hardship was confined to a few hundreds we could tell them they1 were "misfits, lacking initiative," and a '--few^ffltelligent-soOTtfltig jmra*_*âÂ»f that nature, and drown out their complaint with our noisy optimism, but the numbers are too large for ' -ihis method of treatment. Regardless of how distasteful we find it, we must choose between ' carrying the unemployed in some degree of comfort and safety, or have anywhere A CRAZY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT This student has frequently called attention to the fraudulent character of the work carried on by the Canadian Immigration Department. For forty years it has combed Europe for cheap labor to displace, and drive out the Canadian worker. While there was occasionally an excuse of a medical examination of immigrants, the whole proceeding was a farce and a pretense, merely an excuse to hang political camp-hounds onto the public payroir The following Halifax despatch, under date of March It, 1929, will show the utter worthlessness of the whole alleged medical examination: "What is believed to be a record for any Canadian or United States port in the handling of trans-Atlantic passengers, was made in Halifax on Sunday, when thc local immigration officials passed 1245 passengers at the rate of 2.4 per minute." If there is anything more than this required we can provide particulars of a continental immigrant, "selected" as an ideal worker for British Columbia. Shortly after arrival he was taken from Essondale by the local Government and returned to his own country. Our Government agents gathered him up again, collected the "bonus" for doing so, and the Canadian Government paid a part of his fare back to Canada. He passed the immigration officials, and the last we heard of him he was in Essondale again. After forty years of this kind of work the Immigration Department has now swung to the opposite extreme, and are shipping back to the British Isles unfortunates who have been resident of Canada well on to twenty years, and who have no one in the Old Land in the remotest way responsible for them. At this point we must add that this rough work can only be imposed on the British immigrant. Safe in his Canadian citizenship, the foreigner continues to crowd our jails and our asylums. For a generation it has been hard to decide whether this wing of the Canadian Government was criminal or crazy; its present antics favors the latter alternative. âM. Schools and War A welcome sign of the times is the carrying by the Cambridge University Union, by a large majority, of a resolution in favor of the abolition of military training in schools. We have no doubt that the Cambridge undergraduates are right. To use the schools to sow the seeds of war is entirely alien to the spirit of true education. To set young people to play at being soldiers cannot but have harmful effects and' lead, consciously or unconsciously, to the glorification of war. Mr. Tom Shaw has been heavily criticized because of his refusal to allow State money any longsr to be used to subsidize cadet corps, but the resolution of the Labor Party Conference and this Cambridge decision show that support for. his policy is growing rapidly in widely diversified quarters.âDaily Herald. Enlistment in Army Proposed For Idle Milwaukee.âEnlistment of unemployed in thc United States Army Reserves is the novel suggestion made by the Wisconsin Council of the American Legion. "The plan would permit any man out of work to enlist and draw regular army pay. It would be necessary to change the age limit so that middle-aged and married men could be accepted. Enlistment would only be during the business depression or until a man secured work. Austin A. Peterson, State adjutant of the Legion, said the scheme would teach men army routine which would be invaluable in time of war. But it would jeopardize the man in that evant; he would not be called for service any differently than if he had never seen army enlistment. - Tito I-Â«(pW^-eAiinp-U- nf.fjrjd. the. plan as. a substitute for various unemployment insurance plans that are being suggested. Where there are not enough barracks rude shelters, such as were erected during the last war, could be constructed by the men themselves to keep them busy, it was stated. Big Contractors Here Block Five-day Week The question of unemployment js uppermost in everyone's mind at present, and no matter who you meet, either in business, at your meeting, at the "home or on the street, the subject of unemployment, and what can be done to relieve the situation is talked. Most of us will admit that during the last few months unemployment has got worse, and the outlook for the winter is serious, although many of our leading men in press reports claim the climax has been reached, and things in general are improving. We are asked to keep kidding ourselves, and everyone else we talk to that everything will be normal again soon. Many learned persons and groups have expressed themselves in regards to what should be done, but no light or wisdom worth/considering has come from any source, except from the organized trade union movement. The trade union movement states that unemployment can be prevented by a proper relation of wages and hours of labor to the constantly increasing output of our industrial organization. This is the only preventative' of unemployment, and no matter what other cures are tried, or how the big interests may ignore this policy, the necessary adjustment of hours and wages will eventually come. There is nothing else that can even remotely approach prevention. All men and women should have an opportunity to earn their living, and not.be objects of charity, and the shorter work day and work week is the only solution. The Vancouver and New Westminster Building Trades Council realize that a system of spreading over the work amongst the building trades mechanics will have to be adopted. The responsibility lays with the contractors of this city, but so far they have failed to deal with unemployment in any way that would help to stabilize employment. We have a few of the larger contractors in this city, who utterly oppose the five-day week or shorter hours and refuse to negotiate in any way the question of spreading over the work. They not only oppose the five-day week insofar as their own employees are concerned, but they have at different times tried to bring pressure to bear on some of the employers who have already granted the five-day week to- their employees. What I refer to is some of the sub- trades, namely plumbers and steamfitters, tilesetters, sheet metal workers, electrical workers, etc. They claim that owing to these sub-trades having the five-day week, it makes the carpenters and others dissatisfied. In talking with some of these contractors, I have tried to find out their reasons for opposing the five- day week, and the only argument they put up is the following: Their overhead for the five-day week would be the same amount as a five and a half day, and their equipment would be laying idle on Saturday, and when they had tq work for a living years ago they had to work ten and twelve hours per day and six days per week., and if they granted the five-day week to the building trades without a fight, we would soon' be back asking for a six-hour day. These few large contractors I speak of have absolutely no regard for the needs of the worker, and the only question they are interested in is a reduction in wages, more efficiency, speeding up, or some new equipment to displace more labor. However, this ancient system of creating trouble by ignoring causes must fail, as force can but temporarily silence protest against injustice, and these few large contractors who refuse to put the five-day week into effect will be forced into line and reason. BILL WATT. GRAY CABS LOWEST RATES IN VANCOUVER 50 for flrst TWO MILES and lOo tor Â«KB additional HAM MILE. NO CHABGE FOB EXTBA PASSENGERS. You only pay lor tho durtanc* actnally trav*ll*d. ONLY ONE RATE, DAY OR NIGHT. ALL UNION DRIVERS. CALL SEY. 7131 B. C. MOTOR TBANSPOKTATION, X.TD. Note our New Phon* Number: Downright Value! SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY Beautiful Ivory CribsâWith drop sides, cable spring and fine felt mat- K* 1t f $10.50 All complete for: ^ only a limited number will be on sale. â¢ Dominion We nave just received a large* shipment of tapestries, mohair* and friezes. So order your Chesterneltl now for Christmas direct from the maker*. No Phone Orders 4 Chain Stores 968 Granville 106 Hastings E. 1082 Granville 2301 Granville (Cor. 7th) FORMERLY STODDARD'S IAÂ£_> Can Getthat Everybody Knows The King Studio (Established 1902) 311 Hastings Street W. Vancouver, B. C. Sey. 1046 PRICES THAT FIT ALL POCKETS! Ban On Night Work _. Fails To Enthuse Washington.âThe agreement of cotton mill owners to eliminate night work by women and ihinoj-. under 18 not later than March 1st fails to enthuse Miss Grace Abbott, chief o{ the United States' children's Bureau. "The agreement is commendable, but experience has taught us that such pacts are not effective without 'egislation," said Miss Abbott. "The best of the industries abide by the rule while the less ethical do not. Night work laws in a number of States, particularly in the Southern area, are below what they should be." Miss Abbott said that night work by children under 16 has been quite generally prohibited, but little such protection js. offered minors between the ages, of 16 (*Ad II.. - . . â¢.,'â 'I.h:-L- The cotton mill owners agreed to eliminate night work by women and minors by applying the elimination WHEN TO MAIL CHRISTMAS PHOTOGRAPHS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND^Not later than November llth. HONG KONG AND CHINAâNot later than November 28th. JAPANâNot later than November 28th. EUROPEAN COUNTRIESâNot later than November 16th. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELANDâNot later than November 24th. NEWFOUNDLAND AND MARITIME PROVINCESâNot later than December 10th. ONTARIO AND QUEBECâNot later than December 13th. NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIAâNot later than December 15th. MANITOBAâNot later than December 17th. ALBERTA, SASKATCHEWAN AND PLACES WITHIN TWO DAYS' TRAVEL,âNot later than December 18th. FRASER VALLEY, KOOTENAY, OKANAGAN AND VANCOUVER ISLANDâNot later than December 20th. - . . FOR UNITED STATESâNot later than first week in December. During Christmas season there is an unusual parcel congestion at United States customs points. To ensure delivery before Christmas, parcels for the United States should be mailed not later than stated above. Letters, greeting cards and parcels for local delivery should be mailed not later than December 20th. Mark your Christmas mail, "Do Not Open Until Christmas." Six-hour Day Favored By Canadian Senator Brockville, Ont.â"The sooner we make up our minds to institute the six-hour day, the better it will be for the world," declared Hon. A. C. Hardy, a prominent members of the Canadian Senate, in a speech before a local service club here recently. Senator Hardy declared he was' not advocating socialism, but was convinced of the necessity of heeding labor's plea for the shorter work day. in the whole industry the first year, 80 per cent, the second year, and 85 per cent, the third year and there- Cler-k: policy t8*75 percent, r/f The -s^dl^weM*^^---***Â«-= Civic -Federation CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations are extended to Hector Urquhart who has been elect-: *d" by;ihe-City Con*Â«l:to^'feead-the License Department in the place of Charlie Jones, who is to become City Brother Urquhart has been and active in all their union efforts. He is a member of the City Hall Employees' Union. Ottawa.âThe Dominion exported 2,511,000 tons of newsprint last year, or 65 per cent, of the world'* supply, says a government report. Total production totalled 2,729,000 tons, or nearly double that of the United States. Most of the newsprint went to the big papers in the United States, although small shipments were made to seventeen other countries. FREEFORUM Sunday. November 9th. 1930 "Th* Special Session at Ottawa and UNEMPLOYMENT" Opened by ALD. ANGUS MaclNNIS -â¢^os-ataa*? Di*r^_i_ujÂ©i*.<Â«__=_; __ in the FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH 1550 West Tenth (llalf Block from (.ranvlll* St.) (Pair. 5769-B.) % .....- â Friday, '.November 7th. 1<J30 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five .1 Tt -V .'"T* â 'A* %jfni* Â«NCORÂ»CRATEO 2-- MAV lH" Otfact Branrhc* %i *riim?p*?c, TarktoD. BukalMB, EdmoBtsa, CÂ»tr*rr. l*fbÂ»Hdft. NrllOB, Vernon. Kami nap* Vit tuna Trapper Work Boots 3 .95 Men appreciate our Trapper Shoes. They ] fill every requirement. They fit wellâand are comfortable to wear. So'id leather inside and outâblucher style, with rubber heels. All sizes. Once you wear themâyou'll always wear them. âEconomy FloorâH B C W VALUE This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government pf British Columbia. I?' REGENT TAILORS % â 'L 159 Hastings Street West OpposiU Pro vine* Every garment tailored strictly to measure by Union tailors. One price $26 M A Slip of the Tongue Mr. Crowe was a devout churchgoer. The young minister of his church was also devout, but easily t"'-;ihroÂ»nir*sseW'-TWaidH*':"'the-'coiisternÂ»-' tion of Mr. Crowe and the delight of the congregation when the young divine solemnly said at a prayer meet- .45* /.sri^.^-.:-!.' "And now, will Brother Pray please crow for us?" Sees War Coming As Result of Tariffs Montreal, P.Q.â"The tariff war in which the world is so merrily engaged will, if carried on, result in real war," said Miss Agnes Macphail, the only woman member of the Canadian House of Commons, declared in an address here recently. She hoped that wiser councils would prevail and a halt called and the tariff barriers go down in time to save the world from another conflict. "Too many people are -thinking with theirjhational minds," she said. ""We^go' on making nafforial ""policies regardless of the fact that there can be no national policy that does not affect other nations." r She advoeaUnP "tt-new kind of patriotism which would be international iin mind and spirit." Musicians' Notes By Con Sordine The local loses a good friend in the promotion of Mr. George Wright of radio station CNRV, to new duties in Ottawa. He goes with our best wishes. Our relations with Mr. Wright were always very cordial, and we look for their continuance under the regime of Mr. Walter Powell, who succeeds Mr. Wright, and to whom we offer a hearty welcome. * * Â» In connection with Sunday concerts by mixed orchestras of union and non-union players, while this is always a problem requiring delicate handling, in all except very exceptional cases, it is regretted that Bro. C.- J.. Cornfield worded his letter to the Sunday Province in.the way he did. In this instance, a special general meeting of the union gave permission for Bro. Cornfield to run a series of six concerts, using a mixed orchestra, to end November 30th, so (hat if the series has been cancelled, this was done on the conductor's own responsibility. â¢ * *â â¢Â«,. i Thanks to "Variety" for the follow- ng: Chicago, Oct. 21. â Musicians' Union, through its President, James C. Petrillo, licked the entire Republican party, which controls this town, when the campaigners tried to use canned music on their stump speaking trucks. Petrillo protested when the Republicans sent out 35 of these trucks, each with radio, and later started a strike against the party by issuing a demand to all broadcasting stations that they refuse the mike to la.ll Republican speeches in the coming election campaign. Strike of the musicians in the following stations was threatened: KYW, WGN, WCFL, WIBO, WGES, WJJD, WBBM, WEDC. WSBC, WHFC, WHAE, which takes in all thc national networks; With the unemployment situation tight, Petrillo's squawk was meat for the dailies, especially the Democratic papers. Result was the Republican party sent hurried excuses to the union and pledged that no canned music would be used in any part of their campaign. _ â¢ â¢ , * * * According to reports the opera company at the Vancouver Theatre, if the support warrants, will run a total of ten weeks. Take a run in there occasionally, brothers, instead of visting one of the canned music boxes. Labor Party To Spend Half Billion Dollars London.âThe British Labor government has prepared building schemes' to relieve unemployment that will involve the expenditure of $589,730,000. The largest individual items in the programme are: 1. Five-year roads construction to cost $157,000,000 on' which contracts to the amount of many billions of dollars have already been signed. 2. Improvements to railways, docks, water works and gas works that will cost $133,500,000. 3. Complete re-organization and consolidation of Great Britain's electric light and electric power stations, to cost $67,500,000. 4. Important projects to promote industrial and economic development in the colonies, to cost $34,500,000. These total $392,500,000. The balance is,made up of innumerable municipal local improvements and ex; tensive housing schemes. One kind of man you'll never meet is one who wants a good paying political office for only one term. HOW DO THEY KNOW? - An Ontario High Co,urt Judge, in addressing a Grand Jury, suggested they should consider questions of general public interest. Grand Juries are picked at random and are not necessarily competent to give leadership on any question. This was proved by the result. The Jury delivered the following pronouncement: "At the suggestion of your Lordship the jurors discussed the unemployment situation, and, in their opinion, the municipalities are investigating this very serious condition; but also the jurors feel that quite a lot of unemployment has__been_ caused_ by. trades ! unrdiiro? The" c6untryf''""'"Aftef this inane and somewhat inconsequential "finding" perhaps jurorsâ grand ora otherwiseâwill confine themselves to the tr*iuactJ!_n.-_iJC:Jhe duties they are, called together t6 perform.âCanadian Co-operator. Barbers' Union Was On the Air Thursda The following radio talk-was given over Station CKWX on Thursday evening at 6 p.m. The Upholsterers, Carpet and Linoleum Layers' Union will be on the air Thursday, November 13th, at 6 p.m. This programme comes to you from the Union Label Trades Council, and during the next few minutes we will endeavor to tell you something about the Journeyman Barbers' Tnternational Union of America, Local 120, of Vancouver, .B. C. The Journeyman Barbers' International Union of America has a membership of over 55,000, and Local 120 of Vancouver was organized in August, 1898, and is now the largest local in Canada and comprises both men and women working for wages in the harboring and hairdressing professions. No doubt many of you listeners have fathers, mothers, sons, daughters or friends following these professions for a livelihood. Some may be getting good wages and some may be gcttitrg wages that are far inadequate to . support themselves and those dependent on them. We invitev^ll those who are not members to come along and join us. We take this opportunity to let non-union barbers and hairdressers and the public know that we look after our members when they are sick, as our benefit fund provides $16.00 per week to our sick members for 16 weeks in any twelve-month period, and also provides from $100 up to $500 to those left behind in case of death, thus keeping our members from becoming a charge on'the city relief fund. In the last five years our head office has paid out over $1,491,000 to its members. In the same period of time the members of the Vancouver local received approximately $6,000 from this fund. The Barbers' International Union of Vancouver has always been to the front in fostering social legislation, such as the Workman's Compensation Act, Mothers' Pensions, and various other pieces of social legislation which the people of this province now enjoy, and also participated in the welfare of many of this cities charitable institutions. Our headquarters is now trying to work out a suitable scheme to provide for the aged and infirm. Is not the Journeyman Barbers' International Union a worthy organization for all barbers and hairdressers to join? And we believe we are not asking too much of the public in general to patronize iirber shops and hairdressing shops that display the) barbers' union card, when you take-lnto consideration the fact that all our members get a guaranteed minimum wage, a shorter work day, one day's rest in seven, guarantees you cleanliness and expert service, and we want you to remember that we are organized not only to better our conditions and station in life, but to serve you better. There are over 120 union barber shons in Vancouver district, with over 230 first class union barbers and hairdressers to serve you. Just a reminder in closing that only barber and hairdressing shops that display our union shop card have agreements with us to pay our wages and give us ynion conditions. Patronize union barber shops displaying our union shop card. We are worthy of it because we do serve you better. All those wishing any further information regarding our organization may do so by phoning Sey. 3349, or by calling at our office room, 304, 529 Beattv street. The Free Forum Ofl Sunday afternoon at The Free Forum to be held in the First Unitarian "Church there will be a public discussion of the subject of "The Special Session at Ottawa and Unemployment." The discussion will be opened by Alderman Angus Maclnnis. The Federal Government at Ottawa have taken certain steps and measures in the attempt to meet the present unemployment situation throughout Canada. How far will they be effective? Do they go far enough? Are they on the right lines? These are the kind of questions which everyone inteersted in the question of unemployment is asking. Alderman Maclnnis, as a Vancouver Member of Parliament, should be able to give a first-hand review of the special, session at Ottawa, which should prove a valuable and interesting opening to this vital issue. There will be open discussion from the members o fthe public. The chairman will be Professor Charles Hill-ToUt. BBOTSFORD I Wood & Coal Co. Ltd. "Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded" THE BEST S3: EI FIB EDGINGS, par cord, Â»4.50 Slab*, Mixed Wood k Insldo Tlr. ALWAYS ON HANOI Nanaimo-Welllng-ton, ana th* BÂ«*t Bootless. Extra 'Phone: High. 910 It doesn't take blue eyes and blonde hair long to maw a pay enve- j lope look sick. N BUY B. C. PRODUCTS and boost your own payroll! Try NALLEY'S _â ___&! I SANDWICH SPREAD At All Grocers Nalloy's Pur* Foods Co. Vancouver, B. C. Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealers 1S8 Cordova W. Phon* Say. 8687 Glasa for .Buildings. Auto Class Installed. Art Glass Repaired. Mirrors Hesilvered. Copper Store Front Construction. I'hone us for Quick Service. GlnzinÂ»T .Inhs. large or small. Sey. 2981 Trln. 6425 CAMPBELL & GRILL 1236-8 SEYMOUR STREET FURNACE INSTALLATIONS AND REPAIRS BUILDS HEALTH AND ENERGY FOUREX da i ix y DREAD â¡ CANADIAN BAKERIES LTD X-CELL BATTERIES 96 per cant, a B. C. product; only new materialsânew Trail lead, boxes, etc.âar* used In th* manufacture Of X-CELI. BATTERIES. CANADA LEAD PRODUCTS, ltd. 3365 Main Street; Fairmont 1862 NEW SHOES DÂ»'*f" FOR OLD! 43M âBring em In on yonr way to work, ana call for them on th* way home. , Fraser Shoe Repair COMPANY "Batter Repairs for I.esB" Vi.rEast SastlSJri TtoTXlSwrP "Love is the only game that is never stopped because of darkness. Love is like the onion. When you first taste it iUis .with..delight..,lmt.- after you have bitten, you will wonder what made you bite? â â __ â Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, November 7th, 1930 "Build B. C. Payrolls" British Columbia IsOur Home If live markets are the core of business, and the market at home solves the problem at once, then it is sound economics to push home products. Maker and consumer get the benefits immediately. Get them all! Pacific Milk Factory at ABBOTSFORD, B. C. Know Yonr Labels! This is the Bakers' Union Label: This paper, in co-operation with presenting illustrations of all the International Labor News Service is each week. The labels were fur- nished by Secretary-Treasurer John J. Manning of the Union Label Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C. Union - Made Shoes CORNETT BROS A CLARK 33 MAMT HASTINGS STB.BBT Ftorahelm, Strldem. C. B. A C Mens and Youth's. WILLIAM DICK, LTD. Union Label Shoes for Men and Youths. Fellow Unionists, demand the Union Label, Shop Card and Working Button, and patronize fair employers and em- play UNION LABOR. Classified Ads. BARRISTERS AND SOLICITOUS Wallis W. Lefeaux, 402 Metropolitan Building. Phon* Sey. 6667. ' BATHS Hasting* Steam Bath* Price 35c Only 766 Hastings Street Bait. DENTISTS Dr. W. A. Bntledge, 103 Hastings West. NOTABY PUBLIC P. B. Bengongh Labor Headquarters. Labor Statesman, Labor Headquarters. RUPTURE SPECIALIST C. E. Heard 812 Robson. Dr. Trevelyn E. Sleeth CANINE ABB PELINB Operating' B. C. Dog and Cat Hospital, 14!* Oranvllle Street, and Kingsway Boarding Kennel*, at Dogwood, 3306 Kingsway, Burnaby. Head OJUcs VkOBMi Seymour &4S-S60 Price* to suit th* union In Rush Hoar* First StraphangerâI've been travelling on this line for three years and never offered my seat to a woman. Second StraphangerâYou certain- Jyare' noeentleman. First Straphanger--No; it^ isn't that. I've never had a seat.' No Limit to Machine's Ravage; Skill of AH Degrees Destroyed Washington.âNew inventions and processes are partly responsible for present unemployment and a survey should determine to what extent such technological advances are responsible, said Secretary bf Labor Davis at the first meeting of the Advisory Committee on Employment, appointed^ President Hoover. The labor cabinet member favored a study of thia____bject rather than a count of the unemployed ' He said the survey should be made from a labor point of view. "The jobless man will tell the enumerator he lost his job because there was no work, without knowing' why there was no work," said Mr. Davis. "This must be followed back to the employer to ascertain from him whether the man lost his job because of a new machine, a new process, or a new product. Such studies will, in the nature of things, be limited either as to territory or to" Tines of industry, but within the chosen scope they should be detailed and thorough." Secretary Davis said machine displacement of labor differs from the past. "It is not only the skilled men who have been affected by new machines and new processes," he said. "The tracklayer and the railroad section hand find rails laid by mechanical devices, riveted by acetylene welders and dirt tamped around the ties with mechanical devices. The longshoreman finds the freight laid upon conveyers that carry it from Will Industrial War Be Danville's Plan? Raleigh, N, C.âThe refusal of the Riverside arid Dan River Cotton Mills, Danville, Va., to mediate a strike of 4,000 textile workers against a company "union" has brought editorial protest from Jose- phus Daniels, publisher Raleigh News and Observer, and Secretary of the Navy in President Wilson's cabinet. The strikers accepted mediation offers of Governor Pollard of Virginia, but the mill management replied "Nothing to mediate." " 'Nothing to mediate,'" writes Editor Daniels, "when differences are so acute that 4,000 workers quit work as the last protest against conditions which they think bear too heavily upon them. "Nothing to mediate' when children suffer because of the cessation. " 'Nothing to mediate' when peace and order are imperiled. " 'Nothing to mediate' when class clashes, misunderstanding and hard feelings are engendered, to the injury of all concerned. . "In such industrial situations the side which says 'nothing to mediate' assumes responsibility for all the ills that follow industrial disturbances. "The workers have the right to stand for collective bargaining, the only wage arrangement which has proven satisfactory to employers and employees. To deny workers the right to join a union is to make them .feel that they have been reverted to hands' in a feudal system." Union Dress Workers Win Important Shop New York. â Dressmakers affiliated to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union won a 12-year fight against the Milgiim shop, fashionable Fifth Avenue dress firm. This dress concern was the storm centre of the present strike, but its long anti-union policy has been changed to recognition of-the union, abolishment of the "yellow dog," an agreement to permit review of discharge and a promise not to discriminate against unionists who were active in the strike. The concern .early in the present dressmakers' general strike, asked for an injunction against picketing, which is pending. More than 200 tailors returned to work. The unionists are jubilant over their victory, which is more far- reaching than the number of workers involved. 'The Milgrim shop was considered a key position and the union spent more than $100,000 the last twelve years in attempting to organize this plant. A Distinction VisitorâMy word, I am thirsty. HostessâWait a moment, I'll get you some water. â - - â Visitorâ-I- -said â -thirsty, not-dirty. â * * * â The early morning has gold in its mouth.âFranklin . Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said: "Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven," it was a revelation.âEggleston. Tell me whether it is right or wrong; if it.is right, I will do it; if wrong,-1 will not; but never let me hear the word "expedient."âQueen Victoria. tne. ship's hold into the storage ware, muse on ,ihe dock. "Skilled occupations like the iroV uddler, the glass blower and scores of others are practically eliminated-.- It is hitting the professions and lim- .ting the opportunities of genius." Secretary Davis said his tradeâ iron puddlingâhas been abolished. "A mechanical process, operated by speaking into a&telephone, refines iron that we used to handle in the red-frot furnace with the strength of our backs and arms. But the effect is the same. Ah ancient trade is gone forever. One refining unit does the work of 300 men. In speaking at- the opening of that mill with its new process and machinery, I said that the newest thing in American history is to take care of the workers we displace with machinery." His First Bite A keen angler took a friend for a day's sport. The friend knew noth- ng of fishing, but decided to try his luck. After a long silence by the banks of a stream the novice said, ::I say, how much do those little red things Wst?" "You mean the floats? Oh, they're cheap. Why?" "I owe you for one. Mine's just sunk." A Silent Partner 'TpAKE a silent partner *â into your business. One able and willing to stand by you and yours when necessity arises. One that will give you a certain fixed sum at a specified timeâor bring you a regular income when you are, no longer able to earn-^pr provide for those you(Jove when you are no longer with them. Life Assurance will do all this for youâand more. Get details Jrom your nearest Sun Life Representative. \nSUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL GRADUATES IN FIRST AID B.C. Electric Employees Voluntarily Take Up Humanitarian Training FIRST ATS work it one of the things that the B. C. Electric encourages in its employees, with the result that they perform numerous acts of service to the tick and injured outside the round of their duties. Under the auspices of the St. John's Ambulance Association, classes are continually held. Since 1928, 100 employees have earned certificates,-vouchers or labels indicative of their merit in first aid work. '* The Company does everything possible to make this training " easy. It pays for bandages, both for practice and practical use, text books and stretchers and pays lecturers' fees. A large room has been equipped with charts, skeleton, etc., and is devoted exclusively for lectures. The Company pays examination fees when men sit for examinations and pays for certificates after *" the examinations have been passed. The B. C. Electric motormen and conductors' first aid team hat won, for two years in succession, the Vancouver Challenge shield, which is offered for first aid competition among the , various city organizations. Women employees of the Company have taken up first aid work and home nursing. ' - In a number of cases, B.C. Electric employees have not only rendered first aid to injured persons but have actually saved human life by their timely knowledge. ., The Company a proud of tlÂ»lm^inTFienF"1|Jieir'"iiuiHils^'^n**n>jiiÂ«""'^?:~"~~ s *T tarian work. . BRITl$W COLUMBf/ClLECmiC -RAILWAY" â¬Â®: < . Â«*â¢* numjumiâmaw i i â^âÂ«BM iBPPMi SSHPPÂ»H" - \n' ,' ".J Friday, November 7th, 1930 THE LABOR STATESMAN Seven Union Bakeries Delicious Bakery Union-m.de Bread and Pastry. Ask for it at your local store or PHONE HIGHLAND 706 and have our salesman deliver it The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave, E. Whon Bettor Oak** sad Vast-tea ar* Mad*, Till â >_, '_ml Golden Rule Bakery CO., LTD. 957 Granville St. Sey. 8656 STEWARTS BAKERY AIEX. STEWART, PBOP. asis Main Street - - Phons: Pair. 3331 Union Bakeries Following is a list of clean and sanitary union shops, employing union members, who are required to take a rigid physical examination, and who are paid sick and accident benefits in case of illness which prevents them working when in a diseased condition: London Bakery, 439 East 7th street. Phone Fair. 122. Delicious Bakery, 1500 East Hasting* (treet. Phone High 705. Sunset Bakery, 2315 Granville St Craig's Bakery, 187 East Hastings. Pratt's Bakery, 3980 East Hastings street Phone High. S607. Stewart'* Bakery, 2515 Main street. Fair. 3331. Dirks' Bakery, 6207 Main street Golden Rale Bakery, 957 Granville â¢treet. Phone Sey. 8656. Hastings Bakery, 764 East Hastings. Phone High. 4537. Mutter's Bakery, 2157 Main street- Phone Fair. 3953. Scott's Home Bakery, 1848 Kings- way. Phone Fair. 729. McGavin's Home Bakery, 2352 East Hastings street. Phone High. 1351. The Nook Bakery, 1835 West 4th avenue. Victoria Bakery, 3834 Main street. Bennett's Scotch Bakery, 4166 Main street. McDonald's Bakery, 4870 and 5080 Joyce Road. Carl 447. (Note.âThe McGavin'* Bakery listed above ha* no connection with the big firm on Broadway West, which deliver* bread and is not operating a anion shop. The following firms have "No Agreement" with local unions affiliated with the Vancouver, New Westminster ant District Trades and Labor Council Patronize those who patronize you I â akarlra McGavin Ltd.', 2106 W. Broadway. Taxicab* Commercial Taxi Cab Co. Checker Taxicab Co., Ltd. Dairies Steves Dairy. 2024 West 12th. Crvstal Dairy, 1802 Commercial Restaurants NationalLupch, 778 Oranvllle. TrocadeM.i'llfe. IBS West Hastings St WaldorTCafe, 618 West Pender St. White Lunches, Hastings-Granville. Printer* Clarke A Stuart Co., Ltd., 560 Seymour Street. Murphy ft Chapman, 661 Seymour St Rose. Cowan ft Latta, 748 Seymour Street J. W. Boyd. Ltd:, 112 West Hasting* Street ' Tailors O. A. Collard. 803 West Halting* 8< Orchestra* National Juvenile Band. - Theatres Avenue Theatre, 711 Main Street. ,'; Royal Theatre, 138 K. Hastings St Columbia Theatre. 84 W. Hasting*. "The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists" If we work upon marble, it will perish: if we work Upon stone, it will crumble ta dust; hut if--we' take a child and train it well, we rear a monument which time can never efface. __ (Continued from last week) "Why, even 'ere in Mugsborough," chimed in Sawkinsâwho, though still lying on the dresser, had been awakened by the shoutingâ"we're overrun with 'em! Nearly all the waiters .and the cook at the Grand Hotel, where we was working last month, is foreigners." "Yes," said old Joe Philphot, tragically, "and then there's all-them flitalian horgan grinders, an' the olokes wot sells chestnuts; an' wen 1 wos goin' 'ome last night I see fi lot of them Frenchies sellin' hunioris, an' a little wile afterwards I met two more of 'em comin' up the street with a bear." â¢ Notwithstanding the disquieting nature of this intelligence, Owen again laughed, much to the indignation of the others, who thought it was a very serious state of affairs, and said it was a damn shame that these people were allowed to take the bread out of English people's mouths: they ought to be driven into the bloody sea. And so the talk continued, principally carried on by Crass and those who agreed with him. None of them really understood the subject; not one of them had ever devoted fifteen consecutive minutes to the earnest investigation of it. The papers they read were filled with vague and alarming accounts of the quantities of foreign merchandise imported into this country, the enormous number of aliens coristantly larriving. th- destitute condition, how they lived, the crimes they committed, and the injury they did to British trade. These were the seeds which, cunningly sown in their minds, caused a bitter undiscriminating hatred of foreigners to grow up within them. To them the mysterious thing which they called either the "Friscal Policy,' the "Fistical Policy," or the "Fissical Question," was a great Anti-Foreign Crusade. The country was in a hell of a state; poverty, hunger, and misery in a hundred forms had already invaded thousands of homes and stood upon the threshold of thousands more. How came these things to be? It was the bloody foreigner! Therefore, down with the foreigners and all their works. Out with them. Drive them into the bloody sea! The country would be ruined if not protected in some way. This Friscal, Fistical, Fissical, or whatever the hell policy it was called, was Protection, therefore no one but a bloody fool could hesitate to support it. It was all quite plainâquite simple. One did not need to think twice about it. It was scarcely necessary to think about it at all. This was the conclusion reached by Crass and such of his mates who thought they were Conservativesâ the majority of them could not have read a dozen sentences aloud without stumblingâit was not necessary to think or study or investigate anything. It was all as clear as daylight. The foreigner was the enemy, and the cause of poverty and bad trade. When the storm had in some degree subsided, Owen said sneeringly: "Some of you seem to think that it was a great mistake on God's part to make so many foreigners. You ought to hold a mass meeting about it and pass a resolution something like this: 'This meeting of British Christians hereby indignantly pro- tests against the action of the Su preme Being in having created so many foreigners, and calls upon Him to rain down fire, brimstone, and mighty rocks forthwith upon the heads of all those Philistines, so that they may be utterly exterminated from the face of the earth, which rightly belongs to the British people." Crass looked very indignant, but could think of nothing to say in answer to Owen, who continued: "A little while ago you made the remark that you never trouble yourself about what you call politics, and some of the rest agreed with you that to do so is not worth while. Well, since you never 'worry' yourself about these things, it follows that you know nothing about them; yet you do not hesitate to express the most decided opinions concerning matters of which you admittedly know nothing. Presently, when there is an election, you will go and vote in favor of a policy of which you know nothing. I say that, since you never take the trouble to find out which side is right or wrong, you have no right to express any opinion You are not fit to vote. You shoulc not be alhjwed-ttrwtr." â¢***5Â»JI Crass was by this time very, angry. . "I pays my rates and taxes," he shouted, "an' I've got as much right to express an opinion as you 'aye. I votes for who the bloody 'ell I likes. I shan't arst your leave nor nobody else's! Wot the 'ell's it got to do with you who I votes for?" "It has a great deal to do with me. If you vote for protection you will be helping to bring it about and if you Succeed, and if Protection is the evil that some people say it is, I shall be one of those who will suffer. ' I say you have no right to vote for a policy which may bring suffering upon other people, without taking the trouble to find out whether, you are helping to make things better or worse." Owen had risen from his seat and was walking up and down the room emphasizing his words with excited gestures. '.'As for not trying to find wot side is right," said Crass, somewhat overawed by Owen's manner, and by what he thought was the glare of madness in his eyes, "I reads the 'Ananias' every week, and I generally takes the "Daily Chloroform," or the "Hobscurer," so I ought to know summat about it." "Just listen to this," interrupted Easton, wishing to create a diversion and beginning to read from the copy of the "Obscurer," which he still held in his hand: " 'GREAT DISTRESS IN MUGS- BOROUGH. HUNDREDS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT. WORK OF THE CHARITY SOCIETY. 789 CASES ON THE BOOKS. " 'Great as was the distress among the working classes last year, unfortunately there seems every prospect that before the winter which has just commenced is over the distress will be even more acute. " 'Already the Charity Society and kindred associations are relieving more cases than they did at the corresponding time last year. Applications to the Board of Guardians have also been much more numerous, and the Soup Kitchen has had to open its doors on 7th Nov., a fortnight earlier than usual. The number of men, Women and children provided with meals is -three or four times greater than last year'." Easton stopped; reading was hard work to him. "There's a lot more," he. said, "about starting relief work: two shillings a day for married men, and one shilling for single, and something about there's been 1.572 quarts of soup given to poor families wot was not even able to pay a penny, and a lot more. And ere's another thing, an advertsement: __. " 'THE SUFFERING POOR " 'SirâDistress among the Poor is so acute that I earnestly ask you for aid for The Salvation Army's great Social Work on their behalf. Some 6,000 are being sheltered nightly. Hundreds are found work daily. Soup and bread are distributed in the midnight hours to homeless wanderers in London. Additional workshops for the unemployed have been established. Our Social Work for men, women and children, for the characterless and the outcast, is the largest and oldest organized effort of its kind in the country, and greatly needs! help. Â£10,000 is required before Christmas day. Gifts may be made to any specific section or home, if desired. Can you please send us something to keep the work going? Please address checks, crossed "Bank of England" (Law Courts Branch). to me at 101 Queen Victoria Street, E.C. Balance Sheets and Reports upon application. " 'BRAMWELL BOOTH'." "Oh, that's part of the great 'ap- piness an' prosperity ' wot Owen makes out Free Trade brings," said Crass, with a jeering laugh. . "I never said Free Trade brought happiness or prosperity," said Owen. "Well, praps you didn't say exactly them words, but that's wot it amounts to." "I never said anything of the kind. We've had Free Trade for the last fifty years, and today most people are living in a condition of more or less abject poverty, and thousands are literally starving. When we had Protection things were worse still. Other countries have Protection and yet many of their people are glad to come here and work for starvation wages. The only difference between Free Trade and Protection is that under certain .circumstances one" might be a little, worse than' the othirr. bat, ai w-mtnitt JtiTytsta*,^ "neither Tof them is of any reaT"use what ever, for the simple reason that they do not deal with the real causes of poverty." .. > ,Â»Â« HAZELWOOD ICE CREAM The only 100 per cent Union Ice Cream in the City! Phone: Seymour 2090 Hazelwood Creamery, Limited Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.'CIDERS PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER 'Mao* from B. C. Apples" < Try "The Lions" Ginger Ale Orange, Lemon and Lime Kist. PHONE HIGH. 90 PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS.. LTD. 1055 VERNON DRIVE "The greatest caues of poverty is hover-population," remarked Harlow. "Yes," said old Joe Philppt, "if a boss wants two men, twenty goes after the job; there's too many people and not enough work." "Over-production," cried Owen, "when there's thousands of acres of uncultivated land in England without a house or human being to be seen! Is over-production the cause of povery in France? Is over-production the cause of povery in Ireland? Within the last firty years the population of Ireland has been reduced by more than half. Four millions of people have been exterminated, but they haven't got rid of the poverty. Praps you think that half the people in this country ought to be exterminated as well. That's the sort of opinion that Philanthropists like you, who spend your lives in slavery for other people, might be expected to hold." Here Owen was seized with a violent fit of coughing, and resumed his seat. When the cough had ceased he sat wiping his mouth with his handkercief and listening to the talk that ensued. "Drink is the cause of most of the poverty," said Slyme. This young man had been through some strange process which he called "conversion." He had had a "change of 'art" and looked down with pious pity upon those he called "worldly" people. He was not "worldly," he did not smoke or drink, and never went to the theatre. He had an extraordinary notion that total abstinence was one of the fundamental principles of the Christian religion. It never occurred to what he called his mind that this doctrine is an insult to the Founder of Christianity. "Yes," said Crass, agreeing with Slyme, "an' ther's plenty of em wot's too lazy to work when they can get it. . Some of the swine who go about pleading poverty 'ave never done a fair day^ work in all their bloody lives. Then there's all this new-fangled machinery," continued Crass, "that's wot's rjiinin' everything. Even in our trade thereto them machines for trimmin' wall paper, an' now they've brought aut a paintin' machine. There's a pump ah a 'ose pipe, an' they reckon two men can do as much with this 'ere machine as twenty could without it." * "Another thing is women," said Harlow; "there's thousands of 'em nowadays doin' work wot oughter be done by men." "In my opinion there's too much of this 'ere eddication, nowadays," remarked old Linden; "wot the 'ell's the good of eddication to the likes of us?" â â¢â¢ "None whatever," said Crass. "It just puts foolish ideas into people's 'eds and makes 'em too lazy to work." Owen was -listening- to this pitiable farrago with feelings of contempt and wonder. Were they all hopelessly stupid? Had their intelligence never developed beyond the stage of childhood? Or was he mad himself? "Early marriages is another thing," said Slyme. "No man oughtn't to be allowed to get married unless he's in a position to keep a family." "How can marriage be a cause of poverty" said Owen, contemptuously. "A man who is not married is living an unnatural life. Why don't you continue your argument a little further and say that the practice of eating and drinking is the cause of poverty, or that if people were to go barefoot and naked there would be no poverty? The man who is so poor that he cannot marry is in a condition of poverty already." "Wot I mean," said Slyme, "is that no man oughtn't to marry till he's saved up enough so as to 'ave some money in the bank; an' another thing, j I reckon a man oughtn't to get married till 'e's got a 'ouse of 'is own; It's easy enough to buy one in a building society if you're in reg'lar work. At this there was a general laugh. "Why, you bloody fool," said Harlow, scornfully, "most of us is walk- in' about 'arf our time. It's all very well for you to talk; you've got almost a constant job on this firm. If they're doin' anything at all you're one of the few wot gets a show in. And another thing,'" he added, with a sneer, "we don't all go to the same chapel as old Misery." "Old' Misery" was ''Rushton and Company's manager or walking foreman. "Misery" was only one of the nick-names bestowed upon him by â¢the hands: he was also known as "Nimrod" and "Pintius Pilate." "And wot about drink?" demanded old Joe Philpot suddenly. '"Ear 'ear," cried Harlow. "That's the bleedin' talk. I wouldn't mind â¢'avin* 'arf a pint now, if somebody else will pay for it." (To be continued) A. E. HARRON Phone N. V. 1J4 North Vancouver . A. HARRON Phone Pair. 134 55 Tenth Ave E. O. M. WILLIAMSON Phone Fair. 114 56 Tenth Ave. E. , f arrmt IrO0. & WiUiantHmt FUNERAL DIRECTORS 55 EAST TENTH AVENUE PHONE FAIR. 134 "Only Union Pish and Chips ta British Columbia" Ye Olde English Fish & Chips Bulleving- on* temeOy tax nnsmploym*nt la th* shorter work ink, all oar girls ar* bow working- flvs Bay* par IMk, without rsduction at wag**. 44 HASTINGS: WEST 2 Boors W**t of "Paatar**" VANCOUVER'S LEADING UNION HOUSE I The New Orpheum Cafe Private Banquet Hall 762 GRANVILLE STREET Prop.: Jas. P. Dwyer PHONE: SEY. 3346 fc Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, November 7th, 1930 The House of Malkin âhas been established in British Columbia more than thirty years. It lias achieved a high reputation for producing food products of fine quality and absolute purity. Every package and can bearing the "Malkin's Best"' circle trade mark is guaranteed by the House of Malkin. The . . . W. H. Malkin Co. ...Limited ' """" - Vancouver, B. C. Nanalmo Victoria Prince Rupert For Printing of QUALITY. SPEED AND SERVICE done in a Union Shop, send your printing to A. H. Timms 236 14th Ave. E., Vancouver A. A. Brookhouse, (late of Cowan & Brookhouse) Shop Superintendent Fair. 205 "tig** Fair. 1372 Dentistry\nModern Â»_- Methods! Pay W Modern more# prices Ground Floor, City Hall 12 Hastings St. East Phone: Seymour 5577 "We Save You Money" Many Laughs Caused By One-ring Circus We have ail been roaring with laughter at the One Ring Circus which has been going on at the Georgia Hotel this week. The clowns were the funniest we ever heard, and the freaks have never been surpassed by any circus on this or any other- continent. Mosher acted as chief clown and said such funny things that we have not been able to stop laughing. Dennies and McCaulay tried to outdo their chief, and that gave us another roar. All the other clowns were ll.ere in their' paints and puffs, but what gave us the biggest laugh was when we saw them all parading for their pictures, wearing a Big badge on their coats resembling what they put on third prize cows, but which we had discovered were made by the Gruivin Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, where the "foreigners" come from. Some of the side shows contained many of the rarest freaks in captiv- ty. But like all circuses, we found that, the pictures on the posters in no way resembled what was inside. In advertising the show they stated that there would be about 250 freaks, but when we got inside we discovered less than 100, and some of these were picked up in order to fill up a banquet table. And how those hogs could eat. They had apparently been half-starved by their friendly bosses whose conditions they have meekly accepted Another freak show was the strong man show. Advertising showed him holding up a large number of big unions, but upon close observation we discovered that most of them were paper and the rest were puffed out with hot air. We tried to get into one of the shows, but they must have been ashamed of it, or feared we might discover the dark secret hid in their archieves, for we were told that if we acted like gentlemen and Anglo Saxons we might go in. This gave us our final laugh for the All-Can adian Imperialistic Circus. Uncle Gerry Gets Into a Matrimonial Knot Uncle Gerry, who conducts the Mother Goose programme for chiL dren over CKWX, has apparently been telling some "Mother Goose" stories to others beside the coming generation. Uncle Gerry, whose name is Mr. Taggart, was married to Miss Bea Adams on Saturday, October 18th. Mrs. Taggart (nee Adams) is a member of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union, Local 28, and has worked in Leonard's popular restaurant, 831 Gran-, ville street, for the past 18 months. We wish them both the best of good luck in their matrimonial venture, and hope that Uncle Gerry will have a pleasing audience of his own in some future time and relate his experiences to them of his travels in Mother Goose Land. Anyhow, we of the alder school of benedicts can assure him that our- kiddies enjoy his 15-minuto programmes and hope they will continue. Perhaps he can tell us a few original stories to supplant that worn out fable about sitting up with a sick friend. Well, good luck, Gerry and Bea. âH.W. I CAN SERVE YOU BETTER I GORDON CRAIG Vancouver's Original Badlo - Specialist 637 RICHARDS SEY. 6808 Wawanesa Mutual Ins. Co. Canada's Largest Fire Mutual. $ 188.000,000.00 In force, has paid the people of Canada J4.000.000.00 for fire losses and saved them^as uracil in premium**. Hoe us for rate*. Office Phone: Sey. 4250 634 BIBKS BUILDING-, VANCOUVER A NIGHT IN THE WEST If you missed the last "Night in the West," which you heard so much about, here's a chance for another one. The next will be held on Monday, November 24th, in the Eagle's Hall. It will start at 9yp.ni. and continue until 1 a.m. Dick Gardner's popular orchestra will handle the music and there will be plenty of refreshments. Tickets are 50c. Get yours now. The Spanish government is raiding Spanish labor unions, and Spanish currency is dropping till it is worth less than half the normal value. It might be worth while for Alfonso to see if there isn't a close connection between those two facts. HOME OIL DISTRIBUTORS, LIMITED PROGRAMME PAY FOR PLAIN WATER Â»â¢-â â Trenton, N. J.âr People who buy ,_Â«Â».Â«i<SO!Kwtr^nrnt^ for only 80 per cent, meat, according to the New Jersey Department of Health. Samples analyzed by chemists have shown 20 per cent, added water. Horn, Gas Symphony Orchestra, Under Calvin Winter; Sunday, Nov. 9, 1930; CKWX, 9S00 p.m. "(ARMISTICE PAY PHOORAMMEI "The Last Post" (In Memoriam). J. H. ('Tug-") Wilson. March. "InvercarglH" _ Lllb_nw Selection. "The Byng Boy* Are Here" Aver Trumpet Solo, "Rose* of I'lcardV, Wood C. Haydn.Williams, â¢â¢romp and Circumstance" ... ,_ . Elear BofoÂ«*_Esr Baritoneâ"â ^yysmxe i*:.sÂ«--rj*Â»Â«fitt:- - -- tvÂ«arn â Thanks lie To Cod" iM-Jtson Armistice Day Medley" Arranged Adugietto (from the Suite L'Arle- . sienrte")..for string* â...... Bizet 'Home, Sweet Home With the " Allies" _ _: Lampe "Â«OD SAVE THE KINO" Railway Men Want To Shorten Hours Cleveland, , Ohio.âAnnouncement is made here that the general chairman of the train service organizationsâthe Engineers, Firemen, Conductors, Trainmen and Switchmenâ representing, all told, about 500,000 railroad workersâhave been called to meet in Chicago Wednesday, November 12th. The call says: "The purpose of the meeting is to give consideration to a shorter workday, relief of unemployment, and to consider other matters of interest to railway employees and the industry as a whole." The call is signed by D. B. Robertson, president of the Firemen; A. Johnston, grand chief engineer of the Engineers; A. F. Whitney, president of the Trainmen; E. P. Curtis, president of the Conductors, and T. C. Cashen, president of the Switchmen. Important Meeting This is one of the most important meetings held since the launching of the movement to shorten railroad workers' hours with no reduction of wages. More than 700 menâthe authorized spokesmen of all the train service employees in the United States and Canadaâwill be present. The decision they make will, in due time, and in accordance with the laws of the organizations, ba submitted to the membership and to the representatives of management. Thus a great naton-wide "drive" will be started similar to the movement which put over the Adamson Act in 1916, and established the 8- hour day for train service men. ,ââ¢ The coming gathering may ask for a 6-hour day, at the same wages now paid for 8 hours. That is the plan generally favored, but the chief executives who signed the call make it clear that all interested will go into the Chicago meeting with open minds, seeking the best solution of a most aggravated problem. Must Shorten Hours Leaders of the 21 unions represented in the Railway Labor Executive's Association are agreed that there must be a further shortening of hours in railway work, with no decrease in income of railway workers. All hold that to be the most important step looking to stabilization of railroad employment. The actual method to be used in shortening hours, however, has been left to each group, to solve in accordance with the conditions which it must meet. Last May, the Railway Employees' Department of the American Federation of Laborâincluding the shop graftsâheld a convention in Chicago and adopted a carefully worked out programme which included the five- day week, with the eight-hour day. They pointed out, however, that where continuous service is required the six-hour day and a longer week might le more satisfactory. This is the line which the train- service organizations are taking. To Suggest Remedy "The displacement of man-power by improved machinery," declared David B. Robertson, in making the call public, "together with the business depression, demands a greater distribution of the work among those who are available and are entitled to share in it. "The railway labor executives have undertaken the task of finding and suggesting a remedy for unemployment' in the railroad industry. For years the leaders of organized railroad labor havebeen warning the country that shortening of working hours is necessary to avoid a crisis in railroad employment. -They have done an immense amount of pioneer research work along this line. They have surveyed the ground carefully, they.have the facts to support their position and feel they know what lies ahead. They are convinced that the time has come for action. The crisis of unemployment has served to concentrate public attention on the havoc wrought among the workers by improved mechanical processes. No class has suffered more than the transportation employees. The number of railway workers now employed, according to a recent report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, has dropped to a little oyer 1,500,000. This is a decline of more than 500,000 since the rail roads were returned to private management after the war. 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