The Labour Statesman
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alternative: [The Labor Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-02-06
issued: 1966-01
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note: -. â >.' FRONT PAGE NOTES PARKSVILLE: The annual winter school sponsored by the £LC for union training will ..be held in this Vancouver Island community Jan. 24 to 28. : - ; All indications point to the largest rejgistration in the history of jthe school in which various aspects of labour organization and administration are taught. The school and social aspects cohnected with it will be held in the Island Hall Hotel. â¢: ' LONDON (CPA).-X new printing tr-jde union called the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, with a membership of 218,000, is to be formed by the amalgamation of the National union of Printing, Bookbinding and Pa{»r Work- tra (172,000) and the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (46,000). If will be the tenth largest union in Britain, and will represent about three-quarters of all the employees in printing and allied trades.. The number of printing unions has been reduced from 16 to seven by amalgamations during the last seven years. - During the last few years the Trades Union Congress, and various organization experts, have been urging. Britain's trade union movement to streamline. itself into fewer and bigger unions. The number of unions has so far been reduced from about 182 to about 170, but TUC affiliated membership stands at* a record total of 8,771,0.2. VANCOUVER: A wire expressing "alarm" has been sent to the B.C. gov-^ ernment because of the failure of the PGE to send patrols ahead of trains in t-Wrtitttsihous terrain:-*"â -** Trie wire was^ei £. & MeFarlanej. legislative and safety represen- Mativ.; Brothtirhood'of'*' Railroad Trainmen (Lodge 1080). He said in Janv&ry, 1965 a coroners' jury recommended patrols ahead of every train aftef a train hit *» snow slide and an engineer Was drowned 7". fX PARTE OPINION ILWU CASE CHANCE TO "SPRING CLEAN* LAW William McCarthy Some years ago in. Boston a shopowner named - Vegelahn faced a small strike' by a handful of employees. . l* / â .Each" day one, sometimes, two (never m…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439712
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : B.C. Federation of Labour ; Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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