Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1916-05-01
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note: iX^ WESTERN CLARIO The Official Organ of the Socialist Party of Canada.^ NO. 780 VANCOUVER, B.C., MAY, 1916 MONTHLY, 5C. 1 A PORTENT! ATROCITIES LIBERTY." 1 I m 1 I 1 1 THE WAR'S DREGS are filtering through. Every city, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific slope has its quota of 1returned heroes." Several have filtered through to Calgary. When we were there about the middle of March, consternation reigned; editorial inkslingers and pious gabfiends held holy hands of horror high. A delicate situation p~:e sented itself. The "Veteran's Club," the rendezvous of returned soldiers, was sup plicated daily for janitors, gardeners, porters, and other useful article -1, at about $20 per. We believe many "veterans" were indignant.But when the "Movie" operators went on. strike for "recognition" the "Veteran's Club" was virtually raided for "cheap labor." And the raid was not in vain! For many of the club' i members had received some instruction in the art of providing entertainment for the patrons of Filmdom. They were fairly proficient and therefore possibles; being "cheap" they became actuals, ajd thus the methol which has proved so tellingly effective in pre-war days for the masters, was not departed from. Of course, we know that "organized labor" has done its part in this great crisis. And now "organized labor" is entitled to claim the reward it deserves. That the situation is peculiar is admitted by the "Calgary Albertan" which sorrowfully informed its many intelligent readers that this was but an earnest of more to comeâespecially after the war. Further, it is to be regretted, so wails this intellectual Newsance, that soldiers were taken on at greatly reduced pay. But what could one expect? And as we view in retrospect the antics of "organized labor's" chieftains for the past few years, we could readily look upon this "promise of the A SHORT time ago, in the city of Winnipeg, the soldiery and constabulary came into opposition to each other, resulting in severe injur…
note: missing April 1916 edition
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
identifier: AN .W3
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374230
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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