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HE BRITISH: COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST PUSTRIAL UNITY: STBBNQTH. tXTHYE/ / ______ OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL AND B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR. VMCOTJVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1914. POLITICAL UNTTT: TICTOOTI /In Vaneouver\ V Ctty.ttM ) $1.50 PER YEAB ■ill Ask the Federation to ] Draft a Compensation Act for Workers BE DONE Aid. Cottrell Says Laborers' Wages Are Now Too High loposed Cut of City Labor- (ers' Wages Is Strongly .Protested 1'. fairly attended meeting ot the pncll met at 8 o'clock last night, der the chairmanship ot President H. McVety. A few new delegates |re Initiated, as follows: Messrs. rtrldge, Bunce, Healy, Webb and heelwright. rhe council decided that lt would t endorse the scheme which certain 'eons submitted for the establish- of a 10 cent soup kitchen. The . council wrote saying that, ln ppohse to the request of the TradeB d Labor council, the office of the city irk would be kept open trom now the end of the month, during the •nines, for the convenience of work- in who are entitled to be on the city Ing list, and who wish to register, ie request of the Red Cross Society funds had to be filed owing to lack .finance. South Wellington miners wrote ac- pwledglng the (BO contributed by f council to aid the victims of the tent Are which devastated that town. e convention call of the American [deration of Labor was flled. The ■men contributed $25 to the B. C. Plerationist, as part of the expense preparing special matter Inviting next convention of the Trades Con- >os ot Canada to Vancouver. [The council refused to be represent- ._ the civic relief committee rough an organization called the Soil Service council, and had claimed Ihe represented directly, which re- jsst had been agreed to by the mayor. Workmen's Compensation, hie parliamentary committee re- pimended that the council write the ,C. Federation of Labor, suggesting it the special committee appointed (ft the proposed workmen's com- psatlon bill, to be printed and disputed among working men of the evince. The sum of |60 was voted nsslst ln defraying the cost, and thr [deration is to be asked to invite the |p ot other councils. This recom- indatlon was concurred In. ' was decided to ask Mayor Baxter declare a halt holiday next civic ictlon day. City Laborers' Wages, rhe council appointed a committee |go to the city hall, and protest tbe Miosal to reduce city laborers' wages )ow S3 per 8-hour day. The com- ttee is Sully, McVety, Estinghausen, ilker and Pettlplece, With respect ■this matter, considerable discussion Jk place. Bel. Sully wanted the meeting to Bte its views on the question plain fause, he said, lt would affect many [era besldeB the city workmen. In It would be taken as an excuse i general reduction of laborers' s all over the city. BieU'Fiite Kllpatrlck said he would the question to be decided by the rarers' union which would have' the itter before it tonight. • Belega.te Pettlplece pointed out that _ Trales and Labor council was en- Bed to more than a word when such Jquestion was to be decided. The |uncll had fought for the $3 per day laborers some years ago, and had feed it by agitation Into a political lue, and the electors of the city had pported the council by plebiscite ite ln favor; If the laborers' union >s likely to agree to a reduction, he It they should have the seriousness such a step fully Impressed upon em by the' same committee which is to visit the city council. He protested that If once the wage was wered from $3, it would never be Ised again. Delegate Pipes also felt It was a friouB proposal against which em- latlc protest should be made. ' Congress Committee Report. The committee appointed to invite ie Trades and Labor Congress of inada to bold Its convention in this ty next year, reported that at Its re- uest the B. C. Fodcratlonlst had pub- shed an edition containing Illustrated latures and setting forth reasons for le congress coming here. Three nun- red copies had been sent to this bar's convention to be distributed by elegate W. R. Trotter, the council's jprcsentatlvc. _ . 'President McVety reported as the Liuucll's member of the civic War lellef committee. He said that the jork of that body had disclosed an bpalling amount of distress and want, lith ln the city and ln South Vancou- ;r. In some cases, families of a [other and six children were without |od, bouta, or clothing Many casnr mortgagees attempting to foreclose, Id lake possession of the little homes such people, had been stalled off, fear of the odium which would be night upon those practicing auch sanness. illef was being chiefly paid In jcks so that persons receiving lt [ould not be embarrassed by the dire jesslty which forced them to accept He Was using his efforts to have relief made to apply to all ln dts- whether they were relatives of in gone to the war or not, In some pes, those who had canvassed the ly tor contributions to tbe fund had [ind conditions bo bad that, Instead collecting a contribution they had [ea relief. Union Reports. She street rallwaymen reported that er a new schedule lust lsaued by company the street car service ^ to be reduced 15 per cent. To let that, men having regular runs fe going to lay oft one day In each A Reduction Would Reduce Wages on the False Creek Work LOCAL RELIEF COMMITTEE'S PROBLEMIODJECT LESSON F0R|PR0SPECT OF PEACE Org. W. R. Trotter Does Good Work at Winnipeg Convention The persistent talk about reducing below tho minimum of $3 per 8 hour- day, found its way into the meeting of the railways and bridges committee last Wednesday night. It arose in connection with the building of tho concrete causeway which is to take the place of the present wooden bridge loading into Stanley Park at Cosl harbor. A committee of non-union champions from the builders' exchange appeared in response to a generous-hearted impulse to do the workmen of the city a good turn. They urged "that tho duty devolved upon the government and the city to do all it possibly eould to relieve the very serious conditions which threatened the laboring mon of the city this winter. They were not pressing tho city to do thia work by contract, although it could be done cheaper that way, but if they had monoy available for this and other work, it should be started." It wss the plight of the laboring men which they were concerned about, not the profits which might come their way if the job was done by contract. Then the question of the laborers' $3 per day came along. Alderman Cottrell, of Wnrd 6, has been trying to have that wage reduced for some time, and, as recorded in The Federationist, even went so far, a weok or two ago, as to come to tho Lubor Temple to see if the Trades nnd Labor Council would back him up in his efforts. At this meeting of the railways and bridges committee, he strongly advocated contract labor, and declared that the city was making a great mistnko by keeping up the $3 wage when contractors could get men for *S. There is more in this proposal than many workmen are aware of. In tl' first place, city laborers Kro only making $8.25 per week—providing they do not have to stand off for ruin—because thoy are working two weeks out of every four. Then again there is the agreement made between the city nnd the Canadian Northern Railway com- fwny- lost year, with regard to the filing in of False Creek. When the contract Wob first drawn up the wage clause read that, workmen on the job should be paid "the current rate of wages.paid in the city for Bimilar work." The Trades nnd Labor Council vigorously opposed thnt clauso and asked that the specific wage of $3 for eight hours should be paid to laborers. Finally,, after protracted effort, the most that eould he got was that the wages of laborers, engaged on tbe work of filling in False Creek, should be the same as paid by the city to its laborers. The work of filling in ia now going on and is to be pushed ahead this winter. Sn it means that if the city reduces laborers' wages below $3 for city work, the Canadian Northern- railway company will be able to lower their rate also. Alderman F. Woodsido, the chairman of the committee, pointed this out, nm* voiced his opposition to contract labor, stating that' in his opinion the cltv Bhould use tlfis opportunity of providing work for unemployed men nt day wages. An Interesting Prophecy. "It may interest this country to know that there will bo a sensational development in tho European situation on or about September 23. On that day there will be a secret eonference in Europe which will cause BusBia to desert tho allies and support Germany. We will get the news here nbont September 25 or 26. I know what I nm talking about."—A. K. Graves, New York, an ex-German Bpy. Congress Executive Council Assisted in Release of Miners Unionists generally throughout Canada will be pleased to learn that W. B. Trotter, western Canada representative bf the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, haa been successful in securing the reaffiliation of the Canadian membership , of the International Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-way Employees, numbering some 6500. The trackmen have been in annual convention at Winnipeg during the past week, and Org. Trotter was present to press the claims of tho Congress upon the delegates. Besides this splendid work for the Congress, Org. Trotter has accomplished muoh in the way of stimulating interest in the national labor body among the unions of Winnipeg, A number of Winnipeg delegates left for St. John during the week, and among them was Mr. Trotter, who will represent Vancouver Trades and Labor Council at tho Congress convention. Helped the Miners, Now that all save one of the imprisoned coal miners of Vancouver Island have been relensed, it may not be out of place to mention that President .1. C. Wattora and the other two members of the executive council of the Congress played nn important part in the result. They worked unceasingly among the authorities at Ottawa, and, backed by strong influences in B. C, were in no small measure responsible for tho release of the minors. Capitalism places tho workerB on exactly the same piano ns its inanimate machinery—mere meana of production. Both are speeded up to the minute, whether the time be long or short. eight. They had sent 150 to relieve South Wellington fire victims. Commercial Telegraphers reported conditions very slack, many being laid off. The cookB Btated that they had put Allen's cafes on their unfair list. Painters had 80 membera out of work. Their wages had been reduced on the Vancouver hotel Job from 14.50 to $4.00 per day. Pattern-makers had 60 per cent, unemployed. Machinists reported that the C. P. R. had decided to have practically no repair work done here ln future. A new big shop had been erected at Calgary and the work was to be done there Instead. This matter is to be taken up with the city council also, in view of the exemption from taxation and the free water which tbe C. P. R. receives at the expense of tbe city. The steam engineers want the city I to re-establish Its free employment bureau. It was reported that the federal law calling for an 8 hour day on work carried out for the Dominion government was being violated at the dock being built for the government at the [foot of Salisbury drive. The Minister of Labor Is to be notified, also /the local fair wages officer for the Dominion. Delegate Miss H. Gutteridge an nounced that the local Council ot Women were calling a mass meeting to deal with the question of the great number of unmarried women and girls of all occupations who are out of employment. She pointed out the gravity of thl-t from a moral point of view, and said that the time and place of the meeting would be advertised In the newspapers tomorrow and Monday night, '" PRINT SHOP CONDITIONS Messrs. Cowan ft Brookhouse Purchase Plant of Lefeaux Bros. A number of changes have taken place during the past month in local prlntsho'p circles. In a few cases it has become necessary to hang up the "high Bign," while all of them have reduced .their working- forces.. Consequently a couple of dozen more printers are frequenting typo, union headquarters lh tho Labor Temple. Secretary Neelands reports more travelling cards being issued than received. During the week Messrs. Cowan & Brookhouse purchased the printing plant of Lefeaux Bros., (E. T. Kingsley) nnd hnve moved from the Dunsmuir lane corner of tho Labor Temple to the basement occupied by the latter, and The Federationist is issued from the "merger" promises this week. RAILWAY BROTHERHOODS FEEL THE "WAR" PINCH The railway brotherhoods membership is feeling the pinch of the war panic and industrial collapse along with the rest of organized labor. No attack has yet- boon made upon their wage schedules, as is the caae among the <maller and meaner employers, but tb crews have been cut on western divisions at least two-thirds. All other railway employees in tho operating department are likewise affected. War IS hell. If the inside story of the work of tile committee which is engaged in distributing the fund collected for tbe relief, of dependents of reservists and others gone to the war were known it would expose s story of want snd destitution absolutely appalling. Unemployment hsd kept hundreds of these families on ths very edge for long enough before ihe war started and the last push was all thst was nssdsd to send them over into the abyss of poverty. They sre, ot course, sll wo- sn and children. In addition to those ln Ute elty Itself, there are many from South Vancouver and outlying jarts, where the severity of the unemployment of last winter hu not abated to, any measurable degree during the past summer. .In addition to these particular Und of cases there are thousands of others equally as had, It Is confronting the authorities with a problem such ss they little expected would ever hsvs to bs faced, and the idea is growing tbat one central civic relief body, directly under the control ef the city council, ahould he formed. Such bodies as the associated charities -which worked very well as long as they had nothing to do—should be done away with or merged in a central body, At anyr ate, the need for a more comprehensive plan for dealing with the general privation which prevails, Is obvious, .Everybody knows some cases within their own circle of acquaintance, hut very few realise the extent of poverty ln the city and the degree of Intensity with which it has fallen on some families. . , The situation is becoming graver with each day and sooner or later it will either have to be met with something more effective tban charity or tbe accumulated distress will be mere than any one group of men can handle. The part to be played by the Trades and Lahor council cannot he of a flnanclal kind, hut lt can, by practical suggestion and participation do something towards the general result. At the session of'the committee tbls week, Jas, H. McVety, on behalf of tbe Trades and Labor council, suggested that this would he a good time for patriotic people to discbarge their Oriental domestic servants and replace them wltb some of the hundreds of white women who are dally hauntig the female employment agencies for work. The chief difficulty with these patriots up to the present has been that they have only been willing to give a white girl half the Wages they pay to a yellow man. Even the Conservative daily press now admits that the High Cost of Living Commission's report will be useless. The Labor press of Canada pointed tbo inevitability of the present partisan admission nt tho time the commission was appointed. IN Evacuation of Vera Cruz by Forces Hastens Day of Reckoning Zapata to Enforce His-Land Policy or Fight with Carranza I UNORGANIZED President of Timber Workers' Makes Instructive Comparison Says Unionists Should Start Organization Revival Next Spring IN COLORADO IS Plan of Conciliation Propo* ed by U. S. President Woodrow Wilson U. M. W. of A. Officers, at Trinidad, WiU Consider Its Adoption FEDERATION OF LABOB FOBOES. Tasmania Unionists Follow Example of Other Australian States, The state of Tasmania ia but a small island oft the south coast of the Australian mainland, but it forms part of the great Australian commonwealth. It was only natural when the great unions of Australia formed a federation for solidarity that Tasmania would do the sumo. According to latest advices from the island state the unionists, who number some 10,000 in all, hove resolved thnt tho time is npportuno when thoy will band themselves into one big federation. Tho movement haa been on tho cards for some time now, but last week the mater received tho official sanction Hobart Trades Council. All that remains now is for a conference to bo called of tho whole of tho unions that the flunl touches may be put on tho matter. The consolidating of tho unions moans much to tha unions of that state. At the present timo unions are in two camps, so to speak. There is tbe political party and the industrial party. The new amalgamation will have the object of cementing the two bodies and handling all matters, whether political or industrial, from one head. This will bring Tasmania into line with the other Australia ii states. The United States government has ordered the evacuation of the port of Vera Cruz by American forces. Tho Constitutional government of Mexico i going to take control of the city again, and the Carranza administration is going to be recognized by Pres. Wilson. On the surface it looks as if peace was assured in Mexico, but the second part of the tragedy is yet to eome. The common people are not in accord with the agreement made between Carranza and the United States government, be cause the oil fields will remain in th. hands of the Standard Oil, which means the practical ruling of the country by the magnates bf 20 Broadway. The latest action of the United States government brought out a confession of the inability of the Wilson government ti cope with the situation. The situation will greatly serve the Zapata followers' interests, in their campaign for the extension of further territory. These forces have been holding their positions in the Southern States since last April and although not actually fighting, they are ready to take the field and carry on their work throughout the country. Zapata has refused to attend a convention that Carranza called for October 1st in the capital of the republic. He has refused to tie himself by any promise of assistance and once more he has made the statement that nothing but the occupation of the land by the farmers can stop his armed movement. The new government is afraid of the renewal of the campaign, and is taking all kinds of precautions to prevent the forces of the other states, disgusted with the agreement of Carranza and the Standard Oil, from supporting the Zapata plans. REDUCED TO ''WAB' BUT STILL IN THE FIGHT While The Federationist regrets a reduction to four pages this week, there was no other alternative. During the last six weeks its revenue has been cut in half, for causes at once apparent to every one in Western Canada. Ab soon as conditions will permit, The Federationist will keep up with the procession. The "Oolo'd Gen'man" at Butte. If every anyone had any doubt as to the causes underlying the Butte labor troubles, it ought now to be completely dispelled, says . the Spokane Labor World. It is the same old game that has been played against the. workers time and time again, until it would seem that the workers could not again be fooled by this hoary tool of capitalism. At the outbreak of this trouble The Labor World voicod the suspicion that the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company, the copper trust, was behind tho split in the Butte Miners' Union. This suspicion is now confirmed beyond nny ronsonnble doubt, and for the time- being the trust Ib on top and the power -of the unions broken. J. G. Brown, president of the International Union of Shingle Weavers, Sawmill Workers and Woodsmen, with headquarters at Seattle, was a visitor in New Westminster and. Vancouver during the week. On Tuesday he mot a number of sawyers and filers at the Labor Temple, when the question of organization was discussed. Pres. Brown, in oommon with other union officials, is of the opinion that industrial conditions will continue very dull throughout the coming winter, but lis likewise confident that next spring 'will witness a general revival of business. He advises trade unionists to stick to their guns and mark time for the next few months; and then to start an organization revival campaign. "If there ever. was. any proof needed," said Pres. Brown to The Federatlonist, "to show unorganized workmen the advantages of organization, sorely the present crisis is supplying the lesson. In the timber industry everywhere the organized workers are the last to receive a cut in their wages. Show me a hundred per cent, organization and I'll show you a bunch of men who are maintaining wages under adverse circumstances, True their staffs may have been reduced, but the organized Work- ers are 'dividing up' the work, i they are inaugurating shorter, hours, putting into effect five-day week laws and otherwise looking after their membership. It is surely an object lesson for the unorganized workers of the Pacific coast.'' Mr. Brown says that in Washington, too, the industrial panie prevails, though probably not to such an extent as in B. C. Any trade unionist in possession of information likely to interest readers of The Federationist will be doing a service by sending it along. LET US KEEP TO BU8INE88 AN INSPIRED SCRIBE, on the "special assignment" Hat, has recently been investigating the operation of a minimum wage for young women workers in New Zealand, where the minimum wage fixed by law for such is eight dollars and fifty-three cents per week. With an insight of the matter which is almost human he emerges from his probing with the following jewel of opinion: "Another feature observed in New Zealand was, that the indolent worker, entering on a minimum wage on which she could live, lagged, lacked incentive to jump higher, and sometimes lagged so that she had to be dismissed for laziness." The pressure behind men and women in the dawn days of the race was that of hunger. If they did not catch their minimum wage of enough to cat, they died. Can it be that this worthy scribbler would have us accept the inference which he so plainly occurs; that young women workers are still so crude and elemental that nothing short of hunger will extract service from them in return for pay? The callousness of the mental attitude reflected in the words quoted is typical of the "impartial scrutiny" exercised by the unbiassed inquirer whose findings are put into his hands when he sets about his job. Grant, for the sake of argument, that the facts are true. Girl workers in New Zealand may be more profitable to their employers when they begin for less than a living wage. The hope of some day getting the nourishing food they need, and the pretty clothes and amusements young girls are entitled to, may hold them to their tasks with a desperation lacking under the certainty of getting the eight dollars and fifty-three cents a week on which they can just exist. Go even further, and say that their employers themselves may be under the pressure of an economic situation which inclines them to choose between paying low wages or giving up their business to others with less scruples. But none of those factors, or any other, can in the slightest degree justify paying a girl, of all workers, less than she needs to maintain personal fitness and self respect. To those who take but casual interest in such matters, the path to improvement may seem beset wilh difficulties, but to those who know what it often means, all other considerations are submerged beneath the appalling possibilities behind the fact of just one girl who gets just one dollar less than the least amount she can exist upon. Critics, barren of the desire to tackle the question fundamentally, find solace for their ineptitude in the hoary old horrors of that school of political economists who fill the gap left by them when they ignore the human clement in industry by babbling of "the survival of the fittest," and sundry other jungle ethics as applied to human affairs. Of all English ideas it is the most stupid. Born in Manchester, it postulates the theory that starvation stimulates ambition, "Give 'em lots of bible, some beer, a little bread, and we can keep 'em in such shape as will make our fortunes." Nearly all the statues of successful merchants which deface the already ugly streets of the great textile cities of northern England, have been built of such material—and they certainly look like it The fact that they are permitted to remain there shows that we still have a long road to travel. When a move is made, it will be women who will point the way. A. F. OF L. CONVENTION To Meet at Philadelphia on Monday, Nor. 9. The thirty-fourth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor will be held at Philadelphia, Pa., beginning Novehmber 9, and will continue In session ffom'dtty to flay until1 the business of the convention has been completed. The official call says: "It is, of course, entirely unnecessary to enumerate the imminent important subjects with which our forthcoming convention will concern itself, but the reminder is not at all amiss that every effort must be made to broaden the field and means for the organization of the yet unorganized workers, to strive to bring about more effectually than ever, a better day in the lives and homes of the toilers, to defend and maintain by every honorable means in our power the right to organize for our common defense and advancement, for the exorcise of our normal and constitutional activities to protect and promote the rights and interests of the workers; and to assert at any risk the freedom of speech and of the press and the equal rights before the law of every worker with every citizen; the tremendous conflict now being waged in Europe and its possible consequences and results, not only upon the people of European countries but upon the people of Americn, as well as on tho whole civilized world, must of necessity receive tho deepest solicitous consideration of tho working people of America. These and other groat questions of equal importance will, of necessity, occupy the attontion of the Philadelphia convention." TRINIDAD, Colo., Sept. Iff.—Toto, one year after the minen decided to strike for an enforcement of Colorado mining laws, 185 offleen and memben of the United Mine Worken of America are meeting-here to decide whether or not they will consider a plan of eon- ciliation suggested by Preaident Wood- row Wilson. The text of tht propoaed agreement followa: Whereat the industrial conflict U the eoal mining fields of Colorado hai disrupted the peace of those sections of the atate to the extent that a state of war has practically existed for. eome time, and, whereaa, a temporary peaee is maintained by the presence of federal troops, '■ Therefore, there ahould be *. ._. ed a three-year truce, subject tot 1, The enforcement of mining aad labor laws of the atate. 2, That all striking mlnen who hat« not been found guilty of violation of the law shall be given employment by the employer they formerly worked for, and where the place of the employee haa been filled, he shall be given employment ae a miner at tbe same or other mines of the company. 3, Intimidation of union or non-union men strictly prohibited. 4, Current scale' of wages, rulet and regulations for eaeh mine to be printed and posted. 5, Each mine to have a grievance committee to be selected by majority ballot at a meeting catted for the par- pose, in which aU employeea (except officials of the company) have the right to participate. Members of said committee must be. employed at leaat six months at the la* dividual mine before being eligible. Married men to be in the majority oa each committee. Grievances to be flnt taken up in- of the A. F. of L. Pres. Gompers on War. Intimating that the European war Is one Bolely of nn aggrandizement and conquest—"a war to divert to peoples from their constructive work of humanizing and democratizing tendencies"— President Gompers of tho A. F. of L. predicts that its outcome will be n world government and a world federation competent to maintain penco. He declares the war will mean tho "van- quisbment of autocracy, the emergence of a society in which the people shall be supreme nnd in which men V thoughts shall be given to tho things of penco. . . .In the general roor- gnnizntion thnt will follow tin* war, the workers must havo voice nnd influence Thnt voice nnd thnt influence hnve ever been used for liberty, justice and humanity." Dissatisfaction at Valcartier. Tho Federationist is in receipt of a letter from one of the volunteers now nt Valcartier, in which ho declares that probably the choice of rustling for a living in Vancouver this winter might have been preferable after all to life in a military camp. The food is "punk" and to make matters worse the authorities nre inoculating them with typhoid antitoxin, with the result that many are suffering and three are reported to have died. Some of the recruits have refused to stand for the treatment meted Oiit, which has resulted in their being let out. U. S. Unions Are Pleased. The passage by the United States senate of the Clayton bill, the provisions of which exempt labor unions from the workings of the Sherman Anti-Trust law, has occasioned much pleasure among unionists. They express themselves aB highly plensed with the vote, which was 46 to 37, and almost all agree that the credit for securing its passage belongs to the American Federation of Labor, which had backed the bill. "Have you had any breakfast! queried the chairman of tho chapel of tho printer touriBt. "Not a drop,'' quoth tho p, \, dividually with the proper officer of company. Failing adjustment, they ean refer to their local grievance committee for farther consideration with the mine officials. Still falling agreement, the matter ahall be, submitted to a com" mitteecompoeed^f.three mm to be appointed by the preaident of the United States, and which shall be repres tive of each side, with the third i ber to act as umpire, whenever n sary. This commission shall, during the three years of truce, serve ae adjustew or referees in all disputes (whether Individual or collective) affecting wages, working and social conditions. Said commission shall devote primarily all the necessary time to the consideration and adjustment of such disputes. 6. It is understood aa a condition of the creation of said commission that during the life of the truce— (a) The claim for contractual relations is to be waived, but this shall not prevent the voluntary agreement between any employer and their employees during the life of this truce. (b) No mine guards to be employed, but this does not preclude tho employment of necessary watchmen. (c) In the establishment of the truce tho presence of tbe federal or state troops should become unnecessary. (d) There shall be no picketing, parading, colonizing or mass campaigning by representatives of any labor organization of minen that are parties to this truce, which will interfere with the working operations of any mine during the said period of three years. (e) During said truce the decisions of the commission in eases submitted shall be final and binding on employers and employees. (f) There shall be no suspension of work pending the investigation and reaching a decision on any dispute, (g) The suspension of a mine over six consecutive days by tbe company may be authorized for cause satisfactory to the commission, but not pending nny dispute. fh) Wilful violations on any of these conditions will be subject to such penalties ns may be imposed by the commission. Employers and employees each to pay one-half of the expenses of the commission. Berlin Socialists' Message, The Berlin branch of tho social Democratic party has sent out a message to their comrades throughout the world, An extract reads: "Wo now sec the uncurbed tyrant surrounded by his parasites, directing the most desperate devilish and selfish campaign ever waged against humanity. With the toilers la all lands wo have no quarrel, nnd to-day we extend our hands In the heartiest friendship to every French, Belgian and British democrat. We know that tho internal revolution proceeding in our midst will depose this despot whose insatiable egotism is drenching Europe with tbe blood of Its workers and wage earners." Believe in Publicity. The unionists of Australia are doing things. The Daily Herald haa been launched in Adelaide, South Australia, and on Nov. 6 another paper, the World, will be started at Sydney, New .Smith Wales. Arrangements are also being made to convert The Worker, a weekly at Brisbane, Queensland, Into a daily. This ought to make a formidable battery for labor on the world'e smallest continent. "Homes that are homeless, children that are fatherless, mothen whose boys are in nameless graves—such Is the sacrifice. War's glory Is in its calamities, the widowed women it leaves behind; the unborn babes who ean inherit naught but sorrow and bondage. 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Gibb, Box 934 Prince Rupert, W. E. Denning, Box 531 Victoria - A. S. Wells, Box 1538 Directors: Jaa. Campbell, president; J. H McVety, secretary-treasurer; H. Gibb; a. 3. Kelly; R. P. Pettipiece Office: Room 217, Labor Temple Tel. Exchange Sey. 7495. Advertising Manager M. C. Shrader Affiliated with Western Labor Press Association Unity of Labor; the hop, of th. world." FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1914 THE B. C. WESTERN CATHOLIC is very desirous that the mayor of the city should instruct the police to suppress what it calls the soap box orators who are preaching sedition and blasphemy at sundry of the street FREE corners of the city SPEECH each night. The sen- AOAIN. timent expressed by onr local contemporary is not a new oae. In fact, we recognise in it sn old acquaintance, who flourished like the proverbial green bay tree, with a very lusty hut short lived career, during the mayoralty of one James Findlay, whose doughty deeds in the way of head- cracking earned for him the sobriquet of Findlaykovsky, and the- disgust of the conservative party machine, which had put him in offlce, to such a degree that, at the end of hla year, they kicked him out to make way for a saner and broader man. We are not so much interested in any particular brand of politics, whose advocates may come beneath the disapproval of our religious contemporary, as in the principle which is involved. Neither do we see how street speaking ean produce much effect— either good or bad—*vhen it has to compete with the continuous rattle of atreet cars, the ringing of their bells, the tooting of automobiles and the countless other noises which go to make np the hideous din which goes on from early morn till late at night in the city streets. * . . • * The B. C. Western Catholic speaks, in the same article, of the advantages which are part of the privilege of living in a British community. Quite so. One of them is the liberty to speak freely about anything under the sun, without having to go to prison for doing so—ns is the case in some parts of the world where the religion of our contemporary haa far more influence on the administration of the law than it has In the average British community. Free speech is by no means a spontaneous gift from the ruling class to the masses. It is a matter of governmental polity, baaed upon a knowledge gained by years of experience, of the weak' spots of the working class. The secret of it is this. So devise the policy of government, that the masses get the impression that they are governing, themselves, then you can do as you Uke with them. The logical outcome and application of that idea is nowhere seen so practically illustrated as In the very: heart of the elty of London itself. Just inside Hyde Park, every "1st" and ism" on the face of the earth are given all the room and freedom to express themselves whieh even the most ardent devotee might desire. The consequence is, nobody interferes, very few take any particular notice, and nothing happens to seriously disturb the sway of the ruling class, whieh looks with approval on snch gatherings, as the safety valves necessary to maintaining itself In authority. • ■ » . . About this little matter of "sedition" and "blasphemy." It is not quite clear what is meant by our contemporary. The terms are used in an Indefinite way, without anything to Indicate precisely what is to be understood by them. Perhaps it is meant that the sayings complained of are subversive of the supreme authority anil tbe teachings of the church on whose behnlf the B. C. Western Catholic speaks. Bearing in mind the denunciations which have been issued from that quarter ngainst the ndvanced sections of working class thought, tbo reason for the action of our contemporary becomes a little plainer. Still, we believe that It would be difficult to disprove the contention thnt every man and every movement which, in all the history of the world have contributed anything to the progress of mankind, were, in their day, denouncod aB seditious and blasphemous. Christ himnelf wa. crucified for it, nnd millions of others who, in their time, and accord ing to their lights, have sacrificed all nnd Inbored long and hard for tbe benefit of mankind, hnve heen sent to suffering nnd denth bv authority sheltered behind tho craven's excuse of sedition und blasphemy—tho martyrs of Smith- field and St. Bartholmew'a eve amongst them. ...» However, we have no reason to think that the chief magistrate of this city will lend his authority to extremists, either religious or otherwise, in the manner which his narrow-minded predecessor did. He will see that the ob ject of our contemporary is, to use pub lie feeling-as a tool with which to deliver a blow for them against people who profess a political belief for which the B, .0. Western Catholic has a keen dislike. As long as their partisan wrath can be appeased they will be satisfied. Bat there is more than a usual amount of social discontent abroad just now, as the result of the vast amount of unemployment and general economic depression which prevails, and it will be wise on the part of the authorities to give that discontent an opportunity of expressing itself in speech. THE McBRIDE-BOWSER government evidently does not intend to .make any attempt to alleviate the appalling condition of unemployment and economic depression which prevails throughout the province, if the MAKE people can be kept McBRIDE quiet and things al- HOVE. - lowed to muddle through somehow. As an aggregation of political mediocrities they are, from a Working class standpoint, a tragic joke at the best of tlmoB, but in face of the present crisis their ineptitude and indifference is the rankest insolence to thousands of the working men and women who, in one part or another of this province are literally starving. Every deputation which has gone to Victoria during the last twelve months to try snd urge them to action, bas been entertained with the flow of dialectical drivel which McBride keeps permanently on tap for such purposes. But nothing has been done for the very simple reason that, by doing nothing, McBride did not feel that his political prestige would be at all impaired. The condition of the people does not worry him as long as it does not threaten his political power, And there haB not yet appeared any combination of forces formidable enough to scare him into action. But unless we are much mistaken, the present situation is so acute, and is pinching so many people who in previous times have not felt the pressure, that an agitation to demand that a special session of the legislature be called to devise ways and means of alleviating conditions, would receive so much general support that McBride's politics] sagacity would grasp the meaning of it, and he would be forced to act. * - » • « The main factors of the situation as it confronts us today are these. On the one hand are thousands of acres of land, capable of being made arable and productive of the things which the people of this province need for their ov- ery-day existence, and will continue to need for just so long as we live here. On the other hand are thousands of unemployed men, able, anxious and willing to secure that land in return for the labor needed to make it productive. In the task of bringing those men and that land together, what obstacles are there in the way other than those deliberately seen or made by thoae in Vic toria who control the political power of the provincet McBride's usual answer is, that there are now no available tracts of land sufficiently large and at the same time close to the few big cities. Also that tho government has no money—or the means of raising sny— for carrying out such a scheme. Take the land difficulty flrst. There are millions of acres, many of them comparatively near to the cities, which have been handed over by the government during the past six years to individual, and coporations of, speculators. They have held those lands in the hope of selling them te settlers at fancy prices, and out of the monies thus received to pay the nominal price charged for the land by the government- in the flrst place, and to pay taxes on unsold portions until such time as they were disposed of. But the land boom has burst. Buyers have not been forthcoming. And in hundreds of cases not one cent has been paid by those speculators as yet. In fact, the (9,000,000 surplus which McBride made out the province had to its credit last year, was nothing more nor less than the money owing to the government by speculators who do not intend to pay one single bean until they sell their land, unless- they are forced' to do. «... Now why should not those lands be taken back by the government, then cleared, and cut up into holdings of various sizes from ten acres upwards* Work would be provided for thousands of unemployed, who could be given first call on the land when it was ready for cultivation, and Instead of thousands of industrious citlsens falling into the hopeless desperation which continual unemployment breeds,, they would have n chance to live under self-respecting circumstances. But McBride would say: "We have not got the money to float the scheme, to pay for the clearing, and to make the loans which these settlers would need to finance them to start out with." If there is tho will the way would come of Itself. If the credit of the people of British Columbia is good enough security upon which to borrow money for the personal advantnge of private shareholders In the Pacific Great Eastern and other railway companies, it is certainly good enough to bnck up a productive enter- price of such a public character as the one we suggost. The further objection will be mnde that money cannot be borrowed now. owing to financial conditions. Very well, there is the chance for McBride to shew whether his govern. ment contains one statesman, or whether they are all what they seem to be— scurvy politicians. Let the government take the bull by the horns, and issue government script in the form of notes of various denominations to be paid to those who de work or supply material for carrying out the scheme, Those notes would exchange for commodities, and would be the expression of real wealth produced in the shape of land made fertile and productive. If the government shewed that they were really in earnest, it is doubtful if they would have to go to the point of actually issuing that script. For this reason: It would mean that the state was going into ths banking business, and it would be a blow at the private banking monopoly, which iB the worst of all the commercial vampires whioh. are Bucking the very life blood of that portion of the inhabitants who are the real and actual wealth producers of this province. If such a move could be set going, it would open the eyes of thousands of the voters of British Columbia, in such a fashion as would start them thinking along lines whioh would bode no good for the gang of political pirates who are now in control of the administrative and executive power of this province. FOOD CRANKS always seem so funny when they are serious, and so serious when they are funny, that to the ordinary person they aro a very difficult quantity to understand at any time. One of the most widely. PEEUNOS known of the "food FOR THE reform" experts in PROLETARIAT England, ia Eustace Miles who haa commercialized the gastronomic crankiness of the grape nutters and the fruit fanatics with considerable material advantage to himself, The Eustace Miles restaurants are nothing less than an institution in London. He has also produced quite a deal of literature on the subject of food from the standpoint of the faddist. But of all he ever wrote he never put forth anything quite so naive as a letter which he aent to the press at the outbreak of the war, and in which he shewed how economy may be practiced in the matter of food. The gentleman says: Sir,—The war will soon cause distress to the poor. Let thoae who can, save the peelings of potatoes, carrots, apples, and the outside layers of onions and leaves of cabbages, lettuces, pea-pods and marrow seeds Wash theae well, let them simmer in water, and after straining, add milled bread crunibs and crusts, milled cheese, and some soaked and cooked peas or beans or lentils, and distribute to the needy, or else send to some central place of distribution It would mean a little individual trouble, but would cost hardly anything, and would help a good deal. EUSTACE MILES. Now that strikes us as being a really statesmanlike proposal to make in the richest country on the face of the earth, especially just now. • » . - * It looks like one of two things— either the babbling which comes from the lopsided mentality of a faddist, or that damnable insolence which assumes that nothing is too poor for the poor. Just now in England, the authorities are calling on every able-bodied man, who can possibly do so, to take up mill tary duty. Alright. The ohief part of that burden will fall on-the poor. But as long as there are so many rich left in England, there should not need to be any among those left behind who are so poor as to have to eat the garbage- can soup so highly recommended by Miles. Men in England are told that the present situation has broken down all class barriers. Let it be shown in practical fashion. Let the rich break down the walls and fences which surround their parks and coverts which teem with hares, rabbits, partridges, pheasants and deer, for baring to take one of which, the poor are,sent to prison in ordinary piping times of peace. Let them give never so lavishly of the fruits of the land stolen for them by their ancestors from the common people, and yet not all the piled-up heap of their giving can put the breath of life back iato one bullet-riddled body. Give them the peelings of potatoes, carrots and apples," forsooth! Marie Antoinette, when told the poor had no bread, asked why they did not eat cake. Poulon, told the same thing, advised them to eat grass. The head of the flrst parted company with the rest of her anatomy on the scaffold; the letter's finished on a lamp-post, the mouth filled with grass. History has a nasty habit of repeating itself. Three years ago the only talk heard in public places was about lots and real estate speculation. Now the only thing to be heard is talk about hard times. One is the logical result of the other. The legislature of the province ef Manitoba met in special session last Tuesday to deal with conditions brought about by the war. Are conditions worse in Manitoba than British Columbia, or ia it that the people of this province can be more easily fooledf The ultra conservative London Times, under the head of advice for wartime says: "Explain to the young and the ignorant what war is, and why we aro forced to wage it." ThlB- is alarming. Can it be that now that the Harmsworth group control tne Times they intend to make lt tell the truth t Unthinkable! The Russian government has changed the name of the capital from Petersburg to Petrograd. The official reason given is that the "burg" at the end'of tho old name was too German. There is, uowever, a place near Petrograd called underground dungeons where thousands of the best and bravest of Pussla's mon and womon have gone insane in filth, chains, and starvation, That name too, has the same German "burg" at the ond, but there is po mention, of changing it. Even if the name was changed, the prison would still remain, Siberia and "Bloody Sundaya" are not dead yet by a long way. An injury to one is the concern of all—ln theory. JuBt now—in praotice— a job for one iB the envy of all, and so is the lucky slave who gets it. Even Miles' potatoe peeling soup is better than McBride's "courage and confidence" when it comes to practical things as compared with a politician's platitudes and mental bankruptcy. Bullets are impersonal. They go as far, whether they are directed from the rifle of a prize-fighter or a poet, and they pierce with equal ease the brain of incalculable value to mankind, and that which is not worth its keep, They do not turn aside beoause it Ib not well that a young man should die before his time. The philosophy of bullets and shells, and the war lords who direct them is that men—if they happen to get in the way—are so much material to be destroyed. Winnipeg for 1918 I, T. u. Convention. For some years the Typos, of Winnipeg have more than hinted that it was about tjme to invite the International Typographical Union to meet in the Prairie Capital. At the Providence convention the agitation took concrete form, and announcement was made.by Dels. Freeman and Ryan that Winnipeg would be out after the 1916 convention. The local union has already begun ita campaign, and by the time the I. T. 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Reporter Barred for Making Inaccurate Reports | Reports of Committees Indicate Activity of Central Labor Body NEW WESTMINSTER, Sept. 9.— Pres. H. Knudsen presided over the re* gular meeting of New Westminster Trades and Labor Oouncll, held this evening. Credentials were accepted from Martin Pratt, electrical workers; Wm. Jardlne, cigarmakers; Oeo. Atkinson, plumbers. ' Communications—From Mayor Oray, in re public meeting for purpose of looking after dependents of service men. Filed, as delegates had been sent to meeting. From school board in re night school courses. Filed, as delegation had been named, but was unable to attend. From Moving Picture and Projecting Machine Operators' Union, Local No. 348, Vancouver, stating that they had unionized the operators at the Royal and the City theatres, but had not organized tho Edison theatre here. Received and referred to locals to pat* ronize the two unionized theatres. From D. S. Cameron, tendering Ms resignation as a trustee and chairman of the municipal committee, and withdrawing as a delegate because of the impossibility of keeping • together the Retail Clerk's union, whioh he represented. Received and resignation accepted. From the Vancouver News-Advertiser, in re the debarring of their represents- tive as a result of alleged untruthful! statements regarding proceedings of the Council. Laid on table till next meeting. Local Sale of Debentures. Thos. Turnbull. was given the floor H | and delivered an address on his plan to form an organization of individuals who would subscribe a certain stated amount monthly for the purpose of purchasing unsold city debentures so that development work could be done by the city this winter and a large amount of interest money now going abroad be rotni nod here. After Mr. Turnbull stated thnt only white labor could be employed on work under his plan, the council endorsed it and Delegate Yates was selected to represent the council at a meeting to be held by various public bodies to consider the details of the plan. To Aid the Needy. Dol. Maiden reported on the public meeting in the oity hall, held for the purpose of devising ways and means of caring for dependents of soldiers. He stated that care would bo taken to see that the needy ones .were provided for and those who did not need assistance would not receive it. Report received. Reports from Unions. Typos—The Daily News has gone out of business, leaving five more printers out of employment. Plumbers—About the same, but a little more doing in the steam-fitting line. Bnrbers—Pretty quiet, another unfair shop (the Cosmopolitan) in town. Bartenders—Pretty quiet; about al dozen men out of employment, and may | bo worse Cigarmakers—All working, but some on a limit. Brewery Workers—Not much doing. Moulders—Just about aB bad as ever. known, but prospects are brighter, as there is some work in sight. Painters—Pretty quiet, about two working. i Timber Workers—Tried to get China-1 men to join them on strike, but failed;;1 feel assured that unless wages are restored in this province, the tariff will be replaced on shingles going into the United States, to preserve the equation with the higher wages now paid in the States. Steam and * Operating Engineers— MINARD'S LINIMENT CURES GARGET IN COWS Free Guaranteed American We Want You to Know ' These Hose They stood the test when all others failed. They give real foot comfort. They have no seams to rip. They never become loose and baggy as the shape la knit In, not pressed ln. They are GUARANTEED for fineness, for style, for superiority of material and workmanship, absolutely stainless, and to wear six months without holes or replaced, by .new pairs free. OUR FREE OFFER To every one sending us 60 cents to cover shipping charges, we will Bend, subject to duty, absolutely free: Three pairs of our famous men's AMERICAN BILK HOSE with written guarantee, any color, or Throe pairs of our Ladles' Hose In Black, Tan or White colors, with written guarantee. DON'T DELAY—Offer, expires when dealer ln your locality Is selected. Give color and size desired. INTERNATIONAL HOSIERY CO., 21 Blttner Street DAYTON, OHIO, U. S, A. Phone Your Printing Order T0: SEYMOUR 4490 Phone Barman* mi DIXON & MURRAY oAftrarrna, ava Ofl-M ui Iters fritting. 0wstml Jobbing 001m andtnepi ion Buranm J, J. TAYLOB One of the imprisoned Vancouver Island miners recently, released on parole. The father of eight children, an officer of the U. M, W. of A., and a vice-president of the B, C. Federation of Labor. Sentenced last year to two years penal servitude. Things not so good as usual, several men laid off. ■ > Electrical WorkerB—Only about two laid off, good as seen for awhile. Street Bailway Employees—Worse conditions than for years; mechanical department laid off twenty men and may shut down car shops and lay off 40 more men. Hod Carriers—Nearly all gone soldiering, about three left in town and at least one working. Ntw Officers. W. E. Ivison was elected trustee in place of D. S. Cameron. T. A. Barnard, W. Yates and C. Cropley were eleoted on the municipal committee, vice D. S. Cameron, D. McGuire and J. McLean. -Jas. Feeney was eleoted to the auditing committe in place of Jas. Mackie.. Committee Reports. Report of progress by the executive committee was received and the committee was instructed to call the attention of the provincial government to conditions existing at Fraser mills and ask that the provisions of the Truck act be enforced there. Answering a question by Del. Cropley as to the work contemplated by the city council this winter, Dol. Dodd said that day labor would be employed on the outfall for the. Glen Brook sewer, to cost $10,000; outfall for Sapperton sewer, with pipes, will go over $40,000, other sections to run $10,000; reservoir, $45,000, may be by day labor; stable on Eighth avenue by day labor, $6,000; and then the outside routine work. Some of the work will be started soon and others only talked about. Columbia street paving will run close to $100,000. Bithulithic paving problematical. Del. Stoney. said- A. S. Mills & Co. now carried union shirts and collars as a result of demand for them, by unionists, and they deserved the patronage of the unionists. Del. Flynn said J. E. Brown carried a large lino of union goods and has an ad. in The Federationist and deserved his share of the union men's trade. Del. Cropley nsked for information about waterfront leases made by the City Council without the anti-Asiatic clause, and was informed by Del. Dodd that some firms objected! to the insertion of the anti-Asiatic clnuse in their leases, and won out in the council, despite his objection and contention that it was unfair to similar concerns that had the clauses in their leases. It looked to Del. Dodd as though the city council favored Asiatic labor. Del. Cropley believed Del. Dodd should be commended for his attitude in the matter and the Trades and Lnbor Council should insist that the white labor clause should be inserted in all waterfront leases. Answoring it question by Del. Paulsen, Del. Dodd said that the city intended to lease all the street ends along the new wharves and that small boats would bo taken care of at Tenth street, where there aro about seven acres. Del. Paulsen wanted to know where cannery boats would tie up, ns well as strange boats. Del. Dodd said lessees must allow boats to tie up at their wharve when their own ships are not there, and a scale of wharfage charges is being arranged. On motion of Paulsen-Maiden, the council went on record as strenuously objecting to the city council leasing the street ends, especially Eighth and Sixth streets. The Norway Way—And Canada. There is at least one European government that is attempting to play fair with the people, even though it be ne- , cesaary to choke the life out of tho robbers who plunder .the public by boosting food prices, observes Max Hayes in the Citizen. The government , of Norway decreed that prices on articles of food, ennl, coke, wood, meat, mineral, oils nnd such commodities, shall be fixed by the authorities., Tho raising of prices was attomptod ns soon ns the news of the war reached Bergen. The government took swift and sure action and in two days prices wero nt normal o£jnin. The reason that the blood-suckers let go was that a number were thrown into jail and others were forced to mnke restitution for overcharging. There was no red-tope about it, nnd the envornment did not stnrt in to mnke a silly investigation into something that everybody knew about. Those Who Can May Do. Some union, somewhere, asked for a mise of wages in theso troubled times, and as a result we Hvere treated to an editorial, the burden of which was that unions should refrain from asking higher prices for their labor, says "Working Card," in the Regina Lender. We have yet to see the editorial which will condemn the employers for reducing wages, which action seems to have become a matter of course, amongst the unorganized. Nor do we see the merchants refraining from raising the price of the commodities they nre selling. It secmB "to us that it is perfectly in accordance with existing conditions for every one to rnise prices except, the worker, who seems fated to be the gont which ultimately bears the burden. During the past week or two a large number of Federationist subscribers have been notified of their expiration dates, along with return slips for renewal. It may become necessary for The Federatfonlst to cut off delinquents, not as a matter of choice but of necessity. However, if there Is a wage-worker in Canada wbo desired The Fed. and lacks the price let him or her drop a card to this offlce and it will be done. The Fed. has no desire to become a Weekly Wail, but, along with others, it is feeling the pinch of Industrial stagnation and consequent unemployment among <tg readers, BE TAXED Peace Party Should Include I Prohibition of Manufacture of War Arms Churches Bave Failed to Do Their Part in Preserving Peace [By Aid, Job. A. Clarke, Eamonton] The public Institution or person that can make the most Out of the most distressing circumstances or conditions, is the one that, in the long run, will be most remembered by humanity. The terrible war ol greed, selfish ambitions, aristocratic jealousies and ignorance aow engulfing the allegedly civilized and Christian portion' of Europe, Is Indeed a hard condition to secure any advantage to the human race from. The conclusion that no peace should be signed that did not prevent that hereafter any private company or person for profit should be allowed to manufacture any engine of destruction for sale to any government or private individual, and to be made broad enough to Include battle or war ships, dreadnoughts or submarines, cannon, armor plate, fortifications or small arms, is one good step. That all countries should be bound by an International agreement, which would prevent the starting of a war (for remember, these civilized countries actually start war before they declare It), without ample notice and consultation and .authorization from the representatives of the. people, who will be affected by the war when it does come, but more Important than all, In my opinion, Is when I write this, because stresB has not been laid upon this aspect of the case, excepting ln a very superficial way, by the publication to date, Is that the countries now at war are Christian countries. The facts are, that, owing to the claim of the various Christian religions tbat they are primarily the servants and representatives of the Great Apostle of Peace, all the combined property of the combined Christian churhces have been to all intents and purposes, In all the countries now engaged ln this war, exempt from taxation, facilities for the accumulation of tremendous Incomes free in many cases by actual taxation or by facilitating the collection of alms or voluntary contributions for church purposes, have been encouraged more than any other class that ever was associated ni the collection of money for other private use, not even excepting the collection of money tor government purposes. The capitalization of the property exempt from taxation, and the money which the connivance of the government enables the religious denominations to collect, would ln a very few years amount to more than the entire cost of the war, .and I believe that the campaign of permanent peace which must follow this war, must take into consideration the fact that no leaders ot any church and no governing body in any church In any of the countries involved, has made any effort to throw the weight and power of their influences on the side of those who believe that the war Bhould be stopped before it began, that the shedding of blood should be prevented. If there is any Justification now, or ever has been for this tremendous subsidy of the human race, regardless of belief or disbelief, in any or all ot the various Christian denominations, that justification must be that any crisis, such aB arose about the first of August, the influence of the church, to prevent the shedding ot blood, to prevent the normal followers of the Prince of Peace from shedding each other's blood, to prevent the fighting machines of different Christian nations from making countless orphans, all these included in the Prince's words, solemnly uttered, "Suffer little children to come unto me," and that in spite of this subsidy, ln cash paid continuously for 2000 years, there has been no result beneficial to the human race, from either an individual or the entire Christian churches combined, then lt us up to thu alleged Christian nations to find if such an enormous subsidy should not be used for some other purpose, more beneficial to the human race. It is up to those who believe that murder iB a crime whether carried on by an Individual, a corporation, a nation or a nation with the connivance, support and prayers of the church, is just as much murder in one instance as the other, to refuse to longer subsidise such a useless appendanges of Christian nations as the tax exempted church property, and It Is a matter of very grave doubt If the church, generally speaking, have not earned the confiscation of all their property by their Inactivity or by their publicly siding with one or other of the belligerents,- in the present war and adding sacrilege to uuelessness of representatives of Ihe one church praying to the ono Ood for success of both sides in the bloody Hunt-liter. MINARD'S LINIMENT CURES DISTEMPER I WhflU Whut Braid Choio. Family Braid Wedding and Birthday Caku. We Vet Vain float, BELYEA'S BAKERY ALL KIND! OF CAKES, PASTRY AND CONFECTIONERY Hot Drink, ud Lunch.. All Ooods Frail Dally. tea auBvou «*. t.l ner. not. «« MAKING CLOTHES IS OUR BUSINESS We make tht beat You want the beat Our prloea are tht Ibweat. Our material tha bttt Our workman Al. Wa guarantee tatiafactlon. Gtt your ntxt Suit from S. McPherson, Sr. MODERN PRICED TAILOR 432 Main St., Vaneouvar Mr. Union Man Are you eating Union-made Bread, are you helping to maintain the Union Standard of living by using goods produced by Union Labor! BREWER'S XL BREAD has the Union Label on every loaf, and in quality and flavor it is unexcelled. Phone Highland 573 and we will call at your house. BREWER'S XL BAKERY, Corner 4th Avenue and Commercial Street. COAL! COAL!! | Special Reduction to Small Coiuumen. WELLINGTON LUMP now 40c per Sack of 1001b* . Quantity Guaranteed. Prompt Delivery. Macdonald Marpole Co., Ltd. 427 SEYMOUR ST. PHONE SEY. 210 NimedSkoetvefre^iMdY-udeiaNee- UnioD Faetoriw-Do Not Bay Aay Shot no matter what ttl name, onlttt tt bttn a plain ud rtadablt lmpreeslon or thla item. All ihow without tho Union Stamp an alwaya Non-Union. BOOT 4 SHOE WORKI*** UNION IM Bummer Straet, Boa ton, .Meat. 3. r. Tobln, Proa. C. L. Blaine, Btc.-Tma. Abbotsford Hotel! 921 Pender St. West Phone Sey. 5860 | Fireproof Vancouver, B. C. European Rates $1.00 a day up J. M. McLUCKIE, Proprietor. Flrat-eltM OHM In connection Lrl. L. Milk, Proprietor EUROPEAN PLAN Fr«d«ttck A. EulUa. Manaier I Hot .nd Cold Water la Every Room. 130 Room. Connected with Beth.. HOTEL EMPRESS BSr-SBT 235HMtiHiSt.E.,Vuc.wer(B.C. KSUHSS PENDER HOTEL law, Modwa, Plrat-Claa* |f ^ ^____t__tum tut II l» p«f Day aat Op. jj New, Baron Stwn.kwMd. NEW ENGLAND HOTEL «• •»—■ •*"-* Booms elegantly furnished, classed with the best. Low rateB. BREWED AND BOTTLED IN VANCOUVER BY VANCOUVER BpWfcRliS Limited PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST. FBIDAT SBPTEMBBB 18, 1914 J. LECKIE CO., LIMITED SHOE MANUFACTURERS We manufacture every kind of work shoe, and tpecialize in linet 'or minen, railroad conitruction, io|fing, etc. VANCOUVER ■ B.C. A Tip about our Good Clothes Any clothing store can Bell a man a Suit or an Overcoat. But few atores can dress him, however, as this store can! Pall Suits and Overcoata of real quality, that not only clothe a man but dress him, are here ln unstinted variety. More labor waB put into them than into any garment similarly priced. More Light and Better Light for the Home TOE TUNOBTUN LAMPS. Thlo le advlaed aa the Tungsten Lump jives three times the amount of light of a carbon lamp on the oame consumption of current. USE CONTINUOUS WIBE DRAWN FILAMENT LAMPS. Thla type ie the only claee of Tungeten Lamp you ahould uee. Don't fill to aek for It when you buy Tangeteni. It beare the earns relation to other typee of Tungetena ae doea tho beet grade of eteel to WE CARRY AT OUR 8ALE8R00MS A FULL LINE OP THE BEST TYPE OP TUNGSTEN LAMP8 AS NOTED ABOVE. OUR PRICES ARE EXCEPTIONALLY LOW WHEN THE HIOH STANDARD OF OUR LAMPS IS CONSIDERED. Aek our clerk to demonstrate for you the difference between a Tungeten and Carbon Lamp uaing the oame amount of current c«.u..d n r FI FPTPIP ll3SCe.ill.Si. NeeiDerie [joh JOHNSTON & SALSBURY The Hardwaremen SUCCESSORS TO McTAGGART & MOSCROP We carry a complete line of MECHANICS' GOODS, including SANDS' LEVELS. FRISCO MASONS' TAPE. STANLEY'S PLANES. LEVELS, etc.. STAR- REITS FINE TOOLS. SIMONDS' SAWS. CORBIN LOCKS. SETS. UNDERWEAR MEN'S BALBHIQQAN UNDERWIAR At No. and 78c. per garment. BRITANNIA Light Woollen Underwear—Just right for this warm weather LIQHT WIIOHT UNION 0UIT8 From 11,00 per Suit up. X B. V. 0. UNDERWEAR With Short Sleeves and Knee Length Drawers, 71c. per garment. CLUBB & STEWART, Ltd. Tel, gey, nt US-SIS HAOTINOO OTRIIT W. Some people may think this great painstaking unnecessary, but we don't. If you think it worth your while to have clothea made better without adding to their price, you will wear1 one of our Suits and Overcoata this season. shop of FASHION-CRAFT THOS. FOSTER & CO, LTD. 514 GRANVILLE STREET STOVES and RANGES EVERYTHING FOR THE KITCHEN Mount PleauBt headquarters ior Carpenters' Tools ud til kinds of Builders' snd Contracton' Supplies W.R. OWEN & MORRISON Phots Fair. 447. 2337 Main atreet THL CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE Capital ~— $11,000,000 Rest 112,000,000 Main Office: Corner Haatinga and Qranvllle Streets, Vancouver. CITY BRANCHES LOCATION HASTINOS anl CAMBIE. Cor. Haatinga aim Cambie Streets, HAST END ........... Cor. Pender and M.in streeta. COMMERCIAL DRIVE Cor. Firm Avenue end Commercial Drive, TMSEF&jrrzrSm £°r' !!."£ *»•»»• »"d Oranvllle street. MOUNT PLEASANT Cor. Eighth Avenue and Main Street. KITBILANO Cor. Fourth Avenue and Tew Street. POWELL STREET Cor. Victoria Drive tnd Powell Btreet. SOUTH HILL Cor. Forty-fourth Avenue and Fraaer Road. Alao North Vanoouver Branoh, eor. Lonsdale Ave. and Eaplanade. ■ ■. nrwawf'Trnwfi ABE YOU REGISTERED? No Excuse Now for Any Qualified Voter Being Off the List. In answer to a communication from the parliamentary committee of the local Central Labor body, Mayor Baxter announces that arrangements have been made to keep the city clerk's office open for the registration of voters, between the hours of 7:30 and 9 o'clock every evening, except Saturday. The new arrangement went into effect last Wednesday. Every qualified municipal voter in Vancouver should avail himself or herself of the opportunity provided for registration. There is now no excuse but negligence. No New Discovery. The United States Commission on Industrial Relations at its recent session in Lead, S. D., discovered that 3000 employees of the Homestead Mining Company are practically slnves. The testimony showed that no employee is permitted to enjoy the right of membership in a labor organization. Applicants for employment must submit to a physical examination and must state their political affiliations. The rapid increase of armaments could only end one way—the way it has done. A man cannot stand on tiptoe beyond a certain length of time. Military competition could scarcely have been pushed further. There had to be a let-up—or bust up. The proximate cause—Austria's irritation against Ser- via—was trivial enough. But the real cause was national jealousy, suspicion and hatred—carefully nursed and exploited everywhere by the military class and the noisy few who find a proflt in war. The grand stook in trade of these formenters of war is that of false patriotism which is merely a modern extension of the tribal sentiment that made the Indian who lived on the south side of the creek consider it a pious duty to kill one living on the north side whenever he got a chance. Whatever the cost of this war there will bo another some day . if racial hatred iB allowed to be cultivated by those who profit from it. It is civilization that is being shot down by machine guns in Europe. There are Erlichs serving as privates in the ranks and in the French corps are Rostands. A bullet, then, not only kills a man, it destroys a generation of learning, annihilates the mentality which was about to be humanity's instrument in unearthing another of nature's secrets. The very vehicles of progress are the victims. It will take years to train their equals, decades perhaps to reproduce the intelligence that was ripe to do its work. The chanceB of tho acquisition of knowledge are being sacrificed. Far more than half of the learning on which the world depends for progress is turned from la- bratories and workshops into the de structive, arena of batle. Britlah Columbia potatoes won the Stlllwell $1,000 cup In 1912 at New York City, U.SJA., for the best collection of potatoes. Open to the whole continent of America. England's workingmen have allowed themselves to be half starved to death on condition that they be permitted to go to Hyde park on Sundays and talk their heads off. By Christmastime there will be more workers praying to employers for jobs than the number praying to Heaven for peace. MINARD'S LINIMENT CURES COLDS, ETC. Karl MalloTBkl Wanted. If any reader knows the whereabouts of a carpenter named Karl Mallevski, or if this should meet his eye, communicate at once with the B. C. Federationist. Information to give which will be to his advantage. Minard's Liniment Co., Gentlemen.—I have used MINARD'S LINIMENT on my vesflel and ln my family for years, and for the every day Ills and accidents of life I consider lt has no equal. I would not start on a voyage with out lt, tf It cost a dollar a bottle. CAPT. P. R. DBSJARDIN, Schr. "Storke," St. Andre, Kamouraska. New Conditions Call for New Methods FRED PERRY The Labor Temple Tailor Completes plans to produce Custom (trade Suits of British Woolens at LOWER PRICES The only thing cheapened in the Suite will he the price. I have installed in my larger premisea in the Lahor Temple, power machinery. I have also organized a specialized system ln which all operations at an stages will be conducted and supervised by skilled Membera of the Local Tailora' Union. I expect by these methods to produce Suits at (30, $32.50 and $35 that will compare favorably with the very best gradea of Suits secured under the old hand craft system previously adhered to. i The quality of tbe fabrics employed will be the very beBt that money can buy—the only kind that a man of limited means can afford to buy—The Beat Britlah Woolens. I respectfully solicit your business. New Fall SuKlngs and Overcoatings now ready for your inspection UNION LABEL on all Parity Clothes FRED PERRY LABOR TEMPLE MINARD'S LINIMENT CURES DIPHTHERIA Stock Dinnerware We have a' flne selection of open stock dinnerware patterns. Tou can purchase these as you require. Sold by the dozen' or by the piece. MILIAR A COE 120 Hutiap St. W. What Everybody Should Know MEN'S NEW NOBBY SUITS can he bought at BRUMMITT'8 from ♦10.00 up to 130.00 And they are worth*, more HATS, bearing the onion label, at 12.00, $2.50,13.00. 8HOE8, sll makes ud prices, bearing the label, at "live and let live prices, $2.00 up to S8.00 CHIPPEWA SHOES It *7.00, 18.00 and $10.00 W. B. BRUMMITT 18-20 CORDOVA ST. W. 101-4 BANK w OTTAWA BUILDING 602 Hainan Street Watt DR. BRETT ANDERSON, Dentist Operates by die latest, saost scleno'Sc sad painless methodi Specialist is Crown, Bridie, Plate ud Cold Inlay Work HOURS 10 AM. TO 4 P.M. BRITISH COLUMBIA LAND Splendid opportunities in Mixed Farming, Dairying, Stock and Poultry. British Columbia Grants Preemptions of 160 acres to Actual Settlers FREE TERMS—Residence on the land for at least three years; improvements to the extent of $5 per acre; bringing under cultivation at least five acres. For further information apply to Deputy Minister of Lands, Victoria, B.C. Secretary, Bureau of Provincial Information, Vi Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd. Florists and Nursery Men tl Haetlnsc et. THMI STORIS IN VANCOUVER Phene Ssy. NS 401 Qnmllle St Phene Sey. 1717 nt Oranvllle St. Phone Sey. N1I flCTOHU STOM, 111 VUtW ST. OMBNXOUSBS Slat Ave. aas Mala et. Vleterle, a. O. Phene Mlnaoat fM. HimmenS, I. Q, ■—— IT 1——- Phone: Fairmont 810 i Patterson& Chandler Manufacturers of MONUMENTS Vaults, Curbing, Etc. Office and Works: Cor. 16th AVe. and Main St. Branch Ofllce: 40th & Fraser Aves. VANCOUVER, B.C. /<£*? &Mi "V/M PRESIDENT 5U5PENDER DsconifoloiallyGuranteed "WttMielnayaawiadus 'HEADQUARTEftV I In the heart of the retail district. Abs fireproof and modem in every respect. (,—,- unexcelled. European plan, $1 lo $3 per day. FREE AUTO 'BUS MEETS ALL TRAINS. Owned ut | aperaled by "The Provincial Holcla Company. Limited. HOWARD I SH.EEHW, P""*" If you are one who doesn't know the wonders of the Blue Amberol played.on an Edison Cylinder Phonograph. Let ui show you what you are misting. We've been in business a long time, Mr. Reader. No one knows the talking machine line belter than we do. We've watched the Edison develop until to-day we unhesitatingly claim it to be the most perfect on th: market today. You'll not lose anything by hearing it. We'll arrange terms to suit THE KENT PIANO CO. Ltd. 558 GRANVILLE ST. NO ROOM FOR THE HINDU IN OUR FACTORY We Don't Employ Asiatics! BOYS—When you want any Paint, Stain, Enamel, Varnish, Wall Finish, White Lead or anything else in the Paint Line, demand goods made by us. WE GUARANTEE THEM BRITISH AMERICA PAINT COMPANY, Ltd. Victoria Vancouver Calgary Edmonton THE POPULAE PRICED, EUROPEAN PLAN HOTEL RITZ VICTORIA, B.C. FORT ST., AT DOUGLAS RATES 75c, $1.00, $1.26, $1.60, $2.00 C. J. LOVEJOY, MOR. FREE AUTO BUS HOTBL BBOBWT Absolutely Fireproof. Local and Long-Distance Phone In Every Boom. <'ufe tn Connection. Rates $1.00 per day up. Attractive Ratea to Permanent Guests.—Gottlnffham ft Beatty. Proprietors. ItMlkes The Mountain Smile. PHONE Seymour 9288 "-*""- ____ WESTERN CANADA LIQUOR CO. LEE R. BARKLEY, Agent 137 WATER STREET
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