http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0345120
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1916-02-11
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note: rk^_^l_a?4 THE BRITISH* COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST nmn.A,i,t m^.iS% amnmTnm& .^». ' niqtTnrAT. Pi l>RR , VANflflllVRB TRADES AND LaBOU nfllTNfill. ANI1 H 0 OT!TW!S i TTnW fl> I. .BOB .^. «,,»««,. mnr . nnn., HJDUSTEIAL Uip? tf STBENOTtf. . <■'.' i ;,'A*1 OFMCIAL PAPEB: VANCOUVEB TBADES AND'§ABOR COUNCIL AND B.O. PEDEBATION OP LABOB EIGHTH ^R, No. 6 VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1916 POLITICAL UOTTT: TIOTOBTI CcBTgg). $1.50 PER YEAR SPPiH BY J. H. McVETY ON WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION A MODERN WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT has been the one aim and object of organized labor in British Columbia for the past thirteen years, dating from the passage of the present workmen's compensation act, introduced in the provincial legislature by Mr. J. H. Hawthomthwaite, then socialist member for Nanaimo riding. Practically no* progress was made until 1913. At the Victoria convention of the B. C. Federation of Labor in that year, the question was discussed from every angle, and finally a special committee was named to go into the subject. In due course the committee presented! the views of organized labor to a Labor commission, which was appointed by the government in 19^4 to investigate labor conditions generally, resulting in a recommendation by that committee for a new act, moro in keeping with industrial conditions throughout the province. This, coupled with the renewed efforts of organized labor, resulted in a draft act being introduced at the 1915 session of the house, patterned somewhat after the new Ontario act, and in this connection the attorney-general promised that all parties would be given a chance to suggest amendments prior to its enactment into lftw. In fulfilment of this promise, Mr. A. V. Pineo of the attorney-general's department was named as chairman of an investigation committeo to seek further information from continental sources. Mr. David Robertson was appointed as representative of the employers on the commission, while Mr. Jas. H. McVety was elected by the Vanc…

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