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THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST I? INDUSTRIAL UNITT : v!£?ENQTH. EIGHTH YE AF _ii.8 OFFICIAL PAPEBi VANCOUVER TKADE8 ANU l.ABOk ol is'Cll. ANI) B.O. KKI.EKA HON OK LABOR POtJOlOAIi ftm^l'TIOTOBT I lit! 1 "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made" Says the Vancouver Unionist A Supreme Example of the Worst Legislation of Its Kind [By Jas. H. MeVety] fcfc-r-«(EARFULLY AND WONDER H fully made" aptly describes the *■ Workmen'b Compensation bill now before the Manitoba legislature, aB a governmont measure, in fulfilment of a pledge to the electorate of that province, made prior to the last election. Alleged according to news despatches, to bo patterned after the Ontario act, it really has nothing in common with that piece of legislation, except that tho scale of benefits iB the same and ' tue samo provision is provided for ex> eluding non-resident dependents real dent in countries where a reciprocal arrangement does not exist providing for the payment of dependonts residing in Manitoba. Objectionable Features. All of tho investigations of the Hon. Sir William Meredith of Ontario nnd a host of experts in the United States seem to have been entirely ignored, and the bill contains a number of objectionable features thnt have been found, from practical experience, in numerous states, to interfere with the proper working of tho legislature. Insurance Companies Secure. A Btate fund, either exclusive or in competition with tho casualty insurance companies is not contemplated, tho small cmployorB being required to take out policies with tho insurance compa* nies, whilo tho larger oucb aro permitted to carry their own insurance. It is truo that the bill provides for the regulation of rates by the commission, but if the regulations do not meet with the approval of the insurance companies, they could, with the very excellent understanding that exists between them, decline, for a timo, to write any business and either ruin the smaller employers or place the compensation act in such disfavor as to cause its repeal, the commission, having no state funds, being unable to demonstrate that its rates were sufficiently high to make the risk a safe one. A speaker in the legislature said that the insurance featuro was "speculative and experimental,'' but the experience of Ohio, Now York, Wisconsin and Massachusetts leaves no doubt in the minds of those who havo had actual experience with tho insuranco companies as to what their attitude is on the question of workmen's compensation generally. Oovernment Not Sincere. For any government to fly in the face of this experience, which can be secured from the reports of the various state commissions, and from an expert in thiB country with whom the Manitoba government hns already been in touch, leads one to believe that tho best results are not desired. Only One Oomissloner. The bill provides for but one commissioner and hore again tho experience and advice of other states is being disregarded. However, as the entire operaton of tho act iB to be Inrgely turned over to the insurance companies and to the large employers, possibly the number of commissioners, or the necessity of the workman being represented, is not a very important point. Large Employers Favored. Those employers who are allowed to carry their own insurance are permitted by sections 25 and 26 to commute the periodical payments due to a workman, where tho payments havo been mado for more than six months, to a lump sum - pavment on a basis of 75 per cent, of the amount to which tho workman would be entitled if tho payments were continued weekly. Just why the large employers, the only ones able to secure the privilege of carrying their own insurance, should bo given an advantage of paving 25 per cent, less compensation that the small employer who Is required to pay insurance premiums to a company, based on a 100 tier cont, compensation, quite disregarding the profit to the insurance company, is not very clear, particularly in view of the claims made by the govornment that it, or the political party it represents, is the ''friend" of the working men and smaller employers. Medical Aid Uncertainty. Under section 32 the board is allowed to pay medical expenses, "as it may deem reasonable," but not in any case to exceed $100. While this is an improvement over the Ontario or Nova Scotia acts, it falls far Bhort of the beBt practice . in the United States, where the limit is usually $200 or $250. In California the legislature, at its last session, gave the compenaation board authority to pay medical bills without regard to timo or amount limits, on the ground that a* Workman who required medical attention after the maximum allowance had been consumed, was really in a worse position and less able to VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25,1916 (I0oX;nw*») $1-50 PER YEAR UNIONISTS SHOULD OIVB PBBrEBENOE TO "FED" ADVERTlSfiRB Menshiinto not aavortlslng in wmt fOfOt (The FedetattoniBt) <W not disslre your patronage. Do Wot tetce It on tb«n. Patronize ta»88 who patronize the only Weapon of publ'ltity in the hands of organized l»W wost of Wlnm* peg. But, of course, members of affiliated unions aro urged to demand the Union Label when making purchases. MACHINISTS MAY SUBMIT NEW SCHEDULE TO ALL RAILWAYS M1 E. J. BROOKES, a member of the executive of section No. 1 of District No. 2, International Association of Machinists, returned from Winnipeg on Tuesday. While there Mr. Brookes attended the executive meeting of the district, which embraces all railroads in Canada. Those present were: Duncan McCallum, president, Calgary; Charles Dickie, vice-president, Montreal; B. S. Ward, secretary, Winnipeg; B. J. Tallon, section chairman, Calgary; J. Brookes, Vancouver; H. Kempster, Bevelstoke; B. Eussell, Winnipeg; Wm. Lester, Schrieber; J. H. Nichols, West Toronto; H. Kennedy, Montreal; Wm. Hawker, Edmonton; C. A. McKim, Edmonton; Wm. Baillie, Saskatoon; F. L. Willis, Winnipeg; J. H. Jones, Trenton; Ed. Fritze, Quebec; C. Strachan, Parry Sound; C. Bellis, West Edmonton; Wm. Benton, Transcona; All Gandy, North Bay; S. Burke, Toronto; Oeo. Eichardson, St. Thomas; R. G. Fife, Montreal, and H. Dingwall, Hamilton. .The sessions lasted from Monday, Feb. 14 to Friday, Feb. 18. The outstanding feature of thc convention was a thorough discussion on the desirability of submitting a new schedule all round for the affiliated unions involved. Beports from delegates indicated that their organizations were in splendid' shape all along the line. Upon his return trip, Mr. Brookes stopped off at Bevelstoke, in company with Mr. Kempster, the local executive member. He found shop conditions thero in a satisfactory state and the members optimistic of future possibilities. J. A. McClelland, Montreal, who attended the meeting, has been unanimously re-elected as international vice-president, for Canada, of the I. A. of M., the Canadian membership not putting forward any other name. ME1 NEXT Nomination of International Typo. Union Officers Will Take Place Interest Is Centered on Who Shall Be the Congress Delegate Vancouver Typographical union will hold its regular meeting on Sunday, next, at 2 p.m. Ab thiB is tho meeting at which nominations for international officers will be made a large attendance of members is expected. International secretary-treasurer is the only executive office for which there is competition—the present incumbent, Mr. J. W. Hays of Indianapolis union, No. 1 and Mr. W. E. Merritt of Houston union, No. 87, being the candidates. President Marsden Q, Scott of New York union, No. (5, and Vice-president Walter W. Barrett of Chicago union, No. 10, retain thoir respective offices for another torm of two years by acclamation. Candidates for delegates to tho American Federation of Labor will be selected . from Mr. H. W. Dennett of Los Angeles union, No. 174; Mr. Max S. Hays of Cleveland union, No. 53; Mr. T. W. McCulIough of Omaha union, No. 190; Mr. Frank Morrison of Chicago union, No. 10; Mr. U. B. Pittenger of Mount Morris union, No. 681, and Mr. Hugh Stevenson of Toronto union, No. 01. For delegato to the TradeB and Labor Congreaa of Canada the candidate will be chosen from Mr. James Drury of Montronl union, No. 176; Mr, Samuel Hadden of Toronto union, No, 91, and Mr. W. It. Trotter of Vancouver union, No. 220. This iB the first time that a delegate from the International Typographical union ia to be elected to the Congress, and, as Mr. Trotter, who has been affilinted with the local union for the past five years, is one of the candidates for nomination, considerable Interest to tho members of No, 220 is attached to the selection of candidate for this office. Mr. Malcolm A, Knock of Boston union, No. 13; Mr. Thomas McCaffery of Colorado Springs union, No, 82; Mr. William Mounce of Now Tork union, No. 0; Mr. T. T. Nock of Birmingham union, No. 104; Mr. Jerome V, O'Hara1 of New York union, No. 6; Mr. Michael) Powell of Ottawa union, No. 102, nnd ' Bert E. Woolsey of Springfield union, No. 158, are the candidates for trustees of tho Union Printers' Home. Mr. Joa. M. Johnson is the only candidate for agent of tho Union Printers' Home. Trado conditions continue vory quiet in both newspaper and job offices. Mr. Dick McMillan of tho Colonist composing rooms, Victoria, fraternized" with Vancouver typographical frionds during the past weok, Ontario House to Meet Feb. 29. The Ontario cabinet has decided to call the legislature for Tuesday, Feb- pay his own expenses than in the early days of his disability. Occupational Diseases Eliminated. No provision has been mado in the bill for occupational diseases, poaaibly, for the reason that the industries of the i province are not such as to redder such a provision necessary, but it such is the ease, thoro can bo no logical objection to tho inclusion* because if no caseB should arise, the employer will not bo required to phy, but if only one workman should contract an industrial disease he Should not lose the compensation he would receive in other provinces and states merely because of his reBi* denco in Manitoba. "Dick" Rigg Fighting Lone Hand, With R. A, Rigg, M. L. A., secretary of Winnipeg Trados and Labor council, fighting practically a lone hand for improvements, tho progress of tho bill through the house is being wntched with interest. Considered as a wholo, it is the supremo example of the worst pieco of alleged modern legislation dealing with compensation ovtsr introduced in any legislature. WILL ASK FOB NO VOTE Executive Council Thinks Vancouver Convention Resolution Covers Case. P. M. Draper, secretary of the Trades and Labor Congress, last week forwarded Winnipeg Trades and Labor council a decision of the executive council on the application of that body for a referendum vote of affiliated unions on the question of conscription. Tho executivo council cites a resolution passed at the recent' congress in Vancouver which concluded aB follows: "For these amongst mnuy othor valid reasons, this convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada registers its opposition to all that Bavors of conscription, oither here or within the empire." In tho opinion of the executive council, the face of things has not materially changed, either in Europe or Canada, since the end of September laBt, and presumably what then applied finds application to-day. The executive council therefore deems it unnecessary and inadvisable, at thiB juncture, to submit to a referendum vote of tho affiliated membership of the Congress tho question of conscription in Canada. THEATRICAL FEDERATION. Has Been Revived and Local Officers Elected. The Vancouvor Theatrical Federation, an affiliation of Locals 145, A. F, of i*., 118,1. A. T. S. E., and 348, M. P. M. O., has been revived, after laying dormant for the past three yonrs, and the following officers have been elected for tne ensuing year: Presidont, J. Rundell; vice-president, W. E. McCartney; secretary, H, C. Roddnn; treasurer, A. N. Harrington; business agents, P. Bur- ruston and J. Pitman, Regular meetings will be hold near the middle of each month. To Address University Students. At the invitation of the faculty of tho University of British Columbia, Mr. J. H. McVety will address the students on Monday morning next, upon the subject of workmen's compenaation. 'Frisco Jitney Operators. That tho Jitney Bua Operators' union has increased its membership 50 per cent, within tbo paat week was the report made to the San Francisco Labor council by Alexander Morr, delegate from the Jitney Bus Operators' union laBt weok. Stereotypers' Secretary Dead. Secretary-treasurer Williams of tho International Stereotypers nnd Electrotypers' union, died last week in Boston of pneumonia. He was 71 years old and had been secretary-treasurer of thc union for fourteen years. "Jack" Bruce Heard From. General Organizer J. W. Bruce, of Toronto, of tho Plumbors and Fitters, is in Hamilton and will remain several daya. While in tho city ho will meet the local oxecutivo and the union later and discuss trade matters, Bruco reports trade vory good throughout Canada.—Labor News. "Bob" Foster ln Pennsylvania. A post card, dated at Johnstown, Pa., Fob. 13, received from Mr. Robort Foster, ex-prosidont of District 28, U. M. W. of A., Vancouvor Island, shows that "Bob" has been transferred to new fields for a timo by the international executive. Org. Foster says that aB aoon aB conditions warrant it he will be up this wny again, to rcBume work on the island. A hi IA s Japan Gradually Securing Tight Grip on Australian Trade Are Now Operating in Cane Fields and Settling on the Land [By W. Francis Ahern.] SYDNEY, N. 8. W., Feb. 8.—(Special to The Federationist.)—Over five years ago, I sent out a warning, through the American press, of the future danger of the invasion of the yellow race. At that time I instanced the case of the Hawaiian islands and ita future position with the Japanese, on the islands. I believed that the expansion of the yellow race had to come, and when that occurred the two countries most likely to suffer were Australia nnd North America. Because of the proximity to Japan, we in Australia, are unfortunately in the worst position. "Yellow Peril" Now a Reality. The yellow peril nightmare, as regards Australia, is now a grim reality. What will eventuate njftcr this war is concluded, I dare not predict. It is true that Australians bave learned to look upon the Japanese and Chinese as future enemies, and the British alliance with Japan has not been received with very good grnce by Australians. Japanese Traders in Australia. The industrial and commercial descent on Australia has already begun. If the flag is to follow trade then we are in for a decidedly hot time in Australia. And worse still, we have no less than a state governor telling ub that we Bhould have the cheap labor of Japan in our country. Of late commercial delegates from Japan have been flooding Australia, and have received warm welcomes from the chambers of commerce. It is explained thnt they are desirous of improving the trade relations of the two countries. Meanwhile, thanks to patriotic capitalists, trado between the two countries is making enormous strides. Japanese drummers aro climbing over Australia like locusts, taking all the trade possible. Commodities from Japland are being dumped into onr markets at ridiculously low prices. Before this started, the Japanese visitors said they had no desire to compete with Australian trade, as they dealt in commodities that could not be made in Australia or England. Therefore there was nothing to fear from them, sinco they would be but capturing the trade that formerly went to Oormany and Austria. A Caae in Point. Well,, let ub tako the match-making industry. Recently a heavy tarriff was put on the imported match, with the result that several largo English match firms of repute were induced to come here and erect large factories, and employ many thousands of hands. But in ono act, Japan has killed the match trado by importing matches at less than half tho cost of manufacture in Australia. Recently I saw a Japanese drummer who landed here with 200 cases of Japanese matches, each containing 200 grosB. I asked him what he would sell them for, duty, and all expenses paid, landed in a store. He said he would sell them at 33 cents per gross boxea, and would be satisfied with tho profit. Oheap Japanese Products. Australian shops today are full to the roofs with cheap, shoddy Japanese goods. It is a serious matter. Even our wool is going to Japan and mnde into woollens to be brought back again. Thoy are also getting a goodly hold on our markets of frozen meat, hides and leather. Thoso they return ns finished articles. No Longer "A White Australia." We aro face to face with a menace wo novor' had bofore. For years we havo fought against this kind of thing only to be betrayed at tho last moment, under tho sacred guise of patriotiam. There ia today a large influx of Japanese into tho northern state of Queensland, working in the cane fields, while great numbers of them aro touring the land, seeking all the information thoy can. Recently a Japanese consul, at a gathering in QuoenBland, told tho public that what they wanted was Japanese lubor for their fiolda in order to moke it a profitable induatry. At which employers nearly howled themselves honrBe with delight, whilo the daily press published tho "patriot'"" sentiments of our Japanese ally in glaring headlines. Fine reading for the Australian, who has fought years to keep his country white. Assiduously Breaking Barriers, Tho Japanese is worming himBolf into Australia gradually yet Becurely. He iB TWO CITIES IN CANADA DECIDE TO OOILD HOUSES FOR WORKMEN A* S THE RESULT of an agitation participated in by organized labor in general and "Jimmy" Simpson in particular, in Toronto, a housing plan was initiated there some time ago. Now comes St. John, N.B., with what looks like an improvement. St. John is preparing to enter thc housing business. Thc oommon council has approved a bill giving tho oity thc required powers, and ordered it to be forwarded to the legislature. Tho bill givos thc city power to expropriate lands as they may bo required, and to erect nouses suitable for thc homes of working men. It provides for the issuing of bonds to oovcr tho cost of purchase and erection, and sets forth an easy payment scheme under which thc properties may be required by thc citizens. The plan suggested iB a payment of 10 or 15 per cent, of thc ultimate cost when possession is taken and the balance to be paid in monthly instalments, such payments to be arranged to include interest at 6 per cent on tho balance outstanding. IS UBOR TO BE REPRESENTED IN COMING GENERAL ELECTION? SHALL THE TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL keep the full ticket of Bix candidates,'nominated in March, 1915, to contest the next provincial general election in Vancouver city electoral riding, in the field? Or shall-the ticket be cut down to three candidates, beeause of the difficulty of raising funds, owing to the general conditions of unemployment which have obtained for the past two years? Or shall the effort to have Labor represented be abandoned altogether? Suehr in brief, were the queries wrestled with for over two hours at a specially-called meeting of the central labor body campaign committee last Tuesday evening. By a narrow margin the committee will recommend to the next .meeting of the Trades and Labor council, Thursday, March 2, that the latter course be pursued. Those in attendance were: Miss H. Gutteridge, campaign manager; Messrs. R. H. Neelands (South Vancouver), Typos-; J. E. Wilton (Richmond), Typos.; W. R. Trotter, Typos.; J. H. McVety, Machinists; Geo. H. Hardy, Carpenters; H. C. Benson, Typos.; candidates, and Messrs. H. L. Cory, Typos.; R. P. Pettipiece, vice-president central labor body; W. S. Burns, Sailors; E. Meek, Brotherhood of Carpenters; J. McBeth, Civic Employees; A. Graham, Cooks and Waiters; A. Sykes, Brewery Workers; A. Sinclair, Longshoremen, and Russell Kearley, Fishermen, ln order that a thorough disceuss- ion of the subject may be assured and a definite decision made, every delegate to the Trades and Labor council should be present at the next meeting. "JIMMY" HAZLETT Ex-president of the local Bricklayers' union, who thiB week enlisted for overseas service. secure in the fact that he is England's ally; his sliips-of-war have guarded our coasts and convoyed our soldiers to Egypt, and he awaits his reward in due time. Of a surety Japan will demand free entrance into Australia after this war. And there is no doubt that the Indian coolie will demand a like concession. After the War, What? We are face to face with the problem. The position is grave in the extremo. For years we have fought against tho "yellow peril," yet the work of years has boen thrown over. The low ideals of eastern countries, i.hich by legislation we have prevented in Australia, will, unless the miraculous happens, be with us at the close of this world-war. Who dare predict what the future holds for us, with the Japanese in our land, demanding equal rights with Australians? LAST SUNDAY'S MEETING Mr. J. E. Wilton Addresses Labor Forum on "Labor and Politics." "Labor and Politics" was tho subject of Mr. J. E. Wilton's address bo- foro the Labor Forum last Sunday evening. Ho reviewed the growth ond development of tho Labor movement for some yearB back and proved to tho satisfaction of his audience that Labor should bo in politics, if it hoped to accomplish its mission. The speaker emphasized tho necessity of absolute independent political action on the part of the working class, inasmuch as both tho old parties stood far practically tho same thing, the difference being thot the ono was in power, the other out. Sovornl members of tho audience participated ia the discussion which followed, and, altogether, tho meeting was worth while. Oeo. F. Hardy presided. TYPO CONFERENCE. Pacific Northwest Convention Called for April 10 at Walla Walla, Wash. Secretary-treasurer Phil Howard, Seattle, has issued tho "call" for tho annual convention of the Northwestern Typographical Conference, which will ho held in Walla Walla oa April 10. Tho Northwest Conferonco of Pressmen and a conference of other printing tradea unions in the northwest will be held at thc name time, and thc closer affiliation propaganda furthered by practical efforts in that lino. Locals reporting in this month's bulletin of tho conference Btate that trade is dull in all partfi. Many members aro out of work and the tabulated report shows an avorngc pf little more than half time averaged. A. S. Wells Returns from New York. Secretary-Treasurer A, S. Wells of the B. C. Federation of Labor, Victoria, returned this week from Now York, where ho was in attendance nt a meeting of tho executive of tho Amalgamated section of thc United Brotherhood of Carpenters, U, B. Preparing for Convention. Members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters nro awnre that tho nineteenth general convention of the organization will bo hold at Fort Worth, Tex., noxt September and already a keon intorost is being manifested in tho cvont. Norway Workers in Rebellion. In Norway there is a pcriol of industrial disturbances sweeping over tho country. Thc workers are demanding higher wages, thc wnr prices having gone to unrrasonnble limits. The omplovors, on tho other hnnd, are trying to reduce wages. Strikes aro in progress in nearly every industrial cen- tor, LESS UNEMPLOYED Improvement Is Marked in Many Trades During Last Month The Free Federal Labor Agencies Undoubtedly Justify Existence [By W. Francis Ahern.] SYDNEY, N. S. W., Feb. 7.—(Special to The Federationist.)—I am happy to say that the report I have to offer this mail is the best since the war began. In many trades conditions are far and away better than ia normal times, ia other cases they compare very favorably with pro'War times. So good iB the position that I will content myself this mail with but a brief summary. • - Trade Conditions' 'AotH-Kr-*':' The following trades are far and away better than in normal times: Bridge and wharf carpenters, boot trades, sailmakers, tailors and tailor- esses, textile workers, blacksmiths, boilermakers,- electrical trades, engineers, fitters and turners, ironworkers' assistants, ironmolders, tin canister makers, bakers, bread-carters, pastrycooks, bookbinders, paper-rulers, letterpress machinists, lithographers, typos, ship painters and dockers, brushmakers, rope makers, rock choppers, engine drivers, firemen, gas employees, tramway employees, trolley, draymen and carters, miners, quarrymen, hairdressers. TradeB that are reporting some unemployment are: House painters, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, felt-hatters, tanners, wire-netting workers. Fewer Unemployed. Throughout all Australia tho number unemployed is but 8.8 por cont. The quarterly returns supplied by ,tho commonwealth statistician shews that at the outbreak of tho war thero was 10.7 unemployed. Tho per cent, each quarter since has been 11.0, 12.0, 9.5, and thiB month sees it down to 8.8—about normal. Of this last figure it is estimated that 7.8 are unemployed owing to lack of work, and approximately 1.0 through sickness. Among tho various trndes throughout Australia the proportion of unemployed is as follows: Wood and furniture workers, 4.2; food, drink, tobacco, etc., 4.2j24,1) clothing, hats and boots, etc., .*•*..'!; books, printing trndes, etc., 2.0; other manufactories, 0.7; building trades, 10.5; mines and quarrying, 8.2; other land transport, 2.0; miscellaneous groups, 7.5. Taking tho various states we find that the labor state of New South ., ales has least out of work, followed closely by South Australia, and Tasmania, I have thc tabulated percentages classified from no less than 484 of the unions throughout Australia and arranged in States they show tho following percentage of unemployment: N. H. WaloB, 7.0; Victoria, 9.2; Queensland, 15.6; South Australia, 7.4; West Australia, 8.5; and Tnsmnnin, 7.2. The largo percentage of unemployment on thc food, drink, and tobacco, etc., (2.1,1 per cent.) is duo to the droughty conditions, mainly in South Australia, whore they havo had a very severe time of it of late. In that stale not only haa tho drought dono much harm but tho meat supply hns been hold up owing to a scarcity of stock, following the drought. It is exceedingly gratifying to see thnt tho printing trade has but 2.9 por cent, unemployment in Australia. Result of "Free" Labor Bureau, An item worthy of note, in conjunction with N. S. Wales' low percentage of unemployment, is tho fact thnt no loss than 13,500 men were found jobs through the free governmont labor agonclos—an account' of which appeared in Tho Federationist of Dec. 10. Inst. This govornment innovation has surely borne fruit of tho right kind. BOOKBINDERS. Well Known Reglna Member Elected to a Position of Trust. At Reglna, Sask., Harry Parr, a well known member of the Bookbin -tiers, surprised tho old parties by land ing in the city council in the recenl local election. Bro. Purr is president of tho Saskatchewan Labor representative league and holds numerous other posi tions of honor—and work. CAPITAL CITY LABOR Last Meeting Enlivened By Many Controversial Subjects Reports from Unions Show No Improvement in Labor Conditions VICTORIA, B.C., Feb. 22.-Owin»; to the absence of the President,. A. 8. Wells and the enlistment of Vice-president Phillbrook, the secretary waa obliged to open the last meeting of the Trades and Labor council and called for a chairman for the evening. Del-* egate Peele of the Musicians' local; waB elected. Credentials were received from tht Street Railwaymans' local for Messrs. R. W. Nunn, R. C. Gibson, J. Richardson and T. H. Nook; also for % Vet* rott of the Painters. A very good attendance of delegates and a few visitors were present. The secretary reported for the executive committee. They had met twice since the previous meeting and several mutters were dealt with, including the - agreement that had been signed up by the local brewery workers for twelve months. The report was accepted. A letter from the secretary of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada was read, showing their activities regarding securing the inclusion of the fair-wage schedule in war contract! in Canada. Received as satisfactory. A letter from the Returned Soldiers1' Aid commission, endorsing the president, with the vice-president as alternate, to act on thu sub-committee wai received. The secrotary pointed out to the council tnat a meeting of thia committee had been called and he had asked Del. Sivertz to attend. Del, Sivertz then gave his report of the meeting, whieh was received and the secretary's action -endorsed. Reports of Unions. Reports of locals showed very little change. The Barbers had placed oa the unfair list the shop at 543 Johnson street. They had also sent a letter to the council regarding civic employees patronising Chinese barber shops. Considerable discussion took place. Tha secrotary finally moved that the organization committee take the matter up, with a view to organizing civic employees. Carried, The Steam Engineers' delegste reported a serious matter, regarding s Canadian local in Vancouver. Owing to the locals involved the executive committee were instructed to deal with the matter immediately and report back. A letter from the local branch .of the nnti-Qorman union, which was laid over last meeting, waB dealt with. Considerable discussion took place. Also a little comedy was interjected'into the proceedings. It wns unanimously decided to file same, although ono delegate thought burning would be what it merited. Election of Offlcen. Election of officers was-next proceeded with. Del. Jas. Taylor of the Typographical union was elected president; K. W. Nunn of Stroet Rallwaymen was elected vice-president; recording secretary, F. Holdndge, Letter Carriers; financial secretary, John Day. C. Sivertz was re-elected as statistician and J. Bass of the Barbers' local was elected Borgcant-at-arms, Flection of committee, other than executive, wns left till next meeting. Executive committee are Jas. Taylor, F. Holdridge, W. Nunn, J. Day, C. Sivortz, J. Taylor (Longshoremen) and H. Marsh. F. H. TORONTO DISTRICT COUNCIL Ones on Record aa Opposed to Proposed Ontario Prohibition Measure. Toronto District Trades and Labor council, according to daily press despatches, has come out against the proposed legislation for prohibition of tho liquor traffic in Ontario, on the ground that prohibition breeds "dives and joints" and creates a demoralizing effect on tho liquor laws, while strict enforcement of tho law produces moro beneficial effects from tho standpoint of temperance. Tho vote, taken after a vigorous debate, on Feb. 17, was 78 to 25. Tho resolution further stated that prohibition hnd not been productive of good results in the stntes in the United States where it is in forco. Such legislation in Ontario, it was contended, would result in throwing out of employment thousands of workers. I. T. U. Nominations. I. T. U. nominations in Cloveland, O., resulted in the endorsement of President Scott, Vice-President Bnrrett and Secretary Hays for re-election, as was Joo Johnson for Homo agent. Trustees preferred woro Malcolm Knock, Thomas McCaffrey and Wm. Mounce; A. F. of L. delegates, Wm. Dennett, Lob Angeles; Max S. Hayes, Cleveland; T. W. McCulIough, Oinahn, nnd Hugh Stevenson, Toronto, and delegate to Canadian Trados Congress, Samuel nad- don, Toronto. ALL UNION MEN SHOULD USE THEIR PURCHASING POWER Tho Union Label is your label, and whon you ignore it you ignore your own best interests and hinder your own progress toward hotter things. If you do not demand tho Union Label on yonr purchases you aro not only failing to use your purchasing powor, but you nro violating your obligation ns a union man. Try being a 100 per cent, union man and demand the Union Labol. Do it today. »^*^*aa •• n.md •"■if Amnio* PAGE TWO I'HK BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FBIDAY •.JFEBBUABY 25, 1918 INOOEPOEATED 1855 Molsons Bank CAPITAL and EESEEVE 18,800,000 ., 98 Branches ln Canada A general banking business transacted. Circular letters of credit. Bank money orders. Savings Department Interest allowed at highest current rate The Royal Bank of Canada INCORPORATED 1MI Paid-up Capital • • ■ I 11,808.80 Reaerve 12,80*088 Total Aaaeta 180,000,000 WE ALLOW INTEREST ON DE- POOITS IN OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT One Dollar will open the account, and your bualneaa will ba welcome be It large or email Branches and correspondents throughout the world - THE INCORPORATED 18SS BANK OF TORONTO Assets .. Deposit. . .. 866,000,000 ... 48,000,000 SAVINGS and PRIVATE ACCOUNTS Savings tnd household accounts Invited. Joint iMoants opened when re- quired lor two or more persons, tar one of whom msy deposit or withdraw money. Interest Is paid on balances. Banking accounts openecMor Societies, Lodges, Trustees, Executors or for private purposes. Paid up capital 6,000,000 Reserve fund 6,18»,382 Coiner Hastings and Gamble Sts. THS TBLBPHOSB TAXES TM WUS OUT OT DISTANCE When yoa-want to phone to Vancou* ver Ialand, to the Kootenay or down the coaat. uae the telephone right beside you. Every telephone Is a long distance telephone. „,'_,. ... There Is no difficulty In hearing tho party at the other end. So when you want to telephone long distance, do so from your own house or office. , ,. Tou get yonr party, or you don t pay. That means you get your answer. And all in a few momenta, too. BBITISB OOIUMBIA TELEPHONE OOMPANT, LIMITED PANTAGES Unequalled Vaudeville Means I.UITAOES VAUDEVILLE THEEE SHOWS DAILT 2:15,7:20,9:16 Season's Prices: Matinee, 16c| Etanlmi, 16c, 86c. British Columbia LAND Splendid opportunities tn Mixed Farming, Dairying, Btoek and Tonltry. Britlah Colombia Grants Preemptions of 108 aeres to Actual Bottlers— Free TEBM8—Residence on the land for at least three yearej Improvements to tbe extent of 86 per acre; bringing under cultivation at leaat tre acres. For further Information apply to DEPUTY MINISTER OF LANDS, VIOTOBIA, BA 8EOBETABT, BUREAU OF PBOVINOIAL mrORIIATIOir, •no-rout, b.0. THE B. C. FEDERATI Published every Friday morning by th* B. O. Federationist, Limited B. Parm. Pettipiece Manager Office: Boom 217, Labor Temple Tel. Exchange Seymour 7496 Subscription: $1.50 per year; in Vaneoaver City, $2.0l); to unions subscribing in • body, $1.00 REPRE SENT ATIVEB New Westminster W. Yates, Box 1021 Prince Rupert W. E. Donning, Box 581 Victoria A. S. Wells, Box 1538 'Unity of Labor: tbe Hope of the World' FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1916 THE ENGLISH Conscription net is, of course, little more than a smell of the real thing. The measure was purposely made modest und is n tester of public opinion rather than u serious military device. If no further CONSCRIPTION atep is taken the tra- IN TWO . ditional liberties of FORMS. t h e Anglo-S u s o n freeman will not have been seriously diminished, says the San Francisco Bulletin. But in an in*, iioccnt way, as though desiring nothing less than to shock people, a number of English radicals have begun to discuss the conscription of wealth as a companion measure to the conscription of men. Any argument that' is good for one kind of conscription is good for the other. If either proposal has the advantage it is that wealth shall bo taken. Wealth is not so valuable as life. It can be restored. But blood, once, shed, cannot be put back into the human body; a life or a limb, once taken, cannot be given back. This line of reasoning is not so difficult that it will fail to be understood by the great masses of the English people. Property incomos in England will bo butchered before conscription in the continental sense is written into the English laws. In the United States the danger of any extreme militaristic development' is probably past. But it will be well for every extremist, and particularly for the extremists of groat wealth, to remember that the government cannot' impair the respect for individual liberty, through compulsory service, without impairing to at least as great a degree the respect for-property rights. look down on its rows of spruce, elderly gentlemen sitting there in their solemn smugness to realize how difficult, if one were among them, it would be to fight against their atmosphere. The atmosphere is a dangerous, if not poisonous, compound of respectability, bank balances, public school education, overfeeding and drinking, claBS prejudice, g&od form and stupidity. Successive doses of this atmosphere for four days during the committee stage of. the Conscription bill left the opponents of the bill at the end with little or no spirit of light in them. It has been wisely said that "It would have taken a thousand years to build' the Panama canal without the aid of preliminary surveys, blue prints, data'sheets, etc.," observes a United States exchange, and then it adds: "This statement merely emphasizes tho importance of ' proparedness' for any undertaking, and especially that of collecting delinquent accounts." Yes, in- deedl Hence the furore for the greatest navy in the world and largest standing army. Wall street has loaned so much money that a means must be found of collecting it, no matter what the price. Great is Iron and Steel. The problem of mothers' pensions is to bo brought beforo tho Manitoba governmont shortly, notice having been given of a# bill for the relief of destitute widowed mothers, which Hon. A. B. Hudson is now drafting. While this question has been much to the fore in Canada in recent yeara, Manitoba, if its government passes the bill, will be the first province in Canada to pass this piece of legislation. New Zealand, AustraUa and many states of the union have tried the principle and found it good, but there aro many things to be considered in adopting a measure of this kind, and while many of the Canadian provinces have been considering it very seriously, none up to the present have been able to take any definite stand on the question. A TRUE TRIBUTE to Mr. Keir Hardie is paid in the closing words of a report presented at the recent large and momentous Lnbor conference in Great Britain. His death, it says, marks the closing of one of the TRIBUTE mo8t .important chap- ^0 tors in Labor's politi- KEIR HARDIE. cai hi8tory, «Hifl was the voice that on the floor of the Trade Union Congress at' Swansea, in 1887, first demanded in* dependent Labor representation ini the house of commons. His whole career was dedicated to building up a Labor movement on the lines he then laid down and the propagation of the socialist principles which inspired tbe whole of his political life. His interest in the promotion of international principles," the report saya later, "waB recognized throughout the Labor movements of the world, and his death, like that of Bebel and Jaures before him, haB been mourned by socialists and trade unionists everywhere. #" # • The outbreak of war, coming bo suddenly upon his participation in the peace demonstration at Brussels at the end of July, 1914, depressed his spirit beyond all description. With an effort he gathered strength enough to preside over the conference of delogates from the socialist parties of tho allied nations which was held in London on February 14,1915, but that was tho last international gathering in which he took part. It is worthy of note that his last sustained plea in the house of commons was on behalf of the children who woro being roleased from school at too early an age to engage in manual work in the fields and factories of the country." Perhaps they (Manitoba legislators) will be interested to learn that labor intends to capture the state power; for the purpose of putting a stop to. the system whereby, somo men live on .other men's labor. But the attainment, of that ideal is possibly remote. Mean- while, the labor men intend to find out whether or net the legislative power can be used to mitigate, the severity, of the exploiting system. On thiB point there are two schools of thought'. One school holds that legislation, while under capitalist control, will accomplish nothing. The other believes that the participation of labor in the business of law making will act as a check on the rapacity of the capitalists. All are agreed -that, pending the final victory of labor at the polls, there is. nothing for labor representatives to do except make demands. And it is worth while to know that no mutter what may be granted, still more will be asked.— Winnipeg Voice. A widow cun be ns much interested in a man ns if he were interesting. Home men achieve fame, some hove it forced upon thom and some are lucky and escape it entirely. To bo of servico in your community is to bo slandered by the peoplo you serve who do not know you.—Enderby Press. So thc participators in war profits ore not to be permitted to bug more than 7 per cent. This is rather meddlesome on tho part of tho government. It will necessitate increasing tho capitnli zation of tho companies operating, so thnt at all times the maximum will not be reached. Very annoying, but just as effective. Wives and children, deserted and loft destitute by the husband and father, are lapidly becoming ono of the greatest problems in the United Statofl, according to Judgo Henry Neil, originator of the mothers' pension system. Ho intends to appoal to congress and the legislative bodies of Illinois and all other states to consider the deserted mother and hor children. Ho has obtained mothers' pensions for widows in states, but deserted women ahd their childron are still in poverty. , The house of commons (Great Britain) is n curious place, observes the Labor Leader, It is pnly necessary to Winnipeg Trades and Labor council is the latest body of organized workmen to refuse to tako sides in the matter of prohibition. In this it quite properly quotes the attitude of the American Federation of Labor, and the Trndes and Labor Congress of Canada; also Vancouver Trades and Labor council and many other similar bodies. Composed, as it is, of all sorts of affiliated unions, including the culinary trades, tho members of organized labor throughout Canada have, in most cases, left the decision on this question to the individual to decide for themselves. Like religion, it is a subject that should be kept out of the trades union movement as much as possible, and Winnipeg Trados and Labor council has displayed good judgment in emulating the action of those bodies which have learned these lessons from long experience. If daily presB reports be true, the Toronto central labor body has failed to exercise similar wisdom. VARIORUM [By W. M. C] Tho following ad. appeared in tho Oban Times,'' Scotland: ' * Great Danes. Now and after tho war many undesirables will be around. Get your pet dog and guard now." This does not Bpeeify to which section of the community the "undesirables" will belong, but it does not look as if it was specially designed to catch tho eye of the proletarian, seeing the prices run to £15. • * • The following excerpts are taken from a labor report of a meeting be' tween tho shop stewards of Pnrkhead Forgo, Glasgow, Scotland, nnd Mr. Lloyd George to discuss tho question of tho dilution of Labor: The workers were gathered together in tho larg drawing office, discussing the business before them, when Mr. George i ushered into tho room in tho best stngo manner; but the ceremony fell flnt, tho workers displaying little or no interest in the visitors, but going on^with thoir business. Aftor a minute or two the works managor approached Mr. Kirk- wood, the convenor of tho shop stewards, and stated that Mr. Georgo wished on introduction to him. "Davie" bore the honors with his usual modesty, for when the minister asked how ho was, he replied, "No sue bad at a Lord Murray volunteered tho hint to Kirkwood that he should introduce Mr. George us "The -Right Honourable David Lloyd George, Chief Minister of Munitions for the British Empire." This is how he got it off: "Fellow workers, this is Mr. Lloyd Georgo, Ho hns como specially to speak to you, and no doubt you will givo htm a patient hearing. I can assure him that evory word ho Hays will bo carefully weigh' ed. We regard him with suspicion, becauso every act with which his name has been usBocinted has the taint of slavery about it, and he would flnd that they, as Scotchmen, resented thin, and that if he desired to get fli. best out of them, ho must treat tbem with jus tice and respect." This reception seemed to flabbergast the minister. He spoke ah.out. our workers in the trenches; of .the number of new factories; of big guns to blow the Germans out of France; and of the need of unskilled labor being used for work on which skilled labor is now employed. When he finished, Kirkwood asked if he was prepared to give the workers a share in the management of the works. They, as socialists, welcomed tho dilution of labor, which they regarded as the natural development in industrial conditions. They were not like the Luddites of another generation, who smashed the new machinery. But this scheme of dilution must be carried uot under the control of the workers. They recognized tbat if they had not control, cheap labor would bo introduced. Mr. George here interjected remarks to the effect that the workers were not capable of managing workshops, to which Kirkwood hotly retorted: "Those men, for whom I ask a Bay in the management, carry tho confidence of the workers, and have confidence in themselvos. They brought out the men of the Clyde in February in defiance of you, of the government, of the army, and of the trade union leaders. They not only led them out, but they led them back -victorious. They let it be known that if their demands were not granted, masters might force them ta the workshops, but could not make them work. Who ran the workshops nowf Men drawn from the ranks of tho working-class." Mr. Georgo claimed this was too revolutionary a proposal at the present timo. "Ah," said Kirkwood, " you nro thinking ns a lawyer. It takes engineers to reason out an industrial situation like the preBent one. This war has proved conclusively to the Workers that one engineer is worth a hundred lawyers, even of your kind.'' Sacrilege, Davie, sacrilege! Mr. George is the best paid ammunition worker in Britain, and gots almost £100 per week. But these be unceremonious times. * * t The men who have been told by the boss that "your King and Country need you: we don't," can now fully appreciate the meaning of the story they had heard that if the Germans came over they would lose their jobs. *■'.'#■"• Hero is a contrast that ought to gladden the hearts of nil advocates of reaction, or the resolution backwards, From the "Glasgow News," "One of the most pathetic of the many pathetic sights of London iB furnished by the crowds of poor womon who wait outside the shops of butchers and fishmongers, beforo daylight in the morning and after dark in the evening, on tho chance of obtaining scraps of food for a small amount. The spectacle has no connection with the. war, for it has existed many years." From another column of the same issuo: "I spend £14,000 a year on my clothes," says Mddle. Gaby Dealya, "and if I were not careful it would be much more. My hats coBt £3,500 per year; then there are my shoes and other things. Please say £10,000 for dresses alone. If I buy new furs, and it is necessary each year, it is somothing extra," The qualification "If I were not. careful" was surely an unconscious witticism of Gaby's, She would make a sweet little ornament for the heme of three-dollor-a-day worker. Of courso, we must always remember our divinely-appointed stations in life. » t • It would take neithor a prophet, nor a son of a prophet', nor any other kind of a Bon, to foretell what would happen to the labor paper which got the following off its chest. Listen to Horatio at the bridge. Horatio Bottomley of John Bull," defying the ranks of Tuscany, the Germans, Ramsay MacDonald, his mother-in-law,—and the censor: "The press can make and unmake governments. No government can destroy the press. At the samo time, we must be on our guard lest out of a patriotic destro to refrain from harassing ministers during the war, we allow the insidious system of state censorship "o, obtain a permanent hold over tho newspapers of the country. Speaking for ourselves, we never have submitted to the press bureau anything which has appeared in these columns—and we bave no Intention of departing from that course. We claim to be competent to determine whnt it may be in the public interest to publish; and if our judgment should ever bring ub into contact with the censor, •well, so much the worse for the censor! .... It is the press nnd not -parliament, which is running this wnr." So there now, Mr. Censor, take that slap on tho wrist, nnd suffer! A tory 32-centimeter trained its muzzle on the "rude mechanic" the other <\ny. Wild tales of ghastly deeds afoot, breeding disaster to the H'empire had sifted through the ether to The Brains, to the effect thnt old men nnd beardless boya—too ripe or yet' unripe for slaughter—were scooping in the prec ious "stuff that drenms were mnde on' to the tune of £3 per week por "unfit.' A battalion of literary uhlnns were in stantly despatched to ferret ont all the " 'orrible dotails," and all "true patriots" stood appalled tit tho disclosures. If was found that tho "base-born"hnd cultivated acquaintance with their masters' poulterers; that no longer were thoir delicate palates satisfied with choice cuts from between the horns; that, in the Impudence of their overalls, they had booked seats for the stalls in tho nation's housed of amusement; and that the rivetter's wivos were pounding the piano instoad of tho wash-board. This, all .this ghastly luxury, instead of buying wnr loans, and providing Mr. Fatmtin with the wherewithal to coin his ten to twenty per centum. Thus nro the '' base-born frolicking in the lap of luxury, while the "blue-bloods" nre lying "in the cold, cold ground" nf the trenchoB, But ns .-Tollii D. Rockefeller, jnr., once remarked, "You must-nip nil buds but one from the bush to gain one American beauty roso," Who can tell which rivetter's wife may develop into nn American beauty rose? Echo-answer- eth not. But.thoy forget to sny how many hours the "bnse-bom"hnd to toil to gain this untold wealth. Tho cnpitnlifltB nro the malaria germs that give us the chills of hard times, and tho fever of flush times. or something equally cheap by comparison." ■>' Only those who have helped them-* selves know how to, help others and to reapect their right to help themselves, —George Bernard Shaw. J-let because a man and a woman sit beBide, each other at the theatre and never say a word, don't jump to the conclusion that they are strangers. They may be man and wife. "The meanest man on earth is the one who will let an incensed woman go right on chattering and just sit there with his mind full of deep, dark, hateful thoughts which he refuses to toll her." The Canadian House of Commons has taken stops to have tho elections postponed for a year. Wonder if they'ro afraid that, with so many of the men away fighting, they'll havo to let the women vote in order to flwve any election at all.—New York Call. The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should be ablaze with noble and enduring lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history, and form one of tho guiding lights of man. Tho dawn dares when it rises, To strive, to bravo all risks, to persist, to persevore, to bo faithful to yourself, to grapple hand to hand with dostiny, to surprise defeat with the little torror it inspires, at one timo to confront unrighteous power, nt another to defy intoxicated triumph; to hold fast, to hold hard—such is the example which the nations need, and the light' that electrifies them.—P. J. Tynan. Electing the Boss's Wife. Speaking of suffragettes, English or American, it is understood of course that we do not oppose woman suffrage. Tho vote will do working women no more good than it does working men. Woman, like man, is entitled to no loss than she can take. But what we mean to point out is this: Somo people imagine that the suffragists and suffragettes aro inspired by a new passion for liberty. That's a mistake. What inspires thom is the passion to govern. It ia not woman, as a sex, that is the victim of existing conditions. It is only tho working woman—exnetly as is the working man. Will the working woman gain anything by electing hor boss's wife to office f—Tho Blast. Some peoplo have lots of trouble, and most of it never happens. Many of the dry states have deviS' od substitutes for whisky, which aro recommended ns being just ns bad. Statistics show thnt in tho United States more than thirty per cont. of the deaths are caused by throe disease-H, pneumonia, tuberculosis and heart disease. "If gasoline goes much higher,jitney biiB operators will have to porfoct o method of using radium, attar of roses In Labor's Trenches, PresB reports of the war are roplete with lines telling of the alertness and endurance of the men in the trenches and on the line of march. They should be a lesson to the workers in the incessant war of labor. Indeed, too often our war is nothing more formidable than a little cheap chatter at the enemy and its tactics. TheBe are stern days in the struggles of tho workers. They nre days that call for supreme alertness, endurance and endeavor. The trenches must be guarded and enlarged and extended. The line of march must be steady, intelligent and determined. Organization! That's the word. Organize the men nnd women of labor. Organize the purpose of labor. Organize the equipment and resources of labor. Organize the ideals and principles of Labor.—Los Angeles Citizen. 'My husband tells me that he was out last night with your huBband." "That ian't bo. I want you to under stand that my husband was out with your husband."—Detroit Free Press. THE SUN LEADS THE WAY A PAPEB FOB THE PEOPLE, not for any claaa of the people. Clean, newsy and bright-*—a newspaper yon can trust. THE SUN upholds tho principlo of govornment by tho people. KEEP IN TOUCH with tho nows of tho day by reading THE SUN. Subscription Bates. By carrier 10c por weok, or tt- per year in advance, in Vancouver or Vicinity. By mail, 25c. per month, or $3 per year throughout Canada, Groat Britain ana all countries within tho Postal Union, United States, 50c. per month. Westminster Trust Co. Head Office: New Westminster, B.C. J. J. JONES J' A. RENNIE, Managing Director Secretary-Treasurer ACTS AS ASSIGNEES LIQUIDATORS AND RECEIVERS INSURANCE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES Houses, Bungalows, Stores and modern suites for rent at a big reduction. Safety Deposit Boxes for rent at 92.60 up. Wills drawn up free of charge. Deposits accepted and interest at Tour per cent allowed on daily balances. TRADE UNION DIRECTORY Allied Printing Tradei Council—B. H. Nee- landi, Box «6. Barbers—S. H. Grant. 1301 7th avenuo west. Bartenders—H. Davis, Box 424. Blacksmiths-—Malcolm Porter, View Hill P. O. Bookbinders—W. H. Cowdoroy, 18SS Thirty- fourth avenue east. Boilermakers—A, Fraaer, 1151 Howe street. Brewery Workors—Chas. G. Austin, 782 7th avenue east. Bricklayer*—William 8. Dagnall, Labor Temple. Brotherhood ol Carpenters Dlstriot Counoil —F. L. Barratt, Room 208, Labor Temple. Clgarmakers—W. H. McQueen, care Kurts Cigar Factory, 72 Water Street. Cooks, Waiters, Waitresses—Andy Graham, Room 304, Labor Templo, Deep Sea Fishermen's Union—Russell Kear- ley, 437 Gore avenuo. • Electrical Workera (outside)—E. H. Morrison, Room 207, Labor Temple. Electrical Workers (Inside)—F. L. Estinghausen, Room 207. Engineers—E. Prendergaat, Room 216, Labor Temple. Granite Gutters—Edward Hurry. Columbia Hotel. Garment Workers—Mrs. Jardlne, Labor Temple. HorscsboprB—Labor Temple. Lottor Carriers—Robt. Wight, 177—17th avenue west. Laborers—George Harrison, Room 220, Labor Temple. Locomotive Firemen and Englneera—O. Howard, Port Coquitlam. Local Enginoers—L. T. Solloway, 1157 Har- wood. Tel. Sey, 1S48R. Longshoremen—Thomas Nixon, 10 Powell Bt. Machinists—J. Brooks, Room 211, Labor Temple- Milk Drivers—Stanley Tiller, 812 Eighteenth avenue west. Musicians—H. J. Brasfleld, Rnnm 806, Labor Temple. Molders— Moving Picture Operators—H. C. Roddan, P. O. Box 345. Painters—Geo. Weston, Room 809, Labor Temple. Plumbers — Room 206 _, Labor Temple. Phone Soymour 3611. PreBBmen—P. D. Edward, Labor Temple. Plasterers—John James Cornish, 1809 Eleventh avenue East. Pattern Makers—J. Campbell, 4869 Argyle Street. ' Quarry Workers—James Hepburn, care Columbia Hotel. Railroad Trainmen—A. E. McCorvllle, Box 243. Railway Carmen—A. Robb. 420 Nelson Street. Seamen's Union—W. 8. Burns, P. O. Box 1865. Stmatural Iron Workers—Room 208, Labor Temple. Stonecutters—James Rayburn, P. 0. Box Stonecutters— Sheet Metal Workers—J. W. Alexander, 2120 Pender street oast. Street Railway Employees—James E. Griffln, 166 Twenty-fifth avenue east. Stereotypers—W. Bayley, care Province. Telegraphers—E. B. Peppin. Box 342. Trades and Labor Council—Miss Helena Gut- torldge. Room 210 Labor Templo. Typographical—H.* Neelands, Box 66. Tailors—0. McDonald. Box 503. Theatrical Stage Employees—Geo. W. Allln, Box 711. TIHnyers nnd Helpers—A. Jamleson, 540 Twenty-third avenue oast. ALUED PRINTING TRADES COUNCIL.—Meeta second Monday In the,., month. President, H. J. Bothel; secretary, •- R. H. NeeUnds, P. 0. Box 66. BROTHERHOOD OF BOILER MAKERS and Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America, Vancouvor Lodge No. 104—Meeta first and third Mondays, 8 p.m.' President, A. Campbell, 73 Seventeenth avenue west: secretary, A', Fraser, 1151 Howe streot. ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL NO. 211 -meets room 205, Labor Temple,, every "ft 8 **• President, D. W. ficfiougatf 1162 Powell' lt»etI recording secreUry R. N. EJgar, Labor Temple: financial secretory and business agent, K. H. Morrison, ' Room 207, Labor Temple. ^ ORGANIZED LABOR COMPANIES. LABOR TEMPLE COMPANY, LIMITED— Directors: R. P. Pettipiece, James Campholl, J. W. Wilkinson, Geo. Wllby, W. J. Nagle, F. Blumberg, H. H. Free, Mips Helena Gutteridge, J. Byron. Managing director Jaa. H. McVety, room 211, Labor Temple. B. C. FEDERATIONIST, LIMITED—Moots at call of president. Labor Temple, Van couver, B. C. Directors: James Campbell, president: J. H, McVety. secretary-treasurer; A. Watchman and A. S. Wells. R. Parm. Pottipleco, managing director. Room 217, Labor Temple. Telephone Seymour 7495. SECRETARIES OF TRADES AND LABOR COUNCILS IN CANADA S^ Of America COPTBICHT &THAD1 MMKRWWTEHID 1903 Vote agulnst prohibition! Demand personal liberty in choosing what you will drink. Ask for this Label when purchasing Beer, Ale or Porter, as a guarantoo that it Is Union Made. This I* our Label SYNOPSIS OF COAL MININO REGULATIONS. Coal mining rights of tbe Dominion, In Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Yukon Tcrlrtory, the Northwest Territories and In a portion of the Province of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-one years at an annual rental of $1 an aore, Not more tban 2,560 acres will be leased to one applicant, Applications for lease must be made by the applicant ln person to the Agent or Sab-Agent of tbe district in whieh the rights applied for are situated. In surveyed territory the land must be described by sections, or legal subdivisions of seotlons, and In nnsurveyed torrltory the tract applied for shall be staked by the applicant himself. Each application must be accompanied by a fee of 85, which will be refunded if the rights applied for are noi available, but not otherwise, A royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of the mine at the rate of five cents per tan. The person opsratlng the mine shall furnish the Agent wltb sworn returns aeeonnt* Ing for the full quantity of merchantable eoal mined and pay the royalty thereon. If the coal mining rights are not being operated, such returns should be furnished at least once a year. The lease will Include the eoal mining rights only, but the lessee may be permitted to purchase whatever available surface rights may be considered necessary for the working of the mine at the rate or 110 in aere. Por full Information application should be made to the Seeretary of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, or to any Agent or Sab- Agent of Dominion Lends. W. H. CORY. Deputy Minister of ths Interior. N. B.—Unauthorised publication of this advertisement will not be paid for—80690 VANCOUVER UNIONS ' TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL—MEETS ' flrst and third Thursdays, Executive board: James H. MoVety, president; R. P. Pettipiece, vice-presidont; MIbb Helena Gutteridge, general secretary, 210 Labor Temple; Fred Knowles, treasurer; W. H, Cotterill, statistician; Bergoant-at-arms, John Sully; A. { J. Crawford, Jas. Campbell, J. Brookes, trustees. BARTENDERS' LOCAL No. 676.—Office, L Room 208 Labor Temple, Meets flrst Sunday of each month. President, James Campbell; financial secretary, H, Davis, Box « 424; phone, Sey. 4752; recording secrotary, | Wm. Mottlshaw, Globe Hotel, Main street. BRICKLAYERS' AND MASONS', NO. I**. —Meeta every 1st and Srd TueHday, 8 p.m., Room 307. President H. P. Wand; corresponding secretary, W. S. Dagnall, Box to 53; financial secrotary, W. J. Pipes; business " agent, W. 8. Dagnall, Room 215. HODCARRIERS, BUILDING AND COMMON .1.. j*£,-?j?™ ?n-on' No- 65—Meets flrst Hnd third Friday of each month, Laber Temple. President, E. C. Appleby; secrotary, George ?onr'5onJ bS? n"» asent, John Sully, room 220 Labor Temple. All laborers Invited to meeting. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S AS. SOCIATION. Local 3852. Olllce, Aaso- elation hill, 10 Powell .treet. Meete ever. Sunday, 2:80 p.m. Thorn.. Nlion, seoret»r*r. MOVINO PICTURE MACHINE OPERA* TORS' ONION, Local 848° IAT k * -.VP'-M' °*—Meets Ural Sunday oi f.™iH*"0.n"',„Bg?.,n -l04' h'h" Temple, rresldont, W. E. McCartney; Bu.lnc. ^"'•J' 3.mMSmty«r: Financial and Co" reapondliv Secretary, H. 0. Roddan. P. 0. Hex 845, PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF NORTH AMbRICA—Vancouver and vicinity. _~ Branch meets let and Srd Friday, at Labor LT&ft!?, 20,5'.u H' KUkuita p".l* dent, 276 Fllty.lxth avenue eatt; Joa. G. TOJST*"1 ""^"r. "21 Grant .treet; J. Umpboll, recording aeeretary, 1889 Arjyli ""flfEiA-H! SEOTRI° RAILWAY EM* m» ,PL0^I!EI' Pi,on6M D"l**<"*. No. 101— Meete Laker Templo, aecond and fourth Wed- ?■ ,lWl,! "°°rM<ig aeeretary, Jai. E. Grlf- ..<,reta^T3t)\"'*? ""
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*" j18" .b?e" budded on to the old labor organizations of any kind are per- fight on behalf of the workers of tho *""* at Victoria, and that this will mltted in this company town, threat- province with greater effect as a result feBult ln ""> tree bearing forth entire- encd to strike. As a strike might have of making the chance « n6w and Bweet fruit. It is absolute interfered witb Mr. Flummerfelt'i poll- ' nonsense to pretend to believe anything tical ambitions, the company reinstated Still Socialist at Heart of this kind. I would remind Mr. Bow- tho discharged men. But within a few "While I have to step outside tta ser that the suckers and the water weeks theso men were quietly, one by Socialist Party, I am not in any sense shoots that clustered so thickly around one, dropped from tho payroll, until . j, .* ,. n . t. the old tree at Victoria came up from the last account I had stated ttat onlv or form repudiating it. theories. It. beIow, They belo„ged {„ mi » (J _ %»%__ „„e stiU w?th the uncompromising attitude is, however, from tho roots of the tree, and in no company. not satisfactory, and particularly so manner, shape or form, can the little '' Tho fact that miners in Mr. Flum- when that attitude hns been such a bud that hu been put into tho trunk, merfelt's employ aro not allowed to or- weapon in the upbuilding of tho Con- mBl*e any difference to tta tree. gnnizi* Bhould be noted by thoso of you scrvntivo party. It is not the Tory "Mr* Campbell of Rosslnnd is tho who believe in trado unionism. They party that has smashed tho liberal business mnn. According to the govern- aro using at Granby Bay a drilling ma- party. It is the Socialist Party that me°t press, he was placed at tho head chine which I. known among the men has done' so. Mr. J. H. Hnwtnornth* °t the Department of Mine, because ho as tho ' widow maker,' becauso of the woite practically set the pace and tho W"B ">G best man the government could rnpidity with which tho mon working rest of us followed. I am not trying to ?l,d 'or tbe job. Ho is described ns be- It dio off, owing to lung troublo caused blame somebody else for our work. I '"6 n mon of technical training and by tho dust coming from tho use of am not saying that, for the timo being, wi('° experience, and a man who haa this particular machine. That class of it did not seem tho right thing to do. mnile n real name for himself among machines is prohibited from being Tho position in which the Conservative 'I"1 Wg mining men of the Dominion, usod in various states of Australia, but party finds itself in this provinco iB a Who la Lome Oampbelll Mr- Flummerfelt'» company continuu position more largely of tho Socialist „„,.. „ „ ,,„.,., . ... to ubo thom and is the only company Party's making tCaiit of the Conservn- H<w """/ * I \ V'. in Bri,i,h Co,"m,,1•• ■vllich ,loe' UM tivo party. But when this was going "in election, of Mr. Campbell! I havo that typo of mnchino without tho neces* on, tho Conservative party was not tho never bofore heard that he had any snry "devices to safeguard tho health ConBervativo party we hove today. It particular knowledge or connection °* ,he mc" working them. Mton sTcpP ^ "ttaX"' "Uh th° 0mi°""* Ma,Uy "■ ""' "°- ** AW" B°"d"g ^ men we nro criticizing took over tho vincc* Some men coroo into contact "At Anyox there is a boarding or supreme control of the Conservative with tho mining industry in.thc snmo rooming houac, approximately 80 by 60 party. The man in power today is not way as a leech comes into contact with f,,,., jn 8jze lim| ,,f rough lumber con* a genuine Conservative and his is not thc victim of its nttention. Mr. Camp. , ,. ' „„ „.„ ,„„ flM. ., u.,. a fconscrvotivo govornment. Thc Bow- bell, so far as I know, has demonstrated »tr"ct'»°* °" ""*• toP ^Mt of ■*» ser government Is nothing more or less no special fitness for tho position of building thc living nnd sleeping quar* than a group of men who are bnnded Ministor of Mines. Mr. Csmpbcll has tcrs for 30 working mon are provided. together for tho purpose of clinging to been In the Victoria house for thrco Thirty-six men aro huddled in thi. one the treasury of the province. I am not years, and his record there is there- r„om .omothlng like 20 feet by 00 feet backing tonight n Liberal against a cord of a man who haa ncvor manifest* ....*■ Conservative. I am objecting to mon ed any activity or shown any valid rca* son why he should ever havo beon oho* aen for tbe position. He line nevor of. SOME REASONS GIVEN BY MR. PARKER WILLIAMS AS TO THE SPECIAL MEANING OF THE PROVINCIAL BYE-ELECTIONS ON SATURDAY. You can vote and no man can know how you vote, but back in the woods and scattered settlements where the polls are numbered by fifteens and twenties, anyone with half a head can tell which of these few men voted Conservative or Liberal." "These men know such is thc case and if you give this government an air of solidity and stability on Saturday by returning its cadidatcs you havo fastened thc shackles of political slavery on the men of thc settlements and camps." "But if you do tho right thing next Saturday and smash thc machine, these people will be encouraged in such a manner that, when the general election comes, they will bo strong enough to turn around and do as they please." Thu room Ib nrranged for bunks, packed ns tightly aa tho space will permit, and for this accommodation there is n little . . ,,.* . ., , , ,. item deducted from thc men's wages, fored anything in the shnpo of a motion fto amou„t boi„g mo per month for or an amendment to any measure in oach man, __ bullSing pnya Mr. that House from the day ho entered FIumnier£aIt or his company an Income until the present time Mr. Campbell „f tm Mr. Flummerfelt is iin,, idea type of the rubber stamp nafaalfti, be a successful financier. I representative If the people had given •*, , tk„t ,ho mm wb(1 wiu Mr. Bowser their proxies and never » , eJfr,otibg n revenue of that troubled to send Mr. Campbell down kind'from ,ho top storey of a building £Z S .. ™n IU aV° in tta north country ought'to be a .uc* ' tSl 111?L1SL.V, r.» h ii ce»»f"l <l"«»eier ani I want to ask thl. »bl™JTf Z «?„J£ r™Pw 5 quoationt 'Is thc man who cannot keep , nl?l 1 1011 »,dB101« lul u H» band, off tho scanty wages these wa0,H:Mnil 'A ^Vohlak. rnVre^daf^eta'JiTo'bVir irf.Dj?,:7ii.er.t;±r!::jochtr: gisr "•"-to th° Mini",w o< _bmd__£ht0 co",h0 -,- -"'»'- ^VTSL tutY£ ing.*when necessary. ^ ^Mng wHb fom ,„ t „ Unpaid Taxu on Water Power.. dealing with him n. tho record, of the "But I am doing Mr. Campbell on House justify mo iu doing. injustice. Thore wn. ono thing which (Continued on page 4) PAGE FOUR. THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FBIDAY .FEBBUABY 25, 1916 ADDRESS OF PARKER WILLIAMS, M.L.A., ON PROVINCIAL ISSUES (Continued from page 3) acting minister of mines, acting minister of finance, attorney general, acting Criticism for Tisdall.' minister of agriculture as well as keep- " Let us take Mr, Tisdall, member for i**S his eagle eye oja, every, petty lor- . ... . ceuy policeman in the province. Bow- your city, your present candidate, now Ber is of tke typ0 o( man who ar0 un. promoted to be Minister of Public abi0 to delegate authority to anyone Works. What are the outstanding fen- else. He muat do it all and' bo it nil tare, thot suggested this man be taken *£%£$ Sa^dZuS into the cabinet" There arc forty Con* look aftcn Mr Tisdall and tho rest of Bervatives in the Houso. Of course, I them nr0 apineloas men, mere cogs in was not possible material for Bowser s the governmo„t machine. They fall into cabinet. I know of nothing in Mr. Tis* line with overy proposition of the gov* dall'a work, or his failure to work, that eminent would suggeBt ho was a man of so-called ^ Afc t p M Accounts? cabinet the, but Mr. Tisdall has boen ""*™ a"Kn"d '"">"■ ™*v»"«" taken into the cabinet. He is the puro "Mr. Bowsor soys the Liberal party machine type of politician if there is ;B talking about the public accounts, °°"knethweanVnin°the British Columbia -d .comparing British Columbia with government before, then gofa rest for Manitoba. I enn only repent whnt I a while, but later succeeded in getting said in January last on this subject ns you people to send him to the Houbo to my opinion re the public accounts, again. I know his reoord from 1910, and ;t j8 this: That if a copy of tho when I was in the houso with him. The public accounts could be placed in tho flrst work he put bia hand to in tho hands of oven ten per cent, of the elec- Legislative Assembly, was as a kind of tors of this provinco, this governmont agent for Alvo von Alvonslebon. He would not last thirty days. was acting for that Gorman gent in "Among other items is an amount of some high sounding scheme which Mr. $2,362 for examination nnd report on a AlvenBleben had for the purpose of Conl fi0ld in the Peace Biver district. grabbing water rights between Vancou- An investigation of this item showB ver and New Westminster, under the that Mr. B. F. Green nnd Mr. Qethan, title of the Westminster Terminal City having secured advance information of Dock ond Bailway Company or some*, the likelihood of tho P. G. E. being tiling of that kind. continued from Fort George, sent "It is necessary under tho rules of agonts out to stake coal lands in that procedure of the House, in order to bc- part of the country. Thoy staked out cure a" roll call vote of the members 29 square miles, paying $100, the usual when voting on any measure, a mini- f008 for licenses. They decided, whon mum of three members must demand the nest year's licenses came due, that the same. For the lost three yeara at they would like to know what tho each opening session, we, that is Mr. cinim8 were worth before making fur- Place and myself, have submitted a re- ther payments, and had no difficulty in solution to the effect that the minimum convincing Mr. McBride that' it was in be reduced to two. This proposal was the public interest to send an expert made, of course, to Becure a record of namod Mr. Galloway (I beliove that the votes on certain questions, as it wns the namo) to report on these would enable Place and myself to de* claims. Tbe item in the public account. . mand a roll call without asking favors represents a portion of thnt gontlomnn 's from the government. Mr. Tisdall al- expenses whilst engaged in securing way. voted against that resolution. this information for the friends of the "Gag Bole" ln House. government, all at tho public expense. „. . i ,. ._... ■ „. „ "Ton have heard so much nbout tho "But we have aaother instance of a Kltaiiam Ke80rvo deol ttot you ar0 aU vote by Mr. Tisdall. On tho occasion familiar with it, but to my mind the when I asked for an inquiry into' the most shameful thing in connection with Vancouver Island strike, the Speaker that donl, was tho manner in which tho . , . . .. _ ..... „„..„j golden coinB were spread in heaps of refused to submit my quietly worded |10000 ot < ^ b/fore t]loso ^.^ resolution to the House on a technical- jn order to induce thom to pnrt with ity, ruling that it was out of order. I thoir property. The payment of the promptly appealed from the ruling of 8nm8 j„ 0a8h iod to debauchery nnd ex- the chair, and asked that in order thot travugonco among tho Indians thom- the House might judge whether the soiveSj from which thnt community has chair should be upheld or otherwise, it nover recovorcd, and which nre a blot being o question of the resolution being up0„ the fnir name of tho pooplo of this correctly drawn or out of order, tne re* province. solution must be read to the members. Am^nm Engineer Engaged. The Speaker refused to read tta reso- ,,,,", «w»» *"B»s™. lution, and put the question as to "Mr. Thompson, nn imported Amcn- whether it was in order or otherwiso, can engineer, was paid $1500 per month and Mr. Tisdall voted against Mr. Placo for laying out Stratheona Park, a tour* and myself, although ho hod never even ist o£ tk dim d read the wording of the resolution he . . . was pronouncing to be out of order. ture, located in tho interior of Vnncou- "Incidentally this notion shows the ver Island. That sum is a greater sal- kind of men we tave in the Houso at ary than is today paid to the admiral Victoria. They have dono everything of the British navy, tho man who is in possible to make our position as an Op* supreme charge of tho giant fleot upon position bard for us. On several occa- which tho Empire depends every day .ion. when introducing resolutions or and night during this great struggle in amendments, which were obviously in Europe. tta advantage of the workers of the " The best thing you can do iB to Bend province, we have been voted down by somebody down to Victoria and give ub the entire government forces, notably a hand in our endeavors to get to tbo in tta cose of on amendment which bottom of the public accounts of this would have paved tta way for the op- provinco. Plnco and myself both havo pointment of working mon to the Cana- more work than any two men have any dian Senate. right to attempt to do. Wo offered our- "Sometimes individual member, of selves to tho mining community of Vnn- tta government hnve spoken in debate couver Island as being two men of or- in opposition to certain 'government dinary intelligence, knowing something proposal., and made it clear in eo do* of their peculiar problems. We find ing, ttat they did not agree with the ourselves iu the House compelled to government proposals. tako up lines of activity that we are in —.. •-. - . «, . a...... B0 manner minliflcd to pronorly ap- When McChiire Went on Strike. „„,,_ We do tbe best wS con, but I "We have Mr. McGuire, who makes do not think there is nny man or any a few sparks in the atmosphere pretty two men could mako a successful nt* regularly. He placed-himself in a posi- tempt to keop track of what is going x. , A. tt ir-»i. o in,., *!.« on ln that Houso. No two men can tion in tta Home on March 2,19U,the begi„ t„ keep up with the work and only logical coniequenee of which was especially when neither of thom are that ta ahould vote ogaiaBt certain sub* trained ilnancinl critics. Wo nre presidio, to tta Canadian Northern .Bail- pared to do our duty, tho most thot way. But Sir Richard McBride did not two men can do. But if you enn send like to see even one of hia followers a man wbo kl„jwa something nbout break loose from Mb party on evfen a flnanco and financial skullduggery, it •ollt.ry division, and he got Mr. Mc- wjh bc a great help, aa such a man will Gulre lined up, by introducing tho ques* bo equipped to aomoroxtont for tho tnBk tlon of additional senators for the pro- 0f gctting to the bottom of whnt iB go* vince in such a manner, as to lead Mr. jng „„ •„ this province. McGuire to think that he was slated for ...I.,, T _, , ., one of tta additional senotorBhips, and Railroaded' Legislation. Mr. McGuire voted with the rest of tho "I have refusod to nttond thc public bunch' for tta proposals, which in de* accounts committeo nt all this year, bo- **_* h-SlrailllbJ:m°come along «» "** W-"*j ^ve been suflici* now and tell you that he loves you like ent to justify mc in sny.ng that it a brother, tbat lfl, every man of yon would only bo misleading thc public who is on the voters' tat. You should for to mako any attempt under the ex- remember he showed his real sentiments istlng system nnd handicaps, of going by voting against our proposed amend* into the matter. During tho session we ment. to the Workmen's Compensation are called upon (that is Plnco ond my- Act. We wonted to incrense the amount self) to work night and day. The gov of compensation from <1500 to $2000, ernment havo repeatedly ignored my and to include the logging cainpB and request, thnt government business other field, of employment in the scopo should bo brought down in tho early of tta measure. Understand, these woro days of tho session, so ob to give us nn amendments to the present act, which opportunity of going over tho matter. might tave been in force right after "The records of tho House will show their acceptance by thc Houso, nnd thnt wo havo worked on many occasions would have been a boon and a godsond continuously from 10.30 in tho morning to tta widows and tta fatherless, and until toward Bunrise of tho following the dependentB of workers killed or in* morning, thon leave ond flnntch a hur* jured in accidents while following their ricd rest, before commencing the grind employment in the province, from that nt 10.30 for thc morning sitting. Tho day to tMa. Tta laBt time Mr. Tlsdall govornment work in rcloys. Thoy havo manifested any physical activity, for ample supporters to have three gangs ta never did manifest ony intollectuol nt work ond still control tho Opposl- activity in the House, it wns to put up tion consisting of only Plnco and myitis pow to deny tta right of the work- self. If wo leave thc house for n mo- men to tbe omeadments we propoaed to raent in order to snatch a hurried cut) no attempt has been made to tackle the by the bill to the widows and families problems of tho hard times in the pro* of workers .killed in industrial acci* vince. This city etime to the Govern* dents, the compensation being so ar- ment and told us of their 10,000 unem- ranged that, in effect, tho very utmost ployed. The answer of the HouBe was a widow would secure .would be $40 per td vote $50,000 for the promotion of im- month,, and even these payments were migration. According to tho figures, subject to reductions undor the many thoy paid $11,000 in the following year sub-clausos and sections of the bill. The for tho purpose of bringing workera compensation payable to injured work- into tho province. Last year thore was ers was in tta opinion of the speaker, issued undor the auspices of the gov- quite inadequate and, owing to the dc- ornment of this province, one of tbo iinitions and wordings of tho measure, most unscrupulous pamphlots that was the whole class of building tradeB em- over printed on the orders of any gov- ployees whose jobs were of the ordinnry ernment of of any individual. It is full type nnd could not be clnssed as "re- of fairy tales and misleading stato- gular employment," would suffer griov- ments, such as, 'Attention is invited ous injustice under the bill. Another to tho statistics and the development of telling criticism was bused on the fact the mining industry, which has been of that very large classes of workers were such rapid growth that workers are ur- specifically excluded from the opero- gently • needed.' Fabulous figures nre tions of the bill. Among others, domes- quoted as to the wages paid in this tic servants, farm employees, ware- province. The climate is described as housemen, store help and other occupa- favorable, tbe conditions of lifo aro tions involving large numbers of em- onBy, luxuries ore scorce but wont is ployeea, were cut off from any benefits unknown. The laws ore just ond equit- which might follow the legislation. The able, and the administration of tta law largest employers of labor in the prov* is fair as iB over the case where tho ince, great railway companies, and the British flag flieB. government themselves were exempted "This pamphlet, containing such from the bill. In the nbsonce of a labor statements, is still boing distributed candidate at the forthcoming bye-elec* broadcast throughout the length and tion, Mr. Hnrdy expressed bis intention breadth of the United States and tho of supporting the Liberal candidate. Old Country. At tho samo time as it What tho labor men Bhould do at a gen- was issued thero wero relief works at oral election was a different matter, but Nunaimo and other coal mining centres, their paramount duty right now wub to nnd we were shipping miners and work* vote for opposition in the Houso, as the era out of the province to the prairie in first step towards bringing about the ordor to avoid the expenso of keeping downfall of the .Bowser combination at them as a burden upon tho treasury, Victoria, and to givo them a chance to earn a liv- Dominion Trust Fiasco, ing. Yet' at the samo time our govern- Mr. Bankin, who was well received, mont was calling to the old land for mado a short but straightforward miners to come to British Columbia, speech on tho present condition of One Man Oovernment. things in tho province. Ho expressed ,,,. , . .. ., . - ... , „ himself as being of the Bamo opinion "It has beon said that British Co- a8 Mr_ Hlrfdy| »n the q„osti(m ft tho lumbio hns o,two-mon government, but action which workingmen generally the difference between the lost govern- should take on the occasion of tbe byo* ment nnd tbo present one is that tho ?le??on'^ J>no°»T6r- ™'° refusing . . to identify himself with oither tho Lib- present government is a one man gov* Grals or Conservatives, he felt that at ernment, and ho is ono of those two this time Socialists and labor men who is tho most dangerouB to the pro* ought to lay aside all prejudice* and vince. take the only practicable course of try- "Mr. Campbell's purpose is to sell ing to bring about thc election of Mr. the power from tho plants ho controlB Macdonald, as a man who would bo in to the mining companies. This purpose opposition to tho Bowsor crowd, and bringos him into close touch witb tho help Mr. Pnrker Williams to eliminate owners of mines, with the big interests, from tho public life of the province and with the exploiters of labor. Not sonic of the graft and corruption which exactly tho placo where we look for was known to exist under tho present' men who would take a lively interest administration. Mr. Rankin dovoted in the good cause of tho working clnss. considerable timo to criticisniB of Mr. "The man wbo is to bo Minister of Bowser in connection with the Domin* Public Works is tho man who has been ion Trust collapse. Ab a member of the as weak as water and as soft as mould* depositors' committee of the Dominion ing clay in tho hands of the govorn- Trust victims, he was nble'to givo some ment. particulars as to the various interviews "Tho man who Ib to bo Minister of which that committee, representing Finance is the gentleman who is rcspon* 2700 depositors, had in connectionjvith sible for the settlement up north, where that matter, with tho new Premier, tho community is ownod body and After describing tbo palatini offices bones by the company, and whero you whloh Mr. Bowser's firm occupied rent cannot set your foot without its appro* freo in tho Dominion Trust building in vol, and yet ho tnlks of a domocratic their capacity as legal advisors to the country. Mr. Flummerfelt's inclusion company, Mr. Runkin explained how in in the government is a standing defl- one of their first interviews with Mr. once to orgnnizod lnbor in this pro* Bowser thoy had been advised not to vince. go to the Liberals and make a political "Mr. Bowsor is at tbo head of theBe issue out of the matter, ns the govorn- men. Ho was tho Attorney General of ment might prove to bo thoir best the provinco nnd hiB firm was also tho friends nftor all. Thc committeo woro legal advisers to tbo Dominion Trust led to hope that the government would Company. Ho has stated himself that bo in a position td'ndvnnco a portion he did not prevent tho legislation going of tho quarter of n million dollnr bond through which resulted in tho doposi* which wns placed with the government tors losing their oil, not because of ig* nn security for tho Dominion Trust norance, but because he was afraid thnt company under tho terms of their char* if ho had stopped this illegal measure, ter, but not a cent of this money was it would havo jeopardized tho party, ever obtained for tho benefit of the Mr. Bowsor, poraonally, and his firm, starving depositors who were later are soaked in tho dirt of tho Dominion stood oh" with a nebulous story thnt Trust scandal right up to the oyobrows. tho case wus bet'afe the Privy Council What the Bye-Election Means. mi ,lmt <nltil tlle nrguments were con- .... ■ ., ,, . ., eluded, tho rights of the depositors to "Do you consider these represent thc any of'thc ^ of thi, Domi'„lo„ Trn8t typo of men to have control at tho pro- company could not bo ascertained, sont timo of tho governmont of this should Forget Dlflerences. province? Can thoso men bo expected Mr. Ennkin doalt with a woaltll of dc. » ^r«^MJ^^v^-'—;YSich la« °» «>» circumstances under which wo nro faced today) You are Bottling, ., ,,„,,„.„ perhopB, moro than you think whon you tho govcrnfnent firat of all illegally cm- cast your ballots noxt Saturday in Van- powered tho Dominion Trust company couver. You aro Bottling the question to tako deposits and afterward, took as to the make-up of thc noxt govern- away by Btoalth „„d witluiut tho nec„s8. j,,*r. , . . , ., » ,, i nry public ttdvertisinfj or without nny "Victoria is held over for the byo- v__. ,„ the ^po-Titor.,, these same election in the hope that if a Conscrva* rs<* „f a00eptfng deposits. Tho tive is elected in Vancouver, tho reflex aepositors went blindly on, relying on influence will spread, because thoy real* t_ Inw offlcer8 „f the province for tho izo that without such assistance they cnf0rcemcnt of tho safeguards pro* cannot win in Victoria vide(l md(Jr th t , c„mbp0„ieB „*,,, "Once they have the Vancouver and The„ the crash came and thousands Victoria seats safe, the way mny be woro ruined without ony hope for rcsti- paved for a prolongation of parliament, tution or redre88. Mr. Rankin repeat* or wo mny haveion election™ Mayand ed thc now well known fnct, that al- this government will look like a thing though Mr. Bowsor admits that he knew that is still intact and strong You can the legislation waB wrong, ho allowed . vote here m Vnncouver and no man the act to go through because ta feared can know how you voe, but back in the that if he insisted upon the thing bo- woods and the scattered settlements, lng pnt right) it would jeopardise tho where the polls are numbered by Jf- Conservative party at Victoria. eens and.twentie. anyone with half a In conclusion Mr. Bankin appealed head con tell which of those few men to _ electors, whether Socialists, La- voted Conservative and which voted bor m„n or j^rals, and all decent Liberal These men know such is tho minded citizens, to forget their little case, and if you give this government bickerings, and to vote at this bye an air of sobdlty and stability on Sat- „,ection on Saturday next for opposl* urday by returning a man like Tisdall, tion, „It ,, „ot voting tor tho Libor- you have fastened the shackles of poll- w „ hc dcclared, „ft is a vote for tical slavery on tta men of the settle* opposition." He declared that Mr. meat, and the camp. That man eon- ParKCr Williams had done yeoman la* not afford to n.k the livelihood of him- bor on bch„1( , jta people of British self, and the bread of his wife and Columbia and performed almost a not* children by daring to do what you will ionnl gcrvice f„ lis fight ogai„8f the not accomplish, and he has to he down t and .„,„, mBono 'L at vio. to the machine. But if you do the right torl ^ „,„„', wlli,., § -!oM A thing next Saturday and smash tho ma- mucll' , '„„f8t work' irrotrle *blo chine these pooplo will he encouraged h„rm to the workers of thc province. ,L„ 1 IS? " ' Iv" th°,r,%t Opposition was the keystone of any to- SEE'.. ft iril^jr' t ture progress or improvement in Brit* strong enough to turn round nnd do ns ,,. p„i„„i.in they please. (.oiuminn. Stirring Patriotic Appeal. '' Do not forget, taht if thiB commun- ity allows tho governmont to finish their -Advertisement. that act. Kew Cabinet 1. a Farce. _ cup of coffee, immedintely our backs are turned, the legislative wheels begin io "Remember that Mr. Tisdoll could move with on amazing spcod, nnd the aememDBr urn machine grinds out WIIb with a rapidity tave voted for tho right thing in theso wMch won,d C0Ilvil)C0 anyon0 $ ,^ cases, if he had wanted to bo a man, impossibility of tho members evon read- without endangering his party or the ing them over in tho timo nt their dis- i7.t^i"oTndttCtta?r o-t 3. m-, Gtf\r«- r *&?>i J™. Instead of doing so, both of thom have a record of tho business dono in we'litaXintnau'dBof thepot* the shape of reading and submitting Ter and I cannot help but pass on to J'"*- and amendments, between thc voii my impression that it is because taurs of 12 midnight nnd 2.30 a.m., and ?h.y prow Tthcmselve. to be .0 weak remember wo had leen working Into the andXable 1. the hands of tho Premier previous night;, and1 hod been In at* ftaUtay met with the approval of Mr. tendance since 10 30 n.m. thnt same Bowser L proper membera for his new ^1- I abso ute y defy any man in this Government? The appointment of such ""'bence „r iu Vancouver to go through m7, ». Flummorfolt Tisdall ond Cnmp- the matter comprised in this work, ond b«n ?o the cabinet 'brings the logiela* get awny with it In the .pace of two tu . of the province int? .till further »^talf hour,. But we did It down \-mt\n: lnPthe .Ight of intelligent |? Vicbrla, there la of faot, it bccomcB a legislative foroe. There is no reason why Mr. Bowser could not bovo dls- Oovernment Delude. Workers, pensed with the ministera entirely when „m j^ hem Se67ob0,hilCir^ermberth»? J* ■" the province of Britl/cCum* thero were timeB during tho past poriod, bin. The Governmont, of conrao, havo when Mr. Bowser wa. acting promicr, boon generous with their friondfl, but di.reD.ite in the sight of intelligent ' ""onu, tnero is no question that if mei As a matter of fact, it becomes a » was dono at all It certainly was done ,mL":,..i'aC. There is no reason I" lta two and a half hours. Mr. Sooley on Capital and Labor. "It was different whin I was a young work and completely break tho bock* mnn> Hinniasy. Capital was like a fn* bones of our workers, our farmers and ther to labor, givin' it its boord on' tho sottlors of the provinco, then, in '"B1""' In thim BoUcn -lays n wur- tho ond, either ourselves or our child- "king mnn wns nn honest artysan. ren must pny the price of our weakness That's what ho was proud to be call* and folly. If I wantod a damning con- ed. Th' week before illection he had demnation of the. governmont, of Bow- his pitcher in the funny papers. Ho ser and BowBerism, I would not havo to bod hiB arr'm ar'round capital—a stop outside of the Vancouvor Island rosy, binivolcnt ol' guy with a plug strike for argument.. hat and eyeglasses. They waa goin' "It is now past 11 o'clock, and I can to th' polls together to voto for simple only thank you for your attention.' At ol' capital. the Bumo timo I want to any this: I am "In return f'r fidelity ho got a tar- off my platform, and I wont to ask you key ivry year. At Christmas timo, good pooplo to judgo ob to the juBtico cnpital gathered his happy fam'ly and fnirnoss of it. The interests of tho around him, an' in th' prisince iv tho working class aro in sorious jeopardy,, ladies iv th' neighborhood, givo thim ,nnd the Bituntion demands thnt someone a short oration, 'Me brave lads,' saya ahould tnko tho riak ond mako the sa- he, we've had a good year. (Cheers.) crifice." , I havo made a millyon dollars. (Sensa- tion) Yc havo done so well that wo Previous to tho addroBs of Mr. Wll* don't need so mnny. (Long ond con* Hams, brief addrosaeB woro delivered tinuous cheering.) TIiobo who con do by tho chairman, Mr. Geo. Murray, two min's worruk will remain, an' if whon calling the gathering to order, possible, do four. Tho other faithful and by Mr. G. H, Hardy and Mr. J. Borvants,' ho says, 'can come back in liankin, both of Vancouver, nnd idonti* th' spring,' ho says, if olivo,' he says, fiod with local trados unions. An' the bold artysans tossed their pa- w«.kn.ni. n.«..«...i.. a . Por cnPa'" the air an' givo three cheors Workmen'. Compensation Act. f ,r cn^it„h They wurruked till ol' nge Mr. G. H. Hardy spoke briefly on tho crept on thim, an' thin retired to live subject of thc proposed Workmnn's on th' wishbones nnd kind wurrds Compensation Aot. no severely critl- jta*** laA accumulated."—Poter Finley ciscd the draft measure which Mr. Bow- ' ________ sor has brought, down ond laid on the Not HiB Fault—Mistress—Mary, your table preparatory to introducing it at young mnn has such an oir of brogga- tho coming Bossion of tho House. Among docio nbout him., other portlnont pointa tho spookor drew Mory—Yls, pore lod, he worruks in a attontion to tho niggardly sums allowed livery stable. NEEDED M. A. 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Tho total abstainer hns no more right to compel the temperote man to abstain by force of low, thon the temperoto mon has to compel tho abstainer to drink what ho neither likes or chooses by force of law. Beer is the temperate man's drink; it's o food. Ask your dealer for our brnnds. BRITANNIA, PALE OB PREMIER WESTMINSTER BREWERY LIMIT^P, A. E. SUCKLING & CO. 1W. •*... . VANCOUVER DISTRIBUTORS ASK FOR B C. Special RYE Nine Years in Wood UNSURPASSED IN QUALITY AND FLAVOR Established 1903 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST Victoria Delegate Reviews Work of Recent Vancouver Session All Things Considered the Provincial Federation Is Making Good VICTORIA, B. 0., Feb. 21.—British Columbia trade unionists are interested, or should be, in the B. C. Federation of Labor. At the last meeting of our contral body Mr. Christian Sivertz presented his report, as a delegate to the recent Vancouver convention. It reads: To the officers and members of the Trades and Labor council: Fellow workers: In the absence of my fellow delegate, the president of this body, I find it devolving upon myself to report to you, on the convention of the B. C. Federation of Labor. I therefore beg to submit the following as my report, as your delegate to the rocent gathering. Need of Provincial Organisation. Let me say at the outset that I am today as firmly convinced of the necessity of the B. C. Federation of Labor as I was at the time of my first acquaintance with the idea. In connection with this I shall, by way of explanation, repeat a few sentences from a statement made by myself on the subject somo time ago. Why a Federation? The statement so often made regarding capital, and which applies equally to the labor movement, that it knows neither country nor nation and respects no boundaries, must be qualified in certain respects, as far as the latter is concerned. In the process of building up a system, capable of serving the needs of the forces creating it, the labor organizations have found it nee' essary to shape their activities and fix their territorial spheres according to national and other political divisions. Thus it came about that simultaneously with the trades union system, with its international ramifications, it waB found expedient to devise working plans between the various unions in each locality, in order to promote their common interest. When bad ■ legislation had to be opposed, good law promoted or existing statutes onforced, the several unions in the locality affected co-operated with one another in order to accomplish the desired results. This recognition of the efficiency of combined effort for local purposes, was the forerunner of the now universally established central labor bodies. Work Must Be Subdivided. The American Federation of Labor is the largest and admitted to be the most powerfuPindustrial organization on this continent; yet when the working peoplo of Canada want to promote .legislation, desired by their class, they do not Bend for the executive council of that body or ask the officers to use their influence on behalf of the Canadian workingman in Ottawa or in any of the provinces or cities of the Dominion. Indeed, if they did, the officers of the American Federation of Labor would mnke but an indifferent showing before the members of parlio ment. Our legislators are not' depend ing on the A. F. of L. for their poltti cal preferment—and would for that reason pay little or no attention to tho legislative demands made on our be' half through such a medium.' The only party that can attend to the legislative nccdB of the labor organizations in Canada is the Canadian workman himself, as he alone controls the instrument that, if properly used, con- pels the respect of the most astute parliamentarian, the worker holds in his hand tho magic wand that will "draw water" from the most flinty- headed politician in the shape of support of legislation demanded even before the blow is struck. The Canadian worker has tho vote- by reason of that he is the only person that can expect to make any impression on tho law-makers of the country. This fact is responsible for the organization of the Trades and Lnbor Congress of Canada. Instead of being a part of the American Federation of Labor, it is a sovereign body, performing in Canada the same functions as tho American Federation of Labor does in tho United States and thc Trades Union Congress iu Great Britain. The development of the strength and the expansion of theBe national bodies evolved the idea of the stato and provincial federations of labor, in the United States and Canada respectively, B.C. VINEGAR WORKS Factory: 1366-7 Powell Street Telephone Highland 286 Est 1901 Vancouver, B. 0. 1 as a necessary; perfecting devise of the 4 whole structure of'the organized labor system. The development of capitalism arid the organization of industrial processes in the United States, have been away ahead of what existed in Canada, until in recent years. The necessity for state federations was consequently felt there much earlier than provincial federations became possible in Canada. The Vancouver Convention. The sixth annual convention of the B. C. Federation of Labor was not the large and lively aggregation that enlivened .our existence a few years ago. It was, in fact, the smallest convention the writer has had thc honor to attend, and still it was useful and it performed its part in the great world-wide movement and the part of the workers to improve their lot. The very fact of there being a convention at all, proves a flne spirit of perseverance on the part of labor organizations there represented. It stands as an accomplishment and testimony to the grit of the organized workers, once they are aroused to the seriousness of a given condition. Bucking Against Odds. From the reports submitted by the officers, the well known fact.of most depressing conditions among the workers was made more manifest, and the work accomplished by the officers and the membership during the year excited both the admiration and sympathy' of the delegates, when the difficulties in the way were considered. As to Finances. The secretary-treasurer's report showed a revenue from all sources of $1,- 127.13, including a $200 grant from the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, aB well aB a balance of $18.41 from last year. The expenditures had absorbed all this revenue, except some $12, at the^end of the year, besides leaving some $137 in unpaid accounts to be met out of thiB year's income. Workmen's Compensation Act. A special fund has been opened, during the year, to be made up of donations and subscriptions from central bodies and other organizations, for the purpose of meeting special expenses in connection with promoting the Workmen's Compensation Act, a draft bill of which was introduced in tho last legislature. This amount hns been used, leaving a small unpaid balance against the fund. Careful Administration. Examination of the . statement of expenditure by .months and days will show that the resources of the. Federation were administered in a thoroughly economical and conscientious manner. Membership Decreased. It goes without saying that the membership , has fallen. The reasons for that are too obvious to require any explanation. Few Eesolutions. A peculiar feature of the convention was the small number of resolutions offered, only some half a dozen being announced by the secretary-treasurer. ■ One Measure at a Time. Regarding immediate endeavors of the Federation the consensus of opinion seemed to be that a concentrated effort should bc made to have the proposed Workmen's Compensation Act passed as soon, and in &s good a form as possible. That selecting this matter for the principal object of the provincial body to carry through thia year, should form the flrst of such a sories of desirable subjects which the Federation should apply itself, rather than expend its energies on a diversified programme, covering many questions, Consideration of the draft act, as well as the work of the provincial special commission on the act, took up a largo part of the two sessions of the convention. Mr. McVety, the workmen's representative on the commission, explained very thoroughly and exhaustively many features of the proposed act. The convention lasted three days, holding five sessions, besides committeo work. Election of Officers. The election of officers took place on the afternoon of the second dny and resulted as follows: President—J. H. McVety. Delegate A. Watchman declined nomination for a further term. Secretary-treasurer—A. S. Wells. Vice-presidents for the various districts were elected as follows: Vancouver, J. BrookeB and E. Morrison; Victoria, C. Sivertz; New Westminster, W. Yates; Vancouver Island, W..Hend; Fernie, A. J. Carter. Selection of vice- presidents for the districts of Prince Rupert and Nelson waB left in the hands of the executive. Trustees of the B. C. Federationist— A. S. Wells and A. Watchman. Delegate to Trades and Labor Congress of Canada—A. S. Wells, with the question of an alternate referred to tho executive. Revelstoke was chosen as the convention city for 1017. President McVety Endorsed. Before adjourning, the convention, by resolution, endorsed Pres. McVety as a oomissloner representing labor on the board administering tho Workmen's Compensation Act. During the last session of the convention the delegates listened to addresses delivered by Miss H, Gutteridgo on woman's suffrage and woman's place in modern industry, and Mr. .T. W. Wilkinson, of The Federationist, on the subject of operating u labor paper. Executive Committee Met. After the close of the convention tho oxecutivo met to. consider matters re-J) ferred to it, and arrange other mat- tors. In conclusion I wish to any, whilo thanking the council for its confidence, thnt tho B, C. Federation of Labor has work to do and needs your help. Respectfully submitted, CHRISTIAN SIVERTZ. PAGE FIVE ______ Extra Men to Receive No Pay for Holidays As Requested Post Office Department Fa vors Uniforms Being Made Locally VICTORIA, B. 0, Feb. 22.—Tho post offlce department has informed tho Letter Carriers, respecting the granting of holidays extra men, indefinitely employed in the place of enlisted carriers, "thnt no authority eiiBts for paying wages to extra men except for the time they are actually working." The Carriers know this. That's why they asked for the above as a concession. They will, at on opportune time, again approach the department and ask that the necessary authority be obtained. Carriers'* Association Meet. The last meeting of the Carriers' Association was well attended; a much better turnout was thero than could have boen expected, considering the experience the members have had in*getting nbout since tho big snow-storm on Fob. 2, whon over 23 inches fell in 24 hours, on top of an already heavy snowfall—for Victoria. Unlforsm to Be Made Locally. It is thought likely that uniforms for tho staff may be made locnlly in the future. The request of the Carriers' hns the approval of the board of trade and tho Boys-at-Home club. Sick Oommlttee Busy. The sick committee of tho association has hnd a busy time the last few weeks. Threeof our members have beon on the sick list;.ono with snow-blindness. Easter Half-Holiday Wanted. Tho Victoria branch association will nsk for a hnlf-holiday on Easter Monday:' As this has been the custom in this office ever since it had froo delivery, until a year ago, and as practically all business is suspended on that day in the city, it is thought tho department will Bee no objection. Central Body Delinquencies. The roport of the delegates to tho Trndes and Labor council disclosed the fnct that the central body had missed two consecutive meetings; one in January, when several of the delegates were away attending; the B. C. Federation of Labor convention, and a quorum was not presont, and the second boing on "-'• 2, when nobody turned out, tho Feb. day being made memorable ns that of the greatest snowstorm in the momory of living man. WANT But Munitions Manufacturers Insist on Retaining the Profits Therefrom. "Somo people think it rnthor strange thnt the 'preparotionists' nre so strenuously opposing fho proposal that thc U. 8. governmont manufacture its own munitions," snys the Snn Francisco Blast. "It isn't n bit strange. What's tho use of advocating 'propnredncss' if thoro nre to bo no profits in it for tho big nrmnncnt manufacturers*" Not unlike thoir fellow patriots in Cnn nda. Why Goats Leave Home. At 2 n.m. tho telephone wakes Smith, who grunts nnd groans, gets up and answers* it nnd growls: "Wrong number—I'm not Jones." boro oloqucnt testimony to tho affection nnd esteem in which ho was hold. With sorrowful mion a largo number of friends and ncqunintnnccs were thoro to pay their respects und look for thc last timo on the romains of ono who in his lifo timo had done so much to help his fellowmen. Tho funeral took plnco from tho undertaking cstnblishmcnt of Green & Morklcy, Homer streot, where tho spnei- ous chapel room was filled to the doors with Mends of the Into Mr. Curnock. Thc imprcssivo service wob conducted by Rev. Mr. Van Siklc. Tho hymns "Jesus Lover of My Soul" nnd "Nearer My Ood to Thee" wero sung. Miss Mildred Van Siklc, orgnnist. Tbo pnll-benrcrs wore: Thomas Fny, Eddio Mulhern, Finn Mulhern, Harry Dnvis, George Kelly und Bert* Shaw. ' Tho casket was covered with n profusion of beautiful Horn] tributes. The cortege was by uutomobllo to Mountain View cemctor)*, whero interment took plnco. The Late 6. W. Curnock I Tho death occurred, after several week's illness at Glacier, B. (!., on Feb. 17, 1010, of Georgo \V. Curnock, at the age of 31 years. He was up to a few months ago a resident of Vancouvor for many years, and formerly connected with tho hotel business. Whilo nt Roger's Pass lu the employ of tho C. P. R. he contracted enteric fever whieh wus the immediate cause of his early demise. He had been a member of the Order of Eagles, a former delegate to the Trades and Labor council, and business agent for the local Bartenders' union of this city and waB widely known and highly respected, The decoascd, who wasbnrn in .England, leaves a son and daughter, all residents of this city to mourn his loss, to whom the sympathy of a large circle of friends is extended in their irreparable loss. The last sad rites of the late George Wesley Curnock oa Tuesday afternoon RITCHIE'S 19161 SPRING CATALOGUE I Now ready for nulling free *.n application. Send in your nanm nml nrtdn-HH. Tho (juniiiy of the seed* snd plants wo carry ir stock in unnurpaftHr-il, Full (Inscriptive (llrcclionn for nil flowen nnil vegetable*. Start your garden right by buying Ritchie's Seeds. Oet our Special Offera on and Gold Medal Sweet our Famous Irish Boies Peas, RITCHIE'S 810 GRANVILLE ST. VANCOUVEB, B.O. CENTER & HANNA, Ltd. UNDERTAKERS Refined Service 1049 GEORGIA STREET One Block weat of Court House. 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OgiIvies Royal Household Canada's Best Flour PBIDAY PEBBUAB? 86, Wit! SHORTER WORKDAY ALL ESSENTIAL Affects Length of Life, Health and Standard of Working Class Unions Must Depend Upon Themselves for Power to Enforce Members and officers of the organized labor movement aro rapidly recognizing the importance of striving for a shorter workday. The matter of wages takes care of itself for various reasons. Too much importance cannot bo attached to the necessity and benefits of a shorter workday. In this connection a resolution, adopted at the Ban Francisco convention of the American Federation of Labor ..dealing with the shorter workday, is of especial interest: "Shorten the Yardstick." "It is an accepted principle that' the shorter workday iB a fundamental atop in the betterment of the workers. The shorter workday affects the length of life, the health, the standards of life, and, in fact, every phase of the lives of tho workerB. The wage-earners whose hours of labor are decreased goes to work and comes from work at a different time than before, and consequently comes in contact with people whose habits of living are different. From contact with these people of greater leisure, he establishes new ideals. Ho has a greater number of hours in which to rest, revivo his energies, and devote to recreation or the development of his mind. Thus the shorter workday makes the worker a different person, a person of greater physical endurance, greater vitality, higher ideals, and consequently a person who will not bo satisfied with the old standards of the long hours of work. Increased Productive Capacity. "The improved methods of production -which always follow a reduction in tho hours of labor increase the productive power of the worker and consequently he is in a position to demand and receive higher wages. Invariably every decrease in tho hours of work por day is accompanied or followed by an increase in wagea. Tho shorter workday movemont ia to secure to the workers greater material advantage. It ia an important movement in conserving national vigor and health and in guarding against those tendencies that undermine true national power. From this is evident the importance of the action of the Philadelphia convention, in adopting the following: Hold Past to "Power to Enforce." " 'The American Federation of Labor as in the past, again declares that the question of the regulation of wagos and the hours of labor should be undertaken through trade union activity, and not to be made subject of laws through legislative enactment, excepting in so far as such regulations affect or govern tho employment of women and minors, health nne morals, and employment by federal, state or municipal governments.' "Tho economic strength of the organization determines the bargaining power of that organization. One of the objective pointB which the anthracite miners include in their demands for tho new 1916 contract is the eight-hour workday. They have wisely planned their campaign in advance and have, measured their forces so that they will be in the beBt position possible to enforce their demands. It iB very significant that the gains that have been made in shortening the workday in private industries throughout the country have been fundamentally due to the influence of the conomic power in the trade organizations, and have been secured through economic action. Also significant in connection with this is the recommendation of the federal commission on industrial relations: 'The regulation by legal enactment of hours of work of adult workmen is not generally practicable or desirable except' for public employees.' Muit Depend Upon Themselves. '' It can not be over-emphasized that the wage earners must depend upon their economic organizations for securing a shorter workday. This method iB not only effective in securing for the workers this fundamental step in their betterment, but it enables them at the same time to maintain their independence and their resourcefulness, together with the right to determine those things which affect the conditions of work under which thoy must toil. "To secure the shorter workday by any othor method makes it necessary for the wage earners to delegate to othor authorities othor things which vitally affect thom; and which constitute a limitation upon their activities and their rights, and thus finally lessen their freedom. "Becauso of the far-reaching importance and effect of the shorter workday upon the material, physical and mental conditions of the working people, wo can not too strongly impress upon all wage earners the necessity to concentrate their chief effort to secure the shorter workday—the general application of at leaBt the eight-hour day. "We, therefore, recommend that all wage earners— all the toilerB of America—unite and make common cauBe for the attainment of this economic, social, political and moral boon at the earliest possible day. No proposition more sound economically, sociologically and humanely can be adopted than tho enforcement of tho* general eight-hour workday for all the workors engaged upon any field of human endeavor." LETTERS TO VANCOUVER ALLIED Newspapers Employ Union Help in Their Plants in This City Arts and Crafts Work Together in Production of Printing Almanac as a Text Book. Editor B.C. Federationist:' I have lately questioned several high school pupils re common astronomical terms found in any almanac. I refer to tho zodiac signs and symbols, also tho almanac calculations for the year— Chronological cycles, morning and evening stars, seasons, eclipses, etc., It is astonishing to fin that they know practically nothing about any of these matters, excepting what an eclipse is. Theae questions might vory well be taught in the lower grades. AQUARIUS. Vancouver, B. C, Fob, 24, 1916 BARTENDEES Mixologists' Correspondent Reviews Activities of Local 676. Local No. 676, Bartenders, is trying to have its international appoint' an organizer for Canada, and seeing that we have 26 locals we consider that it would be only fair. We have had a taste of the benefits to be derived'from such an officer, whon Bro. Geo.' Hibbard of Local 177, Hamilton, Ont., was appointed by the international for three months, ending Dec. 31, 1915, during which time we reinstated some 20 delinquent members, and his presenco on the coast had a good moral effect on our interests too. Tako the Astor, Grand Union and Leland hotels: The first two wore comparatively easy and the latter, after a stubborn fight of eight weeks, was finally brought into line. We havo sent our resolution to all Canadian locals for endorsation and expect, in the near future, to hear of tho appointment of a Canudian organizer for the Canadian locals. As to the condition of trade, it will help to show how quiet it is when I say that our membership is down to 150, as against 350 of three years ago. It was down to 140' on Jan. 1, 1916. But we are still alive and will continue to let them know it. Speaking of life reminds one of death and it was with regret that we had to report the death of two of our old-time members, both active officers at one time, namely, "Benny" Johnston and "Curly" Curnock, tho former treasurer for something over three years, and tho latter secretary and business agent, also delegate to the Vancouver Trades and Labor council. We have helped a little towards recruiting too, having a few members on the firing line and somo members in the regiments being recruited around the city. Bro. Laurie Ib trying to enlist Bro. Leer, but I 'm afraid he is not going the right way about it; but at that they get along famouBly together. "BILL." FromParm's ABOVE! ^elusmsn oobc acco. The Hyak Canyon "Vindicator" rises to remark that it is foolish to bury dead lawyers or politicians. When Tim White came to town the other day he saw a funeral and asked who was dead. Deacon Dodge told him it was Lawyer Rich, a great politician in the district. Tim, somewhat amazed, said to the deacon, "And do you mean to tell me you ljury dend lawyers and politicians!" "Why, of courBe we do. Don't you?" asked the deacon, a little perturbed. Bill replied: "You betcher yer life we don't. When a lawyer. or politician croaks, we lay him out all right, throw open the* window and lock the door: the corpse is gone next morning! Sure there is a strong smell of sulphur and brimstone in the room; it Boon wears off, however." Deacon Dodge thought it wns most astonishing. Judge Duck wrote to tho "Vindicator" this week, thnt he would again be a candidate for re-election on the wot" ticket. He complains, however, that his mornings are being too much taken up "chewing the rag" with visitors and supporters. Ho is away be- hind in his work. Bill Lowis, Mb " dry'' j opponent, has no trouble getting on with his work. He lends money to his poor callers and always seeks favors from the richer .sort of them. That does the trick,. The Vancouver Allied Printing Trades council was organized June 9, 1901, with the idea of bringing more closely together the unions directly engaged in the production of printing, in Vancouver. Questions often arise between different unions closely related in cue production of any article—questions that often lead to serious misunderstanding on the part of tho unions interested. To obvinto this is the duty of all allied councils. So with the Allied Printing Trades council. It is composed of three delegates each from the Typographical union, No, 226; Printing Pressmen's union, No. 69; Bookbinders' union, No. 105; Stereotypers' union, No. 88, and Photo-Engravers' union, No. 54, All theso organizations arc branches of an international union di- rictly affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Tho local allied council itself is a branoh of the International Allied Printing Trades association, with headquartera at Indianapolis, Ind. This association is a body composed of representatives of all the international unions directly interested in tho printing business, and is also the last court of appeal for local allied councils in any disputes that may arise in reference to tho use of the joint label. Tho joint label, known as tho Allied Printing .TradeB Council Union Label, is the only label allowed to bo issued in any city where there is an allied council. Immediately on the formation of a local council all unionB affiliated must withdraw their respective labels from all offices and the one of the council is issued in its place. To qualify for the allied labol tho office must employ union labor in all its branches—composing room, pressroom, bookbinding room—and have all cuts to bo used in any job that the label goea on produced in an office employing help of the Photo-Engravers' union. Newspapers also havo to engage union help throughout their plant before they enn carry the label of tho council. The officers of tho local council aro as follows: Mr. J. McKinnon, Stereotypers' union, president; W. F. Bushman, Bookbinders' union, vice-president; R. H. Neelands, Typographical union, secretary-treasurer. The executive committee comprises Messrs. H. Neelands, H, Wheatlnnd, W. F. Bushman, M. Woodbury and S, Knowles; nnd A. Swanson and S. Vernon are anditors. DAVID SPENCER, LTD. DAVIb SPENCER, LTD. MRS. PERRY TO SPEAK. WiU Addreu People's Forum Meeting Next Sunday Evening, Mrs. J. O. Perry, who needs no traduction to the Vancouver public, will bo tho speaker at next Sunday evening's mass meeting in Labor Temple, under the auspices of the People's Forum. $12.00, $15.00 or $18.00 la your limit for A NEW SUIT see what we have to offer. Oood Variety, New Stylei PEABODY'S OVERALLS UNION MADE W.& J. WILSON The Men's Clothing Centre 1217-1219-1221 Oovernment St. and Trounce Avenue VICTORIA Not "Billy" Macadams. The word "macadam" us applied to building roads, takes its name from John Macadam, an Englishman, who first' taught the necessity of building hard roads. Union Activity in California, Tbe raising of a defense fund, prohibition and politics are among tho important matters that will bo discussed at the annual convention of the State Building Trades Council in California, to be hold in Sacramento during the week of March 10. HELP THE TOBACCO WORKERS If Label Is to Be Maintained Something Definite Must Be Done, President A. Androw and Sec.-Treas, E, Lewis Evans, of the Tobacco Workers' International union, nro thiB week making a special plea to the trade unionists of Canada to demand the label of their organization on tobacco, especially the product of the Tuckett Tobacco Co., which, while union-manned at present, has about decided to drop the label on the ground that there is no demand for it. Here is the letter of the international officers, in part: "For some yeurB we have been uBing our best efforts to create a greater demand for union-lnbelled tobacco and cigarettes throughout Canada. Our headway has been necessarily slow, because of our campaigns being of the long distance firing, nnd we have doubtless missed many good targets. Be that aa it may, we aro now trying again, in the hopo that we will not do so much missing. "The demnnd for the label haa reached a very low tide, ao low indeed, that the Tuckett Tobacco company of Hamilton, Ontario, have decided that as there is no demand for the label on tobaccos and cigarettes, to give up using it, on their plugs and packages, "We think, of course, that they are making a mistake, and told them so. They seem, howover, to be firm in the belief that the union men in Canada do not care anything about the label, and will buy their goods without it, as well as with it. "In view of this position, we are now coming to you asking you to prove to the Tuckett Tobacco company that thoy are following a mistaken line of march, and write to the Tuckett Tobac- ( co company, asking thom if they are running a union shop and entitled to tho use of the union label ;in their tobaccos and cigarettes, nnd if so, to put it on again, as that is the key tnat opens tho door to business between you and them." Spencer's Dry Cleaning Price List Men's suit thoroughly cleaned and pressed $1.50 Men's trousers B0c White flannel and serge trousers for 75c Men's fancy vests BOo Men's overcoats $1.50 Men's sweater coats 76o Ladies' suits in dark colors $1.60 Ladies' suits in light colors. $1.75 and $2.00 Ladies' plain skirts 76o Ladies' pleated skirts. $1.00 Up Ladies' waists 7Bo Up Ladies' plain dresses $1.50 Up Fancy dresses $1.75 to $3.00 Short jackets $1.00 to $1.50 Long jackets $1.50 to $2.00 Short gloves .16o Long gloves 25c DYEING Prices on application, and work guaranteed. David Spencer Limited DAVID SPENCER, LTD. | DAVID SPENCER, LTD. Trade Unionist Soldiers. Noarly ono million German trado unionists aro serving in the Gorman army, according to the statemont of Carl Legien, president' of the General- kommission der Gewerkschaften Deut- schlandB (the trade-unionists of Germany). Of this number, somo aix hundred are trade-union 'officials-—presidents, secretaries and organizers—whose wives are in many instances filling their positions during their absence at the front. Meeting Changed Conditions. That the jurisdictional disputes that have shaken tho American labor movement for yoars aro not to bo frowned on, but' are a sure sign of progress and growth, is tho argument of Samuel Gompers, presidont of tho American Federation of Labor, in tho current issue of the American FedorationiBt. Jurisdictional disputes aro inevitable, he holds, becauso of change of life in industry. Furniture Largest ud moat select stock ln Western Canada. Easy Terms and decent treatment, at war Ume prices, 41 HASTINOS ST., WEST T. B. CUTHBERTSON & Oo. Men's Hatters and Outfitters Time Storei UNION ** OFFICES This Official List Of Allied Printing Offices CAN SUPPLY TOT! WITH THB ALLIED PMNTDJO TBADES UNION LABEL BAGLEY St SONS, 151 Haitlnj. Strset Seymour 316 U1.UCHUKHQEU. F. H„ 319 llroadwey Eut F.lrmont 209 BRAND & PERRY, 629 Pender Street, Weit Seymour 2578 BURRARD PUBLISHING CO., 711 Seymour Btreet Seymour 6530 CHINOOK PRINTINO CO., 4601 Main Street Fairmont 1874 CLARKE & STUART, 320 Seymour Street Seymour 3 COWAN & BROOKHOUSE, Labor Templo Building Seymour 4490 DUNSMUIR PRINTINO CO., 48T Dunemulr Street Seymour 1106 EVANS & HASTINGS, Arte and Oralis Bldg., Seymour St Seymour 5650 JEWELL, M. L., 841 Pender St , Seymour 1444 KERSHAW, J. A., 639 Howe St , Seymour 8674 LATTA. R P.. 333 Gore Avo Seymour 1089 MAIN PRINTING CO., 3851 Main St Fairmont 1988 MoLEAN & SHOEMAKER, North Vancouver N. Van. 53 MOORE PRINTING CO., Cor. Granville and Hobion Sta Soymour 4543 NEWS-ADVERTISER, 801 Pender St Seymour 1028-41 NORTH SHORE PRESS, North Vancouver .....N Van. 80 PACIFIC PRINTERS, Worid Building Seymour 9592 PEARCH St HODGSON, 618 Hamilton Street Seymour 9928 ROEDDE, G. A.. 616 Homer Street Seymour 264 SCANDINAVIAN PUBLISHING CO., 817 Cambie St Seymour 6509 TERMINAL CITY PRESS, 2408 Weitmlmter Road Fairmont 1140 THOMSON STATIONERY, 825 Halting, W Seymour 8520 TIMMS, A. H., 230 Fourteenth Ave. E Fairmont 621R WESTERN PRESS, 828 Cordova W Seymour 7566 WESTERN BPECIALTY CO., 331 Duwmulr St 8e]rmour 8526 WHITE & BINDON, 167-169 Cordova St Seymour 1215 Writ. "Onion Label" on Your Copy whin Tou Sand tt to tb. Prlntar THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE Capital 115,000,000 Best $13,600,000 Main Offlce: Oorner Hastings ud Oranvllle Streets, Vancouver CITY BRANCHES LOCATION ALMA ROAD .Cor. Fourth Avenne and Almi Road COMMERCIAL DRIVE Oor. Flrat Avenue and Commercial Drive EAST END Cor. Pender and Main Street, FAIRVIEW Cor. Sixth Avenuo and Granville Street HASTINGS and CAMBIE Cor. Halting, and Cambie Street, KITSILANO Cor. Fourth Avenue and Yew Street MOUNT PLEASANT Cor. Eighth Avenue and Main Street POWELL STREET Cor..Victoria Drive and Powell Street SOUTH HILL Cor, Forty-fourth Avenue and Fraser Road Also North Vancouver Branch, Oorner Lonsdale Avenue and Esplanade HOTEL LOTUS New — Modern — Fireproof COR. ABBOTT AND PENDER; STS VANCOUVER, British Columbia Now under the management of W, V. MORAN Room wtth detached bath 91.00 par i*j op Room with prints bath $1.50 ptr day up Special Winter Reduced Rates to Permanent Guests Onr electric motor bu meeti all boata ud tratni fro* LOTUS GRILL—Open Continuously FBOM 1 n.m. to MIDNIGHT Mudlc trom 6.80 to 8.80 and 10 to midnight Two Stores and Three Offices To Let At Low Rentals,! in the LABOR TEMPLE Cor. Homer and Dunsmuir Streeta The completion of the Georgia-Harris Street viaduct hu placed the Labor Temple In the flow of down-town trafflc M Interested call on or phone BUILDING MANAGER Seymour 7495 Superior Printing ROOM 211 AT MODERATE PRICES Telephone: Sey. 7495 UBOR TEMPLE The FEDERATIONIST can supply all your Printing needs. No Job too large or too small. First-class workmanship, good ink and high- grade stock have given our Printers a reputation (or SUPERIOR PRINTING Union Work a Specialty. Our Pricei are. right and we deliver when wanted.
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