The British Columbia Federationist
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1917-07-06
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note: BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST OFFICIAL PAPEB: VANCOUVEB TBADES AND LABOB COUNCIL, AND B. C. FEDEBATION OF LABOB POLITICAL TOITT: VICTOR JANCOUVER, B. C, FRJDAY JJJLY 6,1917 (In Vanesew \ oity. 12.00 ) $1.50 PER YEAR | Provincial Government Will Break Up the Slave Plantations |The Feudal Baronies of B. C. to Be Compelled to Take Down Fences THE PEDBBATIONIST has frequently felt called upon to i comment upon the iniquity ithat has for a long time existed in ^British Columbia in the shape of 1 company towns.!' These are sometimes called "closed towns." That means that they are closed |to any and all persons in any way objectionable to the^owners of those towns, and that all comment, criticism, education or agitation distasteful to those owners, s barred'from their sacred pre- bincts. In other words, these pr^- iious "company townB" aremere- y slave plantations or feudal uaronies, under the autocratic *ule of the capitalist owners who ire sweating zealously in the lioble art of developing "our resources." It has been particularly notice uble that trade unionists and other labor agitators have been non persona grata at all of theBe labor penB, more especially tho ones at Britannia a,nd Anyox. At the Britannia pen it is a mutter of common knowledge that so jbm-xious to tho overlords was the uint of trade unionism, that a minute 2nd careful search of every slave's personal baggage was invariably mnQe in order to discover any possible evidence of previous association with piomsm, and if such evidence was Found the sacred confines of Britannia Were immediately fumigated of bis pbjectionnble presence. A Government Spasm. iMuny interesting tales might be told if the efficiency of methods used at hese delightful plague spots in order *o ferret out objectionable and dan- BrerutiH characters, ere their hateful pre- ence had worked Irreparable injury to he peace of mind of toe sacrosant own* J"rs of the aforesaid plague spots. But it will henceforth be a waste of ;inu> to relate …
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (1912) ; The B.C. Federationist, Ltd. (1912-1915) ; The B.C. Federationist, Limited (1915-1922) ; The B.C. Federationist (1922-1923) ; The British Columbia Federationist (1923-1925).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0345194
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : The B.C. Federationist, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text