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INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STRENGTH OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL, AND B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR POLITICAL UNITT: VICTOBT NINTH YEAR. No. 35 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1917 (In VaDuuTir\ Olty. 11.00 I $1.50 PER YEAR The Door of Opportunity Swings PRE1R STARTS ON Strategical Hints for the Guidance Open to Forces of Human Progress Never Were Statesmen More Stupid—Never Were Politicians More Mediocre—Never Were Rulers More Brutal—Never Were Prophets More Blind- Never Was Capital More Arrogant Never Was Labor More Given to Unrest—The Forces of Progress Await the Trumpet Blast That Opens the Final Assault Against the Slavery and Tyranny of Ages THE CONVENTION of the B. C. Federation of Labor, to be held in this city on Labor Day, will be face to face with the most auspicious opportunity to sound a trumpet call for united action by the progressive elements in human society against the powers of evil and darkness, that are persistent in their determination to prolong their reign or wreck civilization in their efforts. That the great mass of the people are not in sympathy with the perpetuation of thc world-wide brutality of the ruling class, as particularly emphasized in the murderous warfare now raging with such blind fury in Europe, is plainly evident. That the war spirit is practically as dead as a mackerel in most countries, and especially so here in Canada, is clearly proven by the increasing talk among the common people about peace, and the increasingly furious efforts of the ruling class and its tools to fan anew the flames of fury by every scheme and device imaginable that can be brought to bear* In the face of this ruling class fiesta of blood and carnage that is even now threatening the complete collapse of civilization and the wrecking of the superstructure of the capitalist edifice of power and plunder, statesmen stand helplessly mumbling and fumbling, evidently little comprehending what ia actually being pulled down about their ears, much less knowing what to do under the circumstances. Business men go on about their various profit schemes as though the entire performance had been duly and carefully arranged for their benefit and to increase their wealth. Parsons pray to providence for relief for thc world from its sins, but fail to lift up their voices against the ago-long crime of slavery out of which this ana a thousand similar sanguinary affairs have sprung. They have no condemnation of class rule and its brutalities to offor. Among the common people alone is found the spirit of peace ond progress. From them cosmos forth tho voice of protest against the brutality of it all. From them comes the demand that the bloody business be brought to an end. Though it is as yet but a still email voice crying in the wilderness, it can be stirred.to stentorian proportions if the bugle blast bo sounded calling to arms and to action the progressive elements in tho land for the purpuse of cleansing the Augean stables of civilization, thnt havo boon mado foul and unclean by tho criminals and crimo of the ngos of class rule and class robbery. There aro enough progressive and (Continued on Pago 4) to stir the passion and prejudice of men. The spirit of war does not possess thie mind of the normal man at any time. It is only when his passions have been aroused by appeals to his ignorance, and to his prejudices and his reason has become unseated by the falsehoods, misrepresentations and deceits that have been practiced upon him by those interests that use hita to effect ' their evil purposes, that the average peacefully inclined, well behaved, sociable and all round decent man, becomes transformed into a bloodthirsty wretch ready to imbrue his hands in the blood of others of his kind, who have never as much as contemplated doing him an injury. The culmination of agea of slavery is now being staged in Europe. And all the rest of the world has been drawn iftto it, becauso all the rest of the world is a blood brother to cithor one side or the other in tho delectable affair. The still feudul nations of the earth are upon one side; the capitalist nations upon tho other. But in either case, it is the workers who produce all the material things requisite to the prosecution of the war, and furnish by fnr tho largest part of tho human material to kill and be killed. Outside of the comparatively few members of the ruling class that take active part in tho military operations, tho working clnss of the various nations pnys tho entire cost of tho brutal business, whether that cost be measured in the products of their lnbor, that nre used in the undertaking, or in its dead, mangled and crippled victims. SOFT DRINKS WILL REPLACE HARD ONES Bar Rooms WIU Be Turned Into Tea and Soft Drink Dispensaries. Many hotels have not yet formulated their plans for running their bars after October 1. In ono barrom they have put up a sign, "Don't ask ub what we're going to do after October 1st. What the hell'r you going to dol" In another barroom they have invented the October Mourn Cocktail. Many places no doubt will be closod, but quite a few proprietors plan to open soft drink emporiums. There are still those who have hopes the act will not come into force on October 1. IZE Two Unorganized Yards Held Meetings Sunday Last in Westminster Shall Federationist Be Mailed Every Member of B. C. F. of L.? «5 THE FEDERATIONIST has arranged to "cover" the proceedings of thc special convention of the B. C. Federation of Labor whieh convenes here on Labor Day. Following today's edition of 24 pages The Fed. will issue eight pages next week and every week thereafter, if possible. «J AT THE JANUARY convention of the B. C. F. of L. at Revelstoke, an effort was made to have the Federation arrange for The Federationist to be mailed to every affiliated member of the organization, at the speeial rate of five cents per month (outside the city of Vancouver), the amount to become a part of the per capita tax. Insufficient support was given, following circularization by Secretary- treasurer Wells on the subject, at that time. But the subject will be revived at an executive meeting which will take place prior to the opening of the big convention next Monday and it is not improbable that the question will receive the attention of the convention delegates before adjournment. •j THE CIRCULATION of The Federationist is growing by leaps and bounds. But there is plenty of room for a further increase. The greater the circulation the less thc cost of production per thousand. This, with the advantage to be gained from an advertising medium standpoint, may make it possible to supply The Federationist to the affiliated membership of the Federation of Labor at even less a figure than was possible to quote at the Revelstoke convention. At any rate The Federationist management ia prepared to take a chance on mortgaging the future, if assured of the co-operation and support of the membership by the convention next week. With the organization of the employees of tho shipbuilding yards on Poplar island, New Westminster and Coquitalara practically every shipbuilding yard in British Columbia will have been unionized. A meeting was held in the New Westminster labor hall last Sundny, at which there was a fair attendance of employees of these yards. Every man present, who did not already belong to n union, signed up to join, and the gathering was vory enthusiastic. The engineers employed in shipbuilding yards are organized 100 per cent, and it is expected ovory yard in the province will be as strongly organized in the very near future. Sunday's meoting was addressed by A. Watchman, organizer for the shipwrights, and Business Agents Broom- fiold of the Painters, Hnrdy of the Shipyard Laborers, and Alexnnder of the Steam und Operating Engineers. TEAMSTERS' UNION IN THE SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK More Than Two Hundred Members Have Joined New Union During This Month. Tho Teamsters' union gives promise of becoming ono of the most flourishing in the city. Tho meeting on Wednesday night was well nttended. During this month, 215 new members hnve joined. The committee which wus nppointed to oanvass all organizations with a view of hnving tho members demand that deliveries of goodB to their homes bo by lombers of tho Tenmstcrs' union, reported optimiBticully. It was doi'ided to raise the initiation fee $1 on Sept 15, and similar nmount on Oct. 1 and Doc. 1, bringing tho initiation fee up to *5. A committee of Poole, Potric, jr., and; Mills wus appointed to represent tho union at the B. C, Federation of Labor convontion on Monday ,with instructions to vote for such measures as in their best judgnient will sorvo labor 'b best interests regarding the Military Service Act. TO PEACE With Other Government Officials Chief Executive Begins Longest Excuse Pioneers of Peace District Suffer for Lack of Completion of Bailway A merry party of voyageurs—at public expense, so who wouldn't be happy I •—departed northward on the O. T. P. steamship Wednesday night. The party was headed by Premier Brewster who, with Hon. T. Dufferin Pattullo, minister of land, the surveyor-genoral, and Dean Klinck of Xb$k0kyen\ty, are. going to push on into the depths of the Peace Biver mosquitoes. In the party were also Hon. John Oliver minister of farm culture; Hon. J. W. Weart, speaker of the legislature, and A, D. Barrow, member for Chilliwack. The Oliver party isn't going on through to the resourceful Peace country where thousands of settlers face ruin because of the failure of the Brewster government to proceed with the conatructlon of the Pacific Oreat Eastern railway. The premier is a great excuser, and munuges to get away with it. He is taking a whole bagful of excuses into the Peace river country. He is going to lay the blame for the delay on the old regihie at Victoria. But how will he square the absolute shutting down of thiB railway line with his public utterances that the present government would push the line aheadf As is now generally accepted, the political "in* vestigntion" of this line brought out no facts which might be said to condemn tho contractors, though it was made public that the promoters of thc line distributed a boodle fund among politicians of both stripes. But this wus known before, to tho politicians. However, it was news to the public The premier is a wonderful sidestep- per, issue evader und artful dodger all round. It is aB hard to pin His Premiership down as it is to put one's finger on a flea. So we may look forward to a weird tale from the Pcaco country, given wide circulation in the government organs, to tho effect thut the premier's pnrty was welcomed with widO'Oponed arms, kissed on both cheeks, and tnken into the bosom of the denizens of the buck stretches. They are a frank, splendid, rough-hewn pooplo, tho Peace district pioneers, and they have the sort of faith which moves mountains. Their trust mny be ns easily reached us their chattels, for they hnvo neither keys nor locks, theso honest toilers of tho fur outposts. They may be expected to accept as gospel whatever excuses the premier mny mnke. Thoy do not know him so well I ub the people more immediately in con tact with political things. .FORTY-FOUR HOUR WEEK CONCEDED IN ROYAL OITY Machinists' Union Once Again Emphasizes Value of 100 per Oent. Organization. NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, Aug. 30,—On September 1, the 44-hour week and alt other conditions contained in the Machinists' proposed agreement, will go into effect in all shops here. There are now only nine non-union machinists in the city, and these are expected to sign up before noxt mooting. Although it is only a fow months since the Machinists' local wus ganized in tho Royal City it has made wonderful progress, having secured substantial increases in wages, as well as the shorter workday. •M-H-M-H-H" of General Staff of Labor's Army OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK ON WATERFRONT Business Agent Burns of Seamen Tre. diets 100% Organization by January 1. According to W. 8. Burns, business agent for the Seamen's union, indications are very favorable for a 100 per cent, organization report by the New Year. The recent strike, according to Burns, was a flne thing for organized labor, and really did more good than a dozen organizers would have accomplished. The organization of the B. C. Firemen and Oilers' union is successfully under way. Men who are employed along Vancouver's waterfront appreciate what organization has done thus far and are disposed to assist in every way for the complete organization of every class of labor. Two Delegates to B. C. F. of L. Elected at Sunday's Meeting The following statistics, taken from the annual reports of officers of the International Typographical union for the year ending May 31, 1017, show the record of a year to be: Increase in membership 1119 Gross earnings of members for 12 months $66,652,431.00 Increase over preceding year .' 3,940,626.00 Average earnings per member, 12 months 1086.43 Increase over preceding year Old age pension paid, 12 months 45.25 Given Three Months, Employees Will Consider Demanded Scale As there have been no strikes in connection with the work on structural iron und steel for several yeara, mem- bora of tho union, who have asked for a raise of a dollar a day, look for not the slightest trouble. The employors havo boen given ninety-days' notice of the proposod increase, and no difficulty whatever is expected in arriving at an amicable ngreement. Tho union has during late yearB made a practice of giving a long notice when the men contemplate a demand for increases. Thia system has worked out very well from thc standpoint of both men and employers. 351,505.00 Mortuary benefits paid 12 months 298,476.88 Mortuary benefits puid beneficiaries 42 Canadian members killed in the wnr 12,225.00 President W. S. Armstrong occupied the chair ut the regular monthly meeting of Vancouver Typographical union held Sundny lust, when quite a lengthy agenda of routino business was gone through. A very complcto report wns presented by tho sanitary committee, covering conditions as to sanitation, ventilation, etc., in printing offices in this city. Most of tho offices wero reported tn be in good shape, but improvements were suggested in ono or two instances. Through giving close attention to tlio sanitary conditions in the workroom, in offices throughout the jurisdiction of tlie Internntionnl Typo- graphical union, and insisting on improvements being made where necessary, over ten years have been added to the average of the union printer. For the yenr ending May 81, 1900, the average ut death was 41,25 years, and for the year ending Mny 31, 1917, it was shown to liavo been increused to 51.42 yenrs. J, R. Melsom and H. L. Corey wero elected ns delogutes to attend tho special convention of tho British Columbia Federatioa of Labor to bc held in Lubor Templo, Vnncouver, on Monday, Soptembor 3, Labor Day. Probably having in mind that tho advent of prohibition should bo fittingly celebrated, it wns decided to hold u smoking concert during tho coming month; tho arrangements for which nro left in the hands of the executive committee. Pte. E. Mason of tho World composing roam who wont ovorsens about two yenrs ago, has been posted us missing sinco Juno 22 of tins year. WiU Meet Sunday. On Sunday the sawmill workers will hold a meeting in tho Labor Templo. The organization is progressing slowly, but determinedly. This is tho flrst time tlv\H clnss of lubor has beon organized, Going Strong. Successful meetings are being hold by tho cooks, waiters and waitresses, whose organization now numbers about a hundred. The Federation of Labor Convention and the Question of Peace—Reasonable Men Agree in General on Lines to Be Followed—President Wilson's Reply to the Pope Intrigues of European Diplomacy Give Lie to Pretence of Democracy—Autocracy Not Unknown in Most Blatant of Democracies—Speculations on the Democratization of Germany HO. WELLS, who has all along been a strong supporter of the . war, writes as follows on the occasion of the Pope's peace proposal: '' The conditions of peace now can be stated in general terms that "are as acceptable to a reasonable man in Berlin as they are to a "reasonable man in Paris, London, Petrograd or Constantinople. "There are to be no conquests, no domination of recalcitrant populations, no bitter insistence upon vindictive penalties, and there "must be something in the nature of a world-wide league of na- " tions to keep peace secure in the future. >• . Why, then, does "waste and killing go on? Why is not a peace conference sitting "now? Manifestly because a small minority of people in positions "of peculiar advantage, in positions of trust and authority, pre- "vent or delay its assembling." It is clear enough that H. G. Wells is*' right, and that, while the mass of people in all the belligerent countries would welcome u reasonable peace at once, small gronups in control are staving off peace in the hope, largely, that by hanging on, they hiny secure somo national conquests which they can wave as fungible proofs of victory. The Italian press was first and most emphatic in rejecting the Pope's proposal, because Italy cherishes designs of conquest perhaps more openly than any other nation. France wants to secure Alsace-Lorraine by force, Without having regard to the democratic principle of consulting the wishes of the inhabitants. In Great Britain tbere is a hankering after conquests—Mesopotamia, for example. Mr. Balfour, the foreign secretary, in a speech in the house of commons on.July 30 Inst, wns careful, when declaring that Groat Britain dc- sider no conquests, to add the qualification "on the continent of Europe." Pan-Germans, too, doubtless still hanker after conquests, but the German parliament has already by a large mnjority, declurcd for no annexations; and there is no doubt that if the Entente parliaments would mnke n similar firm declaration, the policy of no conquests would have to be accepted unequivocally by tho Gorman governmont. * The Movement Towards Peace. Undoubtedly things move in the direction of peace. It is now the duty of all reasonable und humane men to assist ns far ns thoy can in compelling the governments to agree to n reasonable ponce, along the general linos on which it is now perfectly clenr peace must finally come, viz., on the general linos of the Russian formula or the Pope's proposals. Now that possibility and desirability of a reasonable peace are so patent, it is to be hoped that the coming convention of the B. C. Fed* oration of Labor will take n firm stand by declaring that peace on these general lines cnn and should be negotiated. It is to be sincerely hoped that tbe convention will pass a resolution declaring ngainst continuance of the slaughter. And—let thero be no mistake—only if tho opposition to conscription is as- sociuted with such a declaration for peace, will it be on firm ground. To acquiesce in an indefinite continuance of the war will cut the ground away from really effective opposition to con* scription. For, if the war is to be allowed to go on indefinitely, the government can always arrango things so as to declare that more men are wanted and cannot bc secured by voluntnry enlistment; and those who hnve acquiesced in a continuance of tho war will not be able to put up any sort of renl opposition in face of the government's declaration. Therefore, it is of first rate importnnce thnt the convention should stute plainly Hint it js in fnvor of peuco negotiations, nnd thut this is one of its reasons for opposing conscription. The Democratization of Germany, Sn fnr ns thoir nominal professions go, our statesmen now tnko the ground thnt the wnr ngninst Ciermnny muBt bo continued in order to securo future generations against thc occurrence of a similar catastrophe, by ensuring that (Continued on Pago 5) Organized Workmen of City Earn and Spend the Payroll «J THE OBJECT of Thc B. C. Fedorationist is lo forward thc interests of organized labor. It is tho only newspaper published on behalf of Labor, west of Winnipeg, lt has a Held covering all of British Columbia and a good portion of the western prairies. _ BEING OWNED and published by the B. C. Fedoration of Labor and the Trades and Labor Council, it naturally follows thnt every union labor man is not only interested in the news columns of The Federationist, but in its advertising columns. _ THE FEDERATIONIST is the newspaper whicli expresses the sentiments of organized labor. It is organized Labor's own newspaper. _ TRADE UNIONISTS who appreciate this will patronize the Hrms who patronize Thc Federationist. Therefore, let every union labor man demand of his merchant that he convey thc news of the business he wishes his union customers to read, through the columns of union Labor's own newspaper—The Federationist. *J THERE'S NEWS in advertising. Subscribers to The Federationist will find a lot to interest them, not alone in thc news columns of Thc Fedorationist. but iu tho advertising columns. _ THE MERCHANT or the manufacturer who seeks thc business of tho members of organized Labor should place store news in the ' columns of organized Labor's newspaper. •J THE WAY to reach the members of organized Labor is through tho columns of Labor's own newspaper. Live, wide-awake merchants ought to bear this fact in mind and place their store announcements in thc paper which reaches the homes of the laboring man—Tho Federationist. PAGE TWO THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FBIDAY... ..August 81, 11117 Every Union Man Who Visits ths Labor Temple Should patronize the Labor Temple Cigar Store COSTS NO MOEE, BUT IT ALL HELPS KINO Of BICYCLES They .re the finest bit of workman* hip in the bicycle world; 8 different models in variety of colore. Prlcea from 142.50 to $55.00, on ■aay payment, if desired. HASKINS * ELLIOTT "The Pioneer Bicycle Store " 518 How. St. 412 Hastings St W. Interior Pioneers Suffer for P.G.E. Blunder at Victoria ELECTRIC FIXTURES At OOST PRICES 8m ns tal saw money. The Jams Electric Co., Ltd. 570 Richards Street OLELAND-DIBBLE ENGRAVING COMPANY ' PHOTO BVOBAVBB8. COMMERCIAL ARTISTS Phont Stymour 7169 Third Floor, World Building, VANCOUVER, B. 0. The only Union Bhop lo Vancouver, ASK TOUB OBOOEB FOB PRIDE OF ALBERTA, and MOTHERS' FAVORITE FLOUR UKION MILLED J. PHILLIPS k CO.. Aftntt Phone 9418 128B Hamilton SMITH'S BUTTON WORKS Hemstitching, buttons eovered, imI* lopping, batten holes, pinking, tpong* Ing tnd shrinking, lettering, picot edging, plotting, niching, embroidery, hemming. SSS GrufUto St. 1319 DonglM St VAHOOUVEB, B.O. VIOTOBIA, B.O. Phont Sty. 3l»l Phont 1160 IN BRITISH COLUMBIA'S interior, buck where the land is fertile and fair, live scattered families of pioneers, the kind of pioneers who have made British Columbia what it is. The same class of man, the man who puts his strength of body and of will against the natural obstacles of a new land, mado Vancouver what it iB today—made every other western metropolis what it is. To this class the people of the populous centres owe their success. The pioneer rancher, who combined the prospector, the trapper and the woodsman, gave thiB province the Btart from which it grew from miles of rails mean about 7,000 tons, and, at $85 a ton, present cost of rails, this represents $595,000 in money- money which is lying along the line and not earning a cent. Recently the settlement at Holla, a settlement of pioneers, organized n farmers' institute. Things were getting serious. They were cultivating some of the finest land in tho world, but with what result? The following letter is as good a plea for these settlers as could be written: '' The following resolution was passed at our Farmers' Institute meeting held June 16: 'Resolved, that this institute obtain report of number of acres under crop to ascertain prospective crop. Result aB follows: 10,000 acres in wheat; 6,000 acres in oats; ''• ! '¥_r\—_$-'- '.'.-■■."';■ ii^|d| |HflVv y ■4 ■■■;■.'!< BoIlSj ■>'** JWrttrg **;• ■ -.*■«• ■■■ i£K&™' ' SOME FERTILE P. O. E. LAND. Poultry Wanted BEST PBIOES HARRY STEVENS Phont Stymour 1097 » 910 Granville St. TO FEDERATIONIST SUBSCRIBERS: Please remember thtt no letter acknowledgment of subscriptions or renewals are mado. The addreai label on yoar paper carries the date to whloh yonr subscription Is paid. If. after forwarding monies to this office, the correct change in yonr label date Is not made, notify ns at onoe. When yon have a kick to make regarding delivery, or otherwise, kindly send it to this office—not to the other fellow. Thos yon will get matters adjusted, and we Ml all be happy. B.C. Federationist B. PAEM. PBTTIPIECB. Manager. Labor Temple, Vaneoaver, B. O. a "sea of mountains" to the fyir land, rich in resource, which it is known to be today. The pioneers go into a new country to hew a hohie and wait. They know by their faith that, if they wait long enough, commercial demands will bring thom a railway, or transportation means of some description. So out in tho Peace river and hinterland in that direction pioneers are awaiting the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern railway, and they figured they would havo it by this time, or, at least, it would have stretched its rails a wholo lot further in their direction. The picture herewith shows a pioneer home in a fertile setting. Another picture shows the character of the land contiguous, in many places, to this very-needed line of ruilway. The land thero will grow about everything. Settlers went in anticipation of this new transportation facility for a virgin land. They are still there. But if the line is not built they cannot be expected to waste years of their lives waiting for it. At present the P. G. E. construction is held up through blunder at Victoria. There may or may not be excuses for not continuing it. Probably not any real, honest reasons. They have seventy miles of rails piled up along the right-of-way in places, all ready to lay. The grade is almost completed. Even were it impossible to get sufficient men to complete the line in a hurry, settlors believe such taen ns may be got just now should' be put on the line. Tho grade is nearly finished, rails for soventy miles more are there, and rolling stock sufficient for immediate needs are at hand. These .rails, by tho way, are very valuable. Seventy Cameron Genoa Mills Shipbuilders, Ltd. POINT ELLICE YARDS VICTORIA, B.C. DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS OF WOODEN VESSELS J. H. PRICE, President OFFICES: POINT ELLICE, VICTORIA, B. C 1312 STANDARD BANK BLDG. VANOOUVER, B. 0. 2,000 acres in barley, flax and vegetables.' ',' „. Having established tho fact in a systematic manner that they huve largo acreage under crop, the ranchers wondered what they would do with this after it has been harvested. How would they get it to market? Well, they can't. They haven't a railway. So they pass a further resolution aB follows: "Whereas, our Farmers' Institute represents between (150 and 700 families in Pouce Coupe district; and A11 SURVIVAL IN 1 MIDST OF The Immediate Reason for the Terrific Outburst of Blood and Fire World Cannot Endure Half Feudal and Half Capitalist THE FEDERATIONIST has consistently maintained that the immediate reason for the present war is to be found in the fnct of a feudal survival in mid-Europe, n survival over and into a period that has brought about whnt is practically, u world domination by the next succeeding order in historical development— thc capitalist system of property and industry. Wo have held that this war iB directly duo to the attompt of that feudal survival to maintain itself against the threatening aggressions of tho newer order and, if possible, to reconquer tho earth for tho political and economic concept of the middle ages, and of whieh Teutonic mid-Europe is the genotic survival and, therefore, legitimate heir In that sense and measured from the Teutonic Standpoint, the war, whether opened by the Teutons or their capitalist enemies, is a defensive war. It is feudalism on tho defensive ngainst its capitalist successor, in a war that can only moan the complete and absolute triumph of the one side TYPICAL PIONEER'S HOME. whereas we understand the E. D. & B. C. railway has its grade finished to our eastern boundary, ties cut and steel ready, also the P. G. E. railway from tho west is finished as far as Fort George; and, whereas, tho allies need our grain in this our time of war, and we are desirous of doing our bit by doing our utmost to raiBe all the grain and vegetables possible; and, whereas, at presont we are hadicapped without rail connection, without which our crops will be a total loss, and a majority of families will have to leave, as they hnve fought the hardships bo long in hopes of a railroad to ship out produce; be it reBolved, that we ask the Hon. Frank Cochrane, minister of railways, also Hon. Mr. Brewster, premier of British Columbia, to use their valuable influence in our behalf by urging the finishing of the E. D. & B. C. from the east or the P. G. E. from tho weat.'' No wonder Premier Brewster, Hon. T. Duff Patullo, minister of lands, the surveyor-general, etc., plan a trip into tho region the P. G. E. is to tap. Tho Pouco Coupe settler is no worse off than others in the interior, being kept without tho good intended for their communities by the Pacific Great Eastern railway. THEATRICAL KEN ABE OBEAT ENTERTAINERS Basket Picnic at Wigwam Inn Last Sunday Was Greatest Success This Season, Last Sunday was a great day for theatrical employees who took a day off from entertaining other folk and entertained themselves and their friends to the number of some 350. And they are sure some entertainers, say those who went" along, for the excursion and basket picnic by the Vancouver Theatrical Federation was with* out quostion the most successful thing of the kind this sonson. There was a general request thnt this splendid organization givo nnother picnic, but it will not be able to do so. Noxt year, however, tho organization plans a similar affair, which will be looked forward to by members and thoir friends, Tho federation chartered tho Ferry No. 1 and the motor launch Inner Ladder, to carry tho party of picnickers. Thoy left thc foot of Gore avenue shortly aftor 10 o'clock and reached Wigwnm Inn, thnt picturosnuo little hotel at tho mouth of Indian rivor, shortly after noon. Thc party then got busy with tho baskot lunches and spent tho afternoon most enjoynbly, returning to Vancouver nbout 10 o 'clock. You like your coffee fresh, don't you? . mmiiiiiiiiiiiii: m «" . Nabob Siblll; UK AND . tOFFEEa; OF COURSE you do. And NABOB Coffee is always fresh because it is packed by the vacuum process, which retains all the flavor, fragrance and strength in the tin. CANADA'S BEST COFFEE or tho other. If capitalism is to survive, this feudul holdover muBt be vanquished. If not, the world must go back to the feudal status of somo centuries ago. The "kultur" the kaiser was commissioned in hia mind to carry to tho uttermost parts of the earth was the "kultur" of feudalism, a something from which tho human rnce has been attempting to escape via the capitalist route. Capitalism may not be beyond criticishi when judged from a moral and ethical standpoint, but it ib ut least a step in advance of the rule of feudalism, a contention that is amply borne oat by a multitudo of facts that have been forthcoming during the present struggle. Students of human history who aro capable of dealing with facts as they exist and aro competent to draw intelligent conclusion therefrom, will find at least food for thought from the following, taken from James W. Gerard's book dealing with Germany and German lifo. To tho fanatic wedded to the formula that all wars are trade wars, etc., and that nono of thom can hnve or ever did have any other significance, it will no doubt be clear that Mr. Gerard saw things in Germany tljnt do not exist and wrote merely for the purpose of confusing tho already blind, so that they will bo unable to distinguish the scientific truth ns duly and emphatically proclaimed by the concrete fanatics themselves, Mr. Gerard says: "Germany is still a country of great proprietors. Lands may be held there by a tenure, which was abolished in England hundreds of years ago. In England property may be only tied up under fixed conditions during the livos of certain chosen persons in being at the. death of the testator. In the state of New York "property may be only tied up during thc lives of two persons in being at the death of the person making thc will and for twenty-one years (the minority of an infant) thereafter. But in the centrnl empires property still mny be tied up for nn indefinite period under the feudal system, so that great eBtotes, no matter how extravagant the life tenant may be, arc not sold and do not come into the market for division among the poople. Must Be of Noble Blood. "For instance, today thero exist estates in thc centrnl empires which must pass from oldest son to oldost son indefinitely, and, failing that, to tho next in line, and so on, and conditions havo even been annexed by which children cannot inherit if their father has married a womnn not of n stated number of quart'cringa of nobility. There is a | prince holding great estates in Hun- I gnry. Ho is a bachelor, and if ho de- i sires his children to inherit these os- i tates there are only thirteen girls in j the world whom he can marry, according to the termB of the instrument by j which somo distant ancestor founded ' this inheritance. | "This vicious syBtem hns prevented i cxtonBive peasant proprietorship. Thi {government, however, to a certain ex* I tout, has encournged peasant proprietorship, bat only with very small parcels of land, and it would bb an unusual thing in Germany, especially in Prussia, t% find a peasant owning moro than twenty or thirty acres of land, most of the Innd being held by tho peasants in such small quantities thnt nfter working their own lands they have timo left to work tho lands of the adjoining landed proprietor at a very small wage. The Prussian Squire, or Junker. "Much is heard in Germany and out of Germany of the Prussian squire or junkor. "All the titles of the nobility are not confined to the oldest son. The Pocket Book of Counts, published by tho same firm which publishes tho Almanac de Gotha, contains the counts of Austria, Germany and Hungary lumped together, showing in this wny the intimate personal relation between the noble families of these three countries. All the sons of a count are counts, and so on ad infinitum Thus in Hungary there are probably seventy CountB Szecheny and about the same number of Zichy, etc. Some of the German noble families are not far behind. In fact, it may be said that almost any person, in what is known as "society" in the central empires, has a title of some sort. "The prefix 'von' showa that the person is a noblo, and is often coupled with names of people who have no title. By custom in Germany, a "von," when he goes abroad, iB allowed to call himself baron. But in Germany he could not do so. Hold Large Landed Estates. ' * These noble families in the central empires, by the Bystem of majorats which I have described, hold large landed estates, and naturally exert a great influence upon their laborers. As a rule, the system of tenant farming does not exist; that is, estates are not leased to small farmers—as was the custom in Ireland and is still in England—but estates aro worked as great agricultural enterprises under superintendents nppointed by, the proprietor. This systeta, impossible in America or oven in England, is possible in the central empires, where the vilages nre full of peasantB, who, not so many generations ago, wero serfs, attached to the land, and who lived in wholesomo fear of the landed proprietors. "This is tho first method by which influence is exercised on tho population. There is also tho restricted franchise or circle voting, which glvcB tho control of the franchise to a few rich proprietors, "As a rule, tho oldest son enters tho army as an officer and mny continue thoro; but if he has not displayed any special aptitude for tho military profession ho retires and manages his estate. These estates are calculated by their proprietors to give at least 4 per cent interest income on tho valuo of tho land. Many younger sons, nfter a Bhort term of service in tho army, usually as officers and not as "ein Jah- riger," leave the army and enter diplomacy or some other branch of the governmont service. Tho offices of judge, district attorney, and so on, not being elective, this career—us well as that leading to tho position of landrat and over-president of a province—is open to thoso who, because they belong to old Prussian landed fnmilics, find fnvor in the eyes of the government. Spartan Virtues of Prussia's Junkers. "Thoro is no leisure class among the junkers. They are all workers, patriotic, honest and devoted to the emperor und tho fatherland. If it is possible that government by one class is to be suffered, thon the Prussian junkers have proved themselves more fit to rule than any other class in nil history. '' Their virtues are Spartan, tlieir minds narrow but uncorruptible, nnd their bravery and patriotism undoubted. One cannot but admire them and their stern virtues. This clnss, largely because of its poverty and its constnnt occupation, does not travel. Nor does the casual tourist or health seeker in Germany come in contact with these men. The junkers will flght hard to keep tlieir privileges, and thc throne wjll fight hard for the junkers, bo- cause they ure the greatest supporters of the Hohenzollerns, "The workingmen in tho cities nro hard workers. Probably they work longer nnd get less out of life than any other workingmen in tho world. Tho laws so much admired and mado ostensibly for their protection, such as insurance against unemployment, sick- neBB, injury, old age, and so on, aro in reality skillful measures which bind them to tho soil ns effectively ns the serfs of the middle ageB were bound to their masters' estates." Tho above, from the pen of Mr. Gerard, Ib clipped from tho Seattlo Times, which is running Mr. Gerard's book in Berlal form. BUSINESS AOBXT DIRECTORY Ask (or Lsbor Tomplo 'Phono Exchango. Soymour 7486 (unloss otherwise stated). Boilermakers—J. H. Carmlchael, Room 213, Labor Temple. Bridge and Structural Iron Workers—Roy Massecar, Room 208. Brothorhood of Carpenters, No. 617—Walter Thomas, Room 208. Brothorhood of Carpenters, No. 2647—F. L, Barratt, Room 206. Electrical Workeri—E, H. Morrison, Room 207. Sey. 8510. Cooks and Walters—A. Graham, Room 304. Deep Set Fishermen's Union—Russell Kear* ley, 437 Gore avenue. Office phone, Seymour 4704; residence, Fairmont 1625X. Longshoremen's Association—Gordon J. Kelly, 804 l'ender street west; phone Sey. 6859. I. L. A. Auxiliary—E. Winch, 486 Howe street. Phone Sey 6859. Musicians—E. A. Jamleson, Room 805, Painters—H. Grand, Room 808. Pile Driven and Wooden Bndgemon—W. Ironsides. Plumbers—J. Cowling, Room 206%. Soy. 8611, Sailors—W. S. Burns, 213 Hastings street west. Sey. 8708. Shipbuilders' Laborers—W. Hardy, Labor Temple. Stoam and Operating Engineers—W. A. Alexander, Room 216. Street Railway Employees—Frod A. Hoover; cor. Main and Prior. Phone exchange Seymour 5000. Residence, Fairmont 641R. Teamsters—H. J. Petrle, Jr., Room 210. Trades and Labor Council—Victor R. Mldgley, Room 210. Typographical—It. H. Neelands, Room 206. Pattern Makers—H. T. Nightscalos, Room 212 Labor Tomplo. COLUMBIAN COLLEGE NEW WESTMINSTEE WILL RE-OPEN SEPTEMBER 12th If you wish to place your son or daughter in a first-class residential school, write us for information. VISIT THE COLLEGE Get the names of those who havo sent sons or daughters to us and make inquiries of them. A. M. SANFORD, D.D., Principal. SURF INLET GOLD MINES, LTD. —(whose property is situated on Princess Royal Island, B. C.) holds a fifth interest In the Belmont Surf Mines, Limited, a company just Incorporated under the laws of British Columbia, with a capital of $2,500,000.00—par value 91,00—the control of which is with the Tonopah Belmont Development Company, one of the largest mining companies in the world. In tho 14th Annual Report of the latter company for the yoar ending, February 26, 1017,.reference is mado to the Surf Inlet Mines as follows: "The further development of the Surf Inlet Mines, on Princess Royal Island, BrltlBh Columbia, and the installation of mining and milling plants and hydro-electrio powor generation and transportation systems, for tho operation of this property, have been vigorously prosecuted during thu fiscal year. With tho completion of the plant and equipment, the property Is oxpectod to initial...- regular production during tho summer of 1917. "During tho past fiscal year underground development, aggregating 2.595 foot of drifts, crosscuts, raises and winzes was performed. A further tonnage of oro has boen developed, so that nt present a conservative estimate of the available and probably indicated oro reserve show somo 386,320 tons of an average valuo of $11.22 per ton in gold."- This makes a gross total of $4,303,290.40 worth of available and probable oro in sight, enough to run the mill for threo years at tho rato of 300 tons por day, it no furthor development work Is dono. Tho expenditures to date or the Tonopah Development Company on this proporty totals ovot* $1,300,000, The mine is fully equipped and employing over 250 men. We strongly recommend this stock to hold for dividends which we aro satisfied will be forthcoming oarly next year, when the stock will probably be seplng at par, $1.00. Let us have your buying order at prevailing market prico. Correspondence invited. We buy and sell all listed and unlisted securities. Stock and Bond Brokors Members Vancouver Stock Exchange 604-605 Vancouver Block S. W. MILLER & CO. Seymour 2223 EBURNE SAW MILLS Limited Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Lumber Lath, Shingles ETC., ETC. Marpole, B.C. A Golden Opportunity LABOR DELEGATES: While you are in our city, you have a golden opportunity to have your teeth attended to at moderate cost, by the most modern methods for the alleviation of pain, and with lasting good results. 1 give ten- year written guarantees on all my work. Be quick to make a special appointment with me. Call personally or telephone Seymour 2715. DENTAL NURSE IN ATTENDANCE Doctor Grady 202 Bank of Ottawa Bldg. 602 Hastings Street West *t*m*w***i* PBIDAY August 31, 1917 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST PAGE THREE BAGGAGE Delivered to and from All Trains, Boats, Hotels and Residences FURNITURE -and- Piano Moving In Padded Vans by experts Phone us day or night Seymour 404, 405 Great Northern Transfer Co. Union Station Hotel Canada 618 Bichards Stntt VANCOUVER - (Nan Labor Ttmplt) Best Service Lowest Rates Try Us Wines and Spirits of the best quality ARGUE! Sell NJOHES -wnObbaeoo. PRINTING COWAN S BROOKHOUSE Labor Ttmplt PitM 8ty. 4490 DEAL OF 10 Has Over 2000 Employees, and a Payroll of Over $2,000,000 Car-riders Can Help Themselves by Offering Suggestions 14 Your complaints and suggestions for the improvement of tbe car service are earnestly solicited. Tbis company in its endeavor to Improve its service, needs your cooperation." SO READS an appeal by tho B. C. Electric Bailway company to its stroet car patrons recently, thus striking tbo noto of co-operation and servico that is to be found in ovory public utility company's policy nowadays. Must Live Down Prejudice. Street car companies especially have found that they havo to livo down a great deal of prejudice on tlio part of tho public—prejudice that seems to spring up naturally againBt any corporation. Somo people will believo nothing but ill about a public sorvice company, consequently whatever such a company says is accepted with, a pinch of salt, and whatever is heard againBt it is magnified and exaggerated. No doubt in past years, a great deal of what was said about some corporations was true, and they have paid the penalty for their sinB. But recently another truth has come to light, which is, that in spite of the faot of an industry or a public utility being operated by a private company, it is still able to return a great deal of good to tho com* munity in which it operates. So muoh has been said about tho money which the B. C. Electric has brought to the province, it hardly needs to be pointed out that British Columbia would be very different without it or with a more niggardly expenditure on olectric lines and power plants, all of which means new industries and greater payrolls. « A Large Employer. The company itself employs more than 2000 persons, and its annual payroll on the mainland alone amounts to nearly $2,000,000, whilo taxes, expenditures on materials and othor expenses in tho province amount to several hundred thousand more. This money becomes spread about in hundreds of different, wnys, helping to keep grocers and butchers in business; workmen in trades supplying the company with materials, in employment; in fact, forming a large part of tho fabric of society. On that score alone, a company would be justified in asking for the support of the public, but still further is it justified on tho ground that ^jo-operation enables it to givo better service. Here is where the dual character of a public ORPHEUM Coming Monday Q Labor Day, Sept. O One Week Only By Special Arrangement with WM. CRANSTON The United Producing Co., Ltd. PRESENTS WITH A BIO Symphony Orchestra PRICES: Matinee—15c, 25c, 35c, 50c. Evening- 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c/ Boxes and Loges, $1.00 —Seats on Sale Thursday, Aug. 30— ONE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA'S GREATEST INDUSTRIES \ -rjnr birmpti* A glimpse of tbe Vancouver general offices and huge plant of P. Burns & Co., Ltd., at foot of Woodland drive o n Burrard Inlet Industrial Oonscription? Editor Federationist: As to the B. C. F. of L. convention to be held in tbis city; being also an opponent to selective conscription in nny shupe or form; also being somewhat enlightened regarding* conditions prevalent in thoso countries already cursed with it, I feel that Tbo Foderationiset/ with its previous outspoken attitude towards that policy, will grant space for the expression of opinions. I trust it may result in beneficial influence boing brought to bear on that convention by an aroused rank and file of tbe organized labor movement. Selective conscription, with proposals such as ending of profiteering, food control and taxation of wealth Beoms to be the programme whieh finds great favor with advocates of selective conscription. This curious jumble policy either portrays lack of good judgment in an endeavor to gain an object in view, or downright jug- gerly on the part of interested parties, in an attempt to catch the votes of an already enlightened public on profiteering by flnnncial interests and food grafters, bo that they (the people) may be further hoodwinked and bled by profiteers, etc., under the plea of national necessity. Patriotism or love of country! Strangely the same advocates of con scription are keen opponents of any peace advocacy, yet by supporting the above programme in its entirety as'sible for the convenience of profiteers forcemeat on a strulglitforward prin ciplo (conscription excluded) would do tho vory thing they imply they do not desire—an ond to. a desire for war, by removing financial gain from it. We also perceive the hearty support given ■to the principle of soliciting the people's savings to create a war loan offering interest as a reward for what should otherwise be a free loan^giveh to the country as a loan free of mercenary gain; truly a position which the workors must analyze for themselves, and a platform of principles so contradictory und open to criticism that truly the workors need awake and do their own thinking. Why selective conscription measure nt the same stroke? This is an entirely separate iBsue of serious concern, its general policy is bo adverse to true freedom, etc. I can not conceive any logicnl position attained by supporting it and seriously understanding it and yet professing to believe or support the other items already suggested apart from conscription, which distinctly portray on broad inference (without analysis) a desire for pence and honesty of purpose. Selective conscription implies to me the possibility of victimization, by being called up for military service upon any too prominent protest ngainst the laxity of the authorities to enforce any anti-profiteering measure created or supported by the people. The victimization of any labor official while acting on behalf of his organization in tbe interests of the workers on national war work is also possible. Many evils arising from excessive hours of labor possible to inflict on war workers under the plea of uationa emergency for war material, being to hand on time, may entail the protest of the workors. Conscription with military law involved soon finds reprisals in forms of heavy fines, imprisonment, or deportation, and compulsory military servico, to too forcible opposition to slavery and injustice. All things pos- they desire ua to be impressed, its en- service company comes to the front. Although private in naturo, it is primarily for tho purpose of serving the public. The quality of the service it c.an givo depends largely upon the way the public helps. The street car service is improved in tho degree that the car- riders assist the company in getting on board quickly in helping to cut down the causes of complaints by reporting them, and in using the street car service intelligently. Must Supply Service Long Time. The plant of a public utility company docs not nppenr by chance. It is the result of a demand by the public for service—streot car, or light and power service, or somo other kind of service. Then, tho citizens of the time in order to obtain such service offer in return a frnnchiso or a contract, which gives the company certain rights in return for it assuming certain obligations. One of tho things a company commits itself to is the supplying of service for an extended period bocauso it cannot pull up stakes aud leave town when it likes. From the vory start, therefore, a public utility exists as a co-partner of the community, and it grows and gives good servico ns the community allows it. Sometimes, a community tries to restrict a company too much, and the result is that it cannot give good service, but this effect is not seen until {trobably years after, when it is too ate. There is a reason behind this desire of public service companies to give sorvico first. It hns been learned through experience thnt suck a compnny must have tho goodwill of the public if it is to get ahead. It is one of the subtle fnctors in public utility service. Promoting Goodwill. Of course, the frequency of the cars on any route and the other tnngible features of a company's sorvico go prob- ably farthest in promoting goodwill becauso, after all, tbat is what the people want. But just ns there is something nbout giving tho nctual sorvico that only the company can do bo there is something nbout promoting goodwill that only the public can do—such us sending in com- plaints. Horo ngnin, it is not necessary to think that tho enr-rider is doing something for tho streot cnr company. He is doing it for himsolf. Ho can help to foater good feeling for his stroot railway, to bo ready to listen to tho good about it rather than the bad; to give his active support to the streot railway. THE MAOIO MIRROR ,L There was once a nation that asked the question: "Is there anyone who will savo me?" Militarism handed it a sword. The Church handed it a prayor-book. Too Politician delivered a speech. Thc Editor of the Daily Paper wrote a leading article, Tho Financier said, "Allow me to lend you Bomo monejr at 5% per cent." Tho Freetrader said: "Abolish your tariff." The Protectionist said: "Your tariff is too low; multiply it by threo." The Capitalist said: "You are saved already.'' The Philosopher wroto an essay. Then the Fool camo along and handed it a mirror. "What is thiB for?" nsked the Nation. "Gaze into it," said tho Fool, "and you will behold your only saviour." But a curious thing happened. Looking into tbe mirror, the Nation saw not its own likeness, but tho reflection of the Foolt • —E.J.C., in Australian Worker. can be inflicted, witb dire pennlties for opposition to their welfare under this policy. Military law is supreme; German militarism becomes a fact to the people of Canada, and its repeal would entnil more suffering and pain than it is worth whilo to inflict on a people, which could awake and by judicious action prevont it before it is too late. We am asked to assume this act is necessnry to raise sufficient men for tbe front. Some honestly believe it involves the necessity of the rich sharing in the fight with tho poor man's son. Economic compulsion has been in force, nnd by centrnlizing nil employment on wnr work, claiming all or most natural resources as a necessity for war purposes, would throw such enormous numbers of mon into the unemployed market that economic determinism would certainly moke soldiors of many. In face of this simple solution of recruiting, it looks ns if this conscription is desirous to some for nnother purpose. Industrial conscription—men culled up for military service under military luw, and on the'plea of national necessity aent to civilian work on army pay—in other words, civilian work which may have been considered a fair wage to have asked $3 or $4 a day, yet the same once-civilian mechnnic or worker, perhnps of organized labor, sent under military law to do the same work for conscript pay, while profiteers flourish on war contracts. The British press reports the sending of the military to work for tho farmers in England nnd one naturally wonders whethcrs the farmer profited whilo poor Tommy slaved as a nntionnl necessity and duty. To denl with the compulsion of the wealthy who nre assumed to be slock in coming forward for active aervice, I fail to see how the tribunal syatem can effectively deal with that issue, since money and tho powor of its possessore has generally such an influential effect on tho unscrupulous in authority that it is almost hopeless to expect to successfully carry out thnt policy. Exemptions imply safety from militury service. Naturally any hint thrown out of this nnd thnt clnss to bc exempted, rupidly sonda those intimated ns t'roo, to serve, to fall asleep to interest in the infliction of the measure. Shipworkers, railway workers, coal minors and married men were all dosed in turn in Englnnd with the considerate promise, but, alus, the Daily Chronicle, published in London, assures us that there aro 250,000 miners worth consideration by tho house of commons for militnry. Whnt happonod to the married mon we all know. Tho shipyard workers found thc exemption did not include all of them, and the samo experience befell tho railroad workors. Well, tho Canadian presB has hinted on exemptions nnd wo can believe it or not. As to food control nnd its exportation to the Allies under the plea of national duty nnd necessity: Strange to say, thc greatest clnmor for this proposnl comes from those interests thnt have no opportunity to amass huge dividends in war profits Tit home, yet suggest tho policy of mentleBs days and self-sacrifice for others. I hnve no objection to distribution of food nnd necessities from an nmple storo, to those who may require it; but may n quostion bf asked? Is it possiblo to get bigger profits by exporting Canadian food to the Allied countries undor the guise of national necessity? As to food control, tho workors welfnre, lifo, and gonernl well-being have been controlled by others not entitled to it long enough. Whether a trust, combine or political trustee, elected seemingly on behalf of the people but who may serve in tho interests of the trust and food grafters, control or not, mutters little to the worker. He at no time can obtain life necessities without permission in thc form of tho necessary cash. To limit the high prices of food, yet dony the workers the right to con- sumo it, under, the plea that it is bet- tar required abroad, docs not imply much satisfaction to those who toil.' Complete control by the workers themselves is the only solution worth considering or nccepting. To conclude, we nre asked to assume that women will replace men as called up for service, I assert that here again finance reigns supreme. It remains with the women whether they or the Oriental predominate. If women nre prepared to work cheaper thnn men, then the replacement of men by women will become populnr with those always out for the dollar; but the Oriental is looming up in the rear, and it behooves white women to consider, in Western Cnnada in particular, the probability of competition between themselves and the Oriental on introduction of conscription, for militnry law and'its penalties will be just as much a menace to the women who offend profit as it will .to tbe men. The Vancouver press reports the activity of one lady who considers it necessary to) organize women on a military basis and enroll them under strict discipline, their services' to be at the disposal of the government to be used for replacement of men in occupations thought best fit for them. This nlso is open for strict criticism, for it implies the possibility under conscription of working men's wives, unable to exist on conscript pay, being compelled, under military discipline, to work under conditions entirely objectionable to them, and their children being entrusted to relations or referred to the city creche;, while others, perhaps officers ' wives, could be given the lighter occupations and draw inclusively, government, as well as civilian, pny. Should their poor sisters object,. I imagine they stand in tho same position as the taen under military- law. So we must hope that the wives of working men of organized labor will also wake up and stand firm nlong with their husbands, for "no German militarism at home." After all, who is surprised in the event of a coalition government on this question of conscription? Certainly much mud-slinging by opposite political factions should give the game away and enlighten the public to the whole scheme and thus lay the foundation for a peace movement ao strong that the people will not be denied. Yours for freedom at home. R. EDMONDS. "In English statutes of the sixteenth century tho punishment set- down for tho crime of murdering by poison wns boiling alive, and a girl was actually executed in tbat ghastly fashion. In 1538 Father Stono of Canterbury Buffered the same death. A curious account is in existence which gives the nmount paid 'for two men who sot the kettlo and parboiled him,' and 'to tho women that scoured the kettle.' The sentence wns not always enrried out with so much ferooity, for culprits were sometimes hnnged before being boiled. In ono case it is recorded that a mnn wns first hnnged, then boiled und then quartered. '' LOOAl TBADBS UNION DIBBCTOBT AllUd Printing Tndei Council—B. H. Nm- laads. Box AS. Barben—S. H. Grant, 1801 Seventh avenne weit. Bartenden—W. H. Smith, Box 414. BUclumitht—Milcolm Porter, Viow Hill, B. a Bookblndvn—W. H. CowSeror, 1885 Thirty- fourth ftvefiue eut. Bollermtken—A. Trust, 1151 Howe stnet. Boot and Shoe Worken —Tou Cory, ISS Templeton drive. * Brewery Workers—A. E, Aehoroft, Suite 1, 1738 Foarth Ave. Weit. Brlcklayen—William 8. Def nail. Labor Temple. Brotherhood of Carpenten Dlitrlet Connell —G. H. Page, Room 208, Labor Temple. Brotherhood of Locomotive Englneera—-L. T. Solloway, 1157 Harwoofl ainet. Seymonr 1848R Brotherhood of Looomotlva Firemen and Enginemen—H. G, Savage, 1335 Hornby St. Brotherhood of Railway Carmen- Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way Employeea—E. Corado, 386 Clark drive. Building Tndes Connell—Victor B. Hldgley, Room 310. Labor Temple. Clgarmaken—R. Cnig, can Van Loo Cigar Factory, Georgia atreet. City FIremen'a Union—8yd, Jackson, Ho. S Fin Hall, Seymonr atnet. Civic Employees—G. Harrison, 1438 Kitchener atnet; Cooks, Walten, Waitreiiei—Andy Graham, Room 804, Labor Temple. Deep Sea Fishermen's Union—D. B. GUI, 437 Gore avenne. Electrical Workers—E. H. Morrison, Room 307, Labor Temple. Englneera—(Steam and Operating)—W. A. Alexander, Labor Temple. Granite Gotten—Edward Hurry, Colombia Hotel. Garment Workers—Mn. Jardlne, Labor Temple. Hod Carrlen and Building Labonn—Labor Temple Lathers—Thos. Anderaon, 431 Seventh avenue east. Letter Carrlen—Robt. Wight, 17T— 17th avenne weat. Longshoremen—F. Chapman, 10 Powell St. Longshoremen's Auxiliary, No. 38*52—E. Winch, 1218 Howe stnet. Machinists—J. Brooks, Room 311, Labor Temple. Musicians—E. J. Jamleson, Room 805, Labor Temple. Molden—G. F. Nichols, 131 Sixth avenue west. Moving Picture Open-tors—A. O. Hansen, P. O. Box 845. Order of Railroad Condneton—G, Hatch, T01 Beatty atnet. Painters—D. Lemon, Room 303, Labor Temple. Pliimben—J. Hays, Room 208%, Labor Tomple, Phone Seymour 8611, Pile Driven and Wooden Bridgemen—W. Ironsides, P. 0. Box 320. Pressmen—K. Waterman, 1167 Georgia St. Plasterers—Geo. Rush. 3276 Fourteen Ave. weet. Bayvlew 2216L. Pattern Makers—Vanconver—E. Westmoreland, 8247 Point Grey road. Retail Clerks' Association—A. P. Glen, 123 llth Ave. West. Seamen's Union—W.'S. Burns, P. O. Box 1865. Structural Iron Worken—Roy Massecar, Room 208, Labor Temple. fltonectitters— Sheet Metal Worken—J. W. Alexander, 3120 Ponder etreet east. Shipyard Laborers' Union—yW. Hardy, 445 28rd Stroot West. North Vancouver, B.C. Steam Shovel and Dredgemen—Chaa. Feree, 95 Powell atreet. Street Railway Employees—A. V. Lofting, 2fi61 Trinity street. Rtorentypen—W. Bayley, can Province. Telegraphers—E. B. Peppln, Box 842. Tailors—H. Nordland, Box 508. Theatrical Stage Employees—Geo. W. Allln, Box 711. Tllelayers and Helpen—A. Jamleson, 640 Twenty-third avenue east. Trades and Labor Council—Victor R. Mldgley, Room 210, Labor Temple, Typographical—H. Neelands, Box 66. Announcement . THE , Orpheum CAFE has enlarged its dining room capacity to 135. We are now operating the Castle .Hotel dining room in conjunction with the Orpheum Cafe, known as Vancouver'! specialty cafe. Union cooks of the first-class j day and night. UNION HOUSE 763 OranviUe Stnet A clever man said that when people apeak of "habits" they refer to bad habits only. Aa a matter of fact habits are both food and bad. Personal progress ta largely a matter of good hablti. Reading "The Public" la a habit which thousands of alert minds practice. Why not cultivate this Invigorating habit yourself? 1 RefereacMt Lincoln Steffens, Brand Whltlock, Judge Ben B. Lindsay, Ray Stannard Baker* and you—after you have tried lt In t rodactory Offer i Three booklets on the Slngletax and 10 Issues.of "The Public" only 16c. Tke Pablle ltt -US* Sftfc Street If. T. City COLU M BIA Oome end am. t food time, perhapi Uke hoa. • ilda ol baooa. Hutted Stmt, UU Abba* stmopsm or ooai. Monro uioula now. COAL mlnle, rl,UU of the Dominion, lo Hultoba, Bukatchowaa ud Albert* the Yukon Territory, tho North-Welt Terrltorlel •nd In • portion of tho Proline, of Britlah Colombia, mnj bo laued for • tem et twentT*one rent, renewal for • farther tem of 21 yun at an annual natal of 11.an aon. Not moro thu 2,5,0 aereo will ba leaae* to one applicant. a . Application for a leaae matt ba matt'try the applicant in penon. to tha Agent orJhb* Agent of tho dlelrlet la whloh Ua righto applied for an illuited. : ' * In mmyei territory tha landmail be den* •erlbed by eeetlone, or legil lob-dMlloai of eeotlone, anl In uniurwyod territory Ue tnet applied for ihall be etaked oat br tha applicant hlmielf. . . . Kaeh application mnit bo accompanied by a fee of f6 which will b. refunded If th. rlghu applied for an not Mailable, bat not otberwle." A royalty ihaU be !■«<»,«£ merchantable ontpnt of the mine at tho nte of (We cenU per ton. . . The pereon operatln, tho mine lhall to- nleh tbo Agent with ewory ntane aoooantln. for the full quljtlty of merchantable eolJ mined and par the royalty »"••»•■"__ «,.' mining rlghuex. not beto og_*! inch returni ihoold be furauhed at teaa^ "Tho'ESi will Include the eoal mlnln. righti only, molnded by Chap. 27 of al George V. Minted to 12th June, IM*. ter full Information an plicn<l°»■J"'* *! m.do to the Secretary of tho •"•P"
tho very thing, I'll paint thc old shack red.
A. GONNASON, President B. GONNASON, Vice-President F. N CKELLS, Secretary-Treasurer LEMON, GONNASON CO., 1TD. ESTABLISHED 1890 P.O. Box 363 Telephone 77 MANUFACTURERS OF Fir, Spruce and Cedar LUMBER OVERSEA SHIPMENTS OF DOORS, SASH AND BOX SHOOKS A complete line of Sash, Doors and Millwork Boxes for every purpose nailed or in Shooks OFFICE AND MILLS: 2324 Government St Victoria, B.C. Our Boss Is a Crank And he docs not cure a little bit who knows it, for he is a crunk on cleanliness. Everything around/our Clothes Cleaning establishment must be clean and kept clean or the bosa is right on our several necks, THAT'S THE REASON why tbo clothes that are delivered from our laundry are so nict and clean, becauso they have been washed and ironed and parched in a perfectly clean institution, where there is lotspf light and sunshine nnd no place for dirt, excepting the gutter. Our help is white. Our methods are/white. We wash our clothes white, Wo treat our customer! white. Phone, writo or call and make us prove it. / New Method Laundry 1015-17 North Park St. Phono 8300 Ll. McLEAN, Manager Down-town Branch, 1115 Douglas St. VIOTOBIA, B. O. FOR THE LAND'S SAKE AND TOUB OWN SAKE Use Our Chemical Fertilizers Victoria Chemical Co., Ltd. VIOTOBIA, B. 0. WBITE FOB OUB CATALOGUE ^mmmmwmmmwm^***'kW_mr9. PBIDAY August 31, 1917 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST PAGE FIFTEEN Some Strikes of the Long Ago A Chapter from "The Ancient Lowly" [By C. OSBORNE WARD] The tendency, on the part of thefki working classes in Semitic Egypt, to strike and protest against the severity of masters was by no means confined to the Hebrews, who had been reduced from peaceful agricultural pursuits, to slavery. There is an inscription, not long ago made known by Maspero, showing another important strike or workmen who were engaged on the pyramids in thoso days of thankless drudgery. The Egyptologists relates that more than 3000 years ago a great and winning strike of tho masons working on public works, occurred. It appears that in Egypt, under the pharaonic dynnBty, the skilled artisans were organized nnd that, like the Romans with their collegium and the Greeks with their ernnos, they were omployed upon the public works. These were slavos and prove the truth of their inscriptions assuring ub that slavos were organized. But even admitting that this coveted government employment wns better than that to be ob:.ined ousido, which, so far ns we havo investigated this subject, is always the case, still nothing but a scanty pittance was given, and tho men hnd grievances amounting to starvation, as ib shown in this inscription. M. Maspero, who, with his colleagues was engaged in digging up and deciphering the picture writing and hieroglyphics scrawled on the masonry of tem* pies, pyramids and sphinxes, found an account of a pure atrike of the masons. Condensed and rendered into English, it gives the following curiouB information: "On the tenth of the month, builders at work on the temple, rushed out, and sat down behind the chapel, exclaiming: 'Wo nre hungry; and there are yet eighteen days before tne next pay-day.' They would not work until the king ngreed to hear their complaints. Two days later Pharaoh went to the temple nnd ordered relief given to the masons; but on tho sixteenth day they struck again. On the seventeenth and eighteenth dnys they also refused to work. On the nineteenth day they broke loose and raised a mob at the governor's palace and finally got their demands." The Athenian state slaves are also nown to have received monthly pay in the same manner. This is an account of a pure strike which occurred soon after the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. Every evidence points to the probability that these masons, hod carriers, mortar mixers and laborers possessed at that early age, B. C..1100, a powerful organization; and as men investigate the shadowy subject of free masonry and twee this trade back to the temple-building enterprises of King Solomon, unearthing itB inventions of Uie loBt art of brick-making at Nineveh, and probing the antiquity of the pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt, tney strike at the fountain head of a vast Hierarchy of thc masonic art stretching back behind the dawn of recorded history, where free-rnasonry must have had its birth and its abiding place. Innumerable inscriptions collected from every corner of too ancient world, Syria;' Mesopotamia, Greece, Sicily and Etruria ure being gathered into the museums. They bring proof that of all the ancient trades, this of the masons enjoyed primitively tho highest organization, independence nnd enlightened power. Amasia, according to Herodotus, required that workmon should be able to give an account of how they got their living on pain of death, and they had to be organized to do it. Thus it is impossible to imagine that the masons engaged at starvation wages upon the temple where this strike occurred, were not among the organized groups. The Egyptian hioroglyphicB are furnishing other strike records. There was a practice among the Semitic as woll as the iryan people, of engraving upon stones some record of important events. This habit, which is now known to havo been compulsory in many states, was especially prevalent among the ancient labor unions; and through it we now derive most of the valuable informntion for their history. One such stone has been recently found in Syria, likewise a Semitic province. It shows a strike of the bnkers of Magnesia, on the river Meander; and because the brief description which records it, does not explain the story of the grievance, it is used by writers adversely, as if to prove that the labor THB GORGE" PARK AT VICTORIA Entrance Victoria Harbor element In those times wns lawless and dangerous. But let us relate this intersting story. The account, so far as we have it in monumental testimony, shows that at a far off date, nobody knows when, but evidently before our era began, the bakers in the old cities, Magnesia and Paros, who were organized under the law of Solon, on account of some grievance not defined, struck work and refused to bake and bring to the regular market thc usual supply of breud. The authorities of the city, in all probability the city council, which resembled a board of aldermen, being notified of the disturbance, convoked an extra session, and the agoranomos or clerk of the public works, as was later the case nt Ephesus, when Demetrius rebelled against tho preaching of Paul, delivered a speech to the people protesting againBt the strike; and the wholo thing resulted in the ringleaders of the strikers being arrested, their trade organization boing temporarily if not permanently suppressed, and the bakers compelled by force to furnish bread in future for the regular supply. This was no broad riot, but a Btrike, such as frequently occur among the trade unions now. We give the inscription in a footnote, and the paraphrase of its meaning tony bo interesting. It is the excellent ono roughed out by Dr. Waltzing: "Authors do' not speak of these strikes, but epigraphy furniBhes n curious example. At Magnesia, on the river Meander, the bakers mutually agreed to cease to supply the market, and trouble broke out in consequence At what date it occurred is unknown. The Roman governor, whose name is lost, intervened and Ms edict, ratified at a session of tlie senate of Magnesia, has been partly preserved. Consulting only the interests of the city, the gov ernor did not wish to treat the strikers with rigid severity, as he might have done. He hopes that his edict will suffice to render them wiser in the future. He forbids the bakers to form any more trnde unions and orders them to regularly f jrnish the necessary bread. Any baker who shall associate hitaself with meetings, or who shall again excite sedition leading to trouble, or who shall secrete himself, or any one who shall furnish another with a hiding- place will be severely punished." The muking of music is, in the sensible construction of language, a profession and a trade. Under the Solonic, ns well as the Numan law of labor organization, music was considered a trade, just as much as the braziers or potters; and if the story of another strike details the facts, their skill was employed by the government. Another point discernible is that a remarkable amount of manhood and an amazing independence is exhibited; for theso bold musicians dared face the political authorities, a thing seldom seen among government employees at the present time. During one of the Samanite wars, in the year B. C. 309, and at the moment when the Romans wanted more money than they coutd collect, the censors is- sued a refusal to permit the collegium of musicians, or musicians' union, to play at the feast of Jupiter at the expense of the city. It had been their annual custom to play at the shrine, ond as they had always been lavishly rewarded, they took it for an unwarrantable deprivation. Besides thiB, being voting unions, they belonged to a powerful political body of mnny trades, who elected into power the commissioners of public works. These in turn, appointed them to jobs under government employ. Braced by the justice of their right, they called upon thei,r quiu- quennalis, or lord-master of the unions, who convoked their advisory board. On deliberation it was voted to resist the penurious demand and strike work, let the consequences be what they would. At the head of their military column, their red vexilum proudly waving at the front, they set up a march with the well-known flaming red banner to a distant town across the Tiber. They were aware that the superstitious Boman ar* istocraey would not dare to offend Jupiter, their great protecting divinity to whose honor, not that of their own goddess, Minerva, were to be devoted these celebrations of music and praise. They judged correctly. But being straight- foward and ingenuous, they knew only the honorable and manly way to win. They were not adepts In the tricks of politicians, and aB a consequence, got outwitted just as they were outwitted on a vaster scale by similar cunning, described in our chapter on the Boman eonquests. The methods of this trick, as told by the historian were as follows: The senate of Rome sent a commission to the neighboring town of Tibur, now Tivoli, whither the strikers had marched in a body, to ask of the political council of the place, itB co-operation and intercession, with a view to induce the musicians to come out of their sulka, return to the feaBt and give Jupiter the music for nothing. The reception was friendly. Negotiations were immediately opened with the strikers; bat in vain. The workers were uncompromising, AU solicitations were refused. It was now the very day before that set for the feasts. Fear' that the gods would envelop them with wrath began to make the Romans tremble. A strategem was agreed upon. The musicians were to be asked to give a concert. At that pompous display they were to be inveigled into accepting po tations which they seldom refused. Stuffed with wine, and when they were all unconscious with inebriation, they were to be taken bodily in cushioned chariots back to the eternal city and landed safely at the Boman forum; where all was in readiness for the sacrifices of the morrow. In the early dawn the sacrifices would begin. It was cauae of; great sport for thousands. The multitude Ib a greater moral power to the workingman on strike than the councils of tbe great. And when they awoke from their stupor and found themselves suffused with a friendly hurrah of nearly all the population of Bome gushing with flatteries around them, then they imbibed the full force APOLOGY FOR THE PIG 3 [Bobert Southey] Jacob! I do not like to see thy note turned up in scornful curve at yonder pig. It would be well, my friend, if we, like him, were perfect in aar kind. And why despise the sow-bora grunt- erf "He is obstinate," thou wiswer- est; "ugly; and the -filthiest beast that banquets upon offal."" Now, I pray thee, hear the pig'a counsel. Is he obstinate! We muat not, Jacob, be deceived by words, by sophist sounds. A democratic beast— he knows that his unmerciful driven seek their profit and not his. He hath not learned that pigs were made for man, born to be brawned and bacon- ized. As for hia ugliness—nay, Jacob, look at him; those eyes have taught the lover flattery. Behold his tail, my friend; with curls like that, the wanton hop marries her stately spouse. And what is beauty but the aptitude of parts harmonious! Give thy fancy scope, and thoj wilt find that no imagined change can beautify the beaat. All would but mar his pig perfection. The lagt change,—ho lives a dirty life. Here I could sholter him with precedents right reverend and noble; and show, by sanction of authority, that 'tis a very honorable thing to thrive by dirty ways. But let me reat, on better ground, the unanswerable defence. The pig is a philosopher, who knows no prejudice. Dirtt Jacob, what is dirtt If matter, why, the delicate dish that tempts the o'ergorred epicure is nothing more. And—there, that breeze pleads with me and hu won thee to the smile that speaks conviction. O'er yon blossomed field of beans it came—and thoughts of bacon rise I of the joke by which they had been outwitted. They consented to play, but not until a stipulation was agreed to permitting them, annually' in the future, to hold a jubilation, the 13th day of June, and march with their red flag and carnival uniforms through the streets, clothed with an accredited permission to solicit contributions for their benefit. This surprising concession to them by the senate was fully equivalent to a complete success. Their strike had been won; for such a privilege accordod them in legal form was to go into practice the very next year, and remain available forever bringing them annual tribute, comfort and respect. K corner ln the Provincial Museum tt Victoria &f>e Foundation ompany of British Columbia Limited Ull Victoria, B.C. HI PAGE SIXTEEN THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST PBIDAY... ..August 31, It 'S CAPITAL CITY War Has Brought Return of Bustling Activity of Former Days Industry Hives Keep Army of Wealth Producers Busily Employed 1 [By C. L. Armstrong, Publicity Commissioner] Not since that fateful autumn, when war suddenly cnught the British Empire in its grip, has Victoria, the Capital City, been ns prosperous us it is at the present time. True, it is a comparative prosperity, not of the bustling wide-open type characteristic of the days of 1012 and 1013, for Victoria has felt the effects of war, more particularly in the absence of hundreds on hundreds of her finest men; for Victorin has sent, of her own blood, well over five thousand to the fields of France and Flnnderr and numbered in their ranks are many.score of Labor's best. Straws indicate the direction of the breeze, and strawp are not wanting to •how that the tendency in Victoria is upward. Evidence is available to show that " rock-bottom" has been touched, and that the elevator of fortune is once more in the ascendency. Those who, by reason of years and experience, should be fitted to prognosticate, say that when prosperity returns in full measure it will be a more solid, more real, a more tangible prosperity than that which has been experienced at any previous period. Discussion of the subject: "After the War, What?" is popular on almost any street corner these days. Bootless and impertinent it is, perhaps, when the prime matter is the successful consummation of the war; but it does establish one fact—that there iB a wide diversity of opinion as to what condition mny be expected when the strife is ended and we are face to face with post- bellum problems. No doubt our present prosperity, or comparative prosperity, is due in no small degree to the needs of war. In centres where industry is more heavily concentrated, factories are humming on materials of war; outputs hnve been increased marvellously; staffb have been swelled in numbers. In a lesser degree such is the situation in Victoria. When peace is signed, and the sun again breaks through the war clouds, there will come the first brief period of reaction and rejoicing—and then, demobilization, bot alone of the gigantic armed forces and their supporting thousands, but demobilization of- war factories. "1 -k£®&__ fi! A'.i.W.i ■■mnssmr -AsZ y*& ZJ__$__t« PANORAMIC VIEW OF VIOTOBIA WATEEPEONT The transition from a peuce bnsis to a war basis waB gradual; thc change from a war basin to a peace basis will be sudden. Whatever the effect proves to be, VictoriaMvil lbe reudy to meet it. At present conditions nro mending, certainly. The shipyards are as hives of industry and are employing mnny. As the Foundation company draws nearer to the completion of its yards on the old Songhees reserve more jobs will be open. The repair shops are also buzzing with work and every munition plant, large and small, is going t'.ill blast. The steadying effect of the increased payroll is evidenced in the fact that real estate firms report that much larger payments on houses are being hiade now than formerly, nnd with excellent regularity too. The demand for houseB is insistent, and so well maintained thnt desirable houses are becoming hard to find. One firm alone last week let flf teen houses. That property is beginning to move a little is shown by tho fnct that aB this was written a deal was practically completed whereby a prairie syndicate was purchasing a large Victoria business block et a good figure. Victoria is sound and ready for whatever is to come. No matter what the immediate result of peace may be, it is sure to bring the Capital City eventual prosperity beyond anything that has gone before. ALL HOLLOW I stood beneath a hollow tree, the blast it hollow blew; I thought upon the hollow world, and , all its hollow crew; Ambition and its hollow schemes, the hollow hopes we follow; Imagination's hollow dreams, all hollow, hollow, hollow! A crown it is a hollow thing and hollow heads oft wear it, Tbe hollow title of a king, what hollow hearts oft bear it! No hollow wiles, nor honey 'd smiles, of ladies fair I follow; For beauty sweet still hides deceit; His hollow, hollow, hollow! The hollow leader but betrays the hollow dupes who heed him; The hollow critic vends his praise to hollow fools who feed him; The hollow friend who takes your hand, is but a summer swallow; Whate'er I see is like this tree,—all hollow, hollow, hollow! —Anonymous. BRITISH COLUMBIA SCHOOLS IN 1872, British Columbia adopted a * free Bchool aet. It is modelled after ft similar act passed in Ontario us early as 1846. The uct of this province, however, has been subsequently changed and amended before being put into satisfactory shape. Aa at present developed it is an adaptation of the best features of tho systems of the other provinces, which are all more or less homogeneous. ^ Tho Hudson's Bay company established free public schools on Vancouver Island in 1855. Ten years Inter a free school system was established by the Vancouver Island government, and .$10,000 set apart us a school fund for that year, t When the union of the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver island was effected in 1808, the free school system firBt referred to ended, nnd school matters throughout the province generally continued in a most unsatisfactory manner until 1872. The educational system of British Columbia is now among the best in the world, and is entirely non-sectarian. Attendance and Maintenance. According to the lust available report of the superintendent of education, the total enrolment (1015-16) in all the colleges and schools in this province was 64,570. The number of boys was 32,874 and girls 31,606. The grand total actual daily attendance made by all thc pupils enrolled was 10,010,105. The average actual daily attendance was 50,870. The percentage of regular attendance was 78.78. The total number of teachers employed was 2064. Of this number, 162 were employed in the high schools, 845 in the city graded schools, 490 in the rural municipality schools, nnd 558 in the rural and assisted schools. The expenditure for education proper by the government during the year 1915-16 wfts $1,452,999.90; construction Bchools, furniture, repairs, etc., $138/ 322.43—making a total of $1,691,322.43. In addition to thiB ntaount, incorporated cities, rural municipality nnd other school districts spent $1,625,- 027.53. Grand total cost of education: B. C. government, $1,591,322.43; municipal councils, $1,625,027.53—total, $3,216,- 349.96. Cost of Free Text Books. At prevailing retail prices bookB nnd supplies issued to the pupils of 835 com mon and other schools would have coBt $73,418.37. However, tu purchase and distribute these amounted: Books,, laid-, down eost, $45,740.8.1; distribution, $7,- 717.23. Profit on year's trnnction, $10,000.26. Physical Training for Teachers. Since .1910 (year when B. C. accepted conditions of Stratheona trust funds), nbout 2158 teachers nnd prospective teachers have qualified as ( physical- training instrjetors. Last year (1915-10) 457 physical- training certificates were granted to prosptctive teachers in attendance at the normal schools at Vancouver and Victoria. Physical training of teachers is now compulsory in the public schools. Military Drill, 1916-16. Forty-nine cadet corps belonging to public schools were ligime to compete for prizes for military drill. Total number of cadets who competed was 2250. Prizes awarded amounted to $287.22. Hereafter funds annually available will be divided into about twenty prizcB— minimum prize, $10. SAFETY EVEN IN WAB We demand that the guarantees of human conservation be recognized, and the standard of living be maintained. TV this end we demand that gambling in the nccessnries of life be made a felony, and that the federnl government control the food supply of the nntion, and establish prices for producer nnd consumer. We are unalterably opposed to permitting stockholders of private corporations to pocket these enormous profits^ while nt the -aame time a species of ceorcion is encouraged toward already poorly-paid employees of both sexes, in urging them to purchase government bonds to help finance the wnr. Patriotism demands service from all according to their capacity. To conscript men and exempt blood-stained wealth coined from the sufferings of humanity is repugnant to the spirit of America and contrary to the ideals of democracy. We declare freedom of speech to be the bulwark of human liberty, and we decry all nttempts to muzzle the public press or individuals, upon any pretext whatsoever. A declaration of wnr doeB not repeal the constitution of the United States, and the unwarranted interference of military and other authorities with the rights of individuals must cease."—From Resolution of the North-Western Farmers' Association, IMMORTALITY OF A DOLLAR [By Scott Nearing] The world 1ms searched in vain for a spring of perpetual youth. Men and women seem destined to grow old and die. Not even Metchinoff, with nil of the resources of the Pasteur institute at his command, could stay young or stay alive. Man must die. His property lives on, if the modern system of finance hns its way—forever. Financiers believe that they have discovered the river of perpetual financial life. It's modern name is "securities." Once put a dollar in this form, and its vitality is so increased that it lives, almost if not qaite, forever. Modern business practice has wielded an immense influence in the direction of property permanence. A thousand dollars, once invested, is virtually immortal, unleBs it is stolen, or disposed of in some extra-legal way. Depreciation, amortization, insurance and special surplus-fund charges throw around income-enrning property, a large guarantee of safety. Any failure in the perpetuity of the property values is due to the carelessness, stupidity or dishonesty of some servant of the property interests. For centuries, the thought and effort of the business world have been directed toward the increasing permanence of property rights. The efforts of the propertied interests hnve been exerted to good purpose. The public mind, the laws and constitutions, the forms of judicial practice—in short, nil of the social forces that were of advantage huve been bent to the gunrnnt.ee of property income permanence. Granted the continuance of the present system of property, tho student trembles to think of the task in store for the toiler of the future. Ench year, besides producing wealth in sufficient quantities to provide for himself and hia family, he mjst devote a large portion of his energies to the provision of income for the owners of a vast and ever-growing body of inimoitnlized property rights and interests. Today the property values of the United States are only two hundred nnd fifty billion dollars ($250,000,000,000) but they are increasing at the rate of more than ten billions each year. Stacked up, mountain high, these immortalized stores of exploiting power provide their owners with an ever-in creasing possibility of living without working, ^upon the work of someone else. Today the dollar is immortal—but tomorrow! Who shall sayf Th social revolution is bound to come. It will come either in full panoply of law and surrounded with all the blessings of penco, provided the people nave the wisdom to take it by the hand ai introduce it betimes, or it may bret in upon us unexpectedly, amidst all tl convulsions of violence, with wild, di hovelled locks and shod with iron sa: dais. Come it muBt, in one way or tl other. When I withdraw myself fro the turmoil of the day and dive Ini history, I hear distinctly its approac! ing tread.—Lasalle. Telephone 172 "Always the Best" 947 North Park Street VICTORIA, B.C. VICTORIA PRINTING & PUBLISHING CO, Printing and Manufacturing Stationers PHIL. R. SMITH, Manager 521 YATES STREET VICTORIA, B.C. Ladysmith Smelting Corporation, Ltd. t '§: .... ■ -■ ■ Works: On Tidewater Vancouver Island D Offices: 504-507 Belmont Bldg. Victoria, B.CI ',-, -*v ^.,^>_^^'---^'X^C^ SLAG DUMP IN FOREGROUND Buyers and Smelters of Copper, Gold and Silver Ores OFFICIAL PAPEE VANCOUVEB TBADES AND LABOB OOUHOIL THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST OITIOIAL FAPBB 1IIRM COLUMBIA FEDEBATIOH OT LABOB NINTH YEAR. No. 35 (Labor Day Edition) VANCOUVER, B. C., FRIDAY MORNING', AUGUST 31, 1917 fUnST) $1.50 PER YEAR HIGH WAGES Should .enable you to save, and your savings judiciously invested and added, to puts you on the road to independence- money makes money—interest works while yod sleep, and soon doubles your capital. We offer you the means of investing your savingB by monthly instalments if you cannot buy outright, in the safest of all securities— * , Government Bonds yielding up to 1% interest, double what saving banks pay, and just as easy to withdraw. Write or call and get particulars of bonds, 100 and upwards, with half-yearly interest coupons attached, costing about 96 net. Waghorn, Gwynn & Co. Limited 300 FENDER STREET WEST VANOOUVER, B. 0. -USE- OGILVIE'S Royal Household Flour LARGEST MILLERS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE DAILY CAPACITY 19,000 BARRELS CANADA'S BEST FLOUR For Sale By All Grocers DEMAND AND SEE THAT YOU GET Vancouver Creamery BUTTER FRESH FROM THE CHURN DAILY COMPLIMENTS OF Canada Lumber and Timber Co. Limited At* T. F. PATERSON, President VANCOUVER, B. C. Telephone Seymour 1768 SIMONDS Canada Saw Co. Limited 554 BEATTY STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Vancouver Night Schools If a sufficient number ef students are available, tie Vancouvor School Board wUl conduct tbelr Night School classes from October 2nd, 1917, to K^lst, 19?8, ln tto following subjects: Arithmetic English composition, spelling and handwriting; French; comSerSal siibjects; electrical engineering, mathematics, mechanics, ad- ™JS mechanical and steam engineering and advanved machine con- Xtton SHesIgn, naval architecture, dressmaking, millinery, cooking, drawing and painting and music. Por Darticulars regarding enrollment, fees, etc., apply to the under- .i^a Mnnlclnal Inspector of Schools, comer Hamilton and Dunsmuir SttM«,™W school dW *«tween 4 and 6 p.m., or en Saturdays between 9 A.m. and 12 m. Vancouver. B. 0., August 24th, 1917 J. S. GORDON, Supt, ' Enrollment takes place at the School Board Offices on Sept. 28th, 29th and Oct. 1st, between 7:30 and 9:30 p:m. VANCOUVER SCHOOLS "Hundreds of citizens of other see* tions of tho dominion have Vancouver as their objective point for their future, more particularly those on the prairies, and the. very flrst qjestion tlicy look into is th* educational system," said J. B. Seymour, retiring chairman of the school board. And this is so. If the system is modern and up-to-date, all is well; but if intending residents flnd it behind the advancements made in other cities, they ure going to give Vancouver and the province a wide berth, ns today there is more critical attention being paid to the question of education thnn ever before by people whose children muat be educated in the most advanced cur- -riculum tn flt them for the great struggle that lieB in the lap of the future. Thus it is very necessary that thoae pot in authority should guard very jealously against any policy that will in the slightest degree lower the present high standard of the schools of this city, and Money Well Spent The very Btringent economy enforce* by the city fathers and school trustees tbe past, for wherever theae outdoor sports are carried on a healthier condition exists, among the growing, developing children. Scholars and Teachers. Last year the school trustees kept well within their estimates of $600,000, and all liabilities were paid. The enrolment of pupils for 1916 was 807 in excess of that at tne close of 1915, while the number of teachers in the grade and high schools was fewer by 15. Pupils Number About 16,000. The high schools arc more nearly filled to tho full capacity and increased accommodation will be needed in the very near future. There are now about 1800 students. The city ia now welt provided with equipment for carrying on ,the work of domestic science and mununl training, and as a result these special lines are very popular with the pupils. Last year u class' for the instruction of blind children wob 'opened at 1238 Melville street, under the direction of Mrs, Thos. Burke, an experienced teacher in that department oi work. Some ten blind pupils are enrolled. The government pays $20 a month for each scholar for board and lodging and $460 staff, two physicians, one dentist and four nurses. Estimated value of grounds, 42,539,- 000; buildings, $2,563,500; furniture, $176,426.89—making a total of $5,278,- 926.89. Property leased by the board in 1915, 18.43 acres, HaBtings townsite, $20,000. School Board. Trustees: Mrs. I. H. Moody, (chairwoman); G, Boy Long, T. Mathews, Dr. W. H. Lang, Fred. W. Welsh, H. O. N. McKim, J. B. Seymour, Officials—J. S. Gordon, B. A,, inspector; secretory and accountant, Gerald Upton. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING In Bome countries industrial schools are built up on separate bases, the conception being that they must be housed separately and work out their own conditions, vide report of the royal commission on education in 1013. Tht following conclusions, which are somewhat startling, have been reached. Under the present plan of procedure the idea is that a boy of 14 should give 60, 70 or 80 per cent, of bis time not during the past three years haB prevented any advancement being made in the way of property improvements. However, as soon as civic finances will permit it is the intention of the school board to return to thnt active progressive spirit displayed by former boardB not to say excessively extravagant— but judiciously carried on. "Every dollar carefully expended on the education of children will be like casting bread upon the water, for after many days it will return and pay you fourfold." The best advertisement for any city is good, sound, modem educational system, thorough in all its parts and built and sustained upon the broadest and moat up-to-date principles possible." The ever-increusing attendance for both common and high schoola now numbers about 15,000. The whole property is valued at over five million and a quurter dollara, covering 33 main school buildings, besides 30 other separate class-rooms. Few cities have any better school buildings. Cadet Corps. Considerable interest is taken in the cadet corps and the board intends to appropriate money for uniforms nnd rifles for the boys. Laat year the provincial government spent on auppliea for the use of school boya $22,506.70, of whieh rifles represent $18,000, and in addition provided ammunition coating $3582, aud other equipment of considerable value. School Grounds. There is un ever-preasing need for greater and better school ground playing equipment required for every achool district in the city. It ia noticeable thut. when aome of theae utensils have been supplied, the children have exhibited u marked inclination for outdoor sports, and exercises. At the same time they are more strongly developed, both mentally and physically, happier in their disposition, and more amenable to school discipline than where those outfits have not been installed. The moro populur school grounds arc made for pluy, the less likelihood there ia for children roaming the streets—courting danger to life and limb. It is the aim of tho school board to encourage uth- letic sports of all descriptions for boys and girls in the future more than in a year towards the teacher's salary, the Victoria and Vancouver boards paying the balance, amounting to $130 each. The children are reported to be making excellent progress. High School Technical Courses. The high achool technical course of study put before the students of King Edward high school calls for additional attention to be given to manual training, mathematics and science, while the English work remains the same as that appointed for the general course, and the work is done not only in the classroom, but also in the laboratories and tbe wood and metal workshops. The object iB to give the student the advantages of the ordinary high school course and at the same time enable him to acquire technical mental training and knowledge, both theoretical and practical, and it is intended thnt the course ahull extend over three years at least. While there is no attempt to teach the principles of any particular trade or calling, the course is designed to give a training in the mechanicul, mathematical and scientific principles and laws which underlie all lines of practical work. This Ib a new course, and over GO boya are taking it, and are entering moBt enthusiastically into the work. Night School Classes. Splendid work hus been done in the night schools. Last season 30 classes were opened in the Aberdeen public school, King Edward high school and the achool board office building. Thc subjects taken up were music, both choral uud orchestral; drawing, painting; shorthand, bookkeeping, typewriting; electrical engineering, ignition, etc.; navigation, mechanical engineering, mathematics, machine construction und drawing; dressmaking, cooking; arithmetic, English, English for foreigners, nnd French. There were over 1100 students enrolled. Some School 'Statistics. There ure 30 common and three high schools. The former huve 318 divisions and the latter SO, the staff comprising 350 teachers, 85 mules aud 265 femnlea. Domestic science is taught by thirteen teachers and manual training by 17. There are seven supervisors' and three attendance officers. Bchool medical _^L^_J_ F:>' i'sWtl \\ m-^>'x tix 1 m___\ ■ 1 h M_m ■ .-"^flnH §_x\ ■■■•■ '_aU_ ""liSt.. --* . i V ■ First Class for the Blind Pupils In British Columbia. to studies in books at all, but to doing in some broad lines the work he is fitting himself to do. If it Ib a machine shop industry, he must give a large part of his time to machine-shop work, always seeing that the task before him is adapted to him, and thut when he hns a moderate degree of power in it he goes to something more complex. Thnt idea finds its source in the apprenticeship system itself, because thut was essentially what it was. If a boy wants to learn printing (an education in itself) or even farming, he is expected to devote himself largely in his earlier years to practical work. Then as soon as the boy gets his feet firmly founded on the realities of the firactical work, he is expected to be ed by Mb instructors out into what may be called the intellectual interpretation of the work; to penetrate a little into scienct, and* what science means for that work; into mathematics, and what mathematics means; into are und what art meana for that work. Thia reverses the traditional education programme, which assumes thut the flrst thing, for a boy is to leurn drawing or geometry and then go to his machine-shop work. Now the boy does his shop work, and then comes to algebra, mathematics, hygiene, or thc hundred aud one subjects that cnn be coupled up with this. In that way Dr. David Snedden holds thnt the type of worker they ure after can bc mnde,— namely, the person who has skill, but on the top of the skill has industrial intelligence, breadth, adaptability, flexibility. Professional educators will realize thnt this is a stupendous programme; that there is hardly a teacher in the country prepared to carry it out; thut there are no text booka or manuula to help prepare that kind of programme, it is ro difficult, lt is u new develop* men. In a sort of essential way it assumes that thc apprenticeship Bystem was, after nil, the best wuy to touch a young person to work, provided that system could be supplemented aa it should be. The ideal apprenticeship system was that which took a boy at lb or 12, or even 7, put him ut simple tusks und then saw to it that he graded up that ua aoon ns he could do anything moderately well he should be put into something a little more difficult.. This work could very well be supplemented with studies that will enable the boy to get enough reach in drawing or science to command whatever abilities he has. "The syatem that divides society into classes can bring forth no true knowledge, no living truth, no industrinl com* pot once, no fundamental social decency. It cun only continue the desolation of labor nnd increase the blindness and depravity of the privileged. Ho long as some poople own thc tools upon which others depend for brend, ao long as the few possess themselves of the fruits of labor for the many, ho long ua the arts and institutions and the sciences nre built upon exploited workers, juat ao long will our so-called progress bo through the perennial exhaustion 'if generations and races; just so long will successive civilizations be bul voracious parasites upon the spirit and body of mankind, And it is tdLflctltroy the dominance of the privilogP class, to eliminate .'classes from society, Hint the socialist movement comes; and, if It bo true to itself, It will make no compromise with tho superstitions nnd institutions of privilege. It, will affirm nn effectual faith in the self-governing enim- city of the workers—in the wisdom hid in "the heart of the eo-operntive mun." —Oeo, D, Herron. Mr. Consumer Mrs. Consumer and all the little consumers- Everything is dearer than it used to be. We don't need to tell you that. But do you realize that under existing conditions a low-priced article today may be a poor buy. To be cheap it is almost necessary to adulterate it with cheaper goods. If this is so, it is a poor buy for you at any price. How can you tell if a food article is adulterated? You can't, without expensive analysis. You can be sure your Feed, Flour and Cereals are not adulterated if you use only our 'brands. Everything that bears on the package our well- known is an absolute guarantee that the article contained therein is absoltuely pure and genuine, and the best that money can buy, and the absolutely most economical purchase you can make. When in need of the following goods, see that you get— B. & K. Rolled Oats B. & K. Oatmeal B.&K.Wheatflakes B. & K Cornmeal B. & K. Scratch Food B.&K. Chicken Chop B. & K. Pigeon Food B.&K. Cracked Wheat B. & K. Graham Flour B. & K. Whole Wheat Flour K Brackman Ker Milling Co., Limited VANCOUVER, B. C. Reliable Dentistry at reasonable prices- For years I have been doing dental work for the workingmen of Vancouver and their families. T have treated them right. I have done good and honest work and charged only a reasonable price—as low as it could be fixed for skilful workmanship, and the use of the beBt materials. I solicit a continuance of this patronage. I mnke tt specialty of crown and bridge work, and can iiHsttri* you of tkat clang of work which restores in permanent form not only tho naturul functions of your teeth, but also thut facial expression which hatt been lout be* cause of mistting or defective teeth. Should you need a dental plate, 1 am able to offer you attention which will meet your needs with perfect satisfaction. Ltt ut. Ktttiin. your teeth. I cu thtn .Atite ye. e, to tbe attention ihey Died, and alio site you id t.ttmite ai to tho coit of the work. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO OOT or-TOWN PATIENTS. Phone Sey. 3331 Examinatloni mtde br pbone appointment Dr. Brett Anderson . Crown and Bridge Specialist 002 Hastings Street West, Cor. Seymour Vancouver Transfer Co. Ltd. Contractors for Theatre Baggage. Warehouse Space to Rent. Office and Warehouse Space for Commercial Agencies. Furniture Storage Pbone us tbe number of your Bailway er Steamship Check. Immediate Delivery 844 Cambie Street Phones: Seymour 68 and 69 Hobson & Company, Ltd. (Established 1800) INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL AGENTS Telephone Beymour 004 50 Flack Block. 103 Hastings Btreet West VANCOUVER, B. O. PAGE EIGHTEEN THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FRIDAY. August 31, 1 HEADQUARTERS FOR TOURING MOTORISTS All Departments under personal management of W. V. MORAN. European"and Americsn plan; 160 rooms, 75 baths. Rooms, singlo, per day. fl.00 ap; rooms with bath, per dsy, $1.50 ap. American plan, from $3.00 np. Official Hotel Paelfle Highway Troll Aiioclatlon Oarage in connection PHONE SEYMOUR 142 BODEGA HOTEL 237 CARRALL STREET VANCOUVER, B. 0. EVERYTHING NEAT AND CLEAN Rooms by Day, Week or Month THOS. TAYLOR, Proprietor A "WHITE" BRITISH COLUMBIA HOTEL CANADA 518 RICHARDS STREET Vancouver's Most Up-to-date Hostelry Cafe in connection. Location Fortunate and Quiet Jr* RATES 11.00 AND UP Two Blocks from 0. P. B. Depot r Armstrong, Morrison & Company, Limited Public Works Contractors Office 813-815 Bower Bldg. VANCOUVER, B. C. —Courteiiy The Critic. JOHNNY CANUCK (home from the tr onclios): "So thia ia the BEITISH Columbia I havo been fighting for! Well, it will have to be a bit more Briti ah when all the boys get back, I guesB." LONG LIVE JAURES Three years ago today an assassin'a bullet ended the career of one of the world's greatest men. In the height of his gigantic and marvelously varied powers, in the midst of his moat intensive activity, and at the very moment when mankind needed ao clear a thinker! bo loyal a. people's tribune, ao daring and yet so practical a statesman, as Burely it never needed one before, Jean Jaures wns shot in tho bnck—and millions of men, the world over, felt that the blow waa aimed nt all that waa dearest to their hearts. The obscure coward' who did the deed still lives, and for sorao Teason or other his trial ia indefinitely postponed. Waa he a paid or incited agent assured in advance of powerful occult protection? Waa he- a half-crazy fanatic, doing of his own volition the thing that the clerical and militariat leadera dared only to wish fori Perhaps the future will tell, perhapa not. What we know You are moving-- that's sure— But who is moving your household goods, your baggage or your merchandise. If we are not, why not? Our service is efficient, and your satisfaction is assured by entrusting this business to us. Johnston Storage Company Limited Office: 915 Main Street Phone Sey. 9588-9589 Warehouse: 1160 Hamilton Street Phone Sey. 3212 is that throughout the latter half of July, 1914, while Jaures had been devoting all hia tremendous energies to a laat effort to avert the world-war whose cauaes he had ao often explained, the jingo proas of Paris had been denouncing him as a "public enemy," a "traitor to France/' and an agent of the kaiser. These reactionaries did not openly rejoice when Eaou Vilian took them at their word and killed the man whom they had slandered. They knew a better trick than that. They shed crocodile tears, aad theh gradually began a sympathetic appropriation and perversion of his work to their own evil purposes. Since he is no longer here to give them the lie, they have shown a devilish ingenuity in twisting and gloz- ing his utterances so (is to make it appear that, were he atill alive, Jaures would be an advocate of war to the knife between nations and of suspension of the claas struggle within the capitalist Btate. It wna in 1905, when secret diplomacy in the service of high finance had brought Europe to the verge of war over the Morocco question, that the German socialists invited Jauros to apeak in Berlin. The Kaiser's government did not permit him to come, but Vorwaerts published the speech he had prepared, for tho occasion. In thia address, after noting the fact that at certain periods in past history, wars brought upon the peoples by dynastic or propertied interests had incidentnlly resulted in aome lasting good to the massea and to humanity, he aaid: "But in Europe todny it is not by the way of international war that the work of liberty and justice will bo accomplished and that the grievances of one people against another will bc redressed. . . . From a European war the social revolution might spring forth—and the governing classes would do well to consider that possibility. But there might instead result prolonged crisea of counter-revolution, of furious reaction, of exasperated nationalism, or repressive dictatorships, of monstrous Militarism—a long chain of retrograde violence, of base hatreds, of reprisals, of slavery. As for ua, we have no wish to play at the barbarous game of chanco." At Stuttgart in 1907, at Copenhagen in 1916, at Basel in 1912, Jaures supported not only the proposition that socialists of all countries ought to use every effective meana within their power to prevent war from breaking out, but also the further propositions that, iii; the event of war being brought about despite thoir will thoy ought thon to maintain their international relations nnd make overy effort to hasten tlio return in pence; and thnt in time of wnr, instend of subordinating their class aims to those of the ruling classes, thoy ought to watch for any opportunity to turn the struggle beween nations into a decisive struggle for the ending of clnss rule. In his book, "1,'Armee Uouville," published in the winter of 1910-11, aa well as on other occasions before and since, he raised a warning against the fond illusion thnt only autocratic governments follow imperialistic and militaristic policies, that bourgeois democracies can be trusted not to break the world's peace. It is the taBk of the proletariat, he said— "The double and indivisible duty of the proletariat, to maintain peace by all moans in its pow-er and also to safeguard the independence of all nations. Yes, to maintain peace by all the means of action open to the proletariat, even by a general international strik-e, evon by revolution. How .many misunderstandings, voluntary and involuntary, how much contempt and calumny, the adversaries of socialism have accumulated on this subject. They forget, or they pretend to forget, that «von in the democratic countrioa War cnn be unchained without the people's consent, behind their backs, against thoir will. They forget that in the secrecy with which diplomatic affairs are Btill enveloped, foreign policy too often escapes from the nation's control; that an imprudence, an act of folly, a stupid provocation of the infamous fcroed of some financial groupa, may precipitate Bud- den conflicts; that it is atill within the power of a minority, of a very amall coterie, or of a system riddea and in fatuated individual) to commit the nation, to do an irreparable deed—that war and peace are as yot outside the law of democracy." Jaures was an internationalist, not an antinationalist or a nationalist like Herve; and we have warrant for believing that, had he lived, he would not like Herve have allowed tho experience of war to turn him into a nationalist. At the same time thnt he justified tho existence of nations and called nationality "the treasure house of human genius and progress," he repudiated the maxim "My country, right or wrong," declaring it to be "a detestable formula." Not only because he loved mankind, but also just becauao he passionately loved hia own France and wished her to be pacific and juat and generous, he could write: "To tell the Frenchman that it is his duty 'passively to prefer Franco' . , . ia to create among the peoples a con< dition of fixed blindneas, infatuation, injustice and violence Teach ers who spread this base idea commit n crime against humanity and a crime ngninsti the fatherland." Jaures is dead. For a time it almost seehied as though he had lived in vain. But within the last few months we have seen thc beginning of n strong re vivnl of his spirit on both sidea of the trenches, on both sides of the sens. Jaures lives again. Long live Jaures! —New York Call. The Pacific Milk Company. The Pacific Milk Company Ltd., are packing at Ladner, in the heart of tho rich dairy country of the Fraaer, over a carload of Pacific brand milk each day. The fine nntural flavor of the product, its splendid keeping qualities, havo built up a large demand, not only in our home provinco, but bIbo throughout the prairies. A most important factor in producing a superior quality of evaporated milk ia the nature and analysis of the raw milk supplied by thc farmer to the condenser. Here in the lower Frnser valley, tho raw milk averages over 4 per cent, cneam or batter fat, as against an average of 3 to 3% per cent, in the Eastern provinces. This material difference in tho richnesa of raw milk produced in the west, justifies the assertion that a better flavored evaporated milk can bc manufactured here than in tho eaat. The hiilk is brought in from the farmers promptly nfter milking, nnd immediately tested and cooled. From the lnrge glnss receiving tnnkB it iB pump ed to the forowarners where ifc is heat ed, and from whence it is elevated to the large vacuum pans. A pnrt of tho water naturally contained in the milk is evaporated in vacuum, and tho milk thereby concentrated to the consistency of cronm. It is theu filled into tho tiiiB by automatic fillers, the milk being en closed under pressure at nil times during tho filling, nnd free from contact of human hands of contamination of dust. Thc tins nm hernieticnlly sealed by machinery and plnced in the storiliz- ers. holding approximately 40 caaea each. Horo they are aubjected to something over 300 degrees of heat under pressure, theroby sterilizing the milk, destroying any possiblo germ of any kind, and rendering the milk absolutely safe for uso. It is this part of tho pro- cesa that requires long yeara of experience and superior knowledge aa the character and analysis of the raw milk chnnges from day to day, and the degree of duration of temperatures muat bo changed to accord with same. Pacific milk is especially valuable in preparing all "au gratin" dishes, or dishes in which cheese is uaed. The evaporated milk preventB the cheese from becoming stringy, tough or ropey, and insures success every time. Dnirying ahould be one of tho most valuable induatrieB in thia province, and especially near the coast. By the same token evaporated sterilized milk is onc of tho most important products of tho dairy, and ia the ono, in fact, that has been found to build up a dairy country faster and bring tho beat cash returns month in and month out to the farmer. Higher prices are paid by tho condensers to the farmera than are paid in other localities. This encourages the1 farmer to increase and improve his herds and to rapidly make a real dairy district. *•• Hotel Alcazar WM. B. WAINWRIGHT, Manager Cor. 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WHOLESALE PAPEB DEALERS AND MANUFACTURING STATIONERS Specify any of the following well-known brands for your business stationery: HOWARD BOND FRANCHISE BOND DEFENDER BOND COLUMBIA BOND CANADIAN LINEN BOND WHEN VOU WANT A REAL CIGAR Demand a 1 Terminus' Made in Vancouver by union labor, from the highest grades of tobacco procurable. Obtainable wherever good cigars are sold. During the past few months, the Vancouver Journeymen Barbers' union, No. 120, has been conducting a real live reorganization campaign, the result of which has reached beyond the most sanguine expectations of the oldest members. Before the drive was started, the barbers were about 60 per cent, organized. Now they are over 90 per cent., and if it were not for the Oriental shops, would very likely be the 100 per cent.—the limit. Campaign of Organization. President C. E. Hcrrett, J. W. Green, S. H. Grant, 0. S. Townsend and George W. Isaacs, have been visiting most of the unions in the city, drawing the attention of tho unionists, as well as others, to the fact that all union barber shops use the union label, which is not stamped upon the product, but tho shop, "where all employees are union men who have served an apprenticeship of at least three years, where j the union scale of rates is adhered to, and union wnges paid, and tho health of customers protected. The nicely-framed "union shop" card iB hung up in a conspicuous place in the shop, where any intending patrons can easily notice it.. There are now over 10,000 of these "shop cards" displayed in Canada and the United States. This union card is a guarantee of cleanliness, good work' manship and a protection against infectious diseases. Truly it is a real trade asset. Patronize the Union "Shop Oard. Members of other skilled trades unions and labor organizations are pledged to patronize the union label. It is as easy to patronize a fair barber shop as it is to buy a blue label cigar. President Hcrrett has as able lieutenants Secretary S. H. Grant and Treasurer George W. Isaacs. The latter is a chnrter member of the local union, and an ex-delegate to the convention of the International Barbers' association, and an old-time delegate to the Trades and Labor council. Brother Isaacs points out that the 30th anniversary of the international PAGE NINETEEN CHEAKAMUS CANYON .?•)*. '■\ K'V-fSiij.^^^Ba :v*.y<*^07 «»*. ______ f I i^9 ■ 't' ' ■ '*$>* . - '■ : #;»*v* -.. • U tf ^%JjA^'^ ''■ -X m__\-f ^3i»•HP^Kw'' i*>-.____m . '■'.'-'f-tf ": ; d_& \ \ , & i _ . <t*r Safe vf ■;*i fx'j' '/£' Xi.X .i,,** -* *v •■* i ih,\ i ■ < 4V *J A / ."*."• ,' , ' .;■'! # t The Oheakamus Canyon Is one of the scenic wonders along the route of the P.O.E. railway. This dlstri et is a sportsman's paradise Works at Blubber Bay, B. O. 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If every farmer in the country would apply from two to four tons of crushed limestone por acre to all his sour land, our national supply pf lircad.ntuffs this year would b'o augmented by a surprising number of million bushelB.''—Extract from speech of Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, U. S. A. Contractors, Bricklayers and Plasterers recommend and prefer to use Pacific Lime AU first-class dealers in town and country carry DIAMOND PURE LIME LIME FOR THE AGRICULTURIST Lime is aa investment for the farmer which will yield wonderful results in tho form of increased crops. Why continue to raise poor crops when you can pat your hind in shapo at a small cost to raise good ones. Learn by actual test how good an investment liming your soil ia. ' Pacific Lime Company Limited will be celebrated this year. Thus the slogan will be, 50,000 members—already the 45,000 mark has been passed—by the time the next convention assembles in 1919 at Buffalo, N. Y. The International Journeymen Barbers' association dates its actual existence from December 5, 1887, when representatives from the barbers of five cities held a convention in the Queen City of thc Lakes, and formally organized. The new orgnnization showed few signs of life until tho St. Paul convention of 1894. Change ln Working Hours. In 1902 the seeretary-trensurer sont out a series of questions coneerning changes in the working hours. Tho answers showed that the annual working time had been shortened 326,081 hours. Sunday work in many places had been abolished and from one-half to three hours had been lopped off from one end or the other of the six remaining days. Although no recent figures have been gathered, it is certain that tho rate of reductions in hours has been much faster since 1002, .Tacob Fischer, general secretary- treasurer says: "ThiB is not what is commonly termed a striking organization. We do not have any great numbor of strikes, and in our entire existence* we Have not been compelled to pay in excess of $20,000 in strike benefits." Absence of Strikes. The reasons for the absence of strikes are plain. Barbers do not work by thousands for a single employer. The industrial revolution has passed them by. Their business is organized now much as it was at tho dawn of history. The tools and some of the duties havo changed, but the craft remains much the same. Barbers are no longer surgeons practicing phlebotomy but they still advertise their shop by the striped pole, symbolic of thoso days. Instead, tbey are on the way to become bacteriologists and hygienic exports. The barber of the days of Pharaoh, were he reincarnated today with his old skill, would soon be ablo to take his place in thc trade. The science of sanitation and its re lation to dissemination of diseases was new in 1897, when President M. E. Murray, of the International Barbem' union, co-operated with the state health officials in securing the first barbers' license law in Minnosota. This law provided for extensive safeguards about the health of customers, and for the examination and licensing of barbers. Up to the present this union has secured the enactment of similar laws in 16 large states. The Local Union. Tho Vancouver Barbers' union has boen organized for about 18 years. Then there were no legal opening and closing hours. The shops were open Sundays or any old time. Through sheer dog. gedness, the barbers have succeeded in procuring laws whereby shops are open* ed at 8 a.m. and closed at 7 p.m,, Sat urdays closing hour is 10 p.m., likewise evenings before legal holidays. The shops are closed on Sundays und legal holidays. Attempts were made several years ago to induce the legislature to ■ass a licence law, but without success, nother effort will bo made shortly to get this very much needed legislation enacted, MAKING PEACE TO SOCIALISM 'STOP" A London dispatch quotes the weekly New Europo as declaring that "international financiers" havo been secretly conferring in Switzerland about poaco. Their motive is to put an early end to tho war in order to "arrest tho growth of international socialism and the rising tide of revolution throughout Europe." Worldwide finance wns to supersodo national domunds in the settlement. Support for this purely capitalist peace movement was founil umong socialists and churchmen alike, each unwitting of its truo animus. Tlio whole is dubbed by Now Europo "The Unholy Alliance of Finance." That publication is not given lo sensationalist; in all diplomatic and international matters it is unusually well Informed; and its present story is not to bo set down as morely a journalistic invention. Echoes of it, indeed, have boon heard in tho news from time to timo. Such a statement us that attributed to the German chancellor, that he is thinking more of tho "economic futuro" thnn of anything else, looks in the direction indicated. It would bc nn great wonder if men high in tho flnnncial world were seeking peace. They have reasons enough for such n courso; and onc of them may well be a dread lest, if the war continue long, socialism may eome in like a flood ,and sweep away hioBt of the institutions nnd the practices that thoy hold dear. This nlarm is justified, whether tho steps taken are as described or not. For it is a vain imagination that tho world can be put hack where it was bofore the war. All the king's horses and all tho king's men cffuldn 't do it. Forces have , been let loose which will run their course even when peace comes. Social 1 nnd political tendencies, visibly at work before August 1, 1914, have since then been immensely speeded up. Their acquired momentum is now too great to be checked by any peace conference. So convinced of this ib Dr. Arthur Shad- well that he writes in the Nineteenth Century of what he flatly calls "The Coming Revolution." He means the revolution in England certain to follow the war—not an upsetting of the monarchy or any great outward change in the form of government, but a formidable social' revolution. Dr. Shadwell has long beon a keen observer of economic and labor conditions in Great Britain—as also in other countries — and his words have peculiar weight. He is no panic-monger, but merely wishes to open people's eyes to what is impending. The '' industrial truce'' which has more or less prevailed throughout the war, and which has given much comfort to certain unphilo- sophical social philosophers, is not going to last. As soon as the war ends, there will be "direct action" by working- mon's unions on a scale never known before, with food riots, distress, violence and almost a state of civil war. These are but a few of the aspects of the approaching industrial revolution" of whieh Dr. Shadwell gives warning to England. The picture may be somewhat overdrawn. Detailed prophecies on such subjects have a way of looking rather ludicrous ten years later. But of ono thing we may be confident. The coming of peace is not going to "stop" socialism in the way fondly imagined by the cosmopolitan financiers putting their heads together in Geneva, Every-, thing that happens helps socialism, said Herbert Spencer despairingly. Beyond all question the war has immensely helped it. We are not speaking now of a political party, nor even of a precise and definite body of doctrine. An organized, political socialism triumphant is to our mind inconceivable. It would perish of itB own victory, die of internal dissensions, expire from Ub own excesses. Russia has been showing the world what happens when extreme socialists are swept into power. First, they quarrel; then they call upon the conservative classes to- Bave the country. But thero are certain ideas, certain Bocial movements, certain political methods, which we have formed the habit of calling socialistic, and which we aU know well enough without accurate de* fining. These the war has given a free course as never before; and they will run and be glorified after peace comes. All the financial Mrs. Pnrtingtons which Switzerland would hold cannot sweep back that incoming tide. How can it be otherwise! ThiB has been a people's war. Not only have more men gone into battle than ever before, but greater burdens and demands have been laid upon greater numbers who have labored and sacrificed and endured at home. In the huge complex of tho strife national energies bave been utilized in new ways. It is incredible that the people will permit any goneral slipping back into the old slovenly and uneoordinated fashions. Control over industry, over transportation, over supplies of the necessities of life, having been established as a war measure, will be kept, in part at least, as tho regular thing in times of peace. Taxation will take on an entirely new appearance. The war has taught men what a wolght of taxes can be laid upon wealth without either discouraging or crushing it, and we may be sure that the lesBon wlU not be forgotten, , It is an idle dream that the economic j and social world of three years ago can be comfortably restored after peace. The fountains of the great deep have been broken up. Old ideas and customs have been thrbwh into a burning, fiery furnace. What will be fused there, and what will issue, short-sighted mortals may well shrink from predicting. But if any look for the form and pattern of Christendom to be placed in eur hands again exactly as it was, they are not simply short-sighted; they are idiotic. And they are. such even if they are international financiers in Switzerland, planning a peace merger in order to freeze out socialism.—From New Tork Evening Post of Aug. 4,1917. THE WICKED KAISER [By Walt Mason] . The kaiser, so despatches say, would bring us dire disasters, and loathsome agents, in his pay, are selling poisoned plasters. With deadly germs these plasters swarm, like skippers in old cheeses, and if you put one on your form, you '11 die of punk diseases, O 'er tales like this we groan and grieve, and wring our hands and sniffle; we are so easy We believe auch tinhorn brands of piffle. The kaiser stole my shorthorn pup, and killed' my old cat, Tabby; he put some poison in her cup, and knocked her cold and flabby. The kaiser's agents eome at night, when darkness o'er us thickens, and all the oops are out of sight, and steal my Leghorn chickens. The kaiser sont his" loathsome spies to rob my humble dwelling; they stole some sinkers and three pies, and left me vainly yelling. The kaiser's pretty busy now, with enemies all round him, who kick up sueh a beastly row the racket must confound bim. Tet he finds leisure, while he kills and dodges new disasters, to send out men with poisoned pills, and germy porous plasters. Oh, bunk and piffle! TommyrotI Some Ananias told it! Say, will we ever learn to spot a fake when we behold itf Bay yoar Tobaccos, Oigait, Cigarette* at CRAWFORD'S Cigar Stands 163 RuUnfs Start West, at CiaUe TM OiUTllla Stmt, Outto Hotel MS Orowllli St., bmt Put oan >1S OranviUe Stmt, Tt. 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BEABDSLEE, WALDO P. H. BOOKLIN, president Vice-President Sec.-Treas. and Oenl. Mgr. Sfta Small & Bucklin Lumber Co. Limited —MANUFACTURERS OF— j FIR, CEDAR AND SPRUCE LUMBER Mills and General Offices: NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. W. R. OILLEY, Managing Director 0. E. OILLEY, Asst. Manager GILLEY BROS., LTD. Established 1887 WHOLESALE AND BETAIL DEALEBS IN House, Steam and Blacksmith Coal Crushed Rock, Sand and Gravel ALL KINDS OF BUILDINQ MATERIAL Phones 15 and 16 NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. A Statement To My People Being Message of a New York Pastor To His Congregation The following excerpt from a sermon delivered by Rev. John Haynes Holmes, minister of the Church of the Messiah in New York city, to his con gregation on Sunday, April 1, 1917, is particularly recommended for careful perusal by the professed disciples and followers of the meek and lowly Naz- areae hereabouts, the great .majority of whom are among the noisiest, most vehement and vindictive boosters for war and slaughter in the land. It ts indeed most comforting to know that in the midst of all of this world madness and drunken lust for blood and butchery, there is at least one among the many professed disciples of the gentle Jesus who has the courage and the inspiration to lift up his voice and consecrate his soul to his Master's service, in the face of a rotten and a hostile age, and in open defiance to it, even as that Master hurled his defiance at the corrupt and cankered Roman world and unflinchingly carried his Cross to Calvary: "First of all, I shall make it my duty to fulfill in word and deed the gracious tasks of what may be called the ministry of reconciliation. In a time of raging hate and brutal passion I will keep alive that spirit of good will toward men, through which alone a durable peace on earth may some day be established. When darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people, I will keep burning my single torch, that there may somewhere still be light. I will keep my heart pure of all distrust, vindictiveness and fear, I will cherish confidence iu tbe integrity and devotion of the German people. I will accept and glorify the unselfish patriotism of my countrymen who believe in and sustain the war. I will hold no feeling of ill-will against those of my friends and parishioners who may rend me in anger, spit upon me in contempt, or leave me in tears. When madness sweeps the land I will preserve, my sanity. When passion engulfs the people I will retain my Belf- control. When hatred consumes men's hearts I will keep sweet, wholesome and compassionate. If unfortunate aliens among us are seized and persecuted, I will protect them from the vengeance of my countrymen. If my comrades are reviled and stricken, I will sustain their courage and fortify their patience. If I am myself assailed in bitterness and contempt, I will speak no evil, but bear all things unperturbed. I will remember the starving millions of Belgium, Serbia, Poland and Armenia, whom my countrymen may neglect for tho more important business of killing Germans. I will remember the burden bearers of my land, who in times of war aB in times of pence, are still the victims of politicul corruption and economic injustice. I will remember without distinction the peoplo of nil lands who bear this day the agonies laid upon them by the governments which deceive and use them. Always will I labor to keep open the choked and defiled channels of understanding, sympathy and good will ..between hostile nations and divided classes. And above all will I remember that, as an apostle of Jesus Christ, it is my business to preach and practice, not my passions as a man or my prejudices as an American, but that whole and perfect love which is of God. Thus in an age of unprecedented discord and disturbance, I will Bcrvc the minstry of reconciliation, and this, I trust, my country in her best estate. "Secondly, I will serve my country in war time by serving the ideals of democracy which constitute the soil and centre of her being. War and domocracy are incompatible. When war comes, democracy goes. England} fighting nobly to conquer Prussianism, is herself in process of being conquered by the Prussian spirit. Already in our own country, before the beginning of war, the dread work of militarism is under way. Already freedom of thought is being denied, and liberty of conscience challenged. Already we are in the midst of saeh nn orgy of bigotry, intolerance and persecution for opinion's sake, as America has not been since the dnys of the Salem witches. The whole fabric of democracy is threatened, the priceless heritage of our fathers in peril of loss. America has never been in such danger as she is today—and the source of the danger is at home and not abroad. Hence my resolve to serve that America which I love so well that I would not have her made over into the likeness of the militarism which she clamors to destroy. I will do what I can to safeguard free thought and free Bpeech, by practicing both at any cost. I will do what I can to preserve liberty of conscience, by exercising that liberty without flinching. I will do what I can to gunrnntee to posterity the democratic idenls nnd institutions of America, by resisting to the denth every assault upon her bulwnrks. One such assault is now being made in the movement for universal military training. So long as I have breath to spenk, or hand to lift n pen, I will oppose this monstrous thing. By conscription the autocracies of Europe huve stood thus long. By conscription tbis war, perfectly prepared for, inevitably came. By conscription the minds of men are 'cribbed, cnbined and confined' to the bonds of that narrow nationalism which iB the fiercest foe of brotherhood. By conscription the consciences of men nre enslaved to the mastery of those who can command the sinking of the 'Lu- Bitanin' and the Bhooting of NurBe Cavell. By conscription, more effectually than by the attack of German legions, this country can be destroyed, and tho fairrst experiment of democracy the world has ever seen brought to an untimely end. Therefore will I fight it, nnd all other devices of militaristic tyranny, and thereby ngain exalt truly the best interests of my nn- tive laud. 'Thirdly, I will serve my country at this time by preparing the way, so far as I am able, for the establishment of that pence which sooner or later must follow upon war. This struggle, into which we ure now nboat to plunge, can not go on forever. Some day the bugles must sing truce ncroBS the fields of battle, tired warriors ground arms, and statesmen Bit in guarded council hulls to mnke nn end of strife. And this end must bo an nrrnngement by which Germans nnd English, Russians and Turks, must continue to live Bide by side in n common world, engngo in the interchange of business, learning nnd decent eourteBy which mnko up ordered life, nnd co-operate in the common service of the common interests of oar onc humnnity. ThTs necessity of living together cnn not be escnped. Germans, even though beaten to their knees, can not be slaughtered in a universal maBsacre, nnd the rnce therewith exterminated. Englishmen even though conquered, can not flee to Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter, and colonize new plnnctB as they have in other nges colonized new continents. For better or worse, this earth must be the single abode of nil these scattered tribes and hostile people. Which means that pence must some dny come, and the ordened relationships of pencoful living be some way reestablished! For the consummation of this end, preparation is necessary, and it must be initiated without delny. To discover Terms of reconciliation, to work out methods of co-operation, to soften hate and dispel suspicion, to spread abroa'd sweet influences of confidence and healing—this is n tnsk as beneficjent as it is prodigious. Before she herself became a belligerent, this was the task appointed as by the fint of God for America. But now that she has cast away her sacred charge, it remains for ub -who can not take up arms at her behest, to keep it in her stead. How better can we Herve our country than by restoring to her, or fulfilling for her, that high mission of peace-making, whicli is so uniquely and divinely hers! "Lastly, I will serve my country in war time, by serving the dream of international brotherhood. No nation is worthy the allegiance of even the meanest of her citizenry, which is not dedicated to the establishment of'that larger and more inclusive life of universal association, which is the glad promise of mankind. America, for more thnn 100 yenrs, hnB been firBt among tht countries of thc world, in recognition und service of this ideal. She haB been a gathering plnce of all tribes of the earth—a melting- pot into which the ingredients of every race, religion and nationality have been poured. And out of it has come not so much a new nntion nB u new iden—the iden of brotherhood. ThiB idea haB stamped our people aB n chosen people. It bus set o.ir land npnrt as a holy land. It has exalted our destiny us a divine destiny. And now, with the plunge into the welter of contending European nationalities, all thiB is gone. Gone, nt least, if those of us who see not today'» quarrel but tomorrow's prophecy, do not dedicate ourselves unfalteringly to the forgotten vision! This I am resolved to do. I will serve America by serving her ideal of humanity. I will open my heart, ns she has opened her shores, to nil peoples of the earth. I will give love, as she has given hospitality, to tin* hated and hunted of God's children. And lo, from out my soul as once from out her soil, shall grow 'a tree of life,' whose leaves arc for "the healing of the nations,' "This is my service for the days of war—the ministry of reconcilintion, the defense of democracy, the preparation of the gospel of peace, the quest of brotherhood. It is the deliberate espousal of that higher spiritual loyalty which is not bo much the destruction as it is the fulfillment of those lowjer and more carnal loyalties which stir the envy and the hate of men. It is the deliberate resolve to 'lengthen (the) cords nnd strengthen (the) stnkieB' which bind my spirit to the earth, that I mny 'enlarge the place of (my) tent, and stretch forth the curtnins of (my) hnbitntion.' It is the deliberate purpose to face the eternal paradox of flesh and spirit, Crosor and Christ, kingdoms of earth nnd kingdom of henven, the church visible and the church invisible, und chooso 'the better part.' 'For finer spiritB * " * there nre two dwelling places/ says Romain Holland in Above the Bottle, 'our earthly fatherland, and that other City of God. Of the one we are gueBts, of the other the builders. To the one let us give our lives nnd faithful hearts; but neither family, f.iend, nor fatherland, nor uught thnt we love, hns power over the spirit. The spirit is the light. It iB\ our duty to lift it nbove tempests) and thrust nside the clouds which threaten to obBcurtj it, to b.iild higher and stronger, dominnting the injustice nnd hatred of nations, the, walls of that city wherein the souls of the whole world may assemble.' "Thnt you will follow me upon this road of travail, I con not command and will not nsk. I reverence too deeply and cherish too teriderly not only my freedom but your own, to '■ .'■ : ' .' •» .J-'/'t "■'.;-,'.,;:.i..'■■.;•■.■;,. ;•' ";:.-\-X.-.. ..,■'■*.'■*(,,.- *..;■...*,■' '. V -'a\a-i»lf- ■' i oS-r <■ >-. A_' 'v&! _m\:~"-. A . ' ^ Jk .*' M>Wm ' :.X. jLam- w wt.w 4 '■: »:,■ * AXmWrM.' :* i ■"'■"'-. -tiBSSEa •1 *.,, ■*- 10 ] 3B »*,■:,:, -,s«'. ■„" g^iflsfl u ROYAL OITT EXHIBITION GROUNDS venture Buch an appeal to your good nature. But that you will bc not unwilling to have your minister lead your church upon this road, I dare to hope. When confusion, death end terror arc about us, I think that you will be glad to find in the refuge of this place, 'those things which cnn not be Bhnken.' Whon cries of hate and lust nre burdening the air, I like to think that you will rejoice to hear within this sanctuary the words that tell of 'peace on earth, goodwill toward men.' Even when the boys of thiB church, moved by exulted sense of duty, march to the front, there to slay nnd to be slain, I like to think that they will look back fondly to this nltnr and its priestB, and thank God there is Bome witness still of better days and happier peoples. It is because I like to think these things that I hope my resignation aB your minister will be neither expected nor demanded. It iB because I havo faith in your 'understanding of tho church of God nnd its high huBsion upon earth, thnt I hope to continue to bear truthful witness in this pulpit, in wnr as in peace, to what I feci to bc th* will of God. It is because I have great love for you as friends nnd comrades, and no other desire upon enrth thnn to serve you and the cause of free religion whicli you committed to my charge ten years ngo, that I h6pe God will be kind to me, nnd keep me still in the grace of your affection. '' Such is my hopel I pray that it iB well-founded. If not, I shall want to know. You have but to speak, and I will surrender my post to one who can safer guard it, and obediently though sadly go my way. The world is wide—bo long as I hnve my bouI to -comrade, I shall not be lonely- and if I go down at lost in failure am defeat, I Bhall find comfort in th thought that other and far bette men than I have walked that roai and met that end, but none of then all for a better or a grander cause For America, for humanity, for God I Bhall have lived nnd died. Than thi no man can ask a happier fate. "They out-talked thoe. hissed thee, tore thee Better men fared thus before thee; Fired their rinttlnt* shot and passed. Hotly charged—and sank at last. "Charge onco more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come. When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body on the wall I" Find the body by the wall!" 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OFPIOIAL PAPEE VAHOOUVEB TBADES AND LABOB OOUNOIL THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST OmOIAL FAFBB BBITISH SOL- vkbu fbdebatiob or labos NINTH YEAR. No. 35 (Labor Day Edition) VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1917 (Id VucooTtr Oitj, «2.00 ) 91.60 PER YEAR The Dentist and the Public 1. An Experiment in Advertising By W. J. CURRY, 301 Dominion Building If Will the readers of The PederationiBt pay for truth, and honesty, "or ■was Barmim. right when he Baid, "Tho people prefer to be humbugged?" fj I have just 8igned up with The Federationist for six months, and my hope is to demonstrate a growing conviction that between commercialized dentistry, based ou egoism, and the ignorance of the public, and tbat professionalism too "ethical and dignified" for publicity, there is possibly today a middle course, and a demand for that impersonal and indirect method of publicity of an educational nature, regarding the care of the teeth and the progress, limitations and abuses of modern dentistry. If For the next few months I propose giving to the readers of this paper my candid and free opinion on this subject, and the benefit of over twenty-five years of constant and careful experience,as a dentist. (f There will be numerous digressions into the rcahn of medicine and surgery of industry and economics in order to illustrate the relationship between individuals and our social activities. Cjj Everything today is being cast into the melting pot of re-construction, too long already there has been that great gulf fixed between the professions and their beneficiaries and victims. We have too many doctors, too many doctoring with divinities and creeds, too many tinkers of laws and morals, too many profiteers of bad blood and decayed teeth. SWhat we need and must have if this race is to escape the fate of oae dead and gone is understanding. Men who know and with honesty and determination, speak out. We need educators. The stuff taught in our schools and colleges is mostly old junk; it should be thrown out. Today "colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed." We Bee this among our professional classes. We need destroyers as well as builders. Tne present conflicts between individuals, classes and nations, the paupers and millionaires of our lands, the sickness and physical deterioration of our race proves to us that much of our ignorance must be replaced by knowledge of social forces, ere we can hope for permanent peace and real progress, |] Our physical deterioration is proved by the fact that our ancient ancestors knew nothing of tooth brushes or dentistry, yet had perfect teeth, while 95 per cent, of the boys and girls attending the schools of this city have defective teeth, and therefore impaired mastification so essential to nutrition, the bases of physical and mental development, and yet practically nothing worth while is being done or even suggested. MY REASONS FOR THIS WORK (j| There are personal and goneral reasons for my trying this experiment. A recent amendment to our B. C, Dental Act, now makes it practical to employ one or more assistants and co-operation and the division of labor has advantages over individual activity in all lines of industry, including dentistry. I am therefore desirous of extending my business. (J Another personal reason comes from the fact, that during the last few months I have lost some of my.old friends and patrons owing to my anti-conBcription attitude, several acquaintances have recently advised me, that on account of this position which I freely express in this and other papers, and from the platform, some of my former patients who in the past allowed me the.privilege of attending to their dental dofects have declared that henceforth thoy will use their influence against my interests. (]i Now thiB is to be expected. It Ib a natural price and penalty of froo speech and opposition to the ambitions and interests of our War Lords and Ladies and our political and economical rulers. But the great majority of readers of The Federationist, hold tho samo opinion as I do, regarding military servitude. It may be that othor considerations being equal, they possess suflicicnt clnss-conscicntiousncsa and enthusiasm for the principals thoy hold to discriminate between myself and those who oppose us, or those so mentally barren as to have no opinion respecting this moBt vital issue. t| Because of my well-known position rogarding producers and employers, the promoters of war, and those who stand for peace, my friends and patrons now consist nlmost entirely of members of tho working class, while the business elements and the people of leisure naturally patronize thoso who think and act in harmony with the present economic system. This is as it should be. S Another reason for revealing to my readers some of the tricks of c trado which I roprescnt, is because of the satisfaction I will flnd ia showing thnt defective tooth are not because of the neod of "painless dentistry," bat like othor social ills, thiB also has au intellectual and economic.basiB. There is to me considerable pleasuro in assailing the ignoranco and imposition existing in our midst, and in helping in a measure to bridge with plain facts part of that great gulf fixed for ages between the '' learned profession,'' and the ignorance and faith of tho common people, on which Buperior classes thrive. (| Noxt week I will relate instances of some local frnudB in dentistry. Tlio nntural penalty of ignorance and confidence of the public and the disregard for that law, "Man, kuow thyBclf." On Labor Day VISIT THE BEAUTY SPOTS On the Scenic Route of the North Shore Line Pacific Great Eastern Railway The following picturesque places are ideal for a day's outing— CYPRESS PARK Round Trip 35c CAULFIELDS " " 35c EAGLE HARBOR .. " " 40c WHYTECLIPF for HORSESHOE BAY " " 50c Hourly service thirty minutes past tho hour from North Vancouver terminal (adjoining Perry Wharf). Take Ferry Boat leaving Vancouver on the even hour. Por further information phone. SEY. 9547 404 WELTON BLDO. Pacific Great Eastern Railway Montreal Trust Co. will act as Executor for Estates, large and small. It is thoroughly equipped to efficiently and economically undertako tho administration of Estates and will carry out the intentions and desires of tho Testator, bearing in mind at all times the best intorests of tho Estate. It will furnish assistance in tho preparation of YOUR WILL, nnd if requested will hold in safe-keeping, free of charge, all wills appointing it Executor, to which accesB can be had as frequently as desired. VANCOUVER, B. C. 408 HOMER STREET Westminster Iron Works JOHN EEID, Proprietor GENERAL MACHINISTS AND ENGINEERS Manufacturers of STRUCTURAL and ORNAMENTAL IRONWORK Office and Worka: Tenth Strait NEW WESTMINSTER, B. O. '$ A Food ControUer Who Can Not Even Pull Off a Fish Miracle Incidents in the Struggle of Wage Slaves Against Their Masters [By L. E. Dennison] TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 00.—"The lid is off for profiteering in food" is no empty expression these days in Toronto. There appears to be no good ground for the higher prices. Food pricoB here have advanced 56 per cent, since the beginning of the war, in thiB city. Food is 35 per cent, dearer than in 1906; ',55 per cent, more than in 1915; 56 per cent, more than in 1914. Tho prices in 1914 wore two per eent. more than in 1913, and in 1913, 14 per cent, more than in 1912. Thus food today is 70 per cent, dearer than in 1912. That is- going .some! Have wages increased in the samo ratio during the same period? Aid. Bobbins, of the Streetrailwaymen's union, says $23 is minimum living wage for '' a family of five—and how many are getting itf Another Fish Miracle. Some time since, the government appointed a Food Controller. He took d trip to thelJnited States to confer with a similar official there, and we expected, some tangiblo benefits from his ap* pointment. Tho reverse is apparently the case. A fow weeks ngo the newspapers of this city gave considerable Bpace to a schemo for bringing fresh flsh from tho Atlantic here. It appeared to be a good thing, and everybody seemed pleased. Mr. Hanna asked the people to eat fish two days a week- Tuesdays and Fridays—and had fresh cod and haddock advertised in the press, to be sold ot 10 cents per pound for tho wholo fish, or 17 cents for steaks. The immediate causo was hardening on the price of fish here— oven the dealers admitting this. The "Food Controller" Joke Then it is reported that tho cold storage people havo 40 por cent moro butter stored than last year, 31 per cent, more eggs and 29 per cont. more cheese. Is the food controller going to "regulate" theBe aritcles so that tho consumers will pay , more for themf Bice immediately increased when an attempt was mado to substitute it for potatoes. It is interesting to remember that the Hebrew housewives, in tbeir brief campaign (they refused to buy bread till it came down and stayed with it till it did.), were far moro effective than Canada's food controller has been in hiB months in office. They reduced bread from 12 cents a small loaf to 9 cents. Their children needed bread—and their children are getting bread. In thc Gentile stores tho public is paying 11 eents. Why and If. Canada is the only one of the allied nations in which the food controller has contented himself by stopping the poor people from eating. High prices do that effectually. They do not deter the rich from extravagance. Why be afraid to follow England! There the prices are firmly regulated, and rich and poor economize alike, sinco only a certain portion is allowed to each household. This saves tho children of tho nation from the starvation threatening our own littlo ones, and prevents thc overloading of tho rich man's table. With the millions of pounds of food now in Canadian cold storage warehouses, there is enough to sond to Europo and .enough to feed to our own working peoplo with at normal prices —if wo hod a food controller who controlled. Trades Council Activity. The Trados and Labor Council hns taken up the case of the postoffice and custom-house employees in thoir attempt to Bncuro a living wage. Tho provincial and municipal omployoes have been granted increases, while thc foderal employees have not. Tho council unanimously endorsed theBe men in their attempt at betterment, and tho secrotary was ordered to forward a copy of a resolution to this effect to tho premier and tho poBtmnstcr-gcncrnl. The council also endorsed a resolution calling upon the Canadian government to appoint tho officers of thc Trades and Labor Congress of Canada as a part of Canada's representation to discuss terms of pence with the representatives at tho closo of tho war. More Profit on Wind. Labor here is not quito satisfied with tho government's schemo of partly nationalizing tho railways; they feel that it ought to tako thom all over, tho prosperous as well as tho poor-paying. "If tho question of financing tho purchase of tho railways is tho obstacle to tho taking ovor of all tho railways, there is no one to blame but tho flnnnco minister," says Mr. James Simpson. "Over $1,500,000,000 worth of war contracts have boen let in Canada since the wur broke out. It is estimated that tho profit on these contracts reach $500,000,000. If tho profltB had beon taxed to tho extent of 50 por cent, tho nation would havo had $250,000,000 to apply to necessary war exponditurs. Tho nationalization of tho railways Ib, in my mind, a necessary waf expenditure, and tlio tax on war profits would havo gono a long way to purchase the railways. If the government didn't wont to purchaBe the C. P. R.. they might have gono as far as Sir Henry Drayton advised. That would have beon better than thoir present propo- IM EPT STREET W. HARDY BuslnosB agent and recording iecretary of the Shipyard and Helpers' union, No. 15,615, and a delegate from that organization to the Trades nd Labor Council and tho Metal Trades Council, who has been very successful In Becuring better conditions for the membership he represents. Though young In the local trade union movement, Bunineim Agent Hardy Is proving a valuable addition to tbe Labor Temple roster of union officials. of 2,000 in this eity, with eighteen branch associations throughout Ontaria, all of which recently affiliated at a convention held in Hamilton. At the last meeting here a more liberal pension scheme for soldiers and their dependents and a more general application of the principle of public ownership of public utilities was heartily en dorsed. Incidents of Slavery. The provincial minister of public works has announced after September 1, all licenses issued to munitions factories shall stipulate that no woman or girl be allowed to work more than 4§ hours per week on night work. At present a ten-hour shift is permitted, conditions wore reported as intolerable in somo factories—a delegation of girls making this .grievanco known through the press. This haB hnd the effect of waking the government up. For tho protection of workmen employed in woodworking plants from the loss of a hand in square-head planers, the minister of public works hns issued an order, immediately enforcable, that in all pattern shops throughout tho province cylindrical head planers must bo substituted, for the squnro-hond typo so generally in ubc If a workman's hand is caught in the cylindrical machinery only the tips of the fingers are severed, whilo in the square-head planer tho wholo hand is usually drawn into the machine nnd destroyed. The now order will eventually bo extended to all woodworking factories in which tho square-head planer is in use. Telegraphers Make Gains. Tho C^\ AJ&iimaftiv. Noncommercial Telegraphers' union of America hns just won a notable victory in its new agreement with the railway, "the right to legislate for all telegraph employees," being incorporated. The main features of tho new scale are as follows: A rovised wage scale.- Includ- the Morkrums, and tho right to legislate for all telegraph employees; tho ■establishing of an eight and one-half hour day and seven-hour night on all tricks stnrting at or later than 8 p.m., with a ten-hour day, including onc hour for lunch at one-man offices; a minimum increase of five dollars por month for each Morse telegrapher; a re-arrangement of percentages as follows: Vancouver, Calgary, Moose Jaw, Winnipeg, each 30 per cent, at $105; 30 per cont. at $100; 30 per cent, at $95, and 10 per cent, optional. Toronto and Montreal, each 30 per cent, at $95; 30 per cent, at $90; 20 per cent, nt $85, and 20 per cent, optional. For the telegraphers now receiving top snlary at these pointBran increase of fivo dollars per month over tho fixed top hns been grnnted, that is, up to one hundred and ton dollars per month in tho wost, ond one hundred dollnrs per month in the east. A $60 minimum for Morkrum operators, $65 after six months nnd $70 after ono year's service. Vacations will now bo granted to all who havo been in tho service threo years or more instead of four yenrs, under the old rule. Tho United Leather Workers' international union has taken in fifty thousand leather workors in tho United s B. C. Electric Is the Largest Electrical Car System in Canada Makes Hundreds of Industrial Sites Available for Use WiU Put Up Candidate. Tho Groator Toronto Labor party will havo candidates in tho field in every constituency whon tho coming federal election is finally hold—somo time lato In November or early in December, Organized only four months ngo, tho now party now has an active membership States and Canada, including the Harness and Snddlory Workers', Travellers' Ooods and Leather Novelty Workers', and tho Tannery Workers'. The next convention of the now international will bo held in Toronto. Other Labor Matters. Negotiations will Boon bo started between representatives of tho Milk Wagon Drivers' union and tho proprietors of tho various dairies of tho city With reference to changing bnck to daylight delivery about October 1, The question of discontinuing tho Sunday delivery of milk frota October 1 to May 1 and ceasing to deliver milk to sido entrances owing to thc scarcity of lnbor will also be considered. Nearly nlj tlio drivers in tho city belong to the union, and one of thc pleasing features of recent work by tho business agent is tho manner in which returned soldiers are working in harmony with the organizntion. Tho members of thc Patternmakers' union who went out on strike a few weeks ngo for a higher standard of wnges have been successful and havo returned to work undor a minimum wago rato of 57 conts nn hour. One of the Ilrst firms to settle with tho men was thc Canndn Foundry Co. Tho city honlth officer, in his monthly roport' strongly urges that vegetables nnd eggs be sold by weight instend of by measure, nnd numbers, as at prosont. ThiB is a thing that labor members could take up in the various provincial legislatures. Tho arbitration bonrd between tho Streetrailwaymen am], the road, ia still at work, the last report Bays they aro still far apart on the wngo question. Nominate Deputy Minister. The Trail Mill nnd Rmeltermen's union, No. 105, International Union of Mine, Mill nnd Smelter Workors, hns decidod the appointment of a deputy minister of labor should como from the ranks, and has unanimously nominated Albert Goodwin, secretary of tho union. WHEN VISITOBS arrive in a city, one of the first things they notice is the street railway Bystem, and nest the extent of the uso of electric lights. If there are strings of well-kept cars and interurban trains moving in and out, and if the electric wires are neatly maintained, the stamp of up-to-dateness is placed upon that city. Vancouver is in no way behind any of the go-ahead cities across the line in respect to its electric systems, for one of the most extensive street and interurban railway systems radiates from Vancouver. Springing from a small company, delivering 2000 horse power of electrical energy and operating a few miles of street car track and a single line to New Westminster, the B. C. Electric Railway company has grown in twenty years to be the operator of more miles of electric track than any other company in Canada. Altogether 286 miles of electric line nre operated on the mainland, which, with the company's island system, brings the total trackage up to 351 miles. The light and power distribution system on the mainland covers a territory 80 miles long and 20 miles wide, the farthest point being a full 100 miles from the two modern power plants at Lake Buntzen. Supply of 84,000 Horse Power. In the power field, the company has a supply of 84,000 horse power ready for ubo, the output of the two generating stations ot Lake Buntzen. on the north arm of Burrard Inlet. As do all modorn companies, the B. C. Electric nlso maintains a steam stand-by plant of about 17,000 horse powor for emergency purposes, but so well is its transmission lines and /substations throughout its territory duplicated and safeguarded, that it has been called into ubo hardly at all for accidentB. Tho scattered nature of the population of Greater Vancouver hns put an added burden upon the company to supply not only distribution wires and substations, but also street railway lines. Tho mileage of the Vancouver city street railway system is 102.07, which places Vancouver above any other city in Canada of 100,000 population for rntio of track to people. There aro 16.66 miles of track in New Westminster; 11,07 in North Vancouver, and 156.19 miles of electric interurban track over which 18 clectrie locomotives and an nmplo equipment of electric pasBon- gor cars operate. Widespread Effect. Tho extent of the company's interurban system has a widespread effect upon conditions in Vancouver, for the Fraser valley line, running to Chilliwack, 76 miles from Vancouver, brings scores of Fraser valley farms close to a market in Vancouver and New Westminster. The trackage on the Burrard peninsula and on Lulu island makes available hundrods of industrial sites, whero waterfrontage and cheap power can be obtained. This development of Greater Vancouver by a single company cannot but have an effect on its future prosperity. Throughout tho company's syBtem, from the farthest substation to the substantial offico building, a policy of permanence has been followed. While many cities still havo their main streets adorned with wooden poles, tho B. C. Electric replaced them with steel poles many years ago. The power plants at Lake Buntzen nnd their equipment is thoroughly up-to-date, and nothing is of temporary construction. Thore nre a dozen concrete substations throughout the company's territory, transforming nnd re-transforming the current aa it is received over tho high-tension Jines. First Electric Interurban Line. The Central Park interurban line was the flrBt electric intorurbnn line in Canada, and is now one of tho most highly developed. It oporntes on its own right- of-way except in tho city of Vancouvor, and unes permnnent concrete bridges for the most part in crossing intersecting streets. Between 5000 and 6000 persons travel on this line ovory day. The B. C. Electric reaches tho bathing beaches and parks with which Vancouver Is replete, and serves to bring thoso favorite spots within roach of everyone. Its lines on the north shore bring Cnpilano canyon and Lynn Valley to the tourist and add another attraction to Vancouver's quiver. The record of tho past is that tho B. C. Electric has beon a force in making Vancouver aad surrounding districts what they are today and that the wolfare of both the community and the company are wrapped up together; as the ono prospers so shall the other. "The traveller standing amid the ruins of ancient cities nnd empires, seeing ou every side thc fallen pillar and tho prostrate wall, nsk.s why did these cities fall, why did these cities crumble? and tho ghost of the past, the wisdom of the ngcB ,nnswors: Theso temples, theso palncos, theso cities, the ruins of which you stand upon, were built by tyranny and injustice Tho hands that built them were unpaid. The bucks that bore thc burden also bore the marks of the lnsli. They woro built by slnves to satisfy the vanity and ambition of thieves and robbers. For theBe reasons thoy nro dust. "Their civilization was a llo. Thoir laws mr rely regulated robbery and established theft. They bought and sold tho bodies and souls of men ond the mournful wind of desolation, sighing around thoir crumbling ruins is a voice of prophetic warning to those who would repeat, tho infamous experiment, uttering tho great truth, thnt no nation founded upon slnvery, eithor body or mind, cnn stand.—From Robt, O, Ingoraoll on "Doom of Empires. —SAVE TOUB MOHBT- tt B. HARRISON, Manager, Granville and Fender BTART A BANE A0OOUNT DC THE MERCHANTS BANK OF CANADA Don't stow awtj yonr spare cash ia any old eorner where it It in danger from buglue or ttt. The Merchant* Bank of Canada offere you perfect safety for yonr money, and will giro yon fall banking sendee, whether yonr aeeonnt ia large or amall. Intereat allowed on taring! de- posits. «. N. STAOBY, Manager Baitlngi and Oarrall The Royal Bank of Canada INCOBPOBATED 1869 Capital paid-up . Beserve Fundi . Total Asset! ..* 19,911,000 .. 14,824,000 - 287,000,000 BEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL 410 blanches ln Canada, Newfoundland, Wait Indies, eto, of which IM ara wait of Winnipeg. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Open an account and make deposits regularly-aay, every payday. Interest credited half-yearly. No delay in withdrawal. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE ^AVlttl 111,000,000 Beit 118,600,000 Proldsnt: SIB JOBS AIBD Main Office: Corner Baiting! and Oranvlll* Streeta, Vancourer OITT BBAKCHE8 LOOATIOS SHSyHrn*!' DMVB ?»• «™j Anna, nd Oommnokl Mn SiioirfsS 0o'* PMdwaad M.in Btteete il$mma'_i'tlliinii £"• S"h. At«™ ~* 0»arllle StrM wrvmSS.'** 0AUBI*S Sot. Hutlifs ud Csnble Stmts powfiVs-rlSiS1 £"■ $**_ Anna, ud U.ln Uriel fflSJPT Oor. Victoria Drlr. and PowtU 81ml SOOTH HILL , oor. fbrtj-ilfhth ud Tneer Am. AIM North Vancourer Branch, Oorner Lonsdale Arenas and Esplanade Bank of Montreal Established 100 Yoars (1817-1017) Oapital paid up $ 16,000,000 •Bast 18,000,000 Total assets (April, 1917) 386,806,887 Head Office: Montreal D. B. CLARKE, Supt. British Columbia Branches, Vancourer, B. O. W. H. HOOK}, Manager, Vancourer, B. O, ESTABLISHED 1875 IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA Capital Paid Op $7,000,000 Baserre Fund 87,000,000 PELEO HOWLAND, President E. HAY, General Manager HEAD OFFICE—TORONTO VANCOUVER—J. M. LAY, Manager BBANOHES: FAIRVIEW: J. S. OIBB, Manager HASTINOS AND ABBOTT ST.: F. B. THOMPSON, Manager Bank of British North America EitsbUilud in 1830 Brsnchoi throughout Cnnmin snd it NEW TOBK, BAN FRANCISCO AND DAWSON Savings Doptrtmont THE INCOBPOBATED 1865 BANK OF TORONTO Assets $73,000,000 Deposit! 84,000,000 JOINT SAVINGS ACCOUNTS A JOINT Savings Account may be opened at The Bank of Toronto in the names of two or more persons. In these accounts either party may sign cheques or deposit money. For the different members of a family or a firm a joint account is often a great convenience. Interest is paid on balances. Corner Hastings and f amble Sta. UNION BANK OF CANADA Head Office: Winnipeg Paid-up capital $5,000,000 •Be8' 3,400,000 Total Assets (over) ....$100,000,000 With moro than 300 branches in Canotlo, two in London, England, nnd nn ngency in Now York, this bank provides for its customers, exceptional service SAVINGS DEPARTMENT SuniB of tl.00 and upwards received and interest allowed on snmo at highest rates, compound* od half-yearly. BRANCHES TN VANOOUVER: Cordova and Abbott Streets. Mount Pleasant branoh. Main Offlce—Hastings and Seymour Streets. J. O. OEDDES, Manager. PAGE TWENTY-TWO THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FRIDAY... ..August 31, 1917 VANCOUVER UNIONS TRADES AND LABOB COUNCIL—MEETtf flnt aad third Thursday!. Emeu tin board; Junes H. McVety, president; Fred A. Hoover, vice-president; Victor R. Midnley. general iecretary, 210 Labor Temple; Fred Knowles, treasurer; W. H. Cotterill, statistician; sergeant-at-arms, Qeorge Harmon; A. J. Crawford, Jas. Campbell, F. Haigh, trui- ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUNCIL— MeetB second Mo "day in tbe month. President, Geo. Bartley; secretary, R, H. Neelands, P. 0. Box 86. BARTENDERS' LOCAL No. 070.—Offlce, Room 208 Labor Temple. MeeU Aral Sunday of each montb. President, James Campbell; financial secretary, J. Smith, 610 Holden Bldg.; Box 424; pbone Sey. 2572; recording secrotary, wr "*■-'-• *■ * Hotel, Main street. PROVINCIAL UNIONS B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR—Meeta Id annual convention ln January. Executive offlcors, 1-917-18: President, J. Naylor, Box 415, Cumberland: vice-presidents—Vancouvor: Jas. H. McVety, V. R. Mldgley, Laboi Templo. Victoria: J. Taylor, Box 1815. Vancouver Island: W. Head. South Wellington. Prince Rupert: W. E. Thompson, Box 094. New Westminster: W. Tates, 906 London stroot. Kootenay District: A. Goodwin, Box 26, Trail. Crows Nest Valley: W. B. Phillips, 176 McPherson avenue. Secretary- treasurer: A. S. Wells, Box 1638, Victoria, B. 0. VICTORIA, B. 0. IVin. 'MotUshaw, Globe JOURNEYMEN BARBERS' 1NTERNATION- al Union of America, Local No. 120— Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in the month Room 205 Labor Temple. President, L. E Herrltt; secretary, S. II. Grant, 1071 Alberni atreet. BRICKLAYERS AND MASONS, NO. 1— Meet 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 8 p.m., Room 307. President, Chas. F. Smith; corresponding secretary, W. S. Dagnall, Box 68; financial secretary, W. J. Pipes. BREWERY WORKERS, L, U. No. 281, I. 0. U. B. W. of A.—Meets flrst and third Wednesday of eaob month, Room 802, Labor Temple, 8 p.m. President, F. Graham; secretary, A. E. Ashcroft, SuitB 1, 1788 Fourth avenue west. _ BROTHERHOOD OF BOILER MAKERS and Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America, Vancourer Lodge No. 194—Meets every Monday, 8 p.m. President, A. Campbell, 220—2nd Street business agent, J. H. Carmlohael, room 212, Labor Temple, INTERNATIONAL UNION OF STEAM AND OPERATING ENGINEERS — Local No, 620. MeetB every Monday, 7:80 p.m., Labor Temple. President, D. Hodges; vice-president, P, Chapman; secretary-treasurer, W. A. Alexander, Room 210, Labor Temple. Phone Sey. 7*95, LOOAL UNION, NO. 872, U. M. W. OF A.- Meets second and foarth Sunday of eaoh month, at 8.80 p.m., Richards Hall. President, Walter Head; vice-president, A. West- ley; rocordlng secretary, Jas. Bateman; financial secretary, W. Macdonald; treasurer, J. H. Richardson. DEEP SEA FISHERMEN'S UNION OF THE Pacific—Meeti at 437 Gore avenue every Tuesday, 7 p-m. Russell Kearley, business ____• BLBCTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL NO. 318 —Meets In Room 205, Labor Temple, •very Monday. 8 p.m. President, D. W. MeDougall, 1162 Powell street; recording, secretary, John Murdock, Labor Temple; snanolal aeeretary and business agent, E. H. Morrison, Boom 207, Labor Temple. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S AS sociatlon, Looal 38-52—Office and hall, 804 Pender street east. Meets every Thursday 8 p.m. Seoretary-treasurer, F. Chapman; business agent, J. Mahone I. L. A., LOCAL 88-52 AUXILIARY—IMarine Warehousemen and Freight Handlers) headquarters, 486 Howe street. Meets flrst and third Wednesday, 8 p.m. Secretary and business agent. E, Winch MACHINISTS, NO. 182—MEETS SECOND and fourth Thursdays at 8 p.m. President. Wm. Small; recording seoretary, J Brooks; financial aeeretary, J. H. McVety! ail Labor Temple. Seymonr 7495. MOVING PICTURE MACHINE OPERA- tors' Union, Local 848, I. A. T. S. E. I M. P. M. 0.—Meets flrst Sunday of eacl moath, Room 204, Labor Temple. President J. R, Foster; business agent, Sam Haigh, financial and corresponding seoretary, 0. A. Hansen, P. 0. Box 846. PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF NORTH America—Vanconver and vicinity.— Branch meets second and fourth Mondays, Room 204, Labor Temple. President, Ray MeDougall, 1928 Grant street; flnanclal seoretary, J. Lyons, 1548 Venables street; recording secretary, E. Westmoreland, 3247 Pt. Orey road. Phone Bayvlew 2979L, BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS—Local No. 188—Meets second and fourth Thursdays of each month, room 303, Labor Temple. President, H. Pink; vice-president, B, Spring; financial secretary, G. H. Weston; recording seoretary, D. Lemon, room 308, Labor Temple RETAIL CLERKS' UNION—LOCAL 279— Meets In Labor Temple every first and third Tuesdays, 8:15 p.m. President, Chas. D. Brace, 1022 McLean drive; secretary- treasurer, Archibald P. Glen, 1073 Melville street, phone Bey. 5840R VICTORIA TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL—Meets first and third Wednesday, Labor Hall, 1424 Governmont stroet, at 8 p.m. President, E. Christopher, Bex 887; vice-president, Christian Siverts, 1278 Den- man street; secretary, B. Simmons, Box 802, Victoria, B. 0. NEW WESTMINSTER. B. 0. BARTENDERS' INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE of America, looal 784, New Westminster Meets second Sunday of each month at 1 'BC p.m. Seeretary, F. W. Jameson. Box 496, PRINCE RUPERT. B. 0. PRINCE RUPERT TRADES AND LABOB Council—Meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, In Carpenters' ball. President, B. D. Maedonald; seoretary, J, J. Anderson, Box 278, Prince Rupert, B. 0. SOUTH WELLINGTON, V. I. Tho Long-Distance 'Telephone bo- comes more popular every day. Reasons: Directness of conversation is not reached in the written communication; you speak with the party you want; you receive your answer immediately; no journey is required; distance is eliminated; tho weather doos not count. What better service would you desiro t BBITISH COLUMBIA TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED HOTEL ALCAZAR Opposite Labor Temple VANCOUVEB, B. 0. Headquarters for Labor men. Rates 75e and $1.00 per day, $2.60 per week and up. Cafe at Reasonable Bates. To members of any union ln Canada a special rate for The Federationist of 81 per year—if • club of 10 or more Is sent STREET AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY EH ployees, Pioneer Division, No. 101— Meets Labor Temple, second and fourth Wed nesdays at 8 p.m. President, J. Hubble; vice-president, E, 6, Cleveland; recording see, tary, A. V. Lofting, 2581 Trinity street. phone Highland 168R; financial seoretary and business agent, Fred A. Hoover, 2409 Clark drive, ofllce corner Prior tftd Main streets. SHIPYARD LABORERS' UNION, No. 1565 —Meets second and fourth Fridays of each month, 6 p.m.. Labor Temple. President, G. Soama; reeordlng secretary, W. Hardy, 445 23rd street west, North Vancouver; financial aeoretary, S. Phelps. JOURNEYMEN TAILORS* UNION OF America, Looal No. 178—Meetings held flrst Monday In each month, 8 p.m. President, J. T. Ellsworth; vice-president, W. Larson; recording seoretary, W, W. Hocken, Box 608; financial seoretary, T, Wood, P. 0. Box 508. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, NO. 226—Meets last Bunday of eaoh month at 3 p.m President, W. S. Armstrong; vice-president, R. G. Marshall; secretary-treasurer, R. H. Neelands, P. 0. Box 66. GOOD FOR THE RICH Residents of Private Dwellings May Import All They Want The litjuor law, which becomes cflfee-1 live on October 1, is strictly a rich' inun's laiy, und no doubt made so intentionally by the prohibition purty, us-, sisted Ity W. .1. Bowsor, former pro- ■ in ior, who claims the act as his, ant! at the last legislative session took considerable pride ia the fact. The person j who can ulVord to import booze from outside the province can hnve all he wants. The workingman, who under; tho high eost of living, eaa ill-afford i even his beer, will have neither money nor time to import his beer or hard liquor. M.tch of the slop known as "soft drinks" is as ruinous to the system ns liquor tnken judiciously. There no doubt will be a rush*,to get into, tho "soft" drink business, and also politicians will have a warm time trying to get control of a government booze store, whicli latter the act provides for. Under the* act a private individual may import liquor from nnother province in nay quantity he desires, providing that he keeps it only in his private house nnd for bonu fide uses, A private dwelling house ia defined ns a flcperatc dwelling with a seperate door for ingress and egress and actually and exclusively occupied and used ns a private residence. Privntc dwelling houBc does not include any house or building pnrtinlly or wholly used as nn office, other than a duly registered physician's, a dentist's or veterinary surgeon's office. Neither may liquor be kept in any building used as a place of business, or factory, or shop, or club room, public hnll, or society hall, or boarding house where thero ure more than three lodgers in addition to the members of tho occupant's family. It may not be kept in a livery stable, or hotel or place of public entertainment, or any houso or building in which the rooms or upnrtments nro leased to different persons, or in a restaurant. Nor may it be kept in any building in which the rooms are intercommunicating. In Apartment Houses. Private dwelling house, however, includes a suite of rooms in nn npnrtment block, if sjch a suite'contains rooms for cooking has no means except its outer door of communicating with other apartments in thc snme building. This enables liquor to be kept in tints und npartment houses where the suites nre not connected by intercommunicating doors. In broad terms, a mnn who lives in a privato house or in a lodging house where not more thnn three boarders reside may keep liquor in his rooms. Those living in hotels or boarding houses where there arc more than three lodgers hiay not keep liquor. The net provides for the appointment of vendors to sell liquor within the province for medicinal, mechanical, scientific and sacrament nl purposes only. These vendors will be appointed and paid by the government. Profits derived from such sales will go into the public treasury. Those Why May Buy. For mechanical purposes a vendor may sell in quantities not exceeding 10 gallons. He may sell liquor to druggists in quantities not exceeding five gnllons nt any one time. . To physicians tho vendor may sell in quaitities not exceeding two quarts at any one time. Dentists may buy one pint at a time. Veterinary surgeons are entitled to buy from vendors in quantities not exceeding one gallon nt n time. Superintendents of hospitals may purchase liquor for medicinal purposes and the clergy mny purchase it for sacramental, purposes. Finally, tho vendor may sell "to any person for strictly medicinal purposes." The meaning of this section is defined ns" follows: "No sale of liquor under clause (h) of subsection (1) shall be mnde except upon a bona fide prescription in writing signed by a physician nnd no more than onc sale and 'one delivery phalli bo mnde on any one prescription." Vendors may sell for cash only. Affidavits Required. Those purchasing liquor for m-echani- cnl or scientific purposes must make an affidavit that it will be used for such purposes only. Druggists, physicians, dentists, vet- erinaricB nnd hospitals mast also make affidavits before they can secure liquor from n vendor. The affidavits must state that the liquor will not be used as a beverage or mixed with other liquors for use as a beverage. Sales of wine for sacramental purposes will bo made only on the written request of clergymen. No liquor may be consumed on vendor's premises. Except as above provided no liquor may be sold in the province. It may not bo given away except in private houses. Druggists mny only sell on prescription and may fill no prescription more than once. Vetcrinurtes may administer liquor to dumb animals, but no person shall consume nny liquor thnt vetorinaricB securo from vendors for this purpose. Breweries Oan Brew But Not Sell, Breweries aro allowed to continue in existence, but they mny not sell within tho province, except to a government vendor. Liquor warehouses may also continue to exist in the province, but they mny not sell except for export to another province or to a f oroigtf coun try, or to a government vendor. Drunkenness Illegal, Anyone who permits drunkenness on his premises commits an offense against the act, A special clause is devoted to the prohibition of the keeping of any liquor on club or society premises. If any occupier of u privato house commits nn offense ngninst the net, that house ceases to be "a privato dwelling house'' as long as the guilty persoa resides ia it, which means that no liquor can be kept thore. "Liquor" is defined ns liquids which Contain more than 8% por cent, of proof spirits, unless they are recognized medicinal preparations. Illegal Sale Means Jail. Penalties arc heavy. Anyone selling liquor in contravention of thc act is liable to a term of not less than six months in jail or more than 12 months. Tbere is no option of a fiiie. For a second offense the penalty is not less than a year or more than two years, again without option of a fine. The penalty for a corporation found guilty is $1000. The general penalty for violation of other sections of thc act is not less than $50 or more than $100 fine with imprisonment of from 30 to 00 dnys in default of payment. This penalty is increased to from three to six months hard labor without option of a fino for subsequent offenses.' Police are given wide powers of search. Without a warrant a police officer may at any time search any premises where any refreshments or liquors are sold or reputed to bc sold, or where he believes liquor is illegally kept, He may, if necessary, break in doors, or break open cupboards duriug the search. Vehicles, including boats and steamers, may also be searchod. "WUXTBY!" [By Wireless to, Tho Appeal to Reason] Mine owners in Cantbe, Arizona, who had closed down their mines in the district until the granting of their demand for more profits, which they said were needed to stimulate production, were rounded up recently by an armed posse of one thousand workingmen, herded in box cars and deported to New Mexico. The president of the Mino Owners' association, who is alleged to have stirred up the trouble among the mine owners and to have made ''unpatriotic speeches in which he declared the government should protect the owners, was warned to stny away from the town in the future and threatened with death if he failed to heed the warning. All persons Buspectcd of belonging to tho M. 0. A. are prevented from entering tho barred zone that surrounds the district. Workingmen elaim that the action of the mine owners was inspired by pro- German sentiments, and that their object was to cripple the war machinery of the government by stopping the output of their mines. The- workingmen say that they will operate the mines themselves. Upon receiving news of the deportation, Presidont Wilson wired the governor of Arizona as follows; "May I not respectfully urge the great danger of citizens taking the law into their own hands, ns your report indicates their having done?" A committee from the National Manufacturers' association, oa their way to investigate the deportation, were stopped and turned back by a delegation of workingmen. A speaker at a great peace nieeting held.at Chicago, said: "If the men who arc giving their lives in the trenches could join ench other for t\Vcnty-four hours, this war would be over." PACIFIC MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given tbnt under the First Part of Chapter 79 of tho lie- vised Statutes of Canada, 1906, known as "Tho Companies Act," letters patent have boon issued under the seal of the Secretary of State of Canada, bearing date tho 7th day of August, 1917, incorporating Angus Alexander Crowston, Financial Agont; William Samuel McClurc, farmer; Reuben Tiffin, farmer; Joseph John Tiffin, miner, and Charles William St. John, solicitor, all of the city of Vancouver, In the Provinco of British Columbia, as Pacific Mining and Manufacturing Company, Limited, for the following purposes, vis.;— (a) To obtain by purchase, leaso, hire, discovery, location, or otherwise, and hold, mines, mineral claims, mineral leases, prospects, mining lands, and mining rights of every description, and to work, dovelop, operate, and turn the samo to account, and to sell or otherwise dispose of the sume or any of them, or any intorest therein. (b) To dig for, raise, crush, wash, smelt, assay, analyzo, reduce, amalgamate and otherwise treat gold, silver, coal, copper, lead ores or deposits, and other minerals and metallic substances and compounds of all kinds, whether belonging to the company or not, and to render the same merchantable, and to buy, sell and deal In the same or any of them. (c) To carry on the business of a mining, smelting, milling and refining company in all or any of its branches. (d) To acquire by purchase, lease, hire, oxchango, or otherwise such timber lands or leases, timber clnims, licences to cut timber, surface rights and rights-of-way, water rights and privileges, mills, factories, furnaces for smelting and treating ores and roflning metals, buildings, machinery, plant, or other real or personal property as may bo necessary for or conducive to the proper carrylng-out of any of the objects of the company. (e) To construct, maintain, alter, make, work, and operate on tho proporty of tho company, or on property controlled by the company, any canals, trails, roads, ways, tramways, bridges and reservoirs, dams, flumes, ruco and other ways, water-courses, aqueducts, wolls, wharves, piers, furnaces, sawmills, crushing works, smelting works, concentrating workB, hydraulic works, coke- ovens, electrical works and appliances, warehouses, buildings, machinery, plant, stores, and otber workB and conveniences which may soeni conducive to any of tho objects af the company, and, with the consent of the shareholders in general meeting, to contribute to, subsidise, or otherwiso aid or tako part in any suoh operation, though constructed and maintained by any other company or persons outside of tbe property of the company; and to buy, sell, manufacture, and deal in ail kinds of goods, stores, implements, provisions, chattels and effects required by tho company or its workmen and servants. (f) To build, acquire, own, charter, navigate, and use steam and other vessels for the purpose of the company. (g) To carry on business as quarrynias- ters and stone merchants, and to sell, buy, get, work, shape, bew, carve, polish, crush and prepare for market or use, stone of all kinds. (b) To carry on business as road and pavement makers and repairers, and manufacturers of, and dealers in lime, cement, mortar, concreto and building materials of all kinds, and as builders and contractors for tho execution of works and buildings of alt kinds in the construction of which stone is required. (i) To carry on all or any of the businoss of manufacturers of and wholesale and retail dealers in bricks, tiles, pipes, pottery, earthenware, china, glassware, terra cotta and seramicware of all kinds. (j) To carry on business as manufacturing chemists. (k) To carry on business as manufacturers of, and wholesale and retail dealers in soil fertilizers. (1) To carry on any othor business whether manufacturing or otherwise which may seem to tho company capable of being conveniently carried on In connection with the above or calculated directly or Indirectly to enhance the value of or render profitable, any of tho company's property or rights. (m) To acquire, and undertake tho wholo or any part of the business, proporty, und liabilities of any porson or company carrying on any businoss which the company is authorized to carry on, or poBsossed of proporty suitable for tlie purposes of the company. (u) To take, or otherwise acquire, and hold shares In any other company having ob-' ■jeots altogether or in part similar to those of this company, or carrying on any business capablo of being conducted so as directly or indirectly to benefit this company. (o) To enter into any arrangemont wltb any authorities, municipal, local, or otherwise that may seem conducive to the company's objects, or any of them, and to obtain tarn any such authority, any rights, privileges, and concessions which the company may think it desirable to obtain, and to carry out, exercise, and comply with any such arrangements, rights, privileges and concessions. (p) Generally to purchase, tako on lease or In exchange, hire, or otherwise acquire, any personal property, and any rights or privileges which the company may think necessary or convenient for the purposes of its business, (q) To construct, maintain, and niter any buildings or works necessary or convenient for tho purposes of the Company. (r) To invest and deal with the moneys of tbo Company not immediately required in such manner as may from time to timo be determined, (s) To remunerate any person or company for services rendered, or to bo rendered, in placing or assisting to placo or guaranteeing the placing of any of the shares in tho Company's capital, or any debentures, debenture stock or other securities of the Company, or in or about tho formation or promotion of the Company or the conduct of its business, (t) To draw, make, accept, indorse, discount, execute and Issuo promlsory notes, bills of exchango, bills of lading, warrants, debentures, and otber negotiable or transferable instruments, (u) To sell, or disposo of tho undertaking of the Company or any part thereof for such consideration as tho Company may think fit, and ln particular for shares, debentures, or securities of any other company having objects altogether or In part simitar to those of this Company. (v) To adopt suoh means of making known the products of the company as may seem expedient, and In particular by advertising in the press, by circulars, by purchase and exhibition of works of art or lntereat, by publication of books and periodicals, ana by granting prizes, rewards and donations. (w) To sell, Improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, enfranchise, dispose of, turn to account, or otherwise deal with, all or any part of the property and rights of the company. (x) To carry on business as aforesaid throughout tho Dominion of Canada. (y) To do all such other things as are Incidental or conducive to the attainment of tbe above objects. (a) And it is hereby declared that the word "Company" in this clause shall be deemed to Include any partnership or other body of persons, whether Incorporated or not incorporated, snd whether domiciled In the Dominion of Canada or elsewhere, and the intention Is that the objects specified In each paragraph of this clause shalt, except where otherwise expressed In such paragraph, be In. no wise limited or restricted by roference to ' or Inference from the terms of any other paragraph or the name of the company. Tho operation of the Company to be carried on throughout the Dominion of Canada and elsewhere by the name of "Pacific Mining and Manufacturing Company, Limited," with a capital stock of one million dollars divided Into ton thousand shares of ono hundred dollars each, and the chief placo of business of the said company (registered offlce) to be at 509 Hornby street, in the city of Vancouver in tho Provinco of British Columbia. DATED at the office of the Secretary of Stato of Canada, this 7th day of AuguBt, 1017. THOMAS MULVEY. Under-Soeretary of State. VICTORIA. B. C: 618 View Street. Phone, 1269. Greenhouses and Nursery, Esquinult Road. Phone 219. HAMMOND, F. C: Greenhouses and Nursery on C. P. R. Phone Hammond 17. Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd. FLORISTS, NURSERYMEN, SEEDSMEN Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Fot Plants, Seeds, Out Flowers and Funeral Emblems Main Store aad Registered Office: VANCOUVEB, B. C. 4S Hastings Street East. Phones, Seymour 988-672. Branch Store, Vnncouver—728 OranviUe Street. Phone Seymour 9513 J. Coughlan & Sons' Shipyards VANCOUVER, B. C. Announce the names of the five ships building for the British Government as follows: No. 2 War Camp, No. 3 War Charger, No. 4 War Chariot, No. 5 War Chief, No. 6 War Noble; No. 1 ship, which is being built for the Dominion Government, is as yet unnamed. These ships are steel steamers of 8800 dead-weight tons capacity. They are 425 feet long, 54 feet beam and 29.2 feet moulded depth, and are the largest under construction in Canada. They are turbine-driven vessels with Scotch boilers which are built in our own shops in Vancouver. Structural Steel Fabricators -WE HAVE A WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF- I-Beams, Channels, H-Sections, Angles and Plate AND ARE WELL EQUIPPED TO DO FABRICATING WORK REQUIRED EXPEDITIOUSLY AND ECONOMICALLY J. COUGHLAN & SONS, VANCOUVER, B. C. FBIDAT. August 31, 1917 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST PAGE TWENTY-THREE THERE IS A REASON WHY OVER 3,000,000 MEN WEAR Carhartt's LOOK FOR THE SIGN AND INSIST ON IT Do not let any dealer substitute on you AN ALL DAY CRUISE AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS OF HOWE SOUND S.S. Ballena Steamers leave Union Dock daily at 9:15 a.m.. Sunday at 10:30 a.m. for Bowon Island, Britannia Mines, Squamish and way points, returning at 7:30 p.m. MEALS ON BOARD On Saturdays a Steamer leaves Union Dock at 2:00 p.m. for Bowen Island direct, returning from Bowen Island at 6:30 a.m. on Monday. With our good Hotol Sorvico this mnkes a delightful week end. SUNDAY SPECIAL-ALL POINTS $1.00 RETURN TRIP Terminal Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. UNION DOCK, take car to ColuXg89-0GS9 *&>S *mi ram-ty mm BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BEST COAL For your kitchen—Wellington Nut Kitchen, furnace and grate—Wellington Lump For Your Furnace Comox Lump — Comox Nut — Comox Pea (Try our Pea Ooal for yonr underfeed furnace) macdonald-Marpole Co. Phon* Seumour^ aio ipiiPiiHi> .Phone ISeumour aio 1001 MAHT STBBIT Preserve or Perish You can help win the war by preventing waste Because your garden is well stocked, it does not follow that you can afford to waste. Fruit and vegetables should be pre? served for the winter. Bottle or Evaporate Either form of preserving is economical. Ask for International Folder on the Subject. Carrall and Hastings 1138 Granville Streat Phone Sey. 5000 NEW BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. Fighting Now and Paying Later MYTHOLOGY UP-TO-DATE [By E. T. Kingsley] Tho United Statea in financing Itself In thin war by loans and taxes. It obtains funds from the people, some by- taxation and some by the salo of bonds, and then it goes into the markets and buys from the people what it noeds. The people supply the government witb money and the government with this money buys from the people what lt needs for the war. Thore are three sources from which tho United States can draw the sinews of war. First is the fixed property of the nation. This represents our farms, factories, mines,, railways, and all other property, Including accumulated savings. From the corpus or body of nono of these, except the accumulated Bavlngs, will the government obtain war funds, and even from the accumulated savings It will draw a relatively small portion. These accumulated savings are invested in industries and business which arc necessary to the country's welfare and prosperity and it is only that portion of these savings whieh are seeking Investment thnt the government will receive In exchange for bonds. The second and the great source from which the government Is to derive Its war fund Is tho wealth produced during the war. Part of this It will obtain by taxation and part In exchange for bonds. The annual production of the United States, from Us farms, mines, factories, and other sources, amounts to fifty billion dollars a year and out of thia fifty billion dollars will come the funds, part from taxes and part from sale of bonds, with which the United States will finance itself during this war. By taxation this generation will pay its portion of the cost of the war. By the sate of bonds tho next generation Ib called upon to pay Us portion, and this laBt portion will be paid from the wealth production after the war. By this method the capital of the country, Its Bources of income and wealth, are unimpaired. It is only the yearly increment of thiB property that is called upon to bear a portion of the cost of the war. What the government receives it receives from the people without impairing the sources of wealth of the country, and passes it back to the people in exchange for the productions of the country. It is In a way only a shifting of credits. The governmont collects the current taxes and by means of bonds anticipates taxes of the years to come, and all tho money thus acquired passes back Into the hands of the taxpayers. This Is why governments which follow sound economic methods not only are not impoverished by ware but sometimes emerge the stronger, as EnglantJ did after the Napoleonic wars and the United States after the Civil War. If sound information is required about shoemuking it would bo well to consult a shoemaker; if about house- building a enrpenter; if about drugs n druggist, and if about finance financier, no doubt. The Federationist is in more ways than one interested in matters of finance and whenever any nponrently valuable information conies within reach, touching upon the art of financial jugglery and legerdemain, it is .eagerly seized upon by this office and put to immediate use in the daily battle of attempting to mnke a theoretical penny perform a task that has evidently been cut out for a million dollars of real money. The nbove illuminating trehtise on finance is clipped from the U. S. Official Bulletin, published daily nt the City of Washington D.C. The matter apepnred as an editorial in the Bulletin of August iti and benrs earmarks of being the production of the secretnry of the treasury, Mr, McAdoo—who, by the way, is a son-in-law of President Wilson. We. know of no better nuthority finance than one whose qualifications to speak are predicated upon those two important facts. # ♦ * But there is something extncmely perplexing aboat this matter of finance. The more lucid the explanation the greater the perplexity. The more it is explained by those who by either birth, training or marriage are well qualified to do so, the more involved and confused it all becomes, until the lay mind is almost driven to distraction in attempting to grasp it. McAdoo's explanation is, however, so lucid ond easily understandable as to bring it easily within range of the assimilative mentnl powers of the dullest Henry Dubb in the land. The government merely taxes or borrows money from the "people" and with that money "buys from the people whnt it needs for the war." could anything be simpler than that! Of course sonic captious and ill-mannered critic might suggest that what the government has borrowed was nothing but evidences of credit which had bOcn given for things thnt had been previously produced by lubor and for which labor had received nothing in return, and which the despoilers of labor coald only dispose of on credit for the siniple reason that there was nothing either on earth or in the waters under the enrth with which payment could be made, This, however, is scorce worth making a note of, for it is not for n moment to bc supposed that great authorities on finance would so far forget thc duty they owe to the greatest flimflum of the ages, as to belittle themselves and their sacred calling by wasting time over such petty and senseless objections. * * * Coming down to brass tacks, however, we can not get away from the fact that the only payment that is or that can bc made, is that which is made daily by the wealth producers, and that payment is mudo solely in the energy they expend in the processes of cither capitalist industry or capitalist war and slaughter. In fact these are but one und the sume thing, for war itself is but a part, and a logical part ut that, of ruling class industry. SlaveB toil and suffer and die in ruling class war, just us they toil and suffer and die in ruling class industry. And the cost of both is paid and paid in full by those Blaves of industry and of outside of the wealth producers of the country. The producers of the food, clothing, shelter and other things requisite to human comfort and sustenance, constitute all there is or ever was to property. All values in exchange are brought forth by these workers alone. There is nothing elso that enters into exchange value.- All articles that go forth upon their mission as commodities carrying exchange value into the market, icurry only that with which they have been endowed hy their creator, the labor of human hands. They could not otherwise exist. That which culls them' forth! and endows them with the precious virttue of value in exchange, being the creator of all'saeh value, must be the only thing-on earth that can possess the peculiar attribute of property, in tho sense that property menns a something thut cun und doeB bring to its possessor the comforts of life, the things neoe-psury to hia existence und welfare, without expenditure of effort upon hia part. And there is no other test of property, in the modern acceptance of the torm, than that it cun und does bring to its owner something for nothing, As the Ubor of enslaved workers is the only power ou earth that can and does do that, it* logically follows that such laborers constitute all the property there is. The control of resources and means of production enables those who hold such control to exercise the rights and powers of ownership over the laborers themselves. That is all thero is to ruling class property, the type of property that rules the world today und which is worshipped like unto a golden calf by the ruling pagans of our time. That is all there is to the "fixed property" of nations. And fhe slaves appear to be more sublimely and completely oblivious of it than any one else. * * * "Accumulated savings!" That's a real joke. As though there could be any such a thing when it comeB "down to real wealth. One would think from the way the phrase is mouthed that food, clothing and other useful things were in some miraculous manner saved up us ngainst the rainy duy that is sure to come. But tho contrary is the fact. Everything in the line of necessary and useful things, besides many things that are neither, is produced and reproduced euch day and year with ceaseless regularity. And in the same munnor and with the same persistence it is used up with the same certainty and regularity. Credit tokens and other paper evidences of debt ure accumulated, and tho rapidity of the accumulation is incroased from day to day in rutio corresponding to the increase of the productivity of lubor owing to the improvement of tho mechanism and technique of industry. ' In other words, just us tho "power to produce weulth isj increased by the development and high through the breeding propensities of the slaves, in due course of time, and without cost to the masters and owners. The slaves nre neither richer nor Soorer after the war than .before. They ad nothing before and they have it still. Though a considerable number of thehi may have been sooner hustled over the "great divide" than would have perhaps been the case hud peace not been broken, they have possibly been the gainers by thus huving their lives of misery shortened. If enough of them have been killed to sufficiently deplete the supply of labor in the market, those who huve escaped may get a few more cents per month wages pending the time when the * conditions of the labor market are again brought to the normal by means of the birth rate of slaves. The government expert sums the whole thing up by Baying, of thii war financing business: "It is in a way only a shifting of credits." There are ten-year-old schoolboys in Vancouver who know that "a shifting of credits" has nothing to do with payment. It Ib merely a game of "passing the buck.'' The Federationist opines that the entire financial scheme is one of pure and unadulterated bunk, not only mathematically impossible but so childishly ridiculous as to be calculated to befool only ,those who really belong in the home for the feeble-minded. *i FALL THE BOSS AS A RECRUITER An Unwise List of Questions. A Hst of questions to be submitted by employers to their employees has been Bent out by the Btate recruiting nuthority. The questions are: "Have you a groom, chauffeur, gardener or handy man serving you who at this moment should be serving your King and country?" "Have you a mnn digging your gurden who should be digging trenches t" "Hnve you iti man driving your car who should be driving a transport wagon?" "A great responsibility rests on you. Will you sacrifice your personal convenience for your country s need? Ask, your man to enlist today. No price can be too high when honor and liberty are at stake." These questions were published throughout Great Britain, amongst other efforts to assist recruiting, but it wus more than two years ngo, und they were not by any moans as successful as other means when voluntaryism was tho accepted system. The government of Austrnlin should not uso the employers as middlemen in their recruiting campaign, and it is an insult to the prospective recruit to be thus questioned. What a howl of indignation would be raised if another set of questions er perfection of the tools of industry, I were drawn up to enable the employees so is the sum totul of the debt of the,to interrogate their bosses: world likewise increased. The wider the margin between the amount paid to the workers as their wages and the amount-of wealth brought into existence by their labor, the greater the amount of such wealth that must be disposed of on credit und the greater the sum of world indebtness becotaies. Borfowing or taxing does not wipe it out. It only transfers credits to other hands, for the time being. If the governmont borrows credit from certain of the people ond utilizes that credit to make uurchases from those same people, or from others who in turn must purchase from them, it is easy to be seen that not only has no debt been wiped out, but an addition hns been made to the total by tho amount thus borrowed, und for which new securities (bonds) hnve been issued. If it is tuxed out of the people it does not in any manner alter the cuse, because that which ia taken by taxeB must be taken from those who own property, and it will flow buck to their coffers by the same process that brought it there in the first instance. It is like a dog chusing his own tuil, no mutter from whut point you view it. * * * ■ According to our authority, the sale of bonds is to place upon the next generation the burden of paying "its portion" of the war's cost, and such "portion will he paid from the weulth production nfter the war." It seems almost an unnecessary reflection upon human intelligence to be called upon to suggest that no payment for the things produced by the lubor of human hands could be paid for except payment bc mndo in kind; i.e., in the products of human hunds. If these products are at any time to be sold upon credit, and they are always so sold if they are sold ut all, how in the name of com- monBense could payment therefor ever be made, except by tho incurring of a debt of similar magnitude in order to obtain the means of payment? And it is manifest that no puyment would result. As products must first be taken from the workers without payment, before they became available for the delectation of the trading fraternity, no pnymefit can be considered in our calculations unless it covers the cuse of the workers from whom this wealth has been tuken, without puyment therefor. Whatever deals may subsequently take place between individual buyers and sellers, has nothing to do with the case, for in them is to be found nothing of a financial character except a transfer of credita, and there ia 'Is there a groom, chauffeur, gardener or handy man, who used to serve you, who is at this moment serving his King and country? If so, why don't you follow his example! "Is the man who used to dig your gnrden digging trenches-? And are you waiting for him to come; bnck?" "Your chauffeur has gone to the big drive in France. He was a good servant, why not join him?" —Melbourne Labor" Cull Our new FALL CAPS are now being shown. We have one of the largest assortments on the coast. Caps are very essential things theso days, and you will find a good selection of patterns and shapes to choose from, if you oomo in and see us first. A full line of Jockey Caps for boys, also the new green caps that are now in vogue. Come in and try one on. CALHOUN fc OSTROSSER THE EXCLUSIVE HATTERS 61 Haitian Btreet Eut WIMNIPEO VAHOOITVEB OALOAKT AERONUI CO. Phone Sey. 2207. AERONUI Iceless Refrigerators Tlie kind (kit every union mtn •hould hive. Simplicity, efficiency tnd economy combined with t money enver oie the principal features of AERONUI .:. :: 670 Richards Street VAHOOUVEB, B. O. Mado by thc Highest Skilled Union Labor and under the moat sanitary conditions by" McLeod, Nolan * Co., Makers of "Eldora," London, Ont., using only tke Highest Grades of Tobacco grown. Positively handmade. For Sale Everywhere. D. J. ELMER Bales Manager for B. O. and Yukon a 3118 ALBERTA ST. > VANCOUVER, B. O. CHESTERFIELD—2 for 25c CLUB HOUSE—3 for 25c war. There is no payment that can ; nothing in the nature of final payment be sloughed off upon the future for;in that. No part of the cost of this the lives that are ground up into proflt and aggrandizement for masters in daya of peace and into profit and glory for those masters in time of war. All that is or can be pasBed on to the future for payment is the misery of un- ending and unpaid labor in times of pence, und the agony and horrors of war udded thereto in times of war. But future generations will pay for their own miserios und agonies, not for the miseries and agonies that are being, visited upon those who are now living. They will pay for their own enslavement and torture, even as the present generation is paying in blood, gore and untold agony for its stupid tolerance of class rule and dull submission to its horrors and atrocities. That is all that enslaved lubor ever did puy for, und it must continue to pay so long as it will remain enslaved. And ull of the twaddle of financiers will not ulter the fact. # * * Now as to the "three sources from which the United States con draw the BinowB of wur." First comes the fixed property of the nation." This is referred to as "our farms, factories, mines, railways and ull other property, including accumulated savings." There is no property, either fixed or loose, war cun be paid by after-the-wor production. It can only be paid for now, and it is being paid for, us it is fought, by the useful cluss in human society; the ignorant working class. Blissfully ignorant of everything except how to produce wealth and allow the ruling class to get away with it. * * * Nations nre neither richer nor poorer as u result of war. Rulers still rule and rob after the smoke of battle clears away, jaat as they did before. Sluves (property) still sweats profit for mastors and get nothing better thun a narrow and meagre existence for themselves, und nn extremely uncertain one at that. While individual masters may here und there have lost their all by war, just us iB often tho case even in times- of peace, others come into possession of the property the losers formerly held and the sura total of the world's paper wealth hus not been diminished. It has even been greatly increased as a result of the intensified speeding up of industry to meet war requirements. True, some property has been killed or damaged, but it is tho sort of property thut hup- pily costs its owners nothing, so no loss has really occurred. If loss hns occurred, however, it will be recouped, To Whom It May Concern We regret to announce that on and after October 1st we shall be unable to supply our many friends and patrons with delicious It affords us much pleasure in taking this opportunity of thanking Organized Labor for the loyal support and preference given to the homebrew. We have NO APOLOGIES TO OFFER and feel that legislation which deprives the workingman of a wholesome drink like pure beer is, to say the least, very drastic, and the wisdom thereof very questionable. We would suggest that all those who can should purchase their requirements before October 1st to cover as long a period as possible, as after that date the price is bound to be greatly in excess of present cost. . Cascade Beer Is Pure and Healthful FOR SALE EVERYWHERE BREWED AND BOTTLED AT THE BREWERY BY VANCOUVER BREWERIES, LIMITED PAGE TWENTY-FOUR THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FBIDAY...... ..........August 31, 181 Sattotttg Semi-ready quality And style—and price— And perfect fit. These we guarantee you will be satisfied with— All you expect; all you hope for—that we promise you in a Semi-ready Suit or Overcoat. $18.00 to $40.00 THOMAS & McBAIN 655 ORANVILLE SUREST Sole Agents for Vancouver "Men Like Our Shoes" Our MEN'S SHOES are all "Union Made" by makers thnt beet know how, and men like them. The man who values comfort and stylo as well ns durability, will do well to como to this store that sells "Shoes That Men Like." "We're at your service, Mr. Union Man" The Ingledew Shoe Co. 666 GRANVILLE STREET NEXT HUDSON'S BAY ST. REGIS HOTEL M. E. McCOY, Manager A MODERN HOTEL EUROPEAN PLAN POPULAR PRICES FIRST-CLASS CAFE SETMOUB and DUNSMUIR STS, VANCOUVEB, B. O. The Sign USE SHAMROCK Brand Lard Butter Ham Eggs Bacon Sausage P.BURNS Of Quality & COMPANY, LTD. Retail Stores in All Sections of the Province ll Prohibition Oct. 1! Drop a postcard or letter request to Oold Seal, Ltd., 722 Fender Bt. West, Vancouver, B. 0., today, for its Special September Prices List. Mailed free. THE GOLD SEAL, LTD., wai incorporated in 1898 and ia the largest distributor of pure wines and liquors in Western Canada. THE COMPANY has in etock in Hs warehouse, vaults and cellars, an enormous stock of the choicest, oldest and purest wines and spirits which it is possible to obtain on the continont. THIS STOCK we offer to the public at low prices as noted in our Special September Price List. Send for it today. A FEW OF OUR SPECIAL LINES Oold Seal XXX Gold label Old Cognac Brandy- Par Bottle (1.60 Per case tie.oo (12 Dottles) Martin Eogers or J. Hennessy XXX Cognac Brandy— Per gallon 18.00 Jos, E, Seagram's or Hiram Walker's 7-year- old Canadian Bye Whisky— Per gallon 14.00 Extra Special Walker's or Robertson-Sanderson Old Highland Whisky— Per gallon 18.00 Bohertson-Sanderson 10. year-old Mountain Dew Scotch Whisky— Per bottle si.50 Per caw tie.oo (12 bottles) Oold Seal 3-Seal, 9 years old Canadian Whisky— Per bottle $1,25 Per can $13.00 (12 bottles) IT FAVORS BEFITS Circularizes Membership of Street Railway Employees on Subject In viow of the coming convention of the Strcetrailway Employees' internntionnl union, at which Business Agent Fred. A. Hoover will be a delegate from Pioneer Division No. 101, the following statement issued by International President W. D. Mahon, covering the benefit system, will bo of special interest to Pacific coast streetrailwaymen and of general interest to trade unionists: We Should Support Our Benefit System. "Detroit, Mich., July 25, 1017. "To tho Divisions of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, "Brothers: I take this moans of bringing to the attention of your Division the Bubject of our Funeral, Total Disability and Old Age Benefits in order that the members of your Division may discuss this matter and in- etruct your delegates to the coming convention aB to their action upon the same. "The presen Funeral, Disability and Old Age Benefits were established and put into operation by thc action of the convention held at St. Joseph, Mo., in Septembor, 1911, The lawB went into operation on Jan. 1, 1912. At the time these benefits were established we Btated to the convention, and by circular to our membership, that it was not possible to state or estimate at that time what the actual cost of maintaining these benefits would be; that only timo and experience would develop and bring out the facts. We pointed out at that time that our Association could establish and maintain these benefits at a cheaper rate to our membership than any other organization could, because of the fact that we had our Association and that it was maintained as a trade union and not as a beneficial society, but that through our organization we could establish ana operate this beneficial feature without any additional cost to our membership, because aa a trade union we had our international and local officers to conduct the affairs of our Association and they could transact and look after the beneficial features without any additional cost, except that of clerk hire in the General office—possibly one clork to look after this matter—and the cost of printing. There haB been no other cost attached to our beneficial features. "During the past five (5) years and six (6) months thero hns been paid out in Funeral Benefits, one million eighty-seven thousand seven hundred twenty dollars and thirteen cents ($1,- 087,720.13); in Disability Benefits, thirty-three thousand six hundred dol- ilars ($33,000.00); in Old Age Benefits, seven thousand two hundred dollars 1 ($7,200.00), making a total paid in these five (5) years and six (6) months of ono million one hundred twenty-eight thousand fivo hundred twenty dollars and thirteen cents ($1,128,520.13). This money has gone to aid the wives of our deceased members and in somo cases to eare for old parents and to care for their orphaned children, or to aBsist the members who were totally disabled and to aid our old members who have become too old to follow the occupation. In most cases without these provisions these beneficiaries would have been absolutely penniless, So it is not possible for us to estimate the good this beneficial feature has done for tho membership of this Association. In this "CAPTAIN" W. D. JONJS W. D. Jones from "irnTiniit littlo Wales," ]r known by all his friends—and their tinmen are legion—as Captain Jones. Ho lias buon Hghtkoeper at Brockton Point for 80 years. His garden is famed far and wide ■—and he has raised hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of dollars for the Returned Soldiers' club, by the sale of flowers. The joy he has spread is worth billions and trillions. He has saved 18 lives In the Narrows, and litis the medals which fitly recognise such service to humanity. He joined the Goneral Society of Carpenters and Joiners in 1865, when that socioty merged into the present great organisation of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners In 1872, he joined 1 it. Here in Vancouver tho flrst organisation of carpenters and joiners met In his boat-building shop. He wan the flrst president, and Is a retired pensioner of the union. Lively as a cricket the genial little Welshman had he a body in proportion to his big heart, would bo a regular Goliath. May his shadow never grow less, A prospective candidate for park commissioner. All goods shipped in plain case same day order ii received, Gold Seal Limited Freight or Express Prepaid to any point in B. 0. No oharge for packages —Special Discounts. TELEGRAPHIC OEDEES HAY BE SENT TO UB "COLLECT." Pender Street W. VANCOUVER, B. 0. SEND TODAY FOR SPECIAL PRICE LIST YOUR HEALTH DEPENDS ON TOUR FOOD Milk Ii the Natural Food Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, famous food expert, says: "Milk differs from every other food substance known in the faot that it is a complete food." When you drink a glass of milk, costing 2%c, you fortify your body with aa much energy and nutriment as you would obtain from a can of tomatoes or a half-pound of chicken. Eat less heavy food and ubo more Milk, Butter, Cheese and Ice Cream. Be Healthier, Spend Less. DAIRY PE0DU0T8 PUBLIC. ITT BUREAU fivo (5) and one-half (&) years tho total cost to a member has been seventeen dollars and sixteen conts ($17.16) to maintain this benefit. I would ask you to think of that. You could not have secured straight life insurance covering the amount of your benefits for one year for what the total cost of five (5) and one-half (%) years has been, to say nothing of the disability and old nge benefits that you have had during that time. "Now, the amount set aside by tho St. Joseph convention is not sufficient —time has demonstrated that—to guarantee this benefit to our membership iu the future. It will be necossary for tho coming convention to revise the laws if we nre to continue the nmount we are now paying to increase the amount necessary to insure them, or else reduce the amount pnid. Of course, if the Association fools this too great a burden they can discontinue tho entire beneficial features, but I ennnot believe that our membership desire that. My belief is that every loyal member of thiB Association wants to see these benefits continued, and it is my intention to recommend to this convontion an increase for the per capita tax to our membership of fifteen (15) cents a month; that fourteen (14) cents a month of this amount be added to the Funeral, Disability and Old Age Benefit Fund nnd that the additional one (1) cent a month be added to the Defense Fund to give further assistance to our membership who are compelled from timo to time to strike in order to protect their rightB. With the increase of fourteen (14) cents a month to our benefits it will place them on a safe basis und guarantee to tho membership in tho future their protection. Now, this increase will make the cost covering the Funeral, Disability and Old Age.Benefits, four dollars and eighty cents ($4.80) a year. You could not secure straight life insurance to the amount of eight hundred dollars ($800.00) for three months for that amount, leaving out the Total Disability and Old Age Benefits, and that amount will cov-or it for the year. "It is a matter now for your Division to discuss and instruct your delegates^—firBt, whether they shall vote for the increased per capita tax to meet and protect the benefits; second, whether thoy shall vote to reduce the amounts paid; third, whether thoy shall voto to discontinue the benefits or not. "This, I feel, places tho matter squarely and truthfully before your Division. It is a matter now for your delegates to say at tho coming convention what your instructions as members are upon this important subject. "Yours fraternally, "W. D. MAHON," "International President." Sir Wilfrid Would At Least Conserve Semblance of Democracy THE SLAVE'S DREAM [H. W. Longfellow] Beside the ungathered rice he lay, his sickle in his hand; His breast was bare, his mattered hair, wns buried in the sand; Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, he saw his native land! Wide through tho landscape of his dreams the lordly Niger flowed; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain onco moro a king ho strode, And heard tho tinkling caravans descend tho mountain-road. Ho sow once moro his dnrk-cyed queen among her children stand; Thoy clasped his neck, they kisBed his chocks, they held him by the hand! A tear burst from tho sleeper's lidB, and fell into the sand. And then at furious speed he rode along tho Niger's bank; , His bridle-reins were golden chains, and with a martial clank, At each leap he could feel his scabbard of steel smiting his war-steed's flank. Before him like a blood-red flag, tho bright flamingoes flew; From morn till night ho followed thoir flight, o'er plains whoro the tamarind grew. Till he saw tho roofs of Caffre huts, and the ocean rose to view. At night he heard the lion roar, and the hyena scream, And tho river-horse, as he crushed the reeds beside some hidden stream; And it passed liko a glorious roll of drums, through the triumph of hiB dream, The forests, with their myriud tongues, shouted of Liberty; And the Blast of the Desert cried aloud with a voice so wild and free, That, he started in his sleep, and smiled at their tempestuous glee. Ho did not feel tho driver's whip, nor the burning hoat of day; For Death hnd illumined tho Land of Sleep, and his lifeless body lay A worn-out fetter, that the soul had broken and thrown away! • [The "Voice, Winnipog] Despite the pressure and newspaper repudiation of the Big Interests Press, Laurier stands head and shoulders over all the politicians at Ottawa ns a democrat who believes in the people .of Canada running their affairs in the interests of the peoplo by his statement to the "Win-the-War League" in Toronto: "In the new parliament I hold that it must be tho duty of the majority leader, whoever he may be: "(1) To confer immediately with Oreat Britain and her allies with ft view to finding out to what extent the participation of Canada can bo utilized to the greatest advantage in the prosecution of the war, regard being hnd on the ono hand to the necessities of the allies for men, and on the other hand to our population, resources, industries, geographical and other essential considerations. "(2) To bring into being a govornment composed, as far us possible, of the ablest men in all classes, whose immediate task would be the efficient and non-pnrtizan organization of thc whole nation on the lines determined upon "(3) To organize a vigorous and compact system of voluntary enlistment, conceived and carried out on strictly non-partizan and broadly national methods. "(4) To devise *nd apply ways and means so that the full duty of Canada be generously performed toward our returned soldiers and their dependents; the wealth of Canada compelled to contribute its juit aad proper share of our burdens; and the mass of tho people efficiently safeguarded from the greed of the war profiteers. "The nbove views I hold nnd express not in deviation, but in fulfillment of tho course which I marked down at tho outset, and which never was nt nny moment absent from my thoughts. "Believo me, yours sincerely, (Signed) "WILFRID LAURIER." PIATFORM OF INDEPENDENT LABOB PARTY OF ONTAEIO The object of the Independent Labor Party of Ontario is to promote the political, economic and social interests of people who live by their labor, mental or manual, as distinguished from those who live by profit upon tho labor of others. Ho we have established a permanent provincial organization so that we may act in co-operation as far as possible with independent political organizations of the farmers and the producing class for tho purpose of electing men or women who will stand by tho democratic principle of a working class movement, with all that tho term Implies. Platform. Free and compulsory education. Free education in all institutions supported by the government. Free textbooks. Tho public ownership of all public utilities and natural resources of wealth. Nationalization of banking and credit systems. Direot legislation through the initiative, referendum and recall. » Gradual elimination of unearned increment through Increasing taxation. Equal pay for equal work. Abolition of property qualifications for all municipal offices. Abolition of all election deposits. Proportional representation with group constituencies. Abolition of the Canadian senate. No court to be legally competent to declare aa unconstitutional any act of the parliament of Canada. Amending the British North America Aot so that the decisions of the klghest court of appeal In Canada be final, in all matten, civil and political. That adequate equal pension! bt fiaitta to all disabled soldiers, either ofletn «r men, or their widows and dependents. Pensions for mothers with dependent children, Old ago pensions. Creation of national reserves of coal and timber. , .... We believe thut performance Is better than promise, and we rest our claim for the support of the workerB on tbe general declaration that we stand for the industrial freodom of those who toil and tho political Hboration of thoso who for so long have been denied justice. CENTER l&HANNA, Ltd. UNDERTAKERS Refined Serffc 1049 OEOBOIA STBEET One Block west of Court House. Use of Modern Chapel and Funeral Farlora free to all Patrom. Telephone Seymour 2(25 J. Edward Saw. Offlee: Bey. 4118 SEARS &PATTON Bwriiten, Solicitor*, Coav.jaaceri. Etc. Victoria and Vanconrar Vancouver Offlce: 516*7 Rogera Bldg. VAHOOUVEB, B. O. T.B. CUTHBERTSON & 00. Men'B Hatters and Outfitters 430 OranWll. Street 419 Haatlnca Street Wart ROYAL &.ROW/ piOAR THE ROYAL CROWN SOAPS V" VANCOUVER.B.C. The Place To Clothe Your Boy SUITS—Tweeds, Serges and Worsteds to fit boys and youths, 2 to 18 years; made Norfolk, Sports, Pinchback and other styles; good wearing qualities; all prices. ODD PANTS—Corduroy, Tweed, Serge, Velveteen, White Drill and Serge, in 17 sizes, from 2 years up. HATB AND OAPS- -Up-to-date in many styles. UNDERWEAR—Shirts, Shirtwaists, Sweaters, Night Shirts, PyjamBS, eto. OOTTON SUITS and Straw and Cotton Hats. ALL ON SALE NOW Stockings, Overalls, CLUBB & STEWART LIMITED TeL Bey. 70S MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING 300 to 315 Hastings Stnet West Canadian Northern Railway TRANSCONTINENTAL THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PASSENGER FARES EASTERN DESTINATIONS MODERN EQUIPMENT—COURTEOUS ATTENDANTS- TRAVEL COMFORT CONSULT OUR NEAREST AGENT OR WRITE DISTRICT PASSENGER AGENT, 605 HASTINGS W„ VANCOUVEB Telephone Seymour 8482 Buy Union Made Goods AS FAR AS POSSIBLE WE HANDLE HEADLIGHT OVERALLS—BOB LONG GLOVES Union Made Hats and Shirts W. B. BRUMMITT 18 and 20 Cordova St. West 444 Main St. Would you make baby happy if it cost as little as ... . P*OH this small sum you can make baby r happy—and mothor too. You can got ono of our brand new and germ-free baby cars that wo mako ln our own Vancouvor factory —curs that are uafe- and reliable and trustworthy—corB that will provido baby with comfort and nafoty. Made by expert*—do- nigiiod on scientific principles. Sold at very modcrato prlcoH. Writo or call for our interesting illustrated catalogue. Post free. Shaw's Baby Cars (o. 8. shaw a co.) 904 ROBSON — Opp. Court House $19.75 TRADES UNIONISTS—IS THE MILK SUPPLIED TO TOUR HOME DELIVERED BY UNION LABOR? If it li not call up the BeaconsfieldHygienicDairy PHONE FAIBMONT 1697 or drop a card to onr offloe, 905 Twenty-fourth Avenue Eut. WE EMPLOY UNION LABOR EXCLUSIVELY WE GUARANTEE TO GIVE YOU SATISPACTION—GIVE US A CALL Established 1891* John J. Banfield Fire Iniurance, Accident Insurance, Eitatei Managed. MONEY TO LOAN 397 Seymour St Phone Seymour : When The Safe Deposit Box Was Opened A mnn reputed to bo wealthy died recently in Vancouver. Whon his hcira were'Bottling his os- tate, the Safe DepoBit Box, in which nil his valuable papers were stored, was opened, nnd a careful inventory of tho nsseta aB represented by the securities showed that tho only document of real value was a CONFEDERATION LIFE POLICY WHICH HAD ACTUALLY INCREASED IN VALUE THROUGH PROFITS EARNED. The deceased, a clover business mnn, had in. vostod largely in other securities that after his death proved to be worth much less than their face value—somo of thom wero of no value. The Confederation Policy Waa Good for More Than 100%. Profits had materially increased its vnlue, and tho heirs received these profits in cash, with the face valuo ef tho policy. Provincial Offlee: Bank of Ottawa Building, Vancouver, B. O. Branch Offices: Sarward Building, Victoria Westminster Trust Block, New Wsstmlasttr
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