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7f***^^^^^^^!W mmanmenaammmtmmmmmm^ameWimajtimmmm .W.MBHMBMHMPMMHBHI-1 INDUSTRIAL UNITT: BTBENOTH OFFICIAL ,5J»BB: VANCOUVEB TBADES AND LABOB 00 NINTH YEAR. No. 37 EIGHT PAGES UNOIL, AND B. 0. FEDEBATION OF LABOB The Crowning Achievement ******* -X****** ******* In Canadian Political Infamy Ottawa Experts at Intrigue Arrange Sure Thing Election Game Franchise to Be Limited to Assured Supporters of Conscription Political Vulgarity and Impudent Chicanery As a Fine Art CANADIAN politicians have long since attained a well- earned fame for unscrupulous chicanery and coarse intrigue, that has extended to the uttermost parts of the earth. Not even the political hiBtory of the United States discloses anythingraore vulgar, coarse and unclean, than the political life of Canada during the last half century. No greater contempt has ever heen manifested for all principles of honor, decency and Beemly conduct, than haB been openly shown aB the normal expression of so-called Canadian statesmanship, during that time. The most flagrant jobbery, the moot stupendous schemes of public loot and plunder,* havo been pushed through to their conclusion with the utmost indiffereitoe to all codos of moral and ethical rectitude, and without bringing the slightest indication of the blush of shame to tho calloused cheeks of the instigators and perpetrators thereof. It has long since become generally acknowledged that moral turpi* tude is the sole qualification requisite to a successful career in Canadian political life. But, however coarse, low, mean and vile the standard of politicnl conduct may have been in the past, it has been left to the gang of political intriguers and crooks now in command of the ship of stae, at Ottawa, to develop such a super-excellent efficiency in the art of political roguery as to place them in a class by themselves and stamp tehir achievements as the ultimate of possibility in the --"- --'--- -* --■*"--' skullduggery. HJR DAY Makes "Vohin- :essions,But -^HasSay B will beBPraftbered that District 6 of the Minen' union (metalliferous), dome weeks ago submitted a new ached- ployer* of British Colura- uie to the . .. ,_ bia. Negotiations were carried on in several camps and quite a number bf agreements were entered into. Whether ''voluntary" or not, as suggested, the Granby Co., operating at various points throughout the province, mostly in the Boundary district and away up north in the Anyox camp, has announced a "sliding" wage increase covering the smelter at Grand Forks and the mines at Phoenix. For every two cents raise in the market price of copper above 14c a pound, the wages of the men are in* creased by 25c a day, thus with copper at 24c the men receive a bonus of $1.25 per day, while if copper reaches 30c the bonus will amount to $2. In addition to this all men who have in the past been working nine hours a day will now only be required to work eight hours. VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY tffrRNING, SEPTEMBER^!;)!?" P0LH3CAI, UOTTti VIOTOBX CANNERY COMPELS GIRLS 10 WORK Manager of a Victoria Cannery Makes Surprising Admission POLITICAL POT OT Women's Labor Exploited At Miserable Wage of of 15c an Hour bility in the noble science of political The forcing of the conscription net upon the people of the Dominion, without other ■ mandate or authority than that which had been impudently assumed, no one really knows for what damnable purpose, 'unless it be thc perpetrators of the infamy themselves, was bad enough, one would think, to satisfy the most cultivated and fastidious taste for things morally rotten and ethically disgusting. But ns if that were not enough; as if there wns yet a degree of low appetite for things unclenu and vile, that it was tho duty of the purveyors of political atrociousness und past masters of political depravity to feed with choice crunibs of satisfying and appropriate succulence, the Ottawa high priests of political depravity have nobly risen to the occasion by incubating a "Wa^ Times Election Act," that has anything in tho lino of impudent chiennory and clumsy cunning that was ever perpetrated, beaten to a standstill. It is impossible to conceive of any manner in which this precious device to so-1 cune the certain return of the intriguers to power could be improved upon. Strip- *ped of all unnecessary verbiage it re' solves^ itself into a fairly simple proposition of allowing the franchise to &\xy one who can clearly establish his or. her intention to support the candidates and policy of the delectable schemers who are now in office, and who incubated the precious "Act." If you are unquestionably for Borden and his unconscionable and-impudent allied rogues and iheir vicious policies,, yoa will be allowed to register your convictions to that effect. If not, you will clearly have no chance to register your gro-German and disloyal sentiments, ome of the provisions contemplated in this preciouB "Act" are as follows: Disfranchisement of citizens of enomy alien birth naturalized since March 31, 1002. Disfranchisement not to apply to those with son, grandson or brother on active service, or to Armenians or Syrians. Disfranchisement of Doukhobors, Mennonites and ull others exempted from combatant military service for conscientious reasons; exercise of franchise by any individual a bar to any later claim for exemption on conscientious grounds. j Enfranchisement of mothers, wives, widows, daughters or sisters of sol- ■» dlers who have gone overseas from Canada since the beginning of the war. That the patriotic Tory women are also busily engaged in aiding the noble purpose of the Borden band of most eminent statesmen in winning the election, and incidentally the war, is shown by the following telegrata alleged to havo been sent, cat from Toronto recently to faithful female workers in the noble cause throughout thc western provinces. The signatures are ,those of the president of the National Council of Women, the president of the National Equal Franchise league and the 'regent Of the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire. The purpose is clearly thnt of ascertaining if it would bo safe for the conspirators to include ull of the wbmen among those who were to bo al- [lowed to vote for Borden undor the f'Aet." Here is the telegram: .. Toronto, Aug. 2, 1017. Oan you ascertain opinion of but* standing reliable women in your district with regard" to the following" question: Would the granting of thc federal franchise to women make conscription assured at the general election, jf-sueh is inevitable, taking carefully mo consideration the vote of thc ■foreign women f Highly important that we should Pacific Transfer Co. Oppose New Union of Drivers in This City The Pacific Transfer company is now in a class with the Turner's dairy in its treatment of organized labor. It refused to permit its teamsters to join the newly-organized Teamsters' and Drivers' union. Tho manager of the company says he has advised, and would continue to advise his teamBters not to join the union. He says he prefers to deal with his employees individually and not collectively. The manager is very frank about it, nnd or- fainzed labor no doubt will be just as rank in demanding tbat deliveries to their homes be. by drivers' or teamsters belonging to the new union. A committee which was appointed by the new organization has been busy among other unions circulating word that nil members of organized labor should insist thut goods delivered to their homes be by union men. If this course is insisted upon, organized labor will greatly assist the new union. As a matter of fact, this will assure to a still greater degree the success of the new union. It is understood thc Pacific Transfer man has a grouch of some years' standing agaiust organized labor, dating to thu time an attempt was made before by the teamsters to organize for their own protection and benefit. Unquestionably the Puciflc Transfer Co. hns been doing considerable business with members of organized labor. His "advice" to his teamsters, however, would indicate that he docs not give a snap of his fingers for members of unions. Such being the case, the manager of the Pacific Transfer company may j scarcely expect us patrons the brother union meu of thc teamsters. However, the Pacific Transfer company is not tho only transfer company in the city, and, so, far as known, this company is the only ono which has expressed any objection to its men joining the union. Out of Hospital. President J. R. Foster, of the Moving Picture Operators, his friends will be very pleased to learn, after two weeks in hospital, Is now out and around again, fully recovered. Thirty or forty women are employed at the cannery of the Vantoria Canning company, in this Mty, at the small wages of 16 cents an hour. Some of the workers are mere children, not more than 14 or 15. Last Sunday a part of the force, was compelled to work under Protest, making seven days a week. 'he. manager, Sorenson, is reported to have told the women that if he could not get them to work the week through, and .when he wanted them to, he would engage Chinese in their' places. Furthermore, the women are compelled to work nine hours a day and over. Sorenson could not get Chinese laborers to do the work he nos the wooden do for 15 cents an hour. Oriental! could have been engaged at one time for this money, but since the war took so many men out of British Columbia, they are finding jobs now whieh pay much better than under the old conditions. They ane fllling white men's jobs in the mills and other places, and, though getting less pay1 than white labor, it is a whole lot more than they used to earn. So Sorenson's threat to the women at his cannery was all bluff, and he knew it. Furthermore, employment of Chinks by the cannery would'nt be very good advertising for Vantoria goods. Complaint of the conditions at the Vantoria cannery was made to The Federationist. The burden of the complaint was substantially borne out by the cannery manager himself, though he attempted to be misleading as to the wages paid. He said he paid from $3.50 to $6 a day.' When pinned down, he said hiB engineer got $G a day. It is a safe bet that the only reason the engineer gets that uhiount of money is because the engineers of this city are organized, otherwise they might have to subsist on wages far too low, as in the case of the women employed at this cannery. When Sorenson said he was paying from 43.50 to (6 a day, he implied «3.S0 was the wages being paid to his ordinary help, which, of course, was a mistake, for at 15 cents an hour, it would be impossible for the women to make such a sum, unless he worked them all dsy long. Sorenson's excuse for working the women on Sundays was that when goods hnd to be dinned, they had to be canned. Otherwise they would spoil. That is quite evident. Were this establishment n little more considerate of its employees, there could be an arrangement whereby some of the employees who were needed on Sunday worlt could have a day off. Howover, when a woman is making only 15 cents an hour,,and probably trying to support some dependents upon it she would welcome the extended time. If the ennnery management employed men instead, it would never get away with the 15-eents-nn-hour scale. Like some other business enterprises, the Vantoria cannery is exploiting female labor because it is possible to get it j cheap. It will almost sem like old times with "Billy" Mclnnes' hat in the ring again. Jadge Mclnnes subsided for a long time, and he muit be all pent up fit for a terrific political explosion now. He has accepted the nomination of the Liberals of Comox constituency to be their champion in the coming battle of the Liberals against the Tory powers at Ottawa, who, heaven knows, have done enough to give the judge, or anybody else, sufficient campaign material. The Tories ought to be put out on general principles. Many ask the question if the Grits in would change things very materially. Well, u between two evils, etc., some are inclined to say, the people should choose the leaser, if it is the lesser. Thete is one thing about it, however, and that il this: The people fknow the Borden government to be rotten. It is strongly suspected some of them ought .to be in jail. Whether that is true or not, doeB not alter the' fact that they have pulled,off some deals which look like porch-climbing and second storey work. That; C.N.R. st—deal is one of them. And the way they bave monkeyed with the military Bervice business, let war profiteers remain out of jail and combinations to exist In restraint of trade, are some things which the general publio will never forgive. « • '-»f ■ The only way tbe Tories can win again is to steal the .election. They are preparing the way for a suffrage steal whieh is indescribably despicable. It is a pity that those responsible for laws inimical to the welfare of the public cannot bje suitably punished. In which event some of that eastern crowd of profit pirates would get worse than jail. • • t * •. Electors must not overlook the decision of the B. C. ■ Federation of Labor to leave in the hands of the executive committee the right to place Labor candidates in the field. Some, say this would prove of decided .advantage to the Tory nest back east. They reason Labor candidates would,'divide the opposition with the Liberals. This may be true, but the executive committee may be trusted to consider all these thingB. Unquestionably the Labor candidates will have the beBt chance in the history of Labor in this province, generally speaking. ' WIVES MEETING (mtrSaT) $1-50 PER YEAB Trades and Labor Congress Td ******* «**«««* ' S****** Convene at Ottawa on Monday Organised labor, and unorganised as well, which realises how far the profiteers oi Canada will go to exploit them, are unalterably opposed to the principle of conscription. That is the reason for the proposal to place Labor candidates in the field. Theae. candidates will leave no doubt as to where they stand on, the conscription BttykfiJ.,, The Lib-1 erals, oppose conscription "more' because it is a Borden scheme than because it is the poor man who chances to get the worst of it. However, they say ,___im{i iu ior ner oeneiit. iftnal- they are in favor of the "conscrip- w Btill refusing to step down frota the tion" of wealth, but do not define just preflidency, she fainted, which broke up what that means. If it means a tax the meeting. Another meeting is to be on profits, it is scarcely enough. Con- held in two weeks, scription of manhood means taking I Roundly Criticize Borden and Work of "Patriotic" Fund President Refuses to Resign and When She Faints Meeting Disperses "We, the Canadian Association of Mothers and Wives of Soldiers and Sailors of the British army and navy demand that the government give a substantial increase in our separation allowance, as the Patriotic fund allowance is insufficient to make ends meet, owing to the high cost of living. A reply will be appreciated. If not,. we shall continue demanding nn increase until we get it." THE FOREGOING resolution waB adopted Wednesday night at a meeting of the Canadian Association of the Mothers and Wives of Soldiers Snd Sailors. The meeting also expressed its resentment at the manner in which the Patriotic fund is administered, various speakers saying they felt like the recipients of charity. Many pathetic instances were disclosed showing how^ dependents of the men who have gone to the front are compelled to exist by stinting themselves on the inadequate allowances. One vigorous speaker declared the women dependent on the men who had gone away to fight, had been sitting for three years "letting politicians and slackers play chess with men's blood on the fields of Flanders, where they have been tools of the government." Another speaker declared the Borden government had no respect for the soldiers ' or the sailors' wives. The exemption provisions in the Military Service Aot was declared to be for the purpose of allowing favorites to get out of service. The sentiment of the meeting was in favor of equalization of pensions. The association has had six months of existence, and some of the officers and their methods do not appenl to the rank and file, so all officers with the exception of the president, Mrs. Janet Kemp, of fruit-picking fame, resigned. Mrs. Kemp refused, claiming she had been elected for five years or something like that, Some of the remarks directed at Mrs. Kemp for her exploitation of women 's labor in the fruit fields were anything but complimentary. Several criticisms of Mrs. Kemp, whicb have appeared in the local press, were read and referred to for ber benefit. Final VICTORIA LETTER (MS'PROTEST Join With All the Western Cities in Demand for $20 Increase Victoria Letter Carriers lave joined with Vancouver and other western cities in a protest against governmen tal delay in increasing wages commensurate with the prices of foodstuffs. At m*e{ulK m Tuesday evening in the Capital (Sty, the membership adopted th* following resolntion: "That this meeting request that the government grant an immediate general Increase of 420 per month to the aforementioned employees, find that all temporary employees receive a similar increase in pay; and be it further resolved that the said increase be .granted as and from October 1, 1916, and to be received not later.'than September 30, 1917." • Copies of the resolution were sent to Sir Bobert Borden, the. postmaster-general and the secretary of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. All the Letter Carriers in tba cities between Winnipeg and the coast are co* '"Is operating in this request. 33rd Annual Convention of Organized Labor Meets Next Monday- Many Grave Problems That Confront the Woiters to Be Considered Sad Situation With Which the Government Has to Deal away every last penny of profits accumulated through the unfortunate circumstances of the war? appears to bc their lungs, and their vocal cords. Won't there be a fine, upstanding lot I. UP in Comox, Judge Mclnnes is go- of budding politicians of both Grit and |'"g to ™" «P "Jf"1"8* Herk Clements, Tory stripe trying for exemption,1" ™n«,,*tn*'n" "" should the Bordjcn bunch have the Sheet Metal Workers in the Northwest Are in Very Prosperous Shape "Sheet Metal Workers' organizations throughout tho Pacific northwest are. in excellent condition, especially in Vancouver," yesterday, said W. L. Sullivan, general organizer, who is here Kansas City, his headquarters. Large Increase in Membership at the Last Meeting: Seventy-five new members were added by the newly-organized union of Team* stern' and Drivers, at tbe meeting on Wednesday night. The membership is now over 500. The union voted a contribution of 425 to the funds for anti- conscription candidates in tbe federal elections. H. J. Petrie, business agent, resigned and was highly complimented for his work on behalf of the organization. J. F. Pool was elected by acclammation to succeed him. B. S. Showier was elected secretary-treasurer. A no- tico of motion was given that the union should subscribe in a body to The Federationist. ' have this information or at least some idea of the trend of women's opinion on this question, PLEASE GLEAN YOUR INFORMATION AS QUIETLY AS POSSIBLE. Telegraph results not later thnn Monday, 0th, to 205 Yoiige street, room lo. MRS. TORRINGTON. TtfRS. A. L. HAMILTON. MRS. ALBERT GOODERHAM. We shall have something more to say about tbo purity of Canadian politics next week, or rather tho impurity. If the people will stand for this lutest nt- tempt to nullify democracy and repudiate their'participation in government, they will stand for anything. And thoy will right woll deserve it, too. Mr. Sullivan has been travelling in the northwest for tbe past three montbs, and departs soon for Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and other states in connection with his work of orgnnization. Speak* ing of improved conditions generally, Mr. Sullivan said: "The local here on September 1 got a raise of 50 cents a day, being the second Increase lately. The membership in the union has doubled and more members are in sight. The organization nearly covers all the sheet metal workers here. "I was recently in Victoria, but busl* ness is not so good there, but still our organization is being maintained. "In Calgary and Edmonton business has improved greatly and both locals aro growing. As u matter of fact, busl* ness is very good all along the coast. "On Puget Sound nnd in Vancouver sheet metal workers and in fact, all engaged in the shipbuilding industry, are very much interested in the conference in Washington, D. C. Whatever is thc outcome of the conference between shipbuilders und workers on Puget Sound, undoubtedly will decide the scale of wagt's to be paid in this industry in Vancouver." It has been three years since the general organizer wus in Vnncouver before, nnd he told The Federationist that he finds a very decided increase for the better in business generally and organized labor,' nerve to force conscription upon tht. people of Cnnnda? How many of those ardent young "Win the War" stal- wartB will have excuse sufficient to escape the dragnet? Of course, they nil claim excuses now, but will they be able* to get away with it always? Of course, same of them will, for conscription is a purely political measure. Howover, tbe writer can nnmo a whole lot of young huskies whose only physical ailment is they are too darn fat to fight just now. But a six weeks' course of military drill would put them in as good shape.to fight Germans, or anybody else, as the working class is looked upon na being. Those political fighters might at least get in trnining for "home defence." Tbe only portion of their anatomy fit > a conscription politician. Clements is givon credit for being a finished earn paigner. Ho depends upon his hand ike, * shnlte, for be can't speak in n class with the judge. It will be a. buttle between oratory and handshaking. Herb, has considerably the best of it thus far, for tbe judge is only just entering the lists, and Herb, has been quietly sneaking around for months, fnr ho needs his position pretty bad. Clements hasn't done anything for years but represent some constituency or other. He makes a Hying out of it. « * » And, by tho way, talking about party politicians, there is some good material going to waste in this country. There's King Kelly. One of the most successful'accomplishments in a party campaign is tbe collection end. Nat many men can step out and get the money like Kelly can. In reply to his telegram of protest upon the part of the Vancouver Trades and Labor council agalnBt the government's "War Time Eleetion Act," Secretary Mldgley received the following in reply: "Ottawa, Ont., Sept 12, 1017. "Victor R. Midgley, seeretary Trades and Labor Couneil, Vancouver, B. C. "Telegram received. It is evident you do not fully appreciate the situation with which the government has to deal, . Am writing you fully by- this mail. "R. h. BORDEN." Mr. Midgley assures The Federationist thnt he full well "appreciates the situation with which the government hns to deal." He fully understands the indisputable need of winning elections, and realizes thnt when a. government has conducted its affairs so as to bring down upon its head tbe well-merited execrations of every clean-thinking and well-intentioned person in the community, that the sledding will have been made so rough for the return journey to power, that no in considerable amount of unscrupulous road work may be necessary to ensure a safe return. Oh, yes, Mr. Midgley appreciates tbo situation, and no dodbt has complete confidence in tho ability of the present government to satisfactory "deal" with it. But it may be a raw deal for all of that. IN Government Makes Workingman Ante ******* ******* ******* The Tax Collector Hales Man To Court Vancouver Delegates at Ottawa, Messrs. Towler, Machinists; Knowles, Letter Carriers; Cottrell, Street Railway Employees; Hardy, Carpenters, and Trotter, Typos,, are among tho Vancouver delegates who, will be in Ottawa noxt week to attend the big national convention of the Trudcs and Labor Congress of Canada. THE INIQUITY of the poll tax, and the possibilities which It presents in the way of discomforts, even arrest, not to mention the hardship it works on tho general public, wns clearly shown the other day when one Andrew Blygb, a noisy politician, who was rewarded for his work for the Brewster government in the late campaign by an appointment of poll tax collector, had a man haled before Magistrate Shaw. This is one of the taxes put in force by Premier Brewster as finance minister, who had been loudly proclaiming that his government would adopt a course of "scientific" taxation, by which he was figured to mean something new and extraordinary. Tho poll tax is a relic of dark ages of government. Most up-to-date governments do not put their hand into the ordinary workingman's pocket in this manner any more." They havo a "scientific" way of going about it, and, though the workingman, wbo is the producer of all wealth, pays eventually us he pays everything, even though he doos nut participate in thc fruits of bis lubor, he is not absolutely bludgeoned out of it. However, tho brilliant Brewster government, which bragged on the hustings what It was going to do for the benefit of the workers, is playing directly into the bands of omployers, as did the old government, and instead of Increasing the income tax sufficiently, it based its income calculations on what could be extracted from the actual originators and producers of wealth. The poll tax of ♦5 a head on workingmen wha haven't been nblo to get sufficient money ahead to buy their own homes, a surtax, which doubles the amount of taxation figured out by the brilliant Brewster government. On Vnncouver island the farmers have banded together to refuse to come across witb the additional tnxes on their fnrmB, They reason the' government will not dare foreclose on tbeir property to muke good this feature of its "scientific" taxation. However, about tho iniquitous poll tax, at the rate it is being gathered in by a young army of political collectors, the administration of tbis taxation wilt como pretty high. For information of electors who may be curious to see the outcome of the Brewster "scientific" taxation, the government should keep a record of how much this sort of taxation costs to gnrner. Several poll tax collectors are running about this town, and other towns too, at a salary of 4125 a month. It is a safe bet that some of tbem do not collect that much in poll tuxes in a month. At least nfter thc novelty has worn off they won't. Meanwhile, tho omployers of labor are getting all thc best of it. While tbere have been some small increases, and taxes in spots have been doubled, it would have been nil easier and more "scientific" way if Brewster had spread tho amount be expected to get by a poll assessment aver thc banks, the automobiles, tlie various Hues of business enterprises, the big mining companies, tbe owners of theatres, thc land speculators, and, .finally, by reduction of the princely salaries thc cabinet ministers and their over-lapping office staffs draw. Finally, the addition of salary appropriated by Premier Brewster would have paid several li und red poll taxes. While this govornment before it wns elected, made grent protestations of being the workingman's friend, it may havo started out thut wuy, but it lias fallen like other governments, und is at Delegates at Nelson Discuss Questions Affecting Membership District 0 of thc Mine, Mill und Smel- termen's International union (old W. F. of M.), convened in annual convention at Nelson on Monday. Consideration was given to the question of furthering the movement for a "bunk to bank" provision in tho Provincial Me- talliferous Mines Act; tbe prevention of dust and danger to employees from contact with trolley lines; improved mine inspection; un eight-hour law for smelter workers, and improved sanitary conditions in bunkhouses und other buildings ut the mines. Opposition was expressed by President Roberts to thc proposal of the provincial Workmen's Compensation board that tho scale of compensation to dependents or Orientals should be reduced. He quoted thc famous Krutz case, in which the right to compensntion of non-resident alien dependents was established, and mentioned the fact that if discrimination ngninst Orientals were made, it might be extended to other classes of tabor. President Roberts, Silverton, defended tho miners against charges of lack of democracy broached by the Butte insurgents, nnd declared: "It behooves, us to resent'in no uncertain manner this campaign of slander carried on by the so-called Industrial Worwcrs of tlie World." Toilers of the Dominion Expect Vigorous and Militant Action THE THIRTY -THIRD annual convention of the Trade* and Labor Congress of Canada will meet in the oity of Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 17* The ayes oi the workers will be hopefully directed to the dcliberationa'of the convention, with the expectation that the attitude already taken by organized labor throtiiftout tha Dominion in regard to all questions growing out of the war, will be reaffirmed aiid auch further recommendations . offered as thto highest and best interest bf a progressive and militant labor movement demands. It is but fair to say that the Canadian Labor movement has not willingly surrendered any of Labor's privileges to the forces of reaction, on account of the specious sophistries of politicians and war boosters. The attitude assumed by the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada hw* been an eminently sane one, from tbe stand* point of Labor and democracy/ ever since the war broke oat. It. has not temporised with conscript slavery, but through its officials bas openly and emphatically condemned It* Its.attitude in regard to wealth conscription for war purposes has been unequivocally stated as that of being emphatically in favor of it ddwiT to"the last fathing, if necessary. Taken aU round, and upon all options of consequence to the workert, the attitude of Chilian organised labor has been in striking eontradistlne- tlon to that of the United States. It has been marked with no spirit bf truckling to reactionary governmental tendencies. It has not been swerved from progressive and militant lines by the patronising sophistries of .willy jwUtteJaaj* It has not been carried off its feet .' by the intoxication of machine made patriotism. It has remained eminently sane in the face of this world fury of blood and slaughter, quite willing to do ItB part in making the world safe for capitalism against feudalism, bjt steadily refusing to voluntarily surrender any of the bard-won privileges that the workers huve wrung from the past. The Federutionist expects that the convention will mark time for the Labor movement of this western continent, by the re-nffirmntion of a vigorous, militant, and progressive policy of warfare against the political and economic regime of feudal and capitalist autocrats, that has thrown the world into * the present holocaust. Discussing the probnblo deliberations of tbe convention, the NbrtbweBt Worker suys: "All eyes of the workers of the United States should be directed to tbe i forthcoming convention of the Trades land Labor Congress of Cnnndn, which will be held in Ottuwa on September 17. Canada has defeated conscription temporarily mninly through the courageous defiance of the labor lenders, who represented the rank and (lie in their - opposition to compulsory service. "The campaign for the conscription of weulth really means something in Canada, because the labor leaders are, indeed, working to bring It about. Other important matters will be discussed at tbe convention. "Ottawa hns been the Storm centre of tho most momentous period in the history of Canada in which n significant pnrt was taken by the labor movement, to its eternal credit. "It is believed that the sossion will bc fruitful of beneficial results, not only to the labor movement of Canada, but to that of tbe United States, whicb will meet In convention two months Inter.'' 8HEET METAL MEN MIGHT MEET HERE Northwest Council of Organisations Hay Accept Vanconver Men's Invitation. The local Sheet Metal Workers' have invited the Northwest District council to hold its convention on September 30 in this city, und there is a good prospect that the invitation will be accepted, though Sent tie was named as the meeting place. It is believed the holding of thc convention here will have a good effect. Tbere will be nbo.it 20 to 25 delegates in attendance, representing tho organizations of Portland, Taeoma, Seattle, Everett, Victoria and Vancouver. Drug Clerks Organise. At a meeting of drug clerks last Sunday, eighteen joined the Betail Clerks' union. Tlie drug clerics, because Sundays are their only days off, will meet on that day. As many of them ns may get off on week days will attond the Hetnll Clerks' union. twos of the farmer, a tux on theatre!the beck und calf of"corporation '"tor tickets, were sotoe of tho "scientific" CBts, ' Reciprocity, _ A simple and effective method of assisting in thc publication nnd usefulness of Tho Federationist is ta patronize its advertisers and tell them why. _ Ask to be served by a union clerk and insist upon union-labelled goods. <J Costs little—helps a lot. Try it. "Jimmio" Koblson in California. "Jimmie" Itobison, an old-time official af the Brotherhood of Carpenters, is now snugly located at Pacolmn, Los Angeles, Cal., in search of health. In nn itneresting lottcr to Tbe Fedcrntion- ist, "Jimmio" bas much to say covering working nud other conditions In tbe alleged "land of the free." "Jimmie V friends, and they are legion in Vancouver, are invited to come in and read the message It is good, too live for publication, even in this great fart- fly journal, 'Whether labor is holy or Oj holy terror thore remains the fact that under the presont industrial system the Idlers are tbo socially elect, admired, fawned upon and envied while the workers aro saeial outcasts, the recipients of tho crumbs from the tabic of the idlers." | PAGE TWO THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FBIDAY... ..September 14, 1917 A Delicious Healthful Drink There is no other beverage that will refresh and revive like a glass of delicious CASCADE BEER. Cascade is brewed by union workmen, in the most modern plant on the Pacific coast. CASCADE is for sale on draught or bottled at all hotels and liquor stores. Brewed and bottled at the Brewery. Vancouver Breweries Limited M. E. MeCOT, Manager A MODERN HOTEL EUROPEAN PLAN POPULAR PRICES FIRST-CLASS CAPE SETMOUB ud SUN8MUIB BIS. VANCOUVER, B. 0. 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CHESTERFIELD—2 for 25o CLUB HOUSE—3 for 25c ST. REGIS HOTEL XBASES UNIONISTS—IS THE MILK SUPPLIES TO TOUB HOME DELIVERED BT UNION LABOB? If lt li not call ap tb* BeaconsfieldHygienicDairy PHONE FAIBMONT 1697 or drop a card to our offlee, 805 Twenty-fourth Avenue Eut. WE EMPLOT UNION LABOB EXCLUSIVELY WS OUABANTEE TO OIVE TOU BATISP ACTION-GIVE US A CALL FULL DETAILS OF El Workingmen Will Bear the Burden and Profiteers Run Canada A Long List of Exemption Excuses Gives Chance for Favoritism The conscription details furnish much food for thought among laboring men, who under the plans of the Borden government to conscript manhood only, and let the profiteers continuo their neck' loss disregard of the individual, will bear tho burden if the Borden crowd gets away with it. The men who are liable to be cnlled out will consist of six classes, as follows: Class 1, Thoso who have attained the ago of twenty ye'ars and were born not earlier than the year 1883, and are unmarried, or are widowers but have no child. Class 2. Thoso who have attained the age of twenty years and were born not -earlier than the year 1883 and are married, or are widowers who have a child or children. 'Class 3. Those who wero born iu the years 1876 to 1882, both inclusive, and are unmarried, or are widowers who have no child. Class 4. Those who were born in tbe years 1876 to 1882, both inclusive, and nre married or are widowers who have a child or children. Class 5. Those who were born in the years 1872 to 1875, both inclusive, and are unmarried, or are widowers who have no child. Class 6. Those who were born In the years 1872 to 1875, both inclusive, and who are married, or are widowers who have a child or children. (2) For the purpose of this section, any man married after the sixth day of July, 1917, shall be deemed to be unmarried. • (3) Any class, except class 1, shall include taen who are transferred there* to from another class, and mea who have come within clnss 1 since the pre vious class was called out. Order of Calling Out. (4) The order in which the classes are described ia this section Bhall be the order ia which they may be called out on active service, provided the governor-in-council may divide any claas into subsclasscs, iq which case the subclasses shall bo called out in order of age beginning with tho youngest. _ ■ The Act stipulates that any mau who is called out and who, without reasonable excuse, fails to report when called upon, shnll be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years, with hard labor. Exemptions.. Men called on by the draft may secure 'exemption from service on the following grounds: (2) Thnt it is expedient in the national interest that the man should, instead of being employed in military service, be engaged in other work in whicU he is habitually engaged. (2) That it is expedient in the national interest that the man should, instead of being employed in military service, be engaged in other work in which ho wishes to be engaged and for which he has special qualifications. (3) Thnt it is expedient in the national interest that, instead of being employed in military service, he should continue to be educated or trained for any work for which he is then being educated or trained. (4) That serious hardship would ensue if tho man were placed on active service, owing to his exceptional financial or business obligations or domestic position. (5) Ill-health or infirmity. Conscientious Objectors. (6) That he conscientiously objects to the undertaking of combatant service and is prohibited from so doing by the tenets and articles, of faith, in effect on July (J 1917, of any orgaaized religious denomination existing and well recognized in Canada at such date, and to which he in good faith belongs. A certificate ot> exemption, the Act specifies, may be conditional as to time or otherwise and, if granted solely on conscientious grounds, shall state that such exemption is from combatant service only. If granted on the ground of continuance of education or training, or on the ground of exceptional financial or business obligations, or domestic position, it shall,be conditional only. A certificate may transfer a mnn to the class next in numerical order. No certificate will be conditional upon a person to whom it is granted continuing in or entering into employment under nny specified employer, or in nny specified place or establishment. The certificate must bc produced whenever asked for 1)y persons in authority, and anyone who fails to comply with this will bc liable to a fine not exceeding $100 or to itnuprisonment for not more thau a year. Suppression of Papers, Newspapers, books, periodicals, pamphlets or printed publication who oppose thc Act are liable to immediate suppression and thoso responsible are liable to fine or imprisonment. Thc exceptions are enumerated as follows: Men who hold a certificate under this Act nnd in force, other thnn a certificate of exemption from combatant service only; members of the regular, reserve or auxiliary forces, and other military forcos; members of tho royal navy or thc royal mnrineB, or the naval service of Canada, and members of the C. E. F.; men who have Binco August 4, ]914f,sorvied in the military or naVal forces of Gront Britain or her Allies in any theatre of actual war and have' boen honorably discharged therefrom. The clergy, including members nf nny recognized onler of an exclusively religious character, and ministers of nil religious denominations existing in Canada at the date of the passing of the Act, aro also excepted from tho operation of tho Act, as well as tfioso persons excepted from military service by ordor-ln-coancil of August 13,1873, and December 6, 1808. New 8. D. P. Organiser Named. Editor B. C. Federationist: I have just been apopintcd Dominion organizer for the Social Democratic Party and as soon as arrangements are completed, will begin,a tour. All secretaries of locals, and independent socialists hi unorganised districts who aro anxious to see the organization and direction of their forces, are iavited to write Geo. F, Stirling, imodiately in ordor to arrange for meetings throughout the province. Every day ns the capitalist governments squirm and writhe under the destruction which thoy have pulled ■upon themselves; every day as .their unnegotiable negotiations proceed with unerring steps towards chaos, it be comes more and more apparent that the social revolution is upon us. Our comrades in .Russia have made a stand against imperialism; against tho machinations of politicians; against the greed of ambitious potentates; and tbe heartless profiteering of capitalists. In Italy and France and Great Britain, the power of the Soeial Democracy is growing bo rapidly that its bitterest foes are now mouthing phrases about Liberty and Democracy.' In Canada our forces have been disorganized since tho outbreak of the war, with the result that our rulers have passed the iniquitous conscription measure in flagrant contempt of the wishes of the majority, fastening upon us that very tyranny against which we are said to be at war! And now they are about to venture one step further with their perfidious legislation by introducing the military voting bill. In this bill it is intended all soldiers in the Canadian forces shall vote and shall tell us how we shall be ruled, These soldiers include adventurous Americans who came over to join up for the fun of the thing, Britishers who came over to Canada to enlist in order to get the higher pay, and tens of thousands of others who have only resided a few weeks in this country and know nothing, of our affairs. Organization Is imperative. Talk it over with the other fellow at once. De cide that it is practicable and desirable and write without delay to GEORGE F. STIRLING, ftaral Route No. 2, Salmon Arm, B. C. Sept. 10, 1917. Our Duty in Canada and the Whole North American Continent. Editor B, C. Federationist: I speak from pure motives as taught from ob* servation of conditions as we see plain' ly that taking advantage of the terrible war, by profits made out of every branch of labor, the most excessive cost of living ever known in the history of the world. We are classed1 as a democratic or representative government, directed by the sentiment of the majority of the people. We hear a great deal about loyalty, patriotism, liberty, Three words with great meaning, if truly defined. Are we loyal to our own homes, or to class legislators, with liberty to make the working man with a family a Blave. Our government or the party holding poyer by an extension pnBtfft by themselveB: When their lease of office expired September, 1916, as per the standard law of Canada, with their self lease of power, have passed a conscription militia act, compulsion of man-power, without any voice from the people. They claim the right to enforce We will not diBpute here. My own opinion is that it has a German smell. If they demand con trol of our man-power, we surely have some sny about the price, and have thc right to demand seme' of the profits made out of man's labor, now controlled by tho corporations, especially our present banking, money controllers (which is the regulator), and have the liberty to charge us whatever they choose for our food and living. It seems to me this gigantic monopoly is one aad the eame party. The stock holders in our practical chartered banks, they are very much the same parties in all our large profit-making companies, who mako the rate of interest, banking laws and, I think, the price of food. * The farmers' price Is nothing compared with the gamblers' firofit. Now comes the question. Sure- y, if they ore half sports, they wont find fault if we play some of the tricks in the game that they have en* gaged in, by conscripting a part of the profits made out of the market we make ourselves by having to eat food and wear clothes, both we and the families of boys and girls we have raised, to win the war and liberty and rights for the Allies, and also to the French- Canadian who is faithful and loyal, which they will show iu the near future, aB true, loyal and willing to help as anyone. You will flnd fewer idle men around pool rooms and lounging flaces in the province of Quebec, than n any other province in our Dominion. They are a working people in working hours. If conscription comes to demand ten cents per hour advance on every department of labor omitting the farming only) for mnn and woman in both thc United StateB and Canada, and mnke it general from stem to stern; do not blame the people for acting without permission; it is the examplo you have taught us. You did not consider us, even ask us for an opinion, but acted the same as the kaiser does—to gratify his own selfish ends. I like the man who sticks to the law himself before he* tries to enforce it on others; nnd because wo ask for tho law to bo administered rightly to all parties, wc arc challenged as op- possed to conscription, called traitors, rebolB, and slackers. Those are not found in thc real working 'class, but are found to be quite numerous among mnny of those who arc drawing good salaries in our government eriiploy. I say, without hesitation, that as far as our information comes from the press and records ever since the war started, our fine mnn at the head, and leader of the Liberal party, has stood firm to thc law. us directed by the British North American Act, joined with the Confederation Act, which the party government at present are dissenting from to destroy the harmony that the united peoplo of Canada, in 1867, de- cidod ns tho standard law of our Dominion, and has never boen amended. Ceorcioii cnn work both ways. The smallest animal when cornered will fight back. So we are similarly placed. Wc will win the war and do our bit as wc have in the pas^, but not to win to give our countrv nnd homes into conspired money-brokers in Canada. ,\A. N. C. Vancouver, B. C, 4ug. 30, 1917. Onr XdMli. Editor B. C. Federationist: To place before you tho Ideals of that great multitude ef people who bolong to the working class (and in mr opinion the honor of belonging to the working class is equal to the highest Tank that cail be attained in this life), ia a task far beyond the ability of any individual to do with anything approaching justice. When we talk of those people who are dependent on their labor to provide thom with the necessities, wa do not mean just those who belong to the Entente Alliance, but in the broad Bweep of oar vision wo include those who belong to the nations with whom we are at war. \Vo draw aside the curtain which a political press places over the doings of our fellowworkiimn. Wo can see them struggling from dawn till dark and through the night under circumstances that are pitiable In the extreme for our destruction, just as we on thia Bide are working for thejrs. What Is going to bo the result of this awful carnage! Ono of our Ideals is to find if possiblo a moans wherby lt can bo stopped Politicians Bay more reinforcements will do it, but lu this case it Is questionable. Wars tnat have raged the world ovor in ngos gono by, lasted as a rulo until ono sido or tho other became exhausted, but In this caso thore are many millions in the field and from what wo workingmen can see, tho resources uf each side are bo great, that they can supply the necessary fuel or human bodies to keep tho Arcs of battle raging until both sides become exhausted. We know the Russian peasants aro being driven to the buttle field, tho Austrians aro anxious for peace, and from the gleanings we aro allowed to rend from tbe German pri.su, thore Is a strong element for peace in that country. If ono side were to win over tho other, as far as wo workingmen are concerned, it would only stimulate oppression. Why not find n basis of settlement, instead of when peace Is mentioned between the belligerents adopting a position where it Ib Impossiblo to approach one another within reason. We want our share of the joys and benefits of life. It Is ours to work for In tho majority of cases nothing more than will just keep us from day to day, and through tho profits on our labor not being equally divided, ours is just an existence. When sickness overtakes members of our family, we have ofton to boo them fade from our sight becauso of lack of attention, which can only be bought by money. Out of our meagre earnings wo try to give our children an education, which will fit them for their future life. Through coming into contact at school with those who are in more comfortable circumstances and ablo to have the luxuries of life they come home discontented and complaining. When a little older we suddenly miss them from our homes, they have gone forth in search of what we oonld not give them, and they come back In thousands of cases broken for life. Do yqrf wonder if one of our Ideals is to remedy this situation I Labor has been in the past and now is an article of merchandise, something to be bought and aold in tho cheapest market. In the mad rush of capitalists to control labor for their own personal benefit, thousands of lives have been sacrificed. Present conditions all over the world point to this fact, that labor, which has been bo badly abused, la beginning to roalUe somo little of Ub mighty strength. The giant which has allowed others to bulldoze him at will, Is putting on the armor of organised might, and when the real shock of battle comes, there is no other earthly force which will be able to withstand his onslaught. Some of ub are familiar with the thought that deeds will be committed which will not bring honor to the cause of labor. We cannot wholly blame the men who commit them, for we know how this so-called system of civilization bas beaten and torn them until all thoughts except revenge has been taken away from them. We want to surround these men with those things that will broaden their ontlook upon life. So alter the laws of the land that they will have equal opportunity. Show them that thoy can be men equal to the best and help them to feel that the world Ib not altogether the hard, cruel outfit which tt ao onen appears to be. We are going to enter the political arena. In the past, our province has been sold and bartered for, as the old book puts it, "A mess of pottage." Those who should have been guiding the ship of state for the benefit bf the people, have allowed It to drift until It Is in danger of being wrecked. The public have lost confidence in the two different crews who have come before them with the best of characters as to ability, but when they have been placed In the position where It has been necessary to practice what they preached, have failed miserably. There. Ib only one remedy, and that Ib to fire the bunch of them, and take on a new crew. Olve those that produce the wealth an opportunity to distribute lt. We want government control of markets, and prices so fixed, that the commodities we need for oar existence can be purchased, withoiit-rarrying one-third of the province on stolen profits. We could mention a host of reforms that are necessary, but we' would have you bear this in mind, that our political aim will not be personal gain, bnt rather that the othor fellow will have his just reward for lahor done, and all the financial transactions connected with civil government to be open to tho publio gase. When talking of Ideals, the mind naturally turns to things spiritual. The churches of the present age are Badly put about because of tho largo number of workingmen who never darken their doors. I am sorry to note that bb a result of not complying with their regulations, we have been consigned to various degroes of punishment. There is ono thing wo workingmen value and that is freedom of thought and action. We live In an age that calls for deeds not words, and the present system of church life consists of words. Our Ideals along this line Is to so live that we may be the best our manhood will allow. Never forgetting our neighbor has just bb much right to the benefits of life as we have. Some of us may dony tbe existence of a Supreme Power, but we recognise this fact that we are wonderfully made, and the bountiful provision tbat nature has made for ub points to a perfection somewhere of which we know vory little about. We can only do our best as men and women of limited possibilities, taking upon oor shoulders the rsponslbillty of our actions. ONE OP THE BUNCH. Victoria, Aug. 80, 1917. And, by tlw way, have you noticed Canada's nobilityl What Btrong con- scriptionistB they have become! Is there a reasonf The Dentist and the Public By W. J. CURRY, 301 Dominion Building [SERIES .III.] i| Last week I cited a caso of which a working man with cash and confidence became the victim of a "guaranteed" set of gold teeth,* and it is true that nine-tenthB of the glittering adornments which glare at you from mouths of every walk of life are the result of the conflict of interests today existing between the dentist and the public. But there is another side to human nature. _ This week I met a young man so lacking in business principles that ho had spent soveral hours that day in working for a family of* children, too poor to |my for hiB services as a dental surgeon. He did this in order to save them suffering. 4] These two cases represent two sides of huhian nature, und the two great conflicting forceB operating in human Bociety. One ends in discord and degradation; tho other stands for social harmony and progress. The flrst represents tho "rule of gold"; the second, the golden rule. _ Walt Whitman, the poet of the larger self, Bays something liko this: "By God,'I will take advantage of no man's igaoranco or■ misfortune. I will accept nothing. I will not give to every other mnn, on equal terms." fl Whitman was a "failure" He died poor. So did Jesus and othors. fl David Harum expressed the "practical," hard-headed business ability, such as is today managing world policies. He said: fl "Do tho other feller as ho would do you, only do him flrst." fl Tho high cost of living, tbe struggle In the field of labor and sweat shop are based on David's policy. Human life and happiness aro cheap today. Ten thousand men and boys are being daily flung to machine guns and shrapnel to be mangled into carrion, in a flght over territory and trade, This price is low in the opinion of the "patriots," the profiteers, and their politioel puppets who control and applaud the game from a safe distance. fl This conflict of interest is seen everywhere. Did you ever know a lawyer but who would encourage) litigation even when he knew tho case was hopeless, providing you had the price! fl A flew years ago I talked to the Medical Superintendent of a Public Hospital. This gentleman deplored the hypocrisy and imposition exercised in his profession, and' the financial nexus between tho doctor and the public. He related a case in which a young surgeon operated for appondicitis for a fee of $400 on a boy who was simply suffering from a common stomach ache, but the surgeon made the boy's mother believe the case was desperate, becauso she had the price, whereas it was only the doctor's financial condition that was serious. The doctor is more dangerous than the dentist. fl What does the average man or woman know of their conditions and requirements when they consult a medical man or a dental surgeont Economic pressure often mokes men and women into crooks aad intersex and mental prostitutes. Henry Georgo understood this when he said: fl "Poverty is the open-mouthed, relentless hell, which yawns in front of modern society, and men to escape that bell and protect their loved ones often do mean, contemptible, nnd dishonest things." fl But economic pressure affects tho millionaire also, as well as the pauper, or professiooal classes, and the millionaire has more power to crab and rob the public, in fact, that is how millionaires are* made. fl Some years ago I read a book entitled "Who Lies?" showing that strict honesty is today incompatible with financial success or "respectability." fl A doctor, lawyer, clergyman, professor and editor met at lunch and to settle a dispute and social problem each agreed to be strictly open and honest in all their business and social relations for the next thirty days. Tbey agreed at the end of that period to meet and report. At the appointed time they met, wiser and sadder men. fl The lawyer had lost his job; the preacher had been fired by the "money-changers" and "elderly ladies'' who controlled his church—and was on trial for heresy. The doctor had grievously offended somo of his best-paying pationtB by telling them the truth regarding the cost of "high living." The oditor had retired from politics and1 had lost some of his best-paying advertising because of his^editorials; while the professor of sociology had been expelled by the financial pillars who supported his college and was looking for another job. fl Ndwriit is not that we do not prefer truth to deceit. It is not that we prefer to see men and women and children ill-clad and miserable; it is entirely because of the individualistic and competitive system under which we make our living, beca'use our material interests today, conflict with the interests of others and because self-preservation is tbe first law of nature, fl In dentistry, this may lead to gold caps on sound,teeth; in surgery to the operating table and on to the undertaker. In law it may lead to the penitentiary, sometimes to judgeship and knighthood; and in high finance it has led to bloody warfare and revolution. History shows us that in the past it has resulted in the decay and death of empires and races. Which way are we going today? " fl Next week I will suggest changes necessary in order that medicine and dentistry may be placed on a truly ethical basis. . ^.JiaN. ,t „ Union-made Cigars. „ l/y/vsa al1" B-™4 ■"■"■•«><"~<-'Mi«iwi»"i»».iiaOc#«ta, UtteSttAvA tamt.vmbu.mm-^itu.^v^vv.u.., ,.*mi»mt»>itt-,»„i ! 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Bono ef Pore Food Products VAHOOUVEB, B. 0. I have just received my new stock of Black Mackinaw Coats and Shirts The Coats run, each $12.00 to $13.00 The Shirts, double back and front $7.60 and $8.60 Black Mackinaw Coats, from $6.00 to $9.00 W. B, BRUMMITT 18 and 20 Cordova St. West 444 Main St. Established 1891 John J. Banfield Fire Insurance, Accident Insurance, Estates Managed, MONET TO LOAN 8*7 Seymow St Phon* Stymour IBS I CONVENTION AS Evidence that the Working Class Jinx Has Not Been Idle Opportune Time to Wield the Political Weapon Effectively [By Walter Head] SOUTH WELLINGTON, V. I;, B. 0., Sept. 10.—The memorable convention of the B. O. Federation of Labor has come and gone, and the representatives of the Canadian Junkers are still guessing. The thoughts of a general cessation of profit-making certainly gives the plute palpitation of the heart. The convention was opened on Monday morning by J. Kavanagh, president of Vancouver Trades and Labor council, and, in his remarks, he mentioned the fact of past conventions being addressed by civic officials, etc., and the "freedom of the city?' being given to the delegates. He drew attention to the absence of civic "addreBBes of welcome/' due, as he said, to the purpose for which the convention was called. (Possibly the only free Institution left to the worker being the jail.) He dwelt upon the conditions of slavery under capitalism and said that con* scription would give birth to a more degraded system of slavery, and, in his opinion, the beBt way to flght conscription was to do nothing, effectively. He then turned over the gavel to "Joe" Naylor, the president of the federation, who gave a short address and made, a special plea for freedom to be given to any delegate who happened to express ideas that were- opposed by a majority. The executive then presented its report, which had taken several hours of deliberation on Sunday and the morning of the convention. Efficient methods Were provided to deal with hoodlums who take a pleasure in trying to break up some meetings. / The clauses of the executive's report, dealing with the admission of the press, and bona fide members of the working class movement, were adopted without comment. The main items of the executive's report caused quite a lot of discussion. Several motions were made dealing with the general strike and an alternative proposition waB put up by the executive to run candidates for the Dominion election on the anti-conscription issue. It was finally decided to discuss the two propositions separately. Tbe , discussion which followed brought out the ideas of the delegates on the subject, and showed very plainly that either no ono favored conscription, or, if they did, they hadn't the cournge of their.convictions. A delegate from tho Shipwrights' mnde the opon confession that his organization was not interested enough in the general strike to vote against it. He thought the movement was so permeated with patriotism that the general strike could not be made effective. ' The figures on the vote were given and showed very plainly that the working class jinx—apathy—haB been working overtime. The fact was brought out that a general strike ut this time would have a tendency to remove some of the most active members of the movement, and a live coward (?) beatB a dead hero. It was thought in a great many directions that in viow of tl» close proximity of a Dominion election that for the time being a fight on the political field would be productive of better results, while others thought-.that tho general strike was the most effiioicnt method, but the workers weren't quite ready to use it. FactB were brought out to show that conscription was not necessary for the purpose of providing reinforcements, (and they are not hard to find) but rather for the purpose of providing cheap labor for the real enemies of the working clnss, the profiteers. Vice-president McVety said that he liked the general strike as a weapon, using as his reason a very logical onc, i.e., the thought of it alone bred consternation in tho ranks of the houso of have. He quoted statements of several prominent conscriptionists showing very plainly that the goal of the conscription howlers is industrial conscription, so that they can tell the worker to either accept thc wages they (tho masters) determine, or go to France, all samo the Kuiisuy workers in Scotland. James H, would still leave the power to call the general strike in tho hands of the executive, so thnt it could hang, like the sword of Damocles, over the headB of the hungry profiteers, and perhaps prevent them from getting too gay. Secretary Wells was of the opinion that the general strike was a national problem and should emanate from the TradeB aad Labor Congress. He depicted some of the horrors of industrial conscription, as practiced in other countries. Those of ub who are fortun- ato enough to obtain ono of the verbatim English papers occasionally fully realize that those horrors are no pipe-dream. Vice-president Goodwin declnred himself, in unmistakable terms, ds a member of a dispossessed class, having nothing in common with a robber class, who cnguged in wars without consulting the worker. Ho waraed the robber class through their mouthpieces, tho capitalist press, tbat Quebec was not tho only provinco opposing conscription, but that there is a force lying dormant throughout the length and breadth of Canada. Delegate Simmonda emphasized the necessity of lining up the workerB of the basic industries to fight the menace of industrial conacription. The opening of tho afternoon session wns marked by the moving of a resolution, having for ita object the taking of another referendum on the general strike. This wna moved by a delegate from the organization that would not PEED. KNOWLES Financial aeoretary and statistician of Van* couver Trades and Labor council, a delegate from the Letter Carriers' association, who left last Monday evening to attend the Ottawa convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, which opens in the federal Capital City on Monday morning next, as representative for western Canada of the Federated Association of Letter Carriers, LETTER CARRIERS IN LIVE SESSION Delegate'Knowles Away to Ottawa Convention of T. and L. C. of C. The regular monthly meeting of the Letter Carriers' Association wns held in Labor Temple, Friday, Sept. 7, a fair number of membera being present. Four new temporary members were initiated by President Cook. A resolution from the Calgary branch, asking for support in advocating the placing of a levy on the entire membership, for the purpose of assisting the imprisoned members of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfltters, and further asking, that the western representatives to Trades and Labor CongresB of Cnnada, be instructed to Bupport a resolution advocating the placing of a similar levy on all organizations affiliated with the congress. Delegate was instructed to use hia own discretion. Considerable discussion ensued over the attitude adopted.,by the local branch of the Postal Clerks' Association, prior to, and during the negotiations which culminated in the holding of the recently-held mass-meeting. A resolution was adopted, prohibiting the executive of the local Letter Carriers' Association from negotiating with the local Postal Clerks' Association on any matter, unless given permission to do so, by the Carriers' in meeting assembled. Del. Knowles reported on /the activities of the Trades and Labor council. The executive instructed to interview the postmaster re the holidays granted to temporary employees. The delegate to the Trades and Lnbor Congress was instructed to get into touch with H. H, Stevens, M.P., and make a further attempt to get the problem of tho street car transportation trouble solved. Next meeting, Friday, Oct. 5, when it is expected the delegate to Trades and Labor CongresB convention at Ottawa, will report on the activities of that body. F. K. vote on the previous resolution. Needless to Bay, this resolution met with the samo fate from the convention that the local that moved it accorded to the general strike referendum. It was ditched. President Naylor took tho floor and stated that he was in favor of the general strike being called when the returns of the referendum were received and was in favor of tho executive retaining tho power to call a strike whenever conditions arose to mnko it imperative. He thought tha>t at somo future date conditions might arise thut would cause present opponentB to change their minds and advocate the use of the strike as a weapon. He hoped that a basis of agreement could be arrived at between the industrial and political movements, so thut there would be no clashes ou the political field between the two movemenis. He expressed his determination to try to bring about harmonious relations. Upon the voto being taken the executive recommendation to enter tho political arena was sustained by a vote of 50 to 8, with three delegates not voting. In connection with, the debnto upon the question of rival working class parties, tho convention wns asked, and granted thc floor to Comrnde Pritchard of the S. P. of C, to give his views on the co-operation of his party on the aati-conscription issue. It being found that Pritchard was absent, thc convention "carried on." A motion wns moved nsking for n definition of what Bhould constitute u working class candidate. The convention decided to leave the question open. A motion favoring peace without indemnity or annexation was tabled till the next convention. On motion of Del. Cottrell, who considered that the working man had no country to annex. Miss Gutteridge addressed tho convention briefly on the necessity of organizntion work amongst the women, and showed how the junkers were getting hold of the women and poisoning-their minds, with the object of procuring a source of cheap lubor. She dwelt oa* the fact of Borden refusing women the vote, on the grounds of his being afraid of an adverse vote on conscription. Tbis was in line with the policy of attempting to disfranchise conscientious objectors et al. Wouldn't the Conservatives have a picnic if they could disfranchise thc LibcAtls aud vice versa. Thua ended thc moBt memorable con- | vention of the B. C. F. of L.f und 10 PAYS I BILL FOR FISHERIES Salmon Commission Spent Weeks in Inquiry at Big Expense Will Public Have to Stand for More Money Thrown Away by Politicians What has (become of the fisheries commission? Have they gone, or are they still hanging around? This commission came here several weeks ago, took a lot of "evidence" in the board of trade rooms, took a long jaunt along the coaat up as far bb Prince Bupert, took more evidence there, returned to Vancouver and took some more, and then hung around for a considerable time. At whose expense? The cannerymen who will profit by the commission's decision? Certainly not. Whose expense, then? Why, who should be expected to pay for a so-called investigation on behalf of the cannerymen but the great Canadian public. A very foolish question in these daya of commissions. The government would never rely -apon ita horde of inspectors, patrolmen, etc., to make reports upon the same subjects under "investigation." That would never do for several reasons. The first reason is that the men holding such jobs are political appointees and the government has acted as if Ottawa did not put much faith in these men. Another reason is that tbe system of "royal" commissions is 'fine for placing politicians and paying off debts for political service. Anyway, be that as it may, this com- mission, headed by W. Sanford Evans, a fish expert of Winnipeg who got his experience with flsh and fishing in newspaper work, was the chairman, Another t of' the commissioners was Jones, a wholesale flsh dealer of Toronto, (It was interesting to see Jones' eager ears wag when price probabilities, and such, were mentioned.) The third member of the commission was H. B. Thomson, former M.L.A. for Victoria, whip in the Bowser government and all round sOrt of politician. It will be interesting to note how much this contmisBion is coating. It would also be deeply interesting to taxpayers to know how long it is going to fast. The public of Vancouver well remembers the "Indian" commission which lasted some years and cost the province and Dominion who went fifty-fifty on it, a half-million dollars or bo. The commissioners weren't Indians, but Bome of them acted like it occasionally. It is hoped the fisheries commission will wind up soon, at little cost to the people, for what with the numerous taxes, and gcncrul increases of everything all round, it is about time the governments let up. And after the commission has reported its long, tedious record, it will bo shown that the whole fault with the fisheries business on tbis coast lies with the cannerymen themselves, though the commission won't sny so. It wns noticed that every last canneryman giving evidence before the commission wns jealous of thc other onc. They arc evidently after every last salmon In "the ocean. And they all told a different story. It wns the most rcmarkoble exhibition of disorganization ever seen for n lot of men who it is strongly suspected have decided on a certain price to be paid to the fiahormtri, They seemed all agreed upon thc price that ought to be pnid for fish, but ns to whether there should be trup licenses or not, or seine licenses, etc., they were running wild, bo to speak, for ench desires, evidently, the best of the other. Some were so bold as to sny politics iaterfered with the business. Surprising! Is there a p.iblic resource business politics does not interfere in? The surprise was in a canneryman making the accusation. However, it. turned out thnt his particular toes hnd bc«n stepped on, while the cannerymen who smiled at thc assertion, .no doubt were the ones who benefitted wben the other's toes were hurt. And so it goes. While theBe cannerymen were making their compluints, guardedly aimed ut one another, the commission was sitting nt public expense, and the public wus paying for thc fiddling. The Fedcrntionist would suggest that the expense of royal commissions lie charged ngninst the particular lines of endeavor "royal commissioned." For nstunce, charge the cost of this canned commission up to thc cannerymen. There wouldn 't bc quite so many commissions running about thun. Canada's Official Peace Casualties. According to the industrial accident record of the federal Department of Labor, for the month of July, there were 132 fatal accidents, un increase of 73 as compared with June, nnd an.in- crciiHe of 58 us compared with July, l!)l(i. On July 25, a mining disaster at No. 12 colliery of the Dominion Coal compnny, ut New Wntcrford, N. 8., caused the deaths of 05 coul mine employees. On July 21 seven loggers lost their lives in a bush fine in tho Crow's Nest Pass district of British Columbia. If freedom is the portion of those wbo arc compelled to work for others and accept what those who employ them see Jit to allow them for their services, what would constitute real slavery? thanks to tho action of thc executive in preventing hoodlumism, there were no "overt acts." However, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, mid it is to be hoped that in this, the hour of its need, Labor will arouse from its age-long slumber, and help carry on tho policies laid down by this Labor Dny convention, this policy being ensier to carry out than a general strike. If necessary, instend of going on strike for several days, let each givo u portion of one day's pay toward financing the election cumpaignB of anti-conscrip- | tion cundidatea. 'We Hake All We Bell- "We Sell AU We Hake .Women's and Misses' Fall Suits —Strictly man-tailored in our own work-rooms—of Serges, Velours, Oxfords, Broadcloths, and Gabardines. Colors of Toupe, Brown, Green, Purple, Black and the New Blues— $20, $23.90 $25 to $45 Ladywaro guarantees a PEBFECT FIT and first-class workmanship. Fitting, designing and making are all done here on the premises. The Autumn styles nre very smart, aud find fullest expression here. 564 GRANVILLE STREET OPPOSITE DBYSDALE'B iJattorituj Semi-ready quality And style—and price— And perfect fit. These we guarantee you will be satisfied with— All you expect;'all you hop* for—that we promise you in a Semi-ready Suit or Overcoat. Stylo Mt MmttoaFucrM »18.0ffto 140.00 THOMAS & McBAIN 855 GRANVILLE STBBIT Sole Agents for Vancouver AN ALL DAY CRUISE AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS OF HOWE SOUND \% S.B. Ballena Steamers leave Union Dock dally at 9:15 a.m.. Sunday at 10:30 a.m. for Bowen Island, Britannia Mirtes, Squamish and wny points, returning at 7:30 p.m. MEALS ON BOARD Ou 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 Hotel Service this makes a delightful week end. SUNDAY SPECIAL—ALL POINTS $1.00 RETURN TRIP Terminal Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. UNION POOH; take car to OolnIBS9.0BS9 '*»S anotut wnwiy *tqm Ho! For a Fall Fishing Trip The trout are biting on the Serpentine, Nicomekl and Vedder rivers—along the Fraser Valley line of the B. C. Electric. Why not spend a day or a week-end on these easily and cheaply-reached streams? For the Serpentine and Nicomekl, take the Jardine local, leaving Carrall street station at 6:30 a.m. (Sundays at 6:50) and get off at McLellan and Meridian respectively. For the Vedder, take Chilliwack train to Sardis. It is then two-and-a-half miles by auto to Vedder Crossing Inn, which can be covered by Auto for 50 cents a head. We will arrange accommodation and stage for you. Be sure and take a copy of "A Handy Ouide for Fishermen" with you. It tells you how, where and when to fish on these streams. Oet one at the sporting: goods dealers or at the company's offices. For information, telephone Seymour 5000 $eS&a>ic PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FRIDAY. September H, 1917 WU Published every Friday morning by ttae 8. 0. Fedentlonlit, Limited E. Farm. Pettlplece Manager Office: Labor Temple, 405 Dunsmuir St. TeL Exchange Seymour 7495 After 6 p.m.: Sey. 7497K teriptlon: I . . . . Oity, |2.00; to unions subscribing in % body, |1.00. REPRESENTATIVES ___ __ New WattmlMter .W. Titei, BojTitOgi Prince Rupert S. D. Macdonald, Box 268 Victoria. A. S. Weill, Box 1S88 "Unity of Labor: the Hope of tbe World' FRIDAY September 14, 1917 ORGANIZED LABOR throughout Cunada has expressed -itself most emphatically opposed to conscription. It has looked upon the infliction of this infamy upon Canada as a most sinister and deadly NO PLAOE attack upon the TOR A rights and privileges LABOR MAN. of the people of this alleged democratic country, an attack that has beon instigated and is being ruthlessly pushed to a conclusion by those baneful and greedy interests in human society that always rise to the opportunity offered in times of war to strangle popular liberties and regain for tyranny and reaction that which may have been previously lost through the struggles of the common people against their rulers and oppressors. Enforced service, either military or industrial, is looked upon by the workers, and rightly so, as the complete abnegation of all democ- . racy and liberty, and cannot be submitted to except under most emphatic protest. And all there ever was or that may be possible in democracy, can be realized and attained only by the repudiation and complete abolition of all that is involved in conscript Bervice, no matter whether it be for purposes of production or for purposes of slaughter and devastation.. Conscription is deadly and repugnant to -every wotrthy aspiration of. labor for better conditions of existence and a greater participation in the joys of life. * * * The present reactionary government of Canada has pushed itB infamous conscription through in open and impudent defiance of tbe ordinarily accepted rules of common decency, ft.no.wing full well that it could not possibly fall short of being a most obnoxious and unpopular measure to the vast majority of the people of any country ai all permeated with democratic ideas 'jig nurtured upon democratic traditions, this precious aggregation of political talent at Ottftwa, supinely obedient to the sordid reactionary interests that skulk in the back* ground, has thrown all caution to the winds and brazenly proclaimed to the world that its professed love for and loyalty to democracy Is a lie, and its vapid mouthings against the terrifying threat of mid-European autocracy nothing bnt the puling whine of a deceitful hypocrisy. And now in order to put the immortal cinch upon a return to power, and with, at leaBt a legal justification for the infamy it hna inflicted upon the Canadian people, this aggregation of unscrupulous and generally execrated political talent is busily engaged in concocting an election law that will be sufficiently vile to meet with the very pressing requirements of the occasion, by making it impossible for the •clean thinking and progressive element of the population to pass judgment upon the moral turpitude that1 has been responsible for the conscription infamy. It looks at the present moment as though the sole qualification of the voter will be the ability to give reasonable assurance of unqualified approval of the infliction of the conscription infamy upon the country. With that assurance any one will be entitled to vote, no matter whether he. she or it be classed as citizen, subject, alien or enemy. * * * So much for that. But the Conservatives are not the only politicians in the menagerie of ruling class monkey business, who are not above doing politics whenever the doing seems to be necessary and, therefore, called for. In the matter of the appointing of the delightful tribunals that are to sit in judgment upon the sorry wight, who having boen duly seized upon as fit food for his master's cannon, and worthy of either being decorated with a duly designed tag made from a melted stove" leg or other suitable material, or of having his name imaginatively enscribod upon aome evanescent roll of honor, a modicum of appointments have been vouchsafed to the Liberal "opposition." And with a delicacy and tact that is nothing short of artistic, this precious Liberal opposition, it seems, is judiciously distributing these honorable appointments in the manner best calculated to bring wind to the Liberal sails at the forthcoming elections. Wn speak of rthese appointments ns honorable ones .for the simple reason that they are in no manner contaminated by any finnn- eial emoluments attached thereto. The service upon these tribunals will bo gratuitously rendered to n grateful country by the recipient of tho honor of being selectively conscripted, as it woro, for tho lofty purpnsn of dealing out '' British justice'' to trembling "slackers," who have the audacity to beg to bc excused from the manly art of besmonring tho landscape with the odds and ends of thoir fellow men. #'"♦"■.♦ The Federationist is informed that aome of those appointments to "tribunals" have been tendered to members of organizod labor. As organized labor has gono on record ns emphatically opposed to conscription, nnd at least ns far as organized labor of this province is concerned, as pledgod to take active part in the effort to have it legally repealed and done away with in Cnnndn, it is to bo hoped thnt no membor of •organized labor, or any (tthcr member of tho working class, will so far forgot the attitude of labor in regnrd to the conscription law as to be used as a tool in tho carrying out of this supreme infamy against all boasted democrncy and tfroodom. To sit upon n tribunal is to make open acknowledgment of approval of the principle lying behind the act. It is in tho nature of voluntary participation in that which mnkes such assaults upon ,thc people's liberties possible. It is hot tho province of any working man or othor porson to openly defy tho law nnd refuse to obey it, but it is within tho province of ovory ono who does not npprovo of nny law that may bo upon the statuto books, to do all that lies in their powor in a legal way, to bring ubout tho repeal or alternation of such law as may in his judg ment bo advisable. It muy be that there are to be found among the workers those who arc possessed of ample legal qualifications in every sense of the word to enable tbem to deal out ponderous judgment upon their fellows. They may even be by nuturo equipped with those peculiar capabilities requisite to the compounding of the compelling judicial frown nt the peculiarly psychological moment to confound tho guilty, but it is to be hoped their virtues may be directed into channels more consonant with the welfare of labor und the progress of the labor movement thnn that of sitting as the agents of master clnss tyranny in judgment on tho peccadillos or weaknesses of its victims. If there are nny members of organized labor either weak enough or thoughtless enough to fall for that sdrt of thing, it would appear to be the duty of their organizations to cull them down and out. It should not bo much of a consolation to them to reflect upon tho probability of their being called to serve hnd there been n legal tender emolument ntttichcd to such service. As it is it scorns to bo about the cheapest attempt to gnin a littlo political support by patronizing labor men that ever came to our notice. Tbe Federationist hopes it will hear no more about it. J: UST AS WE HAVE become almost convinced of the truth of Mr. Samuel Gompers' contention that labor is not a commodity," we suddenly fall foul of an equally eminent and presumably relia- IS BOUGHT ble economic author- AND SOLD IN ity who asserts the A MARKET, contrary with much emphasis. It will perhaps be remembered that Mr. Gompers' famous dictum in regard to the non- commodity nature of labor has also been affirmed in that product of legislative wisdom known as the Clayton Act, passed by the United States congress. We believe the same opinion has also been held upon numerous occasions by courts that have been called upon to pass judgment upon the legal status of the peddler of labor, power and the nature of the disease, infirmity, idiosyn- cracy, obsession, peculiarity, propensity, proclivity or predilection that con' stitutes that labor powor. So overwhelming appeared the evidence in substantiation of Mr. Gompers' dogmatic affirmation of the non-commodity nature of labor, that it comes with something akin to shock to flnd that learned economist most emphatically controverted by other equally as dependable authority. * * * In the Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics for July of the current year, will be found a complete report of the proceedings of tbe fourth annual meeting of the American Association of Public Employment Offices, which was held at Buffalo, N. Y., in July, 1016. Among the many other profound utterances of speakers upon that auspicious occasion, the following frota William M, Leiserson, professor of political and social science, Toledo university, is well worth quoting: "Labor may be essentially different from capital, but it Is bought and sold In the market, and while a labor reserve board mar have to do quite different things from those which the money reserve board does, the administrative organisation for dealing with Irregular and fluctuating demands in tho labor market will have to be similar to the organisations that deal with fluctuations In any otber market." LABOR TEMPLE MEETINGS FOR COMING WEEK SUNDAY, Sept. 9—Stage Employees j Musicians, -MONDAY, Sept. 10—Amalgamated Engineers; Iron Workers; Pattern Makers; Boilermakers; Steam Engineers; Carpentors; Electrical Workers. TUESDAY, Sept 11—Stone Cutters; Pressmen; Barbers; Machinists, No. 777. WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12—Metal Trades Council; Stereotypers; Teamsters; Street Railwaymen. THURSDAY, Sept 13—Sheet Metal Workers; Painters; Shipwrights and Caulkers; Machinists, No. 182; Barbers. FRIDAY, Sept. 14—Pilo Drivers nnd Bridgemon; Plumbers; Shipyard Laborers; Timber Workers, SATURDAY, Sept. 15—Black-' smiths; Bakers. agony he experiences in delivering the goods. Ho is an ass and he carries upon his back the burden of the world. That is the reason he is an ass. * * * The professor was arguing for the establishment of a federal lnbor reserve board to deal with the matter of handling the human, merchandise (labor- power, which he refers to as labor), in the same manner that the federal money reserve board handles the mat* ter of finance, and deals with the fluctuating demands therefor. Just ns it is necessary at times to mobolize money (which is a term less suggestive of uncertainty and bankruptcy than that of credit), at certain points in order to admit of the profitable getting away with the proceeds of the plundering of the wealth producers and turning them to the best possible advantage of' the plunderers (capitalists), it is also necessary to often swiftly mobolize and shift large bodies of laborers to convenient strategic points where their services muy be for the moment required, and where they can be assimilated in the gallant process of contributing their own hides to the glorification of capital under the wage process. In spite of the asseverations of Mr. Gompers to the contrary notwithstanding, there is something strangely suggestive of merchandising in this matter of buying nnd selling labor in a market; in the shipping and shifting of it to various points of distribution and use, very much the same as might be the case with coal, steel, beef, bacon or cooji skins. Now that there aro prospects of the establishment of a federal reserve labor hank, as it wore, tho matter of the commodity character of labor power may in time become so plain that even Mr, Gompers will be able to recognize it. ♦ * * Choques nnd drafts upon these federal reserve bankB whoro labor is on deposit, will admit of tbe speedy transfer of such quantities of the precious substance from which alt capitalist blessings flow (labor-power), to those points where it may be for lbe moment required in order to fertilize cnpilul, iiml muse it to bear rJsolous fruit unto its heaven-ordnined possessors. These reserve banks of labor-power need not necessarily be supplied with burglar- proof vaults, for although labor-power is the most precious of all precious tilings, because it brings forth without cost all of tbe other precious nnd much desired things that go to glorify worms of the dust, and magnify thoir grandeur ut least in their own estimation, it is so infernally cheap that it is not coveted by thc ordinary type of burglars and honsebrenkers. The fact thnt it can bo gotten in nny quantity for nothing, and can only be turned into realizable currency by tho magic horns poctts of the high priests of capital, makes it fur more safe from sequcstrn- tion by ordinary thiovcH, even though stored in a hovel without lock or key, or in un open shed without windows or doors, thnn would be nny other sort of gems nnd procious things though hidden in vaults of stool with niipickable locks and walls of compelling thickness. The parent of all wenlth that is measured in terms of exchange, and yet so, poor in value as to bo an outlaw among the commodities thnt it brings forth, tho essence of ull property, becnuso it is the creator of all wenlth (hat nmkes for tho satisfaction of human needs, this commodity, labor-power, is the meanest, becnuse the cheapest, thing oji earth. Its owner and peddler is a pariah, nn outcast, in short a stave, and there are none so poor on earth as to do him reverence, but yet*the entire world lives by his sweat nnd his slavery. His labor-power is a commodity that he must either sell or starvo. Labor is thc CREDIT SHOULD always be given where credit is due. The study of political economy is one to which every person might well devote a little time and earnest consideration in order to know all about SOME wealth and its proper POLITICAL distribution, so as to ECONOMY, best conserve the henlthful requirements of both the nntion nnd the individual. It is usually looked upon as a rather dismal science, but this may not be the case once its intricacies are Bet forth by some nuthority duly qualified by thorough familiarity with the subject, and equipped with a suitable simplicity of languuge to permit of clear and understandable elucidation. We are prompted to acknowledge receipt of the most profound, though at the same time, simple and easily understandable expose of capitalist political economy, from Washington, D. C. It comeB to us in the shape of an editorial in the United States Official Bulletin of Aug. 28. It is in very truth "some political economy." Yes, indeed, and thon some. And it must be sound politicnl economy, for look where it comes from. It is absolutely official and presumably it may be considered a simplified elucidation of ruling class political economy. It may be safely taken as an epitome of that ponderous science. It is so simple and clear that it is quite easily followed, und from now on it should not be necessary for aspiring youth in quest of knowledge of the intricate and the abstruse, to waste any appreciable length of time in mastering the intricacies of the dismal science of political economy, a la the capitalist kind. Here it is; Some Political Economy. The argument bait been advanced that the wealth and resources of the United States are impaired to the extent of all the money spent by the government for war purposes. The argument is very unsound. There Is a sharp contrast between cost to the govern* ment and cost to the people of the country. The United States has Hold $2,000,000,000 worth of liberty loan bonds to the people of the United States and therefore owes S2,- 000,000,000 more than it did a few months ago. When tho money for ihe bonds has been collected in full and been expended In full the matter will stand in this shape: Thc people of the United States will have loaned to their government $2,000,000,000, In return for which they will have received $2,000,000,000 worth of liberty loan bonds, which is as valuable security as the world affords. Moreover, they will have in their pockets or their banks the $2,000,000,000 which they loaned their government. The government will have expended part of this money itself, and those European nations engaged In war with Germany, whose obligations our government has purchased with part of the money realized from the sale of liberty loan bonds, will have expended the other part, and all of it will have been spent in America for American products and in payment of American wages The resources of the nation, its capital stock, so to speak, will not have beon impaired at all. Our farms, our mines, our factories, in fact all of our fixed property and industries, will remain intact. Our people will simply have sold some of the annual products of the country, the products of ils mines, and products of its factories, Thus, the government will bave value received for the money it borrowed from the people and the people will have value received for the money they loaned the government and the products they sold their government and the European nations engaged in war with Germany. Of coarse, the United States Ib going to pay these bonds at maturity and is going to pay interest on them in the meanwhile. It Is going to pay part with the money it will later collect from our debtor European governments engaged in war with Germany; it Is going to pay part with money raised by taxation. It is not going to pay them nut of the capital of the united States or out of the capital of tho people of the United States. The money is to come from the annual income and production of tho country, which now amounts to $50,000,000,000. The yearly agricultural production nf the United States is moro thnn $10,000,000,000, and the mineral production $8,000,000,000. The profits of converting raw material into finished products: amount annually to $10,000,- 000,000. Th^sc sre just some of our main sources of annilal Income. M f'!' * * After the .people of thc United States shall hnvo loaned "their" govornment thc trifling sum of *2,00n,l)00,000, and have received an equivalent sum in the shape of "liberty bonds," nnd the government hus used the borrowings for the purchase, from thc selfsame people presumably, of things requisite to the prosecution of the war, the "people" will have in their possession, not only the "bonds" in question, but that which they loaned to the government, and in acknowledgment of which thc "bonds" were issued. In other words, in addition to thc credit tokens (sometimes called ensh), or bank credit, which thoy turned over to government account, they ("fhe people") will have new credit tokens or promises to pay, to the amount of the "bonds" they have purchased. There will be just twice as much owing to them as beforo. They will have double the drag upon the f.iture thut they formerly possessed. If the future pays (which is s'jch a manifest impossibility that it is n wonaor that even a ten-yenr-old school kid should fail to see it) they ("the people") will bo lots to thc good. If thc future fails to pay they aro no worse oft nnyhow, without conserving any other purpose than possibly that of killing a few Germans, tearing up some square rods of earth and* creating a general nuisance both stinking and otherwise disgusting. $2,000,000,000 worth of the products of labor worse than wasted, and yet this "some political economy" authority asserts that "the resources of the nation, its capital stock, so to speak, will not have been impaired. Our farms, our mines, our factories, in fact all our fixed property and industries, will remain intact. Our people will simply hnve Bold some o,f the annual products of the country, the products of its farms, the products of its mines, and products of its factories." * * # Now is that not plain? With $2,- 000,000,000 of labor's products expended, not in useful purposes, but for that of killing, maiming, brutalizing and destroying; for the purpose of making of the earth a desert and a camel house and polluting the landscape with blood> guts and gore, the "nation's capital stock," bo to speak, remains intact. Of course it does, for that "capital stock, bo to speak," consists solely of a docile and prolific working claBB. All that was shot away and otherwise wasted in the disposition of the $2,000,- 000;000 of borrowed wind (for that is all it was) came forth from the unpaid toil of the enslaved workers. As it cost '' the people'' (the capitalist class) nothing, and they got "liberty bonds" to the tune of $2,000,000,000 in exchange for lt, it iB as plain as a pikestaff, that although thc money thus accumulated is strangely akin to stage money, it has come to the present holders fully as easily as money from home comeB to the remittance man. In neither case is a single hair ever turned in Bweat in the getting of it. It Ib like "manna falling down 'upon the wandering* JewB in the wilderness." * * * It is not worth while to bother over the matter of whether "liberty bonds" or any other ever will or will not be paid. Even if the governments do squeeze from their victims the wherewith to redeem their obligations, that only means that there will be another transfer of credit obligations, this time frota the government to the individual holder of bonds, while in the first instance it was from the individual to the government. And nobody short of a dope fiend could see anything in the nature of payment in that. The original producers of the wealth thuB thrown away in the ruling class scrimmage will Btill remain unpaid for the energy they expended in its production. And it is at this point that payment must be made if it is ever to be made at all. As it is a matter of taking at the point of production wealth without payment, it ought to be easily understandable that any and all payment thereafter is an absolute impossibility. All that does result to the masters and manipulators of the delectable game is that they are enabled to live upon the present generation of slaves without cost and at the satae time accumulate paper assurances (credits, investments, etc., in the shape of stocks, bonds, deeds, mortgages, debentures, which are nil orders upon the future) that their spawn that lives after them will be enabled to sap their sustenance in the same manner from the exploitation and torture of the slaves of the future. BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATION OF LABOR "Thus the government will havo valuo reoelved for tho money it borrowed from the poople, and the people will hnve value received for the money thoy loaned the government, nnd the products thoy sold their government und tho European nations engaged In the war with Germany." By this happy arrangement, it may easily be soon that "everything is lovely nnd the goose hangs high." Everybody hns been paid, nnd there has been no loss, in spite of tho fact that #2,000,000,000 worth of tho products of labor have been shot away or otherwise destroyed, Our naive economist says: "The profits of converting raw material into finished products amount annually to $10,000,000,000." And this is among the numerous items that make up the annual income. If we know anything of mathematics, $10,000,000,000 profit taken frota a population of 100,000,000, would mean an average of $100 per person, or $500 per family. But as we woll know that a very considerable number of persons take no part whatsoever in the processes of production, wo must allow that the rate of exploitation is much greater per head than aB given above But be that as it may, our political economist throws an interesting light upon the matter of how wars can be fought at enormous expense without coating anybody a cent, or in any manner impairing the capital of a nation. And not only that, but the fact should not be lost sight of that the money borrowed for the purpose of financing the war is not only to be returned in full, but with interest added. By this it may be seen how simple it is to not only expend billions for war without o penny of cost, but how everybody interested will be well paid for all their troublo and some of them will be able to get a little interest for nothing, besides. * * * And after rending the illuminating editorial above quoted, a great load was lifted from our mind. Many things hitherto obscure to us were mnde clear as day. Erstwhile knotty economic problems became so easy of solution that to wrestle with them became as pleasurable as indulging in a pipe- dream. We became so intoxicated with our new found economic knowledge that things impossible were no longer difficult of solution. We even now lift ourself over the fence by our bootstraps several times beforo breakfast, for mental exercise. "Some political economy?" It is all of that, and then some more. Mny each reader of The Federationist "read, pondor and inwardly digost,' 'to tho end that he may become as profound in the science of now you see it und now* you don't, ns tho Simple Simon who presides over the editorial columns of the United States Official Bulletin; Capitalist political economy is easy once it is made plain to you. And this is not intended ns a joke. Victoria, B. C, Sept. 10, 1917. To the officers and membors of the Labor movement. Greeting: The following synopsis of the proceedings of the special convention, held in Vancouver, Labor Day, is sent to all organized labor in order that they may be informed as to the results of that convention. President Kavnnagh, of the Vancouver Trades and Labor council, opened the convention at 10 a.m. by calling the convention to order, and pointing out the serious nature of the business that would be dealt .with. President Naylor, in taking over the gavel, urged the fullest freedom of speech, and toleration with views that may not be acceptable to all. Secretary Wells then reud the report of the executive committee, which gave a resume of the different happenings since the introduction of the National Begistration scheme, to the time of the passing of the Military Service Act. The most important part of the executive's report was the recommendations contained therein, which are as -follows: We recommend that seeing that the political situation is the most prominent, the leaving of the general strike proposal in the hands of the executive, and that our attention be directed to the political field. That working class candidates be placed in the field in the industrial constituencies throughout the province, and as the question is a national question, that other Labor bodies throughout the country be requosted to adopt the same methods. ' That the executive committee be authorized to call nominating conventions in such constituencies ns they may deem desirable, on the same basis of represenetation as is in effect at the annual conventions of the B. C. Federation of Labor, and that they be authorized to establish a fund for the purpose of carrying on the catapaign, same to be distributed at the discretion of the executive. The recommendations were adopted by a roll call vote of 56 in favor, oight against and three delegates not voting, or were absent. The question was asked if referring the matter of the general strike to the executive, would give that body a mandate to cull a atrike. Secretary Wells replied that it would. In the discussion, it was pointed out by many delegates, that the introduction of military conscription would be followed by industrial conscription, the experience of other countries being cited as evidence as well as statements that were made in the houBe of commons during the passing of the Military Service Act, which Bhowed that several of the members of the house had that form of conscription in view. In the report of the executive, the following paBBage is worthy of consideration: . "Your executive can see at this time a change in the situation. It is now a political question, and conscription has become a political football; and to hide the record of the present incompetent government, this measure is brought forward. And if they can get any political advantage out of it, then they are itnending to do so." In conclusion, while deprecating the brevity of this report, yet the fact that delegates were present from Prince Rupert in the north, to Trail in the interior, and from island points as woll as from tho larger cities, will result in the workers of the province being in possession of fuller details, and this report will give to labor the official notification as to the oction adopted at the convention, which will be nut into effect by the executive in the near future. Trusting that labor will givo the fullest support to the executive in fulfilling the duties resting upon them. I remain, fraternally yours, A. S. WELLS, Secretary-treasurer. L0CALW.il 1/ In Hpcuking o.a the proposed bill to heavily tax the war revenues of tho rich, Senator Borah Baid: "If the country'3 men of groat wealth were culled ,on to settle this question, I believe they would settle it more patriotically thun the sciiate is disposed to do. Their patriotism is of a high order, and they are willing to have what they've made out of the war conscriptod." If this be so, what is to hinder them from handing it oveT without nay more fuss about it? Why is it necessary to pass a tax bill under such circumstances? What is Borah and tho rest of these august senators blithering nbout, any- w*ay? In the light of his disclosures about the patriotic proclivities of the war profiteers, measured from a financial standpoint, it seems a sad waBtc of timo to be bothering to pass compulsory tnx laws in order to gathor that which patriots are sot"willing" to pay. Another I. W. W. infamy has been uncovered down in Iowa. It hns un- doubtcdly boen financed with German money. The grasshoppers hove been eating tho binding twine, thus allowing th«! sheaves to fall apart and causing the farmers much trouble and lo|£. It is reported that federal agonts are making a thorugh investigation of the mntter, and startling disclosures are expected. Labor Objects to Coercion While Wealthy Patriots Grab the Loot Decision to "down tools," in case conscription is enforced, was arrived at by a majority of the delegates to the provincial Labor convention on Monday. By 56 to 8 it was agreed to leave final action in tho hands of the executive, which means the celling out of 10,000 to 15,000 workers in this province alone. The situation is ominous and significant, observes The Chronicle, judging from the very temperate speeches delivered by thc most prominent representatives of the labor unions. Tho general trend of opinion was patriotic nnd loyal hut pervading thc whole of tho proceedings was the distinct™ British objection to coercion in any form, nnd a straight demand thnt tho will of the people shall be consulted beforo thc Act is applied. Conscription of wealth, taxation of profits and a general distribution of wnr burdens must go hnnd in hnnd with nny attempt to forco Canadians to take further part in this war. Politicians, of all comploxions, hnve taken so little heed to the outcry ngainflt graft and dishonest profiteering thnt the body of the people, who have given their best and denrest, are beginning to recognize the futility of their sacrifices, and to demand similar sacrifices from those who are Bhouting from the housetops for more victims. The lust for offloe, power and wealth is evident, in tho frantic efforts of politicians to form coalitions that will obviate ony appeal to tho peoplo. It is vory questionable if patriotism enters largely into their desire to assist thc empiro in her need. Proof of their selfish interosts lies in the fnct that they have failod to follow tho lead of tho majority of tho nations, who havo not hesitated to extract ill-gotten or bloated profits from those whoso 'maximum of patriotism is ncachod in the maximum of wealth thoy omass through the war. I.abor has proved its patriotism in this province to a greater extent thnn any other portion of tho Dominion. It will bo woll for the "higher ups" to demonstrate their (Uninterested loyalty, of which there are very grave doubts. Proposed Amendments to General Laws to Be Considered Wedaosday, October 17, haB been set as the.date on which several proposed amendments to the general laws of the International Typographical union, adopted at the lost convontion of that body held at Colorado Springs, August 13-18 last, shall be voted on by referendum of thc various subordinate 'unions. There is a proposition to in* create the amount collected for pension assessment and mortuary ■ assesm-ent from one-half of ono per cent, to onc per cent, in each case; one to gradually increase the salaries of presidont and secretary-treasurer to JiSOOO per year,' another to provide that proposed amendments to laws shall bo proporly drawn up and endorsed by 150 unions for submission to the referondum, nnd another to protect the membership of members in war service by one of two plans submitted—the matter to be left to local unions or an assessment of ten cents per member per month to provide a fund from which subordinate unions shall be reimbursed tho amounts fiaid for members in wnr service. Bal* otB nre being supplied from headquarters aad will bo distributed amongst the local membership prior to the voting day. Thursday morning's issue of the Sun was produced from the premises lately occupied by the News-Advertiser. Although taking possession of the Nows* Advertiser plant on September 1, the Sun continued publishing from its original offices aB usual, while preparations were under way for transferring tho equipment to its now location in the forhier News-Advertiser building. "Much Ado About Nothing." The Sun has mnde the first venture in Vnncouver of printing n seven-issue per week paper. According to daily press reports the idea doos not meet with favor in tho minds of certain publio welfare organizations, nnd has re* ceived the attention of thc Vnncouver Ministerial association, which body considers such a Btcp to bo in contraven* tion of the provisions of tho Dominion Lord's Day Aot. In viow of thc fact that no paper is issued Sunday morning —the seven editions being produced be- tweon Monday morning and late Sat* urday night—and also that the various printing trndes organizations employed nil demand a working weok of not more than forty-eight hours for its members, we cannot see thnt an infraction of tho Act is being committed. W. R. Trotter left on Wcdnesdny morning with credentials only from No. 226, to attond the convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, which meets in Ottawa on Monday, September 17. Travelling cards havo been received from W. J. Ozard, Victoria; Fred H. Ross, Regina, and Mrs. J. Taylor, Chicago. G. Wood was issued a traveller, and has gone to Victoriu, T. B. CUTHBERTSON & OO. 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This is not all either, for they expose that child to dangers seldom attributed to such a cause, namely, stomach troubles of a reflex character, rheumatic pains, cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis, sun* stroke and last, but not leaBt, the great white plague. These statements may seem incredible to the reader, but they can be, and are substantiated almost ev<ery day in this offlce by cases which present themselves. Time and space will not permit the explanation of the reason why, but if those having children suffering from the foregoing troubles desire the proof of these statements in the interest of their offspring, that proof will be gladly given if they take the trouble to pay a visit to this office, or send a communication on the subject. The foregoing is addressed to thoso who hav>e no knowledge of our methods of straightening cross-eyes without the use of the knife. 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Personally, I do not care whether Canada's participation in this war has been for England or with England, whether our participation has been as one of the Allies or os part of one of the Allies, As a matter of fact, Oaa* ada has been fighting for human justice, human liberty, and for democracy and the free peoples of tho world. In the session of August, 1014, no voice was raised against Canada's participation in this war. We met in the house of commons as a united parliament and we voted all the money that was required for Canada's participation in this war. Throughout the length and breadth of this land wo were a united people. From north to south and enst to west not a voice was raised against Canada's participation in the war. wjth perhaps the exception of a small section of tho people of the province of Quebec, and I do not wish to say anything about tho Nationalists, because they are entitled to their opinion and must answer to their own conscience. It is for that reason that, Bince the war began, I have done my humble bit to assist Canada in her participation in this struggle. Canada has done nobly under the voluntary system of recruiting and Canada's public men have done nobly in voting supplies to carry these men along. The ume has now come when the people are told that voluntary enlistment has proved a failure. I do not think that is a fair way of putting it. When Canada, with a population of a little over 7,000,000 has contributed over 425,000 of her best to tho cause of war I do not think that it c.an be truly said that voluntary enlistment has been a failure. I am not arguing for voluntary enlistment. It it true that voluntary .enlistment at the present time is not as great as it was at tho beginning of the war. It is but natural that having contributed over 425,000 men to this war, voluntary enlistment should be a little on the wane. It is not quite fair to the people of Canada to say that this sort of enlistment has proved a failure. no battalion, battery or draft was authorized but whose ranks were filled to overflowing under voluntary enlistment. I do not know what has happened in the other provinces. aaa Within the year drafts were asked for to reinforce the Highland brigade, the. 146th battalion and the 36th Battery, the last of which went from the constituency which I represent. Drafts were asked for the 17th Battery whose headquarters is also in tho constituency which I represent. These drafts that wene asked were not only supplied but the ranks were filled to overflowing and hundreds of young men were sent away. You may. ask me for some testimony along that line. I picked up a paper from my riding a few days ago, thie Sydney Post of June 26, and this is what it says regarding one of these artillery drafts: The draft depot at Sydney now haa about forty men and about ten more are wanted to make up the complement. Lieut. Yetman told the reporter this morning that he was turning men down practically every day who were approaching him with a view to enlistment. Twelve young men from Olace Bay offered themselves for the battery yesterday, but owing to the fact that recruiting for the battery has been officially stopped thoy were not accepted. But the question further arises as to whether or not there is sufficient be- for,e the house to inform us aB to whether we must resort to conscription or not. I am not speaking for Canada; I do not know what has transpired in any of the other provinces, in the west, Ontario, or Quebec, beyond the fact that wc have a general knowledge as to the number of men who have been enlisted in those provinces. But I have a fairly accurate idea of what did transpire in the province of Nova Scotia in regard to enlistment. We have raised a considerable number of men in Nova Scotia, and every regiment, battalion and draft authorized by thiB government to be raised in Nova Scotia was raised and its ranks filled to overflowing by voluntary enlistment. We have raised the 64th, 25th, 107th, 112th, 85th, 185th, 193rd and 219th battalions, and wo have also provided the 17th and 36th Field batteries. We have also contributed battaliona which wore raised in other parta of the province and with which I am not so familiar. We have also contributed, perhaps more than any other province, corps of tunnellers because in Nova Scotia we had an immense number of miners who were anxious to enlist and they enlisted as tunnellers. We have also recruited a forestry battalion. I ahi not saying that Nova Scotia haa done ita full share but the point I am making with reapect to Nova Scotia is that Empress Theatre PHONE SET. 2492 MONDAT, SEPTEMBEB 17 The Most Beautiful Play Ever Written— =«THE= WHITE SISTER' You will see EDYTHE ELLIOTT in her most wonderful part A LOVE STORY BRIM FULL OF HUMAN EMOTION 10c, 25c and 35c As a matter of fact, recruiting was stopped in some portions of this country—and I am -ot finding fault with the government for having taken that course. Public recruiting meetings were forbidden in my native town and in the mining districts over a year ago. When recruiting for the 185th battalion, we were never allowed to hold recruiting meetings in the mining districts; I daresay for good and sufficient reasons. Sir George Foster: Hear, hear. Mr. Carroll: But nevertheless, we had no difficulty in filling up the ranks and when we hear hon.' gentlemen Bpeaking about slackers walking our streets, let me say that the recruiting for the 185th battalion was done principally by personal canvas, and I had something to do with it; and I never approached a man with the object of having him enlist in that battalion or any other battalion being formed down there, whom I thought should go, who refused to go. That is, I have never met a slacker in the country of Cape Breton. How am I to come to. the conclusion that voluntary enlistment haB been a failure in this country! I do not know. It has not been a failure in Nova Scotia, and I am willing to say that that province will supply by voluntary onlistment every man necessary for reinforcements for the battalions which it now haB at the front. I have no doubt about that in the world." Many of theso battalions went to reinforce battalions from other provinces. About that I havo nothing to say; it was necessary and proper, and had to be done. So far as Nova Scotia is Concerned, I do not think we shall have the least trouble in replenishing .the broken ranks of our battalions at the front by voluntary enlistment. We havo proved that in the past. The conditions may be different in other parts of Canada, but I have no doubt in the world of thc truth of my statement. If I have a suggestion to make it is that I believe that if the proposition ia placed before the provinces today to supply reinforcements by voluntary enlistment, it will be done without the assistance of this bill. My friends will say: Well, Quebec will not do her Bharo. Well, leave Quebec out in the cold. I understand that she only has two battalions at the front. Surely the people of Quebec are proud enough and noble enough and true enough to their traditions and to the traditions of the British people to replenish the two battaliona which they have at the front. I am sure that the people of the other provinces are. I think that this suggestion, even com' ing from a humble member of this house, is worthy of consideration, whether this bill goes thiough or not. * ♦ * Editor's Note—Mr. Carroll is a Liberal and is a lieutenant in the overseas forces. He enlisted es a private, but was promoted. He, with other military members of parliament, was recalled from overseas to attend the session of parliament. While overseas he saw service in France. STMOP8IS OF OOAL MININO EEOULA- POAL mining rights of the Dominion, ln *** Msnitobs, Saskatchewan and Albarta, ths TIONS. Yukon Territory, the North-West Territories and inra portion of the Province of British Columbia, may be leued for a term of twenty-one years renewal for a further term of 81 yean at an annual rental of $1 u acre. Wot mon than 2,560 acres will be leased to one applicant. Application for a lease must be made by the applicant in person to the Agent or Sub- Agent of the district in which the rights applied for are situated. " * In surveyed territory the land muat be described by sections, or legal nub-dlviiioae of sections, and in onsnrveyed territory the tract applied for shall be staked out by .the applicant himself. ' Each application must be accompanied by \ fee of IP/^ win *• »'nt>(fed if the rights applied for are not available, but not otherwise. A royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of the mine at the rate of five cents per ton. The person operating the mine shall fur- nlih tha Agent with sworn returni accounting for the full quantity of merchantable eoal rained and pay the royalty thereon If the coal mining rlghu are not being operated, auch returna should be furnished at least onee a year. The lease will include the coal mining rights only, rescinded by Chap, 27 of 45 George V. assented to 12th June, 18 U. For foil information application ahould be made to the SecreUry of the Department of ^or^^L0.^ m A-Bt"snb- n . w, .W' W- CORY, « n rr Dttut? Minister of Interior. N. B.—Unauthorised publication of thia advertisement will not be paid for.—88575 PAGE JIVE pacific wanna ahd uAOTFAOTUBora OOMPAMT, LOfXTBD PUBLIC NOTICE la hereby given that aa* der tha Flnt Part of Chapter 79 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1006. known as "The Companies Aet," letters patent have been Issued under tbe seal of the Secretary of State of Canada, bearing date the 7th day of Auguat, 1017, incorporating Angus Alexander Crowston, Financial Agent: William Samuel HeClure, farmer; Reuben TiBn, far* mer; Joseph John TiBn, miner, and Charles William St, John, solicitor, all of tha elt/ of Vaneonver, In the Provinoe of British Columbia, aa Pacific Mining and Manufacturing Company, United, for the following pur poses, vis.:— (a) To obtain by purchase, lease, hire, discovery, location, or otherwise, and hold, mines, mineral claims, mineral leases, pros* pects, mining lands, and mining rights of every description, and to work, develop, operate, and turn the same to aeeonnt, ana to aell or otherwise dispose of the aame or any of them, or any interest therein. (b) To dig for, raise, crush, wash, smelt, assay, analyse, reduce, amalgamate and otherwise treat gold, silver, eoal, copper, lead ores or deposits, and other minerals and metallic substances and compounds of all kinds, whether belonging to the company or aot, and to render the aame merchantable, and to buy, sell and deal in the same or tny of them. (e) To carry on the business of a mining. smelting, milling and refining oompany ln all or any of its branches. (d) To acquire by purchase, lease, hire, exchange, or otherwise such timber lands or leases, timber claims, licences to ont timber, surface rights and rights-of-way, water rights and privileges, mills, factories, furnaces for smelting and treating ores and refining met* ale, buildings, machinery, plant, or other real or personal property aa may be necessary for or conducive to the proper carrying-out of any of the objects of tbe company. (e) To construct, maintain, alter, make, work, and operate on the property of the company, or on property controlled by the company, any canals, trails, roads, ways, tramways, bridges and reservoirs, dams, flumes, race and other ways, watercourses, aqueducts, wella, wharves, piers, furnaces, sawmills, crushing works, smelting works, concentrating worka, hydraulic works, coke- ovens, electrical works and appliances, warehouses, buildings, machinery, plant, stores, and other worka and conveniences which may seem conducive to any of tha objects of the company, and, with the consent of the shareholders in general meeting, to contribute to, subsidise, or otherwise aid or take part in any auch operation, though constructed and maintained by any othw oompany or persona outside of the property of the eompany; and to buy, sell, manufacture, and deal ln all kinds of goods, stores, Implements, provisions, chattels and effects required by the company or ita workmen and servants, (f) To build, acquire, own, charter, navigate, and use steam and other vessels for the purposo of the company. (g) To carry on business as qnarrymas- ters and stone merchants, and to sell, buy, get, work, shape, hew, carve, polish, crush and prepare for market or aee, stone of all kinds. (h) To carry on business as road and Sarement makers and repairers, and menu- aoturera of, and dealers ln lime, cement, mortar, concrete and building materials of all kinds, and as builders and contracton for the execution of works and buildings of all klnda la the construction of which atone Is required. (1) To carry on all or any of the business of manufacturers of and wholessle and retail dealers in bricks, tiles, pipes, pottery, Boys' School Shoes—That Have The Punch! We have a wide experience to go on in making the selection of our Boys' Shoes. We know that nothing but solid leather can stand up against the punishment the average boy can give footwear. We have made every effort to find a solution and have finally arrived at the fact that "Leckie" Shoes, made right here in Vancouver, are the best investment parents can make and advise accordingly. At Spencer's: Boyi' Box Calf Boots Sizes 1 to B% .... Sises 11 to 13% •Leckie' . ft.25 •3.60 i* "OlMiio" Boots Vici kid, gunmetal calf and patent leather, button and lace styles: Sites 11 to 8 ... Sizes 8 to 10% .13.85 $3.25 Boys' Chrome Waterproof "LeoUe" Boots Sices 1 to 5% — HSS Sises 11 to 13% ...- 83.85 Missei' School Boots- " Leckie" Seoteh chrome, waterproof sole, box ealf upper, light in weight, but very strong. Sises 11 to 2 „ 13.85 earthenware, china, glassware, tana cottaand leramleware of all klnda. O) To carry on buslneas as manufacture (k) To carry on business sa manufacturers of, and wholesale and retail dealers la soU fertilisers. (1) To cany oa any other business who* thar manufacturing or otherwise which may seem to tha eompany capable of being conveniently carried on la conneotlon wlu tht above or calculated directly or Indirectly to enhance tha vain* of or render profitable, aay of tha company's property or rlghta. (m) To acquire, aad undertake tha'whole any part of ^ " liabilities of any , ,__, .-. on any business which tht eompany li authorised to carry on, or possessed of property suitable for thc purposes of tht company. (n) To take, or otherwise acquire, aad hold shares la aay other eompany having objects altogether or In part similar to those of thla company, or carrying oa aay business capable of being conducted so aa directly or indirectly to benefit this company. (o) To enter into any arrangement wltb any authorities, municipal, local or otherwise that may aeem conducive to the company's objects, or any of them, and to obtain from any auch authority, any rights, privileges, and concessions which tht oompany may think tt desirable to obtain, and to carry out, exercise, and comply with aay auch arrangements, rights, privileges and concessions. (p) Generally to purchase, take oa leut eideatei or conducive to tht attainment tt tht above objects. (a) And It U hereby declared that tht word "Oompany" In this clause ahall be deemed to include aar partnership or othtr body of persons, whether Incorporated or aot Incorporated, and whether domiciled Is the Dominion of Canada or elsewhere, nad tht intsntion Is that tht objects specified ln each paragraph of this clause ahall, uoept where . otherwise expressed la saeh paragraph, bt ta * ao wise limited or restricted by reference to or inference from tho terms of any othtr paragraph or tht name of tht company. «., -uu uuuiiwu Mivaui ■ Tat operation of tht Company to be earths business, property, and rled on throughout the Dominion of Canada peraoa or company carrying i and elsewhere by the name of "Pacific Min- . wki-i. *k- -™ i- —ij« tBfl Manufacturing Company. Limited," , with a capital stock of ont million dollara divided Into ten thousand shares of oat hundred dollars each, and the chief place of business of tht said company (registered of* fiee) to bt at 580 Hornby street, In the city j of Vancouver ta tho Provlnee of British i Colombia. DATED at tht office of the Secretary of State of Canada, thta 7th day of August, , 1017. THOMAS HULVKT. Under-Secretary of State, exchange, hire, or otherwise acquire, .._.. ,_raonel property, aai* * vileges which tht compan; bnslL.— (a) To construct, maintain, aad alter any buildings or worka necessary or convenient any personal property, and any rights or prt- ■"—ns which tht company may think neeee- or convenient for tht purposes of its for tbe'purposea of the Company. To invest and deal with tht moneys » of tht Company not Immediately required _ saeh manner aa may from time to thnt be determined. (a) To remunerate aay person or com* pany for services rendered, or to bt rendered, in placing or assisting to place or guaranteeing thc placing of aay of tha shares ln the Company's capital or any debentures, debenture stock or other securities of tht Company, or tn or about tha formation tr {.romotlon of the Company or tht conduct of ts business. (t) To draw, make, accept, Indorse, dis* count, execute and Issue promleory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, warrants, debentures, and other negotiable or transferable instruments. (n) To aell or dispose of the undertaking of the Company or any part thereof for such consideration as the Company may think fit, and in particular for shares, debentures, or securities of any other eompany having objects altogether or in part similar to those of this Company. (v) To adopt auch means of making known the products of the company aa may seem expedient, and in particular by advertising in the press, by circulars, by purchase and exhibition of works of art or interest, by publication of books and periodicals, and by granting prises, rewards and donations. (w) To sell, Improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, enfranchise, dispose of, turn to account, or otherwise deal wltb, all or any part of the property and rlghta of tht company, (x) To carry on business as aforesaid throughout the Dominion of Canada. (y) To do all such other things as are In-J HOTEL ALCAZAR ▼uooinra, b. o. Hnivuutm for Ubor tun. I IS. ud ll.Ot por tty. $1.60 por wook ud ». • Otf.ttlououH.IMM. ■LMTUO nZTUBBI It MIC lo. u ud ono mosor. The Jurii Eketric C*., UJ. 870 Richards Stmt ASK TOOS OlOOll ros paroa or albxbta, ud ■0THBB8- ravoarra FLOUB ubiob mra t. nuiai a eo.. Amatt neat mm itu Bai OLELANDDIBBLE ENGRAVING OOMPANY PHOTO IM1AV1U,_ . OIAL A1TUIS rheio S.jmoor 716» Third floor. World Bolldlof, VAIOOUTU. 1. O. Tho only Onion Sfcop to VMoonror. To aiMab.ro of ur anion In Conodo . ipodnl nt. for Tho rodorntlonlot of tl Mr rotr—-If • olab of 10 or moro lo oont ORPHEUM SEASON 1917—1918 Orpheum Circuit Vaudeville OPENS SEPTEMBER 17 —Mako Season's Reservations— The Following Big Acts Will Open the Season MASKS' JUNGLE PLAYERS MANO 6 SNYDEE "THE NIGHT BOAT" NORWOOD & HALL OOL. DIAMOND tt GRAND- DAUGHTER CHARLIE HOWARD FRANKIE HEATH Evenings: 10c, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c Matinees: 10c, 15c, 26c, 60c NEXT WEEK PANTAG E S "OKI TOD DEVIL!" Musical Fantasy NEIL McKIMLET. tho Oolonol of tho THbo Otbor fe.tares Kottaooi 10C ud 20c. Nlfhti lie ud 950. B.C.F. OF LABOR WIRES PROTESTS TO OTTAWA Sec.-treas. Wells Loses No Time Getting the Executive Body's Pronouncement. After telegraphic consultation with members of tho executive board of tho B. 0. F. of L.; Secretary-treasurer A. S. WellB, Victoria, on Tuesday, forwarded the following telegrams: "Victoria, B. 0., Sopt. 11, 1017. "Hon. Sir R. L. Borden, "Premier of thc Dominion of Canada. Ottawa, Canada: "Organized labor, as represented by the British Columbia Federation of Labor, protests against thc provisions of tho war times election bill, and demands equal adult suffrage to al! citizens of both sexes. A. S. WELLS, "Sec.trcas. B. C. Federation of Labor." A copy of the above wire was also sent to Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Wired President Watters. "Victoria, B. C, Sept. 11, 1917. I "J. C. Watters, "President Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. "Ottawa, Canada: "B, C. Federation of Labor executive endorse your opposition to war times election bill, nnd havo wired Bor- dion and Laurier demanding equal suffrage to all adult citizens regardless of "A. S. WELLS, Sec-treas. B. C. Federation of Labor.'' Hudson's Bay Liquors AT LESS THAN Wholesale Prices Special for Lines Advertised on This List Only: Ou prices include war Ui stamps. Ooods We will PREPAY freight charges anywhere in British Columbia. packed in plain cases. Correction. In the "down tools" vote by unions, as published in Tho Fedorationist last wook, thc ofliciul record taken at tho convention waa that tho Vancouver Motion Picture Operators wero in favor, but this is stated to have been an error, and thc union voted against tbe policy. Italian Swiss Colony AAA Port Case One dozen bottles 15,00 One dozen oval quart bottles for 17.00 Hudson's Bay Old Highland Scotch Whisky CaBo Ono dozen bottles J16.00 Onc dozen oval quort bottlca for $22.00 Gooderhant & Worts' Special Rye Our Own Bottling Case Ono dozen bottles for S 9.60 One dozon oval quart bottles for (13.00 Hudson's Bay Old Brandy Guaranteed 7 Tears Old Case Ono dozen bottloa 118.00 Onc dozen oval quart bottles for 124.00 Holland Geneva Gin R*d Outs 15 targe bottles, containing four gullon? 818.00 Hudson's Bay London Gins London Dry—One dozen buttles $11.00 London Old Tom—One dozen bottles 110.00 PHONE OR WRITE FOR SPECIAL PRIOR LIST Ye Olde Hudson's Bay Rum Guaranteed Overproof Strength Case Onc dozen bottles for 116.60 Ono dozen oval quart bottles for $23.00 Guaranteed same quality as imported by tu since 1670. Caso Ono dozen bottles for $14.00 One dozen oval quart bottles for $20.00 WE HAVE A RECORD OF 2f. TEARS OF CONTINUOUS TRADING ALL CHARGES PAID The prices named is this advertisement cover everything, including freight, war tax stamps and packing. Hudson's Bay Co. Wholesale Branch: 325 Water St., Vancouver, B.C. Telephones—3 lines: Seymour 1670,1671, 1672 PAGE SIX THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FRIDAY. September 14, Ml VY/HEN a doctor with a world-wide * \ reputation warns you that decaying and neglected teeth beget disease of mind and body, it's time for you to see Dr. Lowe— Because If you persist in neglecting that hole in your tooth you immediately court all kinds of serious results, such as described for your benefit on page six in last week's Federationist by that eminent physician, Dr. Edwin V. Powers, onc of America's foremost medical practitioners. Possibly no other man in the medical profession has given so much time and scientific research as Dr. Powers, and therefore when he tells you that neglect of your teeth means the "development of stomatitis, catarrh, tonsolitis, sinus abscesses, gumboils; goter and glandular conditions; tuberculosis, dyphtheria, smallpox, whooping cough, measles and chickenpox; chronic rheumatism," etc., you will appreciate the necessity of immediately telephoning Dr. Lowe at Seymour 5444, and arranging an appointment with him in order to have the possibility of these awful diseases checked before they become chronic. An ordinary bucket of water would have prevented most of the world's largest fires if It had been put over the infant blaze at its inception. This is a fact realized by every man, woman arid child in British Columbia: But it is a fact that is realized to no greater degree than the faot that if you come to Dr. Lowe in the early stages of decaying teeth, meet the condition .of your trouble in the most careful manner, It is an accepted fact, acknowledged by all medical and professional men, that Dr. Lowe has at all times practiced dentistry ip thc most scientific manner—by the installation in his operating room of the most up-to-date • equipment obtainable; by the use of only the best materials that enter into modern bridge work, crowning or filling of the diseased member; by adopting every art and method that has been proven to relieve the pain that was for years dreaded by those who did not realize what science had accomplished toward the alleviation of pain. ' i Modern dentistry, as above described, and as practiced by Dr. Lowe, has been the foun- ' dation on which the immense practice by Dr. Lowe has been built. Each and every patient that has, during past years been fortunate enough to choose Dr. Lowe as his, or her, dentist, has become a real advertisement for the doctor— the highest class of advertising known—the publicity that money cannot buy—the result of absolutely satisfied patients. Ask your friends if they have had the satisfactory experience of having dental work performed by Dr. Lowe. Yon won't have to go far to locate many within the circle of your personal friends before locating those who have been Dr. Lowe's patients—the people whose teeth you have envied for years—those who tell you they have not found it necessary to visit the doctor for a long time, because in the early stages of tooth trouble, Dr. Lowe had done the work permanently; used materials that are recognized for their lasting qualities and thus placed your friends in the position of never thinking of dental work except with the satisfaction so generally enjoyed by patients of Dr. A. M. Lowe Opposite Woodward'*—corner Hastings and Abbott Street* (upstair*) 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 BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BEST GOAL 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 tou underfeed fttnuot) £Mh __ • __ macdonalo-Marpole Co. The Conscription of Wealth War Should Be Paid For As It Is Fought i By G. STAFFORD WHITBY Phona Saunour^ eio Phone ■Seunwtir aio km tun rant THE COST of Canada's part in the war will have to be paid for in some way and at some time. That is a primary fact of which it cannot be said that the people of Canada are showing serious appre* ciation. It is a fact that, in the interest of the future prosperity of the Dominion, and, as I shall suggest, in its important bearing on the ethics of war-making, should bc faced squarely. My purpose in this paper is to consider the financial policy which thc government has pursued in regard to the war and to advance reasons in support of the contention that the main cost of the war should be met during its course by the conscription of wealth. Tbe War Taxes. What has been done towards paying for the war! Extra customs duties ond a business profits war tax have been imposed. Other taxes, yielding smaller sums, such as the stamp tax, taxes on bank notes, loans and insurance companies, have also been imposed; but the chief war taxes have been the two flrst mentioned. The customs war tax consists of a level duty ef 7 1-3 per cent, on all articles (with, very few exceptions), including all articles formerly on the free list. During the first yenr of its operation (1915*6), it yielded ♦21,814,000, about $19,000,000 of this sum being from the free list. Puring 1916-7 it yielded some $38,000,000. It yielded far more than any of thc other war taxes. And the point which slu.jlrt bo particularly observed in relation to it is that it does not fall in any special sense upon the rich. It is spread over the people in general, as indirect taxation, and serves to increase the coat of living. It may be noted that about 60 per cent, of the Dominion's revenue, even during war time, is being raised by customs duties. This fact itself indicates that tho rich are not being called upon for such sacrifice of their riches aB might reasonably be demanded at a time when the Dominion's expenditure has become so tremendously swollen. ■The business profits war tax was not imposed until a year later than the extra cuBtoms duties. It provided for a tax of 25 per cent, on all profits over 7 por cent, in the case of companies with capital in excess of $50,000. During the flrst year of its operation (1916- 7) if yielded $14,552,883. In the last budget the tax was raised. In the debate on that budget, Mr. Middleboro quoted a list of 22 companies whose profits indicated a war tax contribution during 1910-7 of $5,296,201. If these companies had been paying the tax on the basis to which it haB now been rais- the war. How, then is the war being paid forf Substantially, by loans. Roughly Bpeaking, taxes are covering ■only interest on the war loanB and the cost of pensions; tho capital cost of the war is not being cancelled, but iB being thrown on to the future. This is brought about by considering the three war yenrs, 1B14-7, together. It is true that last yqar, when the total of Canadian trade, thanks largely to the export of munitions nnd tho high price of cereals, was abnormally large, there was a considerable surpluB revenue; but, in viewing the threo years -together, it will be seen to bo mostly neutralized by the deficit which occurred i J during tho flrst year of the war. " Revenue. 1914*5 $133,000,000 1915*6 172,000,000 1916*7 230,000,000 Expenditure $182,000,000 170,000,000 173,000,000 $535,000,000 $525,000,000 t (In thia table, in which amounts are given only in round figures, expenditures on ordinary account and expenditure on special and capital account have been put together. It was freely admitted by Sir G. Foster in the house on Feb. 17, 1916, thnt they Bhould be merged.) Thus, viewing the three years together, the net contribution of revenue to the capital cost of the war has been only tho trifling sum of $10,000,000. The expenditure tabulated above includes the payments which have been made as interest on tho war debt and nlso the cost of war pensions, but, of course, it does not include the loans which have been raised for the war. This table reveals the most important point which must be kept in mind in considering the war finance of Canada, particularly in relation to the future: The war is being pnid for by loans. The Liberals are in substantial agreement with the Tories in this policy. Rich Escaping the Burden. It is now patent, even to the most casual observer, that in Canada the rich aro coming off 'absurdly lightly in the matter of paying for the war. This in addition to the fact that the fortunes of many of them must be increasing rather than decreasing. I havo pointed out that the chief war tax, the extra customs duties, falls upon all and in no spcial sense upon the rich. I have drawn attention to the inadequacy of profits war tax. And the government has until just recently resolutely refused to enact an, income tax. This matter of an income tax is worth examining a little. It may not havo been one of the prime motives of the govern* ment's war-time financial policy to safeguard the pockets of the rich, but such safeguarding has certainly been one of the effects of the policy. The government has professed, not perhaps without disingenuousness, that its first concern in regnrd to taxation has been the interests of the smnll men. Income Tax. ed, their contribution would havo been „.„.„j .„ ,i,„ .. $ll,127,329-a difference of $5,831,191. Slr "■ whlt<! referred to the quest And even on its present basis, the tax is held by many to be inadequate. I quote these figures of Mr. Middleboro's as an example which serves to indicate thediliatorineBs of the government in taking or their reluctance to take any substantial contributions from profits. It is interesting to observe that, on the plea that they cannot reveal business secrets, the government has recently refused to give any details concerning payments under the profits tax. The Trade in Munitions. The sum of 14 millions odd, which has been contributed to the cost of the war by the btiBinefls profits tax up to 31st March this year, and, which wns only 6,58 per cent, of the revenue for the year 1910-7, looks meagre enough when contrasted with the following facts. (1) The total volume of Canada's trade, as »hown by the aggregate of exports and imports, experienced a tre mendous increase in 1810-7, being $2,> 043,000,000, or almost twice aB lnrge as in any year previous to the war. J will refer to this later. (2) The volume of trade in muni' tions has been such as to make the sum of 14 millions contributed by the profits of war tax look insignificant. There is^ome uncertainty ns to the total value of tho orders which the munition manufacturers have received. It has been stated by one member of parliament to be $1,500,000,000, but this is probably an overestimate. Up to October, 1016, the orders placed by the old shell committee and the present Imperial Munitions board totalled $550,000,000. In the Houso of Commons it waB stated on 2nd February thiB year, on the authority of the ex-minister of militia, that $700,000,000 had been expended in Canada by tho British government in tho manufacture of munitions during the previous two yearB. On April 27, this year, Mr. PugBley, speaking in the house, put the value of the muni tion orders at $850,000,000. It would thuB appear that we shall be safe in considering the amount spent with the munition manufacturers up to the end of the financial year, March 31, to have been not .ess than $750,000,000. The percntage of proflt on munition orders is admittedly very high. It has been stated in the House of Commons to bc one-third. At this fraction, the profits which have been made by the munition manufacturers in Canada since the wnr began have been about $250,000,000. And even if it is thought that this figure is an over-estimate, it will be ngreed that the figure hns been a very large one and of this order. Contrast with such . a figure the umcMtit contributed to the cost of thc war by the profit war tnx to the-same date, Viz., $14,552,883. And observe that, even of this comparatively small sum, by no menns all came from the munition manufacturerfl. What percentage of it enme from firms engaged in the manufacture of munitions I ennnot Bay, but, obviously, only a fraction of It can havo come from them, for the profits war tax applies to nil companies, and not to munition firms alone. Throwing the Burned on the Future. Por the present year the cost of tho war was estimated in the budget as $433,274,000. It will be clear at once that the money which is being rnised by war taxes is not covering the cost of of an income tax in his budget speech in 1915, and again in his budget speech of 1017. He assumed that the tax would start on incomes as low as $1000 or $2000 per annum, and indicated that, since most incomes in Canada nre not from investments, but nre earnings, the tax would bear hardly on the generality of poople, who are already feeling the inroads which the increased cost of living makes into their incomes. Sir G. Foster suggested that the presence of nn income tax in Canada would net as a deterrent to immigration.' But why assume thot an income tnx must Btart at a low level? Why not direct it specially to securing a larger contribution to the cost of the war from those with larger incomes, such thnt, even after paying a heavy income tax, sufficient for a very comfortable living would remain? Sir T. Whift stated in the House of Commons on Feb. 11, 1915, that an ii* come tax, on tho same basis as thut in force in the United States, .would realize no more than $2,000,000, and would hardly be worth collecting. But Canada was then at war, and had to meet vast war expenses; tho United States was not at war and, as is well-known, hnd had a long fight over the principle of the income tax, and had applied the principle only in a very moderate degree—perhaps pnrtly as the/thin end of the wedge. On May 22 of this year, the minister of finance again urged reasons for refusing to employ an income tnx in Canada. He had come to the conclusion, he said, that an income tnx similnr to that in forco in the United StnteB would realize only $5,000,000 or $6,000,000. The minister of finance haa stood out againBt an income tax for Canada; and it cnn be judged that the scale which he hod in mind when discussing the question on earlier occasions was very moderate indeed. Contrast tho 5 or 0 million dollurs for which the minister looked with the product of the income tax in Great Britain. The British Income Tax. Tax starts at income of $050. This amount is tax free. Income of $1000 pays 6 per cent. Income of $2000 pays 8 pr cent, if earned; 12 per cent, if unearned. Income of $5000 pays 12% per cent, if earned; 20 per cent, if unearned. Income of $12,500 pays 25 per cent, whether earned or unearned. Supertax begins at $15,000. Income of $50,000 pays 83 per cent. Income of $500,000 pays 41% per cent. Estimated yield, 191017, $885,000,000. There nre no sufficient; data available to allow nny accurate calculations being made us to the yield of an income tax in Canndn. But tho figures relative to thc war-time/ income tnx in Grent Britain suggest that an income tax could be mnde to yield very much more in Cunadn than the 5 or 6 million dollars to which tho members of the government confined their imagination. The population of Canada may be as* sumed to be 1-fith the population of Great Britain. One-sixth of $885,000,- 000, the estimated product of the British income tax, is roughly $147,000,000. So large a sum us this need not be ex- petccd in Canada, however; for the tnx should not Btart at bo. low a point, even proportionately, as in Britain; rather, as has already been suggested, the tax should bc directed to securing from the larger incomes., a reasonable contribution to the Dominion revenue during war-time. And there are other -.considerations which may be advanced as further discounting the figure $147,000,000. For example," the proportion of unearned income is probably smaller in Canada than in Great Britain. But, even after making liberal allowance for all such considerations, and after allowing for the exemption of all small incomes, an income tax that made nny pretence to being adequate to war-time coulu produce a large revenue, probably $75,- 000,000; certainly not less than $50,000,- 000. Canadian Income Tax. Since the above was written, the government, at last, after three yearB of colossal war expenditure, during which they have shown themselves strongly opposed to the imposition of an income tax or any other severo taxation of the rich, such as might have reasonabfy been expected, have announced that they will bring in income tax legislation. They hope to obtain n revenue of 15 or 20 million dollars from the tax. On the scale which they propose an unmarried man with tin income of $10,000 per annum would pny n tax of $400, and would still retain $0600; a man with an income of $50,000 would still be left with $44,510, after paying his tax of $5460. The government's plan, further, iB to abolish thc profits wnr tax when tbe in como tax is brought into operation. Canada's Increased Trade. Practically speaking, capital cost of the war is being met by loans. I have already pointed oat how comparatively meagre has been the nmount raised by taxation for the war. This state of affairs may be contrasted, not only with the value of th^ munition orders which have been filled in tho country, but also with the exceptionally prosperous condition which, following tho drop which immediately succeeded the outbreak of wur, has characterized Cuna* dian trade iu general, as judged by monetary valuoa. In the yeur 1915-6, the balance of trnde, as it is called, wus for the first time in history, in Cnnada'a favor. In the. yeur 1916-7, the total volume of external tvade was very remarkable, being by fur the largest ever experienced and almost twice ns large as it was in any yeur prior to the wur. This is shown by the following table, in which thc sums represent millions of dollars. Aggregate of exports and imports (coin and bullion excluded): 1911-2, 841; 1912-3, 1003; 1913-4. 1090; 1914-5, 958; 1915-6, 1300; 1916-7,' 2043. 'Balance of trade (i. o., difference between exports and imports): 1911-2, against Cnnada, 125; 1012-3, ngninst Canada, 300; 1913-4, ngainst Canada, 180; 1914-5, ngainst Canada, 36; 1015-6, in favor of Canada, 249; 1016-7, in favor of Canada, 314. What of the Future? Truly are the people long-suffering. Did we not know how content the people are to be ruled instend of ruling, even in "free democracies," we should regard as strange the uumurmurring way in which they are allowing the cost of tho war to be met by Tonus, which will not only handicap the fu ture, but involve the payment of tribute, by way of interest, for years to come, to the rich men, by whom for the most; part, the loans are held, and who, instead of providing that help to thc community in its hour of emergency, the ability to provide which has ulwuys beea pleaded as one of the justifications for their existence, rather take advantage of the country's necessity to increase the etxent of their claims on the country's labor. I do not wish to rail ut the rich. They aro perhnps hardly conscious of whnt they are doing, for they are afflicted, if nnything more completely than the generality of people, with commercial ideas, which look upon money as the final good. Thoy are not able, even when most sincerely pntriotic, to forget "the business side of a proposition. ' But, whatever may be the psychological side of the case as it relates to the rich, it remnins a fact that u tremendous financial burden is being placed on thc future and that the rich ure putting themselves iu n position to command still more effectively thnn before the products of thc country's toil. The Burden. The magnitude of the burden which the financial policy of the government is piling up should be cleurlylipprcciat- ed. At thc close of the financial yenr preceding the war, tho national debt of Cunuda stood at $335,000,000. By the close of the Inst financial year, (31st March, 1017), it had increased by about $600,000,000. Up to the sume date, as already stated, the net contribution of the revenue towards paying off the war debt had been the comparatively trifling sum of $10,000,000. The wnr debt is now growing at a faster rate than waB the case during the earlier days of thc war; and Sir Thomas White, in his budget speech this year, looked forward to the national debt's being $1,200,000,000 at tho close of the present fiscal year. It is almost certainly Bafe to say that, even if a definite move towards peace were to be made shortly, thc national debt will have reached $1,500,000,000 before demobilization Ib complete. The War Charges, Consider what thiB figure means. Thc interest charges on the national debt in the year prior to tho war amounted to $12,893,000. An estimate placed them in 1010-7 at $30,640,000. At the close of the present year they are likely to be about $08,000,000. And if, for the purpose of gauging thc futuro charges which war finance on the present lines is Involving, we assumo that the debt will be $1,500,000,000 when tho war ends (and, nlasl who knows whether the war will be ended during next year, as this figure assumes?), then the national debt will involve interest charges totalling some $77,000,000. If we allow a sum of one per cent, for a sinking fund, we shall sec that' the annual charges for the national dobt will be $02,000,000. If we moke allowance for the portion of the debt nlready in existence before the war, wc shall see that the nnnuul charges on the war debt will bo about $70,000,000. In addition there has to be taken Into account the charges which pensions will make on the national revenue. As the war continues, tho cost of pensions on account of it mounts rapidly. In 1915- 0 the payment for war pensions was ubout two million dollars; in 1910-7, it was about UV_ millions. If w-o ob- sume that, even should peace be brought about comparatively shortly, the annual charge for pensions will, for a considerable number of years after the war, be in the neighborhood of $25,- 000,000, we shall probably not be going- fur wrong. It Ib possible, indeed, that the charges for pensions will be even greater than this, not only on account (Continued on page 7) VIOTOBIA^ B. O.: 618 View Street. Phone, 1269. Greenhouses and Nursery, Esquimau Bead. .Phone 219. HAMMOND. P. O.: Greenhouses and Nursery on C. P. B. Phone Hammond 17. Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd. FLORISTS, NURSERYMEN, SEEDSMEN Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Shrub*, Pot Plants, Seeds, Out Flowers and Funeral Emblems Main Store and Registered Offlee: VANCOUVEB, B. O. ! 48 Hastings Btreet Eaat, Phones, Seymour 988-673. Branch Store, Vancouver—728 OranviUe Street. Phone Seymour 9513 AERONUI CO. Phone Bey. 2207. 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Crawford. Jaa. Campbell, F. Halgk, tru- ALLIED PBINTINO TBADES COUNCIL— MeeU aeoond Monday In the month. President, Geo. Bartley; aeoretary, B, H. Neelands, P. 0. Box 66. BARTENDERS' LOOAL No. 876.—OMoa, Room 208 Labor Temple. Meets oral Sunday of each month. -President. 3*um Campbell; flnanolal secretary, J. Smith, 610 Holden Bldg.; Box 434; phone Sey. 2672; " - - Wm. Taotttshaw, Globe irding el, Mt Hotel, Main itreet. JOURNEYMEN BARBERS' INTERNATION- al Union of America. Local No. ISO— Meets 2nd and 4th Tmudaye In the month. Boom 205 Labor Temple. President, L. B Herrltt; secretary, S. H. Grant, 1671 Alberni atreet, BBIOKLATEBS AND MASONS, NO. 1— Meet 2nd and 4th Wedneadaya, 8 pan., Room 807. President, Chaa. F. Smith; corresponding seoretary, W. S. Dagnall, Bos 61; financial secretary, W. J. Pipes. BREWERY WOBKEBS, L. U. No. 281,1. U. U, B. W. of A.—Meeta flrat and third Wednesday of eaeh month, Boom 802, Labor Temple, fl p.m. Preaident, F. Graham; secretary, A. E. Ashcroft, Suite 1, 1788 Fourth avenue west. BBOTHBRHOOD OF BOILER and Iron Ship, Bullden and Helpera of Amorica, Vancouver Lodge No. 194—Meata •very Monday, 8 p.m, Praaldant, A. Campbell, 220—2nd Street busineu agent, J. H. Oarmlchael, room 812, Labor Temple. INTEBNATIONAL UNION OF STEAM AND OPERATING ENGINEERS — Local No. 620. Meets every Monday, 7:80 p.m., Labor Temple. President, D, Hodges; vlee-presl* dent, P. Chapman; secretary-treasurer, W. A. Alexander, Room 210, Labor Temple. Phone Sey. 7486. DEEP SEA FISHERMEN'S UNION OF THI Paolflo—MeeU at 487 Gore avanua every Tuesday, 7 p.m. Ruassll Kearley, buslneas agent. ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOOAL NO, 818 —MeeU. In Room 905, Labor Templo, every Monday, 8 p.m. _.. , _. ... pougall^ 1162 Powell street ;_Moordiiip *_*_*_ Pmldent, D. W uougan, aavs arvwrnu street: recording ■■»•«- tary, John Murdoch, Labor Templo; nnanclal aeeretary aud bualneaa agent, X. H. Morrison, Boom 807, Labor Temple. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S Association, Looal 88-52—Ottoa aud hall, 604 Pender atreet eaat. MeeU every Thuraday 8 p.m. Seoretary-treasurer. F. Chapman; business agent, J. Gordon Kelly. L L. A., LOCAL 88-62 AUXILIARY—{Marine Warehousemen and Freight Handlers) headquartera, 486 Howe atreet. MeeU flrat and third Wednesday, 6 p.m, Seeretary and business agent, E. Winch. MACHINISTS, NO. 182—MEETS SECOND and fonrth Thursdays at 8 p.m. Preaident, Wm. Small; recording secretary, J. Brooks: flnanclal sscretary, J. H. MoVety, 911 Labor Temple. Seymour 7496. MOVING PICTURE MACHINE OPERA* tors' Union, Local 848, I. A. T. 8.1. fl H. P. M. 0.—Meets flnt Sunday of eael month, Room 204, Labor Temple. Prealdenl J. R. FoiUr; buiineu agent, Bain Haigh, icial and corresponding aeeretary, 0, A. Hansen, P. 0. Bon 846, PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF NORTH America—Vancouver and vicinity.— Branch meeU aeoond and fourth Mondaya, Boom 204, Labor Temple. Preaident, Ray MeDougall, 1928 Grant itreet; financial aeo* retary. J. Lyons, 1648 Venables street; ra* cording secretary, E. Westmoreland. 8947 Pt. Grey road. Phone Bayvlew 2979L. BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS—Local fto. 188—MeeU second and fourth Thursdaya of eaeh month, room 808, Labor Temple. President, H. Pink; vice-president, R. Spring; flnanclal aeoretary. G. H. Weston; recording iecretary, D. Lemon, room 808, Labor Temple. PIONEER VANCOUVER TRADE UNIONIST PASSES AWAY THB LATE JAMES BBOWN With the piHaing nf "Jimmy" Brown, last Saturday, Vancouver loses one of its really old-time trade unionists, Thp late Mr. Brown, internatlonl deputy of No, 1, B, C, for the past 20 years, died at the General Hospital from a complication of diseases. He had been ailing for two or three weeks but his friends seemed to realise how soriously only a few days before he died. About a year ago hla only son died and since that time the deceased seemed to be very despondent. "Jimmy" was a familiar figure around the Labor Temple, and was ex-presldent of Vancouver Labor Templo Co., being succeeded only last year by R. B. Pettipiece. He had resided in the city for about 80 years, The Brieklayera1 union took charge of the remains and deceased was interred in Mountain View cemetery on Tuesday, September 11. The union Bent a large floral wreath and Mrs. "Jimmio" Haslett came In from Central Park to bring a choice bunch of flowers, President C. T. Smith, V. Dickie, E. Macey, A. Grist, J. Milholm and J. R. Duncan acted aa pall-bearers. "Jimmy" will be missed by many, as he was one of the staunchest union men In Vancouver. THE CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH (Continued from page 6) BETAIL CLERKS* UNION—LOCAL 279— Meeti In Labor Temple every flnt and third Tuesdays, 6:16 p.m. President, Chaa. D. Bruce, 1022 McLean drive; secretary- treasurer, Archibald P. Glen, 1078 Melville atreet, phone Bey. 5846R. K SHIPYARD LABORERS' UNION, No. 1566 •—Meets second and fourth Frldayi of each month, 8 p.m.. Labor Temple. Pnaldent, 0. Soaras; reeordlng aecreUry, W. Hardy,' 446 23rd street west, North Vanconver; flnanclal aeeretary, 8. Phelps. BTREET AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY EM- ployees, Pioneer Division, No. 101— Meeti Labor Temple, aecond and fonrth Wad* neidayi at 8 p.m. Preaident, J. Hubble; vice-president, E. S. Cleveland; recording sec. tary, A. V. Lofting, 2561 Trinity atreet phone Highland 168R; financial aecreUry and business agent, Fred A. Hoover, 2409 Clark drive, ofllce corner Prior aid Main streeU. JOURNEYMEN TAILORS' UNION OF America, Local No. 176—Meetinga held flrst Monday in each month, 8 p.m. Preaident, J. T. Ellsworth; vice-president, W. Larsen; recording secretary, W. W. Hocken, Box 60S; finanoial iecretary, T. Wood, P. 0. Box 608. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, NO. 928—MaoU last Sunday of eaeh month at 9 nm. President, W. 8. Armstrong; vice-president, R. G. Marshall; lecreUry-treaiurer, R. H. Neelands, P. 0. Box 06. PROVINCIAL UNIONS B. 0. FEDERATION OI* LABOB—IImU il annul eonrtotton la Jaaoair. Eiewtiff officers, 1017*18: FrHld.nl, J. Naylor, Boa 416, CambsrLnd: vlee-prwldeaU—Turn* nr: Jaa. H. HeVatr, T. B. Hllilir. Ubor Tempi.. Victoria: 3. Tarlor, Box Ills. Van- esuTer Ialand: W. Head, Booth Wellington. Prlne. Rnpert: W. E. Thompson, Box 094, New Waetalnatar: W, Tatea, 106 London •treat. Kootantr Dlatrlct: A. Goodwin, Boi a«, Trail. Orowa Neat Vailer: W. B. Pkll- llpa, 176 MePhei-eon avenue. Secretary* treuorer: A. a Walla, Boi Ull, Victoria, B. 0. VIOTOBIA. B. 0. VICTORIA TBADEB AND LiBOR COUN. OIL-Meeta (rat aad talrd Wedaeadajr. Labor HaU, 1414 QoTornaent atreet, at I p.m. Praaldant, E. Ohrietopfcer, Boz 117 i Tluproaldent, Oarlatlan Blnrta, 1171 Dan* aaa etreet i aearalarr. B. Blauuna, Boi IN, Victoria, B, 0, HI W1ITMJHT1B. B. 0. BARTENDERS' INTERNATIONAL LEAOU1 of America, local 714, Now Weatmlaater. lleeta aeoond Snndaraf each montb at 1*10 p.m. HeeratarT. t. w. Jameaon. Boi dM. PBPTOB BOT1BT, B, 0. PRINCE RUPERT TRADES AND LABOB Connell—Meete -aacond and fourth Tne* dare of each month, In Carpentera* hall. Pre* eldent, S. D. Haedonald; aoarotanr, 1, 1. Anderson, Boi 871, Prlnee Rnpert, B. 0. BOOTH WELLUIOTOM. V. I. LOCAL UNION, NO. 173, U. St. W. Or A.- Meeta aacond and foarth Bandar of each month, at 8.80 p.m., Rleharda Hall. Preal- dent, Walter Head; vlce-proeident. A. Weet* ley; recording eecretary, Jaa. Bateman; flnanclal eecretary, W. Macdonald; treasurer, J. H. Richardson. Every Union in B.C. •_*___, for THB nDIRATIONIBI In a body. PAT TOR IT MONTHLY, quarterly or yearly, ae best suits tha wishes of tha membership. Submit a motion ll1 neit meetini—and advise Tbo Federation!.! of the result. PffiK r^S^ OP AMERICA JcbT Aak for thla Label when purchaalnf Beer, Ale or Porter, as a guarantee that It Is Union Made. This Is onr Labal SMITH'B BUTTON WOEKS Hemstitching, buttoni covered, ical- lopping, button holei, pinking, apong- Ing and ihrlnklng, lettering, pint edging, pliatlng, rucking, embroidery, hemming. 868 Granville 8t. VANOOUVBB, B.O. Phono Aay alti 1819 Doualaa It. VIOTOUATB.O. Phanall60 of the fact tbat, the greater the prolongation of the war, the higher will be the number of disabled men, but also on account of the fact that a higher rate of pensions may be demanded by public opinion or may be forced by returned soldiers' organizations. $100,000,000. Tho sums mentioned above as likely annual charges for the national debt, and for pensions are together roughly $100,000,000 per annum. This represents the burden of taxation which will be left, even apart from any considerable prolongation of the war. This charge of $100,000,000 is greater than the total revenue of the country ten years ago. Mr. Turriff, I notice, haB just said that after the war $300,000,000 per annum will have to be raised. This compares with about $170,000,000 bofore the war. .The present financial policy is indeed likely to involve, not a reduction, but actually an increase of taxation after the wor. In fact, if the war should be seriously protracted—sav for two yeara longer—it is quite possible, unless in the meantime the country revolutionises its financial policy and wipes out, by the conscription of wealth, a large part of the capital cost of the war, that the war charges with which the future is burdened will represent a sum larger than tho total ordinary expenditure and involving a very serious increase of taxation in timo of peace over that which the country has been bearing in time of war. Truly did the minister of finance, Sir Thomaa White say, when introducing the budget in 1910-7: "It cannot ba too frequently or too earnestly impressed upon our people that the heaviest burdens of the conflict still lie before i" ■ Pay Now. I remarked at the outset that a primary fact which those who have regard for the future welfare of the country should not allow to retreat from the foreground of their considerations is that the colossal monetary cost of the war will have to be met at some time or other, and in some way or other. I will now ask when should the cost of the war be mett And I shell contend, by way of answer, Now. I shall contend that, both from the point of view of the prosent and from thc point of view of the future, such would be the soundest and most moral course. Note first, then, that to pay for the war now would leave the country with an unburdened future, enable it to achieve a rate of progress and degree of prosperity after the war that would otherwise be impossible and, in/ regard to its external trade, would put it in a very advantageous position in comparison with other countries that have chosen to handicap themselves with vast annual war charges. Sir T. White was fearful that an in come tax amounting to only $5,000,000 would discourage immigration and thus retard the development of the country. How much more fearful, then, should he not be that the very much greater war charges which the government's war policy is laying on the future will retard development! . Faying Over and Over Again. Note, further, that, by meeting tho cost of a war by heavy loans, you pay tho aum involved over and ovor again. Take the Napoleonice wars as an example. As a result of these the funded debt of OTeat Britain aftor Waterloo was £816,000,000. During tho succeeding forty years of peace before the Crimean war occurred, hardly £75,000,000 was paid off; and it has been calculated that the people of Great Britain have paid a sum of about £3,000,000,000 on account of thiB debt—noarly four times its amount—and have still failed to wipe it off. And such is likely to be the history of the debt which is now being contracted by Canada, so long as the control of the country is in the hands of men who havo a tender solicitude for tho "rights" and privileges of tho rich, men to whom any real conscription of wealth would forebode "the end of all things," mon who positively plume themselves on pursuing n "safe" and "'conservative" financial policy. Mortgaging Future Labor-power. A heavy national debt—'' a first mortgage on.the country," as it Ib attractively termed—represents essentially a means whereby the rich are enabled parasitically to drain the country's wealth. It la true that a small proportion of the debt is held by poorer peo ple, but when, after, the war, these small holders realize how seriously they too are being taxed for the benefit of the rich, they will not, it may be hoped, be any more content than the general mass of working people that the burden shall continue to be borne dumbly by the country, and will not lend their aid to tho rich for the defence of the parasitic position of the latter. The real nature of loans may be indicated by a quotation from a recent press dispatch in which Professor Gide, an economist of the University .of Paris, tells of the 'unshaken condition of French finance, despite a colossal war debt. This economist explains that the greater part of the war expenditure "is what might be jailed fictitious, that is, the transfer of money from the pocket of one citizen to the pocket of another, a transfer in which a great many new fortunes have been built up but in which the real riches of the country have been left untouched." Tho real riches of a country are the laboring capacity of its population; and government war bonds represent, essentially, a device by which those to whom, under the present -peculiar constitution of human society, these bonds are issued to secure a mortgage on the labor of the population in the future. Tbe Moral Check. Serious as are considerations such as those which I havo already advanced for contending that the cost of war should be met during its course, and should not be thrown on succeeding generations, I regnrd the moral aspect of the matter( as it relates to the ethics of mar-making, as more important. When people have given themselves over to war-making, one of the few checks that can operate to halt the passions which are inevitably associated with the occasion and compel them to attempt to justify themselves to reason, is the cost of their continued indulgence. This drag on the wheel of national passion is particularly important whon a war reaches a stage, such as that at which the present war has arrived, when there is a danger of both sides settling down into mere dogged- ness, desirous merely of the feeling of victory—the gesture of victory, without troubling to tell themselves specifically what, in a reasonable view, "victory" is, and without weighing the cost. This has been enunciated in words that must now bc considered classical, but that aro well worth quoting again, : by Mr. Gladstone—and old-fashioned, but well-intentioned staesman: "The expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations. There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory and excitement about war, which, notwithstanding the miseries it entails, invests it with charms in the eyes of the community and tends to blind men to those evils to a fearful degree. The necessity of meeting from year to year the expenditure which it cntnils is a salutary and wholesome check, making them feel what they nre about, nnd making thom measure the cost of the benefit upon which they may calculate." Mr. Gladstone proceeded: "Tho system of rnising funds, necessnry for wnrs, by loans, practises wholesale, systematic nnd continual deception upon the people. Tho people do not really know whnt they are doing. The consequences nre adjourned into n far future. '' It can confidently be proclnimcd that the best moral sense of modern societies would kad to thc viow thnt wars should be paid for und the entire burden of them so borne (except insofar as their burdon inevitably falls as a handicap on tho children whose upbringing is prejudiced by thom), by thoso who wage thom, at thc time thut they wago them. Deliberately to throw ho financial burden of war upon tho future-, no mattor how specious tho pica upon which such nction is taken may appear nt tho timo, is, I believe, felt by many persons to be essentially immoral. Somo of the moro goneral aspects of this importnnt mattor, including the light which history throws upon it, I shall notioo Inter, whon considering tho doctrino in regnrd to it laid down by the minister of finance. At presont I nm concerned with it as it relates to the provision of a check on reckless war-making and, particularly, when onco war has been engaged upon, on the unduo continuance of war and the dnnger of a belated ponce. (To bo concluded noxt week) Movie Men Move. The Vancouver Theatrical Federation, which is composed of the operntors, stage employeea and musicians, have moved their headquarters to now offices on the third floor of tho Labor Temple. ' AMAZING Are the wonderful bargains that await your early inspection at Vancouver's great new bargain house—the Liberty Store. Our methods of buying mercantile stocks at 50 cents and 60 cents on the dollar enables us to sell direct'to the workingman at far less than most retail merchants must pay wholesale. Thousands of people are making the Liberty Store THEIR shopping headquarters. Why don't YOU make THIS store YOUR store, and save on every purchase. v Our ironclad guarantee "Your money's worth and MORE, or your money back," applies to every article that leaves this building. Come tomorrow—Saturday—or any day next week, and look through this big store and its mammoth bargains. 519 astings St.w SALE STARTS DAILY at 10 a.m. FOOTWEAR Ladies' Fine Pumps—All sises; all styles; reg. from $5 to (9: about 450 pairs In the lot. <ftO QQ While they lest ?*.»0 Men's High-Gride Oxfords—Regular $2.98 to $9.00. Clearing Price . MEN'S SUITS Hundreds and hundreds of Hand- tailored Suits, msde by America's leading manufacturers, to be sacrificed during this great event: Lot Men's Suits—Begular £K QQ to »16.00. Our price .... *\»>*vO Fancy Worsted and Tweed Suits— g;r^l0..'.a.a:.6.0:. $10.98 Fine Serges, also Brown and Greys, in neatstrlpea and cheeks^ regular to 125.00. Our Price . $12.98 Big range of Superb Quality Suits ln the most advanced models for men and young men. Regulai $1A QQ to $27.50. Our Price ... V".*"* Men's Pants — Regular to 94.50. Herges, Tweeds and tfO QQ Worsteds. Our Price *?**!FO 92.50 Fine Shirts—In very «1 QQ neat patterns. Our Price... ▼*•*» 92.60 Ladles Waists— Our Price .......................... vests. Our Price . 94.60 Skirts— Our Price, only . 79c LOOK! LOOK! SOO pairs of Ladles Fine Shoes that were made for ladles with Cinderella feet; sises 2% to 4 only; values In this lot to 98 »n 49 QQ 99. While they laet fMO Ladles' Shoes—All sises and styles; regular from 94 to 97.60. «Q AR Our Price ...... 91.98 to *»•«> Classic Shoes for ohlldren; CI QQ values to 98.76. Our Price. t*M» 35o and 40c Drummer OAt* 90* Boy Hose. Our Price **ty *SC 300 Children's Stockings— IQp Our Price *•*' 75c Sllkg- Our Price, per yard —.... 39c 14c 20c Prints, Our price, per yard ,\ 91-00 Dress Serge— CQa Our price, per yard .....™ w** Watson's All Wool, Woolsey's Fine Cashmere and other leading brands of the finest Underwear made, that soli regular to 93.50, « QQ going now at -... -f*eeTO STETSON HATS $1.98 John B. Stetson HaU—Regular 96 i all sises; neat, conservative shapes. While they last $1.98 25c Garters— Our Price, Only . 85c Work Shirts— Our Price 40c Cashmere Socks— Our Price —-,.—.... Arrow and W. G. k R. Collars -—Our Price, each ......—w... 91.25 Shirts—AU sises. Our Price —....... 91.00 and 9125 Heavy Ribbed wear—wool mixed. Our Price . «,. 14c 10c 49c Under- 49c 24c 98c $1.00 Cape—Big assortment; KQ- all sises. Our price *"v 500 Suspendera— Our Price ~ 92.00 Sweater Coats— Our Price . 94 Heavy Flannel Shirts; all alses; all colors. f 1 QQ Our Price f leW 75e B. T. D. Underwear- Our Price —™~.». 200 dos. Heai wear—Reg Our priee 94.50 White and Pants. Our Price ... 49c \t_ Ribbed Wool Under* wear—Reg. #1.60 to 92. ftSfi mrlped Flannel ^^^ $1.98 RAINCOATS One of tke largest etoeks of Bala* coats la B, 0. It hep. for your ta* speetlon. Ererjr one at a Bargala Pries— Vohee lo 110.00— Oar Priee ... Values to 111.00— Oar Price .— Values to $95.00**- C11QB Our Price 112.91 to ?1*«W $4.98 $15,000.00 STOCK OF HIOH-OBADE MEN'S CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, FURNISHINGS, LADIES' APPABEL, DBT OOODS, ETC., ETC., BEING SAOBITIOED. OOME AND SAVE. NO RESERVE NO LIMIT THE ENTIBE POLSON - SPEEBS DEPARTMENT STOBE, BOUGHT IN ENDBBBT, B. 0., AT Ue ON THB DOLLAR, IS BEING SLAUGHTERED AT PBIOES THAT ABB THB TALE OP THB OITY. C/Zmm/I'S GREATEST BARG__m' JTOtVaAE LIBERTY /TORE owned er operated _wme COltTOLIDflTED l__3L-U__WNZ BROKER/ 319 M/K-r-Tirsdmr s WE.-^T BUiSCOlrmBO OZ*D *-**2 Great Sacrifice Clearance Sale OF THE LARGE STOCK OF FINEST IMPORTED WINES and LIQUORS ' Of the HOSE & BROOKS CO., Limited A FEW SPECIALS GIVEN BELOW IMPOSSIBLE TO ADVERTISE ENTIRE STOCK Liquor* from the Wood. CANADIAN EYE Per Gal. H. & B. Old Bye $3.60 B. C. Old Special $4.00 Goodcrham & Worts $4.60 Walker's $6.00 SCOTCH Per Oal. H. & B. Old Matured $6.00 Donald MacGregor $7.00 Cattos Extra Special $8.00 BRANDY Per Gal. Jacques Ladue XXX $7.00 Vallier Pine Old $7.60 Barnct & \Elichgarohy $1.00 GIN Per Gal. H. & B. Old London Tom $4.00 H. & B. Holland Geneva $4.60 H. & B. London Dry $4.76 RUM Per Gal. H. & B. Old 38 $8.00 Liquors in Cue 'CANADIAN RYE Canadian Rye, 12 bottles $9.00 G. & W., H. & B. bottling $10.00 Special Old Rye $12.00 SCOTCH Invarary Fine Old, 12 bottles .... $12.00 Donald MacGregor XXX $14.00 Mackie's O. V $14.00 BRANDY Jacques XXX Cognac, 12 bottles $13.00 Vallier Pine Old XXX ,.. $16.00 GIN Superior Old Tom Monarch tics 12 bot- . $10.00 Geneva, 15 large square $17.00 Holloway Dry London, 12bots... $12.00 RUM Old 38Rum, Jamaica, 12 bots... $14.00 WINE SPECIALS FINEST IMPORTED FRENCH Medoc, per case $6.00 St. Julien $6.60 Margeaux $6.00 Lcovillc $9.00 La Rose $9.26 Pontct C'anct $8.00 Bcaunc $7.00 Pommard $7.60 Burgundy $7.00 CALIFORNIA WINES Bottled at Winery Riesling _ $6.00 Moselle $6.60 Chablis $8.40 Zinfandcl $6.00 Burgundy $6.60 Table d'Hotc $6.60 St. Julian $6.60 Margaux $7.00 War Tax Stamps Extra California Wines in Bulk at Very Low Prices All goods guaranteed or money refunded. Out-of-town orders carefully packed. Please be sure to enclose money or express order with order. The time is now very short before the Prohibition law comes into force, and as stocks are going fast would suggest ordering at once. The Hose & Brooks Co. Ltd. 504 Main Street . Phones sey. 8258, 8257, 8259 Vancouver, B. C. PAGE EIGHT THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FBIDAY... I do right work at a right price —Whenever any reader of The Federatlonist Is in need of dental attention, consult me. MY special training enables me to promise you the "best" in any form of dental work—Crown and Bridge work, dental plates, etc., the kind of work that lasts and will give perfect satisfaction. MT office equipment enables me to carry out the latest and most scientific methods in doing my work. It includes a high-power X-Ray apparatus for taking films of teeth, and thus making "sure" work where ordinary dental methods are insufficient. My prices are reasonable—just ae low as they can be made with regard to the use of the beet grade of materials and that degree of workmanship which assures you of reliable attention. Phone Sey. 3314 Appointments may be made with dental nurse. Dr. Wm. H. Thompson 602 Granville Street Cor. Dunamulr Frivite entrust At the J. N. Harvey, Ltd. Clothing Stores THIS COOLER WEATHER MAKES ONE THINE OF Heavier Underwear Shirts and Gloves ___________________________ i. We ham a toe stock bought long before preeent high prices, -whicli w» are Belling at prices that should interest you. Men's Fine Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers 50c Men 's Fine Balbriggan Combination, at fl.00 Men's Merino Shirts and Drawers, at...... 76c Men's Fine Elastic Rib Combinations, at .'. 92.00 STANFIELD'S and other reliable makes of Shirts and Drawers, at $1.25 $1.50, $2.00, $2.60 and $3.00 each. Combinations in same, at $2.60, $3.00, $5.00 and $6.00 MEN'S WORKING SHIRTS, in large variety) prices ranging from 75c to : , $3.50 MEN'S WORKING GLOVES, in cotton..... 16c MEN'S WORKING GLOVES, in leather, 50c, 75c, $1.00 to $2.00 MEN'S GAUNTLET GLOVES, 60c, 76c, $1.25 to $2.00 Our stores are headquarters for fully guaranteed WATERPROOF SUCKERS, which are sold here for less money. Two Reliable Stores for Item in British Columbia Look for the Big Red Arrow Sign J. N. Harvey, Ltd. 126-127 HASTINOS STBEET WEST ALSO 611-616 TATES STREET VANCOUVER VICTORIA YOU WILL WANT TO SEE THESE ATTRACTIVE SILKS DUCHESS MOUSSALINE 30 inches wide, in a most interesting range of shades, including emerald, buttercup, amethyst, smoke, apricot, cerise, nigger brown, saxe, Copenhagen, flesh, <nuvy, maize, sky, nile, black and white, We have put a specially low price on this silk of, d*| QC per yard %pl«73 PAILETTE MESSALINE 36 inches wide, in practically all wanted shades. Make a point of examining this line of flne silk; you will be interested. d*1 Of Our special price, per yard \yiaaCD SABA BROS,, Limited THE SILK SPECIALISTS 652 ORANVILLE STREET Mr. Shaw Would Like You to Have Our New Catalogue MR. SHAW wants every mother and father to secure a copy ot our new interesting and fully Illustrated catalogue. This is a publication of considerable interest in homes where there are babies—mid it is sent absolutely free opon request. Strong, serviceable and comfortable baby cars, made and designed in our own local factory, lowest pocsible prices for cars of this standard. See our dls- Ai* *§___' play. One specially good \1U fk English style car sells W I Vi f V for ■ Shaw's Baby Cars (O. S. SHAW * CO.) 904 ROBSON — Opp. Cout HOUN Do your teeth need attention? AN honest reply to this enquiry from the great majority of readers would be "Yes." There are but few things that people are so careless about as their teeth. First, they neglect giving them ordinary care and, when defects appear, they constantly put off giving them attention. ',":'. Delay in attending to yoar teeth iB dangerous, '" —to the tooth itself for neglect means its absolute loss, '"i '"'* —to adjoining teeth for decay, once started, spreads XX' rapidly, "' —to your health, for there is no such thing as perfect _-f health and defective teeth, —to your appearance, for bad teeth are a blot on any . _ ' countenance. Come to my office nnd let hie examine your teeth. I will then give you honest advice as to their condition, and, should you desire me to give them necessary attention, "will do the work skilfully and thoroughly, tho permanency of the work being covered by my ten year written guarantee. My charges are reasonable. Special provision made for prompt treatment of out-of-town patients. nam Sat. 3331 Eliminations mad* by phone appointment Dr. Brett Anderson drown and Bridge Specialist 2 Hastings Street West, Cor. Seymour THE WAR Ell ACT A FfniNG Some Trite Comment Upon Doings of a Moribund Government The Capsheaf of Political Impudence and Low- Grade Intrigue [From The Voice] Intolerance, There is more intolerance in certain sections of Canada in a square yard than in a square mile in Qreat Britain. The more repression of the public mind the greater is the instinct for resistance arointed, and you can hear it on all sides by quietly talking to the people and getting at their private opinions. The attitude assumed by the '' capitalistic big business newspapers of this city haB its reflex in the minds of the people that freedom of thc individual iB an alienable right. If they continue their course it will mean defeat of the objects for which they are striving. * * * Win-the* war party—win-the-war government- has fallen on barren ground. What the people want is a government for Canadian people and not a game of bluff put over. The people want candidates who will deal with domestic affairs and set our house in order. Big bjBiness rule will cease after the next election, and the people will have some say—which is not the case under the present regime. * * " The War Election Act has been introduced in the house. It is a fitting climax to the high-handed proceedings that have been carried on by the Borden government at Ottawa this session. Of all Prussianized methods this bill in plain English states you must be for Prussian methods otherwise you are disfranchised. If you are a believer against the shedding of blood, you are disfranchised. (How about that, ministers of the gospel, and brotherly lovef) The bill iB one that out- Prussians the Huns, and is in itself a blow at democracy and a disgrace to the Canadian people, not to say anything from a constitutional point. * The proposition of giving votes only to the women who have relatives at the front and not to all women is simply nonsense—absolutely undemocratic from every point of view and should not be tolerated for a moment by the people. Either give every Canadian woman the right of franchise or else none. It is just another evidence of the Borden outfit gone military mad and ought to come out plainly, nnd state military service is the qualification for the ballot. What a spectacle for a moribund, last gasp, group of incompetents to dare to legislate away the ballot of Canadian citizens. "Whither are we rushingf" • * * In the United States they have adopted similar tactics as have been adopted in certain sections of Canada, and have gone even further by the action of that governor in seizing the socialists' headquarters in Chicago. Such actions can only lead to greater resistance by people of independent thought. And while certain states have refused the right of assemblage to a peace meeting, it is not in keeping with the boasted democracy that we hear so much about from our friends to the scuth. * * * It is a terrible blow to the loyalty of big business when the British government placed tbe embargo against Canadian foodstuffs in certain lines because the prices were too high. They have also ceased to. order munitions. Is it for the same reason? Our newspapers, do not explain. There's u renson. * * * A newspaper report states that the pensions of the soldiers will be increased by 60 per cent, by an order-in-council in the next few weeks. Is this another eleetion dodge! If the government means business, why do they not bring in a bill to that effect and make it an act of pnrliainont and not an order-in-council! There is a big difference between the two. If parliament passes it it takes an net of parliament to repeal—If the govern- ment-in-council passes it it can be re* pealed in council. MINE RESCUE WORKERS WILL HOLD FIELD PAY Met ln Nanalmo Laat Sunday and Decided to Hold Competitions at Ladysmlth. A meeting of the Vancouvor Island Mine Safety association wns held in the Nanaimo Kescue station last Sunday, the following delegates being in at* tendance: Bevan—0. 0'Brian and Mr. Brown. Cumberland—Chas. Graham and D. Stewart. South Wellington—J. Neen. East Wellington—C. Dickinson. Ladysmlth—-D. Martin. The officers of the association were also in attendance, viz.: H. N. Freeman, Nanaimo, president; T. A. Spruston, Ladysmith, vice-president, and W. H. Moore, Nanaimo, secretary. The meeting decided to hold their second annual field day in first aid at Lndysmith on Saturday, Slept. 29, the programme of events comprising /first aid contests for thc B. C. Mines cup, five men a side, prizes, gold and silver medals for first and second prizes; con* test in first aid for the Coulson cup, five men teams, prices, gold and silver medals, presented by the St. John Am* bulance association. There will also bo contests in first aid by two-men tenms and individuals, and demonstrations of the Draeger apparatus for five-men teams, for which gold and silver medals will be awarded us ilrst and second prizes. In connection with tho Draeger contests un effort is being made to nave tho several cdiil compunies on the Islnnd jointly donate a shield for competition annually, the winners to have thoir names inscribed on the shield year by year. Engineer to Be Married. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Beasley of Mount Pleasant announces the engagement of their daughter, Winifred, to Fred Mc* Grew of Viotorio. Thc marriage will be solemnized in Christ church, Vancouver, September 22, Mr. McQraw is th second engineer of tho C. P. R. passengor steamer Princess Chnrlotte, and1 a well-known union man. His host of friends among organized labor will wish him evory possible happiness on thc "sea of matrimony." New Fall Suits to Sell at $27.50 THE WOMAN who anticipates purchasing a suit now will flnd it to her advantage to investigate tho models referred to here. These are developed in good quality gabardine in green, brown, navy and also black. The coat is made with deep collar, box pleated back, full belt and breast pockets, while the model buttons close up to the throat and is lined with white satin. Skirt is plain tailored, is gathered and has half-belt at the back. All sizes from 16 to 42 are available at the one price— $27.50 The Art Needlework Classes Meet Every Day from 9 a, m. Until 5 p. m. FREE instructions with ' all goods purchased at our Art Needlework Section. Special classes for school children on Saturdays. Pay a visit to the Art Needlework Section now. It is situated on tho Third Floor. 575 Granville 'Phone Sey. 3540 ...September 14, 191 REEVE RUM Ineffectual Attempt to Get a Shipbuilding Contract for South Vancouver No wonder Reeve Russell, tbe big noise of South Vancouver, is figuring on becoming u candidate for honors at the forthcoming federnl election. Russell has u reason. He has made no bones about being angry becauso South Vancouver didn't get u regular ship to build, instead of a vestpocket proposition such ns Harrison & Lamond were trying to flout for awhile. Russell roars like a lion when things don't suit him, so he is proceeding to roar like sevorul lions now, and the couneil is roaring behind liim. And it is little wonder, as said before, Russell and his council did everything thoy could to get a contract. They boosted for one, worked for one, and probably prayed for one. If they didn't pray they did everything else. .Tust imagine, they even went to tho Conservatives as a party, and wanted the party to use its influences with Harry Stevens, federal member, to get South Vancouvor a ship to build. Down on their marrow-bones, as it were. .. ; If that wasn't bemcaning enough,. what was? Truly, Russell did about | all he could. And now he's hot. All South Vancouver got in thc way of u ship to build, was that contract which Harrison & Lamond had and tried unsuccessfully to raise money to carry out. It is said that Russell's hectic decision to enter the Dominion politicul gamo came after a meeting in the office of Leon Ladner, also an aspirant for federal honors in South Vancouver, and a close-up Conservative, On this occasion, Russell and Ms band of councillors met the Conservative executive, or a piece of it, rather, in Ladner's offico in the Rogers building. It was about June 19. In the South Vancouver party were Reeve Russell, and Councillors Pollock, Qrimmett, Connocher and Bennett. Stewart Campbell was also there. That ought to have been imposing enough to get a wholo fleet of ships. But it wasn't, strangely. Which rohnnds one that there's always a reason, even reason for Reevo KubbcII. TORIES TRY TO USE 1 CURRY IN No Head Is Too High for Ottawa Politicians to Use to Save Their Own Appeal for More Men Said to Be Made Out of Whole Cloth Some time ago there appeared a pitiful appeal credited to General Curry, head of the Canadian forces in France, for more men. This unquestionably was unother piece of flimflam such as the Ottawa government is using to force the people to put it back into power where its friends can continue to squeeze more proflt out of the war, General Curry is reported to never have mentioned anything of the sort. It was made .ip for u purpose. In fact, there is a well-authenticated report going uround thut Gen. Curry privately denied the story, and Beemed rather upset thut he should have been made to appear as going over the head of the commanding officer of British arms in France, and that he was being made a political general, whichyhe was not. It is said, to Sir Arthur's credit, that he has kept out of politics. That is, he has been engaged on war since going across, and left his politics buck in Victoria with his other peaceful pastimes. But he is not in a position to publicly deny that he originated the appeal for men. Perhaps, were he free to say what he thinks, he would say thut a big gap in the ranks would be nicely filled by sending across to France the crowd of Canadian political officers strutting round dear old Lun- non. And strutting nrojnd home, too. How about it? ' ISSUES NOTICES TO CET ON VOTERS' LIST Books Close at the End ef Tills Month end All Should Oet Buiy At Once, Joseph Hubblo, prosidont nnd noting business ngont of the Street Builwny* men's union, wishes to draw to tho attention of every member of tho 'union tho fact thnt tho civic votera' lists cIobo nt the end of this month, nnd impress upon them tho necessity of getting on tho list whother tenants or owners, be- fopr the timo cxpincs. It is cipcctcd thnt by tho 27th of the month n new running sheet will be post- od. So fnr as known, there is to be very litlto change in the schedule "As a mcosuro for self defense the govornment is at tho presont timo trying to minimizo the robbery of tho people. Tho worker nro organizing, not with thc purpose of minimizing robbery, but to destroy it." OFFICIAL LIST OF DELEGATES AT LAST COUNCIL MEETING Attendance Roll Prepared by Statistician Fred. Knowles of Central Labor Body. I. L. A. Aujilinry—E. Winch, W. J. Gillespie, B. Sollis, W. Stcen. ' Bricklnyers—W. Pipes. Berbers'—C. E. Uerrit, S. H. Grant. Bartenders'—O. Weir. Bookbinders'—No delegates. Brewery Workers'—J. l'ike. Boiler Makers'*—J. McAninch, . W. Marshal, Young. Iron Workers'—R. Massecar. Cigar Makers'—No delegates. Civic Employees'—V. R. Midgley, G. Harrison, J. McFarlane. Cooks' and Waiters'—A. Graham, J. Ricard, Miss GtashofT, J. Garner. U. B. of (0, and J.—G. C. Thom, J. R. Campbell, W. Thomas, A. McDonald, G. H. Hardy, J. H. Copping. Amnlg. Carpenters'—R. Jackson, Deep Sen Fishermen—No delegates. Electrical Workers'—H. Woodside, E. H. Morrison. Garment Workers'—Miss Bennett, Miss I,. Haigh. Firemen—H. Steon, S. Jackson, W. Fox, M. McDonald. Hod Curriers'—No delegates. Machinists', No. 777—F. E. Edney. Letter Curriers'—F. Knowles, J. Cass, J. Dodd, R. Wight, N. Barlow. Longshoremen—G. Kelly, A, Tree, J. Kavdnnugb. Lathers '—No delegates. Machinists', No. J82—J. H. McVety, A. R. Towler, G. Lyle, .7. Brookes, W. M. Hawthorne. Moving Picture Operators'—E. T. Holdsworth. Molders'—J. Dickenson. Musicians'—No dolegates. Pressmen—No delegates. Plumbers'—A. Cowling, J. Rose. Pattern Makers'—No delegates. Pointers'—H. Grand. Press Assistnnts'—No delegates. Pile Drivers'—W. F. Ironsides, M. Nash. Plasterers'—G. Rush. Retail Clerks'—C. D. Bruce. Rly. Mail Clerks'—No delegates. St. Rly. Employees—J. Hubble, F. Hnigh, J. Rigby, A. V. Lofting. Sheet Mctnl Workers'—A. J. Crnw- ford, J. W. Friend. Sailors'—P. Peel. Shoe Workers'—T. Corey. Stage Employees'—A. Harrington. Shipyard Laborers'—M. Phelps, F. Talk. Steam Engineers'—W, Alexander, J. R. Flynn, D. Hodges. Shipwrights'—No delegntcs. Steam Shovel and Drcdgcmcn—W. Cochran. Tailors'—Helen Gutteridge. Typos.—C. Benson. Tllelayers'—No delogntes. Telegraphers'—E. F. Bailey. Teamsters'—J. Poole, Sampson, B. Showlcrs, A. H. Kempton, North Shoro Civic Employees'—F. H. Loon, 0. H. Rathbono. Visitor—R. T. Freeman, Victoria, Total, 83. F. KNOWLES, Statistician. A New Service and a New Department Claman's Limited announce the opening of their Boys' Department Saturday, September 29th Discriminating mothers and fathers will await this opening before purchasing their Boys' Pall Clothing c 'MMtor HART,KHAFFHW-lWWWOflNEfe feHimiNiS iaWunnao 155 HASTINGS ST. W. Now Is Pickling: Time; Here Is Useful Advice SALTED CORN Water-tight kegs or tubs, or crocks, may be used for salting com. Do not use any containers made of yellow or pitch pine. Wash thoroughly and steam kegs, crocks or other containers to be used. Husk the ears of corn and remove the silk. Cook in boiling water for ten minutes. Cut corn from cob with a sharp knife. Weight tho corn. Use a quantity of salt equal to one fourth weight of corn. Spread a layer qf corn 1 inch thick in the receptacle to be used. Sprinklo heavily with salt. Continue adding layers of corn and salt until the receptacle is nearly full. Cover wth cheesecloth and clean board cover. Place a clean stone for a weight on the bourd cover. Set the receptacle in a cool plaee. If a brine to cover has not formed in 24 hours pour enough strong brine over the com to come up to the wooden cover. As soon as bubbling, which will be slight, hus stopped, cover the surface uf the brine with hot paraffin to form an air-tight cover. To Make Strong Brine. One pound salt. Two quarts water. Stir until salt is entirely dissolved. At tht Orpbtum lbat Vancouver will be privileged to witness the best of vaudeville this winter li contained in an announcement made hy Mr. .lames Pilling, resident manager of tbe Orpheum that the stage Ib all set for the season 1917-1018 and next Monday wll) nshor In tbe season witb a remarkably good and well-balanced bill, There are seven high- class acts Btartlng with eGorges Mark's Jungle Players. Mang & Snyder are up-to- the-minute songsters. ("The Night Boat" is the sketch of the week. Norwood & Hall nre fashion plates, singers and dnncera. Col. Diamond and His Granddaughter will he the flrst on the bill in a sketchctte of terpsichore culled "Age and Youth." Charlie Howard The Long-Distance Telephone becomes 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; the weather does not count. What better Bervice would you desiro I BBITISH COLUMBIA TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED Pantages Theatre Back to Form, If the management of Pantages theatre had been ablo to place almost any one of tho acts on this week's bill beforo thc patrons last week, Tho Federationist might havo felt inclined to modify itB criticism of the show. The fact is that this week's performance was as good as last week's waa bad. There is not a poor number on the bill, and right from the rise of the opening curtain tho audience is kept in the best of htitaor by clever and novel actB that are seldom equalled on the coast. The entire bill iB a credit to tho management of the theatre, nnd iB receiving the patronage of organized labor. Oood Show at Empress. "The Old Homestead," this week at thc Empress is packing tho house. It is a good show, well acted. The Empress stock company deserves much prniBC for the offering this week. "The White Sister," is the title of next week's offering. Tho management says much for it. Broadway. "The Girl PhilHpa," which is one of the moBt Interesting stories ever filmed, is the title of the play at tho Broadway. It Is a Bplcndid picture. Every Union Man Who Visits the Latyr Temple Should patronize the Labor Temple Cigar Store COSTS NO MORE, BUT IT ALL HELPS li a scream on Orpheum time and will are sent "Oared," a prohibition playlet. Pranki Heath Is a charming singer. All her song are new and original, There will be thi usual pictures and musical numben from thi Orpheum Peerless Orchestra. CONSCRIPTION AS VIEWED WHERE PEOPLE HAVE SA1 "Conscription haB robbed the British er of his right to a conscience, and es tablished a military dictatorship al over the country." No, it's not fron one. of Brookfield's speeches, but I statement by the Age's London corres pondent. The following is also fron his pen: "People of means are im plored by the food controller to sub sist on luxuries, and to leave the low priced necessities to the poor. The pool cannot afford to pay 1/0 per lb, foi new potatoes grown under cover ii Jersey, or 26/- per lb. for strawberriei grown in English hot houses." Whj can't they! We have been assured thai the English worker never made suet enormous wnges or enjoyed such luxuries as they do now. Anyhow, if th« war is serious why grow strawberrieg when Lord Hobnob's 26 bob would pny a week's wages for 3% "Tommies?"— Labor Call. KINO OF BICYCLES They ara tha finest bit of workman* hip in tba bicycle world; 8 different models Id variety of colors. Pricei from 142-60 to $05,00, oa •ut payminti 11 dailrod. HA0KZN8 * ELLIOTT "Tha Pioneer Bicycle Store " sit Howo st. m ______ st w. TOUB HEALTH DEPENDS | ON YOUR FOOD Milk It 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, coating 2%o, you fortify your body with as much energy and nutriment as you would obtain from a can of tomatoes or a half-pound of chicken. Eat less heavy food and use more Milk, Butter, Cheese and Ice Cream. Be Healthier, Spend Less. DAIBY PEODUOTS PUBLICITY BUBBAU The Place To Clothe Your B03 SUITS—Tweeds, Serges and Worsteds to It 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 CAPS—Up-to-date in many styles. UNDEBWEAB—Shirts, Shirtwaists, Sweaters, Stockings, Overalls, Night Shirts, Pyjamas, etc. OOTTON SUITS and Straw and Cotton Hats. ALL ON SALE NOW CLUBB & STEWART LIMITED TeL Bey. 70S HEN'S AND BOYS' OLOTHINO 309 to SU Halting! Street Weat WE WIU KEEP YOUR FAMILY ON THE PAYROLL WHEN YOUR NAME DROPS OFF THE MONARCH LIFE ASSURANCE CO. C. A. CBYSDALE, Manager for B. 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