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THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST DTOUBTRIAL UOTTY: BTBBNOTH .«. OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADEB AND LABOR COUN )IL, AND B 0 FEDERATION OF LABOR —*—-—*. "V-T __. **i __.**_* __L ■ —- ■ - m_* POLITICAL UMITT: VIOTOBY TENTH YEAR. No. 41 EIGHT PAGES OFFICIAL PAPEB: VANCOUVEB TRADEB AND LABOB COUNUL, AND B. 0. FEDEBATION OF LABOB VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11,1918 /* I Employers Refuse to Concede the Closed Shop Secret Ballot Shows Workers Are Unanimous in Their Demands The striking laundry workers liavo bad a vory busy weok. Negotiations with the omployers have been going on until the matters in dispute have been practically whittled down to the closed shop, which the union insists upon, anu which the employors apaprently are just as emphatic in refusing to concede. At a meeting ot thc union on Friday afternoon, which Mr. McNiven, Deputy Minister of Labor, was invited to attend, a communication was read from the employers stating that they were willing to "reinstate union workerB in Vancouver laundries as their services may be required with the exception of thoso who may have been convicted of an offence, nnd that thoy were also prepared to enter into an agreement vrith the Laundry Workers Union giving effect to these proposals, but under no consideration would they entertain the closed shop principle, stating that as far as thoso questions were concerned this was absolutely final." Mr. McNiven, in response to a quostion as to whether he had anything to say on the Bubject, said that he had had great difficulty with the employers, but after frequent conferences and arguments, thoy had agreed to practically everything but the closed Bhop. On this poiat< and here he assumed a very aolomn aspect, '' ho was convinced that their decision was final, and there being nothing more that he,could do, he might as well roturn to Victoria." The moeting was very quiet and Boomed to be dcoply impressed, but it was from suppressed indignation awaiting aa outlet, for when one of thc members jumped up and asked tho question whether, having heard the letter read and what was expressed, thoy wore willing to roturn to work without a closed shop, a moro emphatic and unanimous 4' no " was novor uttered at any meeting. He said that it seemed to be the impression of the employers that Miss Gutteridge was the causo of all the troublo, that the girls would not hove known that eight( nine and ten dollars a week was insufficient to live upon had she not have told them, and that she, Miss Gutteridge, wob responsible for the demand of a closed shop. It was up to the meeting to correct this impression, and to express thoir firm determination not to return to work without a closed shop, a statoment that was received with such prolonged cheering and clapping of hands that there could not havo been loft a shadow of doubt in tho mind of Mr. McNIven that thoy know what thoy wanted and were determined to got it. After tho cheering had subsided, Mr. McNiven interposed with tho suggestion that while ho hnd no doubt about the feollng of thc meeting, he thought it would im- prcBB the employers moro if we took a secret bullot ou the question, which was roadily agreed to, and roferred to the regular general meeting for a full attendance. After Mr. McNivon had boon honrtiiy thanked for his efforts in trying to settle tho disputo, the meoting adjourned. A record attendance was secured at the regular general meeting held on Wednesday night. Mr. Brock, president of the Laundry Workers' International, was present. After the routine business hud been disposed of Miss Gutteridgo announced that donations had beon recoived from thc Boilermakers Union for tho local treasury, and from the Seattle Lnundry Workers ' Union, Locnl No, 24; she also stnted that Mr. Duncan, secretary of tho Central Labor Council of Seattlo and vicinity, had issued a circular letter to nil the unions in Seattle recalling the struggle tho laundry workers of Seattle had hnd with the Laundry Proprietors' Club, stating that the laundry workers in Vancouver woro up against the same species of "club" and asking for subscriptions to bo forwarded td their local in support of tho funds. Mr. Brock had also sent a telegram to the international headquarter^- requesting a donation from the general funds, and had also signed a sheaf of lotters to be forwarded to all afflliated Laundry Workers' unions throughout the Unitod Statos and Canada, calling for financial holp. Altogether, Miss Guttorldgo I said, with the monoy flowing into tho m Trades and Labor Council strike fund, ther,e was no foar of tho strike failing through lack of funds. And as the rosult of'the meeting shows, there is no fear of it failing, through lack of determination on thc part of the laundry workors. Mr. Brock thon addressed tho iheet- |, ing and gavo many forceful illustrations of the necessity fl>r a closed shop whieh, if thero were any doubt upon tho point, must hove convoncod them of the foolishness of accepting tho employers' terms. "Tho vory fnct that the employers wore so strenuously in opposition to the closed shop, should, ho said, bo sufficient to convinco the most dull-witted workors that It was to their advantage to insist upon it, indeed, it was their only salvation." Mr. Brock was enthusiastically cheered after a very ttbli address. After other speakers had been heard, the meeting bnllotted on the following question: "Are you in fnvor of ncccptlhg the employors' terms?" which reunited in an ununimous vote ngainst accepting thom. The result wns received with loud and prolonged cheering, which. kept on subsiding nnd breaking out ngnin. Whon quietness was once again restored, it was generally recognized thnt tho decision necessitated even moro strenuous picketing being done, and it was decided to recnll nil men working, back to picket duty, After n hearty vote of thanks lo Mr. Brock tho MACHINISTS' LADIES ARE VERT ACTIVE WORKERS Start Campaign for New Members and Hold Very Busy Session—Everybody. Get in and Help On Thursday, October 3, the Machinists Ladies Auxiliary held its regular meeting. Six applications for membership were received and four new members wero admitted. A very busy session was held in the new room, 306, in the Temple, quito a lot of business boing transacted. Reports were received from the several committees dealing with lodge work. A finance committee was appointed to audit the books of thc lodge to date. The sisters are starting a campaign to increase the membership, their aim being to get 100 new members by Christmas. Mothers, wives or daughters of members of thc Machinists locals are eligible for membership. Application blanks will bo forwarded by R. A. Towler, 2228 Balaclava Street, on request. Thc FIREMAN LOSES HIS LIFE ON PRINCE E Experienced Men Will Not Work This Ship Owing to Conditions next meeti n. October 17, bo held on" Thursday, Campaign UP Villification Not Haphazard But Organized About u year ago tho San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Instituted a defense fund. Tho primary object of this aggregation of the employing class being, aB they statod, to defend themsolves against the trades unions. The Robert Dollar Company is credited with having contributed a million dollars towards thiB very estimable project. Now let it be snid that according to thc information that is in the hands of organized labor, the fund was not started as a defense fund, but rather an offensive fund. The object boing not to dofond the ruling class from the ruthless onslaughts of organized labor, but to crush- out the trado unions, as it waB stated at the time, to crush the trados unions from San Diego to Alaska on the Pacific coast. From recent happenings, it would appear that the employing class on this sido of tho lino is desirous of emulating tho example in crushing the unions. Wo are not in possession of information as to whother it has raised any fund, but recont press attacks all over the country on trades unions, would lead any one to think that something of this kind had boen started. Tho villification of tho unions, tho abuse of the workers in all parts of the country, can not possibly bo a coincidence, but qrast bo an organizod effort on tlie part of the employing class to stamp out, or impodo the progress of tho organizod Labor movoment. It is a fact that, at no time in tho history of the world has the trade union movemont, over shown such growth, or such intelligence and solidarity as it hns during the past threo years. This does not apply to this country, but applies to the country to tho south of us, nnd to the countries ncross the Atlantic, including France and Great Britain. This is not tho result of any individual activity, but is a direct outcomo of the ever increasing cost of the necessities of lifo ,nnd the added burdens that have us a consequence been placod on the backs of those that toil. Now the villification by tho press in this country, is not by nny means any haphazard proposition, but is systematic, and with a specific object in viow, that object to check, or if possible destroy the organized labor movement. The method adopted is' to nssail individual officers of the movement by making such statements us "Those men must bo under Germnn influence." Another ono is that "German money is tho causo of .the Labor unrest." The responsible officers of the movoment are accused of "feathering their nests," etc., etc., the object being to foster in tho minds of the rank and file suspicion against tho officers of tho movoment, and by thnt method cause internal trouble nnd eventually disruption. Now tho fnct of the mntter is thnt the Labor movement's growing strength is a source of considerable concern to the employing class. The solidarity nnd intelligence displayed by the workers the world over is causing that class n good deal of annoyance, for the members of that class recognize thnt once the workers are fully nwnke to their clnss interests, thnt there will bo a hange, and thnt tho source of their profits will be cut off. But villification will not by any means disrupt tho rnnks of the workers. Slander ennnot hurt tho men thnt nre known, and are recognized hy the rank and file ns men that ' arc trustworthy, that hnvo a knowledge of the position of thc workers in their economic organizations. Somo of the press reports, nnd statements ns to organized labor nre so vilo, and so palpably untrue, that they are acting as a boomerang ,nnd instead of hurting the movement, nro bringing homo to the workers the fact that tho press is the instrument of the employing class, and thnt the statements contained thorein are deliberately framed to hurt, and to retard the movement, which is destined to eventually bring to thoso that toil a life of Happiness and comfort, brought nbout by tho common ownership of tho means of wenlth production. Lives of Passengers May Be Endangered as Well as Crew Early Tuesday morning T. Morass, a fireman on the steamer Princo George, was fatally burned, and*died at tho General Hospital later. The accident happened at 1 a.m., when tho steamer was going north from Vancouver. Moruss, who joined the steamer on September 22, was taking out a burner to clean it, but he failed to shut off the valve, and the result was a burst of (laming oil that caught him full in the face and inflicted such terrible injuries that as stated he died. As soon as it was seen that the injuries were serious, the steamer put back to port, and an ambulance was awaiting her arrival. An inquest will be hold on Saturday morning. From information received by The Federationist, thc deceased fireman was inexperienced, and that it was his inexperience that caused him to attempt to clean out the burner without turning off tho oil. Experienced firemen will not stay with the company so long as the present unsatisfactory conditions remain. They leave in disgust, and consequently the compnny can not operate their steamers with competent help. The Firemen's and Oilers Union calls for two mon for the nine fires, while tho company only allow ono while on tho run. This tne men claim is too much for one man, and they will not work under these conditions', This is ono of the things that should bo enquired into at tho inquest, for inexperienced men should bo protected from themselves they cannot be blamed for taking work that appears to them remunerative, but the company should be compelled to hire competent help. This is demanded by tho needs of tho travelling public, as well as by the men that havo to work alongside inexperienced help. The lives of all on the ship may be at any time placed in jeopardy by the skinning tactics of the company. Freight Handlers Tho freight handlers' strike is still on, and tho possibilities are that a general strike muy result on tho C.P.R. system. The Calgary Trades and Labor Council is rof erring the mntter of supporting the strikers to the affiliated locals. Pettipiece Sick Friends of R. P. I'ottipieco will re- grot to hear thnt Parm nnd five of his family ure down with Spanish in- fluenzn. A speedv recovery is tho wish nil. Typos. A deadlock has occurred in the wngo scule nrhitrntion proceedings of the Typographical Union, the employers having decided not to nccopl tlie awnrd. meeting udjourncd. The whole proposition is now up tn the Labor movement. The laundry workers hnve decided to flght to the last ditch, and hnve shown that they nro worthy of tlie support am! assistance of organized Lnbor. The Labor movoment ennnot afford to allow it to becomo a failure. Civic Employees Tho civic employees are awaiting thc closo of thc visit of the Cabinet ministers so that thc city councU will have timo to get down to business in connection with thc demands of the city employees for nn incrcaso wnges. /In Vuconnr\ V Olty, I8.0Q ) LOCAL DETECTIVE Offers to Put Secret Service Men in Workshops Ete. JOSEPH NAYLOR fix-President B. C. Federation of Labor and decretory of the Cumberland Mirtara Union, who has been found not guilty by tho grand jury at thi; Nanalmo Assizes, of aiding draft evade™. EI. SECOND LAUNDRY Good Time Assured to All That Attend Whist Drive and Dance The success of tho second whist drive and dunce given by tho Laundry Workers, Locnl 37, in aid of their strike fund, is most certainly assured, in view of tho fact that the number of tickets sold on the last occasion (approximately 1000) has ulreudy been passed on the fltth day of tho ticket campaign. As already announced through these columns the event is set for Thanksgiving bay, Oct 14th, Dominion Hall, |f Ponder Street. Whist 8 p.m. Dance 0 p.m. Prices] 50 cents, gents, and 25 cents, Indies. A 5-cent and 3-eont war tux extra un thu tickets, payablo at the door. All arrangements havo been made to accommodate a large crowd and fun in ubunduuee is iu store for all that attend. A number of special features have boon added to the already good programme. Holdon's orchestra, so popular In the city, will supply the music. The catering is in the able hands of the Cooks, Waiters aud Waitresses Union, while thc "Good Time Department" will be handled by tho lnundry girls themselves. ELECTRICAL WORKERS TO HOLD DANCE OCT. 23 Electrical Workers and Telephone Girls Join Together in Social Event Locals 77A and 213 of the Electrical Workors arc to hold an informal danco on Wednesdny October 23. The juice slingers ure evidently not afraid of the skidoo number, und arc intending to hnve u good time, The dance will be held in Lester Court, nud thc committee in charge of the arratigomcnts are not sparing any effort to make it the dance of tlie season. The telephone girls ure ulso taking n part in (ho affair, and ns they arc mombors of Local 77A of the Eloctrical Workers it can be tnken for granted that it will bo u renl live dance. Mombors nf organized Labor uie invited to attend, price of a'dmisslon boltigj gentle* men $3,00, Indies 50c. "Reconstruction of Society" —A Subject With Possibilities Owing to the unfortunate illness of Mr. R. P. Pettipiece, who was billed to speak at thc Bex Theatre next Sunday evening, his engagement will bo takon by Mr. Kingsley, who will havo us his chairman Mr. Chas. Lestor. So many aro presuming today to tako a hand in reconstructing society that tho views of "E. T." ah»uld bo annexed by those who have any coasideration for the matter. Tho- orthodox and those who care little for any such classifications will gather aome debate* able material on Sunday next. Tho Labor school was a success at the outset last Sunday afternoon and it is at onco necessary to move to moro commodious quarters. For this purpose thc Granville Hall at 641 Granville Streot has beon secured at 3 o'clock. Au adult class of members of the party is also being formed in con nee tion with this new nranch of activ* ity. ■ -a£a . , On October 23rd the first whist drive and dance organized by the social com mittee will bo held at O'Brien Hnll with dancing from 0 to 12, for which tickets nre nn snlo, gents 50c, ladies 25c. Tho South End brnnch of tho Labor Pnrty will opon Sundny evening meet fngs nt the Broadway Theatre nt the corner of Broadway nnd Main Street, on Sunday, October 20, beginning with organ recital at 7.30. Mr. J. S. Woods- worth will occupy the platform for tho first four consecutivo meetings. Chair- mnn on 20th will be Mr. J. E. Wilton. Patronize B. C. Federationist ttdvfl ttsers and toll them why yon do so. NO SETTLEMENT IN THE CIGARMAKERS' STRIKE Union Men Can Assist Strikers by Demanding the Label and Smoking Union Mode Cigars The latest reports from Hamilton regarding the strike of cignrmakers in the Tuckett fnctories indicato that the union hns this firm on the run, the firm being unable to fill the orders that are being received, und but for tho scab labor of somo girls iu Montrenl the strike would havo been settled by this. The Htiuiilton shops are closed duwu tight; ono brunch shop in London is working with 12 scabs, and one shop in Montreal is working with 75 girls. Tho work turned out of this factory is so bad that the goods are being returned, nud the union lubol is nlso being demanded. Most of Tuckett's cigars are used iu the West, and tho cignrmakers tint looking to the men in the trndes union movoment in the West to nssist the strikers by purchasing only uiiion-mude cigttrs. Thc fight is on nnd it is up to all local men to patronize home-inade union products. Get thn habit. LABOR TEMPLE MEETINGS FOR COMING WEEK SUNDAY, Oct. 13—Musicians, Sawyers ami Filers, Dominion Express Employees, Saw Filers Association. MONDAY, Oct. 14—Boilermakers, Electrical Workers, Steam Engineers, Patternmakers, V. B. Carpenters No. 017, Amalgamated Engineers, Upholsterers, Ironworkers. TUESDAY, Oct. 15—Bnkery •Salesmen, Bookbinders, Brewery Workers. Office Workers, Butchers nnd Meat putters, Locomotlvo Firemen nnd En- ginemen. WEDNESDAY, Oct. 10— Dominion Express Employ (JOS, Metal Trndes Council, Boilermakers Examining Board, Laundry Workers, Hotel nnd Kestnuniiil Employees. THURSDAY, Oct, 17—Trados and Labor Council, Foundry Employeos, Maintenance of Way- men, Machinists Ladies Auxiliary ( FRIDAY, Oct, I*—Granite Cutlers, Hallway Carmen, Pilo Drlvors and Wooden Bridge- men, Boilormnkors Executive, Molders, Civic Employees, City Hall Employees, Minimum Wage Lengue SATURDAY, Oct, III—Black* smiths. Local Unions Should Note and Comb Over Membership The following is a copy of a letter sont to the employers of this city by a local detective agency,' and shows to what depths some people will go in order to obtain a living. A word to the aviso is sufficient, and all organizations should carefully comb over their memberships for these tools of the employing class. Stool pigeons in the police force, yes, and evidently in the Labor movement, and no doubt in the returned men'a organizations, as well. R. S. Townsend, Manager, Late N. W. M. Police and Thiel. P. O. Box 923 NORTH AMERICAN DETECTIVE SERVICE CO. Consultations free. Phono Sey.- 9145 404405 London Bldg. Vancouver, B. 0. t Confidential. Dear Sir: You will no doubt understand the value, at the present time, of keeping in touch with the Labor situation. It has to our knowledge saved many firms, thousands of dollars, through information received. I would like to point out a few ways in which inside information benefits tho employer. He is enabled to know thc feelings of his men, and to determine which men arc honest or dishonest. An employer can only see tho best sido of an employee. He has not thc time necessary to observe him carefully, off his guard. We arc also enabled to keop an employer informed as to the best settlement he can make with the labor union on the wage question. Very often an agitator is in.your employ< and you are not aware of it until ho has worked considerable mischief. Our system is this: We put a secret service operative to work for you. (We omploy only experienced and trustworthy men). He doos an ordinary man's work, and every day we mail you a confidential report of conditions as he finds them. You are thus enabled to handle tho situation with a firm hand, knowing that you are acting under correct information, not guess work. We also carry od our staff, mon experienced in check* ing up on conductors and ticket agents. Wo will be glad if you will give us an opportunity to discuss terms, etc., with you, and I think lhat you wiU realize that the employment, through the above firm, of an' operative, will benefit your firm considerably from n money-saving standpoint alone, not to mention thevworry nnd aaxioty eliminated by knowing that you have a cor root grosp of the situation. Yours faithfully, (Signed) R. S. TOWNSEND, Mnnngor. m__iw FERNIE BONERS HAVE RETURNED TO WORK All Places Goes on Single Shift Except Necessary Development Work The Fornie miners after a strike of a month, for the single shift, which they claimed was necessary for safety in the mines, is ended, the miners deciding to return to work en Tuesday. Tho terms of the settlement arc: "All places to go on single shift, except noccsBary development work." Ab to what comprises necessary development work will bo settled at a later date. In their demands the miners wore backed by export and scientific evidence, and owing to the dangerous nature of the mines the men were determined to take this precaution to protect thoir lives. Offlce Workers The newly organizod office workers will hold their next meeting in the Labor Temple on Tuesday, October 15, when it is expected that a large numbor of new members will be admitted. BUCKShOSARE $1.50 PER YEAB NAYLOR IS FOUND NOT GUILTY AT Men From Prairies Are Induced to Come to Coast It has been some time since the readers of tho Federationist have heard from the Blacksmiths, so here goes to lot you know we aro alive. I presume other crafts at this time are witnessing a general influx of tradesmen from the prairies, and we find the blacksmiths are no exception. By questioning the ones that apply for jobs we find that the stories of lots of work and enormous pay in the prairies and near eastern papers is the general cause of these men flocking out to B. C. and especially Vancouver. Here is a sample of how a newcomer asks for work: "Are you the representative of the Blacksmiths!" "Yes.' Well, sayt I would like to get a ticket to go' to work in the shipyard.'' "Wliich yard do you refer tot" "Why, Coughlans." "Well, they don't need any blacksmiths there at present." "Is that so f Well.l thought that all I had to do was to walk in here and get a permit to go to work iu which ever yard I wanted to go to work in, etc." And as a rule wo find that they have gained this impression from stories in their newspapers and from direct advertisements for men to work in the shipyards of B. C. Anyway, we aro increasing our membership, and the increase js' from a growth in the trade more than a falling out of membors for other linos of work. Last Saturday wo initiated twelve new members. A number of. these wero from tho local wngon repair shops, which lino of blacksmith shop wo are organizing at present. We expect Grand Jury Throws Out Charges Against Him Aitken Also Discharged But New Charge Is Laid United faU.' stand. Divided we Organized Labor can congratulate itself once more upon another demon' Btration in the courts of the troth of the above quoted adage. Word hu just been received that Brother Naylor of the United Mine Workers hoe bad tho charge againat him thrown oat by the grand jury at the Nanaimo Aisicee following the charge to them by Justice Murphy that tney should sot allow the charge to stand unless tbere waa at least sufficient evidence produced by the prosecution to warrant a petty jury's listening to it. Brother Naylor was, aa all our readers are aware, arrested at Cumberland on Vancouver Island and charged with assisting deserters from His Majesty's Military Forces by supplying tbem with provisions. Nobody was surprised that tho local dispensers of justice commit* ted him for trial, although there waa no evidence of any kind connecting him with the crime. At the proceedings initiated by tbe solicitors engaged by the defence to review the committment by these magistrates, the presiding judge admitted that the charge was founded on the slimmest evidence he had ever seen a man committed for trial upon; bnt he refused to interfere on the grounds that there was a scintilla of evldonce and that the local magistrates had the advantage of ::local color and knowledge." Brother Naylor, it will be remembered, was ono of the "objectionable" labor leaders who was to be deported by unlawful means at the hands of the loeal patriots following the recent Vancouver riots on the day that Brother "Ginger" Goodwin—shot in the hills near Cumberland by a military constable named Dan Campbell—was buried. We printed the evidence in full at thc preliminary hearing, but those who missed reading it can tell what it amounted to by the fact that a grand jury decided that it would only be wasting the court's and the petty jury's timo by listening to it. Tho case against Brother David Aitken, also a member of the t7. ST. W. of A., wns very similar, byt the Crown brought a soldier from Quebec in ovidenco ngninst him nnd also sought to get these men nil linod up soon and j have the chnrge altered to another date, working under un ngreement witb their whereupon tho defense counsel con- employers, tended that that amounted to n new We nttended the regular meeting of charge. This point carried and tho the Westminster Local and was glad Crown gracefully consented to the dis- m thn m.thn blacksmith shop force mi_m_ 0f the first chargo and laid a socond onc. Counsel then moved to o P. of C. Meetings Are Being Largely Attended W. W. Lefeaux will be tbo speaker at the Roynl Theatre next Sunday at 8 p.m. under the nuspices of tbo Socialist I'urty of Cnnndn. At last Sunday's meeting J. Knvanngh was the speaker. He dealt with the convention of the Dominion Trudes Congress of Cnnada recently held in the city of Quebec. A synopsis of his address will be found on another page of this issue, Tbo Sunday meetings of the S. P, of C- in the Koyul are being largely attended, uud the crowds grow larger every Sunday, and a new intorest is being displayed by the workers in the subjects tlmt are from time to time discussed at these meetings, and which have i bearing ou the position occupied by th* workers in society. Don'! forgot to at tend the meeting this week, nnd bring along a friend. At the last, meeting of the Winnipeg Trndes Council, the matter of censorship of Ihe Western Labor News wns discussed. The letters of tlie censor to the editor were rend by the secretnry, und the executive wns instructed to prepare a suitable reply. It ,wns pointed out thnt since the government had the power to enforce its decrees, it wns useless to ignore his commands. D. ANOELL MEETS DEATH IN AUTO ACCIDENT Boilermaker Meets His Death in Motor Oar Accident—Only Young Man I). Angoll. a member of the Boilermakers Union, has died in St hull's Hospital ns u result of u motor cnr tie- I'iilent. Angoll was taking a trip to ibe Stalos when the accidont occurred. He was injured about tho head, ami concussion of the bruin caused bis death. to see thc entire of the Poplar Islnnd yard join in a body. The boys nro nlive in Westminster and will be 100 per cent, organized thero iu n short time. Local 620, Engineers All mombors .should muke it their business to he present ut the next meeting of above local on Monday next, October 14, in ordor to register their vote regarding whether tbey are in fnvor of a general striko to assist tho Laundry Workers in their tight to establish the right to exist ns human beings. Since the appointment of an outside organizor, mombors who nre working Out in the woods, ure receiving a little more attention. Members who are working us logging engineers ure requested to see that tbey got the following scale of wuges, as same has recently been'en- dorsoa by this locul, ami any momber ubo litis difficulty in getting tbe linn lie is employed by to pay tbis scab', should report same to Business Agent W. A. Alexander. Yarder engineers, $150 por montb and bourd. Swing engineers, $140 per month and board, Kondcr engineers. $140 per inmith-nnd board. Locomotive engineers, $175 per month I thi nnd bourd. I Hu Twenty-six (2(1) days of fi hours shall Constitute n month. All overtime to b« puid for nt the rate of time nnd a half Overtime shnll menu nny lime work ed nftor tho regular shift. rtlflO Sim dnys und nil legal holidays. Adopted September 28, 1018. Subject to change at .1(1 days' notice. hnve the trial on the second charge, laid over to the noxt Assizes oh tho grounds that the defence was not prepared to go on. This was conceded and the mattor ns it now stands will rest until next May. Application to release him on bail resulted in bis being allowed to go on ono surety of $1,000. Great intorest in theso cases hns boen shown by organized Labor in all parts of the Dominion and the defonse fund at Cumberland enabled the defense committee to engage the best available legal assistance. At thc application for a review by wny of Habeas Corpus and Certiorari the defendants were represented by Robert Cassidy, K. C,. nnd J. Edward Bird; nt the Nanalmo Assizes by J, Edward Bird assisted by W. W. Lefeaux. At Cumberland P. P. Harrison looked after the legal details. Some dny perhaps we ' will realize whnt wo can do if we all stand shoulder to shoulder und drop the potty quibblings that we now spend our timo upon. Orgunized Labor can do nnything tbat it has u mind to do; it can even secure renl capitalist justice, for those prominent individuals iu the Labor movement that the authorities may pick nut for special attention in wny of "deporting tbem over thtt " strictly against the rules and regulations of capitalist sooioty itself. Got together! Barbers The Barbers Union wishes to draw the attention to ull members of tbe harboring profession to tho fact that nil goods turned out by the Kokon Barbors Supply Company nre unfnir to organized Lnbor. This Jirm has been declared unfair to organized Labor by tin- Centrnl Trndes aad Labor Union of St. Louis, Miss., and by the Carpenters, I'ninters, Machinists, Upholster ers. Metal Polishers, Sheet Metal Workers, Plumbers and Stonmfllters, nnd the Stationary Engineers of St. Louis. V Registration Card Lost W. Welsh of the Plumbers Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 At the last regular meeting of Locnl 28 the coming Victory Loan was discussed. What action the local will take will be decided next Wednesdny night. A circular letter is being sent to nil unions in thc city advising tbem nf the bouses that are unfair to the orguni/u- tion, namely, Mclntyre 'a f'ufe, Pioneer Cafe, McLeod's Cafo, Leonnrd's Cafe, Metal Trados Council icutivo reported tbat the Tbe executive reported tbat the nd- justor bad been round and Informed tbem that according to tbo statistics from the Lubor Gazette the increased cost of living during the lust throe months came to 40 cents a week, or $3 per month for a family of five. Owing: to tbe fact that clothing is not takort into account ut nil, tbe authorities at Ottawn considered that it wus fair t<' allow a family of five $2 a month on- this account. Aftor all you can buy* a pnir of boots for $01 A recommendation of tho oxoontivo to issue a quarterly Metal Trades Council working card was endorsed and referred to tho unions. BrO, Fawkes gave n brief report on the convention at Frisco, stating that it was unlikely any settlement would lie mnde for some time, and that tbere would be no retroactive feature in the adjustment on tbe other side of the line, lie promised u full roport by noxt meeting. The auditors reported that the rc- coipts for the past quarter amounted to $414,25; expenses $281.40, leaving d balance on band of $264.51. Another View ' Labor unionism is justiflo its Unit bv m1 tho moro reports tbnt he hns lost his due book, and registration ennl. Anyone finding snme would dp Brother Welsh a fnvor by returning sume to the Fcdcrntionisi offlco. Pnlronize ll. O. Fedorntinnist advertisers and toll them why you do so. Post Offlce Ctifo, The mntter of | accomplishments, It has oloval patronising Chinese restaurants is nlso ■ working man's standard wngi donll with In tho circular, leisure, better working condu._.._, .„ Anothol1 large restaurant, the Chi- creased bis edicicucy, diminished ncci- zens' Club, in the Vnncouver Block, dcntSj nverted disense, hns kepi the lias agreed lo hire nil union help. I children in school and raised the moral MomborS of organized Lnbor will assist j tone of tho home. Tf is not becoming by asking for our union button whon for n non-unionist, nftor receiving all eating in restaurants, as there nre still! its benefits with union labor, to de* n number of union evaders in the city, I nounco it."-—'Rev. ,1. C. Armstrong;, but mny eltiitu they nre members. [Superior, Wisconsin. PAGE TWO .THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FBIDAT... ..October 11, 1918 They Are Union Made! 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Thatjs where I generally get my inspirations." Inspiration in n wash-tub—a rather novel suggestion. Yet why not? What more likely place? Inspiration has become a rathor serious word, carrying with it an odor of sanctity, connoting as the logicians say, bibles and pulpitB, and visions and angels. Thus it is quite conceivable that an inspiration might come to como holy hermit as ho performed his lonely vigils in a cavo in the desert. Or an inspiration uii^ht como to somo con- secreted virgin as ahe knelt boforo her .snow-white bod. But inspiration in a wash-tub in Vancouver in the year of our Lord 1018—prepofltcrousl But as a mattor of fact all down tho world's history "inspirations" havo not como to men and womon who sought thom after thc mannor approved by our legend-weavers. They have come to men aud women in real life. Edison may be a modern wizard, but Edison did not mako hia discoveries by making secrot passes or muttering mysterious formulae. Tho discovery may havo como "in a flash." We don't know much about phychological processes. But it camo to a man who had given yoars of special training and spent long nights in laborious research. After all, evon in thc history of re* ligious thought, inspirations did not come to men who withdraw from the actual world and waited for some special revelation. Moses, it is true, was in ,tho wilderness when he saw the bush that burned but was not consumed—whatever that bit of symbolism moant. But Moses was at his ordinary work of a shepherd. Our modern professional religious leaders withdraw into their studies and work hard enough—bnt though they pump and pump the water won't come, or when something does como, tho people don't recognize it as the water of life, and refuse to drink it. After all, religion is simply a knowlodge of the true principles of living and such knowledge ennnot come apart from real lifo. Under tho existing industrial syBtem there tends to bo' a division botwoen "hand worjeors" and "brain workors." Tho hand workers aro supposed to mechanically do what they aro told. The brain workers are supposed to direct policies. But physiologists and psychologists alike tell us there is a very immediate and vital connection betwoen hand and brain. Possibly in tho evolution of tho race hand work has much to do with brain development. It is not an unlikely thing that if hand work were to ceaso the brain might become atrophied or at loast greatly altered in its structure and function. Of course, in practico, hand work and brain work aro novor absolutely di- vorcod. Tho hand workers think—if not about his work, thon about other, things. Tho one who probably suffers most is the so-called brain worker, who, so far as his work is concerned, is ofton out of touch with the actual conditions of tho lives that ho is supposed to direct. Is it any wonder that the policies ho initiates often-fail to work? Yet it is to him—the professional leader—that we generally look for inspirations. Lot us look at thoso two women. There is tho ono—a busy mother bend-' ing ovor a wash-tub. Here is the other—a "society" woman—childless, but a momber of half-a-dozen clubs and patriotic" organizations. To which of them should we look for leadership? Who knowB tho most about lifo? To whom are inspirations most likely to come? After all this inspiration in a wash-tub isn't the' proposterous thing it seems at ilrst sight. It is quito conceivable that tho society woman might have an "inspiration" with rogard to some finishing touch in her evening's toilette, or tho color-scheme for tho next bridge party, or tho shape of the boxes for tho Red Cross tag day. But whon it comes to an inspiration with regard to thc really worth while things of life, 111 back the Madonna of the washtubl Out of the washtub are coming the dreams of a new social ordor in whieh wash-day will not be tho back-breaking, nervo-trying day it now is. Electric powor in abundance is available in Vancouver. If our water-powers could be in tho possession of the people, who should renlly own them, nn electrically-driven machine would lighten the labors of wash-day and make cool nnd pleasant the labors of ironing dny and mnko dustlesB and easy the labors of sweeping day—and our thoughts go to the hundrod and ono labor-saving devicos that are already on Ihe market—if only hnd the money? And the womon turns bnck to her wash tub, but sho has dreamed her dream and ono dny her dream will come true. Has she not a voice in Ihe govornment? Cnnnot the government whieh alienated the public water powors reclaim thom? Women hnve rightly boen rather suspicious whon censored for thoir lack of political power by the thought that tho "hand that rocks the cradle rules tho world." They nro just beginning to realm* that the hondf in thc soap suds mny mv;e this cotntry a decent place in which tp livo. Out of the washtub aro coming a new set of vnlues. That little dress is Mary's, and Mary is going to school, and tho mother dreams of Mary and her education. Like another mother of ancient timo, sho "ponders all these things in her heart." Sho thinks of Mary's future—of her possible marriage—of the position of women under existing laws—of thc shame of much of our conventional morality. Those pants aro Jack 'b. Sho stops to tako out of u bulging pocket a miscellaneous collection of string and marbles, and cores nnd tin soldiers. Tin soldiors, my boy, to go to war! My boy to come home broken as so many of the poor fellows—if he comes ut all! What does the women of the washtub care about the maintenance of somo ancient dynasty, or the successors of secret diplomacy or the securing of new world markets. She loves her wee laddie. From force of habit she may join in "God Have tho People." Yes, out of the washtub is coming un ovor widening sympathy—lho spirit of the new brotherhood. As the mother thinks of Miiry and .lack, sho thinks of the little neighbor children—of Mrs. Unions struggle to get boots for hen Even Literature Changed When Capitalism Followed Feudalism A Still Further Change Is Now Being Made That upou the economic structure of society -is squnroly founded its moral, religious and governmental institutions is the woll known theory of tho materialistic conception of history first propounded by Marx and Engols and later developed by a number of historians, most of whom accept with moro or less reservations tho niain idea. It is quito truo that with tho zeal that marks tho acceptance of- a new idea, many havo ridden this conception to death, but none the less its basic truth is hardly to be questioned. Evon in.such a remote comer as tho literary forms which obtain eurroncy, we flnd critics and authorities who never accept thc Marxian conception of human society, coming out with what must bo regarded as un important fact which can be explained in no other way. '' It was no mere accident,'' thus John Morley, now Lord Morley, speaking of Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe, published in the enghteenth contury, "that the modern novel had its origin iu England, but tho result of general social causes. Tho modern novel esscnti* ally depends on the interest of the privato lifo ■ of the ordinary man or woman. But this interest was only posai* ble on condition that the feudal and aristocratic spirit had received its deathblow, and it was only in England that such a revolution had taken place oven partially. It was only in England that the middle class had conquered a position of consideration, equality and independence." In other words, in tho changing economy in England, from the feudal to a capitalist economy, the literature had changed or more correctly had develop* ed in adjust mint with that change. Of late it will be noted criticB have beon bewailing the fato of the modern novel. It is considered sunk into innocuous desuetude. They have acclaimed so many and so frequently as "the great American novel, the novol in American life that would take its place in American literature side by side with the' novels of Dickons or Hardy; but they hnvo acclaimed in vain. In fact what we note as tho best sellers and therefore tho most popular in American novels, is that thoy deal with tho comings, goings, doings, thc virtues and the vicos of that gilded set that rejoices in classifiaction as tho aristocracy of woalth. In other words ,tho best sollors deal with the fow ond not with tho lives of the many and accordingly they cannot help but share the inevitablo decadonco connected with tho lives which they portray. Nor is this condition confined to the novels. Go to almost any movio theatre and it will, be discovered that the genius of tho scenario writers directs itsolf to n condition of life, with which the patrons to a very small extent havo any familiarity. Sumptuous social existence and tho like, silken gowns and elaborate scenes elaborately furnished, all attempt to show a condition with which the public is not familiar to any extent, but which represents as far as the writers and actors can conceive the lives of thoso who are socially, economically nnd politically suprome in the commonwealth. It certainly is true that socioty reflects its conception of things in its literature. Yet it is somewhat cruel to intimate that thc ideals which aro shared by tho people of this country finds reflection in thc rot that is written and acted in novol and piny. It is well to understand perhaps that outsido of this, and quite removed from anything like high brow art, there are thoso who on- denvored to reveal conditions of tho lowly, tho lowly rising to supremacy, but whose work must remain unrecognized because as yot those who aro portrayed, have not yet risen to economic supremacy, and whoso lives accordingly arouse hardly passing interest. It must not be forgotten that human beings are very much alike. And just as the English menial classes loved to rend about the doings of tho Duchess Gwendoline nnd tho Earl Percy whose beds they made and whose shoes they blacked and whoso Clothes they mnde up, so the average man anywhere is interested in the .lives of those who are an inspiration to toadysim. It Ms, however, some consolation to know that with the rising of the proletariat to a full recognition of its own purutuount importance those lives too will interest, as Sir Charles Grandison interested the middle classes to some extent relieved from the nristicratic pressure of British feudalism in tho eighteenth century.—Nome Industrinl Worker^ Just Bo 'I believe in unions. I believo labor organizations hnvo boon ono of tho greatest factors in improving the material and. moral conditions of tho wage-earner and in raising tho standard of industrial citizenship. Tho union is as necessary nn outgrowth of our modern -industrial system as is the corpora tion."—Theodore Roosevelt. Refuse to Arbitrate Foundry employeos of Marion, Ohio, have refused the wage demand of Iron Molders Union No. 380, and havo also refused to arbitrato tho question. Now the men aje on striko ,and the employers talk of "interfering with war production," because theso workors demand rates that will meet incrensed living costs. childorn to start to school; of tho little woman next door, who should have an operation but whose husband can't got work because ho was two yoars old when he came from Gormany; of the thousands of little childron all ovor the world who are perishing; of tho thousands who are being nurtured in hatred —nnd the old Christmas inossago: Pence, good "ill"—hns a new menning. The new movement has already begun. Again tlie woman bonds over the washboard, but not in despair. She has seen a vision nnd dreams a dream. Labor Troubles Bore Delegates to Annual Convention [By J. Kavanagh] After reaching Toronto and thereon to Quebec we Tiocame awaro that tho air, that is, the conventional air, was literally vibrating with tho moBt vital issuo, to the majority of those delegates thereto, of tho moment. Who was to be the next president? Persistently and consistently echo answered moro. On the day preceding the opening of thc convention, little groups wore gathered together discussing this all important question. Did you talk of labor troubles, or thc aspirations of the workors, you wero a bore. Who cared about such matters. Among meal ticket hunters, ns most of thom wero, the only topic worthy of discussion waB the pie card of the presidency and who would attain the same. The convention opened Monday with a record attendunce. Fully 350 dole- gates were present, consisting largely of international organizers, an advertising solicitor or so, and a fow other hangers on of the Labor movoment, together with some men who actually work. After wo had listoncd to the various addresses of welcome by thc spokesmen, for tho employers of the province of Quebec, tho convention got down to businoss. The first couplo of days were marked by various attompts on the part of the secretary-treasurer to imitate tho late Nicholas Romanoff in his most palmy days, The ilrst resolution of a controversial nature was ouc asking that a special committeo bo elected to draw up a programme of reconstruction principles. The administration immediately moved in amendment that tho matter bo left iu the hands of the executive committee. This brought forth considerable opposition from tho Western delegates and the few thinking delegates from thc East. Needless to say the amendment was adopted. Anothor striking feature in Quebec is tho number of small boys employed at the C. P. R. hotel and dressed in imitation of our nnccstrnl prototypes sucb as wtSre used by Italian organ grinders in thc pursuit of their occupation, a little red coat and hat to match, only thc tail is missing, otherwise the impression is perfect. On Tuesday wo began to make better headway. The novelty of hearing the ofliciul heads of tho Labor movement challenged in debato by membors of the rank and file was passing away, though at one timo a disturbance scorned imminent whon the czar, or pope, as Cassidy called him, attempted to run tho convention. Thursday wo wcro in good condition even though wo had to histen to the printed address of tho delegate from thc A. F, of L., which contained such Gomporian platitudes as "Labor is not a commodity," etc., and n special mixture froln the delegate from Great Britain. Ho was two-thirds representing the Coalition governmont and one- twelfth tho trade union movement. Thc rest was missing. Johnson of the Machinists, and Ma- dore of thc Street Railway Union, also ran. We then heard a real talk from a woman delegate from the U. S. which affocted us like a drink in a dry town. During all this time activo organizing work was boing dono in the interests of tho prospective presidont. Evon tho Deputy Minister of Labor came to town about this time. Thon the main feature of thc convention camo on—tho election of ollicers. Tho administration candidato was elected and Watteis' meal ticket immediately became a thing of the past. The secretary-treasurer, as usual, exceeded himself. Then the delegates began to fade away. Tho object for which they had como was achieved and they did not wish to be bored by discussions on matters appertaining to the welfaro of the workers. On the olection of tho vice-president, however, a now situation arose. Wo were supporting Reos for this office nnd in order to defeat him tho administration put up McAndrews of Moose Jaw as a Wost- crn vice-president. Being unable to count Rees out by tho ordinary method an extraordinary thing occurred, ns astounding in its way as the miracle of the multitude and tho five smnll fishes. WhereaB the last previous poll had showed 200 voting and delegates still going out, tho last poll showed 387 votes cast, with tho majority in favor of McAndrews. Apparently somo one had a mado a mistake there, showing that all the rottenness is not confined to Denmark. A fow of ub hnving remained out of curiosity, it became ovi- dont that a new election must take place. This was done and this timo Rees wns elected. On Saturday wo had a little flare up over a resolution which hold that a man could not represent tho Labor movement and the governmont at ono and the same time and resolving that no government appointee could hold onlco in the Congress. This brought forth howls from all the job hunters 'in the Congress and wc were still in the minority, though fast gaining ground. The friends (?) of tho workers were now going home, all the offices having been filled, .but wo stayed behind to attend to our businoss. Along in the nftcrnoon we had anothor littlo election. Three delogatos to tfye peaco conferonco, Draper, Wnttors and Francq, wero elected. Then, as Draper and Watters had roceived u tic voto, wo voted to see which of those two should go if only onc man was needed. We took a standing vote and Watters was first choice. Draper felt very sick shortly afterwards and had to go home. On the resolution protesting against intervention in Russia we had a fino illustration of the tactics of the unintelligent working class. Fearing the debate because they woro unable to moot the arguments of tho progressive uelogates, tho majority covorod up by tabling thc resolution. Ono thing stands'out prominentlyi Tho enormous amount of timo takon up by resolutions of no importance from u working class viewpoint and which should find no placo in a congress of working men. Of all the resolutions submitted not more thnn fivo or six merited serious consideration aud in those instances one knew the result beforehand. What must be tho thinking enpnncity of a congress, the mnjority of whose members pass one motion calling for tlie purchaso of wur bonds out of surplus wnges, nnd a minute afterwards pusses another resolution demanding old age pensions becauso the wage of tho workers is so low that it is impossible to save. Considerable education is needed in the East and it is up to the Western workers in theier own interests to see that thoy get it. The best service that our readers can do The Federationist is to patronize our advertisers, and to inform them why they do so. Ring up Phone Seymour 2361 for appointment Dr. W. J. Curry DENTIST Suite 301 Dominion Building VANCOTTVEB, B. C. I. B. CUTHBERTSON A OO. Hen's Hatters and Outfitters •so •nMk stmt IUHMttoq stmt WM You will not be "soaked" «| So many people neglect their eyes even when they know they should have them attended to—when they know they Bhould be wearing glasses — because they are afraid they will be overcharged—and because of the uncertainty of the cost. t_\ I want any of you union men who feel that you may require glasses—you or your wives—to come in and let me examine your eyes. Let me tell you what . is wrong—if anything— what it will cost to give you glasses that will make seeing and living more comfortable. •J My optical service is the most efficient and the most reasonable on the coast. Seymour 1993 J. D. GAMBLE Manager Granville Optical Oo. 649 OBANVILLE STBEET Below Drysdele's ; Canada Food Board; ; Licence 8—1855 ; In the Beginning I said that my "Cash and Carry" systom would be a trado winnor, It has proved so beyond tho poradvon* ture of a doubt. You nro invited to join thoso who care to savo. Butter—Finest Alberta Creamery, per lb 62c Finest Ontario Cheese—Lb 30c Rogers' Qoldon Syrup—5-lb. tin, price 45c Orisco—31b. tin $1.00 Boynl Crown Golden Wost Laundry Soap—6 bars 21c Sunlight Soap—4 bars 25c Lux—Per pkg. 10c Vlnogar—Por bottle 10c Clark's Baked Beans—3 tins 26c Empress Spices—3 tins for 26c Mixed PickKng Spices—Lb 26c Flavoring Extract—2 bottlos 16c Raisins—Not-a-soed; 2 pkgs 26c Currants—Nabob brand; pkg 20c Mixed Pool—Per lb 36c Shelled Almonds—Per lb 60c Freeh and Cured Meats, All Kinds. Seasonable Prices. S. T. Wallace's Marketaria 118 Hastings St. W. Opposite Woodward's We Invite You To See Some New Blouses Blouses show some new tendencies this month, as though they were too timid to peep out when everyone was looking for something new and different. They should have been moro bold because they are pretty— but beauty is inclined to be shy, isn't itf Ono lovely now thing bears an unlovely name. It deserves a better one. The collar comes round and down across the round- cut front. Most of them show little touchos of dainty silk embroidered designs or a tiny bit of boad work—juat enough. Crepe de Chine, Oeorgette or Habutai, all shades and many styles (2.98 to $14.60 Saba Bros. Limited The Silk Specialists, 652 ORANVILLE STBBIT BET. 1266 Greatest Stock of . Furniture in Greater Vancouver Replete in every detail Hastings Furniture Co. Ltd. 41 HeeUafi Street Weet SOU-VAN MILK Should be in the home ef every man— u it nr YOOBS? —Phone Fairmont 2824— OLELAND-DIBBLE ENGRAVING COMPANY PHOTO BKOBAVBBS — OOMMBEOU1 AKTISI8 Phon. St-moar 710e Third Floor World Building VAKOObVSB. B. O. —Th. only Onion Shop in Vancouver— Get the Gun at Flett's AND YOU'LL HAVE NO AFTEE BUCKETS. We've studied this Gun business from A to Z, and yon can bank on our carrying the goods, Wo want you to inspect tho new "GREENER" we're showing in both 16 and 12 gauge. A handsome weapon for tho genuine sportsman and a gun to "swoar by." "TOBINS" in 16 gauge at 836 "TOBINS" in 12 gaugo at »36 and $46 "PABKER"—20 gauge at ....860 Everything in tho popular Dux- bak Clothing nnd Outdoor Equip* ment. J. A. Flett, Ltd. Sporting Goods and Hardware 339 HASTINGS STREET WEST Near Homer 10 Sub. Cards Good for on* yeir'e eubecrlptlon to Tko B. O. Pederfttlonlit, will be milled to Mj id- drees in Canada for $12.50. (Oood anywhere outalde of Vancouver elty.) Order tea to* day. Remit when lold. Fresh Ont Flowen, Funeral Designs, Wedding Bouquets, Pot Plants, Or namental and Shade Trees, Seeds, Bulbs, Florists' Sundries Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd. FLORISTS ASD NURSERYMEN 2-STOBES---2 48 Hutlngi Street Eut, Sey. 088472 — 788 Gran-i-lty* Street, My. 8618 Keep your system in good condition —and don't forget your teeth—they play an important part in your general health. Attend to any woaknoss or defect in your teeth nromptly. Don't wait until tho trouble develops, weakens your ontire system and becomes so acuto as to cause intenso suffering. I will examine your teeth and adviie you. Call and talk oyer yonr tooth troubles with nw. X-Bay aimi taken If nicai- ■ary; tea-out inaranUes linn. PHOffl SBT. SSS1 B-camlaations mad. on phoa. appointment!. Dr. Brett Anderson Grown and Bridge Specialist 602 Halting! Btreet West, Oor. Seymour Office open Tuesday and Friday Evenings until 8 o'Clock OmOIAL PAFIB VAKOOOTBB TttSIl AID LABOB OODKOIL THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST omoui PAPBB BBItm OOIr DUMA PBDIBATIOI OI LABOB TENTH YEAR. No. 41 EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11,1918 You Spend to Enjoy _ Your raise in wages is welcomed because it enables you to secure those things which make life more enjoyable—more worth living. The pleasure of a sound and handsome equipment of teeth is not only a luxury in itself, but it adds so much to the general joy of living that it should be one of the flrst considerations of those who have allowed their natural equipment to deteriorate. To enjoy good health—to enjoy the esteem of our fellows—the good things of life— one must have good teeth. Dental delays are not only expensive—they are dangerous. Ij You cannot spend your money to bottor advantage than to havo your mouth mado handsomo and whole* Bome—to havo au equipment of good teeth you cannot chooso n better time than thc prosent. I shall bo glad to tell you what expense this will involve. Opposite Woodward'! DR. LOWE Fine Dentistry HASTINOS AND ABBOTT Friday and Saturday Specials WAE TAX EXTBA 50c Beld's Kidney Pills 26c 25c Carter's PMn 14c 50c Ri-id's Fruit Salln-a 39c 25c Pruit-a-tivos 17c 50c Reid's Pilo Ointment 25c 75c Abbey's Salts 65c 25o Dentono Tooth Paste 17c 60c Chase's Ointment 48c 25c Mcnnen's Bath Powder 18c $1.00 Wyeth's Sage aud Snlphur..67c 50c Pops „ SSC 25c Chase's Syrup Linseed and Turpontino '. 1»0 50c Ferrozono 33c WHERE NECESSARY 25o Hamilton's PillB 17c 50c Doan's Pills 36c 25c Frostilla 17c 50e Thermotfcne 35c $1.50 Vacuum Bottlea $1.16 25o Hydrogen Peroxide 14c $1.00 Reid's Syrup of Hypophos- phites .60c 35c Mcnnen's Tooth Paste 22c 50c Msntholatum ..33c 25o Mecca Ointment .7....18C $1.00 Kellogg's Asthma Remedy....67c 20c Rlt Dyes 3 for 25 Star Hand Cleaner 2 for 25c VANCOUVER DRUG CO. LIMITED The Original Cut Rate.Druggists MAIM STORE: 105 Hastlnga Street Weat Phones Bey. 1966 and 1066 BRANCH 7 Hastings Street West 782 Qranvllle Street Oor. 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HILL'S Annual FALL SALE IS NOW RUNNING AT PULL BLAST EVERYTHING in Men's and Boys' Clothing and Furnishings is reduced to the very lowest price. We present to tbe buying public the greatest possible opportunity for saving money. The prices on goods that we are offering for your approval cannot be duplicated for years to come, after the present stock is sold, for in many instances our prices are lower than the manufacturers are asking today. Our guarantee goes with every article we sell. T. B. HILL 117 HASTINGS STREET EAST /la V-Utteemr\ \ on. ti.oo ) $1.60 PER YEAR A World §afe for Democracy By JOHN A. HOBSON, from The Survey. * English Economist Says the Practical Problem Will Have to Be Transformed by the Experience of the War-Time. iHE ENTHUSIASTIC adoption byfaaid, if this world-war has taught no by our European statesmen and other lesson it has shown that every publicists of President Wilson's fa-j people sots beforo itsolf other aims than economic gain as of supremo value (whether theso othor aims bo political dominion, patriotism, honor or the supremacy of law) and for this attainment is willing to sacrifice all material goods, money, and lifo itsolf. Can it thon bo that thc struggle for the democracy to como must bo realized primarily and essentially as an economic struggle between tho propertied classes and the proletariat? It is not easy to give a plain answer to this question without appearing guilty of gross exaggeration. Tho spirit of collcctivo frco-will, solf-detcr- mination in tho larger sonse, cannot indeed be comprehended morely, or mainly, as an economic process. Its spirit-, ual contents are comprised of all the human needs, aspirations and activities for whose satisfaction men and women work as members of organized society. Humanity at its higher lovel, in its better moods, appraises tho economic processes far lower than health, beauty, knowledge and spiritual goods, and the efforts to nttain those latter play a larger part in thc meaning of civilization. And yot in a crisis like thisi when civilization is literally shaken to its foundations, it is to theso foundations that we must closely look in the the procees of reinstating it upon a democratic model. Selfishness Must Be Stopped Among the groat nineteenth century prophets of democracy it fell to the most spiritually minded of them all, Mazzini, to recognizo that political democracy was inseparable from economic, and that tho distinctive error of the French revolution and its sequel was the failure to realizo this truth. It is, therefore, not any over-apprizement of material goods but the plain reading of history that obliges us to see that the first condition of a world safe for democracy is to set the ownership of property and tho control of industry upou a democratic basis. Beforo tho war this domand was emerging, more urgently on tho consciousness of thc uilferent nations, and was seoking satisfaction sometimes by peacoful, sometimes by explosivo pressure, i The political atmosphoro was everywhere rifo with economic agitation. When calmer analysis is possible, and causes for the war aro sought further afield than the catastrophe ovonts of 1914, it will bc found that inextricably uicnded with tho lust for political powor which impelled tho central states aud Russia to forco the pace of mill tarist preparations, woro tho gathering standards of domestic strife, and that even in thoso other stateB which least willed tho war, and. were most con* scious of thoir purely defensive mo Uvea, the menace of internal dissensions was u secret contributory incentive td militarism. Nay, taking a still larger survey, the historian will find, in tho commercial and financial forces that for several generations had been moulding the imperialistic and foreign policies of the western states, influences which were . secretly preparing tho way for the inevitable conflict. These economic motives woro not greater in thc volume of human passion that they bore thnn the othor political social forces with which they coalesced; but they were operated with clearer consciousness und closer direction. If u society of nations is in tho future to replace this aggressive anarchy, the selfish play of these commercial and financial forces must be stopped. Thoy can only bo stopped by tho establishment of democracies which aro at once political and economic, in which thc peoples shall control the machinery of industry, trade and finance, sufficiently to prohibit class-war within the nations, while securing international poaco, I cannot in this brief survey discuss the question how much state-socialism is involved in the process. For the really focal point is whether it is possible i'or tho respective peoples to meet and to combat successfully thc array of reactionary forces that will bo in actual occupation of the seats of government in every country when the war Is over, to win possession of their national governments. Their numbers, tho men1 ownership of the franchise, the formal right to oleel legislators, will not sufflco. Theso powers havo in some considerable measure long been vested in tho so-callod '' democratic'' peoples. They have proved quite illusory. In no ilio of these "democracies" has the ree intelligent will of a people been able to express itself in tho legislative and administrative government. Why not? Because the popular will has not been reasonably orgunized or morally determined. Tbe Heart of tbe Conflict Hegel truly said, "The peoplo is thut part of tho state which docs not know what it really wants" (was or will). So long as this is true, democracy in any reul sense remains impossible. And here lies the very heart of the coming conflict. . All the intellectual and moral ns well as thc financial resources of tlie ruling und possessing classes that hato and fear democracy (though doing lip service) will be used so to control and rope public opinion as to prevent the formation and emergence of a popular will reasonable enough to muster the state, and through tho state to roform property, industry and other social institutions, Thc press, tho church, the school, the university, the club, the party machine, the library, thc theatre, tho cinema and other popular recreations. Every mode of influencing public opinion through politics, social power nnd finance, will be organized as never before to check the intellectual and moral growth of real democracy. This is the vicious circle of reactionary powers with which the peoples, struggling for political, economic and spiritual sovereignty, will be confronted. Popular control of government seems impractical sv long ns economic oligarchy keeps its hands ou the levers of pnrty and the organs of public opinion, But popular control of government is necessary in order to dislodge the economic oligarchy, nnd to secure the means of liberating, informing and organizing public opinion. In order tii break this vicious circlo the peoples must conduct u simultaneous attnek mous declaration that the object of the war is to make thc world safo for de mocracy, is either a momentous act of Bpirituul conversion or the last word in camouflage. For while no one would dispute the genuineness of Mr. Wilson \s attachment to thc great ideal, the past records of most political leaders in this and other European countries bear little testimony to thc vigor of their new-found faith. While it is truo that the forms of political self- government inherit in tho constitutions of the European Allies, ub in that of the United States, the spirit of democracy has hitherto pulsed fflcbly through these organs. Moreover, so- ml analysis has made it evident that political democracy is inseparable from industrial democracy, and that thc complete failure of the peoples hitherto to attain tho latter is chiefly responsible for thc defects of tho former. No thoughtful democrat can nccept thc shallow representation of thc war as a conflict of free democracies, upon the one hand, against military despotism upon tho other, or feel assurance that the mere defeat or even thc destruction of thc latter will in itself afford security for the attainment of his ideal. For whilo Prussianism stands, indeed, for the negation of democracy, is the allied power which shall defeat it entitled to the positive assertion of that name? I do not hero dwell upon tho obvious fact that war itself, being the operation of arbitrarily directed force, is the antithesis of democracy, and that overy nation during the process of war is compelled to suspend many of its ordinary liberties. It is admitted that the help of Beczelbub must be invoked -in order to expel tho devil of Prussian militarism. The necessary cost of this tactic must, however, not bo left out of account whon we regard the war as an instrument for achieving democracy. For it can hardly bc denied that a prolonged suspen- cion of ordinary civil and political liberties, not to speak of thc fettcra upon economic freedom, must go somo way towards establishing tho habit and tom- por of arbitrary rule upon tho one hand, of unquestioning submission on the othor. In a word, war makes for a "servile stato" with ever extending areas of despotism, and the fact that peoples in the stress of the emergoncy accept this curtailment of their liberties docs not purchaso for them immunity from thc practical and spiritual reactions of this servitude Thoy will bo loss able to look aftor their own affairs in tho future in consequence of this experience. Transformed by Experience In considering the possibility of achioving democrncy as tho fruits of a successful war, wo cannot do otherwise than approach our subject by this gate, for tho practical problem will have to bo transformed by the experience of the war-timo. 1 must not bo taken to projudice the issue if I insist that wo must realize at the outset that the reactionary forces, the enemies of democrncy, will be more strongly entrenched when tho war ends than thoy were before, nnd will be moro clearly conscious of the need and nature' of their dofense. Howover tho war ends, a profound seuso of insecurity alike in international relntions nnd in domestic affairs will for somo time afford support to the emergency powers wielded by ovory government. Military forco will everywhere be at hand, and the disposition to uso it, so as to maintain social and industrial order, will bo rife among the authorities," The difficulties of economic life must involve the long retention of many of the extraordinary powers wielded by governments. Nor is it possiblo to suppose that, when this early period of reconstruction is got through, the social economic structuro and working of this or nny other belligerent eountry will return to the prewar conditions. The stnte, with its arbitrary or ill-checked executive powors, will bo found in permnnent possession of large new functions, politicnl, social, economic. Railroads and mines, elec- power, banking and insurance, chemicals nnd other "key industries," will either be nationalized or tightly controlled by the state, nnd locnl authorities will nlso possess grently extended powers. Society, through its instrument, tho state, will keep nn eye upon and lond n hand to "its" citizens and "its" producers from the cradle (and beforo) to thc schoolroom, the workshop and offlce, right to the grave. Collective Enterprise Here The whole attitude of mind towhrds the state will have been transformed. Hitherto the bnlunce waB heavily on thc side of individuul choice, private enterprise, free personal contrast. Henceforth it will be on tho sido of social organization, public operations, collective eo-opcrntive arrangements! This is what must happen, whether wc individual like it or not. As one of your own great'men has said, "There is not way of unscrambling eggs." The war has shut off return to pre-war enterprise and free competition in industry, commorco and finance. This statement, of course, must not bs taken absolutely. It applies to the large routine enterprises. Great scope for personal enterprise and lucrative business will doubtless remnin in numerous bypaths and new developments. Indeed, wherever business is left "free," there will bc an active rush to establish combines, trusts, syndicates and other modes of successful profiteering. This wilL bc onc of the chief barriers to tho realization of industrial democracy, for it will tend to substitute lateral for verticnl divisions among thc workers who constitute the body of thc "Demos." The Parties to the Struggle But the central problem will bo that of the ownership and control of. tho new powerful state, A complicated struggle for its possession must occur. Between whom? What are the opposed forces in the battle for domocrncy? If I reply, Capital and Labor, I shall seem to many to be taking a crudely class economic view of a situation in wliich many other causes, political, moral and spiritunl nre involved, and to he offering a purely "materialistic." interpretation of history. Surely, it will be LADIES' AUXILIARIES The matter of forming ladies auxiliaries to our various locals, was proposed at the Trades and Labor Council some time ago. The Machinists have already got a working auxiliary, and the present is a very opportune time for ub all to tako the subject into serious consideration. Under present conditions, we cannot give sufficient time at union meeting to the social intercourse which will help considerably to consolidate our interests, and very little effort is mado to cducato our wives and sisters in tho aims and objects of the Labor movement. Many of them, unfortunately, tako moro interest in Rod CroBs meetings and Daughters of Empire, than thoy do in the real interests of their own husbands and brothers. Tho other side aro using every advantage they possess to got tbo women organized, making uso of patriotism and tho church to got them, if possible, under such innocent guise to uphold conditions under tho old system. lNow if wo only set about the thing properly, wo can got theso ladies to work for us. Anyone who has been to tho meetings of tho Labor Party at tho Rex, knows that about 30% of tho audience are ladies, and we feel sure that some of thom at least would be only too glad to help along tho movement. ,Wo must remember that having given thom the franchise, it is up to ub to do whnt we can to see that thoy exorciso their right to the best advantage. Evidently, unless we can show them that our principles are just, and that wo wish to promote tho welfare of the entire community, we cannot expect to havo their entire support. Our programme must also include the support of union-made articles and union labels, questions which unfortunately our ladies do not always understand. Thero is no doubt that our industrial strength would bo greatly augmonted if our wives always demanded the union label, and it would certainly, help The Federationist if they patronized the various firms who advertise therein. This is not all, for wo most urgently neod committees who, without any savor of so-called charity, would go around visiting sick membors in hospital, and make enquiries into cases in which through no fault of their own, onr fellow workers may be in distross. These things aro more in Jine with women's work than men. For these reasons, all our unions should try and form LadioB Auxiliaries, or if it is doomed advisable, have them in groupB, viz., transportation, retail trades, shipyards, woodworkers, etc. The Machinists Auxiliary is growing stronger and more pouplar all the time, so thore is no renson why others should not follow tbeir good example. Patronize B. C. Federatlonist adver Users and tell them why you do bo. upon tho political, economic nnd spiritual positions. For only so cnn the will of the pooples prevail and tho world bo made safo, or even place for. democracy. THE STRONGEST ARGUMENT we have is—OUR CUSTOM- ERS. There are tailoring stores around town making a big "holler." You might think they're doing the big trade. .Now, our "holler" is not big, but our trade is, and this is a statement we want you to verify by "peeking" in. at our store each time you pass and IM thc business wc 're doing. See tbe measures we're taking, the suits we're making. There are reasons for this big business. Our location is one—we are in the heart of the workers. Our principle is another. We are—heart and soul—UNION. Wc are Union workers supplying Union workers. We have the Union workers' pride in good workmanship and honesty of material. We measure carefully and accurately; wo fit you perfectly; we'ro never satisfied till you arc satisfied. WOMEN'S SUITS ?45 UF HEN'S EUIT8 935 UF —Tlie— TAILORING COMPANY 128 Hastings Street East Hear Theatre Boyal (Old Pantages) B.G. j-*- .-■*•. j+»v* ■j-*-.-. -+-.. ~e—r PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS BRITISH COLUMBIA'S'BEST COAL For your kitchen—Wellington Nut Kitchen, furnace and grate—Wellington Lump For Your Furnace Comox Lump — Comox Nut — Comox Pea (Try oor Pea Ooal for join underfeed furnace) t_*M_t-__ 11 MACDONALDflARPOLE cc Phone Seumour zio .Phone •wiililiy^ ■Ul SI zio 1001 MAIN STREET PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FKIDAY... ...October 11, IMS IHE B. C. FEDERATIONIST Published every Friday morning by the B. 0. FederationiBt, Limited A. 8. Wells Manager Offlce: Labor Temple, 405 Dunsmuir St. Tel. Exchange Seymour 7495 After 6 p.m.: Sey 7497K , Bobecrlption: fl.60 per year; in Vancouver City, 92.00; to unions subscribing ia a body. $1.25 "Unity of Labor: the Hope of the World" FRIDAY.. ...October 11, 1918 MEDEVIAL FEUDAL BARONS never ruled their slaves with more intolerance, than de the mining barons of the Province of Bri tish Columbia. The history of the in in* ing industry of this MINING province is replete BARONS RULE with instances of the THB ROOST. methods of the -iron heel type of iloniinn tion of thc mining companies over the workors, and in fact over all those, that come within the scope of their dominion, in the camps in connection with the operations of these companies * * * From all over thc province there arc reports of thc Hun methods of these companies. From Trail the report is received that the conditions thoro are bo bad, that even the Doukbabors and the Bohunks will not stay with the companies. In Vancouver and district, there are numbers of men that have availed themselves of the opportunity .of work on tho coast, to break away from the intolerable conditions that prevail in and around tho metalliferous mining. Silverton is another place where the mining company reigns supreme. Some littlo time ago the men there became dissatisfied with the hospital arrangements, and which como undor thc scope of thc Workmen's Compensation Act. In June last, the commission who has charge of this act, aud who is empowered to put into force such hospital arrangomonts as it may approve of, approved of a scheme which was acceptable to tho men in the Slocan district. The company, however, refused to pay over the money. J. D. McNiven, deputy minister of Labor, along with the Compensntion Act Commissioners, wont down there, and tried to bring about a settlement, but the company was obdurate, and finally the question of the powor of the board to enforce its decrees ou the company was referred to Judgo Clements, of the Supreme Court, for his decision as to the power of tho commission to enforce the act in this respect. « * • This was some four months ago and the thing in not settled yet, thc supremo court judge in question not yot having given his decision. In all other branches of industry, the decrees of the Workmen's Compensation Act Commission, as to hospital or modical arrangements, have been accepted, sometimes possibly with a littlo bad grace, but they havo nover beforc been defied. But it appears that the mining intorests of the province are a law to themsolves. Anyox, another of these paradises of the corporate interests that are spreading their tentacles all over tho provinco, and whosu insatiublo grcod is making life a burden to the workors, is still a closed town, and all offorts of tho workera as yet to havo it made an open town have failed. Tho governmont, taking tho stand that it is a difficult problem to solve, und that it takes time, in the meantime the workers nro constantly protesting against the treatment handed out to them. * * * Turning to the coal mining industry, wo find practically the same conditions. With the exception of South Wellington whero the miners are well organized, tbe miners cannot call their lives their own. It is a crime to bo seen speaking to a representative of the organization. Iu Nanaimo, whero the men are re-organizing, they are in many instances afraid to be seen in company of the representative of the United Mine Workers. And this conditiou hns prevailed over since the Island Btrike of somo years ugo. The blacklist on the Island is still working overtime. Men have been driven off the Island that had made their homes there for years. Others huve been compelled to follow any other occupation that it has been possiblo for them to secure work at, in order to earn a living. Cumberland is possibly the worst example that is known in the coal regions of this ctnili- nent. There men that took part in the last strike—which, by tho way—was a strike against lbe conditions in the mines, and was brought about by the non-enforcement of tlie laws of the land —-havo nover been able to secure employment in thc mines of that locality, .-.awl as the blacklist is a blanket one, it ■covers all the coal fields of the Island, .nnd consequently these men are refused -wwfr in the mines, at a time when miners, that is -foal miners not Chinks, aro needed. Now that Joe Naylor has been declared not guilty by tho grand jury, we can discuss this phase of tho situation. Naylor, along with othors, has boon the subject of persecution on the Island, and in the Cumberland district ever since that strike. He is a miner of repute; a miner who has worked in the mines since he wub a boy, and first worked in the mines in the old land. But he has never been allowed to enter a mine since the strike. He has not ovon been allowed to work on thc company property in other capacities nt times, and although willing to got work at his trade hm. becauBo he waB an active member of tho organisation at all times, been refused tho chance to earn his livelihood at his calling. Not otdy that, but he has boen subject to treatment in other directions that would make a robol of any man. In order to ■drive him and othors from the Island, he and they, have been threatened by arrest under thc Idler** Act, and failing nny other method, he was arrested on a trumped up charge of aiding draft evn- ders. This charge disposed of, wo are wondering what will be tho next movo. Mcuntimo, the whole thing rosts on the power of the employing clnss, be they mine owners, or in any other industry, they have the powor to enforce their decn-es. They have the law written in their interests to back them up, and the workers by their own. .stupidity, are a party to it. When, oh when, will they take into their hands the power that lies within reach, and by political action free the workors from such conditions, Echo answers, When? THE THIHTY-FOURTH annual convention of the Dominion Trados and Labor Congress of Canada is over and judging from the reports of the clelogatos who havo returned to thc West, and this is not TRADES in any way confined CONGRESS AND to tho far west, but THE WEST. applies to those delegates that represent the west from, and including Winnipeg, the convention so far us the interests of the' workers is concerned, was a farce. Judging from these reports, it would appear that Congross bids fair to become an institution like unto the American Federation of Labor, unless Labor in this country wakes up, and takes a hand in bringing about a change. The delegates hnve no desiro to start any secessionist movement, but have a sincere desire to bring about such a change as will make the present undesirable conditions impossible. Delegate Sivertz of Victoria gives as his opinion, that the difficulty lies in the present basis of representation, pointing out that Congress nt its annual conventions, takes ou u locul color by the present system, brought about by the dclegatos iu any locality in which tho convention is held being in the majority, and made a move to eliminate this by making the payment of tho expenses of the delegates from the different parts of the country a matter for thc Congress, and by so dividing tho oxpeuso of sending by so doing dividing the expense of sending the delegates, and making it possible for -delegates to attend from all parts, and thus removing this local atmosphere. Delegates Midgley and Kavanagh have reported that at a conforonco of the wostorn delegates held after the convention, it wus decided to arrange for u conference of western representatives to be held beforo the next convention. * * * This move seems likely to meet with the approval of thc membors of organized labor in this part of the country. The officers elected ut the conference of western delegates to bring this about, are already busy in their efforts to accomplish something iu connoction with congress that may be worth while. So long as this system prevails, thoro is need of such a body as congross, and therefore the workors should take more interest in it than hitherto, thc mattor should bc discussed in the locnl unions, prior to thc proposals that will be mado in the near future boing placed beforo thc local unions of this and all western provinces. Tho success of tho western conference will be in those representatives that arc to be present at that gathering, having a knowledge of the wishes of their membership. This thoy cannot have unless thc matter is discussed in tho local unions, and timo that is now wasted in many local unions discussing trivial things, might well bo better spent in discussing tho future of tho Dominion Congress. easier. That road has been, a hard one, following as it did a long period of depression, the workers without tho common necessities having found the ever-increasing cost of living such a problom that they have hnd to take slops to bring wages to such a point that thoy might retain at least a decent standard of living. Have tlie members of the government over tried to assist the workors in their offorts? AT the Canadian Club ou Wednesday Hon. F. B. Carvell was the principal speaker. Ho is credited with a statement which, if used, the workers should remember for future reference. Gratuitous insults have from timo to time HON. H. B. CARVELL been levelled AND at tho organ- GERMAN INFLUENCE ized Labor mov oinont, but this is the firBt time that a cabinot minister has had thc gull to come out with any bucIi insults. His statement, iih it appeared in the presB, is as follows: Disappointed In Labor Attitude '' We hear a great deul about the attitude of labor, and so far as I am concerned I havo been disup- pointed; but don't forget their is nnother side, and that is the attitude of the capitalists and the mon who have mado more money out of tho war than they had a right to. Sometimes we folt there were German influences at work among labor on this couBt. I must frankly admit we had no direct evidence of it, but we felt thore was n great deal of agitation which in some cases should not have existed." Now the Hon. F. B. Carvell is tho gentleman who has been advocating coolie labor for the mines, so that It is not a hard problem for the workers to solve the reason for his statement. This gentleman does nut by nny means come Trom tin- ranks of the workers, nud his viewpoint cannot therefore bo that of the workers. Hut we desire to say to the honorable gontloman that a little more of thc stuff he got off his chest at the Cauadian Club may efi- lighten them as tu tho attitude of himsolf and thc government he represents towanls the working people of this country, * * * Gorman, influences, indeed. Whnt about tho men who with the nid of the late government—and for the mntter of thot tho preBont one—who out of tho nation's agony have wrung nrn- fits that were novor dreamed of beforc tho war, who have novor lot nn opportunity slip by them to wring an extra per cent, out of the workors, and by their tactics have salted down large fortunes during the war time, and are at this time availing themselves of evory opportunity to place their ill-1 gotten gains in order that still further. profits may bo wrung from the work- ing class of this country, « * * Tho workers arc ubove the taking of Germany money, or any other money for that mattor, when it comes to a qaoHtion of principle. The working class is tho only class that today is actuated by motives that are freo from the sordid conceptions of _]__* class to which the honorable gentleman belongs. That clnss, steeped as it is in tho philosophy of a ruling class, which has gained its wealth by the labor of the workers, looks upon the only useful people of the country as ho much trash, and cuntinl attribute to them any highor motives tlmn the ones that it itself is guided bv. The workers have curried on timing the war, yes and before the war, creating profits for the employing class, who, us represented by lho govornincnl, has never since the war started done any solitnry thing fo muke the way of the workers one whit At the commencement of the I. M. B. programmo the representatives of Labor frankly and openly went to tho I. M. B. and stated that thoy wero willing to do all they could to provide the necessnry labor to carry out that programme, and tried all down the line to sec that there was no trouble. The I. M. B., however, not only in thc shipbuilding but in everything that it has had charge of, from the manufacture of shells to the building of ships, has shown a lamentable ineptitude in the handling of tho situation. Promises wero made and as readily broken, and as a result tho shipyards wero closod down by a striko. Muddle, muddle, has been the policy, and if Gorman influences are to be found, thoy will not be found in the ranks of the workors, who nsked for the conscritpion of tho wenlth of the country, nnd tho taking over of the industries, to be operated in the interests of the nation, but will be found iu tho ranks of thoso who by thoir Hun methods have gouged every last dollar out of the postion thc nation was placed in. Had the policy of Labor been adopted the soldiors' dependents would not have at thiB time been begging for an increase in thoir allowances. Theso would havo beon providod for by tho workers who, In the last analysis, havo the will and the power to provide for the wants of all the peoplo of tho country if given the opportunity. That opportunity, howover, cannot arrive until the workors take tho means of woalth production and operate them in the interests of thoso that toil, and not in tho intorests of those that livo on the labor and agony of an age-long industrial slave class in society. If thero iB no proof as to German influences, and Mr. Carvell states there is not, then ho had better have left the thing unsaid, for thero is un end to the patienco of oven the working clasB. It would appear that that much-ma- ligued body, tho Trades and Labor Council of Vancouver, is damned if it does, and damned if it doesn't. At the last meeting, the matter of tho Victory Loun was r,oferrod to the local unions for their consideration. This action has called forth the following from tho Sun: A sense of responsibility is obviously not the strong point of the delegates whom tho different unions send to represent them in the central body. These gentlemen aro behaving like a lot of mischievous children who are trying to see how far they can go without getting spanked. Some of theso fellows have already had onc narrow escape from going to jail for their conduct. How many warnings do thoy need! They showed prudonce, if not courage, in declining to condemn the loan openly, although some of them cannot bo relied upon to help it along very much. Not very long ago tho council was taken to task because it had tho temerity to tako unto itself the right to speak for thc rank and file, and was told that it should first take its membership into consideration beforo taking any step. On this occasion, however, the council docidod to refor the matter to tho affiliated locals, and lot them individually decide whnt action should be taken. This line of action was taken the same ovening in respect to the assistance of the Lnundry Work- rs. Now, this is following out what tho couneil was told that it should do on the previous occasion referred to, and without entering into the cuso for or against Victory Bonds, wo are of the opinion thut moro discussion ou this question will be secured by tho action taken, than could bc accomplished in any other manner. In any cnso, we are sure that those workers that subscribe for Victory Bonds will not do so because of tho lure that is hold out by the provinco in the following words: "Incidentally it may bo obsorved that this may be the last opportunity that any person now living will ever seo to buy 0% per cent. Canadian Government Bonds.'' But thoso who buy them will do bo becauso thoy think it is their duty to do so, just ns bo many of the workers went overseas in the enrly days of tho war, becauso they thought that it was their duty, and not because of the expectation of any monotnry reward. That is left for the reward of tho profiteering clement thnt have made hay whilo the sun of munition munufuclurc still shone, while the workers that have done tho fighting in this and all wars, and the workers that have carried on in the production of the munitions of war hnve boen vil- D. AITKEN Member of Cumborkntl Minors Union who, with Jutu'ph Naylor. whs found not Kuilty, against whom n new chargo wus laid. lifted by this profit nioiigoring class, when they huve attempted to secure decent conditions, and have endeavored to retain their standard of living. Thc relatives of lho men overseas, that purchase Victory Bonds will bc guided by a motive that is as far apart as the poles from the motives of those that have "feathered their nests" by profiteering in war supplies. From signs that arc very evident, a campaign for thc seeming of labor from the prairie provinces for the coast is being carried on very vigorously. Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster aro all alike in this respoct, these places finding that a large number of workers arc arriving within their borders, who are from the western provinces. This is all right if there is nood of thom, but from information iu our possession, there is at present a surplus of labor in tho shipbuilding industries, and all thoso that are closely allied trades; and if this campaign continues then we aro liable to seo troublo on the coast. If there iB uo shortago of labor on the coast, and there is not, then thero can only bo ono reason for this effort that is being put forth, nnd thnt a desire to overcrowd tho Labor market, nnd by that means keep down wages to the lowest possiblo level. This no doubt is a dosirablo consummation from the employers stnndpoint, but ono that is not by any means likely to find favor in tho eyes of the workers for in spite of nil that is said to the contrary, the wages of the workers has not kept pace with thc cost of living in its aerial flights. It is also reported in certnin qunrters that tho award that is to be made with regard to the wages in thc shipyards, is to only givo tho workers an advance of $4 por month over thc last award made by Sonator Robertson. If this is so, this may be tho reason for the active recruiting of Labor from the other western provinces, for labor being a commodity, in spite of the Clnyton Act or Sam Gompors nnd hiB friends, the prico of this commodity is governed by the markot. In other words, supply and demand to a grent extent, determines the price, just as it determines the price of spuds, nnd an overstocked market would assist thc employers in putting this award over, TWENTY-FIVE TEARS AGO Trades and Lahor Council October 13, 1893 Members passed votes of thanks to Dominion Trades and Labor Congress for its efforts on behalf of resolutions submitted by Trndes and Labor Council for its recent convention. Parliamentary committee reported at length vith respect to Provincial Bureau of Labor statistics. Deputy Labor Commissioner asked to attend a meeting of council in near future. Delegates Wm. Towler, Geo, Walker, H. Wilson and C. McDonnld nppointed to interview Deputy Labor Commissioner Gray ro fllling' in question blnnks sent out by government. Vice-president W. M. Wilson occupied tho chair. BONDS Tf you arc r-onRiderii.fr thr porche** nr Halo of Government or Mnnlnipal bondi commnnlcat* with PATRICK DONNELLY 736 GranTille St. Vancoufer. B. 0. THE HOME OF THE VICTROLA We Have Them All INSTRUMENTAL RECORDS DANOE REOORDS VOOAL REOORDS Our immense Becord Stock, the largest on the Pacific Coast, for you to choose from Courteous salespeople, musically trained, to serve you; comfortablo, artistic daylight parlors, restful surroundings, all for your convenience, and VICTOR RECORDS, fhe world's best vocalists, bnnds, orchestras and vaudeville artists at your command.' They record exclusively for thc Victor. VICTOR RECORDS uro made in Canada. Foster home industries by buying thom. VICTOR RECORDS remain the same price ns before fhe war—NO INCREASE. The only article you cnn buy todny thnt yon do nol pay moro for. Wc will gladly piny, without obligation, any record you wish to hear. Complote slock of Victor VlctroluS. MASON & RISCH LIMITED VANCOUVER BLOOK 738 ORANVILLE STREET THE BUGBEAR Production for Profit Must Go Before Workers Are Free [By N. M. F.] The following clipping is from the Calgary Herald of Thursday, September 20. To those readers unacquaintod with this daily let me assure thom it is highly respectable and goes into the homes of the best families, hence it is hardly necessnry to stato that any item bearing the slightest revolutionary tint is decidedly tabu: The Workman's Bugbear Unemployment is tho workman's bugbear. It is that which, of all things, he hns reason most to droad. Sometimes it is duo to soasonnl causes; sometimes to general trade depression; sometimes to obscurer causes hard, if not impossible, to ascertain. But, whatever its causo, it is always a Btark spectre which tho workmnn has to fear. Today it is practically uon-existont in Canada. Thero is abundant work for all. Even those who, normally, would be on the borderland of unemployment can, in the vast pressure of war-time exigencies, earn good money. This, however, will not always be. In tho period of readjustment after tho war, unemployment, with all its trials, may loom big and near. It is only tho workman who is putting by out of tho surplus he is earning in theso days of ample work evory cent ho can get together who will faco tho unknown and uncertnin future with stout heart and steady nerves. For tho past four years with persistent iteration we havo been informed that onco tho Hun was squelched militarism would become dead as the proverbial door-nail and the world be made safo for democracy. Now, "0 shades of Parnassus,*' instead of tho effulgent rays of tho sun of universal equity shedding their benign influence ovor our common humanity, tho stark spectre of unemployment is forecasted. Provided the visitation should occur, tho question obtrudes itself, "What iB to be done with the Anti- Loaf ing Actf" Perhaps some of our super-intellectuals may flnd themselves in a quandary similar to that of ex- President William H. Taft, who when asked, "What is a man to do who is Trilling to work and can not got itf" replied "God knows." The story in a nutshell is simply this: So long as production be carried on for destruction there is no lack of employment; nay, more, it is illegal to bo idle; the era of destruction concluded unemployment follows in its wake. What a glorious tribute to our much vaunted civilization! What a Bordid confession of inipotency on the part of society's administrators! When the state is menaced from without its resources, both material and immaterial, arc commandeered to resist tho encroachment—but from tho enemy. Unemployment, within its gates, our erstwhile '' loaders of thought" throw up thoir hands in dismay at the immensity of tho problom and tho best they offer is innocuous platitudes. The greater thc waste, tho more tho opportunity for employment, Despite this incontrovertible and self-evident fact the saviors of society exhort tho workers to bo thrifty. Verily the situation is mirth-provoking woro it not so tragic in its effectl The workors aro fed with homilies about saving their surplus from their earnings and this, in faco of the cold figures presented by tho government's own publication, "Tho Labor Gazette." showing the aviating tendency of every commodity, but with that of the laborer's in the class of "also ran." As the Cockney says, "Weill! and what are you going to do abaht itf" Simply this: As tho job is beyond the scope of those who ore in chargo of humanity's welfnre, help to show tho producing cluss thnt it is useless for its members to look for help from above (sic); thoy must educate themselves for the task preparatory to taking the control from those who stand self-cou- fessed failures in dealing with socinl problems. Read again the clipping and note the following explanation that does not explain: "Unemployment * * * is due to seasonable causes." Beautifully naive, iB it not? Tho enrpenter, the bricklayer, the mason, tho plasterer who have helped in tho construction of comfortablo dwellings and palatial hotels, seek habitation during tho winter months in a tar-papered shack or a cheap lodging house; the coal miner who has been busily digging in tho bowels of the earth has fo go into the woods and saw up fallen timber in order to provide warmth for himself and family. Again: "Sometimes it (unemployment) is general trade depression." Translated into plain, ovorydny languugo, this menus: tho workers having produced in such abundance the necessaries of life that the markot is glutted and they, not having the wherewithal (thu money) to buy back, are compelled to take a holiday. These molders of public opinion, these labor sympathizers, aro strong in their expressions of solicitude for the unfortunate victims, but even if they do know the real causo of the ills the tli'sh is heir to—aud what is inevitable under the existing regime—to proclaim it is not their mission. Therefore, as it necessarily follows, they who endure must cure, it is for them to search for the basic causo of their ills ond then apply tho remedy, and that remedy is—not production for destruction—not production for profit— but production for use. X,mU( •' YOU WOULD NOT SAY when buying a diamond ring, "Just a cheap ono. Anything will do so long ns it is cheap." Tou would be more likely to say, "Givo mo the bost you have at so much." No matter what the size of Birks' Diamonds, there's only ono quality—THE FINEST THAT MONEY CAN PRO* . -t.13 RTPF C "The Home of „„„ u 1 •A-AA. O Hne Dtomonds" OEO. E. TEOEOT. __,. Dlr. „„„,„, _,_ (^ gtJ _______Wamm~a\t*t_M%mj_ —satb tow iionr- STAEI A BAKX AOOOUn Dl THE MERCHANTS BANK OF CANADA Don't .low away jour spin uik U any old eorner where lt li In diun from burglars or flre. The Harekanta Bank ol Canada ol- len yoa perfeet iifetr lor teat mono;, ind will fife tou loll banking ■errlee whether yonr account b lu-p or amall. Intern! allowed on mlnfi dopo. O. A. BTAOBY, HUMtr _ rowUle an* P*»i« W. 0. JO*r Manager HMtlnf i ud Oar-nll MOOHPOBATED 1865 Bank of Toronto Assets 184,000,000 DepOBits 68,000,000 Joint Savings Account A JOINT SiTfngi Aeooant m»j be opened st The Bank of Toronto In the nimei of two or more pereoni. Id thete Meonnta either perty _\sj eign chequei or depoelt money. For the different memben of a family or a firm a' Joint account li often a great convenience. Intereit ii paid on balancet. Vanconver Branoh: Ooner Haatlnft and Oambli Btreiti __ Branches at; Victoria, Merritt, New Westminster Dentistry! **-..._, Bridj.i ud niliift ■MU lha teat ikada aa jea on Dr. Gordon Campbell Opea evening! 7:80 to 8:8*. Dental none in attendance. 008. O&AOTXLLH AMD BONOS STREETS Orar Owl Draff Store Phona Bar B8SB Notary Public A. W. WHITAKER 439 Richards Street Patronize B. 0. Federatlonist advor- tisers, and tell thom why you do so. Our Selling System Quality in Fabrics Style Correct Price the lowest possible consistent with value Two Stores: Society Brand Clothes Rogers Building Fit-Reform Clothing 345 Hastings Street Burberry Coats at both stores J. W. Foster Limited Co-ops Organize Denison, Tex.—Railroad Brotherhood men have started n co-operative movement lind invito all other unionists to join with them in tackling Mr. H. C. of L. Two thousand shams of $10 each will be issued and no person will bo permittod to have an intorest in more thnn 10 shares. Euch shareholder will be entitled to only one vote, rogardloBB of tho numbor or shares he niny own. "The Rouse Behind the Ooods" BAKING POWDER An undisputed favorite with the best cooks in Vancouver. Sold in 12-ounce, 2*/2-ft. and 5-Hi. cans. The W. H. MALKIN | i-UR| CO. LIMITED [84KING I'liniiilii Food Board Mi-fuse No. 0-542 Ucnm' No. 3-45S V --r--vr'l "It you can't cun things dry {hem. Moal trulls nnil WgetablOB keep well In lhi*. way." —Ilaued hy Canada Fuel Hoard Contractors Up to Date Augusta. Oo.—Tho Builders Association of this city has recognized trade unionism for the first time in it? history. Patronize B. 0, Fedorationist adver* Hsors ami tell them why you do so. - At the J. N, Harvey Union Olothing Storei Union Made Work Shirts, Overalls, Etc. LAROE VARIETY, POPULAR PRICES Tho wise man is laying in a stock now, as prices are steadily advancing, and the quality is not keeping pace. Our present stock was bought on the lower market, and you will find the quality good, and the prices very reasonable. Shirt Prices range—$1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 to $4.00. Union-made Overalls, at $1.60 to $3.00 each. * Men's Pull-over Fine Sweaters—In grey, brown and blue. Prices $3.75 and $5.00. MEN'S SWEATER COATS at last year's prices. Goods ordored for last fall only nrrived a fow months ago, ond wo nro ablo to sell this coat at - tho samo prico as last year. d}/> nA Colors grey, brown, maroon tyD.OU Better Quality Sweater Coats, range in prices— $9.50, $10.00, $12.50 to $14.00. Oor Btoree on headquarters In British Oo- lumbU tot Itufleld Unshrinkable Under- _t CB25S* \ 125-127 Hastings St. W. Also 614-616 Yates St., Viotorla, B.O. Look for the Big Red Arrow Sign — PBIDAY... ...October 11, 1918 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST PAGE FIVE THE FIRST UNION CIGAR STORE IN VANCOUVER The Mainland Cigar Store The Place for Pipes 310 CARRALL STREET We ask you to please remember that when you buy anything in this store, that our belief in Union principles not only applies to our clerks, but it applies also to our dealings with our customers. In this manner, if we sell you a 50-cent Pipe, we want that pipe to be worth the money, so that you will be satisfied. And, furthermore, if you buy a Pipe here at 50 cents or more, it must give you satisfaction, or we have gained nothing by advertising. So please don't forget if you buy a Pipe from us and it fails to give you satisfaction to bring it baok and we will cheerfully replace it. But remember, no guarantee like the above with 25-cent Pipes. With them.it is every care but no responsibility. WAKE UP-IT'S NOT AN UNDERTAKER YOU NEEDI TEN SUB. CARDS ORDER 10 SUB. CARDS AND PAY POR THEM WHEN SOLD $12 __. Ten or more members of any trades union in Canada may 50 have THE FEDERATIONIST mailed to their individual addresses at the rate of $1.25 per year. The Practical Shoe Men Wood & Son 187 Hastings Street East (Opposite Carnegie Library) Reliable Union Shoes for the whole family, at workers' prices. PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS Did You Ever Close Your Teeth in a VAN LOO ? Well, if you haven't, you certainly arc missing a lot of real joy. It is thc most satisfying bit of sun-kissed Cuban tobacco nny man's lips ever touched. . Grown under the rays of Old Sol, at* it shinos down on fair Havana, with a eovering of white cotton thnt tempers tho lierco hout and pormits oach loaf to grow to a rich, ripo mellowness that makos a porfect Bmoko. Rollod by hnnd into a f roc-smoking, generous cigar by UNION mon in a big-sun-lightcd UNION faotory, it comos to you "a bit of heavon from Old Havana." Try tho now threo-for*n*tjunrtcr size fellows—it will put moro joy in life. Cibars MArcmVAncowER,B.t 0 Sold everywhere 15c, 10c and 3 for 25c Dealt With Trades Congress Convention From View of Socialists The Boyal Theatre waa well attended on Sunday laBt, when Comrades Kana- nagh and Wnch took the platform at the meoting held by the Socialist Party of Canada. The chairman, Comrade Winch, first took the platform, and in an interesting talk, whioh lasted twenty-five minutes, he pointed out that, although both tho speaker of tho evening and himself had been delegates to tho Trades and Labor. Congress of Canada, they wero not on tho platform as such, but as membera of the Socialist Party of Canada only. Comrado Winch statod that this waB not tthe first timo he had been on a public platform, but it was his flrst appearance under the banner of tho S. P. of C, and the faot that he was there was sufficient evidence to show that in his opinion, that party represented the true interests of the working class. He had beon a member of tho Social Democratic Party whioh, he said, was at one time largo in membership and sloppy in Socialism. Near the close of his remarks, he went on to say that in tho S. P. of C. was the only place to fight for freedom but this party did not appeal for membors, the organization needed workors, but only those who wore class conscious and understood the Socialist philosophy could be used, and would be welcome within the ranks. He then called on Comrade Kavanagh to address the mooting. Comrade Kavanagh got to the business on hand in his usual style, first of all stating that he also represented the S. P. of C. only, but as the convention was of some interest to the workers in Vancouver, ho would try to give an outline of tho proceedings looked at from a Socialist point of new. One of the things which struck him as soon as he arrived, was the fact that tho Eastern delegates were more interested in speculating as to who would be tho next president, than they were as to what would be done by the convention. Referring to the speeches of the dologates, Comrado Kavanagh statod that the speech delivered by the representative of the A. F. of L. must have had his speech made for him in Washington, as he could not pronounce many of the words in it, and that lt waB read from a printed sheet. When a resolution opposing intervention in Bussia was takon up by the convention, a Bussian delegato thore pointod out that he know Lenine, the Bussia nmlnlster, personally, and while he did not agree with his policy, he considered that the resolution should be accepted. This the Westerners supported solidly, but the resolution was swamped by the Eas- torenrs. The speaker then declared that tho Easterners woro on the whole grossly ignorant of the conditions under which they lived, and outBide of a few Reds, they knew nothing about economics and less about thc philosophy of the working class, and woro but a lot of job hunters, who had not used the tools for more years than he cared to recall, Ho then went on to say that the chiof reason for tho greater knowledge of thc Wetsorncrs was duo, to a largo extent, to tho activities of tho S. P. of C, which had sold in Jobs? than ton yoars more than $10,000 of litoraturo of a clear cut and educational kind, besides holding many meetings. Here he pointed out that tho near futuro with the war breaking down, held problems that only the well-posted Socialist could ox- plain or flnd any solution for. This was a time for education along clear class lines with no compromise at any stago of the game. In closing Kavanagh statod that no man could represent both master and slavo as was attempted by one of the officials of the Trades Congress, who was also a member of tho registration board, appointed by tho government, which represent- oil the master class of this country. Tho 8. P. of C. was an educational pnrty organized to carry on the claBB war, which would ultimately mean the workors freeing thomselves from the' wngo slavery. The keen interest shown in the meeting was then evident by the way tho questions woro showered on the speaker. Frederick Kngols onco said: "Capitalist socioty faces a dilemma, either an advanco to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism. Guess that about fits Patronize B. C. Fedorationist advertisers and tell them why you do sb. Conditions Are Not AU They Should Be—Long Hours Rule [By Walter Head] Somewhere in that period, known as the dim and distant past, wo have a faint recollection of being taught that amongst other things our duty to our neighbor is to "order ourselves lowly and reverently to all our betters to learn and labor truly," and do our duty in that stato of life into which it has pleased a certain mythical gentleman to call us. We are aware of the fact tbat this innoculation, liko vaccination, in many instances didn't take, while in other instances it did and as in cases of vaccination causing tbe filth injected into the human system to break out in various parts of the human anatomy, so with the other system of innoculation, in whioh slush has been injected into the human mind, we flnd that this slush has broken out from time to time in the human body politic We have received evidences recently of the re- Bults of this mental vaccination, as the following correspondence will show, which has passed between the secretary of Local 020, Steam and Operating Engineers, and various poople interested directly and indirectly with some of our modern slave pens, situated on the Pacific Coast, somewhat less than a million miles from Vancouver. We will classify them Exhibit "V "B, "O," otc. Exhibit "A" sent to thc firm: "Your firm has so far not granted union conditions for engineers in your employ and aB membors of this union will not be allowed to continue operating unless those conditions aro granted, I am thorcforo enclosing you a copy of our wage acale and working conditions and trust you will arrange to let me know if you are willing to put same into effect." Exhibit "B" is the roply from the general manager: "We have yours of recent date and you will understand that it is necessary for us to communicate with tho managers of our plants before we can answer your letter." As evidence of their following out tho spirit of this lotter the following lottor was received from ono of those aristocrats of labor, the chief engineer of one of the aforesaid plants: Exhibit "C": ' 'Your memo of 'recent date' with copy of letter to my principals juat received, also schedule of wages. Having perused your letter to my managor, would point out to you that we aro paying our third-class 'engineers' $224 per month, which I think is far in excess of your rates; also is quite satisfactory to the engineers, while your rate would reduce the earnings of third engineers from $7.20 to $5.20. Begarding my own salary, I do not consult nor accept any dictation from any ono. Sufficient to Bay that I am receiving considerably moro than rates laid down by your institu* tion. "Furthor, I wish you to note that I do not bolong to any'union whatsoever, and reserve the right to establish my own worth with my employer without recourse to bolstering by unions. "By thc conclusion of your memo fr mo, I take it you imagine' I am a mom bor, which I am happy to sny is a mis take.'' Excuse us one moment while we burst into a song, the words of which wero written by ono Jo© Hill, who was recently murdered by tho capitalist class in Utah: Don't try to talk your union dope t o Scissor Bill. Ho says ho nover organized and never will. He alwayB will be satisfied until he's dead, With coffee and a doughnut and a lousy old bed. He says ho gets rewarded sevenfold, When ho gets up to heavon on tho Streets of Oold. I don't care who knows it for right hore I'll toll, If Scissor Bill goes to heaven I'll go to 'Swanson Bay.' " We now como to Exhibit "D," which a lotter from onc of "our" engineers upon whom the felicity of working 46% oight-hour shifts pallod: "Would say that I have left 'deleted' and am now 'somewhere in B. C The job that I loft Ib no good. Thero aro two onginoers there, ono a first and the othor a third. Both around during the dny and neithor at night?. Tho chief puts a flroman on at night to look after nino boilers. Ho has chargo of four firemen and thc CORRECT Clothes Are marked in plain figures, and are always sold at the same prices. Never more or less. Every suit is guaranteed, and if you are not satisfied, your money will be cheerfully refunded. $15, $19, $23, $27, $30, $35 A Cash Proposition The managers of The B, 0. Federationist claim to have a circulation of 18,000, and claim that this paper is read hy that number of Union men. We are going to test that statement by offering to accept this ad. for Two Dollars on any suit bought at our store. Out the ad. out, and bring it with you, and we will allow you two dollars on any suit or overcoat you may buy from us, This offer is good for 20 days from date. D.K.BOOK Correct Clothes 117 HASTINGS STREET WEST Here's a Chance! TO make our FALL OPENING some event this year, to impress upon you the importance of our establishment, its size, its location, the quantity, quality and variety of woollens wc carry and the extra fine work we do, and to induce you to come in yonr hundreds to make or renew our acquaintance, we're determined—for THREE DAYS—to give Union men and Federationists the chance to buy from our regular range of $50 suits in Serges, Worsteds and Tweeds of superfine at the SPECIAL PRICE of These suits will be made with all thc thorough work and fine finish always associated with "FORD" goods. Strictly Ouitom-made to Individual Meaiure Hastings St. West Working Men! Union Men! THIS is the chance you want. Tou can save many dollars by buying here and now. Tou can't afford to pass up a snap like thia, To do ao would bo wrong. This is no cheap ready-made stuff bought cheap to Bell cheap. We sell only finest woollens finely made into Ford Suits by fine tailors and cutters —expert artificers of highest ability and reputation. boilors are worked to full capacity, carrying 175 pounds steam pressure. There is more I could tell you but I have no timo to tell it and catch the mail." We are extremely gratified to learn that our informant did not have time to fully unload, for wo are afraid that our safety valve would have been unable to take caro of the excess pressure. Our chief engineer "friend" haB been communicated with and very plainly shown that his eccentric has slipped. He has shown that the bait of high wages for long hours of labor will ultimately result in the wages coming down to the normal level with the hours of labor unchanged. The tendency of long hours of labor to degrade the human being into a mere automatom was pointed out and he was advised to study political economy. Whother the letter that was sont him will ever reach his fossilized brain is a quostion we are not prepared to answer at this stage of the game. Anyway the chief inspector of steam boilers has been informed of the infraction of tho Steam Boiler Inspection Act, and in all probability our legal lights may eventually discover somo of the loop holes that are put in all our so-called remedial legislation and tho Stoam Boiler Inspection Act will be patched up again. During our wnndorings through thc country wo havo been brought face to fuce with many instances similar to tlio ono already mentioned, nnd wo general* ly flnd that when' non-union men aro employed, conditions are of courso punk, and invariably there nro infractions of tho Boiler Inspection Act. Wo notice that tho general mannger of tho Graham evaporator outfit has boen visiting tho various plants of thnt company, and according to the Vancouver World of recent date enlargements to the plant nre to be made. Of courso thc World is ox- tremely gratified becnuse thoy don rt have to muzzle around through a coal scoop for twelve hours a day, and for their inforamtion wo would respectfully whisper that such aro tho conditions at tho evaporator at Eburne. Appar- ntly the mon working there are satisfied, because they got n little more money for working thoso long hours, for wo have triod to impress upon them the necessity for united action, having] for its objective tho shortening of their hours of lnbor, which would incidental- give somebody elso a job. One of thom thnt wo spoko to is un- ;r thc mistaken impression that tho boys at the front want thom to work these long hours inasmuch as thoir product is reputed to be going to tho trenches, the truth of which is do- batttblo, for we have boon speaking to some of the boys who hnve been in the renehes und thoy claim that they saw very little of those products nnd they also claim that the boys "over thero" nre not desirous of coming back to find 12-hour day job. Before oondudtng we nre forced to quote ono more instance. A scab engineer working at ono of the luundrii'H gavo us his excuse, "The union played 1 u dirty ttlok," In our vui'ieguted experiences we have heard u lnrge number of excuses givon by that animal commonly known is n scab, but this is tho latest, "be (IU80 tho union plnyed me a shabby rick," wliich presumably menus thut lecuuse thoy were nil out of step but iie< I nm justified in helping the employors to force the lnundry workers, who ure mostly women, to work fur vagos thnt ure insufficient to provide hem with a decent standard of living. We will leavo this gentleman, with all the joy ho enn get out of his trench- iry, with hopes that when he gets his hirty pieces of silver he will liavo tho leeeney of his prototype Judas EsCfttloi und go und hung himself. Labor must organize. Loi mc plead ' with every mnn who earns his living by honest* toil to join some union. Yuu can be just as honest outside of a union, but you will accomplish nothing ">y yourself. If you hnvo more sense influence, you ought to join the m to give your fellow-men the lonoflt of your talents. If you hnve ess than Ihe average, como in ond loi llo union help you."—-Governor Fergu- on, of Texus. "1 give preference to unionists, " • * looauso 1 urn convinced thui the mun who gives u considerable portion of lm 11110 oach wook und It considerable por- ion of Ida earnings each week to try ind improve the condition in which ho lives is justly entitled to more consld- ■ution than tho mnn who roninlns out- tie und will not givo n portion of s time or n frnction of his money to better the conditions of himself and those who nre dependent upon his earn* ings."---,ludge fussi'ti of tho Australian Arbitration Court Anybody that has different ideaa to the common rut is now dubbed Bolsheviki. A short time ago it was sufficient to call them Socialist. Wonder what it will come to In time. The Federationist la read by over 1,000 people eaeh week. This should be an incentive for business men to use the Federationist as an advertising medium. What's in a Name? To nadevUlt tbt word "Orphm" moui tt* test In lte world—to Vancouvor tht Orpheum Cafe moui lte test oattaf ptaoo In town; mntlc ud (Unciai tn tho •Toning, Drop ln any time. Biggest anion boast ia Yuoonor. 782 QKAOTTX1B opp. Orphean License'No. 10-1768 Subscribers sending in changes of address should send the old as well ts tho now address. EMPRESS THEATRE WEEK OF OOTOBto 14 1W8 The play you have been waiting for Mh Pays To Advertise" reaturiug Margaret Harriott DON'T MISS IT Prtcai 15c, Mcand, 50c PANTAGES ** NEXT WBEK "OH, THAI MELODYI" SWAJT t OLIFFOBD Other Big Features ORPHEUM ^THEATRE1 L PLAYING ORPHEUM OIR. OUIT VAUDIVILLI Matinee 2:30 Evenings 8:20 Strong Work Boots Tills picture shows yon esaetly whst our "Uriis" Calf Work Bool looks liko. Note tho heavy so]., and runnier snd douhlo hox toil. 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We give the children all of our time and attention, assuring them of a proper fit with the right shoe. William*' Solid Leather School Shoe— 11 to 13y2 $4.00. I to 51/, ..$4.60 and $5 Leckie'«Solid Leather Shoe: 8 to IOI/2 $3.76 II to 131/2 $4.00 Girls' Black Button Shoe for School Wear— jl to 2 $3.76 A better line in lace— 11 to 2 $476 Child's Scupper Shoe, in tan, laoe, leather soles— 8 to 10% *'. $3.76 Classic, Nursery and McFarlane Shoes, in every variety, for thc little tots. THE JUVENILE SHOE STORE 681 ORANVILLE STREET Children's Shoes Exclusively "Richer the Gluten- Better the Bread" <<YE8» Madam," our chemist will toll you, "therote a de- * cided difference between a loaf of bread made from flour richer in gluten (the non-starchy, nourishing, cell building part of tho wheat) and flour thnt contains a smaller percentage." The difference betwoen two such loaves being as illustrated above. H-E will toll you, "is milled from tho hardest kornolled, rieil-Mt in gluten wheat found in North America. Tliat's why it mixes so easily; has such a big 'ovon-Bpring'j yielding a loaf pOBSOsaod of the goldonOHt of colors and flutist-Of textures," . One of tli.i l)i(j reasons why Royal Standard Hour Ms different, and innkiK tho best possible bam- for yonr wiir-llme bread. Milled In B. O, Hold liy nil grooers. [YANCOIIVERHlUING&GRAiNH _s Vancouver, d.C. 4\ 23 Medical Profession Not a Unit on This Question [By D. J. Morrison] Superstitution dies hard and modical superstition is no exception to the rule. Superstition nas always been an enemy to mankind and a stumbling block to progress and enlightenment, irrespective of tho form it assumed. Superstition is the offspring of ignorance and tho chief weapon of destruction of the powers of darkness. It'a dead poison has contaminated and polluted the very springs of lifo and of knowledge all down the ages, like a vile serpent. This colossal monster, this infamous onemy of mankind still reigns supreme despito all opposition, despite all the learnings of tho Bchools and colleges, in fact most of our so-cnlled schools and collegos are more or less steeped aud covored with tho slimy mud of superstition, subjecting tho human race to a form of slnvery moro contemptible nud moro cruel than anything that could bo imagined by ovon the "devil." I mean the slavery of thc human intellect. I fear the human race will nover be ablo to free itself entirely from this infamous monster. "Superstitious ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge thc wing whero- with wc fly to Heaven; thereforo let us eat freely of tho fruit of the glorious tree of knowledge, and then we shall bo ready to die. But death then is not a death, but merely a transition, for those who have partaken freely of tho fruit of this famous tree have also tasted the fruit of tho tree of life, and for them there can bc no such thing as death, because they havo learned the secrot of life and the myatery of death.'' "An Ode to Superstition" In dnys of yore whon maids were shy, and hobblo skirts would dare not buy, Whon witches could tho Gods invoke, to scare the devil out of folk, If one had said that ho could fly, he's "Lunnic" you would hear them cry; The silvery moon was then to blame, if a cow got lost or a horse got lame; Ignorance reigned throughout the land, and commonsense was out of hand; The aaintly priests would smile and boast, to see their victims howl and roast; Burning the wretches at the stake, to show that witchcraft was no fake; The earth was full of ghosts and spooks, and few could read, no need of books; The spieB were busy each night on parade and tho aut da fo was doing good trade; No light to cheer tho dismal night, but the glimmering of a candle light. But now the night has changed to day, tho. torch of reason lights the wny; The night waa long and rough the road, and mighty heavy was the load. Now boys and girls, if this you read, ■ to love for truth iti youth give heed; Placo little faith in church or college, but cultivate a taste for knowl- Qss5& fEDEMTOMST Tho above lines wero written by mc somo time ago, but were nover publishod before. Prom what I have road in the slavish press of tho disciples of superstition, I understand that no child in this fair city is allowed to ontor any of the public schools until thoy are inoculated with vaccine poison, or cow- pox. This is one of the worst forms of modical superstition. Now I presume tho school trustees, or tho school board, as wo used to call them in my native land, are running the schools in Vancouver, but who is running the school board, I should like to knowf If I may be allowed to express an honest opinion, I have moro than a suspicion that thc medicine man dominates the Vancouver School Board. At any rato I feel suro that no othor body of men outsido of tho jungle in darkest Africa, would advocate or be guilty of such an outrage upon the laws of hygieno and public morality. Thc allopathists aro certainly tho limit for audacity and tho only difference between them and tho old witch doctor is in degree and not in kind. Thc grentset contrast between them may bo noted in the fact that the old witch doctors did not fleece and butcher their unfortunate men. Wd are told in the Bible that Jehovah was the first medical butcher to porform an operation. (Ho was also tho first momber of sevoral other crafts.) Doubtless you will recall how he butchered our worthy ancestor, Old Adam, to secure that famous rib out of which he made a woman. It has alwaya been a mystery to me how he selected u rib instead of somo other portion of Adum's anatomy for the creation of woman. For instance, he might have used Adam's appendix instead. If ho was omniscient he must have known tho appendix would be a great source of trouble to mankind, as well us a great source of incomo to the medicine men, but we must bear in mind that Jehovah was always very favorably disposed towards his choson people, l.c, his followers. Doubtless he foresaw that if wo wero to use Adam's appendix nnd convert it into a female ho would deprive his followers of a legitimate income and some other foolish mortals of a fashionable fad. Nevertheless, I urn sometimes tempted to believe, despite all that has been said to thc contrary, that woman must have beon created out of Adam's appendix, for I fool sruo most of my own kind will agree with me in Baying that woman has always been a groat source of troublo nnd expense to man and she is also so—so, you know. But putting all jokca aside and reverting to the question nt Ibbuo, if wc arc honest with ourselves, we arc bound to acknowledge that suporstltlori and the practice of the healing art havo always been associated. Therefore it is almost next to impossible to divorce tho one from the other. Of course the " priest hns been more or less eliminated from thc practice of medicine, but priestcraft still reigns supreme among the medical fraternity, They are still true to the ancient instinct of the priesthood when thoy persecute and prosecute all those who dun1 to oppose their crude methods. Tn examining tho case for and ngainst vaccination several important factors must lie taken into consideration. The first and foremost; amongst them is tho undonbtable fnct that vaccine or cowpox is a virulent poison whicli on being introduced into the human organism sets up not Women in Politics Editor B. C. Federationist: The Rex Theatre on Sunday evenings is a great educational institution for those who have an open mind or those whom it is impossible to educate by other methodB than the big club. But the amount of people wc will reach by that method is very insignificant. It is an uphill fight and would take a cen-- tury to gain the desired goal. The speaker on Sunday evening was asked what thc possibilities of I. W. W. methods were. Tlie roply was thoy would not get anywhere through direct action industrially because they had all tho power of the state to contend with. But thospeaker snid wo could got there by politicnl action or by the ballot box. We will admit the I. W.'W. a failure, so we will analyze the other method. How nre wo to educate tho masses to use the ballot to good effect. It can't be done through our puny press or from the platform, both whoso sources are suppressed to a great extent at present. Tho groat mass of the male electorate, are very ignorant. The politicians know, this and firmly believe they cun get them once moro by flapping the flag. Then aguin wo haVo a new condition tji contend with, or will have at tho i next election. Tho woman's vote. Will thnt great power be a help or a hindrance? From personal observations throughout the country of working cluss women, and tho -called middle class, they are very easy proy to the flowery oratory of the professional politician. This particularly applies to native Canadian women. It seems they arc handicapped through, or because, of tho falBe teaching in thc educational institutions in their youth. I have heard them reasoned with, and the present unjust conditions put beforo them logically and scientifically and the roply invariably was, "I was taught so and so at school, and I can't holp having those beliefs." Now I am firmly convinced that 90 per cent, of the women voters of tho two above classes cannot be reasoned with or brought into lino to "help usher in a new era. Of course, we know what to expect from the. elite of society who inhabit the Shaughnessy Heights throughout thc Dominion. What they call love of country, which in reality is only a myth, comes first; husband, brothor, father or sweetheart comes away down in their list. I havo known them to,sacrifice each and all for love of the country which thc vested interests own, and in which they have no share only that of slaves to hard taak masters. I refer, of courso, to the great' mass of women in the stores, factories, farms and offices. A Sim Francisco lady said very recently that love of country camo before love of husband and home, so discarded the latter. She was followed by another recently making thc same statement, no less a personage than tho Hon. Mrs, Ralph Smith, M. P. P., and oditorial writer of thc Sun. Peoplo are to a great extent a product of their environment. Her's is not very elevating whilst within thc walls of that magnificent pilo of buildings, tho Parliament Buildings in Victoria, I havo been present at sessions of ' that house, and confess I have found a few washerwomen in session just as interesting. Mr. Justice McAdoo said very recently that men aspired to the ideals set for them by women. Considering tho present Btate of human society women must have very poor ideals or men are very lax in their aspirations. If Mr. Wells had in minti the British Isles when making his assertion his judgment bids fair to be correct. But tho same won't apply to our beloved Canada. In constitutional methods or their possibilities wo are nearly a century bohind the English proletariat. "JACK DENNIS." local but a constitutional inflammation or fever. Hence it is classed as disease by the medical profession. It is in reality a disease caused by diseased pus, taken from ono of the lowor animals and introduced into tho human anatomy in order to protect it from a filthy disease known to medical science by the name of smallpox. ThiB form of filth disease may or may not attack tho individual in his or hor lifetime, but that does not matter to tho medical grafter; he must have his pound of flesh, either directly or indirectly. Now ordinary plain commonsense ought to show us that it is neither sane, safe or scientific on tho part of even professional men whoso well known methods of treating disease is anything but scientific. (Thia important fact is admitted by some of their leading men.) To impose or inflict upon the coming generation this cruel and crude form of superstition, worthy of tho dark ages, innoculating innocent children who are otherwiso healthy with diseased pus taken from one of the lower animals in order to protect them from smallpox, but in reality to infect them with disease germs so ns to make them sick in order to keep the medical quack on his pedestal of stupidity, or shall I say self importance or egotism. It is u well known fact among the medical profession that vaccination does not always protect a person agaiust smallpox. Some of them claim that cowpox and smallpox are not the same, that tho poison of cowpox or vaccine does not produce the samo disease and for that reason vaccination is not and cnn not be n protection against smallpox. Thoy claim that grease from the horse's hock will produce the same disease ns cowpox. This fact is also well known to medical men. It is also stated on thc best authority that Doctor Jenner himself used grease from the horse on a largo scale in hiB practice. It is an absolute fact that vaccination is by no means harmless; rofiila, chronic eczema, erysipelas, follow vaccination more or less frequently; nlso ulcers, abscesses, syphilis, loss of sight and many other loathsome diseases too numerous to mention. Thc fact thnt medical superstition like nil other forms of superstition is a potent menace to society and to the welfare of the human race is plain to every student of sociology, and no adequate reform can over tako placo until tho medical .profession is liberated from tho strangle hold of commercialism and placed upon a pedestal of honesty and freedom. In other words the medical profession must be placed under stato control in order to free it from graft nnd greed, They will then be paid to keep the people in health instead of keeping them sick ns at present. In England nnd Wales tho births registered in 1913 numbered 881,890. In 1915 they fell to 814,614( in 191(1 to 785,520, and in 1917 to 008,346, tho lowest since 1858. Had births continued at the same level as in 1933 thore would have boon 3,500,000 births ro- rded up to tho end of tho present yenr, but Ihere will probably be only 2,850,000. The war, by the fall in births which it has occasioned, has cost the belligerent countries not less thnn 12,500,000 of potential lives. Every duy tli.it the wnr continues means a loss of 7000 potential lives to tho United Kingdom, Frnnce. Italy nnd the Contral Empires. „ Patronize B. C. Federationist adver- only a'tigers and tell them why you do so. Editor B, C. Foderntionist: Sir,— Heading an article, published in the B. C. Federationist 'of October 4, 1918, attacking a pamphlet entitled "Socialism and Religion" is tho roason of my attempting to pen these few lines. "Thing nre ideas, ideas aro names, and things, ideas and names nro subject to continuous perfection." It is peculiar, how some people, whose mental process still posesses n taint of their idol-worshipping ancestors, spring to arms whon their family or tribal gods are explained from the cold* unsentimental light of science nnd how thoy wax wrathy at the exponsc of the proletarian logician and accuse him of dogmntism, egotism, and other tcrriblo shortcomings. Well, to all such, I extend my heartfelt sympathy, because, it appears, from a glance ovor tho world situation, that thoir God or Gods, as the case may be, nre in a pretty fair way of being explained. The pamphlet entitled "Socialism and Religion," issued by authority of tho S. P. of G. B., does a great deal more than show up tho weak spots in orthodox Christianity; it shows up the weak spots of all superstition and superstition is a synonymous term for religion. It shows nnd proves from the most authentic records und examples that aro extant, just how the humnn race boenmo possessed of these ideas; for example, the primitive savage dreaming of a deceased hunting companion thought it was his companion who had actually returned, became obsessed with tho idea of life after death, and as noar as I can discover this is tho fundamental basis of all religions. It also traces from that humble beginning all forms of superstition up to the present time, and, anyone who is interested can procure the pamphlet and read nnd judge for themselves. Now, to point a moral and adorn n tale, I will quote from the mightiest book ever written—a book that is not metaphysical but dialectic. Speaking of man: '^Thc Emyptians worshipped the cat; the Christina venerates tho dU vine providence. The invention of tho mouse-trap and other useful contrivances pushed the cat out of its exalted position. The Christian when his needs led him to live a well regulated lifo, tho benefits of thc law inspired him with such n high opinion of its noble origin that ho ndopted his own handiwork as a gift from heavent but whenever man becomes his own master, takes care and provides for himself, then all other providences become use- loss, and his own mastorship makos all superior tutelage unbearable." Only a proletarian philosopher can understand the philosophy of Socialism, becnuse "he who understands understanding cannot misunderstand." It would be pitiful if it woro not so tragic tho way some of these self-constituted "uplifters" of the laboring classes, nnd would-be Moses,* would lead thc deluded multitude of the working class out of the wilderness and bondage of wage-slavery and, believo muh, if tho workors remain in the jungles until these leaders show them the way out, they aro going to remain there for considerably more -than forty years. So it appears, at least, to your humble servant. 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UndVp.O.B^ ""•*"'• BH' »- Ed.B.C.Federationist: Dear Sir and Brother—In thc last iBsuc of "our" pnper one of your contributor's takes up almost a column of space under/ thc heading " Dogmatists and Other Obstacles" with as choice a collection of generalities and unproven assertions that it has ever been my misfortune to pernio for some time. Two nnd twd make llvtf, nnd "to the law and the testimony if they spoalt not according to this word," is, I agrcet the weak point with all those who are still mentally bound to tho tenth chapter of Romans. But if "true science never attempts to avadc facts or ignore thom or explain them away" why should the indisputable facts brought to light by such "authorities" as Grant Allen and Herbert Spencer and incorporated in the pamphlet, "Sociulisra and Bclig- ion," so lightly esteemed by your painstaking contributor, bo left without mention, whereas exact short extracts are taken from the pamphlet concerning Keir Hardie nnd J. R. Maedonald, While I claim to bolong to tho Marx- tain school, I do not bow down uncritically to what Marx himself may have said. And, nt any rato, ho himself gave credit to Joseph Dietzgon for having taken up his work at tho point where he left off, or, rather, pursued thc same investigations along other lines. The "anonymous pamphlet" is such for reasons, It was not the work of onc mnn, but of the whole executive committee of tho 8. P. G. Bt If, Brother Editqr, "our" paper is a working class pap*r it .will surely try to explain some phenomena as to como within thc horizon of working class lifo. I deny that the industrial development of the Inst 25 years alters materihlly the general analysis of capitalist, production given by Marx in his "Capitnl." Lacking anything definite in your contributor's essay wc can let this suffice for the moment, but it thc workers nre to receive the necessary viewpoint to correct collective action; if wc nre to march toward that system which many of us consider "inevitable/' must wo not do so with tradition's palsied hand removed from our mental processes, with tho guests of yesterday no longer flitting through our'brains, with a clenr consciousness of our objectives and our position, And, to quote Mnrx, is not "an invitation to abandon illusions 1111 invitation to abandon a situation which has need of illusions"? Our masters need these illusions, they need to confuse, to obstruct. We need the truth, tho authority of science, the plain facts. Lot tho dead pnst bury its dead. W. A. PRITCHARD. For dissolving out Uw excessive amount i uric acid and other foreign mntter congested in tho system, which causes "rheumatism," electricity Is in a class by itself. 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Bh") BuU4"» «•* Helpers of ™£ ft Vancouver I****!' No. l»«-*-MeeU tE3J!°m!St 8.R*m* ™»W»at, M. A.Me* Eaohern, 1246 Afbernl St.* aeeretary-treaa* urer, Angu, Fraaer, 1161 Howe St.: buelness ^gen^L, Cummins, Boom 212 Labor Temple. HSTfiLo^N?. "ESTAUBANT EMPTOVEES Leal 28—Meete every flrat Wednesday In the month at 2.80 p.m. and every tilrd Wednesday In the month at 8.80 p.m. Preal" «™*t w"S \mi! '2?™M_ ••■•• business agent, w. Maekunsie. Room 209 Labor Temple. Phono Soy. 1681. OBce houra: 11 to jj_noon; 2 to 6 p.m. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF STEAM AND Operating Englneera, Loeal No. 620— Meete every Monday. 7.80 p.tn., Lahor Temple President, J. B. Flynn, 810 Moodle atreet, New WeMminater* vleepresidenl. D. Hodgea; secretary-treasurer and business agent. W. A. Alexander, Boom 216, Labor Temple. Phone Bey. 7486. ELECTRICAL WOBKEBS, LOOAL NO. 218 —Meeta In Boom 206, Labor Temple. even* Monday, 8 jp.m. President, D. W. MeDougall 1162 Powell Street; reeordlng aeoretary, W. Foulkea, Ubor Temple; Inanclal aecreUry and bualneaa agent, E. H. Morrison, Boom 207, Ubor Temple; assist. ant aecreury, F. B. Burrows. PATTERN MAKERS' LEAOUE OF NORTH America (Vanoouver and vicinity)— Branch meets aeoond and fonrth Mondaya, Boom 204, Labor Tomple. Preaident, J. Banfortb, Euclid Ave., Colllngwood East; flnanclal secretary and business agent, H. S. Nlghtscalee, 279—56th Ave East, South Vancouver; recording aeoretary, E. Westmoreland, 3247 Point Orey road. Phone Bay- view 2979L. SHIPYARD LABORERS, FASTENERS AND Riggers, I. L. A., Loeal Union 88A, Series 6—Meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the tnonth, Labor Tomple, 8 p.m. President, J. N. Boult; financial eecretary, M. A. Phelps; business agent and corresponding secretary, W. Lee. Office, Boom 219*220, Labor Temple. STBEET AND ELECTRIO BAILWAY EM* ployees, Pioneer Division, No. 101—MeeU Labor Temple, eecond and fourth Wedneadaya at 8 p.m. Preaident, W. H. Cottrell; treasurer, E. S. Cleveland; recording aeore* ft.17 '■Si.y.* -^'ti*1'* ••" Trinity atreet. Phone High. 168B; flnanolal aeoretary and buelness agent, Fred. A. Hoover, 9409 Clark dri"i_WMa_oorner JPrlor_and Main atreeU. GENERAL TEAMSTERS AND CHAUF* foura Union, Local So. 656—Meeta every m ^"i„uh w**dncB*Uya 8 p.m. President S.V .■ft0*!":* b»,'M" "gent. J. F. Poole, _,°—I,™ Avo. Eaat. Pbone Fair. 3109X. financial aecreUry, Bert Showier, 1120 Robson St. Phono Sey. 5679. Offlce, 58J Homer St. TYPOORAPHIOAL UNION, No. 286-MeeU J***! •*•»•••■« of each month at 2 p.m. Preaident, B. Marshall; vlce-prealdent. W. H. Jordan; aocretarytreasurer, B. H. Neelanda. 1101 66. PROVINCIAL UNIONS B. 0. FEDERATION OF LABOR—MeeU io annual eonvention tn January. Exeoitfra offlcen 1016.19; Preaident, Duncan MoCal- lam, Labor Temple, Vancouver; vice-preal- denta—Vanconver Iiland, Walter Head, South Wellington; Vietoria, J. Taylor; Prinoe Rupert, W. E. Thompson; Vaneonver, E. Wlncfc, W. R. Trotter; New Weatalmter, P. Peebles; Weat Kootenay, llarena Martin, NeUon; Crowe Neat Paie, W. A. Sherman, Fernle. Seoretarytreaaurer, A. ' 8. Welle, Labor Temple, 405 Danamulr itreet, Vancouver, B. 0. VIOTOBIA, B. Q. VICTORIA AND DISTRICT TRADES AND Labor Council—Meets flrst and third Wednesdays, Knights of Pythlae Hall, North Park street,, at 8 p.m. President, B. Simmons; vlce-prealdent, T. Dooley; secretary- treasurer, Christian Siverts, P. 0. Boi 802, Viotorla, B. C. SOUTH WELLDTOTOU, V. 1. LOOAL UNION, No, 872, U. M. W. of A.- Meets first Sunday In every month 9 p.m., Richards Hail. President Jaa. Bateman; vice-president, Andrew Parker; recording secretary, Jaa. Fearon; flnanolal eecietary, William MacDonald; treaiurer, J. H. Rich* ardnon. PRINOE RUPERT. B. 0. PRINOE RUPKRT TRADES AND LABOB Oohnoil—Meots second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, In Carpenters' hall. President, S. D, Macdonald; seoretary, W. E. Thompson, Box 278, Prince Rnpert, B. 0. -FEDERATIONIBT PHONE- SET. 7485 AFTER 8 p.m.-SEY. 7497K PBIDAY Oetobor 11, 1918 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST PAGE SEVEN Splendid Suit Offer for Women and Misses-Price $42.50 Extra stylish Suits, fashioned of best quality Donegal Tweed and Donegal mixtures in invisible check design. Handsome fitted model with long coat, cross over collar and belt finished with smart button and black silk chain stitching, small slip pockets, and lined with superior quality satin. The skirt is gathered at the back, and belted all around. Best workmanship, material and style are all included in this special bargain in suits for women and misses.— $42.50. Women's and Misses' Coats at $19.75 A Tweed Coat of splendid quality, in dark brown and grey mixture, in an invisible stripe; made in smart style, with belt all around; slot pockets and handsome new collar with tabs crossing over at neck; large fancy novelty buttons are used as trimming; practical, and very stylish. Price, 810.75 PRETTY NBW MODELS IN SUITS FOR FAIL WEAR Smart Suits FOB FALL WEAK Priced $39.50 Offering choice of either serge or Donegal Tweed' of superior quality. Sev- •eral styles to choose from, including youthful belted models, with belts all around, smart pockets and collars trimmed with bone , buttons. These serges are extremely smart in pinchback effects, pleated and — loose belted styles. Silk military braid and buckles are used as trimming. Moderately priced suits in brown, green, navy, black or Donegal tweed. Priced very low at $39.50 CktiiMMifti Canada Food Board Licenses 5-1482, 8-14590,10-4435,11-163 IMli^stmiMCornpans. M V.V y -.*-. tmmmsns i«» maunri. saomtaT, itwii cahhimum* 1 ^"^ ' Granville and Georgia Streets TRADE UNIONISTS TAKE NOTICE The Boot and Shoo Repairers Union ia fighting for ita existence today; tho only ehop in Vnncouvor to koop to their contract and agree to tho men's demands—10 por cent, increase and 48 hours a weok—is The Standard Shoe Repair Shop 618 BOBSON STREET Union Workers Show Tour Principles mr Two of the best all-union eating-houses in Vancouver—the Good Eats Cafe All That the Law Will Allow ~o Smut* Trade Union Patronage No. 1 No. 2 110 Cordova St. West, or 622 Pender West Ask for Cascade rm_m iilSK* mi BREWED 9PJ HOTEL & FAMlW ! ~_ __Y_»T. ■ BffEWE VANCOUVER. ' The plain fact of the matter is that beer is the most popular drink that has yet been invented. Nothing has been discovered that will take the place of Cascade Beer Good beer must be Pure Beer Wholesome Beer Sparkling Beer Perfect Beer TO BE ALL THESE IT MUST BE CASCADE BEER The one beer that contains all these good qualities. BREWED IN VANCOUVER THE TASTE TELLS VANCOUVER BREWERIES LIMITED LABOR AND TERMS OF PEACE [By W. J. Gurry] What are to be the terms of peace and who is going to negotiate themf We all want to see German militarism defeated not as an end, but as a step toward true democracy, but what form of militarism do we want? The very fact that in Germany and even here an open and comprehensive discussion of the war and proposed peace terms is not permitted tends to show there aro facts which those in power are compelled to hide from the view of the common people. If, however, civilization is to progress or even survive social forces with a broader and a new outlook must dominate the terms of peace as well as the economic fate of the nations after the war is over. This is our business, and in spite of politicians and profiteers, we are going ot attend to it. That force which muat soon grasp tho reins of political power is no other than Labor representing tho common {tooplo and the only useful and peace- oving class in society. In every country wo see the growing solidarity and increasing consciousness of the workers regarding their great historic mission to free themselves and the world from the curse of war and poverty onee and for all. , It is interesting at thiB time to know what "heathen" nations think of our Christian civilization whieh poses as the light of the world. Count Okuma, one of the ablest statesmen of Japan, declares "this war to be nothing less than tho death of European civilization," and likens it to the destruction of Carthago, Greoce and Eome. In that important document issued some months ago by tho executive of tho British Labor Party entitled Labor and the New Social Order," wo read: "The Labor Party can so far agree in this estimate as to recognize in the present social catastrophe if not the-death of European siviliza- tion at least the culmination or collapse of a distinct industrial system which the workors will not seek to reconstruct. At such times of crisis it is easier to step into ruin than to progress into a higher organiaztion, and that is the problem as it presents itsolf." So that the great question for the thanking men and women of Vancouver and of the world is: "Shall the sacrifice of so much life and happiness, the blood shed on the battlefields of Europe be but the basis of othor wars and the destruction of' ages of effort and progress, or shall this destruction of lifo and happiness be the seed out of which will soon rise a new and higher social order in which war and poverty shall cease and in which real progress will begin! This greatest of all modern Issues will depend on what force dominates the terms of peace which ere long must bo decided. If the workers through their Labor parties such as we have in Great Britain, control the situation, and carry out its revolutionary programme for economic reconstruction, then we will have permanent peaco and no drop of blood shed in this war will be shed in vain, On the other hand, if Labor falls through any cause to enforce its policy, then tho sacrifices will be useless, and Count Okuma is probably correct when he declares '' this is the deathbed of civilization," for this will then be thc basis of othor world wars. Even now and here we see signs of the coming of the iron heel of the military stato to throttle free spoech and the press. If thoy are right and we wrong, why cannot thoy argue their case in tho court of publicity and permit tho jury to docido for or against thom. If thoy represent the interests of tho peoplo and true democracy why resort to brute forcef Wny Not Trust tho People f or Once? The British Labor Party manifesto statos the issue clearly in the following words: "Tho individualist system of Capitalist production based on the private ownership of land and capital with its reckless profiteering and wage slavery with its glorification of the unhampered struggle for the means of life und hypocritical pretense of the 'sur- vical of the fittest' with its degradation and brutalization, both moral and spiritual, resulting therefrom may, we hope, indeed have received a death blow. We shall do our utmost to seo that this system is buried with the millions whom it has dono to death." No Wonder Oompers Has Been Bent to Change This Programme Great Britain was the first nation to introduce machine production. She is called the "mother of plutocracy," and it is well that the workors there, having been trained in the schools of capitalism should bo among the first to freo themselves and their nation from the shackles of industrial slavery' and the relics of Feudalism and to sot the pace for tho world's workors. It is onc of the sublime facts of history that the triumph of Labor is to freo tho master as well as tho slavo. Labor invites its oncmy, which is at thc same timo its teacher and developer, to como in and becomo part of the great human brotherhood of which poots and prophets have dimmed und for which dreams thoy havo boon despised and pcrsccutod for ages and in all lands. Wo have from tho past somo idea of how this invitation of the workers will bc regarded. Tho greatest Labor convention in tho history of the world has just been hold in Derby, England. It represents four million British organizod workers. This stands for the new social order lyid thero iB much reason to believo that tho forthcoming election will boo the defeat of tho Lloyd George government and tho victory for tho class representing industrial domocracy and tho establishment of a permanent peace. Thero is another important fact published only by tho Labor press and that is that Arthur Henderson, tho leader of the British Labor Party, acting on instructions, has already started negotiations of peace terms with the Socialist partioa of Germany and other enemy nations and these are the terms of overy true workers' party from Russia to B. C., the basis of which is "no indemnities, no annexations, but self- determination of all people as to their allegiance and flag, and thig is the only domocratlc peaco possiblo. The reply came from the (Socialists of the Central Powers, and this is the result, and the Vancouver Sun even printed the following: "The Bulgarian Socialists accept practically all points. ""passports. The minority of .German Socialists agree to tho proposals." Arthur Henderson, at Northampton some weeks ago, in speaking of the German majority Socialists, said: "They are willing to discuBS Belgium and Alsace Lorraine, and believe that an amicable solution can be found.'' This would be what our daily press would term a "peace offensive" and no doubt any settlement tbat the workers of the belligerent nations would agree with would be essentially offensive to the perpetrators of war and the profiteers of all nations. But how could wo expect them to end the warf We of Canada are watching with deepest interest the activities of*#the British Labor Party. It seems to be almost the pivot point on which the fate of civilization hangs. Any forced annexation on cither side, any territorial conquest or changes based on past wars or not endorsed by a referendum of the people occupying that territory will in all probability be the basis for another great war. Only a peaco declared by those who stand for peace, for economic justice and true democracy can be permanent, and they are the class conscious workers who are at tho samo time the coming rulers of human society. Government by Kaisers and profiteers must go or else thd prophesy of Count Okuma will be fulfilled and civilization itself will perish. BOYS'AND CIRLS1 CORNER] A TALE WITH THE GROWN-UPS [By J. S. Woodsworth] Next Sunday the lesson will be on "The Age of Homespun," as outlined ■in last week's Fedorationist. This loaves us a chance for a talk with the fathers and mothers. "What shall I teach my boys and girM" "They don't get anything at church, yet I hate to seo them growing up like a lot of heathens." "Thoy liko to go to Sunday school ho they can bolong to tho clubs and enjoy the social life." Such are the expressions of a great many working-class fathers and mothers today. Let ua look at the function which the church has performed. In many ways the Roman Catholic Church is the reflection of the middle ages in which it grew to its greatest power. It is catholic or univorsal in its ideals, being built on the ruins of and along the lines of tho Roman empire. Its morality is the morality of the middlo ages. For instance, celibacy is praised, yet limitation of families is prohibited. Submission to authority and the hopo of a bettor world hereafter are teachings necessary to maintain such an institution. But wo havo passed boyond the middle ages. Does tho Catholic Church meet the modern need J The Protestant movemont was not so much a reformation in theology as an assertion of nationality and individuality. The great appeal was still to the desire "to tleo from the wrath to come and to be Baved from sin." It was essentially a middlo class movement and its morality is still a middle class morality. • But wo havo passed beyond the sixteenth century just as wo have pasBed beyond the middle ages. So, many are fooling that tho Protestant churches are not meoting tho needs of the day. Of course tho Roman Catholics will say that human noeds are tho samo in all ages, and Protostants will say that tho church is gradually adapting* itself to modern needs. Porhaps. Yet, tho fact is that human naturo is changing and is changing faster than creeds and institutions and that tho majority of tho wprking pooplo do not feel at home in tho church; do not feel that the church iB a true expression of modern lifo; do not feel that through it thoy can attain their ends or voice their aspirations. What will tho peoplo dof Probably, do what the people have done in all ages—develop institutions that express the lifo of the time. Such institutions of course cannot bo mado to order. We cannot prepare a blue print and work it out line by line. It must grow. Starting in response to some special nood, the movoment encounters other needs and in attempting to meet theso joes out along unforBeen lines which cad out to undreamed of possibilities. Its progress may be slow and hesitating. It may make many false moves, may be turned back again and again, but tho inherent life powor, tho mysterious evolutionary force, presses it forward till ono day the fully developed institution, now seen to be simple and (inevitable, stands out as an accomplished fact. i What shall we touch in our new school? It is so easy to follow tradition; so difficult to express unformulated and perhaps ill-defined ideas. We may, however, porhaps discern in whnt direction we must travol. First our teaching must bo scientific. Modern service has opened up a new world of knowledge. It has revolutionized rjiir thinking. It must greatly modify our ideas of religion ami morality. Remember, the" creeds of tho churches became fixed beforo modem science was born. Second, our touching must bo social. Tho industrinl evolution ushered in a new ago, No man any longer lives to himself. We nro members one of another. Socinl produetion is creating n new world under our very eyes. Remember again, tho teachings and ceremonies of the church woro tho product of the individualistic ago, Evon tho modern evangelical movement camo bofore the industrial revolution. Third, our teaching must express world-wide brothorhood. Tho old national boundaries havo been brokon down. Racial characteristics, linguistic differences, tribal customs, clasa distinctions, religious prejudices, political tics, aro seen to be aftor all merely incidental. The snmo red life blood runs through the veins of us all. This dawning conception of world brotherhood fires the imagination and throbs in tho pulses and steels the determination of thc lenders of the new democracy. Yot remember soinc of us middlo age inon and womon were brought up on Isnne, Watts: Lord I account it if Thy graco And not by chance as others do That I wns born of Christian rncc And not u heathen or a .Tew!" Russians nr oanada OBJECT TO TREATMENT Send Resolution to Sir R. L. Borden Making Protests Against Repression The following resolution passed at the convention of the Russian Council of Workmen and Peasants, held in the city of Toronto on September 8, was forwarded to Sir R. L. Borden, premier of Canada: "We, the assembled delegates to the convention of the Russian Councils of Workmen and Peasants, after hearing reports from various parts of the country complaining of the repressive measures adopted by the police toward Russian citizens, do hereby resolve to protest to tho Federal govornment against this unjust treatment of a law-abiding section of the community. "We also contend that many of the arrests of Russians that have taken place are totally unjustifiable, and are contrary to the spirit of freedom 6f true democracy. We therefore respectfully request the restoration of the prewar status of Russian citizens in this country; or, as an alternative, that the said citizens be given deportation to their native country. And whereas, Russia having no responsible representation in Canada, we respectfully request that the Canadian Federal government endone the -nominee of the Russian Councils in Canada, whose duty will be to protect the interests of Russian people now resident in Canada. "Wo are, "Yours respectfully, "The delegates to the eonvention of the Russian Councils of Workmen and Peasants in Canada, assembled in the city of Toronto, September 8, 1918. "W. LEAMOON, Secretary, "E. ARDUKQFF, Chairman." Porto Rico Terrorism San Juan, Porto Rico—Terrorism against trade unionists continues in this island, despite protests by the workers. Tho moat recent outrage was the clubbing by polico of more than 30 women strikers who wero employed an a tobacco shop. Over 400 women' suspended work because of conditions. Thc clubbing of these women is but onc of thc many ovil actions against Porto Rico workers. Theao wTonga cover every phaBo of Porto Rican life as is shown by tho action of a recent mass meeting in this city, which demanded fair dealing by local military service boards instoad of favoring rich classes. Thc meeting also urged that tbo United States Commission, which is intended to investigate Porto Rico affairs, bo here the latter part of November if possible. New York Longshoremen The New York Longshoremon aro asking for an increase in wages. They arc also asking for the eight-hour day. Thoir demands aro as follows: $1 per hour for day work and $2 for night work. Thc present scale calls for 50 conts an hour for day work, with 75 cents for night( work, and $1 for work nt meal hours or on Sunday. Patronize B. C. Federationist advertisers and tell them why you do so. Eugene V. Dobs voiced the spirit of thc now duy when he said "While thero is a lower cluss I am iu it. While thero is u criminal element I nm of it. Tho Austrian Socialists accept the'Whilo there is u soul in gnol, I nm not principals as n basis for discussion. j freo.' * "Tho Hungarian and Gorman major- Mi, but some nre afraid to cut loose Ity Socialists forwarded a roplv by from the old mooring)), to leave the old I Troelstra, bnt tho Allies refused hint! landmarks and launch out into an un charted seat Perhaps that is what our forefathers called "faith." Let me quote you somo favorite lines: Cut the hawsors—haul out—shako out overy sail I Stocr for tho deep waters only. For wo are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go; And wo will risk the ship, ourselves and all. O daring joy, but safel Aro they not nil the seas of God! O furthor, further, further, sail! Thc needs of our school have already culled out a little song for the children. Miss E. A. Faunt has written the following: True Brotherhood, to thco this day Wo pledge ourselves in work and play That we may have in yoars to bo A world of love, where men are free. May wo be taught as on wo go Thc right from wrong to clearly know, And who noeds holp the wide world thro, » That we may judge what work to do. Let'' All for each, and each for all,'' Now bo our password and our call, Then by our aid, though small it prove, This world of ours must upward move. GIVE TELEPHONE NUMBERS PLAINLY Nothing is more difficult to understand over n tolephono wiro thun a number containing threo or four digits. "5" sounds like "9," and "2" is often mistaken for "3." transposing numerals is a frequent error. That's why tho telephone operator uiUKt have your jiumhorH slowly, one digit nt n tlm*. "ho muat bo sure and you alone can help. It's that kind of holp that m»ki-N for satin factory tolephono service. B. 0. Telephone Oompany, Ltd. PASTIME Pocket Billiard PARLOR -TW1LV1 inW TABLBS- iBruiwlck-Balke Collendar Oo.) —-HMdqtiartari for Union Hob— UnioD-nuda Tobaccos, Olftn _ti Oliuottoa Only Wklts Holp Bnploytd 42 Hastings St. East Sell liamoh Gohc aeeo. THI LONDON GRILL 7r»'J ROBSON ST 'Hear the made of, the bell*. —Poe We offer A WHOLE CAELOAD OP BELLS for your delectation! 11 "THE BELL" In that wonderful poem, "The Belli," with ita intoxicating rhythmical awing, the author deacribes the emotions arouacd by "tho tintinabulation that ao musically swells . . . fron! the bells." It is safe to assume that, place a musician with a gift for improvisation in front of a modem BELL UPRIGHT !?i ?£ f 7?SSd' eveI1 _T *M bMt —*<*>■ Moreover, it & A QUALITY THAT LASTS, never degenerating into harshness or thinness? In construction the BELL PIA&b is a marvel of structural strength. TEEMS IP DEBIBED Montelius Piano House 534.52a OEANVHXE STBEET VANCOUVEB, B. O. Semi-ready prices are as low as high-quality permits War conditions have played havoc with wool, prices and clothing conditions. Many makers have gone down in the struggle—trades which had leaned on monopolistic or "combine" agreements grew lamentably weak in their service to the peo-* pie—their initiative grew inert. . Semi-Beady Tailoring ia today a survival of servioe in itB best days—the priee is in the pocket still, and the values are so much below the percentage of increase in wool, that one must give praise for the makers' study of efficiency and economy.. Thomas & McBain 655 Granville St., Vancouver, B.C. The Federationist is read by at least J months. Each paper is read by at least 30,000 readora eaeh woek; 13,000 sub-1 three porsons. Think this over, Mr. scribers, or an increase of 5000 in four (Advertiser. ]M "TheHome of Good Shoes" DlCnARDSONS H 649 HASTINGS. W. near Granville. OXFORDS and SPATS -FOR FALL WEAR- Oxfords that reflect in heel, tip and pattern, the latest and most approved ideas in a low shoe. Walking heel as pictured, or the French heel with plate; flexible turned sole or thc Goodyear welt; materials aro undressed grey kid; nut, mahogany, tan or black calfskin— $6 and $8 -SPATS- Kit yourself with a pair of correct Spats. We an* showing thom in every color and all-wool materials, WALKING BOOTS IN POPULAR COLORS If you pi'efor the high boot you must soe our 1918 Walking models; truly very smart for street wear. The one we sketch hero is a rich nut brown, with welted sole Slid military heel, 9-inoh laced top. Also, oyster and field- mouse greys; mahogany, Malay, tan or black calfskin and kid— $7 to $12 MEN'S WORK BOOTS This Work Boot has a flexible, well-seasoned calfskin upper, double Kand-sown sole with heavy shank, and solid leather heel. Double cap and solid leather counter. A splendid boot for the wet season that has honest value iu everv seam. PRICE $6 PAGE EIGHT THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST PBIDAY... ..October 11, 1818 The Pioneer Union Store Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes Claman's Limit* 153 HASTINOS STREET WEST Men's Fall Overcoats There is a great array to choose from in this store: Raglans, Ulsters, Trenchers, etc., in plain colors and rich mixtures. Under "Our Right Selling Plan," Which eliminates "Sales" and "Charge Accounts," the prices are convincing. $20 $25 $30 $35 $40 $50 Cojyiigbt Hart Schaffner & Alar- FAR EAST HAS ITS Springfield, 111.—The state industrial I crease of 1,135 over the seme month a commission reports that the number of yoar ago. Tho number of fatal aoci- accidents in this state last August re- dents increased from 38 to 51 and the corded at its office, was 3,800, an in-1 non-fatal from 2,627 to 3,749. NOTHING so bracing and invigorating these days as good Coffee—no Coffee in all the world so good as the vacuum-packed * The name is easy to remember. * ^^__W_fi0: diiilu IIIIAMi ^mW\ fCOFFEE;;, * The flavor ia hard to forget. * AT ALL GOOD GROCERS ' PRODUCT or KELLY, DOUGLAS & CO. LTD. Food Licence 6*554 Beglmnd Smax Bread EVEET TA8TE A BMAOK "SMAX"»an ideal bread for the household Phone Fairmont 3000 UNION MADE THE WOMEN'S Cakes and Pastry ARE WHOLESOME, NUTRITIOUS AND UNION MADE 0- PHONE FAIRMONT 3000 Clothes- SUITABLE FOR EVERY HOUR OF THE DAY, AND FOR 365 DAYS OF THE YEAR. SOLD ONLY BY- Thos. Foster & Co. Ltd. 514 GRANVILLE STREET Capitalism Exacting Its Toll in the Land of the Mikado . That trustworthy and well-informed journal, (J) the Dalyekaya Okraina, of Vladivostok, publishes a letter, written in a very illiterate stylo, of which the .following is a translation. Appearing as it does in a newspaper of repute, it may be assumed to be genuine. In any cuse it is a fair representation of the mind of a numerous type of Bolshevik. It is addressed by a young soldier of the lied Guard to his parents, and is reproduced in The New East, published iu Tokyo. "Greeting, my dear parents and dear brothers and sisters, and I present my respects to all friends and then ask you, dear parents, not to be offended with uie because I haven't sent you any letters. And I ask you, dear parents, not to expect me home soon, because I am at present in the Bed Army, 1 ask you that, my dear parents. And I get sixty ro'ubles a month, all my keep and boots and clothes, all from the pay offico, and victuals as well, and 1 ask you, dear parents, to send me your documents and to write down in particular that I am your son, and that you aro at present in my care at this moment, and that at present you find yourselves very old for work not strong enough, then you will get a monthly allowance ,and also write out your family and they will get an allowance, only I ask you, dear parents, to send your documents as quickly as possible, then you will get all in full quickly. Don't delay and send quickly. If any one thinks of travelling to the town of Kikolaye- vsk, on tho Amur, then tell them not to hurry, because in a short time we shall threaten Nikolayevsk, because there are many bourgeois there, and they don't acknowledge tho authority of the Soviets. One can get good' work here, 260 roubles a month and butter and rye bread cost 35 kopecks a pound, fish, fresh sturgeon, 50 and 60 and 70 kopeks. One can get boots here cheap; 40 roubles and 30 roubles for a suit is dear Here. "So good-bye, dear parents, I am still alive and well. I want you to send me a letter at the office of the military commandant, in tho town of Nikolayevsk, on the Amur. I also send you threo post cards. I will send you my own photo on a post card. Givo my respects to my SiBter Olga Andreyevna Tchetuirin. Wishing you all good things, Ivan Andreyevitch Tchetuirin, of the Bed Array.'' The letter is interesting, and gives us an idea of the way things are moving in tho East. Japan, however, is the land that provides us with the most material for thought, and whoever doubts that the homo of the Mikado is not an up-to- date capitalist country, had better glance over the following itemB, takon at random from thc Japanese press: On August 10 a strike of postmon took place at I'ukushima, and industrial disturbances occurred all over tho country, owing to thc increase in the price of rice. Hunger riots broke out in Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya and other centres, ond these led to many conflicts with the police. A special meoting of tho cabinet took place on the 13th, ond the Emporor and Empress gave 3,000,000 yen to purchase rice. The cabinet voted 10,000,000 for the same object. Various cities were placod undor martial law; 2000 personB were arrested in Osaka, and the troops killed twelve coal minors in the Kyusku riots. The miners in Yamaguchi and Fuku- oka prefectures revolted and wero fired on by the military. On the 26th of tho same month, 200 municipal clerks at Sascho went on striko, and the Toyama- kon fishermen's wives demonstrated against the rice merchants. Six hundred persons went on strike at Japan Wool Spinning Co.'s Gifu factory. A thousand arrests took place in Tokyo alone, and over 300 individuals were sent to jail. These, items show us that tho yellow Blave is up against the same conditions as his white brother. Thousands of millionaires have been created in Japan as a result of the war, and in exact proportion os tho woalth of the country has increased, so has the poverty. Tho Japanese have had plenty of work lately. They have been producing on a gigantic scale. The greed of tho employing class is such that the workers have been made to work on less than would generate the quality of labor power they wcro called upon to deliver. Thc strike and riots nre a result of this. Thc Japanese working man is fighting for his life. Capitalisfhi has no compassion. It grinds tho young and beautiful as mercilessly as the old and homely. Tho toiling men and women of Nippon have not yot taken a very prominent part in tho Lnbor movement. A change is imminent, though, The works of the Russian writers is exercising a tremendous influence, and tho progress of the Russian revolution iB being watched in Jnpan with an in- tensity unBurpaBsod in nny other land. A small but very active body of Radicals are making thingB unplcasnnt for the governmont, and tho country is moving towards a political upheaval. The writings of Tolstoy havo caused an anti- military sect to spring into being. These point out that all military nations, or peoples perish. Babylon, Rome and all the empires that rested upon force havo crumbled to ruin, but thc Chinese and thc Hindus still survive. Thoy believe that '' the meek shall inhorit tho earth," and they want Japan to turn aside from militarism and move along peaceful lines. It is not, howover, what we want, it is what tho system gives us. Capitalism demands that tho sons of Nippon shall be given to Molcch, wo__\ so long m it ill in powor, tho god will receive the sacrifice. The victor!- ies on thc western front are very well received, and many millions of ahxious hearts aro now hoping that the Central Powers wUl soon be down and out, and the war finished, but capitalism still lives, though Germany bo destroyed. We shall have a new battlefield, thatV nil. Instead of the Atlantic being used as a highway for tho transportation of troops, we shall havo tho Pacific. Instead of "Somewhere in Franco," wo shall have "Somewhere in Siberia, Manchuria or China." Uncle fiatn mny casually turn his attention to Zapatnlaitd, also because from capitalisms' standpoint, things need straightening out thore. Thoy may talk of pence everywhere, nnd deBiro it, but wnr is now a noeesHary business, and if the system lasts, must continue. "East is Enst, and West is West, nnd never the twain shnll meet," sings Flannelette Wear For Children —Petticoats with cotton bodice'; the skirt is tucked and nicely trimmed with linen lace—85^. 'Drawers in bloomer style with elastic knee; ages 8 to 14 years—600. Drawers with elastic knee and ruffle of flannelette embroidery; ages 8 to 14 years, at 75tp. Nightgowns with fancy stitched yoke; neck and sleeves have self-ruffle; ages 8 to 14 years, 31.15 Nightgowns in high neck Btyle; has fanoy buttonhole stitching on neck, sleeves, pocket and in front—?1.25. Also a style with tucked and embroidery yoke, at $1.25 —First Floor 575 Cranoille 'Phone Sey. 3540 Al I REX Woodsworth Talked Last Sunday to Capacity House EXTRACTS FROM REOORDS OF CHICAGO I.W.W. TRIALS Success of Be volution Depends on Number of Supporters That Oan Be Secured The following spicy items are taken from the records of the recent trials of members of tho I. W. W. in Chicago, and while not in any way subscribing to tho policy of that organization, it can readily be Been why the law took the course it did. From the very beginning, behind shallow legal pretexts, loomed the class struggle, stark and implicable. Tho first battle was in the choice of a juryt which dramatically revealed the position of both aides. In examining talesmen, the attorneys for the prosecution asked such questions as these: "Can you conceive of a system of society in whieh tho workers own and manage industry themselves!" "Do you believe in the right of individuals to acquire property!" "Tou bolieve, do you not, that all childron should be taught respect for other people's propprtyf" "You behove, do you not, that the founders of tho American constitution were divinely inspired!" Any prospective juror who admitted a familiarity with Labor hsitory, with economics, or with the evolution of social movements, was peremptorily challenged by the prosecution. Tho questions of the defense wore invariably objocted to ,and the prosecution made a series of extraordinary speeches to the court, in which wero remarks such as tho following: "Karl Marx, father of that vicious doctrine—the cesspool into which the roots of the I, W. W. have gone for much nourishment." "This caBO is an ordinary criminal case, in which a number of men conspired to break the law. . . . Their crime consists in the fact that they conspired to take from the employer what is constitutionally his, and in the ownership of which .the law supports him." '' The wage Bystem,'' said Mr, Clyde, of tho prosecution, "is established by lawt and all opposition to it is opposition to law." Another time, Attorney Nebeker delivered himself of the following: "A man has no right to revolution under the law." To which Judge Landis himself made remark: "Well, that depends on how many men he can get to go in with him—in other words, whether he can put lt over." Special Offer to Federationist Readers This week I am making an introductory offer for the new Winter importations of British woolens—just arrived. I am offering my regular $45 and $60 suit lengths, made up in regular Tom-the-Tailor style, for $35 To readers of the Federationist who will cut out this advertisement and bring it into either of my stores the offer will hold good for another week. Consider the price of woolens today and what they will be tomorrow and take advantage of this offer. 632-GRANVILLE 3/4f_4srmsw UNION (HOP PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS If you haven't Joined the Federated Labor Party, get in touch - lth Secretary Trotter, Room 208, Labor Temple, or any of the vice- preiidenti throughout the province. *** "Parasites and Producers" Put In As Exhibits On a Chart Last Sunday evening's meeting at the Bex Theatre was treated to somewhat novol feature in the shape of a chart which occupied the whole of the background of the platform and which the speaker used .to illustrate the different points of his lecture upon "Parasites and Producors," Mr. Woodsworth was in excellent form and tho applause from the large audience at the close of the address was in itself a testimony to the interest with which the discussion was followed. Mr. Walter Head as chairman re- forred to somo of tho happenings during the history of thc new party and particularly to what attitude would or could be possible when a representative of tho working classes was elected to the legislature under existing conditions. They must determine whethor or not any proposed legislation was in the interests of the.workers and act accordingly. In opening, Mr. Woodsworth contrasted early methods of production! in this country in the old settlements with present methods and pointed out that the farmer at one time really got practically all that he produced and when ho traded he obtained an equivalent. Today a totally differont stato of socioty existed in which tho bootmaker could not. get footwear for his children and those who built the best nouses nover owned them but lived in shacks themselves. There were two classcB in society, ono toiling evor and another with unbounded leisure who toiled not, neither did they spin. Evon in Europo at the presenttimo and under war conditions crowdB were attending theatres and wearing clothes of a class which was denied to thc people who, wero doing the work of the nation. Southern Bummer resorts could show patrons at one timo of tho year having a "good time" who could be found at tho opposite time of tho year doing tho samo things in anothor part of the eountry. Por somo it was a "good time" all around] for others toil ovory day in the year, In attempting to illustrate how some of these inequalities were not only created but maintained, the speaker at tho outset took care to state that what he had undertaken would appear to many and ho admitted was very elementary. He had, however, found that such charts wero an efficient method of inducing people to think and he presumed that not all of the audi ence were scientists in sociology Without conceding anything, howevor, he, the speaker, wished his audience to understand that "personally he had not escaped from orthodoxy in theology in order to calmly submit to orthodoxy in sociology.'' The speaker then essayed thc somewhat delicate and difficult task of specifying who and what were producers and who wcro parasites, His tilts at certain interests and the ever- present vein of humor running through his criticisms never failing to hold the attention of thc audience whilo he demonstrated "why the producer camo out at the small end of the horn." In cloning he emphasized tho fact that the problem of production hnd boon solved nnd what was now noedod was to got busy on the question of distribution in its broadest sense, and referring again to his chart declared in tho language of the eloctrical workers that a "short circuit" was eminently desirable. Kipling. But horo thoy meet on tho shores of the Pacific Can tho two blend? The signs arc thnt anothor storm is nbout to burst upon us. Tlie end is not yot -though Wo hoar much talk of ponflOi 'rhoro con he no poaco until the WOrkilig class of tho world enters into possession of its own. It is impossible for iho political*superstructure built upon it in nny country In thc world tn stand. Tho whole odifico is Coming tumbling to'the ground. Tho wholo world of capitalism is nbout to bo involved in uae common ruin. For Sale—Five acres, easy clearing, Langley district. Cash $260, or terms 1300... No agents. Address, 607 Dunsmuir Btreet. *** Books Wanted—Cash paid for old books in good condition. Must be cheap. Address, 607 Dunsmuir St. *** J. F. BURNS Leather Goods Store Ladles' Hand Bags a Specialty AU Kinds ot High Orade Travelling Ooods 619 OBANVILLE STBBBT Pbone Sey. 2114 Vanconver, B.O. CITY MARKET FISH DEPARTMENT RED SALMON Soles.., Skate Sliced or by Piece—8 Cents per lb. FRESH COD AND HAUBUT FILLETS-WE SPECIALIZE Cured Fish Specials 5c per lb. 5c per lb. Smoked Salmon. Salt and Gray Fish. Smoked Cod Fillets. Bloaters—Special Smoked Pilchards.... Kippers 15c and 20c per lb. 10c per lb. 15c per lb. 4 lbs. for 25c ...10c per lb. Salt Herring. 3 lbs. for 25c 30c per doz. PATRONIZE B. C. FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS Do All Union Men Patronize Union Stores? Your Money's Worth or Your Money Back Last Saturday night a Union man walked into our BIO UNION STORE FOR MEN, and made this statement: "I oame in from New Westminster to buy at a UNION STORE from UNION CLERKS." If every Union man and his family practiced "Unionism" in this practical form, it would not be long before thousands of other men would be able to enjoy the benefits to be derived from Unionism. "Practice what you preach," fellows, and Unionism will wax strong. The BIG UNION STORE SAVES YOU DOLLARS This Fall, more than ever before, our immense buying powers can save you dollars. We placed orders eighteen months and two years ago for all-wool Serges, Worsteds, Tweeds and Homespuns. Those suits are now on our racks, selling under today's factory cost. To cite one instance, we have a fine Blue Serge Suit, selling at $30, for which the manufacturers are asking $38, spring delivery. We are showing the always popular conservative models as well as the newer styles, with their close- fitting collars, narrow sleeves, and soft rolling lapels. Trousers plain or with cuff. Come in and look over these exceptional values—representing a dollar's worth of satisfactory wear for every dollar you invest—we honestly believe we can save you from $6 to $12 on your Fall Suit. PRICED $20 to $60 33-45-47-49, Hastings St. East. THE BIG UNION STORE FOR MEN
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