@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "60ee127f-b81a-4228-a219-c25b99ebed26"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:issued "2017-03-28"@en, "1919-12-19"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcfed/items/1.0345278/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ ". '--f ■ '<--/ THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STRENGTH. OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR, COUNCIL, AND B. 0. FEDERATION OF LABOR , POLITICAL UNITY: VJPTOBY . ELEVENTH YEAR. No. 51 EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNMG, DECEMBER 19, 1919 — ■ * ■■ ■ $2.00 PER YEAR- LumberCampskfrovedSTARTLING EVIDENCE IS ****** ****** ****** - ****** ■ ***•*. m m> ana* w -*^ aa v grnmu mmm w m^ emern biv «* tt --_ _ . _\\_ _ _ ^-^ - . m___ _,___'-._.___ ■ By the Workers* Al1ivity [' More Improvements Made in Last Twt ^ Months Than in Past Twenty-five Years—Men $rship Making Big Strides—Convention Convenes January 5—Organizers Are Active —o delegates in Kamloops district will be submitted to referendum have had a mooting, and decidod to tupport the Chase strikers in whatever action they take. The meeting considered that owing to the beneficial effect that tho atrike had already produced In the district, that the men in the camps of tho Upper Country should get behind the Inanelal end, instead of letting the headquarters provide the (300 a week whieh they are now doing. At t recent festive gathering of lagging employers, F. C. Biley of Blocdcl, Stewart k Welsh, Myrtlo Point, boasted that his employeea kad subscribed 410,000 for Victory Bonds. This statement roceived considerable publicity in the daily pross. What a pity that Mr. Biley did not, at the same time, mention that thoir camp i was one of the biggest disgraces existing in the province. Shako bunk houses and cook house, utensils which should never have been used for cooking, and which were long age qualified for the dump heap. No wash house, bath houso or dry room; waste from kitohon running into the lake a few feet from the point from whioh the drinking and cooking water is pumped. If tho subscriptions to tho Victory Bonds were a credit to the men, the stato of tho camp is a disgrace to the employoes, and the community. What is tho Provincial Health department doing ahout itl ; Has your camp elected its delogate to the conventiont Camps of fifty union men, with paid up cards, will have tbeir transportation only paid by the organisation, if tho delegate produces credentials signed by fifty members in good standing. Smaller camps ean tend delegatea, but must defray all expenses themselves. Delegates convene on January 9, and tako up committeo work on that and tke two following days. Convention opens January 8th. All questions II Whole Nation Is Joining Together in New Consciousness That India Is "surging and seething witk a aew nationalism" is tie contention of Sherwood Eddy, speeial correspondent of tke Chicago "Doily News," who kas jnst returned from a trip tkrough the Orient oa wkick ke was sent by his paper to observe conditions. Says Ur. Eddy in part: "We fomd India surging and teething witk a aew nationalism, which is uniting her educated leaders and politically minded classes, It was long predicted that India eould 1'ijtr become one nation and yet the impossible is taking place today before our eyes. Ske is divid. ed between eight of the world's gnat religions, 147 different langu ages, 200 different castes tkat can lot intermarry or even eat together, aad yet tke leaders of India are be- lag forged into one burning unit of a new national consciousness. Tho Buiso-Japanese war awakened thc tke masses of India." $110 REVIVE Dominion Trades Con gress Comes to Rescue .'• - of Trades Council A communication was received and read at the Vancouver (Interna- I tlonal) Trades and Labor Council j Thursday evening from tke Domin I lon Trades and Labor Congress en- I closing a cheque for (300 to further I tke work of tko International trade I naion movement in the city. I A further communication asking I tke council to elect delegates to the [hospital board was acted upon, and [Dolegates Sully, Welsh and McVety were elocted, At tke request of tke city council a committee was appointed to take np tko subject and make a recommendation for a suitable war me. morlsl for the city. Delegates Showier, Welsh, Poole and Stark were elected, A recommendation was made nnd acted upon to ask the A. F. of L. to look into the subject of transferring tke volunteer A, F. of L. commissions from B. P, Pettipiece and Oeo, Hardy to delegates of the council. , A recommendation was also made and acted upon to inquire of thc Child Wclfaro Association as to whother it wants A. F. of L. Council delogatcs on its board, or O.B.U., as at present, '''Tho orgnnizntion committee ro- Sorted that thoro was evory possi- lllty of the Betsll Clorks, Telegraphers, Sheet Metal Workers and tke Bricklayers affiiliatlng with tke eoancll'in tho near futuro. General Organiser McKensle of tke Hotel and Bestaurant Employees' Union stated that ke found moro dissension hore than in ether I places and thought tkat tke A. F. (of L, should put a little enthusiasm into the movement and try and get 'larger councU meetings, only M delegatea being preient. to Ho. One question the convention will have to decido is whether the employers' association shall be given another opportunity to meet tke organization as such, and discuss the questions of camp conditions, or whether the employers individually shall be dealt with oo the job. Last January the secretary of tho loggers' association was interviewed and asked if his organisation was prepared to do business with thc union: he askod for the matter to bo submitted ia writing; this was done, but no roply was received. After thc July convontion the schedule of camp conditions was sont to the association, but no acknowledgment was received. The same treatment was accorded it by tbo individual employers. Then these peoplo who have not even common businoss sense and courtesy yell their heads off about the "Bolshevik" union, meaning by that term anarchistic, and men with whom it is impossible to do business; whereas tho truth of the matter is the employors are the ones who have beea responsible for noarly overy strike that has taken place in tho camps this year. Particularly at Capilano, Alert Bay, Courtenay, Chase, Duncan Bay, Bock Bay, etc. Why have thero been no strikes at Kingcome Inlet, Campbell Biver (I. T, camps), Otis Staples Lumber Company, and in tho camps of other employers who are willing to come through with decent conditionst Men coming into town report having dumped their blankets, having decided to quit being blanket stiffs] intending to confine their futuro attention to camps whieh provido these snd sheets as part of tho camp equipment. Lists will bo propared of camps in which bedding and sanitary conveniences aro provided, and thogp failing to come through will findn place npon the black list. Fossibly even more important than tkis is tke question of the employers' labor agency, which Is intended to function as a scab-hiring and blacklisting agency. Thoro can bc no peace in the lumber industry whilst tke Loggers' Association Employment Agency and' tke Lumber workers' Union exist. One or tke other kas to go. In connection with this matter the action decidod upon at the last business meeting, may kave a great bearing, as a communication has been sent tho old country asking tbo advanced section of organised labor tkore (tha Shop Stewards' movement) to plodge their morel, and, if necessary, active support to our members against tho omployers' blnck list. Black list for blaok.list, evon if it has to cover tko wholo earth. Capitalism and working class solidarity is worldwide The ease of Fellow Workor Mc- Kenzie against the men responsible for running him out of Cranbrook last March, will shortly come for trial at Fernie. This weok one of the most prom: inent men in the provinco Was at headquartors and stated that from his personal knowledge thero had been moro improvements mado in the conditions in the lumber camps during tho past twelvo months than in tko provioua twcnty-flvb years, and tbat practically tho whole of tho improvement was duo to tho formation and growth of the union. ' His final remark was that if the loggers do not realize the value to them o'f tboir organisation'and get behind it and make the Industry 100 por cent, union, then they deserve to fall back to the conditions which existed previous to tho formation of the organization. That some men believo in it and intend to back it to tko limit is evidenced by their paying full dues for 1020. Port Arthur, Ontario, district oflico sent this week for 2000 O.B.U. buttons and 1000 more membership folders. That 10,000 membership in 1920 looks liko easy travelling. At the present timo thero nro nino organizers busy in Ontario. Prince Albert District is now getting well in to its strido. Follow Worker Cowan reports that ho can see his objectivo of 500 membors by thc end of thc year boing easily reach. ed. Edmonton is making slondy hondway. Tom Mellows at Sudbury reports membership piling up and saya tho thousand mark is in sight. Clarko at Fort Francis also reports (Continued on page 8) PRODUCED AT'PEG TRIAL BY COUNSELLOR DEFENSE Strange Silence of Daily Press—Counsel for Defense Demands Production of Crown Witness—Bench Warrant Issued by Justice Metcalf—Mr. Bird Produces Letters to Prove the Alleged Bribery of Crown Witnesses SENSATIONS have not been lacking at the Winnipeg trials, this week. Counsel for the defense demanded the appearance of a crown witness that gave evidence at the preliminary- hearings, and who was not produced by the crown; and letters were produced which throws considerable light oh the methods adopted by the prosecution. During the presentation of the case for the prosecution, the local press has taken every opportunity to give full publicity to any evidence that has been introduced which would appear to put the defenders in a bad light. Front page positions have usually been given to these despatches. There has, however, been a strange silence on thepai't of the local press on the evidenoe presented by the defense, and the letters which are given in the Federationist, and which have a local bearing, have not been, given any publicity. The following press despatches sent by wire to the Federationist will'be enlightening to the workers and all those who read them, and at the same time show how the free press of this country operates. The Vancouver Sun recently over its editorial columns had thc following in bold type: "The Soul of Journalism is Disinterestedness." If silence is disinteredncss, then the local press has it in this case. ' ' (Special to The Federationist) " ■ ■ Winnipeg, Man., I, - December 16, 1919.' At thc start of the Tuesday morning session Mr. Bird notified'the court that he had asked Mr. Andrews for the crown to produce in court a man by the name of H. Daskaluk, a secret seitfice; man of the B. N. W. M.., who gave evidence in the preliminary trial and whose name was on the back of the indictmont. Andrews stated that the crown did not call this man as they did not consider his evidence was relevant to the case, and furthermore, they could not rely on him. Demand* Witaeii Be Produced Mr. Bird thereupon stated that this was the very reason why,this man should be called; just as the crown stated, he could not be relied upon, and as he was a secret service man of the B. N| W. M. P., it would show that the whole evidence of the It. N. W. M, P. given at this trial was in the same category, and that he would moveior an adjournment of the case until this man was produced. Ho then proceeded to state that he had letters to show that this man had been offered $500 to give evidence, which he had refused to do. Just at this time the judge stopped Mr. Bird from going any further until he bad or- dered thc jury to retire from the court. JuryBe** When the jury had retired Mr. Bird proceeded to state hit ease, and the judge asked Mr. Bird if it was his contention that the law compelled the crown to produce a~ witness. Mr. Cassidy then pointed out that it was, and cited from a law book, whereupon Mr. Bird moved that the crown bc forced to'produced* Witness, as he had proof that he was in the city last week, that he had a letter from him stating that he had given false evidenec, and refused to do it again; that he had bcen put in jail in Vancouver for refusing to come here and repeat his previous evidence; that he had been promised' $500 for his evidence; that he had letters from reputable civic officers at Vancouver and1 Winnipeg that showed that this man had been offered money, that Col. Sterns of thc B. N. W. M. P. waa involved, and *R* a further discussion the judge ruled that Mr. Bird must bring in a prepared motion on this question, so.fhat the court e$jft'ideal with it, which was agreed to by the defense lawyers. Lots of Sensations at ****** ****** -. ****** ******. Perjury Trial in City People Attending Police Court Are Searched—Mysterious Proceedings Are the Order—Accused Wanted Witness to Stay Away—Defense . '■ Counsel Utters Threats Startling tetters An Produced A bench warrant to bring-Daska- luk into court was applied for, nnd issued by Judge Metcalfe. Tho following are copies of letters tiled in court by Ur. J. E. Bird: 0. B. U. DISCUSSES Defense Dance Realizes $167.45 for Defense Fund Gain Control of Council and School Board as Result Labor recorded an almost complote vetory as a rosult ol tbe civil elections last week, Seven out of ten candidate! elected tto labor mon. Mnyor Clarke wns roturned to offlco with a tig mnjority, while the labor ntdcrinanio candidates, J, A, Kinney, James Hast and Bloo Bhop- pard also received substantial majorities. Threo out of tho four va. canclcs on thc school board nro tiled by labor men, 8. A. O. Barnes, Dr. J. A, McPherson and Frank Scott. Joseph A, Clarke, who, as candidate of the labor party, waa re-elected to the position of mayor of Edmonton by a majority Ave times that ef his previous election tteod solidly behind the strikers as against the Citizens' Committee toting the re- teat Winnipeg strike. Mass Meeting of O. B. U. Favors Joining of Units for Present Tho rogular meeting night of tho Vancouvor Tradea and Labor Council was given over last night to a mass mooting of the O. B. U. units for the purposo of discussing the nil- visibility of amalgamating tho 0. B. U. forces in tho city. Tho committee appointed to bring in a report on tho proposed general fund scheme of finance reportod thnt they had met but hail decidod, in view of tho mooting to deal with omnlgn million, that they would not roport fully until tho decision of tho meet ing had been arrived at on tbis ques. tion. The report was accepted as ono of progress, The dance committoo reported that the sum of (1(17.45 had been realizod as a result of the dance, and that this amount had boon handed to the defense committee, but that thero wero still somo tickets to be accounted for which would swell this amount. Tho business agent reported that ho had found that the minimum wago act did not cover womon pieceworkers, and that he was endeavoring to have those workers covered by the aot. Ho also reported that an O. B. IT. card had boon placod in tho Hotel Columbia cafe. In answer to a quostion by Del. Campbell, the president statod that thore were 1500 membors ef tho O. B. U. in Vancouver. Eel. Pritchard statod that ho Was sure that this was underestimating the membership, and he gave figures to provo his point. Dol. Wolls urged amalgamation io that organizing work could bo car* rlod en, and moved tbat a referendum of the mombers be taken on the quostion. Dol. Winch moved aa an amendment, that a committeo be appointed to put into effect tho wishes of tho units, Del, Wells withdrew his motion in favor of the amendment after some little discussion, and the amendment, becoming tbo motion, was adopted, and a eommittoe of two membors from each unit eleoted to carry out the provisions of the adopted motion, President Mldgley reported ttat (Continued oa page 8) > "530 Cambie Street, f> . "Vancouvor, B. ft, "Nov. i, 1919. "G. B. Clnrke, foq, "Secretary Social Service Committeo, "Winnipeg, Man. "Dear Sir,—: Be Daskaluk, 688 Linden Avenue, Winnipeg, Man. ' "This man, his wifo and infant child threo weeks old, Ukra'nians, are destituto and a publio charge in this city. Ho states that, he was sent hero by your provincial govern, mont, ns liis life.was in danger in Winnipeg ou account of evidence which ho gavo against Almazofl? in tho recent trials at Winnipeg. Formerly ho had boon a spct'iol agent of tho E. N. W. M. P. •H hnvo wired Col. Sterns, 0. C. B. N. W. M. P., who is said to have paid his transportation to this city. A former promise of $500 nnd trans* portntion to his own country was not carried out for the alleged pretext thut Ukrnnia was now at war and this mini could not enter his country. He states that ho has only recoived .150 of the $500 promised him. I hnvo read tho ovidence as contained in thc newspapers which ho gave, and there is absolutely nothing iu any of his statements that would endanger his personal safety. I expect thc B. N. W. M. P. to provido transportation through their local commanding officer for til's men nnd Ills wife tu return to your city, if his statements nro correct. "Will you lio good enough to Investigate bis statements, especially with Col. Sterns, with Mr. Andrews, tho prosecutor for the province, and his brother, who lives nt 256 Austin SI root t "Thanking yo;i in anticipation, "Yours sincerely, "(Sgd.) OKO. D. 1BKLAND, "Relief Officer." Was Promised tSOO November 13, 1919.. " Oeorge D. Ireland, Esq., _J'630 Cambio Street, ',i "Vancouver, B. C. ■ •'Dear Sir,— Se H. Daskaluk, 608 Linden Avenue J "Your letter of tho 4th instant to hand, and owing to the writor being sick, reply was delayed. ;; J.I callod on Col. Storns of the Boyal North West Mounted Police, who told me that this man gave ovidence for the crown, and was promised .500,' and ho states that as soon as the cane is finished they will give bim the balance. As your letter states, ho has received.$150 and bis transportation lo Vancouvor. Col; Stems told me' thot ho wired to tho ofllccr commanding the Boyal North Wtfst Mounted Tolice in Vancouvor to advance Mr. Daskaluk $100. I nlso called to seo Mr. Daskaluk's brother at 256 Austin Street, but was not able'' to sec bim as bo was working on tho railroad, and comes in but onco a week, and owing to the big storm wo have had in Manitoba all the trains are held up. We do net know when he will bo in. 'I further found that Mr. H. Daskaluk was never a resident of tho city, but of Enst Kildonan, Man. ('Trusting this will be sotisfac tory, I am,- "Yours truly, "(Sgd.) B. ZEGLINSKI, "Agent." Behind the Ban "Vancouver, B. ft, "Novembor 1. "My Dearest Friend,—Am writ ing this to let you know, thnt at 10 p.iu. I will be behind tho bars for not obeying the order of 'llapett, as you know all about tho journey to Winnipeg, bo 1 flatly refused to go, as I told tliem it's against my nature and my peoplo. I also sent my wifo to them, but they won't listen to hor either. I was behind fthe, bars all night last night nntil 8 a.in. today and I am supposed to go back to the cell at 10 p.m. so before I go there. I thought to leave this message with tho hotel clerk and if you come back to Vancouver please (Continued on page 7) RUSSELL ON I His Ready Answers Have Flabergasted Prosecuting Counsel Liberty Bond Campaign ****** ****** ****** ****** Time Extended to January 15th ON TUESDAY word wa* rewived by tbe looal defense committee from the Winnipeg committee, to the effect tbat the Liberty Bond campaign had been extended to January 15, owing to the djfflcultiei in reaching outlying pointi, and in getting the returns in. The local committee ha* fallen in line, and tbe campaign will be carried on in B. 0. until the llth of January, 1920. So far there ha* been collected ffeee the campaign itarted in B. O. the rom of $14,000, nd a* there are $20,000 worth of bond* atill Out there will be no difficulty in raiting the full quota of $20,000 in thi* province. In addition to the lum* that have been reoeived by the local committee, there ha* been a considerable amount of money sent direct to Winnipeg. Thi* it due to the fact that circular letter* were eent to some pointi in B. 0. by the Winnipeg committee, ud the total contributed by B, O. will be considerably augmented by theie mm*. In all the amount collected by the local committee from B. O. point*, including the sale of bond*, and contribution* before the bond campaign wm itarted, will amount to over $23,000. Thi* i* a oreditable ihowing, but more will be needed before tht trial* are over, so there should be no let up in the campaign until Hie date for the closing of it. Evrybody get in and boort. Thi* i* a workers' flght, ud the leait we oan do i* to pay for it. ^H-l-l ll_l II I I'l ■ I !■■< I;H'I I » It ' ' ' I l>t;l »♦«">»« I <'<"' ■ » >+*■ 3. E. Bird Places Blame for "Soviet" Where It Belongs Mr. J. E. Bird in opening tho defense ot R. D. Russell on trial ln Winnipeg tor seditious conspiracy, said that the crown bad opened with a tremendous fuslladc but mostly of blank cartridges. Ho Bald that tons ot literature winch was wbolely irrevelant had boen submitted as evidence. The Jury, however, must Ignore catch words such aa bolBhovJam, and reds. He said that the newspapers woro menace to tbe liberty ot tho people through poisoning their minds with false or misleading statements. and that the revolutionists of today would be regarded aB tbe prophets of tomorrow, and thut tlie crown ba. become panic stricken, and had acted on mob physoliolosy both In the legislatures and the law courts. The real fight, he slat, ed, was between the flnanclal magnates and the workers, end that the citizens committee had been responsible tor the arrest of the workers. They dictated to the government, their spokesman being made prosecutor against tbe accused and given a position of leading counsel for the crown. Tbo fund, amentals of trades unionism was free speech and free press, and these wero at stake In the trial. A Socialist organization was, he 3, regarded as legal, but men active in Socialism were attacked because of their loyalty In the Interests ot the workers. He claimed that the seditious conspiracy charge was hut a pretext, and that the citizen's committee did not represent the citizens but tho financial organizations. This was tbe real Soviet, lta purposo being to crush the btrike and tbe striko leaders. He atated that Ihe garbled letters retoried to by Senator Robertson was a travesty jgalnst justice. He Insisted that the Calgary conven. tlon, and the attempt to organize on Industrial llnei wns perfectly legal, and that the Walker Thoatro meeting was a moiling of protest aga'nst the orders in council passed by the govornment which were becoming more and moro repressive He claimed that the strike had no (Continued on page 7) A. new kind of sensation was sprung at tbo police court on Wednesday weok, when the perjury case against Dourasoff and Both was adjourned without a word of evidence or argument from either side, and without a word of explanation as to the why and the wherefore of the adjournment. : At 2:30 p.m., the timo sot for the hearing, the court—or, at loast, that portion of it reserved for the common people—was packed from ond to end with about 100 men and womon, plainly members of tho proletariat class. 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Boys,' Youths' and Children's Clothing and Furnishings—none better. 309 HASTINGS STREET WEST Make Your Gift a Practical One What gives more real enduring pleasure and satisfaction than Shoes or Slippers The very quality and completeness of the Una we're showing—the fact that we can suit all purses—makes this store the natural place to buy. Goodwin Shoe Co. 119 HASTINOS STREET BAST . ,- "Goodwin's flood Shoes" News of the lumber Workers Industrial Uiit of the 0. B. U. 15,000 in 1919 50,000 in 19201 CAMP REPORTS POET ALICE Camp 6—There is no place ia thlt camp for any worker who is not in lho union. At present tho camps are. not full; if they wore they would be overcrowded. There is still room for improvements. Have wash house and dry house 38x18, with four shower baths. A ludy cook and waitresses that tho boys all say can't be boat. Del. 347. ROOK BAT, B. 0. Engs Camp—All delegates tako notico that Albort Weokstrom, hook- tender of Wyatt Bay, refuses to join tho union, and for thom to net accordingly Bhould he call thoir way. He travels around in a gas boat of his own. Callod a mooting horo, and had him fired out of camp as tho boys hore don't want to work with non-union mon. Del. 1493. ARMSTRONG, B. O. Barber k Carletbn—Wont here on the 28th November, instead of being three miles out it wos fourteen miles. Thoy charge41 for going put, and if you quit you tralk back. Kef use to give glovos on tho first day until you nave earned enough to covor their cost. This is a good place 'to stay away from. BtlO. STILLWATER Camp 1—A. Aston is in hospital at Powell Rivor aa a result of a bad saw cut on leg below knoe. The boys had to take a little unitod action to get tho cook additional help. At first the foreman refused, but after being interviewed by tho committee, he ' decided to co through. POST AETHOB, ONT. Bussell Timber Co. on the unfair Ust. At a meeting held by the members of the L. W. I. U. at Fort Arthur, Ontario, on Dec. 1, 1919, it was unanimously decided that we place all camps of the Russell Timber Co. on the blacklist. He has beea most unfair to the workers of his camps, refusing to take them to town la hie boat and thereby compelling them to walk over 50 miles across the eountry when there are no made and no camps, where tht boys eould rest their weary bodies. And when the boys arrived ia town after all theae hardships and going to the company's office for their pay, they were refuted payment for their labor' point blank. Whea they first entered the offlce, the/ were told to wait a few days, ae they "might" thea get their cheques. After the few days were over, the boya were told to get eut, aaa were refused payment altogether, and ae Russell said, "We do not give a damn if it costs us .50,000 in court, but we will not pay you." This will serve as a warning for the boys to stay away from this company's camps. , SURF INLET Conditions are something frightful. About 80 men are Bleeping in one bunk house, which it two stories high. The toilet it situated about one-quarter of the way in, and having ao doors whatever, the odor it most objectionable) to much so that the men sleeping noar it havo to keep their blankete over their heads. The board is not what it Bhould be. The food is oftee sour.' The company hired about 100 men in Vancouver in November, and it is necessary for that number of .men on the job either to quit or be fired so as to mako room fer the now ones. The fare it .8.10 one way, which with board, amounts to about $10, to with 100 men each way it means over $2000 a month to the steamship com- pany. But this is only second-class fare. The first class costs $20, which many of the men pay. The goneral opinion is that this wholosalo firing of men it part of the schemo to make it pay for the boat to call, and also to try and keop the men docile. Bome of tht men are flred within one week after they get on the job, many of them being left dostitutt without even sufficient money for their return fare, and when they go into the office and ask for a past back to town, are told to get on tht boat, and it will be all right. This tome have done, and consequently have bcen put off at whatever point the captain of the boat saw flt. It has takon some mon weeki to get back to town through having to get on and then being put off of different boats. Some of the minors aro working contract, and if they had to live up to tham, could not make'wagos. Tho ivrlter hat scon tho compnny miners firing tho contract miners' rounds, All tho contract miners did was to drill. By doing this, thoy mako fairly good pay, but It It doubtful whether all of it remains in their own jeans. The camp is full of stools, and if a man objects oven to tho unsanitary odors, he is considered an agitator, and immediately fired. The men consider thnt incompetent management not only endangers their lifo and limb, but it may beono causo attributing to tho continual firing of men, as this enables tho blame for the conditions and lack of results, whieh would rightly be placod upon the managomont, to be charged to the men themselves, PRINOE RUPERT DISTRICT The eulogium passed upon the Kit- solas Lumber Co., at Usk, on tho O, T. P., in the issue of the Worker for November 27 is now strictly ont of date. It it known that the outfit had been in flnanclal difficulties for some timo but, owing to the fact that the attitude towards the union was all that could be desired, tho mon put up with tho constant delay in cashing cheques ln the hope that the company would bo ablo to get straightened out, and so long as thoy believed that was possiblo they refrained from doing anything to cause embarrassment, Now, acoording to tho sub-joinod report, the last straw has bten piled on the back of tho patient camel and the patience, at. well at the goodwill of the' men in camp, hat collapsed under the strain. This camp (Kitselas Lumber Co.), Usk, B. C, is a stump rancher's dream. Its chief assets are tn unlimited supply of heifer dust, gall and promises. Itt liabilities are its bum management. Liabilities'by far outweigh the. assets. This is a 100 per cent, card-carrying camp. About 50 per cent.' are afraid to open their traps an* are gullible enough to swallow anything the manager tolls them. Latt week we hid the cook canned (first week in December) and a good one' substituted, on condition thnt thoy gave him something to cook. The company promised to give him anything reasonable, but they have not come through yet and I guest they do not intond to. '' . They have caught another sucker in the form of a Mr. Hayward. Doubtless he willjuake somo changes —I hope so at least. Some of the men intended to go to Rupert to get their pay, but the manager told them not to as they could not got monoy »ny way. That flnd write up'in the Worker would not apply to thit camp now. It is strictly unfair, Promises don't make a camp. If it wcro not for the more aggressive members working' for this chin- whisker layout, I wOuld not." be at all surprised to see it wtya't thay what it is at present. 1 sympathize with you when you say, "Damn theBe chin-whisker, hay-wire and gunny- sack outfits." .-'*- This Mr. Hayward it evidently a membor of the employer!' O. B, U., as he refused to have nnything tc do with Workers Liberty Bonds. • I think this will do for the present ; DELEGATE 611. (The reference to the attitude of the prospective new manager to the Defense Bonds is bated on;tht fact thftt the membership in can* e4b scribed $187 for the bonds acid-aSKed tho offlce to deduct the 'Weft! amounts from the payroll a84 flind the cheque to Prince Buperfi" Hit courtesy wat refused. ' nl m: J.S.B* —__, ■ no He Thingi in thit dlstriot art" very slow now, with the a of the holiday season. Prosp an increase' of activity on C. I. with the coming of t. Tear are good. Kelly is rep .Ke. Crawford's Camp — Good little caipp, good bedi, nice dining-room; six men to a table, ehnia dishes and plattd knives and forki. Good board; working 1_ houn, boss sayt he withei it waa aix-hour day, ai that it long enough for aay man to work ia the woedt. DBUBT INLET National Timber Co.—Now oamp, employ about 20 mon, whon in operation; only oight there now (fallen and buckors at present). Will open up full in the now year. All union mon in camp; accommodation fair; grub medium. Notice—Mow Worker B. Wright died at Smithen on Nov. 27. FOREMAN, B. O. Blaat ft Co.'t Camp—Oa November 30, we had a business meeting, and signed up fifteen now members. Had a show of cards and all hnam- bors are in good standing. Motion wat passed demanding the company discharge the scvon men who wotted in tho camp during the recent etriko. Company replied in writing, rioting that in the agreement modaibwhon the strike was settled, it wanatnted thore should be no discrimination or prejudice used against any one,, and tho company considered thit t* uu that the non-union mon werelto ibo allowed to continue working, whereas tho agreement the organisation signed reads "no dlscriminattODcor prejudice to be used againat >any momber of the organization. "'""Another moeting was hold on Dee. -1st, whon it was decidod that tho seven men oither line up or roll ftp. Later in the evening, tno teven men asked if they could line up, giving assurance that in future thoy would stand solidly with tho union. On thii understanding thoy were enrolled, and wo now have a solid union camp. The conditions now exitting ure: Board fair, but could stand more variety. A start has been made to fix up tho camp according to de* mands. The members in oamp desiro all other men 'in the Prince Georgo district to take notice that this camp of 75 men is 100 por cent, organised, with the duel paid to dato. Tho old oxcuso of not having tho prloo don't go hore, at soon as a man starts work thl deloghte is General Items Tht Worker The tctual cost of The Worker- exclusive of mailing—aince the July convention, hat boen 3221.49 for 11 issues, whieh equals $292.86 per issue. Cost per issue for mailing recent issues has been $76.21, a total per issue of $369.07, which, multiplied by Si weeki and divided by 12 monthi, makea an average coit of $1599.80 per month. Notico Will Scotty, who wat whistle punk at Book Bay two months ago, tend hit address to headquarter!, Vancouver, at Martin Madden withot to communicate with him. Hit for 50,000 In thl Facile Coait Lumberman appeared the following, without comments "Hit first! Hit hardl Keep on HittingI "—Admiral Lord Fisher. Wt would like to add to this Kipling's advice, whieh he embodied in Sir Anthony Glostor's business maxim: "Keep your light shining a little in front of the next." If the membera of the L. W. I. U. koep thete two precept! constantly in mind, Uie 50,000 membenhlp and flnt camp conditions will become an accomplished fact in 1020, Tht Co-op. The Vancouvor Co-operativo Storei, which are now operating, have aiked ut to notify .our members that owing to the considerable number of. loggers who have been there lately making purchases, sometime! run. ning up to a considerable amount, in future any lumbor workers making purchases at the Co-op. and mentioning that he is a lumber workor, will have the amount of his purchase credited to tho organization, and at regular periods, when dividends arc declared, tho- profits duo to the lumber workers will be turnod over to them ..to bo used for whatover purpose they desire. Notice Wanted, the address of Tem Goodwin, who worked a few -dayi at Myrtle Point, in the month of November. Contribution! for Chase Strike Fund Jennings' camp No. 1, Porow, B. C, in Prince Georgo district, and collected by Del. 406, D. H. Miely, as follows: D. H. Miely, $4; A. W. Hutchinson, $1; D, Bushner, $1; Miko O'Neill, $1; Harry Taggoff, $1; Jamea Taylor, $1; J. B, Hamilton, $1; A. T. Johnson, $2; G. M. Mareelliut, $1; D. Kirkpatrick, $1; V..Joinnle, $1; E. Olson, $2; F. D. Walker, $1; W. P. Bonson, $1; F. Turcotte, $1; G. DeBloia, $1; F. Radrigno, .1; Stuart Ross, $1; H. Ellington, $1; W. J. Clark, $2; J. B. Hughes, $5; John MoDonald, $1; F, Brodin, $2; W. Bennett, $1; J. E. Tromblay, $2; F. W. Conkoy, $1; .0. Nelson, $2; L. Tremblay $1; Louis Bagne, $1; A. Allen, $1; Bert Wade, $2. Total, $45. As Others See Us Twai Burnt who laid "Oh, wa'd tome power tht gift tat gat nt, to see oureel'i at ithers iee ui. It wa'd fra' mony a blunder frat u; aad foolith notlonr-f Then it oftea mueh truth il then o}d laying! and therefon it may bt W«ll "to nt ounelvet at othen nt at." From tht Paciflo Coaat Lumberman we iee that at a get-together and festive gathering in tha Hotel Vancouver on November 7, when the B. O. Loggers Association wert hosts to tho lumbermen of tht city and province, the mott popular thorn* of the many speeches made by memben of the distinguished gathering wai the prevailing labor unrest ia tht campt and mull. Mr. F. O. Biley, logging tuperin- tendent of B. 8. ft W., Myrtle Point, •aid he would like to iee the formation of a 50-50 unit tt defeat the Bolsheviki ilementi at the root of tht trouble. Tht clau of labor at fault ihould be controlled or lent out af the eountry and ln tho matter tht forest branch official! might well takt a hand. All of tht^hen, however, wen not of thlt type in hii own camp, (5 men out of 140 had lubsoribed $40,000 to tht Victory Loan. P. D. Roe, pretident of tho B. 0. Lumber ft Shingle Manufacturer! Limited, considered that the appearances indicated that despite the labor troublei the logging branch of tht induitry had boen fairly prosperous thii year, and if some wise control could he exercised over the labor situation he believed there would bt ftirly good timet (for tht en\\ployen) for t couple of yean at least. Geo. M. Cornwall of "Tht Tim- berman" eould see very little difference between the employer and their employee! outiide of the brand of cigan they smoke. But hit other remark! indicated that he taw other difference!. Ht wanted to send eortain memberi of the working clau to hell—particularly ai wt (the era- ployont) tre on our way to itablt tlmei. Wo (tht employers I) an trying to develop a higher type of man. We (the employers) are going to have a big year noxt year, but tho output of lumber is decreasing, whilst then il an increasing demand for everything produced by the mills. It the country going to work! Are wt (the employen I) going to settle the labor troublosl There ii a point when theae troublei eonatitute a national danger, and it hat been reached. Let ut got buiy and aot quickly. (Applauie.) E. B. Flih, of Everett, Wash., spoko upoa a subjeot whioh waa supposed to ht "Democracy vt Bolshevism." He claimed to be a working man with aspiration! and ambitions. Ho said that in tht oampi at night tho men who are not extreme in their views are under tht influence of agl. taton who havt everything their 'own way. It it your duty to weed these out of your campt and mills. When their belly it againit thtlr baokbont yon will bt abla to do something that will stick. (Applause.) From hit remark! it would appear that Mr. Flsh wai qualified to tpeak npon "Bolshevism"—uiingtht term in which itt opponents apply it Hli romarkt were applauded by hii audience—they wen well mated—bat we would like to ask, "And when their (the workers) belly It againat their back bone, what thea!" Wt an not afraid to ask the question, but Mr. Fish and his fellow "Boi. sheviki" dan not fact the aniwer. W. B. W. Armstrong, the seeretary of tht B. C. Loggen Association, behoved thtt hit memben and also those of of tht B. 0. Lumber ft Shingle Manufactureri Limited wen not fully alive to the danger of tht One Big Union. "Wt art flghting the One Big Union." We tre going to keep traek of tht men who aim to do a day'i work, and wo will get rid of the men whose only aim ii to "break the bosa." Ont trouble being met with wai that occasionally tht employer, when warned against a man, would tay, "Tet, he's a bad fellow, but I eaa handle him all right." That tort of thing would not. jo, becauso tha good of all must bt tht thing to consider. (Applause.) ' J. 0. Cameron, pnsldent of Cameron Lumber Co., Ltd., Victoria, atat- ed that oae manufacturer closed hit plant rather thaa give in to the malcontent!. What wat tht rosult—all but itvtn or eight men had eome back laying they were glad to gat rid of the agitators. The singing of tht National Anthem brought tht pleasant gathering tt a close. Frank De Ony, the provincial health inspector, says, "If every operator made himself conversant with the sanitary regulation! and lived up to tht spirit of them thore would bt no unrest la the logging campt of B. 0." "Induitrlal oamp condition! in B. 0. are improving and I perceive a tendoncy on the part of operaton and men toward a bettor understanding, tending to tht mutual advantage of both." "Amongit tht alleni then will probably be a percentage of "redi" or irreconcilable!, but even thou in not tU to the bad, and they will be influenced not only, by the living condition! under whioh they are com polled to live, hat also by the democratic or the autocratic attitude of the bosa." Admiral Lord Usher said: "Hit firstl Hit hardl Keen oa hitting!" Newt item: A new industrial T. M. C. A. hai beea organized among the campi of tht Rosa-Saskatoon Lumber Co., Ltd., at Waldo, the DIRECTOR! OF DISTRICT OFFICES Cranbrook, B, 0. t. H. Thompson....Box 18 , Kamloops, B. 0. A. McKenzie Box 812 3'Victoria St Merritt, B. 0. Andrew Dickie. Box 8 Nelion, B, 0. R. Barrow General Delivery Princeton, B. 0. B. S. Baxter Box B Fringe Oeorge, B.O...F. Knowlei Drawer 20 Prince Rupert, B.C.. J. H. Burrough ....Box 833 Victoria, B, 0 .1. Stevenion 1424 Gov't Street Edmonton, Alta. 0. Berg 10333—101st St. Prince Albert, Saik,..W. Cowan 108—8th St. E, Sudbury, Ont. T. Mellows Box 600 Sudbury Hotel Port Arthur, Ont. ...R. Lockheed 281 Bay Street Fort Franoii, Ont J. M. Clarke ........Box 390 Webater Hall DECEMBER CLEARANCE To make room for large thipmentt of materials arriving shortly we an forced to clear our entire ttock thlt month. By the first of tha year our preient linei must be gone. We Offtr Choice Lint* at Abounding Beductiont This is your opportunity, Ladies of Vancouver—spring clothing will be almoit double the price—the itylei, according to New Tork designers, will be practically unchanged—why wait until spring when you may atock your wardrobe now tt a great lavingt FBOM MAKER TO WEABEB We make our own garments—in our own factory*-of boBt quality materials—cut to last-minute style modela. Visit Our Ston and Set for Yourself OUB GARMENTS MAKE US FAMOUS WATCH DAILY PAPERS FOB OUB SPECIAL BARGAINS ■ HASTINGS ST. W Near Oranvillo Adqlph Lumber Co., Ltd. at Bnyne's lake, and the Baker Lumber Co., Ltd. at aBkor. Tho Pacific Coast Lumbormon say! "Whon Bolshevism and other formt of savagery spring up in our camps tho thing for our logging oporators to do is to form themselves into an autocracy for the timo being, elect a dictator until the trouble 11 paat, give him full power to aet for the bunch and then oboy him as implicitly as if ho woro-lin old-time and all-powerful emperor. Industrial action, excellent under normal conditions, is ineffective in such timos of crisis—autocracy—tyranny even—is still something useful and necessary in this unruly world of ours." It's a safe bet to say that this spirit will cost the lumbor oporators a million dollara next year. J. V. McNaulty, In his monthly review of B. C. trado conditions, says, "Nearly all camps at which strikes were In progress have resumed work, but in some instances tho now men are a bit off color and it will be some time boforo the output reached anything like the normal figure." We would liko to see the actual cost to the employers of the strikes at tho cantpa of the Capilano Timber Co., the Morrill, Ring ft Moore Co. and the Adams Biver Lumber Co. and alongside what It would have cost to put in' to operation the conditions the men demanded. Correspondence Editor B. 0. Fodoratiohltti I would like to point out to the memben of tht L.W.1U, that if they desire that the organiaation shall be conducted in the manner that they want, and that it ahall ba ma ia the Interest of the men ia camp, and aot according to tht plant or withei of a bunch of disgruntled unemployed, would-be labor leaden, and other fakirs who desltt to control the organization for their own purposes, then it is about time they took a hand In the game and cleaned up oa that bunch of nonentities around headquarters. When lt gets to the point where tome of these fakirs start to sabotage on tho litoraturo that it required for organisation purpotos, seemingly with the object of retarding the growth of the organization, then, in my opinion, it it timt to call a half Not only that, but when they go to work and appoint a committee to draw np resolution! to give to the delegate! you eleoted for the O. B. U, convention, whilt they completely Ignore the men In camp, then it ie time for you fellows tt get buiy out on the job and drnw up your own resolutions ignoring the "slush" that this plagaint commit tee submits to you. It may bt interesting for you to know that one of tht individuals elocted on thli committee itated la a buiineu meeting that the men in enmp wen not eepable of running their own affain, and that the men la town had to do it for them. Is a man who makei a statoment like that fit to draw up any sort of a recommendation that will be ta your benefit. It't to make the godt laugh whon theu aix intellectual plngairsts write out, rather copy out, the constitution of tha L W. W., and hand it out to you for your consideration, while they have not nerve onough to tell you when it came from. I'm willing to gamble that nine-tenths of it waa "swiped" from the bye-laws of the I. W. W.; while tht other tenth it used to disguise the fact of where they got it. I wonder if they expect tny ont to (Continued next page) UNION MEN ARE MADE WELCOME -AT THE- Bank Buffet Soft Drinks and Fresh Cool Beer The right treatment and best service. thenu: On. 77IB0-O. sir. nut 0. I. LIBB, Pnpitator LABOB THKPL1 -TAXI- SOFT DRINK PARLOB OIOABI. 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The Ingledew Shoe Co. 666 OBANVILLB STREET News of the Lumber Workers Industrial Unit of the O.B.U. (Continued from page 2) PATRONIZE FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS Equal to Your Luckiest Bake 365 Days in the Year QUANTITY production—quality material!—machinery has made baker's bread cheaper and better than home made. Try it. Shelly Bros. Ltd. Phone Fair. 44 ram that slush down the throat of the delegates who attend the 0. B. U. conventiont Do they take thomsolves seriously or are they joking! Are you fellows out on the job going to allow that bunch of fakirs to dictate the policy that your delegates shall follow! They have not got enough brains among the lix of them to think of anything original, but because they are so patriotic to oho organization that they think it Is the ne plus ultra of industrial organization, they should not imagine that the whole. 12,000 members of the L. W. I. U. are mentally bankrupt although the six of them are. A few weeks ago we had the bye- laws of the L. W. I. U. 600 I. W. W, submitted to ut for our consideration. These were handed to us in tho shape of Allman'a sixteen pointi. Now we get the rett of it for the 0. B. U. convention. If they desire to submit ther I, W. W. constitution as a whole to na for consideration, why in Heaven's name do thoy not tell ua where it came from, and not try and make people believo that it it tho product of their brain, if thoy have got one, which it lomething I'm doubtful about. Fellow Workers, draw up your resolutions on the job, where you are right under the iron heel of capitalist exploitation. That is the place to write your rules and regulations, your constitution and bye-laws, and do not heod this bunch of orthodox armour plate skulled plagairists, and fakirs; whose sole aim in lifo appears to be to carry out their recent threat to either make thia the sort of organization they want or smaih it. Think it over. Then act. Tours for the 0. B. TJ., J. M. CLABKE. _ Editor B. 0. Federationist:—We havo been reading various resolutions, pointers, and letters, etc., appearing in the columns of the Fed. eratlonist and Worker over Allman's signature According to resolutions submitted, he would deny all officials of tho L. W. I. U. the right to vote, also he would suppress froo speech. Who said freedom! We might give Fellow Worker Allman credit for being sincere at any other time, but the present, Why waa this not proposed at our last convention, when he was a paid official and exjscutivo member! Coming at this time, we can hardly give him credit for sincerity. How about working nlong those democratic lines you mentioned in your letter to the Foderationist! For my part, I do not think that the dutios and responsibilities refer; red to in your letter, will produoo round-shouldered officials, or cause lesion of tho brain if any of them shorld happen to possess any. Tou state that you agree on some points of Fellow Worker O'Brien's letter; I will go further and tay that I fully agree with the sentiments expressed therein. Also, I might point out to Mr, Allman (while we are discussing points) that if he is really anxious to organize tho workers, that there are many parts of Canada where it is not necessary that and organizer be conversant with tho English language. Whoro the natives convorse by dummy signs, and gestures, he might for instance Illustrate his views on industrial unionism, by a full-sized sketch of Traut- man'i wheel, on the dusty roads of the province of Quebec. Howevor, I am pleased to find In tho laat paragraph of hia letter, mutual ground for agreement, where he states, That unless we take action the organization will inevitably be ruled by kings, kaisers, Sammy Oompers etc." This is not only inevitable, but it is an actual fact, judging by the antics of some of the members recontly. 0. LAMONT. ♦write bylaws for ourselves, without trying to make us all a bunch of plagarists. For my part, I refuse to resort to such tactics—but then I'm only one, and if the rest are willing I may bo forced to follow meekly behind, feebly protesting against becoming part of a plagairist organization; while I think tb myself hew far seeing Burns was whea he wrote; "Plagiarism" On looking, through the Worker of Oct, 30, I came across a lettor with the heading, "The 'following resolutions are submitted for your consideration." After giving a casual glance at tho "resolutions," it struck me that there seemed to be something familiar about the phraseology uted, and I glanced at tho name that waa signed at the bottom. Then I remembered whero I had seen the "resolutions" that were submitted to the members of the L, W. I, 0. with Fellow Worker Allman's name at tbe bottom, Most of the resolutions" were almost tho aame as thoio I had soon previously, except that a fow words were changed which did not change the moaning any; but last time I saw them they were printed in a small book, and wore part and parcel of the accepted bylaws of another Labor organization, which hat itt headquarters oa the south side of the 46th parallel. ' Now, as I do not think that the mon purported to writo the "resolutions" that appearod In tho Worker wrote most of the bylaws of that organization all by himself, I came to tho only conclusion that I could possibly come to, and that waB that he had copied at least somo of them. Hence tho nemo that appears at the top of thie, and for that namo I have no apoligy to make ,as I almost wrote a letter under the same heading when I road an article from the same source, under the heading of Industrial Unionism." Copied stuff is all right when the namo of the original writer appears along with it, but when—I sadly shako my head and think thot after all, man must bo of n very "sinful" naturo, or elso havo an extremely low type of ambition, whon ho signs his namo to any kind of written matter that was originally written, oither wholly or in part, by somo- one elso. It looks liko tho work of a notoriety hunter to nttach his namo to tho literary work of somo oue else, when tho object that It is printed for ean as well be achieved by oither putting the namo of tho original writor, or cite putting no name at all. So far as the resolutions aro concerned, some of them may bo all right; but that Is no reason why we, as an organized body, should swallow wholesale the constitution and bylaws of another organization; no matter how notorious that organization may be. I wonder if thero Is not enough men tn the L. W.-I. U. -with brains enough to think out and "Good Lord, what is man for ea simple as he looks! But try to develop his hooka and hit crooks; Hli depths and hli* shallow, hli good and nil evil, In all he ia a problem that would puzzle tho Devil," But to tay a few wordt regarding the "resolutions" that were sub- mittod for our consideration as members of the L, W. I. U. Number one says that no paid official ahall hold office for longer than six months. This means that when we have trained a man to conduct our business in an efficient mannor, that we are to throw him out and train another one. I suppose that 1b so that all members of the L. W. I. V. will have an opportunity, if thoy so deilre, to go into office for six months, whether they know how to write a decent letter and add up a column of figures or not. It would be chcapor to run a school for secretaries, editors, stenographers and bookkeepers, where we eould give them all a twelve months' course bofore we put them In an office for six months. In my opinion we should not allow any one to go into an office of the L, W. I. 0. unleu he or she was ablo to pass an exam, ination that would prove that they were capable of handling our affairs in an efficient manner, beeauie I have seon amateur clerks and bookkeepers at work, and have an idea about how well their work it done. No thanks! Oive ni value for the money we expend, and not want ut to turn our offices into apprentice chops at the expense of the union, and to thg detriment of our business. Number four says that no official or employer ahall hold office in this organization unless he it an aetual worker in the lumber Industry. That, when combined with number one, helps tho possibility that no one but amateurs will be in an office, because I'm sure that but a small percon tage of the membors of tho L, W. I. U, are bookkeepers, editors or stenographers. Wo would havo a heavy bill for repairing typewriters. Thc fingers of the average lumber slave aftor ton or twenty yoars of hard work, would be rathor heavy on the keyboard of a typewriter. Would It not be bottor that no ono was employed out of the lumber Industry, and that would eliminate the possibility of job hunters! Number seven refers to that wonderful being—or as Fellow Worker Anderson called him—super-mai the chairman of the executive board, This is the individual who was going to be a palliative for all the supposed Hit from which tho "intelligence department" of tho L. W. I. U. was supposed to suffer. Number nine oxists already in our bylaws, or what virtually amounts to tho samo thing, so it was hardly necessary to coup that one, except it be for the purpose of making sure we employ the original phraseology. Number ten proposed to rcduee the salary of the secrotary by ten dollars per week, and that at the timo when the purchasing powor of the dollar Is decreasing so fast that we will soon lose sight of it. The secretaries who look after our books are either worth enough to exist on or else worth nothing; notwithstanding, what may ho the opinion of a certain organization on the subject. If capable of doing our work offi- ciently, pay them enough to exist on. If not capable of handling the job then got someone who iB. Numbor six wants a business meeting every Sunday, and number twelve wants to give soven men the power to call a special business meeting after twenty-four hour. This would undoubtedly be nico whon sevon individuals can cal! and hold a special meeting, in town and transact business for several thousand mombors, without their knowing it, and also without being authorized to do so except by themselves. How about holding these speeial meetings on tho job, in the camp whore the mombors who support the union are, and not in town! ThiB clause gives such a fine opportunity for a few men to do almost what they like, that it dees not need any elaborating upon, Any one with half and eye and a. brains will havo enough brains to kill that before it is born if he has the interests of the organization at heart. Tbat is so far as the membors of tho L. W. I, V. ot the 0. B. TJ. are concorned. The rest of the "resolutions" are about political parties, not advocating them, not to be an official of them, ond a lot more "junk." This looks like trying to curb the power of tho individual at a timo when we are trying to get moro power for the individual, and take the chains of ruling class servitude off them. It is, therefore, a contradiction to our own aims. It is rubbing it in when wo are to dictate to our officials what they can join, and what they can not join, what they can do, and what they can not do, when thoy aro off duty, and therefore not under our jurisdiction. That is worse thon tho boss; because ho haa about passod the point where ho can dictato to his employoes what they shall not do after thoy aro out of his factorios and workshops. However, this arises as usual out of a misunderstanding as to what Is really mount by tho words "political parties" or "political action." Onc more word in closing; next time that Fellow Workor Allman submits "resolutions" for our consideration, let him oither concoct thom himself, or elso toll us where ho got them from, and then thoro will bo no misunderstanding. Better yet, let him get a few theu. sand copies of tho constitution and bylaws of the organization that those wore, in part, takon from and send them out to that we will have an opportunity to either take them all und change the name Of our un-' ss. tilong i $2.00 PER YEAR ion hlong with the rest, or else reject them and wend our way in peace. At any rate thon wo will anoauwhere our membership stands "".__ question. After that there win Ire no need for any one to make the assertion about getting hold of our organization, or smashing it, the same as what I hear was Btated is a.business meeting recontly. Toura for literary honeity, __ J. M. OLABKE. Oonvention Questions The timo for the general convontion of the h. W. I. U., and alao the convention, of the 0. B. U, li drawing near. Havo you discussed in camp what you want done at either of thoee conventions! If not, how do you imagine that the organisation can function in the way that you dosire it to function! Bemember that a Labor organization is just what itt memberi make it. If you fully discuss beforehand and instruct your delegate! as to what you want, then, in all probability, thc organization will function as you want it to; but if you do not instruct your dolegatos, and leave It to tome would-be Napoleon to formulate your plant for you, thoa you have no ono to blame but yourself if you are disappointed. It is on tho job that your troublei arise, and it is on tho job where they will finally be settled. It is on the job that you have to improve your living and working conditions, and it is on the job that you are ex ploited. It is on the job where your organization does, and must function. Therefore, it is only logical to assume that it must be the man on the job that mutt formulate tho plant ai to how the organization must be conducted. Tou are the men that own the organization, and thereforo you are the men that must run it, Put not your faith in loaders, whother they claim to be able to lead you out of the land of bondage or.not. We have put our faith in working elass generals in the past, and we have got nowhere. Tou must work out your own salvation, or else live and die in the same rut ae you do now. Thereforo get busy, hold your camp meetings, discuis your grievances ,figure out how the organisation can beat be run in order that you may benefit from It; and then Instruct the delegate that you elect for the convention, aa to what you want done, and see that he carries out your instructions at far at possible. Have yon anything in particular that you want discussed, or done, at the 0. B. 0. convention! If so, as one of tho men that you elected to attend that convention, I want lo hear it so that I can try and carry out yeur desirei ai far ai possible, Do not pin your faith to the offhand chance that someone else may be able to figure out your requirements, No one knows the needs of the worker but the worker himself. Tonn for working class freedom, J. M. CLABKE. Minutes of Business Meeting Begular business meeting held onfto periecution and black-listing of Decembor 14 at S p.m.; Fellow Work- er C. L. Smith in the chair. Minutes of previous meeting read and adopted. All correspondence filed except letter from Kingcome riv- (r and the central executive of the 0. B, U., which were referred to aew business, Advisory committee recommended that tho Capilano strike be called off. Motion to lay the question over to- now buslnesi was loat. Moved: That the matter be referred to tho executivo committee, Amendment: That the meoting endorse tho recommendation and refer the question to the executive for ipeedy action. Amendment carried. Bccommendation by adviiory committee.-that Yapp k Walker'a camp bo. taken off the unfair lilt. Was, 0. motion, concurred in. Hospital committee reportod twon- tjj-four men in the General and fourteen in St. Paul'!. On December 8 John Shoalbraid died from cancer, and on December 11 Frank Steves, fwju .pnoumonia. Tho lick men are being' regularly visited, jt^vns suggested that some action should bo taken to .give tho men in the.kbapital a little special attention at Christmas, also that a member in toifi who wai,sick, as also were members of hla family, and were in need pf assistance, should be attended M; Moved: That the report be reeelv- oltrti that a collection be made for the purpose of giving the men in tho hospitals special attention at Christmas time, and that a turn, not exceeding $50, bo donated from the general funds for tho assistance of the: follow worker whose caae had been reported. Carried. The committee to Investigate charges against union men in connection with strike-breaking at Duncan Bay reported that written charges had been made by the atriko picket, copies of which had been lent to every man charged, none of whom bad roplied. It was moved and adoptod that tho seeretary read the charges against tho men and this meeting tako action on tho mhtter. The further consideration of this matter was dealt with under tho heading of new business. Trades and Labor delegate reported at tho last meoting tho counoil had gono on record as favoring holding tho O, B. U. convontion in January. Tho main part of tho meeting had bcen taken up by a discus, lien on international finance. Prof. Aagai, of the Univorsity of B. C, boing the main speaker, Beport accepted. Treasurer gavo financial report in detail, showing recoipts since last meeting of $9,375.39, expenditures, $7,001.12, leaving a balance in the general and defense fund of $2,- 718,25. Beport received and referred to audit. Secretary reported the referendum vote having boen counted by a committee who roported as follows: (1) Are you in favor of issuing the "Worker" as a weekly paper nt an estimated cost of not less than $1,400 a month! For, 433; against, 1,940. (2) Are you In favor of cutting out the "Worker" entirely, and taking a full pago in the B. C. Federationist each week at a eost of $80 a week! For, 1,936; against, 500. (3) Are you ln favor of the purchaso of shares In tho Federationitt, not exceeding 5,000, at a eost net exceeding $5,000, upon inch terms as can be satisfactorily arranged, subject to the monoy being used toward the purchaso of a labor-owned printing plant. For, 1,785; agalnit, 016.,: Movod that the secretary'! report be accepted. Amendment that in the opinion of this meoting that tho referendum be considered illegal. Amendment lost. Motion carried. Letter from Kingcome Biver: Movod: That oach organizer shall send a daily report to tho secretary on what ho haa accomplished, which report shall bo publishod, and any organizer failing to send in this report shall bo immediately discharged. Amendment: Thnt tho mntter bl referred to the general meeting in January, so that rules governing organizers can be embodied into tho constitution. Amendment adopted. Communication from tho oxecutivo of the One Big Union asking: Aro you in favor of postponing the convention until after tho trials at Winnipeg are concluded and In whieh month do you deairo tho oonvention to bo held! Moved: That we favor the holding of the convontion as early as npssible. Amendment: Thnt it be held Immediately after tho semi-annual meeting In January. Amendment adopted, Movod and adopted: That the secretary write to tho Federated Shop Stewards in Great Britain asking for their moral, and, if necessary, their material support, In tho fight with tho employers, especially in regard our delegates and active members, Moved: That the memben charged with scabbing at Duncan Bay be impended from tho union and all delegates and organizers be so notified. Amendment: That the matter be laid over till the next convention. Amendment to amendment: That the members charged be notified that unless they answer to the charges against them before the next meeting that tho meeting will then take action upon request of ths strike committee. Amendment to amendment carried. Meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m. Advice to Correspondents Members in tending communications for publication, are requested to make them as brief and to the point'as possible. A good point to remember is whother you would be interested in somo other member taking spaee to express viows, or give news, on tho particular question you are dealing with. If ont, then logically you should not take up the time and space yourself. Cut out personalities and deal with principles. Indulgence in personalities evidences cither that you have a grudge agalnat that particular person, or elso that you accept the old worn out idea that individuals decide issues. The old theory of leaden, Moseses and Saviours, • Tou might as well nay that eo-und-au organized the L. W. I. U., or that beoause loand-so went as delegate to the Calgary eonvention, thc fl. B. IT, was organized. Sign your real namo to tho communication, not necessarily for publication, but as an evi* dence of backbone ond good faith. Don't writo anything that you would not bo prepared to stand boforo tho ontiro membership if necessary and accept the responsibility for. Don't lose sight of tho fact that in tho final analysis your only opponents are those who exploit you, and their supporters; and that your only hopo of emancipation, or even of tho im- proved working ond living conditions for whioh you organizod Ilea in tho class-consciousness and solidarity of the workors. Nulli Secundus is the Latin way of saying "second to none" and has been adopted as a motto or slogan by many Old Country firms'of highest standing and one famous fighting regiment. Latin is a bit out of plaoe in this country, but we like to spring something on the highbrows once in a while to impress them with the faot that we are here, Masters of our Trade, Second to None in tbe Tailoring Profession, knowing merchandise and manufacturing right through from one end to the other. Moreover, that we make Suits to measure—to any man's measure, or womanTeither for that matter—guaranteeing Perfect Fit and Finest Style at prices so economical as makes the purchase of ready-to-wear, faetory-made suits look like a crime. For men we make from $40 up, and for women at $55 up. Our Stock of Woollens is the Finest and Largest in the City. When I undertake your dental work you may rest assured that when it is completed it will be as perfectly done as it is possible to doit. For if care and skill and conscientiousness count for anything you will have a dental equipment that will, if properly taken care of, give you as efficient service as your original teeth did, for a period of ten years at least. I guarantee my work for that poriod, upon tho condition that ?ou give your mouth tho proper attention and alao pay me at east half-yearly visits for examination aad any necessary ■mall repairs during that time. My work in yonr mouth will be recorded on a duplicate chart. If It becomes defectivo it will bo cheerfully replaced by me. Thla Is "Orady-grade" dentistry. 0R.GRADY HABTDJOS STBBBT, OOBHBB Or SETMOUB Over Drag Store Glasgow, Ont.—A sorios of new proposals has boen submitted by tho National Union of Railwaymen to the Associated Socioty of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen with tho object of securing tho fusion of tho two socictios, thus unifying the activities of the railway workert. In Beading, Pennsylvania, tho Socialist party advertised a public mass meoting to bo held at its own building. Mombers of tho American Legion undertook to provent tho holding of tho meeting, and told tho mayor of tho city that if the meeting was hold thero would bo bloodshed. Mayor Filbert of Beading told the Socialist party officials that Legionaries had been arrested in Ihe crowd with revolvers and loven-ineh dirks in thoir pockets but that bo could not liondlo tho entire crowd, and he thereforo bogged tho Socialists to call the meeting off, as ho was unable to preserve order against those who threatened to create disorder. The Socialists complied with his request. FOR MEN Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats, Mackinaws, Gloves, Shirts, Socks, Underwear, etc., etc. UNION STORE G. B. Kerfoot 165 Haitingi St, Eait Thrifty Housewives Read this— Then decide today to buy a Mason & Risch Piano "from Factory to Home." Take advantago of our money saving Bales plan—pianos direct from our own stores, thus cutting out middlemen's profits. Mason k Bisch quality moans rich, perfect tone, elegant stylo and workmanship. Fifty yeara piano making eipcrionco back of every piano bearing our name. MASON * BISCH means Quality at Lower Oost. Clip tho coupon today for style catalogue—it's yours freo for tho asking. "the Hams ef M» Victrola"—Eviry Style-Burr Mee Anl Tboeunds ol Bicordi fir Tea M StUct from Mason & Risch, Ltd. VANCOUVER, B. 0. 738 OBANVILLE STBEET Alio Itl WINNIPEG. LETHBB.UUE. IIOOSE JAW, BEOINA, SASKATOON, CAIOABY, NELSON, KELOWNA MASON * BISOB, VAHOOUVEB, • B. fl! Gentlemen—Kindly send etyle ca- talogue and Hate ut uied Instrument. —tell m. about "Faotory to Home" eavlngi In price. 'NAME ADDItP.es.. 10 Sub. Cards Good for ono year's mbscrlptlon lo The 1). C. Pederttionist, wll] bo mailed to toy tddroxi In Canada for #17,50. {Good tnywhere outside of Vancouver city.) Order ten today. Remit when told. McLeod- Nolan and Co. have manufactured nothing but Union Made Cigars it for 20 Years 9 »» El Doro ■■-, El Sideld "Ira oome Cigars of Quality tt ********m»-* ™* PAGE POUR eleventh YEAB. No. H THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vancouveb, b. o. FBIDAT... ..December 10, IS IB.CJ Published every Friday morning by The B. 0. Federationist, Limited ■_ a WELLS.. Manager Labor Temple, 405 Dunsmuir Street. Telephone Seymour 5871 Subscribtion Batesi United States and Foreign, .2.50 per year; Canada, $2.00 per year; to Unions subscribing in „. a body, $1.60 per member por year. Unity of Labor: The Hope of the World FEIDAY ..December 10, 1919 THE WORKERS ALONE OAN BRING PEACE, BEFORE THB next issue of The Federationist appears, Christmas, that festival which has always beea connected with peace and goodwill to men, will have But on no hand can peace and goodwill be seen. In every country in the world, the inevitable class struggle grows keener and more intense as the (lays go by. In no instance is this struggle better amplified than in Bussia, where the working elass is in tho ascendency, and is having to fight the ruling class of the world. If not by arms, Bussia is being assailed by every economic weapon that can be used against her. Europo is seething with discontent and famine. Press dispatches inform ns that Austria is on the verge of cannibalism, and then there are those still'loft in tho world who would have us believe that man is above his environment. Much as we regret it, we must at this Christmas tide, realize that peace is not yet, neither can there be peace until the present environment of men is'changed. Even in this Canada of ours, tlie class struggle shows its head, not because of the doings of men, but beoause of the system under whieh we live. In Winnipeg the trials of Labor men which are an outward manifestation of the implacable -struggle between tha exploiter and the exploited, drag on, and the end is not yet. We have a faith, nay a knowledge, that humanity is not as the metaphysicians would have us believe; humanity is not as steeped in rottenness, it is the system under which we live that is the cause of all that humanity now suffers from. The present economic system has brought death and destruction in its train, and is now bringing the people of Austria to thc verge of savagery and cannibalism. It is the mission of the working class to change this. No greater mission has. ever been the lot of any class in previous forms of sooiety, and not until that mis- lion is fulfilled will peace reign on earth, and goodwill prevail among men. Figs do not grow on thistles, and the best in humanity cannot prevail under a system baaed on the slavery of any class in so- cley, and the lawa of whieh are the lawa of the jungle. Workera of the world, only by your effort* can peaee prevail, The task is a worthy one, and you cannot fail for evolution it with you. ar SATURDAY LAST, Major-Gcneral Mewburn, minister of Militia, at a banquet in Montreal, according to press despatches, intimated that the government was contemplating compulsory military service in connection with the militia and the per- THE manent service. This LATEST information will be MOVE, most interesting to those that fought in France and Flanders so that militarism might be crushed. It will also be particularly interesting to those women who at the last Dominion election, sold tbeir votes to the Unionist Government for $5, and a promise, that in the event of that administration being returned to power, and conscription for the period of the war enforced, their men folks would be released, and be allowed to return home. That this promise was not fulfilled, doeB not materially matter, conscription was put over on one pretext or another, and thc women folks assisted in thc putting of it across. Other promises as to the conscription of wealth have also remained unfulfilled, and war widows are facing an ever-increasing cost in the necessities of life on a miserable pittance doled out by a patriotic government. A government that is so democratic, that free speech and press arc Btill things to be remembered as being pre-war liberties. A government that has in no single instance kept its pledges made to the people when seeking election, • » * We have had the idea for a long timo that the government of this country did not know where it was going or as to how it would get there. Ils net ions in connection with the Winnipeg general strike, sml the arrest of the strike leaders only confirmed this opinion. The only thing now necessary to make us absolutely sure of it, will be for the introduction of a oom- pulsory military service act. It may do this and get away with it until the next election. But that will bc tho end of the most infamous government that this or any other British Dominion has ever had. Tim women folks will not be fooled or bought again. They will not swallow any more fairy stories as to defeating militarism. They will not bc expecting thc return of their men folks, but they will take care that thcir men arc not put within the clutches of a system wliich they thought Ihey seat them in the great war to Franco lo destroy. It has bcen rumored that tho government has found it impossible to secure recruits for the permanent forces. This may be thc reason for the now move, which is evidently contemplated. But if the military forces of this country cannot bc secured voluntarily in times of peace, then.the government Bhould realize that it will never be able to get away with any compulsory system. There is no need for it. That is so far as taking care of the oountry ia concerned. Thero oould only be onc reason for the establishment of a large permanent military force by conscription or compulsory service in this country, and that would bc for dealing with Labor struggles, and the use of the military forces to break strikes. The military force or school, in this country, may be in thc saddle just now, but, any attempt to inflict this Dominion with compulsory military service in peaee times, will bring those who advocate it to a full realization that the defeat of militarism in Germany, was not all that the men who went overseas fought for. They will not stand for any Prussianism in this, country, and having had a taste of militarism, they will see to it that it is not fastened on thdm here. Surely the government of this country has lost its head, if it ever had one. It will lose its life at the next election, and compulsory military service proposals will only hasten its end. Let it be soon, for as long as it remains this country' cannot have any semblance of freedom, even though it be Bourgeoise freedom at that. STRIKES aro two-edged weapons. This has been amply demonstrated during the past year. Three distinct instances will suffice for our purpose. They are the general strike in Winni- WHAT HAS peg, the coal strike in HE TO DO theCrows Nest Pass and WITH IT. the ooal strike in the U. S. A. We have no hesitation in stating that all threo of these strikes were welcomed by the employers, if they were not deliberately planned by them. This should be a lesson to the workers, They should not take up thc employ* ers' challenge at the time that will best suit the interests of the employing class, but should at all times determine just what tho moves are, and what will be their import before any steps are taken. Press reports this week would indicate that a strike is in tho offing in the Crows Nest Pass. We have no knowledge as to the intentions of the men, but would commend these words to them if they contemplate any sueh action. "Find out just what your opponent wishes, or contemplates you will do and then do the opposite." The same press reports that predict a strike, also state that Senator Robertson, minister of labor, was on his way to Calgary. He is reported to have said that the trouble is between the U. M. W. of A. and the O. B. U. This is not correct. The trouble in the mining camps of tbis province is at all times between the miners and the coal operators. The miners have once again demonstrated that they desire to belong to the 0. B. TJ. and not to the international organization affiliated with that obsolete, and Jesuitically- controlled organization the A. F. of L. Senator Robertson has already, in other strikes, demonstrated that he is the supporter of the A. F. of L. He has also .used his position as a minister of the crown to aid that organization. By what right does he constitute himself an agent of that organization. Is this constitutionality? Have the people of this country given the government a mandate as to what form of organization the miners or other workers shall have! To dato we have not noticed any disposition on the part of the minister of labor to appeal to the electorate of the'country as to whether they endorse his cccupancy of the position he now holds, but the miners have submitted their questions of organization to the membership, and have without doubt expressed a wish to belong to the 0. B. U. Under these circumstances, we object to a minister of the crown taking sides in a matter that does not concern him. We object to him acting as an agent of the A. F. of L., and if he will keep out of the question as to 0. B. U. versus A. F. of L. and sec that the coal operators recognize collective bargaining, a principle which he himself has said cannot bc arbitrated, then there will not be any repetition of the trouble there was in Winnipeg. Shoidd he, however, use tho power of tho state to drive tho miners back for a second time to the A. F. of L., then it will be about time for thc workers of this country to have something to say as to his activities. In the meantime, we would suggest that the miners take careful survey of the position before they again take any action which may be in line with the wishes of tho employers and tho government. HAVING IN DAYS gone by been told that wo could not get along without capital, we were much interested in the address of Sir Frederick-Williams Taylor, general manager of the Bank of Montreal, at the annual general WHAT CAPITAL meeting of the share- OOSTS THE holders of that insti- WORKERS. tution. We were in terested in his statements because ho gave some figures as to just how much the capital invested in this country drow in the shape of interest. He said in part: "It is true the balance of trade was in favor of Canada to the extent of $340,000,000 for the year ended 31st October last, but whereas we paid for all our purchases abroad, we have, in tho same period, shipped goods on credit to England and Continental countries to the extent of many millions not easy to estimate, besides sending out of Canada annually abgut $200,000,000 interest on our recorded indebtedness abroad, mainly to Great Britain and the United States, TheBe facts alone would not create an adverse exchange to the extent that exists, but, in addition, there are the invisible earnings in the Dominion of foreign business corporations, chiefly American, seeking return to proprietors abroad. Tho disadvantage Canada is under in respect to the premium on New York funds will last until the ebb and flow of such funds arc equal. Repayment to Cnnada of the moneys aggregating $420,000,000, owed us by Great Britain and the Allies, would quickly cause the premium in question to disappear. "Since the outbreak of war, Canada has created fresh domestic credit struments in the form of bondsin $2,100,000,000. The increase of circi lation and of bank deposits followed as a natural consequence. "Our bank and the government note circulation is now $532,000,000, as compared with $236,000,000 in 1913',' an increase of $296,000,000. In the same period the total gold held an Canada has increased $60,000,000^"" * « . * Sir Vincent Meredith, the chairman, also gave some figures on the trade of the Dominion, and draws some comparisons, They are, in part, as follows: "The foreign trade/of the Dominion has been well maintained, and i'/.e outlook gives no cause for apprehension of an early recession. The latest available figures, those of the seven months ending October 31st, show imports to have been $543,670,000, and exports $688,890,000. As compared with the corresponding period last year, there was a decline of $16,400,- 000 in imports, and of $31,200,000 in exports, a relatively insignificant decrease while the favorable balance of trade has this year bcen $143,200,- 000." All of this should bc extremely interesting to those workers who are interested in trade, and in having capital brought to this country so that they can get "work." They will realize that tho $200,000,000 paid in interest, as well as thc unrecorded earnings on foreign investments, and the profits that are reaped by the native employers and companies are the price that they pay for the "capital" that exploits them. » * * Another interesting thing is a comparison of the trade of the country. While Canada appears, with the figures given above, to have a favorable balance of trade, the reverse is the case. The $200,- 000,000 is mostly paid in exportB. That takes that much from the favorable bal ance, and thc unrecorded earnings of cap ital takes a good deal more. This is the reason that the exchange rate between the United States and this country is all to the advantage of the United States. Now it is not necessary for a country to have greater exports than imports to have a favorable balance of trade. The country that is drawing interest on investments from other countries can have the advantage even though the imports exceed the exports, as the imports are payments ^of interest bn investments. This has bfen the case with Great Britain ifi the past. She has had great imports from Indiq, and yet that country, with its vast expogt^is as poor as a church mouse. The cojjnt|y having a favorable balance of tradf,—pu the surface—as is the case with Casiada can also bc in an unfavorable positiolv,ibe- cause of the bleeding of that country! ]jy foreign, investors. * » ♦ There, however, is not much to coiicA'n the workers of any country in the figures of imports and- exports. As Marx illustrates, trade has nothing to do with the workers. That is the business of the master class. He gives thc following example: "A sells £40 of wine to B, and obtains from him in exchange corn to the value of £50. A has converted his £40 into £50, has made more money out of less, and has converted his commodities into capital.". He then points out that there was in existence £90 of commodities both before and after the transaction, and tbe trading has not increased thc values. It is labor power alone that creates all values, aud the value was placed in the wine and the corn by labor and labor alone. To labor, however, these values do not belong. They are the property of thc master class, as they have bought the labor power of the workers at its value, which is its cost of reproduction, and thc product of that labor power applied to the raw materials, is the property of the master class. This is where the workers are robbed, « * # Another interesting statement given by the officials of the Bank of Montreal is the one showing the inflation of the currency, which should give thc antagonists of the H. C. of L. something to think over. But until the workers realize that trade only thc bartering and selling of the com. moditics produced by them, and taken from them, at the point of production, they will still be wandering in a maze of high'finance, favorable and adverse exchange rates, figures giving the trado of "thcir country" and a lot of other things that do not concern them. The only thing that concerns them ia the system that robs and enslaves them. Millions, billions, aud all the figures of national wealth, or individual wealth, are only the indicators as to how much they arc robbed of. , And yet many workers are concerned because the Canadian dollar is dropping in • vajue as compared to the American njoncy token of a like denomination. They jicvnr think that they, and they alone, create all values, but do hot own them, ifi , • E 1 GETTING /E Use Resolution of Miners to Offset State Insurance Scheme Worker Should Keep Eyes on Politicians and Insurance Companies Preaa' dispatches from the Fornie district would intimate that aome little dissatisfaction exists as to tho administration of tho Workmen's Compenaation Act. With this has been coupled the possibility of tho Compenaation Act commission having charge of the administration of the health and sickness insuranco provisions that may bo made by tho governmont. When tho Compensation Act flrst became operative there wcro many kicks and protests aa to tho administration of the act. This wos only what could be expected. It wa_ a now thing, and tho commissioners, like all other poople, wcro human and mado mistakes. During tbo past year, howovor, very few complaints of a serious nature have been heard. How, howovor, the question of the administration of tho act in question can bo linked up with uny medical aid and sickness insurance proposals is another matter. " Prior to the. passing of tho Work- men's Compensation Act the insurance companies were vory busy. The plea was put forward that the insurance companies could carry oft thc work much cheaper than tho atate. This waB naturul as theae companies were ont to lose much business if tho state assumed this sorvice in connection with men hurt in industry. There is plenty of ovidence to ahow that the insurance companies aro again on the war path, and have used the resolution passed by tho Pernio miners to aid them in their campaign against state medical aid and sickness insurance Paid readers have been insertod in tho press, by an official of the insurant companies with only ono object, and thnt is to defeat any such state insurance. The administration of the Compensation Aet has demonstrated without doubt that tho cost of administration undor the state is much cheaper than it would be if the insurance co'mpajiics^tad this business. In addition to the cheapness the workera have beon better served, and labor has at all times boen opposed to thc insurance companios acting as competitors to tho stato insurance, nnd workers should watch their stops just at this timo or they may bo led into the position whero they are playing tho game of tho insuranco companies, oi the politicians. It ahould also bo remembered that tho Compensation Act commission is not necessarily the ono that will admin-, istcr tho state sickness insurance, and medical aid acts when passod, but it would be much botter if it woro. On this thc labor mon who hnvo had any oxpcripi.ee. in tho questions that thia kind of legislation rases, are pretty well :i£roed. In thc motintime, workers should koen their eyes on tho political intriguers in tho labor movement, i>nd at the same Ume keep track of the activities of the insuranco companies. Their business is at stake, und they will leave no .'■tone unturned to soo that their business is not destroyed. FOR I DEFENSE Northern City O. B. U. Looks Good for a Dead Organization If the O. B. V. in Prince Ruport is afcorpae, then the more dead onea there are around the better for the labor taovement. Last Saturday the Women's Auxiliary of tho O. B. TJ. in Prince Ruport hold a. soeial. This function was arranged so that the proceeds would be givon to the defense of the mon now facing trial in Winnipeg as a result of the genoral strike there during the summor months. That thore is life In the northorn city, aud that the hopos of tho women folk wero realized is demonstrated by tho fact that thoy raised tho sum of $100 by the soeial. Got busy you livo ones, don't let a dead one put it over you. Oh, death, where is thy stingt . _ Plans for tho launching of a nation-wide, co-operative store and factory system havo been sot afoot in the United Statos. $300,000,000 are to be raised between labor and farmor organizations. "No reform, moral or intellectual, ever camo from tho upper class of socioty. Each and all cume from the protest of martyr and victim. The emancipation of the working peoplo must be achieved by the working people thomsclvos. "—Wendell Phillips. 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BAINI, General Sw-Tnao, Zaneth of the R.N.W.M.P. ****** ****** ******* ******** ■ ******* and His Sensational Evidence "Searchlight*' Exposes the Operations of This Officer Who As Harry Blask Spent Over a Year in Calgary Trying To Catch "Criminals" Something like a sensation rrasOdays whea workeri have to be corf.' 'Canada but we doubt very much if caused at tho trial of the labor men at Winnipeg on Friday and Saturday, December 5 and 8 by a Boyal North West Mounted policemen named F. W. Zaneth, The most sensational part being an alleged statement of Joe Knight with respect to a carload of rifles. The Searchlight, a labor paper published in Calgary, in itt issue of December 12, gives some interesting data as to this member of the mounted police, and states that he ie not aa Italian, aa stated, but an Austrian. Vancouver not being free from the spy and stool pigeon, will no doubt be interested in tho information published with respoct to Zaneth, and judging'from reports every other industrial eentro having the same obnoxious persons to contend with, it will be interesting to all workers in the province. It appears that Zaneth, who masqueraded under the name of Blask in tho city of Calgary and other places whore hie duties took him, was a most active seller of radical literature and most interested in the labor movement; that it natural, aa ho was being paid for being so. He sold copies of The Soviet, The Bed Flag, and, in faet, any other Socialist literature that happened to be on hand for sale. He was in attendance at the minen' convention in Calgary ia February last, and, being able to apeak several languages, was able to converse with delegates of all nationalities. The minera were warned that Blask wat a stool pigeon, but as the miners had nothing to conceal, the warning was received with smiles. When the international, with the coal operators lu the Drumheller Valley, pulled off that infamous deal iu that district in August last, Blask wat in Calgary and took pity on tbe refugees who went to that city and bought them meals, and the men aceeptod hiB kindnesses even though they knew that he waa a stool pigeon. With all these attentions he did not fnd anything that would be of value to the red-coated riders of the plaint. The Searchlight then says: By this time the members of thc One Big Union itt Calgary were fully aware of the reasons for Harry's residence in Calgary. The faet that ho was not working and still wat able to have a meal ticket and money and good elothes he explained by telling of his ability as a poker player. And he had that ablUty. The idle timet that come in a mounty's life afford ample opportunity for learning aU the intricacies of tho great Ameriean game. It wae in tho United States, by the way, that Blask learned the game and he often made pretty good hauls." Got Subs for th* Searchlight "Time passed. Some weeks ago tho miners decided to start Tho Searchlight in Calgary, and Harry, taking his instructions from Detective-Sergeant Waugh, B. N. W. M. P., whom he used to meet mysteriously, got in touch with the paper. Ou one occasion he camo to our room in the St. Bogia Hotel and wanted to know if we were acquainted with tho fact that a lot of boys considered him a stool pigeon. We assured him tbat we had heard: the story but wouldn't believe such a thing, 'Even supposing you were,' wo said, 'it wouldn't make any difference for we hare nothing to hide. We aro not advocating anything wrong. All we know about you is that whea thero Is any work to do in the way of arranging for mootings, or advertising, you are always ready aud willing to do the work and not expect any pay for doing it.' "Confidential (7)" Talks "Wo exchanged a lot of "confidences (I)' and Harry became a diligent canvasser for subscriptions to Tho Searchlight and with scrupulous honosty paid over every cont ho collected without a hint for commie- sion. He volunteered to solicit advertising for us aud wo inteuded to avail ourselves of his services but tho call for him to go to Winnipeg and givo evidence intervened. "In the 'confidential' talk we had with Hnrry he told us of his father boing n groat I. W. W. enthusiast nnd that ho (Harry) hnd beon sent over into Canada to help along tho cause of tho 'Wobblies.' We told him of how wo had been acquainted with tho 'Wobblies' in the U. S. A. nnd we discussed tho way in which Iho stool pigeons got ln among them inciting them to nets of violenco and 'starting somothing' so that thoro eould bo killings and deportations of men who woro objocMonablo to tho mino owners nnd lumber barons of tho Amorican wost. Harry diligent' ly carried back our 'confidences' (at wc expected him to) to Detective- Sergeant Waugh, who in turn passed thom on to tbe few mon who are extremely Interested that The Searchlight should be 'put out of businoss,' Weakness for Pretty Faces "Sorgeant Zaneth will probably read this copy of The Searchlight, and we wapt to point out to him that there are still somo thingB he mutt lenrn if ho is to serve hiB gallant commanders in the forco of which Cnnada is bo proud. When ho bought one of Campbell's hats numbor of months ago, a nifty green fedoru, he should havo had tho in* itials 'H. li.' perforated ia tho baud thereof lnstond of 'F. W. Z.' Wo might also tell Harry that girlt aro not to bo trusted. Like every viv acious young mounty ho had a weak nosB for a pretty faco nnd in these All Rojral Gown Products carry Coupons, redofmabl* (or tnat_________ stantly on their guard, thero are many shrewd young women who ean 'put it across' oven on a momber of the 'red-coated ridert of the plain.' Harry won hit way into the hearts of a. girl or two without having to put on the red tunic with the padded chest and the trousers with the yellow streak. / - Co-operated wiUi Waugh Detective Waugh and- Sergeant Blask have both, taken much interett in The Searchlight and itt editor. For Blaak we have nothing but thanka for the kindnesses ht hat dont for tu and we only hopo that tht future wiU find botter ust for hit talentt in his native Austria rather than in thit land of light and liberty. That we happened to have been born in a British naval dock- yard and of Scottish parentage should not make us tha victims of the slouthing proclivities of Blask and Waugh, much aa tha Teutont have reason to dislike the Scottish. There ia so need of a sleuth being on our trail, Wh^t we have to say, the worst and the best appears in print and The Searchlight is sent to any address for only one dollar for six months and a mounty's dollar looks just at good to ut at any other kind of a present day 'forty-flve-eont dol lar.' A Fanny Incident "One amusing incident we recall in connection with Waugh. It will be remembered that it wat Waugh wl|o went to Winnipeg and told the laughable story about Toddy Browne the secretary of District No. 1, Mining Department of the 0. B, U., going to start a Soviet government in Canada, At the time of the Drumheller trouble, Waugh, who had recently returned from the valley, was on Eighth avenue near the entrance to the office of the Director of Coal Operations. He wat. having an interesting confidential talk with Assistant Director of Coal Operations, John O. Jonet. Waugh 'a attention was drawn to the editor of The Search-' light, who was passing by, and some stealthy 'slouthing' waa done. It waa really funny. "Some weeks later on, Waugh got busy trying to discover 'if tno editor of The Searchlight was in possession of eopiet of a banned publbi cation knows as 'Soviet Russia.' So far we have-not yet been called to, appear on a charge of having such literature but one can never toll what will happen in these dayt, 1 Physical Force Advocate ' "Blask eoUeeted a vaat fund of 'information' for Waugh and for nte at Winnipeg. In Calgary and in different mining camps, by means of. circulating Socialist and other labor literature he got acquainted with men who take an honest interost in the movement. Whon ho found a man who seemed to have the confidence of the workers, a man who was not afraid to exprcBi himself in favor of a breaking away from the seab-infestod organizations of the American Federation of Labor, Blask immediately entered the man down in the list of those upon whom the sleuths would have to keep a close watch. The methods he pursued were absolutely similar to those employed in Bussia and later is the United States. Ho had several associates who llled in with different tactics. One of these who it at present in Calgary (or was here a few dayt ago) was also as ardent and avowed "red." He was not satisfied with such orderly procedure as obtains in the Ono Big Union but continuously was trying to enlist 0. B. U. men to favor a scheme ho had for preparing explosives nnd getting ready for trouble. This fellow, when Bill Pritchard was in juil in Cnlgary, tried to got somo 0. B. U. mon to join with him in a demonstration against the jail. "His plans wore laughed at for tho boys well know thut such action, instead of being, of assistance to Pritchard would moan the indiscriminate shooting down of any who took part with especial attention boiug paid to such men who might havo some influence with tho workors. It was tho bloody, tho raw, the despicable work of the Czarist government carried on in Buasia and thnt was intimated by Pinkerton and othor ttool pigeons in the pay of the mino owners in the wostorn States. Couldn't Fool Tony "It was ovor a year ago that Blask went Into the Drumheller valley with instructions to try nnd 'get something' on Tony Cacchioni and other Italian miners. He ingratiated himself into the favor of a numbor of mon by a profession of being a Socialist. He told Cacchioni that ha (Blask) waa aa I. W. W. and show, ed him tht card and button. 'Ton. wert is the I W. W. were yoa not!' he said to Cacchioni but that son of tunny Italy replied, 'Nothing doing, I nevor wat and saver will be.' Cacchioai drew Blask into a talk about Italy and soon discovered by hiB accent that ho waa not really an Italian and Blaek admitted he waa born in Trieste and told of having scon service in the war ln Tripoli. Tho 'mounty' was givon a feed of. Cacchioni's celebrated macaroni and waB induced to talk quite freely and the shrewd minor soon had the 'mounty's' stories so twisted that ha was positive that Blask was a stool pigeon and so he passed the word ail over tht oamp and into Calgary. Carried a Ova "Ono of Blask't favorite tricks when he was with any Soclaliit or O. B, U. mon was to show a revolver he carried and boast quite heroically of how nobody wut ever going to got him. Ho ndviaod lots of tho boys that it was always safo to go with a gun for one could never tell what might happen, but the boys would not fall for auy tuch rot," The Searchlight then goos on to criticise the methods adopted by the mounted police and says, in parti Canada's Big Disgrace "Tht dirty, dastardly mothodt of the mounted polico are a disgrace to there are men at Ottawa who will do anything toward an investigation asd an exposure of those methodi. If there are minors or any other men is thlt country carrying concealed weapont contrary to law, or storing up explosives for trouble, or advocating armed rebellion, eabotage of violonco of any kind, these men should be dealt with as the law directs. For over a year the B. N. W. M. P. have kept Sorgeant Zaneth, Detective Waugh and a number Of others whom we will mention later hounding oo the tracks of minera asd of men In whom the minen havt eonfi- dence, They have discovered no crimet. They have learned that thett miners and these men whom they are hounding have an extreme eon- tempt for the rotten machinations constantly going on between government appointees, stool pigeons, eoat operators and so-called international labor officials, and having euch contempt, and having well-grounded reason for it, they cling, to the rights given them by tho British and Canadian constitution to express what is in their minds. Those who have the money control those 'in authority.' The mountiea are not ready at hand for the minors if they want to Investigate the orimos beiog perpetrated by the mea who ows and control the minea. And these aro real crimet in that direction. If the lousy, diseaao-produoing hovels in which thousands of minen are forced to live in the Drumheller valley do not constltuto a orime of the first dimension against civilization then we have no idea of what crime it. If it is not orime to force many men with families of four and more children to exist on lest than a thousand dollars a year in many instances then what it crime? Be it remembered that the miners are not race suicide experts like the 'more cultured' the 'better elast' people who make it possible for druggists to grow wealthy on high-priced boote prescriptions and tho four hundred per eent. profit on anti-conception and abortion-producing devices. The mountiea' attention might well bo directed towards these crime emporiums. They wonld not need a guide to direct them. , Inspector Spauldlng Inspector Spaulding, who is in charge of B. N. W. M. P. activities Iii Calgary, is superior officer to Waugh and Blcsk and the other spotters in this field—two of whose names we will withhold for the preient. For a time their rendezvous was in a room on tho second oor of a block on Bighth avenue, close to Centre itreet To thia room Blask uaed to carry the labor literature that he pioked np from among the workers, and in a book he had the record of hit own aetivities asd also tho minutes of sovcral labor meetings. Tho Calgary Trades and Labor Council last Bummer furnished considerable oopy for Blaak. Blask was never usod in any of the raids on houtet while the searoh waa being made for guns, banned literature, eto., the most of that work developed upon Waugh and a sergeant named Maasey. The 'dcotive' work done by Inspector Spaulding 'a men has, for the most part, bees very clumsy and many a good laugh has been had over nme of the attempts of his Austrian stool pigeon to discover crime whore orime did not exist. Blask wanted to see crime, wanted to aee bloodshed. We do not know that Inspector Spaulding instructed Blask to carry a revolver, an I. W. W card aad a button is the aame unlawful organization. We do know, however, that he did earn these things and that it waa not for want of effort on his part that a number of mon active in tho Labor movement were not also equipped. "What wo are writing horo is not intended as a disparagement of tho Royal North WoBt Mountod Police as a body. Talks with such old veterans us Major FitzHorrtgan and tho roading of considerable Canadian history has oonvincod ut that the mountioB have playod a notable part. Tho day was when tho rod Indian wonld always take the word, and trust to the honor, of any mounty. That was in tho days before German and Austrian aud Italian and Slav stool pigeons were taken into tho force and aot on the trail of honoat mon. How much Inspector Spaulding nnd Inspector Jungett and In specter Pennofather and Detective Wuugh and Sergoant Zaneth (alias Blask) have done toward keoping unsmirchod tho record of tho past wo are not propared to say. Wo do know that Detective Sergeant Pass, of the B. N. W. M. P., haa no reaion to be ashamed of hii record and that several othen of the Britiah and Canadian born mountiea with whom we have become acquainted in this wostorn country are really endeavoring to uphold tht traditions of the force and will not stoop to the low, the mean, the dospicable work that is beginning to make the workert be lieve that the yellow streak is a pre dominant characteristic of what should bo a highly respectod body of men," From tht above, taken from tho Searchlight, it would appoar to bo time for workers of this country to tako stock of their membership whon Buch tactics are being adopted by the authorities. Vuneouver particularly is infested by spies and atool pigeons, not necessarily mountod policemen, but Thiel and othor kinds of detectives aro active here, and no doubt are experts at manufacturing evidence against active workers in the Labor movement,* one of thom was properly taken care of during tho striko here. He also carried a gun, and was arrested on tho instigation of tho atriko eommittee, as a result. The names and aetivities of many othors are known, but suroly the poople of this country will resent such methods as aro now being adopted by the employen and the authorities. It hai also boen rumored that even tht roturned men's organizations art not free from thii kind of eipionagt. Our advertisers support tht Fed. ■t»tionist. It it up te job to tup- po:t them, Unions Breaking Up— A. F. of L. Help Bosses— i OAU. to Enter Field' The tradt onion movement of California aad other southern Pacific coait oitiM appeara to have beea badly knocked to pieces, at the remit of the shipyard strike which started in Lot Angoles last May and spread to other eltiet on October 1 and fizzled out on November 10 Varioui reaaona are givon for tht collapse, bnt tht most Important seemt to be because of the fallurt of the international! te pay itrikt benefits. The employen open shop policy it gaining headway and the trade anion movomont teemt absolutely usable to eopt with it. Practically all unioni are thot to pieees, Boilormak- ora Loeal 285 of San Pedro for instance had 5000 memberi in May, today it haa about 250 The Street Bailwaymen Union of Lot Angeles has cloaed dows ltt offices in tho Labor Temple, unorganized men and women are gradually taking the placei ef the organized, or the organized are dropping out of the union in ihipbuilding planta, eontraet shops, restaurants, telephone and telegraph offices, building industries, lumbor yards, railroads, etc. The A. F. of L. appears to be helping the came of the employen by expelling memben who are attempting to save the situation by joining aud advocating the O. B. U. A fow staunch workeri, however, ara making supreme effort! to reor- f;anizo the worken along O. B, U. inet in timo for a b.'g organisation drivo in the spring, Atk your grocer If his clerki art In tho nnionf FELLOW UNIONISTS Be consistent and demand the Union Stmsm __ .--j- - shoes. The following local arms are fair to Organised Labor I are worthy of yonr patronage aad rapport: J. lecUs Co., Ltd, 1J0 Otmhte Strist. .*___. , Bam? Best Ohey'n OorSon St. W.-Outm htaUat aad Btftfet SlHiHi. «0 Vtor Stteet-OustMS _*_*_*?_____*■- MleLacMaa-Ilftor Oo, SS Cordova Strait Wut—MMS ■ BnmlTaail Stop, SSI Bnaimnlr Stittt-Ottlw Making UNION REPAIR SHOPS "■tdtiar" Shot nrair atemti. tut t laniard Shot Bepalr Ship, SIS Bttm Stmt. H. B. Ihonu. see Klasmr. _ , . __. Weeds, Ltd., "K" Boot Shop, Oordwa aad Hsittnp Stmt Wl* H. 0. Spwiilnt, StTl Truer Street, Seats Vactavtr. O. X. Tonus, list Oomatnlal Dflvi. Be program, Mr. Shoe Bevoiiet, sad get to touch witk Seem tary. Tom Cory, 448 Tenon Drive, tOOOBBS ATTENTION Arrangement! havt been made'betweon your union and tht Vaneonver Co-operative Society whereby the Union will benefit financially by the purchasing done at the store. Every purchase made by a member of the union will be credited to tht union and whatever dividend it declared by the tocioty on purchases will be handed over to tht union for its educational fund. Thlt would mean that if ten per eent. dividend ia de-" dared at the end of throe months, the union will receive ten dollars on overy hundred dollan spent in the store by memberi of the union. The atore ii owned by worken to the number of over 1000 and lti membership it increasing evory day. The store is located at 41 Pender Street. West and men'i furnishing!, boot! and shoes, dry goods, tobaeeo, crockery, grocoricB, etc., are told. AU goodi to the amount of 85 or more, with the exception of groceries, will be sent postpaid to any oamp. Whon ordering have the order eredited to the "Loggen' Union," the membership number of whieh ia 1000, Speeial attention will bo given to all orden. Send them with eash, through the camp delegate, direot to the storo. DEMAND KIRK'S Naniimo-WellingtM COAL Alwaya Dependable "Atk tbt'woman who bund it" Kirk&Co. ZJM1TBD 929 Main Street Phones Seymour 1441 and MS What about renewing your sun.1 Offering Unrivalled Values in Men's Suits at Spencer's We go into details about these men's suits, being convinced that they afford any man who has a suit to buy an opportunity to secure value far better than he could ordinarily obtain for his money. PATON WORSTEDS AT $35.00-The same quality will be unprocurable in the spring for loss than $47.50. Smart dark brown checks in conservative sack model with peaked lapel. STYLECRAFT SUITS AT $45.00— Grey tweed of good, seasonable weight. A conservative model faultlessly tailored and trimmed with good, durable lining. AT $32.50—A FINELY MILLED WORSTED in dark grey ground and contrasting pattern, beautifully worked out; is a splendid choice for a young man preferring the waistline model. Has slashed pockets and peak lapel Tolling artistically to two buttons. YOUNG MEN'S FORM'- FITTING MODELS—With soft rolling peaked la< pels and slightly sloping pockets, are available in a dark brown tweed at, $25.00 A BENGARD SUIT FOR $25.00—In the popular waist seam style. This suit is made of a novelty tweed in a heather mixture and combines all ihe features demanded by a smart dresser. ANOTHER NEW MODEL AT $25.00 is a pin-striped tweed with brown background and long rolling lapels, welted slash pockets and the new slightly belted sleeve. A corking good buy. —Men's Store, Main Floor. Men's Sweater Coats A thoughtful gift that a man will derive much comfort and satisfaction from is a "Pride of the West" Sweater Coat— the best coat mado. Pure wool, clastic and excellent fitting, hand knit, in grey, khaki, fawn, dark brown, olive, oxford grey and maroon, $10.50, $12.50 and $15.00 Pullover Sweater; all wool, all wanted colors; V-neck $8.75 Without sleeves $6.00 Silk Shirts We have a fine stook of them in handsome fancy colored stripe effects, just what men approve $7.50 to $9.50 Plain white washing silk and pongee shirts at $5.75 Mackinaws'Will Keep the Cold Out Zero weather will occasion no fear in you if you are protected with one of thess fmc warm coats. All outdoor worken should have them. Well made garments with all-round belts and flap pockets, in black. AU sizes. Speoial values at $14.25 and $14.75 Pure wool mackinaw in shades of green, brown, grey and blue, with overcheck. Prioe $18.50 —Men's Storo, Main Floor. Silk and Wool Mufflers Qunlity goods ia Wool, in groy, tan, greon Heavier Scurfs Morcorized Knit Scurf*, Bhadca ._ Shot effects tho colors men prefer. saxe, black end bottle J 1.88. 2.50 in plain and fancy 81.50 82.60 and 83.60 Light Weight Scarfs ia moire, poplin nnd silk 81.60 to 88.00 Bilk Scurfs in a brood range of self colors, at - .*... 8880 Bilk Scarfs of heavy quality in a wido range of plain and fancy colorings, from 83.80 to 85.76 Men's Gloves Dent's ond Pcrrin's tap capeskin, nnlincd, at 82.00, 82.26, 83.00 • Fownos' Cnpeskin - _ 82.60 Dent's wosliablo cape 83.50 Fownes' Bussian tan, hand sown 83.00 Tan capo, wool lined 82.00 Fownos' 88.50 Tan mocha, (Dent's and Fownos' make, 82.00, 82.26, 88.50, 83.00 and ' 83.60 Buckskin Gloves _ $4.00 and 86.50 Tan mocha, unlinod $2.26, 82.60 Tan mocha, silk lined, Dent's, at....82.7S, 83.00 Orey mocha, wool linod ..__... 82.60 Fownes' tan capo, silk lined 83.00 .83.00 Dont'» grey suedo, silk lined Fownes' grey egul buck, unlinod 84.50 Dent 'h Fronch suedo, dark groy, silk lined.. 82.50 Dont's fnwn suedo, unlinod . . 83.00 Silk linod 83.60 English chovretto, silk lined 83.85 Wool Olovci at-. SOe, 78c, $1.00, $1.35, 8160 FUR-LINED OLOVES SPLENDID QUALITY TAN AMD MOCHA— Por pair 84.95, 86.00 and 87.50 AUTO OAUNTLETS-Taa and blaek, ua. lined $8.85, $8.96, $450 Linod .$4.95 and $5.85 DAVID SPENCER, LTD. PAGE SIX eleventh TEAR. No. ci THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vancouveb, a a. FBIDAT. December 19, 1919 We Want Your Custom Come in Thousands Cal-Van See Our DISPLAY of Fresh Killed TURKEYS, GEESE, DUCKS, CHICKENS, FOWL, VEAL, PORK, BEEF, MUTTON, LAMB, HAMS, BACON, FRUITS, NUTS, BUTTER AND CHEESE. Nowhere in the city can you get such an assortment of really high-class EATABLES. Something That Gives Satisfaction YOUR MARKET Gal-Van Market Hall 27 HASTINGS WEST Opposite Pantages All Cars Stop at Door Vaneoaver Unions VANCOUVER TRADEB AMD LABOR COUNCIL—Executive eommitt««, Preildent J. O. Smith, Vice-President E. Winch, SecreUry and Bnalneu Agent J. 0. Wood, Treuorer J. Shaw, Sergeant at Anne W. A, Alexander, Truiteei W. A. Prltchard, R. W. Youngaih, X, Baku, W, Lit. ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUN- dl—Meeta eeoond Monday In tkt month. Preildent, 3. f. McConnell; Wary. R. H. Neelanda, B. 0. Box tt. BRIDGE STRUCTURAL ORNAMENTAL and Reinforced Ironworkeri, Local 97 •—Meeta eecond and fourth Mondaya. Pruldent Ju. Hutinga; financial iecretary and treaiurer, Roy Maisecnr, Boom 818 Labor Temple. BROTHERHOOD OP CARPENTERS, Local No. 817—Meete every eecond and fourth Monday evening, 8 o'clock, Ubor Temple. Preeldent, J. Bold; eec fitary, E. J. Temoin, 1828 f " hnaineaa ageit aa< tttiwL- g. 0. Thom, Room SM Ubor Templt. Phone Bey. 7498. ELECTRICAL WORKERS. LOCAL No at .440 Pender Street 813—Meeta Weit, n««7 Monday, j" lead dent, H. H. Waodllde. 440 tender W.; recording SWtxirj.J. Murdock, 440 Pender Street Wut: Inanelal aeoretary and Ptn4ef_ P. R. Btfrrowa. i AttnC'R H. Monrtion," 440 Street Wtat; aaelitant aeeretary, ENGINEERS AND HILL WORKERS— Unit of tha 0. B. U.—Meetinga every Monday, 7:80 p.m., Labor Temple. Preaident, P. L. Hunt; aecretanf-treasurer, W. A. Alexander, Room 216, Labor Tem* pie. Phone, Seymour 8980. HOTEL AND RESTAURANT EM- ployeei, Local «8—Meeta every flrat Wednesday In tbo month at 2:80 p.m. and every third Wedneaday in the month at 9 p.m. Preildent, John (Jammings, aeeretary and busineu agent, A. Oraham. 0«ce and meeting hall, 614 Pender St. W. Phone Sey. 1881. OBce houra, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m, International jjtoelrt work* era' Union—Meete 2nd and 4th Fridays, 205 Labor Temple. Preildent, W. Wilson, 2289 OranvUle Street; iecretary* treuorer, P. J. Bnell, 244—28th Ave, g. DUMBER WORKERS' INDUSTRIAL Union of tht One Big Union—Afflliated with B. 0. federation of Labor and Vancouver Trades and Labor Council— An industrial unioir of all worken tn logging and conatructlon camps. Head* (uartera, 81 Cordova Btreet wut, Van* couver, B. 0. Phono Sey. 7658. E, Winch, secretary-treasurer; legal advisers, Messrs. Bird, Macdonald J. Co., Vancouver, B. C.j auditors, Meun, Bttttar _ Chlene, Vancouver, B. 0. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S Association, Local 88-52—Office and hall, 804 Pender Street Weit. Meeti flrst and third Fridays, 8 p.m. Secretary- Treaiurer, Thomu Nixon; Buslnesi Agent, Robert Raiabeck, AMALOAMATED MEAT CUTTERS AND Butcher Workmen'! Union No. 643— Moeta firat and third Tuesdays of eaeh month, Labor Temple, 8 p.m. President, W. V. Tamley, 1838 Powell St.; recording secretary, William Gibb*, Station B. P. 0. Vancouver; flnnncial secretary and buiineu agent, T. W. Anderson, 687 Homer St. MINE, MILL AND SMELTER WORK- era* Unit of the One Big Union. Metalliferous Miners—Vancouver, B. C-. headquarters, 61 Cordova Street Weat. All workera engaged in this industry are urged to join the Union before going on the job. Don't wait to ha organlied, hut organise yourself. PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF North America (Vancouver and vicinity)—Branch meeta second and fourth Mondaya, Room 204 Labor Temple. President, Wm. Hunter, 818 Tenth Ave. North Vancouver; financial secretary, E. God- dard, 856 Richards Street; recording secretary, J. D. Russell, 928 Commercial Drive. Phone High. 2204R, 1HIPYARD LABORERS, RIGGERS AND Puteners, I.L.A., Local Union 98A, Beriea 5—Meeta the 2nd and 4th Fridays ef tbe month, Labor Temple, 8 p.m. President, George Mansell; flnanclal sec- retary and feiw.nrmt agpfrt, M. Phelps; corresponding secretary, W. Let. Offlce, Room 207 Labor Temple, SHIPWRIGHTS LOCAL 1808, U. B. Carpentera—Meeti Room 807 every 2nd snd 4th Tuesday in eaeh month. Preaident, J.. W. Wllklnaon; recording secretory, W. J. Johnaton, 73—24th Ave, W.; financial secretary, H. A. Macdonald, Room 212 Labor Temple. BTkebt AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY Employeu, Pioneer Divlaion, No. 101 7"?t*,£ A 9* *• HalL Mount Pleaunt, iat and Srd Mondays at 10.15 a.m. and 7 p.m. Preaident. W. H. Cottrell; neordlng aeoretary, P. E. Griffin, 5419 Commercial Drive; treuurer, B. h. Cleveland; flnmnelal ucretary and business agent, Fred A. Hoover, 2409 Clark Drlvt; office torner Prior and Main streets. JOURNEYMEN TAILORS* UNION Of America, Loeal No. 178—Meetings held firat Monday in each month, 8 p.m. Preaident, J. T. Elsworth; vice-president, A. R. Gatenby; recording aeeretary, C. Me- £f«M» P- 0. Box 503, Phont Stymour 8281L; financial uereary, Robt. MeNelih, P. O. Box — TRANSPORT WORKERS UNIT, O.B.U, (Teamsters, Warehousemen, Auto Mechanics, etc.)—Meeta every Wednesday at 152 Cordova Street Eut. President, J. Shaw; aeeretary, C. A. Read, 2344 Prince Edward Street. Offlce: 108 Oor* dov»_Street East, TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 226— Meett lut Sunday of oath month at 2 p.m. President W. H. Jordan; vlee- president, W. H. Youhill; secretary- treasurer, R. H. Neelanda, Box 80. Provincial Unions B. 0. FEDERATION OF LABOR—Meeta In annual convention in January. Ei* outivo offlcen, 1918-19: President, J. Kavanagh, Labor Temple, Vaneoaver; vice-presidents—Vancouver Iiland: Cum* berland, J. Naylor; Victoria, J. Taylor; Princo Rupert, Geo. Casey; Vancouver, W. H. Cottrell, P. McDonnell; New West* minster, Geo. McMurphy; Wut Kootenay, Silverton, T. B, Roberta; Orow'a Neat Pan, W. B. Phillips, Pernio, W. A. Sherman. Secretary-treasurer, A. 8. Wells, Labor Temple, 401 Dunsmuir Bt, Vanconver, B. C. ' VIOTOBIA, B. 0. VICTORIA AND DISTRICT TRADES and Labor Council—Moeta flrat and third Wedneadaya, Knlghta of Pythlu Hall, North Park Street, at 8 p.m. President, E. S. Woodsworth; vlce-pruldent, A. 0. Pike; secretary-treasurer, Christian Slverti, P. Q. Box 802, Victoria. B. 0. NORTH VANCOUVER U. B. OF CARPENTERS AND JOIN- era, Local 1777—Meoti flrst and third Mondaya ln I. 0. 0. F. Hall, Lower Kieth Road Eut, at 8 p.m. Preaident, W. Cumminga, 10th Street East, North Vaneonver; financial secretary, Arthur Rot, 210—18th St. W., North Vancouver. PRINCE RUPERT, B. 0. PRINCE RUPERT TRADES AND LA* hor Council—Meets aecond and fourth Tuesdays of each month, in Carpentera' Hall. President, 8. D. McDonald; vice- president, A. Ellis; secretary, Geo. Wad* dell, Box 273, Prince Rnpert, B. 0. PRINOE RUPERT CENTRAL LABOR COUNOIL, 0. B. U.—Meets every tee* ond and fonrth Tuesday In the 0. B. U. Hall, corner Sixth avenue and Pulton atreet, at 8 p.m. Meetinga open to all 0. B, U. members. Secretary-treasurer, D. 8. Cameron. Box 217, Prince Rnpert. B.C. OET BEHIND A BUTTON Workers' Liberty Bond Buttons are issued to every purchaser of a bond. Have you got yours yet. Oet behind a button and show that you are willing to help all you can the defense of the men arrested in Winnipeg. 1200 delegates were in attendance at tho recent labor party convention in Chicago. It waa an enthusiastic, harmonious affair. 6#&% _^eer ONE OF THE FINEST TONICS Good for Health Improves the Appetite CHEAP PRODUCTION Everyone knows that cheap goods can only be procured by using cheap materials and employing cheap labor CASCADE BEER ia produced from the highest grade materials procurable —Cascade ia a UNION produce from start to finish. VANCOUVER BREWERIES LIMITED Those Taxes Editor B. C. Federutionist: I will answer your question flrst. You ask me, "If the workers havo during the war period been getting a price for their labor power in excess of its value. What were they receiving prior to tho war, when the real wage of the worker was much higher than at any time during the war period or since." (The emphasis Is mine.) The answer to that quostion is simple. They were getting a price still greater in excess. Now lot mo draw your readers' attention to thia question. I have emphasized the latter part of the question because it entirely undermines your whole argument. If as you argue, the workers only get sufficient no more and no less than to mako them efficient slaves, how could they be getting a bigger prico boforo the war for thcir labor power than thoy are now! The fact, which every one hag observed, and which you havo embodied in your quostion ,shatterg your wholo argument ,and places mino on an unshakable foundation. I agree with you that the workers beforo the war wero getting a much higher price for their labor power than they are getting today. Todny they are still buying tobacco, and going to theatres, which proves that they are not below the minimum. How can you atill contend that they were not above the minimum beforo the wart If you admit that they were above tho minimum of existence before tho war, then thoy had a surplus out of which they could pay taxes. In tho same paragraph in which you admit that the workers were getting a wage, or prico for thoir labor power much in excess of the present price, you wind up by saying "we havo yet to learn of a case where labor power has been sold on the market at any great extent at a prico greatly exceeding tho monetary expression of its value." It will be good exercise for your readers to chow over that paragraph. I -do not propose to take tip any more of your spaco over this discus- sion, as there aro no now arguments forthcoming, and I think your readers haVe heard enough to get them pulling each other's whiskers and calling each other prevaricators of the condemned typo. In closing, I would like to remind them, however, to keep this always in their minds when discussing tho lamentable condition of the workers, they have the vote, and they are 90 per cent of the population, so for heavens sake don't blame tho ton por cent, for pulling you around by the noses. And if thoy can't think of any way of emancipating themselves from thc degrading exhibition that they make at every olection, my advice to them is to soap thcir noses. Yours vory truly, GEORGE P. STIRLING, tShe Ib boing forcod to crow -nil the multitudinous subjects modern, graded school under same conditions in which* the tl It's were taught 70 years ago. course she gives her entrance > half an hour after or before school overy-day (which I might say works out to three weeks in the year Mox_ whieh she Ib not paid), but that does not relieve matters much. Thon with regard to summer vacation (unpaid for of course) it is uot so easy as it might appear for an untrained woman to get temporary work. In fact, I would bo glad to know where I could earn $50 a month outside my own trade of teaching. I tried it ono summer in Victoria. There was the 15-ccnt store at $4.50 a week; thero was of course housework and fruit piek* ing, but as to employment in stores the best I oould see for incxperi onced help was $5 or $6 a week. Not boing absolutely story broke, I concluded to bosk on tho beach instead and oat up what I had saved. In spite of all this, the average teacher is capital's most assiduous flunkey and scouts the idea of being associated with common "labor." We have a fedoration It iB true. What it is going to do for us remains to be seon. So far I have only mot one teacher in B. C. who had any sympathy with the labor movement and who, like myself, would like to soo a teachers union federated with othor labor unions. If thero aro any otherB—readors of this paper—I would liko to hoar from them/ (Address with the editor.) A TEACHER. Teachers' Salaries Editor B. C. Federationist. In recent issue of The Fedorationist, tho romark was made that only u few teachers got salaries. as low a.-? $60 a month. The exact number of teachers receiving from $60 to $65 a month is, according to the last published schools report, 388. Since that report was published, tho wages of the assisted school teachers were reduced $5 a month for a year—just at the timo when tho wagos of other workers wore going up. In tho spring of this year thoy wore uguin put on the pre-war timo basis. The above mentioned 388 teachers include Ilrst, second and third class teachers, and are teaching in city and country schools. There is not much to bo gained by debating bb to whether tho fireman or the teacher deserves or gets the higher wage. Both are wago slaves and things aro so nicely balanced that, as tho old showman man said: "What you loses on the roundabouts you makes up on the swings." Tho teacher sells hor nerve and brain force, tho fireman his muscle. She has shorter hours and longer holidays than he has simply because nerv« and brain cannot hold out so long as muscle. Add anothor day to tho teacher'a week and sho would soon be in tho lunatic asylum. Mechanical work is tiresome, but it does not take it out of one as work does that continually requires frosh efforts, fresh, adjustment to circumstance, and above all that necessitating the unceasing strain of curbing, quelling, coaxing and bending 25 to 40 unwilling or inert or inattentive young minds. Mere teaching is nothing to anyone who knows her trade; but from the attitude of many people it would appear that all tho teacher haa to do is to go and calmly deliver lesson nnd ask quostions from 0 to 3:30 to 30 little lay figures who drink it all int Tho human equation is forgotten. Again, the fireman leaves his work behind him at night. The teacher has to take hors home. I do not mean the two hours' correcting of books and arranging of next day's lessons; but tho thinking of tho various difficulties that occur every single day of tho school year. Hero are a few of thorn: The child who lags behind hor class becauso she has fits and her brain is not of the best; tho big boys who aro oaten up with inortia and Blackness owing to smoking and other things; tho fighting in tho playground; tho mothor who writes that her child is always getting its foot wot and you must see to it; tho pilfering of pencils; the,othor mother who won't provido hor six-year-old with crayotiB but who thinks that infants of thot ago should spend all thcir time "at tlieir books"; but I will not eon- tinue. Sufficient to say the teacher goes to sleep many a night still at hor work. Again, and hero I am talking of that truly desperate instiution, tho ungraded school—tho teacher is specially trained at Normal to teach one class at a timo in a graded school. She then finds herself in tho hopeless position of having to do in an ungraded school what it requires at least six teachers to do in a graded school. The curriculum precisely tho same. Sho has to teach thirteen subjects to an en franco class and at the samo time look aftor six-year-old babies and the four or fivo intermediate classes between these two extremes. Sisyphus wob not "in itl" She is foTevor striving after tho impossiblo, with nerves stretched to snapping point. WELSH ANSWERED The Situation of the 0. B. V. in PRINCE RUPERT Editor B. C. Fedorationist: In the Vancouver daily press of December 5 last a great display is mado of thu allegations mado by Prosidcnt Welsh of tho International Trados: and Labor' Council of that city affecting the strength of tho 0. B. U. organizations in Prince Rupert. Thoso statements, as reported, aro bo glaringly inaccurate that the undersigned committoe has been appointed by the Central Labor Council to place the facts before tho labor movement in Canada. The charitable supposition is that President Welsh has beep misinformed and mado tho statements reportod in good faith. If ibo. he has beon deliberately misinformed. - '!'..■ The opening statement in tho Vftij* couver Sun of the date mentioned'iff that it was "an absolute lie flmtf the O, B. U. had that city solidlyUr. ganized, as far as the labor unions wero concerned." The statcmcnt'hals never bcen mado from this end,' Wit we havo been unable to discovering statoment in the "Fed." of a-'Hkji*] nature, ,fni Ho then "flatly denied the stik'tO- ment in tho Federationist that 'thd Halibut Fishermen 'b union had goad over to the 0. B. TJ., as the fishermen wore all strongly international' * In which issuo of tho "Fed" did this appenrf In the first placo, there is no "Halibut Fishermen's union" in Princo Rupert. Tho Deep' Sea Fishermen's union is an International organization which embraces other than halibut fishermen, but to say that thc halibut fishermen arc "strongly international" is to laugh.' Thero' will be a tale to tell sonic day, not far distant. Thc O. B. U. Fisheries and Water-Pro ducts Industrial unit has 151 members, seventy-four of whom wore formerly thc "Small Fishpackors' union" (A. F. of L.) referred to by Prosidont Welsh. ' In addition to these - there are seventy-seven bona fldo fishermen in this unit. (These two bodies have just amalgamated into one 0. B. U. unit.) Will President Welsh givo us tho "best authority" on which he mado tho assertion that "tho only 0. B. 17. organizations in Prince Rupert at present were the lumber workers and a small fiahpackers' union!" The O. B. JU. Central Labor Couneil hero has 389 members paying all their dues to tho council, and 15 paying per capita tax. This does not. includo any members of the L. W. I. U., with tho exeption of tho assistant secretary, who is a delegato for the recruiting unit until such timo as the pressure of business lots up sufficiently to allow of that unit boing placed on a thoroughly organized basis. Any authorized committee from a recognized labor body is at liborty to inspect our books to verify this statement as to our membership. In this connection it may also bo mentionod that after the Wostorn Conference, whon a levy was made on the afflliated membership of thc local T. & L. Council to defray the expense of the referendum, according to tho per capita tax returns thnt council had an affiliated membership of 540. In the recruiting unit we have a sufficient number of carpenters who have seceded from the international body to form a separate unit. (Tho minimum number is fifteen.) >d The samo press report makes Del' egate Russell Bay that of the steam' enginoers in Prince Rupert, all but two belong to the international. In tbe Metal Trades unit we have- 25 enginoers, of whom 20 were members of tho international when the split took placo. In regard to the local taachinlsts, thoro aro 13 in the G. T. P. shops, of whom 9 are in the 0. B. U., And of those, 6 woro members at thrf timo of tho split. In the contract shops wo have tho internationals' "skinned a mile." The I. Ii. A. has 85 members at presont. Thoy havo sovered tHoir affiliation with tho T. & L. Council? but havo not joined tbo 0. B. U. ' President Welsh is reported in tho World of tho same date as tho Sun as saying that, "despite the statement in tho "Fod." that the O. B. U. in Princo Ruport was making headway, ho had found that tho T. k. h. Council there had a larger membership than over it had bofore. With tho exception of the Lumber- workers and tho Fishpackors all tho unions had retained their international affiliations." It is true that tho unions have retained their affili atlon, with the exception of thc Fishpackors, the L. W. I. TT. and the I. L. A. At the time of secession these would total about 250 mombers. A large proportion of the membership of the unions have gone over to tho 0, B. U., but it is not disputed that a sufficient number have been $1453.31 FOR Women's Auxiliary Has Entered Campaign With Vim Central Labor Council and F. L. P. Will Act Together in Election The last meeting of tho Prince Rupert Central Labor council was a busy one and concluding with an address from T. A. Barnard. Communications from the defense committee of Winnipeg and Vancouver read and filed. From the B. C. Fedorationist, laid over to new business. Various bills wero ordered paid, including thoso for fitting up too headquarters for tho convenienco of tbe Women's Auxiliary.^ The amount of the latter caused some discussion but not opposition. The fittings includo a counter with shelves for dishes, hardware and a stovo. No chargo was mado for thc labor. It was agreod that tho fittings should be the joint proporty of tho council and tho auxiliary. Tho defense committoe reportod the proceeds from tbo salo of Labor Defense Bonds to date as $589.00 The total collections' from the first opening of tho campaign for funds to the initiation of the bond campaign woro $8045.31, making a combined total to date of $1,453.31. Roport accoptcd. The secrotary-treasurer submitted tho financial report for November. Receipts totalled $318.95, balanco, October 31, $f!41.90; total, $900.85, Expenditures, $200.25, leaving a bank balance, November 30, of $700.60. Membership pnying dues direct to thc council amounts to 389, and thoso paying per capita tax 15, total membership 404. This docs not include any of thc membership of tho L. W. I. U. Roport accepted. Secretary-treasurer Cameron, commenting on the roport, drew attention to tho statements reported as having been mnde in tho Vancouver T, & L. C. (International), by President Welsh, affecting the position and strength of tho 0, B. U. Princo Rupert. A debato arose on this point, nnd a committee was appointed to draft a letter for publication in tho Federationist, sotting forth tho truo situation of the O. B. U. movement in Princo Rupert. Tho report of the committeo appears in another column. Mrs. Gawthorno reported for tho Women's Auxiliary that thoy had had ono organization and ono business meeting. They now had 21 members. An opon meeting for all working women would bo held on tho llth inst.; on Suturday they proposed to hold a sale of homo cooking for tho benefit of tho Defenso Fund at 3 p.m.. and at 8 p.m. a social to which all O. B. IJ. members would be invited. It was a mistaken idea of somo people thut the auxiliary was open only to women who had men in tho 0. B. U. All working women wero eligible to membership. Mrs. McCarthy roported that tho mayor hud refused to accord tho auxiliary a lag day for tho benefit of thc Defenso Fund, saying that ho could not allow thd streets to bo used for anarchist purposes. Ratios were olso prohibited except for charitable purposes. Mrs. Gawthorne aaid that thoy were putting up a child's sweater at 10 conts a ticket, ono of the best ways of raising money. In Winnipeg sho had seen $78.75 raised in that manner, Tho auxiliary was encouraged to go ahead with the raffle and tho mayor _ objections could be dealt with at election timo. The auxiliary also reported that they oxpected to stand all thoir own expenses after the period pf organization and relievo the council of an expense on thoir account, but tho council, by motion, decided to allow them the uso of the half rent freo and to pay for their advertising after Docombor 10. Tho roquost of the F. L. P. for a conference on action in the coining municipal elections was considered, and Delegates Mrs. McCarthy, Messrs. Cameron, Casey and Dorry wore elected as tho representatives of tho council. No more nominations having beon mado for tho delegate to the 0. B. U. convention, tho chair declared nominations closed and the manner of olection and arrangements discussed. It was ordered that tho nominee receiving the highest vote be declared elected, the noxt highest to be the alternate. That the election take place at headquarters on Sunday, December 14, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., offl eial ballots printed, and the poll clerks and scrutineers be elocted. Delegate Rose was appointed poll clerk and Delegates Morse and Prescott scrutineers. No ballots to be issued to mombers more than one month in arrears. The communications from the B. C. Fedorationist wore considered and the assistant secretary instructed to reply. Deolgatos Cameron, Casoy and W. Shaw wero elected to appear before tho Social Service Commission at its sittings in Princo Rupert on (Decembor 31. The Fisheries and Water Products Industrial unit reportod that they would mce( on December 11 to elect permanent officers and adopt the com stitution and bye-laws. Tho secretary-treasurer asked that all. units submit the names of thoir members to him to be placed on tho mailing list of the B. 0. Federationist for the coming yoar. Some units loft to retain the respective char ters from the internationals. Where the T. k L. Counoll gets its membership "larger than ever it had be* fore" Ib a mystery. Who is tho ltarf From this "metropolis of the north" as well as from tho editorial sanctum of tho Federationist, echo answers—Who! G. RUDDERHAM. A. 0. MORSE, F. SHAW, R. T. J. ROSE, J. H. BURROUGH. (Committee.) Members Should Study World Conditions and Follow Constitution [By W. A. Alexander] Tho Engineers and Mill Workers unit of tho 0. B. U. have unanimously endorsed baving tho 0. B. U. convention held in January as the members consider it is vitally important that the convention should be held as soon as possible. Tho present system of allowing several units belonging to one industry to carry on their businoss in competition with each other is considered by members to bo a gravo mistake and unless this iB rectified at -ah early dato thoy consider it will shortly load to jurisdictional disputos between thoso various units which will eventually split the organization asunder. There aro still a few membors in this unit as well as in all othor units of the 0. B. U. who havo not yet grasped the idea of industrial unionism as outlined in tho preamble of the O. B. U. constitution, and who Btill dosire to carry on business on a craft basis. They seem to think that the only reason for seceding from tho A. F. of L. wos for the purpose of saving the per capita from going to tho other sido. They cannot, or will not, realize tho fact that conditions havo changed in capitalistic affairs sinco tho ending of tho war and also in working class affairs, which makes it imperative for both,sides to get into hostile camps for self-preservation. Tho capitalistic group havo been attempting to build up a One Big Union of capitalists through tho League of Nations, but apparently, they cannot agree among themselves and before long society may again witness a spectacle of our civilized and Christianized workers being hurled against each other in another gigantic war of destruction in order that certain groups of capitalists may be able to gain markets for the products of thcir slaves, and that the slaves may be kept employed in producing profits for thom, and not forcod into open revolt on account of lack of employment. Members of thc O. B. U. would do well to study tho world's industrial condition as it exists today and if they possess tho power to reason thoy must realizo that the workors must be got together into such an organization as outlined in tho preamble of tho 0. B. U. Tho outlook is very dark, apparently capitalistic society is approaching dismemberment, unemployment, anarchy and rapine are rampant throughout tho world and unless the forces of labor are organized on a class basis at a very early dato a catastrophe of greator magnitude than the world haB over witnessed will surely take place. Realizing these facts it almost makes tho workers who are attempting to prevent thc threatened cat- astropho from taking placo, lose hopo, whon thoy find that certain groups of workers within the 0. B. U. aro. attempting to tako advantage of othor groups in u similar manner to tho various capitalistic groups. From an economic point of viow the causo of disagreement is tho same in the camps of tho capitalists as it is in tho camps of tho workers, thoy both desire markets, tho capitalists for tho salo of the products of their slaves and tho workers for thc salo of their labor power, and as thero are not sufficient markets for all, each group is willing to fight to control tho market which it at present possesses. One can understand tho capitalist groups being willing to fight is they do not do the actual fighting or suffering themselves, for simply by tho use of their kopt press they can stir up a patriotic spirit among their slaves, who when necessity drives, aro willing to go out and shoot down their follow man providing tho government of thcir country makes the shooting lawful and gives them a meal ticket for doing so, but it is hard to understand the psychology of the workor who wants to fight his fellow worker, who Is trying to make his burdon lighter by bringing into boing an organization that will prepare tho way by the education of the workers to their class position in society, for a now ordor, whon want and fear of want will bo unknown and unemployment a thing of the past. This, however, can only be done when production for profit has boen eliminated and has been replaced by a system of production for uso and it is to this ond that we must organize. As tho majority of tho work, ers in America have nothing to loso in presont society but a job that tbey do not own, and which they arc soon liable to loso unless thoy aro willing to work for less wages and reduce their standard of living to that of the industrial slave of th«| Orient. It is, therefore, up to them to commence doing some serious thinking in order to seo if thoy cannot get down to a basis of understanding, for it Ib tho workers alone who can bring order out of chaos and this cannot bo done unless the workers become organized on a elass basis. There will be no further meetings of tho branches of this unit outsido the eity until January, whon meetings will bo held as follows: Now Westminster, 2nd and 4th Wednos- were sending in their lists direct to the newspapor, which was not tho correct course. Ho also complained' of the manner in which some receipts for duos were being issued. Some membors wore being credited with dues ahead, when there was no record of tho intervening months being paid for. Discussion followed, and it was decided that members joining on or after tho 15th of any month would not be charged dues for tbat month, and that the secretary-treasurer procure tho receipts of tho mombers in question and mako the necessary alterations, The matter of providing educational reading mattor dealing with current events was referred to the library committee. Mr. Barnard of the F, L. P, jras then called on by the choir to address the meeting, and responded with a brief and interesting address on the topics of the day affecting labor locally and internationally. Adiournment waa taken at 11.10 p.m. LADIES! Useful Christmas Gifts That your Grandfathers, your Fathers, your Husbands, your Brothers, your Sons, your Friends and all your Beaux will appreciate. We carry the goods discriminating buyers buy for themselves. If you want Quality, Style and Pep in your Christmas Presents, make sure—Get them here. DOLL UP FOR CHRISTMAS. WE HAVE A NICE SUIT FOR YOU. The Jonah-Prat Co. 401 Hastings West. Corner Homer St. days; Maillurdvillo, 2nd and itb Thursdaya, Van Moody, 2nd and 4th Fridays. The meetings in Vancouver will bo held tho same as usual on overy Monday evening. Members should mako a good start with th New Tear by attending eaeh business meoting In thoir district and endeavor to get the Mill Workers 100 per cent organized before nut summer. Seattle Unions aro voting from .100 to .5,000 towards the oipenso of getting out a "bigger and bettor Seattle Union Record." do tou man to mwot mi Follow Iks Ortw» le ttt Patricia Cabaret On, blook eist of Eraprm Tkattra —AMD H EAR— WIS ULLIZ 1081. AM SMITH, B. LOVB and ttt BAL IoUrpi.t Ik, Uttlt sou kits. M- slsttd hy Tkt taut Jus Ian* 411 BAiinras inn a. HlUe, I p.m. to 1 HIGH GRADE Mechanics' Tools OF EVERY DESCRIPTION J. A. Hettf limited 339 HASTINGS STREET WEST' We buy and sell second-hand GUNS Christmas Suggestions One of our Hats or Caps is always acceptable at this Festive Season. «* YOU CAN'T BEAT THEM AT THE PRICE If you don't know the size give him a Hat Certificate. COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON Black & White Hat Store Corner Abbott and Hastings TO OUR MANY FRIENDS MERRY CHRISTMAS And we hope that the New Year may bring you a generous share of good things. W. B. BRUMMITT Dealer in Men's Clothing, Shoes, Etc OVERCOATS OUR SPECIALTY JUST NOW FROM $15.00 18-20 CORDOVA STREET WEST Branch Store: 444 Main Street FRE)AT. December 19, Ull eleventh TEAS. No. si THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST fureouvra, b. a PAGES**** ■-"' A Here's how to knock the "H" out of H.C.L. 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"How to Make People Like You"!!! GIVING a silver lining to every former smoke-time cloud. A cheery, pally puller for optimism, that "sets to" and makes good "flrst jump out of the box." The kind of oigar a fellow oan pack along with him proving the correspondence course on "How to make'people like you" —unnecessary. A regular fellow—thi VAN LOO Cigar. Stettler Cigar Factory Ltd., Vancouver, B.C. VAN LOO CIGARS SUMS All NAM Teachers Wsnt Equal Pay for Equal Work Regardless of Sex Tie talk at the National meeting on Sanday night, thie week, wu of a somewhat miscellaneous character, soveral speakers dividing np the hour between them, including Chairman J. H. Hogg, who, Irst of all, had occasion. to introduce a lady speaker from the ranks of the teachers, with a special mission of hor own. Comrade Hogg observed that "We ought to be pleased and happy that the teachers are coming to our platform and tacitly admitting that their place is with us." Miss Chosloy, a local teacher, said that the teachers, or at loast a large number of thom, felt that they were a part of the working-erase of the community. She had como to ask for endorsation -of a petition promoted by the lady teachers, asking "equal pay for equal work," regardless of the eex of the worker; and sho pointed Out that the measure wes not only to apply to teachers, but to the workers in genoral. Sho romarkod that the teachers were not yet perfectly organized; at least, theyx wore not yet affiliated to tho trade unions—"but that's coining, I think," she added. In any case, they wished to do thoir part in jotting equitable conditions of pay for oil willing workers. Sho also mentioned that another petition was on. tho way, for mothers' pensions, but was not yet ready; "tho men are gotting it out, and they're sometimes a littlo slower than the women." (Laughter.) In evcrjr country," said Miss Cheslcy, "it's the working people that do the thinking on' economia questions." As a result of such thinking, she remarked that an employer does not, in the ordinary way, pay a man more than he is ivorth; if a woman camo in and did tho work for less than tho man displaced, the employer pocketed the difference. Tho woman, in such a case, was in faet playing the part of a "scab." It was not tho woman workor's fault; she was not organized, and consequently could not do anything else.' Miss Chesley recognized that tho measure she advocated would bo opposed by "inefficient workers in thc labor market, who realized that, if it went through, they would lose their jobs. On the other hand, the efficient woman-worker would have her wages increased; and it was desirable that efficient workeri should be employed, in any case. As long as the capitalist class could keep alive the prejudices of sex, nationality, ete,, among tho working class, 10 long would the capitalists get the best of it While such divisions wen maintained, ao long would wars continue and the capitalist olass flourish; aa soon1 as tho workers caught tbe idea of universal brotherhood, wan would cease, Tho speaker ridiculed the argument that "a maa has a family to support and a woman hasn't," and therefore the man muat .be bettor paid. Apart from the fact that men had not always othors to support, and women sometimes had, tho argument was simply a capitalist subterfuge which thoy altogether stultified after putting it forward. If it were aced on, the man with a big family, being thus entitled to a bigger wage, would be the real sufferer, since ho would nover be employed. "If we can make the employor pay what the job is really worth, irrespective of whother the work is done by a mat or a woman, that's as far as we can get till wo can change tho whole systom." Ernest Burns spoko brief ly on "A Socialist's Viow of Vice and Crimo," his short address being prefaced with tho chairman's suggestion thnt vice is an effoct rather than a crimo, and that every man and every woman is the natural outcome of heredity and environment. ' Comrade Barns admitted the importance of "future" salvation to those who believed in it, and he would not rob them of any consolation accruing from thoir bolief. He was, howevor, concorned with salvation right here and now, and regarded the concerns of this world as of supreme importance for the time being. Socialists looked on society at "somothing that it growing;" in fait, an "organism." Today contained the potentialities of the future; presont socioty contained the conditions of future society. Society wu subject to constant evolution, just at tho physical body was suid to be subjoct to a complete change of lta atoms in seven years' timo. All the institutions of soolety, not excluding religious ideas, were grounded in tho economic situation. While net insisting that tho one, In overy individual particular, sprang directly from the other, tbo speaker maintained that thoro was, at loast, constant action and roaction between the two, "Vices and crimes nre tho oat- ward symptoms of tho diseased condition of society—evidences of the conflicting forces which are working in society." In presont socioty, men went into any business because thoy could mako a profit by so doing; they acted in accordance with this basic motivo. Socialists wanted to change tho fundamental basis of society—to produco goods to servo social noeds, and not to sell. Under such chango conditions, none would bo ongagod in a business whoso effect was to demoralize his fellows, becauso thore would be no proflt to bo gninod by ao doing. Vlcos and crimes wero not the result ot the Innate dopravity of human boings, or the spontaneous "cut- sedncss" of human nature. Thoy were duo to the faet that the intorest of the-Individual wu antagonistic to tho interest of the community as a whole. , In conclusion the speaker urged on his hearers that only by united action could they extricate thomsolves from tho conditions that exist today, OET BEHIND A BUTTON Worken' Liberty Bond Buttons an Issued to every purchaser of a bond, Have yon got youn yet Oet behind a button and show that you an willing to help all yoa on the defense of the men arrested In Win. HI E Workers Are Bobbed at the Point of Produc- . tion Only ; The p. P. of 0. meeting at the' Emprest Theatn Ult Sunday evening wu addressed By Comrade Lei- tor, the aubject being "Value." Comrade Marshall occupied the chair, and in hii introductory remark! itated that there, wu, everywhero, evident the need for itudy of the buie priaciplei of Socialism among the memberi of the working clan, and itated that lt wu aot de- aired nor expected that tht poiltlon Uid down by any Soclaliit ipeaker ihould bo on the fact of it accepted, bnt that Investigation by every individual hearer wu looked for. He announced tkat thia wu tht fint part of an extended lecture covering two Sundays to be delivered by Comrade Leitor. Comrade Leitor opened by itating that capitalism tho world over today found itself tied in a knot. The capitalist class itai no longer lure of tho seourity of itl position. All capitalist countries were now able to produoe mon values than in prewar times. Instancing Brazil, the ipeaker said the usual development had taken place in that country in market location, and tho further and natural result had been attained, that whereas tho exporting capitalist countries had, in tho early years of its history, found a market in Brazil, they now found her an exporting country in competition for the sale of the same merchandise. Increased capitalist development and what waa known u improvement, meant for the workeri only increued misery. Comrade Lestor instanced shoes-and shoemakers u illustrating his viewpoint. The machinery- of capitalism had firat concentrated and developed on the banks of rivers, thii being due to the ready access to water power. Social production and its essential division of labor was shown by the necessary tanning, cutting, curing, stitching, smoothing, and all the essential processes being gone through by groups of shoemakers, instead of by individuals, with the re*1 suit that in a given time more values wore shown as the result of an amount of Ubor of a given duration, of time. ing to its own speedy destruction. Its wealth wu being produced in quantity enormously greater thaa its rule of distribution enabled it to consume. The Socialist'i -work wu to educate his fellow men. When tho reins ot power fell to tho worken, the machinery of wealth produotlon would fall to their use, and distribution become harmonous with production. The harmony of co-opera- tion .would displace the present anarchy of exchange. Hiitory had bequeathed thli task to the working class. Russell on the Witness Stand Co-operation, however, meant accumulation, and when intensified, ac-! cumulation meant a glut of values in. the shape of. eommoditiea to be sold on the market The worker^' of today in the shoe factories were,', in a worse condition than the shoe-, h makers of one hundred yoars ago," said the ipeaker. Concerning profits,, the speakor said the capitalist die} not make profits by buying cheap])! and. selling dear. All good! wore „ bought and sold at their value. Yet the worker wu aot robbed in the sale of hii labor-power. In buying, \\ labor-power at ita. commodity Value and selling the product of labor at its value and reaping a proflt on the transaction, the capitalist privateer performed the eonjiiring trick of tho system of wealth production and distribution in oporation today. Tho worker belonged to tho master during the work period, and tho pro- duot of his labor bolonged to him also. While tho worker received tho valuo of his labor-power as a commodity, tho master received, upon the sale of tho product of labor, a value greater than he had beea required to pay tho worker. He wu not paying the worker for labor but for labor power, whioh ia use, produced commodities of value greater than its own. The workeri were therefore unable to buy baek at any given time, the values they had created, and since profits could not be realized until goods wore sold, tho profit system of wealth produetion veto from time to timo endangored through the disparity existing between production and distribution. The economic factor wu always fundamental. That wu, briefly, the meaning of the materialist interpretation of history. Capitalism had had iti root growth in Great Britain. Iti development had caused her to flght the (Dutch, the Spaniard!, and the French for control of the sea. Tho recent war had ostensible been for Domocracy, but was really a bloodletting for capitalist stagnation. Somctimos markots were relentlessly forced by armed might. In such cases the officers of religion and the missionary, in blazing a commorcial trail, were too slow to meet tho insistent need of advancing civilization to extond its frontiers, France, Britain, U. S. A., Qermany and Jap- ion of an had, during tho Boxer periot her history, forced their policies upon China. Upon the plea of equal franchise, Britain had engaged In the Boer war and capitalism had secured the oxpansion required for it in South Africa. Yet what was then a markot merely, was now a competitor u in tho caso of Brazil. In tho same wny, Germany had required expansion of hor economio bordon. Despite appearances of national antagonism, the mutual needs of capital, ist nation! were thowa recently, when tht Allies had refrained from dismembering Germany after overpowering that country. Tho reason; was that sho wu a border country to Bussia, and might bo used to the disadvantage of the Bolsheviki who were avowedly hostile to capitalism and all ita horrors of human suffering and destitution. The procest of international bargaining by whick Italy's side in the war had been dot termined was outlined by the speakor. Hor choico hod been determined by hor material needs, She had sold herself to the highest biddor. -, Trouble for the muter elass Uyi la tho aeodod eolation of the many port war probloms. The Bolshoviki made the vaunted peace a farce. One half of Austria'! population wen threatened immediately with starvation. The activltlei of U. S. A. la Mexico, and of Japan ia China were parallel cues, and tht two main groups of capitalist finance were involved Ib the entire world tangle, juggling for place and position. Suoh solutions of the immediate problems of tho systom as wore at any time found, alwayi proved to be but momentary. Karl Marx had announced in tht yoar 1871 that the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Gormany meant that anothor war must tako place and that Franco would be thrown into the arms of Bussia. The truth of that economio forecast had boen demonstrated. Capitalism had AT Your Christmas Buying Solved at Paris* SLIPPERS for all Uie family, all the. year. An ideal Christmas Gift (but more than that) a source of Foot Comfort the whole year round. Lot No. 1—Ladies' all felt Slippers, leather covered, all felt eolae-f1.85 lot Ho. 8—Ladies' fur trimmed Juliets, leather soles and heels....ip2.35 Lot Ho. 8—Dark wine, with dham- pagna trimming, all-wooL.......?2.85 Lot Ho. 4-Misses' all felt Slii assorted dark plaida _ Lot Ho. 6—Misses' leather mocoa- sins, soft woolly lining. Sises n to a . 91.85 Lot A—An assorted lot of the finest quality all-wool Felt Slippers. These lines in a well-known make, sell for $4.00. Speeial.. It.—f 8.85 Lot B—Men's stitohdown heavy goat elastic aide Slippers. 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