British Columbia Federationist
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1925-02-27
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note: INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STRENGTH SEVENTEENTH YEAR, No. 9. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE FEDERATED LABOR PARTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PUBLISHED IK INTERESTS OF ALL WORKERS ._ POLITICMj UNITY: VICTORY FOUR fe ES VANCOUVER, B. G, FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 27,1925 6c A COPY A GREAT MEETING Professor Nearing; Delivers Brilliant Address on Far-Beaching Effects of Dawes Plan. POLITICAL ALLIANCES Will Undoubtedly Ohange Balance of Power Prom West to East—Imperialism. AN audience which taxed the capa- ■"• city of the Theatre Royal, gathered on Sunday evening to hear Professor Scott Nearing. Before 7:30 the doors were closed, and to appease the numbers who could not gain admission, an overflow meeting was held in the I. W. W. hall, where another bumper audience listened with rapt attention, to Dr. Nearing outline the far-reaching effects of the Dawes plan, which, he said, would reduce the standard of living of the workers of all nations, stating it was the last .weapon of Imperialism to rehabilitate the disintegrating system of capitalism and introduce a form of industrial serfdom. Dr. Nearlng's evening address was a masterly presentation of the difference between the capitalists' meth- od of supressing and exploiting small nations, even empires, with the aid of its newly-formed imperialistic arm, the "League of Nations," and the democratic method pursued by the Soviet government. He declared that one of the most profound and far- reaching economic and political alliances now taking place waa that being ratified between the Japanese, Chinese and Soviet governments. An alliance, both from its moral and economic aspects, as well as from the fact of their vaat population, would undoubtedly change the balance of power from west to east. Hitherto, said Professor Nearing, the .peoples of the east had good reason to tremble at tho approach of christian governments, who treated them as inferiors, robbed them of their natural resources and drove them off their lands with factories, and their women and …
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (1912) ; The B.C. Federationist, Ltd. (1912-1915) ; The B.C. Federationist, Limited (1915-1922) ; The B.C. Federationist (1922-1923) ; The British Columbia Federationist (1923-1925).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0345281
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : The British Columbia Federationist
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text