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THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIS1 INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STRENGTH . ELEVENTH YEAR. No. 17 EIGHT PAGES OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADES AND LATfcjR COUNCIL, AND B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR POLITICAL UNITY: VICTQBT VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 25,1919 *' . ■* (Inc«riTo"r) -H-50 PER YEAR THE0.B.U.T0THEL0GGERSNEEDA1D IL Duncan's Plan Was Not Approved by DeL Pritchard Many Matters Dealt With at Last Night's Laat night's Trndes and tabor Council meeting was decidedly in- tercsting aud brought to light the opposition that is existing to the proposal to form tho One f'_ Union Early in the proceedings Del. Pritchard asked for tho floor on a Question of peraonal privilege, whicPwas grantod. Del. Pritchard stated that in the Seattlo Union Becord had appeared a statement to the effect that ho had supported the Duncan plan of forming an indua- trial organization, and that he had been informed that J. Duncan of Seattle had written to J. H, McVety stating that he (Pritchard) had approved of Duncan's plan. He Itated that this was untrue, and that what ho had said was "that there might have been merit in Duncan's plan, if times had have been normal, but that in view of the faot that they were not, it was useless to ask Sam Oompers to commit suicido in so far as his position in the labor movement waa concerned." He further stated that he was of the opinion that tho Duncan plan was net an honest effort, but rather an attempt to retard the new movement. Tho second matter pertaining to the 0. B. U. was a statement of President Edwards of tho Machinists, Looal 777, to tho effect thnt the charter of this local had been revoked, and that the funds of the local were tied up. He itated that, because the loul had voted $400 to the central committee of the Western Conference to assist in the propaganda for the 0. B. U., this action had been taken. He also stated that tho por capita had been paid to dato to tho international, and that they owed nothing. Ho also reported that P. Bengough had been instructed by tho international to take charge of the funds, and that the local treaaurer had refused to •ign any cheeks that ho had asked for. Later in the evening the coun* cil, on a motion made by Del. Midg. ley, decided to assist Local 777 in the effort to resist the objects of the international in seizing the funds of ihe loeal. Gang-no lad Orders-in-Oouncil A communication was recoived from tho Dominion TradeB Congress dealing with tho orders-in-council as to banned literature and tho censorship, which stated "that many of the restrictions had been removed, and that the order-ln-council as to assembly had beon repealed. In tho communication tho 0. B. U. was referred to and further statements and actions are forecasted. New wage scales were presonted by th* Painters, and tho Firelighters. These were referred to the wage scale committeo, which roported favorably, and the council on the report being presented, endorsed them. A communication was received from the Now Westminster Trados and Labor Council enclosing a resolution passed by tho G.W.V.A. of that city, calling on the government to provide omploymont for all able citlsens, and sickness insurance, and asking for the council's endorsation of tho same. The communication was filed. A communication was received from B. W. Bakes calling the coun* ell's attention to an ad in the Prov* ince whieh was inserted by an or* phanage in the city, advertising boys for work, tho boys boing over 12 years of age. This was referred to the committee on child welfare. Industrial Relations Commission A communication was received from the Industrial Relations Commission asking the council to submit evidence either oral or in writing. The council, after a motion to table was dofcatod, decided not to appoint any representatives to appear before the commission. The business agent reported that he bad assisted in the formation of the Janitors' Union, and the Cannery Workers, and that the janitors had decided to take in both sexes, and any nationality. He also reported on |il> visit te Seattle to deal with the 0. B. U. question, and the exchange of cards in the event of the project going through. Del. Pritchard supplemented tho report by stating that the Soldiers and Workmen's Councils in Seattle and Taeoma were formed of men who were members of organised labor, and that they would endeavor to get In touch with the looal Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Club, with tho object of acting in unison. He also stated that the council in Beattle was paying ont a thousand dollars a month for the support of men who had been unable to get employment since thtir return from the Front. President Winch stated that whilo he recognlted the importance of the work that the socretary had gono to Seattle on, that ho should not have taken leave of absence without the consent of the executive. After a little discussion the matter was droppod, it being understood that in future tho request for leave would be sought, .The secretary pointed eut that he had secured the services of the vice- president while he was away. The Butcher Workmen reported thnt they were endeavoring to secure early closing on Saturdays, and thc Hotel and Restaurant Employoes asked for the support of the council iu their efforts te organise thc White Lunches in the , city. Tho CoopcrB reported that they wero •till on strike, but that the Frnser Cooperage Company was fair. The Canadian Brothorhood of Rullroud Employees asked for tho support of the council in their efforts to secure Uniform conditions all through tho Men on Strike at Princeton Number 600— Funds Needed The B. C. Loggers Union has issued the following appeal to all labor organizations in the province. The appeal is self expla—-'_._4i(J thero is no doubt that tl tt*****r~ organizations will assist i« ue limit the loggers in their flght: "To tho Members ef Organizod Labor, "At Princeton there are 600 men on striko against the attempt of the Tierncy Construction Company to introduce a ten-hour day for a wage .of $4.00, with board $1.20 and hospital $1.50. Tho men demand an eight-hour dny—wages $4.00 minimum, board $1.00 and hospital $1.00. 'Ovor 400 of them are members of the B. C. Loggers' Union. The strikers sny they will stay with the scrap to the limit. It is up to you to*say whnt that limit shall bc. 'A central striko fund is created to provide for the needs of the strikers. Tho B. C. Loggers' Union wired guaranteeing $500 a week ns long as necessary. The men are putting in their own feeding department. "All contributions will be kept in a separate fund and any balanco unexpended will bo returned pro rata. "Follow-workors, the flnnncial end is in your hands. What action, will you take! "Tours for emancipation "from the wages system, "E. WINCH, "Scc.*Troas." OALOARY CIVIO EMPLOYEES WIN Wage Increases Granted br Oity CouncU to AU Ita Employees Calgary, April 22.—The civic wages disputo in Calgary has been settled amicably. This was the outcome of tho joint meeting of the committee appointed by Mayor Marshall, consisting of Aldermen Mahaffy, Adorns and White, and a committee of three representing tho men. Practically all the claims put forth by tho civic federation have been .m2£i_ii*jl8'i ■3e*n8 •3U*; *■*■ shad- ■fi-gratf JhttA\ easea gjiuj-j f*,r jn . ...» instances. These latter cases included the senior captain in the flre brigade and motor mechanic. The former asked $165 and waa granted $'60; the latter $160 and $155 was agreed upon. Tho salaries of the inside city hall staff were likewise satisfactorily arranged. Victoria Machinists, 456 At tho rogular meeting held on April 17, it was decided to reduce the dues by $1.00 (one dollar) per month. This, of course, applies only to those membera who were affected by the recent corresponding increase. Reports wcro given by the District Bonrd delegates to the effect that the report of the meoting of that body published in The Foderationist of tho lltu inst., was incorrect and misleading, inasmuch that tho Victoria delegates strongly emphasized that the Victoria lodgo was unanimously in favor of tho One Big Union, and furthermore, no delegates from tho larger Vancouver lodge, (777), which also is in favor of the 0. B. U., wore present. This leaves, according to the board representation, only tho smaller Vancouvor lodge (182), and Westminster, 151, as on record againBt tho propoaed now organization. Will Victoria members please note that noxt Saturday afternoon, 26th April, a special meoting will bo held at the K. of P. Hall to discuss the One Big Union, the six-hour day and its ramifications. Visiting members welcome. Janitors and Elevator Attendants Male and fcmnlo Janitors and Elcvutor Attendants aro invited to attend an organization meeting, to be held in the Lnbor Templo, on Monday, April 28th, at 7 p.m. Future Sunday Meetings WiU Be Held at This Well-known House It is the intention of the Federated Labor Party to continuo thc Burnley evening mootings throughout tho summer months if the attendance warrants this, and thero has been no appreciable sign to suggest ony other action. Tho Columbia Theatro has been thoroughly renovated and haB been secured for meetings such as have now been continuously carried on over a year. Mr. J. S. Woodsworth la the speaker on Sunday next and haB been requested to speak again on tho Bubject of "Our Enemy Aliens." Meoting will begin as boforo with music at 7.30 p.m. North Vancouvor Branch Ib holding a social mooting at the K. of P. Hall on Wednesday, April 20, and thc success of aame is already assured by the sale of tickets on both sides of the Inlet. The Fernio Branch ia holding a May Day eolobration to which locals east and wost of them have boen invited, and E. T. Kingsley will be present to holp out with the speaking part of the programme. Meetings will also bo arranged at several other points at whion Mr. Kingsley will speak. country, and stated that a 'strike vote had been taken. A resolution was passed pledging the -support of the council, and copies were ordered sent to tho governmental departments dealing with the matter. Del. Gregan movod that a reading room bo established. An amendment was mado providing for the appointment of a committee to report on the mntter. The amend- ment was adopted. Del. Midgley reported that tho directors of tho Federationist were going to make an appeal to the unions in tno province for fundi to start a daily paper. A notice of motion wns made to amend tho constitution to provide for only wnge earners to be seatod ou the council, same to bc working at thcir trado or in thc pay of thc organized labor movement. Several locals reportod lhat they hnd donated sums of monoy to the Soldiers nud Sailors' Club, and tho council voted $100 to this organization. TUe council brought a busy session to a closb nt 10.45 p.m, United Warehousemen's Association The last moeting of the association prior to the amalgamation will bo held en Wodnesday evening, April 30, at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to attend, and are also expected to note that all dues are expected to be paid up ts the end of April. IV. W. LEFEAUX Draws Illustration from the Methods of the Ants The EmpresB Theatre was well filled Sunday evening last when W. W. Lefeaux held the platform on behalf of the Socialist Party of Canada at their regular propaganda meeting. The speaker referred to severnl questions which had been recently asked by membera of the working class, viz.: "What is the medium of exchange used by the Bolsheviki In Russia?" "What can we do without Capital?" and "Wbat does the Taylor syBtem mean, aa applied to industry, reported to be in practice In Russia?" Before dealing directly with these questions, Mr. Lefeaux quoted trom the Bible the words ot King Solomon as recorded in Proverbs Cli. 6 and verse 6. "Oo to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer or ruler, provldeth her meat In the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O Sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep, etc., etc," He said that Solomon might have been talking to the modern proletariat. The modern proletariat surely does ask some fool questions, which are truly typical of a sluggish mentality. The syeaker did not wish to go into the question aB to why tbey have sluggish minds but pointed out that there are determining causes, for everything Here are some of the questions indicative of this sluggish mentality: "What shall we do without a boss?" "What can we do without capital?" "How are we going to keep working, how are we going to keep eating when we have not got anybody to work tor, anyone to guide us?" in other words, "Wben we have not got anybody on our backs." .* The ants are a very Interesting Insect. Although it is questionable as to whether the ants really reason, still they can show us something in intelligent organization. There are several species of ants, one specie having reached the top In any intelligence. The ants have stayed in a certain form for many centuries. The human being seems to have advanced; the ants seem to havo stayed at that particular point of development. The spenker quoted an extract from a work by Thomas Bolt as 11- lustratlve of the intelligence of the ants. This extract referred to the fighting ants which go abroad In columns and armies seeking their prey, for their food. Each Individual army has its little portion of work to do. He did not mean to imply that the human being, in such an instance as this, is inferior to the ant. The social instinct of the human being is so equal to that of the ant. Men could be convinced, hypnotized or otherwise Influenced that they were doing their duty by going out to flght others of their class. They could be perfectly sincere In their belief that It was up to them to fight, not knowing that (Continped on page 4) BOILERMAKERS AND IRON SHIPBUILDERS AND HELPERS Local 194 of this Local will be held on SUNDAY, THE 27th at 2.30 p.m. in the DOMINION HALL 339 Pender St. Business: Discussion of the O. B. U. Speakers will be in attendance. All members are urged to attend. M.A.McEACHERN, President. A. FRASER, Secretary. ii a 11 i i i a I**. 111 RUSSIA AS IT IS TODAY UNDER THE SOVEIT REGIME Y. M. C. A. Worker Denies That Women Are Nationalized and that Chaos Exists in Russia W. A. Pritchard interviews Ameri-t amounts to a working class control eaa Red Cross mm Just returned from land where workers and peasants control. When, seated in the office of the Seattle Union Becord, Miss Anna Louiso Strong intimated that Wilfred B. Humphries, recently returned from Bussia where ho -had been engaged in Bed Cross work, would arrive in town within a few hours, and would no doubt be pleased to see Midgley and myself, we at onee stated our willingness to exchange the compliment. Hemphries went to Bussia in the fall of 1917 as a Y, M. C. A. worker. Tho Y. M. O. A. sent men to Bussia to attempt to stiffen the morale of the Bussian army. He arrived in Moscow just about the timo of Kerensky's overthrow. Ker- oiiBky had followed a middle course which waB no course at all, and the demands of the workers and peasants, together with the breaking up of the army, spelt for him final disaster. The troops were glad to call tho game off because they were sick and tired of war and did not know what in the world they were fighting for. Humphries is a young fellow, clear cut and logical, nothing about him which would suggest the orator, but hts presentation of facts, his remarkable grasp of the affairs of tho last year in Bussia make a meoting with him worth while. He explained that it would be impossible to come through Canada just now, and I nodded significantly. "Well," said I, "if you aro not tired just tell me about Bome of the things that hnve beon accomplished; about tho general situation, so that I might be able to let people in Vancouver know tho latost." "Certainly,*' he answered, and at once plunged into his atory. I questioned him about the lack of food, about the socialization of women, at whieh he smiled; about the system of control of produetion, and many other things. No Shortage He told mo how the capture of the Ukraine would make a vast difference in the food supply, but insisted that we understand that there was no such shortage, starvation, otc, as stated daily by the papers here. "Look," he aaid, drawing a small piece of papor from his wallet, which appeared to me to be some kind of a receipt from a store, such as one might get at Spencer's, "you would hardly believo from what haa been told you, that I could get a meal ou a dining car on a railroad in Central Bussia, just as good, if not better, than the one I hod on the train today coming up to Seattle from 'Frisco. And cheaper, too." Then, indicating the items, he went over each ono singly. "This is a slip I made out for three dinners; thero woro three of us. That is potatoes, thero is meat, eggs, tea, and three bottles of beer." At tho last item ho joined with us in a hearty round of laughter, for Seattle had nothing on Central Bussia when it came to that, "And," ho went on, "that whole line of railroad is run and managed by the Cooks and Waiters' Union." System of Control I thon asked as to the system of control, since his story about the operation of that railroad brought the thing to my mind. "Ohl Well, at first there was some confusion. The miners, for instance had the notion that all the products of the mines should be theirs and not the common wealth of the whole of tho Bussian people.* But sueh was really an anarchist notion, for the miners could hold up the rest of the nation; the oil workers of Baku could have taken the buiiio position." "Then," I queried, "how do they control, say, any particular industry!" "Weil, some industries are run directly through the government, others are managed by tho co-operative societies, and still others are yet under privato ownership but managod by working mon 's committees of control.'' "But," I asked, "do thc workmen themselves or their committees have tho full control? How are they really runt" "They arc run," he ro- plied, "through thc agency of the ordinary trades union. Whatever the industry, tho management of thnt work is carried on by thoso tradesmen affected and the organization is supervised through thoir union. But thc workmen's committeo is not tho solo urbiter. They can bo altered to suit thc demands of th0 workmon in the industry, but, more important still, the governmont itsolf appoints delegates to tho management, as representing tho whole country, that is, the people as a whole, in tho capacity of oonsum- ers." "So," I said, "it really as a whole of the means of produetion." " Decidedly 1" was tho immediate answer. Denies Women NationalizUion Space forbids an extended narration of all the points upon whieh we touched in that memorable threo hours. Humphries was in Samara when the famous decree on the socialization of womon was made public. "But," I questioned, "was it not Saratov whero this alleged decree was announced!" Samara and Sartov aro twin cities," Humphries sttid, "and on thia particular toorn- ing I wont down the street and found a rather excitod crowd, a very angry crowd, gathered around tho bill hoardings, whilo many of them were fiercely declaiming 'Provoc- ator,' 'Provocator.' I pressed closo and saw the proclamation, not in the name of the Soviet, but in the namo of the Fedoration of Anarchists. While I was getting a copy of this decree, along came the local Soviet officials in automobiles, also very angry, and tore down tho proclamations. A little later in the day the Federated Anarchists placod a proclamation on the hoardings denouncing the authors of this vile thing. I have a copy of that denial with me at this time. It waB afterwards found that the 'famous decree' waB the work of some young fellows associated with tho monarchist party. A funny thing about thnt was the antics of tho correspondent of the 'Century Magazine' who, along with me, got a copy of tho 'Froe Love' document, and I asked him 'Why don't you get a copy of (he repudiation by the Federated Anarchists)' 'Oh, no,' he replied laughing, as he went away, 'that would spoil the story.' That shows you," went on Humphries, "how the news is manufactured. That decree which haa gono around the World and has been dressed up with appropriate language in all seriousness, was considered even in the locality in which it originated, after the thing had passed, aB a huge joke. And, of courso, it only was a joko. Isn't it strange," he concluded, "that tho world should be asked to. believo such a slander against Bussia when it already knew that the BuBsian revolution had put women politically on equal terms with ment Can you imagine anything moro absurd than the idea that politieal equality and general prostitution should go togothor." Soviet Oome to Stay *' Then you think, from your knowledge of affairs on the inside, that the Soviet has como to stayf" i asked. "YeB," he replied, "Russia has done marvellously. When you think of the chaos that reigned when tho Bolshoviks assumed control und then realiso the amount of re-organization they havo achieved it is wonderful. Of course, the combined actions of the Germans and tho Allies was strangling Bussia and the railways must bo used for military purposes. Those, together with the men, eould be put to the work of rehabilitating the economic forces of Bussia, but international capital will not let them alone. I remember," and he smiled whimsically, "meeting thc general manager of the.American International Harvester Trust in Samara, and I expressed before him a pious hope that this awful war would soon end. YeB,' he declaimed fiercely, 'By godl I hopo so, too, and then some arrangement between the Allies and Germany can be made for cleaning up this crowd of damned Social- " tB.' " No Starvation When we talked of starvation in Pctrogrnd he replied that it was all false. Bussia, he stated, lacked some things; sugar, for instance, but aU around they had food, though thc faro wus plain. Ho showed me his expense list, of things ho had bought from tho Soviot authorities for refugee Serbian children, 1200 in all, of whom he lnwl charge, and among the items could bo found ox- poneos for such a varioty of things as butter, breud, honey, milk, und I noticed the frcquoncy with which he must have despatched telegrams. I drew his attention to it. "Yes," he said, "you see I was sending telegrams all the time to different plnces. Doesn't thnt show you how chaotic Bussia is)" I laughed with him us I entered once again into a discussion of working class affairs in Russia. This is all that time will allow nt present out of the vast amount, of first-hand information he presented, but I hope to be able to write a series in "The Red Flag" bused upon this interview, and any readers of the "Fed" who are interested can get copies from the S. P. of C-, 401 Pendor St. E., Vancouvor, B. C. TRAINMEN EXPEL MEN WHO JOIN SWITCHMEN Another Example of Brotherly Lovo In Graft Unions and Need for tbe O. B. V. Just recently a Switchman's local union has been formed in the eity. Many switchmen have been for a number of years members of tho Bailway Trainmen's organization, but with the formation of tho new local, they have joined the mon with whom they are working. As an outcome of this action on the part of the Switchmen, the railroad men's organization has taken action and expellod them from tho organization. That in itself, would not bo so bad, if it -did not deprive these men from the insurance benefits that they have paid for during the years of their membership. No man can join tho Trainmen, unless ho takes the beneficiary features of the organization, and when joining, they become insured members. The Trainmen have in their constitution a clauso which gives them powor to expel members who join tho Switchmen's Union ,and are invoking this clause, but it is questionable whether they con got away with it, in view of tho beneficiary and insurance features. In any case thie fiasco of craft unionism is another argument in the favor of the O. B. U. MlLLMEN'ft UNION, LOCAL 1958. This local, formerly known as the "Mill and Factory Workers," still continues to show a rapid increase of membership. Its earlier activities were mainly confined to the wood-working factories and oonditlons in these establishments have materially Improved as a result. Recently, however, the members decided to broaden the scope of their activities and inaugurated an euergetlc campaign throughout the mills, covering the districts in and around Vancouver and New Westminster, with the ultimate Intention of extending throughout the whole province. The initiation fee was reduced for a limited period to $1.00, and every facility afforded to enable any man working In a wood-work- lug plant to be admitted. The success of this movement has been phenomenal aud the large increase iu members has made necessary the appointment of a business agent. A special meeting haB been planned for Friday, May 2nd, which will undoubtedly be the largest assembly of men engaged in this branch of the Industry ever before held In the history of the province. The success of the campaign, together with tbe expected close cooperation of tho Engineers and Teamsters, has Inspired these workers to renewed hope for the establishment of better conditions than they have heretofore enjoyed. All enquiries respecting this organization should be addressed to A. Gordon, Room 208, Labor Temple. Charter Revoked As a result of voting tho sum of (400 to the "Ono B.g Union" on Tuesday evening last tho international president and general executive board of the International Association of Machinists has rovoked iho chnrter of Lodge 777 for violation of the constitution in propagating secession within the organization. Af the same time the bonrd appointed Mr. Percy Bengough, business agent for District 78, as representative of the International Union, with instructions to take over tho property of Lodgo 777. Sond your old address wilh your now one when making a change. AI SEATRE LOGGERS TAKE Midgley and Pritchard Address Seattle Council Secretary V. R. Mldgley of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council and W. A. Pritchard, member of lte executive board, were cheered with a tremendous burst of applause by the Seattle unionists last week when they declared that an Industrial labor movement must at once take the place of the old craft form of organization, in which one set of workers are pitted against another group. Mldgley told of a convention held by 250 delegates from Western Canada in Calgary in the month of March at which conservative old- line trades unionists came soberly to the conclusion that a new form of organization must be adopted by the workers if they hope to meet changed problems. The convention was called, he said, independent ot the Canadian labor congresB, Took Up Problems It was to discuss and make protest against continued Intervention ln Russia, unemployment and othe( problems on which the progressive element In the labor movement demands Immediate action. A large number ot delegates, even from very cdMservatlve unions, came instructed to demand reorganization of the trade union movement Into an industrial union. Before it adjourned the convention had unanimously voted to submit to a referendum vote of all union i in the four provinces a plan to reorganize and also the question of striking on July I to enforce a six- hour day. Both Mldgley and Pritlchard declared that existing International unions are functioning chiefly as drags upon the progress of the workers toward emancipation from wage slavery. Midgley said It bad been found impossible to organize timberworkers ln Canada under the Timberworkers* International Union, hut that after a few weeks' organization work over 3,500 joined au industrial union. He said thnt the miners have already voted lu favor of tlio now organization. "The hoary old platitudes of the Federation of Labor regarding the eight-hour day, minimum wage laws and other half-way measures labor has been accustomed to beg of the masters," said Midgley, "are rendy for the discard. Of course if we In Canada carry this proposition the International officers will begin to flock thero in an attempt to stop the movement which will cut off tho per capita tax that pays their sal* arios. And I suppose the capitalist press which once branded those same International officers as 'dangerous labor agitators' will now welcome them as 'very nocessary to the harmonious relations between employers nnd workers. " "Seattle labor ln Its move to reconstruct thu A. P. ot L, Is traveling thc same wny, hut by a different path," he said. He predicted Are Voting on the 03.U. and Preamble to the Constitution This weok over 4,000 ballots are being sent out in connection with tke referendum on tho O. B. U., six- hour day, proposed preamble to the constlttuion, etc. Owing to the extent to which the members movo from camp to camp it may be the official ballots may not reach everyone. In that caso members who do not receive the official ballot by May 4th, may uso the forms printed in the "Fed" and the Camp Worker, but must give their membership number on tho ballot; and for information as to how they vote but to enable a check to bo made to Bee that there is no double voting. Next week tho Bulletin should be in tho hands of every member, if your address is not properly recorded tho the headquarters this may account for tho paper not reaching you. Thero may bo other reasons, your report may enablo tho causo boing traced. The paper will not be perfect, it is a firat issue, but in the future it will bc what the members mako it. Just Uke the organ- ization. Tho membors on strike at Michel for an eight-hour day, the samo as worked by tho tainers, are sitting tight, and determined to win, This is another instance of the "mutual" interests of the employer and worker. At Princeton, where 600 men are on strike a district office has been established, as thero is likely to be a considerable amount of construction work carried .on in the vicinity, and it is intended that this shall bo done by organized labor and not by potential scabs. Fellow-worker nnd Exocutive Committeo man All- man is on tho pob representing the Oenersl Organization, and he has wired that tho station i0n have quit the work in sympathy with the strikors, and that arrangements are being made to shut the entire job down until tho bosses come through. Not a strike broakor has put in an appoarance, so much for working clnss solidarity. An appeal is mado for striko funds to enablo tho men to fight the good fight. Headquarters wired Fellow worker Altaian that thc B. C. L. V. was good for five hundred -dollars a weok ns soon, and for as long, as necessary. Tho strikers say thoy will stay I MEET AT I AVENUE Many Soldiers Tell Their Views on Problems of the Day W. A. Pritchard Was the Speaker for Organ ized Labor The mass meeting held jointly bf the Vancouver Trados and Lahor Couneil and tho, Comrades of th* Great War, in the Avenue Theatre, on Monday evening, was great is more senses than ono. Not only waa there a large erowd present, but the proceedings were marked with a splendid enthusiasm, both on tha platform and in the body of tha House. Tho speakers were full of fire, and tbe concluding speech of Comrade Pritchard was nothing less than a long, dazzling streak of vivid eloquence. Sergt.-Major J. A. Hynes, of tha City HaU employees, occupied tha chair, and explained that the meet* ing had been called as a kind ot family gathering for the purpose of clearing up misunderst an dings sup* posed to exist between organised Labor and tho various military or acini-military organizations, It wai high timo for them to get together towarda some common end. (Ap* plause.) There were thousands ol returned men who had work before tho war ,and must havo it now. Nothing eould be dono by the present way of going on. A power was al work—and working hard—to split up every organization in the city* The public of Vancouver won watching every movement of tha re« turned men to see what action the/ would take. His advice was, "Consider wall boforo you jump." As a long-service man, he had to knuckle down to tyranny for 18 yeara before coming to "this fre* eountry of Canada." (Applause.) He found that the "majaws," etc.( always thought that they must have the cream; but it waa the rank and file that mado the regiment. (Applause.) "Don't lot us havo a rowdy withUth77crap To delimit," U Ts I meoting. (Hoar, hear.) Let'• show for organized labor to say what that Jh« officials of this city that wt LABOR TEMPLE MEETINGS FOR COMING WEEK SUNDAY, April 27—Typographical Union, Dominion Express Employees, Tole- gra pliers. MONDAY, April 28—Bakery Salesmen, Janitors and Elevator, Attendants, Boilermakers, Amalgamated Engineers, Pattern Makors, Iron Workers, Steam Engineers, U, B. Carpentors 617. TUESDAY, April 29—Molders executive. WEDNESDAY, April 80 — Warehousemen, Metal Trades Council, Boilermakers Examining Bonrd. THURSDAY, May 3—Trades und Lnbor Council, Foundry Workers, Painters, Garmont Workers, Machinists Ladies Auxiliary. FRIDAY, May 2—Mill ond Factory Workers, Railway Carmen, Pile Drivers nnd Woodon Bridgemen, Boiler- makers executive, Civic Employees, Molders. SATURDAY, May S-Ma- chlnlsts No. 777, Blacksmiths. ■ »i^|.|ii|ii»<"ta i|.i| ,«.i»».>Oata* intuit! ganized labor to say limit shall be. Send your contributions to the '' Princeton Striko Fund," B. C. Loggers Union, 61 Cordova St., "W., Vancouver. All contributions will be acknowledged and placed in a separate account and used only for the purpose contributed. Fund% not expended will be returned to the contributors pro rata. Tho next business meeting will bc on Sunday at 2 p.m. Tho following questions have been submitted to the voto of tho membership: Members in camp not receiving of- ficial ballots beforo May 4th mny use tho ono in the "Fed" or tho "Camp Workor." Members in town cnn vote at headquartora. To prevent duplicnto voting, members not using tho official ballots must give their membership numbor. AT Will Speak on Interview WithY.M.C.A.Work- er in Russia To all who are socking for authentic information regarding Russia, tho meoting of the Socialist Party of Canada in tho Empress Theatre, Sunday noxt, should prove of vory great intorest. W. A. Pritchard, recently had a long interview in Seattle with Mr. W. R. Humphrios, of the American Y. M .C. A. This gentleman has spent considerable time in Russiu, and haa brought back valuablo information. Mr. Pritchard hns promised to deal at groat length with this information, and nil who wish to gl-eun knowledge on the Russian ml nut ion, should get to tho theatre early, und gain u good seat. Doors open ut 7:30 p.m. Meeting commences promptly at 8 p.m. Come und bring along your skeptical friends. that secession from tho fedoration will bo the outcome on the part of radical Western labor groups. Is Wrecking Itself Prltchard said that it Is not necessary for any group of workers to conspire to wreck tlie A. F. of L. "It Is doing the same vory effectively for itself," lie declared. He pointed out that the present form of organization has grown top heavy, with too many so-called "leaders" who assume an authority not vested in tbem hy those who elect them. "It's time to organizo from tho bottom tip Instead of being bossed from the top down," he declared. He thought the shop steward movement In England would develop Into an Industrial form of organization. Later ln the evening the lubor council adopted a report from a speolal committee which had met with representatives ot the Tacomn Ubor Council, calling for a letter to be sent by the latter body to all central labor councils of tha country supplementing the Duncan plan for the A, F. of L, reorganization. The supplemental plan calls upon all central aud federal bodies and state federations to send delegates to a special convention to be held two weeks prior to tho A. F. of U coventlon at Atlantic City, where reorganization ot the A, F. of L. Into Industrial unions will be dls- cused. have as touch sense as thoy have; perhaps a little more—or else they'd be here to see what we're going ttt do." Sam Gotheard, preaident of tht Comrades of the Oreat War, said tha men, on coming back, faced a certain amount of revolution; peaceful so far, but he didn't know how long it would continue to be so. Tha Trades and Labor Council had invited them to discuss matters, and they had accepted. As to "Winch, Midgley and all that bunch," ha had never had a moro decent reception than ho met with from tha hands of thoso "Anarchists nnd Boi* nhcviki." (Hearty applause.) The G. W. V. A., howover, had refused to meet those "criminals." (Laughter.) And he wns surprised to find only tho Comrades of the Great War represented. Thoro was a power at Ottawa working to throw the returned soldiers at the throat of organized La- bor; but the soldior hud got to remember he was a working man. Thtt government was bringing home about 400,000 men who had lost thtt fear of death and had been taught to kill—and no employment for them! He hnd talked wth all kinds of ee- clesiusties, etc., but had found no ono with any kind of a reconstruction programme except Mr. Prit- chard. (Loud applause.) His references to "Honest John Oliver," "OvertheTop Harry," "This dear old Mr jaw," and "that brilliant brainy Farris," wore received with groat merriment. Ho men Honed 17 appointments recently made—all officers, mnking tho soldiers realize that their own interests were with organized labor. \r. Young, of the Campaigners of the Groat War, wero ,very bittei about tho difference of treatment handed out to officers and men re* spcctivcly. There was not a single appointment made at Ottawa or Victoria, ot a returned private or noncommissioned officer, reaching #160 a month; whereas hardly any officers wero appointed nt less thnn that sum. He recounted various instances of illegal punishments indicted on tho boys at the front, and referred scathingly to tho "real-estate coin- missioned officers that wc hud our Canadian army infested with." Thoy saw commissioned officers walking round the street; did they look particularly intelligent? "I want you to understand that I'm no Bolshevik, but when I see"—(Loud laughter.) Chairman Hynes here interposed to corroborate "practically every tatemonl "of tho prececding speak- er. Himself a soldier from the aga of 10, and the son of a commissioned officer, ho felt ho was entitled to a commission, too. So ho went and s*>aw "a certain major," who niada reply: "Your social position isn't high enough to warrant a commissi mi in this regiment!" W. II. Carroll, vice-president of the Comrades of tho G. W., amusingly referred to President Sam Gothard by saying, "He's a Bolshevik prosidont, and I'm an Irish rcbell" (Laughter.) Tho speaker had objected to meeting the labor delegates at first, but had been overruled by his organization and met them. "I met with gentlemen," hs said. "The words that flowed from their mouths wero words of reason, and not of sedition." If they had even over-slopped the bounds ol their authority, was it good to keep thnt in mind? (No!) It meant a cleavage, li it had not been for organized labor, they would havo tbeit IO.-40S to the grindstone n.s they did •'ears ago. (Applause.) Tho spenker referred to "au outfit ou Hastings Street. WoBt—all officers—who cried out Bolsheviki!" If thoy were going to take away tt 's right of speaking his min^i (Continued on Pago 8) PAGE TWO K.EVBNTH yeab. No. it THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATLONIST vancouveb, b. a FR-DAT... ..April », UK Their Increasing Popularity is convincing proof of the superior qualities which Twin Bute Work Clothes possess. It is your reason why you should insist on Twin Bute. 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The reports tell u» that the labor party, now occupying the opposition bench, Btared at the speaker in be- wildorment, and in criticism of the vaulting statements unfolded only one of Iheir members had the pluck to say a word. He rose to hie feet that he niight enlighten the world by observing that jobs wero still boing held by German prisoners which British labor ought to have. How characteristic! How pitifully inadequate! Since then, however, the party's eiecutive has sontowhat retrieved itself by passing a resolution which calls on the governmont1' to fulfil both in the lotter and in the spirit its oft-repeated pledges during tho olection that its roturn to powor I would mean tho immediate abolition of conscription; and to refrain from inaugurating a military policy which is inconsistent with a democratic league of nations." The unthinking Junkers who cheered Mr. Churchill to the echo gavo no ears for talk of that description; but ihoy wore forced to listen seriously to Sir Donald Maclean, who told thom "thero was not a single bus. ness man in the country who was not fillod with apprehension as to what his financial position would bo in the immediate future," and said outright that "wo aro hoading straight for national bankruptcy." According to tho war minister, we are to maintain "strong, compact, well-disciplined armies," in order that we may " secure the fruits of victory;" our army expenditure, therefore, is to be increasod nearly sixteen-f old; our immediate and most important task is to "develop a new class of officers who will all love their provinee. Here Mr. Hoggo exclaimed I thought wo had given up war," foolish, foolish Hoggo! Yet we ourselves have been simple-minded. For aome months past we hav-^ supposed we were enjoying, undor the armistice, a breathing spell of peace. Hitherto we had not understood thnt the conflict had become, iu reality, more tense. Hitherto we had not grasped the tremendous fact that our rulera have staked all civilization on their final throw. Mr. Churchill has now shown ns whore wo stand, and in never-to-be forgotten words. "At the present moment," he said, "we ara bringing everything to a head with Germany, and holding all our means of coercion in full oporation or in immediate rodincsB for uso. We aro enforcing the blockade with<*vigor, and havo strong armies to advance at the shortest notice. Germany is very near starvation. All tho ovidence I have recoived from officers sont by the war office all over Gormany shows, firstly, the great privations which the Gorman people aro suffering; and, secondly, tho dangor of a collapse of the entiro structuro of German social and national life under the pressure of hunger nnd malnutrition. Now, thereforo, is the moment to settle. To delny indefinitely would bo to run the groat risk of having no one to settle with, and of having anothor great area of the world sinking into Bolsheviki anarchy. That would be a very grave event. Now is thc timo for action. Ho then explained that as soon as Germany had accepted the terms to bo imposed on hor, tho Allies would supply her with food and the materials needed to sot hor industries again iu motion. Do not expect to find in this speech any of those glowing appeals to justice and the higher life with whioh our prime minister habitually adorns his eloquence. This is an icy official utterance, and wo aro hero. on the levol of that Napoleon—misnamed "The Great"—who imagined that he had crushed Germany for all time to come, and of that Bismarck who, glowering at Franco, announced it as his maxim that the conquered enemy should be loft only his oyos ,with which to weep. Hore the talk is all of coercion, by tho sword and by starvation; of dofonee of our interests by conquest of the air and supremacy on nnd bolow tho srufaco of tho sea; of tho rapidity with which recruits are en lint ing in the new voluntary army—an enlistment in which also starvation plays the leading part, sinco fear of unemployment has its home today in almost overy worker's thought; of being armed with power. Tho vein throughout is that of Treilschku and Bemhurdi in their most uncompromising moods; nnd it is hitler so, Here wo aro froe, at last, from nauseating cunt; hore we hnvo not to grapple with the incongruity of Prosidcnt Wilson clamoring in Paris for universal poaco, via the Loaguo of Natious, aad sinmltancously cabling the United Slates "to jam through the naval appropriation of £76,000,000 to build ten dreadnoughts, ten scout cruiscrB, and ovor so many ships of smaller pretensions including submarines." Our quotation is from tho oditorial column of one of America's leading dailieB. Mr. Church; 11'a spooch, as shown by tho passage previously quoted, is nothing more nor leu than a frank confession that our government has committed the people of thit country to what Beoms to as as reckless a gamble as hiBtory has recorded. What he virtually admits is that we ourselves have created a chaos of starvation, and that through the hnrricano thus worked up we aro carrying on full sail, up to the very point at which it is touch and go whethor civilization itself will or will not capsize. "Starvation," he cries, "Is wrecking the whole socinl fabric In Germany." "Hurry up!" ha exclaims in the next breath, "or the flood of Bolshovik anarchy will drown us alt." The ooufosBion il free, open, and unbiased, and the world at large will take it ai we havo takon it. In truth, no othtr construction is possible. ■ All this may bo strictly accord-* Ho the philosophy of war, as . expounded by its most notorious and uncompromising masters. The policy of rendering enemies helpless by bringing about conditions that jwrl them into social chaos, may appeal to those who think, with certain German philosophers, that a true "will to power" should stick at nothing. But, if so, they should confess it boldly ,and thoy should not stand on the street corners thanking thcir God that they are not like Bolshevists, Anarchists, Spartacists and other sinners, who scoff at civilization and have no sense of the sanctity of human life. No revolutionist has yot been put on record as planning the starvation of entire nations—in the present case tho populations involved must number fully 400,000,000—that they may be made submissive to his will. Wo think with deep anxiety of tho thousand-million budget, the colossal military expenditures to be incurred, the groove warning uttered none too soon by Sir Donald Maclean, tho gathering clouds of unemployed now darkening our highways, the incalculable suffering that must await this nation whose very existence is now in jeopardy, since that existence rests on the supply of world-wide markets now threatened with extinction by militarism's evor- rising tide. On all this we brood most anxiously; yot to these, as to other material calamities, wo believe we can be brought to steol ourselves. What we cannot endure is the thought that our rulers may brand'us a nation of pledge-breakers, on whose word no man henceforth will place reliance. What is most intolerable is the reflection that thoy aro committing our country to policies over the inhumanity of which our children, our grandchildren, and our great grandchildren may have to hong their heads in shame. JUDGE GARY ON PROSPERITY PROSPECTS Prosperity Cannot ba Built on Exports to 0. Shrinking Market Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the Board of the United States Stoel Corporation, said In a public interview on March 21st, "It the other lines of industry show the same disposition as tho iron and stoel industry, as they I undoubtedly will, we have nothing but an era of wonderful prosperity ahead of us." [.; I The Judge aud the other <fpr» phets of coming prosperity base their predictions on the outlook for exports. "Our enormous* export trade for January and (February" writes one such authority, "record breaking though it is, -is sure to continue to grow by heaps aud bounds." • .-n- The exports of tho United StaUb have been higher during the past eight months tban ever before in the history of American commerce. The total for the current fiscal year will be around *j\_ billions. For January alone the ox- port wa:; over 622 millions. These records are high, but unless another war breaks out in Europe thoy will fall off heavily during the next six months. Note how the exports are divided. Asia and South America together received a little over 13 per cent, of the total exports. Nearly one-third of the exports were to Great Britain, while Bel- glum, France and Italy received a quarter or the exports. Great Britain has already established an embargo on tho Importation of certain foreign manufactures. Belgium, France and Italy aro borrowing money from the United States with which to pay for the goods tbat tbey purchase, None of these countrios is at the present Ume on a sound credit basis. They can continuo to buy from us while we continue to lend to them Within six months the American Army of Occupation will probably have returned to American soil. Tbe British embargo will have cut off hundreds of millions of American exports. Belgium, France and Italy will no longer bo borrowing from the United States. All of tbe commercial nations of Europe will be competing bitterly with America for the markets of Asia, South America, Africa and Australia. Prosperity cannot be built on exports ln any case. Still less can It be founded on exports to a shrinking foreign market. Many Babes Not Normal Washinglon—Between 6000 and 7000 children under C yenrs of age havo beon weighed and measured in tho District of Columbia since the nation-wide tost of children waa inaugurated by the children's burenu of tho department of Labor. "Of this number 2000 were found hvAaw Btandarda recognized for children of thoir ago. Somo of the childron were found to need medical care, Buy only from n union stored League of Nations Formed to Suppress the Working Class [By Chu. Lestor] Tht international situation is peculiar owing to the fact that agreements are being entered into by the big four that the general public are not cognizant of. This is probably the flrat time in the world's history when tho destiny of hundreds of millions of human beings waa placed in the hands of a clique, composod of incompetent and ignorant individuals. Man is not guidod by reason, and cannot be so long as capitalism remains in existence. Interests and intorests alone dictate the actions of the big four ,and not tho interests of humanity, but the interests of a class, each individual representing a section of the master class. Whon the late Pierpont Morgan, who was then the head of the capitalist systom, visited tho lato Pope, the latter was sick, but the press informed ua that the "visit of Mr. Morgan was like a draught of lihoinish wine to His Holiness." The Mother Church may have lost ground in Europe, but it has made good it '• losses by tho gains on this North American Continont. President Wilson and Samuel Gompers ara both compelled to dance to the tune of tho big magnates in the United States, and these magnates now rely almost entirely upon tho iufluonce exerted by Home upon the musses for the preservation of their privileges, their power, and their wealth. The church has rung th-e alarm bell and spoken with no uncertain voice. "Tho lot of tho working man must be improved or all is lost." Labor lenders are now being encouraged by tho heads of the mastor class itsolf to advocate the shortening of hours, tho improvement of conditions, etc., and oven bishops of the mother church are supporting them. Things must be in a shaky condition on the other side of the line, and the writer anticipates the invasion of Mexico this yoar to relieve the unemployed problem, and tho general situation. When President Wilson wont to Europe to tako part in the peaco conference, he had to find a way of removing the chaos the sudden stoppage of war had caused in the laud of the free. The United Statos capitalists -expected the war to last three years longer ,nnd made provision toward that end. Thoy cornered foodstuffs, etc., and had everything planned to bring off the biggest graft on record, but the German revolution pulled the bottom card out of tho puck beforo its time. Wilson was, therefore, compelled to domand on his first visit tho keeping up of prices, so that tho grafters could unload without losing anything. He insisted that when tho Allied ships were made free, owing to the cessation of tho U-boat activities, that the price of foodstuffs should not be lowered. He won his point together with others, and ou his second visit demanded that the United States should have the business of feeding Germany, nnd also bo paid for it before any money indemnity went to either Belgium or France. Tho League of Nations is simply afi organization that hns for its object tho crushing of the masses in any country, should theso rise up ugainst those, "whom it hath pleas- od God to call to rule over them." This, of courso, means tho master clnss. This is proved by the fact that both Root and Bonator Hitchcock, when spenking iu support of the Leaguo of Nations, both statod that tho league would interfere in any country where the masses rose up against tho constituted authorities as in Russin, and would restore "law nnd ordor." Wilson's scheme as Lenine aptly defined it, is not for a League of Notions, but for a "Lengue of Imperialists to destroy the nations." Franco was angry about thc indemnity business, nnd Wilson tried to force matters by negotiating secretly with Gormany, with tho iden of forming a separate peace, and entering into profitable trade relations with them. Ho also spoko threateningly of recognizing the Bolsheviki, becnuso tho Russian market is necessary to America. Thiugs wcro at this singe whon Hungary wont Bolsheviki, and both Lloyd Goorgo and Clemencuau were forced to tako action. Wilson's demands were suddenly refused, and a largo indemnity do- manded from Germany. This gives the Allies tho opportunity of throwing a largo army into Gormany nnd crushing the Bolsheviki, undor tho protoncu of collecting the indemnity. Tho capitalists can not accomplish thoir object by openly declaring wnr upon the Soviets; owing to tho sympathy of the prolctarlnt in the Allied countries with their aims nnd objects. The collapse of capitalism is upparcut, but the master class is prepared to go to nny longths boforo yielding. Thc interests of the different gangs of plunderers nro opposed to ouch other, iiuiHtmn.lt as oach desires to obtain as much as possiblo, but their position as a class links thom together, and when they leavft tho peaco conferenco, they will have agreed npon one thing, and that is, the clean and oomplete destruotion of the revolutionary movement Owing to the influence exerted by the individual who believes In "the right of peoples to determine their own destiny," "all negotiations in full view of the publie," eto. The Japanese are relegated to an inferior position. A war may be useful later on, especially if the working men on the othor side of the line became infected with Bolshevism to a dangerous extent, inasmuch as it gives the oommon people something else to think about, and finds them work. Moan-, while the working men in Britain and France are moving and they mean business. Tho same in Italy, although the press roports try to lead us to believe otherwiso. The working class of Europe is so appalled at the grood, graft, treachery, incompetence and humbug of its rulors, that it stands transfixed with horror as bit by bit tho hideous truth is revealed. When the proletariat again begins its march, it will march with the resistless tread of destiny, and it will annihilate mercilessly all apologists and supporters of the present systom. The times are such that the intelligent soction of the working class can not afford to stand any nonsense. It must pull capitalism down, and at once, or the human raco perishes. Appearances indicate that the last stand of the forces of reaction will be made in this part of the world, because the conditions of the working class can not be permanently improved, and foroe is too readily usod on this continont, when the slaves rebel. Let her rip! What is to como, will come in spito of tho master class, and the ignorance of the working class. It is the duty of those who love capl talism to save her if thoy can, but those who realize the necessity for her immediate destruction will do thoir bit towards destroying the beast with all possible speed. You oan depend on the Hillcrest Dairy A. PISH, Prop, to furnish you Pure Milk. Housowives should insist on all delivery meu showing thcir union cards. If You Are in Favor of the O.B.U. and you wish to render financial support to the committee in charge of the propaganda, and the taking of the referendum vote, cut out this coupon and mail it with your donation to the Secretary of the Central Committee, V. R. Midgley, Labor Temple, Vancouver, B.C. To the Secretary of the Central Committee of the O. B. V, ..as my Enclosed please flnd the sum of $ contribution towards the propaganda and expense in taking the referendum vote for the O. B. U. You need not send a receipt, and acknowledgment through The Fedorationist will be sufficient. (Signed).. FORD HAS A NEW AND BRILLIANT IDEA To Build Llzzlea to Compote with Street Railwny Systems Ford has a new idea. He Is going to pull out of the old company, establish a new organization, and build a $260 car (or workers. "This car," saya Ford, "will compete with the street railways rather than with ths old Ford car." Mr. Ford has been led to thla decision by the recent Su- preme Court ruling which com pels him to distribute 19 millions of accumulated profits to the old Ford company. "The new company will be owned entirely within our family, and thus can be directed without out* side interference," is the language of the announcement. Centuries ago lu Europe each princeling had his own castle built on his own domain. His policy called for no outside interference." He did not tolerate inside interference either. At home he was an absolute ruler. Sir. Ford Is the direct descendant of these European autocrats. He proposes to build an Industry In which there will be no interference—not even from the stockholders. The workers In the Ford plant have not as yet risen in revolt. They have not even asked for a voice ln deciding tho conditions surrounding their own working lives. That, ot course, would be Bolshevism. Then, too, it would constitute an unwarranted Interference with Ford family enterprises. Even minority stockholders (the poor relation bf the modern business world) are rank outsiders ln industries operated undor the Ford idea. Louis XIV understood. Said he The State, It Is I." 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We've beon in the clothing business for years but this is tho line whioh offers tile most value for the money of any we ever handled. In fine quality serge—ten colors—made up is the latest styles—choice of several models—perfect finish. We don't offer this line as a mere'bait—wo carry a full stook •—all sises—guarantee you a perfect fit • Our Price $25.00 623 HASTINGS ST. W. Near Oranvllle Mr. Union Man, do you buy at t union store! NODELAY SHOE CO. 1047 Granville Street Phone Sey. 1478 Operators of the largest Oood- year SHOE REPAIR plant ln the Oity. Union Shoe repairing, Be- inember our guarantee, men'a and women's soles wo guarantee for three months. We don't cobble yeur shoes, we repair thom. We knew how* we are shoemakers. Let ua have yeur next repairs. No delay Shoe Co. 1047 OBANTOLB Onion Shop, No. SSI WE PAY CASS -tob- Victory, Liberty or Government Bonds of any description. 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We're Toon for Oood Union-Made Shoes The Ingledew Shoe Co. eee QBAKVILLE St.—•'Vancouver's Union Shot Store." PATRONIZE FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS 10% OCT TO ALL SOLDIBBB AND THEIB FAMILIES Those Defective Teeth Gan Be Replaced —TOOX AFPBABAVCl USTOBSD—TOUX HBJiTB DIFBOVSO -ALl BT A IDRI IXPIX. DSXTAI, WOIK. i tht defect asivnu an scats form— Doe, It per to "lit roar twth fO"--to ftee th. ptln, trouble and Incon- raltaM Mtiet by the,, teeth wken I*-- *-' - as U Miulnly i " {he a» eKnt these t«»t»—I liU exemiae Hum—.(bin yea tat Ute at Mttmete et eut ea the neceutiy work. ■ hy I will Vhto-ff Stats tekaa Is -a-ehenie for dentil we*. Dr. Brett Anderson *_&l Orewn and Bridge Specialist £_*l 60S HASTINGS ST, WEST ._]_.{_ Comer Seymour Stnet ain* Offloe Open Tuesday and Friday Bveninga Until 8 o'clock Troth Out Ploweri, Funeral Designs, Wedding Bon-mete, Pet Planta Ornamental end Shade Trees, Seeds, Bulla, Florists' Sundries Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd. nOBIBTS AMD NDBSBBYMBK S-fiTOEBS-2 41 Hurting. Stnet Bast 7M Oranvllle Street Seymoar MM72 Seymour S518 Highest Grade Mechanic's Tools FOR ALL TRADES Martin, Finlayson & Mather Ltd. 46 Hastings St W. i; Vancouver, B. C. Only Once Does the Human Hand Ever Touch a Loaf of SHELLY'S 4-X BREAD They Have Seen Capitalism With AU Its Horrors Shakespeare saya, "He that being robbed misses not that whioh he is robbed of, let him know It and he's not robbed at all." The ordinary working man until quite recently had no idea that he was robbed if ho recoived tho value of his labor power, or exploited either for that matter; to him everything was as it should be if he managed to obtain a fair wago whieh iH equivalent to a baro existence. The Socialist agitator talked himself deaf and dumb and blind, but the working class nover as a class moved excopt in the master's interest. In 1914 tbe war came and transformed everything. It took millions of tons of powder and other explosives to jar loose the brains of the slaves, but thc most pessimistic of us havo now to acknowledge that tho revolution is not only coming, but iB almost upon us. Tho toilers are now looking at tho world with wide-open eyes and are getting ready to act on thcir own behalf. They have seen the gigantic machinery of production Btretch itself as it were and produce under thoir control, commodities in such vast quantities as to stagger thc imagination. They have seen tho politicians and other humbugs in their true colors and tbey are amazed and angry at being fooled so long. The working man knows now that he produces all exchange values. He knows that he . fights all wars, ho knows now the master class can plunder, and graft and kill and cheat, because ho has seen it at its dirty work, The mask is torn off. capitalism and it stands in a state of nudity without a single lie left with which to cover its hideous nakedness. The hoarv old villian,' howover, instead of hiding his head in aharao, opens his arms and says to the working man. "Let us embrace. Let us get together, are we not in- dispensible to each other t" and he is filled with rage and fear when the working men says con t omptously, "Nothing doing." The real situation between capital and labor at ho present time is similar to that if a farmer who is trying to catch i loose horse in a field. He has a few oats held temptingly in one hand and the halter behind him in he other and the horse won't be tempted but tries to get the farmer nto a position whore ha can kick him. It waa the good fortuno of he writor to visit one of these got ogether affairs the other day and -eally it waa too funny for words. rho representatives of labor had the ApologistB for capitalism in auch a Hopeless muddle that the real character of the enetay oame out. He adopted the alave driving tacties at the meeting and this gavo the gamo away still more. It would bo well SUSPENDED FOR KER DISCUSSING ECONOMICS Organized Labor Backing Up Suspended Teacher in Diatrict of Columbia WASHINGTON, D. C —The school teachers' unions of this city, at a mass meeting today, launched their flght against the Board of Education for free discussion of current topics in the public schools, and for redress in the case of Miss Alice Wood, a high school teacher who was recently suspended by the Board because of her "handling of economic questions." Shortly after Miss Wood was suspended, the superintendent of schools Isssued an order to the high school teachers forbidding the dlscsusion of the leaguo of nations, bolshevism, or other controversial topics, and, according to the students, debates on tho league of nations, which had been scheduled, were cancelled without explanation. The teachers at once took up the matter through their unions, of which there are Ave in the District of Columbia, organized under the American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Labor. Tho Central Labor Union of Washington, the local branch of the National Women's Trade Union League, with both of which bodies the teachers* unions are afflliated, and the Federal Employees' Union, with lfi.OOO members, have already lined up behind the teachers in their flght, which promises to bo a contest of national significance. Civilization Is Based on Enslavement of One Class in Society In taking up the subject of "the Class Strugglo," at the F. L. P. meeting on Sunday night, E. T. Kingsley observed that the very term implied human slavery. Such a struggle could not exist without a class of opprossed and a class of oppressors. All written history was tho history of a civilization 'based on slavery; and they were justified in assuming that its original form, chattel slavory, existed many, many thoiiBimds of years prior to any written record. Slavery had boon tno corner stone of civilization down to thc present tii- c. Thoro had been many rebellions of slavos against their masters in pro-Chrij-Hiiiri times; but nover any idea of ,wi]iiug_put onco for all thc syslnn of -iavery under which they suffered. Thus Spartacus and his band huil for yours wages a terrific war against the master class; yet thore was nothing in that rising which bore tho ear-marks of a revolution, with thc object of wiping out that class entirely. So in tho world of today, here and elsewhere, there were rebellions against the conditions under which the wag" earners lived; but an analysis of thc situation would show that tho claBB struggle cannot express itsolf in any such fight for a mere amelioration of conditions. Tho Marxian theory held thnt nil value, us expressed in terms of exchange, hod been put into commodities by the hand of human lahor alone; Iheir value was determined by (lie amount of necessary labor power embodies. There was no other basis upon which exchange value could be determined. The law of exchange was not a written law, not an enactment of legislators or governments; yet no power on earth, n(j!'combination of either capitalists oi-tf workers, could overturn it. For 4,000 years at least, working poople hart-been attempting to do so—now hare; now there—in their 'figfitB about wages and conditions; yet exchange value had never been altered by one iota. Labor power was a commodity; bought and sold in tho market; and alt- commodities were subject to the unwritten law of exchange, Efforts made to raise or sustain the rate of'-wages wero along the lines of a trust; i.e., a combination of persons wfio 'have agreed to control prices in the market. The Standard Oil trust was an example. AU went well till'one or other of the combined concerns, through loss of trade, gave way and cut tne price; then the trust went to pieces. It could not stand the pressure of an adverse market. Tho Standard Oil people never attempted that again, but organized the Standard Oil Company and crushed all competitors by merciless underselling. That was the only way. Ar« yon in favor of tho adoption of the following as a Preamble toL 4, laborP*Jwer trust was equally ».__ at—u_t_._L___._o "^ ° futile. An increase of wagos was Wire Men Want More Albany, N. Y.—Electrical workers of this city have presented a new wage scale, which raises rates from 60 to 87-^ cents an hour. for tho class conscious working man to steer clear of the henchmen of the master class and avoid these gatherings. Were tho mnster class honest in this it would first begin by firing its stool pigeons, its Pink- ertons, its provacatuers and tho other garbage it carries around with it. How can thero bo any getting together! Tho tiger may love tho lamb because tho latter provides tho former with a pleasant meal, but how can the lamb be expected to love the tiger. Ono thing we know and that is that the mnster class has on every occasion used thc working class as it saw fit. It has starved, exploited, killed and beaten our class until it can stand no more. It would do the same in tho futuro as it has in tho past if It only had the power. The will is Btill there. Why does tbe master class try to get the working class to co-operatef There is only one anBwor, "Because it Ib afraid!" The working man is now in a position to put the capitalist class in the dock, try it and execute judgment and he is going to be compelled to do so in every country in tho world where capitalism is in existence. Meanwhile, remember that safety is absolutely assured if the worker resolutely keeps to tho revolutionary watchword of " No compromise.'' BALLOTS FOR LOGGERS' UNION MORE PATRIOTISM OF THE CHEAP BRAND Northern Construction Company Reduce the Wagee and Increaie the Hours. The Northern Construction Company on the P. Q. B. Is very patriotic. This company is hiring returned soldiers at 75 cents per hour, which on an eight-hour-day basis would be a reduction of 60 cents per day. To allow the men the opportunity of earning full wages the houn ot labor have been Increased to nine. The matter has been laid before the returned men's associations and tbey are refusing to send men to work for this outfit. The Piledrivers and Wooden Bridgemen'. Union, which has many returned men In lta ranks, is taking the matter up with the Deputy Minister of Labor, To Increase Benefits Harrisburg, Pa.—The stato work* men's compensation board is urging the legislature to inerease compensation for injured workers from SO per cont. of tbeir wookly wago to 05 por eent. Thc board also favors decreasing from 14 to soven days the length of time an injured worker muat wait beforo he can receive benefits. WORLD LABOR HEWS na. the Constitution;? Preamble Modern society is divided into two classes:—Capitalist and Wagowork- i.g, with interests entirely opposed to each other. The present order gives to the capitalistic class in an over-increasing supply ef wealth and to the wageworker an over increasing measure of degradation and misery. Therefore, a struggle goes on between these two classes. As sellers of labor power, the workers are compelled to organise Industrially, without regard to race, creed or color, not only in order to obtain better conditions, and to resist the ruthless exploitation by capital, but also to educate its members to their elass position in society, so that they shall be able to take over the industries and to use thom in the Interests of tbe whole community instead of as at preaent for tho benefit ef a few. TES. NO Are yon in faror of either of the proposed amendments to the Oonstl- tution*?: 1. That no onc taking a contract shall be eligible for membership, TES NO t. An amedment to above proposal has been mado as follows: Persons taking contracts or adopting any means of exploitation with the object of employing other persons are not eligible for membership. YES...-. NO..... I. That any person who performs a socially-necessary function in tne lumber industry, or in a construction camp, is eligible for membership. TES. NO... Question No. 1 Are yon ln favor of levering your affiliation with yonr preient International Graft Union, and becoming part of One Big Industrial Organization of all worken? Mark your ballot with an X—TES ™_ NO Question No, 2 An you in favor of » general strike to establish a six-hour working day? Uark your ballot with an X—TES NO If you de not receive an official ballot by May 10th, uie the one in Damp Worker er Federationlit. AND that hand is tho hand that lifts the shaped dough from tho moulding machine to the pan in which it la baked, From the timo thc flour is placed in tho dough- mixer machinery does all the work, producing thousands of loaves in the same time it takes the housewife to bake four. Thai hu lt been msde pouible 10 bay belter breed st a leie coit then jt cen be b s k e t .1 home. rood llcenie No. 6-10M. always made up by a rise in prices. "The master class never lost a fivo* cont piece by any advanco of wages it evor granted." (Applauae.) The iron law of exchange could not bp violated by cither masters or Blaves; the market would always right itself. "It is impossible to get a cop* per away from them, as long as they are masters and the rest of us are slaves. It was absurd to think that John D. Bockefeller could put up the price of oil at pleasure. Orders would fall off, and the price would bo shaded down to tho correct point. Tho losa of trade would indicate that other tiling wero being resorted to in plnco of oil. The Standard Oil Co., no longer triod to get a prico that tho market did not warrant. Similarly, increasing orders indicated that, the priee wos below what lt ought to be; then it waa Bhaded up, till the normal flow again was reached. "We can agree on wages below which wo will not work; but, un* leaa the circumstance-* of thc market determlno that is the correct exchange valuo, that agreomont will be broken." Either the wago would be paid and taken bock again: or tho unemployed would be compelled, In spito of all their resolutions, to break that prico. "Then the whole shebang folia down, aa we havo seen it many, many times." Many did not understand that there were slnvoB; thnt thia was tho most lntonilfiod slavory thot the world ovor saw. Thoy wero moro powerless to baok It, without overthrowing lt altogether, than they ever wero. The wngo of labor tbrouehmit tho world was nevor an ^Te Quality Ci&ar EL, 0OSO Ideal Size 9 9 R* Cu for mCU JMafesticLSize A15* Inco me Isthebest UnionMadeCi^af4For2 5 Section 18 of the Bussian constitution provides that "Tho Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Bepublic considers work the duty of every citizen of tho republic, and proclaims as its motto: "Ho shall not eat who does not work." In section 3 there iB tho following provision : '' Universal obligation to work is introduced for the purpose of eliminating thc parasitic strata of society snd organizing the economic lifo of the country." New York. — Tho plight of returning soldiers is pitiful. The famous 27th Division which took a prominent part in breaking the Hlndenburg line received a welcome that cost the city of Now York $430,000. The next day the head of tho state employment aervice announced that 8,000 men from this division were out of work. Ono boI-. dier who was working in a factory before he joined tho army received his old job upon his return to New York. Before He left for tho war his pay was 414 a week. The firBt pay envelope which he received after his return contained $10. He protested but was told that $10 waB to be his wago hereafter. In Toledo, 0., the Socialists had planned a farewell meeting for Eugene V. Debs, who goes to the penitentiary in a few days to servo a ten-year sentence. The hall in whieh the nieeting was to be held was closed by the police. A riot ensued among the five thousand peoplo who had assembled for the purpose of attending tho meeting. About 76 persons wero arreBted. The mayor, in a public statement, said that "Hereafter no meeting will bo permitted anywhere in tho oity where it is suspected that a man of radical tendencies will speak." Tho British Whitley Industrial Commission met, investigated, considered and published its report— net result—rich richer and poor poorer. Now her majesty, the queen, is making a private investigation and finds appalling misery and squalor. CANADIAN NOTES. Winnipeg. — The censor had threatened the Ukrainian Labor News with suppression despite the fact that there wore no editorials and nothing was printed save excerpts from other papors printed in Canada. Tho censor insists that he be allowed to mako the selection. Time was when politicians openly boasted that they could "buy every election." The United Formers of Ontario have for a motto "Every bye-election" and are living up to it. Threo recent bye-elontions in old Ontario have boen won by independent farmer candidates. Evidently thore aro still wise men in thc East. Tho Calgary Metal Trades workers were looked out Tuesday of last week owing to their having put the 44-hour wook into oporation in de- nance of tho bosses. Their schedule demands were ignored, but tho men are determined. This is tho first case of direct action In tho Dominion- it demonstrates the Bpirit of the times. Tho bossos aro backed by tho Boards of Trade—the workors by the Ono Big Union Bpirit. Speculation Is rife as to the beneficial results of tho visit of the delegation of tho Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union to Ottawa, whero rates of pay and working conditions havo boon discussed for several days with the postmaster-general. The postal workers throughout tho west aro dotorrained to romedy the mediaeval state of affairs existing in the postal service low as at this moment, compared with tho prices of things in tho stores. Tho reason was that human slavery was moro highly developed today; the slaves were skinned closer to the quick now than over they were beforo. Thero was nothing revolutionary in combines for rebellion against the markot; thev were an absolute denial of the class struggle. Thc conflict was between buyers aud sellers, between whom no class strugglo wus possible. So a fight between strikers and scabs was merely u fight between slaves; thero was no revolution in that. Tho prico wbs dictated at all times by the number of jobs compared with the number of slavos. Tho class struggle could only bc a struggle for the conquest of politieal powers, to that tho rule of tho master class should bo brought to an end and the oarth set freo for tho workers—the ending once for all the wago question, the last form of human slavery. The fact of onc man working for another was unnatural and positively deadly—to worker and ttiastsr alike. It implied human slavery and government— somebody to govern and somebody to bo governed. Tho talk about de- mocraor under such condition! was all piffle. "What does govornment mean except to robf That's all It can Imply—tho edict of ths master While * tho Easter weather was disappointing, the Baiter trade at tho "B. 0." was most satisfactory, thank you. It is most gratifying to ns to see our old friends stream in year after yoar. It speaks volumes for the satisfaction our goods give. They sure ought to givo satisfaction because we buy the best woolens procurable and we employ only the best workers, and if ten years trading on cne spot does not give us the necessary experience it's difficult to say what would. We wish you'd como and see our new Spring Suitings and Style Sheets. They'll sure take your fancy. SUITS- For WOMEN, For MEN, $45 up $35 up The B.C. Tailoring Co. CUSTOM TAILOES TO THE W0EB3N0 MAN 128 HASTINGS STBEET EAST "ONION STORE" Our Economy Basement Is the Place to Buy Men's Work Boots and Children's School Boots Steelite Boots Solid leather right through, "and there's double the wear in every pair." Outing Footwear for the whole family at lowest prices in the city. BOOT SHOP 319 HASTINGS ST W Union Store Our Overall Dept.—"Union Made"— G.W.G., Carhart and Twin Bute—Reg. $2.25, $2.50 and $8.00 garments, for $1.75 $2.10 $2.45 Pant Specials—Reg. $6.00 and $6.50 pants for $4.95, while they last. Odd line Arrow Collars _....2 for 25c Broken line Arrow Shirts, 30% off regular prices. 5 pair Cotton Sox $1.00 ■Working Shirts .80o $1.00 each 20 dozen Sample Caps. Values up to $2.25. For a good suit of clothes see our values. -UNION STORE- TheJonah-PratCo. 401 HASTINGS STREET WEST 10 Sub. Cards Oood (or ono ysir1 B. O. Ft-diMiti' ' ■nr ■ddr-ri* 1 (Oood anywhere olty.) Order Un PAGE FOUR ELEVENTH YEAB. No. IT THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST VAHOOUVEB, B. & FBIDAT. .April tt, 1811 lHUfflMMn Published every Friday morning t>y the B. 0. Federationitt, Limited. A. 8. Wells.. Manager Office: Labor Templo, 405 Dunsmuir St. Tel. Exchange, Sey. 7495 After 6 p.m., Seymour 7-497K Subscription Rates: United States and Foralgn, $8.00 per year; Canada, $1.50 per year; In Vancouver City, J2.00 Jer year; to Unions subscribing ia a ody, fl.86 per member per year. !^^%»%ee-^eee»we^_w-^%_^»v.^»^-^^*^^^ tfnity of Labor; the Hope of tho World. FBIDAY. - April 25, 1919 THE WORLD AND THE 0. B. V. maino to the quostion involvod, Ib as follows; "Again the FederationiBt says: Thore is no need to foar that the workors in this country will bring about anarchy. This iB a reassuring atatement, but here is where this pnpor again roquirus enlightening The Calgary Conferenco declared approval of the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariate'* as being 'absolute nnd efficient for the transformation of capitalist-private property to communal wealth.' Now a niodorn democracy in proportion as it is pervaded by vigorous democratic ideals will light against dictatorship of any class in the commonwealth—working man or so-called capitalist. It will light such dictatorship to finish. This means civil war and consequent anarchy. What this newspaper would like to know whether the Federationist, in spito of its expressed desire to create a 'now order' by peaceful methods, would advocate the 'Dictatorship of tbe Proletariat' ovon if such dictatorship involved anarchy?" In this question, the World shows that it oither does not understand world conditions, or is wilfully blind to them. It Bays "that modern democracy will light against a dictatorship." That is true. The working olass is lighting against the dictatorship of a olass that only comprises about 15 per cont. of the people, a dictatorship that has thrown members of the working class into prison for' having politicnl opinions different to those of the ruling class; a dictatorship that has prescribed the litoraturo of the working class movement, and hand- picked tho eleetors in the last Dominion election; a dictatorship that controls the lives of the great majority of the world's population, for tho ruling class knows no boundary linos when its interests are threatened, as witness the action of thc Allies in Russia and Hungary. Pro- are the only things that are sacred to tho class that now -dictates tho things thnt the majority of the people may or may not do. We aro asked if we would advocate a proletarian dictatorship, if such dictatorship involved anarchy f We will ask tho World if it understands anarchy. We take it for granted that it does not, or it would not have asked the question if it did. Wo will answer the question ourselves. Anarchy is the direct antithesis of Soeialism, It is a donial of a social order based on cooperative effort, and is tho last thing that the workera wish to have anything to do with. It is for this reason that they desire to abolish thc present anarchic system, with all its contradictions, and the results that must come through tho prevalence of anarchy in any form. Man is a social animal, be produces the things that arc necessary for human sustenance socially, but under tho present system, thero is anarchy in tho disposition of the wealth created by the working class, owing to the fact that whou the workers have pro •duced it, they do not own it, but it ii owned by a ruling class, through tho class ownership of the means of wealth production, whioh are operated socially. This in itself is anarch/* Could thore be any thing that eould be imagined that eould be worse than conditions u they now prevail in all lands under capitalism. Soldiers that have fought for what wae supposed to have beon their country, now are fighting for the right to live, and access to the moans of woalth production in ordor that they may do ao. The workers denied the very wealth tbey bave created by the riding claaa that nevor produced anything but trouble and suffering for the wealth producers. We are told tha anarchy prevails in Bussia. From all sources that are not tainted by the present ruling class agencies, we learn that anarchy doeB not prevail in Bussia, except in those parts where the Allies are operating and bringing about counter revolutions. In this issue will be found an interview with a man that has returned from that land, and his statements give the lie to the stories of anarchy that is supposed to prevail there. « * * We do not concede that a proletarian dictatorship would involve anarchy, aud we take the stand that it would be necossary if the forces of reaction stand iu the way of progronB, and attempt to sto'm the tido that is gradually bringing tho working class to the end of its slavery. The situation In Bussia was of such a nature that thore was no other method left for the workors but to tako control of the situation. Counter revolutions wero springing up in many places, some, if not all, being engineered and financed from outside sources. When the time for a change in the system arrives, the workors will adopt such measures na will be necessary. As we have said on previoui occasions, these methods will be determined by the activities, of the present ruling olass, and the reactionary elements in society. We contend that a proletarian dictatorship would involve less anarchy than prevails at this day in any capitalistic country in the world, not excepting Canada, and that in any case it would be a dictatorship of the majority of thc people, and not at we have at present, a dictatorship of a very small minority. Thoso tbat proposed the 0. B, U. at the Western Conference did not bring it forward as a panacea for all the ills of the working class, or as a substitute for present governmental bodios, but for the purpose of giving the workers a better form of organization through whloh to secure thoir demauds whilo capi talism lasts. When the time It ripe for a change, the workers will move as tho neods of the times dictates, nnd if the Ono Big Union is tho organisation through which thay will work, it wlU be because it bost suits the requirements of the moment. If other forms of action are necessary, then they will take them. But whatever action they will take It wiU he political action. It will be action tgatut the poHMeri pew- « * « Iw ef the ruling olaie. Io sey that Th. «fl0n_i aiiMtloa. whlefc isithe yfmikm deeided at Ofclgwr to LAST WEEK we suggested that tho Vancouver Daily World should devoto some time to the Study of world conditions, so that it oould dual intelligently with them, In Tuesday's issue of that paper, we are asked to supply a little light on two questions, that have arisen out of the Oalgary Labor conference. Tho Federationist is accused of being Impolite in its references to the in* torpretation placed on the deliberations of the conference. If we were Only impolite in our references, then we were neglectful in our duties to the class which this paper repro- lents, and whose ' aspirations it voicei. The World deliberately stated that political action was to be thrown into the discard, and the next step was to call a general strike on June 1st, which will challenge Ihe authority, not only of the Federal, but of the Imperinl and Allied governments, it also Btated that this involves the suppression of not only the present government of Canada, but all government other than that dictated by the labor temples of tho cities of the West. We stated that this was nonsense, to put it mildly. To put it bluntly, it was misrepresentation, and with au object that was not, at least, in the interests of the working elass of this country, and evidently with the object of defeating the proposals now being voted oa by the local unions, submitted by the central committee ap* pointed by the Western conference. So much for our impolite statements. * * * Coming to the questions asked by the World, we will deal with them in the order in which they are aiked. In or-der that there can be no misrepresentation of the ques* tions asked, wo give them in full. Hie first one iB as follows: "In particular, it denies that the 'One Big Union' intends to 'supersede"existing government institutions.' Tet in the same article it says: 'That industrial control will be the next itep in the make-up of society in ftead of the government of men, no one that understands the working- •teas portion will deny. The World, whioh ii always anxious to 'gain a little knowledge of world conditions sad the cause of them,' would be Slad to see defined ler It how 'in- Bitrial control' eaa he substituted for 'government of awn' without ■'superseding* existing' government Institutions." * • • In this question it will be aeen that the World links up onr statement as to the future, with the raa- £ins for tho formation of tho One Ig Uaioa. Kow, there could be no •ther reasons tnx tht formation of the new form of organisation than Ahat expressed ia the resolution, .which reads: "Whereas, great and far-reaching -changes have taken placo during the last year in tho realms of industry; 1' And whereas, we have discovered through painful experiences the Utter futility of separate action on the part of the workers, organised merely along craft lines, auch aetion tending to strengthen the relative position of the master elass; "Therefore, be it resolvod, that this Western Labor Conference place itself on record, as favoring the immediate reorganization of the workers along industrial lines, so that by virtue of their dnstrial strength, tho workers may be better prepared to -enforce any demand they considor essential to thoir maintenance and well being; "And be it further resolved, that in view of tho foregoing, we plaoo ourselves also on rooord as boing opposed to the innoculty of Labor leaders lobbying parliament for palliatives which do not palliate." * * * Our statements as to tho future is entirely another matter, and we did not suggest that "industrial eontrol could be established without superseding existing government institutions." In fact, wo have stated on many occasions, that govornment of men must be superseded by administration of industry, before democracy can bs established. If that is correct, then the present governmental institutions must be done away with, before real democracy can exist. From that position we have no intention of receding a stop. It is the only position that we could take, having a knowledge of the ills of the working class, which arc tho result of« humun slavery, brought about by the cluss ownership of the moans of wealth production, and which is tho only reason for government, as wc know it today, existing. Governmont presupposes a governed, and a governing class, one elass subject to another. It is the mission of the working clans to do away with this olass ownership, and the consequent misery and enslavement of the working class. That accomplished, government of mon will be no longer necessary, and ths old governmental methods will be relegated to the Umbo of things that are obsolete. But our statements were not tbe reasons for the formation of the new form of industrial organization. The reasons for that are expressed ia tho resolution* proves that the World iB only con-' versant with one phase of political action, that being ballot box action, and if that line of action is not sufficient for the workers, then other action will have to be taken, but in any ease it will be political, as the presont ruling class will realize when it meets it. Taking the statement of the World, "that fighting a dictatorship means civil war aud anarchy,'' then we contend that if thero is civil war, the blame will rest on thoso that at this time hold that dictatorship. The workers are out to abolish that dictatorship, and intend to end it and bring in the co-operativo commonwealth, and abolish for ever the reasons for class war, class hatreds, and all that classes in society must involve. If there is civil war, it will bc because tho decrees of tho majority arc obstructed, and thoso in power will not let go. When tho majority so determines-- tho rule of the minority must end, and end it will, no mattor whnt will bo tho methods necessary to end it. ON PROLETARIAT (Continued from page 1) THAT bogey man, raised by tho ruling claus, to frighten all of the timid members of socioty, whieh has dono so much service recently, to wit the nationalization of women in Bussia, THAT has again boon VILLAINOUS trotted out to do LIE service. This week we have beon in- formod that due to considerable dissatisfaction and protest in some of the Bussian provinces against the decree which was supposed to havo boon issued nationalizing women, that it 'has been abandoned. It appears that this report was first started by a notice that was posted by tho enemies of the Soviet Governmont, and not as was stated, by the Saratov Anarchist Club. It wos a lie circulated by all the nations that aro today ruled by capital, and was spread broadcast, in the effort to discredit the proletariat in Bussia. This foul rumor is in line with many other statements that havo been made dorogatory to the workers in the first country to ovorthrow the rule of capital. George Landsbury, editor of the Herald, the national labor weekly, London, ran this vile rumor down for his own personal satisfaction, and he saya that the tales of the nationalization of women in Bussia are pure and simple lies. Oliver M. Baylor is the dramatic critic of the Indianapolis News. He has recently returned from Bussia. He is not a Socialist, yet he wroto an article for the New Bepublic iu which he gives tho quietus to this infamous lie. In this article he soys: "Whatever elso tho Bussian Bolsheviki must answer for bofore public opinion today, and the bar of history tomorrow, they cannot in truth hold responsible for the so-called decree concerning the nationalization of women." To come nearer home, we have the words of a young Y.M.C.A. workor, Mr. Humphrio, who has just returned from Bussia, and who was interviewed by a local man, aud which is published in another column in this issue. He brands the press reports as to nationalization of women as a lie, and gives not his opinion, but his statements based on actual knowledge of the situation. But we cannot expect anything else from tho press that is controlled by the ruling class. Bussia has broken away from capitalistic rule, and to that extent has earned the enmity of the ruling class of all nations, and we cannot expect the truth from the organs of the class whoso power is threatened. While ths press is circulating lies as to the women in Bussia, it might be as woll to take a look at the women in the lands where women are bo "well cared" for, sueh as the U. S. A., England and France. What is the position of the women theref We find that duo to economic conditions, that women are compelled to Bell their sex favors for bread. Nationalized with a vengeance. Capitalized would b* a better term. And who are these women of the underworld! They are the daughters of the working class, they are the sisters of members of the only useful class in society. Let those that will say that they are fallen worn- It is as base a lie as that circulated about the women in Bussia. The female membors of the working class are as good and moral as the women of any other class. Nay, thoy are hend and shoulders above the women of the ruling class in all mutters that pertain to thoir sex relations. But starved and buffeted under the present system, which prevents the men from taking wives, they take advantage of the market so created for their sex favors, and sell them in order that they may live. The present Bystem is responsible for their fallen state. The workers are realizing this, and it ill behooves the ruling cTass to circulate such an Infamous lie as to the attitude of the workers to their women, at this time when the system that has given the ruling class the brothel, is about to collapse and the ruling class will be called to account for its treatment of the workors that have shattered the rule, that has mads it possible for that class to revel in luxury, while the working olass has been degraded and brutalized by tho industrial system. If there is rod blood in any working man's veins, he will resent this dirty villainous lio. He will reseut the conditions that have made it necessary for membors of his class of the female sox to sell their bodicB for the necessities of lifo. He will work for the overthrow of the system that haB been responsible, and will endeavor to usher in that day, when his sisters, or his daughtors, may be free from the possibility of over reaching that position, when it is either death by starvation, or the brothel. Friday did not represent tho majpr-1W W LEFEAUX ity of the returned men. But we | * * would suggest that if that meeting had have been called by the labor movement of this city, aud similar resolutions had been passed, that we should have hoard a lot of talk about Bolshevism, and it is quite possiblo that there would have been counter demonstration organized by the.parties that were responsible for the gathering last Friday, to let labor know that it could not rulo the country. It might also have been possible for Mayor Galo to havo emulated the* Mayor of Seattle in suppressing* a Bolshoviki revolution. W.e havo no quarrel over the soldiers seeking work for thoir comrades, and we don't care how they -do it, but we trust that after this, labor will be givon tho same right as the soldiers, at any time that it thinks somothing must be doue to bring about its wishes in respect to thc administration of the country, and of tho conditions under which the memberB of organized labor aro compelled to work. May we point out to the "World" that the movos of the returned men over the appointment of Mayor Gale as utilities commissioner, looked very much like political actions to us, but they were not ballot box actions oither. We would also suggest to the soldiers that in view of the fnct that tho ruling class now owns the jobs, that if the workers ownod thom, thore might be chance for them to get one at more thnn Chinaman's wages. Tliis of course only applies to the ranks. The officers of course get theirs, with sufficient emoluments to enable them to live. The following gem is taken from the Sun: "The attompt to form "one big union" does not seem to bo making much progress in the labor world. Evidently the members of the craft organizations are a little reluctant to surrender their future into the hands of revolutionary extremists. The way for Labor to increase its share in tho control and profits of industry, is by harmonious co-operation." Let us imagine Labor increasing its share in the profits of industry, by harmonious or auy othor methods. How on earth anyono can increase that which does not exist, is beyond tho mind of any sane individual. Labor has no share in the profits of industry. It cannot have any control of that whieh belongs to the master class. The only share1 that labor has .in the profits of in*. dustry is in the production of thorn- for a class in socioty that owns and! controls the means of •wealth production, including the slaves that1 operate them. Labor has got past' the stage when it believes in shoring anything. Having produced'all: it has arrived at the stage, where] \t intends to stop sharing anything but the work. Given tho opportunity which cannot be long delayed Labor will give to the members of the ruling olass, that which has been denied the working class, the chap.ee to get out and earn its own living. That is all the sharing that labor is looking for, Apart from tho sharing up proposition, the workers are taking up the O. B. U. in greator numbers, tban was expected when the proposal was flrst made, and while the Sun may not like the idea, it looks as if the 0, B. U. is already on the map, and approved of by 'the workers, and the rank and file at that. The following is an extract from a dispatch by Dr. Dillon, to the Daily Province: Tide of Revolution Bluing ln Europe The revolutionary tide is rising everywhere in Europe and Uttle now oan be done to stem it. Whatever elso the conforonco may accomplish, lt has established neither peaee among the belligerents nor a solid basis for a general peace later on, ardently though the peoples yearn for it. The world system that culminated in a sanguinary war and illusory peace stands condemned and, together with the classes responsible for it, constitutes a target againBt which the new democracy is aiming its thunder-bolts. Whatover one may think of the conditions to be imposed upon the enomy, they have driven him into the arms of Bussia, and resulted in dividing the European and Asiatic world into two hostile camps which, so long as they persist, will effeotu- ull hinder the foundation of the league of nations." We have been saying the same thing for some little time, and those workers who have pointed out thc inevitable break up of ths capitalistic Bystem havo boen called an- avehististi and everything else that they are not. But the handwriting on the wall is becoming so plain, that even .the scribes of the ruling class can see the message that is inscribed, and which fortolli of the end of a systom that has reached the end of its tether. their social Instincts were being used by another class for the purpose which those who hypnotized them had ln view. ' In other particulars the ant Is superior to the human being. In support of thiB statement the speaker quoted from Thomaa Belt's book which stated that the ants dwelt to-1 gether in communities where the Interests of all were common, The young children were provided for first, then the females of tbe community. We do not flnd this ln human soolety. In any colony they work without any capital. It is not on record that anybody draws any interest on any bonds or anything, nor that there is any particular poverty in any part of the community. There la no exploitation. Why is lt that our intelligence should be so much lower than the ant In this particular? The "leaf cutting" ants lay the leaves tbey get down In their sub- teranean passages. They uae them for bedding and also raise a fungus from them on which they live, They also keep another Insect from whioh they extract honey which tbey atore up for their food. In this work every ant has ItB share of what there 1b to do. In contrast, we go out and work for a boss. We have every kind of manufacture. We have the wherewithal! to provide plenty for all. We work, work, work. What for? Do we go to work with the same purpose as the ants do? Do we work in order that In times of famine or drought we may have plenty? Do we work for the good of the community? No; we work because we have to. Wo'have to get a job because our society is organized on a different plan to that ot the ant. The human being Is working in an anarchls- tlcal Bystem,1 generally known "competition." The ants have no machinery. The Blave or male ant only does the laborious work. We are compelled to go out and get a Job, when we can get a job, because of the materialistic conditions under which we live. We have no idea of doing anything tor the good of the community, because a number of Individuals have control of property, ThlB is the basis of the whole of the Ills ot human society, starvation, misery, crime. There Is no record of the ants ever building jails to keep other ants In. They have no police force or armed force to keep guard over the rest of them, because crime Is a negligible quantity. Tbere is no instance ot the degenerate female or illegitimate children. The children are cared for by the community. Tbe speaker failed to understand why the workers will put up wtth modern conditions or why they should aak such foolish questions as he had referred to. The speaker gave a lengthy explanation of Capital, "the Taylor System" and the medium ot exchange used ln Russia. WE GIVE 10% DISCOUNT TO RETURNED SOLDIERS OFF THEIR CIVIE OUT- FIT. RICKSON'S Apparel for Men 820 GRANVILLE ST. Union Stor* Near Robion EEDSI The Vegetable Garden BEANS (Dwarf) FU.VM Cfti.-u.len Wonder, green IBs Stringlcee Green Pod ...IS. Golden Better ....IM Wardell', Xldner In ...151 ' EUNNBE Chemplon Seerlet IB. Oranberrf ._ ...lfie LIMA Improved Bueh ....15e ONION SKI Yellow Lew-eon, lb........85e SheUole, per lb. ......86, SO. 80, Don't FaU to See "Ble Hopttaa" Next week will see Margarot Marriott in tho play that hag created thoatre hiBtory and broken box offlce record, from ono -end of tho country to tho other for tho past eighteen year,. The title of thie magnetic and fascinating play ia "Sis Hopkins/' and so great was it as a money maker, the owners have refused to release it for stock produetion until tho presont season. Every stock company throughout America sent in hurry-up calls for thia play and the result is twenty- four stook companies played it last wook and turned away peoplo at overy performance. It will receive a gigantic production next wook at thu Empress, and as Margaret Marriott is at her best in a rollicking soubrette part tho Empress patrons oan look forward to a rare treat. Toll all your friendi about this exceptional play and order your seats now, so you will be able to get into the Empress to aee "Sis Hopkins," for believo ma lha is somo gaL *" Betail Oletks Oain Chicago—About 300 clerki om- ployed in men's stores in the outlying districts have secured recognition of tho Betail Clorks Union, a 54-hour week and a SO por oent. wago incraeBO. Irish Cobbler, uek...Jl.i Per 100 lbe .»«.' 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Brltt, the two "itayouta," will presenf their latest laughing mccesi, I hodge-podge of mirth and melod; that promises to please. Harr; Tauda, Japanese equilibrist, will be aeen in a series of surprises this line of work, Joe and Roali Moy, Chinese entertainer!, will Introduce a program of dance num* ben, including a Chinese cake* walk. Rookie Lewli, rlotoui blackface comedian, also will be ln tha forefront ot the entertainment. Named Shoes are frequently made in Non-union factories DO NOT BUY ANY SHOE No matter what its name, unless it bears a plain and readable impression of this UNION STAMP. All Shoes without the UNION STAMP are always Non-union Do not accept any excuse for Absence of the Union Stamp BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION 246 SUMMEB STBBBT, BOSTON, MASS. JOHN r. TOBIN, President CHAS. L. BAINH, Sec.-Treas. "Strike Notice" UNION MEN, do you know that the next strike is Vucouver ii going to bi an OIL STRIKE. It will bo the greatest itrike for you, provided yon hold a paid-up membership In tha SUB- BEY OIL CO., LTD. Don't wait until "EVEBT- BODY" knows there ii oil in the Fraier Valley, AU the Directors of this Compsny o. or formerly were, UNION men, representing FIVE different Unloni. 'ly were, UNION men, JIVE Afferent Unlone. Ther know yeur jpooltlon, therefor. 'l-noy know yeur position, therefo you ere eieured of a etrelsht deal. The SURREY Oil, CO. eheree sn the beet buy in Ihe elty. Call ini I will proro it. LUUTH) ISBUN, t eents per ohere. Small wpltellMtlon, Isifl bold- Ibis. Get yoar order, ln QUICK. Ou enly be obtained from G. Gatheral Fleming tta HOMEB STBBBT Phone Sey. 4317 Open till fl Saturday ovoning We have been undor the Impression that the returned mm believed in law and ordor. Their recont notion does not, however, give us muoh ground for continuing that bolief. Cranbrook, thn Trau and Silverton, aad lator Vnncouver. Uka tha Premier, wl are of the Friendly Sooletlei Meet A genoral meeting of thi Fraternal Societies' Welfare Association of British Columbia, will be held on Monday, April 28th, at 8 p.m., in the Elks Hall, 021 Seymour street, for the purpoie of completing or* ?;anl.atlon and eloctlng offlcors for he onsuing torm. Any society not hithorlo represented, cordially invited to sond dolegates. DON'T BEAD TBIS Unless your feot hurt you. Solon tido treatment, adjusting tne bones, and thi wearing of light supports madi te miasuri, will give prompt relief. Foot Specialist, Room 615 Hastlngi Welt (over Id-Cent Store), Open T te fl evening!, tt- -At J. N. Harvey's Olothing Stores- DENTISTRY _WITH * REPUTATION Clients who patronize my offices oan be absolutely fearless. Every modern method known in the science of dentistry is applied for the alleviation of pain. Dr. Gordon Campbell Opening Evenings T to 8 o'clock. 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OH, Proprietor LAlOl TBMPU -TAXI- IOFT DRINK PARLOR C.OAM, OIOABETTII ANS 80R at—thta tOO DOMSMDIE STBEET Te Promote Distribution Washington—The bureau of market!, department of agriculture, will conduot a country-wide inquiry into the retail moat businoss with a viow te determining the most effective methods for the introduction of economics and tho increase of efficiency in tho distribution of meat from tho wholesaler to the consumer. Patronise Fed. advertisers. THE PIONEER OF UNION LABELS A GUARANTEE TO EVERY SMOKER Greatest Stock ol Furniture in Greater Vancouver Replete in every detail Hastings Fnnuture Co.Ltd. iytMtheciiiiMweit lnwwitioninJii-0^ „ . Union-made Cigars. **#0H*6wiMM*--«liW'--*U*Wi**»-i^ *#etemriiNMwtuiwwiyiimitciii*iMLr«t(ifni[Cfitfr tWotmumm* _K____- io.au.i) CLASS STRUGGLE LOOK FOR IT—DEMAND IT BOOST IT Andrews' Closing Sale Makes Cut Rate Prices on American Clothes as on Furnishing Goods THE DOORS ARE OPEN. My effort to close out this 565,000 stock of Clothing and Furnishings, because we have leased the building to another concern, started last week. WILL I SUCCEED? I'M CERTAIN of it. I've priced every garment in the house- Men's and Young Men's Clothes—so attractively that you can't resist buying at this Going Out of Business Sale This ii no ordinary sale. It'i an extraordinary method of selling everything in tha house, inoluding the fixtures, in an incredibly short time. In consequent* the reduotione throughout are extraordinary. They apply on every pieae of merchandise In the house. Even the new Spring goods bought for the coming Easter Sea- ion, are scaled down to the same price level. The famous American clothes— suits and overcoats—are included— coals that were meant to grace the shoulders of Vancouver's best judges of olothing are to be sold at a fraction of what they should bring. DE ON HAND AT NINE O'CLOCK WHEN THE DOORS OPEN Men's Negligee Shirts, are now BBo instead of $1.50. Men's Penman's Underwear are now IBe garment instead of ♦1.50. Men's 35o Tan Hon are now selling at B pairs for S1.S0. SOe Neckwear aro now IBo, and Boston .Garten are now 25c. ALL HATS ARE REDUCED THIS WAY Stetson'i $8.80 Hats—pay now. I6.B0 All J5.00 Hats—pay now W.90 All $8.60 Hats—pny now $8.78 All Underwent an . All Uumbrollas are . All Shirts are . =14 off T. B. Andrews' American Clothes Shop 53 Hasting! Street Weet-Opporite Columbia Theatre —Written by Ivor Smith. The Class Struggle Is a Struggle for Freedom [By Chas. Le»tor] v Th« working men on this western continent are now discussing the O. B. U. and a few words from tbe standpoint of a would-be 'red may be of intorest. "The employing class and the working elass have nothing in oommon," says old Dan de Leon and if this is so harmony between the two is impossible. The individual employer may often have many things in common with his employees but this doos not alter the faot that their olass interests are diametrically opposed. The olass struggle is not on the job because we only lind one class there. Tho worker ia exploited where he works but his exploitation is due to the fact that he is compelled to sell himself before he starts. The capitalist bargains not for the wealth the worker produces but for the energy measured by time of tH| producer. If I buy a thing it is mine. If the capitalist class buys the working class eight hours a day for five dollars per man per day, then the capitalist class owns lho working class wnen lt Is working, that is to say, during the only period when it is producing wealth, therefore, it naturally follows that all that the working class produces belongs to the capitalist class by virtue of the fact- that the capitalist class owns ho working class whon it iB producing wealth. Tho working class is an enslaved class. This ib a fact, and the question that confronts it iB, how will the 0. B. U. help the working class to escape from its bondage? The function that the union fulfills in addition to maintaining tho value of labor power is that of nourishing, protecting and defending those revolutionary spirits that endeavor to arouse their fellow workingmen to a realization of their degraded position and try to unite them into a political force, powerful enough to crush their enemies. The class struggle ia u struggle for freodOm— from ownership. Had it not been for the trade union movoment in thiB country protecting tho propagandist the education of tho proletariat may uot hnve been so far advanced us it iB. Wherovcr you havo a miners' organizntion for example you can get a Socinlist meeting and tho speaker will generally bo protected from outside interference. Ou thc other side of the .Hue tho A. F. of L. is controlled by such a reactionary clement that it is used to retard not only tho revolutionary movement on this continent, but as Been by the capers of Qompors and Co., in Europe it has been used against tne interests of tho working class the world over. Tho A. F. of L. has boon manipulated as a powerful lover and used to disrupt and disorganize tho proletariat of Europo in tho interosts of tho capitalist clnss and the total destruction of ihis organization niight result in the formation of something more in .sympathy with tho progressive forcoB. Tho imprisonment of Debs is due to the support tho lenders of the A. F. of L. gives to capitalism. The uorrible tori ures inflicted upon the working men and women in the States who daro to espouso the cause of labor aro mndo possible by the fact that Oompers and Co. aro behind the judges and condone also the actions of those brutal cowards who tar aud feathor, lynch and beat up those noble-minded men and women who refuse to bow to the yoke of capital and try to oducate the membors of thoir class to a realization of thcir position. The A. F, of L. is daily cursed by every political prisoner in tho "Land of the Free." Why is education, working class education so far bohind in tho United States f Tho economic conditions are rotten ripe but, ye gods, and little fishes that wag their (tails) in the mighty deep, did you over see anything like the ignorance of the slaves of God's country! The 0. li. U. will protect tho propagandist against discrimination and will be the means of providing fnciljties for education along class lineB. In the opinion of tho writer it' is impossible to consciously construct any portion of the now social order in this country at tho presont time. Hie union occupies the position of the placenta and when the revolutionary baby is born the afterbirth —the placenta comes with it. This is no good. It is destroyed or it perishes. The same with all unions, industrial or craft, now existing or proposod. The working class must take things u it finds them, but amid the -shaos and confusion now existing and to come the goal must bt kopt clearly in view, "The abolition of the wage system," and the establishment of a system of production for use. To attain this our battle ary must be "All power to the working olass." The struggle is for freedom, liberty and the 0. B. TJ. will be a help or a hinderance in accordance with the knowledge possessed by those wbo form it. (Its valuo depends entirely upon tho psychological influences that presides at its birth.) Will it be a means of generating in the minds of the slaves on this Western continent, "The will to bo free." Living Costs Oo Up Washington—The Bureau of Labor statistics reports that food prices in tho United Status on Doc. Id, 1918, wero 3 per cent, higher than on Novembor 16, 1918. Comparing Doc, 1918, with Dec, 1917, the combined incrcaso of all articles was 19 per cent. During tho five-year oerlod, Dec, 1913, to Dee., 1018, food prices advanced 79 per cont. Seven of the 17 articles increased 100 per cent, or overj sugar, 100 per cent.; ham, 101 per ctntt pork chops, 104 per cent.; corn meal, 100 per cent.; flour, 109 per oent.j lard, 110 per oent, and baooa, 119 per oent. Ths remaining tea arttsles all show an increase of 00 ptr onl. or ovtr. Wut Two-platoon Plan San Antonio, Toxas—Organized firs fighters are circulating petitions asking that a two-platoon charter iLmnnrlment ht. nli__i___1 nn ♦!-.*■ l___ll-_. BOYS'and GIRLS'CORNER Oity Housekeeping ; [By J. 0, Woodsworth] The tlty is our big home. Long ago oities were small and walled. People worked out in the fields during the day and came into the eity at night to be nafe from attack. All the "city fathers" had to do was to preserve order within the walls and to ward off the enemy. After a time, cities becamo not fortresses, but comfortablo places in which to live. Each family had a home and garden and often workshop. The "city fathers" kept order and made the roads and decided disputes. Today the olty is large and a great hive of industry. Tho work of the "oity fathers" has greatly incroasod and w« are constantly giving them more to do. There art many things whioh we flnd we ean do best collectively—that is as a community rather than individuals. Of course thero are the roads and sidewalks—many oities also have their own street railway system. This is a public utility and it seems right that it should belong to all tho people. Most oities havt their own sewers and waterworks. Some of us remembor when water used to be peddled about tho town in barrels or carts and when each family had to dispose of hia own refuse. Now the city sweeps or washes the streets and keeps the back yards clean. In many cities, the city supplies gas or electricity for lighting and heating and powor. Since so many people live oloso togothor it is impossible for each family to have its own Uttle front garden and its big lot for tho children to play in. So the city supplies parks and playgrounds and often appoints supervisors to direct the activities of thc playground. At ouo time each family educated its own children or sevoral families clubbed together and kept a teacher. Today we have our publio schools open to all. In many cities tho schools teach, all kinds of manual work, give lectures and concerts and moving picturo shows and hold social entertainments. In addition to tho schools wo have public libraries and public gymnasiums and baths and in many cities public picture galleries . In Europe, tho cities often build theatres and concert hallB. The city supervises and regulates all. sorts of things, You must build your houso as the city thinks you should—put in proper sewage to preserve health; proper wiring to prevent danger of firo; in large buildings strong supports to prevent thom falling. In some old eountry cities all the houses on tho same streot must harmonize so that tho itreet will look beautiful. ; The city inspects our broad, and neat and milk and buttor to see that it is of good quality and full height. The city inspects factories asui houses to soe if they are clean, [^quarantines people who have contagious diseases and provides hos- pitdl for the sick and injured. [ TliiB city, directly or indirectelly, takes care of the neglected children and old poaple. It looks after tho bad boys and girls in the juvenile court. Many cities are going into business and aupply coal or wood and fish and milk and the things that everybody needs. In some places the city supplies milk for the littlo babios, story tolling for girls and boys, teaches the mothers how to care for her children,, and help find the father a good job, provides ice cream and music for peoplo who go for a picnic to tho park—in short what doesn't tho eity dot There's an old saying, "Everybody's business Is nobody's bust- ass. '' We are learning that everybody's business should be each body's business." We should all be interested in making our city home beautiful and convenient Remember, wo cannot afford to negloct tht welfare of a single Individual. Let your teacher tell yon what this means, "A starved dog at the city gate foretells the ruin of tht state." But you know It costs a lot of money for the city to do all these things for the citizens. This is raised by means of taxes. If a man owns a house and lot he must pay a certain proportion of its value evory year. If I live in a rented house do I pay taxes! Tou think not Where does tht landlord get his money to pay his taxes! If he unto part of the money that I pay aim as rent do I not pay taxes! Anothor question — Suppose my family and I livo in a rented house and my landlord livos in Seattle. Suppose the city proposes to raise money to build new schools. Who will vote on ths money by-law! Who really has the greatest intorest in the city! Which is more import- IN AUSTRALIA Looks Like Government b Going to Make Glorious Muddle of It [By Francis Ahern.] It Is commencing to dawn on tho people of Australia that the businoss of repatriating tho Australian soldiers from Eureop is being glori- ouely muddled by the present "Win the war" govornment, headed by that labor renegade, William Morris Hughes. Some time ago, scenting that trouble was nigh, the wriMr and other labor pournalists attacked the government for ita tardiness ln getting the repatriation machinery at -work. However, the government gavo assurances that everything was 0. X. and in working ordor, and that the mon would have no need for complaint when the time came to return them to the land of their birth. But now that the war has coma to aa end, we have a different story. And lt is becoming painfully aware that the repatriation buisness has been horribly bungled. The government find itself unprepared to deal with the many problems that muat quickly follow ono another. Although the present Hughes gov* ernment has boen in power over two years, and has had, consequently, plenty of time to arrange all da* tails, we find it resorting now to tbe most miserable of excuses as to why everything is not ready for the returned mon. I recall that, following an attack I made on' the government some time ago on tho matter through the column of tho journal of which I am a staff-writer—"The Australian Worker"—the govornment announced that Australia was far ahead of all the othor overseas dominions in tbe matter of repatriation. Now, wo' are told officially that while America and Canada are well ahead with a repatriation programme, Australia is, of tho oversea dominions, a bad last. The reason given as to why Australian troops cannot come home as fast as the troops of othor dominions is that they cannot loave Franco beforo peaco is declared, while tho limitations of shipping will not permit of their being repatriated for some time. But this is hard to understand* Is it reasonable to believe that the highest paid soldiors of the Empire are boing kept at the other end of the world when lower paid soldiers could take their place. There ean certainly bo no military reason, else why are the soldiers of Canada, New Zealand and the United States boing allowed to roturn home as fast as thsy can. It looks tolerably like as if the Australian soldiers are boing kept at tha front because the governmont here la not in a position to handle their repatriation of* ficiently. Nor can it be said that there is limitation of shipping. Indoed the roverse is tho caso. As a matter of fact there is a rush of shipping to Australia. But out of 150 ships coming to Australia oy the end of March, only thirty-three are carrying troops—the other 117 are not carrying a soldier at all. There is not the slightest doubt but what the Australian repatriation schemo has beon gloriously bungled, and that fact is fast beginning to dawn on the Australian poople at the timo of writing. and, my children or my landlord's investmentt Who then should votei Still another question—If tho olty hall is burned down, do I lose any money! Suppose it ia insured, do I loss anythingl There would be plenty of monoy if tho oity only ownod the revenues that now go to private individuals. Suppose whon a eity is small a man buys a lot for (100 and goes and lives somewhere else. Suppose that after ten years the lot it worth (10,000. The man reckons that including Intereat and taxes and management the lot has cost him $1,000. To whom does the ethor (0,000 really belong! Did he creata the additional value! Who did create it! Of course the citizens who built homes and factories and schools and provided all the things we have been talking about. Then to whom should it belong! How much should the owner have had to pay in taiea in the ten years! Would it not be simpler If the elty really owned all the land and houses and factorlea! Buy at a union store. The Royal Bank of Canada INCOBPOBATED IW 'Capital Authorized Capital Paid-up Reserve and Undivided Profits. Total Assets .$ 26,000,000 ...$ 14,000,000 ,..$ 15,000,000 .$300,000,000 " 818 branohei in Canadt, Newfoundland and Britiih ' Wert IndiN. ii Alio branohei in London, England; New York Olty and Barcelona, Spain. Twelve branohei in Vanoouver: Main Office—Corner Hastings and Homer Street*. Corner Main and Hastings Streets. Corner Oranvillo and Robson Streets. Corner Bridge Street and Broadway Weit. Corner Cordova and Carrall Streets. Corner OranviUe and Davia Streets. Corner OranviUe and Seventh Ave. West. 1060 Commercial Drive. Cornor Seventeenth Ave and Main Street 2016 Tew Street. Corner Eighth Avenue and Main Street. Hudson Street, Marpole. Also—North Vanoouver, New Westminster and 27 other point* in Britiih Columbia. spiral Anattwioir is cuvnr to savings accounts Ons dollar opsns aa Moo-eat ea whisk interest ia paid half-yearly at current ratea, THOS. PEACOCK, O, W, FBAZBB, Vancouver, Manager Vaneoaver Branoh Supervisor for B. O. Boasting is so much out of our line that we feel it difficult to find worda to thoroughly, efficiently and sufficiently express the extreme superiority of FORD. SUITS over aU others. That there are those who recognize this intense exceUenoe ia evidenced by the magnitude ot the business we are doing— by our having started from nothing a very, very short time back to now occupying the Premier Position as Custom Tailors of Integrity. | UNION STOBB | SUITS TO OBDBB Women's $35 up Men's $45 up 338 Haiitngs St Wert V Two of the best all-union eating-houses in Vancouver—the Good Eats Cafe AH That the Law Will Allow We deserve Trade Union Patronage No. 1 No. Z 110 Cordova St West, or 822 Pender West CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS THB NEW CANADIAN ROUTE THBOUOH Mount Bobson and Jasper Park! across the prairiea through the most fertile grain belt la tko world to Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, llontroal and Quebec. CONNECTIONS at Winnipeg and Duluth for Central States, at Toronto and Montreal for Eastern Statea and Atlantic porta. FINEST TBAIN8, Blectric lighted, Standard aat Tourist Sleep lag Cars, also Dining Cars. For Bates, Tickets, Literature and Information, apply to ' ASSISTANT «mUL FASUNOBB AMUR 806 Hastings St W., Vancouver, S. O. noae Seymoar MM WOIS IBB HOOK SLOWLY TO BMAKi THB TBLBPHOHI OfBBATOB A smsll elgnel lemp fleihee in treat of the telephone operator when yon work yoar receiver hook elowly np sad down te Hired her attention. A quick rattling of the hook does not operate the lemp. The moment of aa laeaadoiooas Urat wtk flow tor a (notion ef a eecond after yon Inn the switch. Give Ihe en-itch two turns, repjdly, end the light coons le bum without en Interruption. So with Ihe ewllohboerd elfnel lemp. It operoteo when—snd only when—the receiver book ie worked elowly. B. n. TUMIPKOKB QQ,, up. doh't mas ij --TBT-. FORESTELL QUICK LUNCH but nr cnr 846 Hastings West Comer Hewn Phone Seymour I0OO Privato Exchange Connecting All Departments, Cut Your Grocery Bill Down By Taking Advantage of Onr Cash and Carry Plan. These Specials for Week Commencing Saturday, April 26 _ Oranluated Sugar, S lbs. Me Oold Medal Poaches, 2'4 lb. tin for are H. P, Sauce, reg. 90c bottle for ao'/ie Sunlight Soap, 4 eakss ...MV,0 Nabob Coffee, per tin Ole Woodward's Better Tea, reg. Duo for ......Me Lowney's Cocoa, _e, tlul9'/,e 2'in-l Shoe Polish, per tln.lM Holbrook's Bath Brick Fow tier 10 Windsor Salt, per sack ...e'/,0 Toilet Paper, luge rolls, t for _3c Kamsay'a Family Sodas ...SSe Som Iter Biscuits, salt or plain 13o Braaeo, reg. SOe for lO'/jo Sultana llRisins, pkg 12V'bC Tropic Seeded Baisins 130 Cleaned Currants, pkg. ......160 Blue Ribbon Peaches, por carton IM Holbrook's Kgg Powder, per pkg aio Holbrook's Custard Pow, dor _ 12'/,c Malkin 'a Best Custard Powder, psr tin 190 Dalton's Custard Powder, per tin 840 Cow Brand Soda, lb, pkg..7'/|C White Olose Starch ...llo Canada Corn Starch lie Benson's Corn Starch ....13'/|l Silver Oloss Staroh _ lS>/n Crlsco, per tin 33c Dr. Price's Baking Powder for — 3»c Empress Baking Powder SSe Eggo Baking Powder, largo tin for _ a«e McLaren'o Jolly Powder »'/,e Nabob Spices ...__. te Campbell's Seups IBe Quaker Tomatoes, !%s ....Mo Olark 's Pork and Beans, largo tins Ml BI Bio Aaparagus, psr tin SSe Jutland Sardines, per tln-.10o Bed Salmon, O. A M., HtJte Sockeye Salmon, la —. STe B. O. Salmon, Hs ifta Sugar House Molasses, tin 180 Pride of Vancouver Sterilised Milk Ue Del Monte Bipe Olives, tin lie Holbrook's Punch 8auee....W« Nabob Extracts, bottle ..Ble Empress Marmalade, bot..Jle Empress Jams, 4s . Ml Empross Strawberry Jam, 4s, for 090 Vantoria Jam, 2s 34e Climax Jam, 4s .670 Shield's Vinegar, bottle ...130 Snap, per tin 170 Bon-Ami, brick or tin He Bockett's Blue, pkg. .. Be Lux, per pkg lOe Ivory Soap, per cake ....»'_» Fols Naptha -. »V,0 Lifebuoy Soap oy**» Oold Dust, pkg ...lie P. A 0. White Naptha *...7V'_0 Castile Soap, por j>kg 5c P. of V. Cream Rolled Unto, T lbs. for 470 B. A K. Oatmeal, 10 lb 880 Irwin A Billings K<*trhup.._8e Blue I.abol Ketchup SOo Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour for W/,o Ornpenuts, per pkg 180 Purity Boiled Oata, 4-lb. cartons . — .SSe wnr-nT * PAGE SIX eleventh *eab. No. it THE BRITISH COMpBIA FEDERATIONIST Vancouver, b. o. FBIDAT.. . April IS, Ull —OBEAT— AFTER-EA8TEB AND END OF MONTH clearance] $19.50 The shock to our stock created by the Easter rush compels ua to mako a complete rehabilitation and we have to entirely eliminate certain garments altogether. We therefore make special reductions throughout to enable ua to restore our stocks to regularity onoo more. Hera nre snaps for all. SUITS in serge, in browns, greens, sands and burgundies; values to $1)5, will clear at...- DRESSES In serges, silks and poplins, in a wido diversity of colors; of regular values to $25, Alt) f»f_ Will sell at 9L-..OII SKIRTS In Tweeds, Poplins and Novelty fftbrios, of Values to A g A (J (10, will sell for. «PU»*IO WAISTS In all latest styles and most fashionable materials. Regular to $10 values will sell d»^ Q C SPORT COATS Values to tU will soil on this ____[ $7.50 UNDERSKIRTS In a wide variety of patterns, styles and oolon, of regular 84.90 values, a?"...'! $2.45 SWEATERS " In all approved colors and styles, highly fashionable; our regular 810 values will sell * A QB 606 'GRANVILLE Ladies' Tailoring Co. STREET PARISIAN FELLOW UNIONISTS Be consistent and demand the Union Stamp on your boots and shoes. The following local firms are fair to Organized Labor and aro worthy of your patronage and support! J. Leokle Co., Ltd., 120 Cunbio Street. Harvey Boot Bhop, 51 Cordova St. W.—Custom Making and Bepairs. W. J. Heads, 10 Water Streot—Custom Making and Bepairs. H. Voi A Bon, 88 Cordova Btreet West—Custom Making and Bepairs. Dunsmuir Boot Shop, 681 Dunsmuir Street—Custom Making and Bepairs. UKION REPAIR SHOPS "Nodelay" Shoe Bepalr Company, 1047 Oranvllle Street. Standard Shoe Bepalr Shop, 618 Robson Street. M. B. Thorns, 856 Klngsway. Woods Ltd. "K" Boot Shop, Cordova and Hastings St. W. Be progressive, MT. Shoe Bepalrer, aad get in tench -with Secretary Tom Oorjr, 415 Vemon Drive. Injured on Stairways lly and eight were permanently die- Ban Franolseo—Th. industrial ae- »*-*■«■■■• Tie other Injured workers eident commission reports that jn lost an average of at least 10 days' tilt and l»ir workmen were injur- time, •d oa atairwaya In California during I "*■ some period of their day's work. Of Ask your grocer If his clerks are •heee accidents threo resulted fatal- in the union! Here Are 3 Winners Men, read this—it is important. We want to bring before your notice these three big shoe values. These are the three best bets in the shoe business today. ARE THEY GOOD? Woll, ask the men who wear thota; they will tell you, and yon •will flnd Over 500 pairs of the Shoes on the feot of Vancouver Shoe buyers. Tes, we sold ovor 500 pairs in 80 days, and, believo me, that's going somo. Hero are the three big betsi The "Tale"—A Mahogany Calf Blucher, with ]*cd Acme sole and heel. Prico Tho "Balkan"—A Congo calf with rod Acme solo and *C QC hcol. Price Vvei/9 The "Astor" — A lighter Mahogany calf with red Acme sole and heeL Price— Bemomber those soles on theso shoes wear twice as long as leather solos and are moro comfortable. "Best Boot I ever owned," says out man. "Sella oomfort ta tk* pair I fcought," says ail- other, 1 bave worn many shoes, bat aeve_ found the equal of was the remark of another. VOW, KB. KAN—In the face of these facts, how ean you afford te pass up these shoest Tou can't do It and you won't to lt, when you know the price, 15.(5 a pair. Bemember, this is Johnston's price. Othor stores oharge 88.50 for a shoo not as food. Oet busy, Ur. Man; put your feet into a pair of these anl by ao doing yoa will save 12.25, lu* [Vu\ t Icclnc 13*.iv> (T)nN5TONtSs|lD P \\ .; ■»./,;/ us .*>'** Cut uMt,IA ■_ T m i J_a ****** ','• ,,',,,_, u f ■•■■ Nf-iS.kYLSrMlfizlth.t5L EDEMI10NIST The O. B. D. or the U. B, 0. and* 'have appeared, cut down a trifle, Dave Bees Editor B. C. Federationist: In tho article on the abovo, appearing in tho lust issue of the "Fed," written by Davo Boes, we flnd that a column is devoted to a criticism of tho viows which he claims were advanced, by certain unnamed persons some yesrs ago. The inferenco, however, is that these same poople arc tho ones who are now active in the propaganda for the Ono Big Union. For tho information of Bro. Boos and for those who may not bo aware of trado union history on this coast, I wish to point out that the majority of thoso connected with the O. B. TJ. in Vancouver havo boon active in the trade unions on this coast long before 1813, and are bet* ter known as a result of their activities than Is Bro. Bees. As a caso in point, lot as refer book to tho Island Btriko of 1812 and 1018, At that time some of the 0. B. U. advocates wero executive members of the B. 0. Federation of Labor. When tho militia wero sent to tho island in order to cow the strikers these men called a mass meeting la tht Arena rink to protest against tho use of tho troops. Mr. Frank Farrington, representative of tho TJ. M. W. A. ln oharge of tho strike, did his utmost to offset tho effort that was being put forward to call a general striko aa a protest against the use of the troops. In this he was ably aeeonded by certain officers of the trado -onion movement in this city who are now occupying tho same safo and sane! position with regard to tho 0. B. U. that Bro Bees plftees himself in. It is truo that when the Westorn Conference waa arranged at the eau- cus held at Quebec, there was no idea of severing connections with the Trades Congress of Canada. It is also truo that thero was no Intention of severing the connection until the resolutions submitted on tho question of forming an Industrial organisation and the statement of various delegates that some action must be taken, compelled the breaking of connections, if the desire of the membership, as stated by their delegates was to be carried out. It cannot bo denied that the western delegates eleoted Bro. Bees as their choice for western vice-president of the oongress, but tho beBt of us mako mistakes, and I oan assure him that we won't offend in that manner again. We flnd that the opposition to the 0. B. V. ia divided into throe parts. First, tho employing clasB and all their satellites. Second, that section of the labor movemont whieh has not handled the tools ot production for ao long that they are out of touoh with the worker and obtain their sustenance out of the per capita paid by the rank and file—the International officers and organizers —who never organise. Third, that portion of the membership who have been so busy thinking about the bosses business that they are unable to think about their own. In addition thero aro a few top rail artists who are balancing in the hopo that they may catoh a political job aa it comes over the top. Tho 0. B. IT. is not expected to free the workers from wage-slavery any moro than tho trados union Is. Anyone who professes to understand anything of sociology knows that it is not the name of an organization nor its preamble, but the degree of working elass knowledge possessed by its membership that detormines whether or not it is a revolutionary body. To imagine that by ehanging the name and structure of an organization the ideas of lie membership are automatically changed is ridiculous. It is true that tho act ot voting ln favor of an Industrial as against the craft form of organization denotes an advance in the understanding of the commodity naturo of labor power, but it doeB not by any means imply a knowledge of the necessity of tho social revolution. To compare tho triple alliance of Great Britain with the international unions of thiB continent is tho sorriest kind of a joke. Is thero any record that Bob Smillie of the Miners Federation of Oreat Britain ever went abroad seeking a market for his master's coait That le what President Hayes of the U. M. W. A. has done. He has gone to Europe—not to meet Smillie, but to push the salo of U. S. coal in order that the Rockefellers, et al, may roccive tho proflt which is legally theirs. The quostion for tho workers of this country to answer Is: Will tho combination of nil workors into One Big Union bo moro offectivo for dealing with tho ovory day strugglo over wages and conditions than tlio prosont divided form of craft union. Thnt is tho question boforo the membership with rcgurd to tho 0. B. U. nnd tho only question. Whether tho voto on tho O. B. U. carries or not thoso of us who hnve been in the working olass movements industrially and politically, will still bo in it. That class is our class and Its sorrows aro our sorrows, its struggle is our strugglo, and its emancipation ours, for wo aro ot it. J. KAVANAGH. ,\t:ouvt.H tt t 0. B. XJ. or H. B. 0. or T. 0, V. Editor B. 0. Federatlonist: At tho risk of losing my patience, or causing you unnecessary irritation, let mo ask: What the deuco ifl the mattor with somo of thoso would-be saviors of humanity, apostles of "puro democracy." First wo have Cooke, and now, to my surpriso, Dave Bees. I would havo allowed his trash to go unnotlcod, his alleged arguments unchallenged, and his silly Insinuations unscraped, but for ono thing, If Rcca, Cooke, Prltchard, Knvanngh or anyone else has anything of valuo to offer to the workers, they will do bo through tho workers' own organs or meetings. If it is any real good to the worker It will not got published In tho papers of tho workers' enemies, tho capitalist press. If It doos got published in such papers it is prima facie evidenoe that it is no good to tho workers. Is Bees willing to stand or fall by that standard! I am. It is uot strange that the "stuff" which appeared above tho namo of Bro. Bees " ' * •"•- I admit, almost word for word, as an interview in the "World," the provlouB Tuesday. ' ■ *' If Bees is sincere he will avail himself of tho flrst opportunity to mako good his position. If he does not, a fow of us aro on his trail, as wo will be on the trail of every equlvocator and petit bourgeois reformer, who acts againBt, and not for tho working claBS, until tho dny arrives when the revolutionary masses shall make themselves taas- tor of thoir own destiny by achieving power for themselves. Is the "Fod" not good enough for the discussion of Trades Union quostions, without going to tho vile Bheet that wanted to hang somebody for somothing last year! Yours for at least a touoh of decency W. A. PBITOHABD, Christ Consciousness le_tor B. 0. Federationist: Every thinking man knows the power there is in th* uso of class consciousness, but few recognizo tho infinitely greater power in tho use of tho Christ consciousness. In you issue of April 18, you kindly allowod mt spaoe to suggest that Christ moans good idoas, truth, sueh aa justice, freodom, eto., etc, and therefore tho Labor man ia more Christian than any churchman. Labor Is too far removed from dogma to eare whether he is called labor man, proletariat or Christian, so long as theso names indicato he is laboring and consciously working for tho demonstration of tho ideas, brotherhood and justice for everv one. The sug- Sestlon that he should recognize lmself as the real Christian would, therefore, be of little use if this did not carry with it the suggestion of a power which will help carry out the desired ond. There are three elaases who believo ln Christ. Tho Bible says of one olass, "The devils believe and "tremble;" the second is the class whieh believes in and strives for realisation of the Christ by legislation or otherwise; the third is a olass whieh utilises tho Christ by "knowing the truth." We don't need a new Viotorla teloscope to know wko are in the first mentioned olass; the aotond elass mentioned is also obvious;.'"but not one in a thousand of eyea*advanced thinkers know the*, third- class mentioned, nor dream of - the power lt is beginning to utilize, intelligently. Tet this last clafOas a power at its command greater than a world of mountains. > . i. The ehurchea today are tee narrow by superstition doguuV'juid bourgeois sentiment to haveChjist consciousness; oapital past andpre* sent is too fed up with selflshiess to wish it; but Labor, hoisted by;ne«es- sity, out of uncongenial rats', of thought, has begun to cherish ideas ot justice, freedom, harmony, etc., for all. . ,,,;,„' But to be Christ conscious is not tho samo aa intelligently using the power whieh this gives any more than class consciousness is the same as using the power whioh olass consciousness gives. The writer does not wish to inter- fere with any one's mothod of working for reforms, but he wishes to show that in the reformer's hand, or more correctly, head, is a very great power which is not yet being used. It is tho utilization of the Christ eonsoiousnoss which was employed by Moses, David, Daniel, Jesus and many othors. Now this is not a Sunday school suggestion to got down on your knees and pray. Any ono who kneels and prays has not more conception of Ood and Christ than a Chinaman in front of hla Josh. Josub said, "I, (the good ideas which He was teaching) am the way, the truth, and the life." Also, "Beforo Abraham I, (the good ideas) am," and with His understanding of the utilization of theso idoas in consciousness, He changed the dating period of the world, fed the multitude, and raised tho dead. This is the powor wo should learn to utilize, power that released thc Israelites and fed them forty yenrs in the wilderness, tho power lhat caused overwhelming odds against Jehosaphat to disperse in panio and leavo all its supplies bohind, thc power which closed tho lions' mouths, raised Jesus from tho grave, and Is helping hundreds of thousands today. Do you think Eugene Debs would be In prison today if the real Christians, the Labor man, knew how to utilize the Christ consciousness as tho early Christians did for Poter and others who wero imprisoned! Do you think Russia could be hungry if Labor know how to uso the Christ consciousness as Jesus -ili'l when Ho fed the five thousand! How would you liko to sit comfortably in your chairs on a Sunday afternoon und by an intelligent method of right consciouBneas do more for yourselves nnd your struggling comrades in half nn hour thatnpher methods can accomplish in awl Thi» Is no pipo dream. IlTs a demonstrable fact. If Labc^ynen cun get awny from tho silly*-*s3ipor* stition .about Christ being a nmn, und God a monstrous imbccit-ajsNick up in the sky and realize thaUjSfj'iat is the good ideas such as jjfl-tjec, lovo .life, freodom, etc., in si very Ideas which Labor is tt demonstrate and that God principlo or power which these vory ideas, then Lab) havo laid tho foundation for Ing an unlimited power, and bo ready to accomplish works which the superstitious Ignorance in churches call "miracles." J. P. LAWSON. keep away from Cranbrook in ease JHchardson should think I am an undesirable man to enter Cranbrook, and hand out the same treatment to me. I served for eight years in the British army, and over two years in the Canadian army, and I vigorously protest against the conduct of Richardson. I belong to one of the looal unions in Vancouver. I believe somo of tho members belonging to the G. W. V. A. in Vancouver aro going to probe this affair a little. ARMY AND NAVY VETERAN. Information Wanted Editor B. C. Federatlonist: Will you kindly enlighten me through the medium of your paper If there has beon at any time, an order-in-council passed by tho government of this fair land of Canada, giving a man named L. Richardson of Cranbrook, (socrotary of tho G. W. V. A.), special privileges to demand tho money collected by a union official. I now refer to tho McKonzio affair at Cranbrook. This Is sailing pretty close to a hold-up game, isn't it! This man Richardson is about 100 years bohind tho times. Just because McKenzie was a stranger, and blow into that littlo burg, and did not suit tho ideas of Richardson, this snid man organized a little band of extremists to insult him. Not much of an advortisemont for Cranbrook. I belong to the Army and Soldiers and Labor Editor B. C. FederationiBt: In view of tho rocent condemnation of the ninth annual oonvention of the B. C. Fedoration of Labor at Calgary in March, when the resolution of ending greetings to the Spartacans in Germany and tho Bussian Bolshoviki in Russia was passed. I am a returned man, and should like to mako It clear. If tho G. W. V. A. is not prejudiced and ignorant, I moan the clique that aro trying to fool returned men, and aro opposed to union Labor, and tho soldiors moeting on a common ground, aa thoir reoent conduct showed, when they refused to meet duly elected members of the Metal Trades Council and the Trades and Labor Couneil, Their attitude, and tha tame attitude was apparent in the daily press in this and other titles, and alto was indorsed by most public bodies ln Vancouver. I mean the condemnation of the above resolution, putt thtm in an embarrassing and peculiar position, and ihould clearly demonstrate to alT returned men, that this institution is a capitalistic one, and cannot solve any of the problems that confront the ex- service mon, who are returning to Labor's ranks ln increasing numbers daily, and this state of affairs, making things acute in a falling Labor market. Returning to tho point, 1. c, tho resolution ,it seems strange, In view of tho fact that certain things havo boen noticed by the well read working man, who it thirsting for the real truth, and can only flnd it occasionally, and then by accident in our yellow dally press, by reading between the linos as lt wero. In view of this fact, I must say that the G. W. V. A. has plaeed themselves ln a peculiar and not to be envied position by condemning the resolution already referred to. I shall proceed to elear up tho anti- Labor attitude which has left them in what I term a paradox, or shall I say, unpleasant frame of mind when they learn the truths, bb to how their hatred for all things portain- ing to Labor and especially organized Labor, has led them to. Tho following it an interview granted to Bon Hecht, correspondent of tho Chicago Daily News and tho Now York Globe, (not Labor or Bolshovik papers, either) by General Hoffman, who compelled the Russians to sign the treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1017, and was tho head of the German delegation at the peace tablo there. In answer to Mr. Hecht's question as to what he (Hoffman) considered lost the war for Germany, Hoffman roplied Germany was not defeated on the wostorn front, neither Marshal Foch nor Field Marshal Haig, nor General Pershing defeated tho German armies. Germany was do- seated by on upstart named Lenine. You ask mt what I consider lost tho war for Gormany. My answer is Bolshevism. I will toll you the exact momont that marked the beginning of the tnd. It was when General Ludendorf telegraphed me at headquarters, on the oastern front from Franco, to sign peaco with any Bus- slat able to white his name. But immediately npon signing with the Bolsheviki wo discovered wo had boon tonquered by them, instoad of having conquered them. Our military machine became the printing press of tho Bolsheviki propaganda. We did not daro to send a oorps of German Bolsheviki to the western front. What Is worse, thousands of Bolshovik entered Germany. It was Lenine and the Bolshovik propaganda that defeated Germany, undermined our morale and stirred up the quack Socialists ln the country. Replying to the rather naive question of the correspondent as to whother the German military machine was harmed, by " Schiedemann's Socialistic Propaganda," General Hoffman answered: "No, Schiedemann wat all right. Russian agents did it and German fanatics like Lieb- Donegal Suits in Light Greys for Young Men Theso suits havo tho dash to them that will appeal to young men. They are not the ordinary plain Donegal, eithor, but havt little splotches of color in them—bright tans, reds and green, that you notice only on a close Inspection. You will like the atyle, tool ono has pat-h pockets with a i *tonod-down flap, two breast anti two side—and the waist has a decided nip to it. Tht pants havt cuff bottoms. A second model has slashed pockets and a snappy peaked lApol _ — WW - A YOUNG MAN'S NAVY SEBOE SUIT This suit is just an ordinary form-fitting suit, with a "soft roll" collar and slightly sloping flap pockots. It has decidedly "young" linos and the material is of ronlly oxcellont quality.. .836.00 A OBEY TWEED SUIT of distinctly Bonnockbum weave and pattern, impresses as being a wonderful value for tho mnn who wants a useful suit. It Ib aa orthodox 8-button sacque suit, with smart pointed lapel—8M.60 PINHBAD OBEYS, FAVOBED BY BUSINESS KEN are represented by a very good numbor at 627.50. As valuta go today this is a suit that should prove a big seller, A NEW BROWN SUIT AT 836.00 it one of tho smartest suits ln the store. It is a very dark browa in a soft cashmero finish, and quite one of tho best aavaltiet we have seen. OUB NAVY SEBOE SUIT AT 545.00 haves nothing to bo desired. It is a lovely bluo; a genuine imported serge and the tailoring Is perfoet. The manufaohirort lay that most stores that have bought it havo bought to sell for (50. David Spencer, Limited knecht." This i» very Btartling to thoso sooking tho truth, and furthor to provo that Hoffman hates Bolshevism, his rccipt given to Mr. Hocht was: "Exterminate Bolshevism with an iron hand, and more energetically thon Herr Noeko is doing." Herr Nosko wat military governor of Berlin during tho recent troublo there in March. In tho light of this great admission by a foremost German junker and military autocrat, the G. W. V. A. haa demonstrated that it is ln porfcet accord, with all right Socialists of Germany, i supported the German war lords thoir acts of war and tlaugh namely, tht present German Be[ lican leaders, Schiedemann Ebert, Erzburgor, and all t clique. I ahould liko an answei my letter if thoy oan explain. I cannot seo how they oan nounco people who helped ut win war by inciting tht German pet (Continued next page) Boundary Bay Oil Co. LIMITED Capital Stock $500,000 Non-Personal Liability Par Value of Stock 10c THE Boundary Bay Oil Company, Ltd., holds property to the extent of 1280 acres of selected oil lands, situated in the Boundary Bay District. 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Par yard ~_ 69c ^Oiip]iuds.ins)jny(!pinnnni)^ Granville and Georgia Streets X. B. OUTHBBRTSON A Oo. Men's Hatters ud Outfitters 630 Oran-fiUt Btreet •U Hastings Itnet Wert Phone Bey. Ml Day or Night Nunn, Thomson A Olegg TONERAL DIRBOTORS 531 Homo St, Vancouver, B. O, Turner, Beeton & Company, Limited WHOLESALE MERCHANTS AND IMPORTERS Dry Ooods, Oents' Furnishings VICTORIA, B. 0. MANUFACTURERS OF "BIG HORN" BRAND SHIRTS, OVERALLS, Etc. ' factory organist! tinder "United Garment Worktn ef America" LETTERS TO TffE-FED £ (Continued (rom page 0) to revolt against their military despots and if tht 0. W. V. A. and all these other publie bodies still persist in denouncing the fraternal greetings to tho Spartacans of Germany and the Bussian Bolsheviki sent by the B. C. Federation of La* bor as before mentioned, my only summing up can be It that they prefer German junkerism to the prospect ef organized Labor and returned soldiers lining up together as workers to flght land profiteers, and all and sundry of the blood sucking food, transportation, mining and lumbering industries of thit country. Tho stand they have taken against organized Labor in this provinoe should bo proof oonolusive to return, od men in general who art workers, that it is time to wakt up and form an association to line up with, and not in opposition to our own olass. Tho only useful elass in soolety who produce all, and are always In want due to this system of produotlon for sale. Instead of produotlon fdr ust. So buck up ,all you returned men who aro worken, and quit belni gulled by goldta promises whiol never materialize, never until you have a common understanding with your own olass, the workers, ALFRED FINNIB. Editor B. 0. Federatlonist: quite realize that you cannot give space to a drawn out controversy in the pages of The Federationitt, but if you can indulge me onoe more, I'd be glad, Replying to Sam Lig- gins re oheap powder, Bolshevism, Christianity, etc., I am ready to admit that I made a mistake in so phrasing my meaning that Sam didn't quite "get me." I asked: "Would it not be better to quite neglect the reformation of capitalism and churchianity, and work for the complete elimination of all social parasites, starting with thoso that benefit directly by produetion for profit T How would it do tt start playing Bolshoviks or Bpartaoansf I meant tbe last part of the paragraph to be banter (that Is, humorous raillery) not to be interpreted literally. It was my idea of a pieet of light funl Silly, wasn't itt Had I beon entirely serious, Sam's reply would have boen fit and proper so far as tht playing Bolsheviks and Spartacans ia concerned. Touching Christianity, we an not agreed. The fault .is indeed in the Gospel. I do not think Christ was the bearer of "good news," when He soid, as reputed, that the poor in spirit were blessod, that whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the othor also; lovo your enemies, bless them that curst you; do good to them that hate you; pray for them which despitefully uae you and persecute you, etc., ete. The majority of people, being human, can not and will not live up to that, and any "reformed church that will be a big factor in obtaining justice" (loving your enemies is not justice) will not havt any such code of "conduct" shall I sayt It will be so unlike what wa recognize as a church today that it will fail to be Identified. Mankind made slow and painful progress from the animal through the savage and barbarian stages, until the dawn of our modern civilization, without the aid of the Christian religion. I contend that the advont of the latter and its dovelopment has not helped mankind, has not brought the poace, IN Rich Democratic (?) Nation Starves Its Babies Amidst Plenty Studies mode hy the Federal Children '» Bureau in New Orleans, Baltimore and Washington show that in Baltimore 66 per eent., in Washington 46 per cent., and in New Orleans 70 per cent.' of the children (other than breast-fed babies) under seven years of age did not receive any milk to drink. The reportB were made by trained nurses. Among the New Orleans children who did not receive some milk, only a third were getting as much, ai three cups daily, whieh is the amount necessary for normal growth and -development. Bight-ninths of the ohildren studied in New Orleans went getting leu than the normal milk-supply. The situation this year seems te be worse than it was lut year. Milk for ohildren—for the children of working people; for the citizons of 1940. Like the babies of war ridden France and devastated Belgium, the children of these United States are starving for lack of milk. Starving in the 'richest nation of the world; starving while able-bodied, idle men and women— parasites upon the labor of their fellows—eat and drink till they can drink and eat no more. Civilisationf ChaosI and chaos it will remain so long aa idlers feast while toilers and the children of toilers call in vain for milk and bread. There are fields onough in the United States to feed the cattle and produce the milk necessary to insure the health of every growing child. Today vrt are subsidizing the railroads and spending hundreds of millions in the merchant taarine. Tomorrow, when tho poople rule, we shall subsidize children and spend hundreds of millions if need be, to make them healthy and sturdy, and to paint their cheeks with ruddy hues of normal childhood.-—Ssott Nearing. (?) INDUSTRY IN EUROPE IS MOPPED; CANNOT START Tht* Old World Hu Com. ta an "' Ind nnd tht Ntw ttarti ■..SHe whetlt of lnduitry hart stop,od turning ln Europt. For Ut present, at leaat, they cannot resume. The luropean world It tt standstill. Tin millions ot men still art ln the armies—using without producing. Commerce haa fceen Interrupted; railroad! have been destroyed; factories art crippled; fruit treet hare bttn cut down; tha seed grain hat beai eaten; homes have been burned millions of workers ara dead or crippled; other millions art out ot work; those who have work are ■o hungry that they art bo longer efficient; above their heads tower mountain! of debts, tnd week by woek slips by without any promise of peace. Tht old world hai come to an end. Ita method! have failed to mako men happy and free; Us race has bttn run. Yonder it the new world A world of bread, peace, enlighten* ment and liberty. Already the peoplet of Russia, Hungary and Bohemia havt entered ln to poi- aist lt. How much longtr will lt bt before tht workers of Italy, France and Gnat Britain leave capitalism to bury lti lead and join their comrade!? UBOR PARTY Spokane, Wash.—The International Brotherhood of Paper Makers ia conducting a successful organization oompaign in the mills of the northwest. Vancouver Unions TRADES AMD LABOR OOUNOIL—_x- ecutlvo committeo; Pruldent, X. Wintfh; vlee president, J. Kavanagh, treasurer, P. Knowles; sergeant-at-arms, W. A. Alexander; trustees, W. A, Pritchard, W. II. Cottrell, G. Hardy, H. Gutteridge: iecretary, V. R. Midgley, Room 310 Labor Templo. ALLIED PRINTING TRADfefc c6ufc- otl—Meets seoond Monday* In the montb. President, J. P. McConnell; seo* retary, R. H. Neelands, P. 0. Bog 66. JOURNEYMEN BARBERS' INTERNA- tlonal Union of America, Local No. 120—'Meets seoond and fourth Tuesdays in the month, Boom 205 Labor Temple. President, 0. E. Herritt; secretary, fi. H. Orant, 830 Cambie Street. BROTHERHOOD OP BOILER MAKERS and Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America, Vancouver Lodge No. 19-1— Meeta every Monday, 8 p.m. President, M. A. MoKschern, 1245 Alberni 8t.; secretary-treasurer, Angus Fraaer, 1151 re Stroet; buslneas agont, J. A. <j». Room 212 Labor Temple. BRIDGE STRUCTURAL ORNAMENTAL ud Reinforced Ironworkers, Local 97 (eats seoond and fourth Mondaya. President Ju. Hastings; flnanolal nee- ' tf and treasurer, Roy Mass war, 1516 t Ave. East. 'HERHOOD OFGARPENTERS, —al. No. 817*—Meeta every seeond and fourth Monday evening, 8 o'clock. ' -bgf Templt. President, M. McKen- J. R. Campbell; business aeoretary, T. Thom, Temple. Phona Sey. 7_Ht6r.. •na tie; spcrotsry, J. R. stunt and financial K&m 208 Labor T DbSfiTRIOAL WORKERS, LOCAL No -*SU3--MeetB In Room 807 Labor Temple, every Monday, 8 tun. Presl- deflt,-JM. Burnes, 1162 Powell Street; re- llflf secretary, ■ W. Poulkes, 440 Pen- dy- street West; flnanolal secrotary and business agent, I. H. Morrison, 440 Pander Btreet West; assistant aeoretary. F, 9. Borrows, HOTEL that its advocates would havo us believe. In faot the history of Christianity would not recomniond it to an adult as an uplifting agency. Mankind would be further ahead in the civilization business, had not the Christian church acted as a sheet anchor and general hindrance. Not Mr. Liggins, we cannot look to auy church for help.' As pillars of capitalism, "they all can go down in tho flood," (to uso the Elder Liebknecht'a words), they're not worth reforming. Yours, still for Lenin and Liebknecht's way, ovcntually, WM. E. LANSDELL. Box 328, Elk Lake, Ont., April 13th, 1919. BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BEST COAL For yoar kitchen—Wellington Nut Kitchen, furnace and grate-) Wellington Lump For Your Furnace Comox Lump—Comox Nut—Comox Pea (Try on Pea Owl (ot joot underfeed funuuse) COAL MACDONALD-MARPOLE CO. . 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The loggers, sovcral times, have been bitten at the dollar end, as far as organisation is concerned, and really fo is yet a little sceptical now. Ana as a delegate horo, I havo this to say for myself, and for ovor 200 loggers I have come in contact with, that they wish the same ehanct to becomo organized or to oomplete their unit of organization as the other unions afflliated with them are. 80 that wo can show a united front to our employer as woll as the other affiliated unions can at presont. Whon the Bix-hour day is demanded of our employers by the 0. B. tl., or when we take over the means of life, we ean run the logging Industry for the common benefit of us all, instoad of for tht parasites at present. I also wish to state that tha tactics used by us loggors, to wis demands from our employers (till tho time of our emancipation) must be on our field of battle (the job), not on his field (off the job), ao that rosultt oan be beneficial to ourselves. And to our employer, our follow workers can decide that. As thoy -did over in God's eountry, whore slaves aro freo; aa we are. If we are going to improvo upon craft unionism, lot us improve upon their plan of action. DELEGATE FOB B. 0. L. UNION. Bock Bay, April 16, 1019. Limit Night Work Hartford, Conn.—-A house committoe hai made a favorable report on a bill providing that no female shall be employed in any manufacturing mechanical or mercantile establish ment between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m.. "provided that In event of war or other serious emergency the gover nor may, In his discretion, suspenr the limitations upon night work 0011 mined in this act as to suoh Indus tries or occupations aa ho may find ta demanded by such emergency." Buy your.hats at a union atore. Rich Have to Work for a Living—Some Prefer to Die Beports of atrocities In Hungary are being received. Dispatches this week said that the new Soviet Republic had takon over all banks and money and securities in their vaults. Continuing, a dispatch to the Herald-Examiner said: The former (bank) directors were offered salaries of 1875 crowns a month to continue work. The results are seen in tho suicide of Weiss, a multimillionaire banker,- the paralysis of Leo Lancy, director of tho Hungarian credit bank, and others. A CUrious WM** «jjtg INTERNATI0NAL JEWELft* WORK- . , ,.- 8V.B th6 nulnber ?* era' Union—Meets 2nd und 4th Pri- officers in full uniform sitting* in [days, 205 Labor Temple. President, \V. TOWS of chairs alonjt tho pavement Holmee, Colonial Apti., Burrard Street; • - - ■ *• - - secretary-treasurer, D. J. Snell, 916 Puimmuir Street. B. 0. LOGGERS7 UNION—Afflliated with B. 0, Fedoration of Labor and Vancouvor Trndes and Labor Oouncll—■ An industrial union of all workers In lousing and construction camps. Head- quarters, 01 Cordova Street West, Vancouvor, B. C. Phono Sey. 7858. E. Winch, Bpcr-ntary-trcasurer; legal advia- ers, Messrs. Bird, Macdonald h Co.. Vancouver, B. C; auditors, Meun. But tar & Chlenc, Vancouver, B. Q. LONGSHOREMEN'S AND RESTAURANT ployoes, Local 28—Meata every Wednesday In the month at 2:80 p.m. and overy third Wednesday in the month at 9:80 p.m. President, Harry Wood; secretary and business agent, W. Mac hensie, ofllce end meeting hall, 614 Pender St. W. Phone Spy. 1681. Offlce houra: 11 to 12 noon: 2 to 5. amu, una nut uiuuyiiL i.ud yvauv, i — -- -f------- -- —- goodwill, contentment and happiness streets of Budapest is the number of ?....'. ... " • n-ffinAot. -in -Pull 11-n-I-*., mm aU. _,,,*. •__ I blacking the boots of privates or civilians at three kromcr, about half a orown, por pair." Thoso directors of human butchery failed to learn a decent trade, hence the atrocity of having to shine shoos for a living. Those of us who have served in the army, find it hard to squeeze out a tear when wo road of former army officers polishing shoes in tho streets of tho Hungarian capital at 60 cents per shine, especially such offlcors a* tho Hungarians produced. We say let them work or starve. At the rate mentioned in the dispatch thoy can earn $6 per day by polishing ten pairs of shoes, which is more than most workmen ln Canada got for a wholo day's work. British Grocers Profit London, Eng.—According to Arthur J. Giles, secretary of the British Grocers Federation, profits of the British grocery trado increased about (45,000,000 a year during tho war. "The food controllor," Mr. Giles said, "has been the grocers' roal friend for the last four or five yenrs, in enabling them to dispose u of all their surplus stook, much of - preaidunt, which the public would not look at prior to the war. A further great asset was the registration of customers, which insured tho grocer a trade without his having to work it up." It Big Convention Held in Illinois—Freedom Is the Keynote Serious determination to marshal the workeri of Illinois to capture the State government at the ballot box wu the chief characteristic, ot the State convention, at whioh the Labor Party of Illinois was born April 10 to IS at Springfield. It waa a big eonvention, It was a snappy convention. But above all it was a* serious convention. Men who have watched the State conventions of many parties looked on it and said it wat a remarkable gathering of ita kind and that it bodied good to the old political partiei Yeedom was the keynote. Irer no good to the old politieal partiei. .freedom wu the keynote, Every delegate wanted freedom for himself repn ledon also wanted freedom for everybody else in the world. Besolutions were passed demand' ing freedom for Bussia, Ireland and India, The platform adopted started out with a declaration that the Labor Party had como to obtain economic and induitrlal freedom for working men and women. All of the planks of the platform were directed at lifting from the exploited wage earners the burden of oppres sion and permitting liberation of healthy instincts and happy satisfaction of wholesome desires. Six hundred and eleven delegates brought credential! to the convention, from more than ninety cities and towns. William Tracy, chairman of the committee on credentials, reported that from a study of the map, it wu apparent that after the delegates returned to their homes, one could not walk fifty miles in any direction in any section of the state without encountering one of thom. socretary-troasuror and W, A. Alexander, Room ! pie. Phone Beymour ___)__ __ buslnesi agent, W, A. Alexander, Room 210 Labor Tem- 8TREIY AND ELECTRIC BAILWAT Employees, Pioneer Division, No. 101 —Meets A. 0. F. Hall, Mount Pleasant, 1st and 3rd Mondays at 8 p.m. President, W. H. Cottrell; recording seoreUry, A. V. Lofting, 3581 Trinity Street, phone High. 168H; treasurer, E. S. Cleveland; flnanclal secretary and business agent, Fred A. Hoover. 840B Clark Drive, offlee eorner Prior and Main Streets. GENERAL TEAMSTERS AND OHATJF- feur'a Union, Local No. 655—Meets every 2nd and- -ttli Wednesdays 8 p.m. President, W. M. Brown; buslneas agent, F. Haslott, 125 Fifteenth Avenue Eaat; financial secretary, Birt Showier, 1180 Robson Street; phont Sey. 6670. Offlee 687 Homer Street. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 229— Meeta last Sunday of each month at p.m. President, W. H. Jordan; vlee- president, W. H. Youhill; secretary- treasurer, B. H. Neelands, Box 66. Provincial UnionB B, 0. FEDERATION OF LABOR—MeaU in annual convention In January. Executive officers, 1918-19: President, Duncan McCallum, Labor Temple, Vancouver; vlco-prealdents—Vancouver Island, Walter Hend, South Wellington j Victoria, J. Taylor; Prince Rupert, W. E. Thompson; Vanoouver, E, Wlnoh, W. R. Trotter; New Westminster, P. Peebles; West Kootenay, Marcus Martin, Nelson; Crow's Nest Paea, W. A. filter- man, Fernle. SecreUry-treasnrer, A. 8. Wells, Labor Temple, 406 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, B. 0. . VICTORIA, a. 0. VICTORIA AND DISTRICT TRADER and Labor Council—MeeU first and third Wednesdaya, Knights of Pythias Hall, North Park Stnet, at 8 p.m. President, B. Simmons; vice-president, T. Dooley; secretary-treasurer. Christian Siverts, P. 0. Bax 302, Victoria, B. 0. INTERNATIONAL Association, Local 3852—Offloe and hall, 804 Pender Street West. Meets first and third Fridays, 8 p.m. Seeretary-troasu re r, G. Thomas; business agent. A. Hill. AMALOAMATED HEAT CUTTERS AND Butcher Workmen's Union No, 648— Meets flrst and third Tuesdays of eaoh month, Labor Tpmple, 8 p.m, President, H. E. Wills: rocordlng secreUry, Fred Lilly; flnanclal secretary and business agent, T. W, Anderson, 587 Homer St. PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF North America (Vancouver and vicinity)—Branch meets second and fourth Mondays, Room 204 Labor Temple. President, J. Daitforth, Euclid Ave., Colllngwood East; flnanclal socretary and business agent. IT. S, NlghtseeleB, 276—56th Ave. East, .Smith Vancouver; recording secretary, E. Westmoreland, 9247 Point Groy Road. Phone Bayview 20791. Patronise Fed, advertisers. SHIPYARD LABORERS, RIGGERS AND Fnsti'ii.T-i, I.L.A., Local Union 88A, Series 6—Meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month, Labor Temple, 8 p.m. . John Sully; financial secretary, M. A. Phelps; business agent and corresnunding secretary, W. Leo. Offlee, Room 219-220 Labor Templo, INTERNATIONAL UNION OF STEAM and Operating Engineers, Loeal No. 620—Meets every Monday, 7:60 p.m., Labor Temple. President, Dave Hodge, 677 Rtchnrds Street. City; vice-president. Frank Hum, 1922 Second Avenue West; Nsw we will till be busy at nmminr blrJe wttk eur (leaning, painting and fining SPRINGTIME'S spirit is "catching" and wt don't wan Mother Nature to outdo ui In dressing up. Oet Muted early with this spring't overhauling—and get your cuppliei from us. We have everything you need for painting, beautify. Ing and preserving your property. raJMSnv|dleiefenidBdi|theb«g|lhetMab«hoMhlforFMrpmrpw Houae Paints, B*rn Paints, Floor PainU, Wail Finiitiet, V.rnUhw, Enamels, Suine, and Brushes, otc Call today and see our etock—let us suggest materials and colon. Hunter-Henderson Paint Co. 1 642 GRANVILLE STREET SOUTH WELLINGTON, V. I. LOOAL UNION. No. 672, U. M. ot A.— Meets first Sunday in every month 8 a., Richard Hall. President, Jas. Bale- man; vice-president, Andrew Parkor; reding secretary, Jas. Fearon; financial secretary, William MacDonald; treasurer, J. H. Richardson. NORTH VANCOUVER U. B. OF CARPENTERS AND JOIN- ers, Local 1777—Moots first and third Mondaya In I. 0. 0. F. Hall, Lower Kieth Road Eaat, at 8 p.m. Presidont, H. H. Foster: flnanolal secretary, W. C. Smith, cor. Sntherland and Kieth Road East, North Vancouver. "Here is the Key to Economy' WHEN you buy D. K. Book's "Comot Clothes" you make the nearest step toward getting clothes at a wholesale eost on the pure and simple basis of Maker-to-Buyer direot. There is no extra margin of proflt tacked on to cover the salary of expensive travelling salesman or the heavy expenses of the ordinary retailer. Our prices are / , - $19 $23 $27 $30 $35 $45 Don't waste your money—put it to work. Economy should be your watchword. The war has taught new lessons in thrift and economy. It has taught that the seed of all dollars and cents is nothing more than commonsense. Use it If a saving of real money means anything to you, drop in at D. K. Book's Correct Clothes Shop You will see all that*s new in spring styles from Canada's greatest style centre. We are the beet —you the guests. All suits guaranteed. It you are not satisfied your money will be cheerfully refunded. Special Discount to Returned Soldiers D. K. BOOK Correct Clothes 117-HASTINGS STREET WEST-117 Next Door to Woodward's Empire Oil Capital-ratio., only $260,000 WELL NOW. DMUINO Holding! 960 AorM The holdings of this company are aituated near AlderjroT* in the Langley Municipality, which is recognued aa the best location in the Fraier Valley (or Oil. The drilling of the well is under the supervision of Mr. Roy J. Widney, who haa had twenty years' experience in the California and Alberta Oil Fields and is considered one of the best drillers in the country. A heary standard rig, eapable of going down 5000 feet if necessary is now being Installed, which, when completed, will be the largest and most up-to-date plant in British Columbia. Action Not Words Our Motto The Empire Oil Oo., which started in a small way, against all kinds of obstacles and opposition, has quietly forged ahead until today it ranks flrst in the field with the best location, the best driller, the beat equipment, aud we beliere will have the flrat commercial well. Invest your money in a company that is actually drilling and trying to aoeom> Slish somothing—you are guaranteed a square deal and a run for your money ua- er an honeit, capable management. Umpire Oil is abaolutely the best bay on the market today at 10 cents per share. Prioci subject to advanoe at any time without further notice. It will pay you to investigate this company before placing your money elsewhere. IF INTERESTED CALL OR WRITS Pacific Coast Development Co., Ltd. Phone Stymour UN Opes Hvenlngi 419 PENDER STREET WEST PAGE EIGHT eleventh year. No. it THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATTONIST vancouveb, b. a FBIDAT.... april «», m The Home of Holeproof Hosiery Clothes Confidence Confidence is a big word with a big meaning. In this Union Store for Men, it's the solid- rock foundation upon which we stand. 'Another thing you'll like in this Store for Men, is to know that you can get the suit you want at the price you want to pay— and nobody else can buy it for less! Claman's Canadian Clothes $25 $35 $40 Claman's Limited 153 Hastings Street West Bome ot Hart Schaffner & Marx Olothei Patronise Fod. advertisers. YOU OAN AVOID OPERATIONS For Appendicitis and Gall Stones through tho uso of Hepatola, a medicine recognlted as far better, eafer than operations, $5,50 treatment. Sole Manufacturer MRS. OEO. B. ALMAS BU 4th Aft., X.. 4-ukatoon Hotel and Bestaurant Employees Tho local union of Hotel and Bestaurant Employees has been compelled to movo from the Labor Templo to 614 Pendor Street West in order to get better accommodation for its growing membership. The local has ou organizer in the field endeavoring to organize the employoes of tho Whito Lunch and other eating houaea. The offico of tho local at 014 Pender Streot West will bo open from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. on May 5 to accommodate the membership'in the matter of voting on the One Big Union referondum. A committee is at work drawing up a new wage scale which is to be presented to all employers in a very short time. Thc local membership will appreciate any assistance that organied labor can givo in the mat- tor of organizing tho employees of the Whito Lunch restaurants. A glance at the government employment bureaus these days, and the fact staring us in the faco that hundreds of thousands of troops are yet to return from overseas reminds us, or should remind us, that the slx-hour-day inuet be put into force tliia year or misery and destitution will be rampant In every locality by next winter. Boost for tbe six hour day and the One Big Union. ANARCHY RAMPANT IN UNITED STATES Workers Facing a Very Serious Situation in the "Home of the Pree" The records of unemployment in tho United States are mounting steadily. We are passing today through tho initial stages of a process of readjustment whieh by tho middlo of the summer inevitably will develop into a serious situation. TroopB arc returning from abroad in ever-increasing numbers; and, in the meanwhile, wounded soldiers with all the medals afforded by the field of battle aro begging on the streeta of New York. Factories everywhere aro laying off hands instead of taking on now men. In the faco of country-wide unemployment, the workers who havo jobs aro in the striking mood. A groat strike is brewing in the steel mills. Strikes and unemployment will march forward hand in hand. The disorganization of tho industrial situation is gradually coming to a head. The C. P. R. government has come to the conclusion that the rincess Sophia was wrecked and a great number of lives lost owing to the peculiar action of the sea. The fact that lives were lost Is, according to the commission, "a matter of conjecture." Thus end- eth the story of the sacredness of private property versus the cussed- ness of human life. Premier Oliver Has refused to dissolve the legislature at tbe request of the Great War Veterans. Premier Oliver in doing thla knows that the request -will,not be made again and that the matter will soon be dropped by the men who have been fighting to make the world safe for democracy. It would be very undemocratic for the Great War Veterans to turn the honourable members out of the house and seat themselves in the places of the mighty. This would be Bolshevism and the said G, W. V. A. is strenuously opposed to Bolshevism In spite of the fact that the powers that be are lashing the workers right and left. Fashion Craft Clothes are made by union workmen, sold by union clerks, and finished on the premises by union tailors. Procurable Only at Thos. Foster & Co. Limited 514 Granville Street KAISER BILL HAS AN AMERICAN COUSIN Sita in Chicago and Hands Out Big Blobs of Democracy Chicago—Thirty-two moro striking cigar makers have been arrested for contempt of court on ordern of that royal personage, Judgo Sullivan, who probably favors Irish freedom in Ireland. This august judge told the strikors ho had no objection to peaceful picketing, but all those arrested now were picketing peacefully according to tho strikers. The chargo againBt the workors does not mention any act of violenco or threats. The charge is simply picketing. Tho strike is ngainst the Havana-American Tobacco Co., and those who walked out have been out seventeen weeks and are ready to go soventoon weeks longer, according to officers of the union. The Teamsters and Chauffeurs report a good meoting with plenty of interest, in tho balloting on the One Big Union scheme. The result of this referondum will be published in next week's issuo of the Federationist. The local has voted the sum of $200 for the uso of the executive committee of the One Big Union. Reports to hand signify that tho Idea of the One Big Union is taking a good hold on the workers ln Fort Arthur and Fort William, Ont. Committees are hard at work distributing literature and taking ,up the subject ln local unionB and practically no opposition Is met with. The city fathers have hit upon the brilliant (?) Idea of spending 125,000 dollars to advertise the fact that Vancouver, B. C, Is a desirable place to exploit slaves iu. And almost every other big city on the American continent Is doing the same thing. The Khaki Labor Union kas dis covered a Bolshivlki movement ln the city of Vancouver and appeals to the city council to help eradicate it by means of public meetings. We suggest that the councU and the Khaki Union officials start in around the government employ* ment bureaus where an ever increasing body of men congregate every day looking for work. Polished speeches will no doubt eradicate the empty feeling around the belly button and drive away the naughty Idea of wanting to own jobs that a master class is unable to give. Infant Layettes Complete $20.00 CELECTED WITH special regard to baby's needs and with an eye to economy, without the sacrificing quality. Ask to be shown the $20 special, which includes: 2 Rubens' Vests. 2 Lisle and Wool Bands. 2 Flannelette Nightgowns. 1 Flannelette Wrapper. 1 Flannelette Jacket. 2 Flannelette Barrow Coats. 2 Muslin Petticoats. 2 Daytime Dresses. 1 pair Bootees. I dozen Diapers. 1 Crib Blanket. —Baby Shop Entrance OranviUe and Dunsmuir Sts. .75 GRANVILLE ST. EASTERN OOAL MINERS ESTABLISH 8-HOUR DAT Miners of Nora Scotia Getting a Chip on the Profits of Mr. Moneybags .. For the first time in the history of tho Province, Nova Scotia coal miners and operators met in conference, and signed an agreement. The eight-hour day is established with the same ton-hour wage. As a result of tho conference, the Amalgamated Mine Workers of Nova Suo* tia has been merged with thc United Mine Workers of America, and tho check-off system established. Mediation machinery has been set up to adjust disputes. BANKERS OUT AFTER NON PARTISAN LEAGUE Organised Farmers Are to Be Bamboozled by Spellbinders Whom tho Gods would destroy, thoy first mnke mod, is an old saying, thc truth of which is Bhown by tho frenzied campaign in tho northwest against the Nonpartisan Leftgue, the organization of farmers which has taken ovor control in North Dakota. Bankers, business men and thc kopt press tried abuse, assault and decoit. All failed. Now thoy aro using "uplift." Tho chautauqua idea, tho "community lifo" idea, folk danees and music (somo of it good) are being usod to break up the Nonpartisan League. The attempt is more amusing than otherwise. THE EQUITIST Shows How ONE BIG UNION Could Enforce Economic Equity Published weekly. $1.50 a year to Canndn, "The "Almighty Dollar", "Cooperation", etc., free, ii you mention this paper. 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Tou lay you can't afford one. Neither could Jones—if ho had to pay right down for it. As a matter of fact you can afford a suit just as well as Jones—only ho went tho right way about it. Here's what Jones did: He oame to us and looked over our fruits—found ono that wlei-ised him. Be told ut he couldn't afford to piy cash down. Wu told him thst wm ■It right—hundreds of men In just his position hid bought suits from si thli Spring. Wa hsd a little talk—then Jones paid |5 cash deposit and took away fat* mlt. He's paying the balance ln small weekly Instalments. If Jones had to wait until ha had the ready cash, a wwd part of Iho Spring would have gone bofore ho had his new suit. As it is, he's wearing ll now—and you're envying him. Call and aee ua about that new Suit-—We offer aa flne a line as there ia In the city—at prices which giro you exceptional valuot—and terms wblch will meet - your case. B. C. OUTFITTING CO. 342 HASTINGS ST. W. (Near Homer) Did you over analyze tho cliarma of a'protty child— usually a pair of bright laughing eyos—and "an alert, eager and questioning mUnnor—little dimples in the chin and cheek—little rol!n of fnt. at tho elbow and knee—really it makes you love them. Hundreds of happy, healthv children are thriving on VALLEY DAIBY IMPROVED MILK. It is simply, pure, sweet milk, with nothing added and nothing takeu away. VALLEY DAIRY IMPROVED MILK i» tested and bottled at thc farm—every drop comes. from that 1'nmnuR prize-winning herd of purebred cattle belonging to J. M. STEVE8. Thoy feed in the luxuriant mendowft of Lulu Island ai:*_ nre Wised and cared for in that royal manner suitable to pure-bred cattle. A trial bottle is tlie most convincing argument wc can offer you as to its richness and purity. PHONE BAYVIEW 663 VALLEY DAIRY Soldiers and Labor Men Meet at the Avenue (Continued from page I) they had better tako tho flag away and bury it. (Renewed applause.) "If they did call the 24-hour striko —that's dead, that's gone. We'vo got to live in the future." Thoy must formulate some plan of reconstruction. "The governments seeni to be asleep. It needs something liko Bolshevism to wako them up." (Long and tremendous applause.) Promises and promises had been made—and thoy had not been fulfilled. "There's another organization in tho city, known as thc Khaki Labor Union — unother sky-pilot." (Laughter.) "I'm a religious man myself, but I've no use for religion of that kind. Anything that will take tho bread out of a man'a mouth is not the religion of Jesua Christ." The speaker declared that thc government should givo a flat-rate of $2,000 to every man. He also stated that "Gothard waB offered $200 a month to go into another province—to break up the Fighting Comrades." Referring again to Prit- charcl, Kavanngh, Midgloy and Winch, he said "I'll tnke these men by tho hand any day." (Applause.) "By united effort wc shnll accomplish something. By division, wc are in the hands of thc Dominion government." . . Ed. Johnston, of the B. C. Soldiers' and Bailors' Council, said he was ono of those who "joined thc army for the wont of brend." (Hear hear! and auulausc.) Thc chairmnn had said he was ono who had tried to get to tho front and could not. "Thero'11 bo a plaeo fer him in tbe bread-line just tho samel" ho added; and a long roar of laughter followed the remark. He then stated what was the programmo of his organization, declaring that thore was no solution to social evils and economic distress, except production for use. As for fighting for "Liberty nnd democrncy und all that kind of stuff," the speaker snid, "I looked into a dictionary today to seo what democracy meant." (Loud laughter.) "I am uot a Bolshevik, and I wondered why those men should boost* me up so damned much." (More laughter,) "I went to flght for liberty over there, and I beliovu in liberty here." The speaker urged his comrades to get together, try to formulate somo idea, and "shove this political stuff off the bonrd altogether," It would be futile to try to give in a few paragraphs any adequate conception of tho magnificent speech of W. A. Prltchard, or the enthusiasm with whieh it curried tho meeting. As to the Mut oment that Bam i Gothard was the most abused man in Vancouver Pritchard disputed thnt. "Jack Knvamigh and myself aro fighting for that position and it's not been nettled," (Laughter.) PerhapB thoy could loom something ovon from "thc men that Captain ■VI);tinker will not shake tian-da SPRING CLOTHES-The Better Kind Oaa Be Had Here on Our Cheerful -PLAN- DON'T think thnt because your pay cheque won't stretch thftt you must wear inferior clothes. Nothing of the kind—yoa de- nerve the beBt and we will help you to get thorn- The better kind of clothes are alwayB the cheapest in tho end, because .you enjoy thim and because they give longer service Come to ths "New York" and select the better kind of stylish clothes for both ladles and gents, from our immense stock. Fay a small araouafc down and tbe balance a littlo at a time whilo you wear the olothea. ABE OUB TEEMS We make tbem fit each Individual requirement, tnd talk It over with ua. Wo'll trust you. ' Coma ta DRESS WELL OM EASY TERMS AT THE New York Outfitting Co., Ltd. 143 HASTINOS STREET WEST Opposite Province Offloo Seymour 1861 THE ACTORS' BALL TO BE HELD IN THE ABENA Tho biggest event of tho Benson, the actors' ball, undor the auspices of tho "Spotlight Club," has beon postponed until Friday, May 16, and will be held on tho specially constructed hardwood floor at the Arena. Thero will bo room for fivo thousand dancers and nine thousand spectators. Don't fail to como and see tho auto parade, tho Bathing Girl Beview, the Cabaro do Luxe, tho wonderful lighting effects. In addition to tho programmo already announced, of fifty prizos, wonderful electrical effects, etc., in connection with the ball a prize automobile show will tako placo, and prizes will bo given for the prctti- ost decorated autos, the auto parade taking place at the oxtremo outor edges of tho danco floor. Another novelty will be tho Bathing Girls' Review, when every firm and Individual will have a chnnce to show off tho newest effects in ladies' bathing suits, in competing for prizes. Instead of an orchestra, ii big augmented band will furnish the music. Tho money received at this ball will go to help out tho stago employees who were put out of work by the flu bun a fow months ago. 'Don't fail to eome to this ball. Ronioinbor tho date, May 16. **# with." Accordingly, ho proceoded to give his reasons for tho faith that was in him, with overwhelming convincing effect. Ho eould not doubt thnt the men who went ovor- Bcas thought thoy wene doing tho right thing at the time; nevertheless, "tho/things they went overseas to fight for have not beon established." (Applause.) Amongst tho returned mon, ho said, "for ono who was going.round seeking lay blood last August, thero aro now ton who will seek my.advice. (Loud applause.) HALF PRICE DRUG SALE A money-saving offer put on to make you acquainted with our Drug Store service. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Only One ot Each Article to a Customer War Tax Extra Wherever It Is Required ...95a HOUSEHOLD NECESSITIES BOc Sulphur and Molasses .....SSI 25o Aromatic Cascara ...-..- 18. 600 Parish's Chemical Food ....26. 80c Aspirin Tablet!, 1 dos 10' 60c Eaiton'e Syrup ......,.M..._...2t! lOo Doracio Aold, Borax, Alum Camphorated Chalk, Ueorie Powder „....^.,.,«.-,*-.-.... 6 60c Dlaud'l Fllll 25 60c A. B. S. A C. Tabletl ....26 BOo Syrup of White Pint and Tar - 26 STANDARD .60 Gin Fills ... .35 Cartor'i Fills 180 .60 Rold's Catarrh Balm 26o .86 Reld'a Laxative Bromide Tablets 18c .60 Rold's Fruit Saline 26c ,85 Nature's Romedy Tablets..l3o 1.00 Syrup of Hypophosphltet 60c 1.50 Hanoi Blood Medicine 76c .50 Reld's Kidney Fills 26c 1.50 Hanoi Eczema Medicine...76o .50 Reld's Eye Water 25c .26 Reld's Cathartic Pills 13s ' .60 Prult-a-tlvea „ 85o .25 Reid's Cascara Tablet8....18o .60 Zam-Buk *. 26c .85 Minard's Liniment 18c ,50 Dyspepsia « _„......;.'.26o Vancouver Drug Co., Ltd. The Original Out-Rate Druggist* of the Oity MAIN STOBB .05 Haitian Wait : —Sajra-rar ieej ud 188* BBANOH STOBES T Haatinga Waat Say. SS33 78. OranvUI. St. Say. 701; 412 Main Stmt. ~....~...~....-_.,_ay. 103: 60c Lithte Tabletl ...... ...» 86 SSo Home Oil -.— — 13 This list covers only • wall part of the standard prepara- Sundries tions and Drug Store offered at Half Price. See the full line at any el •ur Six Storei. 1700 Commercial Drive... ...Ulgh. S«8 ul 178S-C* Oor. Oranrtlla ul Broadway. Bay. 831*1 ul 17.t*G Knox Wolken, barrister, Informs tho press that Vancouver lost two industries through Its shady reputation. Mr. Walkem hints that the shipyard troubles were the oause of this, but any Arm that expects to enter business without labor troubles must have been doing business tn Tlmbuctoo. We would advise the business element of this city to keep the city's reputation clean by, Boeing that the demands of labor are granted. Patronize Foderationist advertisers. Don't think that you can build your union on hot air. Don't th that your union will (row e* though you do not attend lte mi ings. Just so soon as you let ut your activities, Just ao soon i the employers take .advantage tlie situntion and cut your wa and increase your efflcleiicy speeding you up. Tho tide Is ti Ing and employers ot, labor country over are looking for chanoe to get baok td pre-war ditions ot labor. Outfiittors to the Men of thc West Something in the air says-How does your suit look without your top coat ? —It's a personal question—look at yours NO DOUBT when it comes out into the light, after the Winter's wear, it looks a bit shabby—it's time for a change'. How about the new suit? —Here they are, in a wonderful range of, pattern and style—the largest selection of clothes in the West—gathered together expressly to meet the demands of you men. Something here to suit everybody—to fit the slim, the tall, the stout—and just your individual style—backed- with tho market's best quality materials—and at Diok prices they are good investments. Suits at $25 to $75 —Sold with* our usual guarantee—your money's worth or your money back. A Word to the Boys From Overseas— We allow you a special discount of 10 per cent, off our regular prices on your entire outfit—everything from shoes to hat. 33-45-47-49, Hastings St. East*. amtw.tneerurAtum.mfl lHI1/n'"maf"f"***itxa: i »■
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