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INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STRENGTH ELEVENTH YEAR. No. 32 BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST ^F*******'' OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABORCOUNCIL, AND B. C. FEDERATION OFVKABOR **» POLITICAL UNITY: VIC EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER. B. C. FRIDAY M0BNING. AUGUST 8.1919 . \s~ X-__$___ ) $1.50 PER \ VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MINING. AUGUST 8,1919 POLITICAL UNITY: VICTORY (yJe\,Tn.oo) $1.50 PER YEAB {Loggers New Scale Likely to Be Granted Men at Alberni-Pacific Camp Get Full Demands After Strike of Four Days—Strikes Are Still on at West Kootenay Power and LighUJ-r ^' Princeton and Copper Mounti*" ?***" FORMED LAST J*-!5**StS_2 D****1* The now wage scale, as recently adopted by tho Loggers Association, Is given in detail in the Worker. Memben will see that a minimum 1 wage o/ **.75 has been struck. This 1 is _5c below that tied by the union, Wt there should be Httlo difficulty in persuading tke employers that a small matter of 28c a day is not worth nuking a basis for trouble. Ho word has yet boen received from the association with reference to the schedule of wages and camp conditions submitted to them last week. This being the ease, the only deduction whieh ean be drawn is that-thoy are following out the course of action laid down whon the union first approached them six months ago, that of ignoring the organisation as_« body. Therefore, the logical thing for the members of lho union to do is to immediately act in tho job, presenting tlie schodule is drawn up br the convention, and i giving a time limit within which re* j plies must be received stating whether the individual employer is willing to eome through or not. Delay is all to* the interest of the employer. Aetion, on tho job, is thc weapon whieh the worker can and , must uso. Any camp which has not i a copy of the schedule cun socure them from the headquarters. Some individual employers have I boon interriewed, and are willing to i come through straight away with the majority of the demands. This week more orders for men bave been received and filled than during the whole period of the union's exist* enee. One question which will need to be dealt with is dealing with those men who, not having to pay a fee .for the job, take it, nnd then do not turn up, resulting in some one who really needed the job and who would have taken it, being kopt out of it fer the time; also causing unnecessary work in the office and creating diesatisfac- GMira Call in Aid of Dominion Executive to Thwart "Radicals" That tbere is moro splits than that in the Labor movement is evidenced by the following dispatch as to the G. W. V. A. in Winnipeg: Beeause of alleged obstructionist tactics on the part of a certain element of the Great War Veterans Association, the local executivo has formally decided to place the affairs of the association an the hands of the Dominion executive. This action vas considered necessary because of what wero described as offorts on the part of radicals to use tho association for furthering their own particular aims instead of the interests of returned soldiors as a whole. It was pointed out that the radicals are in : the minority, as vas indicated by a ; reeent referendum vote on the pol- ! icy of the executive whieh was endoned 3 to 1; but tbey have nevertheless managed to obstrnet business 1 at several special general meetings by conniving to be in the majority at suoh gatherings. Arrangements are being made by the association fer tho round table conference suggested by thc executive during the atrike for discussing the alien question and the high cost of living. All public aud semi-public bodies in thc city, including Labor, will be invited. tion with the employers in sending to the union for thoir men. At the Alberni-Pacific camp, Fort Alberni, the men eame out on the 2nd against the attempt of the omployers to raise the board SOe a day, without any inerease in pay. Also men who had been getting a monthly wage and hoard were put on toy wages, and pay their board. This hod the effect of an aetual reduction in wages. Tho food had also been very bad, and big improvements in this respect wero demanded by the men; also a 50c a day raise all round. The company tried to negotiate a settlement with headquartera, but wore roferred baek to the men, as being the only persons with whon) negotiations could be carried on, and a settlement arrived at. On the 6th the full dchiands were conceded by the company. Over 100 men were affected. An hour after, word was received of tho victory at Alberni, a telegram arrived at headquarters notifying that all men were on strike for better conditions at Merrill Ring and Moore's camp at Duncan Bay. It is one of tbe most gratifying messages that ever camo in to hindquarters, as this camp has been a disgrace to the coast. Every obstacle has been placed in tho way of organizing it, yet despite this, the thing has been done, and the company has now tb come through- with the men's demands or faco the consequences. The strike is still on at'iho West Kootenay Light and Power line, between Midway, Greenwood and Princeton. AH jobs of Canada Copper Corporation anywhere in Princeton, Allan- by and Copper Mountain and district are on the unfair list. Notices have been sent to all camp delegates for nominations for. delegates to the 0. B. U. convention, to be Bent to .headquarters bofore Aug. 31. Those nominated will be submitted to referendum. The full organisation will be entitled to from four to five delegates, and arrangements will bo made tb ensure that the outlying distircts get representation. It is some time since the standing of the membership woe reported, but the number is well over 9000. Some are considerably in arrears with their dues, but evon With these slackers eliminated, the live metaber- (Contlnued oft page 8) Jation Committee and Temporary Officers Are Elected Organizer Farmilo States Reason for Steps Taken by A. P. of L. The meeting of the new JL W. ot .Trades and Labor Couneil was not as large as those formerly held in the Labor Temple by the old council. The delegates present, how. ever, were generally of the opinion that with a little effort they would be in a position to wield uie same power and influenco as did the old Trades and Labor Council. Organiser Farmilo in calling the meeting to order stated that this meeting had been called by him on the instructions of the American Federation of Labor and-tho Trades ami Labor Congress of Canada. Nine international local unions of Vancouver had petitioned these bodies to have such aetion taken that would bring the Trades and Labor Council of Vancouver in true alignment with the principles of interna* tional trades unionism. The charters under whieh the meeting was being held were granted by the Dominion Trados Congress and the American Fedoration of Labor. The body that had previously operated under these charters had by resolution adoptod the constitution of an hostile organization known as the 0. B. U. Sueh action was iu direct contravention of the constitution of the American Federation of Labor and tho Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. The new body would now proceed to early on- the business necessary for the welfare of tho affiliated unions, Bro. Welsh of the Plumbers was elected temporary chairman -and Miss Helen Gutteridge of tbe Ger- ment Workers temporary secretary. Credentials were received from the Moving Picture Operators, Theatrical Stage Hands, Garment Workors, Milk Wagon Drivers, Machinists 182 and 692, Bakery Salesmen, Barbers and Musicians. A number of unions had not yet met to appoint delegates, but the following were repre Rented by memben- of -their r#pec- tive executive committees: neet '.MEETING first General Meeting of New Society in the Labor Temple The flrst general meeting of the Vancouver Co-operative Society will be held in the Labor Temple next Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. The plans of the organisation have f«M ahead so well that the committee *e- eided to issuo a call for the general meeting. There are new over 400 prospective members* Thia meeting will be lor the purpose of initiating members, the coet of wliich will be 00 eents per member. The share capital wiU net be called for until we have 1000 members signed np, so there will be no need to bring along the priee of the, shares on this occasion. Tbe 50 cents will pay tor the work of issuing bylaws, passbooks, ete., and for defraying the expenses incurred in being incorporated and organiaing. Expenditures to date amount te (1,25, so it can be easily seen that there is no reckless expenditure of money. Election of Officers An election of officers will take place. These will be president, vice-president, secretary - treasurer, threo auditors and nine board managers. These will bo elected for the various periods called for in the bylaws. Speaker from Seattle A Co-operative Society organizer from Seattle will be in attendance at the meeting and will preaent to the membership the work now being carried on in the State of Washington and the United states in general. It is also possible that an official of the English Cooperative Wholesale Society will be iii attendance at this nieeting, as he is on his way west at the present time. Others than mombers are given a hearty invitation to attend this meeting, but will not take part in tho election of officers. If you have already signed up for membership attend this meeting and bring along as many of your neighbors as you possibly can. If you have some prospective members whom you cannot meet to notify of the meeting, kindly forward the names to the secretary, H. W. Watts, 405 Dunsmuir Street) and they will be notified by post card. Winnipeg—It looks as though the long-suffering Canadian consumer is to bo up against it sonic more yet. LateBt advices from tho West are to the effect that pork in Winnipeg hus been climbing until it has rcachod ♦23.50 por hundred pounds, live weight, and is certain to go higher. There has been a sharp advance on beef also. With no relief from the high cost of living anywhere in sight it will be plain liver for Labor soon. abor M. P.'s Remain in Seats During Ovation to Lloyd George Mr. Ben. Spoor, the British Labor P., has issued a statement explaining why he and several other nembers of the Labor Party remain- id in their seats when tho House >f Commons rose and gave an ova- ion to Mr. Lloyd Goorge on his return from Versailles. "There did iot seem much really to cheer nbout," ho said. "Rather was it an sour for silence. Beyond the crowded scenes one caught glimpses of other scenes, of maimed and blinded -nen, and heartbroken womon, of fatherless children. Above the thunder of humun voices, one could hear the quiet weeping of the world." Washington—-A minimum wage of |16.50 per week for women employed in all mercantile establishments in the District of Columbia has been Agreed upon by twelve conferees, re- presenting the 7000 women so employed, the 700 or more merchants of Woshingtp. DB CUBBT Compensation Board Is Awarded Decision by Privy Council The dependents of tho victims of tho Sophia disaster will now be able to receive their compensation under the B. C. Workmen's Compensation Act, the Privy Council baving givon its decision against tho C. P. R., which company applied for an injunction against the pnyment of compensation on the ground that tho disaster having taken [dace in foreign waters, compensation should be paid under tho Morchant Shipping Aet. Somo 40 claims wcro made following the Sophia wreck, and these were allowed by the Compensation Act Commission, nnd would have boen paid but for the granting of the injunction asked for by the C. P. B. by Mr. Justice Clement. It is expected thnt the claims will be paid as soon us possible now that the decision is given in favor of the compensation commission and the dependents. Printers Balne Wages Hamiltonv. Out.—Commercial shop members of the Typographical Union Metal Workers, Plumbers, Boot and *ave raised wages SO per cent. 8imi Shoo Workers, Jewelry Workers, Meat Gutters, City Firemen and Shipyard Laboren. The meeting boing practically an organization meeting no business was done outside of the election of committees to carry on the work of tbo council until such timo as it had an election of officers. Thc matter of tho election of officers wns postponed for the purpose of giving every local union that intended to affiliate, time to get delegates elected and seated. It was decided to havo the nomination of officers take place at the next moeting but one and the election to tako place the following Thursday. In order to make tba necessary changes in the constitution and to eliminate thoso whieh had been made by thc old council to conform to the plans laid down by the Western Conference, which nllowed any and all unions to affiliate with it, a committee was appointed to revise It.to suit the requirements of the new body. The committee elected were Del. Jamieson of the Musicians, Del. Hanson of the Moving Pieture Operators, Del. McVety of Machinists 162, Del. Stevens of the Jewelry Workers and Bro. Welsh of the Plumbers. Del. B. A. Webb df the Barbers was elected to fill the office of secretary-treasurer. An organization committee composed of Dels. Hanson, McVety, Gutteridge and Herrett wbs elected to visit local unions for the purpose of presenting the necessity of affiliating with the new body. THE FEDERATIONIST WILL AT ****** . ****** . ****** ****** ALL TIMES SUPPORT WORKERS BUT LABOR MUST RECOGNIZE THAT IT MUST RECIPROCATE THE POLICY of this paper is determined by the men who own it. The owners are the members of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council and the B. C. Federation of Labor. In any trouble this paper will, at all times, stand by the workers. There inay be times when the activitiei* of Labor will be resented by the business element of the city, but that will not deter us from supporting working class programmes. In the reeent strike, The Federationist took a decided stand, not only on the question of the sympathetic strike in this eity, but on the genoral strike in Winnipeg. We took the position that the strike was not a revolutionary strike, and that it was forced on the Winnipeg workers by the large employing interests of this eountry, and that those interests were backed up by the government of this country, when Senator Bobertson interfered, and the Postal Workeri were discharged. This stand has been, objected to by the business element of this city. There is no subsidizing agency behind the Labor press if it stands true to the interests of the working class. This being so, we must depend on organized labor to assist us in any case, where as a result of our support of the workers, we are by any means the subject of a boycott. There are many ways of boycotting. One iB by refusing to do business with any concern. This has been done by aome of the merchants of this city, and their advertisement* ao longer appear m this paper. If it is necessary that the workers should organize in order to sell their labor power, it is also necessary that they organize their purchasing power to support their own press. Take particular notiee of tbo present advertisers, and patronize them. Keep a record of those that used to advertise, and do not now do so, and keep it in mind when purchasing any gooda, of any nature. Those that advertise in this paper are evidently seeking your support, see to it that only thwM mwta auy at you* patronage. Charters Are Revoked by the International Organiaztion The minera ot District 18 lave or* ganixed under tke O. B. U. This ♦top wu taken after a joint meeting if the eiemtive board, aad thr peJ- cy committee last week. Tke new Organization will be known u Dis- Wet No. 1 Mining Department of the 0. B. U. Bepreientatives of ths United Mine Worken International lire been talking a tour of the dif- triet, and from tke Dlitriet Ledger it ie learned tkat their efforts have not Seen very successful A meeting wu -sailed at Coalhurst, hut no miners tamed up, at Chinook a Kttle better luck was met with, seven men turning up to the' meeting. The International officers sent to 'investigate into conditions in District 18, after carrying on their investigations, sent tho following win to. headquartera: i "Complete investigation today. find district president is member of ual organisation. Showed committee his membership card (0. B. U.) Vice-president and seoretary-treasur- or also lined up in favor of dual organization. Wo would advise thar district charter bo suspended at Once. Awaiting early reply, Samuol Bullnntj-ne, Samuel Caddy, William Dalrymple. In reply tb tkis telegram, tke following wire was received later in the day from tke International president: Effective July 27 Message received. Wired F. M. Christophers today as follows; 'As you aro aware,- the international eiecutive board directed Messrs. Bdllantync, Dalrymple and Caddy to conduct an investigation into the existing affairs in District 18 of the United Mine Workers of America, and- make recommendations to thc international officers as to matters tt policy to be pursued in tkat dis Wot. This committee has been pursuing its investigations, and I am to- •any* in receipt of its recommendation that the charter of District 18 be re- Yoked for good and sufficient causo. A'coordingly I om hereby officially informing you that effective thia dale (July 27) the charter of District 18 stands revoked and tke district as such ceases its affiliation tho United Mine Workers of lor increase, wero recently aeeared by newspaper printers. Boston—The Typographical Union kas rejected a wage offer of (32 and (34 a week for its commercial shop members. The union is demanding (87, regardless of sex. Wag* (Joins for Oar Men Danbury, Conn.—Aa arbitration bonrd has awarded Danbury k Bethel Street Bailway Company platform men k wage increase that raises rates from 35 cents «n hour to 44 eents. -^Presidont Christophers and Secre* Inn Browne both havo stated to the ttlptrj press that the district is solid for the 0. B. U., and that th'ey a^e not afraid to go baek to thc members for re-election. J. Will Deal With the Only Question Worth While J. Harrington will be the speaker for thc Socialist Party of Canada next Sunday, at the Empress Theatre, at 8 o'clock. Any ono who haa the chance of attending a Socialist meeting, at thii time, with tho daily papers full of sensational reports of happenings in Oreat Britain and Europe, would do well to visit the Empress next Sanday evening. Here will be found men and women of the working elass who ean no longer ho fooled by the smooth plausablo manners and lying statements of tbe hirelings of their masters, and who fear for what the future may bring to the workeri, unless they awaken from their apathy and deal onee and for all with the only question that is worth any at tcntion, that is, wage slavery, the basis of our much-vaunted Democracy. This ie the cause of all tho troubles from which tbe workers suffer. Gome to the Empress and learn moro about it. Questions and dis euBsion after tho address. MM. Is Happy Bro. McKenzie, business, agent of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees ha« been going round thii last two days or more with a very happy smile. Many of his friends wondered why. They felt sure that,"there was a reason," and there was. Me. wai presented with a fine daughter on Tuesday night. Both mother and child are doing well. CITIZENS' UNION TO MAKE A PROTEST Job WM Hold for ft tatiimed Man But Often to Mr. Lindsay— Nesting Tonight The members of the Citizens Union are vory much incensed over the appointment of Mr. Lindsey aa superintendent of the C4d People's Heme. Some time ago this job was supposed to bc reserved for a roturned man, and at that time it was understood that tbe job would be advertised, and preference given to returned soldier applicants. This, however, hae not been done, and the members of the Citizens Union are to hold a meeting tonight (Friday) in the Dominion Hall, to protost against this position being given to any but a returned man. HST. 18 MINERS "Hello" Obis Benefit Fnnd -The following donations to tho traiefit fund of Local 77A, Telephone Operators, were overlooked in importing the donations in 1—L Week's Federationist. Patternmakers' Union ♦30.50 Machinists' Local 182 Policemen's Union 25.00 25.00 fi Engineers and Millmen *, Combine Forces in the 0. B. U. I Moudny next, August 11, will probably see thc beginning of what no donht will be one of the most powerful units of the 0. B. U. in thia Province, as the engineers and mill workers propose to amalgamate and form themselves into one unit, to be known as the Engineers and Mill Workers Unit of tho 0. B. U. r.Sceing that the workers in the mills are anxious to be organized, they should, with the assistance of the engineers, sooii bc on an equal looting with their fellow workers in thc Loggers Union, who nre now practically one hundred per cent, or* ganized in this Province, and with these two forces acting together, they should be able to establish tol ertililo working conditions for the workers in the lumber industry of thiri Province, if such a thing is possible under thc present competitive system for proflt. Tho entertainment committeo of Ure engineers is engaging room 408, I/ibor Temple, for Lnbor Day, and Irbpose to stage a whist drive, social nnd dance on that evening. Should nny member of organized Labor dc- »»re to put in a pleasant evening, they arc cordially invited to be preient on that occasion, when their fellow workers among tho engineers will try and make them enjoy themselves and drive dull caro away for that evening. . Tickets for the social and danco nan be obtained from Secretary W, A. Alexander, at room 216, Labor Temple. Oents 60c and ladies 25c. ■ENEFIT ORGANIZATION TO BE CONTINUED Despite Split Teamsten Decide tn Carry an the Bennflt Association At a special meeting of the Oen- ctuI Teamsters and Truck Drivers Sick Benefit Association on Tuesday night, it was decided in view of the sorvico, that the sick fund bas been to tbe membership, to continue this orgnBi/ation, and to urge all drivers in the pity to join up, and provide for the time when sickness may over take them. Any information as to the workings of this organizntion. will be gladly given nt room 200, j l-iilinr Temple. ENGLAND IS SCENE Trades I Triple Alliance Taking Referendum Vote on Direct Action Strikes Are Countrywide —Military* Forces Are Being Used London.—With the Yorkshire itriko atill unsettled, tke bakers' atriko continuing, t number of strikes in otker tradaa, smouldering discontent at tko polico for tke failure of tkeir atriko to secure tko withdrawal Of tko Police Bill, and tke possibility of another big railway atrike, tko labor situation has again become so threatening tkat it ia atatod Arthur Henderson, the Labor leader, who haa been attending the Socialist 'convention at Lucerne, has been hurriedly summoned to London. Liverpool ia quiot, bnt it remains tko centre of agitation, for a atriko of tko dockers ia now being threatened in support of the striking policemen. Tko exocutive of tke Dockers' Union met on Tuosday and passed a resolution 'demanding reinstatement of tko dismissed policemen, failing which they will givo their wholehearted support to tko polico. Engine Driven Dissatisfied Negotiations between tho government and the Associated Locomotive Engineers and Firemen to arrange a now scale of pay for engine drivers, have been in progress for six months. The government has -just issued what is described as a final adjustment of tho scale, as a result of which the executive of the* union has boen snowed under with indignant protests as to the inadequacy of the scale from all parts of the country. Tho executive has arrived in London from Leeds to interview tho Board of Trade on tho subject, and tho outlook is considered serious. Further, thero are tho beginnings of strike movements on the Scottish railways, owing to a local dispute. The number of men out on tho London k Southwestern Railway almost doubled on Tuesday, and passenger sorvico is suffering severely. Tho strike is described by Jntaos Henry Thomas, member of the Houso of'Commons, and general secretary of the National Union ot Bailwaymen, it a gnvo mistake and quite unauthorized. Test of Strength Lord Bobert Cecil, in the Houso of Commons, enquired aa to tho government's policy in the face of a threatened general strike in favor of direct action, to which Andrew Bonar Law, the government spokesman, repeated his statement that the governmont would resist such a movement with oil the forces at its disposal. As the ballot of tho triple alliance—tho railway men, transportation workers and miners—on the question of -direct action ie being taken this week, it is beliovcd in responsible quarters that a test of the power of tho advanced sections of tho now movement to dictate the alliance's policy will speedily be decided. Ten thousand miners at twenty collieries in Midlothian and East Lothian, Scotland, were called out yesterday to begin a striko a week hence in support of strikers ot another mine, who, after a strike of ten woeks failed to attain their object. Liverpool Scene of Biota Liverpool.—Last Monday one person was killod and others mny die as a result of bayonet and gunshot wounds received in rioting. At least a hundred persons wero severely wounded by stones and glass. Four hundred persons were arrested. Two hundred stores wcro wrecked or looted. The damage to (Continued on page 8)* Council on New Constitution Definition of Political Privileges Causes Discussion- Labor Bureau Question Again Before Council- Russians Are Being Defended and Funds Raised Close to a hundrod delegates wero ia attendance at last night's meeting of tke Vancouver Trades and Labor Couneil, aid In spite of the rival meeting being hold in another hall, the old conncil did not seem to havo lost aay of ita vim or effectiveness. Tko main business before the council was the new constitution, whjch a special committee had been Instructed to draft. A good many of the clauses were given a Snt reading without any amendment, others causing considerable discussion, and . some amendments wero offered and adopted, while others wero defeated. The greatest discussion on any- of the clauses took place on the one dealing with the aims and objects of the council. Tho clause reads: It is tho policy of thli eouncil to conduct its business and its efforts on behalf of labor, in a-strictly legal manner, striving by industrial and political effort to securo greater politieal privileges, to the end that the transition from capitalism to the co-operative commonwealth may be as easily accomplished as possible." Political Actio* Del. Sykes wished to kavo the term political privileges defined. Del. Kavanagh stated that political privileges were the right of free speech, the right of assembly, and other privileges, which were not rights, as the workers had nothing except those privileges that the ruling class gave them. The old question as to what waa meant by political act ion'was also raised, and denned as any aet on tho part of one class to securo the power that another class possessed. Del. Kavanagh pointed out that industrial aetion for political' purposes did not cover all political activities, and instanced thc publishing of pamphlets and other propaganda publications, which ho stated was political action, and could not be eonstruod as industrial action. The wholo of tho constitution was not dealt with, but it ia not the intention of the council to restrict the membership to local] units of tho 0. B. U., and so far as representation on the council is concerned, the organisations at present affiliated will retain their position on (the council if they so desire on ex-, aetly the same terms ae to per capita aa heretofore, the O. B. U. ualta paying thoir por capita to that organization through tho couneil, taa eents per momber boing retained for the loeal central body. The discussion of the balanee of the constitution will bo taken up at the aext meeting of tko couneil. The Seattle Soft Drink Dispensers sent 021 to tke strike fund, ami also a letter commenting on tko fight that organized labor moat fight before the workers nre freed from tko prosont syatem. The aeeretary waa instructed to acknowledge receipt of the donation and tho lotter. An acknowledgment of tho receipt of' the communication from the couneil, protesting against the amendments to the Immigration Act, was received from the privato secretary of tho Premier. A communication from Gustav Francq of Ottawa, whieh statod that he had published a booklet -entitled "Bolshevism or Trades Unionism" and wished to supply all membera of the counoil with copies, and asking for a list of tho delegatea and their addresses, was received. The seeretary wu instructed to write and ask who waa paying for the expense of publication. The Labor Bunas Troublo Tho business agent reported that the greater part of his time had been spent in organization work, and that he had taken up tke matter of tbo man who had paid one dollar for a job at a privato labor bureau, and then had been sent to the Government Bureau for the job. Ke stated that ho had been informed that tho privato agency may have soca tho job in question listed at the Government Bureau, and in order to get the eent a milo railroad rate havo sont tho man to tbo Government Bureau for it. Ho said that if this had been done the money hod been obtained under falso pretences. Ho also stated that there was an impression that tho (Continued on pago 8) I IUUL INTNL. m mm Members Are Being Admitted Daily States Organizer Woods Local Unit N#.l of the 0. B. V., consisting of the Boilermakers, Blacksmiths and Machinists, report that great headway is being made n thc organization of the workere in the industry covered by this organisation. Many new membera are being mude daily, and the staff il kept busy issuing cards. Orgnnizer Wood states that in the next two weeks it is expected that the membership will be nt least doubled, and thnt many who havo heretofore not expressed their preference for the new form of organization, are joining up with tho 0. B. U. Aa already reported this organization has headquarters at tlio Old Knox Church, on Cordova Street, and any information can be secured by those desiring further particulars from Organizer Woods during office hours, which are between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. VANCOUVER TRADES COUNCIL ****** ****** ****** ****** AND THE HUUSON DAY STORES TO CONDUCT CAMPAIGN FOR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF FAIR STORES DURING THE RECENT strike, thc central strike conimiUe* allowed steam engineers to work at thc Hudson's Bajr Stores. As soon u the strike was over, Ihf Hudson's Buy Oompany discriminated against its employees who followed this occupation, and rs a result, were placed on thc unfair list, by thc Vancouver Trades and Labor Council. Organized labor, as represented by this body, is uot going to adopt tbe boycott system, but will advocate preferential treatment of the merchants lhal are at all fair in their treatment of the workers. 'Ihey will carry out a programme of securing the support of organized labor for theae merchants. They will carry on an activo campaign for the support of organized labor for those merchants lhat advertise in Labor's Own Paper, Thc B. C. Federationist. The Hudson's Bay Company has discriminated against the men who supported Labor in the recent strike, and this paper docs not carry any advertising for this company, aud will not do so until the council takes it off the unfair list. There are other departmental stores that advertise in these columns; they are worthy of the support of organized labor. A little help ie worth a lot of sympathy, and every member of organized labor can help now. It is up to you, Mr. Union Man. This statemeait is published on request of thc Vancouver Trades and Labor Couneil. Temporary Officers Are Elected for 0. B. U. Council A/tor tke Winnipeg Tradea Council had decided to join with the 0. fi. V. lut vott, President Winning called upon W. A. Pritchard to take the chair, while tbe election of temporary officers was being carried out, and a time and place sot for the next meeting. Pritchard, on taking tke chair, waa greeted with applause, stated that if international organisers expected to hold thc unions to the A. F. of L. they would have to live here continually, and even then they would not bo successful. I Labor in tho future would bc able to stand upon its own feet without I propping from any sourco. | Ho pointed out that the business of the meeting was to decide the timo and business of the next meoting of tho body. ! The challenge to the international officers had not yet been accepted, but meetings would be held and the arguments adduced. It was movod that the next meeting be held on Tuesdny next for tbo purpose of nominating and electing officers. This was carried. It was then moved that a temporary chairman and secretary be elocted to carry ou the business of thc body—carried. Nominations fur chairman and secretary were then made. W. H. C. Logan was elected ns temporary chairman, H. B. Russell was elected temporary secretary. The Labor Temple company of Winnipeg has decided thot thc new council will not be allowed to meet in tbe Labor Hall, and new quarters will have to be secured by all 0. B. U. units. This, however, does not seem to bo 'ifrc-'ting tho 0. B. t\ movement which is steadily growing in the 'Peg. ON TIL" Re-Blect 0 Galveston, Tex.'—'Presidont O'Con- nor was re-elected nt lho biennial convention of the International Longshoremen's union. The constitution wos amended to debar from tnombership any man connected with nny Arm or corporation except as a 1-vngshororuMk Votes for Women Upheld Nashville, Tenn.—-The stale su premc court hns ujiheld tho recently enacted Tennessee law which given women the right to vote in municipal and pYesidentinl elections Thc decision reverses Chancellor Newman of this county, who held that the net , violates the state constitution, Dr. Curry's Subject at Labor Party Meeting Sunday Next At the Columbia Theatre on Bunday evening Dr. Curry will denl with the above subject. It is pretty safe to say that the address will havo no connection whatever with tho unspeakably foolish humbug whieh has been filmed under the samo title. The peals of derisivo laughter which has greeted tho appearance of the moving picture showing this week in this city is somo indication of the judgment of tho general public. Dr. Curry is interesting himself in the •©-operative movement and doibt- . less wilt have something to say of the great part which the cooperative movement iu Russia hu played in the solving of questions of -distribution which would have otherwiso been almost unsiirmowit- able during the transition period in that country. Mr. Julian Haywood will provide thc usual recital beginning at 7,3t o'clock. Mrs. J. A. Clark will •» eupy the chafe PAGE TWO MJSVENTH TEAS. Wo. St THE BRITISH 0 E BRITISH CQLfJMBIA i ir»n <«■»'»! siis i i £<Jlmum'+eai<s»s»m* FEDERATIONIST vancouveb, b. a. FBIDAT... august 8, 1! Men's $25, $30, $35 Odd Suits AUGUST CLEAN-UP $15 Arnold & Quigley 546 Granville Street ! SLATER'S QUALITY SERVICE FREE DELIVERY MOOUT rapt. •Bator-. IU. Uhl Tea, lb IS. ■HfiM., I hr ...OSe Uuadr-r Sow, » tor lie B-nlifhl 8e»p, a |.r ... zbovmio* dipa»tmi_-t Hater's Silted Streaker «■•«•». tt. Me Slater's Sliced Streaker Bacn, lb. etc Slater's Sliced Back Bacon, lb.....*0e Slater's Sliced BoneleM Roll, 1b...4Sc S—OB *u snciu. Jlaeet Malwb Tea, letalar so. lb. SMarta. mlr, tre-a I a.a>. ta ia -mm, 494 lb*: liaatt I »s *™ IB, BUTTEB, B0REB 'iaeat Albert. 8ye_W Batter. Rtf. <0o lb., 8atartar Irnra i a.u. to IS noon, SK_t eUetVe ?e*p* aad Beans, 9 (or...Sle Jn*'. Caeaa, 2 (er die TaraastMkh-a Sanaa, I tar lta Tomato Belska-*., S lor .....«c f ileal Ce-Mou-d Lard, lb. lUaeat Pan UM lb. ... rineat Beat Drlpplni, Ib. .. «_*», Mb. Mn. ..." ...ISO ...«0C ■oo special Iinaat Alberta Freeh Kjga. Bar. IISo dorea. flatorday, frota 2 _?,_________*• ei-os Ltatit 3 down. ont bacon n ooos We mU ever 0 teas •aokt-i fecoa every *Mk fM8H MEAT DEPARTMENT No. 1 Steer Boiling Beef from, Mm* -.eel Lank, leg* lb. „ Mt lb i«iw"«Swfia "^ rinMt LomI Lin., Mm lb .»%e ttaut Strcakey Bacon, Itlf ar n_Nt LmsI U«b. .ho«Wer.....S7V,e J*"-*. , 52^ Fhtot Loeal La_b S*w, lb. -».•«* lw"Bw^"'£E""£i. *oc A.' Ve. 1 Stew P*t Smt froia, lfc.1*. flat*r«ar oily, jAi/i Ni. 1 Steer Relte* Or»_ Houis....Me lb. ^'tSt* We Mirer •**§- -aar- Speolal But dellrerjr leavlag Hwt-Jngs Street Stere at 1 Vetoek tsar VmncooTer Heighte, Booting* Parte, C^liagwwd, Central Pm* ail 0-Mth Vooeoavtr. THIM BI» ITOUU ISS Huttnp St.,, I Phene Sty. MM. ttl •naviUt St., Pheae Sty. IM StM Kali Stmt, Pheae Mr. Ult It Has Never Done Any. thing; Else, But It Needs Repeating Just prior to the ending of tho war the cold storage plants in Canada wero loaded to the roofs in anticipation of a continuance of the war. Hence the signing of the armistico was a deadly "blow to nil theso cold storage profitecrB. But thoy wcro not to be ontdone. "What have wo got a parliament fort" thoy asked themselves and the reply came baok forthwith ''to legislate in our inter- cats." Ho the cold storage magnates got busy. It would hover do to reduce the price of all this good food. It would never do to even Hell this food at a reasonable profit, because this kind of animal -doos not believe in reasonable profits. It would nover do to keep it Wen use keeping food too long prevent* the magnates from buying more food cheap, holding it for a while and then Belling it dear. There was only one way out of tkt jackpot, that was to soil it abroad. But overy nation was financially embarrassed, and Germany and Bussia were blockaded, Bot somebody conceived a bright idea. Italy wanted food badly. But Italy was also broke, Well let ua instruct our government to loau Italy six million dollars with the understanding that Italy purchase our cold, storage supply of foods. The gov ernment was instructed. Itnly consented. The sir million was loaned. The cold storage houses were emptied. Canadian foodstuff prices were increased "owing to tho shortage" (f) and the masses will soon bo asked to return to power the legislators who perform faithfully the dictates of the monied interests. If you don't believe tWs story we refer you to Hansard of June 21, when those facts were brought out in the Houso of Commons. NATIONAL RAILWAYS 0k Ua* af Tnuportattool Belongs to AU tha Nattoal Canadian national baxlwats IT PAY8 TO 081 IT Beew4 Trip Simmer Teariit Bates S50.50 XDMOMTOir-CALOABT $50.50 Kelira Limit October list All Tear Taarial Tickets • aurctks lotora Ile-.ll aa sale to Eastern Oaaada, .astral and Beaten Statea, Paulas thread tba Saeklea wsw una U-IASf mom WOW 0B0W11XD FEAES Tralae leave Vaaeearer Uafea Station • .-0-0 aaa.—Bandar. Toeadar and Friday—9:00 a.m. Fer Bataa aad Information apply to AMISTAJTT OBBBBA1 PA8SEKOEE AGENT MC ■■_■*__«. It Weat VAKOODTIE, B. 0. nan Sarmoar 2*1*9 APEMT rOB ALL ATLAWT10 HMVIfflP LINES O. B. U. THIS 6 TO CERTIFY. That tM* Mm mat-Mi H'CMducul trt ■ocoraiiK* with tk* rule* ol lh* Amalgamated Meat Cutter* .«_ Botch** Wmaai et North Anwnc*. A. f. ol L. Tberot-H-o w* ca—ntna it to tb* patronage ol alL. The Above Card Displayed in Batchers' Stores Denotes That Union Men Are Employed: The-followiag butchers nt worthy ot ertry eonsidtration be* members of organised labor. "Shaw tkis ad. to your wife." Oaljr (Irst class meat at reasoaabla prises is handled by these stores: MODEL HAMLET 1*0 Bobson It. Sey. 391» VEBNON MABKET 412 Vernon Drlvt MAT OBOCKEE .601*/, Campbell Am, High. IU X. L. PASXEX .786—SBth At*. Eut Traaer 127 ...1823—lth Wtat. Bay. 119 IXL. MABKET - i BBBEBTOBD'S FIBH MABKET....1747 Oammercial Dr. High. 432 DEVON MABKET 46*90 Fruwr Ave. 1-alr. 672* OEO. AYBBT MABKET .207 Joyca Boad. Oollingwood 111 10 Sub. Cards § flood for one year'i subscription to Tlie " C. Federatianlst, will bo malted to , addreaa in Canada for 912.60. (Oood anywhere outside of Vancouver city.) Order ten today- Remit when sold. Better Footwear When we say Better Footwear we mean the sort of Shoee that are not met with everywhere. TEST GOODWIN SHOE "QUALITY KKOW THE TAIBNEBS OP aooDwor shoe prices. OET ACQUAINTED WITH THE OHIO* UMM WE HANDLE Tol'II Appreciate Our PttHaf 8*rrle* Goodwin Shoe Co. 119 HAflTINOg ST. EAST Smith, having got a stand near the door in the crowded compartment, was puffing the pipo of peace and glancing over the Articles in hia Lu* bor paper. "Excuse ' me," said the -New Chum, seated on his left, "but what does that 0. B. U. with the throe alar* meant" "Suppoae you guesa," replied thc owner of the paper, smiling good- nature til.T. "Well, af there wete throe balls instead of three atari, it might mean Our Benevolent Uncle; but it ean't bo that." "Not exactly," was tho answer. It moans a closer relationship than uncle or nephew, or shent por shent. Uow about One Brotherly Unioat" "How about Only Bolshevism Un* limitedt" snapped the man with the Argus. "Why nott" said Smith. "Bolshevism seems to suit the Russians, or they wtfuldnt -tick to it. The principles seem all right. Tho practice would have to be modified to suit Australian conditions. Ordered By ■Us, that's about the hang of it." "What about Order Broken Upf asked tho man With the Age, "No," roplieoVSmith. "Say Order Best Uphold, if you like—the new order in place of the old disorder." "I'm very much afraid," snid the Wowser, "that it means Old Beelzebub Unchained." "Not a bit of it," was the retort. "He's been unchained too long already. It might mean Old Burab- bas Unhorsed, or, sticking to Scrip* ture. it would moan Old Beliefs Unearthed. It also means Old Bunkum Upended, Oligarchy Brought Undor,: Oppression Banished Utterly, Old Blunders Unmade, Old Barriers Uprooted. If our religious brother here wero in the pulpit, he might spout it out as 0 Brethren Unite, or 0 Be Unanimous. The militant translates it as Offciisive Boldly Undertaken; the philosopher as Opportunity Best I'sctl; the practical man says Organization Brings Usefulness. Unfortunately, the matter is Often Badly Understood, but—" "I tell you it's Bolshevism," shouted tho man with the Herald. 'It moans Ono Bloody Upheaval." "No, sir," was the calm reply; 'it means Old Bloodshed Upbraided; it means One Big Uplift, Ono Brotherhood Unbounded, One Band Undaunted; it means Our Brightened Universe." Oh, shut up, Smith!" said a prosaic friend, "and tell the bloke that it means One Big Union. If he can't soe the good o' that, he's a chump, and that's the end of it." "You're both chumps, and worse than chumps," said tho Patriot, excitedly, "You and your mato nre a puir of cursed disloyalists. What flag are you under! Tell me that." '' Auburn!'' said the Porter; " Auburn. Auburn!" And Smith and his friend got out.—Zacchcus 'in Australian Worker. "OR BOW.--A Simple Study in Psychology »» *" f [By Nemesis] j You have, I aa sure, seep' tho abovD phrase before and havo) I am quite as sure, admired its neatness. It is a trim little phrase ar* .lips off the tongue with the celerity and grace usually associated in our minds with fairies and moonlight. There is nothing ponderous or halting about it at all, nothing lingering or hesitating -or ambiguous; on the contrary it is the very antithesis of all these things. And when considered as a literary effort, as a climax, it is simply perfection itself. It slips nimbly through the mind leaving behind iio lingering shadow of a doubt, nor even the faintest controversial trail that the wiliest of lawyers, the ablest doctor of Wile among thom, could in the slightest degree twist or contort into anything else. It is absolutely untwistable and despite its brevity it is the aome of solidity aud subBtanoe in the way of phrases and in this reBpect is tho redemption of things legal for surely to flnd an untwi-table thing in a vast system of twirl and twist is te find an unexpected anchorage in the ocean of legalism to whieh the human mind may attach itself in its despair. It is the one little, real, greon and promising oasis of truth', fixed nnd incontrovertible, in the legal desert where things are not what they seem but more will-e-the-whiaps and mirages.. It is a shining illustration of the value of Uttle wags for it brightens tbe whole vast accumulation of twisted -and mystifying legal terminology as one seam of auriferous rock brightens a while mountain of dull volcanic ash in the eyes of th. mentally-diseased profit-monger. * la its conciseness, comprehensive ness and clearness it stands' out os the climax of perfection in the art of phaseology and cannot be sur- At the Pantages .Toe Jackson, rated one of thc funniest men in vaudeville, will be tho headline attraction of the new bill at Pantages, opening with the matinee performance Monday. He says not u word, relying on his ludicrous make-up and pantomime for his laughs. For the special added feature of the week, Manager Pantages will bring on the GUraine dancers, men and girls, in what is said to be a beautiful dancing spectacle. Bobby Honshaw, "the merry mimic," also is expected to be in the forefront of thc new entertainment. Tho Kialto Quartette are operatic singers de luxe. One of tbo organization also iB said to be a remarkable 'cellist, Oaylord and Herron, "two corking girls," also will obHge with some patter and song* that promise to please. The Sh«ttucks are novelty jugglers | and are said to have a few tricks in their repertoire that havo novor boen seen here before. *w Ont Kit Two Houn Bt. Catharines, Ont—Carponters in this city were refused a wage inerease and tied up building operations. They were out but two houn when the bosses raised ratea frota 09 oents an hour to 70 conts. And lost, but by no means least, it possesses tho saving grace of humor. To the subtle humorist it is a gem of -the first water for its humor is deep, fundamental and spiritual and is not related in any way to the roaring, showy type or to the primitive, rolling-pia-stuffed-with-strinv kind, but to tho true humorist it will remain till the days of ('tbe'millenium a deep and abiding source of gratification and wonder. ; But it has a higher valuo stilly for it will, through the ages lo cou^c,, be used aa a standard for aU philologists by which to measure t'K* Rental state of the men ef our ojgf—an age indeed which will cauaq wjsny sensations in the future man,' sensations of admiration, wonderment, sorrow, pity, surprise, sympathy and contempt oddly intermingled. _ ( Marc especially will it staijd.gs a standard by whieh to guago. she] effects of war upon minds, troiitftS and educated within the limitations', enclosing thc mentality of nmii .uft to the beginning of the twentieth century. Before we proceed further let us take a good look at this wonderful littlo phrnsc and study it in its en-' vironment where it so admirably functions thot is to say with its full context added. Piora section 1000 of the- war time's strangulation act: "And any person being found guilty of thc crime specified in this section of the act will be liable to a term of imprisonment in a dungeon for a period of not less thnn 25 years or not more than 100 yenrs, or to a fine of *10,000 or both.*' There is nn old saying that familiarity breeds contempt, but tins is only a partial truth, for familiarity has too often a more demoralizing reaction on the human mind. Familiarity cannot breed contempt in the logical mind unless it reveals contemptible things; but familiarity cnn nnd docs deaden the qualities of disgust and horror for things essentially disgusting and horrible. The average butcher boy slaughtering his first calf revolts at thc smell of warm, living, blood, and quails beforc thc agony expressed in his victim's eyes, but it is not long before such killing leaves bim cold and unresponsive. Thc first theft, or the first crime of any sort, brings its qualms of conscience but a constant repetition soon inspires nothing savo thc fear of detection. ' In tho piping times of peaee an account of a fatal accidont fills us with horror and sympathy; in times of war we read of the destruction J ef thousands with less disturbance to our feelings. And you can multiply these illustrations for yourselves a hundred-fold without reaching the point of exhaustion. Now you must admit that the most; disgusting, tho most demoralizing the most dehumanizing agency in the whole gamut of human experiences is wnr, and that in spite of the libraries of adulatory Versos which hnve been poured out in attempts at its justification ant}-'glorification; which reveals the sad fact that the highest form of hunafi'ex- pression is not immune front pe de- moralizing effects of folly utiPHin- truth. I '"-I And thc evil effects of war" aW not' confined to its actual participants, but spread through the whplc^na- tion, embracing in their baneful influence even its babes and siietyings; and while these babes are strutting and shouting and quarrel ing m t^eir mimic warfare, do not the hearts of the rulors of the nation, wnaj^ep a long way from the -actual;danger zone of the war, grow hard Hand embittered and while lovo aiid justice weep, impose penalties o^ifceir own countrymen far out of proportion to the offenses they havo committed. I can imago a psychologist of the, distant future taking our little phrase, "or both" as his subject and addressing his audience In terms similar to the following: "Many volumes havd been written on the psychology of war of which happily now tho world is rid; but I do not think that in all those volumes there is anything which cjuito so woll illustrates the brutalizing effect of war on man _ mentality as do these two little words ■or both,' ' I "When w» stufly these nnclont war-measure acts and consider well the offenses, to punish which they wore passed, it is easy to rocognW by their nature that they wore made during the demoralising and brutal* Sizing periods when those wan were in operation. "Perhaps for our purpose it will be best to image the being actually at work on the manuscript of his proposed law. You see a man who has passed the meridian of his life, seated at a table, pon in hand. His faco is hard and stern and his eyes show no trace of any feeling. "He grasps the pen in his wrinkled fingers and writes without any trace of emotion, though that which he writes should put his whole soul in tumult and blind his eye* with fountains of tears. "But he does not realize the ter* rible nature of the words he writes for he is under tho spoil of savage warfare, He docs not weigh carefully in the scales of .fustieo the of- fenae and the punishment one against the other. '' He flings those scales aside and he writes: ''' Twenty yeara imprisonment or a fine of $10,000/ "Now either of theae penalties would be found to be greatly out of proportion to the offense if logically considered, but there is no logie in warfare, whieh is merely de* atruetion, not only to physical things but to the most precious ef all things, tho mind and the moral qualities of man, and tbe being we. are watching in our mind supplies the proof of the truth of my statement for see, he pauses and reads over his proposed penalties again and a smilo, a curious smile full of sinister meaning, spreads over* his face and clutching his pen again he adds those reflecting words—'or both.' I say reflecting words, ray friends, for do they not reflect, even to theso days of ours, across that abyss of thousands of years, the hardened state of that man's mind, from which the atrocities of war, though he had nevor come in actual* contact with thom, bad driven all: senso of justico and all feelings of compassion. Let us -thank Ood, my friends,-that war has ceased and Hie* greatest of all demoralising influences having passed for ever into the I abyss of thc past you and I may develop and grow strong in love and -justice and true knowledge." I- E Australian Labor Confer ence Shows Its Opposition Example of Germany Not to Be Followed By Australia Overrun by Japanese With Consent of Allies—Bad as Under Czar [From the London Daily Herald] Wo have received a letter written by an Englishman in Harbin (Man* chnvia) to a relative in London, from which wo publish tho i following striking passages: 1 Hero in Siberia nnd in all places connected with tho Siberian government it is worse than in the time of tho Czar. People hero are hung and shot simply for saying onc word, and the worst of it is that wc know that they would not hove thc power to do such things if it wcro not foT the help that the Allies give thom. "Ninety per cent, of tho bloodshed in this present civil war in Rus- sifi is 'uue to the interference of the Allies, nnd tho hatred against them is terrible. The Allied governments told thenr nations that tney came to Kussiu to make order in the land. Oh, my God, what an ordor they have made. They have pu tinfo power nnd are helping a governmont that is worso than thc old Cxnr's. With the'consent of the Allies, the Japanese tiyve overrun Siberia, and nre burning the village1; and killing thc people all over tho piuce. The Vob low Terror has beon let loose against the white races in Siberia. Meanwhile the Russian workers here ore not sleeping. Thc old Nihilist terror js being revived, oBmbs are already being thrown right and left, some successful, others not. Large bands of men hnve been formed; some of thorn are oven led by women. They are infesting tho steppes and forests of Siberia and are causing lots of damage by tearing up the railway lines and bridges." Internationalism Tho stock of tho United States Steel Corporation is held by investors in every important industrial section of Europe. Stockholders 'direct industry and share in profits. Men and women in Europe, owning Steel stock, arc able to direct the activities and share in the product of workmen who labor in Pittsburg, Gary, Youngstown and Chicago. On June 30, 1910, according to a report issued by the Steel corporation, tho foreign hold-up of Steel stock were as follows; Country Shares of Com. Stock Holland .'.. 210,025 England '. '. 171,970 Canada .j... 38,886 France 29,910 Austria :. .. 8.488 Belgium Switzerland Germany ..... Spain 2,079 1,529 ,1,036 • 549 Capitalism has internationalized itself. Enemy aliens (Austrians and Germans) held stool stock all through the war. Tho value of that stock increased; thc stock paid dividends. Enomy aliens shared the bonefits of part ownorship in this enterprise. Has any one suggested that the officials of the Steel corporation have- been guilty of "giving aid and comfort to the enemy f" Of course not, among property owners, now can there bs permanent enmityT Capitalism is internationalized. Its object Is proflt; its symbol is yellow—gold. Some day workors will be internationalized. Tbelr object wiU 'be a greator abundance and fullness of red—tho blood-bond of fraternity and comradeship among all members of the human raee. Boise Wages 85 For Oent Cincinnati.—A, 10 per oent, la- ereaso has been secured by Garment Workers' union No. 99. A few months ago rates irero advanced 15 por cent. The Australian Labor conference, which took place-in Sydney during June, had a noteworthy decision as regards Australian compulsory clauses of the Australian Defence Act. As the Labor Party will be protty nearly certain to secure eon-' trol of the government of Australia at the elections next.year, this can be taken to mean that militarism-— as far as compulsion is concerned— has received its death-blow in Australia. . At the conference, delegates wort present from all parts of Australia, bo tbe Conference ean be said to be representative of the whole of the Australian Labor movement. Tbe vote againat the compulsory training clauses in the Defence Act was carried witb only ono dissentient, who favored a motion baving for the purposo tbe total abolition of defence of Australia. Arguments bave been raised by Labor's opponents in Australia that the compulsory clauses are necessary in order that Australia will be in a position to defend itself in time of foreign aggression. It has boon stated that unless there is somo form of compulsion for home defence, outside nations would be ablo te eome in and virtually take possession of Australia, But, as delegates pointed out at tbe conference, nobody talked about any foreign power stealing the country beforo the late war, and if it was safe enough to trust to the volunteer syBtem in the old days, it was safe enough to trust to it now. Further, it was pointed wt tbat if tbere was any real danger, and if Australian manhood would need no second bidding,' if it was a question of defending tbeir homes and possessions, and not an ordinary capitalistic war. Conferenco took the attitudo tbat with the return of military officers, who lived by militarism, to Australia aftor tho. war, there would. be a great and real -danger in allow*. ing them te exercise authority over the defence of the country were it compulsoiy. Tbe delegates bad be-1 fore them the example of German/, which started its military machine by an iu-nocont form of compulsory citi-on defence initiated over a hun- £1 yoars ngo by Scharnhorst. It thought that adequate and per* _ s botter protection could be secured by arranging treaties witb tho workers -of other lands and spreading the gospel of opposition to all wars. The power used by tbe militarists oven in Australia, was of a character that it eould not be tolerated any longer ,and would bave to be dealt with once and for all time. Thc action of the Australian Labor Party is to bo commended. Tho war has deepened in them the detestation of militarism, and they are at last realizing that there is always in the hands of the working class the economic weapon with which a united and enlightened and determined confederation of Labor could paralyze its enemies. The war has demonstrated on a collossal scale the danger of militarizing a nation, and the Australian Labor conference has performed a wise and courageous act by stripping the Defence Act of Australia of its compulsory clauses. Tlie decision of tho Australian Labor Party, as above stat#d, signs tho death knell to the permanent continuance of Australian compulsory training. The vote is remarkable as a concrete instance of the rapid change of thought in the ranks of Australia in regard to its previous blind fnith in compulsory militarism, whereby to render Australia "safe for democracy." The unhindered operation of the military machine during the course of the war has opened the oyes of the workers of Australia as to what the cult of militarism really is. In the exhaustive debates at the Labor conference, delegates clearly showed that tbey had learned the lessons of the end of militarism, and were determined -to remove tho stain of a camouflaged system of conscription from the platform and principles of Australian Labor. Thus an unbroken chain of anti- militarism has beon welded around Australia. Despite the consistent and desperate opposition of a large numbor of parliamentarians in every state in Australia to retain tho system of compulsory militarism as part of labor's "reforms," tho persistence and determination of what may be termed thc anti-militarists in tho Australian labor movement have at last prevailed. For a number of years a small, enthusiastic branch of anti-militarists in the labor movemont of Australia have tried in vain to induce the labor party to officially -ban- don its veiled conscription policy for Australian defense, but to Uttle purpose, .The bogey or, menace—according to the; point fit .view—of Japanese or other, invasion .was invariably used, and used successfully, to defeat .the desires of the. anti-militarist section and to blind the workers to the greater menace of militarising a .democracy.. At former Australian labor conferences this was easily the hardest fought debate, and almost invariably the greatest opposition to tbe abolition of the compulsory clauses of tbe Defense Act came from labor politicians themselves. However, this: conflict on the question of compulsory military training, has at last been won by tbe anti-militarists Those wbo, from the very.inception; of compulsory .military training in Australia, despite the fact that it bore the hall-mark of labor, never hesitated to denounce that principle as one incompatible with truo la-: borism—thoso stalwarts are today to bo congratulated on at last achieving success, to be thus able to see tbo results of tbeir years of labor in tbe cause'of anti-militarism triumph. Th-e labor movement in Australia may also be congratulated for having leaned wisdom at last on this ODDMENT SALE Aa etitttoto—iay tactile* Otouun of »U our odd llnet—a tm tt b-u-j-Uns _> LadlM' Gtnn.i-.ts, the Uk* of trUck you selloB tnd. 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Australian labor did a very wise act when, at its recent conference, it decided upon tho extirpation of evory element of militarjr compulsion from its measures of defense. Atk Higher W*_ea Serantoi, Pa. — Anthracite mine workers in this district have asked that their new agreemont raise wages 60 per cent. Othor demands include a -Ave and one-half day's work por; week and a six-hour day. lho present agreemont expires in March, next year. — , la an address tt the convention, President Kennedy of adjoining district No. 7, declared that mine workers should have the shortest work day that the largest wages of any craft in (he country. In referring to the charge that high wages aro responsible for present sou ooats bn stated that thc eoat of transporting coal from Scraaton to Now Tork or Philadelphia is greater than the cost of producing tho coat and loading it on oars for shipment. 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THE SUMMERTIME IS NO TIME FOR Home-Baking IT'S TIME TO CALL THE BAKER Food Lions* I*, MM tho daily press were giving us sen* sational accounts of thc "rebellion" ia Egypt, but were ominously quiet as to any cause for the outbreak. In London "Labor Leader" Dr. L. Haden Quest, M.C., L.C.C., seta out some facts whieh throw much light on what has occurred in the land of the Pharaohs. Of tho many failures of tho executive government of this eountry during the war Egypt is one of tho wont. The wholo Eutern question has been mismanaged. India wai treated with contempt in the early days, and her sons refused cither commissions or thc right to servo along with other Britiah .objects. Then there was Ihe terrible disaster of thc operations in Mesopotamia, conducted by the government of India; the almost equally bad disaster of Oallipoli; and then tho chronic disaster of thc maltreatment of the Egyptian), with its result—tho present rebellion. Tho blight of incompetent officialism is on the East, and it seems worse in Egypt than in India. The executive government might have saved the situation had they wished, but now, when thoy have failed, labor must tako up the responsibility and help those who aro too weak to help themselves. Tho Oause of tho Bevolt Thc facts are briefly these: On Decembor 18, 1914, Egypt was formally declared a British protectorate, and wc became entirely responsible for its government and administration. Wc doclared Hussein Kamil to be sultan (no longer Khedive), and he has since been succeeded by thc Saltan Found, who iB reigning at the present moment. But thc sultu.ii of Egypt only takes important action on tho advice of the high commissioner representing H.M. the King. Sir Kcginakl Wingnto was appointed to this ofllce on January 1, 1917, but is now in England, and all power at thc moment is in tho hands of General Allonby, who is virtually dictator. During the war Egypt has been under exceedingly severe military restrictions, amounting, to a very large measure of martial law, and governed on the civil sido by the flats of the high commissioner and on thc military by thc orders of the general officer in command of the force in Egypt. The high commissioner receives orders - from thc foreign olllce and thc O.O.C., from the war office. Tho home government, therefore, is directly responsible for the executive acts of tho civil and military sides of tho Egyptian government. When it became necessary during the war to raiso a large body of men for transport duties, road-making, and other work on thc lines of communication of the army in Egypt reeourso was naturally had to the men on the spot, the Egyptian Fellaheen. Tho Egyptian Fellah, or peasant, of whom there arc about 11,000,000 in all Egypt, is a simple, laborious, almost entirely Illiterate man. Tho vast number of theso people aro Mohammedans, and they live in tho lit- tho villages of mud-hovels and in tho small towns and largo towns of Egypt ail along the course of the Nile. Their living depends on thcir daily work in their fields; they aro intensely conservative .and home-loving. So big a factor Ib this in their character that there arc practically no Egyptian sailors, the voyage even to Greece taking them too long away from their homes. Thcir physical and mental character seems much tho samo now as 2000 years ago. Besides tho Fellaheen there aro about 1,000,000 other people in Egypt, in- eluding all thc Europeans, and this 1,000,000, who correspond roughly to the educated and propertied classes, includo the small group of educated non-European Egyptians, who are "nationalists." To tho peasantry our civil and military administrators turned for help when men were needed, and devised a plnn of "voluntary" enlistment in tho Labor Corps, Donkey Transport Corps, or Camel Transport Corps, for service with the E.E.F. Forced Labor for tho Fellaheen The period of enlistment was to bo for six months (as a rule), tho rate of pay good from tho peasant standpoint, and food, clothing, blankets, and tcntage were also to bo j provided. A certain number of men enlisted readily enough. Then thero came a pause and men were Btlll required. Orders were then sent around to stimulate recruiting, and eventually a press-gang method was established. A friend described to mo how it was done. A party of "recruiters" would g* up to one of tho little mud villages (many look liko big ant-hills) and wait for disk when the Fellaheen would return from the fields. When they returned they wert "rounded up" liko cattlo and tho suitable oaes picked out and anHeted. If they refused to "volunteer" they wero lashed with the Egyptian shortbide whip until they changed thoir* minds. There wore boys of 14 taken and men of 70 er evon over. The medical examination, if any, was a farce, and mea gravely ill were sont to do military duties. Once the men were enlisted discipline wae maintained by the free use of the lash, and whippings were so common that a nodical officer told off to oversee the administration of the punishment arranged to have his "sick parade" and his "whipping parade" at the aame time the whipping parade being qaite near to his teat whore he saw the siek, so tkat he staid ovetkok both functions (with a little agility) at the same time. "T_y Mad I—t Filet" The men received ttelr pay regularly, I nadcrstand, hat ration* -mr* often deficient, and clothing, Man- hots aad tentage very t*ton Set- cleat. In th* winter of WITH Egyptians died Me Mea as tke re- ssK et qjidsahi *f typhis <*ve* Russia's Great "Sin" Qiaat food. Thc medical arrangement* for the men were entirely inadequate, and the sickness rate and death rat? would prove interesting, if grin reading, ii they could be obtained. Egyptians were treated ao brutally in their own unite thftt they were afraid to report sick, and those die- charged aB permanently unfit on medical grounds were not exempt from being recruited again by tho next prcBsgang party which came to thcir village. Very frequently indeed also men were kept beyond tbe stipulated time of their contract service, and our word as Britons broke*. Iu addition to these raids on the homes of tko Fellaheen for men we also requisitioned nearly the whole of their donkeys and their eamcts— at any rate, all the good ones. Of course, these animals were paid for, but the peasant cultivator could not make a few piastres do the work of a four-footed assistant. Also wo bought up much food, and directly and indirectly, as a result of the presence of large bodies of troops in Egypt, the cost' of living wont up tremendously without a corresponding rise in wages. Before November last tbo Egyptian papers even—which are censored ns to practically every word by a semi-military official-—wero* reporting riots around food stores and shops, where half-a-dozen people were killed. In Alexandria practically all the poorer classes were underfed—Egyptian and European llikc. Is it very remarkable, therefore, that wo wero hated and detested in Ef,rvpt, and that it was currently said that all Egyptians were pro-Gcrinanf Wbat I have said hitherto is tbe economic social foundation of the 1' trouble.'' But this has not contented our imperialists. Wo havo conquered Mesopotamia, Palestine, Syria and Turkey—and been studiously mysterious and vague about what wc are going to do wilh these countries. Are we going to turn the Arabs outt That is a questions which Egyptians of tho highest standing could not get answered when they asked it of those in power. How, then, should the Arab in his village get an answer f And the rumor ran from village to village, from camp to camp, of soim vaguo disaster overhanging the Artffi Moslem world from the infidel Fran*; worM. Is it nny wonder wo light^tl up religious fanaticism against usf In tho Enst "nationality" Ao% not exist us it docs in the West, nKtt its place is taken in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and adjoining nountrleft by thc sentiment of religion. Men feci themselvoir onc ns Mohammedans. Egyptian nationalism ia thus only thc local expression of nia. Eastern Mohammedan religious feeling—and the moro dangerous ttiv that reason. Labor Must Aet The whole of tho near East is in a dangerous ferment, Wo have treated the Egyptians with gross injW iee; wo have not cared for their elementary human needs as it wns our bounden duty to do; we have stirred up Mohammedan religious feeling against us; we are now playing the fatuous game of "high politics" the destinies of races and continents as though thoy wero card counters. Let labor insist on tho immediate despatch to Egypt of a small commission armed with full powors to examine witnesses, report, and act with the same rapidity as the Coal commission has done. And let labor insist oh having half tho members of that commission its own nominees, of which a proportion, shall be Egyptians nominated by thc labor members after arrival in Egypt and consultation with tho Egyptians there. We cannot and do not trust the foreign office. We must have an open commission and a commonsense and humane settlement. Not machine-guns but reason and humanity arc needed. The Egyptians are men as we are men, and enjoy nnd suffer as we enjoy and suffer. They are weak and unorganized; many, nay, most, are illiterate and unlearned in ways of governments and roles of diplomacy—let us then of the brotherhood of labor, take these younger brothers undor our protection and say to the government: "Give these men justico and reparation for wrong. They are our brothers, and wo fight for tbem as we fight for ourselves.'* TRADITION In raiment perfumed and costly, I reel i no Upon silken cushiona and throne of royal hue; While my vassals and my aubjects fr<-.it every clime, Come forward and with bendpd kneo their homage do. ■■_"- Tfcea with lowered eyci and reve*- tial mien , . And profound obeisance, from fay. royal presence they retire Sueh Is the devout affection, paid to I, their king—their creed.. , For am I not of higher rank, omnipotent, supreme indeed! „ Alas I were I but free to voioe fty thoughts and fears \ And do as other mortals do, what bliss, what csstacy But such is not for I—just pomp ind cheers—and tears * . Ob God! this mockery, this hide- onsness—depravity It drives me mad. My daughttJnf Yes, I am a father, too. "* f Just pawns of state tkey are, just slaves of-caste. I love tbem, ohl so dearly, but they, the samo as I Are bound by odious "tradition," e'en until they die. t. r. m. Another Charttr Oent District 16, United Mine Workers of America, has bad the A. T. ot L. charter taken away by the International officers. About 8000 miners in British Colombia and Alberta are affected by this aetion, whieh Is supposed te be om account ef the endorsation of the O. B. U. It would appear that the A. F. of L. oficials were trying to impose the same kiad of a dictatorship thai tkey hav* te long iriticiMd tv Why have tbe Bolsheviks incurred1' the undying hate of the capitalistic nations of the world f Why are the BusBran revolutionaries attacked so bitterly and so malignantly f The rcftl reasons aro set out in the following article in the London "Herald" by Mr. F. Seymour Cocks. Directly the second, or "Bolshovik," revolution took place, the BU- sheviks ("Bolshevik" is only the Russian word for "majority") wero bitterly attacked in the capitalist press of Britain and her Allies. Wildly waving thoir gold-tipped fountain pens, newspaper editors and proprietors directed a furious barrage of abuse and calumny upon the devoted heads of Lenin and Trotsky, a form of attack whicb they seem —strangely enough—to havo survived. Why were the Russian revolutionaries attacked so bitterly and so malignantly f Wc haven't far to look for a reason. In fact, it wasn't a question of one reason, but of threo. The Bolsheviks took three important steps by which they incurred the undying hate of thftfc powerful classes of people. The First Bin They published tbe secret treaties, This enraged all tho Allied governments and all the Allied diplomats. It showed thom up in the eyes of their own peoplos. It exposed in all their indecency the imperialistic plans of conquest thoy had. drawn up without tbo knowledge or consent of parliament or of senate. It discovered the fact that whilst on tho public platform Allied, statesmen were making broad thcir phylacteries and proclaiming to the world the high moral character of thcir intentions, all the time in secret and in darkness they were consenting to annexationist designs which had never been sanctioned by the people who wcro making the sacrifices, It mado bare tho wholo black business of secret diplomacy. The diplomats and tho foreign offices and ihe cabinet ministers (with all their toadies and flatterers and hangers-on) will never forgive tho Russian government for this. Tlie Second Sin They nationalized tho land, thc ^jmneB, tho forests, tbe banks, aod the industries of Russia, This enraged all the capitalists aim mineowners'und concessionaries, who naturally desired to exploit to their own advantage thc inexhaustible riches Of Russia. In the TimcB df November 20, 11)17, we read the isnd and terrible news thnt tho Russian government had decreed thc fi- thai solution of the land quostion. 'f'This decree," says the Times Pot- Tograd correspondent, '' which -threatens to inaugurate civil war in tho rural districts, declares all private ownership of land to bc annull* cd without compensation to tho own ers. The Innd is to bo nationalized, and handed over to the cultivators. . . . All mines—coal, petrol, salt, etc.—forests and waterways possessing national importance arc to. pass into tho possession of thc state.'' How nbominablel The land to go to tho cultivatorsl The people who cultivated the land actually to possess it! Sacrilege! Infamy! A long wail' went up from the dukes. And, perhaps, and awful though possessed some members of thc coalition. "It's that Lloyd Georgo who started this in 1909," we can hear tbem whispering. "He's all right now, it's true, but he so^-cd tho seed " Then, all the mines were to belong to the state! Thero was consternation in tho city. '"If the mines pass into possession of tho state, whero will the company promoters be!" And whnt about the gigantic profits wo expect to mnke out of tho fabulous wealth of Russia!" "Tho Bolsheviks must bo madmen. Let's stamp them out." Moreover, "factory control by the workers" hnd been established, so it is not surprising to read in the Times twelve months ago that "many old-established British industrial enterprises here havo been liquidated or sold, as it is quite impossible to put up with thc ignorant control nnd exorbitant demnnds of tho Russian woritmen." The capitalists and the concessionaries and thc mineowners and thc exploiters will never forgive the Bus- an government for these measures of practical Socialism. And the Third They abolished the national debt. This naturally enraged the^plders of Russian bonds—and there were a great many peoplo who had invested iu these securities, especially in France. It is true that the action of the Russian government, as the Manchester Guardian pointed out at the time, was, for a government which had already abolished large property in land and other forms of private ownership,, "more or less content," It is also truo that much of this debt represented money lent, not to the Russian people, but to a corrupt and tyrannical Tsardom, and that, indeed, some of thc capital thus subscribed had been used by the autocracy to shoot down the Russian workers in 1905. Nevertheless, in the opinion of the bondholders and their friends (nnd, of course, we must all agree!) this action placed Russia right outside "tho bounds of civilization." Some little hope, however, still remained: The vast wealth and resources of Russia will be tbere, and available to pay her debts, when the Lenin gang has run tho short length of its tether," said the financial editor of the Daily Mail (December 8, 1917), whilst a littlo later the Japanese ambassador is reported (Daily Express, December 24, 1917) to have made the threat that "Japan would hold the Maximalist government responsible if Japanese capital in Russia were endangered, and would reserve tho right to intervene, if necessary; while, if forced to do so, she would demand territorial -compensation. At any rate, we can assume that the bondholders and international financiers will never forgive the Russian government for thia The reason for Allied intervention im Bussia thus beeamo pretty clear. AlHse Encourage Civil War The events whieh followed the establishment of the Socialist republic in Bussia are too numerous and complex to be detailed here. Their narration would All a book, which has yet to be written. Late in 1917 we came across the interesting item that "large numbers of the well-to- do classes (of Russia) are migrating to Archangel." An early straw! And from the time when Socialism was first put iu active operation in Russia -down to tho present moment fhe efforts, of the capitalist classes and tho capitalist press of western Europe have been directed to encouraging every movement.™ Russia—middlo class capitalistic, reactionary, royalist, militarist or Nationalist-' which might embarrass the central govornment and destroy the Socialist state. Sometimes it was General Korniloff who was thus favored, sometimes General Kaledin, sometimes Genoral Alexicff, sometimes Admiral Koltchak—sometimes it was tho CoBsacks, sometimes the Ukrains, sometimes the Finns. Any stick was good enough to beat Lenin with —although alas and alack! some of tho sticks broke in tho process and others left many a muddy stain upon thc hands of those who used them. And how the sea of carnage and misery haa been extended and. deepened by this support of civil war and internecine strife! . Two Bad Shots Two very bad shots were made by the Allies in this connection. Tho Ukraine is a very rich part of Russia. It is thc region of thc famous "black earth" upon which great crops of corn are grown. It contains thc cities of Kieff nnd Odessa. And it was hoped that by withholding the corn und coal of the Ukraine and Southern Russia from Petrograd thc Bolsheviks would be starved and frozen into surrender. Thero were two parties in the Ukraine. Thero were the Bolsheviks, who had established a Soviet and there were tho rich and thc middle classes, who had set up a Rada or old-fashioned parliament. The French government supported the loiter; thoy actually lent the Rada 7,000,000 pounds. Immediately it had secured this money thc middle-class government of tho Ukraine mado a deal with Germany signed a soparate peace, and, .by thus weakening Trotsky 'a hand at Brest- Litovsk, helped to force the Russian government to consent to that humiliating peace. (It must be notod that it was the custom in this country to describe tho Bolsheviks as "German agents" at tho very moment when they were appealing to tho German and Austrian Sociailists to revolt against their governments, inciting thc subject-raees of Austria- Hungary to rebellion, pouring revolutionary literature across the frontiers of the central powers, and using language about the German militarists which would make the most ardent Hang-t he-Kaiser advocate wince. To givo two mild examples, they described the German militarists as "military millionaires transmitting the (ears of thcir people into pearls for their wives," and characterized Chancellor von Hortling as "a hypocritical, impotent old Jesuit.") By giving financial aid to the Ukraine Radn tho Allies had made an extremely bad shot. They made another bad shot in Finland. The mid. die-class government of Finland doclared for separation from Russia. Its independence was recognized by France. Instantly thc Finnish government entered into an alliance with Germany and secured thc nssistanco of German troops to slaughter thc Red Guards and to down the Bolshevik movoment in Finland in nn ocean of terror and blood. A UNION STORB Let Us Help You mbn'■ mm $35 up to pay leu tnd drew better. That'* our business. Aad it's yonr business to get the most for your monoy. B. C. SUITS for men snd women epitomise all that is best and most worthy in custom-made clothing—merit in every material, style in every stitch. STYLE AND FIT OUAKABTBID "ECONOMIC MEN" Form Big Ship Combine Philadelphia. — It ia statod that Cramps' ship yard and other concerns are to bo merged into a gigantic ship building nnd ocean navigation corporation, tho stock of which is to bo sold for -^00,000,000. Firms in New York, Clcvolnnd, Gloucester, N. J., and Wilmington, Del., may bo included in thc big combine. The Great West Produce and Grocery Company 1126 Granville St Phone Sey. 3695 We have all kinds of fresh groceries, fruits and vegetables. Prompt Delivery Political economists of tho last century were fond of postulating tn argumentative abstraction known as tko "economic man," a creature, that ia, in form human, but devoid of every human motive or impulse save that of greed aloae. But it waa never supposed that this fearful eon* ccption existed otherwise than aa t figment of the scientific fancy. For some months, certain gentlemen in the United States who have financial interests in Mexico, and who own or control nowspapers and other agencies of publicity, have engaged in a systematic attempt to provoke war between the two countries with a view to adding to thcir already fabulous private fortunos through the annexation of thc south* em republic. To this end thoy subsidized tho reeent Villa insurgency I which, through the prompt aetion of American army officers ended in ft* aaco- That having failed, they ue now endeavoring to cducato tho public to a policy of intervention by blazoning in crashing headlines every mishap which ii rumored to have befallen an American south of the Bio Grande in the laat ten years, and by absurd dispatcher from Washington so worded as to lead tho unwary reader to bcliovo that tho govornment is contemplating hostile uction toward Mexico. A congressman introduces a resolution—resolutions aro introduced by tho ton at every session of congress—and at once tho headlines scream. The routine cabinot meeting is held, and high officials arc snid to have indicated" that matters of moment wero considered, "perhaps pertaining to the Mexican crisis." This propaganda is shallow and silly, and calculated to -deceive only very stupid people, but the persistence with which it is prosecuted is ominous. These interested gentlemen are, presumably, normal human beings. They nro kind fathers, good neighbors, loyal friends. They would not willingly cause pain or hardship to those about them. They would not strike a cripple in tho face, or kick a sick dog. Yet the thought of exploiting Mexico for thoir own profit works in them a dreadful change. War between Mexico and tho United Stntes menns that tens of thousands of American boys will form in line, confronting tens of thousands of Mexican boys; that thc two lines will come together in the shock of battle; thnt young bodios will bc gashed, entrails ripped out, limbs torn apart; and thnt thousands of souls will go out through bitterest anguish into the night it death. Normal human beings wouM tint from such a spoetaele ia sickening horror. But not to tho feterattod gentlemen. To thea it preantt aa entrancing proepect. They lut foi it with t qoenehleaa tnd awful passion. In the pnrtntt of profit tktj havo tented to know sham* ot bum- or, pity or fetr. Thty have beoomt "economic men." —air. In the New Justice. Beports of municipal elections ia New Zetland indicate numerous Labor Party victories. In Wellington, eight Ltbor Ptrty candidates won successful, in Christchureh six others won out and in Auckland 17 Labor members were elected to the Board of Education. Tho Labor Party ia New Zealand it preparing for ltt national campaign. Don't forget OUB advertiser.. SOAP Um Royal Crown Soap And Savo tbo Coupon* nen,: Stinttat ttat THE NIKKO ntroB-naa or mfabbsb in oamrrAL silks aiid cottob OOODS BIO. liM OrauMUt St., Vaaewnr. •- O. COWAN A BHOOKHOHSE PBINTSBS, PUBLICUM., SIB* j BEOTTFEBS AND BOOBX-NDBBS Union OBelill, write fsr prices, flre SATISFACTION Wt THE EMPIRE CAFE 76 Hastings St E. Vancouver's Best Where-shallwego? Let's go to the Empire, the most delightful cafe in town. B. C. Federationist Daily Paper Fund HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT A FREE PRESS? Do You Want It Enough to Assist in Paying for It? Cut out the above conpon and mail the amount you wish to contribute to tht fund for the purpose of establishing a daily paper far B. C. Be* et-ifti will kt acknowledged frea Una to tuna ia Ska Fcdtratiouit. PAGE FOUR 18. C. FEDERATIONIST P_Wi»hed every Friday morning by The B. C. Fedorationist, Limited V & WBLLS... ...Managor Offico: Labor -Temple, 405 Dunsmuir Street. Telephone Exchange, Seymour 7495 After 6 p.m., Sey. 7497K Subscription Bates: United States and Foreign, $2.00 per year; Canada, $1.50 per year; in Vancouver City, #2.00 per year; to Unions subscribing in a body, $1.25 per member per year. Unity of Labor: Tht Hope af the World 1BIDAY... ..August 8, 191* DUE TO A LACK of understanding of the international character of capitalism, there is an element in the working class ranks of Canada, that wonld eeaae to use the ballot, and devote their efforts in the ona channel by OOMMON mass aetion. This ele* SENSE IS ment also seems, if thcir HEEDED. actions denote anything —to be of the opinion that the workers in this eountry can bring about a change in the form of society on* der whieh tre lira. They also have the Mea, that by an industrial organization alone, they can accomplish the final object of the workers. This element is dangerous to the working class movement of this country. It is dangerous because it does not understand the capitalistic system, and unless checked, may do muoh to cause bloodshed and suffering in thc ranks of the workera. The Federationist has repeatedly pointed out that Canada in the acheme of things, amounts to but little, and while it is necessary that the workers of this land shall become alive to the class nature of society, and understand the class lines of demarcation, it is folly for them to think that they can lead. With a working class that is educated to an industrial environment auch as the largest industrial centres in the world, thc actual industrial conditions in Canada are but similar to the more undeveloped countries. In this there is danger. • • • The workers of this country must resist by sll means the further encroachments of capital. They must attack, wherever possible, and by whatever means at their command. It would be folly for them to refrain from taking part in elections, either Provincial, Dominion or municipal, and perhaps the municipal is of greatest moment than ia even thc Provincial political field. Industrial organisation must be continued. It is essential under the competitive system, and it must also be realized that if industrial organizations arc necessary, so also are any activities that will aid this industrial organization, . » ♦ The workers of Winnipeg realized just wbat tha municipal government may do ia an industrial struggle, and particular, ly when the movement took on a political aspect, aa did tho general strike. When all ii said and done, it is the municipal Eiwers that arc the ones that enforce the wa in the cities, which are enacted by the Dominion government. The powers of suppression, and for proclaiming martial law, rest with the civic authorities, And it is necessary that the workers ihould have some say in affairs of this kind. • • • It may be said that this kind of action il compromise. What is any action under capitalism but compromise, outside of a deliberate attack on the system with the idea of overthrowing it. What is industrial action but a compromise, and what aetion oan the workers take that is not compromise, until they finally take the steps to change the system. It is true that electing municipal councillors will not bring the system to an end. It is true that if we elected every member of the Dominion, Provincial and Municipal bodies, that until the workers of the rest of the world reach that point where they are prepared to overthrow capitalism, or it breaks down, of its own volition, that the men so elected could only carry oh the present system. This has been the experience of the working class parties that have been elected t» power in any country in the world, and to that extent they have compromised. Now as to the industrial organization. How can this function? It can function as a means whereby thc workers can secure thc best possible conditions under which to sell their labor power, and it can at the same time Ve used to secure political privileges from he ruling class that they do not now pos- icss, but mainly ia preventing any further sneroahements of capital. But the workars in their industrial efforts, without any aay in the administration ef the laws, are faced with thc very laws that they would refuse to have any hand in either enacting * administering, if they will not take •art in the legislative'bodies of the country. The workers of Winnipeg, of necessity, have realized this, and today they •re waging a campaign for political repre- lantatkm on all representative bodies, fhey have realized that industrial action lor political purposes can bc hampered, by thc lack of representation on legislative bodies, and can be assisted by such representation. This may be compromise, but it is common sense, so-called direct aetionists notwithstanding. « « * The onc thing that the workers of this eountry must realize, is that to be revolutionary does not mean that the workers kave to be crazy. They must use tlieir brains or be placed up against the ma- abiiH! guns of the ruling class. Capitalism is international, and it is more than folly for the workers to attempt to bring about a change in this country before the change is made in Europe, but it is necessary that the workers in Canada be educated so that when, as it will, capital-' Sua is given its knockout in Europe, the BaB-trrctx teab. So. n THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST tahcoutbb, b. «. I_DAT„ transition period in thia eountry may be as easy as possible. Canada iu the nature of things cannot move before the international working class is prepared to accomplish thc mission of that class. The workers of this country must mark time, must see to it that tbey are acting in accord with the development of the system. Act they must in accord with the nature of society under which we live, which as already stated, is international capitalism, and not in accord with any anarchic ideas of industrial aetionists, who in their ignorance, do not realize thc very nature of the system which they wish to tear down. It may be that in the final stages of the class struggle, the workers will have to resort to mass action; iu fact the very reactionary and repressive measures of the ruling class would lead us to believe this to be inevitable, but this country is not thc place for the starting of any such move. The workera of Canada must use every and any means to maintain their standard of living, and await world developments, btherwise they are laying up trouble for themselves that they will not relish. HARDLY A DAILY paper appears these days without some reference to the necessity of increased production. Greater production is heralded as being the only means of decreasing the high cost of living, ami IT IS labor unrest. Naturally HARDLY this is good propaganda CONSISTENT, to hand out to thc workers. It may distract their attention from the real cause of all their troubles, and at the same time spur them on to greater efforts for thcir masters. We have always been of thc opinion, that it was not greater production that was needed, but a change in the ownership of the means of wealth production that wai necessary to briug about relief for the workers. This opinion is proven by the employing class itself, as the members of that class does not believe in greater production; they only believe in sufficient production of commodities to keep the market supplied, and no more or prices may fall. With respect to the workers, they do not care how many there are on the market; the greater the number the better, aa the more there are to the one job, the cheaper they become. Mr. John Hilton, of the Garton Foundation, prepared a report on trade organizations and combinations in the tTnitcd Kingdom, based upon the evidence given and documents laid before the committee on trusts, for the Dominion Government. In this report, he says, dealing with associations regulating output—and these arc employers' associations—not workers' organizations. A more advanced type of association is that undertaking the regulation of output, or, as it is usually expressed, "prevention of over-production." The problem of output regulation is one of great difficulty, and considerable ingenuity has been applied to its solution. Any project for fixing in advance what the output of a given industry-shall be, requires in the first place for its success that the whole of the firms in the industry shall be in the association, otherwise whenever, through miscalculation -or de- mgn, the supply was short of thc market demands, business would flow to the non- associated firms." The workers have been accused of restricting output. They have been accused of laying down on the job, but it must be noticed, that the employers have difficulties to face, as for instance in the inference contained in the report, that they design to keep the market understocked. This is an admission that the employing class wilfully lays down on the job, or tries to, and restricts output. If that ia so, why all the cry for increased production on the part of the workers, ♦ « * The fact of the matter is, the employers would like to see the workers speeding up; not so that there would be any more on the markets—heavens knows they are usually overstocked in spite of the employing class restrictions, but so that they can compete with one another on a more profitable basis. The present system is based on competition, aud the robbery of the workers at tho point of production, thc need of the employers of every country is cheaper slaves in order that thoy can beat their competitors in the-world's markets, and the greater productivity of the worker, the better it is for the employers. But as thc employing class in every country is telling its particular brand of worker, whether they be white, black or yellow, that greater production is necessary, the competition still continues, and the mad scramble for a place in the sun goes oa. Iu thc meantime, thc workers are getting poorer and poorer. They are more and more impoverished, and the sooner they realize that only by a change in the ownership of the means of wealth production, can they hope to achieve industrial aud political liberty, the better it will be for them. Grenter productivity under the co-operative commonwealth, will mean greater consumption, greater case, and all the things that go to make life worth living; greater productivity today means greater profits and luxury for the employing class, and greater misery for thc workers. Let the employers follow their own advice for a while. They will see that it will lead them to the end of thcir control of industry. GREAT BRITAIN n now in the throes of many labor disputes. Naturally, there must be a cause for it, and as usual the ruling class has to turn to some other country to find the cause. As in Canada, after all the sacrifices MORE the workers made in BOLSHEVIKI thc war, the labor men MONET in tho old land aro be ing accused of receiving money from German or Russian sourees. Will the ruling class never realize that the cause of the labor unrest it the rotten system under whieh we are living, and that the workers are no more inclined to lemporarise with the ruling class of Germany, than they arc with their own rulers. As to them receiving money from Russia, have we not J»|i told that the money in circulation injjiat country is worthless, but if the workeri did receive money from their comrail#i in Russia, would there be any more to that than the ruling class of Oreat Britain receiving money from the rfllinj? class of any other country? In the meantime we are of thc opinion that.. the Russian workers have all they can handle in fighting the Allied intervention*Mh thcir own land, without financing the workers of the rest of the world. Surely there must bc some limit to the Bolsheviki money. America is flooded with it, so was Canada. Germany received a fair share, we have been told, and now it is Great Britain. It is not money that is being circulated, but it is knowledge of their position in society that is causing the workers to protest, and as that knowledge continues to grow, so will the discontent, until the workers end their own misery by taking over the means of wealth production, and operating them in thcir own interests. IN THK PRESS reports of the evidence given at the preliminary hearing of the Labor men in Winnipeg, the following appeared since our last issue: Sergeant Waugh theu gave a short history of the 0. B. U. WELL. which had ita concep- WHAT tion at a mine work- ABOUT IT. ers' conference. These were chiefly Russians and Austrians, led by British, Scotch, Irish and Italians, he said. Among exhibits filed, identified by the witness as having been seized in thc offices of Kdwai*d Brown, was a letter from Alderman W. B. Simpson, Winnipeg, enclosing a year's subscription for a publication handled by Brown. *'"*.■•* We don't know Sergeant Waugh, buf if as stated in thc press, he gave a short history of the 0. B. U. and in that history recited as to the conception of the idea at a miners' conference. These miners, according to the press reports of Sergeant Waugh's evidence being Russians and Austrians, led by British, Scotch, Irish and Italians. He did not advance much that is not common knowledge. We have always known that Italians were not British, but never before knew that Scotch and Irish people were not British. However, that is not'the point. The fact of the matter is the iji$j of a new form of industrial organization was conceived at a good many meeting! bosides the miners' conference, and I—A ly eliminated in a definite proposal at$ji. Calgary conference, and was suppoffw by both British, Scotch, Irish and Cana dian delegates. But what about it, any way? Is the formation, or discussioit o the formation of the 0. B. U. a crimjftjiil offence? If the authorities have nothitij more than that against the Labor men then surely the whole thing is a farce, sfft far as the press reports are concerMl, the evidence submitted to date against Russell, Johns, Bray and the rest of them is concerned, the prosecution seems to be leaning on a broken reed. In one of thai daily papers this week, two headlines appeared. As a contrast they are illuminating. The first one was: "Rich rewards for men who led British forces to victory in thc war. Beatty and Haig to be made Earls. Each will get a grant of half a million dollars. Viscounty and money for conqueror of Palestine," The other one was: "Great Britain to issue 250 miles of war ribbon to eight million men." Even in the reward of its heroes, the class distinction is displayed by the ruling class, and while personally we have no kick at the generals getting thc money, as it is not ours anyway, and none of the working class business as to how thc ruling class gets rid of its wealth, yet we consider that $2500 is none too much for the humbler heroes, and that a little more to the widows and the disabled would not be out of place. However, as we have already pointed out, it is none of the workers' business as to what is done with thc wealth that is stolen from them at the point of production. The Vancouver World deprecates the lack of cheering on the occasion of the recent "Peace" parades. Will the world tell the people just what there is to cheer about? Thousands of widows cannot find any reason to be enthusiastic about the war even though it is over. Thousands of returned men cannot yet see the democracy Tmey fought for, and in addition tsfthat, while the war is supposed to be over, there are still many of thc nations at war, and the class war still rages. In view of the fact that the people are mostly made up of the working class, and that class provided the soldiers, and act as a result the sufferers from the war can the World tell them what they have to cheer about? Sam Gompers is evidently not having it all his own way at Amsterdam, althougjj he would like to be the big toad in the puddle. While Sam may be a large cog in his well-oiled machine at Washington! when he gets into world affairs and mccti) men that have considerable more know? ledge of the working class position than he has, then Sam gets mad, but it will avail him nothing. He has not got tin) backing oi the big interests ia sueh gatherings, and he will have to eat humble pie, and get the praise of hii masters when he returns home again. Poor Sam, he little knows what posterity will say of his foolish and reactionary antics. If the Communist Manifesto is objectionable literature, and those having this work, written in 1848, in their possession, are liable to prosecution, what will be the punishment for those having copies of Plato's Republic, written 347 B. C, in their possession ? We tremble to think of the punishment that will be meted out to these unfortunate individuals. IRS IT IN Rockefeller Interests Hire Gunmen to Defeat the Workers The little town ot Argo, Illinois, bas been tamed into a shambles by gunmen and sheriffs working for the Com Products Company, a Bock©* felfcr concern. At intervals recently the streets have been swept by rifle flre from the company's stockades. Aj*a result of the flrst sally of the gan men against the strikers, three workors were killed aud more than a score wounded. A returned soldier wu among the dead. Sis men and womon were shot down in a seeond unprovoked attack upon the strikors. This time tho fallen were dragged into the company stockades and gunn planted upon some of them to < make it appear that thoy had been the aggressors. Sheriff Peters of Cook County is hide and hoof on the side of the company. Ho assigned deputy sheriffs to serve with tho company's private police force under Joo Thor- ncy, a professional strikebreaker who had bad experience in shooting down strikers during the coal strike at Ziegler. Thorney and his merry men began shooting at Argo on the evening of July 8, the first day of thc strike. Taking advantage of the disturbance they themselves hnd raised, Sheriff Peters turned his office in the, county building into a recruiting agency for gunmen, offering $7.50 and -board per day as compensation. Thc Rockefeller interests are .pursuing iu Argo thc very same tactics as they erstwhile used in Ludlow, Colorado. 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One haB only to open tho morning paper to read a letter written b an "intellectual" deploring thc great speed, of anarchy, etc., in "civilized" nation;. In thcir clubs and assemblies when tbey discuss these problems of labor unrest ono notices how their mind works in a vicious circlo wherein thoy ean find no solution to these questions which are troubling them. Outside tho circle thoy dare not go ,for fating them would bo tho spectre of Socialism, tho only solution to the barbarism and anarchy of capitalism. Beforo the spectacle of a collapsing oconomic system with itB systems of laws, morals, etc., they are at a Iobs; pessimism is spreading amongst them .and the more superstitious aro adopting the theory of the "last days" as shown by tho statement of a clergyman recently in Johannesburg that this period is the period of probation. As tho class- conscious all over thc world link up for tho last onslaught this "ideao- logy" of unrest is certain to spread amongst the ignorant and superstitious. Amidst all ths intellectual chaos there stands untouched and impregnable the theoretical system of Karl Marx, which alone easts light on the presont period and which is responsible for the great feeling of exultation held by all Marxian Socialists. Thoee profound generalizations of Marx which have mado his name immortal^ the materialistic conception of history, surplus value and olass struggle are finding in the present period of decadence and chaos tlieir supreme vindication. Throughout history Ue once sub* joct classes havo attained oconomic and politieal powor by virtue of their control of forces of production, the uufetterod development of which was necessary for the progress of society, Whenever the free development of these foreeo of production has beea fettered by tho political ond oconomic power of tho ruling daae there hi alwayi resulted the trianph of the claas whioh stood for progress. We saw this io the revolutions of the capitalist class whieh ot that period undoubtedly stood for progress. But progress is constant. The class whieh onee stood for progress gradually is the course of industrial development becomes a fetter on the productive forces and then comes in conflict with that class whoso historic role it is to usher in the new economic system. Production for profit, like a rusty chain en* tangling the whoels of some machine producing articles of use and beauty, stands today a fetter upon tho full development of industry, and a bar to the well boing of the peoples. Should it be allowed to continue, it will produee a series of great convulsions, panics or wars due te the gnat development of machinery, the great increase in the unemployed and the shrinking of the world markets. But that section of society that is oppressed and exploited is aroused and tho death agonies will be considerably shortened, We see in Europe today tho workers, "their feet on tho ashes and the rags, their haade tight to the throats of kings.'' The dilemma laid bolero thoee works* who are not yet sufficiently aroused to ov«rthww capitalism is not "SooiaUsm or Capitalism," but "Socialism or Chaoa" Herman Cahn, the well known Marxist, ia his book "Tho Collapse of Capitalism," which should be in the hands of all revolutionary Socialists, has shown tbe ^inevitability of thc speedy collapse of capitalism, Irrespective of any revolutionary action by the masses. He says: "Fortunately and wonderfully capitalism was born with the germ of a mortal disease (the necessity of commodity money) which has been revealed only in the last fifty years, and the coming of its fatal crisis con be almost measured. Tho progress of tho disense has boen abnormally furthered by the war. Capitalism is moribund, and its end is due within a very few years." This fact does not call for any slackening on the part of Socialists of their propaganda. Bather should it act as an inccntivo to more extensive activity, especially to those sympathizers who have hithor- to stood apart from active participation in our propaganda. "There is a great storm coming," and it will be tho function of the Socialist organizations to show the poople the way out of tho chaos, which is impending, aud the remedy will be as always tho establishment ot a new order on a basis of co-operative industry. Whethor the collapse of capitalism will be forestalled by the establishment of Socialism all over the world depends on the workers of all countries, and is for the future to determine. But these facta are not known te the capitalist class or their intellectual hirelings, whose duty it is to disparage the economics of Marx. The capitalist clasa will fight, not with the ballot or in the workshop, but with aeroplane, gun and bayonet. The situation in Germany shows this quite plainly. This facts calls for an extensive anti-militarist propaganda, with special refcrenco to the returned soldiers, and the organization of the workers into workors' committees in all large towns, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the community when the hour of our release shall strike. And upon these things depends the duration of tho chaos and the extent of any fighting that may take place. These are inspiring timos. Day by day with anxious but joyous hearts we see the progress of our comrades ia Europe. The events in Hungary, the almost bloodless revolution in that country as in Bavaria, etc., justifies the words of tho great revolutionary poet Whitaoat "Thea ta their power, not for all these did the blows strike revenge, Or the beads of the nobles fall; Tho people scorned the ferocity of kings." ■ w In the very midst of tho revolution itself we should turn aside for a momont and give a thought.to those who for endless ages havo fought and died for freedom, to those of the Socialist movement who toiled when aU was dark, when no promise of speedy deliverance could lighten their labors or sustain their hopes. Not only to salute the great heroes of intellect and soul, but the unknown heroes of the rank' and file. Standing as wo do on the threshold of tbe Socialist Commonwealth that their labors have wrought, wo can say to the capitalist class. "Wo want neither yeur crumbs nor yonr condescension; yonr guidance nor yonr glamour, yoar tuition-nor your tradition. 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Gordon Hervey, Lord Brave, Lord Eversley and others concerning British intervention in Bussia: The teat of the manifesto is aa follow!: 1. The preaent intervention in Bussia, oven though it be confined, for the most part, to maintaining the blockade and supplying anna to the opponents of the Bolshovik government, ia of necessity an interference in the internal affairs of tho eountry, and would.have no moaning if it were not. Tho intention is to give'the victory to one of the parties in a oivil war, and ao to determine from without the futuro policy and history of Russia. But such intervention in the internal affairs of the country .has always been repudiated in principle by the governmont. 2. ft is urged that the Bolshevik government represents not thc majority of the peoplo, but a usurping minority. This very likely is true; un.d if it bo true tho governmont wilt fail, sooner or lator, and give place to one moro in accord with genuine popular sentiment. It is a n»w principle in international polioy that governments which are not fully democratic are to bo destroyed by force by external intervention. It is a principle which no British government has over applied in any coun* try, and which, notably, was never npplicd as against tho government of thc Czar, with which, on the contrary, we entered into close and friendly relations, and side by sido with which wo prosecuted the wnr. Koltchak and tho Allies 3. So far as can be ascertained, the intervention of tho Allied gov ernments is having thc effect of rallying to the Bolsheviks all tho parties of tho Left in order to repel whnt is believod to be an attempt to destroy the revolution and put the reaction in power. Thus tho Men* sheviks and tho Social Bovolution arics of the Loft, und oven of the Right, aro now cooperating with tho Bolshoviks, although bitterly opposed to thom as far as internal policy is concerned. On the other hand, it is not deniod that Admiral Koltchak is supported by Monarchists. It is known that ho dispersed by forco that assembly of Social Revolutionaries of tho Right from whom he originally received his power and who represented tho majority in the Constituent Assembly. And his pro- rniso to the Allied governments that he "will do his utmost to fleet promptly - a. democratic assejnbly "gives vory little guarantoo that if he should succeed, by the aid of the Allies, in establishing his power, he would hand over to a genuine As sombly elected without unduo influenco by universal suffrage. Nor would tho Allied governments havo any moans of coercing him if he refused to carry out his undertaking. 4. It is urged that thc Allied governments nro committed in honor to the support of tho parties in Russia which thoy called to power in order lo continuo tho war against Germany. Certainly thoy arc bound to do their best to prevent tho extermination of those parties. But their obligation is not unlimited. It cannot bind them to carry on indefinitely a "kind of wnr" in Russia until that war, through thoir support, should terminate in victory for those they support. Event! seem to show that, wore it not for Allied support, Admiral Koltchak and Genernl Den- Ikin would long ago havo been Anally defeatod. And this fact is not favorable to the Allied contention thnt their friends in Russia really represont the poople of Russia. Blockade and Civil War 5. The continuation of the blockade and of civil war is inflicting terrible suffering on tho Russinn peoplo, anti-Bolsheviks as well.as Bolsheviks, who are dying by thousands of famine and disease, due in great part to tho action of the Allied governments. It is a detail, but a very significant onc, that the Allied government* havo refused to allow the import of niedicincs into a country ravuged by typhus and cholera. To possess and to exercise such power of lifo and death ovor whole peoples throws a vory heavy responsibility on tho nations as well as the governments concerned. And we cannot believe that in this case the end justifies the means. 0. While the Allied governments nre applying extreme measures ia order to support one party in a civil war in Russia thoy are hampering nnd delaying the economic reconstruction not only of Bussia but of this country, and of the world. Where wo might be exporting goods, wo arc exporting arms nnd ammunitions; whore wo might bo receiving useful and urgent commodities such ns timber and flax, we are receiving from Russia our own Invalid and wounded soldiers; and we aro pouring out money which has been estimated at a hundred millions in prolonging tho RuBsian war, while wo nre faced with something like bank* ruptcy at home. Moreover, the eon- liuuance of war in Russia I« a reason for thc maintenance of conscription. Nothing but a clear cause of honor nnd duty could justify such a sacri- flco of our own clear interests. And wo are satisfied that, in tho present case, the justification docs not exist. Why American Soldiers in Russia? (By H. 1. Hebschman In the Net Bepublic] tn the open forum whieh waa s usual feature of my work as a lecturer in tho A. E. F., ono question that was frequently asked and that I had to admit I could not answer waa, why aro American soldiers still fighting ia Bussia long aftor the signing of tho armistico! I hare juat spent aon than tea days, on board ship with a (art of the American foree juit returned front Bessie, and, of course, I promptly asked both offlcen and men that question. Almost invariably when I related how the question had beea put to me and said that I had not been able to answer it, the atatement I received waa, "Neithor can I." Howevor, it wm possible to get some light on that question and on various others re* lating to the samo subject. It seemH that whea the 85th Division arrived in England on August 4, 1010, the 330th Regiment sf In* entry, three companies of tke 310th Engineers, the 337th Ambulance Company and the 337th Meld Hospital were detached for aervice ia Russia; aad soon*-afterwards the objects of the oxpedition wero explained to the American ollicers by a Britiah officer. Some of the officers with whom I talked gave only two objects and others three, but taking the understanding of all, there seem to have been four, as follows: 1. To protcet the supplies and munitions at Archangel and to savo them from falling into tho hands of the Bolshevists and Germans. 0. To provent tho use of Archangel as a submarine base by the Germans. 3. To reorganize the ' Russian army to fight for tho Allies. 4. To snve tho Czechoslovaks in Russia.' The Americans left England August 26th and reached Archangel Soptembor 4th, having been proceeded about threo weeks by some English and somp French. Tho munitions and stores at Archangel had in the meantime been removed by the Bolshevists at thc rato of four hundred cnr loads a day, and thoro was practically nothing loft to protect. So the first object mentioned had then already failed. Tho vory noxt day, however, ono Amorican bnttuiion, tho third, wns sent down the railroad running south from Bakarltza, opposite the city of Archangel. Thc next day the 1st Battalion was sent up the Dwina Biver to Bercznik. Tho 2nd Battalion stayed in Arch- nngel about a monthi ***nd then a port of it was sent to'Onega and a part up the Ptnega River, while tho headquarters and about one com* pany remained at Archangel. The railroad force was in almost continuous fighting up to December 30th whon, having roached Verst 445, about 300 nrilcB Booth of Archangel, it ceased all efforts to advance furthor and devoted itB time to holding this point and to keoping its line of communication open, tho men meanwhile living in converted box* cars. In September and October Oompany K of this battalion performed one of the most hazardous feats in the history of the forco. It made its wny from Obozorskoya to Selotskoe, a distance of about fifty miles, directly through the forest and swamps, fighting for twonty- seven days without rospite, up to the knees in mud, without sufficient food for evon two full meals a day. Thc river force pushed its way down tho Vaga River and established ita base at Shcnkursk somo time in the early part* of Octobor. Its most advancod line was subsequently ns far south as Ustpengda, about two hundred miles from Archangel. It wns in continual conflict with the Bolshevist forcos up to the time of its withdrawal. Tho Onega force was ovor a hundrod milos to Ihe west of Archangel, and tho Finoga force was about a hundred and fifty miles from Archangel in the opposite direction; and both were continually lighting tha Bolshevists. The river forco had the longest and tho most difficult line of communication, for tho entire region is one of swamp and forest, traversable only along the trails built for travel by foot and sleigh. Men wounded at the front could be given only the simplest treatment until they could bo taken to Boreznik, nnd oven there thc facilities wcro limited. To roach a real hospital meant a trip of seven or oight days through the snow with the thermometer at anywhoro from ten degrees to thirty below zero, to Kholmogornkaya and thon by rail to Archangel. In feet, it became much coldor than theso figures indicato, but wounded wero not aent, the medicul* officers say, when the thormomcter wont down to whoro it told the worst, somewhere in the neighborhood of 50. The men seem to have been well wfequipped with the clothes required for such a climate, but they had ta* sloop in them moat of the time, for in the advanced sectors and in the block-houses protecting the lines, "they were never certain of freedom ft-Ott attack by tho Bolshevists. 'j In that connection it should bo noted that until about Maroh the Bolshevist* had all the advantage in aeroplanes and artillery. Returning to the questions suggestod ia the opening paragraph, it is explained that all theso advance! were neoeaaary to protect Archangel and in addition that tke object! with reference to the rivor forco were, llrat, to reach the agricultural districts aad supply food, and second, te get ia touch with the Czechoslovaks, who howevor, at the closest were over four hundred milei away. Whea the armistice was signed, the French, the British, and the Bus* Sam Oghting with the Allied foreei, 1 seem to hare taken the position "hi guerre flnia." Of the American! both ofliceri and men deny th* stories of mutiny published in flio United Statei. But the faet remains that at leaat one officer haa beea charged with something akin to tkat for the action of his company and is to be tried before a courtmartial at Brest. As nearly aa I eaa determine the facte the accusation is based on the fact that his company demanded that, bofore any moro fighting be done, tkey be told what thoy were lighting for. The oxeuse ia made that there waa no mutiny be* cause no order had beea given and none was ignored, defied or disobey* cd. I am inclined to credit thia statement, but it ia evident just the same that there was a time when the men wantod to kndW why thoy were light ing in a country with which we were not at war and why they wero called upon to kill men who had never beon declared their eountry'! enemies and to submit' themselves to the chance of being killed by them. It was not nn impertinont question for any but professional soldiors, aad all thoae men with the oxcoption of thc ambulance company, wore drafted men, and tho latter consisted of volunteers who enlisted for sorvico iu tho wnr against Germany. Even tho officers were mostly from tho reserves. It seemed clear to them tkat none of the objects enumerated abovo justified keeping thom on the battle line in Russia after thcir comrades on the western front and in Italy had brought our only enemies' to their knoes. And ae least those with ,whom I talkod fool that thoir hardships and privntiuas woro uncalled for and that the dead, numbering ftWr two hundrod, diod without oven tho faith that thoy wore sacrificing .themselves for some noble, worth- fV!o causo. One such spoke for cm when just beforo ho diod, he faded for somo ono to toll him for whiit cause ho died, to give him the comfort of knowing that he waa not dying in vain. 'fo be entirely truthful I must add tlujt the roturned Americans do have at leaat a suspicion of a reuson for theSr having been kept in Bussia, and it: ill not held only by the men in Ike ranki. In faet one officer saya openly that he bases hia belief on what he heard English officers say. It is that the expedition was planned and carried out for the purposo of advancing French and English commercial interests. The-men aro influenced perhaps mostly by what Russians in Archangel said to them, for theso, though opposed to the Boi- shevista, suspect tho motives of tho British and say "Russia for the Russians"; but the men add that English names ovor Bussian sawmills speak for themselves without further explanation boing necessary. We have often heard union mon say, "I am sick of the wholo thing. It oan all go to H— for all I care." Supposing, brother, overy one took that same viow of the matter when things do not go right, where would tho labor unions bo today! The man who jumps in and goes up like a rocket to sot the heavens afire, will never accomplish very much. But the man who sticks through thick and thin, with novor a thought of quitting, will flnd lots of real satisfaction and happiness in the services he renders hia fellowmen. BY 1 MOVES v j The Peace Offer. Spring, 1919 7. Lastly, if we aro naked what alternative policy we propoae, we reply thst we ask nothing bettor limn what the Allied governments themselves have suggested.-, but un- accountably havo failed to give effect to. According to an offioial statement issued by tho government of Moscow, thero was conveyed to the Bolshevik government this spring, an offer of poaco on the following terms : An armistice to bo declared on all Hussion fronts whilst the pence dele* gatoi were discussing the, following: 1. AU the governments formed within tho territory ot? the old Rus tian Empire to keop thcir full power owr tko territories ooeupied by then until the inhabitnnt-g should declare l_at_. the form of governmont preferred by thom. 2. None of such governments to attempt to ovorthrow another by force. 3. The blockade of Russia to be raised. 4. Bo-establishment of commercial relations. 5. AU produce existing or received in Bussia to be accessible to aU classes of the population, without any distinction. 8. All the abovo Bussian governments to grant furl and complete amnesty to political oppononts, soldiers included. 7. Tho Allied troops to evacuate Bussia. Simultaneous reduction of the Soviet and of the anti-Soviet armies to peace footing. 8. AU the above Bussian governments to recognize, jointly, the financial obligations of the former Russian Empire. 10. Freedom of residence and movemont of all Bussian subjects over all parts of Russia. 11. Repatriation of all prisoners of war, These terms, it would appear, woro accepted by tho Bolshevik government and it remains a mystery why no effoct has been given to the policy thus initiated. Whatever the reason niay be, we believe that it is on such linos, aid oo such lines alone, that the Russian problem can be solved. F. D. Acland, Sidney Arnold, B. W. Barnes, Arthur Berry, Braye, 0. Lowes Dickinson, Everaley, E. M. Forntor, J. L, Hammond, A. Gordon Harvey, V7. E, Orchard, J. T. Shep. pard, Joseph Bturgo, T. Wiatring- Key Men to Confer Chicago,—A special convention of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America will, convene in this city August 25, and will repTaee the regular convention scheduled for the first Monday in Octobor. The general executive board states that "inasmuch as thie convention will result in tho reorganization of tho C. T. IT. A., we earnestly request all subordinate units to send a fuU delegation." ' The American Brand of "Bolshevism" at Local Theatre Is a Joke When a dramatic critic starts out by saying that tho two outstanding ieatures of a co'tain fh-nr "itf w- and-so/his readers may be pardoned for wondering if the correctness of his criticism is on a par with the accuracy of his English. Of "Bolshevism on Trial," the Sun's critic says that "the two outstanding features—is its truth and its timeliness." Also that "no greater or truer picture nag ever appeared upon the screen." Well, this is the wild, woolly west, anyway; so anything goes. The posters were somewhat start- Hag in their promise, or threat, of an overdose of the sordid and salacious; bnt wo were privately given to understand that the censor had already intervened in the interests of moderation and decency. So wo answered the call of duty, and went fo join the crowd. The crowd wosn 't visible—that is, not very. A sprinkling of peoplo sat abont here and there, but there were rows and'rows of empty soata, and lots of room for filling-in besides. So having the greater portion of the theatre at our disposal, we chose our vantage point at leisure, with not another human soul within yards of then we sank back luxuuriously our cushioned seat* placed our tired tootsies tenderly on the brass rail, put there for that purpose, and waited for the picture. It was prefaced with a sermonette in high-falutin pompous monotone, fraught with grave warning against a certain lurking monster, "spawned of selfishness, envy, and greed," etc.; on the other hand, asserting that "freedom and hnppiness are the right of humanity, and the road is open to the humblest." There was a Httle more nbout "Equality, Truth ond Justice," and the picture began. Of course, it hnd nothing to do with Bussia, except that Bussia was the birthplace of tho "monster," It gave glimpses of American life in wealth and poverty -introducing Col. Worth, "whoso self-made millions have not been made in profiteering;" his son Norman, who on impulse leads a "Utopian" colony to a glorious island all ready to hand; Wolff, "a self-professed Socialist," who proves the villain of tho piece, and a Russian after nil; Barbara, tho idealist and slum-worker; a tame Indian nnd a professional bruiser, who aro both in the colonel's employ, and a medley mob of Amorican "all-sorts," Who form thc colony. In confidence, it may bc mentioned that the wholo thing was "mado possible" by tho millionaire, who secretly finnnced it with thc express object of showing that It couldn't bo dono. After a series of more-or- loss exciting events, this purposo was, of course, fully achieved, to the satisfaction of everybody, especially of Norman, who henceforth (outside of being a good American) had only one "ideal," which was naturally of tho feminine gender; Barbara,, too, apparently was content to forget her own ideals, and tho problems of the slums, in favor of him. Incidentally there was a thorough exposure-of "the strategy of Bolshevism ''—stealthy attacks upon existing government, and so forth, but with tbe coming of an American gunboat ond her valiant armed crew, with their machino guns, bayonots and stars and stripes, thc monster was squelched and everything was lovely once more. . Of course the "unsolved problems of our social system" were still unsolved; but they were forgotten, and so all was well. The red ring was downed, and Old Glory was triumphant; and the road to happiness was once more open to all. On leaving, wc asked two fellows, who had been laughing immoderately, if they hadn't been getting too much fun for thoir money. Their apology was that it was "so damned ridiculous, you know." And others had been tittering quite a lot, whoro suchjevity wns certainly not intended or expected. It may be remarked that tho Orpheum generally gives a good show for the money, and gets a bumper houso. The financial results this weok will bc a warning to thc management that they can't afford rery often to hand out such a sorry makeshift as "Bolshevism on Trial," They probably wont attempt it any Prestige! It is hard to imagine Napoleon, Caesar, or any of the dominating figures la history aa having decayed teeth or fow teeth. One associate!, aad rightly, competency with, a Sne tooth equipment. Oeorge Washington lost his teoth early in life and thereafter wore artificial onea made of ivory, the work of on, of the pioneers in the modern dentia- Uj. The great beauties of history were well-toothed. 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Dairies ..Phone Fair. 1984 .....Phone Bay. 553 Dentists Drs. Brett Anderson and Douglas Casselman ._ 602 Hasting* Weal Dr. W. J. Curry 301 Dominion Building Dr. Gordon Campbell Cornor OranviUe and Bobson Street* Dr. H. E. Hall - 19 Hastinga Stroet Eut, Soymour 4041 Dr. Lowe Corner Hutings aad Abbott Struts Drinks Bank Buffet! Cor Hastings and Homor Stroeti Britannia Boor Westminster Browery Co. Cascade Beer Vancouver Breweries Ltd Taxi—Soft Drinks 409 Dunamiiir Street Van Bros Olden and winei Dry Goods Gordon Drysdale Ltd _ OranviUe Streot Florists Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd 48 Hastings But and 728 OranviUe Street Funeral Undertakers Contor k Hanna Ltd '■■ - — 1049 Oeorgia, Seymour 2428 Nunn, Thomson * Olegg - 531 Homer Street Furniture Hastings Furniture Co .41 Hutings Street Weal Groceries Cal-Van Market Hastings Streot Opposite Pantages "Slators" (throe stores) Hastings, GranvUle and Main Streot* 8. T. Walluco Marketaria. 118 Hastings Street Wast, Soymour 1206 Woodwards Hustings and Abbott Streeta Sponoors Ltd Hutings Street Broadway Table Supply 518 Broadway Eaat Insurance Mv.chants' Casualty Co :._ Rogers Building Jewelers Dirks Ltd Granvillo aud Georgia Streeta Manufacturers of Foodstuffs W. H. Malkin (Malkin *s Boot) Overalls and Shirts 'Twin Bute (Jas. Thomson * Sons, Vancouver, B, C.) 'Big Horn" Brand (Turner Beeton k Co., Victoria, B. C.) Paints HuutorHenderaon Paint Co 042 OranviUe Strut Printers and Engravers Cowan k Brookhouse _ \_bor Temple ClellandDibble -Tower Buildiof Railways P. 0. E _ and the C. N. B Tools J. A. Flett Haat.'ngs Street Wool Martin, Finlayson k Mather... - ..Uutings Street Waat Theatres and Movies Empres* —_ Orpheum Paiilugo* — Columbia — Maplo Lo*/ PAGE SIX ELEVBirm teab. No. n THE BRITISH COLUMBIA fffiDERATlUJNlST vancouveb, b. o. rrilDAT. Angnst t, Cai-Van Pointedly Meets the Demand for the Reduction of the H. C. of L It is a body-blow to Food Profiteers. It eliminates all the Middleman's Profits. It offers you the choice Foodstuffs fresh from the Producers daily. It is centrally located—Hastings Street, opposite Pantages Theatre—enabling you to shop from any part of the City. It offers thc Vancouver Housewife an opportunity to save fully otie-ttoird on many of the Necessities of Life. Come in Saturday—look around—compare Prices—and ante the Savinga. Cal-Van Market Hastingi Weit Opp. Pantages Vaneoaver Unions TRADES AND LABOB COUMCIl*—Xx- eeutivt committee: Preside*., B. Winch; vlc-s-prcslient, J- & »vant»__; treMiMr, f. Knowles; strge-snt-u-stms, W. A. AUusfer; trustee*, VV. At Frit- chard, W. B. C-atlr-tU, P. NfDoauil. H. -ttvmri-if-*; McrcUrr, T. H. Uligltj, Bomb IW Laber T—pk. ALLIED PIUIITXMO TBADIB COUN- cil—UmM m»&4 Uoaday In th* ■oath. FraaidMl, J. 9. McConnell; MC Ulmry, B. M. V____U_ 1*. 0. Boi 00. JOOBNEYMBM BABBBBS' IJiTKBKA- tional Union of America. Local Mo. IBO— lieeu aacond and foarth Tueidaya In tha monlh, Boom 205 Labor Temple. Pretident, C. K. Herrltt; MMetary, 8. H. Qranf, 120 ___*__* Street. Bridgk STRUCTURAL ORNAMENTAL and Utiaforced Ironworkers, Loeal 01 —MeeU aeoond and fourth Mondaya. Pnaldent Jas. HaatlBfs; taaacial aee- wtary and treanrer, Boy Maiaeaar, 1548 12th Ave. But. IROTHIRHOOD off CARPENTERS, Local No. 017—Meets avery second md fourth Mondsy oTentag, 8 o'clock, Ubor Temple. President, J. Beid; seeretary, E. J. Temoin, 1333 Georgia But; basineM agent and inanclal seeretary, S. 0. Thorn, Boon 301 Labor Temple, ____________________ ELUCTBICAL WOBKEBS. LOCAL Mo. 213—Meell at 440 Pender Street neat, every Monday, • p.m. President, H. H. Woodside, 440 Pender W.; recording aeeretary, W. Poalkes, 440 Pender Street West; fnaoeial secretary and baslMM aceat, X. H. Morrison, 440 Pender Street Waat; auistant aaentarr, F. B. Barrows. HOTEL ABD BESTAURANT EM ployees. Local 31—Meets evory first Wednesday 1* tha moath at 2:80 p.m. snd every third Wednesday la tko month st 9:30 p.m. Presideeit, Harry Wood; ■iecretary and business agent, W. Mackensle, office and meeting hall, 014 Pender St. W. Phono Bey. 1031. OBce boars: 11 to 13 noon; 3 to 5. INTERNATIONAL JBWELBT WOftfc- ers' Union—MeeU 2nd and 4th Fridays, 20& Ubor Temple. Pruldent, W. Holmes, (Menial AptS., B-arrard Streot; Recretary-traasBrer, P. J. SntU, tU * smatr Sir * LUMBER WdBKBBS' Htfi-.l'BlAL Union of the Oae Big Union—ABHaaod with B. 0. Federation of Ubor aad Vaneoaver Trades and Ubor CoaneU— An Industrial anion of all workora ia logging aad construction camps. Head- Marten, 01 Cordova Strut Wut, Vaneoaver, B. 0, Phona Br TWO. E. Wiaeh, seeretary-treuarer; legal advisers, Musra. Bird, Maedonald * Co.. Vaneoaver, B. C; auditors, Messra. Bultar A C-hloae. Vaaeonver, B. <X Assoclalioa, Loeal SSfiS—OBu aad ball, 004 Feader Strut Wut. MeeU Orst and third Fridays, 0 p.m. Secretary -Irruarer, F. Chapman; bulness agent. P. Sinclair. AMALOAMATED MEAT CUTTERS AND Butcher Workmen's Union Mo, 649— Meets trst aad third Tuesdays of eaeh month, Labor Temple, 8 p.m. President, H. E. Willi; reeordlng secretary, Fred Lilly; Onaaeial secreUry and business agent, T. W. Anderson, 087 Homer St. PATTEBN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF North America (Vaneoaver and vicinity)—Branch meeU second and fonrth Mondays, Room 204 Ubor Templo. President, Wm, Hunter, 818 Tenth Ave. North Vancouver; flnanolal seeretary, E. God- dard, 858 Richards Strut; recording secretary, J. D. Russell, 138 Commercial Drive. Phone High. 2304B. mil'VARD LABORERS, RIGGERS AND Fssteners, I.L.A., Local Union 38A, Series 5—Meets Ue 2nd and 4th Fridays •f the month, Ubor Temple, 8 p.m. President, John Sully; inanelal aeeretary, M. A. Phelps; business agent and ■corresponding secretary, W. Lee. Offlee, Room 219-220 Labor Temple. 6NB BIO UNION UNI_'of Steam and Operating Engineers — MeeU every Monday, 7:30p.m., Ubor Temple. President, F. L. Hunt; vice-president, Percy Chapman; seeretary-treuurer aad business agoat, W. A. Alexander, Room 210, Labor Templo. Phoae Seymour 7498. STREET AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY Employees, Pioneer Division, No. 101 —MeeU A. 0- F. HaU, Mount Pleasant, 1st and 3rd Mondaya at 8 p.m. Preaident, W. H. Cornell; recording sure- Ury, A. V. LoMng, M5I St. Catherines Street; treanu.-er, E. S. Clevt lead; flnaneial secretary aad business agent, Fred A. Hoover, 2409 Clark Drive; office £____* and Main streets. GENERAL TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS __k WAREHOUSEMEN. Vancouver Unit of 0. B. U.—Meets overy Wednesday, 8 p. m Preaident H. Mills; business agent, F. Haslett, 125 Fifteenth Avenue East; secretary-treaiurer, J. Hartley, 587 Homer stnet. OBce, 007 Homer strset. Phone, Sey. 4117, TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 3W— Meets lut Sunday of ueh moath al 2 p.m. President, W. H. Jordan; vice president, W. H. Youhill; secretary- treasurer, R. H. Neelanda, Box 80. Provincial Unions B. C FEDERATION OF LABOR—MeeU In annual eonvention In January. £x< retire oSoers, 1918-19: Pruldent, J. Kavanagh, Ubor Temple, Vancouver; vice-presidenU—Vancouver Ialand: Cumberland, J. Naylor; Victoria, J. Taylor; Frinse Bupert, Geo. Casey; Vaneouvar, W. H. Cottrell, P. McDonnell; Mew Westminster, Geo. McMarphy; West Kooto- aay, Silverton, T. B. Roberta; Crow's Nest Psss, W. B. Phillips, Fernle, W. A. Sherman. Secretary-treuorer, A, S. Wells, Ubor Temple, 405 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, B^ 0. _______________ VICTORIA AND DISTRICT TRADES and Labor Council—MeeU flrat and third Wednesdays, Knights of Pythias Hall, North Park Street, at 8 p.m. President, B, Simmons; vice-president, T. Dooley; secretary-treasurer. Christian Siverts, F. 0. Box 802, Victoria, B. 0. MOBTH VAMOOUVBB U. B. OF CARPENTERS AND JOIN- ers, Local 1777—MeeU flrst and third Mondaya In I. 0. O. F. Hall, Lower Kieth Road But, at 8 p-m. President, W. Cummlngs, 10th Street East, North Vancouver; flnanclal seeretary, Arthur Roe, 310— 18th St. W., North Vaneonver. Steel mist Is Happy New York—The United Statea Steel Corporation continues to rake in tho nimble nickel. Its last report shows that during the quarter ended June 30 last net earnings were over (1,000,000 in excess of the previous quarter. In reporting for the hoard of directors, its chairman, Judge Gary, declared that prospects are bright, Telephone Bar. 4041 Sails, Tents and Awningi Teamsters' and Carpenters' APEOKS, BUBBEE BOOTS and OIL CLOTS-NO Estimates given on eanvas work 48 WATER STBBBT, VANOOUVER, B. 0. CUTS And Commercial Art for ua. in Newspapers, Catalogues, Souvenir Booklets, Ete. 51« HASTINOS ST. W. The Royal Bank of Canada INCORPORATED IMS Capital Authorized Capital Paid-up. Reserve and Undivided Profits. Total Assets _ ...$ 25,000,000 $ 15,000,000 $ 16,000,000 ..$430,000,000 SS6 branchei in Canada, Newfoundland and Britiih Wert India. Alio branohei in London, England; New Tork City and Barcelona, Spain. Twelve branchei in Vancourer: Main Office—Corner Hastings and Homer Streets. Corner Main and Hastings Streets. Corner OranviUe and Kobson Streets. Corner Bridge Street and Broadway West Corner Cordova and Carrall Streets. Corner Granville and Davie Streets. Corner OranviUe and Seventh Ave. West. 1050 Commercial Drive. Corner Seventeenth Ave and Main Street 2016 Yew Street. Corner Eighth Avenue and Main Street, Hudson Street, Marpole. Also—North Vancouver, New Westminster and 28 other points in British Columbia. SPECIAL ATTHNKOK IS GIVEN TO SAVING* ACCOUNTS One dollar open* aa account oa which interest is paid half-yearly at current rato*. THOS. PEACOCK, O. W. PHASES, Vancouver, Manager Vancourer Branch Saporriaor for B. A PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP Why There Can Be No Middle Course Between Bourgeoise and Proletarian Rule From a New Tork Times transht-tbourgoois, without whieh eoniMtioni the victory of Socialism won,, he impossible, Oatt\ The Soviet organization of* the state iB so arranged that tho-jwole- tariat, as being the elass "which, owing to capitalism, is the moM qon- ccntratcd and the taoet enlightened, bave a leading part in the state1. Experiences gained from all revohitibns and all movements in tho enslaved classes, experiences also from Socialistic world movements, teach us that it is only tho proletariat that is ablo to guide and carry with it tho scattered remnants of the working and impoverished population. The Btate Soviet organization alone is able to overthrow the old apparatus of officialdom which, under capitalism, existed even in the most democratic republics and formed for the masses of the working- men the greatest obstacle in the way of roaliting democracy. The Paris Commune took the first world- historic step along tbis path; the Soviet has tnken the second. The annihilation of stnte power is the aim all Socialists have in view, Ilrst and foremost among them Mnrx. Without the realization of this aim, truo democracy, that is liberty and equality, is unattainable. This aim, howevor, can, as a matter of fact, only be achieved by the Soviot and proletarian democracy, for it begins at once to prepare for thc respective states' complete extermination by bringing forward the massed organizations of tho working people into a permanent and absolute participation in state administration,—Oakland* World, tion of artichw printed io the Fol- ket 'a Dagblad Folitiken, Lenin points out tbe fact that while dominant classes exist, it is futile to argue against class dictatorship, We havo heard and read much about proletarian dictatorship, but none seem so clear and convincing as doeB thc following article: Denounces Deportations Throughout the whole civilized world at present the deportation, persecution and internment of Bolsheviki is taking plave, as, for instance, in Switzerlaud, one of the most free of bourgeois republics. In America, too, there are even Bolshevist pogroms. From the goneral point of view of domocracy it is simply ludicrous to see that civilized, advanced, democratic countries, armed to the teeth as they are, should dread tbo presence of some few dozens of individuals from starving ruined and scarcely surviving Russia, who have been spoken of in millions of bourgeois newspapers ns outlaws and criminals. It is obvious thnt social conditions which could produco such a crying contrast to the reality must be the work of bourgeois dictatorship. In sueh a stato of things the proletarian dictatorship is uot only fully justified as a means to overthrow the extortioners and suppress their resistance, but is also necessary for the mass of the working men as the only protection against bourgeois dictatorship and proletarian dictatorship. Any dream of a third course is merely the lament of some petty bourgeois reactionary. Tho experiences of a development, moro than 100 years old, of bourgeois democracy and the labor movement in.all advanced countries, and especially in the experiences of the last five years, plainly show this. The ontire doctrine of national economics and thc whole gist of Marxism are eloquent of it, clearly pointing out the economic necessity of bourgeois dictatorship wherever commercial management is concerned-—a dictatorship whieh can only be done away with by tho class which, as capitalism dovelops, increases and strengthens itself, namely, tho proletarian class, m Democracy Changes The other theoretical and political mistake of tho Socialists is that they do not understand that democratic forms have inevitably, in the course of centuries, changed. In the republic of ancient Greece, in the medieval towns, In the most developed capitalistic statos, democracy has had different forms and haB been of varied extont. It would bo the greatest revolution in tho history of man, the first transfer of power from the hands of a minority of extortioners into the hands of tho impoverished majority, could take place within the framework of tho old bourgeois' ''parliamentary democracy without causing vast upheavals or creating new forms of democracy, new institutions and new regulations for working them, The proletarian dictatorship is like the dictatorship of other classes in that it emanates from the necessity of forcibly suppressing the resistance of the class -that loses its politieal powor, Tho difference between the proletarian dictatorship and' that of other classes, such as tko dictatorship of the great estate owners in the Middle Agos anu that of the bourgeoisie in all civilized capitalistic countries, is simply that the two last-named dictatorships were a forcible suppression of tho resistance of tho majority of the population, tho musses of the working class. In contradistinction to this, the proletarian die* tatorship is a forcible suppression of the resistance of tho extortioners, the practical possibility of making use of democratic liberty and privilege to an extent that was never before known in the best democratic bouregois republics. Masses Kept Down The essenco of tho Soviet power consists in the fact that tho massed organization of those very classes that were kept down by the capitalists—that is, the workingmen and tho semi-proletarians—forms tho steady and only bulwark for the whole power of the stato nnd the whole of the state machinery. These very masses who, even in thc most democratic bourgeois republics, aro still kept from all participation iu political lifo and from the enjoyment of all democratic liberty and right, although, according to tho law they enjoy an equal share in all rights, are now brought into permanent and definite touch with the democratic administration of tho state. The equality of all fellow citizens, rrespcotive of six, religion, race, or nationality, which was always premised but never carried out by the bourgeois democracy, and never could bo carried out owing to the powor of capitalism, has uow been amply realized by Soviet power or the proletarian dictatorship, as it is the only power of tho workmen that is capable of carrying It out, workmen who are not interested in private property as a means for production, or in the fight over the ever-recurring distribution of the same. Workers Have Voice The old bourgeois democracy and parliamentarian ism were so organized as to keep tho working classes at the greatest distance from the administrative machinery, But tho Soviet power, the proletarian dictatorship, on the contrary, is organized so that it brings tho masses of tho working class into closo touch with the administration. Tho same purpose is.attained by the legislative and executivo power of the state's Soviet organization, and by substituting industrial units, such as works and factories, for territorial constituencies. The army was an organ for sup- pr*>«. -on, not only undor the monarchy, but also afterward in all bourgeois and even in the most democratic republics. The Soviet government is the only established state organisation that, in the interests of the classes opprassed by capitalism, it capable of abolishing militaiy dependence on bourgeois ability to command, and of really amalgamating t!ie proletariat with the military, as well ns of arming the proletariat and disannul? tii? MENTSTOBEMADE Great Mass of Interest to Be Paid on War -Statesmen in France, Germany, Italy and Groat Britain are deeply concerned over "interest payments, •'' The French government, to meet its interest charges, jnuat find some nine billions of fran*«*each year; tho German government as many marks, and the British.,,two billions of pounds. Even .jn., [the United States, where the national debt is only $28,000,00O,00O^-Jhe interest charge is in the ncighfaip-zh <od of a billion dollars a year. ; Rtt What is the meaning of aUitHsf The warring nations, during* the past five years, have spent faror ore than their normal income, a»;;tliat despito the increase in taxeBj ticy have beon compelled to borrow *gi eat sums. This borrowing was d >ne mainly of the property owners*. The workers have helped, in ft limited way, but the bulk of the hugelimds have come from the well-to-do and from the rich. The bonds of eaeh country are held principally by the poople of that eountry. So it comes about that . tho well-to-do part of the population fundamental | in each of the great countries (from *______ gve 4o flfteen pgf cent# 0f the pC0. pie) holds most of the government bonds. Therefore the well-to-do will receive most of tho interest payments. During tho coming generation (if the present systom of society lasts so long) each of the governments concerned will pay an annual tribute of billions to this small well- to-do part of the'peoplc. How are these funds to bo sccur- cdf They must come from the product created by tho labor of thc workers, Here, then, is a system under which tho government takes from the masses, who are poor, and gives to tho well-to-do who already aro amply supplied with the good things of lifo. This system existed for a long time. The war brought it into tho daylight. Tho property owners, because they aro property owners, and for no other reason are given the first fruits. They enjoy. Tho workers, who produce all of the wealth, receive, in,return for their labors, a bare living. Tho surplus of production, in the meantime, goes'to tho owners. Heretofore, this surplus hns been carried through the channels of economic life. The owners have taken most of their graft directly from the workers in tho form of rent, dividends and profits. Today, in every onc of the heavily indebted countries, the government has undertaken to collect from the workers the billions of unearned income that is to go to the owncTs in the form of interest payments on bonds. The French minister of Finance or the British minister of Exchange laments over the difficulty of "apportioning the budget" to meet thoso interest payments. He do- ccives himself. His real problem is that of taking from the poor innd giving to* the rich without ar-piwing the poor to re volutin---—Scott ,J fEDEKATIOMST We nre to no way responsible ferfis essential to the working interests. the opinions expraeeed in this column. Correspondent! most be brief or their letters will not be published. While agreeing with many of the opinions expressed in letters lent to us, and while many of then contain matter that is worthy of publication, we hare in a number of cases been unable to publish them owing to their length. Will correspondents please note and govern themselves accordingly. An Open Letter to All Members of the L. W. I. XT. Fellow Workers How long are you going to let a few individuals in Vancouver run our organization f The L. W. I. U. was organized for tho mun in camp, and not for the man in town. They tell us that tho men in town aro so active that the boss will not let thom stay in camp. We are also told that tke men in town aro the ones who know what the men in camps require. One would infer from that, that the mon in town have got a corner on all the brains that is in our organization. However, I am of the opinion that the brains of the nine thousand odd members of the L. \V. I, U. are net all centred in a few individuals.. There is one fact that stands out very prominently, and tbat is this; Theso cuspidor organizers confine ull their activities to headquarters. Probably if thoy were under tho eagle eye of the boss their courage would be like sugar In hot tea; all melt away. Get busy boys, and protest against such tactics. Show these parlor agitators that you aro not going to be dictated to by a few individuals. Show them that the man who pays tho dues is the man who is going to run the organization. When they tell you about running the organization from the bottom up and not from tho top down tell them that you will run it from camp, which is the bottom, nnd not from town, which is the top. Yours fraternally J. M. CLARKE. Want 44-hour Week j New York—Officers of the Wnjted Textile Workers have informed the National Silk Association of America that a 44-hour week in the silk! industry should be established at the earliest possible time and intimate that they are ready to negotiate! on that basis. Three years ado Itho union reduced the hours of silk workors to 50 per wook and last [fall reduced these figures to 48. 1 j Shamokin, Pa.—The X P. tnd C. K. Eaglo silk mills have grantjed'the shorter hour demand of 3000 employees after an 11-weeks' strike. Wages are increased and the week is reduced from 63 % to 48 hours, The company says it did not recog- nizo the United Textile Workers union, but the settlement was negotiated by officers of this union, who ure assnred that all strikers will be reinstated. The victory is one-of the most docisive ever secured by work-' ers in this vicinity, Laundry Workers Unite Oakland—A strong Loundry Workers Union has been organized in this city. During tbe past few years laundry prices have almost doubled, but the laundry workors are paid the name old rate. The employees are now Ihmiic b&nauetted bv tho bosses. Winnipeg, Man. July 29, 1910. Editor B. C. Federationist: Comrades and Fellow Workers—It was with much pleasure and interest I read In your issue of June 27 under tho headline,'' Laundry Hands Problems," an account of tho working out of your minimum wage boards. I may say history Is but repeating itself, as you are now simply experiencing all thc disillusions, disquieting experiences and disappointments that wo have passed through during the past year and more, and which finally culminated in the organization of all the girl and women workers of Winnipeg and finally In a general walk-out somo few days previous to the sympathetic general strike and the balanco with their fellow workers in the general strike. From the inception of the board whieh was not what we worked and fought for, namely, a flat minimum wage, but the government forced upon us the minimum wage board, whieh has never been anything but a source of troublo, never having been put in force even as it was drawn up. The employers openly ignoring it and thc government not having staff enough or spino enough to enforco it, poor as it is. It was condemned utterly at the trades and labor council, also at the Women's Labor League as useless and of no assistance to tho women workers of Winnipeg. We held a mass meoting of the Womon's Labor League and all the various affiliated branches last evening where a resolution was passed unanimously endorsing the 0. B. U. and going on record to do all wo can to support and propogate same. Also a resolution condemning tho action of the government in breaking into the homes of our fellow workers and railroading them off to Stony Mountain in the dead of night, and wo demand a trial by jury for our fellow workers now out on bail. It was abo decided to send out letters to our various Women'b Labor Leagues cast and west, requesting that they tako up the question of thc advisability of calling a convention of tho Women's Labor League of Canada the coming October in view of the many serious problems facing the women workers of the world today. A defense fund waB started with committees in every branch league, the funds being raised by the holding of open air metings, whiat drivofl, dances, concerts and raffles.' Mrs, Logan, delegate of our Elm- wood branch reported at last meeting $79.00 raised from the raffling of a gown donated by a friend toward our defense fund. The Weston branch is holding for the same purpose on tbe 1st of August, a dance, concert and raffle. Let us hear from some of our Vancouver women comrades as to whether they would form a branch local out there and sond us a delegate should we hold a convention in Octobor* *• Sister Mrs,' Russell of Weston branch and myself of the Winnipeg branch are out on $4,000 bail to appear at the fall assises and our boys are now up every day from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. at their preliminary hearing. Trusting we shall heat from some of our sister comrades in the near future. Yours for tke world for tke workers, WOMEN'S LABOB LEAGUE, Helen Armstrong, Sccty. . England is an example, a proof of the benefits of the 0. B, U, The O. B. U. will tend to lessen strikes. With the workers -in such a powerful organization,'the capitalist powers will be bound to listen to all reasonable demands of the workera. I have been to the court house to try and register my voto. On a form I had to swear I was 21 years of age; I am not quito that age. I asked if there were any amendment for returned men. -I was told an amendment was pending, in thc Dominion legislature; pending, I surmise, until the next olection is over. It makes my blood boil to think that a man old enough to fight for his country, is deprived of voting and a say in the management of his country. The capitalist class is blind and without senses "The Day" is vcrv near wben the working class will rule with intelligence and justice. Yours truly, E. G. BIRCH. 827 Hornby Street, Vancouver, B. C, August 2nd, 10If). Editor B. C. Federationist: I would be pleased if you would publish this letter from a returned man in your excellent paper. I am sure the majority of returned men of the working class, who will reason with themselves, cannot be otherwise. The working class will not be denied, their arguments cannot be disputed, because they stand for justice, right and truth. The Bolsheviks are the "salt of tho earth." It seems to me the true definition of Bolshevism is this: The workers (the majority) control the stato. All proporty, railways and industries are nationalized. The wholo economic and soeial system is based on the rights of every individual. Every man, woman and ehild is assured of a decent living, and an opportunity to be happy and enjoy life. Bolshevism is the inevitable outcome of tho failure es? fur preeent capitalistic system. I am in favor ef the 0. B, V. It TO I IDLERS ITOIFITS Workers Must Control the Product of Their Labor AU of the able-bodied people in society are divided for the purpose of economic investigation in two classes—the workers nnd the idlers. Tho workers produce goods and services in return for the goods, clothing and shelter that they use. The idlers use food, clothing and shelter without producing a corresponding quantity of goods and services. Among tho workers there aro again two classes—those who can get jobs and those who ennnot. At tho minimum there arc always about 1,000,000 unemployed workers in the United States. At times this number rises to four, five or even six millions. Those who get jobs produce for a wage or salary. The unemployed beg, accept charity, live on their accumulations, or starve. Division of labor occurs among those who get jobs. In reality, there fore, what we see in society is not division of labor but division of product. Division of labor occurs only among ono fraction of thc people— the employed workers. Division of Sroduct occurs every hour of every ay among all peoplo who use food, clothing and shelter. Tolstoy suggests that instead of calling it a division of product, we should call it "a seizure by the strong of tho labor of others,'' In one of his essays ("What Shall We Do Thenf") he points out tho method by which the idlers seize the product created by tho workers, adding, "We have specialized ourselves. We have our special functional activities. We are the brains of the peoplo. They feed us and we have undertaken to te&ch them. Only in the name of tbis have wo emancipated ourselves from labor. Now what have we taught themf They waited a year, tens, hundreds of years. And still we discuss and teach and amuse one another, and have entirely forgotten them." Society has no division of labor. Instead it has a division of product. To tho workers go subsistence; to tho idlcra the first fruits. For these flrst fruits thc idlers have agreed from time immemorial to use their minds and hearts in the interests of society. Instead they have used thcir energies wholly for themselves. What wonder that St. Paul and Captain John Smith and Nicholas Lenin all agree that "He that will not work, neither shall he eat." Arrange for Xabor Meet Washington—Tho department of Labor has appointed Miss Graco Abbott to assist the orgnnization committee of the International Labor conference, which meots in London, to ar range for tho first conference nt Washington, next October. The Labor conference was created by the peuue treaty. America's representative on tho organization committee is Professor Shotwcll of Columbia University, who is also assisted in London by Ethelbcrt Stewart of the department of Lsbor. Patronize Federationist advertisers and tell them why you do so.'. Vancouver Land District •District of Coast, Range 1 TAKE NOTICE that I, Mary Alico Clarke of Vancouver, B. C, housewife, intend to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted about forty chains North to the South boundary of Lot 542; thence West Sixty chains; thenco South about twenty chains to the North boundary of Lot 100-1; thence East forty chains; thence South twenty ehithis; thence East twenty chains to tho point of commencement, containing 100 acres, more or less. , MARY ALICE CLARKE. Dated Itlst July 1919. Vancouver Land District District of Coast, Range l TAKE NOTICE that I, Edwin Clnrk A pplchy of Vancou ver, B, C, Jeweller, intend to npply for permission to purchaso the following lands: Commencing at a post planted about fifty chains Southwest of the Southeast corner of Lot -122; thence about twenty chains North to tho South boundary of Lot 422; thence Easterly about forty chains to tho West boundary of Lot 429 (old P.R. 503); thence South ubout sixty chains to shoreline; thenco Westerly and Northerly along the shoreline to point of commencement, and containing 200 acres mom or less. EDWIN CLARK APPLEBY. Dated at Vancouver, 31st July, 1919. The Store Thi Saves You Money No. 1 Government Inspec Creamery, d. *■ n 3 lb. ~9loi New Potatoes, l)[ 8 lb _\_\ Swift's Olcomargerine, All por lb _\i Finest Dtiry Batter, mr\ lb OU Extra Special—Ginger <■>■*■ Snaps, 2 lbs. Od Fresh Peanuts, O _\ 2 lbs 00 Eagle and Reindeer nr. Condensed Milk, ean .... em U Silver Bar Apricots, *_)__ extra speeial, por tin A_\l Butterenp Milk, | <• per tin JL 1 Pacific Milk, n-> 3 tins OO Broken Orange Pekoe Tea. R 75c. My price, mr\ per lb. OU S.T.WaUace,i Marketaria 118 HASTINOS ST. WB8T Phone Seymou 1266 UNION MEN ARE MADE WELCOME -AT THE- Bank Buffet Soft Drinks and Fresh Cool Beer. The right treatmem and best service. If you want the besl quick lunch in th< city give us a trial. Ex-Sergt. Foresteli Corner Hastings and Homer Be suro to notify the post oi as soon as you change your addr SPENCER'S AUGUST FURNITURE SALE Dining-room furniture living-room furniture INLAID MAHOGANY DINING SUITE—Comprising vory large buffet, 52-inch round-top extension table, set of 8 choirs with genuine leather slip scats, large siie sidetable. Regular 4475.00. Sale prico 6329.00 BLACK WALNUT DINING SUITE—In William and Mary design, comprising buffet, ehina cabinet, -18x00 oval extension table and aet of 6 chairs with genuine leather slip seats. Regular »(I50.00. Salo prico 6500.00 DINING SUITE—In quarter-cut oak, Old English finish, comprising massive buffet with boveled plute mirror, china cabinet, round-top pedestal extension table, set of 6 slip-seat chairs. Sale price 63*0.00 DINING SUITE—Ik golden quarter-cut oak, comprising buffet, witk plate mirror, pedestal extension tablo with round top, set of 6 chairs with leather ante. Sale price 8146.50 TININO SUITE—In fumed quarter-cut oak, comprising buffet with largo plate mirrors, pedestal extension table with round top, act of 6 slip-seat diners. Regular $185.00. Sale prico $143.60 DINING SUITE—In fumed quarter-cut oak, comprising buffet with plate mirror, pedestal extension table with round top, set of 0 diners. Regular 6135.00. Sole price ...689.60 DINING SUITE—In fumed finish, comprising buffet with plate mirror, round-top pedestal extension table, set of six pad seat diners. Sale prie* . „ 686.00 KIDNEY CHESTERFIELD—With spring edgt scat, button back, covered in tapestry. Rcgula*, ♦286.00, sale prico 6165.0C CHESTERFIELD—With spring back and arm spring edgo seat with three loose cushions; ver-.' comfortable. Regular 6185.00, sale price....8149.0' CHESTERFIELD—With well padded back, sprini edgo scat, three loose cushions. Reg. 6105.00. solo prico 3126.0- STUFF-OVER PARLOR SUITE—Settee chair an*! rocker, covered in good quality tapestry. Rcgi; lar 6120.00, salo price 88E'.(K 8 ONLY UPHOLSTERED CHAIRS AND ROCK ERS—With well padded back and arms, Covere* in good quality tapestry. Regular to 649.00 sale prico 634.51 6 ONLY STUFF-OVER CHAIRS—In good qualit* tapestry. Regular to 838.00, salo price 529.0i SOLID MAHOGANY PARLOR SUITE—Setter two chairs with Bilk upholstored Beat and baek "soiled." Regular 6200.00, sale price 896.0 MAHOGANY PARLOR SUITE—With tapestr. seat. Regular 809.00, salo price 649.0* MAHOGANY CHAIRS AND ROCKERS—Wit tapestry spring scats. Regular to 629.00, sal price 318.61 12 ONLY WALNUT AND MAHOGANY FINIS* CHAIRS with tapestry spring-scats. Regular ti ♦15.00, sale prico 319* UPHOLSTERED WICKER CHAIRS—In fume finish, podded scats and back, Sale priee....814.C LIVING-ROOM TABLES 6 ONLY LIBRARY TABLES—In massive, straight oak with drawer and book-ends. Regular tl lines with drawer aad book shelves, golden and *"*li0, "■_-!?.;_ *;* rr _ _W-_\ t .a ..... _ -d i . _.»_ i„ PARLOR TABLES—In goWon quortercut na'l fumed quarter-eut oak. Regular to *»-«U»£ witk ,haped top ___ t„Jca lcg!. '■#__ pricc.Wf P"M — *■ • wa'°° OCCASIONAL TABLES-In golden and fumel 6 ONLY LIBRARY TABLES—In fumed and golden finish, square top. Regular 63.90, sale price..62.«j DEN FURNITURE DEN SUITE—In fumed quarter-cut oak with pad DEN ROCKERS—In fumed and golden oak wit baek and spring scat, eovered in tapestry. Regu- fabriekold scat and bnck. Sale prico 314.6 riHw'firt-i^wfJ^ MORRIS CHAIRS-In fumod and golden oak wit 1ZS^^M_%__^___V_^_ M-J^gJtJ-n-*! Stable * «| lar 640.00, nle priee .!. ..'. 634.80 pomtiona. Sale price ^...318.8, 8 ONLY DEN CHAIRS—With mahogany frame, DEN CHAIRS AND ROCKERS—In fumed aij seat and buk upholstored in genuine leather. golden quarter-cut oak with fabriekoid spritt Regular to 835.00, sale prico 821.00 seats. Regular to 618.50, sale price 811.9 David Spencer, Limited •JKDAT- -Ante* I, Ml» that. rn-nnrm tba*. No.it THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST —,:»,i rM i m i i i i.ii'i •<»»• I'l^ffiU — s> n inn WORKERS MUSI S. Welb Says Revolution in Canada Is Not Wise That a revolution ia Canada at the present time is neither wise nor possible, was the stand token by A, 8. Wells at the Columbia meeting on Sunday night; and.ho submitted " ' when tho authorities charged The Confiscation of Capital ' fat of direct theft from the poo- . fM- maybe they hare bent Mag -■ _ -... _ the "enving" all rl*ht, bat it ie wishes to raise a cheap sneer againat; _^_ «,_•. tke peoplo who pro-bee tho economies of Socialism it ia only 4Jit wealth of the country began to ereaaeemaeeBet [By Ooo. T. Stirling] Whenever th* capitalist TAirooirvra, ■. a. PAGE SEVEN mm . ofim WhyVaUey Milk Is Superior Com* witk me eama itf to J. K, BTBVEB' TUiOUB DAIRY FARM w Lnhi Island. Tba* yo« will know WHY VALUY DAIRY APFBOVID MILK it te NfMiw to.all otkw Milk. There yoa will tnd J. M. STEVES' -wnderfai herd of puicbnd Milk Cows ettty uae register..!, aad iU daily reooid-eheeta stowing a woodcrfuty rieh, pan, wboiesomelMilk. They are stable* im a big, bright, clean, airy ban, witk plenty of sunlight pouring to through tta windows oa erery side. Ia fast, Ok— ban ia as ehaa as your owa Utekea. ■aek Cow haa its satia hide curried and brooked night aad moraiag. Tke udders an carefully washed eaeh time bofoae milking. Thoy an fed clean, wkoisaoms grain* and fodder that helps to inenaae the riohnoee af the Milk. Mr-Mtly after milking eaeh Cow, tho Milk ia taken from th* stable direct into tto Mty, eoolod aad bottled. It eonct to yat freak, pure, wholesome MRk, juat aa it oome* from tk* Cow— Vafcy Special Butter the bottor that batten fltobiwMt Maiden Toned Oat Fort Wayne, lad.—Iron molders employed by tne Bass Foundry aad Machine Company have been toned •a tto street beeause the company nf used to apply a wag* award mad* hat May by the national war board board. The company aayt the wat ia ovor aad produetion must bo in- oreaaed. Thia concern is one of Fort Wayne's leading low wage plants, and it is charged with boing moat open in ita appeal to racial prejudices of ita employees, by this means keeping them .apart. Tk* Fort Wayne Worker declares the company is "a typical slave driving concern of tk* worst typo," witk tho work day tanging from 12 to lt hours. Send yeur eld address with your new one when making a change. Patronize Fed. advertisers. Named Shoes are frequently made in Non-union factories DO NOT BUT ANY SHOE No matter what its name, unless it bears a plain and readable impression of this UNION STAMP. All Show without th* TJHION STAMP an always Non-union Do not accept any excuse tet Absence of Uu Union Stamp BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION 266 SUMMER BTREET, BOSTON, MASS. 001.18 I.OVELT, General FreaitMt—OHAS. L. BAINE, General Scc-Treee. BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BEST COAL For your kitchen—Wellington Nut Kitchen, furnace -and grate—Wellington Lump For Your Furnace Comox Lump—Comox Nut—Comox Pea (Tty oor Pea Ooal for yrar underfeed furnace> COAL MACDONALD-MARPOLE CO. LIMITED 1001 MAIN STREET Phone Bey. 210 ONE OF THE FINEST TONICS Good for Health Improves the Appetite CHEAP PRODUCTION Everyone knows that cheap goods can only be procured by using cheap materials and employing cheap labor. CASCADE BEER is produced from thc highest grade materials procurable —Cascade is a UNION produce from start to finish. VANCOUVER BREWERIES LIMITED Pritchard and others with making any such attempt, they did not give the comrades credit for much intelligence To emphasize this point, he stated that at the Calgary conference, Pritchard had quoted a state* mont made by one of the greatest minds of tho 19th Century, that statement being, "Only fools start revolutions; wise men conform to them.'' Most of the revolution talked of in the country was talked of by the ruling class, Tbey were scared, having less und e rot a tilling of tho international character of capitalism than tho workers had; in thcir ignorance, thoy became fearful of something thoy did not understand, ignorance having been alt through the ages the cause of fear. "To be revolutionary doos not mean to be crazy." The workers must understand their relation to the different capitalist nations of the worki; there were eome who did not yet realize their position. In the ease of Bussia, with .early 200 millions of people, the ruling elass, though not able to overthrow the soviet regime, had yet caused it untold trouble; so it had been also in Hungary. Tho dangor to thc workers in Grent Britain, if without France aud Italy they broke loose from tho capitalistic system, was in dicated by thc fact that during the war, even though acting with the Allies, England was on thc verge of starvation. -It was slill more evi dent what the position in this coun try would be, if the workers were driven .to deHperation. Thc Bpcaker quoted the local and British press to show thnt the soviet government of Hungary was defeated by intcrnutionnl capital, and that the same foe had harassed Russia; food and even medicines were kept from thom, and munitions were seat in to destroy them. Kussi* had committed a crime against international capitalism. The ruling class were afraid of the ideals' of domocracy spreading to the rest of tho world. They feared the end of the system which gave them thcir profits. But the system could no longer carry the human family nlong the road to progress; it must go down; nevertheless, Russia had had to pay thc price of breaking away; and the case of Hungary was the snme. They had earned tho enmity of the world's ruling clasa. Canada was a cmwitry of vast size and sparse population. The workers must first seo that they can'feed themselves during the transitional period. They had already seen how a Blight hitch in the railway facili. ties would mean starvation. In Russia, Lonin had thrown open the laud to thc peasants, and so enlisted their sympathy; in Canada, too, they must soe that tho agriculturist shall be prepared to play his part when the time comes for tho presont system to give way to the new. "In the very near future, capitalism has got to break down; and we must consider how to go through tho transition period with the least Buffering to our class. Vou are facing, not a government of this country or of the United States, but of the capitalist ruling cluss of the world. Thc countries nro not being governed by national governments, but by tho great financiers of thc orld. The league of nations is a lengue,--of 'international capital." The speaker expressed tho view that the workers want more geographical organization, and less of the craft und industrial organization of the past; also that "eventually we will go back to moro of the comsnumil life; our industrial centres will bc largely broken up.'' It was useless to e»y thoy nyiat drop politicul action; the term, however, had different meanings. "The industrial movement today is perhaps in a better position to exert political influence than the politicul organizations arc." The workera had some political power at thc ballot- box; they had more political power in their industrial organization. They wero using it in Knglnnd to wring political privileges from thc rulers. "Their interests are ours. as they succeed, wo shall succeed with them." In the caae of the Winnipeg strike thoy soon got up against the power of the government;'and, flrst of all, against thc civic power, as was usually the case. It was the civic power which proclaimed martial law thero, and in Vancouver it would have done so, too. In Winnipeg the workers wero now making overy effort to secure representation on tho governing bodies; they were nlso using thcir individual organizations. "This may sound liko compromise; we can do nothing due but compromise until the intcrnnlional working- class of the world carries out its mission." Tho political power, of tho working class lh Great'Britain was centered in tho Triple Alliance; tha Triple Alliance wub working closely in touch with tho parliamentary movement. As Groat Britain had been first in tho development . of capitalism, 80, in the sponger's opinion, it would be "the flrst place where the unrestricted democratic control of the means of production, will take place." j Many workers here wero nover I long enough on a job to get on tho voters' Hst; but, if they would devote their industrial organization to forcing political privileges, thoy would accomplish moro than if they gainod ten oents in wages, Not a single law in this province, presum ably passed in the interests of labor, had ever beon of any use te the working class unless enforced by an industrial organization. Having used their industrial organizations to wring politieal privileges for themselves, and at the stme time linked up with the country workers, they could go through the transitional period with possibly leaa troublo than any otber country in the world. Thoy had vaat resource!; and tbe itnallnesi of the population, if a detriment at flnt, might later bo an advantage "wImmi necessary lo shout "confiscation, robbery of hard-won savings of widows, busineu men and farmera/1, and to those who have given little or no thought to the origin of aapitai this mettfod ef attack seems to give the Socialist philosophy its quietus. The bourgeois economists assert that capital is the rosult of saving, and whilst thia hides the tracks of the big capitalists it'makeg a power-j ful appeal to the petty capitalists, and also to the email tradesmen and farmers who imagine themselves to be capitalists. It is quite true that thexo arc cases whore capital is the rosult of saving, but this oapital forms sueh on infinitcssimal part of the capital of modern industry that it is almost a negligible quantity. The large capital of this or any other country whioh is -engaged in industry is the result of robbery, oither directly from public funds and publie domains, er indirectly -by means of tke wage system, • Every high school boy knows the history of the fall- of the Sir John A. Macdonald ministry over the scandal connected with the floating of the Canadian Pacific railway. And although thc charter granted to Sir Hugh Allan aud his fellow conspirators, by means of whieh these gentle' mon were to receive 50 million acrea of the public domains, and $40,000,- 000 in cash did not receive the final sanction of parliament, u. few years later anothor company, headed by George Stephen and Donald Smith, put through- the deal whereby they got tho Canadian Pacific railway practically free* of cost and with a land grant of twenty-five million aeres. Much of thia land is still in the possessiuii of- the C. P. S. and sales-i-which arc made from timo to time form a very considerable portion of that company's revenue. Yet if you'asked him, Lord Shaughnessy would probably tell you that capital is the result of saving. But suppose that wc granted for the sake of argument that the Canadian Pacific railway in the first instance was built with the hard- earned . savings of men in different parts of the world invested in the enterprise.; that Canadian Pncifie-j railway hua long since censed to exist and the present Canadian,Pacific railway; ia continually being built and handed over, rail by rail, tie by tie, and spike* by spike by the members of the working class of today. One of the. bourgeois economists has a pretty, littlo allegory which ifl supposed ,to show the origin of capital and also the right of capital S»e that this merry gome will con- §*:nue as long as they sead members the capitalist class to represent )m in parliament. As George Ber- rd Shaw has said, "A parliament imposed of mombers of the eapital- ist class will make laws in the interests of capitalists, a parliament composed of membors of the working class will make laws in the interests of those who work." To attempt to organise a revolution to seize by force the railways, mills, mines and factories, etc., would be against law and order, and would be foredoomed to failure ow- *ng to the fact that "the big slick" s -in the hands of the capitalist class. But when the workers send their own representatives to parliament they can pass laws whereby it will bo lsw and order to. take over all these public utilities, and sedition and rovolt on the part of the capitalists to endeavor to prevent it. . com ARE GROWING to Make Arrangements Deal With British Wholesale The aggregate turnover of the or ganized co-operative movement ih Canada showed an increase for the year ef $224,294.00, to * 1,488,540.00. The amount paid in purchase dividends increased by $31,682.54 to $113,960.16, and the net profit surplus «32,28.1.I5 to $123,362.61. The aggregate share capital was increased by $15,838.02 and the loan deposits by $37,277.48. Substantial wage increases seem to havo been given to the workers employed by the societies for with a total of 154, as against 152 the previous yoar, the uggregato wage-bill increased from $60,317.06 te $103,414.72. Three societies which commenced operations this year are already doing an aggregate turnover at the rate of a Uiwrtur of a million dollars annually, jHjl, several other societies are in process of organization at the present time, under the guidance of the *-kl*anizotion department ef tke Co- •rative Union of Canada. ..... ..uiu ««w..bv- imiii ui •BO(iiMiirto.-JM.l*0,*nIe advontago to the ce- to take interest. It nitgh be well to *I*r*tiy_ consumers of Canada, both mention it right, here. -",to, _"*Hty and price of mcrchan- A carpenter named James is working with a saw and hammer and he I conceives the idea of making himself a plane by means of which he hopes to gain, eii«< plank more per yenr by his work. • . ..'..'..' He thereforo takes a few days off! and makea a .plane. Just as he has finished, William, another earpentor, comes along and naks him for the loan of his plane. "But," says James, I want to use it myself for by its use I can gain a plank in the year." -William says,*"Well, if you will loan it to me for * year I will give you ono plank for its use." "But," adds James, the plane will bc worn out in a year. If you will give me a new plane, plus one plank, I will lend you tbe plane for year.'' "Agreed," says William, and James lends the plane. At tho end of the year, tho plane, having been ivorn* out, William makes a new plane and returns it to James along with the onc plank, which represents interest, on the last day of December.. On the first day of the following yenr William borrows the plane again on tho same terms, uses it for a year, makes another one and hands the new ono plus one plank to James again. This goes on year after year and finally the wealth, bonds .or agreement fnlls into the hands of Jamea' son upon the loath of his father and tho morry-game is kept up. William making new planes each year, handing thom over and then borrowing them at interost, For be it noted, that aftor tho first year William borrows the plane which -he himself mnde, and goes on renewing tho capital of his master James by his own labor. The same thing is going on today. There is not an engine, nor a car, nor a rail, nor a tie, nor a spike of thc original C. P. R. at present in use.* William is mnking new C. P. lt.'.s every little while and handing them over to tho shareholders, borrowing rides from timo to time for which he continues to pay an interest. We ask any fair-minded man would it be an act which could be described aa "confiscation" if tho people of Canada decided to take ovor the C, P. R. without compensation! Tho forests and mines of Canada have been given as/ay, or we should say havo been taken sway from the people in the same high-handed man ner as the perpetrators of tho C. P. R. steal got theirs, and then wc are told that capital is tho result of saving. A perusal pf Myers' "History of Canadian Wealth" will show to those who arc interested, lion the coal and timber lands were acquired by tke gentle art of "saving," and how the governing of Canada, and the provinces for many yenrs has, merely been a question of dividing up the natural resources of the country in suoh a manner as to cause as little comment as possible from the man in the streot, whose country it is supposed to be. Tho recent governmont enquiry into the workings of some of our leading industrial concerns has shown how some of our honorable knights, baronets, etc., have been busy during the poriod of the war laying up for themselves millions of dollars of capital through the simple exped , j •..« price -ffiise, is expected by the promotion of twding relations with the cooper- jmltoe Wholosalo Society, the peat jtfiwglish wholesale and productive federation. Arrangements have been Hindu for a conference with'the On- tfta-rio societies, aad those in the Mar- 4itfeme Provinces, but owing to the present .uncertainty in connection Iririth the steamship sailings the del- I cgntion is compelled to leave a week later than was at firBt contemplated. In consequence the Ontario conferonco will be held at tho Labor Templo, Toronto, on the 18th August and the 0. W. fl. delegation will moot the societies in tho east at Sydnov on Jhe llth and 12th August instead of as previously arranged. Tint Air Striko Ends Washington—The first strike of air pilots in this country has ended by a compromise. Tho strike was caused by the post offico department's failure to reinstate two pilots who refused to operate planes the/ declared were dangerous. The striko threatened to spread to othor sections of the country. These workera wcro handled in a different manner than is the case with other workers who complain of grievances in the post offico -department, and after a conference with the nir pilots it was announced that one of the discharged pilots was reinstated and tho other'» case presents complications whieh re-. quire separate m-tioii." The strike afforded much amusement for shallow editors who attempted to be funny about "picketing non-union airplanes," etc., and who ignored the domand of those workers that danger to their livos be mi mi mi zed. Heroes Win Now Piy the Capital and Interest on Bonds Ii is officially announced that Lord Cowdrajr hu invested is 1,000,000 pound, of tke Victory Funding loin. From the word uaed it ia to be in* orred that hia lordship has already paid the purchase priee—namely, 800,000 pounds. The peraonal element ia irrelevant, of course. Let oa see what he and his heirs and successors may expect from the doal; asd let ua call them collectively "our inrestor." Oi November 1 next the Irst tribute will arrive 'in the shape of a dividend warrant for £1458 Os. 8d., being interest to that date. In May, 1020, and again in November, our investor will receive a warrant for 180,000; and so on half-yearly right up to May, 1M0, aid perhaps longer. By May, I960, our investor will have received ia dividends £1,081.* 458, md will be paid the face value of the stock, £1,000,000, a total of £2,M1,458. The original credit passod to the government wu £800,000, and the return in interest and appreciation of capital approximates to 5.6 per cent, per annum. If onr investor is able to sell at or near par before 1060, his particular deal will show a yot better return. Tho- government'a present appeal for some twenty-five times the amount which hu been cited—namely, for a subscription to the "Funding Loan" and the "Victory Bonds" together of £2,000,000,000 or more. It remains only to add that the last of the bonds is expected to be drawn by 197S, and that the return to an inventor ia not greatly be* Thirty Minute Sensational Aeroplane Trip Over Vancouver FREE Ticket numbers posted in store each week for week immediately past. Compare yours. You may have the right number. Shirt Special. Carhartt Overalls. $1.50 .$2.45 SEE OUR WINDOWS The Jonah-Prat Co. 401 HASTINGS WEST "Hands Off Unioni" Washington—Koep hands of trade unions" is the essense of a recent order of tho ordnance department of the army by Brigadier General Pierce, acting chief of ordnance. The „. ._, _,.. B .j „„ .order is directed to officers in chargo low that yielded by tho Funding of workers and declares that "it Loan.—Industrial Banner. I must be clearly understood that ther j shall be no abridgement of tho right of, men to join societies, associations or anions of any kind, and no limitations upon conferences between representatives of those bodies and tho proper ordnance represent* tives." Where is your nnfoa batten! "SOVIET RUSSIA" A WEEKLY Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, New York City U P to the moment of the reeent sensational defeats of the counter-revolutionary forces under Kolchak and Denikin, there was danger of immediate recognition of Kolchak by the Entente Powers, as Supreme Ruler of Russia. This would have meant increased support of the powers of reaction, and possibly open warfare on the part of the Entente against the Sonet Republic of Russia. And the friends of recognition for Kolchak are now only resting, ready to begin work as soon as another opportunity K offersitsett. "Soviet Russia" was founded to combat the enemies of the Soviet Government. It does this, not so much by exposing their crimes, although in that direction much needs to be done, but chiefly by explaining the principles and the practice of the Soviet Government of Russia, which is supported by the great masses of the people of that country. Authentic information is thus made available for those who have lost faith in the unsupported rumors and charges that fill the columns of the daily press. "Soviet Russia''prints articles by prominent officials of the Soviet Government, by members of that Government's Bureau in New York, and by Americans and others who have travelled in Russia, and have an appreciative understanding of the great work that is being done there. Features of Recent Issues of "Soviet Russia" No. 8—July 00, 1011 Kai M glppla—The C.ocho-Sl-iv.ki In Bib.rU. Arthur Benson*.—Eduction in ltUMift. Armando Zansttl—An Italian Yi.w o( Intervention. Maxim Osrk-f—Yealer-la** nnd Today. Allied Ateocitl.i ia I'l-raleo. No. 0—Awuat 3, 1»1» I. If. Phillip. Prlo-h-T*. Tnlk Ahout gorl.t IT. 7. n ra. IV. v. .Tapani*-* Terror in Siberia. America's Need fer Raasla's Baa* Materials. Riuaien ll.w material, aad American Bnalnus. Jetef BUeahuftr— H. Bmioner's Psrsdlse. Mo. 10—Aiicial a, '.is Z. E. Sylvia Panhhurst—An Ejr«*wiui***a, on Rustle. II. A Hovii't Hot*) te Heir, on th. t-ThoSlor.lt Situation, III. The Kffrrt of the War Upon KmaUn Indu.tr]-. IV. llu U. UtOIn—The Arre.1. at VUdl.or.to>. V. M. Phillip. Prie.—Th. Troth About So.i.l Hiissia, 2nd Instalment. At All Newsstands, 10 Cents a Copy Subscription Fri**** 16 ret year, I8.M psr half-year; $1.«5 per quarter Cider from: "Soviet Russia," 110 W. 40th St., N. Y. C, Room 803 reaches the point when she will have to throw off this system and institute tk* industrial commonwealth." Chairman J. W. Hogg introduced tho speaker as the "editor of the finest paper in tke Dominion of Cnnada." —ter the address W. Mc* Oregor sang "Kathleon Aroon," winning warm applnuHO, to which ho responded with •' Hoses in Picanly.'' Questions followed as usual; and Dr. Curry again leeontnandod thc uew ' Coob." The Strike Is Over But the Need for a DAILY LABOR PAPER Is as Great as Ever Local organizations and individual members of organized labor can assist in giving Labor a Daily Paper. The need of the moment is the Finances to start it with. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TOWARD IT? PAGE EIGHT ELEVENTH TEAK. No. 32 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vAwootJvii, b. a raiBAT—..... . 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Tramway service was suspended completely on Wednesday and there was virtually no bread to be tod as a result of tto striko movement whieh began witk tke police and now ineludes the tramway men and tbe bakers.. Municipal employees Tuesday voted to give 24 hours' atrike notice unless demands of the tramway mea are met. Physicians have adopted a resolution in favor of organising on • trades union basis. Trades Council Discusses Its New Constitution (Continued from page 1) Coggers' New Scale Likely to Be Granted (Continued from page 1) ship will still he ia excess ef tbe MOO. Undoubtedly tto Lamber Workers Industrial Union has tremendous possibilities ahead as a power ia the industrial movement, but ita strength will not be denned by a large membership, but by tke class* conscience*-, of 'the membenhlp, by their solidarity on tko job; by. tho degree in -which they understand that personal ambitions or antagonisms must be eliminated, and that that whicb tends to disrupt tke movement is in line witk the wishes and interests of tko employers. Class- conscious solidarity is tke only key wkick can successfully open the way to future emancipation. And only "on thc job" csn that key be used. Thero, at that point at which the worker is exploited alone can his freedom be attained. "Workors of the world, unitel Solidarity! Solidarity! Solidarity!" Mention tke Federationlit wkea yoa make a parckaae at a store. Government Bureau was only for returned men. Tkis was not so; it was for all workers. Del. Midgley stated that something further should be done, and movod that the information be secured from the man who had paid the ono dollar, and this information be sent to the Department of Labor for investigation. This was adopted. Seeretary Kavanagh roported that legal advice as to the position of the council had been secured, and that it would depend on developments during the next week as to what position the council' would tove to take. (Moscow, March, 1919) ' Whatever else they may think of him, not even hie enemies den-Ahat Vladimir llyltch Oullanov (Lenin) Is one of the greatest personalities of his time. I therefore make no apology for writing down suclt scraps of his conversation as seem to me to illustrate his manner of mind, He was talking of the lack of thinkers in the English labor movement aud said he remembered hearing Shaw, speak at some meeting. Shaw, he said, was "a good man fallen among Fabians" and a great deal further Left than his company, He had not heard of "The Perfect Wagneiite," but was Interested when I told him the genera! idea of the book, and turned fiercely on an Interpreter who said that Shaw waa a clown. "He may be a clown for the bourgeoisie in a bourgeois state, but they would not think him a clown in a revolution." He asked whether Sydney Webb was consciously working in the interests ot the capitalists, and when 1 said I was quite sere that he was not, he said: "Then he has more In* dustry than brains. He certainly haa great knowledge." He was entirely convinced that England was on tha eve ot revolution and pooh-hooed my objections, "Three months ago 1 thought it would end in all the world having to fight the centre of reaction in England. I do not think so now. Things have gone further there than in France, if the news as to the extent of the strikes is true." I pointed out some of the circumstances, geographical and economical, which would make the. success ot a violent revolution in England problematical in the extreme, and put to him the same suggestion that I put to Bucharln, namely, that a supressed movement in England would be worse for Russia than our traditional method of compromise. He agreed at once, but said: "That is quite true, but you cannot stop a revolution ... although Ramsay Macdonald wtll try to at the last minute. Strikes and Soviets. If these two habits once get hold, nothing will keep the workmen from them. And Soviets, once started, must sooner or later come to supreme power." Then: "But certainly it would be much more difficult In England. Your big clerk and shopkeeping class would oppose It, until the workmen broke them. Russia was indeed the only country In which the revolution could start. And we are not yet through our troubles with the peasantry." I suggested that one reason why It had been possible In Russia was that they had room to retreat. "Yes," he said. "The distances saved us. The Germans Were frightened of them,, at the time when they could have eaten us up, and won peace, which the Allies would ahve given them In gratitude for our destruction. A revolution In England would have nowhere whither to retire." .;• Ot the Soviets he said: "In the beginning I thought they were and would remain a purely Russian form; but lt Is now quite clear that under various names they must be the instruments of revolution everywhere." He expressed the opinion that in England they would not allow me to tell the truth about Russia, and gave as an example the way in which Colonel Robins had been kept silent In America. He asked Defence of Bussian Workers The defence committee roported that the committoe' bad done all possible in tke defence of tbe Russians arrested under the Immigration Act, and that in the ease of Borneo Albo, tbe committee were appealing his ease to the Minister of the Interior, and that tbe committee was issuing an appeal for defense funds. The Carpenters repotted that at a district meeting tke 0. B. U. constitution was endorsed, and a referendum vote ef affiliating with that organisation was to be taken. Tho council adjourned at 10.10 p.m, Chicago — Ten thousand steel workers at Gary, Indiana, and other points in tke Chicago industrial districts were idle today, the result of tho strike of railway shopmen. Tt was predicted every stocl furnace in Gary, Jollot and South Ckicago will be closed in a week unless tke striko is settled. Tke employers at the general wage conferenco of the metal trades at San Francisco will attempt to dodgo a blanket agreement covering tko entire coast, according to reports. An attempt will bc mado to set up separata agreements for eack locality, with caek local group driving the best bargain it ean put over. Clearance Prices and Special Credit Terms /VUB JULY CLEARANCE SALE went wonderfully well. On " going over our stock, however, we lind n number of lines which must atlll be disposed of to make room for Fall stoek, To dispose of these quickly we offered the following extraordinary bargains: LADIES ♦69.60 for : $49.50 110 sows and |2 psr w«k. SUITS 26 Only—Reg. *0_ BA ♦59.50 for «P J17.0-II |8 down and 12 ptr week LADIES' OOATS—Only a Limited Number £!".„„.!:!! $39.50 I .£'°...'__:so $29.50 ♦8 down and »2 per week I 85 down and M per week WE ABE NOW SHOWING HEN'S FALL SUITS Orders aro just being delivered—an especially line line-personally selected by our spoclsl buyer from the d_Q/V to CCA largest Eastern factories *4>«5U tpdU B. C. OUTFITTING CO. 342 HASTINGS STREET WEST Near Homer about Robins, "Had he really been as friendly to the Soviet government as he made out?" I said, "Yes, If only as a sportsman admiring its pluck and courage in difficulties." I quoted Robins' saying: "I can't go against a baby I have sat up with for six months. But If there were a Bolshevik movement In America I'd be out with my rifle to light It every time." "New, that," said Lenin, "is an hon* est man and more far-seeing than most. I always liked that man." He shook with laughter at the Image of the baby, and said, "That baby had several million other folk sitting up with It, too." He said he had read in an English Socialist paper a comparison of his own theories with those of an American, Daniel De Leon. He had then borrowed some of De Leon's pamphlets from Relnstein (who belongs to the party which De Leon founded in America), road them for the flrst time, and was amazed to see how far and how early De Leon had pursued the train of thought as the Russians. His theory that representation should be by industries, not by areas, was already the germ of the Soviet system. He remembered seeing De Leon at an International Conference. De Leon made no Impression at all, a grey old man, quite unable to speak to such an audience, but evidently a much-bigger man than he looked, since his pamphlets were written before the experience ot the Russian Revolution of 1905. Some days afterwards I noticed that Lenin had Introduced a few phrases of De Leon, as if to do honor to his memory, into thc draft of the new programme of thc Communist Party. Talking of the lies that are told about Russia, he said it was Interesting to notice that they were mostly perversions of truth and not pure inventions, and gave as an example the rocent story that he had recanted. "Do you know tbe origin of that?" he said. "I was wishing a happy Ney Yoar to a Mend over the telephone, and said, 'And may we commit fewer stupidities this year than last!' Someone overheard it and told someone else. A newspaper announced 'Lenin says we are committing stupidities," and so the story started." More than ever, Lenin struck me as a happy man. Walking home from the Kremlin, I tried to think of sny other man ot his caliber who had a similar joyous temperament. I could think ot nono. This little, baldheaded, wrinkled man, who tilts his chair this way and that, laughing over one thing or another, ready any minute to give serious advice to anyone who Interrupts him to ask for it, advice so well reasoned that it Is to his follwers far more compelling than any command—every, one of his wrinkles is a wrinkle of laughter, not of worry. I think the reason must be that he Ih the flrst great leader who utterly discounts the value of his own personality. Ho is quito without personal ambition. More than unit, he believes, as a Marxist, in the movement of the masses which, with him or without him, would still live. His whole faith is in the elemental forces that move people; his faith in himself ts merely* his belief that he justly estimates:the direction of these forces. He dees not believe that aay man could make or stop the revolution which he thinks inevitable. If the .'Russian .revolution falls, according to him, it fails only temporarily, and because of forces beynd any men's control. He Is consequently free with a freedom no other great man has ever bad. It is not so much what he says that Inspires confidence ln him. It Is this sensible freedom, Uils obvious detachment. With his philosophy he cannot for a moment believe that one man's mistake might rnln all. He is, for himself at any rate, the exponent, not the cause, of the events that will be forever linked with this name. Economic Policy In tho afternoon of February 26th, I got to the Executive Committee iu time tg hear the end of a report by Rykov on the economic position. He said there was hope for a satisfactory conclusion to the negotiations for the building of the Obi-Kotlas railway, and hoped that this woek! soon be followed by similar negotiations and by other concessions. He explained that thoy did not want capitalism In Russia, but that they did want the things that capital could give them in exchange for what they could give capital. This was, of course, referring to the opposition criticism that the Soviet was prepared to sell Russia Into the hands of the "Anglo-American imperialistic bandits." Rykov said that the main condition of all concessions would be that they should not affect the international structure ot the So* vlet Republic and should not lead to the exploitation of the workmen! They wanted* railways, locomotives and machines, and their country was rich enough to pay for these things out of Its natural resources without sensible loss to the state or the yielding of an inch in their programme of Internal reconstruction. He was followed by Krestlnsky, who pointed out that whereas the commissariats were, In a sense, altered torms of the old ministries, links with the past, the Council of Public Economy, organizing the whole production and distribution of the country, building the new Socialist state, was an entirely new organ, and a link, not with the post, but with the future. The two next speeches illustrated one of the main difficulties of the revolution. Krasln criticised the council for Insufficient confidence ln the security of the revolution. He said they were still hampered by fears lest here or there capitalism should creep In again. They were unnecessarily afraid to make the fullest possible use of specialists of all kinds who had taken a leading part In Industry under the old regime and who, now that the old ro. gime, tbe old systom, liad been definitely broken, could be nude to serve the new. He believe* that Unless the utmost use was made of the resources ot the country in technical knowledge, etc., ..they could not hope to organizer the maximum productivity which alone could Bave tbem from catastrophe. The speaker who followed him, Olebov, defended precisely the opposite point of view snd represented the same attitude with regard to the reorganisation of Industry as ts held by many who object to Trots* ky's use of officers of tke old army In the reorganization ot the new, teuton _raft Quality Clothes The Styles for Fall are very attractive. MAY WE SHOW YOU? Thos. Foster & Co., Limited 514 Granville St. For Practical Service A Burberry Coat The high standard of quality maintained by the makers of Burberry garments is readily appreciated by those who purchase with regard to intrinsic value. Styles are such as make the Burberry suitable for til seasons and therefore the most practical eoat to buy. There are some excellent models here now. C*me •nd view them. —Burberry of heavy English coating, in heather mixture, is made with Raglan shoulder, patch pockets, belt and convertible collar—$72.50. —B u r b e r r y Coat in Blighty tweed, in tones of sand and light blue, has buttoned patch pockets, set-in sleeves, convertible collar and belt—$79.50. —B u r b e-r r y Coat in heavy English coating, in heather mixture, with large overcheck, This model has Raglan shoulder, slit pockets and belt -$82.50 675 ORANVILLE Phone Sey. 3540 believing that all who worked In high places under the old regime must be and remain enemies ot the revolution, so their employment is a definite source of danger. Glebov Ib a trade union representative, and his speech was a clear indication of the non-political undercurrent towards the left which may shake the Bolshevik position and will most certainly come Into violent conflict with any definitely bourgeois government that may be brought in by counter-revolution. (To Be Continued) New Damp Starting at Deep Bay About tke 1st of September, tkere will be a new logging camp, beginning operations at Deep Bay. This camp will be known as The Burrard Mill Company, and is owned by Aberncthy k Douglas, and will*, according to the specifications, bo thc best camp on Vancouver Island. The superintendent in chargo will bo Mr. Thos. Matter, who is onc of tke best- known lumbermen in tkis Province. It will bc a railroad camp, and the equipment will be up-to-date every respect. The railroad building, as well as tke construction of tke camp, is in ekarge ot Hr. Arcade Varin, wko is a well-known railroad builder and mining man. Tke camp will bo the best that ean bo bad, as it will be constructed of dressed lumber ,and will be equip* ped with iron beds, springs snd mat* tresses, etc., snd there will be bathing facilities and a place tor washing and drying clothes. Tkis camp will employ about 40 men to start with, and will later operate two sides, and thereby givo employment to 00 men or more, and the union will, no doubt, bo tho employment agent for this concern. Tho timber on this claim is the best that stands on Vancouver Island, and the show for flogging it is tho best that could be desired. The camp is located on the Island High* way, also on tho railway, and ean also bc reached by auto from Courtenay, a distance of twonty miles. There is a good supply ot the finest drinking water horo, and the sito which has been chosen for tke camp, is quite free from flics and mosquitoes. It is an ideal spot for a camp. A wharf is being built for a boat- landing, and when this camp Is ready for operations, it will leavo nothing for any logger to find fault with, as it is being constructed regardless of cost, with a view to making it the best that can bo hod, at any prico, for tke benefit of tke workers. Reject luff Amendment Atlanta—Tke state senate kas refused to adopt tho equal suffrage amendment to the federal constitution. President Wilson urged the lawmakers to approve the act. Georgia is tko seeond slate to refuse ratification, Alabama also refusing. Eleven states have ratified, as follows: Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, New Tork, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas, Iowa and Missouri. Victimise Girls Taeoma — After winning their striko for higher wages and retroactive pay, telephone girls in this city and Seattle are being victimized. The company agreed tbat there would be no discrimination. Tho strike involved several thousand electrical workers and telephono operators, afflliated wilh the Brotherhood of Electrical Workors, and extended through tho Pacific const states. GREED IS STILL ATI HELM Motors Burned Wholesale to Satisfy Greed of Profiteers [By Sir Leo Chijtza Money] Wc are indebted to tbe Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph for record of an amazing instance of tbo greed of the profiteer. It is not only interesting in itself, bnt valuable in showing bow in every eountry, however patriotic, tbe commercial mind operates instinctively against national interest. It appears that tbe American army at tbe end of tbe war flnds itself left with a great fleet of motor vehicles, 100,000 in number, most of tbem in good condition. With French transport material badly dan-aged and dopleted by tbe war, these vehicles would be of extraordinary value to tbe French people, especially in the devastated die- trices. As everybody knows, shipping is still scarce, and it is exceedingly difficult for thc Americans to transport their 100,000 motor vehicles back to tke United States. They aro tboreforo willing to sell out to France and France has thus a grent national opportunity. But bere enters Greed. Tbe French motor manufacturers, although, of course, they havo done splendidly out of the war, have vetoed the Amorican proposal, and have obtained from the French govornment a decision (1) that the American motors must not be sold to private French purchasers, and (1!) that tbo French government must not buy tbem for the nation. Ab a rosult the motors are now being burned wholesale in order that tko profiteer may not be deprived of his opportunity to make further depredations upon the French public. Ho Headlines for burnt Motors It is a pity that the papers havo not given this very terriblo transaction headlines as big as those which they devotod tot tke scuttling ol the Germon fleet at Seapa. Thero was a touch of human naturo about thc Scapa business whicb appeals to us all if wo have a spark of spirit remaining in us. Only the very moan man desires to see his enemy reduced to the condition of a worm without a turn left in it. The burning of the American motors in France is a very different matter. It is the triumph of the profiteer over tho national interest. France has beaton her ancient enemy, with tko assistance of thc Allies, but, like her Allies, she is prostrate beforo tho real rulers of society in peace and in wnr. Insist on Six-day Week Little Rock, Ark.—Tho minimnm Sage and maximum hour commission Is refused to abolish the six-day provision of tho 54-hour law for women and permit seven days' labor. The request was made by hotel mon, wbo claim tbey are facing ruin and starvation if these women arc not permitted to "enjoy" a seven-day week. EARLY AUTUMN DISPLAY Featuring- the Newest Creations in Ladies' Smart Apparel Plan a visit and Iters sll about th. latest stiles in nsw M tnu fsr "Mi-Lad-rt." This showing tans you an opportunity to U a lcs-Asr sf styls, and It woa't le a strain ee year poekst-bttk either, because ws wm assist sm witb LIBERAL CREDIT Just pay a sstall dsptiit aal tht talanct te salt ytar cnnnUut. i DBK8S WM.L ON EABT TERMS AT THE New York Outfitting Co., Ltd. - HAS-riNOS STBEET WEST 143 Oppttitt Frtvinct 0*et Sty. 1911 B. C. Defense Fund The following funds bave been received to date by tbe B. C. Defense Committee on behalf of those undergoing trial in Winnipeg. Address further donations to the B. C. Dofenso Committee, Box 879, Vancouver, B. C: Hungerford O. U., Van t) 5.00 Cumberland Miners 205.50 Mrs. Hornbrook 1.00 Caulkers 1621, Vancouver... (0.00 Tailors' Union, per J. Kavanagh 5.00 B. C. Loggors (collection). 81.04 Socialist Party of Canada, Local No. 1 514.05 Trades and Labor Council, Vancouvor 149.00 Trades and Labor Council, pt. Sillikcrs' exs. Rec. 40 40.00 Geo. Goutkron, Princeton... 35.00 H. Huff .'. _.. 1.00 D. B. Caird, Vancouver 10.00 J. B. Amos, Burnaby 2.00 I.o»nl 97 S. P. of C, Smithers, B. C 27.00 Miners' Union, Silverton .... 50.00 J. Kift, Vancouver 2.00 J. Stcvonson (bnlnnce collection Victoria nieeting) 6.00 Trndes and Lobor, Victoria 100.00 Dan .T. Dcvane, Hedlcv .... 5.00 F. Williams, G. Collin, Powell River ' 5.00 J. Crow nnd A. Friend, Gibson's Landing 3.00 Collected by B. Bessnnt nnd G. Falstrow, Ocean Falls. 43.80 D. Leary 1 5.00 Walter Pass 6.00 Local No. 1, S. P. of C, Vancouver 88.20 D. Smith, Fornie 10.38 R. W. Adams, Vancouver... 3.00 J. .Morin, Jackson Bay, B.C. 5.00 Mrs. Ella Darlington, Vic... 2.00 E. B. Upton, Vancouver. 3.00 E. H. West, Vancouver 2.00 Local No. 8, S. P. ot C, Vietoria 25.00 Construe. Wkrs., Prinecton. 25.00 Geo. G. Boss, Alberni 5.00 Friend," Nanaimo „ 5.00 A. Le Hegarnt, Whonnock. 1.00 Harry Storer 10.00 W. A. McDonald 1.00 Chas. Webb, Powell River... 5.00 R. Pyne 5.00 J. A. Tcit, Spence's Bridge 2.00 P. B, 81; S. H., $2; B. W. J., 82 100 Local 49, S. P. of C, 820.10; dance, OU; J. A. Henton, 810.50; F. King, 84.00; A. Harris, 83.25; J. Kullander, 88.50 8i A. J. May, Vancouver — C William Hoalcy 11 Per J. Kavanagh .... S Geo. Sawezak et al. ..——. I J. Mitchell ; s R. Bossant, Ocean Falls .... 20 A. Friend, Dorchester N.B. ! Collected by E. Charles, ' Quatsino ....*. If W. Wilson, Rock Bay J Goodwin Metal Miners, Kimberley, B. C Ill A Merchant Slave, Georgia East „ t A. Rabina fl Chas. Donncr, Wellington... 2 Bobt. McLennan, Nanaimo. 3 N. Mills, Benton, N.B 5 J. Bird, 85; H. Bolton, 82; J. Gustsfson, 81 8 Metal Miners, Hedley, B. O. 146 C. Tuff, Mobcl, Ont. 14 J. Mahoncy, 83; J. McNeil, 81, Abbotsford 4 G. Feigcliunn, Montreal 3 W. Crnig, Vancouver , 1 Sointula Finnish Local 52 F. Ingles,. Gibson's Landing. 28 Total receipts „ 82,073 In a single yenr, diphtheria » typhoid fever claimed 2**100 lives New York State, according to a' cent issuo of tho Health News, 1 monthly publication of the N York State department of heal Had thces deaths occurred at c time as a result ot a firo or exp sion, the fact would havo been bet lined from one end of the eountry the other.' Yet these deaths wt just as needless, just as prevental and just as much due to some ont carelessness. It is high time, acco ing to tbe state health officials, tl tbo people awakon to tbo fact tl diseases liko typhoid are a discret to tbe community in which they < cur. Polluted water supplies can rendered safo by filtration and eh] ination, while the danger of infect! from milk ean .bo overcome by pi teprisation. It would bo well I municipalities and private conipnu: to understand tkat tkey may be bt legally responsible for lives lost illness, due to carelessness, ignores or inaction in the face of threaten outbreaks of preventable diseases Melbourne—Twonty-four railway- men were fined or disrated for refusing to work on a trnin conveying polico reinforcements to tke strike area at Melbourne. Mr. Conaidine, a member of tlie Houso of Representatives, wns Hcntenccd to threo weeks' imprisonment for alleged disloyalty. A stay of proceedings was, howover, granted. May Receive Benefits Manchester, England.—A court of referees hns ruled that cotton work- rs who have been thrown out of work becnuse of a refusal of spinners to accept an agreement offered by employers are entitled to government out-of-work benefits. 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