The British Columbia Federationist
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1920-10-22
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note: THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST INDUSTRIALCNITT: STRENGTH ■ TWELFTH YEAR. No. 43 EIGHT PAGES OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL. VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MOVING, OCTOBER 22,1920 POLITICAL UNITT i VICTOBT ii " i i in $2£0 PER YEAR WALL STREET THROWS FINANCES AGAINST POLITICAL STORM Bankers Want Producers to Pay Gambling Debts- Prices Taking Big Tumble—Revolt Sweeping Country—Panic in Agriculture Industry —Political Tornado Generated <By Laurence Todd, Staff Correspondent for the Federated Press.) WASHINGTON Washington Bureau).—Wall street Is becoming frightened at the revolt now sweeping west and south, , since the Federal Reserve Board has called upon the farmers to pay Wall Street's foreign gambling debts. "You are going to aee a dangerously high wave of radicalism ln this election," aald a big New York banker to a friend. "This assumption that Harding ts going to have everything his own way ls not safe. The Farmer-Labor party Is going to be a serious factor, and may •ven win, in six or seven states, lf prices continue to go down." Big business corporations are hastily throwing up defenses against the on-coming political ■torm whloh the artificial panic In term prices haa created. There are well-defined reports that the steel oorporatons for example have pro- . vided a oomplete organisation throughout Minnesota and * will ■pend' 11,000,000 In the final ten days of the campaign. In North Dakota and South Dakota, tt Is reported, the banking and wheat gambling and milling Interests of St. Paul and Minneapolis are to have exclusive management of the Wall Street funds; In Montana the flood of gold will be turned loose by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. organization; in Colorado tha Colorado Fuel & Iron Co, will have oharge of the battle against the Farmer-Labor rebels, While in the State of Washington . the' Weyerheuser timbr interests ar to be tha centre of reaction. But the panto in agriculture is sweeping away the very foundations of Republican and D…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (1912) ; The B.C. Federationist, Ltd. (1912-1915) ; The B.C. Federationist, Limited (1915-1922) ; The B.C. Federationist (1922-1923) ; The British Columbia Federationist (1923-1925).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0345501
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : The B.C. Federationist, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text