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THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STRENGTH. OFFICIAL PAPER: VANOOUVER TRADES AND LABTO COUNCIL, AND B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR POLITICAL UNITT: VICTOSt ELEVENTH YEAR. No. 30 EIGHT PAGES [LABOR FORCES ARE SEAnLE MEETING IS BROKEN UP | OM Country Workers Are on Way to Industrial Democracy [ Employers Are Preparing to Enforce Reduction in Wages . It Is th* general belief tbat em* | (lo-fert in Britain are preparing to I enforce a reduction In wagea. This would inevitably precipitate a great ' Industrial conflict, particularly there has been no reduction ln the coat of living. But the employers j realize tbat their only chance of success In auch an attempt is before the worken have heen released from military restrictions. This Intention, together with tbe govern* ment's hope to use soldiers as strike-breakers, as revealed In tbe I secret Instructions to army officers [Indicate tbe real attitude of the | employing class in Britain towards [the workers. A bye-election will be held in tbe I Bast Division ot Swansea. D. Wit. j llama, an I. L. Per, is tbe .Ubor I Party candidate. Tbe prospects of | success are good. New Radical Papers. One index of tbe strength of tbe I advanced wing of tbe labor forces I In Britain la the support fonnd for I the large number ot new radical [organs. Among these are "The I Workera," advocating direct action. I It Is Issued by the Clydeside Shop | Stewards. Then there is "The New I World" organ of the International I Union ot ex-Service Men and which I advocates tbe overthrow ot mllltar- | lam and capitalism. The children I are now provided with a magaslne called "The Red Dawn." A journal tbat will be of much value to the ' movement Is "Foreign Affairs," the official organ of the Union of Democratic Control. Alarmed at the rushing tide to the "left," the conservative element of British labor have launched an organ called "The Democrat," In an effort to retain adherents. If they fall In tbat respect tbey at least should not fall In securing flnanclal support. New books and pamphlets treating with the varied aspects of the workers' problem pour from tbe press la an unending stream. Pamplets on Russia are partlcular- * ly ta demand, aad. now, to tba already ling list ot sucb, is added a Uttle volume by Arthur Ransome entitled "Six Weeks In Russia ln 1119." It is highly commented on by reviewers. Lansbury's "Dally Herald," is fllling a long-felt want and continues to make Itself India pensable to tbe movement. Accessions te Labor Party. Mrs. Annie Besant, who bas recently arrived here trom India, has Just Joined the Labor Party. Her reasons are (1) In order that tbe Indian Home Rule Party should have representation in Parliament, which can only be secured at present through the Labor Party; and (2) because, as a Theoshophist, she realises that "the Socialism of Love and Service Is tbe fullest expression yet attainable of the law of Universal Brotherhood, and that lt will be the foundation of the New Bra". Another Radical ex-member of Parliament, Mr. Lees-Smtth, who fought as a private In the war, has Just joined the Independent Labor Party, the paciflst section of tbe Labor Party; and It Is rumored that another, who did apt belong to tbe paciflst group In Parliament, is about to do the same. Eight Liberal M.P.'s bave recently joined the Independent Labor Party. VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAft MORNING, JULY 25,1919 {/ U.a2..Toleo) $1.60 PER YEAR Nearly All Old Officers Are Re-elected— Good Vote The election of officers for Division 101, Street and Blectric Railway employees union, resulted as follows: Prealdeat: Cottrell, 477; Harraway, 263; Ferries, 26; Wedgebury, 1st. Vice.: Kirby, 195; Hobble, 1*4; Morgan, 173; Logee, 125; Ec- sleston, 109, 2nd. Vice.: Atkinson, 208; Foster, 103; Peppar, 165; Laycock, 128. Rec. Sec: Grlffln, 3(9; Lofting, 68. Bus. Agent: Hoover, 511; Kermode, 288, Executive Member for day men: Blaster, 188; Bllott, 16; Mclnnes, 40; Silby, 83; Woods, 12. Executive member for night men: Price, 122; Jackson, 65; Caird, 42; Bratley, 10; Ainsworth, 13; Johnstone, 31; Mainprise, 4. Executive member for extra men: Scott, 33; Oingell, 25; Deptford, 13; Larson, 3; Russell, 12. Executive member for Trackmen: McCulIough, 23; Auton, 6. Executive member for No. Van.: Viney, 32; Harris, 14, All the Machinists' Lodges .„ Wlnnipog and Transcona have lost their charters through participation In the Winnipeg strike. All members ot tbe Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen who participated are to bc tried and expelled. 61 were ex- pelled last week* and several hundred others are awaiting trial. Chairman Woodward of the Victoria Trades and Labor Council was not sustained by the council, when be ruled that discussion on the question of the O. B. u. was out of atmtj in Silent Parade of Soldiers and Sailors Rushed by Police __-.--o_.--v o„ewo^yJib^ieillllK9-i™tahties Are Perpetu- consciousness by policemen while he lay on the sidewalk in a pool ef blood, a score or more received severe bruises trom policemen's clubs and Ave indiscriminate arrests were made at Occidental avenue and Washington street at > p.m. Monday, when 160 policemen descended on an assemblage of workers who bad held a silent parade from Fourth avenue and Virginia street. The meeting at Fourth and Virginia, whicb had been called by the Workers, Soldiers and Sailors Council to protest against allied Intervention in Russia, was followed by a parade ot tbe audience down through the lower business district. Marchers kept perfect order while carrying a large banner with the inscription, "Russia Haa Lost Seven Million Killed. Is That Not Enough? Are We Fighting for Democracy In Russia?" At Occidental and Washington the marchers formed Into an orderly audience and were listening to the talk of a soap-box speaker when 160 policemen descended with drawn clubs and without warning slugged right and left with their batons. No warning to disperse was given before the attack commenced, according to numerous witnesses. Ll A Comprehensive Rural Policy Outlined by Labor Party A Super Tax Is Proposed for AO Idle Lands The New South Wales Labol* Tarty has announced a vigorous policy of making government-owned lands available to soldiors, share farmers, and other land-seekers. It advocates a super-tax to secure thc proper use of large areas ef privatcly-owncd lands within ten miles of any railway or navigable river—and which is not under cultivation. It also advocates the resumption of large estates for settlement purposes at a price based on the purposes for which it has been used for the last ten years. A vigorous policy of water conservation, with tho uso of water for irrigation and power purposes, and an investigation into tho artesian watoi*^ bolts with a viow to thcir scientific utilization is also promised. In order to reduce the cost of production and distribution the extension of state enterprises is advocated for tho purpose of marketing produce overseas and locally, purchasing requirements for rural industries, securing low insurances, providing financial assistance to producers at low rates ef interest and un der easy systems of repayment. Among the first things to bo dealt with under this head will bo fruit, fish and vegetable distributing depots in country, city, and suburbs; country killing and chilling of meat; purchaso of jute goods, bags, etc., for farmers; wire and wire netting factories; agricultural machinery works; wheat mills to encourage gristing of flour and export of flour instead of exporting wheat thus giving moro labor to the eountry; wool-scouring and carbonizing plants and mills for the encouragement of Australian manufacture; national marketing ef importable primary products. It is also the intention ef the Labor Party, when it secures office, to establish a stato rural bank, with power to issue bondB against land mortgages; facilities for debtors to tho lands department to transfer their obligations to tho bank; technical and financial assistance to primary producers to establish in eon- junction with the Stato Rural Bank, district cooperative credit societies for the purpose of making short- period loans. It is also intended to establish a state insurance scheme along the lines of that established by tho Labor Oovernment ot Queensland, which has been such as admirable success in tkat state. * In the matter of railways aad communications, it has been decided to liberalize freights on thc necessities of life to out-bsek districts; to institute motor truck services for districts where railways aro impracticable; while now railways sre to bo built with due regard to the seed for decentralization and tho movement sf stock in times of drought. ated on Men and Women Irish One Big Union Is Making Steady Progress Dublin—The city and environs of Dublin bave been livened up lately by numerous raids and searches conducted by Dublin Police under the close supervision ot Imported Scotland Yard and Military Intelligence Department officials, The records of acts of agression culled by the Irish Labour Press from the Dublin dallies is by no means complete, as many incidents are refused publication by the Censor. A case In point occurred in Ratb- farnham on the evening of 23rd of June. A man named O'Brien was shot by one of four policemen from behind a blgb wall on the road to Ballyboden, and wounded In the left thigh. Some unknown person summoned the ambulance from Rathmines, tour miles away. Fireman Fagan, who accompanied the ambulance, said to an "Evening Herald" reporter: "When we reached the place we found four policemen pulling and twisting and dragging him about, One of them bad htm by tbe throat. When witb the man who accompanied me, I was going to bandage the injured man, we were told by one big policeman to stand back and not Interfere. In the meantime Dr. Crowley of Rathfarnham came on the scene and waa obliged to appeal three times to tbe police to let him attend the wounded man." O'Brien was then removed in custody of the police after a struggle which must have lasted half an hour, during which he was bleeding from his wound. The police were withdrawn from the hospital on June 26th., when tbe X-ray examination showed that tbelr prisoner bad been crippled for life. Red Flag Illegal. At Sort, a man who carried the Red Flag on Labour Day waa required to give bail for 12 montbs for tbat crime. "Tbe Red Flag," aald the paid Magistrate, "was the symbol ot bloody, revolution and (Continued on page 8) RiP.PEMCE While the Dominion government, through its trade commission, is franking literature to Canadian women urging them to buy goods "made In Canada," the coal miners In Nova Scotia are protesting vigor* ously against being compelled to walk the streets out of work while the government permits the Canadian National Railway to buy coal from West Virginia, U.S.A. Actions speak louder than words. This Ib aot the only matter In which the government at Ottawa says one thing and does another. A large group of Co-operative So* cities in Southern Russia bave made arrangements to purchase supplies from the British Co-operative Wholesale Society. Prospect Good for Opening by End of Month A Vancouver Co-operative Society la now assured. Enough people bave signed up to warrant tbe opening up ot a store but the organisation committee intends to stand by lta original proposition of obtaining one thousand supporters before going into business. In tact tbe Held in which members can be obtained bas not yet been more than scratched. Commencing with next week letters will be sent out to all trade unions and other organisations asking permission for one of the half dozen speakers that the committee has, to address the mem* bershlp. Dozens of men and women who have been members of tho ohl country co-operatives are anxious to get in and boost this one, and with this help lt Is quite possible that our flrst store will be opened before the end of August. The committee has been practically assured of direct trading from the producer and.aitho many people are of the opinion that the wholesale houses will try and blook our progress, we can assure these that no trouble from the wholesalers Is anticipated, but that the society will not have to depend on the local wholesale houses for its commodities and that this matter has been carefully taken care of. If you have not already signed up for a |5 share, do not delay any longer, but drop a card to the Van* couver Co-operative Society, 301 Dominion Bldg., or phone Sey. 2354 or Sey. 6871. Federated Labor Party Sunday Meetings Are Well Attended Owing to continuous night work "R. P.'s" voice has not been heard for a considerable time, but next Sunday evening ho will break away from the job long enough to talk awhilo upon "Tho International Labor Situation." Tho field is big and interesting enough and the sneaker a close enough student with newspaper aud other opportunities to enablo him to get bome with the necessary lessons. Mr. Julian Haywood's recitals are still a feature o those meetings and he occupies the entiro half-hour from 7.30 on each Sunday ovening. On August 8 (Friday wook) tho younger members of the party have arranged a moonlight excursion to Horseshoe Bay, for which the North Vancouver Ferry No. 5 has been engaged. The boat will leave the wharf at 7.15. There will be one hour ashore for dancing and the party will return in time for stroet cars home. Tho fare is 75 cents and number of tickets somewhat limited. The excursion secretary says the "Moon is guaranteed." The Princo Rupert Trades and Labor Council Is now part of the O. B. U. Socialist Party of Canada Continues Its Meetings In Spite of Weather Two speakers will be at the Empress en Sunday night. These will be Thos. O'Connor and W. Kinney, and both ef tiem are ablo exponents of scientific Socialism. In. view of the world-wide unrest which is rapidly developing, it is of vital importance to thc workers that they attond theso meetings, which oro held under the auspices of tho Socialist Party of Canada. Questions are invited and the platform is open to any opposition. Doors open at 7.30 p.m. It was H. O. Wells who flrst illustrated the truth that in the kingdom of the blind, one must bow to the common falling and suppress his sight. The greatest vice of capitalism is the abnormal pressure It puts upon honorable men to abandon their honor and lust after money. Destroy the capitalistic en. vironment and you will liberate millions of men and women, set them free to realize the higher aspirations of tbelr being. Condition of Street Factor in Death of J. Elmer and Miss Freeman Trades unionists in the city were shocked at the beginning of tho week, to hear of the death of John Elmer, son of Mr. D. J. Elmer, cigar merchant of this city, who was killed in an auto accident on Twelfth street, New Westminster, daring.the week-end. Miss Olga Freeman, private secretary to Mr. E. S. H. Winn, chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board, who was with Elmer at the time of the accident, being so badly injured, that Hhe died vory shortly after in the Boyal Columbian Hospital. At tho inquest, which was held on Tuosday, tho jury brought in a verdict which put the responsibility for the accident on the rate of speed the car was travelling, nud the dangerous coudition of tho street below Fifth avenue. As usual, the dead person has to take pnrt of tho responsibility, but the fact remains that tho stroet wos in a dangerous condition, and the chances aro, if the street had boen in good condition, thore would not have been any such accident. Publie thoroughfares aro used by peoplo that aro fully acquainted with thoir condition. They aro nlso used by those that do not know what shape they arc in, and tho chances of the latter having accidents nro natural* ly tho greatest. Now, howover, that: two very estimable peoplo havo lost their livos, those responsible may see that the street is mado safe, and further loss of lifo prevented. Young Elmer served overseas with tho United States forces, and only lately returned. Ho leaves a wifo and a young daughter to mourn their Teamsters' Benefit Association Tho Tenmsters and Track Drivors' Sick Benefit Association will bold a special meeting in tho Labor Temple on Tuesday evening, August 5, to decide whether to continuo the organization. All members are -requested to attond. A group of worklngmen's clubs in South Wales are combining to purchase a brewery with whicb to supply themselves with beer. Meat Cutters and Butchers Union No. 643 A Special Meeting of the above Local will be held on Tuesday, July 29, to consider the constitution of the O.B.U. All members are urgently requested to attend. "Don't let George do it." »N i|at»tM"-»"l 'I I i|"*".»"tH'-<-« SWEEPING 0. S. Thousands of Men and Women Are Discontent j With Conditions Washington,—A strike epidemic seems to be sweeping the nation, according to reports to the labor department. The number out cannot be estimated. Tbe strikers are demanding more money, shorter hours, collective bargaining, right to organize and shop committees. . The seamen striking along the At lantlc, 28,000 shopmen on 10 southeastern railroads threatening to quit and demanding more money. Chicago machinists striking, Chicago building tradesmen out and Boston has a street car strike. Otber strikes reported are as follows: . Hegwlch, 111,, 1,200 out at Western Steel car foundry at Lebanon, N. R„ machinists and helpers are striking Macon, Ga., street car employees; Argo, 111., employees of the Porn Products company of Chicago; boilermakers and machinists; Peoria, 700 employees of the keystone Tire company; St. Louis, bakers' union; Sapulpa, Okla., street car strike; Jamestown, N. D„ metal polishers of four companies; all of which are prepared for a long Btrike; Jacksonville, Ohio, two hundred tuftilture workers out; Centralis, Fa„ one hundred miners; Worcester, Mass., Ave hundred' leather workers; St. Louts, tele* phone operators, linemen and electricians; Buffalo, several hundred Icemen, locksmiths and machinists; Fort Worth, Tex., Ave hundred boilermakers and metal workers; 00,000 cigar makers are on strike In .the eastern states. Besides these there are dozens ot otber strikes brewing. E Will Make Merry After Recent Sympatheitc Strike Vancouver Local 77A Telephone Operators will have a moonlight dance and picnic at Bowon Island eai Friday, August 8. The boat will le»te the dock at 7.45 and will rc- --» about 12.30. Tickets for the . 9lo affair arc on sale for one dol* lSf-:i*t the union headquarters, 440 Peader Street West, and at the oflico of the Federationist. Inexperienced supervisors are still en the job at tho B. C. Telephone Company's switchboards, with the result that tho service is very poor. Telephono users will know whero to phico tho blomo when they receive poor response to their calls, and a complaint should bo mado to the management about baving to pay ifor poor servico. The Laundry Workers' Union rave a benefit danco last night for be benefit of the operators. j Following are somo further contributions to the benefit fund: Laundry Workers, from sale 'of danco tickets $200.00 t, U. 100 I.B.E.W., Rock • Island 2.00 Shipwrights, Fasteners and Riggers 10.00 Civic Employees 25.00 L. U. 54 Heat, Fros and 'Asbestos Workors 15.00 JSS Workers' Union 30.00 "' P. Hays 5.00 1287.50 aims Britishers Are Getting Fed Up With Life in the Army Discipline Has Been Much Undermined by Actions of Rebels London.—Mutinies In the army are the order of the day, It appears from an article In "Common Sense," In which specific Instances are cited ln proof of the growing "signs of impatience and discontent." The facts cited are the following: 1. At Dover, 200 seasoned soldiers refused to go aboard a transport that was to ship them back to the continent. 2. At Wltley Camp, Canadian soldiers, Impatient with the delay In demobilization, set flre to the camp and burned down the shelters of 1,000 men. 3. Gordon Highlanders refused to sail trom Aberdeen, Scotland, for India on June 14. 4. At Brocton Camp, near Stafford, about 160 men marched into Stafford to complain to tbe civic authorities on being ordered to_ln* dla. 6. At Rlpon trouble occurred among Canadians ln camp, because the date of their departure for Canada had been Indefinitely postponed. 6. At Epson the police station was wrecked, a sergeant killed, and all the constables Injured, by about 400 Canadian soldiers, who were Incensed at the locklng-up of one ot their members on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. 7. At Luton the town hall was burned down by demobilized soldiers because the mayor refused to grant them the use of the public park for a meeting in which pension grievances were to be discussed. At Swinton Tuesday night, gangs of youths and discharged imperial soldiers looted twenty business premises and burned the flagBtaff outside the municipal buildings. At Coventry many shops were attacked, forty persons were injured, some dangerously, and police assistance was sought from Binning* ham. At Bllston the mob tore down a wall and used the bricks as missils against the police. Additional police were summoned from neighbor* Ing towns. Another One Goes O. B. V. Tho Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Warehousemen's Union of Vancouver, with a membership of 1100, haB turned in its A. F. of L. charter and ;one over to thc O. B. U. A few hamsters aro desirous of starting a new A. F. of L. locnl here. LOCAL SQUIBS Ex-soldiers, Radicals and conscientious objectors, inmates of the disciplinary barracks at Rirt Leavenworth, Kansas, hnvo gone on a strike and refuso to work, and aro demanding thcir freedom. Hundreds of troops with ball cartridges and fixed bayonets have surrounded the prison. Letter carriers of Toronto aro ei- lectcd to bc on strike Friday morn* ng in an attempt to force thc government to come across with a promised increase in wages. About 6000 prison guards ia the Province ef Quebec threaten to Strike for an increaso of wages tbat was promised, but has not yet been forthcoming. Several persons have been killed, dozens wounded and hundreds arrested in race riots between whites and negroes in Washington, D. C. American jingoes are trying to force u war on Mexico. Now it appears to bo Dcnikino's turn to retire. Tho Bolsheviki's aro landing strong reinforcements from tho Caspinn Sea, snd Dcnikino is reported to bo in continuous retreat Thc financial world looks forward to a steady increaso in the prices of all commodities, At least tbey warn us of this. A nation-wide strike of steel workers in the United States has been advocated by the officials of twenty- four unions. Two more Cooperative stores arc biong opened in Scuttle. Four moro are being planned and six are in operation. A northwestern branch of the National Co-operative Association, (wholesale) is in process of organization by tho mnny societies throughout thc Stato of Washington. Ex-Soldiers' and Sailors' Labor Council in Fine Trim The Ex-Soldeirs' and Sailors' Labor Council of Canada will continue to hold its usual, propaganda meetings. At 2.30 p.m. next Sunday Chas. Lestor will bo tho speaker. Lestor usually deals with matters of topical interest and tho hall at 152 Cordova Street East, with its com- fortabel atmosphere, should provido an enjoyable afternoon to all who attend. Numerous enquiries are being recoived bv the council from ex- service men, and theso aro dealt with in a systematic manner which ensures that tho enquirer is placed upon a proper basis. Each case is dealt with individually whero circumstances do not permit of a collective method being adopted. In order to onsure against financial difficulties the organization decided to institute a dues-paying membership. The matter was thoroughly discussed at tho last business meeting and 50 cents per month was thc fee decided upon, lt has been ascertained that the obligations of the organization cannot' bo met by a voluntary method of finance All workers ond especially ox* service mon aro always welcome at tho quarters of the Ex-Soldiers' and Sailors' Labor Council. Bayonets and Machine Guns Drive Strikers Back to Toil London.—Per rival Oihhs, special correspondent of tlie "Daily Express" nith the Rhine army, bas sent to his paper accounts that leave no doubt as to tho thoroughgoing methods the British army adopted for breaking tho strikes of Genua n- workinen. Thus ho writes; Tho striking metal workers at Bcnrath are tlna-ing that it docs not pay to flout British authority. When they rofusod to obey an order to return to work pending discussion by tho employers of their fresh demand for higher wages, thc strike leaders were promptly deported across the frontier into the unoccupied territory. This was followed hy the imposition of a .M:il<- of siege. Every one hud to bc indoors from Social Evenings WiU Be Held to Drive Dull Care Away At the businoss meeting of tbe Engineers, Firemen and Oilers unit of the O .B. U., held on Monday last, it was decided to hold a social evening once in a while in place of the regular business meeting. Tho genoral feeling among the members present was tbat they considered a better spirit of comrade* ship would be engendered among members by combining a little pleasure with the more serious side of their union activities. The following eemtoittee was elected to take up the organization work in connection with the enter tainment proposed: Brothers A. Bus- sell, A. Daykia, W. Service, A. Carlson, I. Mills and J. W. Bhodes. Any momber who is willing to perform some stunt in the way of entertainment, should notify the committee or Secretary W. A. Alexander, and they can be assured that thcir services will be appreciated. The following engineers have been placed on tho unfair list for taking members' plaees who were en strike: E. J. Balfour, T. Russell and Engineer. Bee. The last-named engineer took the placo of a member who was on strike at the South Shore Lumber Co., and is now taking the place of Chief Engineer W. L. Vaugha, who is on strike at the Hudson's Bay Stores, E* Vancouver Trades Council Demands Repeal Of Deportation Provisions TRIAL OF LABOR B Haebus Corpus Proceedings Starting in Case of Foreign Workers Big Meetings Are Being Held in Winnipeg- Funds Raised [Special to The Federationlit] WINNIPEG, Man., July M.—The preliminary hearing of the charge of conspiracy and agreeing to carry into execution a icditioua intention, to wit, to stir ti,* hatred and contempt for the government, and also to raise discontent, and were thereby guilty of seditious conspiracy, was opened here Monday afternoon, against Immigration Act and Aiw rest of Russian Workers Condemned The arrest of several Buasiaa * workers in the city under tke latest amendment to the Immigration Aet was brougbt before last night's meeting of the Trades and Labor Couneil, by a letter from the Steam Engineers, which stated that a member of that organization named Nicholas Nickson had been arreeted by the B.N.W.M.P., along with otker Bussians, and charged with being members of a revolutionary society. The Engineers asked that a mass moeting be called by the council fer the purpose of showing the general public just what was taking place; The executivo recommended that a mass meeting be held next Tuesday in the Avenue Theatre. Del. Alexander stated that Nickson was a man who was well liked by all waa mot him, and that he bad known, him for three years or more, lta also stated that thc trial of the iaca was being held behind closed doors, and that he had been unable to get into it, and that only the legal adviser ot the men arrested waa permitted to see them. Boi. Allman moved as an amendment to the executive's report that a referendum vote be taken throughout the country to secure united action, so that industry could ba stopped as a protest against tha action of the authorities. Del. Burni statod that he was informed that ths men arrested wero quiet, inoffonsivi people, who did not take any active part in the political or industrial movements in the city. He stated tbat thc authorities were playing to the gallery, and that the men instead of boing a danger to tha country were a benefit. He likened tho action of tho government I to tbat of tbe late czorist regime ia Bussia, but did not favor the: gea- oral strike vote at this time. DeL Kavanagh stated that it was all right to talk action, but it waa accessary before action could'bc take* that propaganda should be carried out, and the workers informed aa to the real facts of the situation. Del. Midgley said he agreed with the previous speaker, and waa aot in favor of the taking of a strike referendum. Ho said that the action of the govornment would not be conducive to tho securing of immigrants for tbis country, and that it was aa !>,■!*,._-.*_ tt' .._ V .""' "*vT --1 w-n*l that did not blow someone Other'cases iere held upJit7,"up *-■ •'""•'" ■^t"*'■ ** he d,d "ot losed pending the result cf thc de* lortation proceedings. A test caso )y woy of Habeas Corpus, covering tho movo to deport foreign workers without a trial, was to be proceeded with on Thursday beforc Mr. Justice Mather. So far evidence for the crown covers matter published in tho strike bulletins, and the Western Labor News, and statements in meetings made by Ivens, Johns and Russell, which wcro the usual strike and Socialist propaganda speeches and statements. This evidence was put in by tho military intelligence department. Tho outstanding feature so far in the hearing, is tho nature of thc secret servico department of tho Boyal North West Mounted Police, and their instructions to keep track of all Bolshevist propaganda. This force appears to bo assuming a very obvious role, but no informntion has as yot been secured as to where thc Canadian Siberia is located, as tho internment camps arc ns yet serving this purpose. Big Meetings Are Held Defenco meetings were held last Sunday, and tho halls were packed, nearly a thousand dollars being collected at onc meeting. Thc workers of the city are showing a most unusual clasa unity. Pritchard and W. W. Lofenux arc billed for severnl mass meetings. O. B. U. propaganda is liked by thc workers, but tbey prefer tho straight Socialist speeches. Returned SoldierB Solid Tho returned men seem solid for the workers, and are ready to parado at any timo they nro requested. During the hearing the O. B. U, end thc Socinlist Party of Canada wero repeatedly mentioned by the crown prosecutors. What About tbe H. C. of L.*> Two hundred sacks of what were once good potatoes now lie rotting in tho sun behind tho premises occupied by commission merchants by the namo of Edgett & Gillaml at 156 Coroova Street West. Every aow and again somebody hears of tons of foodstuffs being burned in tho city incinerator or thrown into tho inlet, nnd yet tho powers that bc quietly inform us thst what is needed is greaer production. and as the hour of six drew near, they and their wives and families showed no sign of moving indoors. Says Mr. Glbbs: 'They wcro disillusioned when, on the stroke of the hour, patrols turned out, maehiue-guns blossomed in unexpected plHccs, and they were driven into their houses at the point o ftho bnyonct. They went slowly and sullenly. From the upper windows women, as well as men. booed at the soldiers and mude menacing gestures. Instantly rifle bullets sputtered against the brick wnlls about six in tho evening until six in the and below the windows. Our troops morning, and thoso disobeying the order ran' ther isk of being shot without warning." At first, it seems, the German workmen could not believe that "tho good-natured Scots" who composed tbe troops would cany out the order.. red unhesitatingly at evory house in which these hostile demonstrations took place. Within n few minutes the entiro population disappeared behind drawn blinds, ond the town was ns silent nnd peaceful as a"!6'1* borders. think that tho workers would favor a general strike at this time. Tie recommendation of tho executive was adopted and the amendment da* fcated. Opposed to Standing Army A resolution from the Hamilton Trades Council protesting against the establishment of a permanent military force of 10,000 men waa read, and endorsed by the councU. Council and the Press A communication was received from the Longshoremen asking that the press be excluded from thc council meetings. The executive recommended that tho request be granted. Del. Smith opposed the recommendation, stating thnt he would leather (Continued psge ' NO PEACE UNDER cemetery, ■ Jack Harrington Deals With "Peace" at the Empress At the usual Progaganda netting of the Socialist Party of Canada In the Empress Theatre ou Sunday Evening the 20th Instant, Comrade John Harrington handled his theme In a Masterful manner. The subject of the lecture was "Peaee" and tbe Speaker pointed out In hla opening remarks tbat Conflicts between Nations and People bava been to a great extent disputes with regard lo Boundaries. However, the distinguishing feature et Boundaries has varied with time and as the needs of the people changed with the development cf Industry. The Market Places In tbo more simple social divisions were the Neutral Zones and were to a greater or less extent embryonic boundaries, in tbe course at time as the simple methods ot existonce developed Into the com- plex and as Nations began to take form some natural pecularlty waa agreed upon, most frequently aa a result of coulllct. These natural barriers were usually rivers. The Hhlne was at one time the Natural boundary of Germany, A period was reached lu tlie Humun History when an individual, l:e:, James Watt, recognized tho possibilities ol Steam, as generated by the Tea Kettle, ln Its application as a means of locomotion. This fact necessitated a new method of National Division and Rivers no lotig- cr met the requirements or the sur* vlvlng Nations. Those Nations which were to become dominant oucroached, not througlra desire to do evil to tlieir neighbors, upon their neighbors territory to an extent which rnai-!.- them to Include tho Coal and Metal Mines within " ' * ' The Nations losing (Continued ca sago 8) ■■^ PAGE TWO eleventh yea*. No.» THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST tancovte* b. a LAST WEEK OF THE July Clearance Tremendous Reductions in All Lines of Summer Merchandise for Men $21 $30, $35, $40 MEN'S SUITS. A complete clearance of dl odd and single suits Arnold & Quigley 546 Granville Street Kansas City, Mo.—Warnings tbat thc western harvest fields aro already oversnpplicd with labor for completing the wheat harvest as far north as the Canadian line has been issued by the federal employment bureau. It is stated that men are pouring into the harvest belt with little prospect for employment for tike lata arrivals. At The Pantages A big attraction on the programme at the Pantages next week promises to be that of a musical comedy show by Ms L. Gxeenwald and T. Dwight Pepplo and called "Hello People, Hello." Adele Jason and Al Prince will be seen and heard in the stellar roles. For the special added attraction Manager Pantages announces the engagement of Foster Ball, one of the best character actors In vaudeville, and Ford West, in their elassic ■ketch, "Since the Dayi of '61." Ball takes the role of a civil war veteran. Hie new bill nlee promises te be a notable entertainment for children as well as "grown-npa," for the reappearance ef Bichard the Oreat, styled ia the "house literature" as '' the monk who made a man of himself," is announced. The Fire Novelty Minstrels will offer a hodge-podge of mirth and melody. Dorothy Lewis is nice te look at, to judge from her photographs, and is said to have a deep contralto voice thnt will add much, to the musical side of the show. Brosius and Brown will.offer bicycle riding, roller skating and acrobats. *" Buy only from a union store.. SLATER'S QUALITY SERVICE FREE DELIVERY heat DEnsnoiT VEAL hate at Ted, yu lb Me Lelu •/ VmI. par lb. .... tie Ramps at Ve.), p*r lb. We Shoulder ol Veal, ptr Ib. .. .Ifie P»0VI8I01C DBFASTMEHT Sitter's Siloed Streakf B.con, per lb. .-. S5e Slater's SllMd Streaky Bacon, per lb ~, 800 Slater*. Sliced Boneleii Boll, Ib. - _ — IS Finest Oxford Saniaite, per lb Ate Fineit Crescent SMRafie. per lb..-.lfo Hnesl Pork Spar. Ribs, lb. ita BAOK SAOOI SPECIAL Final Saiar Oared Baek Bacon, rea-alar 60. lb., .peclal Friday. par lb toe aamt imoials Flaeat Pot Booiu, Iroa, Ib Ue Ftncat Oven Roaat, Iron, lb Me Fineat Rolled Roam, lb. . Mc Flneet Canadian Cheese, lb. ...-.-..Sic Fineit Pure Lard, per Ib 40e Finest Beel Dripping, per lb. ~...S6e aiooEiT BEPAxmmra Slater*. 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The Above Card Displayed in Butchers' Stores Denotes That Union Men Are Employed: The following butcher, are wortkjr of every consideration by members of organized labor. "Show thia ed. te yonr wife." Only first class meat at reasonable prices is handled by these stores: MODEL MARKET - 430 Bobson St, gey, 3919 VERNON MARKET „ 419 Vernon DrlY» MAT OROOKER flOl'A Campbell Ave. High. 110 X, L. PARKER .786—39th Ave. East. Eraser IW IXL. MARKET IMS—lth West, Bey. lit BEBESFOBD'S FISH MARKET... 1747 Commercial Dr. High. 432 DEVON MARKET 4690 Freeer Ave. Pair. 572 OEO. AYEB8' MARKET.... .207 Joyce Road. CoUlngwood 124 29 POINTS FOR Bi; Interests Publish a Pamphlet of Advice to Workers The Question of Shoes for the Family —is always a serious one in these days of abnormal conditions and "Sky- Limit" prices. In the many years this shoe eompany hee done business with the people we have never failed to observe the principle of THE SQUAEE DEAL. Whether you drop into thie store today, tomorrow or a montb from now, you will hnvo the conscious feeling thtt tho shoes you buy ere shoes of unquestioned QUALITY and the best obtainable at your favored price. See Onr Line of Sterling Union Makes Goodwin Shoe Co. 119 HASTINOS ST. EAST The Facts Do Not Coincide With the Statements as to Russia [By Georgo F. Stirling] There has just been published a pamphlet by the Canadian -Reconstruction Association of Company Promoters, Financiers, Bailway Hag* nates, Profiteers, and other so-called respectable citizens, setting forth ia 29 points the true meaning of Boi ahevism as a lesson for Canada not to follow. Granting that aU these pointB are substantially true we havo no hesitation in saying that the great majority of thinking men who do not belong to the parasite class would gladly accept this regime of the Bussian working-class government with its good and bad in return for tho terrorism, violence, rapacity, and immorality which is left like a slimy trail in the wake of capitalist governments. This pamphlet is being sent out broadcast to farmers and judging by tho stress which.is laid on the confiscation of farms it is evidently meant to mislead the farmers u to the true relation of Bolshevism to agriculture. The idea of ths pamphlet is that if Bolshevism came to Canada tho ■hard-working farmera who have toiled and moiled for years to hew a farm, out of tho wilderness would be robbed of the results of their labor. This is a piece of wilful and pernicious mendacity. The exact opposite was the case in Bussia. The farms were not taken away from the farmers, but thoy were taken away from tho Bussian aristocrats and German financiers, who owned thorn, and GIVEN TO THE FARM EBB who worked them. The extent of German control of the farming sections of Bussia seems to bo little understood in this, country, and it may come as a surprise to many to learn that millions of aeres were owned and controlled by German bankers. The Bussian aristocracy wcro too lazy even to collect rents, and leased or sold vast areas to German syndicates, who in turn rented them to the peasants at from 50 per cent .to 100 per cent, inerease. In the reign of Catherine a great immigration policy was adopted in order to develop the treeless prairies of Southern Hussia. Land was offered free to settlers in farms of 50 dezatins (about equal to a ■unr- ter soction) and foreigners were exempted from military service. Large numbers of Hennonites flocked into Bussia and settled in these fertile plains, German bankers in many cases financing those people. Subsequently a law was passed making military service compulsory, exemptions being granted to those willing to do afforestation work. This meant that only the wealthy could gain exemption and tho poor farmers hud oither to join the army or get out. They got out and gradually tho land passed under the control of these German financiers so that wholo provinces wore owned and controlled by a mere handful of Germans. The province of Ekater- inoslav for instance shortly prior to the war was owned by one German, a man named Falls-Finen. What Teally happened in Bussia therefore after Lenin and Trotsky gained control was, not that tho farmers wore robbed of their farms and stock and improvements, as this lying pamphlet would lead one to believe, but on the contrary in a vast number of cases the land waa taken from German syndicates and German bankers and givon to the Bussian peasants, who had hitherto worked like slaves on the land for a mere pittance. Nevertheless the capitalist governmont of this and other countries, so degraded, so immoral, so lost to all human decency wore they, that they would rather rather fight against the workers of Bussia, and villify tbem for taking possession of the land which had been stolen from thom in the first place by German parasites and Bussian aristocrats with strong German sympathies. But murder will out. And thanka to the persistent efforts of the educated workers of England, and Franco, and Italy and America and this country, the Allies have been forcod to withdraw from their great Bussian capitalistic advonture. Tho Bolshevist governmont of Russia inherited a distracted Russia; a Russia disorganized by war; a Russia sold by its Germa_nizod aris- tkTiitic governmont to tho enemy, und torn and bleeding by internal intrigues of Monarchists and capitalists, and at the same time harrassod on all sides by the armies of capitalist governments who trembled at tliis great Bussian awukening of the workers to thcir truo destiny. In spite of this the government of Lenin has mado good, and when the last foreign soldior has been with-, drawn she will very soon be ablo to tackle tho business of reconstruction. The capitalist press of the world, however, will continue its campaign of misrepresentation, it will seize upon every littlo vagary like the nationalization of women by a littlo bunch of anarchists, and in spite of the contradiction and denunciation of these falsehoods by the Bolshevist governmont, it will continuo to peddle these lies, thinking thereby to stem tho tide of the social rovolution. No one should be surprised that Ihey do this. We should oxpoct them to do it becauso tho evolution of the social conscience whioh is sweeping the world will eventually sweep capitalism to its doom. Labor is awake; labor is militant; and soon labor will be triumphant. Eleven of tho points which are supposed to show the depths of depravity of a working-class government, arc in rcferonce to the nationalization of mills, mines, factories, forests, banks, otc, and in ordor to mako it look as damning ae possible the word "confiscation" ia used, entirely oblivious to tbeir own m HttDAT.. July 95, 1 Russians Could Handle Kolchak II United States Got Out [Joshua Bosett in New Bepublic] mainly ef effieers. Bet tke Lord wu on hii side, and ke wae receiving a peat deal of "moml" support from tke Japanese, tke English and even tke French. And indeed, Da January 22, Kolchak 'i telegrapk agency keralded tke following messages: "The British Government haa ex* pressed through Sir Charles Elliot, British high commissioner, its great sympathy and interest in the efforts of the Kolchak administration to establish a free government in Bussia on the firm basis of publio trust." "The French government, through the Fronch high commissioner, M. Egnot, expresses ita great pleasure in the co-operation between the Ekaterinodsr central government (General Denikino's) and the Kolchak-government, and remarka that the appointment of Sazonoff es the joint minister of foreign affairs has served to strengthen the Kolchak government, thns leading to a recognition ef Kolchak's supreme power." Snronoff, by tho way, kas been one of the mainstays of the ministry of Czar Nicholas. Japan Helps Kolchak "Morally" It is not necessary te expatiate on the .-moral" and othor assistance which Japan has rendered Kolchak. The world is too well aware of the nature of Japan's love for Bussia. The proof of the love for the pudding is, after all, in the eating of it. The Czechoslovak and Amorican policies presented a decided con* trast to those of the other allies. On November 21', three days aftor Kolchak'» coup d'etat, the following resolution was passed by the Czechoslovak national council, in order to put a stop te conjectures respecting its attitude toward current events, hereby .declares: "That tke Ceeeho-Slovnk army, wkick is fighting for the ideals of liberty and tke self-government of nations, cannot and will not cooperate or sympathize with a violent change which is perpendicularly opposed to such ideals. The chnnge of the 18th of November at Omsk has subverted the very foundation of that principlo of law and order which must be the beginning of every government." The reader will remember it was proposed, lergely through the efforts Of President Wilson, to invite representatives of all the Bussian political factions, including the Soviet Bepublic bf Central Bussia, to a conference at Prince's Island. The reader will remember it wat proposed, largely through the efforts of President Wilson, to invite representatives of all the Bussian political factions, including the Soviet Republic of Central Bussia, to a conferenco at Prince's Island. . Kolchak took fright et this, and addressed a messago to his army, in which he declared his uncompromising attitude—the Bussian people would not deign, ke said, to treat All through December, ,;J»nuary and February, Kolchak wt|i'bsuing call after call far offlcen—for officers of tkis, that and tke other yeu. I naturally wondered why he did not ask for men. The answer came simply at a little tea house eae evening. "If Kolchak would only issue a call for a general draft," said a Bussian whom I knew quite well, "that would indeed be tke end of him. But tho devil knows his own game. Kolchak is very well aware that no sooner will any considerable number ef tke people feel tke weight of the rifles in their hands, than his entire diabolical machinery, together witk kimsclf, wiU go up in a cloud ef smoke." In tke town of 1 had need one day for -a force of 90 Bussian soldiers. I applied to General B. "Ninety menl" ke exclaimed. "Where am I going to get them!" "You keve two regiments kere." "True. Two of the most distinguished regiments of the Bussian army. One of them consists of 12 officers and soven men, and the othor of nine officers and 10 men— tho crack regiments of tke great army that is going to aave our Holy Bussie." "Is that the entire force at your command!" "No. That is what I am fond of calling my 'ideal' force. But I have a real force, too, and my real force is entirely at your disposal. It consists of two adjutants, two bookkeepers and a typewriter girl. You are welcome to make uie of it." Kolchak Army Mainly Officers The question interested me. For the monarchist papers ln Siberia were now reporting great victories in the direction of Perm and towards Samara. I inquired among the "faithful" as to the extent of Kolchak's army. It wae true,'they said, that his legions consisted capitalist law that it ie not confiscation to take stolen property and return it to its rightful owners. The oarth was originally the Lord's; it came to be the landlord's .through theft, nnd generally speaking capital is the result of robbery. It is perfectly just therefore for the workers to toko possession of tke capital which they have produced. Four of the pointe refer. ty the disfranchisement of idlers; 'The workers are in perfect agreejment with the principlo involved._ Xft all capitalistic governments it' is. the workers wko aro disfranchises se that the idlers een hold the" whip hang over them. When LcSfine and Trotsky got into power tkefrejKSrscd this, giving tho reins of porfBir.W the useful citizens. '*■ -J"1 Point14 refers te tke establishment of universal miliUry* sWViee regardless ef religious acrujHcS'aud conscientious objections just? lift it is in Canada, whilst Point IT Wfcrs to tke separation of the cVuTchcs and tke schools, just like it is in a C. Point 20 speaks of the coifdfting of the rights of citizenship on aliens without regard to length" of residence or intelligence. In Canada, our just, honorable and God-fearing government takes away the rights of citizenship from aliens regardless of thir length of residenco er intelligence. Point 19 is a clincher against Bolshevism. "The refusal to recognize the existence of God in its governmental and judicious proceedings." Think of it, my fellow workers, a government like ours in Canada which today has men in gaol for their religious principles; a government which haa deprived mon of thoir liberty because they refused to break the Sixth Commandment; a governmont which hns connived at tho handing over of the Shantung Peninsula witk 30 million Chinamon to the Huns of the Pacific, talking about recognizing God in its proceedings. No government in modern timos recognizes God in its proceedings, and the only difference between tho Bolshevist government and any capitalist govornment is tkat tho government in Bussia doei not mako any hypocritical pretense of doing so. When a battleship is launched in England for tke express purpose of blowing tke Sixtk Commandmont to hell, it is no recognition of God to have a parson casting his eyes to hoaven and mouthing a prayer; in fact if there were a God anything like the conception of our capitalistic governments we would expect to soe the parson got a slap in the face from an unseen hand and knocked kead over hoels over the side of the ship. Nol Not You ean bet your lifo there won't be any kissing of stuffy testaments when tke workers get into power. Their Yea will ho yen, and thcir Nay, nay. They will recognize God, however, in the only way it ia possible, and that is by doing justly. The rest of the pamphlot is about on a par. It is being circulated by mon of woalth in order to divide tho workers if possiblo, end prevent them from partaking of tke tree1 of knowledge. But it ie of no avail. In fact it is about as useless te stem the tide of the working clnss revolution ns if they were to spend their money by hiring mon to stand up in overy town and hamlet of Canada, and for onc hour every day to.shout from some housetop, "God damn tho Bolsheviki." If there is any truth in the Scriptures which our capitalistic parsons have beea hired ito'in* stil into the minds of the workers, it is a truth which is seldom iff ever commented upon nnd it is thie: "Go to now yo rich men,* weep and howl for your miseries." that shall como upon you. Your -riches are corrupted and your garments nre mothcaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of thom shall be a witnoss against you, and shall ont your flesh as it were flre. Ye hnve heaped treasure together for thc last days. Behold tho hire of the laborers who have reaped* down your fields WHICH IS OF YOU KEPT BACK BY FBAUD, cricth, and the cries of them which havo reaped have entcrod into tke ears of the Lord." THB HIRE OF THE LABORERS IS THE PRODUCT OF THEIR LABOR, and it can only bo fully paid whon the tools of industry uro commonly owned nn_ profit-* is abolished That is the teaching nf whnt our masters call tho revolution-try waehiaa elsjia. witk infldele and outcasts—the mie- aion ef tke army wae te rescue tke holy religion—te purge tke lend • • • and se forth. Aay one ae* quainted with the language ef the Black Hundred of imperial Bussia can easily imagine Uie rest. General Graves thereupon expressed tke opinion that if Siberia were te be adequately represented at Prince's Island, those groups ot the Siberian population who considered the Kelebak government illegally organized, must be allowed to send delegates as well ee the Kolchak government itself. Gravee Refuses Aid te Pretender The chief of the A. E. F. had open eyea. He refused to allow his troops te do any fighting for Kol* cliak, or even to hunt Bolshevik, and kept tho American soldiers con* sistcntly in the oast of Siberia. Moreover, he thought it was wrong to brand all the dissatisfied political elements as Bolshovik. Whenever reports came in of pre* jeeted murders of real or alleged Bolshevik by Cossack' freebooters, Goneral Graves sent American soldiors to intercede in bohalf of tho victims. If execution did take place, as in Habarovsk, it waa in spito of intervention of American troops. Under these circumstances it was not surprising that Kolchak'» press agencies now began to speak of President Wilson as a dreamer and a Utopian. The fact it that Kol* ehak kad ceased to look to America for support in his antocratio ambitions. But ho did not need it. He had the substantial co-operation of England and Japan and even ef democratic France. I now asked a leading Zemstvo official what their course of action would be if the demolition of representative government in Siberia should proceed still furthor. "It cannot proceed further," wae the disheartened reply. "The pre* cess is complete. Our press i: muzzled. We nre sure te be murder* ed if we speak aloud. Porhaps you can think ef something! You Americans have plenty of leisure to think." I was a little discomfited by tke last remark. "You refer, of course, te our policy of non-interference," I replied. "Bnt yeu know perfectly well tkat it is not our business to interfere ia your family quarrels." "No. Your businoss is simply to sit and witness the interesting spectacle of an autocracy being fastened upon Siberia. And how we welcomed your coming here! You remember!—" I remembered—the enthusiasm for America and everything American— thcir eagerness to imitate our wayt and methods—their dream of constructing a United States of Bussia cast in the mold of tke United Stntes of America. "So vou think we had better get out of Wc!" "Well, the feet is," ke said, "that left to themselves tke Bussian people could eope witk Kolchak vory easily indeed. You know, they coped with Nicholas. But tkoy ean hardly start a row while their house ia full of guests. It wouldn't be polite. Lenine's Fight Against Syndicalism [By Bobert Minor] Ae nobody can build a state on tke foundation of en olficordofying, ambassador-killing volatile minority, the Bolsheviks had to shift their governing structure more completely on to tho steadier support of the inactive majority—in other words, to establish what practically amounts to "democracy." Thoy felt that thoy had to do to the industrial unions whut they had done to tke army—bring them under the central political authority. Anarchistic syndicalism was practically controlling all the industries of Bussia. Politicnl power cannot exist and tolerate an independent economic power. Syndicalism was to give way to government ownership, political control. It was hard to make tke industrial workers submit to it. Throughout the summer, while Trotsky wrestled over tho Russian prairies witk the independent regiments to make thom accept him ns wnr minister instead of an adviser, Lonine wrestled in the towns to down his syndicalists. A "Council of Publio Economy," consisting of political and technical specialists, was flrst nppointed by the govornment to ovorlook and advise the industrial unions ln thcir production. Thore was no objection as long as the councU had nothing but advisory power, and the syndicalists worked witk it harmoniously. Little by littlo the skilled hand of Lenine began to weld into the council of public economy nn absolute authority over all productions and all mattors pertaining to the factories, mines and railroads. To disentangle the governmont from syndicalism, it was arranged for the industrial unionists to havo two separnto ways of voting. . Each haB one vote for a politicnl delegate und another vote for his factory council, which no longer has any political powor. Lenine Succeed! In the political field tho worker hae become a voter by occupational division instead of by geographical district as in England nnd America. In thc industrial field tho worker is a member of an industrial union in a government-owned plant, tho government controlling everything excopt some internel shop labor matters. Lenine succeeded in this tremendous chnnge, ditching syndicalism and substituting conventional government ownership, only tty tolling tho industrial unions thnt it was a temporary measure, due to military necessity, and that later tho political authority would fall away again and lonve tho purely industrial organization, But I don't think it ever will unless many yean from now by another violent revolution against tke most revolutionary- proof governmont ia tko world. The ideal of the original simon- pure Soviet system was thot: 'The constitution of future socioty shall bo defined, not upon gco* ■graphical lines, but upon the lines of industrial unionism." Without ecntral (enforcod) authority that would come pretty close to anarchist syndicalism. With cen- trul (enforced) nuthority it would amount to tlio programme of the Aiin-rit-in Hni-iiitiflt Labor party as tset forth by Daniel de Leon. But after going tkrougk the anarchist phase, which tho Bolsheviki could not prevont, and tken tkrougk tko Leon phase, which Lenino calls hit ideal, the Bussian Soviot republie is now boing tempered by arrange ments to let in foreign capital. IB Labor Centre It is important to trnoo the way in which tho Bolshevik government eradicated anarchist syndicalism, be* causo that govornment it at present planning great industrial concessions to entente bondholders and American capital. As things are now, these operations would not be embarrassed by lawless syndicalism. Capital has before learned thc value of dealing with tbo centre in labor matters, and tho present Bussian government is tho most successful labor contre in the world. I cannot defend the Bolshevik government for all of the things it hns done under the name of "Terror." It should bc flatly stated, however, thBt by far tho majority of tho stories that have been printed nbout that tragic matter arc hysterical inventions. ' Tho question cnn nevor be rightly weighed until the outside world iB told what tho Bussian laboring masses think about it. If a Moscow workmnn, Bolshevik or non-Bolshevik, is asked whnt he is likely to respond, as one did to me: "The red terror is only half; the other half is tho whito terror. The bourgeois do not count a hundred workingmen's lives as vnluablo as onc of theirs, but we do. They have murdered lens of thousands of us in Finland and tho Ukraine, and they openly sny they will do the same here in Moscow, if thoy get* on top. Let them go thc wny the little fathor went. "Thc red terror is our nnswer to thcir whito terror. We will stop our terror when thoy stop theirs." Analysis Not Complicated A cold analysis of tho red terror is not very complicated. During tko summer of 1918 tho Soviet government wns expected to foil any day. The countcr-revolutionists— most of them royalists—boldly mnde thcir plans, fcoling that their IiveB were not risked, and, if caught, thoir prison sentences would not only last tho few days that tho government had of lifo ahead of it. When ono waB arrested he would merely Inugh and toll hia jailer, "Only 30 days, and then I'll got out nnd shoot yout " Tlio only sentence with which the government would inspire dread was death, from which there is no delivery, Now that the common bolief is that the Bolsheviks will preside ovor tkeir jails for a long time to come, prison sentencei are taken seriously, and tke death sentonoo, rarely pro- nonncod, is evon thon seldom executed. Tho rod torror, by whioh I mean the execution of members of the upper clnsscs to deter counterrevolution, *is practically or entirely a thing ef the pnst. While the storiot were coming from outsido cities of constant massacres and a terrible fate awaiting nny respectablo porson who falls into the hands of the Bolsheviks, I observed one Amorican and 14 English war prisoners recently captured on the Archangel front, who **•*--"> "FBOM MAKES TO WEARER" Great Month End and Summer Clearance Sale Watch the daily papers for detailed announce* ments of the greatest Clearance Sale of Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Garments ever held in Vancouver. DON'T BUZ* ANYTHING FOB YOUB OUTFIT UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN OUB SALE PBIOES 623 HASTINGS ST. W Near Granville walking about Moscow in perfect freedom, forbidden only to leave the city or discard thoir uniforms. Prisoners Astonished They wore astonished at aot baring been killed, at tkey kad understood that Bolsheviks always Ull war prisoners, Some of tkem told me later tkat tkey kad boen given employment through tke medium of a Bolshevik commissar, and would be allowed to vote for tke Soviet. During. 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Bo with the kind permission of the proprietors of this journal I would like to put on record an excursion across the boundary of the shadow land that seems to envelop our ordinary material environment. Outside Vancouver was doing its worst in the way of weather (and when in that mood she is hard to beat) and I had been musing on the deplorable but inevitable conditions existing in the world at the present timo, when sleep, falling, balm-like, over my tired senses, brought for a time surcease of both; and my spirit, passing across the borders of that dim shadowland where fancy runs to frenzied riot and truth, distorted, struts in fancy's robes, a dreamt a long, impossible, preposterous dream which I will relate in part. I dreamt I woke up and found myself in a dimly lighted compart* ment, which formed part of a huge etherplane, whose wings, visible through the glass walls'of the cabin, stretched out in ghastly whiteness, hundreds of feet on either side. I could hear tho soft whirring hum of tho propellors as they churned tho attenuated ether with a velocity so great that they were quite invisible to me. The floor of tho cabin was also made of glass and I could see on all sides and above and below me constellations of shining stars, some of which were familiar, and others which I did not recognize Behind ub shone a large body about the size of our moon when full and bearing similar shadow markings with well defined patches of soft light which seemed to be reflected from flat surfaces as they showed no shadows.' It was the light from this body which filled the cabin with a soft radiance, clearly defining the objceti it contained yet not interfering with the visibility of the heavenly bodies. The soft whir of the propellors was the only sound which gave any suggestion of movement. The huge machine was so perfectly constructed that there was no rattling or croaking of its parts and the engines worked in absolute silence. There was no wind-sway as in the machines which navigate the atmosphere of our planet,' so that I was conscious of no movement and the great weird contrivance seemed to be poised quite motionless out somewhere in the ethereal spaces of the universe. Suddenly into the dim light bf the cabin eame the grotesque figure of a human being. He was covered with a closely-fitting white dress, the material of which waa of great thick- but that which attracted me most was his eyes, which magnified by the huge lenses he woro, appeared to me like the eyes of some gigantic oz. They made me feel very cold but in an attempt to conceal my perturbation, I blurted out, "What is that body down behind usf" "Your own earth," he replied, "and the largest and brightest spock you seo on the Western Hemisphere is the eity of Vancouver where we picked you up, the fame of which, since the inauguration of our company is spreading throughout tho cosmos. Tho sound of his voice and his evident appreciation of our beloved eity calmed mo somewhat and I asked him where we were. "Cosmic latitude .007, longitude .06," he replied. Then I asked him, with some misgivings, where wo were going. "To the planot Hades, in tho system of Vulcanus, seventh magnitude star of the Milky Way," was his answer. I noticed It was growing perceptibly lighter and I remarked on it. He pointed a' forefinger to our front and I saw a bright star as largo as an ordinary saucer which a short time before was not distinguishable in size from the others. "We are travelling very fast," I said. 'Ten thonsand miles a second. That's tho Sun Vulcanus. Look out for cosmic sickness when I turn on tho gravitation controller. Hades is on our right, under the tip of the wing yonder. Wben tho sickness begins you'll have to hold your eyes in." He went out leaving me grateful for his information nnd warning but somewhat perturbed in spir- Sooa he eame back and began turning a wheel, which was attached to a box-like arrangement in a eorner of the cabin, with frantic haste, and a sharp whirring notso filled the cabin, combined with a crackling sound such as accompanies electrical discharges. "Mind your eyes," soid he as he disappeared again and suro enough I began to feel a pressure behind my eye-balls as if something were trying to push them out; but the sensation toon passed and I am inclined to think that his warning wns that sort of world-old monkey-like witticism which on earth in universally peddled to the greenhorns by tho initiated. Whon ho come back again a few'minutes later he held In his hand a circular whieh he handed to me with a crisp invitation to read it I took it and read as follows: A Warning The Trading Company designated "The Right Boyal Robber Rangers" of the planet of Hades in tho Empire of Bulphuria, have by special order* in-council issued by his Excellency the Prime Minister of said Empire and under the seal of His more than Royal Emperor and Ruler, Autocro- citus, acquired the absolute trading and carrying rights between all thc solar systems (which means all planets, moons, comets and other ap- purteaenees if they possess any), within a distance of one thousand billion miles or one million, million milea ot tha laid planet of Hades and anyone found trespassing on these rights and afterwards found guilty by the High Court of Justice which operates without juries, will be subjected to the influence of the newly-discovered gas, "Devilite," a portion of which exploded In their stomach turns tham inside out without hailing them, in which condition thoy will be hung up in the tropical mftii period of not kas than [BT NEMESIS] twenty-flve years or fined one mil-f lands, on whieh vast herds of cattlo hon dollars or both. I looked up and found hia ox-like eyes steadily regarding me. "I am instructed," ho said, "to hand a copy of the circular to all -our passengers." "Thank you," I replied. "Some- hat drastic, aht" what drastic, eht "It is the new democratic method of nation-ruling," he said, "and if found to be very effective." I looked out in the direction of Hades which was still under the point of the wing, but was now as large as our rising moon and very much like it an appoarance. In a very short time it had increased to twice the size "and its glow had greatly intensified. At this point of my adventure, thing's grew a little confused and I must have fallen into a doze for the next thing that I remember was starting up to find mr previous visitor again in tho cabin "and engaged in winding up the apparatus in the box to which was attached the wheel. After he had finished the wheel began to rotate with such extraordinary velocity that a faint blur was all tho sensation it created on my retina and the whirring and crackling sounds became almost unbearable. I looked for Hades under the wing but it had disappeared, and glancing downward I found we were travelling over a Vast area of some body composed of green, brown, blue and shining white patches interspersed with irregular lines of the same colors. I stood spell-bound with amazement and I think some fear must have shown in my countenance for my visitor tapped me on tho shoul der and remarked: "It's all right, we shall be there in an hour. We arc making the descending revolutions," from whieh remark I gathered we were approaching our destination in ever- narrowing circles around tho planet to avoid what might easily havo been a hurried and somewhat dis astrous landing. Presently I looked down again and could discern objects on the surface beneath me but could not distinguish them clearly as they flashed past us with incredible speed, Soon this speed decreasing, I was able to discern what appeared to be vast areas of water, hugo stretches of land with here and thoro large clusters of dwellings evidently cities. Then the circle of my vision' grew rapidly less, the objects beneath us becamo moro distinct and I saw wo had turned from our former courso and were describing a series of smaller circles over a fixed portion of the auTfdce till with a shock which made the huge vehicle tremble from propollor to stern, we landed and very soon came to standstill. We hod reached Hades, our destination. "Come along," said my friend, leading the way along a short pass- ago and down a flight of stops. I followed and found myself on terra- firma once more on the planet of Hades in tho system of Vulcanus, some two thousand million miles from my earthly friends and tho thrico favored city of Vancouver. I looked around and was astonished beyond measure at the familiar naturo of the scene beforo me. I might have been on tho earth itself. Wo had landed on a long grassy enclosure bounded by huge oak trees such as grow to such perfection in the great parks of tho English nobility. I concluded it was an other drome as I noticed a large number of similar craft to the one in which I had made my remarkable journey. Before I had recovered from my astonishment a reverend looking old gentleman with a big stomach approached me and raising his hat, said very politely. "Welcome, sir, to our planot. We heard by ethorgram of your approach and I have been deputed to entertain you and give you all tho information which lies in my power.''. I thanked him and he escorted mo to a largo building which stood near the entrance to the enclosure and there, in a luxuriously furnished little room, we dined. When wo had finished ho produced from a cabinet a largo bottlo of whisky and placed it upon the tabic. I started and looked guiltily around; observing which, my entertainer winked his eye solemnly and, placing a finger on the sido of his nose, said: "Don't be disturbed for you are quite safe here. This, sir, is an institution run by the elite of our community and not by the rabble; otherwiso you would certainly be in danger." And he poured out for me a liberal portion, I sipped it fearfully aftor thanking bim in trembling tones for I must admit I was extremely uncomfortable and felt very much like a criminal must feel for belonging as I do to the "rabble" of tho earth and not being a commissioner of any sort, I wondered with a shudder what might happen to me -if the fact of my eriroo should leak out on my return to tho justice-loving and juBtice-dispcnsing city of Vancouvor. "I suppose," said my guide, "you desire to see as much as you can of our planet which you aro horef " I acquiesced, "I must tell you, sir, that Hades is peopled for thc greater part by self-governing democracies," and to my astonishment he favored me with another of bis solemn winks. I did not know quito how to reply to this, but an inspiration camo to mo and X solemnly winked back. "Ah!" he said, shaking me very warmly by the hand, "I seo you un1 dcrstood my -signal and aro one of the elito of your own planet, the Earth; that simplifies matters and I can be quite open with you in all I have to say to you and show you. Come along, my dear sir." I did not undeceive him. He led me into another largo enclosure in which were a great number of airplanes one of whieh he engaged and we wero soon flying at a great pact on onr journey through the air and on oar round of inspection. Wo flew for a thousand miles or more ovor a vast eountry divided into moadowi and green cultivated btowscd and succulent crops grew in rich abundance. "Yours is a rich and productive planet," I remarked to my guide, who was seated at my side in the luxurious eab of the machine. His eyes blazed with greed as he replied, "Aye! it is rich and productive and its riches and products bolong to ub, sir." "To usf" I asked in some astonishment. "What do you meant For I am not rich, thank Ood, for I have lived lone enough on our own earth to have discovered that riches aro a snare which drag nine-tenths of their possessors into the lowest dregs of the mud that lies at the feet of all humanity. "To us," ho repeated. "To the elito of Hades—to the possessors of those fields end meadows, mountains and mines which you have already observed in your flight. Ayel they bolong to us." "Are you all rich in Hades then!" I asked. "For on such a planet it seems there must be abundance for all. He laughed unmusically and re plied, "Ah! you don't understand, but I am going to enlighten you. Have patience." His remark gave me an idea and I resolved for the timo being to be* come a diplomat, which means I resolved to hido my real thoughts and intentions beneath a cloak of ignorance, lies or any other form of low deceit that which occur to me. Soon the machine bogan to descend in a spiral motion, in an atmosphere impregnated with smoke and sul- phurus fumes and I knew wo were approaching a huge manufacturing city. We landed In a largo airdrome where we dined again as before and here I must confess I felt less fear and less disturbance of my conscienco whon he produced the banned bottle, which illustrates the insidious naturo of crime, the second plunge into which resulted in such a marked decrease of my distress. It was early morning, seven by thp clock, but realty bix o'clock for a& he informed me they had ad- -need their clocks an hour as they '-I 'discovered some advantage to mdelves in thus tampering with ime set with God's time-finger, )xm. led me first into a large build- ,'M'repulsive in its ugliness and fi-pcoys shrieking of turning wheels and' grinding machinery. L-JI-Widrcds of half-naked beings, bj^ckjened by their present toil and scarred by the toil of former years, lwroj reeking in sweat and slimo as thjiy /sullenly and doggedly perform- ^ their various tasks; no enthusiasm showed in any of thoir movements but all movod with the automatic persistence of the beast of burden. I noticed many .women and yonng children among them. I approached one elderly workman more bent and feeble than most of the others and who displayed even less apparent interest in his occupation and asked him what he was making. He answered me sullenly and I asked him what he was going to do with them when he had made them. He eyed mo sorrowfully a momont as if wondering from which particular lunatic asylum I had escaped and continued his soulless task. My guide pulled mc away, saying, "Don't speak to them, I will explain tho system to you," and continued, "I told you, we, the elite, own Hades and its contents; and these peoplo, you seo at work, wo own also. They work for us. The products of tho mine and field and forest are brought here and manufactured into various articles which, when finished, belong to us, of course; now do you soot" I begin to understand," I replied,' "but what do these peoplo, Who do all the work, get!" "They get," said he, "wagos." "WugcsT" "Tes, pioces of stamped metal or paper, possessing an exchange vol- >." "I see," said I, "then they can buy bnck all they mako." Ho looked at me pityingly for a while. Your earth must be a funny place," he ejaculated, red in tho face with suppressed amusement. No, sir, thcir wagos enable them to buy back only a small portion of that which they produco." And who gets tho balance!" I asked innocently. Ho laughed again and replied: Don't you think wo should get the greater share, for we own the buildings and the machinery and the mines and the fields. Can't you Mel'! "Yes," said I, "I sec. And 1 suppose you made the buildings and the machinery and the mountains and tho fields and the mines!" Ho regarded mo a moment with an expression of face as you might imagine on the faco of a college professor who was trying to initiate an idiot into the mysteries of mendel- ism. We make nothing," said he. We own. These fellows made all the buildings and the machinery and tho fields and the mountuiits and the mines were alwayB there and we took them.'! I suppose god made theso latter?" I ventured. Ho pulled himself up and a savage gleam came into hin eyes and he stared straight at me for a full minute, I began to recognize that this seeming gentlemen had claws and under the polished exterior lurked the nature of tho undeveloped brute and that I hud better order myself accordingly for my safety's sake. Cut out that Qod stuff to me," he shouted. " Tbat's for those work* ing fellows. It keeps them quiet, Thev believe that Ood rules thc world and that whatever is is right They have been taught that. We know that might is right and that machine-guns are omnipotent." "But they aro very numerous," said I. "Suppose some day they realize the might which they possess by their superior numbers and come aad ask you for a grenter share of the things which they make; what then!" He showed his sharp teeth and bared to me a little bit of his blaek soul. You talk Kke an idiot," he retorted. "Have we not the machine- guns and the killemite and are not spurting blood and scattered viscera good arguments against revolting elavcsl" "But suppose," said I, tremul ously, "the workers of your guns who aro not of the elite, ever refuse to use them npon emergency!" He looked at me for a while dumbly and I faneled a shadow of fear crept into his eyes; then he answered boisterously and impolitely, Bosh!" "You are a olover race," said I quickly, anxious to propitiate him, "to moke theso inferior beings work for you on such terms." He smiled and became hia suave self again. "Come," said he, "let ns go into the Btreet. These places soon sicken me." Wo went out into the prineii streot of the c^ty which was gaily decorated with flags and bunting, and there were arches bearing the words, "Welcome home." Ho saw me regarding these with somo wonder. "A detachment of troops coming homo from the war,': ho volunteered, The war! How fa miliar it sounded. Presently a body of men, headed by a band, marched into view and passed us amid great uproar and rejoicing. "What havo they been fighting for!" I asked. Markets and trade routes to you," ho said, "but to Hades at large, for freedom and democracy." "And did they get them!" I asked. "Certainly they did, or rather, we did," was his reply. "And what do they got!" "Medals and glory," he replied with a leer, I was silent and turned my eyes on a beautiful palatial building whieh stood in a large enclosure on tho othor side of the street. Ah," said he, "you must aee tbat. It is the hospital." We crossed tho street and he led me into the building, and although tho sights I saw there were indeed terrible—human beings in all forms of mutilation and writhing in inexpressible agonies—some blind and others rotting away in the clutches of revolting diseases. I was glad ho showed me that hospital for there I saw for the first timo during my visit to Hades any indication that a higher spirit existed than the revolting greed of my guide and the mule-like obedience of these toilers in their efforts to gain a mere subsistence. " I refer to tho grave-faced doctors and neatly dressed nurses, some as beautiful as a dream, and both un* tiring and unflinching in their efforts to fight and lessen that terrible suffering. Theirs truly was a noblo and ennobling work requiring much courage and sympathy to keop them so assiduously at thoir tasks. Thon a great sadness overcame me when I considered that the whole of that suffering was preventable if love instead of greed had been the ruling forco on the wretched planet I was visiting. "Come," said my guide abruptly, breaking in upon my musings. "This placo sickens me. "Now," continued he, after a pause, "what elso would you liko to scof" "Some dwellings," I answered, "of tho rich and poor." Without a word ho led me to a district composed of small dwellings and tenement houses inhabited by the toiling wealth-producers. A short stay there saddened mo for in tbem was lack of sunshine; lack of pure eir; lack of space; lack of comforts and in many cases lack of tho simple decencies of life. I must have shown my disgust in my face, for he said, "Let as get out of this, and come and dino at my place." He nailed a passing automobile, and wo were soon speeding through the green sunlit country amid smil- fiolds und towering trees. drew a deep breath, and I thought of thoso toilers' children, with thcir white and haggard faces, I had just left behind me in the slums of that great city, and—I am afrnid I cursed. Wc reached his dwelling, a vast structure standing in a largo enclosure beautified by lawns and fiowcr gardens and soon we were sooted at a repast which in my wildest dreams I had never imagined. Beings in the forms of men, served us cringiugly with rich viands and rare wines. My guide ato till ho was gorged and.he beamed contentedly and hoggishly upon mo, "You have built a nice place hero and made some delicious wines," said I. "You are a geuius in both lines." Again he winked. "Those other fellows built it, ond grow the gropes from which my wines were brewed, and did the brewing as well," ho replied, I thought a little irritably. "Havo you not yet learned!" "Why don't they build and brew similar things for themselves!" I asked innocently in my rolo of diplomat; "they could." "Yes," he shouted, "they could, but they don't own; don't you see, man!" I told bim quietly that I did see. I urn afraid a little sarcastically, as I wan getting weary of his winking and display of utter selfishness, "Whut else would you like to sec!" he enquired. "Havo you any prisons!" I asked. He brightened up. "Beauties," he said. "I am a prison commissioner. Wo will go ond inspect one." We soon reached a forbidding looking building in the centre of a large open space, enclosed with a thick high wall on the top of which a terrible row of sharp iron spikes wcro fixed. We were soon admitted, and began our inspection. We saw gangs of men guarded by armed workers working iu tho open, some chained together with heavy chains. As we panned them they bestowed on us savage and threatening looks. Great Reductions PREVAIL FOB STILL A HSW SATS AT THE Uss< Our steek ef woollens is la excess ef eer requirement! and we must reduce same, se we reduce prices te reduce steek, sad yen ean get some excellent bargains in genuine, Jno Custom-made Suits for both Men and Women if you will eome here right now. The Best of Fit and the Greatest Style absolutely Guaranteed. MEN'S SDRS $35 up A STBIOTLT UNION ■HOP ADS STOBB WOMBH-S SUITS $45 np and a glance told me that all the human had been tortured out of thero, and only the brute remained. Inside we went from cell to cell, and my heart bled for the cowering, cringing beings that were onco human, and now were—but my brain is unable to flnd a word to express it for it haa not yet boen coined. We came at last to a cell at the_ end of a corridor, and my guide stop* ped beforo it. "Is ho tamed yet!" ho asked, pointing at tho coll door. "Not yot, air," was tho reply. Tbe warder opened the door and I w one whom I recognized at a glance aa a man of great intelligence and feeling. His frame was attenuated, and hia faoe pale from long confinement, but his eyes glowed with fierce and righteous resentment. He did not rise from his seat nor speak, but looked straight at us with a regard full of contempt and defiance. When we were outside the cell again, I asked my guide for what offence this prisoner was incarcerated. His eyei biased with wrath as he answered, "For having in hia possession literature npon 'which my class had placed a ban, and distributing the same, which he will not do again on Hades for his term of imprisonment is fifty years." "And you have," cried I fiercely, my wrath getting tho-better of uy discretion, "shut this human being up in that unwholesome and barbarous dungeon away from God's sunlight and tho great open spaces, away from love and friendship for practically his whole lifo for no crimo whatsoever; for no offence against Qod or man—for doing that which he undoubtedly thought was his duty to Qod and all mankind! It is not justice, but mere naked revolting murder," Ho looked at me with blaring eyes the yellow of which in his wrath had turned to a dull red, but before he could answer mc, I said: "Will you kindly do tne ono last favor! My head (I should have said my heart) aches. Tako me for an hour's fly," nnd I smiled at him a sweet and gentle smile, You see I was progressing as a diplomat ,and bad sunk as low as that animal when performing the duties of bis Machiavelian profession, for hidden behind my smilo was thc deliberate, coldly-planned intention to drop him from a great height from his own airplane. Without a word he moved away beckoning mo to follow, and I knew by tho expression on his face that in his heart he cherished the same kind of intention towards myself. Soon wc were a thousand feot in the air, and flying at great speed, and I opened my heart to him. "Sir," I began, "I thank you for tho confidence with wliich you have favored me, and for the hospitality you have shown me, but I wish to nay a few words which I devoutly hope will be of some benefit to you. You are one of thc owners of the beautiful ami productivo planet which lies beneath us, but you know littlo or nothing of its true significance. You know littlo indeed of tho physical and moral laws which govern it and its inhabitants. You are merely a marauder nnd your development bas stood in abeyance since your forbear* emerged from the mists and the misery of the jungle; and I wish to open to your mental vision a path of possible salvation for you and yours. "You, and a few others of your kind, possess Hades and are content in that possession ,though you know full well that millions and millions of your fellows live in misery on the verge of starvation and ruin, though ult might live in comfort and happiness if the planet belonged to nil instead of to a ravening few. 1 advise you and your class beforo tho clock finger shall point to the hour of your fate to render hick to the planet to itB lawful heirs so thnt each und all may enjoy its gifts in equal measure—that each may work for all, and all for each, nnd know that leisure through which only God's plan for man may como to its fruition and the species, free and unfettered, may enter into its destined kingdom and become man." I hod much more to soy to him, but at this point he turned upon me savagely. His thin lips were drawn from his teeth showing two big yellow fangs and he blurted out:'"I knew it. You are a Bolsheviki."! Then rago took possession of me. Mortal blood could not stnnd such an insult to be called Bolsheviki—a ravening, bloodthirsty, assuHinnting, lying, blood-drinking, field-breeding, innocence-torturing, woman ravishing Bolsheviki, 1 sprang at him and struck bim full in his yellow eve* Ho seemed to grow in aiae, and hia face assumed an expression of such bestiality that I could not look at it, and I shuddcringly tuned away my face, and he struck me a sharp, sudden blow, which fell on the baok of my head and—I woke up. I had struck my head upon tkt back of uy chair. I heard a voice in gontle but decidedly sarcastic tones asking me if I was coming to bed now or tomorrow night, and being a married man of long standing, X knew the wise thing to do aad meekly -sought by couch. Chicago.—While Wilson ft Co., meat packers, aro tolling the public, through advertisements, that tho management and employeea aro a "big happy family," 4000 of thoae employeea suspended work becauso - of trade union victimisation. Union officials will take the matter up witk Federal Judge Alsehuler, arbitrator in the packing industry. Paris, Trance.—Employee* of ont of the big department atom in thia Mty have organiaed a section of tht Betail Clerks' Union. The section haa ita own officers. This organixa* tion of "store sections," or locale is a result of recent strikes and to relied upon to impart a greater interest in trade unionism. The coast-wide telephone strike onded Tuesday. Some concessions wero granted, but the final result remains with the government award, which will be referred to tho local unions at a later date. Can You Use a $5 Bill? We Offer This as a Special for Two Days Only Anyone purchasing onc of our HTSLOP, CADILLAC OB AVIATOR BICYCLES en Wednesday, 23rd, or Miami, Hudson, Merkle •n Fridey, July 26th we will remit In cash M.OO or supply accessories to value $6. 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Unity of Laber: The Hope of the World FBIDAY July 25, 1019 ALL the stories of Hun atrocitieg are now forgotten, and the merry game ef scrambling for trade and business with the late enemy-nations is being carried on. American interests have complained that British bagmen THE % were let into Germany FINAL beforc tho peaco treaty STRUGGLE was signed, and British interests were suspicious that Y.M.C.A. passports were being used by the American salesmen so that they could get in on the ground floor. We have no doubt that both of the suspicions oould be supported by material evidence if they were investigated. The working olass, however, is not very much interested in the struggle for markets, and they •re not bothering as to who was the flrst to trade with the late enemy nations. One particular thing, however, should be noted by all workers, and that is, that when the interests of the masters are at ttake, they have no scruples as to who they do business with, and they are not even afraid of being contaminated with Bolsheviki ideas, as they are even pre* pared to trade with the Bolsheviki if the trading is good. But it is another mat* ler if the workers wish to have any dealings with the workers of Bussia, or any country which may not be acting in ae- oord with the ruling class ideas. This applies to British, American or any of the Allies, or in fact, to any of the ruling class interests in the enemy countries, with the exception of the new democracies, such as Russia. • * • The war is dead, long live the war. The war for markets still goea on, and the class war still rages. Every newspaper, although they do not at all times adhere strictly to the truth, gives evidence that thc competition between nations is to be more strenuous than in the pre-war days. No one will deny that thc ulass struggle has become intensified. Premier Clcmcnccau, who is reported to have gained the victory over his op; ponents in the Chamber of Deputies, stated as he retired from the chamber, that "Thia is merely a skirmish, the real battle is coming." He also stated in the course of his remarks, "That to console himself for the reproaches that were ad* dressed to him, he had only to think of those that would be levelled at his successor. Tbe Tiger, as he is designated, realizes that the flght in the House was but a storm in a teacup to that which is brewing throughout France, and in fact ki all of thc European countries, Lloyd Beorge, the greatest camouflage politician of all time, is faced with a situation in the old land that he will not be able to side track; he must either face the nationalization of the coal mines or go down to defeat. If he does not accede to the demands of labor, he will be defeated anyway, and he, like Clemenceau, realizes that he is between the devil and the deep sea. Bob Smillie, although only a miner,~was too much for Lloyd George, and he has made it impossible for the government to sidestep on this question. The politician's life in these days is no ""■njfflecure; he is faced with the position .where he has to give concessions to the workers that strengthen their pesition for further advances, or he refuses them ahd brings revolution much nearer. The position of the workers is one of watchful waiting; they are taking advantage of every strategical point, and time being on thcir side, they realize that their day is not far off. Yes, the present fights are but the prelude to greater offensive movements, but they will bc carried out by the workors, and they cannot be defeated. The forces that the ruling class let loose in tho war are all on the side of thc proletariat, ragged as it may bc, which is thc way in which the press this week has referred to the proletariat in Hungary, ragged not from choice, but because the clothes that would remove their unkempt appearance, although produced by the workers, did not belong to thom, because they did not own the machines of production. The only question now to be settled is that ownership, and tho workers will be free. Speed the day. course knew aU thia perfectly well. In consenting to the Shantung arrangement he was doing the beBt the circumstances would admit. And there you have it. The League of Nations in the first place was made possible by the sharing of tho plunder secured in a war that waa waged for democracy, and not for territory. A war that waa waged for the self-determination of nations, as decided by the big fellows that constitute the League of Nations. * • * How a permanent peace could be secured, by giving Japan a part of the plunder, and which is more than likely to cause friction between Japan and China, we are not able to sec, but we can see that the League of Nations will never ensure anything but the perpetuation of the present system, and consequently more wars, all of which will no doubt be waged for democracy or some other camouflage to hide thc real issues, unless the workers bring about a change in the system, or capitalism breaks down by the weight of ita own rottenness. Leagues of nations, leaguea of capitalists, or any other leagues of the ruling class must of necessity be baaed on plunder. Thc system is based on robbery, the robbery of a alave class m society. The system cannot exist except on plunder. While the war was supposed to be waged for democracy, the victorious nations did not forget the spoils. They have divided up the captured territory, and are now quarrelling among themselves as to tho use that may be made of the avenues for trade. This of course will tend to establish a permanent peace, but peace should be spelt differently, as all the peace they desire is the largest piece of the world's mar. ket, and they will quarrel amongst them* selves as to who shall have it, and if necessary they will scrap the League of Nations or anything else in their mad struggle for a place to dispose of their plunder; not taken from the Hun alone, but from the workers of all lands, irre* spective of race, color or creed—taken from the wage slaves of the world—and until the robbery of the workera is stopped, plunder will bo the only guide to the actions of nations or of individuals. Society sb at present constituted places a premium on robbery, and we cannot expect figs from thistles. ways uted by a ruling class when it* position is assailed by invincible logic' tin the art of the class that is subject to its rule. Logic, however, will prevail'Vt all times in the end against brute force. Older ruling classes than the one in power in this country have learned this,: and given time, the Canadian ruling oil will realize that the logical position;of the workers can stand all the onslaughts of abuse, and that force cannot stop the natural evolutionary processes of society. THE LEAGUE OP NATIONS is still a very live topic. It is being opposed by a good many prominent men in the United States, and while it was supposed to be formed for the purpose of preventing wars, its sponsors, BASED including President Wil- ON son, at the very outset, PLUNDER' showed that after all thc League of Nations is based on plunder. If we made this statement without any authority for so doing, , it niight be said that we wero prejudiced . in the premises, and for our authority we turn to thc press, wliich, being a capital istic press, will not give too much of thc ' game away, but occasionally lets a little of the truth appear. The Vancouver morning Sun, referring to Shantung and President Wilson, says: There could be no League of Nations and no prospect of permanent ponce unless Japan wcro given her share of the plunder. It was a caso of letting her have her way or of proceeding forthwith to get ready for anolh» fight. President Wilson of THE surest sign of a paucity of logie on the part of any exponent, is when he commences to use abusive language. The man with the facts on his side does not have to revert to the use of invective to bolster up his case. ABUSE IS During the recent NO strike the Citizens' ARGUMENi' League, and the Re turned Citizens' League, and in fact all those who shouted loudest about law and order, descended to the limit in the use of invective against organized labor. During all the time abuse was being heaped on the heads of the workers, not a single case is recorded in which labor did not act in a perfectly sane manner, using neither abuse or harshness of speech, or in any way showing that they were not sure as to the reason for their actions. The other element by their manner proved conclusively that they could not rely on the logic of their position or the genuineness of their motives, and they had to revert to the use of abuse and distortion to back up thcir case. That this is becoming somewhat common on the part of the defenders and beneficiaries of the present system is borne out by the Manchester Guardian, which, commenting on methods of controversy, says: The Duke of.Northumberland's attack on the dread Mr. Smillie on Thursday has value as an illustration of a large political change. The speech consisted largely of imputations of various vices and crimes— committed or, in the speaker's opinion, intended. According to the Duke the miners or thcir leaders were, cither at present or prospectively, guilty of stealing, jobbery, homicide, chicannery, tyranny, cowardice, swindling, vulgarity, and some minor peccadilloes. It may all be true—who shall read the heart of man. But the interesting thing is that a great peer and a great royalty, owner should be saying it. For this is just what the wild men on tubs in Hyde Park or on Tower Hill used to say, twenty or thirty years ago, about the royalty-owners and peers. And in those days it was the latter who did not rant, but used the irony that stings, in argument, and the moderation that crushes. Today it is, on the whole, the leaders of labor who employ—as they repeatedly did when questioning the great royalty-owners before the Coal Commission—the method of mordant understatement, while the eloquence of personal abuse has touched the lips of the dukes. Perhaps tradition is right in finding in this latter style of rhetoric the mark of the consciously weak case or beaten disputant, and in the former style the mark of the confident winner. If so, the exchange of controversial manners between the democratic mob-orators of 1889 and the great nobles of 1919 may be the normal registration, so to speak, of the fact that in these thirty years the centre of gravity in politics has shifted, an old ruling class has been, on the whole, dispossessed, and labor has realized that the control of all national action is in its hands, only waiting to be exercised. * * * The signs of intolerance and rabid hatred are shown by abusivo methods, governments as well as individuals can also be judged by their statements, and in thcir actions, when dealing with thcir opponents, and the government of this country has shown by the wild statements of its ministers in the Winnipeg strike, that it has no logic to back up its position, and depends 'entirely on abuse, and the powers of coercion that arc al- ONE OF THE outstanding features of the last strike, was the fact, that in spite of tho so-called high wagea, the workers could not stand any prolonged struggle. This waa brought to the attention of the strike com- THAT mittee early in the strike, STRIKE by the many calls for RELIEF. assistance from those on strike. Cases of extreme poverty were more numerous than anyone would have thought possible, and every effort was made by the committee to relieve the distress. In many instances, if there had been no strike, the distress would have been there, as case after case were found where men had, by long periods of unemployment, been brought to the verge of starvation, The committee made every effort to relieve the distress with thc money at its command, and by raising funds for this purpose. A special representative was sent to Seattle and other points, to secure financial assistance. Money wae, voted by one of the Seattle organizations—Hope Lodge of the Machinists Association—the sum voted being $500. Last week a representative of this local arrived in the oity with a cheque for the amount stated. He called at the office of the secretary of the Trades Council, but as that official was not in at the time, he stated that he would call again. This he did not do. He evidently—from press reports—having been filled with stories of discrimination in the manner in which the relief funds were being distributed, and that thc money was only being given to members of the 0. B. U. and returned home. Later the money was forwarded by wire. We do not know who gave out this misrepresentation of the facts, but it was evidently an opponent of the new form of organization now being formed. No one can complain because men differ in opinion as to the advisability of forming the 0. B. U., but if there are men, if such a name can be given to such individuals, who because they do not favor the new industrial organizntion, or for any other reason would prevent funds being raised for members of the working class who were brought to the point of distress by taking part in a strike, they are not fit to associate with decent people. To take: advantage of the distress of any memberi) of the working class, to breed dissension, or to further their own ideas is too contemptible for the lowest type of humanity to tolerate. That there was no discrimination, and that all were treated alike; is proven by the lack of complaints fromA local unions. If the procedure was carried out as laid down by the committee, which was that the local unions should make recommendations as to the necessity of any member of the different organizations, in no caBe was the applicant refused if there was money on hand. Naturally there was a limit to the money, and at times the applicants had to wait until further funds were received, but they were in no case refused relief if there was anything to relieve them with, and the only regrets the committee have, waa that their efforts to relieve were restricted by the amount of money they had on hand. Part of the charge laid against the men arrested in Winnipeg as a result of thc strike, is conspiring and agreeing to carry into execution a seditious intention, to wit, to stir up hatred and contempt for.the government. If the men who are now facing trial in Winnipeg every were guilty of such imbecile conduct, they deserve to be in jail. To conspire to bring the present government into contempt would be time wasted; it was not necessary for anyone to conspire to bring this about, as the actions of thc government have been sufficient to bring it into contempt with anybody but the most hardened partisans and political heelers in the country. CLERKB IN NEWFOUNDLAND ORGANIZE Form Union In Order To Oet An Increase In rages 9t. Johns, N. F.—Even ln as conservative a New Foimdland town aa St. Johns the white collar slaves are waking up to the value ot organization, for the past month a movement haB been on foot to gether the clerks together ln a union. This movement culminated ln an organization meeting on June 28, ln which some 400 clerks and shop- assistants took part. The United Brotherhood of Clerks wae formed, and a charter applied for from the New Foimdland Industrie! Workers' Association. In a ringing resolution attention was called to the fact that, while the cost of living has risen tremendously, no corresponding Increase In wages hae bjen given to the clerks. The new body therefore "calls on all clerks to organize with a view to ensuring a living wage to each and all by means ot collective bargaining." Patronize Fed. advertisers. 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Never in their history were the inter* national unions as active in Canada as they are today. Hurry-up calls are be. ing daily received by representativea of these unions, and the places where the 0. B. U. is gaining headway are besieged by Oompcrian and international represen tatives. Vancouver is getting its share of these saviors of the labor movement these days. Time will tell if their efforts to stave off the evil day will be successful or not. Ex-President Taft has, by proposing to eliminate the overseas dominions from thi councils of the League of Nations, shown that the United States is more than afraid of the commercial activities of the British Empire. Our Allies are evidently willing to play Indian if their interests arc not sacrificed by so doing. But if the economic interests clash, then look out for squalls. This trado business' it sure some trouble maker ' I Returned soldiers who have engaged, ii} thc fishing business in this province, in spite of all thc sayings of the agents of the government, have come to tho conclusion that they havo been handed a lemon. Onc returned man who spent six weeks in this very lucrative occupation relumed to town this week and informs us that he finished up seventy-odd dollars in thc hole. This is some reward for saving the Umpire, Neatly everybody has nn idea as to the cause of the present world-wide unrest, but only those who have made a study of past forms'of society, along with thc present order, arc able to get within a mile of the truth as to the real cause. Spend a Pleasant Day AT THE PICTURESQUE WATERING PLAOE HORSESHOE BAY Thia is one of the many natural beauty spots for which Howe Sound is famous. It is ShBily reached by the North Vancouver line of The Pacific Great Eastern Railway through constant change of scenery for twelve and a half miles. 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Deaf to Ireland's claim to justice, the Government succumbed at once to Sir Edward Carson's threats of civil wai..and to the Curragh threat of mutiny. Be- fore and during the war, any effort at tree speech which clashed with the interests of the Capitalist class was attacked by organized rowdyism, and this rowdyism was encouraged by most of the Press, and, to say the leaat ot It, winked at by the authorities. The mildest physical protest against established injustice was punished by the savage penalties dictated by panic, the moat outrageous violence exercised on the side of established Injustice waa either connived at or let off so lightly as to show where the Government's encouragement was meant to lead; lt was unsafe tor any body of people to get together to preach, or even to discuss, the doctrine that disputes ahould be settled by reason and not by force. Sir Edward Carson, the arch-Beditlon-monger, was made Attorney-General—the legal representative of the Crown. Now we have'-n Lord Chancellor, who, trained in the cynical and savage school ot Carsonlsm, openly incites young men to riot against views they do not happen to share. The law haa fallen into just and universal contempt Nobody trusts It, because nobody believes ln lt The whole of our publie life Is frankly corrupt. Political power Is the reward of falsehood and trucu- lence. A beaten foe la gloated over without thought ot chivalry or even decency. Our rulers hav. mad. an idol ot brute force. We ask again, what do they expect? We hear much about the fear of revolution, When revolutions come, we then hear much about the cruelty and disorder of the revolutionaries. We tell our rulers that they are heading straight for the sort of thing that Is happening abroad, and tbat unless they mend their ways now it will be idle for them to try to shift th. blame, or escape the consequences, later. The real cause of the bitterness displayed against revolutions Is not their violence at all. Our ruling classes like violence well enough when lt is exercised by Tsars—or Foreign Offices. They either acquiesce—or disguise—or even applaud... What is "firmness" ln a reactionary Government becomes 'Bolshevism" ln a revolutionary Government The test by which our wretched civilization measures everything is not morality, but material gain. How are we to get away from these false standards, aud aafeguard th. future tor our children? Not by trying to arrest with flat denial the rising demand ot th. oppressed classes, sections, nations, for the control of their own lives, but by seeing to it that that demand expresses itself In just, merciful, and orderly ways. We need a Government that will represent and not mislead the people. We need a social system ln which no man or woman shall be the slave or tb. bully of another. Fogy hundred and fifty shipwrights and caulkers of Kingston, Now Tork, have been looked out for 24 weeks iu an attompt by shipbuilding firms to make the men work 10 hours tor eight houn pay or a reduction of IS per eent. in wages, In the meantime the other crafts have been working. What's tho matter with ths A. P. of L.t »g___CANA_>&*. EMPLOYERS THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OF CANADA The PROFESSIONAL and BUSINESS SECTION has been established to assist professional, busineu and technical men and women. • Many officers, soldiers, sailors and war workera, who sacrificed their position* during th* war, now dealt* to secure employment in the occupations for which they hav* been specially trained. Employers should not wait until increasing buainess forces tbem to employ anybody tbey ean obtain, but should look ahead and avail themselves of thla unusual opportunity to enlist the services of highly trained workers, ordinarily secured only witb difficulty. 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S.S2M » jsr,E?nwra ybab. % m --- gfCriTSH COLUMBIA FEDEfeATIONlST n_.c6tm*, fca PACK MVl "Lest WfForgef Full Prussianism to Be Introduced—Conscription in Antipodes The New Zealand Minister ot De- tens* hu announced that it if. the intention of the New Zealand Government to amend tht territorial system hy substituting four months' continuous training in camp for the present system of day-drills, weekly parades and yearly fortnight in camp. In a word, the New Zealand Oovernment having had a taate of conscription during war time means to make it permanent in that country for the boyi as they reach the age of youth. It will be at once seen that in order to house the youths for a poriod of four months yearly, barracks will have to be provided. As a matter bf fact these are already being built. As most everybody knows, tne pernicious barrack system is about one of the worst forms of militarism. It is statod that there are now 25,000 Territorials in the country, and that these aee to be withdrawn under the new systom for a third of a year in order that tbey may be turned into soldiers. It is claimed that this is necessary in order that they may be ablo to defend New Zealand should tho occasion arise. But anybody studying the position of New Zealand will see at onee that thoy will be useless for the defence of that country for the simple reason that tho only attack possible will be from the sea. Although New Zealand has gone through history with' practically no defense worthy of the name, it now becomes necessary to have a conscript army-—at a timo whon we are assured that the League of Nations will prevont war, and which, by the way, is supposed to reduce armaments. And what a denial is the action of the New Zealand Govornment to the oft-repeated statement that the late war was to end warf The truth, if it must be told, if that tho boys of New Zealand are being trained, not for the defonso of thoir own country but to form part of the great Empire scheme that can be employed in combination with other parts of the Empire for whatever purpose the Imperial Government may decide. And, let it be said that there is no guarantee that the length of training may not be extended until it eventually roaches tho continental limit of threo years. From past experience of military methods in other countries such an extension is likoly to be feared. The groat argument being used by the New Zealand governmont is that the training of boys will benefit them morally and physically. On the face of it, this argument de ridiculous. Fancy training youths in gunnery, military evolutions, bayonet exercises, etc., in order that they may benefit morally and physically. If these things are so necessary, then the proper place to inculcate them is in the school gymnasiiums, And it should bo patent to most peoplo who havo had a close view of militarism that a soldier's career by no means fits a man to give up-to- date scientific physical culture, nor does it assure a moral excellence. Boforo the system was introduced a defonso expenditure commission took evidence on the matter. Among the matter appearing in the commission's report this significant passage may be noted: "Tho Army Council of England has laid -it down that 14 woeks are required to make an English soldier from tho timo he joins as a recruit until he is turned out as a finished soldier." The deduction should be obvious. The men in New Zealand aro to receive a full training so that thoy may be ready at any timo tho call is made for them to fight. It would bo interesting to know if the same infamous business is to be introduced intb Wie other British dominions. So far it has never been\bronchcd in Australia—nor js it likely to be introduced thero without the people of that anti-conscriptionist country putting up a very tough fight against it. Clemenceau h Afraid of Soldiers' Vote—But Not Now Little wonder such a superficially good case can be made for intrust- iug all thinking about affairs of stale to thoso with the "know how" —affairs of state so commonly violate common sense and common decency and these two things are what tho common man has to depend on Thero is the case of the coming French elections, for instance. France must have a nation-wide eleetion soon. Now the common man would naturally think that the men who fought so heroically in the great war for democracy would be given every opportunity to express thoir views on the subject. Very foolish. The common man doesn't know that the French soldiers are overwhelmingly opposed to the present French government and that it would, therefore, be foolish for this government to allow thom to vote. .The soldiers will not be demobilized until after tho event, and [Clemence-nii is very doubtful if any j systom of soldier voting Is practical. | 1'uul Scott Mowrer, well known : press writer for the big press, in reporting the matter says; i "In the ears of a few intimate friends M. Clemenceau whisporefl: 'After all, I am doing the deputies a favor if I announce the elections before demobilization. The peilus would voto against them. It is one million hostile votes lew at the •polls.' " ! Lloyd George workod the same trick in England last fall and thus won a "groat" victory ovor the Labor party. The common man simply cannot appreciate this strong- arm democracy which spits in the facet of mon who make the great sacrifice. That is why our controlled press has so mnny stories about how naughty the common pooplo are anting in Europe,—Non • Partisan Leader. ||.*»i«ii« I tn* I I ill i I |ii|i|llM [Frott the London Nation] We hav* often dwelt upon the glamor ebed ever the paet by time1 alone. That glamor is the true "Triumph of Time," for time is not eo much the destroyer ae the renovator, the decorator, the illuminator, perpetually at the work of making old bareness picturesque. Time if the Royal Academy artist, always slurring over the objectionable, the painful, the atrocious, always drawing a veil here, dabbing on a bit of moss there, aid swilling a slush of sentiment over the other place. It if so in personal life. Think of your happiest houn how purely golden they look, how full of joyous lightl Time has daubed that gold upon them, and glazod them with a light which never was. Time has adroitly smudged out the fear that haunted yon then, the hesitation whieh took half your joy, the bodily hunger or thirst, the disturbing midges, tin blistered foot, the toothache, or internal pains. For even upon the individual life time works with the very genius of common art, selecting thie dainty bit; omitting that unpleasant fact, soHeitouf only for prettinesa or romance. With the same mitigating falsity, time sets to work upon tho publie past. One is sometimes tempted to describe the great artist aa the man who touches nothing from which he does not strip the adornment, bnt time is not an artist of that kind. It touches nothing which it does not effeminately adorn. Somo it tempts to yearn over medieval saints; others to adore the fourteenth century as though life were then one lovely illuminated manuscript; others to revel in the Renaissance as a dream of naked beauty and marble limbs. But it is especially over war that time throws the iridescent gleam. We hnvo compared the action of time to the comfortable skill of*the Academic artist, but, in treating war, time adds censorship to academy. Look through, if you dare, the battle scenes in the Academy catalogues or in the illustrated papers of tho last five years; it is ten thousand to one you will pot find a single British corpse represented thore. Anticipating time, the censorship forbade the presence of unpleasantness. One artist ventured to paint two of our dead fallen beside the wire, but the censorship rejected the picture, and over the offensive bodies a broad strip of brown paper was pasted to encourage the others. We know as a mattor of figures that nearly 800,000 of our race, including tho Irish, were killed in the war; but tho censorship allowed only Germans to bo killed, and figures are soon obliterated by tho dolicate tracery of time's lichens,*' mosses and Virginia creeper. Theso gontle arts of lying and dis-. guise wore all very well so long as the war continued at its height, and', something of its horror was brought home inevitably even to the patriots of the clubs and tea rooms. But now. such alts are charged with hideous danger. It ie not as though war wore a thing of the past, and we could cover it up in the mists of romance or sweet oblivion. A filthy sort of war goes on in many lands, and tho filthiest sort—war by starvation of the helpless—may be renewed on Monday. Already our best generals are urging us by some form of universal service to prepare for the next war, though they piously Hopo it may bo distant. Already the mention of disarmament is received with scornful or melancholy smiles, though disarmament waB one of the hopes for which young men died. If war is indeed to be renewed, and the world can never escape, we could only hope that the moment came quickly, while the memoir of its loathsomeness is still fresh among the men who have known it For then they might refuse to march, and our jails would not contain tho multitude of objectors. But with every year the details of that loathsomeness will fade from memory, and timo will practise the ancient trick of drawing over them the glamor of tho past. In Sir Ian Hamilton's eloquent littlo book, "The Milleniumf V —half a plea for the supposed "- chivalry" of war, half a noble protest against conscription—he writes: "With a certitude which is extracted from repeated experiences I can assure those millions of fighting men who nover came into personal contact with war until li)14- 1918, that thoir loathing of war will only enduro at the most three years. Tbe great war has strengthened, not weakened, the warlike impulse; with that fact we must reckon." ' teadilly and South Kensington. But t-pne at least has foreseen the day, some fifty years henee, when adventurous lads will sigh for the stirring titties their grandfathers knew, and as they listen to the old men's tales of horror, they will see the war only through the rainbow mists of time: Yes, we must reckon with that fact, for that is the glamor wo fear. It was of that glamor Lord Robert Cecil was thinking when, in the Albert Hall recently, he said: "The cause of all these evils" (government blunders, profiteering ,and so on) "is war itself. Do not be blinded by poets and historians. Thore has boon a con;piracy not yet broken down to dwell •a the glories of battle and covor over its horrors. The truth is that war has always produced thoso results, more or less marked accord- ing to the magnitude of the struggle, and war always will produce those results." So also Mr. Clynes, on the same occasion, said: "They heard sung a great deal in praise of war, but mostly by men who had never beon out. He hod versos by poets and rhymstors who would have them believe thut the business of going over the top was a joyful athletic exercise. If he were food controller now and had the task of rationing these men, be would like to feed some of thom on their own linos." In passing, we may observe that most of tho poets of this war havo been ont themselves, and have sung a very different tune. Never since Greece, or, perhaps, since Elizabethan days, have thc poets been brought so sharply np against the full abomination ef war, and it if an appalling picture they have rightly drawn of it. Our war poets, oven the bost, are too many to mention here; but think of the aeeonnt of war rendered only by such men as Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Thomas, Osbcrt Sitwell, Max Plowman ("War and Creative Impulse"), Cameron Wilson ("Magpies ia Pfcardy"), or George Willis ("Any Soldier to His Son"). It is not ia their work that yon find the deceptive glamor of time and romance. Tbey were too young to know the martial radiance which sheds a glory over peaceful dwellers in Pic- "But the boys, with grin and sidelong glance, Will think, 'Poor grandad's day is done,' And dream of thoae who fought in France, And lived in time to share the fOn." It is against the imminent peril of this glamor that we must stand on guard, lest we forget. It so happens that the best of tho poets, having for once seen things with their own eyes, have done their best to aid ns. Hark how the soldier addresses his son: "You'd like to be a soldier, and go to France some dayt By all tho dead in Dolville Wood, by all tho nights I lay Between our line and Fritz'a before they brought me in; By this old wood and leather stump, that once was flesh and skin, By all the lads who crossed with me but never crossed again, By all the prayers their mothors and their sweethearts prayed in vain, Before tho things that were that day should ever more befall May God in common pity destroy us one and all." That, .to be sure, is a prayer which may very easily be answered "in tho affirmative," as thoy say in parliament/ Already soldiers of the old type have complained that there is nothing sportsmanlike in war today. They denounce it as bloody murder. Mr. Whitlock, in his account of the "German Occupation of Belgium," tells ub that the old Emperor of Austria was heard lamenting, "Der Krcig hat Nichts elegantes inehr." It reminds one of his ancestor who hated war "because it spoilt his beautiful troops." Certainly thore is nothing elegant about war now. It is bloody murder; indeed, it always has been, for bloody murder is its only object and its only means. But in a year or two tho murder will bo bloodier and mora rapid, involving the whole civilian population in death evon more suroly than our naval blockade has involved our enemy's young. London a fow minutes .from France or Belgium; Liverpool aiid Manchester a low hours from Now York; one bomb that will lay a city fiat; another bomb that will kill all tho citixcnB by poison—woll, men an/i women, young and old, rich and poor, will all be in the same Charon 'bou-t anyhow. No one will then sing, "We don't want to lose you, but we think you ought to go;" and that will be one consolation. . But no memories or apprehensions of horror suffice to dim the glamor or the past, increasing as it recedes. Remember Lot's wife. Our professional soldiers, politicians and profiteers look regretfully backward, and, as' they stiffen into pillars of salt, their attitude does not change. "Are wo propared," asks Lord Bobert Cecil, "are we prepared to scrap once and for all the old system of alliances and counter-alliances; and secret treaties and competitive armaments; the balance of power, and all other noxious fruit of international rivalry!" And with ono voice tho pillars of salt both in France and this country have answered/ "No, we are not prepared.'' To use Lord Robert's phrase again, it is the voice of "facile pessimism" that speaks. But it speaks in tho full limelight shed from the heroism of mon who thought they died for a very different und a far nobler cause. This backward turning eyo has always been tho deadly adversary of faith; for, as tho poet said of knowledge, faith "sets her forward countenance, and leaps into the future chance." It is often what the old philosophers used to cull a "mortal leap"—a leap in which everything must be risked. But unless we tuke it, tho world will remain hungiug around the charred purlieus of Sodom and Gomorrah, gradually sticking up a few shanties as fuel for the next general conflagration. It may be that faith's mortal leap into the unknown symbolizes the very adventure needed to take the shine out of the glamor clinging to war. Reason, the psychologists now toll ub, is powerless against passion, and certainly reason hus never been so powerless as now. If passion can be driven out only by passion, where shall wo look for tho passion strong enough to chase away this ancient po.«siou of war, so rapidly idealized, so fondly transfigured by the past! Will it rise from tho strango adventure of disarmament? Or from the wild adventure of a Leaguo of Nations, hitherto hardly conceived? Or from civil wun supplanting international wan, and waged with better reason? Or will it come, us the any- thing-but-facile optimists expect, from a wide diffusion of love, aud an attempt to practise some untried religion, such as Christianity? One thing only wc daro to prophesy; it must come from a mortal loap of faith—such faith as overcame the human passion for human flesh, sow subdued except in remote places and during war-time; or such faith as overcame thc human passion for persecuting religious opinions, now subdued except during wartime and in Poland, American and Great Britain. Los Angeles.—Judge Weller has issued a temporary injunction againRt striking metal working employees of the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Stripped of its ponderous legal verbiage, says the Los Angeles Citizen, the order prevents a union man from conversing with any strikebreaker who may go to work in the shipyard. The injunction does nod interfere with agents of the company, however, who are visiting homos of tho strikers in a vain attempt to have thom return to work. Judge Weller has also issuod a permanent injunction against striking telephone girls employed by tho Southern California Telephono Company. Washington.—Reports received by the United States bureau of mines from state mine inspectors of all states except Kentucky show tbat 176 men were killed during April, 1919, ia and about the coal mines. Where iB your union button? FORCE WUT SM OR HIT Ghastly Results of the Philosophy of Force Presides* Wilson accepted tko ch.II.ngs of Germany snd flung it buck is ker teeth. "Force, force to tke uttermost,—force without stint or limit I" wero his words. Tke war waa an orgy of force. Tke peace treaty is built upon force. Tke wkole world kas just passed tkrougk a flre.-fear experiment witk force, developed to tke high pitch ot scientifically orpniied power aud directed to tke destruction of life and wealth. With wbat result! "Vietoryl-'-ory the militarists. "Desolation," lamest the humanitarian!. "Paralysis," answer tho tke economists. Bankers, financiers, captain of industry—tke shrewdest observers of economic facte, corns back from Europo witk tko eame atory. "If I were to try to put into words wkat I sum up as tko most essential thing to grasp about tbe situation in Europe, ' says Frank A. Vanderlip, "tho two words would be paralyzed industry." Mines aro flooded,* factories are closed; labor is scattered; markets are disorganized; credit il shattered; transportation is •disrupted;—the wholo fauric of industry, by means of which tbe people of Europe were fod, clothed, and provided witk the necessaries and comforts of lifo has been destroyed, not only in tho countries that were devastated by battles, but in all of the countries that took part in the war. At the end of five yoars of war European industry ia at a standstill. Force wns tried to tho uttermost, and now the best brains in the world are trying to undo the damage; many are convinced that it cannot be undone, but that it will wreck tko capitalistic civilization that relied upon it for salvation. Where lies the hopo of the world today! In forcof Nol The hope of the world lies in tke capacity of the labor movemont to build the structuro of a now civilization inside the tottoring walls of tho old one. Labor has overthrown autocracy in Russia and btircauoracy in Germany, Labor is striving to redeem England, Franco and Italy,—striving, through solidarity, to mend the yawning gaps and rents that force has mado in tho texturo of civilization. Will tho labor movement succeed! Can it stave off chaos and a now "dark age" of social convalescence! Time will answer. Meanwhile, lot those who have eyes to see tako note of the ghastly results of tko philosophy of forco to the uttermost that inevitably follow when force is applied to tko uttermost.—Scott Nearing. EDITOR FINED FOE INCITINO STBIKE tt It Very Evident That Anything Against Big Interests Is Sedition The editor and publisher of the Maoriland Worker of New Zealand, have been fined in all fhe sum of $300 for "inciting a seditious strike." According to the evidence given in tbe court, a letter was published ia the Maoriland Worker urging the workors in the meat trade to refuse to tnko part in the work of meat production and distribution, unloss paid better wages. They wore also urged to "go slow" and mako the export of moat unprofitable. DRUGS AT SPECIAL OOI BATES IBIDAT Am SATVSDAT »0e FMtatlres —..........17c SOe Larvlna for Moths .S3. 25o Aromstle Clear. . 16c 500 Reid's Ecieiue Oointtneat „..26e ■Sl.00 Herplploida - 600 SOe Velnor Shampoo Powders Sic 11.00 Reld's Syrup of H-rpophoe- pbltae .„ _ —jSJc SOe Pebaco Tooth Put. SSo 25o Babr'a Ova Tablet. .... lie SOo Safe and Sulphur SSe SOo Epmlilltd Cocoanut OU Ste 60s Limestone Fhoinhate 15c -- Reld's Kld.er fills Ut SOo Perfume, asiorted odors 88c 35o Water Olan SOe Orchard Wblte ...SIC 25c Mennen'e Talcum .-—.—.170 60o Reid'a Srrup of Fin .SSe SOo Ohaaa'a Nen. rood .......... ,S7o Sl.00 Chase's Liver Our. ..17c S6e Fun ChIII. Sow Bui .Me SSo Bald's Foot Ess. 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Alexander; trustees, VV. A. Pritchard, W. H. Cottrell, P. McDonneil, H. Gutteridge; aeeretary, V. R, Midgley, Boom 210 Labor Temple. ALLIED PBINTINO TRADES COUN- cil—Meeti aecond Monday In the month. Preaident, J. F. McConncH: iee- retary, B. H. Neelanda, P. 0. Box 66. JOURNEYMEN BARBERS' INTERNA- tional Union of America, Local No. 126—Meeta aacond and fonrth Toeadaya lo the month, Boom 205 Labor Temple. Preildent, 0. E. Herrltt; iecretary. S. H. Grani, 820 Cambie Street. tary, A, V. Lofting, 0239 St. Catherine! Street; treaaurer, E. 8, Cleveland; financial iecretary and bualaeia agent, Fred A. Hoover, 2409 Clark Drive; office corner Prior and Main atroeti, GENERAL TEAMSTERS AND CHAUF- fenr'a Union, Local No. 655—Meeta every 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 8 p.m. President, W. M. Brown; basineia agent, F. Haslett, 125 Fifteenth Avenue East; financial secretary, Birt Shewler, 1120 Robson- Street; phone Sey. 6679. Oflico 667 Homer Street TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 226— Meeta lait Sunday of oach month at 2 p.m. Preaident, W. H. Jordan; vice- president, W. H. Youhill; aeeretary- treasurer, R. H. Neelands, Box 66. BROTHERHOOD OF BOILER MAKEB8 and Iron Ship Builderi and Helpera of America, Vanconver Lodge No, 194— Meeta every Monday, 8 p.m. President, If. A. McEacbern, 1246 Alberni St.; aeeretary-treasurer, Angus Fraier-. 1161 Howe Street. Provincial Unions Bridge structural ornamental and Reinforced Ironworkers, Local 97 —Meets seeond and fourth Mondays. President Jai. Hastlngi; financial seeretary and treasurer, Boy Massecar, 1546 12th Ave. East. BBOTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS, Local No. 617—Meets every aecond and fonrtb Monday evening, 8 o'clock, Laber Temple. President, J, Held; secretary, E. J. Tamoine, 1228 Georgia Eut; business agent and financial secretary, G. 0. Thom, Boom 208 Labor Temple. Phone Sey. 7495. BLBCTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL No. 218—Meeta at 440 Pender Btreet West, every Monday, 8 p.m. President, H. H. Woodside, 440 Pender W.; recording aeeretary, W. Foulkci, 440 Pender Street West; financial secretary and buelness agent, E, H. Morrison, 440 Finder Street West; assistant iecretary, F. R. Burrows. HOTEL AND RESTAURANT KM- ployees, Loeal 28—Meets every flrst Wednesday in the month at 2:80 p.m. and every third Wednesday in the month at 9:80 p.m. President, Harry Wood; aeeretary and builneia agent, W, Mackensle, oBce and meeting hall, 614 Pender St. W. Phone Sey. 1681. OBce hoars: 11 to 12 noon; 2 to 6, INTERNATIONAL" JEWELRY WORK- en' Union—Meeta 2nd and 4th Fridays, 205 Labor Temple. President, W. Holmes, Colonial Apts., Burrard Street; secretary-treasurer, D. 3. Basil, 910 Pansmnlr Btreet. _ S. 0. LOGGRRS' UNION—Aflllated with B. 0. Federation of Labor and Vanconver Tradea and Labor Council— in Industrial union of all workeri In togging and construction camps. Head- inartert, 61 Cordova Street West, Van- waver, B. 0. Phone Sey, 7856. E. (Pinch, secretary-treasurer; legal adviii-, irs, Messrs. Bird, Macdonald * Co., Van-' lonver, B. C; auditors, Messrs, Bottar fc Chiang, Vanconver, B. 0. 0. FEDERATION OF LABOR—Meeta In annual convention in January, Ex* entire oflcers, 1918-19: Preaident, J. Kavanagh, Labor Temple, Vancouver; vice-presidents—Vancouver Iiland: Cum* berland, J. Naylor; Victoria, J. Taylor; Prlnee Bupert, Geo. Casey; Vancouver, W. H. Cottrell, P. McDonnell; New West- minster, Geo. McMnrphy; Weit Kootenay, Silverton, T. B. Roberts; Crow's Nest Pass, W. B. Phillips, Fernie, W. A. Sherman. Secretary-treasurer, A. 8. Wells, Labor Temple, 405 Dunsmiir St., Vancouver, B. 0. VIOTOBIA, B. Q. VICTORIA AND DISTBIOT TBADES and Labor Conncil—Meets flrst and third Wednesdays, Knights of Pythias Hall, North Park Street, at 8 pjn. President, B, Simmons; vice-president, T. Dooley; secretary-treasurer, Christian Siverts, P. 0. Box 302, Victoria, B. 0. NORTH VANCOUVEB V. B. OF CABPENTEB8 AMD JOIN- era. Local 1777—Meets first and third Mondaya in I. 0. 0. F. Hall, Lower Kieth Road East, at 8 p.m. President, W. Curamings, 10th Btreet East, North Vancouver; financial secretary, Arthur Roe, 210—18th St. W., North Vancouver. Seattle—Tho International Union of Timber Workers is enforcing its new scale of $5 & day in lumber camps and $4.80 in sawmills, although meeting with opposition be* cause of a lower scale adopted hy the loyal legion of loggers and lumbermen. This company "union" was formed during the war and its the opinions expressed in this column. Correspondents must he brief or their letters will not he published. While agreeing with many of the opinions expressed ln letters sent to ns, and while many of them contain matter that is worthy of publication, we have in a number of cases been unable to publish them owing to their length. WiU correspondents please note and govern themselves accordingly. Editor B. C. Federationist: I see by the report of tho general meeting of the loggers' organization that it was decided to make tho Camp Worker into a weekly paper. I also see that after this was decided you attended the meeting and gave some information concerning tho Federationist and tho great benefit which would happen if tho papers were amalgamated. I do not know what tho information was that was given, but would like to discusB tho matter for a short space. The Camp Work ur is a good little paper, and I would liko to see it grow; I would like to j see it be a weekly, in fact I would like it to bo a daily. Of courso I do not worry about what name it would bo called by, but am concerned with what is in it. Of course the lumbermen's union does not need a daily paper, but tho labor movement does—and what is good for tho whole is good for the part. Tho Fed. is already a weekly, and has for somo time been advocating a daily. If it were possible to amalgamate toe two papers would it help towards getting a daily! Of course by doing so tho Loggers' Union would still get a weekly paper to give their views in. The Fed. has 20,000 subscribers, and there aro 8000 Loggers who read it, I don't suppose the rest of tho 20,000 aTe vory much concerned about tho loggers and construction bean, more likely the latter. ■;, So you crave for a daily labor paper! All right, sit down and pray, and like manna from the sky, or liko rain, a daily paper will fall and entwine itself around the Labor Temple. No money is required,.no new subscribers, no now advertising. By the way, did you ever leave the goods on the counter because the storekeeper did not advertise in the Fed., or employ union clerks! What's wrong with you, anyway! All 'things considered, don't you think that you havo left undone many of the things that you ought to have done, and visa versa! Did you ever figure that if an executive does not shape np to tho 20th century standard of right versus wrong that your duty is clear and more "beefing" a lazy man's moral cowardice! It's the real organization that brings home the bacon, not the nightmares of hair-splitting blunder- busters, 'After all we are like a bunch of steers, wo have to bo rounded up, bog tied end branded in one big cor ral. Qct that, Steve, and don't lot it slide off your domo. It's ^our funeral, your epitaph being carved, and that apathetic muck-stick is digging your own two by six. Wako up, Steve, you're about to be buried alive.. YOU. There's a war on. Brush tho moss from your shingles, get busy with the tar brush, tho roofs leaking of our organizations, fix her up, and ior the love of Mike come in out of the rain. S. H. COOKE. Lille, France.—Mino workers in this region arranged details of thc eight-hour day, much to the chagrin of the operators who wanted the work day between 7.30 to 11.30 and from 1 to 5, with air hour and one- half off at noon. The mine workers NINETEEN PER OEN?. NOT PROPERLY NOURISHED *»• 17 CTr"Ji"^VX^«*W?**i.r_fwlBft^ they would work from 6 a,m. affairs, but I do flunk that it thoy m ' ih h ]f fl h f wero to see in the Fed. each week a_luneh ^ thrcntencd t0 fitriko jf they didn't havo their way, mine owners yielded. _ _ i week a fuller account of our affairs they would get to have a greater interest in us and our work and would realize what an important part we are of the labor movement in this country. I do not mean that you should give us more space than you are now doing—that would be unfair to other unions—unless we paid for it, then of course we would have all we paid for.. It would appear to mo that it would also be much cheaper for our union. To get out a weekly Camp Worker will cost at least a thousand dollars a month. Now if this could be done at half the price by using the Fed. we would bo $6000 a year ahead, and a lot of organization work could be done with $0000; or it could bo put toward starting a, daily labor paper, and that is the best kind of propaganda that wc can have. I do not know whether the money we would pay you would be of any great benefit to the Fed.— but I suppose all these things were talked over at the general moeting. The point I wish to make is this: If it is in tho interest of tho labor New Tork Health Commissioner Adds His Condemnation to the Present System Dr. Royal 8. Copeland, health commissioner of New Tork City, has issued an official bulletin from which it appears that 10 per cent, of the children in New Tork Oity are under nourished. Nineteen per cent.! Charles Dickens in "Hard Times" pictures a school teacher, Mr. Mc- Choakumchild, giving a' lesson in economics. Mr. McChoakumchikl says to Sissy Jupe, a daughter of hardship and poverty, "Hero are the statistics of accidents upon the high seas and I find that in a given time a hundred thousand persons went to sea on long voyages, and only five hundred of them wore drowned or burned to death. What is tho percentage!" Sissy Jupe answers, '' Nothing.'' "Nothing!" exclaims Mr. Mc- Choakumchild, in astonishment. "Nothing," answers Sissy Jupe, to tho relations and friends of the peoplo who were killed." Nineteen per cent, of the children of New York City aro under-nourished. What doos tho per cout. matter to tho fathers and mothers of the hundreds of thousands of boys and girls about whom Dr. Copeland writes,—"Investigations have shown that undor-nourit-ihment is to be traced most directly to insufficient or wrong feeding. Reports of tho United States Bureau of Labor show that tho average increase in wages since tho war began has been about 18 por cent., while tho average increase in tho cost of food has been nearly 100 per eent. Families with a narrow margin of living- cannot but suffer as a result , ,, . At tho present time One child out of every five in New York City is so undernourished as to demand immediate attention^ whilo at lenBt two additional children out of every five nre on the border Hne between good health and under-nourishment." Thc percentage is under-nourished children in i.)l_ was 5 por cont.; ond tho percentage in 1019 is 19 por cent, which is anothor way of saying that four timCB as mnny fathers and mothors look, with anguish, The!from their inadoquato wnges to tho meogro bodies of their little ones. ▼ANCOTJVEB, B_ u FRIDAT... Hungary Sovietism in Action THE PEERLESS PEACE Is it a peace that you claim as a guerdon,— By the faith of a dominant cause? Ia the truth that ye plighted unbroken— That in you should a world have its laws? Tet alone are yc right as the people, By the perils of lofty estate; But your words are a scourge to thc vanquished, Who were tireless, and puissant and great. Te aspire to have strangled a nation; Te delight to have slaughtered its creed; And, by force of your levies and legions, Tour desire shall account for the deed; Thus peace may acclaim you thc victors, By the might of your sanctified sword; For the war was destroyed by your prowess, While ye vaunt in the name of the Lord. But bestir, for the judgments are falling, And the thunders of doom are awake; For freedom demands of her spoilers New realms for her sons to partake; She shall not be bought as a harlot, By thc largess of limitless gold; And the wealth of thc sum of her favors Must by those of her household be told. Small concern have our rulers betokened That others than they were elect; Full-fed, as the feasters of fortune, They harried, and scattered, and wrecked; By vengeance, aro they not the victors? Are thc spoils not their riches by right? Ha"c they not made good the decision That lias shattered all terrors of might? But declare us thc peace that they fashion, By fire, and starvation, and stealth; As they stifle the voices o'f freedom, And adore at the orgies of wealth; With Liberty fair, for their comrade, They compassed thc ends of the earth; Now stricken, and weary and fettered, She awaits but thc travail of birth. Tet the morning of man is arising, As the day-star awakens to strife; For the toilers shall gather the fruitage That sustains all abundance of life; No class shall bc burdened with riches, And the cries of our hucksters shall cease; For Man is by nations advancing That shall follow the footsteps of Peace. —W. 0. Boynton, 1919. By Grace Hunter Budapest, Hungary, May 27. "Ten thousand couples have married In Budapest within the last two fte.eka and come to me (or furniture and rooms," said the People's Coniihis- sioner tor Housing, Somlo, iH"au- swer to my flrst question aa Withe greatest problem for his dtyikrt- ment. "The business ot my drhiart- ment was originally intenderffeiily as a clearing house to bring -fifty rooms and roomleis proletarians together but now that the working man and woman geta a living wige with a surplus, they seem ttS'.'get married very fast. As soon as'the knot is tied they come to this .office not only (or rooms but they must have kitchen utensils and ftther practical appliances to make the flowed to take part in public affairs and therefore the mental attitude toward them Is unconsciously unfair. When, however, the decision is made by the workers own representatives elected and recallable hy them, this mistake Is more apt to be rectified than under the old system when the factory owner made the rules." "The Control Council meets twice a week at least, and two of the members devote all their time to its business receiving the pay of the highest paid skilled workers ln lieu ot their factory work. This council reports once a week to the confidence man of the government as to its activities, and once a month to the trade councils." _ i ._ . _ -jra-ucai appliances to make t movoment as a who o that our pub* new home ,lvsble. Therefore, listing efforts should bo couccn- -,„.„ •*,_,- ■„ „„_- _ ,t_„-...- ...... .-.--__ — ■*— —•■■- jismng cnorts should bo coucen- membership Includes employers' rep- trated „„_„ m_ „„!„» then it is up rescntatives who have sot a waco *..*. «- *« tt~ *•• *-- *---»J —**- *-- IKTERN-TIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S Aiiocl.tion, Loci 8652—Office snd 1.11, 804 Pender Street Weet. Meets Int snd third Friday., 8 p.m. Secre* Urj-treMorer, F. Chspm.n; bniineit .Kent, P. Sinclair. AMALGAMATED MEAT CUTTERS AND Butcher Workmen's Union No. 043— Meets fint ftnd third Tuesdlj*i of each Booth, Labor Temple, 6 p.m. President, H. E. Willi; reeordin*- iecretary, Fred Lilly; fiaancia! secretary and bniincea *g.nt, T. W. Anderson, 587 Homer PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE 5F North America (Vancouver and vicinity!—Branch meets eecond and fourth Mondaya, Room 204 Labor Temple. President. Wm. Hunter, 818 Tenth Ave. North Vancouver; financial secretary, E. God* dsrd, 856 Richards Street; recording secretary, J. D. Russell, 028 Commercial Prlro. Phone High. 2J04R. ' SHIPYARD LABORERS, RIGGERS AND Fasteners, I.L.A., Local Union 38A, Series 5—Meeta the Snd and 4th Fridays »f tbe month. Labor Temple. 8 p.m. Preildent, John Sully; financial secretary, M. A. Phelpi; business agent and corresponding secretary, W. Lee. Office, Boom 219*220 Labor Temple. ONE BIG UNION UNIT ol Steam and Operating Engineers — Meets every Monday, 7:30 p.m.. Labor Temple. Pre* sident, F. L. Hunt; vioe.presldent, Percy Chapman; secretary-treasurer and business agent, W. A. Alexander. Room 216, Labor Temple. Phone Saymour 7485. STREET AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY *■ Employees, Plonear Division, No. 101 —Meets A. 0. F. Hal), Mount Pleasant, lit and Srd Mondays at 6 p.m. Presl* dent, W. H. Cottrell; recording aecre- rescntatives who have set a wago rate that is 80 cents a day lower than the bona fldo unionists. This situation is proving an effective argument to show why the loyal legion is favored by the bosses. Edmonton, Alta.—The organized plumbers and steamfltters have raised wages S cents an hour until September 1, when rates will bo advanced another 5 cents as hour until April 30, 1020, when the agreement ends. to ua to do it, for we would only be acting contrary to our interests as a part and as a wholo to refuse to place the interests of all before tho interests of some. This question should go to a referendum of our members with all the facts placed before them. Yours for the O.B.U. and a daily labor papor, A BLANKET STIFF. Antol Pollak, the co-inventor with Vlreg of the Pollak-Vireg system of , „=*r uu..™ .ivhuib. inereiore, i rapid telegraphy is a workman in have had to open a clearing houso this factory. His system increased for household furniture, socializing the efficiency of the old Morse sys* the unused furniture of the' hour- **— **— - * CUTS And Commercial Art far use In Newspapers, Catalogues, Souvenir Booklets, Etc. 618 HASTINGS ST. W. The Royal Bank of Canada INCOBPOBATED 186* Capital Authorized -. Capital Paid-up. $ 25,000,000 $ 15,000,000 Reserve and Undivided Profits $ 16,000,000 Total Assets $430,000,000 566 branchei in Canada, Newfoundland ud Britiih Weit Indies. Alio branchei in London, England; New Tork City tnd Barcelona, Spain. Twelve branchei in Vancouver: Main Office—Corner Hastings and Homer Streets. Corner Main and Hastings Streets. Corner Granville and Robson Streets. Corner Bridge Street and Broadway West. Corner Cordova and Carrall Streets. Corner Granville and Davie Streets. Corner Granville 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 ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO SAVINGS ACCOUNTS One dollar opens an account on which interest is paid half yearly at current rates. "That's What" Editor B. C. Federationist: Thc general lack of industrial progress on part of the workers on the Amcri* can continent is but thc reflex of their hard-boiled apathy and not so much due to "ivory skullitus" as generally taken for granted. Those who even religiously chant their class-conscious doxology, subconsciously overlook tho main event of tho Great War, that thoy aro movement, and that tho the THOS. PEACOCK, Manager Vancouvtr Branch W. FRAZEE, Vancouver, Supervisor for B. 0. movement is everything, prone to overlook the faot that becauso their particular individual part is not played in tho spotlight that they can lay down on tho job, wobble around picking berries whilst individual executives peel thc spuds. Tho average workor appears to inherit tho birthright of class-conscious mental and physical laziness in so far ns his own particular interests are concerned. He will fume, fret and worry, wearing out his pins and contract compound myopia looking for jobs; ho will madly wash his phiz and slide along to visit Charlie Chaplin, pack tho lunch basket to the park, but Agnes, ask him to devote such moments to his rcsponsi* hility to the movement and his laments will re-echo to tho four winds. Exploitation does not cense its function becauso picnic weathor is here; it functions 365 days in tho yoar, tnd docs not merely function for the eight-hour day, it grinds 24. Your executives are fanning tho air if the rank and file are not performing their class-conscious duties to thcir respective organizations. An apathotic • member • in • good-standing - card-carrying - drone ia a traitor of the worst typo, far more so than an open "out-and-outer." Questions: Are your pants worn out Bitting on executive committees! Vou bot they aro not, let Oeorge do it, your Christian name. Do you know anything about the duties of an executive? Of courso you don't, just continuo to chow tho fat about tottering system; it will totter and knock your brains out. Did you ever boost tho Union Label; does tho missus! Well, hell, who wants to liBtcn to excuses? Don't boef about a system that is Of your own making, Just work a little. Did you ever do anything individually that would advance the interests of that curd that you pack in your wallet! Do you know what that card stands for! If lt stands for something, why not get on your hind feet onea in a while and give your pants a chance? Did you ever speak on the floor of your local? Aro you dumb or haven't you had a college education? Too bad. How. many business meetings of the woi-ftcrs did you miss last year! Just tall* a cushioned chnir, you'll have something handed to you on a geols and making sure that the proletarian brides and bridegrooms get what they need and need what they get." "Does this look as though communism would abolish the home and encourage free love?" he asked. At one of the socialized factories which I visited in Budapest I got another sidelight on the lack of fear in taking up the responsibilities of married life which the Hungarian proletarians were showing. At this factory the controlling council ot workmen (women were equally represented on lt) decreed that the extra rooms in the houses In the neighborhood occupied by the prosperous bourgeoise (who formerly received the profits from the factory) should be turned Into day nurseries for the children of the factory workers. The family could therefore come to the factory itself in the morning, deposit the children in rooms of pleasantly situated houses nearby and at noon the mothers and fathers could spend their two hours of rest with the children, and at night the family could again be united in their journey home, "The factory is no place for ohlldren," remarked the chairman of the Controlling Council. At this socialized factory work begins at seven a.m. and stops at 3 p.m., and there are fifteen thousand women among the twenty-five thousand workers, Before the war It was the largest incandescent lamp factory In Europe, but owing to, the lack of materials It produces only ten or fifteen thousand lamps a day and the employees, In order to Insure work for all, are employed only four hours a day though a full day's wage Is paid them all. The Controlling CouncU ot seven members, elected by the workers, raised the wages from one hundred per cent, at first to two hundred per cent. I talked personally to many of those men and women workersjThe average wage for women la^Vils factory before the war waa twenty crowns a week and under commim- Ism lt Is from 125 to 150 crowjij a week. Older women are paid I than younger women not ond tbelr experience but as a Beial party which desires to dlscosMge the attractiveness of factory life (or young girls. Ia fact, the yfitng girls of fifteen or sixteen yeans at present employed because the* are skilled workers and can obtattno other employment are to be subject to the compulsory education up to eighteen years just as soon af the schools are organized for thell admittance. Some of these oldes women workers get three or fourfiup* dred crown a week. *'. Skilled men workers before the war got sixty crowns a week and now average about (our hundred and oight crowns a week. The controlling council has decreed that an apprenticeship of ten years for women and of six years (or men Is essential before either can be classed as skilled workers. They account (or this apparent discrimination against women by pointing out that women have only recently during the war entered Into the factories. I "What has that to do with their present ability or the kind and quantity of work they can do?" I asked, "It lias nothing to do with it," he answered honestly "the simple (act la that women have never been al- tem from forty thousand words an hour to six hundred, words a second over the same wire. Since the second revolution he has been in* stalled in a private olllce of his own where I found him closely absorbed bending over some electrical appliances. His face on one side is badly mutilated by an accident during some of his experiments. From America!" he said, in very good English. Well, now I have a little grudge against America, because a long time ago, I went over there to try to sell a contrivance of mliie. They told me it was no good but after my return to Austria it was patented by the firm with which I had consulted and has been used ever since. That Is the way they used to treat Inventors here also, and workmen were forced to pledge their Inventions to the firm, as they still do In America. Now, however, the Inventor knows that not only he but all factories will have the benefit of his findings." "Of the two hundred thousand proletarians In Budapest about one- half were living in misery before the revolution," said Commissary Somlo. "The housing department originally intended to apportion ono room to each person but four rooms are about the maximum which we can allow to each family. No more than eight hundred thousand persons came to Budapest during the war, principally for the purpose of trading In contraband food. These were mostly Oallclan Jews. The socializing of houses and rooms was therefore further complicated, but the Intention, ot course, is to build new homes for the proletarians as soon as materials are available. This ofllce has already awarded twenty-one thousand rooms and has tried to accommodate all specialists such as physicians, artists, writers and dentists whom we consider most useful public servants, with an extra room for their work, "All licensed houses of ill-repute were abolished by decree but this department went further and removed the women to two hotels outside the city, and both men and women were replaced by proletarian families. We knew exactly where these houses were as each householder had to fill out declaration blanks and our Inspectors afterwards Investigated them. "la twenty-eight villages around Budapest we have socialized the houses and Intend as Boon aB possible to Include all the larger towns in the provinces. So (ar the peasants have not been disturbed. We bave already planned to build ten thousand houses of available atone but want of coal also handicaps us. We have an engineering and building department for repairs as most of the houses have deteriorated during the war and must be kept up for the benefit of the whole community. As to the ownership of small houses. The owners of small one family houses who have bought their houses with their own wages are generally allowed to keep and own their houses, but the Individual cases are decided upon by the local council ot workmen." Parliament Adjourns But Leaves a Bad Stigma Behind Millions of money were voted In the last hours of Parliament, but not without a vigorous protest In both Houses. Much time was wasted in the early part of the Session, and no effort was made to expedite business. On the contrary, the Government policy seemed to be to kill as much time as possible, so as to have an excuse for an autumn Session. Mr. D. D. McKenzle objected to Ministers holding Important portfolios sitting in the Upper House, and hoped this would be remedied when the Cabinet waa re* constructed. A supply Bill exceed* Ing $162,000,000 was passed without any adequate discussion. In reply to a question put by Mr. Jacobs, a mild sensation waa created by Mr. F. B. McCurdy, who rectnly resigned as Secretary of the Department of Soldiers' -Civil Re- establishment. In his letter of resignation Mr. McCurdy bitterly assailed the Government because of Its policy of "drift, delay and Inaction" in regard to the work of his department. He wrote the Premier: "I am unwilling to risk my reputation In being attached to an under taking whose duties and responsibilities are so lightly regarded." The incident Is only one of many during the Session that showed the Government to be unfitted for the great task of reconstruction. i SHOP AT THE MARKETARIA We Save You Money Finest Alberta Creamery Butter, L^ J$1.75 53c 55c 10c 30c 45c 25c Bogera' Syrup— 5-16. pails Guaranteed New-laid Eggs, per dozen Lux—Per package _.._.. 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Men's, Boys' and Youths' Boots Are Marked for Quick Sale Men's Brown Calf Boots, on Sale, $5.95 It's the best looking Man's Boot we have seen sold for this price in years—a really wonderful bargain—add if you take our word for it and eome down to the store and see with your own eyes we feel confident you will not be disappointed. We bought these Shoes away below tho market, as they were originally ordered by another Btore, and for some reason not delivered to them. They nre a storling good weight boot in tho fashionablo dark brown calf, mado on a medium short vamp Inst with heavy fibre waterproof sole nnd rubber heel. Our experts declare thoy will givo excellent wear— a $7.50 value for $5.95 Boys' Sizes, 1 to 5, Same Quality, $4.65 Youths', 11 to 13, Same Quality, $3.85 MEN'S 0UT1N<3 BOOTS-Sizcs 10 and 10*"/2 only; White Canvas Tennis Boots, with best quality white rubber soles and leather insoles. To clear at $1.00 David Spencer, Limited WUDAY.. July J5, IMS eleventh teab. Wo.» THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vaxoouvkh, a a PAGE SEVER Men's and Women's Bathing Suits in Wool and Cotton. See Our Windows for the Patterns and Range A special line of Women's Bathing Suits, blue with orange edgings. Reg. $2.75 to clear at $2.00 Men's Outing Shirts, White Duck Pants and Camping Clothes. Hamilton-Carhartt Overalls. UNION STORE Clubb & Stewart LIMITED 309-315 Hastings St. West , THOUSANDS BEING DEPORTED IN V. S. 1 Undesirables Are To Be Put Out Of Democratic (?) America Washington.—Undesirable aliens are being sent back to their home countries as fast aa shipping space can be obtained tor them, Immigration Commissioner Caminetti today told the bouse Immigration commit* tee. From July, 1911, to May, 1919, [ there were deported 2779 undesir- | ables. "There are about 3600 aliens now (awaiting deportation ln addition to tlie 500 the department of justice desires to be sent out of the country," Caminetti said. ^henjta-ugkwttk tWapap,, EX-SOLDIERS IN NEW SOUTH WALES REBEL Get Slek ef Promises From Government—Raid Publlo Buildings Sydney, N. S, W.—Premier Law- son was assaulted and injured by rioters ln Melbourne, among whom were many returned soldiers. The premier attempted to make a con- cilatory speech to the soldiers, who had rushed tha Victorian treasury building. Tha rioters refused to listen to him and assaulted the chief executive, whose head was cut open by a heavy metal inkpot. Later the rioters rushed police headquarters, where a fierce flght took place. Tram can an not running; there is a shortage ot fuel ahd light and conditions generally are bad ll the city. OAKADIAW NATIOWAI, •AILWATS Jto Lin* of Transportation that Belong! ta AU tin KaUon canadian National bah-wayi 950.50 IT PATS TO USE IT Xo-and Trip Stmutr T*ti_t m_4H fSO.50 EDMONTONOALOART Bitum MaU Ootolm list All tMT (nitst llettfe 0 Montk. ntara Unit w sah t. IMm Onuda, Caatril ..i gutem Butts. . ■ PsmIbc tkroQllt th. Rook its waaia Vatoii anus mom sjcow obowiod peaks Tnlas loir. Ytaeeatet Dnk. 8UU-M 0:00 ftJD.—Sund-v, Toeid.r Md Prldsr—9:00 ».a. fast rzEit-BT Mi-no* ■ rat R*t*t .at Isf-m-itMoa avoir to iuwui •_»_ runoHT taa fassmoic aozkt Mi ButUf. 81 Woos VJUMOtrvn. 1 O. ran. lerawmr titt AOENT TOR ALL ATLANTIC 8TKAU8HIP LINES .WORKERS UNI rAMPl Named Shoe* ara frequently mid* ia Non-union factories DO NOT BUT ANT SHOE ._ . No matter what ita name, unlea jaCIDty \ it bean a plain and readable im- V preaaion of thia UNION STAMP. All Shoes without the UNION STAMP an always Non-union De net accept any excus* fer Ahatnoe af Uw Union Stamp BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION 2M MnptEB ItSEET, BOSTON, MAM. 0OLI8 I.OVKLT, Otaonl Ptoildont—CHAS. h. BAINB, Soa.nl Soo.-TrMs. BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BEST COAL For your kitchen—Wellington Nat Kitchen, furnace and frate—Wellington Lamp For Your Furnace Comox lamp—Comox Nut—Comox Pea (Try on Pea Coal for yenr underfeed fnraao) COAL MACDONALD-MARPOLE CO. LIMITED 1001 MAIN STREET Phont Bay. 310 ONE OF THE FINEST TONICS Good for Health Improves the Appetite CHEAP PRODUCTION Everyone knows that ehcap goods can onl/ be procured by using cheap materials and employing oheap labor, . CASCADE BEER is produced from the highest grade materials procurable .—Cascade ia a UNION produce from start to finish. VANCOUVER BREWERIES LIMITED F.L P. Present Day Democracy But a Sham, Said One of the Speakers Two speakers occupied tho Columbia stage on Sunday evening: J. W. ■Hogg, who rc-appcared as a public speaker after a six years' retirement, and Dave Bees, who was also Mime what of a stranger, having been busy elsewhere. W. Batt, as chairman, alluded to tho previous day's "Peace" celebration, remarking that some day they would have a real "Peace D*>y," whon the workers would be a peace with all thc world, i.o, when nobody would be living on thom any more. According to the vcpee terms, how* over, thore could Hot be anything but militarism for many yean. Comrade Hogg said that, in Ml* brating peace they were celebrating Burnetii ing which could not exist, as long as the presont state of society existed. Wherever civilization ex- istoi^ they had war, i.e. tho class struggle. The cause of all tho economic trouble on top of tbe earth waa tbe existence of two classes: thoso who did nothing and owned everything, and those who did everything and owned nothing. Oa this account thero-must bo a class struggle going on, botween those who bad and thoso who bad not. Io the war, they bad fought for something; and they had not got it. At Winnipeg, a few people had the courage to toll tbo working class just what thoir position was; they were jailed and threatened with secret trial. The "democracy" whicb they fought for, and which thoy celebrated, was -i sham. If the aristocrats at Ottawa claimed omniscience —one of tho attributes of Ood Almighty—they had a right to object to boing criticized; but if otherwise, the workera had a right to criticize Borden and his crew. As samples of this "crew," tbe speaker mentioned Sir Herbert Ames, of the ilrm tbat manufactured tho soldiers' boots mndo of double- superfine brown paper; C. C. Ballan- tyne, closely connected with tho Sherwin-Williams Paint Company, whose varnish alone was ordered to be used on shells made for tbe Munitions Board; Sam Hughes— our own Sam" (laughter); Doherty, the lawyer; and Hanna, tbe oil company lawyer who waa made food controller, and whose food-bill for one day, at the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, exceeded the speaker's own food-bill for one month, "He sure did control some food while be was thero.'' (Laughter), Whea men like Pritchard and Woodsworth dared to criticize tbii bunch of roguos, they threw them into prison and wished to deport tbem. Passing on to mention of tbe British army in Bussia, costing #500,- 000,000 a year, "in an undeclared war against your brothers and mine," and then tbe $100,000,000 worth ot munitions already sont to Kolchak, a representative of the old feudal elass, "to shoot down the proletariat in Bussia," the speaker asked, "Were you celebrating de* mocracy yestordayf" As to " business men'' being necesssry to run the governmont, it was pointed out that $5,000,000 had been lost in simply transferring work from the War Offlce to private control, Tho workors organized against the boss, thus admitting thoy couldn't trust him; yet they would elect him to office—a direct contradiction. What was tho matter with taking one of themselves instead, and then multiplying tbat one by 20 or 2001 With regard to tho dictatorship of the proletariat, whicb would allow no othor section to have a voico in anything, the speaker remarked, "Every person.wbo renders useful sorvico to tbe community becomes a proletarian;" any other section should be left to get along as best it could. In conclusion: "Till you get control of the machine, you'll remain whero you are. You'll novor got anywhere so long as you allow the law to romain under control of the master." By olecting their own men, they would be in a position to amend the' political machino to suit their own ends. (Applause.) Comrade Bees endorsed the plan of having thcir own men and women to represent them in parliament. Tbey needed thcir industrial organization, but also their political one. In spite of differences of view, however, they could not stand for deportation proceedings against the workers. An order-in-council could be put through for such a purpose ia lesa than an hour at Ottawa; both parties joined in the procedure, and tbe Governor-General was there ready to sign it. It was only tbo fact tbat the workers had their organizations that prevented tho move from going through.- If they were satisfied to voto for Stevens, Crowe, etc., thoy deserved all they wore getting. (Hear, hear.) This democracy was not the kind they were fighting for. Borden ond others dealt at Brussels with collective bargaining and the eight-hour day; then it was put up to the Mathers Commission to define what collective bargaining was, and tho buck waa passed between the Co- minion and provincial governments as to the constitutional right to pass an eight-hour day. "Thoy haven't the right to do a thing for us that thoy don't want to, and we've no right to expeot anything from them, Whoa we've got intelligence in our rnnks, we won't be asking them to do anything; we'll be doing it ourselves; our own men will be thoro." The speaker deprecated indifference—■" dropping the shovel"—between eloctions, and urged that they needed the enthusiasm of the religious groups and tho feeling of responsibility, Whilo respecting those who bolioved in a lifo hereafter, be said, "We don't bave to take our bats off to any movement in tbe world. A league of labor is far more important than any league of nations," (Applause.) Tbe speaker also wanted to see the membership of the party participating more actively inside and out. Their men ia offlco would only be crooked while they permitted it. Thero was no room for two working- claw political parties in Vancouvor or olsewhere. Let tbem combino into one party only, and have simply tho one issue: politician versus worker and sympathizers. If you don't elo it, expect more of that domocraer HAVE DEFINITE ll Declares the Necessity for a Revolution and Dictatorship Increased Interest Boosts Circulation of Party Organ A special correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, writing trom Fiance on the socialist movement ln that country, has the following to say on the activities of the socialists in that country. It Is particularly Interesting, at this time, coming as it does from sources whicli cannot be said to be socialistic. French socialism sets a lead partly because lt Is far more extensively practiced, and lt Is, as lt is declared, more Intelligent, better studied, and practical. It is a political force and may be said to havo that sense of responsibility which it has not in other countries—leaving out of consideration. Germany, Austria and Russia which are passing through most abnormal phases. For tbat reason Its movements are of general Interest and consequence. Another but yet minor reason why something less has been heard of.J it in recent times is, that the newspapers are mainly filled with peacemaking news, and the relative Importance of political movements Is dwarfed. Tet wise men In France today, politicians and others, will tell you that the most important thing happening is the socialistic development, since all other events of the present and future may be affected by lt, As a mere hint of th* nature of some ot the new developments and an earnest of the interest ot what is about to be related, it may be remarked that the new program of the party which bas been prepared in view of the elections which will probably take place tn the autumn, calls for a drastic amendment in the constitution, and, further than this, declares the necessity of a revolution, the first stage ot which, lt suggests, would probably he tem. .RADICALS WIN OK TORONTO T. & L. COUNCIL Moderates do Down To Defeat In City Of The Good Toronto.—Almost all the moderates amongst the offices of the To- po^lfcU^ tarlat Nobody outside France would be surprised to hear such words.lt perhaps, if they understood thatil they came from the lips and thoughtifj ot the Citizen Jean Longuet, but what will they think wben they); hear that this program la approved' snch Conservative Socialists, as onelj might say, as Albert Thomas andi| Pierre Renaudel, who during ths: war, while they clung as best they could to the grand (oundamentala of socialism, labored also tn accordance with the maxim that they should be more tor tbe State than for partyf The war is won, and; that makes all the difference to such as Albert Thomas and Renaudel, and it is quite possible ahd even comfortable for those who were lions and lambs in the Socialist Party during the war, to lie down together now. Mr. Thomas' Great influence Last year Mr. Thomas showed a disposition toward a great secession, In that he moved appreciably toward the extreme right wing ot the party and, Joining the Quaraute section ot Alexandre Varenne, which really dropped its socialism for the war—and, as some say, has not completely recovered it since— became the Quarante-et-Un. But he was never whole-heartedly of this section, for at bottom he was the real, earnest, and practical Socialist who believed in attaining the supreme Socialist objects by easy and certain stages. Now nothing Is heard of his association With the Varenne section, and lt may be taken that he is dropping them and moving back toward the centre of the party with which there is a somewhat general approximation. This is an important thing, for Mr. Thomas has great influence in France, and when the leaves ot autumn fall it will be ln process ot exertion and will be increased. That should be remembered now. Again, only a very few months back, one heard among all the other troubles of the party ot the difficulties experienced in regard to the conduct of the party newspaper, L'Humanlte, its dwindling circulation, Its poor prospects, and so forth. That also is changed. A new editor is appointed, but the change in success and prospects is by no means to be attributed to that, for the new appointment wat the simple, result ot the coming to power in the party of the Longuet section, the old Mlnorltaires, and lt had probably nothing whatever to do with the Improvement in the Journal's affairs, which Is purely the result of Increased interest in socialism and the return from the battlefields ot Socialist soldiers to civilian life and Interests, Also lt Is the obvious fact that many Socialists who are coming back from thoso battlefields, did not go to them as such. Anniversary of Commune It is desired now to take a brief review of the Socialist case and situation, as it has been developing during the last few weeks, without any close notice by those who were not immediately concerned, the facts being stated without prejudice or sympathy beyond that of|| Uncareful observer of political development of consequence. The moment seems ln a way to be opportune, for apart from the importance of recent affairs there is the fact that there haB only Just taken place in Paris the resumption ot a demonstration which was a regular annual thing before the war, waa suspended for that period, and Is now resumed again, this being the commemoration ot the anniversary ot the Commune. It has been conducted with all solemnity, carefully organised as of yore hy the Federation de la Seine. With this demonstration were associated the Socialist deputies, the Unloa ot the Ltbor Government Launched Large Repatriation Scheme What promises to be tho largest -repatriation scheme in the*" world is being launched by the Queensland Labor Government in Australia. Tho scheme is well under way, and already a thousand returned mon aro happily settled on their farms. Matters would have been farther ahead but for the lack of money, aad by the jealousy of the Toty governments of other Australian states lest thi Queensland Labor Government should get the oredit for a settlement scheme almost startling in ita magnitude. A large area of land la to hs thrown open and four railways constructed so that 8,500,009 acre! of rich and fertile land might be opened up for the roturned men. On this land seme 16,000 returned men will be sottlod in additiea to those who will settle in the townships that will assuredly spring np. When it is remembered that under the repatriation scheme outlined by the Commonwealth Federal Government of Australia, Queensland was called upon to settle only 2761 returned men, the magnitude of what Queensland is going to do at once becomes apparent. The Queensland Government not only intends to deal justly with its own men, but will cater for ex-service men from other Australian states, and from Britain or any of the other British dominions. it is estimated that a sum of ♦7,500,000 will be required for railways alone, without one penny to tho coat of throwing open the land for settlement.. Monoy will also be needed for road and water works, but there is no uneasiness on this score, And lest .we forget, thia is being [ono by, according to those who hate the Labor Party of Queensland—the "disloyal, Bolshevik" state in Aum tralia. Printers and Families Had a Good Time at Seaside Park Last Saturday the employees of Cowan A Brookhouse, printers and publishers, held their first annual picnic at Seaside Park. Tho West Vanoouver Ferry No. 5 was chartered to take the employees and tlieir friends to the popular picnic grounds, and a very enjoyable day was spent by all. Some 150 persons, including the kiddies, took advantage of the opportunity to get out of the city, and on every hand nothing but praise wu expressed aa to the admirable arrangements which were made by the committee ia oharge of the day's outing. Sports were the order of the. day, after lunch, and splendid prises were offered for the various events, the tug-of-war perhapttcausing the most fun, this event boing won by the married men and singie ladies, who had for thoir opponents the married woman and single men. The re- return trip was commenced about 7 p.m., and tht sail down Howe Sound in the cool of the evening brought the day's outing to a conclusion, everybody being well pleased, and hoping that another picnic will be arranged for next year. oil were wiped out ot offlce at the annual elections today, and the "Progressives" or Socialists are v In the saddle, President Ar- r B. O'Leary, a moderate ot the derates, went down to defeat in contest tor re-election, ud hla and' TOt-kTyj^h^arefu^ _7/'_#fi*' >ng the slain. The only old offl* regarded aa a moderate to he __ in "offlce is J. T. Gunn. ,l-A$m i a ____________________ m Monroe; recording aeoretary,' red Mance; financial secretary, _% Cottam. , . ,. Delegates to the Dominion trades S.d labor congress: J. T. Gunn, H. owls and James Simpson, LABOR VOTE GROWS London. — The electoral vote swing against the government, noted In all recent by-elections, was continued in that held on Tuesday at Swansea. David Mathews, a Coalition Liberal, Premier Lloyd George's party, received 9266 voteB to 8168 given David Williams, Lab- orite. In the December election, at which approximately the same number of votos were cast, the Coalition Liberal had a majority of 4730, Where is your union button? Syndicates of the Seine, and a large number of the Socialist societies of SIX—FED various complexions and purpose, that flourish In Paris and ln the neighborhood. At naif-past two in tlie afternoon a procession was formed on the Boulevard de Char- onne, a large number of wreaths being distributed among lt Authority had' decreed that there should be no unfurling or waving of banners or flags, and no speech-making. The demonstrators suffered the Inconvenience of these restriction*; as best they could and made a very presentable show as the procession moved along from lta starting point at about 8 o'clock. C.«B. EMPLOYEES U. S. AUTHORITIES Agents of the Department of Justice Are Very Valuable(?) When it comes to arranging bomb-scares, the police have a game to play ln which they can win all the points. New York, like other cities, was thoroughly alarmed by official anticipation of anarchist outrages on the Fourth of July. City, State, and National authorities all joined in to Increaso the ansiety, and we have actually heard of people leaving town to avoid what they considered the Inevitable bloodshed. That nothing happened anywhere throughout th* country Is something tor which we ahould all give most devote thanka, But lt It now Impossible for the public to flnd out whether there it any foundation for the alarm or not. The agents of the Department ot Justice nnd th* police need only look wise and aay: "Why, it waa our announcement that we were prepared which aaved . following are the chief offl-J**-" ***"• " "• coul* *~r. thaw you elected tonight: President^ Bl1 **-*• secret Information which w* hav* received!" Quite to; but th* public would b* much more likely to believe thit assumption ot mysterious wisdom it it were not tor the faot that all the authorities combined have up to now failed to produce a single one of the miscreants who placed the bombs on the second of June, or anyone who was In any way connected with the mailing of bombs a month before that This Is highly discreditable to the detec* tives, if only because tt is making many deluded people insist that the whole thing was a bit of agent provocateur business on the part of those who wished to bring about repressive legislation In Washington. Even the incredibly limited Mr. Stevenson balks at this wholesale crying of wolf over the Fourth of July and points out that If it la often repeated th* public will refuse to be stirred or Interested in further anarchist alarums. —New York Nation. DOCK STRIKE CONTINUES Liverpool.—The atrlke among the dockers, which broke out here early this week, has resulted in bringing about chaos In the arrangements for handling more than 200 ship* at thit port, their sailing being can* celled or Indefinitely postponed, Wall street banker! announce that then are no fundi available to pay the Interest on the t_ per cent Russian bonds. Patronise Federationist advortit- tee. ft hat again come to our notice that many people believt they are using Milk from V. If*. STEVES' famous herd of purebred Holsteins, when, as a matter of fact, they are not. A Serious Matter This is a serious matter—a despicable trick, worthy of the Hun—whea one realises that it may be the means of patting a number of little, white- coffins under tho ground in the hot months ahead. THE VALLEY DAIBT AP- PBOVED MILK ia the ONLY MILK ia this eity coming from J. M. STEVES' herd of purebred Holsteins. It is clarified and bottled at the farm, brought direct to the VALLEY DAISY, and distributed by the VALLEY DAIBT ONLY. If you are aot reoeiviugyour Milk from tht VALLEY DAIBY-aad hav* a Kiddie _* your home—yw had better 'pheae ua aew. Bayvlew ISS V/*UL-€Y D/JIRY Tender for Dredging SEALED TENDBBS, addressed to the undersigned, aad endorsed "Tender of Dredging, North Arm, Fraser Biver," will be receiv* ed until U o'clock not*, Wedneaday, July 30,' 1918, for dredging at North Arm, Fraser Biver, British Columbia- Tenders will not be considered unless msdo on the forms supplied by tho Department and according to conditions set forth therein. Combined specification aa,d form of tondor can be obtained on application to the Secretary, Department of Publio Works, Ottawa, and at the office of the District Engineer, New Westminster, B. C. Tenders must include the towing of the plant to and from tho work. Contractors must be resdy to begin work within thirty days after the date they have been notified of the acceptance of their tender. Each tender must be accompsaiad by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank, payable to the order of the Minister of Publio Works, for 5 p.c. of the contract priee, but ne cheque to be for 1cm tha* fifteen hundred dollars. War Loan Bonda of the Dominion will alao be accepted as security or war bosds and cheques if required to make up an odd amount. By order, B. C. DESBOCHEB8, Secretary. Department of Publio Works, * Ottawa, July 3, 1»1>. Patronize Federationitt advertisers and toll them why you dt to. mux ur. atait" baths! wIm _**_• *s**A**.f_t)t_aiaifif thtttttt eir, ma Caotm >»■ thst fsrwhftk'l' ______ warn I hat Urns M tklak stout II. pertipi ehe wu sot lo Mima, '•' ft Ii probsMs tut tin —a- *"—7**. ***** iadtaltaMlr." Tii, li a tnat idnluJoa aad «».;»«» mttt. «. lta. A. O. TBL-JPHOJH OO, LTD. Mtphoaa tty. Uil S»Ui, Tent* and Awnings Tt-u-stm' sad Carpoun* APlOlla, IDBBBt BOOH aai on OMntota EiiiaiiM Km „ _„,,„ -^ to wjAtaa ataaarr, vaaooom, a. o. OOWAN I BROOKHOUSE tra vel* oaelsls, nil, hr prim. Ilvs 8MMMOTIOII W. which yon have got." At tbe dote, Dr. Curry invited tho audience to take shares in a new co-oporative movoment on the Boch- dalo plan, which would "make some of our merchants and commission men wonder what has ttruck Van* couver." (Applause.) r ■ i Li The Strike Is Over But the Need for a DAILY UBOR 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? J PAGE EIGHT eleventh year. No. 30 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vancouveb, b. o. FRIDAY... -July 25, 1 Retail Quantities at WHOLESALE PRICES * Purchase Your Goods at WOODWARD'S GROCERTERIA and Save Money Specials for Week Commen'g Friday, July 25 Old Dutch Cleanser, 0 for 60c Lui, per pkt 10-/-.C Iris Rolled Oats, Gib. sack32c Crystal White Family Soap*— Demonstration Extra—Crys tal Whito Laundry Soap, 5 cakes for 29c Standard Oatmeal, _icr 5-lb. sack 26c Ply Swatters, ench 10c Itnybloom Ten, per lb 58c Arrow Brand Bwect Corn21Vac Squirrel Peanut Buttor ....27c llalkin 'a Best Custard, 7c, 19c Bon-Ami, tins or pkts lie Reckitt's Bluo 5c Boyal Crown Washing Powder 9*/_c White Swan Washing Powder for 23c Fcls-Naptha 8'/_c Royal Crown Cleanser ...*....5e Roval Crown Ammonia, per bottlo .*. 15c Royal Crown Blueing 15c Ivory Soap, 4 for 25c Fairy Soap 8**._c Gem Lye, tin 12c Oold Dust, packet lie Holbrook's Ground Rice 15V_c Sun Maid Seeded Raisins I7-/2C Gold Bar Seeded Raisins....15c Shredded Cocoa-Nut, lb 32c Purity Table Salt He Matches, 24 boxes in pkt...Z7c Nabob Coffee 58c Braid's Best Coffoo 60c Malkin's Best Coffee 68c Woodward's Belter Coffeo 390 Maple I.cof Milk _. 11'/*,* Celluloid Starch 12c White Gloss Starch „ U'/jC Silver Gloss Starch ..: 13'/*,c Benson's Corn Starch 130 Cow Soda, per pkt V/,0 Sunflower Pink Salmon, _'i, for. ...120 Sunflower Pink Salmon, l's, for 21c Parowax, per pkt 19c Libby's Pork nnd Bcans....l7C Quaker Pork A Beans 3 for 26* ■Van Camp's Fork'and Beans for 12c and 20c Clark's Pork and Beans 8c, 14c and 2ic Clark's Spaghetti and Cheese for ; 17* Heinz'a Dill Pickles, large tins for 210 Aunt Dinah Molasses, 0's..37c Aunt Dinah Molasses, 2','_% tor 20c Olympic Pancake Flour ....20c GET IT AT WOODWARD'S II Advance Board Rates to One Fifty Per Day BE CAREFUL HOW YOU ADDRESS FRINGE And Don't Forget To Mention "Your Obedient Servant" It Is with a great deal of pleasure (!) that we Inform our readers that it It officially announced lhat addresses for presentation to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ' during his visit lo Canada should; begin aa follows: "To His Royal Highness, Edward Albert Christian Oeorge Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales and Earl ot Chester In.the peerage of the United Kingdom; Duke ot Cornwall In the peerage ot England; Duke of Rothesay, Earl ot Carrlck and Baron of Renfrew In the peerage of Scotland; Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, K, 0., O.M.M.O., M.C., etc. "May it please Your Royal High* ness," etc. Addresses should end as follows: "We have the honor to be, sir, "Your Royal Highness' most obedient servants." Mention the Federationist when you make a purchase at a store. Men's Shoes -SELIIKO AT- $745 1—Tho greatest shoe value ever offered; all high grade shoes, In blaek, tan, and tan with suede top. Leather er Neolin soles. All new lasts. Real stylish shoes aad every pair ia perfect condition -•—no shop-soiled goods among them. Shoes are going up in priee tnd this removal sale offers you exceptional bargains. If you require a pair of shoes drop in and look them over, it will pay you, All sizes in every style. Actual values to (10. a**J Am Extra Speeial Priee V * »^0 Bring your repairs here. All work guaranteed, and the material used ia the best. P. PARIS BOOT AMD SHOE MANUFACTURER M HASTINOS BT. WEST Phon* Seymour 4716 One Door West of Columbia Theatre We meet you more than half way —When it comes to buying that New Suit you need— We net only offer you as flne a.line of Men's Suits as you'll ind in the eity—giving full satisfaction as to material, style and flt—at prices even mere reasonable than are quoted elsewhere—- but in addition We Give You Practically Your Own Time to Pay for the Suit Wt extend this Credit without any enquiry 01 red tape methods jrhich would annoy or embarrass you. JULY CLEARANCE SALE of TWEED SUITS $27.50 $35.00 $50.00 ti Down and |2 per week 18 Down and tt per week ♦8 Down and $2 per week B.C. OUTFITTING CO. 342 HASTINGS STREET WEST Hear Homer Big Fight Will Centre pound Camp Conditions It is reported that the employers in thc logging industry are willing to mako an increase in pay, roughly 10 per cent.; -in fact, it has already been ma(k effective with some companies. On the other hand, they have in the majority of cases advanced* the board to $1.50 a day. Tho actual wage increase being very nominal, and ono that docs not compensate for thc still advancing pricos of certnin necessaries of lifo, not coming under the designation of food or shelter. It iB on the question of camp conditions that, if nccessury, the big fight will coutre. The logger nbsolutcly refuses to any longer livo like an animal. Credit is given to Dr. Brooks of Minneapolis, of the Arm of Brooks, Scanlon & O'Brion, who when recently in tho city, statod ho intended his camps to be the best possiblo, and that the men were entitled to as good conditions there as ho would require for himself. Wo understand his camps aro improving, if not, then why nott If they are, why should not others conform to their standard? At tho Stillwater camps, there is at the prosent a little difficulty over the contract system, which is in operation there. The boys aro demanding that it be abolished, and thc day wage systom inaugurated. They have grantod the company two weeks in which to come through. Tho meeting on Sunday undertook to consider at next meeting the question of financial support to the men if they came on striko and needed assistance. Considerable discussion took placo over Princton men agreeing, to return to work on a 9-hour day, even for a limited period. It was only the recognition of thc principlo that the men on tho'job wero tho only ones who should say upon what terms any strike should be called on or off that prevented a motion repudiating the settlement from being pnssed. Kamloops -district organization was discussed, and in the future a moro aggressive campaign will bo carried on there. Organizers from that district report that its the limit for rotton conditions. Tho powers that be aro making no effort to compel the .employers to act in accord with legal requirements, whilst at the same time doing all they can to find evidences of illegal acts by members of the organization. Even mail takes a long time to pass betwoen near points. Education is sadly needed. It niight bo well to point out to all opponents of the Loggers Union that it stands first, last and all the time for strict enforcement of the law, and is prepared at all times to go to the limit in seeing that it is lived up to. Wherever legal representatives of repute aro established, the organization makes arrangements for tho logal protection of its members, to seo that they gel what is coming to them and also do not get anything railroaded over them. In Prince Qeorge district, during the strike, it was marked how every facility- waa placed at the disposal of the employers, even the boiler inspector issuing papers to a blacksmith, so that tho mill could run with scabs. 'Tis well to keep a record of these things for use in the days that soon will be. Those who are advocating the back-to-the-land movement had better be well investigated, as by so doing it may bo found that their advocacy of this solution of our social ills is not so altruistic as they would have ub think. Generally speaking, there is one particular type of individual who is a curse to the well-being of the loggers. That is the so-called rancher, the individual who at one time, if not now, believed that if only he got baek to thc land his troubles as a member of tho working class would be solved for all time; in fact, his day-dreams carried him even farther and ho fondly imagined that if onco he could class as a rancher, he would at the farthest be but one short step removed from the capitalist class. Even now there are thousands who are not yet disillusioned, despite tho fact that for years they havo been ranching, and all they have to show for it is in many cases a mortgage, which it is more profitable for Uie mortgagee to keep running than to foreclose. Consequently, instead of the raach keeping tho rancher, he has to rustle elsewhere for the wherewithal to maintain his interest in the ranch. This individual has to get out to a job for as many months of tho year as he ean to get some cash to help keep the ranch going, because of this claim upon him for revenue, greater even than the claim upon a normal worker, ho accepts camp conditions which are, to say the least, demoralizing. This would bo bad enough if only he was penalized, but unfortunately, he compels the real logger to accept like conditions. When approached to organize, ho states he is only in the camp for a few months, aud doesn't see the need to improve conditions, whieh, as far as Jiving is concerned, may be quite as good as exists upon his ranch, whero usually it's a homo-made shack of primitivo design and workmanship. On the ranch he works—for himself ho fondly imagines—from daylight to dark. In the camp he is willing to work the same hours, again with tho same delusion "for himself." He knows the boss docs not like labor organizations, and neither will ho when ho getB his ranch properly running with the help of one or two hired bands who might wnnt to organize to get better working conditions from him, Besides thc boss has been known to firo men who joined the union; that didn't mat- tor so much when they wero only siuglo men, or perhaps married men who hadn't a real stake in tbe country like he _it% whereu if the bo»b Numerous Raids on Labor in Ireland (Continued from page 1) terrorism, and was turned down by the French revolutionists of 1848." The following is the lint of terrorist atrocities carried out ln Ireland, from June 20th to June 26th: Raids and searches 26 Arrests 10 Prosecutions 6 Sentences totalling....! year 1 week (including 2 months hard labour) Fixtures proclaimed 3 Occupations by Military 3 Released in ill-health 1 (Thomas Hayes, of Queenstown, aged 17, released under Cat and Mouse Act). Thc suppressed fixtures include a lecture at Waterford, by Cathal O'Shannon, Editor, "The Voice of Labour," on "Ireland, Europe, and America." The lecture wab given elsewhere, and afterwards an open air protest meeting was broken up by the police charging with bayonets, In which charge Miss Hoyne, organizer of the Irish women workers' union, waa Injured. Fighting the O.. B. U. The rapid advance of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union in tbe past two years Ib now arousing the active hostility of the officials of the small local unions which are still numerous In Ireland. At the forthcoming Trade Union Congress at Drogheda the small unions will endeavour to raise the question of "overlapping," the "overlapper" being in most cases, the Irish One Big Unton. The Transport Union is, however, committed to the principle of One Union for all workers, and, as it adds one industrial group after another to Its membership, It Is adopting Its organization to meet their requirements. Recently it carried through an All-Ireland programme of wage and hour alterations for the flour-millers, and it Is steadily working to raise the level of living for all agricultural workers in the country: In the small towns, which were absolutely unorganized by separate craft unions, I. T, ft G. W. U.( has roped In every worker and carried through programmes of reform which benefitted evey wage-earner ln the place. Co-opeatlon Is being actively promoted for the common advantage of the rural wage-earners, and the small farmers in the present, and for the evolution of a workers and peasants organization in the future. Education is not neglected and the Union's literature department is circulating large numbers of books and pamphlets of the right sort. Street car men of Windsor, Ontario, are on strike. A general strike is being planned. Bhould'firo him it would mean-that the ranch would suffer and perhaps puss from his hands altogether, and with it all hope of ever becoming a capitalist, or at least "independent." On the ranch he hadn't time to do anything else but work. I Ho never read. In the came it's the same. Consequently he only knows what he was told when a boy, or now-a-days by those whoso good opinion cf him means a job and thd well-being of his ranch. He is hopeless. He is an animal formed in tho image of man, but without tho intellect. Ho knows only one thing, if ho works he keeps his ranch, if he keeps his ranch he will always have a job. What more ean the heart of a rancher desire! The pleasure of wearing good clothes is felt when clad in Jaafyuro (Uraft Each Suit and Overcoat containing full measure of satisfaction, fit, look and wear, constituting true value. Thos. Foster & Co., Limited 514 Granville St. Beach Cloth The Fashionable Summer Suiting SHOWN here in three different weaves, suitable for making women's and misses' suits, middies, dresses or skirts. Colors available at present include pink, sky, coral, champagne, sand, green, old rose, Alice, Belgian, Copenhagen, reseda, new green, paddy a?id white. Chiffon Beach Cloth, 36 ins. wide, 85<£ per yard. Santoy Beach Cloth, 36 ins. wide, 95^ per yard. Heavy Beach Cloth, 36 ins. wide, $1.05 per yd. Outing Veils In Large Assortments Shown in 'slip-on' styles, which are quickly adjusted. Desirable for boating, golfing and motoring. These come in plain octagon and diamond meshes, also in various spot and motif designs in costume colors. Prices 151, 25*£, 351 and 50^ each. UMlTIt 675 ORANVILLE WiU Hold Protest Meeting in the Avenue (Continued pago throw tho meetings wide open. Del. Bakes also opposed it on the grounds that if there was any private businoss to transact, the couneil could go into executive session. Del. Harrison opposed the delusion, as it would entail the exclusion of the visitors. Del. Kavanagh, support* ing tho recommendation, asked what good the press reports were, as tho reports of the council meeting could be read in tho Foderationist. President Winch opposed tho exclusion, stating that the more publicity thero was in the labor movement the botter. Del. Wells stated that ho opposed the proposal. He pointed out that tho function of the press wub to give snch news as it could secure, whether it was good, bad or indifferent, and that if it could not bo secured at the meetings it would be obtained from somo member of organized labor who was possibly oppoaed to the actions of the council. Del. Midgley supported the proposal, stating that if the press was not admitted to the local union meetings, it was not logical to admit at to tho couneil meetings, as the functions of the council had changed considerably in late years, and -dealt with organization efforts, instead of passing resolutions on minor matters. An amendment to table the recommendation was defeated, as was the recommendation of the executive, * A communication from the Winnipeg defense committee asking for assistance was referred te the loenl committee for aetion. WOO Belief Money A communication from Hope Lodge ef the Machinists, Beattle, was received, asking that when the monoy was distributed tho council would forward a record of the man* ner in which it was disposed of so that they would be ablo to judge as to the methods of distribution, and asking that Secretary Kavanagh be present at the meeting of the lodge on Bunday morning. Tho letter also stated that McVety and Bengough were* also invited to attend Sunday morning. Secretary Kavanagh read his reply te the letter, in which he stated that the reports as to dis* crimination in the distribution ef relief funds wero false, and that he would take the books to Seattle with him for proof as to the methods of distribution of relief. The council authorized Secretary Kavanagh to go to Seattlo and clear the matter up. A communication from the Washington State Federation ef labor stating that the reason the foodstuffs promised at the convention of that body had not been delivered was because the farmers hod not made tho donations promised, was received and flled. A communication from the Peace Celebration committee asking the attendance of the secretary at the next nieeting, was received. On recommendation of the' executive, the couneil decided to inform the committee that in view ef the action of thc government in arrest* ing workers in Winnipeg, and the strike-breaking activities of the ministers, that tho council would not tako part in the peace celebration. Tho rocomineudation wns received with applause, and adopted unanimously.. Immigration Aet The following resolution dealing uii.il thn amendments to tha Immi gration Act was passed without dissent: "Whereas BUI No. 132, known ns the Immigration Act Amendment, was introduced, read a first time, considered in committee, read a third time and enrried all in tho short spaco of twenty minutes; and whereas the said bill is designed for the express purpose of crippling tho labor movement of this country by rondcring its active members liable to imprisonment or deportation; "And whereas the intent of the bill has been amply demonstrated by the action of the authorities, both here and in Winnipeg; "Be it resolved, thnt tho Vancouver Trades and Labor Council protest against this bill remaining on the statute books, and demand that it be immediately repealed; "Be it further resolved that this resolution bo forwarded to tho _>render, and that copies be forwarded to all trades councils in the Dominion, asking them to take similnr action." Secretary Kavanagh reported on his work during the past week, stating that'to had dono what he could in tho caso of tho arrested Bussian workers. Ho also roforrod to tho troubles of tho Dominion Cannery workers, whom, ho statod, had been discharged ostensibly for lack of fruit, but that tho workers wero of the opinion that they wero fired becauso they would not work piecework. Keporting on his efforts to organizo tho factory workers, ho stated that tho first effort had net been as big a success as it could have been, but that tho womon wore moro interested thnn the mon, nnd furthor attempts would bo made. Ho also reported that sinco ho hnd handled tho reliof funds, ho had received ovor $3000, and that thoro was a balonco on hand of $514.31. Ho recommended that after tho money in hand was disposed of that tho fund bo closed. Result of Elections The tellers reported that Delegates Pritchard, McDonneil, Sinclair and Youngash were elected on tho executive, and that J. Woods wns elocted vico-president. Delegntcs Smith and Kavnnugh were elected presidont and general secretary, respectively, by acclamation. -President Winch on re'tiring frohi office stated thnt he wished to thank tho council for tho way in which he had been treated during his term of office, but tbat ho had decided not to accept any office in tho council, as his duty us secretary of the Loggers demanded nil his nttention, nnd ho also wished to givo more lime to his family. A motion authorizing the loenl defense committoe to net on behalf of the mon arrostcd in tho citv wns passed. Tho Teamsters reported that they had decided to sovor thcir connection *with tho International nnd join the O. B. U. Thoy asked for tho support of organized labor in completing tlieir orgnnization. President Smith, in assuming office, stated that ho realized tho difficulties beforo tho council, -but urged that evory movo bo weighed carefully. The council adjourned at 10.15 p.m. London.—Premier Lloyd Oeorge declared in the House of Commons today that Britain's coal strike waB unprecedented in gravity. Three mines have been flooded, he Bald. Sailors have been sent to pump them out. Two hundred thousand miners were still Idle in the Yorkshire district. Derbyshire, Nottingham and Monmouth miners are also out. THIS WEEK WE ABE OFFEBma Bigger Bargains Than Ever —IN— MEN'S AND WOMEN'S QUALITY CLOTH] —AT OUR— JULY STOCK-REDUCING SALE —*nd the important Hint to remember ie that yen cm use yonr oredit ber let tlie benefit of nle prices also. Here's two big Specials u -in example ef tbe values we ue ftlsilag. and tl many others bere tbat are equally aa good bargains. ^ Extra Special in Hen's High Orade Suits—Vats, to $37.50. Salo price $29.50 Copenhngon, Donmsrk. — Tho Dockers' Union hns been declared bankrupt for rofusing to pay a line of 800,000 crowns ($972,000) for calling as unlawful strike. Employors consented to reduco the fine to 25,000 crowns "to maintain the principle" but the dockers rof used the offer. Big Snap in Ladiea' Suite* A variety of st/los and m terials. Values to 440.0 price <P_«i/.5( DRESS WELL ON EAST TERMS AT THE New York Outfitting Co. Ltd 143 HASTINOS STREET WEST Opposite Province Office ;: Sey. 1361 New Arrivals in White and Gold Dinnerwear Headquarters for China and Toys First quality Importod Porcelain in an exqu white and gold design. Open stock pattern- enabling you to purchase single pieces, hall dozens, to rcplaco breakages or add to original For introductory purposes, we are offering a piece set at ~ _ f_ CELESTE ADAMS DINNER SEBVIOE SI pieces English Semi-porcelain Dinner Servia tho favorite CcleBto Adams Fatten. Sp« value at $x DAINTY DINNER SERVIOE, J15.7S 48 pieces to the sot—sufficient to place covers ■Ix. Good quality porcelain with dainty Bose 1 tern. Selling nt $1. Millar & Coe, Limitei 419 HASTINGS WEST NO PEACE UNDER CAPITALISM (Continued from page 1) the requisites of Steam were' compelled to further rely upon rivers and Wind Mills. The Wind Mill Nation In time wub compelled, through a consciousness ot Economic Necessity, to resort to encroachment on a weaker or Iobb advanced neighbor or to contest the encroachment to which it had previously been subjected. The Speaker proved hie point, In tbls connection, by citing the case of Germany and Prance with regard to the Wars of these Countries being based upon the Mines of Alsace l-oralne. As the enterprise ot James Watt cancelled all agreements ot boundaries—or Peace Agreements—previously existing, so boa the tnter- prise of the lnterpld aviators, i have recently crossed the Atlan cancelled the most recent Pe Pact. The crossing of the Atlai marks a period ln Human Devel ment which cannot be obstruc by Signatures. The address ot Speaker concluded ln a few poin remarks which went to the root all problems whieh have confron the human race throughout Its h ory and which explained In a cli concise manner the existing chi While the basic sociological c tradlctlon exists there can be peace all celebrations to the c trary not-withatanding. While i faction of society Is dependent u) another for an existonce conflict tbe enevltable result*. The questions following the dress were disposed of In a m ner whicb characterlied the dress. A Union Store Where Union Clerks Sell Union Shoes There's a heap of wear in these boots —the leather's there—tough yet pliable—good weight- capable of standing hard knocks. —the workmanship's there—built right—strongly made —reinforced at every point of strain. Call at Dick's—Get a line on these Boots—You never saw their equal for value. All-Leather Work Boot for $5.00 There's no better value in Work Boots in the Dominion—we've sold hundreds of pairs of this line—they give universal satisfaction—in Black, Brown or Tan—Heavy sole—Pegged and stitched. Dick's Price—$5.00 Leckie's Box Kip Boot for $8.00 A genuine Leckie Union-Made Boot—in Black Box Kip or Brown Oil Grain—Double sole—Reinforced stitching—as strong a boot as there is made. Dick's Price-$8.00 Guarantee with every Pair—Your Money's Worth or Your Money Bade 10% Off to All Soldiers 33-45-47-49, HasKrigsShEast\
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