British Columbia Federationist
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1924-05-16
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note: BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STRENGTH OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE FEDERATED LABOR PARTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PUBLISHED IN INTERESTS OF ALL WOBKEBS . 4 POLITICAL UNITY: VICTORY SIXTEENTH YEAR. JvV<}0 > FOUR PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 16,1924 5c A COPY Provincial Elections Now Staged and the "Fight" Is on—Poli- ticiana Spending Millions WOBKEBS SHOULD OETWISE Must Return Beal Live Men as Labor Representatives to Vietoria Parliament (By W. W.] 'THE provincial election has now been staged and the flght is. on. I use the word "flght" adviBedly, because in the paBt the politicians have had a tendency to treat elections as a kind of game, or gamble and for speculation. For instance, it was reported In the daily press last week that the Provincial party had spent forty thousands dollars so far ln propaganda, whllBt one of the members of the present government put their expenses atjnore than four hundred thousand. If this ls not gambling and speculating on the part of the would-be politicians, I .don't know what Ib. They are not spending a million dollars (this flgure I consider a moderate estimate of what the election will cost the new party) without seeing prospect of reaping a rich harvest. . I heard of a senator In one of the neighboring states across, the line spending a million dollars of his own money to get returned to offlce and then got a concession for a railroad, sold out, and cleaned up Ave million dollars. Tehre ls going to be a stop put to this kind of wark; ond from the workers' point of view, now lathe chance; and instead of the politicians making this election a gamble for power and profits, -we are going to make lt a flght for Justice, and return- real live men to see that the workers are represented at Victoria. We all enjoy a picnic. What is more interesting that a good tug-of-war when the men, often married men versus single men, pulling with might ant» main, with the women folk looking on clapping and cheering and taking as…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (1912) ; The B.C. Federationist, Ltd. (1912-1915) ; The B.C. Federationist, Limited (1915-1922) ; The B.C. Federationist (1922-1923) ; The British Columbia Federationist (1923-1925).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0345548
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : The British Columbia Federationist
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text