@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "60ee127f-b81a-4228-a219-c25b99ebed26"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:issued "2017-03-28"@en, "1919-09-19"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcfed/items/1.0345575/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST INDTJSTBIAL UNITY: STRENGTH. ELEVENTH YEAR. No. 38 EIGHT PAGES OFPICUIi PAPER: VANCOUVER TBADES AND LABOR COUNCIL, AND B. 0. FEDERATION OF LABOR 1 "■.', ■ . ■ " t»" * ■■ . '" POLITICAL UNITY: VICTORY VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MOVING, SEPTEMBER 19,1919 O.B.U. HOLDS THElPRITCHARD AND I IN I'PEG | Movement Is Full of Vim and Enthusiasm in the Prairie Capital [Issues Weekly Bulletin- Hope for a Daily Soon (Pjwcial to The Fcdor»tionl»t) Winnipeg, Sept. 18.—Despite tie [ (riea of calamity howlers, and the deliberate miarepreaentatton at the I "aolected" representatives of the A. j.F. of I,., Winnipeg and several of •the outtdde railroad eentrea aro not , merely going strong for tho 0. B. U., , bnt tho new organization, more par- ' ticulariy aa far aa Winnipeg ia eon* : corned, in the only thing of momont [in tho labor world. Following the imprisonment of the "oight," many of the opponents of tho 0. B. U, got busy, thinking that tho moat opportune time to strangle the young industrial giant clamoring tor recognition. Bat all to no pur* iposo. The 0, B. U. continued to grow, until at the present time, some 9000 ^workers are affiliated in Winnipeg alone, and more are following every day. With Bro. Bussell in tho "coop," tho rest of the boys realized their duty to him and to> themselves, and throw their energies into the work that ho had so unwillingly loft. Bo, tho C. N, B. and tho C. P. B. organized almost 100 per cent, into the O. B. U., whilst the vast majority of the 0. P. B. shopmen also lined up, with new adherents dribbling through all the timo. In ether trades, painters, tailora. retail clerks, contract shop machinists, barbers, lady garment workors, glove work* , era, teamsters, ateam and operating engineers ,and many others, are already afSliatod, whilo thc workera in tho railroad eentrea of Bndville, Cochrane, Dauphin, have also made r 'themsolves known. The railroad boya in Winnipeg aent Billy King out on the Saskatoon line, and good reports continue to flow in. White hot enthusiasm marks every day's work in tho Labor movement in the prairie metropolis, and from that point the growth of tho movoment will radiate. All this, together with tho fact that many unions have not yet taken the vote on tho proposition, owing to a varioty of reasons, added to the further fact that the new Trades and Labor Couneil, organized by Pick Bigg, is nothing more than a joke, makea tho prospecta bright. The following locals have already withdrawn from Bigg's council, as it called, for the roason that they do not consider it representative of tho Winnipeg Labor movement: C, B. of B. E., lodges 67, 60, 105, 78 aud 25; carponters, bricklayers, building trades laborera and street railway Bum. Thero ia no doubt that in thc very near future many, if not all, of theso will boeomc affiliated with the 0. B. C. The worken of Winnipeg put up a splendid fight on behalf of tho inv prisoned brothers, and much rcjoie- ' ing was tho order of the day whon Anally they were released. The Central Labor Council of the 0. B. U. in Winnipeg ,although working short* ■ handed (tome of the most active workera being in durance vile), is- lued a bulletin, which is becoming nPie interesting as time gees on, and according to our last information, ia to be made into an eight-page paper. At preaent, it ia issued but once a week, but the objective of the couneil is to extend ita power and size, aad finally establish a real live daily, whieh will build up the movement throughout tho weet, and alao cut ita influence into Eastern Canada, where even now many of tbe worken are showing signs of lining np. A general feeling among the worken in the 'Peg is that the "eight" how undtr charges of seditious conspiracy, will eventually come out victorious. The protest parado on Labor Day waa a real eye-opener, the O. B. U. being vory atrongly represented, while sevoral of the international unions, notably'the building tradea ,rccognleed the fight of tho "eight" to be their fight. The soldiers and sailors also had a conspicuous place, as also had the Woman 'a Labor League. Mass meetings aro held almost continuously, and Winnipeg will make itself folt throughout Canada as tho point at which Labor knows no defeats, but can learn from pta experiences, At the time of writing, the railroad workerB aro sending out other lorganizers in different directions, nd all in all, things arc good for tho ', B. U. IN Public Meeting in the Arena Wednesday Next .canisters, Warehousemen and Auto Mechanics, 0. & tf. Tho above unit of the O. B. U. hold an enthusiastic meeting ___ [Wednesday; evening and several lew nembers were sigend up. The Team- I store 0. B, TJ. organization is now (irmly on ita feot, and has eome to jtny, and if presont indications are any criterion it will be a strong organization in the near future. At tho Inst meting new bylaws wero adopted and the title was changed to "Transport Workers* Unit, 0. B. U." Any wage earner engaged in the handling or hauling of freight, or any occupation incidental thereto, la eligible for membership. Tho meetings are held In the old Knox Church at 153 Cordova Street East, and tho next nieeting will bo on Wednesday ovoning, October 1. AH membera should remember tho date and be on hand to givo tho new members a hearty welcome. WiO Also Speak at New Westir'nster on SS>\\lay Wednesdaymo&$kat 10 o'clock B. J. Johns of Win\\*g and W. A. Pritchard, who wero "catted latt week on bail, arrived . 'ancouver from Winnipeg. Quite - ^mber of fHeads of Pritchard, and \\v men were at the depot to welco ^theso two victims of the WinnipegT&rikfl. If it has been thought that the spirit of tho men would be broken through imprisonment, those who would have liked to have seen this accomplished must bave been bitterly dissa- pointed. Full of enthusiasm, ami imbued with the spirit of tho workors of the prairie capital, which is more militant than ever, both Pritchard and Johns looked the picture of health, and seem no worso for thcir incarceration in the provincial jail in tho Manitoba Capital. A series of meetings aro to be arranged while they aro on the coast, thu flrst being at New Westminster on Saturday night in St. George's Hall. This meeting will commence at S o'clock. The. next opportunity that will be afforded lo tho workers to learn the truth as to tho situation, and the details of the preliminary hearing will be at the Empress Theatro on Sunday evening. Wodnesday next, tho 24th, at 8 p.m., thero will be a meeting in the Arena, Georgia Stroot West. There is no need to dwell on the ability of Pritchard on a public platform. B. J. Johns, however, is not so well known on the coast, bnt ho is one of the coming orators of the labor movement, and hns played a very active part in tho labor movement in Winnipeg, and particularly in the Machinists' Union. No member of; tbe working class should miss the j opportunity of learning tho truo situation as to the Winnipeg striko and the subsequent arrest of mombers of organized labor. Teamsters Joint Oouncll Wednesday night saw the starting of a joint council, covering the various locals of Teamsters in this city. Tho following locals wore represented: Bakery Salesmen No. 371, General Teamsters and Chauffeurs No. 655, Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy j Employees No. 464. Matters cover- ign tho welfaro of drivers in this city and vicinity will be handled, and conditions improved as organization improves. At some future date, a campaign will bo started to get ull drivers in thc city wearing a button, and in thc menntimo readers cnn assist by seeing that drivers delivering supplies of any description, nre asked to produce their union cards or show a union button. (van£uverr?*|a.Oo) $1.50 PER YEAR "At this event in honor of His Royal Highness, the magnificent robes and gowns of the distinguished company made a truly dazzling spectacle, etc., etc."— Toronto daily papers. . "We are fed up by the 'kept press* with these ceremonials; tic a tin can to the apes and lackeys and parasites of Imperialism," says Canadian labor. I Machinists Udies Auxiliary T';e Machinists Ladies Auxiliary triih have a whist drive and dance at Cotillion HoH Friday, September 26. Tickets: Gents 50c, ladies 35c. A good thue is assured. Pass The Federationitt along and [help get new subscribers, Helena Gutteridge Is Congratulated on Her Defense of Labor A communication waa received by the Trades and Labor Couneil of Vancouver, from a meeting of sol* diors' wives held in O'Brien Hall, which strongly opposed Miss Helena Gutteridge representing tho wage- earning womon of Vancouver at tho Ottawa industrial conference, on tho ground that ahe ia not loyal to tho government. It waa pointed out by some of tho delegatea present that tho organization, which apparently' had no name, wus not representative of the working women of Vancouver, whereas Dol. Gutteridgo was at j the Ottawa conference as a repre-1 sentative of tho Garment Workers' Union, thc Trades and Labor Coun* cil and tho Minimum Wage League, and, according to newspaper reports, was doing splendid work on bchuif of tho women wage workers in particular and organized labor in general. Tho communication was filed and a motion was made and carried to send a telegram to Del. Gutteridgo congratulating bet on her defense of labor at the industrial conference. The new local, 310 Eloctrical Workeri, applied for affiliation with the council. Under tho heading reports from unions, the Steam and Operating Engineers' delegates reported, tho union going along splendidly and men coming back strong from the old union. The delegate read a letter from a member of tbe union who stated that th/. 0. B. U. local had called a* strike at Knox Bay becauso he would not take out an 0. B. U. card. Del. Showier of the Teamsters and Chauffeurs'Union stated that the loeal had recoived a hard knock on account of tho strike, but that the men were gradually coming back into the organization and that there was every indication that the local would soon bo as strong aa beforo the strike. A meoting of the three teamster locals, bakery drivers, milk wagon drivers and teamsters, form* od a joint council and would in all probability soon have one button for tbe three locals. All the dairy employees of Chilliwack had recently been organized, and with tho exception of Steeves Dairy, the dairies of Vaancouvcr were all solidly organised, Del. Graham of tho Hotel and Restaurant Employees stated that ke (Ceattaued on pfrje 8) Social Democrats Rule Worse Than That of the Kaiser Prisons Are Full of Political Prisoners—No Free Press A Gorman miner, who prior to tho last year or two, was a* resident of this Province, nnd a momber of tho United Mine Workers, now resident in Germany, in a letter to a friend here, has tho following to say about conditions in Germany at this time: "As you know, thore has been a revolution hero in Germany, but if you were living here you wouldn't notice it. Tho slaves are still exploited to tho snme degree, and by tho same old clique as beforo,, and I must say that us a governmont party the Social Democrats do the dirty work of the German capitalist class, evon better than the old parties could ever attempt to do. Froe press, froe speech and free assemblage is not known here, and people who do not find overy act of tbe government exactly right und say so openly, oro put in jail. Tho prisons havo nover been so full of political prisoners in the worst times of thc Hohonzollern regimo aa they aro now. No, the. revolution has not brought freodom to the Gorman people. It has not ovon ameliorated their sufferings. They are worse off than evor before. Tho food we nro getting is absolutely insufficient to keep a person in working condition, and the prices you have to pay for everything would remind you of the days of tho California gold rush. In a word, the conditions aro rotten, and I am not going to stick it out much longer. Since the middle of May r have been working in tho coal mines again, but don't know hOw long I will stick to it, ns I nm sick and tired of it." OPPOSE TOLMIE Accepts Nomination of Victoria Branch of Labor Party T. A, Barnard, president of tho New Westminster branch of tho Great War Veterans' Association, waB selected by tho Victoria branch of tho Federated Labor Party os a candidato to oppose Hon. Dr. S, F. Tolmie, Minister of Agriculture, in the by-election on October 27. Comrade Barnard and the Federated Labor Party think that tho chances of success are very bright and an intensive campaign will bo entered into for the occasion. Says Employers Can Take Law in Their Own Hands 'Direct action" received the official sanction of Magistrate Shaw this week, when he discussed charge of assault laid.by Mrs. Overall, an employee of tho Dominion cannery, against J. S. Minor, superintendent of the cannery, who was alleged to have used violence towards her some woeks ago, when dismissing her from ber job. The ground of the magistrate 'fl decision appears to havo been that '' unless an employee could follow up his action in discharging an employee by removing the porson, if necessary, he might be faced by the anomaly of having, say. sevoral hundred women discharged but-still continuing at their work, perhaps doing hundreds of dollars' damage" A fearsome picture, truly; and, of course, a situation with which the city police,.tho "mounties," and tho othor minions of law and order, could not possibly cope, but only the employer, himself, single-handed. Tho workers are indebted to Magistrate Shaw for this fresh assurance that "force" is a perfectly legitimate romedy—in fact, the only one—ever, against wrong that has not aotually beon dono, but possibly might bo. Comrade G. P. Smith is travelling by auto from Alberta to Winnipeg; Manitoba. Ho makes a short stop every now and again along tho route and picks up lmlf a dozen subs, for the Federationist. He states that ho finds it not n very hnrd task to get people to subscribe for a live labor paper. Let us send you a few sub. cards und a few papers to keop tho good work up. Splendid Progress Being Madte in Launching Consumers' Society ,Thc Vancouver Co-Operative Society held a splendid meoting in tho biggest hall of tho Labor Temple on Wednesday evening. . Tho secretary reported a total membership of 2fi0 with about 300 moro prospective members, many of whom joined tho socioty that evening. Ho reported that thero.waa evory indication of tho business being successfully launched within a fairly early date, but that it would greatly depend on how many of tho members put forth their best efforts in obtaining new members. I Mr. J. Stewart, manager of the Nanaimo Co-operative, told of tho necessity of lho consumers getting together in order to put an end to profiteering ahd exploitation. /Tho bylaws prepared by the committee wero read and adopted. Officers were elected and everything is nOw ready for incorporation, which *rill be attended to at onco. Tho officers elected until the end of the first quarter are: President, G. W. Hubbard; vice-proBident, Robt. Skinner; treasurer, Mrs. A, Bice; directors, Dr. W. J. Curry, Mrs. A. Borland, Henry W. Wntts, J. Wilkes, Mrs. H. Thomas, J. Slin- gcrland nnd G. W. Moui. A membership campaign commit- ^tec of 25 volunteered and wore issued receipt books for tho signing up of members. Tho officors, directors and committee will meet in Boom HOI Dominion Building noxt Wednesday evening. "If other men aro not doing right, c cannot afford to do wrong."—J.; , Clynes. W.A AND R. J. JOHNS AT M/INy WONDERFULlTRADES COUNCIL m ABOUT THE 'PEG Mackenzie King Discovers Four Classes in Society Socialist Party Meeting Sunday Should Draw Big Crowds PUBLIC MEEfING IN THE >RENA Wednesday Evening At Eight o'clock -SPEAKERS- R. J. JOHNS, Winnipeg W.A. PRITCHARD, Vanconrer HEAR THE TRUTH AS TO THE WINNIPEG SITUATION «iitii«iHi»«Mt"»'»»«-Mi»«n|n| »■»■•■» IllM' Mf 'l'.iM-»+"M »»■»■»■#■♦■ * '»' I I I Hi.»4. Late Guests of the King Will Have Message for Workers Tho universal topic in thc pross of today, the wido world over, can be spelled in ono word—problom; tho returned soldier problem, the unemployed problem, the housing problem, ate, ad nauseam, but umong all these stories of problems, no solution is offered. For years past the Socialist Party of Canada has consistently pointed out that all these problems resolve themsolves into onc, and tbat is the problom of the working class, end tbat it can be solved only by tho working class itself. A knowledge of tho structure and development of modern socioty is essential to ull who Mould interpret present day events with uny degree of success. Tor the purpose of placing a means whereby that knowledge may bo gained by tho workers, the Socialist Pnrty of Canada hold meetings every Sunday evening in tiio Empress llscatrc, where competent, lecturers ex pi n in some portion of the Socialist, philosophy. Thc speakers for Sunday arc W. A. Pritchard ami R, J, Johns, (lately guesls of His Majesty in Manitoba Provincial jail), and a profitable evening is promised ull who attend. New Electrical Workers' Local The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers bos authorized the formation of a new locnl in Vancouver to take the place of Local 213, whose charter wos revoked. The new local will be known as Locnl 310 I.B.E.W. The president und organizer is A. Miller and tno secretary W. Foulkcs. Meetings are held overy Monday in tho Labor Temple. Industrial Conference Is "Sitting" on Libor Question (Special to the Federationist) The industrial conference called by the government opened at Ottawa on Monday morning. The employers had 80 representatives and labor was represented by ■ a like number. A third group consists of experts of various descriptions, and a fourth group is in attendance comprising provincial Cabinot ministers. The latter two groups have a voico but no vote. The -different subjects down for discussion, and the introducers aro as follows: Unification of labor laws of tho various provinces, Jack Bruce, Plumbers; 44-hour week Me- Lelland of the Machinists; minimum wage laws, Miss Helena Gutteridge, Vancouver; collective" bargaining, W. L. Best, railroad trades; joint industrial councils, Tom Moore, Tradea Congress; rights of civil sorvico employees, F. Orierson; stato insurance, Jimmy Simpson, Toronto; proportional representation, E. S. Woodward, Victoria; committee on other featnrcs, J. Foster, Montreal. Nine committees havo been appointed, consisting of three representatives from the omployers and three from labor, and ono representative of tho third group. Collective bargaining was still under discussion on Thursday. Tho plan for tho unification of labor laws has been agreed upon. It is also probable that the enactment of eight-hour legislation may be agreed upon. The proposal to adopt minimum wago laws in all provinces will also carry with it the plan for unification of labor laws. MacKen- zie King, the new leader of the Lib- oral Party, has made a brilliant discovery. He has found that thore are four classes in society, and during the discussions on the various subjects many other fearful and wonderful economic revelations have been made at regular intervals. Tbe threat of direct action which, according to press reports, was made by J. Winning of Winnipeg, was no throat at all, but a statemont of fact. In other words ho was giving the attitudo of labor to the question, and stated that unless it was granted, he was certain thut labor would adopt the direct action method to achieve its object. Tho consideration of the peaco treaty labor proposals hare been held ovor until the end of the discussion on the other matters mentioned. At tho present rato of progress, tho agenda would requiro at least three weeks, instead of one. Likely to Be Some Sparks at the Annual Convention Over 700 delegates will assemble in Hamilton on Monday to attend tho annual convention of the Dominion Trades and Lubor Congress. Whilo previous conventions havo shown thut there has been a decided difference in opinion between the Western aud Eastorn delegates, It is oxpected that this year the convention will bo lurgely takon up with the issues ruisod by'thc formation of the 0. B. U. While it may be expected thut a good number of the radicals who have attended previous conventions, will not be in attendance tbis year, owing to their connection with thc U. B. V., there will bc sufficient on hand who, while not having joined the new organization, are fully in sympathy with it, to make it interesting. A battle roynl is sure to be started on this question^ and the worshippers of tbo A, F. of I., will have consideruble opposition. With the changes that havo tuken place in the Inst year, almost anything may come out of the convention, but one thing is sure, there will bc some kirk against thc many autocratic actions of the executive. IN Pritchard and Johns to Speak on Industrial Union Question A mass meeting of all workers will bo held under tho auspices of tho Vancouver Trndes and I 4 lb«. lot *°*- B. t K. Split l'eu, OR_, 5 lba. to? _ ^"C B. t K. 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FMDAT... leptember 19, Mil Denies Nationalization of Women Canard and Favor Soviet ****** ****** ****** ****** Mr NSfreedkr Anatole France NEW ZEALAND FiMS BILLET At Congress of Teachers The following address wus madefheatt to. its. disappearance from, tlio SHOES THAT GIVE THE UTMOST IN SATISFACTION Goodwin's Good Shoes NO MATTER what your requirements, whether its foot* wear for "dress up" purposes or hard working wear, you'll get full 100 per cent, value at Goodwin's. SHOES THAT SHOW DEPENDABLE, HONEST QUALITY AT POPULAR PRfCES Goodwin Shoe Co. 119 Hastings Street East Lloyd Gerge Wanted to Send "Complete Conservative" to Russia Tho longor tho Russian Soviot Government continue* to dominate tho .situation in that, country, tho Jiiore iu±e«fiBting uro tho revolutions I of the actions of tho Allies during tho poaco conferences | \\V. C. Bullitt, who has boon testifying boforo tho Unitod States Senate foreign relations committee, and who was attached to: the American; poaco dologotioii) has certainly spilt the boans. Not only has ho denied tha monstrous story us to the nationalisation of women in Russia, but ho has jjivcu the lie to. many other capitalistic inspired stories as to. tho Russian* situation. Bullitt was. sent to Russia, on behalf of tho American Government, to study economic and political conditions. Ho stated beforo the Senate committee, that aftor the Prinkipo. plan waa dropped, he was sent to Russia to And out tho exact terms, whereon fighting could be dropped* This mission, he states, was kept secret from all the allies except Oreat Britain. "The United States mission had practically no seo rota from* tho British mission," he said* Before ho left,, Bullitt said, Col; House soid it was not necessary to. get from the Soviet Government a deeluratioa that all foreign dobta would bo paid; but that such a declaration taught be dosirable. Ho rood tho proposition from the Loninc Government which he brought back to Paris. It filled sev- oral typewritten pages and nevor had been allowed publicity in Paris. Socretary Lansing marked his re* port "urgent and important," and sent it to Presidont Wilson. Col. House,, he said, was enthusiastically in favor of making peace on the basis laid down in Lenine's proposal. Ho discussed tho mattor 'at length with Lloyd Georgo ond Gen. Smuts,- Bullitt said. Smutts said it should not be allowed to lapse. Lloyd George, however, said he didn't know about British public opinion. He had a copy of tho Daily Mail at the timo and called attention to its attitifllo and askod how ho could ho* expected to do anything "in the face of that sort of thing," Lloyd George snid some one should; be sent to Russia who wns known to tho worid as a complete conservative, and remarked:: ''I wonder if Lansdowne would go," but quickly added, "no, they would probably kill lam." Ho said he wished either Lord! Cecil or General Smuts could go, and finally discussed sending Lord Salisbury. Lloyd Georgo, Bullitt said, urged him to make his report public. "I attempted to," said Bullitt. "I submitted it to the commission, but no man was willing to resume responsibility for publication." He read also a supplemental proposal from tho Soviet Govornment as follows: "Tho Americnn and British governments undertake to guarantee that Trance shall live up to the terms of tho Armistice." This caused a laugh in the committoe room. Favored thtt Soviet Ho read tho roport which he made to the Prosidont on his return. It was, for the most part, vory favorable to the Soviot regime. "It has acquired such a hold on tho imagination of the people," the report said, "that tho women, as well as tho men, are willing to starve for, it." Ho donied many of the reports concerning outrages under Soviet orders, "particularly the canard concerning tho nationalization of women."' "Lenino," it said, "stands well to the right at tho existing politics! of Bussia." The report character- ires Lenine's Government at that time as " modorato^Socialism." They referred tho mattor to tho Presidont, wbo decided thot ho did not wish to have it given out at that time, dospite the urgings of tne other commissions. Pressed by Senator Knox on the point, Bullitt said: "It wns extremely difficult to get tho President's mind. Col, House telephoned; tho Preaident the night I returned and the President said ho would see mo tho next evening. In his testimony Bullitt also mado tho following statement, Mr. Lansing hnd suid, that if the Senate ami tho American poople understand, this treaty, referring to tho peaco treaty, it will ho defeated. Lansing, ho said, wont on to say: "But I wonder if they will understand what it let us in for. It' is my personal opinion that Senator Knox will really understand and Senator Lodgo will, but Senntor Lodge's position would bo purely political. ' Senator Knox taught instruct the people." Bullitt also showed how the French had stopped the Prinkipo conference. He statod that the French Government had told Doniin nud Kolchak, that if thoy opposed tho conferonco, that thoir opposition would he supported. Possibly tho outstanding feature of tho evidence given by Mr. Bullitt is the nttitudo of Lloyd George, who wanted a completo conservative to go to Russia to investigate. In view of that statoman's statements this week, on tho old world falling, nbout the ears of those who will not seo tho now world, it is particularly interesting, Ho sure must love domocracy, whou ho would send a completo conservative to give a roport on a country that had brokon away from the present system. Tatoen altogether, Bullitt's testimony boars out the published opinions of Arthur Ransome, Colonel Raymond Robbins, John Reed and others. Tho truth will out, and tho Allied governments will certainly havo at a not far distant dato to answor for their actions at regards Bussia, Patronize Fed, advertisers. —'Jpolicy; perhaps not untij the peoplesJ1- i*y Anatole Franco before tlio Coo gross of Teachers Institutes at Tours on Auguat %, aa reported in l'Huinu- nite:. Citizens,. Dear Comrades: It is an old friend who. addresses, you. He stood* with you, beside the great Jaures in ISJOtl, when you begun the fight for the right to organize. This right assured, it is for you to regulate its. usage; and this: is why your syndicates are now assembled. This Congress, has yet another object of capital importance, tho reorganization of elementary education. Count only upon yoursulvosi to accomplish it; prudence will he your guide. It was with veritable joy thut I read in a newspaper yesterday the thought of our friend Gray on this subject. '' War,'' lie said,'' has sufficiently demonstrated that the popular edueution of tomorrow must ho entirely different from, that of yesterday." I have hastened to opon. my heart to you; I se« that yours are in accord with mino. Toaehers, dear friends, it is with ardent emotion that I address you; deeply stirred with anxiety and hope that I speak to. you. And how oould I fail to be deeply moved when I considor that the future is in your hands ,and that it will be fox tho most part what your spirit and your care, shall mako itf In developing the child, you will determine the future. What & task at this hour, when tho world is crumbling, when the old order of society sinks upder the woight of its. sins; and whon conquerors and conquered aro alike, plunged in a common misery, in. which, tney bandy expressions of hatred; In the social and moral disorder created by the war and, perpetuated by the peace which has followed it, you have eve^thing to do, everything to rebuild. Have courage! Bo of good cheer! It ia for you to create a new humanity,, *it is for you to awake a new intelligence, if you do not wish Europe to fhll into madness and barbarism. Peoplo will say to you, "To what purpose so mueh exertion T Man does not surface of the earth. I have hate only for hatred My friends,, make hatred hatedl It ia tho most necessary and simple part ef your taak; the state to which a devastating war has. reduood France and the whole world: imposes upon you duties, oxtretntly complex and consequently extremely- difficult to fulfil. Pandon. me for returning to this; it Is tho great point, upou whieh everything, depends. It. is for you, without hope of aid or support, or evon consent, to change primary education from tho ground up, in order to make workers. There, is; place today in our socioty only for workers; tho rest wiU be swept away in the storm. Make intelligent workers, instructed in tho arts, they practice,, knowing what, they owe to the national and to the* human com'muu- ity. Burn al lthe books which teach hatred. Exalt work and love. Let ua develop re&sonable men, capablo of trampling under, foot tho vain Sploudot of barbaric glories, and of resisting tho sanguiuary ambitions of nationalisms and. imperialisms whieh ha.vo crushed thtir fathers* No mote industrial rivalries, no moro wars; work and poace. Whether we wish it or no} the hour is come when wo must bo citizons of the world or see all civilization perish. My friends, permit me to utter u taiost ardent wish, & wish which it is necessary for me to express too rapidly and incompletely, but whose primary idea seems to mo calculated to appeal to all generous natures. T wish, I wish, with all my hoart, that a delegation of tho teachers of all nations might soon join the Workers Internationale in. ordpr to prepare in. common a universal form, of education, and advise as to methods of sowing in young minds ideas from wliich would spring thc pence of the world and the union of peoples. Benson, wisdom, intelligence, forces of tho taiind and heart, whom I havo always devoutly invoked, come to me, aid me, sustain my feo- We voice; carry it; if that may be, to all the peoples of tho world, and diffuse it everywhere whore thoro are mon of good will to hoar the* bonefi born. The powers of ovil die, poisoned; by thoir crime. Tho- greedy and tho cruel,, tho devourors of peoples, are bursting with an indigestion of blood. However sorely stricken by the sins of their blind or corrupt maatera, mutiliated, decimated, the proletarians remain erect; they will unito to-form* ono universal proletariat, and wc shall see fulfilled the great Socialist prophecy: "Tho union of tho workers will bc the poaco of the worid. cliangef" Sol Ho has changed cent truth! A now order of things is sinco the ago of-the eavc-d weller, ' "" now for the worse, now for tho'better. He changes with environment, and it is. education: which transforms him, even more perhaps, than nir and food. Certninly tho oducntioif>M&h has rendered possible, which ftotf'fu*- ored (being practically uniform among the peoples whom we cnll civilized) the frightful catasb under which we are now hnlf-ft should not bc allowed to endnrl a moment. And above all,. MHft-nfr cessary to banish from tho nehpds every tiling which makes children love war and its crimes;- nno, ([Ws nlono will require long and confront efforts, unless nil of its panoplifa should be swopt away at nnfearjy day by the breath of world rnyojii- tion. ,. _\\ [ In our bourgeoisie, great . and small, and even in our proletariat,, tho destructive instincts for which wo justly reproached the Germans oro carefully cultivated. Some days ngo the amiable La Foucliardierc askod a bookseller for books for little girls. They gave him only stories, and puictures of murders, butcheries, massacres nnd exterminations. Next Mi-Careme we shall soe at Paris,, in tho Champs Elysecs and on the boulevards, thousands nnd thousands of littlo boys dressed by tho inept caro of thcir mothers ns generals and marshals. Tlie cinema will show them tho beauties of war; they they will HANDPEACE II Party Claims That It Does Not Represent the - People Calcutta Postal Workers' Places Filled by Soldiers' Calcutta—Finding that thoir families, wore starving on tho munificent salary of l>5 por month paid than by tho British Imperial "governmont, tho, mail curriers und other postal employees of Calcutta reeently petitioned for aa increase of .1,50 por' bo propared for the military career; ™'.ltl1* No "ttontion wa« paid to and while there are soldiers there will tllclE »»P«tf«l to™**, *» «»t tke and while there are soldiors there will be wars. Our diplomats have left armies to the Germans in order to be able to keep them themselves. In their swaddling clothes mon are propared to be soldiers. My friends, wo must break with these, dangerous practices. The teacher must make tho child love pence and its works; he must teach him to detest war; he will banish from education all thnt which excites hate for for the stranger, even hatred of'the enemy of yesterday;, not that it ia necessary to bo indulgent to* erftne and to absolve all tho guilty, but bo- cause a people, whatever it may be. at whatover homy is eompoaod of more victims thin criminals, because postmen saw no other recourso excopt to strike. Then the government intervened promptly by compelling. English soldiers, many of whom had been trade unionists in tho mother oountry, to act aB strike-breakers. Tho loaders of the strike were arrested, and the treasurer of the striko fund sentenced to 20 days' rigorous imprisonment, five others condemned to threo weeks' imprisonment for- being the lenders in tho. movement, and eight others fined for being prominent in thc "disturbance." The postal omployoes' strike is but one of many indications of general unrest throughout India. So serious tht punishment of tho gumV'should *?* the situation become- that Sir ■aot 'bo visited upon tho innocent^ | Harr^gton Vorney Lovett, who has fenerntions, and-branim finally Pll! J«l«l many important positions in* the peoples have much* to pardon each [}»*« go*ei.nment> recontly pleaded other. In a beautiful hook which bas -just appeared, and which I counsel you to read, Lcs Maine Propes, an essay of education without dogma, Michel Cordny has written these fino words, which I use to roinforco my own. He said: "I hate that which reduces man to the level of the beast, forcing him to attack whutever does not resemble him." Oh, that idea! I pray with nil my for "a strong lead from England1 beforo the parliamentary committee on thc Indian situation. '' Otherwise .the ruin of British interests in India will be accomplished," ho added. Chicago—Jewelry Workers Union No. _ presented: a wuge inoreaao of 33 1-3 per cont. to their employers, and then prepared for a possiblo struggle. The employors foolod 'cm by granting tho request. LABOR I've builded your slypfi and your railroads, I've worked in your factories and mines,. I've builded tbe ro&tejthat you ride on, I've crushed, the ^il4 grape for your wines. I've worked late at'Jfright on yotir garments, I've gathered the pain for your bread, I've built the house thftt you live in, I've printed the books that you have read. I've linked the two great oceans together, I've spanned youi^riyers with steel, I 've built your towejflng skyscrapers, And also your autiimpbile,, I've gone out to wi$pkjed ships in the lifeboats, When the storm loudly cried for its prey, I 've guarded your home from marauders, I've turned the night into day. Wherever there's progress you'll find me, Without me the world could not live, And yet you would seek to destroy me, With the meagre pittance you give. Today you may grind mo in slavery, You may dictate to me from ihe throno; But tomorrow I throw off my fetters, And am ready to claim what I own. I am master of field and of factory, I am mighty and you are but few, No longer I'll bow in submission, I am Labor and ask for my due. —Bud McKillups, World Witt Never Be Safe with, Capitalism and Militarism [By I'rancis. Ahern] The Now Zealand Labor Party, which promises to be* a big factor in that country in tho very ueur futuro, issued—at its annual conforonco last July—a manifesto condemning the terms of the peaco treaty. It takes its stand alongside the British nnd Australian Labor aad Socialist parties and trades unions, the French Socialist Party and trades unions, the Italian Socialist Tarty und trado unions, the Servian, Roumauian aud other continental Sociulist groups. Tho Canadian and American Socialist movements, the South African Labor and Socialist parties, in its unqualified oboction to the peaco terms forced, on tho world without tbe consent of the pooplo, « Tho manifesto claims that tho terms of peace* do not represent th'e voice of tho workers, who had no part in tho making of tho treaty. No. parliaments wero consulted, nor were the people given a voice in the mattor. Only tho ruling class representatives of tho great powers hnd a voice in the matter ,and it is not to be wondered at that tho treaty violates every principle that Labor, holds sacred as\\well: as every principle that tho Allied nations claimed to stand for in the war. In the wholo treaty there is not a single word about the preservation of pop. ular liberties, and tho Leaguo of Nations would seem to have been designed mainly for the purposo of protecting teh trading interests of the Allied capitalists. After outlining the constitution of the League of Nations, the manifesto goes on to say that the terms of the poaco settlement mako for war, and not for peaco. They violated almost all of President Wilson's H points, the acceptance of which, by l>oth the Germans and the Allies, was responsible for the armistice. They are opposed to the declaration of tlio inter-Allied conference, and tho Berne conference Thoy bear the evidence of a compromise influen- eod by capitalism and Imperialism, and is a peace with vengeanco, instead of a peaco with- security. The terms raise,-more dangers than .they lay, and scatter dragons' teeth across ^Europe, opening up hopeless vendot- tus and leaving the Germans no hope but revenge. Tho war-time attitude of the Al lies in pledging the poople that thero would bo no trado with Germany after tho war. and the Allies presont: attitudo of forcing Germnn trade into the Allied countries in the interests of profit-making capitalism, is: contrasted. The manifesto claims that the poace terms havo been formulated from tha viewpoint of tho international trador. The terms of tho indemnity will make it Inevitable that the British markets will bc flooded with German made goods, causing the uu employment of British workers. In order to get the indemnity imposed on Germany, the German workers will be fully employed, whilst the British workers will bo in dangor of starvation, and many of them may be found seeking in Germany the employment denied thom in their own eountry. Tho only section of the»British community likely to benefit from the collection of tho indemnity will be tho wealthy capitalists, who will thoroby bo relieved' of the obligation to pay certain taxes. Far from ending militarism,, the penco treaty establishes militarism more firmly than ever. All that has been accomplished is that Prussian* ism haa boen transferred from Germany to tho Allied countries, and. that in a more intensified form. Tho compulsory handing ovor of peoplos and territories to foreign dominations, as laid down in tho. peace treaty, is an abrogation of every principle of self-determination. In the case of the people of tho Saar Basin, although in every election* they voted for Social Domocracy and against the Kaiser and militarism,. they aro now placed in bondage for tho sins of Kaiserism. The handing over of Shantung to the Japanese has caused a feeling in tho for east that is rapidly developing into a situation pregnant with tho possibilities of another disastrous war. Tho Now Zealand Labor conforonco- demands self-determination for India, Ireland, Egypt and other subject poople—such self-de termination to be tho right of the poople to de* termino by popular voto of adult population as to their own form of government. It also demnnds the withdrawal of Allied troops from Russia in tho torms of Article 6 of President Wilson's 14 points, and the end of recognition to all parties fighting for tho downfall of tno So* viet Republic. It also demands that the blockade against Russia shall be lifted, and that tbe Allies shall ceasq supplying reactionary forces in that country with arms and ammunition to carry on their war against the So* viet Republic, Finally, the Now Zealand Labor conferenco doolaros its firm conviction that tho world can never bo mado safe for humanity whilo cupi* tolism remains. It is, therofon, tho duty of the workors to unite, indusf trnilly nnd politically, in all countries, for thc purpose of superseding capitalism with industrial democracy which- is Socialism, and forming not a Leaguo of Nations, but a Leaguo of Peoples, with an international unity which wll make warfare not only unnecessary, but altogether in- possible. All privato employment agencies must closo on Novembor 1, according to Hon. J. W, de B. Farris, attorney* goneral and minister of Labor In the "Provincial govornmont. The Labor department's chain of public employ- moot office^ with its co-ordinated activities linked up with aU tho other provinces, is now complote, and the order-in-council will be promulgated tt onco, the ministor announces. "FBOM MAKES TO WEAREB" 30 Magnificent Dolmans and Cape Coats —a Unt of handsome outer garments tbat wiU oottbi either for stylish evening wraps or for day street woar. OFFERED AT PRACTICALLY HALT PBHW This, in • line ot Traveller's Samples—exceptionally striking deiigni tod novel trimming effects—values such at. yon won't ba offered again on garment* of this daw. —Made up in Chinchilla Cloth, Bolivia, Silvertone, Velour, Frleie, Serge and /.ibelino —In Tnrquoise, Pekin Blue, Fekin Green, Roit, Henna, Red, Reseda. 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Although there can only be ono standard by which man can be truty measured, there are many in operation, the outcome of ignorance, prejudice or the deliberate intention to deceive with the object of furthering some auJUsh end. It is a common practico among many to uso standards devised by themselves and bo it Ib a common experience to hear the same individual referred to in terms diametrically in opposition. The standards set up by com- munittea as a whole aro invented with much caro and forethought in ordor to inculcato certain lines of thought and modes of action as it suits the convenience of the rulers of such communities. These community standards are, of course, ar: tificial and may bo changed or varied at tho will of thoso rulers; so that we may find a standard in oporation at ono timo in thc history of the community and, anothor, very different, at work in the samo community, a generation or evon a decade later. Many a well-meaning and high- minded youth sustained a moral shock when at the commencement of tho European cataclysm he heard hin moek, turn-thc-othor-cheek friend nnd pastor hounding him to war and denouncing tho very traits he had been for so long earnestly trying to foster. Probably many of thoBe youths are still unnblc to reconcile their pastors' contradictory tonchings and in consequence may bc wandering in tho outer regions of unbelief. _ Lot nil such realize that the principles so earnestly taught by those pastors aro not affected by thcir change of front; that tho standard of conduct was replaced by another which was deemed necessary to meet the dangor which had suddenly threatened the nation; thnt it is the social system on which the blame must rest; that those poor pastors are but products of thnt system ns was tho thief upon the cross and ns are the malefactors in our dungeons and tho victims of disease rotting and perishing in our hospitals. As man evolves these standards evolve with him, and Bome day thero will be standards as fixed as tho laws which govern the universe because they will grow out of thoso laws; but that will not bo till tnnn has conformed to those laws and realized that tho great dance aftor dollars waa not tho performance required of him when reason and self- consciousness were bestowed upon him. This fixing of tho moral stnndnrds, however, cannot take place under tho present system which in its fundamental principlo is immoral itself. At tho present time thero is much confusion in the minds of men as to what constitutes greatness. It is indeed now more a matter of opinion than a fixed certainty based on a standard which is itself fixed and unalterable. Do we not find one part of the community honoring a man as groat and another part regarding him with contempt? And this is inevitable under a system founded on a crime and which can have no practitcal ideals greator than profiteering and profitmonger- ing. We have read recently of two of the world's great men who hnve gone forward with much laudatory outpouring and many eloquent testimonials from tho world's press, which will no doubt securo for them "a good job" in which they can ex- erciso their great talents and undoubted energy out somewhere in the ethereal spaces of the cosmos. Let us soo how they utilized thoir great gifts of reason and self- consciousness during their little day of consciousness among the eternal realities. One of them early in his career waa seised by an obsession which forcod him to the all-absorbing task of accumulating wealth. Having no vision, and no conscience, his pseudo- wealth grew into figures startling and fascinating to the average mind. He was pre-eminently successful, and, measured by the dollar standard, he passed on into the unknown in a veritable lather of glory and greatness. Was he successful f According to his own showing his wealth brought him little satisfaction, nnd no happiness, and he seemed dimly to realizo that ho had prostituted his talents during tho infinitesimal span of timo which was al. lotted to him for his probation. Tho other great being won hiB glory in a widely different sphere. The great work of his span of life was devoted to the encouragement of the invention and improvement of horrible engines of destruction which society, as wo know it, must possess in order to ensure security in the demoralizing struggle in which the nations and all individuals are engaged. His mind was largely occupied in improving the ways nnd means of slaughtering his fellow mon and adding to thoir powers of destruction, and ho won fame and became a great man in the councils of the nation, and earthly honors woro showered thickly upon him. This man's mind, it is clear, during his conscious life, was devoted almost exclusively to the development of destructive forces, for which purpose he employed all he knew of the working of the natural laws. - In classing these two men as little great men it must be remembered that they wero but products of an evil system, which demoralizes without exception ovory human being, whether great or small, on the ontire oarth, so that the sum total of evil H haa worked through the centuries is incalculable. When we realize the stunted reason, the crime, the misery and the unnecessary suffering caused directly by it, a feeling of utter despair takes possession of. us. The life of mm ia but af a apart from the fire, as a bubble npon the [By Nemesis] ' waters, and instead of the whole of mankind uniting to devise the best means of making life during that little span easy and happy thoy have in their stupid folly allowed a Bystem to develop which fills the world with strife, crime and weariness, because thoy have not employed their gift of reason but have been animated only by the selfishness and ferocity inherited from tho jungle aud the swamp. Now thoro have always been in each generation a few beings who have recognized the sourco from which theso miseries spring and havo by their works endeavored to mitigate them, and in doing bo hnvo invariably como into collision with tho wolfish ruling powors of the oarth. Each goneratton tho number of these men of virion is growing nnd if that comprises our only hope, it is yet a sure one to which to cling. These men measured by the invented nnd artificial stnndnrds havo been reviled and tortured through each succeeding age, and yet it is in thcir ranks that wo must look for the really great mon, nnd tho only grent mon that thc world has produced, the belittled great of tho past and prosent. Where aro they now? They, of tho present, nre incarcerated in thc dungeons of the various states. They, who hqve passed on, are sleeping for the most pnrt in unlettered graves; neither aro thcir names to bo fonnd among tho grent ones of the earth, and thus nre thoy doubly honored for thcir glory ami thoir worth could not bo measured by the artificial standards. They wore the littlo great men that belong to God. I am nn Englishman nnd second to nono in my admiration for our Shakespeare, who stands on the highest summit ns n p'a*' i«sopmcul poet His knowledge of human nature, as manufactured by a ByB- tom founded on the exploitation of man, was remarkable; his paraphrases of Biblical truths, found freely sprinkled through his works, in their forco and beauty, stand very near.to perfection; and his whole language as a vehicle for conveying the great moral truths is without equal in all our literature. But ho was above everything a ruler's poot, and wo look in vain for any indignant expression of sympathy for his exploited fellows. Conventional expressions, such as we find among fnshionable circles today, and which are supposed to bo outward signs of an unsurpassable inward graciousness and generosity, mny bo met with, but it iB doubtful if he hnd nny conception of class- consciousness or an inspired vision of thc true dcBtiny of mnn. There is a philosophical coldness about his genius, which, howover much it mny excite our aflmiration, can nover inspire tho throb and warmth of love in our hearts. When man in the distant futuro hns brokon himself free from his bonds of exploitut'on, nnd his faculty of reason and his qunlity of love are functioning to thcir utmost, he will look back upon ub, his ancestors, with a great pity, yet not without ndmirution for our genius, and he will choose from among ub the beings upon whom to bestow the eternal fnmo as mcnsuretl by his own eternal standards, and I havo a notion that nfter judging the great poets of tlie English Bpeaking racos ho will place the laurel wreath of thnt eternal fume upon thc marble effigy of Robert Burns—loving, tender-henrfod Bobbie Burns, with his (lashes of humor; his vision of n regenerated mnn; his hntrcd of all opprfrtiors; his sympathy wilh tin- weak nnd the Oistresscd nnd his withering contempt for the tinselled louts whom wealth had turned into -Tillers. Labor's Progress '111. ir; %_f In Grmt Britain [By Nowton Jenkins] There is now in contemplation in. Great Britain a combination of thc old Hne political parties into onc new party to oppose the Independent Labor Party. While it is hard for us in this country to got tho right slant upon tho ninny angles involved in such a situation, on its face it wotil.I scorn an admission of the political power of thoso who toil. If sueh a coalition wore brought about it would clarify the atomspluro nnd allow noses to bo counted upon tho fundamental questions involving economics. Winston Churchill hns, according to the press, gone over thc proposal with David Lloyd cGorgo, and the new party, if formulated, will be broad enough to include Lloyd Georgo and Bonar Lniv. Tho now party may be called tho Center Pnrty and will include nil of the "modernte men" of the Unionist and Liberal Parties. Thc coalition is only tho carrying out of the combination effected during tho war. With thc initial success of tho spring drive by the Germnns in 1018, the government waa in danger of falling. It was at thnt time thnt Lioyd Goorge issued his famous "coupons." Every member of parliament who voted ut that time to sustain thp premier got a "coupon." This "coupon" was a letter of endorsement of tho member at tho next election, which camo immediately nfter thc terminntion of hostilities. Tho promier and tho "coupon" holders wcro triumphant at thnt election. Now in tlio face of the strength of Bob Smillie and the laborites in England all of the old party men are joining hnnda to lengthen their leaso of power. Independent Labor Party of Great Britain Twonty-flvo years ago Keir Hardie started in England the Independent Labor Party. When thc pnrty started out it had a well defined conception of what It was to achieve, Its goal was Socialism; its method was to weld tho workers into a politicul party. While the Indopendent Labor Party is not tho Lnbor Party, it is affiliated with that party and acts with it for electoral purposes. Its candidates for parliament are run in the goneral list of candidates for which the Labor Party is responsi- ''.Jditcated democracy. To its economic Programme it hns drawn tho men -ink1 women who are influenced by tht'Vevoliitionaiv thought which war Winders. ''The British Labor Party last year Wpi.hed its ranks to thoso who labor in the professions as woll as thoso who work with their hands nnd a great number of doctors, barristers nnd artists entered the lnbor field. Capitalism grew nervous and now n middle class union hns been started, ostensibly to protect the peoplo who nre between organized capitnl on one hand und organized lubor ou tho other. At first it seemed to bo a genuine move to protect the "third pnrty, tho public," but according to W. L. George, in ho Loudon Duily Herald, the new union is only n modern reincarnation of our old enemy, the Property Defense League.'? it is ovidently similar to the J'citizen committees" that always inject themselves into every industrinl difficulty that arises in this country. (r.£.?rS..o) $1.50 PER YEAR GETTING RID OF Coal Barons of U. S. Have Special Treatment for Organizers The violent death of Mrs. Fannie Sellins, organizer for the United Mine Workers in Weet Virginia, reminds ns again that ihe days of Inartyrdom for organizers of the peo* pie is not over. Wost Virginia is a state where tho great interests are allowed to have private police, or wbat is known com1 monly as gunmen, whoso business it is to produce violence to discredit unionism. Not only is this their business, but thoy have to keop things hot to justify thcir employment. It is a system of private war- faro allowed generally throughout tho Unitod States. Mrs. Sellins was holding a meeting of strikers when ono of these gunmen flred a signal shot nnd then a general barrage wns fired into tho unarmed crowd from a company plant. When it was over a dozen men lav wounded on the ground, and Mrs. Sellins.hnd boen shot twico through the head. Her organizing ability had caused the gunmen to take especially enreful aim. Had it happoned anywhere outside of America, our wholo press would have frothed at the mouth, and had it happened in some week power, wo would hnve heard talk of cleaning up thc uncivilized. But sinco it happened in the United States, we shall hear nothing of the kind and tho blood of a martyr will find no spoedy retribution. ER Women Workers Being Replaced Steady reduction in tho number of women employed by railroads is taking place as thc result of demobilization nnd tho return of men to thcir old jobs. From a high mark of 101,785 -women employees October I, IMS, the number has decreased April 1 to 85,31)3. The lirst women to bo let go wore those engaged in heavy work in roundhouses and shops. In the clerical occupations, such ns ticket soiling, where 72 per cent, of tho women wero used, small reduction has taken place, 68,120 still boing employed. Statistics compiled by the Rnilroad administration show that 5,000 women were employed in shops and 1,0110 in roundhouses in 1818, doing work as boilermakers, blacksmiths and machinists, There were 377 women employed as station agonts, 50 as switch tenders, 031 pushing trucks und 518 assigned as watch- women. ble. The form of organization adopted indicates that at the beginning of tho Independent Labor Party in the nineties, tho creation of a national party was not contemplated. After tho conference of 1809 tho party took shape as a federation of trnde unions, Socialist societies, trades' councils and local labor parties and co-operative societies. Not until 1003 did tho lnbor candidates win any. notablo success at tho polls. This was due to several years of organi nation and co-ordination* by tho I.a bor Representations committee whieh had been formed in 1800 in a conference of tho trade unions and So-1 cialist societies "to devise ways and means of securing an increased numbor of members in parliament." Between 1900 and 1906 David Shaokleton was returnod for Clithe- roo, Will Crooks carried Woolwich over tho Unionist Party and Arthur Henderson defeated tho Tory and Liberal candidates at Barnard Castle. In 1906 tho party had up nfty candidates for parliament and elected 29 of them. In 1910 forty out of 78 Labor party candidates won out Ia 1910 50 candidates were nominated and 42 elected. Thero are now T8S branches of the Independent Labor Party. Thirty thousand pounds wu raised for the reeent genernl elections. Itt membership is increasing, witb recruits coming mainly from the young Labor and the peace Covenant It Is difficult to stato in so mnny words whether labor as a wholo ia for or against the Peaco Covenant. Somo are for it, others aro againBt. Among tho lirst to como out against *# peaco terms were thc laborites of Great Britain. Tho following is a !pkn of the statement issued. I f'Tbcy do not bring to an end militarism, but fasten the syatem moro flrmly on tho peoples of tho Allied countries. Tho terms provo ,thut tho military success which is claimed has brought about the loss Of everything for which tbo people' bbjied, when they wore called upon to make tho stupendous sacrifices entailed by tho wnr, und thoy nro a complcto ncgution and betrayal of democracy. Tho treaty is a capitalist., military, nnd imperialist Imposition. It aggravates evory ovil which e-Hstcd beforo 1914. It .does not give tlie world peace, but tho certainty of other and moro calamitous wars. Among tho twenty-seven signatures that are attnebod are theso of ninny woll known labor leaders. Margaret Bondfleld, of tho Nationul Federation of Women Workers; Robert Smillie, president ef tho Miners' Federation of Great Britain) Georgo Lansbury, editor of tho Daily Horald; Philip Snowden, M. P., and chnirmnn of tho Independent Labor Pnrty; Bon Turner, of tho General Union of Textile Workers, and Bobert Williams, socretary of the Na. tlonal Transport Workors' Federation, are perhaps best known in this eountry, On tho othor hand, wo havo the declaration of the American Federation of Labor at Atlantic City, June 8th, which reads: The Covenant ia net a perfect Profiteering Down to a Fine Art in thc Cereal Trade About as good an cxnmplo of profiteering thai has yet been divulged is narrated by Mr. L. R. Greene, marketing expert at Notre Dnmo University. According to Mr. Greene, a farmer iu the Northwest, drove to a flour mill with a ton of wheat. After unloading it, he drove to another door of tho samo mill and bought a ton »f bran, the husks of the wheat. He paid nearly ten dollars inoro for tho bran than ho got for thc whent. He would havo done botter had ho fed tho wheat to his cattle. "Mr, Greene cites other instances of profiteering. For instance, swcot corn that costs thc canners about 3 conts a can is sold to the consumer nt 20 to *10 cents n enn ,nccording to tho canning. Thc fnrmer gets eighteen dollars for a ton of corn that retails from onc hundred nnd nineteen dollars to tivo hundred and thirty-eight dollors. I„ April, ]»]8, milk sold in New York for 14 eents n quart which cost the wholesaler 6% cents a quart. Thc eost of mnr- I 'ing New York milk then, ranges from 8% cents to 12'/j cents a quart. "The stornge system bas degenerated from n fine plnn to givo the people summer foods all tho year round to onc by which tbo prices of fresh und seasonable foods nro high to consumers in season nnd nlmost prohibitive out of season. Tbe stornge system, ns now bandied, is i aetual menace to thc poople." LET THERE BE "LIGHT" In abysmal depths of sorrow, misery and anguish, A form—pale atrophied—doth lny and droops ami languish. 'Tis truth, thc symbol of sincerity nnd right, Imploring with her eyes nnd heart for liborty ond light. But, alas! 'tis all in vain, for vilo hypocrisy is rife, And like a blighting pcstilcnco, its venom swoops through lifo For oven Justice is not Just, and Renson is insane, Tbe vory universe itself, witb vico is all aflame, —IT'S- GOOD NEWS to be told where snd how to nve money theso d»y«, •nd we tell you—without hesitation and without prevarication—that, so far as SUITS for both Hen snd Women sn concerned, there is no place to save money to the same extent as yoa eta at oui store. We sell you suits of saeh excellence ud quality that sot only please yon fsr beyond all others but, on account of the "thorough" quality built into them by expert masters of the tailoring eraft, they look well, wear well and remain genuinely good suits leng after others havo gone into the discard. Ohl fatuous retainers of insane greed —foul—trenchcroils, Ohl rapacious usurers—lust sntiatod —treacherous, Canst, or will not, tear thine avaricious eyCB unloose From euch foul principles and practice—falsities profuse. Ohl fool, transgressors, yeal and vandal, hellish; Drunk with wino of sacrilege, all vilo deeds do»t thou cherish. For thou dost mutilate and ravago that noblest work of art, Sculptured by dame nature—a gift— God's counterpart. Come, unlock the dungeon gates of Ignorance nnd Lies Thon, truth will out, and knowledge, justice, lovo will all ariso To dominate, the universe and indeed 'twill truly be A realm and roign of perfect bliss until eternity. —T. F. M. For having in his possession seditious leaflet entitled "Rutbloss Warfare" and another leaflet making allegations as to thc treatment ef prisoners, in Belfast gaol, Mnthnw Butler waB scntcuced to six months' hard labor by a Dublin court-martial. A World Within the World Insido a world withiu Ae world, Yet from the world cut off, Whore beauty's flag is ne'er unfurled, And men at mankind scoff, I live—ah I no, it is not life Where all is drab and gray Tho world outside this world within Now seems so far away. And yot that world outside this world Lies really close at hand For sometimes from that world outride I greet a little band. They tell mo of the things that were, It seems so long ago; Of things they Bay which happen in That world I used to know. For nothing seems to happen here, Each day is just the same, Here grim faced men revile and curs* And lose aU sense of shame; They daily go their morbid round Of senseless work and waste— Inside this world within the world— Titae only doea'not haste. Out in that world outside this world . A woman waits for me, A woman with a tear-stained face— And prattling children three. Seven other men with wives and kida Are down in hell with me; Thoir seven women daily wait - Thoir husband's company. Oh! worki outsido this world within Do you take nny thought How in this world inside your world Men 'h Hves are brought to naughtf Down here the flag of joy and Ufa Ih never once unfilled. The world outsido must never tee This world within the world. For here one dare not laugh nor sing, Nor do things pleasantly; Thc only music is a dirge- Life's ^broken symphony. For this steel world inside the world Is from the world cut off. Hero songs but turn to hymns of hate Where men at mankind1 scoff. —W. A. PKITCHABD, Winnipeg Provincial Jail, Later Day, 1930. document, and perfection is not claimed for it. It doos, howover, mark the nearest approach lo perfection thnt hns over boon reached in tho international affairs of mankind. "It provides tho best machinery yet devised for tho prevention of war. It places humnn relations on n now bonis anil -endeavors to enthrone right nnd justice instead of strength and might ns thc arbiter of international destinies. We declare our indorsement of tho triumph of froodom and justice and democracy as exemplified in tho Cov. ennnt of thc Leaguo of Nations," Favor Boycott of Vessels Carrying Munitions to Aid Autocrats Tho following resolution made by tho organized seamen of Italy, coupled with tho attitude of labor tho world over, speaks volumes for the solidarity that is growing in the ranks of the working class. The resolution states: 'Alt thc crews of Italian steamers aro disposed to go to prison or bo sont to the bottom of tho harbor iih thcir steamers rather thun allow themselves to contribute to thc defeat of the Russian People's Revo lution. We are convinced that such a defeat would moan the defeat ot labor everywhere. Wc invite all other labor organizations, especially seamen, to boycott all steamers chartered by internatioanl capitalism against WorkerB' International which is now massing its Red vanguards on the battlefields of revolutionary Russia." And thus you think yon think your thought; you really think with hii, or rather just the onea he taught—eo mighty good for Bir. So I dont greet the Master 'a voice with echoes of his own, but seek to rouse in slaves tho choice of power all their own. Hence though I wrote in rambling rime from dawn to eventide, would any press pay me a dime to mako tho plugs wide-eyedf Not much, you bctt so to The fled. I mako my weekly bow. Though I get not onc singlo red, I'll make some reds somehow. Melbourne—After nearly four months of idleness, the wharves are now in full swing, Tho longshoremen aro resuming work pending settlement of tho matters which aro now the subject of negotiations with the government. Tho round-table conference, convened by tho govern* mont to sottlo questions in dispute between the seamen and their employers, is now sitting. RAMBLING RIMES [By Pracnuncius] y Now comes the proposal to sell part of our Empire to the Americans in order to pay off thc war debt. What sedition is this that is talked of in our midst, Perish the thought. Sell a part of the Empire that .the sun never sets on, not if we go bankrupt. Another prospect has been knocked on the head. B. C. has lots of lumber. England needs houses, but the authorities have decided that wooden houses, like wooden heads, are of little use. What will the lumber manufacturers have to do now, poor things? •--,>* The press reports that Sam Gomperj will be neutral in the Boston pottcj; trouble, aud the steel workers' dispute!. Who ever expected him to be anything else when it is a question between capital and labor. Sam is very glib in month-, ing platitudes when he realizes that there! is no danger of anything coming of them, but when it comes to a scrap, then Seat is very busy, very busy, in keeping out ofit- . [fj During the South African War, Gencrsj De Wet was like unto a Chinese puzzl*. Firat he was there, then he was not, and nobody ever knew where he was until he was finally cornered. The Russian situation has, however, provided a more elusive individual than was De Wet, in the person of Admiral Kolchak: If onc had have taken the press reports of this individual's activities, the successes he has gained, the reverses he has met with, etc., and had kept thom on file, they would show a versatility never beforc known in the leader of military forces. Last week he was defeated decisively by Ihe Bolsheviki forces, and his army routed, if not captured. This week he has broken the Bolsheviki lines in three places. Verily the fortunes of war do vary. Bigg and others, he aaid that he was willing to be indicted by tbe masters—he expected that—but would not soe treachery in the ranks of the workers. Hs stated that the 0. B. U. was not a revolutionary organization; it could not bo as its functions were the extension of tho trade union movement made necessary by the development of industry.. Iu conclusion, bo stated tbe light is not a oue-man flght- it is a matter for the rank and ille, and tbat the new form of organization would demonstrate 'its efficiency, and at tho same timo give an opportuuity froe from rod tape of educating the workors as to the truo stato of affairs. Thc defense committee reported that there would be a mass meoting in the Arona rink on Wednesday next at 8 p.m., when there wouldd be opportunity to hear more on the Winnipeg situation. Tho seeretary reportod that tho work of organizing the faotory* workors was stitl boing carried on, aud thut some complaints us to noncompliance with the minimum wage taw wore heing attended to, aud that at loast threo barber shops would have tha 0. B. U. card in tho noxt woek. Teamsters, Loggers and Engineers and Millmen aU reported increused membership, and the Cigarmakers reportod trado as boing good. The teamBters will in futuro along with the auto mechanic* and warehouseman, bo known as the Transport 0. B. U. Unit. The counoil adjourned at 9.30 p.m. CUMFOR AT Chas. Lestor will be tho speaker at the Columbia on Sun-day evening. The chair will be taken by Comrade Bait. There is a possibility of B. E. Bray arriving in the city on Sunday, and should he do so, -he will be asked to speak. It will be remembered that Comrade Bray, who is a roturned man, is ono of the eight men arrested in the Peg. Comrade Tom Bichardson reports the holding of very good meetings in northern B. C, whero he has been for the pnst week. Comrado Bichardson expects to got back next Thursday. RAINCOATS BANNOCKBURN TWEED, with vulcanized rubber lining. These are made up with raglan sleeves, and are nice, easy - fitting Coats. $25.00 RICKSON'S APPAREL FOR MEN 820 Granville Street Seymour 2359 ORPHEUM theatreIYI THE HOME OF OOOD VAUDEVILLE MaMaee „. 2.30 Evening* _ 8.20 The Germans aro not now called baby killers. Tbe Allies have beat them at that game, too. God knows we have no taBte for propaganda in atrocities, but capitalism regards the detailing of atrocities as its best argument against Soviet Russia, and as an argument it should be equally good, if true, against capitalism. We know that the Red Terror has nothing on the White Terror in Russia. But the killing by starvation, by the blockading Allies, of hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children, who can tell tho story f It never will be told. The teller breaks down before the end is told. No, it is not the peoples of the alied nations who are guilty of this, the greatest atrocity of all time, but it is allied capitalism, whieh is just the same aa Hun capitalism. Business 1 profits I There is no crime too horrible to be committed in thy name. , ijbj^iu ;' Thc press states that Emma Goldman is to be deported. Romeo Albo has also to be returned ta the land of his birth as an undesirable. Russia and Italy are,to have another well-posted worker each. This deportation business is sure funny. If it is adopted by every oountry there will have to be reciprocity, and Rurfa may get a rebel, Canada may get ogo, and the United States get one, and eventually it will be there you are where you are. The ruling class does not realize that the system is international, and that ■to deport a worker from one country to another does not affect thc sum total of opposition to capitalism one whit. The deportees will have the same' knowledjjb in any country, and will expound their theories in any land, and capitalism will have the same number of opponents, ana as the days go by they will have more, as the conditions are compelling more and more workers to realize their position in society. *" Every worker who has any class knowledge should bc on hand at the Arena Rink ncx-t Wednesday. The arrest of eight meu means much more than appears on the face of it. Wo have taken the stand that U. S. capital was behind the Winnipeg Btrike. 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Curry DENTIST Sutte SOI Dominion BoiUUnf VANCODVEB, B. a ' s_____. £BIWT_j^J^tanW lt, 'kit r_m-~- -na, x.. » THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONS!' vancouvhb, r o, *^-^ww.. mettnumtm mtaummwimjiM.uM\\.u.ML*.iK,.*m*?fe^m>*wamt "■' '■ I -«^——■——«We— There Is Urgent Need Here for Money—Yes, and More Money Break your purse strings if necessary. This big institution is facing a financial crisis. Please help put the drive across. Your contribution will be welcome and if all will help the committee may reach the Quarter Million mark by Saturday, . More Canvassers Wanted After you have made your contribution, get out and work. Tbe final success of the drive depends very largely upon the number of women and men who will give a few hours each day to the canvass. The Money Is Here—Vancouver Never Before Was in Such a Favorable Position to Aid This Worthy Cause The Hospital will Be Out of Debt There is no question of that, for the citizens are giving. The $166,000 against the institution will be wiped off. But the $225,000 must be passed to secure the $25,000 conditional grant of the city. The hospital must bave a working capital to keep it out of debt in future. The lack of cash to buy in the open market, together with free work, put the hospital in the Condition in .which it finds itself today. Should the hospital have to worry over finances or devote its fuU energy to the treatment of patients! Criticisms HaVt Been Turned Into Cai & Since the Drive Commenced i-.. Those persons who made the statement—probably through ignorance—that the hospital refused to take patients beeause they had not funds, have been put right. Many of them subseribed to the drive. The faet it that no hospital in.. Canada will refuse to treat a patient. There are instances where there is great demand on private wards, which bring the hospital in additional revenue. It hai sometimes been deemed wise for the hospital authorities to ascertain whether payment it forthcoming or not. If no assurance ean be given the patient is never* refused, although he or she may be placed in a publio or semi-public ward. The hospital does not operate the ambulances. Any complaints regarding'theso vehicles should not be made to the hospital authorities. Help the Hospital Today \\r». All patients receive treatment which is the last word in medical and surgical skill and nursing. It's an institution which is capable of coping with any epidemic which might visit the city. What would be the result if part of the equipment of this insti ■ tution were taken away! What would happen if it were found necessary for ; Section of this hospital to be closed! Kecently it was found necessary to close pan of the Montreal General Hospital owing to lack of funds. Here, then, is the crisis which the Vancouver General Hospital faces today. Tlie largest hospital in the Dominion and the fourth largest on the American continent, faces a deficit of $160,000. This haa been accumulating for the paat 17 years. It i not due to poor management or extravagance, but to the inoreased cost ofoperatii ud lack of support Citizens are being asked to wipe off the deficit and place the institution on a Bound financial footing. The objective is $250,000, the balance to give the management a Forking capital, j Buying for cash means a saving of approximately $1500 a month. ,\\n Give What You Can-Give It Now Help the Ho Appeal to the Workers WORKINGMEN: Yoa are the ones that are mostly dependent on the General Hospital. While realizing that all is not as it should be, yet the Hospital fills a need TODAY. HELP the Hospital NOW, you may need-its aid later. DO IT TOD A Y! Do lt Now! PAGE SIX SLEVEwra teab. No. m THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST vancouveb, b. e. FBIDAY ...September lt, 1(1> Beef! Beef! From 10c per lb. 23,600 lbs. Another Car of Our Own Just Arrived DIRECT TO YOU Will Be Sold Saturday at the CAL-VAN 36 competitive stallholders are anxious to serve you. Everything of the best, and at prices that defy competition. CAL-VAN MARKET ALL CABS STOP AT THE DOOR (Opposite Pantagee) Vancouver Unions •TRAPES AMD LABOR COUNCIL—K*. eemtlve Mmraittee: President, K. Win eh; liee-president, J. Kavanagh; treason?, F. Knowles; aerfoant-at-arnu, W. A. Alexander; trnstoea. W. A. Pritchard, W. H. Cottrell, P. McDonneil, H. Gatteridfa; ••crotary, V. R. MidgU-y, Boon 210 Labor Temple ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUN- dl—MeaU aecond Monday in the ■oath. Prealdeat, J. F. McConnell; im* retary, g. H. Neelands, P. 0. Box 66. JOURNEYMEN BARBERS' INTERNA- tional Union of America, Locnl No. 120 —Meeta aecond and fonrth Tuesdays In the month, Room 306 Labor Temple. Preaident, C. E. Herrltt; aeeretary, R. A. Webb, 184 Hastinga atroet weat, STREET AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY Employeea, Pioneer Division, No. 101 —Meeta A. 0. F. Hall, Mount Pleaaant, Iat and Srd Mondaya at 8 p.m. Preaident, W. H. Cottrell; reeordlng aeeretary, F. E. Griffith, 6419 Commercial Drive; treaaurer, E. S. Cleveland; financial secretary *ad basinesi agent, Fred A. Hoover, 2409 Clark Drive; office corner Prior and Main Btreeta. SHIPWRIGHTS LOCAL 1B03, U. B. Carpenters—Meets Room 307 every 2nd and 4th Tuesday in each month. President, J. W. Wilkinson; recording secretary, W. J. Johnston, 78.—24th Ave. W.; financial aeeretary, H. A, Maedonald, Room 212 Labor Temple, BRlbGE STRUCTURAL ORNAMENTAL aad Reinforced Ironworkers, Loeal 97 —MeeU aecond and fourth Mondays. Preaident Jaa. Haatinga; financial aee- retary and treasurer, Roy Massecar, 1646 llth Ave. Eaat. __._ BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS, Loeal No. 617—Meeta every second and fonrth Monday evening, 8 o clock, Labor Temple. President, J. Beid; secretary, E. J. Tamoin, 1223 Georgia East; bnsiness agent and financial secretary, G. C. Thom, Room 208 Labor Temple. Phone Sey. 7495. ; ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL No. 213—MeeU at 440 Pender Street Waat, every Monday, 8 p.m. Preei- deat, H. H. Woodside, 440 Pender W.j recording aeeretaryt W. Foulkea, 440 Pen- Ott Street Weat; financial secretary and bualneaa agent, E. H. Morrison, 440 Pander Btreet Waat; aaaiatant aecreUry, f. R. Barrows, GENERAL TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS * WAREHOUSEMEN, Vaneonver Unit of O. B. u.—Meets every Wednesday, 8 p. m. President II. Mills; businesa agent, F. Haslett, 125 Fifteenth Avenue Eaat; aeeretary-treasurer, J. Hartley, 687 Homer street. Office, 587 Homer atreet. Pbone, Sey. 4117. TVPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 180— Meeta laat Snnday of each montb at 2 p.m. Preaident, W. H. Jordan; vice- president, W. H. Youhill; aecretary- treaaurer, R, H. Neelanda, Box 66. Provincial Unions HOTEL 555 RESTAURANT ShP ployaaa, Looal 26—Moeta every first Wednesday in the month at 2:30 p.m. and every third Wedneaday in the montb at 9:30 p.m. President, Harry Wood; aeeretary aad businesa agent W. Mac- kensle, office aad meeting hall. 614 Pen- to SL W. Phone Sey. 1681. Offlee been; 11 to ia noon; 2 to 6. B. 0. FEDERATION OF LABOR—Meeta in annual convention In January. Excutive officers, 1918-19: President, J. Kavanagh, Labor Temple, Vancouver; vice-presidents—Vancouver Island: Cumberland, J. Naylor; Victoria, J. Taylor; Prince Rupert, Geo. Casey; Vancouver, W. H. Cottrell, P. McDonnell; New Westminster, Geo. McMurphy; West Kootenay, Silverton, T. B. Roberts; Crow's Nest Pass, W. B. Phillips, Fernle, W. A. Sherman. Secretary treasurer, A. ' S. Wells, Labor Temple, 406 Dunsmuir Bt., Vancouver, B. C. VIOTOBIA, B. 0. INTERNATIONAL JEWELRY WORK- ere' Union—Meets Snd and 4th Fridays, 205 Labor Temple. President, W. Wilson, 2239 Granville Street; secretary- treaaurer, p. J. Bnell, 916 Dunsmuir St. LUMBER WORKERS' INDUSTRIAL Union of the One Big Union—Affiliated with B. C. Federation of Labor and Vancouver Trades and Labor Council— An industrial union of all workers In logging and construction camps. Headquartera,. 61 Cordova Street West, Vancouver, B. C. Phone Sey. 7656. E. Winch, eecretary.treasurer; legal advisers, Messrs. Bird, Macdonald A Co., Van- •ouver, B. C; auditors, Mesars. Buttar * Chieae. Vancouver, B. C. International longshoremen's Association, Local 3852—Office and ball, 804 Pender Street West. MeeU Irst and third Fridays, 8 p.m. Secretary-treasurer, F. Chapman; business agent. P. Sinclair. AMALOAMATED MEAT CUTTERS AND Batcher Workmen's Union No. 643— MeeU flrst aad third Tuesdays ef each month, Labor Temple, 8 p.m. President, W. V. Tamley, 1688 Powell St.; recording seeretsry, William Gibbs, Station B. P. 0. Vanoouver; financial secretary and businoss agent, T. W. Anderson, 687 Homer St. PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF North America (Vancouver and vicinity)—Branch meets second and fourth Mondays, Room 204 Labor Temple. President, Wm. Hunter, 318 Tenth Ave. North Vancouver; financial secretary, E. God- dard, 856 Richards Street; recording aeeretary, J. D. Russell, 928 Commercial Drive. Phone High. 2204R. VICTORIA AND DISTRICT TRADES and Labor Couneil—MeeU flrat and third Wednesdaya, KnighU of Pythias Hall, North Park Street, at 6 p.m. President, E. S. Woodsworth; vice-president, A. C. Pike; secretary-treasurer, Christian Slverti, P. 0. Box 802, Victoria, B. 0. NORTH VAHOOUVEB U. B. OF CARPENTERS AND JOIN- ers, Local 1777—Meets first and third Mondays in I. 0. 0. F. Hal), Lower Kieth Road East, at 6 p.m. President, W. Cummlngs, 10th Btreet East, North Vancouver; financial secretary, Arthur Roe, 210—18th St. W„ North Vaneonver. The Reply of tbe Bussian Deportees ' Wo demand the immediate opening of the frontiers, so that we may return to our homes, to our country, where the glorious sun of freodom (shines brightly, where tho working class is tho master of its own destiny and where the songs of the working class freedom reverberate in the air. We aro not afraid to be deported, but rather welcome the opportunity to leave immediately." Where is your union buttenf SHIPYARD LABORERS, RIGGERS AND Fasteners, I.L.A., Local Union 38A, Series 6—MeeU tbe 2nd and 4th Fridays ef tbe month. Labor Tomple, 8 p.m. Preaident, John Sully; flnuidal secretary, M. A. Phelps; business agent and corresponding seeretary, W. Lee. Offlce, Room 219-220 Labor Temple. ONE BIG UNION UNIT* of Stoam and Operating Englneera — MeeU every Monday, 7:30 p.m., Labor Temple. President, F. L. Hunt; vice-president, Percy Chapman; secretary-treasurer and business agent. W. A. Alexander. Room 216. Labor Temple. Phone Beymour 7405. COWAN & BROOKHOUSE PUntTBEB, FOBLISHEBS, STE- BEOTTPEES tm> B00KBDISBE8 Union Officii]!, writ, for price,. We ION tire 8ATISFA0W0 Phone Bey. 221 Diy or Nlftt Nunn, Thomson & Olegg FUNERAL DIRECTORS 631 Homer St. Vsncouver, B. (■ Into Industry Through the Front Door The Royal Bank of Canada INCOBPOBATED 1869 Capital Authorized $ 25,000,000 Capital Paid-up .. - $ 16,000,000 Reserve and Undivided Profits $ 17,000,000 Total Assets $460,000,000 690 branches in Canada, Newfoundland and Britiih West Indies. Also branches in London, England; New York Oity and Barcelona, Spain. , Fourteen branches in Vancouver: Main Office— Corner HaMingn timl Homer Stroctn. Corner Maia and Hastings Street... Corner Granvillo and Bobaon Streets, Corner Bridge Streot and Broadway West, • Corner Cordova* and'Crrrra11'Streets; ■ Corner Granvillo and Davie Streets. Corner Gntnvilln and Seventh Avenue West, 1050 Commercial Drive. Corner Seventeenth Avenue and Main Street. 2016 Yew Street. Corner Eighth Avenue nnd Main Streot HudHon Street, Marpole. Kingsway Branch and 25th Avenuo Branch. Also—North Vancouver, New Westminster and 29 other points in British Columbia. SPECIAL ATTENTION IB GIVEN TO SAVINGS ACCOUNTS Oae dollar opens an aeeonnt on which interost in paid bftlf-yeariy at current ratea. THOS. PEAOOOK, Manager Vancouvor Branch 0. W. FEAZEE, Vancouvor, Supervisor for B. 0. «iiti«in-«-i»'«"*"»■» i n ii*niii'H"»«*-m"»-i— During the last few years events' havo marched so rapidly in England that it is impossible for me to do more than to speak, very briefly, of the history and activity during the war of the two organizations which Miss Bondfleld and I represent. First, thc Women's Trade Union League, I am not quite sure whether thc Women's Trade Union League of England is your grandmother or your granddaughter, because the idea of the league lirst came from America. It was formed in England by a printing woman because of her visit to America, and later your league was the outcome of our league. Tho National Federation of Women Workers is a norgauieation whicb has no counterpart in America, so far as I am aware. We found in the Women's Trade Union Leaguo that whereas it was useful to organize women it was diflieult to organize. groups of women who had such afli-j Hation. Tho Federation was formed ' by the League. It allows any woman not eligible to a craft union to be a member. In 18U9, I think, the National Federation of Women Workers, which is maintained entirely by the women trade unionists, wos formed. I think our total reserve fund was $100. Today tke Federation has a reserve fund of over $100,000. When the war came in 1914 in England there was an almost completo cessation of women's industries. All the luxury trades collapsed. Transportation facilities were taken away from many manufacturers. In London alone wo had something like 70,000 women out of work. At this moment an appeal was made, headed by the Queen, for women of all classes to provide shirts for soldiors and to knit socks for them. A great deal of ill-feeling was created because the ordinary shirt workers were not able to get any work, and all sorts of voluntary groups of shirt workers were organized. Tho Queen started a fund for the relief of women who were out of work, and through the efforts of tho Federation and the Women's Trade Union League that fund, instead of being an ordinary charitable enterprise, was taken over by an official committee appointod by the govern, ment as a government committee to organize the work of womei. The League was represented on this committee, but wo wero not allowed to produce any goods for sale in the market, becauso it was thought that the doing of this would simply accentuate the problem. We started workrooms, and tho first things wo produced were maternity outfits, beautiful cradles, and sets for mothers and babies. We had these sets most beautifully embroidered in order to teach tho wo* men who were making them the art of embroidery, and thon gavo them to ibe poorest women in the country, who were unable to buy them. Later ou they took over army contracts and provided socks and hosiery, using all the labor from the west coast raided towns. We triod to not mako a profit, but in spite of the faet that we paid our workers higher wagos than any contractor paid wo made tho first year by mistake £10,000. Vory soon the position changed, and instead of thore boing unemployment amongst the workers, there was a shortage of workers, due to Mr. Lloyd George's great dilution of labor scheme. It has been thought over hero that some of the men's trado unions were opposed to the dilution of labor schemo. ' I want to make it perfectly clear, that the opposition was not due to the dilution of labor, but the dilution of wages. Mon wore called upon by the govern-, mont to forego all thc pre-war practices which labor had adopted, and which were supposed to restrict output. It was discovered that theso pre-war practices, which formerly the employing classes thought wore due entirely to original sin on the part of the workers or their organizations, had thoir roots in the system which employers had followed in using women to undercut men, and in using the quickest workers in a factory to determine tho piece rate for all workers. Tho Munitions of War Aet was a very bad piece of legislation. However, we got an amendment carried which had somo vory good features in It. One of the regulations laid down by that Act was that a woman who was employed on any system of payment by results should receive the same reward as a man. Another waa that the recognition of trade unions should be compulsory. The third effect of the amending act was that it became a penal offense for any em* ployer to victimize a trade unionist. A clause in the original Act made it a penal offense for any workman to restrict output. It said "any ~ ployer or workman.'' In an aircraft factory three of our women wore dismissed for trade union activity. We took tho case to court and employed a elover counsel, lie charged that the employer was restricting output Much to our as- tnoishraent we won tho caso, and that employer was fined £50 for each of the womon victimized and forced to reinstate them. Tbe regulation laying (town the equality of payment was more honored in the broach than in the observance. Our experience during tho war taught us the absolute useless- ness of all tho formula, wo hod for merly thought satisfactory. We no longer talk of equal wago for equal output or equal pay for equal work. We found that the work nover was equal in tho opinion of the person who wan to fix the rato of pay. In some places an automatic stop would be fixed on tho machine and the work was set to be different. Or n welfare secretary waa employed and this wae added to the charges. In addition, wc found that the onus of proving the work equal was alwnyri laid upon us that no such regulation was laid down between man and man. The same standard rato is made for both. Thorofore w« said: "If you make no distinction between James and John, wc are not going to let you say make one between John and Mary—nor is thc output of tho very bent man to be tahon and tho vory worst output of the woman, and tho rato flxod. No we say tho same rate for the same job without regard to > f * [By Mary Macarthur] ' (Secretary British Women's Trade Union League) i tions by not giving any sex-advantage in remuneration. Tho reply! of our trade union girls to that Was, as one girl said: "We demand our right to eome into industry on tho grounds that we are equally efficient, tbat we are going to undergo the same strain, that we are as good, or better, than the men, but we are not going to sneak in by tbe back door because we are cheap. We are going to como in the front door with the men, and if we cannot come in on our own merits we are going to stay out until our merits entitle us to come in." Wo found that in spite of a certain amount of prejudice on the part of some rank and file men, and more on the part of some leaders, tbo great bulk of thc men were willing to assist the women to organize. We havo made it our business to point out to the men that women would go into tome trades, and the existence of a large army of poorly paid labor would be a constant menace to the men's wages. The men saw it that way, too, nnd refused, just os tbe women refused, to be drawn into any sex war. Many people were drawn into suffrage because they thought they eould use the voting powor of women to get behind the privileges Mr. Lloyd George had given to male mombers of the unions. They forgot that the Economic Circumstances Compel Workers to Join Up Members Should Attend All the Business Workors in various' mills around Vancouver who have never 'b«en members of organized labor aifc being forced through economic necessity to think and reason out fo^hem- sclves why it it they aro so p&rly paid for their labor. In spo$e of the fact that priees of lumber .never were so high as at present,, t^nd enormous profits are being mi I1 fed one La4«jb] tho owners of tho various lumber mills throughout this province,,,the wages of the average workers,iu tho mills are not sufficient to sumrt them in decency. - .• I Some worken go to church on Sun* day and pray to an invisible God to make conditions better for them and imagine, they have done their duty and that this invisible God will mako conditions tolerable for them. It is not more than four months ago sinco the priests belong' ing to tho Catholic Church in Italy went on strike and refused to say mass or pray any more unless thc higher officials in the church gave them better salaries and food, and as the priesthood had to take this aetion to enforce better condtions it only reasonable to assume that the ordinary members of a ehurch will not get any botter results from praying to an invisible God, and tbat they will eventually be forced to organizo along with their fellow workers in the labor movement to fight the moneyed intorests who own the industries whieh the workers oporate and by their ownership control the output of labor and dole out the slaves' portion to the workers in the form of low wages, while they live in luxury off the surplus value, i. e., the difference between that paid the workers in wages and the value created by labor. The members who have already been made awaro of the nocossity for an organized labor movement should not rest content by merely being a member and paying thcir dues every month, as there is lots of work for them to do and every opportunity they should endeavor to enlighten their fellow workers who are ignorant of the workings* of the laws of valne and who do not realizo how they are exploited, and thereby induce them to become members. While the membership is increasing, the attendance at business meetings that are held in Boom 302 Labor Temple, Vancouver, every Monday night, is falling off. Members who can assist those meetings are requested to do so as the few willing workers wbo have in the past been doing all the business in trying to better eondtions are refusing to bear all tho burden of the responsibilities incurred by being active members In tho labor movemont, unless snore enthusiasm is shown by the membership as a ** ii, Construction Unit (0. B. V.) Formed The Shipbuilding Unit of tho O. B. U., with headquarters at the Old Knok Church, 152 Cordova ^street cast, Vancouver, will be known in futuro as tho Construction Workers Industrial Union. This unit of thc O. B. U. is open to receive as membors any worker engaged in ship*Cftn- struction, building construction, bridge and structural work, railroad construction, dock constructlonjih-p.l- cr construction, cfc. Those monttiors of the working class engaged in any branch of construction, and who believe in industrial unionism as thc best form of organisation for thc worker, as it unquestionably is, uro invited to seo tho secretary, H. J. Pritchard, 152 Cordova street east, who can furnish all particulars. The Initiation fee covering the flrst month is $1. Tho membership is steadily increasing, in fact the record for each weok shows an Increase in tho numbor of now members over the previous woek. Tho meetings, which aro now held on __^^_^^^__ Tuesday evening at 8 o'elock, at There are some fricuds of womon J tto headquarters, will, commencing who say that wo women trade union ists aro very short-sighted in adopt ing this polioy, that we were exclud ing the women from certain occupa with October, bo hold on Monday evening, each wook at tho same hour, Where is your union button! f conflict is not a sex conflict. Thore is on the one hand the man whose standard is fixed, and there is the woman who is used to undercut him; but behind the man are his wife and children, and behind that woman there usually stands a man, tho employer. It is not the standard of living that is menaced, it is thc family 's standard. And if the woman allows herself to be used to reduce thc man's standard she is thus lowering the standard of the man she will marry. Wo estimate that the monoy added by tbe National Federation of Women Workers to the women's wages during the war runs into millions of pounds a yoar. Wo usually askod for at least ten shillings a week advance evory three month*. An employer would say something liko this: "Have you ladies over considered the immoral effects whieh follow giving young girls huge sums of money evory week?" -To which one of the women shop stewards would perhaps reply: "When I worked for you before tho war for four shillings a weok, did you over consider thc immoral effects of such small wages f" Another employer would sny: "If we agree to this advance ami the women get accustomed to a high standard of living, will they bc prepared To go back to former standard of living, will thoy be prepared to go buck to former standards whon the war is over, and if they will not, what will happen to British supremacy in the world markets?" Our roply to this would be: "No, sir, they will not be prepared to go back to pro-war standards, and if Britain's supremacy in thc markets "s upon the overworking and starving of the mothers of Britain's future citizons, the sooner Britain's supremacy in the markets goes tho better." Then tho government poople would Bay: "We have hoard enough." And then they would make tho award, which was usually half the amount we asked for. We got to know that, and naturally we askod exactly double. Tho womon used their taoney to improve their standards of life. In Newcastle we had a numbor of women working in the munitions factories before the war. I visited thoso women and found their ordinary mid-day meal would bo n cup of black tea, a pickled onion, and a roll or bun. I went thoro after the war, aftor we had quadrupled their wages. T found they had soup, fish and potatoes, fruit, and a cup of coffoo. Not only did that food make them look different physically, but it gave them a different manner and air. They were different women as a result of thoir improved standard of living. And there will bo a bitter fight before any of those women aro prepared to go back to the old standard of throe sleeping in a bed and pickled onion and black tea for their ehief menl. Tou may wonder what is going to happen now tbat tho war is over. Ato we going to maintain these new standards? The position is vory difficult. We have over a million women out of work, and already employers are attempting, in the trades that aro reviving, to use tho unemployed women as a whip on the bocks of thoso employed in order to rcduco the war wages without the consent of the trado unions. Wheth er we can maintain tho standard depends upon the degroe to which wo maintain our organizations. What we are doing now is to change. the whole order of things. We want to bring about that bottor England of which so much was said during the war. For the flrst timo in England women have politieal power—with the voting age fixed at 30, because of sheer junk on tho part of politicians. Women in our coun' try aro in a majority. Havo any of you ever heard of any question, political or social, upon which every woman in tho country was agreed on ono sido and every man was agreed on the other side? There never can be sex solidarity, thank haeven, and we do not want it in that sense in politics or industry. There is overy prospect that that blot will be wiped out before very long and that women, thanks to the efforts of the Labor Party, will be enfranchised at 21. We first askod. that women bo brought in at 21 and cut off the voting age at 45. Why did wo say that! Because there never was a time when we needed the young idea more than we need lt now. When wc think of the thousands of young men, the flower of our land, who are buried in Franco and in Flanders, we realize that not only have we lost tho young bodies and tho possibilities of all thoy might have done and contributed, but in theso graves aro buried, not only tho boy of 18, but buried there also are the children he might have had, the girl he might have married, the happy home of which he might havo been tho father, the great deeds ho might have done. And, more Important than all of that, in that grave aro burled all the new ideas he might havo brought to tho servico of his country. And when wo bury the ideas of our young men, we want more than evor the enthusiasm and Inspiration of our young women. A great many people in England are wondering what women will do now that they have the voto. I believe tho groat result will be that there will be a new force in politics. What is it that interests every woman worthy of the namo. And whon women realize that ovory question of polities affects the child, when women realize that in our country one hundred thousand childron die every your because, forsooth, thc vested interests of some insurance compnny must be connid- G-red, worqen will not consider those details a matter of cold statistics. Every mother will sec In thoso ono hundred thousand dead babies a hundrod thousand tragedies; and when they vote no minister will dare stand up in Parliament and say that the vested interest of a corporation is moro important than tho lifo of even ono child, Elizabeth Barrett Browning said years ago "A child's sob eurseth deeper than the voice of a strong tnan." A child's sob eurseth, oven if it is a Russian baby or a German baby. The capacity to enjoy tho best in lifo has been crushed out of many of us grown up people; we havon 't tbo eapaeity to enjoy grand music or noble poetry, but wo are determined that our children shall havo tho capacity howover auch wo havo lacked it* Call for the Rescinding of Amendments to Immigration Act The Winnipeg ex-Soldiers and Sailors Labor Party passed tho following resolution at their last meeting on September llth. Tho resolution needs no explanation but speaks for itself: 1 That we, tho Soldiers and Sailors Labor Party, view with apprehension tho abrogation of thoso principles for which we fought, and heroby call upon the Government of Cnnada to dissociate itself from tho system of PrusBianization that is being foisted upon tho people of Canada by dropping tho charges arising out of the Winnipeg strike, also rescinding the obnoxious amendment to tho Immigration Act. "Whereas, we have seen through the public press of this city that the chairman, Judge Robson, of the Commission empowered to investigate the cause and effect of tho recent strike in Winnipeg, has soon flt whilo tbo spokesman wore kept "in jail, and has referred to thom as rascals, that therefore be it resolved, That we, in meoting assembled, go on record as requesting Judge Robson to withdraw his statements through the public press ,and furthermore, be it resolved, that we petition thc Provincial Government to withdraw tho commission as it can fill no useful purpose." MRS DIME BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BEST COAL For your kitchen—Wellington Nut Kitchen, furnace and grate—Wellington Lump For Your Furnace Comox Lump—Gomox Nut—Comox Pea (Ti, oui Pc» Ooal for you underfeed furnace) COAL MACDONALD-MARPOLE CO. LIMITED 1001 MAIN STREET Phone Sey. 210 PATRONIZE FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS] Taltption. Bar. .611 HJ. Nugent & Co. Sails, Tents and Awnings TumfUn' and Oupeotan' ATBOHB, BUBBEB BOOTS ail on, oLOTHora Estimates flvan on canvu work Free aad compulsory education, including: teit.books.TMe education in all institutions controlled by the govern- mont, every child to be guaranteed] from its birth, until it becomes a self-supporting member of society, the material necessities of life, medical supervision and an unlimited education, lhi* ia the platform also. r--— ■■*■. .. WM- *uuuii. WHy presumably of th* farmers who hav* joined the Labor Party. In announcing ita platform, the Ih- depondent Labor Party says: "Th* objeot of tb* Independent Labor Party of Ontario is to promote the politieal, economical and soeial interests of people who live by their labor, mental or manual, as distinguished from those who' live hy profit upon the labor of others. Therefore, we have established a permanent provincial organization in order that we may act in co-operation as far as possible with independent politieal organizations of the farmers and thc producing class for the purpose of 'olecting men or women who will stand by the democratic principlo of a working-class movement, with all that the term implies. We believe that performance is "better than promise, and we rest our claim for tho support of the porkers on ths general declaration that we stand for tho industrial freodom of those vPhif toil and the political liberation of those who for so long have been denied justioe." At preaent the movoment takes no account of the divergence in view-point between the fanner and the farm laborer. This question will not arise in any acute form so long a* farmers pay tho present high wage*, but in European countries the intercuts of the farmer and the farm laborer are not always [identical. There i* no reason, however, why the inclusion of tho Canadian fanner in the Labor movement should not in the end work out satiifaatorOy for the agricultural laborer. blevtoto tea*. K». m THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST VAKOOOVBB, B. a CROSSING THE BAR | Ottawa—Th* minister of justice ia the house has presented a bill to prohibit members of the Dominion [ palie* and of the Northwest Mounted Polio* from belonging to trdde unions. Th* bill continues in force under aa order-in-council to the same effect passed under th* War Measure* Aet. * The bill was read a first time laat week. ONE OF THE FINEST TONICS Good for Health Improves the Appetite CHEAP PRODUCTION Everyone knows'that cheap gooda can only be procured by using, cheap materials and employing aheap labor. CASCADE BEER b pradooed-from the highest grade materials procurable —Cascade ia a UNION produce from start to-finish. VANCOUVER BREWERIES LIMITED [By Oeorge F. Stirling] "Socialism is an endeavor to rent everything upon law or government," says Sir James Aikins, K.C.,* Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, and president of the Canadian Bar Association. The Socialists are seeking to sub- very law and order and to ovorthrow constitutional government, say our citizens' committees. A slight discrepancy in the logic of our opponents, which any school girl of the fourth reader would be smart enough to notice. One of the arguments against the striko leaders ia Winnipeg was that they were So* eialista who had by schemeing gained control of the Trades and Labs? Counoil to push thoir revolutionary propaganda of Socialism, whieh, according to Sir James, seeks to rest everything upon law or government What a strange predicament for a government to be in whieh ha* arrested a numbor of men who believe in resting everything upon law and government, and is seeking ts prove that they were out. to undermine law and order! Is Sir James Aikins correct, or is the truth on the side of the small fry who organized tho citizens' committees! Sir James is correct, and those who accuse the Socialists of being against law and government, and connecting their philosophy with anarchy, ar* either knaves or fools. As a matter of fact, the argument used by Sir James Aikins is the [strongest argument that we have yet seen against the theory of Socialism. It is the argument of Herbert Spencer in "The Coming Slavery." Bat whatever are the merits or demerits of the argument, the faet remains tbat: SOCIALISM STANDS FOB COOPERATION AND OBDBB; ' CAPITALISM STANDS FOB INDIVIDUALISM AND ANABCHT. The only law that capitalism respects is the law of the. jungle, and tho protection which they would give to labor ia the protection whioh vultures give to lambs. A minimum wage law has recently been placed upon the statute books of B. C. Tho manufacturers have had a conference with the Minimum Wage Board, and one of thoir spokesmen plainly intimated to Mr. J. D. McNiven, chairman of the hoard, that there would be some hundreds of extra criminals in British Columbia this year, for he felt eortain the manufacturers would ignore the law. His statement we bolieve is correct with this reservation, that they will not bo "extra criminals;" [They are criminals already, but the law will make it possible for them to be found out. According to Sir James Aikins' argumont we should not have tkis minimum wage law, as it is aa interference with .the liberty of th* individual; the mattsr of wages no I doubt should.be left "to the enlightened conscience aad Christian character of the individual/' Wo have had about ISO yean of this enlightenod Christian conscience : in industry, and so damnable has it 'ben in its treatment of the work-| ♦ing classes in all capitalist coun* tries that capitalist government} themselves have been forced to interfere with the perfect liberty of tbe individual, and have placed upon.' their statute books all kinds of law* for clipping the claws Sf this lightened Christian conscience. "Law should be designed to re-, strict detrimental collectivism," ! says Sir James, and there is no, doubt that he means by this, judging from the genoral tenor of his remarks, the collectivism preached by labor, and not tho collectivism of manufacturers' associations, combines, trusts, ete. "To settl* all disputes there should he no resort to force, valid or direct, sueh as strikes or lookouts, whieh is th* principle of do- fiance and war." It is pleasing to notice that ths Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba is amongst the Pacifists, but it is hard to understand* why such a high official who is so' strongly against force and th* principle of war should have been able to go through tho five years of ths war without being accused of being a pro-Gorman, or unpatriotic. -, In oommon with Sir James, Socialists are also againat the principle of war, but are not against the principle of self-defence, and so long as capitalists resort to the force of the state against labor, labor wiU have to uso the only weapon of self- defence which it has, namely, the strike, to proteot itself from utter* servility. * '. On the whole, however, Sir James Aikins has not surprised anybody by his speech. No Lieutenant-Governor of a province, or prosidont of a Cana- ' dian Bar Association oould have said anything different on this subject. To emphasize the ethical standard of Individual conduct has been tho conventional dogma of the past 2000* years, but in spito of it we havo had| to build up a criminal code, and during tho past 100 years, all kinds of laws relating to tho carrying on of industry which are interfering mors | and moro each year, with the liberty of tho. private capitalist to gouge the publie for profit, and until the, j beast is finally bred out of man, we regret to say that we must continuo in the same path. The last pieco of legislation along those lines, namely, a minimum wage for girls and womon, is long overdue. It will be the meana of saving many of them from tbe necessity of prostitution, but oven thia does not PAGE SEVEN Now More Than Ever THERE IS NEED FOR A DAILY LABOR PAPER 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? appeal to the "enlightened Christian confleience" of our manufacturers, „„,! 41.— —I" *•—• ' Sinn Feiners Declare War on British Rule in Ireland Matters in Ireland are drifting back to the bad, old ruts of the Land League days, and extraordin- . a ~.i— •«*."". •"»»"»»»";r«r», ary crime is on the increaso. In £U&3Ltt& «^S$—>«-- **-• - *««- they safely ean do, to evade their" >*\""">> ** the In08t law-abiding por- sooial and business duty. i *j9!> of *• United Kingdom. The Tho...:- A— .... .*. . o* -. _. Acting of policemen and soldiers JhH*« Juft^^Pi *« **m e*i»e °» » »°* *- il? wil. „2 '£ *$ ""k' ™**Hsd aa crime by the Irish people. taevEL £ _* ■ J* ai«ie«eoms to illustrate the eleavage K*t, !' * b,r ?T0St!'"il.'K> »(*w<>«n the two countrie. and tSe iSSL^Tt^'^J*1* •*■?"* **>lessness of the situation for 2?t-T? t J° •«**■« t* J«w those who represent British rule in | tie* until Justico is free. i D$m&, ■ *■*-; : »-"it is tree, as reports In Canadian Tokyo—Six thousand five hundrod newspapors state, that police and arsenal operatives have struck, do-' soldiers in Ireland have been shot mending higher wages. Troops have1 Wd killed. But no mention is made been called out to gnard arsenals in these garbled roports of the pro- throughout tho country. J vocative causes. Has any Canadian newspaper, for instance, published an account of the military assault on Mrs. Sheeby Skeffington, who was struck with the butt end of a rifle for speaking in public, and had to be carried off to hospital! Has any mention been made of the midnight arrests of Sinn Feiners and the attempts to release them that ended in bloodshedt The ease is put by the Sinn Feiners in this way: "We have declared war on British rule in Ireland. , The establishment of a Bepublic and the war earriod on against it by England are evidences of the existence of a state of war. Wo are in the same position exactly ns Belgium, when Germany invaded her soil. The British have no more justification for treating us as criminals* who violate tho law, than were the Germans justified in arresting and shooting Belgian civilians for defending their country against invasion. We hav* warned the military and police that they cannot carry oa a war against the Irish without taking all the risks and consequences of war. Onr consciences are clear aa to the shooting of police and military. It ia war and all war is hell." Mention the Federationist when you mako a purchase at a store. ISM STILL ON TRIAL Who are these mortals of Pecksnlflu cult and eaatf Wh* prate of morals pure, and of ethics loudly rant Who by their superficial dogmas they themselves reveal Thoir pseudo-doctrines and their nature-diabolie-anresL Who confiscates all products that Labor doth create! In order to obtain for self a plutocratic state. The toil of man, the sweat of slaves all with one intent Are utilised to further accelerate the might of the opulent Nayl Mortals they are not! But beasts ths/ an of Tartans Who forces superb manhood on to Martian plains—barbarous To be mutilated, torn limb from limb, and, if surviving, r*h To the poorhouse, to the gutter, or as suicidec—delegated. Our daughters fair and pure and chute are even not imman* From this salacious monster whose maw is rank with spume. For they unto the underworld an hurled, by eooasmie might To wander, lewd prostitutes aad denizens. Through tho night. Long centuries hav* paaaed away, yet still we de uphold This monster, this werewolf that breaks into the fold Of all humanity, that dow not, will not, cannot see, * That thia is sns long vile reign of grim oliarchy. This menace stalks abroad imbaed witk sordid b**tt*Hty. 'Tie not of sptetral form. Ohl as. Tis grim reality. What ia thla demon ia the guise and cloak of' That's spawned of mea^ by maa, fsr lost aad g tn mam ty maa, n 'Tis Capitalism. gre*4— -T. F. M. PATRONIZE FEDERATIONIST ADVERTISERS Come and hear the truth about the Winnipeg Situation at a Public Meeting to be held in the ARENA RINK Wednesday Evening i September 24 gggjjSi B. J. JOHNS, WINNIPE6; W. A. PBITCHARD, VANCOOVn CHAIR TO BE TAKEN AT 8:00 P.M. PROMPT COLLECTION TO BE TAKEN UP FOR THE DEFENSE FUND __ PAGE EIGHT eleventh TEAR. No. 38 THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST VAMwrovra, b. a FBIDAY-. -September 19, 191! 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ODE CREDIT ARRANGEMENTS WILL B OLVJ-* YOUR PROBLEM We offer you as fine a line of Men's Suits as you'll find iti the eity—good serviceable fabric—made up hi the latest style—offered at prices which mean as good values as you'll get anywhere in Canada. We offer yoa theae nits on terms—a small Cash Deposit sad toalance la small weekly or monthly payments—ae yoa are ahle. Call in aad see aa—Let us oxplaia our Foy-as-you-wear methods B. C. OUTFITTING CO. 342 HASTINGS STREET WEST Near Homer - Direct Action the Result of Suppression of the People "Democracy," said A. 8. Wells at the Columbia on Sunday, wan a word now much in use; naturally tho workers wanted to know what it meant. In its accepted meaning, it included politicul and social equality. It was true that, in such mutters as sleeping under bridges, etc., the law made no expressed discrimination between rich and poor; nevertheless, as long as there were classes in society, there could be no democracy. Down through thc history of tho elass to which he and his hearers belonged, there were traces of the martyrdom of men who hud stood for the truth. A minister of tho government had publicly stated here, within tbe last few days, that men who spoke the truth wore regarded i "uuisanees." Democrucy, with the domination of a ruling claas, was a contradiction in itself; sueh, indeed, was the whole capitalistic system. Dealing with direct action, lie said. The ruling cluss did not like "direct action," When thc working class applied it. In Kussiu,,as applied by the workors to the counter-revolutionaries /it constituted "atrocities. '' But in Caiiiidu and elsewhere, members of the working class were thrown into jail for challenging tho right; of the government to do as it liked, for taking part in strikes, etc. Did they think there was any domocracy there? That was "direct action." It was direct action also when the governmont hand-pickod the electorate to defeat tho will of the poople. AU their methods had been direct action against those people who did not agree with them. Today tho people wcro denied the right of reading certain works, allowed to circulate freely even to tho south of the Hue. Extracts from tho "Communist Manifesto," etc., wero used to prove seditious intent. With such "direct action" on tho part of the ruling cluss, how could tho workers have any other ideas, or be blamed for following their masters' precepts! The workers wore compellod to conform to the conditions around them. In despotic Russia, could they bo blamed for taking the action they did? People would "como buck" in response to thc efforts tnnde to repress them. Given thc right of self- expression ,thcy hud no deisire for chaos. "When you compel peoplo to take tho only method of direct action, they uro going to take it. The people of this country will do tho things which their environment compels them to do." The ruling class had most to do with the creating of that environment, and thc blame must rest thore. From the massacre of Peterloo in 1819 to tho Boston riots of today, the ruling class had always used direct action; and they. had ofton found a response in the working class, compelled to conform to conditions. Government was a denial of equality, socinl nnd political. If democracy meant equality or social and political rights, how could there be two classes in society? Could they conceive of a freodom which compelled Jhc workors to soil themselves in the lubor market in order to live; where the ruling class could subject them to the miseries of the largo industrinl centres of the world? In Great Britain, which had produced more* wealth per capita than any other country in the world, there was such poverty among the workers that thcir children commenced to deteriorate from the moment of their birth. Under such conditions, democracy was non-existent ami impossible. "True, a worker might leave his 'boss;' but he hud to seek another of the same cIosb. So long as the two classes existed— the one exploiting and ruling, the other exploited nnd ruled—there could be neither democracy nor freedom. Capitalism wns a systom of production for profit, and for thnt alone. Not even tho ruling clnss could operate industry unless profit could bc made. Tbe establishing of markots also developed competition; and during thc last five yenrs there had been such n development of efficiency, in both mnchinery and workers, that tho world's markets today were not very far from being overstocked. Tho talkod-of "shortage" did not renlly exist. Tho working class was thc only section of thc poople thnt wns trying to put un end to war as thoy had known it in the Inst five years. (Applause.) It wus tlie working clnss mission to free thc children of the world from the conditions of poverty. Human nature, clumped all the time, as conditions changed. The ruling class itself did not understand the system wliich gave them their profits; it hnd been the mission of tlie inter- Registered ln accordance wltb the Copyright Aet. Team Work Teeth mutt da good trim-work If they are to be of genuine service. The reason why & tooth missing Is * matter of inch Importance lies In tbo fact that it "breaks up tlie team" and the tooth equipment loses efficiency in far more than the proportion the tooth Itself bears to the entire equipment. A tooth gone leaves a gap, that la true, but It la not the food that Is missod by that part of the grinding apparatus that matters so muoh. The grent harm lies in tbe fact that the rest of the teeth fall oat of alignment and the machinery for chewing Is cast into dliorder. It Ib as If a cog in a wheel went a-mis-sing and the rest of the cogs In that wheel closed in so that they could no longer mesh with the opposing wheel. 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Superior Quality Silk Hc«., with lisle feet and garuv i«p, in colors of pearl, sn,oke, mid grey, Copenhagen, Belgian blue and taupe—$3.00. 575 Oraaville Street Sey. 3540 YOUR BIT? national working class to explain the construction of society, and it wotM bo theirs to bring this system to mi end and to tuke ovor the moans of production and operate tloin for me. In replying to questions, the speaker furthor eplained tbat government implied a ruling class and a ruled class; the alternative was an administration of things instead of Bakery Drivers Attention Important business will como up at your next meeting. Bottor mnko a noto of the date, and bc sure and attend, Octobor 13th. When You Think of Clothes —THINK— feljtmt ©raft Quality Clothes Styles All Wool Guaranteed 10 Per Cent. Discount) to all Returned Mem Thos. Foster & Co., Limited 514 Granville St. Next to Merchants Bask What Is the Ultimate Objective of Tour Efforts? Tho strike at Kinraan's estop, Jackson Bay, has been settled upon terms satisfactory to the men. A fait union crew leaves on tlie next boat. AH camps of the Nimkish Company at Alert Bay aro on strike and a rumor is current that owing to the impossibility of getting scabs in Vancouver an attompt will be made to get them at Bupert, but the spirit of working class solidarity is too actively operating to give tho employer any hope of success. McQougan and McDonell at Boaver Creek; Capilano Timber Company camps; Mainland Cedar, Camp 2; Thompson Sound; P. B. Anderson's camp, Knox Bay; Merrill, Bing ft Mooro, Duncan Bay, and all camps of the Comox Lagging Bailway Company at Headquarters, are still on strike—all for better camp conditions. A wire has boen recoived that the miners at Kim* berley aro out for a dollar a day increase. Wbat about the catnps in tho up- country districts, are they up to tho coast standard I If not, why notf How much is your bitf For the past five years wo havo heard a lot about "doing his bit," and tho terms haB becomo incorporated into our everyday conversation. Wo hear individuals say "I have dono my bit" and now it's up to thc other fellow. This expression comes frequently from tbe labor man as from tho man who has been "over there." How mueh is your bitf The answer depends upon what your aim and object is. The extent of your bit is 'set by tho limit of your objective plus your ability. When you have made the most of yourself; that is done tho utmost of which you arc capable toward the attainment of your objective; you have "done your bit," but only if the objective attained or striven for wob the full limit of your ability,, both of act and vision. ' The class-conscious worker never says ho has done his bit, for he sees ahead tho goal of working class emancipation, and whilst that is. un- attaincd and he hns enough energy to keep alive he must do all he con by word and deed toward the realization of thc objective. His bit is himself and he has done it when he is worn out and useless, not before. Some individuals' bit is moro' spectacular than others, and some by their noise get to themselves a lot of credit to which they are not entitled whilst the quiet, wholehearted worker who does with all his' might whatever his hand finds to do, is often nevor heard of and rarely gets any credit, yet his is tho work that really counts. The cause of this moralizing, if such it can be called, is tho-frequent remark that we hoar mado by members who soy "I've done all I'm going to, the darned scissor-bills aron't worth it; I've done my bit;" ■and also frequently somo say, "the Loggers' Union is doing more than its bit in the orgunized labor movement." But these remarks nover come from n class-conscious worker, for he knows that tho ultimate goal is working class emancipation, and whilst the scissor-bill remains a slave the class-conscious worker will also remain in that condition. That the interest of the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union and tho Organized Labor Movement is a mutual interest and, consequently, the more that the L.W.I. U. docs for the movement the more it does for itsolf. Many who talk loud and long of class-consciousness and solidarity are more concerned in playing the bosses' gamo by looking for and enlarging upon differences to keep the workers apart than in finding ground for mutual action. Thc Englishman sees thc German. Tho white man sees tho Oriental. The 0. B. U. man sees the craft unionist. The red card sees the ballot paper. But tho boss always sees capital and labor. When will we learn and practice solidarity! Boilermakers StUI Busy Boilermakers and Helpers Union 194 is' still taking in members and managing to flnd jobs for thom, Thc local union does not always flnd it easy to supply the need of skilled mechanics on account of thc great demand, but the shipyards have been inconvenienced very mueh becnuse of this. Thoro is always a plentiful supply of helpers, most of whom are being supplied to thc union through the medium of the Federal Employment Bureau, Vancouver Land District District of Coast, Bulge 1 TAKE NOTICE that I, Mary Alice Clarke of Vancouver, B. C, housewife, intend to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands; Commencing fit i post planted about forty chains North to tho South boundary of Lot 542; thence West Sixty chains; thence South about twenty chains to the North boundary of Lot 1004; thonco East forty chains; thenco South twenty chains; thence East twenty chains to the point of commencement, con- tnining 100 acres, more or less, MABY ALICE OLABKE. Dated 31st July 1919, Vancouver Land District District of Coast, Rango l TAKE NOTICE tbat I, Edwin Clark Appleby of Vnncouver, B. C, Jeweller, intend to apply for permission to purchaso the following lauds: Commencing at a post planted about fifty chains Southwest of the Southeast corner of Lot 422; thence about twenty chains North to the South boundary of Lot 422; thenco Easterly about forty chains to tho West boundary of Lot 429 (old P.B. 503); thcnccSouth about sixty chains to shoreline; thenco Westerly nnd Northerly along the shoreline to point of commencement, and containing 200 acres more or less. EDWIN CLABK APPLEBY. Dated at Vancouvor. aut J»h_. 1010. HUNTER-HENDERSON PAINTS Quality 642 Granville St Service Phone Sey. 6110 Loggers Contribute Over $200—More Money Is Needed About $000 has boen received this week by thc defense committeo. Moro is still needed. Individual receipts are being sent to those who send in donations, and to collectors for tho wholo amount subscribed. Some time ago Tom Mace sent in somo seventy-odd dollars from thc Prince George district. The Loggers contributed $217.50. Other sums ranging from $5 to $50 have boon sent in by collectors. It is the intention of tho committeo at a later date to publish the full list of donations, but in view of the fact that some men who have contributed, and hnd their names published, have been fired as a result, the committoe docs not wish to placo any more in this position. Later when tho smoke of 'battle has cleared away, the full list will bo published, TRADES COUNCIL ENDORSES DRIVE (Contlhuod from page 1) was acting as secrotary and business agont while Socretary,McKeuzio was away at tho conference and congress. The Stage Employees' delegates reported that theatre managers had signed up the new wage scale, which went into effect September 1. The Boot and Shoo Workers' delegate reported that his union was doing splendidly and that the International office had donated $50 to enable the union to send a delogate to thc Hamilton Congress, A resolution introduced by Del. Graham calling for an increaso to $40 for widows* and dependents' pensions was endorsed. It was pointed out by various delegates the trials that these dependents encountered trying to livo on the miserable allowance paid by the government. Del. Showier introduced a motion to the effoct that tho council take the matter up with the polico commissioners nnd tho Attornoy-Goneral of allowing boys of about 17 years to drivo cars recklessly through the streets, and recommending that licenses only be issued to persons of 21 and ovey who could pass the driving test. Tho delegate pointed out that accidents were on the in- crease and that truck drivers were The Broadway Table Supply Phone Fairmont 18 and 10 518 Broadway Eaat TRT OUR CASH AND DELIVERY SYSTEM Boyftl Standard Floor, 49 Iks. at » ..„ |2.9Q Royal Household, 49 lbs. ....|2.90 Tim Hoses Flour, 49 lbs |2.S0 Parity Flour, 49 lba. ............12.80 Wild Boh Pastry Flour, 101b. aaeka — .68c B. * K. Oati, sack 65c B. ft K. 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