@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, "1919-01-17"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcfed/items/1.0345590/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST (NDUBTBIAL DMITIi BTMNtTH OITIOIAL PAPEB: VANCOUVER TBADBB AMD LABOB COON UL, AND B. C. FBDEBATION OP LABOB 2 POLITICAL UNITT! VIOTOBT ELEVENTH YEAR. No. 3 EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY IJORNING, JANUARY 17,1919 V_____l__ JIJBO PER YEAi DEMAND RECALL OF Censorship and Intervention in Siberia Is Condemned at Mass Meeting W. A. Pritchard and J. Taylor Score the Attempts to Crush Democracy Thore was no uncertainty in tho attitude of tho audience (which filled the Columbia Theatre to capacity last Sunday evening) regarding the obnoxious orders-in-council issued from timo to time by tho Government of Cunada, They showed in a definite manner their unqualified opposition nnd woro in full accord with tho speakers who addressed the moeting. The meeting was, without doubt, tho best yet held in the Columbia and the Victoria Trados and Labor Council is to be congratulated on its efforts towards tho redress of existing restrictions. Mr. J. Stevenson was chairman. Mr. | J. Taylor, who wus tho first speaker, | dealing with the subject of tho Mili- j tary Servico -Act, nnd the release of all i ( prisoners oonvlcted undor that act, suid ho held no brief for the conscientious i objector as far aa hin objections wcro concerned, for while it waa easy to cheer with tho crowd, yot it required courage for u man to stund up for his convictions when his liborty and even lifo was in jeopardy. Down through tho ages men hnvo shown themselves ready to take tho stand for whnt they bolieved was right. Bruno had suffered at I he stnko becauso of his adherence to scientific knowledge in faco of tho ignorance uud sUporstition of the ruling class. Latimer, Ridley, Gallilico woro men who hnd the courage of their convictions und hnd boon martyred and ostracized because they dared to differ with tho ruling class of their time; it had been snid that the end justified the means, but while wo look buck with horror on tlio Spanish Inquisition and similnr 'institutions, yet right in our midst, in theso days of so-callod civilization and reason, methods wero boing applied which wcro equul in every respoct to those of the times known us the dark ages. Wo had been taught in our youth that wherever lho British ilag flies thero was freedom and democracy. If it wero truo that tho war had been waged in,tho into CBt of democracy, then ussuredly it was high time we had somo evidence of it hero in Canada. Mr. W. A. Pritchard of Vancouver gave Ihe audience ono of tho most interesting and instructive lectures that hud been listened to in Victoria for some considerable timo. Ho handled his subjoot dealing with Ihe censorship regulations and tlio Siborlan invasion in a manner that was appreciated by all present, us was evidenced by thc marked attention and enthusiastic applause wliich was given to the utterances of tho speaker. Air. Pritchard stilted that although ho was prosdnt thero as a member of tho Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, yet ho could not disassociate himself from another political party, the Socialist Party of Canada, whose official organ had been suppressed, and wns convinced that down in Ottawa thoro was a great amount of censorship but very Tittle souse. Thc censor had said that tho Clarion was guilty of treasonable and seditious utterances and produced a number of excerpts, as ovidenco, from issues between September, 11)17, and January, 1918, a year previous to tho ban! As far as tho Socialist Party of Canada was concerned, it was determined to adhere to tho policy of publication, and was not going to be dictated to by a 17th century' troglodite. Ho might curtain their actions in tho mountimo but ho could uot control thcir thinking power, for no man thinks unto himsolf j the basis of human society ia u collective basis, sinco all work collectively. Back in history undor the landed aristocracy (he slogan wus freedom; unbind tlie serf, that ho might go to tho factory. It. was the ■ same in Franco over the entrance to overy French law court, museum, and even jails wen- the three words, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, placed there in tho days of tho revolution, and then, as now, the bourgeoise hud to havo someone to got liberty for lliem. Buck in 1015 Lloyd George, whon appcaliug to labor unions regarding dilution of labor, said, "Wc can lose the war without you, but without you wo can't win." Thoy ean do anything wilh us, but without us they can do nothing. Recently tho Vancouver Sun hnd do* ' fined u bourgeois as one who woro a white collar uud had a tooth brush. Thut wns nearer the truth than tho writer of that statement imagined, for no one could work nnd wear a whito collar, for despite nil tho inflated ideas about education tho working class only .received that which was necessary to ' their efficiency as profit producors; for - as tho simple hand tools evolved so I education had to keep puce, and now ' that steam power is becoming obaolote, .and electrical force moro and moro used, when continents aro joinod by ■ aerial route, whon messages oro flash* ed around the world in a fow seconds, when the countries arc gridironed with railways to haul around thc produco of tho slavos, with all this can a band of , reactionaries *ay wo shall not enquiro. into biology or ethnology, In tho universities of Europe, only ' ono American was recognized as a i sciontcst, and that ono wns L. H. Mor* , gan, author of "Ancient Society," a \\ man who bad lived with and sudied 1 the Iroquois tribes, a work on ethnology, and yet Colonel Chambers says wo Bhall not read it. Wo shall not bo I allowed to look into Marx' Capital, Continuing, ho said thero were several reasons for lho upparent lack of desire to launch un offensive against Russia. Ono was tho universal outcry i by tho working olaas againat such action, and tho question as to whother tho workers could be fooled into attacking Russia. Tho Canadian govern tie Workers Resent In- erence With Protest feting Last Sunday nday tho Seattlo workers held jr protest nieeting against in* _n Bussia. As usual tht •■*■ thoritu ' •*.tompted to break up tho mooting, and somo of tho limbs of the law got hurt in tho attempt. As a rosult of this interference tho Seattlo trados unionists as represented by tho central body, are demanding the punishment of the offenders. Resolutions demanding tho removal of tho chief of polico, and tho recall of Mayor Ole Hansen, unless tho offenders uro punished, were passed. Mayor Hansen appeared before tho central body and was tho target for a regular fusilado of bitter denunciations and questions as to the affair. As usual, although the meeting was called by tho organized labor movement, tho press was on the job vil- lifying tho workers, nnd by tho designation of tho meeting as an I. W. W. mooting, an attempt was mado to discredit it as being a meeting . of a bunch of rowdies. The tactics, however, failed, and somo oction will havo to bo taken to punish tho over-zealous guardians of tho "low" before organized labor in tho Sound City will bo appeased. "ON THE RAMPAGE" STEAM ENGINEERS AND INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM Meetings Will eB Held in New Westminster to Givo the Members in That District a Chance Tho attendance at tho last regular meeting of tho ubovo local was the largest for some lime and considerable interest wus taken in tho various matters that camo up for discussion. Under the heading "good of the order," whero j.5 minutes nro sot aside for discussing various matters of importance to tho union, Brother W. Head gave a fall; ou industrial unionism, and pointed out that thc old form of craft union- ism was practically usolesa in so far as tho workors were unablo to fight tho combined forces of capital, and obtain any advantage thereby, and ho showod in a scientific mannor that it was necessary for tho workers to organize industrially, and act politically in thoir own interests, unless they desired to continuo to livo in fonr of want and load un intolerable existence. Membors who are working aud living in Now Westminster district have arranged to hold meetings on tho second and fourth Fridays of every month, in New Westminster, Labor Hall, corner of Seventh nnd Queen's Avenue. Tho meetings will commence at ■** p.m. and nil members living iu tilts district who cun attend should do so and take aa active interest in trying to bring about tho industrial democracy that is necessary to insuro security from want, and also bring the peace and happiness into this world so long desired by tho workers. Gas Workers j Tho bi-annual election of officers of tho above locul was held iu Boom 204 Labor Temple on Wednesday, January 8, 1019. Balloting resulted as follows: President und business ngent, Bro. J. Friend; vico-president, Bro. J. E. Rose; recording secrotary, Bro. Arthur Watson; financial secretary and treasurer, Bro. J. McCallum; guide, Bro. W. D. Major; sorgcaut-at-arms, Bro. Harry Knuth, Owing to the Christmas and New Year holidays this local has not met for a month and a lot of business had to bo got through. Tho new officers were installed by tho retiring presidont, Bro. Hogg, and three new members initiated. ALBERTA FAVORS E Ann this is the my THE WOUtC-V IS/WOE TO fUL UuRi.v( a syMPATM ar/iiKE WrltN 1/10017 IS UOLOIHC, Will. ArTtNUW /MSJT/AKJS i»£ ny qoti or •BoiswyiK.) J! J B.C. FEDERATION ISL Officers of Provincial Organization Will Meet Government R. P. PETTIPIECE AT REX SUNDAY Dr. W.J. Curry Will Be the Speaker at the Broadway Theatre New Westminster Trades Council At tho last meeting of tho Now Westminster Trades and Labor Council, the following officers were elected: Prosidont, Geo. Cameron; vice-president, If. Knudson; secrotary, W. Yates; treasurer, Ti O'Brien; sergeant-at-arms; C. Knudson; trustees, K. Morgan, J. Feeney and K. A. Stoney. Piledrivers Murray McDonald, a member of tho Pllcdi'ivors and Wooden Bridgemen's Union, was buried on Wednesday. Bro. McDonald Wftfl at the time ho was seized with the "llu" stationed at North "Vancouver with lho military forces. Tho executive officers of tho British Columbia Federation of Labor aro still hammering at the logislativo programmo luid down at tho last convention. A meoting has boon arranged for this morning between the Cabinet and tlio executivo officers resident on tho coast. Among other matters that will be dealt with aro tho questions nris- ing out of thc increasing number of' unemployed in thu province, and thc question of the' opening of company towna. This latter matter is ono that tho executivo will push to the limit, lho company (owns of this province being nothing more nor less than veritable slave encampments. In theso places men are not allowed to recoivo copies of tho Fed. in some instances, and constant complaints arc being made to tho officers of tho Federation as to tho conditions which prevail. Better sanitary regulations and medical attention for logging nnd other camps will also bc demanded. Last Sunday the Bos was packed to hear J. S, .Woodsworth. On Sundny J. SPEAK AT ROYAL W. W. Lefeaux WiU Be the Speaker at the Columbia Western Conference Will Convene in Calgary . Labor Temple At the annual convention of the Alberta Federation of Labor, held last wook, tho proposod Western Conference wns discussed. The convention wont on record as unanimously endorsing the proposal. Socrotary- Smitten, of tho Alberta Federation of Labor, has wired Secretary Wells of thc B. C. Federation of Labor, asking for the date of'tho conference In his wire, ho intimates that ovory effort will bo made by the movement in Alberta and Saskatchewan to get delegates out, and to make a success of the gathering of western Labor men. The official call for the B. C. Federation of Labor convontion, and tho Western Labor Conference will be issued within tho next week or so. It would have been out this week, but with Secretary Midgley of the Western Conference committeo sick, and Chairman Bees of the same committeo with a sick family on his hands, it has been impossible for them to got together. Thc officers of thc B. C. Federation of Labor, and tho committee aro working together, and a joint call will bo issued to cover tho provincial convention, and tho Western Conference. The date sot for thc convention is March 10. The conference will convene on tho 13th. Arrangements have been made for the both gatherings to be held in the Labor Temple, Calgury. CARPENTERS HAVE A SPLENDID MEETING Local 617 of tbe U. B. Carpenters Is Looking to the Future as Well As tho Present Local 617 Carpenters, met in regular session on Monday evening, when a crowded house and much business kept tho meeting till 11 p.m. Since last mooting, we havo. to record tho death of u valued member of thc local, Bro. F. H. Soady, who passed out on January 2, at Nanaimo. Business Agent Thomas wont over nnd attended lo thc funeral arrangements and personal cffcctB of tho, deceased brother. President Bro, M. McKenzie is T.MNCILHEID BUSY MEETING UST NIGHT Long Hours of Nurses at General Hospital Cause i of Debate Mothers' Pensions Delegation Reports on Interview Held With Premier * The Trades and Labor Council held a late and lively sossion last night* Somo 65 newly-elected delegates, representing 20 unions, took thcir . scat-% making an attendanco of 133 member* Thc quostion of nurses being overworked at the General Hospital waa freely ventilated, when it was pointed out that 12 hours now comprised tho prevailing work-day in thut institution. In fact, tho crowded condition of the hospital compelled those look* ing after the " flu" cases to bc on duty 18 and 20 hours, Despite tho fact that some of tho nurses objected to uny pro* poaed investigation, the council was decidedly of thc opinion that something should bo done whereby tho stuff could be relieved from so much work. Ono delegato thought thut tho six-hour work-day as advocated by some of the trades should also apply to hospital* It was decided to request Attorney* General Farris that when ho makes his appointment to tho management hoard} that ho include tho following nominees of tho council: C. S. Cassidy, Mis* ■ Gutteridgo and 0. W. McFarlan. Explanation Sought Brotherhood of Curpenters, No. 1S03, submitted a resolution, unanimously passed by that body, that Secretary Midgley of tho Trades and Lubor Council, in speaking to u resolution dealing with nomination of officers and forming a committeo to meet the returned soldier bodies, created a wrong impression by insinuating that they emanated from a discredited member of tho labor movement. That he sub' stuntiato his statement by naming tho man und giving his proofs. Delegato J. W. Wilkinson stated that the shipwrights considorod the assertion of Secretary Midgley that "tho cur murks of a discredited member of orgunized labor," etc., was not war- b ---.- , _ , copies of the "Red Flag mont could uot trust conscripts, so Ihey j posed of. aent volunteers, and, vico-versa, lho conscripts could not be trusted to suppress tho workers ut homo, und they were going to withdraw the volunteers, To suppress lho Soviets now was a vast task, and evon if thoy did succeed iu overthrowing them, they could never suppress thu conditions that gavo rise to the Soviets. No power ou earth could givo the workers of Russia more than they had now, and tho master class was historically unfitted for tho tusk of handling Russia, Tho future lay with thc workers alone. The master class is intellectually .bankrupt as thoy are financially bankrupt, Because socioty needs the means of production in order to live. In conclusion Mr. Pritchard contrasted the tyranny which has prevailed in Canadu, with the democracy in those ■ countries whero tbo alogan was "All powor to tho Workmen und Soldiers' Councils," Tho censorship still exists, but it ia going to be lifted. Tho workers ahould take counsol together; we have faith in our class and we can rely on lho intelligence of thoso with whom wo work to decide. Resolutions covering thu questions discussed were aubmitlcd and unanimously adopted, and tho chairman called on tho meeting to show where thoy stood by giving three cheers for lho "Bolsheviki" and Spurtacans, a ro* quest which met with a ready und enthusiastic response, A collodion amounting to $48,50 was taken and tho local Socialists took advantage of tho occasion to soil literature, ovor 400 boing dis* CIGARMAKERS TAKE STEPS TO PROSECUTE Tucketes Are to Be Proceeded Against for Using a Bogus Label Cigarmakers Joint Advisory Board of Canada have engagod Mr. O'Donohuo, solicitor for thc Trados and Labor Congress of Canada, and Mr. O'Reilly, of Hamilton, to prosecute tho Tucketts Cigar Co. for issuing an imitation blue label cut on their pustoboard boxes, which is used for ndvertis'ng purposes, This shows the extent that firms will go to decoive tho purchasing public, Running u scab shop and using dummy boxes with a lithographed bluo label. At any rate, it is a confession that thc blue label of thc Cigarmakers is un asset to any firm, or they would nover have used it on the advertising. This damage suit will give tho Cigarmakers Union a great deal of favorable publicity, and tho non-union firm of Tucketts a black eye. Tho readers of Thu Fed- orudoiiist will lie appraised of the outcome of the caso in due timo. In tho meantime shun the Tucketts goods as you would the flu. S. U. B. CARPENTERS EDUCATIONAL MEETINGS First of These Series to Be Held on the 24th—J, 0. Smith Leaves for Toronto Tuesday The A. S. U. B. Carpenters, Local 2647, hold their regular meeting on Tuesday evening. A number of members were admitted, and a considerable amount of routine bUBiness was transacted. Thc commuincntions from thc Shipwrights on the election of tho Motal Trades executive, and other matters pertaining to the Trndes Council were received and filed. The proposals of a special committee, covering a programme of special educational meetings for the winter months, was adoptod, and the firat of this series of meetings will bo held on Friday, tho 24th, in tho Labor Temple, nnd it is oxpected that thero will bo a good attendance. President J. G. Smith, who was re contly elected lo represent the western membership on the advisory council, leaves on Tuesday to attond a meeting of that body. The meeting this year will bo held in Toronto. night, when both meetings held by the I their obligation in mind and spare an 1 explanation. He wished tu know what Socialist Party of Canada wero oxcep- uour occasionally to visit theso broth- the secrotary had in mind when bo ■ •• J* - * r I*""*. I win/In th-nt: -..m.=«•_.. Wo utinnlil " <1a- the sick list ,owing to a slight uccident j That tho working class of Vancou- at U» <-™I>-*>y'*-ft. but hopes to bo b .y . around again in a few days. ver are waking up to the necessity of ^^ ^^ An]tcU) McNeUl u nw „ next R. P. Pettipicco will bo the speak- acquiring a knowledge of scientific So- ttlld Cuuliffo woro ulso reported sick, ranted by tho facts. Such an insinuo- or at this theatre, tho chair being taken cialism, was domonstrutcd lust Sunday and members aro roininded to keep tion should not bu lut drop without duo by Birt Showier. At tho Broadway Dr. ' * * " ' " 4 •.«. « ««- -««%.««« „_._i____.„„ «_ _..____. __...._. W. J. Curry will spoBjk on "Bolshevism, Its Cause and Cure.\\ The chair will be taken at this meeting by tho secrotary of tho party, W. It. Trotter. On Wednesday night a meeting of the South Hastings branch of tho party was held, Charles Lestor being the speaker. G. F, Stirling has organizod a brauoh of thd parly at Salmon Arm, and in tho near future a branch will bo opened at Summerland. From all parts enquiries aro being mndo as to Ihe necessary steps to bo taken to organize politically, and tho workers of the province are more interested at this timo than ever in tho history of tho movement. tionally -*oll attended. Last Sunday was the initial meeting at the Columbia theatre, and the now venture of the party was fully justified by tho results that were attained. There is every indication that in tho course of ti few more weeks they will again find themselves forced to look for still another thoatre. If necessary, that course will ho followed. Noxt Sunday, J. Smith will be tho speaker at tho Royal, tho subject: "Why This Bolshevism 1" At thc Columbin, W. W. Lefeaux will be the speaker, subject, "Bolshevist Psychology," Doors open at 7:30 p. m., chair taken at 8 p. m, sharp. The usual custom will i be followed—after the speakers havo \\ delivered thcir addresses, lho meetings will bo thrown open for questions and! discussion. Teamsters and Track Drivers of New Wcstminstor. Organized labor ill the Royal City ia asked to remember lhat C, A. Walsh, after agreeing to the wnge schedule of tho union has deliberately broken his agreement by employing non-union men nnd firing his union drivers because they would not sign an agreement to work under union wages, tho Model Grocery also does not employ union drivers. Tho only firm that has kept its agreement with the' Teamsters und Truck Drivers Union is the Annandale Supply Co., and organized labor is asked to remember this when purchasing their household supplies, an organizing campaign is now boing carried on with the object of getting all the teamsters and truck drivers organized, your assistance will be appreciated, Ask for tho button and insist on tho man delivering your goods wearing one. United Warehousemen's Association A mass meoting of tho association will bo held on Friday ovening, January 17, at 8 o'clock, A full attendance of tho membership is requested, aa lho mooting will bo of special itnercst to Metal Trades Council Tho Metal Trades Council haa pre- nentul the new wago award made by Adjuster Macdonald to J. J. Coughlan & Sons. A meoting has been arranged botweon the firm nnd tho executive for this afternoon, whou the mutter will bu fully gone into. LABOR TEMPLE MEETINGS FOR COMING WEEK SUNDAY, Jan. 10—Soft Drink Dispensers, Dominion Express Employ oos. MONDAY, Jan. 20—Machinists No. 720, Tolephono Operators, Tailors' Executive, Policemen, Steam Engineers, Electrical Workers, Boilermakers. TUESDAY, Jan. 21—Brewery Workers, Oflico Workers, Butchers and Meat Gutters, Locomotive Firomon nud En- giuomen, WEDNESDAY, Jun. 22—Gas Workers. Motal Trados Council, Boilormakors, Examining Beard, Laundry Workers, Teamsters and Chauffeurs. THURSDAY, Jan. 23—Caulkers, Machinists No. 182, Sheet Motal Workers, Painters, Shipwrights. FRIDAY, Jan. 24—Amalgamated Carpenters, Pilo Drivers and Wooden Bi'ldgomoii, Jewellery Workers, Boilermakers' Execu tivo, Shipyard Plumbers, Mill Workers. Laborers, and Factory SATURDAY, Jan. 25-Bakers. SOFT DRINK DISPENSERS TO HAVE DANOE Elect Officers for Coming Tear—Oood Progress Is Being Made The Soft Drink Dispensers Union at tho lust regular meeting elected and installed thc following officers: President, Frank McCannj vice-president, Georgo Moroncy; secrotary and business agont, Wm. Mottishaw; treasurer, Chas. Leer; inspector guard, Vnl. Heritier; trustees, Wm. E. Cook, W. 0. R. Baker, Win, Matthews; delegates to Trades nud Labor Council, Mottishaw and MCcCann. The membership has increased from XI lo 100 since transfer of charter from Bartondors to Soft Drink Dispensers in April, 11)18. Thoro will be an increaso in tho monthly dues from $1.00 per month lo $1.50 per month, commencing Fobrunry 1, JDlii; next regular meeting, Sunday. January 10, at s n, tn. The Soft Drink Dispensers Union will hold a danco on Thursday, January 80, 1010, in tho Auditorium, Dominion Hall, D30 Pender stroot west. An Invitation is extended to members of organized labor, A good time is assured. Holdon's orchestra. Tickets, gents, 50 cents nad ladies, 25 cents. ?rs. j made that remark. Ho should "do- Owing to a falling off in membership, liver tho goods" by naming ihe man tho executive committee wero instruct-} ho referred to at tho previous meeting, ofl to devise some menus to keep tho j In view of the fact that Secretary niombership together, it being felt that the organization will have u pretly tough fight; in the months to eome, und the burdon should bo carried by thc carpenters working collectively, for it is evident that if wo need a strong organization during times o'f good trade, it is doubly needed, when tho job hunters season is oa us. Delegates to the Carpenters District Council reported that tt movement \\\\_,a foot to amalgamate all the carpentors' locals, both in the building trades ami tho shipyards under one common District Council, the idea being heart-, ly endorsed by this local. Arising out of the report of the Tradea and Labor Couneil, it was decided to retain any further monies received from the assessment on account of the lnundry striko, until tho plan proposed by thc mntral body of assessing all the unions affiliated, was adopted. Our next meeting being a specially- called meeting, thc locnl decided to auction off thc lato Bro. J. Robinson's toola; same having been donuted by Bro, Burns of the Molders, who held the winning ticket when tho tools wore raffled. The membership wus increased by the n thli tion of nine new brothers. After various matters of routine business had been dealt wilh, the meeting adjourned at 11 p. m. ho tho Teamstors and Chauffeurs Union. The second annual whist drive nnd dnnco will bo held in Lester Court on Friday, February 7, membors of organized lahor that were present at the lust one held by the Teamsters will need no second invitation, and will benefit by getting iheir tickets early, us no bt more (lnu modutcd will be ndd. ' last mooting passed it drawing tho attention general and ihe pollc tn tho Western Federation of Postal Employees Tho local branch of lho Postal Employees decided by a referendum vote of tho membership to apply for affiliation to the Trades aud Lubor Council, us a new organization. This means the uniting of tin- Letter Curriers and Railway Mail Clerks organizations, (who arc ulreudy affiliated with the council), and taking in lho Post Oflico Clerks, Increasing tho affiliated membership to the council from 170 to .'.50. Tho branch also decided to affiliate with tho B. C. Federation of Labor. The first convention of the now federation is to convene at Saskatoon, commencing Monday, Feb. 10, 1010. Delegates, F. Knowles, tl. E. Jones, A. Sparrow and E. Bowes, with a further delegato to represent the Railway Mail Clerks, aro going from Vancouver. Midgley wus again down with "ilu," the speaker moved that matter lay on tho tablo. Delegate C. it. Wholfams pointod out that British Columbia luid sent- somo 34,000 soldiers to lho from; of which it was estimated that besides the soldiers already hero some 20,000 morq would come back, and it was not good puliey to antagonize this force, although a great majority of whom wero of themselves. Friciion between tho soldiers nud organized labor wouid su.t omployers admirably. "J. Roid and several other dclegutes spoke, when Delegato Alexander supported the contentions of Ihe soontary, and moved thut the letter of protest from tho carpenters be filed. Delegate Kavanagh said thut tho "cap seems to fit someone all right." Secretary Midgley had the courage of his convictions to criticize u certain unsigned lotter sent out to the organizations. Delegate Pritchard favored filing the letter. Another delegate suid that the capitalist press was not a friend of the soldier, who must come back to the ranks of labor to earn a livelihood. Delegate J. Smith—If the council sent only thoso representatives lo meet soldier organizations that were acceptable we might just as well send a representative to suit thu IjobsI (Laughter.) Dolegates Younghash and Thomas spoke briefly, when the resolution ot the carpenters was filed. Geo. Gray asked privilege to submit a proposition to the council re nlief to unemployed. Secretary will reply. A legal firm wrote thui one .\\le\\dnin, n laboror, was dismissed from his job on tho Canadian Pacific Railway, and left, stranded at Wnlhacin, miles from Vancouver. II*- Vancouvor, and hus since bi fur his wages. This to bo filled to ihe Minister of Labor at Ottawa. The United Warehousemen 'a Association forwarded resolution to counoll in effect that nil agroemonts with em- i :iOO ed to lilting he local at their Iroiig resolution of the attorney q commissioners roekloss driving nuw being carried on by boys without automobilo licenses und asking that the ago limit he raised from 17 to 21 yenrs and that all applicants for licenses to drive uuto- mobiles be made to undergo an examination as to thoir ability to drivo nn^ )lc »mng^ f„ terminate ut not expose the public to the danger* of 0M [il|(! lhfi sumc. t|m0t reckless driving. j The flu epidemic is again hitting this] Mothers' Pensions local, the following brothors having Delegate Miss Outterldge reported passed away recently, ('. Alexander, O. having went lo Victorin with a dolega- Qowin and W. J. McCallum. j lion to urge tho government to create Considerable dissatisfaction has been expressed by the mombors at tho late mootings, with a view to altering this. It is probable the local will uguin meet everv week and hav at 10 o'clock. All tend next meeting, when this matter will come up for discussion, ff you have not already joined the sick benefit fund do so by next meeting as otherwise you will not bo entitled to benefits on Fobrunry 1. mothers' pens ons, There were 35 dole- gates on said deputation who crowded ;t5 speeches into the space of oho hour. Prom ior Oliver took an hour in reply Loggers Organizing The loggers nnd limber workers oro organizing In tho city. Laat Saturday evening ihe initial meeting was held in the Labor Tempi'1. The meeting was addressed by A, 8. Wells in tho absence of Secretary Midgley of tho COtt- tiul body, who was ill. It was decided that nnotlior mooting would bo held in the Labor Tomple on Sunday, (ho JOth, at 2.30 p.m. All -interested ore requcat- cd to attend this mooting. Laundry Workera Strike Fund Up io Jununry 12, 1910i all meetings finish and was disappointing. He paid iho embers should at-1 governmont find no money in tho pub* lie treasury, and eould not ruin, mero money. Ho was afraid to put on moro taxes, having lost two scats already iu the by-olections. If more taxes wora put on the mines the owners '.vould close thom down. Delegate Gutteridgo held thut the government should then take iheui over ami use tho rovonuo for mothers' pensions. Premier Oliver also told tho delegates to go buck home and get public opinion behind thom, Miss 20.00 j Gutteridgo said it was extremely doubt* 35,50 fttl that the government would do any- 83.001 thing to aid mother's pensions this coin- 15.00 | i"g' session. 187,501 President Wiucli reported that tho to Investigate Labor no further ndod that thc new executive committee bo given $16,277.001proxlos to vote the council's shares at FRED. KNOWLES, | tlio genoral shareholders' meeting ..*■ 15,7-10.85 LIS Previously acknowledged ..., Shoe Workers Qttfl Workers City Hall Stuff Warehousemen - Fish Packers (Rupert) Tenmsters Longshoremen 200.00 I special commit! !,'. M. W. of A. (Cumberland) 87.00 Temple affairs could giv Garment Workers 11.00 Information. Ho recom ■Secretary •treasurer. (Continued on Page 8) PAGE TWO THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST .FBIDAY... $22 $25 $28 Men's High Grade Overcoats ...January 17, Mlt TRADE UPSTAIRS AND SAVE YOUB DOLLARS Note from the Russian Soviet »»»»»* ****** ****** ♦***♦* • ****** ****** Government to President Wilson For tho information of our readorsttond to remove your troops from Mur-tment of tho American capitalists! And wo publish tho -tuU_toit of ^tho note|mansk, Archangel and Siberia. is it not possiblo that tho proposals of ' " You refuso to conclude an armistico this government about the creation of unless Gormany will stop her acts of " ' " outrago and pillage. ~ ARNOLD&QUIGLEV I "SlxzStore thats alcuays busy" 546Granville St. 546.' ktpTOS?upstairs clothes^shof Freedom of Press Upheld Santa Fo, New Mexico—Tho state supreme court has reversed thc decision of a lower court which held in contempt tho editor of n newspaper who criticised a judge who presided at a libi»l suit. In overruling thc judgment flf tho lower court, tho supreme court held that "under our theory of government, tho right of freedom of speech und of the press aro essential to thr public welfaro," and that whilo tho fight of free speech did not warrant attacks on courts or judges which will interfere with the administration of justice, nover th el oss the "forco of public opininu hus greatly restrained thc courts in tho exorcise of the power to punish for making disrespectful or Injurious remarks" concerning tho judi-: <$taty. Gary Predicts Lower Wage Pittsburg, Pa,—Lower wagos woro predicted by Judge Gary of tho steel trust, at a banquet in this city. Tho , epeakcr called the reductions "readjustments," and indicated that tho drop must bo gradual, as "labor should bo troatod fair." "There will bo readjustments in prices and wagos, too, eventually," he soid, "but tho read-, jnstinents in wages will como slowly, j and in such a way that labor will re- cognizo their justice. If employers nre fair to labor, I have no doubt labor *vill reciprocate" Flu Increases Death Bate Washington—Tho influenza epidemic caused 111,088 deaths in tho d(i largest cities, and last year increased tho combined death rate for theso communities lo 19,0 per 1000, according to census bureau statistics. Total figures for thc country are not available. Baltimore, with 20.8 per 1000 ,and Nashville with 26,4 hud tho highest rates of the registration cities, whilo St. Poul, wilh 13.!) and Minneapolis und Grand Rapids, with 14 each, had the lowest. Bump Liability Concerns Columbus, Ohio—Liability insurance companies in this stato received a hard bump at the hands of the state supreme court, which has upheld tho 1917 amend incut to tho workmen's compensation law, wliich prohibits these concerns from indemnifying employers who elect to carry their own insurance against losses. Patronize Fedorationist advertisers and toll thjjm why you do so. What's in a Name? 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Independent self; determination of Russia's politicnl development and 'national policy. , A wolcdrao to Russia into tho so* cioty of freo nations. Assistance to Bussia of overy kind that sho hiay need or desire. And you added that "tho' treatment accorded to her by her sister nntioria iu tho months to como will bo tho acid lest of their goodwill, or their comprehension of her needs os distinguished from tlieir own interests." Tho desperate strugglo which wo were then waging against Gorman imperialism at Urost Lltovsk apparently intensified your sympathy for Soviet Russia. You sent greetings to tho Congress of Soviets—assurances thnt Soviet Russia might count upon American help. Many months have passed since then. What are tlio results of the acid tost applied to your and your Allies' goodwill, your comprehension of our needs and your unselfish sympathy? You nnd your Allies organized a conspiracy of Czecho-Slovaks on Russian territory. You co-operated with this conspiracy. You supported it diplomatically and financially, aud furnished it with supplies of good, guns and munitions for counter-revolutionary war against Russia, You and your Allies gavo world-wide publicity to tho lie that Gorman war prisoners had seized tho Siberian railway. Your own officers know it was a He. Colonel Bobbins, tho head .<.,< your Bed Cross mission was convinced^that this story wns absolutely false. In the proBa propaganda against us it was charged that wc would surrender the Czecho-Slovaks to Gormany and Austria. Wc refer you to tho open letter of Captain Sadoul of tho French Militnry Mission to learn how unfounded this charge is. It is by the order of tho Entente governments thnt tlio Czecho-Slovaks remain in Russia. Thoy havo become the mainstay of the counter-revolution. Thoy mndo impossible tho transportation of grain nnd petroleum on thc Volga. They cut off the Bussian workers and peasants from the stores of Siberian grain nnd products. Thoy condemned our pooplo to starvation. This was tho first experience of tho workors and peasants of Bussia of your government's and Allies' promises. You also promised, Mr. Preaident, to co-operate with Bussia in socuiing unhampered solf-dctermination in tho form of her government, Actually what form did this co-operation tnke! The hampering operations of tho Czccho-SIovak troops were backed by expeditions of American and Allied troops. In Archangel, Murmansk and I tho Par East, those, your expeditions, arp for tho purposo of forcing the Russian peoplo to submit to tho rule of the oppressing and exploiting classes. Tho workors and peasants of Russia overthrew the dominion of theso classes in October, 1917. You attempt to restore by forco their bloody domination. Such is tho exporienco, Mr. Presidont, of tho Bussian people of your promises. While we woro fighting in the south ngninBt tho counter-revolutionists, who betrayed Russia to Gorman imperialism, nnd organizing our western frontiers against Germnny, wo had to turn to thc East ond tho North to resist thc slavery and oppression which you and your Allies had como to impose upon us. Mr. President, tho ncid test of tho relations between tho United States and Bussia gavo quito different results from thoso promised in your message to Congress. But wo' havo reason not to bo altogether dissatisfied with tho results, Tho outrages against our pons* ants and workers havo shown thom the aims of tho counter revolution and its foreign supporters. Tho Bussian people-have now an iron will to dofond thoir liberties, to defend tho land for tho peasants, and tho factories for tho workers. Our trials have helped us to create a strong and disciplined Bed army. And it is daily growing stronger, and we aro ready, in tho nnme of Russia, to join your negotiations for a general peaco. In your note to Germany you demnnd the ovacuation of occupied territories us a condition precedent to an armistice. Wo arc ready, Mr. Prosidont, to accept this condition. We aak you to notify us whon you and your Allies in- Wo nllow our* solves, therefore, to concludo that you will order your Allies, tho Czechoslovaks, to roturn tho part of our gold reserve which thoy seized in Kazan, and that you will forbid them to continuo thoir pillage and outragos againBt tho workers and peasants. Another of your peace terms is that tho governments which would concludo poaco must express tho will of the peoplo. You arc awaro that our government fully satisfies this condition. Our government exprossoB tho will of tho councils of Workmen's, Peasants and Bed Army deputies. They represent at leaat oighty per cent, of the Busian peoplo. Thia cannot, Mr. President, be said about your governmont. But for tho sake of huiiinnity and peaco wo do not demand as a prerequisite that all tho othor governments participating be as representative of their peoples. But we know that a general peace will sot tho peoples free to put on end to thc system of cliques that forced upon mankind this universal slaughter, and that it will surely lead tho peoples to create Soviot governments lhat will give ox-,UB uetul. sincp "aSSR? t0ft,1*ir1™U- . . wag* war against France, even though neigt3, ,us to participate in ponce ,h0 capitalist government of Clemen- Z li ft \\ * ,la\\t0 *,d out ™* hns not yet been replaced by a ennlS, M* *M5idont' «*■*.» Z°w workmen's government of Merheim; SSfifl vnthi Letlf°°f ,m«» juat as we have concluded peace with Lt 5KlZ *« ?• * ^ ;ind°P011: tho imperialist government of Cer- fZLrl £?« ' S°r !m' B£*™\\°?a "'»ny, with Emperor William nt its ficodoin for tho peoples of Austria- head, from whom voii, Mr. President, But wo do not find among j f0Gl as alien as wo, the Workmen 'a and a League of nations will rosult in now chains for the people's, in the organization of an international trust for tho exploitation of tho workors and the suppression of weak nations! In this latter case, Mr. President, you will not bo in a position to reply to our quostions, and we will say to the workers of all countries: Bowaret Millions of your brothers, thrown at each other's throats by the bourgeoisie of all countrios, are still perishing on the battlo fields, and the capitalist loaders aro already trying to borno to on understanding for tho purposo of suppressing with united forces those that remain alive, when they call to account the criminals who caused tho warl Howovor, Mr. Presidont, sinco wo do not nt all dcBiro to wage war againat the United States, even though your government has not yet been replaced by a council of people's commissaries and your post is not yot taken by Eugene Debs, whom you havo imprisoned; since wo do not. at all desiro to wngo war against Englnnd, oven though tho cabinot of Mr, Lloyd Georgo hns not yet boen replaced by a council of People's commissaries with MacLean nt its head; since wo havo no desiro to Hungary. your demands the liberation of Ireland, Egypt, India or thc Philippines. Wo would bo sorry if theso peoples should bo denied-tho opportunity to pnrtici- pate through their freely elected ropro- scntntives. Wo would ulso, Mr. President, very much li^o to know what is your conception of the solution of many economic questions. Their propor solution is essential for the cause of futuro pence. Take thc war expenditures. Unloss thc League of Nations should re- nounco payment of tho loans to the capitalists, they will constitute an unbearable burden for thc masses to carry. You know as well as we do that tho war was tho outcomo of capitalistic policies, that tho governments of all countries wero continually piling up armaments, that the ruling groups pursued policies of nnnexations, nnd that the masses paid for thoso policies with millions of lives nnd economic ruin. It would be manifestly unjust that tho masses should continue paying tribute for theso policies. It would mean countless misery for generations. Wc proposo, thoroforo, Mr. Prosidcnt, tho annulment of tho war loans ns thc basis of tho League of Nations. Thero comes then the restoration of countries laid waste by the war. Wo believo that all nations should aid in this work in Belgium, Poland and Serbia. However poor and ruined Russia seems to bo sho is ready tc/do hor part. America would helpl American capital has not suffered; nay, it has profittcd many millions. The League of Nations should not only liquidate the present • war, but j also mako imposslblo any wnrs in tho future, " Peasants' Revolutionary govornment, from you—\\vq finally proposo to you Mr. President, that you take up with your allies tho following questions and give us precise nnd definite replies: Do the governments of the United States, England and France consent to cease demanding the blood of tho Russinn pooplo nnd the lives of Russian citizens, if thc Russian people will agree to pay them a ransom such as a man who has been suddenly attacked payB to tho onc who attacked him? If so, just what tribute do tho governments of the United Stntes, Englnnd nnd Franco demand of tho Russian people? DO they demand concessions, that tho railways, mines, gold deposits, etc., shall be handed ovor to them on certnin conditions, or do they demnnd territorial concessions, some' part of Siberia of Caucasia, or perhaps tho Murmansk Coast? Wo expect from you, Mr. Prosidcnt, that you will definitely stato just what you and your allies demnnd, and nlso whether the nllinnco between your government and.thc governments of the other Entento powers is in tho nature of a combination which could bo compared with a corporation for drawing dividends'from Russia, or doos your governmont and tho other governments of tho Entento powers havo oach separate and special demands, and what are thoy? Particularly aro wo interested to know tho demands of your French allies with regard to the three billions of rubles which tho Paris bankers loanod to tho governmont of tho Czar-—the'oppressor of Bussia and the onemy of his own people. And you, Mr. President, as well as your Fronch allies suroly know that even if you and your You will not be "soaked" fl Bo many people neglect their eyes even when they know they should have them attended to—when they know they Bhould be wearing glasses—because they are afraid thoy will be overcharged—and becauBo of the uncertainty of the eost. 4 I want any of you onion men who feel that you may require glustes—you or your wives— to come in nnd let me examine your eyes. Lot me toll you ,what is wrong—if anything—what it will cost to give you glasses that will mako Boeing and living more comfortable. *\\J My optical sorvice is the moat efficient and tho moat reasonable on tho coast. Seymour 1993 J. D. GAMBLE Manager Granville Optical Co. 519 GRANVILLE STEEET Below Drysdale's VANCOUVER UNIONS TRADES AND LABOB COUNCIL— MEETS iirht and t hi nl Thu rt days, Executi board: President, E. Winch j vlco-presld-un J, kavunitgli; secrotary ami business aguiit, V, lt. aiiilgloy; trensurer, i\\ Knowles; Bergcniit-at-unns, J. l<\\ Poole; trustees, J, H. aicVoty, J. Hubblo, A. J. Crawford, W, A, Prltchard. ALLIED PIUNTING TBADES COUNCIL— Meets second Monday in tlio month. Prosidont, Ouo, Bartley j secretary, lt. H. iSuo- lands, P. O. Box 60. But you must be aware that j allies Bhould succeed iu enslaving and the capitalists of your country are i covering with blood the wholo territory planning thc old war-breeding policies of Russia—which will not bc allowed by Consider the Cloth! J^HE flannel of which these work shirts are made will stand your closest inspection CONSIDER the cloth, when you buy flannel work-shirts these days. Twin Bute work-shirts of flannel invite your most careful consideration—and they will stand it! Made up to the famous Twin Bute standard, of materials which must always conform to the exacting requirements for every Twin Bute garment, these flannel work-shirts are superior work garments. They come in Blues, Greys and Browns; twin-needle stitching, extra value in buttons; comfortable, roomy, extra large, full length; these are the flannel shirts you will always prefer. for tho~futuro. And they aro preparing military forces to compete with Japan for encroachmonta and superprofits in China and Siberia. Capitalists and ruling circles in othor countries have similar plans for exploiting other territories and other peoples. Knowing this you must agroo that fac- torios, mines and banks must not bo left in tho hands of private persons. They uso tho vast meana of production for super proilts, and thoir competition in tho export market result in imperialistic wars. We propose, therefore, that the Leaguo of Nations be based on the expropriation of the capitalists of all countries. In your country tho banks uud thc industries are in thc hands of a small group of capitalists. Tour personal friend, Mr. Robins, nasurcs us the arrest of twenty heads of capitalist cliques and tho control of thcir powor, would destroy tho principal sourco of now wars. If you will agroo to this, Mr. President, if the sources of future wars will bo thus destroyed, then it would bo easy to remove all oconomic barriers. All peoples will control thoir means of production. Thoy will then bo vitally interested in freely exchanging tho things thoy do not noed for tho things they need. It will bo a quostion of tho exchange of products betwoen nations, each of which will produce what it can best produce. Thc Leaguo of Nations will bo a leaguo of mutual aid of the toiling manses. Armed forces can be roducod to the limit of internal safoty. Wo know very woll that tho solfish capitalist class will attempt to croato an internal menace. Russian landlord's and capitalists are now attempting it here, American, English and our heroic revolutionary Rod Army— that even in that case tho Russian people, worn out by the war and not having had sufficient timo to take advantage of tho benefits of the Soviet rulo to elevate their national economy, will be unable to pay to the French bankers tho full tribute for tho billions that wcro used by thc government of tho Czar for purposes injurious to tho people. Do your French allies demand that a part of this tribute bo paid in install* ments, and if so—what part, and do they not anticipate that their claims will result in similar claims by other creditors of the infamous government of the Czar which has been overthrown by tho Russian peoplo? Wo can hardly think that yoUT governmont nnd your allies aro without a ready answer, when your and their troops aro trying to advance on otr territory with 'the evident object of seizing nnd enslaving our country. Tho Russian peoplo, through tho people's Red army, arc guarding their territory nnd aro brnvoly fighting against your invasion and against tho attacks of your allies. But your governmont and tho govornments of tho othor powors of the Entente, undoubtedly, have woll propared plans, for the sako of which you are shedding the blood of your soldiers. Wo expect that you will state your demands very clearly and definitely. Should we, however, bo disappointed, should you fail to reply to our quito definite and precise quostions, wo will draw the only possiblo conclusions—that we are justified in tho assumption thnt your government and tho governments of your allies desiro to get from tho Russian people a tribute both in money and in natural resources of Russia, nnd territorial concessions ns woll. We will JOURNEYMEN BABBERS' INTERNA- tional 17jih^ of America, Local -No. 120— .Moi'is second and fourth Tuesdays in tbo month, Uouin 2U5 Labor Temple, Proaident, O. E. lu-rriti; socretary, 8. 11. Grant, HMO Camblo Street, BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS, LOOAL No. 017—Meets every iiocund aud fourth Monday ovening, 8 o'clock, Labor Teinjilo. J'reMilent. M. McKenzie; financial secretary, U. Thom, 6 DulFerin Street East; recording secretary, J. R, Campboll; businesii agent, Walter Thomas, Room '_vil Labor Temple. Phono Sey, 740ft. BROTHERHOOD OP BOILER MAKERS and Iron fthlp Builders and Helpera ol America, Vancouver Lodgo No. 104—Moots evory Monday, 8 p.m. President, M, A, Mc- Eachern, 1245 Alberni tit.; eocretary-trcas- urer, Angus Fraser, 1151 Howo St.; but-iueps aguut, L. Cummins, Room 212 Lalior Temple, HOTEL AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES Local 28—Meets overy flrst Wednesday in tho month at 2.30 p.m. and every third Wednesday in the month at 0,30 p.m. Presidont, Harry Wood; secretary aud business agont, W. Mackenzie, Room 209 Labor Temple. Phone Soy. 1681. Office houra: 11 to 12 noon; 2 to 6 p.m. INTERNATIONAL UNION OP STEAM AND Operating Englneera, Local No. 620— Meeta overy Monday, 7.30 p.m., Labor Temple. President, J. R. Flynn, 810 Moodio St., New Westminster; vice-president, D. Hodges; secretary-treaaurer and business agent, W. A. Alexander, Room 216 Labor Temple. Pbone Sey. 7496. ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL No. 218 —Meots Id Boom 205, Labor Temple, every Monday, 6 p.m. President, H, Burnes, 1102 Powell Street; recording aeeretary, W. Foulken, Labor Temple; financial secretary and business agent, E. H. Morrison, Room 207 Labor Templo; assistant secretary, F. R. Burrows. Fronch armed forcos arc aiding them j toll this to the RusBion peoplo ob woll «- ■>-' ■• •- • - -•- ' as to the toiling masses of other countries, ond tho absence of a roply from you will serve for ub as n silent reply. Thc Russinn peoplo will then understand that the demands of your government and of tho governments of your allies are so severe and vast that you do not even want to communicate thom to the Russian government, —Tchichorin, People's Commissary of foreign Affairs. L©OK for the Twin Bute uid Union label on your work garments. It your supply you, Jas. Thomson & Sons, Ltd. Makers of TWIN BUTE WORK Garments VANCOUVER, B. C. to take the faetorics from tht workors and tho land from tho peasants. But we have crushed thc resistance of tho Russian capitalists, Inspired by your idea of a League of Nations, lot tho American workors crush thoir capitalists, and neither German or any other capitalists will he a seriouB mennco to tho victorious workers. And so, Mr, President, notwithstanding our experience of your promises, we accept your proposals about peaco and a League of Nations. Wo hnvo tried to develop them to avoid results that would contradict yonr promises, as before. Wo havo tried to formulate with prevision your proposals, in order that your Lengue of Nations should not ■ turn out to be a leaguo of capitalists 'against the nations. Should you not ngroo with us we have no objection to an "open discussion," as the first point, of your peace programmo demands. . But thero is another possibility. We have had dealings with tho president of the Archangel attack and the Siberian invasion, ond we havo nlso had dealings with the president of tho League of Nations peace programme. Is not the first of these—thc real president— actually directing the policies of the American capitalist government? Is not the American governmont rathor a government of tho Amorican corpora-1 tions, (ft tho American Industrial, commercial and railroad trusts, of the I American banks—in short, a govern-1 INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S Association, Ldcal 8852—Offlee and hall, 804 Pendor Streot West. Moots first and third Fridays 8 p.m. Secret a ry-treoauror, O. Thoman; business Agont, A. Hill. AMALGAMATED"^EAT —CUTTERS AND Butcher Workmen's Union No. 048—Meots first and third Tuesdays of each month. Lnbor Temple, 8 p. m. President, H. E, Wills; recording secretary, Fred. Lilly; financial socretary and business agent, T. W. Anderson, 587 Homor street. PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF NORTH America (Vancouvor and vicinity)— Branch meets Hecoud and fourth Mondays, Room 204 Lnbor Tomple. Preaident, .1. Banforth, Euclid Ave., Colllngwood East; financial socretnry nnd business agont, H. S. Night scales, 270—MUh Ave East, South Vancouver; recording secretary, E. Westmoreland, 8247 Puint Grey Road. Phono Bayvlew 2979L. SHIPYARD LABORERS, RIGGERS AND •Fasteners, I.L.A., Local Union 38A, Series B—Moeta thu 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month, Labor Temple, 8 p.m. President, J. N. Boult; financinl secretary, M. A. Phelpa; business agent and corresponding secretary, W. Leo. Office, Room 219-220 Labor Temple. STREET AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY Employees, Pioneer Division, No. 101—Meets Lahor Temple, second and fourth Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Presidont, W. H. Cottrell; treasurer, E. S. Cleveland; recording- secretary, A. V. Lofting, 2501 Trinity Street, phone High. 168R; financial secretary and business agent, Fred A, Hoover, 2409 Clark Drlvo, offlce corner Prior and Main streets. JOURNEYMEN TAILORS7 UNION OF America, Local No. 178—Meetinga held first Monday ln each month, 8 p.m. President, A. R, Gatenby; vlce-prealdent, W. Larson; recording aeeretary, W. W. Hocken, Box 608; financial secretary, T. Wood, P. 0. Box 50S. GENERAL TEAMSTERS AND CHAUF- feura' Union, Local No. 656—Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 8 p.m. President, W, M. Brown; business agont, F. Haslett, 125—15th Avo East; phone Fair, 210BX. Financial iecretary, Rlrt Showier, 1120 Robson St.; phono Soy. 5679. Offico, 587 Homer Btreet. English Unions Grow London, England—Tho government's department of Labor statistics reports that tho numbor of English trado unionists at tho end of 1917 was 5,- 287,522. In tho provious year tho number was 4,437,047. This includes tho total membership of tho 1133 trado unions known to tho department. Tho increase in male members was 617,000, or 15.8 per cent., and' in female members now approximate 774,000, It is stated that somo of tho unions of less skilled workers havo not included in their returns members in tho military service. To Urge Compenaation Jefferson City, Mo.—With tho convening of the state legislature, Missouri trade unionists nro marshalling their forces to securo tho passage of a workmen's componsati'on law. Patronize Foderationist advertisers and toll thom why you do so. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 226—Meets last Sunday nf each month at 2 p.m, President, R. Marnhnll; vlcc-prrstdent, W, H. Jordan; secret ary treasurer*. R. H. Nen- lands, Box 66. PROVINCIAL UNIONS B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR—Moota In annual' convention In January. Executive officers, 1018-19; Presidont, Duncan Mc- Ciillmii. Labor Temple, Vancouver; vice- president*.—Vancouver Island, Walter Head, South Wellington; Victoria, J. Taylor; Princo Ruport, W, E, Thompson; Vancouvor, E. Winch, W, R. Trotter; New Westminster, P. Peebles; West Koolonay, Marcus Martin, Nelson; Crow's Neat Pass, W, A, Sherman, Fernio. Socrotary-treanurer, A. S. Wells, Labor Templo, 405 Dunsmuir St., Vaneouvor, B. C. VICTORIA, B. O. VICTORIA AND DISTRICT TRADES AND Labor Council—Meeta first and third Wednesdays, Knights of Pythias Hall, North Park Street, at 8 p.m. President, B, Sim- |mons; vice-president, T. Dooley; seoretary- treasurer, Christian Siverts, P. 0, Bob 802, Victoria, B. 0. SOUTH WBUJWPTOW, V. L LOCAL UNION, No. 872, U. M. W. Of A.- Meets first Sunday ln every month I p-JL, Richards Hall. President, Jaa. Bateman; vice-president, Andrew Parkor; reeordlng secretary, Jas. Fearon; financial secretary, William MacDonald; treasurer, J. H. Richardson. January Clearance Sale This sale should be a sensation—because it is a genuine clearance of all winter goods. Prices are lower than we have ever made them. BILE 8WBATBB OOATS All tlie odd onos tnd broke* lines to bo cleared very cheap. Beg. $12.50 for *7.B» Eeg. *21.00 for 114.95 Beg. *28.50 for »18.M Ladies' Wool Poll-over Sweaters, with or without sleeves, valuo* to $S.95, salo price ...$5.98 Ladios' Wool Cashmere Swoater Coats—Values to $1S.50....*8.9S EIDERDOWN KIMONAS OB BOBES $6.50 Long Eiderdown Bobes, figured designs $4.95 $9.50 long Eiderdown Bobes, Indian design $6.95 $11.50 long Eiderdown Bobes, plain colors, for $8.95 Saba Bros. Limited tjhe Silk Specialists 652 ORANVILLE STBEET Excelsior Laundry Limited 554-556 Richards Sheet Vancouver Drop Calls can be made after hours TROGADERO CAFE For Union Men 156 HASTINOS STBEET WEST Phone Sey. 935 TBE BEST PLACE TO EAT IN VANCOUVEB — UNION CARD 0. ftl-MM PASTIME Pocket Billiard PARLOR —TWILVI nw TABLM— (Inuwlik-BaUw Ooll.nd.r Oo.) —HMlturtm for Oatoi Hm— Ualon-madt ToUmos, Olfan aal OJfanttM Only min B,l» Bnploj,* 42 Hastings St. East Greatest Stock of Furniture in Greater Vancouver Replete in every detail Hastings Furmture Co. Ltd. 41 Hutlogs Itreet West CLELANDDIBBLE ENGRAVING COMPANY LlBlWd PHOTO EHORAVEBS — OOUKBMUL ASTISIS Phone 8«raour 7180 Ihlrd Ploor. world Ballllni VADHOkrVEE. B. a —Tko only Union Shop In Vknoonv.r— CENTER & HANNA, Ltd. UNDERTAKERS Refilled Service 1049 OEOBOIA STREET One Block west of Court House. Cm of Modern Chapel nn* Funeral Parlori free ttt .11 Patrons. Telephone iej-moer 8419 AROVE! Cfel uSmonGobc acco. PBINOB RUPBBT, B. 0. PRINCE RUPERT TRADEB AND LADOR Council—Moot, second and fourth Too,* days of eioh month, In Crpcntprs* Hill. Pmldent, 8. D. Maedonald; secretary, W. E. Thompson, Boi 2711, Prlnee Rupert, Ii. C. THE LONDON GRILL 7". ' I.OBSftN SI Patronise Federationist advertisers al tell them wkj you do so. OFFICIAL PAPBB TAJKJOUY1I TEA DM ABD LABOB OOUWCIX. THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST ornoiAL Ttraa umiii mi* BlIBtt PBBIBATIOB OP UBOl / ELEVENTH YEAR. No. 3 EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17,1919" It Should Head the List _ A complete equipment of good teeth should be at the top of your want-list this year. The dental visit should be the first on your calling list. If a perfect outfit of teeth is already yours, the dental visit made regularly will keep it perfect. If you havo tartar deposits, a dental cleaning will take care of that. If some of your teeth are decayed or missing, it becomes a first necessity to have thom filled, crowned or replaced. IJ you have been going from month to month and year to year—in need of dental repairs and with your dental bill 'of tho future growing larger every day—take yourself in hand—put the dental visit at the top of your appointment list— make the appointment—keep it. _ Tho most thorough and skilled work* nmnship—tho best of material—tho most modern methods—tho most modern prices. Opposite Woodward's DR. LOWE Fine Dentistry HASTINGS AND ABBOTT 29th Anniversary Sale CLUBB & STEWART LTD. 309-315 HASTINGS STREET WEST , have on sale this month many lines of Men's and Boys' Suits and Overcoats at greatly reduced prices. Also odd lines in Furnishings and. Hats. These arc great value as prices go today. -UNION STORE- Wear Our Good Shoes If you wish to avoid"poor Shoe Values these days. You will do well to come to this Reliable Union Shoe Store for yonr Winter Footwear. We sell tlie productions of tho Country's Best Makers of Shoes. Hero you take no risk. The Ingledew Shoe Co. 666 GRANVILLE STREET "VANCOUVBR'S UNION SHOE STORE" Freati Out Flowen, Fnneril Deelnu, Wedding Bonqnete, Pot Plute, Jr* namontal end Sbede Trees, Seeds, Bnltis, riorurts' Sundries Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd. FLORISTS AMD NOTSEEYMEN 8-8TOBES—t 41 Hastings Itreet Beat, ley. 988471 — 718 Onurllle Street, Ser. Nil 10% OFF TO ALL SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES Taking Care of Your Teeth Is Not An Extravagance! h-get away from the idea that you are "saving" by patting off the giving of attention to your teeth when defects appear. Keeping tho teeth in good condition means Comfort, Health and a Pleasing Appearance—threo things wo all want. Is monoy spont for such a purposo extravagance? Lot mu examine your teeth as soon as a dofect develops—I'll tell you how to correct it—and how much the work will cost. Phost Seymour 8381 X-Riy filial taken; 10-year guarantee given; Victory Bondi taken in exchange for Dentil Work. Dr. Brett Anderson Crown and Bridge Specialist 602 Hastings St. W. Oor. Seymour St Offlce Opon Tuesday and Friday Evenings Until 8 o'clock T. B. HILL Just before stock-taking, we are offering our entire stock at prices which will make them sell. Following are a few of the reductions for this week: Men's 50c Suspenders 25^ Men's Tweed Caps, worth to $1.75, at. 75<* Men's Work Gloves, worth to $1.00; at 5) to all returned men. The gist of our remarks last week was that our 10 years' reputation among workers of tho bettor sort put us in the proud position of being the pro- - micr houso to cater to returned men's requirements in the way of custom-made civilian clothing of stylo, worth and merit. Wo bavo a special cutter and fitter for our & Ladies' trade, SUITS For MEN, For WOMEN, $35 up $45 up The B.C. TAILORING GO. Custom Tailors to the Working Man 128 Hastings St. East change tho ontire fabric of human society itself. Master, I do not blame you for what your class has dono to mino. You, liko myself, are but a victim of environment. Neither of us knew very much about tho laws upon which socioty rests. Neither of us knew much concerning tlio laws of production, distribution and exchange. No, in tho past wo didn't. But my class has found out thoso laws and ihey propose to estublish a new order of things which will tend to keep socioty living in harmony with thoso universal laws instead of, as in tho past, living in opposition to thom. But, to return to my follow workers. There nro somo who do not see tho light shining in Europo, or understand why it is a beacon light showing tho road to Freedom. The workers of Russia revolted, throw off tho yoko of tho master and refused to pay tho "dobt" the master had made for his own protection. Hunger and a beaten army, returning with their arms, helped to win the day. Hunger, and a ucatcn army, has started tho revolution in Germany, Austria and Bulgaria, And whon thoso countries are won by tho workers for -tho workers, the most powerful force in thc world is established, NBAB THEATRE BOTAL. And it bringB tho workers of those countrios, of France, Britain and America, faco to faco with hunger and revolt. A few months with the workors of Europe in control of full political powor will throw more thun half of tho workers on tho Amorican continent out of a job, as their export markets aro cut off, and wo'll face the same situation Europo faced during tbo powerful allied blockade. Think it over friends and forget that Btory of the large order for lumber the press of this country hands out as a consolation. That order placed in the mills of B. C. won't benefit tho whito workers of British Columbia, aB Asiatic labor monopolises the mills. Tho allied capitalists of France, Britain stomach has created new standards of'and America, may vacate their jobs of morality, it has changed old creeds for [ trying to run creation becauso trade new. But tho hunger which is coming [with the countries of Europe upoi. the to us as workers out of a job, will j old ex-"hnngo Bystem will bo impossible. Pro-Germans Tho present government in Gormany is composed of those who lent their assistance to tho Kaiser during tho wai, and backed him up in his schemes in every way possible. The Spartacus who gain control of tho government art those who opposed tho Kaiser tooth and nail throughout the war. I would like to ask, therefore, uro not those people who now tako tho sido of thc prr sent German government against the ones who aro fighting tho government^ pro-Germans? Pntronizo Federationist. advertiser* and tell them why you do so. ary 6, 1895, states that tho church "would bring forth moro abundant fruits if, in addition to liborty, sho enjoyed tho patron ago of public authority." Mark Hanna onco prophecied that tho day was not far distant when tho conflict would bo a battlo royal betwoen Socialism on ono sido and the Republican Party allied with tho Catholic Church on the other." Tho late Father McGrady, nn ex- priest, issued a rcpmrkablc statoment whon he said that: "Catholics will gradually break their allegiance with Rome, for necessity will compel them to join thc army of revolutionists which tho church condemns. The politicnl character of the church will bu revealed by hor open defense of commercial and industrial despotism, tho sacred charm of hor mysterious influence will fade; religious rebellion will ■ follow and Komc will ultimately go down in ignominious defeat with her capitalist allies." In view of all (hose facts it is not surprising to hear tho statements from tho lips of such a high dignitary of tho Catholic Church, and when tho sny ings of the. pre-Constantinc fathers are road, tho reasons for Constantino's adoption of Christianity and the moulding of this hitherto slave religion into the finest instrument of exploitation placod in tho hands of n rnluig clnss. Contrast tho utterances of Cardinal Gibbons and Iho vnrious encyclicals with a few of thn utterances of the early Christian fathers: "I know that God hns given us tho life of g'-iods, and he has determined that tho use be common."—By Clement of Alexandria—150*250, "No man shall bo received into onr Commune who saveth thnt tho land mny bo sold. "—St Cyprian—200-258. And Augustine—354430—says: "The superfluities of the rich aro tho necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities possess tho goods of others." Theso men said thoso things nnd got away with them; the holy humbug had not yet been hatched, but wbat happened to Savonarola, an Italian religions reformer in 1408, who snid, "In the primitive church the ehaltcoa wero oi wood and the prelatofl of gold. In those days the church hath chalices of gold and prelates of wnod." lie was hanged nnd burned by hla enemies. As it is impossible Ito improve upou th-e statement of Siivonurola, the cnso ngainst Cardinal Gibbons and his politico religious institution will rest. 5HELLY54X BREAD PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST FBIDAY. Jbomit IT, 1»» IB. t. FEDERATIONIST •fttblished every Friday morning by tho B. C. Fade ration ist, Limited A. S. Wells Manager Office: Labor Temple, 405 Dunsmuir St. Tel. Exchange Seymour 7495 After 6 p.m., Seymour 7497K foreign, $2.00 per year; Canada, $1.50 per yew; lu Vancouver City, $2.00 per {ear; to Unions Hubscribing in a body, 1.25 per member per year. "Unity of Labor: tho Hopo of the World" FBIDAY January 17, 1919 THEBE IS AN element in society, that is neither suro of its position, or as to whoro it is going. This element has the opinion that it is above tho working cluss, and while recognizing that it is not in ■NO tho capitalistic class, 'TWEEN yot it can not shako POSITION. off thc illusion, that at some time it mny by some stroke of fortune, become wealthy. The members of this section of Boc.ety are vory much concerned about tbo future, They uru very much concerned nbout the sacredness of pro porty rights, etc., and view with c great deal of alarm tho onrushing wave of democracy, which is sweeping through the world. Fod, ns thoy have been, through tho press, and by the modern writers who depict tho possi bilitios of "good men" coming to the top, and becoming financial magnates, or at leust captains of industry, they aro unable to understand their position In socioty. As a result of their illu sions, they are prone to think that there is some common ground where capitnl and labor can como together, and arc at all times fooled by the proposals which are made by tho lnrge financial and industrial magnates, which aro put forth as being schemes whereby industrial strifo can be eliminated. Strange to say, this clement in society, while not exactly in tho runks of tho wage workers—but is composed of small employers of Labor, and the small trading class—is suffering, and is bound to suffer in thc near future, just as much as are the wago workers. And they aro daily being driven from their point of temporary vantage into tho ranks of thc daily laborer. Ono has only to como into contact with the shipyard workors, and this fuct cnn bc proved very readily. In this industry will bo found men working as common laborers, men that prior to the slump in business, which commenced in the yenr 1913—and was only relieved by the outbreak of thc war, and the consequent increased demand for the munitions of war—wero building contractors, small business meu with a corner grocory or some other kind of Btoro, and many others that by somo hocus pocus business proposition, were if uot omployers of labor, in the position where they did not hnve to ahswer tho whistle of tho master class in ordor to earn a living. * * * One has only to go out to the sub urbs of any modern city in this country to see the ruins of the cherished dreams of this clement. In Vancouver tho evidences aro to bo found in abundance, in tho empty stores, and other small buildings erected for business or manufacturing' purposes during the boom- times, when even wage workers wcro filled with hopo of in tho near futuro becoming wealthy by the real estate route. Thc ruins of these hopes can also bc seen in tho suburbs of nny city in this Dominion. Thoy arc material ruins) for thoy consist of houses not finished ,and which by the naturo of their construction showed at least tho ambitions of thoso that first conceived tho possibilities of having n "homo of their own." Alns ,those dreams wero shattered by tho industrial depression of pre-war days; many a hope was blasted ,and many n man lost all his "savings," and ail that ho had made by tho scramble in Ihe boom days. And thus it must bc with tho dreams of those thnt can sec the day when capita] and labor can "get together." These men do not realize that there is a class strugglo going on, and that this strugglo must, as it progresses, bring out more and moro clearly tho line of demarcation between the classes, and that tho Btruggic must ever become fiercer. Tho business oloment, the small trading class is swiftly and surely heing driven to tho verge of destruction, the development of tho system must tend to ever greater efficiency, and to tho elimination of tho smaller fry in tho business world. Combinations of the manufacturing interests nro daily being brought ab.-iH, :ind the same thing is going on amongst tht*. financial concerns. Tho I departmental store will as sure as the sun will rise on the morrow, be the destruction of tho potty trader. The large manufacturing combines spells tho eli- tittnation of tho small manufacturer, and look whnt over way ono will, thero cannot bo found a ray of hope for this element that still clings to thc hopo that it may be suved from being driven into tho ranks of tho wage earners, Schemes such as put forth by the Standard Oil and Rockefeller interests nro but rod herrings across tho trail. Thoy aro not only that, but they aro positively dangerous to tho interests of the wnge workers as such. They nro aimed lo lie tho worker to the job. To mako his position even worso than it is at present. Thoy are framed with thq object of breaking the power of the workers through orgnnized offort. Pension aohomoB, and sick benefits, and old-age pensions and other paternal offerings of the employers to thoir employees, are deliberately designed to break up tho industrial organizations of tho workers. They aro so designed that for a man to strike or to quit thc job, would placo him in the position of losing those Bo-called benefits. They aro the lost efforts of a ruling class to fasten moro securely than over the shack- l._ of wago slavery on the workers. * * » Capital and labor can novor get togothor. That faot must be realized sooner or later. It might as well bc realized at this time, and tho sooner thc workers, and thoso that aro of the opinion that thoy aro not placed in the same position ns are the wage'earners, get this fact into their heads, tho sooner will thoy bring about a change in society. The robber and the robbed' havo nothing in common, and there can be no method adopted that will make tho robbery more palatable. The class struggle is growing more intense evcty day. In Europo the final strugglo has commenced. Thoso that fear tho word revolution, and by their actions—sincere and honest though they may bc— aro endeavoring to bring about industrial poaco under the prosent system, are but ai'ting as a drag on thc wheels of progress. They are acting aa a buffer between the workers and their goal. It is this eluss that ut all times is thc bulwark of tho ruling class. They arc fooled and cajoled into defending tho Bystem by which thc misery of tho workers is created. Let tho friends of labor, and those that cannot seo tho position, stand aside. Those that either by design, or through ignorance, are hindering the progress of the struggle, and the onward march of the proletariat, will be obliterated. The small business.man must get wise to the fact that he.altio must some day join up with the dispOBCBsed or with the ruling class; ther.c cannot be any between position, Thoso that act the part of the buffer are suro to get hurt in the process. insensate ruling class, bent only on world domination. Two lessons can bo learnt from thoso early revolutionists, one of thc workers, tho other by the ruling claBB. Thc workers must realizo that in this case, tho forces of progress arc with them, nnd the ruling class will bo compelled to realize that the world is full of revolt against tho present system, and that tho workers will finally triumph. RECENTLY THE Daily Province, in explaining the party name, VSpartacus," adopted by Liebknecht and his followers, stated that tho original Spartacus was a bandit. Ward, in "Tho And- TWO ent Lowly," states LESSONS that Spartacus was TO LEAEN. in nil respects, worki ngman. I n othor words, Spartacus was a slnve, He rose from amongst his fellow sluvca. in the year 74 B. C, when the Roman ruling class wcro attempting to havo the law granting tho right of freo organization repealed, on the ground that it was corrupting politics as well as tho goneral morals of Rome., Although a perusal of Roman history would lead one to believo that in so far as ruling class morals were concerned ,they wero about at the lowest ebb. Like all other slaves thut revolt, tho slaves that rc- oltcd with Spartacus, wero looked upon as bandits, only todny they are not called bandits, but are designated as Bolshevikis. But with the ruling class of the present ago definition of thc Bolsheviki, the word bandit would fit in very well. And we find tho modern slave who has the courage to revolt j is dubbed a blood-thirsty villinn, nnd that his prototype in Roman history is dubbed by tho press of today, a bandit. Ward, however, has tho following to say of Spartacus, and it may be that in tho future, historians, may give a different definition of the Bolsheviki to the ono given today. * * * "Historians were mostly of tho aristocratic or noble stock; because*, as their business was to record the deeds of heroes, thc laboring raco was considered too insignificant to do thut work. So in tho earlier times, soldiers wero of nobler stock thun workingmen, for tho samo reason. Thus wo find in almost overy instance, that historians wore of {fable blood, whilo sculptors, architects, poets and teachers were descendants from tho slaves, "Among the most remarkable of tho workingmen of ancient days, whoso genius revolted into rebellion against tho servile condition,. was Spartacus. Judging from piecemeal evidence, scantily, and wo might also say, stingily nnnoun- ced by tho historians of his time, tho deeds of Spartacus, for valor, for success, for magnitude, and for the terror they struck into the hearts of the proud Romans, wero equal if not superior to thoso of Hannibal. The more our investigation of tho darkened facts reveals the sagacity and purity of this man, the more profound becomes thu respect and the moro intense tho admiration for him by nil truo lovers of gallantry and freedom. In fact, there are interests astir in tho human brenst, which must load to a more searching acquaintance with the fountains at tho social penetralia of tho times, that bubbled forth under his terrible hand and shook thc social and politicnl world from centre to surface, pnling the senators und tribunes ut Rome." # * * With a knowledge of Spartacus, and the real story of tho Roman slave revolt, there is littlo wonder that Liebknecht und his followers adopted the party name of Spartacus, but tho ending of tho movemont iu Gormany will novor end tho sumo way as did the slavo revolt in those -early days in Roman history, Spartacus, without uny ussistuuee from the slaves of any other lund, with no international movement as wo know of today, kopt tho ruling class hordes at bay for four years. Ho defeated their forces in at leust ten decisivo battles, beforo ho wns finally defeated. And tho history of his do- feat, and of tho slaughter of tho followers of this doughty rebel, are such as to make one shudder. Every ono of tho G000 who fell as prisoners into the hands of tho Romans were hung on thc cross on the Appian way, and as Ward says, "for months their bodios dung- led thero to delight tho vengounce-lov-,| ing gentry," * * ♦ It may be that for tho moment tho present revolt of thc working class against tho prevailing system may bo checked. But the very development of capitalism is in theso days playing into the hands of the working class. Any attempt to slaughter tho workers for their attempts to obtain froodom in this ago will bc resented by the workers of all lands. A blood brotherhood exists amongst the workers of all lands, Tho object of the workors of nil nations in tho same, and while thoy may have fought against ono another on the battlefields of Europo, they will never again be used as tho tools of a mad, IF ALL WE are told is true, thero will be close to 30,000 troops back iu British Columbia by tho end of June, There is nothing very alarming in that, it may be said. But when it is considered that STILL thc number of unom- GETTING ployed is growing WORSE. every day in this glorious lund of ours, and that tho returning men will only help to swell that ever-growing army of discontent, those that arc concerned about tho stoppage of the spread of Bolshevism—as pictured in the press of this land of freedom, and which, if all uccounts ure true, can bo stopped by seeing that there is plenty of food— should at once get busy, for with much unemployment there will bo little food, at least for thoso that ure unemployed. Meu that havo fought for freedom, will never be content to starve £or the lack of bread, und will not be satisfied with tho husks, or with Boup kitchens or any olher means of staving off hunger that muy bo devised by a charitably- minded public. Whon tho last Victory J Loan drivo was on, tho workers were told that if tho loan was raised, that it would mean the continuation of tho shipbuilding programme. Then thero was a lot of talk of tho timber that would bo needed from this province, for tho rebuilding of Europe. Scarcely has tho campaign finished, when consternation, not only amongst tho workors, but amongst tho business and manufacturing interests, is brought about by press statements as to the cessation of thc shipbuilding program mo, and that no orders nre coming this way for tho timber with which to rebuild Europe. Vancouver is full of timber workers. Thero aro numbers of every description of workors without work. Shipyard workera aro being laid off daily. Tho employers in this industry sny that they cannot pny tho wages that are being demanded—nnd which, if the terms of the Robertson agreemont with which tlio employers wero in full accord at the timo—wero carried out, should bo paid. Tho war is scarcely over, nay tho terms of poaco aro not yot signed, and tho workors are faced with conditions that1 would indicate that they will develop into nt least as bad ns they wore prior to the war. Such is the freedom and democracy that tho best of tho land went to light for. The soldicra and thc workerB—or the workers, for the soldiers as soon as they discard tho khaki, arc workers— must take this problom in hand. There is none other thnt can assist in bringing about freedom from poverty, than themselves. How long will this humbug of thoso workers who have beon in thc fighting forces, and thoso that have been in the industrial arena, being in separate camps, and manipulated by the lords of industry and politics, continue? Tho fight for decomracy is not over. It never will be over until the means of wealth production aro owned and controlled by thoso that use thom. Then ■ thero will be no fear of unemployment, i Today work is the goal of tho average worker. In thc future lifo in abundance will bo thoir lot, providing they realizo that tho only question that is waiting to bo solved, is tho ownership of thc job. Today tho juling class owns thc job.by virtue of tho class ownership of the moans of life. they arc not teaching the young idea to shoot, they are at least teaching the younger generation the threo Rs., which it is necessary for them to have at least a nodding acquaintance with, in order to carry on capitalistic production. The idea of dignity for workers is, in theBe timcB preposterous, and tho teachers might as woll realize at this stage of the game, that money talks, and to get it they must organize. Evidently Lloyd Oeorge has learned a trick or two from the Canadian politicians, who havo from timo to time visited the old land. From the London Times we learn that 50 per cont. of the soldiors in tho recent election did not receive their ballots until after tho election was over. Whilo tho ballot was not mnnipulated, a much better scheme was adopted—-by keeping tho means of political expression from those that would most likely vote against the Coalition. ThiB smacka somewhat of the War Times Election Act in Canada. Perchance Premier Borden has served some useful purpoBO after all, and has been instrumental in saving Lloyd George's empiro from destruction by the British Bolsheviki, which will no doubt bo found amongst thoso that made the world safe for democracy. Ah, well! it may be that the empire wus saved, but one thing is sure, and that is that thero must be fear in the hearts of thc ruling class in thc old land, for as a rule the ballot is sacred in that laud, CHEWING THE CUD Thc first sign of the Dominion government's programmo of reconstruction appeared in the press on Thursday. In all the Vancouver papers tho nows was heralded that Vancouver- wna to havo a new feature. This new departure is tho stationing of 150 of tho Northwest Mounted Polico at Hastings Park, To thoso who remember thc hard timqp on this coast at tho time of the Powell Stroot affair, and who see tho signs of anothor period of similar "prosperity," tho introduction of tho mounted police is significant. It will not be long beforo tho aoldiors who fought for democracy on Flanders' Fields will bo back again, and as it has so often boen said, hunger and oppression is tho cause of "Bolshevism," it does not seem improbable that this new move on tho part of tho government is taken with this bright idea in viow. It must, however, bo roincmbor- cd, that mon who have been taught to do things by foreu cannot bo -intimidated by force, and that with an intelligent working class, and an outraged army of men that have fought for democracy on tho Fields of Flanders, 150 mounted police wilt De of littlo uso; it may even be thnt a number of those men will also havo fought for democracy, and that they may r'efuso to be used us the tools of the govornment fo keep down revolt at a condition similar to that in Iho days referred to. The touchers of this provinco ure very much concerned about tho over- increasing cost of living. Unlike othor workers, their monetary wagos hnvo not increased to uny appreciable extent, und its n result, they ure talking of taking some action. Now it is not often that anything can be found in thc Morning Sun that is worth repeating, unless it is to contradict it, or to show up the nonsensicul sido of it, Dealing with this matter, however, tho Sun had tho following to say: "With pooplo in almost every walk of lifo demanding and getting an increase of pay, there seems to be no good reason why tho school teachers should bo left out. The cost of living has been rising for them as well as for anybody else. How would it bo if tho teachers wore to form a Union and affiliate with tho Trades and Labor Council? Tho polico and firemen have found this an effective mothod of securing attention. A minimum salary of a thousand dollars a yoar is moderate enough, and tho School Hoard should pay it without grumbling." Wo pass the suggestion of thc Sun on to the teachers ,nnd suggest thnt they get over being "respectable" if by remaining in that classification they are not ablo to got sufficient filthy lucre In order to provido them with a decent living. Tho teachers are very useful to the present employing eluss, ns while , Thc bearing of that remark of Mrs. Farris about universities being the breeding plnces of public leaders lies tho "application on it." Her husband is n university man, John Oliver graduated from thc pits and tho field. * « « A first Canadian peace-fruit: Ontario prohibits the showing of a film picturing tho landing of President Wilson in France. Next to be Iookod for: The oxcision from tho school books of pictures of tho landing of Christopher Columbus in America. * * * In Ontario a man hns been jailed for having a copy of Plato's "Republic.'* But I don't believe a warrant was is* sued for the arrest of Tom Moore on tho information of a policeman that ho is the author of a pernicious Bolshevik book entitled "Utopia." * * * Bolshevism cannot be guarded agninst by curses uny moro effectually than tho flue can be by profanity. "Tho Bolshoviki spectre frightons nn uneasy conscience,'' writes Professor Leacock of McGill. "In this country, aa in others—in this country perhaps more than in nny othor—tho political power of amalgamated capitnl has becomo too grent. Our great corporations are changing from subjects of national pride to objects of national suspicion. Thc bruto powor of money lies like a dead weight on the spirit of our politics. Tho simple commonwealth of fifty years ago, jn which few wore rich and nono wero poor, threatens to bo replaced by a plutocracy standing ngainst a hostile and discontented labor proletariat, with a middlo cluss hesitant between, wondering which master they shall serve." As a spectre the professor regards it as "tho best thing which has como into the world since the mediaeval devil went out of it." Through tho bewildering fog of propaganda light at length has penetrated to the Russian question, Now wo know that Britain urged a truce und proposed that the Soviet government be heard at thc peace conference. Tho French govornment objected. Because of that objection our armed intervention goes on. Was our government informed of tho situation when Canadians were so recently forcod to Siberia? If so, tho responsibility of tho ministry is gravely increased. If not, the official announcements of our primo minister being in the innermost councils of the empire as lho spokesmnn of a co-equal states aro merest mockeries. Mr. Ewart, tho eminent Canadian constitutionalist, sounded a warning when the birth of tho imperial war cabinet wns heralded, Thoro is an apathy in Canada about basic matters of state. No general notice has been given to the movement toward imperial centralization wliich has boon pressed with much' skill and assiduity sinco the days of Joseph Chamberlain, It gained considerable momentum during tho war,, and attained a higher form of organ- ism. There was a sign to those who could roud it in Premier'Bordon's Now1 Year's message. He spoke not of the. Empire, but of the "Brittnnic States."! Hamilton, tho great Amorican central-1 ist and anti-democrat, is much revered by our imperial contralizers. His ideas applied to thc Empiro would make of it a federal union in which thc overseas, dominions would stand in relation to tho central government at London ns stand the states of thc United States to tho government at Washington, It behooves ub, if wo place valuo upon tho liberties transmitted to ub by tho sturdy men of earlier days who won them, to bo wary lent what appear as haphazard administrative arrniiRe* ments of war mny bo ways for slipping us back to government from Downing Street. • • • Our Intervention in Russia ennnot by livo phrases bo made othor than war and wnr undeclared nnd for a questionable purpose. In Russia, ns tho Manchester Guardian has said. "Wo aro fighting ngainst a form of tho states nnd a conception of property which wc dislike, but whicli it is not our business to overthrow by forco of nrms in another country." In tho samo journal it iB nsked, "Cnn there be any doubt that our soldiers' lives, taken without their own or the nation's knowledgo or consent, aro being expendod to secure profits for our capitalists?" Was it not Mr. Rowell, Minister in the Borden government, who said right hero in British Columbia that our intervention in Russia had an advantageous economic sido! • * • Agnes Lant rages in the January McLeans ovor tho menace of tho Amerl. can merchant mnrine. Hear her. "Thoro is a seaman's law in tho Unitod Stntes which tho Labor Unions will never permit to bo repeated. It compels more shifts, shorter hours, highor pay than any other merchant marine in the world permits." Isn't that horrible? And because tho U. S. ships consequently cost some fifty per cont more to run President Wilson is going to have the audacity to ask the peace conference to provide for the standardization of seamen's wnges and working conditions at the Americnn level. Heri blood boils. She Oflks: "Would Canada) stand for that?—Canada with her big merchant marine expansion policy?'' Eh, whatl She trows not. * * • "Germany is the land of false dogmas, '' declares the Sunday Colonist. Germany, thc land of Luther! But tho editor didn't have Luther in his mind. It was Marx, accompanied by the Bolshevik spectre. After all it was from Harrington, an English writer, that Marx got the cue to the "materialistic interpretation of history" and from French Socialists the theory of surplus wealth. -'' Only the German chauvinists," remarked the New Republic recently, "will claim that present day Socialism is in any true senso German, If it bears one national character rather than nnother, that character is French.'' * • • Mr. Hughes of Australia and some others should bo told that in the exercising of evil spirits punctilious precautions must bo taken against the unclean spirits entering into tho exercises themselves. * * * Sir John Willison admits that "it may be that thero was some profltoor- ing or thut some manufacturers mado much money." But ho comforts us with the assurance that "it is an oconomic law that when prices are rising profits accumulate." Now would Sir John vouchsafe to tell us whether that law was made by God, by Mammon or by the Canadian parliament. * • * Recovered quickly from war psychology, ex-Premier Scott of Saskatchewan wns making in his Moosojaw Times rags and tatters of tho phylacteries of our Union government when his attention was unfortunately diverted by the flambuoyancy of tho cables over President Wilson ut Buckingham Palace, Our government is bad enough but he be darned if he'd live in a country where the actual political head of things stands beforo high heaven as the representative of the nation. It is the part of real democracy to "go staggering nbout" (to borrow from the lucid Leacock) "our political path bearing about us a sot of anachronisms, formalisms and impossibilities as cumbcrous as a mediaeval suit of armor in a gymnasium." Walter Scott knows what ho is talking about and to whom he's talking. That he is a genuine democrat none will deny; and wo boliovo him when ho tells us that ho ia moro intimate with the King than ever tho president was. He gives tho proof. Ho tells us (saving tho presence of the prohibitionists) that he knows tho King likes a "swig of Scotch," But Wnlter will remember, though he forgets to mention it, thut tho gold dishes wero not put on tho table when the Saskatchewan politician lunched at the palace. * m • A result of the war, which Cnnndinn citizen soldiers fought valiantly nnd died heroically to win, is that Rumania now hns a government so democratic and froe as to bo preparing to expropriate largo estates for allotment among former rack-rented peasants. It ia a sad contrasting circumstance thnt the Government of Canada has an* nouueed no step to provido for our sol diers, who in mercy wcro saved from tho inferno, land by expropriation out of tho somo thirty millions of acres held for unearned increment, and within easy reach of railways, by corporations and over-gorged individual speculators. Expropriation seems to havo becomo a fearsome term among our statesmen. Yet it is a word our laws and preachers hnvo long dono reverence to. It indicates the legal, as against tho revolutionary, means of tnking land for public purposes. And is thero a higher public purposo thnn to provide for tho men who took their lives in their hands for thcir country. brehon Mccarty. VICTORIA METAL TBADES COUNCIL HOLDS SESSIONS Reports of Troublo Between Hospital and Workmen's Compensation Act Board Not True Tho weekly meeting of tho Metnl Trados Council held on Friday evening was well attended and a largo amount of business transacted. President Dakers occupied tho chair. Credentials wore received and delegates seated from the following organizations: Pile- drivers, Brothers, McDonald, Ford, Bolton; Riggers and Stevedores, Bro. W. Tyson; A. C. & J. 2051, Bro. IL J. Jones. Thc smoking concert committeo reported a balanco of $00 -to tho good from tho last smoker. Communications woro received from the Compensntion Board and Sister Mary Catharine of St. Joseph's Hospital stating that tho reference mado in soma of thc unionB to tlio nttitude of tho hospital management to accident cuses (in which it waa said thnt the hospital did not want accident cases owing to tho Workmen's Compensation Board not paying the bills), was incorrect; that the hospital management had no troublo whatover with the board; but the reason for non-admittance of accidont casos was that all available space in St. Joseph's wns takon by the government for returned soldiors. President Dakers drew tbo couneil 'b attention to the fact that the Oivil Servants were that evening organizing and considered it one of thc most important steps which had been taken for somo timo, and a move in tho right direction. A lengthy discussion arose over the question of tho Foundation Company bringing in nlien labor from tho United States and using various pretexts tu ovude the -jMion Act, Ono instance was quoted whero a ship from Portland, the Luneville, bringing bolts, fastenings, otc, wus manned by a make-believe crew, somo of whom as soon us tho ship touched Victoria, had started work us foremen in the Foundation yards. Tho dclcgutcs wore of the opinion thut there were men capable of holding these positions in the ynrds, without tho introduction of alien lubor, and looked with much distrust on the actions of the Foundation Company iu tho matter, one delegute stating thut tho newcomers looked liko "gumshoe" men to him! Cholberg's yard was again cited ou the Ust of troublesome outfits, wnich, togothor with u tussol botwoen tho Riggers and Piledrivers' delegates, contributed to tho liveliness of the in out ing. The council went on record as supporting the watchmen of tho ynrds in their efforts to obtain the retroactive incrcaso of pay which had been refused them, President Dukors stating that the mon wero worthy of the bost assistance of tho council, WHAT ARE THE FACTORS? What constitutes a fine diamond. First, it must be flawless. It should be so cut that the number and size of the facets, the crown, the pavilion, the girdle—all contribute in their proportion to its dazzling brilliance. Shape and color must also be considered. Oranvw, ut GMigii Sta. Q«o. E. Trotey Man. Dir. In selecting a Birks' Diamond yon have tho fuU.it pouibl. gaaru* tM aa to Its quality. Finer diamonds than Birks' aro not procur* able. "Tto Houn Behind tto Goodi" "THE PEWBB TRE HABITS THE BETTEB THE MAN" THE W. H. MALKIN CO. Limited VANCOUVEB, B. O. CANADA FOOD BOABD License No. 6-542 License No. 3-453 TWENTY- JIVE YEABS AGO Vancouver Trades and Labor Oonneil [January 6, 1894] January 19, 1894 F. P. Bishop, F. D. Burton nnd 8. J. Pnrkea (painters), W. Towler, W. H. Walden nnd W. Collier (bricklayers)' took seats ns delegates. Officers elected:.. W. Towler, president; W. Lawson, vice-president; F. P. Bishop, secrotary; Chns. Koine, treasurer; (ico, Bartloy, statistician; J. Clarke, doorkeeper. Auditing committee, Messrs. Wilson, Fowler and Bumble. Orgnnizntion, Messrs; Oalbniith, Bost and Harrison. Parliamentary, Messrs. Twaddle, Fowler, Walker, Thomas, Gngcn and Bartley. Civic, Messrs. Nye, Bridge nnd Bishop. Arbitration, Messrs. Clnrke, Kaine nnd Rumble. Social, Messrs. Walker, Law- son, Humble uud Fowler. Mr. Mallott addressed tho council, urging tho necessity of selecting candidates for the provincial elections. Refuse Higher Bates St. Paul—The stato railroad commission has denied thc application of the Tri-State Telegrph and Telephono Company und Northwestern Telephono Exchange Company for an inerease in rutcs in this state. Tho companies said they wanted to raise wages, but the commission held that this was possiblo without increases to tho public. Now Orleans—Colored box makors hnve formed a union aud affiliated with tho A. F. of L, Our Selling System Quality in Fabric* Style Correct Price the lowest possible consistent with value Two Stores: Society Brand Clothes Rogers Building Fit-Reform Clothing 345 Hastings Street Burberry Coats at both stores J. W. Foster Limited —8AV8 TOUB HOKBr— START A BABX AOOOIWT I» THE MERCHANTS BANK OF CANADA Don't alow away your apare auk U any old eorner wkere lt In la duf« from burglare or flre. Tki* Merchauta Btnk of Caa»J» of fera yon perfect eafety tor you money, and wtll give yea full banklai ■i-r-r.cn, wlietfcer yonr aeecant la l-u-f* or -iiuftll- Intereat allowed on atrlnga (Jap*- ■ita. 0. V. 1TAOET, Mutter OnarUl* and PtaflM W. 0. JOT. Mkunr Haitlngi ui Oarrall M00BP0B4TBD 1168 Bank of Toronto £S*L— - '.witoaooi wpoaiti 63,000,000 Joint Savings Account A JOINT Barlnga Aimcunt msy fca opened at Tba Bank of Toronto In tke n-tinea of two or mere penona. In Ikeae account* oJtker party nay atgn ckwjnea ar dftpoalt money. For tke different membera of a family or a Ann a Joint amount U often ft great enriTenienee, intereat la paid on balanoea. Vancoutor Branch; Ooratr Haatinga and OamMt Striata Branokea at: Victoria, Merritt, Hew Woatminrttr King up Phoae Seymour 8354 for appointment Dr. W. J. Curry DENTIST Salts sol -Dominion Building VAJJCODVEB, B. C. I, B. CUTHBERTSON A 00. Men'i H.tten and Outfitter! IM OruTtlle atiMI tit HuMip str»t w,„ Save Money on DRUGS SPECIALS FOB PBIDAY AND SATUBDAY 35o Abbey's Sail 22c '!' '•"■nj.n'" Shoving Oro»m~"Z88o 60c Dnmlerino 48P 60c Diapeij-.il, ZZ~-.'.Z~'.00e 16c CoIboi *'» Tooth Paste ...120 BOo Emu elllod Cocoonul Oil 26c J1.5CI Oriental Cream 11.19 00c Scmpre Qlovlno ... J70 81.00 Melons * }_ l_Wf'', i'*-*,!""1" Olnt*"cni".'"".".'28c JJ-0" Liquid Petrolatum 600 25c Reld's Fluid Magnesia 17o .1.00 Juixatod Iron 83c 60c Aromatic Casenrn 330 75o Scott's Emulsion 680 60c Chase's Olntmont 43c 50r. island's I'llla 25o 26o Reld's Cascara Tablet! 170 60c Syrup o( White PIm, m_ Tar..32c 6O0 Pepsodrnt Tooth Paste 390 75o Parainlnt _ , 37a 50o Chase's Nerve Food '".'.'.07e 81.00 Reld'. Blood FurMor 8gc 600 Theatrical Crcom 38c 81.00 Reld'a Syrup ol Hypopbos* 5c Mintoes _ 3a 26o Aspirin Tablets, doton ...."lSc War Tu Extra When B^nlred Vancouver Drug Co. limited Orlgkal Ont-Btte Drugglju HAW STOBE aot Baitljja W. . Bar. 1906 ud 1938 BBANOB STORES 1 HaiHnia W. Sey. 8832 782 OranTllla It. Be..VM Oor. OrurtUa ud Broadway .,-... _. B,»* mi tat 17110- 411 Mala Street Ser. Mlt 1700 Commercial Drive ' Hijh. 233 ud 1788-0 PBIDAY.. ...J-uraarjr 17, IBM THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST Statistician's roport, from July 1 to December 31, 1918, presented at lost night's meeting of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council. The report is baaed on the number of members for which per enpita tax is received. The attendanco of delegates at meetings is bused on the signing of roll book. Delegates not signing the roll aro marked absent: Organisations affiliated: 68 December 31, in July 63; gain of five affiliations. Membership January 1, 1918, 9,066; July 1, 1918, 10,968; December 31, 1918, 13,085; gain during six months, 2,117; gain in 1918, 4,019. Membership is entitled to 299 delegates. Average attendance per meeting, 125 delegates. Mo. of Arge at- 1 Bricklayers ...—... —»v | Barbers .... Members June Dee. <96 87 105 110 16 33 35. 34 1,000 1,200 46 41 170 192 220 225 38 110 — 125 88 75 200 ' 300 450 450 265 269 00 130 — 70 50 50 350 450 100 150 118 126 200 200 — 50 65 90 42 42 20 . 20 222 275 100 100 375 500 50 60 661 647 400 400 — 50 141 142 — 286 10 10 45 38 100 100 211 225 40 40 120 106 — 140 160 160 52 61 125 200 40 44 230 300 225 250 40 40 111 106 40 28 73 60 700 750 65 07 50 100 80 100 38 26 911 781 640 650 200 200 20 20 60 100 70 70 185 191 17 15 25 25 600 055 . 22 19 155 300 10,968 13,085 Gain 5 18 200 22 5 72 125 100 4 40 70 100 50 7 60 25 53 125 86 50 1 286 14 140 0 75 4 70 25 60 . 32 60 14 110 50 6 55 145 2,343 Loss 9 1 5 13 7 14 5 12 13 12 130 2 3 228 Delegatee Entitled te t E 2 2 8 2 5 S 5 5 4 6 7 6 5 3 3 7 5 6 6 3 4 2 1 0 •5 7 3 7 6 3 5 6 1 2 E 6 2 5 5 6 3 6 2 6 6 2 5 2 3 7 4 6 5 2 7 7 6 1 5 3 6 1 2 7 1 8 299 tendaneo per Meeting 1.72 2.18 Bridge & Strue. Ironworkers ', . Blacksmiths ■» Bakers.... .81 2.81 1.27 .27 4.27 2.69 Carponters' Brotherhood ( Carpenters, Anmlgumutod .... 6 4.27 2.45 .63 .81 Hotol nnd Restaurant Emp... 1.63 .09 4.63 I. A. M., 777 I. A. M., 720 3.27 1.27 5.90 Moving Picturo Operators .... Minimum Wage League Mill nnd Factory Workora.... 3 6.10 .81 .27 1.30 1 1.81 3.27 Oil Refinery Workers Pressmen aud Assistants .... 1.81 2 1 2.36 3.36 1.00 .90 .18 .45 5.45 2 .64 1 .81 4.54 5.30 3.36 Retail Clerks Street Rnilwny Employees 1 1.45 1.72 5.36 .00 4.27 125.18 " PAGE FIVE LH. IS REPLIED TO The Right of Small Nations WiU Only Stand a Uttle Pressure [By W. Bayliss] Under the caption of a criticism of "Peaco and Economic Interdependence," an artielo by L. W. Makovski was published on page 20 of the Daily Province, on Friday, Nov. 15, 1918, in which thoro are some misleading sentences, one of which stands out very prominontly. It is in tho flrst paragraph, and tho ordinary working class reador is very liable to overlook it. In this criticism I will quote the wholo artielo as printed. I wall not miss any signs; this is important, and is pointed out to help tho reader in his or hor observation when reading articles of importance. Mr. Makovski says: "It has boon computed that in tho last four years twenty-five to thirty million persons hnve diod in ordor to establish tho right of small nations to exist, and the sacred naturo of n nation's bond. Everybody knows that when Germany declared war sho 'must hack her way through' Belgium, despite tho fact tlmt sho wns onc of tlio guarantors of Belgian neutrality. The British people refused to recognize that necessity and immediately swung tho war out of tho rut of economic or physicnl conquest into tho spiritual atmosphoro of idealism. It has boen admitted over and over again that It would havo been most difficult, if not impossible, to fling tho British Empiro into the scales against Germany if it had not been for the violation of Bolgian neutrality." According to this article, tho general idea nnd principle fought for was "tho right of small nations to exist, and to mako sacred any bond which binds them. I am convinced thnt this was the purposo fought for; but am not convinced about it being the general public's purposo. Tho rights of small nations have to compoto with tho rights of largo nations, and the bonds, sacred though they be, can only atand a certain nmount of pressure This is the test of its sacredness. Tho rights . of nations means in this cnso, the free- ;_ 5 ' dom to extend trade in the world mar- Hotel and Bestaurant Employees At tho last meeting of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees, held on Wod- ncsduy evening, ton new members wero admitted. Bro. Mackenzie is bnck on tho job, although far from well. A dance will bo held in the auditorium on February 5, nnd if tho past affairs aro any criterion, a good time will bo assured to thoso that attend. McLeod's, Mclntyre's and tho Post Offico cafes are still on tho unfair list. Street Railwaymen Tho New Westminster Street and Electric Railway Employees at the last meeting elected their officers for tho yenr, tho successful candidates being as follows: President, B. P. Jamieson; vice-president, Win. Banks; secretnry, Herbert Bell; financial secretary, W. Yatos; conductor, W. Walmsloy; warden, A. Wallace; sentinel, Wm. Andrews; auditors, L. Grimmer, H. Swan nnd A. Wallace. Structural Ironworkers Local 97 held its regular meoting last Monday. Tho following officers woro elected for the coming yenr: President, James Hastings; vice-president, Goo. Gunn; recording rccretary, James Jamieson; financial secretary nnd treasurer, Roy Massacar; sergeant-at-arms, Bert Bronson; conductor, James Rankin; trustees, R. Brinoy, A. V. Woods, A. W. Schofield. Thc new executive is requested to meet in Room 218 Labor Temple, Sunday, tho 19th. Harry Maekay Passes Out The members of organized labor in this eity will learn with regret that Bro. Harry Maekay of Local 213 of tho Electrical Workers passed away, a victim of tho "flu," on Wodnesday ovening. Harry was woll known in this locality; he was an nctive member ef his organization nnd his cheery manner nnd commonsense viewpoint of matters affecting tho electrical workors will bo missed by his • co-workers. New Officers Elected Tho Victoria Trados and Lnbor Council, at tho regular meeting on Wednesday evening elected tho following officers for the coming term: President, J. Woodward; vice-president, J. Taylor; seeretary-trensurer, Christian Sivertz; sergeant-nt-nrms, W. Campbell; executive committee, T. Dooley, Mrs. E. Sutton nnd J. Stevenson. Tho officers were duly obligated and assumed thcir positions. "Mary's Ankle" It At the Empress Mary's Ankle." a delightful comedy whlch mndo all thu -eastern cities ucruam with laughter, wtll bo tho attraction at tho Kmiirt-KK noxt week, and all thoso who enjoyed "Our Littlo Wife" and "Jerry," will t,*o Into rapluros over "Mary's Ankle." Bo, Mrs. Wife, If your husband comei homo and tolls you he saw "Mary's Ankle," don't Rft jealous—hu'll mean tho play. Mary is just about one of the cutest girls you over , anil thn naughty ankle causes ell tho male sex—but there, come down to tho Km- K--HK noxt week and get acquainted with Mary and you'll not blame them. *** Highest Grade Mechanic's Tools FOR ALL TRADES Martin, Finlayson & Mather Ltd. 45 Hastings St. W. :: Vancouver, B. C. SPECIALISTS IN HONEST FOOTWEAR An Extra Special Man's Shoe In Gunmetal Calf—a shoe that will give an excellent account of itself and that carries an air of good style as well. Neolin, fibre or leather sole. New recede toe last, and Goodyear welted—an easy fitter. For a man who wants a nice, elean-cut looking shoe at a reasonable figure this offering should have strong appeal. $6.00 the Pair GOODWIN SHOE CO. 119 HASTINOS STREET EAST GOODWIN'S GOOD SHOES ket. (To dnte,* however, tho conqnorcd, according to press opinions, will bo handicapped.) } To extend trade menns to bo able to exploit the possessors of labor power— slaves. Supposing such nn ideal is established, and production goes on unmolested, will not the modernized mnchinery lessen tho cyclo time of tho usual crisis! Someone says, "Do you take cognizanco of reconstruction and developmentf" And I answer, yes. There will be no reconstruction undertaken which will not proiniso greater roturfts for tho investment. Capital ia neutral in sentiment. It does not reBpect anything but that which is advantageous to itself. It would cease to function as capital If it wcro used purely for ubo. Reconstruction means using capital more efficiently. Labor power is here included. The reconstruction of industries implies the reduction of hands in relation to old methods. Reconstruction of farms reduces farm hands. It simply means creating n surplus of labor power to be consumed in other occupation under the head of development. Now for development. Past history hns proven one thing nbovo nil others- that where development has takon place in the form of a railway into new territory, tho revenuo accruing thcro- froni has in most cases boen enormous. That instead of being a market, it needs one. Capital will not bo spent making roads haphazardly; and seeing judgment is used with a viow to profits, how cnn this phase help society? It simply means greater production, Each nation becomes more and moro self-sustaining, and tho chief nations becomo more than self-sustaining, that is, they require n market for the surplus. Self-sustained socioty under capitalism does not moan plenty for nil by nny menns. It means baro necessities for tho slavo class nnd plenty for tho master class. Tho slave, worldwide, is bought at cost, food, clothing and shelter. Tho world market is open to world capitalism, or '' the rights of nations." The conditions within the world market havo to bo met by each nation individually. Tho differenco in tho cost of slaves will tell either advantageously or disadvantageously. Horo is where capital conflicts with itself. Capital is more or less International, especially so within the chief industrially dovoloped countrios. A stato of affairs in which enpita! conflicts will havo a tendency to reaction. This will be tho testing timo of nation's bonds. When ono nation through the cheapness of its slnves can swamp another on tho markot, , whnt will becomo of tho swamped nation? Tho freedom of trade is sacred. It cannot bc violated. "A hungry mob lias no conscience." A working class forced into idleness, and understanding their clasH position within capitalist society, will not pay much ut tent ion to the sacrcdnesB of capitalistic bonds, and capitalistic rights of small nations. This action, however, will be dotormfnod by the needs of the hour. Whnt form, or to whut degree mass action will go will be determined by its intelligence. The rights of Bmall nations is a clnss measure in favor of tho master. It is a mensure intended to propagate nationalism. This is somothing the workers need to tight against. Tho measure is a reactionary ono evon from a point of view of capitalist production; but mark you. not from the capitalist's standpoint. Capitalist production over since its inception has developed the process of production from individual into a collective process, and now, in this era, it has succeeded in producing its commodities. So that from the point of viow of social production, under capitalism, tho rights of small nations is simply a joke played off at tho, oxponflo of ignorant workers, ignorant in point of their intorest. A bond binds only so long as slaves aro kept slaving. This period only lasts n Bhort: timo. Wo will look into this a littlo closer. Lot us do somo hiBtory reviewing. This review of history holds no hopo for tho worker who votes for capitalist, reconstruction; rights of smnll nations, —or big either—bonds, voluntary on-j listment into H1b Majesty's—King's capital—service; small bungalows, freo farmsteads, and a host of othor tasty tit-bits, which will prove thomselvos very bitter to those who have to eat them. In reading history, especially that dealing with trade, we find there are times of prosperity and times of do* pression. 'I might have placed an interrogation after prosperity; but as tho word cannot be duplicated, and I havo to uso it often, wo will let it go un* molested. Prosperity means in every instaneo, those periods when the workers were kopt employed at or near the maximum. Depression means the reverse. Ever since 1858 over-production has boen the chief cause for depressing times, panics, or wbat is termed a financial crisis. We will not go into details concerning causes of these fluctuations in trado, but simply relate them in order to show the reader the fallacy of the hope held out by the capitalist class in connection with futuro prosperity. Thla is applicable, not only to Canada, but to the whole world, and to the greatest developed countries in particular. What indicates prosperity and depressions? It is the employment of labor; trade with foreign countries; the amount of revenuo collected, particularly exclso or internal revenue taxes; tho volume of bank clearances; agricultural production; the production, consumption, and prices of certnin staple articles of manufacture, notably iron and steel; railway tonnage und earnings; businoss failures, Tho success or otborwise of these things determine whether a depression or a prosperity exists. When boiled down, it simply means, when workers have lots of work the time is worthy of tho title of prosperity, and whon idleness is enforced through over-production it -is worthily termed depressing times. Both aro depressing to the slave class; but the onc is more acuto than tho other. Whilst, on the other hand, the owners of tho means of lifo enjoy ease and luxury at alt times. During periods of depressions, production dooB not decrease at the same ratio, and this fact explains the increasing rapidity of crisis following crisis. The machinery is being improved nt all times, and consequently tho rise and fall of good and hard times comes faster and faster, until it bo- comes a scries of hard times without tho intervening good ones. Remember, wo aro dealing with prewar conditions sinco 1858, which will give us a fair average of time upon which to base our conclusions. At the outbreak of wnr in 1014 tho productivo forces wero many times greater tnan in tho year 3858, and at the time of the signing of tho armistico the productivo forces were greater than they were oven four short years previous. So, when wo use pre-war evidence we aro not assuming anything, but stating facts. Theso periods of prosperity and depressions havo happened almost clocklike. However, there is a difference—- evory time the pendulum of prosperity emerges out of its depressing position, it gathers in bulk and swings with a greater velocity, thus bringing the crisis periods in quicker succession. Note the dates of depressions at thcir lowest: 1858, 68, 79, 86, 93, 97; and n 1900 a depression had begun. Again in 1906-7 nnd again in 1914. I have no authentic statistics' sinco 1900, so am rotating from experience since that date. Tho following aro tho height of prosperity datoB: 1800, 65, 72, 82, 90, 99. Those from experience: 1904, 1910, 1915-18. A depression is due very shortly. Thero has not boen a real prosperous timo sinco 1004-5-6. Whnt Mr. Makovski says in connection with the violation of Belgium's noulrnlity is quito truo, and England was not slow in using such a mighty weapon, a weapon which touched tho heart of cveiy patriot, whether ho agreed with wnr or not. To reliovo suffering, mankind will go to any limit. They have gone to extremes many times, but not to such nn cxtremo as was taken in 1014. Upon investigation it will be found that tho root of tho evil is neglected. Belgium's neutrality served to cover tho real issue ot stake. Thc real reason was a material ono and not an abstract idealism such ns the common people were led to believe. The sentiment, neutrality violations succeeded in swinging the "war out of the rut of economic or physical conquest into the spiritual atmosphere of idealism." This is truo, and it succeeded right up to tho very finish of the war in November last. Now we find tho issue is a very material onc. Markets and production are tho chief topics in high places, even in Paris, and even by such grent (1) men as premiers, presidents, kings and those a littlo lower. I want you to noto especially the sentenco following: "Everybody knows that Germany declared she must 'hack her way through' Belgium." Tho words hack her way through aro borrowed from some writer, and placed by L, W. Makovski beforo tho word Belgium. It appears a completo sentence intended to imply bruto force, nnd as though; written by some German. I don't wnnt I to back up n Germnn any moro than any other nationality. I believo thero are diabolical crooks in every country under the sun, nnd this mnnufneturing of sentences is n diabolical trick. It matters not to me what nationality a mnn is, His qttnlit'cs must be weighed according to tho standard of ihe internntionnl proletariat. Bourgeois morals and ethics are balanced against the ethics of the proletariat. Bourgeois covered materialism must be measured by the materialist conception of the class, Word juggling docs not. pass unobserved today. II may have passed in our grandfathers' time, but not now. Wo ennnot be ton careful in reading the master class press news. We hnvo to undress much of it in order to see j the truth, er the lies, whieh ever phase It intends to convey. The second paragraph readsi "Aftor four years nnd three months idealism has won. Many times dining! tho world's ngony we have heard how the war has changed the spirit of the j nations, how it has brought about cooperation, understanding and a determination that never again shall the world be subjected to such horrors. Tt has beon recognized that science has made of wnr a barbarous, bloody busi- iness, that machinery has robbed it of all romance, and that a futuro which would entail Ihe necessity of returning to tho era of cave-dwellers during a war, and of an ever-growing burden of armaments during pence, is simply suicidal and stupid. Thereforo peoplo have said over and over again in tho Inst four years that thero must be no war, and that somehow or othor the more powerful nation's must unite tol prevent any recurrenco of tho night- i mare which has at Inst, passed nwny." ' LAST SUNDAY J. Harrington at the Royal and Kavanagh at the Columbia On Sunday last, Local No. 1, Vancouvor, of the Socialist Party of Canada, decided to run two meetings; one at the Theatre Royal as usual, and the other at the Columbia. This step was undertaken because one hall for some time past has boen unable, by many hundreds, to accommodate those wishing admittance. Tbe venture waB justified by well-filled halls and splendid litoraturo sales. Tho "Red Flag," a now journal, issued by tho Dominion Executive committee caught on and over eight hundred were sold at both meetings. At the Theatre Boyal, Comrade W. Bonnot was in the chair and Comrade J. Harrington was tho speaker. Tho chairman spoke for twenty minutes on the ninterinlist interpretation of history. Ho stated its thesis which Is that the social superstructure and all its institutions, religious, legal or political, arc a reflex of the modo of production obtaining. It is that view of history which seeks the ultimate causo and tho great moving power of all important historic events in the economic development of society, in tho changes of the modes of production and exchange, in the consequent division of society into distinct classes against ono anothor. Bonnet then mado application of tho theory and reviewed tho ■icvelopment of human society through its forms from tho ancient civilizations based on Chattel slavery to tho present capitalist system based on wage- slavery. In closing, ho said that if recent evonts were any, criterion,. capitalism was not hero for long. Harrington then took the platform not those of the working class. It is questionable, however, whether bourgeois ideals hnvo won. It scemB to mo tho proletariat ib winning, and instoad of German imperialism being crushod by tho allies of Great Britain nnd Britain herself, it was defeated to a great extent through insido disintegration. Tho Russian revolution has shown the world's workers how to handle its own nffairs. This outbreak, brought on rapidly through tho war, was not entirely due to the war. It is tho outcome of many years study. It arises out of conditions, an understanding of which helps tho revolutionary movement. Sueh a movement can bo hastened or held in chock; in this case, in Russia, it waa hastened. In Germany it has been chocked for many yenrs through the systom' they had of wielding the franchtoc, and if Socialism is now about to bo established thero, it iB not by any means hastened. It is overdue. Gormany is ono of tho highest devolopod industrial countries. Production has been social these many years. ThiB applies to Franco ond Britain also. Tho war stopod becauso of disintegration, and a war to tho knife is now on for idealisms. Tho ono idealism is bourgeois, thc other is Bolshoviki. This is tho class war. Tho former is what Makovski advocates. BOYS! -don't you find the SPIEIT of UNIONISM a great factor In producing fine worjtf Don't yoa Snd it promotes a fooling of pride in yonr product and that in a Union chop all etand together for the reputation of the concern and combine in getting aftor the fellow who wants to skimp or scamp his work to the detriment of the product as a wholel Wo Ind that is so and, as a Union Shop from heel to toe, start to finish, all through, we find that wo aro able to givo value in workmanship ln FORD SUITS that no other houso has been able to approach. Our great buying power gives us thc choice of all that's best on the woollen market, and our forethought and foresight secured tho best. 0OI7> CA Our suits for men at 9%9 4 iOv are a revelation of value as expressed in stylo, material,'cut, fit and perfect workmanship. LAMBS', SUITS, 840 AND UP m*m__ I f SOfOtlM Tou Salts From Perl Oar Stock's , the Un in An tiu w«ii Aboard! and Hamilton with a powerful arraignment of tho press for its double-dealing and ovident desire to discredit tho Soviet system of administration without regard for decency or truth. During the last ten days a change of tone is noticeable. Kaiser Bill, whom they sentenced to five different kinds of denth was now much preferred to tho Bolsheviki, and I they wcro now calling the hunting dogs ' off tho kaiser and sotting them on another quarry. The Bolshviki were laying sacrcligious hands on property, the cardinal, unforgivoable Bin to the bourgeoisie. But, startling nows arrives from England ns to unrest among the soldiers there, and shortly after, Groat Britain announces her withdrawal in tho spring from Russia, the United States docs tho samo, nnd, following the riots in Japan, which tho outsido worid was led i to believo wero merely ricd riots, but which were in reality political in their I naturo. And the old Imperialistic party had been thrown from power and a government installed moro liberal and favorable to tho Soviot Administration in Russia, In theso revolutionary days we were making progress at a rato which, some yoars ago, wo would not have credited. Who would havo thought that wo Bhould have had today a socialist nation in existenco for twelvo months, and another nation well on ItB way! WAIT UNTIL THB "NUMBED" AH8- WEBS OB THB OPEBATOB BEPOBTS Very often s subieriber will -ull a number tnd, If aa almost instintnneoni connection is not eRiablit-hed, will hnnf np and try again later. lie fceli tbat mlitutci bava elapsed while, fn reality It bas been bnt a matter of a few seconds.. This hanging np ot yonr telephone receiver means that yonr time and the timt and labor of tbe operator has been waited. If the called party comes on tha line, the operator has to explain. Remaining at yonr telephone until yon get a report or the called party answer* means the saving In tbe time aad effort sf three pw-Hei. B. 0/ TELEPHONE CO., LTD. Ooal Drivers Strike Madison, Wis.—Nearly 100 coal wagon drivers suspended work to enforce n wage scale tbat will guarantee living conditions. EMPRESS THEATRE WEEK Or JAN. 20 A sparkling comedy full ot gigglos "MARY'S ANKLE" Featuring Margaret Mairlott Bettor than "-lorry." You 11 Bcrcam. Prices: 160, 36c and 600 PANTAGES] * Next W#«k - ODIVA and her Sea-Liom HUGO LUTOENS, the Swedish Billy Sunday Othar Big Pastoral FIRE SALE Entire stock of Men's Boots including Hartt's, Leckie's Slater's, Grebb's and j. & t. Beii's hRHHHHBHBH MEN'S BLACK CALF BOOTS A splendid medium weight black calf boot, with single sole and low heel; Blucher style. Reg. $5.50. Fire Sale Price $4.35 MEN'S DRESS BOOTS, $5.85 94 pairs of men's dress boots, with the rich nut-brown calfskin uppers; Neolin soles with rubber heels. All sizes. Fire Sale Price $5.85 MEN'S HIGH-GRADE BOOTS Values to $14—Fire Sale Price $7.65 This includes our entire stock of better Boots, made by Hartt, Slater and Bell. Every wanted style in both black and tan is included. Materials are the better quality kinds, calfskins and kangaroos. You will do well to investigate the values. All sizes. Fire Side _—/___ Price -Jp/.OO MEN'S WORK BOOTS Leckie's, Grebb, Ahrens, solid leather work boots; hand-sewn soles and pliable heavy calfskin uppers. Boots that you are usually d» C nn asked $6.00, $7.00 and $8.00 a pair for. Fire Sale price tp*J.W Ryjieffome of Good Shoes" CHARDSONS 649 HASTINGS. W. Near Granville. There in not much left to nny on Mint 11 paragraph from n point of i-ourpenin • I Idealism, only this; thnt 11 Is plninly I) noon to mono ninHtor olnns idcnls nnd j I PAGE SIX THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST If It's New We Have It ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW IN SHOE STYLES AT THIS STORE Whether for dress, street or business wear, you'll alw&ys find an ample stock of reliable footwear hore. Every model built expressly for tho service it's intended to fulfil, and every shoe a top-notchor in its class. And, by tlie way, Wlson's havo a reputation for exact, correct fitting that adds greatly to tho wear of your shoe. Also means more comfort and better appearance. Come in and let us show you. WILSON'S Twin Shoe Stores 157-159 Hastings St. W. Near Cambie Disputes Adjusted Washington—Ten new strikes and twenty-three industrial disputes were brought to tho attention of tho division of conciliation during last week. Seven casea, including four of tho strikes, wore adjusted; 22 are pending, and four aro reported unclassified. During thc * samo period, 20 cases previously reported were adjusted. ThoBo affected about 12,000 workmen. London—Announcement that 24,000 Japanese troops will bo 'withdrawn from Siberia is reported by a Tokyo despatch to tho Express, quoting an official statement issued by the Japanese war office on December 27. ' The statoment, according to tho despntch, says that Japan intends to maintain [ for, the smallest possible force in Siberia. I cd as satisfactory by all conccrnod. "Public opinion hore," says the despatch, "deplores tho withdrawal. Allied observers, Americans ns well as British, speak bitterly of intervention aB boing relatively a failure, owing to mutual jealousies." Strike to Gain Increase St. Louis, Mo.—Tho commercial members of Photo-Engravers Union No. 10 wero compelled to forco the issue by striking when tho employers refused an incrense. Tho cessation of work waB of short duration. Tho now agreement runs for a period of three yeara. It raises tho scnle of wages from $28 to $35, and stipulates a 44:hour week, to go into effect January 1, 1920. Back pay from December 1 is also provided Other improvements aro stipulat- LETTERS TO •3t#= Two of the best all-union eating-houses in Vancouver—the Good Eats Cafe All That the Law Will Allow Wt De-err. trada Union Patronage No. 1 No. 2 110 Cordova St West, or 622 Pender West -APPLICATIONS FOR- Winter Term DAY AND NIGHT SCHOOL Received up to— Monday, January 6th Success—trained students are always in demand. Phone Fairmont 2075 Phone us now, for full information. Success Business College, Ltd. E. SCOTT EATON, B. A., Principal Corner Main and Tenth Vancouver, B. C. Conditions in Camps Editor B. C. Federationist: May I on list your help in drawing the attention of tho authorities to the unhealthy conditions of camp lifo in this provinco. Pructically all tho expense that the government of thia provinco has been called upon to disburse has been for influenza victims of tho unsanitary con* ditions obtaining in tho lumber camps. Many valuable lives have been lost, which might have been spared had tho health authorities insisted on better sanitary conditions in the camps, which are a disgrace to any so-ealU-r] civilized country, and whicli should not and must not be tolerated any longer, unless tho government wish to invite a still moro serious epidemic thnn tbe present one. During tho last eight years, I have worked in many camps all over this provinco, and have never seen a bath or separate drying room for clothes in a single one of thom. In many the roofs aro so low that ono cannot sit upright in tho top bunks in houses built to accommodate doublo thc number that should be them, nnd often without any ventilation—not even a window that will open, and with pigs, lice and other vermin swarming all over lho place. Old clothes aro thrown under bunks and nllowed to fester and rot in tho heat of tho summer. Floors arc left unwashed for months on end, and never any disinfectant used or is a bunkhouBe fumigated. In the winter time every night tho stench from drying clothes and dirty socks is enough to knock n horso down, Grent roaring tiros nre put on which die down about midnight, and one win wake up half frozen, lying on top of the blankets ahd catch cold, which this and every winter induces la grippo, in fluenza and pneumonia. Then when men arc sent to, the hospital, ond new men take thcir places, they havo to sloop on tho samo diseaso-lnden hoy that tho sick have left behind them, and maybe catch tho flu moro virulently than tho previous enscs. Lot Labor get after thoso in authority, and insist on better conditions in camp life,- or pay the penalty of death, For if cleanliness is next to Godliness, surely dirt is next to death. Tours faithfully, B. E. FAY. January 7, 1919. NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY SHOES CHEP OUR CLEARANCE SALE CONTINUES ALL NEXT WEEK Men's Dress Boots, with leather or fibre soles, for Leckie's Men's Work Boots—Reg. $7.50 values for Leckie's Boys' Box Calf Red Stitched Boots, for * - Women's Dress Boots, broken sizes in this lot; values to $7.50 for BOOT SHOP H9 JUSTING* ST W. $5.85 $5.85 $4.25 $2.95 NATIONALISM. Editor of tho B. C. Federationist. "Nationalism" is a concept, a systom of reasoning, that tho different sections of tho human race aro receiving under various commercial emblems —the flagB-*—as I understand this is a very dangerous subject to deal with on account of the different ideals that aro prevailing in various countries. In order not to hqwt the Imperial prido at tho nativo born Britisher, who has not been outside of tho boundary lino of tho British Empire, and not having had a chanco to study the "national question" from both sides, I will state that when I speak of the British Empiro, I do not speak of it with a sneer on my lips, I speak "of tho Imperial Working Class" that is a class with Imperial Ideas, and workingmen's stomachs. The Imporial Ideals that hnvo seen birth within tho domain of Great Britain, I will not deal with, but I am going to draw a mental picturo of my own education that I received as a "Swede" during by boyhood, and I am sure tho reader will soe his picturo as a boy of tou going through tho British sfthool on the other side of the frame. I remember when I wont through tho little village school, wo had tho "Glorious Swedish history" to study and on tho pages of that history, wo wore roading about all the glorious battles, and wars, we, tho Swedes had fought against the Russians, tho Danes and the Germans, and sometimes against the British too, and we, tho Swedes, had defeated them all, so during my school days I used to expand my little childish chest and think that it was an extremely lucky stroke of fate that I was born a '' Swede,'' I thought that tho Swedes, wero tho only peoplo on the faco of tho earth, that wo wore really worth talking about; howovor, when I came to Canada and started to read about tho Swedes from a British point of view, I was astonished, wo Swedes are hardly worth talking about. - As a child I was reading about all bluo clad heroes, we Swedes had a blue uniform then, I was reading all thc "glorious deeds" that the grand armies of Sweden had accomplished on tho various battlefields, how tho Swedish soldiors had advanced across tho bloodstained battlefields with brave hearts, willingly laying down their llvoa for tho glorious cause of the "Kings of Sweden. When I was a boy I saw nothing wrong in it, but as I grew older and begun to seo things from a moro natural point, I got a shock, I .saw another picturo altogether, I saw thoso blue bravo hearts, but at the commands of their officers, they woro advancing with trembling legs, praying to an Almighty God that the shells may miss thom, so that they would seo their homes and loved ones ngnin, this is tho truo natural picture of all, "blood-stained" battlefields. But in 1914 when the workers of vnrious countries were rushed to their different national emblems, in order to defend their different national ideals, tho old system of education oxplodod liko a hubblo of soap. They began to learn that thoy wero all, regardless of color, nationality, or creed, betrayed. Since tho "Groat War" started tho workers began to learn thnt to tho ex* tent, thnt they wero pnid short at tho point of production surplus values were concentrated on their different nntional markets, commodities that had to bc disposed of, toVfloma other nation, in order to prolong their various nntionnl industrial systems. We have seen dur* ing this war, tho insano greed of special Intercuts, clutching with greedy fingers tho medium of exchango that was wet with the blood of the world's proletariat; wo have seen the industries speeded up until only forty per cent of the wago workers were required in order to produce tho commodities that wero necessary for our comfortablo existence Now "Penco" has. come, the ammunition plants aro closing down, the great nrniios had to bo demobilized. To the men who are now studying the immense changes that nro Inking place iu Europo, fifo is worth living. FBIDAT. .Jaatuury 17, Ull BOYS1 AND GIRLS1 CORNER STUDYING THE SOCIAL MACHINE [By J. 8. Woodsworth] Did you ever watch tho machinery on a big steamboat or in a factory, or in a largo newspaper office! There aro big wheels aud shafts and belts and pistons and lovers and switches nnd littlo wheels, and a thousand other parts. If you can't visit a factory, look at your watch. It takes a long time to understand how a machine workB ,and what each part is for. It has rcallly tnken thousands of years to build that machino. Ono man learned tho use of a lever; another tho use of a screw; an other tho wedge, anothor cog-wheels Then in recont timeB pjoplo hnvo learned all sorts of devices in handling and applying steam and electricity. Society in tho same way is a vory complex machine. The family—father, mother and children—is ono of tho enr- liest forms of the social machino. Now wo hnvo industries and governments, and law courts nnd schools, and churches and societies of all kinds. Eaeh man is just liko a cog in this big machine. Ho fits into other cogs. This social machine too has taken thousands of yenrs to construct and overy year it is growing and changing. Today wo wnnt to study this machine. Now in a gasoline engine there are a number of parts whoso function or uso is to supply tho gasoline; another group of parts whoso function or uso is to supply tho blectric spnrk, and another Bet that drive the wheols.. Let us try to classify peoplo according to thoir economic functions or the pnrts they play in relation to material wealth. First of all wo liavo producers—those who directly assist in tho production of. the things men need. Second, we hnvo thoso who help to exchange tho things. Wo aro coming to see that where these peoplo aro really doing useful work, they should properly be called'produc- ers, but when they do useless work, or perform no useful function at nil, they are simply "parasites," thnt is, people thnt live on others—as flees and bugs live on animals.' Now third, peoplo who produce and peoplo who exchange nnd socinl parasites are nil consumers. All ent nnd wear clothes nnd use houses and dishes, and all the things that nature provides or that men mako. As wo saw in our lesson on a Loaf of Bread, in the early days tho farmer nnd his wifo produced their lonf, and consumed it. Next came tho miller with his big grinding stones, turned by water power. He ground the flour for perhaps fifty farmers. Each farmer brought a load of wheat and took away a load of flour, leaving say, two sacks in pnyment for tho work the miller did. Then a carrier took the wheat and brought back thc flour and he had to have a sack for his- troublo. Now, the farmer takes his load to the olevutor. Tho elevator man takes a few handfuls and Bends tho 'rest to thc grain exchange. Now they pass it from hand to hand, each taking a handful!. Then the miller takes a handful and tho wholesaler takes a handful, and the railways tako sevjjul handfuls, and thc mnn that makes tho bags takes a handful, nnd the retailor takes a handful, bo that by tho time ho gets back his flour, there isn't much of it left. There are too mnny parasites. Then, of course, tho farmor doosn't want to uso all the flour ho produces. He wants it changed for machinery, and boots, and clothes, nnd all sorts of things. Now, in ench industry thoro are n host of middlemen, and thy exchanging gives a chanco for many more so thnt thero aro hundreds of hands outstretched to get a handful of that load of wheat. Evory ono who cats bread is getting a handful of the farmer's wheat Then not only are there too many middlemen) but the "middle mon" (if wo may uso tho word for all who are not directly producers), often stands in such a position that they can charge what they liko for their servicos. If tho millor owned, or claimed he owned, the only water power available, he could keep as many sacks as ho liked, because the farmor must get his grain ground. So today tho people thnt own or claim to own, lands and railroads, and banks, can charge what they like, because people must havo land, and goods must be carried, and money must bo used under our present systom of exchange. These changes aro frequently mado under the names of profits, or rent, or interest. Now lot us nnmo some of tho pooplo who aro really tho world's producors. Farmers, and miners and fishermen and manufacturers or people who mako things. Then thero aro others who should be classed with producers. Inventors—tho meu who really provide us tho tools. Educators—the men who train our hands, and minds for work. Consorvors ort preservers—liko doctors —who keep us in shape to produce. Organizers—men who show us how to work together, Theso men working with our natural resources, produco what men uae. Now, let us think of somo of tho middlemen, and ask how far they nro useful. They all must be fed. Somo of them eat big meals—big houses nnd automobiles and holiday trips. Whnt useful function do they porform in our socinl mnchine? Well the rotailcrB help us to get our food, bo they are doing useful work, and ought to bo put with the producers. But half1* dozen big stores could probably supply Vnncouver, nnd there aro hundreds and hundreds of thom—each with clorks and drivers and advertisements in the pnpers. Then the wholesalers and their travellers nnd advertisements—whnt a lot thoy cat and wear nud ubo thnt might bo saved. Then if they woro free, they could grow potatoes nnd mako boats and trnin boys nnd girls so that there would be enough for all, Tho transportation companies—railways and street cars, and steamboats) and express companies—all nro doing useful work in exchanging goods and so might bo put with tho producers. But. ovory year over and above what' they get for their sorvicoH us wages and snlnrics, they keep as "profits" vast sums. These they in no sense produco. Much the same might be said about banks nnd lonn companies and insurance compnnies. Thon thero nro tho speculators—men who gamble in lands nnd mines and stocks. They produce nothing whatovor but livo on the work of others. Our cities are full of officials of all kinds, Home uro doing* good work. But THE WORLD OCTOPUS Hope we'do no. have to get acquaint- id with thftt horrible Bolsheviki. Yours for the coining reconstruction, Ernest Liudbcrg, 205 Carroll Streot, On tho bottom of tho sens lives a monster of uncanny form and substance called an Octopus. It is headless, thereforo blind and brainless.* It is composed of only ono Imge, bottomless stomach of endless hunger and appetite which is surrounded by numerous arms; oach arm is supplied with many sucking cups, each sucking cup feasts on tho noarost victim. No foo ,or friend is recognized by this monBtor. It knows only its stomach's craving and its mnny arms, ench with many Bucking cups, itching for sucking out anything, and everything, that comes insido the reach of its arms, and it grows with feeding. In short, this monster is only a brainless, blind stomach, devouring everything but its own stomach. Supply this monster with smull eyes and a diminutive brain, in nil matters of human evolution and progress, nnd you havo the same monster on land. Thero it is culled Imperialism. In tho sumo way the sea octopus is ablo to preserve its sinister nnd destructive existence by squirting an ink-like Huid uround itself, which hides it from any enemy. So is its brother, the lund monster, called Imperialism, protecting itsolf in tho very snme manner. Talk is squirted in tho eyes of criticism, and tho monster is perfectly unrecognizable in tho many collected clouds of Hob and hypocrasies. As in the sea, so on land, tho monster recognizes no enemy or friend, only its craving stomach nnd its sucking cups. Its existonce costs fully ns much iu lives and material to its keepers, ns to the rival keepers of other similar monsters. Genernlly ono specie does not feast or livo on its own kind, excopt in vory aggravated casos, but the blind, brainless sea monster and its loathsome brother on Innd feast on their own kind. Theroin lies the only hopo of tho world ridding itself of tho vampires. Tho sen monster may do good by acting na n kind of scavenger, whoroin it diffors from tho land monster, who, having small eyes and a diminutive bruin, but a bottomless stomach, can soo nnd reason some. Therefore tho Innd monster demands all tho youngest and best for victims. It is immaterial to him how many millions young of his own cump, or a rival camp, he devours as long ns the craving stomach is being filled and tho itching sucking cups givon action. On tho land the monster's stomach is cnlled Empire, its arms, capital, and its sucking cups armies and navies. Tho usefulness or valuo (according to their diminutive brain) depends on tho sizo of their stomachs, number of arms and sucking cups, irregardlcss or tho millions of young ones amongst its own koepcrs, or elsewhere, to bring this nbout. "Glory to seize, never mind the prico. On land the monster uses, like thc cnmuleon, different colored ink to suit surroundings, in hiding its truo character. It may bo purple, red, or rod, whito and bluo. Also on land thia ink squirts, owing to its composition contains maddening, intoxicating poison which besides blinding the monsters keeper's eyes, fills their brains to insanity, with desire or sacrificing everything for tho upkeep of the Monster. Somo centuries ago tho fluid squirted by tho land monster sent its keepers into religious mussnercs. That woro out. A new brew wns mude for tho noxt squirt. Today it is "Na* tional" brow, and tho keepers went mad as boforo and tho beast got its millions of young ones frorfi its own mad koepcrs, and clsowhere. A brainless, blind monster, Imperialism, has sucked tho world dry for centuries and until reason ond sobrioty replace sentiment and intoxication its koepcrs, on all sides must keep on fcoding tho bottomless stomach of tho monster. Onco this monster and its squire is properly analyzed by its keepers, its existence, is doomed, but tho mnny colored inks, with their Bonso- destroying, intoxicating effect, are hard to penetrate, and as long as tho monster lives it will squirt and eat, and to get through tho ink of tho monstor has so far, excopt in Russia and middlo Europe, boen Impossible. Howover, the koepcrs that Buffer II the worst aro tho first to recognize this Pl madness, and it took tho prospect of total annihilation of its keepers in Russia and Centrnl Europo, to sobor nnd clear tho minds of the keepers sufficiently for thom to destroy the monster while keepers,enough were yot left to do so. Must it tako tho same methods Ay othor keepers, or will thoy act in time and savo thc young and coming generation? Food Costs Increase Washington—Food costs havo increased -1 per cent, between August 15 and September 15, last year, reports tho bureau of Lobor statistics. Compared with Septtiinbor, 1917, tho increase was 10 per cent. An increase of 72 per cent, for all food combined is shown for tho five-year period ending September 15 last. Every artielo for which prices have been obtained for this long period shows nn increnso of not loss than 50 per cent. 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To the general public hia coming was little noted. And yet, to a few, Earl Liebknecht was, even then, a personage of dramatic interest. Son of Wilhelm Liebknecht—der Alte—he bore a name already glorious in the annals of Socialism. For der Alte had sat in that inner circle nith Marx and Englos and had founded tho Socialist movement. Der Alto had led that epic struggle of tho german Social Democrats against Bismarck's Iron Laws aud had gono to prison in the fight. After Bismarck and his Iron Laws had passed away, Wilhelm Liebknecht had become the editor of Vorwaerts and the intellectual arbiter of international Socialistic thought. With such prestige Knrl Liebknecht had como into tho Socialist movement. It was an epochal moment. Tho ragged party which Bebel and del Alte luid founded hud grown into a powerful national und world force. Young Liebknecht niight easily havo become the loader of thia pnrty. He chose, otherwiso. Ho selected tho harder road. From tho beginning ho placed himself in opposition to the dominant leaders of the Social Domocracy. He became tlio loader of a hopeless minority. It was a, far-sighted choice. Powerful though it seemed, tho Gorman Social Democracy of thoso days had already developed u fatal inner cancer. Its seeming strength was already blighted "tii tho malady of cowardice. With growth had como conservatism of instinct. Unconsciously, the German Seal Democrats wero drifting toward the right. Their rigid internationalism had simmered down into an easy tolerance of chauvinism. As Lenin has snid, they had becomo "Social Patriots." Quick to perceive this disease, Liebknecht exposed it. With all tho audacity of youth, ho bogan a hopeless struggle with tho bureaucrats of the party. Ho attacked thom in tho party press, taunted them on party committees, fought them at party congresses, drawing upon him tho bitter rebukes of the mnndarins—Bebel, Kautsky and Singer. They damned him as a disrupt* A minority rallied around him. Thoir names ring significantly today— a roster of tho SpartaciiB Group: Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring and Klafti Zctkin. In 1907 young Liebknecht issued his famous brochure, "Anti-Militarism." It waB liko a blast of blasphemy. Junker Germany writhed in outrage. Social Democratic Gormany shook its head and whispered that Earl had gono too far. Official Germany sent him to prison for eighteen months. It was his baptism into the class conflict. While incarcerated he waB elected to the Prussian Diet. Aftor leaving prison, ho camo to America, preaching anti-militarism and warning us of the war, Tho world of 1900 refused to be alarmed. In 1012 Liebknecht went to tho reichstag. It was a tenso moment, A war scare was sweeping over Europo. Cries wero ringing in Gormany: "Defend the Fatherland!" An immonso increase in tho military budget was proposed in the reichstag. A vehement debate was drawing to its closo whon Liebknecht tho now deputy, nroso. With a fusillade of documents and facts, ho stripped baro tho wholo vast military illusion. Ho showed that the war scaro had boen manufactured in tho offico of tho Krupps; that tho newspapers in Berlin and Paris which woro shrieking for dofenso and patriotism, wero owned and subsidized by tho armament makers. Ho went further. He proved that this junta had boen behind all the patriotic ebullitions of tho past generation. Militarism was on international hoax. His words wero spoken too late. Already der Tag was sot. Anothor year nnd tho cataclysm camo. Tho voices of Liebknecht and his pitiful handful wero ehoked in the jingoist roar. HiB warnings found thcir tragic justification. His prophecy camo true. Then Liebkhocht found himself. Tho testing crisis of his lifo had como. For years he had dono lip servico to internationalism. He had fought with all his powers that the Groat War might nevor bc. But ho had failed. Now it was here. How Bhould ho moot tho factf Othors bowed beforo it. There was another dramatic day in the Beichstag! War Bwept tho people away in madness, Liebknecht, standing in his place, might well have thought of his father, standing with Bebel in that samo Reichstag, on the brink of an earlier war, forty-four years bofore. Then, tho Social Democracy was new and small, its strength negligible, But when thc voto for wnr was called, Liebknecht, dor Alto, had withheld Ms voto and gono to prison. Since then tho party had swollen to a host—ita adherents millions—its deputies tho strongest party in tho Reichstag. Tho ■ world listened. Tho Social Domocracy, which had braved tho world with its two lono deputies in 1870, shattered into fragments in thc test of 1014. With 111 Socialist voices, only Karl Liebknecht voted no. Thus Liebknecht mot his crisis. Tho world outside oGrmany ac- claimed him. Liberals apostrophized him. Now they try to recall their praises. As ho leads thc Sparfaeidcs and battles in tho streets of Berlin for thc Bolshevism of Lenin, they see the grotosquencss of their adulation. And yot, Liebknecht's is not a now role. It is tho grim climax of consistency. Ho stands whero he stood In 1014. He has gono on. The Liberals havo stood still. Liberals battled kaiserism becauso to them it was a menace to nationalism. Liebknecht fought kaiserism because to-Mm it wbb a menace to internationalism. Ignoring this distinction, Lib- orals throughout tho world saw in Liebknecht tho incarnation of their own struggle. Tho war raged. Tho kaiser Hod and despotism crumbled behind him. Liebknecht, emerging from prison, resumed tho old flght. Tho Liberals had won; Imperialism had boen vanquished by nationalism. He must carry the victory further. Now, with Lenin, he must wago war upon Liberalism; triumphant nationalism must fall beforo tho internationalism of his Ufe dream, Liebknecht pointed tho way. Little wondor ' "the Liberal prep* has turned upon its+Zimmerwald as a delegate from the whilom favorite, . The new programme of Liobknocht's this ruthless internationalism, this dictatorship of the proletariat, is not new; it formed itself in his mind in the earliest days of the war and nerved him to his successive acts of defiance. Apparently but one other man in the world of Socialism shared the same dream—an unknown. Russian exile— Nicolai Lenin. Their trails were soon to join. To understand what followed, one must recall that in the days before the war every Socialist party in the world was grouped concentrically around the co-called International. In this central confederation, all the Socialist groups in the world were joined for international aetion in international social crisis. All Socialists had assumed that tho International would be powerful enough to avert futuro wars. Events proved thcir error. Tho Gorman Social Democrats betrayed tho International. With sickening suddenness its edifice crumbled. AH the official Socialist parties in the world reversed themselveB. Thoy abandoned internationalism, Thoy became nationalistic. In this sudden regeneration of doctrine, factions disappeared. Right and loft wings spontaneously coalesced and moved to tho center. Guesde and Jouh- aix in France became as nationalistic as Ronaudel or,Albert Thomas. Hyndman, tho old impossibilist, joined with Blatchford and Sidney Webb in Eng-. land. Houso nnd Lcdcbour stood with Scheidonmnn in Germany. International seemed dead. But gradually a now minority began to emerge in each national Socialist party, a minority moro extremist than any previous left wing, preaching frank revolution, reviving tho International creed. It was tho ilrst rumblo of Bolshevism. In every country it began to form unofficial groups or blocs within tho Socialist parties. These blocs began to demand tho resummoning of tho International. When tho official parties repelled tho demand, tho minorities summoned a new International. They selected an unknown Swiss villago for tho gathering—Zimmerwald. At Zimmorwald, a new world forco was launched. Future historians, writing this ago, will dato many dc^ds from Ziramerwald. Tho first significant result of Zimmerwald was that it unitcfl tho two paralleled movements—Lieb- knechtism in Germany and Loninism in Russia. Strangely enough, this new internationalism did not command a'majority ovon at Zimmorwald. The dolegates convened September 15, 1915. Broadcast invitations had attractod all thc dissonant shades of opposition from all the Socialist parties in tho world. They met only to disagree and part. Two general groups early disclosed themselves, seeking diverse ends. Of thoso, it was only tho minority which remained permanent. To understand the latest events in Germany we must comprehend these two Zimmorwald factions. For they have persisted. Wo will comprehend, then, why today Haaao and Dittmann and Barth stand in one party and Liebknecht and Luxemburg and Ruhle maintain another. Why, not alono in Germany, but in all countries, Socialism has divided itself into threo rival factions. After Liebknecht's lonely act of revolt in the first days of the war, a second faction reluctantly disentangled itself from tho nationalistic Social-Democratic majority. Dio Sumpf, Liobknocht called it, or "the swamp," a buffer minority interposed botweon Liebknecht and his extremists, and Schoidemann's majority. This group, led ny Hasse, Ledebour and Karl Kautsky, has since becomo an independent party, the Independent Socialists. But :.t tho timo of tho Zimmerwald conference, thoy were still a bloc in tho Social Democracy, styled tho Arboits Gcmeinshaft. Thoir programme was vague aad vacillating. In tho fir3t erisis they had stood with Scheidnmnn aud supported tho war. Kautsky himself had offered tho official justification. Now thoy had swung to tho contrary position. But thoir opposition to war was not based upon internationalism, as was Liobknocht's; thoy held that war wob no longor justifiable becauso it was no longer a war of dofenso. No foreign troops remained upon German soil. Upon other questions thoy wcro equally ovaaive. They sighed for revolution but they built thcir programmes upon evolution. Their oyes wero opened to tho rottenness of the Majority Socialists, but thoy still sought a new unity and reconciliation, Opposed to them wero tho extremists. After Liebknecht's revolt in tho Reichstag, nn organization had sprung up around him. In April, 1015, a band of Socialists came together at Dusseldorf nnd established a papor. The Internationale. Rose Luxemburg and Franz Mehring were its editors. Only 10,000 copies wore issued. "Tho war must end!" it shouted. Ita pages rang with words of hot defiance. Of course, the iron hand of thn censorship struck ond suppressed this now voico. Roso Luxemburg wns hurried to jail boforo the dato of issue. There wcro no moro issues. But the group founded about Ihis mnpnzine becamo an orgnnization. It chofei the namo of Internationale, T/iebknccht and Otto Ruhle of tho Reichstag joined it. This wns tho forerunner of the Spartacus group. Into tho Zimmerwald conference came'both tho Arboits Genioinslinft and tho Groupe Internationale. The former dominated. Led by Ledebour, they shaped tlie course of thc conforonco, and drafted the official manifesto. To those who had hoped that Zimmorwald would lead to action, it was a dark disappointment. The Swamp doomed tho conforonee by its own fatnl doubtings, Tho purpose of the conference had beon to found a new Socialism movement, to repudiate the Majority Socialists of the old International, to create a definite split. The conference wns fo have framed a programme of immediate revolution. It was to reassert internationalism, to declare the proletariat of nil countries have no fatherland: to call for a resumption of thp Mass war nnd arm themselves for international revolt. But tinder the guidance of Ledebour and Kautsky, the conference s'radfflM tho protrrnmme. "Hie Swnmp" evaded the Issue, Lenin, sitting Jn the conference nt Russiun Social Democrats, saw that it had gone to pieces. In his writings he relates that ho discovered at Zimmorwald that there are not two, but three factions of Socialists. He classifies thom: 1. Social-Patriots: Socialists who have swung over to nationalism, who accept tho cult of the fatherland, and who have honce been incorporated into the ruling capitalist class. Nono of these were present at Zimmerwald. 2. Social-Pacifists: Socialists who have accepted the anti-war position, who have given a verbal opposition to the war, and have then sunk into the acquiescence of passive resistance. Sueh also. Lenin claims aro Lonqnet in France, Tcheidze snd Tchcrnoff in Russia, Snowden and Bamsay McDonald in England, Hillquit in the United States. 3. Internationalists: Now known as Bolshoviki, To thom there was no war but tho clnss wnr and thoy never made a truce. They knew no country and no fatherland. With tho gesture of a Tom Paino, they could say thnt the world was thoir country, to do good their re- 'igion. Tho truth was forced upon Lenin, at Zimmorwald that in all tho world of Socialists only the pitiful sub-minority of Internationalists wcro material fit' for revolution. Tho conferonco adjourned, and tho delegates began to disperse Then Lenin called his minority together in unofficial conferonco. They issued an unofficial International. Thus into tho world of international action was bom a new forco—the forco of Bolshevism. In Germany, the nucleus of Bolshevism became tho Spnr- tacus group and its leader was Karl Liebknecht. A mystery shrouda tho following months. Undor the surface Bolshevism was preparing for an international blow. Official Socialism hud abdicated its rolo and no longer summoned the proletariat to revolution. Lenin leaped into tho broach. Socialism had wnvor- ed and weakened. Bolshevism picked up tho international flog. To attest tho completeness of tho chango, Lonin even abandoned "tho namo Socialist. He harked back to tho forties and revived tho namo of Communist Party. He still npothesized tho programmo of Marx, but his weapons wcro tho weapons of Bakunln. It was a timo of foverish preparation, of mysterious journeyings, of many plannings. At Zurich, in neutral Switzerland, Lenin and Liebknecht oponed thcir bureau. As from the vantage of a cloud, thoy poured out avalanches of propaganda that- rolled from their mountain fnstnoBseB into Germany and Italy and France. 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AND IT HAS NEVEB GONE BACK ON USI Abovo nil the TONE QUALITY of the BELL 'ABT" PIANO remains unimpaired after years of uso. If you're in tho markot for a piano, lot tho word "BELL" ring in your oars. ° MonteliusPianoHouseLtd. 524-28 ORANVIUE ST. Terms If Desired ed, on oy.owitnoss describes that fateful dug: "Aa I noar tho door, I hoar tho footsteps of great multitudes. As far as I can see, nil tho streets and sido streets nro full of surging, silently moving people—all moving in tho direction whore tho May Dny celebration is to bo held. Theso aro men and womon—mostly womon. Suddenly it becomes apparent to mo that thoro nro moro children in tho crowds thnn men and women togothor. As thoy murch( I notico that thero is not ono in tho crovfd thnt has a smilo on his or her faco. Along tho routo, no one is cheering thom. I hnvo nover scon such immonso crowds in tho streets of Berlin. Thoy movo ts though thoy nro tho part of funeral procession. • * "On reaching tho paluco grounds, I seo in tho distanco, five persons. From their olbows up thoy tower abovo tho heads of thoso surrounding them." This wns Lifcknecht ond his committeo. Thon tho narrative tells of tho speech, tho sudden chargo of tho troops, tho disposal of tho vast throng nnd Liebknecht pulled to tho ground and ... - - — — carried away. Fot a momont it seemed J'J011 appraisals of Liobknocht. Ho it Surolv novor beforo was "*-* holder I *hat tho dream of Zimmorwald had th"i°» ■Jontinuea impossible it mnst havo seomed to thoso i? _oAu _"** *«I Germany, whilo in who viewed it in logic-, pitiless light. £j" &SSttS,,-S_'ft* «J * That feeble handful—a minority within a minority—outcasts even in the world of Socialism! Weaponless! Armed only with a slogan and a faith! To challenge tho iron battalions of nn international capitalism in its noon of power. That faith has already overturned two of Europe's groatost ompires, and ail(l , 11.WRIU.U threatens how many moro t For Boi- &nt day8 of tho QonMB eruptIon. ahevjst Socialism is hauntod by no dog- When he cmarge_ from pri801. liob. tory. Liebknecht had but to wait in Bpandau for the inevitable vibration of revolution whieh should open his prison doors again. Ho heard the news that Lenin had 'already reached tho goal across the border. Ho sont words of encouragoment to his comrades, tho Group of Spartacus. He has helped tho Allies—he and Lenin —for a larger end than theirs. He and Lenin are playing for tho stake of the world—not for n League of Nations, but for a league of workers. Will they winf—Reedy'a Mirror. ma of tradition. It is a revolt against the old Marxism which has evor straight*jacketed Socialist minds-—tho Marxism of rigid rule's and precedents, uf determinism and tho categorical imperative; tho Marxism which is scientific beforo it is human. Bolshevism ro- jocts all that. It preaches a Socialism which soeks ever to surpass itself, From Zimmorwald Liebknecht returned to hia work in Germany. In his first movo he oyor-roachod himself. Camo tho abortive attempt of May Day, 101G, and Liebknecht was swallowed up behind the grim walls of Bpandau. Understanding of Liebknecht's courso jn Germany is conditioned upon a realization of tho international forces in which ho was involved after Zimmorwald. Certainly both Lonin and Liebknecht beliovcd that tho revolution could como to Gormany first. In that beliof Liobknecht launched tho May Day blow against Dcutschlond at its zenith of imporium. It was madness, and it was magnificent. Only a miracle could have brought success, but both Lenin and Liebknecht believe in miracles. In Liobknecht'h "Thc Future Bo- longs to the Peoplo," recently publish- Demands Eight-hour Day Boston—A demand for tho eight- hour day was tho feature of Speaker „ - , - ... Warner's addross at the opening of the How close was the tie botwoen Lonin state legislature. "No state,"ie said, and Liobknecht wos ovldoncod in tho "should permit a transgression of tho eight-hour day when thot transgression assails and impairs the health of its people. Wo can afford to lose from our borders those industries whoso grood nnd selfishness outweigh tho physical well being and nourishment of mothers uud future citizens. knecht hurried first ot all to the Bolshovik embassy in Berlin. Thero, upon tho steps, boforo u vast crowd that choked tho streets as far us eyo could reach, Liebknecht halted, tho prison pallor still upon his checks, and publicly embraced thc Kussian envoy. Ovor his head, whoro tho hatod insignia of czar- dom had waved so long, ho beheld tho red flag that stood for .Russia and for Bolshevism and for the international rulo of tho proletariat, From his coign he suw tho red future como. The question of how great a part tho Bolshoviki played in tho overthrow of Kaiserism is difficult to answer. Tho moro existence of tho international programmo which they planned at Zimmerwald, and tho link which they formed with Liebknecht ,indicates the rolo which they must huvo played. That thoy were tho main foment ers of tho revolution is problematical. That they hastened it, is certain. That it could havo come without them is doubtful. Wu may not go so far as the Russian spoakor in New York, who, at tho first news of tho Berlin catnclysm, leaped upon the platform to shout, "Tho German Revolution—it is tho Russian revolution. It has merely moved from Active in Wheeling Wheeling, W. Vn.—'She trado union movement in enthusiastic in tho campaign to organize the iron aud stool mills iu this vicinity. 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This applies nowhere more strongly than in the selection of those manufacturers in whose hands we entrust the reputation of the Claman Label- Insist on Union-made Clothes. Our "Right Selling Plan" spells Quality at Economy prices. $25 $35 $45 Claman's LIMITED 153 HASTINGS ST. W. Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes ton. Thereupon the managers of Albert hall permitted tho nieeting to be held. The conservative Saturday Review, in commenting upon the incident, asks hysterically, "Have we escaped from the frying pan of tho German war into tue firo of domestic revolution! Is the nation which has conquered a brace of kaisers going to be beaten by Webb and LandsburyT Hardly." Why Irish Labor Withdrew Candidates A recent issuo of "Tho Voice of Labor," the organ of tho Irish Labor party, just recoived in this country explains why it was that the Irish Labor party, through having put into the field candidates for the general eleetion, withdrew them later. This was done "in tho hope that the democratic de* tnand for solf determination . . , • , will thereby obtain thc greatest chance of expression at thc polls , . . , Wo shall also thereby demonstrate to the peoples of all nations, as emphatically as peaceful means allow, that at this hour, when other small nations of Europo aro asserting their freedom, Ireland, too, demands all rights of a free nation." In othor words, tho Labor Party refrained from putting a ticket in tho field, lest the votes of those who stood for Irish independence bo split. PRANCE. Socialism Invades Brittany. For tho first timo in French history, big Socialist meetings arc being held in Brittany, thc stronghold of the monarchists, according to a special correspondent of tho New York Call. This correspondent adds that "tho signing of tho armistico was thc signal for huge demonstrations in the labor centers of Periguoux, Saint Etienno and Clermont-Ferrand." Paul Wallace Hanna, sent to Europo by the New York Call to roport tho peace conference at Versailles, writes under date of December 15, regarding thc programmo of the French Socialist movement: "Jean Longuet is today tho principal speaker nt a great moss,mooting held nt Clermont-Ferrand to demand the ro- lease of the May strikers nnd of all political prisoners in tho republic. This demnnd, coupled with thnt for immediate demobilization, withdrawal of French troops from Russia, open diplomacy and no economic wnr after tho war, constitutes tho immediate activities of the French Socialist movement, Incomparable are my prices and qualities. They simply can't be beat. "Pay Cash and Carry." That's the secret. 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The conference is to be Pan-American in scope and among the labor and socialist movements invited, to be represented are those of tho United States, Argentina, Chile, Poru, Cnnada, Mexico, Panama, Cuba and Porto Rico. In this connection, it is recalled how Champ Clark, speaker of the Houso of Representatives, in an address bofore the Southern Commercial Congress at Charleston, South Carolina, on December 0, called attention to the importance of Pan-American relations from thc American business man's point of view in these words: "Our best hunting grounds for trado will be Central and South Amorica— right nt our doors ' These amazingly rich countrios aro our neighbors and our friends, Thoy now contnin nbout 50,000,000 of population nnd illimitable resources. They aro growing by leaps and bounds." Thc conference assumes added significance when one considers that two South American Republics, Chile and Peru, nro at swords' point with each other, the issue be'ng the question of) who shall own (wo certain rich provinces, Tnciifl and Arlca, Ono feature of tho situation is lho fnct that tho war mongers in Chile aro busily engaged in fostering sentiment for thc deportation of 18,000 Peruvian workers in Chilean nitrate fields. The conference is also regarded as highly important in viow of lho efforts of American imperialists to Btir up sentiment in this country in fnvor of 'intervention in Mexico. URUGUAY. Striko Abandoned. Tho plans for tho general strike throughout Uruguay, which have beon under preparation for somo time, wcro abandoned on January 1. Tho government, by tho threat of using the army against tho workers, was able to terrorize the labor leaders Into abandonment of their original plans. It is stated, however, that tho labor leaders aro continuing their "work of organizing tho workers of tho southern republic* ENGLAND. Albert HaU Incident Stilt Agitates. Tho Albert Hall incident of the enrly dnys of December still continues to ngi- into the conservative journals of England. Albert Hall, it will bo remoin- bored, ts tho Madison Squaro Garden of England—an enormouH edifico in whicli mass meetings of first import- O/iflo aro held. Tho owners of Albert Hull hnd tried to prevent a mooting of Hritish luborltos in connection with tho campaign preceding tho general elections, on tho ground that incendiary and revolutionary disturbances might rosult, The Eloctrical Trades Union forced the issue by cutting off tlio lights of Albert Hall for other events scheduled, and by threatening to-cat-off thc eleefric current ih entire Kensing- SPAIN. Congress of Labor Unions. The recent deliberations of tho thirteenth congress of tho Union Genernl do Trnbajndores, tho nntionnl lnbor union of Spain, woro of more than usual importance to thc Spanish labor movement. The conditions which made tho congress of such significance wero tho stnte of world politics, the rc-awnk ening of the working clnss group in parliament which was conducting a strong campaign, tho economic plight and attendant labor unrest which tho country was facing, and tho general disorganization of tho workers themselves. Tho congress opened its sessions in the latter part of November, with fl8 delegates prosent, representing 600 branches with 100,000 members." Several new associations wero admitted to tho union, among thom being the municipal junta of tho Radical Party. Throughout Spain there has beon serious disaffection among the miners, rnilwaymon and postmen, often resulting in strikes, and at the congress tho oxecutivo was bitterly criticised for not extending much needed assistance. Tho executivo replied that tho demands upon it were too many and too burdensome to permit of thoir being complied with. Tho question of education was also considered, but nothing of valuo dovolopcd. Prolonged argument followed tho introduction of a resolution calling for fusion of the Union General, and tho Confederation Nncional do Trobajo, tho hitter being supported by the syndicalist elements ond being the more nggressive orgnnization. A new resolution setting forth tho need for fusion and empowering a committeo to take necessary steps lo bring it about, wns passed. A proposition for the union to sub sidisso "El Socialista," a Socialist newspaper, met with snmo opposition, but was finally carried. This action was especially duo to tho fact that thi paper wns printing in some detail the important debates which the Socialist deputies in the Cortes were promoting, which necessitated an increase in pages from two to four, and attendant expenses beyond tho moans of tho pnper to boar. It Is Your Advantage to Buy Undermuslins Now Every requirement has been anticipated in this sale, liberal assortments being provided in all lines. Materials arc of the finest, styles are as you would have them and the prices are specially low. There is every good reason why you should attend this sale and take advantage of thc splendid values. It is by far the most important Whitewcar event of the entire year. 575 Granville Phone Sey. 3540 TO A CAPACITY I Speaker ' at Rex Theatre Explains the Question 'What Do We Want?" A-S.U.B. Local 2651, Victoria Moeting held in Lnbor Hall Thursday evening, Brother H, Starkoy in the chair. Seven new members wero initiated. Tho question of supporting the local paper, Thc Tribune, was left over to a summoifod meeting, aa was also a communication from headquarters ro amondmont of rules. It was unaided to support the Retail Clorks In thcir efforts to have the weekly half- holiday changed from Wednesday lo Saturday at the coming municipal election, when a referendum dealing with the holidny will be taken, Brother II. J. Jones was appointed delegate to the Metnl Trades Council ro Brother fl, Ellis resigned. Business Agent Domicilii spoko in a very commendatory manner of the efforts of the shop stewards (members of tho 2(551) in organizing tho yards* The A. S. C. & J. local is going abend nnd is undoubtedly ono of the I've organizations in the city, tho benefits accruing from the institution of a permnnent secretarv making themselves felt'. * • Houston, Texas—Organized cobprTs havo reased wages from 57% to 70 cents on hont ;aml secured a o'he-year contract*. Complete Overthrow of the Present System of Production Is Advocated Last Sunday evening was no exception to the stato of affairs which has prevailed for weeks past at tho Rex Theatre, as hundreds wero ngnin unable to obtain admittance. Mr. Woodsworth ia opening stated that he had been ht the Broadway theatre continuously for tlio last seven Sundays. Ho referred to tho significance of the fact that it was possiblo to curry on four large meetings in Vancouver theatres at the same timo on Sunday evenings in tho working class interest. These meetings were more than propaganda meetings, they were centres of expression. Tho press was controlled and tho pulpits catered largely to ono class in society. It was encouraging thereforo that so many were found to bo actually clamoring to givo expression to tho sentiments and desires of the great masses of the people. Two things worth noting at tho outset were tho present phaso of thc Bussian situation and tho civic election, Tho protest ugainst interference in Bussia was spreading and being voiced by leading U. S. magazines aud British newspapers liko tho Manchester Guardian and thc Westminster Gazette, Now wo had the information thnt British and American troops wero to be withdrawn from Bussia. Nevertheless some disgraceful scenes were reported to havo taken placo when certain Canadian troops were only recently shipped at Victoria for Siberia. Wc had grown accustomed to hear of German and in tho past of Russian troops being driven by forco to the fighting front, but it was something new for Canada, and tho speaker believed for thu British Empire itself, to have troops driven aboard ship by bayonet and revolver. A Limited Franchise Regarding tho civic election thoy had boen treated to an exhibition of tho fact that it is not the man whot votes, but a piece of property. Twenty-two hundred votes had decided Hie control of this big city i'or another year. The lists were not representative of tho people, and ns u proof of this tho speaker challenged tho big Rex audi- onco to show its civic voting power, and less than fifty hands were put up in response. An absolutely unpardonable stnte of affairs existed in the fact that it was possiblo for one man to voto eight times if he happened to have his property in each division of tho city, Tho worker whero ho had a voto at all Vvas usually confined to one vote, and it was thc plural voter who had defeated the Labor Party candidato in this recent eleetion. Thoy must also follow tho example of Winnipeg and abolish the property qualification at present necessary to tlie holding of civic office. Many outside of thc ranks of lnbor wore asking todny what it was that labor wanted, and it was interesting to note the development ns shown by where tho emphasis was placed on tho query, At one time thc tono was a superior ono as they asked tho question, "What do YOU want!" Then it becamo impatient, "Whnt do you WANT?" Then worried, "What DO you wantf" ami latterly, conciliatory, "WHAT do you wantr' Want No patchwork Other people seem to think wo want reconstruction schemes which arise from a theory that tho war was just an interruption to which a few simple adjustments uro needed in order to have everything running again on the same lines. What is known as tha Whitely roport in Britain seeks for control of operation in industry by committees composed of employers and workers' representatives; but this will not satisfy the worker when ho renbr.es lhat inter- Machinists Local, 777 Requests that all members give in their names and addresses to the secretary as they are compiling a new mailing list for The Federationist, Officers elected: President, Chas, Edwards; vice- president, P. Bengough; financial see* rotary, W. Warcham; recording secretary, A. House; conductor, Bro. Quigley; sentinel, Bro. Boardman. The machinists specialists and helpers of the Coughlans Shipyards and Vulcan Iron WorkB, are requested to attend ft special meeting, to bo held in the Labor Tomple, room 306, on Saturday, Jan, 18, at 3 o'clock. Befuses to Arbitrate New York—The Dress and Waist Manufacturers Association has refused to arbitrate tho question of higher wages with its organized employees. President Schlesinger of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, suggested taht differences be referred to an impartial tribunal, but this was rejected. Tho unionists say tho association has but 30 per cont. of the employers gecauso of tactics similar to its present attitude. T. & L Council Holds Busy Meeting Last Night (Continued from page I) Frame Safety Law Olympia, Wash.—A safety bill has been prepnred by a committeo of employers and employeos appointed by tho stato industrial commission. The bill provides a rule of duty for employer nnd omployed in respect to safoty of workmen and work places and for the establishment of standards of safety. ests are vested just where they alwaya have been. Tho represutativo British workors havo clearly defined their position in stating that there must bo no patchwork aud that a reconstruction of society itself is what is wanted, und it must bc so well done'that thoro will bo no danger of a counter revolution. Tho Canadian manufacturers idea of reconstruction as dofined by tlieir speakers, disclose a desire to retain all of their special privileges previously enjoyed—a continuation of high tariffs—bigger trade and all that this has meant to them. Thc worker, on the other hand, realizes that such a programme means nothing to him except a continuation of his economic slavery, Thc state had not hesitated to step in and demand tho lifo of its citizenship, but property hnd practically escaped making any equivalent contribution. Life was rated lower than property, but this was one of the lessons which Labor had learned, and although they were credited with short memories he believed there would be sufficient memory left of the relationship of life to property lo enable them to sustain a demand for social justice. The farmer belonged (o a traditionally conservative class, but today was demanding the common ownership of natural resources and state-owned systems of distribution. •Tho big thing was to stimulate people to think. That was the work of the Federated Labor Party. Ignorance and indifference were the pillars of the present system, and they must expound tlio truth till people see it. After nil, it was not the messago of a party or an organization, it was the messago of a new day for all workers. The movement of the workers was recognized in the press of every country now by only one name, but it made Httlo difference, the work was going on and spreading. Exploiters were doomed to be overthrown. They wero today becoming accommodating, but as one writer had said, they were "willing to do everything for Iho worker except get off his back." which would be held shortly; also that the committee re the B, C, Fedorationist bo discharged. His report was concurred in, J, J. Dougan, secretary Child Wei* fare Association, requested two representatives attend meetings the coming year. The delegate from the laundry workers stated that some 80 girls and 20 men were still out of work. Hon. L. W. Shatford and H. H. Stevens, M.P., wrote drawing attention to the desirability of council urging tho Dominion government to hasten construction of tho branch line of the C. N. B. from Kamloops to Kelowna. Filed. Vancouver city publicity and industries appointed to study and report on tho development of natural resources, asked that council send representatives to attond meeting. Labor Disputes tho following resolution, after a lengthy discussion was unanimously passed: "That tho Trades and Labor Council submit the following questions to tho affiliated unions: 'Are you in favor of all labor disputes boing submitted to the Trades and Labor Council whon same caunot bo adjusted by the party or parties affected?' "In tho event of tho couneil being unable to arrive at a satisfactory settlement: 'Aro you in favor of n goneral striko voto being taken by all affiliated locals!' " 'Havo you any agreement at present with tho employors f If so when does it expire?' " Ladies' Auxiliary At tho regular meeting of tho Ladies' Auxiliary of Machinists on January 16, two new members wcro initiated. A whist drive and danco has been arranged to tako place on Saturday, February 35, in the Labor Temple. Further details will bc given iu next week's Federationist. AH machinists nnil their friends aro wclcomo to join in a good evening. Janitors Raise Wages Chicago—With nn almost 100 per cent, organization, janitors in this city succeeded in winning their strike for higher wnges. Rates arc doubled iu somo cases. Under the new agreement a janitor must bo given 15 days' notice before he can bo discharged. If ho lives in the building he must have 15 days to move. The workers must givo 15 days' notice if they intend quitting thoir employment. Wives of janitors can not bo hired for janitor work. This stops tho practico of an entire family working to secure a baro living. To Extend Initiative Littlo Rock, Ark.—Petitions will be circulated to chango the state constitution so that any number of amendments may be submitted to the people for popular approval, through direct legislation. Tho constitution now permits only three amendments being placed beforo the peoplo at an election. Bureau for Homcseokers Washington—A homcseokers' bureau has been established by tho railroad administration to givo free informntion about opportunities in western and southern statos to thoso who wish to engage in funning, stock raising (gardening and similar occupations. FBENCH SOCIALISTS AND INTEBNATIONAL SITUATION Frenchmen Are Opposed to Intervention ln Either BnttU ot Germany (By International Labor News Service Band School of Soeial Science, Nen York.) Tho central organ of tho French Socialists, L'Humanlte, writes as follow, on the threatened allied military campaign against Bussia: "All those who contributed to provoke and prolong the war are alarmed at the awakening of the masses . . , and demand that the centres of the people's revolution should be promptly supresscd. Their anxiety is no longer to conquer tho enemy, but to preserve from the revolutionary peril tho capitalist bourgeoisies of all countries. They know that the Bussian Bolsheviks havo destroyed monarchic and capitalist privileges, havo placed thcir hands upon tho property of social parasites. Anything sooner than thatl Thoir hatred of tho enomy is giving placo to the desiro of coming to an understanding with him, so as to bar tho advance of this scourge, which is worse, in their eyes, than war or pestilence , . . , That a now war .... should be undertaken tomorrow—a war waged by tho international counter-rovolution, a crusade agaiust the peoples who aro progressing towards political and economic enfranchisement—this is possiblo; but surprises await tbe initiators of such an adventure. Thoy will no longor bo ablo to plead the necessities of national defense, and tho necessities of capitalist dofenso aro not of a naturo to rouse tho enthusiasm of thc masses. On tho contrary, tho workers will por- coive clearly that they aro boing thrown ngainst ono another only in order that their chains may bo riveted, and tho domination of their masters consolidated." Lo Populaire, the organ of tho majority Socialists reflects as follows on tho provalont policy toward Germany: "The French press is divided between its hatred of kaiserism and its animosity to Socialism. Between a kaiserism which would destroy all liberties, and a socialism which would ruin nil privileges, their choice is mado in advance. They are discovering latent sympathies with the deposed monarchs who, after all, maintained a certain social order—or disorder—nnd thero arc too many points of resemblances between German absolutism and thc Tsarism which our greater journals have;—not without profit—extolled, for them to deny to the former all tho respect they gave to Ihe latter. How keep the Austrian and Germnn revolutions within the boundary which divides a caricature of democracy— sueh as ours—from real democracy? Such is the pro-occupation of many Frenchmen, in whom the soul of tho Holy Alliance still lives . . , . 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