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THE .CANADIAN Bventeenth Year. No. 48 y With Which Is Incorporated THE B. C. FF /^ATIONIST VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY MORNING,/ ffc 27, 1925 Eight Pages. 5c A COPY 7 Unions On Warpath Open Shop In Quebec Battles B.& 0. PL. U. F. A. Organizing U. S. Likes Fascisti i .IONTHEAL WOULD ARM AGAINST BRJ^AD TRUST E(By C. McKay, Federated Press.) flONTRBAL—City-owned bakeries to combat the bread trust •cere advocated by Aid. Joseph I'Schubert before the Montreal Trades and Labor Council, in com- ' nen ting on a proposal of the bakers' union to establish co-op- |eratlve bakeries. "The bread trust controls a kapital of $400,000,000, and owns fflour mills as well aa bakeries," aid Schubert. "Tou will have to uy flour from the truat at trust iratei." At the request of the unlona, fche chamber of commerce and Other'organizations, the Montreal city council haa appointed a committee' to investigate bread. Plain white bread sells for 8 cents per pound In Montreal. In two cities among the wheat fields of Alberta plain bread retails for over 9 ■cattta, *,i>r more than twice the |prioe of 4.6 cents for plain bread ot*th« same quality in London, Brifr ■ - /f |. A merger of .biscuit companies b«tng formed ln Montreal. As Ln Inducement to Investors, the prospectus calls attention to tha (remarkable success of .the J-Ta- btonal Mlscult Oo. of the United Itates, a merger of American bls- |ult concerns, "National Biscuit common atock fsould be bought aa low as $31 a hare ln 1898," the prospectus ays. "Since then lt has 'paid large and regular dividends. It paa given four shares for one, hnd a stock bonus of 75 per cent. |'oday the shares are selling at bout three times their par value, that a holder who paid only 131 In 1898 has now the equivalent of over $500 for his original nare. Other biscuit mergers have §~lso shown wonderful results for [he original holders." Catholic Unions Strike Edmonton R.R. Carmen Irvine Offers Assistance In Action SUBSIDIZE ASSASSINS BY ITALIAN DEBT PACT (By Federated Press) MONTREAL—Boot and shoe manufacturers of Quebec City have put over a wage reduction on their employees, members of the National and Catholic Union, by moral persuasion in the form of threats to move their factories. Montreal hoot and shoe manufacturers have been preparing by hard time stories. Montreal workers do not swallow the low wage philosophy so easily. When Pres. Baivetock Wilson of the British Seamen's Union was here preaching the virtues of wage reductions, the sailors howled him down, though the newspapers gave him generous space for interviews defending his thesis. A few weeks later Pres. Green of the A. P. of L. came to Montreal, and delivered the most formidable broadside against the low wage philosophy ever heard here. The United Farmers of Alberta has accepted the offer of William Irvine for his services as organizer in the coming membership drive of the U. F. A. which has been recom- EDMONTON, Alta.—The Edmonton lo„al of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of North Am- __ erica, is on the warpath to fight tended'to"" every" l^cal'of" the "or the notorious B. & O. Plan ganization by the executive coni- At „ recent meeting of the West unjltteei which held a meeting in Edmonton Lodge a resolution was Calgary last week. Commencing adopted to elect the local secretary November 80, Mr. Irvine will de- and one other man as a committee vote .his time to the work or six "to be empowered to draft, publish wtSOksi without remuneration of and distribute bulletins exposing any kind, the U. F. A. providing his the anti-working class nature of traveling and other expenses from the Baltimore and Ohio. Elan of point to point. Co-operation. The bulletins to be The v_ F> dlrect0rs will be noti- distrlbuted to the members of all .fled ot Mr- Irvine.s 0ffer So that railroad shop crafts, so that this they m|ay send in particulars of any plan of profit making may be ex- meetings that they plan to arrange Quebec Enthusiastic PURCELL SHAKES UP WORKERS IN MONTREAL posed and rejected by the workers at onc6| ,„ order that the 8lx week>s of Edmonton ami district, and a gchedme may be completed. Mr. polioy. of amalgamation, ■ consoli- irvine desired to visit the constitu- dation and unity on natidi«<| and -meiM whloh lft the past haV6 ^a,- international lines may be adopted," ^ to obtain his assistance but to In their first bulletin the C-*ft-> which he has been unable to.go. mittee points out that this plap- - ■■ ■ ' * causes Increased unemployment, speeds up the workers, and benefits ho one except the company, which is able to produce more at less cost. Trade Union Unity TORONTO LABOR HAILS ;,).., BfRCELL'S UNITY CALL [A Newspaper School Soviet Press in Action (By Scott Nearing, Federated Presa.) TIFLIS.—The Dawn of the East Ii an official dally of the Trans- .aucasian Federation.-The Soviet ommisars of the federation ap- oint an editor, who is nominally charge. The. local managing dltor decides what shall go Into Iie paper, which has a circulation f 30,000 and goea throughout rans-Caucasla. It ls the largest ~ the eleven papers published In tiflls. I • "What do they put in your Ami-lean papers?"' Editor Dagvodse iked me. I told him. "Ours ls very different," * he ild. "We publish (tec or eight igea each day. Two pages are svoted to International news; one i Russian news; one page to moral Trains-Caucasian newa; on« local news and news concern- Iig tha life and doings of looal orkers. Party news, discussions nd questions make tfp abont a age/*: *•/ "*. T",w!*l. j The Dawn of tha East accepts Ida. But not to tlie exclusion of lie newa. : r*1wl 1 This paper, the editor explains, as much a part of the educa- (Contlnued on page 3) MONTREALrrAlbiert A. Purcell, president of the Amsterdam international Federation of Trade Unions and fraternal delegate to the American Federation of Laibor convention at Atlantic City from the British Trade Union Congress* was enthusiastically received by the French and English workers that attended his m-eieting hem PUrcell's plea for unity on the trade union field was loudly approved by the assembled workers. The necessity for tradie union unity was strongly felt by the French and English workers as their forces in Montreal are scattered and weak. The existence of Catholic unions further divides the trade unionists besides the craft unionism of the A. F. of L. unions. At the end of Purcell's speech, all of these workers rose as one man and loudly cheered Purcell and world trade union unity. When Purcell spoke of the achlevments of Russian workers, a demonstration ensued which lasted for several minutes. *^*^_£^*3_ _i _.._■*, NEW YORK—(FP)— The baftj| on Countess Karolyi will he put di' raotiy up to President Coolldge:* imi_liMfr*id''James _t -tiH-f-WWa1$ffi '^ys^is?;?Tfr_teriiatiOnal legal representative. Seoretary of Federation of Trade Unions and State Kellogg had denied entry to fraternal delegate, to the American the wife of the former Hungarian Federation of Labor convention at premier on vague statutory grounds Atlantic City from the British barring radicals. Trade. Union Congress,. received a , thunderous ovation at his meeting here where he urged world trade unity. When Purcell called for unity of the working class against capitalist wars a demonstration followed his remarks that lasted several minutes. Purcell's plea for unity with the Russian trade union workers -made From Czarist Chief To American Private '(By Federated Press) NEW YORK—From chief of police, in Czarist Petrograd—the post he held five years in resplen- -_____________n_m*^^n****************^^—* dent imperial uniform, Alexander a deep and lasting impression on Martynoff has been reduced by the the trade unionists assembled. Purcell ended his meeting urging the Canadian workers to send a delegation of unionists to Soviet Russia so that they can study the developments ln the Union of SociaUst Soviet. Republics for themselves and see the Russian trade unions at work. Canadian Railroadmen's Monthly Shows Profit (By Federated Press) OTTAWA, Can.—While most labor journals are seldom more thnn two jumps ahead of the, sheriff the Canadian Railroad Employees' Monthly, organ of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees, declared a profit of nearly $9,- 000 last year. It is a Federated Press member, paper, being one of 8 national or International railroad unions taking FP* service for their journals. The brotherhood ls an independent organization, like the train service unions, but covering all classea of railroad workers, chiefly maintenance of equipment ahd of way. Bolshevik revolution to the plain drab costume and the humble perquisites of a private Holmes policeman at Fifth Avenue and 7th St. But he is still among friends, at least ln the shadow of their home, for the residence he Is assigned to guard is that of Mrs. J. Flnley Sheo- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hard, nee Helen Gould, who has been a generous contributor to the Pennsylvania Radical National Civic Federation, an organization that also shoots at thc Bolsheviks, though propaganda Instead of bullets. Colonel Martynoff shot his bullets In the Denekln counter-revolution in South Russia, that he hoped would restore him to hts estates In the Crimea. He tells the, New York Times that he is still hoping. (By Federated Press.) TV7ASHINGTON. — -Italy, under " the absolute dictatorship of Mussolini, is granted a cancellation of 75 per cent .of her war debt to the American treasury, figured at the same rate of interest which the treasury is paying the buyers of the Liberty bonds. In contrast stand settlements with Britain and other countreis. Britain was forgiven only 24 per cent, of her debt and interest; Belgium 58 per cent. When the French asked that 54 per cent, of their obligations be forgiven them, the Americans refused. Mussolini, ruling by terror and assassination, wins a triumph. The administration says that the generous terms represent all that Italy can pay. Sen. Shipstead, Farmer-Labor, made this comment: "We know, for we were told by President Wilson and the sellers of the Liberty bonds, that these loans were to make the world safe for democracy. Well, where is the democracy?" Estimates of the Morgan loan which ls to be made to bolster tip fascism in Italy range from iibO.OOO.OofTo $200,000,000. The rate of Interest which the bankers will get, while they get it— will be, including commissions, about 10 per cent. Meanwhile the American treasury, paying 4 1-4 per cent, to the holders of its Liberty bonds for the money loaned to Italy* swill get from Italy the promise of a fraction of 1 per cent. This Is the sort of finance that Senator Borah and the western farmer senators have challenged. They contrast it with the rigid demand for repayment of government loans which has cost the farmers $20,000,000,000 in the de- fiatation process of the past five years. On Trial For Sedition Highlights oa This Week's News Fred Merrick, indicted under the Pennsylvania sedition act in 1923, for participation in publishing circulars advertising a May-Day celebration of the Workers Party in Pittsburgh, will go to trial in the Allengheny County Superior Court at Pittsburgh on November 30th. The case has been postponed by the prosecution for over two years. No reason for the delay is given. Nine, other persons Indicted with Merrick will presumably be tried later,' '.The defense elected to have separate'.felals. . Merrick iias long been active in the labor.ffin^ radical movement of CANADIAN Broad Trust* in Montreal...,;, 1 Oarnien Fight B. & 0. Plan 1.. Western :&'«nsylvanla>, where he 1T**__.__. ttr ,.___ _,,* .. _ "-•'?■_*. . . . _ served a teispvip the workhouse for WILMINGTON, Conn.—(FP)— Two thirds of; 'a\l induatrlal accidents are preveptaJble,;Andrew. F. MoBride, commissioner of labor of Neiw Jersey, ' told the' Delaware Safety Council. . Women Workers Fleeced 5 AMERICAN Morgsin Aids Mussolini ...*.,... .—• 1 Purcell Stirs New York. 2 American Bankers Loot 8 BRITISH took Calls lot Cnlty.„ .'..'. 7 Strike-Smashing Preparations 7 British "Beds" Deported 7 a speech rcia,,*ii .tq the Westinghouse Company strikers in 191.7, and another jail term previously for publishing advice to workers to violate an anti-free-speech ordinance. WILLIMANTIC, Conn.— (FP)- The strike of American Thread Co. FOREIGN __________h _______■■■ Oerman Communist, on Trial 1 employees against the 10 per cent. Send in your subscription today. Bombay Textile 8trlke 2 Fresseh Children Denied WMritau.' « wage cut enters its 38th week. Mark than 2.0AA are affecte'1 Politcals In Jail German Communist Trial (By Len De Caux, Federated Press.) BERLIN.—A monster political trial began November 16 in Lelpslc of the former executive of the German Communist Party. More than 100 witnesses are to be called, 400 books and documents are to be used as evidence, and it is estimated the trial will last three months. This trial follows that of 16 Berlin Communists accused of treason In November, 1923. This in Its turn followed the trial of Maslow, kept 16 months in jail without a trial and then sentenced to four years' imprisonment. According to a rough estimate, Germany leads European countries in the number of its political prisoners, having 7,000 more than are imprisoned in Italy or Poland, which come next with 6,000 each. The great majority are Communists and other radical workers, most of tho fascist clement having benefited by Hln- denburg's amnesty. This loudly proclaimed amnesty of political prisoners proved a very one-sided affair, as only those arrested before October 1, 1923, have been (Continued oa page 2) Page Two THE CANADIAN LABOB ADVOCATE Friday, November 27, 1925 LOCAL LABOR NEWS PurcellExgectsUaity Bombay Textile Strike CLASSIFIED ADS, Building Workers To Centralize Efforts Professor Hill-Tout To Lecture in Royal Professor speaker at Centralization is the order of the day. On every hand employers of labor are combining, and consolidating their forees for the purpose of more effectively carrying on their business, and more successfully breaking any attempt the. workers may make to increase their wages. Apparently this fact Lecture commences has carried its message to .the Van- Doors open at 7:30. couver Building Trades Council delegates. Arrangements are being made by that body for more thoroughly knitting together the workers employed in tho building trades. Plans for putting a building trades business agent in the field are being considered, and thus centralizing their efforts. This will enable the smaller unions, who are unable to afford a business agent of their own, to have their interests better looked after. At last meeting of the Building Trades Council It was reported that while work was slack in the woodworking factories, yet the manufacturers were importing doors from Taeoma, made by union labor These doors have the endorsation of the building trades workers in (By ART SHIELDS, Federated (By S. SAKLATVALA, M. P.) press) TI7HAT is behind the great strug- EW YORK—Two farewell mass ** g\e m Bombay; how does It af- meetings to Alfred A. Purcell, feet the workers ln Britain? chalniian of the International Fed- *a„) capital^ prt»s has been al- eratlon of Trade Unions, packed most silent On the subject so I shall N Hill-Tout will be the _, _ __, __ the Canadian Labor \wo b!s thea.?e.aud_tori,M!!,fl!°"re endeavor to explain. Party's Open Forum on Sunday *P"1*™"' "f? t£! a*? "I™ »• «T of the Indian mill ow* BARRISTERS Bird, Bird & Lefeaux, 401 Metrof politan Bldg. BATHS Vancouver Turkish Baths, Paoif|j Bldg., 744 Hastings St. W. BICYCLES night next. The subject of the lecture will be "Evolution versus Revolution." The meeting will be held In the Royal Theatre, Hastings Street E. at 8 p. m. At tho meeting held on Sunday night last, Professor Keenlyside gave an outline on Labor and politics in the United States, which was followed by a lively period of questions and discussions. tl -SS.'S! iZ^^™*! mm of loss of 'l-ta («flr to- HfS» t'ffiPStJS £S applauded him again and again as dMdendB) „ ^ mam m he urged his message of one big the,r nott6n 'of ^ ^ J^ JUstreet W. Tht best makes of bieyelfj on easy terms. International union movement* of the workers of the world, and they voted unanimously for the sending of an American trade union delegation to Russia^ as the preliminary step towards bringing the 6,- 000,000 Russian unionists into the "all-inclusive Purcell sess as necessary to safety of the working class. BOOTS AND SHOES Arthur Frith & Co., 281S Main B_ BOOTS (LOGGING) H. Harvey, 68 Cordova St. W. C\FE C.L.P. Meeting On Monday Night Next to retain, somehow, the fabulous profits of the -boom years that followed the armistice. Otherwise, there is no much loss of business for them. The Indian mills used to produce InternAtiOhal" thit °»'yn* 'O^illten' yards of cloth in Empire Cafe, 76 Hastlnga St. Bl the w n ' — million yards, and Lancashire's market in India has shrunk from Timothy Healey, president of the 2m million yards to 1,800 million _tif/\nai<ir t%*nA mAxIna HMD"! ■_-________-> a* -. yards. . . Usual Oompetittion Stunt The Indian mill owners complain bitterly about the bad (sic) condi- statdonary and marine .engineers' international union * introduced Purcell at his first meeting and said he wanted the world to know that there were labor men in Am chiropractor Dr. d. a. McMillan, palmer Graduate. Open dally snd ever ings. Dawson Blk., eor. Main. Phone Sey. 6964. fastings night next. By special request, Mr. Hirst will not so firmly set. where, when doors are being made in the Unted tates, under union conditions, and imported into British Columbian which Ls itself one bf the greatest lumber exporting places in the world. It was arranged for the Board of Business Agents to request the co-operation of the Secretary of the Trades and Labor Council, and to take the matter up with the B. C. Products Association. The Iron Workers reported making good progress in organizing the "* "rod men" engaged on construction Green Heals BrC&CIl jobs. The Sheet Metal Workers reported that work was falling off to some extent in their trade*, but that they were still recruiting some, new members. The regular monthly meeting of erica who werO not afraid to fight Mons of Japanese workers which the Greater Vancouver Central for international wooing class'un- ownpete* "n*"*1* ^&lnat them- ev" Councll of the Canadian Labor lty. Louis Hyman, manager of the e,n *ho"gh ^e' total of Japanese. Party will be held in the Holden New York Joint Board of the In- 0,°th' »»portea Into India, so far Building, on Monday night, next, ternatlonal Ladies Gartneht Union °"lyTr.T J per/ent' of what at 8 p. m. Delegates are request- gave an ardent talk for world -sol- tne Indten m",s Pr°duoe- ed to take note, and endeavor to idarity of the toilers} P. Pascal However, the Indian mill own- be present. Important business will Cosgrove, organizer of the Shoe ers refuse to pause and think how be transacted at the meoting. Workers' Protective Union, report- their bad labor conditions hit Italy, ed that what h(j M iit Rusfeia Saxony, and Lancashire. The Indian mill owners have re- _ _ . __, , from a labor standpoint. Alfred sorted to brutal methods. On Friday Night Bolton of the New York stereo- Textile wages in Bomtoay work • typers and other unionists added out at about One penny per hour, The regular meeting of the North their voices for the programme, Th«s«i are to be reduced by 11 per Burnaby Branch of the FedeJ-ated Purcell said on the Berehgeria c6n*' Labor Party will be held on Friday happy in the thought that the ice 0Ur Wend, Comrade Joshi, of N-tNAIMO-WELUNOTOJ. COAL LESLIE OOAL OO'T Lti Phone Sey. 7137 Dr. W. Bldg. DENTIST Curry, 801 Domlnloi DRUGS Red Star Drug Store, Cor. Coi dova and Carrall. FLORISTS Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd., 48 tings St. E. ' the Old Country. It is very apparent that there is F.L.P. Regular Meeting three yeara ag0 was very eood 'a nigger in the woodpile" same- _ _. _._... _ GLASS GLAZING, SILVERING, BEVELLIH0J WESTERN GLASS CO. LTD., 1" Cordovt St. W., few doort west Woodward's. Sey.' 8887,. Wholesale an oTTmerican Labor" taoiatlon"Was the ^Alm Trade Union Congress, retail window gltaa^ His manager, Point* his finger to the fabulous HOSPITAL deliver a lecture on the "Duties Thurber Lewis tells of enthusiastic dividends eafned, not very long ago -|3i;TTER be SAFE THAN SORET- meetings in Boston, Toronto, M6n- by ittduStrWists and investors in BGrandvlew Hoepital-Medlcal anrg treal, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chi- ™**> &■>& "e rightly demands that gal maternity. 1090 Vletorl. DrW< cago, Detroit, St.' Louis, Kansas tftey "cannot treat their industry as . : City, Baltimore and Smaller cities private property during prosperity LADIES WEAR and Purcel himself rfeports ths and claim public help when bad Famous Cloak & Suit Co., 8 of Labor Candidates in Municipal Elections". After the business of the Party, and the lecture are concluded a social evening will follow. Between N.Y. Unions Furuseth Fights To NEW YORK—The breach between the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union and Local 22 of the International Ladies Garment Union that for a while took the form of a strike warmest response, from the Mtaxi- da-ys come.'1 can labor movement which routed One Penny ain Hour him through the cities in the re- The Bombay cotton Wages are, public to the south of ub. Bad as thfly are, comparatively In Montreal James Simpson, vice higher than in th*e Calcutta jute president of the Canadian. Trades trade. Yet in Bombay women earn and Labor Congress declared his about one penny per hour, desire to go with the trade union Who can'be surprised that prac- delegation that hiev believes will tioaliy all the mil workers in Bom- investigate Russian afairs for Am- bay refused to accept a reduction erican unions, said Lewis, and in in thedr. wages? Poor folks with Retain Sea Charter al?ainst the clerical department of American cltles-the local trade un- wages lOd. a day, and women 7d. the garment offices was Waippily lon conferences that sponsored the a day of ten hours, cannot afford Hastings West. Hudsons Bay Coy,, Qranvllle St. J MEN'S FURNISHINGS W. B. Brummitt, 18-20 CordoV Street. Arthur Frith & Co., 2313 Main MEN'S SUITS C. D. Bruce Ltd., Homer and HasJ ings Streets. W. B. Brummitt, 18-20 Cordon Street. MUSIC me B_Lr_ii-.ni, unices was naippuy svss uuiij.cicu.joo tnat _.*. unauicu mc a. uo.y vs. vou uuuio, vhuuiui tuiuiii TTTOLTNS ADJUSTED VOICED* healed at a conference directed Purcell meetings are going, on with to put up a strike fund, and a strike y p,^ ty expert.' Will Edmo (by * ederated i ress) by -w*mlam Greeili president, Am- the agitation here. Tlna money left for them means literally facing 965 Robson St. Sey. 8084. WASHINGTON—Andrew Furu- erican Federation of Labor. Green over from the $110 givn at the two starvation, unless sympathetic In- ~ seth, author of the seamen's act advised the union to admit again New York meetings will be the dians and the workers of Europe and president of the Intl. Seamen's to full union privileges Anna Ber- neuclus for the treasury such a trip and America assist them. Union of America, has drafted a man and Irving Fraulkin, the two will need, Craven Cowards minority report on behalf of the office workers the bookkeepers un- "if a delegation to Russia is Although they are fighting mL°crhant0UmPar ne £__££££ '°", ™ iff* ,", T"" 2f UP °f ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ SS* £*£. *Z moned L th« TT sI rhnmJr^^ M« °" t6ChniCa' ^^^ M*B °f workshoPs Bn* ** t"™' ■«. the well-known trade union cTmerce dfsclolg tht the busi JTd^ ^ ^"Z^ "^ °f trade nnte,Mtt ^ ** >^*' ^ "»» MiU WOrkWS ^ta^eT^ pfoSng the „u *« \00™e*™° ™,on co" d "ot the teU the British trade union 8houJ<1 hot ^ept a» unjustifiable r_^oTShe^ln"aaSinS - ,. T^*' " l8 & ™*<^ion "Ported." said Purcell. out *Jn their wages without a Strug- llfica lon of the seamen s act tn all struggling organization that an- "The six million Russian union gle» ^Furuseth win "lead a fight in the """.? aPP6a,S t0 th° fe?eration for men are as °<»-a «>* a union move- In the* word8 of ^r. j. ft. clynes, Duruseth will lead a light in the assistance and the problem of or- ment as the British or the Ameri conference against all proposals of g^nMng the offlce. workers gm erally is a different matter, advice was followed. subsidy, as well as against all schemes for weakening the existing maritime laws. Pres. Green of the American Federation of Labor is supporting his attitude. When defeated by the ship owners and other business men in the conference, the labor group will take the right to congress. "They would be 'craven cowards' not to resist." The real way out of the situation is to try and levellze wages between India and Lancashire. The increased* demand of a well-paid population of 300 millions would Politicals in Jail (Continued from Page 1) released, and then only those Imprisoned for carefully selected of- 'fences. The result ls that the reactionary Kapp putsch participants are released, while the greater part of the working class prisoners are left in jail. Trials following the October revolt in Hamburg have greatly Increased the number of working class political prisoners. Five hundred workers sentenced altogether to 1,000 years' imprisonment is the estimate to date of the outcome of these Hamburg trials. can, and their miners, for instance, His have won better conditions for themselves than the miners in any The strike followed the refusal other part of the world. No world of the local union to discharge programme for the workers can these two clerical workers barred be a success without the co-opera- by the bookkeepers. At the tfcne tion of this great Russian move- imimediateV help Indla'and L^n- of this trouble the local garment ment." caahh.e. It would aiao help ,„ the body was functioning independent- Purcell's argument for Russian g^t world struggle of the workers ly of the International garmtent Inclusion into an all-embracing in- in overthrowing the international body bnt since then it has come ternational Is a workaday and parasites from their back. Let us practical one. Imeperlallsm is gtij* up here and play our part. Let grinding down the workers of As- an European and all American iaand Africa at a few-pejice^dity workers follow this example. and is using their products tb beat down our own conditions. Unless NEW YORK—-(FP)— Hlllcrest, we brin»th«n tip We"-#i_i.go down. n. J. silk strikers are holding the says the chairman of the I. T. F. U. mt and raising money on the out- OPTICIAN Pitman Optical House, 615 Has Ings West. : PAINT AND 3-PLY PANELS ] Gregory & Reid, 117 Hastii. Btreet East. RANGES AND STOVES Canada Pride Range Co., 346 Haa ings Street East, TOBACCOS Mainland Cigar Store, 310 Carra Street. TRUSSES C. E. Heard, 969 Robson Street] Geo. McCuaig AUCTIONEER and APPRAISER Phone Sey. 107S 748 Richards Straet, Vancourer, B.OJ back and a peace pact ratified. A Newspaper School iTnntlniip-l from nape 11 NONE BUT WHITE HEI EMPLOYED Say you saw it advertised in the "Advocate". tional machinery of Trans-Cau- casla as is a school. Each day it The world tobor movement must side. O^ne of the" purchasers of the alms to put ideas before its road- meet the challenge .Wherever strike badges they were selling at ers. While it deals principally imperialism sets its foot, whether tho door of the purcell meet- wlth Trans-Caucasia and the Near in India China, -Japan or Siara, m**^ in NeiW fork Was Purcell hlm- East, the most distant parts of there must our organisers unite the sft)f aHa he told them to keep the the world appear In its cdlumns. victims to raise their standards, chango oht of the dollar he handed Dagvodse, a Georgian, Is more World trade union unity, for a-cti-Sn them, teacher than business man or ed- against Imperialism* and- foar* the Itor, as they have been developed mutual proteetlon-and'-bettermeflt in the United States. In his early of the work-ere* It will take the thirties, quiet,; direct, very milch united power of the- world's' work- in earnest, he gives an impres- ers: the Job ia-too big. for* just part sion of a man In a classroom with of tho movement aJohei 30.000 pupils preparing and pre COAL\| AND H \WOOD/ D-On't. to-get! Mention the Advocate when buying. in your fealrof the-red; internatloo- And as to the outcry against the al you do not fall Into the arms sentlng some new lesson every reds that is halting the unity'move- of the black capitalist internfltigp- day, f ment, Purcell wftrna; "Beware that &$' NONE BUT WHITE HEI EMPLOYED mmmsusm .- Friday, Novemher 27, 1925 THE CANADIAN LABOB ADVOCATE Page Three - POLITICS - - Australian Labor To Escaped Youth Leader Resist Deportation Tells of White Terror SYDNEY, Australia.-—On Sep- amber 9 representatives of all Re labor councils throughout lustralia held a conference at Sydney to decide what action phould be taken by the organized irorkers ln the event of the antl- Dor federal government deporting any of the trade union leaders because of their helping the British strikers in their fight Against the ship-owners. After a week's conference behind closed doors, the conference pn behalf of all the unions of Australia issued a manifesto accepting the deportation legislation as a direct challenge to the abor and industrial movement of Australia, and recommending that |in the event of the attempted deportation of any unionist no Iworker should in any way assist In giving effect to such deportation order. The sea transport vorkers were called upon to give .loyal assistance in this direction. Regarding the British seamen's ■strike in Australia, the conference reported: "We recognize that |the fight against the British shipping combine by the British sea- Imen is of prime importance, and twe therefore call upon all unions Tto give the fullest moral and financial support, and, if necessary, to levy their members to finance the atruggle. "We recommend that all unions be called upon to pay a levy of [one and a quarter per cent, a veek of the earnings of the workors, the system of collecting or ionating the levy to be left to the unions. This not to apply to workers earning 110 a week br less." Students in Panama Fight Imperialism „' WASHINGTON.—In the midst of the news of the slow and temporary retirement of American military forces from Panama that the Panama students have taken the first step toward an [International Latin-American student's . federation to fight Amer- f.an imperialism. According to Information made public in this Jountry by the All-Americafli Anti-Imperialist League, the students' congress called by the Panama Students' Federation will neet in the city of Panama, June 122, 1920. Students' organizations ■throughout Latin-America and ln [the Philippine Islands have beep [invited to send delegates. _ Pass this copy to your shopmate land get him to subscribe. Stay at the HOTEL STRATFORD The Plaoe Called Home Corner GORE AVE. and KEEFER STREET Phone Sey. eiai P. GIOVANDO, JOHN THA 200 Blatantly Furniahed Rooma. (0 Rooma with Private Bath Moderate Prlcea FIRST-CLASS SERVICE -•INDUSTRY-- Polish Landlords Busy Building Trades Bosses Ravishing Newspapers Rap Shorter Work Week MOSCOW. — After hia escape from the persecutions of the Zan- kov police, Comrade Rossin, secretary of the central committee of the Young Communist League of Bulgaria, has arrived ifli Moscow. On the queatipn, of tfce WfrUe terror, he said the following: "The first period of the most bloody terror which humanity has known has not yet ended. Zau- kov prepares a jiew campaign, and we know that our arrested comrades are threatened* by death without trial. Zankov said in parliament that the terror must root out the Communist movement completely. Zankov will continue to .maintain the atmosphere of murder , because the situation of the working class and the peasantry is terrible. The wages are ridiculously small, the prices terribly high, and almost in all.the workers' family the persecutions had robbed, them of. one of their bread earners." EAST INDIES Seven well-known Communists have beep arrested by the Dutch police bureau in Sumatra. These arrests caused great indignation and huge masses of native toilers demonstrated their protest. by .attempting to free the prisoners. In tlie port of Semarangs in the Isle of Java all meetings of any kind have been ■ prohibited and a series of arrests have taken place. The editor of the newspaper, "Api," and the well-known propagandist, Al- imln, have both been arrested. CZECHO SLOVAKIA In a special bulletin on the Czechoslovak trade unions, issued by the State Statistical Office, it Is stated that in 1924 the Czechoslovak uniolis reached a total of 467, ..with 1, 113,425 members in unions of Czech and Slovak organizations, 345,420 members in the Oerman unions, and 210,611 in the communistc trlade, unions,— a total membership of 1,669,456, WARSAW.—During the month of September as many as 29 suppressions of different White-Russian, Ukrainian and other papers were ordered by court decisions. Besides confiscations, a number of arrests were effected and trials of editors conducted. Thus, the editor of the White-Russian Dilo, D. Palico, was arrested. The editors of Tribune Rabotnicha and of other monthlies, Newbauer, In- ovolski and Novakovski, were sentenced to two and four years of hard labor. The oldest White-Russian paper, Krinltza, which had existed for about twenty years and withstood aH the blows of the czarist aflid German - occupationist censorship, was confiscated. The editor is charged on ten counts. The paper of the Independent Peasant Party, Valka Orechi, was suppressed, as well as the Warsaw, Weekly Predvestnie. Mexico and Russia To Discuss World Unity MO&COW.-rThe executive committee of the Red International of Labor Unions, after receiving a report from the representatives to, the Mexican Trade Union Federation and the workers attache to the Mexican embassy, in Moscow, adopted a resolution in which it welcomes the establishment of direct contact between the Red International of Labor Unions and the Mexican Trade Union Federation "Crom" . (Confederation Regional Obrera Mexicana), and accepting the invitations made through Martinet to se^d a delegation of the Red International of Lahor Union to the coming Mexican Trade Union Congreaa. The executive committee decided to inform the Mexican Trades Uuion Congress ta written form of the point of view of the Red International upon the establishment of international trade union unity. | , Mussolini Releases Fascisti Criminals ROME.—The recent splurge in the American and European press about the release of 15,000 prisoners from Italian jails, which was heralded by many of the "liberals" as a change of heart of the fascist dictator, Mussolini, and an end to the fascist reprisals on the workers, is given the lie by facts and figures gathered by the Italian section of the International Red Aid. Of the 16,000 amnestied prisoners, only 1,606 were workers who had been put to prison under some pretext becauae of their opposition to the fascist dictatorship. All the others amnestied were fascist thieves, incendiaries and murderers that had been given light sentences. Very few of the amnestied workers reached their homes, as fascist bands laid in wait for them, rearrested them, and now many have to stand trial again. RUSSIA As compared with; last. year, the number of schools functioning in Moscow has been increased from 319 to 390, and the number of students from 152,970 to 18.0,680. During the present year 210 kinder- gardents with 5,720 children will be functioning and also 277 children's homes for 23,450 children. 56,266 students are learning trades in technical institutions. POLAND The population * of the Polish town Vladimir Volinski has been flung into, great j.excitement by the news that the political prisoner Waldermar Kralz has been poisoned in the prison hospital where he lay soriously ill. The doctors report states that a jug of milk containing a strong dose of strychnine was given to the prisoner. MA^Y Premier Mussolini's bill for the punishment of antl-fasoist Italians living abroad was approved by his cabinet. It is understood that the bill would cancel the citizenship of such Italians and provide for confiscation of their property in Italy. R.I.L.U. Sends Message To Shanghai Strikers MOSCOW.-—The Executive Bureau of the Red International Labor Unions has sent the following • telegram to the Shanghai Trade Union Council: "The Executive Committee of the Red International Labor Union welcomes the recommencement of the activity of the Shanghai Trado Union Council. Its struggle against world imperialism is one of the most heroic Pages i|U the history of the international proletariat. The Chinese proletariat is faced with a long and difficult struggle against foreign imperialism and against the national counter-revolution. "We are, however, convinced that the final victory will be won by the working class of your country. The greetings of the revolutionary workers of all countries to the heroic proletariat of Shanghai!" CHICAGO.—At a one-day conference which the National Association of Building Trades Employers held here, the building trades employers from many of the largest cities in the United States met and discussed ways and means of resisting attempts of building trades workers to obtain an increase in wages. At this gathering of employers, many of whom are bitter open- shoppers, a resolution was adopted ifi which lt condemned the 40- hour week of five days and declared it would oppose all attempts on the part of the union workers to shorten the work-week. The conference also adopted a resolution in wliich it urged .that the contractors do all in their power to interest more of the American youth in taking up the * building trades, and laid plans by- means of which they intend to create a surplus of skilled workers and in that manner smash the unions. Most of the resolutions introduced to this convention of building trades employers were introduced by the open shop section of the employers in Chicago. DENMARK In creased unemployment is being noted in Denmark, with the tobacco trade, earth and cement industries, masons, builders, and textile workers suffering the greatest unemployment hardships. SOUTH AFRICA The wage and economic commission, which has recently been formed, has started talcing evidence at Pretoria and will continue to do so at various Industrial centers in the Union. CHILE The nitrate industry has been experiencing considerable difficulty of late in obtaining a sufficient labor supply to maintain capacity production. Norwegian Delegation Lauds Soviet Progress MOSCOW.—On the basis of their experiences up to the present in Soviet Russia, the Norwegian workers' 'delegates have unanimously adopted a declaration in which they point out with satisfaction that they have had absolute freedom in the choice of districts, factories, etc., to be visited, and a comradely support from the Soviet trade unions in their studies. The allegation that the delegation has no freedom of movement in Soviet Russia is stigmatized as a direct lie. Those members of the delegation who visited Russia in earlier times declare that tremendous economic and cultural progress has been made in the Soviet Union. The declaration stresses in particular the great political activity and the intensity devoted by the Russian working class to cultural activities. Large Scale Farming For Russia Proposed (By Federated Press) NEW YORK—Action, rather than parliamentarism and talk is necessary to make the world over for labor, says Capt. Paxton Hibben, reserve army officer. In Russia's experiment lies the, hope of workers of the, world, Hibben told the League for Mutual Aid upon his latest return from Russia where he first served in 1905 for the U. S. diplomatic corps. Russia's salvation is in industrialization of agriculture, salys Hibben. Large scale, machine agriculture will knit together individualist farmers and will make their organizations more like unions of city industrial workers. Hibben is connected with Russian Reconstruction Farms, an American organization which sends tractors and agricultural machinery to a model demonstration farm 'near Rostov-on-Don where thousands of young Russians are trained. Hibben sa'id United States recognition of Russia would help Russian farmers get tractors and harvesters faster by credits like those given western American farmers. Children's relief has been part of Hlbben's work in Russia ever since the revolution. He has a commltte thero striving to do something With the half million wild little orphans who elude control and v'.il not stay In institutions provided by the government. ..___ \d.\ The greater portion of the misery of this world arises from the false opinions of meg) whose idleness has physically incapacitated them from .forming true ones.— JUGO SLAVIA The Russian Woodworkers' Union has decided, to send 500 roubles to the striking woodworkers in Jugoslavia. ■*.••*•■ Send in your subscription today. The highest point in civilization can only be reached when the industrial class, on which the existonce of society depends, shall have attained to. the principal position in the commonwealth,—St. Simon. Fresh Ont Flowers, Funeral Designs, Wedding Bouquets, Pot Planta, Ornamental and Shade Treea, Seeds, Bulbs, Florists' Sundries Brown Brothers & Co. Ltd. FLORISTS AND NURSERYMEN 8—STOBES—> 41 Hastings St. Bast, Bay. 911-t.a ««B Granville atnet lay. IB1M3I1 161 Butinfi Street Weit Bey. 18T0 "BAT IS WITH raowiia" ■ PHILADELPHIA-^F P)—The anthracite miners are ready now as they have been since the beginning to negotiate a new .-contract* with the operators.in a spirit of.give and take, President John L* Lewis announced; , BOSTON-*—(F P)—Hundreds * of Massachusetts manufacturers are violating the 48-hour law, Edward F. McGrady, legislative agent ot the American Federation of Labor, told the Boston Central Labor Union. THE CHOICE OF THE UNIONS CATTO'S VERY OLD HIGHLAND WHISKY THOROUGHLY MATURED—ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR BRANDS AT THE GOVERNMENT STORES GOLD LABEL 15-YEAR-OLD Ask for CATTO'S. For salo at nil Government Liquor Stores This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Loard or by tho Oovernment of British Columbia Page Four THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Friday, November 27, 1925 OPEN FORUM fedlkriol Tpo^ QUESTION BOX Address All Letters ajnd Remittances to the Editor •SI?? (Eanaitfan Kabor A&twrafr 1129 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. Phone Sey. 2182 12 A TEAR $1 SIX MONTHS IllillHllll.I.MINIMI.mtn ;; Capitalism's :: Weekly Pageant Degeneracy and the Working Class Dollars Evaporate PROSPERITY ls on the threshold * - of Camda's door, according to Sir Henry Thornton. At lenst Unit Is what the daily press alleges I1U11 to be proclaiming over hi Europe. The cause of it, says SU' Henry, is a higher .standard of living since the war, and Canada must produce tho extra wheat. Where tliis higher standard exists the eminent gentleman failed to mention, probably he forgot. .Certainly it does not obtain in Europe, nnd one would scarcely credit it with existing among tlie five cent per day child slaves of the Orient. However, it must be some other plnce, and besides it Is Sir Henry's business to speed up Immigration, and tales of that kind havo n wonderfully good effect, 'especially when one is mot particular how one handles the truth. * * * ■'THREE TITLED LADIES who had to leave Russia hi a hurry lutein 1917 forgot to take all tlieir proporty away with thein. Since leaving their native laud they have acquired such a dislike to lt that they have no desire to go back, and arc suing the Soviet government, In the American courts i'or tlie sum of twenty million dollars. Doubtless the court will decide In tlieir favor, but unfortunately it will bc an American court, and the bailiff is liable to have some job to collect it. The three dames arc now working as counter jumpers hi New York, doing something useful for the first time in tlieir lives. * » * AylAYOR TAYLOR states that lis "■*■ intends investigating tlie cause of tha Capilano forest flre last sum- mer. Tlie City has to "cough up" the money for extinguishing i'. and tho Mayor figures on finding out who wis responsible for starting it. That problem should he fairly easy. Tho first animals that should he quizzed arc the logging donkeys belonging to the Capilano Timber Co. After they have told all they know it should not be necessary to go much further. It is to be hoped that Mr. Taylor makes a good "job of Uie investigating while he Is at it. There aie quite a number of other fires Hint could bear an examination. * * » A NOTHER SIGN thut better days are hi store for us is the <ni_\vs that John Oliver intends reducing the income tax. On incomes over $20,000 the reduction will be ten per cent. This should be glad tidings for the men John employed lust summer fighting forest fires for twenty-flve cents an hour. The thirty cents nn hour saw mill laborers are taiiotb-ar group that will benefit from John's generosity. In fact ull those who work for wages should thank John i'or tliis Christ- nmslxjx. Unfortunately that "statesman" forgot to abolish the pilfering poll tax. •";■•",* jk/rORONS should bo forbidden to •*•"■*■ marry, is the opinion of the Vancouver Child Welfare Association. That's all very well, but it seems somewhat unfair for everybody to attack the Ku Klux Klan at the same time. PROVIDENCE, R. I.—(FP)—Aggressive picketing forced the big B. B. & R. Knight Co.—cotton manufacturers—to cease trying to op-* erate the Royal Mills at River Point, where weavers are striking against the speed-up system thlat substitutes 32 looms for 16 per man. DEGENERACY is becoming a much-discussed subject. It is the topic for front-page news stories in the daily press, and forms the theme for social reformers, pseudo-scientists, polemic writers, and now has even found its way into the sacred precincts of the B.C. Legislature. Almost all those who deal with the subject are convinced that the vaunted mental superiority of the white race is on the decline, and that unless drastic steps are taken immediately next generation will be a rabble of half-wits. Various explanations, ranging all the way from over-indulgence in jazz to injudicious selection of immigrants, are given as the cause of this alleged intellectual decline. . A few days ago an American doctor informed a meeting of teachers that: "The college men and women are proof of the decline of civilization. Three college women are married before one child is produced. A scrubwoman has six children to a college woman's one. . . .One thousand Harvard graduate* .are required to produce fifty children. As many unskilled laborers produce 5,000 children. . . . The right people are not the ones who are contributing to the increased birth rate." In other words, civilization is declining because laborers produce more children than college graduates. Such, in substance, is the doctor's argument. Civilization covers the period in history since society was^ divided into classes, the one class ruling and exploiting the other. The period ante-dating class society is known as barbarism, and previous to that savagery. Civilization, then, in essence is class society. By a clever jugglery of facts these knights of the pen, who substitute bald statements for logical induction,* are intent upon proving that intelligence is~ waning because laborers—i.e., workers—are mentally deficient, and their numerous offspring are reducing the intellectual level. This is the view expressed by Lothrop Stoddard in his book on the decline of civilization, published some two years ago. Stoddard gives figures showing the rate of reproduction in the various social groups, and by a clever piece of manipulation lumps the feeble and the casual laborer into one group, and on this specious premise builds his theory. This is also the view expressed by the doctor referred to above, when he says "the right kind of people are not the ones who are contributing to the increased birth rate." No effort is made by these spokesmen of capitalism to show the rate of degeneracy among workers as opposed to that among our rulers, and it is well for their arguments that they do not try. Where in the annals of crime can be found any act committed by a worker that can compare in moral depravity with that of the sex perverts Leopold and Loeb (both sons of millionaires); the recent brutal murder of a young woman by that sadist, the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, and adviser-in-chief to Governor Jackson of Indiana, D. C. Stephenson; or the career of that debauched moron millionaire, Harry K. Thaw? If these specimens of the "right people" be examples of modern civilization's intellectual attainments, the sooner it is obliterated the better. If these pernicious doctorines amounted to nothing more than second-rate investigators retailing third-rate ideas, it would be a matter of small moment; but the consequences are destructive. The daily press ergerly seizes upon these opinions, jumbles them up with apparently innocent news items, and sends the mixture forth to be read by members of the working class, who are unskilled at separating subtle interpolation from fact. In this manner a feeling of mental inferiority is built up. The faith of the workers in themselves as a class to become the dominant force in society is shattered, and the ruling class is juggled into a position where they become looked upon as the embodiment of wisdom. It is a safe bet that a greater percentage of moral and mental degenerates can be found among the idle rich, "the right people," than can be found among the toiling poor. Our rulers secured their present position by unscrupulous thievery, and in spending their excess time and wealth many of them become degenerate perverts of the vilest type. In spite of their college education, it is they, the "right people," who. are the degenerates, and we fling their vile, lying propaganda back in the teeth of the perverts who conceived it. (By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press.) OTOP, look, and listen! Whether planning to Invest ln a little Florida land, in a share of industrial stock, or just trying to prepare for days when jobs will be scarce, watch your step. There ls little doubt that good business will prevail during the early months of 1926, but genuine reason for doubt about business after that. So says Vice-President L. P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Oo. in its mid-month bulletin. Ayres ls a very good business observer. He says cautiously: "Sometime in the future building muat slow down. When that happens real estate booms will calm down also. If the automobile manufacturers really built next year all the cars they are now planning to build, that industry will surely over- supply its market. Some time the possibility of expanding' retail sales of all sorts of goods by selling on easy partial payments will reach and pass the limits of ita usefulness. The time will come when even the Florida boom will be checked." Ayres thinks these developments may overlap and intermingle toward the latter part of 1826. He points out as elements of weakness in the present situation: (1) the fact that millions of people of slight financial means have mortgaged their future. Incomes for present satisfactions; (2) the fact that the newer finance companies have been organized by salesmen and promoters who can be expected to get by only so long as competition is easy and credit cheap, and (3) the fact that the operations of these companies have been made possibla by bank credits on terms whicb will be made more rigorous when" ever interest rates advance. Ayres believes that the real break in the stock market will be postponed until after January 1 by the desire of people to keep their stock market profits out of this year's tax returns. When they rush to realize the paper profits of the boom by selling their securities, the results are likely to be spectacular. Signs that Ayres* forebodings are not far ahead of events multiply. First the Boston federal- reserve banks raises- Its Intereat rate. A sharp break in the stock market follows. Cleveland federal reserve raises its rate. There ia a probability that New York will follow in three weeka. The flrat cut ln automobile production la announced by the Willya-Overland Company. Watch your atep! Anthracite Strike Worries Politician i (By Federated Press) WASHINGTON— Administration officials are vatching anxiously, ate winter draws nearer, for signs of al break in the anthracite strike sol that the Coolidge administration j will not be blamed at next year's! election for the suffering which! faces all eastern -cities this winter. 1 Newspapers ln the capital have] special correspondents now in Phil-J fields, sending dally accounts of the] mounting prioes of anthracite, the] stubborn attitude of the striker's officials, and the cheerful indifference of the operators. At the] same time they are reporting thej opening of bituminous mines in] Maryland and other near-by fields,l after a long shutdown due to lack J of market. Coke normally sells ln Washlng-1 ton at $10 to $12 a ton. It is now] selling above $17, and dealers pre-l diet that it will go to $36 if the! strike lasts until spring. The coal! from which it is made is not more j than $1 a ton higher than when] the anthracite walkout took plaice. UNION DIRECTORY Virgin Islands Libel Case Being Appealed The appeal of Rothschild Francis of the Virgin Islands from his conviction for criminal libel and eon- tempt of court will be -heard before the U. S. Court of Appeals at Philadelphia early in January. Francis was convicted by a local judge who was his political enemy, and who tried the case without a jury. It is expected that the decision in the case will largely determine the rights of natives in relation to the Unllted States naval administration of the islands, against which a constant agitation has been conducted by native leaders. Francis is a member of the Colonial Council, editor of the "Emancipator" and president of the lo- A. F. of L. union at St. Thomas. ALLIED PBINTINO TBADES OOUNOIL] —Meat! ucond Mondty in the montk. 1 Preildent, J. B. White; mom tary, B. H.J Neeltndi. P. Q. Box 66. FEDERATED LABOB PABTT—BoemJ Ul, 819 Pondor St. Weit Buiineitl mooting! ltt tnd 8rd Wodntidty im-I Into. B. H. Noolindt, Chairman; 1. H.J Morriion, Sto.-Treta.; Angui MtelnnlsJ 8614 Frinoo Edward Stroot, Vtneouvor,_| B.O., Oorroiponding Seoretary. Any dlitrlot In Brltlih Columbia de-l ilring information ra ooonrlnt apoakaro] or tha formation of looal branohoa, kind/ ly communicate with Provlnolal Seero-I tary J. Lylo Tolford, 6-4 Biika Bldf., J VanoouTor, B.O. Tolophono Seymour! 1188, or Btyvlow 6880. BAKEBT SALESMEN, LOOAL (71- Maata oaeond Thunday OTory monthi in Holdon Bulldlnf. Proiidont, J. Bright*/ woll; finanoial loorotary, H. A. Bow ron, 781 13th Ato. Bail. CIVIC EMPLOYEES' DNION, LOOA 28—Meete firat and third frldaya 1a the month at 145 Haitian W., at •<_. p.m. Preildent, B. K. Brown, 8627J Oharlea St.; aecretary-treaaurer, Oeorgor Harriion, 1182 Parker St. ENGINEERS —THE INTEBNATIONAL | UNION OF STEAM AND OPERATING —Local 182—Moeta erery Wedneidiy at 8 p.m., Boom 808, Holdon Building' Proiidont, Chariot Prloo; buiineu agoai and finanoial toorettry, P. L. Hunt; rtj cording toorotary, J. T, Venn. MUSICIANS' MUTUAL PBOTEOTIVi UNION, Local 148, A. F. tt M.—1 Mooti in G.W.V.A. Hall, Seymour tn* I Ptndtr Streetl, ttoond Sunday at MJ a.m. Proiidont, E. O. Miller, 991 Bt!-] ton itreet; tecrettry, E. A Jtmloioa,! 001 Nelion itroot; flnanelal leereUry, j W. E, Wllllami, 881 Nelaon ttraet; or-J Htnlior, P. Pletohor. 881 Nelion etreet. 1 THE FED EBATED BEAF__MM'{ UNION OF CANADA—Hoidqutrtenl tt Roomi f, 8 and 7, Fltok Baildiif,] 188 Htitingt Street W., Vantonvor, B.C.] Tel. Sey. 8688. Preildent, Bohort Them;! Vleo-Proildent, David Gilloople; Btt'y-1 Treaiurer, Wm. H. Donaldson. Victoria J Branch, Boom 11, Groen Blook, BrtadJ Stnet, Vlctorit, B.O. Phont 1861. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. Ill—| Proiidont, B. P. Pettlplece; vlee-prei- Ident, O. F. CtmpbeU; iiorattry-toeta.I urer, B. H. Ntoltndl, P.O. Btz 66.1 Meeti lut Sundty of etch moath at 11 p.m. In Holdon Building, 16 Halting! 1.1 PBINOE BUPEBT TYPOGRAPHICAL! UNION, No. 418—Preaident, S. D.J Htedont'.d; eeerettry-trotiuror, J, M.I Otmpu.il, P.O. Box 688. Meete last, Thuridty of etch montk. THE CANADIAN ffiafror Afcuorat* With Which I> Incorporated THE BBITISH COLUMBIA FBDBBA- MOOTS* PUBLISHED EVERY FBIDAY By the Labor PnblUhlng Oo. Builneia and Editorial Offloa 1129 Howe St. * * * * .*■ * ,.m., The Canadian Labor Advocate it a non-. factional weekly newipaper, giving newt1 of tbo termer-labor movement in tetion. Subscription Bttet: United Statei and , foreign, $2.50 per year; Ctntdt, 83 per year, $1 for lix monthi; to unioni subscribing In a body, 16c per member per month. Member Tht Federated Preu aad tha Brltlih Labor Preu Patronize our advertisers. if, November 27, 1925 THE CANADIAN LABOB ADVOCATE Page Five I- WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT • icifying CanadianWomen WtttZS_\_-_* VA—The brutal exploita- Ih of women workers ln Can- Ireveaied in the annual re- ithe Ontario Minimum Wjage Iwhlch after an existence of ara claims to have raised i wages from extremely low jThat these "low levels" are City starvation levels ls evi- ' by the following cost of fbudget. Food and Clothing I'd and lodging, at $7 pier ($364.40. jilng—Footwear and repairs jfc), $5, $4, $4; bedroom slip- II; rubbers, $1; repairs, .12; 17. Stockings, 8 pairs, 16.40; 'ear, $8.50; niight gowns, 14; ats and bloomers, $5; corsets |), 14.50; corset covers, $3; ( 2 years), $1.25; hats (2) (suits (half cost to wear 2 $11; or skirt (1 year), $5, tht coat (2 years), $12; wint- [t (half cost to wear 2 years) pnter dresses, $10; summer 2 or 3, $12; shirtwaists, 3, sweater (2 yeaTs), $2; ap- $2.50; handkerchiefs, $2; $4; scarfs, $1.75, and um- to last 2 years. $1.25; Total Poverty's Luxuries fndry, $39; doctor, dentist, op- $20; carfare, $39; reading ]_*, $6; postage and stationery, creation and amusement, $23 and charity, $10; incident- ncludlng brush, comb, soap, paste, talcum powder, nail tioe polish, hand lotion, pins bs, thread, whisk, shoe laces, 120. Total expenses for sun- $162. Total expenses for $650.40. tic Wage $13.50 Per Week jthe basis of 52 weeks ln the this works out at $12.50 per board being $7, clothing land sundries $3.11. highest minimum wage fix- lithe board is $16.82 for wo- nployed in the boot, shoe lather trades in cities of ov- ]j,000, working 47.4 hours a For women In retail stores fonto the minimum is $1661, I week of 49% hours. For laundry workers in Tlrintl thie minimum is $13.41; for needle trades in Toronto it is $15.13. One Plants—Another Reaps $124 per year for clothing for a woman of the working class, and then take a look at the regalia which bedecks pampered useless dames of the idle rich, many of whom neither possess the brains nor ability to prepare a meal for themselves. $7 per week for board and room for the women of that class who build all the houses and produce all the food—the rest for those who neither toil nor spin. Soul But Not Body In passing It may be noted that a woman of the working class requires $10 annually to save her soul, and but twenty dollars to keep her body in health, her teeth in condition, and her eyesight in that order which enables her to continue working. She "gets" the the munificent sum* of $23 per year to waste in riotous living and debauchery. How she could possibly "sin" $10 worth in a year is a mystery. However, care is taken to see that she gets to work promptly and eivery -morning so she ls generously allowed $39.00 for car -fare. Culture Culture, and a knowledge of what is going on in the world she requires not, hence she receives but $6.00 per year for reading matter, less than the cost of a yearly subscription to the sewer pipe prtess of our masters, but then if she acquired aesthetic tastes she might become "red". Needless to say no allowance is made for "marcel waves" In this wasteful and extravagant budget.. It ls conditions such as these that drive women of the working class Into prostitution, and give the painted morons of the idle rich an opportunity to show their purity of morals by launching societies for the rescuing of "fallen women". Such is capitalism; and such are the conditions which the male members of the working class permit their women kind "to live under. Education PARIS.—The system of primary education ln France, once among the beist in Europe, has now fallen upon evil times. Successive Budgets since the war have cut down expenditure upon education, beginning, of course, at the bottom, until thie £18,000,000 now allotted has become an irreducible minimum. This figure, indeed, is so inadequate—even for the school population of France, which is about one-half that of Gre*at Britain— that in order to keep the primary school system within the financial •bounds rigidly, set by the Ministry of France, many schools in country' districts have been closed, and many others-are run with dlmin- lsed staffs. The teaching profession in France is now, and has been for some years, so miserably underpaid, that it attracts no fresh blood. A teacher In a lyceei, or secondary school, with the title and diplomas of professor, is paid less than a bus conductor. A University professor is paid hardly better. And how the unfortunate teachers in primary schools, with large classes, housed ln dirty, ill-ventilated, and often underheated schoolrooms, manage to exist on their meagre pittance, in view of the increasing cost of living, is a miracle. The only reason for their remaining in so ill-remunerated a profession is, of course, the expectation of a pension, the promise of semi- security and genteel half-starvation in their old agei—this, and the social status whioh accompanies the position of teachei-, a status of which, however, the value diminishes yearly, jrman Workers Sweat Blood (By LEN DE CAUX, Federated Preaa.) IN.—Who an paying the arations in Bawes-rnled ny? With worker standards appalling level, and still If, with tbe 8-hour day a [of the past, and the cost ng and unemployment in- with the coming ot win- figures show that In the '•year (April to October) |urden has heen placed on Drkers to the tone of hun- of millions marks more [vas anticipated. enue showa a surplus of llllion marks over the pre- I estimate, which will prob- jtean an increase in the next ■tlons payment, every cent Jch haa been ground out of ery and sweated wages of lirman workers, figures speak for them- fctober Bevenue ' Estimate 16 Mtrkt i tax 1,193,680,000 850,000,000 which wages gave 749,660,000.) hlon tax 93,769,000 150,000,000 r tax.... 83,724,000 250,000,000 tax 14,841,000 18,000,000 lettil tax 799,800,000 750,000,000 general, while the taxes on and consumption show an ous Increase, taxation whioh lilarly affects the capitalists as marked a decrease. The 1st direct burden oji the jui workera is the income vhich might be called a tax, as only wagea of leas 16 a week are exempt. Wag- thls are subject to a 10 per tax, so that tha average ' German wage of about $10 a week is reduced by 60 cents for Income tax, not to mention other compulsory deductions for insurance, etc. Compared With America The miserable subsistence level of the Oerman workers finds statistical corroboration ip figures published by the International Labor office. These show that Oerman real wages are one-third of American real wages (the comparative, figures are: U.S.A. 183, England 100, Qermany 64). The 8-hour day is only a memory in most industries. Food prices have gone up 10 per cent, in October without corresponding rlue iu washes. Unemployment is showing a huge increase. Being ruled by American finance-capital doesn't exactly mean a merry Christmas for Oerman labor. Official unemployment figures are 298,000, an increase of 100,- 000 ln the last two months. This represents only the registered unemployed i,n receipt of full relief The official journal of the miners' union estimates that the full number of unemployed ls 760,000. Oerman white-collar workers are hit with their manual fellow- workers. Wages are on about tho same level and unemployment is severe. Needle trade Workers Demand Amalgamation (By Federated Press) NEW YORK—The 40-hour week ■become!, the slogan of the International Fur Workers Union with the adjournment of its convention in Boston and employers will also be called upon to do all their hiring through the union. First step toward amalgamation of the quarter million needle trades workers now divided into five unions were taken when the convention ordered the incoming general executive board to send out a call for a conference of representatives of the other organizations for the purpose of hammering out mergers plans. This would mean comlbin- ing the ladies garment workers, amalgamated garment workers, cloth, hat, cap and millinery workers and the United Garment Workers with the fur workers. Earlier steps toward unity brought the Needle Trades Alliance, which preserved the, structure of the constituent organizations intact and finally broke down after functioning little. Speakers insisted that sentiment today is much stronger and that the need was for an Industrial union not a loose federation. Another resolution that passed urged the A. F. of L. to take first steps towards a general industrial union movement by calling conferences of representatives of the craft union groups within given industries. Suoh a resolution was defeated at the Atlantic City convention of the A. F. of L. The right arm of Labor is a strong press. Add power to this arm by subscribing to THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE. Advertisers are helping us. 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It is a great thing to say truthfully: These extractions, fillings, or removing this nerve, will not hurt." With the use of Novocain, work can bo done thoroughly, time it laved, tnd the cost is less than before, GLASSES 5 COMPLETE AUR eye examination is as ^ perfect as skill, scientific instruments and years of experience can devise. Bird Eye Service (UPSTAIRS) 205 SERVIOE BLDO. ROBSON at GRANVILLE Entrance 680 Robson St, Phono Sey. 8055 Special for This Week Men's nifty Overcoats, in brown lovett; 3-piece belt, storm collar; regular $20.00 coats for $15.00 W. B. BRUMMITT 18-20 OORDOVA STREET WEST AGENT FOR HEADLIGHT OVERALLS Page Six THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Friday, November 27,l| With the Marine Workers (Conducted by W. H. Donaldson, Secretary Federated Seafarera of Canada.) SEAMEN'S ACTIVITIES ANOTHER meeting of the Federated Seafarers* Union of Canada was held at the headquarters " on Tuesday, November 24, which was well attended, and many new faces were seen at the meeting, A keen Interest in the business of - the organization was shown. The meeting decided to appoint a committee to further improve the standing of the membership at sea and ashore and to make the best efforts possible to improve the conditions of seafarers sailing from British Columbia ports. Brother Terry stated that when he left one of the barges of the Coastwise Steamship — Barge Company a,t Anyox recently he was deprived of his fare down to Vancouver from that port. The manager at Anyox (Mr. Cameron) had acted, according to Brother Terry's story, ijn a very indiscreet manner, using very abusive language towards him and towards the organization. The result of the report was that, on the motion of Brother Lander and Brother Bates, the matter will be taken up with the Coastwise company, as their dealings with the union has always been on a par with the best of the shipping companies. The other men who were on the ship with Brother Terry and who were paid off owing to the barge being tied up, had their transportation paid to Vancouver, The matter cost Brother Terry $16.25. Another member reported that as he had been looking for work and approached the employment agent of the C.G.M.M., this worthy Individual (Mr. Alec. Harvey) acted in a very uncivil manner. A motion was put to the meeting to take the matter up with the heads of the C.G.M.M. In discussing the motion, some of the members stated that it would be more profitable to boycott the C.G.M.M. ships until the individual complained of altered his ways and spoke civil to seamen who had the misfortune to have Empire Cafe QUALITY COURTESY REASONABLE 76 Hastings East HAROLD DEGO and BOB KRAUSE UU 84th Batt and 7_nd Batt. Send in your subscription today, to apply for work through that "gink." The secretary stated that it was no use trying to boycott the vessels in the winter time, as so many men were here from the prairies and elsewhere who would ignore the boycott, and that it was usual for under-dogs to act in the winter time as Mr. Harvey was reported to have done in this case. In any ©vent, the matter will be taken up with the C.G.M.M. Ltd. Another motion passed to examine ' the record of a member who is reported to have acted against the interests of the union in one of the recent disputes with the shipping companies, and the report is to be presented at the next meeting The printing committee expect to have the selection of the membership books with the quotations on 500 and 1,000 from the union printers. It is expected that the union will have a better book thap ever was in use before. Brother D. Gillespie is to be asked to take the nomination for president of the organization, Bro. Lawson was nominated for vice- president, and no other nominations have come in so far for the other official positions of the organization other tha*n the nominations of Wm. Morgan and thc secretary, W. H. Donaldson. Several members spoke under the good and welfare of the organization, and stated that the union should make efforts to draw up a scale of proposals of amalgamation to present to the National Sailors' & Firemen's Union of Canada. Another member stated that they (the N. S. & F. U. of Canada) were sadly in the minority, and that as the secretary was acting in the interest of himself instead of the organization, it was almost useless to approach them with a view to amalgamation. The matter was referred to the next meeting, when some action is expected. Bro. Bill Cartwright had quite a lot to say regarding the proposals that had been made by the same organization some time ago. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 1st, 1926, at 8 p.m., at the headquarters, 163 Hastings street west. The S.S. Canadian Planter arrived in port the other day, and something very unusual happened aboard that vessel. The entire crew stated that the conditions, as far as food was concerend, and the treatment of the men at various ports on the past voyage by the officers of the ship, was very good. The captain of the S.S. Canadian Planter is Captain Dixon, and the chief engineer Mr. Dunn. A few more men like the two mentioned would do a lot of good if they were used to replace those filling the same positions MAINLAND CIGAR STORE "The Place for Pipes" Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention 810 OARRALL STREET VANCOUVER, B.O. Red Star Drug Store The Hail Order Druggists" Wa Hake a Special Effort to Get Goods Out by Flrat Mall After Receipt of Your Order Corner Oordova and Oarrall Vanoouver, B.0. Revamp Education (fiy SCOTT NEARING) (By Federated Press) l/"HARKOV, Russia—Standards of education are advancing rapidly in the Ukrainian Workers' Republic. Five years ago the country was over-run by Yudenieh, Denekln, Wrangel and the counter- revolutionists. Then came the famine of 1921-22. In 1922-23 education in the Ukraine was at Its lowest point, Student enrollment in. the elementary schools had been 1,800,000 in 1914 and 2,000,000 in 1921. In 1923 it stood at 1,300,000. That year the tide turned. Civil waa- ended. The harvests improved Industry revived. The enrollment for 1924 was 1,500,000; for 1925 1,750,000. Th* enrollment this fall (1925-26) will exceed 2,100,000 topping the highest point of 1921 by 5 per cent. A similar story is told in the growth of educational appropriations. In this year, 1925-1926 fifty per cent, of all Ukrainian expenditures are being devoted to education. The total budget for 1925- 26 is almost exactly five times the budget for 1922-23. Teachers are sharing largely in this improvement. Their hours of work are less; their housing is improved; their food is far better. As for their wages, the Ukrainian village teacher who received 8 rubles a month (ruble, 50 cents) in addition to house, fuel and food in 1922-23, 18 rubles in 1923-24 and 25 in 1924-25, in the 1925-26 budget is receiving 30 rubles a month. This is still a small amount, but it is nearly four times four years ago. The Whole Ukrainian educational system has been re-organized the past four years. The Dalton plan, the project method and anumber of other experimental ideas that have been tried out here and there in & her countries are being tried also in the Ukrainian republic on a yast scale. The schools are being reconstructed physically and educationally. All children now work -in groups. A child incapable of group work is looked upon as abnormal and treated. The normal child is the child who knows how to associate with his fellows. Economic revival has laid the foundation for a new educational system that marks great advance steps for the whole educational world. aboard the other ships of the C.G.M.M. Ltd. The S.S'. Canadian Trooper had a very different story to tell. Some of them are in the hospitals as a result of not being well- enough fed and overworked. On reading the columns of The Sunday Province, a week ago last Sunday, it was interesting to read the report of one of the "Varsity Gang," a Mr. W. Murphy, who it is reported is a son of Judge Murphy, Supreme Court judge. He peeded funds to pay his expenses at the Varsity, That is the reason why he went on one of the C. G. M.M, vessels, He winds up his experience on the ship by stating that the first thing that he did when he got paid off was to hire a taxi, rush home ahd get a square meal for the first time in three months We hope that Mr. Murphy realizes that the Federated Seafarers' Union has been trying to improve the lot of the seamen, and that the next time he goes on such a trip he acts according to the principles of organized labor and does his bit to improve the lot of practical seamen as well as making his expenses at the university. Where does the pull come from to do a practical seaman or fireman, out of a job? Mall list at headquarters; T. Boland, A. Cox, D. Carlin, Damper Clellford, Mr. George, J. Hobson (discharge), C, Henderson, Thos. Hanpah, R. Horn, N. Jones, J. Kissock, W. F. Love, N. Mcintosh, D. Matthews, J. McDonald, W. sborne, J. Starr, A. Smith, W. Notes From the Camp* MYRTLE POINT, B.C. This company operates two camps,, one on Haslam Lake and the other one ls situated about nine miles from the booming grounds at Myrtle Point. The working conditions are fairly good at Camp 2, and extremely bad at number 4, on Haslam Lake. The Haslam Lake Camp, being constructed of cedar shakes, are old buildings. When one of .the shakes falls off or is blown off, no (attempt is made to repair the break, consequently water pours into the bunkhouses, saturating the beds, etc. It strikes one who is compelled by circumstances to exist in these quarters that the term "bunkhouse" is a very appropriate name to apply to these old ramshackle "dwellings"—it is the "bunk." There is no dry-room worthy of the name, and indifference to the welfare or convenience of tha men seems to be a deliberate policy here. Strange as it may be, a large percentage of the men seem to enjoy it, like they do Liberal or Conservative governments. A smaller percentage whine like an abused cur, but do not possess the initiative, either as Individuals or collectively, to take the firat steps to defend themselves. This description, so far as the workers are concerned, applies to the great majority of the men in logging camps on the Pacific*, coast today. The company has a scheme to encourage the workers to "save" (with their consent) by deducting Governor Issues Anti- Trade Union Manifesto the sum of $20, pr any m] thereof, from the worker's ly pay cheque, interest bein at 6 per cent. One of the of this scheme is to ellmina large turnover ln men, sti the working force, and viola Semi-Monthly Pay Act, wl| consent of that class of whom Barnum referred to , ing born at the rate of Oiti minute. His estimate a-j very conservative, judgedSJ the environs of a logging ca The "chuck" at number real good, but the meals ar] ten; but since "chuck" seen satisfy most of them, they getting that. A great lms ment might be made her1 chuckling the cook in the "< Falling and bucking ls dl! the piecework basis, and m<j the pieceworkers are working low the wage scale paid b| day. There are Ubraries(?) in( a number of the camps, are furnished by the C] Coast Mission. The books a_ tiquated, and the subject if anything, more so, It is anti-labor, produced by ChrJ bourgeois "writers" of driv the 100 per cent, opium-jesu, riety. L. MONTAL, No. 25, Workhouse Point, J Pass this copy to your shot and get him to subscribe. (By Federated Press) BOSTON—Essaying the role of Calvin Coolidge, who fought the policemen's strike of Boston, the present governor, Alvin T. Fuller, comes out with a denunciation of the Commonwealth Service Association, the new organization of Bay State employees that is .enrolling many members. Here is the G. O. P. governor's anti-union declaration: "No person who would, through joint action, attempt to compel the State to increase his or he,r salary need expect any special consideration of a favorable nature from mo. I welcome the opportunity of saying this before some young people find themselves belonging to an organization that is in the control of some radicals whose action may get the membership into trouble." ..Fuller's anti-labor record goes back to wartime when, as an executive of the Packard Car Company he ibroke a strikje among their Massachusetts employees. Earlier this year, when the Boston Elevated system employees voted for a strike he issued what amounted to a threat of strike-breaking. But the issue never came to a head for tho stiff front of the mien forced the company trustees to agree to arbitrate, Thean, B. Tovey, W. Worrall, J. Worrell, S. Warenn. Members are asked to subscribe to The Labor Advocate, as it is the medium of exposing conditions aboard vessels sailing from Canadian ports. Hospital Notes: Brother T. Gault and Taffy Evans have been discharged from the General and St. Paul's hospitals, respectively, as fit and well. Brother'J. Soou- lar is still at St. Paul's, along with Brother W. Hensby. Brother Gilmartin is improving at the General. Members are requested to pay a visit to hospital and see the brother members of the organization. The secretary pays a visit as often as possible, and when it is necessary, at the request of membera who are in hospitals. Who Ia BILL HUNGEKFOH Ask Any Labor Msn. STANFORD ROOMS 863 SETMOUB STBEBT 1 Housekeeping and TransIeJ Central—Termi Moderate! Under New Management I "BUI" Hungerford and M. 0| bridge, Props. BRUCE': SUIT SALE Big reductions, splend values. Begular pri^ $22.50 to $42.50, nov $15 to $37.1 C. D. BRUI Limited Oor. Homer and Hastings] . VANOOUVBB, B.O. The Original HARVEY Logging Bo< HAND-MADE BOOTS] for LOSGER8, MINERS, CRUISERS and PROSPECTORS Qalok Berries for Bepaln] Ail Work Guaranteed Iftoial Attention to Mail Ora] H. Harvei litabllsked In Vaneonver la U| il OORDOVA STREET ay, November 27, 1925 THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Page Seven sh Bosses Start jrting "Red Agents" DON—Variously described bltallst newspapers as "Red {"notorious Russian agents," like, nine persons are on Ithe S. S. Soviet, lying in the _ a Canal Dock, Stepney, deportation to Russia. | matter of fact, these people miners of Russian extrac- frho have been domiciled in for many years and their . One of them, Mr. Joseph who was born in 1877, Lin this country ln 1895, and rice worked in the Lanark- llts. He has a wife and their iildren were all born in Scot- 1 The whole family is now to ported, f other man, Mr: Edward Getz, fas bprn in 1871, came to this ly in 1912, and has been here Ilnce. urally, the children are, as pharlie Kllnas, aged 13, put potsmen, not Russians," and know any language except hglish that is spoken on the #lfo Okmtttrg Hate Jferoa Preparing To Smash Strikes in Britain Unity the Need of the Hour (By A. J. COOK, Secretary Miners' Federation of Great Britain.) TV7HEN I declared two weeks upon Labor has become more open " ago that the government at- and fiorce. tack on the Reds was only the The Need for Unity beginning of an nil-round offen- Tn<- prosecution of the Comimun- sive upon the whole Lahor move- ists> the threats upon the Labor ment, many Right Wing leaders Party and tne Trade Unions, are only smiled. Let me repeat what I said. The capitalist class launch their attacks upon Labor in a cunning manner. They always try and single out some militant section of the movement that is being all pa_-t of one common attack. Thiese must 'be met by a common organized front of the whole working class movement. I welcome the open and avowed hostility of the employing class. The workers are never deceived jmer and Sickle (On Women's Clothes INDON—An audacious plot fust been unearthed m Oxford in the heart of Mayfair, the ghold of London society, voman purchased from a well- shop in Oxford Street a fed "motif, and when she got i she was horrified to find that jsaid motif was emblazonied kthe hammer and sickle, the of Bolshevism, It was, in , sinister motive. was that all, in one corner em-broldered in beads a large Clearly this stood for Lenin, ^ound the design was a wiggly Vhlch surprisingly looks like a of "Z's"; therefore Zinovieff in the plot, firm in question has taken lie action, and ordered the > stock to be destroyed in spite le fact that the demand for foods was great and a repeat had been given. be lon Bookbinders Strike For Pay Raise kNDON—One thousand two red members of the National of Printing and Paper s have ceased work over the ill of their employers to dis- : application for an increase ^ges of 17s. 6d. per week. a result of a seven weeks' Pte In 1922, these workers suf- a reduction of 19s. 6d. per > agreement covering this rein was terminated on Septem- _1 by the union giving three l's notice. \e union subsequently put for- new proposals on behalf of London members, in which | embodied the application for flncrease. I a recent meeting the employ- efused to discuss these propos- .and the negotiations broke criticized by the moderates. They when the capitalists and their gov- joln in this criticism and then ernlment embark upon a policy of proceed to lead an open attack persecution and sti-aiightforward upon the militants. This is done attack. It is then they rally to us in order to separate and isolate and Sive us their help by joining that section from the movement the unions and enrolling within our as a preliminary to destroying it. political organization. The capitalists and their gov- By their open opposition to us ernment then return to the attack the employers expose their policy by selecting another group which and demonstrate the correctness of they desire to stamp out. They th0i--e who, like myself, desire to always adopt similar tactics, and organize a united front of the these have become so mechanical whole working class movement, that any alert leader can tell Unity! That is our only reply to what they are going to do after their onslaughts and prosecutions, the first move has been made. Unity in every field of working Their method of attack is to class activity. Unity in our fight begin with the militant Left to assist the men now in Court. Wing, pass on to the Centrists, And un'ty by casting our votes for and finally to tackle the Right Labor candidates. Wing. The American Example Take, for example, the attitude of the America^ government towards British labor leaders. A few weeks ago an attack was made upon Saklatvala. Within a few days of that affair our courageous friend, PurceU, was threatened with deportation—for showing the need *f or international trade union unity—and then a moderate leader like Arthur Hen- . derson comes under the 'ban. In the Saklatvala case, not one of the moderate Labor leaders raised a voice in protest. It is this silence on the part of the Right Wing—during an assault upon the Reds—that encourages Don't forget! Mention the Advocate when buying. British Bosses Strive To Stir Up Dissension LONDON,—The real reason why the government and the rr.iiue owners desired a coal commission was revealed at the enquiry this week. It is nothing more or less than an elaborate attempt to destroy the splendid unity displayed by the Trade Unions last July when they forced the government to retreat. The governmental departments have been used to supply wage tables in order to show Increases of wages si*pce 1914. These tables are so arranged that the railway- men and dockers head the list. The method of trying to oppose the dockers and railroad men to the miners was challenged by Herbert Smith. He informed the commission that If the wages of other industries were going to be criticized at the enquiry he would Insist upon the Trade Union representatives of these industries being summoned to .defend their members. This means that while the government and the mine owners are trying to split the ranks of Labor, the miners' leaders are . equally determined to show that they intend not only to defend their own members, but also the interests of the whole working class. Rally the Workers T ONDON—The following manifesto has heen Issued hy the National Minority Movement: "Tiie attack that has heen made hy the government on tlie leaders of the Communist Paity of Great Britain is of tremendous importance to the whole working-class movement. The policy of the government Is not only one of attacking Commun- the "capitalists to develop their at- tets- b,ut ls a Preliminary to an attack upon the whole movemont, tempt to smash up the whole of the Left Wing forces within the Labor Movement and in particular it is designed to cripple the organization of the National Minority Movement with a view to making It impossible Two weeks ago I said that the arrest of the Communists was the prelude to an open offensive upon the trade unions and the Labor Party. Is there any sane member of the movement-wlth the facts for us t0 work a,anS our Present before him—dare deny that state- successful lines, ment? Eace the Facts Citrine's Statement Let us not blind ourselves to the The ginger group in the tory real facts of the situation. It is party are demanding drastic ac- common knowledge that the gov- tion against the trade unions' po- ernment do not intend to allow lltlcal levy, whicch is the back- quietly a repetition of what oc- bone of the Labor Party. curred on July 81. By their official Already the prime minister has- association with the O. M. S„ a been challenged upon this by one strike-breaking organization, de- of the leaders of the tory party, signed exclusively for extra consti- Mr. Macqulster, who insists that tutlonal action in order to break the resolution passed at Brighton the resistance of the workers, they be enforced. havo shown unmistakably that they The demands of Mr. Macquis- are preparing for the struggle next ten have already been taken up May. by my friend Citrine—the acting The economic situation gets more secretary of the Trades Upton desperate every day. Do what they Congress—who states definitely w111* the capitalists cannot provide going through the greatest testing time of its history. Through our trade union branches, district and national comittees, and trades councils resolutions of protest against the present prosecutions must be passed and forwarded to the Home Secretary, the press, the General Council of the Trade Union Congress, and the x- eoutive Committee of the Labor Party-. We call upon all workers to rally behind the National Minority Movement, and, by redoubling their efforts, build up such a Movement that wil soon be able to unite the whole forces of the Movement together on a working-class programme and policy." LONDON—All trade unionists are questioning anxiously the role which will be played by various middle olass and upper class organizations in the event of a strike. There are many of these organizations, and it Is difficult to discover how far they will go In strike-breaking activities, and how far any off them have government support. An article in the November Monthly Circular" of the Labor Research Department (now reprinted as a Labor White Paper under the title "Strike-breaking* Organizations") provides Information on this point which should be in the hands of every trade unionist The pamphlet recalls the railway and coal strikes of 1919-21, and reminds us that: "When the strike had actually begun, the government issued instructions that out-of-work donation was not to be payable to anyone who refused to do transport work; and on October 4, 1919, the government asked local authorities to for 'Citizen Guards' to co-operate in the maintenance of order. "Since that time the government has been steadily devolplng ita own direct strike-breaking organization— this is proved by such reoent instances as the circular to the Navy; the grant of £40 in respect of cars registered for strikebreaking purposes; the formation of the Army Supplementary Reserve (Transportation Branch); and the proposed substitution of civilian trade unionists 'by the military in government repair depots." It then goes on to deal with the various strike-breaking organizations, of which there are six main ones, namely, O.M.S. National Citizens' Union, British Empire Union, British Fascists, National Guiai-d, and Army Supplementary Reserve. The record of these bodies are set forth, together with their promoters, form of organization, and the extent to which they have received official blessing. Everything is set forth coldly and grimly. Its revelations will came as a shock. British T. U. Congress Aids Indian Strikers pn't forget! Mention the Ad- i when buying. CITV OF VANCOUVEB that it ls— "simply part of a wider attack upon the whole Trade Union Movement," Citrine shows, very clearly. any solution for all the present evils. The loss of the monopoly of the world markets compels the capitalists of this country to maintain a continual offensive against LONDON—The Trades Union Congress has shown that It believs in international solidarity. A sum of over £100 has been cabled to Bombay where 150,000 workers are on strike. Tho strikers are resisting a cut of 16 per cent, in their wages which range from 10s. to 12s. per week. The action of the Trades Union Congress together with that of the Russian Textile Union—which sent the Indian strikers £1,000—shows that a new era has commenced In the world struggle between capital and Labor. Electrical Workers Demand Pay Increase LONDON—Five Unions, some of whose members are engaged in the Electrical Supply Industry, are concerned in a demand for an increase of 10s. a week. As the employers have refused to meet the men's representatives, it has been decided by the Unions to inform the Minister of Labor of their attitude. The result of the ballot of London members shows a majority in favor of strike action in the event of there being no settlement. The Unions involved in the dispute are the Electrical Trades Union, Amalgamated Engineering Union, Workers' Union, National Union of Enginemen, Firemen, Mechanics, and Electrical Workers, nnd the National Union of General . and Municipal Workers. Patronize our advertisers. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS •fOTICE TO ELECTORS KE NOTICE that a mooting of per- Ens qualified to vott at the Mull Elections for the City of Van- Ir will be- held, st the City Hsll, louver, B.C., on Wednesdny, Decern- E, 1925, st 11 o'clock in the fore- 1 tor the purpose of Nomination of ■{dates for Mayor, School Trustees ■Park Commissioners, and for noml- |n of candidates for office of Alder- 1 for eaoh Ward of the Olty, on the i day and at the same place, st th* cf 12 o'clock noon, for th*' ensu- .year. (ominations for Mayor, Sohool Tru*. > and Park Comalsiioneri most be ftt or before- 12 o'clock noon on day, and nominations for Aldermen ir before 1 o'olock In the afternoon bald day. P WM. McQUEEN, City Clerk, lancouver, B.C., November 14, 1925, that It is not only the Labor the present standards of the work- Party that is involved. The at- inS c'ass. tack upon the political levy is bound up with an attempt to smash the trade unions' right to peaceful picketing. Further, one of the capitalist newspapers, in London, opened a fund to attack the Trades Union Congress in the They are convinced that by next May they will be in a position not only to defeat the miners, but to attack the* rest of the1 working- class as well. If the present prosecutions are allowed to pass unchallenged, it courts. Within a few days they means that no section of the Move- raised the necessary money. ment will bei safe. If the govern- But that is not all. The boss ment can at this,juncture succeed press are showing very definitely in temporarily suppressing the re- that they intend to attack the volutionary section of the Work- wages of the rallwaymen, dockers, ing-class Movement, it means that etc. The government is even us- the trade unions and the Labor ing the present Coal Commission Party will be the next to be at- to try and set the miners against tacked. the railwaymen. The gravity of this situation calls Thus during the past three weeks for immediate and united action— we see that the capitalist offensive our Movement ls on its trial, and THE WET WEATHER IS HERE—OOME IN AND GET YOUR RUBBERS Reliable Footwear AT PRICES YOU DON'T MIND PAYING "THE BEST FOR LESS." Every Pair a Bargain—All Made of Solid Leather Children's Slippers clearing at $1.45 and $1.95 Ladles' Sample Shoes, regular to $7, for $2.05 Boys' School Shoes $2*45 and $2.95 Men's Work Boots (the famous "Skookum") $3.95 and $4.96 Men's Dress Boots, up to $10 values, for $4.95 KIBLER'S SHOETERIA (The Best for Less) 163 HASTINGS ST. E. (Almost Opposite the Library) ■f" Page Eight THE CANADIAN LABOR ADVOCATE Friday, November 27,, OUR ECONOMIC SURVEY Our Open Forum U. S. UNEARNED INCOME IN DIVIDENDS WOULD MAINTAIN 3,000,000 FAMILIES (By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press.) BANKING, transportation and over the energy that keeps the public utilities afford the own- wheels of industry moving, ing class in the United States un- Second only to the credlt-tran- equalled opportunity to levy a sport-utilltles group comes metal cash tribute on the population, as manufacturing as a source of dlv- may be seen from the report of '-lends. Iro-n, steel and, mors the commissioner of internal rev- lately, copper are the very fabric enue on dividend distribution ln of transportation, manufacturing, 1923, His figures show that ered- building and power. So capital it, transportation and power own- finds in control of this industry ers collected nearly $1,300,000,000 another opportunity to demand fyi cash dividends, or more than tribute from the public. Metal 31 per cent, of all the dividends manufacture turned over to "the disbursed in that year. owners dividends totaling $673,- This is a modern illustration of 594,604 in 1923. the fact that control of key poa_- The cash dividends reported to tions in the economic order yields ' the commissioner from all sources almost unlimited tribute. The in« was $4,169,117,678. In addition, fluence of credit and transporta- the corporations reported dlstri- tion on prosperity and employ- bution of $891,286,583 in stock ment requires no comment. The dividends. For the ten subdivi- rise of giant power Is creating a sions of big business distributing third vantage point, giving big the largest amounts in dividends capitalists concentrated control the figures are: Dividends ih 1923— Cash. Stock. Transportation, public utilities $662,662,128 $ 76,098,539 Finance, banking, etc , 632,907,791 79^675^373 Metal manufacture . 573,594,604 m!444.956 Trade •'• 393,902,947 ' 164,776,051 Chemical manufacture 381,161,186 32,914,392 (including petroleum) Mining - 300,662,452 41,980,436 Food products 251,166,199 64,076,819 Textile products 218,528,922 87,580,550 Lumber products 127,899,768 66,964,101 Miscellaneous manufacture 207,076,611 51 062 231 =s The cash dividends from trans- Trade Union Brought ™™u^ipubUo ut!lities^"e ° would furnish a year's subsist- ReSUltS To PlUmberS ence wage in accord with the na- tlonal (employers') industrial con-- Continued gains in the wages of ference board standard, to more union plumbers in 1925 correspond than "MOO worker families, with the very considerable increase Transportation, public utilities, in membership recorded by the banking and metal manufacture United Assn. of Plumbers and combined paid cash dividends suf- Steamfitters between 1924 and f,c**ent to pay such a wage to 1925. According to the annual re- over L»00,OOFO families. The to- port of the U. S. department of tal dividends from all branches lajbor on union wages and hours, of business would provide a sub- union rates for plumbers May 1, slstence for about 3,000,000 work- 1926, exceeded 1924 in 12 out of er -families. 40 cities. Only one city in the list The bulk of the dividends go, reported a reduction in plumber however, to 200,000 persons with wages. incomes of more than $15,000 Extending the comparison batek apIece- Dlv,°«nds form the larg- to 1920 we find that in the 5-year est singIe item ln a» Incomes period plumbers' minimum hourly °v<5r, *20-m- belnS nearly half °f rates have been raised in 30 of the *» ,ncomes that OTCee<J *100,000. 40 cities. In only 2 cities are their The federaI fi*ures show that the wages below 1920. This is some- avera^ person ip any one of the what better than the average in lncome SroUDS *boVB $10,000 could the building trades. As many o£ 1,ve as wel1 as tne av€raSe skilled the increases have been large, un- meohanic if he did nothing more ion plumbers have materially im- ln ufe than casn hls dividend proved their living standards com- checks. pared with 1920, the year of high- Cash dividends alone, without est living costs. reference to rents, royalties, in- „, ,, . , , terest and other sources of un- The 44-hour week is universal -r .,_..., . , earned income of the owning except in Seattle where union ._ , . ' . , . .„ . , class, are today large enough to plumbers have a 40-hour week. .- ' ... 7 ,... „ , -.. - . . keep the upper classes sitting Here again the plumbers are „ .. .... . ._. , „ u_i s. -Js , .i. u *,.*■ Pretty on the backs of the work- slightly ahead of other building ■ trades unions. Since 1913 plumb- ' ers hours have been reduced in 13 _,. • . . . . _ . , ... The right arm of Labor is a lumbers get the highest hourly -™J ~ «* f°™J°™ rate In Birmingham and St. Louis "»* ^l^^L where it Is $1.50. Pittsburgh is just APIAN LABOR ADVOCATE. bohind with $1,438 while G'cities Including New York pay $1,375. Fall River, Manchester, Minneap- The $1.50 rate ls a gain of 118% oils, Richmond and St. Paul have over 1913. ln Birmingham and the lowest plumber scale with a 126% In St. Louis. Charleston, rate of $1. Readers of Tke Lsbor Advocate sre invited to send In letters for publication in onr "Open Forum." This ls a "free for all.'' No communications will be censored so long as writers refrain from indulging In personalities. Letters should aot exceed 250 words. She management of Ibe Advocate assumes no responsibility for opinions expressed in tbis spaoe. LIBERALISM AND LABOB Sir: It was with a feeling of positive boredom that I read in the last issue the account of the latest attempt to persuade Labor to link up with its dear frlepd, the Liberal Party, I had fondly hoped that the idea was dead and buried long ago, but in this I have apparently been mistaken. B.C. is not alone in making the suggestion. Lloyd George, fed up with playing third fiddle in the British House of Commons, and realizing that a "policy" ls necessary if he is to stage a comeback, has announced to a breathless public that his party intend to nationalize the land, and from his trusty comrade, Mr. Asquith—beg pardon, Lord Oxford—comes the suggestion that a combination of Liberal and Labor forces could carry such a policy into effeet. No one in his right, mind imagines for a moment that the British Labor Party will pay heed to such a suggestion, any more thajn that the alleged policy has any honesty or sincerity behind it. The party which . constitutes the official opposition at Westminster, and has actually been in office, is hardly likely to sell itself to the Liberals at this time of day, and the British Labor voters may safely be left to judge the merits of the Liberal suggestion; but I only wish I felt as sure of those in the Canadian movement. What becomes of the British Labor voters when they come to this country? The beggarly array of votes accorded to candidates at the recent election, and the apparent inability of the party to prosecute a vigorous campaign, seems to indicate that many a good Labor voter is captured by "keep the grain flowing westward" or any other parrot cry which the orthodox parties choose to adopt. Why is this? Let there be no mistake. There are only two parties in Canada, as elsewhere, the workers a*pd the others. The latter may call themselves Liberals, Conservatives, Progressives, or heaven knows what besides—they all mean the same thing, and the sooner the workers realize that elementary truth the sooner will they be able to build up a party fit, not merely to command a majority, but to govern. Meanwhile I add my appeal to all who have the cause of Labor at heart to turn a deaf ear to any suggestion of joining up with the Liberals—that way madness lies. Yours truly, F. M. HARDIE. 1040 Georgia Street, Vancouver. BOOK REVIEW (By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press.) lVTEW YORK.—"Our government from time to time has been charged with economic or financial Imperialism," Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew told the American Manufacturers' Export Association banquet. "Need I say such a charge ls baseless? Administrations come and administrations go. But so far as changing circumstances permit, the attitude of the government of the United States towards the development of American commerce is guided by certain definite and consistent principles and lines of conduct which have bean long established. The basis of these principles is . . . the policy of the Open Door." Further and fuller explanation of this Open Door policy of the United States government and an answer to the under secretary's denial of American Imperialism is excellently set forth ln Dollar Diplomacy, a book by Scott Nearing and Joseph Freeman, which comes out immediately after Grew's remarks. Government records themselves tell most of the story, and the rest ls from equally acceptable authorities. Unhappy Latin-American countries often call to the American Federation of Labor for attention to woes inflicted upon them by the United States government ln support of United States investors. Santiago Iglesias, Spanish-speaking secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, has repeatedly brought deplorable Latin-American conditions before the American Federation of Labor. The Pan-American Federation was itself professedly founded as the American Federation of Labor's expression of friendship for Latin-American labor. Dollar Diplomacy is a book which ought to commend itself to the American- Federation of Labor and to the Pan-American Federation as a text upon which to determine action. one to the conclusion that Mr. Keenlyside must have received this definition from the Socialist Party of America. Webster's unabridged defines political action as "having to do with the organization or action of individuals, parties or interests that seek to control the appointment or action of those who manage the affairs of a state," and political science is defined as "the science dealing with the organization and government of states." Nothing aaid here about a ballot box. Why, then, this twisting of terms, resulting ln a confusion of ideas? One can hardly believe that the professor does not know better. Yours for clarity, J. J. PIERCE. With 200 billion dollars 1 vested abroad, the United] is playing a thrilling, tcj melodramatic game arouJ world. United States capital fully penetrating Canada q a third of Canada's indusl third of her producing irJ third of her provincial bom municipal debentures, and j creasing amount of dJ bonds, In Bolivia peaceful tration ls turning Into pi domination by Ameriean bj The United States ls a pol the Far East, where for] years Americans have' work] concessions in. China. In the East, America's Standard i participating in the" division! spoils of war. In Mexico and Hawaii J lean business men have o into local politics, even to tl tent of encouraging and sul Ing revolutions. The Hawaili volt was put over by Am sugar planters. United f armed forces intervene ln tries where American invest! not receive satisfaction dem from local authorities: ask! Santo Domipgo and Nica When a territory accepts 1 States control, military occu] is supplanted by an Am eric nancial commission or civil nation. Armed conquest of tory has taken place by (he ed States in the Philippine purchase without consultinj population's wish in ths j Island. The United States I ment of European war del mortgaging directly or lndl European industry to Ami bankers is setting a new ; dent in imperial practice. But for particulars — ii dates and places—please j Dollar Diplomacy. It is wel umented; its appendices lnclj dozen typical or not easU tainable documentary s< The American labor mo. needs many more such boo simply written, clear expositl pertinent facts. j (Dollar Diplomacy, by I Nearing and Joseph fts The Viking Press, New ' $2.50.) 1 Patronize our advertisers. IS NEWS HA WHERE y| THERE PENING ARE, WHETHER IT BE*| THE MILL, MINE, F_J TOBY OR ON THE LA^ MAKE YOURSELF TB CORRESPONDENT A I-jjj SEND IT IN TODAY. 1 CONCISE, ACCURATE Al MILITANT! ',] < Sale! Sale! Sale! SEE OUR PRICES Men's Solid Leather Work Boots, Greb make; sale price $8.45 Children's Knee Gum Boots, sizes 5 to 10 tt $1.75 Men's First Quality Rubbers, pair $1.00 Men's Fine Cotton Socks, tan or black 19c Men's Wool Work Socks 23c Men's Military Grey Work Shirts, 14 tt to 17 tt- 95c Men's Fine Dress Shirts, nice patterns $1.39 Arthur Frith & Co. Men's and Boys' Furnishings, Hats, Boots and Shoes 2313 MAIN STREET, Between 7th and 8th Avenues **. Phone Fair. 14 TWISTING TERMS Editor Labor Advocate: While one may pardon a university professor for not being overburdened with a knowledge of the Labor or Socialist movements, yet one can scarcely forgive these learned gentlemen for failing to understand the English language. At the Labor Party's meeting l,n the Royal Theatre on Sunday night last, Professor Keenlyside made reference to political action and armed revolution, stating that certain bodies believed in political action, while others advocated revolutionary methods to capture state power. One wonders just what Professor Keenlyside means by- "political action." His speech would lead one to the conclusion that to him political action and parliamentarism were synonymous terms. This betrays a lesser degree of understanding than is possessed hy the average novice ln the Labor movement, and leads ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR] IN CASH ■■{ CASH PRIZE of above amount will be given **■ for the best Municipal Hydro-Electric Slogan for Vancouver. This "slogan" must be accompanied by at least three reasons why a Municipal Hydro-Electric Plant should greatly increase industries and population in Vancouver City. Address replies to Citizens' Committee 815 Yorkshire Building
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