The Canadian Labor Advocate
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issued: 2017-04-03
issued: 1925-11-27
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note: 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 Federat…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : the Labor Publishing Co.
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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