The Greater Vancouver Chinook
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issued: 2016-08-24
issued: 1914-02-28
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/gvchinook/items/1.0315431/source.json
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note: WESu��aCHINOOK \.il IT. NY..'4. SOUTH VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914 Price 5 cents Trade Unionists in South Vancouver Up In Arms Because Municipal Council Patronizes Non-Union Firm Indignation is Aroused Among Trade Unionists and Workers in General over Council's Attitude--Chairman Whelpton Tells of School Board's Stand on the Question WESTMINSTER CHURCH I NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF LADIES SOCIETY SOUTH VANCOUVER Because South Vancouver does not jelhere tei the precendent set down by the City eef Vancouver and all other large Canadian civic corporations that all supplies for the various departments must bear the union label, labor men throughout the municipality have made a protest. It has been learned tbat the council have purchased certain small quantities of supplies from non-union r-hops rather than patronize tbe union competitors. As South Vancouver is made up for the great part of wage taming people, thc vast majority of whom arc affiliated with the various unions, it may bc understood tbat thc ratepayers are more or less ticklish ou the subject of non-union labor. The South Vancouver School Board declare emphatically that thc ! ard will not buy one dollar's worth of materials from contractors who do not support thc principle of union labor. It would appear, however, that thc council have not yet declared themselves on this point. Chairman C. W. Whelpton, in disusing the matter with the "Chinook" leclared that if thc South Vancouver Council had at any time patronized "n-union labor that it had not done, hat was in his opinion, the square tl ing by either the union men of South Vancouver, who make up the hack bone of the municipality, or those competing contractors in the ��� strict who employ union labor, pay - 'id wages, and spend their money right in thc district. Chairman Whelpton stated that a c msiderable time ago the School Board had t-iken a determined stand on the subject of employing union labor. It was impossible, he slated, for a n…
note: Titled "The Greater Vancouver Chinook" from 1912-05-18 to 1915-05-01, for 1915-05-15, and from 1915-06-05 to 1915-09-11; "The British Columbia Chinook" for dates 1915-05-09, 1915-05-22, and 1915-05-29; "The Saturday Chinook" from 1915-09-18 to 1916-04-15; and "The Standard" from 1916-04-22 onward. Published by Greater Vancouver Publishers Limited from 1912-05-18 to 1916-01-01; Chinook Printing House from 1916-01-08 to 1916-04-15; The Standard Printers from 1916-04-22 to 1917-04-07; and The Standard Company from 1917-04-14 onward.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0315431
language: English
lat: 49.2611110
long: -123.1138890
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Greater Vancouver Publishers Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text