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Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and Distri^ & ides and Labor Council o^^p « r * Official Organ of The Canadian Labor P«?^ ^ $# i» fi.No. 99-Kto'HT PAGES', ■WJ* VANCOUVER, B. C, MARCH 12t\N «o FIVE CENTS PER COPY Prosperity Says Ford Higher Wages and Lower Prices Are the Two Essentials for Prosperity, Says Henry Ford—Use Competent Men and .. Keep Production Cost Down. i flpHIS is stated on no less an authority than Mr. Henry Ford in an interview with, a representative of Collier's published February 13, 1926. Mr. Ford will be accepted, as an authority on prosperity, for we know of no one who, by his own efforts and without very much assistance from any one to begin with and none at all at the present t.ime, has become one of the richest men in the United States, and, so far as we know, the world. ■' Whatever* Mr. Ford .did in the way of wage payments in the beginning we do not know. What we do know is tbat he shook the automobile industry to its bise when he adopted a minimum wage of $5 for a minimum eight'hour day. If denunciations could have wiped Mr. Ford off the automobile business map, he would have had no place on it for several years, and he again would have been effaced from the automobile history-wheri he adopted a minimum wage of $6 per day for" his factory employees. , j ■'. And this.same statement may be POPULAR DEMAND CABARET SUPPER ' Popular demand has necessitated the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union holding another Cabaret Supper at the Ambassador. This is/being arranged for Monday, March 22, and if it is possible it will be better than the last one. The same price—75c—will be the charged, but the music, fun, supper and service is well worth the money. . *$&'-;■■ ■ *.. *" ■ ■ '-,":'.....'•* tor-/• itfore Leisure and Pleasure for Workers tarried to his management of the D, T. & I. Railroad, which, when lje took it over was two streaks of rust with about the - poorest - equipment that could be found anywhere in the country, and which today* literally speaking, is shined frotn-the bottom to the top so that it glistens like hew silver, jn which also Way bejncluded a 16 per cent, dividen ^Ap^thmrtBI'f'IfKFord says about wages and their effect upon the general economic condition-of-the country will be read with interest. He said: Cut Prices and increase Wages "The'way to hold what we have of prosperity," said Mr. Ford, "is to keep up the standard of wages, and the way to have more prosperity is tp.eut prices and increase wages.,The right kind of wage increase comes as a result of management having the wage motive. The way to check a threatened depression is to cut the price and increase the wages. High wages with high prices do not help, anyone—it just means that everything has been marked up. But higher wages and lower prices mean greater buying power—more customers. That is prosperity." ,' The payment of high wages, however, is not just a matter of wishing to pay them, Neither has the rate of wages much to do with the scale that workmen may ask for. It goes back much farther—it goes back to the very structure, of the business itself and the idea on which it is founded. * * * CreatingyCustomera "The right price is not wha't the traffic will bear. The right wage is not the lowest sum a man will work for. The right price is the lowest price an article can steadily be sold for. The right wage is the highest wage the employer can steadily pay. That is- where his ingenuity comes in! He has to create customers, and if he is making a commodity, then his own workers are among his best customers. We have about two1 hundred thousand first-class customers ip our own company—in the people we directly pay wages to. And we are creating more'customers every day in the workmen of the people from whoji. we buy materials and parts. r.e-T ' ''If you cut wages you just cuf the number of your own customers. If an employer does not share prosper- «y with those who make him ^prosperous, then pretty soon tlWe^will pr no prosperity to share. That is the reason we think it is good busi- 'mesrf always to raise wages and never /to lower them. We like to have plenty |of customers." • Business Improved With Wage Raise i "You havb a minimum wage of s'$6," I said, "and your average wage Police Employ Tear Bombs on Strikers Passaic, N. J.—Tear bombs, a dozen mounted police and 65 jEoot, policemen were unable to disperse a crowd of 2000 hooting, jerring textile strikers near-'the1 Botany Worsted Mills late last Tuesday. As a last resort, five fire companies were sjim- •moned on the scene, .and the cfowd broken Up with'six streams, of water playing from powerful nozzles in the hands of firemen and patrolmen. As the strikers fled in all directions they were followed by patrolmen with brandished clubs,.who beat those who attempted to reform small groups of picketeis. • Men, women and children were knocked down in the melee. Hundreds were drenched to the skin, many bruised, but only one, arrest was made. Tear bombs struck the pavement with reports' like those from a fdy-- pistol. The grey gas. issued forth i MERGERS AND TRUSTIFICATION is still going oii in this locality. ; The bread trust is already in' operation. The ice cream trust has been accomplished in Vancouver and now ten of the largest fruit packing concerns in British Columbia have agreed uppn a merger plan which will probably be consumated within a few weeks. Organized labor docs not object to mergers unless they become the means whereby wages are forced down and working conditions battered down. But-while trustification cannot be .stopped, even by law, the producer and consumer can upset the plans of these.-big business operators if they ever get their he&ds together. When organized labor as producers,- arid organized labor as consumers, makes up its mind that a certain condition^ is detrimental to its" well-being, then it can upset the apple-cart, when it gets together with that object in'view. -. ' We are many, the owners are few. By, our producing power and^ by our purchasing power they prosper. We must work in order to live, but ' when working conditions become unsatisfactory 'then we become discontented ;and quit. When we quit our purchasing power decreases and sometimes stops. We_silffer, but_so does the trust or the owner of the works. We don't like quitting, we don't like striking, ahd we' certainly don't hrke going hungry, but if we did not kick sometimes, we would be given a much more miserable existence than we have at the present time. The wage earner must ever march onward, ever strain upward, deeply ening, expanding and refinining his appetites for the best, loveliest, healtB- icst thingsrToflif^ Science, invention and production has enabled wealth to be created in^vast, and almost unconsumable, quantities—and labor, • applied to natural resources and the machinery of production, has filled the .factories, warehouses and stores with commodities. Isn't, it about time labor began to get a .betijer-return for its labor? More leisure, pleasure and measure for its efforts? Let the trustification- go on, but let labor also aspire to greater things. ■ . . The Commodity Nature of Labor Power Most men and women in the Labor Movement believe that Labor Power is'a commodity to • be bought and-|in.a heavy" clauaU^.XJai>te^ha*f*r tbW Q-n-i thi-***»>«■''"-''Vf -ijini iililinii mliiil ||r,| lliijliiii off quickly, and* vmmmty, -amrthe truth of this as- only those close to the spot where scrtion is- fast becoming generally ac- the bombs struck; fell'back, holding cepted be even those outside of the their hankerchiefs to their eves, as Labor Movement. Nevertheless, it was somewhat surprising to many of us to listen to a judge of the Supreme Court in Chambers in Vancouver last week when he emphatically freclared that Labor Powe* is a. commodity. Arid probably that same judge knows (although he didn't say so) that the price of this commodity is determined by the strength.of your industrial organization. He' "must know, because before anyone can become a judge he must firs^t be a member of the Lawyers' Union. And in order to save the judge the embarrassing situation of having to decide between a Union and a Non- Union lawyer,. the Lawyers' Union eliminated non-union lawyers entirely. We haven't all brains enough to be a judge, but We can at least JOIN' THE UNION of our craft.—D. CARPENTERS PREPARE FOR MONSTER WHIST DRIVE Carpenters Local 462 held' a'well attended meeting last Monday evening when several new members were obligated. Local 452 ""is making arranger ments for a monster whist drive and dance to be held in the Cotillion Hall on Thursday, April 1.5. Keep this date open. is somewhat over thai. Now, I have -talked this over- with a great many mamifacturers, and some of them say they cannot afford to. pay "such wages." "No one knows what, he can afford to pay," answered Mr. Ford, "until he tries. Back in 19^6 we raise'd our wage, and it was on the day yie made the raise that our business really started, because On that day we did two things: First, we created a lot of customers for our cars, and, second, we began to find so many ways to save that soon we- were able to start our program of price reduction. If you set yourself a task, it is remarkable how- many other things grow out of doing that .task." '■,:'.'.'.'..'.;'*....-..,. "You simply cannot make a thing cheaply and well with cheap men. You have to get good men in order to keep the cost of production down.'" the fumes, stung them to tears. HELP US GROW - Cut out our "Buyers' Directory" and patronize 'the firms listed there, and endeavour to get your friends to subscribe to the "Labor Statesman" by using the subscription blank. South Vancouver Labor Party Notes South Vancouver Labor Party held a social and <lance in the I.O.O.F. Hall, 30th Avenue and Main Street, on Saturday, March 6th. A capacity crowd was in attendance and everything went off in first class style. We wish to call special attention to our next social and dance, which will be held on Saturday, March 20t(vunder thae same conditions. This will be our last for this season, and a record crowd is expected. Come along and bring a friend. Last- nights are always best. Business Meeting Next-Friday The next regular meeting of the party will be held in the Horticultural Hall, 43rd and Fraser, on Friday, March 19th, at 8 p.m, .This is important. Amongst other matters will be- the election of officers and committees for the ensuing year. All members should be in attendance. New York.—For violating.its agreement* with the Int. Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, • by pending workto rion-uniqn contractors the Brody & FUnt Co., is ordered by the impartial chairman to pay a fine of ?2,- 158.50 to the union and$300 to the accountants who made the investigation, The union's portion will be distributed to the* workers as part payment for time lost bv illegal pending out of- the garments."■'.. . . C. P. R. Pays 25c. Per Hour Wage TWO HUNDRED MEN have beeri taken by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, to lay steel on a division west of Calgary. These men are to be paid the munificent sum of twenty-five cents-an hour,- and out of this they will pay one dollam day for'board. This is the information given to the Alberta ■Leg'islative_AsseiTiblyiiby' f. M.jGhjistoBhaCTfp-1-p^" ttn* lflhw Trifling""'';.ffji nff j fi.j"*".'' I •'" It is a well known fact that this is a standard wage, of. the C.P.R. It has.always been noted for its beggarly attitude towards the-Europeans. that it has induced out here by means of glowing accounts of the possibilities and potentialities of this "the last great west." "But does the C.P.R. care, once the bohunks are over here. The .company knoc's all their dreams to smithereens, when they apply for a Job. Their visions of good homes, elegant furniture, the best of clothing and an abundance of leisure arid pleasure, are sent sky high wjien they land in the cooler, like the forty-six meii did who were recently arrested in Calgary for attempting to obtain meals without any funds. • , ■' -. ■ ,--- Signs of the times point to a flood of immigrants this year and if this is to be a standard -wage, then look out for a crisis in economic conditions. Population never made prosperity. Russia, India, China, are good enough examples. Cheap labor-never drove a nation forward to a condition that made ifi? people happy and contented. Cheap labor never en- . abled the low wage recipients to buy good clothing, food and homes, and it certainly eliminates luxuries. If working people can only afford jews harps instead of pianos and , radios, business will certainly go to the dumps. '■ ■ • , ., Canada's resources are .amazing, but unless labor is well paid,-labor cannot purchase the things that make for prosperity. A few millionaires and a whole multitude of paupers will breed discontent—and if that is what the business men want then they can rub their hands gleefully at. the twenty-five "cents an hour wage paid by the C.P.R. - PAINTING OF FIRE HALLS TO BE INVESTIGATED • The question of ordering the city firefighters to paint fire halls was taken up before the City Council on Wednesday by. Walter Wilson of the Painters and Walter Deptford of the Trades Council. The city council promised to give it consideration although there seemed to be very little intention to take it out of the hands of the firefighters: When the painters' business age"nt pointed out that the city lost money by the way (he paint was put.-on, y\.ld. Bennett suggested that it should be investigated and if competent painters could save the city money then they should be employed. ENGINEERS CABARET SUPPER WAS WELL PATRONIZED - The Cabaret Supper held fh the Ambassador Cafe by the Steam nnd Operating' Engineers last Monday was air that could be desired. There was a big turnout'^nd most of the crowd kept dancing till the early morning. .Whist started at 8 p,_m, ahd valuable prizes were.won by the following; first, ladies, Mrs. E. Hunt, 76; 2nd,. Mrs. E. O. St. Denis, 74; gents, first, Mr, McCallum, 84; 2nd, Arthur McCaffrey, 76. The committee in charge yvere: R. Finley, F. L. Hunt, Steve Galium, Charles Docker- ty and E. Webb. Vaccination Epidemic Prevails in Florida There is a terrible epidemic of vaccination in Florida, and many cases are reported to be very serious. This epidemic was inaugurated by the doctors over a month ago, the pretext being that some cases 'of- a light disease broke out in sections where there was serious congestion owing to the boom, and where unsanitary conditions prevailed. Letters-state that the disease had not caused much suffering nor inconvenience, but that vaccination was playing havoc all. over the state, many mote people being laid up froni it than there had been from the disease, which was diagnosed as smallpox. DEPTFORD OIV TOW}! PLANNING BOARD. "'. Walter Deptford, member of the Street Railwaymen's Union and delegate to the Trades and L.abor Council is one of a board of nine on the Vancouver Town Planning Commission. He is the only labor man on the boaj'da - .., ' CARPENTERS WANT MORE , Minneapolis.—By a vojte of 2265 to -358, organized carpenters in this city and in St. Paul have declared for a wage scale of'$1.12^ an hoflr. The present rate is 90 cehts. ....pvaaAlap;,;?***'*..*'--, .. -.- rqsmb&B£.T(- TflHE LABOR STATESMAN March 12th, IS Mond -- the Chemical King By J, T. WALTON NEWBOLD, M.A. ' • ■* Sir Alfred-Mond . . . sjlll count like a regiment of ordinary politicians. In the coming discussions on electrical development and coal conversion, his technical mastery', and above all his chemical knowledge, will, make his opinion as valuable,, to the country as that of any -man In parliament.—(J. h. Garvin, In Observer, Jlst January, 1926.)' .'".»'> The quotation given above i.nr a new significance to the secession of Sir Alfred Mond from the Liberal' Party at this particular juncture. Crossing the' floor of the House of Commons at this moment when the Govejwtfent is preparing a Bill to co-ordinate and develop the electric supply "services of the country, Sir Alfred Mond is likely to bring to-the ranks of the Conservative Party a contribution of scientific knowledge and of business experience that will -more than make up for the deficit of politick power- which, at this late stage in Liberal Party disintegration, he has at his back, He recognizes, no doubt, that this is the crisis in the career of Capitalism when what Is attempted will, if successful, stabilize industry and commerce for many a. long year to come. The Mentality 6f Alf. " He has been for some years quite evidently endeavoring to ingratiate himself with the.Conservative, Party.? His record as Minister of Health was that of an arch-reactionary deliberately making a sequence of gestures to the most callous and least creative elem.entsAvithin Toryism. His^utting down ofrDr. Addison's scheme of house building, fdllowing up by his establishment of' the infamous Mond Scale of Poor Law Relief and reinforced by the stoppage' of free milk for babies, marked him out, as no doubt this calculating cynic intended it should, as a man whom the most prejudiced section of the' propertied class would sooner or .Inter not only delight to welcome among them, but also to honor with office and.executive opportunity, No one of the Coalition-Liberals when in office so well understood the stark inhumanity tnat inspired the Daily Mail's campaign of "Economy" and the ruthless use of the Geddes "axe." No one of the Coalition Liberals when in opposition so-jdearly development of the gold and other metal mines which in South Africa and elsewhere* they themselves effect- ively.PvControlled. ' .'Ohcfe again, when a Crisis has been rfe'aShed "in the politics of Capitalism and, schemes of reconstruction funda- jnental -in their effect are of necessity being taken up, however, tentatively—in the first instance, by the Party of Property, "the Frankfort interests" are sending the most expert of their agents where he can get his hands,most.easily upon the levers of public policy. Mond and Northumberland , When, last year,-at the dinner of the Royal Institution in,the celebration of the centenary of Faraday's epoch-making separation of Benzol; with thdDoke of Northumberland im the chair, Sir Alfred Mond made a particularly interesting speech on the application of science to the solution of modern problems, it struck me that some mischief more than ordinary was brewing in the minds of our Piasters;* .- ... - Sir Alfred, no less than Lord Weir, is interested in science, both' pure and applied, both natural and social, to an extraordinary extent. Such men as Weir ahd Mond have for years been placing money without stint at the service of brains to think out not,only the way to make new alloys of metals and new compounds in chemistry, but by the study of psychology to eliminate the incidents in the relations of employers and employed that make the less acute amongst the latter conscious of an antagonism of class interest. 'Science or Superstition? They may and, in all probability, wjll find a way in which- to mitigate the difficulties i*n the distribution of wealth which are the result more of cut-broat competition than the in evitable consequence of the private control of capitalist production. Those who assume that Fascism is the last effort . of the propertied classes are in-for a very unpleasant process of disillusion. The battle between the'classes will he decided not with'bludgeons but by brains. - •-Said-'Slr-Altcfc^Mandjit -4/ta0fam^- Labor Member Attacks Miners' Low Wages -apprecrntetf 'tjj^CuJWeasaira^-tetead, *fajF €SrWhl"if (Tin rier P. M. Christophers (Labor) made a good speech on Thursday of last week. For the first half hour it was an excellent speech. It can be divided into two parts. One half hour ,was spent in the delivery of the excellent address the member for Rocky Mountain had prepared; the other thirty-five minutes were* spent in. talkirig on because there was a splendid audience in the gallery. It wasn't Mr. Christopher's iudience, but it was an audience, and toward the tail-end-tJf a lgrig drawn out debate, the change tjo'talk to-full galleries is not to be despised. The audience was Mrs. McClung's. It had come to hear the lady member wallop the beer bars. It probably wasn't interested, in the good labor speech hil Christopher was making, but that did not seem to worry the miner member very much and he said all he' could find among his notes to say before he gave^way-to the next speaker. Chris, hadsome startling.figurefi to gives the house about the condition of the mining industry of this province. The member for Rocky Mountain is always on the alert to serve the constituency of miners that he represents. He rarely makes a speech in the house that he does not bring home to the .nembers the plye the' coal mining industry holds Tn the province, but his chief concern' is always the Welfare of the worker* in the industry. His castigation of the low wage policy of the Alberta coal operators, in his address last week, was cutting. His comparison of the wage policy of Henry Ford with that of the operators of coal mines in this province was striking. The manner in which he made plain to the house how the miners had been fooled with the promise that'lower wages would mean more work was clear and convincing Mr. Christophers is a good* Labor representative in general and a miners' representative in particular. The workers in his constituency get good service from him.-^Alijefra'X'a^ bor News. '-*••■. '. «-™^f1?rtf"rt0ioroughIy'Comfortable'" for the Socialist programme of * the Labor Party. Time .and again, whenever the La- ,-;.'•• bor Party had put forward its motion in favor of Nationalization, he fiaB risen in his- place and With an audacity without parallel in British politics since Benjamin Disraeli captured the party of the landlords for the ' bullion-brokers and moneychangers of Frankfort, has made hini- self the spokesman of all that is most moribund in the ranks of our governing class. "The Frankfort Interests" The evergrowing power of what are known as ','the Frankfort inter- .. ests" in the City and, for that matter, throughout the financial system, has now had its logical outcome on the political stage in the accession to the ranks of the Goyernment Party of Sir' Alfred Mond. For the fourth time within a century this spectacle is ' being presented of "the Frankfort interests" reaching across, the floor of the Mother of Parliaments for the sceptre of political power as wielded • by the Government of Great Britain. In Westminster in 1832, as in Paris and in Brussels in 1830, it was "the Frankfort interests" who came in with the Party of moderate change. When they had used the Whigs and the Radicals to disestablish and in large measure-to disendow the -privileged merchants and landowners who ruled from Pitt to Peel, they began their slow but sure conquest of • the Conservative Party. Benjamin Disraeli, by a series of brilliant strokes, gained enough -influence to be able, in the critical years when the Ottoman Empire was going into decline, to comfuer the Near East for the banking oligarchy of Frankfort So, having made themselves thoroughly at home in the city and, thereafter, in Cairo and in Constantinople, when the cutting of the Suez Canal changed the trade routes of the World, the same "Frankfort interests" loomed large in the picture when the Unionists crossed the floor . from the support of Gladstqjif'to the side of Salisbury. George Joachim Gopchen, as Chancellor of the' Exchequer, it was who carried through in 1888 that masterly ' conversion and consolidation of the ■"'■"-futids which made- infinitely» more readily available for'investm'ent those • ■ Z millions which "the Frankfort interests" were needing to "lure into the We need pot now -proceed by hit or miss'methods: we need not proceed, empirically to try to solve our problems. We can attack them- with method, with system, by mass inves-. tigation, and mass research along well defined lines. . . "There are no shores to the boundless ocean of scientific knowledge," Trained by a father who said, in 1889, that:— "the steady, methodical investigation of natural phenomena is the. father of industrial progress," this enemy of ours, Sir Alfred Mond, has set himself, year after year, tb apply to statecraft the maxims that Ludwig Mond with such consummate success applied in. industry.: Since Sir Alfred aspires again to take a hand at ruling this nation it is my intention in ensuing articles to deal fully with* Sir Alfred Mond and all that he stands for.—Glasgow Forward. , . / BUYERS' DIRECTORY "37 Bather Bakery, 3738 Hastings East. Dr. Middleton's. At all Grocery Stores. BISCUIT KMinUCTOUM Dr. Middleton's 853 Hastings Mast. BOOTS ft SHOES "- P. Paris, 51 Haatlngrs St. W. SEimple Shoe Store, 37 Hastlnsrsi St W. Clapp Shoe Store, 7th Ave. and Main St. CHIKOFRACTOBS JT. A. Bryant , ' 207-8 lee Bldg. '".:' CONFECTIONERY Davenport Confectionery, 1743 Commer- - cial Drive. « CIOABS ft TOBAQCO " Mainland Cigar Store 310 Carrall COAL DIALERS Leslie Coal Co., 844 Beach in, DANCING £tlUi0H Halt, Granville ft Davie exandra Academy, Bobson ft Hornby DENTISTS Dr. W. 3. Carry, 301 Dominion Bldg. DEPARTMENTSTOBES Hudson's Bay Co. Granville * Georgia DRY GOODS A. Hilier & Bon, 8426 Main St. DRUGGISTS . Bad Star Drag Store. Carzall ft Cordova Vancouver Drng- Stores 18 stores ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES ft CONT. 8th ft Main. 4099 Hastings B. I-LGOB COVEBING Mount Pleasant Floor Covering Etore, 348 Broadway Bast. PLOBISTS Brown Bros., 48 Hastings E, 6S5 Granvlllo 151 Hastings W , FLOUR ' Dr. Middleton's Ironized Whole Wheat. City Electric. Hint's. Electric. 373S Hastings I 36th ft GROCERS H. A. Hill, A. Fredertckson, HEMSTITCHING ' Broadway Hemstitchers, 348 Broads' Bast. . JEWELLERS Henry BIrks S Son., 710 Oranr MBA* MARKETS W. Dickinson, 3734 Hastings! Pearson's Market, 36th ft ~ Sanitary Market 251.1 I MUSIC Grandview Music Honss, 1733 Con cial Drive. Mt. Pleasant Mnaic Store, 153 way Bast. , ""i*"*,' ' NOTARIES ' P. B. Bengough, 803 Holden Bl| PBINTEBS Labor Statesman 803 Holt< ^ REPAIR SHOPS Cycle's Etc., Robinson's 3917 M| RESTAUBANTS .'- Bergman's Cafe -324 Cambie Empire Cafe 76 Hastings St. 1 White Lunch '.;'- 6 HoupJ SHOE REPAIRS H. A. Morwood, Gilmore and Has Service Shoe Shop 3440-Maln i TAILORS Ferry ft Dolk ' 18 Hastinga St. THEATRES Broadway - Broadway ft Hastings at CarrJ Georgia ft Sey>no| GENTS' FURNISHINGS Pantages Strand Langer's Circuit -'', ' UNDERTAKERS Mount Pleasant Undertakers Kingsway ft Ms. T. X Kearney, 802 Broadway S. Bo well k Bon, 66 6 th M. Wei WATCH REPAIRS—EXPERT E. L. Hanunergren 718 ~~ YEAST MAHtTFACTUBEBS A. Frith ft Son, 3313 Main Peerless Yeast At -All Grocel Dawes Plan Causes Strife Among Workers Unequal Distribution Low Wages Offered v to Census Clerks The Civil Service Commission of Canada announces an open competitive examination - for positions as CENSUS, CLERKS at extremely Jow wages foraGovernment employees— doles they might better be called, ofT fered by.a Govenfment who should set (he example of hliw to adjust the co?(fof living statistics issued by their ^pwn Department Of Labor, with the inadequate allowances given to many thousands of workers in varied kinds of employment. The INITIAL salanies range from $65 to $90 a month and to get a chance to qualify for these unprince- ly amounts you have to send a $2.00 fee for the privilege of writing examinations for what at best, by the very nature of the position, will be only of a TEMPORARY character. According to law, preference is given, to persons who have been on active military or naval overseas service, , —Weekly-News, (Winnipeg) In a reply-to the speech from the Throne, S. J. Farmer (Labor) MtL.A. in Manitoba Legislature, said that he found "economy" to be stressed. The depriving of children Of the right to a secondary education was, poor economy, as was the Underpayment of teachers. Jt meant the lowering of the standards oif education. There had been -A record crop qf wheat in Canada, over 400 million . busneis, yet. there were thousands without bread. Reference had been made by previous speakers to the larsr'c number of. prizes won by Manitoba dairy products. That was fine,' but to a man who co)ild not buy butter for his family it,was poor consolation to be told that a sample of Manitoba butter down at Chicago >.had a blue ribbon'around it. Mr. Farmer said that the Labor group were often misunderstood when they emphasized the rapid development of lafrge scale industry. Members seemed to ask "What has it to do with Manitoba?" It was, he said, a demonstration of general economic development, and showed that the problem was not ohe of production but distribution. Unequal 'distribution-forced the industrial and agricultural workers to organize. He said they should not be worried' when they were' accused 'of class organization and class legislation. The present competitive system brought about classes, and the way out was to be found in the co-operative ownership aiid control in production and distribution. In framing legislation, said Mr. Farmer, due regard should be given to the great developments in industrial, commercial and economic affairs generally. All forms of co-operative endeavor should be encouraged.—Weekly News. Hay and Feed Dealer: "You owe me $3 for-oats, Mdse, and. if ''you don't pay meVI'll have to take your horse." '. '• T*-'»'.'i," Uncle Mose: "All right, Mista (}ug- genhcimer, an' Ah'll pay you de -balance o' de $3 jest as soon as Ah kin." —Ayer's Almanac. ' . ■' .«• WELSCH'S BILL STRIKES AT COMPULSORY TRAINING If a bill recently introduced in the Hou§c by Congressman George A. Welsch of the Sixth Pennsylvania district is passed, military training will no longer be a prerequisite for graduation in educational j institutions other than, essentially,'.military schools. 'The bill also proposes to. amend the national defense acts df June 3rd, 1916,.and June 4, 1926, making the course in military; training elective instead of compulsory at certain civil educational institutions. Keynes, the Economist. Points to Grave Dangers in Get-many LCJllDON, Eng.—"The business of the Dawes plan will ;be to: tull down_ r^pj;" ySgliyT fl i TWe6wieTTnr**^'^SfflTTTTff^sWff|ir T countries has been saying that. -Now comes Prof. J. Maynard Keynes, the economist, saying the same after re: viewing the Dawes Commissioners' report on the first year of operation. He is no "labor man" at all. He belortgs to the Liberal, party and was one of Lloyd George's, financial advisers at Paris when negotiating the peace of Versailles. His ''-Economic Consequences of the Peace" with its satire on the Big Three negotiators made a world, seftsatiot. in 1920. The word of np single economist in Britain carries more weight than .his. Enter* the Danger Zone The second year of the Dawes plan in Germany marks its entry into the danger zone.'The report of the transfer conlmittee, which now runs Ger^ niany under the Dawes plan, is being ransacked by financiers here and in New York for comfortable assurances. Keynes finds that the< report betrays worry and forebodings-, and that the fact is "that Germany is not through with reparations—she has not even begun." He says that ''how for the first time" the Allies get downa to.the actual problem—"the problem of the real wages of German workers. "The work of the transfer .committee must become more and more a struggle to reduce the' German work-: ers' standard of life.-" Far from being a "radical1' speaking, this is an astute capitalist adviser simply telling brother capitalists whether they are likely to succeed' with their international scheme. 'Germany is the economic danger spot of Europe," he warns. Blamed for Unemployment The second year of the Dawes plan finds German uneuiployment rising in bounds, for which Keynes blames Dawes and the German reichsbank (state bank) equally. Satirically,, he describes the ruthless policy of the big banks, co-operating with the Dawes administrators, arid concJpiides with this signi- figant sentence: "I expect that it will not be shaken off except by a political storm." In short, the London-Paris-New, York big financiers^- plan, arranged by Dawes, can only succeed £y beating down the German* workers' wages. • > - .*, S. BOWEU & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS 66 6th St., New Westminster Phone 993 T. ^Kearney & Co.| Funeral Directors and EmbalmersJ New Chapel and Parlors Private Ambulance Service. 802 Broadway W. Phone Fair. 3 It is illegal to boycott, bat thj following are on the UNFAIR LIST r-~~. • of the TRADES AND LABOR COUNCI1 Royal Dairy' Crescent Ice Cream UNION DAIRIES Fair. Fair. 4181 ▼AWCOtTVXB Fraser Valley - •-.'/» Independent Farm - . , - Parity Dairy - - - - Ml - NEW Westminster Fraser Taller - - »•» Wast. 1' NORTH VANCOUVER Fraser Valley - - -North Tan. It Yon Want Clean Milk Patronize Vnlon Dairy - , All monopoly points to a corrupt conception of life.—Canon Donaldson. PRODUCTION INCREASES 40 PER CENT; WAGES FOUR PER CENTJ MONTREAL—Thanks to improved! machinery and speeding up, produc- 1 tion. in Canadian manufacturing in-1 dustries' in 1923 was'i^bout 40 peri cent greater per, epiplqyee than in! 1917, although real wages, that is,-: wages based on purchasing power.i' only increased about 4 per cent. This| was the gist of a speech made in thej Canadian Parliament by A. A. Heaps,| Labor member from Winnipeg. Heaps quoted government stAtis-| tics to show that the-number of wage <j earners employed in Canadian raar- ufacturing had declined from 531,466) ih 1917 to 446,994 in 1823, or It per cent. But allowing for price differences, the volume of production '■ in '1923 was 18 per cent greater than in 1917. —- - -J A huge merger of the Great Lakes steamship companies is in course of formation. Pity the poor public.— All the traffic will bear.—"To h— with the Public." INDIA J Service Gratuities—^The Bombay Provincial- Trade Union' Conferences' held in January, was of th; opinion^ that the worker who had put in ten' years' service in the same firm, indus try or company should be "given i gratuity equal to one month's pay f oi -, every year of service. -,-, iitiaiijWiisiaiiiii |iui nimri ■ * ,.„...,,.!&::. Parch 12th, 1926 THE LABOR STATESMAN Trades Union Directory 'anconver Trades and Labor council— President. William Dunn; general secretary, Percy R. Bengough. Office,, S03 • Holden Bldg., 16 Hustings East. Phone Sey. 7496. Meets In Labor Hall |-«t S p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays" In month..' Lntonsobile Lodge 703, I. A. or K. — Meets every second and fourth Tuesday In Room 310 Holden Bldg., Pres., W. W. Hague; huslness agent, O. 8. Hague. .807 Holden Bldg.' leverage Dispensers Union So. 676— -meets flrst Sunday In month at J:00 P-m.. at 441 Seymour St. President, . W. H. Clancy, 1117 E. 10th Ave. Secretary and Business Agent, T. J. Han- j ofln, 2376 W. 6th Ave. Office; 441 Seymour St. Phones: Sey. 126 and Bay. 1656-R. lollennatera and Helpers, Looal IM — Meets flrst and third MohdayS In the month at Holden. Building. President, L. O. Campbell; Secretary, A. Fraser, .11179 Ross sl Phone. Fras*r 601T. ridge ft Structural Iron Workers, local 97, Xnt. Asso-— Meets every Monday, Room 804 Holden fildg.. al I p.m. President, James F. Burns; Secretary, w. J. Cook, Box 302, City., Phone Fair. 47721*. InlldIng Trades Council, Vancouver— Meets seoond and fourth Tues'dav In Holden .Building. President. Hobt. Stevenson; Secrctary-treas., W. Watt. lakers' Xocal 488, Journeymen, of Amerloa—Meets llrst and Uilrd Saturdays at 7i p.m. President, H.'Hail; sec, i T. Rigby, 37 Broadway West, Phone r Fats'. 6882R. -. , ■akery Salesmen, Looal 371 — Meets second Thursday every month. Holden Bldg.. 16 Hastings B. President, A. Wylle, 4.136 Elgin Streot; financial secretary. H. A. Bowron, 7*4 15th Ave. E„ Phone- Fair. I6I1X. larbers', Journeyman International Union of America—Local 120-Vancouver, B. C, meets second and fourth Tuesdays In each month In Room 310 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings Bast. President. Fred Dawe; fln.. secretary. A.. R. Jennl,'728 Hastings Street aWest; rec. sec, Bert Deprey, ■ si • - Bookbinders Local HO. 100, Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday In month 604 Holden BIflg. President, F. Milne, 636 Drake St.; secretary, A. H. Hes- tlns. 118 62nd Ave. W, ' - Lathers, Wood, Wire aad Metal, International Union, Local 107 — Meets 2nd and 4th Mondays in month,' at room 299 Holden Bldg. President. Frank Julian, 7594 Ontario; Secretary?, Bert Jenkins, 50 45th Ave. E. , Lithographers Union, No. 44 — Meets third' Wednesday In month'In Room 804 Holden Bldg. President, C. Addle. 317.23rd Ave. E.. Phone Fair. 3968Y; secretary, 120 10th Ave. E., Phone Fair. 239X. _ . r Machinist Local 183—President, E. B. McLean, 453 6th Ave. W. Secretary, 8.. A Boardrnan, 3888 - Parker ,St. Meets second and fourth Friday at 8 Din. In Room 113 Labor HalL 16 Hastings East. Machinist Looal 690—President, Thos. Sills, 1353 Burrard St. Secretary, P. R. Bengough. Office, 807 Labor Ball, 16 Hastings East. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays In month. Juntas Hospital Attendants' Federal Union No. 35—Meets at Essondale 1st Thursday In nionth." President, J. A. Gibson. 312,4th St., New Westminster; ree. sec, Will Mackie, Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale. Kill and Factory Workers' Union, Local Ho. 1899 — Affiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. - Meets flrst and third Thursdays Ih Room 813 Holden Bldg. Preslden', Allan Graham; Fln. Sec, H. Brewer; Rec'Sec, B. Holden, 1710 6th Ave. V'., Vancouver, Phone Bay. 3123-R. MBit Wagon Driven "and Bairy Employ. - ees, Local 484—Meets Second and fourth- Friday ln Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. Business agent, Birt Showier, 1115 Robson 8t Molders Union Local 881—International of North America—Meets flrst and • third Fridays In month In room 313 Holden Bldg,, at 8 p. m. President, John Maley, 133G 2nd Ave. E. Corresponding representative, J. Plnkerton, 2169 Victoria Drive. Brewery Workers Union No, 300—meets flrst and third Wednesday In month in room 313, Holden Building,, at 8 p.m. President, Annus McLennan;, Secretary, C. Graham. 2219 16th Ave. W. Phone Bay. 3353R. *~- ■ '. • Moklarers', Masons' and Tile Setters' union Ho._ 1—-tjlixtA.jieaona-.etaa- Xnt. W. 8. Dagnall Phorm Fair. 845 R, lllday: Secretary, 1244 20th Ave. H. Painters, Decorators and Fan, „,J*OMl. 13B~»Mf»ts -gsBonp- itBi^!H»tlBW5?ISWI«'-P1>ll7«Wr'! mesa agent, Walter Wilson; room 204 319 Pender.St., W. Sey..3609. ' (Carpenters and Joiners, Amalgamated Society of,—Vancouver 1st Branch meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. President. W. Taylor; Sec. F. Proaser; business agent;. J. McKinley. Headquarters, :r'oom 35, 163 Hastings St. W.- '■-'..'•■', ■Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood off Local 488—President, R. W. Hatley; recording IsecretaW, W. Page; business agent, Wm. Dunn. Office, Room 808 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Moets second and fourth Mondays. 8 p.m. |Clty Rail Employees' Association meets flrst Wednesday of each month at 251 % Hastings E„ at 8 p.m. President. W. H. Lewthwalte; business agent and treasurer, W. J. Seribbins. 8208 Penr der' St., E.; Secretary, H. A. Black. 2870 Vale St. f Civic Employees' Union, Local 38 — Meets first nnd third Fridays ln the month at 261H Hastings 1-:, at 8 p.m. President, R.' K. Brown, K52V Charles St.; secretary-treasurer, George Harrison, 1182 Parker St [Dominion Sxpress Employees, Local Mo. 15, Brotherhood of—Meets first Friday and flrst Tuesday alternating each month in Room 810 Holden Building. President, O. M. Payton, 4136 Sophia St.; Sec-Treae. H. C. Haines, 1919 Klngsway. [Bleotrlcal Workers, Local 918, Internss- ' tional Brotherhood—Meets every Monday at 8 p.m. In Room No. 6, 819 Pender Street West. President, D. W. McDougal. 910 Hastings Street East; business!i agent, B. H. Morrison. Office, 119 Pender 8treet West """** Bngineers—International Unien Steam and Operating Local 844—Meets every Thursday at-1 p.m., Room 806 Holden Bldg. President. R. .Finley; business agent and financial secretary, F. 8. Hunt: recording secretary, Herbert McSavaney. —- Bngineers, steam and Operating, lat. Local 883—Meets every Wednesday At 8 p.m. In room 8(16 Holden Bldg. President, W. Hulbert; vlce-pres., A. Russell; business agent and financial sec»_W. J. Irwin; rec sec, W. .■ L. Alnger. Office, 806 Holden Bldg. Motion Pictures Projectionist's Union, Local 348 Of I.A.T.SJ3. * M P.M O.-- Meets at 991 Nelson St. on flrst Sunday In each month at 7:30 p.m. President, J. R. Foster. 1161 Granville St.; Secretary, Geo. Gcrrard, Box 346. Business Phone: Sey. 3923. Musicians MntuaUProtectlvo Union Xooal 148, A. jr. of ML—Meets at the G. W, V. A. Auditorium, second JSunday at 10 a.m. President Ernest C Miller, 991 Nelson Street; secretary, Edward Jamleson. 991 Nelson Street; financial secretary, W. E. Williams. 991 kelson Streot; organizer, F. Fletcher, 981 Nelson Street. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Dock 'Builders Local Ho. 2404—.Meets every Friday nlghuat 8 p.m. In 112 Hastings St. W. James Thomson, secretary, P. O. Box 320: Plasterers, Looal 89—International Association of Operative, meets ' first Wednesdays month at Holdeni Bldg. President, Chss. Keall, 1925- McKay Ave. Socretary, "fed. Williams, 1048 Robson St. Phone Douglas 1928 L. Plasterer's Laborers' Ho. 80S International. Meets third Friday In month at Holden Building. President F. Phillips, 1574, 2nd Ave. W.; Rec. Sec, F. Talt 289 47th Ave. E., phone Fraser 696L. Plumbers and Stoamflttors, Ho. 170, International Asso. of—Meets .every 2nd and 4th Friday In the Holden Bldg. President Bert Stlnchcombe, 1899 Ogden Ave.; secretary and busl- nesa agent, W. Watt. 805 Holden Bldg. Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Local Ho, 89—Meets every second Tuesday ln the month at 8 p.m. In Room ,218 -Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President, Harry F. Longley, 303 8th St., North Van.; secretary, Frank H. Humphrey, P. O. Box 894, 4038 Victoria Dr., ' Railway Carmen of America, Lodge Ho. >58—MeetB first and third Friday in month at Cotillon Hall, Granville and Davie Streets. President, A. S. Ross, 5873 I'r. Edward St; secretary, J. D. Vullamy, 2216 15th Ave. W, Street aad Blectrlc Railway Employees Pioneer Division Ho. 101—Meets K. P. Hall, Eighth and Klngsway, 1st and 3rd Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, J. B. Smith; recording secretary, F. E. 'Grif{ln; treasurer, H. W. Speed; financial secretary and bust- :__ ness-agent- Angus -MacInn*^r~36W~Fr. Edward St Office: corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Fairmont 2150L. Sheet Metal Workers, Amalgamated, Local Union Ho. 380—Meets second " and fourth Thursday In month In Holden Bldg.. 16 Hastings St. E. President, N. C. Smith, 4452 Quebec St.; Art. sec, E. i. Wararpp, 42B 16th Ave. E.; cor. sec, A. P. Ashton. 4503 Spruce Street, Burnaby. British Labor Party's Constructive Program In addition* to the vigilant-scrutiny which it conducts of the Government's proposals, the Parliamentary Labor Party in Britain has its own program of constructive legislation, and.several bills, many of them- of first-class importance, will be* introduced from" the labbr benches within the next three months.. State Bank of England The first of these,-to be presented by Mr. James Maxton on Feb. 26, will seel? to nationalize the Bank of England, on the .ground that so influential an organization, able by its control over credit to sway the destiny bf the whole industry of the country, should be under the direct management and supervision of-the nation. To Prevent Unemployment . — • Oft March Sth, Mr. Lees-Smith will introduce the Labor Party's Prevention of Unemployment Bill, a proposal designed, to prepare in times of industrial prosperity for the periodically recurring cycles of depression, and to'develop the national resources, under States auspices, with a view to providing work,for the men and women displaced from private' ihdustry. Bitter Pill for Profiteers ' On March 19th, Mr. John Beckett Mil introduce the Building-Materials (Charges and Supply) Bill; drafted when Mr. Wheatley was Minister of Health, for the purpose of preventing and counteracting profiteering in building materials. Not only does it proyide for the imposition of stiff penalties-that the States should have power to take over and operate their productive plant if they refuse to act in the way that the public gopd demands. . --■' : For Progressive Councils "Also on March 19, Major C. R. Att- lee will bring forward the Local Authorities Enabling Bill, a measure designed to allow local governing bodies to undertake trading.services that are at present denied to them, or. only permitted under restricted circumstances. " • ■ ■ ■ , Saving Workers' Lives nTnifffoauice the Factories.Bill that was prepared when Mr. Arthur Henderson was Home Secretary, and for which he obtained a first reading; during the reign of the Labor Government. Inasmuch as there has been no serious alteration to tho Factory Laws since the beginning of the century, and as the use of mechanical methods in industry has increased enormously during that period, there can be no rational case whatever against this attempt to bring up to date the legislation protecting the lives and limbs of the workers. But as Sir William Joynson-Hicks has stated definitely that the Tory Government do not mean to permit the revision of these laws during the present session,"there is, unfortunately very little prospect of this desirable Bill passing its second reading. More Compensation' - On April 23rd, Mr. William Luiin will introduce Labor's Bill to improve the Workmen's Compensation Act, in order that many classes of diseased and injured workers now excluded may have compensation for the suffering they have incurred in the course of their occupations. Forty-Eight Hour Week The last of these Bills fop which dates have been, allotted isithe one that stands in the name of Mr. W. Mackinder, for April 30—the Hours of Industrial Employment Bill.' This is an attempt to ratify the WashingtonjCoiiyfiiition-an^te-lQgal- ~fzeTorty*eight hours as the maximum working- week in any ordinary industrial employment. ; The Bill has previously been intro duced by the- Labor Party, but has been defeated by the representatives of Big Business who occupy the Tory', Benches. '■'.■".':'■ J rire Fighters; Ho. 18, International I Association of—Meets everv month at l, call pt president, at 261H Hastings E. I President. J. Anderson, ;No. 2 Fire Hall: financial secretary, C. A. Watson, I', . No. 8 Fire Hall. •Tloorlayers' Union, No. 1876, U.K Of v C. .& J. .of A., meets 1st and ird 'i Thursdays In 310 Holden Bldg., at 8 , p.m. President, E. C. Woodward; Fin. / Sec. A. Reid; Bee Sec, W. D. Wilson, i 1251 Howe St. ■total and Restaurant Employees Union, i Looal 38—441 Seymour Street. Meets . Second Wednesdays at '3 p.m. and I last Wednesday at t, p,m. President 1 G, Coleman; business agent, Harry I Wood, Phone Seymour Hi. Shingle Weavers, Local 17813—Meets second 'Tuosday In month, in Room No. 2, Labor Temple, New Westminster, and 4th Sunday, 7 p.m., in Room 213 Holden Bldg.. Vancouver. President, J. N. Cliute. Phone High. I982Y; sec. W. H. Matthew,' Joyce Rd, P..O. Tailors', Journeymen Union of Amerloa, Local Ho. 178—Meetings held first Thursday In each month, 8 p.m. Executive meets third "Thursday of i every month In Labor Hall. President A. R. Gatenby; secretary, C. McDonald, P.O. Box •60*1. Executive meets third Thursday of every month Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers', Local 488—Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 310 Holden Bldg. President, L. War.ren, 1043 Burrard St.; secretary-treasure/, A. P." Black, [,19 Hamilton St ;:recording secretary, H. Reynolds,. 1720 3rd Ave. K. There has been some talk about negotiations going on between certain leaders of the Liberal Party and the Labor Party. So far as I know there is not one title of trdth in these statements.—Mr. Phillip Snowden, M.P. The Vanoonver Theatrical Tederntion— Meets at'991 Nelson Street, at 11 Am. on the Tuesday preceding the first Sunday of the - month. President E. A. JamleBon; secretary, G. W. Al- lln; business agent, Loch ley Clark, 991 Nelson St.- ■'■..'.■' St. Patrick's Day By F. W. MOORE. St. Patrick's Day may be considered a milestone on the high-way of. life tlyat we call tiijie. It reminds us annually of the great character who devoted his talents, to an attempt to bring peace and harmony to a turbii-* lent world. Does he not, in that respect, resemble a modern personification whom we'might call,Madame Labor—a lady who is still working hard at the job that he lef; unfinished? St. Patrick began missionary work in Ireland about' 432 A.D. and spent -tliirty-seven years laboring amongst the people he loved. He was one of those influential personages whose preaching brought in its wake "the ideals of thejmoral unity of mankind' and* of a warld.jieace six, seven, or eight thousand years after the first Summerian cities had arisen," (in the Euphrates-Tigris valley). — Wells' Outline of History, page 235. . ; . . "Thus in various ways- the feeling' of unity found expression And the development of .widely separated parts of Christendom conformed- Tnore or less" closely to a—common type."-—ibid 254. ' . Eventually the Pope of Rome became a- sort df King of Kings and tried to- establish an international unity. Nevertheless, it is recorded that "thff history of Europe from the fifth century onwards to the fifteenth, is very largely the history of the failure of this great idea of a divine world government to realize itself in practice.—ibid page 256. Nor is that to be wondered'at. No governmental institution ever did, nor ever can be permanently successful unless based on t}ie principle that .every common man and woman is potentially a king or queen, and must have his or her environment arranged as nearly as possible compatible with the necessity for immediate development in that direction. It was stlfch an ideal (under which the ancient Christians were held to be the peers of an emperor,, himself only a few generations removed from a savage) that was instrumental in conferring on the .primitive church its., vast influence; such an ideal is part of the faaStlMS ttf., the hw^wn-wiwf;—It-was «t^.wb»-^--H'sre***r^ the church sanctified and adopted the institutions of feudalism, anddenied the truth of the-most obvious facts in astronomy that it lost its prestige amongst reasonable men. Yet in spite of these lessons in history, part of the church of today known as fundamentalist, is fatuously pursuing the same suicidal eourst, denying the? most obvious scientific facts, and preparing the way for the infidelity of thousands of youths who later on are likely to get an opportunity to compare their vaporings with the records of scientific truths. But. where churchianity fails, Christianity may succeed, for be it known that there still exists a Christ ianity whose adherents admit the laws of economic determinism, and possess a real radical organ called the "Social Service Bulletin." Such people, with whom the writer is in no way connected, and, therefore, i not prejudiced in their favor, are worthy, successors to St. Patrick since they are laying the foundation of international unity amongst thousands who would otherwise have seen no motive for such. And in .this they are not unlike the world's labor parties. Are they too not corporate missionary bodies — real salvation armies, that pursue the forces of reaciion with inexorable pertinacity. They don't pretend that tnere is any moral uplifting about the scheme; but there really is, since it is only when discontented men are relieved from the economic pressure that would—bring-stHTvatton to tfieirTUe^ pendents, that they think of being moral at all. / "Only an international combination of workers can compel'this relief," says Madame Labor./ She might just as well say, "Necessity makes you. international brothers, and "being brothers you are joint heirff of evw'yadvantage that! may in the future accrue from the efforts of civilized man." But to be joint heirs we must have equality pi opportunity, and nothing is more certain than that equality of "opportunity, depends on art industrial co-operative commonwealth. We must, there- fore, have an industrial government of the world before we can materialize the ideals for, which the St. Patrick spent lbs best yeajfc -Of Bis' life. Let us remember tnia'on each recurring St. PatriCk^Bay. Vancouver Heights THE ESTHER BAKERY FOR HEALTH, STRENGTH AND BEAUTY Eat Our Brown Bread , , Also Our White, Raisin and Nut Bread 3728 Hastings E. Phone: High. 1309 Ii A. HILL GROCERIES, FRUITS, CURED j MEATS, FLOUR AND FEED 3722 Hastings E. Phone High. 1640 W. DICKINSON MEATMARKET 3724 Hastings Street East My Motto: ONE QUALITY ONLY- -THE BEST Hirst's Electric We do complete and dependable HOUSE WIEINO at reasonable' rates. Glen 370 4099 Hnstlng-a St. B. Headquarters ln . N. Burnaby for Edison Mazda Lamps. Workers Refuse to Build Armored Train BERLIN.—The German Railroad ■ Company is causing an armored train to be buift for the purpose of shooting down its recalcitrant employees in case of a strike.or other disturbance. That is the newest charge lev- elled^g^ii^J^e.MUfapuXar-^dmin^Z^' toi^^^^tBhwpwrtwnraTgm Oh the eve of conclusion of its negotiations with the German Government for the loan of 100,000,000 marks. Simultaneously from the Nationalists cOmes the vpecusation that, as- a result of foreign influence injected into its management by tb« Dawes Plan, the company i? buying all ties required during the current year, to a total value of seven million marks, abroad instead of from German lumber concerns. It is conceded by the railroads that a special train capable of resisting mass attempts at. sabotage is under construction. It was ordered, how- , ever, it is alleged, long before the recent wage dispute began, and has nothing whatever to do with the threatened strike, Jjeing designed )for use only in the event of serious, revolutionary uprising. The train is be- > ing constructed in strict accprdance with the disarmament regulations. The Socialist Vorwaerts, which de- ' scribed the armored train as part of its campaign against the railroad corporation, affirms that workers in epair shops near Munich flatly refused tp help in building this "weapon' against the proletariat." yposfraplilcnl Union, Wo. ■ 888—President, .C- S. Campbell; vice-president, R. Qouthro; Secretary-treasurer, R. H. Neelands, I'.O. Box «6. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., In Holden Balding. 11 Hastings St. B Talking About Morality Tom Johnston, M.R., has brought home from India a budget of information concerning wages and, conditions there. Wejagject to see_a_fujl. 1reportTjf~hisrtour in "hook form, as we are certain such a report would- be sure of a very wide circulation. Meantime, we call the attention" of any of our readers *homay be clergy or moralists of ahy kind to the revolting conditions imposed on women of India by the civilized Christian white men who rule that country. In order that white ipen may indulge in what is described in this country as vice, Grant Road, Bombay, contains semi-prisons controlled by police under British control in which 900 women, not English, are kept for the use of "white men. This is $sne in broad, daylight. '■■< We desire only to say this: that' thisifoul condition of things is knowir to oiir religious .pastors and masters, is known to everybody connected with the India Office, and is by thefti not merely tolerated but protected. The next time a Minister of the Crown or a bishop denonunces the morals of Russia, perhaps they will explain to us the difference between prostituting The past year has been a bad time< for the workers, but a good time for the owning classes.—Mr. John Baker, I the bodies ot Indian women ami M.P. .'white women,—-Voice of Labor. •THE LABOR STATESMAN March 12th, 19, The Labor Statesman •Published every Friday, at 811 Holden Bid*., Vancouver, B. C." Owned by the .Vancouver; New Westminster and District grades arid Labor Council. Press Committee: J: Slda4ay, StTftall- waymen; W. J. Seribbins, Civic Employees; rW. Dunn, Carpenters; Harry Woods Hotel A Kestaurant Employeos; £.«>..WMf?H,1,' Machinists; J. Tliomp- man Drlv«r» and Wooden Bridge- H. W. Watt., Man. Editor. Subscription Rates:—Canada |2.00 per year, 11.00 for six months. United ■tales and foreign, 13.00 per year To unions subscribing: In a body l«c per member per month. Phone Soymonr 6378 Vancouver, B.C., March 12th: 1926 THE OTTAWA SITUATION In his very readableVottawa notes J. S. Woodsworth lasr week rather apologetically refers to the part , which he and his colleague Mr. Heaps is compelled to play; the policy which the two'labor members have adopted requires no defence; ■■■•■•ft" Is quite possible that' amid a babel of J18 Conservatives engaged in A six weeks lamentation, .the Labor members have wondered whether a position could be right that was so righteously aijd indignantly asserted to be wrong. The Labor members are in the position of having to choose between two evils. They may, on such conditions-as~they find agreeable, support the Liberal Government, or they may lend their assistance to turn the Liberals out and give the Conservatives a second chance in twelve months to capture the Government of Canada. What has Labor to gain by another election, or any re-arrangement of parties that another election Could possibly produce? During six weeks of talk, much of it directed to -the Labor members, not one thought has.heen offered to show that Labor has anything to gain by pitting a Conservative ~ p-rJS^Wfflftfot the .Conservative con tentioh is that there is something essentially immoral in any group . of people who are not all members Of the same political party attempting to carry on the Government *of- the country, but v where, and how, and why the thing is wrong has not been, nor will not be, shown. The game of politics, with the players restricted to two parties, has worked so well for the interests that live by plunder, that they find it a little hard to adjust themselves to a three arid four party system, and all the contention of the last six Weeks arises otlf bf the fear, that the Labor and farming interests pf Canada may, from the present situation, obtain some improvement in living conditions and to that extent reduce the profits, of the gentlemen who usually control both parties and. tbejyess. - Whjle the- Conservative Party has exhausted its vocabulary and strained its larnyx condemning the Liberals for clinging to power without a sufficient following of-its own particular party, there is absolutely nothing in the Canadian scheme of government requiring the existence of parties at all in Parliament. Thedreti- cally the Canadian people elect representatives andnhese people will apply their best judgment to every problem that is' brought under dis- • cussion and the course adopted will be that favored by a majority of the members. The idea that the mem- mgnsely, and their leader then said dOwn the now historic principle that '■the thing to^do when you are in, is .to stay in"-—which at least has the virtue of-honesty. While little, if any, improvement can. be made in the franchises the right to vote—the two old parties have built a wall of obstructions }hat nla'kes it ,vcry nearly impossible for the different interest to secure representation -fn Parliament; for instance, one'of the Vancouver members reports his recent election expenses as fifteen thousand dollars. In a fight into which the plundering interests are prepared to pour money in this manner Labor and the farming class are at a serious disadvantage. With the situation as it,now stands at Ottawa these two groups exert* an influence more nearly in keeping with their respective vote during the election than they'cyer did before. Then why in all sanity and. common sense should our representatives lenrf themselves to put an end to this state of affairs, because the Conservatives, have nothing to lose, and might gain, by another election. It is. a; very fine theory that of two evils t^e should choose neither, but when) the consequences are likely to be to establish either 6f the old parties in a position of dortiplete independence, and thereby destroy our own influence for good, choosing "neither" of two evils, is in effect consenting to the great evil.—M. Why Industrial Unrest in Great Britain? There are signs and portents of a serious industrial crisis in GiVat Britain. When it comes, as expected, in. the spring of this year, hews despatches to the Canadian newspapers will convey perhaps not entirely unbiased versions of Its .causes. It may be that the British working man will be charged with laziness, Or hysteria, or a teridency to listen to "agitators." It may be' that the chief responsibility will be laid at the door of some t'orajgn agency. But here are a few figures from source's recognized as authentic, which may shed some light on the matter: ' In the three years from 1922 to 1925, the profits pf 1,490 joint stock companies, the principal business concerns of Great Britain, have increased by 60 per cent. The rate of-profit is still rising. . -- During the perjod of three years, the wages bill has been reduced by over £4,000,000 a week, pr £208,000,000 per annum (in dollars, approximately 11,040,000,000 per annum). The rate pf wages is Still declining. , / The first set of figures is taken from the London "Economist," a matter- of-fact newspaper whose statistical accuracy and freedom from propagandist tendencies is universally recognize^ ,'.'/, The second set of figures-concerning the deflation of wages, is from the "Ministry .of Labor Gazettc/^an official British government-publication. When a crisis comes in Brijtain, Canadians who. wish to appraise its causes .calmly and without prejudice would be well advised to keep-these^ figures in mind. It will be well to remember, also, that wage earners, and" earners Pt small "salaries, whose standards of living have been seriously lowered, constitute ,the vast majority of -the people of Great Britain, just' as the farmers do in .Canada, while the classes, whose standards of living have advanced are a very small minority. - '..'».' The Jargejhg^aoJiLhusiness profits, parallel with a*)irecipitate decline in the^siSiidaraoi living of the masses bf the people, and the swelling of the army, of the unemployed to well over a million may, after all, provide a more accurate index to the causes of unrest'than the stock phrases aboijit "agitators."—The U. F. A. (Alberta). .. -.. • i a' ', Farm's Potato Patch! Mount Pleasant .Buy Your Lamps, Rae ajtd iLEcnuctL avmiMB Prom tke Praottoal Btor. Gty Electric C>. rAIR. 486S MAW AT • depalxs Day aad «pl = Anything in Dry/ Goods and - Fans! Work. Goods Must Be Satisfact'o 'or Money Refunded., MZ5 Main Street, Halfway Bet we Broadway and 8th A venue. COB. .'■: TRyCLAPp'S- > .•^Tp Save on Footwear Shoe Store 71 tl AVE. ' AND ■ MAIN - ST. high price of - talk at Some $15,000,000 ex- Wjth the Ottawa anfl pended_jluiing--the-last year-on' this, continent for radio programmes, some -revision is u'ue on the term "Free as the air." NexttS being .run over by a horse and buggy, about th</ most humiliating "passing" I can conceive of would be to get into a traffic jam in Victoria. - ■ pt" * .* ;<■-■■ Between the Klu Klux Klari and local- bootleggers, Shaughnessy Hts. is receiving, more notoriety in the news TiageT'oFthe local dailies. p*p * • "' Palace cellars of Russian nobility of yesterday give proihise of making it easyfor the Soviets to do business with the■'■ rest of the world. Huge supplies of ancient vines IgOme of-it 300-years-ago vintage) ami liqueurs is said to be bring as high as $20 a quart. The part of the story that the dailies did not feature or even mention was that the workers' administration seem to have no time or use for the stuff. * * • * Now that the C. P. -v. has.been awarded a decision that t.iere can be no provincial tax. on imported crude oil, what about legality of th'e three- cent tax on gasoline? Poor Old Man .Consumer pays—the big corporations appeal to the courts. Some, of these days the game should become plain enough for even the workers to see it. ■ * * * Vancouver Typographical Uhion is negotiating a new newspaper, scale, at the conclusion of which the job scale will be up. for .revision. The issue in the former will be submitted to arbitration in a few-Jays. Five dollars a week increaggti wages is sought by the news.pflsfflfrs. * ' * . * J. S. Woodsworth, Labor member, Winnipeg, will next week have his innings at Ottawa. His resolution will give him an opportunity in the An Eighty Dollar A Week Wage JF a labor leader ^should come forward with a proposal that all the worker* should stand together and demand eighty dollars or one hundred dollars, a week as a living: wage, the whole country would be shocked; the capitalists, would probably demand that he be imprisoned, while even niahy-'of.'thp' workers would be horrified. Yet the workers have to produce the revenue to pay such .ah amount as a minimum living.wage to thousands of: semi-idle officials In the various public,services of the country. - ,-'."■ -.; In all/the hundreds of departments of our various governments, thife, amount has become established as the minimum salary for under officials, while those higher up get much more. Besides the government offices this applies to the railroads, public commissions and in nearly all the larger industries. It applies in our local Power Commission^ Highway Board, Compensation Board and all other boards, besides,, to some extent, in our own City Hall. Even, the men who go to Ottawa to play party politics in the Federal Parliament GET EIGHTY DOLLARS A WEEK FOR THE WHOLE YEAR AND ARE ONLY ON DUTY A FEW WEEKS! For the present session they.will probably receive *j5400.dfr- a .Week for the actual period of "work." ■ \ .-:■■■■■■ In the larger industries' the monied magnates get anywhere from. — $1000.01) a week for.diiii)x-£m ^mimBtTsi^mM^mmg^ >^^^:)^^^^^haifihi' ngly- allowed perhaps ,126 hen, the salaries of these'officialsi are mentioned they [frequently declare that they findjt hard tb live properly. Then, when they begin to grow old, they are given a pension. • It is an economic truth that the workers really have to. produce all the wealth for these and all (Other purposes, not merely mechanics and laborers, .but all those who actually work, while they have to'struggle through life on from $15 to $35 a week, and when they are out^of employment or incapacitated, are left to starVe. This is written to indicate in some measure what the economic problem^ really is and as a basis for future artjeieswhich we purpose publishing on this'subject—The Citizen (Halifax). Phones: lair. 58 Res.: Hay. 47661) Mdprr PLEASANT t/NipERTAKING CO., LTD. ., ■ '..AMBULANCE SERVICE jSpSU QF MAINLAND KINOSWA> $300:00. a week to $1000.01) a week fox,. -.a wee bers shall be divided intojwojjarties. of-ean*ada~"with other, nations. If —amr-the ^members oFeach shall approve all that emanates from his own ■ group ahd oppose all that originates with the other group, and use three- fourths of the time of Parliament endeavoring tp make political, thunder, for the next election, is a vicious development of the party system. The thing, however, becomes humorous ■when the one party puts in six weeks pleading that the other party should not accept assistance from any source that will grant it. That the Conservative party holds no such nonsensical Views when it itself stands to •profit is proved by at number of instances in Canadian history. A sample from our own Province will be found during the years 1903-1906.: The Conservative party accepted'and continued in power by the consent^and assistance of two avowed Socialists and one Labor man. Of course at this time the Liberals rolled their eyes to Heaven in holy horror at the "depth to which" politics had sunk." but the Conservatives liked the thing Im- one could start out on the assumption that Canada itself was .a nation, not a colonyf the task would be simplified. * *- * ■ If the Provincial Government- is really and sincerely desirous of removing the' cause of most of the trouble with "the beer problem," the executive council would at- once "acquire" the breweries of the province. * • *- Many of the same arguments were used by the employing interests a few years ago against the adoption of the Workmen!s Compensation Act as one hears today against State Insurance ahd Old Age Pensions. 'It took us nearly twenty years, to get compensation for inured. "Health and old age protectibn for the uninjured' is just as important a measure. Nobody today'will deny the benefits of workmen's . compensation, from any angle. And the beneficial results will be recognized-—after tne workers force its adoption, not before. British Columbia's Eight-Hour- Day law needs considerable flxing. It is by no means general, and seems to be mighty slow in shaping up. Not enough Labor representation on the floor of the House."* ..*"'* * * Baclc in the New England states, the police are still clubbing strikers and. manhandling women demonstrators. For a country" that forever is boasting of jts freedom, the United States fyas less of it than any country in the world -4 so far as . wage- workers are concerned. Instead of one»King to bow tofthey have about a thousand industrial kings to serve, who each have more power than the King of Britain." Freedom—free to what? * * i* Vancouver's one big public utility — the waterworks system — under most adverse conditions, has again cleared more than $100,000 profit for the past year. And at the same time afforded the cheapest domestic water rates inCan5dat_&pon-AjeTsouree of GERMANY )' Building Acfs'viities—In the year 1925 ( building activities in Germany rose over those of 1924 by about 130 per cent, 41,00ft_dwelling houses being begun, as against only-18,000 in 1924, while nearly 13,000 other buildings were started in 1925, as against 6,000 in 1924. Pid You Ever Consider Who .7 '..Pay* the .Big Down Town Rents? Ainlsiirst /make, red stitch Boots— Men's, ,6 to 10 a.. 84.50 .Boys, ljto 5H, .......--.: 83.76 .Vottttol, U. to 13W ■ «3.25 llttlo Gents, 8 to 10>3 s-3.85 JHSen's work Boots, S3.-15 to 88.50 ..Flannelette'Blankets,.white or 1 grey,' 10-4, 31.95; $11-4, 88.25 and 134 ......:. .....,...,_... _»3.75 Man's Irish * serge Pants, 8 pockets, belt loops, stiff toot--^,.. --- J^^'-SSS^^S&iSa^S^^SfW^" racis^tv^m^verans. Special $1.00 Brill Caps. Nice new patterns. Jnst In. \. Arthur Frith & Co. Men's and Boys' Furnishings, ' 'Telephone Fairmont 14 2312 MAIN STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues Big Profits—Quick Returns Professor Irving Fisher of Yale| said: ■ . . "New York hotel prices always re- J mind me qf a foreigner's visit to Chi-1 cago the year after the World's' Eair. "Who is the owner of that, palatial j marble home?"- the foreigner asked | his guide. •. • " 'Pete Malvoglio,' the guide answered. 'He brought a ham to the J World's Fair and cut it up into sand- j wiches.''.' House of discussingextenial-relation^ OT^lyTrtbbeTormally handed over to the Greater Vancouver Water* works Commission. It will be interesting to watch results. • * . * ■• Vancouver has to all .intents and^ purposes a city manager, in the* person and position of Comptrolcr A. J. Pilkington. What it needs now is a council of aldermen devoting their full time to the business of the corporation at an adequate remuneration, and the elimination of about 'steen commissions. • *. • Every public hospital—and every public school—in British Columbia should be taken ovef by the Provincial Government and operated in such a manner as will ensure the hearty co-operation of a., classes in the.sevefal communities. The problems of both are provincial-wide. *'•■•• * - Nothing much of the Trades and Labor Congress of'(Ontario and Quebec) Canada*is heard west of the Great Lakes these times. SUBSCRIBE TODAY /We invite you tb subscribe or get a friend to sub- \ scribe for The Labor Statesman. The rates are two ' dollars for one year, one dollar for six months*. I enclose dollars, for which please send the Labor / * ' * Statesman to the address below for... ...:*. months, commencing with the next issue. ADDRESS ., :....-. :... - :.:........_,:... Plaaas Writ* Plainly to Avoid Mistakes. Address: Labor. Statesman, 816 Holden B'dg., Vancouver Gas House at Ottawa Closed CANADA'S HIRED MEN are en;'oying_recess. The strenuous physical and mental labor of occupying an easy phair, reading the newspapers, franking letters to their friends at home, and "drawing something on account" of their Sessional, indemnities has becn-so fatiguing that the dear hoys had to take a couple of weeks off to recuperate. If the recess was to continue for twelve months, the average Canadian tyould feel that the country would suffer but little, judging from beneficial results that have accrued while they were "working." Of course, a new batch of ammunition can be manufactured during recess to recharge the verbal pop-guns, and lubrication will place them ih excellent ^hape for another bombardment after "the sessional bell calls them back to duty. In the meantime, their employers can lay awake nights endeavoring to plan some scheme whereby they can obtain sufficient of "the wherewithal" to pay their income tax-and place enough in the treasury to loot* after the pay-roll Of the, boys, from March 15th' until they adjourn for I their long summer holidays.—"The Labor Leader;" ■ ul—■"' **F*S, March 12th, 1926 THE LABOUR- STATES MAN Patriotism — Internationalism - - Imperialism By H. H. WADDINGTON, Great Britain. I-am glad the editor has again given me-ah Opportunity" of contributing something that may be .of interest- to the 'readers of The Statesman. I thust confess that I was in some difficulty regarding the .subject and matter. , I have, however, been given a lead and an- opening on the- subject of "Internationalism." Since I ca.me to reside in Vancouver I have had the pleasure of being invited to the International' Club luncheons and lectures, so ably pre- ' sided over by Professor Hill-Tout. With regard to the luncheons, both the service, quantity and quality leaves a great amount of roOm -for improvement. The lectures and the lecturers- in each instance have been of excellent quality,'each of them, in their turn, have stuck to his or her text, got a, down to tacts, with the exception of the last two speakers, who addressed the club on the "Pacific Drama," or rather, only one speaker was heard. On this occasion it was a Japanese outlook we got. Frankly, I was dis- aopointcd. I am of an opinion that J the subject was too hastily thought out, and much gpod topical and-current information seemed to be sacrificed for, the sake of oratory. Constructive Thinking The after talk amongst some of the women visitors made me wonder if the people will ever learn. I was satisfied that one thing was lacking^ that is, constructive thinking, without that it is both hopeless and use- less.J" Hence my subject, Patriotism, Internationalism and Imperialism. Patriotism, as we all know, means love of one's country. Therefore, to be a good and sound internationalist, you niust be a good patriot. The word imperialism is probably one of the most, elusive p.words in thtf English Jlijij-ajage^,^^ Often fallacious. Nearly every schoolboy today (if the question is put; Is Patriotism synonymous with imperialism?) would answer yes. .Thus our boys and girls, the men and women of the next generation, are being taught. So long as- you permit this kind of teaching to take that course, so sure are you of getting wars in the future. I am not concerned for a moment how many languages a person is capable of speaking; it may be clever, it may be an accomplishment that one may be proud of, but it cuts no ice with the gentlemen who meet daily at Frankfort on Main, Wall Street) and the London Stock Exchange. At Their Beck and Call My friends of the International Club, here at Vancouver, and more especially the female portion of it, the financiers of the world have you in the hollow of their hands', they will buy*you at pne end of the universe and sell you at the other, and they would treat it as lightly as the boys gamble with 'their marbles. Therefore, when yon say to gain peace is to talk about it, and not talk war, it reminds me of the ostrich burying its head in the sahdd. Personally, I am the most peace- loving person to be found anywhere, on this or any-other continent, notwithstanding' that I have held very high and..very responsible rank and office in both the commonwealth forces of AustraljajjaiLthe—Royal Air force. TJTa word, I have served in two wars. I have every reason to know what war is, but I am also a socialist, ami know why I am a believer in communal ownership. So is my friend. Commander Josiah Wedgewood^MP.; Major Church, D. S.O., M.P.r Major Attlee, M.P.; Col. J. O'Grady, formerly M.P., pow Sir .Jas. O'Grady, governor of Tasmania; Brigadier-Gen. Lord Thompson, air minister in the Labor government in England, so that I am not alone on the question of peace. . On Verge of Another War ' T was listening to one lady glibly quoting my late friend, E. D. Morel, whom I helped to win Dundee. What Morel desires to convey to those who read him is not to use every Conceivable occasion of quoting, but to' act; by that, I mean go out amongst the working people and show them in the plainest possible language the Tiorrors of war, how they are made, and who makes them, and when any member of any society (be it international or, any other kind of society) does that for the next fiVe years, there- may be some slight hope of peace. I have been" at it twenty- five ye^rs, telling the people the facts, not fiction. Notwithstanding ail this, I am convinced that we are on the verge of another war. Where are we?> League of Nations! What nations? Where's the U.S.A.? What about Mussolini and his dictatorship! not only of his own country, but he is trying it ,on with the league. May I ask the' peace at any price peonle what they, propose to do about it? Take it from me, nothing will be done by incessantly talking fbr.talk- ings sake. There is nov*room for self-advertisement today, at'least not in the Labor and Sbci'alist movement. Of course, you, can get any amount of it'in the churches. Martin Har-- vcy is not in the "pctwajsiffl some I have seen lately. He' is Wjbe excused; it's his living. There is no room for actors in churches or other organizations. - What is wanted is real sound men and women who are prepared to sacrifice all their social gatherings, shows and pink teas, in the cause that alone is worthy until the. good days bring the best. Do not rely on Washington treaties re the quantity of ships each country may build. It's .all moonshine. Your next war will be in the air. What arrangements have*, been,, made at Washington, or anywhere, else, on this score? War Wrecks Human Race I notice that there-is going to be quite a flock of aeroplanes built in U.S.A., and quite a formidable nunu ber of men to handle them. I am fortunate in knowing the potentialities of these instruments. I have handled the joy stick more times than I care to remember. • When people talk about peace in the comfortable ^^S^llili!Xi^^1^-'M^'Mm^in^^>m' oTadvantage "if they cQiild visualize a pilot and hist chief officer in mid-, air, 12,000 feet up, chased by another machine (enemy)'. AJshot hits the pilot, machine travelling at 90 to- 100 miles per hour, and 300 miles from home. Chief officer ciimbs up sits on knees of pilot, takes charge, gets home, pnly to find his pilot dead. You say shocking, horrible. Yes, my friends, that's war. , What about ft? Again, Zeppelin arrives over the mouth' of the river Tyne, England, passes small' towns and villages. Policemen running round knocking at doors and shouting lights* out -The expectant mother simply,, terrified, possibly hundreds of them. See today the wrecks of children born after that experience. Lord Allenby has been here this week. I know nothing of his political outlook, but I do know that he is fully aware and alive.as to the possibilities of the next war. I submit that the next war will be found to be betweent he Latin and the Anglo-Saxon peoples, France, Italy, and others, as against Great Britain, and possibly Germany. Here is a poser for some far-seeing person to answer: . Tunnel Idea Dangerous It was proposed shortly after the war to build a tunnel, or tube, between France and England, so great was4he Entente Cordial. Why did they not proceed? Was it an engineering difficulty?^Wiaa-it-finanee^ Noj-my-friends, it was neither of these. I was speaking to a very high- placed personage when I was taking some press photographs at the Scottish games "at Braemar last September, and in a very fnnocent way6put one or two questions re this tunnel business. To my surprise I got the answer, which may one day prove my contention, that war is inevitable. War means Hell upon earth. We want no more, but "you and' I must face facts. Imperialism breeds war. Imperialism is only another word fpr- jingoism. -You International Club members in Vancouver, you,International Club sympathizers, you' will have to give up your other imperialistic club membership, you will have to, as it were, go back to schbol again! Never mind applauding speakers, or even interrupting them. Become a student /again- Are there any decent sky pilots within the city of Vancouver who will risk losing a dollar or two on the plate by lashing out on the subject of War and Peace and Militarism. If there are, I; for one, will feel delighted. I wish I had your rostrums, or pulpits at my dis- «N THE - TONSORIAL. CHAIR - Good Lord, things ar quiet. Guess I'll have to close down if this continues, or mayby I can put on a dollar day. Two cigars, 18' boxes of matches and-a haircut, shave and face massage for a buck. That should liven things up a-bit Hello, who is this guy? Morning sir. Shave? Yes sir. Just over frdm Hengland? How did I guess? Oh, because you say hcah and theah and beahand bettah. What Viscount Allenby?' ,Holy smoke. What's the matter? Well, sir, I listened in on the radio to your speech about the late war, and I had on my mind the fact that you recently told the Canadian Educational Club and the Canadian Women's Club that there was a liklihood of another war. You beIieve*that?vWell sir I aip sorry. Why? Well I havei -a ■ different slant on that war stuff to you. I wondered for instance whyij you did not tell these women who ar«£ ^ the mothers, and those men who are the fathers, of the boys you expect to fight this next war, some of the horrors of war. For instance, why not tell them of the report of the commission appointed to investigate the treatment of British soldiers in Mesopotamia? You don't remember it? Well^this js what one of the witnes-. ses said before that commission. "I was standing on the bridge in the evening When the -Medjidieh' arrived. She had two steel barges without any protection against the rain. As the ship with the two barges came up, to us, I saw that she was absolutely packed, and the barges, too, with men. The barges were slipped and the 'Medjidieh' was brought along-, side the 'Varela.' When she was about 300 or <100 yards off it looked as if she was festooned with ropes. The stench when she was close Was quite definite, and I found that what I mistook for ropes were dh~e'if J*tal- actites of human faces. • ■TM&J|yj±alJJS' were standing but the mass were huddled anyhow—some with blanket's and some, without. k:Th'ey were lying in a pool of dysentery and dejecta about 30 feet square., They were covered with dysentery and dejecta, generally from head to foot. -With regard to the first man I examined. I. put my hand into h's trqusers and I thought he had a hemorrhage. His trousers were almost full to his waist with something warm and slimy. I took my hand out, and thought it was a clot of blood. It was dysentery. This man had a fractured thigh and his. thigh was perforated in .five, or six places. He had apparently been writhing about the ship. Many, casfes were just as bad. In my report I describe mercilessly to the government of India how I found men with their limbs splinted with wood strips* from Johnny - Walker whiskey boxes and Bhoosa wire}' and that sort of thing. Commissioner, "were they British or Indian soldiers? ' .» The Doctor, "Both British and Indian." Now if any father or mother>wants to see the sons of Canada in a-state like that I want to meet them. Any human being who would not move Heaven ^nd earth to stop such tor- ture is neither a decent citizen nor a desirable companion. But what beats me is that you stand up calmly before a Vancouver audience and say ^hatjhe_sftnie^hing_ia-likely~to-hap^ pen again. No, Allenby, war is a cursed thing, «nd its advocates are either mentally deficient or morally depraved. You can tell the world you met a barber in Vancouver who had neither use for your ideals, your vocation, nor your much applauded speeches. That will be $1.50. Next please. "Should evening dresses ever be m at bridge parties?" "No. In playing cards it is only necessary to show your hand." r ~ worn posal. It would be a straight talk. Here's a chance to become a true disciple of Daniel. Dare tp have a purr pose firm, and dare to make it known. Creative thinking, constructive thinking, is the one tning that will possibly save the situation. '. ' Get away from thinking in the terms, of "If I give pleasure to women and men, shall I be popular, popular then. To use a vulvar phrase, let. us get down to brasa'tacks. - -." ■ ELECTRIC power development is synonymous with general development ' The great'expansion of the B. C Electric's power system on the mainland and on Vancouver Island betokens the progress of British Columbia. No industry on the continent can show such steady and continuous rapid growth as the electrical industry. Never ih its history has the industry recorded a decrease in its annual revenue. British Goidmbw (8! EiKmcltaiMy Co; VANCOUVER \i2£r VICTORIA m WHITE LUNCH LIMITED •Five Places to Eat. Granville Street—Nos. 439 and 806. Hastings Street—Nos. 128 East, 124 West and 439 West Satisfaction Guaranteed. POPULAR PRICES TABLES FOR LADIES REST ROOMS FOR LADIES NEVfcR CLOSED ^BHim-uu TrTyiriiFtffirnF*" RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggists" We Maks a Special Effort to Got Goods Out hy Pint Mall After Receipt of Your- Order. CORNER CORDOVA A'ND CAKBALL VANCOUVER. B O. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE^ THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER / mMM^mmmmmmmiimmmimmm | Painters' Union Notes illlSHBIIIHJilBlli'Sllipll'ljlllBIiMIS Owing to the very fine weather of the past week housccleaning has got away to a good start, there being a big call for Painters and Paperhang- ers.. Some bosses.are having trouble already to secure men required. Business Agent W. Wilson has been giving alibis attention to straightening out the Hudson's Bay job for the ■Painters. During the past . three weeks Mr. Ed. Lee, the painting con tractonwho is not a member-of- VHticouveiTIasters' Association, and is directly opposed to the union and all it stands for, avoided a meeting with Business Agent Wilson, ahd up to now no further advance has been made. The Building Trades Council, supporting the Painters' local, passed a motion that a letter be sent to the Hudson's Bay Company asking for a meeting with the Building Trades Council,- and failing a satisfactory adjustment the Hudson's Bay Company will be placed, on the unfair Hst. -.'•-. One of the greatest injustices to the worker in most cities is the fact" he and his family blindly takes his money in at the front door of the large stores while they in turn-employ cheap non-union labor at the rear door (Vancouver labor men take notice). *-*---■'-'■ . • *. ■ 4 * T^ie returns of referendum on the 6-day week will be known at meeting Thursday, 'March 11 th. • And yet it's growing. Watch us grow. ' - Help us grow. . -Yours, JBKIBBO.. thea -theJJi: TENDERS FOR DREDGING SEALED tenders, addressed to the unsigned and endorsed "Tender for dredging, False- Creek. B.C.." will be' received until 13 o'clock noon, Friday, March 19, 1936. Tenders wll! not be considered unless snade oh the forms supplied by the Department and according-to the conditions sot forth therein.^ Combined specification and' form of tender. c#n bo obtained on application to' the 'undersigned, also at -the office c,f UiiUJIstrJ«t--EtsgIitcerr-f'Ostrtjrrice_Bia8., New Westminster, B.C. Tenders must include the towing of the plant to and from the work. Dredges and other plant which are intended to be used on the Work shall havo been duly registered In Canada at tho time of the tiling of the tender with the Department, or shall have been built In Canada after the filing of the tender. .Each tender must be accompanied by 'an'accepted cheque On a chartered, bank payable to the order of the Minister of Public.. Works, for 5 per cent of the contract price, but.no cheque to be for less than fifteen hundred dollars. Bonds.-jof the Dominion of Canada and bonds of the Canadian National Railway Company will also be accepted as security, or. bonds and a cheque if required to make up an odd amount. ..„ , Mt-JSt O'BRIEN.- • -•-. ."W Secretary. Department of Public Works, Ottawa, February 26, 1928. ■ ■ ■ CITY OF VANCOUVER TENDERS TOM BOOTS The. undersigned will receive, tendera up to 12 o'clock noon, Tuesday, the 2,1rd day of March, 1926, for approximately 200 pairs summer ^wear Policemen's Boots. 'Samples to be supplied. JAMES STUART, Purdutstoip? Agent. mmmmmmmmms THE LABOR STATESMAN Usfdtt 12th, l(/i;" CONTINUOUS POLICY-NOON^-'TILL MIDNIGHT VAUDEVILLE AND FEATURE PICTURES BRIGHTEST-2- THEATRES STRAND THEATRE Vancouver's Premier House Presents FIRST RON PICTURES •ad the STRAND OPERATIC COMPANY REX THEATRE Vancouver's Popular Bonn Presents THE BEST IN MOVIES and the COUNTRY STORE COLONIAL "THEATRE _5 ' • DUNSMUIR AND GRANVILLE -, PREMIER FILM ATTRACTIONS Three Variety Programmes) from Cream of Local Performer* Moderate Prices Continuous, 11 to II glilifiiiiiiiiiiiiiillilliiiiiiiiiiiillliliiiliil!i 1 Langer Theatres | WINDSOR 35th and MAIN VICTORIA 43rd and VICTORIA ALMA BROADWAY and ALMA REGENT 3970 HASTIW08 ST. B. KERRISDALE C Unl*?A, Help _ii'siwiii»iWpipWiiiiiii*>it niuiiii iiwt I'm1 ii'tT t g you and your family cannot afford Io miss. «; niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiini "" u^£^*«WI«fc>>»»*rws1siW!t*'W 1 Broadway Theatre MAIN AND BROADWAY NOW SHOWING THE SPLENDID ROAD With Anna A. Nillson, Lionel Barrymoro and Holiest Prazer Return Engagement of Martin Harvey In selecting "The only Way" for his return engagement to the Orpheum Theatre on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, March 15. 16,. 17, Sir John Martin-Harvey has made a most fortunate choice In the minds of local playgoers, as it was In this play that Sir John .made his first success In, and one that has proven a most lasting one. It was on ono Qf Irvlng's American tours that tho possibilities of a drama around the character of Sydney Carton first suggested themselves to Martin- Harvey and Miss de -Sllva (now Lady Martin-Harvey), for he still acknowledges the Inspiration of his wife, the Ideal Mlml of so many years. And one day young Martin-Harvey and she woke up to find themselves famous. The actor-artls't who creates a' .great role has henceforward a very serious advantage with which to contend. That most conservative Institution, the public, ever after associated hlrn with that particular part, looks upon him as its only possible exponent, and Is Inclined to _ipubt bla-evor-belng^aWe-to-poriray any* other part so well: Sir John is no exception to this metallic rule, nnd, though he has given many charming and characteristic and always charming Interpretations and Impersonations since then, to which of recent years he has added a "David Garrlck" which vies with that of thevlate and ever-memorable Sir Charles Wyndharn's "Tho Corslcan Brothers" and Maeterlinck's "fftirgomaster of Stlle- mone," thero are still many who cannot separate him fro mthe role of Sydney Carton. BIG MAJORITY TO EXCLUDE COMMUNISTS J FROM LABOR PARTY ■figures of„the plebiscite., (or faihat the Liverpool Confer- esolutions excluding the.Com- 3 from the British Labour as, now available." They are: Party »"-m. • .. „ ^Liverpool Decision 60,227 ■ Forw V-..-— 18,780 Against Majoritsl 41,447 'o^vpnty-fWel organizations, com- riB^ ".enibership of 12,878, did' Sot vote. \ :' \. ■• * ■■'■ Anniversary Week at Orpheum Theatre ANNIVERSARY MARCH 18, 19, 30 Next week will be the thirteenth anniversary of the opening of the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver. For the past thirteen >seasons the Orpheum Circuit has provided the very best in vaudeville to the theatre-Koers here until today it stands as the leading theatre in the community. A fitting tribute to the patrons, who number in the thousands, will be the superbly delectable -seven-act Mil to be presented next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. . Georgfe Price, America's leading juvenile comedian, isvone of the featured headline^. Georgfe was one of (£urf"l£d- ward'a-prodfgies with "Cuddles," but a great deal of water has passed under the bridge si/ice Geofgle made Ms debut, and today he is one of the leading headline stars In* vaudeville. He will offer a number of popular songs and a few of the impersonations that ha programme will be, Harry J. Conley, the well-known rube comedian. When Mr. Conley Is not Vr*ortcing at acting -fter-Js fishing1 in - New York, State, and when Willard -Mack Js not writing plays he does a little fishing too. Recently they met at Ithac Falls, famous for its fishing and, as far as Mr. Conley is concerned, for a character named Dick Klanke., For some seasons Mr. Conley had portrayed Dick Klanke on the stage and many of Klanke's wise cracks have found their way- into, the sketch. Botli the actor and the author studied the rube Khinke and so when Mack wrote th'e sketch he wrote part for Dick Klanke whom Conley ably portrays. There is comedy, pathos and real human Interest in this offering, not to-tnentftSn a world of laughs. Billy Hallen wilUtwr^sent "It's All. Applesaueu." He ftlkjrand sings just for fun, the fun of everyone. His patter is up-to-date and'thero are many snappy gags ln his Mho. His songs are original and the kind that one remembers. Alexander and Santos and Company, two men and three women, will present a dance divertisement punctuated with clever comedy dances and popular songs. The Three Lordens In "Lights Out." When ynu. ii.'iv-' visited the circus have you brer thought of the other things that might be accomplished "on the traj>eze If they weren't Impossible. Well, thesq are tfie things the Three Lordens do and there is a thrill in evory move they make that will drag you out of your scat. Mallnda and Dade are a pair of colored artists who will sing and dance. They are called the "Royal Entertainers. For why? Well, you will know next week. Another surprise act, arranged specially as a birthday feature, attractive pictures and the Orpheum concert orchestra will-complete this nifty thirieenth anniversary bill. \ With Woodsworth at Ottawa By J. S. WOODSWORTH. Seymour, ,1 Kill • Always- Opts The debate, though dreary, affords many sidelights, on the practical and social conditions of, the country. Mr. Robb, in replying io Sir Henry Drayton with regard to the Rouyn Railway said: , "The hon. gentlemen laid very much stress this afternoon and ai pain this evening upon his allegation that this was a.jiummy company. I am sure he was not serious tn them. As a lawyer, he has organized a gOtMJ Jrtany companies;' he knows that the names are never given who are really-behind the concern. . :' T . The names of clerks and stenographers in an office are used So that the public will not know who" are behind the concern." A Political Slush Fund Later on, Mr. Robb said of Sir ■Henry Drayton: „ "He tried to create the Impression that the contract was let at a time when It would be of good value as'a campaign fund for one of the parties. Now he ha*s. had some experience with the running of elections, and I would^ask him of what use In a,Campaign FunsTof-thls sort where the work done—which I sup^ pose will consist of getting out the ties and "clearing, the roadway—represents a total amount paid up to January 31st, 1925: of only a little over 1160,000. Sir Henry interjected: "That certainly would not add ver much to my hon. friend's 'Fund, but I would ask him a question In reply. Why was there any necessity for arranging for J2.000.000. In cash?;' , Children Suffering. ; Mr. Cahan in referring to social conditions said: "In the City of Montreal, there.Js a destitution today the like of which we did not know when we had a stable tariff and stable conditions In our industrial life. There, people are out of ernploy- ment by the hundreds. Women and children are under-nurtured. Those who were horn and brought up In fairly comfortable circumstances and become expert workmen are too poor today to sustain the life of their children but too proud to beg, and a generation of ehjl- dren are growing up undernurturcd.". . . Such -conditions are' appalling whether or not Mr. Cahan has discovered the real cause. ■ Again after desc»ibing the wonderful resources of Mexico, Mr./Cahan said: "Still, with all. these resources,- year after-year, the peon and the Indian -of Meiico toil for fifty cents of our mojley today to develop those natural resour- way of oil and jmotoc power In carrying on the Industrie's of other 'counttles. , . A country with the rnpst marvelous natural resources in tj/te wor.l.d* giving itself up Jo the damnable policy of exporting.-Its natural resources to other countries and leaving Its people at home she most impoverished on the North or South American continent," Again, we Would ask, whether Mr. Cahan- is right in attributing the low standards of living in Mexico to the lack -ot a tariff, or whether the exploitation of United States' and Other capitalists is not the major cause? The Customs Scandal The curious thing about the Committee investigating the Customs scandal is that it is split into two sections, the one forming what is virtually the prosecution, and the other the defence. Mr. Kennedy, the one progressive member, is in reality the amounts from the association. Further than that, the staff of agents, which was organized was given official status. These men were granted tne powers of protective officers with the status of custom's officers, and further," certain of them- were sworn in as Dominion police officers with powers to make arrests. ' In passing, we may note that such an arrangement constitutes a' rather dangerous precedent. Government officials, in pay of the government, and with government standing, being under the direction of a private organization. After some time it was found that under, the existing law smuggling could not' be adequately dealt with. It was not an indictable offence, "air though the Minister had the right to take cases into the Civil Courts. It had been the practice ever since confederation to settle, departmentally practically by all seizures-for smuggling or, undervaluation. '[ Trafficking ■' with Smugglers Some effective legislation was sought and last year passed by the use but it is now charged that such legislation ■ has not been effectively enforced. One of the officials is reported to have said: ■-..-" ''It was not long before he showed us 'his* hand' and told us to go sloy with the. seizure, that there -were htglier-up -pofltctals interested In same: that 'we might burn.our lingers in working too hard; that ,-we should read between the lines and that we could make. much money if wc. swere wiBe. giving us as example his "own .case—owned a nice auto, a summer resort place In the L.aur- entlans, -ftn'ci' that his salary was ntft snore than ours."' . Representations were made to the government that there were six or seven other officers besides Bisaillon, who, there were reasons for believing, were trafficking with smugglers. Thus, day by day, the evidence is pouring in. It will require careful sifting to know just where the blame lies, but the public will undoubtedly be right in inferring that there has been very great laxity indeed, and that certain classes of crime are dealt with ver; Gems from Hansard Preparations for War Mr. Bourassa: A large proportion of the nickel which had gone to the United States before the war Was shipped to Germany by German sub marines Beforethe United States entered the war. But a fact which can not be denied is that-Canada con trolled the world's niRSftel supply for .wenty years before ihe war; and at the very time we "were told that we must of necessity rush to the succor of England by building battleships five years before War was conj.- m^ncfed,. ■ If we had all taken the trouble to inform ourselves, as I in formed myself—-not only in 1914 that was the latest proof, as I have said to my right hon. friend, but for onlyonelwho is in the position of an .thre,e or f°uJ; 7^s Previous—«ntire- Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver^ Bert Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE . Late 64th Batt. Late 72nd Batt. 76 Hastings St. E..' Vancouver, B.C. BERGMAN'S CAFE 324 CAMBIE STREET The Beat ot Eats at Popular ' Prices UNION HOUSE—North of Hastings The Plain Man's Hotel — Modern Convenience Bverr • HOTEL EUROPE Hoensed Beverage,Warlor 43 Powell Street Vancoi nt Mr! McGibbon: "If they .were preparing for war, why was England so poorly prepared?" Five Men in Control of Foreign Politics Mr. Bourassa: "Because she was blinded. The politicians who were in favor of war were afraid to declare war. The hon. member should learn that fact also from British sources. Only five members of the British cabinet had prepared the terms on which England and France were preparing to go to war and were So much afraid ', tp let the news fall into the hands of the public that they concealed the facts from the House of Commons and the people. They concealedjthem also from two-thirds of- the cabinet. This is a matter of history.' I do not • read British history in the yankeefied Toronto edition, but I get it from the most reliable sources. ___——• -,'•*« * * ..*• A Curious Immigration Policy Mr. W. K. Esyling (West Kooten- ay):".... The hon. member for Frontenac-Addington (Mr. Edwards) read an advertisement the other day in which this government guarantees to give immigrants to this country ftvB years' employment. Why, we have- returned mcninourcountixr, *.WW'i5WnSfe*3ayr employment.a month: wc have good settlers who have cleared the land and tilled the soil and who would be thankful to get five days' employment a month; and yet we are offering to give newcomers to this country five years' employment. Does not the irony of it strike you, Mr. Speaker? • No Truck—No. Trade- -! OIL-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES ___MAY DISPLACE STEAMffcntion-wro The Central Railroad of New Jersey has completed data on the test of the new oil-electric locomotive used on the lines of the company. The data covers one month^s operation of this new locomotive and the figures which are the first available from railroad sources are quite astounding. Tin' operating cost of the oil-electric locomotive during the month of observation was only $72.58, compared with $349.46 for a steam locomotive doing the same kind of work. During the period of observation the Jersey Central's oil-electric locomotive hauled §1,556 tons, compared With 50,493' tons handled by the steam locomotivq-^an excess of more than 11,000 tons. In other words, the oil-electric locomotive did about one- fifth more work~at "approximately one-fifth the fuelcost. . ' Labor's policy has been to lighten the burden of the poor an,d place it on the broader backs of the rich, but Mr. "Churchill has reversed that policy.—Mr. Philip Snowden,\M.P. impartial judge. His power is great but so is responsibility. The evidence shows that as early as the 6th of August, 1924, a strong deputation representing the manufacturers waited uppn the government with regard to the smuggling evil. They charged that legitimate business, was being seriously and injuriously affected by the operation of this illegitimate trade, and that in some branches of the industry honest traders were actually being driven into bankruptcy owing -to operations of smugglers throughout_Can4da1_Ati fawn to "ffieBefiefthat large quantities of prison-made garments from the United States were being dumped into Canada. Representations were made that the entire Winnipeg industry of overalls and working clotfi manufacture was seriously menaced by the unfair competition of border manufacturers who apparently sell their products at least twenty per cent, below legitimate quotations. Jf this situation was not remedied at once it was said that the entire Winnipeg industry, consisting of nine factories and employing from 600 to 700 people, was threatened with, extinction. •- ""* " Protector Gets the Swag — . Subsequently there w_gs formed the commercial protective' association, composed of a. number pf Canadian Boards bf Trade and similar organizations., For some time this organi- zation.-worked in close harmony with the government in the effort to suppress the smuggling evil. The government loaned this association one of its officials who, in addition to nis regular- salary received "certain ly through British agencies of informational say if we had taken that trouble, we would have known that at the/time we were speaking of building Vrjreadnaughts to save England, the sole object of the policy, sO far as the shipbuilders of England were concerned, was to continue partaking ..of the profits of the Krupp patents with the Germans as well as with the Italians and the French armament firms. Mr. Kaiser: "Did the hon. member know that Germany was going to de- clarewOT on GreaLBritain^—-— H MrTBourassa: No, no more than I knew then that France had planned to declare war in 1912, as has been proved by the secret correspondence between M. Poincarre, in Paris, and M. Isvolsky, in Petersburg. Perhaps the hon. member has not read these letters. I read them in England. I would suggest to hon members oppo-. site that if they wish to get a true sense of British policy, let them-be a little more British, and go td\^he true British sources, and they.will be in a position to be British in the ri^ght sense of the word. Mr. McGibton: "JPid I understand the hop.^nember. to say that France and Great Britain were* preparing to declare war on Germany in 1912?" Mr. Bourassa: More than that; I am prepared to say to the hon..mem- ber that as early as the second Moroccan incident, France refused to declare war at the beclt; of England. When we speak of France an,d England, it means only a few men who are in the secret. I quite admit that the masses of the people in England, in France and in Germany, did not want war in 1905, in 1912 or in 1914. Mr. J. D. Chaplin (Lincoln):•". I want to draw the attention of the House to the difference between our trade with Germany and our trade with France. We have no treaty with Germany. Three years ago we sold to Germany for the twelve months ending December 23, in round figures thirteen million dollars worth of com\ modifies. We are selling them today without a treaty' tbirty-one million] dollars worth. We bought from them! four million dollars worth in 1923, and we are now purchasing nine millions, so- that we have a balance of"\ trade of oyer twenty-two million in our favor. ...-." England Persists in Having Cannon fodder Lord Birkenhead, speaking at the Guild Hall in London, Eng., at a dinner organized for ihe purpose of providing funds for an infants' hospital, said, "We need to_look_afteE— -the~chitdreiT in ordeFThat they may do their bit in the njext war." His Lordship added furthermore that he saw no symptoms "which would entitle one to the belief that human nature had undergone any change which might indicate that the desire for war was abating. " "We should take our youth in childhood and fit it to be, if neces-' sary, the champions of our civilization and our nation." Lord Birkenhead, a Peer of the Realm, was,, in the chrysalis stages, one might say, plain F. E. Smith, solicitor. Thus doth the grub become a .glorious butterfly by carefully saying thoa right thing from the bourgeois point of views The reason for stressing the remarks of this man is not^because her is a Lord and therefore-in the minds of morons a person of importance, but because he has a legal mind and has been trained to talk. . Men of this type don't 'blather; when Lord Birkenhead speaks, official England speaks. The men behind the scenes who invite Jack and Toni to put on khaki and protect their money pay for this kind of talk. ' . i, ii'isusiieiiiiiiiisii ,* March 12th, 1926 THE LABOR STATESMAN 1926 Spring Catalogue Npw Ready. Ask for One—Mailed on Request, Free OUR'seed department haa received their complete stock of* L flower and \fcgetab!e seeda,. which have all been government tested. Our catalogue lists many special goffers ln collectf-ons, Sweet Peas, Gladiolas, Asters, etc. We are offerV *. ing many of the latest novelties, both In vegetable and flower seeds- - f*V t • ' " ^ WRITE.FOR WHOLESALE PRICE UST . ' Brown Brothers 8c Co., Limited \ rI.OBISTS, NURSERYMEN AMD SEEDSMEN Head Office: 48 ■ Hastings Streot East. Phones Seymour 673-988 665 OranvlUe at, Sey. 1391-9513 161 Hastings W., Sey'. 1370 REAL BEER per rare MAKE it yourself at home With our Peerless Yeast ' and other Peerless ingredients. Don't experiment. 'sFoIlow our recipe and as* ■ only Peerless' Products. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. Investigate. Evening appointments. PEERLESS YEAST GO. OF R C, LIMITED HERE AND THERE BY A FLOATER Objections have been made in the local press to the succession duties^ .can be employed on civic undertak- 525 BURRARD STREET PHONE SEYMOUR 952 It is claimed that the same is driving capital away, ahd is; retarding the progress of the province. Well, there arc cities in the United States that make this city look like a village in comparison' to size and population, the taxation in which is much higher than that of Vancouver.' Yet, capital is not being driven away from such large centres of population. The capital is -in -those oities in spite of high taxation. Not" do they specialize on developing tourist trade. The capitalists invest in such cities for the reason that smokestacks and payrolls contribute more to the growth of a city than tourist tr^de has ever done. A thousand men given regular employment at decent wages and conditions win do more to develop this city than tar times that number of transient sightseers." , A recent headline says: "Family of eight can come from Old Land to B. C, for only ?90." When they get here they will find that they will have a hard time persuading trj,e transportation companies to take them back for that price. WOMEN AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT The American federation of Labor will have to face squarely and with open-mindedness this problem of the organization of working women. The - contention "that might be raised to the effect that women are unorganiz- able, will be dodging that problem, not solving it. Much can be done towards accomplishing that end by stressing the necessity for organization upon individual trade unions who in turn may carry^the message of trade unionism for women to their constituents. Those, once convinced of its neces- ' sity, will furnish an, important medium in this work by spreading the thought of unionism' to those working women with whom they come in l'ifi?ffisffCfail sjweit not only to. themselves and to the women who will follow thero in the industry, to become organized; but also to their own menfolk, and to the future of their families. Valuable Missionaries With their realization that the or- ganizaion of women workers is im portant for the well-being of their trade unions, and that they can not retain the standards they have built up after much sacrifice unless the threat of competition on th%part of lower paid women workers is obviated—the movement will find in them valuable missionaries. They can be made aware that it is not only in their immediate industry that this'applies, for a lowered standard in one --industry must necessarily have its pernicious effect oh all others. The work done in this respect by the organized men workefs in the countrjr will prove of great value, but it is the organizers of the A.F. of L., regular and volunteer, who. can do the most effective work if enlisted in this campaign. They can for instance, interest the central labor assemblies in the problem, make it virtually an order of business at their meetings. Ladies' Auxiliaries But these organizers must possess facta. It may be desirable tp do research work in this respect, and prepare special literature that will provide them with the necessary infor- mation and arguments. This may be prepared as a special manual; and small folders making an appeal to working women in a language that will imnress them, may be distributed. Special articles prepared for the labor publications would be of great value. Statements made to the press that will call attention to the conditions of working women would un- doubedly do much in the advancement of their cause. Of equal importance would be the enlistment of the wives of the trade unionists who have grouped themselves into Ladies' Auxiliaries to var- ionpa trade unions. Their interest should be aroused for such a campaign, since they come in frequent contact with unorganized working women. Speaking as a group their words wil) cary greater weight. Their Human Touch Such a campaign should prove of educational value to unorganized workers, ft would necessarily lead to a change in the attitude of the lead deem it advisable to admit women into their organizations. They will begin to realize that although they may keep women out of their unions, they can not keep them out of industry. -.•.■'• In deed, if would' probably result in co-operation between men and vo- men. In return, women will bring into the trade unions, their human touch, their feminine endurance, ,and that freshness, earnestness and',optimism which mark the entrance of any new group into a social 'movement. Further, the labor moveniieftfc- will benefit from this organization of worn^n-workers through their subsequent bringing into the home the experience and broad understanding gained in the movement, and the ^American Federationist. BRITISH LABOR'S INDICTMENT OF TORY GOVERNMENT ftl.NDON, Eng.—The Labor Party has recently' published an examination of the 'record of the Tory government in its first year of office, in a.pamphlet which forms a damning exposure of- -thescaHdalous misgov- ernment inflicted on the country since the last general election. > With an array of facts and figures, the pamphlet shows that trade is worse, unemifloymcnt increased, food prices higher; the swindle of th^ Pensions Act is exposed ; broken Tory promises strew the record; and the whole forms a smashing indictment of a government that must be removed at the earliest opportunity, It is now known -to the workers, who have been looking forward to the operation of the. Minimum Wage Bill that it will not be made effective till June. .Most legislation, when assented to by his Honor, the, Lieutenant- Governor, becomes law almost immediately. But not so with labor legislation. The main function of the present administration is to hood- -wink the people by placing alleged labor laws on the statute books, and then appoint boards to see that such laws do not hurt the employers. The much exaggerated claims that this province has the best labor laws of any province in the Dominion, notwithstanding, such laws while appearing on the books, are not worth the paper they are printed on, because they are not enforced. These laws will be enforced when the workers become industrially organized and ■It rules that only bona fide citizens ings. The board of works also contemplates forming ah "old man's gang.'.'-cbmprising the aged and incapacitated men who will be'paid, not the relief wage as paid in this city, but $3.60 per day. In this city, it matters not whether the employee lives in the city or any of the adjacent municipalities. Nor does it matter whether they be married or single. That is so far as the inside staff of the city hall is concerned. In regard to the dutside staff, however, it is different. A single man may own property and pay taxes but he has no chances of obtaining' city work outside the. city hall, and even the married man must be a resident to "o*Ktain work. At least that it what they would have us believe. If one .wants to have -the, 'Isimpression formed for him Of the cosmopolitan area •covered by the ciyte employees, he should listen to the variety of languages spoken by civic employees as they stand outside the paymaster's office when the sewer gangs are, being' paid. *'• * '» »« iThe .Federal Government is conducting a campaigh to exterminate tuberculosis .among cattle, and many of the farmers are losing some of their stock." Some of them have lost almost their entire herd. To relieve the distress that might .Jesuit from the slaughtering of the diseased-cattle, the government inspectors are authorized to pay up to two-thirds dVf the appraised value of the stock destroyed. All this is' done in the attempt to eradicate tuberculosis at the source of the city's milk supply. Yet a strange thing happens in this process of 'eliminating disease. When the stock is taken to the abbattoir, the carcass' is examined and if judged fit for human consumption, the faam er tne ui.-s.xiuc niuuouiaiijT ui saiiJicuoiiu juemai.i. n'WIimP ALBERTA PREMIER IS NOT IMPRESSED By The C.M.A. A deputation representing the Alberta branch of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association interviewed the Cabinet Wednesday morning urging objections to the eight-hour law as applied to seasonal industries, such as logging, lumbering, dairying and cement. They also objected to the application of a minimum wage of $12.50 for boys. _^_ The premier saidThai 8ft per cent of. the industrial establishments of the province had voluntarily accepted the eight-hour day, and he would like to have definite evidence as to how the eight-hour day would adversely affect the remainder. He was not impressed by some of the arguments presented. ronizeU . FLOUR EVERY HOiwe NEEDS IT. MAKE SURE YOU GET IT— AND NOTHING ELSE. It Ie Rich in Nourishment— DELICIOUS . ' ; Ring Up Sey. 2354 for Appointment DR. W. J. CURRY DENTIST " ' Suite 301 Dominion Building Vancouver, B. C. W. E. FENN'S School of Dancing PRIVATE AND GLASS LESSONS' Social Dances, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. SEYMOUR 101. COTIMIOH II1U.1. NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades and Labor Council Room 803, 16 Hasstlnffii Street Bast Phones: Sey. 7495-6279 AMALGAMATED CARPENTERS OF CANADA No. 2 Shipyard Brsinch At a well attended specially called meeting of the above union on Tuesday, March 2nd, the question of. wages was discusseu and it-was de.1- ,.- ,p , , cided to notify the shipbuilding cm- receives about $8 pet'head sal-iployers that from A£ril .JLlrt^ Mgl vage. ■ v. ;■' Now"*we are not a member of the medical profession, but we would.like ipsujptaio t,,«t ....... ..^... -..-, ----, the wages pf shipwrights and joiners would be $0.50 per day; caulkers, $7.50 per day. to know how RAILROADERS MAKING DEMAND FOR HIGHER PAY Montreal.—Demands have been made upon Canadian railways by the Brotherhood of Conductors and Trainmen for wage increases simitar to those asked across the border* On the Canadian railways the highly organized running trades maintain about the same rates of wages, as those of the United States, though, if the difficulties of their winter work was. considered, they might reasonably ask for higher wages. Taking the railway employees as a whole, the average yearly, earnings in Canada are about $50 less pjoyers ....-■ „,-."..» . A British army officer assumes the role of a prophet and describes for us, what the,next war may be like: He says: "A salvo from a formation of one hundred big aerial guns would flatten' out buildings like the Houses of Parliament, as a steam roller would flatten out « sa'id castle." , Of course, he does not hint who would be doing the attaching in that case. Usually, it is the Bolsheviks, who are'accused of attempting to destroy our parliamentary institutions. It has been hinted that if Labor gains political power in Britain, there will be' a "coup de etat" to destroy it. Whether or. not the above prophesy- will indicate the method to be adopted, is left to the reader's imagination. It is safe to predict, however, that the British financial interests will soon ' lose their^ alleged rSspeet for "constitutional methods" if political control passes out of,their, hands into those of the workers. ******* It is stated that the First National Bank of Seattle now controls most of the privately owned timber in the Seymour watershed. This will indicate to the people of Vancouver, who it is that owns, what is claimed to be our "timber resources," and so essential to our water supply. It is more evidence of the economic conquest of Canada by the financial interests of the United States. *• * * ** The postal authorities now rule that postage stamps are to be used_ on the outside of envelopes and not to be placed on the inside„^rt has long done away with the t u'ckseiit postage and is continuing to extend the, scope of its petty extraction by ruling that before one can send twenty-five cents they must .pay an extra cent for the privilege bf' sluing so. The government issues promissory notes for one dollar ealled in ordinary parlance era of some trade unions who do not than in the United States. adi iiKpHi> ill HfWlIK with tuberculosis germs can be regarded as fit for human consumption? * *. *** * ~§ y*_ . In defiance of a law which has been passed to provide for a half holiday to retail clerks, certain stores are determined td work their employees in contravention of the law. These stores have determined to do so law or no law, and are being winked af by the local police authorities. These store employees are being compelled to violate the law by their employers. When acquainted with the facts by the representatives of the retail clerks, the police offer as an excuse for not prosecuting, the argument raised by the store-keepers about the loss of tourist trade and other like bunkum. , This argument is all the more silly when it is known that while tht^e employees are working, the doors of such stores are closed to-4auriaU)j>any-other trade. It is well nifflftime that the officers of the Vancouver police deoartment were told that their business is not to determine whether the law happens to be right or wrong. They are not judges appointed pfor that purpose.. Their business is, when violations of the law are brought to their notice, to proceed to take action. If the influential business men" of this community can violate the laws without action being taken, then we would like to know about it. We wpold_likfi_iaJuiow-also-from- "HieTTttorney^General of this province whether or not he is prepared to prosecute certain of these store-keepers for violating the Lord's Day Act by working their employees on Sunday. If the destitute unemployed of this city who are guilty of nothing other than being hungry in a land of plenty are to be arrested by law officers -incompetent to apprehend real criminals, and while prominent business men can violate the law without hindrance, then the onlyr conclusion we can come to, is that the prison bars .at Oakalla are made to keep the The Retort Destructive The famous- cripiinal lawyer had won a-shfiialcingly'weak case by eloquence and trickery, and a rival law- year said to ■Mm, bitterly: '"Is there any case so low, so foul, so vilely fcrooked and shameful that you'd refuse it?" "Well,- T don't know," the other answered with.a smile. "What have you been doing now?"* Because he said to air. army recruiting officer: "I wouldn't wear the uniform again, after what I learned 'over there,' " Victor Saff, a laborer, was taken before Police Judge Flose- can at St. Louis and compelled to kiss the flag. ' • . legal to send thgjp through the mail. There is.also nothing to prevent a government bond also being enclosed in an envelope. But should, one desire to forward the proletarian sum. of "two-bits," he is soaRed an extra qeni tor the privilege, of ,so doing. Yet the same government h.as the temerity to frame 'laws to put men in jail for petty larceny. ** * ' » ** The city council of Prince Rupert has a sane method ojjoing city>ork. ','oh'e dollatr bills," an.d it is perfectly forking class in and to keep the cap- ' ■' '■ ■' • ■■■•'' {talist class out. t "* * * .In a speech delivered at the Wesley .Church on Monday eVening last, Viscount Allenby told of his military experiences while in-Palestine. He treated, his audience to a description of the military tactics he practiced on the enemy. But through an oversight on his part, he omitted to tell his audience just what military tactics were employed in his ,tjj»e by the know as the "Prince of Peace." , However, the pastor of that church will be telling his congregation about /'Peace on Earth, goodwill toward Men," next Xmas. ■Taking the apparent oversight into consideration' we might as well remind the readers, that while Jesus Christ may have been the Prince of Peace, he was militarist enough when he found it necessary to remove the money-changers and other parasites from the church of his time. Main St. South of 18th PEARSON'S MeatprodL Market The' Worklnginan's PrlenS TTNION SHOP 4373 MAIN ST. PAIS. 3331 Phone Fair. 797 Klg-M Prlcss A. FREDERICKSON QUALITY GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS. Cor. afith A venae and Main Street SOUTH VANCOUVER, B. P. Nazarine, otherwise * ROBINSON'S Cycle and Repair Store 3917 Main at 23rd. Fair. 5994 Specialist, in Bicycle frame repairs.. Keys cut, Saws sharpened, Bpby Buggy Tires repaired. Agent for "Red Bird" Bicycles. SKATE GRINDING THE LABOR STATESMAN March 12th; 1926. '\ LESLIE'S Nanaimo-Wellington (COAL THATS DIPPERENT) Prepared and Delivered by White Help Only Leslie Coal Co., Ltd. 944 BEACH ATI. SEY. 7137 DANCING EVERY SATURDAY NXOHT ALEXANDRA ACADEMY .' Robson and Hornby Street 6 Piece .Criterion Orchestra Regular Price* PJERRT A;DO£K Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 Junior Labor League The last regular" meeting of the Junior Labor League was held Friday last in the New Fraser Hall. Election of oOfficers was the business of the evening. Officers elected for the coming year were as follows: Officer* Elected: President, Mr. J. Ferguson, First Vice-President, Mr. Wm. McLachlan; Second Vice-President, Mr. D. Charlton; Secretary, Mr. R. S| Ferguson; treasurer, Mr. Wm. Rees; Social Convenor, Mr. J. Ferguson; Sports Convenor, Mr. Wm. Welton; Educational Convenor, Mr. D. Charlton; Sick Convenor, Miss Z. Sutherland; Pressmen, Mr. R. S. Ferguson; Auditors, Miss M. Sutherland, Miss L. McCullogh; Delegates to the S. V. C. Ia. P., Mr. D. Charlton, Miss G^Danby. - The last regular dance of the Junior Labor League was held in the Elk's Hall'on Saturday, February 27. Mucli-credit is due to Miss Edna Haywood's orchestra for the snappy music played and which attracted the attention of a very large crowd. The next regular educational, meet; ing of the. League will be held as usual in-the Fraser Hall, 45th;. Ave. and Fraser Street. The Burnaby branch of the Junior Labor League .will be visitors this Fridays February 12. It is urgently requested that all members be present, at this meeting. Dance Saturday " The next regular - dance of the League will be held as Usual in the Elks'~~HakV, cor. 49th Avenue arid Fraser Street, this Saturday, 'Febhi- ary 13. The best orchestra in town will be at this dance—Miss Edna Haywood's orchestra. - CarterrHalls-Aldiriger, Ltd., has been awarded the contract for- the new million dollar wing of the Hudson's Bay Co. Demolition of the old building will commence about March 16th. •■■''■ A contract has been awarded to W. Harris to demolish tlie old building at the corner of Georgia and Howe, in preparation for the $2,500,- 000 hotel building. Operations will start immediately. ' . Canadian Shopmen to Meet in Montreal MONTREAL.—Representatives of organized shop men from all parts of Canada will gather in this city this month for a number of very a important conferences and conventions. District 30, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders and Helpcus, will meet March 18. . - Every lodge will be represented. Internajy»nal President J. A. Franklin' ai)p|P»ther grand lodge officials will also be present On '**fnOTS^uTI)ivision No. 4, Railway Employees' Department, A,1 F. of L., will assemble and the indications •point to a larger attendance than at any previous period in its. history. y Immediately following the adjourn- ment Of' the above convention, the Canadian National System Federation of Shop Trades will convene. Since the last meeting ot/ihe federation • Smith. Pros. & Wiisori have' commenced work on remodelling the old Province Building which will be turned into an. Arcades $35,000 is being spent on the alterations. "A SKIN YOU LOVE TO TOUGH" "Put it in your Palm, Olive."- "Not on your Life, Buoy." ■ Caller: "How perfectly devoted you are to your husband!" Young Wife: "Yes, I anftirying .to pet and spoil him, so that7if-I die, and he marries agqin, no other woman can live with him." Z Res.: 855 Marine Dr. W. Phone Marpole^OOL DR. J. A. BRYANT CHIROPRACTOR X Rays—Electro Therapy £E the/union management co-operative plan has been established in all the main shops on the G. fcf*. R. .and the results will be reviewed and plans laid for the future. The Joint Protective Board of the Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen of America (Canadian Pacific Railway) will also meet during the same period. "St. Crispin" Logging Boot BEST EVER MADE Calks Guarfnteed to Hold. ■ Made single sole light cruiser, * • or double sole. Note that a St. Crispin has no seams to .hurt the foot bEMAND A ST. CRISPIN CHRISTIE'S LTD. ^^rsmmr 5,o PENDER STREET W. DRUGS AT CUT PRICES We are the consumers' protection agralnst th* coercive campaign ' for high prices,, onr axiom—QUALITY, SERVICE and SAVING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS lO.JO Feen-a-mlnuC ■■! tor . t ,',,.(|M| 1.00 Dr. Reld's Burdock and .50 Krysol (antfsseptic), 8 oz... JOT - Sarsaparlllao ' .87 ' .10 Fairy Soap. 6 for _ _._ .35 ?6 Sulphur and Molasses 31 .« Dorlnsf" liougo .» -50 Dr- HWd'S Bronchitis Misc- ^af^^^Ti^eS.*'^?^'^ ****** M .50 Dr. Reld's Uyrup of White l.ho Dr. ' Reld's. R.h e'u mi'tio • Plne.and Tar St ■'-. Rerriedy .........: 66 4.00 Pure Norwegian God Lsver . 1.00 Penslar COd Liver Extract .61 , . OH. one gal V 2.64 .25 Beectiams Pills-.. 31 IM Dr. Reld's B)oocT PuMfler-_\.v.M 2.25 Hot Water Battle .:..:... 1.47 — . ■ - r . .■/,"". ,. VANCOUVER/DRUG COMPANY, LIMITED **.»■* o* ■ ■ , Another #46,000 apartment block is being,started this week in the 1100 Mock on Barclay St., by the Moxam Construction Co., "who are also erecting a $40,000 building in the 1200 block. ■ •" • The Tip Top Tailors* Vill occupy one of the stores being remodelled in the old Bank of Toronto Building. The remodelling is being done by Smith, Bros, and 'Wilson, and'Jflxok & Murray at a cost of $10,' Permits have* been obtained for the erection of houses^ttores? etci, at the following placje<: House, $8000,' W9 W. 25th; store $6500, 3510 WT 4th ave.; Houses, $6000, 220 E.-*24th; 221 -E. 25th aves. House, $5000, 1029 W. 33rd; Store, $5000,^1785 Commercial. ■ * ihe Cotton Co. has secured a con- 'fract for an $ftO,000 paving job fpr North Vancouver. , ; Tenders for paving contracts to cost $128,000, : have been received, by the Point Grey Council. Dredging tenders_toaCgst eon- calleH-for to dredge .certain portions Of False Greek. Two. miles of steel rails .wilLte laid on the North Shore jvhen the contract has been .finished fpr about $24,000 worth of this equipment for the Harbor Board. Factor Brand Work Shirts $1.75 to $3.£0 A v'JIew Shipment for Spring Wear Just In ♦ —"FACTOR BRAND" is the most, satisfactory work shirt made. Only the best--o€.,mfl1!cnals -enter them, and they are scientifically built with .plenty of rooni in body, elbows ahd shoulders, arid are finished with strong yoke shoulder, breast pocket and neat fitting turn-down collar." Sizes 14% to 18. Blue Chambray Shirts fl.75 Black Drill Shirty S3-SQ Khaki Drill Shirts $2.00 jt^hnkl Moleskin Shirts »3.00 _Kh]jkl Gabardine Shirts $3.60 Khaki Flannel Shirts ., .13.60 SECRECY DISCARDED BY UNION ,'-. * OPPONENT ; ' Chieagb.p—John M. Glenn, business agent for the Iljinois Manufacturers' Association, has thrown aside all secrecy in opposition to, organized labor and calls for a line-up in the April primaries against every candidate who is friendly to the workers' cause. At" the "next legislative session the unions will urge an old age pension law, an eight-hour law, the federal ehjld labor constitutional amendment, and will again oppose the regulation cossaek bill, manufacturers and their allies favor. ... . . MUSSOLINI RELIES ON 10, PER CENT OF THE WORKERS p Apparently the Italian government can only rely on 10 per cent of the workers in any district being of "undoubted national loyalty"—in other words, true Fascists. This point is made iii ah interesting ' article on Fascist Trade Unionism in the February number of the Labor Magazine by Prof. Gaetano Salvemini, distinguished historian, whose murder has been proposeu by the Fascist organ Impero. Patronize Our Advertisers" ^s The Imperial Oil Co., is planning the erection of a $200,000 plant on Jhe North Shore. $60,000 worth of sewer work is being planned by the Burnaby Council. Contracts totalling over* $30,000 have been placed by the provincial department of public works-for the Ladner-Woodward Ferry, a school at Natal, and a wharf at Prince Rupert. Robertson & Hackett "are building four bungalows in Penticton, costing approximately $20,000. • The fourth store of a $25,000 M'ock at 10th & Alma has been awarded to Mr. Bedford Davidson. The New Westminster Foundry is spending $20,000 on a molding plant and-new machinery.- , $1PO,000 worth of sewer work will be started in South Vancouver within a few days. The work will be done' l>y^Jhe^municipfll-„engineer. —Other sewer work is also being planned. Ten bungalows are to be - built shortly for Wood & English Ltd., at Englewood for the lumbering firm. 20 more are to be builtj>:t'j^ later date. They are.to be four and five room bungalows costing about $2000 each. - - AMALGAMATED CARPENTERS OF CANADA BENEFIT ASSOCIATION A successful social and whist party was held by the above association in the Union Hall on Saturday.( There was a f^ir attendance and everybody enjoyed a pleasant, evening. The ladies' prize was won by Mrs. Hugh Ross; the gents' by Bro. Hugh' Ross. The ladies' consolation prize was won by Mrs. Jas. Dalgarno} the gents' by Bro. C, H. Brown, The" coffee, brewed by "Charlie" Ross/ was voted excellent, and it Is hoped the Social Committee will stage another party" in the. near future. ,t, BANKRUPT SALE THE MIGHTIEST SAIE EVER ATTEMPTED ) *" Bankrupt department stock of Glass vine's -Limited thrown on the market at give-away- prices by the Western Salvage Brokers RECORD-BREAKING CROWDS FOR RECORD-BREAKING BARGAINS THE GREAT BANKRUPT SALE OF (JLANVILLE'S LIMITED Depart- mont Store stock, on sale, at 33 Hasting* Street West, continue! to be the main attraction In Vanoonver for bargain giving. The witness streams of people dally crowding the store is the proof of the bargains to be had here. Cornel Get your.share.* New and bigger bargains offered for FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. , Don't Kiss Vancouver's Greatest Money-Saving- Event Sale Starts Tomorrow at 9 a.m. $20 and $25 New Spring Silk Dresses in all sizes, now $8.95 . 25c. Men's Wool Hose, now at 13c 25c. Arrow Collars, 5c* Si*; ami $10 Skirls, now selling at $1.98 $1 Ladies' Rubbers now J9c- 5c. Spools Thread, now at- 3c Ladies' Fine Blouses and Waists Worth tO $4.' Pick 'em out at - 98c $50 and $60 Imported French Beaded Dresses in all colors; now $9.95 Lot $5 Heavy Wool Mackinaw Shirts, now selling at only $1.98 Lot Men's anil Youths i:phi.'1.1ii Suits, regularly at $3, now $1.49 THOUSANDS OF PAIRS DF BOOTS AND SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ' SACRIFICED Men's Shoes, sold at $5 and $6, (? 1 QQ Now sellino at .... tpXwO Heavy Work Boots for men, 'in black and tan, Worth $5.00 -J>0 QQ Now sell no at .' _ . tp.ft«.70 Boys' Boots for school or dress wear. Worth MOO. Now* sellino at .. Lot Ladies' Boots Now seli.no at .:...,. Ladies' Boots and'Shoes, worth $6, QU« Now selling at « ...... vOt« Boys' School Boots. Now selling at _ „..-. Ladies1 Shoes, well known makes; latest styles; Worth S7 per pair. Now selling at ..„, - $1.49 39c. 98c. 98c. est styles; $2.98 69c THOUSANDS OF PANTS TO BE SACRIFICED ULJJen'i-Work Pants, Now lor Men's Pants, sold al Now $1.45 Pants, sold at QQ„ »3. Now tfOC Men's Dress Pants, solo to$S l£9 QQ Now , * y&.uo FURNISHINGS. SI Men's Silk Hose. Now sellino' •t ...... Oc. He»y 1 Q„ Wool Son XVi. 29c CHILDREN'S CLOTHING SACRIFICED. Boys' Overc«sts7"so!iraF S5.oo tj-i no Now «pl.«70 Boys1 Suits, worth $6. Now selling u> j QQ Boys' Suits, 2 pants worth J10 (J*) QK Now $OiVO ' GROCERIES < 'SLAUGHTERED 25c. Cans Salmon. Now selling ■ f7„ Dutch Cleanser. /• , Now, per can..' wy THOUSANDS OF SUITS AND OVbRCOAlb SLAUGHTERED $15 Men's Fine Overcoats and Suits t|j j Q£ Now sellino at . fptiVO Soils and Oiercoals, sold to $20. How*sellino at -...„ -. $7.95 .Vancouver' Greatest Bargain Gi*ers Western Salvage Brokers Between Abbott and Carrall Streets . 33—Hasting* Street West—33 THE FAIR STORE ' $20 and $25 La. dies' New Spring Coats, many fur- trimmed, IPPIW $9.95 15c. and 25c. Ribbon, now, yd. 6c $1 and $1.50 Camisoles, in silk and pongee, now at 39c 25c. and 50c. ladies' Vests, now 14c $5 Ladies' Wool Sweater Coats, now selling at " $1.49 $2 Ladies Underskirts, now at * 39c 50c and 75c Brassieres, now >19c $1.50 to $2 Cor. sets, now 29c $5- and $7 Kimonos, now celling * $1.49 $7 and $10 Raincoats ,now $2.95 - $15 Raincoats at $4.95 ; u.i itcA%^ - kJUBEBS. - .* />■ _^/..«.«<-.-<.p-v- "
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