The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-23
issued: 1926-03-12
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note: 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* …
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0438816
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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