http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0438840
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-23
issued: 1925-08-06
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note: Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster^> ^Hltrict Trades and Labor Council «^gg^> u Official Organ of The Canajfl pr Party No. 68-EIGHT 'PAGES VANCOUVER, Bj 5th, 1925 FIVE CENTS PER COPY W I Trades Council Questions Seymour Main Estimate «A«lu for Figures From Engineer's Staff—More Organization Work Going On—Membership in Unions Still Increasing Steadily—Resolutions for Congress. * ■</|NCE MORE the actions of the city engineer came before the \J Trades and Labor Council at its regular meetitfg on Tuesday ->->-. evening. It was introduced by Del. Seribbins who urged that the City Council be "asked to furnish the Trades Council with the •figures supplied the engineer by his staff for the laying of the Seymour watermain. He <.'pntended that the staff had been instructed to base their figure's on every possible contingency and .that after that the engineer had added 20 per cent. In the event that the work'went WHAT OUR READERS WANT TO KNOW to contractors the delegates urged that it be given to the Vancouver Pile ^Driving Co., who, besides being the lowest bidder for the entire ten mile job' had always played the square 'gamevwith labor and was prepared to pay tho union scale on the contract. '•' Undefc the heading of reports from unions, Del. Stevenson of the Painters .Wought to light the fact that no feign painting firm in the city was in/a position to put the union label ion* the signs and that when a union yanted, tb get some signs made, that .it had to get the painters union to Supply a man for the job. The coun District Council. This will consist of about 70.0 men. The Electrical Workers reported that an invitation had been extended to the delegates attending the. Seattle Convention to come to Vancouver for a few days. 600 dozen bottles of union-made "Silver Spring" beer had been ordered for the occasion. Resolutions for Congress Resolutions to be forwarded to the Canadian Congress were presented and endorsed by the council as follows: urging the government to hav…

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