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: 1924-10-03
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note: (■ ' '/ A. ' :f>. « <.4Ar.WIIf.h.*WiWWRSJ.to«fiAy £ Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council ojjajpfea Supporting The Canadian Labor Party ||t;c- $0. 24—EIGHT..PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, October 3rd, 1924 FIVE CENTS PER COPY*. Labor Party Candidates Willr Be Valuable Asset to City They Will Act in Harmony With the Laws of Social Progress to Help Abolish Poverty and Misery'—They Need Your ' Encouragement and Support During the Campaign. Rose Henderson ..i.r4^,r^\-';-:.: ■;.*;'"-. THE CANADIAN LABOR PARTY enters the Vancouver City municipal campaign. It enters the campaign with the expectancy of . having the toilers get wholeheartedly behind'its, candidates.. • . :. Although all wards may not be contested,' they are in the process of being thoroughly organized for campaign' purposes. ...... . The time is now at hand for the workers of Vancouver to take a big stepforward in municipal affairs as well as provincial, national anil international. We people bf Vancouver are all in the procession, some hopefully arid joyously in ihe lead," some falteringly groping their way, as if in the dark; Sthers holding back, st'ubborp, pessimistic, stumbling blocks in the path Sf progress. But all of us are going somewhere, going forward willingly ,-p unwillingly: Tie forces of evolution are too much even for the most Reactionary; driving aft men and "women irresistably forward! Humanity's Goal Some of us have glimpsed from afar- Humanity's high goal and are a^ifii^SoMl«^BfttJS^^n„..h^rpiAn^. with the laws of social progress to help speed the day* of mari',s emancipation from poverty, anxiety, overwork, no-work, disease, crime and prostitution. ..... We know for a certainty that these evils are today, largely the product of our own criminal negligence, our terrible apathy, mental sluggishness and narrow and unintelligent selfishness. Some of us are doing more than our part in the struggle to make men free, alert, aspiring, chivalrous, full grown. But we…
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: 10.14288/1.0438861
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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