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Owned by the Vancouver4 New Weitminj Official Wan of The JH #" .« District Trades and Labor Council <*^g||&> m Labor Party No. 96—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FEBRUARY 19th, 1926 FIVE CENTS PER COPY ' ' ■ 'p —•* Building Trades Plan Organizing Drive A grant of $200 was made to the Building Trades Council by the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council at its regular meeting on Tuesday evening to assist in Building Trades organizing campaignd. The campaign will be launched in April, when a business agent will be nlaced in the field for an active membership drive. Each union affiliated with the Building Trades Council will pay a per capita into the campaign fund and each international office will be invited to also make a donation to the fund. i Private Co. Idea Turned Down Seventy-seven delegates were in attendance at the meeting when the question of amalgamation of the Labor Statesman and the Labor Advocate again came up for discussion, and the plan of forming a private company was non-concurred in upon the recommendation of. the Press Committee and the Executive Committee. . '■ The Hotel and Resturant Employees asked to have the-Carnat»ii Cafe, 1200 bXpck, Granville, street; placed dh the'unfair list. This was referred to the Erecutive Committee with power to act. This firm is alleged to be working some of its employees long hours at low wages. The Metal Polishers International .Union communicated with the council to the effect that the Cribben, and Sexton Company of Chicago, manufacturers of the Universal stove, is now fair to organized labor. . On the Unfair Litt The Enterprise Stove and Bange Co., at the request of the Metal Polishers' Union of SaokviIle,,N.B., was placed on the unfair list. . The Central Labor Council of Seattle informed the council that the railway and steamship companies are discriminating against the Union Tari Co. and the Por Hire Tari Co. in favor of the YellowJTaxi Cab and the Brown and White Taxi Cab Companies, both of these being non-union firms of long standing. A protest was mad» by the Painters' Union against the practice of asking the city firefighters to do painting work in the fire halls. The matter will be taken: up with the mayor and the chairman of the'Fire and Police Committee. ■ The council was notified that the next meeting of the. GreateF Vancouver Central Council of the Canadian Labor Party will be .held Friday, February 26, in the Holden building, and all delegates requested to attend. Another Mill Unionized , The Mill and Factory Workers' Union reported eighteen new members sighed up from the Robertson and Hackett Saw Mills. . Painters reported trade quiet but prospects' good. A splendid concert was held, last-Thuf '^.„,..™v:,. ..£...;,. -'■ Tailors reported "pTarii for aw (iri!*1 gariizihg'.campaign in'the city;. -A whist drive and dance will be' held in the, Belvedere Court on Saturday evening. Everybody welcome. Carpenters reported preparations for new working agreements with contractors. •,- Pressmen reported thafcf five-then- were laid off through change in publication of Morning Sun. All are working at regular jobs, thereby eliminating the necessity of the membership working the five-day week. Upholsterers' Double Victory Upholsterers reported successful strike, with local firm. The delegates also reported that the aid given the union by organized labor had enabled the union to sign up another non-union shop. A Bitter Experience Under the heading, "Canada, the Land of Broken Promises," the Daily Herald, the British Labor Organ, opens the lid on. the kind df economic conditions awaiting the? immigrant, under the Canadian- Government's new immigration . scheme for instance:-— . . ' An Englishman, coming from Montreal, declares, for instance: "I have given it a good and fair trial for two long years, and .out pf that time I have had work for - about eight months, and 1 have been a trier. I came here with my savings of ten years, and now I am brokti to the world. Believe me, I am coming home as soon as I have raised the money." The writer encloses a clipping from the Montreal Daily Star, telling of the inability of a relief committee to cope with distress. "There are babies starving in the city," it says,."because they have ne milk. A woman sold-her shoes thjp morning in order that she might buy bread." a' The Herald says that" other clippings tell'the same tale from' relief committees of Toronto and Winnipeg. It goes oh to say that hundreds «f->ex-harvesters are-drifting toward Vancouver, where" many_of.ih£ia-arg.. pssteB^tM?*^p^^"W*^wt jailwara.' Z ' '■'■ ' Building Trades Appeal For Co-operation An appeal is being made to every union man in the Building Trades to help in the organizing campaign. It is the duty of every Union man to find'out if the other men working on the building hold Union cards. Talk to them and explain the benefits they will derive. If all the men.will help in this way we will soon have a real Union town. The Western Steel Products Company, the largest sheet metal contractors on the Coast, has come to an agreement with the local and now run a fair shop. Trade look3 good in the Building Trades and a good summer is looked, for. Alreajljr, a large number of good sized jobs have been started and several more permits have been taken out for apartment houses in the last week. A, business agent -for-the Building Ia Trades will be put in the field on the m Bth of April. ."•;':■.> Organizer Clise is back in toWn and is determined to put the sheet -metal workers on the. map, 100 per cent. Organizer Ashley is in town and .,4fa,-,iLk'B;^.«^geUij!)i^aip*-|-U4ii«jied,-,,WTth the non-union men. ■ . Don't forget the Plumbers «»d Steamfitters. dance Friday night at 7:45, in the O'Brien Hall. Tailors Will Hold Whist Drive & Dance The Tailors' Union are holiling^ whist drive and dancfe in theJBelve- dere Court, 10th and Main, oh Saturday evening. Splendid prizes are being pot up for the whist drive. Refreshments will be served during the avouing and the regular prices prevail"' Everybody welcome. "Enterprise Ranges" on the Unfair List Sackville, N.B., Jan. 10th, 1925. R. H. Neelands, President Vancouver Trades and La"bor Council, Vancouver, B.C. • Dear Sir and Bro.: We are again waiting the different Trades and Labor Councils regarding our trouble here with the Enterprise Foundry Co. Ltd., makers of stoves, ranges, furnaces ahd fireplace fittings, etc. We understand that this - firm is 'shipping goods to different firms in your city. We know that we have received wonderful support: in the past from all labor bodies throughout Canada. We" are sendiig a copy of this letter to all Trades and Labor Councils, hoping that they may do a little misi sionary work ^for us, ; -- - - We" would like to' hear from you as to whether we can get our trouble better advertised in your city. We feel as though we should carry on against this unfair firm. However, wet will be glad to hear from you at an*early date. • Fraternally^gSSSi^^-^U" tieWWSaheW' Int. Union1 No. 99." Stove.^Iounters' Int. Union.; No. 100. Perffk* WARD, • S. I. U. Bee. Sec'y. - P. Q. Box 695. British Labor Programme Junior Labor League The last regular dance of the Junior Labor League was held in the Elks' Hall on Saturday, February ,13lh. Aster's orchestra were iii very "'good humor and helped to make the occasion very enjoyable to all. • The next regular meeting of the Junior Labor League will be held this Friday, February 19th, in the new Fraser Hall, 45th Avenue and Praser Street, in the form of a campaign rally. ',y^his meeting is of special interest ib. all members, so it is urgently requested that you all make a-special effort to be present. Any young men or women between the age of 15 and 30 years, who are interested in the labor movement, and would like to become members ^of the aforesaid organization, will kindly meet at the corner of 45th Avenue and Fraser Street at 7:45 p.m. sharp. -Libraries have been written on the programme of the British Labor movement. Fortunately, the joint research department of the British Labor Party and the British Trades Union Congress have' summarized their programme into a short half- column of type. Here it is: Socialism. — While' Labor rejects any proposal for a violent revolution, it realizes that capitalism, with its economic inequalities and unscientific methods of, natiprialiproductiom and distribution, hasl—failed as a means of national organization. Consequently, it aims by parliamentary means and in progressive stages to transform the system of social and industrial organization, for only upon avowedly Socialist principles can the claims of the workers for a fair and decent livelihood be met. Unemployment and Maintenance. —Unemployment is an inevitable accompaniment of capitalist production, and can only be prevented by the scientific co-ordination of the nation's economic resources and industrial undertakings for the public good instead of1prr.prpite gain,, in, ■"xcwdance with Socialist prsjicljfliSs. The Living Wage, -i- The living wage should he the first charge upon industry. .. ■ Municipal'Trading. — The Local Authorities (Enabling) Bill should be put into operation", thus enabling local authorities to engage in trading operations, . This would enable them IB* "hay land for "such "purposes as they think fit, and to undertake the municipal production or distribution of coal, milk, bread of any commodity or service that they considered necessary. National Debts. — Vigorous steps should be taken to secure a large and speedy reduction in the burden of the national debt: (1) Increased taxation of the owners of accumulated wealth and the recipients of excessive incomes; (2) conversion of Steam Engineers to Hold Dance Local No. 844 of the Steam and Operating Engineers would like to call the rattehtion«,of its members and friends'to , ink'coming event of the season, to-wit: A cabaret dance and whist drive to be held in the Ambassador Cafe, Monday, March 8, 1926. Dancing starts at 9 p.m. Admission, including supper refreshments, 75c. The local takes this opportunity of inviting you thereto. Tickets can be procured at Boom 806, Holden Bldg., or from any member of the commit -f ■■ < . ■ SJEES ALL, ROADS" ELECTRIC Chicago; Feb. 13.—-Eventually the main lines of railroads will be operated hi overhead trolley, and the branch lines, switch yards and ind us-, trial tracks by electric locopiotives, according to Samuel M. Vauclain; of this Baldwin Locomotive Works, at a power conference hare, - ' Say you saw it in the "Siatasmaa,/'' Canadian Labor Party Open Forum ROYAL THEATRE .'■'■'..' -.. - •. m -- ■ SUNDAY,' FE:m 21st SPEAKERS R. H. NEELANDS, M.P.P. FRANK BROWNE, M.P.P. BOOK'S OTMM AT 7s30 MM. OOXtXiBOTXOM QTOEUTIOH* v Di*cTr»srow ; the debt to., lower rates of interest At the same time, all taxes on food and other necessities of life should be abolished. Also protective tariff" Banking and Credit.—The banking and credit system of the country should be under public ov-iership and control; and co-operative'and municipal banks should be developed. Houaing.-r-To overcome the existing overcrowding, and to replace the., large number of houseaVwhich are unfit for habitation, 2,000;000 houses need to be built. Health and Education. — Health insurance scheme should be improv ed, to provide complete hospital service and medical benefit for all manual workers! and for non-manual workers up to £360 a yeail, together with improved school medical service, provision of dental treatment and dentures, full and healthy maintenance of mother and child in place of present maternity benefite, etc., -,- Secondary education for all children who can benefit thereby. Primary education for all children up to sixteen: Maintenance grants to parente^JisTra^e!!^ '.fourteen'remaining at -sehoo??*,-,''">"' '" The Land.—The land of the country should belong to the people, and, pending the accomplishment of public ownership, land values should be subject to taxation in order to reduce the cost of land and minerals in the interests of trade and employment. Oversea* Policy.—Singapore naval base to be abandoned. Geneva Proc-; tocol for peaceful settlement of international disputes, together with a conference for. the limitation of armaments. Establishment of full economic and political relations with Russia, India and Egypt. — The Labor Party recognizes the right of the Indian peoples to full self-government and self-determination. In Egypt, the elected representatives of the Egyptian' people should have the" right to govern their country. * Eskimo Hockey Club Nqw on "Fair List" Edmonton.—The Eskimo Hockey Club has been taken off the "unfair" list of the Edmonton Trades and Labor Council 3^ the result of a meeting between the hockey club management and the" trades council executive, John Michaels (Mike) acting as intermediary. • ** The trouble between the two bodies arose over the seniority clause being omitted in the lease of the arena from'the city to K. Mackenzie and Duke Keats. Due to this omission J. C Watt, an old employe of this city at the exhibition grounds, was displaced, and although Labor tried repeatedly to have Watt reinstated, its efforts met with little success, and the hockey club was placed on the unfair list. --.-:, .--' - Through the meeting which took place between the hockey club and the Labor executive, a satisfactory arrangement was.piade whereby J. C. Watt.was re-instated- 'THEM FELLAHS IS AWGANIZED' SASX7 «'-Isfrlo liv.a-rA eraxvlihir ttr, *-«.. team, saw a little lizard crawling up -a tree. He flourished his long whip and very deftly Snipped^off the lizard's head. Further along the road, with skilful precision, he picked off a horsefly on the'fence, with the.same weapon. His skill as a marksman was next exhibited on « chipmunk that showed its. head above the ground. , ■" A white man said: "'Sam, take a crack at that," pointing to a hornet's nest. Sam grinned and replied; "No .'(ui>; :io, auh, boss; them fellahs is awjg$nized."—-Jester, > The winter of• discontent is with us even though spring is near,' Bread Trust in Court; Action by Government Baltimore, Feb. '13.—The government has started court proceedings to halt the Ward $2,000,000,000 food merger. . Suit "has been filed in the local federal court against the Ward Food Products Corporation, the Ward Baking Corporation, the General Baking Corporation, the Continental Baking Corporation, the United States Bakeries Corporation, and several individuals, including William B. Ward. The Ward interests have been merging several hundred baking companies, ahd recently organized the Ward, Food Products 1 Corporation, . which is intended to trustify all the companies that produce ingredients that go into the manufacture of bread. ' » This corporation has all the earmarks- of a vast feudal system that would control the nation's bread output and provide hospitals and old age homes for its employees. Another provision of the charter permits the company i.t0LTcarew^,ptfe^allJia;iefe children, STfhough ^tHi's, likewise, is The government's petition aims to prevent the formation of the trust and asks that the defendants be adjudged to have*violated both the Sherman and Clayton anti-trusts acts,- and that they be enjoined from any act in furtherance of ihe alleged combination. SOVIET OIL Soviet oil exports are mounting- rapidly. In 1921-22, 138,000 tons were exported; in 1922-23,.300,000; in 1923r24, 710,000; in 1924-25, 1,- 310,000 tons. No wonder Sir Henry Deterding and his friends are furiously angry with the Bolshevik. THE LABOR STATESMAN February 19th, 1926 The Truth About Locarno MR. GEORGE GLASGOWi;%ites in the Contemporary Beyiew, December, 1925, as follows: t"It was the! psychology of Locarno that mat* tered. The interesting thing was that few people took, any interest in the actual texts." The Locarno spirit was doubtless -one of real desire to seek peace. The- Locarnb institutions envisage war. True, the Locarno agreements contain clauses which seem to substitute peaceful settlement of disputes for any resort to war. But what are - the facts?^ ' ■ 1. The' substitution is found te be subject to- such exceptions that, in effecty the arbitration agreements will probably not be applicable to any realities-whatever, a ,. 2. The enunciation of war in the Security Pact is found to be not more complete than is, ■■: how -the - general . i case under the League Covenant and the Court Protocol. I 3. On the other hand, withjespect . to certain particular cases, the signatories enjoy a*Wider right of making independent war than is given them by the Covenant. The hopeful '• reader of the agreements is luredaby a succession of mirages over a desert of sterile words. ,;. . - .4. The League is treated as an incompetent ■■-. It cannot now, according to the Locarno gospel, give "suf- - ficient protpctioh" to its members, and in the new agreements the five signatories presume fo prescribe to the Council procedures not found in the Covenant. J .-. ' Article 0 of the Security. Pact reads as follows: ■''..-., "The provisions of the present treaty do not affect the rights and ■ obligations of the High Contracting Parties under the Treaty of Versailles or under arrangements supplementary thereto, including the agreements signed in London on August . ?0,ua24.vl^he Dawes Planifo-wa 7 , Pjactiifail!ffa''|iU,, jjossMe iniit«tHv'- ■^""WJSnships between the.signatories of the present treaty are twisted up iij some way with their "rights and obligations" under the Treaty ,of Versailles or,the Dawes Plan, to these engagements almost any, dispute arising between the Locarno parties could be referred even fifty years *~'Kfehce. j- In- such case the present * treaty would not apply. It must be borne in mind also that the Treaty of "Versailles includes the Covenant of the League of Nations., ' Hence all the "rights of obligations" of disputants under the Covenant remain untouched by the Locarno treaty. Thus, under conditions (ft scribed in the Versailles treaty, the* French claim a right to enter ^German territory, as they did when they occupied ihe Ruhr. If similar circumstances arise again the French may again march into Germany claiming that their act is nofa "resort to war.' Nothing in the new treaties would • bear on the dispute. Another startling limitation upon the scope of th^ Locarno agreements is found in. the arbitration treaties. It appears in Article 1, which reads as follovb;. "All disputes of every kind ber tween A and B with regard to which the parties are in conflict as to their respective rights .... shall be submitted for decision either to an arbitral tribunal or to the Permanent Court of International Justice, as laid hereafter . . . . This provision does- not apply tb. disputes arising out of events prior to the present treaty and belonging to, the past. Here, indeed, we have a 'new era,' a new. phraseology. Here is an "assumption ' that the near future will present questions wholly continuous with the past.' if the Locarno engagement to arbitrate disputes about rights or obligations is to mean anything at all, we must supDbse the emergence of questions divorced entirely from the Versailles treaty, from-the Dawes Plan, im '' "WN*£,appp'.aprf.:,'-,U«- AIT over the, world it has been heralded; that the Locarno signatories have agreed not to *-make .tear- with one another. And, indeed, so ; it would ?eem if one reads "Paragraph 1, Article 2, flf:the, .Security Here are brave Words: , "Germany and Belgium'and also Germany and France mutually undertake that they will in no case attack or invade each other or resort to war against each oi*her." N Full stot^K^mplete sentence-^—apparently nothing more t<j be said. A glance shown ,us that there are three exception^. They are ""introduced by art entirely Separate Sentence referring to the one just above By oSCAR'T. CROSBY ; quoted, and the wording is as fol- lojre: "This Stipulation shall not, however, apply in the case ol (1 the exercise of the right df legitimate defense, that is to say, resistance to a flagrant breach of Article 42 or 43 of the said Treaty of Versailles, if such breach constitutes an unprovoked act of aggression and by reason of the assembly of armed forces in the. demilitarized zone immediate action is necessary." Here we are back to where all the League efforts have left us. We still have the right to strike back: we still have the right to determine what constitutes ' an "attack" or "invasion" or a. ''resort to war." History i^ full of instance**!, showing the1" elasticity of the. words ''attack'' and "resorting to Wax." "Invasion" ■ iarrA little more'defi-niter. But mandated territory presents a problem as- to whether or not the sovereign is invaded; and now airplane manoeirvers willtproduce confusion even as to invasion of home terirhVory,' *■ JVe know that a casus belli may now be found either on the earth or ih the watersunder the earth or in the firmament above the earth. And we know that all these hidden sources of war, are reserved to the signatories of the Locarno peace treaties.*' .But the peace-seeking, signatories have not been satisfied with leaving their general war-making powers just where they were placed, by the Covenant. They have added cases in which their own independent judgment as to certain "acts of hostility'? will make for them a right and a duty to "resort,to war.'' Specific, provisions (Articles 42, 'and 48) of the Treaty of Versailles are invoked. They, declare that Germany, withir: certain portions of her own territory, shall: do nothing jwhatever. that has an air of military preparation. This great nation in that respect is placed in a category^ lo#er JjiaioLathaJp-asSigiJa. ,,,1'pi,. n-MaHhs^Sp "Haitij ■ Aiid it/is-• ■ed;*to' now Solemnly .provided 'that if Gerp many does anything in, this demilitarized area which, ih the judgment of her neighbors, calls for "immedi- :ate action," then the "resort to war," the "invasion," the. "attack" of Germany by these "neighbors' is not the kind of invasion, attack or resort to war which is renounced by the present treaty. In this way even the weak bonds laid upon League members by the Covenant are rudely broken: For the Covenant itself supposes that League action will be taken'in respect to a violation by Germany of the prescriptions of Articles 42 and,43.. , If .there were any doubt as to the inferenco just above made it disappears when we find in the present treaty that Great Britain and Italy declare their freedom to enter the lists M»f war if they deem that happenings in he Rhine,district Constitute a "flagrant' breach" of the articles named and that the necessity for "immediate action" has once more arisen. - This is the great "guaranty of security," hailed everywhere as having marked a second birth of the Christmas spirit, ■■'■*• War may now break Ont .over some hiie and cry raised about doubtful happenings In the Rhine area; five nationsunay be aflameV'and they can all point to the "present treaty" as a justification for their iaiiure ' to make any appeal to the League of Nations before "resorting to .war." This, indeed, is a "hew era." It is true that in this, case the League Council "will be. apprised of the question." And-the signatories "undertake to act in accordance with the recommendations of the Council provided that they are concurred in by all the T«embeig other than the representatives of the parties which have engaged in hostilities." Meanwhile, while they are apprising the Council/and the Council, with its re- Au&i.~bb^b^^^^e^^--mtemlwre^ is inquiring, into the situation, the parties signatory to thisjpeace agreement of Locarho are,'.'according to their-own private u.hdertakingSj "to be engaged iir hostilities." . ,;• The.appeal made nndei*"such' eif- i>act,4««ni9tsnce^ to 'r-synslp *Htimber of badly - frightened Powers sitting in the dip erf war would probaibly din- solve the League of Nations. Surely it ia dangerous to introduce in a treat's'' the phrase "any question with regard to respective .rights," placing it iii apposition to Hfs phrase "all other questions." Yet this is dons in the Security Pact, tad these two presumably separate classes of cases are; sent to different kinds of tribunals. -Nay, more, an important distinction in the effect pf decision in the two cases is established. An engagement is made to comply with the decision in respect to questions of ''right," In the matter of "all other questions," no, such engagement is made. A new council, called the Conciliation Commission, is created to consider "all other questions." But its decisions are hot binding. If it produces no settlement, the case is supposed to go to the League Council. There, as we all know, it may, likewise, fail to,be settled. The parties nifcy be reverted to their full and free war-making power as that existed before the League of Nations came into being. No substantial change in this condition has-been made by the Security Pact.. It is unfortunate, indeed, that the Locarno jurists have revived the attempt to make vital distinctions ih action between what once were called (in;a now neglected jargon) "judici- able," "justiciable," or "judicial" or "legal" cases, and "all other" cases of dispute between-, nations. They have digged a pit for the feet of ^the signatories. '*-.'• Let us pass to the treaties between France on the one hand and Poland and Czecho-Slovakia on the other. In these we -find, as in the Security Pact, an assertion of right on the part of one signatory to make war on an enemy of the others, without waiting for League action. Two rations are made into one so far-as they may Choose to fight under certain circumstances. One of them may, indeed, have engaged in a true war of defense—more or less recognized by the Covenant. The other frees itself from the League obligations by-^ndfrtaking to act upon its own hasty and independent judgment 1—thus dissolving the 'League, pro tantb. The key to. these - Declarations -of flndep.eridence invjyar making is-,,|oi»drinsArtielef#:^«fe'^Sctirity Pact:-:'"'"""*" ,:.iir* '<"- ■'■ "The present treaty shall be registered at the League of Nations in accordance with the Covenant of Hhe League. It shall remain in force until the Council, acting on a request of one or other of the high .contracting parties notified to the other signatory Powers three months in advance, and voting at least by a two- thirds majority, decides that the- League of Nations insures sufficient protection to the high contracting parties; the treaty shall then cease to have effect on the expiration of a period of one year from such decision." Now consider, five members of the League declare, by clear inference, that they haVe.not "sufficient protection" through their nterrtbership in the League. (I count Germany a member, as all the Locarno treaties are predicated upon her entrance.) Acting only on the motion of bne of—these parties, the Council may purge itself of the charge of- impoj tence. There is lip-service to the League in several- provisions, but here is the touchstone of faith. In substance, France objects to dependence upon a League guaranty (particularly with Germany -as a member) and secures for herself and her supposed friends a right to" make war against Gerrnqscyptfyesfree fashion of pre-Lesgue 'amaZ '0-\ A certain , cofchfeceiu|3h toward the League is snfljhJjprfederal cases in which new proeelfflfes aro*impos- ed upon the Council by the confident confederates at Locarno. The part dictates to the whole—the Covenant, as applied to the Locarno signatories,,^ effectively amended without waiting for the slow processes called for by Article 26 of the Covenant. The League has never been strong, it has a weak constitution, and now it has been bled by the Locarno doctors, i ajntijr-,—^a...^,a^*--.-'asjaisInasPa>pa*™ Japanese Win Universal Suffrage Eleven million Japanese fljeji were ehfranchi(»d last week when tits universal sffage law^ecently passed by-tha, ftsft, was finally proclaimed. Heretofore pnly 3,000,000 Japanese, have had the ballot Now the number has been increased to 14,- 000,000. Property qualifications have been abolished and all men of 25 or more may vote. It does not require a prophet or the son of'a prophet, to foresee that tremendous social end political' consequences will follow this sweeping extension of the franchise. % IT IS ILLEGAL TO BOYCOTT But This Will Inform: Our Reader* That the ROYAL DAIRY MILK IS Unfair to Organized Labor JUL BUYERS' DIRECTORY Esther Bakery, 3738 Hastings East. Sr.' Mlddletdk's. At aU Grocery storos. BISCUIT MANUFACTURERS Br. Mldaleton's 85a Hastings East, BOOTS & SHOES F. Paris, 61 Hastings St. W. Sample Slioo Store, 37 Hastings St. W. BATHS ; Hastings Steam Batlis, 766 Hastinga St. E. ,- CHIHOPBACTOBS Dr. Elmo Marshall, 603 Holdon Bldg. Dr. Bertha WinteUKUte, 403 Dom. Bldg. CIGABS 88 TOBACCO Mainland Cigar Store 310 Carrall COAL DEALERS Leslie Coal Co.; 944 Boaoh Ave. DANCING Cotillion Hall, Granville Sc Davie Alexandra Academy, Bobson Is Hornby DENTISTS Dr. w. J. ctm-y,, .301 Dominion Mug. :U*---DEPABTH-Birr stores -— -,' Hudson's Bay* Co. Granvlllo ft Georgia DRY GOODS A. Hilkor So Son, 2485, Main St. DRUGGISTS Bed Star Drag Store. Carrall Ss Cordova Vanoonver Drag Stores 13 storos ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES ft CONT. City Elootrlo. 8th ft Main. Hirst's Elootrlo. . 4099 Hastings B. FLORISTS Brown Bros., 48 Hastings E. 665 Granvlllo ~ 151 Hastings W FURNITURE W. B. Orr, 1163 Granvlllo ' FLOUR Dr. Mlddloton's Ironized Whole Wheat. GENTS' ETTBNISHINGS A. -Frith ft San, 3313 Main X. J. Phillips. 671 Columbia, M. West GBOCEBS H. A. Rill, 3733 Hastings St. E. A. Frodoriotson, ™ 2Bth ft Main. XlrKhanu* 41 Hastings W. JSWSLMSS Henry Blrki ft Son., 710 Oranville ■' MEAT MARKETS W. Dickinson, ' 3734 Hastings E. Xlrkhuua 41 Hastings W. Foaraon's Martet, 20th ft Main Sanitary Market 3513 Main St. NOTARIES P. B. Bengough, ' 803 Holden Bldg. PLUMBERS J. C. Colvin t' 4178 Main St. PRINTERS Irtbor Statesman 803 Holden j REPAIR SHOPS ■' Cycle's -Btoi, Boblnkon'i 3917 Main| ,- - ''• ' a ' •&,*.{ —••■„■,. ,1,,a1«.>i,Wsu ,.,,.., ■."<>'Z*^&JM}BJ&MTa' - Bergman's Cafe ■ Empiro Cafe White lunch TAI10RS Perry ft Dolk 18 Hasting* St. W. THEATRES Broadway Broadway ft Main Pantages Hastings at Can-all Strand Georgia & Seymour Victoria 43rd ft Victoria Dr. -.,.;. WNDEBTAKEBS Mount Pleasant Undertakers Klngsway ft Main. S. jr. Kearney, 803 Broadway W. 8. Bo woll ft Son, 66 6th N. West. J YEAST MANUFACTURERS Peerless Yeast At All Grocor 334 Oamb'o St. a 78 Hastings St. E. B. Houses Norris Sees Plan to "Grab" the Shoals Washington, Feb. 13.—"It is a matter of common gossip around the capitol that private interests are attempting a new grab a£ Muscle Shoals," said Senato* Uorris. In support of this charge, vlthe Nebraska lawmaker called pttentibn to support being given a resolution passed by the house which would create a joint committee to deal ivith proposed offers for Muscle Shoals by private corporations. The senator asserted that his bill to save, the Shoals for government ownership is being antagonized by interests that desire to "continue to gouge the peopld"through the subterfuge of making fertilizer for the farmers. They have no thought that any% large part of the power will ever be used to produce fertilizer. "In one case the gossip is so direct as to indicate that the proposed offer of one company is already drawn -and has been shown around the capital in advance of the legislation- that we are asked to pass," said Senator Norris. Los Angeles, Feb. 13.~-The district court of appeals has upheld the conviction of a theatrical manager for failure to pay wages of performers. The court said it is constitutional to imprison an employer for non-pay- nient of wages under circumstances which show an intent to oppress or otherwise defraud an employee. The public has an interest in the prevention of wrongs 6tf this - character, just as much as St." is. interested in some other 61 those wrongs against property or wrongs-, against persons which are commonly regarded as being properly within the scope of operationof crimiiial-low, said the court ' ■V'-,'-:*-- *•'•'<.'.-■; T. J. Kearney & Co. Funeiral Directors and Embalmars New Chapel and Parlors Private Ambulance Service 802 Broadway W. Phone Fair*. 3 It is illegal to boycott, but thej following are on the UNFAIR LIST of the TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL! Empress' Theatre Royal Dairy I Crescent Ice Cream UNION DAIRIES VANCOUVER Fraser Valley ... Fair. 1003 j Independent Farm - - Pair. 3304 p Parity Dairy .... pair. 4181 * MEW WESTMINSTER Praser Valley, - - Now West. 1446,1 NORTH VANCOUVER . J Praser Valley - - vorth Yah. l$j f M^JS^LS^a^^e^Jss^mM ., HEiMSTITdHERS WIN New York', FebT'tSi—Members off :the'International'- Ladies' Garment! Workers' Union employed in tho j tucking, hemstitching and novelty! shops' have Von a spt-days' strike-.' The settlement includes several Shop3 j that have kept the trade in a tur-t moil the past yeftr. Each member of the employers' a'ssotiation depor- itedJA0.O as a pledge that" he wilt observe the agreement. J —, __ " * ' j Whoever produces anything by. weary labor, does not. need a revel-! ation from Heaven to teach him that,! he has a right to the thing produced, • -Robert G. Ingerspll. /;' 253* February 19th, 1926 f H E LABOR StA TE S M A N Trades Union Directory Vancouver Trades .and Labor connoll— President, R. H. Neelands, M.L.A.: genera) secretary, Percy ft Bengough:, Office, 803 Holden.Bldg., IS Hastings " Bast. Phone Sey. 749S. Meets in Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the'first and third Tuesdays In nionth. '" Automobile Lodge 703, I, A. of U. — Meets every second, and fourth Tues- dny in Room 810 Holden Bldg,, Pres., W. W. Hague; business agent, O. S. Hague, 807 Holden Bldg. Beverage Dispensers trnlon Mo. 678— meets first Sunday In month at 2:00 p. m„ St 441 Seymour St. President, W. H. Clancy, (ft7- E. 10th Ave*. 8ec- , rotary and Business Agent, T. J. Han- ofln, 2376 W. 6th 'Ave. Office: 441 Seymour St. Phones: Sey. 125 and Bay. I650-R. Bollerainiers apt Helpers, Looal 1S4 — ■Meets flrst and third Mondays In the month at Hfl"tden Building. President. ■ h. C Campbell; Secretary, A. Praser, 1*079 Ross St. Phone, Fraser 601T. .Bridge & Structural Iron Workers, Looal •7, Tat. Asso—Meets every Monday, Room 804- Holden Bldg,, at 8 p.m. President, James P.. Burns; Secretary, ; .I.im.es Dunn, Box 302 City; Phone Doug. 1939Y; Building Trades Conncil, Tanoouvor— Meets second and fourth Tuesday In Holdon Building. President, J. Flynn. Secretary-treasurer. W. Watt Bakers' Local 468, Journeymen, of America—Meets first and third Saturdays at 7 p.m. President, H, Hall; sec, T. Rigby, 37 Broadway West, Phone Pair. 6882R. Bakery Salesmen, Local 871 — Meets second Thursday every month. Holden Bldg.. IS Hastings H. President, A. Wylfe, 1336 Elgin Street; financial secretary. H. A. Bowron, 744 16th Ave. B., Phone Fair. 163IX; Hotel and Restaurant Employeos trnlon; Local 38—111 Seymour Street. Meet* Seoond Wednesdays at 3 p.m. and last Wednesday at 9 p.m. President. <». Coleman; business agent, Harry Wood, Phone Seymour 126. Lathers, Wood, Wire and Metal, International Union, Looal 907 —■ Meeti- 2nd and 4th Mondays 'in month, at ropm 299 Holden Bldg. President. Prank Julian, 7694 Ontario; Secretary. Bert Jenkins, 60 46th Ave. E. ' LltStgrapliors trnlon, No. 44 — Meets third Wednesday in month ln Rodm 804 Holden Bldg./ President, C, Addle, gJ7 23rd Ave, H, Phone Fair. 3968?; secretary, 120 10th Ave. E„ Phone Fair. 239X. Machinist Looal 182—President, B. B. McLean, 463 <th Ave. W. Secretary, 8. A. Boanlman, 3888 Parker St. Meets second and fourth Friday at 8 p.m. In Room 313 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings, Bast. /■',-. HERE AND THERE , • 1 ', BY A FLOATER According to government reports, B. C. lumber exports have increased from 531,262,318 board feet in 1824 to 877,560,288 board feet in 1925, making an increase of over 46 million feet. That does not seem to coincide-with the "blue ruin" lamentation raised at the time the 8- hour-day bill was before the provincial legislature. Maohinist Looal 603—President, Thos. Sills, 1352 Burrard St. Seoretary, P. R. Bengough. Office, 807 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays ln month. Meat Cntters and Butoher Workmen, Amalgamated—Meets flrst and third Tuesday In Holden Bldg. President, W. R, Walter, 702 Hamilton St.; Sec W. L. McGregor, 1761 38th Ave., B. Mental Hospital Attendants- Federal Union No. 36—Meets at'Essondale 1st Thursday tn month. President, J. A. Gibson, 312 4th St., New Westminster; rec. sec, Will Mackie, Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale. i Barbers', Journeyman International Union of America—Local 130, Vancouver, 8. C, meets second and fourth Tuesdays In each month ln Room 310 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East President, Fred Dawe; fln. secretary. A. R. Jennl, 728 Hastings Street West; rec. sec. Bert Deprey. Bookbinders Looal Me. 165, Xnt. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday in month 804 Holden Bldg. President, F. Milne, 686 Drake St.; secretary, A. H. Hos- tlns, 118 B2nd Ave. W, Kill and Factory Workers' Union, Looal No. 1690 — Affiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. Meets flrst and third Thursdays In Room 313 Holden Bldg. President, Allan Graham; Fln. Sec, H. Brewer; Rec. Sec, B. Holden, 1710 6th Ave. W., " Vancouver, Phone Bay. 312.1-R. Attorney - General Manson says that the prisoners at present spending their vacation at the Oakalla Mansions, who_were recommended to go there by judges.alleged not to be regularly appointed, will have to stay there. According to him, they are nqt to be rebwsed • because JifJ-^* technicalities. It costs money to get "V a release on a technicality. ?* In the Federal house, Feb. 3rd, the mattcf of the influx of immigrants was; discussed. One of the members raised the question as to the meaning of certain advertisements in the old jsountry newspapers. '...>. The ad. in question was in a newspaper published in * Hereford, England, and read.as follows: "Three pounds to*, Canada. Guaranteed employment by Canadian government. Apply to R. Wood & Company, shipping agents, 43 Brof d St., Hereford." . The Hon. Charles jjijewart, acting minister of immigration, replied to the effect that there is a guarantee v£ employment attached to an agree- entjwfth the C-N.R," for thti. period five years, and that both railways Boot and Shoe Workers trnlon, Ho. BOS— Moots In the Holden Building on ths first Wednesday <if each month. Presi- •'****ftt, J. Turner, 1919 64th Ave. E.; flh- ■ sec, J, Griffiths. 3622 McGIll St. Brewery Workers Union Ho. 300—meets first and third Wednesday In month in roopi 313, Holder) Building, at S p. m. President, Angus McLennan; Secretary, C. Graham. 2219 16th Ave. W. Phone Bay. 3353R. Bricklayers', Masons' and Vila Bettors' Int. Union Ho. 1—Meets second antj fourth Wednesday In the Holden Bldg President, O. E. Hnlllday; Secretary. W. S. Dagnall. 1244 20th Ave. B. Phone Fair. 845 R. Carpenters and Joiners, Amalgamated Society of,—Vancouver 1st Branch meets 2nd and 4th Tueitdays of each month. President, W. Taylor; Sec. F Prosser; business agent, J. McKinley. Hendquarters, room 36. 163 Hastings St. W. Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Looal 483—President, R. W. Hntloy; recording secretary, W. Page; business agent, Wm. Dunn. Office, Room 808 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. Meets second and fourth Mondays, S p.m. City Hall Employees' Association, marts •first Wednesday of each month ht 261 ft Hastings E., at 8 p,m. President, W. H. LewthWaite; business agent and . treasurer. W, J, Seribbins, 3208 Pen- Ydor St., E,: Secretary, H. A. Black, \ 2870 Vnlo St. Milk Wagon Drivers anil Bairy Employees, Looal 464—Meets second and fourth Frfday ln Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St B. Business agent, Birt Showier, 11,15 Robson St Holders Union Looal 281—International of North Amorica—^Mcctfi flrst and third Fridays ln month In room 318 Holden Bldg., at 8 p, m. President, John Maley, 1336 2nd A.Ve. % Corresponding representative, ,J. Fihkerton, 2169 Victoria -Drive. , Motion Matures Projectionist's tTnion, Local 348 Of-I.A.T.S.B. & M.P.M.O.— Meets at 991 Nelson St on first Sunday In each month at 7:80 p.m. President, J. R. Foster, 1161 Granville St.; Socretary, Geo. Gerrard, Box 846; Business Phone: Sey. 3923. HiiDiolnns Mutual Protective Union Looal MS, A. F. of HV—fceets at the Q. W. V. A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President Ernest C Miller, 891 Nelson Street; secretary, Edward Jamleson, 991 Nelson Street; financial secretary, W. E. Williams, 991 Nelson Street; organlser,~F. Fletcher, 991 Nelson Street. It ,has now* leaked out at a trial in Leningrad .that British and Estho- nian spies assisted by Russian monarchists abroad were engaged in wide spread plots to blow up the Leningrad, water station, bridges and other structures. It is customary for many of the anti-red-propagandists in Britain to accused the Russian Bolsheviks of doing all the blowing up. This' is not the first_time that the British intelligence service has been accused of plotting against Russia. Soviet Russia has been retarded for some time in its economic development'as a result of having to combat counter revolutions financed by' British money. At the same time that the British Tory party was disseminating propaganda about, certain labor leaders in that country receiving Bolshevik money,"m'uch British finance was being uped to sustain counter revolutions. When it comes to plotting against either the British or Russian working class, the same aristocrats of both countries can be relied upon to do their dirhr work. The less such British plotters should have to say about Bolshevik plots the better, in the interests of plain democracy. '*. _..-.'. .■.',a,a-)l','.:.-*'-p'pT--*--v--'*!-'"-''P'"-"CHfc "fne're were, according to J. -S. Woodsworth, the labor member for Wi«nipeg^in the federal, house, about 46,672 workers taken to the "prairies Wave signed tb&t Bgree^jfent.' There 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 is an agreemfentf'between the Canadian government, the transportation companies and ithe* British Overseas Settlement Board iii which the federal authorities contribute three pounds, the trajjspbrtatibn companies a like amount, and the British government seven pounds. The phase of guarantee of employment is ptit up by the companies, themselves, according to the.minister. But*he also makes the point that: ."Through the employment offices the federal and provincial governments are keeping ,ii .close check to see that' if there" is the labor available iii Canada that labor will get the. first chance," He does not say how the rest of us will fare under that arrangement. Kollowing the minister's explanation of the subject, the leader of the opposition'asks: . "Does the minister say that the government gives a guarantee of employment for five years?" The mJnisterreplies: "If the government make application to place th^ipdividual, yes; we,' in agreement with„;$?»KS?WJ«te8B:-.'Sot*' tiSiwent'"Board," njust guarantee to provide six> pounds and employment r care must be had of the individual ing under the provisions of-this* ement for a • period of five E A. Hp GROCERIES, FRUITS, CURED .MEATS, FLOUR AND FEffl)-'. . I ' ■ 3722 Hastings E. PhoAe High. 1640 ■■.»■■—.Up !■!■■' ill I WTI.1. ■ s—■in—I'' ' f' W. DICKINSON MEAT MARKET 3724 Hastings Street East ~ . 'My Motto: ONE QUALITY ONLY—THE BEST Hirst's Electric We do complete and dependable HOUSE WISING .- at reasonable rates. Glen 370. . -4090 Hastings St. H. Headquarters in N. Burnaby *or Edison Masda Lamps. Orpheum Vaudeville There arte seven acts, 'each one of« the superb quality that has made Orpheum- vaudeville supreme, coming.to the Orpheum next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Seldom have seven acts of such outstanding merit been seen on the" sume hill. *"--.- The Lockfords assisted by Paul Tls- sens Orchestra are the headline jmnro- -■:- titmaiaious -French *'dsrtcws"- for the harvest. Thirty-eight thou- £?"•" ™R. ^ff ?1,,"Hansard'" Painters, Decorators and Paporbangors Local 138—Meots second and fourth Thursdays at 319 PendersSt. W. Business agent, Walter Wilson. Office, room 204 819 Fender St., W, Phone Sey. 3809. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Book Builders Local Bo. 2404—Meets every I'Yldny night at 8 p.m. ln 112 Hastings. St. W. James Thomson, secretary, P. O. Box 320. Civic Employees' TTnion, Local 28 — Meets first nnd third Fridays In the month at 251 to Hastings E„ at 8 p.m. President, B. K. Brown, «!58V Charles St.; secretary-treasurer, Oeorge Harrison, 1182 Parker St. ■ , Dominion Bxpress Employees, local Wo. I IB, Brotherhood of—Meets flrst Friday ■ and flrst Tuesday alternating each , month In Room 810 Holden Building, President, O. M. Payton, 4188 Sophia St.; SeoTreaa. H. C. 'Raines, 1919- Klngsway. tional Brotherhood—Meets every Monday at 8 p.m, In Room No. 6, ,819 Pendor street West. President,- R. W. ! McDougal^9t0 Hastings Street East; - ??„sl£es?.n*Jem. B H. Morrison. Office, 819 Pender Street West. , Snglneoro—International trnlon Steam and Operating local 844—Meots every Thursday at! p.m., Room 800 Holdon •Bldg. President, R, Finley; business agent and financial secretary, F. S, Hunt: tecordlng secretary, Herbert McSavaney. , Plasterers, Local 89—International Association of Operative, meets first Wednesday In month at Holdt-n Bldg. President, Chas. Keall, 1925 McKay Ave. Secretary, Ed. Williams, 1048 Robson St.' Phone Dovlglas 1928 L. Plasterer's laborers' Bo. 60S International. Meets third Friday In month at Holden Building. President, F. Phillips, 1574. 2nd Ave. W.; Rec. Sec, F. fait, 289 47th Ave. E., phone Fraser, 596L. Plumbers and Stoamfltters, Bo. ITO, International Asso. of—Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday ln the Holden Bldg. President, Bert Stlnchcombe, 1899 Ogden Ave.; secretary and bust- ness agent, W. Watt. 805 Holden Bldg. Printing' Pressmen and Assistants, Local Bo. 69—Meets every second Tuosday In the month at 8 p.m. in Room 213 J:*bor Hall, -10 Hastings St. E. President, Harry F. Longley, 303 Sth St., North Van.; secretary, Frank H. Humphrey, P. O. Box 894, 4038 Victoria Dr. > Bailway Carmen of America, Lodge Wo. 68—Meets first and third Friday ln month at Cotillon Hall, Oranville and Davie Streets. President, A. S. Ross, 687S Pr. Edward St.; secretary, J. D, Vullamy, 2215 16th Ave. W. sand one hundred and forty-eight of these returned to the piace. from whence they came when the harvest was over. This left 7,624 who remained to face the privations of the prairie winter. That is just 2,62'4 more than the .6,000 who are bringing their families to Canada this coming spring, because they are told that "Canada needs men." '*;*.», The city hall estimates for the maintenance of prisoners at Oakalla for the year is $19,000. The actual expenditure in this connection last year was $9,.674.60j which represents what the city has to pay to) the provincial government for its prisoners. Since the government has increased the board bill from fifty cents to one dollar per day, the estimates have to be doubled to provide for the same. They evidently figure that they will haye to pick up the same number of vagrants next winter as they have done this time. Our impression is that they may have to pay more, seeing that the city would rather put the unemployed in jail than put them at performing useful work. ' p» * *. The press'lnfoitns us that the first family for Canada under the new immigration scheme is now on its way., The family comprises eight 'persons and will settle in Vancouver. From this it will readily be seen that the answer of the federal government to the pleas of the unemployed is to bring more unemployed. Just what farm in Vancouver these settlers are going to settle* on we have not yet been able to locate. Feb. 8rd, 1926, page 746 According to that, in order to obtain employment in Canada,- the logical course for the Canadian unemployed to dp, if they have the price, is to go back to tht old country and get shipped back again 'under that agreement. • V * ♦ .,*' » The Sun states $2,800 is the average family income in Greater Vancouver, based on a .consideration of wages, salaries, rents, Interests, profits, dividends, gifts and other increment. That is what we call "high finance." Twenty-eight hundred per annum would be the equivalent -of $233.33 per month, for the average family, or at the rate of about $9.00 per day, considering 26 working days in the month. According to that, there inust be quite a number gettipg below1 the aVerage.- Of course, .^his-"income includes rents, interests and profits and gifts and other increments." a So far as rents,.interests and profits are concerned, the workers receive none of these, as they more resemble,"excrements" than "increments." In,jfact, all of this alleged income comes out of the hide and carcass of the worker. They njore represent "outcome" than., "ihctahie." ' „Uo&,v._ ., .. are the Tsrlrpp''- favorites in their own country and. have met with such great success here- that It is contemplated they will remain ih America'. Their dancing is a combination of-class!* and acrobatic, tM sort of dancing that requires tho utmost grace and talent. The orchestra by which thoso masters of terplchoro are assisted is. one of the finest aggregations on.the'stage todtiy. Herman Berrens and Mile. FIft will offer "Ten Dollars A Lesson." A story .of an" eccentric music teachor whq pays more attention to the ladles than he does to-hls music. But at last he decides to stick to business at ten dollars a lesson. M)le. Flfl Is tho new pupil and as the Mile, vamps, so .the fee decreases. A most artistic act with /-music and danclntr predominating. Sully & Ho,ugh- ton will present a musical playlet entitled "Arms and the Girl." These clever-entertainers are as clever as they are good looking and should be-prime favorites -here. Harris and Griffin offer a comedy bit entitled "The SHIek of '11,'" which Is said to be a scream from be- tfinrilng tb end. La Fleur and Portia will offer a thrilling acrobatic turn featured with the longest teeth-spin ever attempted on the stage. The Auroras are the cleverest bicycle'artists ever seen here-and will have the audience hanging on tp their seats. Another attrac- atlve act, 'comedy pictures \and the Orpheum concert orchestra will' complete this nifty show. Engineers. Steam nnd Operating,' Int. . local 8S2rH»teets . every Wednesday "'"' S.*-A. P"1-"..in-wom SOO Holdon fildg. President, W, Hulbert;. vice-pros., A. Russoll; business agent' and financial . sec, W. J. Irwin; rec. sec, W. L. • Alnger, ■ Office,' 808 Holden Bldg. Tire Plghters, Woi 18,' International p Association jsf—-Meets every month at call of president, at 261« Hastings E. , Presldont, J. Anderson, No. 2 Fire Hall; financial secretary, C, A. Watson, No. 3 Fire Hajla ; Moorlayers' Jttlo»; No, 1876, tJ.B. of , C. & J. of A., meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays In StO Holden Bldg., nt 8 . g,m. President, SL C. Woodward: Fin. -, Sec, A.-Rald; Eeo. Sac, W. 0. Wilson. . 1S5;I. Hows at. ■ s. Streot and Blootrio Bailway Employees, Pioneer Division no. 101—Meets ft. P. Hall, Elehth and Klngsway, 1st and 3rd Mondays at 10(16 a.m, and Xjunv- Presldent, J. E.. BtplttHntscsSSlpBewaSt. .' retaj-y,.'•F..S£^fffln-f,-"ttijSBitfer, H;.W: Soeed; financial secretary and bual- -ness agent, AncusrMae-Iiihes. 3644 Pr. Edward St: Office: corner Prior and. Main streets. Phone Fairmont 2160L. Sheet Metal Workers, Amalgamated, Local Wnlon Ho. 380—Meets second and fourth Thursday1 In month In Holden Bldg., IS Hastlnss St. B. President, N. C. Smith, 4452 Quebec St.; fln. sec.,- Et JU Wararop, 425 [Sth Ave El,; cor. sec, A. P. Ashton, 4803 Spruce Street,, Burnaby, •hittgla Weavers, Kocal 17813—Meets second Tuesday In month, in Room Ko. 2, Lfthor Templa, New Weoimin- stor, and 4th Sunday, 7. p.m., In Room 213 Holdon Bldg., Vancouver. Pradl« dent,-J. N, Chuto, Phone High. IB32Y; sec, W. H. Mstth'ow, Joyas Rd. f. O. Tailors', Journeymen, tTnion of America, Local no. 178—Meetings held first Thursday In each montkl 8 p.m. Executive meets third Thursday of every month In Labor Hall.- • President, A R. Gatenby; secretary,._C. McDonald. P.O. Box.iOA—Bxe'cutive meets third . 'PiTTrf*e?lnv "1 everv month LABOR MEASURES GET LITTLE RECOGNITION TORONTO, Feb. 8.—The legislative program of tlfe Trades and La- Dor Congress of Canada was laid before the provincial, government last week. Workers from all parts of the province were present, but were disappointed at the. lack of interest shown by the governments The government promised to meet a small deputation of workers' repre- Toanistors, Ohanffom-B, Stablemen and Helpers, r.ocnl 468—-Meets every 2ml «t(fl-althaWudiresday; 310 Holden- Bldg. President, L. warren, 1043 Burrard St.; secretary-treasurer,- A. pp.. Black, . 619 Hamilton St.; recording secretary, ft. Reynolds. 1790 3rd Ave. B. She Vancouver Theatrical Federation—- Meets at 991 Nelson Street, at 11 am. on the Tuesday preceding the fIrBt Sunday of the month; President, B, A. jjfirnleson; secrotary, O. W. Al- lln; business agent,.Lochley Clark, 991 Kelson St. '■ ■ -.,.'.-.'■ Tyoographlcal TTnion, j Ho. 228—President O. S. Campbell: vice-president, K. Gouthro; .decretary-treaBurer, R. H. Neelando, P.O. Boa 0«., Meets last Sunday of -v.r'.i month Rt 2 p.m.,. in Hnl.-Jisn BuHdlng. '.l-l Hnotlngc St. B. amendments to the workmen's compensation act, but refused to intimate* its policy. in regard to the provincial savings offiijes. It is rumored that these aofflces^-jifhtbh-"now carry on a general Danking business, are to be closed, or that checking privileges will be abolished and instead notice will have tq be g:iven fo'r withdrawals, THIS DESPOTISM Mr. Kuiiitomo, Chkf of Police in Korea,; has just been^to Siberia, and gives, jn. the Seoul Press, his impressions Pi . Vladivostock. "Despotism; wjgs firmly in the saddle there, ope instance being that the police regulation of traffic was efficiently eh- iOtktid " , ' ■: ;. ■:., ■ '■ ' "Dumbells" to Again ' Appear at Orpheum By popular demand andi for the benefit of thoso who could not 'get—In to see "The Dumbells'.' in "Lucky 7" at the Orr pheiim Theatre last week, arrangements have heap completed to play this splendid company in their greatest overseas revue for one more engagement at the - Orpheum commencing next Monday and Including a matinee on Wednesday. The performance on Monday evening will be -given under the auspices of tho 7th Battalion of Vancouver, and .a real old-time Military Frolic will bo Staged in uddltlon to the regular performance of "Jjucky 7-" Permission lias been granted by General Ross for-all ranks to appear In uniform on that occasion, and representatives of all the Vancouver Units will be present When-"Lucky 7" wns given here for the'first time last .Monday tho critics nnd audience haflod It as the greatest of all the Dumbell's offortngs In Canada. The Orpheum has a surprise.for-the local theatregoers for tho-three nights starting Monday, March 1st This show comes here with the interesting title of . "Three Bags JuJJi„.j..--..::->i«sM«»!''' t&tatisSMt .*-Oattflr.."*^Tt^^ of th,s attmo- vlll a'plsear next woek. SING A SONG OF RUBBER . The world has entered on that,stage Where RUBBER is the latest rage. We all used Rubber ev'ry day, '- At home, abroad, at work-or play. We use it on the bath-room. J|oor - And on the porch outside the door. We use it in the form of balls. We" get- it in the kiefdies' dolls. We sbmetipies -dress in rubber suits, And frequently in rubber boots. We all malceiUsa of rubber eoats, We sohietimea use it making notes. Andin a hundred thousand ways, We utilize it el! our days; The greatest use for RUBBER yet ! Is how It's used to rub out DEBTV THE LABOR STATESMAN tlbtasiy 19th, 1926 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at tit Holden Bldg,, Vancouver, tt C. . Owrietf by the Vancouyerj New Westminster and District Trajdes and Labor Council. Press Committee: J. Sidaway, St.' Railwaymen; W. J. Seribbins, Clvlo Employees; W. Dunn, Carpenters; Harry Woods, Hotel & Restaurant Employees; P. B. Bengough,. Machinists: J. Thompson, Pile. Drivers and Wooden Brldgc- rnen. J. Sidaway, Editor. ."ir Subscription Rates:—Canada J2.00 per year, II.00 for six months. United , States and foreign, W.00 per year. . To unions subscribing In a body, 16c ! per member per month. Phono Seymour 6378 Vancouver, B. C, Feb. 19th, 1926 "CABBAGES AND KINGS" , Some criticism has been levelled at the editor for publishing' in hat week's issue a letter signed by F. T. McEihoes, in which the writer handled somewhat rough.y the Labor members in the House at Victoria, and reflected on their integrity, and on theirs ability to represent the .vorkers in parliament. In the letter , they were referred to as "cabbage heads" and "petrified King Tuts," which is . neither* true nor polite. Comrade Neelands wag regarded as being more "to blame for this condition of affairs" as he "knows the ropes."' - We -will'deal with the publication of th§ letter first: In a small paper where no stringent rules are laid down by the publishers to deal with correspondence, an editor is forced to use his own judgment. This is based on either his ethical standard or his experience, or on. a combination of both. In dealing With this particular letter the editor regarded it as "hot stuff," and being a strong, believer in the saying that "the best art of defense is attack," he was prejudiced in favor of bringing the fight into the open where the interested parties could attack and defend their. respective, position*, to the benefit oi the, i»toregtedv'b(tt sportsmanlike onlookers, of which he himself* hopes to , be one. However, he is willing-** admit on further reflection that either the letter should not have been published, or parts of it' blue-pencilled. Whether Comrades R. H. Neelands and Francis Browne consider they have a grievance; or not is immaterial. An error of judgment was made on an apology which has not been sought ig'freely given. Now.for the contents of the letter The "inspiration" for the letter was derived from the article' in the ''Statesman" two weeks ago by "Swamper," which was a review of the activities of the Labor group in the House during the last session. , We believe Neelahds-*nd... Browne' are quite capable of defending themselves and leave them to do sq. But there may be-some things better said here: AH Labor members are not constituted alike. The noisiest are not always the best, Some of the poorest speakers often make good executives, and administrators, and 'because they do not worjt up sound and fury and play up the sensational -pis not to say they are unqualified to ' represent. labor. If Major Burde flays the Liberal Government he can always be counted on to vote with it on questions of importance to the life of the-Goyernment More than that he has appeared on Premier Oliver's platform : in support of "Honest .John" and his Liberal policies. And with all his gallery play we prefer honest plodding to spectacular fireworks. It is easy to mistake noise for knowledge. The present deadlock at Ottawa in which the two Labor members find themselves compelled to support tne King Government to extract urgent reforms from an unwilling but alert administration will, be criticized. It is being criticized now. But should certain Labor measures be enacted by supporting the Liberals without sacrificing their independence, who.is . to judge that they are not playing .the game? The "corrupting influence . of' politics" 'can but-Influence the corruptible. Those Who are on the job must; make.their own plans and , put them, into. exeCuijoni .- tt -their .plans milcarry. or their judgment be ? in isrror. honest criticism will help to v set them right.. But personalities can but reflect on the individual who use's them, ahd is a poor makeshift for , sound argument Correspondents are therefore warned to confine their rer marks to the facts and use more dignified language- to express their ideas. .. THE I. L. P. ;,. For some months.a movement has be'en on foot to consolidate the several 'Working class political groups in 8. C. that are loosely held together by'the Canadian Labor Party. Some' success. has been' achieved with the result that the I. L.-P. has gathered together the loose ends. The Socialist Party of Canada is not affiliated with the C.LjT^and have not yet joined the new -organization, but they have tentatively adopted its proposals. All groups joining, which includes all Federated Labor Party- branches and several local groups, have agreed to the condition of joining the delegate body, known as the Canadian Labor Party. The benefits of this move may not seem apparent to superficial pbservers who probably regard it as merely changing a name. It is something more than that It means the consolidation 'of small groups Who'desire to retain a charter and who feel that they are attached to some parent botjy that can plan and carry put the. necessary work of organization and education for furthering tbe interests' of Labor. Tbe F.L>P..is to be congratulated on sinking.its, identity for the general good, and the advancement and expansion ' which .has long been retarded. The benefits.of--this amalgamation will be more pronounced in the outside districts where the difficulties of carrying oh effective work are obvious, lie results will in all probability mean the passing of all groups not engaged in active work, and the further strengthening of .the Labor Movement in those districts where it is most needed. The benefits to the C.L.P. will also be of nd small importance. We expect to see •* that body with a good muster of delegates from Interior and Island districts at its next convention. Up tUI jlow.it has been too much Vancouver and practically nothing from the rest of the province. Anti-Socialists evidently think that the State should only interfere in such Industries ifs need subsidies and should leave those which are profitable to private enterprise.. :,. Paragraphs From "Tlie Nation" EGYPT, like* 4»rious other oppress*- sed nations^has two governments. One co-opeNrtes happily and profitably with the oppressor; the -other pretends at. least to represent the majority." When Ziwar Pasha, present premier of Egypt and head of the pro-British Unionist Party, returned from Europe last fall he or- lered the parliament dispersed. Its membership too generally supported Zaghlul Pasha and the policy of complete independence. Thereupon the Zaghlulist members, about 130' of them, met under the leadership of Zaghlul himself, declared themselves the -parliament, adopted resolutions, and adjourned. They have not met since. Meanwhile the Ziwar cabinet has promulgated a new election law and is preparing ;for a nation-wide election designed to produce a more amenable and loyal parliament. In order to carry out the polling, the provincial mayors, called omdehs, must make out lists of electors. Several hundred omdehs have refused to do this. Many, have been arrested, tried and fined, and, on their promise td comply with the instructions, nermitted to. return to office. No sooner are they back oh the job than they renounce then: promise and try passive resistance again. The Zaghlul Party may obtain a majority in the coming elections in spite of the government's elaborate precautions. The feeling against the British and the present subservient cabinet is bitter. Recently- when King Fuad passed through the streets of Cairo in an onen carriage he was greeted with shouts of "Long live Zaghlul!" If the Zaghlulists win the election,' or if passive resistance increases, the British authorities, through the strong arm of the High Commissioner, will doubtless take the necessary measures to "maintain order"'and "support the government." And the joke of Egyptian independence will become manifest to the world. r. - . :, A a jjroUp. of ...British , f inanraaKs* headed'by Mr. William* Harrison of London, who is the chairman of various British paper companies, has purchased the entire share capital of Koholyt Company of Berlin, which owns sulphite pulp mills at Koenigs- berg, East Prussia, said' to be the largest in the world. 'Of course any amalgamation between the workers of these British and German concerns would be undeniable proof of a Bolshevik conspiracy. Mexico Will Enforce New Oil Legislation City of Mexico, Feb; 13.—The new oil and land laws of Mexico are now in force. Government officials insist that this legislation is based on recognized international law that each country has the right to control its internal affairs, and that when aliens come to their country they shall be amenable to Mexican laws. The new legislation1 provides, in effect, that when aliens exploit Mexican, natural resources they must resort to* Mexican courts, in afty dispute, rather than appeal to their ttvvn country. .The United States government,, is making serious objections ito these laws, on the ground that they are re-, troactive. "Aliens who come to Mexico must do so in good faith, with a sincere spirit of co-operation, and who will conform to our laws, to our desjres and to our points of view," said Minister of Foreign "Sffairs Saenz. , That the government is determined to maintain its position is indicated by a plain-spoken, editorial published in Excelsior, leading government spokesman. Simultaneous with the latest note from the American government, the newspaper says "that even the very independence .of the Mexican nation is at stake," adding that there is evidence of ,a manoeuvre "to deliver us up, bound hand and foot, to American imperialism." Bay Your Lamps, Radio AMD MtiBOTMXOAlU «WW*U»« MB tb. Practical Store Gty Hectrfc Co. PAIR. 4868 I MAINA* Sth ifc. Repairs Day'and ■Urw A. HHKER & SON ■;: '■■,■'*■«'■ Anything in Dry Goods and Fancy Work. Goods Must Be Satisfactory or Money Refunded. ' M2I Main Street, Halfway Between Broadway and Sth Avenue.'. ■ . Phones: Pair. 58 Res.: Bay. 47**R MOUNT PLEASANT UNDERTAKING CO^LTD. AMBULANCE SERVICE. COR. OF MAIN AND KINGSWAY What Others Say THE FLORIDA YEGGS The Florida boom is being liquidated and thousands of expectant capitalists are trekking back home thankful to have a shirt saved from the swindlers. A recent? dispatch states that "charitable agencies in nearly every large city* of Georgia and the Carolinas repprt "scores of daily -appeals for financial assistance from/those who are returning North without funds." "Busted and disgusted" is reported as the mood of thousands who were lured; by flamboyant advertisements to Florida. This swindling of hopeful men and women is not the result of accidental and unforeseen forces in the economic life of. Florida. It is the result of a campaign waged bj? sharpers among whom may be included real estate gamblers, solid capitalists, polished bankers, mayors of cities, professional Rotarians, politicians and the 'respectable' classes in general who have drawn these pilgrims into the State with' the expectation of "shaking them down." These gentlemen took no gambler's chance. They have "cleaned up" millions of dollars. • ( It is this class which in the, last two decades has gone in for 'Service.' They represented $ glorified parasitism based upon low cunning land a merciless desire to skin the gullible. Florida is not the only habitat of the species.;';. ; ...'-. a.;-;.-^p.... a-, a ..p There, is ^e.^lf.jift^jUSererliie - be- tweeiMhk"ttihe and thei^egga who skulk in the dark exfiept»fe|S^«:■former constitutes what is known as society," makes the laws, controls politics and government, and thus makes its graft and looting legal. All the petty yeggs plying their trade today can, riever hope^to gather the loot which the Florida yeggs have taken from their dupes within a few months.—The New Leader, New York. MR.;HOOiV:SR-Sefflns"lo 'have put s.all the blame f or hjgh tire prices on the British government's rubber monopoly. But in doing so he has told only half the story of prices, and the smaller half at that Now comes Representative Shallenberger with the other—and more important— half. ' He sat on ,the committee to which Mr. Hoover appealed. He says: "There is about ten pounds of crude rubber in the average standard tire. The British rubber control has advanced the average price of that crude rubber about fifty cents a pound. That accounts for a $5 advance in the cost of making a tire. But a thirty-three by six Goodrich balloon tire and tube which cost, f 30 before the British advance now costs ?54, or an increase to the American bpyer of ?24., We have found that the Englishman got the ?5, but who got the other $19?" Some light on the mystery is thrown by recent prof- it-isjid-loss accounts. In regard to them Mr. Shallenberger goes on to say: "The big tire companies all show the greatest net profits for 1925 of any year in their history. The . Fisk Company more than doubled their previous profits; Goodrich netted $15,000,000; Firestone earned 26 per cent; United Rubber 25 per cent. ... It seems to me that insead of investigating English rubber we had better get after American tire manufacturer." What have you to say to this, Mr. Hoover? WILLIAM B. WARD, our baking king, has decided to sugar-coat the trust pill he has prepared by giving to the board of directors of his gigantic company the power to make contributions'* from their surplus or net profits for the erection or .maintenance of.aone. or niore hospitals, infirmaries.or homejffor invalid or aged employees of The company. More tkanthat, whenever a full dividend (7 per cent) has been paid upon the preferred stock, some of the surplus is to be used "for the advancement-of theright-of every child to be Born/well, to (j^b-sTlo" maturity a physically' 'atid mentally fit fof 'American citizenship and generally, for the advancement of -ffiS' health and welfare pf the American people, and dividends upon the common stock may then be declared out of the remainder of surplus or net profits." We admit that this is unique in company financftig and promo? ting, but much as we are interested in the welfare of the American child and the American people, somehow or other we cannot re|oice about it, Utility. Want Ownership Hidden New York, Feb. 13.—Gigantic holding companies that control smalltown public utility corporations are finding it difficult to continue the fiction that citizens of these communis ties control the companies through popular stock ownership. It" is the .policy to sell stock to citizens, who are assured'the utility is community-owned^ " Zz^U^fs^t- -The holding companies that are directed by large financial interests in this city are agreed that this fiction must be maintained and the small stockholders must not know they'are mere stage scenery. If the awakening comes the system of so-called community ownership will collapse, and the companies are liable to be called upon to lower rates. Some holding companies have solved the delicate problem by giving their local agents, or managers, the widest latitude in adjusting local problems; Whilal the small stockholders are in blissful ignorance qf the part they play, " the hplding companies are quietly merging into larger combines that will eventually reach from ocean to ocean. . With the low overhead, buying' for oash and selling' tor oash, and a quick moving stock, onr prices are ALWAYS RIGHT Grab solid leather work Boots, plain or with too caps —54.95 OTon's dress Boots, blaok. 53.75 Boy's school Boots, 1 to p B, blaok, »s.9Sj tan 93.36 Children's knee gnm Boots. 8 to 10J/3 _..*...,_..^1.75 lien's natural tTndexwear, Shirts and Drawers 95o Combinations .$1.95 Men's cottonade Pants fl.SS Ken's khaki Pants, '91.70 ana....52.25 Arthur Frith & Co. Men's and Boys' Furnishings, Hats, Boots and Shoes Telephone Fairmont 14 2312 MAIN STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues Barbers tq Ballot on New Home Indianapolis, Feb. ,13.—Members of the Journeyman Bai'bers' International union will hold a referendum vote next month on a Barbers' home proposal. The membership must indicate its willingness to provide sufficient funds for the hopie., No eligible'person shall be accepted,as a resident of such home until land is purchased and improvements are completed and paid' for. This will require a period of four years at the rate of 36 cents per member per month. The assessment will raise $772,800 for the initial investment. It will require 35 cents per month per member thereafter to maintain the home. Painters* Notes ^ At ihe\ mining oi B. P. D.JUk,.,', ^d''^hiiaWtf^ebirusxy 11th; dele- . gates to the Tra'des Council were instructed to ask for co-operation of the Trades Council in protesting against firemen painting the firehalls while there are a large number of ratepayers in the Painters Union idle who have-families to support, and that this wqric could be done in the slack season. •A special call is given for a meeting of all members for Thursday, February 26th, to hear the report o)| the committee and the reply of the Masters Association, and deal with same. Fourth General Vicea-pres'ident Bro. J. F. Clarke spent a few hours in the city on Saturday last, lie only stopped long enough to have a couple. Yes, it is much wetter in Vancouver than ? Well! well! And yet a'growing. Watch us grow.. '-'.':' Help us grow. . ,1 Let's go. Skibbo. ARRESTS IN POLAND. In the course of the last few days the Polish political ^police have arr rested several hundreds of Communists stated to be connected with 'Communist organizations in Western Poland, says Reuter. Documents shpwing a .connection -with- Moscow are also said to have heeli seized. , particularly the provision that the" gift to the children shall come.before tiH common stock dividends." This is mixing philanthropy and business, and however well meant it- why be —we credit Mt. Ward with a genuine zest for well-doihg—we cannot hut feel that.it is a mistake, if only because it will be accepted by the public as an effort to still criticism and to pave the way 1 or aii even greater control «flfthe staff of life of the American people. Unionists Escape Dynamite Frame-up Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 13.—The dynamiting charges against ten members of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees--^eollapsed ih Federal Judge^Hpwe's court when a jury returneda verdict of not guilty for four of the trade unionists. Judge Howe had previously dismissed six of the defendants. When the jury brought in its verdict, the court said: '. , ' ■ . "Gentlemen df the jury, your verdict ia absolutely! right.' I heartily approve it The defendants are discharged." During the trial the prosecuting attorney apologized fpr the character iof some of his witnesses. The prosecutions leading witness was condemned by Judge Howe because of -admitted perjury. One of i^e*accbsed-wa» AZ"FZof'. jU Organizer Collins.; They- were ; charged with conspiring to dynamite the foadbed 61 the International Railway CompanyVline on August.. 17, 1J22,"'at -the height pf: the car men's strike against the so-called Mitten management, that operates a company "union" in Philadelphia and which attempted to install this system on the international line. The unionists insisted that they were victims of a frame-up. February 19th, 1926 THE LABOR STATESMAN TRADES UNIONS GOVERNMENT ARM BY HEBER BLANKENHORN IN, "THE RAILWAY CLERK" Beginning the first week of this I year, widows and orphans in Great I Britain trooped into the post' offices to draw their money from the state. The new law giving them pensions ! has gone into effect, and Britain has i set another milestone in state social |.insurances. Sometimes,, if you, are a British j worker, drawing your state insurance benefits, you step 'into the nearest i post office, sometimes into a state f labor exchange, sometimes into your union headquarters. For over there I the union is recognized, for certain purposes, to be just as much an arm of the government as is the postal Service. The government, as the ad- 1 ministrator of public insurances, uses the unions as a part of the civic service, and sends them the money to i be distributed. That is'one indication of the stage 1 of "recognition" won by unions in Britain and it's one of the reasons I why American big business papers j are always talking about the "dole," i and how Britain is a "has-been" and I has gon,e to pot generally. America a Generation Behind # The present status of state social j insurance there is anything but entirely satisfactory. The benefits are too low, the administrations are-too complicated, too much of it all is on a contributory basis—there are many | drawbacks which the British Labor I Party strives year after year to have changed. But on the whole, on a national scale, we are a generation I behind in the matter. It is almost fair to say that Amer- I ica is in a class by itself in the world, ! with its system of high tariff' protec- j tion—chiefly protection for big busi- ] ness; while.Britain is with some other f European countries, in another .class* with protection through social insurances for .the sick, disabled, jobless, I or the aged or'.unprotected among" | the workers. Hence the curious contrast; in I "prosperous" America you can find I workers quite down and 'out through I illness.pr lack, of aVJoR, wMtaaitA, t,yhr«Aen"«18wn" Britain you trnd miP [ lions of workers disabled or jobless who.draw money from the state with 1 which to tide them over. This money is; their money. That ' is a point often misrepresented in j America. It is their share of funds, called, insurances into which they ! have paid dues or contributions just as certainly as they have paid taxes .into other public funds. i| Background of State Social Insurance "Bismark in the eighties really be- ' gan the system of state social insurances with, his laws in Germany designed to "quiet" labor by having the government do some of the plain,- It common-sensible things which any I civilized country ought to do. The miner, Kier Hardie, "father of (the British Labor Party," carried the j cry for "work or maintenance" into ((Parliament in 1901. Lloyd George in 1911 put through the national/jjjealth insurances, including the Beginnings of unemploy- ' ment pay. MacDonald's labor government, bad not a chance to use the insurances, tiot only as protections, but as a means of transferring in- 1 come "from those that have, to those that have not".—which is the way many laborites/there would have the system used. ' Consider, the totals covered -in Britain by; compulsory state insurances, and remember the remark of Secretary Morrison, of the AmericSn Federation of Labor, when he turned dramatically to the senators and congressmen gathered at dinner given recentlyain Washington by the.country's railwaymen under the auspices of their paper, "Labor." "You, legislators, must solve:, the problem of the twin Specters of the worker—the fear of old age and the fear of unemployment" -. For the widows' and orphans' pensions fund, 10,446,000 men and 4,- 645,000 women are compulsorily insured. In addition,"over $111,000,000 yearly are paid to 1,000,000 aged in old age pensions; $60,000,000 yearly are paid to 8,000,000 injured, in workmen's compensation benefits; $160,000,000 yearly are paid to 15,- 000,000 "health-insured" for sickness, materrfity, etc.; $300,000,000' yearly are paid tp 12,000,000 insured against unemployment That is, over $620,000,000 annually go in benefits to practically all the workers' families in Britain. This is not all of what may be called the "provident funds1' of the country, i There' should, be added $290,000,000 paid by trade unions (benefit sections) and friendly societies-(voluntary mutual benefit orders) ; $170,000,000 paid as "burial benefits"; -$360,000,000 paid, by the slate in war pensions; $100,000,000 paid by the state in civil service and army pensions; $200,000,0.00 paid by local governments under the Poor Law relief. If to these is-added the $700,000,- 000 paid' by savings banks, building societies, co-operative, benefit societies and the,Postal Savings, a total of nearly $2,500,000,000 is reached. "About one-sixth to one-seventh of the total' national income is now devoted to' the financing of emergen.e,\a5fc fc.4JB*4jpf^o.f»lss»tWes of'tRrWdrking class." » ' Of this annual two and a Half billions, the state social insurances, with war pensions and poor relief, constitute nearly a billion and a half. ajBritish trade unions, out of- their on unemployment funds, had been spending since 1921 about $40,000,7 000 annually in out-of-work pay to their members. In*- the -Hirst ten years (1912-1922) of state unemployment insurance, the trade unions had, as government agents, disbursed, a good share of the totai, the rest being paid out through private insurance companies, voluntary societies or the state labor exchanges^ The "paid-up unemployment fund" of the country auring the ten years amounted to $300,000,000. British labor considers their insurance unsatisfactory, and has never had a fair chance to amend them as desired. Labor would raise the benefits to approximately the wage levels lost by illness.er jpljless- ness, and wouldmake the insurances non-contributory; that is, would have them borne by the employers and the state alone. "Work or maintenance" is their slogan. Italian Workers Wait Great Majority Ate Anti-Fascist "I say with pride, and with absolute certainty, that the overwhelm- 1 ing majority of the Italian workers remain tenaciously anti-Fascist," said 'Mr. Gaetand Salvemini (former Professor of history at Florence) speaking at the Parliamentary Labor Club, Westminster, recently,. » "They do not, actively revolt—it is "■not nossibleto revolt against machine guns-weilded by an unscrupulous and nitiless government. But they offer *a passive resistance that is insuperable. They consider the present sit- t nation transitory and they wait "Fascist violence," declared Mr. ,;Salveminv"has not rallied the mas- *aa..t»-Faseis-cosHbut'rhi9Sexasperated ; them and created a general atmosphere favorable to Communist, p'ro- . pagan da.- It ..baiv- creafed^Tevdlu* ' tionary peril far greater than any that existed before the triumuh of '.the Fascist "dictatorship." •' COLLARS DON'T COUNT ; Men with high collars and low wages are now realizing that it is just as essential for them to organize as it is for the.men with low .collars and' higher wages to do so. C. L. P. to Meet on Good Friday Convention of Alberta Labor Party Will be Held on April 2nd Edmonton.—Notification' of a convention of the Canadian Labor Party Alberta section, tp be held in Ed- April 2nd, is being sent put tp all La^ bor organizations, industrial, political and educational, by President Latham and Secretary Owen.. '._ The necessity for more representatives oh the different legislative bodies of the province is urged in Jhe' letter pf nptificatipn. It'is. pointed out that a provincial election will take place not later than Jujjr. oiLthia year, awt^it^Kp^tlverSStTiliof erganize "for the forthcoming fight. , The conventiop will consider or- "gftnization' wol^t^:oy^'-'iW''''sp^riWiiie' with a view to > strengthening the movement and thereby placing more members in- the provincial legislature. It will also give consideration to the party platform, revision of the Constitution and any other questions that affect Labor over the province. The convention call will be sent out about March lBt, when members of the party will be rfsked to select their delegates to the convention. > Women Workers By F. W. MOORE ■'', , In a letter to tiro Star for January 26th was the following, from one whese nem de plume was "Woman Worker:" "I read the other day that the American Secretary of Labour told a woman's industrial conference at Washington that" the human race is being endangered by the rush of women, to industrial employments. Such statements are only inspired by the' selfishness of man, and a review of conditions since woman first entered industrial employment will convince any reasonable person that the world is better off than before that timfo" Perhaps our comrade is right, but it really matters little whether she is or not the important question as may be seen from a consideration of the fact that the Capitalist class is concerned primarily with profits and as long as its members make more surplus value from wpmen's labour, than from men's, the sentiment in the world won't make them discharge them in favour of men, and for that reason they belong equally with men "to the great, industrial army that is engaged in the class struggle. When they find their interests clashing with those of men it will net be because woman is of a different sex but because of the competitien fpr jebs between labourers, and this competition is getting worse as time goes on, for capitalistic production is limited by the size of a market, made accumulatively diminutive by the ever-increasing ease with tyhich a plethoric supply of commodities can be put upon it. . \ . It is further reduced'in size by the lack of cash amongst the populace due tp the meagre proportions pf worker's wages fer which they are unable te procure in exchange anything like the property value ef what they produce; hence, the extra products accumulate and mills and factories shutadown until they are sold, and in the meantime there is more competitien for jpbs in the ^plants that are still running. . In the United States, ene pf the richest countries in the world^'th* ■mgiht to Work,is befBg^leniea"t&from* one tp six million perspns fpr weeks and even mpnths at a time."—Spcial Service Bulletin, Oct. 15th, 1924. Nevertheless, we mustn't think, that the" capitalists are wicked because this happens since they, like the workers, are victims ef a decaying economical system possessing a constitution wprn with age and a gluttonous appetite fer prpfits that is slowly but surely undermining it3 very existence. When these are not forthcoming a reduction in the staff of workers and the introduction of machinery often prove an effective means to the end sought It was such^a jemedy ,the coal operators of Illinois were contemplating no longer ago than December last According to 'The Coal Age,' they lest their markets tp pther states because pf the mere faverable running rates of tlie latter, "therefere," said a member of the Illinois Mining Institute, "a complete new order of producing cpal must be made if the state is tp maintain itself" "Machine loading, accerding tp 'The Ceal Age,' reduces the number ef men in a mine and cuts dewn by sixty per cent, the number pf wprking places required under hand leading." Machinery is, te a certain extejit, having the same effect everywhere; furthermere, when too mjich produce is available fpr the market, what pught tp be the wealth ef the country, is. of ten destroyed by the monopolistic cwners in an effort tp maintain the current prices: "The sugar trust is reserting tp whplesale sab- iptage in Figi rather than glut- the market with melasses and allpw prices tp drpp. It is throwing hundreds pf tons sf molasses inte the river, with the result that ton's-of fish lie fleating dead en the stream and the natives, beth Figians'and Indians are unable tp use the water. The trust is throwing lime into the water te arrest the stench.','—Advocate, January 16th; Federated Press report.' IsJtnpt time we all pondered over such facts as these? They are the incidents that-mark; the road o*er which capitalism is marching |pWard$; tB&W8(fl8!clfBiat will mark her dopin. Permanent unemployment of millions pf wor*ke*cs is npw international, but in a future that cannet be remete, it will afSp be intelerable. 'Tis for that' time the girls pught to be preparing by laying up a stock of mental dynamite manufactured frOm the compounds of economic determinism. In the fight for freedom, that is inherent in an industrial government of the world, success makes no Ms? OF the modern services none plays a more important part than gas. In the home and in the factor/, gas is replacing other heating methods .because it-is cheaper and more efficient. On such sound foundations of necessity and convenience has the B. C Electric gas production for 1925 reached the record figure of 838,- 000,000 cubic feet. There are no**<v 30,000 .customers on B. C. Electric gas mains. BiOTiSHCoiUiWiff«)EiECTHKKmwiiyCo. VANCOUVER VICTORIA 7-26 RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggists" We Wake a Special Effort, to Oat Goods Ont by Plrst Kail After Beoolot of Yonr Order. ' COBNEB COBDOVA AND CABBAtl VANCODVEB, B. O. UNION CAFES Granville" Street. Bell's Cafe. Jim's Cafe. Morris Food Shop. . Love's Cafe. Commodore Cafe. Orpheum^Cafe. ..- - -.ni'ltSSCcS': a ...a.u.isstai^-U^-gj^iiif* Strtet. Standard Cafe. '■-' Morris Lunch. ■>', Seymour Street Ambassador Cafe. Pender Street *. Good Eati Cafe, Pender St. Central Cafe. Boston Cafe. Olympic Cafe. Hastings Street Strand- Cafe. Empire Cafe, Broadway Cafe. Golden Gate Cafe. ' ' .' Abbott Street Oaks Cafe. Cordova Street Wonder Cafe. Kings Cafe. Gourleys Waffle House. Bergman's Cafe, Cambie Street. Close to Province Bldg. Union Tailors D. . Altclilgon, Westminster Trust Bldg., Mew Westminster. Abrams, 676 Bobson St. ' Beaton, sea Georgia St. West.. , Beyland, sol Bobson St. 3. A. Oarr, Powell Blver. .'.-'■ * Charles Butt, 1066A Pander St-Wi** < coinmln ft' Croolnian, 603 Susamoir St. Creasoy, 7S1 Oranville St. 3. Gass, 445 OranvlUe St. amy ft Jeff, 3530 Main Street. Hartle Bros., 66a Seymour. X ir ft Fnrneanx, 445 OranvlUe St Matatall ft Marshall, loso Bobson St, Tbos. Morgan, 817 Oranville St. Perry ft Dolk, 18 Hastings St. West. Patterson, 14 Cordova St. Wast. Porrlnfl 3148 Vain St - Bay Bros., 80 Hastings St Vest. Slowln, 307 Hastings Street West Stony, 653 OranvlUe st J. H. Sweder, 437 Seymour St. Union Tailors, 346 Hastings West. WUUston ft Kennedy, 437 Pender St Van Aiken, 630 Columbia Ave. Vest. BEADY MADE CI.OTHING STORES EMPLOYING TTNION BUSHELMEN Arnold ft Qulgley, 540 OranvlUe St. Bruoo Ltd., 410 Htistiuge Si. West. Book, S. K., 137 Hastings West. Olamau's ltd., 163 Hastings West Wm. Dick, Ltd., 45 Hastings Bast Thos Poster, Ltd., 608 OranvUle St 3. W. Poster, Ltd., 346 Hastings West. Boblnson's, 441 Hastings Wast . •Thomas ft ttoBtUn. 666 OranvlUe St Management-Workers' Unity Succeeds Says Thornton New York, Feb. 13.—-"The time has arrived when the emplpyer is prepared to recognize that trade unions can nptrte eliminated," said Sir Henry W. Thprntpn, president of the Canadian National Railways, at a meeting pf mechanical engineers #nd railway pfficials. The speaker discussed the B. & O. cp-pperatipn plan between management and prganized shpp men which has been adopted by the Canadian system.iHersaid the mevement is full pf significance to American industry and he praised the A.F. pf L. ppjicy pf cp-pperatien with pwiiership and management in the elimination ef waste in industry as an innpvatipn which has ■ attracted wprl'd-wide attention., . ^. • .. ..... . ..—Ti: "On the Canadian Natipnal Railway system wo-are definitely and ir-' revecably, .committed tp the principle of cp-pperatipn with pur emplpyges,", said Sir" Henry' Thprntpiir' He'saiff collective bargaining is'just as' essential fer-the welfare of" the employe as associations Of canital areuttSPg*1,-- "I believe the great, bulk of our working classes are reasonable, and only seek thpse things.tp which- they are justly entitled. My personal experience may have been unusual, but I can say frankly that in all of my crimination-in'sex, race, or coler. The right,kind pf knowledge will'count most; tp that, pther cpnsideratipns aretmere subsidiaries.' ,,".N dealings with working people and' trade unien officials. I have never found the first to be deaf te reasenable argunient and fair treatment, and I have never had ene Of the latter let me down or pursue a treach- ereus or dishonest course. "The experiment in shop ce-ppera»' tien, uppn which we have lately embarked, carries with it thus far much premise fer the future. We propese to move steadily forward, with the leaders of this mpvement and we" have an abiding faith in its ultimate advantage to bpth the railway and its vast army ef empleyes." Sir Henry thanked President Jewell of the AsF. bf L. railway employees' department, and his associates fer valuable contributions they have mad«f te cp-pperatien. He said the object of union-management co-operation is to furnish continuity of em- •ploym^ntrr-a-Hea•saw^riai-r-eM'en why," if successfully applied to railwayshop. work, it should not.be applied to other industries. Vs , * ■--»©»^is^t:^''ri%WWioriITr so-- cipjel explosion which did a great deal o£u!jeIcss harm and that it is the. bur- detkpf far-seeing individuals to bring about improvements in the social system "which are evolutions as-distinguished from, revolutions." "There is no material psycholojji- cal difference between the ruthless capitalist and the exposive Bolshevik," he added. "It is only the accident of birth which makes either the one ef the ether;" - THE LABOR STATESMAN February J9th, 1926 Seymour 3168 Always Open Empire Cafe and Grill VaneoiiveJ,'fl Best Under Personal Management- of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE lAte 64th Batt. Late 72nd. Batt, 76 Hastings St. E. Vancouver, B.C. BERGMANS CAFE 324 CAMBIE STREET Tbe Best or Eats at Popular '•', ».'-, 9rU>e*~ '.-''■' iJMIOM BOVBB—North of Hastings Xbe Plain Man's Hotel — Every Modern Convenience HOTEL EUROPE Hoonsed Beverage Parlor 43 Powell Street Vancouver Fascism's Jrue Face; Mussolini Exposed The spread of fascism and fascist ideas in countries outside of Italy is very largely due to the, mistaken ideas which are prevalent'as to what fascism really is. In France, for instance, large sections of the people are dissatisfied with, the constant change of government and ultra- nationalist elements profit by the discontent to urg» the need for Some ' sfcrtng personality," who will restore orderly conditions"; in other words, for a French Mussolini, whose advent Will (also me^n the suppression of public opinion' after the Mussolini model. . Even some porkers honestly believe that Mussolini is a typically strong man. ;So little is he understood that he is of ten compared with Nero and other Reman emperors—a comparison very'flattering to Mussolini,' but less to the emperors in question 1 For, although the constitution under which they flourished was altogether abominable, these emperors, considering the times ig.'which . they lived^.were lindeubtedly .gemiias, '-•"HiWOBafitiW -ivlifcfrK MusTsfplini most assuredly is no.t'. ■'-■-..■ •Evert today,'each passing occasion makes it clear -that Mussolin is indeed no outstanding personality. His methods are not those of the "strong man," but rather those of a sly ahd Crafty hypocrite who.is al* ways on the watch to make capital out of the meanest instincts of humanity. These, top, are,the charac- ' teristics of fascists. They revel in murder and arson. Their actions are; those "of men in whem fear, uneasy conscience and hysteria have created a pandemonium pf mad rage. 'It js not so much the "grsiat!' deeds of fascism-^at first sight these, might pass for the outcome of a policy ef stern repression—it is the petty details of fascist methods and practices which show the depth of their moral degradation. If the practice of converting systematized hypocrisy may be called an invention, then truly Mussolini is an inventor. For this faculty of consti- tutionalizing hypocrisy, so to Speak, lies at the root pf his every action, and takes on the most varied,forms, -. In one activity alone is Mussolini an fexpert—that of throwing dust in the eyes of the world.—-J. L. W., in Justice. Striking Mill Workers Clash With Police PASSAIC, N.J A parade of mere than 1,000 striking woolen mill workers ef Passaic and Garfield was broken up recently at the Garfield- Clifton Bridge, after a battle in which 25 Clifton policemen freely use'd their clubs and the strikers? men and women, replied by hurling lumps of ice and snow. Two menj and two women were arrested and'locked up on charges of disorderly eonduct." More than a score of the marchers were injured by police clubs or trampled upon -""Wtejn the' irtrHtenr■WPiHtercarraPW-' treat. For a week groups of nearly 8000, ■ woolen mill employees, who agalked ■• out "tiffs****^ Weeltsragovliave been' pit*- . keting and parading in front ofHhe Forstmann & Huffmann Mills in , Passaic and* Garfield in 'an attempt to get the company's workers to join* ihe strike fer increased wages and ""■ "ftecognititn^ ef the United* "T^ffe workers' Unien. NOT OIL RIGHT 3jen Zeen—"I know a good joke about crude oil." Carry Seen—"Spriig it." . iSen Zeen—"Itn not refined." Brotherhood Stands Pat On Drivers Reaffirming its' position on the jurisdictional dispute with the Teamsters' Union over drivers and chauffeurs employed in-express service, the Grand Executive Council informed President William Green, of the American Federation of Lahor, that, this organization could not consistently comply with a decision which it believed to be unwise andunjust, despite, the threatened suspension pf Pur charter,- .»• The ninety days' grace which the Atlantic City convention-gave us-in which to release the drivers uqder penalty of suspension if the decision was not Complied with, expired on January 13. , President Green had advised Grand President FitzGerald, prior to the expiration of the ninety days, of "his destfe to ineet the Grajnd Executive Council during its January meeting; President Green came to Cincinnati on the .10th and conferred with the Council. Following the conference the follpwing letter was addressed to Presid/Bnt Gi'eeii by the Grand Executive Council: Cincinnati, O., Jan. 20, 1926. Mr. Wm. Green, President, American Federation of Labor, Cincinnati, Ohio. Hear Sir and Brother: -Please be advised the Grand Executive Council of the Brotherhood of Railway and ■•- Steaniship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees, in executive session this morning, reaffirmed the decision in the jurisdictional controversy between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America and our Brotherhood, as conveyed to you' in my letter as Secretary of the Grapd Executive Council under -date, oi October 10, 1926. ' r- You were advised "in my letter of October 10th that the Council instructed me, - as Secretary (Jto- advise you that it is.the decision of the Grand .Executive Council of the Brotherhood Pt Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Ex- p^aaa»2®mid'll«'Mi^J»ye'e«r';*lW*t this Brotherhood is not in a position, nor is the "Grand Executive Council authorized te cdmply with the stringent terms ef the decision of the Executive council of the American Federation of Labor in the jurisdictional controversy between the International Brotherhood of. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, etc., and our Organization, at this time, until, and unless,* the terms of that decision are modified." We have the utmost respect for the officers ef the American Federa- tipn pf Labor and that organization and stand ready and willing at all times te enter into further negotiations with the officers of the American Federation of Labor or of any committee of that body, in an endeavor to adjust the controversy in the Ijest interests of the labor movement as a wholes The Grand Executive Council appreciates very much the interest that you have -taken r and, we, desire to thank, you-for your visit. A statement was issued by the Council following the delivery of the letter to President Green, in which President Green was cordially thanked for the deep interest he had manifested in the dispute and of his earnest desire to be helpful in bringing about a settlement. But the Council pointed but that in refusing'to com- / ply with the decision of'the Federation it w/is following the specific instructions of our membership as fexpressed by the convention held in Kansas City last May. - "It was not a case of a few officers taking an arbitrary stand," the Council said; "our entire membership felt that the decision was based not upon the merits-of the question, but upon, strict jurisdictional lilies, ignoring the wishes of the men involved. "Were we to consider simply the comparatively few men involved in this dispute and the financial and economic strength they add to our organization, as against our continued affiliation with the Federation, we would cpmply with the decision without hesitation. -But we hold that the primary consideration in the settlement of these jurisdictional questions should be the welfare' of the workers involved, and that has been[.ignored in the decision of the Federation. ■a- "Our organization is better equipped tq represent the men involved than is the Teamsters' Union. Ours is a transportation organization specializing in the railroad and express industry; The Teamsters' Uhipn represents men outside this field. To bring another organization into the transportation field would simply make for confusion in the relations between the carriers and their employees and, make the uniens less effective. "Our refusal to comply with the Federatien's instructions does not mean that we held any ill-will toward the Federation pr its pfficers er that we have in any way departed from' the. fundamental principles of the American Federatien ef Labpr. We b.elieve in the unity of the labor movement and hope. that, some way may be found by the efficers of the Federation to permit our continued affiliation without the alternative of having te comply With' a decision Which we feel is. both unfair, a'nd Ijn jUSt,;.,-.. ..-x.-Mi-kixaetFi:'' -~~x&IS?rr*i;~'r[r=~] "A precedent Was, established at the.Atlantic City convention of the Federatien — the same cenvention that ordered our charter suspended if .we did net cpmply with this decision—for a just settlement of thi3 agreement. - , "In„ that instance the Teamsters' Unihn conceded to the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees' Union jurisdic-' tion over the drivers of buses when such drivers are employed by the companies operating street cars. In that case the Teamsters' Union took the sensible view that nothing would be gained by the workers by haying two unions negotiating with the same employer- fpr men engaged in the same occupation. I Ours is an exactly parallel case and should be' settled'm the same Way, ' Having jurisdictien over 'express workers the righfyof our organization-to continue.to represent these men, who we organized and have been representing for the past seven years, should be recognized." It is to be hoped that the officers of the Federation will be able to convince the Teamsters' Union of the inconsistency of its position and demand that the same kind of a settlement be accorded us as -was made with the Street Railwaymen's Union. —The Railway Clerk. CONTINUOUS PQUCy-NOON-'TILL MIDNIGHT NEW UNION IS FORMED a BY TAXICAB DRIVERS TORONTO.—What were considered' astounding conditions were revealed recently when taxicab drivers and chauffeurs met in the Toronto Labor Temple to form a trade unieii" under the. auspices pf the prganizatipn committee of the Toronto District Labor Council. Forty chauffeurs attended the meeting, which was addressed by General Organizer Jehn W. Bruce, pf the International Union of Plumbers ahd Steamfitters. Several of the chauffeurs declared that men who were BRICKLAYERS' UNION ASKS REGULATION OF-TRADES TORONTO. — The vaMous local unions of bricklayers Of the Province ef Ontario held a ■ convention* in Tprpntp la&t week,' and at the closing session passed resolutions asking the Minister of Trade and Commerce to conduct an investigation into trade schools which are operating in different cities, and the Provincial Government to ehact a building law which would strike a minimum building code. Delegates declared it was impes- maU«ieT wTh *™°: *» &?UU™^1^^ j^>g^p?|<l!oa5iKsg^'feh(«-«B?''^ew' months-to*p««r- -ewrtemiriated'—amalgamation was ■^mtlies--depeno*firu1p!Sn^'thtnV?ccl- aiohally earned as low as $4 a week, after they had paid for. their gaso'* line-and. met* other expenses in con- which had contained ',$8 and $9 as able him to follow any of the trades Mi,, tba,i>*iil^j;Bjt. industryp'SHiJ earn a" living. In' expressing -Its attitude toward the trade school, the confer- ing technical education under Gov erriment auspices.- A minimum building code Was considered necessary in view of the character of some struct tures Which Jiad been erected within recent years? a week's pay. The'meeting was one o| a number in ,the unionizing campaign of the 'ffiffie'" uniens- associated with the Labor Cpuncil. The unien was form' ed and is to hpld another meeting journeymen Ba'rbers' International shortly. sOther unions formed mclud- Union, and that the union intended ed. _one composed of automobile . to puraue an active campaign during mechanics. , ' | February and March, with a view to ,Mr. Bruce anneunced that sixt^ securing better wages and conditions journeymen* barbers, had joined the, in April. 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The investigation will be apart from the economic inquiry ftito the entire baking industry which has been in progress for several months as directed by a Senate resolution. This general inquiry will not be completed for several months. . ' Inquiry Proposed by La Follette "s ordered, the new investigation is also distinct from the inquiry proposed in the Senate recently by Senator La Follettef who proposed that a Senate committee investigate all companies directly or indirectly controlled by William B. Ward, who with his associates organied the Food Products Corporation, • In New York City a campaign to defeat the proposed merger in- the bakihg industry as planned by the Ward interests was authorized by 300 delegates of the Central Trades and Labor Council of that city. The called .dangerouft -to-.-thetvelfare' of labor ahd the public and was condemned as a'te"nden'cy toward aptern- alism. sr BUILDING COSTS UP New York, Feb. 13.—Will some one furnisti builders and contractors with ■ a copper-riveted. alibi for increased building costs? As wages have not increased, Miese business men are-in sore distress for an official goat^The public iB supposed to get wnat consolation it can from the following statement: "The Cause for the upward change is being generally-discussed." Ulllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllftlllliy: I Victoria Theatre I — 438» AVEHT7E AMD VIOTOBIA S = FBI. & SAT., TBB. 19 and 20 _ ~ COUEEN MOORE in | "WE MODERNS'* = HCK. & TUES. ft WED., 2 = . FEB. 22-33-84 — — Charlie Chaplin in ; — | "THE GOLD RUSH" 5 § TKUESJDAY ONLY, FEB. 25 S S Hilton Sills ft Doris Kcnyon in — § "The Unguarded Hour" 5 § FBI. ft SAX., FEB., 26 ft 27 5 r > loniuo Dresser In — | "THE GOOSE WOMAN" | S Mutlnee Every Saturday, 2 to 5 5 riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimS I; i" Broadway Theatre MAIN AND BBOADWAY NOW I3HOWING Bajnnonrt Griffith In "HANDS UP" Unemployment Hits .. European Workers VIENNA, Austria, Feb. 6.—Unemployment has increased in Austria to an alarming extent. The.nationai trade.- union organizatisiis .ineted^S^ amoiig^fe sc)ieattie lir«emands for remedial measures the extension of the period of ^compulsory school attendance by one year, thus holding up the constant stream of young people who are being turned out of school without the. remotest chance of employment,, COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Feb. 6." -,-Unemployment among trade unions in Denmark has increased from 73,000 to 84,000 for the .flrst month of 1926. One out of every three organized workers- is out of a job. Applying these'figures to both organized and unorganized,' 100,000 Danish workers are deprived of unemployment. 'February 19th, 1926 THE LABOR-STATESMAN iff8 Spring Catalogue Now Ready, Ask for One—Mailed on Request, Free OUR seed department' has received, their complete stock of' flower an'd vegetable seeds, which Have all been government'tasted. Our catalogue lists niatiy special offers in collections. Sweet Peas, Oladlolas, Asters, etc. We are offer-. ing many of the latest novelties, both in vegetable and flower seeds. .■■'"' , < . WEITE FOR WHOLESALE PRICE blf^T Brown Brothers & Co., Limited PIOBISTS, NVBSERYMEN AND SEEDSMEN Head Office: 48 Hastings Street Bast. 665 Oranville St., Sey. 1391-9513 , Phones Seymour 673-988 '161 Hastings W., Sey. 1370 THTHUMSNRACE - ::. * -AND' REAL BEER pbb rai. MAKE it yourself at home with our Peerless Yeast ...and other Peerless ingredients. Don't experiment. Follow our recipe and use only Peerless. Pnjduets. v Satisfaction guaranteed" or money back; Investigate'. Evening appointments. ' PEERLESS YEAST CO. OF B. C^UMiW By F: W. MOORE S23 BURRARD STREET PHONE SEYMOUR 952 How Indian Workers ilave Been Exploited Staggering Jute Profits London.—Light on the sinister methods employed to exploit Indian jute workers for dividend-making purposes is thrown on that industry by disclosures just made by Messrs. Tom Johnston, M.P., and John F. Sime, secretary of the' Dundee and District Union of Jute find" Flax Workers, in a report of their investigations in Bengal On behalf of the joint committee o'f Dundee Jute Trade Unions. .-. An Indian jute worker, the report states, is paid about; £12, 10s. a year. S^%*^^i^ Apjranqs a Jtear. In other words, profits'amount to eight times the wages bill. ; The tables of dividends given by the investigators recall the fantastic Wealth of Arabian Night stories. ., In 1920, the Kinahison Mill madl* aydividend of 400 percent. It yielded a comparatively modest 160 per cent, in 1924. The dividends of three others mills for that year averaged over 180 per cent. 90 Per Cent Dividends During a period qf 10 years the average dividend for all the companies has been 90 ner cent. Who are these employers to whom vast wealth comes to easily? About 60 per cent, of the shares are held by Indians, but the effective management rests in the hands of British capitalists. It proved difficult to trace the European holders, owing to dividends being remitted to the care of a bank. Messrs. Johnston and Sime discov-, ered in the Gournore shareholders' list an item of 3,465 shares held "for Mackay and Co., Ltd., a/c Lord Inch- "~cape.".. ' And how fare the workers who make such enormous profits for the capitalists? Batchers (Vomen and girls) re^ . ceive 3s. 4d. per four-day week. Boys are paid 2s. 2d. in the roving depart- ' ments, 3s. 8d. in the spinning departments. Weavers' wages range from ,p 9s. a week; he miners ami sewers get 7s., an.d tenters 12s. t .. These miserable wages are, moreover subject to deductions. The fore- ^ man screws money out of the sluyes of jute. ^Veavers are known to have • paid two or three months' wages to L the sardar, but the average 'footing' f is about 10 rupees. The first toll paid, there is further regular "backsheesh" 4 amounting, to a penny, or twopence a week. , To appease the foreman it is usual to resort to the •- ■J^K*7''miFiiir"'frXmgm' 300 per cent. per,annum for phis "accommodation- Then there are fines, s arbitrarily fixed by the management. 9 iStugs and extravagance intensify i.atthe misery. "We-were amased," say Messrs. Jbhnston and Sime, "to see that the authorities had planted cheap alcohol a"1' opium shops all . over the"mill area;" • . " '..--- '* ' Weddings are one of the causes of debt. Even the poorest man )will cheerfully borrow the equivalent of tour months' Wages and 'blow' it'.on the marriage festivities of his daugh- "Ant-heap Dwellings" Housing is horrible. Two-thirds of the workers live in bnsiees, one- storey blocks of, mud and plaster on wicker and matting, with thatched rpofs; no windows, chimneys or fireplaces. Rents from "these foul ant; heaps of pestilence" are from Is. to ls.~4d. a month. The remaining third live in compounds: rent about 4d. a week, no taxes. Apart fAim a few 'toy mill schools' there is not the slightest pretence of provision for educational facilities for the^prtersip-iihiUreifc-,-ra:p--i.iSs ^^^^t^z^m^^f^nW Jute Workers- Association, the >trade union's are useless. That small organization is largely financed and inspired by Mrs. Santosh Kumari Gop- ta." Three Essentials . ■" *""" Mr. Johnston and Mr. Sime tried to call a meeting to organize the white assistants. They sent an advertisement to . a newspaper. The Jiour for beginning was altered without their knowledge or consent, the alteration having been made by the hall authorities, after they had discussed the matter privately with a prominent millowner! ' Strong trade unions; primary education; co-operative societies. These, the investigators say, are the three essentials for the uplift of the Indian worker. . At the moment jute goods manufactured in India are not* a menace jo the trade of Dundee. But conditions might change! Not only from human motives, but for economic reasons, therefore, British workers should help their brethren iii.India.' To the shallow Imperialist, fndia is the brightest jewel in the British crown. Messrs. Johnston and Sime know it as the country where 40,000,- 000 people are said to "lie down havir ing eaten only one meal a day." In a debate on this subject between Professor Starr and Clarence Darrow, the following was the gist of the-arguments; _ Professor ./Starr, in the affirmative, showed how our present civilization" was a compound of all its predecessors, including three types in Mesopotamia, followed by Persian, Grecian, Egyptian and Roman. "Every time one of- these /culminated and began to grow down hill there was always a population ready—some vital, vigorous, fresh-blooded population, to seize the falling torch and carry it on. . '.' . I have often wondered who was to catch the torch when this civilization should have culminated and then should go to j>uin," said Professor Starr. ' To these arguments the reply of Darrow,~fr0ma labor point of view, will appear not only ridiculous and lacking in insight, but also pessimistic in the extreme. Says he: "I seen no beneficent power in evolution which says that of necessity a man shall get better or higher. . . . Nature has fixed the limits of man, and fixed them absolutely. ... The ant and the bee today can do nothing that their ancestors could not do. „ . . Their structure is fixed; You can develop nothing from a cow but a cow. Nature produced the ape and the monkey, and wh,en these were,produced it got through with that job. Is man different from the ant and the bee and the cow and the ape? Man, as I take it, is finished. When the superman comes (if he ever does come) he will treat the human race as horses, to be slaves, or as hogs, to be eaten to feed the super men." In reply Professor Starr said, amongst other things: 1 "S "While I think that today there is no single mass of mankind who can seize the torch of civilization ahd carry it»on to higher things, I still beligve there is hope. I believe thsit ture- world-hope lies, and it cannot come from the one nor from the other. .1 hope thai China,retains *But of the ancient past that fundamental altruism which, added to what Russia has, will make a union based upon principles higher and finer than any we have ever seen. "In China and in Russia there are ideals which when united mean, liberty, success, advancement, opportunity for each man to live his best, and his noblest.life. It seems to me that the old world has not Joshed; that we'may look forward to a civil-: ization truer, better,'more honest, more genuine., than the world has ever seen." To this Mr. Darrow replied: "My -friend's faith in the world's getting anywhere has come down to a hope. To me 'hope' sounds so much like 'dope' that I never could see much in it," etc. Of the remarks of these! two men we may take it for granted that those of the professor are' infinitely nearer the truth. Mr. Darrow's may be dismissed at" once as^ absurd and chimerical. Neither of them, however, has discovered evolution's trump card, in the unending stimulus to co-operation incidental to the class struggle. Of course one nation after another did catch the falling torch of civilisation—a torch "that only fell when a pampered and cofise- quently! inferior ruling class which had !■ fattened on slavery could not hold its own against virile barbarian. Yet the virile barbarian was a mere incident and only succeeded in prolonging the misery by infusing fresh blood into the reactionary elements that he had subdued, but now that he has virtually disappeared one can see more distinctly the effect of the class struggle. Man,, who js unlike the cow,' the bee, the ant or the ape, in that ho developed hands to manufacture implements suita'ble to an everlasting ascending development, stands at the very threshold of emancipation. Will he rise tothe^occasion? Let us, with Professor Starr, hope that he will, and that labor the world over wili unite in supporting the bearers of the torch of civilization wherever they may be found; i*t that torch hem® • ■wnoie wneat FLOUR EVERY HOME NEEDS IT. ,' MAKE SURE YOU GET IT— AND NOTHING ELSE. Jit I. Rich in Nouriilunent- DELICIOUS Ring Up Sey. 2354 for Appointment DR. W. J. GURRY DENTIST Suite 301 Dominion Building Vancouver, B. C. S, BOWELL & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS - - - AND EMBALMERS •• 6tb St., New Westminster Phone 993 W. E. FENN'S School of Dancing PRIVATE AND CLASS,, LESSONS Social Dances, Monday, Wednesday 1 and Saturday. . axfrkovM 101. cotimion wm e sTpcSbi ' with million^ of supermen and women. We know' they won't eat us, since they have existed amongst us potentially for centuries. It only needs a reaHy civilised environment to bring about their development, and their development means progress beyond ours most sanguine expectations. Correspondence PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA LOANS $13,000 TO UNITED MINE WORKERS Sydney, N.S.—A loan of $13,000 has been made by the N6va Scotia provincial government to District 26, United Mine Workers of America, to allow that organization to participate in a movement to relieve distress among the miners in the coal fields of Nova Scotia, due to long periods of unemployment and under-employ- ment., • . Some time ago the British Empire. the - money-^nifkrjiiiJiyjW^,^^ n prSi"Slit(faSoutfwould donate $15,000 for relief purposes provided the union gave a like amount. ' The union's finances were depleted. Economic Conditions in Vancouver Editor Labor-Statesman: , ' Sir—I got the inspiration to write up this subject from a roommate, who seeks work from early morn until' late at 'night in a half-starved state. On Sunday night I 'witnessed a scene at a Mission which made me weep as "I saw about 75 men spread a filthy, meagre spread on a cold cement floor. I said- "Lord, have mercy on those poor unfortunate men; if these heralds bf Gospel truths call this Charity." (I say it is cold.) There are many men -in our prisons the, only crime which they -are charged with is that they are broke and cannot find employment. There are many honest men in this city unable to get work; rather than bring disgrace on their name by going to jail they are seeking refuge in box cars and other nlaces too numerous to mention. ^Phese poor 'unfortunate men are living in fear and suspicion of both police and civilians, the very, ones they should have some reasonable hone of receiving help and encouragement fromin times of trouble. There are thousands in ■ this city in business; if they were called to account they would be penniless.; If they can onlv heat their creditors and fight off the sheriff, they are NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades and Labor Council Boom 803, 16 Hastings Street Mast ' . Phones: Sey. 7495-6279 ^tri^riSTURZo^ ■r:.,ryi.7!7&jKi<&i Ii one may judge from the Fascist Press— and especially from its comic Press there is none of Mussolini's opponents whom he hates so much as Don Sturzo, the militant prieirkwho founded and led the 'Popular Party.' Don Sturzo is now an exile in London, and has just finished writing a book on Fascism. If he writes as he talks it will be a hard-hitting, hard- biting volume that will make the Dictator more furious than ever, with this "turbulent priest." Elijah was a man subject to like passions as"we are, yet he 'prayed that it might not rain, and it rained not for a space of three years and six months. Many people's prayers do not rise as high as the smoke of incense on heathen altars. Many in this city that are ih heed- are honest at) heart and ambitious, and are victims of circumstances over which they hav§ no control. And remember, they dig the precious diamond out of the dusky earth, and that there is many a precious jewel buried in a life of corruption. Taufhed by a loving hand, wakened by ten.derries's, Chords that were broken will vibrate onre more. I am not knocking Christianity; I to raise it to a higher am trying plane. E.J. WATSON, 920, Main St. SENATOR WHEELER Senator Wheeler of Montana has scored another victory. He played the chief part in exposing the oil- land scandals two,years ago, and in particular the curious activities of Attorney-General Daugherty and the Department of Justice. The Department counter-attacked with charges of "criminal Conspiracy" against the Senator, and, having made the charge • set out to collect the evidence. But first a Montana jury and now the Supreme Court bf the District of Co- lumhia dismissed the case. And it is reported that President Coolidge has\ decided to abandon the persecution. Main St. South of 18th was in a certain" Mission Sunday. I gave them a short talk on economic conditions. (They only rebuked itte and .'-it me out.) The Churches in this city sing. so a wire was sent to Premier Rhodes. J^Reacue^O-perishinft-^^aw^ior-the* asking the province ****&> IoaFfhlTinon- ' " ey.: P - " ' a a ; The premier immediately replied: ' ''Details of the loan can be worked out later, but in the meantime you are safe in announcing that your union will be enabled to meet corporation's contribution and in this manner overcome present acute1 distress." Relief is now being distributed 'in the affected collieries. dying,. \veep over the erring ones (beautiful sentiment)," 'but, the fountains of tears are as parched as a tiricd up river in a torrid Stone. The' churches and missions in- this' city are largely, responsible for present conditions; the pool halls are doing mere for suffering humanity than tpe churches—they have a place' of refuge in them until midnight. What are the churches doing? Truth Will Out Editor Labor-Statesman: Sir—While listening in on radio station CNRV last evening (Friday, Feb. 12; 1926), a glaring example of the truth being inadvertently spoken at times was brought to my attention. - At the conclusion of the first part of the performance, which was very excellent and enjoyable, the announcer gave a special announce- "ffim^deaiifig"***with,:' .SfflSftg*^ points, the immigration policy of the Dominion government. ■ • . The ahnourfcer stated, in part.-that radio station CNRV teould broadcast the opportunities existing in Canada *lprr ^immigrants, STRETCHING the potentialities and possibilities existing in our fair Dominion for such. It is true that it was a slip of the tongue and was instantly corrected to,','stressing," which was the word intended to be used. But the example Of the truth being sometimes inadvertently spoken had been given, and the writer is. of the opinion that "stretching" is right* F. L. HUNT. PEARSON'S Meat Pro*!.* Market and ,Produce Ihe Workinsjrman's Friend IffllOS SHOP 4373 MAIN ST. FAXB. 8331 Phono Fair. 797 Might.Trtata" „,- *^r QWAtWT GROCEEIE3 AND FBOVXSIOBO Cor. 38th Avenuo and Main Street SOUTH VANCOUVER, B.. a. .,... ROBINSON'S Cycle and Repair Store 3917 Main at 23rd. Fair. 5994 Specialist in Bicycle frame repairs. Keys cut, Saws sharpened, Baby Buggy Tires repaired. • Ager.t for "Red Bird" Bicycles, SKATE GRINDING THE LABOR/STATESMAN February 19th, I92t L E S JLI E S Nanaimo-Wellington (COAL THAT'S DIPFEBENT) Fropai«a ana Delivered by White Help Only Leslie Coal Co., Ltd. MI BEACH ATS. SHY. 7137 DANCING EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT ALEXANDRA ACADEMY Robson and. Hornby street « Piece Criterion Orchestra Regular Prices It Is'Illegal to BOYCOTT But this willinform you that Triangle Battery Service 167 KINGSWAY Is unfair to'Ofglahiged Labor Farmers Are Advised Strike Saves Lives; No Human Sacrifice Philadelphia, Feb. 18.—Two hundred and fifty men are alive today Twho would have been dead if there had beep-no anthracite < strike, said John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine'Workers. "Approximately 600 mine workers are killed each year by accidents in and around the mines," said Mr. Lewis. "That means that 50 men lose their lives each month because of the terrible hazards of the anthracite mining occupation. The strike has been in effect more than five months; In these five months 250 home-loving workingmen would have made the supreme sacrifice in order that the American public might have fuel.. ' "Thirty thousand anthracite mine •workers are injured each'year in the sartie kind of accidents. This is an average of 2,500 maimed and crippled workers each month. Twelve thousand five hundred, men would have been injured, in greater or less degree, in five month's. "The anthracite operators are brutally demanding that these workers arbitrate the price for whfch they shall offer themselves as hitman sacrifice upon the altar of public' service. They ask the men to arbitrate the price of life and death." &&&& ,r "Washington, Feb. 13.—In a statement issued by the department of agriculture farmers are advised to reduce production. • . i "Any general expansion in production-this year would tend.to place farmers in a less favorable economic position than at present," the statement says. . ■' The, department discusses wheat, corn, live stock and other production, and makes this direct appeal to sabotage the potato crop: , "There is danger that potato growing in the late~producing states may plant heavily. Increased acreage of more than 10 per cent. is» inadvisable." Anti-unionists who continually lecture labor on "failing to produce" have ignored this statement by the department. Labor has never adopted a "go-slow" policy, but the,anti- unionists refuse to be convinced. Fascist Branches Are Huge Spy Plot Pueblo, Col., Feb. 13.—The local branch of the Italian Fascisti movement is a spy system maintained by Mussolini, according to E. Clemente, editor ot L'Unidne, Italian-language newspaper of this city. ' .■: "The Fascisti movement in America can not and should not be formed, as it is contrary to the democratic traditions of thi> large republic," says Editor Clemente s^aWmWmms%hSmWS^LW America's highest ideals of democ racy and freedom. It is nothing more than an Italian spy system to report to th^ Italian government those who are opposed to Mussolini." ," t w K t ;< ,t i i )'.-„'; I '," ,< '. Doheny Loses Appeal San Francisco, Feb. 13.—Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate, has lost another round in his fight to hold the Elk Hills oil reserve, leased to him by Secretary of thei Navy Dsllby and Secretary of the Interior Fall. The federal, circuit court of appeals has upheld a district court decision <which stripped the oil magnate of all his rights in these oil lands, and also cancelled some ?11,- 000,000 in allowances granted by the trial court for work done at Pearl HfatbOr, Hawaii, and in the California fields under the lease. Would-be U.S. Judf £ Under Senat? Fire Portland, Ore., Feb. 13 ^Opponents of the appointment of Judge Wallace McCamant to the federal judiciary by the president are pointing to McCama'nt's connection with the Pacific Spruce Corporation. This concern has endeavored, to establish colonies of Japanese workers and is cutting timber on government land. ' McCamant is also charged with violating the Oregon primary law. The voters of his party instructed their delegates to the Republican national convention in 1920 to vote for Senator Hiram Johnson for president. McCamant violated these instructions. The following day he placed the name of. Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts in nomination for vice-president. CHAPLAIN FOR GEN. FENG a The.Rev. Jonathan Goforth, alforr. •in.er Preshyterian missionary in 'China, will leave Toronto shortly to act, ...as-chplain to thp army of General Feng Yu-hsiarig, the Chinese Nat ion- • alist leader. OPEN-PLATFORM CARS OUTLAWED BV COURT Washington, Feb. 13.—The District of Columbia court of appeals has ruled that it is a violation of law for a street car company to operate an open-platform car which does not protect motormen from inclement weatheh The conviction of the Washington Railway and Electric Company was upheld. Labor Opposes the Kaiser's Claim Recent insistence by the ex-Kaiser and ,, the other Hohenzollerns on quicker action by German courts in compensating these former ruling parasites for the property held in trust by the various' German States since the political revolution of November, 1918, may cause them to lose all the castles, city and country real estate and art works, valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, which they claim as'their private possessions. Disgusted with the repeated court decisions in favor of the claims of. the ex-rulers, of whom there are hundreds besides the Hohenzollern tribe, and fearful that the. special court w{iich the bourgeois parties plan to set uji to handle these cases in the future ivould be too easy with the claimants, the Socialists and Communists have begun'a campaign for a referendum in which the people may decide for or against the confiscation of all the property claimed. They are rounding, up signatures for the referendum petition and will have little trouble in obtaining the' necessary 4,000,000. In the meantime, the Socialists and Communists are putting a bill up to the Reichstag providing for the confiscation of the ,ex-royal property by the/States and its use for the people, first of all the unemployed and the State pensioners. Oii course, they know the bill will not pass, bat they will have a good chance to make arguments in the Reichstag which will be used in the referendum drive. It is rumored in Berlin that if it comes to a showdown, the Democrats and Centrists, in part at least, will support the move for 'confiscation, via referendum. Although thus far the Communist Socialist collaboration has been. unoftV cial, it is possible that the Socialist party's Executive Committee will soon formally approve of it, thus putting the Communists' talk of unity to the ■■■teat.-.^.^—r-—-^-^t—^1' --- Sgf?!P»^S!^«p(*^|gSsSS^^S2^^^^S' * ' sHepitlsTo Howe STEREOTYPERS .RAISE WAGES Wichita, Kan., Feb. 13.—Organized stereotypers employed on newspapers in this city have raised wages $2 a week. The- new rates arej $38. for day work and $40 for night' work. £<HiiiiiiniiuiiiiHiiiiiuiiiiiiinHiiiniiiiiiiiMiiiMiiiuiiiiiiiiiHflmniiMNnTim'^mi^ . S'--;- ----- ■■'.:- ■.-■-•ciiv-veBf**???^''; ... , .:'.',. * M IS ILLEGAL TO Mr. Howe's challenge, I think, applies with particular force to the unorganized and unaffiliated radicals. It does not apply, in my opinion, with equal force to the active radicals composing the organized Socialist movement of the United States. With greatly reduced activities, because our audience is less receptive, and less generous than before the war, we organized Socialists have not at all changed our attitude,, abated our purpose or suffered any loss of confidence in the ultimate triumph of our cause. . This is true because we are an integral part of a world-wide movement which is grounded in a firm conviction that the goal toward which we are striving is a part of the process of evolution itself. Our movement has made enormous forward strides in almost every civilized country during the last decade of war and reaction. We refuse to become discouraged over a temporary setback in our own country—our vision is too wide for that. We are where we always were— just as radical, just as confident, just as determined. We were overwhelmed, submerged, to a greater extent than the Socialists of most countries, by the briite force of capitalist reaction let loose during the infernal slaughter. This condition cannot last in the face of the almost universal advance of the Socialist movement. Industrial conditions are making it harder and harder for the mass of people to maintain the traditional attitude of defense of the existing economic system. The present political discontent is working toward a more favorable situation for us. We already note a perceptible improvement in our movement". . , We have begun not only;to repair the damages of the war in our ranks, but to build upon a. more solid foundation. In three years_-we-will present the American pdpple with an American Socialist Party greater, ,,J^jJ£ange£!aHJHse^»<yJt(>n*p«mi^^ gressive than we have had before. 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The "combined manufacturers and bankers of the United States," as Woodrow Wilson put it, is the qlass that politically controls us. The world has lost faith in parliaments; political democracy is -recognized only as a form under which capitalism controls society, just as feudalism controlled " it through kings. Political 1 edalism is dead. --.. There can be no more reformers of the Tom Johnson, Sam Jones school; no more crusades for.the initiative, referendum and other devices for popular control; no more political muck-raking. The nre-war radicals have been put out of business by the industrial autocrats. Poli- 'tlcal democracy and industrial autocracy can't exist together. - But a new radicalism has taken the place of the old. It is the radicalism of a new class rising to power on the failures of capitalism and on the democratic urge. This class is the organized producers—labor and the farmers.. Fred Howe finally identified himself with them. He saw that !<^uWcfH«Si^^s^fbwers^h6,,"wa'nt to' serve their generation, and who ten or twenty years* ago would have gone'into political reform or social work, now tie up with labor and its allied interests. The pre-war radicals in the working class .still carry on. Recruits from youth constantly add to their number, despite the dis^ couragement of these days of reaction. The same fine faith and love of their fellow men which marked Fred Howe's friends in the days of political reform find expression in these j new working class movements. Rad-I icalism does not die; its forms change, j ROGER N. BALDWIN. LLP. at Port Alberni On Sunday last a branch of thel Independent Labor Party was insti-J tuted at .Port Alberni.. An enthusi-l astic gathering of people interested! in the Labor movement from all parts! of the Alberni riding met in Moose! Hall, and after thoroughly, discussing the manifesto and constitution of the ? party, a local branch was formed, to j be known as the Alberni District j Branch. > A membership of twenty- five was secured", and the following ' officers were elected: President, M. Glenday; vice-president, C C. Binns; secretary-treasurer, J. H. Warren., The elected officers and one member I from each of the sir districts repre-1 sented at the meeting constitute the, erecutive committee. Angus Maclnnes and H. Neelands were present and assisted in th'e formation of the branch. The F.L.P. has now been absorbed; by the I.L.P. 1:,..... BOYCOTT J ,.- but this wxxjb xMfoast *6v that tboi • — 1 EMPRESS THEATRE I S3 WNFABB TO OBOAMUSn KABOB STAGE EMPLOYEES UNION UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS SEATTLE,'Feb. 0. — Unemployment in this section has increased with the season's closing al lumber camps- and mills. Agricultural workers who are returning to the. cities are also swelling the number of out- of-works. — ANGLO-IRAKI TREATY Th new Anglo-Iraki Treaty, which has already been ratified by the House bf Commons, of Irak, has how S[ been accepted by the Senate. Only aiNIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIJIIUMIUHIIIIIM vote-was cast against.it. DRUGS AT CUT PRICES If yon have tried others flrat then make a purchase at any on* of onr twelve stores ana note the QUAilT Y, service _^^„-. .-^•""^dOaxowonp-*". FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS MM. .36 l;7S .BO "*' .50 .25 .'25 .20 .76 ..IB .15 EiaQaUin..CotLi,i»crpBxtraetaJ|e.8i Dr. Rpld's Lemon Shampoo .31 Barber's Hair Clippers ..._. William's Pink Pills & Pebeco Tooth Paste , _. Extract of Vanilla Vio)at Toilet Ammonia :. Pears Soap, 2 for -.. I Liquid Petrolatum Lime or •Peppermtht Flavor, 1 6 oza. ..'. Oriental Bath Soap, 3 for.....26 Floral Bath Soap, 3 tor 45 .93 .37 .31 .15 .17 .25 .36 -p-i-,3Qp.iil(iuld -Vorieer ,.*...a,,,.. .,..-- - .ppO 1'r. 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