The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-23
issued: 1925-05-29
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0438879/source.json
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note: ——^aasaasjasssssB Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District trades and Labor Council Official Organ of The Canadian Labor Party No. 58-EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, May 29th, 1925. FIVE CENTS PER COPY Juggling With Justice Is Scene Staged at City Hall Ex-Manager Rolston, Fired for Incompetency, Is Rewarded With $2500 Cash Bonus; Faithful Workers Are Rewarded With Discharge To Make Way For Political Favorites! _ STEP THIS WAY, ladies and gents, and see Vancouver's Greatest Municipal Show on Earth. Observe, closely, our city hall's .Great Act of Juggling with Justice! Come closer, folks, and watch the great turn entitled "Monkeying with Municipal Matters". See , bur famQiis^Ci-vie Clowns in Action. ObserVe,;:"alsb, thef rioteaTeat-" yre, staged by Vancouver's greatest bunkologists, showing real iWgermain with the taxpayers' money, in the wonderful "Rolston $2500 Disappearing Act!" See Vancouver's City Hall Clowns, as Moiern Mcjnarchs of Mirth, Making Many Merry Mad Mishaps! »By yatching closely, you will see, too, the great sleight-of-hand trictby which old time city hall employees are spirited out of sight, *and/replaced before your very eyes, with Aldermanic pets. The ^qtliikness of the hand deceives the eye, ladies ,and gents, ^o here The f-alor Statesman steps in to'expfain the trick. Compare the follow- ,irij, and see how you like it: :„ i \ EX.MANAGER ROLSTON \ , ^GETS FIRED; ALSO GETS i *2600 AS FAT PRESENT After holding down a nice, easy *job paying $5,000 a year with perquisites, for a number of years, Mr. "Rolston made it quite cear that he .wasn't making good as manager of the Vancouver Exhibition. Reluc- |':''tantly and^almos^ ''«*-;«jinjf'i^cT6fed''ii'e' wa¥soIiJiering on the'**•'4i,"',- —A —««—' > <■— ~* -' job, so they Baid he must go. This happened after a public outcry made bis discharge imperative.. Then his friends rallied to his cause and said the poor thing ought to be rewarded for getting canned,' so they voted half a year's pay,,,amoun…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0438879
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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