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: 1925-06-26
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note: TheLaborSta Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and jg Official Orgair of The Canadian Labu i No. 62-EIGHT PAGES. *fff. &: Ades and Labor Council «sgg^> sman American Tourists Begin To Arrive for Summer Jobs mi: —;—i— . . ■ . ■ J Influx of Aliens Marks Season, as Usual; They Come to Vancouver Seeking Work in Competition, While Idle Residents Walk the Streets. COMING Tf3 TOWN in the guise ofJ'tourists", in battered old flivvers and on the trains and boats, Vancouver's great annual influx of foreign labor is arriving in droves, to fill jobs that are needed by iryorking folk here.- The same thing happened last year, but this time things are rather worse than ever. One party contain- I, ing eight people included half grown children just out of school for ■the hqii'Aays. They came from J^atdejand_enquired for.best places § to woxk beforc^lrcy'lsaTieerrin town an hour.- VANCOUVER, B.C., June 26th, 1925. "FIVE CENTS PER COPY WHAT OUR READERS WANT TO KNOW Fott*-of the children and their mothe-i went to theTjerry fields in the ,;ul>"™as pickers, while the old man o- "'.family and his three sons foi'e/ jvork in town, y^n-ogation elicited the fact that i the/™ | man was willing to take $3.50 |or;nja day, and the sons had accept $2.50 and $3 a day. One of them is working in Shaughnessy Heights; another is working for a lineal florist; the "handy man" is pot- ring around doing odd jobs, most of which ought to be handled hy union porkers. Those Tin-Horn Artisans This is not all, for there is a horde ,of near-mechanics flocking in on the i trains, claiming to be Americans on la little holiday, whereas they turn at various scenes of labor directly ley get over here. New Westmin- %\%'^«'Way; "has'the same' prob- ».;,.*i,,,gome of. these-fellows have M A? " smlittmng of their trade, with 'r*TWly any more training than- a «n4nphill "trade" school "graduate"; f.a,Vthey land here in the labor mar- r*e, Uo compete with honest, skilled artisans who make their home seems unfair that al…
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: 10.14288/1.0438887
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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