http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0438892
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-23
issued: 1925-07-03
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note: r/' Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and Distr ades and Labor Council^ I P^i> Official Organ of The Canadian Labor f^g m: No. 63—EIGHT PAGES *?:*>& ?/ | How Usurous Shylocks Harass Honest Workmen After Tempting Clients and Tooting for Trade, They Charge - Extortionate Interest, and Hang On Like Leeches Until Last Cent Is Socked Dry—Then They Menace Jobs—Work for the Prosecuting Attorney Here! .:""" A CHEAP yONEY-LENDING concern galling itself *The B. CT i^'ari3'T5a"cific'CdaiiZ& Bfofcerage Co.'r, headed by an individual known as Isidore Goldenberg, has't$S?"ii making a persistent cam-" rspaign among employees of the B. C. Electric and other workers in ' \te^dy employment, offering various blandishments designed .to | sarfcpt them into borrowi% money. This fellow's circular letters -. pari "Perhaps you need ready money for domestic purposes, for , or chase of new furniture, for clothing for yourself or your wife, to Tor other purposes. See us, in confidence. We lend $50 to $500 ex steadily employed men and women, without embarrassment or rtjposure." Every bait aiid temptation is held out, and this concern n,»ps at nothing in trying to entangle - Stage Set For Big Drive To Cot Wages x „ •tj ^onest union workers into its meshes. About Mr. Goldenberg jj If our memory is not in error, this fe the same Mr. Goldenberg who Operated "The Puget Sound & B. C. fopcurity & Loan Co.". which closed aIHlowing a public outcry started in 80» exposure by the Vancouver Hook Paiiie 18 months ago. The "com- consistinpr solely of Mr. Gol- .. managed tp gouge $135 /'p^ok her troubles to the paper which _^iired her case, proving the poor wo- 'man had originally borrowed $50 to defray funeral expenses in the family. What with "fees" and interest, and pyer-due .interest and other incidentals, the teacher -paid < out $135 in excess of the original loan, all within 13 months. ,■ ■■•>■•-■ I A decent working man, member of one of our unions, relates these -significant facts concerning the …

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