http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0438893
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-23
issued: 1925-05-01
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note: 1 £ Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council «^f§|^> Official Organ of The Canadian Labor Party v VOL.2. No. 2—TWENTY PAGES VANCOUVER, B. G, May 1st, 1925 FIVE CENTS PER COPY i First Annual and May Day Edition w. C.P.R. Rewards (?) Faithful Employees The following confidential letter . was posted up in the C. P. R. shops all across the country recently. It congratulates the employees on the spirit they have shown in maintain- r efficiency, etc., and then the <;vip- R- evidently forgets the letter wnd, posts up another notice inform- iff all its employees that the shops 'will close down for five days. Thus good and faithful service is rewarded s"by a greatly reduced pay check. The (letter reads: •CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY < COMPANY Office at the Chairman and President Montreal, April 15, 1926 'To all Officers and Employees: , Oh May 3rd, 1928, I addressed a circular letter to you on the subject <of maintaining the Company's reputation for ■ courtesy to its patrons, 'and asking you to use your best ef- ,,4ei^4»i'<*^6r-'Bn*»pWMote the ex- ^^^^_^S^^W~J^^ & has ZearneoZ'T" \ '■'.-•■ Since that time you have had two ' years of experience in meeting competition of an active and intensive character involving extensive propaganda and publicity of a kind that would not be open to a private in- . stitution. This competition has been accompanied with lavish expenditures l of the public moneys, and this is, of course, the principal factor in it. We •all appreciate..that fundamentally it is in many respects competition of an .unfair kind, but it has been successfully met by unfailing zeal and loyal '» service on the part of the Company's «officers and employees. I wish to congratulate you on the 'spirit you have Shown and to have you know that your,efficiency, cour- 'tesy and devotion to the Company's , interests is deeply appreciated by the Executive.' We are, 1 think, justified . in concluding' that the--Company's preWlge and reputation with …

The Labor Statesman
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0438893
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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