The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-26
issued: 1927-04-01
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note: OWNED .^Statesman n Kin rv-UTT-.-,,rn W^^^m BY the VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Y\ \\\^^*****^ ~~¥sc? Supported by Fifty-three Local Unions .. No. 154—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER. B. C. APRIL 1. 1927 I*' Labor Forces Passage I of Old Age Pension Bill Woodsworth Attacks Reactionary Senate by Showing the Grip That this Body has on the Business Interests of the Country—Senate Takes a Tumble . THE FOLLOWING EXCERPTS,, taken from the speech of J. S. Woodsworth, in the Federal House, show that fifty Senators are directors of 334 commercial and financial organizations, making I keeper that the company has six un them a distinctly class group. The article only deals with a few 'on men working for them, this is an of the Senators, but it clearly shows that their every act must be absolute lie, as they have not got a Royal Dairy Losing Against Union .-The Milk drivers fight against the Royal Dairy, continues to make good progress, this company has now lost nearly all the restaurant business in the City. Only a few restaurants are still getting non-union milk. The Royal Dairy are making desperate efforts to get some of the smallstores to sell its milk, and have a canvasser going around who tells the store- entirely in the interest of the vested interests. The speech was made in his effort to have the British North America Act changed and to cut the claws of the reactionary Senate. Since that date the Senate has passed the Old Age Pension bill, showing that they sensed a. real danger to the continuance of theirpower if they did not reform. .. Mr. Woodsworth: A few weeks ago, in a little labor paper published in Toronto, Canada Forward, I find this statement: SO Senators Directors of 334 Institutions In the Senate fifty members Of that body control and direct the economic life of Canada. That is to say that fifty senators are directors of 334 commercial and flnanclar Institutions. I wrote to the editor of that paper asking him on what data he based his statement, and he was good…
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: 10.14288/1.0438943
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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