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MOf AND CONIBOLLED H Council orklng Button (Red) for the Second Quarter of 19.7 Supported by Fifty-three Local Unions Mo. 161—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, MAY' 27th, 1927 Anti-Trades Union Bill : Arouses British Masses Baldwin's Government Bill Creating a Situation that Enables the Labour Movement to Spread its Message to the Masses.—Huge Meetings Held. THE ANTI-TRADE UNION BILL, or the Blacklegs Charter, as British Labour prefers to call it, is welding the working class * of Great Britain together as nothing else hi|herto has done. Great meetings are being held all over the country and both organized 'and unorganized labour are attending them. Unorganiz.ed Labour , will undoubtedly suffer if the Blacklegs Charter succeeds in breaking down the industrial power of the workers.. The bill is such < a tangled mess that the courts will have to attempt to untangle it, which of course will lead to further'difficulties. The workers ' however, are not letting the Government Have its own way,_as .the following article will show. The Bill has given the'trades unions arid the Labour Party, the finest piece of propaganda that has come their way for many a year. Well over 30 great representative ' delegate conferences, followed by big ■ public demonstrations in big industrial centres throughout Great .Britain marked the opening of the campaign in the constituencies 'against the Blacklegs' Charter. The enthusiastic determination with which the work of organization 'twas undertaken left no room for j\loubt as to the intense feeling ' 'aroused by this attack on the workers' rights. And the same spirit jwas echoed in the vast public demon- i istrations which followed. ,1 These conferences and meetings •are being held every Saturday. Deadly to Unions I At all the meetings a resolution of ^uncompromising opposition to the , Bill was passed. The "explanations" /and defence put forward by the ^Government have, if anything, intents sified the opposition. The workers' S^view was well expressed by Mr. W. rThomasson, presiding at the confer- 'ence of Lancashire textile workers in Manchester, when he said:— "The Bill is deadly to the real purpose of Trade Unionism, and Mr. Baldwin's hope that the Labor memberi *ill assist with const, uc- , five amendments is like advising trade unionists to assist at their • own funeral." , Speeches by national leaders all showed that no tinkering with the Bill can make it satisfactory to the workers and that its withdrawal is the essential minimum of their (Jemand. Common Action ) Mr. Arthur Henderson, M. P., .speaking at Reading, pointed out that the principle of combination had developed through two generations of I experience of industrial conflict, and - if such actions were forbidden, the whole history of industrial organization would be frustrated. Mr. George Hicks, at Edinburgh, emphasized the fact that strikes, which the Tories professed to abhor, were deplored by trade union leaders also, but they arose, not from the machinations of agitators, but from the economic conditions of the workers. He declared, challengingly, that the- work-... would retain the right to strike and the right to the sympathetic strike. Mr. W. M. Citrine, at Nottingham, showed that the Tory explanations revealed a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, as to the implications of the Bill. Bill Made Worse The Government by its amendment was seeking, said Mr. Citrine, to make Clause 1 even more obnoxious than before, and to make more certain that every large strike should be declared illegal. Mr. Ernest Bevin, speaking in Dorsetshire, whence hailed the Tolpuddle martyrs, observed that to carry out the Bill his union would have to be split into 180 parts! On the subject of the political levy he challenged an impartial inquiry in to the unions' administration during the past 14 years. In addition to the campaign conferences and demonstrations a multitude of other meetings were held. Everywhere the unequivocal denunciation of the Bill was received with enthusiasm, and every meeting reflected thc existence of a storm that can only end in sweeping the authors of the Bill from power. Coatinued on Page 6 TAKE A TRIP TO SOUTH VANCOUVER THIS SUNDAY NIGHT INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY (S. Van.) RITZ HALL—Fraser & 46th WO. 7 CAB Public Meeting, Sunday, May 29 SFEAKEKS 8:00 p.m. Sharp B. a. NEELANDS, M PJP., "The Session in Victoria 3. DAVIS, O-ASOOW IXX., "The British Oov.mm.nt's ri.lit Against the Trade Dnions." SOtOISTS ASSISTING COLLECTION Building Trades to Aid Striking Plumbers Members in, the building trades union will be assessed to aid the striking plumbers and steamfitters who have been ont since May 2nd. This was the decision reached by the Building Trades Council at the regular meeting on Tuesday evening. The union plumbers and steamfitters have no intention of dropping the fight, because they find themselves, the lowest paid craftsmen, in that line, on the coast. They came out 100 per cent, and are still 100 per cent. Efforts are being made by the employers to break the strike. Offices have been opened, where strikebreakers are given an opportunity to go to work. A few havTBeeh found, but their work has been so unsatisfactory that they haVe been let out. Considerable damage has already been done by these men, one in particular causing damage that will greatly reduce the employer's bank balance. Forty:eight new ■-members have been initiated by unions of the building trades during the past two weeks. Trade is fairly good but the strike of the plumbers is holding up considerable work. Polish Government - Takes Stern Measures The situation in Poland is developing rapidly to a point at which disturbances are by no means improbable. The activity of the Government against the Lodz textile workers, the wholesale arrests which followed the recent strike, the threatened reduction in miners' wages, and the increasingly reactionary policy of the Pilsudski Government arc combining to produce a sharp crisis in the industrial centres. And at the same time the small peasants are growing more and more irritated at the failure of the Government toC keep the promises of agrarian reforms which were so- freely made during the Russian war of 1920. Mansions Burned There have already been agrarian disturbances, and the mansions of big landowners have been burned by peasants. The Government's answer is not to put. the agrarian reforms (which exist as laws on paper) into~ force. Marshal Pilsudski's growingly close association -with the big landowners prohibits this. Instead, the political organizations of the poorer peasants are being suppressed on the plea that they are "Bolshevik." First the Hromada—the organization of the peasants in the White Russian provinces—was broken up. Now the Independent Peasant Party is sharing its fate. Growing unrest among the workers both in town and country; increasingly oppressive action by the Government: these sum up a situation of which "stern measures" on May Day was a natural consequence. Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.—Marcus Aurelius. . FIVE CENTS PER COPY yed Immigrants mployment Office Central Europeans, lured to Canada by Government and Railroad Propaganda, find Themselves Destitute and Facing a Dark Future IN SPITE OF THE FACT that the Government has maintained that it is only seeking immigrants who can qualify for farm work, recent happenings in prairie cities not only prove that a large number of the immigrants that have been landed here were promised work by steamship and railroad companies, but also shows that there is no demand for them on the farms, and apparently never has been. They have been crowded into the cities, are partially absorbed as labourers (naturally at low wages) and greatly aid_in creating -a—very-unhealthy condition in the labour market. The .following item, taken from the Alberta Labour News, tells its own story: On May 11, a body of central Europeans marched on the Calgary Employment Office. There were engaged as farm hands, despite the fact that 1540 orders for farm help Czecho Slovaks, Hungarians and^have been received. AH tbe others Jugo Slavs to the number of 163. They were jobless, homeless and broke. All told they had an average sum of SI.53 each, and no prospect of getting more. Their story was heard, through interpreters, by the superintendent of the Calgary Employment Agency, Mr. W. S. Woods of the Land Settlement Board in have taken laborers' jobs, such as brushing, grubbing, mill work, etc. The superintendent of the Edmonton office states that fully 80 per cent, of the farmers applying for help specify English speaking men only. This is the record in all the employment offices in the province. The farmers simply will not have men Calgary, and Mr. H. B. Adshead, M.P. 4who cannot speak a word of English The men who marched to the em ploy ment bureau were not all who were unemployed. They said there were at least 350 altogether who were in thc same plight as themselves. They had been promised work by the steamship and railway companies before they left Europe. But the promises had not been kept. One hundred and thirty-three of these men are married, with their wives and families in the old land depending on their support. On May f2, fifty-three more of these central Europeans visited the Calgary Employment Office. They also were without funds, without a job and ...having-'.no prospect of employment. Not Wanted on Farms At the Edmonton Employment Office on the week ending May 13, fifty-five of these new immigrants had registered, twenty-six of them had been placed in jobs, but only three of the twenty-six had been engaged as farmhands. According to the superintendent of the Lethbridge Employment Office 75 per cent of the farmers applying for help stipulate that- they do not want foreigners, while the other 25 per cent, ask for fully experienced men. As a matter of fact the Lethbridge Employment Office has not been able to place central Europeans on farms this spring for the very good reason that not one single order has been received for this type of man. Three hundred and fifty central Europeans have landed in Lethbridge this spring, while about 150 have been shipped direct to the small towns of the south of the province. Taking Laborers' Jobs ' At jhe Edmonton 1tffll.n i|tnilt fflfl central {Europeans "have SppIied";for work this spring. Of these 173 have been placed. Only, .six: have, been --ss_raay_^p^7"- ---! and who arc totally ignorant of the methods employed in farming in this country. Not Going to tbe Farms . It is clear from the foregoing that the immigrants are not going on the farms. We understand that it Was farm settlers the Edmonton Board of Trade advertised for, and the Labor News was somewhat surprised to note the alacrity with which the board rushed into the breach to defend "the bringing of crowds of common laborers to Alberta. For that is what has bedn done. These central Europeans who have been landed in Alberta, have come to join the throng of our floating population ahd are suited only for casual, seasoable laboring. A large number of these men have been brought into Edmonton and the rest of Alberta. The superintendent of the Edmonton employment office estimates that about 200 of them are still hanging around looking for work.. To watch the crowd milling around the railway employment office in Edmonton we must come to the conclusion that the estimate of those' still unemployed is a low one. Where Have They Gone But admitting that of the 800 to 1000 immigrants who have come into the Edmonton district alone this spring, only 200 are now employed, what has happened to the rest? We have seen that they have not gone on the farms. They are not wanted on the farms because they cannot do the work. There is only one answer: They have been engaged as laborers. Most of them have gone out as section hands or on extra gangs on the railways. The railway employment, agent of the CSP. R. placed 807 men a»=8Xtr»*-gang»-3tniT-_5ttio„i Work in April. Over 600 of them were recent arrivals from Central Europe. In .-'-.. JDoniirtOed-on -Page~8 -"ions Sty. MM H. HARVEY BOOT MANUFACTURER -'Oners', Miners', Cruisers' snd Prospectors' Hand-Mad- Boots Our Specialty. Quick,, Repairs. ora te oo won aoo* BBS* IB IOWH 58 CORDOVA ST, WEST Vaaeonvar, B. c. T. J. Kearney & Co. Funeral Directors and Embalraers New Chapel and Parlors Private Ambulance Service 802 Broadway W. Ph__ • Fair. 3 • SYNOPSIS OF -,;' LANDACTAMENDMEim PRE-EMPTIONS Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown lands may be pre-empted by British subjects over 18 years ot ag* snd by aliens on declaring Intention to become British subjects, conditional upon residence, occupation, and Improvement tor agricultural purposes. Full Information concerning regulations regarding pre-emptions ls given In Bulletin No. 1, Land Series. "How to Pre-empt Land," copies oi whloh can be obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of Lands, Victoria, B.C, or to any Government Agent • Records will bs granted covering only land suitable for agricultural purposes, and which Is not timber- land. I.e., carrying over 8,000 board feet per acre west of the Coast Banc* aad 6,000 feet per acre east of that Range. Applications for pre-emptions are to be addressed to the Land Commissioner of the Land Recording Division. In wblcb the land applied for Is situated, and are made on printed forms, copies of which can be obtained from the Land Commissioner. Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years and Improvements made to value of $10 per acre, Including clearing and cultivating at least five aores. before a Crown Grant can be received. For more detailed information sse the Bulletin "How to Pre-empt Land." • PURCHASE Applications are received for pur- abase of vacant and unreserved Crown lands, not being Umberland, for agricultural purposes: minimum prioe for first-class (arable) land Is II per acre, and second-class (Erasing) land $2.50 per acre. Further Information regarding purchase or lease •f Crown lands ls given in Bulletin No. 10. Land Series. "Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands." Hill, factory, or industrial sites on limber land, not exceeding 40 acres, may be purchased or leased, the conditions Including payment of stum page. HOMESITE LEASES Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 Miss, may be leased as homesites, eondltlonal upon a dwelling being ereoted ln the first year, title being •btalnable after residence and Improvement conditions are fulfilled and land has been surveyed. LEASES ... For erasing and industrial purposes areas not exceeding 840 acres ■lay be leased by one person or s eompany. ^ GRAZING Under tbe Grastng Act the Province Is divided into groslng districts ■ad the range administered under a Orasdng Commissioner. Annual gnUlng permits ars Issued based on ■umber* ranged, priority being given l« established owners. Stock-owners ■lay form associations for range management. Free, or partly fr■.-e, permits ars available for setllerB. eampere and travellers, up to ten head. With a friend at home, many a boy would not need a friend at court • * * Canadian golf-ball makers are asking for protection. . Some of the caddies claim the balls should ask for protection. Unemployed Miners Of Alberta Want Help Owing to conditions of distress in the Drumheller Valley Coal Fields, due to the closing down of the mines through lack of orders, which, in turn, is directly. due to lack of markets for our coal product, we, the unemployed miners of the Drumheller Valley have banded ourselves together and organized our forces so that we- shall be better enabled to attempt to take intelligent action with a view to arriving at a permanent solution of conditions existing within the Coal Industry. We, the unemployed miners, know that there is only one solution and that is tbe stabilization of the Alberta coal industry through wider markets. The conditions which confront us at the present time are only a repetition of what we have gone through for the past number of years and which will again repeat themselves in future years unless co-operative action is taken by the Canadian workers as a whole. The Province of Ontario consumes some 16,000,000 tons of coal annually, and that market, which is the legitimate market for Alberta coal, is at present dominated by foreign coal. We miners of the Drumheller fields do not intend to allow such a condition as that to exist, if we can help it. The future welfare of our wives and families, as well as the future welfare of the Province, demands that we become interested in the vital question, and, it is with the end in view of creating more work per year by ^ agitating for wider markets for Alberta coal, and with a view of getting your whole-hearted co-operation in the matter, that this communication is sent to you. We have already taken up the question with both the Provincial and Federal Governments and there is every indication that we shall get the desired results. Will you cooperate with us? We think you will, and so we ask you to register your kick at Ottawa. Send your resolutions,, to Premier King and Honourable Peter Heenan, Minister of Labor, and any others whom you believe are interested in the question of Alberta coal for Ontario. Let our slogan be "Canadian Coal for Canadian People." We have proof that tbe people of Ontario want Alberta coal, so why should they not get it? Agitate for the $7 freight rate, so that Alberta coal can successfully compete with the .foreign product It can be done, and, if we hammer away intelligently, it will be done— so let's go, boy*. "Canadian Coal for Canadian People." Let us know as early as possible what action you are taking. Unemployed Miners' Association. I Dist 18, U. M. W. of A. \ THEIR UNION Sir Douglas Hogg, the British Attorney-General, who is leading for the Tories on the Blacklegs' Charter, received from the ^Government in* fees £458 a week in 1925 and £326 a week last year. Sir Thomas Inskip, the Solicitor-General, was paid £147 a week in 1925 and £251 a week last year- 1/ These fees are in accordance with the scales of legal trade unionism. The legal profession is 100 per cent organized. It has no need of picket ing. Its organizations wield powers of discipline, powers of expulsion, and have privileges far in excess of those of the trade unions attacked in the Government Bill. Spy Disease Spreads Scripps-Howard newspapers have begun a trenchant exposure of the spy system operated by the United States Government; a series the more remarkable because the sordidness of the system is laid bare by a woman writer, Miss Ruth Finney. "Today the United States of America is embarked on a policy of government by treachery," Miss Finney points out. "It is a government of inspectors, investigators, special agents, under cover men, secret service men, information experts—spies. In the fiscal year 1928, for which appropriations have just been made, 4503 men and women will be employed to do under cover work. This employment will cbst this country ?_2,400,000. :* "How did such a system fasten itself upon a liberty-loving people?" she asks. And answers: "Large industries began to employ spies to discover what labor unions were doing. This was the age of industrial distrust. Employers took the position that opposing interests between them and their employees amounted to war and justified the methods of warfare. The practice gave detectives a certain respectability, at least in the eyes of the classes who employed them. * * * This is the genesis and background of Government By treachery. This is the system which, disguised by high-sounding names and cloaked with purposes of seeming ..uplift, made spying a semi-respectful occupation in the United States." YOUR OLD FRIEND For over 20 years—SAM—Wants to Remain Friends. Call at the LUCKY NUMBER 49 Cordova St. West for Gent's'Furnishings SAM'S STORE 49 CORDOVA ST. W. n The End of Life Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to. use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself. Until lately the best thing that I was able to think of in favor of civilization, apart from blind acceptance of the order of the universe, was that it made possible the artist, the poet, the philosopher, and the man of science. But I think that is not the greatest thing. Now I believe that the greatest thing is a matter that comes directly home to us all. When it is said that we are too much occupied with the means of living to live, I answer that the chief worth of civilization is just that it makes the means of living more complex; that it calls for great and combined intellectual efforts, instead of simple, unco-ordinated ones, in order that the crowd may be fed and clothed and housed and moved from place to place. Because more complex and intense intellectual efforts mean a fuller and richer life. They mean more life. Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether £ou have enough of it.—Jus* tice Oliver Wendell Holmes. AMERICAN NOBILITY Edith: .'vWjoi-lftpyoB marrjCpa^title?" .Madge: "I wouldn't mind marrying | one of those coal barons." MANY CANADIANS LEAVE U.S. FOR HOME COUNTRY .Official reports to the, Department of Labour indicate that there is a greatly decreased flow of immigrants to the United States from Canada and at the same time a much larger number returned to Canada from this side of the border. This development is ascribed to increasing opportunities for employment in "agriculture «nd- mdushy-;;;:. Seattle Glaziers Win Wage Boost Seattle—Glassworkers here have accepted a compromise wage increase of 50 cents a day. The union had sought an increase of 80 cents, but decided to accept the counter proposal of the contractors, bringing the scale up to $8.50 a day. The agreement, which is retroactive to May 2, was approved last night at a meeting of the Glass- workers' Union, Local 188, in the Union Record Building. Settlement of the glassworkers' controversy affects about 85 men, glaziers, bevelers and art glass workers, and is another step in the signing of general peace in the union building trades of Seattle for another year. ' At the time a written agreement was signed last week between representatives of the Building Trades Council and the Seattle Chapter of the Associated General Contractors, wages of several crafts not yet fixed were left to future negotiations. Wages of only two crafts now remain to be fixed, with the signing of the glassworkers' agreement. STRONG WORDS In a recent issue of the Boston Globe, Clemenceau, the war premier of France, was quoted as having given the following as his reason for not writing his memoirs: "I have seen too much and know too much. If I wrote my memoirs, not a man would go to war, even if the security of his country demanded it" . A Social Order With no Drudgery A social order with no drudgery for mankdin is prophesied by Do/* Glenn Frank, president of University ' of Wisconsin, as an inevitable outgrowth of our machine civilization. "Emancipation of mankind from drudgery will be the shifting of bur-' dens from the backs of mankind to, the backs of machines," Doctor Frank said. • 'Hard labour is not for men. "In those words is a new civiliza- ' tion born. With the thought 'Let machines and not men bear our burdens,' business and industry are writ- , ing new magna chartas. "The day of business that pays i its employees as little as they can be forced to accept and that charges its customers the maximum that they can be forced to pay, is passing. I am talking the soberness of sober business sense. Hard labour for any man is bad business. Mass production of the new machine age has come upon us with a rush and has Tj j brought general prosperity, but it has brought hard labour with it. "Hard labor,, bad business,' is in- i tolerable. But bad business will become better business and hard labor ' wjll become., machine labour. "Our new and terrible drudgery, is just a pioneer sin that will disap-. pear in time." One colored man was joshing an- ,. #| other about having such a larg*^ mouth, and got the reply: "Well, boy.J that ain't no keyhole you got in the front of your own face." '/ •PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS' New Books & Pamphlets i BY SCOTT NEARING DOLLAR DIPLOMACY. 346 PAGES. 50c. "Dollar Diplomacy" was adopted aa a title for this volume because It seemed to include, more completely than any other short phrase, the growth of the United States economic Interests abroad, and the diplomatic and military support accorded them by the Federal Government." EDUCATIONAL FRONTIERS. 250 PAGES. 35c. "The place of the teacher ls on tho firing line of civilization." Simon N, Patten. THE NEXT STEP. 175 PAGES. 50c. "This book is dedicated to the task of emancipating the human race from economic servitude." "A plan for economic world Federation." THE SUPER RACE. 90 PAGES, CLOTH. 50c "To the mothers and fathers of the Super Race." EDUCATION IN SOVIET RUSSIA. 184 PAGES. 50c "There has probably been no. greater revolution of Ideas than in the new educational system as practiced In Soviet Russia." THE LAW OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION. 262 PAGES. 75c An historical work dealing with all the important revolutions since the English revolution-of 1642; describing the details leading up to, during and after each revolution. TEN CENT PAMPHLETS GLIMPSES OF THE SOVIET REPUBLIC. 32 PAGES. 10c Some of the piany things that Scott Nearing saw during his sojourn ln Soviet Russia. A very interesting book. RUSSIA TURNS EAST. 30 PAGES. 10c . Tne triumph of Soviet Diplomacy in Asia. Labor Diplomats at work against thc world. STOPPING A WAR. 32 PAGES. 10c The light of the French workers against the Moroccan Campaign of 1925. WORLD LABOR UNITY. 32 PAGES. 10c "World Labor Unity" is no Utopian dream. It Is the immediate pressing necessity which awaits the will of the workers for its realization. The economic basis for Its accomplishment Is already laid. BRITISH LABOR BIDS FOR POWER. 32 PAGES. 10c The historic Scarborough Conference of the Trades Union Congress. OILS AN6 GERMS OF WAR. 32 PAGES. 10c "International Politics today are oil politics,"—Briand. ,! ______ OF THE ABOVE PAMPHLETS CAM BS OBTAINED FBOH THE LAB0t|l STATESM_VN^^ ,_ 816 Holden Building, 16 Hastings St East, Vancouver, B. C. May 27th, 1927 Trades Union Directory THE LABOR STATESMAN ?uu»m Trad•• and Labor oouauD—, ■aoblnlst liooal 8»3—President, Thos President, 3. Thomson; general secre-J Ml*. 1IH BUrrmrfl Si «_—•■■ ' tary, Percy R- B._«.»-fc ' nson; general secre-J tary, Percy R. Bengough. Office, 803 Holden Bldg., 16 Hastings East PhoneJ Sey. 74.6. Meets in Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the flrst and third Tuesdays In month. M. C. Fishermen's Association, meets ev- ery month.at the call of the Secretary in the Holden Bldg, 'leneral Secretary, R. Hornbrook, 53 Kastlngs St.. W. Beverage Dispensers tTnlon No. 678— meets last Sunday In month at 8:00 p.m.. Room ..10 Holden Bldg. President XV. H. Clancy: Secretary and Business Agent. T. J. Hannfln. Office: Room I. Flack Block; Phones, Sey. 4711 and Bay. 1856-R Hours, I to li ajn. ooflj 1.1—F,._i_ent, Tho_ 8111s, 1IM Burrard St Seoretarr, P. R. Bengough. Office, 107 Labor Hall, li Hastings Bast. Meeta on a<cond and fourth Tuesdays In month. ■ridge A Structural Iron Workers, fcoeal •7, lat. Asso.—Meats every Monday, Room 804 Holden Bldg., at 8 p.m. President, Sydney Dunatone; Secretary, P. Lauret, Box 302, City, Phone Fair. 21 OS L. ■uildlng Trades Council, Taacoever— Meets second and fourth Tuesday la Holden Building. President. Robt Stevenson: Secretary-treas., XV. Page, Room 815, Holden Bldg Bakers' local 408, Journeyman, of America—Meets first and third Saturdays at 7 p.m.—President, A. Morris, 2834 Vino St; sec. T Kill and Faeto-y Wonen. Valoa, looal Mo. 1599 — Affiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters A Joiners. Meets flrst and third Thursdays in Room 313 Holden Bldg. President,' H. C. Matthews; Business Agent, A. Graham, 809 Holden Building. Rec. ...■<■. R. O. lnder, 1848 Vine St Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees. Local ABA—Meets second and fourth Friday In Labor Hall, 18 Hastings St B. President. T. Rutherford; business agent, Blrt Showier, 1115 Robson St. Holder* Union local 381—«J»t__aat!onal of Worth America—Meets first and third Fridays in month In room 313 Holden Bldg.. at 8 p. m. President, John Brown, 638 Broadway W. Corresponding representative, J. PInkerton, 2159 Victoria Drive. Wealth Distribution Is Very Unequal The vital statistics of insurance companies supply facts on this subject: The following is from "The Future" by Everyman (reviewed by the Canada Life Assurance Co.) "What happens to 100 average men of 25 upon reaching age 66: One will, be wealthy, four will be welf-to-do and able to enjoy comfort and recreation, five will be working for a living with no prospect of relief from drudgery,' 54 will be dependent upon friends or relatives or charity and 36 will be dead." Three ■aksry •alssmea, looal 371 — Meeta second Thursday every month. Holden I Bldg., 16 Hastings B. President B.j Holmes; acting secretary, Blrt Show-1 ler, 1115 Robson, office, 807 Holden | Building. Motion Flotnree Projectionist's Vnlon, local 348 of I_»..T»-_ ft If IMC O.- Meets at 891 Nelson St on flrst Sunday In each month at 7:80 p.m. Pres- Ident, J. R. Foster, 1161 Granville Bt. Secretary, Geo. Gerrard, Box 845 Business Phone: Sey. 3888 Barbers,' Journeyman International TTnlon of America—Local 120, meets second and fourth Tuesdays In each month In Room 310 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings Bast. Pres., Fred. Dawe; Sec-treas., C. B. Herrett, Office 814 Holden Bldg. ^^ Bookbinders loeal Ho. 108, Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday in month at Professional and Business Woman's Club. Empire Bldg., 803 Hastings W. President, G. Low, 61 53rd Ave. W. secretary. Th_. ^*~—■" Water vapor in the air is transparent, but .when this water vapor becomes cooled, a portion of it becomes precipitated, which is no more or less than drops of water that are _,, - _--■••■■"= ucau. extremely small, but yet large enough The following is from "Money to . , . • • i j it. .. ,, t..,, „• .... to become transparent, and the Pay the Bills, issued by the Imperial . , ... . . ■ ,, , . Z ■ . r, , I. atmosphere m this state is called Asurrance Co. of Canada. On page t__ Dew If the temperature of the ground falls below the dew point of the air, the air deposits in the cooler surface moisture in. the form of small drops oi Water, which we call dew drops. Fog Vancouver Heights i' THE ESTHER BAKERY Place yonr orders now for our Fruit Loaves, 15c each. For Health, Strength and Beauty Eat Our Whole Wheat Bread, the perfection of Brown Breed. Also Makers of the Beet White, Raisin and Nut Bread Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST _F. F-etcyherWa,fatW!!!)''^^'.°gger, Thursda^TJ??_." j?Z2?.ni ""J foS-O-i rrmalf^3R^tft.Venn'.8onW-0?f^e J"**?' 16~can "ve on the income SeA.oV63 Haat,ns8 w«'- Phone | from their estates, 42 must work or ™ ■- ~~ ■ 1 be dependent, 42 are dependent. ... UJ >. Asurrance Co. of Canada. On page 15, "The Story Statistics Tell:" "Out of every 100 adults who die, 65 leave no estate at all, 27 leave estates which average $1292 and nine only leave estates of $5000 or more. "But 87. per cent of all estates left at death for administration consist solely of the proceeds of life assurance policies. "Out of every 100 widows in the country, 16-can live on the income Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf aad Book Builders Looal Mo. 3404—Meets every Friday night at 8 p.m. In 122 Hastings St. w. .lame. Thomson, secretary. P. O. Box, 320. C. Anderson, President _nt, G. Low,' 6l""_3rd. "Ave."XV.; I °' secretary. Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton I " _ , , _ ■ _ Street. Plasterers, local 89—International A»- — soolatlon of Operative, meets flrat and third Wednesday ln month at Holden Bldg. President, A. Hurry. Secretary, Ed. Williams, 1172 Barclay. Phone Douglas 3217R. ■' ■ Plumbers and Steamfitters, Mo. 170, International Asso. of—Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday In the Holden Bldg. President, R. Simpson; secretary and business agent, W. Watt, 805 Holden Building. Point Groy Municipal Employees' Association, Local Mo. 3—Meets second Monday of each month at th(_,Masonic Hall, Kerrisdale, 8 p.m. President, V. Ross Squalr. 3728 30th W. Secretary ■A. Patterson 8179 Hudson Street Bricklayers'. Masons' aad Vile _.„.•««- Int. tTnlon Bo. 1—Meets second aad fourth Wednesday In the Holden Bldg. President. G. B. Halllday: Secretary, W. S. Dagnall. 1844 30th Ave. * Phone Fair. 845 R. W. J. Pipes, Fln. Secretary. Oarpenters and Joiner*, Amalgamated Society of,—Vancouver lst Branch meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each- month. President, G. Richardson; Secretary. John T. Bruce; Business Agent, 3. MeKlnley. Headquarters, room 35, 163 Hastings St W. Oarpenters and Joiners. TTnited Brotherhood of, Local 453—President, A. Mo- . Donald; recording secretary, W. Page; fa business agent, W. Hargreaves. Of- fp>i flee. Room 805 Labor Hall. 16 Hast- X a lngs Hast. Meets second and fourth p. * Mondays, 8 p.m. 1 / city Hall Bmployees' Association meets ' '„ first Wednesday of each month at I I 161 ._ Hastings B., at 8 p.m. President D. Hargreaves: treasurer, W. J. Srlb- \ bins, 3208 Pender St. E.: Secretary, J. 1 Tarbuck. 2792 Pender East. ( ' Civic Bmployees' Union, Local 38 — Meets flrat and third Fridays In the month at 251H Hastings I.. at 8 p.m. President. R. N. Hogg, 1718 Commercial Dr.; secretary-treasurer, George Harrison, 1182 Parker St !. aiaotrtcal Worker*, Looal 813, Interne- tlor.al Brotherhood—Meets every Monday at 8 p.m In Room Ho. 6, 318 Pender Street West. President, H. C Allen; business agent E. H. Morrison. Office. 319 Pender Street West. m Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Looal Mo. 69—MeetB every second Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. ln Room 111 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E.ifl-'.esl- dent. Harry F. Longley, 301 8th St, North Van.; secretary, Wm. Qulgley, 2083 2nd Ave. W., Box 894. Bailway Carmen of Ame: 88—Meets first and month at Cotfllon Han, uranvine and Davie Streets. President, A. S. Rose, 5873 Pr. Edward St; secretary, J. D. Vullamy. 2216 16th Ave. W. th W Friday & ill Granville and Bngineers—International TTnloa Steam and Operating Local 844—Meets every Thursday at g p.m. Room 806 Holden Bldg. President, E. McCallum: rec. sec Geo. Pettaplecer Fin. Sec. & Bus. Asent T. A. NewblgRing. Office. Room 806 Holden Building, Street and Blectrio Bailway Bmployees, Pioneer Division Mo. 101—Meets K. P. Hall Eighth and Klngsway, lst and 3rd Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, J. B. Smith: recording secretary, F. E. Griffin; treasurer, H, W. Speed; flnanclal secretary and business agent Angus Maclnnes, 3544 Pr. ] Edward St Office: corner Prior and'] Main etreets. Phone Fairmont 1160L rtre Fighters, Ho. 18, International Association of—Meets every month at oall of president, at 251 ._ Hastings E. President, J. Anderson, No. 1 Fir* Hall; flnanclal secretary, C. A. Watson, No. 3 Fire Hall. rioorlayars' tTnlon, No. 1875, U.B. of C. A 3. ot A., meets 1st and 3rd . ( Thursdays In 310 Holden Bldg..-at 8 i, ) p.m. President, B. C Woodward; Fln. |> I Sec. A. Field.• Rec. Sec., W. D. Wilson, L f 1851 Howe St ; J > Hod Carrier* •»<• •-«" Sheet Metal Worker* Association, Looal Union Mo. 380 — Meets second and fourth Thursday In month in Holden Building, 16 Hastings Street E. President, A. Fisher, 1962 4th Avenue W.; business agent and secretary, D. Mac- Pher.ton, 807 Holden Bldg 17813—Meet* nth. In Room ..w. m, __aoor Temple. New Westminster, and 4th Sunday, 7:30 p.m.. In Room 313 Holden Bldg., Vancouver. President, J. N. Chute. Phone Hl_rh. 1982-T; sec. XV. H. Matthew, 3436 Irving St. '.Ninety out of every 100 children who enter school at age 6 have to go to work before completing their high school course. "Less than 6 per cent, of those who die before reaching old age leave adequate provision for their families." The following is from "Startling Facts" being actual life experiences of 100 men, compiled by the American Bankers' Association, and issued by the Imperial Life Assurance Co. of Canada. At Age Seventy-Five The number dead, 63. The number living, 37. The number dead leaving estates, three. The number deal leaving no estates, 60. The number living having estates three. The number' living having no estates, 34. Thus the American Bankers' Association finds that out of 100 men at age 75, six leave estates and 94 leave no estates. Ninety-five per cent, of these will not have sufficient means to defray] funeral expenses. i ._ .„ _C-1!_U fog. In reality, fogs are nothing more than clouds near the surface of the earth. Winds Winds are caused as a result of differences in temperature between the various layers of the atmosphere. A certain amount of air becomes heated and rises and then expands. As the air expands, it becomes lighter, and because it is light it goes upward toward the higher regions. It also flows from hot to cold countries. Kinds of Winds Mountain Breezes: Caused by the heating and cooling of hills and valleys. Avalanche Winds: Winds that are in front of a landslide, caused by the movement of thc snow forcing the air before it. Volcanic Winds: Dut to volcanic eruption which produces an outrush of air. - A Squall: Due to a sudden disturbance -in the temperature. A Simoon: A powerful desert wind. Rainfall There are records in Japan of where rain has reached 30 inches in 24 hours; in India where it has reached 40 inches in 24 hours. The average rainfall in the United States yearly is 35 inches. There are certain place in India where the yearly rainfall/ averages over 470 inches; whereas other regions of India show less than four inches. The heaviest annual rainfall recorded in any place in the world is in the Khasi Hills in Bengali, where it registered 600 inches. The major part of this was in half of the year. R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor and Dealer Howe Wiring, Fixtures, Lamp, j Batteries " 4099 Hasting* st. M. •l*a 370 British Co-ops Fight Anti-union Bill The governing body of the British Co-operative Movement, embracing a membership of 5,000,000, has brought the weight of that great organization definitely alongside the Trade Union and Labor Movement in. the fight against the Government's anti-Union Bill. Declaring that the Bill "imperils the foundation upon which associated democracy has been built up in this country," the Central Board of the Co-operative Union calls upon its members to assist the trade unions in every.way possible to defeat the measure. The resources of the Movement are to be at the disposal of the campaign being organized by the Trade Union Defence Committee. IN TRAINING "I'm afraid father-in-law doesn't care much about me," said the young man. "He finds fault with most everything I do." g "Nonsense," replied his wife. "You don't know his ways. He is treating you just like one of the family." Sod Carrier* and Bnlldlng laborer*, no. 60S, International. Meets flrst and third Friday In month at Holden Building. President, C. Lawson, 1S32 3rd Ave. XV. Fln. Sec. and Business Agent, I. A. Barrington, 4293 Welwyn Street. Phone Fair. 14.34L. Motel and Kestaurant Bmployees «__fl Marine Cook* le Stewards, Unocal 38— 441 Seymour St., meets every Monday. _ . First Monday each month at 3 p.m.. following Mondays at 9 p.m. Presl-1 dent Gilbert L. Coleman,. Sec-Treas. | I Harry Wood, Business Agent. Marine Dept. Fred. Tremblay. Phone Sey. 125. Tailor*', Joporneymsn Union of America, Looal Mo. 178—Meetings held first Thursday In each month, 8 p.m. Executive meeta third Thursday of every month In Labor HalL .-President, A. ft. Gatenby; secretary, C. McDonald, P.O. Box 503. Executive meet* third Thursday of every month. Teamster*, Chauffeur., Stablemen aad Helper*, Local ABB—Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 310 Holden Bldg. President, A. A. McKay, 773 Beatty St; secretary-treasurer, A. P. Black, 880 Homer St Theatrleal Stage Employee.' "tt-,„„ S_oe_l 118 ofth* rl-TiLllV eeSw'Sl -Meets at ni S»KSTtrtfS^ a°Bo0xn7ftrt,n- »-«"•» •SrS?'?: it neeiand*. P.O. Box 66. Meet* last • ■ Sunday of each month at 2 p.m.. In ladles' Auxiliary, Loeal 171 United Holden Bulldlnr. 16 Hasting* St E ■', Brotherhood of Carpenters — .Meets ' T every first aad third Wednesday of I # ) each month In 810 Holden b..ii_i. ~. -m-yvB-er* — 'Meets every first and third Wednesday of each month In 810 Holden Building, at 8 p.m. President,Mrs. Nickels, High. 1081T: secretary. Miss Gibbons, Fair. 243L. Typographical Vnlon, Mo. 188—President, C. S. Campbell; vice-president, R. Gouthro; Secretary-treasurer, R. H. Neelands. P.O. Box •«. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m.. In Holden Bulldliur. H -i.-ti—- * _____•_», Wood, Wire and Metal, International ualoa, Loeal 80T — Meat* 2nd and 4th Mondays .In month, at room 10* Holden Bldg. President H. P. F|UJJ*m«i1.JllM_>jJ--Ji»**^-*4CT«^ —SSrf, Bert jenkln*..'«0Y46th A** J. Increase for Chicago Milk wagon Drivers .Chicago milk wagon drivers have signed a five-year agreement with their employers, obtaining a weekly five-dollar wage increase,"" according to D. J. Tobin of Indianapolis, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The increase will be enjoyed by 6000 Chicago milk men, 200 in Gary, 200 in Hammond, 150 in East Chicago and 500 in other districts in the environs of Chicago, amounting in all to 7000 men. Like Big Buaineis Mr. Tobin declares that the new wage scale will add $35,000 a week to the earnings of 7000 milk wagon drivers; to the yearly pay, $1,920,- 000, and in five years thc increase in wages will aggregate $9,600,000, in addition to the good wages they axe now receiving. The men are 100 per cent, organized and put up a solid front for the | increase. Manitoba to, Probe Seasonal Work Professor at Manitoba Agricultural College Will Head Commission Realizing the hardships caused by seasonal unemployment, the Manitoba government has appointed a j commission, headed by Professor R. W. Murchie, of the Manitoba Agri-i cultural College, to conduct an in-J vestigation into the whole problem. The conclusions arrived at by this commission will no doubt attract considerable attention throughout the whole Dominion. The executive committee of thc Employment Service Council of Canada has also approached the federal Minister of Labour and urged him j to use his good offices to assist in I the alleviation of seasonal unemployment, particularly in thc building industry, to thc entj that the government, as well as private interests may carry on construction during winter months. Qmamo TOagon on every street- every morning Prince Rupert Trades & labor Council M^LVec£. d Tl>ursdar In each "A month. President S D Mc 11 k • Ponald. Box 268. Secreta-y/ Frfnk \\*mm " «»• ,_D^'_|to,.^ -' —Montaigne There never was in the world two opinion, alike, no mor. f|.#n |wo hair, or two grain.; the mo.t uni COST OF LIVING ,,, . ._.. _.***„*»*«i* fc ypjf Romg to have your marketing sent home/" . , p . Mrs. Crabshaw: "I'm only buying so I can carry jf," , >■ FAIRMONT 1000 Four The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at 816 Holden .Bldg., Vancouver. B. C. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades ' and Labor Council. Official Organ of the Canadian Labor Party. H. W. Watts, Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE: Chairman, XV. Watt, Plumbers; J. McCurragh, Typographical; J. Thomson, Bridge Builders; W. Deptford, Street Railway Employees; W. Clancy, Beverage Dispensers. Fhone Seymour 6379 -/=- THE LABOE STATESMAN May 27th, 1927 Vancouver, H. C, May 27th, 1927 FINANCIERS IN THE SADDLE The clique of financiers in control of the British Cabinet have succeeded in framing up a feeble case against Russia which will put a stop to the ever-increasing purchase of commodities that has been in operation for the past few years. Industry will be hard hit, but these financiers don't care about that; they live by coupon clipping and stock juggling, not by commercial activities. The case against. Russia is weak, because everybody knew that Russia was carrying on a propaganda, not only for the overthrow of capitalism in Great Britain, but also of the world. Their methods may not have been exactly the same as the British Labor Party or even the Independent Labor Party, but these parties had that in mind also as the ultimate aim. Russian tactics were more aggressive than that of the Labor Party, but the Labor Party gained adherents faster than the Communist Party, hence the Labor Party's attack on the capitalist system was more dangerous to the financiers than that of the Communist Party and Soviet Rtssia. The attack on the Labor Pdrty is being made, however, through the medium of the Anti-Union Bill. The financiers hope to crush the British Trade Union movement and thereby stop the tremendous financial assistance given the Labor Party by thc Trades Unions. These attacks, however, may have just the reverse effect; the temper of the working class may be so aroused that the Labor Party will be swept into power ■at the next election. There is just as much lion about the working class as there is about the plutocrats, and when that tail is twisted the workers can, and undoubtedly will, put up a fight that will topple over the British Imperialist and financial institutions. Canada has also decided to jump into the fray and cut some of its arteries at the behest of the British Die-Hards. Canada was just building up a nice trade with Russia but it will all go to pot now. Cancellation of contracts and agreements have already started and Canada will -lose several million dollars worth of yearly trade with Russia, for which there is absolutely no excuse. The "find" made in the raid on Arcos appears to be a great big joke. The names and addresses of prominent Communists was common property and no efforts were made to hide them. The activities of Soviet Russia has also been made public al most from the time of the revolution. Their propaganda was not confined to Russia and they made no pretence at hiding this fact. These are apparently the only "discoveries" made in connection with the "important" papers found in 'the prcjnises occupied by Arcos, Ltd. There are many rumours afloat as to what the next step will be. There is talk of war,but we doubt if that is the intention. _t appear*'to m to be Just one 6Tf'tTii6_-_attacks that the plutocrats feel is necessary to scotch the onward march of labour. Power is concentrated in the hands of a little coterie of financiers—plutocrats whose lust for gold and power is aj- most insatiable. They have stifled the agriculturists; they have swept the industrialists from power and now facing them are the masses of labour whose desire for a larger share of the wealth they have created is giving the financiers sleepless nights. These financiers want to juggle with the lives of the human race. In spite of the fact that the wolves of poverty are always at the door of the workers, the "money-changers" are still grasping for more. Every effort made by these workers to obtain more of the good things of, life causes these financial vampires to grind their teeth in rage. They want thc workers to be humble and to crawl back into their hovels and work( work, work, to grind out goods for an already over-stocked market and to build up profits for an overfed bunch of buccaneers. But the handwriting is on the wall. Pirate gangs, nations and empires have crumbled before. The onward march of progress, must ever push the working class forward and eventually the working class must win because we are many and they are few. HIGHER WAGES REDUCE COSTS An object lesson in the effect of high wages on production costs is given in the annual report of the Hollinger Consolidated, a Canadian mining concern. viewed by the Canadian Mining ami Metallurgical Bulletin for April: The report points out that from 1924 to the end of 1926, a period of three years, the number of employes has been decreased from 2,758 to 2,482; wages were advanced from an average of $1,533 to $1,814, and the tonnage milled per employe increased from 602 to 779. In other words, the smaller crew earning a higher individual wage, has mined and milled a much larger tonnage—1,932,559 tons in 1926 as compared with 1,659,457 tons in 1924. The increase in efficiency has reduced production costs from $4.46 per ton, which it was in 1924, to $3.95 per ton last year. Here is a case where the average yearly wage advanced 18 per cent, the average annual output per. employee 29 per cent., and the production cost per ton was reduced more than 11 per cent. That is the story of higher wages everywhere. Cheap wages mean high production costs. High wages mean more efficiency and resultant lower production costs. Where there is honest capitalization, honest management and honest bookkeeping you can't get away from it. ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS 3y "Point" In the persecution of my vacation I rent rte a cell in a structure which, in the language of the free press, is said to tower above the landscape. Like cave-dwellers, the occupants, holding on by their claws, survey the valley beneath and devise cunning schemes to enjoy life without the necessity of manual labour (why not spell it this way?) And so, judging by the door numbers, there are a hundred cells on each bank. Some of theses are known as parlours (God save you Master Printer). Dental parlours, legal parlours, land parlours, religious parlours, health and possibly disease parlours. Parler— French verb meaning to speak. Possibly there are speakeasy parlours. Such physical energy as is put forth in the rookery is mainly eon- fined to the dentatorium saloon. Therein extraordinary looking young men^ who affect the mop style of hairdressing and the infantile apron for custume, make great play of doing something that really matters. They excavate, drill, cut, hammer and eviscerate—all of which processes are applied to the devotee, who seated in a "crazy-house chair, revolves from earth to heaven con fronted by a text imploring one to "Smile damn you smile." The re mains are conveyed to the cashier who computing the agonies of the painless passage charge accordingly. .Teeth that are "just as good"vare _J: „,.._.__ _SJ 'upplied at impossible prices and the traveller can be fixed to these for a further consideration. Occasionally Dame Nature takes a hand having her own ideas upon the subject of mastication. Then a hurried adjournment is made to the medi- catological parlours. All is lost save honour. - This being an exact not to say exacting science deserves a fresh line giving typographicus a chance to renew his stock of u's and the writer time to burn another copy of the Pitman-Roosevelt spelung dikshunry. Long, long years ago, before your aunt and I left Peckham and before modern science had discovered the food values of putrid butter, men knew very little about disease. They imagined that it came as a consequence of wrong-doing or as a visitation of the gods. They would repair to the medicine man, who, if he belonged to the union, would collect backsheesh for Baal, and apply red- hot irons to the affected part. Those that did not survive were buried. But owing to the researches of a very clever German gentleman, whose name I forget, we have changed all that. The counting-house of the modern medical specialist is a very different thing. We enter the elevator of the Babel Block and emitting a thought-wave to the operator we think hard of the fifteenth floor, Dr. Owe .Canada's lair is .on thc eighteenth and we are smilingly ejected on the twentieth. Here a good view can be obtained of the excellent kitchen sanitation of the British Restaurant and its smiling corps of Oriental native sons. At last we reach Dr. Kanada's office. Turning the' door-handle, nothing happens—it is the private office room. Oscillating various fixtures on other doors, all of which appear to be connected with various processes of the savant's business, we at last gain entrance to the waiting room. The table is spread with periodicals exhibiting the diversity of the doctor's \ taste. Orange & Rome, Whig & Tory, Brewer & Pro- hibitionistall have their literature. -hegtrany'eo^mphraryitem should unduly stimulate the heart's action I of a patient, this reading matter is AN ACCEPTED INSURANCE PRINCIPLE It is probable that in the course of the present year the principle of unemployment insurance will be adopted and will replace the present system of state relief for unemployment in Germany. An unemployment insurancce bill is under consideration of the German Reichstag. A commission has reported to the British .Government on the subject of the "dole." While advocating a continuance of unemployment insurance, the commission recommends that the amounts given weekly, especially to young men and women, shall be con siderably reduced. Improvements in administration are also proposed. The inquiry) has established beyond all doubt, however, the general agree ment in all. quarters that the risk of unemployment must be insured., Help Us to Help our Advertisers UNION STEAMSHIPS ENJOY A DELIGHTFUL TRIP TO BOWEN ISLAND Vancouver's Island Suburb ONE HOUR'S SAIL, FROM THE UNION DOCK Splendid Excursion Steamers Leave:— EVERY DAY AT 9 A. M. SUNDAY AT 10 A. X. ALSO SATURDAY at 3 P.M. and 7:30 P. M ■ , WEDNESDAY AT 7:30 P.M. (Evening Dunce Cruise) Special Week-end Fare (Saturday to STe-4 f\f\ •*-■**.; Monday Morning);..also Wedm iday XI I II1 RETURN Evening Cruise:— tpJLeVfV/ BOATING BATHING DANCING TENNIS FISHING— And Every Out-door Recreation Immediately Available For Further Information Regarding Sailings Phone SEYMOUR 306, UNION DOCK, or SEYMOUR 9331 CITY TICKET AGENT:—533 GRANVILLE STREET —HAROLD BROWN, General Manager. ( This is B. C. Products Week Insist on Xocal Goods Wm SUMMER COTTAGE BUILDERS, ATTENTION! 100,000 feet of Specials to saennce Can ship In scow to any part of North Arm Shore hlne, or by truqk anywhere Flooring—Celling—Siding Phono up now and save money Glenburn 384 Manufacturers of All Kinds of Rough and Finished Lumber Also Lath and Shingles Enjoy your own home. Let us help you with our plan book, "Newly Designed British Columbia Homes." Highland 180 BARNET BOOSTS BETTER BUILT BUNGALOWS II Barnet Lumber Company Ltd. '•'• _____ _. "Only XVhlte Employees" mi 3995 HASTINGS STBEET EAST VANCOUVER, B. a / is most thoughtfully dated in 1924 or 1925 at the latest There are signs that many loving hands have handled these pages in £he years that are gone. Underneath a seagrass table there are volumes handsomely bound in anything but leather. Books of funny nictures presented with a year's sub.eription to Mag's Magazine. Around the walls are photos of Kanada at college, at the bat, the wheel, the racquet—skating, acting, dancing—an admirable Crichton. Seated round the room, patients, seeking the cure. Ever and again a smiling nurse appears, points, apparently by chance —one by one the congregation disappear—none ever return. Others arriving later than ourselves are called and go. Who shall read the ritual? Before we enter, however, let us return to our Germans. According to the latest computation there are now some sixty billion different diseases of the first order. Each of these has national, geographical and political subsections. There are also individual distinctions into which we will not enter this week. Each of these specific diseases has, what we, being unlearned, will call a germ. When one encounters, the particular germ, one takes the complaint. There is no protection against this onslaught but a previous administration of the • same germ by a trained inoculist. Bound the walls ot**br. Kanada are ranged .thousands (.f^bottlcs—green bottles, black bottles und blue bottles, not flies. In each of these,i_-eribbed, • cabined and confined, the virus of a particular ill. All are numbered so ' that if the supply of number four- n teen, runs out, the deficiency can be made up by using ten and four. It is, of course, quite impossible to store millions of bottles in a small room. Shaking us by the hand the kindly medico recounts his exploits at bridge. Venturing a statement as to . our particular trouble, which we *" fondly imagined to be tennis elbow, ' we are glad to find that we merely have a mild attack of "Spcricus Tenax." It means only a slight , operation and the subsequent periodical inoculations. Our wages for • 1930 will be left us intact. Relieved in many ways, we hasten away. We know now, however, that had we not . pursued our way down Granville St. last week when hordes of the I "T_-iax" microbe were blowing : about, we should have escaped. And^ i yet had we gone by Main St. there.fM might have been worse awaiting there. ' The biggest item in establishing a job is the fear of losing it JOIN THE LABOR PARTY ■_. For Further Information Write B. C. SECTION, CANADIAN LABOR PARTY Vice-presidents, W. H. COTTRELL, W. W LEFEAUX, S. BATE. «, m, I in -:, ^''*"*""."'. J'■--— ffli May 27th, 1927 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five Unsung HONEST FOOD VALUE (No Skin, Hone or Sinew) PLENTY OF VARIETY (Venus Fi.'-h Balls, Quenelles, Salmon Chowder and Canadian Fish Dinner) HEALTHY TO EAT , (Doctors recommend VKNUS , jSKA FOODS-for Invalids and children) SOLD HERE BY all Grocers and Delicatessen Stores. Write for FBEE BOOKLET 01 New Sea rood Beclpes VENUS FISHING & CANNING CO. Limited Dominion Bldg., Vancouver, B. C. "Queer" Version by "Point" Oh Canada; Old England's district lot Owe Canada: We sign above the dot, With "Sam" beside, like hell we ride While "Ah Sin" keels the pot Our sea and land, please understand Are mortgaged to ? God wot; Hoe Canada; Sow Canada; Blow Canada We still will sing for thee Go Canada; Remember air is free. 'PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS' Alone INDEPENDENT How will you be fixed at 65? Like the old folks in tho picture — happy, contented end free from worry, with the assured income of a List-Survivor Annuity payable as long aa either of them lives? Or will you be compelled to' strugfle for your daily bread? Any man or woman resident in Canada can buy ah Annuity. A lump sum or, small convenient installments, fives you a retiring income of from $10 to $5000 a year. And payment Is aa sure as the ruing of the sun, for Annuities art backed by the resources of the entire Dominion and cannot be forfeited, stolen or seised by legal process. Investigate this wise Government offering NOW. Canadian Government ANNUITIES 'Annuities Branch Department of Labour, Ottawa JHE HON. PETER HEENAN Minister Annuities Branch, Dept '06. Pepartment of Labour, Ottawa. Please send me Complete 1 '-.formation about Canadian Government Annuities. Name ...... . ,-i, (Print clearly) Address u*****+*v*~u±~+-*± -....__.... ._,*.,«.«._, Service of "Tramp" Laborers The transient labourer who tramps from Florida to Canada, taking jobs that run the scale from berry picking to tunnel digging, perform a useful though unsung service to the indus tries of the nation. Thousands of "fruit tramps," berry glommers" and vegetable gatherers and packers are now following the harvest northward. Recent reports from the Ozark region in Missouri state that the strawberry crop in that one seotion alone will require many thousands of men, women, and children. Last year, wheat, corn and cotton growers alone called upon the U.S. Employment Service for aDout half a million seasonal workers, and this represents only a small portion of those actually employed. Prey of Private Agencies The circumstances surrounding these casual workers have in a mini ber of cases been so flagrant as to become public scandals. The private employment agencies preyed upon them, the accommodations provided by employers were often a menace to health and morals, and the lo. s of millions of dollars in spoiled crops and delayed construction work has resulted from the lack of any adequate machinery for mobilizing this highly necessary emergency force of workers. < _ When the U.S. Employment .Service was instituted some years ago it was believed that most of the evils of which migratory unskilled workers complain could be corrected. A letter received at the U.S. Department of Labour would indicate that bad conditions continue to prevail in numerous sections. This migratory worker says that last season he was employed on 24 jobs in 19 places and travelled 6300 miles. He started in Arizona, thence to Texas, and finally followed the late harvests into Canada and back south again. . "I ended the year a homeless wanderer, with only $43.25 more in my pocket than when I started, and I ex- ' pect to be broke before obtaining another job." Gives Full Accounting He explains that he is a common labourer and worked a total of 180 days, earned $386 at the rate of $2.50 per day-of 10 hours. Just how an average migratory worker fares is recited by the writer, as follows: "At the commencement of the year I had no desire to travel at all; 1 would have stayed in Arizona, but work was scarce, wages low, and conditions bad. I went to Lubbock, Texas., but found no work; went to Am arillo, Tex., bought a job on farm, was turned off on account of rain; went to Oklahoma, worked for my board; went to the strawberry picking in Arkansas and Missouri; went to the harvest in western Oklahoma; then to North Dakota; back to Texas; picked cotton; went to the pecan district, but could not buy a job; next and last, gathered corn in the famous Seagraves country of Texas. I am out of work at present and thc chances are strong that I will be broke before I find employment— broke, I mean out of cash." Buying a Poor Job The communication was of such a highly interesting character as to lead Department of Labour officials to write for further information, especially as to what was meant by the term "buying a job." The explanation given throws still further light on the conditions faced by the unskilled, seasonal worker. There _are three way*-of buying- a job," he said in reply: First, by Social-Democrats Still Hold Vienna The keenly-fought Austrian elections have resulted, according to the results in the first ballot, in the maintenance of the Social-Democratic predominance on the Vienna Town Council, qpd of the bourgeois parties' sway in Parliament — although in the latter case the capitalist majority seems likely to be reduced. Polling was very heavy; the list of parties was very long—there were 19 bourgeois parties in the field, most of them having no chance of getting a single deputy elected—and the system of proportional representation is complicated, so that full results will not be known for a day or two. The contest in the main was between the Sociaists and the "Ein- heitsliste"—the supporters of Dr. Seipel, the Chancellor, mainly Chris- tion Socialists, who held power in the late Parliament by uniting with the die-hard German Nationalists, and who have conducted their election campaign in common with the agrarian and other bourgeois parties. The result of the Parliamentary election to date is, according to Reuter:— Einheitsliste 76 seats Social-Democrats.. 64 seats - Agricultural Party.! 6 seats The result of the Vienna Town Council election so far is:— Social-Democrats... 79 (1 gain) Einheitsliste 41 Second ballots are proceeding in several constituencies. ' Come and See Our ORIENTAL ROOM Phone,: Sey. 9147 S_y. 4935-0 New Central Cafe, Ltd. A. PASHOS, Mgr. (Open Day and Night) 608 Pender St. West. The most modern cooking and refrigerating system in Vancouver. Orpheum Theatre Auspicious Opening of Sensational Summer Engagement of Popular Players to Take Place at Orpheum Next Monday Since thc. Initiul announcement a few days ago that Ray Collins and Margaret Marriott, erstwhile favorites of logal theatre-goers are to appear at the Orpheum Theatre during the summer month-, interest has been rife ln all sections of the city among former admirers of these long absent artists. ANTI-TRADES UNION BILL AROUSES BRITISH MASSES Continued from Page 1 The Parliamentary fight on the Government's Bill (writes, our Lobby Correspondent) will increase in severity with the opening of the Committee stage on Wednesday. It is distinctly unusual for the Committee stage to follow, so closely on thc Second Reading of an important measure, and the Government's haste in this case—despite the Labor Party's protest, it would not postpone the Committee stage by more than a day—indicates a determination to rush the Bill through. With the Government in this humor it is significant that already Conservative newspapers and politicians should be freely dropping hints about recourse being had to the more drastic methods of applying the closure, which long experience of the working of the Parliamentary machine has evolved. 322 Amendments Needless to say, such attempts to restrict discussion will be strongly opposed by the Labor Party, which takes the view that the fullest discussion of every amendment is necessary, especially as the measure has never been before the electorate.' Up to now, no fewer than 322 amendments have been tabled, and of these more than 200 are in the names of members of the -Labor Party. Some of the Tory amendments are clearly intended simply to make the Bill an even harsher instrument for populai ville street playhouse next Monday night, when they will present the recent New York dramatic smash "Conscience," written by the prolific ..-author, Don Mullally. Mr. Collins and Miss Martott will appear \'Z" for the first time at the popular-Cran-] the repression of the working class. Four stand in the name of Ministers, and their effect is to define an illegal strike' as "designed or cal- Mr. Barnes, manager of the Orpheum I culated to coerce the Government has arranged, a most auspicious open-1 ^.^ ^^ or infUcting h__d. ship on the community;" and to make the Bill apply to lockouts. The inclusion of lockouts is window-dressing; nevertheless, a number of the amendments standing in the name of Tory back-benchers are designed to that end—Daily Herald. . i_n.cr-DVTiicu.uni cnnuiNin-i " *OD' ne M,a in reP'y: first, by] in any way, we say "it eannot be .... ... . - ■ , , - , V ing night. Invitations have been issued lo His Worship Mayor Taylor, and the City Council, newspaper critics and editors and prominent citizens. Theatregoers, realizing that this is undoubtedly tne most outstanding stock engagement in the history of the city, have been booking their season tickets in large numbers for several days. "Conscience" is the play In which Ray Collins made his New York debut and in which he played for several months on Hroadway. Gotham's dally paper critics were unanimous In their praise of Mr. Collins' splendid work In this piece,, with the result that since that time he has been a consistent star in many Broadway hits. Mr. Collins and Miss Marriott have brought to Vancouver with them a talented company of New York and Hollywood actors of considerable note, and will present during their summer engagement a series of recent New York stage successes thit have, never been played In the West. By special arrangement with the authors of these plays, Mr. Collins has succeeded in securing the most Impressive list of dramatic and comedy hits that have ever |»een offered to Vancouver theatre audiences. There Is no doubt tbut that every Jover of legitimate stage plays will eagerly attend each and every one of Mr. Collins' productions as up to the present time a'pplicatfons for season tickets have been received in -great numbers. Prices for these offerings are very reasonable considering the tremendous cost of bringing such talented artists and such unusually popular plays all the way from New York to Vancouver. UNEMPLOYED IMMIGRANTS RAID EMPLOYMENT OFFICE Continued from Page 1 Calgary^-central Europeans have applied for employment at practically all of the industrial plants. A number have been employed after local men had been refused employment. What of Next Winter? Some people are likely to ask what it matters 'where these new arriVals are employed, or at what rate of wages, so long as they have work. But two things must be borne in mind: One is that these men are taking joW that would otherwise go to the workers who have been here for some time; the other is that the wages paid are so low that it is impossible for the men to keep themselves and families and lay by anything to live on when the short workirfg season is over. What will be the general result? Aggravated conditions of unemployment next winter, with much distress and the necessity for additional relief. That" is why the acting premier and the mayor of Edmonton protested to Ottawa. Most people are agreed that we need a greater population in this country. But all reasonable persons who have the interests of the country at heart, agree that what we need is people who will go on the land and who will have sufficient capital to enable them to make good as farmers. We don't need additional casual laborers. We have too many already. Those that have been dumped into this province this spring can only have one effect on the conditions here. They will add to unemployment and force the standard of living down. private employment agency; second, by paying a sum of money in addition to the fee to have a job held out and reported to the person wanting it, thc first time the kind of a job desired is brought in, which relieves the party looking for work of the necessity of waiting an indefinite length of time at the employment office, third, by paying some" one "who has a job to vacate it. so it can be taken. Whcnp it-n.*Ttnposstble-to""get a job ■ "ABSURD TO TRY" "You Cannot Intimidate the Labor Party." —Sir Chas. Macara A remarkable condemnation of the anti-Trade Union Bill was made by Sir Charles Macara, head of the great cotton firm of Henry Banner- man and Son, who for 21 years was president of the Master Cotton Spinners' Federation. Sir Charles, who has never taken part in politics, stated: "In my judgment the Trade Unions -Bill carries some of the worst features that it is possible to introduce in industrial control. The Government is relying on Us big majority to do something for which it has no mandate. "I have never found the organizations of the working people .blind to a reasoned policy. It is absurd to try to put back the clock of progress by harassing trade unions in the ordinary conduct.of their own affairs. "You cannot possibly intimidate a great party such as the Labor Party has become." Teacher—"Is is true that heat expands bodies and cold contracts them?" Pupil—"Yes, sir." Teacher—"Kindly give us a demonstration of this truth." Pupil—"For example: Well, days are longer in summer arid shorter in winter." * * • Husband (seeing wife off on train): "Now, dear, just as soon as you arrive, telegraph." Wife: "All right. How much shall I telegraph for?" 'It wouldn't do to jail all of the naughty. The righteous alone _d»-lt*^pOTt"'theiMta--^ ( BUT YOUR Footwear From the Premier Distributors At Wholesale Prices. SAVE A DAY'S PAY Visit our upstairs ealoBroonis and consult our foot specialist. 100 POWELL ST. Corner Columbia. Office Sey. 7133 Telephones: Houss High. 4.33B Frank Browne LAND HOUSES INSURANCE Let me know your needs. Special low rate for auto Insurance. Could you replace house_ ■ and fu.nlturg_iri t„_..__V-Jit_o_~_>-_A ::_f_5-__"~"_ --• -■::-' —■" " Come and see mr anyway. 311 Province Bnlldlng . JJr^U^,_UL_HBtKW JTM-f VtXSBT I } LABOR STATESMAN May 27th, 1927 Q_. INSPECTOR Stationed at strategic points to check and regulate your street car service. Working of Economic Determinism by f. w. MOORE Economic Determinism, as most | Therefore, virtual serfs, and pluto- BDnsfflOttnzraw^Eusc^ LIFE INSURANCE LOWEST PRICED STANDARD POLICIES IN CANADA , CALL GLENBURN 329L W. A- PRITCHARD 136 RANELAGH AVENUE NORTH BURNABY, B. C. We Do Not Patronize List of Trades Council STEVENSON'S BAKERY AVENUE THEATRE WALDORF CAFE GOOD EATS CAFE ROYAL DAIRY CRYSTAL DAIRY NATIONAL LUNCH TROCADERO CAPE COLLARD, the Clothier. , " • • .( 603 Hailing. W. LEN. A. DAVIS (Lathing Contractor) PRINTERS CLARKE & STUART MURPHY A CHAPMAN ROSE, COWAN-& LATTA GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G. A. LTD. J. W. BOYD Si: "Your cow just got into tny field and ate up all my vegetables." IiO:"AU right, I'll send you over a quart of milk." Kindness is one of the surest signs of good breeding. SAYS CANADA'S RAIL RATES ARE LOWEST IN WORLD Ottawa.—Canadian freight rates are the lowest in the world, according to Alistair Fraser, counsel for thc Canadian National, who concluded his argument in the rate case before the Board of Railway Commissioners last Week. »;■ Mr. Fraser urged the Commission not to make a further cut in rates. Such action, he said, would make it impossible for the National to meet expenses and in that event the people of Canada would have to make up thc deficit. An officer on board a warship was drilling his men. "I want every man to lie on his back, put his legs in the air and move them as if he were riding a bicycle," he explained. 'Now commence." After a short effort, one of the men stopped, ,' "Why have you stopped, Murphy?" asked the officer. "If ye plaze, sir," was the answer, "Oi'm coasting." ¥ exne lenerally speaking, an efficiency expert is neither efficient nor expert. SUBSCRIBE TODAY We invite yon to tubicribe or get a friend to subscribe for The Labor Statesman. The rates are two dollars for one year, one dollar for six months/ I enclose dollars, for which please send the Labor Statesman to the address below for. ....months, commencing with the next issue. nam.: ADDRESS Pleas. Write Plainly to Avoid Mistakes. Address: Labor Statesman, 816 Holden Bldg., Vancouver Labour people know, consists of action induced by industrial necessity, and except when viewed from an angle whose vortex reaches to the primordial regions of prehistoric times and whose base lies in the modern world, the import of its operation, implying the complete return of labour's product, would hardly be suspected. In a state of nature, the animals struggling for "existencee" are quite independent and naturally own the full product of the chase. When certain species labored in communities the result was just the same. The bees, for instance, have this privilege incidentally to the possession of an industrial government.—Their production is scientific, not anarchistic like ours; therefore it excells as a masterpiecce of governmental ingenuity. Their plans, however were guided by instinct, that is, by a force inherited from the Overruling Mind, while man depends on the crude efforts of the objective faculty. _ Thus did^t-rerSfeat Law for millions of years-bring in its wake the full product of their labour to the various forms of life, and that too when they were organized on a communistic basis. When we see amongst humans an exception to this rule we are inexorably driven to the conclusion that it is not natural but artificial and has been protruded by the stress of unnatural circumstances incidental to the development of property. For as Morgan says in his "Ancient Society," page 5: "The idea of property was slowly formed in the human mind remaining nascent and feeble throughout immense periods of time. Springing into life in savagery it required all the experiences of this period and of the subsequent period of barbarism to develop the germ and to prepare the human brain for the acceptance of its controlling influence. Its dominance as a passion over all other passions marks the commencement of civilization." For thousands of years in the period of primitive savagery the product of the chase belonged to the group and was divided equitably amongst the different families. No doubt, as a temporary instrument of development, monopoly in wealth is needed, but it is not a permanent result of Nature's law. In its evolution a reactionary economic determinism became the vogue. The worker in feebly foregoing the privilege that his ancestors for thousands of years enjoyed (the privilege, of insisting on the full value of his product) became virtually a serf. And strange as it might appear to a monopolist, this conduct is denounced in the Scriptures, for surely such is the conduct of one who doesn't take advantage of his opportunities. In Matt. 25: 29, we read: "For unto every one that hath shall be given and from him that hath not shall be taken even that which he hath." Economic Determinism on the other hand Inspires the monopolist to satisfy the commercial necessity for increased wealth by legally usurping the surplus values of his fellow-men, thereby forming a habit suggested by the imperfect objective mind altogether at variance with the instinctive procedure in vogue for millions of years. We must conclude it is unnatural and only a temporary stimulus to human development. But apart from the fact that it is contrary to Nature, we have many instances of the destruction .of ancient civilisation in which'necessity ^^nt.^^^e£esBk^s^^^f^; crats alike if they don't look to Nature for their inspiration will some, day be compelled to take her as an example. This applies to serfs especially since Nature never yet lifted up a race except by the instrumentality of its own exertions. If man would act like the bees and establish as soon as he can make himself fit for it, an industrial government, he would once more be putting into effect the purport of Nature's great law. He would make princes of the plutocrats and kings out of serfs—intellectually and cultured princes and kings such as this world has never yet produced as a class. Economic Determinism in its grandest meaning is the voice of the Overruling Mind. It is worth obeying. F. W. MOORE. UNION CAFES Seymour 3168 Always Open Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver'i Beit - Under Personal Management ot HAROLD DEGG /BOB KRAUSE Lata 6-th Batt. Late 71nd Batt 76 Hastings Si. E. Vanconver, B.C. LONG-LIVED FAKES OF ANTI- LABOR PROPAGANDISTS "The principal difference between a cat and a lie," said Mark Twain, "is that a ca,tJ_aa__nly nine lives." Some little brothers of the super- rich, calling themselves the "National Bureau of Economic Research," printed a "report" a few weeks ago, saying that the "incomes of workers" had increased 44 per cent, from 1921 to 1926; and that, in the latter year, "the average income of all persons gainfully employed" in the United States was $2010. A more bold-faced fake never was perpetrated. This so-called bureau of research averaged the income of Henry Ford with that of a section hand, and put out the result as "wages." They lumped together the incomes of John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, the children tending spindles in South Carolina cotton mills arid the farmers going bankrupt in the corn belt, and stltcd the "average" as if it were the regular, normal pay of American Labor. One might as well take an apple weighing six ounces and a water melon weighing 25 pounds, and say that the average weight of "fruit" in America is 12 pounds 11 ounces. "Labor" exposed this iake in the issue of February 26 of this year. But a month afterward, a really splendid liberal paper in Washington unthinkingly reprints the yarn. Mark Twain was right. A cat has only nine lives, while a lie—.—Labor Try Onr Lnnch, It's Extra Oood for 3S Cents LEO'S CAFE 43 POWELL STREET Where the 4 Streets" ifeet PRENCH AND ITALIAN DISHES v Our Specialty. Use our Banquet Hall for your next annual supper, etc. Phone Seymour 20GG-206G - Open From 7 a.m, to 12 p.m. All White Help. BROTHER CHARLES CHERZ, Proprietor. Egg Orders Arc Our Specially "IT'S THE COFFEE" Fred's Dairy Lunch They AU Coma Back to 72 HASTINGS STREET WEST AH Good Union Men! —will eat at a good place. When ln a hurry try the FASHION LUNCH G9'a Hastings Street East Colonial Theatre GRANVILLE AND DUN8MU-R Premier Film Attractions Special Features Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Moderate Frloes CONTINUOUS, 11 A.M. TO 11 P.M. W. E. FENN'S School of Dancing PRIVATE AND CLASS LESSONS Social Dances, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. SEYMOUR 101. COTILLION HAXL WEALTH OF CANADA The wealth of Canada, aside from undeveloped natural resources, is estimated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics to be 14 times what it wss when the Dominion was formed in 1867. The present value, $22,000,- 000,000, of which $8,000,000,000 is assigned to agriculture, $6,000,000,- "000 to urban real estate and $2,000,- 000,000 to railroads, amounts to $2,- 525 per capita. AN UNREASONABLE CHILD It was washing day, and John had been kept from school to look after the bAy. Mother sent them into the garden to play, but it was not long before cries disturbed her. "John, what is the matter with the baby now?" she inquired from her washtub. "I don't know what to do with him, mother," replied John. "He's dug a hole and wants to bring it into thc house." Although women are now wearing only about %}ne-tiith oi the clothes .they wore ten years—ago,- hooks in closets are just as scarce fot'-'-r.sbandfl. Classified Adverts. BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS Wallls XV. Lefeaux, 402 Metropolitan Building-. Phon* Sey. GGG7. BATHS Hastings Steam Batba Price 35c Only 768 Hastings Street East •■ DENTISTS Dr. Pr, A. Bntledge. 106 Hastings W. HARDWARE Manitoba Hardware 1714 Coniinerelal NOTARIES P. R. Bengough, 803 Holden Bldg. PRINTERS Labor Statesman 803-818 Holden Bldg. RUPTURE SPECIALIST O. E. Heard, 95? Bobson SAW riLERS S. Xnochtol ' 1976 Granville riled, Set, Re-toothed. Edged Tool* Ground Perfectly. SHOE REPAIRS H. Sopp, 3867 Main St. UNDERTAKERS,, Armstrong A Hotson, 304 Dunlevy Ave. The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread ralrmont 132 43* mi An. a. VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis. Bad Cold. MASSAGE A. SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. SET. 2070 The happiest people are not those who are loved much, but those who Ioveri_rffi__^tKo_^wh6 grve~o~Fihem- • j^!-S-t^_d-rwife^a.a«rv«-0)o_eth»y— love.' May 27th, 1927 THE' LABOR STATESMAN Seven Shop for Less on Cordova Street Low rent, no charge for fancy service, our large volume (in four stores and Mail Order) all help to give you better shoe value at 160 CORDOVA ST. WEST ■a W)0Di_ fafM Vancouver and Nanaimo ronizeII Whole Wheat - FLOUR IVMY HOME NEEDS IT. MAKE SURE YOU GET IT— AND NOTHING ELSE. It la Rick In Nouri-hment DELICIOUS R. WILKINSOH, Pm. D. DUNCAN, ta. Reynolds'Cartage Co- LIMITED Phones Seymonr 3377-3378 Orating, Peeking, Shipping and Storage Furniture end Piano Moving Long Distance Moving Pool Car Shipments Office end Warehouse] 783 — CAMBIE STBEET — TBI WesternG.assCo.,l_td. Wholesale and Retail Dealers. 158 Cordova W. Phone Sey. 8887 SEE US ABOUT BROKEN GLASS IN WINDOWS, AUTOMOBILES, MIRRORS SHOWCASES, ETC. Art Glass Ruuired Mirrors Rt-illiertil Ring Up Sey. 2354 for Appointment DR. W. J. CURRY DENTIST Suite 301 Dominion Building Vancouver, B. C. NOTARY PUBLIC P. R BENGOUGH Secretary Trade* and Labor Council Boom 803, 16 Hasting. Street Bast Phones: Sey. 7-.S-I1.I PERRY & DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 STATIONARY A MARINE ENGINEERS COACHED FOB EXAMINATIONS P. A. GOEPEL K-.-B. C. Boiler Inspector S2S Pender W. S.ysnonr 4300 Union Barber Shops XV. Brennan. ..- 4*4 Oranvllle St Capitol Barber Shop SIS Granvlll. I* Arnold 1114 Oranvllle St Chas. Pnrnell, Fashion Barber Shop, 71 Hastings St M. Chrystal Barber Shop —_47 Hastings W. Rainier Barber Shop... 101 Carrall St Artfleur Barber Shop SOI Pender XV. Manhattan Barber Shop_10S> Robson Bt W. A. Parkin _4ltt tew St CONSUMERS IN WONDERLAND Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink. A multi-millionaire of an inquringf turn of mind could probably perpetuate his name to eternity by endowing a laboratory and information bureau on a scale sufficiently large to make a real impression upon the buyer's consciousness. "The Consumers' Foundation," he might call it. Under a group of public-spirited and disinterested trustees, chosen mainly from the professions, its experts could afford to tell the truth, and nothing hut the truth, and furthermore, they coold put their efforts into fields where the protection now afforded is particularly inadequate. Articles that bulk large on the family budget, and which are not now c#yered by analysis in either government or private outposts, should pro_bably be the first concern of such a laboratory. Business houses desiring sincerely to support the Foundation's work—and there would be many of them—could be publicly listed as preferred suppliers, if and when they met the laboratory's requirements. If a million citizens could be persuaded to invest a dollar each per year for verified facts about their purchases, wonderful things could be done. In relation to service rendered, scientific work is normally the cheapest thing in the world. It is probable, furthermore, that a service paid for will be more extensively used than free hand-outs by the government. The kind of info_ma tion which is most useful is not a learned treatise on the histology and etiology of a given article, but something translatable directly into an order on a Main Street store. It is the consumer's move. If he wants to leave Wonderland, there are ways out, and the clear possibility of drastically reducing the cost of living. He can get his money's worth if he is willing to organize to get it. The market always responds to organized pressure. Pending the coming of organization, the indivdual can create no little nuisance value in the right direction and learn a lot besides, by adopting some, or all, of the following suggestions:, Ask advertisers to produce the scientific facts upon which their claims are based. Ask the same of door-to-door canvassers. Ask the same of storekeepers and dealers. Ask your Congressman to' obtain the release of government information, particularly that of thc Bureaus of Standards and Chemistfy, on goods, by maker's name. Get competitive sales arguments together and watch .them flatten out. Refuse to deal with firms making fantastic or misleading claims, or guilty of unfair competition. Write them to that effect. Call the attention of editors to misrepresentations, either known | or apparent, in advertising. You will find such, we believe, in every popular magazine. Encourage your local sealer of weights and* measures. Give him more work to do. -Encourage the Better Business Bureaus. Give them more work to do. Encourage your local food control official. Find out what his laboratory is doing. Read .labels carefully; compare them with the advertising. Dis crepancies between the two measure, in part, the extent of misrepresent* tion.' •**"■ ' - s Look for weights on package goods; figure out how much you are paying per pound. Then look at your, ba_tk.J»alan?e.-_ . Write for government bulletins which analyze specific products, or groups of products. When you hear the word "guarantee," laugh heartily. When you read a testimonial, laugh heartily. Ask the nearest college to run a test for you. It will educate the students, as well as,yourself. Let manufacturers know the result of the test. Encourage manufacturers of sound products, competently and honestly described, to keep it up. Give them your business. Make your own products at home until certain industries — such as insecticides, floor waxes, furniture polishes, cleaning compounds, fertilizers—improve their standards and pass on the economies of mass production. The government will tell you how. This is, necessarily, only a stop-gap. Never believe the findings of a test as advertised; They are often doctored. Never believe- advertisements of competitive goods (except in the scientific journals) and say so, loudly, clearly and on every possible occasion. Thus may ultimately come copy that you can believe, copy backed by impartial, scientific authority. These instructions, will make the super-salesman smile — as he has every right to today. But some day he may smile out of the other side of his mouth. Of one thing we can be sure. The time has gone—possibly forever— when it is 'possible for each of us to become expert on all the things we have to buy. Even the wisest can have knowledge of only a negligible section of the field. What sense, >hen, in a specialized industrial society if each individual must learn by trial and error again and forever again? ' Some day, sowewhere, somehow, science must step into this wilderness, and provide the knowledge, wholesale, that no one of us can ever hope to learn at retail, and which we now try to acquire at such a pitiful, needless cost. I. RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggists" We Make a Special Effort to Get Good. Ont by Fire* Mall After Beoelpt of Your Order. OOMMMM CORDOVA AND OA_U_A__I. TAJ- OOTTVBB, ». O. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER HIGH WAGES AND BUILDING New York did more than a billion dollars' worth of building in 1926, which was $100,000,000 more than in 1925. Building mechanics earned from $12 to $15 a day. Chicago's building record for 1926 was about $375,000,000, which was about the sanje as in 1925. The wages of union building mechanics range from $12 to $16. In Detroit, the reputed 'open shop' town, building mechanics were paid at the rate of 10 a day. The total building permits aggregated $190,- 000,000. as'compared with .182,000.- 000 in 1925. In Cleveland, where the organized anti-unionists started a fight on union labour and reduced wages to $9.50 a day, building fell off from $72,000,- 000 in 1925 to $63,000,000 in 1926. " Where war was made on the unions, with but an occasional exception there followed a decline in building operations! On the other hand, wherever wages have been kept up, building records continued along the upward line. Tbe Better Plan Th|is living for tomorrow May be some people's way— Tomorrow may bring sorrow; Let's1 live a lot today! The hurry habit soon causes the worry-habit. . * Buy Union Stamped Shoes We ask all members of organized labor to purchase shoes bearing our Union Stamp on the sole, inner-sole, or lining of the shoe. We ask you not to buy any shoes unless you actually sea this Union Stamp. Boot & Shoe Workers' Union Affiliated wit. tbe American Federation of Labor 246 SU-TMES STBBBT, BOSTON, MASS. COLLIS LOVELY General President CHABLBS L. BAINB General Secretary-Treasurer J BRIGHTEST-2- THEATRES STRAND THEATRE REX THEATRE Vancouver's Premier Hon.. Presents Vanoouver_ Popular Konae Preeent. -Oil BUY ---TUBES aad tbe THE BEST IV MOV-BB and the STBAKD "B-BEYMAK-BS" COUKTEY STORE Will Oust 125,000 Harvest Hands Whenever some "labor-saving" device comes into use and displaces a large number of hand workers the world looks in awe at the machinery for a moment and then forgets it. Still more quickly does it forget the displaced workers. Machines have displaced hundreds of thousands of workers in factories, mills and mines, in many lines of production, yet some sort of adjustment has come and skilled workers, those of them who have sense enough to combine and. protect themselves, are in better position than ever before. Farm machinery is going to move, in the same direction. Kansas alone will show the world something in that line this year. In that wheat- growing state there are 12,'000 "combines" this year as against 8274 "perfected" harvesting machines last year. This will displace 125,000 itinerant harvest hands and make a saving of $125,000 a day during harvesting season. Does this mean good news to the farmers? Will they get the benefit of the savings in -labor costs? Will they get just as much for their wheat? Will the public" get any benefit from lower cost of flour' or bread? Will .the Elevator Trust absorb the savings and hold prices up on the public? What will become of the displaced workers? If you will think a little and apply your knowleddge of contemporaneous affairs, current history, you will be able to answer these questions with a fair amount of accuracy. Anyway the application of ma-, chjnery is always a sign of progress, and intelligent people of all classes recognize it Adaptations and adjustments take care of changed conditions and humanity plods along in an upward spiral, despite the mutter- jngs of pessimists.—Seattle Union Record. You never can tell. Our dearest friends are not necessarily .ojir_most I expensive ones. ;** ~ " YOU! * Can Be Well Dr. Proctor's newest invention, IONA-OTONE is helping thousands. It will help you. Here Is a partial list ot ailments that respond quickly to IONA-OTONE. ANAEMIA, RHEUMATISM, ARTHRITIS, NEURITIS, H I O H BLOOD PRESSURE, NERVOUSNESS, SKIN DISEASES, SCIATICA, FEMALE TROUBLES, DIABETES, SICK HEADACHE, KIDNEY TROUBLE, STOMACH TROUBLE, CONSTIPATION, VARICOSE VEINS and many others. Come and take a delightful Free Treatment and be your own judge. TREE LECTURES Tuesday and Friday, 3:15 p.m. Radio Lectures every Monday and Friday, CFCQ, Vancouver, B. C, 7:30 to 8 p.m. - IONA-OTONE HEALTH OO. 901 Dominion Bank Bldr. Vancouver, B. C. Please send me without _cost or obligation your FREE BOOKLET and more Information about IONA-OTONE. NAME ADDRESS CITY _ :. -. CANADA'S CADETS According to the official Year Book on Armaments, published by the League of Nations, Canada, whrtise population is 9,364,200, has a total enrollment of 110,120 in cadet corps, or three times as many as Great Britain, which has a total of 37,024 members of cadet corps and a population of 43,783,032. In proportion to' our population, the strength of the Canadian cadet corps is thus approximately 14 times as great as the strength of the British cadet corps. —A flapper is as-Wrong as- h?r weakest wink. Eight THE LABOR STATE6*MAN May 27th, 1927 !5S3* "Build B. C." Products and Work Women seem to sense the importance of using British -Columbia products. We know of one whose son was "laid off" from work in a factory because people buy an eastern product in preference. This lady is one of the old friends of Pacific Milk. She says she realizes more fully than ever now the necessity to support home industry in everything she uses, Pacific Milk 44 (factories at Abbotsford and Ladner Build B. C. .. Calgary Plumbers Get Wage Increase The United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters, Calgary, reported at the meeting of the Calgary Trades and Labour Council on Friday night that an agreement had been signed which specified a wage rate of $1.12 V_ per hour. The five- day week is to be effective from June 15th to August 15th on contract work. The union urged that other locals endeavour to shorten the work ing hours per week. FOR A DAYS' OUTING « GO TO HORSHOE BAY Pacific Great Eastern Railway (Via North Vancouver City Ferries) TRAINS RUN AS FOLLOWS ON SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS Leave Noi.th Vancouver for all stations* S:40 a.m. and then twenty-five minute- past each hour until 8:30 p.m. Return from Whyteclift 8:25 a.m. and 25 minutes past each hour until 9:25 p.m. Purchase Tickets at Ferry Wharf and 533 Oranvllle St. RETURN rABES FROM VANCOUVER (Good for day of issue only) Adults Children 60c 35c For Information telephone North 300 Seymonr S331 EXTRAORDINARY Special Sale OP MEN'S AND WOMEN'S Dress Shoes $4.85 VALUES UP TO f9.00 KIBLER'S OFF. CARNEGIE LIBRARY 163 HASTINGS STREET LAWRENCE W. SMITH Registered OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN 49 Hastings St., West, Since 1907 Fhone Sey. 6860. Vancouver, B.C. you Can't Go Wrong Eating at I\_ INCHLER'S LEAN pITCHEN STRICTLY UNION Prices and Food Are Right 324 CAMBIE STREET A Whisper Oil Hastings Street -night South Van. LLP. To Meet To- The regular business meeting of the 'South Vancouver I. L. P. will be held in the Horticultural Hall, Forty- third and Fraser, tonight (Friday) May 27, at 8 p.m. All members are requested to be present. Junior Typo Union Formed in City At an enthusiastic and well-repre sented banquet-supper, held in a large downtown hotel early in the week, the Vancouver Junior Typographical Union was inaugurated. The young organization will be sponsored under the guardian of the senior Typographic body and the different committees and members of 226 will lend (heir .aid to the younger members qf the craft. A majority of apprentices, working in offices throughout the city, attended, and if the zeal shown on the occasion is any criterion of the outcome, success is assured. The "printers of tomorrow" went through their session in businesslike manner. Cyril Westall, with over three years at the trade in a job shop, was elected president. Charles Kelly was named vice-president on the second ballot after a tie vote with Jack Ewan. Jack Pollard is secretary-treasurer of the new group. A Forst, J. Wood, J. Shoemaker, E. Priest, W. Chapman and J. McVety form the executive. Harry Neelands, M. P. P., secretary of thc senior Typos, and prominent in labor circles, was one of the prin ciple speakers, giving the boys a general outline of the matters before them and urging them on to success in their movement. Extensive educational talks and study, practice in public speaking, better I. T. U. Course arrangements, sick benefits, a more thorough understanding of the apprentice laws, and a live sports programme are some of the features to be covered. The Junior Union will meet on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, in the Labor Temple. Besides members of the apprentice committee, and journeymen of the adult body, the following boys were in attendance at the banquet: W. Finlayson, Cecil Towse, NicV Robertson, A. C. Westall, C. Kelly, J. Ewan, A. Crawford, W. Churchill, H. Haddock, A. Forst, W. Adams, A. Shaw, J. Pollard, C. LeBlanc, W. Armstrong, H. Wiffen, J. Wood, H. Grove, J. Shoemaker, W. Chapman, S. Hemingway, P. Pasquill, F. Fudge, E. Trumper, J: McRae, L. Campbell, E. Crossan, R. Langdale, W. Whitby, H. Leith, E. Priest and S. Robb. J. POLLARD, -Correspondent Union Ken Are Enjoying Their Steal* At tha EMPRESS CAFE ARE YOU? 337 HASTINGS ST. XtABT Near Mais Street Opp. Empr.s. Theatre Help Those Who Help You Don't waste your time in pursuing the almighty dollar. Get started early and stay at it late. * * * He who is indifferent to the welfare of others does not deserve to be called a man.—Persian. * * > Old-fashioned kids talked of the house that Jack built; moderns wonder whose Jack built it The person who reads most, covers the most plagiarizers. dis- t&#m#1)ag dflmpmtfi. INCORPORATED 2.. MAY 16. O. VANCOUVER Hand Embroidered Baby Pillow Slips, 89c. MOTHERS:—do not miss this saving opportunity. Phone orders filled. •They are made of good quality white batiste, hand embroidered in beautiful madeira designs with a lovely scallop edge. Size 12 x 16, finished with buttons on back. Already to admit form. Formerly $1.75 value. Special, each, 89c —Floor Two, H.B.jC. It's al]_ right to be a person of few words, but it's just as well to have a lot of others in reserve. * » ♦ Strangely enough, the ice man makes his profits by selling his assets for others to liquidate. * * - * ' Sympathy A hungry dog once wandered Into a butcher's store; The butcher threw some sausage To the dog upon the floor. The butcher said: "Now eat it," The dog said: "I decline, For in that link of sausage Is that Old Gal of Mine!" * * ' * Most families need medicines at various times so we are suggesting that when some particular kind is needed to patronize the little Red Star Drug Store at the corner of Carrall and Cordova. * * * Those chaps who play with figures claim every Canadian is worth |2525. Gee! We would like to know where ours is. , * * * As we understand our agriculj tural geography, a farm is a neglected body of land entirely surrounded by prosperity. * * * . Good food, courteous service by union waiters, and prices to suit your pocket at the union cafes and lunches advertised in yonr paper. Pick them out and don't patronize any other. • * * * A woman's .voice on the radio doesn't broadcast as well as a man's, but it's different at home. * * • Skirts may be narrow, but it has been our observation that some of them look pretty full. * » * If you need any glass to repair a broken window, or for the windows and doors in the house you are building, don't forget the Western Glass Co., at 158 Cordova St. West. SAFETY RAZOR SHAVING REVOLUTIONIZED By the Famoug DARWIN SAFETY RAZOB BLADES For Gillette, Auto-Strop, Ever-Bondy, Gem and Star Holders Darwin Blades are made in Sheffield, of Parent Cobalt Hig-h Speed Steel, and their polished edges are rustless and stainless. They possess a cutting- efficiency hitherto unknown in Safety Razor Blades. Every Blade in Every Package Valet Auto Strop Type Perfect THEY SELL FOR MORE BUT COST LESS To prove the high efficiency of Darwin Blades we will sell you single blades at 15c each. Mall orders solicited. B. C. Barber Supply & Sundries Limited BET AIL STORE: 64 HASTINGS ST. W. VANCOUVER. B. C. Hall Orders Postpaid ln B. 0. Phono Bey. 4401 .•■iiBiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiB Grounds for Divorce An alumnus tells this story: "An old farmer and his wife stood looking at their only pig, when suddenly the old lady said: „'Say, Hiram, it will be our silver wedding tomorrow. Let's kill tbe pig.' "'Lan's sake! Maria,' he replied in disgust, 'what's the use o' killing that hog for Somethin' that happened 25 y«acw ago.'« :■,>.:■+1. IODINE IN SALT WATER FISH Important Health Factor Iodine is no doubt the most important element to be found in the bodily tissues, yet only an infinitesimal quantity is needed in the daily diet, as the system of a healthy person cannot use more than about one. ounce each year. , Many foods contain iodine properties but the foods richest in the salts of iodine art saltwater fish, green vegetables, eggs and grains. Saltwater fish, whether fresh or canned, are most valuable in iodine. Many people naturally ask what is the exact value of iodine to the health of the human body. It is this; the capillaries contract too much in the person who does not use enough food iodine, and this forces the. arteries to increase their pressure in order to-fbrce enough blood through A. C "U T-R ATEDRUGS THE PHENOMENAL GROWTH of our business ls due to onr QUALITY SERVICE AND SAVING—.make a purchase at any of onr Thirteen Stores and satisfy yourself of this fact. Friday and Saturday Specials 1.-5 Coty.'s Face Powder $ .54 1.25 .50 Glycerin & Hose Water 8 oz. .86 .25 .50 Dr. Re Id's Pyorrhea Dental .50 Cream 99 .19 Electric Light Globes 2 for .99 JO .40 F.reneh Castile _>o_4> per bar .36 .50 .25 Dr. Reld's Foot Ease 16 1.25 .25 Vanev Refined Benzine 15 1.00 ._5 Household Ammonia .10 .10 1.25 Coty's Talcum .71 .25 1.00 Peroxine Powder 63 1.00 Fivers Fetiche Face Powder .54 Turknlt Wash Cloths IS Vinolla Carbolic Tooth Tow- . .der ....—•....._ .28 Dow'* Malt Extract, 3 for 99 Dr. Reld's Sage & Sulphur 36 Thermos Rottle. pint size 76 Thermos Refill pint size .58 Palm Olive Soap. 3 for .23 Sunlight Soap. . In carton) .19 Barbers Hair Scissors .57 WE SAVE VOU MONEY VANCOUVER DRUG COMPANY, LIMITED 19 STORES The Church of the Open Door GORE AVE. AT HASTINGS ST., EAST Rev. Richmond Craig PREACHES SUNDAY AT 11 A.M. AND 7:30 P.M EVENING SUBJECT: "The Preacher's Bet" COME IN TIME AND ENJOY THE SINGING the tense capillaries into thc veins. Thfu-Conscquence is that the arteries harden to stand this strain, and a vicious condition is set up which encourages the arteries to harden -as lime salts are deposited on the arterial walls. Iodine in the daily diet counteracts this condition. Anyone suffering from this trouble will do well to add more saltwater fish to his diet. The fish containing the most iodine are the cod, haddock, salmon, herring and such shellfish as crab, lobster, shrimp, oysters and clams. More females than males are suffering from iodine starvation, and this is easily seen in, the larger number' of cases of thyroid trouble among women than men. He^-"When I was. young the doctors said that if I didn't stop smoking I would become feeble-minded." She^'^ell, why-tWn't-yoff stiJpT* Money Saving Specials Men's Canvas Boots, leather soles and heels, cut price ..11.75 - Boys, 1 to 6 l.es Voutb, 11 to 13 1.75 (With each pair o_ boys running shoes bought, we will supply one pair of 75c wool stocking or golf hose, for 50c.) Mens Irish serge pants, 5 pockets, belt loops, cult bottoms S3.95 Painters WJllte Bib Overalls..... 1.00 Painters While Caps 96 Carpenters White Duck Overalls 2.20 Brotherhood Union-made overalls 2.50 Arthur Frith & Co. MEN'S & BOYS' FURNISHINGS Telephone Fairmont 14 2312 MAIN STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues Confidence is oi slow growth in an aged bosom.—William Pitt, Earl of Chatham.' c
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