The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-26
issued: 1927-05-27
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note: 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 expre…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0438949
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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