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: 1926-07-30
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0438950/source.json
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note: '. OWNED or Statesman AND CONTROLLED W^^J BY THE..VANCOUYER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Y\ Officii*.! Organ of The Canadian Labor Party «*sg|||^& No. 119—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, JULY 30th, 1926 FIVE CENTS PER COPY 7 Liberals and Tories Tell Truth About Each Other ^Worker* Will Continue to Vote for Them and Wallow in Poverty While Many Millions oi Dollars Worth of Products Are Shipped Out of the Country. In the forthcoming election campaign both the Liberal and Conservatives will all but call each other horse thieves and rogUei of the worst kind. They will come so near telling the truth about each other than the average worker will almost be swayed into voting for neither". But the worker will vote on election day and he will vote either Liberal or Conservative. He will do this because both the old parties will play upon the necessity of keeping the other party out of power and he will generally vote the way he intended to vote before he heard"«»r read the election blather. The old parties are adepts at fooling the workers. They can have the worker so hypnotised by election day that the average voter would vote for King Tut if his name was on the ballot and the old parties advised them to vote that way. Possibly the worker ,will get up on his hind legs and deny, most vehemently, that he is not being fooled, never has been fooled and never will be. And then he will go home to some tumbledown shack, filled with a lot of cheap junk called furniture and sleep on a bed as unsightly and perhaps as uncomfortable IS a back-yard fence. Ih the morning he will be disturbed from his sleep by an old alarm clock that informs him that a master needs more rent, interest and profit. He grinds out eight, ten and sometimes twelve hours' work for enough in' wages to buy some shoddy clothes and cheap sow-belly to enable him to go to -x^at^i^ASs^^.JX-tViJA. lu<-'!^hj!j£04i"jaa4»-8a-..4^ year. If he is not that lucky he hunts for a master three day's a week and- works for one the other t…
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: 10.14288/1.0438950
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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