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: 1928-01-06
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note: 1 . 61 ljcicjkhc Suspended For ^ »• > > • > *** - aZr m the City Council relative to rel Dual Union Activities Street Railway Union Delegate Suspended by Trades Council— Admitted that He Distributed Dual Union Literature —Has An Affliction to relief workers only receiving $1 and $2 per day for work that in the ordinary course of events would be paid for at the rate of $4.50 per day. It has been suggested that these men be employed for at least two days a week, and giving them a chance to look for other employment, instead of keeping them on the job all the week at $1 a day. No reply has been received from the communication. F OR THE FIRST TIME in the history of the Vanco«»«r New A^f «&_"$ £ feS Westminster and District 1 rades and Labor Council, a delegate I Kjng protesting against the govern- has been suspended for lending support to a dual union. Del. J.'ment's proposal to industrialize fohnston, of the Street Railwaymen's Union, was suspended on' Deadman's Island,, and urging that it ruesday night by President Thomson for admitting that he had been &£S32i£?te P-k purp'ost.^as distributing literature and papers belonging fo a dual organization, endorsed by the council. The secretary was instructed to inform his union that he would not be again sealed as a delegate from that organization. The subject came up when Del. Keane of Engineers Local 882 asked, hrough the chair, if Del. Johnston .vas an agent of a dual organization, oecause he had found him distributing literature of a national organization. Johnston denied that he was an tfger.t of any dual organization and attempted to sit down, but Del. Keane kept tenatiously to the subject, and finally got Johnston to admit that he was distributing this literature. Having admitted to the council that he was a traitor to his organization and to the Trades Council, President Thomson announced his suspension. It appears that Johnston; has been •arrying on this fcork for some time mt the Trades 'Council delegates deemed it…
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: 10.14288/1.0438955
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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