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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 advisale to leave his own organization to foal with him, but having forced an admission from him on the floor of the council, there was no other alternative but to suspend him. This same Johnston was given a drubbing at the meeting of the Canadian Labor Party last week when he was accused by Del Deptford of opposing the Labor candidates, and where again he admitted in a braggadocio manner that he was'not supporting the Labor candidates. At one political meeting where he was opposing the Labor candidates, the chairman—who was not a Labor man—told Johnston that the audience were tired of hearing his senseless utterances, and that he was aorryfor his affliction. This seems | Retail Clerks May - Yet Join Council The delegates endorsed the recommendation of the executive to send $15 to the United Mine Workers of America in aid of the striking miners in Colorado, etc. The executive recommended a do- Considerable discussion took place nation of $10 to the South Vancou- in the Trades Council meeting on ver Municipal election campaign Tuesday on the subject of continual- fund of the C.L.P. Endorsed. ly giving help to the retail clerks in the city, while they at the same time Secretary Bepgough reported that are opposed to building up a real the organization committee had ar- union. It was pointed out that when ranged for an organization meeting the clerks were being organized the of Millwrights'in theiHolden Build Trades Council committee had the ing for Wednesday, Jan. 11th. men pretty well lined up, but after the committee had left the hall the Delegate Hargreaves reported that store managers succeeded in conyine- the carpentry trade was quiet, but iiig the employees that a local union-t>he lo.al.452 todfc-in *rr. new mem. was all that they nceaed, so a local bers at' the last meeting and also sev- union was formed. Since that time cral travellers from the Amalgamate clerks have put up with all kinds ted, of poor conditions, but have various excuses for not getting properly or- Delegate Clyde of the Upholstcr- ganized. One of the excuses is the ers reported trade slack, but pros- old one of not desiring to pay per peets of enrolling several new mem- capita to an international office. Sec- bers were good. retary Bengough pointed out that for the 35c that they sent across the line Delegate Hawkins of the Plasty the clerks would receive in return a ers' Union asked on behalf of death benefit of $200 and a sick beri- union why the T.L.C. buttons cou efit of $5.00 per month for twelve not be obtained in Canada. He was weeks in any year. To date the Re- informed that no Canadian firm could tail Clerks' International Union has supply the buttons with two labels, paid out almost half a million dollars that of the sheet metal workers and in sick and death benefits. the typographical union. Another excuse put forward by the clerks is that they do not care to mix Delegate McDonald of the Tailors with wage workers. They think the Union reported that his union had wage worker is only made o.f common paj(i $672.00 to the international of- clay, but that a white collar denotes flce |„ the past six months, but that superiority. This brought a laugh it had received back in the form of Labor Tarty Candidates SOUTH VANCOUVER MUNICIPAL ELECTION W. H. COTTRELL For Councillor ALFRED HURRY For School Trustee O. J. MENGEL Fcr Councillor lift to be the general opinion of'him by I f rom Bome of the delegates who can various benefits the sum of $663.60 his workmates. \\* eaZn, as ,mVch ln °Pe week °? some leaving a total of $8.40 for thc inter Painters Entertain Kids With Christmas Tree Painters 'Local 138 held its first Christmas Tree on Thursday, Dec. 29, at 3 p.m. Presents were provided for 92 children, who also .enjoyed themselves with the old-time games. Miss Nettie Nichol's (daughter of Bro. Nichol) troup of Scotch dancers entertained on the program and received tremendous applause. Miss Mary Hampson assisted at the piano. Apples, oranges, candies, cakes. _tc, were distributed among the crowd of delighted children. The committee, Bros. Stevenson, Baker and Smith, were assisted by Mrs. W. Hunt, Mrs. A. Hodge, Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Hampson. Santa Claus (Bro. A. Smith), well loaded (?), presented the gifts,, and everyone went away acknowledging the whole affair a huge success. ing i national office. t Labor Candidates . '. ^ BURNABY, p* For Reeve—F. A. Brownei-M.L.A. Councillor Ward 1—A. J. Keel. [ 'Councillor Ward 4—W. A,-Pritchard. , School Trustee—J. M. Holmes. of the clerks earn in a month An opinion was expressed that the council should cease to take up the Delegate Pettipiece of Engineers' cudgels on behalf of the retail clerks T,ocai 844 stated that a contractor until such time as they show some who was favorable to organized labor disposition to organize. It was final- had obtained the contract for the ly decided, however, that it would be Lonsdale Subway. best for the council to continue its i support, inasmuch as there is a great . deal of sentiment in favor of lining Fmnraee Tnoatrp rant up with the Trades Council and that E'Uipi C5» I UCdirC 1WI I he clerk3 may eventually see the sit Helton in a different light, uatipn Tra( rades Council Starts Nomination of Officers #r Making the Grade SOUTH VANCOUVER For Councillor—W. H. Cottrell. For Councillor—O. J. Mengel. For School Board—Alfred Hurry. Thc Trades and Labor Council heard several reports on Tuesday from delegates relative to the effect the "Unfair List" was having on the Empress Theatre. It was reported Nomination of officers for the co^n- that the patronage is very small and ing term was started at tbe regular that the actors are not getting very meeting. of the Trades Council on ; much money. All kinds of* schemes Tuesday evening. The final nomina- are being adopted to draw the crowds, tion and election will take place at but without very much success. The the next meeting. • j management apparently went to a Tbe nominations were: 'big expense to get a big act from For President: J. Thomson, W. J. New York, but theatre-goers refused Bartlett (declined). . . to patronize, it. Delegate Price stat- For Vice-President;.W. J .Bartig'tt, ed that, the theatre was only being Geo. Pettipiece (declined), J. Flynn. patronized by yoiirtg people; and this Secretary: P. R. Bengough. led him to suspect that parents were Warden: W. J .Davidson, W. Dept- not informing their children of the '■ ing more serious and was ptobably ford. 'unfairness of the theatre. Other i the cause of so many young people Statistician: C. E. Herrett, J. Stcv- delegates had come to the same con-! getting into the habit of committing ensnn. .'■.'■ ' »-»~ (elusion, so a discussion arose aB to/crimes when without Uie proper, Chairmen of Committees: j the test methods of reaching the means of subsistence. Organisation—Colin McDonald. young people, aside from what hV Legislation: R. H. Neelands, W. J. formation the parents could give out. Bartlett. | Several delegates suggested the Press: Harry Wood, J .Flynn (de- radio, but others pointed out that the dined), J. Stevenson (declined), W. injunction still existed and could be,. Page. I applied to the radio as well as to any j bankrupt. The company prospered Grievance: W. Page, B. Showier other public means of information, until 1921, when it refused to grant (declined), ' W. J. Scribbins (de- Finally a motion to refer the matter I thc 44-hour week demand of mem- clined). /t* the executive to deal with carried.' bers of the Typographical Union. sks Unemployment Insurance Support At thc regular meeting of the Trades Council on Tuesday evening, Delegate Scribbins who, with DeleJ gate3 Bengough and Phillips, was recently appointed to draw up a request to be made upon the Federal government for the enactment of unemployment insurance legislation, brought in the following resolution, which was endorsed by the council: "Whereas unemployment is a problem of national character and cannot be dealt with satisfactorily by civic or municipal authorities, therefore be it "Resolved, that we urge upon the Dominion Government the necessity of enacting legislation providing for the creation of a state unemployment insurance fund, by assessments on industries similar to the methods adopted with provincial compensation funds, to be administered under the authority of the Dominion Government." The committee proposes to ask all labor, civic, municipal, fraternal, service organizations, etc., to endorse the resolution and forward it to Ottawa. Under these circumstances, said Delegate Scribbins, it was deemed advisable not to make the subject too contentious by inserting clauses that would make the resolution too specific. By asking these or^taiyzq- tions to urge the general principle, of unemployment insurance,., it ■ was deemed more likely to get .their .up- port. 'Delegate BarUett said: tiitffe.Ha. unemployment problem was becom Rally in South Van. Friday, January 13 Jack Wood, chairman of the Labor Party campp.ifrn. in South Vancouver, announces that the finishing touches are being made for the municipal contest. There will be a big rally in the Municipal Hall on Friday evening, January 13th, when all the labor candidates will speak and any other aspirant who wants to face a working-class audience. The committee is planning to. givo every elector a piece of literature to remind them who the labor candidates are, and on election day the polling booths will be manned by scrutineers on behalf of the labor candidates. There are still a few vacancies for scrutineers, who are hereby urged to get in touch with J. Wood at Fairmont 5923. In spite of the fact that W. H. Cottrell for Councillor and Alfred Hurry for School Trustee are practically assured of re-election, the Labor Party desires to urge all its friends to get out and vote and to get the other fellow out also. If this is done then there is a possibility that O. J. Mengel will be elected to thc council on the Labor ticket also. Every elector should be able to get out and vote on Saturday, January 14th. There is no excuse, because a strong Labor representation on the coifncil this years will add to the chances of re-electing them when the amalgamation elections take place in October. Vote Labor, and get the other fellow to vote Labor. ii! ti PRINTING PLANT FAILS Boston.—Thc Atlantic Printing Company, one of the most complete printing ptants in thc country, is * jr\ Ten Volumes For An Apprentice Carpenter Carpenters 452 held a well attended meeting on Thursday, Dec. 29th. Several new members were iniafed. Mr. Kerr, representative of Atkins Saw Co., Ltd., gave a very interesting talk on saws and presented, three of their high-grade saws to the Local. A drawing was held and the -Lucky, -lumbers j££V_L.Jield by Bro. Geo. Hope, who won a 15-16." turkey;." Bros. Aristide, -LaBelle. and Altcn- burg won the saws. The President, Bro. R. J. .Thompson, had on view the special apprentice prize, TO vfitumes of Cyclopedia l5f Architecture of Carpentry and- Building. This valuable prize will be given to the apprentice gaining the highest marks at the end of the Technical school termT1— The next meeting will be held in Hamilton hall, corner Hamilton and Dunsmuir streets, at 8 p.m. on Mon- day.Jan. 9th. '— W. H. \ y] . Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 6, lSf F-.on. »ey. MM H. HARVEY BOOT MANUFACTURER Loggers', Mlnere'. Cruisers' and Prospector.' Hand-Made Booto Our Specialty. Quick Repairs. OOB WOO WOBK BOO* BEST IH TO WM 58 CORDOVA ST., WEST ( Tancouver, B. C. Bread and Roses, Too! T. J. Kearney & Co. Funeral Director! and Embalmors New Chapel and Parlors Private Ambulance Service 802 Broadway W. Phone Fair. 3 Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealers. 168 Cordova W. Phone Bey. MIT SEE US ABOUT BROKEN CUSS II Wll- OOWS, AUTOMOBILES, MIRRORS SHOWCASES, ETC. Art Glm nsstim Mirrsn Bt-iUnrW SYNOPSIS OF UNO AMENDMENTS PRE-EMPTIONS Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown lands may ba pre-empted by British subjects over 18 yean of age. and by aliens on declaring Intention to become British subjects, conditional upon residence, occupation, and Improvement for agricultural purposes. Full information concerning regulations regarding pre-emptions ts given ln Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, "How to Pre-empt Land," copies oi whlch can bs obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of Lands, Victoria. B.C.. or to any Government Agent. 9 Records will ba granted covering only land suitable for agricultural purposes, and which ia not timber- land. I.e., carrying over 8.000 board fset per acre weat of tha Coaat Rang* and 5,000 feet per acre aaat of that Range Applications for pre-emptions ars ta ba addressed to the Land Commissioner ot tbe Land Recording Division. In which the land applied for ia situated, and are made on printed forma, copies of which can ba obtained from the Land Commissioner. Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years and improvements made to value of 110 par acre. Including clearing and cultivating at least five acres, before a Crown Grant can ba received. ■ For mora detailed Information sea tha Bulletin "How to Pre-empt PURCHASE Applications are received for pur- abaas of vacant and unreserved Crown lands, not being tlmberland. for agricultural purposes; minimum priee for first-class (arable) land la II per acre, and second-class (eras- in*) land 1360 per acre. Further Information regarding purchase or lease ef Crown lands Is given In Bulletin No. 10. Land Series. "Purchase and Leaae of Crown Landa." Mill, factory, or Industrial sites on Umber land, not exceeding 40 acres, may be purchased or leased, the conditions including paymant of stumps**. HOMESITE LEASE8 Unsurvayed areas, not exceeding 20 aeree. may be leased aa homesites, conditional upon a dwelling being eeeoted in tha first year, title being obtainable after residence and Improvement conditions are fulfilled and land haa been surveyed. LEASES Far graslng and Industrial pur- ■ not exceeding (40 acree ba leased by one person or s ~ grazi t*iy"---—■==- - ? Under the,Grazing Act the Provisos la divided Into grazing, districts and tha range administered under a Oraslng Commission-r AlinuaJ graslng permits are Issued biased .on numbers ranged, priority being given ts established owners. Stock-owner* ■air form associations for range management Free, or partly tree, psi mils are available for settlers. campers and travellers, up Co ten Bread is the, fundamental mean ing of life. Bread spells out the history of the world. Bread is the raw material of labor, and also of human progress. Every tribal war of old, and every war of modern times, has been dictated by the struggle for the control of the material necessities of populations. And it may be true to say that there will be no cessation of war, or hope of peace, till the world's governors have established international control of the world's raw ma terials and food supplies; till the great fact has been recognized that "thc earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein"; until, in other words, we have organized world production for the world's needs; until both production and distribution are placed on a world basis—and not on an Empire basis. For the first time in history we arc now entering on the era when that policy is possible, and, confused as the issue looks around the whole round earth, it moves towards that end. That end is the "one Divine event" to which we look and of which we must declare the possibility; it is also the end towards which the Statesman roust apply his policy and. hjs_State organization. Together, the ideal, and its practical application through political method, will march to a triumph. These things shall be, and must be, if men are to believe in the Unitimate Morality of the Universe. Bread;—and Morality Let us think back for a moment to thc coming of man on the earth, and we will see that Morals arose from material necessities. The provision of food was man's first concern. Food came before Morals of Religion, just as an infant child needs food before it is capable of thought about morals or religion. The provision of food is the primitive form of Labor; the accumulation of food is the primitive form of wealth. But, imagine the crisis that arose with the first real scarcity of food among a primitive folk. At once there arose the tabu, or prohibition; at once the family or tribe declared a law regulating distribution on a basis of uniform justice towards all in order to secure self- preservation. Thus arises, and actually arose, the Moral Law among human beings. Bread was the basis and origin of Morirt&sl The race struggled on. It was discovered after centuries of observa-, _ , . , ., „ ■•_, n__ tion that progress was most definital Bre.d-And the Ballot Box and became stabilized where cerealll. We do not at present see the solu- cultlvation • was combined with an- f\on in the church, or through char- imal breeding. No civilization worthy i*V. or through societies to help the -_ _t . ... 'poor, and it is too big for the indi vidual. The problem is one for the people and for the representatives of the suffering classes, through State and National action, its solution is in Socialism, and Vachell Lindsay calls us, even against our own selfish nature, to Vote Labor I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life a unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that nm blind, cry out against my blindness. Come, let us vote against our human nature,. .... Crying to Cod In all tho polling places To heal our everlasting sinfulness And make us sages with transfigured faces. Ten thousand years of war and peace and glory Of hope and work and deeds and golden schemes, Of mighty voices raised ln song and story. Of huge Inventions and of splendid dreams. Ten thousand years replete wjth every wonder. Of Empires risen and of Empires dead: Yet still, while wasters roll ln "swollen plunder, These broken men must stand In line— for bread! And here is another by James Oppenheimer which should be known to a wider public: Bread and Roses lln a parade of strikers ill America some young girls carried a banner Inscribed: "We Want Bread, and Hoses too!") f. — t As we come marching, marching in tho beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill-lofts gray. Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses. For the people hear us singing "Bread and Hoses, Bread and Hoses." As we come marching, marching, we battle, too, for men—, For they are women's children and we mother them again. Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes— .Hearts starve as well as bodies—Give us Bread, but give us Hoses. As ^-e come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead Co crying through our singing their ancient, song of Bread; Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew— Yes, it is Bread we fight for—but we light for Roses, too. As we come marching, marching, wo bring the Greater Days— The rising of the women means the rising of the race— No more tho drudge and idler—ten that toil where one reposes— But a sharing of lifo's glories: Bread and Hoses, Bread and Hoses! Bread—The Climax of Religion Verily, Bread is the meaning of life. Bread is also the meaning of Religion, because when Christ gave to men the sign by which he was to be remembered it was the sig'n and symbol of Bread—and that is the meaning of the Communion, or Sacrament of thc Lord's Supper. Each at the Communion Table in our churches gets the same share of Bread, whether he be rich or poor, high or low, but this is the one fact about "the Lord's Supper" which is deliberately suppressed in the churches' teaching. That obvious and practical fact is supplanted by a mystery and superstitious view which only ministers to a sentimental unreality. m of the name was ever built up except on cereals. Bread was still the important factor. The moral law became the subject of politics and found its place in Statutes. The law operated in these ways. In times of scarcity strict rationing was adopted on a hasis of equality of human need. In times of plenty all received a full subsistence allowance. In cases of individual need there was no punishment under proved stress of hunger. On the other hand, in times of scarcity any man stealing more than his share was 'imprisoned, or in cases of extremity, was put td death. All these elementary conditions it may be noted reappeared during the Great War, when, once more, Bread became a matter of the strictest legal supervision. That moral law has been abandoned by our rulers, and the people are quite content in. look on the shameful spectacle of hungry men standing in line for Bread, begging their birthright. One poet of the revolt, Berton Braley, has written these contemptuous lines: .—— The Bread Line Well, here they are—they stand and stamp and shiver Waiting, their food from some kind stranger hand, . -—. Their weary limbs with eagerness a- oulver Hungry and heartsick in a bounteous land. "Beggars they are?" Perhaps, and largely worthless, fthaky with drink, unlovely, craven, low, With obscene tongues and hollow laughter, mirthless; iBut whoshailgiv«4hcmscoai-f_ur:pbeing so? Yes, tiere they are—with gaunt and pallid faces. With limbs Ill-clad and lingers stilt and . blued. .Slitptfling and stamping on-their pave,- wni-nt places. ' Wnltlng nnd watching for their bit of food. We noast of vast achievements and of power/ Of human progress knowing no defeat. Of strange .riew marvels every day and hour—' And Here's the bread line In the -wintry street! Labor Steadily Gains Power in Winnipeg Recent election results in Winnipeg shows a steadily increasing support for the Independent Labor Party municipal policy. This is clearly evident from the figures of the eight civic elections that have taken place since the party camy into existence and entered actively into municipal politics. Only twice luring that period was there any falling off in the percentage polled by I.L.P. candidates, but there are "off years" in every political movement, and in these instances the net decreases were slight, and have been more than regained. The 1927 election figures beat all previous records, I'LL..*, candidate!'scoring 4& perjaawf of the yotes cast fin nlilsi nlOTi What this steady growth actually means can best be gathered from a comparison of the actual figures for 1920 and 1927, In 1920, I.L.P. candidates polled 8,955 votes-nUt of a total of 29,530. In 1927, I.L.P. candidates had 16.055 votes out of a total of 40,701. That is, out Of a total increase of some 11,000 votes during this period, the I.L.P. secured over 7,000. NEW YEAR'S TERM OPENS JAN. 3RD PROTT HAW 'CHOOLS of Commerce and Telegraphy 4 SCHOOLS ii>u jl j.. s 336 Hastings Street West Seymour 1810-7125 Bekins Building (Wireless and Wire Telegraphy) - Sey. 7451 Corner Robson and Granville ------- Seymour 2778 Corner Tenth Avenue and Main Street - - - - Fairmont 41 Before launching upon the expenditure required to give a member of the family a business course, the wise parent should; carefully investigate seven things: > 1. Tlie age. hlBtorv and reputab.l.ty of the school. 2. The location and accessibility of thc school. 3. The qualifications and expertness of its teachers—one good teacher Is worth more than a dozen poor ones. 4. The kind and amount of eauipment«m which the student Is to be trained. i) 6. The results over a period of years which that BohooJ 1ms produced. G. The nature and extent of the school's business clientele—rin other words, can and does It place its graduates and in what sort of offices are they placed. 7. The cost—always bearing In mind that the cheapest in dollars and cents is almost invariably the most expensive In the long run. Fifteen or twenty dollars saved during a course of training generally means from ten to twenty dollars a month lost throughout the rest of ones period of employment. There is nothing more expensive than a bungled education. On All These Points the Sprott-Shaw Schools Court Investigation . Write or phone for particulars and they will be mailed to you. S505 Perils have not passed i ■ WHEN the white man cyne, lurking Indians were a constant peril. Although years have passed since then, there are still those who prey upon the fortunes of the unsuspecting and uninformed. Without the protection of modern banking facilities you invite misfortune. The Royal Bank of Canada Vancouver Branch 16 Offices in Vancouver. B. L Mitchell, Manager 51 Branches in British Columbia 2S2 4 ft Phone Fair. 80 Exclusive Ambulance Service 80 PHONE FAIR. Up-to-date Ambulances and Invalid Coaches. -All Attendants Qualified ln Tint Aid "St. John's Ambulance Association'' "Ws Sp.olallze ln Ambulance Sorvice Only" 536 Thirteenth Avenue West, Vancouver, B.C. RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggiste" Ws Make a Special Effort to Get Oooda Out ay Tint Mall after Becelp- of Tour Order OO-Um OOKDOTA AND OAJ-BAM- VANCOtnrER, » O. JOIN THE LABOR PARTY For Further Information Write B. C. SECTION, CANADIAN LABOR PARTY Prc.ident, J^^V^i-^cy^UCTyW. pAMPBELU' tOO lBth_A___. E. Vice-presidents: W. H. COTTRELL, W. W. LEFEAUX, ~S. BATE Friday, January 6, 1928 **••*• ' —'- — S-HBH" THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory jj Correspondence ir Tancouver Trades and Labor council— President, J. Thomson; general secreUry, Percy R. Bengough. Office. 803 Holden Bldg., IS Hastings East Phone Sey. 7495. Meets In Labor Hall at I p.m. on the flrst and third Tuesdays in month. B. O. Fishermen's Association, meets every inonth at the call of the Secretary In the Holden Bldg. General Secretary, K. Hornbrook, 53 Hastings St.. W. sun and Factory Wottars' TTnlon, Local Bo. 169* — Adlllated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters A Joiners. Meeta flrst and third Thursdays ln lioom 113 Holden Bldg. President. H. C. Matthews; Business Agent. A. Graham, 809 Holden Building. Rec. Sec, R. G. Inder; H. G. Avery. Beverag-e Dispensers .Union No. 676— meets third Sunday at 8 p.m.. Room 310. Holden Bldg. President. W. H. Clancy; Secretary and Business Agent. T. J. Hanofln. Office: Room 6, Plack Block; Phones: Sey. 47S3 and Bay. 16S6-R. Hours: 9 to 12 a.m. Bridge li Structural Iron Workers, Local IT, i Int. Asso.—Meets every Monday, Room 804 Holden 'Bldg., at 8 p.m., President. Sydney Dunltone; Secretary, P. Laurel, Box 302, City, Phone Fair. JJ108L, -.- -• ■ Building Trades Connoll, Vancouver— . Meets second and fourth Tuesday Ir Holden Building. President. Robt., Stevenson; Secretary-treas., W. Page. Room 815, Holden Bldg. Wife Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees. Local 46.—Meets second and fourth Friday In Labor Hall. 18 Hastings St. E. President, T. Rutherford; business agent, Blrt Showier. 1115 Robson St. Motion Pictures Projectionist's TTnlon, Local 348 of I.A.T S.E * M P.M O.— Meets at 991 Nelson St. on first Sunday In each month at 7:30 p.m. President, J. R. Foster, ll.l Oranvllle St.; Secretary, Geo. Gerrard. Box 345. Business Phone: Sey. 3923. Musicians Mutual Protective TTnlon Local 145, A. T. of M^—Meets at the (£ W v. A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President. Edward Jamieson; secretary, XV. Edmunds; flnanclal , secretary, \V. E. Williams; organiser, F. Fletcher, all at 991 Nelson Street. Bakers' Local 468, Jonrneymen, of America—Meets second Saturday In month at 8 p.m.—President. A. Morris. 2831 Vine St.; sec, T. Rlgby, 1482 Broadway E. Phone Fair. 2355X. ■akery Salesmen, Local 371 — MeeU serond Thursday every month. Holden Bldg., 16 Hastings E. President B. Holmes; acting secretary, Blrt Show- i ler, 1115 Robson. office, 807 Holden ! Building. Barbers,1 Journeyman International Vn- .lon of America—Local 120, meets second and fourth ' Tuesdays In each month in Room 310 Labor Hall, 16 Hastinirs East. Pres.. Fred. Dawe; Sec.-treas.. C. E. Herrett, Office 814 Holden Bldg. Bookbinders Looal Ho. 105. Int. Brotnar- hoorl—Meets second Taaa&ay In month at Professional and Business Woman's Club, Empire Bldg., 603 Hastings XV. President. G. Low, 61 53rd Ave. W.; secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton Street. Painters, Decorator* and Paperhangers Local 138—Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 163 Hastings W. Bus. Iness agent, Robt. Stevenson. Office, room 34. 163 Hastings West. Phone Sey. 3609. PUe Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Dock Builders Local Bo. 2404—Meets every Friday night at 3_j_________l_:_'.Hastings SI. W. .lame. Thomson, secretary. P. O. Box 320. C. Anderson, President. .Plasterers, Looal 89—International Association of Oporative, meets first ' and third Wednesday in month at Holden Bldg. President. C. Keall: Financial Secretary, A, Campbell, 464 Fifty-sixth Ave. E., phone Fraser 184L2; Cor. Secreury. A. Hurry. 861 Thirty-fourth Ave. E-, phone Fair. 3222R. Plumbers and Steamfitters, no. 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. Bricklayers', Masons' and Til* Betters' Int. union Bo. 1—Meets second and fourth Wednesday ln the Holden Bldg President, O. E. Halllday: SecreUry, W. S. Dagnall 1244 30th Ave VS. Phone Fair. 845 R. W. J. Pipes, Fln. Secretary, 840 Beach Ave. Camp and Mill Workers Federal Labor Union No. 31—Vancouver and vicinity meets every second Wednesday at 8 n.m. at 544 Powell 8r.~East. President. H. Mlyazawa; SecreUry, K. Tsuyuki. Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of. Local 452—President, R. .1 Thompson; financial secreUry, R. W. Hatley; business agent, IV. . Hargreaves. Office, Room 809 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Meets seconi' and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m. City Rail Employees' Association meet- first Wednesday of each month at --H4 Hastings E, at 8 p.m President, D. Hargreaves: treasurer, W. J. Srlb- blns, 3208 Pender St. E.; Secretary, J. Tarbuck. 2792 Pender East. Civic Employees' Union, Local 28 — • Meets first and third Fridays In the month at 25H4 Hastings E„ at 8 p.m. President, R. N. Hogg, 1718 Commercial Dr.: secretary-treasurer, George Harrison. 1182 Parker St. ■liotrtcal Workers, Local 213, International Brotherhood—Meets every Hon ' day at 8 p.m In Room No. 6, 319 Pender Street West. President. H. C Allen: business agent, VS. H. Miilllissi. Office. 319 Pender §treet West. anginear*—International union Steam and Operating Local 844—Meets every Thursday all p nv Room 806 Holden Bldg. President, E. McCatlum; roc. sec. Geo. Petuplece; Fln. Sec. A Bun. Agent T. A. Newblgglng. Office, Room 806 Hnlden Building. Fln FighUrs. Bo. 18, International Association of—Meets every month at call of president, at 251 H Hnstlngs E. President, N. McDonald, No. 3 Fire Hall; financial secretary. C. A. Wataon. No. 3 Fire Hall. Ploorlaysrs' TTnlon, No 1875. 11 R of C. A J of A., meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays In 810 Holden Bldg. st '( pm. President. E. C. Woodward; Fln. Sec. A. Reid; Rec Sec. W. D. Wilson. 1261 Howe St. Hod Carriers and Building Laborers, Mo. (02, International. Meets flrst and third Friday In month at .Holden Building. President. C. Lawsdn, 1833 3rd Ave. W. Fln. Sec and Business Agent, J. A.' Bnrrlngton. 4293 Welwyn Street. Phone Fair. 1434L. Motel and Restaurant Bmployees and Marine Coots A Stewards, Loeal 28— 441 Seymour St.. meets second Mon- dnv each month at 3 p.m., last Mondays at 9 p.m. President Thos. Edwards, Sec-Treas. Harry Wood, Business Agent. Phone Sey. 135. Ladies' Auxiliary, Local 171 — United -Brotherhood of Oarpentara — Meets every first and. lbi_d__Wednesday at each month'in^lOTrrilden'Bunffi'nB^'at 8 p.m. President* Mrs. Nickels, 2388 Forty-second Ave. E.; secretary, Elisabeth J. Hope, 1138 Seymour St. Phone 8ey. 9074L. Point Orey Municipal Employees' Association, Local No. 3—Meets second Monday of each month at the Masonic Hall. Kerrisdale. 8 p.m. President, SO. Ross Squalr, 3728 30th XV. Secretary A. Patterson 8179 Hudson Street. Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Local No. 69—Meets every second Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. In Room 113 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President. Harry F. Longley. 301 »th 8t. North Van.; secretary. Wm. Qulgtey, 2083 2nd Ave. W.. Box 894. Bailway Carman of America. Lodge No. BS—Mee__ first and third Friday In month at Cotillon Hall. Granville and Davie Streets. President. A- S, Ross, 6S73 Pr. Edward St.: secreUry. J. D. Vullamy. 2215 15th Ave. W. Editor, Labor Statesman. Dear Sir,—In your issue of Dec. 2nd Mr. Chappie calls attention to a very important and somewhat alarming change which is about to take place as related to the progress and development of British Israel. It appears that" notwithstanding Isaiah had it definitely settled two thousand years ago that at this present time British Israel should bring the Chinese Empire into complete subjection, yet, this Rev. Generalissimo of British Israel now presumes, not only to set at nought the plans of the ancient Prophet, but to take aggressive steps looking towards the capture and subjection of the great Russian Empire. Considering the distance in time he looked forward the Prophet Isaiah did well in anticipating the events which would take place at thi stime in relation to China, and had he been advised of the other great powers which would be interested in that nation at this time he would have known how impossible it would be for British Israel to carry out the mandate, signed and sealed by shot and shell, contained in Isaiah 49, 1 to 12 as interpreted by the Rev. Gentleman's church announcement of recent date. I would suggest, Mr. Editor, that there is a possibility of carrying this matter too far. While all the great nations are doing their level best to bring peace to a troubled world this gentleman proposes to open the batteries of this British Israel of his against Russia and thus precipitate another great world tragedy. He has a perfect right to have a British Israel if he want to, but having created or postulated the thing he should be held responsible for its conduct. In the realm of nature there is nothing more savage than a chosen race. The annals of war fail to disclose anything to compare with the ghastly butcheries committed by Moses, as the Lord, according to the Jewish tradition, commanded him. Is it not astounding the number qf perfectly good minds that can be led away into any theological quagmire by a judicious juggling of the Sacred Scriptures I challenge any person to prove by or from the Bible that there ever was or ever will be a chosen nation, or race. THOS E. COLLINS. Street and Blectrlc Railway Bmployees Pioneer Division No. 101—Meets K P Hail. Eighth and Klngsway, lst and 3rd Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 n.m. President, W. H. Cottrell: recording secreUry. F. E. Griffin: treas., H. G. Blazler; flnanclal secretary and business agent, Angus Maclnnes, 3544 Pr Edward St. Office: corner Prior and Main streeta. Phone Fairmont 2160L Sheet Metal workers Association, Local Union No. 280 — Meets second and fourth Thursday In month in Holden Building, It Hastings Street E. President, A. Fisher. 1952 4th Avenue W.: business agent and secretary, D. Mac- Pherson. 807 Holden Bldg. Shingle Weavers, Local 17813—Meets second Tuesday In month. In Room .No. 2, Labor Temple. New Westminster, and 4th Sunday, 7:30 p.m.. In Room 313 Holden Bldg., Vancouver. President, J. N. Chute, Phone Hich. 1982-T; sec, W. H. Matthew, 3436 Irving St. Tailors', Jonrneymen TTnlon of America, Local No. 178—Meetings held first Thursday In each month. 8 p.m. Executive meets third Thursday of everv month ln Labor Hall. President, F. Franco; secreUry, C. McDonald P.O. Box 603. Executive meets third Thursday of every month. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, Local 466— Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 310 Holden Bldg. President, A. A. McKay, T73 Beatty St.: secretary-treasurer. A P. Black. 880 Homer St Theatrical BUge Employees' Union. Local 118 of the I AT BE. A M P.M O. —Meets at 991 Nelson street on the second Friday in month, at 9:30 a.m. President. Q. W. Allen; SecreUry. Gordon Martin. Business address, P. O. Box 711. Typographical TTnlon, No. 228—President'. C. S. Campbell; vice-president, Ft. Gouthro;' Secreury-treaaurer. R. H. Neelands, P.O. Box (6. Meets last Sunday, of each month at 2 p.m.. In Holden Bulldlnr. is Hastings St R Upholsterers, Local No. 26—242 Pender street west. President, P. Clift, 392B Keith road east. Nbrth Vancouver: Cor. Secreury, J. W. Gordon. 2292 Welllgton avenue. South Vancouver. "~ ''Why are all xh» J»taf of "oil sft> ting around in the corners?" "I put them out for mice. I hate to hear them squeak." Lathers. Wood, Wire aad Metal, International Union. Looal 807 — Meets . 2nd and 4th Mondays In month, at room 209 Holden Bldg. President. H. P. Fulljames. 2106 Vanness; Secre-; ury. Bert'Jenkins. 50 45th Ave. VS. i Meohinlet Local 892—President. Thos. Sills. 1352 Burrard St. SecreUry. P., R. Bengough. Office, 807 Labor Hall. ' 14 Hastings East. Meets on Mcond and fourth Tuesdays In month. State Marketing and Private Profiteers Buried away on page 18 of the Daily Mail for 18th November is the announcement that the British-Australian Wool Realisation Association (Bawra) has realised another eight million pounds, almost half of which goe3 to the British Treasury. During thc war, it will be remembered, the government, finding that the wool brokers, importers and private enterprisers, were raising the price of wool to almost famine prices, decided to "take over." The government became the sole importer of wool, bought on long term contract 'at 1/3 ii per lb. the exportable surpluses of our dominions, and agreed to share with the dominion growers whatever profits were made on the re-sale of the wool for other than military purposes, whether in Britain or elsewhere. Prince RWpert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday ln each; month. Prealdent. ■ S. D. McDonald. Box 268. SecreUry. Frank Derry, Box 498. Prince Rupert. B.C. What was the result? The price of wool was lowered to the British consumer. The last hundred thousand troops who went to the front were clothed at lower cost than were the first hundred thousand. And as the Daily Mail admits—it calls the result a "romance"—The British ■Kreasury netted £33,984,923 of a profit. Australian growers received £37,058,026 of a dividend over and above the guaranteed ,.rice of 1/3% per lb., while New Zealand received >£1,63.,069, and South Africa £461,- 267. The Profiteers' Reward What killed State Marketing of wool, with its immense profits going to the nation, was the jingo coupon election of 1918. The working classes were stoked u^wth great delusions" aBbut "every vote for aT-Ioyt. George or a Bonar Law candidate being a vote to hang the Kaiser and make Germany pay the cost of the war. And immediately the profiteers triumphH-atthe ,,i)o_l-V-tii£jfeti,'tinjtr they did was not to hang the Kaiser, but to' liang the British taxpayer. They handed back the business of wool importation and marketing to the private profiteers!—Forward. An , agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Flag Wavers Have To Climb Down No more shocking instance of judicial inhumanity has been seen in years than thc case of Russell Tre- main. Two years ago Russell, then aged nine, was taken from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tremain, by order of Judge W. P. Brown of Bell- ingham, Washington, on the ground that they were unfit to have him in their care. As members of a pacifist religious sect, they refused to permit him to salute the flag, which is compulsory for all school children, under ar^tate law. For two years Russell has not seen his father and mother, and for much of that time they have been kept in ignorance of his whereabouts. We are glad to report that this outrageous injustice has now been brought to an end. Judge E. E. Hardin of the Superior Court has overturned Judge Brown's ruling, and issued an order restoring the boy to his parents. He will probably be put in a private school where flag exercises are not required. This I common-sense solution might have been reached two years ago, and the state of Washington spared a worldwide ignominy, had not the sadistic | impulses of the officials smothered their sense of justice. THE ESTHER BAKERY Get your Cakes and Puddings at this bakery MAkERS OF HOVIS N Also Makers of the Best White, Raisin and Nut Bread Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor and Dealer Honae Wiring, Fixtures, Lamps, Batteries Olen 370 4099 Hastings It. B. Suggests a Crime Commission in N. Y. Governor Smith has suggested to the New York State Commission a drastically different system for dealing with persons convicted of a felony. He would set up ah expert board, whose members would receive high salaries, to determine the sentences in these cases. They would examine the men and decide whether they should go to the penitentiary or an insane asylum; and in the former event, what the term of imprisonment should be, and whether parole should be granted. This suggestion is, jn general, in line with the best thought of experts in penology and abnormal psychology, who agree that what can best be done with any prisoner should only be decided after close and expert study of his particular case. It is opposed by those who support harsh, automatic measures like the Baumes laws, and call the alternative method "coddling." The governor's suggestion is, .of course, only a stop-gap. Our system of criminal procedure needs revision from top to bottom . We freed a hew concept of the aims of justice, and ,a much better quality of personnel in the lower courts. The , psychiatrist ought to come upon the scene far earlier than Governor Smith proposes —indeed, as soon as an arrest has heen made. However, his suggestion gives the quickest and least expensive way of doing away with the worst of the present evils.—New Republic. _ deafer Foo(j .« —?!)5l_. Monarch of Minstrels Phone na to have milkman call At New Orpheum § Fraser Valley Milk Eddie .Leonard, the minstrel of the hour, will appear as the headline attraction on the program at the New Orpheum Theatre xent week. The. songs of Eddie Leonard, who is bringing a company of twelve singers, four danc- OTB, two banjo players and an orchestra director, are real musical effusions, hearing a characteristic stamp In point of individuality .tempo,, 'lyrics and treatment. They are songs'destined to survive the hazards of competition and Which alone would have swung Kddie Into public recognition. Eddie- Leonard's position on the stage is international ni scope. He has earned the right to hi8 present distinction, and is, without Question, the king of minstrels. "A Smile or Two" is the recipe used by Lester Crawford and Helen Broder. ick for the making of a dish calculated to please the amusement palate- of the most jaded theatre-goer. They sing, talk and dance, and do all three with the .smiley side out. Peg, Wynne has a smile. A smile that is known where Peg Wynne is known, and that is everywhere. She also has a voice, but her sense of humor is more Important and so while she is a singer, she is a-comedienne first and a vocalist afterwardH. In combining lit a sditinctly original manner, whistling, fiddling and gymnastics. Itene and John Arnaut give the theatre a highly humorous and artistic novelty, a type of entertainment that has brought immediate and lasting response. They have made an art and a high art of buffoonery, arid have justified the name of "The mlcompar- ables." The Mongadors are a quintette of French comedy jugglers. They juggle a. variety., of-JaJ.tk^leSv:--!mlJly..'Oi^^-ftfl; Atn- uRiial natiire, and keep the air po'Slttvelj; filled with (lying objects. Keo, Takl and Yoki call themselves "Versatile Entertainers from Nippon." They present a song and dance act and pnssiblv lo show how Occidental they ;«^i^t^^j44_^4^ will be "No Place to On;7' starring' Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes. It is a spirited story with plenty of comedy, a fine cast and a director who knows thci values of laughs. ... 9 Quarts for $1.00 Fairmont 1000 "Build B. C." A LADY ASKS ABOUT RICHNESS WHY Pacific Milk tastes ao much richer than other milk. It can all be explained from a scientist's analysis but the point of it all is Fraser VaX-t ley milk is the richest and best found anywhere. Grass, water, temperature, probably make it, but the fact itself is all that really concerns people. Pacific Milk Factories at Abbot-ford and Ij_«.ner""" * A "living wage" is anything you ran live on.|. Everyone wants a high- living wage: "I never had a penny in my lifie," boasted the millionaire, "that has not been honestly earned." "By whom?" asked a worker. Vat* u^o/tMaWmuMtaawau* MM i 1 mm'_umi Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 6, 1928 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. WatU, Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE: Chairman. H. Wood, Hotel and Restaurant Employees; J. McCurragh, Typographical; J. Thomson, Bridge Builders; .,,,, ,, ,.,,,, w! «aPn^f0y:dB;S^...^^;sTeLimsP,°yH^«tents °* «>• .reservoir. In fact everage Dispensers. Phone Seymour 6279 Vancouver, B.C., Fri., Jan. 7, 1928 MR. BEATTY'S WAIL Feeling that thc position of his corporation in Canadian affairs required that he, like the Premier of Canada, should issue a review of the year just closed, President Beatty of the C. P. R. has given the press a half-page statement telling us where . we are at, how we got there and where he thinks we are going to. Mr. Beatty says that during the year trade and industry has been good, mining is growing in importance; the farmer has cashed in to the extent .of $25 per acre on every acre of cultivated land; bank deposits have increased by sixty million dollars; labor has been nine per cent more completely employed—the Vancouver Province Christmas Fund to the contrary notwithstanding—and growing confidence in the future of Canada is seen in the amount of foreign capital offering for investment. In fact, everything from the Atlantic to the Pacific is just about as good and rosy as Mr. Beatty's secretary could find language to describe it, until it came to the C. P. R. Then, alas and alack! Woe is me! the dear railway, which did Everything for the country except elect the govern^ ment and appoint the judges, the railway has had a woebegone year.. Freight rates have been reduced,- wages had been increased, "approximately five per cent." How "approximate" he does not say—and thc rate of interest on money invested in railroads—C. P. R. 10 per cent—was wholly inadequate. By capitalizing the value of the C. P. R. land grants which is held free from taxation, and other gifts to the company and calling this the company investment, Mr. Beatty has persuade himself that the rail way was only paying 4.66 on its investment. By this method of calculation, if the people of Canada had doubled the value of its gifts to the C. P. R. the present railway profits would be still more inadequate. However, notwithstanding, the lachrymose condition of the C. P. R. the company expect to survive for some time for they have brought 400 miles of new road into operation during the year. This probably accounts for the increase in payroll. They are, in Toronto, building the most extravagant hotel in the British Empire, and the Canadian Pacific Navigation Co. have ordered the construction of nine trans-Atlantic steamships. —M. ing paper doctors the despatch and brings it into the field of possibility by placing a heading to the despatch making it a "well" not "wells and reservoirs." The despatch states: "The report of a chemist who analyzed the water was that sufficient poison was found in the water to kill the entire underground crew." This is a most interesting chemical report; usually such a report would indicate the effective qualities of the amount of water which one person might be expected to drink within a period that the poison would be effective, but in this case we have the effects that would be had if the whole underground force drank.* the whole the story would leave the impression that if the surface gang, including the National Guard, had got in on the drinking, the amount of poison per head would be insufficient to serve the purpose. We must admire the efficiency of the strikers, for to adjust the poison so that there would be just sufficient to kill the whole underground force only—who were the scabs that they would wish to remove—is very efficient work, and no waste. But again, there is no hint as to the size of the reservoirs and without knowing this, we cannot guess what chance the underground gang had of ever drinking Ihe whole contents. But then again, did the mining company have a different reservoir for the underground force than for other employees and other purpose's. If not, why is the amount of poison measured in relation to the underground, or strikebreaking gang? -We could continue these questions to the extent of another column 'or so, and all we could arrive at is that the story is one of the transparent falsehoods of the kind that is sent out from every strike field. In modern life the moral law does not apply to Russia nor to a group of striking wage workers. In both cases the present day journal will circulate the most self- evident lie and if the story in its original form is so loud and rank that it defeats itself, the "Johnnie" in the local newspaper office will edit and touch it up so that it may serve the purpose aimed at, —M. WILL CONTINUE SEWER WORK ALL WINTER In order to provide work for unemployed during the winter, Montreal will start immediately on al! sewer work which has to be done and will maintain staffs at work all winter. Aid. Desroches announced the other day. The city chief engineer, H. A. Ter- reault, is preparirig'a list of all sewers required as asked for in all parts of the city and this construction will be authorized by the administration according as the plans are made. In this way, it is estimated hundreds of men who would otherwise be idle will be kept at work, which will compensate in great measure for the closing of navigation, the lessening of construction and other lines of work. "NEWS" AS WE GET IT When an American employer has a strike on his hands, he sends a scab out where the strikers are likely , to givi him the required attention, by hanW, or he burns some useless shed, or discovers a bomb just about to explode, immediately under the bedroom in which his wife and babies are asleep. The mere fact that the man is unmarried does not alter the case, for if he-had been married and had a wife and babies they would have been somewhere—and now that the strikers have become "menacing" the state governor swears in a few score of the thugs and gangsters that live by burglary, hold ups and this class of work, and when these gentry start the events for which they are brought in, the governor at once sees that lawlessness has become so common that the national guard must be called out. Everything is'now lovely until the striking workmen are bet en or driven out; then a time comes when the gentlemen of the night and the gun and knife can look to the termination of their employment. "Wells and reservoirs of the Colum- _=___rr--tjjJ«r.peDai:Mihe..are-beinjf patrblled by the National Guardsmen as a result of an attempt to poison the men working in the mine." Nowrf>aison- ing a reservoir looks like a rather large chemical proposition; in fact, it carries with it its own refutation; this will never do, so our local morn- SHORT WEEK Santa Barbara, Cal.—The Builders' Exchange has given hearty assent to a five-day week for carpenters. The carpenters asked their , employers to favor thc short week and were notified by the manager of the Exchange: "The board of directors of the Exchange has directed me to inform you that this change meets their entire approval and they further feel it will be advantageous to everyone concerned and beneficial to the building industry as well." U. S. BARGE LINES HAILED AS SUCCESS St. Louis.—Citizens who insist that "the government should not compete with private initiative" ignore the increasing Buccess of the Federal barge line on the Mississippi and Warrior rivers. These lines were established nine years. They have grown into an institution with approximately 2,500 miles of right of way on the two rivers, and have physical assets of $16,000,000. Tonnage has increased from 23,359 in 1918 to 1,013,400 in 1926. The annual saving in lower freight .rates; approximate $l-50Qv> 000. IN THE HAM AND EGG FOUNDRY (By the Mustard Mixer) Quite a lot has been said recently about Oriental competition; restaurant employers also have been to bat on the question; perhaps little realizing thai they themseTVes are direct- y^responsible for what must be the ultimate result when they taught, or caused them to be taught in their cafes the art of cooking, to those who are becoming their competitors. It is natural to assume that if the Oriental can undersell his labor as a worker his position as an employer would not be materially changed in this respect, but the unfair competition was not apparent until the shoe began to pinch. Without directing any criticism against the City Health Department, I feel justified in stating that a more stringent measure should be inaugurated, by the City Council, to provide for the utmost in sanitation in kitchens where food is prepared for the public. The walls should be of a solid material; all wooden walls should be condemned as they harbor cockroaches in the crovices, which is a menace to public health. Restaurant kitchens, in size, should be' in proportion to one-quarter. of the floor space of the dining room, and daylight should be able to penetrate from at least one side. Ample facilities for kitchen employees, toilet, washroom and clothes lockers are very necessary in many places and should be compulsory. Kitchen utensils also came in for criticism. Were it not for Pat Burns' and Swifts' lard compound containers and empty gallon size tomato cans, some kitchens would be devoid of cooking utensils. Sanitation in the preparation and serving of food should receive greater consideration than has been accorded in the past. Not only should more sanitary daylight kitchens be advocated, but a law providing for periodical medical I examination of all persons handling ! food. The restaurant proprietors would find that more stringent sanitary laws would remedy their complaint about unfair competition, and at the same time it would be a public service. Pies, cakes and such edibles should also be under cover from flies when on display, and chipped and crac):ed plates and dishes should be relegated to the garbage can. What would you imagine was contained in the crevice, which is impossible to clean, and under which your dinner might repose in elegant splendor? A penalty is attached in the State of Washington for using such unsanitary articles in public dining rooms. PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Fellow-toilers, how many of you practice what you preach? How many of you to save five cents, walk a mile <5ut of your way and buy some non-union article? It is this kind of inconsistency that goes to hurt your cause. You don't practice what you preach. You don't do as you tell others to do. The thing to do is to do yourself what you tell others to do. You have the minister speaking in the pulpit telling others what to do, but he doesn't do it himself. Then you have the lawmakers making laws for the other fellow, but not for himself. This is the real meaning of the word hypocrite. It is this hypocrisy that causes a good many imaginary troubles. If you do what's right yourself, you have the right to preach to others, but if you don't, keep your mouth shut. Say nothing. Saw wood. It is like the fellow preaching against drink, and he is the worst for drink himself. A smart diplomatic person never says anything to the other fellow; he minds his own business. He says nothing. He saws wood. He is successful. He succeeds where the hypocrite fails. Let's start practicing what we preach! Originality exists only when it is unconscious.—Bdulanger. If London continues to grow at the. rate it has maintained during the there will be a population of 20,000,- 000 by the year 2000. . Movie: A place where people go to cough. See a*, for your Boys' and Girls' SCHOOL SHOES We carry tbe "LECKIE," "WILLIAMS," "HURLBUT" and "CLASSIC" at LOWER PRICES. 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Work Shoes priced from J7.50 up. 30 Cordova St W. Sey. 3320 "FRAME-UP" BLOCKED BY NEW YORK GOVERNOR Albany.—Governor Smith refused to sign extradition papers to turn David Gingold, vice-president of Local 20, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, over to Elizabeth, N.J., authorities. The trade unionist was charged with assaulting an Elizabeth employer. Gfngold claimed he was in Albany when the offense was committed; that he registered at the Ten Eyck Hotel and that his car was in the Albany garage. This testimony was substantiated by thi governor's personal counsel. In declining to grant Gingold's extradition, the governor said: "It is quite clear that an error has been committed." WIREMEN ARE LICENSED Detroit.—A city ordinance, now effective, provides that all persons engaged in wiring for electricity must be licensed. The annual fee is $1.00. •'FRIENDS" OF MINERS ARE EXPOSED AT OHIO Lansing. Ohio.—A mass meeting of several unions of miners in this vic'nity called attention to the whispering campaign against John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. The executive is the target for those who favor low wages and who would "save the union." Certain newspapers are also very solicitous for the welfare ■ of the union, and insist that the Lewis policy is suicidal. Resolutions adopted by the mass meeting denounced injunctions, evictions, strikebreakers, gunmen and other schemes that are intended to break the workers' solidarity. What is wrong, we have been asked, with a phrase: "An honest bootlegger?" Nothing, except, perhaps, non est. WE DO NOT PATRONIZE THE AVENUE THEATRE MGBE^EINANCIAL 'PATRIOTISM' "Poland," said Mr. Frank Hodges at Newcastle recently, "has just Successfully floated a big loan in thi- countryi. Thc money so raised is -.S^e^s&i- tJt S6b*i4f*WT»lrsh.'-1«fc ways in order that their coal enn successfully compete with British coal in Holland." But finance and big business screamed like hyenas against n subsidy to enable British coal to meet competition without smashing colliers' wages. SECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, Vancouver, B. C, Announce* a Free Lecture on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Paul Stark Seeley, CJ3.B., of Portland, Ore, Member ot the Board'of Lect-trrship of The Mother Church. Th<- First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, llassachus-tts In iKFXI^pTfbTTIieiatre, Granville Street Sunday Afternoon, January 8, 1928, at 3 o'Clock The Public Is Cordially Invited to Attend Friday, January 6, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do" DAVID HALIr Candidate FOR REEVE SOUTH VANCOUVER invites you to study his municipal career for thfe past five years. Those who know say: "He possesses intiiative and administrative abilities; qualities essential for True Leadership Big Show and Picture At Pantages Theatre , Next week the Pantages theatre presents Olive Borden in "Pajamas," a most interesting and dramatic photoplay, that was filmed partly in B.C. around Lake Louise. It deals with a millionaire's daughter and a hardworking young man who spanked her when she outraged his dignity at a pajama party at her house. Besides Olive Borden, the cast includes Lawrence Gray, Jerry Miley and John J. Clark. On the stage as the feature act of the vaudeville, Manager Pantages present Gilbert and Avery in a "Ehniestone Revue," with Joe Du- bow, Lillian McCoy and the Antrim Sisters. As an added feature, there is the Bison City Four—Milo, Girard, Hughes, Roscoe—the oldest quartette in vaudeville, in a snappy song revue. Besides these two excellent acts, there are four others of high class, and the usual Pantages screen extras —International News Keel, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, comedy. Miss Ivy Evans at the Pantages mammoth organ, and Fred Brown and his orchestra, will provide the music. CLUB HOUSE FOR CHICAGO TRADES UNION WOMEN The Chicago Women's Trades Union League plans a club house for recreation, study and entertainment, where trades un|on women may gather, it is announced by Agnes Nestor, secretary. A drive is to start soon for $50,000 to erect such a place. It is intended that the project be the centre of all trades union women's activities in Chicago. The clHb house will have a gymnasium, showers, meeting halls and offices. * More Wall Street Wage "Philosophy" "Who' reduces wages?" asks the Wall Street Journal, whose editor proceeds to suavely answer his question: "In nine cases out of ten it is th. wage earner himself when he does not save his job by doing more and better work for the sanie money." The W. S. J. has repetedly declared that our "prosperity" would end and overproduction would result if our nation's basic industries operated 100 per cent. Workers are now told that wages drop because they fail to produce more. This "reasoning" sounds good to employers who would justify wage reductions. The worker, fasten^3~"te_ a machine, is always blamed, as a matter of course. When the machine produces too much, the worker is either laid off or his wages are reduced. He is then told he did not do enough work, work—A. F. of L. Letter. Nobel Committee Gives Prize to Professors I The Nobel committee did well not to give its Peace Prize to any of the temporizing statesmen who explain the impracticability of disarmament at Geneva. They voted it instead to two university, professors, veterans of the world-peace movement—Lud- wig Quitjde' of Germany and Ferdinand Buisson of France. Quidde is 69 years old; Buisson 87. Quidde drew public attention by his "Caligula, a Study in Caesarean Insanity," which sent him to prison for lese majeste soon after the Kaiser mounted the throne; Buisson won his first oratorical success at a peace congress in 1867, where Garibaldi shared the laurels. Throughout the war and since he has been the leading figure in the League for the Rights of Man. whieh from Dreyfus days has represented in France thc spirit of true liberalism—somewhat like the American Civil Liberties Union in the United States. His was one of the first voices raised in France for reconciliation after the war, and Quidde, as historian, editor, member of the Reichstag, and determined democrat, has been in hot water constantly for more than thi. t' years—during the. war he was ar rested. Already the Hugenberg press-—which expresses in Germany today the intolerant nationalism with which Northcliffe once polluted England^—is honoring him with denunciation.—The Nation. FOLLY TO HOPE Referring to the question of disarmament, the London Sunday Times says: "It is folly to hope that any power . . . will consent to weaken itself by so much as a single man or a single weapon. The old tragic game is in full swing once-more, and Europe today is nearer to bursting with explosive material than even in 1914. The League of Nations is wasting its time in discussing disarmament." TENDER FOB GRADING LAND Tenders wanted for grading Northern portion of S. K. !4 Section 34, Hasting- Townnlte. Pliins and speeiflviillons enn be obtained from the arehlteet. Sehool Hoard . Building, Dunsmulr and Hamilton atreelH. Vancouver, after 10 a.m. January 5t!,, on deposit of J10.00. Tender. In duplicate enclosed with marked eheque for $2000.1)0 in" sealed envelope, addressed to the "Secretary and Chairman. Vancouver Sehool Board," will he received on or before 5 p.m., 12th January, 1928. Lowest or ny tender not necessarily neeepteiK, Ii. O. WOI.FK.MERTON, Business Manager nnd Secretary, Vancouver School Board. NOTICE that Charles J. Curtln. X Mining Engineer. INTENDS TO APPLY FOR PERMISSION to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following lands: Commanclng at a post planted at the Northwest corner of Lot 402. Range 5, Coast District, thence 80 chains South, thence 30 chains East, thence 80 chains North, thence 80 chains West, to' point o? commencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less, and being surveyed nnd Gazetted as Lot 402. Range 5, Coast District. Dated November 3rd. 1927, CHARLES J. CURTIN. By E. M. Hoops, Agent. TAKE NOTICE that Charles J. Curtln Mining Engineer. INTENDS TO APPLY FOR BKRMISSION to {-Bospect for coal and petroleum over the following lafids: Commencing at a post planted at the Coast District, thence 80 chains North, thi>ncc 80 chains West, thence 80 chains South, thence 80 chains East, to point .._.e£-p£9mmencement, and containing 640 acres, more or less, and being _urveyed Rnzeted as Lot 225, Range 5, Coast District. Dated November 3rd. 1927. CHARLES J. CURTIN, By, E. M. Hoops, Agent. LABOR'S PROGRAMME TO BE PRESENTED AT OTTAWA Ottawa.—The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada will present organized labor's legislative programme to the Dominion government on Monday, January 9. Measures to legalize peaceful picketing and prevent thc use of injunctions in industrial disputes will be leading items. REWARDS OF GENIUS For the years of toil which the preparation of his famous dictionary entailed the great Dr. Johnson received thc sum of £1575. And the other day a set of corrected pro0f- shcets of the dictionary, sold for £3250. Before ttyf argument of the capitalist that "private enterprise" provides a reward for genius can be held as proved, the genius will have to arrange to do his work in one life, and return in a later existence to collect his wages. SAYS "BEST BRAINS- ARE LEAVING CANADA OTTAWA.—Claiming that the best brain3 in Canada are leaving for the United States because of the low wages paid here, Professor J. C. McLennan of Toronto University called upon the Dominion government "to take pains to correct this-evil" in a notable address before the professional institute here last week. _. __a_ticular_y. ,v_as_ this. tn»_ of the ctvirpervice, antTPfofessorTIcEehnan declared "if those in authority wish to get the best out of the civil service of Canada they should take pains to see that employees are amply paid for the services given with salaries sufficient to allow them, in an atmosphere of freedom, to develop to the full their capabilities." The Prince of Wales Again in Trouble The Prince of Wales is again in trouble in the "best circles," and we should not be at all surprised if this wage-cutting government is driven by their more savage and more reactionary followers to make representations to the king about thc statements the young man is uttering in public. We all remember how during thc Miners' Lockout the Prince insisted upon making a public subscription to the miners' funds over his own name; and' not only that: how he insisted upon making a public statement to the effect that he trusted the miners would not be beaten through the starvation of their wives and children. * * * But look at this slap in the face he has just delivered to the government and their profiteer backers, and to all thc infamous and stupid philosophy upon which these Gadgrinds base their activities. The Prince was speaking at the Toe H Festival at the Albert Hall, London (Times report, 5-12-27): "You cannot expect to get the right men, and all of their time, or to get the best out of them, unless they are relieved from the financial anxieties of their daily, life." I do not know whether the Prince of Wales reads the Forward regularly—although some of his secretaries do—but if this should catch his eye in time, could he not use his influence in the House of Lords, at least among the "sports," if he has no influence with the profiteers, to torpedo some of the more desperate barbarities in thc Unemployment Insurance Bill now before Parliament? » + * I, am, oi course, well aware that the Prince of Wales is forbidden to take part in ordinary politics. Well and good: we all understand the why and the wherefore of the prohibition. But surely the terrible effects upon young girls, 18 years of age, through the cutting of their insurance benefits to eight shillings a week; the refusal to allow relief work for wages, to count as work for which insurance stamps qualifying the worker for benefit, shall be given; and the new rule refusing insurance benefit to men thrown out of work through thc breaking of an agreement by an employer—surely cruelties like these are outside party politics and belong to the same category as bomb-dropping on infant schools, the poisoning of village wells, and the like, against which all civilized men ought determinedly to protest! —Forward... ..... Z,......... ~,':',.'n'l ■ ' - First Annual Sale BARGAINS IN REAL MERCHANDISE! CARSS MACKINAWS; reg. $11.75 fof $9.75 CARSS MACKINAW SHIRTS; reg. $9.00 for $6.95 CAPS, values to $2.50 for..... „.,.,. $1.45 SHIRTS, superior quality; reg. to $2.50 for .,$1.65 l__U , OVERALLS AND WORK SHIRTS ALL AT CUT PRICES CORNFIELD & HARDING Ltd. 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Word has been received from the A I.I .u«M-;(riw:i*ul^-..J_*j!;.r< )._).*.!_. ;■.* Victoria promising to give every consideration to the Trades Council's^rc- quest for ah amendment to the charter of the City of Vancouver, providing for the abolition of plural voting ahd the substitution of Ihe Section 14 of the Municipal Act, which provides for one vote on each candidate in civic elections. Vancouver BREWJERiE^tBJW^rC™ This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British"'Columbia. WE DO NOT PATRONIZE -WE DO NOT PATRONIZE WHITE LUNCH COLLARD, THE TAILOR — Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 6,' 1928 fjifyitisQeaper UseitFreeb NO longer does the housewife need to think of her electric light bills. With our new low rates and the two-cent rate for generous users, you can flood your home with light for a trifling amount. 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With whom are associated McDonald, Jukes & Graves, Ytd. 823 Hasting* Street West Phone Sey. 7484 SAM'S CLOTHING HOUSE For high quality goods at LOWEST PRICES. We have a wide line of WATERPROOF CLOTHING SAM'S STORE 49 CORDOVA ST. W. DAINTY DATE BUTTER —Makes swell sandwiches. —for Dad's or the Kiddies' Lunch. . —Makes a tasty filler for cakes and cookies. Ask your Grocer for Dainty Pitted Dates Dainty Date Company NATIONALISM (By F. W. MOORE) J UNION CAFES & MERCHANTS "It is sheer folly," says a popular writer, "to dream of a day when the world will be ironed out into a sameness in which men will not feel a thrill of emotion when their national (lag is unfdrled; it is sheer folly to dream of a day when mankind will not be grouped into nations and have corporate unity and something of a common mind," &c. This may be so, ta a certain extent, but hardly in the degree that the import of the lines above would lead one to expect, especially if" the deductions that may be drawn from ethnology are taken into account. Man, according to "Morgan's Ancient Society," page 38, maintained cherished institutions for approximately sixty thousand years in savagery; his industrial and other organizations suited to barbarism for thirty-five thousand more, and then survived for a long time during the early years of civilization; yet, dear to the hearts as they must have become, their descendants—our noble selves ^^kpow little about them, and as a rhje care a great deal less. For these institutions, like everything terrestrial, were the results of evolution, and were quite forgotten by the crowd when new forms, suitable to the higher plane of existence, attracted the attention that a less-developed people gave to the older institutions. Much light will be thrown on the matter by following the steps by which a nation evolved. Its germ was the gens, or elan. The modern family name is a survival of the gentile name, Ibid 65. The gens was the fundamental basis of ancient society. To belong to one meant reciprocal obligations of help, defence and redress of injuries, alsoTi council in which every member had a vote. From the gens evolved (1) the phraty, organized for religious and social purposes, such as harvests and other thanksgivings, games, funerals, and election of chiefs and sachems; (2) the tribe, composed of several gentes, all the members of which spoke the same dialect; (3) the confederation .such as obtained amongst the Iroquois when America was discovered; (4) the nation, re- suiting from the commingling of tribes in the same area and the gradual disappearance of geographical lines between them. Then was the time ripe for the township, the residents of which became a body politic. At this stage, resident, were prone to be attacked by cattle thieves, to offset which the farmer with the largest house conveniently situated for defence was aided by his neighbors in turning it Declares Refusal to Render War Service Brave men and women are the 128,770 British -subject* who base signed Arthur , PonsonbyY "p*eace letter," declaring that We, the undersigned, convinced that disputes between nations are capable of settlement either by diplomatic negotiations or some other form of international arbitrage, hereby solemnly -declare" that we will refuse to support or render war service to any government which resorts to arms. 1685 Venables Street illlllBilll!im!!IIBI_llll_l Doubtless the signers will be denounced as traitors for resolving that they will act on Benjamin Franklin's discovery that "there never was a good war or a bad peace." But they are ambassado ^-tlI5^*lrta^'rlffir^«itui;&-^erhR_ not so remote as we tend to believe. It may not be many decades before war will seem to all as silly a fashion pf settling international disputes as the medieval system of testing a witness' honesty by asking him co walk through fire. Then the conscientious objectors will be as respected and forgotten as the early Christian martyrs are today.—The Nation. .r into a castle to which the whole populace repaired with their stock when danger threatened. The fighting was first carried on by volunteers, who eventually compromised and paid a certain sum to the farmer mentioned, to enable him to maintain professional soldiers; he, accordingly, became a duke or leader (dux—duels) Mussolini got the name also. I believe they call him The Duce, and no wonder. From these our modern nobility and their castles have evolved. In those days thc barons contended for supremacy, just as our trusts do with different .but much stronger weapons; then somebody put the Chinese invention of gunpowder to practical u.se by introducing cannon, and from thence onwards castle walls were useless for purposes of defence. After that the military power was concentrated in the person of the king. Subsequently came the age of machinery, with its imperialism, its corporations, its trusts, its unemployment and its dwindling markets, its foreign competition, its immense fortunes and its wars, and amidst this welter of complications it behooves us to winder where we are to look for the next instrument of evolution. Nevertheless, we don't have to wonder long since all signs point to the working class. Trusts and syndicates are forced by economic determinism to expand everlastingly, and it is only a matter of time, barring war or revolution, until the whole earth is owned by a few men. But since evolution is the law of life, humanity must act accordingly. She must learn to operate the world's industries in her own interests. Tlutocrats who don't aid in this work, or who oppose the preparation of it, are suicidally foolish, as they have.been over and over throughout historical times. There is nothing to prevent corporate national unity in all this, any more than there is anything in national government to preclude parochial unity, or such states of mind as people please to develop. The important consideration will be: the conquest of wealth, that is, the acquisition of the knowledge of how to use it to the best advantage; the achievement of human freedom, and the resulting opportunities for Iim itless improvement of the human mind, and the death of the war motive. Nationalism, therefore, can only reach its greatest perfection when the time is ripe, under a sane system of that product of evolution which is called internationalism. F. W. MOORE. United States Now Headed for Rampage A billion dollars for the navy— that is Economy Calvin's opening demand of the new Congress. Four new battleships at $60,000,000; 26 cruisers of the 10,000 ton type, at ?15,000,000 each; 3 airplane carriers, 5 fleet submarines, and 18 destroyer leaders—this is the Administration's five-year program. It is larger than the 1916 naval program —the largest in United States history. A billion dollars is a round figure; higher prices are likely to make the cost still greater. And this in thc year of peace 1927, six years after the Washington Disarmament Conference, txyb years after Mr .Coolidge's Omaha speech declaring that "it is our purpose in our intercourse with foreign powers to rely not upon the strength of our fleets and our armies," one year after we sent our representatives to Geneva to persuade Europe to disarm. Certainly nothing could be wilder, stupider, better calculated to persuade the world that the United States is headed for a rampage, and to stimulate the atmosphere of fear and suspicion that makes for war. We do not believe the American people have any desire for such a program of militaristic expansion, and we call upon them—individuals, women's clubs and men's clubs, churches, civic organizations—to overwhelm their representatives in Washington with an avalanche of protest—The ps watipnu As long as nations meet on the fields of war1—a. long as they sustain the relations of savages to each Other—as long as they put the laurel and the oak on the brows of those who kill—just so long will citizens resort to violence Jahd the quarrels besettled by dagger and revolver.— Robert G. Irigersoll. Shouting for Peace; Preparing for War Poland and Lithuania, in the persons of their premiers, Pilsudski and Waldemaras, jointly declared before the Council of the League of Nations that they both wanted peace, and the declaration was hailed with a curious outburst of applause as a great moral victory for the League of Nations. The trouble is that they both also want Vilna; and Vilna is the cause of all the talk of war. It is because Poland has Vilna, Lithuania's capital, that the technical state of war has persisted these seven years, and Pilsudski's histrionic triumph in demanding of Waldemaras whether he wanted peace or war does not change thc Polish administration of the city or the Lithuanian desire for it. Little Lithuania of course cannot fight against overgrown Poland; the threat of open war has come from Poland's ambition to annex even more than Vilna, just as the technical state of war has persisted because of the polish grab in 1920. It is a crime to legalize such outright acts of theft; and a double crime to conceal thc continunig wrong done to Lithuania by loudly Shouting "Peace!" The Vilna question will not be settled until it is settled right. TORIES WOULD REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF London7England.—The Tory government is_attcmpf ing to reduce un- "r_j^6mfftoym.i_t . relief: -—Otmserrgtives- who represent industrial centers are refusing to support the measure because of increased unemployment and destitution in their 'constituencies. One Tory showed that 751 per 1000 population receive relief. The Liberals are also alarmed. They' fear, that the proposal will cause voters to retire them to private life and that they will be succeeded by Labor party members. Say moor 3168 Alway. Op_a Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE Late 54th Batt. Late 72nd Batt. 76 Haetinge St. E. Vancouver, B.C. When In a Hurry, Drop In at Egg Order. FRED'S arealwayi §» ,V-•■ - "ok." at Dairy Lunch "It's the Coffee" 72 Hastinga w. Always Open R. WILKINSON. Pres. 0. DUNCAN, Ste Reynolds' Cartage Co- LIMITED Phonea Seymour 3377-3378 Crating, Packing, Shipping and Storage < Furniture and 1'iano Moving Long Distance Moving Pool Car Shjj»Tt&tus Office and Warehouse! 722 — CAMBIE STREET 712 PERRY & DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33. The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122 439 7th Aye. B SEY. 7157 Leslie Coal Company Limited WE33. li J_14J-gJ_!^-_i^— Classified Adverts. BARRISTERS AHD SOLICITORS Wallis W. Lefeaux, 402 Metropolitan Bnlldlng. Phon* Sey. 6607. BATHS Hastings Steam Baths Prloe 35c Only 760 Hastings Street East DENTISTS Oi. W. A. mntledgs, 108 Hastings W. PRINTERS Labor Statesman 803010 Holden Bldg. RUPTURE SPECIALIST O. E. Heard. 812 Rofcsoa UNDERTAKERS Armstrong A Hotson, 304 Dunlevy Are. ABBQT$F0RD Call High. 498 and 4980 NIGHT PHONE: HIGH 46*76 COAL and WOOD For the Best Fuel Obtainable When in doubt try union label goods. • ' "•. ^^^ Friday, January 6, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Seven VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Bad Cold. MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS XV. SEY. SOTO Colonial Theatre GRANVILLH AHD DUNSMUIH Premier Film Attractions Special Features Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Moderate Prlcee CONTINUOUS, 11 A.M. TO 11 P.M. W. E. FENN'S School of Dancing PRIVATE AND CLASS LESSONS Social Dtnces, Monday, Wednesday ' and Saturday. SEYMOUR 101. COTILLION HALL ID.M.J-I.Pn-. TV ronizeU wnoie Wheat FLOUR EVERY HOME NEEDS IT. MAKE SURE YOU GET IT- AND NOTHING ELSE. Il le Rich in Nourishment— DELICIOUS Yearly Average Wage For Canadians $1096 Ottawa.—-The Dominion Bureau of Statist'cs has just issued its report on manufacturing in Canada for 1925. An examination of the figures reveals facts which will interest workers on both sides of the international boundary. The value of the finished products of 22,231 establishments was $2,- 948,545,315. Raw materials cost fl, 587,665,408. Labor was paid $596,707, 473, leaving $764,172,434 for profits, taxes and other expenses. The average yearly income of all workers, from manager to messenger boy, was $1,096.43. Salary workers, including the cxe» cutives, received an average of $1,843, while wage earners, who probably constitute more than 80 per cent of the force, averaged $971. Montreal is Canada's leading manufacturing city, with 90,584 workers on the pay roll. Toronto comes next with 82,728. The Alma n Enterprise asks: "What became of the old-fashioned woman who stuck a broom straw into the bread in the oven to see if it was done? Probably sticking the measuring stick into the tank of the car to see how much gasoline she needs. UNION LABEL SHOPS—CUSTOM TAILORS F. W. Beaton, 563 Georgia Street W. Chan. Butt. 106«A Pender Street W. Commlns & Creelman, 603 Dunsmulr Street. W. E. Calladlne, 4431 Main Street. Creasey & Abrams, 600 Robson Street. Joe Oass. 623 Dunsmulr Street. David Grey, 164 Eleventh Ave. E. Hart I.- Bros., 662 Seymour St. A. Jelts, 2630 Main Street. Keir & Dolg, 624 Pender St. W. Thos. C. Morgan, 1335 Granvlle St. Perry & Dolk, 18 Hastings W. Perrin ft Co.. 2142 Main St A. Patterson, 14 Cordova St W. Ray Bros., 80 Hastings St W\ F. M. Slowln, 235 Granville St H. F. Storry. 651 Granville St. David Small, 4021 Klngsway y J.'H. Sweder, 427 Seymour St / Union Tailors, 346 Hastings St Pf/ E. McD.'WIHiston. 309 Dominion 6ldg. 3. N. Altchison, 456 Columbia^ New Westminster. ~j£ UNION BTOBMB/ The following stores ejaiploy Union Tailors and have olgnedjSh agreement •With the Tailors' Unlrin,y#|ta are th« only -places selling ready-made suits entitled to the patronage of/Union men: Arnold & Qulgle/ 640 Granville St. C. D. Bruce, itjf Hastings St. W. I. Clamans. VSl Hastings W. and 795 Granville St: , Wm. Dick, 76 Hastings E. and 399 Hastings "W. , Fashion'Craft 608 Oranvllle St J. W/'Fostcr, 468 Granvillo St 'tfiison Upstairs Store, 441 Hastings. Tolerance (By J. C. HARRIS) Of all the virtues, Tolerance has proved the hardest for mankind to learn and the easiest to forget. So many mistake bluster for argument, and so many more attempt to cover up weal: arguments by bluster, that an experienced person will always suspect a blustering manner either in speech or writing. The Indians used warpaint and wild warhoops to' terrify their opponents, and we more civilized people who cannot indulge in such simple stratagems seem to be reduced to mudslinging and abuse to produce terror in the minds of those that we attempt to afgUe with. Bluff and bluster have often won elections. We have seen absurd railroad policies carried by such means. We have seen small nations bullied by waving the big stick. But sometimes "the bluff is called" as in the case of the Boer war, and then those who have tried to win by bluster get a much needed lesson. Humanity is learning tolerance. Necessity is slowly but surely forcing broader outlooks upon us, as modern civilization is mixing us up more and more with our fcllowmen, and we find ourselves brought into close contact with all sorts of people and all shades of opinion. Out here in Western Canada, Catholics and Protestants live peaceably side by side, and they have ceased to regard each other as desirable objects for roasting at the stake. We still have fierce religious quarrels, but not such disagreeable consequences as when Christendom set forth to make Christians out of Moslems, at the point of the sword. In religion wc are slowly and nain- fully learning to have more regard for the great essentials that unite us and to pay less attention to the smaller matters over which our fnthers fought so fiercely. We, in the Labor Movement need the same difficult lesson, for intolerance and jealousies abound, making the Labor Movement ridiculous by its feebleness and bitterness. And it is the small things over which we squabble and it is on the big important things we can unite, and which are the only things worth fighting for. If we insist on conformity on all the small matters over which we have so often quarrelled, we shall delay progress, until kindly nature has removed our opinionated, disagreeable, little selves, and replaced us by a breed of men who are bigger and broader and more kindly. Our big objective; on which farmers and labormen and intelligent businessmen can unite is to get rid of human parasites. This can be done if we set about it deliberately and in the proper manner and we should make a start in the forthcoming Provincial elections. But we must be tolerant even to those who oppose us. Firstly, because it pays. Secondly, because we must understand that people are the products of circumstances, and that they^ are only responsible for their opinions and actions to a very limited extent. A vast number of our parasites are quite unconscious that they are in that very objectionable class; they have simply developed along the lines of least resistance, and probably consider themselves exemplary citizens. Wc must seek to show them up in their true nature, but we must do it kindly, for abuse and denunciation^ will not affect them. And if I plead for a tolerant attitude towards those that we regard as our opponents do we need an even greater tolerance towards those who are working, though possibly in a mistaken manner, towards the same ends as ourselves? Look for points of agreement. Forget pr .ignore petty differences and, play your part in building up a better Canada. /—i.C. HARRIS. WANT PRIVATE PLANTS ./TO MANUFACTURE ARMS Washington.—Secretary of War Pavis asks Congress to revive the private manufacture of war munitions. He says this industry, except ammunition, has disappeared in the United States sine* the World War. ."Each plant," he writes, "should receive in time of peace, as far as possible, a small order for thc manufacture of articles which they will be calTed upbrr to ' marnrfactufe." in time of war. Ojilyby obtaining experience, in such a way can it develop and keep alive the art of manufacture. "Modern war is a war of machines; modern war requires these machines in number heretofore undreamed of." (By R. WESTAWAY) There seems to be agreat confusion of thought, and action, in tbe ranks of Labor. This Colorado strike, for instance, instigated, I understand, by the I. W. W., who are not recognized by the regular trade unions, though they both strive to the same goal, "the parliament of man, the federation of the world." * ' * * " It is a fact that many union men have no use for Socialism, mostly because they do not know what it means. Morris' "New Utopia," and Bellamy's "Looking Backward" are alike. Both convey th esame idea. Morris was a Welsh poet, Bellamy a Bostonian, and though Morris is the best, from a literary point of view, the other is the more practical, goes more into details. His idea was that the United States and every other nation should produce all the necessaries of life as units, the said necessaries to be distributed from national depots. There would be no private ownership of Jand and no individual enterprise. The population of the whole country ,in fact, would be an industrial army. No man, physically fit, would be exempt from a term of unskilled manual labor. After that his elders would decide on his life work. With no individual business and no private property, lawyers,. bankers, real estate sharks and such like would have no place. Everyone would be doing real necessary work, and would be supplied with the necessaries of life from the common stock. Crime and prostitution would die for lack of motive. Man would be set free to conquer the earth and subde it. A dream, perhaps, but the dream must come before the reality. Where there is no vision the people perish. This mode of life would mean that money would not be necessary, an unthinkable state of things with most people. Yet, it seems silly that one's welfare should depend on the possession of certain metal discs or pieces of paper. In the meantime, our aim should be to nationalize everything, the P. G. E. in particular. Human Rights Must Be \Above Property Rights The report of the Commision on Christianity and Social Problems of the Evangelical Synod of North America, among other things, said: "Human need, human rights and human welfare transcend property rights and profits on investments. "While industry must produce some profit in order to be self-sustaining, the spirit of Jesus Christ in industry demands thajr production for use rather than for profit be the controlling aim. "Since Labor is the product of a human personality fashioned in the image of the /Creator, it is invested with a dignity and value which entitles it to,the highest respect To regard labor as a commodity, to be bought ond sold merely according to the law of supply and demand, is incompatible witn Christian principles apd with human right and welfare. The right to useful employment is an inevitable corollary of the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." JOB PRESSMEN WIN $1 WAGE INCREASE New York.—Printing pressmen in 600 commercial shops have raised wages $1 a week through arbitration. John A. Fitch, writer on social questiohs, was the impartial member of the board. The pressmen demanded a $5 increase and the employers insisted that wages be reduced $5. Under the award cylinder pressmen will be paid $56 and job pressmen $47. More than 3,500 workers are directly benefited. The decision has a far-reaching effect as eight other printing trades unions, with a membership of 30,000 have initiated wage movements. The pressmen's victory is considered a check_tp employers' demands fmiiwagretS-jftifiS: lions. Nothing is needed but collective effort. Our poverty, our restraints, our infections and indigestions, our quarrels and misunderstandings are aH things controll^le and removable by concerted human action.—H. G. Wells. Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.'CIDERS "Made from B. C. Apples" PURE SWEET and SOUR APPLE CIDER TRY OUR GRAPE, LOGANBERRY, ORANGE, PUNCH, ETC. IDEAL FOR DANCES AND PARTIES PHONE HIGH. 90 PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS., LTD. 1955 Commercial Drive 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 see this Union Stamp. Boot & Shoe Workers' Union ArfUltttd with Uh AbhIcu Fidfr-tlon tt Labor 340 SUMMEB STREET, BOSTON, MASS. COLLIS LOVELY General President CHARLES L. BAINB General Secretary-Treasurer BRIGHTEST-2- THEATRES STRAND THEATRE REX THEATRE Vanconver*! Promlor Honae Freaente Vnnoonver's Popular Honn Present! 1'IEST BUN PICTURES and the TBB BEST IN MOVIEi and the Fanchon and Marco Innovation* COUNTRY STORB A Sootless Egg Coal $9.00 "S——'•* "pP An Excellent Coal; also the Old Reliable \ / NANAIMO-WELLINGTON //\\ Star Coal Co., Ltd. FBEE DELIVERY PHONE: HIGH. 279 Your PARTY or SOCIAL is NOT Complete without ALMOND'S ICE CREAM PHONE DOUGLAS 3 6 The Equitable Savings & Loan Association Owned and operated by its member! (or their mutual benefit. 208 North-West Building Sey. 7172 No Preferred Stock. Money received from members only. No Preferred Stockholder.. Loans made to members only. $1.00 TO $35.00 PER MONTH RECEIVED Please forward me further Information regarding Savings and Loan. I am interested In building or buying a home. I am Interested in paying off an existing mortgage. I am Interested In a savings account Name .'. AddreBs _ SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES $3.00 PER YEAR The Vancouver Safety Deposit Vaults Absolute Security Open Daily, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. * Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Board of Trade Building, 402 Pender Street West . (Corner of Homer), Vancouver, B.C. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER MIHMIMMMI Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 6, 1928 LAWRENCE W. SMITH Registered OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN 49 Hastings St., Wast, Since 1*07 Phone Sey. 6860. Vancouver, B.C. Let's Eat Today at the Harmony Cafe "Dine here and you will always be ln tune" lot* "aharp" or youll be left "flat" In tbe rn_n for onr 40c Lunch—beat ln town "bar" none! 1154 GRANVILLE ST. SEY. 3994 Start 1928 Right! Remember That every dollar you spend on British Columbia Products stays here and helps some other workers to buy 'British Columbia Products, some of which may perhaps be produced by you yourselves. Keep the other fellow busy during 1928 and thus help yourselves by Buying B. C. Products Time and tide wait for no one! But Sey. 4000 will gladly wait for everyone. DAY OR NIGHT UNION DRIVERS PHONE SEY. 4000 Demand the Union Button. (Inserted by Local 151) WOMEN'S AUXILIARY No. 75 to Vanconver Typographical Union meets flrst Thursday of each month, ln the Tancouver Women's Bnlldlng, 752 Thnrlow Street, president. Mrs. "Z. J. Trnmper, Suite 41, 840 Nelson Street; Secretary, Una A. Pettipiece. 1846 Balaclava Hoad. An airplane carried a hog to the Indianapolis market, the other day and all the papers had stories about it. But none of them seemed to remember the prophetic ~51d song: "When the pigs begin to fly, oh, then won't pork be _, high!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Union Label Trades Council Notes At the last meeting of the Union Label Trades Council, held Thursday, December 22nd, 1927, the Council authroized steps to be taken to request organized Labor to advise their womenfolk that the products of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills of Indianapolis, Ind., and the Julius Kayscr Company of Brobklyii, N.Y., have been specifically mentioned by the American Federation of Labor as unfair to organized -Labor, through discrimination against members of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers' Unions, affiliated td the Textile Workers of America. Ask your wives and daughters to demand union made goods bearing the union label. The next meeting of the Union Label Trades Council will be held in room 815 Holden Building, Thursday, January 12th, at 8 p.m., and it is expected that a request for a charter from the Union Label Trades Department oi the American Federation of Labor will be authorized. ' —H. W. GOOD WAGES AND PROSPERITY The underpaid producer means the limited consumer, increased wage scale means in*' creased markets. Cheap production is futile when consumption is thereby curtailed. One hundred jobs hunting ninety men means adequate reward for the worker and an active commodity market. One hundred men hunting ninety jobs means privation for the wage earner and a curtailed market. Unless we maintain our high level both of production and consumption schemes of social justice will go glimmering. These can be advanced only when economic conditions fortify demands for higher wages and better conditions for workers. These practical considerations may mean little to theoretical reformers, but they mean a great deal to men of common sense.—National Republic, organ of the National Republican Party, New York, U.S.A. One Seat Gained On Calgary City Council Labor held its own in the Calgary municipal elections which took place on Wednesday, by the election of the above candidates. Although the contest between the C.G.A. and Labor was keen the vote polled was small owing to the fact that Mayor Osborne was elected, by acclamation, the interest of a mayoralty election thereby being absent. Labor people are particularly :over-joyed over the election of Miss Turner and T. B. Riley on the school Board. Miss Turner was first elected at the famous recall election which took place in 1926 when the C.G.A. majority on the School Board attempted to do away with free school books. In that contest Miss Turner and W. E. Turner were elected over the two recalled C.G.A. trustees. The Labor representation on the board remains as it was last year, with T. B. Riley, W. E. Turner and 'Miss Turner. The re-election of Alderman Parkyn was expected and the addition of Mr. Thomas gives Labor four representatives on the City Council, Miss E. Patterson and J. W. Russell having been elected last year for two-year terms. '•.,,' Do you remember when you could hardly get the ladies' starched skirts through a wagon rim? Now you can almost get her whole outfit through a finger ring. "We Do Not Patronize" AVENUE THEATRE NATIONAL and TROCADERO CAFES LTD., Gran. vilie St., Hastings St. W., Pender St. W. ALL WHITE LUNCHES. WALDORF CAFE ROYAL DAIRY CRYSTAL DAIRY EMPRESS THEATRE STEVENSON'S BAKERY TIP TOP TAILORS COLLARD, the Clothier, 603 Hastings W. LEN. A. DAVIS . (Lathing Contractor) THOMAS & McBAIN, Clothiers, 655 Granville CLARKE & STUART MURPHY & CHAPMAN ROSE, COWAN A LATTA GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G. A., LTD. J. W. BOYD. Authorized by the Vancouver, New Westminster & District Trades A Labor Council, for the Information of all union members. 20 Union Labels Are Registered at Ottawa Ottawa.—Twenty union labels have already been registered under the Trades Marks and Designs Act. enacted during the last, session of Parliament. Twenty-six more are in use, but have not been registered. The legislation is the most advanced of its kind in the world, and was secured by labor after more than 30 -years of effort. The bill was introduced by the Hon. Peter Heenan, minister of labor, and although it passed the elective chamber without opposition, the non-elective senate subjected it to a heavy barrage, but it was finally enacted, Iargley through the efforts of Hon. G. D. Robertson, vice president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, and .Hon. J. B. Taylor, a member of the International Typographical Union. Over 250,000 British Miners Unemployed London, Eng.—Over 250,000 miners are workless, under-employment is more extensive than ever before recorded, and the mining industry— whose condition reacts on all other basic industries—is becoming worse. The miners' executive waited on the government with proof of these facts, and urged: The repeal of the Eight Hours Act; Compulsory amalgamations; Raising the school-leaving age; Intensification of house-building; Financial aid to develop the byproduct industry; Pensions at 60. Special charges of harsh administration of thc Unemployment Insurance Act were made, and the gov- ernment pressed to take steps to remove these grievances. In dealing with the extent of unemployment, the remarkable fact was quoted from official documents that no less than 71.2 per cent, of the insured population are idle in one Welsh mining town/ The government 'promised immediate consideration7 of the matters raised. He: "We bkd a party last night." She: "Anything tod rink/" He; "Yes; 1 went out for gin nnd oranges. ?md had to go to five places before I/could find any oranges." Organized Workers and Your Wives! (live preference to jg^chants and bfisi-" hessfirms who advertise in your paper T H E LA BOR STATES MA N y » ^u^on^^K dampmtg- INCOR-OHAT-P ZW MAY IBTO. VANCOUVER NOW ON! OUR JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE Offering remarkable Price Reductions in every depar.ment rainnrnnraiflimmmminmirai raranmmn THINGS FOR MEN SUA VINO BRUSHES 260, 49c, 7Sc, 91.00 to B7A0 RAZOR STROPS $1.23, $1.75, S2.00 to $660 VACUUM BOTTLE REFILLS **o VACBBW BOTTLES, good quality B9e "STRONGLAS THERMOS"—See this first 91-50 PASS CASES, 1 to 6 passes 50c to $2.25 DARWIN BLADES, superior quality 75c ind 91-60 KRISS KROSS STROPPERS Scientific in construction, is guaranteed for ten years but lasts a lifetime. By its use the life of blades is increased many times, and real shaving comfort obtained always. I B. C. Barber Supply & Sundries Limited FHONE SEY. 4401 | RETAIL STORE — 04 HASTINGS STBEET WEST — VANCOUVEB, B. O. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PBOMPT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION Shimim DRUGS AT CUT PRICES We operate fourteen stores—permitting us to buy In large quantities—saving the mlddlein- n'_ profit. Try us for your Drug Wants and note the QUALITY—SERVICE and SAVING Friday and Saturday Specials ,6. Dr. William's Pink Pills 29 1.00 Dr. Reld's Guaranteed Hair Tonic A3 .26 Carter's Little Liver Pills 16 • ..rp0 Gin Pills 31 1.5(1 Norlda Loose Powder Vanltie .93 .25 Benzu Almond Cream 16 .35 Mermen's ShavinK Cream 24 .25 Vinolla Shaving Stieks 17 2.00 Duchess Electric Curling Irons ...' 1.39 1.00 Beef, Iron and Wine 62 -S5 Chex (Deodorant Soap), 2 for .31 .10 Genuine Dutch Drops 3 for .15 .BOKry.ol (Antiseptic),,8 o_ AB .10 Conde Castile Soap (cakes) 5 for A3 .50 Pep.odent 32 .35 Dr. Keld's Liniment (Heal- iiiK Halm) ::. 31 .50 Superior Hay Rum, 6 oz .. .26 1.25 WincnrnlH .97 .75 Vacuum Hottles 34 1.25 Ironlzed Yeast .68 VANCOUVER'S OWN DRUG STORES—TWELVE" IN THE CITY AT YOUR SERVICE. WE SAV.J YOU MONEY. VANCOUVER DRUG COMPANY, UMITED > 12 STOBES FIRST CHURCH (The Church of the Open Door) GOBE AVENUE AT HASTINGS EAST Minister, Rev. Richmond Craig 11 a.m.—COMMUNION SERVICE 7:30 p.m.—"CHOOSING HIS WIFE" The Minister will. Preach VERY SPECIAL MUSIC! Another new invention that will be unpopular with school boys is an apparatus to washHhe back of your neck. A plot is something thc other side does, which, if thc other side did, would be merely a plan of co-operation. SHOE SPECIALS ZIPPERS, in fawn and black; 1 Q C regular $5.00 .. AJ,yO GAYETTE'S, in fawn, two dome fasteners, rj Qf MEN'S Slippers in felt and boudoir style with crome sole t ^ C and rubber heel.... J. •_&_»? LADIES' Shoes in pump and strap and ties, paftcnt'kid and /| Q{J satin.,, at-p.-, ;.::'.-:.::■'.:■ ■^tV.OiJ'.'"'- MISSES' Tan Oxford with Panco . soles; 8 to 10V_ $1.75 11 to 2... .....:.:.:.... $1.95 .. Z WE CARRY UNION-MADE SHOES '''■ ' Jamieson Brothers 995 GRANVILLE STBEET (Near Nelson) PHONE SET. 100_ r:'i__T..i,iri»-MiiiiMiMjim-jii^i«»iiii»iTiaiii>iip,ipti.tTiiijBa!BBj
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