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[The Labour Statesman]
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.... .-. :::, * V-- Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and l)ir Trades and Labor Council <^g|g^K> .« Official Organ of The Canadian Lab^J^o^ Jo. 101—EIGHT PAGES • '■' ■ - ■ ' VANCOUVER, B. C., MAR'' = „ ' i we > J26 FIVE CENTS PER COPY •ity Retail Clerks Take Half Holiday Offenders to Court tiff Firms Attempt to Ignore Wednesday Half Holiday Act — Employees Fail to Get Proper Action From Authorities —Clerks Rally to Enforce the Act. JJTRENUOUS EFFORTS are being made by the Vancouver Retail Clerks Association to enforce the Wednesday Half Holiday, and :o get other working -conditions remedied. The Association is bringing the Hudson's Bay Company into court Us answer charges of Working its employees on Wednesday afternoon. The company has had several warnings, and, because the management persists in evading the law, the Association' has been forced to act. The trial is expected to take place aext Tuesday. Other firms have also evaded the Act. A recent case is that of daman's Ltd., 153 Hastings Street West. This firm was alleged to have worked eleven men on Wednesday afternoon, but Isador Claman pleaded that he-did not know tnat the men were working. The judge asked him if he permitted his employees to go back to the store to play baseball or some other game without his knowledge;-- If they went back, it Was to work, not to play ball, the judge said. The prosecuting attorney, however, could not find a copy . Spencer's Department Store were I alleged* to be going to work some of their employees last Wednesday, and I were warned by the secretary of the I clerks' .association, that they would be prosecuted if they did. The men did not woskti I . Because the authorities are' somewhat lax in prosecuting the cases, | the Retail Employees' Association are taking the cases to court themselves. Mr. J. A. Russell is handling their case against the Hudson's Bay Co.. The attacks on the conditions of the clerks are helping to build up a big organization. Beverage Dispensers Want Act Amended The following resolution, which is self-explanatory, was drawn up by Beverage Dispensers Local 676, presented to the Trades Council and endorsed. "WHEREAS-it is difficult for dispensers employed in Beer Parlors to judge the legal age of their patrons, pafticulary \hose around twenty-one "the Wednes^a^Half HpJto«A^^ thrcas^^aTferssiar^^^^^STif&'WHEltEAS such persons, as a rule,, gives his or her age as over twenty-one years. AND WHEREAS an infraction of Section (0) of Regulation 28 of the Government Liquor Act carries a penalty of suspension of license, a fine, or both, for employers,- and a fine for employees, with a ■ prison sentence for a third conviction! BE IT RESOLVED that Local 676 Beverage Dispensers recommend that it be made an offense for any person under the age of twenty-one years to enter any Beer Parlor in the Province of British Columbia. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Trades and Labor Council for endorsation, and that the said Council take such action as is necessary to secure this'amendment to the Government LiquorTlct. ».*■: Chinese Machinist .re Increased by C. P. R. The Canadian Pacific Ocean Steamships Co. have been gradually increasing the. number Of Chinese fitters on the- Empresses. A great amount of the repairs while these boats are in Vancouver is now being done by these Hong Kong machinr ists instead of by our local boys. The C. P. R., always a great booster for the British Empire, hires .their ship fitters in, Hong Kong beqause they are British subjects. The'1 fact that they cafflbe hired for thirty-five dol^ lars a rttpnth is merely an incidental.. J* Nite Dance Was Big Success An outstanding success was the verdict of some 400 members and friends of the union milkmen of this city who attended the Alexandra Academy on the occasion of their Seventh Annual Whist Drive and Dance. The whist prizes were won by Mrs; Newton, Mrs. Gardner and Mrs. Hallet; Mr. Entwistle, Mr. B. Tyldesley and Mr. E. Reynolds. "Ubyssey" Opposes Militarism ■ The following article was published on the "front page of '"The Ubyssey," issued twice a week by the Students' Publication Board of the Unixersary of British Columbia: , There have been disquieting rumors lately that some movement is afoot to force military training on the men attendant at this University. Nothing, of course, can be done this year, but if an attempt is made in the fall term to carry out any such tyrannical ordinance, the student body * should oppose it with every means at its disposal. Military training ma$ be all right for those students that imagine they look like heroes in a uniform, but to force such a nonsensical idea *s COMPULSORY military training upon me,n who are not willing to receive it, is Certainly an extraordinary undertaking in an allegedly democratic country. If such measures were adopted in the province as a whole, there would be a revolution. ■ in, «|._ |>k' Then why the University? There has never been '.any whole-hearted , raV INlte DanCe attempt to make militarists out of the students here, since the war, for * the simple reason that the returned men at this college would not stand for it. Now that practically all of them have graduated, the tom-tom is beginning to beat once more. In the Southern Universities compulsory training.is enforced, and is cordially loathed by the greater mass of the men. Let us hope that the.Canadian authorities will have sufficient sense to refrain from copying the glorious freedom of the-greatest of Republic. If the older people of today would put as much energy behind the League of Nations as they do making the unwilling youth of the world into prospective cannon fodder, that organization would cease to be a political football and become useful to the world. If the Gods That Be in British Columbia intend to make.our University a cog in the next diplomat-made war, they should be opposed by every means at our disposal. Think it over during the summer. Then come back ready to refuse any order to don ,..,11, , a uniform and trot around the campus with a gun on your shoulder. h.Z Zl LTH ement.wfcfused Eeace-not war-should be the aim of every educationalinstitution today, by the pay envelopes, which everybody receive!) on entering the hall, and if the amount of the pay received represents an evening's work, it was surely a poor scale, when the' vice-president of the Trades Council-received .ONE CENT. Others, ^ffijlffif* liliiJilftslffiMri■""'"" iiii'gaV IffsaJ lillMla1 MUU11 Vkffy has ""TftTrng meeting-of the Hotel and Building Trades Elect Page as Business Agent Secretary Watt of the Building Trades Council reports that at a meeting of the Council held in the Holden Building on Tuesday evening, W. Page of the Carpenters Union was selected to act as business agent of the Council. Financial support for the Council has been coming in from the various affiliated unions in the form of per capita tax. Five cents per member for organizations with business agents and 10 cents per member from organization without business agents. Aside from this, -special donations have been made by the Vancouver Trades and Labor ouncil, $200; Carpenters' Union, |200; Plasterers' Union, $50; Sheet Metal Workers' International, $-100. T ' Organizer Coming ,-. - The Council has received, word that the Lathers' International"1 is sending an organizer to help in the organizing which the Council inaugurates in April. Painters Have Trouble ' The Council still has trouble with .the Hudson's Bay Company over the work -done for them by an" unfair painting contractor who is not .paying the standard rate of pay. Plumberi Ge^ Agreement Signed The Plumbers' and Steamfitters' Union reported acceptance of. their new scale of $8.50 a day and a fiv day week by the bosses. The contract for the new .wing of the Hud- sons' Bay Company has bce"n secured by Barr & Anderson, a union firm. Painters Ask for $7.50 and Five Day Week Walter, Wilson, business agent of the Painters'. Unipn, s^ys that one of the best meetings held for some time Itopk place on March 18, when the question of wages and-conditions for the ensuing year was discussed. Many of the members gave their opinions in truly working class fashion, quite a few being strong for $8-a day and a five-day week. After mUch argument it was decided to demand something we would be able to get. „ . • Seven fifty a day and a five-day week was passed by a 70 per cent majority, same to go into effect April 12. President Hughes kept the boys in fine order, bitterness and personal feeling being entirely absent. The hoss painters are meeting March 25 to consider the demands and to elect a committee to meet us during the week end. The demand'for men has been very lively this last week and a shortage of a .particular branch is expected'before the end of the month. NEW MACHINIST MEMBERS The Contract Shop Machinists held a very good meeting last Tuesday evening. Several new members joined, up and many more are expected to sign up at the next meeting. fflbf Mhd oneT ^67~Ve and ten dollars in their envelopes. Harr^ EdT munds is very anxious to meet anybody who received a bill. The cards were in good hands in the persons of T. Rutherford and J. Allen, while H. McBride and J. Carson worked hard at the door, but the hardest .work was done 6n the floor by G. Fentiman, D. McLennan, J. Rowles and several others, too numerous to mention. A. J. COOK AND THE LABOR PRESS A. J. Cook, secretary Miners' Federation, made a strong appeal for solid support of all sections of the Labor Press at a recent meeting in London, Eng. "None of the papers can be expected to please all," he said, "but every,, one of them expressed the workers' side on different phases of the Labor movement." He pointed out that the Capitalist Press always distorted and discolored the news regarding Labor afTairs and urged his hearers"to increase their buying of Labor papers. NEW SOUTH WALES LABOR GOVERNMENT AMENDS ACT SYDNEY, Australia.—Suitable accommodation for'workers engaged in farming and other roral occupations is provided for in the Rural Workers' Act, just passed by the New South Wales Labor Government. The, Act provides that wjiere 5 men or over are employed accommodation sufficient for the needs of the men must be provided by the employers free, of cost; separate accommodation 'for colored workers; 480 cubic feet of air space ner man in sleeping compartments; not more than two'persons in any compartment, and upper bunks not to be permitted. The workers must keep the place clean, but where more than 20 men are cm- ployed^ the employer must furnish a hut-keeper. Auto mechanics from a number of Toronto garages formed a trade union under the auspices of the/International Association of Machinists. General Organizer Harry Kcrwin presided at the meeting. Mt. Pleasant Labor Party Reorganized re-organized and will be known, in future as the Mount Pleasant Branch of the Independent Labor Party. The officers are: President, Robert Skinner (Spud Tamson); Secretary, J. L. Martin; Treasurer, C. W. Mann. Efforts are being made to arrange a debate on any subject with the South Vancouver Labor Party or any other labor group.. The organization selected Robert Skinner and G. Black as the debaters with Angus Mclnnis as alternate. Carpenters Enroll Eight New Members Carpenters Local 452 held their regular meeting last Monday evening in the Trades Council Hall. Eight candidates were admitted to .membership. The business agent reported trade outlook was good for the coming season. • - A permanent sick committee was appointed to visit all sick members. The social committee reported progression the whist drive and dance to be held in the Cotillion Hall on April 15. The arrangements will be completed shortly and the tickets are already selling fact. AMALGAMATED CARPENTERS HOLD SOCIAL TONIGHT Another social and whist party will be held on Friday; March 26, at 8 p.m. Members are asked to' bring along their wives to get acquainted. No charge is made. Ladies will provide sandwiches and cakes. The Benefit Association is growing and has already, proved its worth. So come along to lo3 Hastings Street, West, on Friday evdning. . AUTO MECHANICS TO . HOLD SMOKING CONCERT All auto mechanics will take notice of the smoking concert at Belvedere Court on Tuesday, March 30, at 8 p.m. Ample supply of eats and drinks; will be on hand, also a bumper crop of entertainers. A good time is assured. • • Machinists welcome. Tickets, 50c. at 790 Cambie Street, or at the door "Trade unions are the bulwarks of modern democracies."—W, E. Gladstone. " , Restaurant Employees Revise Wage Se&r HjU,.W<fifc»««WTi^'MW«aW«'tf Restaurant Employees' .Union held last Wednesday, the membess decided to revise the wage scale upward. The union has a large metn^ bersnip and feels that the time lias arrived for a larger pay cheque. The Cabaret Supper held in the Ambassador on Monday evening was another enjoyable affair. The* supper was appetizing and the orchestra kept the dancers on their feet till 1 a.m. Tuesday morning., , Shipwrights After an Increase in Wages In view of the fact that the difficulty of the .Shipyard Employees in meeting the employees has been removed by the formation of a shipyard section of the C. M. A., a committee .of four was appointed to take up the questions at issue with a committee, from the employers. ' ■ A further summoned meeting will be held.on March 31 to receive the' report of this',,committee. This was the action taken by the Amalgamated [Carpenters of Canada after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a new wage scale from various shipbuilders in this district. The union is asking for $6.50 a day for shipwrights, shipjoiners and boatbuilders and- $7.50 a day for caulkers. NEWSVENDER UNION ACTIVE Vancouver Newsvender Federal Union No. 7 held a very successful meeting on Wednesday last. Several new members signed up. This new union looks like a real live organization. Up to date, over. 100 of the regular newsies have joined up. s LONDON CARPENTERS WANT WAGE INCREASE , The London, Ont., carpenters and employeVs failed to reach an agreement at a conference held in the Builders' Exchange last Tuesday night on the-wage question. The men asked for a minimum Tate of ,85 cents ah hour, while the employer's offered a minimum of 70 cents. The present scale is 70 cents to "85 cents'. Both sides decided 'to consider the question further. .'. The men will .take it up' with the union and . the employers will discuss it among themselves, and another conference will be held in two weeks' time. THE LABOR STATESMAN •March 26th, DOMINATIGN-GF^ FINANCE^"!?'? ^ WV IVENS, IN LEGISLATURE, DECLARES MONEY RULES IN THIS COUNTRY (*- Three steps, are necessary to human progress, said W. Ivens, MTL.A., in replying to the speech, from the throne in the Manitoba Legislature. These are: Knowledge, Desire and Action. One's car may be out of commission, and one may ..have an intense desire to get it going again, and one may get very busy, but if knowledge is lacking it .cannpt be started I So a Farmers' government may become very busy in trying to solve the problems of the people, yet it will not get far unless it knows the fundamentals of economics and the social conditions that confront it. One person saw a tree in the forest, and a lake of. beautiful water, and knew that coal and iron were in the bowels of the earth beneath, but beyond seeing these things and perhaps appreciating them, there was nothing more. Another! person had in his mind a vision of what the wood, iron, coal and water could be ma.de to do, and his knowledge, guided skilfully his hands, so that out of these four natural resources he constructed a. modern locomotive and train. So it was in Manitoba, we had here every natural resource necessary to make a veritable Eden, but the vision was lacking. - Newx Times Out of the unrest, chaos and poverty of the times the Farmers' political movement has been born.. New men occupied the seats of power, but they had not seen the necessity of adopting neW methods. "New times demaiid new measures," as well as new men, and time would demonstrate that capitalism, no matter how honestly administered, could not be malle to supply,all the people with food, clothing and shelter. A new social system was necessary, and that system must be based on the co-operative principle. Humanity was forced to react to every condition that faced 'them. In the days of the French revolution, various men reacted in variotilrwaysT Fox regarded it as the greatest and bpst even-the-world had ever seen. Burke saw in it proof that the French people needed to be governed with a, party; while Lord Cuwon was an aristocrat of the aristocrats, his daughter Cynth1a~T%aS a socialist. Many examples could be quoted, but all pointed to the fact that-there was no abiding place for a middle of the road party. " , Must Make Choice The1 Farmer government could therefore make its choice. They saw today that Conservatives and liberals alike stood for capitalism, but they did not yet see that they themselvss must either* support or oppose^the system as a system, and that merely administering the present system with honesty and ability would bring no solution to' their pressing problems. Either it Would have to come over to .the labor position or it would go into eclipse. There was no alternative ultimately. It would likely have another term' of 8ffice, but after that the Tories would take their place apd then they- would have to piake their choice for or against the new. social concept. » Labor Logical- Labor today Was a minority group in parliament,- but gradually it, was being felt the world over fhat their position was the only logical one, hence the day "must come'when they would be called upon to put their ideas to the test. The capitalist group clearly recognized the facts. -This was shown by the following excerpt from the Bank-, ers' Magazine, reprinted in the Idaho Leader, August 26, 1920:. :' "Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combinations and legislation. Debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages must be foreclosed as rapidly .as .possible. ' -When, through a process of law, the common people have lost, their'homes, they will be more tract- ible and more easily governed through the influence of ..the strong arm of the government, applied by a central power of wealth under the control of leading financiers. A people without homes will not quarrel with their leaders';" - ,; This was in 1920; in 1924 we have Beavyhand. The cpmrhqnj>ejmlfe^ JMHMi(Mv«n n wMfwVWMi\BB8 -'■'■" ' ' ■'.-.r,„-.,1,v.-"r.„'''!, i -1^1 making public the following facts: -In fifteen wheat states more than day, various groups react to present world conditions in various ways. The capitalist is satisfied, and so seeks tp perpetuate things as they are. He owns the press, he owns the parliament, he says he owns the schools, •and even the churches he claims. These he uses to perpetuate his present advantage and power. The worker reacts differently. , . . • Co-operative Commonwealth Some workers regard the struggle as hopeless and we have the poverty and swelter of the slums; others want to smash the whole business, and we have' the revolutionary movement; others believe that brains are superior to brawn or bullets, and they endeavor to ameliorate present conditions while seeking ultimately a new social system. That was the position of the Independent Labor Patty, they stood Tour square for the Co-operative Commonwealth, but they believed that at present the people were not convinced that this was the system that was needed, hence the task of the party was to hold out its ideal as the ultimate goal and in the meantime to co-operate with governments in all legislation that had a social value. They could not be interested in Bills that sought to strengthen the .hands of corporations and financiers. "There was much talk of natural resources. Labor was not anxious to .open mines or gold mines in Manitoba if conditions similar to those in Nova Scotia were to be the result: but if mines could be socially owned and socially controlled, then Labor was interested because that meant the betterment of social conditions and consequently a higher standard of life. Men and women with keen intellect are reacting to the system called capitalism. Men like Wells, Her trand Russell, Snowden, Webb, etc., sized up the situation and lined up with Labor. Churchill saw already the' issues involved and stated openly that the fight of- the. future was between the socialists and the anti-so- 'cialists, and there was no middle of the road position possible. As a result, he had gone over' to the Conservative ranks. The, Liberal party was slowly dying. The same fact was seeruwhen we realized that'while Baldwinwas a Conservative premier, his son'was a member of the Labor 108,000 farmers have since 1920 lost their- farms and' other - property through foreclosure or bankruptcy, and 373,000 other formers in these states hold their property only through the leniency of creditors." One nii.i'.iit ask how the financiers got control of the rfioney. The,system of production makes possible enormous profits from industry. An example of this was the Ford Car Company. Mr. Walter Ronald Campbell gave evidence at Ottawa in 1923 and stated that the Canadian Ford Company gave 51 per cent, of the stock to Ford without cost; that only 49 per cent, of $125,000 had even been put into the Canadian Ford plant; that it had in seventeen years paid $10,000,000 in dividends and was then worth as a company $20,000,- 000. ' It was shown at that investigation that every person who had invested $1,000 in 1907 had received in dividends $22,810, and had received .560 shares worth $277,200, making a total profit of $310,010 on an investment of $1,000 in seventeen ycaVs.- Ford and his son Edsel and the, company had paid over twenty- two million dollars in income tax in the U.S.A. a year ago. This indicated something of the profits in industry. Turning to the debts in Canada, it was seen that someone owned plenty of money, and the published statements showing interest and dividejWs amounting to over four billions 'of dollars annually in the U.S.A. alonn proved who it .was. The workers and the consumers were robbed right and left and those in control financially were becoming richer and richer. * ' The process of big business, concentration of capital and efficiency of industry was more in evidence all. the time. When tne Hudson's Bay Company built on Portage and began a real competition with the T. Eaton Co., there would be nieaf empty small stores in the city, and some of those now running them would find themselves on the unemployed list. Every new machine, every bigger locomotive, etc, brought the -same results. Under capitalism all could not be put to work,' hence some got richer and richer while others got poorer. The task of government -was to make this kind of thing impossible and this could be done only when production for profit Was replaced by production for use. Action on Pensions With a view to impressing the necessity of adopting the requisite measures to put old age pensions into force in Alberta, the Calgary branch of the Dominion Labor Party is sending out a circular: urging all labor unions and kindred societies'to write to the Premier of Alberta and their local provincial member. The letter, which is addressed to •all labor unions, social welfare a.nd kindred societies, follows: "Under pressure from the Labor Party, the Dominion Government, in the recent Speech from the Throne, has promised to bring in an old age pension bill. For sdme time,'a committee of the House have had this under consideration, but a definite promise has now been made. "From, information given to the Labor Party by Mr. Woodsworth this legislation is being drawn up on the principle that the Federal Government will pay one-half of the sum .required in each province, the Provincial Government affected'to pay the other half. The adoption of the measure by the different provinces wi]I be left entirely to the discretion of them, each province having the right either to accept or reject it. * "Two years ago this plan was sub- mittedTto the various provincial governments, but at that time they one and all refused to consider it, on the grounds that old age. pensions, was purely a Dominion matter. They also stated at the time that they were opposed to any scheme that would leave the" provinces in a position where they could either participate or refuse to do so. "The Dominion Government, however, refuse-fto accept financial responsibility for the whole .undertaking. It is^just possible therefore that the bill'a's no^v-proposed willbe passed, yet through the inaction of the provinces no person will benefit by it because there will be no pensions paid. The discussions that have'-taken place between the Dominion and Provincial Governments would indicate that this is a probability. "The Dominion Labor Party, while not being in entire, agreement with tne provisions of the proposed legislation, are yet of the opinion that sy.1, ^M»»*^9*^«ijrjrsiiir u^JpCse that if sufficient pr^sare is bt-Qught to bear r/n the Alberta Provincial Government, we in this province at least, may get for the old people the benefits that go with even a half measure of old age pensions. "We are, therefore, urging you, in common with ajl organizations that have the welfare of the aged at heart, to immediately -write to the Premier of this province, and to your local provincial members, uring on them the necessity of adopting the requisite measures to put old age pensions into force in this province. "It matters little to us whether we are taxed for the money required by the Dominion or the Provincial Government, the cost will be, about, the same. But it matters, much to the aged poor who are in our midst. To many of these it will mean the difference between living in comfort or existing on charity with the misery that invariably goes with charity. We all kn6*w the need for this measure, we can, if we will, bring old age pensions into force. For the good name of our province, and for the good that it will do, let us put our'weight behind the movement. "Yours for old age pensions, W. E. TURNER Recording Secretary, Dominion Labor Party.' BUYERS' DIRECTORY Esther Bakery, 3738 Hastings East. Dr. Mid die ton's. At all Grocery Stores. BISCUIT MANUFACTURERS Dr. Middloton's 852 Bastings Skat. BOOTS ft SHOES P. Paris, 51 Hastings St. W. Sample Shoe Store. 37 Hastings St. W. Clapp Shoe Store, 7th Ave. and Main St. CHIROPRACTORS J. A. Bryant 307-8 Lee Bldg. CONFECTIONERY Davenport Confectionery, 1743 Commercial Drive. .,..,* CIGARS ft TOBACCO Mainland Cigar Store 310 Carrall COAX DEALERS Eeslio Coal Co™ - 844 Beach Ave. \ DANCING Cotillion Hall, ' Granville ft Davie Alexandra Academy, Robson ft Hornby DENTISTS ' Dr. W, J. Carry, 301 Dominion Bldg. ' DEPARTMENT STORES Hudoon's Bay Co. Granville & Georgia '" DBY GOODS'.■ — .— A. HiUtor ft Son, 2425 Main St DRUGGISTS Bed Star Drug Store. Carroll ft Cordova Vancouver Bntg Store* 13 store* ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES ft CONT. City Electric. 8th ft Main. Hirst's Electric. 4099 Hasting* E. FLOOR COVERING Mount Pleasant Floor Covering Etoro, 348 Broadway East. FLORISTS Brown Bros., 48 Hastings E. 665 Granville 151 Hasting* W nous Dr. Middloton's Ironlzed Whole Wheat. GENTS' FURNISHINGS A. Frith ft Son, 3313 Main Gaining ft Co., 133 Hastings East ' GROCERS H. A. Kill, 3733 Hastings St. E. A. Frederick-son, 36th ft Main. Bros HARDWARE Manitoba Hardware 1714 Conunsrei HEMSTITCHING Broadway H->mstitc»ers, 346 Broadw, East. MEAT MARKETS W. Dickinson, 3734 Hasting!! Pearson's Market, 36fii ft Mf„ Sanitary Market 251J Main fj MUSIC Grandview Music House, 1733 Conmw cial Drive. Mt. Pleasant Music Store, 183 way East. NOTARIES P. B. Bengough, 803 Holden Bli PHOTOGRAPHERS Mission Studio, 108 Baitings PRINTERS Labor Statesman , 803 Bold. REPAIR SHOPS Cycle's Etc, Robinson's 3917 Ma RESTAURANTS " Bergman's Caio 334 Comblo S Empire Cafe 76 Hastings St. Manhattan Cafo 1047 Granvlllo B Lotus Cafe, "-.-- > Cafe Sweden, * RUPTURE SPECIALIST O. E. Heard, - ' »oy Bobsol SHOE REPAIRS H. A. Morwood, Gilmore and Basting: I Servioe Sbo* Shop 3440 Main S TAILORS Perry ft Doik 18 Hastings St. V THEATRES Broadtray Broadway ft Mai Pantagei Hastings at Carrai- Strand Georgia ft Seymon Langor's Circuit 5 Th*atre , UNDERTAKERS Mount Pleasant Undertakers Klngsway ft Mait T. J; Kearney, 803 Broadway W 8. Bowell. ft- Son, 66 Gth N. West WATCB REFAIRS--EXPERT E. L. Hammergren 718 Kingswa: YEAST MANUFACTURERS Peerless Yeast At All Grocer ' 447 Abbo I 319 Mat] McDonald Speaks In L. George's Stronghold North Wales gave Mr. Ramsay MacDonald a magnificent reception whelf he attended the North Wale3 Labor' Federation's great' demonstr.a- . . , , , . tion at Carnarv.on-^bitJierto regard-. A l8 •& "'&^:fe:nffil^r-^''■* U* T'"-'"><■■■'»■■'■■ ■■WinWna? GOOD TIMBER The tree that never had to fight For sun and air and sky apd light; That stood out in the open plain, And always got its share of rain, Never became a forest king, But lived and died a scrubby thing. The man who never has to toil, Who never had to win his share Of sun and sky and light and air, . Never became a manly man, But lived and died .as he began. Good timber docs not grow in ease; The stronger wind, the tougher trees; The farther sky, the tougher length; The more the storm, the more the strength, . • By sun and cold, by rain and snows, In tree or man good timber grows. Where thickest ; stands the forest growth, We find patriarchs of both, ' And they hold converse.with the star's Whose broken branches show the . scars . Of many winds and much of strife— This is the common law of life. —Anon At the lowest estimate" more than 7,000 people took part, in the evening demonstration, which was marked by remarkable enthusiasm. "I-have come to Carnarvon,".said Mr. MacDonald, "to pay a return visit. Your member (Mr. Lloyd George) journeyed to Aberavqh to see me and do his best against me, but he did not do me much harm, as a matter of fact, he. did me good. Therefore, if is sheer politeness that I have come to Carnarvon to leave my card. "Looking at this magnificent meeting, I am. more than repaid for my trouble. What does this'mean? "That men and women of all classes and parties today are entering upon a new pilgrimage searching for the truth. We are living in one of those epochs when alongside dissolution and decay you can see the swelling buds of a new springtime of thought and effort." Referring to the fate of one of the old parties, he said: "The horizon is darkened by the backs of their deserters. (Laughter.) Their thinning ranks in the House of Commons are dissipated, a quarter in one lobby, a quarter it other lobbies, and half not voting at all. "The other day it was Mosul—one of the most foolish adventures this country has taken upon itself—that divided the Liberal Party. Unemployment divides it, and the land apparently shatters it, (Laughter.) "Its Day Is Done" "Singapore divides their party, so does Imperialism, and the only thing that unites it is a common belief that its day is done." (Laughter.) S, BOWELL & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS 66 6th St., New Westminster Phone 993" ' T. J. Kearney & Co. Funeral Directors and Embalmere New Chapel and Parlors Private Ambulance Service 802 Broadway W. Phone Fair. 3 It is illegal to boycott, but the] following are on the UNFAIR LIST ot the ■_ TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Royal Dairy Crescent Ice Cream & UNION DAIRIES WATCH OUT FOR THIS INFERIOR CANNED FRUIT "The proposal to put between 100.- 000 and 200,000 tins of inferior fruit on the market 'must necessarily result in an equal number of dissatisfied eustomers."-i-Austraiian Cable . Service. . Australia had a bad pack on her Hands and it is rumored that an attempt may be made to unload this either in Canada or England "in the poorer districts, under a dummy name." Housewives, watch outl IT ALL DEPENDS Thompson: "Suppose a.man was to call you a fool, what would you do?" "Smithson (hesitating): "What size of a man?" VANCOUVER Praur Valloy • Independent Farm Parity Dairy .... NEW WESTMINSTER Fraser Valley - - N»w Walt. NORTH VANCOUVER Fraser Valley - Jfortn Van. 133 If Ton Want Clean" fMllk Patronize a Union Dairy Pair. 10001 Pair. 33011 Pair. 4181 1445 ; MUSICAL MILKMEN OF MINNESOTA MAKE BIG HIT Press despatches from Minneapolis, say the "musical milkmen," a side line of the Franklin Co-operative Creamery, are in great demand on the concert stage. Under auspices of.the trade unions' of that city a male chorus of 33 voices has been drilled by a member of the Minneapolis" Symphony. Orchestra", and the singing milkmen attained great acclaim-when they appeared on the same stage with the famous orchestra. * Now the co-operative milkmen's" chorus is being Sought for concert engagments all over the north-west. EAST PRUSSIA Unemployment,,— The number of people seeking work through the public employment agencies in the prov-. ince of East Prussia has been constantly on the rise during the last quarter of 1025. The total number increased from 6,200 persons on October 1, 1C25, to 42,000 atjAe_.bj>gi.n- —r*«g- etMlris-ywrrr tfarch 26th, 1926. THE LABOR STATESMAN. Trades ij^n Directory Gems From Hansard Vancouver Trades and Labor Connoll— President, WINIam Dunn; general secretary, Ferqy K. Bengough. Office,, •«03 Holden Bldg., 16 Hastings East. Phone Bey. 7436. Meets (n Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the first and'third Tuesdays in month. -— Automobile toage H». I. a. of H — Meets every second-and fourth Tuesday In Room 310 Holden Bldg., Pres., W. W. Hague: business agent, O. 8. Hague, 807 Holden Bldg. ■•verage Dispensers Union No. 670— mc,ets (lrst Sunday In month at 2:00 p. m.. at 441 Seymour St. President, W. H. Clancy,, 1117 B. 10th'Ave. Secretary and Business Agent, T. J. Han- ofln, S378 W. tth Ave. Office: Hi Seymour St. Phones: Sey. 135 and . Bay. ISM-IT Boilermakers and Helpers, Local 194 — Meets flrst and third Mondays In the month at Holden Building, President, L. C. Campbell; Secretary, A. Fraser, 1078 Rosa St Phone. Fraser 601Y. Bridge * Structural Iron Workers, local 97, Int.. Asso—Meets every Monday, Room 804 Holden Bldg., at 8 p.m. President, James F. Hums; Secretary, W. J. Cook, Box 302, City., Phone Fair. 4772Y, •ulMlagr Trades Council, Vanoonver— Meets second and fourth Tuesday In Holden Building. President; Robt. Stevenson: Secretary-treas., W. Watt Bakers' Local 460, Joninoymou, of America—Meets flrst and third Saturdays at 7 p.m. President, H. Hall; sec, T. Rlgby. »7 Broadway West, Phone Fatr. 5882R. Bakery Salesmen, Local 371 — Meets second Thursday every month. Holden J*. U Hastings B. President, A. Wylle, 4.13B Elgin Street; financial secretary. H. A. Bowron, 744 16th Ave. E„ Phone Fair. IM1X Barbers', Joarneyman International Wn- lon of America—Local 120, Vancouver, B. C, meets second and fourth Tuesdays In -each month In Room 310 Labor Hall, 1« Hastings East President, Bred Dawc; fln. secretary, A. R. Jenni, 728 Hastings Street West; _rec. sec, Bert Deprej» Lathers, Wood, Wire and Metal, International Union, Local 307 —, Meets 2nd and 11th Mondays in month, at room 200 Holden Bldg.— President, ■H. V. Fulljames, 2106 Vanness; Secretary, Bert Jenkins, 50 45th Ave. B. Lithographers Union, No. 44 — Meets third Wednesday In month In Room ' 804 Holden Bldg. President, C. Addle, 217 23rd Ave. E.r Phone Fafr. 3968Y; secretary, 120 10th Ave. E., Phone Fair. 238X. Machinist Local IBZ—President. B. B McLean, 453 6th' Ave. W. Secretary, S. A. Boardman, 3388 Parker St Meets second and fourth Friday at 8 p.m. In Room 313 Labor Hall?'16 SU: tings Bast Machinist Local 888—President, Thoa. Sills, 1352 Burrard St. Secretary. P. R. Bengough. Office, 807 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings Bast. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays In.month. Mental Hospital Attendants' Federal Union No. 35—Mens at Essondale 1st Thursday In month. President, J. A. i Qlbeon, 312 4th St., New Westminster: rec. sec, Will Maekle, Provincial Mental Hospital, Basondale. «-* Hill and Factory Workers' Union, local No. 1509 — Affiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Meets first and third Thursdays In Room 313 Holden Bldg. President, Allan Oraham; Fin. Sec, H. Brewer; Rec Sec.jB,. Holden. 1710 6th Ave. W„ Vancouver, Pjione Bay. 3123-R. Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees. Local 464—Meets second and fourth Friday In Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. v. Business agent, Blrt Showier, 1115 Robson St.' iJMolclors Union Local, 281—International ■of. North America—Meets first and third Fridays In month In room 313 Holden, BIBg.-, at 8 p. m. President, John Maley, 1336 2nd Ave, B. Corresponding representative, J. Pinkerton, 2159 Victoria Drive. Mr. Bourassa: "Another point of' view has to be considered.' Discrimination ftlust be made between useless and useful expenditure. In the past, and not very distant past, a great deal of money has been squandered on pqsfc offices in towns of va- riouj/sizes or on drill sheds that are «fno more use to the militia of Canada than they are \o anybody else. I know that in Montreal the drill shed is mainly used for motor shows; in Quebec; it is of utility in permitting the pontiffc of the various parties of Canada to come- once in a while with a gredt display of oratory, with much applause, sometimes with votes and sometimes with none; but J do not think, it is absolutely necessary to keep up a budget of that nature while .money could be put to much better use in the construction of such enterprise as the one which was so ably nefended a momoe,nt ago by thelhop. -■member for Peace River (Mr. Kennedy)., .;, ,—' :--- - , • ' * ■ * ■ The American Invasion Mr. McLean (York):' ". . . . Already the rumor has gone abroad that the national reserve bank system of the United States wants to open a branch in Canada, and if we do not open our own system, they will come here from the States and you will find brokers opening up in Canada before long; they will undertake to collect'great blocks of paper for discount in Canada, take it over to the United States and. rediscount it there. ..." , . The Five-day Week vBy F. W. MOORE. Bookbinders Local No. 109, Int Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday In month 804 Holden Bldg. President, F. Milne, 636 Drake St.; secretary, A. H. Boating, us 52nd Ave. W. Brewery Workers Onion No. 300—meets flrst and third Wednesday in month in room 313, Holden, Building, at 8 p.m. President, Angus McLennan; Secretary, C. Graham. 2219 16th Ave. W. Phone Bay 3353R. Bricklayers', Masons' and Tile Bettors' Int. Union No. J—Meets, second and . fourth Wednesday In the Holden Bldg President. O. E. Halllday: Secretarv, W. ft Dagnall 1244 20<h- Ave W. Phone Fair. 845 R. w. J. ripcs^;' Painters, Decorators and Paperhangera Local 138—Meets second and fourth Thursdays,at 319'pender St. W. Boa- , lness agent, Walter Wilson. . Office, Carpenters and Joiners, Amalgamated Society of,—Vancouver 1st Branch ^meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of e«ch month'. President, O. Richardson: Secretary, John T., Bruce; Business Agent, J.- McKfnley.-• Headquarters, room 36, 163 Hastings St. W. * Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Local 453—President. R. W. Hatley; recording secretary, W. Page; business agent. Wm. Dunn. Office, Room, 808 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Meets second and fourth Mon- daya 8 p.m. City Ball Employees' Association meets flrst Wednesday of each month at 251H Hastings E.. at 8 p.m. President. D. Hargreaves; business agent, and fren-'irer. «' ■'. ScVlhblns, 32(18 Pender 8t E.; Secretary, J. Tarbuck, 2792 Pender East. Oivio Employees' Union, Local 38 — Meets first and third Fridays In the month at 251H Hastings E„ at 8 p.m. President, J. Mac-Ritchie. 516 8th Ave. E,; secretary-treasurer, George Harrison, 1182 Parker St. Dominion Express Employees, Looal No. IS, Brotherhood of—Meets flrst Friday and first Tuesday alternating each month In Room 810 Holden Building. President, O. M. .Payton. 4136 Sophia St.: Sec.-Treas. H. C. Haines, 1919 Klngsway. Blectrioal Workers, Local 813, Xsterne- J*0"1 Brotherhood—Meets every Monday at | p.m In Room No. 5, 319 Pender Street West. President. vD. W. McDougal, 910 Hastings, Streot East; 319PlfflSMflSi E ft Morrison. Office "'" Pender Street West. Bnsrlnejjrs—International Union Steam and Operating Local 844—Meets every ■I |>ursday at 1 p.m.. RoomT06 Holden Bldg. President, R. Flnley; business agent and financial secretary, F 8 Hunt: .recording secretarv, Herbert McSavaney. Bnglneers, Bteam and Operating, Int. Local 888— Meets every Wednesday • t 8 p.m. In room 806 Holden Bldg. President, W. Hulbert; vlce-pres., A. Russell: business agent and financial tee., W. J. Irwin: rec. sec, W L Alnger. Office, 806 Holden Bldg. Motion Pictures Projectionist's Union, Local 348 Of I.A.T.Bil & M.P.M O.— Meets at 991 Nelson St. on first Sunday In each month at 7:30 p.m. President, J. R. Foster, 1161 Granville St.; Secretary, Geo. Gerrard, Box 345. Business Phone: Sey. 3923. The Same Old Story Mr. F. P. Quinn (Halifax):". . . . Not very long after the present Nova Scotia government was established, they engaged one of the most prom- Musicians Mntnal Protective Union So- inent firms of auditors in the Do- oal 145, A. T. of M«—Meets at the G. minion of Canada; they -Went out- eT'ioVm' ^f^S^JSSS'n^SS side th*ir °w" P™vi"<Le to Bet an'm- at 10 a.m. President, Ernest C Miller, 991 Nelson Street; secretary. Edward Jamleson, 991 Nelson Street; financial secretary, W. E. Williams, 991 Nelson Street; organizer, F. Fletcher, 991 Nelson Street. ■ Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Doe* Bonders Local No. 3404—Meets every Friday night at 8 p.m. Ifl 112 Hastings St. W. James Thomson, secretary, P. O. Box 320. Plasterers, Local 80—International Association of Operative, meets first Wednesday In month at Holden Bldg. President, Chns. Kcall, 19"25 McKay Ave. Secretary, Ed. Williams, 1133 Barclay. Phone Douglas 3Q98L,' Plastersr's Laborers' No. 603- International. Meets third Friday In month at Holden , Building. President, F. Phillips, 1674. 2nd Ave. W.; Rec. Sec. F. Talt, 289 47th Ave. E., phone Fraser 596L. Plumbers and Stesmfltters, No. 170, International Asso. of—Mcet^s every 2nd and 1th Friday In the Holden Bldg. President, Bert,, Stlnchcombe, 1899 Ogden Ave.; secretary and buBl- nesa agent. W. Watt. 805 Holden Bldg. Printing Pressman and Assistants, Looal .7Xo. 89—Meets every second Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. In Room 218 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President, Harry F. Longley, 303 8th St., secretary, Frank H. O. Box 894, 4038 Vic- North Van.; Humphrey, P. tola Dr. Railway Can -> of America, Lodge No. 58—Meets . ■• and third Friday In month at Cotillon Hall, Granville and Davie Streets. President, A. S. Ross, 5873 Pr. Edward St.: secretary, J. D. Vullapiy. 2215 15th Ave. W. v" Street and Electrlo Hallway Employees Pioneer Division No. 101—Meets K. P. Hall, Eighth and Klngsway, 1st and 3rd Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m President, J. E. Smith; recording sec- * retary, F. B. Griffin; treasurer, H. W. Speed: financial secretary and business agent, Angus,Maclnnes, 3544 Pr. Edward St. Office: corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Fairmont 2150L. Sheet Metal Workers, Amalgamated, Looal Union No. 380—Meets second and fourth Thursday In month In Holden Bldg.. 16 Hastings St. B. President, N. tC. Smith, 4452 Quebec St.; flnJ sec, K. J. Wardrop, 425 16th Ave. - E.: cor. sec, A. P. Ashton, 4603 Spruce Street, Burnaby. MM Plffbters, No. 18, ^International Association of—Meets everv month st call of president, jit 261H Hastings E. President, J. Anderson, No. 2 Fire . Hall: financial secretary, C. A, Watson. No. 3 Fire Hall. Ploorlaysrs' Union, No. 1875. U.B. at C. A J. of A., meets 1st and 3rd Thursdsys In 310 Holden Bldg.. at 8 p.m. President. B. C. Woodward: Fin. Sec. A. Reld: Rec Sec. W. D. Wilson, '■ 1261 Howe St. Hotel and Bestanrant Employees Union, Local 38—441 Seymour Street. Meets Second. Wednesdays at 2 p.m": and last Wednesday at 9 p.m. President. G. Coleman; business agent, Harry Wood. Phone Seymour 126. Shingle Weavers, Local 17813—Meets second Tuesday In month, In Room No. 3, Labor Temple, New Westminster, and 4th Surrasy, 7 p.m., In Room 213 Holden Bldg., Vancouver. President, J. N. Chute, Phone High. 1982T: sec, W. H. Matthew, Joyce Rd. P. O. Phono Coll. 413R1; Tailors', Journeymen Union of America. Looal No. 178—Meetings held first Thursday In each month 8 p.m. Executive meets third Thursday' of every month In Labor Hall, President, A. R. Oatenby; secretary, C. McDonald, P.O. Box 508. Executive meets third Thnreday of everv'month Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stableman and Helpers, Local 408—Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, HO Hnlden Bldg. President, A. A. McKay, 2235 Quebec St.; secretary-treasurer, A. P. Black, *80 Homer St. • . dependent firm from Toronto, which audited the affairs of the province. With what result? ■ .'. Every branch o§ the public service in the province of Nova Scotia was found to be cor rupt and we have there today as pub lie servants convicted criminals. That rcmind^yn^Li^sia^^ ffiTrTTcmrmenTber for Southeast Grey (Miss MacPhail)" in the course of her remarks last night. She said something in criticism of some of the appointments made by tbis government to the bench of Nova Scotia. In coit nection with that I. might just point out withount any comment that two of those self-confessed thieves in the employ of the "overnment of that province . were brought before one particular county judge—a gentle man who sat on the opposite side of the House in the last parliament— for stealing some thousands of do! lars. One of them was given a two year's suspended jsentence and the other received a Sentence of' twelve hours in jail." "' . . Mr. Speaker: "Order! I must call the attention of the hon. member to the fact that without a direct impeachment no reference of this kind may'be made. . . ." '• ' One of the signs of desirable mental activity in Vancouver labor circles is the determination to establish a five*o!ay' week. The procedure is justified "in"many ways. In the first place the gradual shortening of'the hours' of labor-is- the only way out of the maelstrom of unemployment that must, if left"unchecked, eventually lead to the wreck of the whole fabric, of society.- "Apparently the American worker is being speeded up and is having his productivity raised by improved machinery and methods, with a -resultant permanent increase in the reserve army of the unemployed."—American Labor Year Bpok, 1925, page 8. This army must necessarily increase periodically, compatibly with the never-ending improvement mentioned above; hence, unless the increase is checked by shorter Working shifts, the conditions in a future, not Very remote, are bound to become unendurable, if not chaotic. Then again, „ we need a" fiye-day week because leisure, in the last analysis; is more -important than money. In it lies the opportunity not only for needed rest and pleasure but'for study; hence, for the laying of the foundations of that economic wisdom which the masses must acquire-- before they wjll have the strength to enforce an equitable regulation of the hours of labor. Particularly desirable is the acquisition of the five-day week at thd present time since efforts to obtain it in the future might be fraught with insuperable difficulty. . It is only a matter of time until, the exigencies of ever-increasing competition will force the employing classes to use the powers of state and (he prestige of wealth in attempting, not only to cut wages, but to make the working days and weeks as long as they can. In no other way will it be possible for them to cope with the cheap labor of the Orientv in its very,'palpable effect ort tne- prices of commodities. . And , finally, we need a five-day week as an object-lesson in possibjlir ties—-an object-lesson dedicated to those oriental comradeSjWh Vancouver Heights THE ESTHER BAKERY FOR HEALTH, STRENGTH AND BEAUTY Eat Our Brown Bread - ' Also Our White, Raisin and Nat Bread 3728 Hastings E. Phone: High. 1306 H. A. HILL GROCERIES, fRUITS, CURED MEATS, FLOUR AND FEED 3722 Hastings E. Phone High. 1640 W. DICKINSON MEAT MARKET 3724 Hastings Street East My Motto: ONE QUALITY ONLY^-THE BEST Hirsfs Electric We do complete and dependable HOUSE WIRING at reasonable rates. Glen 370 4099 Hastings St B. Headquarters in N. Burnaby for Edison Mazda Lamps. British LL. P. Plansy For Nationalization Imperial Policies Mr. A. Bourassa (Labelled: "The eight million pedple of Canada have less to say in the destinies of the empire, less to say in the framing of such imperial policies, ■ which our forefathers had the wisdom to avoids but into which we have thrown our selves up to the neck since the South Afritan war, than the humblest sweeper of the streets of Liverpool or the poorest' cattle drover on the roads of Scotland. After wars are over, the Britishers at home go and cast their votes in approval or disapproval of the policy which has brought their country into, wai^-or which has kept their country at peace. But we, the citizens of this so-called nation, have no more right in framing these policies, 'for which we have stood an expense of about $2,000,000, for which we have enlisted 500,000 men, 60,000 of whom lie dead on the battlefields of France, than the nc- •ijroes of the protected possessions of tne empire in Africa. automatically improving ours 'also Only a little while ago, according to Jack Armitage', the membership of the Seamen's Union on the Chinese coast grew from 5,000 to 150,000 in Jwo months; and furthermore, the only hundred per cent, strike that the speaker had witnessed in travels on three continents, took place in Hong-Kong, where after a three "days' struggle the government forces capitulated to the disgruntled ones, made' their union legal, and re-erected a signboard that they had contemptUr oUsly removed from their hall.—Labor Statesman, Dec. 18, 1925. ■ It is clear that a preliminary wave of class consciousness has reached the Chinese shores. The people there will soon discover that competition between their' own exploiters and those of Europe and America, reacting in a cry for cheaper labor, will forestall any attempt at establishing a five-day week in thaL country for Some time to come; but, happily, it will also destroy the last delusion as to. the real effect of international economic rivalry. : And in the meantime, while Waif- ing for a world-wide awakening of a similar nature, there is no.reason why Vancouver workers shouldn't thoroughly enjoy the many privileges incidental to the advent of a five- day week. LONDON, England. — "The proposed Power and Transport Commisr sion, described in the Labor proposals to the Coal Commission, is the embryo , of an all-inclusive National Industrial Commission," says a report to be presented to the Easter Con- _ ference of the Independent -Labor Party on tJ^..Jg^sfUaai^J*Siiecfai!«E;~iii ffsssfsns'nTr , " The report suggests that the ownership of the land and the large basic industries shouldTie in the hands of parliament, and that parliament should place upon the Natiofial Industrial Commission the responsibil- , ity of supervising the organization of industry. ' . ,« It .is contemplated tha'£ industry would be divided "into appropriate groups; each under the control of a directing council, representing primarily the industry, but also the public and -related industries, with provincial and local councils representing those .engaged in the industry, with advisory representatives of the public. Nationalization of banking is described as essential, also national control of the importation of fdoclstuffs and raw materials. In preparation for the more important role to be filled by the workers, it is urged that the rules of the trade unions' must be broadened, and the unions should encourage'the study of economic organization and the problems of running industry.,; -■ They should refrain from being drawn into co-partnership and profit- sharing schemes, and should strive to gain control over specific administrative functions. * The Vanoonvar Theatrical rod«ratlon— Meets at 991 Nelaon Street, at II a.m. on (he Tuesday preceding the firm Pundnv of the month. President." J. n. Foster; Secretary, Leslie Clark; RiritlnesH Agent,. George Gerrard. ' 091 Nelson St. ' Typographical Union, Jfo. ass—Preal- dent, C. S. Campbell; vice-prealdent, R. .Gouthro; Secretary-treasurer, R. H. Neelands. P.O. Box (16. Meets last Sunday of each month at i p.m., in ANTI-UNION PROGRAM DOESN'T BRING TRADE Charleston, W. Va.—Business men in this city ara asking what became of "high wages'' non-union coal operators say their employees have earned. The business men joined the*operators in establishing the anti-union shop, but the latter fail to see the predicted increase in business, as compared with unidn conditions. Instead, trade from the coal fields has dwindled and empty s^ore rooms and bankruptcy proceedings are the j-ule. There is no question that the anthracite strike brought coal production in the Kanawha valley to a capacity figure, but the business of retail merchants in every line in. this city is the lowest in a quarter of a century. Minneapolis*—A wage increase of tl a day has been secured by thn Lathers'union. The new rate is $10. The contract calls for a 44-hour week LETTER FAKED TO DISCREDIT OFFICIALS Something in .the nature of a sensation was caused by the production of a. letter at the Edmonton Trades Council meeting purporting to have been written by Carl Berg to the commissioner of the R.C.M.P. at Ottawa, and stating that a staff'sergeant of the force and_ his family are oc- ! cupying quarters at the immigration • hall and drawing down wages there while some deserving poor persons could have the job. The whole letter -was a forgery - by some unknowij>« party in the city. -There was not the . slightest foundation for such story. President Farmrte stated that measures were being taken to discover the,' authors of the. above letter, whose purpose apparently was to bring dis- ' credit upon Labor officials. Berg was made aware of the letter when he received an acknowledgment.from Ottawa upon its arrival there. Hoiden Building, ,16 Hastmjr^Bj'^_j^.nJ.jlrailiXe-,pjiy for-o»grtfme^—~ T^ooaTMTF. The Liberal Party is a discordant rookery of birds, quarrelling over a sihgle worm1=J£rx_j-Ajlhfir., Cr-ecn-—- r^p mm THE LABOR STATESMAN March 26th, 1926 The Labor Sta Published every Friday, at IIS Holden Bldg., Vancouver, B. C- remains to beseenj_^ufriudgi! empti toenforce the Minimum Wage Act we feel that the besfthihg those affected can do is to get organized and enforce their own demands. ■/ . Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades " and Labor Council. PRESS COMMITTEE: W. H. Cottrcll. Street .Kailwayrden; V. R„ Mldgley, Ushers; H, Woods, Hotel and Restaurant! Employees; W. Watt, Plumbers; W. Wilson, Painters; J. Mc- Curragh, Typographical. H. W. Watt., Man. Editor. Subscription Kates:—Canada J2.00 per year, |1.00 for six months. United States and foreign, fl.00 per year. To unions subscribing In a body. He per member per montu. Phone Seymour 8379 Vancouver, B.C., March 26, 1926 SMALL POX About a year ago over a period of some mSnths, Vancouver had some couple of hundred cases of an erup THarms. fOTRTO lATGH • "Four thousand emigrants sailing for Canada," announces a London .cable to the local daily press. "Four thousand more Canadians bound for the United States," observes a job seeker in Vancouver. ♦ r ' • -"More than $100,000,000 is 'swindled' annually throughout the United States by bogus charity nromoters," is "the statement made by Bird 'S. Coler, New^Yor, public welfare commissioner. And this assertion based on thirty years' experience." Further, he declares,, "more than $iO,OOQ,000 disappears every year in misplaced and stolen charity funds." Charity drives, organized by professional promoters and high-powered salesmen, oi an erup-i^j^jjTjk d f0f anything that prom- tive disease that was suspectedI-tfffiWThL rCnM«l>«*nrn« with from be a mildfformof small pox. There were no - deaths and none of the cases were in any way serious. In fact, the trouble was .so mild that hundreds of people, considering that the inconvienience caused by contracting the disease^ was no greater than the inconvenience that might be expected from vaccination, declared themselves conscientious objectors. Notwithstanding the limited extent and harmless character of the epidemic—if it could be "socage&— the United States declared a [quarantine against Vancouver, and our Provincial Government ordered a genral yaccinationof the whole province;. At the present time, the Amerr ican coast cities have a particularly virulent form of small pox. We' first •heard "of it in Los Angeles about two months ago. While the presss reports have not featured the epidemic in San Francisco or Portland, it is now admitted to have secured a foothold in Seattle. With the epidemic firmly rooted at these two ise big financial returns, with from (40 .to 90 per cent of the receipts going into thVpockets of the promoters, according to Mr. Coler. It has been stated in Vancouver by more than one that the repeated attempts made here to put over a "community chest" is for the purpose of capitalizing charity by placing it on a business basis—business for the promoters. Whether or no, the proposal will' bear watching; more particularly so if the attempt is to take the administration of the "community" fund from the administration of the Civic relief department. * ,* \ Mr. A. W.Neill, the1 independent Federal representative for Alberni at Ottawa, has introduced a pious resolution in the House at Ottawa composed .of several sweet nothings, wihch, at least, gave Mr. Meighen, Conservative leader, an opportunity, to give the Labor and Progressive members' mighty good reasons far,; supporting the Liberals. For instance, points, if fs easier to believe that the one'of the high-sounding .declarations. American is, for llusiness^ajipis^ jDAd^L.*^^^ attiiis5«^rrrr-soW"p^X'tHan to be- of labor shijuld be prevented and Agents Provocature Here Also AMERICA SCARCELY BATS AN EYE over the discovery that a great portion of the work of prohibition enforcement agents is the Work of the agent provocateur.' *,:.«■'" Yet that is the situation. An aee-nt provocateur is an agent who provokes commission of a crime in order, to nave a crime for which to make an arrest. Ten years ago the civilized world associated the agent provocateur with the czarlst regime in Russia. The effectiveness of the Russian secret police against Revolutionary movements was based on the hateful work of the agent provocateur. It is always the job of such, an ageot to urge 'others into the commission of crime soi^as to find the associates of those who ?ammit the crimes and also so as to maintain their own jobs. ',, , , America, above all other nations, has despised the,agent provocateur as the lowest and vilest being in existence. He has. been regarded as Unspeakably contemptible. That type of "detective" work is today the basis of' prohibition en- iorcement in one of the most important phases of that work. Recent testimony in Washington, D.C., showed that one agent procured the commission of crime by the chef and, waiters of one'of the principal hotels and that' on this -procured evidence arrests were made. Tin's same agent gave a banquet for thirteen persons for whose entertainment he procured liquor in his role as an agent provocateur. This sort of work is"'going on throughout the United States. Prohibition agents are procuring the commission of unlawful acts and then are arresting those who are inveigled into the police net. .__^„ The right or wrong of prohibition itself does not enter "into this question of how law shall be enforced. That'.is a "separate question. If the.provocateur system is to find permanent lodgment in the American police system, then no branch of law enforcement can long remain free from the corrupting influence of the bribery, deceit and betrayal which are inevitably its-concommitants. The whole thing savors of the sewer, of dark, evil places where honesty dare not go and would be ashamed to be found. > One of the earliest and always one of-the widest uses of this system of provocation was in the disruption of organizations of labor. The spy in the trade union has from the beginning used the tactics of the provocateur—urging the doing of unwise things in order to overthrow those foolish enough to follow his corrupt and treacherous advice. American law enforcement has always, in theory inevitably, rested upon detection of crime when committed, or the legitimate prevention of crime commission. It has abhorred the business of deliberately inducing1 persons to commit crimes so that arrests might be made. The question that confronts the country is whether any particular law is to be made the excuse foi—the introduction of the old czarist spy system, the old system of procuring crime—the secnet police, with all the evils that lurk in-that system of underground espionage, bribery and betrayal. The_ question is wliether the agent provocateur, once the shady tool of the autocratic czars, now the equally hateful tool of the equally autocratic soviet dictators, always the police valet of oppressors, is to become a part of American law enforcement machinery. This is not the prohibition question. This is something else. This-ip Americanism in law enforcement against despotism in the procuring of' crime commission. What is going to be the answer.—The Bridgemen's Magazine. Mount Pleasant • Buy Your Lamps. Radio AsTD IllOtalOU SDT>PI.IJS8 Ttomi the Practical Stors Gty Electric Co. FAIR. 4865 MA.NAT.Jtfc Bepairs Pay and Night A. HILKER & SON Anything in Dry Goods and Fancy Work. Goods Must Be Satisfactory ~ or Money Refunded. Mil Main Street, Halfway Between Broadway and Ktn Avenue. TRYCLAPP'S To Save on Footwear Agent for Slater ShoeB * Clapp Shoe Store COB. 7TH ATS. AMD MAIN ST. Phone*: Fair. 5* Re*.: Bay. 4764R MOUNT PLEASANT UNDERTAKING CO, LTD. . AMBULANCE SERVICE . COR. OF MAIN AND KINQSWAY :^.ra#lH^nfp«B^rrr3= lie ve that the cities in between are not infected. The desperately serious character of the epidemic is shown in the fact that out .o| eighty cases in Seattle there have been twenty deaths. Up to. this date the only sugges- . tion of animation on the part of our Provincial Board of Health is that they are "watching" the situation. "Watching"—waiting for something to turn up—is^not good enough in a grave emergency of this type. The only thing that can turn up is the epidemic, securing a foothold on this side of the line, and "watching" will not prevent it. A year ago the Americans' put a quarantine on at the boundary against a harmless rash in Vancouver, and our Provincial Board of ' Health ordered a' general vaccination of the whole province. If .there was a vestige of excuse for the order , at that time, a quarantine at the ' boundary is now some weeks overdue. — We do not wish to take up this ar- s . gument in detail, but it is time to point out that the health of the people of British Columbia is of more importance than the few dollars that the American- pays for a room, a few post cards and a soaking oi whiskey.—M. GARAGES EVADING LAW~ Because a number of garages are evading the Hours of Work Act, there are prospects of a number of court cases in that industry within a-very short time. Men, and especially boys, are being worked all kinds of hours for any old wage. One case that has been brought to our attention is that of a boy who is working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, for $16 a week. All kinds of schemes are adopted to get these boys to work. All kinds of "pros-^ pects" are suggested to them, but it' simply means that the boss poekets the dough and the boys get disgusted with work, making thorn a prey to the Fagins who get an "easy" living by other methods than working. When we say that there are prospects of court cases, we are citing what ah official of the Minimum Wage Board stated when a certain case was called to-.his attention. 'Whether any bandit .will be derived from such court cases condemned."' Not a word as to how when or where, but it tickles the unthinking worker's ears and it won't cost the "exploiters" another thought —let alone real money. However, it. was sufficient to bring Mr. Meighen to his feet instanter in defense of his bosses. * • * Wonder what Mr." Rowe Holland, past president of the local Gyros, had in mind when he said recently before the printers' section of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, speaking of the pronosal for a National Council of Service Clubs. "This will make, available a vast body of public opinion which could be swung into action at a moment's notice to combat any movements endangering the social life of the continent." As useful as service clubs may be, if any such objective is sought in reality as suggested in the foregoing, then that usefulness will Be crippled. We want no "100 per Centers' or "American Plan" minute clubs in Canada. We can well do without such hypocritical abominations. ■ -v : * * ' * The lumber workers who appeared before the Minimum Wage Board recently were extremely modest. They asked only for a minimum wage Of 50 cents an hour for unskilled labor in' that industry. Scores of instances of where less than that was being paid*, by B. C. mill owners were quoted. Anything less than four bits and hour is the rankest kind of "exploitation" and Chairman McNiven should have no difficulty in arranging for the establishment of such a modest request. *- * * If there is any one thing more needed in British'Columbia than the exclusion of Orientals, it is the exclusion''or deportation of employer who insist off naj ing only "Oriental" wages to white men, simply because the condition of the labor market, superinduced by Old Country bonus- ed immigration, makes it possible. *.':■*■* Just in passing: Is your name on the voters' list? ' • » * - ,i Friend Woodsworth is stirring things up a bit in Ottawa thp«e days. His resolution on Canada's-External Relationships produced sufficient' dis- _PJffle:About International Secrettv _ <^0JEU|TARXJ3£53^^ S^rwmihTBETRAY INTERNATIONAL SECRETS to state his reasons for refusing the Countess Karolyi admission tp the United .States.. The fact is, he cannot state the reasons for his action because he has no reasons. Madame Karolyi is not a Communist; her husband was driven from power in Hungary by the Communist, Bela Kun. She is not another Coun-' tess Cathcart; there is no question of "moral turpitude" in her case. She is not a. revolutionary of any sort. She is excluded from the United States because the reactionary Hungarian government wants her excluded, and because the minister of that government, Count Szechenyi, married a Vanderbilt/and thereby acquired the financial and social standing which enables him to get favors from our State Department. That is the whole story. Secretary Kellogg is hanging curtains and laying smoke screens in frortt of ah empty closet. What sort of government is the Hungarian regime thus favored? One of the worst in Europe. Hungary is a monarchy without a king. That is the official declaration of her criminal courts, which only two years ago sentenced a man to prison for the crime of preaching a republic. Before the war the Magyar' oligarchy maintained a brutal tyranny over other races; now it is reduced to tyrannizing over its own commoners and persecuting such aristocrats as the Karolyis, who speak for the downtrodden. Secretary Kellogg's methods are appropriate to the government which he seeks to favor; but not to our government, which he is sworn to serve; and his pretense of "international secrets" is rank piffle.—Labor. A PIECE OF CHEESE • The French town of Camembert is going to put up a: monument in honor of Camembert cheese. It was. a piece of Camembert that the man in the restaurant was talking about when he said: "Waiter, take this cheese away. It's eating my bread." . There's a still older story about Camembert cheese. A railway freight agent wrote to-a gourmet: - "Dear Sir: We have now held your shipment of one Camembert cheese for three days. If same is not called for immediately, it will be shot."' *• • * •* Don't mistake stubbornnes of prejudice for the courage of your convictions. cussion to warrant continued support of the .nresent regime in the House •rjr the Labor and Progressive forces. Every time Meighen rises in his place he further clinches the tenure of office of those now in control. » » * There is room in Vancouver for ONE live Labor weekly. There is no need or room for two. If we are to some day "own and operate" the industries -of this country, surely we >"ipht start in by demonstrating our ability to-run at least one jerk-water weekly newspaper. Get- together, men! Results which depend on human conscience and intelligence work slowly. Arthur Frith & Co. » Unloading SALE NOW OFFERING Bargains f01 MtflT ^ and Boys NOT DREAMED OF BEFORE Shop Here for Easter This sale gives you the' greatest opportunity to secure SPRING AND EASTER TOGS at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. COME SEE Men's and Boys' Furnishings, Telephone Fairmont 14 2312 MAIN STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues Woodsworth Declines Portfolio IN REFERRING TO THE ATTITUDE of the Progressives and the Labor Group-in the Federal House; the U.F.'A., officiaLorgan of the United Farmers of Alberta, Bays: —' -; "The Farmers propose neither fusion of groups nor coalition in any form, bup through the executive appdinted by themselves they have been conferring with the Government for some time past upon the legislative programme of the session, "We are confident that this method of co-operation will prove the most •" effective from the standpoint ofthe interests of the people of Canada. Had they been guided primarily by personal ambition, undoubetdly more than one member of the Farmer group would have been a Cabinet Minister today. The policy which they have followed, however, recalls the statement of J. S. Woodsworth, the leader of the Ljbor group in the House, when it was reported that he had been offered a seat in the-.Cabinet. Mr. Woodsworth said he was convinced that under present circumstances he could be pf greater service to the people he represented as a private member, than as a Cabinet Minister., In view of the fact that he has been largely instrumental in obtaining from the Government the promise of an old age pensions bill, which, to the best of our knowledge, no Minister of Labor has as yet seriously attempted to introduce, there seems to be every, reason to believe that Mr. Woodsworth's judgment in this matter is sound. According to the despatches, the Labor group in the House of Commons is being consulted by the Government, as the Farmers' executive is being consulted. "A Cabine.t position is highly remunerative. When Farmer and Labor members of the House of Commons set their faces against acceptance of Cabinet office, seeking instead to devise means of co-operation purely for . the purposes of legislation, their constituents can 'bank on' one thing at least—that they are placing the interests;^pf ^p^oj^&csULsc- March 26th, 1926 THE LABOR STATESMAN SYNOPSIS OF UlACTMHNlu PRE-EMPTIONS _ Vacant, unrdierved, surveyed ■Crown lands may be pre-empted-by ■British subjects over 18 years of age, {land 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 is given In Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, "How to Pre-empt Land," copies of which can be obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of. Lands, Victoria, B.C., or to any Government Agent. Records will be granted covering only land suitable for agricultural' purposes, and whlofl Is not timber- land, i.e., carrying over 8,000 board feet oer acre west of the Coast Range and 5,000 feet per acre east of that Range. Applications for pre-emptions, are to be addressed to the "Land Commissioner of the Land Recording Division, In which the'land applied for is situated, and are made on printed forms, Copies of which can be obtained from the Land Commissioner. Pre-emptions must be occupied for Ove years and Improvements made to value of $10 per acre, including clearing and cultivating at least five acres, before a Crown Grant can be received. t •-■ For more detailed information see the Bulletin "How to' Pre-empt Land." PURCHASE" Applications arc received for purchase , of vacant and unreserved Crpwn lands, not being timberlnnd, for agricultural purposes; minimum price for first-class (arable) land IS. $5 per acre, and second-class (grazing) land $2.50 per aciu Fucther information regarding purchase or leaso of Crown .lands is given In Bulletin No. 10, Land Series, "Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands." i Mill, factory, or industrial sites on timber land, not exceeding 40 acres, rnay-rbe--purchased or leased, the conditions • including' payment, . of, stumpage. • - HOMESITE LEASES acres, may be leased as homeftites, -conditional upon a dwelling being erected in the first year, title being obtainable after residence .and Improvement conditions are fulfilled and land has been surveyed. LEASES For grazing and. industrial pur-< poses ureas . not exceeding M0 acres may be leased by one pe«jn or a company. \ctf m, GRAZING Under the Grazing Act the Province is divided into grazing districts and the. rapge administered under a Crazing Commissioner. Annual grazing permits are issued based on numbers ranged, priority being given to established owners. Stock-owners may form associations for range management. Free, or partly free, permits are available for settlers, campers and travellers, up to ten head. ^ IN THE - TONSORIAL CHAIR - SPUD TA' Good morning, Mr. Heaps. How are you today? Haircut? Yes, sir. I see you are getting along nicely in the "Gas House" at Ottawa. You are keeping your end up, anyhow. I only wish that some of the seats we>e occupied by Labor representation from Vancouver, but you know electors here had freightitis during the election campaign,, but we will get over that pretty soon. Do you know, Heaps, the more I read about the doing in the House the more I am convinced lhat Mussolini is necessary. How? Well, the Conservative Party has only one objective and that is to obstruct the government; the Liberals, with one eye. on the Progressives, seem to submerge all contentious questions in order to remain in power. You see, a dictator would not stand for that sort of tactics, he would get things done. Do you think Mussolini would stand for the remarks of Mr: "Kennedy, member for Winnipeg South Centre, who accused Woodsworth and yourself of refusing to'.stand up when "God Save the King" was being sung at some banquet? You bet'he would not. Do you know, that sort of stuff gives, me a pain in the pluck. If a war was oh now, I bet they would say that Woodsworth and ■ yourself were in the pay of the enemy, or getting Bolshevik gold, or something. It may he interesting to you to know that during the late war the British Government sent $30;000 annually over to Germany, by special license, to a resident there- by the Very British name q£ the Dowager Duchess'of Saxe-Gpberg Gotha. Now that was money coming out of the pockets of soldiers' wives. Was royalty anxious' about showing any disrespect to the' British workman then?" No, sir, when it comes to keeping their sidekickers in luxury, 'patriotism and the / flag get very scant consideration from those birds. You can hardly-believe that; well, I can show you where the question was raised in the British House of Com mons and admitted. And say, T want to'Say this, the majorityof t] MUgp>m»«me!BVeWs^i'ifS^abl the conditions in the Old Country, with theslums, the dirt and poverty. Then the powers that be have the nerve to ask the manhood of Canada to take arms without question; to safeguard a bunch of parasites responsible for that condition. Well, here's hoping that some one will be sent from Vancouver to the next House to represent Labor. That will be 50c, Mr. Heaps. I hope I will see you again soon. Next please. Lynn, Mass.—Sheet metal workers have negotiated a new wage scale which raises rates from $1.12% to 11.26 an hour. <a* JS* t, wr% TENDERS FOR REPAIRS TO DREPGE SEALED TENDERS, nddressed to Ithe undersigned ?nd (indorsed 'Tender for repairs to, Dredge No. 303 "Fruhllng." Will ho received at this office until IS o'clock noon, Friday. April 18, 1896, for the docking, painting and repair of Dredge No. 303 "Fruhllng," now at New Westminster, BC. Specification and forms of tender can "je obtained at this Department and at the office of the District Engineer, Now Westminster, ,B.C.r t Tenders will not be considered unless . made on the printed forms supplied by the Department, and in accordance with the conditions contained therein.. Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted' cheque on a chartered bank, payable to the order of the Minister of PuMIc Works, equal to 10 per cent of the amount of the tender. Bonds ', of the Dominion 'of Ca~riadft or bonds of- R the Canadian National Railway Company . will also be. ncceptcd as security, or bonds and a cheque if requlred-.to make -' up an odd amount . * By order, ' ' 8. E. O'BRIEN, Secretary: Department of Public Work's, ■ .- Ottawa, March IS, 1928. - FEW WORDS OF CHEER ' BEGINNING WITH "SN" Have you any prejudice against words beginning with the syllable "an"? Emerson had. Mrs. Emerson once referred to a lady of- her acquaintance as a snob. .Her husband objected, saying: "I do not like it. I particularly dislike all words beginning with 'sn.' Though she is a snob you might call her a person who is very charitably disposed toward success." Noah Webster lists a considerable number of words beginning with this syllabic, observes the Utica Observer- Dispatch. Only a few of the words in this category are descriptive of positive and lovely traits and things. Our primitive ancestors must.have felt the way Emerson felt \/ There is, for instance, man's first and scriptural enemy, the "snake." Then there is "sneak," which defines the snake in human form. Add' "snoop," the petty spy and informer, and "sniper," the fighter from ambush. And, of course, "sneer," which is the characteristic expression of the "snob"; and "snicker," a form of derisive laughter. Also "snatch," which defines an ungerous attitude, and "snap," as indicative of the argumentative and belligerent person. A husband is popularly believed to "snore" while asleep and to "snarl" while awake. Or, maybe he is only a "snip"' who "snivels." "Sn" seems to be a hoodoo. No wonder Emerson "snorted" over .the word "snob." eventhough^he -woman .. described had "snubbed" his good wife. 'S'nough to make anybody "sniff." Ink-pot Excavations j § By John Pickenshovel I js lirfllBKIM^^ £ ;It is interesting to note ho.w speed- 5 ily the minister of agriculture ro- — duces the overhead expenses of the 5 dyking administration now that some "2j American capitalists have "annexed" £ a few hundred acres in the Sumas '5 area. Previous to the recent pur- 5 chase of \argeareas for hop-growing, £• the farmers"1rfr£hat district were stag- -S gering under a heavy load, so much £ so that many of them were threat- 5 encd with eviction. Now what some 2 big capital has got interested, the £ government will see to it that by low- £ ering the overhead it may be able to S proportionately'lower .((he taxes. 5; « * * S The Ku Klux Klan organizer con- 5 victed" of Jilackmail in Ontario will's have eighteen months in jail in which [g to ponder over the destinies of his = "invisibleVmpire." It will be invis- ~ ible' to him anyhow. Just because, a few business men, £ many of whom reside outside the city £ limits, organize themselves into a|£" central ratepayers' association,, and I £ "bum" the city council to.cut downj£ their taxes, the appropriations for £ the public librarynfiave been reduced. |£ Having got the" benefits of their own £ private library, they are satisfied; £ they are not concerned about books |£ for the general public. They have their own system of "book-keeping," anyhow, and about all they are concerned with is that the public will purchase enough of their wares, to give them a balance on the right side. But when it comes to providing books for public edification, the people pay the piper, while these gentry call the tune. | ^'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiMiiiiiiib NOTICE! £. 'T'HE British Columbia Electrib Eailway Company | is much gratified by the public's response to the r. offering-of 6 per cent, cumulative .preference shares £ of British Columbia Electric Power fi, Gas.Company, f Limited, which offering is already largely over- :: subscribed. jjj Consequently, • no further applications " will be I received after NOON on Saturday, March 20. § innmnttiniiiinajic BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTRIC POWER & GAS COMPANY, LIMITED -* BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY, LIMITED __ . J. W. DeB, Farris has come out against the principle of referendum and recall. We have recollections of the Liberal party being strongly in favor of that principle when the Tories were in office at Victoria. That idea, like a good, many other ideas, the Liberals held previous to being elected to office, has been thrown into the discard,- Farris is honpst enough to express his real convictions, which is something • more than.the rest pf.'.h^^is^,5.b,ifee(.ihe courage to«d"o; ~Aboirt MFffitreldbeT- To office is to hold on to what the Conservatives were unable to conserve—namely, the reins of office. The only liberal.feature about their policies is the manner in which they spend the public money. Prof. Angus, in the course of an niiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirf WHITE LUNCH LIMITED - Five Places to Eat. Granville Street—Nos. 439 and 8d€. •: ~ Hastings Street—Nos. 128 East, 124 West and 439 West Satisfaction Guaranteed. ' POPULAR PRICES TABLESFOR LADIES REST ROOMS FOR LADIES NEVER CLOSED It's man's fault If he didn't do all the talking, and that about himself, he'd discover her dumbness before' the ceremony. „ address before the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists, stated that the opportunities for people were greater in densely populated countries than in sparsely peopled countries like Canada, and-urged that the latter be provided with more people so that we would have greater opportunities. This is the reve/se of what we hav.e often heard, of Canada being the "land of great opportunities." If what he says is true, then conditions must be better in the thickly populated centres of Europe than in Canada. He further states.: "A great many farmers in British Columbta_.did not make interest on their money and a reasonable wage for the services of themselves and families, and would be better off if they had bought bonds, with their money and worked as laborers." We venture to assert that such a fra«ik admission has not been made to the'immigrants who have been inveigled into Canada this spring. They will find that out after the'transportation companies have got their money. * » * .The P.G*JE., we are informed, is sending out extra gangs"to work on different parts of the road. The "minimum wage" paid to those sent out is thirty cents per hour, and the "eight-hour'-day" that will be enforced will be elastic enough to cover ten hours. Then the hotel accommodation will be the usual sixteen to a stuffy box-car, so general in many railroad camps, the camp regulations act notwithstanding. ;,' We have been repeatedly told of the alleged labor legislation the present government has put on the statute books, such as minimum *wage laws, eight-hour-day laws, and other such .worthless printing. At all events it is paying the nearest approach to a "minimum wage" that can be paid in this province, with the'possible exception of the'two-bits it^pays forest fire-fighters. Orientals receive more wages than the white "The Mail Order Druggists' t We Make a Special Effort to Got Goods Oat by First Hall Alter Becelpt of Tour Order. , CORNER CORDOVA AND CAHKALL VANCOUVER. B. O. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER Cleveland Laborers Want $1.00 Per Hour CLEVELAND.— On the second day of the painters' and building laborers''strikes in Cleveland, success seemed assured for the painters' five- day week and the laborers' $1 an hour scale. Two thousand painters have already* won the shorter week and an increase to $ 1.37% an hour, with victory near for the remaining 2,000. | • Laborers succeeded in tying up a major part of the building operations where union mechanics refused to Work with non-union laborers. Thp laborers' demand for a $1 scale is based on statistics showing that they work on an average but 175 days a -year, owing to inclement weather and-seasonal slumps. Under the new scale, a union laborer's annual wage will be $1,750,' or $250 short of the Department of Labor's American living wage. • <■-■■■ Both strikes were called at the start of the spring building season JVith millions in construction awaiting their settlement. ',« workers on the' P.G.E. Summing up the relations of the Oliver government, with its railway employees, we are satisfied that the present government is the cheapest employer that ever asked a WOrkar>to sell his labor in this province.! The sooner thfj Workers of .this province vote such a government out of office and elect one that will at least make some attempt to enforce its labor legislation,, the better. .. Eulogies for Labor/ Member of Parliament "All parties always listen with respect to James S.-Woodsworth, the Labor member for Center Winnipeg. From pulpit to parliament has in his case been the right'step.' He chivalrously espouses the cause of the worker and bravely speaks out when others are silent. Mr. Woodsworth lias the culture of the university man blended with the courage of the man of the street "There is no difficulty'in hearing him, although he seldom/ shouts and never declaims. The trained r*vnd is always in evidence; strength and clearness are characteristics of his speech. When he is through, you feel he has compelled you to think, if he has not converted you to his position. The House of Commons has a • valuable man in Mr- Woodsworth and organized labor an eloquent and effective champion."—Ottawa Citizen. U. S. A. AFTER. RUBBER BEUSSELS.—Excitement was caused . in political and financial circles recently be a report that a .' loan of ? 100,000,000 to Belgium had been made by American bankers on the "essential condition that their agents take over control, of the finan-' ces otSfc Belgian Congo. The incident has necessitated' postponement of Finance Minister Janssen's trip to London. • "Do you play golf?" he asked of the simple, but gushing, maiden. ■ "Dear, me, no/' she bashfully re- • plied. "I don't believe I. should even know how to .hold the caddie." ■■ - •■'■- ^ THE LABOR STATESMAN ■.v- ; '~--.v>t ■ March 26th, 192d CONTINUOUS POUCY-NOON-'TILL MIDNIGHT VAUDEVILLE AND FEATURE PICTURES BRIGHTEST-2- THEATRES STRAND THEATRE Vancouver's Premier Home Fre»*nts riEST BON PICTUBES ■ ana the STBAJTB OPEBATIC COMPAWY REX THEATRE Vancouver's Popular Bone* ^Presents THE BEST llr MOVIES > anil the COUNTBY STORE COLONIAL THEATRE DTWSMtTIB AND GRANVILLE V PREMIER FILM ATTRACTIONS Threw Variety Programmes from Cream of Local Performers, Moderate Prices ContinuouK 11 to 11 g"l<llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll'i | Langer Theatres | WINDSOR 25th and MAIN § VICTORIA = S 43rd ana VICTORIA 5 1 ALMA 1 = BBOAHWAT and ALMA | REGENT I g 3970 HASTIMOB ST. B. 3 | RERRISDALE § S Union. H*ljp. Popular Pries* 5. 5 Bright snd interesting shows every day that — — you and your family cannot afford to misi. jj iiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiij? MAIN AND BROADWAV NOW" SHOWING "IRISH LUCK" Orpheum Bill Includes "King of the Ivories" Harry...M. Snodgrass. who won the title of_ "Kins of the KgriejP'/JiJf-.lil*. - wonderful piano programmes broadcast from the station WOS at Jefferson City. Mo., about a year ago, will headline a sterling seven act vaudeville bill at the Orpheum Theatre next week, commencing! Thursday matinee. Assisting Mr. Snodgrass will be J. M. Wltten, the 'announcer from this great station, who won second prize In the nation-wide announcers popularity contest conducted by a radio magazine. This will be the first public appearance here of these famous radio artists. Mr. Snodgrass Is known from north to south and cast to west, through his masterful Interpretations of popular -^njaho. music, which seem to have an 'Appeal that very few radio musicians equal. Every day hundreds of telegrams would' pour into the broadcasting station of the Missouri capital, requesting ■; the "King of. the Ivories" to play some particular selection. The appearance, of Mr. .Snodgrass at 'the Orpheum has aroused unusual attention smong radio funs of thin city and it will be the occasion of a special radio week at the Orpheum Theatre. In addition to the long but interesting musical act of Harry Snodgrass there will be .six other acts, including a»ch .well-known stars of the singe as Miller & Mack, Hoctor and Holbrook,. Ro'tfi & Drake. Harry * Grace Ellsworth, Boyle &.Delia, surprise act, attractive pictures and the Orpheum concert orchestra. TOO GOOD •' It was well known in 'staggering high society that the Lady Rosemary had never been kissed before; and as, after-along, languorous embrace, the athletic young Duke of Rushmore released his hold, she gazed searchingly into his lovelorn eyes and questioned: "And do the poor indulge in this way?" "Quite frequently, little pet," answered the high personage. "Well, well, well •' And do they experience the same sensations as we do, dear?" "Absolutely." "Dear, dear, dear! Why, it's much too good for the working classes 1"' State Coal Mines Pay in Holland According to evidence which has been placed before the Coal Commission in London, state "ownership of mines has been""pTrovw'"tV> be a paying proposition. The production o"f coal from state mines in Holland during "11*24 exceeded the output from private mines. The output of • bituminous coal from the state . mines, as compared with the total output, are shown in the following table: Output from Total State Mines Output Long Tons. Long Tons. 1920 ■ 1,743,728 3,877,259 1921 1,825,543 3,858,107 1922 2,052,404 4,496,756 1923..— .2,432,567 5,195,707 ■ 1924 2,912,899 5,787,020 The outputs of ,tha_cb.ifif_=fi' . -v■ • ■ ■ , Long Tons. Wilhelmina Mine 678,315 - Emma Mine 1,166,810 Hendrik Mine :.... 1,050,299 The total output of coal from these state mines in 1924 was seven times more than the total .output from the same mines in 1913. The opening up of another state mine, the Maurits mine,, proceeded satisfactorily during the year, the staff being increased in numbers from 813 to 1,661, and an output of 17,475 long tons being obtained from two shaft workings. The gross working Profit "of , the state coal mine as a whole in 1924 was 7.32 million florins, of which 3.82 million florins wore written off .1.16 millions florins added to the reserve fund, 2.34 million florins being available for the state coffers^ or 3 per cent, on the capital, which amounts to 78 million florins. NON-ELECTIVES MUST GO, SAYS N. S. PREMIER HALIFAX.—Nova Scotia's Senate, or non-elective legislative council, must go. Premier Rhodes says that, if necessary, he will "go to Westminster" to achieve this object. , The members of the council repentv ly met in secret caucus and decided to fight for their political lives. They .will reject the, bill which ends their e\istence. Then Premier Rhodes may find it necessary to appeal to the Mother Country for an imperial decree enforcing the will of the people of Nova Scotia. Public opinion is strongly behind the premier in his effort to establish democracy in the legislature. A lockout because employees refused to join a union is the alleged reason of a stoppage of work of men and girls employed in the bookbinding department and pressroom of Beauchernin Library, Limited, St. Gabriel Street, Montreal, involving some forty employees in these departments. The employees, all French- speaking, and members of the international union, claim that they have been locked out because they refuse to give up their union and join the Catholic and National Union. With Woodsworth at Ottawa By \ S. WOODSWORTH. Always Opot The Committee oh Customs' Investigation has unearthed a very.serious state of affairs, as has been reported in the press; thousands of cases, of whiskey nave been shipped in carloads for export on the Cana.T dian side of the internationr- boundary. The practice was for. the whiskey to be shipped from Walkerville to near Montreal, then; right bac,k again to. Ford — a short distance from Walkerville — where it was loaded aboard vessels ostensibly for Mexico. That there was no water connection, or that the water ways were frozen over, made no difference. When greater quantities needed to be shipped, jt was shipped as hay. The attitude of the manager of the exporting warehouse may be judged frdm his answer .to a question by Mr. Bennett:. - "Yes, he has the money to pay for it and we are-here to ship It. For- every carload wtf*- ship the government receives- about $1.50D,00 of tax. I 'think we are the only distillery In Canada that pays sales tax'on whiskey exported out of Canada: thus Canada becomes, an accomplice. -. * A recent despatch relates, the indignation of a Canadian rum runner at being fired on by an American vessel. He protests that this is an insult to the British flag. If the British flag is being used fi> assist in rum running operations, surely Canadian authorities cannot be held guiltless. ,. ■" * * *' ■ "' During the past week Mr. Kennedy of Winnipeg South Centre called attention to the curious; transformation that comes over the Members of the House when they are lined up for party conflict. He said! "I have mot .some of the'hon, member* outside of this House, and It has been a , distinct ' pleasure. ■ I fnusf remark though, str. that In this House otiov seem to hi- an entirely different kind of people from what they are outside. Outside In the corridors or at meat they side In the corridors or at meal they they seenf to be operating under sojnc strain, under some handicap, under some overshadowing cloud." One is inclined to think that this is due—not, as,Mr. Kennedy suggested, to' the alliance of Liberals and Progressives—but rather to the party system itself, which forces' rigid discipline in order to play the party game. * ■ *..'..,?.. ■--■•- - A vAriety-rrf-propaganda literature to the enormous circulation in (Canada th»{ is being attained by American journals. Eight of these-alone have'a-circulation of 13,351,596 involving a cost to the Canadian reader of some $1,395,950. The publishers object to these journals not only on the ground that they escape duty but that some of them minister to a depraved appltite.. "What do Canadians think of all this —are they content that sturdv Canadian forests should bow their heads and be Blaghtered to barter filth for their sons and dauglitejB to read?. . . Some provinces are better protected than others, while the zeal of police officials Is also an Important factor, but the best method of protecting Capnda against the Insidious. Influence of foreign poraographlc periodicals lies In the proper enforcement of tile Canadian Customs' tariff." Those jealous of high standards of purity of Canada might be more effective if the tariff were kept'out of the question. The article concludes: "There are dozens of periodicals imported into Canada that never will be banned, not because thev are harmless, but because they keep within the law. and duty, on these publications may re strict their sales somewhat. If so. well -and good, but- the duty on the clean and Instructive txpe will make little, difference and heIp^--not retard—rthe growth of the Canadian printing and publishing Industry and the progress of .the Dominion in ' general.- The wonderful development of the automobile industry may be judged from the following statistics: There have been manufactured in Canada over a million vehicles with a wholesale value of almost $800,- 000,000.00. Wages and salaries, $14,- 000,000.00; factories over 9,000 These employ directly and indirectly in the industry nearly 140,000, and with almost 10,000 dealers in motors and parts. The value of Canadian automobile exports,' including cars, trucks, parts ahd: tires, amounted' in 1924 to.$37,991,281. In the same year we. had, however, imports into Canada of nearly $12,000,000 of cars and nearly $17,000,000 of automobile parts. In 1924 there *%ere registered in Canada 652,121 cafs^ this, it must be remembered, for a population less than, 9,000,000. This figure, though large, is, however, in- significent when»placed beside the enormous tourist traffic which is developing. 1,534,8.85 motor vehicles owned in the United States entered Canada in 1924 for a stay of one day or less; and 363,974 for a stay of from two days to six months. The number of tourists coming into Canada in these cars is estimated by the Dominion Commissioner of Highways at 7,595,436; and the amount expended in Cgnadji $143,405,906. It would seem that in Canada, as in Switzerland, tlje tourist business will before long be of greater financial importance than many of our leading industries. ..." * * *' * Mr. Cahan of Montreal gave some striking statements with regard to taxation: "Our taxation weigh.1; heavily upon our people today as a grievous "trouble. Twent>>flve percent of the entire productive income of this country goes year by year to pay the r*ederaj. Provincial and'Municipal taxes which are imposed upon our people. On the average, every Cftnadijin,. workman, out <Jf -a year of twelve months., if he works twelve months steadily, gives approximatelv three months of his toil to earn sufficient, to pay the taxes which are placed upon him." '. Surely a new feudaji; ■-'» Lords and Dividends Mr. H.Bourassa (Labelle: "... . . I should not - like to open up that vista upon our so-called imperial policies, but I suppose my hon.. friend knows, that not a German warship could have beeji finished, not a German cannon could have been hardened to the-point of usefulness had it not been for the Canadian nickel company which Vickers-Maxim and Armstrong's—two of the great armament firms in England—in partnership with ,the Krupps of Germany^ the Schneiders of France and the great steel industries of Italy arid Austria, participated in the profits; so that -every German cannon which was hardened with Canadian nickel and loaded with shells similarly hardened, whjch helped to kill sixty thousand of oW Sons, brought tremendous dividends to the numerous bishops, lords and members of Parliament of England, who drew their dividends from the German weapons as well as the Germans did from the English weapons." . Seymour 3168 Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best ' Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE Late 64th Batt. iiite 72nd Batt. 76 Hastings St. E. Vancouver, B.C. BERGMAN'S CAFE 324 CAMBIE STREET The Best Of tat* at Popular Prices imiOir HOUSE—North of Banting-* j. -A Ne* Plan M» Eat in Vancouver, 8. C. THE :■ , Manhattan Cafe Fait and Clean Smite Well-cooked Food Phone Seymour 5584 1047—emjunrntxu* stbeet—1047 Across the Slreil From the Belmont Hotel Germans Show True Spirit of Solidarity; In the hope that after a fight of | six months' duration the workers! wd*uld be completely exhausted, thef employers in the Belgian smelting in-1 dustry have recently reopened their J works and called in the help of .black-1 legs. Atihe same time they attempt- f ed to aliure foreign workers into the! country—especially German workers.;. According to "La Wallonie," they pretended that the strike was already over, and did actually succeed in enlisting the services of some German workers as a result. The demonstrations of the strikers, however, very soon opened the qyes of the newcomers to. the actual state of affairs; and (to their honor be it said) as soon as they learned the truth, they i refused to take up their work, and returned to Germany forthwith. ■ Al- t though this episode involved only a j few workers, it is gratifying to be < able to record this act of internation- J a! solidarity. " T . .- . I NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed tenders, endorsed t'Tenders for - Moberley School," addressed to Mr. Alex. Graham. Secretary of the School Trus- tees—of rSouth:.."«V^ancouver, 4547 Main street. South Vancouver, will he received •sr-raTCVTortlie erection and completion of a sixToom'ed. addition and basement to the Walter Moberley ac;hool building at 61st and Ross streets; Plans and specifications, may .be -obtained at the office of the secretary or the undersigned. . • / Tenders.must be made out on the architect's form of tenders and enclosed with a marked., cheque, equal, to 5 per cent, of the amount of'tender. The trustees do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender. BOWMAN & COLJsORNE, Architects. 525 Seymour St., Vancouver, B.C. , CLP. Urges Discussion on Labor Legislation The Canadian Labor Party is sending out a circular to every provincial section requesting that the first week" in April be Set apart for the holding of public meetings to discuss legislation now before the Dominion House of Commons. Labor organizations have been asked for resolutions bearing, upon proposed -legislation and also to interview with local members of Parliament with a view to getting their support The circular stresses the importance of old age -pensions, unemployment relief, appeal of Ihe amendments to the criminal code dealing with seditious utterances and repeal of the deportation clause in the Immigration Act. ' , The Federal Cbifgress of Brazil has voted, and the president of the republic has decreed, that hereafter, annually, - five holidays, with full pay shall be granted to employees and workmen of industrial, commercial and banking establishments. Urges Organization in Paper Industry The International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper.Mill Workers in conference at the Mount-Royal Hotel, Montreal, .heard an address from Charles B. Roberts, special organizer in Canada in the industry for the past nine, months, arid a member of the Labor Party, of Great Britain. Mr. Roberts spoke of his visits to. various centres of the industry where he had'addressed the men on the developments in the industry, its outlook and the necessity for organiza- »i(in to meet future developments. Within the next few years, according to Mr. Roberts', the paper industry will be controlled by a combipe, -nd he advocated intense organization to meet the situat.ion.f In Newfoundland he had organized n new local, at Cornerbrook, last September, with a flourishing initial membership of about 60 men. In the Province of Quebec there were now about ten locals including three new ones organized during the past few months. , * The Place You've Been Looking ror Lotus Cafe rirst Quality pood*. Reasonable Price*. 447 — ABBOTT ST. — 447 (South of Hastings) Vancouver Harbour ComnilBsioners NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Supplying and Delivery of Oast Iron t Water Pipes at Granville Island, Vancouver, B. O. pea lod . tenders, marked "Cast Iron Water Pipe," covering the supplying and delivery of 6 inch ajnd_g_lnch\-Cast Iron Water Mains aT Granville Island, Vancouver, B: G. will be received by the undersigned at the offices of the Vancouver Harbour Commissioners, Yorkshire Building, 525 Seymour Street, Vancouver. B.C., untH At o'clock noon, ThurfKtey. April 1st. 1976. Specifications, Form of Contract and Form of Tender may be obtained at the office of the Chief Engineer at the above address upx>n deposit, of Ten-, dollars if$T<0.©0). wfiieh will be" refunded' upon return of same, or following1 consideration of tenders by the Board. Tenders shall be accompanied hy an accepted cheque equal to'Ten per cent. .00%) of the tender. The accepted cheque of the successful tenderer will be released on substitution of a bond satisfactory to - i;he Commissjonebr for Twenty-five' per ' cent, (25%) of the anrount of the Contmct * .Lowest, or any tender, hot necessarily accepted. h W. D. 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Don't experiment. Follow our recipe and use only Peerless Product*. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back.' Investigate. Evening appointments. PEERLESS YEAST CO. OFJJ. C, LIMITED S25-BURRARD STREET PHONE SEYMOUR 952 IN WOMAN'S REALM .!. The force of . circumstances is everywhere gradually breaking down the wall of opposition as. far as women becoming trade unionists is concerned. In Europe the women in the unions can be counted in the hundreds of thousands. Here in Canada, however, the-work is still in its f ionecr stage. The percentage of women workers in this country is quite large. They comprise 22 per cent of the total working population, and in Quebec (the centre of the textile industry) they comprise as high as 30 per cent. Wages of women workers in Canada arc extremely low. There are thousands of girls working for ?5 -or $6 a 'week. Particularly is this true of departmental store clerks. ' Minimum Wage Board Not Feared * In some parts of Quebec and in other_ proyinecsta^riD]tai--WBTii>--fTom they will sell their er pr< to"72 2 hTurslweek Therel-are l^™.™.S^.-«B^«a.5ae..^»-*rgamw€ f—wyeiewr^no^trrFTm^^ to benefit women. Some provinces have minimum wage scales, but in Quebec only lately has a board for that purpose been appointed, and to quote from the Montreal Gazette: "there is nothing" to be feared in, the line of actual legislation from this board." • Whereyer the wages are extremely low and conditions at their worst, there prostitution abounds, Montreal, the city of cheapest woman labor, is also the worst brothel centre of the whole continent. People will live somehow, and if they cannot make wages bodies. Yet there, where wages are at their lowest), organization is practically non-existent. Only 1 per cent "of the women workers of Canada are organized ! This' is a condition which must be remedied. The women must be brought into the trade unions, where a fight for Equal Pay for Equal Work must be waged. Attitude of Male Is Drawback One of the greatest obstacles in the path of,organizing woman workers has been the attitude, of the average man trade unionist towards them. He looked upon woman as a competitor who should be obliterated from thsjjndustrial field and therefore would'have nothing to do with her as' far as his union activities though the average trade union official is still .very reluctant to undertake the work of getting her into an organization. Therefore it is up to the women to do this work themselves. Wherever women have been organized and engaged in strikes they have shown courage and fight. It is the task of every class conscious woman worker to take this matter of unionism seriously, to bring the thousands of sweated and oppressed women workers of . this country within the folds of the trade union movement. COLLEGE PROFESSORS AID WORKERS' EDUCATION More than 300 college and university professors have joined hands with the Workers' Education Bureau in forming study groups in 40 states, according to Spencer Miller, jr., secretary of the bureau. There are now upward of §25.local unions, national and international labor organizations affiliated with the Workers' Educational Bureau, taking advantage of text books, study courses, fact surveys and other facilities available through the bureau. Workers in Western states particularly are accepting this opportunity for obtaining a higher education. In Wyoming, for instance, more than 400 students were enrolled in classes last fall. The Workers' Education Bureau, sponsored by the American Federation of Labor, maintains headquarters at 476 West 24th street, New York City. FARM CO-OPERATIVES DOUBLE IN TEN YEARS Washington.—There were nearly 11,000 co-operative farmers' business organizations of all kinds, types and sizes listed with the' department of agriculture at the close of. 1925. This is double the number listed in 1915, when the first nation-wide survey of co-operative associations was made. Over 72 per cent, of the associations are in the 12 north central states, 6 "per cent, in the three Pacific states and 3 per cent in the five New England states. Minnesota leads with 1,383 associations. There's no fool like the one wEo knows it all. WILL NOT ENJOIN STRIKE New York.—Federal Judge Win- slow refused to enjoin labor unions in Westchester county, north of this city, from continuing a strike against a school building. The workers will not handle non-union material. A suit against the unions for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law is pending, but this does not seem to produce results, and Judge Win- slow was appealed to. ■ SHODDY BAN DECLARED VALID Washington.—By a vote of 6 to 3 the United States supreme court has set aside the Pennsylvania law which prohibits the use of shoddy in the manufacture of bedding and upholstered furniture. In, the majority opinion Justice Butler held that all danger from the use of shoddy could be eliminated by sterilization and that' to prohibit the use of shoddy is arbitrary and unlawful. In dissenting, Justice Holmes said that if the Pennsylvania legislature believed the use of shoddy is dangerous to health it has the right to prohibit it. Good Wages Increases Demand for Goods The prosperity of a country depends upon the active economic de- Diand for goods. And the active economic demand for goods depends on the amount of wages the workers receive which they could utilize, as consumers, in purchasing the commodities they produced necessary for the upkeep and maintaining the comforts of life. .Low wages means little buying and sluggish industrial activity. High wages means big buying and a busy time for industry.. There are other factors to be considered, but in the main, especially in a Country like ours where industrial development and the efficiency of the workers have reached their greatest heights, the biggest purchasers of consumable products are the wage earners. If their wages are meager and they can purchase but a small percentage of what they produced, we have idle factories and an industrial depression;' The moment that occurs, every one feels the pinch —-the employer in ■ dead overhead and non-remunerative capital investment; the merchant in loss of sales; the. professional man in a slower demand for his services-and the stockholder in a smaller return on his investment or no return at alt In fact, low wages means insecurity, uncertainty and poorer living for every one. Good Business to Raise Wages "It is good business," said Mr. Ford, in an interview recently, "aU ways to raise wages and never lower them. Higher wages and lower prices mean greater buying power—more consumers." - ■ We can accept Mr. Ford's statement as valid, because he has demonstrated- the truth ' of this assertion in his own factories: Arthur Nash, the "Golden Rule," clothing manufacturer, who recently successfully urged his workers to organize into a bone fide trade union, also believes in high wages. - "There are manufacturers of clothing in Cincinnati," ■ Mr. Nash points out, 'V-ho believe that the way tft.jrjjiajse-up for a loss i£^o,£Ut.uwgges.. were concerned. ih}t- the i'o%nnst&oS: C^^JSC^a^^a^^m^'lt^^i^i^ ^ The Ollfimate ConjjujrjejcJJj ,„. '^'''^^^^-H^sa-^^^^^***8**™* "'^^WnoTTtlTe^ftimate consumer in this country? It.is the workers. Re duce their wages to cover a loss anri you take away their wages until they can't purchase anything. Then . tell me how industry wiil prosper when the employee-is unable to buy? It is the most asinine position to take that when wages are low thera can be prosperity." ' We can assume Mr. Nash knows what he is talking about, because on this principle of high wages he took control of an industry rumjing at a joss of $4,000 and turned it,.into a veritable gold mine, doing $12,284,- 0.00 worth of business in 1925. We (point these instances to the attention of the railroad executives before whom' there are at present wage increase demands from every craft employed on the lines. B. C. Forbes, financial writer for thev Chicago Herald-Examiner, declares in bold Headline: "DEMANjD FOR RAIL PAY INCREASE. NO- SURPRISE; WORKING CONDITIONS SHOULD BE IMPROVED." Of course they should, and none know it better than the railroad executives themselves. With that knowledge they should have a better understanding—of economic tendencies and the increases the two million employees seek would be granted without an instant's delay. Increase the Purchasing Powe'r Increase the purchasing power of two million men by increasing their wages and a new impetus is given to industry. Factories would hum,with additional orders; raw material and f;nish,ed products would travel back and forth from mine and farm and ranch and factory; from factory to city. And the income from this additional tonnage thus let loose on the country's railroads would more than offset the increases granted to railroad workers, no matter what they may be. I Or M.ddl.'o". T\ RONIZELJ whole wheal FLOUR EVERY HOMK NEEDS «1T. j MAKE SURE YOU GET IT— j AND NOTHING ELSE. ' . j It Is Rich in Nourishment— DELICIOUS Ring Up Sey. 2354 for Appointment DR. W. J. CURRY DENTIST ' » Suite 301 Dominion Building Vancouver, B. C. W. E. FENN'S School of Dancing PRIVATE AND CLASS LESSONS Social-Dances, Monday. Wednesday and Saturday. SEYMOUR 101. COTILLION HAXL NOTARY PUBLIC - P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades and Labor Council Boom 803, 18 Hastlng-n' Street East Phones: Sey. 7496-6279 . Secessionist Move . Among Telegraphers Montreal.—Of the secession of a number of members of the' International Union of Commercial Telegraphers, The Congress Journal, official magazine of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, says editor-^ - The prosperity pf the railroads, nsjjally: of the country, depends upon the active, economic-demand for.goods. Increase the purchasing power of the two million railroad workers and This division in the ranks of the Commercial Telegraphers has ^been. brought about 'under the fictitious .pica of ^"^lejre^omj^g^m^^ re to ne ushered ,in for all those connected with the railroad industry.—The Railway Clerk. BUILDING CONTRACTS IN , . U. S. EXCEED HIGH RECORD ' There has, been no slow-down of building contracts in the United States this year. Building and engineering work started in the first two months of 1926 amounted to $847,058,400, an .increase of 37 per cent over the corresponding period last year. Planning of new work.contihues at an enormous rate. Contemplated new building reported for thirty-seven states in February was ?861,141,800, a gain of 1 per cent over January and 26 per cent over February, 1926. their familic^^_4upA'lSs^S«t;y*^^%. -iiiiitr^lWfi^^^m:^S?ff^^coriiTo\ fully low'wnge.<i_ and_an.^rjj^of^djiJea. JU>4p'ite^*«^''wiWrtriuTIiy^'p"FocTa?ni ingAheir purpose.of setting up 'a Canadian anion run for Canadians.' "The new organization is called the Electrical ' Communication Workers of Canada, and among its officers are Henry Lyiich, general chairman, •an American born in Illinois; Thomas Smith, assistant general chairman, born in the U.S.A.; and E. J. Kelly, secretary of the Central District, born in Ogdcnsburg, U.S.A.; while another active supporter, former International Vice-President Paul. F. Schurr, is likewise an American citizen. "These are the_men who are to 'emancipate the Canadian workers from Yankee domination.' " 4,000 CHINESE EMPLOYED ON DUTCH SHIPS t , ,, _t , - , _, . , , i fhent. A motion was passed to the The employment of. Chinese labor effect that tKjs , story-be for- Np English-Speaking Jobless Need Apply A delegation of unemployed was present at the meeting and one of their number, George Hart, informed the-delegates that when he applied at the employment office of the Canadian National Railways at Edmonton, the man in charge stated that "no Englisjj-spcaking men were being employed. Hart stated that he had been cut off the relief list on Saturday, and no provision, was made for giving him work, and that although the C. N. employment office was offering only 20 cents an hour, he had gone there expecting to get employ- MINIMUM WAGE EFFORTS HANDICAPPED BY LABORERS Frank Wheatley, president of the Alberta Federation of Labor, at a meting of the Edmonton Trades and Labor Council, following a discussion of. the wages paid, by contractors on. government road work, told the Trades Council "that the Federation of Labor was advocating a minimum wage of fifty cents per hour, but was handicapped in its efforts by the fact that there were numbers of unorganized workers who were prepared to work for 30 and 35 cents per hour. in the Dutch mercantile marine has increased considerably during the past few years. The number of Chinese seamen employed at present is estimated at four thousand. The Amsterdam shipowners in particular seem anxious to substitute Chinese for Dutch crews. This is causing considerable agitation among the Dutch seamen as every Chinese employed on board a Dutch vessel means another Dutch seaman to swell the ranks of the unemployed. The obvious reason for this attitude on the part of the companies is the lower cost, of Chinese seamen and their lower standard of requirements. UNIONS PROLONG LIFE According to the Union Health Centre of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Uniofi, the average life of the worker today is 58 years, while it was but 40 years eighteen years ago. This is due to a large extent tb the trades union movement, which has brought about better living and working conditions. This prolongation of life was not due to the reactionary, stricken" interests whose shortsighted aim has been to make the lives of their employees, ,in the words of Dickens, "one demd horrid grind." and: disabled melffbWs.; effect that this man's story be forwarded to Premier King, Tom Moore and Mr. J. S. Woodsworth, M.P., at Ottawa after full verification of it had. been secured by a special committee of the trades council. ORGANIZATION DRIVE BEING PLANNED IN EDMONTON That a big organization drive be put on this year by the Edmonton Trades, and Labor Council, to start about the first day of May, was recommended by the organization committee of the council at a recent meeting. The • report urged that a local organizer be put in the field during the drive. No efforts will be spared tp make the drive a complete success and all. city locals will be circularized for their financial and moral support. "LABOR'S REWARD" TO BE SHOWN IN EDMONTON "Labor's Reward," a moving picture portraying the history of the Labor Movemerit, which is being sent out by the American Federation of "greed- tabor, is to he presented in Edmon.- - ton shortly. Notice was also given by the organization committee of another picture which is being sent out by the Typographical Union, entitled "My Brother's Keeper." This picture is to be put on in the city about the same time as "Labor's Reward." CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa.—Savannah, Ga., has been selected as the site for the Order of Railway Conductors' $250,000 home.fp.rJts,a^Ir,~Th**"m!^^ is uni versally welcomed is money. The British government is going to take over radio monopoly as soon as the present company's license has expired. Another public utility to be publicly owned. The world still moves forward. By the way—was there not a time when people consoled themselves with the'statement that at least air was tax free? Is it? What about radio sets and.taxation? Give what you have, to some one. It may be better than you dare to think.—Longellow. Main St. South of 18th PEARSON'S Meat pr0du« Market Tne Worklngman'a Friend UNION SHOP 4373 MAIN 8T. I'AIK. 2331 Phone Pair. 797 . BlfTllt Prices A. FREDERICKS0N QUALITY GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS Cor. 36th Avenue and. Main Street SOUTH VANCOUVER, B. O. ROBINSON'S Cycle and Repair Store 3917 Main at 23rd. Fair. S994 Specialist in Bicycle frame repairs. Keys cut, Saws sharpened, BabX: Muga#^Hm^repKTK«?^X&enT~foT, "Red Bird" Bicycles. LAWN MOWERS GROUND & SET ;,**.**■.• '■' THE LABOR STATESMAN March 26th, 1926 LESLIE'S Nanaimo-Weliington (COAL THAT'S DIFFERENT) Prepared and Delivered by White Help Only '< Leslie Coal Co., Ltd.* 944 BEACK AVE. SET. 7137 ulcline* Noteg DANCING EVERY SATURDAY NIOHT ALEXANDRA ACADEMY Robson and Hornby Street 6 Piece Criterion Orchestra Regular Prices PERRY &DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 Ats.: 855 Marine Or. W. Phone Marpolt'400L DR. J. A. BRYANT CHIROPRACTOR X Bays—Electro Therapy Phonl Fairmont 3228 Office: 207-8 Lee Bldg., Broadway and Main GAINING & CO. GENTS' FURNISHINGS Prices Reasonable. Quality Ooods. {sjEe- i Painters' Union Notes 1 PAINTERS UNION NOTES Painters Local Union, 138, B.P.D. A P, of S., held a special called meeting of all members at their hall, 319 Pender Street, Thursday, March 18, to decide on new conditions and wages for 1926. After much discussion the meeting finally decided that the wages shall be $.7.50 per day and a five day week, this would in the opinion of the majority of the members, meet^ith the approval of the master painters, judging from the feeling given by most of the bosses employing our members. This is only an increase of $1:75 per week over wages now received, as most of our members are working and prospects look good for a big year. We do not anticipate any trouble. And Yet a'Growing, Watch Us Grow, Help Us Grow, Let's Go. —Yours, Skibbo. A small boy in the visitors' gallery was watching the proceedings of the Senate chamber.. "Father, who is that gentleman?" he asked, pointing to the chaplain. '■■ "That, my son, is the chaplain," replied his father. "Does he pray for the senators?" asked the boy. "No, my son; when he goes in, he looks around and sees the senators "sitting there, and.then he prays for the country." Mother Wants. Your Photograph • You Know you promised to send ■one. Pon't put It off any longer We will allow 30 per cent, from -all sittings- this month. Take ndvnntaire of this offer now ami fulfill - your overdue promise. Passport Photos, Kodak Finishing-, Framing- and Photos Copied. MISSION STUDIO 108 HASTINGS EAST The North Vancouver Sawmills, Ltd. is startirig to work immediately to rebuild its plant. One hundred thousand dollars will be spent on the plant and $50,000 in machinery. It is-to'be ready by August to employ about sixty men. - - * • e South Vancouver is asking bids fol- an addition to tihje Walter Moberly School to cost about $35,000. * * * , Excavation has been started for a new gymnasium and riatatori urn at Main St. and 11th Ave. The project will cost about $75,000. ■ .'"* * '■ A garage costing $13,000 is being erected in the 600 block Broadway West. k *. ♦. **■ Building permits for eleven houses costing approximately $78,000 have been issued during the past week. . * -* * , !' - Two hundred and fifty ' thousand dollars worth of roau building is being allocated by the city engineer to the various wards. Work is to start immediately. . „. '■"-• * * • j A waterworks system costing about $55,000 has been approved by Trail. " * * - * A new customs house at Douglas is being planned by the Dominion government to cost $25,000. * * *. McLellan & Sinclair have secured the contract to build a $10,000 bakery plant for J. M. Robertson at Ormidale and Kingsway. Ten thousand dollars worth of machinery will be installed. . . * * .*. i S. N. McLeod has secured a contract to build a $5,000 garage at 1910 Main Street. * * * B. Davidson has been awarded a contract for a $4,000 tire repair shop at 1046 ^eymoatStreet..;„..., ,-,-,, -, ->• j~J-J¥iie^»r^r^fmprrom~<%Tn^h^''" starting work on the erection of a building in North Vancouver to cost about $5,000. * * * Home building is getting quite active in New Westminster. •*■ • * » In conjunction with the B. €■ Electric Railway Co., the Municipality of Kerrisdale expects to start a $102,- 500 paving project on Dunbar St. * * » The Royal City Laundry Co. of New Westminster is planning a three- storey plant to cost approximately $25,000. . . . . Marine Drive at West Vancouver is to be widened between 11th and 31st Sts. at a, cost of about $35,000. * . *■ * The New Westminster Elks are planning a new home to cost about $50,000. * * - • Eighty-two conveyances and 22 agreements of sale were registered on - one day last week for Greater Vancouver. * * * Sad to relate, but tenders are being called for for the erection of a lockup at Terrace in the Prince Rupert Electoral District * * » A new span to cost apnroximately $25,000 is being planned for the .Harbison River on the Harrisbn-Agassiz road. . " * » » The Alberta Lumber Co. will erecT a new planing mill adjoining its present plant on 6th -Ave. to cost approximately $8,000. Some $40,000 wdrth of machinery will be installed. ■ ,. • ■ ; -.:- .« jfc ...»..- Russell Whitelaw is planning a yo.000^ residence -on Shaughnessy Heights. "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is" brity the fruit of labor and could never have existed had not labor first existed. Labor is the superior of capital "and deserves much higher consideration." . j—Abraham Lincoln. A two-year agreement at a wage of $1.12Vi an hour has. just been made with the boss plumbing firms by the Winnipeg Plumbers' and Steamfittors' Union. Effort to Remove - Stigma From Children In an effort to remove the stigma that attaches to children, who by various faults find themselves arrested, tried and placed in reform schools, Mrs. Frank Dolk informs the Labor Statesman that the Vancouver Child Welfare Association passed the following resolution at its meeting held in the City Hall last Monday evening. The resolution says, in part:- "Whereas industrial schools leave a stigma on the boys and girls, we are of the opinion that the administration should be taken out qf the hands of the Attorney General's Department and placed in that ■ of the Minister of Education, and that the name be. changed to Parenthal Schools." Feeble Minded Still Coming In ' Dr. Rothwell, who is chairman o'f the Royal Commission investigating the insane and feeble minded in Canada, informed the meeting that in 1872 there were 18 patients in Essondale Mental Hospital, now, he said, there are over 2000, and the, capacity of the place is only for 1600. Of the inmates 30 per cent are Canadian" born, 38 per cent British and 32 per cent of other nationalities. He was of the opinion that investigation of immigrants should be more rigid on the other side. One case he recently found, was that of a man, his wife and his wife's mother and two sisters, all feeble minded, who had been allowed to enter the country but recently. He stated that the Federal Government spent $250,- 000 last year "to deport undesirables, quite a number of them being feeble minded. Increasing the Births He stated that there . were 72 idiots in Essondale, some of .'whom do not know enough to eat. One person has been there ^for 18 years and bedridden for the' past nine years. In some cases the patients are just morons who are kept-in the institution for periods and then let out. In dealing with this condition, he pointed out that three women who- were allowed out, were pregnant when they had to be placed back in the .'mstttuti'tift? *JBfOfre" eare"',tn"e™wo-' "hah, had-. ba'->)./j«.t-«-AH:i'.*.™«nrf'~wH«" pregnant on both occasions when she was taken back. Dr. Rothwell stated emphatically that no immigrants are examined as to their mental condition upon entry to this country. Stigma Stays With Them Mr. Hannan, Superintendent of the Parenthal School in Winnipeg informed the meeting that he had been able to render a great deal of help to boys and girls who had come into his care, by finding out just what caused their criminal tendency, and endeavoring to gat the"m interested in certain subjects that keep them out of mischief. He. had discovered that the stigma attached to the reform school, kept boys and girls in the criminal stage or in the "down and out" stage; He cited one case that he met in the City Mission in Vancouver. He asked a young man why he could not get out of the rut and the man informed him that after he had come out of a reform school he obtained work in a store, where later an overcoat was stolen. Because he was a reform school boy he was accused of the theft and discharged. Six months afterwards it was found that another employee had stolen the coat, but the stigma of that charge remains with him to this day. -,, i ■ iiiiiiHiuiiiiiiiinii X GARDEN TOOLS IN A WIDE VARIETY, ALL BEST QUALITY LINES, AT THESE A'TTBACTIVE PRICES Digging Spades—98e, 81.85 and ...: .......$8.50 Shovels—Long and short handles, each . SI.50 Rakes—75o, 85o and ...'. ~~ $1.00 Steel. Kake8-7>I.a5, gl.35, il.55 and . 41.75 Hoes—75o, 850^ 81.10 and'':...:;..., _ _.»1.36 I,adieu' Spades _ ...: SI.20 Dutch Hoes—Hoe only, special, each 39o Trowels—20c, 3So and _ 45o Forks—25c, 35c and' „... 450 Wheelbarrows—Moveable side's. Special.$6.95 Oardon Hose—-50-ft. length, complete with couplings „ „ _ „ .$6.75 h Vancouver Drug Co>., Limited Sixteen Years' Fair Prices-QUALITY, SERVICE, SAVING Friday and Saturday Specials J1.00 Phelactlne (Depilatory) ....|0.6a .76 Lady Mary Face Powder .. .81 .65 DJer Kiss Face Powder 43' .36 Djer Kiss Talcum _....:.'• JS 1.75 DJer Kiss Perfume, per or." 1.20 .60 Murine Bye Remedy .34 .25 Dr. Reld's Llstol i 16 .35 Sulphur and Molasses 19 1.00 Dr. Reld's Rheumatic Remedy :.._ _ 64 .50 Ungentfne _ .37 .86 -Yardleyts Lavender Soap, 3 for 77 .20 Stork Castile Soap, 6 for .77 .25 4711 Eau de Cologne Cold Cream Soap, 3 for -. .57 .25 Benao Almond Cream , .16 1.00 Gillette Blades * .68 .60 La Mar Soap. 3 for .._..—.. -.T4 1.00 Dr. Reld's Blood Purifier.:.. .62 1.00 Dr. Reld's Burdock & Sar- saparllla 61 1.25 Thermos Bottle .,....:_.« .T» .26 Recleaned Flaxseed; 1 lb. carton - -.-- .17 .75 Absorbent '"Cotton. 1 lb. . roll 45 Investigation of Insurance Profits The British Government will be requested to hojd an inquiry.into in, dHatsisL'^ssasSaiw. ; - - *'--- »■ *--- For the year 1924, life' insurance 'c-6mpa'rtreT*'ara''8ocTe^eTT6TTcHeF7n' premiums $230,000,000 and paid out in bpnefits $76,250,000. In addition these companies had a private income of over $60,000,000 from dividends on investments, making a total balance of over $200,0|*,000. One company paid its shareholders 17,000 per cent on the capital actually paid up and several other companies paid dividends from 300 to 500 per cent. . One scheme for robbing the policy holders is basing premiums' on the shorter average life of 50 pears ago. The National Union of Assurance Workers is considering a scheme for the'nationalization of insurance. WAGE RISES GRANTED TO BUILDING TRADES f NEW YORK.—Wage increases for 100,000 mechanics and helpers in the building trades have virtually been assured, it was learned -oh Tuesday , for plasterers and bricklayers, now ■rwewmr"$''I*"!r'*ry7^:fifr^ of tlje other mechanics, and $1 a day . for the mechanics' helpers. The wage increase is estimated to amount to between $50,000,000 and $76,000,000,000 a year, and means an addition of between 11 and 16 per cent to the earnings of the individual craftsman. The building industry now has a wage bill of approximately $525,000,000 a year. , I Junior Labor League I The next regular business meeting of the Junior Labor League will be held as usual this Friday, March 26, 1926, in the NeV Fraser Hall, cor. 45th Ave. and Fraser St. This meeting will be of special interest to all members concerned in the affairs of the League. It is urgently requested that all members make a special effort to be present. .Let's go! Where to? The Junior tabor League Dance, to be held- in the Elk's Hall, cor.' '49th Ave. and Fraser St., this Saturday, March 27, 1926. A large attendance is expected at this dance. The best of music will be supplied by Edna Haywood's orchestra. As an after-dinner spenker, our friend Casey is the/e with the goods. Hero's one Of his latest! "The swatest mimories in Ioife are the recollictions tif ifthFi'ifflinii*''**"'"'' i '"'"' "■'■■""" POLICE CHIEF ARRESTED FOR CLUBBING STRIKERS PASSAIC, N. j!—With the arrest of Chief of Police Richard O. Zober of Passaic, N. J., and two of his pat- rolment, the American Civil Liberties Union has begun a fight against police brutality upon textile mill strikers. This action followed the assault of Passaic and Cljfton police upon a line of 3,000 peaceful picketers on March 3. During the clash newspaper reporters and photographers were attacked and cameras were smashed by patrolmen. Previously tear-gas bombs and fire hoses had been used by the police to rout the picket line. » COST OF LIVING IN CANADA 57 PER CENT ABOVE 1913 ' MONTREAL.—The cost of living in Canada last December was 57 per cent higher than in 1913, according to a report just issued by the Dominion Labor Department. Index numbers, of which the base rate 100 represents average cost for the year 1913, are given for December, 1925, as follows: Food, 167; fuel, 178; rent, 145; clothing, 155; sundries, 164; all 157; These ^percentages of changes, the report says, constitute a tentative cost of living index, weighted according to the family budget method, pending the calculation of a more complete index in process of con-. struction. The figures in clothing and sundries arc to be regarded as merely approximate, owing to the difficulty in dealing with apparent changes in the items for which price quotations are obtained. SUBSCRIBE TODAY We invite yon to subscribe or get a friend to subscribe for The Labor Statesmen. The rates are two - dollar* for one year, one dollar for six months. , , I enclose .....dollars, for which please send the Labor Statesman to the address below for .....months, commencing with the next issue. NAME '........ :.....,.'.'. * : ......^.::: ,:..r ADDRESS '., .'- I....... 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