The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-26
issued: 1926-06-04
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note: tbor Statesman Downed and controlled m^^WM THE Vancouver trades and labor council Jq Official Organ of The Canadian Labor || as^ffS^., No. Ill—EIGHT PAGES Trades Council Plan Labor Day Celebration Some Delegate* Oppose Idea in Favor of "International*" Labor Day —Donation* to Miners and Molders Still Being Made- Stage Employees Paying for Empress Case. A committee was appointed by the Trades and Labor Council at its regular meeting on Tuesday evening to devise ways and means of holding a Labor Day demonstration "next September. The scheme may possibly take the form of a huge picnic, although a parade was suggested in the communication from the A. F. of L. urging the demonstration. The committee is composed of Dels. Deptford, Stevenson, Pettipiece, Bartlett and Woods. Dels. Harrison (Civic Employees) opposed the idea of a parade. Those held in the past, he said, were failures, and only amounted to an advertisement for a lot of non-union firms who generally followed up in the parade. —Del.' Gibson (Mental Hospital Attendants) favored the parade by drawing attention to tbe huge parades held in Australia' and the benefits and strength given to the labor movement thereby, —: Del. Smith (Street Railways) opposed celebrating Labor Day because the A. F. of L. had turned down the proposition of sending a delegate to. the Pan-Pacific Labor Conference. ' Del. Floyd (Civic Emp.) opposed itfe&JdSA - ol-celebratmg -on "a" dSy"*?et* -apart for labor, by the employers of labor. He said that the bosses and A. F. of L. were seeing the effect of world-wide celebration of International Labor Day on May 1, and were now drawing attention to the Labor Day in .September. Del. Bartlett (Blacksmiths) was of the opinion that something should be done by organize)! labor in the form of a picnic and sports. He thought it might also be the means of raising funds to meet the expenses of the appeal in the picketing case. Del. Deptford (Street Railways) favored a picnic, and saw no reason .why it co…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0438974
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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