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: 1927-11-25
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0438980/source.json
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note: OWNED AND CONTROLLED Supported By Fifty-eight Local Unions Trades Council Working Button (Blue) for the Last Quarter of 1927 14 «). 185—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25th, 1927 . FIVE CENTS PER COPY Human Beings Cold and Hungry Amidst Plenty Daily Press Describes Conditions of Poverty Among the Toilers of Greater Vancouver, But Only Offers a Temporary Solution. •"riHILDREN HUDDLED IN BARE, cold rooms — children |« V^ pinched and wan through lack of food. Men trampingj the Lstreets in search of a job. Men, not always able to work, underfed most of them, discouraged and fighting only with the grimness •of despair." , « "Women, stupefied almost, in their fight against poverty. Picture them—take to your heart their anguish and make it for {'the moment yours, and, Friend, I know what you will do^-you ,will not rest until you know that you have done your share in easing for a little the heavy load that some of your fellow creatures |'are breaking under." : That is the story told to the readers of The Vancouver Sun on Wed- j 'nesday by Kate Wiltshire in The iJiun's Christmas appeal for the "Fifty Neediest Fund." The story 1 is perfectly true, and has been true every year, summer and winter, in 1 Spite of our boasted prosperity. But this is only an appeal for charity to i help alleviate the sufferings of our goor neighbors for a few days. When Christmas has passed they .jrill be forgotten and The Sun will .carry on its work of boosting the I present system of wealth production (—a system of wealth and luxury for the few and poverty and uncertainty for the many. We are shipping millions of bushels of wheat out of the country and j children are going hungry. Factories, stores and warehouses are ...piled high with clothing and coal I 'mines are closed down because the I demand for coal does not keep up , with production, yet we are told that "children are huddled together in cold, bare rooms." Men are j tramping the streets hunting for I work, willing to work, …
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: 10.14288/1.0438980
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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type: Text