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: 1926-07-09
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note: tfP*fftW*4eVi»y'. , ' " . - '*■**' 4 labor ^^^■^f ^OWNED AND CONTROLLED „ ^ *■-* VANCOUVER TRi-JDES AHD LABOR COUNCIL Official Organ of The Cau .an Labor Party No. 116-EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, JULY 9th, 1926 -. f FIVE CENTS PER COPY Canneries Paying Girls" Outrageously Low Wages (Varies Council to Investigate Conditions—Canneries Are Exempt From Minimum Wage Act—Efforts to Be Made to Have the Criminal Code Amended. . Women are working in local canning factories as many as seventy hours a week and receiving .pay checks amounting to between five and six dollars a week, delegates reported at the regular ueeting of the Trades and Labor Council~6n Tuesday evening. The girls doing this work do not come under the minimum wage ict, these firms having been exempted by a beneficent government, icting on the demands of lobbyists who were also able to even jbtain permission for these firm.s to employ children, said Secretary Bengough. The subject" came up through the report of President Dunn, who informed the delegates of his part in meeting called for the purpose )f aiding women in domestic service. This meeting, he said, was addressed ay Mary Ellen Smith, M.L.A., who ipoke for three-quarters of an hpur^ rtte*ftipnlg' "t'o~ tell 'the audience of Kjomen present what she would do or them, but all it amounted to was a suggestion to found a chair of oeeaostic science 'n the university Iraise their status to that of a ession. Having been invited to k at this meeting, President n stated that he criticized the 'gestions of Mary Ellen Smith, suggested jhat the only way to these domestic servants was to them to get better working otliiitions. He suggested the for- piMlon of a union and was supported (bsHquite a number in the audience, nrfp afterwards gave Mary Eljen a °lgh passage by criticizing the en's Minimum i Wage Act and plaining the bad conditions under ich many women are working in She city today. Committee to Investigate De. Watt (Pumbers) moved that it committee be appoin…
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: 10.14288/1.0438981
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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