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aN^l9?tL mOWNED AHD CONTROLLED" I # i Sunported by Fifty-eight Local Unions Trades Council Working- Button (<Jreen) for the First Quarter of 1928 EIGHT PAGES—No. 193 X= VANCOUVER. B. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 20. 1928 Affiliated Membership of Council Steadilylncreases Twelve Hundred New Members During Past Year—Five New Organizations—Many Officers Re-elected—Keen Contests For Press and Grievance Comjtnittees. THE AFFILIATED MEMBERSHIP of the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council, based on the per capita tax; now stands at 8,457, being an increase of 1.294 over 1926. During the past year five new unions affiliated with the council, bringing the total up to 57. The financial statement also shows that the council is in a flourishing condition. The report, read by Secretary Bengough, was received with hearty applause by the delegates at the regular meeting on Tuesday evening, and with one exception all the old officers were re-elected. The report of the Press Committee also showed that the Labor Statesman was in a flourishing condition. There were 116 delegates at the meeting, and after Delegates Colin McDonald, W. Hargreaves and J. McCurragh had been appointed tellers, the meeting proceeded to vote. James Thomson of the Pile Drivers, Bridge and Dock Builders' Union was re-.lected president by acclamation. The vote for vice-president was: W. J. Bartlett (Blacksmiths) 72, J. Flynn (Engineers) 42. ,.A Secretary-Treasurer Bengough was re-elected by acclamation. The vote for warden was: Walter Deptford (Street Railway) .79, C. Davidson (Machinists) 33. The vote for statistician was: C. Herrett (Barbers) '70, J. Stevenson (Carpenters) 43. Chairmen of committees, who make up the balance of the executive, were as follows: Organizing Committee, Colin McDonald, acclamation. Legislative Committee, R. H. Neelands, acclamation. Press Committee, H. Wood (Hotel and Restaurant) 47, W. Page (Carpenters) 69. Grievance Committee: First ballot, H. Wood 48, R. Stevenson (Painters) 31, George Gerrard (Motion Picture Projectionists) 18, F. Phillips (Building Laborers) 17. Second ballot, H. Wood 53, R. Stevenson 56, F. Phillips 5. Third ballot, H. Wood 50, R. Stevenson 64. Auditors appointed were J. Flynn, B. Showier and T. Hanofin. Action Demanded On Health Enforcement Considerable discussion took place at the last meeting of the Building Trades Council in regards to the unsanitary conditions that prevail in our city. Bro. W. Watt reported \ the deplorable conditions and the A lack of sanitary equipment in so | many of our public buildings. It '• I was pointed out that in one of the I large, dance halls in Vancouver, j which takes care of a crowd of five ii hundred people, the sanitary equip- I ment consists of one toilet for males, ! with wooden floor, but no urinal. ', Several delegates complained of cer- ! tain factories where no toilet ac- -' commodation is available for the employees. It was decided that once more a real effort .should be made to get the Health Department to enforce our city bylaws and make * a general inspection of all,buildings. > A committee was appointed to go out and get some action, namely "."Bros. W, Watt and R. SteVensOn^ _W.W. NEARLY ALL FOR LEVY Of 1,800 members of the Usworth Lodge of the Duftoim Miners'' Association, only five have refused to eontract"in for the political levy. Trades Council Notes All requests to have firms placed on the "We Do Not Patronize" list of the Trades Council are to go to the Union Label Trades Council before final action is taken. This was asked of and endorsed by the Trades Council. The Vancouver Veteran Players asked the Trades Council for their co-operation in putting on a three- act musical comedy at the Avenue theatre. The Council will reply to the effect that they would have liked to have helped the veterans, but inasmuch as the Avenue theatre is on the "Wc Do Not Patronize" Jist, the Council cannot support or endorse the plan. W. Page was re-elected an Honorary Director of the Vancouver Exhibition Association for 1928. The Grievance Committee recommended that the Trades Council assume 25 per cent, of the cost of circularizing the membership in connection with the "We Do Not Patronize" list. Recommendation endorsed. Delegate Graham reported the Mill and Factory Workers' Union had enrolled three new members. Delegate McDonald reported that the Tailors' Union was going to celebrate their 30th year in this city wilh a dance next month. Thc Burnaby Civic Employees sent a questionnaire to all the candidates inthe recent municipal elections in reference^to a subject of vital importance to all the employees of the municipality. All but two replied, these two being Councillor J. Gray, Ward 2, and G. S. Moore, who was defeated in Ward 5. Del. Hanfin (Vevcrage Dispensers) moved that the Press Committee and the Organization Committee be given a hearty vote of thanks for their gratuo_us wjprk_during the past six months. Motion was seconded and heartily endorsed. P. R. BENGOUGH Re-elected General Secretary-Treas urer of the Trades Council ;by ac clamation. LOCAL NO. 452, U. B. OF C. AND JOINERS A well attended meeting of above Local was held in Hamilton Hall on January 9th. Rep. P. W. Dowler gave an interesting talk which was well received. Great interest is being taken in the apprentices, and these boys are trying hard to win thc special prize offered, viz., JO volumes of Cyclopedia of Architecture and Carpentery. Members are requestec1 to assist the apprentices on the job. =o that they may be a credit to the Brotherhood. Great success is being achieved with the formation of the mill wrights' new Loeal and application for a charter for same is being made. The next meeting of 452 will beheld in 213 Holden bldg., at 8 p.m., Monday, Jan. 23rd. —W.H. SHOE PRICES WILL GO UP— BOSTON.—Higher "prices for shoes is predicted by the New England Shoe and Leather Association. The cost of leather has increased 35 per cent, the last yc.ar, is the alibi. An unusual feature of the announcement is the absence of any reference to "high labor costs." "We Do Not Patronize" EMPRESS THEATRE AVENUE THEATRE NATIONAL and TROCADERO CAFES LTD., Granville St., Hastings St. W.. Pender St. W. ALL WHITE LUNCHES. WALDORF CAFE ROYAL DAIRY CRYSTAL DAIRY STEVENSON'S BAKERY TIP TOP TAILORS COLLARD, tbe Clothier, 603 Ha-tinc. W. LEN. A. DAVIS (Lathing Contractor) THOMAS A McBAIN, Cl.tl.i-r., 655 Granville CLARKE ft STUART MURPHY ft CHAPMAN ROSE, COWAN ft LATTA GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G. A., LTD. J. W. BOYD. Authoriz-d by the Vanconver, Mew Westminster A District Tradei A tabor Council, for tbe Information of all anion members. Labor Makes Headway On School Boards Considerable progress is being made by Labor on School Board affairs.. After the recent city elections when Fred Knowles took his seat on the School Board, Mr. J. Blackwood was made chairman of -the-board i_.-pl9.0c of Mr.--McpWH* liams. Mr. Blackwood, although not connected with the Labor movement, has been a constant supporter of suggestions made by Labor members and also of Labor delegations. A. V. Lofting (Labor) was appointed by Mr. Blackwood as chairman of the management committee, and Mr. Fellowes, another supporter of Labor, to the Building Committee. Mr. MeWilliams was given the chairmanship of the Finance Committee. School salaries during 1928 will approximate $1,341,000. Several salary increases have been granted. In South Vancouver, R. E. Rigby (Labor) was re-elected chairman of the School Board after the re-election of Alfred Hurry in Saturday's election. R. E. Rigby is serving thc last year of his third term on the School Board and his second year as chairman. ■ ■••'.. UPHOLSTERERS ELECT OFFICERS FOR '"At- a -tneetint heW on -Sfondayv: Jan. 9th, Upholsterers Local 26 elected the following'offiecrs for the coming term: " . , President, P. Clift;.financial sec, A. Burman, cor. sec, J. W. Gordon, delegate to C. L. P., J. Chappie; delegates to Trades' Council, P. Clift and J. W. Gordon. —J.W.G, Cottrell and H Re-elected FIVE CENTS PER COPY \V. II. Cottrell N<£".(^Pfelected to the South Va__H^^ Municipal Council 'and Alfre^^-urry to the School Board in Saturday's election. The first choice votes were: Armstrong 962, Wilson 856, Cottrell 698, Richards 439, Hardy 429, Mrs. McPhail 307, Mengel 233. The quota needed was 982, and after the counting of the second choice votes the first three were elected in the order named. Three thousand nine hundred and twenty-four votes were east. > In the first count for school trustee Brooks obtained 1648 votes, Hurry 848, Mrs. Campbell 441, Mrs. Waters 403, Mrs. Maxwell 286. W. Ramsay 208. The first three were eventually elected, the quota being 959. Pritchard Elected In the Burnaby election, W. A. Pritchard just managed to squeeze in as councillor for Ward I. The vote was Pritchard 316, Rogers 303. In the contest for reeve Frank Browne made a good showing, but McLean gathered up all the agents and owners living outside the community and beat Browne. The vote was: McLean 2,226, Browne 1,517, and Reeve Bell 771. In Ward 1, Keel Obtained 222 votes against 358 for West. Union Label Trades Launch Big Campaign It was reported at the Union Label Trades Council meeting on January 12th that very few lines of union made hats are procurable in Vancouver, and it was decided tc acquaint the United Hatters' Union of America, requesting them to endeavor to organize the Brock Hat Company of Canada. Efforts also will be made to place union label collars in some local stores, or the council will handle them themselves if they are unsuccessful in having at least one storekeeper stock them. Attention is directed to the hant, cleanser put up by the Nemo Product Company of Vancouver. This firm is favorable to organized labor and the Allied Printing Trades' Union Label is carried on all their printing. The labels on all of the Kelly Douglas products also bear the Allied Printing Trades' Union Label These articles consist of canned fruits, vegetables and soups, and are "rocurablc in any grocery store. Nemo hand cleanser can also be pur- chased in grocery stores. ^ ScveraTriew delegates were seated at the last meeting, and it is expected that the Union Label Trades Council's charter wil arrive in a few days. The next meeting will be held in room 814 Holden building on Thursday, January 26th, 1928. Boost the label, shop card ancl button. i«-H.W. J$ WHITE TERROR IS STILL OPERATING IN RUMANIA White terror is endemic in Rumania. Every year brings its new crop of political trials and political prisoners. It very rarely brings release—unless by death—to the old ones. Mihai Ilium- commanded the Rumanian revolutionary battalion in Odessa in 1918. In 1920 he re- returned to Rumania, was tried, and sentenced to 20 years. He "has now served seven of thc 20. He is confined in a small, cell in jjj_|: ^oUtu/ter-p ^Bfe-4*terexereise is sol j- -fary-' £vcn ^r~Wafderis deaf and durilb. For seven years he has been a man apart. And when recently two Socialists were, after long agitation, allowed to visit him, they .bund,'instead of a vigorous man of' "4,6. a decrepit old man, who had to JAS. THOMSON Re-elected President of the Trades Council bv acclamation. Organize Millwrights In Construction Field Reporting for the Organization Committee at the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday, Delegate Bartlett stated that efforts were being made to organize the millwrights in this district. A very enthusiastic meeting was held last Wednesday, he stati-il. and a list of names obtained for the purpose of making application for a charter. Adding further to the report, Secretary Bengough stated that he and Delegate Page had made a trip up the Valley on Tuesday, visited several large mills, and enrolled another 23 millwrights. There were quite a number of these men and when enough applications had been secured application would be made for a charter. Adding further to this report, Secretary Bengough informed the council that rapid strides were being made by the recently organized Train and Enginemen's Union, President Dondaneau and several other members having signed up another 115 members this month. The charter for this union has not yet been granted, but word has just been received from the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada that if the charter was applied for under the name of the "Brotherhood of Logging and Mining Camp Train and Enginemen of B. C." that it would offset any jurisdictional dispute with" the railroad brotherhoods operating on the standard railways of Canada and Congress Tyjnld then h_,V-___n_-— hesitation in granting a charter. As the union only intends to cover the mining and logging camps, this has been agreed to. Bakers Elect Officers For New Term The Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union held a very successful meeting January 14th, initiation of 3 new members and election of officers. President, A. Morris; vice- pres., A. Edwards; sec, Thos. Rigby; cor. sec, Neil Rigby; sargeant-at- arms, A. Bader; trustees, J. Clucas, N. MacKenzie, Thos. Rigby; delegate to Trades and Labor Council, John Waugh. —T.R. MENTAL HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION NUMBER 35 Election of officers January 12th: President; W. Mackie; vice-president, F?_d Hunt; Sec-trehs., John MacD. Nicholson; rec, sec, 'Isaac Watts; trustees, I. Watts,' J: Humphrey, W. Stewart; collector, Jim Davison; delegates. -H. L. Comer; Hupt and Mackie. - Oppression ■ is but another name collect his thoughts for a long while I for irresponsible power, if history is before he could, find words. to be trusted.—William Pinknev. I ■ ■ ,■_...■":.- Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 20, 1928 -.hoc. Bey. MM H. HARVEY BOOT MANUFACTURER Loners'. Miners', Cruisers' and Prospectors' Hand-Made Boot* Our Specialty. Quick Repair*. otm moo wou boo* BEST IN TOWK 58 CORDOVA ST, WEST Vanoouver, a. 0. T. J. Kearney & Co. Funeral Directors and Embalmer. New Chapel and Parlors •• . Private Ambulance Service •02 Broadway W. Phone Fair. J Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealer*. 168 Cordova W.. Phone Ssy. SOTT SEC US ABOUT BROKEN BUSS l»- Wll- DOWS, AUTOMOBILES, MIRRORS SHOWCASES, ETC. Art Situ Ruairi. Mlrron Rt-iltwtd • SYNOPSIS OF » LAND ACTAMENDMENTS PRE-EMPTIONS Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown land* may be pre-empted by British subject* over 18 year* of age, and by alien* on deolarlnc Intention to become British subjects, conditional upon residence, occupation, and lmprov*m*nt for agricultural purpoees. Full Information concerning regulations regarding pre-emption* la given ln Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, How to Pre-empt Land," copies or which can be obtained free of charge by addressing th* Department of Lands, Victoria, B.C.. or to any Government Agent. • Record* will be granted covering only land suitable for agricultural purpose*, and whloh 1* not timber- land, 1.*., carrying over 8.000 board feet par acre weat ot the Coaat Rang* and 8,000 feet per aore eaat of that Range. Application* for pre-emptions ar* to be addressed to the Land Commissioner of th* Land Recording Division, ln whloh the land applied for I* situated, and are made on printed forma, copies of which can be obtained from th* Land Commissioner. Pre-emption* mutt be occupied for flv* year* and Improvement* mad* to value of $10 per aore, Including clearing and cultivating at least five aore*, before a Crown Grant can be received. For more detailed Information ••• the Bulletin "How to Pre-empt PURCHA8E Applications are reoelved for purchase of vacant and unreserved Crown land*, not being tlmberland. for agricultural purposes; minimum prloe for first-class (arable) land I* II per acre, and aeoond-olas* (graslng) land 18.60 per acre. Further ln- tormatlon regarding purchase or lease of Crown landa la given ln Bulletin No. 10, Land Series, "Purchase and Lease of Crown Landa." Mill, factory, or Industrial sites on timber land, not exceeding 40 acres. ■any be purchased or leased, *.he conditions including payment of etumpage. HOMESITE LEASES Uneurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 eeree. may be leased as homesites, 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 graxlng and industrial purposes areas not exceeding. 840 acres ■ay be leased by one person or a company GRAZING Under the Grazing Act the Prov- Sraxlng Commissioner. Atiiiu.il •rasing permits are Issued based on ■umber . ranged, priority being given to establish..! owners. Stock-owner* may form ' associations for rungr management. Free. Or partly free, permits are available tor settlers, •ampere and travellers, up to 'on From Moneron to Man (The Real Self) Don't get seared at this title. I sometimes use queer words to attract attention. One would imagine that in the last article I had dealt with the development of man; but that is not altogether true, since I only dealt with his carnal pyjamas, or his one-piece garment of flesh. One might as well write a biography of Robinson Crusoe by telling thc experiences necessary to the production of his goatskin trousers, and then imagine he had told all about the man. In order to throw light on subsequent articles, it is necessary to dwell, however meagrely, on the nature, powers and origin- of the soul, or subjective.mind, which was developed from instinct and had so much to do in guiding our ancestors from the estate of the moneron upward3. I shall prove by deducting pertinent facts that the subjective mind is a distinct entity and not merely one of a series of faculties which perform their functions under one condition of the body whilst another set of faculties perform their functions under other bodily conditions. I gave the facts already in the correspondence column, but I shall have no time to finish these articles if I go hunting for others which aren't any more convincing; for my face is my fortune on which people won't find any difficulty in believing I am unable to draw interest. For those who have the time, means yand inclination to make further investigations, I might add that Frank Pod- more, one of the secretaries of the Psychical Research Society, has published a small volume which is a resume of the material published in "Phantasms of the Living," containing the official records of the society since its' inception in 1882. We actually know that there arc two minds, since each is characterized by phenomena peculiar to itself. The subjective mind existed in the undeveloped state of instinct millions of years before the objective organ, or before a brain in animal., was developed. Furthermore, the brain has been taken out of animals without affecting the working of the instinctive functions ("Evolution of thc Soul," page 24). There are numerous instances on record also of the soul leaving the body temporarily in obedience to the strong desire of its owner. On such occasions, thc person it visited was always allowed, without being prompted, to tell details that made the experience worthy of record in the book mentioned above. The following are some of the functions of thc soul: Intuitive cognition, or the power to perceive essential truth independent of reason, experience or instruction. Zera Colburn exhibited this power. He was capable of raising a number of one figure to the sixteenth power as quickly as the answer could be written down. He told instantly the number of minutes and then seconds in forty-eight years before he was acquainted with the Arabic numerals and while yet ,in his seventh year. As soon as they tried to educate him objectively, or in the ordinary manner, he lost his subjective power. Again, we read of Blind Tom, a negro idiot yet in his childhood, who was a musical prodigy, and whose mind was incapable of objective education, and who for that reason never lost his subjective powers. It is said that-he rould reproduce-any of the great masters he had ever heard, and was equally clever at improvisation. The subjective mind also is endowed with a perfect memory. There are many examples of this faculty recorded. For instance, a young wo- \ man of twenty-five, well known to be quite illiterate, talked volubly, during a fever, in Latin, Greek and Hebrew; yet in her days of health she did not understand or remember a sentence or word of any of these languages. It was found later that she had lived as a child with an old pastor who was in the habit of repeating portions of these languages while walking up and down his hall ("Law of Psychic Phenomena," 04-67). Proofs of telepathy can be had by the score in Podmore's book. Similarly, proofs of kinetic energy, or the power to move ponderable objects without' physical contact, are quite is very deficient; it has no power even remotely akin to telepathy, instinct or intuitive knowledge ("Scientific Demonstration of a Future Life," Hudson, page 226). Man, therefore, i»<»^ndowed with a soul, an entity which^oits undeveloped state as instinclSeems to have given the inward urge to progress, which in connection with the laws of heredity, variation, adaptation and survival of the fittest, with an occasional mutation, guided him from the estate of moneron to his present condition of to'day; (The next article will deal with "Intuition and Instinct") "L.0-Biir How's things going? Not so bad, under the system. The clams are shallow; that's one good thing! Yes, this is the Sun paper. I was just reading about some of the neediest cases in Vancouver. Listen to this: Men and women in need of daily bread. Children lacking all that a child should have. We are called upon to witness misery such as we do not care to witness. . We, see men bowed in tears; women with little children half-clad, shivering with cold amKTatnt with hunger; hear such sorrows as haunts us; turn in dumb agony from so many we know we cannot succor." Doesn't this sound fine in this great and prosperous country of ours? Canada needs immigrants? Sure, lots of them; they are good for the master. I was just wondering if Vancouver is the only place in British Columbia where people are in need? Don't you think there are people along this coast that were in need this past Christmas? People striving to make a living amongst the stumps and rocks. What say! They generally make a few dollars fishing or working in camps? No one made money fishing this year, and the camps are full up or closing down. It's not easy for a man to get a job in this country now- days; the slave market in Vancouver ii; fuil up all the time. All the camp baron has to do is send a telegram for a hundred slaves, and he gets them next boat at his price.. It looks to me as if there are four men for every job now. What say! There's lots of foodstuffs floating up and down these channels, thrown overboard out of the Great Western ashore on Cape Mudge? Yes, I know. But I'm wondering if it's not all destroyed before being dumped. There's lots of boxes floating around that once held canned goods; miles of matches dumped out of their boxes, floating around; thousands of oranges that, if left in their boxes, would not have been salty. Apples, too, washed ashore and frozen. You say you have seen lots of flour floating around and that it only spoils in an inch or two around the sack. Yes, I know. I saw hundreds of pounds of it. But if you'll take a look at it you will notice that it has been well cut into. Each sack is cut up so as the water will get in and the flour run out. I Wonder how many tons of poultry was thrown over that Ihe people' arountThere would welcome, even if it was thawed out a bit. Wjill, it's a fine thing anyway! Brings the system home to them here. What say! Wonder why people turn Socialist? Well, it's a good thing to wonder on. So long! There's more of the system I want to point out to you next time you are along this way. Iboc ta divided Into grazing districts 'i'lmt -■ _ ■» ••»■■-■ th* range administered under-*- Jium.rous.,-in,...l!h«}it>a8ms-»_-the--4.iv ing." It-trthe rrtfitiber ~8f"authenticated cases that count. Well has it been said that "facts, when properly interpreted and sufficiently aggregated, are divine' revelations that.-lead with unerring certainty to eventual truth.", Contrast with^tKe above the powers of the objective mind (located in the brain): Its memory at its best WAX FLOWERS Who has not admired the lovely apple blossoms, daisies, water lilies, and othermvax flowers which arc expensive to buy and seem hard to make? As a matter of fact, however, they are not hard to make. Purchase artificial cloth flowers, melt some paraffin, let it cool slightly, then dip the flowers in it, shaping the petals naturally as the wax cools. SUphi*- and■ Ica-vtMi..al. eucan bAutiippatl in wax of'H&y lie "leftuncoated? Two coats of wax, or perhaps more, may sometimes be necessary. With pure white flowers, a touch of yellow paint lightly brushed on from the centre put over the lower portion of the: p^ctal is effective. ■s Exclusive Ambulance Service Up-to-date Ambulances and Invalid Coachao. All Attendants Qnallfled la _>_rst Aid "St. John'* Ambulance Association" "We Specialise in Ambulance Servioe Only" 536 Thirteenth Avenue West, Vancouver, B.C. ? JOIN THE LABOR PARTY For Further Information Write B. C. SECTION, CANADIAN LABOR PARTY President, J. FLYNN; Secretary, W. CAMPBELL, 200 18th Ave. E. Vice-presidents: W. H. COTTRELL, W. W. LEFEAUX, S. BATE RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggists" Wc Make a Spcelal Effort to Oct Goods Ont by Plrst SUU After Beeelpt of Tom Order. COBWEB COBDOVA AND CABBA.L VAtf COC^M, B. O. THE QUALITY OF BEElO depends, of course, almost x entirely upon the MATERIAL that is used in its composition. The main constituents are MALT, which gives it BODY and CONDITION, and HOPS, which FLAVOR and PRESERVE it. We are using only the finest CANADIAN MALT and the finest BRITISH COLUMBIA HOPS, blended with the best IMPORTED BOHEMIAN HOPS, thus our BEERS are fine, pure and palatable. _rr_ : -"—L— Our storage capacity is very large, which enables us to create in our Beer the qualities of RIPENESS and MATURITY. We brew and bottle the famous OLD MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER, try it For sale at Government Liquor Store* and Beer Parlor*. Free delivery to any part of the City. WESTMINSTER BREWERY LTD. 5? Tim Westminster B.C.. o This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government or British Columbia. We Invite the public to rlilt our Brewer; Plant, at New Westminster, where they can convince them- "selreT of the-truth" ol our «_i.m.nti. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES i. Add to vanishing Canadians—the village blacksmith. A VARIETY A census taker" 'caltaL, at'~a-farm- housc and a woman answered the ioor. i : "How many in your family?" asked tho census taker. "Five," answered the woman peev ishly. "Me, the old man, one kid, a cow and a cat." . "And the politic.s of your family?" inquired the enumerator. "Mixed," came the .short, reply. "I'm a Conservative, the old man's a Lahorite, the kid's wet, the cow's dry apd the cat's a Liberal." MH Friday, January 20, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory tuaeonvet Trades ana I_»bo_ Oovpaa— President, J. Thomson; general _ecre- 5?r__ P*S.^y R' Bengough. Office. 803 £?olde" B'dsr. 16 Hastings Bast Phone" Bey. 7.86. Meets In Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the flrot and third Tuesdays In month. J B. O. Hshs-msn's Association, meeta every month at the call of the Secre- • tary In the Holden Bldg. General Secretary. R. Hornbrook, 63 Hastinga Beverage Dispensers Union Wo. 676— "l1-,tsJafi 8unday at 8 p.m.. Room 310, Holden Bldg. President,1 W. H. Clancy; Secretary and Business Agent. T. J Hanolln. Office: Room 6. Flack ?.'?rHi Phonea: Sey. 47S3 and Bay. 1656-R. Hours: 9 to 12 a.m Brotherhood of Carpenters ft Joiners. Meets first and third Thursdays In Room 313 Holden Bldg. President. H. C. Matthews; Business Agent. A Graham. 809 Holden Building. Rec Sec, R. G. Inder; H. G. Avery. Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees, Local 464—Meets second and fourth Friday In Labor Hall. 16 Hastings St. E. President. J. A. Parry; Secretary-treasurer, Blrt Showier, 2841 Triumph, High. 6327. •ridge A Structural Iron Workers, Looal •7, Int. Asso—Meets every Monday. Room 801 Hold»n Bide-, at 8 p m President. W. L. Yule, 6821 Argyle St.;, Secretary, P. Lauret, Box 302, CityJ Phone Fair. 2108L. „.,.--^F- Bnlldlng Trades Connoll, Vancouver— Meets second and fourth Tuesday In' Holden Building. President, Robt. Stevenson: Secretary-treas., W. Page Room 8l,'p, Holden Bldg. Bakers' Local ■ 468, Journeymen, of America—Meets second Saturday in month at 8 pm-—President. A. Morris 2834 Vine St.: sec. T. Rlghy, 35..1 Commercial Dr. Phone Fair 4049 lotion Pictures Projeotlonlst's Union, Local .348 of I.A.T 8.E * M P.M.O MeetB at 991 Nelson St. on drat Sunday in each month at 7:30 p.m. President, J. R. Foster, 1161 Granville St. Secretary. Geo. Gerrard, Box 146 Business Phone: Sey. 3923. Bakery Salesmen, Loeal 371 — MeeU second Thursday every month. Holden Bide., 16 Hastings E. President E. HolmeH; acting secretary. Blrt Showier, 1115 Robson, office. 807 Holden Building. Barbers,' Journeyman International Union of America—Local 120, meeta second and fourth Tuesdays In each month In Room 310 Labor HalL 16 Hastings East. Pres., Fred. Dawe; Sec.-treas.. C. E. Herrett, Office 814 Holden BldK. Bookbinders Looal no. 109, Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday in month at Professional and Business Woman's Club. Empire Bldg., 603 Hastings W. President, G. Low. 61 63rd Ave. W.;i secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton] Street. f Humanitarian Nature of Trade Union Movement i, ..,. , . The convention of the Alberta »o. 16S. — Ai.llia.ed with umwd Federation of Labor which is beihg held in Calgary this week, serves to illustrate again the great humani- ] tarian nature and purpose of the organized Labor movement. A glance at the reports or resolutions, or a study of the discussions at such a gathering reveal one outstanding feature: the attention to the welfare of human kind. Practically every question before the convention deals with some human need. It may be the protection of life or limb, or the care of widowed mothers and orphaned children, or the welfare of old people who have reached the evening of life and are in need, or assistance to thosS tfjjft' have been injured in their employment, or a higher standard of living for girls and women who must earn their own living, or a dozen .other similar questions, which occupy the time of the delegates, and all serve a human need. Most people agree that the things .ought by the Labor movement are good. Most people agree that the aged should be cared for, and the widowed and fatherless given assistance and life and limb protected, but a great many people have some e..cuge_why it should not be done just now. Usually the cost is the bugbear. But that is nonsense. We have money for everything else. We can as a province spend millions of dollars for drink ,and as much for cigarettes and chewing gum and theatre tickets. Are these things more important than those human needs which Labor would meet with old age pensions and compensation Musicians Mutual Protective Union Local 146, A. T. of IL—Meets at the Q. XV. V. A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President. Edward Jamieson; secretary, W. Edmunds; financial secretary, W. E. Williams; organiser, F. Fletcher, all at 991 Nelson Street.' 1'alntiirs. Decorators aad Paper-tanger* Local 13..Mp.p>p; Recond and fourth Thursdays at 163 Hastings W. Business agent, Robt. Stevenson. Office room 34, 163 Hastings West. Phone Sey. 3609. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf cad Dock Builders Looal Ho. 2404—Meets every Friday night at 8 p.m. In 122 Hastings St. W. James Thomson, secretary P. O. Box 320. C. Anderson, President. ■Plasterers, Local 89—International Association of Operative, meets first and third Wednesday In month at Holden Bldg. President, C. Keall: Flnanclal Secretary, A. Campbell. 461 Fifty-sixth Ave. E.. phone Fraser 184L2; Cor. Secretary. A. Hurry. 86' Thirty-fourth Ave. E., phone Fair 3222R. Plumbers and SteamBttera, No. 170, International Asso. of—Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday In the Hnlden Bldg. President, R. Simpson: secretary and business agent, W. Watt, 806 Holden Building. Bricklayers'. Masons' and Tils Betters' Int. Union No. 1—Meets second snd fourth Wednesday In the Holden Bldg President G. R Halllday; Secretary, W. S. Dagnall. 1244 JBth Ave S. Phone Fair. 846 R. W. J. Pipes, Fin. Secretary, 840 Beach Ave, Camp and MIU Workers Federal Labor Union No. 31—Vancouver and vicinity meets every second Wednesday at 8 P.m. at 644 Powell St. East. President, H. Mlyazawa; Secretary, K. Tsuyuki. Oarpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Looal 452—President, R. J Thompson; financial secretary, R. W. Hatley: business agent, W. Hargreaves. Office, Room 809 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m. 01*7 Hall Employees' Association meet* flrst Wednesday of each month at JK1H Hastings E. at 8 p.m. President. W. H. Lcwthwalte; treasurer, XV. 3. Strlbblns. 3208 Pender St. E.: Secretary. .T. Tarbuck, 2792 Pender East. Civic Employees' Union, Looal 38 — Meets first nnd third Fridays In the month at 261H Hastings E, at 8 p.m. President, R. N. Hogg, 1718 Commercial Dr.; secretary-treasurer, George Harrison, 1182 Parker St. Point Grey Municipal Employees' Association, Local No. 3—Meets second Monday of each month at the Masonic Hall, Kerrisdale, 8 p.m. President. D. Ross Squalr, 3728 30th W. Secretary A. Patterson 8179 Hudson Street. The Killing Machine Some hundred million Americans\ gasped for breath along with thirty or forty brave young fellows. who lay beneath a hundred feet of saltwater off Cape Cod just before Christmas. And when these millions finally drew breath in utter loss of hope, sentiments welled up which the big navy men in Washington have not found it pleasant to know. Secretary Wilbur is already busy "explaining" and showing why widespread criticism of naval methods and programmes are not justified. He probably will be busy for some time to come. If the big navy men had deliberately planned thc terrible catastrophe in the loss of the S-4 off Provinceto«pi, they could not have more effectively--demonstrated their now recognized capacity for muddling. The ghastly poem composed by a member of the ill-fated crew, and widely published as he with his fellows lay dead in their steel tomb, does not too accurately describe thc monstrous craft which carried them toltheir doom. It will be too bad if after those harrowing days of futili anguish, the American people do nol do some sober thinking. What i. this thing which brought these splendid young Americans to their horrible' death? An instrument of malignant destruction! That, and only that. It is refined mechanical science dedicated to the cruel art ol doing the assumed "enemy" of other nations just what outrageous muddling and bureaucracy have now done to these splendid young Americans. \float or in the plunge it was meant to kill, and only to kill. And it has killed! Even the doddering admirals and secretaries in Washington are shoe'eed to have it execute its THE ESTHER BAKERY Get your Cakes and Puddings at this bakery MAKERS OF HOVIS Also Makers of the Beit White, Raisin and Nut Bread Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor and Dealer House Wiring, Fixtures, Lamps, Batteries Olen 370 4099 Hastings St a. ind mothers' allowance legislation? j fell mission upon those whom they The question of the cost of needed j had commissioned to do the killing legislation is all in how' we look at Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Local No. 69—Meets every second Tuesday place in Canada to dwell in. In thc month at 8 p.m. In Room 111 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President. Harry F. Longley, 101 Ith St. North Van.; secretary, Wm. Qulgley. 2083 2nd Ave. W.. Bor 894. it. It may take some courage to put some of our legislation into effect, but when it is once done there will be no further disturbance about it and the people will eventually rise up und call the government blessed which will make its province the bcfc£. If we Railway Carmen of America. Lodge Mo. SS—Meets first and third Friday ln month at Cotnion Hall. Granville and Davie Streets. President, A. 8. Rosa. 6873 Pr. Edward St.; secretary, J. D. Vullamy. 2216 16th Ave. W. Street and Nleotrlo Bailway Bmployees, Pioneer Division Ho. 101—Meets K. P. Hall, Eighth and Klngsway, lat and *rd Monday at 10:15 a.m. and T^p.m. President, W. H. Cottrell; recording secretary. F. E. Griffin; treas., H. (',. Blazier; financial secretary and business agent. Annus Maclnnes, 3644 Pr Edward St. Office: corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Fairmont I150L. aiftctiical Workers. Local .13, International Brotherhood—Meets every Mon day at 8 p m in Room No 6, It! Pender Street West President J. B Brown; business agent, E. H. Morrl. son. Office. 319 Pender Street West anglneers—International Union (team and Oneratlng Local 844—Meets every Thursday at 8 p.m. Room 806 Holden Bldg. President, E. McCallum; rec sec, Geo. Pettaplece; Fln. Sec. A Bus. Agent T. A. Newblgglng. Office, Room 806 Holden Building. fire Fighters, Mo. 18. International ■ Association of—Meeta every month at call of president, at 251 H Hnstlngs R President, N. McDonald, No. 3 Fire Hall; unancinT"secretary,"C. ATXVataoii. No. 3 Fire Hall. rioorlayara' Union, No. 1875. IT B of C. A J. of .A., meeta 1st and 3rd Thursdays In 810 Holden Bldg. st *l p m. President, El C. Woodward; Fln. 8eC. A. Reid: Rec. Sec, W. D. Wilson. 1261 Howe St. Hod Carriers and Building Laborers, Mo. 603. International. Meets llrst and third Friday In month at Jlolilen Building. President, C. Lawsiin, 1832 3rd Ave.. W. Fln. Sec: and Business Agent. J. A. Barrlngton. 4293 Welwyn Street. Phone Fair. 1434L. Sheet Metal Workers Association, Looal Union No. 380 — Meets second and fourth Thursday In month In Hnlden Building, 16 Hastinga Street E. President, A. Fisher, 1952 ith Avenue W.: business agent and secretary, D. Macpherson, 807 Holden Bldg. make Alberta the best place for working people to live, it will be best for all the people. But to return to our subject, it must he recognized that there is no movement, secula, or religious, that is doing so much to promote human welfare as the Labor movement. That is its purpose and it sticks to that purpose down through the the years.—Alberta Labor News. Shingle Weavers, Looal 17813—Meets second Tuesday in month, in Room No. 2, Labor Temple. New Westminster, and ith Sunday. 7:30 p m„ in Room 313 Holden Bldg., Vancouver President. J. N. Chute, Phone High 1982-Y; sec, W. H. Matthew. 3436 Irving St. . Tailors', Jonrneymen Unloa of America. Local No. 17B—Meetings held flrat Thursday ln each month. 8 p.m. Executive meets third Thursday of everv month In Labor Hall. President, F Franco; 'secretary, C. McDonald P.O. Box 503. Executive meeta >hlrd Thursday of everv month Teamsters, Chauffeur., stablemen and Helpers, Local 466—Meeta every Ind and 4th Wednesday. 310 Holden Bldg President, A. A. McKay. 778 Beatty 8t.; secretary-treaaurer, A. P. Black. 880 Homer St. Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Marine Cooks A Stewards, Looal 99— 441 Seymour St., meets second Mon- dav each month at S p.m., last Mondays at 9 p.m. President Thos. Edwards, Sec.-Treas. Harry Wood, Business Agent. Phone Sey. 126. Ladles' Auxiliary, Local 171 — United ' Brotherhood of Carpenters — Meets every first and third Wednesday of each month In 810 Holden Building, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. Nickels, 2388 Forty-second Ave. VS.: secretary. Elisabeth J. Hope, 1138 Seymour St. Phone Sey. 9074L. Lathers, Wood. Wire aad Metal, International Union, Looal 307 — Meeta 2nd and ith Mondays in month, at room 109 Holden Bldg. President, H. P. Fulljames, __06 Vanness; Secretary. Bert Jenkins. 60 46th Ave. E. Machinist Local 693—President, Thos. 8111s. 1361 Burrard St. SecreUry, P. R. Bengough. Office 107 Labor Hall, II Hastings East. Meets on sfcond and fourth Tuesdays In month. , Theatrical Stage Employees' Union, Loci-Kin of the I A.T B.E. A M P.M O. —Meel_M-t 991 Nejson Street on the second Friday In month, at 9:30 a.m. President. G. W. Allen; Secretary, Gordon Martin. Business address, P _0. Box 711. - Typographical Union, Mo. 336—President, C. S. Campbell; vice-president, R. Gouthro; Secretary-treaaurer, R H. Neelands. P.O. Box 66. Meeta last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m.. In Rnlden Bulldlns. 16 Haatlngs 8t V. Upholsterers, Local No. 36— 212 Pender street west. President, P. Clift,, 392R Keith road east. North Vancouver; I'or. Secretary, J. W. Gordon, 2292 Welllgton avenue, South Vancouver. Liberty is never cheap. It is made difficult, because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of •nan.—Emerson, __ ... ■.■'---—»p... ■ WM^fr.'-'..p-pa.p — Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday In each month. President. 8. D. McDonald, Box 268. Secretary. Frank Derry, Box 418. Prince RuperW B.C. Non-Contributory ' Pensions for Employees The British Co-operative Wholesale Society has announced its intention of launching a big non-contributory pension scheme tot its employees at an eventual cost nf about two Htffitrrtid thousand pounds a year. No details have yet been issued; but the Agar, quoted must mean that Ihe scheme is on fairly generous lilies, as the C.W.S. employs in all to others. And none of us may calm our own. sense of shock by scorning the admirals and secretaries. We ourselves have done thi. horrible thing. Those doddering spinners of red tape, those zealots for investigations after the damage is done, could not survive in their malignant power for a minute, if their programme were not our programme, and if we were not still complacently committed to schemes which build and send out into the- deep these monstrosities of destruction.—"Unity." Spanish Dictator Is In Full Control The Spanish National Assembly has now been in existence for nearly three months, and students of politics are beginning to take stock of its doings. The assemlby, it will be remembered, has no executive or legislative powers; the function of its four hundred members is to sit and talk. And even the right to talk is limited. Members may only make speeches of twenty minutes in criticism of the government, and not more than one interpellation is allowed on any subject. The debates have, so far, produced two reforms: EVERT bout 50,000 workers. Co-operative J the government has agreed to the employment is of course relatively stable-- almost as stable for the majority of workers at employment in the public services, and it is therefore fairly easy to work out a pension scheme on equitable lines. The setting-up of the scheme on a non- contributory basis is presumably li.-i-"p| nn. .;i—recognition that the employees of thc Co-operative Movement have a special claim in justice to share in the benefits of the mutual trading of which they are the 'instruments. At one time a good many Co-operative bodies recognized this claim by profit-sharing plans; but these have for a long time past fallen into disfavor. With their disappearance, save in a relatively few cases, the status and prospects of the Co-operative employee inevitably ceased to differ greatly from those of employees of private firms. The new scheme should do something to establish the point that the Co-operative movement stands not only for mutual trading in the con- cumer's interest, but also for a relation between the employer and employed differing from that which obtains in ordinary commercial concerns: It is, of course, possible that the C.W.S.'pension scheme will turn out to be thoroughly good business, as well as an act of social; iustice. SfWt. hope "and Mi\eke~Xti& :1tr*Wit. simplifying of the bachelor's exam ination' in the universities, and to the right of cousins, to inherit in cases of intestacy. The Times' Madrid correspondent tells us that the Dictator and his friends regard this as evidence of very successful collaboration between themselves t]nml the-reprcsentatives of the-realm. Other people, we are not surprised to hear, are asking whether a mountain ever brought forth two more ridiculous mice. It is possible that the various committee meetings will produce something of importance. One of these committees is occupied with projects of constitutional reform, and it is believed to favor thc creation of a new assembly, consisting of elected members, representatives of corporations, and government nominees, with a crown council of thirty persons over it. But there is no reason why the Dictator and the King should accept this scheme, if they do not fancy it; and, even if they do, they need not be disturbed by it, since the new assembly, like the present one, will be merely consultative. Whether the Spaniards really want democracy it is difficult to say; but it is pretty clear that they are not going to have it thrown at them by General Prim., de Rivera.—The" Nevr-Statcs- ■for there are few things more lm- I portant than to drive home the lesion that (food conditions are tire key to good and efficient service.—-The New Statesman. -nflftf*--— Fraser Valley Milk Fairmont 1000 ,. j lsM.CZ FROM GOV'T. TESTED HERDS iywigj T>IUTISH Columbia haa the -a-* only evaporated milk in Canada that is produced exclusively from government- tested herds. We printed this before and do so again because it gives one reason for thc unusual richness and flavor of Pacific Milk. Pacific Milk Factories at Abbotsford and Ladner An ad for male help in the Van couver Province, January 8th, runs as;. follows: "Wanted—Six carpenters, union wages,- must invest $250, I 7 per cent, interest guaranteed." j Parking space—in its generally ac- Whcn dad had "dates with ma, he ! , This i. one of many similar ads.' cepted meaning—is even harder to turned the gas instead of stepping' *.ft»r a while they may. be more find in the dictionary than in th.e on it. frank and say "Jobs for Sale." I street. ■. . Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 20, 1928 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at 81« Holden Bide, Vancouver. B. C Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. Official Organ of the Canadian Labor Party. H. W. Watts, Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE: Chairman. H. Wood. Hotel ai.d Restaurant Employees; J. McCurragh, Typographical: J. Thomson, Bridge Builders; W. Deptford, Street Railway Employees; W. Clancy, Beverage Dispensers. Pboa. Seymour 637* Vancouver, B.C.. Fri. Jan. 20, 1928 in whieh the lion and the lamb lie down together, that is, the one inside of the other. The great American citizen, when he is not shouting about freedom and equality, is trying to limit someone else's freedom or to bribe some exclusive privilege for himself. If he is not trying to buy bootleg whiskey he is trying to sell it. If his mother has not got a staff of lawyers trying to prove- he is the illegitimate son of a deceased millionaire, he is pleading insanity to beat the hangman and take up a vaudeville contract. While the fellow is stilljiigh- ly.pleased with himself, we feel like suing him for damages every' time he calls us his cousins. PEACE IN INDUSTRY A Thing called the "Peace in Industry" movement has been started in the British Isles. The affair is headed by Sir Alfred Mond, one of the most astute and far-seeing of the English industrial capitalists. What such a movement can hope to accomplish owe cannot guess. "Industry" as used in this case is intended to mean that set of relationships under which one group of individuals put their money, and another group of individuals put their labor and skill, into some productive enterprise, and then settle as best they may as to the division of the values created, and all the disputes that these two groups have, ever did have or ever will have, bear directly on this question of this division of the values created, and consequently any movement which is to bring about "peace in industry" must by some process cause both of these groups to become, and to permanently remain, satisfied with some particular share of the proceeds of the particular industrial operated— or, stated in other terms, the employer is to be content with some particular rate of interest on his investment and the wage worker is to be content with some particular rate of wages, and the moment either of them wish to change the arrangement the whole bally house of cards falls down. There is no longer peace in industry. Away back, geological ages ago, an ape-like animal had two sons. The one was restless, inquisitive, discontented fellow, never satisfied with anything, and his offspring were as bad as himself. They progressed in knowledge and multiplied in numbers, and today the genus is known as Homo Sapiens. The other fellow was quiet and peace-loving, and he is an ape yet. Looking back over the last one hundred and fifty years Labor has made some progress. If the "Peace in Industry" movement had been established at that time we should today have the courts hacking the ears off, branding "P" for "felon" on the forehead, or deporting to penal settlements "malefactors" who dared to ask for more wages than the amount set by the employees in Quarter Sessions. Labor holds that the relationship of employer and. workman is an improper human relationship. As a matter of convenience, accumulations of capital are useful, but they are not essential. A hundred men __migftt be employed for two—years boring a tunnel. to cut off the Carrall street level crossing. During this period their work would be pro ductive of no return. Capital might be employed to carry on this work, but at bottom the wheat grower and the weaver would feed and clothe these men while they were perform ing this work, and all the political economists that ever came down the road cannot show why from now to the end of the present capitalist era certain gentlemen, called capitalists, should be paid a hundred thousand dollars per year because they advanced the money to enable the tunnel workmen to purchase wheat from the farmer and cloth from the weaver. To the extent that capital is necessary, its ownership and control is one of the functions of government, and until we have governments that will assume their whole duty, Labor has rio more right to be satisfied, to be content, with any division that it can make with any. ' othef human being, owning the means .by which he must, live, than the^n_an -,iVM-uld have to compromise and agree not to worry a burglar if a generous •half of his goods are returned. "Peace in Industry" is not even an ideal, for the only way in which it can be obtained is akin to the way Premier Baldwin says that in Canada he heard no "grousing." We would hardly expect that he would at the Chateau Laurier or on his private train. Still, if he had come through to British Columbia and heard our American timber holders roar he would know what up-to-date methodical, trained "grousing" really was. As further proving the disastrous condition of the B. C. lumber business, the will of a Fraser Valley lumberman has just been probated, and shows a net estate of $587,239.00. i — M. IN THE - TONSORIAL CHAIR - -2 SPUD Ugh! It's cold. I don't blame anybody for not having their hair cut this weather. Here's a man I want to see though. Good morning, Dr. McKay, I've been hoping to run across you. Oh, no, I have no car now and I am glad too this weather. What I wanted to talk about is the statement you made before the Board of Trade regarding the sterilization of people who are mentally deficient. Do you know Dr. that set me wondering what would happen if you had your way. For instance, listen to Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor, of Plymouth church, Brooklyn. Delivering a post-war sermon, he said: "There will shortly be held a meeting of surgeons in this country. A copy of the preliminary call lies before me. The plan to be discussed is based upon the Indian State law. That law authorizes the sterlizing of men by the board of surgeons These surgeons are preparing to advocate the sterilization of 10 million German soldiers and the segregation of their women, so that civilization may be rid of this awful cancer that must be cut clean out of society." 1 suppose you would have all the leaders in Soviet Russia sterilized, because, according to the powers that, be, they are crazy. I suppose such men as Ramsey McDonald, J. S Woodsworth, Jimmy Maxton and Charlie Chaplin would be due for & turn upon the rack and God's handiwork improved (?) upon by the- medical fraternity. Not the meaning of what you said? Well now, there are many definitions of whal constitutes mental deficiency. Foi instance, the man who rushes out of a trench, at another man who is fir conditions, and you know what con ditions here are. We had about _ feet of snow here a little while ago and immediately from 800 to 1000 men were employed to remove il from the principle streets, costing the city $35,000. Now, you know, that outside the few principle streets, the roads in Vancouver are a disgrace. Ho«r is it then that those roads cannot be improved and the men given work? The city council can find the money when it is necessary to clear away snow, but not to save men and women from starving Well, I still stick to myvpoint. The voters are so befuddled that they cannot apply their political strength to adjusting those 'problem.. and when such a number of people can be led astray, on such a simple thing, then they must be sub-normal. You had in mind violent cases, eh? Well, remember the police raid on Powell street in 1912. Would j(ou suggest that those policemen :ere not violent when they clubbed defenceless men and women? Would yau suggest sterilization for them? I/lon't understand? Of course not! ut you cannot deny that 70.; of ental cases are brought on by w.orry. Worry is usually brought on by financial difficulties or fear. Subnormal children, except in cases of accident, are invariably sub-fed. Yes, sir, half starved. So you see I do understand. If your proposal becomes law I want to see it applied irrespective of the social position of the victim, but that doctor will never be until the worker becomes sensible and rules the world. In the meantime I am taking no chances and I am going to buck the proposition. Goodbye, sir. Next, please. Mussolini Permits Tame Socialist Party Italian Frontier.—It is reliably re ported that a new political party, which will call itself the "National Socialist Party," is soon to be formed in Italy. It will be the only political body—besides the Fascist Party—which will be allowed legally to exist in that country. What the use of this Nationa* Socialist Party will be in Fascist Italy possibly only Signor Mussolini, who is to act as godfather to it, knows. But it may be guessed that the Duce's intention is that the new party shall work for him, and not for the benefit of Socialism. This paper, the plant and premises of which were destroyed four times by the Fascists while it remained Socialist, was recently allowed to resume publication. This was the price paid by a handful of ex-Socialists for their seees sion from the General Confederation of Labor, and for the pro-Fascist manifesto which they launched on that occasion to the Italian workers. It is not therefore surprising that some of these ex-Socialists should now be mentioned as probable leaders of the "National Socialist Party." This manoeuvre is interpreted as part of Signor Mussolini's plan to ■divert from the exiled Socialist leaders the sympathies of the Italiar workers'. ingTf machine gun at the rate of 300 bullets per minute, and kidding himself that he is a hero by so doing, is, in my opinion, absolutely bughouse. Then the workingman who belong- to either the Liberal or Conservative party, because he still believes they are looking after his interests, is also goofy. The man of mature age, who believes that the greater his. hardships here the easier it will be for him beyond, is also, in my opinion, loco. And thc boob who swear.' by what he sees in the daily press, sure has. bats in his belfry. Take again thc army of unemployed who are parading the streets of Vancouver hungry at the moment while the stores are loaded to the roof with good things to eat—they are nor compos mentun. And the host of sap-heads, who figure that by keeping the pot a-boiling, or selling poppies, or organizing' such farce- as thc Wayfarer, when they shouk' be applying themselves to solving the problem that makes those aim. hunting escapades pecessary, they ___.'•. MsKftX-.-..aw. lataifi^.^™— - : You say »th«4..2»«j_»f- the. children of this province are below par mentally, 'ies, sir, and 75'> of the parents in this province are also, do la. How do I make' ttat. OUT?" Well they have "votes, and votes makt WINNIPEG'S PROBLEMS The citizens of Winnipeg decided to have a cenotaph, and a competition for the best design therefor. Thc competition was won by a sculptor, named—Emanuel Hahn. Then someone discovered that Hahn, though a Canadian citizen, had been born in Germany. Excursions and alarums by the patriots. Decision to give Mr. Hahn his prize money but to reject his design and hold another competition open only to Canadians born. Result of second competition. First prize, a Canadian-born sculptress, named—Mrs. Emanuel Hahn! Winnipeg is still puzzling over the problem. DONT FAIL TO ATTEND OUR QUICK ACTION SALE 15 DAYS ONLY Boys' "Williams" School Shoes, sizes C% PQ 11-13 LiuOU Sizes 1-51/2 2.79 Girls' Oxfords, in black or brown; some with Panco soles, ..izes 11-2....;... 1.79 51X) pairs of Women's Oxfords and Slippers; real quality shoes : O QQ all sizes mustaOU Men's Dress Boots and Oxfords, q QK broken sizes 0»%/i# Men's Work Boots, Vancouver made, plain toe or with toe-cap; reg. 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The Conservatives have elected a new leader, who with much enthusiasm is preparing to lead the Conservative party into power, and the country into unheard of prosperity. It is difficult to say which party can prate more loudly of a prosperity, which however doesn't promise to help the unemployed to any decree. These leaders and their friends will probably vie with one another, as usual, in promising marvelous developments of every kind. We are not greatly interested in that line of talk. There will probably be the usual time spent by the Tweedle-dees and Tweedle-dums of . protection and tariff reforms. Mr. Rob,b probably in a moment of weakness, attributed some of the "increased prosperity" to the reductions on farm implements and automobiles. It is to be expected that some of the Western members will enliven some of the pages of Hansard, with further demands along these lines, whirh will not appeal very strongly to the Lib eral camp. Hon. Mr., Dunning has been responsible for a change in the terminus of the Hudson's Bay Railway, a change which is not altogether favored in some quarters. We think that there may be a discussion on that question not wholly soporific in quality. Will the income tax be cut again? Though one of the fairest taxes, it is possibly as easily slashed as any. A lively debate may be predicted on that topic if proposals of a reduction are suggested. Will any progress be made on the legislation asked for by the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada? Re-enactment of the technical education act, curtailment of the veto power of the senate, representation of labor on delegations, commissions or boards dealing, with matters affecting the interest of wage earners, amendments to the criminal code, and thc establishm«at_ of the supreme court of Canada as the highest court of appeal are some of the requests of Labor. Polish Election Fight Is Getting Intense An intense election campaign is now in full swing in Poland. The once all-powerful reactionary "Narodowa Demokraty" party has now formed a blue with the Polish Monarchists, and together they form the extreme Right. "On the Left there is the Polish Socialist party (P.P.S.), which is still the strongest party in that field, though the Communists have made big inroads into the ranks of the city workers. The Peasant party is badly split. The old leader, Vitos, is completely discredited, and will probably lose the chairmanship of |he party. Of the Centre parties the government party, "Klub Pratzy," is the 'Mggest of all. It is already known that it will form an alliance with the new "Conservative" party of big landowners and manufacturers, and will most likely control the new Sejm „ The National Minorities — Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Ukrainians and White Russians, have formed an anti-government alliance; but it is not solid. „ Three of the Jewish .parties (the "Bund," or Jewish Labor party, among them), the Left Ukrainians, and the White Russians Hrmada have, for various reasons, refused to join. French Socialists To Start Big Campaign Breads Cakes CbohiesMacaroonsetc. JANET GAYNOR AND CHARLES FARRELL AT>oy and .a girlsprang .Urom obscurity to d^izzy fame an<^ unlimited-fortune as"t'n"_ resuHrtff' their magnificent portrayals of the lowly+ovew4H-the super-feature, "Seventh Heaven," that comes to the Pantages Theatre next week. They are Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor. They were given their chance by Director Frank Bo^zage, maker of "Beau Geste" and made good sensationally. • Responsibility for Immigrants As the western provinces seem to be the principal dumping ground for immigrants, desirable or otherwise, westerners will doubtless support Labor's request "that the government, company, corporation, society, association, person or party or agents for the same soliciting to bring immigrants into Canada, shall be responsible financially for the said immigrant for not less than ane year." Legislation of this kind would probably do more than anything else to stop the indiscriminate bringing of the misguided immigrant here, to take the job of his brother possibly, who came the previous year, to assist in driving some more native born Canadians from the country, and to join the ranks of the unemployed. We have no prejudice in the world against the the immigrant as such, provided there were plenty of employment at a wage that would insure a decent living. But unfortunately this is nolt so, and there seems to be no solutionjin sight. • It would not be difficult to multiply instances where such an enactment would have spared much suffer- ig to many who came after hearing glowing accounts of this paradise /workers At .present we have in ourVity a young Slovak whom any psychologist would know to be unfit. The absence in our present system of the new knowledge acquired during the last half-century concerning the psychology of human behavior is a calamity, and a much better use of it could be made by the immigration department as well as by our courts of law. Muck suffering could be spared the individual. There is a provision in the Immigration Act which not only provides\that the transportation company snail be liable for the return of the "immigrant afflicted with constitutional psychopathic inferiority," but is liable to a fine of not less than $50 and not more than $500. How often has the fine been imposed? If seldom, it has not been for lack of instances. At\ present the unfortunate young man js being cared for by city relief, otherwise he might have starved. \ ..We often wonder how the Hungarians who were brought here last spring are fairing during this cold winter. Mapy-of the m-«»t)tained-th. passage money by, mortgaging their little holdings paying interest as high as 40r.'i. Probably the most of them are disillusioned by now, and wish themselves at home with their families. Paris.—With the agreement on the ardently disputed question of election tactics, the French Socialist Congress have achieved complete harmony in the party and greatly improved prospects. Unanimity has been reached on the electoral programme, which, while avoiding the term "Capital Levy," that frightened the country into panic a year ago, maintains the same principle as a "Progressive Tax" on acquired wealth. The Resolutions Committee agreed to present a candidate in every constituency, and, if beaten on the first ballot, to do everything possible to "beat reaction" on the second. Only the method remains in debate. M. Renaudel desires to re-establish the cartel by agreeing to support the Radicals on the second ballot, while the Left Wing urges forming a bloc with the Communists. Employees Find Way To Beat Loan Sharks NEW YORK.—City employees of New York have learned how to beat the loan shark and make money at the job. EleVen years ago a number of these employees got together and formed the Municipal Credit Union. The purpose was to make small loans in those crises which come in the life of every worker, when he must have some ready money and usually can get it only at ruinous rates of interest. Only city employees are allowed to buy stock in. or borrow from thc Union. At present it has 10,700 members, of whom 1,000 are school teachers, 1,200 firemen, and 2,000 policemen. It has loaned $8,000,000 since organization, and has lost just $40. It has 6,800 loans outstanding, with a totakwilue-of jl.200.WI0. r— It has paid regular dividends of 6 per cent, per year; and has just announced an extra dividend of 3.6 per cent, for 1927. CITY OF VANCOUVER, B C. Tenders for Supplying Valves §KAI,El> Tender, marked "Tend-... for Valves" will be received by the undersigned up until Tuesday, February -lst. at 3 p.m., for supplying: 100— 6" Hub End Gate Valves 75— 8" Hub End ('.ate Valves 25—12" Hub End Gate Valves Specifications and particulars may be obtained at the office of the City Engineer on payment of Ten Dollars (J10.00). which will be refunded on return of the specifications in good condition. A deposit by marked cheque,, made payable to the City Treasurer, for an amount equal to five per cent. (59.) of the total bid submitted must accompany each tender. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. JAMES STUART, Purchasing Agent. City Hall. Vancouver, B. C. SWEDISH LOCK-OUTS A lock-out of 17,000 workers in the paper pulp industry and 4,000 miners commenced in Sweden. All mines connected with the Ironworks Union and the Mid-Swedish Mine Union are affected . In the paper pulp conflict the employers desire to raise the level of ^"normal production," an arbitrarily fixed quantity beyond which workers are entitled to additional pay. FAMILY'S DECENT LIVING CALLS FOR ANNUAL $2133 Oakland, Cal. — A family of father, mother and two children must have an annual income of $2,135.96 to maintain a minimum of health arid decency? , *''"*~ This-figure was the median of ^152 individual figures submitted by as ..njgcny.'menrtier? ofiM_3S.4es_ica.Peix- 'ottoVclass in the 'control of "poverty, University of California. "Thc median is approximately the same as thc'average professional research worker reaches," said Dr. Peixotto. New Zealand Govt. Tackles Unemployment An unusual amount of genuine unemployment is said to be the reason why the New Zealand government has introduced proposals for the absorption of certain unemployed workers, a program described by some newspaper in that country as "a straightforward attempt to temper the acuteness of the problem by a practical and humanitarian scheme." As put forward by the government the plan offers equitable conditions of employment to all classes of workers, according to the Wellington Dominion, which goes on to say: "It provides for a minimum of 12s. and 9s. ($3 and $2.25) a day respectively fo* married and sjlngl'e men of average or below-average ability .and at the same time a generous inducement to the better men. Co-operative contracts will be arranged where possible, and where this can not be done the hourly wage rates will be on the same basis. In ______ case, jt is 'up to the, man,' as 'the prim* minister points ottt, to earn above the minimum by his own efforts. 'Men employed on relief works on the co-operative system,' says Mr. Coates, 'will understand, of course, that notwithstanding the rate of remuneration mentioned above there is nothing to prevent them receiving" more if they earn more.' "This, it is generally agreed, is a very fair and generous offer. Among the unemployed there is doubtless a certain proportion of inefficients, men who even in normal times would be classed as 'unemployable' at standard wages, and who in the most favorable circumstances could never hope to earn as much as the average ' worker. Labor from this class is. more or less a loss on the wages paid, and the government must stand to lose. In the circumstances, however, the prime minister is fully justified on the course taken. "Mr- Coat?s, in hi?j»nnouncergn_nt., did not overlook the excellent work which has been done hitherto by voluntary organizations operating on the basis of };»Wi_ "subscript km.- With-the experience gained" their assistance in connection with the new scheme will be very welcome and valuable, and the prime minister showed his good sense in inviting their co-operation." —The Nation. Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 20,. 1928 ? tAvm^m^ ^fcV .. "COR the year ended June .0, \927, th< f^ r •*• British Columbia Electric Ratlw^sy Co. broke ali its previous records in passengers c&r. riid, p_-wer generated and gas manufactured. /*—> carried 75,112,022 passengers; generated 403,986,536 kilowatt hours; manufactured 1,052,320,700 cubic feet of gas; paid out $5,366,356 in wages to 3800 employees taxsH foiMBw (ill fi£^ 4.5 Carral. Street \&S> 1138 Granville Street SAM'S CLOTHING HOUSE For high quality goods at LOWEST PRICES. We have a wide line of WATERPROOF CLOTHING SAM'S STORE . ^ 49 CORDOVA ST. W. DAINTY DATE BUTTER —Makes swell sandwiches. —for Dad's or the Kiddies' Lunch. —Makes a tasty filler for cakes and cookies. Ask your Grocer for Dainty Pitted Dates Dainty Date Company 1685 Venables Street iiSiiKinBiHiraffiiiJiiiiBrafflai'iia- Following the Federation convention in Calgary the United Farmers of Alberta met in their annual gathering. The U.F.A. convention is the most important meeting, from the standpoint of the affairs of the province as a whole, that takes place in Alberta in the year, not excepting, possibly, the legislature itself. At -the .present time, and for many years to come, the U.F.A. is and will be the dominant force in public life in the province. 1400 ST. LOUIS MILK DRIVERS RAISE WAGES St. Louis.—About 1,400 milk drivers are benefited by a new agreement with the St. "Louis distributors. A four-year Y>act provides a blanket increase of $1.25 a week, with another automatic increase of $1 a week when the agreement is a year old, and an additional $1 a week at the expiration of the next 24 months. Wages now range from $36 to $51 a week. FREE Consultation and One Treatment Owing to the large number of people who are skeptical ;<«bout tryingr DRUGLESS THERAPY --.._- .. } " ' and because of my desire to better acquaint*thp public with my method of treatment, I have decided to issue this I r 6s. SEX WAR (By F. W. MOORE) J The other day I bought a bundle of old papers to light fires. In one, a picture of Arthur Brisbane caught my attention. Just above his head was the word "Isis." Here's something about ancient Egypt, I thought but I was mistaken. Not far from "Isis" I noticed the expression "sex war." Ha, ha, gloated I; right here is where I find some imaginary scenes of scratching and hair-pulling. That settled it, and out of curiosity I began to read an item dated June 23rd, .1927, as follows: -A-T "Students 6T Oxford worry because women are to teach them. 'Isis,' read by the Oxford young gentlemen, says that will eventually lead to a sex war, and is a social revolution o? the utmost significance . . . . women are natural teachers .... teaching has been their business from the beginning; teaching jldren, teaching husbands. Hypa- tia^a. better mathematician than her fathei\\Theon, waB one of the greatest teachers that ever ilved until fanaueal early Christian monks tore herftpm her chariot as she wcis going to sthool, and murdered her more than nft^n hundred years ago." According ttKSocrates. her throat seems to have beeoj cut with oyster shells. "Women excellent judges," he continues, "as shown by Judge Mary Bartelme of Chicago. The college boy or adult citizen lacking respect for women.or confidence in their power, judgment and goodness, pays a poor compliment to his own mother." . These remarks are, as true as those of the journal called "Isis" are monstrous. Nevertheless, he has not touched on the real significance or the cause of modern woman's determination to be seen and heard in political, industrial and higher- educational circles. Men have not accorded her this right willingly. .She did not acquire it because they remembered with respect the women, who, in spite of educational disadvantages of their sex, made a name for themselves in the world of thought. It was not given as a premium because men believed in the power, judgment and goodness of their mothers. She Won it because? economic necessity compelled her to fight with hammer, tongue, logic and hunger-strike. And for the same reason her accumulative prominence in public life is bound to gather force until it reaches; like water in a bent tube, the level of its source, which is the reservoir of human potentialities regardless of sex, race or color. From that vantage point it will function with maximum pressure in turning the wheels of evolutionary progress, Just at present, however, the maximum pressure on wheels, when they are those of progress, can be applied only by the populace. . It is therefore, the average education that counts. A few clever people can easily be compelled, on pain of insignificance and poverty, to do and say what monopoly dictates (See Upton Sinclari's "Mammonart'-'). On the other hand, the really important consideration is the average cduca tion of the masses in the fundamental principles of economic deter minism in addition to common school work added to membership in a labor union governed by reason. Such a combination would be impregnable. Furthermore, by jealously guarding the rights of the people it would preserve enough of them to ward off any danger of armed revolution in the change to the Hew order of society made inevitable by the marvelous possibilities of production, which can never be realized under present conditions. It was out of the average education in economics, such as girls acquire in mills and factories, that grew the class-consciousness which enabled the leaders of thc suffragette movement to find support in the riimVand file. But not in the rank and me^of women only, but of men also who^ktiew that women competed with themin the labor market, and that a depreciation of labor- power that could Bemused to supplant their own was not tbxbe tolerated. Hence, in self-defence, men's unions u.ually support those of women in whatever struggles they are engag ed. For the unions, after all, the nascent organizations that will finally rule the world, and in consideration of that fact alone man has the strongest kind of incentive to aid woman in attaining the maximum prominence in public affairs of which she is capable. Male government by itself is far too prone to place more value on material than on human wealth. The maternal instincts of the. woman, on the other hand, cause her to regard such an attitude with a wholesome degree of revulsion. The cheek, therefore, that she will impose on man's impetuosity will be an asset of incalculable value in hastening the development of the "Kingdom of Heaven" on earth. 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Wheh these results are compared with the wages of thc many thousands of unskilled laborers who do not average much over .l.uijo annually, one may well wonder whether any period in the world's history witnessed a greater inequality of income between the very rich and thc very poor. It is true that the poor are better off than ever before, but not proportionately so. to the total national income. What this means, of course, is not so much a parallel increase in luxurious living by the rich as an increase in their economic and social power through the administration of capital funds. Few men can, or would if they could, spend $5,000,- 000, or .even' $1,000,000; annually on consumption goods for themselves and their retainers. What they do is to "save' and reinv.stJiugc,sums, !»ri»>!a)j>».»hBriti.-,. Hniversafes-'^and foundations, and thus increase their control, for good or evil, over"1 the general,way of life.—The New Republic. , . zzr MuTphy had to move to a larger house, because his boy, Mike, wanted to take up the slide trombone. British Unions Have Big Job On Levy The "political levy" clauses of the Trade Unions Act come into force with the New Year, and, till the Act is repealed", all who wish to contribute to the levy will have V> contract-in by signing a form declaring their desire. For some weeks past an active canvass has been proceeding, under the auspices of the various unions, in order to get the forms signed. Most of thc unions report good progress; but, in the -absmypB"of flgm.es, it is impossible to say what this means. In view of the scattered distribution of trade union membership, and the difficulty usually experienced in getting a high proportion of members to vote even in important ballots, it is not likely to be an easy job to secure signed forms even from those who arc ready to sign without much persuasion. The mere administrative problem of getting about five million forms presented for signature to five million individuals, many of whom seldom attend branch meet-, ings. must mean, a considerable strain on trade union resources. Probably in time thc difficulties will be Overcome; but it will.be surprising if, in the first year of the new plan, there is not a considerable fall in the number of political contributors. To secure this was, of course, the object of those who inserted this clause in the bill. They counted far more on the apathy of thc average trade unionist than on the objections fcjt by a, small minority, to the uses ■to which -the levy-is put) To the extent to which apathy beats administrative e#llrtenc'y, Ihe finances of the Lalior, party will be adversely affected. But no one can say as yet to what extent this is likely, to have serious results in connection with the next general election. —The New Statesman. •' Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE Late 54th Batt. Late 78nd Batt. 76 Hastings St. E. Vancouver, B.C. WJisn in a Hurry, Drop In at Egg Order. FRED'S are always . "O.K." at Dairy Lunch "It's the Coffee" 72 Hastings W. Always Open R. WILKINSON, Pm. 0. DUNCAN, Ste. Reynolds'Cartage Co. 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COAL and WOOD ■ For the Best Fuel Obtainable When in doubt try unior label goods. :". ■ . , Friday, January 20, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Seven VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rhsumatlsm. Lumbago, Neuritis, Bad Cold. MASSAOB A SPECIALTY- PACIFIC BUILDING TA* HASTIMOS W. 8BT. 2070 Colonial Theatre OMAMTXX.XM A«S DURSMUTB Premier Film Attraction* Special Features Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Moderate Moss CONTINUOUS, 11 A.M. TO 11 P.M W. E. FENN'S School of Dancing PRIVATE AND CLASS LESSONS Social Dances, Monday, Wedneaday -p and Saturday. ~ ■EYKtOUH 101. COTILLION HILL IO>M.d-U._n, "g% ronizeU Whole Wheat FLOUR EVERY HOME NEED3 IT. MAKE SURE YOU GET IT— AND NOTHING ELSE. It Is Rick in Nouriehmsnl— DELICIOUS r- Famous Comedienne Heads Orpheum Bill f-h-irlottc Greenwood, the eccentric duncl-if? comedienne and musical comedy star, whose height Is exceeded only by the length of the laughs she provokes, Is back in vaudeville after years of stardom, in the smartest Broadway revues, and she will bring her funny waving arms and legs—that won't behave—to the New Orpheum next week as the headline attraction on the bill. An j* mention of Charlotte Greenwood evokes a vision of arms and legs doing somehting—something peculiarly and ridiculously humorous. And that's just her dancing and gestures. Her style, quips -and outhursting enthusiasm are frankly and gloriously hilarious. She has the real comedlc sense and the. Irresistible unction that cause an audience to participate In the fun. While In Vancouver Miss Greenwood vtMl offer a programme of songs in which she will be assisted by Mrtin Hroones, eminent composer nd pianist. The popular musical comedy star. <"arl McCulIough, will be seen ln •'Bright Bits of Travesty." Mr. McCulIough has an enviable reputation both in music;.) comedy and in vaudeville. In the former he has frequently enjoyed stellar distinction and in the latter he is an important asset to any bill. Here he is presenting a bright bit of travesty—humorous snatches In song and story, polished until they shine with ability and personality. Reed and Puthers sy ft with their feet, and illustrate timely topics with dance. Comedy dancers are usually described as eccentric. Therefore, Reed and Huthers are eccentric dancers, as a majority of their work ts for humorous purposes. The Six Oalenos are among the foremost of foreign athletes. Their risley and springboard work are an Idea of their superiority In this line, and their triple somersault is the big climax of their performance. Alexnder and Peggy offer a blackface cornedv skit called "Piling It On,' 'which has to do with *» colored gentleman who takes unto himself a bride and his efforts to take the bride on a honeymoon. Misa Baffin haa a_ trount.-_of monkcya- «&a~*iot oni-v. "fesponff to her wishes but seem to do considerable thinking for themselves. The feature photoplay for the week l» entitled "French Dressing." a sfppy .comedy-drama, with H. B. Warner, dive-Brook and Lois Wilson. u Pantages Film Is »' Another Masterpiece 'Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell 1*1 have the featured roles in the film version of the "7th Heaven," which opens *at the Pantages Theatre Monday next. These two youngsters, both of whom \ have come comet-like into the fore- { ground among screen stars through I their work in this picture, are said to * give two of the finest screen perform- l .it.-.-..-, of the year, as "Diane" and 'ii'.'." nf the atory. F a., of the foggy romantic atmosphere o.. the Paris Montmartre, where the story Ih laid, has bee retained through expert lighting and photography in the , pjctnro—and mtt. of .the Intimate and beautiful thoughts which made the play no great have been kept through -direction and interpretation. Frank, BonEage, who directed the production., has achieved a masterpiece. It is a picture thai .cannot bo too highly, . ..praised.-'. accordiiittl'Jii ttht.Tuii.nrtw. - oi Wetropotftan crltlt'it.' '■■>■•• - -— —- Besides the two principals, the cast includes Gladys Broekwell. David Butler, Ben' Bard, Emfle .Chautard. George Stone. Marie . Mosquini, Albert Gran and Brandon Hurst. Intelligent Politics (By J. C. HARRIS) Bentham's phrase, "The greatest Rood of the greatest number," has been described as probably the most revolutionary idea ever put forward. Undoubtedly it marked a tremendous advance in political science. It opened up a new objective. It set a new standard of achievement and provided a new measure by which mankind could estimate progress. We may safely affirm that very few have yet realized its great significance and its final implications, for it is putting into democratic practice those great ideals that the Carpenter of Nazareth lived and died to proclaim. Politics had been concerned with the-greatcst good of the sovereign, or the greatest good of the nobility, at times even it had sought the greatest good of the merchants or the manufacturers; but this phrase sweeps away all such limited achievements, it overrides class distinctions and petty nationalism. The welfare of humanity becomes our objective so that, although in our small corner of "this pleasant earth" we may have to strive for local issues, yet the larger outlook must never be lost sight of if we are to act intelligently and with true wisdom. It cannot be denied that it has been by struggling that mankind has advanced to his present position, and it is not to be wondered at that to many it seems to be the hard condition of progress, our inescapable destiny. But it is mankind's endeavor to overcome this limitation and to mitigate the struggle for existence. Thc farmer carefully spaces out his cabbage plants or fruit trees and limits the number of cattle in his pasture. The working man seeks the shelter of his trades union and the capitalist of some combine, or the professional man has his association, and nearly all try to get the benefit of a protective tariff, .if possible. Now, none of these very human efforts can.be said to be actuated by any noble interest in humanity at large, they are simply dodges and makeshifts to avoid the violence of the economic storms, and they usually have very small consideration for other people's interests. Nevertheless they mark a very distinct advance on the older methods, when everybody fought for himself, just as there is a very real distinction between a soldier and a common robber, even if both of them kill other people. We'can see that mankind everywhere tries to avoid this desperate struggle for existence and to substitute some form of co-operation for it. The impulse that leads us to do this is both natural and it is right. The progress of humanity depends on our ability to substitute co-opei- ativc effort for competition. Unfortunately all sorts of rascals have found out this secret of co-operative effort and have used it successfully to band themselves together politically and otherwise to rob the useful people. Intelligent political effort should be directed to banding together all useful people in a great co-operative effort which should aim at eliminating all sorts of useless people, and in so organizing society that each individual would be engaged in some suitable work by which he would make a worthy contribution to the common good. A Canada with every citizen working harmoniously is a possibility, and a Canada that had so solved its own problems would have made the grcat- est~"pos8ibte—assistance to nrarik'hd the tforld over. J. C. HARRIS. SUGAR TO IMPROVE FLAVOR When turnips, carrots, peas or string beans seem tasteless, they can be enormously improved just by the addition *>f a very little granulated sugar. Be careful not to use too much. This can be done with either fresh or canned vegetables. .The same thing is true of meats. A pinch of granulated sugar sprinkled over an inferior quality of bacon or ham while cooking will make either taste like the very best sugar- cured product. It also improves cheap cuts of meat used for either roasting or boiling. Use only a little sugar, however, never so much that it can be detected in the food. - Whea_ lettuce ■ salads of any kind lack zest, or if the dressing on them proves a bit too acid, just add a cautious sprinkling of granulated sugar. —i)»niori-"I?ar-what-iB-a -prophet?" Senior: "My son, a prophet is a man who tells you what is going to happen, but doesn't bet any money on it." Labor Terrorists' Story Is Proved to Be a Dud Chicago newspapers that are shrieking "Labor Terrorists" at practically every bombing and shooting episode taking place in that city are attempting to discredit the trade union movements through the distortion of facts, says the Federated Press. John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, in an interview with a F. P. reporter, declared the newspapers were up to their old game. "They tried the stunt of picturing all trade unionists as bamber. and gunmen before to further the 'open-shop movement," Fitzpatrick said. "They didn't get away with it then and we are not worried now. The newspapers know as well as we do that these shootings have nothing to do with the labor movement and that they are employer affairs." Recent bombing and shooting that have been played up by the newspapers have involved employers' associations, such as a junk dealers' association and a florists' dealers' association, which the newspapers are pleased to call "labor unions." This story can also be applied to the recent theatre "bombing" in Seattle, where an attempt was made to blame it on union men. American Workers Not Boosting War Lords While Lindbergh risks his valuable neck in the cause of good will, his results, are largely offset by the continued casualties in the war between American marines and Nicaraguans. Two more battles have taken place between our forces and those of General Sandino, whom we call a bandit and the Nicaraguan Liberals a patriot. Six more marines, and an unknown number of Nicaraguans, esti mated by an eye-witness as one hundred, have been killed; the total cas ualties are now about ten killed and thirty-five or forty wounded, among the Americans, and at least 500 kill ed and several hundred wounded among Sandino's followers. Behind the everescent Latin enthusiasm fpr the youthful flying Colonel will be the memory of these Central Amer icans killed by Yankee bullets in the course of a quarrel in which, so nearly the whole Latin-American world believes, the United States has no legitimate interest.—The New Republic. FRENCH SOCIALIST PARTY DEFINES FINANCIAL POLICY The French Socialist Party Congress has now defined its financial policy. The outstanding feature of the statement, drawn up by a committee appointed by the Congress, is the restatement of the doctrine of the Capital Levy. ' This appears as "an exceptional personal tax. levied on a progressive scale of wealth amassed up to the date of taxation." The statement proposes the stabilization of the franc and the consolidation of the public debt by means of a loan passed on the tobacco monopoly and on new government monopolies, of which insurance would be the most important. Reorganization of credit is called for, the present policy of the banks being condemned as "blindly egoistic." Co-op Membership Passes 5,000,000 Mark Cooperative societies marked a further advance in 1926, despite the continued trade depression and the reductions in wages. A statistical summary issued yesterday by the Registrar of Friendly Societies showed that the membership of retail distributive societies reached the total of 5,146,628, as compared with 4,859,493 in 1925 and 3,520,481 in 1916. '**• Their sales nearly touched the 186 million mark, the exact total being £185,995,868. ' This was an advantage of £1,200,000 on 1925 and of £9,400,000 on the 1924 total. Productive Progress The big development in the productive side of cboperation is shown by the fact that the sales of the retail societies in^.1926 iriclude £32,- 833,737 for goods so produced, as against £20,898,702 ten years ago. Salaries and wages paid by retail societies totalled £19,082,543, and bv - the wholesale -Societies £6,214,- 937. The assets of the retail societies amount to over £120,000;000, ahd those of the wholesale societies to nearly £50,000,000. Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.'CIDERS , "Made from B- C. Apples" PURE SWEET and SOUR APPLE CIDER TRY OUR GRAPE, LOGANBERRY, ORANGE, PUNCH, ETC IDEAL FOR DANCES AND PARTIES PHONE HIGH. 90 PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS., LTD. 1955 Commercial Drive Buy Union Stamped Shoes We ask all members of organized labor to purchase shoes bearing our Union Stamp on the sole, inner-sole, or lining of tht shoe. We ask you not to buy any shoes unless you actually see this Union Stamp. Boot & Shoe Workers' Union Allium, with Its -jurists rtditttlos st Ubw 340 ID-HII BTKBBT, BOSTON, MASS. COLLI8 LOVELY CHARLES L. BAINB General President General Secretary-Trei-Ursr BRIGHTEST-2- THEATRES STRAND THEATRE REX THEATRE > ViMonrir'i Premier Hons. Presents Vancouver's Popnlar Honse Presents FIBBT BUN PIOTOTUM and the THE BEST IN MOYIBI and tbe Fanchon and Marco Innovations COUWTBY BTOBB ~7 THEE DELIVERY Sootless Egg Coal $9.00 An Excellent Coal; also the Old Reliable NANAIMO-WELLINGTON Star Coal Co., Ltd. PHONE: HIGH. 279 Your PARTY or SOCIAL is NOT Complete without ALMOND'S ICE CREAM PHONE DOUGLAS 3 6 * The Equitable Savings & Loan Association Owned and operated by it* members for their mutual benefit. 208 North-West Building Sey. 7172 No Preferred Stock. Money received from members only. No Preferred Stockholders. Loans made to members only. $1.00 TO $35.00 PER MONTH RECEIVED Please forward me further Information regarding Savings and Loan. I am Interested ln building or buying a home, , . -..;.,;.. run interested In paying of_~anp"exlsting mortgage. I am interested in a savings account. Name :.:... ''Address « SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES $3.00 PER YEAR The Vancouver Safety Deposit Vaults Absolute Security Open Daily, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Board of Trade Building;, 402 Pender Street West (Corner of Homer), Vancouver, B. C. . ELECTRICAL LOCAL TAKES OUT POLICY FOR $20,000,000 Chicago.—Every member of Chi- capgQ Local'-No. 134 of-the Interna^ tional Brotherhood of ElectricAi. Workers will receive a $3,000 life insurance policy through the union without, an assessment or increase in dues. The union has taken out a $20,000,000 group insurance policy for the membership through the Un- .i0C„Cil-0PfiCMive Insurance Association of Washington,.which \s fiWned" and controlled by the Electricians' international. This insurance is in addition to the $1,000 which every member carries in cbn'nection with membership. . >' ■ Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 20, 1928 FIXTURES FOR SALE! Door, Close for Last Time February 22, 1928 EVERYTHING SACRIFICED Regardless of Cost or Profit 310.50 Nurses' Watch, lS-jewelled CYMA movement with eecond hand. New shape. Gold filled $8.95 $22.50 Nurses' movement. Our price Kara Watches, $12.95 $24.00 Ladles' Rectangular Wrist Watch, 17-jeweUed Mara movement, gold filled case 822.50 ladles' 14k SoUd Sold Nurse's Watch, CYMA 10-jow- elled movement $13.95 $12.45 Buy Diamonds at Cutter Prices $25.00 Diamond King's, oin QF A large assortment *?A*-ttrO $50.00 Diamond Rings. Many to choose from $100X0 Diamond King. —wonderful values, $26.95 $59.50 Miscellaneous $21X0 Tudor Plate Dinner Service l.net $14.75 75c In destructible Fenrl Earring* - 25c S. Van. I. L P. Hold Big Enjoyable Dance The South Vancouver branch of the I. L. P. novelty dance Saturday night was a greater success than any previous dance, and everybody seemed to enjoy the fun. The ladies seemed to hold sway Saturday night and the contest, looking for the unknown partner, caused much merriment. A very bashful lady and a man not so bashful finally succeeded in matching their slips and were declared thc winners. About 40 tables of whist were present and the prizes were very good. The Tombola prizes were very useful and were readily accepted. The next dance will be held Jan. 28, and this will be a hard times dance. There will be 8 whist prizes, 5 Tombola prizes and a prize for the best make-up. The same beautiful girls will furnish the music. A big crowd is looked for at Elks' Hall, Jan 28th. —T R $16.00 Strap Watch, movement, gold filled case 15-jewelled $9.45 $32.00 Pocket Watch, 12 slzo, 17- Jewelled movement, <£"| Q QK HeeUffon shape ?10.»t) $18.50 Sterling- Sliver, Band Engraved Cigarette fl»Q OR Case ™ * S15.00 Men's Emblem Kings. 10k i4,.oud ?8#95 gold T $9.50 Men's solid gold, large I. LP. Notes Signet 14k Kings. $5.25 H. W. READ & CO. Retiring from Business 507—GRANVILLE-507 SOUTH VANCOUVER I. L. P. The next meeting of the S. V. I. L. P. will be held in the Horticul tural Hall on Friday evening, Jan uary 27th, at . 8 p.m. "Campaign Manager" Jack Wood will give a report on the recent municipal elec tions, also thc general business of the Local will be transacted, and if time will allow, Comrade Alfred Hurry will speak on "Education and Research. Questions and discussion. All members should be present at this meeting and take up their membership cards for year 1928. —H.W.S. LAWRENCE W. SMITH Registered OPTOMETRIST AMD OPTICIAN 49 Hastings St., West, Since 1907 Phone Bey. 6860. Vancouver, B.C. Let's Eat Today at the Harmony Cafe "Dine here and you will always be in tune" took "sharp" or you'll be left "flat" ln the rush for our 40c lunch—best ln town "bar" none I 1164 GRANVILLE ST. SET. 3994 _ WjUUi^jind_j™_Hll-lJr_£usJ2a,—— ~*~"cbrtiing In on the C.P.R. train: Hrothers and sisters and Mit Standing about In the rain. ln it come., ringing its bell; Kveryone ready to bellow; When one of the kids (jives a yell. fiosh! there he goes In a Yellow! UNION DRIVERS PHONE SEYMOUR 4000 w R. E. RIGBY Re-elected Chairman of the Sout. Vancouver School Board. Another Dual Union Bumped Off the Job For not in a long time has the outlook for expressmen been so bright as when the management of thc American Railway Express Com pany announced that, beginning with the New Year, the organizations rep- senting the majority of the employes of their respective classes, namely, the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Hand lers, Express and Station Employees and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs, would be recognized as having the right to represent all the employees of the classes represented in their membership in all matters pertaining to rules, wages and working conditions. This means the end of dual and outlaw unionism, which has so long worked to the disadvantage of the employees and resulted in so much bitterness between members of con- tendjjigjoi£aniZaii!_i_s_._____ .— The American Railway Express Company has served notice on James J. Forrester, of the, American Federation of Express Workers; A. Bollinger, of the Order of Railway Expressmen, and J. J. Cunningham, of the M. & St. L. Trainmen, that the working agreements previously held by them will be cancelled. Their right to represent express employees is at an end. Hereafter the . Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and the Teamsters' Brotherhood will be recognized by the management as the exclusive repsentatives of all express employees of the classes represented in their membership.—The Railway Clerk. Following Ontario's lead, Quebec has definitely decided to throw all known Communists out of the Labor party. At the annual convention of the Quebec branch of thc party, .resolution-was c_.rr.ed..rejcct_ngr tfie rZittTuWotiyoi the Commurtist. with .Hp»Labor pff-ty. Nova Scotia, Alberta and British Columbia are thc only remaining provinces that have a Canadian Labor j Party which .admits Offfrim'unists. MOUNT PLEASANT I. L. P. The next meeting of the Mounl Pleasant I. L. P. will be held in the home of Robert Skinner, 571 22nd Ave. West, on Thursday evening. January 26th. C. L. P. The next regular meeting of the C. L. P. will be held in the Holden bldg., Tuesday, January 31st, at P p.m. BIG FIGH1\IN Li In March next wl the London political arena, one of the sternest fights ever known in the Metropolis. In that month the elections for seats on the London County Council take place, and organized Labor intends to make every effort to secure its greatest triumph—a majority on the Council. That it can be done, with the cooperation of every Labor voter, is emphasized in appeals which have just been issued on behalf of the London Labor Party by its chairman Mr. T. E. Naylor, M.P.; its treasurer, Dr. A. Salter, M.P., and its secretary, Mr. Herbert Morrison. The South Poplar Labor Party ha. selected Miss Ishbel MacDonald as prospective Labor candidate at the election in March for the London County Council. St. Vital (Manitoba) I. L. P. ha three councillors on the 1928 council—Messrs. Wyatt, Wiggins and Nock. 16 SEATTLE BUILDING UNIONS NEGOTIATE FOR -*_~—NEW-WAGE SCAXETXCTS Sixteen Seattle building trades unions opened negotiations last Saturday with the Associated General Contractors for a renewal of wage and working agreemnts expiring April 30. As a prelude to the negotiations which will start Saturday, members of the Building Trades Council have held numerous conferences in the last few weeks, and also hav» held conferences with sub-contractors. The negotiations proper are to be concluded within a 30-day period from Saturday. UNION MEN WANTED To buy work shoes, made in Vancouver and bearing the union stamp, for $7.50 per pair. Take a look at them, the best bargain in town. W. J. Heads, 30 Cordova street west. TODAY'S SOCIAL SNAPSHOT , lady Sholto Douglas is reputed to have. the ; smallest feet in English society":" Met &e in shoes is- 2%, and she hfls them specially made in Paris in batches of 30 pairs at a time.. The evening wore the close of the day. l^toron^Tfritg (Eompimg. ihccworat-o xrr may taro. VANCOUVER New Goods for Spring Are coming into the store daily. Already WOMEN'S SUITS, MILLINERY AND FOOTWEAR Wait your choice at very attractive prices. Let us show you! THINGS IFOR MEN KRISS-KROSS STROPPERS For various blades: eaeh tS.OO "STRONGLAS" THKRMOS—Stands hard knocks: ea.;h M.50 GILLETTE RAZORS—The new type; 10 styles: eS<1l . .$5.00 to S600 SHAVING BRUSHES; each 49c, S1.00 to 87.50 PASS CASKS. 1 to 6 passes; cateh 50c to 82.25 BUXTON KI-YTAINKItS; each ..... 50e to $3.50 FOUNTAIN PENS AND PENCILS—Everaharp, Parker, Waterman. DARWIN BLADES "A PACKET OF DARWIN BLADES, PLEASE," demanded customer. "Vou have tried them before," interposed the salesman? "Tes," replied the customer, "got one blade to try last May have used it ever since." the and This talk took place in our store, January 12th, 1928. They real blades! are B. C. Barber Supply & Sundries Limited PHONE SET. 4401 _ -UTAH- STORE — 64 HASTINGS STBEET WEST — VANCOUVER, B. O. KAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION » DRUGS AT CUT PRICES Buying Drug- Wants at any one of onr 14 stores njeans actual savlngr and the finest quality available. Try ns for yonr next Drug- Wants- Friday and Saturday Specials 8.50 .60 .25 1.00 .50 ..10 .16 t'umlillurated Oil. 4 oz A7 .50 GlHXO S4» Mum (Deodorant) .26 Keld's Red Pepper Ointment .37 1.00 Mil-hand's Itanollne 15 Krysol (Antiseptic^ 16 oz 52 1.00 Castor OH (finest Itnllun) .25 r oz 26 \Vy>'th's Sage and Sulphur 49 .1.". Mennen's Skin Halm .29 .10 Carnation Rath Soap 3 for AS 1.00 Abbey's Salts .54 .8:, Glycerin and Rose Water. S oz 36 Sulphur and Molasses with Cream of Tartar .19 Dr. Reid's Burdoek and Sarsaparilta .52 Mr. Reid's Wood Purifier 53 Sulphur and Cream of Tartar LozenKes .14 Pure Sulphur, per lb .08 Epsom Salts, per lb 05 Hurdoek Blood Bitters 76 Jad Salts .51 VANCOUVER'S OWN DRUG STORES—TWELVE IV THE CITY AT TOUR SERVICE. WE SAVE YOU MONEY VANCOUVER DRUG COMPANY, LIMITED 13 STORES FIRST CHURCH (The Church of the Open Door) GORE AVENUE AT HASTINGS EAST Minister, Rev. Richmond Craig 11 a.m.—Morning Service 7:30 p.m.—"The Cotter's Saturday Night" Until 7 p.m. the - entrp nf the ghlltrfl """ h" rnnnv^»A tm— ' member^b. the Hums' Fellowship and other Scottish societies. The Minister will Preach Stock Clearing Sale! See These Extra Special Shoe Bargains Men's Goodyear Welted Shoes, in black and brown calf and kid; Oxfords and A. Q CJ G Fra-.r Jamieson Boots; values to $7.00....... .... *•"**,' .Proprietor . "~ '. Ladies' Straps and Ties,.in satin, patent and tan, low and Lours heels, broken sizejy *J rt C regular $5.00 and $6.00..... -C.yD PHONE SEYMOUR 100 4. I.AWiB ASSORTMENT OK CHII-DHRX'S SHOES Near Nelson JAMIESON BROS. 995—GRANVILLE—995 Near Nelson
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