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falwr ^^^^ A0WWED m> CONTROLLED BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Supported by Fifty-three Local Unions Trades Counoll Working Button (Orange) for tha Third Quarter of 1927 14 No. 167—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, JULY 22nd, 1927 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Finding That Low Wages Do Not Mean High Profits "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not necessarily mean high profits for capital," said Owen D. Young, of the General Electric Company, recently. - . And for general prosperity, Vice-President L. P. Ayers, of the Cleveland Trust Company, recognized as perhaps the foremost business commentator among American bankers, gives this formula: "High wages coupled with stable prices." —» Labor leaders have been saying the same thing for a long time, but until recently such utterances were considered treasonable in capitalistic circles. What has brought about .his change? Some people attribute it to a change in the personnel of management and ownership of industry; to the replacement of hard-fisted, labor-hating employers by more socially-minded men. This new type of industrial leader, they say, is stealing the thunder of the unions. They point to the wages and labor conditions in such great company-union industries as the one Mr. Swope is the head of as evidence that certain employers at least are willing to treat labor fairly without the pressure of organization. They forget that this "change" has only come about after some fifty years of agitation and organization on the part of labor. It wouldn't take that long, however, for them to change back to the old point of view if the pressure of organized labor was removed.—The Railway Clerk. Carpenters Organize Local at Kamloops A new local union, No. 1458, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, has been organized at Kamloops, B. C, and was*formaUy installed a week ago by J. W. Wilkinson, general office representative of the brotherhood. Plans to this end have been afoot' for a few weeks. Carpenters in Kamloops have been for a long time dissatisfied with their wage rate. The Dominion government has recognized the carpenters' Vancouver wage rate for work in that district. There is considerable building going on at Kamloops this year, and the new local union has formally notified the local contractors that a wage raise to $7 per day will be expected on August 1. Any carpenters thinking of going to work at Kamloops will do well to enquire at the Carpenters' office, 809 Holden building, about conditions at Kamloops before going there. Wants An Organizer For Lumber Industry At the regular meeting of the Trades and. Labor Council on Tuesday evening a recommendation from the executive committee to ask the A. F. of L. to place a full time organizer in the field in Western Canada for the purpose of organizing workers in the lumber industry was unanimously endorsed. Workers in the lumber industry, are not benefiting very much by the minimum wage. All kinds of unfavorable- working conditions are being reported and various schemes introduced to defeat tile aims of the set. The enforcement of this act finally rests with the workers snd only when they are organized can this enforcement be taken care of. This has been proven in almost every instance where so- called _s__or legislation is- on the Bt]Bt-ites. When the men and women are organized, that organization Mps to protect thenr from tha-black- ilist when they report infringements paf the act. Resolution For the Congress Convention A resolution, introduced by the executive committee of the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council, to be placed before the Trades Congress convention in Edmonton next month, was unanimously endorsed by the Trades Council on Tuesday. The resolution is to amend Art. VI Sec. 1 to read as follows: The officers of this congress shall be a president, a secretary-treasurer and one vice- president from each province having affiliations with the congress. Vice- presidents bo elected to be, and remain, residents of the province they represent, all of whom shall constitute the executive council of the congress." The present constitution calls for three vice-presidents, and the contention is that these are generally Eastern, or a majority of Eastern, men, which does not give the West fair representation On the congress. By electing one vice-president from each province there can be no grievance over representation. Trades Coun For Secom Final nominatioi officers for the e: Vancouver, Ne' District Trades took place on the Holden one or two e: whole thing slightest frii gates were pri ear ion of of the ;er and Council ivening in -Pfhere were ■sts but the' without the !ty-eight dele- ich made the contests very interesting when three or more were running for one office. The results were: For president: J. Thomson (Pile Drivers) acclamation. Vice-president: Bartlett (Blacksmiths) 57; Stevenson (Painters) 39. Page declined. Warden: Deptford (Street Railway) 61; Mrs. Dolk (Tailors) 36; Page declined. Statistician: Herriett (Barbers) 58; McDonald (Tailors) 40. Chairman of Organization Committee: C. McDonald (Tailors) 56; E. Smith (Painters) 41. Chairman of Legislative Committee: Neelands (Typos) acclamation. Chairman of press committee Page, Flynn, Showier, Mclnnis declined. First ballot, Wood (Hotel and Restaurant Employees) 32;'Watt (Plumbers) 33; Smith (Painters) 6; Sidaway (Street Railway) 25; second ballot, Watt 37; Wood, 38; Sidaway, 22; third ballot, Wood, 47; Watt, 43. Chairman of grievance committee; Page (Carpenters) 63; Showier (Milk Wagon Drivers) 33. Smith and Stevenson declined. Delegates (3) to Trades Congress convention: First ballot, Bengough, 72, elected; Thomson, 54, elected; Page; 47; Bartlett, 29; Flynn, 20; Mclnnis, 17; Gilber., 17; Herriett, 6. Second ballot, Page 52, elected; Bartlett, 26; Flynn, 15. Delegates to C. L. P.: Flynn, Harris, Wood, Mclnnis, Smith. Auditing committee: B. Showier, J. Flynn, R. Stevenson. LOOK BEFORE YOU RIDE For safety's sake, before you ride in a taxi in Vancouver, insist on seeing the .driver's union button or card. All Aboard For the Carpenters' Picnic The Carpenters' Union will turn out en masse on Saturday for the picnic at Bowen Island. The affair was such a huge success last year that the Union Steamship Company will have to put on their biggest and fastest boats to handle the crowd. The committee that has charge of the present affair have worked diligently to make this event even more auspicious than last year's. There are plenty of prizes for the sports, and a carload of candies, ice cream, pop and other things needed for the refreshments, j Tea, sugar, milk and hot water supplied. Thing3 have been planned so that everybody will get a fair share. There will be a union orchestra on hand to liven the crowd on the boat and to play for those who go to the pavilion to "shake a wicked foot." Song sheets will be supplied so that while the boat is crossing the "briny" the voyagers can exercise their vocal organs and increase the buoyancy of the occasion. The boats will leave the Union dock at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., returning at 6:30, 8 and 10:30, arrangements having been made for a special boat at 8 p.m. Among the firms contributing towards the prizes, the committee desires to mention the names of P. D. Gordon Hardware Company, Atkins Saw Company, Spear & Jackson, and Cornfield & Harding. Taxi Drivers to Get Labor Statesman Members of the newly organized Taxi and Bus Drivers' Union have been added to the mailing list of the Labor Statesman. There is every Indication that this union will be another virile union and that the boys will get solidly behind every move made by the Trades and Labor Council and the organized labor movement of this city. These men may need a little coaching at first, so it is up to the older members of organized labor to put them next to the activities and aspirations of the labor movement. If you will patronize them and get your friends to do likewise, the taxi "drivers will soon get into the habit of patronizing union firms and those firms that are fair to organized labor and that, patronize the advertising columns of the- Labor Statesman. Look .and ask for the Orange T. ttV. C. button. Relay Race Teams for Labor Day Sports The Carpenters' Union intends to pick out its fast runners on Saturday in order to capture the relay race at the Trades and Labor Council sports on Labor Day. The carpenters' team was in the "also ran" class last year when the Milk Wagon Drivers' team "took home the bacon" or, rather, the four 45-lb. sacks of flour. The Milk Wagon Drivers' team claim that they will leave the carpenters so far behind, however, that the police will have to send out a search party for them. The Barbers' Union team, . that came in second last year, is not saying anything except that they will be all lathered up ready for the race. The Teamsters' Union team captured third place last year and are planning to feed the team an increased ration of oats in order to give the-audience-an impression that they are witnessing the horse races. Some other unions think that the teams that participated last year were having th.ft pietutes takerffor- a slow-motion picture and intend to enter, teams for thc race this year. Electricians Strike For New Agreement Members of Electrical Workers' Local Union 213 are on strike atrainst the C. H. E. Williams Company and Hume & Rumble, Ltd., in an effort to obtain a new agreement with an increase of $1 per day. All the jobs being handled by these firms are being picketed and the pickets are meeting .with fairly good success. The electrical workers believe that efforts are being made- to bring in strike breakers from the other side of the line, so a strict lookout is being kept for such an event and steps taken to have the men sent back. ______ The places effected by the strike are: Orpheum Theatre, No. 3 Elevator, Rogers House, Apartment block 1285 Nelson, Medical Arts Building, Anglican College, C. P. R. Hotel, Woodwards, Hudson's Bay. Company, Capitol Theatre, Macaulay, Nicolls & Maitland block, Grace Hospital, Brick Works in New Westminster, Theatre and Garage on Columbia street, New Westminster, Hotel in Nanaimo and Government Printery in Victoria. - Two non-union men were taken off one of the jobs last week and have made application to, join the union. ^"Th^r-Stf-i^ broad sweep of the fields are a spiri tual cocktail. Most Interesting Thing at Exhibition The Child's Playhouse that is being built by the Building Trades Council to be given away to some child during the Vancouver exhibition, is nearing completion. This house will undoubtedly be the most interesting thing at the exhibition because of its many unique features. In spite of the fact that the house is only 12x12, it contains several features that the ordinary house does not possess. In the front room there is a dandy little tile fireplace that is just as serviceable as that of any house. In the kitchen there is a tile sink and draining board that will be the delight of every little potential house maid in the neighborhood of the winner. The house is fully wired for light and power and will have an electric range that will do service for any tea or dinner pasty. Each room, hallway and entrance will contain artistic lighting fixtures. The raffle tickets for this house were to have been given away in the schools, but the school boards" objected, so the giving away of the tickets will be handled by the exhibition officials on Children's Day. More Out-of-Works in City Commit Suicide It is interesting to note that since the Labor Statesman published an article by Robert Skinner (Spud Tamson) drawing attention to the fact that a large number of recent suicides in the district were of men who were unemployed, that no further mention has been made of this fact by the daily papers, in spite of the fact that at least four suicides that have taken place since that time have been of people who were also out of work. Items of this nature, that appear in the Labor Statesman find their way into the labor press of every other country, and the publicity undoubtedly has a dampening effect on would-be emigrants. When the local daily papers do not publish this information in connection with the suicides, neither we nor our correspondents are in a position to make .note of it. That may be the idea of those who have suppressed this information, but it so happens that the Labor Statesman has other means of finding out the truth. Plasterers Ready for Saturday's Picnic The Plasterers' Union membership will be all dressed up for their annual picnic to Bowen Island on Saturday, July 23rd. Every necessary arrangement has been attended to and there will be no complaint from those attending, if one is to judge the efforts that have been made by the committee to give everybody a real good time. Sports with plenty of good prizes, eats galore, and many other features are on the cards for" those who take this opportunity of going io the Plasterers' picnic. The fRe,-fB_at"leaves^tre~Ul!iiei)'"3ocl_ at"9" a.m. Bring^he family, and room can be found for a few friends. Two the Labor stat e s man July 22nd, 1927 Mucma Amy. 863. H. HARVEY BOOT MANUFACTURER Loggers'. Miners', Crullers' and Prospectors' Hand-Made Boots Our Specialty. Quick Repair*. ou» te oo wow boo* ■EST n. IOWS 58 CORDOVA ST, tyEST TaacouT.r, B. a T. J. Kearney & Co. Funeral Director! and Embalmer. New Chapel and Parlors Private Ambulance Servica 802 Broadway W. Phone Fair. 3 SYNOPSIS OF UMTMIENDINTS PRE-EMPTIONS Vacant. unreserved, surveyec. Crown lands may be pre-empted by British subject- over 18 years ot age, and by aliens on declaring Intention to become British subjects, conditional upon residence, • occupation. and Improvement for agricultural purposes. Full Information concerning regulations regarding pre-emptions la given to Bulletin No. 1, Land Series. "How to Pre-empt Land," copies of which can be obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of Lands. Victoria. B.C.. or to any Government Agent. • Records' will ba granted covering only land suitable for agricultural purposes, and which ls not timber- land. I.e.. carrying over 8.000 board feet per acre west of tbe Coast Range and E.000 feet per acre east of that Range. Application* for pre-emptions are to be addressed to tbe Land Commissioner of tbe Land Recording Division. In whloh the land applied for 1* situated, and are made on printed forms, copies of which can be obtained from tbe Land Commissioner. Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years and Improvements made to value of $10 per acre, including clearing and cultivating at least five asras, before a Crown Grant can be received. For more detailed Information see the Bulletin "How to Pre-empt Land." * PURCHA8E Applications are received for purchase of vacant and unreserved Crown lands, not being timber land, tor agricultural purposes; minimum prloe for first-class (arable) land la fl per acre, and second-class (grazing) land 12.50 per acre. Further ln- -Drmatlon regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands Is given ln Bulletin Ko. 10. Land Series. "Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands." Mill factory, or industrial sites on timber land, not exceeding 40 acres, ■nay be purchased or leased. *he conditions including payment of stum page- HOMESITE LEASES Vnsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 acres, may be leased as homesites, conditional upon a dwelling being erected In thc flrat Mi, title being obtainable after renioenc. and Improvement conditions are fulfilled and land ha* been surveyed. LEASES For grazing and Industrial purposes area* not exceodlng 610 acre* may be leased by one person or a company. _._..,_ GRAZING Under the Grazing Act the Province 1* divided into graslng district* and the range administered under a Oraslng Commissioner. Annual grazing permits arc Issued based on number* ranged, priority being given to established owner*. Stock-owners may form associations for range management. Free, or partly free, permits ar* available for settlers, campers and traveller*, up to ten head. The man who threatens the world is always ridiculous, for the world can easily go on without him, and in a short time wUJ cease to miss him. —Dr. Johnson, v- Slums in British Empire Centre Only fundamental things survive, and the only war slogan that remains alive is "H-hen~d_ ■ we «at?" ■ — -^ A remarkable, indeed a heartrending report* has just been issued by a small group of citizens on the housing conditions in Victoria Ward, Westminster, (London, Eng.) It is a sane and plain description of the shocking state of disease, destitution and filth existing close to us in dramatic juxtaposition to the houses of the rich and the buildings of great commercial enterprises. . Its moderation makes the indictment doubly damning for us all. •Housing in Westminster. (Wear- dale Press, 26 Gordon Street.W.C. 1. Gratis). The difficulties of coping with congestion in the central areas in London are obvious, and we note that the authors of the pamphlet wisely say that no general statement can be made with regard to responsibility for the deplorable conditions which exist as between landlord and. tenant. But the blot on our city is there, admitted by all who have studied the facts, and visible to anyone who will take a five minutes' tour of inspection from Victoria Station. A great public effort is needed to bring about any improvement. In what direction shall the effort be made? The need is for light and more light. The Spectator intends to illumine the conditions prevailing in the Victoria Ward, in the very heart of our Empire, with all the publicity it can focus on its miseries and silent heroisms. Men and women and children are living at this moment in Ross Street, Ranelagh Road and _ther courts and terraces in the back streets of Westminster in surroundings so foul that they are a public scandal. We would begin by noting that there are no public gardens or open spaces (with the exception of Ebury Square and a small garden on the Embankment) in the whole ward, and that out' of 261 houses about which statistics are available (and which were in no way specially selected) it was found that 1,320 adults and 514 children under fourteen years of age were living in 1,359 rooms. In Aylesford Street the congestion is even worse, for the average in that street is over two people to a room. Many families of six and seven are living in two rooms in tenement houses in a state of promiscuity and darkness that cries shame on our civilization. In Gray's Inn Court, for instance, off Wilton Road, a man and his wife with four daughters, aged from 20 to 5 years, and a son aged 18, are living in two rooms. In another two rooms in the same slum a grandmother, a man and his wife, three girls and three boys are living in two rooms. A little imagination, if we care to exert it, will conjure up a picture of how these people are living at this moment. In two damp basement rooms in Alderney Street five people find their home. The boards in these rooms are laid on mud, without ^concrete foundation or ventilation. There is a bad smell from the manhole, the lid of which does not fit properly. The sewer rats are so numerous that within twenty-four hours of laying a new board it was eaten through. The children are terrified of the rats and refuse to go to bed. One of the boys in this family has been in hospital suffering with nervous trouble and has had dysentery. The mother has had pleurisy and pneumonia two years in succession. Previously, the man's parents lived and died in these basements, one from pneumonia and the other from consumption* In a basement in Morton' Terrace live a porter and his wife with their girls aged 10j 5 and 2% and-a baby 1% years old. Two of--.be cliftdrerr-fiavr had diphtheria and one now has scarlet fever. The room is damp and dark, and almost under the street. Such instances, say the authors of the report, could be multiplied almost indefinitely. To publish such things, knowing that they are true and that there is no quick and simple remedy, makes us burn with'shame. Why do we tolerate such breeding grounds for disease and degeneracy? Why, at whatever cost, do we not strike "a blow in the teeth of the wrong"? Certain it is that while we tolerate such plague spots under our very noses, within five minutes' walk of Buckingham Palace and the silver Thames, we pannot call ourselves civilized. The lack of foresight of our fathers has caused much present suffering; and this age of iron, where the weak go to the wall, is responsible for more. But in the last resort it is we who are alive and who glory in the many-sided life of today on whom the responsibility falls. We have chosen our path, we cannot go back on the industrial road of Western civilization. Indeed, we would not do so. A true conception of Christianity and consequent co-operation between classes will, wc believe, yield a richer harvest in human hands than any of the crack-brained extremist doctrines of Communism. But slums such as these in the Victoria Ward of Westminster are a menace to all that wc hold most dear, and a proof of how incomplete is the expression of our Faith. Let us remember also that the Victoria Ward is only one of fifty cankers in London and that there are a score of other cities equally diseased in these is'ands. A To close our eyes to the facts, to compromise, to say that such and such has always been ahd must always be, is easy, but most unchristian. Perhaps the poor are to blame as much as the rich. We need not cavil about that. Laziness, an unrestricted birth-rate, lack of education, would quickly convert a very Garden of Eden into a slum. Even so, the more educated and more fortunate members of the community must take the blame (as, indeed, they must pay the penalty in wasted taxes and insecurity) for the wretched conditions of their fellow citizens. On the lowest grounds, it would be thoroughly good business to clear the slums and stamp out the contagious disease of poverty (for that is what it is) as we would a leprosy. But how are we to lead these thousands in Westminster, these millions in England, out of darkness into light? Great wrongs cannot be righted by words. But words are useful as a preliminary, by calling the attention of the public to the miserable state of affairs in our midst. The action to be taken must of necessity be drastic. One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs. But to believe that the ome- iette cannot be made, that such a verminous huddling-togethcr of human beings must continue to exist (so different from the poverty if material possessions'and the enrichment of the spirit possible in less complex communities), is nothing less than a denial of life. We can make London lovely for its .-present inhabitants. Wc can so order our national affairs that Great Britain shall sflpport its present population, if no more. And we who believe this, must make haste to prove it. It is no light undertaking, but if we set our hands to the task, courage and YOUR OLD FRIEND For over 20 years—SAM—Wants to Remain Friends. .Call at the LUCKY NUMBER 49 Cordova St. West for Gent's Furnishings SAM'S STORE 49 CORDOVA ST. W. Coast-Okanagan Telephone Service JT is now possible to talk to such points as Armstrong, Enderby, Kelowna, Pen tic ton, Summerland and Vernon from mainland coast and Vancouver Island telephones. B. C. TELEPHONE COMPANY Coal Crisis Hits British Families DUMFRIES.—The coal crisis of which miners' leaders have warned the country is already here for multitudes of Scottish miners as for scores of thousands in other coalfields. "I visited today the typical mining village of Kirkconell near here,"*says the Herald special correspondent, "and found it a devastated area in a very real sense; "The miners in this village and the neighboring town of Sanquhar are being crucified by poverty," was the statement made to me by a local official. And facts confirmed his statement. The men are only working three days a week, and are lucky when they have £1 to take home to maintain the household for seven days. I was shown the pay lines of three men, which proved that their net wages for last week, after deductions for rent, coals, and other charges, were respectively ls lOd, 9s 7d, and 17s lid. In each case the men concerned had tjpee to five children to maintain. A Threepenny Bit One man who only got one day's work last week earned 10s 4d, but when his rent and medical and National Insurance charges were do- ducted he was given a threepenny bit to take home for household maintenance. I have his pay envelope and the coin as proof. The pay lines I have quoted are topical of the general incomes of the miners here. A school teacher whom I interviewed said most of the children attending school were barefooted because their parents could not afford boots and shoes. Their clothes were in the last stages of disrepair, and there were cases of children being away from school because of sheer destitution. Conditions among the children were worse now than during the lockout. Depths of Despair The women, added the teacher, were in the depths pf despair and obviously were suffering in health because of the lack of sustaining' food and other essentials. The men were underfed, and the extra hour's work per shift was fast consuming their reserve strength. Many of the men were so tired when they came home that they were unable to go out either to. meetings or to entertainment and recreation. —Daily Herald. Telephone Service to ■ Okanagan Valley By installing at Kamloops an amplifying- device known as a "repeater,".the B. C. Telephone Company has made commercial telephone service possible between the coast and the Okanagan valley. From Salmon Arm, on the north, to Penticton, in the south, the communities of the important fruit growing section of the province now are In touch with the coast by telephone, and can be reached by Vancouver Island as weli as mainland coast points. The B. C. Telephone Company's lines extend from Vancouver to Kamloops, where they meet those of the Dominion Government. The latter circuits reach across to the Okanagan country, where they connect with the lines of) tho Okanagan Telephone Company. In addition to making ft possible to talk from the coast to the Okanagan valley, tho "repeater"' at Kamloops also allows the coast to reach various points' on Dominion Government lines radiating from Kamloops up thc North Thompson river, over to Shuswap lake, and toward Merritt. The installation of the "repeater" has just been completed, and the new service to the Interior Is now being given. Such communities as Vernon, Kelowna, Summerland, Enderby,. Armstrong and Penticton can now be reached from the coast. Peace is better than joy. Joy is a very uneasy guest, and is always on tip-toe to depart. It tires and wears us out, and yet keeps us ever, fearing that the next moment it will be gone. Peace is not so. It comes more quietly, it stays more contentedly, and it never exhausts our strength, nor gives us one anxious forecasting thought. The highest education is-that which ^tofi^ and^gujdancfi-jfihalt be sofe.Tj not only jrirovttfes food-forthejJUptl's memory,, but training for his judgment, discipline for his affections, sei^ati^-Tfre^^ ^ his conduct,-and dfc&Cts 'ddrr; England. for nis faith. The Pulling Power of Labor Papers WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY "ERINTER'S INK," the world-famous authority on advertising, says:— "A Labor paper is a far better advertising medium than an ordinary newspaper. A labor paper, for example, having 5,000 subscriptions, is of more value to the business man who advertises in it than ordinary papers with 25,000 sub. scribers." Our Advertisement Manager will be glad to send our rates for Trade Advertisements,. or to call on you on receipt of a postcard. Please address all -enquiries .to Manager,- "Lal-or": Statesman,''' 816 Holden Bldg., Vancouver, B, C. . "■■ ■■ . "•raH July 22nd, 1927 THE LABOR STATESMAN Three ft T Trades Union Directory Taaoonver Trades ana tabor council— President, J. Thomson; general secre- ' ifTi PeXc¥ **- Benerough. Office, 803 ?olde,n._.1<le;' 16 Hastings East Phone Sey. 74... Meets ln Labor Hall at 8 p.n). on the flrst and third Tuesdays In month. B. O, Flsbart-en'e Association, meets every month at the call of the Secretary ln the Holden Bldg. General Secretary, R Hornhrook, 63 Hastings Beverage Dlepensers Union Ko. 6.6— meets last Sunday In month at 8:00 p.m.. Room 310 Holden Blder. President a___. ™8n,cy«_ Secretary and Business pf._l' Ii J\.H^_.ofln' Office: Room 5. Flack Block; Phones, Sey. 4781 and ____ Bay. ,1666-R. Hours. I to li aA. an *'lig\* ■*"etnr»l Iron Work..., soeal 97, mt. Asso.—Meets every Monday, £°°™ «t. Holden Bldg., at 8 ™ii President Sydney Dunstone; Secre- Far|r! fl08LUret' B°* 3°2, C'ty' Phone anlldlng Trades Connoll, Vanoouver— Meeta second and fourth Tuesday lo Holden Building. President. Rob" Stevenson; Secretnry-trens., W. Page, -Room 815, Holden Bldg. . ■TMhlnls. X.OCU1 WS—President, Thos. Bills, 1352 Burrard St. Secretary, P. R. Bengough. Office. 807 Labor Hall, 18 Hastings Bast. Meets on e-oond end fourth Tuesdays In month. mil and Factory Workers' Union, -.ocal ITo. 1699 — Affiliated with United. Brotherhood of Carpenters ft Joiners, Meets flrst and third Thursdays In Room 31.1 Holden Bldg. President, H. C. Matthews; Business Agent, A. Graham, 809 Holden Building. Rec. Sec, R. G. Inder; H. G. Avery. IBIS; Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees, __ooal ABA—Meets second snd fourth Friday In Labor Hall, 18 Hastings St. E. President, T. Rutherford; business agent, Blrt Showier, 1116 Robson St. Bakers' local 468, Jonrnaym.n, of im- * a*—Meet" flrst and third Saturdays ?' 7 P-m.—President, A. Morris, 2834 ■ ™;n*_ 8trsea; T. RIgby. 37 Broadway West. Phone Fair. 6882-R. Bakery Salesmen, Local 371 — Meets f£M ,T„hu™",a>' swy month. Holden Bldg., 16 Hastings E. President E. Holmes; acting secretary, Blrt Showier.1115 Robson, offioe, 807 Holden Building. Barbery Journeyman International Union of America— Local 120, meeta second and fourth Tuesdays In each month In Room 310 Labor Hall, 18 Hastings East. Pres., Fred Dawe- SS&Vfa? E- Herrett' °"lc8 ni BookblndMs nooal Jro.lOT, Int. Brotherhood—Meetn second' Tuesday In month at Professional and Business Woman's Club. Empire Rldg., 603 Hastings W. President, G. Low, 61 53rd Ave. W.; secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton Street. Bricklayers', Masons' and Tile Setters, int. Union Wo. 1—Meots second and fourth Wednesdny In the Holden Bldg President o. B. Halllday; SecreUrv, W. s. Pagnall. 1244 .0th Ave ft. Phone Fair. 845 R. W. J. Pipes, Fln. Secretary, 810 Beach Ave. Carpenters and Joiners, Amalgamated Society of,—Vancouver lst Branch meet. 2nd nnrt 4th Tuesdays of each month. President, G. Richardson, Secretary, John T. Bruce; Business Agent. J. McKinley. Headquarters, room 35, 168 Hastings St. W. Molders Union Local 281—Int.raatlonni of North America—Meets flrst and third Fridays in month ln room 813 Holden Bldg.. nt 8 p. m. President, John Brown, 638 Broadway W. Corresponding representative, J. Plnkerton, 2159 Victoria Drive. Motion Vle-ntes rrojeottonlst's Union, Local 348 of l.A.T.B.E. ft M.P.M.O.— Meets at 991 Nelson St. on flrst Sun day In each month at 7:30 p.m. Pres ldent, J. R. Foster, 1161 Granville St.; Secretary, Geo. Gerrard, Box 346 Business Phone: Sey. 8923. Musicians Mutual Protective Union Looal 1«, A. T. ot M,—Meets at the G. W. 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 Painters, Decorators and Faperbangers Local 138—Meots second and fourth Thursdays at 163 Hastings W. Business agent, Robt. Stevenson. Office, room 34. 163 Hastings West. Phone Sey. 3609. Irish Labor Gains In Rural Districts Results in the Free State elections arc disappointing to those who believed that five years' experience of Belf-government had done something to raise the distressingly low level of political intelligence. It is true there is a safe pro-Treaty majority, but voters have distributed their preferences amongst the constitutional groups in a way that goes far to tie thc hands of Mr. Cosgrave and his colleagues. Their hope of obtaining a working majority inside thc Dail depends upon a coalition with minority sections, and an alliance of this kind is not favorable to the creation of a. strong executive at a time when a strong executive is the most urgent of national needs. Mr. de Valera's successes have been won not so much at the expense of Treatyites as of the Repnblican extremists. Sinn Fein has been snuffed out, and even Miss MacSwiney failed to hold her seat in Cork. In itself this is an excellent thing, and were Mr. de Valera sincere in his protests that his sole desire is to take his place in an Irish legislature without giving a pledge that is repugnant to his sensitive conscience, an aceom Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf sad Dock Builders Looal Mb. 3404—Meets every Friday night at 8 p.m. in 122 Hastings St. W. Jamee Thomson, secretary. P. O. Box 320. C. Anderson, President. Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Local 453—President, R. ,1. Thompson; financial secretarv, R. "W. Hatloy; .business agent, IV. H.'ir- greaves. Office, R.om 809 Labor Hull, 16 Hastings Ease. Meets Becond nnd fourth Mondays, 8 p.m. City Hnll Employees' Association mcetj> first Wednesday of each month at 251 Vi Hastings E., at 8 p.m. President, D. Hargreaves: treasurer, W. J. Srlb- hlns. 3208 Pender St. E.; Secretary, J. Tarbuck, 2792 Pender East. Olvlo Employees' Union, Local 38 — Meets first and third Fridays In th» month at 251% Hnstlngs E.. at 8 p.m. President, R. N. Hogg, 1718 Commercial Dr.: secretary-treasurer, George Harrison, 1182 Parker St. aiflotrlcal Workers. Locsl 313, International Brotherhood—Meets every Monday at 8 p.m. In Room No. 6, 819 Pen-' der Street West. President, H. C. Allen; business agent, B>-H. Morrison. Office. 319 Pender Street West. Engineers—International Unloa Steam and Operating Local B44—Meets every* Thursday at 8 p.m. R'inm 806 Holden ' Bldg. President, E. McCallum; rec. sec, Geo. Pettnplece; Fin. Sec. & Bus. Agent T. A. Newblgglng. Office, Room 806 Holden Building, Bngineers. Steam and Operating, Int. Local 882—Meets every Wednesday »t 8 p.m. In room 806 Holden Bldg. President. M. 3. Kearne; vice-president. E. Thomas; financial-secretary, A. J,, Newbtgglnu; business ag^iit. M. J. Kcnlrne; rec. sec, W. Motho..'Office 806 Holden. fln Fighters, ttoa- 18, International Association of—Meets everv month st call of president, nt 251H Hastings B. President, J, Anderson. No. 2 Fire Hall; financial secretary. C. A. Watson, No. 3 Fire Hall. rioorlayers' Union, No. 1876. IJ 8. of O. ft J. of A., meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays In 310 Holden Hide, at • p.m. President, E. C. Woodward: Fin. Sec, A. Reid; Rec. Sec., W. D. Wilson, 1881 Howe Rt. Hod Carriers and Bnlldlng Laborers, Ko. 603, International. Meets flrst and third Friday in montli at Holden Building. President, C. Lawson, 1832 3rd Ave. XV. Fln. Sec, and Business Agent. J. A. Barrlngton, 4293 Welwyn Street. Phone Fair. 1434L. Plasterers, Local 89—International Association of Operative, meets first and third Wednesday In month at Holden Bldg. President, C. Keall: Financial Secretary, A. Campbell. 461 Fifty-sixth Ave. E., phone Fraser 184L2; Cor. Secretary. A. Hurrv, 861 Thirty-fourth Ave. E., phone Fair. .'I22.lt. LINSEED OIL Linseed "08 is obtained by pressing the seeds of the flax plant. It is one of the drying oils, or oils that form tough films on exposure to air. These oils have thc power of absorbing oxygen from the air, and the films thus produced adhere firmly to wood and metal and form effective protective coatings. Oils that do not possess this property cannot be successfully used in painting. VOLCANOES In certain of the past geologic ages there was much more volcanic activity than at present. Lava rocks are found in practically all parts of the world, but there are now only about 300 active volcanoes. These, with others that have been recently active, are arranged along two great lines on the earth's surface, which are thc lines of weakness in the crust. Along these lines great mountain ranges and ocean floors are close, and the weight on the underlying crust is not evenly balanced. Such locations, we remember, are modation about the oath might be ais<> subJect to earthquakes, and the arranged. But it is obvious that the lines of volcanic activity correspond elimination of the oath is intended I rouShl>'with earthquake belts. Many to prepare th*e way for a general j volcanic eruptions have taken^ place attack on the Treaty, which Fianna! under the oeean itself. Thousands Fail is shrewd enough to see can be j of iittlc islands «> "the South Pacific launched with greater effect from I 0eean «. "e»r]y a" the toPs of vo1- inside than outside the Dail. Under eanoM- There are many signs of volcanic action in the United States. Plumbers and Steamfltl ers, no. 170, International Asso. of—Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday In the Holden Bldg. President, R. Simpson; secretary and business agent, W..Watt, 806 Holden Building. 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 Sqtialr, 3728 30th XV. Secretary A. Patterson 8170 Hudson Street. Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Looal No.- 69—Meets evory socond Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. In Room 111 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. B. President, Harry F. Longley, 301 Ith St., North Van.; secretary, Wm. Qulgley, 2083 Snd Ave. W., Box 894. Bailway Carmen of America, Lodge no. 58—Meets first and third Friday In month at Cotillon Hall, Granvillo and Davie Streets. President, A. S. Ross, 587.. Pr. Edwnrd St.; secretary. J. D. Vullnmy, 2215 15th Ave. W. Street and Blactrio Hallway Employees Pionoor Division Wo. 101—Meets K. P. Hall. Eighth nnd Klngsway, lst and 3rd Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m President, J. E. Smith: recording secretary, F. E. Griffin; treasurer, H, W. Speed; financial secretary and business agent, An.ua Maclnnes 3544 Pr Edward St. Office: corner Prior and Muln streets. Phono Fairmont 2160L. Sheet Metal Workers Association, Local Union no. 380 — Meets second nnd fourth Thursdny In month In Holden Building, 16 Hastings Street E. President, A. Fisher, 1953 4th Avenue W.: business agent and secretary, D. Mac- I'herson, 807 Holden Bldg. Shingle Weavers, Local 17813—Meets second Tuesday In month, In Room No. 2, Labor Temple. New Westminster, and 4th Sundav. 7:30 p.m.. In Room 313 Holden Bldg., Vancouver. President, J. N. Chute, Phono High 1982-Y; sec, W. H. Matthew, 34.16 Irving St. Tailors', Jonrneymen Union of America, Looal Wo. 178—Meetings held first Thursday In each month. 8 p.m. Executive meets third Thursday of every month In Labor Hnll. President, A ft. 'latently; secretary. C. McDonald, P.O. Box 503. Executive meets third Thursday of every month.. Teamsters, Chanfifenra, Stablemen snd Helpers, Locsl 468—Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday. 310 Hnlden Bldg. President, A. A. McKay, 773 Beatty St,; secretary-treasurer, A. P. Black, 880 Homer St Hotol and Restaurant Employees and Marine Coots A Stewards, Local 28— 441 Seymour St., meets -second Mon- dnv each month at .. p.m., last Mondays at 9 p.m. President Tnos. Edwards, Sec-Trcas. Harry Wood, Business Agent Phone Sey. 125. Ladles' Anxlliary, Local 171 — United Brotherhood of Carpenters — Meets every- flrst anjl third Wednesday' of each month In 810 Holden Building, nt 8 p.m. President, Mrs. Nickels. High. 10S1Y; secretary, Miss Gibbons, Fair. 3431,. Typographical Union, Ho. 826—President. C. S. Campbell; vice-president, R. Gonthro; Secretary-treasurer, R H. Neelands, P.O. Box 66. Meets last Sunday of each month st 2 p.m., In H .,,1,-n ti.i-Min.. 16 Hastings St. I-: Lathers, Wood, Wire and Metal. International Union, Local 807 — Meets 2nd and 4th Mondays In month, at room 208 Holden Bldg. President. H. ¥. Fulljames, 2106 Vanness; Secretary. Bert Jenkins. 50 45th- Ave, E. - Theatrical Stage Employees' Union, Local 118 of tha I A.T.S.B. A M P.M O. —Meets at 991 Nelson Street on the second Friday In month, at 9:30 a.m President. G. W. Allen; Secretary, Gordon Martin. Business address-,- __. O. Box 711. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday In each month. President, S.D. McDonald. Box 268. Secretary, Frank Derry, Box 498. Prince Rupert, B.C. these conditions there is no possibility of an agreement by consent, and the chances are that the energies of the new Dail, instead of being concentrated on the numerous social and economic problems which remain to be solved, may be largely frittered away in a repetition of the barren Treaty squabbles. The one bright spot in the outlook has been the record increase in the Labor vote, and strangely enough its candidates have done better in the rural areas, where the movement was. supposed to be weak, than in the towns. Labor leaders have insistently maintained that the fight between Treatyites and anti-Treatyites' is as irrelevant to the real needs of the nation as the struggle between the Big-Endians and Little-Endians, and if they can drive home this plain truth, they may succeed in pulling the country out of the slough in which it is floundering. COST OF LIVING IN ITALY Italy is now unquestionably the dearest country in Europe. Especially for the working man, the cost of living continues to mount despite all the government decrees directed at landlords and shopkeepers. Thc latter simply doubled their prices in anticipation of such a decree, and so were in a good position to "lower prices" when ordered. But that did the workers no good. After the Weeks of incidents, attempted strikes, and local revolts over long hours nnd high prices, a numbness and despair has again seized the mass of Italians, Their attitude is "How long, Oh Lord, how long?" But there are no signs of the mass of Italians doing anything about it. They see too many armed black shirts around. In the mountains near the Pacific coast about 30 peaks are of volcanic origin. One of these, Mount Lassen, in California, suddenly became active in li. 14, after having been asleep since before the time of the earliest settlers. Mo^nt Shasta is a comparatively recent cone; Mount Hood and Mount Ranier are old, with sides deeply worn. Near Mount Taylor only the lava plugs, of the volcanic- throats remain. In Alaska a number of volcanoes are active at the present time. ■ - ' Lava Plug in B. C. The Black Tusk on the Garibaldi Meadows, close to Daisy Lake, on the P. G. E. railway, is an old lava plug of a former volcanic eruption. ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION The new Edgar generating station of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, located at Weymouth, Mass., has established a new record for economy and is producing electricity at the rate of one kilowatt hour per pound of coal. Some idea of what this remarkable ..gflfir ciency means when we learn that electric light plants such as are used in stores and factories, burn from five to 10 pounds of coal to produce a kilowatt hour of electricity. Little lessons for today. The apes are slain quickly by lung trouble, but not until men place them in houses. The meek will inheri^ the earth, but they will inherit with it n lot of problems the meek can't handle. We may as well aim high as low, 1 ask much as little. The world will [not* miss what it gives US, nnd our reward will largely be governed by qnr. demands.. Machine Cigar May Soon Have Label The union label of the Cigar- makers' International Union may soon appear on cigars made by machine. Local unions are now considering an amendment to the constitution making this possible, and enough have endorsed it assuring its submission to a referendum vote. Until recently, machine ' cigar- makers were not eligible to membership. The plan rlow is to also place the label on their products. International President Ornburn is urging the adoption of the new idea, as is Vice-President R. E. Van Horn, who recently spent several weeks in the northwest. It is thought that a vote will be taken on the proposal during the next month. A great increase in membership is anticipated,, should the proposal carry, somtriarge manufacturers having already signified a willingness to Vancouver Heights THE ESTHER BAKERY MAKERS OF HOVIS Also Maker, of the Beet White, Raisin and Nut Bread Place your orders now for our Fruit Loaves, 15c each. Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor and Dealer House Wiring, Fixtures, Lamps, . Batteries Glen 370 4099 Has ting's Bt. M. Filling Station Men Get Wage Increase CHICAGO.—Members of the Gas Drivers' and Filling Station Employees' Union registered a clean cut victory over the big five gasoline companies of the country last Saturday when a walkout of 400 gas employees, followed-by a lockouts*- 2,500 more workers, ended with n wage increase of $7.50 a month for drivers and one of $5 a month for the station attendants. The contract is retroactive to July 1, when the old agreement expired and was signed for a two-year period. Under, the terms of the new agreement, the drivers are granted a wage boost from $175 a month to $182',_ a month and the station attendants get a salary boost from $140 to $145 a month. The station employees begin work at the rate of $120 a month and after a four month period their salary, is raised to the maximum -of $145 a month. Everyone wants strength, but few are willing to pay the price ;^r---pW_-^s-tM_____i»*4aJi-,fe=^s Perfectly Pasteurized nilk-lOOJ&aife for every Member of thc Family FAIRMONT 1000 Four THE LABOR STATESMAN /'July 22nd, 1927 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at «1« 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. Watt., Han. Editor. PRESS'COMMITTEE: Chairman, W. Watt, Plumbers: J. McCurragh, Typographical; J. Thomson. Bridge Builders; W. Deptford. Street Railway Employees; W. Clancy, Beverage Dispensers. iPhaaa Seymour 637* Vancouver, B. C, July 22nd, 1927 PREMIER OLIVER The retirement of Premier Oliver strips the Liberal party of its strongest man. Mr. Oliver was a work.r and a fighter. Had he so chosen, he could have held his own in the commercial field or even broke into any one of_the professions, for he possessed tbe mental ability, the foresight snd the persistency that would have led to success in any field. But he chose to hammer his livelihood from the soil and thereby elected to be a member of the useful rather than the parasitic class. Mr. Oliver worked hard and luck was on his side and about the worst that Labor would say of him today is that he failed to realize that the opportunity to reach a-coE-petenee-fey-the haid fugged" ion and tj,e results of its efforts are that anyone who aspires to the leadership cannot afford. Pattullo would have no supporters south of the Skeena river. There is a popular suspicion that Patullo believes that a certain ill-smelling mudflat, called Cow Bay, is as important as Burrard Inlet—and he also insists on poking sticks into the Woodward cage—even when the bear is quiet, and also he parts his hair too carefully. At any other time Sloan would have been an aggressive contender for the leadership, for Sloan always wants a share of what is going—that is, if he cannot get it all. But ill-health has tempered Billie's demands and for once he must be content to look at the parade rather than lead it. Sutherland, like Pattullo, would find his friends in his own district only. The new premier, Dr. McLean, we leave for a subsequent issue.—M. Congress Convention In Edmonton, Aug. 22 The forty-third annual convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada will be held in Edmonton, Alta., on Monday, August 22nd, and succeeding days. The Memorial Hall has been chosen as the meeting place and the Macdonald Hotel will be convention headquarters. "For 43 years," says the convention call, "the Congress has effectively voiced the aims and aspirations of the organized workers of the Domin road that he had successfully trav elled, vanished when Pat Burns butchered the last ox team. In the wrangles and fights of which our politics consists, a quarter of a century ago John Oliver was known as competent, aggressive and dangerous and while it is so often the lot of man that the mental-powers decline, in unison with the physical powers, Oliver retained to the closing of the doors of the last session of the legislature his old-time mental verility but tempered and improved by every additional year of experience. Among the last legislative acts of Premier Oliver was to carry the Old Age Pensions Bill through the house. Meager and all that its amounts may be, there is something of grandeur in this old man—himself past the three score and ten, and safe from any fear of want, leading in a movement to assist the aged who have been less fortunate than himself, and thereby placing British Columbia to be found in the numerous labor laws in operation today. "By the formation, during the past year of the 'All-Canadian Congress of Labor,' which is a dual.organization, another attempt is being made to) divide the workers, reduce their prestige and weaken the influence that they now are able to exercise on the numerous public questions which affect their interests and well being. "This challenge to the Trades and Labor Congress, as the representative body of organized Labor entitled to speak authoritatively on behalf of Canadian workers, should be met by making the forthcoming convention the most representative of any body during the past few years." The call indicates that the eight- hour day, unemployment insurance, criminal code amendments, reform of the Senate and the indiscriminate flooding of Canada with immigrants, for whom there is no opportunity for employment and "which is seriously Kirkham Undermines Health of Employees Mr. Kirkham of Kirkham's Grocer- terias has not only found an excuse to keep his stores open evenings, but he has also objected to closing his stores next Wednesday, when the Grocers' picnic is being held. When this picnic is held the grocers generally close all day so as to give the benefit of the full day to the employees, and this plan was being put into operation next Wednesday. Employees of the other grocerteria chain of stores—the Piggly Wiggly —had been notified by the firm and were planning for the whole day off when Mr. Kirkham threw his bombshell into the arrangements by announcing that he would open his stprgs_on Wednesday morning for fear his custmers would go elsowhere with their nickles. Mr. Kirkham's other plan of keeping the stores open evenings in order to compete with the alleged Chinese business menace, is also one that is detrimental to the welfare of his employees. His staff will have to put in the extra hours with possibly very little extra pay, if any. The menace to Mr. Kirkham's pocket- book or business is of no consequence a? compared to the effect that the long hours will have on the health of the workers in his establishment. We don't think Mr. Kirkham is adopting a very wise course. SUMMER COTTAGE BUILDERS, ATTENTION! 100,000 feet of Specials to sacrl_.ee Can ship fn scow to any part of North Arm Shore Line, or by truck anywhere Flooring—Ceiling—Siding Phone np now and save money Glenb: 38. of —!—lgr~~^ Manufacturer* of All Kinds Rough and Fini-h.d • Lumber*' Alio Lath and Shinglei Enjoy your own home. Let us help you with our plan book, "Newly Designed British Columbia Homes." N Highland 180 BARNET BOOSTS BETTER BUILT BUNGALOWS Barnet Lumber Company Ltd. "Only White Employees" 3995 HASTINGS STBEET EAST VANCOUVEB, B. O. in the lead among the Canadian endangering the problem of unem- provinces. We will hope that now he | pioyTnent during the coming winter," is released from the burdens imposed by his friends as well as his opponents, fate will be kindly and that it will be John Oliver's privilege for yet many years to watch the movements of other leaders in a field in which he was a general of no mean standing, and to resurvey the battles which he himself has fought and won. The Liberal cabinet offered little choice in the way of a successor to Premier Oliver. Thking the members alphabetically, Barrow is slow thinking and has no lust for more work nor ambition for more power than the agricultural department gives him. Attorney-General Man- son is sincere and hard working. Five years ago he would probably have put up a fight for the leadership if it had then been open. But during the years the work of his department has enormously increased, and it is questionable just now whether he would not prefer a rest to even the premier's position, and it is also very questionable whether he could secure the position if he did want it. Man- ton ha* 'Bsi the impatience of the bmy man, and unfortunately for himself, it takes a very plain spoken form. The average person cordially agrees with Mr. Maiison when he told the group of parsons that they were "pikers," but this is a luxury will be some of the important questions to come before the convention. Central Council C. L. P. To Meet Friday, July 29 The next meeting of the Central Council of the Canadian Labor Party will be held on Friday, July 29th, in room 310, Holden building, at 8 p.m. Nominations of candidates for the forthcoming provincial election will take place at this meeting. A full attendance of delegates is looked for so as to select the best possible candidates in the interest of the workers. Comrade Mclnnes will address the delegates onjthe B. C. Government Marketing Bill as it effects the milk supply business. The executive committee will meet Wednesday, July 27. The first - and last and closest trial-question to any living creature is, "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.—-The Crown of Wild Olive (Ruskin). One of life's hardest lessons from the cradle to the grave is waiting. We send out our ships, but cannot patiently await their return. Big Crowd Goes to Painters' Picnic It did not take long for the crowd on board the Lady Cecilia to get into an exhilarating mood last Saturday when the boat pulled out full of passengers bound for Selma Park and the painters' picnic. With the aid of'the orchestra and Billy Marr, as choir leader, there was plenty of singing and music on board, both going and returning. Ed. Smith was the first to don the clown's clothing and Tie kept the kids laughing most of the time. The weather was ideal and thc Bports were commenced just as soon as the crowd got their picnic baskets on the tables. There were ten racing events for the youngsters, in which most of them received prizes. After lunch tbe sports for the adults were proceeded with, the following being the winners, first and second in order named: Single ladies' race, Jean Geekin, Gert. Sandberg; married ladies', Mrs. G. Killer, Mrs. G. Papre; boys' boot and shoe race, Earl Douglas, Peter Langi; fat ladies' race, Mrs. G. Killer, Mrs. V. Marcell; boys' sack race, D. Whitworth, Bob Nield; ladies' balloon race, Jean Geekie, W. Whitby; needle and thread race, L. Powell, E. G. Miller; men's pop drinking race, Gordon May, H. P. Paradis; 100 yards race, L. Powell, H. P. Paradis; fat men's race, B. Wanders, R. MacMasters; girls' swimming race, Hilda Bone, Ivy Cook; boys' swimming race, E. Dyer, Paul Taylor; ladies' swimming, race, Hilda Bone; men's swimming race, L. Dyer; master and supply men's race, F. J. Morley, W. F. Harris; horse shoe pitching contest, W. Watson, R. MacMasters; grand aggregate, Stewart Craig. The winners in the raffle were: Ticket No. 30, D. Bowden; No. 87, D. Bowden; 60, G. C. Booth; 34, A. Hodge; 260, Miss F. Willis; 101, D. Henderson; children's, 324, Mary Skene. During the afternoon and evening the orchestra played dance music in the pavilion and while the women picnickers were doing the light fantastic, Ed. Smith was amusing the babies with his funny face. Among the other members who dresses as clowns to amuse the "Our Leader" BLUJE SERGE SUIT 18-oz., guaranteed fast color Special, $25.00 Shirt Special I Broadcloth, plain colon; reg. $2.25, this week, $1.35 Summer Sox... 35c pair, 3 for $1.00 "Q. W. O." CARPENTERS' OV_!BAI_-,S, S3.S0 Alio "Bis Chief," "Blue Seal" and "Carharts" Overalls, Work Shirts, and "Carharti" Gloves—All Union Made. f^ORNFIELD & HARDING, Ltd. • HI Basting's Street East (Oppoalta Holden Bnlldlng) WANTED! FIVE THOUSAND MEN, MEN AND CHILDREN —AT— SAMPLE SHOE STORE 37 HASTINGS WEST—fNEXT KIRKHAM'S) SUMMER SALE—EXTRA SPECIAL I 2,000 Dalrs RUNNING SHOES— Values to 12.00. at. pair 49c, 79c and 95c crowd were J. Julian, G. Roedis and J. Denny Jr. The whole event was a huge success in every way and will be looked forward to again next year. It does not follow that you must do a mean thing to a man who has done a mean thing to you. The old proverb runs "Because the cur has bitten me, shall I bite the cur?" Union Picnics CARPENTERS —To Bowen la- land, Saturday, July 23rd.— Adults, $1.00; Children, 50c. PLASTERERS' U N I O N—To Bowen Island. Saturday, July 23rd. Adults $1.00; Children, 50c. BARBERS' UNION—to Belcarra Park, Wednesday, July 27. Adult*, 85c; Children, 25c. SHEET METAL WORKERS' UNION—to Bowen Island, Saturday July 30th. Adults, $1.25; Children, 50c. TAILORS' UNION—to Bowen Island, Saturday, August 6th.— Adults, $1.25; Children, 50c PLUMBERS UNION—to Bowen Island. Saturday, August 27th. —Adults, $1.25; Children, 50c. TRADES COUNCIL—Hastings Park. Monday, September 5. Admission 50c. We Do Not Patronize List of Trades Council THOMAS & McBAIN, Clothiers, 655 Granville STEVENSON'S BAKERY AVENUE THEATRE WALDORF CAFE GOOD EATS CAFE ROYAL DAIRY CRYSTAL DAIRY NATIONAL LUNCH TROCADERO CAFE COLLARD, tbe Clothier, 603 Haitingi W. LEN. A. DAVIS (Lathing Contractor) PRINTERS CLARKE & STUART MURPHY & CHAPMAN ROSE, COWAN & LATTA GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G.. A. LTD. J. W. BOYD JOIN THE LABOR PARTY For Further Information Write B. C. SECTION, CANADIAN LABOR PARTY President, J. FLYNN; Secretary, W. CAMPBELL, 71 28th Avenue E. Vice-president., IT. H. COTTRELL, W. W. iMIABX, B. BATE. '" ABOR STATESMAN Five VENUS PURE SEA FOODS Tempt Summer Appetites. 6 Delicious Varieties Cooked Ready to Serve Buy from Your Grocer or Delicatessen A booklet of many new Sea Food Recipes will be sent FREE on request VENUS FISHING A CANNING Co~ Limited 512 Dominion Building Vancouver, B. C. RACES! Seven high, grade events, featured by Opening Handicap, $1000 Purse, six and one half furlongs. SATURDAY Beginning at 2:30. Big fields of best horses ever raced in British Columbia HASTINGS PARK July 16 to 23 Take Cars 8 or 13. Admission, including grandstand and paddock, $1.75. No Minors Allowed TKY OUR -10-CENT LUNCH Harmony Cafe (Formerly Jim's Cafe) "Dine here and you will always bo ln tump" E. A. GEBISTORP (Late of the Good Eats) 1164 GRANVILLE STREET Phon* Sey. 7061-O The more you say, the less people will remember. The fewer the words the greater the profit.—Fenelon. It takes two to speak the truth one to speak and another to hear.— Thoreau. Speak with the speech of the world think with the thoughts of the few. —John Hay. VANCOUVEB HARBOR COMMISSIONERS Sealed tenders will be received at the office of the undersigned up to 10 a.m., July 28. 19.7, for approximately 9,000 seeks of cement and 6,000 empty cement /sacks, quantities more or less, In the condition It. now is and where It now rests, and may be seen at Lapolnte Pier dluring any reasonable hours each day. The highest or any other tender not necessarily accepted. XV. D. HAKVIB, _.._ji___ •__ Secretary. "I could not omit to urge on every man to remember that self-government politically can only be successful if it is accompanied by self- government personally; that there must be government somewhere; and that,'if the people are indeed to be sovereigns, they must exercise their sovereignty over themselves individually, as well as over themselves in the aggregate—regulating their own lives, resisting their own temptations, subduing their own passions, and voluntarily imposing upon themselves some measure of that restraint and discipline which, under other systems, is supplied from the armories of arbitrary power—the discipline of virtue in the place of the discipline of slavery. "In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out qf the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for de.p..iring hearts? someTrewlighl. or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institu tions on this American continent?' —Robert C. Winthrop, a gifted American statesman, who joined the great silent majority in 1894. Taxi Drivers' Union Loses First Member The funeral service was solemnized on Saturday, July 16, at Nunn & Thompson's parlor, Homer street, of the late Bro. William Phillip Rawl ings, starter and driver for the Yellow Cab Company, who passed away suddenly from heart failure. Following the religious ceremony, a service was held by brother Masons of the deceased, who had been a past master of his lodge. Both ceremonies were beautifully conducted, in particular the Masonic^ites, than which there ' can be no more sincere and heartfelt leave-taking for a deceased friend. The numerous flowers which decorated the chapel were an eloquent testimony to the esteem in which the late Bro. Rawlings was held by all who knew him. Some thirty odd drivers'of Yellow Cabs, members of Local 151, attended the funeral, a striking tribute to the respect felt by the drivers for their departed fellow worker. They formed a guard of honor outside the chapel to bid a last farewell to one whose friendship they had valued. In to nn out took place at the Masonic cemetery, Douglas road, nnd the cortege was headed by Cab No. 21, which was the cab deceased had been driving. This cab was sent by the company to do service as flower car, and was literally smothered by the blossoms it wag called upon to carry. The company was also represented by Mr. A. Thorpe, the head driver. AU In the Day's Work The life of a taxi driver is one of indescribable hardship. As witness the case of the unfortunate driver of Yellow Cab No. 2 the other evening. In the flrst place, it should be explained that every driver is entitled to a certain amount of time off once during each shift in order that he can go to eat. No fixed time is set and the procedure is that the driver phones in to the dispatcher when he finds that the pangs of hunger are becoming unbearable and requests permission to leave his stand for a while in search of nourishment. On the night in question, business was very slack and No. 2 had booked in from a run at the stand at Fourth avenue and Granville street shortly after 6 p.m. There he sat, waiting foFsomething to turn up, until 8 p.m. when the need of some sustenance began to make itself apparent. He proceeded to phone the dispatcher: "Say, how's chances to give me a move to one of the downtown stands so aa I can go eat? I ain't had a bite since 1:30." V "Sorry," says the voice of doom, "I got every stand in town filled up, so you'll have to stay where you are. But, anyway, you're next on turn for any call for a cab that I get in that district, so you'll probably get something soon that'll bring you in ^ewnr"—- ■■ ■ ■ , ~ No. 2 tightens up a hole in his belt and returns to his cab. Sure enough, at 8:30, the phone rings: "Here you are No. 2," says the dispatcher, "go to 21— Cypress street. I guess you'll get to town to eat this trip." No. 2 proceeds blithely on his way and collects his passenger from the address given. Imagine his feelings when the lady asks him to take her to the 1200 block on Twelfth avenue. However, being a good taxi driver, he stifles his emotions and takes her to her destination with his usual unfailing courtesy, and thereupon proceeds, according to regulations, to the nearest stand to book in the particulars of the run, the nearest stand in this case being at the corner of Broadway and Granville. "Not so good," remarked the dispatcher. "You seem to be getting farther away from town instead of where you want to be, but don't give up hope. I've got a call for a cab to Shaughnessy Heights in a little while and that will surely bring you to town." With a moan the unfortunate wretch took up two more holes in his belt and sat down to wait. At 9:30 p.m. he gets the promised call to the 4900 block Angus drive. Arrived there, an elderly couple enter the cab and the lady says, with a bright smile: "We don't want to go far, driver, but my husband has a bad leg and can't walk very well. We're going to visit our married daughter on Forty-ninth avenue." Sobbing weakly, No. 2 booked in particulars of that run at the stand at Twenty-fifth avenue and Granville. "For the love a Mike," says the dispatcher, "I suppose the next run I give you, you'll be booking in from Marpole or somewhere." At nearly 11 p.m. that night ,a miserable figure might have been seen staggering feebly into Fred's (Union) Dairy Lunch. It was No. 2, in town at last! The greater a man is, the more he has need of a friend, and the more difficulty there is in finding and knowing him.—Warne. Like other plants, Virtue will nof grow unless its roots be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun.— Carlyle. ___ ____ The consideration of a great evil is a sort of remedy against a small qne. Aristippus had a house burnt down; and, when a friend of his expressed concern for him, he said, "I have three houses left yet, and you have but one in all; hence I have no more reason to lament your misfortune than you mine." Help n_ to Help our Advertisers SUMMER SALE SPECIALS WOMEN'S Straps, Pumps, Ties, newest colors, it .1 Q CJ all styles; regular to $7.00, at -P«7eO«_» CHILDREN'S AND MISSES' Boots, Oxfords, Of*} A*Z Classic, Chums; regular to $4.50, at -J>-_-.**•_» C.J.PACKHAM&SON 1087 Granville Street (Opposite Standard Fur-Hare Co.) Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS/ K CIDERS * "Cooling and Refreshing" PURE SWEET and SOUR APPLE CIDER GRAPE, ORANGE, LOGANBERRY, CHERRY, LIME-O, PUNCH, ETC. Above also In concentrated form—a Quart Bottle Makes a Gallon—Ideal for Picnics and the Home. VAN BROS. LTD. 1955 Commercial Drive Phone Highland 90 thirsty? DRINK WHISTLE CROSS & CO., Mfrs. FAIRMONT 1173 Your PICNIC or SOCIAL is NOT Complete without ALMOND'S ICE CREAM PHONE DOUGLAS 3 6 SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES SAFETY—Real PROTECTION—Absolute SERVICE—Prompt In the strongest vault on the Pacific Coast. Open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Vancouver Safety Deposit Vaults Board of Trade Building, 402 Pender W., Vancouver, B. C Council Refers Back Change in Bylaw The City Council's meeting on Monday afternoon opened with the reading of a letter from the Building Trades Council, voicing very strong disapproval of the proposal of Building Inspector Bird' to eliminate thc city's regulation requiring that plumbers undergo examination as to their competency for the work. The city's building committee had already approved of Bird's recommendation, and it was now up for the City Council's endorsement, ' but Alderman Gibbons moved that it be referred b$ck to the committee for further consideration. Seconded by Alderman Mclnnis, this motion was adopted. It is understood that the plumbers' representatives will be heard in opposition to Bird's plan when the matter again comes before the city's .building committee on Monday afternoon, August 8, at 2:15 p.m. Don't be impatient. It took the garter more than nineteen centuries to find a place in the .un.—Toledo '-.lade. Our troubles come often from this: we do not live according to the light oft reason, but after the fashion of our neighbors. UNI'ON STEAMSHIPS LEAVE UNION DOCK EVERY DAY for SUNNY SECHELT and tbe Gulf Ooaat WEEKDAYS (exe. Sat.).. 9:30 a.m. SATURDAY 2:00 p.m. SUNDAY j 9:30 a.m. CalUnc at Bobtrte' Creek, Selma Par* and Way Points Enjoy a day's outing, with an hour ashore, in the bracing Rcchelt air— excellent accommodation at Sccholt Hotel. Refreshments at tearoomo— Bathing facilities. Return Fare, $2.05 (Limit Bent. 30) (All point! to "Sechelt, lnclnelve) Special Day Trip, $1.50 (Bat and Sun. only) Pull Information and Ticket! at CITY OFFICE 533 GranvlUe St. Sey. 9331 ___: _— vmon dock - ■ — Poot Carrall St. Ber. 3oe m Six THE LABOR STATESMAN /July 22nd, 1927 Serving Vou %e TRAIN DISPATCHER Every interurban train—passenger and freight—is under the control of this man, the train despatcher. Located at New Westminster, he provides you with regular, reliable, safe service. British Coiumsm s^Eii_amrMii«T--Co. VANCOUVER ,. -***\W VICTORIA en.: -____-__.. Xtt-V-}...--. I__ . ._-. rr—in TT- Passing of Robert Burns UNION CAFES Seymour 3108 Always Open Time to Wipe Out The Third Degree Major August Heise, assistant prohibition commissioner in the New York district, admitted before a federal judge the other day that he had used third degree methods to force a confession from a prisoner. He had the prisoner bound hand and foot, he said, then tied a towel around his head, and "I told him that if he did not tell the truth, I would twist it (the towel)." " He went on to explain that this is a Chinese method of punishment. Twisting tightens the towel till it causes the most frightful pain. The man who was put through this third degree has testified that in addition to the towel treatment, he was beaten and kicked in the . stomach by the same gallant major. That this happened in the prohibition service means nothing. That it could happen at all means everything. Every newspaper man knows that third degree methods' are used by many police forces in this country; but this cool admission by an official that he tortures his victims to make them tell what he assumes to be the truth is something new. It should be made the start of a nation-wide clean-up. The law of Fraa^-J-Lconsidered severe with'-accused persons. The French suspect is haled before an examining magistrate — without a lawyer—is questioned and reques- tioned, and is not discharged .until the magistrate is satisfied that there is no case against him. But this is done in a court of record, not ih a secret cell, and at least the accused man is not kicked in the stomach or threatened with Chinese tortures. Third degree methods are lawless. They are criminal. They are likewise one cause of the inefficiency of American management of the crime problem, for they throw brutal men to the top in criminal administration, and the brutal man, eight times out of ten, is a blockhead. Major Heise should get the severest punishment the law permits; but more important by far, the vicious third degree system should be stamped out.—Labor. Robert Burns, the darling of Scotland, might very well be sa'id to be the darling of the whole world. When we say a nation loved a king or queen, we may, on rare occasions, be asserting the truth, or we may be merely talking conventionally, but when we say the world loved Burns .we are talking of what we know since we are sure that Burns had the characteristics and g_fts that are so well calculated to inspire love. Born in humble circumstances and received into cultured society, he had peculiar opportunities of studying the psychology of the masses and the classes, and this he never neglected to do. "I seem to be'sent into the world," said he, "to see and observe. ... In short, the joy of my heart is to study men, their manners and their ways, and for this delightful subject I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration."—(Letter to John Murdock). Was it any wonder that he succeeded in acquiring in great measure the knowledge he sought? Indeed, nature helped him so munificently in her endowments that it might have been said of him he was a walking repository of wit and wisdom, independence and The only thing to be done with truth is to accept it. In whatever hard, unwelcome, unlovely guise it may come into your life, you must face it. If it is truth it ,is useless to deny it or to ignore it; it must be honestly taken into account and reckoned with. Bricklayers' Wage Raised to $1.62 Hour CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The "open shoppers" ragei but the local trades unionists continue to roll up victories. ' Last week the bricklayers signed a new contract with the bosses. It calls for $1.62 an hour as against $1.50 hitherto paid. Negotiations have been in progress since January 1. It has been a long struggle, but the workers are satisfied with the "result. Now all building trades in Cuya hoga county have satisfactory agreements, calling for arbitration and extension on expiration^ pending negotiations. Thus industrial peace is assured. SUBSCRIBE TODAY Wa invite you to subscribe or get a friend to subscribe for The Labor Statesman. The rates are two dollar* for one year, one dollar for six months. I enclose- dollars, for which please send the Labor Statesman to the address below for.... , months, commencing with the next issue. NAME ; : _.... ADDRESS : "J. '. -J-. B»lea.e Write Plainly to Avoid Mistake!. Address: Labor Statesman, 81S Holden Bldg., Vancouver an extract from an epitaph written for himself by himself. Here it is: "Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer Yet runs himself life's mad career Wild as the wave; Here pause and through the starting tear, Survey this grave." He was Juried with military honors, several regiments taking part in his obsequies. Thus was returned to earth tre mortal remains of a great cosmopolitan whose message still arouses sentiments of fraternity amongst the peoples of all climes. Surely the capacity to do that is the real test of a poet's greatness. And of all the poets that ever lived not one passed the test more satisfactorily than the Scottish ploughman and world's most popular bard, the celebrated but erratic and much lover Robert Burns. Tiumor,_Bathos and tenderness. Such a combination of attributes could hardly fail to carry, in their train that high degree of popularity that is fraught with so much temptation to indulge . inordinately in the glass that cheers. And so it was with the genial Burns, who was his own worst enemy. This fact his affectionate helpmate overlooked as much as possible. It is said that "in his domestic circle he met with nothing but gentleness and forgiveness except in the gnawings of his own remorse." During the last few years of his life he was_ ostracised by polite society not only because of his opinions favorable to the French revolution, but because of his extreme radicalism, of which the following lines to a brother poet are, in part, an expression: "Oh, why should truest worth and genius pine Beneath the iron grasp of want and woe; While titled knaves and idiot greatness shine In all the splendor nature can bestow?" One could hardly -expect to be lionized by the objects of this sarcastic vituperation, however just it might have been in particular cases; nor did Bums, as other expressions of his show. Nevertheless, the treatment accorded him, if we can rely on the statement in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, had the effect of souring his temper and causing him to plunge more deeply into the dissipation of the lower ranks, amongst whom he found his only companionship and sole though shallow sympathy—shallow, because the masses whom he loved, unable to understand the import of his ostracism, were in no position to estimate thc sacrifice he made for independence of thought. In 1796 he wrote: "I fear it will be some time before I tune my lyre again. ... I close my eyes in misery and open them without hope. I say with poor Ferguson: "Wherefore has an all-indulgent heaven Life to the comfortless and wretched given?" He died on July the 21st'of that year, mourned by the whole civilized world. : No. better ending could be gfvenrti- this short sketch of .his career than Labriola of Italy Escapes from Fascisti Rome.—Simple rage is again pos- Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE Late S.th Batt. Late 72nd Batt. 76 Hasting! St. E. Vancouver, B.C. Egg Orders Arc Our Specially "IT'S THE COFFEE" Fred's Dairy Lunch They All Come Back to 72 HASTINGS STREET WEST All Good Union Men! —will eat at a good place. When In a hurry try the FASHION LUNCH 69H Hastings Street East llessFng the Fascist government over the escape from the country of the former cabinet member, Professor Arthur Labriola. He has got away to Corsica after Mussolini had personally told him he was not to leave Italy. The government had just finished imprisoning for long terms hajf a dozen friends of Philip Turati, the old Socialist, for "aiding" his escape. Now Labriola, whom we would term a more Liberal Democrat, is gone, and a roundup of his acquaintances is expected. Labriola was minister of labor from 1920 until the Fascist coup d'etat. Then he went back to lec- Juring at various universities. Recently he was invited to lecture outside of Italy, precisely as Professor Salvemini was invited to Oxford in England and to the Sorbonne in Paris. Labriola personally asked Mussolini, his former associate when the dictator was a Socialist, for a passport. Mussolini refused this after a government decree had forced the university to dismiss Labriola from his professorship. Comedy of the Situation Daring the coast guards and the thousands of Fascist militiamen on the frontiers, with orders to shoot on sight Italians attempting to escape their country, Labriola got to Corsica, "a trifle irregularly," as he says. The comedy of a country whose citizens are not allowed to leave it, under criminal penalties, is lost on the Fascists. It is the most serious matter-to them, because Italians outside of Italy will talk about conditions inside. If that goes on, how is Mussolini to keep up the bluff of "Italy contented and prosperous," on which America sends the loans which keep things going? » • Labriola, escaped, says he has no desire to oppose Mussolini; he only wants quiet to write books and lecture on political economy. Even this cannot be found inside Italy by any suspected of anti-Fascism. Deal very gently with those who are on the downhill of liSfo, Your own time is coming to be wtfere they now are. You, too, are "stepping westward. Soothe the restlessness of age by amusement, by consideration, by non-interference, and by allowing plenty of occupation to fall into the hands that long for.it Cease _b bfrtfcr their ways for them, ps though they were childreh/ Yon are Invited to eat at Seymour 4503 THEOAKSCAFE How under the management of MISSES E M. SPRING* and N. M. SUTHERLAND Best Quality Food—Quick Service Popular Prices 3-6 ABBOTT STREET (Opposite Woodwards) Classified Adverts. BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS Wallls W. _.c_p.__x, 402 Metropolitan Building-. Fhone Sey. 6667. BATHS Hastings Steam Bath! Price 35c Only'.. 766 Hasting! Street Bait DENTISTS Dr. W. A. Rutledge. 108 Halting! W. NOTARIES P. n. Bengough, 803 Holden Bldg. PRINTERS Labor Statesman 803-816 Holden Bldr. SOTIUKE SPECIALIST C. E. Heard, 812 Rohaon SAW FILERS 8. Knechtel 197E Granville Filed, Set, Re-toothed. Edged Tool! Ground Perfectly. . UNDERTAKERS Armstrong A Hotaon, 304 Dunlevy Ave. Colonial Theatre GRANVILLE AND DUNSMUIR Premier Film Attraction* Special Features Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. \ Moderate Prices CONTINUOUS, 11 A.M. TO 11 P.M. W. E. FENN'S School of Dancing PRIVATE AND CLASS LESSONS Social Dances; Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. SEYMOUR 101. COTILLION HALL The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122 439 7th Ave. a. VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism. Lumbago, Neuritis, Bad Cold. MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. SEY. 2070 A night's sleep and a new day— these are excellent things to look forward to when orfe ig weary or in trouble. There is no good arguing with the inevitable,^The -only argUMoht-Srrail- able with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.—J. R. Lowell... _ UtfWlSiaMW***' " „.T.p'S«_H.M().W.1V" . July 22nd, 1927 THE LABOR STATESMAN Seven MORE FOR LESS First, what type of shoe is best for each job? Then, how can it best be made at a moderate price? Thus 160 constantly strives to give you the best possible value for your shoe dollars. \5M0DlS / for ^S\ Vanconver and Nanaimo ronizeII Whole Wheat « FLOUR EVERY HOME NEEDS IT. MAKE SURE YOU GET IT— AND NOTHING ELSE. It la Rich in Nourishment— DELICIOUS R. WILKINSON, Pr«. D. DUNCAN, Ste. Reynolds'Cartage Co- LIMITED Phone* Seymonr 3377-3378 Crating, Paoklng, Shipping and Storage Furniture and Piano Moving Long Distance Moving Pool Car Shipments Of flea and Warehoum 793 — CAMBIE STBEET — 722 Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealer!. 158 Cordova W. Phon. Bey. 8087 SEE US ABOUT BROKEN GLASS IN WINDOWS, AUTOMOBILES, MIRRORS SHOWCASES, ETC. Art Glut Ru-ired Mirrors Re-silvered Ring Up Sey. 23S4 for Appointment DR. W. X CURRY DENTIST Suit* 301 Dominion Building Vancouver, B. C. NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH SecreUry Trades and Labor Counell Moons 803, 18 Haitlny. Street Bait Phonea: Sey. 7486-837* PERRY & DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 O. B. U. FOLDS ITS TENT. STRATFORD, Ont.—The One Big Union has folded its tent and moved to parts unknown, after its failure in months of effort to enlist the affiliation of 'railroad workers here. Its spacious offices are now closed and the organizers have left the community, wiser but poorer. Railroad workers here refused to leave the standard organizations and all crafts report, a steady increase in their membership. Men's best success comes after their disappointments. The Cherry Tree Comes over the wires a story about a horse that worked faithfully for ten years, to pass out in a spectacular burst of rebellion on the anniversary. This horse, faithful motive power for an ice wagon througtrthat"' long decade of plodding under summer suns and winter drifts, on the tenth anniversary lifted up his hind legs in magnificent resentment and kicked his muster for a row of hospital beds. Having performed this ceremonial rite, the poor nag rolled over and released his soul to the Great Maker of All Horses. He died. The newspapers thought this was funny. The horse should have put his nose on his master's sleeve and then in deepest sorrow at the parting he should have given up the equine ghost. But if there was anything funny about the story, it wasn't that at all, * * _ * Here was a horse that had plugged along, like many a nonunion animal of few legs and no more intelligence, for 10 long years, hauling an ice wagon around town for the profit of his master and the comfort of the patronizing population. / All the nag go); out of the bargain was fresh patches on the harness and a modicum of hay and oats, never too plentiful If rebellion entered that small space between his ears from time to time, he gave but little heed to the idea. Too busy by day and too tired at night to heave a leg in protest, the ice wagon horse went on from year to year, always an ice wagon horse and nothing more. There could be no change. It was the ice wagon route to the grave, with way stops only for feed and sleep. * * * That this faithful nag should, at the end of the ten years, rise up and land both hind feet on the anatomy of that pursuing Nemesis of a driver, wasn't funny at all. The funny thing is that this horse waited so long. The funny thing is that most horses'don't do it sooner. The joke isn't on the one man who got kicked. The joke is on all the horses that fail to kick. In just the same way the joke is on all the poor fellows who plod along year after year taking what the boss hands them, with a meek and humble "Thank you, boss." Yes, the joke is on the poor nags of industry. They don't see what is going on around them. They are not in the parade. Nothing ever happens. In which respect they are like the man who' broke into print along with the ice wagon horse. He had been away from home for 25 years and he hadn't written a letter to thc folks in all that time, "because nothing had happened." * * * Nothing happened in 25 years to this man, or to the world around him about which to write home, either to comment, to criticize or to praise. _ Nothing happened to the ice wagon horse for ten years. Nothing but -Onfi__day_L___nidgery_af ter .another. Nothing happened to the man in a quarter century of the world's most amazing progress. Even the World War wasn't anything to write home about. He had the horse beaten by just fifteen years, which is fairly good for any man. It takes a mind that knows how to keep awake to know what is going on in the world today and to know how to protect his own interests, along with the interests of his fellow men, in the maze of change, upheaval and economic revolution. At the close of a decade the horse scores by a knockout, which is fairly good for a horse. And it makes a pleasant and refreshing oasis of resistance in a world that so largely gives itself over to complacent, unknowning acceptance of what is. 12-Hour Shifts in Indian Coal Mines Miners May Be Called Upon to Work Twenty-four Hours Out of Thirty Hour. LONDON, Eng.—To work 24 hours out of any 30 hours is the demand which Indian miners may be called upon to meet, if a bill which \va^ recently brought before 'the Indian legislative assembly becomes law. The bill, amending the- Indian Mines Act of 1923, is published in the Bombay Trade Union Bulletin, says the. Indian News Service. Thc maximum working period in an Indian mine is fixed at 12 hours' consecutive worK. The manager of a mine "may permit persons who have been employed on a shift of a duration not exceeding eight hours to return to work after an interval of not less than four hours on-another complete shift of a duratipn not exceeding eight hours, and peiv mit persons who have been employed on a shift of a duration not exceeding 12 hours to return to work after an interval of not less than six hours for another complete shift of a duration not exceeding 12 hours." This means that persons may be employed in the mine for 16 hours in one day, with a recess of four hours, or 24 hours in. 30. Experience of the accident rate in British mines under the longer shift may give some ideas of the perils facing the unfortunate Indian workers—including-women—whtrrnay ~_rt compelled to work*underground in such conditions. Spain Takes Over Foreign Oil Property LONDON.—Spain has declared the oil business of that country to be a government monopoly, and a strictly Spanish affair. The property of foreign oil companies, all American and British, is to be expropriated. The business will be leased to a company for actual operation, but the leasing company must be Spanish in capital and personnel. The chairman and all members of the board of directors, all high officials and technical experts and executive officers, and 90 per cent, of the employees must be Spaniards. The operating lease will run for 20 years from January 1,' 1928, when the new regime takes effect. Thus ends a fight of years' duration by the Standard Oil and the Royal Dutch Shell to hold the Spanish market to themselves, and keep Russian petroleum from getting a foothold. At one time the dictator, Prima de Rivera, was induced to promise that no Russian oil should enter Spain. De Rivera is no longer dictator, and thc move to nationalize the oil industry cannot be held back any longer. in informed circles here it is believed that British, French and American capital will really finance the new movement, of course under a decent disguise of Spanish incorporation. If you stand still this month, it will be mighty easy to go backwards next month.. .. .'T1*"' ■' RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Pruggists i» We Uuha a Specl-J Effort to Oet Goods Ont by Fire* Kail After B.o.Ip, of Tow Order. COB-JBJS S»BBO.i AMD Q1BB4T.T. VAHCOUVEB, a. O. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER Buy Unioft Stamped Shoes We ask all members of organized labor to purchase shoes bearing our Union Stamp on the sole, inner-sole, or lining of the shoe. We ask you not to buy any shoes unless you actually sea this Union Stamp. Boot & Shoe Workers' Union . Affiliated with tbe Amerind -'-deration of Libor 240 8UMMEB STBEET, BOSTON, MASS. COLLIS LOVELY General President CHARLES L. BAINB General Secretary-Treasurer BRIGHTEST-2- THEATRES STRAND THEATRE Vanconver"! Premier Konae Present! TtXtMT BUN PICTJJSBS and the STBAND "MEBBYWAKEBS" REX THEATRE Vanconver'! Popular Honae Presents THE BEST IN MOVIES and the C'OTWTBY BTOBH John Drew, Actor, Was A Union Craftsman He Was One of America's Greatest Actors and a Leader in Organizing the Memberi of Hii Profession John Drew will be remembered by all as one of the greatest actors of the age. He will be remembered by those who had the good fortune of his personal acquaintance as a courteous gentleman and a sincere, steadfast friend. But union labour has a special reason for placing a wreath on his bier. John Drew was loyal to his craft. He had served on the Actor's Equity Council, and at the time of his death was a member of its advisory board. In 1919, when the Equity resorted to a strike to force justice from thc theatrical trust, John Drew was a tower of strength to the cause. His generous contributions in money, his zealous work, above all, his high standing as an artist and his lovable personality were in no small degree responsible for the Eqiuty's victory. Too often the artist has been robbed because he cared more for his work than for his pay, and had not learned to join hands with his fellows. Nowadays, art is learning the lesson of unionism, and John Drew helped to teach it. An artist, a craftsman, a comrade. Labour will not soon forget. NEW COMPULSION LAW PARIS.—Norway has a new compulsory arbitration law. Heavy fines and prison penalties up to three months may be visited on those who refuse to accept the awards. The National Trade Union Federation has decided to have nothing to do with the arbitration courts. This practically means tfiat wages during the present big lockouts will be fixed by the representatives of the employers and the reactionary government. BETRAYED HIS CONFIDENCE ^ Hisl:_" Wluttdo _you mean By telling Dot I'm-* fool?" . ■-' Harry: "I'm sotrry. I didn't know it,was a secret.". Australians to Resist Communist Tactics SYDNEY, New South Wales, Aus. —The Australian Worker, in a leading editorial, calls on trade unionists to resist the "white-anting" tactics of Communists. "The Communists must be fought by organized labor, and more particularly the sneak Communists who deny their Communism and seek to gain by craftiness and dissimulation what they could enever attain by propaganda," says this labor paper. Workers' Union Target of Reds The Australian Workers' Union, the largest and most influential trade union in Australia, is the target for the Communists. "If other alert labor bodies," says the Australian Worker, "will join forces with the A, W. U., it is ready now, as it always has been, to play its part in a militant campaign to keep the labor movement free from disintegrating elements—to preserve it from schemers and conspirators to whom it is only a medium for the advancement of alien principles and pernicious ambitions. Communists Steal Into Organization New Zealand is also confronted by the Communist disruptors. They are charged by Robert Semple, president of the Dominion Labor Party, with plotting to destroy that labor movement. "In; order to do this more effectually," he said, "they seek to steal into labor organizations by disguising their intentions. By this policy of 'white-anting' they hope to bring about the Collapse of trade unions so as to exploit the resultant suspicion and ill will in favor of desperate policies, sabotage and civil war." "An undertaker was run over by an auto and died." "He didn't make much on that funeral, did he?" "No; in fact, he went in Jthe hole." Don't be awed, by thc great man. Heel's human, also, and pouts when IjiSttWite forgets to pretend that aha iiinferfqr,^^^. Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN July 22nd, 1927 FOR A DAYS' . GO TO OUTING HORSHOE BAY Pacific Great Eastern Railway (▼la Worth Vanoouver City rerrl.s) trains mom as ros-Lows on SUNDAYS AMD HOLIDAYS Leave North Vancouver (or all stations 8:40 a.m. and then twenty-five minutos past each hour until 8:30 p.m. Return from Whytecllff 9:25 a.m. and 25 minutes past each hour until 9:25 p.m. Furot-Me Ticket! at Perry Wharf ana 633 Oranvllle st. BETUBN FA-UB FROM VANCOUVER (Oood for day of issue only) Adults Children 60c 35c Por Information telephone Worth 300 Seymonr 9331 LAWRENCE W. SMITH Registered OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN 49 Halting! St., West, Since 1907 Phon* Sey. 6860. Vanoonver, BC You Can't Go Wrong Eating at V INCHLER'S LEAN ITCHEN STRICTLY UNION Prices and Food Are Right 334 CAMBIE STBEET Whisper Oft Hastings Street W. F. DURRANT D.C., F.A.C. CHIBOPRACTOB , Palmar Oradnate Stomach, Kidn-eys and other Internal Disorders Rheumatism, Sprains, etc. 6 10 DOMINION SAME BLDG. th Point Grey Employees To Picnic Saturday The Point Grey Municipal Employees' Union has planned a basket picnic to be held at Sechelt on Saturday, July 23rd. They will leave the Union dock on the Lady Alexander at 9 p.m. and return at 7:30. A program of sports has been arranged and several other items planned in an effort to create a demand for a similar event every year. All employees of the municipality are invited. V-fflcet-Vcr _«§_«. WW- Far6^-nd one third re.urn I9Q000!? prizeMtiractiojis QtBtote gUosjq Posties To Hold Picnic on Sunday The Amalgamated Civil Servants of Canada have planned a big picni> at Bowen Island on Sunday, July 24th. There will be more sports than usual and plenty of prizes as well as tea, coffee, milk, ice cream, candies, etc. The staffs of the various departments are planning to enter teams for some of the contests and this will undoubtedly make the affair a little more interesting than usual. The steamer leaves the Union dock at 10 a.m. Sunday morning and it is expected to carry a big crowd for this occasion. The usual'fare is charged. Help Those Who Help You SAVING THEM "Say, why in beck don't you use your brains?" snapped the foreman. "Have you got any?" "I'll tell the wor.6" I have," retorted the other. "I've got brains that ain't never been used, if you wanta know."—Powell River Digester. * '♦ * THE WRONG NUMBER "Say, growled the customer, "what do. you think you are, a telephone operator?" "VatVde matter?" asked the grocer. "I asked for a dozen eggs and you gave me eleven, that's what," angrily shouted the customer. ♦ * * When in need of builders' hardware or household supplies, get them from Vancouver's premier hardware store, Lewis & Sills, opposite the Empress theatre. Ad. on page-8. Sheet Metal Workers Picnic, July 30th In spite of the fact that the Sheet Metal Workers' Union is not what might be called a big organization, Business Agent MacPherson says that the picnic that they have planned for Saturday, July 30th, will be some hum-dinger. Every member is expected to be aboard the boat going to Bowen Island good and early, and they will bring along the friends who became interested in the big picnic of last year. There will ba no dearth of prizes, pop, candies, ice cream and other picnic .essentials. Everybody will get in on this because the committee has the thing thoroughly planned out. There will be plenty of sports and other features that will make the day perfect' for both old and young. Keep this date open and join the crowd to this picnic. WOM... CtaPlOMSKlP -TAMFt-E BBMIAHT (Olfr-D-RATIon PAGCAMT CAtEDOWIAH GAMES Massed Bauds auto Races P8EMIER Livestock Shows' AfiRrCUlTURAl sn MTIC U-TURAL EyHIBITS ttSrite forprize-list sEnirtfform Vancouver exhibition AssIl _ 440 Fender St-W Vancouver Barbers Picnic Wednesday, July 27 ■porta Start at 3 p.m. J. Bigsworth, chairman or arrangements; C. B. Herrett, secretary. Boys' race, 5 gears and under, _ prizes; girls' race, 6 years arid under, _ prizes; boys' race, 6 years and up to 111 years, _ prizes; girls' race. 6 years and up to 10 years, 2 prizes; boys' race, 11 years up to IS years, _ prizes; girls' race, 11 years up to 16 years, _ prizes. Sack race tor boys under IS years, 2 prizes; sack race for girls under 15 years, 2 prizes. Single ladles' race, 16 years .and up, 2 prizes. Married ladles' race, 2 prizes. Married ladles' race for non-prize winners, 2 prizes. Single ladles' race for non-prize winners, 2 prizes. Journeymen Barbers' race, under 185 pounds, 3 prizes. Master Barbers' race, under 185 pounds, 3 prizes. Journeymen Barbers' race, over 185 pounds. 3 orizes. Master Barbers' race, over 150 pounds, 3 prizes. Open race for Supply House Staffs, 3 prizes. . Open race for men other than barbers, 2 prizes Needle race, open to all, 4 prizes. Special prlzo for barber with the largest family present at the picnic. Luncheon will be served at S:30 p.m. Official photographer, Bro. A. Mes- slere. Community Ringing song sheets supplied by the Dally Sun. 'PATRONIZE.OUR ADVERTISERS' One can-opener factory has just declared a dividend of 37 per cent. That shows whether woman's place is at home or at the matinee. GOOD AUTO MECHANIC able to get the business and bold it, wanted, to rent a new shop in first class location. No handy . man need apply. Address*-Mechanic,' Labor Statesman, 16 Hastings East. '.-_,„.' YOU GOT ME WRONG, KIDDO! The esteemed and venerated driver of Yellow Cab No. 20 was at the C. N. R. depot the other day, endeavoring to rustle up some business. He approached an elderly stout lady of prosperous appearance, with the time honored query: "Taxi, madam?" Madam was evidently not of good old Anglo-Saxon stock, for she replied: "Say, Meestair, vot it cost de Hotel St. Francees?" "Sixty-five cents, madam," replied our friend, quoting the amount that the meter would register for that distance. "Ah! No! No! That vill not do." Discomforted, No. 20 withdrew in search of other prey, when to his surprise, he was accosted by the same lady once more. * "Meestair, can you not recommend me a good hotel in thees city?" "Why, certainly, madam," says he, "but the one you mentioned is considered amongst the best that t* have here." "Veil, I nevair," she replied; "I vas told de cost of living vas cheap in Vancouvair, but I nevair tink I can stop at von of de best hotels for sixty-five cents." * * » One of the old members of the Labor movement in Vancouver is still advertising in the Labor Statesman. We refer to Dr. W. J. Curry, dentist at 301 Holden building. Have your dental work done there. Page 7 * * » Correct this sentence: "Always wake me when you get up, ma," said the flapper; "I hate to sleep after the sun is up." * • * Another well known favorite among working men is the Mainland Cigar Store at 310 Carroll street. Get your smoking requisites there. Page 7. * * .* Mrs. Shortley was discussing the latest fashions with a young lady caller. "Did you say that your husband was fond of those clinging gowns, Mae?" "Yes; he likes one_to cling to me for about three years." .'*■** - WILLIE WILLIS SAYS: "I could of stayed with Skinny last night, but I like to be at home if I've been readin' a ghost bbok." ..» * »■ - - Many a man who couldn't sell his prfljlsrty at any price is: now called far-sighted because a town grew up. around it.. ' _'.. . .... ■,--.., ' INCORKMATtO 8W MAY 16-tX . VANCOUVER Clearance of Empire Bungalow Ranges $49.00 A good reliable wood and coal range, with 4-hole polished steel top, 16-inch oven with vyhite door and thermometer, full nickel base, legs and trimmings, nickel shelf and towel rail, and duplex grates. A heavily built ra"nge, with full range flues. $10.00 down and $4.55 monthly. ' ' TWO-CENT SALE NOW ON The extraordinary success of onr last Two-cent Sale and tbe large number of new friends we made through tbe wonderful values we offered haa prompted ns to again give tbe Vanconver people an opportunity to purchase quality ToUet Articles and Cattery at these money-saving prices: Hair Clippers, No's. 0, 00 or 000; reg. $3.25 J2.52 Razors, values to $3.50....$1.22 Shaving Sticks; reg. 15c 12c 2 for 22c Rubberset ShavijaeJ-rushes, 32c_ Snap; reg. 20c:.r.7_T_:...3 for 52c Nail Scrubs, 1 for.. 2 for ....33c ...3Se Tooth Brushes, 1 for Sc 2 for 10, JLadies' Combs, 1 for...._ ...SUA 2 for 25c See onr windows for bargains galore. Sale wiU continue np to and including Saturday, July 33 B. C. Barber Supply & Sundries Limited BETAII. STORE — 64 HASTINGS STREET WEST — VANCOUVER, 8. C. MAIL ORDERS POST-PAID IN BRITISH COLUMBIA wmmMmmuwmmmmmmmmmmis CUT RATE DRUGS We pride ourselves on the QUALITY of merchandise we sell. If we can save you money on your purchase, that's to your advantage. Try us for your next Drug .Wants and note thc QUALITY, SERVICE and SAVING. Friday and Saturday Specials .60 Dr. Reld's Lemon Cleansing 1.25 Cream .27 .25 .30 Waterglass ...;._ 16 .50 Krysol, 8-o_. .,86 .oV .10 Fairy Soap 4 for ,83 1.00 .4.0 French Castile Soap, per bar -2G 1.26 1.00 Gillette Banger Safety Razor .59 .05 .60 Tincture of Iodine, 4 oz AB .30 .20 Parownx, per lb 13 .50 1.00 Paris Kau de Quinine .51 .50 .60 Distilled Witch Hazel, 8 oz. .2D .15 Liquid Phosferine 93 Ayersts A. B. S. &C. Tablets, 100's _ _ 13 Creme Simon Face Powder... .33 Gillette Blades ...._ _ 61 Genuine Thermos Bottles .... .77 Fly Colls _ IS for .33 Llstcrlne 21 Aromatic Cascara, 4-oz .26 Ipana Tooth Paste .39 Simons Cigars 3 for .35 WE SAVE YOU MONEY VANCOUVER DRUG COMPANY, LIMITED 13 STORES BUILDERS* HARDWARE AND SUPPLIES PAINTS, GLASS, TOOLS AND CUTLERY, ETC, . RANGES AND HOUSEHOLD HARDWARE Lewis & Sills, Limited "30 YEARS VANCOUVER'S PREMIER HARDWARE STORE" 265 Hastings Street East Opposite Empress Theatre Phones: Say. 674 and 9477 The Church of the Open Door GORE ATE. AT HASTINGS 8*., BAST WORKING MEN Come and Hear Working Men NEXT SUNDAY 11 a.m.—MR. CHAS. TURNEY 7:30 p.m.—MR. A. B. TURNER; Subject, "What the Church Means to Me" COME EARLY AND JOIN IN T.HE SINGING.' YOU WANT A HOME We will tralld yon one of three or more rooms for cash ot on time ■' js~±i_E£a--nill^^ mp £fl ... ... ...... .,,._«^aj£r-r-. ,ij~*.wT;-. ^^...v.v^Wf'v*v''y.; .,— ■;.;. !■*/;, SPECIALIZES IN THREE, FOtTO AND HVEROOM HOUSES Call Sey. 5852, orSveiilngH, Fn». 197-1.2—Ask for Mr. Sanndera Ppraonany building contractor :y; ~ ... pender st. west
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