The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1928-05-25
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0439028/source.json
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note: <& or OWNED AND CONTROLLED °>} „*->• '•*«•"»••. \ <X Wt-HTM.I.-^TBR BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES A'. lAEOR COUNCIL &i -, n**-^ NO. 210-r-EIGHT PAGES Supported by Fifty-eight Local Unions «A«>/^ _ __ jrf * Tnidfls Council Working Button (Hed) for the Second Quarter of 1928 VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928 /■ FIVE CENTS PER COPY OPPOSE DAYLIGhT SAVING STRENUOUS efforts are being made by the forces in f-iyor of day light saving to put the plebiscite over, hence it behooves every member of organized labor, who is opposed to the daylight saving scheme,'to get otirand record their votes-against it. Every pera-n who fails to register his kick against the scheme on Wednesday, May 30th, will be giving a vote to the other side. Workers must be out in fi\ll force after they quit work. It is also important to remember that\if this scheme is adopted that it will be put into operation for five years and we don't want five years of this clock changing foolery. The Trades and Labor Council and affiliated Unions arc on record as opposelfYo it Now it is up to you to get out and vote and get your friends to vote also. Motion Picture Censor Opposes Union Labor After ten years faithful service as motion picture projectionist in the Censor's Department at the Court House, if became necessary for the projectionist to tender his resignation (which has been accepted) because he could not continue living in hope, that the promises of a wage increase, made by the present censor, was soon coming. It has just dawned upon the projectionist that the censor is a past master at that game, for much to the sorrow of the Projectionists' Union we too have been hodwinked by him. This same Joseph Walters never loses an opportunity to harass organized labor, just recently he spent considerable time enquiring from an unfair exhibitor where he could obtain the services on a non-union projectionist, expressing disgust when his enquiries came to naght. Skilled men always organize, to better protect themselves…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439028
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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type: Text