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: 1929-01-25
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note: OWNED or Statesman "m ™"™n,,rrA ^^Jy BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Y\ ^Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions NO. 243—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, JANUARY 25, 1929 Bungle Over Migration From British Coalfields . *-**- **, - -' ■ . ' Demand is Made by Trades Union Congress For .An Inquiry Into the Transfer Scheme—Local Men Are Displaced and Wages Are Undercut . 'TWERE IS A GROWING DEMAND for ah investigation into the ■ serious consequences arising from the7.British Government's efforts to transfer unemployed miners to other areas, where, it is alleged, work can,"or mighty lie obtained. The number of wo'rkless ex-miners in London is growing; those who get jobs take work that- the local unemployed could do, and some are being used to undercut wages. _X)ver 9000 men have been transferred under the Government scheme, and thousands of others have left their home districts "on spec." These miners are losjng^the sympathy of other workers whose jobs they are talcing or unintentionally jeopardizing. , •., V A great stream of men, largely ■ " — uncontrolled, is flowing»from the mining districts iAto the industrial areas, -adding tXK.the unemployment already existing 'there and forming an element that some employers are already trying to use to reduce wages. A strong demand is growing up for a thorough .investigation into the whole' question of transfer; official . and unofficial. Trade union officials in London recently informed the Daily Herald that increasing numbers of "down and out" miners week being encountered in the metropolis. 1 Destitute Men Every day destitute men plead for help at the headquarters of the Miners' Federation, and each day this week the number has been over 20. "We have had a terrible time since Christmas," said A. J. Cook. "We have no funds here, but men have been sent here by the police and by the Lord-Mayors' Fund people. "A lot of men got jobs in the building trade, but many are now Unemployed." At the headquarters of the National Union of…
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: 10.14288/1.0439030
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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