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OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Supported by Fifty-eight Local Unions Tnul'-s Council Working Button (Heel) for the Second Quarter of 1988 XO. 214—EIGHT PAGES VAXCOUVER. B; C. FRIDAY, JUNK 22. V)2% Labor Party Fcrces Its Attention on Ottawa Small Labor Group, Aided by Progressive Farmer Group, Meets with Some Success in.Obtaining Concessions of Value to the masses in This Dominion A/flNORITY GROUPS in the Federal House at Ottawa have had a strenuous session in spite of the fact that it has been barren di legislation worthy of the name.. These groups have kept the government from making useless expenditures and has helped to open up new fields of discussion. Members of the Independent Labor Party and Progressive (Farmer) Party have become an important and necessary factor in Federal politics. • By j. s. Woodsworth In connection with immigration a new note is being sounded. It is being pointed out that one reason that Britishers will not readily e'ome to Canada is that social provisions in England, are far in advance of thbse in this country. In England they have sick benefits; old age pensions, unemployment insurance, and other securities against adversity. Little wonder that they are reluctant to leave all this behind and migrate to a country which in its social legislation is far down on the list ■ -\ ...*•■»'"• • ■ A recent press despatch from Quebec records that Mr. C. J. Magnan, president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, delivered at Loyola Hall, characterized the old age pension law as anti-Christian. Mr. Magnan's position seems to be that the law would deprive children of the duty of looking after their parents in old age. Fortunately, there is another French-Canadian viewpoint. Father Label has recently issued a pamphlet strongly urging family allowances. In all probability this subject will be under discussion at the next session of the House. ( lths In an address some months ago Mr. George H. Smith, president of the Dominion Mortgage & Invest ments Association, made a vigorous plea for "vested rights." He quoted: "In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The ten commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing." But this, takes the whole question for granted. How did these so-called "vested rights" come into exist- Teamsters Enroll 150 Members During Year Delegate* BaTtlett. reporting for the Organization Committee at the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday, informed the delegates that he had attended the anniversary meeting of the" Teamsters' & Chauffeurs' Union, where he found a packed meeting. The union initiated 1.7 new members and had increased their membership by 150 during the past year. This, he said, was a good showing, and was effected by the men working together without friction to build up the union. Tfe suggested that other unions could follow the same example and help increase the membership of their'respective unions. ourselves aboilt the sacredness of "vested rights." We feel inclined to quote to Mr. Smith his own verse, that notwithstanding all legal -enactments giving special rights to these big corporations, "the ten commandments will not budge, and stealing will be stealing." * * • 7~ This session has been almost barren of legislation. With all the pomp and expense and business, we have simply managed to keep the machine of parliament going. From our standpoint, as minority groups, we have perhaps helped to prevent some useless expenditure and bad legislation, and on the other hand have perhaps opened up new fields of discussion. The Committee on Returned Soldiers' Problems has undoubtedly done good work, but unfortunately the legislation which it prepared has been badly torn to pieces in the Senate. The Immigration Committee managed to get itself sidetracked over the. qiiestion of permits, and the report must be a somewhat fum- the support of all who are interested I. L. P. Withdraws from Canadian Labor Party At a special mass convention, of the Independent Labor Party held on Sunday last it was decided that owing to the disorganized condition of the Canadian Labor Party the Independent Labor Party withdraw its affiliation and carry on independent political action. The following members of the party were selected to contest the forthcoming Provincial election:* Vancouver City—Alderman Angus Maclnnis and Robert Skinner. Burnaby — Frank A. Browne, M.L.A. South Vancouver—R. H. Neeiands, M.L.A. Alberni—T. A. Barnard. Cowichan-Newcastle—Sam Guthrie. Comox—William Law.. These candidates are well and favorably known in the movement as they have been active in the trade union and political fields for a number of years and are well worthy of bling compromise between the abuse of those who urge an aggressive immigration policy and the growing number of those who urge that the standards of national welfare should be conserved. The Agricultural Committee had some very useful information with regard to grain grading. The results of this will undoubtedly manifest themselves later in departmental action. Our group was able to secure a discussion of the national banking system, and to have this and the question of unemployment insurance referred to committees, where they receive more or less publicity. Concrete action can come only when there is sufficient public opinion to force the government to take action. There have been a number of dis ence? Surely stealing is something '^"ST'm:-6^^^"'!™^?!11-*1 else than petty larceny? We think of the two private bills asking for greater capitalization that have been before the House, namely: the Sun Life and the Bell Telephone. In the case of the Sun Life, $56,- 000,000 from profits have been taken from policy-holders. Last year's profits of $225,000 were divided among the shareholders on the original investment of $305,000, or at the rate of 73.8 per cent. If the bill promoted by the Sun Life passes the House it will enable the shareholders to receive something like 140 per cent. Why should this go to the shareholders instead of to the policy-holders? When we consider the enormous amounts that are being spent in lobbying, we begin to wonder just how sacred "vested interests" really are. Or, take the case of the Bell Telephone Company. It has as a subsidiary the Northern Electric Company. The Railway Commission has the right to inquire concerning the profta of the Bell Telephone Company, but no right to make inquiries concerning the Northern Electric Company, which makes all the apparatus for the Bell Telephone Company, as well as for the provincial companies in the West. Why should the bill be given the further right to mulct the public? Again, we ask questions. Miss McPhail's resolution urged the establishment of a peace bureau; Mr. Irwin's resolution suggested legislation providing for the conscription of all our national resources in the event of war; Mr. Adshead's resolution urged the signing of the optional clause of the peace treaty, and Mr. Bourassa's the giving full effect to the new status. These discussions, together with opposition to the increased expenditure lot-.national, defence, fairly—welLinr. dicate our efforts along peace lines. In matters relating directly to labor, we were able to secure fair wage clauses in private bills. This is somewhat of a departure, as hitherto such clauses have appeared only in contracts on government works. There is, however, a growing recognition that it is in the public interest that decent conditons of labor should generally prevail. Along'this line we have also urged, this year, that if protection is to be given to industry it should involve the protection of the standards of living for the workers engaged in that indus tjpy. Mr. Deachman's work in con nection with the Consumers' League has clearly shown that frequently the "protection" asked for is more than the entire wage bill. The. Htt.usi- passed amendments to .(Continued on page 8) n the* advancement of the cause of Labor. An urgent appeal is made to all supporters for moral and financial help. The only ones we may look to for this assistance are the, members of the working class. Each one is asked to do the best he can. All contributions will he acknowledged. H. W. Speed, president of the Street Railwaymen's Union and member of South Vancouver I. L. P.; J. Sida- way, Mount Pleasant I. L. P., and J. M. Holmes, South West Burnaby 1. L. P., comprise the finance committee. Donations should be sent to H. W. Speed, 4560 James street, Vancouver, B. C; Those who are willing to devote a little time during the campaign may send their names and addresses to members of the committee or the candidates. With each one doing his part we are bound to win. <r «ARY TO MEET fyKo. 171 will hold in the Board Room Building, 752 Thur- low. street, on Wednesday, July 4th, at 8 p.m. Wives, mothers and daughters of members of the various carpenters' unions in the city are invited to attend. CARPEN^ Ladie. ~ an open h. of the Wom> Carpenters Prepare To Elect Officers The annual jneeting of Local 452, U. B. of C. & Joiners, will be held on Monday at 8 p.m. in Ambassador Auditorium, 610 Seymour street. Important business affecting the local will be discussed, also election of officers for the next term. Fourteen new members were initiated at the meeting of June 11th. The following members have been 'nominated, and further .nominations can be made at this meeting before final election takes*place: For President—-W. Page, J. G. Smith, M. Clark. Vice-President—J. Nicholson, H. Basley. Recording Secretary—W. Page. Financial Secretary—C. Atkinson, R. W. Hatley, F, Piatt, C. Thorn. Treasurer and Business' Agent— W. Hargreaves. 'I ;" Conductor—J. Tough, G. Hill. Warden—M. Clark. Trustees—E. Gillham, J. Tough, H. Conwav, H. Baslev, J. Nicholson, A. G. McCullum. District Council (5)—R. W. Hat- lev, C. Atkinson, W. Crisp, W. Page, G.' Gilmore, J. G. Smith, M. Clark. Building Trades Council (6)—E. Small, P. Harland, J. Harris, W. Hargreaves, A. Wallace, A. G. McCullum, W. Page, F. Piatt Trades and Labor Council (8) — O. Shellenberg, W. Page, W. Hargreaves, C. Atkinson, J. G. Smith, C. Johnson, P. Welsh, R. J. Wilson. Executive (4)—W. Hargreaves, J. Tough, M. McKenzie, E. Small, T. Irwin, G. Atkinson, P. Welsh, H. Basley. It is expected that quite a spirited, contest will be held for the variapijs offices. Results will be published in next issue of the Labor Statesman. —W. H. BLACKSMITHS ORGANIZING Delegate Bartlett informed the Trades Council on Tuesday that the Blacksmiths' Union had launched an organizing campaign and had enrolled another nine members. Practically all the railway blacksmiths are now in the union, he said, and looked forward to greater improvements in their working conditions. This Printer, Grown Rich, Did Not Forget MINNEAPOLIS.—Forty years ago Erick Hauser was a union printer "sticking type" on the Minneapolis Journal. Like many other workers he had no savings, and when he been mrsidrfre-waT'WttRolirTumls."Like many other workers, sick and without money, he was aided by his brother unionists. Printers changed jobs frequently in those days, and Hauser, shortly after recovering from his sickness, was stricken with an attack of "itching feet." He took the only "cure" known at that time to sufferers from this malady-—he moved on to another Only a few oldtfimers of the Minneapolis union remembered Hauser when, five years ago', he sent the Journal chapel of the typographical union a $1,000 cheque for its sick fund. The once down and put printer had journeyed west^^gone into the ho'tefveusiness at PoffilinS, Ore., and becdme a millionaire. Ev.#ry year since the■ first, cheque arrived 'in 1928 the "man who did not forgel" has made a $1,000 dona- SEATTLE TEAMSTERS COMING TO VANCOUVER ON JUNE 30 The Seattle Joint Council of Teamsters have arranged to visit Vancouver on June 30th, and will hold a meeting in the Holden building on that date at 7:30 p.m. Labor Party Sends Invitation to You An open meeting for Labor Party sympathizers will be held in the A. O. F. hall on Main street, between 6th and 7th avenues, almost opposite the I. .0. O. F. hall, on Monday evening, June 25th at 8 p.m.- Persons who are willing to aid in the campaign of the I. L. P. or who are interested in its policy are invited to attend. Campaign headquarters will be opened shortly in Vancouver, South Vancouver and Burnaby where you can bring your friends J« obtain further information. The time is short, hence we intend to make this a snappy campaign, but we need your help. Attend the meeting on Monday and find out what you can do in a personal way to HELP LABOR WIN. Burnaby Councillor Has Queer Ideas Councillor Gray of Burnaby was given the privilege of addressing the Trades Council on Tuesday to defend his attitude on the Burnaby municipal council from criticisms that had been levelled at him by members of the.CJ.vic Employees' Union. He took theistand that he had opposed a wage increase because he did not think that the municipality could afford it, and that it would not increase the efficiency of the employees. He informed the delegates that he opposed granting the employees a conciliation board because he did not think conciliation was any good. He inferred that the employees had no chance with an arbitration board, therefore he opposed it. During the questions and discussion it was pointed out that Councillor Gray ha\ favored basing the "Fair Wage CfeuW" in municipal contracts with smaller municipalities than Burnaby, but would not take wages paid in all the surrounding district-! as a basis. He admitted favoring an increase to municipal councillors, but not to the lower-paid employees. Wages of higher-paid officials had been increased, but about nine lower-paid employees had been denied an increase of $5 per month which they had asked for. STAGE DRIVERS ORGANIZE Pacific Stage Drivers handling busses on various routes out of Vancouver have been enrolled in the Taxi Drivers' Union. Secretary Bengough and Birt Showier have be,en -on-thin work for-the past few weelnr and are greatly pleased with the success obtained. STREET RAILWAYMEN The Street Railwaymen's Union voted $50 to the Provincial Election Campaign fund of the Independent Labor Party. A notice of motion is ons the books, to withdraw from the C. L. P. SOUTH, VAN. I. L. P. South Van. Branch of the I. L. P. will hold a special, meeting in the Horticultural Hall, 43rd and Fraser, on Friday, June 22, at 8 p.m. All members are urged to attend.—W. Ford, Secretary. tion to the local sick ' fund. The thousand-dollar cheque for 1928 arrived a few days ago. still remembered. UNION PICNICS Painters' Union have preparations well in hand for a monster picnic on Saturday, July 14th, at Sejma Park. All kinds of sports have been arranged for and valuable prizes for the competitors. Loads of refreshments will be on hand for both adults and children. « * * Vancouver Carpenters are busily completing arrangements for another big picnic to be held at Bowcn Island on Saturday, July 21. Arrangements have been made to close down practically all construction work on that day in order that the union men and their families can be at the picnic. v Twenty sport events have been arranged, with prizes ranging from $1.50 to $15. * * • Sheet Metal Workers will be out in full strength at their annual basket picnic, if plans of the committee mateFialize-as-ia-ei-epectcd. 'T-hc~Sheet-^r~ Metal Workers are going to Bo'wen Island on Saturday. July 28, and arrangements are being made for a number of interesting sport events, with valuable prizes for the winners. Plenty of refreshments will be on hand for both adults and children. . ELECTRICAL WORKERS The inside Wiremcn of Electrical Workers' Union 213 arc negotiating for a new wage agreement calling for $9 per day. WARNING TO ADVERTISERS Buiineti houses in Vancouver and vicinity are warned against placing advertisements in a so-called UNION LABEL GU+DE; "^Hiw-^rnhhr-lr mot endorsed by the Trades and Label Council nor any of Us affiliated unions and ■»• no connection With any" union label, Erick Hauler I local unions using th . . . . . [.shop card or button '■ > Two THEXLABOR STATESMAN Friday, June 22, 1928 T. J. Kearney & Co. Funeral Directors and Embalmara New Chapel and Parlors Private Ambulance Service 802 Broadway W Pbon. Fair. 9 Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealers U8 Cordova W. tenon* Boy. 8637 See Ua About Broken Glass In Windows, Automobiles. Mirrors. Showcases, etc. Art Glass Repaired Minora Be-sllvered The Passing of Mrs. Pankhurst ronizeJJ wnole Wheat FLOUR EVERY HOME NEEDS IT. MAKE SURE YOU GET IT- AMD NOTHING ELSE. It la Rich in Nourishment— DELICIOUS tut anrnmun or m movukc or anna ctwiwi Synopsis of Land let Amendments PBE-EMPTIONS Vac-Jet, unreserved, surveyed r Crown lands mas*be pre-empted by British subjects over**T4 years of a-ye, and by aliens on declaring Intention to become British subjects, condfrkmal upon residence, occupation and lnhu^vemeOKfor agrtcut tural purposes. Pull Information concerning regulations regarding pre-emptions Is given ln 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 be granted covering only : lahds suitable for agricultural purposes, . and which Is not timberland. I.e., carrying over 5,000 board feet per acre west of the Coast Range and 8,000 feet per acre east of that range. Applications for pre-emptions are to be addressed to the Land Commissioner ot the Land Recording Division In which the land applied for is situated, and are made on printed forms, copies of which can be obtained from the Land Commissioner. Pre-emptions must be occupied for live years and Improvements made to value of $10 per acre. Including clearing and cultivating at least five acres, before a Crown Grant can be received. For more detailed Information see the Bulletin,,"How to Pre-empt Land." Applications are received for purchase of vacant and unreserved Crown lands. not being timberland, for agricultural purposes; minimum price for first-class (arable) land la $5 per acre, and second- class (graslng) land 52.50 per acre. Further information regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands Is given In Bulletin No. 10, Land Series, '^Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands." V Mill, factory or industrial sites, on. timber land not exceeding 40 acres may be purchased or leased, the conditions including payment of stumpage. HOXESiTE LEASES LnsurVeyed areas, not exceeding 20 acres,' maybe leased as homesites, conditional uriOn a dwelling being erected in the first year, title being obtainable after residence and Improvement conditions are fullfilled and land has ' been surveyed. For graxmg and Industrial purposes areas not exceeding 640 acres may. be leased by one person or a company. GRAZING Under the Graslng Act the Province is divided Into grazing districts and the range administered under a Grazing Commissioner. Annual grazing permits are Issued based on • numbers ranged, priority being glyen to establlSh-Wowo- ersi 'Stock owners may form assoclat- . Jons for jr-iiis". management. Free, or. —^Tllall-r-'-f«e*.-perm1ts-STB"'a*?iBlaWa for settlers, campsrs and ■ travellers, op to ten.head. ':'.,.- .' By F, W. Moore The passing of Mrs. Pankhurst will touch a tender spot in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. To understand her claim to our devotion it is necessary to give a short epitome of the suffragette movement that will serve to throw an explanatory gleam of light on its import. The fight for women's rights, be it understood, is a question that ..affect^ the welfare of all humanity. This is so for more than one reason. To begin with, there has come into effect since the development of modern industrial machinery a competition between men and women sufficiently strong to require the attention of both. Then, again, in questions of war and peace, freedom and slavery, we have only exercised in the past one of two factors that constitute the judgment of humanity— the men's, as distinguished from the men's and women's, decision. The leaders of men have always managed to sway their brethren in favor of sanguinary struggles for gain of some sort. Even those who fought for the emancipation of slaves in the States did so because a wage slave who needs only to be looked after for a few months annually is far cheaper than a chattel slave who must be kept in excellent working and negotiable condition all the year round. On the other hand, the leaders of women, reacting to the maternal instinct, would in all likelihood sway their followers in the interests of human wealth; especially will this be so when they have had time to develop the peculiar feminine viewpoints that will replace those unconsciously imposed by the environment of a man-governed world. Government inspired solely by either sex is bound to be defective; but the checking influence that one will ultimately have on the other-will surely act in favor of all; Today most people regard the work of the suffragettes with enthusiasm, but there was a time when opposition to it was at intense as it was ridiculous. After a suffrage bill was passed in New -Zealand in 1893 Max O'Rell, who happened to be passing through at the time, remarked "that the grandest country on earth was going to be turned into a howling wilderness." The anti-suffragette ladies (Tennyson's "lesser men") put it on record that "the normal experience of women does not and never can provide them with such material to form a sound judgment on great political affairs as men possess." Unconsciously they proved their own insincerity by straightway forming very strong opinions expressed in work for and against the Irish Home Rule Bill. Was it any wonder that amidst this farrage of contradictory opinions an extraordinary phenomena in 1903 attracted the attention of the civilized world to the feminine firmament in which appeared two new stars of the first magnitude. Their peculiar light radiating lustrously through the suffragette atmosphere was a source of universal attention. For a while, it created internal dissension, but finally proved itself to be an advertising medium of transcendental importance. Humanity, one morning in the year mentioned saw the following headlines in the current numbers of the daily press: "Women's Social and Political Union." Two years later the items regarding the organization were so astoundingly strange that mankind forgot to finish its breakfast. It discovered that the title of the organization launched by Mrs. and Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, namely, "The Women's Political and Social Union" was a synonym of the term "militant."' Yet later they discovered that the militaiicy was not so bad as the name would imply. It was,, however, sufficiently wicked to serve the purpose mentioned. There were a few panes of glass broken oc; casionally; a few meetings were llisi turbed now and then; a few unconventional visits paid to super-prominent persons, but in no cqse was serious crime committed. Surely Mrs. Pankhurst was a harmle'ss and almost sublime enthusiast always ready to suffer in the cause of justice, and the suffragettes, be it remembered, at one time suffered quits considerably. A water hose was occasionally turned on prisoners; three months in jail was voluntarily served by a young girj because she - refused to be bound to keep the peace which she was prepared to swear she hadn't disturbed. But whatever we thirik of their actions, we must respect their motives and nobody was more worthy gave in establishing the means, now in use, of the political education essential to the development of (he. women of the world and incidentally to man's progress also; for nature on pain of eventual destruction insists that her laws must benefit nothing less than the whole group. Thus is the accomplishment of her ideals slowly but surely progressing. And to keep the import of those ideals constantly fresh there is nothing I would enjoy better than to hear of her remains being covered by a monument as large as the Pyramid of Gizeh in Egypt. Surely, Khufus' twenty-four years conventional government as a Pharaoh was no more deserving of such recognition, than the splendid original services rendered to humanity by the late Mrs. E. Pankhurst. Border Crossing Up To Supreme Court The United States supreme court will be asked to answer the question, Are Canadian workers in the United States immigrants or -non-immigrants? This was made known a few days ago by the dep'artmfcn^ of justice, which will ask the high court to review a decision of the circuit court of appeals for the second district. Jay Treaty Revived An interesting sidelight is that the Jay treaty, signed by the United States and Great Britain in 1794, was invoked to favor Canadian workers. In the case of Mary Cook and Antonio Danelon, British subjects residing in Canada, the former seek ing to obtain employment in the United States and the latter to continue existing employment, both returning to Canada each night, the lower court decided they were within their rights. The court held that the secretary of labor had no authority to prescribe regulations requiring such persons to obtain quota immigration visas,under the 1924 immigration act, because they were not immigrants, but non-immigrants, temporarily in the United States on business. Entitled to Cross Border It was further held that the Jay treaty was still in effect, and that under its provisions both aliens, being British subjects, were entitled to cross and recross the border for the purpose of business and commerce. _ The department of lsbor, htving made a ruling in compliance with the immigration quota law, now pro- noses to push the question to a final conclusion in the supreme court. SENATE OF NOVA SCOTIA DIES AT AGE OF 170 YEARS Halifax. N.S.—The non-elective legislative council, or provincial senate, of Nova Scotia, passed out of existence last week, after having been part of the legislative machinery for 170 years. This marked the end of a 50-year fight to abolish the senate. Quebec remains the only province where a provincial second chamber is maintained. A REVOLUTION Something over half a century ago the introduction of the mechanical reaper and then of the binder— which, as' well as reaping the corn, binds it into sheaves—revolutionized agricultural methods. And now the introduction of the "combine" is again 'altering the whole technique of .grain farming. For the "combine," drawn and driven by a tractor, not only reaps but threshes as it goes. A U.S. gov- ernmejiLrepart says that the cost pe-p^-aere of harvesting and threshing Js only, about $2.. as casi{jasail*=«»»ith over $4 with binder and stationary thresher. It is not surprising' that, though the firstj'combine" only appeared in 1918, today over one-third of the Kansas wheat is cut by "combine." Within a few years they say nothing else will be used in the West. And then—what happens to the farm-workers and the "hoboes" of the big grain belt? .There will only be one-third of the labor needed at harvest time. of respect than that splendid speci men of kind-hearted; gentle, militant | woni.Ssfeond ^0g-*^assj|5^_aU .latets "Thisi...disPOveryvhas provided a new~ 'of7 freedom will regard with sorrow^ ' ' .The outstanding result of '. her efforts is related * to the aid * she FIRE DESTROYS VALUABLES! BURGLARS STEAL THEM! Safety Deposit Boxes Protect Them! for the small cost of only $3—Three Dollars per Year—$3 Hours from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday 1 p.m. VANCOUVER SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING BLDG., PENDER AT HOMER RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggists" Ws Make a Spsolal Mttort to cut Goods Ont tor First Mail Altar Bsostpi of TOur Order. COXITES COBSOV1 AHB OABBllL - YAXOOOTMX, X. O. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER Your PARTY or SOCIAL is NOT Complete without ALMOND'S ICE CREAM PHONE DOUGLAS 3 6 Thirsty? DRINK WHISTLE CROSS & CO., Mfrs. FAIRMONT 1173 Using Slogan on Municipal Ownership London.—Capital invested in public utilities by British municipalities is estimated at about $3,000,000,000. This "municipal trading," as it is called in this country, is in general highly profitable. In every instance the rates charged under public ownership are much lower than those which prevailed under "private enterprise.". "The most striking fact about water, trams, gas and electricity," says Mr. E. D. Simon, a recognized authority, "is that there is not a single case in this country of one of these four services reverting to private ownership after being municipalized." Practically all of them were under private ownership in the beginning, and were municipalized because no other way could be found of stopping extortion. The slogan in Brjtish towns is that "mnnicipal trading pays." Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.—Alexander Smith. ELECTION TOPICS "The Full Dinner Pail" and how it will be played up during the coming election, and< how the ordinary wbrkingman will fall for it all, will be Rev. Richmond Craig's theme on Sunday evening. Better be on time. Last Monday's meeting had the "pep" all right. No preachers were admitted. The old-line politicians are wondering what it was all about. Well, in plain English, the working- man in First Church is "fed up" on promises. He is organizing to get his own share, of representation. Next Monday',s meeting will be interesting. The annual open air Coventicle will be held on Sunday at 3:30 in Hastings Park. The General Gordon school band, under the leadership of Mr. A. W. Delamont, will lead the musical service. Last year over 5,- 000 people attended. A collection is taken for the Fresh Air Camp Fund. First Church has a large fresh air camp on Gambier Island. Last year 500 mothers and children were given a ten days' holiday. Principal John MacKay, D.D., of Winnipeg preaches in the morning. Moss Used for Insulating Houses Swedish builders have recently discovered that sphagnum jnoss, which grows abundantly in the northern swamps and lowlands of Scandinavia, is an excellent jnsulating 'material..j ior, houses, parjjfeularly*. dwellings, ... Tnt*- rli^c.nverv ■' Kh*» nrnvirloil ■» no«r- iise for many thousands of idle lands which up to the present time have been considered worthless? HAPPYLAND, HASTINGS PARK Fn-Jay/June 22, 1928 rMJf ABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory Pepping Up the Union Meeting Taaconrar Trades and I*bor MuaD- r-reslaent. J. Thomson; general secretary, Percy R. Bengough. Office. 101 Holden Bldg,, 16 Hastings East. Phone Sey. 7495. Meeta In Labor Hall at « p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays In month. •• ■ ■ Beverage Dispensers Union Xo. 676 m.VLla J81" Sunday at 8 p.m.. Room 310, Hnlden Bldg. Prealdent. W. H Clancy: Secretary and Business Agent T. J. Hanofln. Office: Room 5. Flack Block: Phones: Sey. -1783 and Bay 16r,*i-lt. Hours: 9 to 12 a.m. ■ridge ft structural Iron Workers, Looal B7, Int. Also.—Meets every Monday, Room 804 Holden Bide, at 8 pm ' President, W. L. Yule, 5881 Argyle St; Secretary, P. Lauret, Box 302, City. Phone Fair. 2108L. ■nildlng Trades council Taaoouver Meets second and fourth Tuesday In Holden Building. President, E H MorriBon: Secretary-treas., w. Page, Room 815. Holden Bldg.; Sey. 7495. Bakers' Local 468, Journeymen, of America—Meets second Saturday ln month at 8 p.m.-'-Prealdent. A. Morris 2834 Vine St.; sec, T. Rlgby, 8651 Commercial Dr. Phone Fair. 4049. Kill and Factory Workers' Union, Local Ho. 1599 — Affiliated with United: Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners.* Meets llrst and third Thursdays In Room 213 Holden Bldg. President, H. C. Matthews: Business Agent, R. J. Imlor, 815 Holden Bldg. Rec. Secretary. H. G. Avery. MlUwrlghts Local 1638—-Construction and Operating—Meets second and fourth Wednesday in Holden Bldg. D. Olllis. president; P. H. Edge. Fin. Sec: J. .Murray Ure, Hec. Sec. Box 127. Motion Pictures Projectionists' Union, Local 348 of I.A.T.S.E. & M.P.M.O.— Meets first Friday: Irt each month at 11:30 pm. in the Holden Bldg. President. J. R. Foster; Secretary, Geo. Gerrard, Box 345. Business Phone: Sey. 3923. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, Local 145, A. r. of M.—Meets at the G. W. V. A.-Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President. B. C. Miller; recording secretary, W. Edmunds; financial secretary. W. E. Williams; .organizer, F. Fletcher, all at 9&1 Nelson Street. Barbara,' Journeyman International Un-i Ion of America—Local 120. meets second and fourth Tuesdays In each month In Room 310 Labor Hall, 18 Hastings East. Pres.. Fred. Bawe; , See.-treas, C. E. Herrett, Office 814 .Holden Bldg. Painters, Decorators and Paperbangera,, Local 138—Meets second and fourth' Thursdays at 13 Hastings W. President, H. Edwards: Rec. Sec. A. E. Varah, 1442 Clark Drive: Buslnessl Agent, A. B. Hodge. Office, room 34, 163 Hastings W. Phone Sey. 3609. Bookbinder! Looal Xo. 106, 1st. arotber- hood—Meeta second Tuesday (a month at Professional and Business Woman's Club. Empire Bldg.. (03 Hastings W. President, G. Low, (1 63rd Ave. W.; secretary. Thoa. Carroll, 842 Hamilton Street. Pile Drivers, Bridge, wharf and Dock Bulldera, Local No. 2404—Meets every Friday night at 8 p.m. ln 122 Hastings St W. James Thomson, secretary, P. O. Box 320. S. O'Connor, president. Bricklayers', Masons' and Tile Setters' Int. Union Ho. 1—Meets second and fourth Wednesdayln the Holden Bldg. President, G. E. Halllday; Secretary, W. S. Man-null, 1244 20th Ave. E. Phone Fair. 845R. J. H. Riley, Fin. Secretary, 5884 Inverness St ■ Camp and Mill WorkerB Federal Labor Union Mo. 31—Vancouver and vicinity meets every second Wednesday at 8 p.m. at 644 Powell St. East Prealdent, H. Mlyazawa; Secretary. K. Tsuyukl. Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Local 453—President, R. J Thompson; financial secretary, R. W. Hatley; business agent, W. Hargreaves. Office, Room 801 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m. ottr BaU Employees' Association meets flrst Wednesday of each month at 2r.lW Hastings E.. at 8 p.m. President. W. H. Lewtlrwaite: treasurer, W. J. Strlbblns, 3208 Pender St. E.: Secretary, J. Tarbuck. 2792 Pender East Plasterers, Local 89—Operative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International Association, meets first and third Wednesday in moth at Holden Bldg. President, J. S. Wood, 3525 29th Ave. W., phone Bay. 4996: Secretary, A. Hurry. 861 34th Ave. E.. phone Fair. 3222R. Cement Finishers' Secretary, J. Keiller. »81 63rd Ave. E., phone Fraser 487 L. Plumbers and Steamfltters, No, 170, International Asso. of—Meets every 2nd and 4 th Friday in the Holden Bldg. President, R. Simpson; secretary and business agent, W. Watt, 813 Holden Buildings Point Grey Municipal Employees' Association, Looal Bo. 3— Meets second Monday of each month at the Masonic Hall, Kerrlsdalo, 8 p.m. President, D. Rosa Sc-uair, 3728.30th W.; Secretary, A. Patterson. 8179 Hudson Street Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Local No. 69—Meets every second Tuesday in the month at 8 p.m. ln Room 213 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President. Harry F. Longley, 303 8th St., North Van.; Secretary. Thos. S. Ezart, 1603 40th B}„ So. Vancouver. Olvlo Employees' Union, Looal 28 — MeetB flrst nnd third Fridays In the month at 251H Hastings 15.. at 8 p.m. President, R. N. Hogg, 1718 Commercial Dr.; secretary-treasurer, George Harrison, 1182 Parker St Electrical Workers, Local 213, International Brotherhood—Meets every Monday at 8 p.m., 404 Homer St.. President J. B. Brown; business agent, E. H. Morrison. Office, 404 Homer St Engineers-—International Union Steam and Operating Local 844—Meets every Thursday at 8 p.m. Room 806. Holden Bldg. President, E. O. St Denis; rec sec, Geo. Pettaplece; Fin. Sec. & Bus. Agent, T. A. Newbigglng. Office, Room 806 Holden Building. Fire Fighters, No. 18, International Association of—Meets every month at call of president, at IS1M Hastings E. Prealdent, N. McDonald. 1136 McLean Drlvek financial secretary. C. A. Wat son, ltt 13th Ave. E. A Floorlayers' Union, No. 1875, O. B. of C. & J. of A., meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays In 310 Holden Bldg.. at 8 p.m. President, E. C. Woodward: Fin, Sec, T. H. Hamlin; Rec. Sec, W. D Wilson, 1685 5th Ave. W. Bod Carriers aad Building Laborers, No, 602, International. Meets first and third Friday in month at Holden Building. President, C. Lawson, 1831 3rd Ave. W. Fin. Sec. and Business Agent, J. A. Barrlngton, 4281 Welwyn Street. Phone Fair. 1484L. Hotel aad Kestaurant Employees aad Marine Cooks ft Stewards, Loeal 28— 441 Seymour St., meets second Monday each month at 8 p.m., last Mondays at 9 p.m. President. Thos. Edwards; Sec.-Treas. and Bus Agent, J. Cummlng. Phone Sey. 126. Ladies' Auxiliary. Local 171 — United Brotherhood of Oarf-eatars — Meeta every first and third Wednesday of - each month la Hft.,H->'d*n..Building, at I p.m. President, Mrs. Nickels, 2388 Forty-second Ave. E.; secretary, Elisabeth J. Hope, 1138 Seymour St. Phone Sey. V074L. Lathers, Wood, Wire aad Metal, Inter- national Union, Looal 207—Meets 2nd and 4th Mondays In month, at room • 208, Holden Bldg. W. Fontaine, secretary, 1828 Commercial Drive; High. 3169 it BaUway Carmen of America, Lodge No. 58—Meets first and third Friday In month at Cotillon Hall. Granville and Davie "streets. President. H. Warde. 1102 Twenty-third Ave. E.; secretary, J. D. Vullamy, 2215 Fifteenth Ave. W. Street-.and Electric Bailwny Employees, Pioneer Division No. 101—Meets K I1. Hall, Eighth and Kingsway, 1st and 3rd Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, H. W. Speed; Recording Secretary. J. Price; Treas., E. G. Ker- mode; Financial Secretary ad Business Agent, A. J. Harraway. Office: Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Seymour 6000. Sheet Metal Workers Association, Looal Union No. 280 — Meets second and fourth Thursday In month' In Holden Building, 18 Hastings Street E. President, A. Fisher. 1952 4th Avenue W.; business agent and secretary. D. Mac- Phersen, 807 Holden Bldg. Shingle Weavers, Looal 17813—Meeta second Tuesday In month, ln Room No. 2. Labor Temple, New Westminster, and 4th Sunday, 7:J» p.m., ln Room 318 Holden Bldg., Vancouver. Preaident If N. Chute, Phone Hlch. 1982-T; sec, W. H. Matthew, 8488 Irving St. Tailors', journeymen Union ot America. Looal No. TO—Meetings held first Thursday In each month. 8 p.m. Executive meeta third Thursday of every month ln Labor Hall. Prealdent, F. Franco; secretary, C. McDonald P.O. Box 603. Executive meeta third Thursday of every month. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen aad Helpers, Loeal 466—Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 310 Holden Bldg. President, A. 'A. McKay, 765 Cambie St.; Secretary-treasurer, A. P. Black, 880 Homer St Theatrical Stage Bmployeee' Uaiea, Local 116 of the I.A.T.S Jl. ft M.PJi.O. —Meeta at 181 Nelson Street on the second Friday In month, at 8:80 a.m. Prealdent. Walter Copp: Secretary, H. Pearson; Bus. Agent, A. Harrington; Address P. O. Box 711. Typographical Union, No. 226—President, _C. S. Campbell; Vice-President, R7 Gouthro";' Secretary-Treasurer"," "R- H. Neeiands, P.O. Box 88.. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m-. in Women's Bldg.. Thurlow street Upholsterer*, Looal No. 28—Meets at 813 Holden Bldg,* second and fourth Mondays. President, P. Cllft, 382B Keith road east. North Vancouver; Cor. Secretary, J. W. Gordon, 2281 Welllgton avenue, South Vancouver. Machinist Local eW^Presldent. Thos. Sills, 1352 Burrard St.: Secretary. P. R. Bengough. Office, 807 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays In month. Vancouver Mailers, Local No. 70—Meets flrst Tuesday In each month. 6:30 p.m. In room 804, Holden Building, 16 Hastings St. E President, A. R. C. Holmes, 8439 Cypress St; Sec-Treas., HE E. Fader, 2718 Oxford St; High. 4110R. Milk Wagon Driven aad Dairy Employees, Loeal 464—Meets aecond and fourth Friday In.Labor Hall. l*MTas- tlugs' St. E. President. J. A. Parry: Secretary-Treasurer, Blrt Showier, 2841 Triumph. Phone High. 5327. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS aecond Thursday la each month. President. S. D. Mo- Donald. Box 868. Secretary. Frank Derrr. Box 4(8, Prince Rupert, B.C. Not a Good Bluffer Wifey (just back from visit): "Did you have many callers while I was away?". Hub: "Every time J tried to bluff —-er—I mean no, my dear, not many." LESSON IX. How to Write the Minutes The recording secretary of every labor meeting should take down the minutes of that meeting. The minutes include- all the motions passed at such meeting and all the reports submitted. The minutes should be brief and exact in wording so that there cannot be misunderstanding. They should never express the personal opinion of the secretary or any other official; they should be an impartial record of the action taken at a meeting. It is best for the secretary to make a rough draft of the minutes while business is going on and copy the draft afterwards into the minute book. For this purpose ink should be used and the minutes signed and dated by the secretary. It is important to preserve minutes, since they are accepted as the official record of the organization in case of legal difficulties. Do not include discussion in the minutes; simply record the motions and reports. Minutes should be recorded as follows: Minutes of the Meeting of June 15, v1928. The meeting of Local 287 was called to order by President Brown. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Report of the Finance Committee. Recommended that the following bills be paid: Statesman Printing Dept. for office supplies, $8.15. Salaries for week ending June 23, $45.00. Report accepted. Report of the Grievance Committee. The Grievance Committee having made a thorough investigation and haying found that on Wednesday, June 6th, Bro. Dawson ate in a nonunion restaurant, recommends that he be fined $5. Amendment made that Bro. Dawson be fined $10. Amendment lost. Original recommendation carried. Report of Membership Committee. Recommended that the following workers be admitted to the organization upon payment of the initiation fee: Sam Robbins, Dave Sinclair and Ethel Coulter. Amendment made that Sam Rob- bins be rejected. Amendment to the amendment made that Sam Robbins be required to appear before the Grievance Committee and explain why he acted as a scab in the Lang strike. Amendment to the amendment lost. Amendment carried. Original recommendation earned. Report of Education Committee. Recommended that the local provide two scholarships ol $5 each for its members in the new Labor College. Carried. New Business. Motion made that the local subscribe in a body to the Labor Statesman at the rate of 16 cents a month for each dues-paying member. Carried. Motion made that our national president be censured for his adSrcss before the National Forum Association in New York. Motion lost. National Organizer Harry Rear- born addressed the meeting on the situation in the coal strike and the Buffalo trolley strike. He brought assurahces from the national office that three new national organizers would be sent into this territory before Christmas to conduct a campaign among unorganized workers. Motion made that the national office be asked to send organizers here before December 1st. Carried. Meeting adjourned at 11 p.m. A motion may be stricken off the minutes by three-fourths vote. In such a case, the motion is not mentioned by the secretary when writing his minutes, unless it had already been recorded at a previous meeting. In this case, the secretary repeats the original motion in the minutes and records the facts that it has been ordered expunged. Motions Which Cannot Be Discussed Adjourn. Close Nominations. Lay on the Table. Objection to the Consideration of a Question. Previous Question, and all motions limiting debate. Motions relating to Methods of Voting, as, for example, a motion to have a ballot vote. THE ESTHER BAKERY Get your Cakes at this bakery MAKERS OF HOV IS Also Makers ol the Best While, Raisin and Nut Bread Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor aad Dealer House Wiring, Fixtures, Lamps, Batteries Olu 370 4098 Hastings It. X. Object Lesson in Unionism The value of organization to the workers has just had two striking illustrations irf Washington. One is the passage of the Welch bill, giving civil service employees outside the post office department wage increases amounting to approximately $20,- 000,000 a year. The 'other is the nassage of the l«w granting additional pay for night work in the postal service. Both these achievements are the result of organized effort, and of nothing else. Few outsiders realize what a' terrific grade Uncle Sam's workers had to climb to get the very moderate measure of justice which they now enjoy. Theodore Roosevelt, when president, issued the famous gag rule, forbidding government* employees to present their grievances to congress. While anyone else in the land had the right to petition congress for relief, government workers were barred ! They could make known their grievances only through their superiors—which meant in practice that every effort was strangled with bureaucratic red tape. At one time the rule forbade government employees to answer questions addressed to them by members of congress! In tnose days the letter Carriers were" practically the only government workers who were properly organized. A few heroic souls decided to* fight for economic freedom. Many of them paid for their temerity with their jobs. But they persisted, and, of course, the American labor movement helped. In 11)12 congress, largely through the efforts of "Battle Bob" LaFol- lette, went to the rescue of the workers, and Roosevelt's gag sule was wiped out. After that the various unions of government workers had a steady growth. They could not use their economic- power — they voluntarily pledged their members not to strike against the government—but they learned how to "use their political pow.er effectively, A number of congressmen who specialized in badgering government workers were made td feel the sting of defeat. Now* only 16 years after the repeal of the gag rule, the civil service unions give two impressive demonstrations of their influence. President Coolidge vetoed the bill giving increased pay to night workers in the post office, and House and Senate passed it over his veto by smashing majorities. He signed the Welch bill, though there is every reason to believe lie did not like it. <■'■*. This shows what unions can do under wiselymilitant,leadership..The lesson should not be lost or forgot- 4§n by workers outside the government service who are in a position to use both their economic and political power.—The Weekly News (Winnipeg). NICKEL FARE WINS IN SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco.—This city's municipal street railway system is in a financially'sound condition and can expand .without a departure from its present 6-cent fare. Fred Boeken, superintendent of the railway, re.-, ported to James ftdlph, Jr., mayo?; recently. The municipal railway is paying every operating expense out of revenue, Mr. Boeken said, is retiring its outstanding bond?, at the ^ate- of $200,000 a, yearj and is jpttifig up a surplus. •'■ > Recent criticism of the system's solvency, he explained, was because the surplus is not being accumulated as rapidly as required by ordinance. "After 1934," he said, "weWll no longer be burdened with bond .redemption charges, and the fund for rebuilding the lines will then recoup itself. There is no danger of losing the' 5-cent fare so long as reasonable economies are practiced." "You look like the end of spent lifej. AL.-*-WJiere!»r.j "Doi Down at the courtfiouse. Two blondes on the jury and we stayed out all night." FRASER VALLEY MILK for safety from the Dairy with the highest score Fairmont 1000 X Railroad Firemen's Resources $18,000,000 San Francisco.—The Golden Gate was almost torn from its hinges last week as between 2*000 and 3,000 delegates, their families and friends rushed into San Francisco to attend the conventions of the Brotherhood 'of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men and the Ladies' Society of that organization. May Last Four Weeks Just how long the convention will last no one knows. The more optimistic talk about adjourning July 4. That would set a new record for Firemen's conventions. -The majority opinion is that the gathering will last about four weeks. Healthy Financial Condition The renort shows that the financial resources of the Brotherhood are increasing at the rate of more than a million and a quarter annually; that is, at the close of the last fiscal year they were J4,000,000 greater than for the three-year period ending December 31, 1924. Total resources . are now in excess of $18,000,000. The insurance department, at the close of 1927, had written policies to'the val|e of J159,26a|000. Naturalrj, tfPs renisjKaMe finan-. cia) showing is extremely gratifying to the delegates. "No labor organization in . the world is in better shape," is the universal opinion: N BrSMARCK'S IRON LAW RESURRECTED IN JAPAN Kobe, Japan.—Alarmed at the spread of Socialism., among^univer- sity students, the Japanese -Diet has just passed a law whereby any person responsible for forming a society. or acting as an officer in any society whose aims are the abolition' of private property will be liable to capital punishment or penal servitude for life. Japan makes a boaat of being a civilized country, but as long as such a law is on her statutes she must still be looked upon as mediaeval in her ideas. RATHER UNUSUAL ■'Wanted—ApVftmenia for a single young man looking both ways and well ventilated."—Afiv: itf ft,' 7F Four THE LABOR STATESMAN M Friday, June 22, 1928 |TUl.,.. The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at 816 Holden Bldg., Vancouver, B. C. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. Official Organ of the Canadian Labor Party. t ■ H. W. Walts. Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE Chairman Wm. Page (Carpenters), W. Watt (Plumbers), P. R. Bengough (Machinists), Tim Hanofln (Beverage Dispensers), J. McCurragh (Typographical), Geo. Oerrard (Theatrical), W. Deptford (Street Rallwaymen), Blrt Showier (Dairy Employees). Phone Seymour 6279 Vancouver, Friday, June 22, 1928 THE PACIFIC CREAT EASTERN RAILWAY The Pacific Great Eastern Railway- is to feature very largely in the coming Provincial elections. This road has already been a castor in two other general elections. The. idea of this railway was hatched by the Conservative party political engineers during 1911. It was very clearly seen that if the idea of a railway from Fort George to Vancouver could be got going the party cduld 'with certainty count on capturing the two Cariboo and Lillooet slats and the electors sending five members frdm Vancouver to the legisla ture would be favorably affected Ify^ a new railway limb radiating froifT Vancouver. Whether the people undertaking to build the road were able to do so, or whether there was the traffic in sight to justify building the road were matters of no consequence, with eight seats in the legislature to be influenced by tying up to the bargain to build the road, only a carping pessimist, with ho confidence in the future of "our Great Province" would question the wisdom of the policyt:in fact during the 1912 elections it was dangerously near sedition to question the wisdom of the P, G. E., while as to the financial ability of the railway builders, didn't we have the personal guarantee of Messrs. Foley, Welch and Stewart? What possible thing more could we ask for? However, just to show our good faith in the alfair and to enable the Three Musketeers to convince their investing friends, that 1 the province had endorsed their' proposition, would we bo good enough to attach our name to a document undertaking tht the province would pay 4 per cent interest and the principal' when due on $35,000 for each mile of railway completed and brought into operation between • Vancouver and Fort George. We were assured; by the government that this meant nothing really, it was just as harmless as identifying the signature of a friend at the bank, so we obliged. A year later our "Millionaire Railway Builders" were back to the legislature again. Being that it would be all the same to us would we mind making that guarantee "four-and-a- half per cent" instead of four. Of course we agreed for the government bad Foley, Welch and Stewart's "personal guarantee" and the elector had the government's guarantee, so again what more could we want? By. the beginning of 1916 construction was at a standstill, the "Millionaire Railway Builders" had forgotten to put any of their own never learned just what it was that Mr. Bowser had to say."' In 1916 there was a change of government; the new government found that the "personal guarant-Je" of the "Millionaire Railway j Builders" was worth about as much as the personal guarantee of Johnnie Capilano. The taxpayer was committed to pay the interest on fifteen million dollars of railway bonds; there was no railroad and no traffic if there had been one. With the hope of saving something from the wreck the new government took over the scheme and completed sufficient of the road to put a train Service on a portion lying in between both ends. Tlie interest on the bonds donated to Messrs. Foley, Welchjand Stewart, together with the interest on addi tional millions expended to get a portion of the road into operation and the loss resulting from operating a train where there is insufficient traffic totals up to an annual loss of several million dollars and which has to be paid by the provincial treasury. To get from under this, the present government hope to be able to give the railway to the Federal Government and the only question that the public will ask is "can they do it?" The railway that was the great centerpiece of the 1912 Conservative platform, that was endorsed by the Shelly-Nicol Thompson brand of "far seeing business men" threatens to bankrupt the province and we must get rid of it even if the best bargain we can make is to give it away, and a kingdom of land along with it as a prize for accepting it. During" 1912 general elections there was not a Liberal elected in British Columbia. (Labor was the only group that occupied the opposition benches). The wisdom of the P. G. E. was,so evident that Liberals deserted their own camp to put it over. By 1916 the road was half finished, the contractors had taken out half a million dollars more than the contract agreed to give them -when the road was completed, and the gentlemen had quit. But no whisper of all this reached the electors. The contractors' campaign gift was the grease that lubricated the hidden wheels of both political parties. Our "outstanding business men" were either in on the game or themselves "buffaloed." Now wc have another election and the great central question of the jbiinpaign is whether the horse doctor Jtr the,common everyday doctor can ■most certainly give away the P. G. E^ railway. In tbis game of "boxing the compass" the whole school of Shelly-Nicol Thompsons have been as chips in a cyclone, or week-old kit' tens on a flood; at no time have they ever pointed out an error before it was big enough for Joe Capilano to see. They have chased every will- o'-the-wisp and beat to shelter from every banshee that unscrupulous schemers could raise. Their only right to public consideration lies in the fact that they have successfully maintained a steady trickle of profit into their own bank account—and these arc the people who are now to give the sterling hallmark of safety and the stamp and seal of. good judgment to the promises of Liberal and Conservative parties. In a wage fight Labor wastes no time looking for assistance from the Shelly-Nicol Thompson group. Why should it appoint these men to make the rules under which its wage fights must be carried on?—M. over twelve millions; the British| Labor vote over five millions, the French Labor vote over four million and so on with smaller nations, but it is ever increasing; Here in Canada, with a land of so-called opportunities, we are slowly but surely eating into the majorities of the old parties, in spite of their alleged Labor legislation and their "democratic" (?) tendencies. Those of us who have been in the Labor movement for many years know that all this, Labor legislation has been forced upon the old parties by the persistent demands of Labor, hence the more Labor demands the more it will get, and it will get it quicker by putting Labor representatives in the legislature than by any other means. Some of our "friends" in the Labor movement have foolishly convinced themselves that the Labor party has made an alliance with the Liberal party. That idea is sprung during every election and yet the Labor party continues on its way unchecked -and* unscathed by the rumors. Undoubtedly the Liberal party would like an alliance with Labor, but only for the purpose of benefitting itself. The Labor party realizes tbat, and therefore refuses to even listen to,the suggestions. The Liberal party has even attempted, many a time, to buy the Labor vote, but its money lodged in the pockets of those who were slick enough to make suckers out of the Liberal machine. The Labor policy cannot be bought by handing individuals in the Liberal party money with which to buy Labor votes or policy. That is proven by the steady increase of the Labor vote. In the present campaign, the Labor party, is playing its game. in a new way. With only two candidates in the City of Vancouver, where six representatives arc to be elected, it asks all Labor party sympathizers to vote for those two and two only. If the four other votes that the elector has is given to either Liberal or a Conservative, it not only cancels the votes given to the Labor candidates but increases the votes of the old party candidates Labor in the city of Vancouver is urged to vote for two candidates only and those two Labor. Old party electors, who desire to vote for six candidates, will find one or two among those, six whom they, object to, and the Labor party thinks that the spare votes may be thrown to the Labor candidates. If they are right in their presumption, then the Labor vote will go up very fast and our candidates will probably be elected. To divide those thrown-away votes between six Labor candidates would reduce the number each would get, but by having those votes concentrated on only two candidates, the chances of election are greatly enhanced. If Labor wins by this method, the government is likely to divide the city up into six constituencies to again keep us out of the House. But that is by the way. All that the Labor party is urging at the present election is to get behind them solidly and attempt to increase the Labor representation in the House at Victoria. The fight is for the workers, by the workers, and we are offering the workers a chance to win—W. HOW MUCH WILL YOUR CAPITAL INCREASE IN* THE NEXT TEN YEARS? "VTOUR experience in the last ten years should be a valuable guide in deciding an investment policy for the future. 5>»" MONT-BCAt*. Cuoa ™ OmCMO bo»«o or TRAM WINMlHG GRAIN VANCOUVER GfcAiN V-V«COUVl« ■CA-LtSrWl wcrx-vt* m ■•rt-Msii Mtxri w^ vh-oxwi free* - ViCTOatA rrocM CAaMwvtTOCM WlNHHtG ITOCM KATTlC STflt* fttttHl IT-rJOaJO STOCK The only sure road to financial independence is to spend less than you earn, and to safely and profitably invest this saving, thus building a substantial cash' reserve-— t Our PARTIAL PAYMENT PLAN is particularly adapted, to systematic saying in the purchase of securities of unquestioned merit. Ask our Bond Dept. for special booklet . R. P. CLARK & CO. (Vancouver) Ltd. INVESTMENT BANKERS 823 Hastings Street West Vancouver, B. C. Vacation Time Will Need This Attention There is magic in the words "vacation time" that few of us can resist. We work all the harder when We dream and plan of the recreation that is to come, for no one can dis- all work and no LABOR'S CHANCES The political campaign will occupy the center of the stage for the next month and the electors will have the n unenviable job of deciding who pute the adage money into the work but they had'amonB the numerous candidates thajr play makes Jack a dull boy." Yetiit not too difficult to hoodwink the cashed in on the provincial imaran sha" attempt to return or elect to perhaps we do not take time- to real- membership in the past will have a tee for $35 per mile for • sixteen office- During this time they .will be' lz« that, along some lines, -there can ' miles more than the total distance calling each other liars, horae thieves'be no vacation, no letting-up of Wgil- and many other kindly names, 'Aird""ance, no relaxing of the hand that Putting the Union Smashers Outside Apparently the miners of Nova Scotia have had all they want of disruption. If there are those in their ranks who cannot accept the policy of the_U.M?W. of A., and who' want sonic other form of organization than that provided by the United Mine Workers* of America, they are to be given perfect liberty to carry oh their activities—on the outside. No trade union can have any serious objection to individuals attacking it. This is a free country in that respect. But it is a fool of a union that will permit the attackers to remain in the citadel, slashing around among the defenders of the organization with none to say them nay. And so the executive of District 26 of the U.M.W. of A. has decided that the attackers must Jiire their own halls, use their own funds and get out of the organization they are attacking. ' And' if the international unions arc as bad as the Communists say they are, they should have little objection to relinquishing their membership therein. Of course the miners are not the only organized workers who , have been the dupes of the slick gentry who have inveigled the trade union membership into paying their good money to support the "smash-thc- union committees" and, other disruptive organizations (fiat have been a menace to solidarity for these many years. It is the most remarkable thing in the history of trade unionism that organizations should actually put up the money to pay the expenses of the people who have vowed to smash them. It would Be as reasonable for Henry Ford to pay men to go around his factory throwing monkey wrenches in the machinery. , . • But there is evidence on eyery hand that the sensible element in the trade unions is beginning to assert itself, and that those who have found TO SING AGAIN from Vancouver to Prince George, , ■nrTrtHt mad wm atfll V— tl..„1.B? g* Igg-fag* *»"> fr«fr> jjff^ *-Wai-*-*1? _gl:' built. While in the 1912 elections the P. G. E, was a heavy weight attraction, in 1916 there was a peculiar silence about the P. G. E. affairs. Some years later when General McRae got sore on the Conservative party, probably got left out of some deal that he felt he should have been in on, the General informed us that in 1916 the "Millionaire Railway Builders" saved up the last few hundred thousand dollars made from the government's guaranteed railway bonds and divided it between the two old political parties. While we would not wish to hang anyone on General McRae's evidence alone, there is corroborative testimony. t Hon. W. J. Bowser's connection with P. G. E. Company funds was being rather aggressively discussed. Mr. Bowser bared his teeth and volunteered to tell-all ha^aaww, • about P. G. E. campaign funds. Immediately then the discussion drifted off their franchise, will be so bewildered that they will decide to stay away from the polling booths and wait for the worst. One will note that the number of people who actually vote is always far below the number who are registered, as voters. One of the greatest reasons for this apathy is the fact that the two old parties have so much in common that ' the elector finds it hard to choose between them and finds ah abundance of faults with both. And again, although there'■is a third, or Labor, party in the field the elector thinks that the Labor man has no chance,. and therefore passes up the opportunity of registering a kick against the Liberal and Conservative. But Labor has a chance, in spite of its many setbacks. Increasing millions are voting the Labor ticket the world over. With the increasing number of elected Labor candidates grows the enthusiasm to eject more and. still more, hence the Labor vote in many countries numbers millions. in some other direction and wc The German Labor-vote has reached This is especially true of our endeavors toward organization, toward the realization of our hopes, for "there is no vacation on the road to Progress." If we cease striving, even but for a moment, we lose ground that has been so hard-won and which cannot be easily regained. Wc cannot for one moment forget that wc are, indeed, "links in the union chain," and that "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link." We can ill afford to relax our grasp on what we have attained' and see it trampled under foot. We must ever keep our eyes open to what is going on about, us, for our enemies harder row to hoe henceforth, be it.*—Alberta** Labor Hews. So are ever active and the fight at best is all- too unequal. And what are our weapons? The [by demanding the shop-card and greatest weapon we possess is our money—our union-earned pay check —and we must not waste" our ammunition, by forgetting to make the best of this means to an end. Wherever ypu go, vacation or not, spend your money for Union labor, either by buying union Mabel*products, ot Labor News. "HIGH PRESSURE" BROKERS REFUSED ONTARIO LICENSE Toronto, Ont.—Ontario is moving rapidly iii its campaign to rid the province of brokers of doubtful repute and "high pressure" security salesmen. Already, under the Security Frauds Prevention Act, the attorney-general's department has refused licenses to over 100 brokers. Some of ths offenders have been jailed, others are out on bail pending appeal, and a majority have been deported to the United States, from whence they came. worker's button before patronizing him or bis'' establishment: This ...is the b'ghest form df_:yigilanee--arid can be practiced at all times and in all nlaces. It is a worthwhile motto —""The union label, the shop card and the button'."—Washington State JAMES DAVIS "Ut the eminent tenor, whose glorious gift of songs has added lustre to the musical annals of St. Paul's Cathedral, the Toronto Telegram recently declared, when the Westminster Glee Singers sang there: "It was an education in vocalism to hear James Davis sing. It was a rpattern you wanted to preserve for all time by which to confound near- tenors and put them to blessed silence." This London artist takes a prominent part in the gala farewell concert on Saturday night by the Westminster Glee Singers at -the Arena. COMPENSATION RATE ,., INCREASED FOR SILICOSIS Toronto.-^The Toronto Workmen's Compensation Board has increased comDensation payable to miners who contract silicosis, as follows: j Ante-primary stage, whether Ir not capacity to work impaired, lumpsum of $500. Primary stage, where capacity to work impaired though not seriously and permanently, $1,- 000. Secondary stage, where tuberculosis has definitely appeared with silicosis, 36 2-3 per cent- of wages. Some Printer 1 "May I print a kiss on your lips?" I said, r And she nodded her sweet permission. So we went to press, and, I rather guess, ', • We printed a full edition.; "One edition is hardly enou-feh,"' - - ' Said she, with a charming pout* So again on the press the form was placed, And we got some extras out. '. ..•■#'■..;«, 0rte_pO.he_gEeatest aids toJongfr— vity is an incurable disease. Friday, June 22, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five UNION STEAMSHIPS EVENING DANCE CRUISE To BOWEN ISLAND LADY ALEXANDRA "LEAVES UNION DOCK EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 7:30 P. M. DANCING ON BOARD AND AT THE PAVILION. BOWEN ISLAND. PERCY LEE'S COUNTRY CLUB ORCHESTRA. RETURN {j*! IIA INCLUDING ADMISSION TO FAKE B?1.UU PAVILION, BOWES ISLAND Steamer leaves Bowen Island at 10:45 p.m.. arriving liack In town 11:45. REFRESHMENTS AT PAVILION CAB'ETERIA. Make Up Your Party Early lor Tills Delightlnl Ontln-f. Tickets and all Information regarding; sailings at City Office. 533 Granville; Sey. 9331 Thos. Cook & Son, 723 Georgia *W , Sey. 651: Union Dock, Foot Carrall, Sey. 306. BARNET LUMBER CO., LTD. 3995 BASTINGS STREET EAST Xlgh. 180 Gl.n 384 Hlrht Call: Glen 433, Oarl 299Y3 BARNET BOOSTS BETTER BUILT BUNGALOWS SEE US FOR SPECIALS HAZELWOOD ICE CREAM —You try it next time for that Party or Social. Guaranteed the product of pure fresh Cream. For Prompt Service, Phone Seymour 2090 Hazelwood Creamery, Limited If You Buy Furniture from Us You Get QUALITY, STYLE and LOW PRICES DOMINION FURNITURE CO. "THE HOUSE OF FRIENDLY CREDIT ' 1082—GRANVILLE STREET—1082 ■SnjouiVB \ CANADIAN BAKERIES LIMITED i The Farmers' Bloc at the Republican Party convention tried to get a plank in the party platform that would assist the farmers. President Coolidge has vetoed the farm relief bill twice and now his party has done the same thing. Well, it is about time the farmers got wise, like the farmers, in Canada and send their spokesfnen in boots on the floor of the House. "Who is Thomas Edison, anyway?" asked a backwoods man. "He's the man who invented the phonograph to keep us awake, so we would stay up all night and use his electric lights." * * ♦ Old Flame: "Bill, there used to be something about you that I liked." Her Ex-Beau: "Yes, that was before I "spent it "all." Exhaustive and exhausting experiments, scientific and semi-scientific, prove that while you may mend the mightiest dam in the world, nothing will repair a leak in the garden hose. • . *. • i Harry Thaw could not. thaw out the British Home Office sufficiently to permit him to land. They are through with thaws until next January. ' , .. ■'*»«' Manufacturer: Roughly speaking, about one in ten. Sometimes a man reaches the top The lighter a man's head the more : so late in -life* thafche is almost im-1 he has to support it with his haid , mediately slid off onto the shelf. ' j when he has his> picture taken. ■Z Man blames Fate, for other acci- Purchase your daily papers from dents but feci personally responsible union news vendors—look for the when he ma.k.«&»a»bole in~ one.* union T. & L. C Button. Outline Policy of British Labor Party Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was given an enthusiastic reception at Hemel Hempstead recently, when he cut the first sod on the site of the new Labor Hall. So large was the gathering that it seemed as if the local Labor Party had turned out en masse. The ex- Prime Minister was in rare fighting form. When he said that the policy', of the Labor Party was the educa-1 tion of the children of the "common people," and that the progress of those children at the universities was I equal to that of those whose parents I were well endowed with worldly goods, he was loudly cheered. He also said that "brains were not the monopoly of a class." The Labor Party, he declared, intended to pursue its policy so long as there iwere millions of unemployed men, so long-as there were slums, so long as men who wanted land to till could not get it, and so long as there were hundreds of thousands onagri- cultural laborers living on a miserable wage and in insanitary and tied dwellings. "Labor members," he declared, in ringing tones, "are regarded as hobnailed scallawags, but oursHis ope of the most wonderful movements in the whole history of this country."" Mr. MacDonald traced in detail the progress of the movement from its earliest days until it attained office for eight months, when people prophesied that only ruin could result from its government. Parly Histories "I do not care," he added, "whether there are Liberals or Tories in this audience; but I say that the histories of your own parties can show nothing finer than the history of..the eight months of the effective work of the Labor Government." (Loud cheers). What was wanted was a change back to 1924. He had no panacea to give them; if a Labor Government came into power at the next election it could not accomplish ifiipossibili- ties, but it would steadily go forward to something nobler and better. Before performing the ceremony of cutting the sod, Mr. MacDonald referred to the generosity of Mr. Jesse Hawkes, the donor of the land on which the hall would stand, who, he said, was "one of those very quiet and very generous men" to whom the Labor movement owed so much. Mr. Gilbert Hall (prospective candidate for Hemel Hempstead), who presided, offered the spade used by Mr. MacDonald for what he termed his "agricultural operation" for auction. It eventually realized 52a. 6d., and the successful bidder asked Mr. MacDonald to present it to the secretary of the local Labor Party (Mr. Hig- ley) in token of his services. On the platform was a number of prospective * candidates and officials from neighboring divisions. The proceedings terminated with a tea and dance. . IN THE - TONSORIAL CHAIR - -2 SPUD TA' Customer: "I am sorry, but I have no money to pay my check." Manager: "That is perfectly all right. We will write your name on the wall and you can pay it next time you come in." ' Customer: "Oh, don't do that. Everybody who comes in the restaurant will see it." Managert "Oh, no, they won't. We will hang your overcoat over it." The Bridcs-to-Be Union has a justifiable kick coming and one that cannot be submitted to a conciliation board under the Industrial Disputes Act. A Vancouver groom-to-be last week was tendered a "shower" by his male friends, and over twenty useful articles was tendered this "scab." Gosh, fellows, if the boys - -ene-peach—rike-tW»-chap--didr on the girls' own organization, there will be a very serious "jurisdictional" dispute to settle. And Shame the Devil Two college students were arraigned before the magistrate charged with hurdling the low spots in the road in their motor car. "Have you a lawyer?" asked the magistrate. , "We're not going to have any lawyer," answered the elder of the students. "We've, decided to tell the truth." Gee, I am just bubbling all over with excitement. I do like elections, for everything has an airing. Good morning, sir. Why, if this ain't Dr. Tolmie, leader of the Conservative party! Want a little pep' up, eh? Very good, sir. Oh, yes, the soap I am' using was made in British Columbia and the brush was also made here, too; got it on 95c day along with three pounds of New Zealand butter. Shame to buy New Zealand butter in a butter producing country like Canada? Well, yes, I guess it is, but there must be a reason and it is up to you to find that reason and rectify it. Unpatriotic! Yo-o heave-o! That's not the reason, Tolmie. The reason is because Canadian butter is "not so suitable to the buying public as New Zealand butter, therefore the public is quite entitled to buy that product. There is nothing too good for the Irish, you know. But let that fly stick to the wall and tell me: Is that platform you laid down for the Conservative party at Saauich the best product of your much advertised intelligence?? What's wrong with it? Oh, my good . Gordon Highlander! I don't see anything in it. It is about the most inconclusive, unstatesman- like program that I have ever seen. Look at it: Here is what it says: You declare in favor of encouraging capital to establish payrolls and industries; making conditions so that capital—Canadian, British and foreign—will come here. New. Zealand capital as well, I suppose? Quite so. Now the only question, political or industrial, that matters is the relationship between capital and labor, and here is what you say about that: "The Conservative party will encourage, in every possible way, the manufacture of the finished article within our own borders. This will provide work for the people of British Columbia." Fine, grand; more work for the workers—and then. At the same time, amend existing labor legislation for the improvement of labor conditions as such conditions require or as the prosperity of the province warrants." There's a lovely mitt! Playing with two jokers and a card up your sleeve! If any worker falls for that then the public schools should be turned into kindergartens. Don't get me mad now, or I may let this razor slip. Remember, when this province was booming, around 1910 and 1912? Well, then what happened? Spencers Department Store was working adult girls 54 hours for from $4 to $6 a week and so bad did the situation become that the Rev. Mr. Cook of Wesley Church, on Georgia street—where the lute Mr. D. Spencer said hi« prayers—stated that until conditions in that store were altered, who could blame a girl for going on the streets? And there is the point. Who is going to say whether the province Is prosperous or not? Billy Dick has made lots of money in Vancouver. He says it is prosperous for him. Shelly is making plenty too, charging twice as much for a loaf of bread as the bakers in Great Britain and both loaves are made from Alberta flour. But ask either of them if they think that a minimum wage of $30 per week should be paid to all male adult workers in British Columbia and I know the answer. No, sir, until the workers themselves set the wage by legislation they never will get a decent standard of living either here or anywhere else, and the only way is for them to vote for their own class and their own'class only. Your program is purely a class program. Oapital, industry, business are-all-to- be looked after: taxes reduced for those who can well afford to pay taxes; and the workers may get more work if the conditions warrant it. You neglect to state, of course, that your sidekicker, R. B. Bennett, is doing his utmost to discourage spending money in the west. However, .here's hoping the workers show a little common sense and elect every Labor man running in , the province, by Siki! Next, please. When You Call a Taxi! If you favor reasonable hours and A LIVING WAGE Cull Seymour <000 and Get a Union Driver Look for the Button on the .drivers. (Inserted by Local 151) ISfflRRH-ft Gold Bond RARE OLD JicjueurWhisKY Its strength is like the hardy brawn of a rugged Highlander. 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Get the Facts—Start Saving Today—Assure Yourself of a Comfortable "Stake" ln Your Earning1 Years. Write Todny for Full Particulars and Literature Head Office for Canada: Intermountain Building & Loan Association Phones: Sey. 1855, Bey. 3347 1104-1108 Vancouver Block Vancouver, B. C. SUBSCRIBE TODAY We invite you to subscribe or get a friend to sob- •cribe for Th* Labor Statesman. The rata* ar* two ' dollars for on* 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 '. „._: .....'..... PI ease Write Plainly to Avoid KJstakes. Address: Labor Statesman, 816 Holden Bldg., Vancouver Federal Immigration | Robots and Chain Policy Unchanged Stores Increasing New York.—Thirty-two chain- store organizations report sales for May, this year, 20.9 per cent, higher than those for the same month in 192*7. Woolworth, largest of all the' groups, gained 10 per cent., while the National Tea Company gained 67 per cent. 'Two organizations failed to share in this growth. Childs, in May, 1928, fell 11.2 per cent, below the sales of May, 1927, and sales for the first five months are 9 per cent, lower this year than last. Loft, Inc., reports no change for May, but a 0 per cent. loss for the first five months. In spite of these two exceptions, chain stores, taken toeether, show a gain of 10.5 per cent, for the first five months of the year, as' compared with 1927. These figures seem to show that the growth is not only pretty steady, but is going on at an increasing pace., —No other retail merchandising shows anything like such a gain. Clearly, chain stores are taking over more and more of the retail business of the country. New chain stores are being opened in sections of the CQuntry where they were unknown before, and in places already invaded the chain stores have multiplied. Not only is the independent small merchant disappearing, but the chain store .clerk bids fair to be displaced in large measure by the robot. United Cigars has tried out a machine "man" that sells packages of cigarettes, makes changes, and says "Thank you." It has worked so well that the automatic merchandising firms have united in a $25,000,000 merger, the Consolidated Merchandising Corporation, which has taken for its slogan "Bigger and better robots." Engineers have been engaged to develop these robo/s; but at the very start they will retail postage stamps, chewing gum and package candies, as well as cigarettes. UNION CAFES & MERCHANTS Ottawa.—There will be no radical change in the immigration policy of Canada. The high hopes held by the Canadian workers for a progressive immigration policy were dashed last week when the committee which inquired into the administration of the department of immigration and colonization, presented its report to the House.. ' The committee recommends the cancellation of the .agreement' between the Canadian government and the railways, a move urged by the last convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Trafficking in Permits No charges are made against the minister of immigration or immigrations-officials, and the rumored sensation concerning trafficking in permits did not materialize, although evidence was submitted to show that members of parliament and others with political "pull" were getting hundreds of aliens into the country who could not qualify under the law. In order to limit the evil, the committee recommends that an annual report be submitted to parliament 30 days after the opening of each session, giving a list of permits, an explanation of why they were granted and the names of those who vouched for the applicants. Want More Britishers The report contains over 4,000 words, and the principal object of its recommendations is to encourage British immigration. In the opinion of the people of Canada, immigration is a paramount issue. The report, therefore, attracted a great deal of attention and provoked an animated debate in the House. Cahan (Conservative, Montreal) moved an amendment providing for a new department of immigration, colonization and industrial development, under one minister, but with two branches, headed by men of "intellectual strength and considerable business experience." Cahan's Plan It would be the duty of the immigration and colonization branch, he explained, to promote immigration and to that end to secure the co-operation of the provincial governments and of organizations interested in bringing settlers to Canada. It would see that the settlers were of the right type and would keep in touch with them.after they settled in this country. The industrial development branch would make a survey of the industrial resources of Canada and advise concerning economic development in the various provinces, with a view to the extension of industrial employment. '•Bennett Assails Forke Bennett, the Conservative leader, attacked Hon. Robert Forke, minister of immigration and colonization, insisting that he was "unfitted temperamentally or by training to discharge the onerous duties of his position." Premier King warmly defended Forke, declaring he was "a very loyal and very faithful minister." He pointed out that Mr. Forke had come' to Canada as an immigrant and had held many positions of trust, including the leadership of the Progressive party. "Mr. Forke," said the premier, "is a good example of what Canada offers to the man who possesses' the sterling qualities he possesses." The Conservative have never forgiven Forke for the part he played in overthrowing the last Conservative government and in helping to bring in the present Liberal regime. Why They Hesitate -In-roply- to tlie-eharge-that the TORONTO STrRAitW*YMEN government was not bringing in a in WAGE ARBITRATION sufficient number of British immi- _, _ grants, the Hon. Charles A. Dun- Th€ Toronto street railwaymen ning, minister of , railways, himself I decided to hand their grievances over an English immigrant, said this was r0 the board of arbitration with a due largely to the fact that the Brit-.vote teken at 4 o'clock in the morn- ish worker has old age pensions and mK- 1>727 -" favor and 116 against- unemployment insurance in the Old Pointa which the committee asked Seymour 3168 Always Open Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG • BOB KRAUSE Late T2nd Batt 76 Hastings St. E., Vancouver, B. C. Financial Control The day of the industrial capitalist in big business is passing. An Alberta incident of the past week is another indication of this very pronounced trend. Mr. Pat Burns had built up a tremendous business in this country. He was its directing head and he had seen the business grow from its small beginnings to an enormous organization. He knew the business in the same way that Henry Ford knows the automobile business- He may have been primarily interested in making money, but it is also certain that he was interested in something more. His business was his life work and no'doubt he was attached to it because of that. But the other day he sold his controlling interest to a big bond house. The deal was somewhat similar to that which took place when the Dodge Brothers business was bought by a New York bond house a few years ago. The control passed from the hands of the industrial capitalist to those of finance capitalists. The people who will direct the policy of P. Burns & Company henceforth are not meat packers. They arc bond brokers. The sarnie thing applies to most big business. Henry Ford is becoming an oddity in the business world and he may be the last big industrial capitalist. The people who do the practical work of conducting a business organization in these days are mostly hired men—on the pay roll of the financiers, who don't know anything about the industrial enterprises they control, and are not in teresteti, except for the dividends.. And some puny little workers still insist on being too individualistic to join the trade union movement!—The (Winnipeg) Sporting News. When in a Hurry, Drop In at Egg Order. FRED'S ate always _. . ¥ , •ok." at Dairy Lunch "It's the Coffee" 73 Hastings W. Always Opes R. WILKINSON. Prn. D DUNCAN. S.c Reynolds'Cartage Co. LIMITED Phones Seymour 3377-3371 Orating, Packing*, Shipping eaa Storage Furniture and Piano Moving Long Distance Moving Pool Car Shipments Of flee anil Warehouse ■ 733 — CAMBIE BTBBBT — 731 PERRY & D0LK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread ralrmont 133 439 7th Ave. H. Correspondence Editor Labor Statesman: Sir—It has lona been on my miad to write re ynskffied labor. A great deal is done by uniting trades and professions for their benefit, but is it, possible for unskilled labor to unite and succeed? Their first attempt to really unite would doubtless meet with wholesale dismissals and influx of others who need means to exist upon. Did they succeed in forming a union, how soon would not some ambitious pr unprincipled member or members become means of disruption and the thousand and one other causes of failure? When other trades are slack they all besiege the jobs of the "unskilled" workman (a term, by the way, simply meaning that days or weeks are all that is requisite for training, as against years in trades or professions). When other trades strike, how very common is it for the mere helper, or laborer to be out of employment (perhaps without even strike pay) and to return to the same conditions and remuneration as before. Thanking you for time and' perhaps space, J. N. SIDERFJN- P.S.—It.makes us rather Inclined to smile when we hear of B.C.E.R. employees and firemen, etc., boosting for "a living wage'' of $150 up, whereas thousands do not exceed $90 and hundreds $80 j$sr month—J.N.S. TELEGRAPHERS' BANK RESOURCES $7,000,000 St. Louis.—The Telegraphers' National Bank was in gala attire recently, and President Manion and Secretary-Treasurer Ross of the O.R.T. wore expansive smiles. '~ It was the fifth anniversary of the institution and congratulatory letters and telegrams poured in on the officers from all sections of the country. ,.. Five years ago .when the bank closed its doors at the end of the first day of its existence it reported total deposits of. $1,300,000. ..Tjoday its deposits are close to $7,- 000,000 arid its resources are well over the $7,000,000 mark, Country and is reluctant to go to a land where similar protection is not afforded. Miss Agnes MacPhail declared she was opposed to the "dumping" of agricultural workers in Canada, and urged that all state aid to immigrants be withdrawn. Woodsworth's Suggestions Woodsworth (Labor, Winnipeg) argued that the immigration problem should be taken out of the handa of all private organizations. In his opinion the government should offer ample, protection "against exploitation of the hetvcotnCT, "lirore ejpert. advice, stricteB-«ntorcement of school attendance, instruction in sanitation, the union to arbitrate were Ten cents an hour„ wage increase for maintenance men; the eight-hour day; equal wages for motor-coach employees; recognition of division 113, by which the union is known; two weeks holiday with pay. The Toronto Transportation Commission agreed to arbitrate. the maintenance of native handicrafts, and closer settlement which would enable the settler to maintain human contacts. No division was recorded on the amendment, which was declared lost and the report of the committee was adopted. "We Do Not Patronize* STEEVES DAIRY. CRYSTAL DAIRY. AVENUE THEATRE CHANTICLEER CAFE. METROPOLITAN LUNCH. TROCADERO CAFE. NATIONAL LUNCH. ALL WHITE LUNCHES. WALDORF CAFE. COLLARD, the Clothier, 603 Hastings W. THOMAS A McBAIN, Clothier., 6SS Granville. LEN A. DAVIS, Lathing Contractor. CLARKE A STUART. MURPHY tt CHAPMAN. ROSE, COWAN A LATTA. GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G. A., LTD. J. W. BOYD, LTD. - Anthorli«a' by the Tanconvsr, sttw West-minster aad District Trades aa* Labor Council, for the information of all nnlon member*. > T~ OV •\ Friday, June 22, 1928 0 THE-LABOR STATESMAN -Seven Weak Men AND ALL DISEASES OF MEN Take Our Remedies Send for our Booklet on Manhood and Dlaeues of Men. Pamphlet on I1U of Wi.m-ii Booklet on Skin Difleues, Treat- hf on Chronic Complaints; Free by Mali. Thirty years' experience in the dlspepsirm of Herbal Remedies. Without critlctalug or d sparaic rig our medical men, try our remedies before losing hope. Advice free. Open* 2 to 6 and 7 to 8 dally except Wed*, and Silts., when cloned all day. PHONE DOUG. 3394 The English Herbal Dispensary. Limited 1359 DAVIE ST. VANCOUVER, 8. C. Canada's Oldest Herbal Dispensary Classified Adverts. BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS W-illln W. "Lofeanx, 403 Metropolitan Bolldlng. Phone Sey. 6667. BATHS , Hasting**** Steam Baths Prlco 35c Only 766 Hastings Street Bast PENTI3TS »r. W. A. Rutled-ro. 108 Hastings W. NOTARY PUBLIC P. X. BsngougU. 803 Holden Bldg. PRINTERS labor Statesman 803-816 Holden Bldg. RUPTVItB SPECIALIST C. E. Heard. - 812 Bobson UNDERTAKERS Armstrong as Hotson, 304 Dnnlevy Ave. SEALED tenders, addressed to the un derslgned, and endorsed "Tender for ISerfldenees, Esr'ulmnlt Dry Dock, Na nalmo District, B. C", will he received until 13 o'clock soon (daylight saving), Tuesday, June 26, 1928, for the erection of. Dockinaster's and Chief Operator's Residences, at Esi'iilmnlt Dry Dock, Na nalmo District, B. C. Plans and form of contract can be »cen and specification and forms of tender obtained at this Department, at the offices of the DlBtrlct Engineers, Post Office Building, Victoria, B. C.; Post Office Building, New-Westminster, B.C.; also at the Post Office, Vancouver, B.C.; and nt the Builders Exchange, 2609 Prior Street, Victoria, p. C. Tenders will not bo considered unless made on printed forms supplied by the Department and ln accordance with the conditions contained, therein. Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank, payable to the order of tho Minister of Public Works, equal to 10 per cent, of the amount of the tender. Bonds of the Canadian National Hallway Company will also be accepted as security, or bonds and a cheque if required to make up an odd amount. NOTE.—Blue prints can be obtained at this Department by depositing an accepted cheque for. the sum of $10.00, payable to tho order of tho Minister of Public Works, which will be returned If the Intending bidder submit a regular bid. By order, S. E. O'BRIEN, Secretary. Department' of Public Works, Ottawa, May 28, 1928. COMBATING UNREST The solemn looking man in the compartment remained silent for many a mile. Finally, however, he touched the man opposite and remarked: "There is much unrest in the world just now, my friend, much unrest," "You're quite right." "I hope you are not unmindful of the fact that we all have a duty to perform. We must combat this unrest." ""I'm doing my very best," said the other. "How?" "I manufacture mattresses!" Sows and Pigs A man who lisped had bought some pigs and he asked a neighbor for the use of a pen for a few days. "I have jntht been purchathing thom thwine—rtwo thowth and pigth. I want to put them in your pen till I can fikth a plaith for them." '"Two thousand pigs!" exclaimed the astonished neighbor. "Why, my pen will hardly hold a dozen." "Yotf don't understand me; Mith- ter Bent. I don't thay two thou- t hand pigth, but two thowth and pigth." "I hear you," said Mr. Bent. "Two. -thousand -pigs. --Why; vfJt^mP-MfP crazyl" And then the lisper gave, it up Unionists Turn To Socialized Medicine New York.—Tired of having pockets gouged and health ruined by quacks and near-quacks, New York trade unionists are turning to social Winnipeg Teamsters 0. B. U. Strike Fails We are indebted to the O.B.U. for the information thatthe Teamsters' strike in Winnipeg is ended. The men have voted to return to work ized medicine. The old individual and then carry on the fight for the doctor, with his high fees, his easy right to belong to the union of their conscience, slipshod methods "and ignorance of latest research, is giving way, among intelligent unionists, to the Union Health Center, owned and operated by organized labor. Here, in a three-story building, are specialists in every disease, a corps of nurses, well-equipped laboratories, clinics, dozens of specialized examination and treatment rooms, a pharmacy department, and in another' building a 24-chair dental department. .*'-.,. No-profit medicine, which carries none of the humiliations of charity, is the idea back of Union Health Center, how established fifteen years and just opening up a new era of usefulness to New York's 700^)00 trade union members. Founded by the joint board for. sanitary control of the International Ladies' Garment Workers before the war, it is expanding to extend service to every organized worker and to his family. Sheet metal workers, Yiddish printers, lithographers, pocketbook workers, women's auxiliary to printers "Big Six," pressmen, paper cutters and post office clerks are but a few of the unions which have opened wide the doors to socialized medicine for their membership. By payment of an annual per capita ranging from $100 to $500, unions in effect cover the center's overhead charges and permit their members to get health service at bare cost of materials and service. Active educational campaigns have been started in the unions. Local union monthlies in New York are nointing the road to health through the center's life extension service. Business agents send sick members there, and when unionists are too "strapped" to pay, the union foots the bill. "Our big job is health education," says Pauline Newman, administrative director. "The center formerly served only garment workers. But with our facilities we can take care of thousands more, and so the center is opening its doors to all workers whose unions affiliate. "Unions with 300,000 members are now served by the center. Our duty now is to educate the rank and file to the need of preventive medicine and in being examined when they're not apparently sick. Not only the unionist, but his wife and children, are welcomed here. We must teach them to see the physician before the disease is far advanced; feeling fit as a fiddle for work and play constitutes the only good reason for not visiting the union health center." Charges are usually $1. Life extension examinations, in which the unionist passes from one expert to another, cost $5. Unemployed workers are treated free and workers' children pay only a nominal fee. Nevertheless the institution is entirely self-supporting, without subsidy from union or wealthy giver. Test of the center's practical service is found in statistics. For instance, 5,500 patients were given 30,000 treatments at a cost of $80,- 000 by the dental department in one year. In the past decade this department has taken in $500,000. In 15 years the medical center has given 173,000 examinations; has tested 55,000 applicants for membership, and in one year served 27,500 members of one union. "In this workers' health center wc are proving to American workers that socialized medicine opens new highways to health and happiness," Bays Miss Newman.. "We are taking a pioneer step in opening our services to all union members, and we hope to show the trade union movement in.ttth.erJar.ge.cities-a practical— but idealistic way to combat disease and add to trade union effectiveness." ,' DU PONT COMPANY PREPARES TO INSTALL 5-DAY WORK WEEK Wilmington, Del.—The service department of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., better known as "Du Pont's," announces that it is making a survey with a view to installing the five-day week in Du Pont companies. Officials of the company say it will be some time before they will make a decision. John J. Raskob, vice-president .of the company, said a short time ago that the five-day week was the inevitable next step in reducing working hours. '•*.*.; '"'Cftmfiis can only breathe freely in the atmosphere of freedom.—John Stuart Mill. choice. It is a great pity that the O.B.U. doesn't'tell the public how many of the men will not return at all because others have already got their jobs. Now that the O.B.U. have lost the strike, the O.B.U. ought to compensate the men who became the victims of their foolish propaganda. It is a safe bet these teamsters can have an organization if it is built on reasonable lines. There are teamsters' unions in every city on the American continent, and they do good business with- most of their employers. To line up with the O. BtU. inevitably brings the same results in every case. The men are misled into believing they have economic' powers, only to find that the O.B.U. is a kind of "fanatic gas" which lays a man out long enough for some one else to get his job. The teamsters will do well to take a leaf out of the book of the International teamsters, milk wagon drivers, and build an organization calculated to have some lasting usefulness.—Sporting News (Winnipeg). Drink and enjoy! >' v VAN BROS.'CIDERS PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER , "Made from B. C. Apples** TRY OUR GRAPE, LOGANBERRY, ORANGE, , PUNCH, ETC. , IDEAL FOR PICNICS AND PARTIES PHONE HIGH. 90 ' PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS., LTD. 1955 Commercial Drive Saving Money on Dentistry it this office because our modern— overhead .expenses enable us to M«S*** money b:irk it' you • the. DOCTOH Ih an easy matter t'lftM-iwiu'nt a-nd low turn out NEW METHOD TRIPLE SUCTION PLATES for less than you would have to pay for ordinary plates elsewhere. Bear in mind, too. Unit New Method Suction Plates arc harked by our written guarantee-—and your are not satlftfled after three months' wear. Estimates R. LLEWELLYN DOUGLAS 12 HASTINGS EAST SURGEON DENTIST SEYMOUR 1460 Our idea of * would be one in is never defined. model which a newspaper hick town Falsehood is often rocked by truth; but she soon outgrows. the cradle and discards her nurse.—Col- ton. It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as the having overcome them, that is au advantage to us.— Alexander Pope. Suilds Industries! BRITISH COLUMBIA'S Power resources are the envy of the world. With Power, the riches of the world can be won; with Power, ores can be mined . .. smelted; transportation problems solved; manufacturing industries developed, and with them population . .. payrolls. Power is British Columbia's strongest bid for more industries . . . more people. Of the million! of horsepower available in our province, but half a million ara now harneued to turn tha wheelaof industry. The -treat hydro-elecrtlc dCTelopmen t at Bridge RIVer will ultimately generate --.Si? «„?„.■, man than MM** horsepower, while the output at HSSSSwSSSSf Rrchiikofuls.oTlhJ ^ ""»""■?- Increased. The Campbell mainland, and the Nlmpkisb on Vancouver Island, ara capable of tremendous power development for the conversion of our forest and mineral resources Into fabulous wealth. Two of British Columbia's electric power systems are_ainpng the greatest In Canada, each generating more than 400.000,©00 klllowatt hours In 1927. Thla represents an Increase In the last ten years of 98 ":, truly a remarkable achievement! Foreign authorities apeak of this record as a ■ of the greai vitality of British Columbia. Today we rank third In power and Industrial development among Canadian provinces. We have made greater progress per capita than any. It la the policy of British Columbia to foster the development ofthe hydro-electric powers for the benefit of the public. They are allotted to private enterprises on condition that they will be developed within a certain time, so that no exploitation of . public assets may take place. Millions of dollars.are now earmarked for Power development in our province. Dams are being built, turbines Installed . . . transmission lines erected to care for the Imminent Industrial development. Thousands of dollars are being expended weekly on materials and wages: thousands are feeling the Immediate benefits of this enterprise. Side by side with out power development, In- "-panslon baa kept pace. Today 17% of ternal trade Is handled by British Colum bla. During the past decade, our basic Industries have Increased 101.3%. Our total payroll, including all classes. Is estimated at 210 million dollar**. Today our Lumbering, Mining and Fishing industries employ 72.517 people, paying them 175 million dollars In wages — distributing an average watte ranking among the highest In Canada. These 175 millions ln wages are a great con* tribution to our annual Internal trade in the province. They have given our Industrial workers a buying power ranking second In the Dominion and have largely been responsible fur our ever Increasing prosperity, as evidenced by the fact that the number of automobiles registered In the province last year was 76,187 as compared with 8,5% in 1916. British Columbia's steady and varied Industrial development has changed the conception In Eastern (Canada and the United States of our province. No longer are we entirely dependent on the East for our manufactured products. British Columbia Is Increasingly furnishing her own needs. She now ranks third In the whole Dominion as a manufacturing province. Our phenomenal powerand Industrial growth has focused the attention of the great industrialists and Investors on our province. Today, British Columbia In the eyes of the world, stands for Power, Progress and Plenty. May our efforts of the nest ten years stabilize and Increase our Prosperity! I Read thrte announcement* and underttand your Province** ' profjre$* . . . clip them out and tend them to friend?. de*ir* extra copie* of the** announcement* a note'I "trtpaoer will bring them. Adtertitt your Protineet wince'* M to i*-f-_ir ; il o\ Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday*. June 22, 192g IMCOaypHATlO 2W MAY 1670. . VANCOUVER MEN'S PYJAMAS \ $2.45 ' ' Sizes 30 to 44—Tookc's make, of fine quality broadcloth. The best value «M-' of the season THINGS FOR MEN! CLOTH BRUSHES—A summer necessity Mo, 76c, S1.2S POMP ACOMBS—A combination brush and comb 75c and $1.25 GENTS' COMBS—A wide range of prices...... 15c, 85c, 35c, 50c HAIR TRIMMING OUTFITS—A house necessity....- $1.75 and $2.00 HAIR CUTTING SHEARS _ 74o, 98c, $1.25 to $a00 DARWIN BLADES—Gillette and Auto-Strop types *.— — 75c VACUUM BOTTLER—Good finality _' _ 69c THE MILLION DOLLAR Autostrop Razor Free With full -packet of blades, at $1.00 Alarm Clocks "Silver Bell"—made in Canada —superior quality; low price, $1.25 B. C. Barber Supply & Sundries Limited PHOHE SET. 4401 aETAIL STORE — 64 HASTINGS STREET WEST —VANCOUVER, B. O. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION GUT RATE DRUGS We ara the original Cat Bate Drnffffiatl of British Columbia,—the savings on Srua- Wants you enjoy today ara the result of our fight for fair prices; Friday and Saturday Specials .75 .50 .60 .38 '.25 1.00 .25 .15 .25 Ruthin-*: Caps Creolin. 16 oz I'uritall Sugar of Milk. 1-lb. tin . Dr. Reid's Antiseptic Shaving Lotion Rubber Sponge Ear Stopples, per pair I>r. Reid's Blood Purifier... Odarnaptha FJakcs Fly Swatters Mennen's Talcum for Men.. .45 .05 Ivory Soap (guest size) .25 6 for .33 .40 Finest French Castile .31 Soap, per bar..— .24 .30 Lux (larger size) OH .87 .10 and .60 Liquid Veneer, .18 and .35 ..81 .30 Insto Hand Cleaner .80 .18 r,.00 Gillette Razors 3.39 ■*! :1~> Extract of Vanilla 13 .'J' .35 Mum .32 .15 .75 Vacuum Bottles ...'..:. .33 Vanconver'a Own Drug Stores—Thirteen ln tha City at Tour Service. We Save Ton Money 1 VANCOUVER DRUG COMPANY, LIMITED 15 STORES Corner Hasting* and Gore Ave. Seymour 2864 EMPRESS VERNA FELTON AND THE ALLEN PLAYERS ^Ttxho "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" Next Week: "THE CO-ED BANDIT" All seats reserved. BARGAIN NIGHT MONDAY, 25c and 50c Balance of Week: Evenings, 25c to 75c; Matinees, Wednesday, 20c and 30c; Saturday, 30c and 40c. / A One Hundred Per Cent. Union House FIRST CHURCH "The Church of the Open Door" * HASTINGS STREET EAST AT GORE AVENUE Minister: REV. J. RICHMOND CRAIG Organist: Mr. F\ Newton ... SUNDAY SERVICES:' ■•'■#,*' '-■'■; IT ^m.-^RE¥. PRfN; JOHTTMAC'kAY, D.D. 3:30 p.m.^'CONVENTICLE" . 7:30 p.m.—"THE FULL DINNER PAIL" MB. CRAIG WXLX. PREACH IN THE EVENING Straw Balladt Ma's forrprohibition, Pa's not yet: Brother's undecided, Baby's "wet.—W.B. *..'»*'* '*, * The only kind of work that some folks will do for nothing is peddling gossip. '.•.•'•'■ "'■■'■ V; Mother claims she can always tell *Wheri "daughter dried the dishesPW- canse they're still wet. The correspondent of a large business concern had been invited out to dinner by a friend. At the table the host asked him to say grace. It was a newcexperience, but he was not to be found wanting. "Dear Lord," he began, "we thank Thee fo'r all the favors of recent date. Permit us to express our heartfelt gratitude. We trust that we may continue to merit Yotrr confidence, and; that we shall ijeceiye many more,, blessings from" You in future. Anjen, : Union Label Trades Elect Officers At the Union Label Trades Council's regular meeting, held on Thursday evening, June 11th, it was decided to hold only one meeting a month during the summer. The next meeting is scheduled for tlfye evening of Thursday, July 12th, at 8 o'clock. A full attendance of delegates from all affiliated unions is requested, as businesS of urgent importance will be transacted. The election of officers for the ensuing twelve months resulted as follows: President, Del. C. McDonald, Tailors; vice-president, .'Del. T. J. Hanifin, Beverage Dispensers; recording and corresponding secretary, Del. N. McLaurin, Dairy Employees; publicity secretary, Del. J. dimming, Hotel and Restaurant Employees; treasurer, ,C. Heitiot, Barbers; ser- geant-at-arms, Mrs. Dolk, Tailors. These officers will also constitute the executive. Delegate Herriot, the retiring president, was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his services. A suggestion, emanating from Delegate Mills, was laid over until the next meeting, that a circular be prepared for general distribution, which would include, not only a fac-simile of the different Union Labels and Cards, but authentic information as to where the products of Organized Labor can be purchased or obtained locally, Delegate Herriot undertaking to secure, in the meantime, whatever necessary data was available. Considerable discussion was precipitated by the lack of interest shown in the Union Label Trades Council by several unions who should be, but are not, affiliated with the council. It was the consensus of opinion that, if the Label Trades Council is ever going to function efficiently and become a real factor in the Organized Labor Movement, a more active participation in its affairs will be necessary from all label trades, and n*H just the few who. are carrying all the load at present.—J.C. South African Union Leader Is Acquitted ' Mr. Clements Kadalie, the secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of South Africa —the big negro trade union—has been acquitted on a charge of sedition. He was arrested in his office at Johannesburg, in consequence of a speech which he made at Pretoria on May .6. He was, however (says the British United Press Johannesburg correspondent),, able to show that there was nothing seditious in his remarks? The last few months have seen a series of vicious attacks on the I. C. W. U., especially in Natal, where the union offices were raided, and all the furniture burnt in the street. A special organization was formed to try to break up the union by violence. Powerful interests have- been vowing to smash the union, especially since it began to commit the unpardonable crime of organizing the negro farm workers. And thcre'is a widespread belief that if only Kadalie could be got out of the way for a bit the whole movement would collapse. The news of his acquittal will be as deep a disappointment to these gentry as it will be a satisfaction to the negro workers all through South Africa. Teamsters of One Firm Still Out With all the large cartage firms in Edmonton signing with the teamsters With the exception of the MacCosh: am Storage and Distributing_^o._Lti*LL negotiations are -still being carried on to bring the strike to a successful conclusion. Fred Harrison, representative of the Department of Labor in Western Canada, was in the city during the week, and with Major Campbell, chief conciliation officer, Ottawa, interviewed R. V. MacCosham of the MacCosham Storage, who refused to conciliate the matter of wages and working conditions. The Federated Railway Shop crafts have formed a committee and interviewed the railway management rela- tive to their attitude in regard tcr the trouble. , The strikers are receiving moral and financial Support from the trade unionists of the pity and every effort will be made to have the MacCQsham comiiaiu'::.sign-jap i**i.;<*<*minui> wi-sb the other large cartage firms of the city. . , :■..:■ Realty Luncheons Good Sucker Bait Florida and other American real estate booms having passed into the land of dreams, the high pressure salesmen have been scattered to the four corners of the earth. Some of them have apparently landed in Vancouver and already quite a number of suckers have been tlimflammed into paying high prices for land that could have been purchased at 'prices far below that which were paid. A great many women have been invading the homes of workers with an invitation to cat lunch at a real estate barbecue. In this way hundreds of women have obtained free lunches, but a great many have paid so dear for those lunches that the family will have to eat stew and hash for a good many moons in order to meet the -ordinary expenses of housekeeping. Lots are being sold in subdivisions in .various parts of the district for 100 per cent, more than they could be purchased from a reputable local real estate dealer. Some lots are being purchased unseen and from a location on a map, and when hunted for are found to be either in a swamp or well up a mountain side. And these are no money back propositions because the lot you sign for is on the map and some mountains are subdivided almost to the peak. But even property that you are taken direct to can be purchased at a price far below the amount these high pressure salesmen are asking. If you are desirous of buying real estate, don't buy it from some American who is over here on a vacation long enough to fleece you out of some hard earned dollars. When in a hhrry try the Dairy Maid Lunch . "The Union Men's Lunch" 3 Hastings Eait Opposite Holden Building Progressive Fanners To Keep Independent SASKATOON.—Saskatchewan Progressives in • convention here passed a resolution expressing disapproval of any co-operation with either Liberals or Conservatives in elections. Representatives of 25 constituencies, covering both provincial and federal fields, attended and laid down the principles and policies of Progressives of the province. C. E. Little of Regina was elected president of the association. COTTON MILL STRIKERS. AIDED BY CHILDREN The cotton strike in New Bedford, N. J.,—where Herman Melville, in the days of "Moby Dick" saw actual cannibals stand chattering at street corners, savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flosh"-ris now in its sixth week; and the strikers—skilled emigrants~fron1 Lancashire and semiskilled Portuguese—stand solid. The children's song in the streets is: "When you're up, you'reup, When you're down, you're down; When you're against the U-ni-on, YoU're up-side-down I" The companies claim that the 10 per cent wage cut which they are demanding is forced on them by the competition of the new Southern mills, with their under-paid, unorganized workers. But their "own dividends belie them. The biggest mill of the lot has paid 32 per cent for five years running. The average for the whole lot for 10 years has been over 11 per cent. The Ottawa boys delayed their vacation by at least two days owing to their having an accumulation of warm air inside that they wanted to let out to assist in warming the outside. BUILDING CONTRACTS FOR MAY TOTAL ,H*flM,0W,a00 America's building boom apparently refuses to slow up. According to a report issued by F. W. Dodge Corporation, contracts totalling $668,- 097,200 were awarded for new building and engineering work in 37 states east of the Rocky Mountains during the month.of May. This is an increase of 21 per cent, k June is the month when most people are hard pressed for money. The other months when this is true of the same people are July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May and sometimes W and Y. Fable: Qnce there'Was a woman r0m!tlftfitp^i\t a flne'*hotel and didn't become dissatisfied with the bathroom at home. .-, EAT TODAY AT THE RICHMOND CAFE 100 Per Cent. Union. All White Help 1033 Granville St. (Nr. Nelson) The Only Union Fish and Chip Shop ln the City! Ye Olde English Fish and Chip Shoppe 614 BOBSON (Near Granvillo) NOTARY PURLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades & Labor Council Boom 803, 16 Hustings Street East Phones; Soy. 7495-6279 ABB0TSF0RD Call High. 498 and 4980 NIGHT PHONE: HIGH 4676 COAL WOOD For the Best Fuel Obtainable VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Bad Cold. MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC RUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. SEY. 2070 Dancing Every Night Orchestra: Saturdays—Holidays and when advertised. Hastings Park, Cars 8 or 13 m TENDERS TENDER^', wanted on school desks, chairs and stools.' Kor particulars apply School Hoard Office, f.90 Hamilton street, after '.* a.m., June VI. 1928. LABOR PARTY FORCES ITS ATTENTION ON OTTAWA (Continued from page 1) the Immigration Act and to the Criminal Code, wiping out the legislation of 1919. The former bill was amended by the Senate, the latter killed by the Senate. So, also, the Senate killed an amendment to the Naturalization- Artr Surely-"ff-turiDVrS"aTraBge~ ment by which the elected representatives of the people spent weeks in trying to arrive at something that is in the general interest, only to have it rejected by an irresponsible body. Other matters of a more general character were my bill to abolish legislation against blasphemous libel, which was voted down, and our protest against the cancellation of the Bible Students' license,-.which also was without any immediate effect. In this connection I am reminded of a question put to me several yearB ago by one of my children. He had heard ine .-.'peaking about our -being defeated by large' majorities. He came to the conclusion that --surely we must be playing a poor game and asked quite innocently: "Father, does your^naTeW'winr' ■"■'■OSMfiinTnnS". must be content to play on the losing/ side. *
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