http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0439038
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1928-07-20
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note: fDOWNED AND COHTROLLED jj^JjF BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AMD LABOR CmUQl Supported by Fifty-eight Local Unions ^ - Trades Coi Working B (Orange) Third Quarte. 1928 NO. 218—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 19; Chinese Displace White Strikers in Shingle Mill Employers Use Club Over Both White and Yellow Races to Force Down Conditions—Labor May Use Another Club on Shingle Mill Owners Chinese made shingles and inasmuch as -the shingle company here went out of business, we can only construe that it was on account of the boycott. The Trades Council know the agents, brand and mill number of the shingles made by the Capilano Timber Company, and steps are being taken to inform the unions in the United States of the conditions here. If the Washington mills can get more orders the white shingle weavers can transfer their labor power to the other side of the line, where Chinese are not employed. •T-HE CLUB OF EMPLOYING ORIENTAL LABOR is held over * the heads of white shingle weavers in this province, to prevent them from getting a square deal from the employer. Chinese have filled the places of men who went on strike to enforce a small wage increase. Eighty per cent, of the shingle mills in British Columbia are operated with Chinese labor. Southern nigger exploiters exploit and rob the forests and white workers of British Columbia. These were the .points brought but in a discussion in the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council meeting on Tuesday in connection with the shingle industry. The council is considering action that will cripple the industry in this province unless the mill owners come to their senses. Foreign owners and Oriental labor are not benefiting the province, so we might be well rid of both. The new method of cutting shingles, while cheaper for the com . pany, slows down the production of the weaver, so the weavers in the Capilano Timber Company asked for an increase of 2c per thousand, The company steadfastly refused,, so the men called a strike. Their p…
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