The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1928-10-12
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note: labor ^^^^^/jfoWNED AND CONTROU 1LED Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions labor Council Working Button (Bin*) for t)io ronrth Term of 1928 NO. 229---EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C., OCTOBER 12, 1928 The Importance of Political Action By ANGUS Mac INN IS Before the next issue of the Labor Statesman appears the election of representatives on the various elective bodies who will guide the destinies of the new and greater Vancouver will have passed into history. That this election is of importance to the working class almost every worker will concede, but generally the great majority are willing to let it go at that, and feel that if they go to the poll on election day and mark their ballot for the labor candidate that they have done all that is necessary or required. But that is the very least that anyone interested in the cause of labor can do. To do any less would be in opposition to labor. I do hot hesitate to say that the worker who has a vote and does not go to the poUUon election day and mark his baltfr for labor is against us, and just as much so if he refrains from voting as if he had cast a ballot for the opposing candidate. The saying: "He that is not with us is against us" holds good in this case as in many others. Organized Labor'i Demands Nothing that has come to my notice emphasizes the value which organized labor places on political representation more than the fact that out of one hundred and seventeen resolutions coming before the recent convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, from or^ ganized labor bodies, all but two were requests for legislation that would be of benefit to the working class. This is proof enough for me that that portion of the working class, who arc intelligent enough to organize industrially, understand where the power lies which may be used to emancipate the workers from the moan and stunted life which is vouch-saved them by capitalism. This is not an attempt to show that one sjde of our movement is of more importance t…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439045
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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