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: 1928-07-27
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note: labor Statesman ^^^^^/jfoWNED AND CONTROLLED ^^^^ BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Y\ Supported by Fifty-eight Local Unions *^SBfe» 14 Trades Council Working Button (Uninge) (or the Third Quarter ot 1928 NO. 21SU-EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY JULY 27, 1928 McRae's Bath House British Labor Prepares i jobToBeaeaneaUp For General Election In the Labor Party's Programme, Entitled "Labor and the Nation," There Is an Indication That the Party Is on the Eve of Victory—a Victory That Will Remove the Conservative Party From Power Forever. 'J-HE BRITISH LABOR PARTY is preparing for what is likely .to be the ending of Conservative rule in Great Britain. This great battle is likely to take place next year, and the prospects for a big Labor victory were never better. Its victories at the by- elections indicates the tendency "towards Labor, and this has lent enthusiasm to the movement. Quite a large number of candidates are in the field, and others are being nominated from time to time. The Labor manifesto has been drawn up and will be placed before the big Labor conference in October. The Labor Statesman will publish .a series of articles dealing with various aspects of the programme and policy from various leaders of the Labor Party. We start off with the following from the Daily Herald, the leading Labor daily of Great Britain: LABOR AND THE NATION The new statement of Labor's policy and programme is at once a challenge to the existing order and a call to action to the whole Labor Movement. It is an attempt to re-state, in the light of the knowledge and experience of the last ten years, the principles laid down in Labor and the New Social Order—the document which rallied hundreds of thousands of war-weary and disillusioned men and women to the Labor Movement. We venture to prophesy that Labor and the Nation will be as powerful an influence at the next general election as Labor and the New Social Order was in L918 and 1922. Its relentlesV-criticism of the Conserv…
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: 10.14288/1.0439054
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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