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: 1930-01-17
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0439057/source.json
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note: —-—* /-_-' labor ^^x*****\\\\\ A0WNED AND C0NTR0Lt ' '..O. 299—EIGHT PAGES -Vustralian Labor Checks ■ B. C. Lumber Mission Letter from Vancouver Trades and Labor Council to Australian Labor Starts Opposition to tbe Requests of British Columbia Lumber Industry o iLLED Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions VANCOUVER. B. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1930 RGANIZED LABOR IN AUSTRALIA has taken a definite stand against the British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Association's lttempt to open up a larger Australian market for British Columbia >umber products. This action has been taken because the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council informed the Australian unions of the conditions under which this particular industry was operated, that the operators had consist- sntly- opposed social legislation and had made labor legislation useless, and that the industry, as now operated, was of very little .enefit to the general public or working people of this province. When the organized Labor movement heard that this delegation of lumbermen were going to Australia to ask that country to make it easier for B. C. lumber products to enter that country, pictures of the antiunion, anti-social, anti-British labor attitude of the lumber barons during the past twenty years came before pur vision. We pictured the unabated attack the operators of this industry had waged upon all labor legislation, we pictured the ruthless destruction of the forests'by high-lead logging, and we reinembered the thousands of killed and permanently .injured workers whose widows and ■wives and children have cried out for (justice, while the industry has startled, or made, the fortunes of over forty Vancouver millionaires and many other scattered in all parts of the world. Could we, as workers, knowing these things, suffering these wrongs, fighting their political lobbies and building up these huge fortunes for them to enjoy, give our blessing to this mission? We conscientiously believed then, and …
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: 10.14288/1.0439057
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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type: Text