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: 1928-05-18
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note: City Council Loses Control of the Newsboy Situation Unfair and Harsh Treatment Meted Out to Men Who Through Some Misfortune are Compelled to Earn a Living by Selling Newspapers—Boys Swarm Streets at All Ages and Hours MEN UNABLE TO FOLLOW REGULAR EMPLOYMENT—old men and cripples—are subject to a lot of unfair competition, and harsh treatment by wholesalers of local daily papers. Attempts to get better terms for union news vendors have failed and the men are discouraged and ask organized labor for support. ;- Delegates from the News Vendors Union drew the attention of the Trades Council to the treatment meted out to them, and what they are up against, in another effort to get some of their many grievances adjusted. The men who are selling papers on the street, generally have physical defects that prevent them from earning a living in some other way. They do not desire to become public charges, so attempt to help themselves by this means, but find that their job is becoming harder and the pay smaller. - One of the complaints is to the -effect that they have to sell 200 daily -papers—Sun or Province—to make '$1.50. They have asked the managements, along with delegates from the Trades Council, to give them a better deal, but they have been turned down. Wholesalers will sell the papers to every boy that comes along, and this interferes with the sales of the nfph who attempt to make a living at street corners. Most of these boys are unlicensed, yet the city permits them to interfere with the living of those who cannot follow any other line. The city claim that they cannot keep the boys off the streets because they have not enough policemen, but if the management of the daily papers were prosecuted for selling papers to boys without licenses it would help to relieve the situation. Five-year-old boys are now permitted to sell papers on the streets, and no effort is made by the city to prohibit this bad training for boys. The news vendors also point out that when special edit…
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: 10.14288/1.0439060
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