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[The Labour Statesman]
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aoor f/^OWNED AND CDNITJOLLED" NO. 22i~E]C,UT J'ACI-S Ramsay Macdonald Gets a Tremendous Ovatio Independent Labor Party Gives Dinner—MacDonald Outlines the Conditions in Great Britain—Hopes to Supply Us With Great News Next Year Supported by Fifty-eight Local VANCOUVER, K C, AUGUST 2 'pHE DINNER tendered to J. R. Ramsav MacDonald-, M.P.. by the Winnipeg Independent Labor Party was a historic affair anil one that will be long remembered by those present. The organized workers ftf Winnipeg were well represented, with a sprinkling of prominent citizens in other walks of life. The ovation which greeted Mr. MacDonald and his three daughters was spontaneous and from the hearts of the audience. . S. Cartwright fulfilled the duties of chairman with brevity and dig nity. , Aid. S. J. Farmer rose to the occasion in making the speech of welcome on behalf of the I.L.P., and in a few Well chosen remarks , in which ho pointed out that the reception given to. a. Labor leader had not always been thus, and pointed out that the present reception given all over the country was very significant of the change taking place in people's minds, and that our guest was an honored leader after years of fighting. Mr. E. J. Ramsay, managing director of the Canadian Wheat Pool, extended greetings on behalf of the fanners of Canada. He said that the Pool held open the door to the co-operative movement in Britain. "Why do we have a bountiful harvest and hungry mouths in Europe?" said Mr. Ramsay. "We seek co-operation between ourselves and with our customers. The pools are not organized for obtaining wealth, but a fair return for our product—not more than our customers can afford to pay. We have organized defensively, and we have watched the movement Mr. MacDonald is interested in." Inconsistencies of the Law Miss Ishbel MacDonald spoke on behalf of the Labor Women of Britain, and pointed out how they had fought for the franchise, and stated that until this session of parliament she could not vote,, yet was elected to the London Countty Council, which showed the glaring inconsistencies of the law. Bouquets were presented to Ishbel, Sheila and Joan MacDonald by three little girls, and between the addresses appropriate songs to the occasion were rendered by Mrs. Dallas and Peter Logan, which were well received. When Mr. MacDonald rose to speak he was greeted with prolonged applause. When this subsided he opened his remarks by saying: "Mr. Chairman and Friends: Up to now I have only one complaint to make against Canada. That is that it is far too hospitable. Believe me, sir, we came out here crying almost like Nicodemus that our presence might not be discovered. You have defeated us. Wherever we go your kindness meets us and we will go home possessed of a profound gratitude." The Unfortunate Guests With his thanks for the kindness he joined a stirring appeal that the incoming miner-harvesters be given the handshake of welcome as well. ' 'Will you give, I ask you, an equally Warm handshake next week, to I guests not so fortunate as wc are. The British miners come, not seeking to take a single crumb from others, but, driven by the lashes of poverty, to try by helping to reap • your harvest to get some of it to drop on their own bread plates." Education," Mr. MacDonald de T clared, "has had no more fruitful re suits than among the miners of Great Britain. I'had a miner friend (he is now dead) in Scotland who had books of literature in his possession ''that many rich men in Canada and elsewhere cannot boast of. I can , take you where incomes have never ' been large, but where, nevertheless, you will find stored with great respect and cherished with appreciative hearts the very best in literature and philosophy. These are the mon, my Winnipeg friends, now crossing the seas in the hope that in the next week or two they may by the sweat of their brows earn a living. They do not come thinking there is an Eldorado here. Give them a welcome, because they are the best that Great Britain can send you. "Three Blooming Daughters" "At the present time I am not engaged in political activity. Just before I left," he said with the glint of merriment in his eye, "a well- known surgeon offered me his services whenever I required them. I told him, 'I am just off for Canada in search of peace.'" His reference to peace and the suggestion that he was not being given very much on his holiday aroused laughter. He suggested that he might have had his features changed so he could have gone through the country unrecognized. That might have been possible had it not been for "his three blooming daughters" attracting attention to him. The Labor Movement In referring to Mr. Ramsay's greeting, he said: "Ah, my friends —there are too many people who think this movement of ours is one of transport workers, of engineers. The labor movement has no meaning whatsoever apart from historical evolution. It relates to every class and function in the community that gives service to society. It is a movement in intellect, in morality, in the human mind, calculated to adapt society and institutions more accurately to fulfill the needs of personality and individuality. "Where the last generation went astray was in regarding the individual as master of himself. It was believed that the individual standing apart could accumulate economic and political power arid then use it in the common'-interest." "That was all wrong," he declared. "It cannot be done. An individual finds himself in his own community. Personality can only be found when the individual has discovered the community with which he has to co-operate to further the common interest. "The'Canadian farmer," he said, "has tried the old methods, the old game of 'beggar my neighbor and the devil take the hindmost,' and has solved nothing. But he has been driven almost unconsciously along another road. He is discovering things at last. His movement here has a relation with the labor movement nnd with the great co-operative movements in Europe. The Canadian farmer is beginning to lift his head high in the world and banish all fears and dangers which used to haunt him. y ' The Dreamers "I will give you something to think over; I don't object to being called a dreamer. I am a dreamer. No man or woman has done any creative work in the world without ing dreamed it. What we have to discover is that he who only dreams lives only half a life. What we must (Continued on page 5) Local Labor Men _ In Moving Pictures A large number of local labor men faced a moving picture camera last Saturday and will be seen on ,the screen at the Pantages Theatre during the week commencing Monday, August 27th. The pictures were taken during the Joint Conference of Seattle and Vancouver Building Trades Councils. The Vancouver Harbor Board co-operated with us by taking the party on a trip along the waterfront on the yacht MS Fis- pa. Refreshments were served during the trip and Mr. Errington of the Pantages Theatre took several pictures which show the delegates in some very interesting positions. The cameraman caught Teddy Morrison, president of the Vancouver Buildin-j Trades Council, shaking hands with Rowland Watson, president of the Seattle Building Trades Council, and Bill Page is seen trying to get into the picture by shaking hands with a dozen others. Dan MacPherson, business agent of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, has taken the place of Captain W. Hammersley at the wheel, and is seen trying to keep the boat off thfe rocks. Dan proves to be a poor navigator, so Bill Watts of the Labor Statesman c#mes to his rescue (having driven a Red Bug at Happyland), and is seen on the bridge instructing Dan how to steer the yacht. Most of the ladies appear to have faced the camera before, because they are delivering the most becoming smiles, in possibly another attempt to get a call from some moving picture company. We won't mention names, but one of the ladies appears to be "doing her stuff" just as though she had rehearsed for the occasion*. Walter Deptford, chairman of the Labor Day Sports Committee, takes up the whole of the picture when he leads the party off the boat. He has somebody's wife on his arm, so Mrs. Deptford has plenty of evidence if she wants to get a divorce, although we understand that after 26 years of married life they are still living like a couple of turtle doves. Do Not1*atronize Boys and Girls Band At the request of the Vancouver Musicians' Union the Trades and Labor Council placed the Vancouver Boys' and Girls' Band on the unfair list. In making this request the Musicians' Union delegates pointed out that they helped this band when it was first organized and were prepared to continue to welcome them and their efforts so long as they kept out of the competative field and did not encroach upon jobs of the Musicians' Union. The Musicians' Union has worked and is working in perfect harmony with other amateur and fraternal society bands, but the objection to the Boys' and Girls' Band is that they have, through their manager, taken positions formerly filled by members of the union. They have sought and accepted engagements and are alleged to have stated that the Musicians' Union gave them permission to play at these engagements.' The union is not lopposed to the children becoming musicians or playing at benefit concerts, what they do object, to ithe fact that the directors of this band are allegedly cashing in on the sentiment of a children's band, when as a matter of fact the kids are being exploited under the guise of teaching them music-sn. This band is now <*n the "De Do Not Patronize List." SCHOOL LOCKERS TO UNITED STATES FIRM The Vancouver Trades and Labor Council will make a protest against what appears to be an injustice to Vancouver business firms in the purchase of lockers for the new Technical School. A contract for 1(00 lockers was recently let to Clark & Stewart for 70c lower than that of the Tacey Sheet Metal Works. The Clajk & Stewart lockers, however, come from the United States, while Tacey's are made right in the city The Council opposed the contract because the difference in price was not very great. Trades Council Notes Carpenters Union enrolled ten new members at last meeting. Work is, a little slack just now, but several big jobs are almost ready to start on, said Del. Hargreaves. Next weeks edition of the Labor Statesman will be the Labor Day Edition. Shingle Weavers are getting better meetings since the strike at the Capilano Shingle Co.'s plant, said Del. Chute. Quite a number of new members are being enrolled and a large shingle mill is expected to put the union label on its shingles. The Street Railwaymen's Union has appointed a man (on pay) to help in the Labor Day sports programme. All sick members will be given a free ticket to the sports by the union. New Westminster carpenters are making steady progress, most of the men are working and prospects'.for a long spell of fair employment ale bright. Del. Scribbins asked the Trades Council to appoint a committee to meet the Parks Board in an effort to get the board to adjust wages of park employees, members of Civic Employees' Union. Request granted. Engineers Local 882 arc drawing up a new scale said Del. Keene. The local ha.** decided to assess itself one dollar per member to help purchase a building lot for a new labor temple Ten new members were enrolled by the Painters' Union at its last meeting, said Del. Smith. Trade is fair. Organization of spray men is going along satisfactorily. Bob Stevenson will go to the Trades Congress convention. TUG-OF-WAR TEAM AND RELAY RACE TEAM Electrical Workers Union 213 is going to raise a tug-6f-war team and a relay race team. J; Samuels has been appointed to the job of captain of the tug-of-war team and is now hav-4~lrusy rounding up a team., .There is still room for some volunteers. Half- of what ' the manicurist charges pays for the conversation. The organization campaign of Building Laborers' Union is going steadily on. Twelve new members have been enrolled in the Teamsters' Union. Prospects are bright for doubling the membership before the year is out. The Musicians' Union expects to place a band of 40 or 50 pieces at the service of the Labor Day Sports Committee. Del. Miles of the Millwrights' Union says that new members are being taken in at evjiry meeting. » ' Scotch Dancers at Labor Day Sports The Netty Nichol. Dancers are lending their efforts to make the Labor Day spirts programme a great success, These popular dancers will do several turns in front of the grind stand between the athletic events. Among the other "interesting turns will be some .wrestling and fencing acts by local Japanese. A forty or fifty-piece orchestra will provide music and several other features will be on the cards for that day. Now'' Hiaf a French chemiBt has claipied that there is alcohol in the air, the favorite invitation in Abec- d6cn is. to take a. deep breath.-r- Puneh. . •..'■'■' Whippet Race Looks Very Interesting Labor Day Whippet Handicap staged by the Greater Vancouver Whippet Association at Hastings Park, first heat to start at 2 p.m. Weighing in to start at 12:30 and close at 1:30 sharp. Marksman, Nick Kelyneck. Timers, W. Clift and A. N. Other. 1st heat—A. Page's "Anita," R. Simpson's "Peter," T. Upfield's "Dynamite," A. G. Cumming's "Princess Pat,h J. Mallandain's "Ben Gal." 2nd heat—Mr. McLead's "Dan," J. Mailey's "Tiger," A. Page's "Flash," W. T. Cates' "Busy Bob," J. Mallandain's "Sahra Porta."* 3rd heat—Mr. MeLeod's "Johann," A. Page's "Melodies Double," F. Camplin's "Midge," R. Simpson's "Cumberland Lass," J. Mallandain's "Ben Junior." 4th heat—Mr. O'Brien's "Duplex Dot," A. Page's "Live Wire," Torrey Palm's "Belle'," F. Camplin's "Owen Moore." Sterling silver cup donated by Dr. G. H. Worthington and four prizes from Whippet Car Company. Mrs. R. E. Lowe, Empire Hotel, will give a cup for the fastest-timed whippet. Newspaper Boys Not Getting Square Deal Daily newspaper-; ought to take the responsibility qj^-oMeeting subscriptions from people who decline to pay after having received the paper, said Del. Russell, at the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday. The subject was raised by Del. Hunt of the Painters' Union who pointed out that many boys who deliver daily papers are always out of pocket because people move without paying up their paper account. The boys have no means of compelling the people to pay and the newspaper companies hold the boys responsible. Many boys have quit the newspaper routes with deficits on their hands of which the newspapers demand payment. Del. Russell of the Carpenters stated that his boy owes $14 which he cannot collect from people who wont pay. He criticized the Daily Sun circulation department for putting extra copies in the delivery boy's bundle and then charging them up to them. He said this was done in order to get the boys to get new customers. If the boys stopped delivering papers to customers who would not pay, the circulation department insisted that the boys should continue to deliver the papers on the offchanee that the customer might eventually pay up. In the meantime the boy was held financially responsible for the number of papers he delivered: Del. Showier said that the same condition existed with milk salesmen, bakery salesmen . and taxi drivers. Efforts are to be made to obtain some remedial legislation to combat this. Organizers For Iron Workers' Union Here Organizers Hurley and McTague of the Bridge and, Structural Iron Workers Union are in the city. Organizer Hurley says that he docs not care how many years it takes, but he is going to clear out the dual unionists who are scabbing on the International Trades Union Movement. No decent working conditions can be obtained, wages cannot be raised, unions cannot be built, up so long as a gang of men calling themselves union men, remain outside of the International Trades Union Movement, in order to satisfy their own foolish desires. The union here, he said, is going to conduct a campaign^to clean up the dual union mess, no matte* - how long or how much it takes. We might be our "brother's keeper," but that dojisn't^.taksv, in our brother-in-law. .'..'': Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, August 24, 1928 Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealer* 158 Cordova W. Phone Sey. 8637 See Us About Broken Glass In Windows, Automobiles, Mirrors, Showcases, etc. Art Glass Repaired Mirrors Re-silvered ID, H.rfdl.lrm, XV RONIZEjJ Whole Wheat FLOUR EVERY HOME NEEDS IT MAKE SURE YOU GET IT —AND NOTHING ELSE It Ii Rich in Nourishment —DELICIOUS the cuvtRKMOfr or THE PROVINCE Or BRITISH COUIMBU. Synopsis of Land Act Amendments PEE-EMPTIONS Vacapt, unreserved, surveyed Crown lands- may be pre-empted by British subjects over 18 years of age, and by aliens on declaring Intention to become BrltlBh subjects, conditional upon residence, occupation and Improvement for agricultural purposes. Full information concerning regulations regarding pre-emptions is given In Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, "How to Pre-empt Land," copies of which can be obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of Lands, Victoria, B. C, or to any Government Agent. Recprds will be granted covering only lands suitable for agricultural purposes, and which is not timberland, i.e., carrying over 6,000 board feet per acre west of the Coast Range and 8,000 feet per acre east of that range. Applications for pre-emptions are to be addressed to the Land Commissioner of the Land Recording Division In which the land applied for Is situated, and are made on printed forms, copies of which can be obtained from the Land Commissioner. Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years and Improvements made to value of $10 per acre, including clearing and cultivating at least five acres, before a Crown Grant can be received. For more detailed information see the Bulletin, "How to Pre-empt Land." PURCHASE Applications are received for purchase of vacant and unreserved Crown lands, not being timberland, for agricultural purposes; minimum price for first-class (arable) land Is $6 per acre, and second- class (grazing) lapd $2.50 per acre. Further information regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands is given ln Bulletin No. 10, Land Series, "Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands." Mill, factory or Industrial**toltes on timber land not exceeding 40 acres may be purchased or leased, the conditions Including payment of stumpage. HOMESITE LEASES Lnsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 acres, may be leased as homesites, conditional upon a dwelling being erected In the first year, title being obtainable after residence and improvement conditions are fuilfllled and land has been surveyed. LEASES For grazing and industrial purposes areas not exceeding 640 acres may be leased by one person or a company. GRAZING Under the Grazing Act the Province is divided Into grazing districts and the range administered under a Grazing Commissioner. Annual grazing permits are Issued based on numbers ranged, priority being given to established own- era Stock owners may form associations for range management. Free, or partially free, permits are available for settlers, campers and travellers, up to ten head. JEWS ON THE LAND The work of settling Jews on the land in Soviet Russia seems to be going steadily forward, if the results so far obtained are not sensational. Before the war there were only 52,- 000 Jewish peasants in Russia; now there are 165,000 — though, of course, large areas of the Jewish Pale of Tsarist Russia are now in the possession of Rumania, Poland, and Lithuania. And the number is Increasing by about 20,000 a yeaV. The prosnerity pf our neighbors in die end is our own, and the pov- V erty of bur Tieighbors becomes also in the end our own.—Ruskin. What Labor Would Do in the Schools By CHARLES P. TREVELYAN, M.P. In this, the third of the series of articles in which well known men and women arc discussing various aspects of the new draft statement of the Labor Party's policy and program, the Minister of Education in the first Labor government outlines the party's intentions with regard to more and better education, the money for which Labor is, in his words, ready to find from armaments and luxury. As Mr. Ramsay MacDonald hais pomted out, the Labor program contains two types of proposals—that is, those "which can be rectified by. a stroke of a Ministerial pen, and' others only by long and severe parliamentary fighting." But we shall know from the program what will be either done or begun the moment a Labor government is formed. The party will regard it as the marching orders of every Minister in every department, which he will neglect or his civil servants hamper at their peril. During the short Labor government of 1924 it was possible to give a clear indication of what a Socialist regime would mean in education than in any other department. The Minister of Education was unhampered by the need for new legislation. All he had to do was to obtain the consent of his colleagues to an expansion of educational expenditure, and he was free to initiate the boldest policy. The same situation will exist whenever Labor again takes office. A reactionary government has again checked all substantial progress. Parsimony has reigned again as the main principle of the Conservative Board of Education. Again Labor will take control, but with an even more clearly defined purpose and an appreciation of certain big strategic alterations which must be made in order to prevent another period of stagnation. With One Exception Again there is not much legislation required. One new law must be passed to raise the compulsory school age to 15. Nor ought there to be great difficulty in passing it. All exs pert opinion is agreed, except Lord Eustace Percy. . . . Whenever the school age is raised not only must some more schools be built, and many more teachers appointed, but maintenance grants must be frecl^ given wherever poverty is straining the ability of parents to clothe and feed their children. The Labor party has decided cheerfully to meet this new cost, conscious that it would be the most valuable social expenditure possible, and that an appreciable part of the expense will be recouped by the nation in less expenditure on adult unemployment whenever half a million children of 14 years of age are no longer thrust into -the labor market. When Labor returns to power we shall find that almost nothing has been done to reduce tbte disgraceful number of swollen WflSses which more than 20,000 of our teachers are still condemned to teach. It is painful to realize that the number of classes over 50 is largely on the increase, where small children are concerned. Conservative parsimony is further degrading the chances of the infant. Agaip, the deterrent for the Conservative government is expense. Wealthy Are Lukewarm ings, abundant books, good food, ample playing fields. In the secondary schools we intend to provide at once education as free as in the elementary school, and to equip advanced education so thoroughly that the best opportunity for culture will be obtainable without paying several hundred pounds a year to send a boy or girl to a segre gated rich school. There is no mistake -about the ideals held out to the nation in the new program, nor is there any obscurity as to the changes intended. " " "An Impossibility" The Labor party "cannot tolerate the continuance of an educational system marred throughout by meaningless class distinctions, whiclvoffers to the vast majority of the children of the nation the bare rudiments of education, in buildings that are often educationally unsuitable and sometimes positively injurious to health, in classes that are often -so large as to make individual care and attention—and, indeed, even efficient teaching—an impossibility, in an environment devoid of the amenities that belong, as a matter of course, to the schools of the well-to-do, and which then plunges them into wage- earning employment at an age at which the children of wealthier parents are just beginning their serious education." * The list of administrative acts which constitute the marching orders for the next Labor Minister of Education will probably satisfy the party as the starting policy for the new generation. What the party, and later the whole nation, must realize is that they imply two things. First, there must be a readiness to spend many more millions on education than we do at present. And Labor is ready to find the money from armaments and luxury. Secondly, there must be a national determination to continue the policy irrespective of changes of government. After our recent experience of Conservative advinistrative reaction we must hope for a long enough spell i of power to entrench new standards j n our system and new expectations n the minds of parents. FIRE DESTROYS VALUABLES! BURGLARS STEAL THEM! Safety Deposit Boxes Protect Them! for the small cost of only $3—Three Dollars per Year—$3 'Hours from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday 1 p.m. VANCOUVER SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING BLDG., PENDER AT HOMER Thirsty? DRINK WHISTLE CROSS & CO., Mfrs. FAIRMONT 1173 ANNUAL AUGUST FURNITURE SALE QUALITY, STYLE and LOW PRICES DOMINION FURNITURE CO. 1082—GRANVILLE STREET—1082 "THE HOUSE OF FRIENDLY CREDIT" \ In 1924 the Labor government declared its intention to end the class of 50 and to begin soon to establish 40 as the maximum. We then had barely time to do more than promulgate the new standard. Next time we intend to insist, and by persuasion and pressure will see that this badge of inferiority no longer atta6hcs to the people's schools. The central fact of education politics todays is that the Conservatives arc lukewarm about educational ex- penditurfc because the well-to-do people of our country get their children educated outside the system of national education. They have an educational pale of their own, and not unnaturally are irked by having to pay for a second system for the children of the workers. The proper solution is for all children of all classes to go to the same schools. And the best way of attaining that end is to make the people's schools so healthy and efficient that no sensible parents will want to send their children elsewhere. At any rate, the Labor party intends in this generation to 'see that' no child is handicapped by hh parentage, that in the elemerifSry" school will be found small classes and roomy build- Costly Election This Year in United States By SCOTT NEARING $10,000,000 to be expended in the political campaign," announced the New York Times immediately after the nomination of Smith and Hoover. Of this amount, the Times allowed the Republicans and Democrats $8,- 000,000 and the Farmer-Labor partj* $2,000,000. No Soviet go)d was mentioned in the story. Since these early estimates, the figures have been revised upward. Vice-President Raskob, temporarily loaned by the General Motors Corporation to the Democratic national committee, put his business genius to work and published plans involving expenditures greater than any heretofore estimated by the Democratic party during a presidential campaign. Republican officials came back. Not to be outdone, they, have published a budget calling for the expenditure during the campaign of at least $4,000,000. These are the formal, budgeted amounts scheduled to be spent. In addition, great sums will be personally spent that will never get into the public prints or be reported to campaign committees. The election of 1928 will be the most costly in the entire history of the United States. Why? (1) The spoils of office arc greater than they hfvve ever been during the whole course of American history. The federal government now spends around $10,000,000 a day—a mighty big item for a group of profiteers to control—especially when it goes seven days a week, 365 days a year. (2) The issues of the campaign are momentous. In what direction, how fast and how far, shall the ruling class of the American empire move during the next four years? Prohibition and religion—like prifcc'- fights and horse races—are thrown in to keep the crowd interested. Big business is at the crossroads in shaping its major economic policies. What part of the $20,000,000,000 annual U. S. economic surplus shall be spent f.or internal improvement and what part for foreign investments? Here is an issue on which history making will really turn. While the marine corps js arrange ing for a "frqe" election in Nicara** giia - flie"*rfySTTHamt-Tsrvr:- A mrrican business are financing the U. 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They go.out to buy. and sell the'election in the open markot-aa they buy and settfftist'-thiw any other commodity that enters into their profiteer's game. Plutocracy means that rich men rule. There is more plutocracy today in the United States than in any other spot on earth. The only good laws passed in the „srth«ee or-f-sar-htindrei years have been laws that repealed other -laws. —Buckle (1821-62'). .4 Friday, August 24, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory Vancouver Trades aad Labor Council— President. J, Thomson; general secre- • tary. Percy R. Bennough. Office. 803 Holden Bid**-:., 18 Hastings E. Phone Sey. 7495. Meets in Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays in month. Beverage Dispensers Union No. 676— Meets last Sunday at 8 p.m., Room 313 Holden Bldg. President, W. H. Clancy; Secretary and Business Agent, T. J. Hanofln. Office; Room 14, Flack Block. Phones; Sey. 4738 and Bay. 1656-R. Hours: 9 to 12 a.m. Bridge ft Structural Iron Workers, 'Local 97, Int. Asso.—Meets every Mon. day. Room 804, Holden Bldg.. at 8 p.m. President, W. L. Yule, 5821 Ar- gyle St.; Secretary, P. Lauret, Box 302, City. Phone Fair. 2108L: Millwrights' -Local 1638—Construction and Operating — Meets secona and fourth Wednesdays In Holden Bldg. J. H. Campbell, President: P. H. Edge, Fin. Sec; J. Murray Ure, Rec. Sec. Box 127. lotion Pictures Projectionists' Union, ■Local 348, of I.A.T.S.E. ft M.P.M.O — Meets first Fridav In each month at 11:30 p.m. In the Holden Bldg. President, J. R. Foster; Secretary, Geo:' Gerrard, Box 345. Business Phone, Sey. 3923. Building Trades Council, Vancouver— Meets second and fourth Tuesday in Holden Building. President, E. H. Morrison; Secretary - Treasurer. WV Page. Room 815, Holden Bldg.; Phone Sey. 7495. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, Local 14S, A. F. of M.-—Meets at the G.W.V.A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President. E. C. Miller; Recording Secretary, W.Edmunds: Financial Secretary, W. E. Williams; Organizer. F. Fletcher, all at 991 Nelson Street . Barbers' Journeyman International Union of America—Local 120, meets second and fourth Tuesdays In each month, In Room 310; Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. President. Fred Dawe; Sec.-Treas., C. E. Herrett. Office, 814 Holden Bldg. „ Bookbinders' Local Ho. 105, Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday In month at Professional and 'Business Woman's Club, Empire Bldg., 603 Hastings W. President, G. Low, 61—53rd Ave. *W.; Secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton St. Bricilayers', Masons' and Tils Setters' Int. Union No. 1—Meets second and fourth Wednesday, In the Holden Bldg. President, G. E. Halllday; Secretary, W. S. Dagnall, 1244—20th Ave. E. Phone Fair. 846R. J. H. Riley, Fin. Sec, 5884 Inverness St. Camp and Mill Workers Federal Labor Union Xo. 31—Vancouver and vicinity, meets ev«ry second Wednesday at 8 p.m.. at 544 Powell St. E. President, H. Miyazawa; Secretary. K. Tauyukl. Oarpentsrs and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Local 452—President, J. G. Smith: Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley; Business Agent, W. Hargreaves. Office, Room 809 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings/East. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m. City Kail Employees' Association— Meets first Wednesday of each month at 251*4 Hastings East at 8 p.m. President, W. H. Lewthwaitc; Treasurer, W. J. Scribblns. 3208 Pender St. E; Secretary, J. Tarbuck. 2792 Pender East. Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, Local 138—Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 13 Hastings W. President, H. Edwards; Rec. Sec, A. E. Varah, 1442 Clark Dr.; Business Agent, A. B. Hodge. Office, Room 34. 163 Hastings W. Phone Sey. 3609. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Doc'i Builders, Local No. 2404—Meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock in 122 Hastings St. W. President, R. McDonald; James Thomson, Secretary, P. O. Box 320. Plasterers, Local 89—Operative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International Association—Meets first and third Wednesday In month at Holden Building. President,/Wm. llBroomhead. Secretory, A. Hurry. 861—34th Ave. E., Phone Fair. 3222R. Cement Finishers' Secretary. J. Kelller, 181—53rd Ave E„ Phone Fraser 487L. Plumbers and Steamfitters, No. 170, International Association—Meets every second and fourth Friday In the Holden Bldg. President, R. Simpson; Secretary and Business Agent,. W. Watt, 813 Holden Building. Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Local Ho. 69—Meets every second Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. in Room 213. Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President, Harry F. Longlcy, 303—-8th St.. North Vancouver; Secretary, Thos. S. Ezart, 1603—10th Ave. E., So. Vancouver. Civic Employees' Union, Local 28— Mt-ets first and third Fridays in the month at HIM Hastings East at 8 p.m. President, R. X. Hogg, 1718 Commercial Dr.; Secretary-Treasurer, , George Harrison, 1182 Parker St. Electrical Worksrs, Local 213, International Brotherhood—Meets every Monday nt 8 p.m., 404 Homer St. President, J. B. Brown: Business Agent, E. H. Morrison. "Office, 404 Homer St. Engineers—International Union Steam and Operating Looal 844—Meets every Friday at 8 p.m. Room 806. Holden Bldg. President, Geo. Pettapiece: Rec.Sec, Roy Finley; Business Agent and Fin. Sec, T. A. Newblgglng. Office, Room 806, Holden Building. Fire Fighters, Ho. 18, International Association of—Meels every month at rail of president at 2 >.l ! ■ Hastings E. President, N. McDonald. 1136 McLean Drive: Financial Secretary, C. A. Watson, 1329—13th Ave. E. Floorlayers' Union, Xo. 1875, U. B, of <J. ft 3. A.—Meets first and third Thursdays In month nt -Holden Building. President. O. Mayne; Fin. Sec, T. H. Hamlin; Rec, Sec, W. D. Wilson. 1535—5th Ave W. Hod Carriers and Bnilding Laborers, Ho. 602, International — Meets first and third Fridays In month at Holden Building. President, C. Lawson. 1832 3rd Ave. W. Fin. Sec, J. A. Barring- ton, 4293 Welwyn Street. Business Agent, A.' McEwan. Phone Sey. 7495. Hotel and Bsstaumnt Employees and Marine Cooks ft Stewards, Local 28— 441 Seymour St., meets second Monday each mohth at I p.m., last Mon-{ day at 9 p.m. President. Thos. Edwards; Sec.-Treas. and Bus. Agent, I. Cumming. Phone Sey. 125. Ladies' Auxiliary, Local 171 —United '' Brotherhood of Carpsntsr* — Meets every first and third Wednesday of each month in 810 Holden Building, at 8 p.m. President. Mrs. C. J. Atkinson, 730 19th Ave. W.i Secretary, Elizabeth J. Hope. 1138 Seymour St. Phone Sey. 9074L. Railway Carmen of America, Lodge Ho. 58—Meets first and third Friday In month at Cotl'llon Hall, Granville and Davio. streets. President, II. Warde 1102—23rd Ave. E.; Secretary, J. D. Vuliamy, 2215—15th Ave. E. ■ Street and Electric Hallway Employees, Pioneer Division Ho. 101—Meets K. P. Hall, 8th and Kingsway, first and third Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, H. * W. Speed; Recording Secretarv, J. Price; Treasurer, E. G. Kermodc; Financial Secretary and Business Agent, A. J. Harraway. Office: Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Sey. 5000. Sheet Metal Workers Association, Local Union Ho. 280—Meets second and fourth Thursdays In month in Holden Building. 16 Hastings St. E President, A. Fisher, 1952—4th Ave. W.; • Business Agent and Secretary, D. MacPherson, 807 Holden Building. Shingle Weavers, Local 17813—Meets second Tuesday in month in Room No.* 2. Labor Temple, New Westmin ster, and fourth Sunday, 7:30 p.m., In Room 313, Holden Bldg., Vancouver President. J. N. Chute, Phone High. 1982-V; Secretary, W. H. Matthew, 3436 Irving St. Tailors' Journeymen Union of America, Local Ho. 178—Meetings held first Thursday, each month, 8 p.m. Executive meets third Thursday of every month ln Labor Hall. President, Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. W. Hocken, 1582 13th Ave. E.; Financial Secretary, H. Nordlund, 1930 12th Ave. E. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Kslpsrs, Local 466—Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 310 Holden Bldg. President, A. A. McKay, 765 Cambie St.; Secretary-treasurer, A. P. Black, 880 Homer St Theatrical Stag* Employees' Union, Local 118 of th* I.A.T.S.E. ft M.P.M.O. —Meets at 991 Nelson Street on the second Friday In month, at 9:30 a.m. President, Walter Copp; Secretary. II. Pearson; Bus. Agent, A. Harrington; Address P. O. Box 711. Lathers, Wood, Wire and Metal, International Union, Local 207—Meets second and fourth Mondays In month at Room 209, Holden Bldg. W. Fontaine. Secretary, 1828 Commercial Dr. Phone High. ,116911. | Machinists' Local 692—President, Thos. i Sills, 1352 Burrard St: Secretary, P. ■R Bengough. Office. 807 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Meets on second, and fourth Tuesdays in month. f Vancouver Mailers, Local Ho. 70—Meets first Tuesday In ench month, 6:30 p.m.. ln Room 804, Holden Building, 16 Hastings St. E. President. A. R. C. Holmes., 64J9 Cypress St; Sec-'t-reaB., H. E. R Fader, 2718 Oxford St Phone High. 4110R ' Typograplilcal Union, Ho. 226—Presl- ident, C. S. Campbell; Vice-President. R. Gouthro; Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neeiands, P.O. Box 66. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., ln Women's Bldg., Thurlow Btreet. Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees, Looal 464—Meets second and fourth FridayB in Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President. J. A. Parry; Secretary - Treasurer, Blrt Showier, ■ 2841 Triumph. Phone High. 5327, Mil and Factory Workers' Union, Local Ho. 1699 — Affiliated -with United BrotherhootJ of Carpenters S Joiners. Meets first and third Thursdays in Room 213, Holden Bldg. President J. TC. Mdnhts. Secretary-Treasurer, H. G. Avery, 7964 Montcalm Strfeet Phone Mnrpole 6.48R. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY Ho. 75 to Vancouver Typographical Union meets flrst Thursday of each month, in ths Vancouver Women's Building*, 752 Thurlow Street. President. Mrs. E. J. Trninper, Suits 41, 840 Nslson Street; Secretary, Una A. Pettiplece, 1846 Balaclava Boad. Prince Rupert , Trades & Labor Council 144EETS second Thursday In each 1,1 month. President. S. D. McDonald, Box 268 Secretary. Frank Perry, Box 498, Prince Rupert, B.C. Long Hours Now in Automobile Industry By ROBERT W. DUNN NEW YORK.—While more than 80 per cent, of union labor in the United States is working 44 hours a week or less, the automobile workers in "Dynamic Detroit," where "wages are high and hours are short," to quote open-shop publicists, are working from 50 to 60 hours a week. Reports from Michigan plants turning out the snappy summer models in motor cars show practically all working overtime. Packard is roaring 64 hours a week, 11 hours a day and 9 on Saturday. Olds Motor Works, at Lans-, ing, is doing between 11% and 12% hours a "day. Next winter many of these plants may be on short time or closed down altogether. Such is the effect of the competitive sales anarchy on automobile employment. Workers doing 11 to 13 hours in most of the plants are not getting the union rate of time and a half. Some companies pay no overtime rates, while others give a third or a fourth extra for overtime over nine hours a day. Workers have to put in the extra hours or face discharge. The Briggs body plant, for instance, scene of the great explosion that killed 21 workers in. 1927, tells new workers that they will be required to put in as much overtime as the company desires, including Saturday afternoons and Sundays, at straight time rates. Those who refuse to work overtime are told they will be sent home immediately. There are plenty of men outside looking for jobs. Employment lines at the Ford River Rouge plant in recent days have run as high as-750 workless." Along with the overtime work during rush seasons go other accompaniments of speed-up and close exploitation. One example is the robbing of odds and ends of time from the workers. Assembly line workers in some plants will be kept working 15 to 20 minutes after the whistle blows. No pay is given for this time at the Dodge and other plants. It is 'merely an involuntary contribution | of the workers to swollen company l profits. Widely Fluctuating Earnings Together with the great irregularity in. hours go widely fluctuating earnings. According to figures of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, the militant anti-union employers' association, the average yearly earnings of all those employed in the industry is now about $1,800, which is $200 less than the average for 1920. The wages of the masses of workers, excluding executives and supervisory staff included in the general average, range from about $20 to $36 during a week of 50 hours. Since the federal labor department investigated wages in the industry in 1925, finding that the average weekly full time wage for women was $23 "and for men $36, the in dustry has been hit by an epidemic of wage cuts. Wage cuts are not delivered at one stroke throughout the industry, but are made piecemeal, plant by plant and department by department. Thus the resentment of large groups of workers is not aroused simultan eously. Cuts are achieved either by a re duction in straight time or piece rates or by manipulations in the com plicated time and bonus systems which few workers understand. A frequent practise in recent months has been the firing of workers in the higher wage brackets and the hiring of lower paid workers to take their places. And in many instances the same men who have been discharged have been hired back at lower rates in other departments. The Ford company has thrown out men making $7.80 a day and later taken them back as beginners at $5 and $6. The Detroit lodge of machinists took notice of this practise when it declared fn a bulletin to unorganized workers that "most of our members who have changed jpbs in the past few weeks report that the starting rate for machinists, tool makers and diemakers is less and less with each successive job." This js true not only of the skilled workers but also of the great mass who are unskilled. The trend of wages for both is downward. - "He vclaims his wife .wSS'^Btraot- able, your - lordship, so he has beat her into subjection with a golf r;hib.u "In how .many strokes?" asked this judge.—Tit-Bits. A young bridegroom after the wedding was over and the bride's father had gone off to the club, began to search anxiously among the wedding gifts. "What are you looking for, dear?" said the bride. . . "That fifty-pound check of your ftfflap'i;'' he'-saidi"*■ Al:;*fow****-*-ge** it a,nywhere." '"Poor papa is so absent-minded," sai dthc bride. "He lit his c\gai with it.''—Lontton Tit-Bits. Laundry Workers in Seattle Whip Bosses SEATTLE, Wash.—What business enterprises, owned and managed by organized labor, can do in the strengthening and building of trade unions is demonstrated by the Mutual Laundry, which is now going "on the air" in a campaign to increase its patronage and extend the influence of the idea behind it. Back in 1913 the Laundry Workers' Union of Seattle was small in numbers with its membership scattered in the different plants and with no agreements in any of them. A few of the most active members began to talk of the advantage which the union would have if th«re were a labor-owned laundry which could be depended upon to support the union in any and all circumstances. Started With $50,000 Capital The idea began to take form, and in the spring of 1914 the Mutual Laundry Company was organized, with a capital stock of $50,000. Inside laundry workers, the drivers and 23 unions bought stock. A large number of individual trade unionists were purchasers also. The plant started and business began to grow. But labor did not understand the real value of this new institution and did not give it wholehearted support, n ■ - The public generally who passed the place on the street cars daily would laugh at the idea of labor running a business successfully. They predicted its speedy failure. Three -years of uphill work passed and in the summer of 1917 the laundry workers' union launched a movement for a minimum weekly wage of $10 and certain imprtivc- ments in conditions. Their pay had been from $4.85 to $7.50 and though the union was weak, they decided that with the new weapon in their hands now was the time to strike. Then the Battle Began Every laundry but one refused to agree to the new terms. The fight was on. The other unions all supported the girls. And here is where the Mutual came in and delivered the solar plexus. It rolled up its sleeves, metaphorically, and plunged into the struggle —day and night—24 hours—three shifts. Enough work could be handled to take the edge off the opposition. Then the Chamber of Commerce boycott began. Supplies and new machinery for the union plant were refused by the dealers. But this was circumvented by their purchase by a third party under cover. With labor's laundry running full blast, all the private plants but one closed, the morale of the strikers remained high. In three weeks the employers capitulated. The agreement providing for the $10 minimum was signed by the union with all firms except one small plant and all strikers went back to work. The union found itself with 900 members instead of the 300 of three weeks before. Conditions Have Changed That was the last strike of the laundry workers. Eyery year a new agreement is signed, and now all laundries here are 100 per cent, union. Wages range from a minimum of $17.25 per week to $27 for women, with an average of $40 for washermen. There are 1,200 members in the organization.* It has the best attended meetings of any union in the city. Recently it has tied the Mutual closer to it by acquiring enough stock to give it the controlling interest in the management. This enterprise has, also made progress. Though - suffering from bad management at times and lack of general union support, it is today on a firmer basis than at any time in its history. New machinery has been installed from time to time, and when the latest purchase is in, the plant will be thoroughly up to date and able to do as good work as the best. OUR MEAT PIES will make your picnic more enjoyable THE ESTHER BAKERY 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST - HIGHLAND 1309 R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor and Dealer House Wiring, Fixtures, Lamps, Batteries Glen 370 4099 Hastings St. E. "Build B. C." Better Canned Milk A somewhat lengthy letter from a lady living in Coquitlam says Pacific is the first canned milk her family has ever cared for and ' they have used all brands. We appreciate such letters as these and have received many. Factories at Abbotsford and Ladner, B. C. Pacific Milk 328 Brake Street ' Vanconvsr, B. C. SURPLUS LABOR ON COAST Government and state officials, as well as trade unionists, agree that there is a great surplus of labor in all lines of industry on the Pacific coast. Some of the unions are sending out circular letters warning job seekers to stay away. Wee_k-end rains are about the only protection wild flowers have against nature lovers. FRASER VALLEY MILK for Safety From the Dairy with the Highest Score ge>oc=er 9 Quarts for One Dollar Fairmont 1000 A. F. OF L. IS NEUTRAL The American Federation of Labor has decided to be -neutral in this Presidential campaign. The Executive Council, in session at Atlantic City last, week, made formal announcement of the Federation's position. Members were urged to adhere to the non-partizan position, and to study the candidates' records and speeches. A boy on a date was kept waiting for his girl. The girl's mother, wishing to be sociable, started a conver-, sation with him. "Did your mother raise much poultry this year?" she asked. "Well, she planted a patch, but the darned chickens scratched it all out," was the reply. WINNING FIVE-DAY WEEK The five-day week is being established in the building industry at Portland, Ore. Painters, bricklayers and electrical, [workers have made The'Ontario Wheat Pool, which ag-uiem-ats with i^tractori^oM^ sborter working-Wee\i. "^m"°"' has concluded a very successful sea son. Thus does the producer eliminate the middleman, and the returns are. that rmK>h,*"*»re for the man who creates. ' -■■''■;* Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, August 24, 1928 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at 816 Holden Bldg., Vancouver, B. C. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. H. W. Watts, Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE Chairman Wm. Page (Carpenters), W. Watt (I'lumhcrs), P. R. Bengough (Machinists;, Tim Hanofln (Beverage Dispensers), R. H. Net-lands (Typo. graphical), Geo. (Jerrard (Theatrical), W. Deptford (Street Rallwaymen)-, Blrt Bhowler (Dairy Employees). Phone Seymour 6379 Vancouver, Friday, Aug. 24,. 1928 HELP LOCAL LABOR The Trades Council protest against the importation of American-made lockers for the new Technical School is based on the idea that if British Columbia firms are to be built up there once was a theory that the individual possssed the right to devote himself to any useful work and sell the results thereof, or his service as seemed fit to himself—this was the so-called "Competitive System," and it was alleged to have great virtue in that it encouraged and produced the incentive to improved and better processes and methods of doing things and so on, and to make sure that all this should be so, "trust busting" was a favorite form of political amusement forty years ago, and to this day our antiquated .criminal code declares it to be a criminal offense to "restrain trade," to "unduly lessen manufacturing," to "unduly lessen competition," etc. We have, however, outgrown all this. The Federal Government maintains a commission to see that no competition shall reduce the C. P. R. returns below ten per cent. The B. C. Legislature enacts a law to prevent the internal combustion engine from competing with the B. C. Electric, the Canadian Press Association, an organization created and subsidized by our Federal Government, would refuse its news service to "The Labor Statesman," if we were able to pay r fib Correspondence every opportunity should be given them to do local work even though the price asked is higher than that of ■ for it—because we I would compete outsiders. ....!.. . .;■ i.. .. *... The local manufacturers spend considerable money for machinery to make these lockers, because the de mand for them is increasing, and then because the price is higher and the locker alleged to be inferior to that of the American-made article, the local firm is turned down and may have to scrap its machinery. The American firm undoubtedly turns these lockers out by the thousands . and can cut prices in order to eliminate local competition. After the with Cromie and the Southam Press; Max Aitken is rewarded with a title because he organized a trust of the principal Canadian cement companies, and a Ideal shoe manufacturer refuses to sell to a dealer because he did not add a sufficient percentage of profit—trust rings and combin control manufacture, trade and transportation, "honorable" associations operating under state charters forbid competition and make professional service too costly for the common people. Everywhere -except local competition is eliminated the among the wage earners, and the price wiir undoubtedly go up as this is generally the case and we see no reason why it should not be repeated in this instance. We can see that the position of the school trustee is no easy one because, first and foremost, he, or she, undoubtedly think that they must save the taxpayers money_ Directly, in a case of this "kind, they do, but when the number of workers involved in the manufacture of these articles are eliminated from the ranks of the taxpayers, it means that those who are left to pay the taxes will have to pay a greater amount. But the most peculiar feature, about the case is the fact that the Technical School will be turning out mechanics for whom there is no demand because contracts are filled by American firms. The local tender was not based on the locker which the school board used as a sample. This sample was one that the school board has had in - -use for over a year, but the local manufacturers tender was based on the specifications supplied by the school trustees, and only having three days in which to make the tender, could not produce a sample in that time. The sample of the American tender was one that a local office supply firm had in stock, made specially for tender purposes. We admit that the American tender is low, but the local locker will stand up better upder rough usage than the American locker. We believe that the school board will be well advised to forget the monetary question and favor local labor, in practically all instances such as this. Help build up our in dustries and our local manufacturers will be able to successfully meet for cign prices, and local labor will be in a better position to pay taxes for school and other purposes.—W., farmers, competition is dead and the body burned. The farmer is showing decided signs of awakening. By means of the Prairie Wheat Pool he bridges a wide portion of the gulf between himself and the consumer. In British Columbia the Milk Producers Bill of the last parliament and the Co-operative Marketing Act, now. before the courts, are both open and defiant attempts to "lessen competition." It matters hot what, the courts may find, competition can only be kept alive if the farmer can be put back to sleen. The task is hopeless. The lawyers who asked for a law to relieve themselves from the competition of even a Notary Public, may convince the court that tha Marketing Act is an infraction of the criminal codVr— The farmer does not care; his attitude is one of amused patience, not anxiety. If the ghost of the "re straint q-{ trade" clauses are going to get in his way the criminal code will have to be amended and the next Marketing Act will be more rigid than the present one. With the farmers' operations removed from the competitive field, the last remaining relic of the competitive system will be found in the labor market where the worker grumbles and straves, and looks to the hill, instead of to himself for his salvation.—M. Editor, Labor Statesman. Dear Sir,—It is noticed in "The Province" of yesterday's date an article giving the report of the meeting of the Trades and Labor Council, and criticizing the trustees of. the Vancouver School Board in connection with their purchase of nine hun dred (900) steel lockers for the Technical School from Messrs. Clarke & Stuart, agents for a Chicago firm who manufacture lockers, in place of accepting the quotation of Messrs. Tacey & Son, a local firm.* It is hardly fair that the matter should have been reported in the paner "without stating the fact, that of the samples submitted by the four firms tendering on the lockers the one submitted by Messrs. Clarke & Stuart was infinitely better quality than that submitted by Messrs, Tacey & Son. Apart from this it is pointed out that the difference in price quoted by Messrs. Clake & Stuart of $5.30 and that of Tacey & Son of $0.00 is over 107c, which up to the present time has been the maximum preference given by th School Board in favor of local products, always on the understanding that quality is equal. Further, representatives of the Trades and Labor Council .viewed the samples of the lockers submitted by Messrs. Clarke & Stuart and Tacey & Son and admitted the superiority of the Clarke & Stuart sample. Yours faithfully, B. G. WOLFE-MERTON. Business* Manager and Secretary. mm WITH SAFETY >»» Mt>"««'Wl CHICAGO BO*«D 00 THADt WINNIPffi &«*"* VAMCOuWEP 0«A1N VANCOUVt* MAtUTATt _*«_■.■.-.!• i U II0VMK1 -sOftt ■^ .1...-.-../.1H STOC* VICTORIA STOCK OUCABV STOCK W.MNIH& STOtJ* StATltf StOCA •jMQHAJ*. jTAMBAPQ 5TOC* SECURITY: A first and closed mortgage bond with over $5000 of assets for each $1000 bond. EARNINGS over seven times interest requirements. Convertible into 7-per cent, participating preferred stock at any time during the life of I the. bond. Price $99 & accrued interest to yield.Jp.60 per cent. These bonds may be purchased on our PARTIAL PAYMENT PLAN Ask our Bond*Department for particulars. / . Please send me at once .your booklet, "The Road to Independence." Name..*. Address.. R. P. CLARK & CO. (Vancouver) Ltd. INVESTMENT BANKERS '..."", 823 Hastings Street West Vancouver, B. C INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY AND THE FUTURE IN B. C. Nanaimo, Aug. 4, 1928. Editor, Labor Statesman: Sir,—The 1928 British Columbia election has now passed into history, and so far as the elected members are concerned, the I. L. P. was about wipedioff the,map. The sum total of ..votes cast for Labor is below the proportional increase of votes cast Taken as a whole, and figuring votes as a barometer, we have not only failed to make progress but have gone back. This is the effect. What is the cause? We presume most of those who took an active part in the last election have opinions as to what is the cause, and the writer believes one way to prepare for the next election is to get together and have a free and frank discussion on the whole political situation as soon as is convenient. Yours truly, T. A. BARNARD. EXAMINING A CORPSE The price at which the British Columbia farmer sells his produce is the rate at which the most favorably situated grower, having a surplus, can ship into his market. The price of the things which he must buy is the rate charged for the same article in other countries with the costs of of.these provide for continuatioti'^iff 44 States in U.S. Give Aid to Needy Mothers Fourty-four states and the District of Columbia now provide for public aid to widowed or deserted mothers with dependent children, according to a compilation just made by the United States Children's Bureau. Mississippi and Kentucky..are the latest states to join, and, according to the bureau, their laws are liberal. Only four states—South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and New Mexico— now fail to make some provision for such cases. In 30 states and the District of Columbia, aid is extended until the children are 10 years of age. Fpur transportation to Canada and twen ty-six per cent tariff, or super profits, added. It requires no arguing to prove that a fellow so placed that some one else, set the price of the things which he sold nnd also the things which he bought, will never get fat, and true to" this rule, the -average acre of land in B. C., devoted to agriculture, will not pay a fair return on the labor cost of clearing, dyking or draining the land, producing a crop and placing it on the market, and consistent with this the average acre of agricultural land will not, when sold, return a wage for the labor time expended to make it agricultural land. NBttirally this is not very satisfactory to the farmer, and the manner in which Other, and '■■ very much less essential industries are nursed, and bottle, and spoon and shpt'el fed by the state, has not es- . caped the farmers' notice. - Somewhere near the roots of the economic order under which we live the children reach the age""ttf"i8 years, in special cases. Colorado fixes an 18-year limit outright, and Michigan and Tennessee 17 years; Indiana permits aid up to 1.7 years for girls, and 10 for boys. A number of states fix no maximum grant, leaving that to the authorities to determine in each case. This, says the bureau, has proved to be the best way. Most of the states, however, fix a maximum. For a family with three children, this runs from as high as $50 to $70 per month in California, Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada and Ohio, to as low as $20 to $29per month in Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Texas, Vermont and Washington, ,,. *:''""- S Nearly all states provide Unit the children must be kept in school during the school year,. or the pension ceasoi Women Are Burden Bearers in Britain The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just received and published a summary of an investigation conducted in Great Britain into the health and physique of women workers. The British investigation declares: That college women are stronger on the average than working women. - That working women are stronger than women not employed in industry. That women born and reared in the country are far ahead in strength and health of those born and reared in cities. „ > ' Speaking of the women employed in some of the more strenuous trades, the report says, in part: "An example of the astonishing aipount of work of which these "tforkers' are capable *is -that of a woman who shoveled 20 to 25 tons of crude borite a day, lifting it to a height of two and a half feet. "Five girls, shoveling crystals from evaporating pans into trucks which they wheeled for a considerable distance along very imperfect rails, had an average output for the group of six tons per day. "In the brick works, girls carried loads of bricks weighing nearly 100 pounds for a distance of 70 to 80 yards." Commenting on this report, a stu dent of American industry said: "Seek no farther for the cause of Britain's industrial troubles. Industries which in these days of steam and electricity know no better than to turn women into pack horses can expect nothing, but trouble,, .aflii plenty of it."" "Even at the lowest wages which will support life, such < methods are costly, and low wages make no customers." TO CLBAR--100 SAMPLE SUITS AT $23.00 In keeping with our policy of CATERING TO THE WORKING MAN, we offer you the advantage of this special buy. We have new Blue Serges, Pin Striges, Browns and Fancy Slate Grey shades in these new model suits. Every suit carries a full year's guarantee as to wear and satisfaction • Don't forget, we carry Union-made Overalls, Work Shirts, Gloves and Shop Caps. Also Dress Hats, Shirts, Collars, etc. We aim to make this store the home of Union- „ made goods. Can we count on your continued support to help us do this? CORNFIELD & HARDING Limited "C & H Sell for Lei»" 21 Hastings Street East Opposite Holden Bldg. Investors' Eyes Are Looking To Canada A bulletin of the Canadian Pacific states that on January 1, 1927—the last date for which figures seem available — outside investments in Canada totaled $5,500,000,000. Of this sum, $2,192,467,000, or •39.8 per cent., was invested by the people of Great Britain, and $3,009,- 181,000," or 55.8 per cent., came from the United States. All other countries combined mustered not quite 4.4 per cent, of the entire amount, of outside capital in Canada. British investments, the bulletin states, predominate in railways; while the largest single item of American investments is in all indus trial enterprises; the"paper and pulp mills and automobile branches being samples. A very large amount of Canada's public debt is held abroad. An item of the bulletin which surprised many here and is likely to be still more unexpected by-the United Slates is the statement that Canada has $1,330,000,000 invested abroad herself. Also, though foreign capital ■js^jstilf .coming to Canada in lafge amounts, Canadians are buying c*on- "trol of more and more of their'industries. ■ , ' .*' The estimated wealth of the entire Dominion is $25,000,000,000. Coal Mine Methods in Germany and Britain When in 1895 coal prices had fallen with the fall in the world's consumption of coal, British and German coal owners considered what they must do to keep their share of the smaller market. The British coal owners said,' "We must reduce the pay and increase the hours of our miners." The German coal owners said, "We must improve our methods of producing and selling* our coal." Both have carried out their programs, and wo have, news of the results in both cases. With improved methods, but with higher wages and shorter hours than ever, the German coal owners had ar, output last year from the Ruhr four millions higher than in 1913. With lower wages and longer hours, bu,t- with no appreciable improvement in method, the British coal owners had an output of 32 millions less'than in 1913. Very Pitiful A gentleman was walking down the. street with a little boy at his • side, when the little boy cried outf "Oh, pa! there goes an editor!" "Hush, hush," said the father,' "don't make sport of the poor man. Goodness only knows, what you mffy ■ come to yourself some day." Friday, August 24, 1923 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five UNION STEAMSHIPS EVENING DANCE CRUISE To BOWEN ISLAND I.ADY ALEXANDRA LEAVES UNION SOCK EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 7:30 P.M. DANCING ON BOARD AND AT THE PAVILION, BOWEN ISLAND. PERCY LEE'S COUNTRY CLUB ORCHESTRA. RETURN FARE $1 00 IlfCZ-xmixo ADMISSION TO PAVILION, BOWEN ISLAND Steamer leaves Bowen Island at 10:45 p.m., arriving back in town 11:45. REFRESHMENTS AT PAVILION CAFETERIA. Make Up Yonr P.arty Earl'y for This Doli-fhtfi.il Outing*. Tickets and all Information regarding sailings at City Office, 533 Granville: Sey. 9331. Thos. Cook. & Son. 723 Georgia W., Sey. 654; i Union Dock, P'oot Carrall, Sey, 306. W —FOR BETTER FIREWOOD, C Q and COAL THAT PLEASES Q q Phone High. 498 « V SERVICE, QUANTITY AND QUALITY GUARANTEED ** D ABBOTSFORD WOOD & COAL CO., |_ Autumn Term Opens Sept. 4th PROTT HAW CHOOLS MAIN SCHOOL—336 H-wtings Street West. CENTRAL SCHOOL—Comer Roljson and Granville Streets 2Su?i'5^8*N*r SCHOOL—Corner Main and Tenth Avenue. WIRELESS AND RADIO SCHOOL—Pender and Hamilton The choice of a school Is a VERY IMPORTANT MATTER A bundled education means u blighted .career. Therefore a school record the success of Its output, and Its standing with the employing business pui.n,* should be made the prime consideration. Price should be entirely secondary, for what is ' I :i or |20 in a business career? A PEW OP THE MANY OUTSTANDING PACTS WHICH ARE WORTH CONSIDERATION BY ALL INTERESTED IN A BUSINESS EDUCATION Sprott-Sbaw Schools place in positions all their graduates. Sprott-Shaw Students always stand high ln public competitions They have won nearly everything there Is to win—gold medals, dozens of them, cups, pins, etc.—and now one holds the Senior Championship in Typewriting for all Canada. Sprott-Shaw Students are always ln demand. Ask their employers. Sprott-Shaw Schools have a most efficient Employment: Department to which employers may apply and receive courteous treatment—tho proper person for the proper place and the proper place for the proper parson. No square pegs in round holes. Sprott-Shaw Teachers arc all highly educated people—one a chartered accountant: six, university graduates; six, university undergraduates nnd five with brilliant teaching records, all in Vancouver. Sprott-Shaw Schools train tip to a standard, not down to a price That is why they may quite properly be termed 'The Schools of Champions. PHONES—SET. 1810, 71S5, 2778, 7461 and PAIR. 41 Labor Day Programme The first eight events will be for children under 14, to commence at 11 o'clock. The 12-milc race will start at the New Westminster oval at 1 p.m. Twice around the oval and then to Vancouver via Douglas road; Hastings Park to be entered at Renfrew gate and around tlje oval. Horseshoe pitching will start at 11 a.m.; intermission for lunch at 12 a.m. Spiked shoes will be barred except for 100 and 220-yard events and relay races. The following further events were selected by Chairman Page and 20 members of the Track Committee. A further meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 29 in room 810, Holden building. Event 9—Girls, 14 to 16, 100 yards. Event 10—Boys, 14 to 16, 100 yards. .; . Event 11—Half-mile bicycle race. Event 12—Single ladies' race,* 75 yards. Event 13—Apprentice race, 100 yards. Event 14—Journeymen's novelty bag race, Event 15-—Union men's race, 220 yards. Event 16—Finish of marathon race. Event 17—Whippet races, one hour, several events. Event 18—Start of tug-o'-war events. Event 19:—One mile bicycle race. Event 20*—Married ladies, union women and union men's wives, 75 yds. Event 21—Union men, Challenge Cup, 100 yards: Event 22—Married ladies, open. " Event,23:—Two mile bicycle race. „■ , Event 24—Relay, four men union teams, 880 yards, Shelly Cup. ' Event 25—Broad jump. i , Event 26—Ladies' novelty race, 60, yards, open. Everit 27—Mert'sopen rk'ce* -2W y^t'ds: '' "'■■•■ ' Event 28—Three-legged race,'union men and partner. Event 29-—Cdmmittee men's race, novelty. * Event 30—One mile open race. ' —-Final Tug-o'-war. V'*'-•• —Final horse-shoe pitching. 50 yards. RAMSAY MACDONALD GETS A TREMENDOUS OVATION (Continued from page 1 learn to do is to dream and act upon our.dreams." The Dole * Mr. MacDonald launched intp a reply to some of what he called the misrepresentations to which his country has apparently fallen a prey in Canada. He,ridiculed the idea that a large part of Great Britain is living on charity and that the employment insurance should be called the "dole." "When I ask my Canadian friends what they mean by 'the dole,' they reply, 'why, don't you know. Wc mean—well—er—we mean—well, we mean 'the dole.' " *" The way Mr. MacDonald portrayed the ignorance of some Canadians aroused a great deal of merriment. "As a matter of fact, my friends, they don't mean the 'dole.' Once in our country when a man became out of work he first spent his savings, then he went on the poor law, then degradation, then self-dependence left him. We said it must be stopped. We said that unemployment is not an act of God. . -,* Unemployed Insurance . "Whatever virtues capitalism may have, and I am not going to say it is without virtues, it* cannot give employment to all at a given moment The capitalist cannot keep a reserve army at his factory door as so many mechanical conveniences. When my dear fried Keir Hardie first raised the question in the House of Com mons that the support of this reserve was a social responsibility, everyone stood aghast. But when the reason the moral sense and the common sense of the public was appealed to, a system of insurance was inaugurated. " "If you indulge in an uninsured tratle you get no 'dole' at all. That is the first dismal announcement I have to make to you. In the second place, you do not get a half-penny more than actuarial accountants say you should get. In the third place we do not apply to it the name th* newspapers apply and the Tories apply to it. We leave the West End to practice loose language. We talk about 'unemployment insurance.' " How It Is Paid Mr. MacDonald then explained how three streams flow into the insurance fund. The employee.pays when em ployed. The employer pays. The state pays because it makes the scheme compulsory and incidentally it has the best bargain, because by paying less than one-third of the in suranee fund it is freed from paying all of the poor law grants. "How would you people like," he concluded, "if you were informed by some Tory Englishman that your wife when you die will live on the 'dole' instead of the insurance you have provided? I would call that an insult, yet that is how some people | describe the unemployment insur ancc in Great Britain. "If you arc not looking for work; if you refuse to take a position you can do when sent by the employment service, your name is crossed off, and you cannot draw from the insurance fund. My friends, that is the magni ficcnt bogey described as the 'dole.'" The Socialist Bogey "Frankly, my friends, we are so cialists. I find on this side that so cialism is such a terrible old bogey that,all one has to do is mention the | word and hair goes on end." He de scribed this bogey as one improved by having cloven hoofs and horns. "In Europe socialism is a prob lem, not a bogey. Socialism enlivens the intellect with curiosity. It is no longer the subject for soap box ora tors, but the serious study of all who wish to serve his country and help mankind. ' Progress in Canada "In Canada, too, socialism has j made progress," he said. He refer. • red to his paradoxical friends who 1 appear the most afraid of socialism, swear against nationalization, yet are the first to get into it. "What about your public control of water power, your railways. What is the meaning of these things. I am of a curious mind. Every day dovetails into the next. There is no movement in so ciety that is not a straw drifting on a current, and some men are more interested in the direction of the current than the fate of the little straw bogging up and down." ' Two Parties "How many have ever thought," he asked, "that this enormous power of production has never been related to consumption, than the fields'of golden grain Mr. Ramsay speaks of might be associated with what I saw four weeks ago in my own constituency in Scotland, closed mines, poverty, and, I was going to say, .atiJfits. beci.lc government. Why doesn't the ' world ponder?. Why doesn't the world think? There lies between these two the middle section of jrriddle rnen, the banks manipulating ■ credit—al-( ways, may I ask, in the interest of I the producer? (I put it as a question, since I am out of politics.) I said the other day in the House of Commons, when I was in politics,, that since the war a young man of courage and daring can make a better living by gambling on the stock markets than by becoming an honest captain of industry. There lie the two constituencies, Mr. Ramsay's and mine, the valleys of South Wales and the wheat fields of Saskatchewan. Between them is no institution, no correlation in the interest of both. All is left to the play of chance. No Easy Task "What socialism means," he continued, "is that-the present status of society is absolutely irrational and immoral. But you will never hear us say_that it is an easy task, The whole problem is to change'and keep the machinery going. Stop the machinery and the first to, suffer are those who brought- the action about. Our task is to make a transformation vJitiwut makingjircaks while the transformation is going on. "If a Labor government-is-return- ed to power next year, a half dozen men in London could almost break it. But I don't think, they can. I don't think they will. I am glad to say and I give the testimony with pride and without resentment that those men would play the game." Referring to the Baldwin government, Mr. MacDonald said: TWhat the present Tory government'stumbles over doing is usually socialistic." Giving votes to young women was a case in point. To the statement, however, he wished to make one exception. That was the deal which put the cables out of the hands of the governments:. "If a Labor government is returned to England, and if it can be done at that time, the cables will be put back into the hands of the various governments." Speaking of changes, the greatest he said was that in the Liberal party. It has decided that about "three, quarters of the socialistic fruit has ripened, and will claim that for itself. The other quarter, it says, it will leave to the Labor party." Continuing he said: "The creation of that orchard was a greater achievement than forming the first Labor government of Great Britain. Communism "The communists are not of us nor with us," said Mr. MacDonald. "They say that unless there be a break there can be no progress. I deny it. What do we get brains for? What do we go to school for? Why are we able to change public opinion? Surely it is so we can create machinery with which to make changes more feasibly than our grandfather did. "That party," he continued, "that cannot be supported by funds from its own country need not have our endorsement. Communism may have been inevitable, I say inevitable, in Russia, but I do not say it will be inevitable in Great Britain or here. It is getting little support from us, and is getting less every day." Mr. MacDonald then gave an eloquent and stirring picture of the conditions in some parts of Great Britain today, the horrible poverty and degradation that drives men into communism. "Communism," he said, "will not be defeated by silly raids on Arcos nor by breaking trade relations with Russia—what silly sham, what nur sery politics, what Tom Thumb diplomacy! ""We fight communism by putting a creative ideal before the people. The Labor movement, is a movement in morality, of the .spirit of man looking for freedom. It is one of inflamed enthusiasm for constructive things. Our men have responded all along the line. Ours is a big mov ment of breadth and height and depth, not a mere revolt. It is a constructive conception of a growing society more and more fashioned in the divine image. Our movement holds that evolution did not end on the sixth day. Man is a mind requiring thought, a spirit requiring inspiration. With that conception we have gone on from strength to strength. I hope next year you will be able to hear that we have reached another height."—The Weekly News. ■ Nothing Doing A boy was summoned to Edinburgh to give evidence against his father, who was charged with a breach of the peace. "Come now,.my little man," said the magistrate, "let us hear all you Itnow about this affJfTr." "Weel, sir," said the youth, settling down to business, "ye ken- George V. Bridge?" "Sure an' I do, laddie." "Well, you gang along it till ye come to a pump." , "Yes, yes! I ken-it weel." "Weel, ye can gang and pump it, for ye'll no pump me." EAT TODAY AT THE RICHMOND CAFE 100 Per Cent. Union. All White Help 1033 Granville St. (Nr. Nelson) The Only Union Fish and Chip Shop in the City! Ye Olde English Fish and Chip Shoppe 614 BOBS ON (Near Granville) VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism. Lumbago, Neuritis, Bad Cold MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. SEY. 2070 Thorough ageing imparts to this twice-distilled whisky a flavor particu arly mellow and pleasing. Reputed v Quarts $3.25 D0DBIEDI5TULED OLD RYE WHISKY OlSTiLLtD AND BOTTLED IN BONO t-Y The B.C.Distillery Co., limited WIW WESTMINSTER, B. C. This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. ANNOUNCE NEW OFFICERS OF THE AMALGAMATED . CLOTHING v WORKERS Announcement is made of the results of the referendum vote taken by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in the election of general officers. General President Sidney Hillman, General Secretary- Treasurer Joseph Schlossbcrg and eleven of the twelve members of the old General Executive Board were returned to office by large majorities. The choice of Toronto for the 1930 convention of thcorganization, which is the city tentatively selected at the Cincinnati convention, was approved by a vote of 17,472 to 1,271. General President Hillman pojled 21,80S votes, while 1,559 votes were cast against him, General Secretary- Treasurer Schlossberg's vote was 21,- 560 with 1,400 votes cast against him. Dancing Every Night Orchestra: Saturdays—Holidays Orcheatraphoito: Wee'i Days V f I ■■■ THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, August 24, 1928 Hc fOW much more do you pay for rent and L food and clothing than before the war? While the cost of practically everything else has greatly increased, the price of more electric light, more dependable service, is much Jess. -The cost of replacing machinery and equipment has gone up at a startling rate. Wages have increased, as is right because of increased living costs. But because of the advance of science and invention and of efficient management, we have brought down the cost of electric light to you—in Vancouver 63 per cent, since 1917. British Columbia @§fy EtECTBicRffnwfirC-o. VANCOUVER VICTORIA BUY UNION STAMPED SHOES -•gftiT&S/-^*-. WORKERS UNION UNI0N^5TAMP WE ASK all members of organized labor to purchase shoes bearing our Union Stamp on the sole, inner-sole, or lining of the shoe. We ask you not to buy any shoes unless you actually see this Union Stamp. Boot & Shoe Workers' Union Affiliated with American Federation of Labor 246 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON*, MASS. COLLIS LOVELY General President CHARLES L. BLAINE General Secretary-Treasurer And Little Children Worked In Iron Chains When factories were first built there was a* strong repugnance on the "part of parents who had been accustomed to the old family life, under the domestic system, to send their children into these places. It was, in fact, considered a disgrace so to do; the epithet of "factory girl" was the most insulting that could be applied to a young woman, and girls who had once been in a factory could never find employment elsewhere. It was not until the wages of the' workman had been reduced to a starvation level that they consented to their children and wives being employed in the mills. But the-manufacturers wanted labor by some means or other, and they got it. They got it from the workhouses. They sent for parish apprentices from all parts 'of England and pretended to apprentice them to the new employments just introduced. The mill-owners systematically communicated with the overseers of the poor, who arranged for the inspection of pauper children. Those chosen by the manufacturer were then conveyed by wagons or canal boats to their destination, and from that moment were doomed "to slavery. Sometimes regular traffickers would take the place of the manufacturer, nnd transfer n number of children to 11 factory district, and there keep them, generally in some dark cellar, till they could hand them over to a mill-o.wner in want of hands, who would come and examine their height, strength and bodily capacities, exactly ns did the slave- dealers in the American markets. After that the children were simply at the mercy of their owners, nominally as apprentices, but in reality as mere slaves, who got no wages, and whom it was not worth while even to Restaurant Union Signs Up Three More ' *At the last regular meeting of Local 28, Hotel & Restaurant Employees' Union, the secretary submitted a statement in detail showing the receipts and expenditures in connection with the Moonlight Excursion which was held recently and which proved to be one of the best and most enjoyable affairs wc have ever held. Frorn a .financial standpoint, the excursion was very successful, and everyone who made the trip had a real pleasant time. The following House Cards have been issued: The Fashion Dairy Lunch, 894 Granville street; The Excello Dairy. Lunch, 543 Robson street, and The Club Cafe, 916 Pender street west. These places, though small, cater almost exclusively to working men, and none of them employ Orientals. In trying to convince a proprietor that it is good business to display a Union Card, we have to use the argument that union men always patronize a house with the card in preference to one without; so that in order to make good on that statement we solicit the co-operation and assistance of all union Vnen who work in the vicinity of the houses which display our card.—J. C. Joint Conference Held By Building Trades Business and pleasure combined the effort of the Joint Conference of Seattle and Vancouver Building Trades Councils on Friday and Saturday of last week. On Friday morning delegates discussed several plans for improving the conditions of the membership, among" which were plans to obtain uniformity of wages, safety legislation, inter-pro UNION CAFES & MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 Alwayi Open Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE Late 72nd Batt. 76 Halting! St. E., Vancouver, B. C. feed or clothe properly, because they'vincial agreements between contrac- were so cheap and their places could tors and councils, organizing cam- be so easily supplied. I paigns, anil a general co-ordinated It was often arranged by, the par- policy to increase the benefits of the ish authorities, in order to get rid of workers and to stabilize employment. Australians Protest Against Migration After participating in a procession through the streets of Sydney from the Central Railway Station to the Domain last Sunday .-afternoon, the unemployed held a meeting in the Domain, and were addressed by several speakers. The following resolutions were carried unanimously: "That, seeing there arc 100,000 unemployed workers within this Commonwealth, this meeting calls upon the Federal Government to cease its. enormous expenditure on propaganda oversea, guaranteeing work at good wages upon landing to the people of Europe. "Further, that the time is now ripe, in face of the Sederal Government's costly migration development commission, also in view of the fact that there are 100,000 unemployed workers of all trades and callings, for this commission to bring a practical policy, also the preparatory stages of land settlement, immediately into operation. Until such is done for the absorption of our own people, not one penny more must be used for migration propaganda by the Director of Australia House in publishing booklets, leaflets, etc. describing the wonderful opportunities, also the better chances in Australia, until our own unemployed are given these opportunities and the better chance which so far governments are unable to give."—Australian Worker. " . The Edmonton daily papers are doing a great deal of boasting about the improvements which are being made in the city during the present year. It is a reason for boasting, but what the Alberta Labor News feels happy about is the fact that we have the satisfaction of knowing that all the new pavement being laid this summer is strictly union made, the laborers employed by the Crown Paving Company all being members of Local 92. War to end war—Huh! Canada is adding two. destroyers' to the Canadian navy. We Canadians are great people—^our war debts are not •royable. Eh, whatT . roya At any rate, the good blondes, dye young. Peter Heenan Objects - To Selfish Propaganda Peter Heenan, Minister of Labor, stands by his statements regarding the indiscriminate immigration of artizans from Great Britain. "It is surely time," he said, "that the workers of this country woke up to the kind of protection the journals are advocating in the stoppage of the import of manufactured articles from other countries so as to give our manufacturers a monopoly which would enable them to raise the cost of living sky-high. "At the same time they advocate the flooding of Canada with an unemployed population so that employers could secure workers at wages which would undermine the standard of living;" Replying to the charges that appeared in the Montreal Gazette in a recent issue, the Minister refuted the statement that unemployment existed or made immigration more difficult than when he himself came to this country 25 years ago. Whatever opportunity existed at that time for himself or other new arrivals was multiplied a thousandfold by the conditions of today, he declared. "Canada offers greater inducements now than ever before," said Mr. Heenan. "The door is wide open for all British immigrants who come here. Opportunities abound for men of ambitmn to succeed, especially in agriculture. All I object to is an inflated stream of immigration enticed by misleading propaganda by selfish interests, which could only result in disappointment to the disillusioned immigrant and add to the problem that menaced our cities of dealing with their ■ own unemployment every winter." WAR, WHAT FOR? The daily press reports a mimic aerial bombardment of the City of London, England, and that the result proved that London could not be effectively defended from poison gas. They, now want to start a new aerial race in armaments. The Air Force now costs £19,000,000 annually. ^feioMttffiiiat-B-iSawtiful- thing war-*:—»&■ imbeciles, that one idiot should be taken by the mill-owner with every twenty sane children. The fate of these unhappy idiots was even worse than that of the others. The secret of their final end has never been disclosed, but we can form some idea of their awful sufferings from the hardships of the other victims to capitalist greed and cruelty. * Their treatment was most inhuman. The hours of their labor were only limited by exhaustion after many modes of torture Had been unavailingly applied tp_*force continued work. Children were often worked sixteen hours a day, by day and by night. Even Sunday was used as a convenient time to clean the machinery. The author of the History of the Factory Movement writes: "In stench, in heated rooms, amid the constant whirling of a thousand wheels, little fingers and little feet were kept in ceaseless action, forced into unnatural activity by blows from the heavy hands and feet of the merciless overlooker, and the infliction of bodily pain by instruments of punishment invented by the sharpened ingenuity of insatiable selfishness." They were fed upon the coarsest and cheapest food, often with the same as that served out to the pigs of their master. They slept by turns and in relays in their filthy beds, which were never cool; for one set of children were sent to sleep in them as soon as the others had gone off to their daily or nightly toil. There was often no discrimination of sexes; and disease, misery and vice grew as in a hotbed of contagion. Some of these miserable beings tried to run away. To prevent their doing so, those suspected of this tendency had irons riveted on their ankles with long links reaching up to the hips, and were compelled to work and sleep in these chains, young women and girls, as well as boys, suffering this brutal treatment. Many died and were buried secretly at night in some desolate spot, lest people should notice the number of graves, apd many committed suicide. —Wes- tralian Worker. A More Important Thing Brown, a retired business man, had bought a big house in the country, To facilitate this plan, efforts will be made to form a Pacific Northwest Building Trades Conference covering British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and possibly one or two other states. Through this medium efforts will be made to co-ordinate all the activities of the building trades in these districts, so that wages and conditions will be almost, if not exactly similar in the entire district. In the afternoon the visitors had dinner at the Orpheum Cafe, and were then taken to Capilano Canyon, and in the evening to the Vancouver Exhibition, finishing up with a party at the home of Fred Welsh. On Saturday the party was given a yacht ride along the waterfront through the courtesy of the Vancouver Harbor Board,, this being thoroughly enjoyed by all. The visitors expressed their enthusiasm of our waterfront and the possibilities of British Columbia, and were glad that efforts were going to be made to get working agreements that will almost make them citizens. In the afternoon the councils were in session dealing with business mentioned elsewhere, and in the evening the party went to Happyland, finishing up with a party at the home of Mrs. F. Dolk. On the MS Fispa (Capt. Hammers- ley) with the delegates were Chas. Reid, superintendent of docks; Howard H. Ward, federal deputy minister of labor; F. E. Harrison, western representative of the federal labor department, and among the Seattle delegates and their wives who took this trip were Rowland Watson, president of the Seattle Building Trades Council; M. J. Miller, Carpenters 131; J. MacMillan and J. E. Phillips of Painters* Local 300; J. M. Strachan and W. A. Smith ^of Sheet M,etal Workers' Local 99; P. T. Sylliaasen and A. F. Zieseniss of Electrical Workers' Local 46; M. J. Hughes of Floorlayers' Local 837; Oscar Munson of Glassworkers' Union No. 188, and J. Crow of Engi ncers' Union No. 302. Takes Drastic Action With Dual Unionists When the dual unionists became numerous enough to interfere with the jobs and conditions of the Inter- his trees. . Not so a neighboring farmer, however, who told his sons to shoot the birds. , t One day the farmer had a note from Brown. "Dear Sir: You might" stop your sons from shooting my. rooks. I want to make a rookery." -; —A-few-froTTfjS later, Brown'receTverf city and its inhabitants can be blast- the following reply: ed to pieces and the inhabitants . "Dear Sir: You might stop your poisoned like rats in a trap. Ain't rooks from stealing my corn. I want our civilization a great institution. to make a living." and he was very pleased to see that national Trades Unionists over in Se- a colony of rooks were building in attle, the unions took drastic action and defined up the situation, said Del. J. MacMillan at the Joint Conference of Seattle and Vancouver Building Trades Council on Saturday afternoon in the Holden Building. Bro. JUacMillan is a former active member of. the Painters' Union in Vancouver and is now a member of SssUteilioeal 300. He stated that there were not very many dual un ionists, but though few in numbers they were getting into a position where they were undermining conditions by giving the employer a loop- WI1011 ln A Hurry, Drop In at Egg Order. FRED'S Are Always _ . , , "O.K." at Dairy Lunch "It's the Coffee" 12 Halting! West Always Op«n R. WILKINSON, Pits. D. DUNCAN, IM. Reynolds' Cartage Co- LIMITED Phonii laymonr 3377-337S Orating, Puking, Shipping »l Storage Furniture and Piano Moving Long Distance Moving Fool Car.Shipment! Of floe una War oh mm 1 733 — CAMBIE STREET — TtS PERRY & DOLK Men's Tailors 16 Halting* West Room 33 The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread - Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. hole to refuse a closed shop and decent union conditions. The unions then decided that they would not monkey with these dual unionists and took drastic action, cleaned up the situation, and now Seattle is free of that pest. Del. Miller of Seattle Carpenters' Local 131 informed the delegates of the splendid progress that was being made by the Building Trades of Seattle and Washington. He explained the workings of the recent agreement made between the General Contractors' Association and 7,500 building trades mechanics. The agreement, he said, was not as good ns was desired, but it was a vast improvement over previous conditions, and opened the way to greater achievements in the future. He felt that the joint conference idea would help the trades union movement on' the Pacific Coast; and looked forward to the time when inter-states and inter-provincial agreements could be made between the contractors and Building Trades Councils of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California. Entered Parliament Twenty-five Years Ago Just twenty-five years ago, Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P., now the secretary of the Labor-party, startled both the Tory and Liberal parties by winning the first three-cornered Parliamentary fight for Labor. On July 24th, 1903, he was returned as Labor member for Barnard Castle. This victory—perhaps the most sensational in the history of independent Labor representation—had an incalculable effect upon the future' development of the Labor party. It was the first decisive proof that Labor was capable of fighting and winning despite the strenuous opposition of the Liberal and Tory parties. Subiequent Events Move Quickly As a result of the victory, Mr. Henderson entered Parliament to complete the quartette that composed the original Parliamentary Labor group. Kcir Hardie had fought a lone fight .in the House for some years, but during the first half of that year he had been joined by Will Crooks and Davfd Shackleton. Events subsequently moved quickly. In 1906 the little quartette was joined by Ramsay MacDonald, J. R. Clynes, Philip Snowden and 22 other Labor members, and less than twenty years after Mr. Henderson entered Parliament as the fourth Labor member, the first labor government had been installed ih office, with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald as the first Labor prime minister.. i, Friday,, August 24, 1928 Weak Men and All Diseases of Men ! Take our Herbal Remedies I (CJB.VD for Pamphlet on Loss of »3 Manhood and Disorders of Men, Free by mail. Advice free. Op6n 2 to 6 and 7 to 8 dallv I except Wednesdays ,and Saturdays, when closed all day. Phone Douglas 3394 The English Herbal Dispensary, Limited ■ 1359J>avIe St., Vancouver, B.C. | Higher Education It.. A rh t Mm By ADAM COALDIGGER When a man gets nutty it usually starts in his nut. In other words, "man is as he thinkcth." So if a way can be found to graft sound heads on the bodies of persons with unsound mind an important advance will be made toward a rational humanity. I take, therefore, great pleasure in announcing that, according to the "Zoologischer Anzeiger" of Berlin, a German scientist has been successful in grafting the heads of eertain insects on the bodies of other bugs. A June bug, says the report, on which was grafted - the head of a dung beetle immediately began to burrow in refuse matter and never again left the ground; A dung beetle equipped with the •>•*•—' THE LABOR STATESMAN Rating Bill Condemned , By British Electors xn l,i,_„l„„.:-. .. -— I a, „..c {iiounci: A dung beetle Canada's Oldest Herbal Dispensary J "juipped with the head of a June J bug attempted to climb trees, despite *■*—— ~ the fact that its legs were not adapted to this purpose. On the s. me principle, although the report is silent about it, I assume that the head of a lady bug grafted on a bed bug would cause TfleVlatter to act like a lady.Wihich is something no bed bug ever did. The discovery of this German scientist is, therefore, hot Jess than revolutionary, provided means are i found to apply ir~ttr| human, beings. > s There are, for instance, tens of thousands of sons and daughters of well-to-do parents who, outside of their empty heads are charming young folks in every other respect. As things stand tin" * Classified Adverts^ BABRISTEItS AND SOLICITORS Wiillis W. Lefeaox, 408 Metropolitan Building. Phono Sey. 6667. •OATHS Hastings Steam Batha Price 35c Only % 766 Basting! Street East DENTISTS Dr. W. A. Xntladge. 106 Hastings W. NOTARY PUBLIC P. B. Bengough. 603 Holden Bldg. PRINTERS tabor Statesman. 803-816 Holden Bldg. RUPTURE SPECIALIST 0. JE. Heard. 812 Bobson UNDERTAKERS Armstrong & Hotson, 304 Dnnlevy Ave At two by-elections the electors have been invited by the government of Great Britain to give a direct expression of opinion upon the discredited Tory Rating Proposal. They have given it, and very emphatically! In the Halifax by7election, the Attorney-General said: "This by- election is of first class importance, because it nf the first time that the electors of the country will be called upon to express an opinion on the government's rating scheme." — The result of this appeal was that by three votes to one Halifax voted against the scheme. In- the Hallam (Sheffield) by- election, it was the Prime Minister himself who made the Rating Scheme a first class issue, by almost bribing the electors with the offer that: "If Sheffield will only support us now, they will be given £450,000 under this bill." Yet even after holding out this bribe to the electors, the government could only get the support of 9,000 voters out of 31,000, and their poll went down by more than 0,000. Why They Won't Have It WliyTs it that-the electors are so emphatic in their condemnation of the Tory Rating Proposal? Here are a few of the reasons: * 1. Two of the largest and hardest t classes of *"■*,*->■"■<**• Seven irgest Uv- .„...-, ■•, every other respect! "* classes of ratepayers—the house- As things stand now the country is ho\j?P and shopkeepers—are left spending untold millions of dollars 0U9s,d£*!feSe.he™e ?,,i~?- ent.'Teiy- every year in the hopeless atfemr.* ■-- Burnaby Broadcast Weekly on Thursdays The only netvspapcr carrying the Union Label published in Burnaby. %l a Year BURNABY BROADCAST 4091 Hastings St. E. Vancouver wiwu millions nf dollars every year in the hopeless attempt to make scholars, thinkers, and savants out of these scatter brains. Our high schools and colleges are full of them. Indeed, if we judge the mentality of the inmates of our higher institutions of learning by the conduct displayed at such scholarly exercises a3 football games, etc., one is forced to the conclusion that ninety-nine cents out of every dollar expended on their education represents lost motion. On the other hand, there are millions of bright boys and girls whom nature had intended for leaders of men but who, thanks to an unfortunate choice of their parents, for which they should not be too severely blamed, are destined to become adjuncts to machines until further im provements on tha >- ,jm«s engaged in distributive until further im- aiiotfbty, and, through them, on the provements on the latter make their consumers, who are having to pay services ' unnecessary. 'A few of higher prices for commodities- tftid these young people occasionally sue- services, cecd in working their wot** *••— _. Whilst these deserving classes of ratepayers are left out, huge subsidies are granted to brewers, who made £24% million 'profit last year and to wealthy millionaire eompaiiie; in other prosperous industries. 3. Large subsidies are granted tp employers in the "luxury" industries —silks, perfumes, etc.—yet fundamentally necessary industries engaged in the production and distribution of gas, electricity, etc., are given no relief at all. 4. In order to raise the funds that are necessary to finance the scheme of subsidies, a tax of 4d. a gallon has been imposed on petrol, and this is imposing a very heavy burden on many people engaged in distributive industry, and, through them, on the consumers, who are !>•""- UnrivalledLivestock & Produce B. C. PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION QUEEN'S PARK, NEW WESTMINSTER BEST IN THE WEST. BIGGER'N EVER! Labor Day—Sept. 3 to Sept. 8 Biggest bargain ever offered in education and entertainment: Trip from Vancouver direct to Queen'* Park, New Westminster; admission to the best exhibition ever staged in the. west, and return to Vancouver, 50c. Tickets on sale at B. C. £. <o . Railway, Carrall Street, Vancouver. District Exhibits, each a complete show in itself, on more extensive and representative scale than ever. ' Cariboo and the Pouce Coupe areas represented for the first time against the best of the province. "Sockeye Row" a scream. Newest attractions in vaudeville and gymnastic shows. Color Salon has set records. Art section truly international. Balloon Ascent land Treble Parachute Drops Daily. Musical Programs afternoons and evenings. Baseball, Lacrosse and Foptball Tournaments with the pick of the Pacific Northwest engaged, and Ladies' !-»*»•«■—* Loggers' Sports nijagca, and Ladies' Lacrosse Teams for the first time. w,th fnternational C ontests. ceed in wArkWTi. a.c°asionalIy sue-. ~ =. ***** by a„ft. ^.^^h|„_ThenSchteme abounds; with defects 5-Day Week Popular In Great Britain j,— through Th? fchemc „Uounus with defects college by tutoring hot air furnaces, an(i injustices It gives money to slinging dishes and shoveling snow in n-?nv PeoPle who <lo.not need lt:' and unfavorable weather. But in doing so take? m°ne*>" away ir°m many who they usually acquire such an inferior- <;an hax'dly sp,are "', That *,a* , V ity complex that they rarely rise to!baa been condemned so decisively by higher positions than that of intel-'p"-*1* constituency to which it has lectual flunkies to rich but flunked been submitted. College chumps. Dririk and enjoy! VAN BROS.' CIDERS « PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER "Made from B. C Apples" TRY OUR GRAPE, LOGANBERRY, GRANGE, PUNCH, ETC. IDEAL FOR PICNICS AND PARTIES PHONE HIGH. 90 VAN BROS., LTD. Now, folks, a situation like that is dead wrong. It robs the nation of its best heads. Some way must be found to combine talent with financial ability. Here are two boys. One has the head of a Newton* on the body of a starved pauper. The other carries a ukelele — " an Apollo. Both _,.,..,, ,m entrance to college, one to learn, the other to'uke. "All right," says the entrance pro fessor after sizing up the applicants, "step in the hen<i — _* m*-» .I-**. 'The five-day week maintains its popularity, and there is a slight increase in the number of factories working on this system," says the Chief Inspector of Factories and Work .Shops for Great Britain, in his report for the year 1927. He mentions that the practice is proving popular in works in Birming- ., ham and Beading, and that in a large -Jlha V* th",' j.'Tl j j engineering works in N. E. London «orld-beater they had hoped, prayed the experiment has resulted in output a",,1 Pa,d f-or' **« poor parents beat least being maintained if not in- hold in the.r son the head of an illus- creased * tnous house. The nation has gained There was a considerable number 2_i?ader °? men' Hfeh« education Boost Union in Your Own Home MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—"Don't be -im. *.£ * afraid to advertise your wares—your pauper. Thei other u])ion membe*rship," Harley F. Nick- on the shoulder of ,.rs general vice-president of the apply for entrance Illternatj0na! Association of Machin- o learn, the other • t tolH „ m„„fi 90,000 Peasants in Bombay On Strike Some time ago we drew attention to the remarkable tax strike of the peasants of KnniaU PROMPT DELIVERY 1955 Commercial Drive Says Settlement is Better Than Disaster With members of the three British . ...... .fiaritaDie tax strike of the railway unions present in full force, peasants of Bardoli, in the Bombay 3. H. Thomas, M.P., very ably an- Presidency. The movement continues swered his critics at a recent meet- unabated, and the Governor of Bom- ing held in England, bay has had to pay a special visit to He said that though it meant the the Vicerov tn «w'»m- —L ' nakim? soma -.-.» «*?^T**^35Swjte«'*st Issues the n,i„. ., ,. . Iof "-."eased wages and -*mn,i „,„.•;*. boys. Issues the odor of chloroform, sound of knife and saw. An hour later, Newton's head appears on the shoulders of Apollo. Everybody is happy. The rich parents have the world-beater they had hoped, prayed and paid for. Ti>» - _ ..muvii ui machinists, told a meeting of Minneapolis machinists recently. Pointing out that union member ip navs hin-li #l>\,*.»-. , wu io pay a special visit to the Viceroy to decide what course he should pursue. The authorities are in deadly fear that the strike will spread over north India, and have reduced their demands upon the Punjab peasants to prevent this happening. The increased taxes have been imposed upon the Bardoli peasants despite tho opposition of the Bombay Legislative Council, and despite the fact that the cost of living and of production has incre»-><*>'' u iii.n enough it me men tnaking some sacrifices, he had no hesitation in saying that he had never been prouder of any agreement he had made. He could have indulged in phrases such as "Not a minute on; not a penny off," but he knew railway men judged their leaders by results, and not by promises. If the result of speeches merely solved men and women's h»i"» no business ovasita™?lTiJ?t that has extendi_«L2* «&° Peasantry was infinitelv h„H^attful sc»*enient . ■■ ■» n»o .i considerable numbe of prosecutions throughout the country for employment beyond the legal hours. Notwithstanding the depression in the cotton trade, no fewer than 17 complaints of time-cribbing were reported. The number of accidents reported' during the year was 156,974, ot which 973 were fatal. This was an .Increase on 1926, when conditions were abnormal owing to the coal lockout. Building construction produced the' greatest number of fatal accidents, 120. Shipbuilding followed with 92 deaths compared with 55 in the prev-. ious year. Seventy-five cases of crane failure were reported, an increase of 25.5 on last year's figures. They caused 16 fatal and 5*1 non-fatal accidents. u icauer oi men. Higher education declares dividends at last.—Illinois Miner. Labor Now Has Its Chance in Ceylon „„f „r it. /-> ABOLITION OF IMPORT AND EXPORT PROHIBITION .1, „* (-U- » the abolition of nrnhthM... __5-*"M°PPortunity to devebn and tn r«™ eny the scandal™.., ~2L,r" V Tem: uviu tun •>■" to tne nth of July foi the abolition of prohibitions and re strictions on importation and exportation, promises to be productive of very good results. If, as is ex- . pected, the "convention adopted by » the conference is ratified by the 1 states wc majority of prohibitions will Be abolished. - ~~ J 1V1I Th'e report of the Commission on the Ceylon Constitution does nbt give full self-government and is not therefore what we want. But the recommendation of manhood franchise (even though women are omitted) is a welcome and surprising move towards the democratization of the Constitution. There are no provisions for the relief of destitution in Ceylon, no workmen's compensation, only the most elementary of factory regulations, and np control oyer hours, and wages in sweated industries. The present franchise only represents 4 per cent of the population. The enfranchisement of the industrial workers and peasants should jrive ■ H"» t ah-. ..„, a... niunerson said tha no business prospered unless it con tinued to advertise itself. "Wear your labor union emblem, place prominent signs in front of your union halls, talk unionism at every opportunity and advertise the fact that organized labor is a big and going concern," Nickerson declared. Labor union advertising can also be done in the home, Nickerson said. If the sons and daughters of labor union fathers would join the unions in the industries where they are employed it would mean an immediate increase -„of 1»000,000 members in the American labor movement, the vice-president asserted. indebtedness of tha "'"t -""'ne oeiieved a nc | extended f om i om 0pneasantry WaS*i'innit<'1>' >><•»" 10,000,000 within in '°00 "»P«I , His answer to th ....cu-xrom 2,000,000 i to 10,000,000 within 30 years, "in some cases the land revenue has been increased by 60 per cent. The whole population of 90,000 people, inhabiting about 100 villages, are maintaining resistance in face of the sequestration of their, cattle, grain and lands. It is one of tho most courageous struggles India has seen, and is significant of the feeling amoung the peasants. 1.0 ueveiop* and to remedy the scandalous neglect of social and industrial evils by our Colonial Office. Drummohd Shiels, the Labor members of the Commission, no doubt had some influence in securing the-adoption of this proposal, which is already being denounced in Ceylon as "revolutionary." BOY'S, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS A deacon is the lowest kind of a Christian. A monastery is a place, of monsters. Marriage is a sacrament where a priest unites a ^an and woman in fatal union. The Bible is against bigamy when it says no man can serve two masters. False doctrine is when a doctor gives wrong stuff to a man. America was discovered by the Spinach. In 1658 the Pilgrim's crossed the ocean, and this was known as the Pilgrim's Progress. An appendix is a portlon™tTf~*l book, which nobody yet has discov ered of any use. An ibex is where you look at the hack part of a book to find out anything you want. A grass widow if the wife of a vegetarian. MANY WORKERS IN SOUTHERN • STATES ENVY LUCKY MULE BILOXI, Miss,—Tollie, the 40-year old mule of the Jefferson Davis Soldiers' Home is no longer able to do the work required of her and consequently will be placed on a pension. Many workers in the south envy that mule. CONGRESS OF INTERNATIONAL LAND WORKERS' FEDERATION The Fifth Congress of the International Land Workers' Federation will be held in Prague from the 23rd to tfie 25th of September next. The agenda embraces among other things the following points: The importance of collective labor agreements in agriculture and forestry, the wages ■ and conditions of work of foresters ra;V.--'ax* tariff question'_at the Interna- There are! two directly opposite reasons why if man sometimes cannot get credit; one is, becapse he is not known; the other, because he is. His answer to the parrot cry of, "Thomas has sold you again," was that the i wise man and not the fool knew when his army should give ground. To those who .denounced his action, he replied: "Doij't be content with using the phrase about refusing surrender, but show me your alternative policy." He went into the negotiations determined that the position of the shopmen as Cindercllas of the railway world should be wiped away. A Genuine Test He claimed that the innovation of demanding sacrifice all around—if there w-as to be any sacrifice at all— was a genuine test as to how far the talk of co-operation, the new spirit, and peace in industry, should be applied in practice. The agreement could be turned down, and the men could go on strike but anyone who. advised that course was unworthy of being a leader, and would live to regret giving it It was the best settlement that could be effected, and if it were the first step towards a wider realization of the problem of capital and labor so much the better. He hoped that , when it expired twelve months hence the tide would be turned, and the industry entered on a new era. INTERNATIONAL COJS(FJERE:NClC4'.*.-- •-"-"^Wf^UBJEtrr OFEDUCATION * In Connection with the -International Socialist Congress an International ^Conference for educational questions will be held in Brussels on the 6th of August, organized by the Young Workers' Socialist International for Socialistic Education, whose seat is in Vienna. 1 Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, August 24, 1928 NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades & Labor Council Boom 803, 16 Hantin-fs Street East Phones: Sey. 7495-6279 HORSE RACES BRIGHOUSE PARK AUGUST 27 TO SEPTEMBER ,3 Inclusive H—Races Daily—fj Rain or Shine t. Pari-Mutueli Under Government Supervision. Admission, Including Grandstand and Paddock, $1.75 Some Details For the Labor Day Sports All the details for the big Labor Day sports and picnic will be cleaned up in a few days and everything will be ready for the event that is going to bring joy to many homes, delight to the children and prizes and honors to many competitors. The tickets are going fast and the delegates are still coming back for more. The $345 suit**- of furniture which somebody is going to get will be on display in the window of the Standard Furniture Co., at Helmcken and Granville streets, Thursday Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This will be a feast for the eyes so you had better go 'down and see if you have not purchased a ticket. The five silver cups, which will be competed for at the sports on Labor Day, will be on display at Spaldings' Sporting Goods Store, 424 Hastings street west. Entries for the big events are still coming into the' Trades Council office. No entries are required to be made for the ordinary events. , ■'' i The road race, which starts at New Westminster Ex h i b i t i o n Grounds, will be thirteen and a half miles long. The winners name will be engraved on a silver cup and three valuable watches will be presented to the winners. A lady has already entered for the race. We don't know how its going to be done, but the Brooksbank Dairy is going to give a prize of one quart of certified milk a day for one month to the mother of the youngest baby on the field. Financial Report Made On Recent Election H. W. Speed and J. Sidaway, financial committee of the Independent Labor Party/ for Vancouver and South Vancouver take this opportunity of thanking the unions and individuals for their financial support during the recent provincial elections and present the following report: RECEIPTS Donations From Unions Typographical -JCnion ..% r»0.00 Slru'-tiim! Iron Workers 25.00 Van. T. & L,. Council (Neeiands, Mclnnes) _ Electrical Workers .....* Plasterers Local, No. 89 St. Rly. Men (Pioneer 101) Beverage Dispensers ... Brotherhood of Railway Carmen No. 58 Civic Federation Slilk Wagon Drivers (Cltv) Milk Wagon Driver (K. Van i 1'lumliers and .Steamlitu-rs Donations from supporters and sympathizers ranging from Kc lo S2o.no Collections from meetings (City) Collections from meetings S. Van.) 19.60 Refund from U. C. Telephone, deposit on phone 10.00 Late Donations 12.00 Brotherhood of Bookbinders 5.00 r.ii.oo 50.00 25.00 SO mi 10.00 20.0(1 50.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 415.30 38.79 69 Total , $*■*)(*. EXPENDITURES Rent of halls, public meetings (City) $ 61.5(1 Rent of halls, public meetings (S. Van.) _ ,. 15.5( Advertising public press, display ads. etc ._ 177.8( Printing 20.000 Maniftstos ...-. 123.6( Printing receipt bonks.* poll dis. cards, two-color display cards, etc '. 109.11 Postage, mailing and distribution of Manifestos 83. Window lettering and banners '40, Social expenses (S. Van.) 24. Installation of phone and deposit 21 Install:-*.!,.!! of light service 1. Lunches for election day workers and committee room supplies..- 26. Campaign managers (salary) ........ 112. Miscellaneous _ 17 (las for auto drivers 5 1823.17 Balance .,...:....: 107.52 $930.69 British Labor Puts It Over Once More The Labor party retained its seat in North Aberdeen at Tuesday's by- election, necessitated by the death of Frank Rose. A former Liberal minister, Capt. Wedgewood Benn, won the scat. Capt. Benn polled 10,646 votes. The polls of the other candidates were as follows: Dr. Laura Sandeman, Conservative, 4696; Aitken Ferguson, Communist, 2618, and J. R. Rutherford, Liberal, 2337. Capt. Benn was formerly a well- known member of the Liberal Party. He was a Liberal member for Tower Hamlets from 1906 to 1918, and last year was Liberal member for Leith. He joined the Labor'party last year, after refusing to accept the leadership of Lloyd George. Just prior to this election the Forward (Glasgow) said: There can have been few by-elections in which the candidate has had more well-wishers. He is, of course, both nationally and locally the I.L.P. nominee. Before leaving England, Ramsay MacDonald sent him a letter of encouragement, and Philip Snowden, George Lansbury and many other leaders of the party have added their word, the Parliamentary Labor Party itself having passed a special resolution. But the most striking messages of support, those which make the position of the Communist untenable are good wishes sent by the great industrial unions. The Railwaymen are sending Cramp to speak, the Woodworkers are liberating their organizer to help, Bromley has written for the Locomotive Engineers and Ernest Bevin has issued a special appeal to his members. This rally of organized Labor is the most hopeful as it is the most striking side of the contest. Walter Deptford Gets Up In the Clouds During the visit of the Seattle Building Trades delegates to VancoCP ver last week, Walter Deptford, chairman of the Labor Day Sports Committee, was picked up and taken to the Vancouver Exhibition and to Happyland. The Giant Dipper looked good to some of the boys, and Walter Deptford, not wanting to shogr the white feather, took a chance. He was placed in the end of the car, and when the car took the downward trip from the highest point, with the added weight she went at a clip that almost lifted the riders from their seats and left Walter in the clouds. When Walter got out of the car he had no comments to make, but he* looked as though he had been through hell. Still there is some credit coming to Walter because he stayed with the gang, while President Jimmy Smith of the Carpenters' Union, who had been enjoying the rides on the Baby Dipper, sneaked away from the crowd when the Giant Dipper was suggested.* Jimmy must have thought that Dept- ford's added weight would throw the car off the track, and w*^s«*t*«t4king any chances. "We Do Not Patronize" VANCOUVER BOYS' AND GIRLS' BAND. STEEVES DAIRY. CRYSTAL DAIRY. AVENUE THEATRE CHANTICLEER CAFE. METROPOLITAN LUNCH. TROCADERO CAFE. NATIONAL LUNCH. ALL WHITE LUNCHES. WALDORF CAFE. -COLLARD, the Clothier, 603 Ha.lingi W. LEN A. DAVIS, Lathing Contractor. CLARKE tt STUART. MURPHY ft CHAPMAN. ROSE, COWAN ft LATTA. , GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G. A., LTD. J. W. BOYD, LTD. ..»'■' Anthorlitd by. th* Vancouver. Xtw ' Wostmint-ter and District Trades aad Labor Council. . tor tho Information of all anion members. SOCIALIST PROGRESS IN GERMANY The following data relative to the activities of the Berlin organization are extracted from the annual report: Despite the extent of' unemployment we have to register an increase of membership from 45,087 to 53,873, i.e., of 8,786 members. This extension of the organization was only achieved by the most intensive recruitment, thus 3,854,500 leaflets and 45,000 pamphlets have been distributed. During recruiting week itself a special edition of the "Vor- warts" of 1,350,000 copies was circulated. The party has displayed remarkable activity in local politics. The Berlin City Council included 73 Socialists of w'honniine are women; in the local bodies the party is represented by 26} mcmbersMnclud- ing 34 women. .Of the' mayors Pf districts 10 belong to the Socialist party. ' , - inco-rcoratid aw may lercx . VANCOUVER "SCOTT McHALE" SHOES ^ For Men—$8.00 —New Fall shipment's of this popular line of Canada's leading shoes have arrived and await your selection. -Included are conservative and young men's models in fine tan and black calfskin—made over the lasts for which these • • shoes arc famous. —All sizes, and width D to E. ■"..'*— —Main Floor, H. B. C. THINGS FOR MEN liAUWIN BLADES—They give a smooth slmve - IS SURE-EDGE STltOPI'ERS—All makes of blades $1.00 HAIR CUTTING SHEARS Wo apd $1.25 HAIR CLIPPERS -.- 9B° and $1.49 RAZOR HONES :....- Z-- 60c, 75c, $1.25 to $4.25 'HAIR BRUSHES - 49C, 69c, 85c to $5.00 CLOTH BRUSHES .':'. 49c, 75c, $1.25 and $1.50 King Cutter Razors For Early Rising ONLY THE BEST! 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Food and 1.35 Virol, S * and 16 1'uritall Milk ut Magnesia '.28 ,31 ,6$ 1.09 In*. Reid's Corn Remedy .16 oz - 59 and 1.09 .10 Black Band Nipples, 6 for .25c .35 and .66 Sal Ilepatlra, .23 nd .41 .50 Milhurn's Heart and Nerve Bills 34 .25 Winsome Tale 14 .10 Winsome Soap 2 for .15 l.IKi Alki Saltrales 77 .50 Jeves Fluid -. .34 .30 Lux .21 .15 Amami Shampoo 11 MERCURO SOLUTION new non-Irritating antiseptic, superior to Iodine 25c and 40c at all our 15 store Vancouver's Own Drug Stores—Thirteen in the City at Your Service. We Save You Money! VANCOUVER DRUG COMPANY, LIMITED 15 STORES Disarmament Travels At a Snail's Pace A well studied article in tHe New York Times discloses that the armies and navies of the world cost about $3,500,000,000 per , year. Some 5,500,000 men are ' under arms. Throughout the continent of Europe there is nowhere less than one soldier to 200 civilians—men, women and children—and in places, the ratio is one to 100. This is the price the world is pay ing for what it very humorously calls "security." , But the study shows that the oft- repeated statement that more men are under arms in Europe now than before the war is not true. In 1913, the standing armies of Europe totaled 3,795,000 men; now, they are estimated at 2,337,000 men. Most of this is due to the compulsory^ disbanding of the German anTff Austro-Hungarian armies, but the total armies of allied countries have dropped about half a million. Every European navy has been reduced since the war, while the United States and Japan have increased their navies. But the aggregate war fleets of the world are still some 1,600,000 tons less than before the great explosion. Here again the wiping out of the German and Aus trian navies is largely responsible for the drop. ProgressI Yes; of a sort, but it is pitiably slow.—Labor; w'-'■ ■■■- FIRST CHURCH - __ "The Church of the Open Door" HASTINGS STREET EAST AT GORE AVENUE Minister: REV. J. RICHMOND CRAIG "— Organist: Mr. F. Newton 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.: REV. J. RICHMOND CRAIG will preach EVERYBODY WELCOME Wc are all born for IbVe.; ,It is the principle of existence and its only end.—Disraeli. DUFFUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, LTD. . (Ii. C. Commercial) Actual business offices in operation. Fall Term Opens September 4 MOVED TO SEYMOUR AND PENDER STREETS v Sojiie people turn up thTeir-sleeves whenever there is work about; other3 turn up their noses. GERMANY HAS INCREASE IN FEMALE LABOR According to the results of the last census of trade and factory workers, the number of women earning their own living has increased from 1905 to 1925 by 3,000,000, so that their number in the year 1925 amounted to -11,477,684. As the total number of workers in the same year amount^ ed to 32f008#39, it follows that" ho less than 35.9 of those earning their own living are women. "Now," said the teacher, "I want you all to write a composition. Don't write anything you're ever heard or seen before. Write just what's in you. Here's what Johnny wrote: "Inside of me there's a heart, a liver, two lungs and a stomach. •Itp sidu(tnig_-£t2.niach ..therein some- -pota- We'sT asteak, two -pickles, a piece of bread and some strawberry short- . cake, etc. etc."
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