The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1930-01-03
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note: T^l /hoWNED AND CONTROLLED J^^^^F BY THE VANCOUVER i RAPES AND LABOR COUNCIL Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions _.* XO. 29?—EIGHT PAGES _Z VANCOUVER. 1.. C, 1'RJDAY, JANUARY 3, 1930 Brio xhis Year 35 Men Will Burn to Death on Wires Number of Electricians Who Get Electrocuted Reaches Higher Year by Year—-Great Danger is Always Present «*C^P«MP«***W«M^ il tin* Indus- tragic story 'pHOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE GRIMNESS .trial struggle has been mitigated should road-tin told and retold each year- by the insurance*. s'ti-tistius .of. the Inter lational Brotherhood of Electrica] Workers... Like an overweening ate, the inevitable finger of"fact chalks 35 or more electrocutions ach 12-month period. This is a record that carries with it a tinge of horror. Fof the record compiled for the years 1922-1928 is relentless. If, by,chance, the deaths hy electrocution should fall off in one year, the inexorable destiny seems to redress the balance the next. Miscellaneous (drowning, cular) Tuberculosis Pneumonia Total Electrocution Falls, etc.'.. Hums, etc Miscellaneous Tuberculosis . Pneumonia '." .T<rt»l Electrocution Falls, etc. . Burns, etc, Miscellaneous Tuberculosis . Pneumonia ... with a vengeance, so that one may safely 35 hale, able-bodied men dying of electric _'he insurance statistics* show that about 50 per cent, of the deaths among union electrical workers are due to the character of the workers' -ccupation. This fact dramatizes the darkness of the industrial struggle. This fact indicates, too, no doubt, that |lo.w but general uplift of the wage level in the electrical trade has not yet been able to halt the devastation of occupational disease. For electrical workers, like all wage-earners, are ravaged by tuberculosis- and pneumonia, disease which take their toll among men, where proper food and sanitary conditions are not forthcoming, and where exposure plays an excessive part incident to the job. Class Disease It is not popularly realized that -tuberculosis is a "class" …
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439070
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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