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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" disease. As shown by statistics from the National Tuberculosis Association, bankers ind brokers seldom have it. Workers in dust-laden occupations contract it most frequently, but electrical workers have it at a rate which accents the fact that all those who toil have given hostages to fate. Louis I. Dublin, statistician, Mef- ropolitan Life Insurance Company, has recently announced results of an extended study of deaths among industrial workers. He discovered that office workers, holders of white collar jobs, those far' away from high tension wires, mine damp, whirling wheels, and white-hot furnaces live eight years longer than thc toilers in factory, mine and road. Mr. Dublin says: "The handicap of eight years in the expectation of life is in the nature of a tax which millions of men who are engaged in industry pay under present conditions. It is a measurable and a very real burden which might readily be expected from the very nature of industrial employment and the mode of life of workers. This is, however, not the only tax which they pav. Possibly more important, but unfortunately, less easily measured, is the ta_; (if id predict that 1030 will shock. This is not all. . tax o: illness and of disability which is lai< upon men in industrial disputes." Mr. Dublin goes on to say: "The economic pressure is powerful enough to keep men on the job after common . sense and medical judgment would suggest a vacation or even periods of medical attention in hospitals or other institutions." , Mr. Dublin names tuberculosis, vehi- 18 11 1 I 33 17 lO'.l 1923 12 5 3 6 7 1924 29 13 4 Total 1925 Electrocution 30 Falls, etc : 12 Burns, etc 3 Miscellaneous 1 Tuberculosis 9 Pneumonia .. 4 in 7 3 11 19 14 __ 23 8 23 15 12 6 17 31 20 115 45 28 6 11 28 30 148 40 21 3 9 36 20 The I [anconfer-, Nete Westminster ami I Usl net Trades and Labor Council Extends the Compliments of Season the to ifs affiliated membership m The People * By Total : 129 1926 Electrocution 22 8 Falls Burns Miscellaneous Tuberculosis Pneumonia . 11 2 1 6 9 22 21 Total 1927 Electrocution 22 Falls ... () Burns , 6 Miscellaneous Tuberculosis 9 Pneumonia .: 6 11 2 t 16 16 33 24 8 2 30 30 122 21 8 1 29 22 Total ... 108 1928 Electrocution Fa'ls Burns Tuberculosis . Pneumonia ... 24 11 1 6 8 11 22 _*J Total 34 . 26 1 31 36 128 One of the surprising facts about this record is the number of deaths by electrocution among the inside .-nniT-^l J* heart tu""8. S" oc" mcn of th<* organization. It is accusational diseases. The tubcrcu- losis rate among industrial workers is 12 times the rate for farmers; the pneumonia rate is twice that for white collar workers; and the rate for heart disease is three times as high. Many Hazardi Tuberculosis and electrocution are not the only hazards of the electrical trade. Burns, falls, pneumonia and a number of other menaces listed under miscellaneous, add to the yearly death toll. Here is the record: Record of. Accidents and Deaths by Occupational Diseases for International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1922 Inside; . Liriemen Men Misc. Ttl ; Electrocution ..... ,23 7 1 31 Fffis{fn*. hires,. ' ' .*■•-.••-■• r*-*.*-™ ■.., b-eaks)'- :.._. 9 "4 13 Burns (explosions; etc.) eepted opinion that* electric shock is prevalent among linemen and power house workers, and infrequent among construction men. This opinion, though not denied, is modified by the figures. It appears that no electrician is completely free from the' menace of sudden artificial death. Whether the widespread acceptance of safety codes will drag these figures down remains to be seen. It is expected also that a decent standard of living, continuously maintained, enough to provide physicians' care w_t__L needed, and a layoff, if necessary, * will . lessen the, ravages wrought by tuberculosis and pneumonia. A growth in the habit of care by electrical workers, and insistence on proper, safeguards, ought to beat, back these appalling statistics. Still it must be confessed that the trade is. Ri._i-rr.bus , that it exacts with regularity its pay; and that society, in general is indifferent to trie cost paid Tommaso Campahella, an Italian monk,, and philosopher, 1568- 1639. (Translated by John Aldington Symonds.) The people is a beast of muddy brain That knows not its own force, and therefore stands Loaded with wood and stone; the powerless hands Of a mere child guide it with bit and rein. One kick W-uMtw «.iough to break the chain; But the beast fears, and what the child demands, It does, nor its own terror understands. Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain. Most wonderful! with its own hand it ties And gags itself—gives itself death and war , For pence doled out by kings from its own store. Its own are all things between earth and heaven, But this it knows not; and if one arise To teil this truth, it kills him un- forgiven. , Carpenters' Members Increases During Year Carpenters' Local 452 officers' reports show a considerable increase in membership during 1929, notwithstanding the1 fact that much unemployment has been evident for the last few months. Representative Geo. H, Mawson is on the job here, and he reports that the trade is quiet on the coast and many of the larger cities are settled down to the five- day week. The president and officers take this opportunity of thanking the members for their support during the past year and look forward to a good year in 1930 for all. —W.H. t#«'«*€««i£is^_*€_jP«'«'£ *% Tlw I'anconver, Neie Westminster and District Building Trades Council Wishes its membership a Happy Nexv Year in'health and lives, in order that the industry might go on.—The Journal ,«^rjXby*_-fe_»f_l^tr_i_-L_-^ What We W Tl I IS is a season* "I lappy and Pre FIVE CENTS PER COPY t and What Going To Get! everyone is wishing everybody else a' Xew Year." Generally it is meaning-; less because it-bas Become a habit like a Saturday night bath or closed bedroom windows. A good shower bath every morning after arising from a well-ventilated bedroom benefits the system as nothing else can, and an active and persistent demand/or more leisure and more pay every day in the year, instead of the usual new" year phrase, would tone up the industrial system tinder which we live. • A Happy and Prosperous Xew Year will remain meaningless until we sei ourselves the task of greatly red-icing the hours or days of labor, combined with sufficient pay to enable us to not only purchase* the commodities for all the-yearly needs of the family, but also to enjoy, the pastimes, recreations and travel that - a prolific earth and soil provides, and the inventive genius of man has made, possible, by the application of machinery to the production of wealth. A Happy and Prosperous Xew (Year will remain meaningless so long as we fill the stores and warehouses with commodities that- we cannot buy back, because we have worked too long for insufficient .pay. We can Undoubtedly produce enough in a six-hour day and a tour-day week to provide every living being with the necessities and luxuri--* of life. We should receive for that work enough and good measure- to enable us to purchase all that our family needs in food, leisure and pleasure. If the stores and warehouses .are full of commodities, while you ami many thousands like you, are in need of those things, then there is no reason why you should not be pemitted to use them or be provided with work or the finances to purchase them. Of course, the use of the term work here is not even correct, because if the gonds.-A-l^t^yoiijpced jU^y-V,'. the store* and warehouses in great abundr,Ke why produce more before they are consumed. True, we stir * :nM^T ordinary cir- ,. cumstances, have a reserve of foodstuffs an' iQtn;n* but at present the reserve is far beyond the need of the hm. fatailv. But under the present system we cannot obtain those ^^^-tities unless we earn the wages with which to purchase them. SI j tjle m0ment we go to work we immediately start to produce, w't".L*he aid of modern 'machinerr; -ftr-mure':....Hi W- "~"i n i\i_ injfti. ii n '.'WW" i»i.«h mm are working. In other words we produce a > ^ reserve of commodities, but tins reserve does not benefit us, because the irlomeiu that reserve pets Mo a certain amount the factory, mill or mine is closed doun/.ind we are left to worry along the best we can. The wages we hjjfve earned during the time we have .been working is only sufficient to keep us off the bread-line for a few weeks at the most, and we* again find ourselves confronted with the ever-increasing "unemp-oyii-ent" problem that means insufficient food, clothing and shelter' for ever-increasing periods each year instead of a Happy and Prosperous Xew Year. Even the wage, earners \yith "steady jobs," which last all the \ ear round, find thdSJiselves within the shadow of the poorhouse when they become sick .,r are fired for being "too old"' to produce the same amount of commodities that a younger element is always prepared to do. Here and there a worker manages, through shrewd investment or some run of luck, to put enough away for the rainy day, but this number is so small, compared to the great mass who find themselves in dire, circumstances many times a year and at old age, that it behooves each of us to look for a remedy and a lasting one at that. While the '"common ownership of all things commonly used" should be the ultimate remedy, we can only attain that by continuous education and demands for shorter hours and still shorter hours and increased pay. While the five-day week will help considerablv in this respect, we must not let it stop at that, because no sooner do we operate on the five-day week basis than the intrduction of more labor-saving machinery ahd other industrial innovations will throw us out of employment as fast as before. The four-day working week with a seven-day pay must follow just as; fact as the workers can organize for the new policy. And this policy can only be brought about by organization. Each of us should resolve in thc New Year that the "Five-day Week is what we want and what we are going to get," and then get up and get it. There should be a spontaneous movement for this new policy. There should be no laggards. Every employer will make that one, look like a hundred. Let us put up o solid front and give the employer fair warning that shorter hours and more pay is "what we want arid what we are going to get." 4 **- SIGN PAINTERS' UNION ELECTS — NEW OFFICERS Sign and Pictorial Painters' Union Local "726 elected'officers at" its last regular meeting, with the following resultsW|||4lRflH_HP^*^^ . President, N. Glazier, Vice-president, A. Lacey. Financial - secretary. Wtn. Find- later. ".''.■." ■■■'■' Recording secretary, W. Clarksoh. Treasurer, A.. Pratt. v -.*. Cdnduo-or, C. Waif ers."' '"* '>■'■' Warden, L. Tanner. - :',-. ** Trustees, A. Forbes,' A. Swanson, LABOR'S DIVIDENDS—BLOOD "There's never a mine blown skywards now But Ave are its ghastly crew." ' These words are much more than the exaggerated fancy of the poet. Last week in Oklahoma-the bodies Of - sixty dead tinners were brought;to - the surf ace from the dept _**2_^-. coal • mine in which an expf_%ion had taken* V if pface, , Jhe ssen e. in .the .mining town * ! is described as one.of utter .desolation, with the widows of the meji and . the fatherless children b^}o*MJsllkdL~*~~-*L ■™~°™°4ir-tr-tTs^*'-io«?,~-^'-' j__ .__-______. -.. ^MXa. m _________ ___- Two .1 II t LABOR STATESMAN -Friday, January 3; 1930 | BARNET LUMBER CO., LTD. 3993 HASTIHOS STBEET EAST 01.ll. 38- Wight Call! Ol.n. -23, C».l. _MY_ High. 180 BARNET BOOSTS BETTER BUILT 500,000 FEET _>E_t DAY SEE US FOR SPECIALS BUNGALOWS Sixty-one Die In Open Shop Mine; Bosbes To Blame RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggist" _» w. ____» a Spaclal Effort to O.t <_--.» Ont by Pint Mall- A-tat B.o.lpt of Toax Or_.r CORHEB COIDOVI AND OAJU-JLM* VANCOUVER, B. 0. *?!£*•«*. .91 !__?»* ' st-fl*" -~* This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. McAlester, Okla.—The horror of this community at the death of 61 of its menfolk in the "Old Town" mine explosion here last week is becoming more intense as the grief- stunned relatives and friends of the victims slowly begin to realize that had the mine owners taken the proper safety precautions the loss of life would probably have been much less —perhaps none at all. Two facts stand put prominently in connection with the fatal blast in this non-union mine, operated in violation of every law of God and man. They are: Exposed Machinery - 1. . The mine was not rock-dusted —a safety measure repeatedly recommended by the U. S. Bureau of Mines as a means of confining a gas explosion to the area in which it takes place. 2. The highly dangerous "open type" of electric machinery was being used inside thc mine. This is the* kind that is unprotected against throwing out electric sparks which ignite gas that may be, in that vicinity. Such machinery is known as "non-permissive," which means that the government tjureau considers it dangerous and is opposed to its use. Placing Responsibility An official report of the tragedy has not yet been, made public, but, with the exception of company officials, cvpryone here agrees that the explosion was set off! by a spark flying from the unprotected machinery. Electric cap-lamps and explosives of the type recommended by mine safety experts were being used by the men. The general custom in coal mining is for the workers to either buy their lamps and powder outright from the company or pay a fixed sum out of their wages at regular intervals for such equipment. Saved One Cent a Ton Therefore the lamps and explosives—the things paid for by the men—were up to standard. But rock-dusting, which would cost the company about 1 cent for each ton of coal produced, and' spark-proof machinery—costing about 25 per cent, more than the dangerous "open" type—were conspicuous by their absence. Not only were those safety precau- HOW LONG? How long will Christian America tolerate such tragedies as that which occurred in McAlester," Okla., last week? Sixty-one coal miners were killed because the mine owners refused to adopt the comparatively inexpensive safety measures recommended by the Bureau of Mines and accepted by progressive mining men. The dependents of the dead men—over 200 women and children—would be penniless, facing the bitter cold of winter, if it were not for the" generosity of those whose hearts have been touched by the tragedy. The company carried no compensation insurance. How long, 0 Lord, how long For Health, Strength and Beauty, eat our Whole Wheat Brown Bread A wholesome body builder Doctor, recommend it Fruit and Raisin Bread Pastry and Meat Pie. Pumpkin Pie. THE ESTHER BAKERY Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. E//sr J cue crews. All the others were dead, tions lacking, but the company also failed to carry any compensation insurance on its workers. The widows arid orphans (there are about 230 of them) will have to shift for themselves. i A radio appeal for relief has provoked a fine response. The government of. Mexico has sent $10,000 to aid its nationals. Charity cannot take the place of compensation, however. Is Nuii-Union mine, a mile Mine The mine, a mile deep in some places, isone of the oldest in Oklahoma, and, of course, is non-union. Most of the men" killed were negroes and Mexicans—poor devils employed by the bosses because they would work for low wages and were "easy to herd." Scenes around the mouth of the R. C HIRST ELECTRICAL CONTEACTOB El.Ctrl.nl Fixtures Hardware Mechanics' Tools Paints, Oils, Lamps Badio Supplies Pip. Fittings Tools Ol.n 370 .097 Hastings St. E. Chinese Unification Is Still Far Away What looks dangerously like complete political disintegration appears to be near in China. The Nationalist government surmounts one threat only to face another. One group of generals is defeated, only to see another rise elsewhere. The coalition led by Feng Yu-hsiang was partly defeated and partly bought bit, and peace of a sort was concluded in the, Yangtse Valley. It proved to be short-lived, and now an attack has been launched against the government from three sides. Tang Shen- chih, one of the original Nationalist commanders, is -leading an army mine blended into a symphony of against the government forces on the grief and horror right after the news railway between Peking and Han- of the explosion spread through the kow. Another army, organized by town. the Kwangsi generals who struck the Poorly elad women and children first blow against Nanking last spring gathered around the grim, black and were defeated, is marching mouth of the pit and waited hope- against Canton in thc South. Still lessly throughout the flight. , another army has mutinied almost in Finally the horrible truth became the shadow of Nanking, and the cap- known to all. Out of 06 men in the mine at the time of the explosion only five survived. Two made their escape and three were saved by res- Builders Look For New Way To Settle Disputes British Laborites * Greet Polish Workers OIL DIVIDENDS SOAR NEW YORK. -.- Stockholders in various Standard Oil companies are not worried over unemployment and wages. Their cash dividends for the last three months totalled $75,063,- 856. This is an increase of $9,836,875 over the third quarter of 1929. The total cash payments for the entire year is $269,645,927. s po enough to get off and give a lady his seat on the water wagorj^ A Slight Misunderstanding Young Lady: "Druggist, can you fix up a dose of castor oil so that* it will not taste." Druggist: "Certainly. If you will wait a few minutes I will fix'you up. Will you have a drink of soda while you are waiting?" Young Lrfdy: "Thank you. Yes." . Druggist disappears O-H-itd ^the> partition to reappear & few minutes later. "Is that all you require?" * Young'Lady: "Yet, thank you: . __• 'it ready?" Druggist: "You've just drunk it." Young Lady: "Goodness gracious, ^^wSrt8„_-fn-5l^^ "Sam and Rastus were seated in a Jim Crow car on a Southern railway, en route to a plantation for the cotton-picking season. They were discussing politics, with particular reference to a coming election. Rastus was -a rabid partisan of the incumbent representative. "Well," said Sam, "Ah like him right, Ah guess, but his platform ain't no good!" • "Platfo'm!" snorted Rastus. "Platfo'm! Say, nigger, doau' you know dat a political platfo'm is jes' like a platfo'm on one o' tese yere railroad cahs—hit ain't meant to stan' on; hit's jest meant to git in on!" WOOdSWORTH'S RESOLUTION RE IMMIGRATION Ottawa.—Administration of immigration will be under the Minister of Labor, as in the United States, if a resolution by J. S. Woodsworth, leader of the Labor groun, is adopted by parliament, ***. - The time has. . come for the change,!'.said Mr. Woodsworth. "further, with the transfer of natural resources to the prairie provinces the work of colonisation could best be handled by the provinces themselves," -;■—; -- ~?■—~■*-'." •*""■— The National Association of Building Trades Employers, at a meeting in Pittsburgh last week, agreed to co-operate with the- Building Trades Department, A. F. of L., in formulating an agreement for the elimination, so far as possible, of jurisdictional disputes in the industry. The initial move was made by the department at its convention in Toronto, Canada, last October. The former Board for Jurisdictional Awards proved a failure when the union workers were compelled to deal with non-unio nemployers. A committee representing both employes and employers in the building industry will meet in Tampa, Fla., on January 20, for the purpose of reaching a new agreement on the vexed juirsdictional problem. "Machines and new processes are continually changing methods of production," said Secretary William J. Spencer of the Building Trades De- 'partment. "It is too much to expect that the question of who shall do the work can be settled by rigid rules, but through discussion and understanding we can minimize open conflict and stoppage of work." NEW YORK ILLUSTRATORS ORGANIZE LABOR UNION I New York.';—A brand-new i union, composed of magazine illus tratdrs and commercial artists, and to be affiliated with the A. F. of L., was formed here last week. Mote than a hundred men and a scattering of women were present, most of whom signed the charter roll.,, Officers were elected, but for fear of reprisal by some of the employer- it was deemed inexpedient to make the names public. Elmer Adams, representing a similar union formed in Chicago last March, told of the progress since made by the illustrators and commercial artists of that city- under a system of collective bargaining. The following letter bearing the signatures of over 40 trade union leaders and Labor members of the British parliament has been sent to M. Daszynski, the speaker of the Polish parliament: "As members of the trade union and labor movements in Great Britain, many of whom are alsp members of the oldest parliament in the ■world, we want to express to you our sorrow and indignation at the recent threat to the members of the Polish parliament, and tp yourself as its president. By resisting this attcnypt to dragoon parliament you have worthily upheld the reputation of your country and have earned the gratitude of every true friend of Poland. "We have noted in how restrained and dignified a manner the challenge was met by you and your colleagues, and we feel that this has shown to Europe the strength of democracy in your country and once more reaffirmed the dignity of the Polish nation. _ "Eleven years is a short time in which to rebuild a tradition of national stability, without which no state can hope to advance in prosperity and culture, and to win and keep friends among the people. The . , establishment of Poland among the lapor.i ,lernocrat.jes 0f Europe is a fact for which we cannot express sufficient admiration. "Not only because we believe in democracy, but because we believe in the future of Poland, we trust, indeed we are convinced, that any attempt by Marshal Pilsudski or others to overthrow her parliamentary institutions is doomed to failure. 'Many have gone about to destroy parliaments,' said a great Englishman, 'but in the end parliaments have destroyed them.' " . »A perfect wife- ui one who never throws her ashes on thg floor. COAL MINE KILLINGS . Killings in coal mines of the United J5ta_es during November totalled 178. Of these 131 were in bitumin Ever£**->fcrfor- Himielf Kind Gentleman (to littl. boy eat -'i-fli-MS mines arid■'-_.•;in - .ni'-fiaeii*-Si&faft. an ,ftPJ)lc).: "Look 'put for the Jthe first fiTroontha of 1»B» eqal rolfieI'fl-Wu*-'msatjty, * - - The three balls in front of a pawn- deaths reported to the Bureau of ital itself is menaced. The government forces, shorn of much of their strength by numerous defections, and spent by months of fighting on many fronts, have their backs to the wall, and, as we go to press, the fate of the government is uncertain. The rebel leaders unite in demanding the resignation of Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Nanking government—it appears to be the only point of unity among them—but if Chiang falls, it is probable that the Nanking government will fall with him. Without military strength, no government in China can survive. Even if Nanking remains the center of government, it will be a different sort of government from the Nationalist regime of the past two years. At best, genuine unification in China is still far away. Even if,tho present government * survives, sp much energy will be spent in making itself .secure against subsequent threats that little will be left for organizing a government which will function throughout the country, and for a beginning of economic and social rebuilding. At worst,* China will return to a regime of local military satrapies and feudal wars, such as cursed the country for nearly ten years before thc emergence of nationalism. In that case, all the sacrifices entailed in building up the Nationalist , government will have been in vain. And whatever group succeeds the present Nanking gov-« ernipept it will have less chance of welding the country together than previously existed. For -a time, at least, Nanking had the support of all' military factions None of the groups now fighting the Nationalists can start with that advantage, for they have too little in common. Behind Nanking, also, were nearly all the non-political educated classes, who were weary of wars and of thc disorganization of life during twenty years of political confusion. They will be too disillusioned to have faith in any military junta which starts without the body of principles which underlay the Kuomintang. The outlook in China is dark, indeed, as dark as could be wished by all those who have consistently decried the efforts of that cotintry to put itself on its [.feet, because success entailed the end of foreign privileges and foreign arrogance.—The New Republic. broker's .-ir-Stf******^ to:'b"tie against Mines totalled 1,917, compared to' TOO.Z*.;'" Z^J?:2??^?,''°T~^r^",x™a~-'~—-- 2-_V-ia^_fti_.-l-n-a-im iodl.un. 1_>!__■•—i-si-f.es;" Little Boy: "When I.eat an apple, _^:__°-.ri-?J-5.^f^l^fc-iliUP^Wn--- —-•—•• — ?: Friday, January 3, 1930 THE LABOR STATESMAN TT-iree sj Trades Union Directory ' ' LABOR HEADQUARTERS, 829-531 BEATTY STREET rancou-sr Trad., and Lnbor Oounell— g,,, ana p^torr Work.™' Union Local ^«"1_fn_..J'„T_.°™:„„LK«en-12.' "Vn-,- »° ISW-AltiTiM-d WI-F. 'U-,lS_ tary Percy F-_bor R. Bengough. Office, 200 Headquarters, 531 Beatty St. Phone Sey. 7495. Meeta In 'Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays In month. ■ ever.ig. 91sp.ns.rs' Union, Ho. 676— Meet, last Sunday at 8 p.m., Hoom No. 3, Labor Headquarters. Pres., "W. H. Clancy; Secretary and Bur. Agent. T. J. Hanofln, Office: Room 1, Eagles' Hall, 535 Homer Street. Phones. Sey. 4783 and Bay. 1656-R. Hours: . to 12 a.m. ■rl.g-e St, Structural Iron Workers, Local 97, Int. Asso*.—Meeta every Friday, Hall 311, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. President, James F. Burns, 2833 Turner St.; Secretary, P. Lauret, Room 311, Labor Headquarters. Phone Fair. 2108 L. Building Trades Council, Vancouv.r— Meets second and fourth Tuesday ln Hall 315, Labor Headquarters. President, B. H. Morrison; Secretary-Treasurer, v.. Page, Room 301, Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 7495. Barbers' Journ.ym-m International Union of America—Local 120. meets second and' fourth Tuesdays In each month, In Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters.- President, Fred Da we; Sec- yTreas., C. E. Herrett. Office, 304 -Labor Headquarters. Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. Meels flrst and third Thursdays In • Hall Xo. 3, Labor Headquarters. Pres., (I. Campbell. Secretary-Treasurer, ■ 11. (J Avery, 7964 Montcalm Street I'hone Marpole .48R Millwrights' Local 1638—Construction and Operating — Meets second and fourth Wednesday in Hall Sib. Labor Headquarters. J. <H. Campbell, President; P. H. Edge, Fin. Sec; J. Murray Ure, Rec. Sec. Box 1*27. Motion Pictures Projectionists' Union, Local 348, of I.A.T.S-E. k MJP.M.O.-. 11:30 p.m., llrst Friday in month. In Hall No. 3. Labor Headquarters. President, J. R. Foster; Secretary, Geo. Gerrard, Box 345. Business, Phone Sey. 3923. Musicians' Mutual Frotoo-lve Union, Loeal 145, A. 9. ol M.—Meets at the G.W.V.A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President, l_ C. Miller; General Secretary, XV. E. Williams; Organizer, F. Fletcher. Office, Suite 307-319 West Pender. Phone Douglas 2290. Bookbinders' Loeal Xo. 106, Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday In month at Professional and Business Woman's Club, Empire Bldg., 803 Has- tlngs W. President, G. Low, 61—58rd Ave. W.; Secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton St. -• Brie-layers', Masons' and Tils Setters' Int. Union, No. 1—Room 309, Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Wednesday. In Hall No. 3. President, L. Padgett. 2066 W. 8th. Phone Bayview 1558 R; Secretary, W. S. Dagnall, 1244 East 20th, Phono Fair. 845 II; Fin. Sec, Albert Wright, 1050 East 25 th. Phone Fairmont 6582 X. Camp and Mill Workers Ped.ral Labor Union Ho. 31—Vancouver and vicinity, meets every second Wednesday ■ at 8 p.m., at 544 Powell St. E. President, H. Mlyazawa; Secretary. K Tauyukl. Carpenters end Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Loeal 468—President, Wm, Page: Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley; Business Agent. W. Hargreaves. Office, Room 310, Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m., ln Hall No. 1. Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, Local 138—Meets second and fourth Thursdays m Hull No. t. Prealdent, J. MeCa.ghran; Rec. Sec, A. 10. Varan, 1442 Clark Drive; Business Agent, Ed, Smith. Offlci': Room 313, Labor Headquartera. rhone Sey. son.. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Hook Bnil_er_, Local Ho. 3404—Meets every Frlda^ night at 8 o'clock In 122 Hastings St. W. President, Al. Graham; James Thomson, Secretary, P. O. Box 320. Phone Sey. 7874. Plasterers, Local 89—Operative Plasterers' and Cement Pinl.hers' International Association—Meets first and third Wednesday In month at Hall No. -. I_abor Headquarters. President, F. Walsh; Socretary, A. Hurry, 861— 34th Ave. E. Phone Fair. 3222R. Fin. Sec.,/E. A. Williams, 830 East 12th. I'hone Fair. 5219X. Cement Baines 1238X. Finishers' Secretary, J. W. 28-16 Turner St. Phone High. City HaU Employ...' Association— Meets llrst Wednesday of each month at 261H Hastings Bast at 8 p.m. President, A. J. Harrison; Treasurer, W. J. Scribbins, 3208 Pender St. K.: Secretary, J. Tarbuck, 3517 West 26th. Civic Employee' Union, Local 88— .- Meets first and third Fridays In the month at 251 % Hastings East at 8 p.m. President, John M.RItchle. 604 West Twelfth; Secretary-Treasurer, George Harrison, 3427 Triumph St. Egg Graders' Union, Ho. 11—Meets ln the Labor Headquarters, flrst and third Monday Ih month. President, G. S. Cooper: Secretary, M. A. Weight- man, 3905 Fraser Avenue. Bl.ctrlcal Workers, Looal 313, International Brotherhood— Meets First and Third Monday, at 8 p.m, at Labor Headquarters. President, D. Mc- Dougal; Business Agent. E. H. Morrison. Office. 201 Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 2510. Engineers—International Union of Op.r- eratlng Engineers, Local 844—Meets every Friday at 8 p m. Hall 316. President, J. Norrls; Rec.-Sec, P. Bradley; Business Agent and Fin. Sec, George Pettipiece. Office. Room 306. Labor Headquarters. fire rightera. Ho. 18, Intematloaal Association of—Meets every month at call of president at 25m Hastings E. President. N. McDonald, 1136 McLean Drive; Financial Secretary, C. A. Watson. 1329—13th Ave. ft. rioorlayers' Union, Ho. 1876, U. B. of C. fc J. A.—Meels first and third Thursdays In month at Hall No. 1, Lnbor Headquarters. President, Oscar Soderman; Fin. Sec. T. H. Hamlin; Rec. Sec. John McDonald. 2905 West 12th; Business Agent, W. D. Wilson. 1635—5th Ave. W. Hod Carriers and Bnlldlng Laborers, Ho. 603, International — Meets flrst and third Fridays in month at Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. President, Glen Harding, 1110 Denman St : Fin. Sec and Acting Business Agent. James Binding, 52 West 24th; I'hone: Fair. 6153L. ■ot.l aad -te.tauraut Bmploy... and Marin. Cooks fc Steward., Looal M— Wllllnms Bldg., 413 Granville Street. Meets second Monday each month at 3 p.m., last Monday at 9 p.m. President, Thos. Edwards; Sec.-Treas. and Bus. Agent. J. Cumming Phone Sey. 125. Plumbers and 8t.__n8t-.rs, Ho. 170, International Assoolatlon—Meeta every second and fourth Friday In Hall No. 2. President, Art Jan.; Secretary and Business Agent, W. Watt. 305-7 Labor Headquarters. Suppose! Suppose that, instead of trying "to do" somebody else, as is our far-too- cotnmon mean* in Canada, of trying to get an honest living, we seriously set to,work to do something. Something worth doing. Something that we could be proud of as our. worthwhile contribution to the general public good. Something that each could feel a real, personal satisfaction in doing. There are thousands, yes, millions, of people looking for work on this continent today, and hunger and the misery of unemployment is making very many of them very humble and ready to take "any old job" that offers, suitable or unsuitable, useful, or-even degrading. So when we talk of making everybody do some sort of useful work there are very many who object that there is not enough work to be done and that Providence has somehow made a vast miscalculation on this planet, so that we are ratlter like rats, perishing in an elaborate trap What do you think Canadians ought to be doing? Are we in sober fact in some sort of trap, or are we in a tine country that by even moderately good management quite ordinary people could make into a most wonderfully successful habitation? 1 One great worthwhile job stares us in the fact. It is the preservation of our forests. We ought to be at that job in earnest, and it would be noble work, just the sort of job husky, brainy young Canadians would love to tackle. Science and skill and pluck could be poured into it, and health, keen satisfaction and material and spiritual wealth could be taken from thc doing of it in abundance. Then there are vast reclamation projects that could be done in Canada. Work for millions; decent honest work. Turning the swamps into cornfields and millions of parched acres into intensely productive gardens* by skillful irrigation systems. Why, at present vast, numbers of Canadian farms have not even decent drinking water, and yet people think that there is not enough work to he done in Canada. Then Canada needs tidying up, We •ey. 867 East 20th: Secretary, have been in such a hurry and miss- Printing Pressmen and Assistant., Looal Ho. 69—Meets every second Tuesday in the month at 8 p.m. ln Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President, making decent and respectable A. a. Grey. 867 Et Thos. 3. ~ _'life. We could take a wonderful les- ■allway Carmen of America, Lodge Ho..son {v"m JaPan in thia respect, Japan 58—Meets first and third Friday in. gives " visitor the impression that month at Labor HeadtttfArters. Presl- the country is loved and cared for, Seta"'. j^RobeTtsorT^ V&j ■" spite of its awful poverty. Fancy 18th. ]a tidy Canada with nicely made roads and our best artists doing their utmost to develop the appearance of the country with groves of trees Street and Electric Hallway Employee., Pioneer Dlvleton Ho. 101—Meets K P. Hall 8th and Kingsway, flrst and third Mondays at 10:16 a.m. and 7 p.m. President. J. E. Smith; Recording Secretary, J. Price; Treasurer, J. Auton; Financial Secretary and Business Agent. H. W. Speed. Office: Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Sey. 5000. suitable architecture, etc., instead of Jury Frees Men Who Killed Mill Strikers Burnsville, N.C.—Another striking example of "North Carolina justice" was given here when the deputies charged with the murder of six strikers at Marion, N.C, on October 2, we,re acquitted. The evidence was to tfie effect that not a single shot was fired by the strikers, and that the deputies fired on them from the rear while they were fleeing from tear gas loosed by Sheriff O. F. Adkins. Every one of the victims was shot in the back. The absurdity of some of the claims of the defense was exposed by A. Hall Johnston, special counsel for the prosecution. "If you believe," he told the jury, "that Webb Fender," a defendant. "stood within three feet of a man, •fired at him three times and missed, for God*s sake turn him loose. He is harmless." — Witnesses testified that one of the deputies on trial and two not indicted had been previously charged with rioting with firearms, manslaughter, bootlegging and other offenses An extraordinary aspect of the case is that Sheriff Adkins and his six favorite deputies were not in" dieted, although they participated in the massacre. Special Judge W. G. Harding, appointed by Governor 0, Max Gardner, refused to bring charges against them in a preliminary tn.al, and J. Will Pless, the solicitor who prosecuted the eight deputies, failed to order the grand jury to do so. On the other hand, indictments were issued against over 100 strikers on a variety of charges, including that of ."insurrection." Finally Alfred Hoffman, organizer for the United Textile Workers, and a number of other labor leaders, were convicted on thc charge of rioting. Hoffman was given 30 clays on the chain gang and a fine of $1,000, and the others six months on the chain gang. The refusal of fhe State to indict Adkins and the six favored deputies, thus making "goats" of the eight put on trial, is attributed to "inside county politics" and may have had some effect on the jurors. On the other hand, a verdict of acquittal was generally predicted during the trial. The mill owners completely dominate local, county and State politics, they own md'st of the newspapers and banks, and theft influence penetrates to every corner of the State. As a consequence, union men cannot hope for a square deal and they may be beaten, and even killed, without fear of punishment. The men who are fighting labor's UNION CAFES &MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 Alwaya Open Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE 76 Halting. St. __., Vancouver, B. C. ____ ___ ;' "' ii When ln a Hurry, Drop ia at | Egg Order. FRED'S i Ar« Alway. _. . .. .* •OK." at Dairy Lunch "It's the Coffee" ^ * 73 Hastings West Always Open R. WILKINSON, en... D. DUNCAN, lie. Reynolds'Cartage Co. LIMITED Phones: Trinity 1227-1328 Crating, Packing;, Shipping and Storage. Furniture and Piano Moving Long Distance Moving Pool Car Shipments Office and Warehous.: 722 — CAMBIE STBEET — 732 Bluet Metal Workers Assoolatlon, Looal Union No. 280—Meets second and fourth Thursdays in Hall No. 3. President, Jas. Strach.n, 2205 W. llth; Business Agent and Secretary, D. MacPherson, 308 Labor Headquarters. beer bottles and lying advertisements battles in this section know all this, galore, but' they have no intention of quit- ys. -?*._!- -_Pi-_- S&&**! Wmrfidentth.yw.levenv the interest on such investments of SH*]*!DH*S T mly Fl en,0UB _ human energy. Canada would be finan?lal ,pl,ef to koeP bof,y and s"ul Tailors' Journeymen Union of Ainerlc, Looal No. lra-z-Meetings held second Monday, each month. 8 p.m. Executive meets fourth Monday of every energy swamped with public debts! Dear Brother Canadians! We need common-sense and honesty far more than we need "Capital." The greatest Prophet and teacher that mankind has ever produced told us not to lay up treasure for ourselves on earth, but to "seek first the kingdom of heaven and His righteousness together. JACK CHAPPLE'S DAUGHTER DIES IN SALMON ARM, B.C. month'Tn'iabo.'H-adquarteri.' Pres/- aml al1 tnese things shall be added Fjftn. r au.,r otat«am„„. dent. Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. unto vpu." -.tutor LaDoi Statesman. W. Hocken. 1682 13th Ave. S.; Flnan-1 . i-V, r , ... _,„__;«„-„, Sir—I regret to have to report the cial Secretary,-H. Nordlund, 1930 12th 7 A tldV Canada, w th magnificent , ... f g* , , ph.nnleV dauirh- Ave. E. forests, marvelous y beautifu roads ?„ °J fJ°L Jnj7„, 2p-£ s i*,?|r, - and almost unlimited public works, I^^i.^JKS . th™ At _ and no debts at all, is quite possible. *n<?w,- °L,.L fTIt™ t°"-=&_ f" Wa aa„l.l _.__.. _ aaa„laHa . . » I' impOSSl-le lOr him tO WTlt_ tO s_V_?V____5____«_he_--StSK.'s?" *b0" She was married, name Mrs. Wil- Taxl, stage and Bns Drive, Local 151 Meets second und fourth Mondays at 11:30 n.m. ami.8 p.m. Prealdent, D, H Coldlcott office, .nm Labor Head i|li:ir(ers; Phone Key. 74H.V Teamsters, Clianffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, Looal -88— 311 Labor Headquarters. Meets every First and Third Monday. Labor Headquarters President. A. A. McKay, 765 Gamble St • Secretary-Treasurer , Birt Showier Koom 308 Labor Headquarters ■ no nt „• i.-^-rV'it.S-S: ^ to'struggje and -^ahT Theatrical Stag. Looal 11* of th. U.TJ.I, ft MI-MO. ~,„ Moets second Friday In Labor Head- "e quarters at 9:30 am. President, Rod plight Martin; Secretary. Gordon Martin Bus. Agent, Harry Mitohel; Address, P. O. Box 711. —^ we arc at present supporting our I beggarly ten millions. But you must treat her rightly. Often when there has been a panic numbers of people have been crushed to death in some quite reasonably j wide doorway With just a little management all could have walked out easily and safely, but they start- Looal 171 — United Typographical Union, Bo. ass—Presl- ™**?.**F"~~.MM*? laent, C. S. Camflbell; Vice-President, R. Oouthro; Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neeiands. 300-2 Labor Headquarters. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., In Women's Bldg.. Thurlow street. Auxiliary, ■rothe-hood of every first and third Wednesday of each month ln Hall 201, Labor Head- -quarters, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. C. J; Atklsson, 730 19th Ave. W.; Secretary. Elizabeth J. Hope, 1042 7th Ave K. Lathers, Wood, Wire and Metal. International Union, Local 307—Meets flrst .and third Mondnys In month at Labor 'Headquarter*. Secretary. F., Macey, .456 West Seventh Ave. Phone: Bayview 6831-L. Machinists' Local 892- -President, Thos Sills, 1352 Burrard St.; Secretary, P. ft. Bengough. Office. Room 200, Labor Headquarters. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays In Hall 111. Milk Wsgon Drivers snd Dairy. Employ- piitdjljfc JMx-*1 •»«♦—Office 3.08;1,ah_r Head- -.'■-i-Uar^'r^. M^ts-.s.4*ond ;and fourth Fridays in Hall No. .1. President, S. G Walters. Secretary-Treasurer, Birt Showier, 2811 Triumph. .Phone p.—gtSih- -i?37.«»«_-_.- : i'iafll»ii-»». . Union Label Trades Council meets ln Hall No. 4, Labor Headquarters, 6tt Beatty Street, second and fourth Thursdays ln each month at 8 o'clock. President. Colin McDonald, 2834 St. (ieorge Street, Phone Fair. 3317-T. Secretary. Mollie Dolk. 1587 Fifth Avenue East. Phone High. 477-T. Canadians are in a similar struggling intensely for our miserable personal safety regardless of the consequences to others. We trust blindly to our banking system, our insurance, and trust companies, our investment's in stocks and bonds. We can do so much better. That is our tragedy, for we are at the very border of "The Promised Land." J. C. HARRIS. New Denver, B.C. TMEBTS m*no\SW* Thursday In each iT1 month. * * President, S. D. McDonald. Box 288 Secretary, Frank Derry. Box 498, Prince Rupert, B:C. LABOR DISPUTES LOWEST NOW FOR,SEVERAL YEARS The Christmas spirit is pervading industry, according to Hugh L. Ker- win, director of tbe Federal Conciliation Service. The number of in- Prince Rupert Tra-laa Jfe I akn. P-i-moil f du.tr.al disputes for the week end- I I Hlt'S & Labor LOUnClI iri), December 21 was the lowest for yfa.s Eighf metal polishers inJtta-. troit threatened to strike against a wage cut, and weavers in a. Mystic, Conn., textile mill protested against poor'.iw-4****i*np»--tt^ liam Kraser, aged 28, lived in Salmon Arm. Died in Salmon Arm hospital December 12th after an illness lasting nine months, of cancer. She was buried Saturday, December 14th, in Salmon Arm cemetery, in presence of a large attendance of frienda, being well known in the community, having lived there for a number of years. Previous to her marriage she was employed on . the post office staff. Many floral wreaths were sent by friends. Great kindness and thought was shown by her friends, and especially, her dear mother, who attended her during her last illness Fraternally yours, A. BURMAN. PERRY &DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings We.t Room 33 MONTREAL FIRE FIGHTERS TO EMULATE N. Y. UNION Aroused by the example of the organized fire fighters in New York City, who won a salary increase of $500 a year at the recent elections, the Montreal local of the International Association of Fire Fighters, is now making a drive for a salary raise. Fred Baer, international president, is returning to Washington headquarters after two weeks of con- Management Engineers Favor Higher Wages The annual meeting in New York of the Taylor Society, the pioneer association of management engineers, was as usual full of significant discussion. The chief tonic of the sessions was the meaning for management in the study of "Recent Economic Changes" made last year by the National Bureau of Economic Research. And the most interesting development in the society's thought is that it is no longer so much concerned with technical matters relating to the efficiency of the individual worker, the .field in which Taylor made his great contribution, as it is with management on a larger scale. There was enlightening discussion of the economics of mergers, and the most efficient size of the producing unit. The society considered some of the implications of the doctrine of the "economy of high wages." One evening was devoted to the recommendation of Mr. Hoover's committee for establishing an "economic equilibrium." Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, in a scholarly paper, pointed out that a desirable equilibrium does not mean stagnation of economic growth, that what we want is equilibrium on a high and rising scale of living, and that one of the chief problems is to utilize the large amount of industry's continuing idle capacity. Mr. Stuart Chase fired the imagination of the engineers with a graphic account of , the program of controlled growth . embodied in the Russian Gosplan, and although Mr. Chase and his hearers both agreed that same methods could not be used outside of an economic dictatorship, all felt that the United States must proceed in its own way toward plan and Order. . Among the most striking of the Taylor Society deliberations were those concerned with the totton textile industry. President Kendall of the society, himself an owner of mills both North and South, recommended that a movement be inaugurated for a nation-wide agreement to reduce thc weekly hours .of work to at least fifty, with no decrease in weekly pay. This, he felt, would help Mr Hoover's attempt to safeguard prosperity. He also recommended filling any vacant places in the day shift, when they arise, with women from the night shift, and filling the places left by these women with men, aa a measure of abolishing night work for women in the textile industry. An entire seijaion was devoted to the technique of4the successful experiment in uniotVmanagcment co-operation in the Naumkeag mills in Salem, Massachusetts. The agent of the company and the president of thc union both described the experiment at length, and while their points of view differed, they agreed as to its value. Unfortunately the length of the session prevented the presentation of a paper by the engineer who has actually worked oujL."^ with-the chief- Us-ties •••hr._t.-4, W^ details of the plan—Francis jpoodell. .', :f.vr»B.e.,>a_id negotiations with the Montreal .local and the Montreal city . council, The present wage in the -Future publication of his findrngiTare Canadian'city is $,1,700 a year. No [anticipated with great___t-; raiwrflas?*--!-!**^^ 7 z'oar THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, Ja'nuai-y 3, 1930 The Labor Statesman Published .very Friday, at Labor Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. - Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. H. W. Watte, Man. Editor. . PRESS COMMITTEE Wm. Page. Chairman; W. Watt (Building Tradea Council): P. It. Bengough BUM Trades), R. H. Neajands (Printing Trades), W. Deptford (Transportation Trades), B. Showier (Teaming Trades). T. Hanofln (Beverage Trades). tl, Herrett (Label Tradea). Subscription Rates: $2 per Year: to I.'nions. 16c per month per member. Phon. a.ymoor 6379 Vancouver, Friday, Jan. 3, 1930 May the Mew Year usher in to our Readers and Friends the beginning of a NEW ERA of Fit rest rained Leisure Greater Finances , More Happiness and of ■ More,of thc Good and Beautiful Things of Life DEATH BY STARVATION "Nine cases of pellagra, cases ot pellagra, with three deaths, wele reported during the month. The disease is preventable, and it is a reproach to the community to have so niany^eath_^fxQinJ-<rivf74ft-nt^^|4t^-V'^TO^- a disease that is essentially a starva were also potential buyers, were kicked into the streets. No wonder goods failed to move, and panics came. • It was the need of new markets under the principle and practice of mass production . (which demands mass consumption) which brought about a change of business psychology in respect to wages. That change has been everywhere in evidence, but how sincere, profound or widespread it is, remains to be seen. We shall tee, within the next six months, what we shall see. If, under the threat of business depression, wages are maintained, and even raised, and business mends rapidly, we may say, that a salutary sweeping and revolutionary economic change has actually taken place. New Year's Message By H. B. Adshead, M.P. "The proper study of mankind is !jjan".-^not profits—although profits have their place. "In all labor there is profit," but the prohts should be so applied that the- human element has first place, not second. Speaking in Manchester in July, 1857, Ruskin said: "Men conceive the proper state of the world to be that of a vast disorganized mob and doing what work it finds must be done with any irregular squad of laborers it can bribe or inveigle together and afterwards scatter -.-starvation." So the women of ' Calgary and the churches feed every day from 250 to 300 of this "disorganized mob." All praise to them. Nevertheless our viewpoint of life has to be changed to see that the care of employees and men is as necessary and important as is the care of machines that will also be unused for-a period. A few days ago one of this disorganized mob walked out of Calgary along the Edmonton tr^ail to find work and food. Exhausted he staggered and fell into the snow in the ditch and was found dead by the police next day. Oh, well, "All's quiet on the Western front." We are told that we are ''financially sound." Let us see to it that we are equally humanitarianly sound. That in the coming year we may be "Never elated while one man's oppressed; Never dejected while another's blessed," is the New Year's message I would tion disease." This astounding statement is from the report of Dr. Victor H. Bassctt, health officer of Savannah, Ga. Three' persons die of starvation' in one of the richest cities of the South. Six others are on the road to death. How artfully the scientific word "pellagra" hides thc awf ulness of the tact- What a commentary upon the economic conditions in the cotton city. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, a physician who has studied and written widely on pellagra, declares: "Where pellagra prevailed the impression has bi'i'-ii. gained that cereals and vegetables formed a much greater proportion in that diet than they did in tho dietaries of well-to-do people, ' that is, people who as a class are practically exempt from pellagra." As bankers and brokers are virtually free from tuberculosis, so the well- to-do class is free from pellagra. Dr. Goldberger suggests that those subject to pellagra be supplied "with a diet such as that enjoyed by well-to- do people." More and more. intelligent and well-informed persons are.coming to see that poverty is the greatest disease of all; from poverty all other diseases spring. Yes, it is not too much to contend that crime, a disease, springs from poverty. Pay men and women good wages, make medical care available and easily accessible, ah*d the death and crime rate will be lowered. WAGE DRAMA Take the willingness to experiment out of life and you soon write, "finished" on a nation's, a class or an individual's tomb. Experimentation is necessary to change, and change is the evidence of Vitality. The Great War taught by cruel necessity, the need of experimentation. It taught thc rich reward of experimentation. It initiated many revolutionary methods in busine-s, but none more revolutionary than the experiment of treating the wage-earner as a consumer. For years—for 50 years—-Jong before Mr. Ford ever pumped up a bicycle tire, organized labor was saying, "High wage is a guarantee of prosperity. Depressions come because the producer, who is also a consumer, cannot buy back what he produces. Give us high wages and business will be good." "' Biit this plea fell on deaf ears, stony hearts, and* ivory heads- At the first* sign of bad times, the mill shtit, down, and • the- workers, who SOCIOLOGY CLUB FORUM Every Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Selkirk Block, 135 Hastings street west. Jan. 7th, "Labor Politics and the I. L. P." Speaker: John Sidaway, I. L. P. Jan. 14th, "Canadian Nationalism." Speaker: Mr. Denis MurpW U. B. C. These meetings are to.be held-in co-operation with the I. L. P. All members of the club are requested to attend. Anyone interested in the subject of social legislation is welcome at the forum. Announcements of future topics will be made in Labor Statesman. THE ENGLISH SINGERS "The Choir Perfect," as a U. S. critic has called The English Singers, will delight Vancouver on Friday evening, when they give one of their inimitably gay and delightful presentations of old English music. When the now famous six singers, Flora Mann, Nellie Carson, Lillian Berger, Norman Stone, Norman Notley and Cuthbert Kelly, left the shores of the old land to sing in the United States, they were showered with good wishes from the King and Queen down. In an editorial the London Times said: "We hope that America will like the English Singers; they are the finest and most home-grown thing that we can send." America's response was magical. Unparalleled scenes of enthusiasm and crowded houses for the three hundred concerts that the -English Singers have given marked their triumphal path across the continent. From a profusion of eulogistic critical reviews the New York Telegram is typical: "The miracle of The English Singers ;is as lasting as it is inscrutable. From a tenth hearing of this incredible half-dozen one turns with the same bewildered delight as from a first." One concert only will be given here. It takes place on FridaJ/ n.ight; January 10, at the New Auditorium. Seats are now rapidly ■5#ili,vvg,:,'_i.t_te _*.,nWr: Kelly Piano'Co's. '-""•' A dispatch from Washington reveals that eleven persons , in the United States reported net incomes in excess of $5,000,000.00 for the year 1927. If I had any hair on my head it would straighten up at this revelation, for I recall the time when I could count on the fingers of one hand the millionaires of the country. Now we are face to face with eleven men who have an income of $5,000,- 000.00 for the year 1927. How many a laborer's brow has sweated, and how many a workman's back has bent, and how many women's fingers have ached, and how many nerves have been racked to produce this $55,000,000.00 for one year for their exploiting masters? » • » A dispatch from Warsaw states | that the Polish socialist party, becoming angry at Parliament, staged I wild demonstrations of protest in all of the. larger cities of Poland. More than a century ago.Lord Byron sang satiric ally "at last there is peace in Warsaw." That was at a time when three emperors put their feet on the neck of poor Poland, but those enjr perors,. one from Russia, one frflSn Prussia, and one from Austria have long since passed through the gateway of eternity, and Poland has been | reinstated as an independent nation, but the masters have capitalized the I new freedom for themselves and ignored the rights of the masses of the people, now those "human clods" find speech and the foundations* of the old institutions will some day crumble because of the noise made | by these human "clods." * » * The A. F. of L., who are delving ] into the question of employers refusing to employ men over 40 to 45 years and discharging them also at J those ages, have data to show that private compensation insurance companies encourage the employers to do so by offering lower insurance [ when—younger—men are employed. Here is a case for government insurance as a monopoly. » ♦ ' * . Whenever an employer fights the union it is a certainty that employer has an unclean, ignorant or basic motive. The union idea is so natural, its aims are so productive of general well-being, its contribution,to society so great, its basic principles so just, its functions so normal, that to deny them is to go back into -he caves of supcrstitition where all is dark and filled with .hate. And the idea is the same, wherever it is. Those who hate are alike, the world over. Those who, in their mental caves, fight unions, are alike the world over. So also the good things, high ideals, and human courage. 72 CENTS OUT OF EVERY DOLLAR FOR MILITARISM WASHINGTON. — National defense and the cost of past wars will use 72 per cent, of the Federal Government's budget for 1930, and but 13 per cent, will be used for spcial purposes, research, public works and similar functions, according to a tabulation issued from the White House. The budget totals $3,830,000,000,- 000, of which $2,733,213,283—or 72 per cent.—will go to national defense and the fiscal burdens of previous wars. The 13 per cent., totalling but $511,193,000, is for every social service. Only 8 per cent, of the budget—$300,307,000—will be required for the normal departmental government functions, including $50,000,000 for the post office deficit. Hurrah! We entertained a male friend who talked all evening without mentioning golf or the stock market. Prospective groom—"Will it take much to feather a nest?" Furniture dealer—"Only a little down!" You might ju.t a. well dine nt the BLUE GOOSE Everybody else docs! i 1109 Granville Sir?.-*-, Phone: Seymour 3617-0 WMMIPfC CHUN MOMTfltAL ORB Cn~ - CO SO (W TKMX VQWAJ-t irAtssstsm • ft I ..»•.. VAMCOUV-R - a*. ■ ..,: t* GUM VICTORIA HAH '":.-.*. »..! I.TV .uoci fluu. (turf ti tcaoNOMAUti HAPPY NEW YEAH! Start it rightly by investing to secure a good, safe income, with prospects of appreciation in your capital. We have bonds which fulfill the.e requirements. R. P. CLARK & COMPANY lVnucouv.r)' LTD. INVESTMENT BANKERS 823 Hastings Street West Vancouver, B.C May 19..0 be a year of Abundant Health and .- 1 fappiness for You and Your K.mil „ I Wishing All Our Union ■F'ficnds and Patrons a Prosperous .ind Happy New Year! Royal Crown Soap Co., Ltd. An Old Favorite! Save the Coupons! Ask Your Grocer for Royal Crown Soap Wishing AH Our Union Employees, Friends and Patrons a Happy and Prosperous New Year! CAMPBELL & GRILL Manufacturers of Cornice, and Architectural Sheet Metal Work 1236-8 Seymour Street Phone: Douglas 2981 We extend to All Our Friend, and Patrons the Compliment, of the Season, and Wish Them a Happy and Prosperous New Year! ECONOMY COAL CO. Phone: Seymour 1863 Try the New B. C. Coal and Boo.t B, C. Payroll. A Happy New Year to All Our Friends from The STAR COAL CO., LTD. Sootless Egg Coal $9.00 , An Excellent Coal, also the Old Reliable Nanaimo-Wellington Free Delivery ' (■.■*>ry*,wftWWf^*::c.ii*i':. ..,*:',:.'. PHONE HIGH. 279 ■ ** : '■ — f> .* •riday, January 3, 1930 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and ftetail Dealers 158 Cordova W. Phony Sey. 8687 Mirrors K.silvered. Aiito CIuhs installed. Utroken Glass Replacements. Polished Plate CJlass. Flat Drawn Sheet Glass, < Oroa.-_6-.t-L. and Wire, Glass. Orders promptly filled. UNION MEN! We do appreciate your patron- ajfe, and deserve It by nerving food food, properly cookod, at very moderate prices. CENTRAL CAFE 608 Pender W. at Seymour Ph.pne: Seymour 9147 VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS -thpumatl.m, Lumbago, Neuritis Flaii fold MASSAOE A .SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. BEY. 3O70 ■UNION MEN.,. want tools of reliable makes and quality—that's why thsy buy. from r, < Sterling Hardware Phone: Seymour 1433 8 CORDOVA w. (near Carrali) Chapman's Recreations, Ltd. phone: Trinity 6632 1105 Seymour St., Vancouver, B.C. £. J. Chapman NOTICE OF APPLICATION NOTICE la hereby given that un application .will lie mad. at the next --sslo.il of th. ^Legislative Assembly of Hie Province of British Columbia for tbe paHHing of an. Aet substituting The London and Western Trusts Company, Limited, as executor, administrator or trustee, or a. the ease may be, ln the.place and stead of The Standard- Trusts Company, In or in respect of every trust deed. deed, mortgage. Indenture, conveyance., will, codicil, probate, letters of administration, judgment, order, appointment or other document whatsoever, or trust howsoever created wherein or whereby or of -which The Standard Trusts Company Is or was named as or became Trustee or appointed to any offl*eo or trust antl vesting all such truHt.s and' the trust properties and estates and tbe assets of The Standard Trusts Company In The London and Western Trusts Company, Limited. Dated at Vancouver, in the Province of Hrltlsh Columbia, this 17th day of December, A.n. 1S2_. THK LONDON AND WESTERN TRUSTS COMPANY, LIMITED. THE STANDARD TRUSTS COMPANY, Ity their solicitors, LEN'NIE & __-_lA.ST_.i- TENDEBS FOR DREDGING SEALED TENDERS, addressed to th undersigned and endorsed "Tender for dredging. Coal Harbour. Van couver. R. C." will be received until 12 o'clock noon, Tuesday, January 14, 1930, Tenders will not be considered unless made on the forms supplied by the De-* partment and in accordance with the conditions set forth therein. Combined spec mention und form of. tender can be obtained on application to the undersigned, also nt the office of the District Engineer. Post Office Huild- ihg. New Westminster, B.C. Tenders must Include the towing of the plant to and from the work. The dredges and other plant which are intended to- be used on the work shall have been duly registered In Canada at the time of the tiling of the tender with the Department, or shall have been'-U-lt In Canada after tbe filing of the tender. Each tender must lie accompanied by -nn accepted cheque .on a chartered bank. payable, to the order of the Minister, of Public Works, for 5. per cent, of the contract price, but no _h.q_.*t. be for less than live hundred dollars. Runds.of the Domini,hi nf Canada or bonds of the Canadian .National Railway Company will be accepted as security, or bonds and a cb,_qu_ it required to make up an odd amount ..■.ww«~_:. ...' -■■■•■'.*.■ ' it*- ••.t-.r*:- :--.i*«5Kasis**- N. -WBS_.-RD-.NS. ■ .Acting Secretary.' lvpaiini'enl of Public Works. * * New Industries Fail To Absorb Workers Louisville, Kentucky. — "Workers are being displaced faster than they can be absorbed by other branches of industry," says John Walker Rogers, deputy labor inspector of this State, in his study, "The Elder Worker, Restricted Employment; Annuities, Relief." s Mr. Rogers says the displacement of workers over 40 years of age by younger men "is .a problem that tends to become "daily more acute, more extensive and more difficult of solution," and that this practice will become a general policy in the industrial world. "All the modern trends in industry seem to be working against older employees," says Mr. Rogers. "The increasing standards of efficiency necessitated by fiercer competition; specialized industry; the elimination or at least reduced demand for skill and experience because _if._.t)ie use of meechanized production methods and automatic machinery; consolidations of large enterprises with the consequent, reduction, of personnel, and many other aspects of modern industry," are listed as factors that operate against employment of 40 and 45-year-old workers. "While the percentage of employers who arbitrarily dismiss skilled workers at the age of 40 or slightly more than that is comparatively small, it is, nevertheless, certain tbat great nunjbers of men are thrown nut of employment for that reason. These men are finding themselves hard pressed to find work, merely because their appearance shows their age as being that of the middle portion of life.!' On the question of old-age pensions Mr. Rogers says: "The old, threadbare argument (hat it is the employee's duty to provide for his own. need is unsound. Wages paid to workers of the class who come to need help are not sufficient for' them to save enough for the time in their latter life when they are no longer able to engage actively in industry." Review of Labor Legislation in Canada "Labor Legislation in Canada," a 733-page review covering the statutory law affecting workmen as em ployees, has just been issued by the federal department of labor, and it should prove a valuable addition to labor libraries. The legislation printed in this report is taken from the latest Revised Statutes of the Dominion and of the provinces and from the subsequent yearly volumes of statutes up to the end of 1928. Only the abridged text or a summary is given of certain, statutes which as a whole cannot be regarded as labor legislation, but sections of which affect workmen as employees. . The laws are arranged In chronological order of their enactment. In selecting the. material for thc present report, the term "labor legislation" has been interpreted broadly. Laws which are regarded as social, rather than labor, legislation have not been included, however, with the exception of the Dominion and provincial statutes on old-age pensions, the Government Annuities Act and the provincial laws providing for the mothers' allowance. The last-named statutes are summarized briefly. Altogether, thc report is most comprehensive and will be invaluable for reference purposes. W$&&&a?$i^^ 9fiefipns yO * Kt-J-TfOIC HUH ■ *•_»* "* '■-. _ iDthoAnpOsOne , Yuletide Drinks Union People! Lions Champagne Pale Dry, and Be Dry Ginger Ale blend well With your liquors. For a Treat, Give the Children "Orange Kist" ASK FOR VAN BROS. CIDERS Order through your grocer or confectionery store for free delivery direct to your home. Van Brothers, Limited 1055 Vernon Drive Phone: High. 90 r%\\X\1m%&\\%im%i»^^ Belief Growing That Mooney Will Go Free San Francisco.—Tom Mooney is nearer a pardon today than at any time since his imprisonment.thirteen years ago following the Preparedness Day bomb explosion. The State Pardon Board has Tom's pardon application under eonsidera tion and is studying the huge mass of document, bearing on the case. The board has not intimated when it will render a decision. Practically everyone connected with the trial of Mooney, including the judge and all thc living jurors, believes that he was convicted on perjured evidence and is backing the plea- for his release. Resolved . . . a healthier family in 1930 ■«t|¥hAT*cou1_1 be more important \\ in-safeguarding family healt x~ " than good food—noufishin food, the purity of which you can be certain? Vitomen foods are made of the finest selected Canadian grains— packed in a spotlessly clean factory— scaled in sanitary red and green cartons. They tempt the laziest appetites. They are sold direct to you by our representative, who wishes you a healthier, happier 1930. 33 different delicious Vitomen foods. Among them: Vitomen Shreds Golden Cream Porridge Health Rice X Cake Flour Pancake Flour / VITOMEN CEREAL, LTD. VANCOUVER, BX. x y ■ HUNGARIANS SAY SHE SHALL RISE AGAIN Mrs. Violet McNaughton, a veteran in the farmers' movement in Saskatchewan, visited Hungary last summer to attend the Women's International League school. In The, Western Producer Mrs. McNaughton paints an alarming picture of the implacable hatred left in Hungary by its dismemberment after the war, with the loss to other countries of ::.nun.nun Hungarians. Everywhere in Hungary, she says, one sees the fierce slogan, "No, No, Never," on maps, postcards, boxes of candy, door plates, table covers and many other places, indicating a fixed determination never to accept the present position. A flag half-mast floats in a public square in Budapest, the capital,-over four statues indicative of Hungary's lost provinces. Every day school children repeat a creed part of which is a vow that Hungary shall rise again. But when a girl suffers a young; man to kiss her she doesn't suffer much. * r A Happy and Prosperous New Year to All Our Friends ■ * ...and Patrons from The ■ ...." **" .: - *■ ' ■ , British Columbia Concrete Go. —r- "« r--rr. _^7;;*-'*****t,.;,;,7. ' ;;■.;,*':. : .... .- "Phone: Marpole 230' SRSBff 1 / THE DISTILLERS OF THE FAMOUS ILD.L. Special \_r* Canadian Rye Whisky Wishes .ill Their Union Friends . and Patrons The Compliments of the Season and May the New Year Bring You Good Health and Prosperity United Distillers Limited- m■ A VANCOUVER, CANADA *P€*«*«*©fl_*ep«_*^^ This advertisement is' not published or displayed by the. Liquor Control ':-.,.. B-ard^orJjy the Government ol British Columbia. ... "Let -i_!»*i*--_*mb«-?at^-_rt only -the most ' terrifi- exertions will make any change in human institutions. Never sinee time began have e=t*b- i__!-,-.<L___?.S177.lH_..fe^ ▼es as they have done and ■'•wtR. .at the present hour. Only the I__> ious speech of the prophet can start anything at* a'll."—Bishop Francis J. ________ mm—*~ V. Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 3, 1930 Build B. C." Looking Two Ways Folks are looking back at Christmas, forward to . the New Year. The outlook for BritistTColum- bia is bright. Thc newspapers have announced a $30,000,000 building program planned for , 1930. Pacific Milk Factories at Abbotsford and Ladner INDEPENDENT LABOR PAK.TT VANCOUVER BRANCH Chairman - - A. J. Turner Secretary-Treas., H. E. Tlmmlna 536 Drake Street Meets Second and Fourth Fridays at I. O. O. F. Hall, 2237 Main St. . Member-hip Pee - 91 Per Tear NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades tk Labor Council Boom 300—531 Beatty Street Phones: Sey. *7.»6-627» -ASCODVEB TRADES ABB EABOB OOtJNCII. Breeldent . JamoB Thoimon Vloe-Preslaent ._ *W. J. Bartlett O-neral S-c.-Tr.n. ...P. B. Xsngauga ■tatl.tlclan 0. B. Berrett Warden .WalUr Deptford Exocntl. e, Oommlttee Chairman. COMMITTEES! Organization: Colin McDonald (chair.). Tailors. P. It Bengough, Machinists. W. J. Bartlett, Blacksmith.. Jas. Thomson, Pile Drivers. C. Herrett, Barbers. L.gi.latlv.: B. H. Neeiands (ohalr.), Typographical. W. J. Scribbins, Civic Employees. P. R. Beogough, Trades Council. F, A. Hoover, Street Railwaymen. C. A. Watson, Fire Fighters. W. Hargreaves, Carpenters. J. Thomson. Pile Drivers. C. Lamb, Typographical. C. McDonald. Tailors. Frees: W. Page (ohalr.), Bnlldlng Trades Connoll. W. Deptford, Transportation Trades. R. H. Neeiands, Printing Trades. P. R. Bengough, Metal Trades. T. Hanofln, Beverage Tradea. B. Showier, Teaming Trades. W. Watt, Building Trades. C. Herrett, Label Trades. Grievance: Oeo. Pettipiece (ohalr.), Operating Bngineera. E. C. Miller, Musicians' Union. B. Showier, Dairy Employees. E. H. Morrison, Electrical Workers. H. W. Watts. Ble.trlcal Workers. POINTS OF VIEW Wilson & McNeill I Painters and Decorators Everything pertaining to tha trad*. I 1156 E. 13th. Phone Fair. 5248 Engineer Misses Trip To Welcome Premier Sheffield,* Eng.—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald' received the "freedom of the city" last week from a union locomotive engineer who missed a trip on his engine to perform that function. The engineer was Lord Mayor C. N. Beardsley of Sheffield, who, when he is not carrying out his official duties as head of this city of 500,000 population, works at his regular job on ,the railroad. Seven Sheffield members'.of parliament, five of whom are Labor party men, and the premier's daughter Ishbel, were in the audience when * the combination mayor-engineer handed over the "keys to the city" to the Labor head of the British government,. By Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Wet to the skin from a tramp miles after work, only to find the place filled when he got there— "heart-shifted" and wishing the world at an end, the out-o'-work man went up to bed, refusing supper. It would have been but a few crusts. They were needed for the morrow. Then, if Jane earned a bob washing for some poor sick neighbor, they would spend the bob on a meal for five and potter through once more. Beyond that day were other days- They loomed up grey, hope* less, interminable. Weeks had gone by in this fashion, since the "dole" had run out. They would go on the same until he got some temporary job which might last long enough to entitle him once more to "dole." Years had gone on like this. The universe had become a rag to him—the earthy a rag, over which he tramped footsore and despairing and stared at a sky like a rag. - He pulled thc thin, shoddy blanket over him, and glowering at the. window saw_ the night sky filled with stars, musing that the damned old stars went on shining whilst humanity ate crusts in hovels. He tossed about, longing for sleep, but hunger, ache- of body, sound of the wind round the tenement, and one of the children coughing in the next room, kept him from sleeping,. Eventually he "got hold," lost sense of even the cold due to having only one thin blanket over him—and, sleeping, dreamed. He was dining. Dishes of food, deliciously prepared, stood near his elbow. He glanced along the table. From end to end it was set out in fine old style. Dishes were handed to him by a butler standing behind his chair. He felt uneasiness. What was he doing here? Had the Millennium come? ... Then, looking down, he saw that be wore evening dress.' Other people wore evening dress. The truth burst on him. He had become one of the rich. Soft-shaded lamps cast a glow on the faces of vivacious women, attired in dress which enhanced their charms. In contrast, he thought of Jane and the other women of the tenements, their- faces lined' with care and want, their voices either rasping sharpness or dull and tired. Flowers, linen, silver gleaming, glass - shining—and chat and laughter and wit and culture, the atmosphere of the meal. He felt out of it. He heard a jargon of talk of things "above his head"—things he began to realize had been things shut out from him and his like, just as much as the material comforts of the food and napery arid beauty of the table-settings. Music, art, literature! He had spent his life either overworked, till too tired to bother about these things, or actually wondering where the next meal must come from for his family. Sullenly he realized that besides having lacked materially he had been kept stultified mentally. And his children must go on the same. And their children. And theirs. He was just dreaming that he was rich. Then the subject became Unemployment. He listened and realized that to these people Unemployment was merely so. many workers displaced— not so many humans suffering the hell of hunger, uncertainty, and the rot of not being wanted. Something surged up in him. He stood up, pushed back his chair, and tried to find \S__4s to tell them what it felt like to want work and be unableT to get it, to have a few crusts in the bread-pan and dare riot eat them, though .sick with hunger, because, eaten then, nothing would remain for the morrow. He found they had even a monopoly of the power to express themselves. Such language as he had, meagre and crude, stuck in his throat, frustrated by the bitterness he felt. He awoke. The stars were shining in the *-»-;■' " The chap' who designed the telephone booth is.now designing break- .......■ _. _____jast--aoolcg_^njr,.kitcheaeUgr-^_gart- 'T '" then tit*'' ~~"' . *■* night Bky. The torn window-curtains hung awry. He saw the bedrail with the dusty bulk of his wet garments tossed oyer it. Jane was climbing the stairs, heavy-footed." The child in the next room was still coughing. He had been dreaming he was one of the secure people. There were just a few crusts between them and starvation—unless Jane got a day's wash in tomorrow, and she would be washing three weeks off her "down- lying." .7 . "I wish to hell one of 'em would dream," he mumbled as she lay down beside him. ■ "Who?". "One of the rich;" "Oh, shut up and let's sleep. That's cheap enough," sighed Jane wearily. "But they'll stick," he mumbled. "I see now how they'll stick. They've so much to lose. I don't blame 'cm for stickin'. But what about us?" "Oh, shut up," Jane told him. "I'll get a bob tomorrow. I've to go out. Sally's been to ask me. It'll be a bob. Get to sleep." The child in the next, room was still coughing. After a long time he went to sleep again. * . * The big business man got out of his evening suit, yawned, and got into bed. The night wind blew softly in the folds of the rich curtains. Like two great purple pillars they framed the window—and between them, delicate picture of enchanting beauty, he saw the moon-silvered tree-shadowed grounds through crystalline-clear glass. He slept, and, sleeping, dreamed. He was waiting for dinner, at an almost bare table, in a room where furniture was almost nil. He stared down at his plate. A haggard-looking, dull-eyed woman . set him his portion. Then she left him jto "mind" the children. He sat holding the baby. The others sat on the floor, covered with broken bits of oilcloth. They played at "going for dole," going to the pawnshop^ going for soup in the food queues, He shivered by an empty grate. Why, he must be dreaming, dreaming that he was a poor man. At last the haggard woman came back, took the baby, dropped into a chair, and after she had got her breath, remarked: "I've done the washing. But she can't pay the bob till next week. What'll us do now?" "Blow the damned world up," he shouted, and awoke. The night wind was blowing in the folds of thc rich curtains. He saw the grounds—spacious, tree-shaded. "Is something the matter, dear?" inquired his wife anxiously. She was bending over him, and switched on the electric lights, bulbed in pink Venetian glass roses. He stared up at her. The long sleeves of her silken, flowered wrapper tossed exquisite perfume to him. He had only been dreaming. He drew a deep breath of relief. "Did I shout?" he asked. "I should think you did," she told him. He sat up in bed and motioned to the seltzer. She filled a thin, crystal glass. '"Yes. And just a dash———" he told her. Then, after he had gulped, "Yes, feeling better. Gosh! I'd been dreaming I was* a poor man. Glad I'm not. Afraid I'd be rather a dangerous person. Yes. All right again now, dear. Go to bye-bye." ... He heard the rustle of the silken wrapper fade into the silence, and, putting out the electric lights, stared out towards the moon-silvered grounds. "Fortunately," he was thinking, "they don't know-what they are missing. They are* used to being poor. But if ever they find out what life could be for 'em " In her room his wife heard him rilling the glass once more. "Well, I couldn't blame 'em, what they did, if they once dreamed what life could be," he thought. "But, thank heaven, they don't They are used to being poor." HAZELWOOD ICE CREAM —You try it next time for tbat Party or Social Guaranteed the product of pure fresh cream For Prompt Service, Phone Seymour 2090 Hazelwood Creamery, Limited Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.'CIDERS PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER "Made from B. C. Apples" Try "The Lions" Ginger Ale Orange, Lemon and Lime Kist. PHONE HIGH. 90 PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS.. LTD. 1055 VERNON DRIVE ijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii illinium iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiumj] □ For Good Coal! 1 Phone Highland 279 1 NANAIMO-WELLINGTON FOOTHILLS § I-UUMHELLER and SOOTLESS EGG, $9.00. = Star Coal Co., Ltd. = FREE DELIVERY PHONE: HIGH. 279 = liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiim-Iiiiiiii MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER lYUdochi % l^\r J Hoover Pleads With Business To Push Work The President of the United States, an engineer by profession and therefore a scientist, told the world last week that there is only one deadly sin in the economic calendar—unemployment. More than 400 industrial leaders, gathered in Washington, heard the President preach the "Word," and with apparent enthusiasm- promised t<y:o-operate to the limit to minimize unemployment. The' occasion was rather dramatic. Ii>._i__- the last of the President's conferences to head off an industrial slump. ' . -- XaOmtlmk _ _oov.&fc8pcH .ed proceed,, ings with a brief address." '•■ " "The cure," he said, "for such storms (as that caused by the stock market crash) is action; the cure for unemployment is to find jobs." The keynote thus struck was repeated by practically all the speakers. Secretary of Commerce Lamont said: "The important thing is to keep up employment and wages, which spell buying power." Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, exclaimed: . "Get out of the huddle of conferences and play ball." . An executive committee of 72 was named to push the increase of construction, ,attd.„1ma.__.tenance, work. . Choose the best kind of'.life and , rf$__u__ wilJrt«Mke.7Lt__£:^M-....4_l___-. ant;—Pythagoras. - * —— ©! • \S_________ '"'' in moderation POR generations doctors have * paid tribute to thc sustaining, invigorating and health giving qualities of beer— when taken in moderation. There is no finer beverage than good beer for workers in every field of endeavor, whether mental or physical. The undermcH-ioned beers are I guaranteed tobeabsoliitely pure. |To safeguard the public they are 'constantly tested by Analytical Chemists employed by the B.C. Liquor Control Board \ .o. ,<__r in ._ ' tHUSSti Hi". • PILSENER LAGER BLUE RIBBON LAGER - CASCADE PALE OLD MILWAUKEE LAGER This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liauor ■ ...H^yy-.^...*, ■^a»^.-._._.__.^^-._4Tr-. spai -,^^,-tcm/i.^.AamV..;■ fr "■">-_—•'.g ' 'iiff"**"m»"",,i Ikmtrol Board or -by the.-■Government-ofj^itish Columbia; ~T. ____________________________ t^ammmmm*mmmm**m --_(_ Friday, January 3, 1930 THE LA30R STATESMAN Seven I .Union- Made Shoes , CORNETT BROS A CLARK EAST HASTINOS STBEET V KlorHln.iin, Strlders. C. B. & C. Men's and Youth's. HUDSON'S BAY CO. La-li.-B': Hohansen, Bancroft-Walker, Colella-Lelg-Uon. Men'fl and Youth's: Tetrault's. MODEL BOOT SHOP 1186 GBANVH-LB Tetrault's. Meit's, Woman's and Youths* Union Label shoes. League of Nations Promoting Workers' Cause Through I. L. 0. How the International Labor Organ- ization of the League Is Pro- nrioting Workers' Came. WM. TRICK, 146 Cordo-ft WEST. — Tetrault's Men's and Youths; also Strider and 31»ter's Union Label shoes. Fellow Unionists, demand the Union Label. Shop Card and .Working Button, and patronise fair employers and em ploy UNION LABOR. Classified Ads. BARRISTERS AHD SOLICITORS Wallls W. lefeaux, 403 Metropolitan Bonding-. Phone Sey. 6667. BATHS H__tlnu« Steam Baths Price 350 Only 766 Huntings street Bast. DENTISTS | Dr. w. A. Bntiedtre, loo Hastings West. NOTARY PUBLIC | P. X. Bengongh labor Headquarters. PRINTERS | tabor Statesman, Labor Headquarters. RUPTURE SPECIALIST | c. z. Heard 812 Bobson. UNDERTAKERS I Armstrong' k Hotson, 304 Dunlevy Are. I "We Do Not Patronize" COMMERCIAL TAXI. 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, th* Clothier, 603 Hastings W. . CLARKE & STUART. MURPHY & CHAPMAN. ROSE, COWAN & LATTA. GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G. A., LTD. J. W. BOYD. LTD. Authorized by the Vancouver, Now Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council, for the Information of all union members. Porto Rico Unionists Winning Long Contest WASHINGTON.—"Light is^break- ing for labor in its long fight against deplorable conditions in Porto Rico," said Santiago Iglesias, president of Porto Rico Federation of Labor, who is also secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor. "The speech at San Juan, Porto Rico, last week, by Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., recently appointed governor of Porto Rico, is significant. He asserted that 60 per cent, of the island's children are undernourished,", said Mr. Iglesias. "Newspaper and magazine articles are also discussing the frightful economic conditions which organized labor has protested against for 25 years," said thc trade unionist. "During all these years the A. F. of L. has aided Porto Rican trade unionists. We have pleaded with every administration, only to be told by politicians that a probe would discredit their party, and the War Department, which controls the island. "Governor Roosevelt and the publications are 'r?ow discussing the children of Porto Rico. This is unusual. It is indicative that other wrongs will be uncovered besides showing that children are underfed and that one- half of them go to school without breakfast." Mr. Iglesias declared that organized. labor will continue its fight for a Congressional investigation. Such a probe, he said, will reveal unheard of exploitation by American and ..other* capitalists who are draining Potto Rico of its rich resources and even refuse to pay taxes,, while the.land is tfekert.te-V-a^peasants. These workers are forced into the cities and are " cSnTpe^To^w.r-: ^-_>Tr SffcrBW' cents a day—when they work, By Charles Stelzle. Organized labor .will be represented in. a group of thirty national organizations of a patriotic, industrial, educational and religious character, which have combined to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the League of Nations throughout the United States during the first week in January. Mass meetings will be held in many of the principal cities throughout the country, which will be addressed by outstanding speakers, who will discuss the Wold Court, the Briand-Kellogg Pact, the League of Nations, Disarmament, and related subjects. General Rt. Hon. Jan Christian Smuts, who had much to do with the creation of the League of Nations, is making a special trip to this country from Africa to be one of the principal speakers. General Smuts served with great distinction in the Boer War, then as commander of the allied forces of East and West Africa during the late war. He was also prime minister of the South African Union. He served as a great conciliator during thc days of thc peace conference, and is one of thc strikingly picturesque military figures who has evolved into a world statesman as a maker of peace. Whatever one may think of the League of Nations as an organization, it is only fair that aflter ten years' trial its worth should be estimated by its accomplishments, and while its major purpose cannot be executed so long as the United States holds itself aloof from the league, it has nevertheless served conspicuously in helping to maintain peace, for fundamentally every international conflict is based upon some economic question. The International Labor Organization, or the "I. L. 0.," as it is familiarly called, is of particular interest to labor. Without necessarily committing itself to thc league, organized labor, together with other citizens of our country, will have an opportunity during January to honestly evaluate what the League of Nations has meant to the working man through the I. L. 0. Perhaps its chief value is that it frankly faces the facts It studies in an unbiased fashion the causes of economic suffering, it gives nations the information necessary for deciding upon good social policies, and when international agreement on social policies seems necessary it prepares treaties by which these nations may agree to adopt these policies. The office of the I. L. 0. is a clearing house consisting of a permanent staff recruited by civil service methods. An effort is made to secure people from as many nations aa possible in order to give it a genuinely international character. At present it consists of an organization of 375 people from 37 countries. It maintains seven offices, located in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Tokio, Delhi and Washington, and has individual correspondents in other capitals. The office of the I. L, 0. is a public service, open to everyone, to whom information is freely furnished hy its experts. ' Among the major subjects upon which the 1. L. 0. has made recommendations are the following: Unemployment, health, accident compensation, the rights of seamen and agricultural workers, the immigration problem, safety devices and legislation, women in industry, occupational diseases, hours of labor, and a weekly day of rest Union Heads Held for Strike Losses by Canadian Court MONTREAL.—An unincorporated trade union, as such, cannot be sued for damages in Canada, according to the Court of Appeals, which recently decided the case of a number of local clothiers against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union. But the court holds that the organization may be reached through its president and treasurer. Accordingly, those officers, and a number of others are assessed damages for injuries inflicted by the strike. The history of the case shows how the injunction is used on this side of the line, as in the United States, to tie up the workers and make it difficult to wage an effective strike. The clothing workers struck in \ugust, 1926. A temporary injunction' was secured almost at once. It was made perr>inent ih October. It dragged through thc courts for three years, and then, on March 4, 1929, it was dismissed by tbe Superior Court. The bosses appealed to the Court of Appeals, with the results indicated. But the real object of the injunction was accomplished three years ago. His Lordship, Mr. Justice W. L. Bond, who wrote the judgment of the Court of Appeals, holds that the right to strike is no longer open to debate, but he adds that the right to strike does not "confer upon him (the worker) the right to prevent others from Working who deBire to do so." ,Jr- His lordship intimates that "peaceful picketing" is lawful in Canada. However, he holds that the clothing workers assembled in "mobs" of 200 or more. "By*»o stretch of language can such a course of conduct be described as 'peaceful picketing' or the lawful exercise of the right to strike," he maintains. Labor in Canada has long pressed for legislation to legalize peaceful picketing and to prevent the use of injunctions in industrial disputes. Thc courts have held that any k'nd of picketing was illegal. Fewer Workers Get Less Pay But Do Whole Lot More Work Some figures in the last report of the Interstate Commerce Commission are very important if not wholly pleasant reading for railroad workers. The average number of rail employees in the United States during 1928 was 1,656,411, and their total pay was $2,826,590,000. This is a drop, in round numbers, of 79,000 employees and of $84,- 000,000 in compensation as compared to the year 1927. At tbe same time, the reduced force of workers in 1928 handled 4.073,000,000 more ton-miles of revenue freight than the larger force handled the previous year. This illustrates an almost constant tendency for nine years. Each year, on an average, a smaller number of rail workers handle a larger amount of freight,' and get less money for doing it. When the entire period is considered", the change in this direction is startling. i In 1920, the number of railroad employees was 2,022,832, and their pay was $3,004,000,000. In 1928—repeating the figures to get the two sets together—the number of railroad employees was 1,656,411, and the pay, $2,826,590,- 000. Here is a drop in nine years of 366,000, or 22 per cent, in the number of employees, and of $178,000,- 000, or more than 6 per cent., in total pay. But at the end of that period, the smaller force, working for snteller pay, handled 22,388,- 000,000 more gross ton-miles of freight. These figures do not tell the whole story. The official staff of railroads has increased, rather than decreased. The whole loss of employment has fallen on the actual workers. ORLEANS CAR STRIKE STILL ON New Orleans.—New Orleans' car strike is. still on, according to Edwin Peyroux, who has just been re-elected president of the local street car men's union. "Wc expect to win this strike,"-sajd-JPe-yroipt " Eight or nine' hundred men are still ont. but cars are operating on about 75"p^r cent, of "the lines. The remaining- lines will probably be put out: ■sf-iu.iBeanrr^^tos_r~-rr-r*rt_tfi_e Ever since the men refused to rat- \\x\zm. SERVING VANCOUVER HOMES WITHOUT INTERRUPTION FOR A A YEARS IN 1886 gas service was first rendered Vancouver homes. Since that time each year has seen more an_. more satisfied users.of gas. And gas is still'the modern fuel." Advances and improvements in the gas range have made gas, today, the ideal cooking fuel. Clean, fast, efficient,, economical, reliable. The gas-fired furnace, for home heating, , and other gas appliances, such as the gas refrigerator, have been perfected. Ask us how gas can serve you in your home BR_TBH(to__U___-M i To All Our Union Friends and Patrons we wish the Compliments of the Season and 365 Days of Health, Happiness and Prosperity! CATTO'S Old Highland Whis\ey Obtainable at All Government Liquor Stores Please Ask for CATTO'S This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. ify the settlement negotiated last September the company has persisted in its "hard-boiled" determination to have nothing more to do with* the union. The international is supporting -the striker;!, each bona fide member receiving" $-10 a week. • During the last three.months there have been a score of street car bombings* and several t>asscngei_ htrre been slightly injured. As a result, raSITJihire-W-^ to guard the tracks. Unionized Industry Shows Marked Gains New York.—Marked gains are recorded in the cloak and suit industry as the result of an agreement to abolish low standards between the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and three employers' associations. Raymond. V. Ingersoll, impartial chairman of the industry, reports that the number of firms having contractual relations increased from 1,417 to 1,592. The books of practically all of these firms have been investigated to check the sending out of work to shops which have not subscribed, to labor standards. The four organizations co-operate with the commission. Between meetings of the full commission the joint committee of managers, made up of the managers of the four organizations, meet at frequent intervals with Chairman Ingersoll. - Advertising Is the Key To Wealth Which business men become richest? And what is the key to their success? The answers are given in this pointed editorial in a British publication: "Who are the wealthiest men in all the trades and industries?" They are the men who advertise. Who are the poorest men in all the trades and industries? They are the men who have never advertised at all. What commodities sell most quickly in all the retail stores? The goods that are most advertised. What store in every city is the largest and most prosperous. The one that spends the most on good advertising. "What country is the most prosperous? America, which spends more on advertising than Europe does. . What is the greatest power in the world. Public Opinion. What creates Public Opinion? Advertising. . Is it not time that busi- ne <s men woke up and realized .that advertising is hot an expense, but the cheapest and .quickest way of making a fortune? It is not advertising that is costly. It is oblivion, . ¥ NOT GUILTY Judge O'Flaherty: "Haven't you. been before me before?" Prisoner: "No 'r honor. Oi niver. saw but wan face that looted loike yours, an' that waa a photograph of an Irish !&«''■■'" ~"lfe-_ire ■*«J*^ Call th' nixt case." .;"*. two liquid smiles. ___________________ Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 3, 193C Rainiest DrRB6u£i_AS p Painless Prices Ground Floor—City Hall Sey. 1460 12 Haiti rigs East Union Bakeries The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU" I Hastings Bakery 1 = HIGH. 4B37 = S Choicest Bread, Cakes and — ES Pastries. Sour Rye Bread = SJ 764 Hastings Street East ~ -illlllllllllllimilllllllllllllllllllllllllMlli. Delicious Bakery Union-made Bread and Pastry. Ask for it at your local store or PHONE HIGHLAND 705 and have our salesman deliver it Phone Fair. 3953 Union Shop Mutter's Bakery Main at Sixth Breads, Cakes and Pastries BBOTSFORD WANTED—anybody w_io Is not (rotting satisfactory heat, to try onr Rosedeer (DrnmhoUer) Bootlen ana Smokeless Ooal. A zeal hard ooal that burns for a long- time, riving oft a strong, steady heat. We axe Sroud to be Sole agents for this epsndable coal. NANAIMO-WELI-1N QTON Of course, we also sell this well- known coal—one of British Colombia's most satisfactory coals. Whatever .kind of wood yon require we can supply—delivered quickly by courteous drivers. . Abbotsford Wood and Coal Co., Ltd. We have Just installed another new ■phone—Migh. 910. Relief For Industrial Labor Is Best Help CIGARS I "Union made by Union men" [Panetella & Invincible 10. cents "■The most immediate and practic al form of agricultural relief would be to relieve distress among the farmer's customers, the industrial workers of the nation," Secretary of Labor James J. Davis told a group of "master farmers" from Kansas, who were entertained in Washington last week by Senator Arthur Capper. Other speakers had stressed the troubles of agriculture, but the secretary pointed out that city workers were ftlsp being pinched and urged an economic policy which would assure a square deal to both groups. Millions Have No Buying Power "All but about 6 per cent/ of our markets are within the nation," said Mr. Davis. "We are our own best customers, yet literally millions of our people are without any purchasing power whatever, because they have no job, and other and. more millions are unable to buy what they need, not to say what they want, be="" cause of chronically inadequate wages.* "In the neighborhood of 10,000,- 000 of our gainfully employed earn only from 25 to 30 cents an hour. In gpme sections of the country and in some industries the hourly r-ates are as low as 15 cents. "If you will go through the coal mining communities of the country you will find conditions that touch the heart. Owing to an overdevelopment of mines, or a low demand, there are thousands of miners, supposed to have jobs, who are working only about two days a week. In the entire industry there are about 250,- 000 surplus workers. Workers Are Being Displaced "While we consume only about 400,000,000 tons of coal a year, we could produce at full capacity about 900,000,000 tons. "The steel plants could turn out in eight months' full-time operation all we need in the most prosperous year. "All the boots and shoes that people arc now able to purchase could be made in six months with the pres- j ent factories and their labor force. "Our window glass factories can turn out an entire year's supply in 13 weeks. "Textiles, a sick industry, is in this situation because the workers and the mills are capable of producing all we need in six months of five and one-half day weeks. "You will find 40,000 idle men in Detroit, 50,000 in New York, as many more in Philadelphia, and proportional numbers in other industrial centers. More Wages and Shorter Hours "Big locomotives are displacing railroad workers and new machinery in many other lines are separating workers from their jobs. "One of the latest models of steam shovel will scoop up seven tons at a time and distribute this to as many vehicles as desired. The only way to reabsorb the la bor thus constantly displaced is to give those left on the job money enough so that they can buy radios, rugs, autos, anything that their legitimate needs and aspirations call for. "Everything we eat and wear comes from the farm. One more pair of shoes and one more dress or suit a year, more and better food on the table of the worker, would create a [ market for the farmer which would i enable him to enter the market with a buying power which would make our factories hum and bring comfort and happiness to us all." Those who heard the secretary's straight-from-the-shoulder talk fairly gasped. Statement Shocks Congressman Congressman Henry Allen Copper, famous Wisconsin Progressive and now "Father of the House" by reason of the fact that he has served longer than any of his colleagues, followed Mr. Davis: "The secretary's statement is one of the most remarkable that I have ever heard," he said. "That such appalling conditions should exist disclose fundamental evils in our social order.* "We have a representative form of government in which the final court of appeal should be to the sense of justice of the majority of our citizens. "That such things can be, without the power or the will to remedy them, is a terrible indictment of either our public conscience or of the control of our society by the forces of greed." ; ' PHONE: FAIR. 913-914 MERRITT'S TRANSFER ' ._ __Mpving, Packing, Stoi-age — 146 E. Snd Av.., Vancouver. B.C. Chicago.—Professor B. M. Squires of the Universit yof Chicago has begun his duties as arbitrator in the fight between the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressors Union and th*. bosses. The most perplexing question, so far as the employers are concerned, is what is to be done with the million-dollar co-operative cleaning plant erected by the union in anticipation of an "open sHbp" drive by -TIW^aiimHver, 'New-jfi _ Westminster and District Joint •• Council of TEAMSTERS Wishes its membership , the Compliments of the Season Painters' Union Elects Officers For Term Local 138, Painters, Decorators & Paperhangers, held an> election of officers in the Labor Headquarters Friday evening, D'-cember 20, anil everything is in readiness for a big Christmas Tree celebration to be held this Friday evening in the Labor Headquarters. Members of the union are going to bring their kids along and give them a treat. The following officers were elected for a term of 18 months: President, James McCaughran. Vice-president, T. Farmer. Recording secretary, A. E. Varah. Financial secretary and business agent, Ed. Smith. Treasurer, H. T. Collard. Conductor, H. Lewis. Warden, T. Kane. Trustees, Chas. Ferguson, H. Edwards, B. Lett. Trades & Labor Council delegates —Ed. Smith, J. McCaughran, W. Hunt, E. Demer. "z** Building Trades Council—R. A. Baker, Ed. Smith, T. Kane. Social committee—Ed. Smith, Geo. Goldie, R. A. Baker, J. McCaughran, Phil Baggs, D. Rustage.—ES. Pritchard Running For Reeve In Burnaby W. A. Pritchard, who has been a councillor in the Municipality of Burnaby for the past two years, is a candidate for reeve in the forthcoming elections. His chances are exceptionally good, in spite of the fact that ex-Reeve McLean is also a candidate. W. A. Pritchard has.been very much in the limelight (luring the past year on account of liis work on thc council, and has gained a very great number of supporters, not. only among the workers in that district, but also a surprisingly large number among the business element. Ernie Burns, well-known labo man, is a candidate for councillor il W. A. Prtichard's ward (4), and while not so well known in that ward, expects to capture the seat with Pritchard's help. Dick Neville may also be a can didate in Ward Two, where he has been elected on several occasions, but declined to run last year. M. Sorley is a candidate for the school board and should be elected this«.ime without difficulty. Max Erenberg is acting as campaign lhanager for W. A. Pritchard and is preparing a whirlwind campaign to start right awav. Check Shows Clerks' Work Injures Health Some surprising discoveries were made by Dr. Carey E. McCord of Atlanta, Georgia, during a recent survey of health conditions among 1,000 typical clerical workers. '"Either these clerks were recruited from the frail and sickly or clerking is • an occupation conducive Id" rapid physical impairment," Dr. McCord reports. . . A very high percentage of the clerks were either over or under weight. Defects of vision and hearing were common and defective teeth constituted almost an occupational disease. Dr. McCord holds that all the ailments noted are induced or aggravated by the sedentary habits of clerical workers. 4.t_ae_-bo sses. _■ • THINGS FOR MEN! SERVICE '1/f/ E HOPE that the purchases made during the past i liave given you the same joy and satisfaction as accorded us in supplying your needs and extending our service. Wc have, a sincere desire to continue to serve you in a 'very satisfactory manner. Wc extend to all our very best wishes for a very happy and prosperous New Year! B. C. Barber Supply and Sundries, Limited PHONE SIYMOTO 4401 04 HASTINOS STBEET WEST ViNCOUVEK, X. O. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION Vancouver Drug Company (1928) Limited CUT-RATE DRUGS CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS WHI SAVE MONET MA-CINQ THEIR PURCHASES PROM THE ORIGINAL AND LARGEST CUT-RATE DRUGGISTS IN WESTERN CANADA. QUALITT- -SERVICE- -8AVING The Compliments of the Season VANCOUVER'S OWN DRUG STORES—FOURTEEN IN THE CITT- AT TOUR SERVICE I . 17 STORES 17 STORES WE SAVE TOU MONET During his first few days in camp the young recruit was the victim of so many practical jokes that he doubted all men and their motives! One night while he was on guard, the tall figure of one of the officers loomed up in the darkness before him. "Who goes there?" he challenged. "Major Moses," replied the officer. The recruit scented a new joke. •"Glad to meet you, Moses," he said, cheerfully. "Advance and Spoi _*■ -the tet-a-e-m-iwmfme-nts***'' T^t#0tt#1^. g (SWjmnft. INCOWO-tAT-O Set MAY Igfft VANCOUVER DICTATOR RADIO $189,50 All-electric—with 9 tubes—amazing power—lifelike tone, and screen grid. Put into your home with $18.95 cash; balance $14.85 monthly. FLOOR FIVE—H B C DANCE at the ALEXANDRA BALLROOM ROBSON AT HORNBY TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS PHONE: SEYMOUR 3783 NOW OPEN POR BUSINESS "Only Union T. 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