The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1928-10-19
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note: or Statesman flMn cgngCT f>P ^ Ms BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Y\ ^^ — ^ Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions XO. 2.30-EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, H. C, OCTOBER 19, 1928 Building Trades Council Involved in Big Dispute Carpenters Start Action Against Obstruction of Dual Organization —Contractors Take Sides with Small Body of Disruptionists —Low Wages Created by Dual Organization •THE PRESENT STRIKE AND LOCKOUT among the building trades of Vancouver has been brewing for some time, and the action of the General Contractors' Association was anticipated. In • refusing* to work with men belonging to dual unions, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America are simply attempting to clean up a dangerous situation, one in fact that affects the very life of the trades unilm movement. The dual organization of carpenters has hung like a ball and chain ! around the neck of the trades union t movement and retarded it in every city where such a condition existed. Wages of carpenters are from %\ to $5 per day higher in cities where no dual union exists than the wages [paid in Vancouver apd other dual I union, infested cities. .Qtjher building 1 trades are affected likewise because I so long as one dual organization exists, disgruntled members of other [unions arc forever attempting to [start a similar one in their own | craft.* After about one year of campaigning the United Brotherhood of Carpenters succeeded in withdrawing aboutThalf of the members from the other organization, but the balance (just over 100) remain obstinate to the needs of the organized labor movement, and those few become the chopping block upon which the gen-* eral contractors deprive' other members of organized labor from obtaining a better standard of living. One hundred men are just enough ih slack times to work on a struck job; they arc just enough to batter down working conditions; to force a 50e wage increase instead of a dollar; to force'the pace of the rest of the workers; to hide …
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439072
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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