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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 the rushed wprk of an unprincipled contractor, and to keep down the wages of workers in every other line of business. In 1927 the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters reported to the Department of Labor that they* had 13 branches and 1419 members in 1926. Since that time they have lost members in Vancouver and Toronto at least. They have no other affiliations or branches, having no connection whatever with the British or American* trades union movements. Kor 1925 they reported 18 branches, 13 of them being in Ontario, but the 1926 report does not state where the branched are. Against the 13 branches and 1419 members as last reported to the gov- jernment by the Amalgamated, the United Brotherhood has reported, in the san\e publication, 84 branches for Canada and a membership of 7341. Outside of Canada the Brotherhood has 2030 .branches and 328,177 members. The loss of members in Vancouver and Toronto will have •reduced the membership of the Amalgamated to not more than 1200 embers for the whole of Canada, et this organization insists on reaking down conditions. The Vancouver local of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters has 1245 members; more members than the Amalgamated has in the entire Dominion of Canada. But there are also other, locals of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters tn Vancouver, which bring th'e membership to over 2000. This is far above that of the 1200 Dominion members of the Amalgamated. The other U. B. pi C. locals in Vancouver are the Floorlayers' Union, Mill and Factory Workers' Union, Millwrights' Union, and the Bridge.and Dock W'orkers' Union. Every effort has been made to set these Amalgamated men into the Brothf^oi>d;,.no_.initialiflii fee, insurance and other benefits according to the length of time Ih the Amalgamated, no discrimination in being sent out to jobs; in tact', every in 130 Cities Are Paying Carpenters $12 Per Day Over 130 cities in the United States are paying carpenters $12 or more per day, said Del, Russell at the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday. In introducing the subject, he pointed out that the fight against dual unionism in Vancouver was in earnest. The Brotherhood and the Amalgamated had worked amicably together for years, but the Brotherhood has realized that it had reached a point where no further progress could be made so long as the two different organizations existed. He always made it a point to look through the International Journal to find out the conditions the Brotherhood unions were obtaining. Last year he discovered that 19 towns were paying carpenters $12 and over per day—and it was so reported in the Labor Statesman. On looking up the report again just recently, he discovers that 130 are now getting $12 a day and 33 the five-day week. He also discovered that where wages are low they are troubled with the dual unions, such as the Amalgamated in Ontario and the Catholic Unions in Quebec. The Amalgamated, he said, had adopted a slogan—Canada fnr Canadians—but this was no* an appeal to intelligence and did not prove of yalue to the workers. He admitted that the International had its weaknesses, but no form of organization, he said, is perfect, and he cannot conceive of a perfect organization so long as conditions which are changing make it necessary to change tactics. We are striving for a solidified organization, he said, and urged all union men to aid them in that direction. In again drawing attention to the $12 a day, he stated that most union men did not realize that Can-! ada was able to pay a larger wage than the United States bed-fuse the profits were bigger over here. WINS IN WARD SEVEN Alderman Maclnnis again polled the biggest majority in the Civic elections, the figures being 3892 for Maclnnis and 2752 for Hall. Alderman Bennett came a close second in Ward Six, the figures being Bennett 2755 and Buckingham 1619. The complete figures were not available before going to press for the other seats contested by Labor, but there appears to be no other Labor candidates that will be elected. STRIKE PAY Indianapolis, Ind., October 18. 1928. \V. Page, Room 809 Holden Bldg., 16 Hastings Street. Vancouver, B. C. , Your letter and wire, as well a< Duwler.'s wire, received, You may advise the members that we are today sending cheque by air mail for one week's benefits for 300 men at rate of $9 per week, and will strpport the members to the limit in their contention" for recognition of our organization, as long as they themselves assert their right for self-determination. Dictated by Second Vice-President Wm. L. Hutchesofl. ORGANIZE "FRONT OF THE HOUSE" THEATRE EMPLOYEES It is now possible for the theatre to be 100 per cent, union. The last union to be organized is that of the Association of Theatrical Agents and Managers, covering every employee who works in what is known as "The Front of the House." This includes advance agentft, press or publicity representatives, theatre managers, treasurers and assistants. The union is chartered by the American Federation of Labor, and union men are asked to call for the card of these employees. Unions covering Musicians, Stage Hands, Moving Picture Projectionists, Bill Posters, Theatrical Transfer Men and Engineers are already operating. It is hoped that a union of this organization will soon be organized in Vancouver. ducement possible to make one big union of carpenters, yet these 100 men prefer to stay on the outside, "aiding the contractors, directly and Indirectly, to batter down the conditions of thejr. fellow workers.'.. But the fight is on, and if they have to be licked into joining the Brotherhood, the membership of organized labor is going right ahead to do it*7. ^*, Dual Sheet Metal Workers Back to Fold ■-.The Sheet Metal Workers' International was troubled with a dual movement for three years, said Organizer Clise at.the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday, but the dual unionists eventually went hack into the fold. During that time they did enough damage to disrupt the movement to the bosses' benefit until they were persuaded to see the error o*f, their ways and rejoin the International. There is no room for a dual movement when wages and conditions have to he continually adjusted. He had recently spent two months in San Francisco, where at one time they had the strongest labor movement in the States. . The employers launched the "American Plan" movement and the labor movement went to pieces. Wages were slashed and slashed until the business men suddenly found that the conditions were affecting them, but it was too late and there were a large number of bankrupts. Cohtractors still hold the big club, however, in" spite of the fact that many would like to change their tactics, hut organised labor is coming back rapidly, and once it does it will take a lot to repeat the catastrophe. The building trades movement in Seattle and Portland is in a fairly good condition, he said, and the building program will keep it that way for the next few years. He hoped that every union would support the Building Trades in their fight against dual unions and help t'cTefush it underfoot. The most' successful way of getting around a woman is to hug her. :i"ftljhmiir"! "[.'''<':.•: 7**~-=*- JOE READ HELPS A. F. OF L. CO! Joe Read, Inte for the Boilerm, ed the Trades that he was Washington Sta bor Convention Trad** and Labor Council Working Button (Blue) for tha Fourth Term of 1928 v r-R v -a"****, PLAN ^^^ganizer r, inform- IMWi Tuesday e^lng of the '(.ration of La- wh< n it endorsed Vancouver, B, C, for the 1929 A. F. of L. Convention. Later he attended the Oregon State Federation of Labor Convention, and finding that no action was being taken in connection with the A. F. of L. Convention, he introduced the subject and the convention endorsed VamJouver. The same action was taken by the Portland Central Labor Council. The delegates thanked him for his action. Support Increases For Vancouver Convention At the regular meeting of the Trades Council on Tuesday evening, the delegates endorsed the plan of sending Secretary Bengough to the A. F. of L. Convention in New Orleans to attempt to bring the 1929 convention to Vancouver. Many International Unions have endorsed Vancouver, and the movement is making fairly good headway. Information received to date",~which we don't believe is complete, shows that the following International organizations are on record, either through their headquarters or through International officers, as having endorsed Vancouver for the 1929 convention: Street Railway Employees. ' Plumbers and Steamfitters. Motion Picture Projectionists.' Bookbinders. Machinists. Fire Fighters. Printing Pressmen. Tailors. Teamsters & Chauffeurs. Washington State Federation of Labor. Oregon State Federation of Labor. Central Labor Council of Seattle. Central Labor Council of Portland. Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Building Trades Department of the A. F. of L. If any officer or union member knows of any other organization that has endorsed Vancouver, please report same to Secretary Bengough. Joe Read, Organizer For Boilermakers, Here Joe Read, of Portland, Oregon, organizer for the Boilermakers' Union, addressed the Trades Council on Tuesday and stated that he had been assigned to Vancouver for organizing work on contract and railroad shops. He found that the boilermnk- ers in the C.N.R. and the C.P.R. shops were fairly well organized and that within a short time they would be 100 per cent. He recognized that he would have some difficulty in organizing the men in the contract shops because they had long been in the habit of dues dodging by stating that they belonged ^otht^O.B.U. or some other dual organization, whereas they did not carry, any kinil of a card. This is •where the dual organization helps to defend the non-unionist. But they have only succeeded in shattering wages and working conditions, he said. During the war Vancouver and Vancouver Island, he said, had better wages than any place in the United States, but those conditions no longer existed. Some of the men are ready to start in again and, with the help of the Trades Council, he hoped to build up the organization to full strength. Referring to the dual movement, he stated that • the building trades should have the support of ail organized labor, as one never knew when it might hit their craft. During his organization work he had discovered that, were it possible to put the leaders of the dual movement on the payroll ol the A. F. of L., that the trouble would cease. In closing he urged all unions to get behind the building trades and help end the trouble. FIVE CENTS PER COPY AH Jobs To Be Pulled On Friday Unless a settlement is made within a few hours of writing there will be a t'omplete tie-up of building operations in Vancouver on at least 26 of the big jobs. Practically all International offices have Wired word to their local unions to get off the jobs where the strike or lockout -is in force against the Building Trades Council. Following up this information the Building Trades Council passed a motion that all affiliated locals be ordered to take their members from employers and al! building operations where members of the dual associations are employed, or where members of the Building Trades Council's affiliated unions are locked out. This order is to go into effect not later than Friday morning, October 19th. There were no dissenting votes to this motion and plans are now under way to put it into effect. The jobs pulled on the 8th and 9th of this month because of the employment of dual carpenters were the Medical Building, Exchange Building, Point Grey School, B. C. Transportation ^Building and the Hobhs Manufacturing Co. building. On Wednesday of this week the carpenters on the New Westminster elevator and the New Westminster Cold Storage Plant walked off the job. Electricians, Engineers, Iron Workers went off the five first jobs mentioned above with the carpenters, involving about 400 men. The General Contractors' Association locketl out the carpenters and building laborers at the following places since the commencement of the strike: Vancouver Hotel, Gil- mour School, Technical School, Maternity Hospital, Private Wards Hospital, B. C. Electric building, B. C. Gas Works, Athletic Park, Metropolitan Laundry, Archie Rodgers jobs, W. W. Bailey's jobs, North Shore elevator, No. I Elevator, Baynes & Horie, Pool Elevator, Morgan & Mc- Gee, H. A. Warner's apartments, Imperial Oil Company job at Smythe street! Presbyterian Church, Thirty- third avenue. The carpenters will start paying strike pay on" Saturday. A meeting was held in the mayor's office on Tuesday but nothing was accomplished except, the suggestion of calling another meeting, in the same office. The men are standing solid and appear determined to fight it out. 0x-like Task of Man In Modern Factory "Each man has his specific space and his special operation to perform. It may be merely the tightening of a nut, but it must he done quickly and well, and within a set time, for further construction depends upon his work being completed and upon his being out of the way. The men work like fiends, sweat running down their faces,* their jaws set and their eyes on fire. Nothing in the world exists to them except that line of chasses bearing down on them' relentlessly, like' a steam roller determined to crush them. The chasses come through on a conveyor which moves at a relatively fast rate. As each chassis passes the worker has to do his particular job before the next one,comes. The line moves fast and the chasses are close together; the men go like lightning; some underneath on their backs on little wagons, propelling themselves by their heels all day long fixing something underneath the chasses as they move along; others work frantically, with bent backs and faces tense, tightening up and putting'oh screws and bolts; they all work quietly and swiftly, like silent slaves with an' unseen taskmaster over them. Their sweat is a sign of their labor; the impression of the whole factory1 is sweat; the whole district reekB with sweat. F.or stVeat is a sign of speed, and speed Is Henry Ford's god."—Labor Age. Half of us can't see how the other half affords it. Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday. October 19, 1928 Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealers . 158 Cordova W. Phone Soy. 8637 See Vs About Broken Olasa ln Windows,. Automobiles, Mirrors, Showcases, etc. Art Glass Repaired Mirrors Be-sllverod JRONIZEJJ Whole Wheat FLOUR EVERY HOME NEEDS IT MAKE SURE YOU GET IT —AND NOTHING ELSE ft Is Rich in Nourishment —DELICIOUS Landsbury Opens British Labor Party Conference THE COVtMNENT Or m province or brush coiuhs*. Synopsis of Land Act Amendments PRE-EMPTIONS Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown lands may be pre-empted by British subjects over 18 years of a-jo, and by aliens on'declaring intention to become British subjects, conditional upon residence, occupation and Improvement (or agricultural purposes. Full information concerning regulations regarding pre-emptions is given in Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, "How to Pre-empt land," copies of which can be obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of Lands, Victoria, B. C, or to any Government Agent. Records will be granted covering only land» suitable for agricultural purposes, and which is not timberland, l.e, carrying over 6.000 board feet per acre west of the Coast Range and 8,000 feet per acre east of that range. Applications for pre-emptions are to be addressed to the Land Commissioner of the Land Recording Division in which the land, applied for is situated, and are made on printed forms, copies of which can be obtained from the Land Commissioner. Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years and improvements made to value of J10 per acre, including clearing and cultivating at least live acres, before a Crown Grant can be received. For more detailed Information see the Bulletin, "How to Pre-empt Land." PURCHASE Applications are received for purchase of vacant and unreserved Crown lands not being timberland, for agricultural purposes; minimum price for first-class (arable) land Is J5 per acre, and second- class (grazing) land J2.50 per acre. Further information regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands Is given In Bulletin No. 10, Land Series, "Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands." Mill, factory or Industrial sites on timber land not exceeding 40 acres may t>» purchased or leased, the conditions including payment of stumpage. HOMESITE -LEASES Lnsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 acres, may be leased as homesltes, conditional upon a dwelling being erected In the first year, title being obtainable after residence and Improvement conditions are fullfilled and land has been surveyed. LBASES For grazing and industrial purposes areas not exceeding 640 acres may be leased by one person or a company. GRAZING •Under the Grailng Act the Province is divided Into gracing districts and the range administered under a Grazing Commissioner. Annual grazing permits are issued based on numbers ranged, priority being given to established owners. Stock owners may form associations for range management. Free, or partially free, permits are available for settlers, campers and travellers, up to ten head. SASKATCHEWAN TO HAVE ITS OWN POWER SYSTEM Regina, Sask.—Saskatchewan is to have a publicly owned provincial power scheme similar in many respects to that in Ontario. Following the report of a commission which investigated the matter, the Gardiner government has agreed to purchase the existing power plant in Saskatoon. It has also opened negotiations with Regina and Moose Jaw and hopes to link these power plants into one huge scheme. Power will be furnished at cost to the municipalities. This decision has been reached despite the opposition of the entire d#ily press of the province. Mr. George Lansebury, M.P., in his presidential address at the Labor Party conference, opened with a survey, of the progress made and'in appeal for funds to meet the difficulty created by the passing of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act. He offered hearty congratulations to the secretary of the party, Mr. Arthur Henderson, on the completion of .25 years' service as a Labor M.P., and to Mr. J. S. Middleton on the fact that he had completed over a quarter of a century as assistant secretary. In that period, the chairman pro- deeded, their numbers had increased and multiplied. Their success was due chiefly to the fact that the Labor movement was the logical outcome of economic, social and industrial developments, but it was also largely due to the devotion, self-sacrifice and t'easeless work carried on by tens of thousands of unknown, big hearted, enthusiastic men and women whose only reward was the satisfaction of service to the common' weal. Money Needed The efforts made by their enemies through the Trade Unions Act to cripple the collection of funds had succeeded in creating for the party some difficulties, which would be dealt with during the conference. "Here it is only necessary to say," Mr. Lansbury added, "that every delegate and all who read my words are very earnestly asked to respond to our appeal for £ 100,000. "Our opponents arc able to spend millions on every sort of stunt and publicity. " We shall defeat them because we have a nobler and better cause to fight for.—one which brings out unselfish, personal effort and sacrifice from the very poorest. "But just now we urgently need money for the coming election, and this we must get from our own people." After reviewing the progress resulting from the efforts of the past and the work of today, Mr. Lansbury urged: : "Do not let us magnify our disagreements. The heart of the movement is quite sound. We daily gain a thousandfold in numbers and strength, as against any small, loss our internal troubles may produce." Their union with the Co-operative movement was one of the most gratifying features of their advancing strength. The proposal put forward at the T. U. C. by Mr. Henderson for a National Joint Council representative of the three movements—Trade Union,- Co-operative, and Labor— was one which he hoped would very shortly materialize. Proceeding, Mr. Lansbury said it was not Socialism which had created slum areas or bred'the C8 population of our overcrowded towns and cities. * It was not Socialism which had 'built up a permanent and growing army of unemployed and created a huge reserve of casual workers or degraded millions of the people to the status of paupers. " "No, these social evils are the fruits of capitalism. "Because this is so, any attempt by whomsoever made to unite our forces with the decadent remains of Liberalism is foredoomed to failure. "Our one and only goal is Socialism, and this goal all other parties in the State are violently opposed to. So between them and us there can be and will be no coalition or combination." In a most important sense Labor was not a class party. It accepted members from all classes and the objects it sought to attain would benefit men and women of every class. But there existed a powerful body of men and women—bankers, financiers, monopolists and capitalists— who were imbued with the very worst kind of ..class spirit. The Baldwin 'government was responsible for assisting by legislation and administration the prosecution of this class war. While during the past eight years the British working people had suffered wage-cut after wage-cut, the small minority who represented the new rich spent more and more on luxury and riotous living. Work For the Million . UnempLajrmemJiecarne a more and more difficult problem to deal/with, It was, and always had been, inherent in the capitalist industrial svs- 'tem. Labor's palliative measures were simple.;., .full .and eomplete^BtaTni ance for those who could not find work, but first of all the provision of work for able bodied people. Millions of acres of land lay ready for the spade, the plough and the sower. Millions of the people were housed in slums unfit for cattle to dwell in. Others had no homes at all. Money in abundance was being found to pull down banks and build larger ones, to reconstruct all the fashionable shopping Centres in Central London. "We demand," said the chairman, "that the same sort of action in dealing with slums shall be taken as is now being taken by these wealthy monopolists to house ledgers and fine clothes." Transport on road, rail, canal and along our coasts needed reorganizing and reconstruction. The nation found credit and money for investments abroad. It could ■as easily do so to reorganize and reconstruct our own national resources and industries. Rationalization Rationalization of, industry was one of the causes that produced the new rich and swelled the volume of unemployment. The Labor movement in the scheme put before the Samuel commission for dealing with coal had shown how Socialists would nationalize and rationalize a great industry so as to ensure a better life for the workers and better service for the nation. Their motto must be: "Rationalization by all means, but rationalization under public,control and for the public good." When they discussed the part of their program dealing with war and peace, he hoped they would discuss very fully the power of international finance. 'They should live up to their resolutions, and resolve never again should our nation engage in war, and when Labor came to power our nation should lead the way in disarmament. The power for good or evil which great banking corporations and monopolies in every country exercised was tremendous and must be brought under control. In his concluding passage, Mr. Lansbury declared that he believed that mankind, despite the evils that existed, was slowly but surely realizing the best and not the worst that our nature was capable of. He appealed for a great response to the call for service, dominated by the driving force of a mighty spiritual ideal. $3.00 per Year Vancouver Safety Deposit Vaults Hours: 8:30 to 5:30 Saturday!, 8:30 'to 1 p.m. "Best Designed and Strongest Constructed Vaults V \ on the Pacific Coast" Private rooms for use of box-holders. B. C. Mining Building Pender at Homer Street A n mi;il Exhibition of Chesterfield Suites AND GOODS THAT ARE USED. We take orders to make up any set $99.50, $135.00, $175.00, $199.50 and $225.00 DOMINION FURNITURE CO. 1082—GRANVILLE STREET—1082 "THE HOUSE OF FRIENDLY CREDIT" HAZELWOOD ICE CREAM —You try it next time for that Party or Social Guaranteed the product of pure fresh cream For Prompt Service, Phone Seymour 2090 Hazelwood Creamery, Limited Lethbridge Prepares for Federation Convention LETHBRIDGE.—There is much activity in local Labor ciriles. In view of the fact that the Alberta Federation of Labor is meeting here in convention this fall, members of the Trades and Labor Council are very active preparing for same. Our Labor members on the city council are defending the rights of Labor, also endeavoring to have the principles of managerial government carried out 100 per cent. All departments of our city government, as specified in the city charter, are under the manager, with the exception of one—the police department. This department has been placed in the hands of a commission of three citizens and the mayor. The citizens are appointed by the previous city council and according to the roles and regulations laid down fCr them, they are not responsible to anybody, except when money is required, then they place their requirements before the city council, which is expected to grant their requests without question. : Our Labor councillors claim that the police commission is illegal and has no right to exist under the new charter. Organized Labor of the city is opposed to having such a commission, believing that the police, like all othef departments, should be under the control of tlje manager, who, in turn, is under the control of the council. jQncalderman showed his colors by 8tating""tha*t the policemen should not be allotted'to organize, as to his mind, they were in an entirely different category to any other class of worker. That is just the .reason why the policemen in all "our cities should be organized so that they can carry on discussions freely in their meetings as to. how they can best trow in order to see that the laws of BARNET LUMBER CO., LTD. 3995 HASTINGS STREET EAST Hlsrli. 180 Olen. 384 Nlsrht Call: Glen. 423, Carl. 299Y3 BARNET BOOSTS BETTER BUILT 500,000 FEET PES DAY BUNGALO >1 S SEE US FOR SPECIALS RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggist" We Make a Special Effort to Get Goods Ont by Etrst Mail After Receipt of Your Order CORNER COED OVA AND CARBALE VANCOUVER, B. 0. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER Your PARTY or SOCIAL, is NOT Complete withoiit ALMOND'S ICE CREAM PHONE DOUGLAS 36 UNION RADIO STATION CONSPIRAC YVICTIM? Chicago.—A plot to silence radiocasting station WCFL of this city is charged by Edward N. Nockels, secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor. The station is the only union-owned broadcasting station in this country. Mr. Nockels is manager of the station. He will appear before the Federal Kadio Commission at Washington against the com- iriissipn's order diminishing the power of WCFL and reallocating the station. "We will put the facts in the records. Wewill spare no one,whom we feel is responsible for the attempt to give the air to a few large interests," said Mr. Nockels. The unionist said if necessary the battle -would be carried to the floor of Congress. The three things most difficult are ■to keep a secret, to forget an In- Classified Adverts. _ BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS Wallis W. Lofeaiu*:. 403 Metropolitan Building*. Phone Sey. 8667. BATHS Hastings steam Bathe Price 350 Only 768 Hastings street Bait DENTISTS »r. *W. A. Rutledffe. 108 Hastings W. NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. Bengough. 803 Holden Bldg. PRINTERS Labor Htatesman. 803-816 Holden. Bldg* RUPTURE SPECIALIST O. B. Heard. 8lB Rob a on UNDERTAKERS Armmtrong > Hoteon. ?g4, BanIe.*Ty Ave- Friday, October 19, 1928 rr> THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory Displaced Workers Are I Army of Migratory Getting Low-wage Jobs Workers Is Growing Vancouver Trades and Labor Council— President,.J. Thomson; general secretary, Percy R. Bengough. OITlce, 803 Holden lildg. 1« Hastings E. Phone Sey. 7495. Meets In Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays in month. / Beverage Dispensers Union Bo. 676— MeetH last Sunday at 8 p.m., Room 313 Holden Bldg. President, W. H. .Clancy; Secretary and Business Agent, T. J. HunoAn. Office; Koom 14. Flack Block, rhones:,Sey. 4738 and Bay. 1656-R. Hours; 9 to 12 a.m. £ Bridge St structural Iron Workers, Local 97, Int. Asso.—Meets every Mon. day. Room 804, Holden Bldg.. at 8 p.m. President, W. L. Yule, S821 Ar- gyle St.; Secretary, P. Laurel, Box 302. City. Phone Fair. 2108L. Millwrights' Local 1638—Construction and Operating*—Meets* second and fourth Wednesdays ln Holden Bldg. J. H. Campbell, President; P. H. Edge, Fin. Sec; J. Murray Ure, Rec. Sec. Box 127. Motion Pictures* Projectionists' Union, Local 348, Of I.A.T.S.E. tt M.P.M.O — Meets flrst Friday In each month at 11:30 p.m. In the Holden Bldg. President, J. R. Foster; Secretary, Geo. Gerrard, Box 345. Business Phone, Sey. 3923. Building Trades council, Vanoonver— Meets second and fourth Tuesday In Holden Building. President, B. H Morrison; Secretary - Treasurer, W, Page. Room 81S, Holden Bldg.; Phone, Sey. 74H5. * * Barbers' Journeyman Internationa: Un ion of America—Local .120, meets flec-l 'ond and fourth Tuesdays in each! _month, in Room 310, Labor Hall, 161 Hastings East. President, Fred Dawe; Sec.-Treas.. C. E. Herrett. Office, 814 Holden Bldg. Musicians' Mutual protective Union, Local 145, A. *e. of M.—.Meets at the O.W.V.A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President, E, C. Miller; Recording Secretary, W. Edmunds; Financial Secretary, W, E. Williams; Organizer, F. Fletcher, all at 991 Nelson Street. Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, Local 138—.Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 16 Hastings St. E. President, H. Edwards; Rec. Sec, 'A.. E. Varah, 1442 Clark Dr.: Business Agent, A. B. Hodge. Office, Room 812, 16 Hastings St. E. Phone Sey. 3609. Bookbinders' Looal No. 105. Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday in month at Professional and Business Woman's Club, Empire Bldg., 603 Hastings W. President, G. Low, 61—63rd Ave. W.; Secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton St. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Doc* Bnilders, Local No. 2404—Meets every Friday night, at 8 o'clock In 122 Hastings St. W. President, It. McDonald; James Thomson, Secretary, P. O. Box 320. Brie'riaycrs'. Masons' and Tile Setters' Int. Union No. 1—Meets second and fourth Wednesday, In the Holden Bldg. President, L. Padgett, 2066 W. 8th. phone Bayvlew 1558 R; Sec- Rlley, Fin. Sec, 5884 Inverness St., phone Fraser 542 L. Camp and Mill Workers Federal Labor Union No. 31—Vancouver and vicinity, meets every second Wednesday at 8 p.m., at 544 Powell St. E. President. H. Mlyazawa; Secretary, K. 1 TsuyukJ. Carpenter* and Joiners, United Brother- rr- hood of, Looal 4sa—President. J. G; ''Smith: Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley; Business Agent, W. Har- creaves. Office, Room 809 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m.* Plasterers, Local 89—Operative Plasterers' and Cement FlnlsherB' International Association—Meets flrst and third Wednesday In month at Holden Building. President. Wm. Broomhead. Secretary, A. Hurry, 861—34th Ave. H., Phone Fair. 3222R. Cement Fin- .lshers' Secretary, A. Nellson. 4258 Ontario, prone Fairmont 4046 Y. Plumbers and International eey. second and fourth Friday In .the Holden Bldg. President, R. Simpson; Secretary and Business A'gent, W. Watt, 813 Holden Building. Washington.— Workers displaced by machinery are 'selling life insurance, teaching school, attending to electric refrigerators and oil heaters, and driving and ministering to automobiles, said Dr. Julius Klein of the Department of Commerce in a radio talk. In explaining how the machine has swept workers into the streets. Dr. Klel^said an automatic machine just introduced fills one great factory building and takes in strips of steel at one end and turns out enameled and finished automobile frames, at the other. Four-fifths of the men formerly employed are displaced. "Productivity per man in the automobile industry increased 172 per cent, in 11 years|". said Dr. Klein. "Rubber manufacturing has in-' creased 83 per cent, and cement mak- ing 01 per cent. | ployed in "Our .factories' have decreased »*« P'8Ce th*-'ms<.'lves or are employed their employes by more than 900,000 >>' he individual farmers or by shice 1920; efficiency methods on , ■oca* agencies, railroads have released 240,000 men I „,. A" *■"">? of M.gratone, in the same time" Labor Department is so utter- Dr. Klein indicttid that non-pro-; Jy without information as to the ductive activities would take up the »tal number that its officials refuse slack. Most of these, as in radic, to -*en indulge in estimates, but it low wages are the rule. ,1S sa,fe to say that 1,500,000 workers yearly engage By GILBERT E. HYATT There is frost in the air in the Northern States, which means the end of harvesting and various other seasonal enterprises which yearly absorb hundreds of thousands of workers. Where do they go and how do they live until the next season? The U. S. Employment Service places about 500,000 workers each year in the states west of the Mississippi alone, including about 250,000 cotton pickers, nearly 100,000 harvest hands, and 70,000 berry pickers. , This is only a very small fraction of the totiil number, as the Pacific coast fruit and berry industry recruits its own help, as do the salmon fisheries and other enterprises. In addition, most of those em- wheat and cotton harvest City Hall Employees' Association— Meets first Wednesday of each month ■'.. at 251.1,4 Hastings East at 8 p.m. President, W. H. Lewthwalte; Treas- £• urer, W." J. Scribbins, 3208 Pender • St. E.; Secretary, J. Tarbuck, 2792 .'.Pender East. Civic Employees' Meets flrst and month at 251% p.m. President Commercial Dr, Union, Local 28— third Fridays In the Hastings East at 8 R. N. Hogg, 1718 Secretary-Treasurer; George Harrison, 1182 Parker St. C. W. Barron Is Dead; Economist Had Vision C W BARRON IS DEAD — 18 Pt New .1'ork.—Clarence W. Barron, economist atid founder of financial Steamfltters, No. 170, journalism in tiiis country, died in a ' '"i; """ ''" s S';?Battle Creek sanitarium after a short illness.. ' ' He published financial journals and bureaus in this city and in Boston, and was noted for his frank discussion of economic questions. H« Ayas.a. power in financial circles-arid was one of the few in that group'who publicly advocated shorter hours. Last June, in a striking editorial, Mr. Barron .declared that "with increasing national prosperity, increasing production and increasing consumption, there is danger of increa.1*- ing unemployment. " '";• • 'This is the problem, and the dan Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Looal Wo. 69*—Meets every second'.Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. In Room 213. Labor Hall,* 16 Hastings St. E."" President, Max Ernberg, -2035 Georgle E.: Secretary. Thos. S. Ezart, 1603 40th Ave. E., So: Vancouver. BaUway Carmen of America, Lodge Vo. 58—Meets first and third Friday In month at Cotillion Hall, Granville and Davie streets. President, H. Warde, 1102—23rd Ave. E.; Secretary, J.'D. Vuliamy, 2215—15th Ave. E. , . , ger of city and Country, of farm and Street and Flectric Railway Employees,, f.,ftory "'h0 sa[a Electrical Workers, Local 213, International Brotherhood—Meets every Monday at 8 p.m . 404 Homer St. President. J. B. Brown; Business Agent, E. H. Storrlson. Offfce, 404 Homer St. Engineers.—International "Union Steam and Operating Local 844—Meets* every Friday at 8 p.m. Room 806, Holden Bldg. President, Geo. Pettaplecc; ■ Rec.Sec. Roy Finley; Business Agent and Fin. Sec, T. A. Newbigging. Office, Room 806, Holden Building. Pire Wghters, No. ,18, International Association of—M.eets every month at call of president at 151% Hastings E. .President, N. McDonald, 1136-.McLean Drive: Financial Secretary, C. A. Watson, 1329—13th Ave, E. Floorlayers' xrbJon, Ho. 1875, IT. B. of C. S*. J. A.—Meets flrst and third Thursdays In month at Holden Building, President, G. Mayne: Fin. Sec, T. H. Hamlin; Rec. Sec, W. D. Wilson. 1535—5th Ave. W. Hod Carriers and Building Laborers, No. 603, International—Meets first and third Fridays In month at Holden Butldln'g. President, C. Lawson. 1832 3rd Ave. W. Fin. Sec, J. A. Barring- ton, 4293 Welwyn Street. Business Agent, A. McEwan. Phone Sey. 7495. Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Marine Cooks St Stewards, Local 28— 441 Seymour St., meets second Monday each month at 3 p.m., last Mon-, day at 9 p.m. President, Thos. Ed-; wards; Sec.-Treas. and Bus. Agent, J. Cumming. Phone Sey. 125. Ladles' Auxiliary, Looal 171 — United Brotherhood of Carpenter* — Meets every flrst and third Wednesday of each month in 810 Holden Building, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. C. J. Atkinson, 730 19th Ave. W.i Secretnry, Elizabeth J. Hope, 1042—7th Ave, E. Pioneer Division No. 101—Meets K. 1 Hall. 8th and Kingsway, flrst and third Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, H. W. Speed; Recording Secretary. J. Price; Treasurer, E.- tl. Kermode; Financial Secretary iind Business Agent, A. J. Harraway. Office: Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Sey. 5000. Sheet Metal Workers Association, Local Union No. 280—Meets., second antl fourth Thursdays In month in 'Holden Building, 16 Hastings St. E. President, A. Fisher, 1*952—4th Ave. W.; Business Agent, 'and Secretary, . D. MacPhcrson. 807 Holden Building. Shingle Weavers, Local 17813—Meets second Tuesday In month In Room No. 2, Labor Temple, New Westminster, and fourth Sunday, 7:30 p.m.,* in Room 313, Holden Bldg., Vancouver President, J. ' Stevenson; Secretary, J. N, Chute, 1163 Pender E., Phone High. 1982-Y. Tailors' Journeymen Union of America Local No. 178^Mectiirfcs held first Thursday, each month, 8 p.m. Execu live meets third Thursday of every month In Labor Hall. President, Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. W. Hocken, 1582 13th Ave. E.; Financial Secretary, H. Nordlund, 1930 12th Ave. E. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, Local 468—Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 310 Holden Bldg. President, A. A. McKay, 765 Cambie St.; Secretary-treasurer, A. P. Black, 880 Homer St. ' Theatrical Stage Employees' Union, Local 118 of tile I.A.T.S.E. & M.P.M.O. —Meets at 991 Nelson Street on the second Friday In month, at 9:30 a.m. President, Rod Martin; Secretary, H. Pearson; Bus. Agent, G. W. Allln; Address P. O. Box 711. Lathers, Wood, Wire and Metal, International Union, Local 207—Meets second and fourth Mondays in month at Room 209, Holden Bldg. W. Fontaine. Secretary, 1828 Commercial Dr. Phone High. 3169R. Typographical Union, No. 226—President, C. S. Campbell; Vice-President, R. Gouthro; Secretary-Treasurer. R. H. Neeiands, 804 Holden Bldg. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., in Women's Bldg., Thurlow street.' Machinists' Local 692—President, Thos. Sills. 1352 Burrard St.: Secretary, P. R. Bengough. Office, 807 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Meets on second and fourth Tuosdays in month. Vancouver Mailers;, Local No. 70—MeetB first Tuesday in each month, 6:30 p.m.. In Room. 804, Holden Building, 16 Hastings St. E. President. A. R. C. Holmes. 6439 Cypress St.; Sec.-Treas., H. E. R. Fader, 2718 Oxford ' St. Ptione High. 4110R. , WOMEN'S AUXILIARY No. 76 to Vancouver Typographical Union meets flrst Thursday of each month, in the Vanoonver Women's BuUdlng, 752 Thurlow Street. President, Mrs. E. J. Tnunper, Suite 41, 840 Nelson Street; Secretary, Una A. Pettipiece, 1846 ,. Balaclava Road. Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employ- Mi, Local 464—Meets second and fourth Fridays in Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President, J. A, Parry; Secretary - Treasurer, Blrt Showier, 2841 Triumph. Phone-High 6327. Mil and Factory Workers' Union, Local Mo. 1589^ Affiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. Meets flrst and • third Thursdays in Room 213, Holden Bldg. President; J. W. Mclnnia. Secretafry-Traaedrer, H-..IS.. Avery-,TAI\t MootcaJnv,Streefc -»f»WWr' MKrpe-11**" *'««»»•.■"••'W,-"*1-"* *""-'■■ Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council \ti:ETS second Thursday in each "x month. President. S. D. McDonald. Box 268. Secretary, Frank Derry, Box 498, Prince Rupert, B.C. A woman's sobs opened up the door of a poker room jn a New York elub, Yes; and they have been Known to open up the door of all actory, "The trouble at the base of the western farm and the Mew England factory is over-production, due to increasing and improved machinery. ".More than 90. per cent, of what labor produces labor consumes. Labor agitatioli has shortened the hours of laboV and increased the opportunity for consumption. Why should not capital now take a hand and reduce the work day by shutting off the half Saturday, "giving broader opportunity, for consumption' and broadening the'base of employment? "The hulf day's labor on Saturday spoils the .day for production and consumption. • It is uneconomical from both points of view." South Pole Expedition Manned By Unionists The steamship City of New York was selected for the South Pole expedition, under command of Richard Byrd, because she is an unusually well-built craft. Built in Norway, nearjy 40 years ago, she was recently refitted in New York, and represents perfection for her task.' The crcv, selected by Commander Byrd was equally well chosen. Realizing that the most competent men are to be found in the Seamen's Union, Commander Byrd selected seven members of his small crew from the International Seamen's Union of America. The ranking trade unionist of the expedition is J. Jacobserl, the sail- maker, who pleads to being 60 years of age. Jacobsen serveTT^Ei years in the United States navy and jkbs with the Baldwin-Zigler North PoTe expedition in 1901 and has been 14 years in the American merchant marine. Carpenter C. F. Gould, also a member of the Seamens' Union, has been on previous expeditions and has served several years in the American merchant marine and is a member of the American Legion. Boatswain Strom, a loyal union member, has served several years in the Arctic. He has been master of his own sailing vessel and sailed on the American coast as an able-bodied seaman in his younger days. The three members of the steward's department are proud of their union membership. They alsp have seen Arctic service and are well qualified for their work. . The lowest wage rate paid on Commander Byrd's ship is $90 a month and all found. With *50*OO0,000 combines in the movies," the dear girls and boys Jbe-yeaf-rouhd free boarding-houses, will bave,.„,to .pay;4.jmore<i~for ardent in: Canada,—z=^m!m *.■■■*■/ love detfonstratiorfs; ' • "••■.' in work which ends with the coming of cold weather. They are employed at wages so low as to make it seemingly impossible for them to support life until the next season, but they "get along" in some way, because they come back in undiminished numbers every year, eager for employment. The cotton pickers of the Southwest are mostly Mexicans, many of whom come from across the border. They work for about six months at wages averaging considerably less than three dollars a day. , When this is ended,, a good portion go" back tO'Me'xIc'o to live, hot in luxury or even comfort, according to Amor'ican standards, but certainly in idleness until the next crop. Families Travel Together Another army of migratory work ers is recruited by the beet sugar interests and other exploiters of cheap, unskilled workers. They remain permanently and form our very gene-its Mexican problem. The wheat harvesters are an entirely different class. They are generally white men, many of whom engage in this occupation year after year. They start in Oklahoma and the "Panhandle" of Texas in June and follow the ripening grain north even into Canada. Berry and fruit "glomers" are another distinct class,, even more so than the wheat hands. Many women and* children are employed in this w-ork and entire families often travel together. The Ozarks take many thousands and the Pacific coast more. Both classes contain many familiar types, the "blanket stiff," the "shovel bum" and, of late years, the out-of- work whose job, -and often his very trade, have been abolished by machinery. ~ • /.*• "'.' New Variety of "Bum" The "gasoline bum" is a new Variety. Frequently . a family or a group of men crowd into a decrepit car to wander over the highways, stopping to work as whim or opportunity suggests. As they do not congregate about the lodging house districts or the labor agencies it is almost impossible for the government agents to keep any record of their numbers or movements. In the fall this great army disappears as. mysteriously and as suddenly as it came. Numerous investigations by government, state and private agencies have disclosed conditions of recruiting, wages and physical and moral surroundings which are appalling, but nothing but the most vague surmises can be„ made as to where they go when discharged. In Search of Adventure Some of the ont'-season Workers can.be accounted for in a very general way. They are college boys or youths from the big cities in search of adventure and a little "stake." This class is recruited by the U. S. Employment Service' as far east as Ohio, and many come, of their own volition, from the Atlantic seaboard. The women and children "bootlegged" by padroncs from Philadelphia and Baltimore to work on the truck and berry farms of New Jersey and Maryland return to their homes. There still remains a mighty army, mostU of homeless single men of whom there is no record whatever. Unemployment statistics dismiss them by lumping them into the 1,500,000 estimated as being "the minimum always out of work" Thousands Drift Soufh thousands of the hardened old roadsters drift-south to eke out-all existence on their savings and by OUR MEAT PIES will make your picnic more enjoyable THE ESTHER BAKERY 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST HIGHLAND 1309 R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor and Dealer House Wiring, Fixtures, Lamps, Batteries Glen 370 4099 Hasting! St. E. M ILK; ffmH^O^j}}^^^ ■■ ■ ■V , deUuered. to uour liltaE It LS , doorstep Irwn Ijie 4-uni inspected, ana. wiUotujiOi -ttiTiujhtst score- fraser Valley Foijrfujri^ IO0O "BuUd B. C." A Hot Chocolate Drink \jggy1 EV*KKUTfB MILK Mrs. Lane, a new-comer in Vancouver, kindly sends a recipe tot a hot chocolate drink in which she uses Pacific Milk: 3 tablespoons of chocolate; 2 of sugar; Vs cup of Pacific Milk. Mix well; pour boiling water to make 1 pint; boil 3 minutes; add a marshmal- low to each cup. Factories at Abbotsford and Ladner, B. C. Pacific Milk 328 Drake Strut Vancouver, B. C. "panhandling." Others of the same ilk go to the big cities to spend the winter in semi-hibernation in the "flop-houses," picking up an odd job, perhaps,* now and then. All who have come in contact with them agree that they are. a* deplorably exploited el^ss, forming a very serious problem for' the welfare agencies of such cities as Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City and other "markets" for unskilled labor. Like practically all other lines of •industry, the harvester is facing displacement by machinery- Reports by the Department of Agriculture and the Employment Service show that the "combine," which completes the entire operation of harvesting and threshing wheat at one time, is crowding out a greatly , increased number each year.—Labor. Pop Wu Wrong Son: "Pop, I got in trouble at school today, an' it's your fault." Pop: "How's that, son?"1 Son: "Remember I asked you how much $1,000,000* was?" Pop: "Yes, I remember.'' ...:..SoniJiSM, 'aislluva lottlsn^the- right answer." .) _ Four THE LABOR STATESMAN •ridav, October 19, 1928 The Labor Statesman .■■. Published every Friday, at 816 Holden llldg., Vancouver, B. C. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. H. W. Watts, Man. Editor. PRESS*. COMMITTEE Chairman Wm. Page (Carpenters), W. Watt (Plumbers), V. H. Bengough (Machinists,, Tim Hanolln (Beverage Dispensers), R. H. Neeiands (Typo, graphical). Deo. Oerrard (Theatrical), W. Deptford (Street Railwaymen^, Bin Showier (Dairy Employees). Phone Seymour 6279 Vancouver, Friday, (let. 19, 1928 THE LEFT WING SNEERS A circular gotten out by the Communist Party, calling itself the "Left Wing Committee of the Building Trades," is making a demand to call off the strike and attempt to settle the dispute by conferences and negotiations with dual organization of carpenters. It is only necessary to point out here that the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners have been negotiating with the Amalgamated Carpenters for several years and has offered them every inducement to join up with the Brotherhood and the rest (rf-rhe Building Trades. The circular is just another piece of cunning literature attempting to increase the breach in the ranks of the workers and playing entirely into the hands of the Contractors' Association. Such tactics should be'wholeheartedly condemned by all workers. Dual unionism under any pretence is not in the best intersts of the working class and . any (attempt to support it is traitorous.—W. so evident that it stood like an accusation, disturbing the comfort of the wealthy classes. At this point Malthus appeared on the scene with a theory that whereas 'population tended to increase in a geometrical ratio—that is 2-1-8-16 and so on, the means of substenance, food, etc. only increased in an arithmetical ratio, that is, 2-3-4-5 and so on. It was quite evident that if this was the case, hunger and starvation was inevitable, was in the nature of things, and a part of God's* plans. It was,, therefore, useless to try to remove it, and entirely unnecessary to worry about it. Such a comforting theory was greedily accepted by the plunderers of the day and its author rewarded with a position as teacher of political economy. This idea of things was refuted some thousands of years before Malthus was born. The day that tha first war captive was set to work the fact that the man can increase his food faster than he can eat it was established, and from that day until "the tillable areas of the earth are all pre-empted it has been and will be true that man can increase his food faster than he can increase his tribe. No writer, either among or on behalf of the working class, has ever endorsed the Malthusian theory and it is long ago repudiated by the class on whose behalf it was invented.—M. RADICAL LEGISLATION IN INDIA The Legislative Assembly in India in March last enacted a law forbidding the employment of any worker in a coal mine for more than twelve houi*s in any consecutive twenty- four hours, except during emergency, or to secure periodic rotation of shifts, and to make sure that by some mean trick the gluttonous native- does* not defeat the law. It is also provided that having worked twelve hours in any one mine he shall pot during the twenty-four hours put in a shift in any other mine. Such radical legislation as this naturally cannot be put into effect too suddenly, and so the new law becomes operative on April 7th (why not April' 1st?), 1930. The Labor members of the Assembly endeavored to limit the hours to eight and to bring the Act into effect in April, 11)20, but were unsuccessful. The select committee to whom the Act had been referred thought that "an eight-hour day was undesirable in the workers' interests." The Indian miner is paid on basis of production; his normal output is three tubs of coal daily, with four for the better workers. If hours of labor were limited to eight daily, the committee doubted whether the average worker could produce three tubs per day and if he did not his earnings would fall below the present standard. . Students of labor history will remember how in Britain the "interest of the worker" was pleaded to justify fourteen and sixteen hours per day for small children in the mills, and the fear that with the shorter day the workers' earnings would be reduced was urged against every demand for a reduction in working hours, and how completely this* objection could be overcome by increasing the \vage appears to have been overlooked by the canting fakirs of England, just as it is by the fakir canting legislators of India. Baldwin's' solution of the British coal miners' troubles has given Great Britain a quarter of a million idle Lord Lovat would like coal miners. to unload many thousands of these sumejthe goods'. Capitalism is bank men on Canaoa. With the British r\iofT— Western Producer. owned coal mines of India not yet /F down to a twelve-hour day, we would M r\\ idle'British miners could find env ployment if the Premier'," Mr. Baldwin, would order the appointed members of the Government of India to put an end to the shame of an un limited day in the coal mines of In din.—M. BANKRUPT CAPITALISM In Britain today there are tens of thousands of people who are not getting sufficient bread per day, and there are thousands of bakers unemployed. There are tens of thousands of people who are wretchedly clothed, and there are thousands of garment workers unemployed. There are tens of thousands of people who are ill-shod, and there are thousands of shoe workers out of employment. There are hundreds of thousands of people' who"' have 'not got decent places to* live in, and there are many thousands of building workers who cannot get work. Next winter there will be hundreds of thousands of homes in Britain lacking the comforts of a decent fire, yet there will be thousands of miners unemployed. These facts indicate, and indicate very clearly to all except idiots and dyed in the wool tories, that the capitalist system does not function. Great Britain for generations has not ben turning her attention to clothing the half naked savages in Manchester, but to shipping her shirts to the half naked savages in various parts of the world. She has not been occupied with the question of warming the homes of the workers of England, but she has been occupied in shipping coal to all parti) of the earth. She has not occupied herself with building decent homes for the Britons who never, never, never shall be slaves, but she has been exporting building materials^ machinery, and all manner of goods to the ends of the earth. Now the markets at -the ends of the earth are beginning to close down, and it has not yet .occurred to the captains of industry in Great Britain to turn their attention to the vast unsupplied home market which is hungering and starving for the prime necessities of life. If they cannot export coal, they will close down their mines and let the Britisher get warm by chasing after a job. The only solution that has occurred to them is to get rid of their surplus population. This same surplus population is the market for their goods. But Britain has been so accustomed to shipping the goods thousands of miles to them that she cannot organize industry to feed and clothe them whilst they are in Eng- land^'Nor-yje-juijiust "travel five or six thousand miles to Canada, or a few thousand more miles to Australia. The market must be thousands of miles away. The people at home can go to the' devil as far as the captains of industry are concerned. It's exports that count. And they will export goods if they have to export the people first of all to con Capitalist Press Use Communist Propaganda There is something worth thinking about in the attitude of the press of Great Britain and some of the correspondents of Canadian newspapers toward the Cook-Maxton and Communist party attack on the leaders and policies of the British Labor Party. Why is the press prepared to give publicity to such campaigns? Why are the newspapers anxious to broadcast attacks on Ramsay MacDonald and his colleagues at this critical time? Why this apparent "united front",between the Communists, the near-Communists and the so-called capitalist press? There must be some reason behind it all. The Labor News is of the opinion that the reason is not very difficult to find. The Communists are a dead issue in BHtain as far as political strength is concerned. There is only one Communist member of the House of Commons. The Communists offer not the slightest danger to the old parties and the people they represent. The same applies to Cook and Maxton. .And that, is why the party press is even prepared to agree, as a dispatch from England showed the other day, that the work of Cook and Maxton is necessary to the en- livenment of the British Labor Party. On the other hand, the Labor Party offers tt real menace to the old party politicians and those they represent. They can sec the steady advance of a great organization that is about to remove them from their place in the sun if something is not done to stop it. And they know that all the encouragement they can give to the Communists, and the Cooks and Maxtons, will have the desired effect of impeding Labor's march toward the goal of power. So there is nothing mysterious about the publicity and assistance which the so-called capitalist press of Britain is giving to Cook and Maxton and the Communists.—Alberta Labor News. *^ A+rJHIOtJH. Cy»B^ L—LAZrO BriAM Of TftAX yAetr.tyj.l9 GO-fti* VA».(.OJ.I« Mil. (yr»-l iriM-Xtt*' h •mfga MtMTf ■*MXlUi't* STOOL mfOeux fOC* ft.:.* - ■ '■•'-■- W-Wftt, tTOOX • £A«0 JrOCW 823 Hastings Street West Yankee Girl Consolidated Mines LIMITED (N.P.L.i We in'.- now prepared u» 'undertake tin1 ♦■x- ehange i>f Enterprise Consolidated stock fur Yankee <iirt Consolidated stock, aii<l to p<JviM in r*t'«:ini t«. the right's which are being Issued ti. shareholders. R. P. CLARK & CO. (Vancouver) Ltd. INVESTMENT BANKERS Vancouver, B. C. Buy "B. C." Bhfc Flame Coal FROM A FAIR TO ORGANIZED LABOR FIRM -—-, You can't beat "Blue Flame"' Coal Sootless and Low in Ash HEST NANAIMO-WEELINGTON ALWAYS IX STOCK ECONOMY COAL CO. 1629 Main Street SEY. 1863 —PHONES— FAIR. 810 SEATTLE COUNCILLOR TO FILL SULLIVAN'S PLACE j Robert B. Hesketh, president of Seattle's city council and prominent in local, state and national labor I circles, has accepted the position of! general secretary-treasurer of the In-! ternational Hotel and Restaurant Employes' Alliance, and will move to Cincinnati, headquarters of the organization. In his new position Hesketh succeeds Jere L. Sullivan of Cincinnati, who died two weeks ago. Sullivgn had been secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Workers' International Union thirty years, and Hesketh has been its first vice-president' twenty- five years. Entered Council in 1911 Nominated by friends in the.labor movement, Hesketh was elected to the city council in 1911. He has since been re-elected live times, making him dean of the body in length of service. He has served on all the important committees and has had fotlr terms as president of the council, in which capacity he frequently has been acting mayor. * Always active in the cause of labor, Hesketh served the Seattle Central Labor Council twenty-five years, several terms as its president and eight years as its treasurer; the State Federation of Labor as its vice-president; the Hotel and Restaurant Employes' Union as its state president, a position he now holds, and the locai Cooks Union in different offices more than thirty years. WE CATER TO THE UNION MEN'S TRADE and carry sible; ant: "L'NIOX-MADE" goods wherever pos- where this is not possible wc handle goods made in' Canada. See Our BLUE CHINCHILLA OVERCOATS^"^ C the last things in style and value We are Selling good serviceable SUITS, cut stylish lines ; $23 "Union-made' Gloves, Shirts. Hats always in stock. Overalls, etc. Cornfield & Harding, Limited 21 HASTINGS STREET EAST (Opp. Holden Building) CEASES PUBLICATION ??,Bgc£t..t.hi!t e^ry last ,ma'i "J lMF The B. C. Musician, published fi*itA*t Krltujh minora. ponlH tin/1 "am-* .... • . , monthly for a number of years by the Vancouver Musicians' Union, has been discontinued for reasons of economy. SEES FOUR MILLION.40LE New York.—Speaking to the Women's Trade Union League conference at Katonah, Saturday, Professor Horace Taylor of Columbia,JJpiver- sity declared that unemployment is the most pressing economic ISsue in MALTHUS During the period that the English so-called economist Malthus wrote the villagers were denied the right to grow their own food by reason of I the country toda^. He estimated the the theft of the common'lands, and number of unemployed at 4,000,000. prevented from employing them- These men have been displaced DJ r selves in the old household arts,bvj machines, deciared_Professpir..TaidflI, --He-attended the** Dominion Trades reasaw^lterrisine factory iy3afeC^l^iuuMfflii «tfifS^Mt;:f ' ' destitution and hunger, stalked *— —:— through the land. The condition was' Mysteries—Love, women and hash. McCormack Back From Molders Union Congress David B. McCormack has returned from Montreal, where he. attended the twenty-seventh convention of the International Molders'" Union -of North Arnerica. He reports a very interesting and progressive convention, where legislation was enacted affecting not'only the Molders, but every man working in the foundry, industry. By unanimous vote of the delegates the International officers were tructed to work out a scheme hich" would widen the .scope of the organization by providing for the 'taking m of apprentices, helpers, laborers, inciters and chippers,' the scheme,'when completed, to be submitted to the membership by referendum for their approval or rejection. - The convention went on record as favoring the five_-day week. "Dave" McCormack was elected delegate to the A. F. of L. Convention for 1930. Restaurant Employees Making Progress The next meeting of Local 28, Hotel and Restaurant Employees, will he held on Monday evening, October 29th, at 8 o'clock. As the first part of this meeting will take the form of a memorial service for our late General Secretary-Treasurer, Brother Jere L. Sjillivan, every member who can possibly be present is urged to attend. The premises formerly operated as the "Narrows Cabaret," at the end of the Second Narrows Bridge, reopened on Saturday, October 12th, under the management of Mr. \V. Cooke, and with a Union crew of girls. Dances, whist drives and a general tea room business Will be conducted under the new regime. Business conditions are "still very quiet, although we are glad to report a very small idle list. Negotiations are under way which, we hope, in the near future will result in the removal of one of the largest catering establishments in the city from the "We Do Not Patronize" list of the Trades & Labor Coun«- cil. The premises formerly occupied by the Ambassador Cafe oh Seymour street will be reopened in a few weeks as a first-class restaurant on the pattern of a famous Los Angeles cafe, and operated by a joint stock companv with a full Union crew. J.C. Congress Convention in Toronto and did a little successful organizing work in the East •- *, . MINISTER OF LABOR WILL MEET UNION REPRESENTATIVE Replying to the letter from the Vancouver Trades and Labor Coun cil asking for an interview with W. A. McKenzie, Minister of Labor, On the subject of the Fair Wage Clause in Provincial Government contracts, the Minister of Labor replied to the effect that, owing to pressure of business, it is very .difficult to say at British Capitalist Is Seeking Chinese Laborl The imperialistic capitalist in Eng-| land looks at Australia and sees it only a big wild place to be cheaply] exploited for his profit. He is willing to come here and get! up works and establishments, .but! first there must be drastic changes in| the economic conditions of the couh- try. The dominance of the Labor movement must be broken, to begin with,| ' TinTr-vtbal is one reason, no doubt, why the Bruce government, in clo.-e| touch with imperialists overseas, has ,' forced into law its Union-smashing amendment of-the Arbitration Act. But the imperialistic capitalist in England thinks that that is notl enough. White labor being thus got J underfoot, colored labor should then | be introduced. In a recent issue of the London! Sunday Pictorial, which is imperial! istie to the bottom of its ink-tub, an I article appears heaping scorn.upon| ourAVhite Australian policy. ' The development of Australia,"! says this article, "means the clearing I of the bush. ... It is a colossal workl of reclamation, which calls for a co-l lossal effort. It is a work that will| never be done by high-priced Austr.i lian labor." And it goes on to say: "There i| really no reason, jyhy Chiname | should not be employed to do . . . The case for the reconsideratioil of the White Australia policy is pat| ent to the outside world, and to unprejudiced minds .within. Outsi'l I the ranks of Labor there is a largj body of educated opinion that rcl gards the White Australia policy al a piece of egregious folly that soorf er or later will have to be abcr | doned." y I That is the way the imperialist i .capitalist in England looks at ,uj Give him plenty of Chinamen, an •unrestricted.,, .field -for present just when he will be in Van couver)..huL.ii6:it7aeauld prove con venient "he would be glad"to meet;"poor unemptoyoTT,' accustomed to lo the council representatives at Vic- i wages, and he'll see about "develuf i toria. ing" Australia.—Australian Worker Friday, October 19, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five DOUGLAS New Method Triple Suction Plates Phone Seymour 1460 for appointment Oocsef* With Every Plate Goes This Guarantee • Wear Douglas New Method Triple Suction Plates for three months. If you do not find them all I claim, bring them back and your money will be cheerfully refunded.. These plates give perfect service and are the last word in scientific construction. They are perfectly balanced, will not tilt or rock, and allow perfect mastication. They not only look natural, but feel natural. Doctor R. Llewellyn Douglas and Associates < 12 HASTINGS STREET EAST (HOLDEN BUILDING) IS^'^l®-^*^^^ A baby was teething on the « telephone cord Four times one of our repairmeiiyisited a home in the Fairmont area, Vancouver, to investigate telephone trouble there. Three times he was unable to learn the cause, but on the fourth visit he made a startling; discovery—a baby was teething on the telephone curd. Another example of the peculiar problems telephone men have to face in their efforts to keep service up to standard. Baby's mother agreed to keep it away from the telephone in future, and the trouble hasn't occurred since. B. C. TELEPHONE COMPANY ■ffliiTiir^iiniiim?w5.'? a s w a e mmssm mzMim&ffiffimimmm, Telegraphers May Move Offices To Canada Toronto, Ont.:—The headquarters of the Commercial Telegraphers of North America may be moved from Chicago to this city, owing to the activities of armed gangsters in the Windy City. This startling announcement was made here recently by Frank B. Powers, newly * elected president of the organization., "When we had trouble in 1919," he said, "officers of our organization were held up on the streets of Chicago and union papers taken from them. Our offices were broken into and files containing names of members stolen. "Today we have our offices barricaded and letter boxes barred to protect our papers." President Powers was accompanied ' by William L. Allan, the newly elected secretary-treasurer, who is a Canadian ex-serviceman. He is the second Canadian to hold the position of secretary-treasurer of the organization. > LAUNDRY WORKERS GAIN Tacoma, Wash.—Organized laundry workers arc securing signatures to their new contract which calls for work betterments. RUSSIA TO FEED 850,000 FREE IN UKRAINE AS HARVEST FAILS Kharkov, Ukraine, Soviet Russia. —Eight hundred and fifty thousand persons in the Ukraine will be fed through public funds during the coming winter, the grain crop having fallen far below the needs of the population. Ordinarily the Ukraine is one of Russia's best gianaries and in good years produces a surplus of wheat for exportation. The . Moscow government has appropriated 31,000,000 rublesand,the Ukrainian^ government 10,000,000' rubles toward the cost of the food supplies pceded. Bankers Lose Control Of the Money Market New York.—The strong boxes of industrial magnates are bulging with excess profits which should be diffused throughout' _,the country in the form of wagesf These profits are so tremendous that employers are taking advantage of high* rates for call money in Wall Street and are loaning their idle funds to stock gamblers, who are pushing the market to alarming heights. It is estimated (•Hat more than $2,- 000,000,000 has/een taken out of corporationvtwxtsuries and loaned to market riggers who are paying from t! to 10 per cent. The government can control bank loans, but there is no check on the new flood of money that is known as "bootleg loans." Bankers and financiers are alarmed at the situation and action by Congress is hinted, as the 'bootleggers" can withdraw their money at any time. In that event the'banks would find it impossible to fill such a yawning hole and a nation-wide crash might result. The bankers have lost all control of the money market, it is stated, and the industrial kings are using their swollen profits in the same autocratic manner as they handle human beings whom they exploit in factory, shop and mine. The' $4,000,000,000 c£ "bootleg loans" is proof of the immense profits of these corporations that refuse to pay living wages. Allen-A Hosiery Firm Uses Jail For Workers The struggle of the locked-out workers of the Allen-A Company ih Kenosha, Wisconsin, is one of the most heroic in the history of American, Labor. These young people were locked out on February 15, when the company declared for an anti-union closed shop and for the installation of the two-machine system, an old evil wiped" out of the industry ten years ago. During the six months! fight that has ensued the Allen-A Company has resorted to almost every unethical tactic that could be used. They have secured af sweeping Federal injunction which even forbids picketing. Although 26 defendants were acquitted in Federal Court by a jury in one of the greatest legal victories that Labor has ever won, scores of workers are still being hauled into the Federal courts. The purpose is to tie up the Union funds in cash bonds. The company has also discharged the relatives of the locked-out workers in other departments, telliftg them that they could have their jobs back if they would bring the locked- out workers back. This was nothing more or less than an attempt to establish involuntary servitude. More than that, the company has employed three detective agencies—the A. R. Mac-Donald Agency and the Russell & W. J. Burns outfits—to intimidate the workers. It haS also sought to call in the State Militia as a strikebreaking agency, but has failed in this attempt to date. In spite of fhese attacks, the workers have held out strongly and have fought brilliantly. They have aroused the admiration of this whole community, which is 90 per cent, with them in the fight. This is shown by the fact that as high as G.000 people have paraded in sympathy with the workers, although only 330 are involved in the dispute. Allen-A Hosiery is made under un- Ameiucan and indecent conditions. .For tMat reason we appeal to you to inform the people and the stores of your community of the conditions existing in the Allen-A Mill at the present time. In addition to the Allen- A Brand of Full Fashioned Hosiery for women,.the company also makes Cooner-Bennington spring needle under wear. Will you please visit the dry goods stores in your city and advise them that Allen-A Full Fashioned Hosiery is made under "supervision" of professional strikebreakers and in an unsatisfactory manner?. AIbo please let the women of your city know of the conditions under which Allen-A Hosiery is made. This will help greatly in securing the right to organize in the mill. We would appreciate a word, letting us know what you have been able to do. With all good wish, Yours fraternally, Kenosha Trades & Labor Council, W. J. Simon, Secretary. Big Machine Displaces Labor in Rail Yards Boston.—The Boston and Maine Railroad has perfected its $4,000,000 freight-handling machine, which will juggle 1,000,000 freight cars every year with no brakeman riding on the cars and no switchman operating switches. These workers are swept into the street by an apparatus that is operated by one man in a tower and which handles freight cars with a capacity of 100,000 pounds and over as easily as a belt conveyor handles a cake of soap. The new system covers 470 acres and has 225 miles of track. Freight cars move at the* rate of one every 10 seconds over a hump artificially graded so that each "uncoupled "car rolls down by gravity towa'rd a fan of classification tracks and. the correct switch for each car is thrown at the right moment by a remote electrical control, in a tower overlooking the* yards. Each car is slowed down to any desired degree, so that it softly rolls into place in its train by electro- pneumatic rctarders along the track, under control of the same tower, which grips the flanges of the wheels as they pass through huge steel jaws. l.oud speakers reaching every part of the yard -enables changes in direction of any car up to the last moment. Flood lights make the night as bright as day and in winter hot oil will be forced into the journal boxes of freight cars t9 limber them up. The railroad will concentrate all the business of its nine yards around Greater Boston in the automatic yard. It is expected that the huge machine will net the railroad $800,000 a-year. This means thafin five years the system will'pay for itself. Thereafter there will be no charges except upkeep. All other income will be profit. CERTIFIED COAL Costs No More than Ordinary Coal but, oh! what a difference! Leslie Coal Co. Ltd. 94ft Beach Ave. Sey. 7137 Come tonight and be a kid for a night! Hastings Park, Cars 8 or 13 2:30 to 5:30 7:00 to 12:00 GASOLINE BUYERS "GYPPED" Washington.—The annual loss to American motorists at the hands of 'ttyv*' operators of gasoline pumps i« estimated at $20,000,000 by the American Automobile Association. "^■Jne-sixth of the 2,000,000,000 gallons sold are short sale,s, it is claimed. ■ , ; .j ijnii, -t. .inTnilM^liiJ/^f^^ • WAR NO OCCUPATION FOR A GENTLEMAN! "War is an ugly, disgraceful, dirty, objectionable business, of which we ought to be ashamed," said Sir Oliver Lodge in his presidential address recently to the Federation of Southern Societies' Brotherhood at Southampton. "Digging ourselves into mud and pretending to fie civilized people; crawling along in the* water and sinking each other; no occupation for a gentleman. "Disputes must be taken somewhere where they could be settled. War did not settle disputes; it only left 4hem still unsettled." CANADIANS ALLOWED FREE ENTRY FOR WORK Washington.—The Supreme Court refused to pass on the right of British subjects residing in Canada and working in the United States to cross the border without, immigration papers. The government took the position that a Canadian citizen, residing in Canada, but who crosses the boundary daily to work in the United States, should present an immigration visa to enter this country'. The lower Federal courts held that the Jay treaty of 1794 gave them free passage over the border and that under the law they were non-immigrants, who arc aliens visiting the Unit,ed'*Statcs temporarily for business and are not required to have immigration visas. The court's sustaining of Canadians crossing the border for daily employment was contested in Detroit, Buffalo and othsx. northern border cities. Argentina Takes Back Ij[er Oil Lands The Chamber of Deputies of Argentina, corresponding to our House of Representatives, has passed a bill nationalizing all oil lands, and taking over oil land now in private hands. It is expected that the measure will become a law, as the plan Is to have a state oil monopoly. This course may be wise or foolish. , The noticeable thing,' however, is that no one is shrieking for "intervention" to protect American "rights." When Mexico passed practically the same law, all these things happened, and intervention was averted only by the strenuous opposition of the people", press and Senate. Does the present calm mean that our State Department has learned something; or is it due to the obvious fact that Argentina is( too strong to be hectored, especially in view of the fact that it could probably count on the support of Brazil and Chile?—Labor. ' Mary had a little,skirt, - Diaphanous and airy; • It never showed a speck of dirt; My word, it did show Mary! BUILDING ALL THE YEAR IS PRACTICABLE "No valid argument against continuous all-year building operations exists today," said B. H. Wait, chairman of the Seasonal Occupation Committee of the New York Building Congress which is making a study of winter building. "The committee's investigation so far shCys that a twelve months' building program is desirable, practicable, and, what is more, profitable. In the past, it :s true, owners, architects and contractors were loafhe to begin actual operations ' during tali and winter months, but that condition is rapidly changing as the facts of successful "Many of the largest building organizations operating in the eastern United States," said Mr. Wait, "have concentrated on continuous production of buildings and have reached the point where lay-offs due to weather are no greater in winter than in summer. This may seem a startling observation, but it is, nevertheless, substantially accurate. The usual winter depression in building can be avoided and every branch of the industry and allied interests benefitted by continuous operation. Tlje owner gets earlier rentals, better quality of workmanship and lower costs' of materials." His Regret "How did you like it. up to the city?" asked a friend who had stayed at home. "Well, all I've got to say," replied Bud Knl.il of Petunia,-who was just back from the•Big. Burg, "is that"T wish I'd gone before I got converted," The Finest Canadian ■& Rye er Whisky 31 J This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. BAKERY WORKERS TO TELL IT ON THE AIR Chicago.—For ten minutes -every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock general officials of the Bakers and Confectionery Workers' International Union broadcast statements from radio station WCFL. The talks are directed at the Ward Baking; Company, which is non-union at all points except St. Louis, and the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company,, which also operates a large non-union bakery. The National Tea Company chain stores sell union label bread. The union* points out that the union shops age clean and sanitary and that every baker stands '.' physical' examination WffWe* being admitted to tfie imion. To be a'union 'baker the applicant must be a good baker. Six THE LABOR STATESMAN No Waiting in Line JbrELECTRICITY AT the Grand Central station, New York,.there are - sometimes 600 to 800 persons waiting in line to buy tickets. To provide ticket offices and sellers for such rush periods would entail an-expense which woyld increase the cost of service enormously. There is no waiting.in line for electric light. We must be prepared for the maximum demand. Catering in this way to such demand is costly because extha equipment, extra generators, transformers and transmission line capacity must be provided. Such service is just as expensive as providing more ticket sellers in the Grand Central station would be. Bhtish Columbia ^taraicR/™^ Co. European Shoes Begin To Floor American Market •riday, October 19. 1928 Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.' CIDERS PUfcE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER "Made from B. C. Apples" TRY OUR GRAPE, LOGANBERRY, ORANGE, PUNCH, ETC. IDEAL FOR PICNICS AND PARTIES PHONE HIGH. 90 PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS., LTD. 1955 Commercial Drive BUY UNION STAMPED SHOES .WORKERS UNION, UNIO^TAMP factory W'E ASK all members of organized labor to purchase shoes bearing our Union Stamp on the sole, inner-sole, or lining of the shoe. We ask you not to buy any shoes unless you actually see this Union Stamp. Boot & Shoe Workers' Union Affiliated with American Federation of Labor 346 SUMMER STREET. bAstON, MASS. By LELAND OLDJf Federated Press Are you wearing shoes produced by the sweated labor of Czechoslovakia working with high-speed American shoe machinery? According to the Department of Commerce, 879,392 Czecho-Slovak . shoos were sold in the United States in 1927 while in the first five months of 1928 the importations had risen to 1,165,- 618 pairs. In all of 1926" only 361,370 pairs were imported and sold in America. The average wholesale value of $2 a pair is designed to. undersell American shoes in the home market. It is based on low wages and non-union conditions. "Czecho-Slovakia's success in building up its large foreign trade in footwear," says the department, "must be attributed primarily to low production costs which An turn are made possible by low wages. Although the difference in wages between Czechoslovakia and the United States may not amount to more than $0.35 per pair of shoes, this margin is highly important in the case of footwear made to retail at from $2 to $4 per pair. The department estimates that in 1927 Czecho-Slovakia exported 11,- 000,000 pairs of shoes, remarking that "some of the world's greatest shoe producing nations are among Czeeho-SIovakia's best customers," notably Germany, Great Britain and the, United States. It attributes Czecho-Slovak success, among other things, to cheap but intelligent labor and "modern machinery of American manufacture." More than half of the Czechoslovak shoes are made by the, firm of T. & A. Bata. ln this firm, according to the International Federation of Trade Unions, "inhumanity and the exploitation of. the workers are brought to a tine art. The firm is successful, but its success is built up on the living flesh and.blood of its workers." Thomas Bata, head of the concern, is held to be the richest man in Czecho-Slovakia. He has organized a political party and had himself elected mayor of the town of Zlin in which he maintains his non-union plant. He has also purchased a newspaper in which-he follows American exploiters in posing as a be'ne- COLLIS LOVELY Oi*ner.-il'"Pn'sident CHARLES L. BLAINE General Secretary-Treasurer Machine Age Ought To Bring More Leisure factor of mankind with profit-sharing devices, etc. But his humanitarian pretensions have been exposed in a book by Rudolph Pliilipp, who spent six months at Zlin in contact with many Bata workers, including technical employees and responsible managers. "Casual visitors," says the federation, summarizing Philip)), "are deceived by the specious appearances of the factories. "According to Pliilipp there are hundreds of instances of wanton injustice towards the workers, most of whom are young- men and women. The whole system of the "concern is nothing but a shameless exploitation of the workers. Overtime work is frequent, but the concern, is so cunningly organized into 250 independent departments that the responsibility for" a breach of the hours legislation can never be brought home to Bata himself," ,., Bata boasts that wages average about $10 a week. But according to Pliilipp they rarely come to more than 50c a day. As for profit-sharing, he says, that before touching his share of the profits the worker has to deposit a sum so large that few can realize it. If a Bata worker joins a trade union, his dismissal is only a matter of time. Comparing Bata's methods and rganization with Henry Ford's, Pliilipp says: "In Bata's works the worker receives a much smaller proportion of the product of his labor than at Ford's. At Zlin the worker has to bear all risks of loss. Bata speeds up his workers to greater and greater output, but the wages paid for this intensive work are never equal to those earned for similar work in other Czecho-Slovak factories. Zlin is another Detroit, but a Detroit with low wages." Under pressure from the British boot and shoe workers' union the British Government has ordered all imported shoes marked with the country of origin. This is aimed directly at the growing importation of scab Czecho-Slovak shoes. With -employment and wages in the American shoe industry steadily declining, while exports of shoe machinery and imports of Czecho-Slovak shoes American labor faces a similar problem. UNION CAFES & MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 Always Open Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE Late 72nd Batt. 76 Hastings St. E„ Vancouver, B. C. When ln a Hurry, Drop In at Egg Order. FRED'S Are Always _ . T , "O.K." at Dairy Lunch "It's the Coffee". 73 Hastings .West Always Open R. WILKINSON, Tin. 0. DUNCAN, S« Reynolds' Cartage Co- LIMITED Phones Seymour 3377-S37* Orating-, Packing*, Shipping1 and Storage Furniture and 1'lnno Moving Long Distance Moving Poof Car Shipments Of floe and Warehouse i 732 — CAMBIE STREET — THA PERRY & DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. Where to obtain Union stamped shoes In Vftneouver: Goodwin Shoe Co., 133 Hastings west— Packard shoes, men's: Slater shoes. mon'*** Kill**!** shoes, men's nnd youths'. Balfour's, Ltd., 789 Granville — Hell shoes for women and girts, Wm. Trick, 146 Cordova west—Pr. Iteed shoes, men's; Strider shoes, men's; Tetrault's,. men's and youths', Strider shoes, men's and youths'. Slater shoes, men's, John Meier's, women's and girls. Cornett Bros. & Clarke, 33 Hastings east—Florshelm shoes, men's. Stridor shoes, men's, C. II. & C. Special, men's and youths. Ingledow Shoe Co,, 633 Granville— ^tilKar" shoes, men's and women's Or; Heed shoes, men's. Clapp Shoe Co., 7th and Vain, 25th and Main -Slater shoes, .men's, Tetrault men's, women's, youths'. Union Shoo Co., 63 Hastings west— - Strider shoes, men's and youths', Tct- ■rault's. men's, women's*, youths'. W. B. Bnun-mitt Co., 18 Cordova west— Bell shoes, nien's; Stridor shoes, men's, youths'; r»r. Heed shoes, m'en's. W. J. Head*, 30* Cordova west—"Heads" hand-made work shoes. Yale Shoe Co., 305 Hastings west— Stridor shoes, men's and youths'; "Vale" Special, men's.and women's. McBobbie Shoe Co., 563 Granville—John «*B,,1,'s shoes, women's. Shoe Co., 159 Hastings west— ,. Douglas shoes, men's; Wilson's leolal, men's, women's, youths'. -in. Dick Ltd.. 399 Hastings west- Slater shoes, men's;-eTtrnuIt's, men's and youths'. Quality Shoe' Co., 2219 Granville — Stridor shoos, men's and youths'; Tetrault's, men's and women's. Model Boot Shop, 1186 Granville—Tetrault's, men's, women's, youths'. Copp the Shoe Man, 153 Hastings West —S.later shoos, men's: Stridor shoes, men's and youths; Tetrault's, men's and women's. Johnston Shoe Co., 409 Hastings west— Holt shoes, men's and women's; Slater shoes, men's and youths, Tetrault's, nien's and women s. Hudson's Bay Co., Dept. Store—Johan- sen shoes, ladies'. Bancroft-Walker's, ladies': Colclln-Leighton's, ladles'; Tetrault's, men's and youths'. Spencer Department Store—■ Invictus shoes, men's and youths'; stridor shoes, men's and youths'; Diamond shoes, men's and youths'; Tetrault's, -men's and women's. ,„ **" Woodward's Department Store:—Stridor shoes, men's and youths; Tetrault's. men's and women's. Hastings Shoe Co., 65 Hastings east— Tetrault's,. men's and women's; Kaglo shoos, men's and youths. C. J. Pnc'iham, 1087 Granville—Slater shoes, men's. Jnmleson Bros., 995 Granville—Stridor shoos, men's and youths'; cTtraults'. men's and youths'. P. Paris, Hastings west—Bell shoes, women's; Tetranlt's, men's and youths.' Fellow Unionists, demand tho Union Label. Shop Card and Working ' Button, and patronize fair employers and employ UNION LABOR. A Hamilton young woman, -earning her own way, complained that she had worn-out ?i)(,pairs of shoes' in as many months. "I guess I'll get married," she said. Modern Story: "Make me the happiest man in,the world," he begged. So She agre'ed on tW ' hundred a month alimony, and gave him a divorce. If labor-saving machinery will not bring leisure to mankind, "then the machine has failed completely,'' declared Albert Parsons Sachs, science editor of the New York World, writing in that newspaper on the installation of a manless power station in New York. It will not be necessary to have an employe in (lie building, and the cost of installation is more than paid for by the saving in labor. "The invention of machinery brought a great promise to mankind," said Mr. Sachs. "It brought a promise that manual labor—back- breaking, tedious, monotonous, soul- numbing labor—woultl be done away with. ' "But the result of the introduction of machinery on a large scale was a great increase in productive power, a great but not equally great increase in consuming power, and so enormous a demand for the products of machine production that labor became bound to the machine. The introduction of machinery brought to the laborer shorter hours,, but more tedious even if not heavier work. "All in all, it has remained a great question in the minds of thinkers whether the human race has benefited from the introduction of machinery. Samuel Butler, the famous author of 'The Way of All Flesh,' wrote a book called 'Erewhon,' in which he describes a highly civilized world which had" ordered the destruction of all machinery because its thinkers had come to the conclusion that machinery Was enslaving mankind. There fs an element of truth in this contention. "But the human race is entering upon a new era when it devises machines not only for doing the heavy work of our civilization, but also for doing the supervisory work which is so often monotonous ahd discouraging. * 'Leisure is the mo%t valuable of human possessions, and leisure represents that part of our time which we can use as we will. And leisure is the one thing which the age of ma. chinery ought to bring us. If. the age of machinery cannot bring us leisure to experiment' or fish' or^play 1 oof? ball or write poetry or make scale models or tinker with a radio, then the machine has failed completely." Industrial Shops Are More Deadly Than War Xa„, V—I. **"* " Xew York.—Ninety-eight per cent, of this country's industrial accidents are preventable, asserted II. W. Ilein- rich of the Travelers' Insurance Company before a group of industrial engineers and business executives at the annual conference of the National Safety Council. •!>•> Enforcement of proper safety rules can prevent 85 per cent, of these accidents, und 10 per cent, result from improper physical conditions in plants, said the speaker. (Jnpreveritable accidents, he said, constitute only 2 per cent, of the total number. "In addition to humanitarian reasons fijv safety work /which should be all sufficient to compel lis, to eliminate preventable accidents, We know that accidents cost industry approximately $5,000,000,000 annually," declared Mr. Heinrich. He said the frequency and the cost of accidents in industry can be reduced 50 per cent, in a short time, chiefly through revision of present accident prevention practices. Harold A. Ley, president Life Extension Institute, declared that a study made by the institute indicated that 42,000,000 gainfully employed lose .150,000,000 days from illness disabilities and non-occupational accidents annually. ."There (s -seven to hine times as much time lost through sickness ns through accidents," said Mr. Ley. The annual economic loss in this country from preventable diseases and death is more than $.1,000,000,- 000 and $1,800,000,000 of this loss is among the gainfully employed. "At least one-half, of this death loss and disability rate is preventable and postponable by proper medical supervision, periodic examination, health education and community hygiene. In other words,-approximately $1,000,000,000 could be saved in ■industry, every year by improving the health of the working man." QEAMiP Tenders addressed to tho uli- 0 derslgned, and endorsed "Tender for repairs to North lettly, Steveston, B, C." will "be received Until 12 o'clock noon, Wednesday, Octobor 24, 1928, for repairs lo Fourth Section of th.- North Jetty, hit Stsveiton, Fraser River, Ktfw West- 1 minster District, li. C. Plans and form of contract can -.be seen and specification and forms of ten,- der obtained nt this Department,-.at the offices of the Pistrlet Engineer, Post Office Hulidini**. Now Westminster, B.C.; victoria Builder* Exchange, 2509 Prior Street, Victoria,*-B.C.; The building and ljuist ruction Indusll'les EXOftaHg*ft*l—tHfi— West Hastings street. Vancouver, B.C.; also Ml 111.- POSt Office, Steveston. 11. I". Tenders will not bo considered unless made on printed forms supplied by the Department and In accordance with conditions contained therein. * . Each tender must bo accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank. payable to the order of tho Minister* of Public Works, equal to 10 per cent, ot teh amount of the tender. Homls of the Dominion of Canada or bonds, of'-the Canadian National Hallway Company will also ho accepted as security, or bonds and a *M*iequ6 if required to make up an (old amount. NOTE.—Blue'prints can bo obtained at this Department In* depositing an accepted cheque for the sum,of JL'O-OO.. payable to the order of tho .Minister of .Public Woks, which win be returned if tho Intendfng bidder submit a regular bid. By order,. S. E. o'BHlli.v, • Secretary. Department of Public Works, Ottawa, September 29, 1928. "There, Harry, I have made you some of the oyster patties your mother said- you we-f-e-^-fomhjfjf g -~ "Tha-f*C-dP;TrrrruTsn"e never cooked them in their- shells." "That's not the. shells, Silly; that's the crust." Still Attempting To Revive Monarchy \The German reactionaries have chosen .the best moment, from their own point of view, to propose a.return to the monarchy. Germany is frightened over the, Anglo-French naval accord; she is downcast because of Briand's recent speech, which sounded so much more like Poineare than himself; She fears that the price she will have to pay for getting the troops out of the Rhine- land and a final settlement of reparations may be heavier than she can bear. Nevertheless there seems not" the slightest chance that the Steel Helmets and their allies would be able to win a favorable . verdict at the polls, even if they could get a sufficient number rif supporters to justify a : referehdum.4 Germany I wfii-lrf fgrir.'Ao much worse if; she1 ■ changed her govemfrient that even the anti-republicans would think twice before countenancing such a move. , ■ •riday, October 19, 1928 Cf THE LAB Of? STATESMAN .Seven Weak Men and All Diseases of Men Take our Herbal Remedies 1I7HITE for Pamphlet on Loss " of Manhood and Disorders Peculiar to .Men. Free by mail. Advice free. ' Open 3 to 6 and 7 to 8 every week day except Wed. and Sat., when .olosod all day. Phone Douglas 3394 The English Herbal Dispensary, Limited 1359 Davie St., Vancouver, B.G. Canada's Oldest Herbal Dispensary Mexican Disturbance Has Been Averted Dispatches from Mexico City indicate that the Provisional President of Mexico will be Emilio Portes Gil —pronounced "Heel" — a close friend of President Calles. Gil was chosen unanimously by the Mexican Senate as its candidate for the post. If Calles approves— which no one seems to question— it is said that the Chamber of Deputies will ratify the choice. Gil then will be formally elected Provisional President, to succeed Calles on December 1 and serve until January 1, 1980, at which time the regularly elected President, chosen on 'the second Sunday of November, 1929, will be installed. The action of the Senate is taken as.proof that Calles has won in the tensem struggle that has been going "on Behind the censorship veil ever since the murder of Obregon. The reactionary wing of the dead leader's party seized that occasion to launch a movement to drive all liberal and labor leaders from office. Calles yielded ground somewhat to this demand, but evidently he did not yieltl very far. Gil is a civilian, a lawyer, 37 years old, and for three years has been governor of the state of Tamaulipas —the coast state lying directly south of the eastern tip of Texas. He recently became Minister of the Interior in the Calles cabinet. He is expected to continue the Calles policies, though perhaps in a more conciliatory manner. When the censorship is lifted, the real story of the last few weeks may come out. It has been suppressed with marvellous effectiveness till now. There must have been many occasions on which it was touch and go whether a revolution would blaze out or not; but only the most indirect hints of thii have appeared in dispatches. Uncle Sam Is After "Relief" Committee Pittsburgh, Pa.—The so-called "National Miners' Relief Committee," alleged to be controlled by the Communists, is in a row with Uncle Sam's Post Office Department. The committee, which has been repeatedly exposed by the organized labor movement, is said to have collected $179,000, ostensibly to relieve the striking coal miners. Most of the money, it is charged, has gone into the pockets of the promoter's. When inspectors from the Post Office Department attempted to examine the committee^ books, the "Reds" resisted and the government appealed to the courts. Judge J. P. Schoonmaker, who is- ■ ued a notorious injunction against the United Mine Workers, refused to intervene and insisted that the case must be taken to the Federal court at Erie, Pa. ' That tribunal will not meet for some time and the postal authorities ■fear the "Reds" may take advantage of the delay to alter or destroy the records. It is charged that the Communists systematically take advantage of in dustrfal troubles to solicit relief funds, but that practically all the money is devoted to "Red" propa gand.-i. They carry on their opera tions from New York, Chicago, and other points. Ben Tillett Had Varied and Strenuous Career The Trades Union Congress General Council, meeting at Birmingham, unanimously elected Ben Til- '•itt as chairman for the ensuing year in succession to Ben Turner, who now becomes the vice-chairman. Mr. Tillett, who celebrated his 68th birthday last month, has had a strenuous and varied career. Born at Lower Easton, Bristol, on September 11, 1800, he began work in a brickyard at the age of eight. He has worked in a circus, in a mine, in a bootmaker's shop, and at Sea. For some time he served on a fishing smack, and later was /in the tiavy until invalided out. T-he year 1889 found him working as a laborer in the tea warehouses of the London docks, and spending his strength in attempts to organize his fellow-workers in the Tea-Workers' and General Laborers' Union. Great. Pock Strike. He joined with Will Thome in establishing, the Gasworkers!" and- General- Laborers' Union', in that ye:u* and the J!fyccess (if 'that organizatirm in securing an eight-hour day and increased wages encouraged certain dock laborers to demand lid. an hour, with improved conditions. Mr. Tillett called on the dock laborers to strike, and within three days 10,000 were out. Within a week, thanks to the persistence of Messrs. Tillett, Tom Mann and John Burns, and others, the entire traffic of the Port of London was paralyzed. Not only was the victory complete, but it was the stimulus which led to the formation of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Un- on, of which Mr. Tillett became the general secretary. . • He continued to hold this office until the union was, in 1921, merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union, in which* he continues his work* as a trade union official. Pioneer Work Mr. Tillet has done an enormous amount of pioneer work, not only for Trade Unionism, but for Socialism. He was one of the founders of the Daily Herald. Possessed of a capacity for ready speech antl pungent phrases, he has been a familiar figure on platforms hronghout the country. "The bees build cemeteries for their drones, while we build., the House of Lords and provide beautiful houses and luxuries for ours," said he at the Transport Workers' conference last year. He has served as an alderman of the London County Council, and for some years was M.P. for North Sal- ford. A keen student of affairs, in recent years Mr. Tillett has done much to mpress upon the workers the vital importance of attention to the ramifications of international finance. "The main reason for the failure of our industries and our increasing pauperdom," he declared a year ago at Sqlford, "is the irresponsible detachment of high financiers from the needs of the country." Mr. Tillett has done Valuable work as an active member of the Trades Union Congress General Council, to whose chairmanship he now succeeds. He is a keen supporter of the Tur- ner-Mond conference, on Industrial Reorganization and Industrial Relations. British Toryism Is Challenged By Labor Washington.—The British Labor Party conference at Birmingham adopted a platform containing 65 planks with which it will go before the people to secure control of the 400 seats in the House of Commons, according to London cables. If the party succeeds the king will call on Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the party, "to form a government." This means selection of various heads of departments, somewhat, similar to the President's cabinet in the United States. The Labor Par^y platform includes ■nationalization of coal, transport, power and life insurance, larger old- age pensions, governmental banking control and repeal of the trades disputes act and the eight-hour mines act. The trades disputes act was recently jammed through the House of Commons by the Conservative Party. Long standing rights of 'organized labor are annulled. The eight-hour mines act was passed two years ago at the request of coal own ers. It adds an additional hour to the miners' work day. This is exclusive of the time it takes the miner to reach the face of the coal after he descends the shaft. In England a candidate for the House of Commons can select his constituency. Under this system an active worker who lives in a conservative district can be nominated in an industrial area where his success is assured. The general election will be held next year, although the leader of the government (now Premier Baldwin. Conservative) may . dissolve . the .House of Commons" any 05He~"Hf elects and appeal to the people. This is the practice when the government is defeated iy the House of Commons on an important question. If the premier believes the people will support him, he "appeals to the country" to elect a House that will vote for his project. The Labor Party controlled the government in 1924. The party was shattered by the publication of a "very secret" letter to Ramsay MacDonald from Zinovieff of the Third Communist' Internationale at Moscow. The Conservatives swept the nation with this "proof" that the workers were connected with the Communists. The workers made frenzied denials, and insisted that the letter was a forgery, but it served its purpose. Later the Conservative government acknowledged the forgery by its refusal to include the letter in the "Blue Book," the government's official record. RISK! npO-DAY the lure of easy profits is drawing many into the whirlpool of risky speculation—to-morrow the vision of wealth may be rudely shattered. A few years hence, which will be yours —a comfortable balance in the Bank or ' vain regrets for hasty action? The Royal Bank of Canada Vancouver Branch - - B. L. Mitchell, Manager 17 Offices in Vancouver, S3 Branches in British Columbia BRITISH LABOR NAMES TILLETT AS CHAIRMAN Ben Tillett, one of the dynamic forces in the British, trade union movement has been elected chairman of the general council of the Trade Union Congress, it is reported. The election took place last Monday. He succeeds Ben Truner. London Labor Party Prepares For Election Every vote for Labor is a vote against the vested interests! Every vote for Labor is a vote for a finer London and for better health! Every vote for Labor is a vote for the real self-government of London! With these assertions is concluded a clarion call, issued in the form of a manifesto which the executive committee of the London Labor Party is making to the citizens of the metropolis with the approach of the municipal elections on November 1. . On that date the people of London will be charged with the duty of electing 1370 councillors to 28 different borough councils. How great is the responsibility entailed by this duty will be gathered when it is mentioned that the metropolitan borough councils, which cover an area of 116 square miles, with a population of -l*** millions, had the spending in 1924-25—the last year for which complete figures are available—of £12,105,053. The coming elections, emphasizes the* manifcsto.^will be fought by the Labor Party on the same principles as those for parliamentary elections The Madonna of Today The Madonna of today was the mother who was heartbroken and overwhelmed with grief because' her children had not an adequacy of the material things—the mother who saw her child pinched, going thin in body and white in cheek. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., made this observation when opening an exhibition of Dutch paintings at Bradford, when asking what pictures had to do with our present lives. Reading during the sate season of some of these pictures fetching from £10,000 to £70,000, they who appreciated life in terms of hard reality had to regard these pictures as nothing but the luxurious possessions of people who had far too much of this world's goods. But supposing we all had what we needed for our bodies, if the children of this generation were not brought up with an eye to appreciate the beautiful and sensibility of soul, those lines, those shades, aspirations and inspirations which had been caught by the old masters of art and embodied on canvas, then the tragedy of the human soul would be greater than the tragedy of the human body. "So do not," he added, "let us, in these days of poverty.which are oppressing us, neglect our duty to nourishithe souls of the people at the same time that we are building up their bodies. < "Spend of the common stock of wealth on houses and pensions, agitate for wages and material conditions, but in your peril don't forget that man does not live by bread alone." Canadian Pacific Still Making Big Profits Montreal.—The Canadian Pacific Railway is having the banner year of its history. The first eight months show an increase of 10.3 per cent in gross receipts compared to last year —which was the next highest. Its net earnings for the same period surpass those of any year, since 1917. For the full year of 1928, the Canadian Pacific probably will earn something over $12 per share, although 400,000 new shares of stock were issued last year. Reasons for Good Business This remarkable record is due, aside from good management of the road itself, to the remarkable growth of Canada's output of various forms of wealth. Building is going on in the Dominion at & rate never before known—contracts for $259,000^000 were let in the first six months of the year. Tourist traffic is tremendous —last year more than 3,000,000 tourists from the United States entered Canada for periods varying from one day to six months, and <he number will be larger this year. The wheat crop is now estimated officially at 530,000,000 bushels; nearly 80 per cent of which will be exported. Big Sale of Farm Lands Both the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National are planning an unusual amount of branch-line building for the near future. The total construction may reach 4,500 miles within two years. The Canadian Pacific has sold 359,000 acres of farming lands in the first half of this year, more than double the record of last year. This may be due to the increase in immigration from the United States— 14,000 against last year's 11,000. Practically all these American newcomers are farmers. The number of filings on government land has.nearly doubled, likewise. Simultaneously "One can't do two thinga successfully at the same time." . "I did."-*. :• *■ 'J.■:{■ ■ , "What were they?" "Spend my savings and my vacation." HIGH COURT TO PASS ON BIG POWRR ISSUE Ottawa.—Canada's biggest lawsuit Opened here this week when the Supreme Court of Canada will be asked to determine ownership of the waterpowers of international and in- terprovincial waterways. . . The provinces claim the surplus waters not used for navigation while conceding that the Dominion has ■control over navigation. The Dominion claims ownership in the surplus waters as well as control over navigation. Millions of horsepower, valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, are at stake. ■ _ . ",'■" '"""'. .' "..T'. J Union Label Trades Council Urges Action At a largely attended meeting of the Vancouver Union Label Trades Council it was decided that, owing to lack of funds, the proposal of the Vancouver Hote+ Football Club, that the council use the exterior of their club house on the playing field for Union advertising purposes,, was declined with regrets, and a suitable letter of appreciation ordered sent. A communication from the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers' International Union, Toronto, appealing for the support of all organized workers in their efforts to launch a campaign to popularize and create a demand for their Union Label, was dealt with, and it was decided to request the Press Committee to allow the letter to be published in full in the Labor Statesman. The same course was adppted with reference to a letter from the Kenosha Trades & Labor Council, drawing attention to the struggle of the locked-out workers of tbe Allen-A Company, a hosiery manufacturing concern in Kenosha, Wis., whose employees have been locked out since February 15th of this year, when the company declared for an anti-union closed job and for the installation of the two- machine system, an old evil wiped out of the industry years ago. Trade Unionists and their wives can help greatly in securing the right to organize this mill by refusing to purchase the Allen-A Brand of Full Fashioned Hosiery for women and the Cooper-Bennington spring needle underwear. An invitation to affiliate is again extended to all Label Trades who have not yet done so. It is only by the united efforts of all the Label Trades, backed up by the general Labor Movement, that the Label Trades Council can justify its existence and show to the world that the Union Label, Card and Button are something more than mere Union emblems. "Let's Get Together." A deep meaning oft lies in old customs.—Schiller, SCAB HOSIERY WORKER OFFERS TO WRECK PLANT Chicago.—The Allen-A lockout of its hosiery workers in the city of Kenosha, Wis., still keeps that town in turmoil. A mild sensation was caused when William Trout, a Pennsylvania strike breaker imported by the Allen-A concern, made the union an offer to pull out his fellow strikebreakers and wreck the machinery of the company. He also offered to prove that the—- concern is respisivStttc^for i-eportea violence. The district attxdrneyJ'fs now looking for.Trout. '.. -. —^^^^^^^M ■■■ Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday. October 19. 1928 8njoij 4?13est BREADS CAKES COOKIES/ MAQl!lOO^^«»w ETC. % NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades & Labor Council Boom 803, 16 Hasting-* Street East Phonos: Sey. 7195-6279 The Only Union Fish and Chip Shop ln the City! Ye Olde English Fish and Chip Shoppe 614 BOBSON (Near Granville) VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Bad Cold MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. SEY. 2070 Trades Council Notes It was reported at the Trades Council meeting on Tuesday that H. A, MacDonald, iin aldermanic candidate for Ward Three, was stating on his election cards, put into circulation on Tuesday, that he was endorsed by the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council. This man has not been endorsed and the council will take action against the statement. * * * Firemen, oilers and shop laborers in the railroad shops are being organized and a charter applied for, Secretary Bengough reported Tuesday. The union is expected to affiliate with the Trades Council. * * * Tailors' Union report trade quiet, but preparations are being made for what looks like a busy season. Action is., being taken agains't a nonunion firm for using the Union Label on its goods. * * * - , ^_ The Musicians' Union has appointed a committee to give publicity to the union orchestras playing at dances, etc., in the district. + * * Del. Hoover reported that the Street Railwaymen's International would instruct its delegates to the A. F. of L. convention to vote for Vancouver for 1929. * - *- * Del. Pettipiece stated that the Engineers were giving every support to the striking and locked-out' carpenters. The union was enforcing the double-time rate for over eight hours on elevator work, in spite of strenuous opposition. * * * The Teamsters''and Truck Drivers' Union was still taking in from four to eight members at every meeting and was making good progress. * * * The Milk Wagon Drivers' Union has had it reported to them that milk salesmen are stating that they belong to the union and it has later been found that they do not. You are urged to ask the salesmen for their union card or button. » » » Building Laborers took in eight new memberes at its' last meeting, said Del. Phillips, showing that the strike has not affected that union. If the movement takes concerted action, he said, the carpenters will win. School Matters Need Plenty of Adjustments The following communication,' received from the Victoria and District Trades and Labor Council, on the question of public school matters, was received by the Vancouver Trades Council and referred to the council's Legislative Committee and to the B C. Executive of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada: P. Bengough, Secretary, Trades and Labor Council, Vancouver. B. C. t Dear Sir and Bro.: I have been instructed to advise you that at the last meeting of the Victoria Trades Council, held on 5th* September, various matters pertaining to education were discussed and the following resolutions were adopted: A committee was appointed to interview the loqfl Board of School Trustees and the Department of Education in 'respect thereto. i. That all textbooks and other supplies should be supplied at cost to pupils by the Board. Such books aftrl supplies should be standardized in order that all children of the province should be on a uniforpi basis. 2. That all textbooks should be printed at the Government Printery wherever possible. 3. That frequent revision of books he avoided in order that parents should not be put to unnecessary expense. 4. That homework should be reduced or eliminated and the time now spent by teachers in assigning and revising homework should be devoted to direct instruction in school hours. The council protested against the gradual drift away from the ideal of free national education and directed special attention to the fees imposed. :by._the,U.B.C. and its affili-* ated colleges which impose hardship on workers who are frequently unemployed for long periods. I am instructed to ask the views of your council and to seek your cooperation in presenting Labor's views to the educational authorities. Fraternally yours, , E. S. WOODWARD, - Secretary. CASE REOPENED Through the efforts of Secretary; Bengougn and the Trades and Labor J Council, Harold Miller, who obtained a settlement from the Workmen's Compensation Board, has had hi)*, case reopened because he is still suffering from his injuries. WAGES TOO LOW Organizer Fox of Portland, Ore., is in the city in connection with business of the Upholsterers' Unio'n. Trade for that union is reported good in Vancouver, but there is not enough men available to fill the jobs. Organizer Fox says that the reason the firms cannot get men is because the wages they pay is far below that paid in the United States. He hopes to make some improvements for the local men. • T ■■■-<**-»..,. '*•»*' as'" • <■ ■ ■ j >' -, - -*">. Jt •v. 1 :■> S ' A :' \\\\m *\\w Hu'^i - *.:- *'V- .T'v^,;*.v*''&' zmj - ~*i3+* s■** ■*'.**:-H-»f«*r>- „. *>*■& :y?£* *SY*i**^'' ;v-*.' ■ vf I ■ u ■ 7-. ' INCORPORATED SW MAY lOTtX . 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VANCOUVER DRUG COMPANY, LIMITED 15 STORES LADIES' PUMPS or STRAPS in patent, kid. or Skinner's satin, with low, military or spike heels, at *...' .... $4.85 CHILDREN'S SHOES-ALE REDUCED Patent Straps and Oxfords, also tan, 5 to 7'; $1.85; 8,to.; 81.95 MEN'S GOODYEAR WELTED BOOTS or OXFORDS, tan, Maek or km leather $4.85 BOYS' BOOTS AND OXFORDS With Panco or leather soles; Williams or Corbies makes. 11 to i:|i2, $3.45; 1 to T,'„. : $3.95 WE CARRY "UNION-MADE" SHOES JAMIESON BROS. Nelson 995 GRANVILLE STREET Seymour 1004 COUWTEV OF THE WR13LEY PRINTING CO. LTD SYLVAN SCENES—STANLEY PARK Nowhere in the Pacific Northwest, and possibly in the world, can there he found scenes of sylvan beautv_rxcelling those of Stanley Park. This magnificent natural woodland playground presents an endless series of forest vistas thrilling W 'be S(,l-1 of every nature lover. , * The lovely spot depicted here may he reached from the Park main entrance by tak' ing a path leading past the pavilion: The road froiti there tn Lumberman's -Arch is well defined. At the arch turn westw'ard along the motor mad to where the road crosses a rustic bridge, On tjie-east .side of this bridge turn .southward .about one- hundred yards. * ■■•'■ - •—"^--—---"***:"-***-" ' Take Xo, 10 car, southbound, at Post Office. ■_. ANTI-UNION CONCERN CONCEALS LOW WAGES Chicago.—"I can't speak of wages, but our employes are well satisfied," James G. Conaon assured the Illinois Commerce Commission in asking that the Chicago Motor Coach Company be permitted to operate on additional streets. Mr. Cordon represents the company, which does not permit the employes to organize. «) UNIONS TO BE PROBED BY STAR CHAMBER PLAN ' New York.-7-An "open" shop session will be held under the auspices of the National Association of Manufacturers. At this time, it is stated, it will be revealed "how 'open' shop opponents work, how they conspire, how they misrepresent.". To be certain 'that the speakers w'ilVnot be contradicted, admittance is limitiy.j'unembets'^eidt^ie aSsoeir ation Hntt"*invife<T guests. In this atmosphere all the "facts" about the unions will be presented. Bootleggers Should Try For This Man's Job MONCTON, N. B.—The old maxim handed down from time immemorial that the "king can do no wrong," was successfully pleaded as a defence by W. p. McMonagie, barrister, before Magistrate A. G. M. Chapman at Dorchester recently. Information was laid by Fred Lucas, Federal government- officer, against Adolph Leblane, road supervisor in the parish of Dorchester, in the enj.-. plqjL of the provincial government, for storing dynamite in the same Store., with detonators, calculating to cause fire or explosion. The^actsof the case were not dipputedf but defence counsel argued that inasmuch as the accused was a servant of His Majesty in the province of New Brcmswkk, he was immune from vio-, lation of the act. The magistrate took the same view of the case and dismissed the complaint.
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