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OWNED AND CONTROLLED NO. 252—KIGHT PAGES John Bull Is Preparing For Important Election General Election Soon After May Day—"Jobs For the Jobless" Is Paramount Issue—Lloyd George Is Singing His "Prosperity Chorus"—Tories Fear Defeat—Labor Has Strong. Program. Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, DRITAIN IS GETTING READY for another election, which probi- alily will be held immediately after May 1. On that date the law giving votes to nearly 5,000,000 women between the ages of 21 and 30 years goes into effect. Until then a woman must confess to 30 years in order to vote. —•-—;—: ";; All parties are wopfng the "flapper•vote,," as some' dngallant Tory called them. In the'Chelsea district Sir Satjwel Hoare, present air minister, and his wife are giving* receptions to the women employed in domestic service, and saying frankly that they are making an entirely new sort of campaign. fi| The Conservatives are making a definite effort to get the servant vote, hut though first in the field in this area thev will-soon have competition. .Unemployment the Big Issue This will be the first election since October, 1924. The maximum dura: tion of a parliament is five years; -but it is seldom that any English- speaking parliament holds out its full possible term. ' At the last election the Tories won a majority of 200 in parliament, largely on the "Bolshevik" scare, but they Bad si minority of the popular vote, 8,000,000 against a combined Liberal and Laborite vote of 8,500,- 000. Unemployment will be the overshadowing issue. The last week in February nearly 1,500,000 persons were listed as out of work, in a total population of 45,- 000,000. Part of that* was seasonal, part due to the cold wave which paralyzed England, but more than a million persons have been on the unemployment rolls constantly for years. The big question that every candidate for parliament must answer is: "What will you do to get work for men who want it?" Tory Position Is Vague The Tory answer to that question is vague. Its policy of assisting the unemployed to emigrate to the dominions has not been a flaming success. The government recently proposed to extend the "dole" to emigrants for a period of two years after they reached their new homes. This was to meet the argument that one reason British workers insisted on remaining in the Mother Country was because they were assured of at least the pittance they received from the unemployment insurance. Canadian labor was up in arms on the instant, pointing out that newcomers with the dole might undercut Canadian wages. Aside from tKTs, the Conservatives talk vaguely of tariffs and are expected to present plans for a big government housing project, designed to clear out slums. Also, Winston Churchill is sure to try to revive the Bolshevik scare. Labor's Constructive Program Labor proposes housing projects in every part of the kingdom where a slum exists, and wants to finance these, in part at least, by reduction- of military expenditures. An increasing number of Englishmen hold that their country can be safeguarded better by agreements than by armaments, and labor is emphatic,on this point. Also, labor wants to reopen relations with Russia, hoping to secure large markets in this way, and the former labor plans for nationalizing the coal mines are hot wholly forgotten. / Lloyd George, czar of the Liberal government money needed to start them will be only what Americans call a revolving fund. , • Lloyd George's Campaign Fund All observers agree that the Conservatives will lose heavily. Some believe that Labor will-win a clear majority; William Harrison, himself a stanch Tory and owner of 25 British newspapers, predicts this. Others think the Conservatives will keep control, though with a greatly reduced majority. Lloyd George, with a big campaign fund derived from the sale, of titles while he was in office, is putting up Liberal candidates in 500 of the 615 districts, and talks of winning a majority. What he really expects to win is the balance of power. If the 40 Liberal seats in the present parliament can be increased to 80, he will be in a position to dicker with Tories or Laborites—and Britain believes that he who trades with "L. G.",is foredoomed to lose? Hot Contest Is Assured Everyone distrusts the little Welshman; but everyone admits that he is the matter politician of the age— and wholly unhampered by scruples. He has made it clear that he is ready to form a coalition with any party which will adopt his "prosperity" program. Everything points to a hot fight; ahd, in the main, a clear-cut fight. When Britain sets out to elect a new parliament she doesn't mix the business with any other job. The voters in each district have the simple task of deciding which one of- not more than three candidates they prefer. Alderman Confesses and Goes to Prison Minneapolis, Minn.—Frank E. Gib- enhain, Tenth ward alderman who accented a bribe from the American La France Corporation, has started serving a two-year sentence in Stillwater penitentiary. Rather than stand trial on the La Fiance indictment Gibenhain pleaded guilty ..to taking a bribe from a night club owner. Gibenhain came into office when he defeated a Laoor alderman four years ago. J. R. Sheffield,,Eighth ward alderman, and Donald Green, general representative of the La France firm, are still awaiting trial on bribery charges growing out of a purchase hy the city of a $14,500 fire engine from the La France company, whose machinists are on strike at Elmira, According to the confessions of two aldermen. Green paid $1,500 graft to get the majority of the coun Hi* says flatly that if given a majority he will abolish unemployment -in a year, His scheme calls for gigantic . housing and road-building Chicago Building Trades Get World's Fair Job Chicago.—The Chicago Building Trades Council has just concluded a five-year standard agreement with the Building Construction Employers' Association. It will run through the Chicago World's Fair period ending June 1, 1934, and provides for a 10fr- per cent, union shop in the building trades. ,.**■*• Because of the. great number of workers involve!! the document is of international importance. Provision is made to arbitrate all grievances and disputes; work Jshall go on undisturbed during arbitration; decisions of arbitrators shall be final and binding oh both parties. , The agx-^^^-viM^aAWnot be con- ater-tvi''-!**:; ^;«^i^#^'-3^%feto work with non-union men, nor to work for contractors haying construction work done in Cook county by non-union workmen. Each trade remains free to make its own contract with employers as to wages and working conditions. Blow to "Open Shoppers" shop in the Chicago building trades marks the passing out of the notorious "Citizens' Committee to Enforce the Landis Award." It was composed of a group of financially powerful "open shoppers" who, within the past few years, collected millions and left nothing undone to destroy the building trades unions. ** The coup de grace was given the Citizens' Committee in a recent decision of the Illinois State Supreme Court, which upheld the contention JUICY STOCK'DIVIDEND OF ANACONDA COPPER New York.—Anaconda Copper will increase its ato'ck 40 per cent, and wipe out its funded debt. Each present holder of five shares of the stock will be allowed to buy two new shares at $55 per share. '_ Wall street figures that these "rights" of purchase are worth not less than $30 per share now "outstanding, and there are more than 5,000,000 shares. In effect this is a stock dividend of about $150,000,000, and under a decision of the supreme court it cannot be taxed. The stock is now selling around, $159 per share, and pays dividends of 14 per cent. .,,,,„,,*»„, Electrical Workers Score Again in N. Y. New York.—Local No. 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has scored another The recognition of a virtual closedfvicjtory in its battle for the five-day week As heretofore reported, the Electrical Contractors' Association entered into an agreement with the brotherhood for the five-day week and a 10 per cent, increase in wages. This boosted "the scale from $12 to $13.20 a day. The Building Employers' Association objected, fearing the extension of the five-day week to all building trades. First they tried to get an injunction restraining the Electrical Con of the Carpenters' Union that the i tractors from carrying out the agree- Citizens' Committee had "unlawfully ment. Failing in this, they appealed '" '*' ' to the courts for an order forbidding the members of the brotherhood from accepting the benefits of the agreement. conspired" to interfere with the em ploymenti'of union carpenters and had attempted to interfere with freedom of contract between union car- oenters and their employers in the building industry in Chicago and vicinity. Spent $3,000,000 Fighting Labor Testimony submitted in this case showed that general contractors and sub-contractors had been intimidated into hiring "Landis award" mechanics in place of union carpenters. The Carpenters' bill of complaint alleged that the Citizens' Committee expendr ed more than $3,000,000 in conducting its campaign against the unions and had resorted to persuasion, threats, coercion, economic intimidation and other unlawful means to prevent employers from dealing with the union members, to force down wages and to destroy the union. The Landis award was handed down years ago at a time when a great effort was being made to "deflate" labor. It fixed the scale of wages for certain of the building trades, who with their employers had submitted their dispute to Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, then on the federal bench and now the "czar" of baseball. Jn making his award, Landis undertook not only to fix the wage scales of the unions party to the dispute, but of all other building trades as well. It was a clear usurpation of jurisdiction. It was hailed with joy by the "open shoppers" and the Citizens' Committee was formed to force acceptance of the award upon all the trades; All of the byilding trades are now oh a solid union footing in spite of the nefarious work of the defunct Citizens' Committee. party is out with wHOTgkS S^* committee to "We Can, Conquer Unemployment favor his company. PUBLIC HEATING SYSTEM IS FAVORED BY LABOR PARTY Winnipeg.—Public developmentof central heating systems instead of private franchises will be pushed by the Manitoba Independent Labor party. Following perfecting of the slow,; distillation process of coking coal, "private companies have rushed to get municipal franchises for distributing heat to business houses and homes, selling the-coke to people who prefer to maintain their own house heating plants. . . Winnipeg has a highly efficient publicly owned central heating plant supplying most of the downtown business structures.. It is a profitable city department, a part of the Last week Supreme Justice Town- ley denied the injunction. Edmonton City Laborers Given 55 Cent Rate Establishment of a 55-cent rate for common labor was decided at a meeting of the Edmonton City Council on Tuesday night, although the city commissioners had.recommended 52 cents per hour. Jhis rate will therefore be embodied as the fair wage clause in all contracts let by the city. It was also decided that the rate for men and teams will be one dollar per hour instead of the 95 cen,ts per hour rate recommended by the commissioners. When the matter came to a vote, there was a straight party split, the six Labor members of the. council favoring the 55 cents rate, with the exception of Aid. L. S. C. Dineen, who demanded that the rate be 60 cents, and the C. G. A. aldermen voting in favor of the oommissioner's recommendation of 52 cents per hour. Number One Apprentice Honored in Vancouver Certificate Number One and $100 west handed out to Raymond West last Friday when he graduated as a full-fledged Journeyman Carpenter after undergoing four years' apprenticeship under the Vancouver Board of Trade apprenticeship plan. ■ The presentation was made in the Hotel Grosvenor"by J. K. McRae, chairman of* the Building Trades Section of the Board of Trade, when a score of apprentices were hosts at a dinner given by E,. G. Baynes, prominent contractor, and member of the Parks Board of Vancouver. Raymond West was the Chief guest of honor at the dinner, in which cap- iViil. labor and technical leadership were represented. Organized Labor was represented by. W. Page, secretary of the Bu.ild.ing Trades Council;' J. 'G. Smith, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters; W. Hargreaves, business agent of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters; Dan McPherson, business agent of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union; Ed. Smith, business agent of the Painters' UnioTi; W. Watt, business agent of thc Plumbers' Union, and Bert Stinchcombe of the Steamfitters' Union. Among the other invited, guests were: J. P. Hodgson of Hodgson, King & Marble; Col. J. F. Keen of the E. J. Ryan. Construction Company; R. G. Leckey, secretary of the Vancouver Contractors' Association; Herbert C. Harrison, foreman for Baynes & Horrie, the firm under which Raymond West served his apprenticeship: J. G. Lister, principal of the Vancouver Technical School, and Mr. Chi*" "•'dale, instructor at the 'Tech. Mr. Baynes arranged a high-class vaudeville enformecent for the boys and they thoroughly enjoyed the affair. Bro. Scott of the Barbers' Union a*-' Mr. Aylett entertained with musical selections, dancing and mono- loTies. Bert Stinchcombe's impersonations were particularly well received and others on the program helped to make the event a well-re- mpmbercd affair Immediately after the banquet Raymond West of 2938 Imperial street signed up with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. »t— old-timers will remember Bill West, Raymond's father, and organized labor are as one in congratulating Raymond and his parents on the honor of '•••'ing Number One Ap- nrentice.—W.H. SPEED UP CUTS WAGES - Greenville, S. C.—More than 2,000 unorganized employees of the War Shoals Manufacturing Company's mills at* War Shoals suspended work. A speed-up system, installed By "efficiency" experts, means more production with a lowering of wages. Learn From The Lowly Sardine A PHILOSOPHIC friend and subscriber writes the following note from San Pedro, California: **.. 77- '•-.--'■, "Free and independent" American workers might well take a lesson from the lowly sardine. Everyone knows that by himself the sardine is a "poor fish," but with 1,999,999 others acting in unity he is quite a good-sized whale. Recently eight Japanese fishermen here were out seining for mackerel. Unknown to the fishermen, 2,000,000 sardines filled the nets, ind when efforts were made to draw it in 300 tons of sardines "sounded.? * . . Before the nets could be cut free the 50-foot boat was drawn , under and sunk. The crew saved their lives with difficulty. What would happen to the "open shop" employers if labor would follow the example of tjfese sardines? Three-fb.yrths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of city-owned electric planf that "sells projects; but lie contends that these [our adversaries and understand their -jufee to citizens at an average cost will,pay for themselves and that the! viewpoint.—Candhi. .. rof 1.007c 4>er-Jtwlww^T^.^aSiB? It seems to Labor t/at the moral which the correspondent draws from that fish story is sound, practical and wise. To he sure, the sardines probably acted together because they were scared. But that is better than scattering because you are scared. ■ Workers do not need to "sound," that is, dive for the bottom, when menaced by the seine, of the ''open shop." They only need to stand together, if•'.. fc Let all the members of any craft move as unitedly as did those sardines, and* they can sink the boat of any hard-boiled employer or group of employers. ' .."-'-' -s No net. not even when weighted with injunctions and 'floated by industrial spies, can stop. the. "poor-JUh!' who have-learned to.act together. ■*& Labor.* ' -•*• * -- . '...,,™..iA.y. ;.'..". .-.!,:..~ ,.- :. .^.c... ■■.->■ '.-'. '■-' Two THE LABOR,STATESMAN Friday, March 29, 1929 For HEALTH, STRENGTH and Beauty, eat our Whole Wheat Brown Bread A wholesome body builder Doctors recommend it Fruit and Raising Bread Pastry and Meat Pies HOT X BUNS THE ESTHER BAKERY Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST m *% The Week At Ottawa Still Good' R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor and Dealer House Wiring, Fixtures, Lamps, Batteries Glen 370 4099 Hastings St. E. A STANDARD of purity, proved daily by the customers of "the Dairy with the Highest Score." 9 Quarts for One Dollar Fairmont 1000 American Government Refuses Aid to Farmers The United States Shipping Board has already loaned $18,500,000 to private ship owners under the Jones- White merchant marine act. Vessel owners can borrow 75 per cent, of the value of a proposed ship. They receive additional sums for 6ar- rying the mail. The act created a $250,000,000 revolving fund out of which these loans shall be made. Loans shall be paid within 20 years. Interest charges are 2.1-2 per cent. Farmers asked for the same kind of a revolving fund to equalize the ""low price of American wheat sold in competition with foreign wheat. "Government aid to business must be avoided," the farmers were told. President Coolidge vetoed the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill in a stirring message that was loudly praised by elements that approve the Jones-White bill. Government aid jb "patriotic" when applied to ship owners, but "bureaucracy gone mad" when applied to farmers. "Build B. C "Better, More, Entire" YOU cannot get stronger endorsement than this. It is from a lady who lives in Burnaby—a paragraph from a long letter: "I find, in using Pacific Milk, that 1 get better quality and more quantity, with entire satisfaction in our family." It takes real milk to get a letter like this. Pacific Milk Factories at Abbotsford and Ladner "Build B.C." By J. S. Woodsworth In the, budget .debate.jL-vexy. wide latitude" is allowed. While the discussion is supposed to centre around the fiscal policy of the government, in practice the members are permitted to talk about almost any matter whatever. The leaders of the vari ous groups usually state their positions on the outstanding financial questions involved. Other members then largely echo their leaders, or devote themselves to discussing matters that primarily affect their own constituencies. It is the common custom for members to order large quantities of their budget speech and distribute them among their electors. In many instances this is the only method by which said electors can know that their members are really in attendance at Ottawa. Mr. Guthrie acted as financial critic for the Conservative party, and made what is regarded as perhaps the strongest speech he has yet delivered in the House. Let me share with my readers some of the statements that struck me as of general interest: * "I think we may now take it as fairly well settled that the net debt of the Dominion of Canada on March 31 next will be the sum of $2,227,- 068,000, as stated by the minister of finance." Mr. Guthrie suggested that the debt could be taken care of by the creation of a sinking fund:. "Or if $19,000,000 per annum is too much—and I submit it is not— if he took the sum of $15,000,000 per year, in fifty years we would wipe out the dead weight debt of Canada." In discussing the Canadian National System, Mr. Guthrie stated that the bonded indebtedness to the public had now passed the million- dollar mark: "On January 1, 1923, Canada was a creditor of that system to the extent of $1,258,000; the total indebtedness of the road as of that date was $2,239,00,000." . . . v Turning to the taxation, he pointed out that 87 per cent, of every dollar which goes into the treasury is secured through taxation, and charged that in the last five years this government "had wrung from the people in taxes $259,000,000 more than was taken by their predecessors in the same length of time." That meant that for a family of five the increased taxation is $26.80 per year. In discussing the reduction in taxation, Mr. Guthrie pointed out that such reduction was in the interests of the well-to-do, rather than of the poorer citizen: "The rich travellers are relieved of a rather heavy tax of ten per cent., while the ordinary travelling public get one dollar of relief upon every hundred dollars of railway tickets they buy. . . . When it comes down to the ordinary, everyday people of Canada, all he has to say to them is: I have taken one per cent, off the sales tax. . . . Do the people know even yet that they have to pay two per cent on practically everything that goes into the ordinary household? And yet the .minister has left forty million dollars of that tax still on the people, a tax which will average at least four dollars or five dollars for every man, woman and child in the Dominion next year." • • • , Mr. Guthrie gave instances of what he described as extravagant expenditures: "Last year the vote to maintain our Washington embassy was $60,- 000; today it stands in the estimates at $100,000—an unwarrantable and extravagant increase of $40,000. Paris, too: last year the vote for our representative stood at $75,000; now there is $5,000 more for the Paris office. No warrant for it: But in addition to that I find in the public' accounts that we are maintaining another institution or agency in Paris on which $44,000 was spent last year. Take Tokyo: last year in the estimates the vote was $50,000. This year, another glaring extravagance, that vote is raised to $75,000. And there is no justification for it. And London: This government launched into a very magnificent bit of extravagant expenditure when , it bought that wonderful property on Trafalgar Square.. There is a considerable yearly overhead to carry in respect of that property. When I was in the Meighen government the vote for the whole establishment in London was $69,000; this year the vote is $117,000. And there is absolutely no warrant fo'r such an increase. . .', "Another thing I view as an ex- i travagance is our so-called tariff 'board, an absolutely useless board. This board now appears in the esti mates at $120,000 a year, and I see by.the public accounts that,-for some reason or other, there was paid last year the sum of $71,000 for advisers to the tariff board. . . . "Does the House realize that during the last twelve months for which the auditor general's report contains a record this government spent—I had better be exact in this statement —for 'new autos and auto repairs and renewals' the sum of $542,000?. "This year I find on looking over the estimates the increase involves 143 new civil servants. Last year it was 159, and the year before, I think, 173. What is. the extra work of these departments that renders it-necessary to increase the civil service of Canada at this rate? . . . Why, in some of the departments they are falling over each other this minute; they are so numerous that they are actually hindering each other in doing proper work." In a general review of the alleged prosperity, Mr. Guthrie stated that, with the exception of the few larger cities of Canada, the population was either stationary or retrogressive; that the government was catering to the big corporations, and they only were enjoying the alleged prosperity; that the cost of living in Canada was just a little higher tbday than it was in 1921, and that unemployment had not decreased, * * * Mr. Irvine, who followed Mr. Guthrie, protested strongly against the party systerft, and" the position in which, under it, the private members were placed: "This parliament has perfect freedom in so far as speech is concerned, but when it comes to actually doing something we have the limits of the robot. ... | "Our cabinet have the power to I give away our water sites. They tell | us we can ratify their actions, or if we do not we defeat the government.! . . . They sign treaties that may have a far-reaching effect upon the peace of the world, and then come and ask us to ratify them. They bring down the budget, which has important economic and political implications, and we are not permitted tp change one jot or tittle within the entire compass of that budget." He pointed out that, while the minister of finance had boasted that the Canadian dollar could now look the American dollar square in the eye without blushing, a result of the deflation policy, had not been in the interests of the public. He quoted a recent statement of Lord Beaverbrook with regard to the parallel policy of Great Britain, under which the per capita debt 6f Great Britain, who won the war, now stands at $817.60, while that of Germany, who lost the war, has a per capita debt of only $8.76. Mr. Irvine charged: "The responsibility, I would say, was upon the minister of finance to have stabilized the value of the Canadian dollar on a war basis so that the dollar with which he now pays the debt would have had precisely the same value as the dollar with which the debt was contracted. But instead of doing that the minister permitted the dollar to drop from its inflation value to its present deflation value, which practically doubled the Canadian war debt, plus five per cent.; so that, due to the inactivity of the minister during the first few years that he was in office, he has placed a greater debt on the shoulders of the Canadian people than he will ever live t»>"see removed, no matter how high he taxes the people. . . . "The minister of finance had reported that the total exports amounted to $1,187,400,000, which, when the total imports of $1,033,300,000 are subtracted, leaves a favorable trade balance of $154,100,000 for the ten months' period." 1 Mr. Irvine stated: "If .there is a balance, it has been erroneously named a favorable balance. Trade, of course, is a fair exchange of goods, and if what the minister reports is true, then Canada has given away $154,000,000 for which she has and Still in Demand YUKON GOLD -BU7 GOING FAST SHARE OFFERING AT 25c SOON CLOSES Act Quickly Before Price Advances! Call—Write—Wire Fiscal Agents for YUKON GOLD MINES, LIMITED 837 Hastings Street West, Vancouver. B. C. Sey. 5159 OR ASSOCIATE BROKERS HARTT & OTTER 615-837 HASTINGS W. STEELE & SON, LTD. ROGERS BUILDING PRESTON & RAEF Empire State Building SPOKANE, WASH. GIRDWOOD & CO. VICTORIA, B. C. One Cent a Day for Safety! That it all you need pay to secure PROTECTION . (or your Papers, Securities or Jewellery, in the ttrongeit vault on the Pacific Coast. BOXES from $3.00 PER YEAR UP. Hours: 8:.'!() a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays: 8:30 a.m.-l p.m. Vancouver Safety Deposit Vaults B. C. Mining Building Pender at Homer Street 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 RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggist" We Make a Special Effort to Oat Hood* Oat by Tint Mall after Beeeiyt of Tour Order COBNEE COEDOV4 4HD CAIB1IL VAHCOTTTEK, B. C MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER three years it has been sitting. But I would point out to the members of the House that the tariff board has managed in that time to discover one kind of hame-strap on which the tariff ought to be reduced. However, it is too late now for that, because most of the farmers are using tractors, and tractors do not require name-straps. . . . "The hon. member f_pr Peace River (Mr. Kennedy) told us last session that, in an examination of the tariff over a period of forty years, he discovered that the Liberals had reduced it four-fifths of one per cent, more than had the Conservatives.".""'. . A free-trade party? Of course. A re- vision-of-the-tariff-downward party? received nothing. . . . Our favorable Certainly A low-tariff party? Cer- balance means that Canada has in creased her capital investments abroad. ... "Let me also point out to the minister that the balance of trade is to a considerable extent made up of investments by insurance companies in foreign securities abroad." The reduction in taxation made in deference to* the agriculturist of 4he West were ridiculed hr ^"ISeiat..- "The minister of finance says that he has-not reduced the tariff because the tariff board has not had timt to tainly. A tariff-for-revenue party? Yes. But always 'tariff' appears in the titlerand the tariff is the only part implemented." ;--—.., Let me add a postscript of protest A number of readers, especially from Saskatchewan, have' been* writing me asking me to take up their personal ■Jhwter-^Fhirt-is not my job. Were I to undertake this work I would be prevented from doing the -larger wbrlt for which I am sent to Ottawa. I cannot undertake such work takes time that should be devoted to other matters. Too much ought not to be expected from a member, even by his own constituents. If a member is to be a chore-boy he will not be able to have any very real part in determining the larger policies of the country. BIG DIVISION IN COMMUNIST RANKS New Vork.—The Communist brethren staged their well known act, "Free Speech and Solidarity," at a meeting inxthis city to protest against Trotsky^s deportation from Russia. Stalin, present .king-pin in Russia, was not without friends, and the factions fought in a manner that would shame a political convention of the "agents of the capitalist class." Police reserves were called to separate the kicking, biting, gouging champions of the proletariat. The' Stalin crowd broke up the meeting. The minority protested against / "the Fascist tactics of these gang- gnievanc*s with different .d,e_part,J-stars,"-.but the eteam roller was well oiled. Police and detective squads made a second call and disperse*) thc big ,Sji«^7an4< *s^»I: secbndaiy"meet^ make sufficient investigation in theEven to answer the letters to say"ffiat' 'irigs In various parts of the hall -.(' . Friday, March 29, 1929 THE LABOR STATESMAN Trades Union Directory LABOR HEADQUARTERS, S29-S31 BEATTY STREET Yancouyer Trad** and Labor Council— mUwrl*rht»' Local 1838—Conetmctlo* President, J__JI*mmaon. general secre- ,n(j operating- — Meets second and fourth Wednesday In Hall 315 tary Percy tC Bengough. Office, 200 Labor Headiiuarters, Ml Beatty St phone Sey. ^is%. Mteets In Labor Ball nt 8 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays ln month. 3fc ■••jirag, Dispensers Union Mo. 878— Meets last Sunday at 8 p.m.. Koom No. 3, Labor Headquarters. Pres., w. H. Clancy; Secretary'and Bus. Agent. T. J. Hanofln. Office: Room 14, Flack Block. Phones: Sey. 4783 an.d Bay 166S-H. Hours: 9 to.12 a.m. Bridge fc Structural Iron Workers, Local 87, Int. litoi.-Meels every Friday, Hall -311, Labor Headquarters: at 8 p.m. President, James F. Burns, 2833 Turner St.: Secretary, ,P. Lauret, Room 311. Labor Headquarters. Phone Fair. 2108 L. Building Trades Council, Vancouver— Meets second and fourth Tuesday in Hall 315, Labor Headquarters. President. E. H. Morrison; Secretary-Treasurer, W. Page, Room 301, Liibor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 7495. / Labor ^Headquarters.: .J, H. .Car-nphell, Prejalir dent; P. H. Edge. Fin. Sec; J. Murray Ure, Rec. Sec. Box 127. Motion Pictures Projectionists' Union, Local 348, of I.A.T.SX. fc M-PJst.O— 11:30 p.m. In Hall No. 2. Labor Headquarters. President. J. R. Foster; & Secretary. Geo. Gerrard. Box 345. Business, Phone Sey. 3923. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, Local 146,, A. 9. ot M Meets at the Q.W.V.A, Auditorium, second Sunday at 10^.m. President. E. C. Miller; General Secretary. W, E. Williams; Organiser, F. Fletcher, all at 9U1 Nelson Street. Painter*, Decorators end Paperhangera, - Local 138—Meets second and fourth Thursdays at Hall No. 2. President. Carl Jorgenson; Rec. Sec. A. E. Varah, 1442 Clark Drive; Business Agent, Ed. Smith. OfTice, Room 313, Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 3609. ■uSTS Isnl^S^oc^i^meeVn 2c-', *■**■■* »«««. »Hd«. Wharf and Boot Ion of America-—Local lzo, meeta sec- m-ntSimZ. Vaa.i7SKP uu u.»t. ..... ond and fourth Tuesdays In each month, In Hall No. 3,/Labor Headquarters. President, Fred Da we; Sec.- Treas., C. E. Herrett. Office, 304 Labor Headquarters-: * I Builders, local Mo. 2404—Meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock in 122 Hastings St. XV. President, Al. Graham: James Thomson, Secretary, P. O. Box 320. Phone Sey. 7874. Bookbinders- Local Mo. 105, Int. Broth-' Plasterers, Local 89—Operative Plaster- erhood—Meets second Tuesday In , ,rB* ana\ ctmtnt Finishers' Iuteraa- month at Professional and Business- Woman's Cluh, Empire Bldg.. 603 Has-1 ....... ,,. ,. ...., ■ /> r ..... fli r.n.A i tings W./Presldent, G. Low, 61 -'/s -63rd I Ave. W.r Secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton St. tlonal Association—Meets first and third Wednesday in month at Hall No. 2, Labor. Headquarters. President, Wm. Hroomhead; Secretary, A. Hurry, 861—34th Ave. E. Phone Fair. 3222R. Cement Finishers' Secretary, S. Cotton, 2630' Turner St. High. 3463R. Bricklayers', Masons' end Tile Setters' Union, Mo. 1—Room 309, Labor ; eadquarters. Meets second and plumbers end Steamfitters, Wo. 170, fourth Wednesday, in Hall No. 3 President, L. .Padgett, 2066 W. 8th Phone Bayview 1558 R; Secretary, W. S. Dagnall, 1244 East 20th, Phone Fair. 845 R; Fin. Sec, J. H. Riley, 5884 Inverness, Phone Fraser 542 L. Camp and Mill Workers Federal Labor Printing Pressmen end Assistants, Local International Association—Meets ery second and fourth Friday ln Hall No. 2. President, Art Jane; Secretary and Business Agent, W. Watt. 305-7 Lalior Headquarters. Union Mo. 31—Vancouver and vicinity, meets every second Wednesday at 8 p.m.. at 544 Powell St. E. President, H. Miyazawa: Secretary, K. Tsuyukl. r Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood ot, Local 453 President. J. G. Smith; Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley; Business Agent. W. Hargreaves. Office, Room 310, Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m., in Hall No. 1. City Mall Employees' Association— Meets first Wednesday of each month at 251(4 Hastings East at 8 p.m. President, A. J. Harrison; Treasurer, W. J. Scribbins, 3208 Pender St. E.: Secretary, J. Tarbuck. 3517 West 25th. Mo. 69—Meets every second Tuesday in Hi** month at 8 p.m. in Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President, Max Ernberg, 2035 Georgia East; Secretary, Thos. S. Ezart. 1603 40th Ave. E., So. Vancouver. ' BaUway Carmen of America, Lodge Mo. 58—Meets first and third Friday In month at Labor Headquarters. President, 11. IVarde. 816 East 12th.; Secretary, J. D. Vullamy, 2215—15th Ave. E. Three Woman Coal Operator British Labor Wins Blazes New Trail 10,786 Votes Over Tory Miss Josephine Roche, of Denver, chief owner of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, the first, and up to. date the only, coal mining corporation in Colorado to recognize fulTy and freely the right of the mine worker* to oreafliK as.-they. please and to have some say about wages and working conditions, stopped in Washington during a trip East recently. "The way organized labor has backed us ih this effort to stabilize conditions in the coal industry on a decent, civilized basis is inspiring," said Miss Roche^ Every . union in Denver organized coal committees to* sell the coal of this company which gave the work ers a square deal. The movement has extended beyond Denver. Coal committees have been formed in Pueblo, Salida and other Colorado towns and the State Federations of Labor of California and Nebraska have appealed to their members to help. So far as sales for domestic use are concerned, the results have been splendid. Workers Held Conference "Their loyalty has been beyond all praise," Miss Roche declared. On February 14th^-St. Valentine's day —about 200 representatives of these coal committees met in Denver, to get acquainted with each other, and consider ways and means for pushing the good work still farther. The oppostion to this new deal in the coal industry, though still as savagely bitter a6 ever, is no longer so united as it was at the beginning. In the mines themselves, the policy is working, snlendidly. Many things had to be char""-*4 and tested out, but, says Miss Ruche, "the patience and understanding of those workmen, are amazing." Adjust All Grievances Many suggestions leading to more efficient management have been received from the workers; and thus far, only one complaint has been made which had to come up to the head conference between union and management to be settled. The rest were disposed of by agreement with- Another staggering blow to the Government has been delivered by the electors of the Wansbeck Division, Northnmberlandi who have returned Mr. George William Shield, the Labor candidate, by a majority o-f 10)788rovor Ma Tory opponent, says the Daily (London) Herald. The figures are: G. W. Shield (Lab.) 20,398 I. M. Moffatt-Pender (C.) 9,612 H. A. Briggs (L.)...: 5,183 UNION GAFES & MERCHANTS Street aad Bleetrle Hallway Bmploysts, out being referred to the "higher Pioneer Division Mo. 101—Meeta K. P. uns" -,i -.il Hall, 8th and Kingsway, flrat and ups" at all. Civic Employees' Union, Looal 2E Meets flrst and third Fridays In the month at 251 % Hastings East at > p.m. President, It N. Hogg. 1718 Commercial Dr.; Setretary-Treasurer, George Harrison, 3427 Triumph St Mlectrleal Workers, loeal 313, International Brotherhood—Meets First and Third Monday, at 8 p.m., at Labor Headquarters. President, D. Mc- Pougal; Business Agent. E. H. Morrison. Ofrice, 201 Labor Headquarters. Bngineere—International Union Steam and Operating Local 844—Meets every Friday at 8 p.m. Hall 315. President. Geo. Pettipiece; Ilec.-Sec, D. Hodges; Business Agent and Fin. Sec, T. A. N'ewbigglng. Office, Room 306, Labor Headquarters. lire PlghUrs, No. 18, International Association of—Meets every month at call of president at 251H Hastings E. President. N. McDonald. Ill* McLean Drive: Financial Secretary. C. A. Watson. 1329—13th Ave. E. Ploorlay.rs' Union, Mo. 1878, XT. X. ot C. ft 3. A.—-Meets first and third Thursdays ln month at Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President, G. Mayne; Fin Sec. T. H. Hamlin: Rec. Sec, W. D. Wilson, 1635—6th Ave. XV. Mod Carriers aad Bnlldlng Laborers, Mo. •02, International — Meets flrst and third Fridays in month at Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. President, Sam Floyd, 952 Seymour St.; Fin. Sec and Acting Business Agent, James Binding. 52 West 24th;'Phone Fair. «15»L. Motel aad Beetaaraat Bmployeee aad ■Carta* Cooks ft Stewards, loeal 38— Williams Bldg., 413 Granville Street. Meets second Monday each month at 3 p.m.. last Monday at 9 p.m. Presl-. dent, Thos. Edwards: Sec.-Treas. and Bus. Agent. J. Cumming. Phone Sey. 125. . Auxiliary, Local 171 —United Brotherhood of Carpenters — Meets every flrst and third Wednesday of each month in Hall 201, Labor Headquarters, at I p.m. President. Mrs. C. J. Atkinson, 730 19th Ave. W.i SecreUry, Elisabeth J. Hope. 1042 7th Ave. K. Lathers, Wood, Wire aad Metal, International Union, Local 207—Meeta second and fourth Mondays in month at Hall 211, Labor Headquarters. W. Fontaine. Secretary, 1828 Commercial Dr. Phone High. 2169 H. th7*-*d MondayVat io'-'IYm. a'ntW rTm. I Miss Roche's work has attracted President, J. E. Smith; Recording national attention, as is evidenced Secretary, J. Price; "ejreasurer, J. Auton; Financial Secretary and Bus! ness Agent, H. W. Speed. OITIce Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Sey. 5000. Sheet Metal Workers Association, looal Union Mo... 280-^Meets second and fourth Thursdays in Hall No. 3 ■President, Jas. Strachan, 2205 W. 11th; Business Agent and Secretary, D. MacPherson, 308 Labor Headquarters. Shlnf-le weaver*, loeal 17813—Meet* second Tuesday ln month In Room No. 2, Labor Temple, New Westminster, and fourth Sunday, 7:10 p.m.. In Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters, Vancouver. President, J. Stevenson; Secretary, J. N. Chute, 1163 Pender E.. Phone High. 1982 Y. Tailor*' Journeymen Union of America, local No. 178—Meeting* held flrat Thursday, each month, 8 p.m. Executive meet* third Thursday of every month ln Labor Headquarters. President, Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. W. Hocken, 1582 13th Ave. S-; Financial Secretary, H. Nordlund, 1930 12th Ave. E. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, local 408—311 Labor Headquarters. Meets every First and Third Monday, Labor Headquarters, President. A. A. McKay, 765 Cambie St.; Secretary-Treasurer, A. P. Black, 880 Homer St. Union, Theatrical Stag* Employee*' local 118 of tie I.A.TJI.E. ft M.P.M O —Meets "at 991 Nelson Street on the second Friday In month, at 9:30 a.m. President. Rod Martin: Secretary, Olordon Martin; Bus. Agent, Harry Mitehel; Address P. O. Box 711. Typographical Union, Mo. 138— President, C. S. Campbell; Vice-President. R. Gouthro; Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neeiands, 300-2 Labor Headquarters. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., In Women's Bldg.. Thurlow street John D. Jr. Protests "Coercing Employees" John D. Rockefeller, Jr., says that Robert W. Stewart coerced the employees of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana into giving him their proxies. The charge gets strong presumptive support from the fact that 99.67 per cent, of these employees have given their proxies to Mr. Stewart, who is chairman of the board of directors, and therefore their boss. What is the "employee ownership" idea worth if it does not tie the worker to the management? What is a company union for if not to coerce employees? Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., has been an apostle of "employee ownership," and he , is pretty nearly the father of the company union in America. He introduced that abomination in California shortly after the Ludlow massacre, and no worker in the Rockefeller mines there has been able to claim his own soul since. ,-AA!Cofreingr employees!" Labor has little dorm that Stewart did it; but he learned how to do H in the Rocke- | feller school.—Labor, farmer: "If I-were as lazy as you,I .The proxies from the employees ffaTsft,lJ&*r?Sq£r,^ m*lelt.}""* S^fi Effft Mr ?te*«rt* ^ever, o. Campbell. Secreiary-TriroVeV ■ Hobo:, No, you wpuldn t. If you for he has been eliminated entirely H. O. 'Avery. 7914 Montcalm Street were a8 ,azv as m* you wouldn't have from the board, of directors nf Un» ' '• any bam." Standard Oil Company of IndianaT Machinists' Looal 888—President, Thoa Sill*, 1152 Burrard St; SecreUry. P. R. Bengough. Office, Room 200, Labor . Headquarters. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays In Hall 312. Milk Wagon Drivers aad Dairy Em •**, local 484—Office 308. Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Fridays In Hall No. 1. President E. Metcalfe; ' Secretary-Treasurer, Blrt Showier. 2841 Triumph. Phone High. 6327. ; Mill aad Factory Worker*' Union, loeal ■ '-*♦*•■». "lSft — Affiliated with United Brotherhood ot Carpenter* A Joiners Phone Marpole I4IR. WOMEN'S AUZXIIABT Mo. 78 to Vancouver Typographical Union meet* flrat Thursday of each month, la the Vanconver Women's Building, 788 Thurlow Street. President, Mrs. M. J. Trnmper, Salt* 41, 840 Kelson Street; Secretary, Una A. Pettipiece. 1846 Balaclava Boad. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday In each ' jj* month. President, S. D. McDonald. Box 2(8. Secretary, Prank Derry, Box 491. Prince Rupert B.C Labor majority over Conservative 10,786 Labor majority over both opponents 5,603 It is a great victory and a splendid omen for the general election, said Mr. G. W'. Shield, when congratulated on his 10,000 majority. "It is evident," he continued, "that the Baldwin Government, with its black record of class legislation against the workers, and its callous neglect of the industrial problems of today, has lost the confidence of the bulk of the electors, even including many among its own former supporters." • ■ The new member, a native of Haltwhistle, Northumberland, is 52 years old, and started-work in the pit at 13. For the past 18,#ears he has been check-weighman at South Tyne Colliery, Haltwhistle, where he is also a member of the local council and Board of Guardians. He has also served on the county council, and is a trustee of the Northumberland Miners' Association. Scenes of tremendous enthusiasm were witnessed at the declaration, and in.every part of the division the workers of-Wansbeck received the news with delight. Winston's Shock "Winston Churchill rang the alarm bell and got an electric shock," was the comment of one' Labor supporter. "Baldwin won't want to remember his Newcastle visit," said another. At the 1924 elections the figures were: G. H. Warne (Lab.) 21,159 Mrs. Middleton (Toryf.'18,875 Seymour 3168 Alwaya Open Empir ire 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 la a Hurry, Drop ln at E|f Order. FRED'S Are Always r> • v x. "ok." at Dairy Lunch "It'a the Coffee" 72 Hasting* West Always Open «. WILKINSON, tests, D. DUNCAN. Sec Reynolds'Cartage Co. Phone* Seymenr 8877-8371 Orating, Paoklng, Shipping and Storage Furniture and Piano Moving Long Distance Moving Pool Car Shipments Ortle* and WanknMi 788 — OAMBIB STBBBT — 788 PERRY & DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 by the fact that one object of her Eastern; visit was to address a conference on trade union organization called by the Labor College in Philadelphia last week. "It was a wonderful gathering," said Miss Roche, "and I am sure will be productive of much good." Miss Roche inherited large holdings in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company from her father, a pioneer operator in the Colorado field. Secured Control of Mines It was not a controlling interest, but it gave the young woman a place on the board of directors, where she found herself surrounded by "hard- boiled" operators of the old school. After the tragic failure of the last coal strike in Colorado she succeeded in securing enough stock to enable her to elect new directors.and to inaugurate an enlightened labor policy. Naturally this did not please the "open shoppers," in and out of the coal industry, and they have thrown every possible obstacle in her way, but she has bravely held to her course. Labor majority 2,284 It will be seen that the total poll has fallen from 40,034 to 35,193, a reduction foreshadowed in view of the great number of workers who have left the northeastern industrial areas owing to the terrible conditions brought about under the Baldwin regime. The Tory vote has dropped by 9,263; the Liberal, as usual, cuts a miserable, figure. The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. 2.171 DEAD MINERS REPORTED LAST YEAR Washington.—There were 2,171 deaths in the coal mines of this country last year, according to the United States Bureau of Mines. Of this number 1,724 fatal accidents occurred in soft coal mines and 447 in the anthracite fields. The mine output for the year is estimated at 492,755,000 tons of bituminous and .76,734,000 tons of anthracite. The fatality rate per million tons of coal mined was 3.50 for bituminous and 5.83 for anthracite, with a total of 3.81 for the entire industry. NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trade* St Labor Council Boom 803, 18 Hastings Street Bast Phone*: Sey. 74*5-6271 Wilson & McNeill Painters and Decorators Everything pertaining to the trade. 1156 E. 13th. Phone Fair. 6248 Labor has .won another by-election in Great Britain. This makes five wins in* a month. In this connection, Ramsay MacDonald and his followers are sure taking the "win" out of Baldwin, and leaving him quite "bald." wet. *ITD Clothing Company limited 45-47-49 EAST HASTINGS STREET When You Think of Clothes Think of this store In terms of that new suit or topcoat that you will need for the new season. A wonderful collection is ready—clothes that are the finest shown anywhere at the price. Just think— New Spring Suits and Topcoats $19 and $25 STVXE—SERVICE—SATISFACTION While you are ip the store you can pick out an fiiually pleasing Hat ahd all the jlxlnirs down to Hosiery and I'nderwear at substantial savings. STETSON KROf'K HATS .BLACK BEAK '-ARRHART OVERALLS STANFIELIIS PENMAN'S i:nderweak ■ it ... Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, March 29, 1929 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at Labor Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. Ovyned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades —•-■-; ' and- Labor GouncH-— H. W. Watts, Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE Chairman', Wm. Page (Building Trades Council), P. R. Bengoupsh, (Metal Trail if s). It. H. Neeiands (Printing Trades), W. Deptford (Transportation Trades), B. Showier (Teaming Trades), T. Hanofln (Beverage Trades), C. ller- n-tt (Label Trades). Phone Seymour 6279 - Vancouver, Fri., -March 29, 1929 GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP IN CANADA As bearing on the problem of unemployment, the British Labor party advocate the nationalisation of various industries, answering that this is no solution Premier Baldwin instances Canada's government rail- ''ways to show that nationalization is a failure. There are many things about Canada that Premier Baldwin (Iocs not know, or does not want to know. Canada's experience with State ownership of railways is really three separate problems. Jo "bring the Maritime Provinces into the Canadian Confederation, what was then called- Upper and Lower Canada agreed to build a railway from the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic seaboard. It was felt that the proposed road would for some unknown period be run at a loss, but the two Canadas were willing tq pay the price to extend thc new union to the Atlantic shores. The writeY knows very little regarding the construction of this railroad— the Intercolonial—and a great deal about its operation. In thc hands of honest and capable men, it is a fair presumption that the road would have been self-supporting within a few years, but strange to say Liberals and Conservatives have been singularly unfortunate in that the man whom they selected for Parliament Were any bought the street railway system of Havanna and made other large South American investmciyST The Giand Trunk Pacific; was Laurier's dream—or nightmare. The plan was that the government being able to get money cheaper than the railway company they should build the road from Quebec to Rupert. When completed the Grand Trunk Railway were to lease it at a rate relative to the construction costs. Laurier and his party built the road on the same plan as both parties operated the Intercolonial. From Quebec to Rupert patronage and plunder ruled—construction contracts were given in payment of political debts. Men who had absolutely no experience and not a dollar's worth of equipment, and not a dollar in cash blossomed out into railway construction contractors with ten to twenty- five miles .of construction to put through. The government candidate in an interior British Columbia district was defeated; his previous experience was school teaching; he was penniless, but we next find him with a _ ten-mile construction contract' in the Hazelton district. The result of this method of construction was that th/ Grand Trunk refused to take over the road and pay a rental that vyould take care of thc millions of dollars potlached and charged to construction. This left the government with two transcontinental railways on* their hands. At many, points they paralleled each other and served a territory that could be served by one road. »As a sample of this: For three hundred miles west of Edmonton a fence and sometimes a creek separates the two railway grades. These three roads, brought under one management, is the Canadian National Railway of today. When the two last foundlings got left on the government doorstep, together with three hundred millions of. bonds indebtedness, and which must be paid whether the roads are operated or not, the thing got past the joke stage, in which the Intercolonial had- always been and so both political parties agreed to take the railroad out of. politics and place it under competent management. The result of this policy already has justified the hope that nothwithstanding the dup- thing else but honest, and with this I l"-"t-°n of lines and the tens of mil- class of person in control the Inter-1 *-ons of waste ln construction, the colonial degenerated into a political j Canadian Government Railways will tool with which the party in .power J76* Prove successful. Whatever of bought the support of the districts I f"'lure there has been in Canada's tributary to the road. For forty ""'wiy experience has been due to years the operation of the road was so inefficient and dishonest that it passed the point where men condemned and became a huge joke; from end to end over a thousand miles every government supporter — General Booth has been deposed within titheing distance looked for something from the road—a job on the road, a contract for ties—and sometimes the railway forgot to ask for delivery, and the contractor forgot to cut the ties. A sick cow with, vitality enough to be driven to the i the cupable dishonesty" of Liberal and Conservative politicians, and not to any weakness in the principle of State ownership.—M. from the leadership of the Salvation Army and General Higgins appointed in his place. The "iggins" will now contract to deliver freak religion or cheap labor.—M. The joker which rules Italy has railway was paid for by the govern- just staged a comic opera election, ment. A "free pass" was political There was only one candidate al- legal tender, and, if nothing else lowed for each position, so the ques- t'ould be devised a claim was made tion voted on Was: "Do you favor for damaged freight, and collection' our appointee, or would you like to was made from a claims agent who' be laid on your back and pumped knew he could be fired for paying full of castor oil?" A very large too little. On the top of this style j majority favored the appointees.—M. of management the Canadian Pa- L& nil, ?hiIW»tyn^r 8.ubfdi"d t0 conJ "The Sonbof Freedom," a Douk- shorler ro-Z Tf \\l '■ muc.l_ hobor sect, were chased out of Nel- SdZhar ™' »d ' W°rSe; '" ma' son' They gathered on a corner and 2KL2S5 f «•"" government j denounced the present civilization, Trunin.h In ' >C fG^a"d the United States and Great Britain knds.ii.e »« *" »It&0,iP?rt- *« cruiser building, the educational cclniaf &V IohrlHhH«Il'fter";system' capitalism, and said that the. otToVetmeUJOdhirno"Ufgov.7WOrld ~»-™1* by 5aten" « this ernment ownership, and they took every necessary step to assure that the principle was a glorious failure. The Canadian Northern was the whim of two men—McKenzie and fellow could only keep his clothes on while he rattled like this there would be hope for him-yet.—M. "The Province" calls the Honorable Attorney-General "Cromwell, o^ ^adaVere'tlf^'tr 9£3 ' "M^SKSH^f-S^ cLv f hT,IH s"ffc*<*nt*y »'l">«d | We are rather.glad to have this pre- raUwayanmake^themTrifl"^ ft cedent 8et' ■*«""* we m*ht some- \t! M*n, ij u" P VW time Wish t0 aPP-y a few P^ names Ivrnrf&hn'Ti f '»"" S * Bdr t0 *™» other members of the Cabi- tney could not build forty miles of np* am road, but with the Dominion and Provincial subsidies, government guaranteed bonds, and moneys wheedled from English investors, the road was built. Towards the finish the war upset the money market so that the two musketeers were unable to complete the terminals or equip with rolling stock. Having to meet the bond interest and principal, the government stepped in as receiver and took over the road. But let no one imagine that Messrs. McKenzie and Mann lost monpy on the deal. From the Atlantic to the Pacific they plundered the-road by letting construction contracts to themselves, their agents travelled • ahead of the projected line, staking everything that the railway would give value to, and a hundred thousand simple folks were persuaded to pour th«.ir savings into . these gentlemen's pockets by mean$ of townsite?, like ''Port Mann." Out of the profits of this railway failure these "gentlemen OLD-AGE PENSION LAW ENACTED IN WYOMING Cheyenne. Wyo.—Organized la- Hor in this State is jubilant over the legislature's acceptance of the old- ige principle. The act will be enforced by county commissioners. The maximum monthly, allowance will be $30 for dependent persons over 66 and whose total assets do not exceed $3;0G0. ANOTHER LOCKOUT - Bill- found the door locked and holted when he arrived home at 1 a.m. the other'morning.-, "Where have jiouv been-till this time in the morning?" his wife yelled at, him out of the-window:: ; "I've; been at the Labor" Headquarters, considering a strike," said Bill. ■"Well, you can stay out-si.do and consider a lockouf," said Bill's .wife. Spring EdiMr Labor Statesman: Sir—Why all this fuss and flare over this fellow Archibald? You seem to think he is the only poet on your staff. Maybe you're right in this respect, but there is another poet Knot on your staff) who in spite of Archibald's abilities can and does, much as he regrets _b.ejnE_ forced in self-defence to do so, places Archibald in the shade.—Berner Pshaw. Homer wrote his poetry in antiquated Greek, Which very few of us can read, and fewer still can speak; Homer died, a9 all men must, he did not live to see The marvels of the present age: that's Archibald and me. Archie's poems ripple like the sunshine in the glade, A transcendental genius, he., was born, he wasn't made; His vague, illusive rhymes, weaves a mystic fleeting spell That will lift one up to Heaveri from the labyrinths of Hell. He hurls his shafts of satire, like the thunderbolts of Jove, Then, graciously relenting, leads through gentle forest grove; When righteous rage possesses, he will emulate.the roar • Of mighty ocean pulsing upon earth's unyielding floor. ^S That Archibald is wonderful, all poets will agree; But he's not the greatest wonder, for they must consider me. —Berner Pshaw. SPRING There is no doubt now that Spring is going to be early this year, if we only judge from the activities of "ome of the Spring Poets that seem to be at large. The above letter nnd verses arrived by mail just before wc went to press. We thought they were rather complimentary to Archibald, but, strange to say, he took quite a different view of the matter, since he flew into a violent rage and, drawing his pen, dashed off the following reply: Oh, pray, what has your motive been, now Mr. Berner Pshaw? I'd like to know just what you mean by shoving in your paw; There's more in this than meets the eye, if I can read the signs, For the green-eyed monster Jealousy, peeps out between your lines. It seems to me, my noble friend, you have a pretty wit, But nothing you can say or do e'er worries me a bit; For Archibald's not in the shade, he's second still to none, And only hopes that he some day will meet you in the "Sun." • So come out in the open, sir, cast off your vile disguise, For I'd like to see this creature who does dare to criticize, Who stoops to villify jny name, just simply for a whim, If e'er I get him in my clutch, I'll tear him limb from limb. —P. A. Beall. Decent Wages Will End Child Labor Evil Dr. John A. Lapp of Marquette University wants to prohibit the industrial employment of children under 16 years of age. "It is social suicide to permit children under 16 to be employed when adults with dependents to support cannot find work." says this famous economist. "With the million or more children under 16 now employed taken out of industry, there would be room for an army of unemployed adults." <-' Of course Labor agrees with Dr. Lapp, and it wishes to suggest two .ways by which the desired objective may" be attained: / Give the/ father wages enougb^to support h» family in reasonable comfort, and nine times out of ten he will keep the children in school at ieast until they are 16. If the father dies or is diasbled, pension the mother. In the heavy majority of cases she is a skilled worker in the home—and ah unskilled worker outside. Her economic value is 'far greater in caring for the children than in any other occupation. v Incidentally, wherever mothers' pensions have received anything like a fair trial, they work. Dr. Gorgas-^the real builder of the Panama Canal—oiice said that if he were limited to one measure for improving public health,- he wou'd take high wages. The same rule holds good in promoting social health. Other things are desirable, useful, even necessary; but a g/.od- sized pay enysJpp-*. s^p4«At the.Aead of the list - ..-■ - ™ MtmrflCAi. cu»a ™ C»>t-.-.-* OO-MO or I«**«iX WiMSiPlO CHAIN VAMCOUvCO ORA'N vAr-COuvl" «tAi t»T*rt ■j0fe.0i.ini -I MM **l**X!! .*■•.' ■ ■< ■- -iTOcn VICTORIA tTOCM (aimuv .'(«:« WIMNIM.0 t-TXH -it ai i n. ii«.» 1MMAM )T*h£A*0 ytOC* COAST BREWERIES LTD. T!u- turn-la .-nrnliiKH nf thlB prosperous British Columbia. Copipany irive ©vary indication of n Very substantial miirtfin OVSr the present dividend re-riuirt-inentH of 46 cents per share per quarts**. 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Industrial Credit Corporation '" ..' ...*.'' LIMITED* ' _• ''- .{Seymour 9354 7 402 Pender Street West „7 . .; ... P, Mention.."Lafcer„Statesman" .. . '1.7. . ''■saniMiHinpHnMi *ttm^— STATESMAN &* Fivu or tKU *'■ f, tV"» .^labVe Y°V, s«v^TnA PtldC ' ^°fovet »^S» , ** *°»' \e\«*K* n.G.° P .t,ete •» T^^. in * use i*^S* , .0 *'inft ^ 'oVot* •" moo**"0»* to j*--. as •K-3&* \.so. »3 Co>* *- -.on viV «'* rout**1 irt* ,. t,-Wg' ¥*•** .7 /. cVtN ...V, Co*-*0 .60 .gvo tgt ci* Co«V ,o« .1* JS G=->* *cg' Vfo«&&* Trade Schools Are Still Getting Suckers The worst feature of the profit system under which we exist is not so much the large amount of wealth the profiteers are able to grab fur them- 3^.v^fs«i-lVea,* iind/the small'amount that is allowed-to the producers of wealth, but the fact -thpt, under the.greatest, of all delusions—"democracy"—the owners of wealth can deliberately condemn millions of workers to idleness and starvation. ' Considering the size and seriousness of the problem, it is seldom mentioned in our newspapers, churches or fraternal organizations; the average worker with a job has very liftle sympathy with his unemployed brother. Little does he realize that this disease, if allowed (;o go unchecked, will sooner or later get him. They look upon those who tell them that it is possible to" have a social system—without enforced poverty— as cranks, but are quite willing to listen to quacks who prey upon their ignorance to fleece those who happen to have a few dollars of hard-earned savings: Perhaps the worst offenders are the so-called trade schools, correspondence courses, etc. Here is an example. "$100.00 Clear Cash Profit for You/'-^An eastern company offers to teach any and everybody showcard ...writing ' for tha-yaittall amount (?) of" $46.00. As bait, it suggests that you _ paljf... $16.00 down and the *-,' *.*t>tW y(kj\"ha\tf made $100 out"- i>/'We WoTRr.' Thefe are more showcard writers looking for work today than could supply the needs of the trade for ten years. Thousands of returned soldiers took up that line, and are not working at it because they would have starved at it, yet trade schools arc still able to pick up suckers. There are so-called trade schools that profess to teach motor mechanics, or even plastering, in a few weeks' course—trades which ordinarily should take years to learn—the price averaging $100 for a four to six weeks' course, and there seems.; to he plenty of suckers to be caught. How many people have had their cars ruined by inferior mechanics, the product of trade schools? A friend of mine had his house plastered by two ex-students of a local trade school. They professed to be experienced plasterers, but confessed afterwards that they had only had one month's training, paying $100 each for the alleged training. They took on a contract^ spent five times as long on the job\as a union plasterer would have taken to do it, and made such a mess of it that they had to get off the job without pay. The work then had to be stripped and done by a union plasterer. Might we suggest that the Trades and Labor Council try to get these so-called schools abolished, or at least placed under government supervision. We cannot blame the poor fellows for trying to better themselves, or to keep out of the pit that the profit system is relentlessly pushing them into.—T.R. Sey. 7137 SAFE TO USE--- Double-screened; No Shale <jjf11111111111 ■ »1111111111111111111111■ 11111■ 11111111111■ 11■ 1111111111111111111■ 111111111111111■ 11ijj I. L. P. in Manitoba | HVH ?or Good Coal! i In Important Fight Phone Highland 2791 NANAIMO-WELLINGTON FOOTHILLS' = DRUMHELLER and SOOTLESS EGG, $9.00. S Star Goal Co., Ltd. f 1 FREE DELIVERY . PHONE: HIGH. 279 I IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll h^ ' -■ BARNET^LUMBER CO., LTD. 3995 HASTINGS STBEET EAST Olen. 384 * Might Calls Olen. 423. C»H 399Y3 H;g*li. 180 . BARNET BOOSTS * BETTER BUILT BUNGALOWS FOR SPECIALS 500.000 rEET PEE SAY SEE.'US Winnipeg.—The Independent Labor party of Manitoba announces a campaign to tell the truth about the transfer of the Seven Sisters power site to private power interests by the Bracked government , Thi3 is in preparation for the general election which is expected in the near future. The Seven Sisters deal will probably be the paramount issue. CANADIAN" PACIFIC'S EARNINGS HIGH IN 1928 Montreal.—Gross earnings of thc Canadian Pacific for 1928 were the highest in the history of the road, according to a preliminary report issued last week.* . —> . Net profits were equal to 14.89 per cent, on the common stock, and compares with 12.07 per cent, in 1927; . -'r-.- '■ ' : . TKe gross earnings were $229,- 039,297;. working expenses,- $177,- 344,345; leaving, netvearnings at $51,694,452. In addition there was |l "special income" amounting to $12,- ,-077,683. - ■ ** .... :•■•• Xo Tees. No Charges. Save a* You Plea**. Full Withdrawal*. ASSETS OVER 7^1.000,000.00 Prudential Savin?* and Loans Association 102-3 YORKSHIRE BI.DO. Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealer* 158 Cordova W. Phone Sey. 8687 See Us About Broken GlaRB In Windows, Automobiles, Mirrors. Showcases, etc. Art Ola** Repaired Mirrors Re-silvered VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis; Rad Cold KASSAQE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. 8EY. 2070 L. P. VANCOUVER SOUTH I NOTES The branch executive considered a letter from the Winnipeg I.L.P. re a proposed meeting of the public representatives of Labor in the various [.provinces. The need for such a meeting is apparent. The size of Canada, which decided the federal character of our political institutions, also imposed the form of independent provincial groups for political,. Labor purposes. The provinces of Canada have no individual traditions or racial differences that keep them apart; only the vast area and difficulty of communication provides a reason for their independent political^existenee. As the geographical difficulties are overcome, I feel sure our political institutions will tend to centralize, the provincial governments becoming more administrative than executive bodies. And similarly the Labor movement will lose its federal character and take its place in the coun: cils of the nation as a united nation*-' al party. These changes are probably well ahead of us. Yet, somehow, one can- pot think of meeting our Winnipeg friends without seeing the value such a meeting might have on the permanent development of the party. The executive were sympathetic to the proposed meeting, the only difficulty was financial. Our final proposal was that thc provincial executive, should got in touch with the branches and. learn how much each branch could donate toward the expense of at least one delegate to the meeting. We trust that the blanches will see the necessity for pinching themselves in order that we be" represented. The next meeting of Vancouver So,uthT.L.P. Will be held in the Horticultural Hall, 43rd and Fraser, on Friday,'April 12th,''at-9?p;"tnr' * , CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES Write or telephone for descriptive booklet today. Vancouver representative, (7 G. Bever- idge, 306 London Building, 626 West Pender Street; telephone Sev. 4551. INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY BEANCH SECRETARIES Mount Pliasant: J. Sldaway, 623 East Tenth. South Vancouver: W. Ford, 84 West Forty-seventh. Central: W W. Lefeaux. 401 Metropolitan Building. STORM OF PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS IN HUNGARY The severe unemployment and gen- economic depression in Hungary has caused the Social-democratic party ko fthat country to hand in no less than 34 questions in the Hungarian parliament. These questions set forth the present economic situation as follows: "Industry and trade are suffering from severe depression. The number of bankrupt firms is increas- . ing enormously, and the concentration of the employers also tends to increase unemployment. But the gov- erpment obtains year by year ever- increasing surplus balances, which are due to heavy taxation. Produc- y ~~ tion and consumption are burdened by a two per cent; tax on* sales and - by high duties, also by an anti-social . laxajjpn system, from which -even the 7, '..'; subsistence riiininfum is not exempt* ed.~ All- this is terribly oppressive to ■';. the living conditions of the j;orKinK^;vw_,„ - class. . Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Fiidav, March 29, 1929 Home Builders ATTENTION! BUILD A HOME OF YOUR OWN. IMPROVE AND BEAUTIFY YOUR PRESENT HOME - THEN HELP SOMEONE ELSE TO ACQUIRE A HOME BY LENDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT O UR Federal and Provincial Governments, banking and Business houses are all preaching THRIFT. Even our schools have taken it up in late years, and, by practical demonstration (miniature banks and savings accounts), are inculcating the virtue of thrift into the children. There can be no question in regard to the necessity of this campaign. Whether we realize it or not the fact remains that the Canadian people are wasteful to a degree. It would not be difficult for any of us to make a list of things we buy habitually which we do not need and which are of little value to us. There is one outstanding example of wastefulness, however, which can be laid at the door of most families and for which there is 'absolutely no excuse—and that is, buying rent receipts. And it is so unnecessary. If the wage-earner gave but a moment's thought to the matter this is one leak in his expense account he would mend immediately. We have all known families to pay rent as long as they lived. And one hundred per cent, of them longed for a home—a real home of their own—but felt that they couldn't afford one. They never stopped to think that the rent they paid—say $20 per month, or $240 per year—would pay interest on $3,000 at 8 per cent. And $3,000 would build a better house than tbe majority of those which they occupied. And it would be THEIR VERY OWN, BUILT TO SUIT THEIR INDIVIDUAL TASTES. AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS OR CONVENIENCES ADDED WOULD BE THEIR'S, TOO! You may feel that you cannot lay out that amount NOW. Here is where THRIFT comes in. By reducing the amount of luxuries indulged in, the problem is easily solved. We have not the figures for Canada, but statistics compiled in the United States show that an average of $276.00 a year for every man, woman and child is spent on cosmetics, chewing gum, sodas and soft drinks, joy rides and pleasure resorts. And these are only a very few items in the list of extravagances. Saving a little here and a little there—and that for a very few years—and a real HOME is assured. And by saving is not meant total deprivation. By no means! Simply a curtailment of the many unnecessary expenditures you now make. And what more sensible investment than buying a home? It not only ensures happiness and contentment to yourself and your life partner, but provides a fitting setting as well as a congenial atmosphere for raising a family. Think it over tonight. Don't wait, is yours. Time is fleeting and the present only MORTGAGE LOANS ARE THE SAFEST AND SUREST OF INVESTMENTS The following progressive firms and organisations are co-operating in presenting this Weekly Campaign to our readers. Read the list. You know them all. And remember that, apart from their recommendation and advice, they are always ready to help you build your own home. THE W. H. MALKIN CO. LTD. CANADA PERMANENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION THE MARTIN SENOUR CO. LTD. McLEOD SASH & DOOR CO. LTD. CANADIAN BAKERIES LIMITED BARNET LUMBER CO. LTD. REYNOLDS CARTAGE CO. LTD. CHAMPION ft WHITE LTD. INSULAR MAHOGANY PRODUCTS AYRES VARNISH ft PAINT CO. Ltd. R. HOFFMEISTER EVANS, COLEMAN ft EVANS, LTD. WILSON ft McNEILL, Painters EMPIRE STEVEDORING CO. LTD. ANT I MO WHlffe ■•^mt^a^,. . . Manufactured Excluiively by -' - R. C JAMIESON ft CO. LTD. LEEK ft CO. LTD. 1111 Homer Street. Tel. Sey. 661. Hot Water Heating, Foci Oil Plant*, Iron Fireman Coal Stoker* Suitable for the Home. A. B. CUSHING MILLS, LTD. WESTERN GLASS CO., LTD. FIDELITY LUMBER CO. LTD. Lumber, Shingle*, S»»h and Door*, Building Supplies. "" yrtSO Chari*.*St. Ptratw* High. I S3 1-S4 CROWN PAINT COMPANY Limited "Direct,Service From Factory to You" PACIFIC (Coyle) NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD. CEDAR COVE SASH ft DOOR CO. LTD. INDUSTRIAL CREDIT CORPORATION LTD. JJSE UN,ION LABOR ^■7-'-T^V«^^--»«*«j«i»«u«i,AM.-iy.-.-+iAA] - JStsm ^ w l-'riday, March 29, 1929 THE-tABOR STATESMAN Seven Weak Men and All Diseases of Men Take our Herbal Remedies WHITE for pamphlet on Loss of Manhood and Disorders IVeuIiar to Men; in 'plain envelope! Kre-j by maiL Ad vie* free. 35 yearn' experience. Open 2 to 6 and 7 to 8 every week day except Wed. and Sat., when cloned aU day. Phone Douglas 3394 The English Herbal Dispensary, Limited I3S9 Davie St., Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver's Only Genuine Herbalists Classified Adverts. BARRISTERS ajto solicitors Wallf* w. Lefeaux, 403 Metropolitan Bnlldlav. Phone Say. 8667. ■ATMS Hasting* Steam Baths Vrfe* 3Bo Only 786 Ha*Ung* Street Bast DEMTISTS Br. W. A. Butledge. IM Hasting* W NOTARY PUBLIC 9. X. B.ngongh. 803 Hold-in Bids. tabor Statesman. 803-816 Holdon Bldg. < RUPTURE SPECIALIST C. B. Hoard. 813 Robson UNDERTAKERS Armstrong- fe Kotion, 304 Dnnlovy Avo. "We Do Not Patronize" COMMERCIAL TAXI. VANCOUVER BOYS' AND GIRLS' BAND. STEEVES DAIRY. CRYSTAL DAIRY. AVENUE THEATRE CHANTICLEER CAFE. METROPOLITAN LUNCH. TROCADERO CAFE. NATIONAL LUNCH. ALL WHITE LUNCHES. WALDORF CAFE. COLLARD, the Clothier, 60S Hailing* W. LEN A. DAVIS, Lathing Com. tractor, CLARKE & STUART. MURPHY A CHAPMAN. ROSE, COWAN & LATTA. GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G. A., LTD. J. W. BOYD, LTD. Anthorlied by th* Vancouver, Hew Wastmlnstar and Blstrlot Trad** sat labor Council, for th* Information of all union mombers. Co-op. Living Plan Manitoba I. L. P. Seeks Now Not Utopiaiij-^Financial Assistance CKttKKKMKKgKKKKKKKKKKKKKXKKKKKlCWHHi New York.—When Edward . Bellamy, American author, wrote "Looking Backward," a generation ago, the public laughed at his Utopian schemes. One of these included a central place for cooking meals for families. Bellamy's theorjy, however, iB accepted by an educational committee at Teachers' College, Columbia University, in their plan for family apartments. Conveniences to be made possible by co-operative living will relieve housewives of cooking by means of a central kitchen. The committee will interest education^ and civic organizations in the project that the necessary finances is assured to erect the building. "It seems possible," said Professor' Benjamin R. Andrews, "to find practicable means for removing from the family of moderate means the burdens which are handicapping them in their work and their home life. Service, central preparation of food and child care are already being provided in many apartments for families of larger income. The pros- posal is unique in endeavoring to combine these and possible other services and put them within the reach of families with smaller incomes." Soviet industrial production reached a new high level during December, reports Amtorg, Russian-American trading firm. Oil and steel reached record figures, while foreign trade showed a favorable balance. During the year oil production increased 16 per cent.; steel, 30 per cent.; textiles, 25 per cent: Despite decreased grain exports, total exports for the year showed a two per cent, increase, while exports gained 26 per cent. VANCOUVER TRADES ABB LABOR COUNCIL President - Jam** Thomson Vlco-Prosldont W. J. Bartlett General Soc.-Tr.as P. B. Bengough Statistician O. B. Herrett Warden Walter Deptford Executive, Committee Chairman. COMMITTEES: Organisation! Colin McDonald (chair.). Tailors. P. it Bengough, Machinists. W. J. Bartlett, Blacksmiths. Jas. Thomson, Pile Drivers. C. Herrett, Barbers. Legislative: B. H. Neeiands (chair.), Typographical. W. J. Scribbins, Civic Employees. P. It. Bengough. Trades Council. F. A. Hoover, Street Railwaymen. C. A: Watson, Fire Fighters. XV. Hargreave*,* Carpenters. J. Thomson, Pile Drivers.' C. Lamb, Typographical. C. McDonald, Tailors. Press: , W. Vag* (chair.). Building: Trades Council. W. Deptford, Transportation Trades. H. H. Neeiands, Printing Trades. P. R. BengouRh, Metal Trades. T. Hanofln, Beverage Trades. " * B. Showier, Teaming Trades. W. Watt, Building Trades. C.° Herrett, Label Trades. Orlavanca: 3. Cumming (chair.), Restaurant Employee*. E: C. Miller. Musicians' Union. B. Showier. Dairy Employees. W, Hargreaves, Carpenters' Union. H. XV. Watts, Electrical Workers. QUEBEC AGAIN DENIES WOMEN RIGHT TO VOTE Quebec, P.Q.—Women of this ancient province were again denied a vote in provincial elections when the legislature last week defeated the proposal by a vote of 50 to 16. "Only when the women get the vote will this province enjoy needed social laws," declared William Trem- blay, Conservative, sponsor of the bill. Quebec is the only province in Canada where women do not enjoy fuR.franchise rights with men. A financier is a man who knows .how. to- use the .-Wan,,other folks work for:—"Tee-Dee." . . Child Night Work in America and India New York.—"How do Americans like thc company we are keeping?" asks Thomas F. McMahon, president United Textile Workers, in pointing out that United States, China and India are the only nations that enforce night work on women and children in textile mills. «*■' Mr. McMahon quotes this statement from the -Textile World, a "hard-boiled, anti-union, pro-mill paper": "Night work for women and children in Japanese textile mills will be prohibited by imperial edict on and after July 1, 1929. Thereafter, and until such time as they see fit to change their policy, the United States, China and India will be the only important countries in the world having social standards which permit the exploiting of women and minors on all-night shifts." "Americans will hardly be proud of their company," said Mr. McMahon. "Lest we forget, the Nationalist government of China is moving as rapidly as possible to abolish such exploitation. "Yet the paragraph quoted is a good sign. Textile World editors have wit enough to see that, just as a matter of far-sighted interest, night work for women and children is bad for the industry. It means over-production and underconsumption; it means the starvation wage that has characterized the textile industry for a generation—women and children will not work nights if they or their families can help it; and starvation wages make no markets. "Night factory work for women and children is an economic and a physiological crime. It is a sad commentary on employers who maintain conditions in their factories that are only equalled in China and India. "These conditions exist in north as well as in southern States." CO-OPERATION BEATS STOCK SPECULATION Young, Sask.—Here's a story that beats the stock market, even in these days of heavy speculation. . A local farmer* joined the Young Co-operative Society in 1914, buying a $20 share. He purchased his supplies through the society and left his patronage dividends with the organization until the share was worth $100, the limit set. Then he continued to leave his annual dividends as loan capital until he had reached the limit of $400. Since then he has drawn dividends. He now owns $100 share capital, $400 loan capital, and has received $359 cash as interest and dividends. Co-operation pays! CONVICTS COMPENSATED The employees' compensation laws of two states,. Maryland and Wisconsin, have been ' extended by recent legislative action to cover convicts injured in prison industries. Cali- fdrnia has recently amended its law so as to..exclude convicts from the benefits of compensation. Winnipeg.—The following communication is* being sent out to labor organizations in Canada in an effort to finance a big important fight in Manitoba: Fellow Unionists: Greeting— The workers in. Manitoba have definitely established themselves on the political field. To the House of Commons, Ottawa, they have sent two representatives; to the Provincial House three; on the Winnipeg city council eight of the eighteen councillors are labor, while four Winnipeg school board members were placed there by the workers. In the various municipalities throughout the province the wage earners have been able to elect one or more of their own to represent them. Moreover, we have piorieered in labor legislation. The Mothers' Allowance Act, the Minimum Wage for Girls Act, the Workmen's Compensation Act, the Child Welfare Act, etc., stand, as monuments to labors' endeavor on the political field, to raise the cultural levels of its own class. But that is not all. So energetically have we pushed the question of public ownership that now Manitoba stands in the vanguard. Our. publicly-owned telephone system is regarded as an efficient service-at-cost institution. Of still greater interest is our publicly-owned hydro-electric development. Here is a public service,* brought .into, being largely by labors' efforts, that supplies the workers of Winnipeg and others with power for light and domestic use at an average rate of 1.0007c per K. W.H. Workers elsewhere (Ontario workers excepted) pay much more. Cheap power, as you ca.i readily imagine, is equivalent to an increase in wages. We have not related the foregoing in order to boast. What we want to show is that labor in Manitoba has by its own efforts made history on the political field. Now we need help. Public ownership of our power sites is threatened. We will not bother you with the details of the Seven Sisters falls deal, which has been featured largely in the newspapers; suffice it to say that the power trust is bending all its energy to retain that site. Largely on account of our efforts the Bracken government of Manitoba is morally beaten. So shaky had its seat become that they had to adjourn the House for three weeks. At Ottawa, as you may recall, the Liberal government barely escaped defeat because of its attitude toward public ownership of these falls. The burning question of the day is public ownership. The fight is centred in Manitoba, and all eyes are fixed upon us. The Independent Labor Party of Manitoba is the political expression of-tt*|p workers in this province. All recent battles on the political field have been fought under its banner. Today we are tackling a big job. We propose to restore the Seven Sisters falls to the people. - The lease should, be cancelled. To accomplish this task, speakers must be sent throughout the province, a volume of literature has to be printed, a province- wide agitation must be started immediately. Should we be successful in our efforts to restore the Seven Sisters falls to the commonweal, it will have a salutary effect on those provinces now totally in the grip of the power trust, and have a deterring influence in places where insidious propaganda against public ownership is being carried on by private interests. Our victory will be your victory also. Tt takes money to do this. Heretofore the Independent Labor Party has paid its own way. It has never asked for a cent outside of the prov ince. Now it becomes necessary to make a general appeal. We have a job to do—a big one—and we want you to help us put it across. Those we have elected to public office, Woodsworth, Heaps, and Others, have rendered service to the whole of the workers in the Dominion freely and gladly. Our work on the political field has helped you in your fight on the industrial field. Show your appreciation of what we have done by donating liberally. Make all monies payable to. the Independent Labor Party of Manitoba, Room 405, Chambers of Commerce Building, Winnipeg, Man. Fraternally yours, THE INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY OF MANITOBA. T. E. Moore, Organizing Secretary. EMPLOYMENT IN CANADA Ottawa, Ont.—The employment situation in Canada on February 1, 1928, was the best of any years on "record,, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.'''"'"'"""' ' ;* ' How shall we transport a city of 500,0001 VISUALIZE the Vancouver of tomorrow—half a million people, streets congested with traffic, making individual transportation impossible and street cars a necessity, hundreds of street cars carrying home tens of thousands of workers) How can we prepare today for the city of the future? By making it possible for your street car company to grow with your city. Only a prosperous street car system can give expanding service. New cars, new tracks, new substations and power houses will require millions of dollars within the next few years. Any transportation company that is hot making- a fair return on its investment will make these improvements reluctantly and the service will thus lag behind the requirements. A liberal policy towards your street car company today will pay you dividends in better service tomorrow. British Coidmbia ^EiAiAniacRMviBiFCo. VANCOUVER ^aS$r VICTORIA CW. 7-29 Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.' CIDERS PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER "Made from B. C. Apples" TRY OUR GRAPE, LOGANBERRY, ORANGE, PUNCH, ETC IDEAL FOR DANCES AND PARTIES PHONE HIGH. 90 PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS., LTD. 1955 Commercial Drive BUY UNION STAMPED SHOES WE ASK all members of organised 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 MS SUMMER STREET, BOSTOH, MASS. OOLLIS LOVELY General President CHARLES L. BLAINE General Secretary-Treasurer THHE following firms are co-operating with Organized Labor and are selling Union Label Stamped Shoes. Ask to see the Union Label when buying shoes, proving to the shoeman that you are consistently backing him up. COPP, THE SHOE MAN" LIMITED 417 HASTIHOS STBEET WEST Men's Slater and Strider Shoes; also Women's and Children's Union-made shoes. CORNETT BROS ft CLARK 33 EAST HASTIHOS STREET Florshelm, Strlders, C. B. ft C. Men's and Youth's. « HUDSON'S BAY CO. Ladles': Hohansen. Bancroft-Walker, Colella-Leif-rhton. Men's and Youth's: Tetrault's. MODEL BOOT SHOP 1188 Oa.HVILLE Tetrault's. Men's. Women'* and Youth*' Union Label shoes WM. TRICK, 146 Cordova WEST. — Tetrault's Men's and Youths: also Strider and Slater's Union Label shoes. --- UNION SHOE CO. S3 WBST HASTIHOS STBEET NMen's and Youth's: Strider. Women's, Men's and Youth's: Tetrault's. YALE SHOE CO. 306 WBST HASTIHOS STREET Men's and Youth's Strider. Women's and Men's: "Yale 8peclal. Fello» Unionists., demand the^Unigjj^^ Label, Shop. Card and Working* Button, and patronize fair employers and em. P,Jo*-«y>I.ON,LABOR.. -:.-«,„»„„:,,.:; ] .',,-■>' . ™ ", Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, March 297^929 It's Well Worth While! getting your eyes tested, those headache* and nervous- . m-Mi", rniiy result from Eyestrain or imporperly iitted_ glasses, Iion't delay—con- Hult today! —Lawrence W. Smith Optometrist and'Optician ■ Phone Sey. 6860 49—Hasting* St. We.t—49 ^*4*4***r'4**^*'TXr*44^Af'**4Afi*i-»-T-T4 have you bought RADIANT COPPER? Activities leading up to intensive development of this strategically situated property (already inaugurated) ensure early appreciation of the present price of Treasury Shares. An important 'announcement from the directors may-feb* expected in tnV very near future. We strongly recommend Radiant _. Copper at the opening price of ' 25c per share. Phone us your order today. C. V. F. BARKER Limited STOCKS, BONDS, INVESTMENTS 514-516 Rogers Building Sey. 3850-2046 Court Denies Claim of One Big Union Member Winnipeg, Man.—Verbal judgment was rendered today by Mr. Justice Dysart, presiding in the Manitoba courts in the case of Wm. Young, a machinist, vs. the Canadian National Railways, in which Young made claims as follows: (a) That an order do issue from this-honorable court reinstating the"plaintiff; (b) Special damages in the sum of $120; (c) General damages in the sum of $50,- 000; (d) The cost of this action; (e) Such further and other relief as the nature of the case may require and as to this court may seem meet. Young, who was a member.and local officer of the One Big Union, had his case prepared and presented to thc court based entirely on an alleged violation of certain seniority clauses, the existing agreement that had been negotiated and signed between Division No. 4, Railway Employees Department of the American Federation of Labor, and the Railway Association of Canada, as he asserted in his claim that this agreement covered all employees in his class on the road. The court dismissed the action, holding that Machinist Young, by not being a member of the International Association of Machinists, or any other organizations that were parties to the agreement, had no rights under same. The court also held that the agreement was not" a^legal document in the sense that recovery under same could be secured through the courts. Of course the latter feature of the decision is something that is well known to members of unions who have any knowledge of the movement, anil arises from the fact that labor unions decline to become incorporated, which means that as an organization they cannot be a party to an agreement upon which court ^etion can be secured, or sue or be sued. Hence it should be generally known that such agreements are not in that sense "legal" documents, their existence and value depending entirely upon the honesty and integrity of both parties to them, plus the economic strength of the employees organization to enforce them. This case arose out of a staff reduction by the Canadian National Railways in their Fort Rouge shops at Winnipeg during the month of .lune, 1927, and when five boilermak- crs, five machinists and two helpers from each craft were laid off. Due to falling, off in revenues at that t_imc, and that economies must be made, the company decided on reducing the staff of their 'shop employees; however, none of those selected by the company to be laid off were members of the international unions parties to the agreement, some of them being members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees, others the One Big Union, and some were not members Of any organization. As all of those laid off had been longer in the company's service than some other employees, apparently more desirable to the company, those laid off immediately approached the shop committee and general chairman of the unions parties to the agreement and pleaded with them to endeavor to adjust their grievances with the company. This the committees declined to do, first, because they were only authorized to represent the employees who were members of the international unions; seondly, in'their opinion, those who were not members of said unions did not have any seniority rights in an agreement they were not a party to; in fact, by their actions during the past few years they had done all that was possible- to prevent any kind of an agreement. Failing to secure their reinstate-- ment in the company's service by this .-ding to an "'official I method, acting on behalf of those statement issued last week. This was I -a*(1 °ff the O.B.U. and C.B. of R.E. an increase of $12,982,887, or 28.60!then approached the officials of the per cent., over 1927, and is more Dominion government and endeavor- than sufficient to meet afl interest Ie<1 to Set them to intercede; also failing in that, and all other ways. They then entered suit in the Manitoba courts in the name of Wm. Young during July of 1927, the case finally coming up for a hearing before Justice Dysart in May, 1928, the trial lasting about three weeks, the decision in the case being rendered this-week. At this date those laid off are still out of the company's service. As far as it is known, this is .the first time where an individual has endeavored to secure redress through the courts of Canada from his employer where his entire claim has been based upon an alleged violation of an agreement between said employer and a union that he was not a member of, so this ease has created much interest and is of considerable importance to the bona _fide_^labor unions in CatiaclaT "~~y~"
™**" i- $1.00 Was $1.25; now 98c B. C. Barber Supply and Sundries, Limited 64 HASTINGS STREET WEST PHONE SEYMOUR 4401 Mail Orders Given Prompt and Careful Attention VANCOUVER, B. O. CANADIAN NATIONAL 1928 NET EARNINGS INCREASE 28% 'Montreal P.Q.—Net earnings totaling $58,383,577 were produced by the Canadian National Railways dur ing 1928, according to an officia charges due the public. The year was the most successful one, financially, for the givernment- owned system since its creation l|omen laugh when they can and weep^ihen they will. COLONIAL NEXT WEEK On* of th* Greatest Lot. Stories •»« told I "The White Sister" Comedies, News, and Extras PRIZE NIGHTS: "Monday, Wednesday, Friday Consumers Coal Mine Opening Just In Time The recent announcement of the CONSUMERS COAL MINES LTD., that it plans to have their property owned aft'd managed by British Columbia people, is a new thing in Vancouver's coal mining industry. The installing of the equipment and the work at the mine is to be done by British Columbia men. The recent announcement in the papers that several of the present producing mines are about worked out and are to be closed makes the opening of this new mine, at Round Island, near Nanaimo, come at a very opportune time. This new mine will give employment, not only to miners, but to all classes of mine workers that otherwise might have to look for employment outside of British Columbia. ' THE CONSUMERS COAL MINES LTD., by its very name, implies that it is plaTlhed"to nave it owned by those who will use their own coal instead of by a small group of men. We learn that the working conditions inside and outside the mine will be in accordance with the highest ideals for those working in such employment. Fair wages are to be paid for all classes of workers. The engineers estimate that there will be 26 million tons of coal in the upper or Douglas seam. _ The company has proven this property by diamond drilling. They are about 300 feet into the coal seam, which averages about 7 feet in thickness. The engineers estimate that, if the mine produced 1,000 tons per day, it would require over 80 years to mine out this upper seam of coal alone. This does not take into consideration the Newcastle and Wellington seams, which are below the Douglas. As the coal comes from the Douglas seam, it is the highest heating quality, which insures the consumer of the best coal on Vancouver Island. The mining costs will be low, as there is no deep shaft to sink and no railroad to build. The coal can be loaded direct from the mine to scows and ships. The plans already made contemplate making shipment some time during the summer, with a production up to 300 tons per day early in the fall. •»"* •1" " ~ This Vancouver Island COAL MINE is a Gold Mine for Investors! Estimates: 300 tons per day, ,300 day* a year 90.000 tons. Average selling price. per ton, all grades, JS 63 J506.700 Estimated mining cost, all expenses •• $315,000 Estimated profits available for dividends $191,700 Profits Possibly Because: Small capital. - Low mining- costs. No railroad to operate. — No cash for properties. —No shaft to operate... —Managed by Ilrltish Columbia experienced coal men. -lOial at surface. —Coal nt tidewater. —Loading direct in scows and ships. 35 MILES FROM VANCOUVER, NEAR NANAIMO. CONSUMERS COAL MINES LIMITED 310 ROGERS BUILDING, VANCOUVER Call or Phone or Write. OoagU* 5418 CONSUMERS COAL MINES LTD., 310 Rogers Bldg., Vancouver. B. C. please give me full information almut your company. It is understood that this reiiuest does not Dignify, any obligation on my part. Name . Street,.. City GOOD FRIDAY is Hot Cross Bun Day. Order yours from the famous Esther Bakery, "at 3728 East Hast- iiigs7~ THIRD CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST VANCOUVER, B. C. announce a Free Lecture on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE .by JOHN RANDALL DUNN, C. S. B. Member of the Board of ""tectureship of the Mother Church, The ' First Church of Christ, Scientist, in BoBton Mass., in the NEW ORPHEUM THEATRE . 7 Granville Street SUNDAY, APRIL 14th, 1929 AT 3 O'CLOCK The Public is Cordially Invited to Attend! *, Doors Open at 2 p.m. EASY £Sc WASHER Phone Douglas 174 for FREE demonstration in your home. JARVIS. ELECTRIC CO., LTD. GRANVILLE STBEET (CORNER SMYTHE STBEET) ,; i i in*, i iMjgaiai^twteftoff *-, ■
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