The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1929-08-02
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note: /jlOWNED AND (XMiTROLLED Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions NO. 27_=-EIGHT PACKS VANCOUVER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2,, 1929 FIVE CENTS PER COPY State Industries Prove Valuable To Taxpayer North Dakota "Non-Partizan League" Launched Program in 1919 of State Ownership—Started Without Capital and Now Has Big Assets. gTATE OWNERSHIP OF INDUSTRIES and projects can be made a success if the leaders make up their minds to give battle to the private interests that appose'them. In North Dakota a farmers' organization, controlling the government, has made some very remarkable successes with projects that have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars, not only for the farmers, but also for city taxpayers. Writing in the New Republic, Alfred S. Dale says: The once-famous Nonpartisan League and its "Industrial Program," consisting of state ownership projects, has long since been dead in the minds of the people of this country, thanks chiefly to the silence of the press. It is not known even by progressives that Senator Frazier was re-elected last November as the candidate of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, let alone that the state-owned industries are proving successful The political organization ■ known as the Nonpartisan League is still a power in North Dakota. It boasts two United States Senators, one Congressman and five of the elected state officials. Its opponents who have been elected to office have espoused thc "Industrial Program," but have opposed the leadership of the- Nonpartisan League, and gained office by claiming that they could manage and operate the state industries better than the Nonpartisans themselves. Most of the state industries which were begun by the state back in 1919, when the Nonpartisan League Was in full control'of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the state government, are still in existence and have proved very successful. A few have fallen by the wayside, due mostly to the incompetency of the officials in charge of them, and not …
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439086
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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