http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0439093
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1928-04-27
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note: \ OWNED or Statesma AND CONTROLLED W^^^M_ BY THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUN Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions 14 XO. 207—TWENTY PA< il'.S VANCOUVER, H. C, FRIDAY-,-APRIL 27. 1928 FIVE CENTSV?#*JQV& 1 THh I. AH OK A T I*: S M A N •riday, April 27:>\"1 VOICE TRAINING FOR TELEPHONE OPERATORS ITIT'E have a voice specialist, who goes " " from one telephone exchange to another, giving our operators voice training. She listens to each operator individually, and makes notes of all flaws in the manner in which she speaks while at the switchboard. The voice specialist then has a chat with the operator, explaining any weak points which she may have found and advising her how to correct them. This training supplements the voice' instruction which we give our student operators in our operating school. Our efforts are directed toward having our operators speak clearly, pleasantly and without strain. Certain numbers are apt to be confused with each other when heard on the telephone. One of our voice problems is to have the operators pronounce these numbers in such a way as to prevent misunderstanding. B. C. TELEHONE CO. Railway Employees Not Chasing Rainbows Now By J. A. P.: Hay-ion Winnipeg.—(The seventh convention of Division No. 4, Railway Employees' Department, American Federation of Labor, opened in this city with some 250 delegates in attendance. They represented 30.000 members of shop craft organizations on every railway in Canada. No Longer Chasing Rainbows It is eight years since the shop- ment met here, and a lot of water has gone over Niagara since then. In 1018, when the division was inaugurated, the workers of Winnipeg and many other Canadians were drifting towards the "one big union." This produced the general strike of 1019, which ended in the temporary disruption of many of the unions and untold injury to the workers. Today in Winnipeg and in other centers where the "O-B.U." spirit predominated in 1010, the standard unions are again in a flourishing conditio…

The Labor Statesman
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439093
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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