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[The Labour Statesman]
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\ 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 condition and the workers no longer, chase the "O.B.U." rainbow. Instead, they are considering Ways and means of increasing their wage standards, improving their working conditions, and enjoying some pf the better things of life. Banquet to Martin F. Ryan This was more clearly demonstrated when a complimentary banquet was given in honor of Martin F. Ryan, president Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America. Such an event in 1918-19 would have been denounced and ridiculed, but last week fully 500 carmen and other railway workers broke breW with the officers of the shop craft unions, the men who in days gone by some of them had sought to oust from office in the hope that they could destroy the organizations of which they were the leaders. These points are stressed to show the changed attitude of the railway workers here, and this change is to be seen throughout the whole federated movement in the Dominion. All unions report increased membership and healthier finances. CONTINENTAL MARBLE COMPANY, LIMITED Manufacturers and Contractors for Interior Marble Work; Also Slate for Electrical and Building Work Work.: 1002-1008 Georgia Street East - - VANCOUVER, B. C. Phone: Highland 2970 Office: 1404 Dominion Building .... VANCOUVER, B. C. Phone: Seymour 6148 To Study Unemployment The Baltimore P'ederation of Labor and the Baltimore Labor College will hold a conference on unemployment in the John Hopkins University at Baltimore on April 14 and 15. A number of distinguished speakers, including President Daniel Willard of the B. & O., and Professor Irving Fisher of the Yale University, are on the programme. I have a little compact that goes in and out with me. What my friends would do without it, is more than I can see. To Betty first I lend it, and then again to Rose, And seldom is there any left for my own little nose. Boost Vancouver for the F. of L. Convention. 1929 A. SPOKANE BAKERS GET NEW WAGE AGREEMENT Bakers' Union Xo. 7-1 of Spokane j has succeeded in negotiating a new] wage agreement with the Continental Baking Company, affecting approximately thirty per cent, of its entire membership. The agreement concedes substantial wage increase; and undoubtedly will be accepted by the other bakery owners 8f the city as the basic contract for 1928. The signal victory won by the Spokane bakers is most encouraging, and much credit is due to William Mc- Guern, International Board Member; of the Bakers' Union, and Glen A. Warren of the local organization for the 'good judgment and ability thev displayed in presenting the claims ! of the bakery workers during the negotiations. ' CALIFORNIA LABOR FOR FIVE DAYS ON ALL PUBLIC WORKS I'etaluma, Cal. — The five-day j week onj)ublic work was favored by I the anneal convention of the Cali- ; fornia State Building Trades Council: The council officials were instructed to submit a bill to the next legislature providing that the stati law be amended so that five days' will constitute a week's work in all state departments where work is performed directly for the state or through the agency of contractors doing work for the state or any subdivision thereof. To Obtain 7 Per Cent on Small Investments $100 and Up WITH ABSOLUTE SECURITY PRINCIPAL READILY AVAILABLE Consult Canadian Financiers Trust B. C. COMPANY 839 Hastings Street West Sey, 5960 Gen. Mgr. Lt.-Col. G. H. Dorrell Made inliC •» National Biscuit and Confection Company, Limited Wholesale Manufacturers VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA P. GIOVANDO -rr Phone Seymour til21 JOHN THA HOTEL STRATFORD COR. GORE AVE. and KEEFER ST. V; VANCOUVER, I!. C. "The Place ''ailed Home" 200 Elegantly Furnished Rooms 60 Rooms with Private Baths MODERATE RATES FIRST-CLASS SERVICE '& Friday, April 27, 1928 L A B O K S T A T E S M A N Three Trades Union Directory Tancoaver Trad.s and tabor oonnoU— President, J. Thomson: general secretary, Percy R. Bengough. Office.. >0J Holden Bldg., II Hastings East. Phone Sey. 7495. Meets In Labor Kali at I p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays In month. Beverage Dispensers Union Wo. 676— meets last Sunday at 8 p.m.'; Room 310. Holden Bldg. President. W. H.' Clancy: Secretary and Business Agent, T. J. Hanofln. Office: Room 6. Flack Block: Phones: Sey. 4783 and Bay. 1656-R. Hours: 9 to 12 a.m. Bridge ft Structural Iron Workers, Local 97. int Asso—Meets every Monday, Room 804 Holden Bide, at 8 p tn President, W. L. Tule, 5821. Argyll) 8t: Secretary, P. Lauret, Box 302, City, Phone Fair. 2108L. Millwrights "Local 1638—Construction and Operating—Meets, second and! fourth Wednesday In Holden Hldg. I). OIlllH, president; P. H. Edge, Fin. Sec; J. Murray, Rec. Sec. Box 127. Motion Pictures Projectionists' Union, -Local 348 of I.A.T.S.E. ft M.P.M.O. Meets first Friday In each month at 11:30 p.m. in the Holden Bldg. President, J. It. Foster; Secretary, Geo. Oerrard, Box 345. Business Phone: Sey. 3923. anlldlng Tradei Council Vanconvsr— Meets second and fourth Tuesday '**» Holden Building. President. E. H. Morrison: Secretary-treas.. W. Page, Room 815. Holden Bldg.; Sey. 7495. Bakers' Local 468, Journeymen, ot America—Meets second Saturday In month at 8 p.m.—President, A. Morris. 2834 Vine St.: sec, T. Rigby. J551 Commercial Dr. Phone Fair. 4049. Barbsrs.' Journeyman International Union of America—I,oral 120, meeta second and fourth Tuesdays In each month In Room 310 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. Pres., Fred. Daws; Sec-treas., C. E Herrett, Office 114 Holden Bldg. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, Local 146, A. P. of M.—Meets nt the G. W. V. A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President, E. C. Miller: recording secretary. W. Edmunds; financial secretary, W. .E. Williams; organizer. F. Fletcher, all at 99! Nelson Street. Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, Local 138—Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 13 Hastings W. Presl' dent, H. Edwards; Rec. Sec, A. E. Varah, 1442 Clark Drive; Business Agent, A. B. Hodge. Office, room 34, 163 Hastings W. Phone Sey. 3609. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Dock Builders, Local No. 2404—Meets every Friday night at 8 p.m. In 122 Hastings- St. W. Jamefs Thomson, secretary, P. O. Box 320. S. O'Connor, president. ■ookblndar* Loeal Ho. 1M, fat. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday In month at Professional and Business Woman's Club. Empire Bldg.. 60S Hastings W. President, O. Low, 61 63rd Ave. w . secretary. Thorn. Carroll, 842 Hamilton Street. Plasterers, "Local 89—Operative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International Association, meets first and third "Wednesday in moth at Holden Bldg. President, J. S. Wood, 3525 29th Ave. W., phone Hay. 4996; Secretary. A. Hurry, 861 34th Ave. E.. phone Fair. 3222R. Cement Finishers' Secretary, J. Kelller, 181 53rd Ave. E., phone Fraser 487 L, Bricklayers', Masons' and Til* Setters' Int. Union Uo. 1—Meets second and fourth Wednesday in the Holden Bldg. President, G. I-:. Halllday: Secretary. W. S. Dagnall. 1244 20th Ave. E: Phone Fair. 845 R. W. J. Pipes, Fin. Secretary, 840 Beach Ave. Camp and Mill Workers Federal Labor Union Mo. 31—Vancouver and vicinity meets every second Wednesday at 81 p.m. at 544 Powell St. East Presl-i dent, H. Mlyazawa; Secretary, K. Tsuyukl. - Plumbers and Btoamflttors, No. 170, International Abso. of—Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday ln the Holden Bldg. President, R. Simpson; secretary and business agent, W. Watt, 813 Holden Building. Point Groy Municipal Employees' Association, Looal Ho. 3— Meets second Monday of each month at the Masonic Hall, Kerrisdale, 8 p.m, President, Di Ross Snualr, 3728 30th W.; Secretary, A. Patterson. 8179 Hudson Street. carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood or. Local 488—President, R. J. Thompson; financial secretary, R. W. Hatley; business agent, W. Hargreaves. Office, Room 809 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m. ity Hall Employees' Association menu first Wednesday of each month at 251 Vs Hastings E , at • p.m. President. W. H. Lewthwalte; treasurer. W. J. Strlbblns, 2208 Pender St. E ; Secretary, J. Tarbnck. 2792 Pender East. Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Local Ho. 69—Meets every second Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. in Room 213 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E, President, Harry F. Longley. .103 8th St.. North Van.; Secretary, Wm. Qulkley 2083 2nd Ave. W.. Box 894. Hallway Carmen of America, Lodge No. 58—Meets first and third Friday ln month at Cotillon Hall. Granville nnd Davie streets. President. H. Ward-- 1102 Twenty-third Ave. E.: secretary. J. D. Vuliamy, 2215 Fifteenth Ave. W. OI*le Employees' Union, Looal 28 — Meets first and third Fridays In the month at 251V4 Hastings R, at I p.m. President, R. N. Hogg, 1718 Commercial Dr.; secretary-treasurer, George. Harrison. 1182 Parker St Electrical Workers, Local 313, International Brotherhood—M<-ets every Monday at 8 p.m., 404 Homer St.. President J. B. Brown; business agent, E. H. Morrison. Office, 404 Homer St. Engineers—International. Union Steam and Operating* Local 844—Meets every Thursday at 8 p.m. Room 806. Holden Bldg- President. E. O. St. Denis; rec. sec, Geo. Pettaplece; Fin. Sec. & Bus. Agent, T. A. Newblgglng. Office, Room 806 Holden Building. PIre Fighters' Ho. 18, International Association of—Meets every month at call of president, at 251% Hastings E. President. N. McDonald, No. 3 Fire> Hall; Financial Secretary, C. A. Watson, No. 3 Fire Hall. Floorlayers' Union, Ho. 1875, U. B. of C. &' J. of A., meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays In 310 Holden Bldg., at 8 p.m. President. E. C. Woodward: Fin. Sec, T. H. Hamlin; Rec Sec, W. D. WllsonL 1535 5yh Ave. W. Hod Carrion aad Bnllllng Laborers, Ho, 808, International. Meets first and third Friday In month at Holden Building. Prealdent, C. Lawson, 1881 3rd Ave. W. Fin. Sec. and Business Agent, J. A. Barrlngton, 4293 Welwyn Street. Phone Fair. 1434L. Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Marino Cooks ft Stewards, Local 88— 441 Seymour St., meets second Monday each month nt 3 p.m., last Mondays at 9 p.m. President. Thos. Edwards; Sec.-Treas., Harry Wood, Business Agent. Phone Sey. 125. Ladles' Auxiliary. Looal 171 — United Brotherhood of Carpenters — Meets every first and third Wednesday of each month In 810 Holden Building, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. Nickels. 2388 Forty-second Ave. E.; secretary, Elisabeth J. Hope, 1138 Seymour St. Phone Sey. 90741,. Lathers, Wood, Win and Metal, International Union, Local SOT—Meets 2nd and 4th Mondays ln month, at room 209, Holden. Bldg. W. Fontaine, secretary. 1828 Commercial Drive; High. 3169R. Street and Electric Hallway Employees, Pioneer Division Ho. 101—Meets K.P. Hall, Eighth and Klngsway, 1st and 3rd Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, H. W. Speed; Recording Secretary, J. Price: Treas.. E. O, Ker- mode; Financial Secretary ad Business Agent, A. J. Harraway. Office: Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Seymour 5000. , Sheet Metal Worken Association, Looal Union Ho. 880 i— Meets second and fourth Thursday In month In Holden Building, 16 Hastings Street E. President, A. Fisher, 1952 4th Avenue W.; business agent and secretary, D. Mac- Phersen, 607 Holden Bldg. Shingle Weavers, Looal 17813—Meets second Tuesday in month, ln Room No. 2, Labor Temple, New Westminster, and 4th -Sunday, 7:3 0 p.m., ln Room 811 Holden Bldg, Vancouver. President, J. N. Chute, Phone Hurh. 1982-y; sec, W, H. Matthew, 3436 Irving St. Tailors', Journeymen Union of America, Local Ho. 176—Meetings held first Thursday la each month. 8 p.m. Executive meets third Thursday of every month In Labor Hall. President, F. Franco; secretary, C. McDonald. P.O. Box 503. Executive meets third Thursday of every month. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, Local 468—Meets every 2nd I and 4th Wednesday, 310 Holden Bldg. President, A. A. McKay, 765 Camblu St.: Secretary-treasurer. A. P. Black. 880 Homer St Theatrical Stars Employess' Union, Looal 118 of the I A.T S.E. ft M P.M O. —Meets at 191 Nelson Street on the second Friday In month, at 9:81 a.m. President, Walter Copp; Secret?-y. H. Pearson; Bus. Agent, A. Harrington: Address P. O. Box 711. Trade Unions' Int. May Day Slogan The International Federation of Trade Unions has issued its manifesto for May Day, 1928. "The eight-hour day," it declares, "is in danger! "Since 1919 the majority of the governments have refused to ratify the Washington Eight-Jiour Day Convention, which would make the eight- hour day universal. "The employers have cynically exploited this refusal, and have taken advantage of the economic depression to endeavor to reintroduce longer hours. "Today the danger is more pressing than ever! The Conservative British government, which is at the head of the enemies of the eight- hour day, has proposed at the International Labor Office that the Eight- hour Day Convention shall be revised. "If International Labor does not defend itself vigorously, and succeed in obtaining' thc__ratifjcatioh of the convention "before 1930, the date of revision of the convention, it will lose this reform, for which the workers of the world have fought for over a quarter of a century. "To allow this great social reform to be tampered with would be equivalent to a renunciation of it! "The eight-hour day gives the worker a few hours of leisure for his family life, and the development of the cultural side of his life, to enable him to grow to the full stature of humanity. "The eight-hour day is the hope of Labor, for it brings the worker a promise of emancipation and a better future. "The duty of the working class is clear: the workers must defend their eight-hour day by all the means at their disposal. "We call upon the workers of all countries to assemble on May Day, 1928, the anniversary of the first demand for world Labor for the eight-hour day, and to make a strong demonstration in its defence. "There has been enough delay, and enough patient waiting. Let the governments keep the pledges given nf\ their name by their representatives. "The ratification of the Washington Agreement must come up for discussion again in all the parliaments: every parliament must find the working class so firmly determined on ratification that it can no longer withhold it. "The future of the workers is at Stake, their progress and their hope of final emancipation: they must therefore fight with invincible determination till victory is won. "Defeat for the eight-hour day would mean new economic war between the nations: capitalist competition in all its deadly strength would make new ravages among the workers: imperialism, the cause of wars, would flourish unrestrained. "This attack on the eight-hour day is a threat to all the rights of the workers and all their social gains. "In the face of such dangers, International Labor must be more than a mere name. Let it be a living force, which never fails to inspire the workers to vigilance and action." In the absence of a president, the manifesto is signed by the five vice, presidents—Jouhaux (France), Lei- part (Germany), Madsen ^Denmark), Mertens (Belgium), Tayerlc (Czechoslovakia)—and by Sassenbach a secretary. Green Urging Study On Old Age Pension Washington, D.C.—President William Green has forwarded a questionnaire to all American Federation of Labor affiliates to aid the executive council in its study of old- age pensions, ordered by the Los Angeles convention. "We realize how serious are the problems of the men and women who have spent a lifetime in honorable toil and, who face old age without income," said President Green. "Some provision, quite aside from charity, should be made, that old age may be relieved of this stigma. It is important that labor take a constructive part in helping to formulate policies in this field. To. this end I hope for your co-operation in securing the information indicated in the questionnaire." Lost —A Garden Manager: "You arc asking a day off to dig in your garden, but I find you haven't any garden." Clerk: "Someone has taken it off the window-sill, then." . THE ESTHER BAKERY Get your Cakes at this bakery MAKERS OF HOVIS Also Makers of the Best White, Raisin aad Nut Bread Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST R. C. HIRST Electrical Contractor aad Dealer House Wiring,' Fixtures, Lamps, Batteries Olen 370 4099 Hastings it. B. CARIBOU BRAND PANTS AND OVERALLS FOR MEN, BOYS AND YOUTHS Typographical Union, No. 226—-President, C. S. Campbell; Vice-President, R. (louthro: -Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neelands, P.O. Box 66. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., in Women's Bldg., TKurlow street. Upholsterers, "Local Ho. 26—Meets at 813 Holden Bldg.. second and fourth Mondays. President. P. Cllft, 392B Keith road east, North Vancouver; Cor. Secretary, J. W. Gordon, 2292 Welllgton avenue, South Vancouver. Machinist Local 692—President-, Thos. Sills, 1352 Burrard St.: Secretary. P. R. Bengough. Office, 807 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays ln month. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday In each month. President, S. D. McDonald, Box 268 Secretary, Prank Derry. Box -111. Prince Rupert, B.C. Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees, X,ocal 46*1—Meets second and fourth Friday In Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President. J. A. Parry: Secretary-Treasurer. Blrt Showier, ' 2841 Triumph. Phone High. 5327. Mill and rectory Workers' Union, local Xo. ISM — Affiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters A Joiners. .Meets, first -and third Thursdays in Room 213 Holden Bldg. President. llfl C. Matthews: Business Agent. R. Life's Darkest Moment A young banker, after eight years of absence, alighted at the station of the town of his birth. There was no one on the platform whom he knew. No one. Discouraged, he sought out the baggage master, a friend sinee^ boyhood. .L. To him at least he would be welcome, and he was about to extend a hearty greeting, when the other spoke first. "Hello, George," he-said. 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LTD 1086 HOMER ST. VANCOUVER, B. C. WOMEN'S ATrXIT.IARY Xo. 75 to Vancouver Typographical Union masts flr**-t Thursday of each month, In the Vancouver Women's Building, 753 Thnrlow Streot. President, Mrs. 33. J. Trumper, Suite 41, 840 Nelson Street; Secretary, Una A. Pettiplece, 1846 Balaclava Boad NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades & Labor Council Room 803, 16 Hastings Street East Phones: Sey. 7inr,-6i7!> J. E. Wheelan, Prop. Half Price Shoes Big Closing-out Shoe Sale of Sample Shoe Store 37 Hastings Street West $15,000.00 Stock of High Class Shoes for -Ladies, Children, Men and Boys to Be Sold NOTE THE ADDRESS 37 HASTINGS STREET W. Between Cal-Van and. Kirkham's .-«■ Leslie Coal Company Limited ■ 944BEACHAVENUE He (singing): "When the sun has gone to rest, that's the time that I love best." • She (disgusted):, "The sun set an hour ago;" The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at 816 Holden Bldg.. Vancouver, B. C. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. Official Organ of the Canadian Labor Party. H. W. Watts, Man. Editor. PHESS COMMITTEE Chairman Wm. Page (Carpenters), W. Watt (Plumbers), P, K. Bengough (Machinists), Tim Hanofln (Beverage Dispensers), J. McCurragh (Typographical), Geo. Gerrard (Theatrical), W. Deptford (Street Rallwaytnen), Birt Showier (Dairy Employees). , ' Phone Seymour 6279 Vancouver, Friday, April 27, 1*G8 MOVING! MAY 1st TO Seymour at Pender Toronto General Trusts Co. Bldg. * ' DUFFUS School of Business Limited (B. C. COMMERCIAL) H. a DUFFUS, Principal DAY AND NIGHT Sey. 5771 "Before he married me, he said he'd move heaven and earth for me." "And then?" "0L- nowjLe&jaisinB hell." ALL TOGETHER NOW There is now a great deal of evidence that p Vancouver and British Columbia is in for a long spell of business activity and prosperity. Certain indications that have never failed as a barometer point in the direction of unusual activity and this long-looked-for ,condition will undoubtedly gladden the hearts of those who have stayed in this province with the conviction that it would boom, while others left in disgust. It would be well, however, to urge business men not to be too close- fisted with their employees. A well paid working class adds greatly to the prosperity of every community. Dollars make dollars, and every dollar that the worker earns goes back into business in the purchasing of morp the Workers have to spend, the food, clothing, homes, etc. The greater the demand for these necessities. Low wages and long hours will not build business, it retards it and kills it. Make it a point to increase the wages of your employees, and the other employers will be compelled to do likewise. Don't stand in the way of making British Columbia a leading high wage province— the workers will reciprocate by making your business more profitable. HELP HOLD THE FORT With every painter, decorator and paperhanger,' worthy of the name, participating in the strike, it is of vital importance that they should not be driven back to work on the bosses terms, through hunger. The large number of new men that have joined the union will undoubtedly be held, if the strikers win, and this in itself will also be a victory for the trade union movement of this city. These men, therefore must be held at all costs, hence the job of sustaining the strikers now lies with the organized labor movement. Other unions will benefit if this strike is won. Financing more than -100 men is quite a big job and takes a lot of cash, even at a dollar each a day, which might get them by, so if your union has not taken action on the matter, you can act as one to speed it up. If your union has already acted, you can draw attention to the importance of holding those 400 men together, till the bosses cry quit and you can urge further support. Every "
'" Organize Labor Party and Then Wreck It Jay Lovestone, one of the Ueds' blue-print strategists, writing in The Communist, "published for the Workers' (Communist) Party of America," explains at length how common cause should be made with unions and workers to organize a Labor Party in the United States, but Lovestone assures dyed-in-the- wool Communists that the Labor Party cry is merely a tactical move to sweep workers into the Communists' camp. "In all phases of the Labor Party -campaign, our fundamental task is to utilize this campaign for the building of the Worke'rs' Party into a mass Communist Party," says LoVestone. "Our aim is to affiliate North Western Dredging Co. Dipper Dredges Rock Drilling Limited Rock Excavating Submarine Drilling Clamshell Dredges Gravel Filling Phone Seymour 2541 (jj26 Standard Bank Building Vancouver, B. C. the trade unions and the other labor organizations, as labor organizations, to the Labor Party. And at the same time we strive to draw individual militant workers from all these organizations into the W'ork- ers' (Communist) Party. "The Labor Party must serve as a recruiting ground for the Communist Party,- and especially to attract American elements to our ranks. "The building of a Labor Party, tha campaign for it, is of tremendous value in the building of a mass Communist Partv in the United States." Lovestone advises "clea r- cut" revolutionists to put no faith in a Labor Party, but to constantly keep in mind why they give lip-service to this proposal. Organize it, and wreck it when it serves its purpose as an incubator for the Communist mass party, is Lovestone's constant thought. He tells Communists that at this time their cry, "dictatorship by the proletariat." is silly tactics and will only alarm those who are to be cap-. tured. .. : ■* ■ - r- ■ "'It would btTsheer folly for us," he says, "to go into a Labor Party convention and there, put up a Com munist program for adoption. This is not Communism. Such tactics are suicidal for the development of our party. Shall we put*, up a resolution for the proletarian dictatorship? Xoj nonsense!" I The Lovestone article is a frank avowal that the Communists' cry for a Labor Party is to attract gullibles who will be prepared for the revo- lutionary group. Eight T11 E LABOR ST A T ES M A X thy, April 27, 1928 CASSIDY-WELLINGTON COAL Produced only at Granby Colliery, Vancouver Island - THE ALL-WHITE COAL MINE * Distributed direct to you by the same company that mines it OUR SERVICE AND GRANBY'S WARRANTY ARE YOUR PROTECTION WHEN BUYING COAL Stay with Cassidy; there is none better and few as good Yard:So. End Richards St. GRANBY COAL CO. Phone: Sey. 2345 Vancouver, B. C. hi ■% MARTIN-SENOUR 100% PURE PAINT MADE IN VANCOUVRE Rodger Contracting Co. General Contractors WHARVES; BRIDGES, ETC. 856 Richards Street Phone: Sey. 4506 Reason For the High Cost of Housing Who is responsible, for the high cost of building? ' "Profiteering labor!' 'shouts the "Or*en Shopper" and the newspapers controlled by the anti-labor interests. Now comes a recognized expert to declare that the charge is flatly untrue. i Arthur C.. Holden is consultant architect to the New York Housing Commission, and formerly held that post with the State Board of Housing, and may be presumed to know what he is talking about. In a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Holden says: "For the average brick structure, out of each dollar of the total cost only 26*^ cents is paid to labor at the job—of which only 8V4 cents goes to the 'grasping' carpenters, 5 2/3 cents to the 'mercenary' bricklayers, and 4 1/3 cents to the 'profi- teerfhg' plasterers and hodcarriers together. "Plumbers on an average get no more than 2 cents, and electricians two-thirds of a cent. So much for the arguments of those who would make labor the one and only scrape- goat for expensive housing." The real "goat," Mr. Holden finds. is the cost of things other than construction. Labor costs 20 Vi cents ■out of the average housing dollar, and materials delivered at the job. 25 ce.nts. But 27 cents go for original promotion and .financing, and 21 --2 cents for land. Bungalows are being sold in South Brooklyn for $5,000 to $5,800 eaetr. Forty-three per cent of this price, or from $2,408 to $2,494 per bungalow, goes for promotion and financing! If the buyei*.,eannot meet his original schedule of payments, these financing costs mount higher still, because of.the largo fees charged for. renewals. ¥ Those who want cheaper housing should put the screws on the land speculator, the promoter, and the money lender, not on the workers. What Price Peace? A League of Nations committee says the World War cost $362,500,- OOp.OOO, and about 37.000,000 iiu man Uvea, Of .the life cost, 10,135,.! 20.000.000.' 000 persons in service twere killed, and the civilian mortality was increased 0.106,000 by war conditions, while births diminished more than Mary had a little hen, But she was very queer; She laid like fun when eggs were cheap, _J-__ INCREASE LOCAL PAYROLLS Buy B. C. Products Royal Standard Flour and Wild Rose Pastry Flour Milled in Vancouver VANCOUVER MILLING AND GRAIN CO. Limited Head Office and Mill: Vancouver, B.C. MAIL ORDER HOUSES EXPANDING RAPIDLY The mail ' order houses, like a giant octopus, are stretching out to enclose the entire United States in their' grasp. In the last eighteen Months, Montgomery, Ward & Co. of Chicago have opened fifty stores and one hundred more are contemplated during the year. Sears, Roebuck & Co., also of Chicago, now operating sixteen department stores, have made plans for the addition of ten more in 1028, among them being stores at M'nne" apolis, Boston, Cambridge and Detroit, so that the end'of 1928 will see twenty-six such stores in operation. .-' "Did you marry that girl of yours or do you still cook your own breakfast and meijd your own clothes?" ~""Vc<r" "' -' -.'■"■"■' ■■"'';' "-.'■ -~~ NEW YORK IMPROVING CHILD LABOR STATUTE ALBANY, N.Y.—Boys under 12 are barred from selling newspapers on streets by a compulsory education bill that has been- signed by Governor Smith. The act makes it unlawful to employ a minor under 14 in any business or service. Minors from 14 to 17 are required to receive part-time instruction. Those from 17 to 21 who cannot read'and write English are required to take evening instruction. -"No boy under 12," the law- reads, "and no girl under 18, shall be engaged in a street trade; and no boy from 12 to 17 shall be so engaged, unless a street trade badge has been lawfully issued to .him." Every wise man apologizes fre- 1 <lRen (Jy , to / hi?,. \vj fe,_but lut. sidd0 m krwws-wlHrt tor-—• ' :— Fridav, Aj-ril 27, 192K THE LABOR ST AT ESMA X Nine Awesome Term for Social 111 A new kind of unemplpyment has been discovered. To he real highhrowish, one must now talk of "technological unemployment." The awesome term is explained by Lewis Corey, writing in the Annalist, financial magazine: "An unemployment developing gradually, almost unawares, like creeping paralysis, in the midst of unprecedented prosperity, the by-product of technological efficiency." In other words, labor-displacing machinery and scientific processes cause unemployment. "Cyclical unemployment—the result of periodical depressions— will end, but even if production reaches the high peaks of 1936, it will not end technological unemployment." says Mr. Corey. Statistics are quoted to prove that every increase in manufacturing output in recent years has been done with less and less workers—more unemployment. "The cyclical recovery of 1925-26," he says, "increased technological Unemployment." Mr. Corey quotes the Journal of Commerce: "This country has upon its hands a problem of chronic unemployment, likely to grow worse rather than better. Business prosperity, far from curing it, may tend to aggravate it by stimulating invention and encouraging all sorts of industrial rationalization schemes." Red Cross Refuses Help to Sufferers Don Adolfo Diaz, our puppet president of Nicaragua, has issued a Mussolinian ukase enacting, by executive fiat, the mnde-in-Whshing- ton election law which the Nicaraguan Congress refused to accept, and the entire cabinet has been reshuffled in order to-fill the offices with a more amenable set of. satellites. We learn from the Panama papers that Admiral Sellers sent Dr. Carlos Cuadra Pasos and the other docile members of the Nicaraguan delegation at Havana back to Nicaragua on a United States warship; and from the American papers we learn that another thousand marines have been sent to Nicaragua to crush Sandino, but that since the rainy season is coming on that gentleman may escape his pursuers for another year. A California subscriber, however, calls our attention to headlines in the Sacramento Bee: "Nic- araguans Mowed Down By Marine Air Attack; Deadly Drive On Sandino Men Said To Be Most Bloody In The Campaign; Natives Helpless Under Rain of Death; Massed Reb- les Make Perfect Target For Bombs of American Planes." Carleton Beals in his article in this issue describes the results of marine warfare behind the Sandino lines. It is shabby business, and among the shabbiest episodes is the attitude of the American Red Cross. One of our subscribers, moved by reports of suffering, sent the Red Cross a small check, asking that it be forwarded to Sandino'S men for the purchase of quinine and bandages. The Red Cross, which also feels unable' to help the starving miners' children in Pennsylvania, replied: "We regret to advise you that we know of no effective way in which your generous desire could be met, and we are therefore returning the funds to you." The Nation, however, suggests that any reader who has similar impulses may send funds for medical supplies to the Nicaraguan Red Cross Division of the Ail- American Anti-Imperialist League, Room 40, 39 Union Square, New York.—The Nation. PREMIER IN CONTROL SAYS AGNES MacPHAIL Ottawa.—"The greater part of the government of Canada is done in the lobby of the House; in private rooms in the Chateau Laurier, and in places along St. James Street, Montreal," declared Miss Agnes Mac- Phail, the only woman member of the House of Commons, during an address before one of the service clubs here last week. "The House of Commons,"" she continued, "is a one-man show, and the House on the Hill is the best clubhouse in the Dominion of Canada. "Contrary to the general supposition and belief, the Commons does not control the cabinet, but the cabinet controls the Commons." Decrease of Birth Rate in Europe Not long ago the -cables carried the news that the birth rate in Great Britain for the past quarter was the lowest in all history. Though the item was only a few words under an insignificant headline, tucked away on an inside page of those papers which printed it at all, it is probable that nothing* else that day approached it in importance. The English birth rate is > now only 30 per cent, larger Wan the death rate. This is not because both birtbjand death rates are comparatively high, as is the case with France. The British death rate is only a little larger than that in America, which is one of the smallest in the world. While the death rate is now practically sta^ tionary, the birth rate continues to fall in Great Britain; at the present rate the population will probably have begun to decline in not much more than a decade. A similar trend is to be noted everywhere else in Europe, peath^rates, which have decreased roTTnany years, with the progress of medical science, have begun to stabilize themselves; in most countries they now diminish Very slowly or not at all. Birth rates, on the other hand, are going down as fast or faster than ever. They are sinking in .Catholic countries as well as in Protestant ones. Even Mussolini, with all his adjurations to the Fascists that they must be fruitful and multiply, has not been able to prevent a decrease in the Italian birth rate of nearly 4 per cent, per annum. Pressure of population has in the past been used as an excuse by diplomats of the Western European powers for doing many things which fomented international ill- will. This pretext may have disappeared before long.—The New Republic. The Home of Common* An analysis of the occupations of the members of the House of Commons shows that lawyers and farmers predominate. There are 70 lawyers and 50 farmers. In third place comes doctors, with 30, then merchants with 23. followed b£ 12 journalists and "nine manufacturers. The remaining 51 members represent a variety of callings Among the cabinet council of 17, there are six lawyers, four farmers two journalists, one locomotive en gineer apd four other callings; ^, 44-HOUR WEEK OKAYED BY SENATE COMMITTEE Senator Brookhart of Jowa...suc- ' ceeded last week in getting Tt favorable committee report on the bill introduced by Senator Jones of j Washington providing for a four- hour day on Saturday with a full day's pay. __ This would mean a 44-hour week for all the mechanical groups covered by the government eight-hour law without decrease in wages. The men affected are employed in arsenals, navy yards, in the Panama Canal Zone and in the various government departments, with the exception of the post office department and the government printing office. N. P. Alifas of the International Association of Machinists, who as president of District No. 44 is charged with the duty of looking after the interests of the government employees, is responsible for the bill. He has been at work for weeks to secure a favorable report. —- That Kind First Tramp: "Say, Bo, what kind of cigars do you smoke?" Second Tramp: "Why, brother, ah smokes Robinson Crusoe cigars." _ First Tramp: "Wot kinda cigars, is dat?" Second Tramp: "Castaway, brother, castaway." IMPERIAL BANK of CANADA Comer Granville and Dunsmuir Streets Capital paid up, $7,000,000 - - - Reserve, $7,500,000 Head Office, Toronto, Ont. :* •■ ' i ■ ■ ■, -'. \VE GIVE PERSONAL SERVICE Special Foreign Exchange Department Bonds Bought and .Sold Special Savings Department Safety Deposit Vaults •Collections receive prompt attention ' MAIN OFFICE: GRANVILLE AND DUNSMUIR Hastings and Abbott Street Fairview Telephones: Manager's Office Seymour 1831 Ass't. Manager's Office . . . 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Three foreign language publications—Scandinavian, Yiddish and German, circulating in Western Canada are carrying this advertisement also. /I ^--L/t-n/W •- w« jisrt-^ x~** ^ SBSS ' I "'HE Vancouver Harbour Commissioners A are making a determined effort to sell all Prairie shippers and consignees the Via Vancouver and Panama Canal route, for Atlantic Seaboard ancTEnropc-ui Ports shipments. A special filing foldeMias been prepared for inclusion in the regulation ^office cabinet .system. This file will be known avthe "Via Vancouver Freight Information andsTntelli- gence" file. It is photographically illustrated with new and interesting Port of Vancoi scenes. It pictorially emphasizes the speed and efficiency of the modern Vancouver HarbouX equipment. Loose leaf sheets enclosed, deaP with freight rates on varied merchandise, to and from Prairie points, via Vancouver. Each month a bulletin will be mailed to parties having the freight and information file. Thus a fund of up-to-date information will be available to inter- ested business houses, in all parts of the world. Xocal business organizations with overseas connections whpm they wish to receive the file folder, and Consequent monthly information, should forward names and addresses of such parties to the Secretary at once! Vancouver Harbour Commissioners/ F.Jl^McD. RUSSELL, K.C / 'residenty^^^ j ', Commission A. M. POUND, Commissioner When Ordering BRfeAD or FLOlTR Insist on IRONIZED obtainable at your neighborhood grocery .♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦ Dr. Middleton's Food Products Company, Ltd. XoO Hastings Street East Vancouver, B. C American Unemployment As Seen By Foreign Eyes Precocity Authoress: "Imagine my horror when I found my three-year-old grandson tearing up my manuscript." Friend: "What! Can the child read already?" Ruthless Rhymes Little Mary, sad to tell, Threw the baby in. .a_jjelU Mother ehided, "Now," my daughter, You >'.ti-wyo —- upmleip^-our -drinking waiter!" The library should be the mental irritant of the community; it should help to make the old fresh, the strange tolerable, the new question- -able and all things wondcrful.--Dr. John Carlton Dana.! Unemployment in -the United States is said to arouse much more interest in England than similar news from any other country could stir, because the British have so long been accustomed to think of American wage-earners as the most fortunately situated in the world. From a Labor standpoint, H. N. Brailsford, in the London News Leader, a Labor weekly, finds American workers to be "the victims of progress," and he expresses surprise that there is no regular federal or state mechanism for combating or alleviating unemployment. There* is not even a mechanism to measure it, he asserts, and there is no insurance system and no labor exchange in a country where "the art of the statistician is so highly developed." Mr. Brails- ford does call attention to the most careful attempt to guess at the ex- employment by an unofficial institution known as the Labor Bureau, .which started from the known figures of the decline of employment in certain industries, and then guessed at the figures in the rest, while deducting—again by guesswork—an estimate for those who may have quitted factories to find work in such thriving careers as the promotion of instalment-buying by house- to-house canvassing, or in the service of every man's motor car. Mr. Brailsford, writing from New York, goes on to say: "The result can only be a guess, but I believe it is a conservative guess; I have heard able economists arguing for a much higher figure. The chances are that, at this moment, there are at least four million unemployed in this prosperous republic. That means 10 per cent, of the occupied population, a high figure for a contented nation to carry. It is, relatively to population, at least the equivalent to our own figure. "What is the explanation? The odd thing about it is that some of the usual signs of depressed trade are absent. There has been no 'slump' in prices. 'The volume of business,' declares the National City Bank, 'is distinctly above the average.' The index of prices compiled by the Federal Reserve Board, which seems to include the last perfections of statistical ingenuity, shows over a long period an almost uncanny stability. From the beginning of 1925 onward, month by month, this index of the general price-level (aB compared with 1913) has never fallen below 168, nor risen above 173. It has been all but absolutely steady round the figure 170. One might not be surprised, under these conditions, if special circumstances were to produce severe unemployment in some group of trades, but ought not a seady general level of prices to mean a fairly steady general level »f employment? Evidently it does not. "The explanation is, I think, evident when one turns to the available statistics, which in their way are highly instructive. They have been analyzed by a skilled economist, Prof. S. H. Schlichter, in The New Republic, the one paper which has persistently and ably sought to rivet attention on this crisis. The statistics enable us, over a wide range of manufacturing industries, to measure both production and employment. The significant facts are that while output has increased, employment has declined. "The figure 100 means the average of factory output and factory employment in the period 1923- 1925. During the first ten months of 1927, the index of factory output rose to 107. In the same period the index Of factory employment fell to 95. In other words, with 5 per cent, fewer employees, the factories turned out 7 per cent, more goods." It is not difficult to read the meaning of these figures, thinks Mr. Brailsford, who points out that there has been no slump, -but that the American process of ever increasing efficiency is taking its course. The restless substitution of mechanical processes for human labor is on the march, he avers, and continues: "I met the other day an able man whose task it is to supervise as 'receiver' the reorganization of factories which do not pay their way. He described the 'sacking' of the skilled mon, the careful picking of a few expert 'key' men, and the engagement of tunskilled girls to.mind the new automatic machines. One punches a few holes in a -card./.a: the automaton does the rest, tt ™ this process which is revealed in these figures. " 'But surely,' the reader may object, 'we had understood that the Federal Reserve' Board had worked out a highly scientific technique of stabilization. Does it not study the statistics of output, and expand or control credit to keep pace with them!' I gather from some inquiries that we in England have gravely overestimated the scientific work of this banking organization. It does not officially profess to stabilize anything. It is, I am told, simply divided, and consequently lamed for effective action. If one presses for on answer which would describe its policy, one is told that at most it aims at 'stabilizing business,' a conveniently vague expression. Up to last week it had kept the price of credit low, with a bank rate of 3 1-2 per cent., and the volume of credit was expanding, while prices remained stable. That looks like health. To keep pace with this steadily expanding volume of output, the volume of credit and purchasing power should have expanded also. Apparently it did. Then, one asks, why was it that this expanding credit failed to do its work? Ought it not to have increased the demand for goods so that, although fewer hands could turn out more goods, the increase in the total demand should have kept employment constant? That would be the ideal working: of a truly social system of stabilization. But is this what bankers mean by stable 'business?' Evidently not. 'Business' is not the same thing as 'employment.' "What actually happened is fairly clear. The new credit was ample and cheap. But it did not go to purposes which would increase wages and make a mass demand for goods. It went to finance speculative dealings in stocks and real estate. Perceiving this, but impotent to prevent it by any subtler action, the Federal Reserve Board last week raised its bank rate to 4 per cent., and proceeded at the same time to curtail the volume of credit. In other words, at a moment of severe unemployment it has slightly deflated, and it has done this in order to check speculation. It may attain that end. It may stabilize 'business.' But, one supposes, the action must tend to make the crisis in employment slightly worse." This object lesson is exceedingly interesting. Mr. Brailsford then remarks, and "conveys its lesson" to the British. One docs not gain one's end by extolling stabilization, he holds; and adds that everything turns on the purpose which governs stabilization. If one aims at keeping the level of employment steady, it is obvious, he maintains, that one must be' able to control, not merely the volume, but also the direction of credit, and he proceeds: "One must be able, to put it plainly, to divert it at need from speculation into channels which will provide wages. It would not be enough if we aimed at the social use of credit, to nationalize the Bank ..of England. One must also control the Junior Stock Banks. Only if they discriminate among the purposes which are to receive an expansion of credit, can we make sure that fresh purchasing power shall be created to keep pace with the progress of mechanical efficiency. "So, it seems, while the 'bread lines' lengthen out, and the Charity Organization Society doles out its stringent mercies, this ultra-modern civilization is being victimized by its own progress. Day by day it caji turn out more wealth. Day by dfiy it does turn out more wealth. But it has not learned the secret of distributing it. "There is perhaps an even sim- ' pier thing which it might do. It might shorten the hours of labor, in proportion as its output increases. But for that society lacks- the wit, and Labor itself the necessary organization. Into this crisis it is stumbling, even more blindly, even more helplessly than any country of the impoverished Elder World." The London Daily Telegraph is impressed by the problem of unemployment in the United States because the American worker has so long been considered the most enr viable of all-toilers, and. it speaks - of alleged present conditions as follows: "The situation, or any reasonable view of it, is clearly" different indeed • ^TtomitTOetHWV'Pligc.- l-h——-*-*•—-— April 27, 192.X THE LABOR STATESMAN Eleven AMERICAN UNEMPLOYMENT (Continued from Page 10) from that described by the Secretary of Commerce a year ago in his survey of the industrial outlook for 1927. There was then, Mr!. Hoover declared, 'a job in prospect for most everybody,' and the improved financial and technical organization of industry had removed the fear of any such violent fluctuations as had been known in the past. It is likely, and it is certainly to be hoped, that he was right in ruling out the possibility of any such disastrous collapse as American industry has experienced in earlier times; but widespread unemployment is today a fact, and its social implications are worth noting in a country like our own, where we were in danger of making a superstition of the American workman's enviable lot. Once out of work, he has nothing but his savings and public charity to which to look for support, and it is worth remarking, incidentally, that the very large amount of the American workers' savings may be helping greatly to conceal the truth about unemployment, since few nien will apply for charitable relief until compelled to do so. "Wages in the United States are at a high level; but the .workingman' is uninsured against sickness, fold age and unemployment. In some states there is. even no provision for compensation for accidents. He is fortunate, however, in the fact that public benevolence in the United States is boundless; and if matters grow no worse the country may weather the present difficulty without serious trouble." Of particular interest is the view of a Canadian newspaper, the Edmonton Bulletin, which believes that the industrial activity in the United States during recent years has apparently drawn more men from the country and into its industrial centers than there is work for, and it adds: "The southward movement of Canadians this year should be correspondingly small, and the northward diovement into Canada relatively large. With economic conditions in the two countries tending to reverse, it is quite possible that Canada will gain substantially more than it loses in the exchange during the present year." The question whether the United States is too rich to be really prosperous is asked in various European circles, and an attempt to answer it is made in a French newspaper, Pax (Paris and Geneva), by an internationally known journalist, Norman Angell. The question just mentioned was submitted to him, and in answer he asked 'a question of hi! own, namely: "But is America rich?" In the land of gold, he goes on to say, one meets with many people who bitterly oppose what they call the "legend of American prosperity," and he tells us that one does not see such an attitude recorded in the newspapers, although many of the more independent i m- erican organs commence to show signs of having their doubts about American conditions. The real "sin against the Holy Ghost" in the United States, Mr. Angell discovers, is to be a "calamity howler," or in other words to be "perfectly lukewarm in the midst of a universal effervescence." But, he adds, in talks mor or less private, one often hears such skeptical words as: "Don't tell anybody I said so, but the truth is that business is very bad." As far as he himself has observed, Mr. Angell notes that: "Nobody will pretend that the farmers are too rich, or that they are even rich. Their particularly difficult situation has become the abiding specter at the table of all political banquets. As a matter of fact, the farmers represent about one-third of the population of the country—and this mvfst strangely alter the so-called excess' of wealth that people talk about. As for industry, on the other hand—notably that of textiles or of coal—it is in a critical stage. Unemployment is wide-spread and there are certainly more tha na million men without work. The small or medium-size industry, as distinguished from a great enterprise linked up with a trust, is in many cases suffering from this state of affairs. ... "Neverthless, it remains true that a great part of the urban population of America—and one must always distinguish urban America from rural America as having different and seperate standards of life—is =much richer--than it_has_ever JiEen, much richer than any bulk of population ha*ever been. Such standards of life fs those prevailing in Ameri -■-rea-aa-*" Dairy Employees Have Made Splendid Progress On February 24, 1919, a meeting of seven men connected with the milk industry was held in a small room in the old Labor Temple, up on Dunsmuir street, to consider ways and means to organize the milk salesmen and dairy employees of this city. It was decided to apply for a charter, and for many weeks no progress was made, only the original seven attending the meetings. In March the local started a campaign and made good progress, and from that day on Local 464 continued to make progress, until today they are the outstanding local oi this kind in the Dominion. Some five years ago a sick benefit fund was started, and over $5,000 has been paid out in benefits to the members. The local pays out a maximum of $100 in any one year as sick benefits, for which a member pays 50 cents a month. We also have a death benefit of $200, and this year a loaning system—for the benefit of members—was started, loaning members money at an interest rate of only six per cent. Several members have thus been able to buy their homes and other things by being able to borrow money at a low rate of interest. Lost All in Bank Failure In 1924 the local had the misfortune to lose all its money in the Home Bank failure, but it must be said, to the credit of all the members, they immediately rallied around, and today the local has a treasury of which every member is proud. All the firms in this city, New Westminster and North Vancouver that sell first-class milk employ members of Local 464. Members are only too pleased to show their due book or button when asked to do so. Made Envious Progress In January of this year the local opened its charter and has received 64 applications up to the time of writing. Efforts are now being made to organize the whole city, so that we can enjoy a daylight delivery system of milk, as this will enable us to give the citizens a much fresher product and improve the delivery system and conditions for all con cerned. Before the war many of our members worked for $50 a month and board. Today their wages will compare with any of the highly-skilled tradesmen, and we have established the six-day week, where in the old days a man had to work 365 days in the year. In January, 1928, the local adopted a bylaw assessing a member who failed to attend two meetings in aj quarter the sum of $5. This has re-1 suited in the local enjoying an attendance of over 100 members at all our meetings, and experience shows that the more interested the members are the better local you have, as all the members arc familiar with what is being done. So far very little friction has developed, and it is hoped this policy will be kept up. —S. As to whether America's wealth is a benediction or a curse, and whether the American people are too rich, Mr. Angell then observes, if one must reply "yes or no" to this question, one must in the present instance make a negative answer, and he adds: "If certain evils arise from the midst of riches it is not because their possessors are too rich, but because they are not wise enough to employ their wealth properly. Those who ill use their good fortune would, in general, make worse use of poverty. Poverty which involves insufficient nourishment makes us gormandizers. The malnutrition of children, thp lack of education, overwork, the haunting shadow of poverty and old age which paralyzes us, and all the calamities inherent in real poverty are evils in themselves. But wealth is not an evil in itself. On the contrary, it is essentially a good thing, but which is badly made use of because of the faulty discipline of the human will. The remedy is, therefore, not to go back to poverty and its evils but to make prudent use of the money we have." —The Literary Digest. TuHes nave- known." The Proposal He had proposed to her, as is still the custom with some people, and her answer had been "No, NO!" Can you imagine, then, why he crushed her exultantly to his manly breast and then rushed off to buy the licence? Well, it's very simple: They !uwii,i4.y-*ti('.!i- great multi-1 were both English-teachers and-so rieVPr Before" "Seen j knew VeTjr We11~TlrHt~tW(j- wejrntives i make an affirmative Support Union Labor and Demand Hazelwood Ice Cream Guaranteed Made From Fresh Cream PHONE SEY. 2090 Delicious and Tender for Tasty Soup and Nourishing Chowder Zero Brand Clams ARE UNSURPASSED packed by MILLERD PACKING COMPANY, LIMITED VANCOUVER, B. C. Palm Dairy Products—"Insist on Palm Brands' —ft*-DoG*- VANCOUVER CREAMERY CO., LTD. butter, eggs, Ice Cream CHEESE AND MILK ' "The Cream of Them All" PHONES: SEYMOUR 2048, 5056 & 5057 MILK DEPT.: FAIRMONT 4181 CABLE ADDRESS: "DISPATCH," VANCOUVER. CODE: BENTLEY'S EMPIRE STEVEDORING CO., LTD. GENERAL STEVEDORES AND CONTRACTORS Head Office: VANCOUVER, B. C. Covering all Britiih Columbia Port» President: CAPT. W. M. CRAWFORD P. G. GROVES, Ceneral Manager F. O. WHITE, Se£etary-Trea» Stevedores for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Limited She: "When jjou married--pie you used to call me dear." He: "Perhaps I did, darling, but -irince then yo-n-Ve develope-*i~"inte---* big expense." Patient—So you've really been practicing since 1895? ... DcntjafcU-ypu dqn't ^believe Jt, j ust~T^#w~^ v (.T"-^ h^1 - niAjjMMwes waiting room. Nervous Employer — Robert, I wish you wouldn't whistle at your ., work, „.*:... firtl»-H---»*--*ffi*^-"®*-'-5^^ I'm only whistling. , i TvveK T H E L A B O R S T A T E S M A X Friday, Apfff"27".' 1928 Union Finances and Financial Benefits By Herbert A. Spence "The inducement to join an organization must be sufficient to influence the judgment and opinion of those eligible to membership. Before making a final decision, the average person is disposed to weigh carefully the benefits and advantages which will come to him through membership in an organization. Most of us thipk in terms of relative values when deciding questions which affect our social and economic life. It is logical to inquire into the merits of any movement or organization with which we may become identified. In becoming affiliated with groups of society, the individual seeks and secures association with his fellows in an effort to achieve certain definite purposes. He must be in sympathy with the movement and he must make the cause of his associates his cause and their objective his objective. All" must have a common interest, for only in .this way can organization and organized activities be made profitable and successful."—William Green, President of American Federation of tabor. To enumerate the many benefits th*it the Trade Unions confer on their membership is almost an impossible task. They constitute one of the greatest forces for good in the history of the world, and to their influence and activities can be attributed practically every piece of legislation and every regulation established for the protection of the lives, health and constitutional rights of working people. The Trade Unions arc the mediums through which the workers give expression to their desires and the machinery employed for bringing into action their collective power in the furtherance of worthy objectives. Decent stand- are of living, reasonable hours of labor, increased earning power, are direct benefits secured through collective action; compensation and minimum wage laws, health regulations, sanitary and factory inspection provisions, and child labor legislation, reflect the influence they h&ye_exerted in legislative halls, benefiting millions outside trade union ranks as well. The resources and financial activities of a trade union are, as a general rule, of little concern to the average candidate tot initiation into its ranks. He is primarily interested in the possibilities it offers for increasing the amount of his pay check, improving his living standards, and the establishment of better social conditions. Once admitted he agrees to conform to its constitution, which he is then informed provides certain definite monetary benefits. Thus a natural interest in the financial affairs of the organization develops, and the new member learns that from a financial viewpoint and as an investment his initiation fee and monthly dues will return to him handsome cash dividends, in addition to the benefits which first attracted him. Trade Union funds make provision for the relief of their unemployed, and for those in distress through accident or sickness, they take care of their members in the declining years of life through a system of pensions and institutions, and finally, when life is ended and shadows darken the home, it offers sympathy in a tangible form, extending financial aid when needed most. The handling of these funds, involving disbursements of many thousands and often millions of dollars annually, is no mean task, and calls for outstanding business ability on the part of executive officers. These financial activities of the trade unions are almost unknown to the average worker and the public at large. The dissemination of such information should awaken a greater degree of interest in their humanitarian work and be of material assistance in strengthening the ranks of organized labor as a positive force for good. For a considerable period of time there was a decided reluctance on the part of many unions to make any public pronouncements regarding the expenditure of their funds, but of late years the value of publicity in "selling" trade unionism to- the unorganized and general puoTic is being realized and taken advantage of. Best fFishes From The Famous Players Canadian Corporation Limited Operating the ipllowing theatres: CAPITOL DOMINION WINDSOR BROADWAY FRASER REGENT GRANDVIJEW VICTORIA ALMA KERRISDALE - \. Established 1897 Barr & Anderson, Limited SANITARY AND HEATING ENGINEERS AUTOMATIC FIRE PROTECTION FIRE LINES Lawn Sprinkler Systems FUEL OIL, COAL AND WOOD BURNING EQUIPMENT Vancouver British Columbia CODES: \.B.C.. 5th Edition British Columbia Fishing and Packing Company Limited Do not Jet any one deceive you— it is patriotism, and that, too, in its highest form—to light the cause of the -Union Label, Shop Card and Button, for this fight result-*, not merely in better pay and conditions and shorter^workipjt hoiuay-iiti-vifi —thr*'better homes and happier chil- diten.and upon, these rests the hope of the nation. • / with which is associated Wallace Fisheries, Limited VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA •OoO *<E)o-a*- Packers and Exporters of ALL GRADES OF CANNED SALMON Fresh, Frozen and Dry Salted Salmon, Halibut, Herring and Cod, Mild Cured Salmon, Pilchard Meal and 0:1. The Toll Bridge Trust Arrives in America Almost on the same day that the .jfiiliuited .Stats*;senate passed ja bill ;t-',Rr,'irrtffig~T-rrivate' parties We privilege of building a toll bridge over 1 the Potomac, a short distance above the nation's capital, word comes j investing public as well as the trav from New York that a toll bridge, elling public. trust has been formed. The private tollbridge business_js_. - This is the National TollBridge ■' national scandal, and-the" granting Company, incorporated under the ; of this last permit,is not far from laws of Maryland, to buy existing a crime. -**■ ^ toll bridge»-and~-fci-*ia*CTr--**i---**^-fim--^ 'Jlr- construct and operate hew ones. It hundreds of millions on roads and has all the usual stocks and bonds j the private toll bridge proposes to and material for hornswoggling the put under tribute everyone who uses these roads. Built by public authority, as they should he, them bridges WMild pay-* Tor themselves in a few years, and then would be free. Built by pri-- vate graft hunters, now organizing ^-■•umtgi'i',.. fJii^y ?-*>-n.e*-^.^3V'ii^-'h^-^ free."" ' Not anothci ptivate toll bridge bill should, be passed.—Labor.- I riday, April 1928 T 11 E I. A B O R S T A T E S U A X ■ *>-,. Thirteeu ;%* o/0 On Your Savings- Be Thev LARGE or SMALL It Can Be Done ■Our records PROVE IT Intermountain Building and Loan Association Registered to transact business in British Columbia, February; 1926. : Assets are over $2,250,000. Tin* IntArmountafri Building sinrt Loati AHHn<i;itlnn In an -absolutely mutual concern, its Havings M*'-inbers shun- In the full t.*arnintfn of the AHHociiition, and where amounts arc cr*-<lltt-fj to I,nan Kunris, receive Dividend Credit* of NOT LESS THAN 8%, Compounded Semi-annually, Plus Dividends. Every Dollar collected from oar Saving's Members In British Columbia remains in the Province. It is loaned to Members on First Mortgages on improved real estate on a 50', valuation. We are here to build up British Columbia fut '•nut paid in by Since We started business in this province we have not only loaned out th* iters hut bft.ve.al0O brought in over $100,000 additional for. loan ."purposes. Get the Facts—Find how payments of $3.50, 95.50, 911.50 monthly will work into the large sum of 91000.00 in from 72 to 168 months—Learn how a Fully Paid Certificate offers a most profitable form of Safe Investment. ' — « ■ All payments of Savings Membl-rs and alt Monthly Repayments on Mortgage Loans, both principal and interest, are Immediately reinvested monthly. By this natural compounding twelve times a year a remarkably high return is obtained, with perfect safety. Full provision is made in our p]an for Savings Members whu desire to build homes to secure loans and (after a certain period) to borro>v on withdrawal values or to withdraw their Investment. Get the Facts—Start saving today—Assure yourself of a Comfortable "stake" in your earning years, LL,„..,,, - . t Write Today for Full Particulars and Literature Intermountain Building and Loan Association Head Office for Canada 1104-1108 Vancouver Block ^ Phones: Sey. 1855, Sey. 3247 Vancouver, B. C. ZIZT2Hr.*T U*Ti!!ir^!rniiIT! WILL ELLIS President and Managing .Director ALF. ELMS Vice-President W. J. TIM I. UK Sec-Treat*. ELLIS-COTTON, LIMITED GENERAL CONTRACTORS Permanent Highway Construction and Civic Improvements Modern Asphalt Plants and Concrete Machinery HEAD OFFICE and PLANT NO. 1 ' False Creek, Vancouver, B. C. Phone Bey. 9246 PLANT NO. 2 North Vancouver, B. C. Phone North 1363 FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST FOR HEALTH AND VIGOR EAT THREE CAKES DAILY ASK YOUR GROCER THE FLEISCHMANN COMPANY 11(51) BURRARD STREET VANCOUVER, B. C : A.B.CUSHING MILLS, LIMITED "MASTERBUILT" MILLWORK FOR HOMES AND OFFICES OF VANCOUVER High Class; Workmanship in Hardwoods and' Softwoods SASH DOORS FINISH 245 Second Ave. W. Phone, Fairmont 963 .-_,. VancMis^JMi-U- How Machinery Reduces Need For Man Power in American Industry How the machine is replacing man-1 by' hand; spikes are being turned power in industry is herewith .set' out by machinery at a.ratio of 200 forth by the following figures compiled by individual firms and governmental bureau. -These figures represent'the unemployment problem in its real light. A thorough study must he made by economists to readjust industry in order that all who desire employment at which to gain a live lihood may be accommodated. If this is not done shortly, a real panic is in the making which will strike, and strike hard, within a few years. It can be averted by a gradual readjustment of industry, the scientific method to avert demoralization of business. Telephone Workers The Potomac Telephone Company of Washington announces that there will not be a telephone girl at work in the nation's capital by 1030. An automatic dial system is now being installed. > Railroad Telegraphers President E. J. Manion, head of the Telegraphers' Union,-.-reported to the A, F. of L. convention at Los Angeles that 11,000 jobs in the craft were lost in the last few years because of automatic transmitting machinery. Dock Workers Automatic machinery to unload ships is described by labor publications in Canada as doing the work of 300 men. The machinery will unload 000 tons of coal an hour. Coal Mining "The mechanization oj^the ,_c.u,al industry (bituminous) must"reciuce the amount for labor nat'ded to produce a given torfnage of coal. How many workers the industry will use when the transition is over cannot be told, but rough calculations indicate that coal in excess of current demands could be mined by 150,000 to 250,000 workers."—W. H. Hamilton, "The Case for Bituminous Coal." At one time 750,000 coal workers were employed, a shrinkage of 300 per cent. Farmers "Department of Commerce has published figures showing that there are 506,745 tractors on farms in the United States, compared with 246,083 in 1920, an increase of 105.0 per cent." Factory Workers According to the Department of Commerce, the manufacturing industry of the country employed 385,000 fewer workers in 1925 than in 1923, though production greatly increased. The department attributes this anomaly to the increased use of motive power. Oil Fields Ditch diggers have been replaced in the oil fields by large machines which dig into the earth and make excavations of perfect geometric proportions. A 20-inch pipe line from Texas to Kansas City is being thus built, according to the Associated Press. Copper -Industry In nine years, from January, 1918, to August, 1927, one large copper refining company reduced its working force from 578 men to 233 men, according to the United States Department of Labor, which attributed the falling off to machinery. Steel The United States Department of Labor is making a detailed study of production in the steel mills, data from which is about to be published. Preliminary announcements state that huge impersonal machines, each able to perform the work of a host of men, are replacing perspiring crews. : Glass Whereas formerly it required several hundred glassblowers to create the necessary supply of five-gallon carboys needed in the United States, now one single machine can manufacture the whole supply. Cigar Makers "Today the small shop with handwork has mostly disappeared," declares I. M. Ornburn, editor of the Cigar Makers' Journal. The cigar- making machine came with sudden and unexpected force, he declares, and he also attributes the loss of -membership -te jjic- organl«tlan--^to this new force. . :" M.-taI ..Tr.-idr* to every one previously turned out by hand, and in various other processes of the metal trades industry, such ■ as boring, boarding, tapping, counter sinking, rearing and milling, •machinization has increased productivity at a ratio of about 50 to 1 per worker. Other industries, as for instance the iron and steel, industry, the textile and textile products industries, stove manufacturing, bottle blowing, baking and printing, all have undergone changes through mechanization," according to the Wall Street Journal. $15,000,000 Wage Boost (or Railmen, 1927 OTTAWA. — Nearly $15,000,000 were added to the earnings of Canadian railroad workers in 1927, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in a report just issued, says "Labor." This increase was due to wage negotiations conducted by the railroad labor organizations. The 1927 pay roll of the railways was exceeded only by 1920. New high records in gross revenue, tons of freight carried and revenue ton-miles were made, according to the bureau. Gross and Net Revenues "Although gross operating revenues were greater than in 1926 by $5,414,075, or 1.1 per cent," says the bureau, "the operating expenses ipareasad hy-W.-Mf'.gOO, or 4.7 per cent., which reduced the net operating revenues by $12,730,825. "Maintenance of way and struc- . turcs was heavier by $5,348,620, or 6.7 per cent., maintenance of equipment by $2,054,524 and transportation expenses increased by $8,241,- 532." The revenue freight carried in 1927 established a new high record, being heavier by over half a million tons than for the previous high year of 1926. Earnings Larger Than in 1927 Meanwhile the, Canadian railways are continuing to show increases in gross earnings. For the first two months of 1928 the Canadian National, according to a statement issued last week, increased gross earnings $3,732,849.53, or 10.75 per cent. Working expenses wcrtt up $1,933,440.54, or 6.29 per cent. This leaves net earnings of $5,- 789,221, or an improvement over 1927 of 45.10 per cent. Gross earnings of the Canadian Pacific for the first two months of 1928 were $2,490,415 over 1927. Working expenses increased $1,487,- 754, leaving an increase in net profits of $1,002,661. CENTRAL lOF GEORGIA WAYMEN GET MORE PAY The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees has negotiated an agreement with the Central of Georgia management, effective March 1, carrying monthly wage increases as follows: Track and bridge foremen, $2.50 to $10; assistant track and bridge foremen, $3; portable equipment steam engineers, $2.50 to $3; welders and assistants, $5; bridge watchmen, assistants and pumpers, $2. Building and bridge carpenters get an increase of 2 to 11 cents an hour, and bridge helpers will receive a wage boost of 19 cents an hour. Perplexed The car had broken down, and the pair of legs protruding from undei-. neath seemed to indicate that repairs were in progress. "Had a breakdown?" inquired a passerby. "Oh, no, only playnig hide-and- seek with the works," came a muffled voice from underneath the car. But the questioner was not easily daunted. "What power car is it?" "Forty house." "What's wrong with it?" "Well, as far as I know," came the answer, "thirty-nine horses have boiled, "and the remaining one is too upset to answer questions." Magistrate: "What did the defendant look like when you arrested him?" Constable: "Well, girv'e 'ad a kind of 'a pinifhetl Iodic-■-' ~- ; ■ k -i^TTBTrtas less" cabritgg th,sijVJS', Jlrtn;' MreWS ft'tfe made by.- autp- wSiiian. Try to imagine one with 12 matic, machinery at a rate of about cents in his pocket trying t>n seven 1,000 to every one formerly made suits of clothes. 7 ■ ■ourteen T H V. ~L A H O R STATES M A N Friday, April 1928 FOR RE-RQOFING YOUR HbUSE (Also for the New One) DUROID SHINGLES -•*£>°<2*- Hundreds of Different Color Combinations Colors Permanent Fire Resisting —CSoC33>- SIDNEY ROOFING AND PAPER CO., LTD. Victoria Vancouver PORT O' VAN ICE CREAM7SLIMITED t. Operating ALMOND, ARCTIC, CRESCENT AND WESTMINSTER ICE CREAM COMPANIES 1170 Hornby Street. . Vancouver, B. C, April 24, 1928. To the General Public: There has been much discussion in the press recently in regard to Butter, rancid and otherwise, being used in the manufacture of Ice Cream" in this province. In fairness to our Company, it is unfortunate that the names of the firms using butter in making Ice Cream were not specifically mentioned, and in answer to enquiries reaching our office, we beg to state that we hereby guaranatce that our Ice Cream IS and ALWAYS HAS BEEN' made fro-m pure B. (". Sweet Cream, produced in the Fraser Valley. This statement applies to the Almond, Arctic. Crescent and Westminster Ice Cream Companies, which this Company owns and operates. PORT 0' VAN ICE CREAM LTD. R. W. Jenkins, Manager. Plucky Colorada Woman Asks Square Deal In Coal Industry STILL LEADING SINCE 1892 BRAID'S BEST TEA AND COFFEE Braid's Best Tea, Orange Pekoe (Red Label), has since 1892 maintained the lead as the finest package tea in Western Canada. Braid's Best Tea (Blue Label). A popular tea at a popular price. i Braid's Best Coffee. The coffee that made our reputation. ■> Save the Coupons Save the Coupons DOMINION BRIDGE COMPANY, LTD. VANCOUVER, B. C. Stru ctural^ teel Shapes Plates Sheets PLANT: 275 1st AVE. WEST einforcing Bars _. ,_PJiQNE; £AUi4£8M Denver, Colo.—A woman may be the savior of the Colorado coal mining situation, from the workers' point of view. It was announced recently that Miss Josephine Roche had secured control of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, the largest concern in northern Colorado coal fields and the third largest in the state. It was at the Columbine mine, on this company's property that the greatest tragedy of the strike occurred. State police turned machine guns on a body of demonstrating minprs and, five were killed and 21 wounded. Miss Roche was in no way responsible. At that time she was the largest stockholder in the Rocky Mountain Company, having inherited her interest from her father, an old- time coal operator. She was in a minority on the board of directors, however, and while she openly expressed sympa- they for the miners, she could do little to materially alter conditions. Announces New Policy So she set about the task of securing sufficient stock to give her control. She accomplished her object by purchasing the holdings of Horace W. Bennett, one of Colorado's wealthiest men. y Then she elected her own borfrd of directors, making Merle D. Vlrfcent, her personal attorney and a well- known Progressive, president and general manager. Miss Roche asked'-18 of the com- flany-'s executives and mining superintendents to have luncheon with her at her apartment one day recently, and then she had President Vincent announce the company's new policy. "Hereafter," he said, "the policy of the company will be based .on the fact that the men employed are as much an essential factor in the industry as the capital invested in it, and have independent rights in the determination of working and living conditions. "The denial of these rights has resulted in constantly recurring strikes throughout the entire history of the industry. The consequent losses have fallen on the miners, operators and public alike. "This system has created a vicious circle of prices below cost of production, strikes, imported coal at exorbitant prices to the public; and forced settlements leaving the parties still at war with one another. Employees Pay for Losses "When operators in their greed for business cut prices to bedrock, as they have just started to do again, they make their men pay for the loss, thus paving the way for another strike and further loss of profits, for failures and reveiverships such as no industry should tolerate. "To support this policy and maintain these conditions, the public must again and again stand and deliver the prices demanded for imported fuel, as it did this winter. "The public's coal bill this winter and its business losses caused by the strike amounted to many millions. It was a needless loss and waste. "We are sure the public would rather pay reasonable, uniform prices for a constant and sufficient supply of coal, and thus insure satisfactory working and living conditions to miners and fair profits to the industry." "The coal industry is sick, and the outstanding cause of its condition is that operators have consistently and continuously been at war with labor, with the public and with each other. "The inefficiency of such a policy is indicated by the low tonnage production per man in many of the larger operations, showing conclusively that hostile relations between parties diminish productive power." Strikers Will Return to Pits President Vincent said that every one concerned understood that the company's new policies could not be put into effect overnight. But he said, "There will be no black-listing of men. Employees of the company who have been on strike will be taken back as soon as there are openings for them, and the company will obey the law requiring check-weighmen, safety inspection committees andvoUier' regulations concerning conditions' in and about the mines. . .... "Employees having complaints or grievances may take tfrem .up 'srsssrsiM-jprb^S^-—shanncw -mrd have them heard and adjusted." While there is no mention in the statement of recognition of the union, it is well known that Miss Roche and her associates are willing to concede the fullest measure of collective bargaining, but they do not want to recognize the I. W. W., which conducted the recent strike. More important, however, than any. formal statement which might- be made is Miss Roche's own attitude toward the problem of social justice. She has devoted her life to movements which have for their object the amelioration of the condition of the masses and a square deal for the worker. No one questions her sincerity. Faces a Difficult Task Her friends recognize that she is facing a difficult task. Naturally, the other coal operators, led by the Rockefeller interests, will put every possible obstacle in her way. Already, as President Vincent indicated, these hard-boiled concerns are beginning to indulge in cutthroat competition. Undoubtedly, one object is to embarrass the Rocky Mountain Company. The State Industrial Commission, which has been investigating the strike for some months, has at last submitted its report. It holds the only permanent solution of Colorado's coal problem is unionization of the mines. Logie Helps Jack Logic, well-known Ijibor man of Summerland, walks with a crutch. That may be one of the reasons for his sympathy with the misfortunes of others. A few year-- ago the fruit crop of the Okanagan failed entirely and the fruit farmers were on the verge of starvation. They could not, without abandoning their all, seek employment elsewhere. Jack Logie worried with them. Then he thought—without them. "They alone can help themselves," was his conclusion. Then he spent weeks among them, observing them, making friends with them. As he sat by their firesides or shared their frugal meals he watched the women closely, for there lay his hope. He found one whittling idly as he entered her house, and watched a shapely whistle grow beneath her deft fingers. In another cottage he saw a rag rug upon the floor and learned that the woman of the house had made it out of old rags. Here he saw a crude bit of pottery, there a picture painted perhaps badly, and again a bit of fine lace work. In another cabin tucked well into- the hills he tasted the most delicious oat cakes he had ever eaten, and once again, he noticed the perfection of a darn upon the knee of a child's well-worn stocking. a "There is talent," he said to himself when he had colnpleted his search, "in every cottage, but the cottagers do not know it. When they discover it their hunger will cease." And so began the B. C. Cottage Each woman, when en- studied the craft for was best fitted,' and her work sold, whether it was carving, pottery, painting, cooking or merely the darning of socks. They discovered themselves, believed in themselves and then helped themselves.— Utility Topics. Industry, couraged, which she Schumann-Heinle's Gift to the Soldiers Madame Ernestine Schutnann- Heink has given her estate of Gross- mont, near San Diego, California, valued at $230,000, to the sick and disabled veterans of the "World War. It has been deeded for that purpose to Mayor George E. Leaeh of Minneapolis, himself a veteran. This would be a fine gift coming from anyone, under any circumstances. It is doubly fine as the facts stand. Schumann-Heink, of course, is a German, born and raised in the old country, though she has made America her home for years. She had sons on both, sides in the World War. She held that her duty was to America, for she was a naturalized citizen. 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Cranes creak; bells clang; engines clamor as crates are swung from depths of hold. Of well-nigh every race and clime appear the workers of the docks. Gathered by whim of fortune from all the seven seas, toiling side by side a day, a week, a'mdnth, upon the threshold of the calling city, they meet but soon to sail away once more beyond the dim horizon. Stevedores, longshoremen; crews of sailing craft, of tramps and mighty liners; cooks and stewards; foremen, engineers; bedizened officers themselves' —rail breathe romance of far shores. Here are sailors tattooed with hearts and anchors; Scandinavians from the fiords; Italians, gold gleaming at their ears; negroes with knotted muscles; Greeks and Portuguese; Lascars with flaming turbans; men with scars, skins scared by suns and winds, speech of unknown lands. Yet predominates the English tongue. Phrases fall upon the ear. "It carried off our rubber. We'll be in dry dock for a month." "This time we're booked for Aden." "No, Sir. She needs new engines. If that shaft cracks we're done for." "Skipper says I've three days to see Sally." Workers of the docks, toilers of ,the sea—you that swing cargoes of the world from hulls to wharves, j from wharves to hulls; you that 'guide fuel in thundering avalanches into leviathans' insatiate maws; you who deep in blackness of holds, stripped and streaming, feed devouring fires; you amidst the roar of engines, hands on levers, eyes on dials; you that pace the bridges, disdaining storm and hurricane, bring into the havens the lives entrusted to your care—you are revealers of the unity of man. With your ships you make known far corners of the earth, bring to understanding equator with the poles, in concord tie hemisphere with hemisphere. Because of you nation clasps hands with nation, race recognizes race, and man with man fares forth upon the unknown Sea t)f Time.—American Federationist. EVERETT BARBERS REDUCE WORK HOURS In compliance with the request of the master and journeymen barbers of Everett, the city commissioners Tuesday last adopted an ordinance regulating the opening and closing I of all barber shops in the city. The ordinance provides that no barber shop in the city shall open before 8:30 a.m. or close later than 6:30 p.m., except on Saturdays, and days preceding legal holidays, when the closing hour shall not be later than 8 p.m. The health department, in a provision, is empowered to require barbers suspected of having communicable disease submit to examinations by a physician. Like many other cities, the barber profession of Everett has in recent years been invaded by a small minority of shop owners that have little or no regard for the kind of work turned out or for the advancement of the profession. JOIN THE LABOR PARTY For Further Information Write B. C. SECTION, CANADIAN LABOR PARTY Secretary, 3. Stevenson, 3 (Jroavenor Avs. X., Vancouver, B. C. Phone Glenburn 40471 President, w. J. Bartlett; -Vlo.TPra«M.nt»i. J. HWfc'.jW-**! WMfc* fCy? Xaf.au, *E. Bale M. Otwnay. r~ ~ SHORTER WEEK ADOPTED THROUGH NEW SCHEDULE Chicago, 111.—The five-day week has been won by organized painters and plasterers. The latter organization worked on the short week basis as an experiment 'for three months and the employers' association now accepts it for a year. The new plan affects 3,000 plasterers and 18,000 painters. The shorter work week will reduce unemployment, and the health hazard, said Arthur W. Wallace, secretary-treasurer of the Painters' District Council. Hoan Re-Elected Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist, was last week Ce-elected mayor of Milwaukee, Wis., for a fourth term, or a total of 16 years. He defeated hhFrss^o.nsjatuiis~A~^f>^>-«t\oj>vrt>Jt<- tmtieAy two to mie;— His admihistra- tion has won the support of business as well as labor people: FIRE DESTROYS VALUABLES! BURGLARS STEAL THEM! Safety Deposit Boxes Protect Them! for the small cost of only J&3—- Three Dollars per Year—$3 Hours from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday 1 p.m. VANCOUVER SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING BLDG., PENDER AT HOMER RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggists" We Maka a Special Effort to Oat Good. Oat by Flr.t Kail Attar ■•o.lpt of TOW Order COENEB COSDOT1 AND CABRALL TUOOVTIB, B O. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE P^ACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER Your PARTY or SOCIAL is NOT Complete without ALMOND'S ICE CREAM PHONE DOUGLAS 3 6 OSHAWA AUTO UNION MAKES FINE PROGRESS Oshawa, Ont—The new unionlSf automobile workers at the Canadian plant of tile General Motors is making rapid progress and leaders pijs£ <jlii"tha» 41 willl 8UUH-i^H'IiH^*w>!Tlig "cent, organization. James Simpson, vice president Trades and Labor Congress of Can ada, has been selected to represent the employees on the board of conciliation established by the minister of labor. This board will investigate the j%f% i>«ffi«Hm*i In Tfyrw iffljgi: .^Sd"-feySgetrerwl-"Motors-.- :*A-.«trrlce~of^i" the employees compelled, the company, to suspend the cut pending conciliation. Sixteen THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, April 27, 1928 For Strength or Health For Work or Play Stevenson's Quality Bread THREE TIMES EACH DAY Scientifically blended and baked from Nature's purest super-selected grains in a huge modern sanitary bakery, Stevenson's Quality Bread provides those strength-giving, muscle-building elements in their most delicious and appetizing form. As a real spring tonic try our Super- Whole Wheat Loaf. White, Whole Wheat, Raisin or Plum fresh daily at your grocers, or phone— FAIRMONT 227 STEVENSON'S BREAD Stevenson Bros., Ltd. Cor. 17th and Willow A Personal. Sympathetic Service that always gives -. . lasting satisfaction HARRON BROS £ WILLIAMSON FUNERAL DIRECTORS I22 6tmST.W. PHONE NORTH 134 NO. VANCOUVER 55-IOih AVE. t. PHONE FAIR 134 VANCOUVER, B.C. ggErJsiic* Willi the compliments of Moncrieff & Vistaunet GENERAL CONTRACTORS PHONE: SEYMOUR 12S3 520 Shelly Building^ 119 Pender Street West Buy Union Stamped Shoes We ask all members of organized labor to purchase shoes bearing onr Union Stamp on the sole, inner-sole, or lining of tha shoe. We ask you not to buy any shoes unless you actually sea this Union Stamp. Boot & Shoe Workers' Union AfriUiM with th. AMricu Itimtiim tt Ubor 246 MVUMMM STREET, BOBTOIT, Mill. COLL1S LOVELY General President CHARLES L. BAINB General Secretary-Treaiurar The Equitable Savings & Loan Association Owned and operated by its members for their mutual benefit. 208 North-West Building Sey. 7172 No Preferred Stock. Money received from members only. No Preferred Stockholders. Loans made to members only. $1.00 TO $35.00 PER MONtfH RECEIVED Please forward me further information regarding Savings and Loan. ..- I am interested In building or buying & home. I am interested ln paying off an existing mortgage. I am interested in a savings account. Name AddreBS....„ Painters Attempt at Settlement Fails Painters' strike is nearing end of fourth week with practically, little change in the situation. The ranks of the strikers are as solid as at the first day of the strike with the difference that they are larger in numbers, as new members are joining daily. Most of these new members directly enter wholeheartedly into assisting the committee and their fellow-members, which makes the morale of the body all that could be desired, resulting in the disappointment of the employers in gaining their end. In the freeze-out game they are drawing out the trouble much longer than need be, and making the men more determined. During negotiations the men have offered some concessions in the employers' favor but the offstanding manner of the employers docs not help to bring about a speedy settlement. However, it has put stamina into making the men more determined than ever to fight harder for their share of the profits they produce. One of the greatest assets toward the stability of the men is the splendid financial support given to them by their headquarters, also the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, Building Trades Council along with the large number of affiliated unions of other trades and crafts who are daily sending donations to assist the strikers to obtain the recognition they seek. The latest offer made to the employers by the men (?7.50 per day for 1928 and $8.00 per day for 1920 with satisfactory conditions) was turtied down by the employers. However, a further meeting has been arranged which may form the basis for a satisfactory settlement to both parties. CITY FIRE FIGHTERS LOSE ACTIVE MEMBER City Fire Fighters Union, Loca,l 18, lost one of its members through the death on Monday, April 23rd. of Murdock L. McLeod. Brother McLeod joined the fire department in 1916 and was a loyal member and supporter of Local 18. In December, 1926, he was taken away from a fire in a state of collapse as a result of cold and exposure, from which he never entirely recovered, although he continued to work until October last, when he was compelled to go on sick leave, seriously ill with tubercolosis. He leaves a wife besides his union brothers to mourn his passing.—C.A.W. STREET RAILWAY UNION MAKES STEADY PROGRESS Division 101, Street and Electric Railway Employees, is keeping up with the growth of the B. C. Electric Company. The present membership in the union number 1223, being an inerea'sc of 87 members during the past year. Wages have been increased from 36c per hour in 1910 to 63c per hour at this date. The sum of $2,900 was received from the International office during the past year for local benefits. PAINTERS RAISE WAGES B 0 S T O N.—Organized painters raised wages 6'4 cents an hour until April 1 next year, when an additional 6-4 cents will be paid. The old rate was $1.25 an hour. FIRST CHURCH £ "The'Church of the Open'Door" HASTINGS STREET EAST AT GORE AVENUE Minister: Rev. J. Richmond Craig Organist: Mr. F. Newton 11 a.m.: "PUBLIC WORSHIP" 7:30, p.m.: "THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS" A thrilling story of an heroic struggle for civil and religious liberty. FRESH AIR SUMMER CAMP Send your subscription today to the Superintendent at 424 Gore Ave. DAVIES PAPER BOX Company Limited Vancouver - B. C. IMCOKPOIUTSO jgj MAY 1870. . VANCOUVER i NOW ON^ OUR ANNIVERSARY SALE Every department participating BUY NOW! YOU SAVE! VISIT OUR BIG SALE Values to $2.50, all sizes in stock Be Here Early! 1000 MEN'S SHIRTS MEN'S ODD PANTS Good Tweeds and Worsteds, guaranteed, all sizes, regular value to $4.00 99c $2.95 SEE OUR MEN'S SUIT SPECIAL $18.00 Regular value, $25.00 HUNDREDS OF PAIRS OF SOCKS Pure wool; regular 65c; 3 PAIRS FOR .-...-..- -.... $1.00 ARCADE CLOTHES SHOP "A Union Store for Men" 142 Hastings Street West THINGS FOR MEN LATHER BRUSH—Special Hlack Bristle 25c HARRIS' HAIR TONIC—Removes Dandruff w. .„ $1.00 EVER-READY SHAVING CREAM—Regular 50c for 39o—A Razor Free. LUNCH KIT A.N'D VACUUM BOTTLE „; 81.48 SURE-EDGE STROPPBR—For all types of blades 81-00 RAZOR STROP—Genuine horsehide _ $1.75 RAZOR HONES— Large'Defection... 60c, 75c, 81.00, $1.25, $1.50 "PREP"SOFTENS BEARDS Darwin Blades remove them without pain. KRISS KROSS STROPPERS They really sharpen blades. Guaranteed. B. C. Barber Supply & Sundries Limited PHONE SEY. 4401 RETAIL ST'JRE — 64 HASTINGS STREET WEST — VANCOUVER, B. O. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT AND CABEPUI ATTENTION DRUGS AT CUT PRICES Yon can cnt your Drug* Mils by 15 to 20 per cent. II yon make aU your Drug purchases at any ot onr 16 stores. We can buy direct and share the profit. Friday and Saturday Specials 1.00 1.25 I.(10 1.2.r. .5(1 .25 30 1.00 Vacuum Bottlea j Mlelmud'D Lllae Vegetal. Swalsema ' * Dr. Reid's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil Vlnol : Mintys Tooth Brush French Cleaner Sulphur and MolaaKeD Olajen Extract of Lemon.. 33 .51 .72 .52 .79 .2G .14 .18 .62 .14 .35 .35 1.00 :ih ■Jill 1.2H ..•25 Benzo Almond Cream .16 1.00 Mum .22 Djer-KlPD Taleum 18 Parts Eau de Quinine „.. .49- Woo'lhury'D Tooth Powder.... .17 Dr. Hamilton's I'lllH 18 Dr. Reid's Pyorrhea Dental' Cream .26 Dr. Reid's Pyorrhea Mouth Wash, 16 oz .68 Mary Garden .Compact 49 Coty's Face Powder .48 VANCOUVER'S OWW DHUO STORES— THIRTEEN IX THE CITY AT YOUR SERVICE. WE SAVE YOU MONEY! VANCOUVER DRUG COMPANY, LIMITED 18 STORES The public does not prefer scab merchandise. It just accepts it, in many cases, without question. It's the-job of over.*,-, staunxli .anirihist to raise that question as often as possible. To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual dis- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.—Johnson Friday; April 27, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Seventeen Weak Men AND Alt DISEASES OF MEN Take Our Remedies Bend lor our Booklet on Manhood And [>! >■! " of Mm. Pamphlet on llh ol Women. Booklet on Skin DUeaaes, Treatise on Cbronif* Complalnti; Free ijy Mail. Thirty years' eiperience. Without crltl. ft n.: or dUparaging- our medical men, call us before losing hope. Consultations tree, flnen 2 to 3 and 7 to 8 dally except Weds, and Hats., when closed nit dw. Phone Douo. 3394 for Appointment The English Herbal Dispensary Limited 1359 DAVIE ST. VANCOUVER, B. C. Canada's Oldest Herbal Institute To Plasterers and Others to Whom It Concerns NOTICE is hereby given that no person, either as Owner, Contractor, or Sub-contractor, whether engaged by contract or day labor, shall use any street or part thereof, which includes the boulevard strip or sidewalk, for the purpose of storing or mixing lime putty, unless a permit for the use of street or part thereof shall have first been obtained from.tthe Building Department of the City of Vancouver. ARTHUR J. BIRD, City Architect and Building Inspector. PACIFIC STAGES CUT RATES SEATTLE oo $ |ONE WAY ;so »RETU»N $55 Vsiimi vA«otm« V SEii Igl fe& •=*Tff ^^^^sjjB FVE times a day De Luxe Pacific Stages leave Motor Transport Building- for Seattle. At the reduced rates return tiokets are ffood 30 days. Personal baffg-agro checked free. There are proportionately lower ratea to all points on 'Pacific Highway. Leaving times are 8:30 a.m., 12:00 noon, 2:00 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:30 p.m. For reservations and Information phone Seymour 4000 B£. MOTOR TRANSPORTATION Seymour at Dunsmulj- , Classified Adverts. Trades Council Makes Splendid Headway During the past year good progress has been made by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council in the organizing of new unions and get ting others to affiliate with the Council. At the present time there are sixty-three unions affiliated with the Council and the local officers are working on others. Among the new unions organized or chartered by Congress during the past year are the South Vancouver Civic Employees, South Vancouver Fire Fighters, Egg Graders Union, Taxi Drivers Union, Millwrights Union, Logging and Mining Camp Train and Enginemen of B. C., Camp and Mill Workers Union, Railway Carmen of Port Mann, Railway Sheet Metal Workers, Elevator Constructors, Tile Setters and Home Service Association. Membership of the affiliated unions have steadily grown and the Council has found it necessary to purchase several pieces of equipment to take care of the increased work ire the office. New headquarters are being sought after -this year -and (Sfforts will be made to get a building big enough to house not only thos£ who are now using space in the Holden Building, but for those who have been compelled to look elsewhere for meeting halls large enough to care for their needs. Carpenters Build Up Good Membership Jan. 1918, membership in good, standing 399 April 1928, membership in good standing 1021 Honorary members .- 19 Members appro, two months in arrears 87 Total 1127 Above shows remarkable growth' of Carpenters & Joiners Local 452 in the last ten years. The salaried officers consist of one business agent and 1 financial secretary, these officers being elected by ballot each June. Keen "interest is shown at meetings in bettering working conditions, not only of the carpenters of the city, but other crafts. Offices at 809 Holden building are equipped with the latest filing system, i.e., British Roneo cabinets, and the secretary can, at a moment's notice, look up the record of any one of the thousand members. A large percentage of the members are foremen, etc., and are able to handle mostly any kind of work. The apprentices are now taking an interest in the Local and its workings. The present officers are: Presi- lent, R. J. Thompson; vice- pies., C. Scott; executive, H. Basley, E. Small, T. Russell, J. Nicholson and C. Scott Trustees, N. Clark, M. McKenzie, D. Lyon. Warden, E. Johnson. Recording secretary, W. Page. Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley. Business Agent and Treasurer. W. Hargreaves. Conductor, W. Neale. At present a special committee, chairman, J. G. Smith, is working hard in the ultimate endeavor to have only one carpenters' local in Vancouver and have had very satisfactory results. Organizer Thompson is also on the road from head office on this work.—W. H. BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS Wants W. "L-rfamruc, 403 M«-tt*opo"Utan Building*. Phone Say. 06GT. BATHS Hastings Steam Bathe Price 350 Only NEW SHIRT AND OVERALL FACTORY TO OPEN IN CITY A representative of the Labor Statesman was recently shown over a new shirt and overall factory by Mr. W. A. Moyer, managing dirje^r, who states that it is going to be run by union labor entirely, and when the factory i3 ready to commence operations will be ideal in every respect, well lighted and ventilated, and will be British Columbia's first union shirt and overall factory. The new factory is nt 1086 Homer street, where a modern building provides some 6,000 square feet of floor space. About fifty people will be given employment. E. M. Boyd of the Northern Construction Company is president of the new garment concern. C. H. E. Williams, vice- president; W. J. Watchom, secretary-! treasurer; B. C. Pettingell, factory- superintendent. J. J. Banfield and Arnold Birks are directors, 1929 A. ,700 Haetinffs Street Bast DENTISTS Dr. W. A. RntlcdR-o. 108 Hastings W. is-* NOTARY PUBLIC 9. B. Beng-onffiC 803 Holden Bldg. PRINTERS •tabor Statesman 803-818 Holden Bldg*. rupture specialist Sarah: "Why did TilHe break her 0. B. Heard. ■.-- 8-*a Rohson engagement to the head bank teller?" undertakers Alice. "Oh, haven't you heard? •Armstrong fc Hotson, 304 Dunlevy Av^She landed a plumbery* Boost Vancouver for the F. of L» Convention. Support this Local Industry <Q* GAS [Che Standard^ Qjufoty Use Home Gas—a superior gasoline— refined in North Vancouver—employing hundreds of British Columbia citizens 'There's No Gas Like Home' HOME OIL DISTRIBUTORS, LTD. 1Q0 per cent. Canadian 567 BURRARD STREET SEYMOUR 6780 Mmwmmmmtm 7 Days—Commencing Saturday, May 5th Elks7 Third Annual 5-Thrilling Rides-5 12—CIRCUS SIDESHOWS—12 15 DOUBLE-LENGTH RAILWAY CARS CLEAN ENTERTAINING WHOLESOME 7 Cars Given Away Seven Cars of Popular Makes and Models will be Distributed, One Each Night of the Circus. Tickets may be obtained from any member of the Elks, United Commercial Travelers, or -r .. . the Hotel Greeters. JOIN THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS AND BOOST WITH THE ELKS! CAMBIE STREET PLAYGROUNDS SmMMmmMMMMmmMMmMMmmmmMmmmMMMMMMMmmMJ^^ JfaU« Wall. and H/oodtcorK that Wash KYANIZE CELOID FINISH Try this Medium Gloss Waterproof Washable Enamel on your walls, woodwork and furniture. Celoid Finish is a product that fulfills completely the demand for a durable lustrous and washable enamel finish for all work. There are fourteen beautiful, fast-color tints in addition to Black and Pure White. Sold by Leading Hardware Stores Everywhere Distributors for B. C~ ■ - BOGARDUS, WICKENS, LIMITED iooo homer Street -. Vancouver, b. c Victoria Tile and Brick Supply j CO., LIMITED . 2521 MAPLE STREET, VANCOUVER, B. C. BUILDERS' SUPPLIES. SAND AND GRAVEL JOHN A. WICKSON. Kiuiaffar I'hone, Office: Bay. 6600 Phone, Res.: Bay. 2293 Character is higher than intellect, Spring* is that season when the sap A great soul will be strong to live as in the timber'keeps the sap in the well as to think.—Emerson. flivver from starting forest fires. ? ABBOTSFORD Call High. 498 and 4980 NIGHT PHONE: HIOH -M78 COAL and WOOD For the Best Fuel. Obtainable Eighteen TH E LA BOK ST A TESMA X Friday, April 27, 1928 Speed ^Comfort ECONOMY ONLY in B. C. Electric interurban service are all these three factors to be found. Speeding over their own rights-of-way, B.C Electric trains carry thousands of passengers every day comfortably and cheaply. These people find that it pays them— in time and money—to travel by B.C. Electric British Coidmbm fgfo EiECTRicR/nrway Co. VANCOUVER DAINTY DATE BUTTER —Makes swell sandwiches. —for Dad's or the Kiddies' Lunch. —Makes a tasty filler for cakes and cookies. Ask your Grocer for Dainty Pitted Dates Dainty Date Company ms venabies street ifiUzHgt, COCKTAILS SERVE Silk Hat Cocktails-siraply pull the cork and you have the desired Cocktail, pleasing to the most exacting taste. We specialize in Martinis and Manhattans. Try them and enjoy their delightful flavor. MA Low Wages are Thefts From the Public (By JAMES J. DAVIS, U. S. Secretary of Labor) Reduction of wages is bad business and worse economics, whether applied.in the broadest social sense or to a given industry. It is sometimes argued that wages must be reduced if we arc to increase the sale of our goods in foreign markets. The answer is that by such wage reductions we reduce our profitable home market far more than we increase the less certain profits of the foreign market. Experience has proved, even to th? most casual observer, the fallacy of much of the bad economic thinking of the past. The low-wage fallacy is the worst of all. I A dullard must sec the folly of killing the purchasirig power of the greatest buyer, the worker, in the market at home which provides us with all but a fraction of our national wealth and prosperity. No low-wage section of the country today is as prosperous as are sections where higher wages prevail. The employer, therefore, who reduces wages whether from a selfish motive or because he thinks it good bysiness, is not a good business man and is hurting himself. He may for a time succeed in paying a wage below the cost of living, but he is only throwing on the community at large the expense of paying, in the form of unpaid grocery and clothing bills, the wage which he himself should pay. To be very frank, he is stealing from the public. This applies to any industry as a whole, as it does to any individual employer. The time is passed when any industry or any em ployer who seeks to break down wage scales will be looked upon as shrewd or clever in business. Such employer is not clever in business but a parasite on the community and public opinion will eventually force him to pay a decent wage or get out of business. This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or By the Government of British Columbia. Golden Stars That {he capitalist system of society stands self-condemned is a truism amongst Socialists. But even the most obtuse of anti-Socialists can scarcely fail to note the irony of things as revealed in the film-pro- du-ctioa-case now before the courts. An actress is reported to have been paid no less .than £1,000 a week—to say nothing of "incidentals," such as travelling and ' living expenses for herself, .her mother, and her maid— for facing the* camera. Under the same happy scheme of things, a miner, to earn a like sum, would have to face death daily for ten years or thereabouts. Without questioning the lady's ability as a fil mactress, it must be admitted that Miss Dorothy Gish is a lucky woman. The shrewd business men who speculate in the tit illation of the cinema fans—for-, after all, every film is a gamble—doubtless appraised her talents at their box office value. But a social system which pays a film star £ 1,000 a week, whilst her sister at the loom (doing essential work of the world, in short) getv perhaps some 30s. a week, is not so much a Isvstem as— a mess.—Daily Herald- Melody and Novelty At New Orpheum Melody, fun au<1 novelty are combined on tin* bip program to be wen at the New Orpheum Theatre next week. There .ire four .feature arts on the bill of six, and together they make an anutsc fng array ji>f great acts, Abe Reynolds, .slim little Jewish comic, for a good many yVars one of tl|. crack clowns of that aprltely form of theatrical entertainment known "burlesque/* has made bis bow as vaudeville performer, and with-Florence Clark will be seen as one of the feature acts on the bill In an uproarious skit called "Three A.M." Like many another fluecessful .Jewish comedian, Reynolds' metier is earlrtituririg his own nice Oo-starriiiK with Reynolds, as mentioned above, is Miss Florence Olark, a young lady who came into prominence last season when she stepped from vaudeville into the lending feminine role of "Big Roy," playing opposite ;\| •lolson, Charles Derk-kson, dramatic tenor, and Rurton Brown, concert pianist, will supply the musical end of the program. featuring their own latest Song sue cesses. Deriekson has a clear, pure. liquid voice of wide range, nnd Brown. despite the fact that his age does not warrant the somewhat weighty title, is a piano virtuoso. His technique, his execution, his touch, in fact, his entire musicianship justifies its use regardless tit his age. "A Modern Fantasy" brings together three muses and four graces. The muses are Dance, Song and Music. The graces are Margaret Severn and the N'cal Sisters. Miss Severn is one of terpslchore's most brilliant dlsclpl The trio of Neal Sisters are musicians and singers. Miss Lucille is a pianiste. Miss Ann a 'cellist, and Miss Cfwyrieth a violinist. "A Modern- Fantasv" i«- attractively, set. The frame and picture are both artistic and tasteful. Jed Pooley, stage nnd screen comic, assisted by Audree Kvans, will be heard in "Remarks Befitting the Occasion." It isn't what .Jed does, but rather whta he attempts to do and fails at and the alibis and apologies he offers that makes the twenty to twenty-two minutes he is seen seem like five. He has an original line of comedy that is sure-fire. Rare Wahl and Company will offer a delightful comedy skit called "Ambitions of Youth." Wahl's object is to provide something to laugh about ami so he makes a Joke of a serious matter, and in his performance, fun is the predominating factor. Julius Schiehtl and his Modern Marionettes will present the latest European novelty. They are interesting as a remarkable mechanical device u'nd entertaining as n theatrical feature. Jacqueline Logan and Clive Rroek will supply the photoplay entertainment in the feature picture "Midnight Madness." UNION CAFES & MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 Alway. Opeai Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD OEGG BOB KRAUSE Lata 54 th Batt. 76 Hastings St. E. Lata 72nd Batt Vancouver. B.C Whan ln a Horry, Drop In at Egg Order. FRED'S a. e alway■ _ . _ - "o.k." at Dairy Lunch "It's the Coffee" 72 Hastings W. Always Opan MR. BABBITT ON UNIONISM "A good labor union is of value because it keeps out radical unions which would destroy property. No one ought to be forced to belong to a union, however. All labor agitators who try to force men to join a union should be hanged. "In fact, just between ourselves, there oughtn't to be any unions allowed at all; and as it's the best way of fighting the unions, every business man ought to belong to an employers' association and to the Chamber of Commerce. In union there is strength. So any selfish hog who doesn't join the Chamber of Commerce ought to be forced to." Sinclair Lewis. A wise man will make more op portunities than he finds.—Bacon. n WILKINSON, Pm. D. DUNCAN, Sac. Reynolds' Cartage Co- LIMITED rhones Say-moor 3377-337*— t —. Orating, Faoilng, Shipping ••*■« Storage Furniture and Piano Moving Long Distance Moving Pool Car Shipments Of Ilea and Warshouaai 732 — CAMBIE STREET — TIS PERRY &D0LK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 133 439 7th ATS. H "My husband is an excellent cook.' of it?" 'None at all. I just assume that How nice! And-does he damurftlhe must be from the way he picks flaws in my cooking.' Join the Union Label army and fight for decent pay, comfortable homes and healthy children. No higher form of patriotism can be shown. VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago. Neuritis Bad Cold. MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING MY. 3070 The Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association This Co-operative Union of Farmers - —Was formed not only for Hie purpose of obtaining for the fanner a living wage for his labor, but to benefit the consumer of Dairy Products. —The milk produced by this co-operative body of 2,800 fanners is protected for your benefit. —Processed under the most hygenic and modern methods by plant operatives who are working under UNION CONDITIONS. —Delivered to your door every day by a driver-salesman who receives UNION WAGES. —INSIST ON FRASER VALLEY PRODUCTS, Milk, Cream, Creamo, Butter and Cheese, and support Union Made Products. —Sole distributors of Brpoksbank Certified Milk, the only Certified Milk Produced in British Columbia. Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Ass'n. '"From Farm to Family" PHONE FAIRMONT 1-0-0-6 . ■•if*. ■■'." -':\:A'-.-:- /■ .->"'" -.■■■<u*-t*Bi'iiW* * .'-i-fatl. * ". '■'.W ■ ,' , ■ ' ■ -! - i. ''- t , . .-■■..-. ■ '■'" '/ •.. .-, ' s- " «"** '- '■-' .'' -".--'. . \ '. ' '». ■ ' ., i/i<la\. April 17. 1928 111: LABOR T.\ TKSM A N Nineteen Made by Canadian Workmen '' ' ■ *.' Use " Blue Ribbon TEA COFFEE BAKING POWDER Photo Engravers Union Giiley Brothers Was In Good Condition i Established in 1887 '*-, I *ti(I I '•»t.,'" t"' I For 46 years, Blue Ribbon products have been made by British Columbia workmen, under conditions that have always been entirely up to standards. Use Blue Ribbon Tea, Coffee and Baking Powder in your home—support your fellow "workmen and at the same time enjoy the unequalled quality of Blue Ribbon products as enjoyed in so many Vancouver homes. G. F. & J. Gait, Ltd., Vancouver, B. C. ESTABLISHED 1887 INCORPORATED 1907 PHONES: 15 and 16 GILLEY BROTHERS, LIMITED WELLINGTON COAL COMOX COAL SMITHY COAL Crushed Rock, Sand. Gravel, Cement, Lime. Plaster, Drain Tile, Sewer Pipe, Huilding Tile. Corner Head, Metal Lath. Common Brick, Pedlar Culvert Pipe, Agricultural Lime. I.aiul lilaster TOWING COLUMBIA STREET WEST DERRICK WORK NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. Here are a few facts regarding our' local of the most progressive union in the North American continent, namely, the International Photo Engravers' Union, or, for short, the I.P.E.U. Vancouver local is numbered 51, and has- jurisdiction over B.C. There lire a total of 22 journeymen members in B.C., three being in Victoria and the remainder in Vancouver. Our present agreement expires in December this year, and will at that time have run three years. As an agreement it compares very favorably with any in effect anywhere. I will quote a few sections: Employees only in gfiod standing of the I.P.E.U. of N.A. or applicants for membership holding permits for same, shall be employed in the manufacture of jihoto engravings. - • A journeyman shall receive a wage of not less than $66 per week for the years 1927 and 1928, under all branches under the jurisdiction of the I.r.E.U. of N.A. Where a night shift is employed the wages shall be $5 in-addition to the above wage. The apprentices shalPBe based on the ratio of journeymen, one appren- tive to five journeymen. From the above extracts may be seen we have a closed shop agreement and are 100 per cent, organized. \ We might also mention that this agreement is in "force in the cities of Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Spokane, and we eventually aim lo have it all down the Pacific coast. The agreement is called the Northwest agreement, and every year a meeting is held by equal representation from either side; last year it was held in Tacoma, and this December it will be held in Portland, each city getting the convention in turn. « Highly Specialized As the photo engraver follows a highly specialized occupation, it calls for a very strict examination of the young man who is to be the journeyman of the future. The union has quite a big say as to InV necessary qualifications; first, he has to pass a doctor as to his physical .fitness, and then he has to pass an examination board of officers of the local to determine whe/her he has the necessary elementary knowledge for a business where close to 100 different chemicals are in daily use, some of them deadly poison, even International Wood Products Co. P. (). HOX 640 New Westminster, B. C. o°c^ 4th Ave. and 15th St. Phone West. 805 MEMBERS OF THE VANCOUVER REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. LTD. TELEPHONE: SEYMOUR 9301 BELL-IRVING CREERY & CO. Limited INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE, RENTAL AND FINANCIAL AGENTS 989 Hastings West Vancouver, B. C. Lulu -i The neatest rap at. the emancipa ted young women of today who pride The progress of Giiley Bros.. Limited, of New Westminster, during the forty years since the firm's inception in 1887, is a story in itself and is marked by the public confidence which it has held from the time that business was first transacted. The company was established in "a very small way by the late Messrs. Waiter R. and James R. Giiley, together with their brother Herbert, and was called the Mainland Transfer Company." Thiscom- panv had the distinction of bringing front the East the first hack used on the Mainland of British Columbia. During these early years their operations included lumbering and the handling of wood and coal and in a small way of builders' supplies. These lumbering operations were carried on in Burnaby a short distance east of Royal Oak) the logs being hauled with 12-horse teams to the North Arm of the Fraser river on an old- fashioned skid road, which was later made into the present Giiley avenue. Opportunity for really active development presented itself in 1902 when a start was made on the construction of the Fraser river bridge, at New Westminster. This project was the -signal for the birth of the company's crushed rock quarry of today. With the growth of the city of New Westminster, the Fraser Valley and the city of Vancouver, the company has taken such forward strides that today, with its quarry, dredges, tugs, scows, warehouses, bunkers, delivery trucks, offices and executive, they employ regularly a staff of between'80 and 90 persons. In 1907, after the death of James R. Giiley, the company was incorporated, under the present name of Giiley Brothers, Limited, Mr. Walter R. Giiley being president and managing director. At his death in J919 this office was assumed by G. Emerson Giiley, who is still the head of the firm, with Albert M. Giiley as director, and E. Roland Giiley as secretary. The policy of honest, courteous and obliging service established forty years ago, has been steadily maintained and has won for the company many real friends. It is a recognized fact that the lower mainland of British Columbia, including Vancouver, New Westminster and the whole Fraser Valley, has made wonderful progress in building of all kinds in the last few the fumes of some being enough to I years; and Giiley Brothers, Limited end one to sleep. There is only ha^o played no small part in thi one apprentice employed in B.C. at! work, i ■■■ speech is a brief passage in a little | to her about anything." ■ skit jusf published. "In fact," another replies, "you "Isn't-Lulu a dear?" asks one char- Can't ■ talk to her about anything themselves upon their freedom of aeter. "Shq's so candid one can talk else." present. The necessity of five journeymen before an apprentice can be employed in a shop cutting the total down, as ' the majority of. the shops only employ three or four men. , Wage, Prior to 1914 Wages in this .business around 1914, or just before the War, were $25 to $30 per week. They took a jump during the war, and around 1918 and 1919 were around $40 per week. In 1919, out of (1000 members of the I.PJ5.U. in the States and Canada, 1000 w.ere on strike for the ,41-hour week, and after two weeks won" out all down the line, and the 14-hour week has been standardized throughout the country from that date.. The local charter was granted to eight members in 1910, and the only original charter member in this city is now one of our employers, and a very good man at that, who still carries his old I.P.E.U. card. All our members are insured under the Labor Life Insurance Plan for $1000, and with another death benefit of $200 members' heirs on death receive the sum of.$1200. We have a Northwest Mutual Aid headquarters at Seattle, dues $1 per month, which pays out $12.50 per week for ten weeks in ease of sickness, and on death of a member each member is assessed $2, which gives a member another $400 death benefit; this, of course, is an optional insurance. __ Our. president of the international union is Matthew Woll, a well- Ifnown labor leader, vice-president American Federation of Labor, and president of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company. We do not believe in figureheads holding office for twenty or thirty- years in the locals, but keep the various offices swinging around, thereby ensuring an equal division of the hard work that goes to make a 100 per cent. local and also keeps everyone alive to the various problems that arise.' This leave-it-to-Bill,.spirit is never, seen around the I.P.E.U. 'locals-because one never knows when velop their plant and equipment in advance of the requirements, and have plans laid to adequately supply the increasing domaffl of building materials for years to come. OHIO TREASURER WANTS UNION MEN ON JOB Columbus, O.—State Treasurer Bert B. Buckley is a trade unionist, having been one of the -organizers of the Railway Mail Clerlfi*' Association. Recently, after receiving a complaint from organized labor, he sent the following self-explanatory telegram: "Hei'ri.ig-Ilall-Maivin Safe Co., Hamilton, Ohio: Representatives Urn ion Iron Workers protest against use of non-union installation safety lock boxes vault. It is my desire that this be done by union labor. "BERT B. BUCKLEY, "Treasurer of State." Reach An Agreement SYDNEY, N.S.—District 2fi, United Mine Workers of America, and ,., the management of "Besco," have from the international, reached an agreement, which will be submitted to the men. The ,new management-has agreed to .operate the mines on a yearly basis and thus avoid the suffering during the winter months. "What kind of a dog is that?" "He's an air-tight dog." "Watta ya mean, air-tight?" "His mother was an Airedal his father was a Scotch terrier. and his turn will come, and it behooves him to be .on the alert. Of course, with the permanent officers of the international, that is a different proposition. Matthew . Woll, our Little General, hasrheld office for 20 years, and we l/ope to see him hold it for as many more. His experience and ability for continuous study helps him to anticipate just what'to do, the right way, at the opportune moment, which he does with wonderful success right along. -J.W.. •■'.■• v'- -■ . " --;■-——- ,- -^-:"*»«*;-, '■*-.'■■'-','*'■ .P***:-*-*.-':'" Twenty T H E. L A BOR S T A T E S M A X Friday, April 27, 1928 K JPrtttsft THE COVERKMEKT Or THf PROVINCt Of BRiriSH COIUMBIA. Columbia A MOST attractive field is offered by Canada's Pacific prov ince toothe man who desires to assist in the development of its immense natural resources or to engage in the cultivation of the soil, and its opportunities will well repay investigation MINES pRACTICALLY all the precious and base metals are found. The province leads Canada in production of silver, copper, lead and zinc; second in value of total mineral output Mining laws are most liberal, titles perfect, and fees low. FISH piFTY per cent, of the catch of Canadian fisheries is taken in British Columbia waters. Salmon canning has grown in half a century to record pack in 1926 of 2,065,190 96-lb. cases, the market for which is world-wide. PRODUCTION IN 1927 Mines $62,250,000 Forests 83,087,000 Farms 73,125,000 Fisheries 27,250,000 Factories 75,500,000 Fur Farms 3,000,000 FORESTS - OROVINCE contains bulk of softwood supply of Empire, with annually increasing cut. Water- borne exports trebled in five years. Pulp and paper industry yet in its infancy. British Columbia timber favored in Admiralty and other U. K. contracts. LAND -TiWENTY-THREE.million acres free land for settlers. Stock, grain, dairying, fruit, fodders, increasing branches of the industry. Fruits took premier place at Imperial Fruit Show and in other competitions. Seed-growing successful for British market. \ i q TOURIST TRAFFIC HTOURIST traffic is becoming a large source of revenue to the people of British Columbia. The great and varied attractions of the province are drawing thousands this way every summer, while the winter season on the Coast has its lure for dwellers east of the mountains. Good motor roads give access to all parts of the province south of the 55th parallel, and at all points comfortable stopping-places are to be found. GAME ' "DIG GAME-Jnclude moose, caribou, elk, bighorn (mountain sheep), mountain goat, deer, grizzly bear. All game birds. Game is strictly conserved, with Open seasons allowed September-December. Salmon to 70 lbs. taken along coast with fly or troll July-November. Trout abundant jn inland waters easy of access. POWER PURVEYED water powers capable of generating 9 2,000,000 h.p. at minimum flow and 5,000,000 h.p. at maximum flow. Turbine installations 500,- 000 h.p., with further 100,000 h.p. under way. Address for all particulars: BUREAU OF PROVINCIAL INFORMATION, VICTORIA, B.C. nmpj^NiinnBmt s* -.-*-- ■•' -■? «*sn — «.«t3ca»fl«iosar'-ir™sa(r5««*^'' ? -.* ,^*v«.*KMPts.*:*^ ,-j».—
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