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OWNED or statesman "»" OWITgOLLED [^^xjffgsW BY TOE VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL ~Y\ Supported by Fifty-eight Local Unions NO. 220—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST 3. 1928 Washington Unions Boost Vancouver for Convention Encouraging Progress Being Made for Securing the A. F. of L. Convention in Vancouver for Next Year—British Columbia Unions Are Responding Favorably THE WASHINGTON STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR Convention has endorsed Vancouver", British Columbia, for the 1929 convention of the.American Federation of Labor and will do all it can to get other organizations to favor the plan. This adds to the support that has already been assured by local unions and International officers and brings Vancouver within measurable distance of securing the convention. The Washington State Federation of Labor was held last month in Wenatchee and when the communication from the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council was read it was not only endorsed but, says James A. Taylor, president of the Federation, the officers and members of the Washington unions "will do everything possible to bring to the attention of the American Federation of Labor the necessity'and the advantages of bringing its next convention to the city of Vancouver, British Columbia." Vancouver has been assured of support from several. —International unions and also from officers of the Building Trades Department of the A. F. of L. and its chances of landing that convention look brighter every day. When the convention meets in November, Vancouver hopes to have sufficient delegates lined up to. give any other city that may be after the 1929 convention a bigger run for its money than it expected. Vancouver is getting well and favorably- JuuxwikiiLthe Unked_States and. if it can land that convention it will give this city one of the biggest boosts it has had for many a day. The Vancouver Trades and Labor Council is not only obtaining funds from unions in British Columbia for this convention, but is also obtaining financial assistance from business men and corporations in the district. The convention will be a big business booster and will aid all classes of people besides putting Vancouver on the map in every union centre in the United States and also in the other countries who send fraternal delegates to the convention. . , Besides tne Vancouver and New Westminster unions who have agreed to help finance this campaign, unions in Victoria, Prince Rupert, iCamloops, Revelstoke and Cranbrook have endorsed it almos 100% and will contribute to the campaign. Local unions whose International offices or officers have not replied to their communications are again urged to make another attempt to get a favorable reply. NO TROUBLE WITH SYDNEY JUNKINS CO. ON C.P.R. JOB Through an error in last week's Statesman the Pile Drivers' Union was reported as having trouble with the Sydney Junkins Co. on the Stony •Creek job of the C.P.R. We are informed that there is no trouble between the Sydney Junkins Co. and the Pile Drivers' Union on this or any other job. CHORUS GIRLS DECIDE " TO HAVE REAL UNION Chicago.—A mass meeting of chorus girls, called by Ann Lord and Loretta Clevinger, voted to Organize and affiliate'with the Actors' Equity Association and the A. F. of L. Miss Clevinger says there are 2,400 chorus girls in Chicago and that they are paid whatever the employers choose and must work any number of hours ordered. The ne worgani Moonlight Excursion On Tuesday for Union At the last regular meeting of Local 28, Hotel & Restaurant Em ployees' Union, it was reported 'that all arrangements had been completed for -the big moonlight excursion and danSe which takes place on the evening of Tuesday, August 7th. The S.S. Harbour Princess will convey the party, leaving the foot of Gore avenue at 9 p.m. sharp. Plenty of refreshments have been ordered, the music will be of the best, and a whale of a good time is assured- Tickets have gone well and the supply is nearly exhausted, so if you want to experience a real peppy time get one of the few remaining tickets from your favorite waitress. " * * * Mr. Vic Sandwick, the popular and well-known proprietor of the Fashion Lunch, Hastings street east, has opened a new dairy lunch at 894 -Granville-street, corner-of—Smythe. street, and is away to a splendid start. Needless to say, Mr. Sandwick has a union card and a full union crew, and we bespeak for him the patronage of, every union man who appreciates good food served in clean, sanitary surroundings and under the best of union conditions. Tickets for the exeusion can be obtained in this and all other union restaurants.—J.C. Night Classes Through the efforts of Local 28 a caterers' cooking class will be added to the Night School courses this fall. The classes will be open to young white men who desire to follow that calling and for which the local feels -that they can create a demand. Caterers have complained that they cannot get the necessary help to fill vacancies on their cooking staffs, so the local has taken the matter in hand through this medium. If sufficient interest can be taken in this course it may be the means of reducing the number of Oriental cooks now holding down jobs. | Williams May Be at Labor Day Sports One of the proudest fathers in Vancouver today is Fred "Williams, a member of the Street Railway Employees' Union, Local 101. Fred is the father of Percy Williams who brought fame to Vancouver by winning the 100 and 200 metre races in the 1928 Olympic games. | Fred Williams is foreman of the mechanical emergency shops at the prior street barns and is an alround mechanic, dnd can be found always with his coat off working on the emergency repair jobs that have to be speedily attended to to keep the transportation system in constant operation. With the success that his son has achieved, Fred Williams now considers himself fairly well paid for the money he has spent on his boy in schooling him and helping Bob Granger to prepare him for this event. Fred has been too busy working for a living to do very much in the athletic line himself, and when he was a boy in the city of Vancouver there was hardly a road or a field to practice on. But Fred is. a wiry looking customer and appears to be just the type of man who would have a son that could make a good showing in athletics. But while his son is winning fame and glory Fred contents himself with the job of a worker who makes the wheels of industrial progress go round. Fred is proud of his son and we know that we are expressing the sentiments of organized labor when we say that we are proud of both of them. Walter Deptford, chairman of the Labor Day sports committee of the Trades and Labor Council, also a motorman on the B. C. Electric Railway, is going to try to get Percy Williams to do an exhibition run around the course at Hastings Park on Labor Day if he should be in the city-*— ; : , This Firm Thought Unfair List Was Joke Labor Statesman. We wish to inform you that Thomas & McBain, Clothiers, 655 Granville street, which firm was placed on the "We Do Not Patronize" list at our request, is now under new management, and the Semi- Ready store is again signed up with this loeal and will in future employ only union tailors, so we now* ask you to remove their name from the above list. We wish to thank the Labor Statesman and all union men for their co-operation in this case. The "We Do Not Patronize" list was more or less of a'joke to the old manage- ment, but they are now out of business. Again '"thanking you for your cooperation, wc are, Fraternally yours, zation will seek to regulate the hours r-M>i hours and roust work any number! Journeymen Tailors". Union .'of-Airier $35 per w'eek'fofWhirls f^fmf^^-*'''-'" '^ * - ■-"*" ■ "'"■--• per week for those on the road. I W. W. HOCKEN, Sec'y.. BUILDING LABOREj A meeting ing Laborers Hplden Build at 8 o'clock, chanicg are ers working' meeting. the ening, me- labor- this Tories Play Mean Trick on Unemployed One of the meanest tricks which the Present Tory government of Great Britain has played on the unemployed is disclosed in a recent issue of the London Daily Herald. Men on the live registers in distressed areas are being transferred to districts where unemployment is deemed to be less acute, and Labor Exchange officials are being ordered to give the transferred men priority over local men. The facts in support of his revelations are supported by official instructions, nnd he taxes Mr. Better- ton, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Labor, with having misled the House of Commons on Monday when he told Mr. LaYisbury that, other things being equal, local men would have the first Chance of jobs. The view taken is that the effect of the new instructions will be to flood the already overcrowded labor market and to prevent men getting employment in their own home areas. Actors' Equity Hits Employment Sharks New York.—The Actor's Equity Association has declared war on private theatrical employment agencies which collect fees ranging as high as 10 per cent, of the wages received by stage performers during the duration of a contract. This action follows a recent decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, which denied to New Jersey authorities the right to regulate the* fee charged by employment agencies in that state. Equity, which is an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, proposes that henceforth all agencies dealing with its members must be licensed by Equity and„ihat, thsxe must be'stam*I*l>(}'.'!»»fltract* between* the t\v«s parties.*.. . r <j The Workers Must Come Into Their Own The workers of the- world have built everything that has made the world better; the idle classes have done the things that have caused death, desolation, suffering and despair and, even worse still, have taken unto themselves the fruits of the toil of the workers But better times are coming, and Labor, by its own effort, is coming into its own. Only a few years ago no non-Labor paper would have published an article such as the following from the Boston Advertiser: "Everything that men possess.in- cluding freedom from savagery, comes from labor with mind or muscle, or a combination of muscle and mind. As human beings have slowly progressed from the cave to the skyscraper, from ignorant savagery to rulership of the earth, work has been divided as follows: Conquest and enslavement of men by war. Conquest of Nature by science, labor and skill. The monuments of the world, with few exceptions, honor the memories of fighters and killers only. The most magnificent equestrian on earth, the statue of Colleoni, by Verrochia, in Venice, immortalizes a condottiere, a fighting brigand, whose sword was for sale to the highest bidder. T There is in all Venice no monument to honor the endless thousands that built the beautiful city on the Adriatic swamp. Nor is there in any great American city a monument to the workersthat made this country what it is. Is it not time that some mounment were erected to prove that a civilized nation appreciates the workers that make it what it is? British Labor Makes Attack on Privilege ."the parties of birth and privilege of wealth have—so they tell us done their best. "They ljave conspicuously failed. The desolation of the mining areas, the queuses outside the Employment Exchanges, the mounting debts of Poor Law Guardians are their condemnation and their epitaph." British Labor Party Platform These are sentences from the devastating indictment of the records of the Tory and Liberal. Parties which forms the first part of Labor and the Nation. These charges formulated against the Tories are that they have used the crushing majority they asked for and received through misrepresentation and the aid of the Liberals at the last election to fasten upon the nation the stability of aimlessness and of torpor. Balwin Indicted The Tories have "stabilized luxury and squalor, private waste and public parsimony, idleness and the disorganization of productive industry, an expenditure upon armaments which, in spite of trifling reductions, is still extravagant, and a not less extravagant economy upon the services which fortify the health and enrich the spirit of the whole community." .Here are some of the counts in the merciless indictment of Mr. Baldwin: Betrayal of the unemployed. An endeavor to hamstring trade unionism. Failure to come to the aid of the mining, the iron and steel, the shipbuilding, the cotton and other depressed industries. Impeding the development of education. Reducing the subsidy on houses and failling to deal with slums. Increasing rates by throwing upon local authorities the cost of supporting many Tnremployed; Bring Great Britain to a position where she may be regarded as one of the principal impediments of world peace. Liberal Futility The Liberals are blamed for the Thousands of brave men pushed, existence of the Tory majority ... - F . "It .. ... *-. .... ii... It, rnhirn our frontier steadily forward, eon-| quering Nature, clearing and cultivating land, actually making the United States. Prosperity that we enjoy is built on machines, good roads, great ships, bridges, railroads, mines. Labor created them all. Twenty-four million automobiles increase the happiness of the American people. Labor built them all. Labor is unrecognized. * * * One of the seven wonders of the world was the Colossus of Rhodes, a statue of bronze standing at the entrance to a great harbor, so huge that ships sailed between the statue's outstretched legs. Labor built it, but it was not built to honor Labor. Centuries ago it fell to the ground, because of an earthquake, perhaps. The fragments, cut into small pieces, loaded on camels' backs by an ingenious Jewish merchant, were taken away to be sold as old metal. Some day the world will build a monument greater than the Rhode's Colossus to honor the Colossus of Labor. If will not be a statue of a mechanic in working clothes, but will take the form of some great institution of learning, some magnificent, super- public school, or some legislative hall in which laws will be passed recognizing the grandeur and the rights of human labor, and realizing those right in written law." BIG CROP FOR CANADA Ottawa.—A bumper crop is anticipated by Federal authorities^ who have made a careful study of agricultural conditions throughout Canada. If there are no serious setbacks beforc'.i'utting time in August it looks as *if-CatiadS "will-hartwt"tftfWggest crop on record. S • ,. It was to ensure the return of a Conservative government that the number of Liberal candidate^/, was reduced in 1924, and that Liberal electors were urged to vote for Tory candidates." On the new Liberal policies gjfie comment is made that though Liberal economists may propose, the disposing will be done not by them but by the propertied interests with which, today, as in the past the Liberal Party is closely identified. After an allustion to the coldness with which influential 'Liberals received the Liberal industrial programme, it is observed caustically that "as long as the influences at present in control of Liberal policy continue to inspire it, Britain's Industrial Future will bear a somewhat unattractively close resemblance to Britain's Industrial Past."—Daily Herald. Stevedores' Strike Ties Up All Shipping Rosario, Argentine, one of the greatest grain shipping ports of the world, is completely tied up by a strike of stevedores, says a cable dispatch to the New York Tribune. Railroads have refused to accept further shipments until the strike is settled. It was reported that 2,500 carloads of grain were on the tracks awaiting unloading and 300,000 tons of freight on the wharves for shipment to Europe. No ships are discharging or loading cargoes. The stevedores demand higher wages and shorter hours and have frustrated all efforts .nf the employers to import strikebreaker?. *'.. .Tramway service has* betMr-/ijj||i pende4-ttW-WW('*ft-ike ;tfireatcii*:J#, extend to other industries- Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, August 3, 1928 T. J. Kearney & Co. Funeral Directors and Embalmers New Chapel and Pariors Private Ambulance Service 802 Broadway W. Phone Fair. 3 Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealers 168 Cordova W. Phono gay. 8837 See Us About Broken Glass tn Windows, Automobiles, Mirrors, Showcases, eta Art Blftu Bepalred Minors Re-silvered IronizeD Whole Wheat FLOUR EVERY HOME NEEDS IT MAKE SURE YOU GET IT —AND NOTHING ELSE It It Rich in Nourishment —DELICIOUS " THt COVf RNHtMT tr im mviMc w witch couiteu. Synopsis of Land Act Amendments Steps to Relieve Present Distress in Great Britain Two points of the new statement of the British Labor policy and programme emphasized by Mr. Ramsay MacDonld -in a brief foreword are that the Labor Party is concerned with transforming Capitalism into Socialising And it asks for power both to lay the foundations of a new social order and to relieve immediate distress. In the sphere of industrial legislation, the Party will, if granted power, repeal the Trade Unions Act, establish a 48-hour week.improve pnd extend the Factory Acts, Mines Regulation Acts, Minimum Wage Acts, and other industrial legislation. Nationalization •PBE-EMPTIONS Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown , lands may be pre-empted by British subjects over 1'8 years ot age, and by aliens on declaring Intention to become British subjects, conditional upon residence, occupation and Improvement for agricultural purposes. Full Information concerning regulations regarding pre-emptions Is given ln Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, "How to Pre-empt Land," copies-'of which can be obtained free St charge by addressing the Department of Lands, Victoria, B. C, or-to any .Government Agent Records will be granted covering only lands suitable for agricultural purposes, and which* is not timberland, I.e., carrying over 5,000 board feet per acre west of the Coast Range and 8,000 feet per acre east of that range. Applications for pre-emptions are to Among' the contemplated measures for alleviating unemployment are the withdrawal (with maintenance allowances) of children under 15 from the labor market; repeal- of the coal mining Eight Hours Act; transference and migration of unemployed miners. Restoration of normal trade apd the establishment of permanent machinery for the prevention of unemployment are among the party's foremost aims. - For the development of industry and trade it is proposed to establish a National Economic Committee to advise the government as to economic policy, and a National Development and Employment Board to prepare schemes for the development of national resources. -' Coal, transport, power, and life insurance industries would be transferred to public ownership. Steps envisioned towards the relief of industry are the readjustment of the relations between national and local finance; the taxation of land values; control and re-adaption of banking and credit; scientific research; the extension of the powers of the economic section of the League of Nations. Houses to Let By extending the powers of the Food Council consumers would be protected against exploitation. These are the main proposals for the social services: Houses at rents which people can afford. Slum clearance and the extension of town and regional planning. Improved medical attention for medical benefits under a widened Health Insurance scheme. Better pensions for the aged, and improved allowances for widows and orphans. The break-up of the Poor Law. Under the bead of education and the care of childhood the draft programme contemplates the creation of Labor aims at establishing the closest possible relationship between Great Britain and the Dominions; at recognition of the right of the Indian people to self-government; at safeguards against the exploitation of indigenous peoples; at development of the economic resources of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Financial Reforms In addition to the taxation of land values, already mentioned, the financial reforms which a Labor government in power would set afoot are given as follows: Progressive reduction of* expendi- -__-ture on armaments. Abolition of taxes upon the necessaries of life and of protective duties. Increase of the death duties upon large estates. Further graduation of the income- tax so as to relieve the smaller, and increase the contribution from the larger, incomes. Establishment of an additional graduated surtax on incomes from property of over £500 per annum. A circular signed by Mr. Arthur Henderson, sent to local Labor Parties, states that the draft programme "will be submitted to the Birmingham Conference paragraph by paragraph, and it will be open for any delegate to move a reference back, and to advance the reasons for doing so. j a, "A verbatim repo*t-will be talen; and the newly elected. Executive-will be in possession of the arguments for and against when it seeks to bring the programme into harmony with the decisions of the Conference."— Daily Herald. Baldwin's Government Cannot Find Work TW attempts of the Ministry of Labor to transfer unemployed miners from the colliery districts to • other parts of the. country, where it is hoped they may be absorbed, are leading to a storm of protest. What, it is being asked, is the u&gftqt sending Durham miners to the engineering works at Lincoln, when there arc plenty of unemployed engineers in Lincoln itself? What is the use of mothers-and children.-arfaTxtendW ^dinr mine*rs-i^Tt*rTO^Bmters' _. _. . • . . . «l I 11 l rr'iil- .- 11 III id till. ii. -,l'i. lilll ,!..!•. be addressed to the Land Commissioner a democratic system of education, of the Land Record ng Division in which | , „„„f-i.. «„'„„j *_„ *_„„ t%t' the land applied for is situated, and are adequately financed, free from tHe ' taint of class distinctions, and organized as a continuous whole from the Nursery School to the University. made on printed forms, copies of which can be obtained from the Land Commissioner. Pre-emptions must be occupied for Ave years and Improvements made to value of $10 per acre. Including clearing and cultivating at least Ave acres, before a Crown Grant can be received. For more detailed Information see the Bulletin, "How to Pre-empt Land." PBECHASE Applications are received for purchase of vacant and unreserved Crown lands, not being timberland, for agricultural purposes; minimum price for first-class (arable) land is $5 per acre, and second- class (grazing)* land $2.60 per acre. Further Information regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands la given in Bulletin No. 10, Land Series,' "Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands." Mill, factory or Industrial sites on timber land not exceeding 40 aores may be purchased or leased, the conditions Including payment of stumpage. HOMESITE LEASES Lnsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 acres, may be leased as homesltes, conditional upon a dwelling being erected In the flrst year, title being obtainable after residence and improvement conditions are fullfllled and land has been surveyed. uum For grazing and Industrial purposes areas not exceeding 640 acres may be leased by one person or a company. GRAZING Under the Orazlnj; Act the Province Is .-wiiTWe* tnttr .-gnutlng** districts "and. the range administered under a Grazing Commissioner. Annual grazing permits are Issued based on numbers ranged, priority being-given to established own era Stock owners may.form associations for range management. Free, or partially free, permits are available for settlers, campers and travellers, up -to ten head. School Reforms Other projected reforms are the establishment of an adequate number of Nursery Schools, open-air schools and special schools for defective children; the extension of school meals, and the further development of the school medical service. It is proposed to extend the school- leaving age to 15, with maintenance allowances, and to establish easy access to the universities and other places of higher education. For agriculture the main proposal is the transference of land to public ownership. Security of tenure for farmers, easy credit, stabilization of prices by the collective purchase of imported grain and meat, adequate wages and reasonable hours for farm laborers are among the measures of the countryside. Stern resistance to the extension of the powers of the Lords, and the creation of separate legislative as- f mi-lies for Scotland, Wales and ngland are items in the political reform section. War and Peace On issues of war and peace the Labor policy is- the renunciation by international treaty of the use of war as an instrument of national policy, and the negotiation through the League of Nations of international agreements. The reduction of armaments by-in- TOTiHftitmar agreement* to the mini'-' mum required for police purposes. "The immediate signature of the Optional Clause and, the consequent acceptenw "iff'-thf^urisdiefftn Of the Permanent Court of International Justice in all justiciable -disputes" is another part of the peace program. laborers, when there are builders laborers of all sorts out of work in thousands throughout the country? The local Labor organizations naturally urge that the local unemployed ought to have first claim in vacancies arising in their districts: the Ministry of Labor replies that special consideration ought to be given to miners and others from localities in which their industries are shut down. Obviously, somewhow and somewhen, t(«e miners from the decayed colliery areas must be transferred elsewhere; but it is bad economy to move men long distances for purely temporary vacancies which could easily be filled by local unemployed, or to bring fresh labor into occupations in which there are already too many men available. The Ministry's action seems, indeed, to be conceived wholly on the wrong lines. It is trying to lose the unemployed miners by dumping them down elsewhere, and then leaving them to fend for themselves in a labor market that is already fully supplied, instead of trying to create fresh forms of employment for them. ' No mere re-shuffling geographical or industrial, will help to solve our unemployment problem. What is needed is more work; but for that we look in vain to Mr. Baldwin's government. The best it can think of is to give the cards another shuffle and a lucky poke.—The New Statesman. RADIUM PAINT DEADLY; FEDERAL PROBE URGED New York.—A group of physicians and social workers have called on Surgeon General Cumming of. the United States Health Service to start a federal investigation of the use of radium paint. The United States Bureau of Labor statistics reported in May, 1926, that two firms in this country manufacturing luminous composition for watch dials in 1925 sold their products to 119 firm!!; Sfig&jjs firms .are "Uslrig'tBe old brush™ riH-"fn6"r of applying the radium "paint to watch dials. The workers contract the deadly poison when they wet the brushes with" tHeir tips. , * '-•-»«* S The use of .this poison 'Ms annar- ently widespread and increasing," the Cumming letter stated. FIRE DESTROYS VALUARLES! RURGLARS STEAL THEM! Safety Deposit Boxes Protect Them! for the small cost of only $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 Thirsty? DRINK WHISTLE CROSS & CO., Mfrs. FAIRMONT 1173 STOCK-REDUCING SALE QUALITY, STYLE and LOW PRICES DOMINION FURNITURE CO. 1082—GRANVILLE STREET—4082 "THE HOUSE OF FRIENDLY CREDIT" HAZELWOOD ICE CREAM —You try it next time for that Party or Social. Guaranteed the product of pure fresh Cream. For Prompt Service, Phone Seymour 2090 Hazelwood Creamery, Limited BARNET LUMBER CO., LTD. . 3998 HASTINGS STREET BAST Hlffh. 180 Olan 384 Night Call: Ol.n 433, Out 399T3 BARNET BOOSTS BETTER BUILT BUNGALOWS 800,000 put pam sat. SEE US FOR SPECIALS RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggists" W. M»k. ft Svoolal Effort to 0«t Good. Oat br Tlrtt sXAU AtU* B.o.Ijrt of Your Orl.r. OOUI1 COBDOVA AND OUX1XL YAJroovm, b. o. . MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE for pipes 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER Your PARTY or SOCIAL is NOT Complete without ALMOND'S ICE CREAM PHONE DOUGLAS 36 RADIO TRUST LOOMS ***■» •* Washington.—In a letter to. the Federal Radio Commission, Congressman Victor Berger declared that body iftce,s..aboJition bjr. Congr*?gg;J»*« cause it denies the. air to stations from which "anti-trust political and economic^ views are broadcast." Edward L. Smith; counsel for the commission, almost simultaneously filed a brief asserting that the Radio Corporation of America, the General Electric Company and a half doien other cortcerns "have divided among tk».mselv«Sr»the -fentinr-wto*■■^''"wn-e** less."* Mr. Smith recommended that th commisSibri'deny a motion brought by the concerns to dismiss a charge of monopoly. Friday, August 3, 1928- THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory Vanconv.r Trade, aad Labor Conncll— President, J. Thomson; general secretary Percy B. Bengough. Office, 803 Holden Bldg, is HaxtingH K. Phone Sey. 7495. , Meet* In Labor Hall at 8 P.m. on the flrst and third Tuesdays In month. Bev.rag. Dispensers Union Bo. 676 Meets last Sunday at S p.m.. Room 310, Holden Bldg. President, W. H Clancy; Secretary and Business Agent. T. J. Hanolln. Office: Room 5. Flack V1?SK, p'wneH: s*y- ■"3S and Bay. 1856-R. Hours: 9 to 12 a.m. Bridge * Structural Iron Workers, lo- •V*1 »7. Int. Alio.—Meets every Mon. day. Room 8<H, Holden Bldg. at 8 p.m. President, W. L; Yule. 5821 Ar- f?JeJ?,*:' Secretary, IVLaurct, Box 302, City.- Phone Pair. 2108L. Building Trad.a Council, Vancouver— Meets seconl and fourtlr -Tuesday in Holden Building. President, E H Morrison; Secretary - Treasurer. W.i Page, Room 815. Holden Bldg.; Phone' Sey. 7495. ' Millwrights' Local 1638—Construction and Operating — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays in Holden Bldg. J.' H. Campbell, President; P. H. Edge, Fin. Sec; J. Murray Ure, Rec. Sec. Box 127. Motion ^Picture**- Projectionists' Union, Local 34S, ot Z.A.T.S.E? t- M.P.M.O Meets flrst Friday In each month at 11:30 p.m. In the Holden Bldg. President, J. R. Foster; Secretary. Geo. Gerrard, Box 345. Business Phone, Sey. 3923. Musician*;' Mutual Protective Union, Local 145, A, P. of.BT.—Meets at the G.W.V.A.-- Auditorium, ^..second Sunday at 10 a.m. President",'!!:"© Mil«, ler; Recording Secretary, W. Edmund>; Financial Secretary, \V. E. Williams; Organizer, ^F. . Fietcher, all at 991 Nelson Street. Barbara' Journeyman International Union of America—Local 120. meets second nnd fourth Tuesdays In each month, In Room 310, "Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. President. Fred Dawe: Sec.-Treas C. E. Herrett. Office, 814 Holden Bldg. Bookbinders' Local Bo. 105, Int. Brotherhood—Met.-, second Tuesday In month at Professional and Business Woman s Club, Empire Bldg., 603 Hastings W. President, G. Low. SI—53rd Ave. W.; Secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton St. M^0il*U1?' ■**a«°ns' and Tile Setters' nt. union Bo. 1—Meets second and Di!irth W^nesday. In the Holden Bldg. President, G. E. Halliday; See- rsetary„ Wi, s* Dagnall. 1244—20th Sv,e* *?.. pj««>e Fair. 845R. J. H. niley, Fla Sec., 15884 Inverness St. Camp and Hill Worker, Pederal Labor Union Bo. 31—Vancouver and vicinity, meets every Becond Wednesday '?i *.pm;' aLnu FnweirSL E. President. H. Mlyaxawa; Secretary, K. Tsuyukl. '.-7T Painters, Decorators and Paperhangera, Local 138—MtiBtfl second and fourth Thursdays nt 13 Hastings W. President, H. Edwards; Rec. Sea, A. !v Varah, 1442 Clark Dr.; Business Agent. A. B. Hodge. Office, Room 34, 163 Hastings W. Phone Sey. 3609. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Bool Builders, Local Bo. 3404—-Meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock In 122 Hast-I Ings St. W. James Thomson, SecreJ tary. P.O. Box 320. S. O'Connor, Pres^1 ident. Plasterers, Local 89—Operative Plaster- era' and Cement, Finishers' International Association—Meets flrst and third "Wednesday In month at Holden Building. President, Wm. Broomhead. Secretary, A. Hurry, 861—34th. Ave. E.. Phone Fair. 3222R. Cement Finishers' Secretarv, J. Kelller, 181—-53rd Ave E.; Phone Fraser 487L. i Plumbers and Bteamfltttrs, No. 170, International Association—Meets every second and fourth Friday ln the Holden Bldg. President, R. Simpson; Secretary and Business Agent, W. Watt. 813 Holden Building, Carpenter* and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Loeal 4S»—President, J. o Smith; Financial Secretary, R w Hatley; Business Agent, W. Har- ' fTreflve,So Of'"-*. Room 809 Labor Hall, 16 Hastings East. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m. lV! .*"P -Pniplojrw**-;' Association— M.eeo?,1rst.}Vednesday of «<* month at 25114 Hastings East at 8 p.m. President, W. H. Lewthwalte; Treas- SrerS:.W*oJ* Scrlbbins. 3208 Pender gt-E : Secretary, J. Tarbuck, 2792 Pender East. Point Grey Municipal Employees' Asso elation, Looal No. 3—Meets second Monday in each month at the Masonic Hall, Kerrlsdale, 8 p.m. President, D. Ross Squalr, 3728—30th W.; Secretary, A. Patterson, 8179 Hudson St. 5° , ■B**?P,?T«»' Wnlon, -Local ad- Meets flrst and third Frfdavs In the month at 25154 Hastings East at 8 p.m. President. R. ft. Hogg, 1718 Commercial Dr.; Secretary-Treasurer. George Harrison, 1182 Parker St Bl.ctrieal Workers. Loeal 213, International Brotherhood —Meeta every Monday at 8 p.m., 404 Homer St. Pre«i- u,enTt- -J- B. Brown: Business Agent, fa. H. Morrison. Office, 404 Homer SL BnfJneera—International Union Steam and Operating Local 844—Me. is every Friday at 8 p.m. Room 806, Holden Bldg President. Geo. Pcttaplece: nec-Sec., Roy Finley; Business Agent ?>?2 FU** Se*'*' *• A- Newblgging Office, Room 806, Holden Building Tin Pighteri, Bo. 18. International Association of—Meets every month at call of president at 251% Hastings E. .President, N McDonald. 1136 McLean Drive; Financial Secretary, C A. Watson, 1S29—13th Ave. E Floorlayers' union, Xo. 1875, W. B of O. * J. A.—Meets flrst and third Fridays In month at Holden Building President. E. C. Woodward: Fin. Sec.. T. H. Hamlin; Rec. Sec., w. D Wll- son, 1535—5th Ave. W. Bod Carriers and Building Labor.ro Bo 602, International — Meets flrst ' and' {J1'1",-' *rldays In month at Holden Building. President, C. Lawson. 1832 3rd Ave. W. Fin. Sec, J. A. Barring- ton, 4293 Welwyn Street. Business Agent, A. McEwan. Phone Sey. 7495. Hot.l and Bestauront Employees and Marine Cooks ft Stewards, Local 28— 441 Seymour St., meets second Monday each month at 3 p.m.. last Monday at 9 p.m. President. Thos. Ed-, wards; Sec.-Treas. and Bus. Agent. J.. Cumming. Phone Sey. lis. Ladies' Auxiliary, Local 171 —United Brotherhood of Carpenters—Mrets every flrst and third Wednesday of each month in 810 Holden Building, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. Nickels. 2388 42nd Ave. E.; Secretary, Elizabeth J. Hojpe, 1138 Seymour St. Phone Sey. Lathers, Wood, Wire and Metal, International Union, Loeal 207—Meets second and fourth Mondays In month at Roomr"809,-Holden Bldg. W. Fontaine SecreUry, 1828 Commercial Dr. phone High. 3I69R. Machinists' Local 692—President, Thos. Sills. 13.12 Burrard St.: Secretary, P. R. Bengough. Office. 807 Labor Hall. 16 Hastings East. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays In month. Printing Pressman and Assistants, Local Bo. 69—Meets every second Tuesday ln the month at 8 p.m. In Room 213, Labor Hall, 16 Hastings St. E. President, Harry F. Longley, 303—8th St., North Vancouver: Secretary, Thos. S. Ezart, 1603—40th Ave E., So. Vancouver. Railway Carmen of America, Lodge Ho. 58—Meets flrst and third Friday in month at Cotillion Hall, Granville and Davie streets. President. H. Warde, 1102—23rd Ave. E.; Secretary, J. D. Vullamy, 2215—15th Ave. E, . *4 Street and Electric BaUway Employees, Pioneer Division No. 101—Meets K. P. Hall. 8th and Kingsway, flrst and third Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, H. W. Speed; Recording Secretary, J. Price: Treasurer, E. O. —Kci'uiod<h—Financial*-"Secretary—TmtX Business Agent, A. J. Harraway. Office: Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Sey. 5000. Sheet Metal Workers Association, Looal Union Bo. 280—Meets * second and fourth Thursdavs in month in Holden Building. 16 Hastings St. E. President, A. Fisher, 1952—4th Ave. W.; Business Agent and Secretary, D. MacPhcrson, 807 Holden Building. . Shingle Weavers, Local 17813—Meets second Tuesday in month in Room, No. 2. Labor Temple, .New Westminster, and fourth Sunday, 7:30 p.m., in Room 313, Holden Bldg., Vancouver. President. J. N. Chute, Phone High. 1982-Y; Secretary, W. H. Matthew, 3 436 Irving St.- ToUors' Journeymen Union of America, Local No. 178—Meetings held flrst Thursday, each month, 8 p.m. Executive meets third Thursday of every month In Labor Hall. President, Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. W. Hocken, 1582 13th Ave. E.; Financial Secretary, H. Nordlund, 1930 12th Ave. E. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, 'Local 466— Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 310 Holden Bldg. President, A. A. McKay, 765 Cambie St.; Secretary-treasurer, A. P. Black, 880 Homer St. Theatrical Stage Employees' Union, Local 118 of the I.A.T.S.E. tt M.P.M.O. —Meets at 991 Nelson Street on the second Frldav ln month, nt 9:30 a.m. President, Walter Copp; Secretary, H Pearson: Bus. Agent, A. Harrington: Address P. O. Bex 711. Typographical Union, No. 226—Presl- Ident, C. S. Campbell: Vice-President, . R. Gouthro; Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neeiands. P.O. Box 66. Meets last Sundav of each month at 2 p.m.. in Women's Bldg., Thurlow slreet. Vancouver Mailers, Local No. 70—Meets flrst Tuesday In each month. 6:30 pm.. In Room 804, Holden Building, 16 Hastings St. E. President. A. R. C. .Holmes, 6439 Cypress St.; Sec.-Treas, H. E. R. Fader. 2718 Oxford St. .Phone High. 4110R. Milk Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees, Loeal 464—Meets second and fourth Fridays In Labor Hall. 16 Hastings St. E. President. J. A. Parry: Secretary - Treasurer, J Blrt. Showier, 2841 Triumph. Phone High. 5327. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY Mo. 76 to Vancouver Typographical Union meets first Thursday of each month, in the Vancouver Women's Building, 752 Thurlow Street. President, Mrs. E, J, Trump.r, Suite 41, 840 Nelson Street; Secretary, Una A. Pottiiilece, 1846 Balaclava Bond. Mill and Factory Workers' Union, Local No. 1599 — Affiliated' with United Brotherhood, of Carpenters,-&:..A»iucrs.l Meets flrst and third Thursdays in Room 213, Holden Bldg. President,' J. W. Mclnnis. Secretary-Treasurer, H. U- Avery, 796*4 Montcalm Street., Phone Marpolet648R. J Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday In !a»th . month. President. 3D. He- Donald. Box 1(1. Secretary, Prank Perry. Box 498. Prince Rupert, B.C Attack Develops on Anti-War Treaty By LAWRENCE TODD Washington.—"It's a craven Surrender to the pacifists! It's a meek acknowledgement of British naval supremacy:" shriek the militarists in Washington, echoing the war cries of the "Chicago Tribune," the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Evening Post," directed at the Kellogg war abolition treaty. Forty thousand of the privileged caste— the army, navy and diplomatic hangers-on in the capital of the American empire—are waking up to the possible consequences of this bid by Kellogg" for the Noble peace prize. But this attack, rapidly extending from Washington and New York to every corner of the country as the alarm is spread by the army-navy element, is only one section of the fight that has been started against the treaty. Friends of the League of Nations, led by the "New York Times," have pointed out that the responsibilities as a peace-maker which must be assumed by the American government as a result of the making of this' pact will be even greater than it would have had to bear if the United : States had entered the League. Furthermore, the United States becomes the "goat" for all future explanations as to delay in disarmament. Now that the powers have agreed with her to stop fighting with each other—except convenient excuse is found and high moral grounds are chosen—let America face the Soviets and explain why big navies and armies and coast defenses must be maintained. Secretary Kellogg, guarded by a policeman, becomes more arid more worried as the stalwart reactionary organs of his party, backed by the panicky army-navy set in Washington and outside, heap maledictions on his work. Hastily he denies that the treaty gives the United States any responsnbilities as a peace-maker, or as a factor in settling European disputes in future, or in leading in disarmament. The "Times" publishes three columns from London and Paris to prove the contrary of the Kellogg statement. And then Chairman Hale of the Senate naval affairs committee, an old crony of Kellogg, rushes into print with a demand that his bill appropriating $274,000,000 tot. new naval construction be taken iup in December for quick passage by the Senate. It has passed the House, and although British Tory spokesmen have pointed to this as_a_a3anbbl of oacTfaith on the" part of the Washington government, Hale is confident that the Senate will order the construction of the bigger navy to proceed. President Coolidge stands with Kellogg for the treaty, although he does not look upon it as meaning anything in particular. He has agreed to the demand of the French government that the formal signing shall take place in Paris, in recognition1 of the fact that Minister Briand proposed the first war-abolition agreement. The militarists will point out the fact that Woodrow Wilson signed the League covenant, as part of the Versailles treaty, in France—and his party was swept from power. 1927 Strike Record Lowest in Decade The U. S. Department of Labor reports that 1927 had fewer strikes and lockouts than any other year since 1916. Only 734 such disputes were recorded. In 614 of these, the workers were unionized at the beginning of the disturbance, and in X6 they organized after the row began. The department comments on the few controversies arising over hours, and suggests that this is because the eight-hour day has become so well established that it is generally accepted by both sides. It adds that if the five-day week makes progress there probably will be an increasing number of disputes on that question. A total of 639 disputes were classified by results. Pf these, the employers won 169, the employees 235, 129 were compromised, in 29 more the employees returned to work pending arbitration, and the outcome.of the other 77 disputes was not given. One-half of all these strikes and ioc'kouts took place in the three states of Massachusetts, N.ew York and Pennsylvania. v That'• the Question , She: "Now, if you mea-o-told the truth, you would have to admit that you like the talkative women just as well as you do the others." He! "Others?, What others?" Australian Miners Face Big Wage Cut By W. FRANCIS AHERN Sydney, Australia.—John Brown, the wealthiest coal baron in Australia and the owner of many coal mines, has issued an ultimatum that the miners will have to go "back to 1914" wages and conditions in order to put the mining industry on its feet. He said the miners could have the reduction "working or striking," but have it they must. If there was a strike, he would close down all his mines and then no coal at all would be dug. * Naturally, officials of the miners' unions hotly protest . against Brown's ultimatum and have made it plain that Brown won't have matters all his own way without a fight. It was recognized, they said, that a fight was inevitable and would have to take place, owing to the conflicting economic interests of the two opposingjforces. Out of the ruins of the fight something would be built upon the experience of the past that would relegate the coal barons to a position where they would have to justify their existence by. doing something in the way of necessary social service. The miners may decide that they will not accept less than ruling rates and conditions without a fight. The extent of that protest will be determined by the amount of brutality extended by the coal barons. Brown's ultimatum was mentioned in the Federal parliament, whereupon the leader of the Australian Labor Party (Mr. Scullin) made the following statement: Brown's threat is a declaration of war on the miners. After raking in huge profits, the only solution he can offer for carrying on the industry is to cut wages by more than half. If other employers do not repudiate his ultimatum what, then, becomes of their decisions in favor of fixing wages and conditions by constitutional means? Surely Brown did not imagine that the arbitration courts will fix living rates that will return no more than half the present cost of living, as he wants? His declaration, then, must be a threat of direct action. If miners accept sweating conditions, .other workers will face similar danger." OUR MEAT PIES will make your picnic more enjoyable THE ESTHER BAKERY 3728 HASTINGS ST.EAST HIGHLAND 1309 R. G. HIRST Electrical Contractor and Dealer House Wiring, Fixtures, Lamps, Batteries Glen 370 4099 Hasting. St. E. The Iron Heel Gets Busy in Japan Toklo,"-jaiife—Tha Jap'ahfliB govr eminent is getting panicky at the numerous signs of unrest among the workers and the poorer peasants. No sooner has one strike been suppressed than another breaks out. Textile workers are particularly restless. Great propaganda was made of the fact that, for the first time, the recent elections were to be conducted under universal suffrage. But every possible trick was used to make free voting a farce. At one meeting, speakers of the Itonoto (Farmer and Labor) Party addressed a huge audience. Nearly 300 police kept a strict order. None of the dozen speakers were allowed to speak longer than a few minutes, the police cutting them short on the ground that they were "growing red." The police dissolved the meeting when the applause became vigorous, and detained the speakers and about 20 others. Since the election the iron heel has come down still harder. One trade union after another has been raided, and left-wing papers have been seized. More than 1,000 left-wing leaders have been arrested and jailed on the charge of "distributing handbills containing seditious utterances against the Emperor." Three left- wing organizations — the Konoto (Farmer-Labor) Party, the Japanese Labor Council, and the Proletarian Youth's League—have been officially dissolved by the 'overnment. However, the workers and peasants and large sections of the students are not going to be checked by such methods. They arc awake to perialists, and are organizing secret- the danger of the policy of their im- ly against the capitalists. In particular they are determined not to be used as pawns in a Pacific war. They desire the closest possible contact with the workers of other countries bordering the Pacific ocean for the purpose of joining hands against the war-makers. Big things arc" predicted for the Japanese workers before long. FRASER VALLEY MILK for Safety From the Dairy with the Highest Score 9 Quarts «so<=» for One Dollar Fairmont 1000 GUARD 40-HOUR WEEK""" New York.—Union cloak manufacturers are aiding locals of the In- torcioiiwwd Ladies1, 'Gathmht "Workers' Union In protecting the 40-hour week. Long-hour employers are warned against attempting to re-establish Saturday work. ' . "Build B. C,*' ATINE WHIPPING CREAM Mrs. Campbell Brady of Vancouver writes with some earnestness about Pacific Milk beaten up into whipped cream: "As a whipping cream, on fruit and other deserts, it is delicious," she writes, "and the cost is small. It whips up lovely in a few minutes. We use Pacific Milk for all kinds of cooking with pleasing results." Factories at Abbotsford and Ladner, B. C. Pacific Milk 338 Brake Street Vancouver, B.C. The Man Behind the Machine Is Forgotten Public attention is so monopolized by laudation of those who drive aeroplanes and pilot them from place to place that the man behind the machine is never even thought Of. Yet it is he, and he alone, who has made the achievements of aviators possible. The science of aviation does not consist in operating the machines, but in designing them and building them. All the glory has been' going to the operator, whereas it really belongs to the skilled mechanic who builds the machine. If he can construct an engine and build a plane capable of spanning the ' oceans, all the operator has to do is take on a supply of fuel and drive it. He may do some clever navigating, feW'-saw-**-?^ to the man behind. It is well that those who operate aeroplanes and all other .niechincs should""* not become overburdened with conceit. They should always remember that they would be as helpless as infants if it were not for the man. behind. n Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, August 3, 1928 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at 816 Holden Bid**-*., Vancouver,* B. C. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council! H. W. Watt., Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE Chairman Wm. Page (Carpenters), W. Watt (Plumbers), P. B. Bengough (Machinists), Tim Hanofln (Beverage Dispensers). J. McCurragh (Typographical), Geo. Gerrard (Theatrical), W. Deptford (Street Hallwaymeni, Blrt Showier (Dairy Employees). Phone Seymour 6279 Vancouver, Friday, Aug. 3, 1928 A HARD WINTER FOR THE COAL MINER Great Britain has 200,000 coal miners for which it has no present or future use, and it is expected that a place will be found for them in Canada. The formula will be to place battalions of these men for a few weeks on so-called training farmsr and after being shown that the con-[ traption of leather and. buckles is wrapped around the external part of the horse, rather than fed to it, to enable it to work, they will be shipped to Canada in continuance of the great farm labor hoax. At the present time, however, it is planned to ship 10,000 of these men to the prairies for the harvest, and our federal minister of immigration, in a great spasm of foresight, intimates that the transportation companies will be required to relurn to the British Isles any of these men who fail to secure permanent employment. This sounds all right, but unfortunately that is as far as it is all right; in its essence the scheme where it is not silly is criminal. The British workman, and more particularly the British coal miner, is a one-cylinder man. His power of adaptability is about as low as it can be; the majority of any average group of these men, with the best intentions possible on their part, will Qfl .the..first occasion be ridiculous failures oh the harvest fields. From the home in the old country to work in the grain fields will take up a period of not less than fifteen days, the return a similar period. The minimum period of employment offered in the harvest fields would be one month; the maximum would be a few . days over two months. The average period of work that a resourceful, competent harvest worker might hope to obtain would be six to seven weeks. An inexperienced workman new to everything, could not make a thirty-day journey to obtairL_lh£ maxfirnnjv-oTrtTiis employment. There is another aspect to this matter. A very large portion of the Alberta coal output is used for domestic purposes, and the winter de mand is two or three times the summer demand. To a less extent this is also true of the Crow's Nest Pass and the Vancouver Island mines. To meet this winter demand the miners during the late fall very materially increase the working staff. At the present time a large portion of the Alberta coal miners are engaged in farm or any other work which offers. The surplus of Crow's Nest Pass miners are scattered through the Kootenay mountains on temporary metalliferous mine work. On Vancouver Island at the present time the provincial government is carrying on relief work to save the idle coal miner from starvation. And now, when the work to which these men belong is likely to have something to offer to them, the transportation interests, who are the real government of Canada, are arranging to dump 10,000 idle British miners on the labor market. Within a week of the time that the first cargo of these men reach the prairies they will be climbing every mine dump in Alberta, and in ten days from then the first contingent will reach Van* couver Island. Their chance of employment will in every particular be as good as that of our own Canadian fellow-workmen, and in every instance where they succeed another Canadian home is broken and another Canadian becomes a supplicant at the American gate, and the only part which the thing, which we call "government" at Ottawa, will take in this crime is that it will require the transportation companies to carry a man back to Britain, who fails to steal the employment from our men and- the bread from the women and children of the western coal camps. fll. 25th Anniversary of Teamsters' Union The twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers of America will be celebrated through proper functions on the first day of October, 1928, in the city of Cincinnati, and the general executive board at its meeting in January instructed the general presidents and the general secretary-treasurer to make all arrangements for a proper celebration of this eventful occasion. With all due respect to other organizations of labor, and giving them full credit for what they may have done for their membership, there is no other organization within the fold of the organized toilers of America that has raised the standard of its membership and obtained conditions for those -coming under its jurisdiction equal to that done by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which was the name adopted at the amalgamation convention held in Niagara Falls, August, 1903. There were no chauffeurs in those days, consequently we later amended our charter title through the conventions of the American Federation of Labor and added the word "chauffeurs." Also,' through another amendment of our charter title, the word "helpers" was approved and granted by the American Federation of Labor. While not thoroughly organized, we have a substantial and creditable membership of approximately 100,- 000. We have a substantial treasury which guarantees protection to our membership when it becomes involved in strikes. Our treasury, in liquid assets, amounts to a little over one and one-half million dollars. The celebration of the twenty- fifth anniversary of the International should be participated in by representatives from every local affiliated with the International Union. Local unions will be expected to pay the railroad fare and reasonable hotel expenses for their representatives. The International will pay all expenses connected with the entertainment and banquet. All local unions will be entitled to two representatives. If you can't send two, send one. To grant a larger representation would make it impossible for us to handle, as there are nearly 500 local unions chartered by the International. I earnestly request that your local union be represented on this all eventful occasion — the twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Inter- natio nal -Union, —- Sincerely and fraternally yours, DANIEL J. TOBIN, General President. s. Van. i. l. p. The next regular meeting of South Vancouver I. L. P. will be held on Friday, August 10th, at 8 p.m. in ^iJocticuIturaJ—3aU»- .Frage-rw street; " Important Businessi- W. FORD, Secretary. Correspondence Editor, Labor Statesman." Sir,—It is refreshing to read in the Statesman that the I. L. P., though bowed, will not acknowledge defeat in the fight for Labor in B. C. and Canada. Your observation that politics must be a mystery of the same order as railway rates and the peace of God is well put. When one relaizes that organized Labor in Vancouver has, during the past two years, secured valuable concessions in increased wages and shorter hours by virtue of their strength as organized Labor, the result of the ballot certainly becomes a mystery and raises the question as to why the mon, who confront the employers in solid formation, cannot confront the ballot box in their own interests in the same spirit and manner. Burnaby and South Vancouver have been well served by Frank Browne and Harry Neeiands, yet Labor turned them down. Every worker in the city had six votes at his disposal yet listened to demogogues spout that B.C. would go to the demnition bow-wows if they failed to vote the solid six and they turned down their own comrades and were led to their own economic slaughter. It may be truly said that Labor has fouled its' own nest and instead of six Labor members in the next House wc find only rone returned whilst the workers will have lots of time to reflect on the fact that they prepared their own corpse for burial. WORKER. Editor, Labor Statesman. Dear Sirs,—My attention has been drawn to an advertisement inserted in the Labor Statesman by the Canadian Labor_Party, which statesnhat •t-Bnr;aTR>tRciaF 6?-tfiatparty. " * This is'not the fact I severed all connections with the above men- A Simple Problem A" has $100,000 invested, upon which he makes a profit" of $8,000, or eight per cent. "B" forms a company to buy him out. "B" sells $300,000 worth of shares in the new company. The assets have not increased in value. He makes the same profit of $8,000, but the percentage is two and two-thirds per cent, on the increased capital. That, obviously, is not sufficient profit, so "B" has two courses open in order to make the company's business profitable. He can increase the price of the commodity he sells, or he can apply to the government for a bounty for a struggling industry. Generally he does both. This, of course, is only a hypothetical case, but it represents what is frequently done in this realm of expanding business and industrial prosperity. When the business can fctanJ extraordinary watering, it is a great commercial success, as was the case with the Canadian Cement merger. When, however, the out- lageous inflation of capitalization is jriore than the traffic will bear, there is distress and reorganization, as was the case with the' British Empire Steel Corporation. The manner in which commercial enterprises are over-capitalized is of great interest to the consuming public. It unduly enhances the price of goods and it makes questions of tariff and price- regulation difficult to solve. It is the over-capitalization of the Canadian National Railways which confuses the whole question of freight rates: It is the over-capitalization of large industrial enterprises which makes it difficult to disclose the real merits of applications for tariff increases. The thing is a vital factor operating at the root of much Canadian business. Over-capitalization is simply a refined form of piracy, and none too refined at that. The loot, of course, is exacted from the consumer. In these days of royal commissions and permanent government commissions, it might not be a bad idea to have a royal commission to inquire into the validity of the capitalization of any companies whose business exceeds a certain sum. In addition to that, there would have to be a permanent commission to look into and pass upon the increase in capitalization of any company, particularly those which enjoy tariff advantages or those* in the same category at the transportation companies, which op>v» erate under government regulation of some kind or other. In addition, also, there would have to be some sort of legislation making it an offense to unduly inflate the capital of any company. The business of sell ing shares valued far in excess of the realizable assets of the company in whieh-theslisres are sold", has been and is being carried on in England, the United States and Canada, with out the slightest molestation, and yet it is as fundamentally dishonest as the practice of tampering with scales and measures, and the industry of adulterating pure products.—Western Producer. Why Old Age Pensions? Factors which are making the older men less wanted in industry are discussed by Abraham Epstein, secretary of the American Association for Old Age Security, in an article in the Forum magazine. There are more persons, in proportion to population, of more than forty today than ever before*, Eostein proves, and they are less and less wanted by employers. The figures are startling. In 1870 those over forty numbered only 7J895.785 out of a population of 38,- 6fe8,371. Fifty years later, in 1920, thd number had risen to 28,308,937 out of 105,710,620. The percentage of persons over forty had climbed from 19.9 to 26.8. In 1870 the man over forty was wanted on the job. His skill and personal experience with the affairs of a shop made him most valuable. But in 1920 the situation was reversed. Skill and experience counted for less in a mechanized industry. And though the Working man or woman over forty is healthier now, with a longer expectation of life than in 1870, he or she is little wanted. 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Mitchell, Manager 17 Offices in Vancouver, 53 Branches in British Columbia 1098 SUBSCRIBE TODAY We invite you to subscribe or get « friend to «ub- •cribe for The Labor Statesman. Tbe rate* are two dollari for one year, one dollar for six months. I enclose..... dollars, for which please send the Labor Statesman to the address below for r months, commencing with the next issue. NAME ADDRESS Fl.ss* Writ* Plainly to Avoid He-takes. Address: Labor Statesman, 816 Holden Bldg., Vancouver Friday, August 3, 1928 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five UNION STEAMSHIPS EVENING DANCE CRUISE To BOWEN ISLAND LADY AiEXANDBA LEAVES UNION DOCK EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 7:30 P.M. DANCING ON BOARD AND AT THE PAVILION, BOWEN ISLAND. PKRCV LEE'S COUNTRY CLUB ORCHESTRA. BETUKN FARE fl»*| im INCLUDING ADMISSION TO PAVILION, BOWEN ISLAND Steamer leaves Bowen Island at 10:45 p.m., arriving back in town 11:45. REFRESHMENTS AT PAVILION CAFETeSia. Make Up Your Party Early for This Dell-rhtful Outing. Tickets and all Information regarding sailings at City Office, 533 Granville; Sey. 9331. Thos. Cook & Son, 723 Georgia W., Sey. 654; Union Dock, Foot Carrall, Sey. 306. JOIN THE LABOR PARTY For Further Information Write B. C. SECTION, CANADIAN LABOR PARTY X., Vancouver, B. O. Phono Secretary, J. Stevenson, 3 GroBvenor Ave. Glenbnrn 404yl' President, W. 3. Bartlett; Vice-Presidents, 3. Wood, H. S. Bate, ' Xiefeau, E. Balo, M. Olsnday. w. *w. 200,000 British Workers To Move London.—More than 200,000 work men, many of them married, cannot expect to earn a livelihood from the industries in which they have been employed, says a report made today by the Industrial Transference board. The report says these men must be moved from distressed areas in England to other places where they can start life anew. The board, which was constituted by the government to consider transfer of impoverished workers to new homes states that these 200,000 cannot pay their costs of moving or nait for a week's wages in order to defer such costs. Assistance must be given them. "It fs a hard thing to tell a number of families, and even whole communities, that unless they leave ail their familiar surroundings they wili not be able to earn an honest living, says the report. "But we should be shirking every inference from the facts, if we did not emphasize this as the first and strongest lesson that has come from the work of the board." Sir David Shackleton, Sir Warren Fisher and Sir J. Carman signed the report. w 0 0 —FOR BETTER FIREWOOD, and COAL THAT PLEASES Phone High. 498 SERVICE, QUANTITY AND QUALITY GUARANTEED D ABBOTSFORD WOOD & COAL CO., C O A L An election story often told. in British parliamentary circles had its origin in a meeting between Sir Henry Bentinck, the Tory leader, and a wealthy farmer of radical leanings. To Sir Henry's pleading for support the farmer replied: "Vote for you? I would sooner vote for the devil." "But," replied Sir Henry, suavely, "in the event of your friend not standing?" Our idea of a smart man would be one who knows what Soviet means. SOLEL BONEH ' One, of the unfortunate results of the severe economic depression in Palestine has been the shutting down of the Solel-Boneh, the Building Workers' Guild, which was the pride of the Jewish workers of Tel-Aviv. In its three years of existence it carried out work to the value of £778,- 000. But building, which was so busy a trade when Tel-Aviv was getting itself made, is now—apart from relief works— almost at a standstill. And the Solel-Boneh has had to close down. „ MEW-OeirYouFWew Fall Hat at CORNFIELD & HARDING Limited Our New Fall Hats Have Arrived New shapes, new colors and low prices - Don'tVorget the Union-Made Hat at Foraythe Shirta—Collar attached";' broadcloth $2.95 to $8.50 - ■ - $6.95 - - - $1.95 See us for Overalls, Shirta, Work Gloves and Sox and save money. KenietnbtV we carry Union-Made goods wherever it is possible to obtain them. CORNFIE 21 Hastings Street East & HARDING limited C tt H Sell for Less" Opposite Holden Bldg. United Farmers Rule In "Sunny" Alberta Edmonton, Alberta.—The government of "Sunny" Alberta is administered by the United Farmers. It is one of the best governed provinces in the Dominion and enjoys the confidence of the great mass of the people, as has been clearly demonstrated in each succeeding election. Much of its success and popularity is due to the fact that the government keeps in close touch with the United Farmers, the organization responsible for its election. Each year the United Farmers meet jn annual convention, where their common problems are discussed and their decisions embodied in formal resolutions. These are then presented to the government for Consideration. At the close of the recent session of the provincial parliament the government prepared a lengthy memorandum in which it outlined the action taken on the 32 resolutions adopted at the previous U. F. A. convention. This memorandum was not a secret document, but was published in the United Farmers' official news- ftrmersTfe^ahliToThold their grip on the government of the province, but the answer is found in the frank manner in which the government deals with the problems submitted by the farmers. Your correspondent knows of no other government which formally reports to the membership of the political party responsible for its existence. No Pocket in a Shroud Use you money while you're living; Do not hoard it to be proud. You can never take it yiu you; There's no pocket in a shroud. Gold can help you on no further Than the churchyard where you lie, And, though rich while living, You're a pauper when you die. Use is carefully. Use it freely; Do not hoard it to be proud. You can never take it with you; There's no pocket in a shroud. Why isn't sign painting a sport? It's work done by professionals, and people like to watch it as they do baseball. I! Extra! Open Saturday! MINIATURE RAILWAY KIDDJELAND Come and See! Come and Enjoy Yourself! HASTINGS PARK TAKEXARS 8 OR 13 Displaced Workers Cannot Buy Products Washington.—"Don't wait for the change in production and distribution; it's right here now; the crisis in our industrial and financial affairs is in the making," says I. M. Ornburn, president of the Cigar Makers International Union, writing in the official magazine of that organiaztion. "This condition is caused by the revolutionary introduction of labor- saving machinery and powerful distributing agencies," said Mr. Orn- burri. "We are producing more than we can consume, and creating a prosperity which is daily adding to the distress of the growing army of unemployed. This condition cannot go on indefinitely. ' i "The situation is more serious than the World War in its consequences upon the future of mankind. The new order will not adjust itself. This problem is the concern of all right- minded, men and women—regardless of station or calling. We must find a solution or meet trouble just around the corner." Locker Tenders TENDKRS WANTED for Kite Installation and supply of Lockers in the Technical School. 1'lans and specifications can be obtained from the Architect, School Hoard Office. 590 Hamilton street, after 10. a.m. Saturday, 28th July, 1928. on depositing cheque for $10.00. ■••Tenders in ,. duplicate, enclosed with marked cheque for $500.00 In sealed envelope, addressed to the "Secretary and hair-man." Vancouver School. Hoard, and endorsed "Tender for Lockers," will be received by the undersigned on or be. fore 5 p.m. Thursday, 2nd August, 1928. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. B. G. WOLKE-MERTON, Business Manager and Secretary. Tenders TENDERS WANTED for Domestic Science Supplies. Kor particulars apply School Board Offices. 590 Hamilton street. J. A. WILSON, Order* Clerk. Approved for Business Manager and Secretary. VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism. Lumbago, Neuritis, Bad Cold JIASSA<JE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. SET. 3070 Workers Will Urge Union Label Value Washington.—A nation-wide label campaign from August 27 to September 8 was launched by the Union Label Trades Department of the A. F. of L. j. Committees appointed by city central bodies will list union-label merchandise and union employers in I their respective localities. This information will be distributed to trade unionists and sympathizers. Mass meetings will be held and the campaign will include general trade union propaganda. • "Our campaigns emphasize that the union label means" even more than goods bearing this emblem are made under fair conditions," said John J. Manning, secretary-treasurer! of the Union Label Trades Depart-1 ment. "The union label is an emblem of industrial democracy. It means that the employer accepts the theory of collective bargaining; that workers have the right to unite and be represented by agents of their own choosing. The label is proof that this employer considers wage workers free men. ■"Trade unionists and sympathizers nnTv'lr^cHcni'^r^L^hn; !-•» g»*» wi» demonstrate what British m «l »„h »rtf~i P™ P. » ' Jn Columbia has to offer workers. The moral and ethical reasons as well. The union label stands for every- EAT TODAY AT THE RICHMOND CAFE 100 Per Cent. Union. All White Help 1033 Granville St. (Nr. Nelson) The 0_nly Union Fish and Chip Shop In the City! Ye Olde English Fish and Chip Shoppe 614 EOBSON (Hear Granville) thing organized labor favors." __Vane_ouver—Union—fcabeL^J will take part in this campaign. paper and given wide circulation. -—.-•«> --•=.—■—---—•■ "j-jr^ jnie^Jiremi' Many wondej-Jaw^e.JlJmte^^ gates will be open each day at 9 in the morning, and the midway attractions will top the evening's entertainment, remaining open until midnight. For the convenience of visitors, arrangements have been made to purchase tickets downtown. These -may be had at a special rate of five tickets for $2.00, as compared with the regular admission of 50c a ticket at the exhibition gates. Each ticket gives admission to gates, grandstand or ,-ReyaI Air Force Band Concerts. Tickets purchased downtown entitle holders to particj**»&te in the free distribution of *four super-six Essex Coaches to be given away in front of the grandstand August 18th, the final night of the exhibition. Exhibition Opens Wednesday, Aug. 8 Opening on August 8th for ten thrilling days, Canada's Pacific Exhibition promises this'year to be bigger, more entertaining and of greater public service than ever before. Leading the van of major attractions is His Majesty's Royal Air Force Band from London, England, o.ne' of the finest bands in the British Em pire. This wonderful group of music ians was featured at the Wembley Exhibition and has also played at numerous state occasions in London. Through special permission of the Indian Department, the Kootenay Indian tribe comes to the exhibition this year. Indian dances of primitive splendour, bareback riding and horse racing by this aboriginal tribe will give exhibition patrons a thrill. Another big attraction will be the great pageant "In Old Japan,'' with 550 players in Oriental costumes. For this a stage setting 300 feet long has been constructed. The scene exacted will represent the court of an ancient emperor in all its glory- geisha girls, wrestlers and sword fighters vicing for first honors. The scene ends in a terrific fireworks spectacle marking the destruction of thepalace. Improvements to Happyland and the midway.have been made especially for the exhibition and there will be sideshows and scores of attractions for the youth of Vancouver. Seven great vaudeville acts will take place before the grandstand each night. The somersaulting automobile and many other thrilling demonstrations will give thrill after thrill to the spectators. All the exhibition buildings will have features of interest to every member of the family. opening day of the fair will be marked by an address by Hon. S. F. Tol^ iremier-eleet of British Colum- $20,000,000 For U. S. Election Campaign By RAYMOND LONERGAN Both parties are out to get big campaign funds. There is to be no attempt to limit contributions. "Give at much as and as often as yon like," is to be the slogan. The Republicans think they will be able to get along with about $4,000,- 000 and the Democrats hope to gather a similar sum. Probably between them the two national committees will handle close to $10,000,000. In addition, many state and local committees will have their own funds. May Set e Record No one need be surprised if this battle between Smith and Hoover costs $20,000,000—the largest sum ever spent in a Presidential campaign Where It Comes From There will be talk from both sides about "popular subscription," but the bulk of the money will come from a Champions I few men and corporations which are J of the livestock world, marvelous j not in politics for ttieir health. horticultiieal and agri**Wtural exhi-; S j» significant that the Wall St bits, poultry and pet stock will make ! Journal remarksx ...J,,.^.._.J --.'- a .*»is.i^OTh'fte)ih^ : in teres* tf/'g'Srtleff-fdvers andpoultry- men. The exhibition this year steps ip pace with British Columbia's prosperity and splendid industrial dig- market movements can ses that Wall St has not made up its mind which way the cat will jump." , So Wall St. will "play safe" and contribute to both sides! ' . 1 Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, August 3, 1928 l/> Cobwebs POLITICAL ownership of the public utilities, so highly recommended by some people, is a great thing—for ib* Spiders. In the last few years no less than 1500 communities on this continent have sold their electrical businesses or shut the doors of their electrical plants or departments and are served by company systems—allowing the spiders to spin their webs undisturbed. The facts would seem to indicate that mea trained in the business of making and delivering electricity in companies owned by the people themselves do a better job than men " who may be good business or professional men, but who are not trained operators. British Oqiumbw ^EtEcnacfiffliwHrCo. ,VANCOUVER VICTORIA Buy Union Stamped Shoes We ask all members of organized labor to purchase shoes bearing our Union Stamp the sole, inner-sole, or lining of th* shoe. We ask you not to buy any ahoei unless you actually sea this Union Stamp. Boot & Shoe Workers' Union AmilsHd «lth UH Awrksa Fedtratlon et Lttw 246 StTMMBB STREET, BOSTON, MASS. COLLIS LOVELY / General President CHARLES L. BAINH General Secretary-Treasuror Labor Politics in The United States In the Labor News mail one day this week came two interesting pieces. _of ..information. One jgas frnmJa volunteer committee supporting Alfred E. Smith for president of the United States, and the other from a well-known Labor news service. The volunteer committee is made up of Labor people, and in its circular, which it asks Labor papers to kindly publish, it tells of all the good works of Al. Smith on behalf of the workers of New York state. And the record of the Democratic nominee for president of the neighboring republic, as set nut by his Labonvolunteer committee, is an imposing/one. Now, not having anytH|ng to do with American elections, it doesn't matter what stand the Labor News takes on the presidential race. But if we had to express an opinion, we'd have to take this statement of .Norman Thomas into consideration, as reported by the Federated Press: "Not only is John J. Raskob chairman of the open shop General Motors," Mr. Thomas said, "he is bound up with the duPont interests which grow rich on wars, big and little. He is part of the group which made a determined effort to get the St. Lawrence water power for private development." It is difficult, we confess, to make Al. Smith's Labor record jibe with his choice of Raskob as his chief lieutenant But if wc had to decide we wouldn't do so for a while, because tomorrow's mail will probably bring a circular from a Labor committee equally as well and equally as prominent in its personnel as that working for Mr. Smith, to show why Herbert Hoover should receive the votes of trade unionists. A delightfully interesting feature of United States politics is the way in which the political policy of Labor sometimes works out.—Alberta Labor News. FIRE DRILLS STARTED BY BOSTON UNIONISTS Boston.—Fire drills in cloak factories are being held in this city. Tfte drills are made obligatory under unionjf agreement and are. supervised by a/joint board maintained by em- ploy£rs_and -the unionists, who are affiliated to, the International Ladies -Gartnent Workers' Union. r~; Mechanized Industry Brings New Problems New York.—Workers should be protected from the effects of mechanization-was a conclusion by delegates to the recent Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, held at Cambridge, England. Speakers from the United States, Great Britain, Germany and other countries pointed out that mass production is insecure for both workers and capitalists because of its dependence on wide markets and that employers and employed should jointly aid in stabilizing industry. Summing up the proceedings, Miss Mary Van Kleeck of the Russel Sage Foundation, said: "The well-being of workers in all countries depends upon underlying economic conditions which today present certain common problems, especially the growth and movement of populations, the need for wider markets for the increasing output of mechanical industry and the problems of securing raw material. "To insure a status for wage earners which is in accord with the dignity of the human being, there is need for participation by workers' organiziftions jointly with employers' groups not only in the management of one establishment but in determining the larger economic policies of industrial life. Even more important than the material factors is the mental attitude of groups toward one another. Removal of fear and distrust and the eftabiishfment of understanding arc essential for the bringing about of peace in industry." FACTORY' EMPLOYMENT IN NEW^YORK CITY FOR 1928 AT LOWEST LEVEL New York.—Factory employment in this city throughout 1928 has been at the lowest level since the State DepartmerrflJlLabor began collecting data in 1!TN, according to the monthly report of Commissioner Jas. A. Hamilton. The decline in manufacturing has been g-eneral in practically all the industries of the city. Printing and women's millinery are the only exceptions. Age-Long Struggle Is Recalled By Death Washington. —The resignation of Luis Morbnes, head of the Mexican Federatioh of Labor, as secretary of labor in President Calles' cabinet, is an incident in the struggle between the industrfel wage workers and agrarian forces in that country. Obregon's friends charge Morones with being "psychologically" responsible for the death of the presidentelect. This is. another way of saying that the stand taken by-Morones, as head of the Federation of Labor, in defending the wage workers' rights, affected an assassin. Morones symbolizes the organized workers of Mexico,.whose interests are opposite to those of t;he agricultural portion of Mexico, represented by Obregon. Following the installation of Calles, the present president, the organized wage workers secured control of the cities. They installed the eight-hour day, extended education, raised wages and improved work conditions more rapidly than did the agrarians. Amendments to the Mexican constitution would give Obregon sweeping powers. He could appoint members of the Supreme Court. Popular control of cities would be replaced by commissions, appointed by, Obregon, whose declared policy was for agrarian relief,' while opposing the democracy in the cities. By checking the workers, Obregon was hopeful of interesting foreign investors. Morones represented the resistance of wage workers to the Obregon policy. While the feeling between the two men was strong, the issue is not one of individuals. It is the age-long struggle between city and country, between industry and the farm. Morones a Young Man Morones has had a spectacular career. He was born in Mexico City 38 years ago, the son of a janitor. At 16 he went to work as an electrical worker and in 1919 became the first general secretary of the Mexican Federation of Labor. He and Calles, who was also a leader of labor, being a member of the machinists' union, established the most cordial relations with the American labor movement. Morones attended the last convention of the Pan-American Federation of Labor in Washington and entered into an informal agreement with the A. F. of L. for the restriction of Mexican immigration, but the plan has not worked to the satisfaction of either side. At'an early age he became connected with the revolutionary movement in Mexico. He was general manager of the Mexican Telephone Company from 4916' to Hffl^gno? was chief of the military factories and munitions works from 1919 to 1924. Saved the Revolution He helped save the revolutionary movement in 1923 when De La Huer- ta threatened to overthrow Obregon and Calles. Morones supplied the workers with arms purchased from the United States, largely through the influence of leaders of organized labor, and Calles led the forces in the field. In 1922 he became a member of Obregon's cabinet as secretary of labor and continued in that position under Calles. He has been regarded as the lattcr's most trusted adviser. Under Morones' leadership the Mexican Labor, party became the most powerful political group in Mexico. He did much to improve the wages and working conditions of labor and while his enemies called him a radical he suppressed communistic propaganda with an iron- hand. In addition to being a member of the Electrical Workers' Union in Mexico, Morones is, like Calles, an honorary member of the International Association of Machinists in the United States and Canada/ Communist Bombast The Communist Party held a meeting on the Winnipeg Market Square last Sunday night and, being curious, we went to see what they had to say. Strangely enough, they didn't speak of Communism, but dwelt with the mining situation in Canada and in the States. J. L. Lewis came in for a tirade, as usual, and he was going to be dealt with by the Communist Party. At the next convention they were going to kick him out; there was no doubt about it. "We've heard that before." Industrial unionism was now advocated, the old unions didn't function, and under the leadership of the Communist Party hours *ere going to be reduced and every member of the unemployed put to .work, the economics of capitalism notwithstanding. The O.B.U. came in for its share of abuse; the O.B.U. wasn't right; it wasn't constructed properly. He didn't say where it was wrong, but it didn't suit the Communist Party, and of course anything that didn't allow the Communist dictatorship to control it was something that couldn't be tolerated. He then waxed eloquent, and in the manner of Ajax defying the lightning he told the transfixed Ukrainians in his audience of the mighty deeds the Communists had done in the Dominion of Canada. The O.B.U. had failed, he said, but in Westville, Nova Scotia, the Communists had lined up 600 men in the All-Canadian Miners' Union and got aii agreement and the check-off. We have never been able to locate the 600, or even 60, but of course Gilbert couldn't exaggerate. No doubt they are there, but no one outside himself can find them. The fertility of his imagination' again manifested itself when he jumped to the Pacific Coast. Vancouver IslanrJ was now organized, and although nothing but company unions had existed previously yet the doughty warriors of the Third International had now the island solid tight, 100 per cent. (The only local that was organized was in Nanaimo-, but since the leaders have been fired over the May Day strike, we have heard no word about it.—Ed. L. S.) Everybody in the audience now realized that he had said the same thing so often that he believed _it himself. We ventured to think of the results of the recent provincial election, but the bombast was so magnificently done that wc had a vague idea that the government re turns must be wrong and Gilbert right. In District 18 the same wonderful results had been achieved, and UNION CAFES & MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 \ Always Open Empire Cafe and Grill VancouveKs Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE Lke 72nd Batt. 76 Hastings St. E., Vancouver, B. C. When in a Hurry, Drop Egg Order. FRED'S' Are Always r\ • r "ok.-at Dairy Lunch "It's the Coffee" 78 Bastings West Always Open R. WILKINSON, Tm. 0. DUNCAN, Sit. Reynolds'Cartage Co- LIMITED Phonse Seymour 3377-337* Orstlnir, Peeking, snipping ana Btoraga Furniture and Piano Moving Long Distance Moving Pool Car Shipments *> Of flee and Wnrslioussi 733 — CAMBIE BTBEET — 7SS T) PERRY & DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West 33 The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. now the victorious Communist Party was going to sweep the O.B.U. and address delivered every—other—outfit—that—dared—to* Trades Union CortgressfTorTli'S was SPORT NEWS Organizer J. B. Bowens, tug-of- war team, is preparing for a tour of the States, after beating the bosses of the Sheet Metal Shops on Saturday at Bowen Island. Bill Watt of the Plumbers and Steamfitters had already warned his team that J. B. wa* on the island with his warriors, and, therefore, on the approval the plumbers' sports' were called off until the team had embarked. George Lish was in remarkable form, as right* after several hard pulls, he did the 100 yards towards the lunch tables' in record time. " A scientist foresees a generation , that never goes to bed. In other .. ?smpathy.'for the lower animalsr-TfrTroTng^jS-w^-UTTderstand it, the ris- °ne Of the noblest virtues^ with ing generation retires about when which man is endowed.—Darwin. the retiring generation rises. question anything the Communist Party said or did into oblivion. »■..'»'' * There was one thing apparent, and that was the complete ignorance of the speaker in regard to the nature of capitalist production. Like all Communist speakers, he never attacked capitalism; his sole object was shown to be to induce the slaves to blindly follow the leadership of the Communist Party. These bags of wind provide plenty of humor, but their contribution to the movement is nil. They do not and cannot build; their function is to destroy. Wherever they go the forces of reaction get a renewal of life, to paraphrase the words of Newbold. Deep calls to deep and Capitalist calls to so-called Communist.—O.B.U. Bulletin. Appalling Cost of Preventible Sickness Speaking in Paris the other day to the International Conference on Social Work, Dr. Homer Folks of New York said that sickness costs the American people over $15,000,000,000 per year; and that most of this sickness is preventable. Even leaving out the loss of net earning power from premature death sickness costs this country close to $4,000,000,000 per year. Yet we, the richest and most progressive of nations, as most of us so readily admit, spend only some $76,- 000,000 a year in the prevention of sickness. , In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, on the other hand, we spent on the army $360,808,177; and on the navy, $318,909,096; or a total military expenditure" of $679,717,- 873, against a health expenditure of $76,000,000. There seems to be a discrepancy somewhere in this neighborhood.—Labor. Bim: "My wife's favorite book before we were married was 'The Three Musketeers,' and wc had, triplets!" Bamr "Good God! Mine's was 'The Birth of a Nation!'." Cook-Maxton Protests Are Not So Good The Cook-Maxton protestants have recruited a quite unexpected supporter in Mr. George Hicks, who was chairman of the Trades Union Congress General Council two years ago. His adhesion is, at first sight, in strong contrast with his presidential generally regarded as an advocacy of closer co-operation between employers and employed in the solution of "industrial problems. Mr. Hicks has now explained that this was not all that he meant, and that he disapproves of the Mond negotiations. Mr. Wheatley has also joined-in, with a strong condemnation of Mr. MacDonald; and Mr. Kirkwood has taken the chair at the first of the conferences organized by the Cook-Maxton group. Mr. Cook has defined his principal object as being to secure the rejection of the Mond report at the Trades Union Congress in September. In the.meantime, the Miners' Executive have been meeting to consider the charges brought against Mr. Cook by the General Council. Thus, the alignment of forces in the Trade Union world is becoming more clearly defined. Ujndoubtedlyr Mr. Cook and Mr. Maxton will get a certain amount of rank and file support; but it is most unlikely that they wili be able to compass the rejection of the Mond report, and, unless they can find something more positive to put forward than a mere denunciation of the Labor Party and the Gen • eral Council, their protest looks like fizzling out.—The New Statesman. TORONTO MOTOR DEATHS - SHOW ENORMOUS GAIN; TOURISTS ARE BLAMED Ottawa, Ont.—Eighty-seven persons were killed by automobiles in Toronto, the metropolis of Ontario, in 1927, as compared to 46 killed in that manner the year before. This is an increase of 93 per cent in a single year. In all Canada, the auto fatalities last year were 864, an increase, of 42.6 per cent over 1926. At that, the death rate from this cause throughout the Dominion is 9.1 per 100,000 inhabitants; while the death rate in. the United States from the' same cause in 1926—the last year for which figures are available^was 18.2. . *,--•.• The increase in tourist traffic is ■ blamed for the rising tide of fatalities in Canada. \ Friday, August 3, 1928 THE LABOR STATE MAN | Weak Men and All Diseases of Men Take our Herbal Remedies fjEND for Pamphlet on Loss of | |3 Manhood, and Disorders of Men. Free by mail. Advice free. Open 2 to 6 and 7 to 8 dailv J except Wednesdays and -Satur- [ day*"*, when closed all day. Phone Douglas 3394 The English Herbal Dispensary, Limited 13S9 Davie St., Vancouver, B.C. Canada's Oldest Herbal Dispensary Seven THE ANCIENTS •F. W. MOORE. Classified Adverts. BABBIST-EBS AND S0I.ICITOBS WalUs W. lefeaux, 403 Metropolitan Building. Phono Soy. 66G7. BATE8 Hastings Steam Baths Price 35c Only 766 Hastings Street Salt DENTISTS Dr. W. A. Xntledge. 108 Hastings V. NOTABY PUBLIC V. B. Bengough. 803 Holden Bldg. PBINTEBS labor Statesman. 803-816 Holden Bldg. ROT-TUBE SPECIALIST C. B. Heard. 813 Kobson tTNDEBTAKEBS Armstrong & Hotson, 304 Dunlevy Ave. Tennyson called us "The Ancients," and he was right. Says he in "The Day Dream": "Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth And in the morning of the times." We are in the habit of referring to the Romans, Greeks, Sumerians, etc., as "The Ancients" (fai'en, as a matter of fact, if we regard civilization as a period merely, we must lqok on these people as our contemporaries. In talking of savagery we refer to'a relative period of approximately sixty-thousand years—Morgan, "Ancient Society".38. We call them all savages and don't refer to ancient or modern sections. Why should we talk differently about ourselves—just yet? Tennyson realized intuitively that from a view-point based on achieve- __r- VM ment and development, we are still in . _ _ "" •"""***. our early teens. Yet eveii as chil- Ann Rpffpi* SllnmantlPe drcn we may see the powerful effect **P° DClKT 3U»mIMa ,of the titanic fnmaa ».«..- i: troy free industry and make necessary a regulated production which will only escape the socialist ideal by still paying its profits to individuals and not to the state." Such would be State Capitalism, a condition that has often been predicted as the predecessor of state socialism. And once that is achieved the struggle between men ("teen" hobble-de-hoys) will * cease, and all people will join in the struggle to subdue the forces of nature. The folks of this new era will be the first division of humanity's countless representatives from time immemorial that will be worthy of the reputation implied in the word "modern." The "Ancients" will by that time have reached adult-hood. The Race For Bigger Drink and enjoy! 1 VAN BROS.' CIDERS PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER "Made from B. C. Apples" TRY OUR GRAPE, LOGANBERRY, ORANGE, PUNCH, ETC. ' IDEAL FOR PICNICS AND PARTIES PHONE HIGH. 90 PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS., LTD. 1955 Commercial Drive Saving Money on Dentistry •■•*•*• •^IMMIGRANTS DISAPPOINTED Sydney, Australia.—Several hundred immigrants from Czecho-Slo- vakia are starving and penniless in Sydney. They say they were misled to come to Australia by immigration agents who told them at Prague (Czecho-Slovakia) there was plenty of work in Australia at $30 per week, no unemployment, and all they would have to do was to walk, off the steamer and tumble into jofs. When they came to Australia they.found the jobs did not exist; also, that Aus tralia was carrying a record unem ployed army. Now they are de manding that cs the government's immigration agents misled them, the least the Australian government can do is to pay their fares back to their homeland. -- ■,*« me jjuwenui etiect of the titanic forces pounding mental impressions on humanity that will eventually engender the rationality of adultship. They are remodelling the industrial institutions of the world and will presently offer to humanity the periodical opportunity, hitherto always rejected, of rising to a higher social plane. All over the world the titanic forces are in evidence while labor and her sympathizers, and indeed capital too, look on expectantly. The struggle for existence has developed almost to the bursting point. The everlasting improvements in machinery and industrial technique have their effect in a constantly increasing volume of unemployment. I eouljd, if space permitted, give a list of companies using improved machines of which twenty- five individual specimens, each operated by a man or two, take, in the ... u. ..no, lane, in the land good will toward men, which is aggregate, the place of thousands of and can be nothing but a farce while men and women. Indeed, I can elthltW-** an** . i men and women. Indeed, I can cite a single instance in which thousands of employees are likely to be super seded in tha The hypocritical denunciation of submarine warfare by the Allies during the war led many innocent people to believe that, after the war was over, such barbarous machines as submarines would be abandoned forever. Yet we find today Great Britain and the United States engaged in the wholesale production of the most barbarous types of submarines which distorted human—or inhuman —■-genius can produce. Yet the meek and gentle Christian (?) people of these countries are sitting back complacently and uttering no word of protest. They know that their .hard-earned money is being appropriated In huge lumps for this savage purpose. Yet they murmur not, but they flock t to church: and hear the ministers of Christ preach the Gosped of Peace on earth I and good will toward men, which is money back are .free. If you Is an "easy matter at this office because our modern equipment and low overhead expenses enable us to turn out .... f"'EW METHOD TRIPLE SUCTION PLATES less thjin you would have to pay for ordinary plates swhere. Bear In mind, too, that New Method Suction tes are backed .by our written guarantee—and your ... not satisfied after three months' wear. Estimates DOCTOR— R. LLEWELLYN DOUGLAS 12 HASTINGS BAST SURGEON DENTIST SEYMOUR 1460 Hosiery Firm Fails In Speeding-Up Plan ,~ uyuu'iK out a larce while this sort of deadly preparation for war is continued. And the press—oh, the press! It Q„ si",., -i— • War Mongers Rule PACIFIC STAGES Go Everywhere HAVE you ever been to White Rock, with its jolly clambakes; to Port Moody, Port Haney, ■ Whytecliff, Grouse Mountain, Ladner, North Vancouver, or to the dozens of happy holiday spots on the Lower Mainland—or to Seattle? PACIFIC STAGE lines, with their luxurious Safety Coaches, reach them all I Plan tm a week-end or vacation trip NOW! You'll enjoy ate of it. farther information phone »..t j.iom—on, tne press! It seded in the near future: The is worse than the church, because it Potamac Telephone Co. of Washing- publishes pictures and descriptions \. ton announces that there will not be of those engines of destruction with ,. a telephone girl at work in the na- an air of bragadocia which would do s tion's capital by 1930; and at the credit to the days of Julius Caesar, present moment, the titanic forces bid fajr.to put orchestras and house painters out of existence as such. In the Labor Letter" for July 19th the following: "The Chicago Fed- erajjpjLpJLMusicians?—wilFjoin~5tsrter locals throughout the jurisidiction of the "American Federation of Musicians" in the fight against the movie- phone and similar musical devices to dispense with living orchestras. More than two hundred theatres have installed the new machine and nearly a thousand have prepared for such installation; in many instances Kenosha, Wis.—The refusal of organized hosiery knitters to accept non-union conditions in the Allen-A Qompany plant has resulted in one of the bitterest industrial disputes in the history of* this, state. The company employed an "industrial engineer" who installed the antiquated system of one knitter operating two machines, in place of the I one-machine plan in operation in every plant that produces quality hose. Strikebreakers are paid three times the wage of union knitters and private detectives are operating sec-, retly to evade the state law which regulates these thugs. More than 500 arrests have been Educational Features At Pro. Exhibition " "A."T° '"***• ,"""'" I that they are able to att made on charges that range from | f mJ thousami feet calling strikebreakers yellow to | ~£ t_,__ _«. . Always in the van with educational features, the B. C. Provincial Exhibition, which is to open on Labor Day, Sept. 3rd, at New Westminster, will be notable for the presentation of topographical maps of portions of British Columbia. This new feature has been arranged through the cordial co-operation of C. T. Taggart, in charge of the work in B. C. for the National Map of Canada, with D. E. MacKenzie, manager of the Provincial Exhibition. Taggart's headquarters are at Kamloops and there have just proceeded two' new Fairchild monoplanes which will take aerial photographs of parts of B. C. hitherto inaccessible to map makers. These planes have special capabilities in that they are able to attain a height at fir*.,.— *i 1 *__,. -. , . , !?-■$? foll°w-ne- "The "Chicago Fed-'l A»J*D •" s.L~"h7 . Jto mtimidate the war ^na^Kum the World ;^MflrJai^^^p«h«ie^ihe r, . knitters, hut tha ,.;t,. criminal conspiracy. tuv s-y-jipai receives every aid from authorities, except in the case of the governor, who refused to order out state troops to intimidate the workers. and land Tt^e'l.0^r,.,i?, I uP°n or take off from water areas, ine company Th •„ M operated by the Royai m authorities, i r< 'ju- a-- t**. - -•- i.«-i_ .. knitters, but the city manager plan A French \yriter, illustrating the has made it possible for municipal futility of conquest and the stupidity authorities to assist the company. of heapinir e-lorifientin-n „««- — The city attorney and his assistant of heaping glorification upon con querors, reviews the life story and ignominious end of i Napoleon, con eluding as follows: "Such was the fate of the prodigious man for whom posterity has shown a singular clemency advisers of the Allcn-A Seymour 4000 You'll be surprised at the low round fare rates ( k,;u,"""u"; -n many instances en- i. """ or ™"1 posterity has tire orchestras have been thrown out rf,own a slZlgu,ar clemency. It is SSm^???to*?.^ President James £™oHgh his pride he brought Petr Ho of the Chj James (|lsasters hcar(i of ^ ^ h theatres save in this manner about fZ°Z ^l"?8" h*1! the tTee«™ W.OOO a week. Again, ih the same that,]he revolution wished to give the Labor Letter" we read" "Prow worldi, was s<* back sixty years. By 'ng the use of a paint-spray nJ ™ !"'", Europe, forced to think of noth chine by the Red Cross DecoratTn*; "*B but war' adoPted a military re UnV *?, C,entreville- low*. Painters* fi?t ?°. stuPid tha' today sh% union declared a strike." the titan3?/"6 l0Ct?' Passions of birth fnrflv0™8 that have their climes S Seasons and divers h«J2 ?"-?land' for instance, they Turner MonrHeC°?niZfd late'y «**• British tr„H JOmt committee of er\.1 tTtade-«n>onists and employ-, SSiJrM geth<*f f8VOred a nat'onal industrial council. How it will turn' out is, of course, dubious, but it is ., — stupid that today she. is crushed by monstrous taxes and by armies yet more monstrous. "By this the evolution of nations, instead of moving towards peace, brotherhood and independence* has tended toward war, hate and servitude. By war, in fifteen years ten millions of young men , the most vigorous, the most generous, the bravest, have perished in the flower of life, and the human race has been degraded. "Thanks to Napoleon, and to him arc legal concern. Officers of the State Federation of Labor have investigated the strike and declare that "the city manager government is under the thumb of the corporations." "Appeal to the federal court for the usual purpose of restricting the constitutional rights of these work-| crs was responded to with a temporary order issued without a hearing. Under the ruling, no picketing was permitted. The iron procedure in the federal court, with all the discretionary powers usurped by federal courts, made for an atmosphere which is obnoxious to every advocate of democracy." Canadian Air Force in this B. C. Topographical survey work. Photographs of mile-wide strips of B. *C. will be taken—an Impt'OVement Upfth" war-time aerial photography. The job is a ticklish one not much akin ! to ploughing the lonely furrow or even navigating a ship at sea, and the merging of pictures of territory into a comprehensively correct topographical map is an undertaking calling for technical skill of the highest order. The display will include presentations of Jasper Park and the Kamloops district in a manner never , before possible, and graphically make plain such natural resources as timber and mineral and water power wealth. The topographical map of B. C. when completed will form part of the national map of Canada. „ . .' . """lot:, UUUIOUS, but it ' I "' \f=nS2nn*.,ng i.hat is described by the «l™. *• .■"-•r"—. ««u to nin la;^8t-el Guardia" a« the "most & ' ftoU^N" ■beeyuined-h-toil- y the I enllv V£^J",ce,,b7 afmie.s --^o- TSftwKSSiF SEYMOUR AT DUNSMUIR1 . •.ii.iuji-iii as ■ in* "■ striking agreement yet made by great body of British employers. . . . On purely industrial matters it might come to acquire an authority which parliament itself might find difficult to resist."—Ibid page 7. Speaking of "divers climes" we have Professor Schmalenback of the University of Cologne, termed by the New York Times, "one of the greatest authorities on industrial economics," forecasting a new industrial world. Says he: "The age of competitive industry is drawing to a close. It will be followed by an era of giant monopolies operating under government francWse and supervision. . .... In substance what he argues is that the substitution of the machine for human labor has greatly 'increased the item of fiited costs and has brought round the race fqr volume since to keep machines idle is so much more expensive than to keep meh.idle.. In thfr end, this race Tor volume and competition will des- lently victorious. Yet she has no right to complain. She has deserved Napoleon.* As soon as he appeared she threw herself at his feet. Consider this sad history in order to detest all wars and conquerers." MECHANICAL POWER REPLACES HAND LABOR Washington.—Substitution of mechanical power for hand labor is the greatest factor in the increased productivity of American industry, according to the United States Geological Survey. A study show.4 that from 1849 to 1923 the horsepower per wage earner increased from 1.44 to 6.31, and from 1909 to 1923 from 2.96 to 5.31. The least use of mechanical power was found in agriculture, UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS London, England.—Unemployment in this country is increasing. The total number'.of persons on.the unemployment exchanges in Great Britain on June 2? was 1,192,000. This whs 30,079 more than the week before and 187,987 more than a year ago. Appalling conditions continue in the-mining industry. Mine owners who insisted that long hours would solve their problems, demand more wage reductions. When .they defeated the' miners two years ago they added an hour to the work <lay and decreased wages. They arc still dissatisfied. BREATHING SPACES FEW IN INDUSTRIAL AREAS Washington, July 2SI. — Many towns and cities have no adequate provision foe- parks and breathing spaces, according to a survey published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The concentration of large populations in comparatively restricted areas; which has •fdflbtrett the industrial expansion -at* the pfist few decades, has crc^ed^ibe^ niroblgm. of HW-wVi-ding- tor the"SeW«rhnTTTif"~cKl- I dren and adults, it is stated. —Many instances arc recorded where large arens have been set aside, but the proportion is small. Mine Owners Accept Labor's Wage Theory New York.—Organized mine workers insist that wage cuts is no solution to the mining industry, but this advice has been ignored—until now —by coal owners who would smash the miners' union. This change is pointed out • by Louis Guenther, publisher Financial World, who says coal owners should long ago be awake to the cheap-labor fallacy. "The coal' owners have come to the conclusion that the over-production which has been their incubus cannot be cured by forcing down the price of labor," says Mr. Guenther. I "When there is a glut of mines, each endeavoring to earn a profit, there are insufficient pieces of the ' cake to go around. This fact begins to dawn on the mine owners. They should have seen it several years ago and might have done so had they not been blinded by the war and the artificial prices it superinduced. "Now a movement is on foot among nearly 100 mine owners to. effect a merger of their properties on the basis of a fair appraisal of value. Thts**is a sensible step, for then, as a united company, they will be in a sounded and more. effective position iO::eOTifjjcoJ-*4irod4*<-^#nr-i*e<luce- opcr- ating costs through the elimination: _ of duplicate selling organizations and through other economies increase margin of profit and allow for decent living wages." ^ Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, August 3, 1928 NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades & Labor Council Boom 803, 16 Hastlng-a Street Beat . Phones: Sey. 7495-6279 ••H HORSE RACES LANSDOWNE PARK SATURDAY Monday Tuesday Wednesday H—Races Daily—~7 4 Rain or Shine ' Pari-Mutucls Under Government Supervision. Admission, Including Grandstand and Paddock, $1.75 the federation in Llandudno, Wales, recently. Five Lanarkshire men who had been refused admission to the floor as delegates appeared in the gallery and demanded a hearing; After a short argument, Smith left the chair, dashed to the gallery and began per- sonally__to throw out the disturbers. After he- had •'pushed them downstairs, Smith was taunted by Arthur Horner, a South Wales Communist, who had followed him from the main hall with the epithet of "tyrant." In one leap, Smith landed on top of Horner. Although Horner claims to have been a champion boxer at one time, he suffered a good beating at the hands of the veteran official of the miners. The conference then proceeded without further disturbance. Sheet Metal Workers Picnic Is Humdinger The Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 280 held their annual picnic at Bowen Island on Saturday, July 28. Three hundred attended and a pleasant time Was spent by all. Leaving Vancouver at 9 a.m. on the U. S. "Lady Alexandra," the fun commenced when a. capable orchestra composed of members furnished dance music. Pianist Bill Russ, Violinist N. Griffin, Euphonioum G. Griff in,^Ban joist Bert Griffin and their selections were thoroughly enjoyed. On arrival at Bowen Island, the 27 sports events were pulled off, and the various novelty and swimming items created lots of fun. These events were well handled by Chairman Bill Whitty, President A. Fisher, R. McCauley, and their committee. One extra event not on the programme created considerable interest, as through a challenge thrown out by Organizer Bowen of the Lathers to pull any team at •tug-of- war, resulted in Jack Campbell accepting. J. R. Tacey lined up his stalwarts, who looked like world- beaters and consisted of Messrs. Campbell, Col. Anderson, Foxcroft, Morrison and Smith. Bowen's team was composed of Messrs. McPherson, Page, Thompson, Hargreaves and Lish. Bowen's team won,>2 out of 3. Tacey's team won the first pull, but Bowen's gang won the next two. Spectators were unkind enough to suggest that Bill Page's emergency kit had something to do with the victory. Special Drawing The result of the special drawing for the lawn mower donated by Taylor-Forbes Company was a win for Bill Thorn, apprentice. The second drawing, a hammered brass coal hod, designed and made by Apprentice K. Russell of the^Central Sheet Metal Works, wasjwon-bJNfitft. G. Griffin. Third prize was won by Tommy Dan McPherson and his committee, Bros. Fred Corker and*»Nat Smith, handled the sports in fine style. The refreshments were handed out by Chairman Geo. Wallace, Charlie Thorn, Jim Strand, W. Coulson and Ralph Caldwell, and no complaints as yet have been registered. Geo. Wallace's coffee was one of the features of the picnic. .Thanks are due the Brewery Workers picnic committee in helping out a deficit in ice cream cones at the wind-up. J Local 280 appreciate 'thts^A-oper- ation of the employers inrlosing down their various shops and attending in a body, J. Campbell transporting a party of friends in his private launch. , An auction at the finish of extra Rowdies Are Routed By British Miners' Leader London.—Herbert Smith, the 66- year old president of the British Federation of Miners, proved to be best man in a free first fight with a bunch of Communistic rowdies who at-. tempted'trrlrreilrTiirirTonfefenee of JWUes, cjtUHefl considerable spirited bidding and Auctioneer McPherson without a doubt missed his vocation when he chose the sheet metal craft. The committee wish to thank all concerned who contributed in making this annual picnic the success it was. The following is a list of the prize winners in the twenty-seven events at the Sheet Metal Workers' picnic. Prizes were given to all children in their races, but only the first prize winners' names were taken. Girls' race, 7 years and under— S. Anderson. Boys' race, 7 and under—B. Jest. Girls' race, 8 to 11—D. Pontrey. Boys' race, 8 to 11—D. Hammond. Apprentice race—R. McGiveron, J. Knechtla, B. Elliott. Lady and gent, three-legged race —Mrs. Loomis and Mr. Russell, J. Griffin and Miss Palmer. 100 yards, open—R. McGiveron, J. Knechtel, L. Fisher. Men's novelty race—W. Russell, F. O. Gibson, J. Hasting. Ladies' novelty race, 25 yards— Mrs. Gorrie, Mrs. Smith, Miss Griffin. Sheet metal workers' race, 55 and over—Bill Witty, H. Smith. Sheet metal Workers' wives,, 75 yards—Mrs. Swindon, Mrs. Gorrie, Mrs. Vance, Mrs. Macaulay. Employers' wives, 75 yards—Mrs. Elliott. Watermelon-eating contest — F. Russell and P. Barrstow. Ladies' balloon race—Miss Mac- pherr *n, Mrs. Fonger, Mrs. Han. Sheet metal workers' race, 100 yards—A. Stewart, B. RusBell, F. Gibson. Employers' race, 100 yards—Mr. Foxcroft, Western Steel Co.; J. R. Yacey. Tug-of-war, 5-man team—Central Sheet Metal Works. Boys' soda biscuit eating contest —G. Fletcher. Shop relay race, 4 men to team— Central Sheet Metal Shop. Committee men's race—B. Griffin, F. Cocker. . Boys under 16, 75 yards open— C. Fox, J. Griffin. Egg and sptfon race, ladies—Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Macaulay, Mrs, Laing. Swimmmg race, mixed—K*. Russell and J. Hasting. Plumbers Have Lively Time at Their Picnic Yes, sir, it was one grand and glorious day, and we don't mean maybe. The members of Plumbers and Steamfitters, Local No. 170, the employers and wholesalers along with their wives, sweethearts and kiddies held their annual picnic at Bowen Island last Saturday. Space will not permit us to describe the large num ber of sport events that took place and the keen competition. However, the outstanding performance of Mrs. Bert Stinchcombe and Mrs. Hugh Fulton cannot be . overlooked. This was a race id""which a box of crackers had to be devoured, and washed down with a case of pop,-and believe your Uncle Willie, these two dames can sure chew and gussell. » The race for members of the Local was a scream. Thirty-two of the boys lined up with brown paper bags tied over their heads, and at the crack of the gun they were off, but very few of the racers returned. Sam Smylie, we understand, was found near the waters edge going strong, and Hugh Fulton and Fred Welsh were picked up "over "at the Brewers' picnic grounds. * Sid Bromley, Howard Thomas and Dave Sutherland took home the bacon. The tug-o-war between the plumbers and steamfitters was well worth seeing, and we all felt sorry for the rOpe. The excitement was so great on the final pull that a plumbers wife fainted and fell against the anchorman, Harry Paull (this might have helped the plumbers to win the marble clocks). Nuff sed! Bert Stinchcombe was again in, charge of the pop and ice cream department and he sure showed the kids a wonderful time. Jack Dilli- bough was the official starter and a great deal of credit must be given him for the success of the picnic, for that boy sure knows his-onions. O yes, we nearly forgot, Harry Paull won the last event coming home on the boat, just nosed out, Jack Hay. ■ Harry won the pot (not aluminum).—W. W. Government Scored By Judge Overt Policy Quebec, Canada.—A sc-athing denunciation of Canada's immigration policy was made here last Week by Hon. P. A. Choquette in \a local court. - \ The judge was hearing a charge against two young Scotchmen ofy hav ing attempted to steal a passa; board an outgoing vessel. 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MAIXi ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION ,:..::'::' "How does Smith feel about that chauffeur who ran ofT with his car and his daughter?" asked Batkins. "He's mighty grateful," said Bolter. "He says the poor idiot relieved him of two of his most expensive possessions. t "We Do Not Patronize" STEEVES DAIRY. CRYSTAL DAIRY. AVENUE THEATRE ^ CHANTICLEER CAFE. METROPOLITAN LUNCH. TROCADERO CAFE. NATIONAL LUNCH. ALL WHITE LUNCHES. WALDORF CAFE. COLLARD, tbe Clothier, Hastings W. . LEN A. DAVIS, Lathing tractor. CLARKE tt STUART. MURPHY A CHAPMAN. ROSE, COWAN ft LATTA. GEHRKE, LTD. ROEDDE, G. A., LTD. J. W.BOYD, LTD. 603 Con- Authorlzea by tho Vancouver, Hew Westminster aad District Trades aad ■Labor Council, for the Information ot all anion members. tenses. "They "were liiredTo Canau by the advertising which appeared i papers on the other side with the consent of the Canadian government. "They were even advised to emigrate by the Canadian official agent in 'Glasgpw. They had no aptitude for farm work and yet they were told they could get fine jobs with good wages on farms in Canada." Judge Choquette scored the government immigration system. "Money is spent most lavishly to bring over people from the other side when nothing is done, or practically nothing, to bring back Canadians from the United States," he said. Those people would quite willingly return to this country if only they were given the same assistance by the government that is extended to strangers in Europe who wish to come to this country. "It's a downright shame. It is unfair to the young people themselves as well as to the country. I do not hesitate to say it is disgraceful. BOY SCOUTS There is often hot discussion in this country as to whether the Boy Scout Movement is or is not militarist. The heads of the movement, I believe, deny it vehemently. But in New Zealand, at any rate, there seems no room for argument. Membership of the Scouts there is, according to the genera] secretary himself, "definitely closed against conscientious objectors to military training." One view of an athletic man is the fellow who hires the small boy to cut the grass so he can play golf and obtain a little exercise. Horseshoe pitching contest—E. Elliott and C. Loomis. Girls' race, 16 and under—G. Johnston, V. Griffin. Extra race—Mrs. Crawford. Starter, W. Witty; judges, J. McDonald, Col. Anderson, R. Macaulay; announcer, A. Fisher; chairman of committee, D. Macpherson; horse- sfioe pitching, E. Elliott; . " DRUGS AT CUT PRICES QUALITY, SERVICE and SAVING have built (or us the largest chain Drug Store Service in the West—make a purchase at any one of our Fifteen stores and prove it for yourself. 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SMITH, D:D. of Union College will preach \ EVERYBODY WELCOME j*S Blonde Shoes All Reduced PUMPS—ln patent, blonde and Skinner Satin, with military, spike or Spanish heels; all full breasted In arch. Special. BLONDE SHOES—All rcdu<ed\ $5.00 and $6.00 values; low mill $4.85 MEN'S SHOES—In blaek and brXwn calf or kid; 30 different Style*; balloon or round toew, aNso straJRht last August Sa JAMIESON BROS. p; low mill- <pq nc August Sale V*'™ le$4.85 Seymour 1004 995 GRANVILLE STREET (Corner Nelson) The Difference ■ Little Johnny: "Look at that rhinoceros." Little Willie: "That ain't no rhinoceros; that's a hippopotamus. Can't you see it ain't go no radiator cap?" A wise man in the company of those who'arc ignorant has been,compared by the sages to a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.—Saddi. Classical Two ladies weje distening to the band. Said one: "That is something from Wagner, I think." Said the other: "I think it is a nocturne of Chopin's." . • Said the first: "I'll go and look on the announcement card." And back she came to her friend with the word': "We're both wrong. It'aJa Refrain^fronri-Spitting.1'■•—.—
Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
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