The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1928-09-14
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note: OWNED or States AKin r-AMmn, j crt ^^^y BY] THF VANCOUVER TRADES i Supported by Fifty-eight Local Unions Trades Council Working Button (Orange) for the Third -Quarter of NO. 22S—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. G„ SEPTEMBER 14, 1928 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Jobs vs. the "Movement" ~ A Century of Conflict * * New Light on an Old Conflict Among the Working Classes— Labor Adopts New Tactics for New Conditions . • A ]VEW TACTICS ARE BEING ADOPTED by the International Trades Union movement in their struggle with industrial problems. Every country is changing its method of production and every union movement is attempting to meet these changed conditions by new methods of industrial, action. The so-called "intellectual" is being relegated to the background, and sane yet forceful and successful tactics are slowly but surely bringing the labor movement into a position of power. ; The meeting of the local union has been called to order. Routine business is transacted, and there is introduced a question of policy. An employer has violated a minor clause of the agreement. What is to be done about it? To most of the brothers it seems a simple matter. The business representative of the local shall call upon the employer, explain the consequences of his act, and seek to adjust the matter. Not so to John Galloper. He rises slowly in his scat, clears his throat, hitches up his' trousers, and launches into a long oration on the need of a united front, solidarity, class consciousness and the defence of the movement. To Galloper's . excited imagination, this minor point of conflict with the employer—a routine business matter —becomes a colossal incident in the class struggle. It is an occasion for heroics. It is a call to arms. It is a test of every red-blooded member's unionism. So he tests their endurance by a speech of some two hours in length, presuming upon the right of free speech. In the end the matter is settled in the only way.it can be settled, by referring the matter to the business re…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439101
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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