The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1929-11-29
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note: r NO. 292—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER. B. C, NOVEMBER 29, 1929 Unemployed Residents Undesirable as Citizens Aldermen Atherton, Dean and Miller and Comptroller Pilkington 7 Appear to Think 'That They Are—Shall — Atherton be Re-elected? A LDERMAN ATHERTON SHOULD BE GIVEN ORDERS .by Ward Eight voters to vacate his scat on the City Council to make room for somebody who has Some sympathy for the unemployed and the wealth-creating worker. Atherton thinks that because a man lis unemployed and seeks work, or relief, he should only be given $1 or $2 a day for eight hours work. He thinks that when a man is thrown out-upon the labor market, or the scrap heap, that he is no longer a respectable citizen. In other words, Alderman Ajjterton practically says that an unemployed worker is an undesirable citizen, no matter how many years he has lived antl worked in'thc city, and no matter how much value he has added to the community in rents, taxes and labor. When the question of civic relief came up before the Relief Committee of the City Council last Monday, Alderman Maclnnis introduced a motion to provide relief labor, during the winter months.Vith the standard rate of wages for three days a week to men with dependents domiciled in the city at least one year, instead of '' six days a week at $2 per day for married men and $1 for single men. i There were only six members present and Aldermen Gibbons and Wilson , voted for the motion, but Aldermen Atherton, Dean and Miller voted against it. Alderman Maclnnis says • he will bring up the motion again at a meeting of the full council. Alderman Maclnnis stated that the council was penalizing- the unemployed and placing them in the ' same class as .criminals at $2 and $1 a day. To give work on the basis of • my motion to bona fide residents of the city, he said, will not increase our costs materially. To limit the work to bona fide residents will prevent drifters coming here from the prairies for work at the expense of the taxpayers." This stat…
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: 10.14288/1.0439111
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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