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: 1929-02-08
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note: -<--"*- ■"*»!■ '" te*- fabor St «^^^^/|lpWNED AND CONTROLLED ^^^y BY 1 X Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions THE VANCOUVER TRADES AND NO. 245—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FEBRUARY 8, 1929x Duty on B.C.Chinese-Made Shingles Not High Enough Vancouver Trades and Labor Council Urges Increase of U. S. Duty on Canadian Shingles Made by Cheap Chinese Labor in British Columbia for'American Exploiters , 7 ^CHINGLE MILL'OPERATORS ' and 'lumbermen appear to be somewhat agitated over the proposed tariff that the American government is intending to put on Canadian-made shinges. The proposed duty is 50 cents per thousand, but the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council takes the attitude that 50 cents hrnot half enough, as it will only help to increase the number of Chinese now working in the shingle mills, and ■entirely eliminate the few remaining white men in the mills of' British Columbia. The Shingle Weavers' Union, through the Trade's and Labor Council and its affiliated unions, has been agitating for several years against the continued and increasing ein- Dloyment of cheap Chinese labor in these mills, but has been ignored or rebuffed on every occasion. Every quiet and peaceable means has been taken to bring home to these operators the danger of the employment of ever.-increasing numbers of coolie laborers, but the only answer was to lay off a few more white men and All their places with .a class of labor that is ever tending to drive British subjects across the line. These operators are attempting to show the alleged financial losses that will accrue to British Columbia if the industry slows down through the introduction of the tariff, but if we stop to consider who the losses will effect, we should not lose very much sleep over it. . If the' mills are manned by cheap Chinese labor the loss will be to that class of labor, and ehe effect will not be very- great upon the community. If 95 per cent, of the labor employed in these mills are of the less …
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: 10.14288/1.0439117
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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