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: 1931-08-14
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note: ' ,. ' Shorter •Hours of work for labor will aid In making life and working conditions bettor for all who toll for • living. anor f /[ptfNED and gam*™™ Ef mVAMCODVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL |B_____B____^________________, ',**" * * ■ Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions Union Men of/Vaneoirror' «lis-~ trict earn half a million dollars each month, aad spend their wages at home with friends of Lahor. No. 379 VANCOUVER, CAN AD A,. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14th, 1931 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Harvard Professor Expects LaborUnionsto Triumph Say* Employers Overlook Human Costs in Mad Rush to Reduce Money Costs—Unions Are Great Need of All Workers _ „_ l_ By DR. SUMNER H. SLICHTER, Economist. Published by arrangement with Harvard Bnilness School alnmnl Bulletin. TJNDER THE TITLE of "The Significance of Trade Unionism" in „..„.,.th£ Harvard. Business School Alumni_.ilulle.tin, Dr.-Slkhtgr prints a calmly reasoned yet pointedly emphatic view in regard to unions, not usually taken by erudite men. He defines a wise business policy towards unions and predicts that the union movement will grow because ever more workers will insist upon participating in making the rules of the factory or shop where they toil. Strikes anil..revolts «f-workers are found far back in history bat only within the last two centuries, and especially within the last century, do we find wage earners maintaining more or less continuous organizations for the purpose of representing them in dealing with employers. Trade unions are just as much a distinctive feature of modern economic society as the corporation or the trade association. All over the world —in Mexico, Australia, South Africa, China, India, as well as in Europe and the United States—we find them: Of the 70 separate countries in the world, associations of wage earners have_oJb.tsined some importance in over 50, and great importance in er2TT. Since 1897; the number of trade unionists in the United States has increased from, 460,000 to approximately 3,900,000, or 1…
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: 10.14288/1.0439157
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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