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[The Labour Statesman]
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Building Contractors Fail To Prove Wa^e Cut Case Mayor Tells Them That Contractors Who Cut Wages Under Present Conditions Are Not Good Citizens— . Unions Will Resist Cut. couver. It was also pointed out that Calgary and Winnipeg- contractors had renewed the old agreements without a suggestion of a wage cut, Another meeting has been suggested by the Mayor, but so far the contractors have not agreed to this, although the date of putting the .cut into operation has, in some trades, been extended- The unions are sitting tight on the question, however, and are not in a mood to accept any cut. Solving Unemployment? Twenty arrests were made" on Wednesday in connection with the unemployed demonstration around the City Hall and the Vancouver Hotel. The demonstrators were very roughly handled and the affair was described as one of the worst that the city has had. In the meantime the authorities are not making any other worthwhile effort to provide work or maintenance for the increasing number of destitute. MAYOR TAYLOR INFORMED a delegation'composed of building contractors and union representatives that the city had enough trouble on its hands without having more men thrown on the streets through a strike, and he considered that any contractor who attempted to. cut wages at this time could not be considered as a good citizeh....." ... •_. '. Mayor Taylor recently called a conference of contractors and union officials to discuss the precarious situation looming up in the city over a possible strike in the . building trades. Many contractors have informed the unions that a wage cut was to go into effect at a certain date but union posit ion has had the effect of extending the date. The union representatives who attended the conference were Geo. Pettipieca, W. Page, W. Watt, D. McPherson and E. H. Morrison. The contractors informed the mayor .that a wage cut was necessary because of the depression. That was about the only argument that the contractors could put up and they thought that a wage cut would increase building operations. Mr. 'Hodgson, of Hodgson, King and Marble, added another gem to this by claiming that the cost of living had gone down, and hence the wage worker could afford to work for less. The union delegates thought these were very inane excuses and hardly worth arguing over; but the contractors, of course, pay out the wages, so their excuses had to be combatted. The contractors put up such a poor showing that the Mayor was able to take the opposition side and told the contractors that he thought that any contractor who attempted to cut wages at this time was a very bad example of a citizen. He told them that the city had enough trouble on if hands over the unemployment situation without making it worse by wage cuts or strikes. The union delegation pointed out that some of the contractors who had no orders were seeking wage cuts, yet these same contractors could not convince the Mayor that a wage cut would create more work. It was also pointed out that most of the building operations now under way had been figured on the present wage scale and that a wage cut, coupled with the reduction in prices of building material would net the sontraetors a handsome profit. The Mayor took up the question of the Burrard Street Bridge, pointing out that the contractors had figured the job on the present scale of wages and that if a cut was put into effect the firm.would be charging the city at the union rate of pay and would be taking it out of the workers. One contractor, Walter Leek, pointed out to |he other contractors that it was onW fair that a contractor who figured the work under the present scale should continue to do the work on that scale until completed. Some contractors stated that they were getting men to work under the union scale, but it was pointed out that if any men were working under the union scale, they were not union men, and that if the contractors could get men below the scale, why do they bother to do business with the union. One of the contractors stated that low wages were being paid in Los Angeles,, but he could not deny that most of the other coast cities were paying higher wages than those paid in Vancouver, and that it was only just recently that the Seattle contractors had renewed a three-year agreement at the old wages of from $1 to $2 a day higher than in Van- Waiters Win Strike Against Wage Cut Harry Wood, business manager of Local 28, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, has received word from Bob Hesketh, general secretary- treasurer of the union, that. 2,000 New York waiters who went out on strike June 13th against a wage cut won a 100 per cent, victory severi days later. i A non-union association composed of about 100 cooks in Seattle, who have been trying to battle their way alone, have just gone over en masse, headquarters and everything, to the Seattle local of the International union. The membership of the International has decided to postpone this year's convention. A. F. of L Convention Is Getting Nearer Many local unions are donating to the Convention Fund in connection with the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and The American Federation of Labor conventions which will be held in Vancouver September and October of this year. Some of these locals are donating one dollar per member to this fund, but the Reception and Entertainment Committee, which is just sending out an appeal to local unions for funds, does not expect every local to donate on this basis owing to the unemployed within their ranks, hence, while it is almost necessary to have every local union make some donation, the amount will be left entirely to the ability of each union. Organized labor in Vancouver was undoubtedly enthusiastic about getting these conventions to Vancouver, and the funds necessary for the entertainment of these' expected 1300 delegates would have been easily obtainable had business conditions been normal, but with the depression at such a low depth as at present it is going to be hard for the convention committee of the Trades and Labor Council to obtain a desirable amount for a greatly curtailed expense account. We believe, however, that the value of these conventions to the local labor movement will be many times. greater than the actual cost, so whatever is put into the kitty during the next three months may be returned ten-fold in the years that follow. Local union men are urged to lend ■ their support to thc appeal for funds when it comes before their union meeting. The donation can be made in a lump Mini or in monthly installments. Contributions from friends of organized labor will be greatly appreciated. Address same to Trades Council Convention Fund and forward to Birt Showier, Labor Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. Germany Plays wry .Diplomatic Game The world-wide situation is making the powers-that-be a-little disturbed, and, taking advantage of-this, Germany has diplomatically succeeded in having the victory of the Great .War. favor a moratorium on reparation payments. The United States, having the most to lose, finally suggests a debt moratorium for one year, The U. S. says she is sacrificing $246,000,- 000, but we' are not told that if the pressure on Germany is not lifted that Germany threatens a collapse that would probably wipe out the two' 'and a half billion dollars worth of German bonds that have been sold to the American public by the high- powered publicity of big U. S. financial houses. Of the three and a half billion dollars worth of German bonds sold to make reparation payments, the U. S. public were persuaded to purchase two and a half billion dollars worth. One month ago, in conversation with. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Henderson, the German government officials stated that unless the schedule of payments was revised she would exercise her right to suspend the transfer of the postponable portion of her reparation payments, some $240,000,000, and that if that was not enough—and they doubted it—they said that they may be forced to suspend payment, not only on reparations, but of all interest on all foreign loans. On the same day as this meeting was held, a momentuous run was made on the gold reserve of thc Reichsbank. in Berlin. These happenings started Mr.. Hoover acting, but probably France saw through the German scheme, hence that is why she is not so anxious to agree to the Hoover 'plaai. By Friday, however, we shall know what France proposes to do. Canada will have a loss of $4,000,- 000 per year while this moratorium is in effect, and if Germany plays her cards the way she has been doing, Slowin Will Lose Some Good Patrons Slowin, the tailoring firm whose former employees were locked out because they would not accept a big wage cut, is already beginning to rue its action. The union men and their friends have been able to get in touch with many customers and they have signified their intention to transfer their trade to some other firm if Slowin cannot pay decent wages. In fact, some of the patrons have, unexpectedly, become-quite indignant at the firm's actions and swear that they will not have their work done by sweated labor. This attitude on the part of the firm's patrons has lent encouragement to the union tailors, and they are going to continue to battle it out. Packed Meeting Hears Unemployment Protests Over 6,000 people attended the I.! L. P. meeting in the Arena on Sum- day evening to hear speakers deal ] with the question of unemployment. A. J. Turner occupied the position of chairman, and among the speakers were E. Winch, Mrs. J. Lorimer, Dr. Lyle Telford. M. Glenday, W. W. Lefeaux and a speaker from the Unemployed Workers' Association. Among the resolutions was one to the City Council demanding that the Mayor and City Council provide either work or maintenance for all those individuals within the eity regardless of whom they may be, and deploring the action of the authorities in allowing the police to resort to brutal tactics against the unemployed. . ■ Another resolution was to the Provincial Government demanding work or maintenance for all, call a special session of the .legislature to deal with the situation or resign. Another resolution was to the Dominion Government demanding that they declare a state of national emergency, a policy of work or maintenance for all, conscription of. wealth, or failing to comply with these demands, to resign and accept the verdict of the people. BANK FAILURES NUMEROUS There were 270 bank failures in the United States daring the flrst three months of the current year, as compared with 124 during the1 same period last year, and the total liabilities of the former- were nearly three times that of the latter, we learn from R. G. Dun & Company. FRENCH MINERS CONGRESS AND COAL QUESTION The 43rd congress of the French Miners' Federation, held at St. Etienne, pronounced in favor of the convocation of a world conference of coal-producing countries through the International Labor Office and the Economic Department of the League of Nations. Representatives of the Miners' International should be enabled to take part in the conference on equal terms with the other delegates. In another resolution the congress approved the 7- hour day (including winding-time) and a maximum working week of -Hi hours for surface workers. and can continue' to"do1, all repara-' tion payments may be wiped out. Germany has ben borrowing the money—mostly from America—to make the reparation payments. She has not paid it out of her resources, but she has reached the limit of her borrowings. She has lately improved her economic situation and greatly decreased her unemployed army, but by staging a threatened crash she has been able to pave the way for a debt moratorium which . may, through a little more diplomacy, be continued from year to year and probably finally wiped out by means of another war or revolution. If France stands pst on her demands for her pound of flesh, then a war might start sooner than most of us anticipate. Anyhow, the situation is fraught with all kindB of danger, and so far as we can see the danger will not be removed until there, has been some drastic changes in governments and the 'wiping out of debts. Mar. Stewards Panned For Joining Union By Steamboat Bill It is interesting to note that Mr. Craig- has been placed in charge of the„C. P. R. Newcastle Island pleasure resort. The .Mir, JPraig in question used to be newspaper vendor at Pier D, and during the Longshoremen's strike, as many remember, his sympathies were not with organized labor,, and he performed many 'services rn the fornrof'-; messenger on behalf of the strike- n 1* P A K t^1*fl The C. P. R. iB now out boosting their new enterprise, Newcastle Island, and consequently looking for patronage, picnics, etc.; from all directions, and organized labor should remember such individuals when planning their union" picnics. Previous to Mr. Craig's new appointment, and for tht past year, he was in charge of all C. P. R. wharf 'newstands, both here and at Victoria, and when some copies of the Labor . Statesman were sent to him in Victoria for the benefit of different organized trades, he relegated them to the furnace and remarked that "he would not have that rag on his stands." No doubt Mr. Craig would now like to assist organized labor in planning their picnics, etc., and help build up the popularity of this resort with labor earnings. That's just how these little "tin gods" behave, they assume more self-importance than the owners. Byran, the baloney expert, visited the Kathleen recently to pan the stewards for taking an interest in the formation of a Stewards' Union, and this is the steil of baloney he shot them: 'You want a union, I'll give you a bloody union after all I've done for you." Neddy[ Byran's donkey—He-Haw —also gave some stewards a solemn , warning that they would be looking for another job if they did not leave^ ; unions alone. Another He-Haw. More action, boys, and less talking. The charter will be hero ohoMlyi > Union Meetings at Labor Headquarters FRIDAY, JUNE 26th Milk Salesmen _ 1 Plumbers and Steamfitters 2 Asbestos Worker* ..' _ 201 Welder* ; 818 SUNDAY Typographical. 226 (2 p.m.) .' 1 Beverage Dispensers, 67* (8 p.m.).... I MONDAY Carpenter*. 452 TUESDAY Building Trade* 316 THURSDAY Floorlayers. 1875" 2 Mlllmen, 1599 ..„ I 0ffiee Employee* ?, .'. t Jewellery Worker* , 813 Sign 'Writer* . 315 rBIDAY, JULY 3rd Engineer*, 115 ..._ _ 1 Hallway Carmen, 68 2 Plasterer*' Helper* 1 Molders. 281 811 When giving your husband a letter to post be sure and post-date it. And another little matter. It has been customary to take stewards from one ship and put them on another boat to fill a temporary vacancy without signing them off the articles. This little error on the company's part makes them subject . to a $100 fine. So we quite expecfSr., them to discontinue this practice in the future. AH the bosses talk to circumvent organization won't succeed, and their efforts to accomplish this are having the opposite effect. The 'call around next September" policies have shown their true colors, and what they claim they have done in the interests of the boys is designated as just another bunch of hooey. Send your application in if 'you have not already done so, to 413 Granville street, Vancouver, B. C. Sometime ago, when C. P. R. stock was selling for $175 per share a gracious opportunity was given employees to purchase shares on time . payments, and one individual bought 10 shares on these terms. He is still paying for them. C. P. R. stock was worth $27.50 per share on June 22nd. This party is not a .steward, so don't get accusing one another of being a sucker. The steward's don't work steady enough to take such chances. / TREASURY SELLS BONDS TO MEET HUGE DEFICIT Washington.—A billion-dollar deficit in the national treasury will be partly met by the issuance of $800,- 000,000 bonds bearing 3 Vi per cent. The bonds will mature in -1949, but can be called three years earlier. These bonds will be taken over by large banks, whose strong boxes are filled with idle money. ".. , COMMERCIAL FAILURES RISE In March there was a record number of 2604 commercial defaults in the United States, according to R. G. Dun & Company. This brings the total for the flrst quarter of the year to 8483, itself an all-time record for a similar period. " it- Page Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, June 2fr 1931 UNION FIRMS : S PtRRt&DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hatting* Weat . Room 33 Wilson & McNeill Painters and Decorators Everything pertaining to the trade. 3018 VICTORIA DSIVE I Fhon**: High. 105 anA Fair. 4148-B Castle Hotel Lamilod Visit the Finest Parlors in Vancouver; seating 610. Meeting' Place of Union Meal 750 Granville St., Vancouver Phone t Say. 7907 LLP. Initiates Active Organizing Campaign As an outcome of the recent special sonvention, an active organization campaign has been undertaken for the purpose of getting every class-conscious worker organized. ■It is obvious that however willing an individual may be to work for the advancement of the "socialist movement this can only be made effective by to-opei-ation with others similarly interested. This necessitates organization and through such a medium knowledge of-the principles and objective of the party can be spread to those who are not yet enlightened as to the only means by which the working class can Be freed from ex ploration. Every class-conscious worker is urged to immediately join the I. L. P. branch in their locality.' If orie is not already organized,, write to the Provincial Organizer and every possible assistance will be forthcoming. , • \ Names are requested of comrades willing to serve as speakers at public meetings, also for short articles from a strictly Marxian standpoint. Address: E. Winch, 1230—13th Avenue, New Westminster. Union-Made Shoes CORNETT BROS A CLARK 33 EAST HASTINOS 8TBBBT Florshalm, Stride™, C. B. A C. Men'* and Youth's. WILLIAM DICK, LTD. Union Label Shoes for Men and Youths. M. W. HATMY Financial Secretary Local 463 Carpenters Elect THE ONLY . ,, ■ UNION MADE SHOE and Repair Faotory in' Brltlah Colombia. W. J. HEADS 30 WEST COBDOVA ST. SEY. 3330 MEN'S SHOES FROM S4.88 UP. Officers for. Term K Local 452. United Brotherhood of AMERICAN LABOR SEEKS RADIO Carpenters and Joiners of America, STATION Stations WCFL and W9XAA, originally owned byTth'e Chicago Federation of Labor, are'at present being held in trust as part of the property of the American Labor movement. As soon as the latter attains national facilities for broadcasting these stations will be merged into a co-operative broadcasting association owned and controlled by labor for service rather than profit. Although cleared, channels have been allocated by the Federal Radio Commission to forty corporations, efforts to pass a bill granting a cleared channel to the labor movement failed in the last session of Congress. Jt Company b.C.canhproud of r . mm Fellow Unionist*, demand the Union Label, Shop Card and Working Button, and patronize fair employer* and. employ UNION LABOR . SIX-HOUR WORK DAY It is a rule of progress that before one standard is universally accepted another objective is raised. The six-hour day has been suggested for- several industries. One large company operating continuously, expresses satisfaction with a four-shift system after five monthsj^experience. The shifts begin at 6 and 12, morning and. night. Wage rates were increased 1214 per cent, in all basic rates when the four-shift system was initiated, which reduced hours 25 per cent. The company finds the system'more economical as there is a higher return on plant investment, output has increased and overhead decreased. The elimination of the lunch hour also reduces operating expenses. In addition the company has established a policy which has roused public interest and approval—a distinct asset to a firm interest in increasing its customers. Employees have gained more leisure and all the opportunities that leisure brings. >■■■ The six-hour ,la;, ha;; been so. sue-: cessful thai the Kellogg Company has decided to continue it. The new standard will commend itself to many groups of workers and many industries. The country preacher had preached for an hour and a quarter on the Prophets—all the greater Prophets, and then the minor ones in turn. "Now we've come -to Habakuk," he said, "where shall we put him?" "He can have my seat," said a wearied listener. "I'm going home." For Health, Strength and Beauty, eat oar Whole —— Wheat Brown Broad. A wholesome body builder. Doctor* recommend it. Fruit and Rauin Broad, . Pastry and Moat Piea, Pumpkin Pio*. THE ESTHER BAKERY Phono: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST A travel bureau sign in the Yale University post office reads: "Seniors! You can not get a job this summer. Why not go to Europe and wait until the depression is over?" elected the following officers at the regular business meeting held in the Labor Headquarters on Monday: President—P. Woodrow.. Vice-President—E. Stone. Rec. Secretary—Ed. Small. Fin. Secretary—R. W. Hatley. Treasurer—Wm. Crisp. Conductor—E. Hill. Warden—Geo. Snow. Trustee—J. Smith. Executive Board—W. Page, J. Roberts, Ed. Gilham, J. Nickels. Building Trades Council—W. Page, J. Stevenson, E. .Gilham, Ed. Cramm, Geo. Gilmour. Trades and Labor Council—Tom Russell, W. Page, E. Stone, L. Bur- bidge. Carpenters' District ""Council—W. Page, R. Hatley, E. Small, F. Wood- row, A. Gracey F. Smith Geo. Gilmour, J. Roberts, J. Nickels. The Parliamentary Session From "Backstage at Ottawa," MacLean'i Magazine, June IS, 1930. ' ". . . . .Curiously few reputations have ben made by the session.' Mr. Ian Mackenzie, of Vancouver, has shown some gifts of oratory; Mr. Weir has disclosed an unusual mastery of agriculture, and Mr. J. S. Woodsworth has heightened his stature as our greatest private member of parliament, but that is all. The ablest and most useful meri behind the Prime ..Minister are Mr. Stevens, Mr. Manion and Mr. Weir, with Mr. Robertson—who is in the Senate powerful in Council. .• The others, largely inarticulate when not piloting their estimates, have scarcely been tried. "Nor have the Liberals, as" an opposition, been formidable. Of... thc ex-ministers, Mr. Stewart works hard, Mr. Ralston speaks well, and Mr. Lapointe is able and judicial, but none of them is an adroit , a verbal swordsman as Mr. King, or his equal as an all around parliamentarian. The rank and file of the party thinned by election casualties, is more effervescent than effective. Western Liberal-Progressives like Young of Wcyburn are tireless in. attack, hat their assaults lack real iron; while Quebec sharpshooters, like Major Chubby Power, cause more annoyance than real devastation. . . . "Nor has there been much of cooperation between "the Liberals and U. F. A.'a, Men like Gardiner, Garland, Coote and Speakman, all competent guerilla warriors, while holding aloof from Mr. Bennett, show an almost equal anxiety to wash their hands of Mr. King, are almost studied in their indifference to his tactics and his policies. Their opinion, freely expressed, is that a new Pro gressive party is arising on the plains, that it will be vastly different from the army once led by Mr. Crerar, and it is to this, not to either Liberalism or Conservatism that they look. . . . "A few years ago anybody suggesting that we should have the right to alter our own constitution was looked upon almost as a Canadian Benedict Arnold. The B. N. A. Act was a sort of Ark of the Covenant, a Holy of Hollies upon which nobody must lay interfering hands, with Mr. Taschereau and Mr. Ferguson standing outside the temple ready to massacre intruders. Yet - when, some weeks ago J. S. Woodsworth moved a resolution mildly suggesting that, with ample provision for the protection of minority rights, the power to amend the Constitution should be transferred from Downing Street to our own Parliament Hill, there wasn't as much as a protest. On the contrary and to the surprise of all, Mr. Guthrie got up and, speaking for the government, accepted the principle of Mr. Woodsworth's resolution promised to call a conference about it "Mr. Woodsworth, to use a hackneyed expression, could have been knocked down with 8 feather- And E. J. Garland, briefed by J. S. Ewart and all plumed to make a devastating reply to an expected government rejection of Mr. Woodsworth's motion was so taken aback by what happened that, rising to his feet, and with his notes in the waste-paper basket, he made a few hardly audible murmurs and resumed his seat. Even Mr. Lapointe, who speaks for the Quebec point-of-view, was all for the resolution; and Mr. Guthrie went out of his" way, which was a curious thing to do, to read a little lecture to Mr. Ferguson. . . ." W. Vn. School Board on Unemployment The following resolution, introduced bya Trustee E. W. Russell of the West* Vancouver School Board, and a member of the, Carpenters' Union, was endorsed, by his colleagues on the School Board. The resolution, wheh may also come be- for the School Trustees' convention, reads: Whereas a condition of unemployment exists in Canada which amounts to a national emergency, and whereas we are spending enormous sums of money in building schools, technical and other colleges, and equipping same for the purpose of educating our children to become useful, productive citizens, and whereas there is no assurance that they will have the right and opportunity to take part in industry when their period of schooling is completed; Therefore, be it resolved, that the West Vancouver School Board go on record favoring the principle that it shall be first duty of both Dominion and Provincial Governments to so administer the country's affairs that every man and woman who is willing and able shall have the right and opportunity to work in order to support themselves and families—not relief or charity. And, be ,it further resolved, that f7™ME B C Electric, as one of thc l_7 largest investors and employ en of labor, is playing a prominent part in the progress of British Columbia. Here are a few facts Which may make you proud of your public utility company. It develops 279,160 horse power. It operates over 310 miles of electric rail way track and 128 miles of motor and truck route. Its gas plants have a daily capacity 9,100,000 cubic feet. TTlHI4,000 employeesto whom it parr - more than $6,000,000 a year in wages. It has 421 city and interurban cm and 26 motor coaches. It has 116,444 light and power customers and 49,705 gas customers. In 19)0 it carried 76,017,548 passengers, generated 473,860,110 kilowatt hours and manufactured 1,398,721,000 cubic feet of gas (lie&kxtm Transportation ■ Power- Gal . BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO. LTD .. E. BARRON Phono N. V. 134 North Vancouver J. A. HARRON Phone Fair. 134 65 Tenth Ave E. G. M. WILLIAMSON 1 Phone Fair. 184 65 Tenth Ave. E. Jjarrnn IroB. $c wxllmmBttn FUNERAL DIRECTORS 55 EAST TENTH AVENUE PHONE FAIR. 134 RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggist" w. un** a ■pool*! BtTort to Got Oooa. Ont by lint Mall Att.r K.o.lpt of Tour Order. COINll COBDOVl AlfD CUB1LL TAMOOVTBU, ». O. copies of this resolution be sent to both the Dominon and Provincial Governments, and that a copy be sent to the Municipal Council requesting their endorsation of same. Moved by Thos. E. W. Russell, seconded by A. Harvey Smith. Hikers in Walking Marathon up Grouse The first Annual Hikers' Safety Walking Marathon will be held thiB week-end' on the Grouse Mountain Highway. This is being promoted by the British Columbia Safety League for the purpose of. organizing a Hikers' Safety Club, which will nave for its purpose the promotion of woods- manship, first aid knowledge, mutual fellowship and a realization that mischievous, destructive and pernicious practices should be discouraged among hikers. . The race will start from the Lookout on the Highway at 2 p.m. on Saturday. June 27th, and will finish at the Chalet. Chief W. W. Hemmingway of North Vancouver District Police Department will be in charge of the hikers' walking race. Other officials will be: Judges: Frank W. Johnson, Charles Dawson and George S. B. Perry, sec- retary~of Greater Vancouver Water District. Official Starter: Percy, R. Bengough, secretary-treasurer, Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. Prizes: Percy C. Abell, manager British Columbia Safety League. Clerk of Course: H. W. Watts. Entry Clerk: Charles Wilkinson, manager Canadian Forestry Association of British Columbia. A feature of the event will be a special race for junior fire wardens. They will be transported to the "Lookout" on Grouse Mountain Highway, in a motor bus. On the day of the race Grouse Mountain Highway will be free to the public between 1 p.m. and 5:80 p.m. Officials also point out that an, addition to the ferry fleet will greatly expedite motor travel to the North Shore. In open and special events contestants will be required to wear hiking boots. In other classes costume and equipment will be optional. JUVENILE CRIME This quotation is from Vancou- ' ver's Chief of Police Annual Report, December 31st, 1930: "One of the most seriouB factors of the situation is the number of , juvenile and adolescent unemployed, many Of whom have never worked - and for whom little if any prospect m ot work exists.", r* In Great Britain they have some J sort of system for looking after their unemployed youth. It may not be j tne best, but it is better than none. We just allow our unemployed youths to starve. But people at that * age won't starve; they just drift into a life of crime. CHILDREN HARD HIT BY PAIC "It is. the children who pay for unemployment," said Dr. Franz von Groor, director of the Department , of Children's Diseases at the University of Lember, Poland, on a visit to Chicago. The physician pointed out • that tuberculosis, rickets and other dangerous diseases in children increase because of unemployment and the resulting poverty. "It is the undernourished child who is in the . greatest danger of contracting consumption," he said. Forgetful Husband to Friend: "I ■ want you to help me. I promised to meet my wife at one o'clock for luncheon, and I can't remember ' where. Would you mind ringing her up on the phone at our house- and , asking her where I am likely to be about that time?" a. -sf-. ■-I ■■«*.' Friday, June. 26th,1931 THE LABOR STA .T-ESMA'k. .'• Page Three Trades Union Directory LABOR HEADQUARTERS, 529.531 BEATTY STREET Vanconver Trades and Labor Council— President, C. McDonald; general »ec- retary, Percy It. Bengough. office, sop Labor Headquarter*, 631 Beatty St. Phone Sey. 7486. MeetB In Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays In month, r Bakery and Confectionery Worker*' International UnlonX Local No. 468, meet* flrst and third Saturday In month at 7:00 p.m. at Labor Headquarters. President, Jas. Brydson; Secretary'* Office, Room 804, Labor Headquarters; Hours 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. PhorTej Sey. 3349. Beverage Dl.pensers' Union, Vo. 070— Meet* last Sunday at 8 p.m., Room No. 2, Labor Headquarters; second Friday at 10 a.m. at the office. Pres., M. J. Qalvln; Secretary and Bus. Agent, T. J. Hanalln. Office: Room 1, Eagles' Hall, 536 Homer St. Phones Sey. 4783' and Bay. 1656-R. Hours: > to'2 p.m. Hill and Factory Worker*' Union, Local Ma. 1599 — Affiliated with' United Brotherhood ot Carpenters & Joiners. Meets first and third Thursday* In Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. Pre*., 'J-G. Campbell. Secretary-Treasurer, C. .Carslake. 1124 Albernl St.. . Motion Picture* Fhojectlonlsts' Union, Local 348, of I.A.T.S.E. ft M.P.M.O.— 11:30 p.m., first Friday In month. In Hall No. 3 Labor Headquarters. President, Lacksley Clark; Secretary, J. C Richards, Box J46, Phone Douglas 1671^^ Business Agent,- J. R. Foster, Phone Trinity 6708. *—; Bridge and Structural Iron Workin, Local 97, Int. Assoc Meets every Wednesday, Hall 3, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. President, W. Dickson; Secretary, p. Lauret, Room 311, Labor Headquarters. Phones: Office, Sey. 7495; Residence. High. 6679X. Building- Trade* Council, Vancouver— Meets second and fourth Tuesday _ln : Hall »16, Labor Headquarters. President, W. D. Wilson; secretary-treasurer, W. Page, Room 801, Labor Headquartera Phone Sey 7496. Barber*' Jo a t n isnii International Union of Amerloa— Local 120, meets second and fourth Tuesday* In each month, In Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. President, Fred Da we; Sec- Treas., C. B. Herrett Office, 104 Lahor Headquartera. * Bookbinders' Local Wo. 108, Int. Brotherhood Meets second Tuesday In month at Professional and Business Woman'* Club, Empire Bldg., 603 Hia»7"Ag"KW' President. Mrs. Harvey, 2;S'.?1Jebec; Secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton St.' *»55?'8! »»«„ ■»»■<»>■ InUrnatWl Union Ho. 1—Room 309, Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Wednesday. In Hall No 3. President. J. C. Greenwood. Phone Bay. 8047-T- ™.Chreta,!7' W'J?' Pas-nail. 1244 En* /lis. ' .' h,?,n? F*lr' 8<5-R: Fin. Sec, Albert Wright. 4128 KnlghJ Road Phone Fair, 2006-R. * CaTfni'«5Bi *?," W°rk«»' 'eaersl tabor union Ho. 31—Vancouver and vicinity, meets evory second Wednesday at mL?" u' 6w.PoweH street E. Pres- Tsuyukl Mlya,awa; Secretory, K. Carpenter* and Joiners, United Broth*r- pSSS - 0fi-, *°°V , «a—rr«»ld*nt, Wm. I"ge, Financial Secretary, ft. ' W. I'.T- ,°"U:*' Uoom fit Labor r„; ru'"vVrtcr,H- oMe<"8 eecond and fourth Mondays, 8 .p.m., ln Hall No. 1 "Ml? "-V1 ■atployots' Association— J»?iK?S Wednesday of each month K TV Ea^t pender St. at 8 p.m. wr,eJ5ld„ent'.B' 'Ml.tten; Treasurer and , Business Agent, W. J. Scribbins, 3208 HnWost- 2E6tnSeCretary' J- T,,rbUck' Olvlo Hmploy***' Union, Local 28— ZfHSl nr.st.,and thlrd Friday* In the mor^h at 251 Vi Hastings East, at 8 J>.m. Prealdent, Jack Wood, 4671 Fraser Street; Secretary-Treasurer, Oeorge Harrison, 3427 Triumph Street Musician*' Mutual Protective Union, Looal lis, A. T. ot at— Meet* at the G-.W.V.A. .Auditorium, Mcond Sunday at 10 a.m. President. J. Bowyer; General Secretary, W. Coullng; Organizer, F. Fletcher. Office, Suite 307-319 - West Pender. Phone Douglas 2290. Palatar*, Decorator* and Paperhangen, Looal 138—Meet* aecond and fourth Thursdays at Hall No. 2, President. W. Hunt; Rec. Secretary, A E. Varan. 1442 qiark Drive; Business Agent, Ed Smith. Office: Room 313. Labor Headquartera. Phon* 8ey. 3609. " Pile Driver*, Bridge. Wharf and Dock Builders, Local Ho. 2404—Meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock In 122 Hast- —tnjrsg—st'W. President, S. r.oy; Ja*. Thomson, Secretary, P. O. Box 320. Phone-Sey. 7874; - Plasterer*, Looal 89—Operative Flsiur- *. er*' and Cement Plnlaher*' Intema- tlonal Association Meets first and third Wedneeday,in month at Hall No. 2, Labor >Headquarters. President F. G. Walsh, 378 East 37th. Fra*. 108 R; Cor. Sec, A. Harry, 1115 East 33rd, Fair. 3222 R; Fin. Sec. E. A Williams, 830 East 12th; Phone Fair. 6219 X. Cement Finisher*' Cor. Sec. J W Balnes, 2866 Turner St, *.* 0r»a»M' Union, Ho. 11—Meet* In jnf .Labor Headquarters, first and third Monday In month. President. R. Gela, 8287 West 21st; Record Sec- [■ „ar& M[sa D- Simpson. 627 Carnarvon Street, New Westminster; Financial Secretary, Miss Marjorie Deyell, 565 East 20th, City. ?i„^al Worker*, Looal 813, Int.rna- SSB51 ■ro*"»rhood—Meets flret and third Monday, at 8 p.m., at Labor Headquarters. President, V. Mc- Dougal; Business Manager, E. H. Morrison. Office. 201 Labor Hoad- quarters. Phone Sey. 3610. Bn.*M-!*"-2»t«waatloBal Union of Op.r- ?**,***{*'***• l00*l US—Meets 1st and 3rd Friday at .8 p.m.. Hall 3. President, F. L. Hunt; Rec. Sec, tl. E. Jones; .Business Agent and Fin. Sec. George Pettipiece. Office, 301 Lahor Headquarters. Phone.' Trinity 6404 KM j-ignwr., HO. IS, International ^■■■^S0" ,°,f-Meet» 'every rninthal call of President at 85114 Hastings E. &»'. N- McDonald. 1136 McLean ve.:«F n»nclal Secretory, C. A. Wat- aon, 1624 East 8th Avenue. PloorlM***' Vnlon, Ho. 1878, U. B. of a,,*,* *—Meet* first and third trhursdaya In month at Hall No. I, abor Headquarters. President, Oscar oderman; Fin. Sec. Jack Nelson; Rec. Sec, John McDonald, 2906 West Twelth; BuslnesB Agent, W D. WII- son. 1536 Fifth Ay*. W &-P£*7*ml_H|iWHajB3rt Employe*, and Marin* Cook* and SUsvard*.— Local 28, Suite I*, 41J Oranvllle St.. meet* aecond Monday each month • at 3 p.m., and laat Monday at 9 p.m. Prealdent. Flo Allen; Secretary- Treasurer and Business Agent, Harry Wood. Phone Seymour '1 it. AadW AjaliW loo.1 iTr=TO,t*« Brotherhood ot* Carpenter. — Meets •very dr*t and third Wednesday of each month In Hall 201, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. President, Mr*. C. J. Atkinson, 730 l»th Ave. W.; Secretory, Elisabeth J. Hope. 1042 7th Ave. B, ***&*• ."20*' wl*» *** KtTtal, International Union, Looal 807—Meet* flrat and third Monday* In month at Labor . Headquarters. Secretary, F. Macey, 2458 West Seventh Ave. Phone Bayvlew 1831 L. Manhinirt*' Looal •»•—President, Thoa Sllla, 1351 Burrard St.;-Secretary. P. H Bengough. Office, Room 100, Labor Headquarter*. Meet* on second and fourth Tu*«days In Hall 111. Wagon Driver* and Dairy Bmpley- •**, Looal 44M—Office 308. Labor Headquartera Meet* aecond and fourth Fridays In Hall No. 1. Prod- dent, J. M'tchell; Secretary-Treasurer. Blrt Showier. 2841 Triumph. Phono High. 5827. Plumbers and Steamfltter*, Ho. 170, International Association—Meets every second and fourth Friday in Hall No. 2. President, Val Pearson. 787 East 62nd; Financial Secretary and Business Agent, W. Watt, 305-7 Labor Heudquarters. Printing Pr***m*n and AieUtant*, Local Ho. 89—Meets every aecond Tuesday in the month at 8 p.m. in Hall No. 2, Labor" Headquarters. President, W. W. Qulgley. 2047 West Second; Secretory, Tho*. S. Eaart. 1807 East Thirty-eighth. Ballway Carmen of America, Lodge Ho. 68—Meeta first and third Friday In month at Labor Headquarters. President, A. S. Rob*. 5806 Sophia Street; Roc. Secretary, J. D. Valllamy, 2216 West 16th. Contemporary Nicromancers ■ The "Vancouver :Sun" has -quoted some in its June 13th issue.. It quotes P. A. O'Farrell lauding the Pope's Encyclical, and calls it the "New Magna Charta" of Labor when the Pope praises competition and condemns socialism arid communism, 'It also quotes Sir Henry Deterding, "the. peer in the world of banking and business," lauding bi-metalism (placing silver on a static 'ratio value with gold). What a pity that Dooley is not here to really give us a humorous insight of "these "expert" clowns on economics. As if silver owned by the capitalist' class would buy more for a worker who don't'own any silver whether it isi.,to„J2 or 1 to 32 ratio. The- workers cannot get inqugh worthless paper money to buy coffee ands. About the only truths contained in tne article are these: "They have added 200 billions of inflated credjt money" and "This generation will sets 4% billion of legal tender counterfeit vanish like a soap bubble," and "You cannot eat gold." Street and Eleotrlo Hallway Employee*, Pioneer Dlvtoion Ho. 101—Meeta K. P. Hall. 8th and Kingsway. flrst and third Mondays at 10:16 a.m. and 7 p.m President, J. E. Smith; Recording Secretary, J. Price; Financial Secretary and Business Agent, H. W. Speed Office: Corner Prior and Main street* Phone Sey. 6000. Sheet Metal Worker*' Aa.oclatlon, Looal Union Ho. 380—Meeta second and fourth Thursdays in Hall No I. President, Jas. Strachan, 220.5 W. llth; Business Agent and Secretory, D. MacPheraon, 30S Labor Headquarters. Tailor*' Journeymen Union of America Local Ho. 178—Meetings held second Monday, each month, 8 p.m. Executive, meets fourth Monday of every month In Labor Headquarters. Preeldent, Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. W. Hocken, 1582 llth Ave. B.; Financial Secretary. H. Nordlund. 1920 12th Ave. E. * Taxi, stage and Bn. Drivers. Local 1S1 —Meet* second and fourth Mondays at 10.10 am. and 8:00 p.m. President. W. Wilson. Office. 306 Labor Headquarters: Phone, Sey. 7496. Teamster*, Chauffeur*, Stablemen sad Helper., Looal 488—311 Labor Headquarters. Meets every.First and Third Monday, Labor Headquartera. President F. T. Goodrich. 1239 Woodland. High. 2095-X; Secretory - Treasurer, , Blrt Showier, Room 306, Labor Headquarters. Theatrical stag* Hmploy***' Union. Loosj 118 of"t|. H-'tJUa.UmjUM, Meet* second Tuesday ln Labor Headquarters at 9:30 am. President. Oeo. XV. Allen; Recording Secretary, H Pearson; Business Agent, B. McOlone address, P.O. Box..711. *TPO| den graphical Union, Ho. 888—Presl- Tent. C. S. Campbell; Vice-Preeldent, B. It. Baylcy; Secretary-Treasurer, II H. Neelands, 300-2 Labor Headquarter*. Meeta last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., In Hall No. 1, Labor Head- quartera. Union Label Trades Connoil meets In Hall No. 4, Labor Headquarters, 529 Beatty Street, second and fourth Thursdays in each month at I o'clock. President, Colin McDonald, 2114 St. Oeorge Street, Phono Fair. 1117-T. Secretary, Mollle Dolk, 1617 Fifth Avenue East. I'hone High. 477-T. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday In each "*■ month. President, 8. D. McDonald. Box 168. Secretary, Frank Derry. Box 411, Prince Rupert.B ('. NOTARY PUBLIC „ P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades A Labor Council Boom SOO—831 Beatty Street Phon**: Sey 74t!-«17l Now that some workers" are'^et- ting wise -to- their'-little-gajue-af-robL and ruthlessly condemn "pragmatism and' unreality." The Pope wants to • pose?-as ~a.--savior-trf -society ~by-pre' serving' competition; Deterding by "bringing back the value of silver"' and the inexorable law of supply and demand—that things may. go well again." History tells the story how "well" this" cult of "super-hiimans,r have fared. Now- that intelligent workers understand the "inexorable law" of wages and demand the elimination of the capitalist system and "iron law of wages" they—the Nicromancers—come t0 tne rescue cry, "like a' dog crying for the moon"—: that "wages be' increased." Why have they not- .thought of -"higher wages" for their slaving wretches years ago, when they foilght labor unions in many specific instances? Neither of them are on record as martyrs in promoting union wages. O'Farrell says; The "Whitsuntide message of Pope Pius XI. has given •r fresh courage to all laboring for thc common good." Yes, truly, for the "common good" of parasites.' Some workers are learning the futility of "working for the common good" of parasites, and they are given "fresh courage" to save themselves by eliminating parisitism. The statement that 'the trend of pragmatism and drift to unreality and make-believe are what the Pope and Deterding "Behold" suggest the question: why not cease preaching of pie in the sky when you die and get off the workers" backs with your officialdom and authority by which you perpetuate the competitive system and the "iron law of wages?" Then we read: "(Sold has become an unbearable ruler that neglects all duties and even common sense." Yes, we agree if you substitute the word capitalism for^'gold." Then we read this gem: "It is„bankers greater than Morgan who pours contempt and scorn on the fool theorists who fahri- cate the gold standard." Now .that the capitalists machine has smoothered in its own fat they wish to restore bi-metali.«m and competition to get another lease of life for their idol—capitalism. Again we quote: "Dislike of silver currency or worship of gold has been an obsession." To state the case truly, it should read: Worship of buying cheap and selling dear has been the obsession all capitalists. Also the obsession of thinking that thereby they have created values. The fetish of profits has been the curse of the Homo Sapiens ever since Barter was discarded for buying and selling. The last sentence is a shining exhibit of ignorance. Notice, "Shall the workers currency be counterfeit and inflated or stabilized precious metal which neither war nor revolution nor vicissitudes of time can alter or degrade?" Again cry for the idol —a world without end. "Competition, war, revolution" and the static- ity of the system which they love and by which they have been able to dominate and plunder for generations so they might prove that they are interceding for "our" benefit. They might plan a premature war or revolution if not careful. The natural law of life dictates that all ' living organisms must expend energy in the "struggle for existence" or die. All living things sustain themselves by feeding on some other living species. That specie survives which adapts itself the most efficiently in the struggle. The human specie is no exception. For thousands of years Homo Sapiens tried to evade that law of expending energy by the invention of slavery—enslaving his own specie, feeding in his own offspring—now passing under the sacrosant name of "capitalist society." Gapitalismvis now in the full bloom of itsj.jsacred glory because slaves w0rsh1| at the throne of capital. The capitalists evade the law of expending hisj.energy in the struggle for existence by ownership of slaves and their product; surplus value and capital. Slaves drive other slave's for their masters and bring to the owners the most luscious, fruits of the earth and are satisfied with th,e crumbs left over. -• -*-x. Capitalists now own the earth and slaves guard it well for_ their masters. The'proletaire (the breeders) arp now getting .too numerous for the needs of the owners, hence we hear of "workers Construction camps" (compounds) for segregation, like the conquered natives placed on reservations. Also contraception advocated by,"sacred" sects. The efficiency of the modern slaves in mass production has made 30 per cent, of the slaves o fno value to the owners. Now we are in a quandary as to what to do about it.. Some of the useful" slaves (the source of all human sustenance) understand why they are slaves and that owners have no more use for them— and ownexs_.jar.e^.toj)_.crjiei__to _feed them out of the bountious plents produced—tht- slaves must follow the "first law of nature" and '"preserve their own lives by expending their energy to sustain themselves and break the shackles of the capitalist owners. Their slogan needs must be: "From each according to his ability and to each according to his needs." That is the very kernel of the "herd instincts" of slaves all down through the history of slavery. —A.H. . The Canadian nation is a community "dominated by a capitalist government/ In many respects the church is in a similar position, the people are identical with the same hopes and aspirations. If you wish to impart the socialistic doctrine into one section, why not the other?. . Referring to a religious revival, the writer's mind appears to revert back to the mid-Victorian era. Emotionalism and sentimentalism have almost passed, and without 'the fundamental doctrines ' which make mutual co-operation possible nothing can stand, as labor leaders know_ to their cost. Even in the present crisis the desire for personal advancement debars efficient co-operation, and more damage could, be done to the Russian government by unduly praising one section of the community and neglecting the other, thereby arousing jealousy than hy active opposition. Allow the church t,he same respect and liberty of action we claim for ourselves. Debar all reference to religion in labor meetings and journals, and a sympathetic attitude will be accorded labor, instead of erecting a formidable obstacle to the in- terests of labor that will be almost Impossible to surmount. Anyone even remotely connected with the church, on reading tnat article, caAJbjit conclude beUer-a-eapitalist government thsn~ontr-whose"~exponents-trample ■ roughshod on the; feelings, of others. J. W. GARNER. Correspondence ANDERSON RESOLUTION ON UNEMPLOYMENT Editor, Labor Statesman. Sir,—In West Vancouver we have a large number of organizations, the latest to be added to the list is an "Unemployed Workers' Association." Comparatively few people seem to realize the amazing changes that have taken place affecting the lives of millions of workers the world over. 1 want to mention a few facts to show how' the introduction of machinery into our modem methods of production has contributed to this problem. For instance, a girl with modern spinning machinery in a textile mill, working an eight-hour day, can turn out as' much yarn as an army1 of 45,000 with spinning wheels 150 years ago.1 In 1928 it took one :man a whole day to make forty electric light bulbs; the next year a machine came that made 73,000 bulbs in twenty-four hours." Each Of these machines displaced 092 meh. In the boot and shoe industry, one hundred machines take the place of 25,000 men. The next time you shave think of this: one man can turn out 32,000 razor blades in the same time needed for 500 in 1913. The machine is relentless, farm and factory alike, it does not even spare the low-paid pick and shovel man. Hundreds 'of displaced men will stand and watch an air machine digging or a machine shovel operated by only one man, doing their work—their job gone forever. The machine does not even spare the brain worker; the bank clerk no longer adds up columns of figures,-the,.machine has proved its superiority over his brain, it doesn't tire or make mistakes and its -Capabilities are not merely limited to adding. What need is there for a thousand university professors to be giving similar I .-chirrs to a thousand different classes when the best one could do the whole job with the aid of a machine ai.d no extra effort to himself. One could go on indefinitely quoting these examples which only goes tb show that the machine has clearly demonstrated its ability to abundantly produce all the material necessities and luxuries of life; in other words, it can abolish poverty, but strange to say, instead of abol-. ishing, it creates it. The reason is obvious: the machinery of production is private property and only run for profit. The issue must be clear to all honest thinking people regardless of their previous political opinions. Shall we continue the machine private property plus demoralization, or shall we have it publicly owned and operated for use and happiness? _1 TOM RUSSELL. Box. 70, Hollyburn, B. C. Published in "The Review," North Vancouver. Editor, Labor Statesman. ■ Sir,—Observing the initials W. T. beneath the article in the Statesman "Heaven Made Safe for Democracy,'" I wondered if they stood for Dr. Telford, but I think not, as it appears to be nothing but a jumble of nonsensical rumblings. Editor Labor Statesman. Sir.-^-Condltions in Vancouver and the world over, for that matter, with the exception of Russia, would be comical if they were not pitiful. Even under the present crude, selfish catch-as-catch-can system of doing things, production has out-run conservation, or so it appears. All the wholesale and retail stores are full of goods that few of us can buy. Thousands of us are living in dismal housekeeping rooms and dare not treat ourselves to a square meal, while going to a threatre, or a beer parlor now and then is impossible. What right has a miserable, workless down-arid-outcr to squander 10c for a glass of anaemic beer, or to smoke? When the working man is working, of course he should not spend a cent on any pleasure whatever, but live as meagrely as possible and bank every possible cent—the banks will get it anyhow. * * * .. And now al] the papers (not the socialist rags) are hysterical over this easing up on Germany for, one year, which is about giving a starving man one square meal and to hell with him afterward. How long, O Lord, how long have we to' wait for "the parliament of man, the federation of the world?" There is no darkness but ignor-. once, and most people who are"satisfied with things as they are do not know what socialism is. No one knows what it is by experience except the Pilcairn Islanders, though the Russians are away to a good start: ■ These, to my mind, are the main points of socialism: First: All the land and everything upon and under it to belong to all the people and the products likewise. Not yours or mine, but ours. • Second: Everyone to do his share of useful labor in the factories, mills, mines and institutions of the commonwealth. Third :A11 products to be stored and distributed to all the people equally, because, though some men are stronger in mind and body than others, If is no" Injustice to the strong man that his.weaker brother enjoys the like amount of necessaries and luxuries. — — There is even now enough for all and under a better system much more would be produced, making the burden lighter for each individual. Labor-saving machines would then be a blessing and not a curse, as they are now. Such a simple, comprehensive, efficient method of doing the work of the; world has not been pat In prac- tice.Dut it will be"." A system thus briefly outlined would eliminate banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges, and so- called friendly societies,' and even craft unions, thus freeing a large proportion of the population to help to the necessary productive labor, making the burden lighter for all of us. = ._ ..-..-'- The change from individualism cannot be .made at once. The majority must ,be educated to realize that capitalism is a worn-out machine. The idea that competition is a good thing is altogether wrong. We do not want it. Co-operation is bettor. All business must be taken over by the State. In fact, make the whole country one big merger—a good humored human hive, all light hearts and an assured future. B. WESTAWAY. H> Page Four —; ~ THE LABOR STATESMAN The Labor Statesman *■- Published every Friday, at Labor -Headquarters, Vancouver, B. G. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades . and Labor Council: ' H. W. Watt., Man; Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE: Ed. Smith Chairman; W. Watt (Build- iiiK Trades Council); P. R. Bengough (Machinist TradeB); R. H. Neelands (Printing Trades); Dan McPherson (Building Trades); B. Showier (Teaming Trades); T. Hanofln (Beverage Trades); C. Herrett (Label Trades); Bert Speed (Transportation Trades). Subscription Rates: $2 per Year: to Unions, 16c per month per member. Phon.: Seymonr 8278 THE "FOC" OF THE CAPITAL ' i (With apologies to Bruce • Hutchinson)- ""/, • ,.:.'' .;•'.-".." -By HARRY-v-/-' Vancouver, Friday, June 26, 1931 THAT BAD MAN TELFORD The Morning Star has been listening to Dr. Telford's radio talks, and recently it has devoted an editorial column and a quarter to telling that (fie Doctor is a very bad man. The core of the newspaper's trouble-is tna' - cannot understand how and why7"fne"TJocTOT"favor^orwiliran edu- cation and a well-paying profession .and in comfortable circumstances should ally himself with the workers, or expressed in its simplest terms, why a man who is well fed should sympathize with the ill.-fed man. , To the newspaper the condition is so horrible that it clearly hopes that its severe lecture will cause the Doctor to renounce his piebiean views and work and get back fh.with the gang that measure men by what they have, with no questions asked as to how they got it. — \ ■ ' Whenever its own interests or. that of the C. P. R. requires, the Star will, in a specious and canting editorial, undertake to show that there are no classes in our great country of millionaires and paupers, but just now there are two classes andlthe Doctor is not backing his own class. During the longshoremen's strike a number of men continued work. Because their activity tended to defeat ■their own class the strikers called these men by a number of set names. "Blackleg" and "scab" were about the only ones that we would care to quote. Apparently the class which the Star serves feels very much the same to a deserter. The Doctor is said to be a "self-appointed Moses," and "suffering from egoism, bordering on megalomania." Evidently this is merely another way of shouting "scab." The Star does not think much of the Doctor's labor activity, for it is stated to be ridiculous, prejudiced, unbalanced and peurile, and because the whole noise arises from a fear of the effects on the workers, we must conclude either that the paper is not quite sure that its estimate is correct, or It does not think much of our intelligence. The Star is Liberal, but when it comes to a class matter political lines vanish and Premier Bennett, for the first, time, becomes the Rt. Hon. It. B Bennett, and it becomes rank heresy to doubt either the Premier's wisdom or motives. In fact, after less than twelve of the most disastrous months in Canadian history the Liberal paper describes Mr. Bennet as "a statesman"- a thing which Js .usually dis covered, if at all, some years after the man is dead. The morning paper 1 claims to be afraid that the Doctor's labor activity will lead to 'blood shed." This student has'all the distaste for bloodshed that the Star could have, and is prepared to argue any time and place that: there cannot be any excuse for bloodshed, as arising out of labor unrest, in a land where the worker has thc franchise. No government in Canada could be elected without the consent of the workers, and we must, as best we can, stay inside the fences that those whom we have elected have built for us. We cannot appoint an authority and then defy-it. The hungry man may answer that Bennett has broken the contract bv failing to put an end to hunger and unemployment. The reply is that if the workers were boobs enough to appoint a millionaire politician and an ex-director of the C. P. R. as his agent, he should accept thc inevitable consequences. We think that the Doctor's opinion on these matters are very much the same as our own, but we know that the Doctor carries his objection to bloodshed much further than the morning paper does. There has been bloodshed in Vancouver on numerous occasions during recent months. On these occasions the red fluid matted the hair and blinded the eyes of the hungry man, and .we heard no protest from the Star. Its present spasm of nerves, arises from the fear that some members of the class which The effect of unemployment and the subsequent wage reductions that have been systematically carried on for the past few months is beginning to be felt by others than the unemployed. Storekeepers ■ in ' the ,city and districts are, in many cases, up against it with credits and reduced purchases. Many of them are heading towards the unemployed ranks, and unless some remedy is forthcoming they, too, will be in as bad a plight as the workers. The banks are lending I their support to bring about reduced standards of living, by advising their clients of-the employer class to reduce overhead expenses. This has frequently occurred when negotiations for loans have been contemplated. The false economy of the financial interests receives silent acknowledgment, proving that the standard of living of the .workers is of less consideration than the interest 'Oft" capital. And the doors of immigration remain open, whilst thousands pound the ^pavements searching for the elusive job and re- liuf measures become more- increasingly necessary. Where is the intelligence that permits of such a system. Our so-called "wise men of the East" made absolute promises that they would solve the unemployment question or perish in the attempt. As a speaker said at the Arena last Sunday, "it's the unemployed they meant who would perish in the attempt." 600,000 people in the province of British Columbia.and severTSfl'thous- and unemployed. Armies in far greater number than this have been housed, clothed and fed, without much effort. Yet we profess that the solution is beyond our possibilities. We have in the province everything necessary to provide, yes, if properly administered, luxuries for all; but because the means of wealth production is in the hands of a few people thousands must suffer want and privation and abide the time when the markets will allow the owners to reap a profit from the labor he is willing to hire. At a general election in the Old Country shortly after the Boer War, posters were displayed by one of the old line politicians to disapprove of the action of the previous government who had admitted Chinese labor into South Africa. The posters depicted the Chinese workers in Africa and the ghosts of "Tommy Atkins" asking "is this what you and I died for, Bill?" The Chinese workers in South Africa were placed in compounds along similar lines to the Kaffir .labor, which was like the herding of cattle. Are we going to see another spectacle of relief workers herded in camps or compounds because our present system has been weighed in the balance and found wanting? "Making the World safe for democracy" was the phrase often heard in the years of 1914-1918. That was a national crisis and lives were conscripted, but in this national crisis, where a decent living is needed, the conscription of wealth or the socialization of industry would interfere with the few who benefitted most from the democracy that was made safe by sacrificial duties on the field of battle. it serves may be hurt. The Doctor is broad enough to object to cracking the head even of a wage-worker. Schooled in the narrow, grovelling, dollar-chasing psychology of the class that it serves, the morning paper seeks for some hidden motive for Dr. Telford's labor activity. That anyone should give his time and effort for a cause because he believes it right is something that it cannot understand! but it knows much of the fraud and;"hyprocracy ""of its own class, and so it ends with the.poisonous suggestion that the Doctor is insincere and is moved by some ulterior motive. We admit that it is unusual fori a member of the class to which thi newspaper would claim the Doctor belongs to make any sacrifice for the underdog, but the phenomena is by no means unknown. The brightest lights that illuminates history are the lives of men who have taken up the fight of those less privileged than they themselves, and if Dr. Telford will continue in his present course he will be remembered long years after the editor and the proprietor of the Vancouver Star are forgotten. —M. Teacher—Now, Robert, can you tell me what human nature is? Robert—Yes, ma'am. It's people 'fore they go into society. Mosley is Seeking Dictatorship Methods Two emissaries were sent by Sir Oswald Mosley to Germany to study the methods of Adolf Hitler, leader of the German Fascists. They are Major Thompson, D.S.O., who lives at Rugby, and Mr. Leslie J. Cuming, formerly propaganda secretary of the West London Federation of the I. L. P. "I understand that his principal object in going to Munich was to study the methods of Hitler and his followers," his aunt, Mrs. Violet Lewis, with whom he lives- at Gun- nersbury Park, told a "Daily Herald reporter. "All his expenses are paid, of course, by the Mosley Party organization. "I personally am an orthodox follower of Labor and not in sympathy with.his new views." The home-coming of the two envoys is awaited with impatience by Sir Oswald and his immediate associates, for it is hoped that they will supply ideas for stopping the'rot' tn the new party. , Everything seems to be wrong with Sir Oswald's new party except the cash box. There, is financial stringency at Tory headquarters^ which some officials attribute to Sir Oswald's successful "tapping" of rich Tories. \ They believe there that consider-, able sums of money have been given to . Sir Oswald by their former friends, including a world-famous shipping magnate and a prosperous paper manufacturer. Divided Party Indeed, the gossip in the Tory clubs is that tne new party has at its disposal £1,000,000, towards which Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia have contributed £100,000 apiece. Another actual or potential source of wealth is indicated by the personnel of the Women's Committee. Two of its members are Lady Mosley (Sir Oswald's mother) and Mrs. St. Loe Strachey. Despite its- money-bags and its spectacular leader, the new party is dying of dissension. Its costly poster campaign was a dismisal failure. The, big red and black bills headed 'Crisis," displayed on boardings throughout the country (while Sir Oswald was on the Riviera), succeeded in attracting letters mainly from job-hunters and place-seekers. Loyalty Strained Loyalty of the serious members of the party has been strained by unhappy incidents, especially by the postponement of a meeting of the national council," because Sir Oswald wanted to take part in a fencing contest- N. —'■-'—> Defections are occurring daily, and it is doubtful whether the effective national membership of the new party now exceeds 1,000. Conditions in London reached such a pass that a few weeks ago the four regional councils, each responsible for some 20 constituencies, created a first-class row. Sir' Oswald admitted that the organization was bad and that there had been genuine cause for dissatisfaction. Plans were made for reorganization, and a loan of £50 was magnanimously granted to each of the regional councils, Swift and drastic changes followed in some of the chief executive posts. "Flying Squad" Replaced All^the officers of the South-West Regional Council resigned, and have been replaced by Others. Recently, following a series of secret meetings. Sir Oswald organized a Pioneer Youth Movement to replace the 'Active Force" and the 'Flying Squad." Members of this organization are to be trained in manly and pugnacious arts. Hence, no doubt, the visit of the two envoys to Munich to find out how Herr Hitler has built up his fighting force of Steel Helmets. Sir Oswald has inaugurated a week end school at his home. - Those who attend are to listen to four lectures and are to be given the privilege of paying a guinea towards the cost of their hospitality. A GENERAL STAFF FOR PEACE The appointment of an International. Council of Action to function vr a'General Staff for War Resistance has been suggested by Mr. EHs C. Flodh, according to a report in The War Resister. The idea is advanced that the General Staff should be prepared to call a general strike against mobilization in the respective countries, counteract war lies, and maintain contacts among war resistors pf different nations. . ... nobody ever kids him and he "knows his stuff" . . . and his shirts. Do you notice he's wearing one of our Broadcloth Shirts at Only $1.25 (With 2 Separate Collars, $1.69 . -.-'.'he know* they're the bett value in town for the money. Since he diicovered there shirts he joe* around grinning at the fellow* who "cough-up' $3 «rr*»i shirt.,. they don't get any more thanTie doe*.fee »IZ51 -SizeTTrtcT I71/2. —Downstairs Economy Floor, H B C Established 1896 In three years the Policy Holders of the "FIRE INSURANCE MUTUAL" —THE WAWANESA—have saved ONE MILLION DOLLARS WAWANESA MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. 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Phone High. 397 AI.FHED WHITEHEAD Designs and suggestion* for all types of decorative work ——cheerfully -mthrnltted. 458 HASTINOS ST. BAST. TARIFFS HEIGHTEN TENSION The economic depression has resulted in an upward revision of tariffs throughout the world, and this in turn has produced keener competition and deeper resentment among nations, in the opinion of Henry Chalmers, Chief of the Division of Foreign Tariffs, of, the Department of Commerce. AMERICAN STUDENTS ABROAD A total of 736 American students are studying this year in British universities. This is an increase of about 26 per cent as compared with the number registered during the academic year 1929-1930. Pop says an anteater is a picnicker. -. - ». I ft ' •mmimmm^m^^ t T ri'^rfy ... Friday, June 26th, 1931 ■'- TH E LABOR STATESMAN Page F1t« ' THE OPEN ROAD AFOOT WITH JACK LQGlE ' I am moved today to. sketch briefly my short but romantic career, not that it matters much to anyone but myself, but because my life has been contemporaneous with the ,growtrT| office and threw it on his desk. He and development of Western Canada, and my experiences are typical of many pioneers. My grandfather..wag one of the first Presbyterian ministers in Huron County, Ontario, having come there at an early age from Scotland. My father and mother were born in Ontario, but met in Manitoba and were married there. I was born four years prior to the Kiel rebellion, and am just a month older than the C. P. R. I must admit, however, that in spite of my advantage in age, the C. P. R. made more money than I have. Perhaps that is largely because the various Canadian governments have ■given -the -C P.l.R. land grants and bonuses to the value of a billion or thereabouts, and if they had been as considerate to me I could' have - done pretty well myself.--—^rt^LT When I arrived_ oa._tlie„.Maiiit.QhB raffles--Wmnlpejj' was a 'small viP lage and dog trains from as far West as Prince Albert used to come to my father's store for supplies. ' I have seen the prairie chickens dance in the spring time and the honk of a wild goose is like music to my ears. Almost as soon as I could talk I took to politics as naturally as a mallard wings to his home marsh, and one of my earliest recollections is of being carried by my father to the railway station to hear the election returns. As my father was a J -staunch protectionist and Conservative, I naturally followed in his footsteps, and one of my greatest heroes was Sir John A. MacDonald. I can see him yet as he smilingly bowed from the rear platform of his train. Later I met his son, Hugh John, and always considered him a kindly and courteous gentleman. * * • Those were the boom days and town lots were, staked for miles in every direction. That first boom soon collapsed and we settled1 down to a period of steady development. The early pioneers were, on the whole, a hardy and vigorous race, very kindly and generous to a fault. If we went broke today, we didn't care very much, for we knew that we could easily make more money tomorrow and jobs were easy to get. It is my experience that pioneers are always unselfish and it is only the tightening up of the struggle for existence which tends to make people selfish and grasping. With the influx of more settlers and \he steady opening up of the western country, land values increased and an era of railway expansion set in. The C. P. R. and Hudson's Bay Co. had already taken nearly everything that wasn't nailed down, but MacKenzie and Mann thought there might still be opportunities for two poor boys from the country, and having bled the Dominion government for all they could, proceeded, to use their own term, "to gut the provinces." The Manitoba government, headed by Thomas Greenway did not seem inclined to give them all they wanted, so they bought the election and I happened to be close enough to the inner ring to see how the job was handled- I got my first glimpse of the manner in which our plutocratic oligarchy has robbed the Canadian people of their heritage, and the knowledge sickened me forever of the two old parties. » * ♦ Just at this time I sold my business and moved, to British Columbia, making a tour of the United States while enroute. There in the big cities I got my first glimpse of the class struggle, the problem of the unemployed and the bitterness of the fight for existence in a competitive environment. I began to think very seriously and my whole outlook on life, changed. I located in the Okanagan and used to hear my next door neighbor talking of some theory which he called 'socialism." 1 asked him what' it was all about, and, after - warning me that I might be letting said: "Well, how-did you like it?" I replied: "That's good enough for me. From now on I am with you." It took just about ten minutes reading to convert me, and the first speech that I ever heard on socialism was one that I made myself. * • ■• * In those days the Okanagan bubbled with optimism. We-were led to believe that fruit farming was merely a form of light exercise and that when .our trees came into bearing all we would have to do would be to sit on the front verandah, enjoy the magnificent scenery and watch the fruit ripen for market. Everyone was a potential millionaire, am a young socialist, bursting with !J—> ism and burning with zeal for tern of society so sensible and ei'ly, was regarded as a well-meaning j j but harmless.lunatic. It was no use myself in for a lot of trouble, he handed me a phamplet. I read it through, went to lunch and-then read it over again. Then I walked into his tmnTSe^^wari^o^forl **"«S?^ = them, listen. they simply refused to! It would take a book to do justice to the struggles and gradual disillusionment of those sanguine orchad- ists. I have never known a class of people who were such gluttons for punishment or who enjoyed being miserable so much. Like the donkey lured on- by a dangling carrot they keep oh working year after year in the hope that next season conditions will be better. Competitive marketing almost ruined them and the majority have turned to' co-operation with religious fervor. The high tariff was supposed to bring them prosperity, but won't, needless to say, and they will have to learn that their cooperation must be carried to its logical conclusion in the collective ownership of industry and finance before they can escape from the lowered standard of living and increasing degradation which a continuation of capitalism must impose upon them. I have seen the Red River cart evolve into the automobile and tractor and have witnessed the birth, growth and decay of the capitalist system in Western Canada. In one generation the public domain has been filched from us and the children of a hardy pioneer stock are serfs and slaves in the.land which their fathers cleared and cultivated. In the old days sometimes the.grasshoppers or rabbits ate all the crops and there was privation and want, but we tightened up our belts and met life with a laugh. Today we starve in the midst of bursting granaries and warehouses, and there is a grim note to our laughter. We recall the words of the poet: "111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay." — ■" Wealth has accumulated all right and a very few men possess it, but I cannot believe that the boys and girls who went with me to school are going to sulfer in silence or see their countrymen and women starve or fall into decay because we have produced too .much. I give them credit'for more intelligence and boldness than that, and one of these days we will demand a reckoning frOm the plutocratic oligarchy which has robbed us of our heritage and condemned our children to starve in the midst of plenty while they wax richer and richer. This is our country, and we are not going to see it go to rack and ruin because of the ineptitude of our rulers. This is our country and we intend to get it back, peacefully if we can, forcibly if we must, and our battle cry will be "Canada for all the Canadians'." antf. Business Manager Local IIS erating Engineers Oppose Wage Redaction "Operating Engineers,' Local 116S at the regular business meeting held in the Labor Headquarters last Friday and showed continued confidence in their executve by returning all of last year's officers who accepted nomination. The industrial depression has hit this local to about the same degree as other building trades, but the local has gone on record as being unhesitatingly opposed to any wage reduction at this time. The following officers were elected for the 1931-1932 term: President—F. L. Hunt. Vice-President—H. Sibley. Recording Secretary—R. Hunter. Financial Secretary and Business Manager—Geo. Pettipiece. Treasuer—P. Bradley. Conductor—A. Cobb. Guard—A. Maguire. Trustees—J. Killaird, J McLennan. Auditors—Geo. Gray, H. Mclntyre. Delegates to Trades and Labor Council—F. Hunt, G. Pettipiece, J. Flynn, Geo. Parkinson, R. Finley, J. Kinnaird. Building Trades Council—G. Pettipiece, J. Flynn, G. Parkinson-. MX VALUE y v Flynn, N. J. Healey, \ In Nebraska, we read, a special car with a magnet attached is used by the authorities for collecting thej nails and odd pieces of metal on the roads. Most cars do that easily eough with the help of nothing but pneumatic tires, ; .■. 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The union adopted a regulation which will compel producers who request actors to waive the posting of bonds for the payment of salaries to turn over to Equity stock and motion picture rights, which, frequently turn out to be valuable, even after shows have been disbanded and actors are left in the lurch for their wages. . . -Jet—- '"..:.'.:'-.■ If these rights are sold, half of the proceeds will go to the managers and the other half to actors. DISARMAMENT PLEBISCITE A personal plebiscite carried out by Constant Petit, a French farmer, revealed that 90 per cent of the people in St. Sauveur-de-Nuaille are in favor of complete and immediate disarmament, and, as a first step, the abolition of military conscription and the destruction of all war materials by April, 1932. M. Petit carried on the plebiscite without any support other than the official permission Of the local mayor of his own town and of five' other ' towns in the same province. Book Agent—Here's a book, madam, which tells you how to keep your husband. It's a wonderful little book. Housewife—I've been keeping my husband for the last 15 years. What I want is a book that will tell me how to make him go to work and keep me for a change. Phone Sey. 8046 . Dr. B. G. VINSON DENTISTS 5 Chair* 46 Hastings St. East Independent Undertaking OO. X.TB. o. nvant iswawi HABOT.D H. EDWARDS 70S W, ToaAsrajr, Fair. For Sale at Vendors, or direct from the Liquor Control Board Mail Order Department, Victoria, B. C. Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Your Expenses! _1 HE Royal Bank Budget Book will help .->.. you in the effective planning-of your income—both in spending and in saving. ASK FOR A COPY »s The Royal Bank of Canada Vancouver Branch - - A; T. Lowe, Manager ' 22 Office* la Vancouver. 61 Blanche* la British Columbia . HIGH COST OF RECRUITING To recruit a sailor for the United States navy now costs $88 per man, instead of the $66.78 average of last year, according to a report recently published by the Department of the Navy. Fortune's Favorite "Were you lucky at the races yesterday?"" Wyde: "I should just think I was! I found a shilling after the last race, so I didn't have to walk home."— '■vVtujadeen Express. '» '' •psasfji . y Page Six f T H E^ L A B O R S T A T E S M AN Friday, June 26, 1931 j."* N. JDne Woman's Cooking Improved We have a letter from Mrs. Kearney of Kamloops. She . says Pacific Milk first came into their home when the grocer sent a tin up by the little girl. It was very rich and fresh and she noticed an improvement in the cooking. Pacific Milk Factory at Abbotsford, B.C. _JL0ffl_jier Cent British Columbia, Owned and Controlled By ANGUS MaclNNIS The debate on the budget speech of the Prime Minister was opened by Col, Ralston, Minister of National Defence in the King Government. Col. Ralston is a lawyer .and a forceful and pleasing speaker. He went oyer the budget minutely, and, of course, criticized it unsparingly. He quoted copiously fram_ Hansard of other sessions to show that the blame the government was now trying to place at the door of the late government were things the Conservatives approved of when in opposition. Par- iament for these gentlemen is merely a play at seesaw. They have one set of principles when in opposition; when; they become the government they change those principles which were so dear to them in opposition. Nothing could more clearly .exemplify this statement than the present government's attitude towards Jhe very serious unemployment situation. I We all know that the election, just a year ago, was fought on the issue of unemployment, and the Conservative party decided the issue. The Liberal party, which was in power at that time, maintained there was ho serious unemployment. The government of today does not like to hear the subject of Unemployment mentioned. The Labor members have tried to get the government to declare its intentions in regard to the unemployed this session, but our efforts have been unavailing. H. H. Stevens, replying for, the government to Col. Ralston's speech, said: Hikers' Rally, Races, Classes and Prizes Saturday, June 27 Knees start at 2 p.m. from the "Lookout" on Grouse Mountain Highway and finish at the Chalet, approximately 4 Mi miles. The Pacific Stages will have a bus' service from the North Vancouver depot to "Lookout," fare 25s. First bus at 12.30. Grouse Mountain Highway'will be free to the public from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Following are the events, prizes and the names of the donators of the prizes: Class "A'—Open event for ladies and gentlemen, 18 years of age and over. Limited to contestants wearing hiking boots. Ladies 1st—Silver Tray, donated by Kelly Douglas & Co. Ltd. 2nd—Pair of Ladies Hiking Boots, donated by Pierre Paris. 3rd—Special Box of Chocolate, donted by Universal Knitting Co. Ltd. Gentlemen 1st—Challenge Cup, presented for annual competition by David Spencer Limited. 2nd-—Binoculars, donated by Henry Birks & Sons, Ltd. 3rd—Framed Mountaineering Picture, donated by A. C. Phillips. ■ Class "B"—For. boys and girls, 11 to 1% inclusive.' ment optional. s _' Boyi Costume and equip- -V 1st—Pair of Boys' Hiking Boots, donated by J. Leckie, Ltd. 2nd—Ruck Sack, donated by Edward Lipsett, Ltd. 3rd=-First Aid Kit, donated by Grouse Mountain Chalet. Girls 1st—Splendid White Sweater, donated by William Dick, Ltd. 2nd—Girls' Mackinaw, donated by William Dick, Ltd. 3rd—2A-Brownie Camera, donated'by Rundle Ltd. Class "C"—For hoys and girls, 15 to 17 years inclusive. Costume and equipment optional. __ ' Boy* 1st—Pair~oTskis, donated by Grouse Mountain Chalet. 2nd—Nelson Pack, donated by Jones Tent & Awning, Ltd. Girl. 1st—Pair of Skis, donated by A. G. Spalding & Bros., Ltd. 2nd—Rose Bowl, donated by Hudson's Bay Co. Employers of Union Labor HAZELWOOD IGE CREAM THE ONLY 100 PER CENT. UNION ICE CUE AM IN THE CITY I • ' PHONE: SEYMOUR 9090 ; . Hazelwood Creamery, Limited ••Only Union Pl*h and Chip* In Brltlah Colnmol*" Ye Olde English Fish & Chips Ballerina* on* remedy lor unemployment 1* th* shorter work week, all onr girl* ar* now working- live day* per week, without reduction of wage*. 44 HASTINOS WEST 3 Door* We«t of "PanUjea" ] Class- "D"—Open to all winners or even non-winners, all ages, of a prize or prizes in any marathon or other race in B. C. in 1931. Contestants must wear hiking boots. ' Ladies , 1st—Silver Water Jug, donated by Colonel W. W. Foster. 2nd—Pair of Pictures, donated by Mr. J. Wardlaw. - 3rd—Silver Fruit Dish, donated by 0. B. Allan. Gentlemen ... \st~~P*ir of P'rst Grade Hikers' Boots, Made to Measure, donated by W. J. Heads. ... 2nd—Hikers' Mackinaw Coat, donated by William Dick, Ltd. 3rd—Ruck Coat, donated by Outings, Ltd. Class "J.F.W."—Specal Junior Fire Wardens' Event. Ope"n to all Junior Fire Wardens appointed by the Canadian Forestry Association in the Province of British Columbia. 1st—B. C. Forest Challenge Service Cup, annual competition. 2nd—Tennis Racket and Six Balls. ' 3rd—Baseball Glove. 4th>-Woodsman's Knife. Prizes donated by members of the Canadian Forestry Association. 7An unique feature of the events will be the presentation of a prize donated by the Men's Dress Reform Party of Great Britain through its Canadian representative, Mr. E. S. Lee, to the man or boy of 14 years of age or over judged by him to be, the most comfortably and sensibly dressed for hiking, "shorts" being stipulated. Special prize of camera. List of officials for the event: Marshal—Chief W. W. Hemingway. Judges—Frank W. Johnson, Charles Dawson, George Perry. Official Starter—Percy R. Bengough. Prizes—Percy C. Abel. Clerk of Course— H. W. Watts. Entry Clerk—Chas. E. Wilkinson. All Hiker* Note It is intended that the Hikers' Rally be an annual event, and further, it is proposed that at the second annual rally, an award shall be made by the club to the member who has achieved what may be judged to be the most outstanding instance of meritorious service by a hiker during the first year of the club's existence. Pledge of Hiker*' Safety Club I pledge myself to conform to the rules and advice laid down in this log for my good bohavior and safe practices when frequenting the hills, highways, and mountain trails. I further pledge myself to such conduct and safe practices as will afford a good example to others, possibly less experienced than myself. And I further pledge myself to accept it as a duty to report promptly to the police or officials of the other bodies listed herein, any very serious law-breaking or conspicuously discourteous or unsafe actions witnessed by me, or of which I have positive knowledge. Signature. "This is scarcely the time, just in the spring of the year, for us to make proposals to the House to deal with unemployment which'may be anticipated next autumn." — " One would think, if the conditions: were not known," that there^ is no i unemployment now, but possibly, next fali.„we. may„haYe..A.iejit:flBjBm7j playedV^and then we_ will, consider what will be done. - That, in effect, is the government policy as far as we have been able to ascertain this session. "- N^ ,:' It is rather difficult in the environment of the Parliament Buildings, in an atmosphere of plenty, to feel very keenly on the miseries of the unemployed. But there is very little excuse for a person in Mr. Steven's position not to be alive to the situation. If conditions do not or will not affect his emotions, they should surely appeal to his intellect. Even in thc City of Ottawa, with so large a portion of its population in the regular employ of the government, conditions are bad. This week a mass meeting of the unemployed was addressed by Woodsworth and Heaps, the Labor members from Winnipeg. There were between four and five hundred unemployed there, which did not by any means account for all the unemployed in this city. The evening before the Ottawa police raided the city dump and took sixty-nine unemployed men to the police station where they were booked on a charge of vagrancy. These men had taken possession of some shacks on the dump and were living in them, They' were preparing their evening meal when arrested, and, according to the press reports, some of the food had the apperance of having been gathered from the refuse. It was stated by one paper that the police were going to make periodic visits to the dump to prevent the unemployed from making their homes there. The other paper stated that the unemployed would be allowed to live there until better accommodation was made for them, providing they did not become a nuisance to residents living in the vicinity. If this is not enough to make any Canadian blush with shame we are beyond hope. Surety there is something radically wrong with our social organization when, in a country so rich in natural resources as this, it must push some of its cftizens, in the mad scramble for existence, to make their home like rats on a garbage (lump. And all the leader of the. government of this country has to offer in the way of organizing our resources for the benefit of all the people of this country is seventeenth century platitudes culled from the Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers, with some platitudes of his own which are just as ancient. _ The following quotations are from the concluding words of his speech: "We now face a period of worldwide depression, and it becomes important for us- to face what lies before us with courage, with determination and with faith. I am sure there is-no Canadian ' who has not sufficient faith in his country to believe that we cannot fail in building up a.great nation; I am sure there is no Canadian who does not realize that to do so we must have not only faith but courage, peristenee, and determination. Above all we must have that unity of thought and purpose which is so essential at a time like this. . . ." It is so easy to have faith, courage and determination when one has all: the good things that the world can provide. Depending on our social attitude, it is not so hard to have faith, courage and determination even when one has not so very much worldly goods, providing one has the main essentials. But to ask the unemployed to have faith—courage and determination they may have, or get, but it will be the courage •and determination of despair—is simply mocking them, adding insult tox injury. A. A. Heaps, who followed Mr. VANCOUVER'S LEADING UNION HOUSE 1 The New Orpheum Cafe Private Banquet Hall 762 GRANVILLE STREET Prop.: Jas. P. Dwyer , PHONE: SEY. 3346 \ - Demand VAN BROS.' PURE APPLE CIDER LIONS GINGER ALE or ORANGE KIST THE ONLY UNION SOFT DRINK PIBM IK VANCOUVER! PHONE: HIGH. 90 . . 10SS VERNON DRIVE Stevens, said that after listening to commodity Values accompanied by a him he had "become convinced that j corresponding decline in general pur- since my hon. friend has crossed the chasing power; floor of the house he has become a very good Liberal. I am satisfied that since the Liberal party have crossed the floor of the House they are doing exactly the same as the Conservative party did a year ago. That is about the difference I find at the moment between the two parties. I would dearly have liked if the present leader-!)! the Government (Mr. Bennett) could be in opposition for a few hours to answer the speech which he made on Monday. I think he could have made a wonderful speech " N. ■ - This, from Mr. Heaps, is a very neat summing up of the speeches and policies of the two major parties. Mr. Heaps analyzed the various taxation proposals in the budget and showed that the revenue to be raised to balance estimated expenditure was levied in such a way that the burden fell on the poor or those of moderate means, while the millionaires were given considerable exemption. Mr. Woodsworth spoke on Tuesday, and, in his usual trenchant style, placed before parliament the desperate situation of the workers and farmers of this country and the inadequacy of the government's policies in the circumstances. -He quoted from an editorial in the Montreal Star of June 4th, a Conservative paper: "An immediate crisis faces the city. . . .People cannot be left to starve to death, with suicide as an only alternative." From Glace Bay, N. S., he read a wire: "Conditions are such that the men are get- "And whereas a further result of this condition is to greatly increase the burden of public anfl private indebtedness to a point where repayment would appear to be almost hopeless ; ^ "This House is of the opinion that the present economic conditions demand intelligent and intensive study and definite- planning upon a national scale, with the view of substituting well defined co-operative principles in respect of production and distribution, together with the mobilization of our natural resoures, technical equipment and financial machinery, in place of the highly competitive system under which we are suffering at the present time. " "As it is apparent that these fundamental changes cannot be put into effect in the immediate future, and that the present situation requires prompt action. "And as the present financial situation is in many respects similar to but more serious than that which prevailed in 1914 at which time extraordinary measures were taken by the government, including the suspension of the redemption of dominion notes in gold: ■ -.-^V "This House is of the opinion tJiat it is expedient to again suspend redemption of dominion notes in gold in order that— "(a) Commodity price levels may be raised, thus increasing the purchasing powes<*f those engaged in agriculture, mining, forestry, fishing ting out of control and anything is »nd other primary .indDst.'ies and in likely to happen." He said: "I can-,4"" way promoting a corresponding not believe that the government is Increase in the volume of employ alive to the situation, or it would not allow the budget to pass without a definite announcement regarding its policy on the great question of unemployment. We have been called from every part of the country to come here for the purpose nf dealing with the problems of the nation, and we are told we are not to have an opportunity of discussing any government proposals with respect to this matter." Mr. Spencer, one of the members of our group, made a good speech, dealing particularly with our system of finance and how. it militates against the farmer. He moved the following sub- amendment, for the group, seconded by Miss Macphail: "That all the words after "where as" in the amendment be stricken out and the following substituted therefore: "This House recognjzes that while certain commendable" features ar? contained within the present budget, it is to be regretted that no provision has been made for unemployment relief and this House further regrets the proposed decrease in the income tax as applied to the larger incomes as a retrograde step and Wholly unwarranted in the present state 'of the national exchequer and especially in view of the heavy additional taxation imposed upon the consumers of the country. And whereas the general economic stuation in the dominion's reflected in the financial statement contained in the present budget is extremely serious and indicates shrinking revenues consequent on business stagnation, and a tremendous decrease in union." ment; "(b). That the burden of both public and private, debts and the interest thereon may be lightened; "(c) That the amount of currency and credit available for the purposes of trade and commerce within the country, may be increased; "(d) That through the increased volume of trade thus secured there might result larger revenues without any increase in the rate of taxation." POSTPONES PAY RAISE '"• TO AID UNEMPLOYED Chicago.—Union electricians employed by the Illinois Bell Telephone Company have passed up a wage increase on condition that the company use the money to hire union members who would otherwise be unemployed. Under the terms of a five-year agreement with the union, the company was required to grant a 25-cent- a-day raise on June 1, but the men agreed to postpone it for six months if the firm would increase its payroll. UNION TO URGE JOB INSURANCE IN PACT New York.—An effort will be madaj to include* a plan tor1 unemployment! insurance in the next agreement enJ tered into with employers in the women's dress industry, President Benjamin Schlesinger of the International Ladies' Garment' Workers' Union announced recently. He also declared that any attempt to cut wages will be met with "the biggest fight in the history of the' A ■ • ■ •. 1 ' " ' iTITi'frUT *'*'•" '^ "■fu 'ii -. €. Friday, June 26th, 1931 THE LABOR STATESMAN Pago Seven Jff*** "The Ragged-Trousered The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th A**>. E. When Better Cakes aad Paatrle* ar* Maae, We 01 Make 1ml Golden Rule Bakery CO., LTD. TWO ADDRESSES: 957 Granville St. - Sey. 8656 820 Robson St. - Soy. 2641 Classified Ads. BARRISTERS AITS SOLICITORS WalU* W. Lefeaux, 402 Metropolitan Bnlldln_ Phon* Sey. 6887. ■ann Hasting-* attain Bath* Price 380 Only 768 Hastings Street Bait. DENTISTS - . Dr. W. A. Rntledg;*, IM Halting-* Wist. NOTARY PUBLIC yT, M. Beng-onB-h . Labor K«adqnarUr*. PRINTERS Labor Statesman. Labor Headiinarter*. WHimi SPECIALIST 0. B. Heard 812 Robson. I. L. P. Puts Winch on As Provincial Organizer At, a Mass convention of the British Columbia section of the .Independent Labor Party, held in the Labor Headquarters on Sunday, June 21st, Ernest Winch of Burnaby was selected to fill the position of Provincial Organizer. Among the other business transacted was the calling of a nominating convention of the party, to be held within the next six weeks, for the purpose of naming candidates for the next provincial election; protesting to the Provincial Government against abandonment by the Provincial Government of the, Fair Wage Rate of $4 per day for relief work, as set by the Dominion Government; condemnation of the high-handed action of police authorities in dealing with unemployed demonstrations; acceptance of offer to donate a page of "The Challenge" for I. L. P. propaganda; to make use of radio as much as possible; co-operation with the farmers as expressed through th. proposed People's Emancipation Party.' Quite a number of new branches have been.formed recently and with the,_heJp._o.JL. the. organizer many others, it is hoped, will be brought into existence. ' E. Winch is well known around Vancouver, having been active in thp International Longshoremen's Association and also Secretary of the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union / when it built up to a membership o'f 20,000 in British Columbia. / ' Any readers living in British Columbia towns desiring information or help in the formation of a branch of the I. L. P. should get in touch with E. Winch, 1230—13th Avenue, New Westminster, B. C. Philanthropists" SPREAD OF UNIONISM BRINGS PAY INCREASE Des Moines, Iowa.—In' an effort to stifle an organization campaign heing conducted by the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery-Workers, the management of the Rollins Mill here has raised wages from $2 to $8 a week on many jobs. According to Harold E. Steele, uni ion organizer, the 'majority of Rollins employees have already joined the organization. ~ A few men were discharged because of union membership, but a vigorous protest from business men and others seems to have ended the discrimination campaign, Steel said.. KANSAS CITIANS VOTE FOR BIG BOND ISSUE Kansas City.—At a special election recently, the voters of Kansas City and Jackson county authorized the issuance of $39,950,000 in bonds for construction of a new municipal auditorium and other public improvements. The expenditures are expected to , be spread over ten years, but the flrst effect, it is hoped, will be to materially relieve the dread of unemployment next winter. • Martin F. Ryan, International President of the Carmen, and one of Kansas City's most prominent citizens, championed the bond issuVlh a series of radio addresses, and undoubtedly contributed materially to the result Meanwhile, although none of them seemed to notice it, the brake was travelling at a furious rate, and swaying about from side to side. It should have been the last of the pro cession, but things had got a bit mixed up at the "Blue Lion," and, In: stead of bringing up the rear, it had taken, second place, just behind the small vehicle containing Rushton and his-friend. . Crass several times reminded them that the other carriage was so near that Rushton must be able to hear every word that was s.aid, and these repeated admonitions at length en raged the Semi-Drunk, who shouted out that they didn't care if he could hear. To,hell with him! Damn Rushton, ancf you, too!" cried. Bill Bates, addressing Crass. "You're only a dirty toe-rag-1. -That's all you are.! That's the only reason you gets put in charge of.jobs, 'cos you're a good nigger driver! You're a bloody sight worse than Rushton or Misery either!" "Knock 'im orf into the road," suggested Bundy. Everybody seemed to think this was a good idea,'but when-the Semi- Drunk attempted to rise for the purpose of carrying it out, he was thrown down by a sudden lurch of the carriage on top of the prostrate figure of the owner of the coach horn, and, by the time he had got right end up, he had forgotten all about the plan of getting rid of Crass." / Meanwhile Rushton and the Xlther occupants of the little wagonette had been for some time shouting to them to moderate the pace of their horses, but, as the driver of Crass's brake was too drunk to understand what they said, he toOk no notice, and they had no alternative but to increase their own speed to/avoid being run down. The drunken driver now began to imagine that they were trying to race with him, and became fired with the determination to pass them. It was a very narrow road, but there was just about room to pass, and he had sufficient confidence in his own skill witli the ribbons to believe that he could do it. The* terrific gesticulations and the shouts of Rushton's party only served to infuriate him. He stood up on the footboard and lashed the horses till they almost flew over the ground, while the brake, swayed and skidded appallingly. ■•, In front, the horses of Rushton's conveyance were also galloping at top speed, the vehicle bounding and reeling from one side of the road to the other, while its occupants, with panic- stricken faces, sat clinging to their seats and to each other, looking back with terror at their pursuers, who were encouraging the drunken driver and urging on the horses with curses and yells. ' ( However, notwithstanding his frantic efforts, the driver was unable to overtake the smaller vehicle, and, when the hill to Windley was reached, he reluctantly abandoned the race, while Rushton and his friends, without waiting to say good night, drove off towards Mugsborough as fast as they could. Crass's brake halted at the summit for the arrival of the others, and then, amid shouts of "good night!" and "don't forget six c'clock Monday morning," the bean-feasters dispersed and |he great event of the year was over. * —-_—.^CHAPTER XXIII. The Great Oration On the Monday morning after the beano a man named Jim Smith was painting an upper room in a house where several of Rushton's men were working. He was an odd-looking individual with a big body and short legs, and the other men used to say there was something wrong with the way that "Little Jim" was made. About ten minutes to eight, while he was waiting for the coddy to shout "Yo, ho," the signal 'for breakfast time, he began to hum seme of the tunes that had been sung at the beano, for, having rubbed down and stopped all the woodwork, and painted the window since six o'clock, he decided not to make a start on the door till after breakfast. He only earned 6 Vid. an hour, and, as he said to himself, it was a good two hours' work, and if he hadn't earned a bob he hadn't earned nothing. Anyhow, he wasn't going to do no more before breakfast. The tune of "For he's a jolly good fellow" kept running through his head, so he thrust his hands deep down in his trousers' pockets and begun to polka round the,.room, singing softly: \>r.< 'I won't do no more before breakfast! I won't do no more before breakfast! I won't do no more before breakfast! So 'ip, 'ip, 'ip 'ooray! So 'ip, 'ip,> 'ip 'ooray! So 'ip, 'ip, 'ip 'ooray! I won't do.no more before breakfast! • • .;;.< , ... .v etc'" "No, and you won't do but very little after breakfast, 'ere!"mhouted Hunter, suddenly entering the room. "I've been a watchin- of you through the crack of Ihe door for the last 'arf hour and you're not done a< damn stroke all the time. Make out yer time sheet and go to the office at nine o'clock and git yer m^ney. We can't afford to pay you fq. playing the fool." / Leaving the man dumbfounded and without waiting for a reply Misery went downstairs, and, /aitex bellowing at the foreman $o'r the lack of discipline oh the job; he rode away, having come in so stealthily that none of the men. knew oi his arrival until they heard hinr shouting at Smith, who did-not wait ;to have-his breakfast, but went off at opce. Most of the mean realized that this was th'e beginning- of another slaughter; it would only.be a matter of a week or two' before all the jobs were fin- ished'up. They were working at a larj, house called "The Refuge," nicknamed "The Hospital" by the men because, as the other jobs were completed, they were all sent on here, so tnat there was quite a crowd of them at work. All-the inside was finished except the kitchen and scullery, and everyone was busy on the outside. Poor old Joe Philpot, whose rheumatism had been very bad lately, was doing.a very rough job, painting the gables from a long ladder. But, though there were plenty of younger men more suitable, he did not like to complain for fear Crass or Misery should think he was not up to his work. At dinner time Philpot and Harlow were absent and everybody wondered what had become- of them. Several times during the morning they had been, seen whispering together and comparing scraps of paper and various theories were put forward to account fo rtheir disappearance. Presently the two truants returned, looking very important. Philpot was armed with a hammer and carrying a pair of steps, while Harlow bore a large pie.ee of wallpaper which they proceeded to tack on the wall, much to the amusement of the others, who read the following announcement, written in charcoal: ; Imperial Bankquet Hall — •THE REFUGE" On Thursday at 12:30 Prompt PROFESSOR OWEN Will Deliver a ORATION Entitled The Great Secret, or How to Live Without Work THE REV. JOE PHILPOT (Late absconding Secretary of the Light Refreshment Fund) Will take the chair and anything else he can lay his hands on. At the End of the Lecture A MEETING WILL BE ARRANGED And carried out according to The Marquis of Queensbury's Rules. A collection will be took up in aid of the cost of printing. When they had fixed the poster on the wall Philpot ascended the step* in the corner of the room with the back part facing outward to form a pulpit, and was immediately greeted with a tremendous outburst of hooting, howling, and booing, which he smilingly acknowledged by removing his cap from his bald head, winking his goggle eyes, and bowing repeatedly. When the storm of shrieks, yells, groans and catcalls had in sony degree subsided he addressed the' meeting as follows: "Gentlemen, first of hall I beg to thank you for the magnifient recep- tin yu 'ave given me, and I shall try to deserve your good opinion ,by shutting my mouth as soon as possible. "Putting hall jokes aside, I think we're hall agreed about one thing and that is that there's plenty of room for improvement in things in general. (Hear, hear). As our lecturer. Professor Owen, pointed hout in one of 'is lectures, and as most of you 'ave read in the newspapers, although trade was.never so good as now, there's more misery and poverty than there ever 'as been, and more small shopkeepers goin' hup the spout. Now, some people tells us as 'ow Soialism is the only, 'ope for the poor, but most of us don't know ex actly what Socialism means; and I say as it's the dooty of hevery man to try and'findhbut which is the right thing to :.vote for, and then to do what 'e can to 'elp to bring it about. And. that's the reason we've gorn to the enormous expense of engaging Professor Owen to come 'ere this afternoon and" tell us exactly" what Socialism is. So how I will caU.upon Mm to address your." Philpot was loudly applauded as he descended from the pulpit, and, in response to clamorous demands, Owen mounted the steps, beneath which the chairman sat on a carpenter's stool, with an upturned, pail for a table, a plumber's hammer in his hand, and a chipped jam jar of tea by his side. "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen," said Owen. "It is childish to imagine that any measures of political reform, or abolishing the House ' of Lords, or disestablishing the Church, or miserable old age pensions, or a contemptible tax on land can deal with the abject condition of millions of Englishmen, their wives and children. You may be deceived into thinking that such measures as those are great things. You might fight for them and vote for them, but, after you have got them, you will find that they will make no appreciable improvement in your condition. You will still have to slave and drudge to gain a bare sufficiency of the necessaries of life. You will still have to eat the same kind of food and wear the same kind of clothes and boots as now. Your masters will still have you in their power to insult you and sweat you and drive you. Such measures are not remedies, but delusions to distract your attention from the only real solution, which is to be found only in the public ownership of the machinery and the distribution of the necessaries of life, not for the profit of a few, but for the benefit of all! "That is the next great change, not merely desirable, but imperatively necessary and inevitable! That is Socialism!"- ' "Seems to me as if 'e's swallowed a b dictionary," remarked Dick Wantley. "Socialism;" continued Owen, "is not a wild dream of superhuman unselfishness. No one will be asked to sacrifice himself for the benefit of others or to love his neighbors better than himself, as is the case under the present system, which demands that the majority shall be content to labor and live in wretchedness for the benefit of the few. "Under existing circumstances the community is exposed to the danger of being invaded and robbed and massacred "by ■ some foreign -power. Therefore the community has organ ized and owns and controls an army and navy to protect it from that danger. Under existing circumstan ces the community is menaced by another equally great danger: the people are mentally and physically degenerating from lack of' proper food and clothing. Socialists say that the eoniniuiiily should undertake and organize the business of producing.and distributing all these things; that the State should be the only employer of labor and should own all the factories, mills, mines, farms, railways, and fishing fleets. "Socialists say that the community should undertake the business of providing suitable dwellings for all its members, that the State should be the only landlord and that all the land and all the houses should belong to the whole people. "The hundreds of thousands of pounds that are yearly wasted in well-meant but useless charity accomplish no lasting good, because, while charity deals with the symptoms, it ignores the disease, which is the private' ownership of the means of producing the necessaries of life, and the restriction of production by a few individuals for their own profit. And for that disease there is no other remedy than public ownership and cultivation of the land; the public ownership of the mines, railways. canals, ships, factories, and all. other means of production; and the establishment of an industrial civil service. "a national'.army of industry, for the purpose of producing the necessaries, comfortsi and refinements of life in all the abundance which has been made possible by science and machinery for the use and benefit of the whole of the peopler"' ;.._.„ ,..._JLL' L'-lYes.. and where's,. the money, to "comeTroni .Tor. Tall this?" shouted Crass, fiercely. " .-■.-..■- "Hear, hear," cried the man behind" the moat. "There's no money difficulty about it," replied Owen. "We can easily find all the money we shall need." "Of course," said Slyme, 'there's all the money in the Post Office Savings Bank. The Socialists could steal that for a start. And, as for the mines and land and factories, they can all be took from the owners by force." "There will be no need for force and no need to steal anything from anybody." "And there's another, thing I objects to," said Crass, "and that's all this 'ere talk about hignorance. Wot about all the money wots spent every year for eddication!" "You should rather say: What about all the money that's wasted every year on education! What can be more brutal or senseless than trying to 'educate' a poor little hungry, ill-clad child? We must see that the children are properly clothed and fed and that they are not made to get up in the middle of the night to go to work for several hours before they go to school. We must make it illegal for any greedy, heartless profit-hunter to hire their labor for several hours in the evening after school or all day until nearly midnight on Saturday. We must first see that our children are fed and clothed and cared for before we can expect a proper return for the money that we spend-on education." "I don't mind admitting that this 'ere scheme of national ownership and industries is all right if it could only be done," said Harlow, "but at present all the land, railways, and factories belongs to private capitalists; they can't be bought without moneyr and you say you ain't goin' to take 'em away by force, so I' should like to know how the b 'ell you are goin' to get em!" "We certainly don't propose to buy them with money, for the simple reason that there is not sufficient money in existence to pay for them. The people who own all these things now never really paid for them with money, they obtained possession of them by means of the "money trick," which I explained some time ago." "They obtained possession of them by usin' their brains," said Crass. "Exactly," replied the lecturer. "They, tell us themselves that tbat is how they got them away from us; they call their profits the 'wages of intelligence.' While we have been working they have been using their intelligence in order to obtain possession of the things we have created. The time has now arrived for us to use our intelligence in order to get back the things they have robbed us of." "Oh, then you do mean to rob them, after all," cried Slyme triumphantly. "When a thief is caught having in his possession the property of others it is not robbery to take the things away from him and to restore them to their rightful owners," retorted Owen. 'I can't allow this 'ere disorder to go on no longer," shouted Philpot, banging the table with the plumber's hammer as several men began talking at the same time. "T-now calls upon the professor to proceed with the horation, and anyone wot interrupts will get a lick under the ear 'ole with this" waving the hammer— "and the body will be chucked out of the b winder."' (Continued next week) Good exercise and dirt cheap— hoeing the garden. ■fc—*wes«"|"'mm, ii iiiiiyejessssss^l**BS| Page Eight r*- THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, June 26, 1931 DICK'S FEATURE SUIT 1 r $23.00 , The .extreme super^value of our feature suit stands' out so boldly you can see It at a glance. Examine them and you'll agree they're the finest value in the city. The tailoring fabrics and style are such as you only find in garments of the better qualities. Stylo is actually tailored Into the garment-*-not raere1y*preased In—.„■„ thus making a suit of lasting beauty and satisfactory wear. Pure wool fabrics, including worsteds, tweeds and serges, ln the latest weaves .and colorings lltanEEi DKlftgsasall Yonr Money'* Worth or Yonr Money Back HASTINGS AT HOMES j - • •' ■ . f* eTa\* i Y§ J .'.'*- '■' ■ i '■'-..- .~ B ■■ " • . : \ \HO0Drf -ar' satisfaction IN ■ICH ($6 For Printing QUALITY. SPEED AND SERVICE done in a Union Shop, send your printing to A. H. 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Timmlna 636 Drake Street Meeta Snd and 4 th Wednesdays Room 39 Williams Bloo., cornir of Granville and Ha»tino* Membersliip Taa - tl Per Year Women SOo After S o'clock Phon* Praaer 763I.-1 Day Phone: Pra**r 1ST Frank Parsons ABT FLORIST Wreath* ead Weddlnf Bouon*t ■ Mad* Up Or**nhon*e* TOW Wale* Bd.. Yaaooam ADOPT FIVE-DAY WEEK Minneapolis, Minn.—The Reliable Parlor Furniture Company signed a new agreement with Upholsterers' Union No. 61. Provision is made for tho five-day, 40-hour week, and a 10 per cent wage increase. • Civil War in U. S. Coal Mining Regions In thrc<e states civil war has broken o'ut between hungry miners and the. mercenaries of the coal barons who for years have failed to save this disorganized industry themselves and have stood in the way of all proposals to help it made by others. This war is on some occasions war—not just the "industrial warfare" of a strike, but a series of battles with wounding and killing, with barricades, clubs, shotguns and rifles. The latest engagement has occurred in the Pittsburgh district, where, according to The- New York Times, 'Thousands of miners, with wives -and daughters fighting at their sides, fought the police at two extremities of the seventy-mile strike district." At Westland, according to this dispatch, more than a thousand miners attacked mounted troopers, knocked one from his horse and beat him with his riot stick. One of the troopers trying to rescue him shot two of the miners, who were then arrested. The police charged the crowd and in the end dispersed it. At KI Is worth hostilities took place between a marching column of miners and a band of Coal and Iron Police barricaded behind an automobile across the highway. Missiles., were-thrown and the troops responded with tear . gas. "Screaming women urged on the attackers. Many children of fifteen or less took part." Another car filled with—armed—troopers—drove off the crowd. Miners, with their wives and children, do not go about the country attacking armed police unless they are driven to desperation. In West Virginia, a little earlier, there had been no violence of this sort, but 1,600 miners, with their wives and children, marched eighteen- miles to Charleston to demand food from the governor. The governor said there was nothing the state could do. In Kentucky even more, serious trouble has been occurring, which we cannot describe fully at this time because it has not been adequately reported. Men have been killed in Harlan County, however, in a battle between miners and mine guards at Evarts. Eighteen union miners and leaders are in jail under triple murder, charges, while a number of others have been arrested. Most of the murder indictments rest on the testimony of a company gunman,-: who was with the guards at the Evarts battle, and who later, while under arrest for drunkenness, was, he says, told by the miners in jail who had done the shooting. The Federated Press reports that in this district hundreds of families are hungry, and some have been reduced to begging, while the miners grow more bitter and angry. For a while the state militia,, who were called in after the shooting, gave thJeir left-overs to the miners' families, but this has been stopped. Sheriff J. A. Seaman, of Washing*! ton County, has forbidden all demonstrations, and dispersed strikers with tear gas and clubs. On Monday of this week one miner was shot to death and eight others were wounded in a bitter battle between striking miners and special deputy sheriffs after a large group of miners, carrying an American flag, marched to a mine at Wildwood, Pa., in defiance of a court injunction. The miners are asking for higher wages and an eight-hour day. The United Mine workers of America have 10,000 men from 31 mines out. Meanwhile, nearly 100 union officials*-and -sympathizers are awaiting trial on various charges. Warnings that wage reductions in the United States would lead to trouble were recently given by Mr. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. "Resistance even to the extent of striking," was the advice Mx.™Green gave to the workers. House and Sign Painters ,To Hold Joint Picnic Local 138, Painters and Decorators Union, and Local 726, Sign and Pictorial Painters, will hold a joint picnic at Selma Park on Saturday, July 18th. The usual good time is assured, and a good variety of prizes will be available for the winners of the many events. Tickets for adults are |1.50, children 75c. The boat leaves the Union Dock at :i a.m., and leaves Selma Park at 6.15 p.m. I. L. P. Activities It was reported at the regular Wednesday business meeting of the Vancouver Branch of the Independent Labor Party that new branches were being organized at West Vancouver, North Vancouver, 25th and Main, and North Burnaby. A Farmer-Labor Rally and Picnic will be held at Abbotsford on Sunday, July 12th. All I. L. P. members are to attend: A basket picnic will be held at the Second Beach, Stanley Park, on Wednesday, July 1st. Look for I. L. P. Ficnic banner. Take your own re- reshments and utensils. ' Five new members were enrolled and a large number of applications left -over to beinteTviewedDy'irtrbin- mittee. $1(1.01) was donated to the Provincial Executive for organization purposes. An effort Is to be made tp organize a Labor Choir. A delegation composed of Dr. Telford, H. Robinson, Mrs. Lorimer and Mrs. Graham will protest to* the City Council against the action of the police in Wednesday's demonstration, and also present the resolution endorsed at the Arena meeting. The Vancouver School Board will be asked to do all in its power to oppose cadet training in the schools, the branch will also protest against increasing the Technical School fees. And a protest will be made to the Provincial Government against increasing the size of classes. The question of National Insurance will be discussed by W. E. Turner at the next propaganda meeting on July 15th. Hot From the Oven What it means to belong to the Bakers' Union. Hasting's Bakery, one of our operating unions, has moved from their old address at 764 Hastings East to their new location on 688 Hastings East. I might also state that George Antilla, the proprietor of the Hastings Bakery displays the union label on all his rolls, twists and cakes and small goods. You are also assured that the quality of his goods are quite above the standard that is displayed. All you trade unionists give the cause a boost and patronize nothing but bona-fide uniOn-made labelled bread, cakes and rolls. —J.D.I., UNDERTAKER COMES TO LIFE AGAIN After an absence •oftavr -yija'tn from the Independent Undertaking Co. Ltd., C. Frank Edwards is again associated with them as general manager, at the new address, 705 West Broadway, and new phone number, Fairmont 528. ROBERT KIRK Robert Kirk is being inquired for by his sister, Fanny, of 156 Sunny- ville street, Belfast, Ireland. Was a prominent member of the I. L. P. The sister would appreciate information. PLANNING INVASION OF QUEBEC LEGISLALTURE Montreal.—The provincial legislature, heretofore undisputed stamping ground of Conservative and Liberal members, may be invaded by the Labor party at the next election if local Labor groups succeed in their plans to name a representative from Montreal. Foreshadowing this, Jack Cuppelo, president of the Montreal Labor Party, has requested the Montreal Trades and Labor Council for the support of the local unions and all industrial labor members. Uth CONGRESS OF THE TRADE UNIONS OF GERMANY The 14th congress of the trade unions of Germany and the fourth congress of the present German trade union centre- <A;D.6.B.) will-bo-held at Frankfort-on-Main on the 31st August and following days. The agenda will include the following important items: Economic Changes and the 40-Hour Week; Public and Private Enterprise; Development and Expansion of Labor Law. FAMILIARITY An old woman was suffering intense pain from what she believed to be a burst appendix. Her daughter sent for a doctor who examined the old lady and toltl her not to worry—that the pain would be gone in a few hours. "How do you feel now, Mother?" the daughter asked a short time after the doctor had gone. "Oh, I feel so much better since our new pastor was here," she replied. "His talk did me so much good."'; ' ' :' ;■■ . ; "Why, mother, thai wasn't the new minister—that was his brother the doctor," said the astonished daughter. "Well, for land's sakes," the old lady exclaimed. "You know I was just thinking that pastors nowadays get a little bit too familiar with a person." Mother says that the manufacturer of boys' trousers also invented barbed wire. Vaaceuver Drag Company (1928) \mbM Drugs at Saving Prices YOU HOT ONLY BAYS MONEY BUT HAVE THE SERVICE OT OYBB 40 QUALIFIED DBUQOISTS TO CABE FOB YOUB WANTS. FRIDAY AND SATUBDAY SPECIALS—JUNE 36th and 27th .26" 1.25 .60 .50 .50 J.00 .60 .65 .26 Curling; Irons .... .14 Household Scissors : : .69 Luxor Rouge with extra refill .36 Luxor Cold or Vanishing Cream -36 Luxor Cream :.. .36 lienauds Sweet Pea Perfume .36 Triple Compact with . Cigarette Case 1.07 Durham Duplex Blades „ .34 Kotex .34 Kleenex r.7.„- .16 .35 Big Chief Toilet Rolls (8 ln pkt.) _ 81 "5 Bathing Caps .4* .36 Papeterles - .' .81 .36 Pocket Combs '.. -81 .50 English Tooth Brush 87 .75 Crosby Blades (for old type razors) - 1 .33 .25 Dr.' ReliTs-Corn Remedy* 14 .25 Dr. Reld's Foot Ease 14 .50 Purltall Milk of Magnesia 86 .25 Seidllt* Powders (8 in box) .14 WE SAYB YOU MONEY. r . QUALITY — BBBYIOB — BAYING AIL PHONE OBDBBS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO VANCOUVER'S OWN DRU0 STORES—SIXTEEN IN THE CITY AT YOUR BBBYIOB I B. C. BARBER SUPPLY & SUNDRIES, LTD. f 64 HASTINGS STREET WEST, VANCOUVER, o.6r~ PHONE: TRINITY 5717 "' THIS WEEK'S SPECIALS ARE REAL VALUES - WILLIAMS' SHAVING CREAM, large ......'. 35 (26c tin Talcum Free) EVER-READY SHAVING CREAM, 60c slie :.'.. 39c (Razor and 2 Blades FreeJ NEW GILLETTE RAZOR—Choice 6 styles, reg. 11.00, for ."....,....„..,... .6? PAL BLADES—For old and new type razors ....*. 6 for 86o (1 Blade Free) t LILLICRAP GLASS SAFETY BLADE HONE—A womler 60s KING CUTTER RAZORS—Boker Solingen ..... 8846 SHAVING BRUSHES—Guaranteed makes 19o, 49o, 69c, 98c TOOTH BRUSHES—Regular 35c 19c, or 2 for 35c BOOSTER HAIR TONIC—For Eczema and Itching Scalp 76e and 81.00 HARRIS HAIR TONIC—A reaLdandruff. remedy $1.00 and 81.50 Try "City" Blades—They are good—S foe 25c) SPECIAL-Saturday Simmons Beds COMPLETE WITH ALL-FELT MATTRESS AND SPRING. STRICTLY CASH AS THIS IS BELOW OUR COST. $ 15 H orse GRAND OPENING—SEASON OF 1931 LANSDOWNE PARK JUNE 27th--JULY 1st TICKETS—Good for Seven Days' Racing, at any one track, for only $6.00—an average of 86c a day. Season Ticket*, (25.00. PROCURABLE AT 545 WEST GEORGIA STREET VISIT THE IMPRESS THEATRE SUPER WALKATHON 20 NOW GOING STRONG! -CONTESTING CANADIAN COUPLES-^ ONLY ONE PRICE 25c 20 ANY TIME—ALL |THE TIME il ".'<i'im,y. . i ■
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