The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1931-07-31
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note: i i\cn*7.»i-~- Shorter Hours of work for labor will aid in making- life and working- condilion, better for all who toil for •a living. OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE VANCOUVER TBADES AND LABOR COUNCIL Union Men of Vancouver ««• Irict earn half a million dollars each month, and spend their wisgea at home with friends of Labor. Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions NO. 37& VANCOUVER, CANADA, FRIDAY, JULY 31st, 1931 FIVE CENTS PER COPY B.C. Tobacco Growers Big Business, With the Aid of the Provincial Government, Seems tTo Have Carried Out a Plan that Was Meant to Control or Cripple the Industry JUDGING BY THE FOLLOWING story, it looks as 'though thc Prny in^in 1 V,Civerriva$fa\\ ;1w'i,tr86iylC''ira^feyi|itlVit ."BlQUt ■ififlBn.fhllai.m attempt to "Heat some hard working,people but of the fruits of their industry, and big business, having failed to get complete control of trre--grtiwirig ami ■maTiufactunTig'fSf_:t6b"acco7Tias"Ueen"7tirTner aided; by the powers-that-be in attempting to cripple the efforts of these tobacco growers. The story is told by the people who are growing ajid manufactiiring-"Home" and "Jack Canuck"tobacco, and can be vouched for by all kinds of documentary evidence. They are from the Isle of Guernsey and trying to make a living now in the province of British Columbia'. In "The Vancouver Daily Province" issue of Saturday, July 18th, hich yonld leave one under the impression that the suTCW-of-the- -~n~»«u_n.y_i,J,,,hi,,,,i i^t flia gov- tobacco industry in British Columbia was all due. to the firm of Davfd Spencer, Ltd., and to J. A. McKercher, a shingle manufacturer pf New Westminster, li. ('.' and also to one of those numerous government experts, A. J. Mann, from the Experimental Station at Summerland, B. C. This, however, is a misleading state- i-menir^ p—— — ' Tho said article admitted that "the hopes of tobacco gro#ersin thc Okanagan Valley were dashed to earth during 1928 and 1929." Why were -these unfortunate growers not better advised by the gove…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439177
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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