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: 1931-03-20
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note: Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions MO. 359-EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, CANADA, MARCH 20th, 1931 Organized Labor Urges Unemployment Insurance Present System of Wealth Production and Distribution Fails to Provide Large Masse* of Population With - Necessities of Life ¥JNE.MPLOYMENT AND UNDER-CONSUMPTION are the inevitable consequences of the present economic organization of industry, says a resolution which the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council' is forwarding to thc Federal Government in a request for the immediate setting up of a system of National Unemployment InsuranceTiTi order that workers, their wives and families might be insured against privation and want whilst living in the midst of plenty. There is an abundance of natural resources, land, timber, minerals, fisheries, water powers, etc., awaiting the energies of the toiling masses to turn them into useful articles of food, clothing and shelter. Labor power applied to natural resources produces all wealth, but at the present time there is an enormous num- beor of men and women who are waiting and willing to apply their labor power to the natural resources and the machinery of wealth production, and who, on account of there being no demand for their services are now in idleness and destitute circumstances. -->__«—■ Society has learned how to produce wealth in great abundance. There is no shortage of the things at hut human beings want, except in |he homes of the wealth producers. Yame any article you like and if [/on look close enough you will find in abundant supply of those articles, Lnt they are kept under lock arid ley until the workers obtain sufficient money with which to purchase |em. Underconsumption J But in order to obtain the money With which to purchase this stuff, they have to work for some employer of labor, some factory owner, some mine owner, some timber owner, some land owner or some machinery owner. But these owners find that the workers have produced faster than the…
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: 10.14288/1.0439179
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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type: Text