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: 1930-11-14
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0439182/source.json
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note: OWNED or Statesman Am CONTROLLED ^kt^-tW WlnlVAIKOUVIR TRADES AMD LABOR COUNCIL Tl BBbs-BBW ^ ■ n - Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions NO. 342—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, CAN Politicians Forget About Wa,erSt Unemployment Insurance Government Officials Trying to Find Work For the Unemployed Workers While the Markets Are Still Glutted With Goods 'T'HE POWERS THAT BE are confounded on the question of unemployment relief. With 10,000 registered unemployed in Vancouver and no signs of an abatement, public officials and business organizations are floundering around trying to find "work" tfor the'men who are now poverty-stricken and out of work because they have produced too much. A thousand jobs have been made and a mulligan of ideas are being suggested in an effort to provide the other 9000 with "work so that they can earn the money to buy the food to get the strength to go to work." Odd jobs, wood'camps and land clearing seems to be the most suggested things in connection with the situation. Nobody suggests that we should produce more foodstuffs, more clothing, more houses, or catch more fish or dig more coal. That is work, and productive work. The reason they don't suggest that is because most people know that the elevators are full of grain and we are shipping it out of the country as fast as we can in order to relieve the congestion, The warehouses are full to overflowing of other kinds of foodstuffs as well as the twenty million cases of salmon that were caught and packed this year. It's no use building houses because there are too many empty now, and no matter how depleted our coal bins might be, there are more coal miners waiting for a job ahead of us, that it's no use shipping our unemployed over to Vancouver Island or to the Eastern fields. Have Not Consumed Enough There is plenty of food, plenty of clothing, plenty of lumber, and plenty of coal, so why do we ask for WORK?- Why do public officials and business organization flounder around trying to find jobs for 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: 10.14288/1.0439182
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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