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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 men and women who are out of work, simply because they have produced too much and not consumed enough? What's the matter with giving these unemployed a job at consuming this overstocked market of goods? Why not let them get some beefy steaks into them instead of the cheap stews and hash so common to the. worker? Why not let them wear some of the best of clothing instead of the cheap shoddy stuff that they shiver in? Why not build sojne comfortable homes and burn down the thousands of delapidated shacks which the workers use for homes? Yes, why not let us get busy consuming things. We don't have to offer any prize for a suggestion as to how the workers are going to be able to consume more of the good things that they have produced. It is quite common knowledge that if the workers received about double their previous wage and worked half the time they formerly did when employed, that the machinery of production would be kept humming away in good style. And don't have any fear that we might not be able to produce enough to provide the necessities of life under such conditions. People are not going to stop inventing labor-saving machinery, and if we have to work another hour or two a day in order to keep things moving nicely, not many of us will kick about it. More Wage*—Less Hours Of course this condition cannot be brought about in a day, so instead of ..trying to find work for these unemployed, when it isn't really work they want (although many of them think' it is), we would suggest that we bring out the old skeleton that the politicians have so conveniently forgotten since election day. We refer to unemployment insurance. Relief in the shape of an unemployment insurance check would start everybody consuming again and it would not be long before some of these out*of-works would be provided with a job at doing something useful. While this unemployment insurance is relieving the tension, let's get a little sanity into our system by increasing everybody's pay and reducing the hours of labor. We can't keep on having ever recurring periods of unemployment without inviting revolution. And we can't keep the present system of private ownership in industry going without adding further to the introduction of labor-saving machinery. Increasing thousands of men and women are not going to continue to put up with a miserable existence when they are being continually educated to the effect that the present system of wealth production must be replaced with a new system in which the machinery of wealth production, the mills, mines, factories, railroads, etc., will be collectively owned. That is, that there will be common ownership of these things instead of the present private ownership, -which at present denies us access to these things which are collectively operated. It's no use governments and big business acting "like Nero, who fiddled too long. Unemployment must be relieved and relieved fast. A union we might the pape; street a; warehou: this week an O.VEMBER 14th, 1930 FIVE CENTS PER COPY ehouses y Chinese informed us that information for went down Water fruit and produce went down there bund that we had discovered another Chinatown. With only about two exceptions all these warehouses are now manned by Chinese and the white men who formerly held down the jobs are hammering on the' doors of the relief, office. These Chinese are handling the fruit, vegetable and dairy produce that goes all over the city, and we fail to see why these well-known and old established firms are employing Chinese while the 10,000 unemployed are registered and willing to do any kind of work. Union Meetings at Labor Headquarters nUBAT.a NOVEMBER 14th Milk Salesmen l Plumbers and Steamfitters 2 Theatrical Stage Employees, 9 a.m. 3 Machinists. 182, 8 p.m 3 Asbestos Workers : 201 Sheet Metalworkers, 314 311 Mill Workers Strike Against Wage Reduction Robertson and Hackett Company Uses Gunman and Other Unfair — Tactics in the Operation of Its Business in This City Engineers. 844 SATURDAY Bakers MONDAY Electrical WorkerH. • : .n: CAPITAL'S WAGES GO UP WHILE LABOR'S DECLINE In spite of the business depression, wages of capital have increased during- 1930, while wages of labor, and management have declined. According to the Standard American Corporation of Chicago, interest and dividend pa__iflents during the first nine montK!rsOT''lfchis year surpass by $635,070,000 the same payments during the same months of 1929, which broke all records up to that time. Dividends during the first three- quarters of the present year were $2,944,800,000. Those of the same period last year were $2,501,000,000. The labor movement needs workers. Contribute your bit to the pile used in building the structure of the new society. If you can not help, then do not hinder. Teamsters Stertotypern 3 Boilermakers 4 Glass Itlowers 201 Egg Grader* : 311 Cement Finishers .115 ', TUESDAY Trades ind Labor Council —._—... 1 Iroli Workers 2 Lithographers 313 WEDNESDAY Plasterers ■ 2 Elevator Constructors 311 Floorlayers 2 Mlllmen 3 Sign Writers i '. 315 PBIDAY, NOV. Sl*t Taxi Drivers. 8 p.m 1 Railway Carmen, No. 58 ' 2 Telegraphers :..- .'. \.......... 4 Molders ! 311 Lathers - 313 Engineers. 844 315 DECLARES "ARMISTICE" IN USE OF MACHINERY SACRAMENTO, Cal — An "armistice" has been declared in the use of steam shovels, tractors, and similar mechanical devices on certain public construction work in this state, Bert B. Meen, director of thc Department of Public Works, announced recently. At four construction camps being established by the state all work, in so far as possible, will be done by manual labor, Mr. Meen said. The "back to the muscles" movement will last throughout the unemployment crisis, and will provide about 2000 additional jobs. Alex. MacDonald, who is running for the Parks Board,' recently took first prize for having the best kept garden of its class in the city. 'T'HIRTY SASH AND DOOR MILL WORKERS are on strike against the Robertson and Hackett Company, who are attempting to force a wage reduction upon the employees. Tough strikebreakers are intimidating the strike pickets, and the company is using tactics that are unfair to other sash and door companies in the city. company uses doors for its telephone booths and recently had 36 doors shipped to Salmon Arm. The planing off of the Waco label was a bad job, so Mr. Johnstone told Robertson and Hacket that if he wanted to use United States made doors he would order them from the United States, but he wanted British Columbia made doors, and the Salmon Arm bunch wits no use to him. _ Sdme time ago the Robertson and Hackett Company notified its employees that they would have to take a 10 per cent, cut in wages.. Officials of the Mill and Factory Workers' Union took the matter up with the company, in an attempt to stave off the wage cut, but all efforts failed, so last week the men in the sash and door factory to the number of 30 walked out. Since then the company has managed to get some strike-breakers to fill the places of the strikers, and among them are some tough characters. One of these pulled a gun on a picket last Tuesday, so the picket had the man arrested. He was charged with threatening the picket with a revolver, and was sentenced to one month in jail or a $25 fine. Needless to say, the fine was paid and the man is back on his strike-breaking job. • Negotiations with the company have been attempted again this week, but the manager says that the 10 per cent, cut is final, and if the men accept it, the company will take back only those who the company desire. Imported Doors This is one of the firms who have been attempting to get British Columbia residents to purchase British Columbia made goods, yet it has been obtaining a lot of its products from a mill in Tacoma, Washington. It is alleged that just before the recent duty on manufactured lumber products went into effect, this company purchased about 5000 doors from the Tacoma firm. The trade mark of the Tacoma firm (Waco) was stamped on these doors, but just prior to the strike the Robertson and Hackett Company is alleged to have put some of its laborers to' work, planing the label off the doors, and had their own R. H. label put on. This is probably done in order to enable the firm to pass off the .doors as British Columbia made goods, but which, as a matter of fact, is nothing more than a cheaply made product from the United States. This company has not been able to get away entirely with the job of palming off these United States made doors. Mr. Johnstone, the construction superintendent of the B. C. Tele- This method of doing business is not only unfair to the other mills in the city who are not reducing wages, but is a 'contemptible and pernicious practice. Ten thousand doors would keep a lot of men employed, but when a company with the business standing that the firm of Robertson and Hackett is supposed to have lowers itself to such tactics, then it is time that these actions were broadcast all over the province. The strikers are not beaten by any means, and organized labor is coming to their support with donations in order to help them keep up the fight. And the men1 are determined to make it a fight to a finish. I. L. P. MEETING FRIDAY The regular business meeting of the Vancouver Branch of the Independent Labor Party will be held in the hall at Twenty-sixth and Sophia, this (Friday) evening at 8 p.m. All members are requested to attend. GARMENT WORKERS IN CANADIAN CAMPAIGN TORONTO.—A national organization campaign is to be launched by. the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. The union is already well organized in Montreal and Toronto, but large groups in Winnipeg and elsewhere are outside the fold. The union will also attempt to secure increased wages in Toronto, claiming that the minimum of $12.50 weekly, fixed by the Minimum Wage Board, is too low. " . A grindstone that has no grit in it, how long would it take to make an axe sharp? And affairs that have no "punch" in them, how long would phone Company, recently caught the j they take to make a man?—Henry company in. its act The telephone I Ward Beecher. National Five-day Week Urged In the United States Organized labor has shown the way out of the industrial depression; American employers must accept the five-day week; if the country is to progress, the worker must be given increased buying power. That is the position of Charleston H. Palmer, president of E. R. Squibb & Sons, one of the largest and most reputable .chemical and drug manufacturing companies in the United States, in an extraordinary interview, given the New York "Telegram" recently. "The only way to remedy the present economic depression is to remedy unemployment, and the best way to remedy unemployment is for American employers to place their establishments on the five-day work week basis," Mr! Palmer says. Not only is the n^g-diijL wggjc a, means of providing more jobs and thus increasing mass - purchasing power, Mr. Palmer declares, but it also means an increased economy of operation for the employer. That the shorter work week is of direct financial benefit to the employer is not a guess on the part of Palmer. His company instituted the five-day week in its factories and offices three months • ago and since then production has jumped 10 per cent.—from 80 per cent, of the theoretical maximum to 90 per cent. The sales department—all five-day workers—is also making a, record. Sales charts of the company show a steady increase over corresponding months in 1929. In October they were 9 per cent, higher. "We have adopted the five-day week simply because we feel that it is necessary in this industrial mechanized nation," Palmer,said. "If national purchasing power. If manufacturers wish to sell their products they must see that the workers of the nation have more money with which to buy their products—not less. "The money that goes into the workers' pockets is the true index and foundation of American prosperity." One of the biggest things President Hoover could do, Palmer declared, would be to appoint a commission to work toward national acceptance of the five-day week. "If all the industries adopted the five-day week," he pointed out, "that would mean that at least half of the unemployed millions today would be given jobs yoii don't practice what you __-eackl-_^Ji^ori'-iS*;.J.,,5t: !_£!_^Sg_y_S the sermon isn't very valid. "Unemployment has already cut nearly nine billion -dollars off the repattTTn a fettifn"of"norhiaT Business conditions. "And the increased cost would be much less than the loss incurred if things are allowed to continue without recognition of machine and economic conditions. "Dr. Thomas Reed, professor of mining at Columbia University, asserts that 35 'invisible slaves'— machinery—work for every person in the United States. But those 'invisible slaves' do not consume. They only produce. "The only available consumer is the human worker. And so, the only way to increase production is to bring it back to par—to increase the number of human workers. And the only way to increase the number of workers is to make more fobs, and the only way I know to make more jobs is for the employers to adopt It would co?t ejaplo^ers^the-fiverday week. . ._.._.-_-,,,„--- —.,,_. 1 ' ' ' '" ..„''Lainqr has shown the,w'ajfr;Ouri- factories are not unionized, but I recognize what organized labor has done." i_ TO 1 H Two '. THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, November 14th, 1930 RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggist" We Make a Special Effort to Oet Good* Ont by First Mall After Receipt of Yonr Order. CORNER CORDOVA. AND CimBlTiTi VANCOUVEB, B. O. Union Barber Shops List of all Union Barber Shops In the jurisdiction of Vancouver. Frank Blgmore 320 Granville Street Wm. Brennan 464 Granville Street Louis Mallln 736 Granville Street Francis Federicl.— Hotel Vancouver McLeod & Burk 818 Granville St. Fearle Ferris 973 Granville St. Harford E. Harris 1006 Granville St. Ernest Oakes _ 1114 Granville St. Joe. Watson 1167 Granville St. K. T. Jansson 1164 Oranvllle St. Ed. H. Weaver 2038 Granville St. Thomas Gaffney 2215 Granville Alex. Hammergren 2402 Granville St. Geo. Heyes .2714 Granville St. Sam. Port 1214 Granville St. Hastings St. West. Morris & Montcreiff :....B. C. E. Ry. Sam. Rose 47 H Hastings St. West Geo. Gibson 6, 165 Hastings St. W. C. D. Morgan Standard Bank Bldg. R. D. McDonald—837 Hastings St. West Chas. Smalley.— Pacific Bldg., Hastings Street East. Ben. J. Sanderson 71 Hastings St. E. Wm. Korlle U7 Hastings St. E. Alfred Llndahl 159 Hastings St. East Jas. I. Smith Royal Theatre Bldg.. Fred J. Senile... 244 Hastings St. E. Henry Hopper 2603 Hastings St. E. Archibald I. Leach..3785 Hastings St. E. Fred E. Rutquist 3825 Hastings St. E. Ed. Dann 4003 Hastings St. E. John A. Lind 4098 Hastings St. E. Frank E. Townsend-2474 Hastings St. E. Walter Westwood 425 Abbott St. J. P. Doherty 320 Abbott Street A. Adams Lotus Hotel Barber P. J. Kalley 14ft Broadway East James Paton.— 2528 Main St.' A. E. Gawne 2528 Main St. J. W. Green 626 Broadway West Chas. Wheeler 2792 Broadway W. R. Gardiner 3287 Broadway W. V. Peterson _ 341 Camble Street Thos. De Merchant 346 Camble Street .las. A. Jackson 2207 Camble St. Don. Robertson .320 Camble St. A. E. Gilbert _ 306 Carrall St. Felice Ciancl 309 Carrall Street Frank Caslsca 335 Columbia Aye. Thos. Bablos 330 Columbia Ave. Thos. Federicl 1834 Commercial Drive John F. Gerrle 1433 Commercial Drive H. F. Moody _.._ 620 Cordova St. Wm. K. Burns St. Frances-Hotel John A. McLeod 562 Dunsmuir St. J. B. Hughes > 565 Dunsmuir St. H. Odlin 602 Dunsmuir St. Sid. Cutt 761 Dunsmuir St. Arthur J. North .'....3291-Dunbar St. Jesse Workmnn 1191 Dnvle St. R. H. Parliament 666 Drake St. Nlcoll & Scott 560 Georgia St. W. Adolph Prlceppl Randall Bid);. Silverwood & Marsh Hotel Georgia Elmer Da. Motta 2558 Heather St. Thos. Patterson 312 Homer St. Joseph Pratt 434 Homer St. R. Gardiner __ 812 Howe St. Taylor Hanna Stock Exchange Bldg. H. H. maker Hotel Grosvenor. Howe St. J. Clark? 260 Kingsway G. W. Gatz 1837 Main Street Conrad Magnelson 2341 Main Street Glllett & Ross 2406 Main Street S. F. R. Cuddeford —.6482 Main St. David Wlllington Jr.... «4 Pender W. Eburne & Dietz .733 Pender W. Andrew Colwell 733 Pender St. W. Griffiths & Cheyne 607 Pender St. W. Geo. W. Cliff 1879 Powell Street Evans Bros 609 Robson St. Alex. Monroe _ 716 Robson St. Jas. McGhle 746 Robson Street C. O. Bierney. 850 Robson Street B. F. Dennison 611 Smythe St. Jas. Stevens 713 Smythe St. Hedley V. Tuff 523 Seymour St. Offa A. Hawes 425 Seymour St. Thos. Henderson 2139 Yew "Street W. A. Parkin 1620 Yew Street Alexander McLennan 5987 West Blvd. J. Wilcox 6031 West Boulevard Richard Harris...: 5351 West Blvd. Felix Frayle 5741 West Boulevard Chas. Oulton 2202 Fourth Ave. W. John Bennett 2720 Fourth Ave. W. A. W. Patrick 2924 Fourth Ave. W. John Bennett 2720 Fourth Ave. W. Arthur Reid 3713 Tenth Ave. W. Herman & Bob —1482 12th Ave. W. Henry Beaupre 2157 41st Ave. W. LLP. Civic Program TT IS A CARDINAL PRINCIPAL of Labor parties' that things collectively used should be collectively owned, says The I. L. P. News. Water, sewers, roads and bridges are among those public utilities almost universally owned amid operated in the interest of the citizens, to insure service freed from the profit motive of private. enterprise. Why not go further with this idea of collectivism? Many cities, particularly in Europe, where public ownership has become popular, run various kinds of businesses that readily lend themselves to community operation and development. Birmingham's municipal bank is a good example. This institution is of great benefit to home builders, its interest rate being less than half that charged here on building loans. North Vancouver, B.C.' George Or Range 57 Lonsdale Ave., Ed. Graham....e 210 Lonsdale Ave. Morris R. Whtttaker..ll07 Lonsdale Ave.. Jas. Wm. Colwtll..-„1535 Lonsdale Ave., Frank Underwood 124 Esplanadej Nanalmo, B. C. Don. Penneway Davenport Barber Dan. Dailey 142 Commercial St., P. Brennan 112 Commercial St.. Louis Perry 27 Victoria Crescent, Wm. Bate 40 Victoria Crescent, R. G. McMillan _ Courtenay, B. C. Arthur B. Gatz——..Cumberland, B. C. Chas. Spooner Cumberland, B. C. H. W. Shelby... Campbelton. B. C. Ed. Lowe — Ladysmlth, B. C. Henry Winstanley Ladysmlth, B. C. Nick Cameron Ladysmith, B. C. John Mintainsky Port Albernl, B. C. J. Burns Port Albernl, B. C. H. Du I la in,-1 Prince Rupert, B. C. Barnes & Judge , 213 Sixth St. Prince Rupert, B. C. - Hugh Young Powell River, B. C. Krnest Marsh West Vancouver HAIBDBESSEBS A. Meryl Afflack 106 Second St. E. North Vancouver Look For the Union Label This paper, in co-operation with International Labor News Service, is presenting illustrations of all the union labels. A group will be printed each week. The labels were furnished by Secretary- Treasurer John J. Manning oi the Union Label Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C. tflfflMntsntgk. Hard on the Executioners A Russian was being .led to exe-. cution by a squad of Bolshevist soldiers one rainy morning. "What brutes you boTshevists are," grumbled the doomed one, "to march me thrdugh a rain'lilce this/' " "How about us?" retorted one of the squad. "We have to march back." the necessity of annually running the gauntlet against this opposition. The method would also make for continuity of plans. The shacks and other temporary buildings used as Classrooms and now being discarded were a disgrace. Let us see they will not again be needed. Easy Money Another matter that affects school buildings, as it also affects other civic and government buildings, is the present , costly method of insurance against fire. Several years ago the Labor Statesman ran an article by Mr. F. Ewert Turner of Calgary, showing the tables of insurance rates and the amounts paid out through fire losses. The difference is so great that one can almost regard the money paid to the companies as a gift. The following resolution adopted at Medicine Hat last September advocates a different method. It says: "That this Western Conference of Labor Political Parties urges the provincial governments, the various municipal, councils and school boards of the provinces, as well as the Federal government, to inaugurate a cooperative Fire Insurance scheme for all public buildings in the provinces." Follow It Up This is a matter that needs attention from all of the parties mentioned. The resolution has been sent to the larger cities and municipalities in B. C. and to the government at Victoria. Support of this proposal now would help materially toward its adoption. Short. Rations It is the desire of the Independent Labor Party, through its candidates and elected representatives to keep to -Jthe front in civic poltics as in those of the state, the question of human needs before property rights. From the present number of unemployed rdgistered, it is now certain defeated by a persistent and obstruc- that the government grants will fall tionist minority of taxpayers. A levy short of providing relief for all in of one mill for capital charges for need. Further assistance must be public school purposes would remove requested.—I.L.P. News. A Progressive Move Vancouver has been backward in its public undertakings. But it is not too late to make a start. It can lay sidewalks and pave streets, construct sewers and grade r6ads. In' many ways work now done partly or wholly by contractors can be handled through the engineering department. Some of the sidewalks laid since amalgamation have been done by day labor on the advice of Alderman Maclnnis. This work has actually cost less than similar work done by contract. Contract work, besides, is seldom as satisfactory as that done by day labor. Unless vigilant inspection is maintained the job is liable not to be up to standard. Also there is the speedup pace the workers are, driven at, and the ever-present temptation to evade the fair wage clause in the contract. Our programme seeks to eliminate contract work whenever possible and substitute the plan of day labor. When contracts have to be let and when goods are purchased, the fair wage principle should be strictly adhered to. Living standards of the workers should not be menaced by the "penny wise and pound foolish" policy of "protecting" the taxpayer. Charter Amendments Several amendments to the City Charter are needed.- One has to do with thc present property qualifications which now prevents many electors from accepting nomination to public office. This should be remedied. The City Charter should also be amended to give the City Council direct control of the Police Department. The present method is far from satisfactory. Power to tax certain crown lands now in use industrially should also be sought. ,. Running the Gauntlet Our present method of financing the school system is out of date. Money bylaws for the building of new schools have repeatedly been Take a Chance By TED OLSON I have little love for the man who goes . Through life in the rut of a daily grind; Who follows a pathway left by those Who carved a way where he trails behind; A man who dreams of success afar, But fears the odds in the sporting game Of hitching his wagon to a star And taking a chance on a wider fame. It will make you or Face it out with Take a chance! break you; Take a chance! a smile, And though to defeat it may take you, You'll find that the sport is worth while. You can't know your strength till you try it In a fight with malign circumstance ; You won't reach the top, or come nigh it, Till you heed that refrain: Take a chance! Take a chance! Mistress Fortune is fickle, But a sportsman's the man for her eye; Back the game with your loneliest nickel, Go your hardest—and never say die; *Y6u may lose—but it's fun every minute, S If your blood has one drop of romance ; The game's worth just what you put in it; Make it big—-just by taking a chance. Most of the '2,560,357 golf "balls, valued at £161,330, imported in the United States last year were of British make.—British United? Press. Unemployment Will Continue With Us The expenditure of $20,000,000 from the Dominion treasury to provide employment will meet with general approval. There is nothing new about this method of furnishing relief. It is the palliative which has been employed repeatedl- under similar circumstances on previous occasions of trade.depression throughout Canada. • No gift of prophecy is needed to see that, after Canada has passed through the present period of unemployment, still another will be liable to come within a few years. Labor- saving machinery is tending to hasten the recurring periods, when the capacity to" produce goods is far in excess of the people's ability to buy the goods. Unemployment and trade depression occur at the point where goods cease to move over the retail shop counter. The Ontario Commission on Unemployment, under the chairmanship of Sir John Willison in 1915, endeavored to direct more constructive thought to this problem. The report said: "The result of their enquiries has impressed on your commissioners most forcibly the fact that the depression, which occurred in 1914 and 1915, was butJi phase of the movement alternating between inflation and depression, which is a characteristic feature of modern industry. A false sense of security should not blind the business world, in times of thriving trade, to the fact that wide- For Health, Strength and Beauty, eat our Whole Wheat Brown Bread. A wholesome body builder. Doctors recommend it. Fruit and Raisin Bread, Pastry and Meat Pies, Pumpkin Pies. THE ESTHER BAKERY Phone: Highland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST R. C. HIRST ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Electrical Flxturos Hardware Mechanics' Tools Faints, Oils, Lamps Radio Supplies Pips Fittings Tools Olen 370 4097 Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago, Nsiffitls, Bad Cold. MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. SEY. 3070 INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY VANCOUVER BRANCH Chiiirman - - A. J. Turner Secretary-Treas., R. E. TlmmlnB 536 Drake Streot. • Meets Second and Fourth Fridays 135 West Hastings Membership Poo - tl Per Year Union Tailor Shops BRADSHAW, A.—436 Hornby St. BEATON, F. W.—555 Georgia West. BUTT, CHAS.—1066a Pender West. CALLADINE, W.—4349 Main. CREELMAN ft MARSH—603 Dunsmuir. CREASEY, J.—718 Robson. son. GRAY, DAVID—164 East llth. HARTLE BROTHERS — 662 Seymour. HASTINGS TAILORS—2560 Hast- ings East. JEFFS, A.—2532 Main. MORGAN, T. C—1335 Granville. PERRIN & CO.—200 Blk. Georgia E. PERRY & DOLK—18 Hastings W. PETERSON, A.—14 Cordova W. PATERSON & NUTTALI 811 Dominion Bldg. RAY BROS. TAILORING CO.—80 Hastings W. SLOWIN, F. M.—825 Granville. SMALL, DAVID—4021 Kingsway. STORRY, H. F.—653 Georgia. VAN THE TAILOR—556 Georgia. TOM THE TAILOR—1542 Lonsdale, North Vancouver. COONEY & FOTHERINGILL—Hart Block, New Westminster. - spread unemployment is likely to recur in future." " Nothing proposed in this emergency session of the Dominion Parliament will operate in the least to lead Canada out of the vicious circle of inflation and depression. The borrowing of $20,000,000 for expenditure on public works is very much like administering a hypodermic injection to the body politic. The net result will be an addition to the public debt, with consequent heavier taxes. Along this path is the probability of recurring periods of unemployment through diminished purchasing power.—Ottawa Citizen. Cocktail Mixers' Union Owing to the influx of foreigners into the cocktail-mixing profession, the French union of hotel, restaurant and cafe employees has agreed to form a special section' for cocktail mixers.—"Daily Herald" wire. VANCOUVER'S LEADING UNION HOUSE 1 ; - : Jfe Private.Banquet Hall Prop.: Jas. P. Dwyer 762 GRANVILLE STREET PHONE: SEY. 3346 I HIMMMtiMsWPMMNIIMMMKMM ■.HIM 1 ■ i!■ i mi — m <——--■■- 1 Friday, November 14th, 1930 THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory LABOR HEADQUARTERS, 529-531JBJEATTY STREET Vanconver Trades and Labor Council— President, C. McDonald; general secretary. Percy R. Uengough. Office, 200 Labor Headquarters, 531 Beatty St. Phone Sey. 7195. Meets in Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the lirst and third Tuesdays in month. Bakery and Confectionery Workers' In- ternational Union, Local No. 468, meets lirst and' third Saturday In month at 7:30 p.m. at Labor Headquartera. President, Fred Cashman; Secretary's- Office, Room 304, Labor Headquarters; Hours: 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. I'hone: Sey. 3349. Beverage Dispensers' Union, Ho. 876— Meets last Sunday at 8 p.m., Room No. 2, Labor Headquarters; second Friday at 10 a.m. at the office. Pres., R.\T. Kane; Secretary and Bus. Agent, T. VI. Hanafln. Office: Room 1. Eagles' Hall, 535 Homer Street. Phones Sey. 4783 and Bay. 1656-R. Hours: 9 to 2 p.tai. ■rids;* and Structural Iron Workers, Looal 97, Int. Assoc.—Meets every Tuenday, Hall 311, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. President, JameB F. Burns, 2833 Turner St.; Secretary, P. Lauret,\ Room 311, Labor Headquarters. Phones: Office, Sey. 7495; Residence, Fair. 5167 R. Building Trades CooncU, Vancouver— Meets second and fourth Tuesday In Hail 315, Labor Headquarters. President, W. D. Wilson; secretary-treasurer, W. Page, Room 301, Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 7495. Barbers' Journeyman International Union of America—Local 120, meets second and fourth Tuesdays In each month, In Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. Prealdent, Fred Da we; Sec.- Troas., C. E. Herrett. Office, 304 Labor Headquarters. Bookbinders' Local No. 105, Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday in .month at Professional and Business Woman's Club, Empire Bldg., 603 Hastings W. President, G. Low, 61 53rd Ave. W.; Secretary, Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton St. Bricklayers', Masons' and Tile Betters' Int. Union, No. 1—Room 309, Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Wednesday, In Hall No. 3. President, L. Padgett; 2066 W. 8th. I'hone Bayvlew 1558 R; Secretary, W. S. Dagnall, 1244 East 20th. Phone Fair. 845 R; Fin. Sec. Albert Wright, 1050 East 25th. I'hone Fair. 6582 X. Camp and Mill Workers' PePderal Labor Union No. 31—Vancouver and vicinity, meeU every sec.ond Wednesday at 8 p.m., at 544 Powell Street E. President, H. Mlyazawa; Secretary, K. Tsuyukl. Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Local 452—President, Wm. Page; Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley; Business Agent, W. Hargreaves. Office, Room 310, Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m., In Hall No. 1. City Ball Employees' Association— Meets first Wednesday of each month at 25 Hi HastlngH East at 8 p.m. President, A. J. Harrison; Treasurer. W. J. Scribbins, 3208 Pender St. E.; Secretory, J. Tarbuck, 3517 West 25th. Civic Employees' Union, Local 38— Meets first and third Fridays In the month at 251U Hastings East at 8 p.m. President, John McRltchie, 604 Went Twelfth; Secretary-Treasurer, George Harrison, 3427 Triumph St. Egg Graders' Union, No. 11—Meets In the Labor Headquarters, first and third Monday In month. President, H. Gela, 3287 West 21st; Record Secretary, Miss D. Simpson. 627 Carnarvon Street, New Westminster; Financial Secretary, Miss Marjorie Deyell, 656 East 20th, City. Electrical Workers, Local 313, International Brotherhood—Meets first and third Monday, at 8 p.m., at Labor Headquarters. President, D. Mc- Dougal; Business Manager, E. H. Morrison. Office, 201 Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 3510. Engineers—International Union of Operating Engineers, Looal 844—Meets every Friday at 8 p.m.. Hall 115. President, F. L. Hunt; Rec. Sec. O. E. Jones; Business Agent and Fin. Sec, George Pettipiece. Office 306, Labor Headquarters. Phone Trinity 6434. Fire Fighters, No. 18, International Association of—Meets every month at call of President at 251% Hastings E. President, N. McDonald, 1136 McLean Drive; Financial Secretary, C. A. Wat- son, 1329 Thirteenth Ave. E. Floorlayers' Union, No. 187S, U. E. of C. k J. A.—Meets first and third Thursdays in month at Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President, Oscar Soderman', Fin. Sec, Jack- Nelson; Rec. Sec, John McDonald, 2905 West Twelth; Business Agent, W. D. Wilson, 1535 Fifth Ave. W. The Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Marine Cooke and Stewards.— Local 28, Suite 39, 413 Granville St, meets second Monday each month at 3 p.m., and last Monday at 9 p.m. President. Flo Allen; Secretary- Treasurer and Business Agent, Harry Wood. Phone Seymour 125. Ladies1 Auxiliary, Looal 171 —United Brotherhood of Carpenters — Meets every first and third Wednesday of each month In Hall 201, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. . C. J. Atkinson, 730 19th Ave. W.; Secretary, Elisabeth J. Hope, 1042 7th , Ave. E. ' Lathers, Wood, Wire aad Metal, International Union, Local 307—Meets first and third Mondays In month at Labor Headquarters. Secretary, F. Macey, .2466 West Seventh Ave. Phone Bayvlew 6831 L. - Machinists' Local 693—President, Thos. Sills, 1352 Burrard St.; Secretary. P. R. Bengough. Office. Room 200, Labor Headquarters. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays in Hall 313. Mill and Factory Workers' Union, Local No. 1599 —Affiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. Meets, first and third Thursdays in Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. Pros.. O. Campbell. Secretary-Treasurer, H. G. Avery, 2832 West 35U-. Motion Pictures Phojsotioniste' Union, Local 348, of I.A.T.S.E. * M.P.M.O— 11:30 p.m., first Friday in month, in Hall No. 3 Labor Headquarters. President, J. R. Foster; Secretary, J. C. Richards, Box 345, Phone Douglas 1574-R; Business Agent, F. W. Simmons, Phone Trinity 5708. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, Looal 146, A. F. of M.—Meets at the G.W.V.A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President. E. C. Miller; General Secretary, W. Coullng; Organizer, F Fletcher. Office. Suite 307-319 West Pender. Phone Douglas 2290. Painters, Decorators and Faperhang-ers, Local 138—Meets second and fourth Thursdays at Hall No. 2. President. W. Hunt; Rec Secretary, A. E. Varah, 1442 Clark Drive; Business Agent, Ed. Smith. . Office: Room 313, Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 3609. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Dock Builders, Looal No. 3404—Meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock in 122 Hast- Ingsg St. W. President, S. Goy; Jas. Thomson, Secretary, P. O. Box 320. o Phone Sey. 7874. Plasterers, Local 89—Operative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International Association—Meets first and third Wednesday In month at Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President, Mark Ualway, 829 East 67th; Phone Fraser 964 R. Cor. Sec, Harry West, 3276 West Sixth. Fin. Sec, E. A. Williams, 830 East 12th; Phone Fair. 5219 X. Cement Finishers' Cor. Sec, R. Welse, 1079 West Hastings; Doug. 848 R. Europe's'White Collar' Workers Are Organizing Plumbers and Steamfitters, No. 170, International Association—Meets every second and fourth Friday In Hall No. i. President, Art Jane; Secretary and Business Agen t.W. Watt. 305-7 Labor Headquarters. Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Local No. 69—Meets every second Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. in Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. 1'resident, W. W. Quigley, 2047 West Second; Secretary, Thos. S. Ezart, 1807 East Thirty-eighth. i Railway Carmen of America, Lodge Ho. 58—Meets lirst and third. Friday in month at Labor Headquarters. President, A. S. Ross, 5806 Sophia Street; Rec Secretary, J. D. Valllamy, 2215 West 15th. Street and Electric Hallway Employees, Pioneer Division Ho. 101—Meets K. P. Hall. 8th and Kingsway, first and third Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, J. • E. Smith; Recording Secretary, J. Price; Treasurer, J. Auton; Financial Secretary and Business Agent. H. W. Speed. Office: Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Sey. 5000. Sheet Metal Workers' Association, Local Union Ho. 380—Meets second and fourth Thursdays In Hall No. 3. President, Jas. Strachan,"2205 W. llth; Business Agent and Secretary, D. MacPherson, 308 I.abor Headquarters. Tailors' 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 Headquartera. President, Colin McDonald: Secretary, W. W. Hot-ken, 1582 13th Ave. S.; Financial Secretary, H. Nordlund, 1930 12th Ave. E. Taxi, Stage and Bus Drivers, Local 151 —Meets second and fourth .Mondays at 11:30 a.m and 4:30 p.m. President, A. C. Shaw. Office. 306 Labor Headquarters; Phone. Sey. 7495. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, ■tableman aad Helpers, Local 486—311 Labor Headquarters. Meets every First and Third Monday, Labor Headquarters. President, F. T. Goodrich, 631 Seymour St.; Secretary-Treasurer, Blrt Showier. Room 306 Labor Headquarters. '■ Theatrical Stage Employees' Union, Looal 118 of the I.A.T.S.E. ft M.P.M.O Meets second Friday In Labor Headquarters at 9:10 a.m. President, A. Harrington; Secretary, W. Park: Business Agent, H. Pearson, address, P. O. Box 711. Typographical Union, Ho. 338—President, C. S. Campbell; Vice-President, E. R. Bay ley; Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neelands, 300-2 Labor Headquarters. Meets last Sunday at each month at 2 p.m., in Hall No. 1, Labor Head- quarters. ■ Union Label Trades Council meets In Hall No. 4. Labor Headquarters, 529 Beatty Street, second and fourth Thursdays in each month at 8 o'clock. President, Colin McDonald, 2834 St. George Street, Phone Fair. 3317-T. Secretary, Mollle Dolk, 1587 Fifth Ayentie East. Phone High. 477-Y. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday in each 1Tm month. President, S. D. McDonald. Box 268. Secretary. Frank Derry. Box 498, Prince Rupert.B.C. .; Milk Wagon Drivers sad Dairy Employees. Local 464 -OfTi.v 308, Labor -^Headtraarters- Meets — -second — and fourth Frldays'ln Hall No. 1. President. T. P. Harbottle; Secretary- Treas., Blrt Showier, -2841 Triumph. Phone High. 6327. NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH -...'Secretary Trades ft Labor CouncM Boom 200—531 Beatty Street Phones: Sey. 74»5-«t7» In line with increasing its. international efficiency the delegates at Stockholm began a movement for ,the reorganization of the' I. F. T. U. At present the federation is made up of representatives of national trade union centres which represent a federation of trade union organizations in each country. Alongside of the I. F. T. U. there is the international bureau of the different international or craft federations, such as the miners, transport workers, textile workers and so on and so forth. The question of tieing these federations up with the central Amsterdam bureau of the I. F. T. TJ. was brought up but was referred to th.e executive committee for further study and report. The Afnerican situation offers an analogy in method whereby the internationals as well as state and city councils are represented in the one organization of the American Federation of Labor. Therefore, the proposed reorganization of Amsterdam may prove of interest to the American movement, whose abstention from Amsterdam was commented upon by individual speakers and hopes expressed that a round table discussion could be had between the leaders of the European and American movements to bridge the gap of a decade of separation. The headquarters of the I. F. T. U. were ordered transferred to Berlin, where they were before the war. As part of its insistence on the need of international institutions, the federation re-emphasized its support of the International Labor Office, though not without a note of some criticism as to lack of progress in social legislation. The miners' international federation was also critical and wanted more progress in securing greater uniformity in mining conditions. Strive For Short Week Notable among the actions of the Stockholm meeting was the itemizing of a policy of social legislation representing long-standing demands of European workers. By speech and resolution the meeting called attention to the differences of promises before the war and lack of fulfillment in granting the 48-hour week. It was pointed out that the produc tivity of labor now justifies even the 44-hour^ week, a step in advance of the aspirations expressed in the treaty of peace and the charter pf the International Labor Office. The program of social legislation laid down included all such time-honored questions as workmen's compensation, health invalidity and old age insurance, unemployment insurance and 4 family, allowances; additional protection for special groups like women and children; vocational education for the masses; right of association and a weekly rest and the dismissal wage, etc., altogether 25 separate demands being formulated. The problem of the older worker is bothering the civil servants and salaried employees. The question of amalgamation among these groups is growing and the tendency si to consolidate scattered groups. The organization of salaried employees' in general is about in the same stage of development as that of industrial workers a decade ago. Unemployment has been a serious question among salaried and professional workers. Among pressing problems are those of wages, the older employee, amalgamation of organizations, housing, classification of salaries and positions, the rights of inventors who are public employees, and retirement and pension legislation. Professional workers are becoming increasingly organizable and group conscious. An international congress convenes this month in London and will take action on 25 or more specific problems, including their international organization and relations. The International Federation of Neutral (non-political) Trades Unions reports the affiliation of labor groups from four countries. This new neutral group and the existing International Federation of Christian Trade Unions in general support an economic program not differing from that of the Amsterdam (now the Berlin) federation. The forms of labor internationalism have always been more varied than its spirit and purpose. Davis Urges Immigration Ban; Machine Affecting Everv Line BOSTON. — Complete restriction of immigration was urged by Secretary of Labor Davis in an address to the A. F. of L. convention. "It has been established that in the past two years 2,000,000 of our wage earners have been deprived of their vocations because of the tremendous increase in inventions," said the cabinet member, who insisted that this country has no place for immigrants under those conditions. Secretary Davis was formerly an iron puddler and in discussing the invasion of the machine he drew a startling picture of ho wthis highly- skilled craftsman is being eliminated from industry and his skill destroyed. "I have just come from a Pittsburgh district where a mill operates a new machine that does away with the work of 300 hand-puddlers," said the secretary. The machine, he said, turned out as good material as if the work had been done by hand, and that a single engineer has produced 24,000 tons of iron in 10 flours. Production of steel is now so improved, the speaker said, that one can toss a five-ton lump of iron around the mill with the ease of a ball player tossing a ball. The machine age has made it possible to conduct the entire process of puddling without the need of, a single puddler. Machinery in the steel industry, he said, has released 500,000 men. "Our old-time inventions came one at a time," continued the speaker. "We are today faced with a much more widespread increase along this line. There is no tan industry that is unaffected by the invention of the labor-saving machine. Every line has been affected. Common labor is seriously affected and the mechanical corn husker will do the work of ten farm laborers. Stock Smash Started Distress; Labor Demands Truth Be Told UNION CAFES & MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 Always Open Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE 76 Hastings St. E., Vancouver; B. C. r. WILKINSON, raim. o dungan. e«c. Reynolds' Cartage Co. LwrnD Phones: Trinity 1837-1828 Crating-, Packing, Snipping and Storage. Furniture and Piano Moving. Long Distance Moving. Pool Car Shipments. • OSloe snd Warehouse: 788 — CAMBIE STREET — 788 PERRY&D0LK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 Wilson & McNeill Painters and Decorators Everything pertaining to the trade. 3016 VICTORIA DRIVE Phones: High. 10S and Pair. 4148-: Castle Hotel Limited Visit the Finest Parlors in Vancouver; seating 500. Meeting Place of Union Men! 750 Granville St., Vancouver Phone: Sey. 7907 New York.—Wall Street surveys the wreckage precipitated by the stock market October 23rd, last year. The collapse was of record violence and stock values of 50 leading corporations dropped $7,770,000,000 after they were driven to dizzy heights by a propaganda based,on the theory that there is no limit to values. The smash came as quickly as the bursting of a toy balloon and propagandists and so-called economists have discarded illusions that stimulated this frenzied speculation. Post mortems without number have been held on causes of the break, but it is agreed that the major reasons were overproduction or underconsumption, widespread speculation and advances in discount rates. The immediate cause was the failure of London interests who threw their American holdings on this market and started the general decline The London failure, however, is as good an excuse as any other alibiifor it was certain that the top-heavy- financial structure could not stand. During the year every attempt has been made to minimize the resultant depression; The people have been assured that "prosperity is just around the corner," while financial interests were quietly and carefully unloading. During the last few weeks this policy has been abandoned and the public is realizing that the depression is not a mental attitude. The Boston A. F. of L. convention demanded less poetry and more facts. The Executive Councl was directed to urge the President to appoint a national emergency committee to encourage public, quasi-public and private employment. State Federations of Labor and city central bodies were urged to take similar action with the executives of their respective political units. This plan is being adopted by public officials. Its value includes facing realities and the abandonment of predictions to hungry men, women and children. , The trade union recommendation is not considered a final solution for uh e irtploym'on't.^lHit -li 7 intendeds.to -arouse the country to the present Bit uatipn." It is" a notice that pTophecy will not be accepted for action. Union Restaurants AMERICAN CAFE—796 Main St. BLUE GOOSE CAFE—1043 Gran- ville. BAILEY'S CAFE—322 Cambie. BOSTON CAFE—534 Pender W. BELMONT CAFE—1000 Blk. Granville. BANCROFT'S CAFE—338 Hastings W. BROADWAY CAFE-^-105 Hastings E. CENTRAL CAFE—608 Pender W. DOUGLAS CAFE—844 Main. EMPIRE CAFE—76 Hastings E. FRED'S DAIRY LUNCH—72 Hast- ings W. GREEN MILL CAFE—419 Abbott. GOLDEN GATE CAFE—130 Hast- ings E. LEONARD'S CAFE—831 Granville. LIDO CAFE—732 Main St. LOVE'S CAFE—823 Granville. MELROSE CAFE—724 Hastings W. NEW ORPHEUM CAFE—762 Granville. NEW GOOD EATS CAFE—619 Pender W. OAKS CAFE—326 Abbott. OLYMPIC CAFE—720 Pender W. PETER PAN CAFE—1138 Granville. PRESIDENTS' CAFE—938 Granville St. PROVINCE CAFE—736 Main St. STANDARD CAFE—615 Dunsmuir. YE OLDE ENGLISH FISH ei CHIP Restaurant No. 1—614 Robson. YE OLDE ENGLISH FISH ft CHIP Restaurant No. 2—44 Hastings W. ALLEN'S CAFE—New Westminster. FRASER CAFE—New Westminster. MINTO CAFE—New Westminster. WORK FATALITIES UP Albany, N. Y.—During September the deaths of 182 men and women, as a result of industrial accidents, were reported to the State Department of Labor. This represents an increase of 27 over the August total and is 11 more than the September average for the past five years. Don't be blind to your own interests, unionism helps all workingmen, all society, the home and state. . Don't say: "Unions can't accomplish ttletr purpbsi-." TlliBy--"dbT Over 7,000,000 of union men say so! "V. ' ! Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, November l^th, 1930 The Labor Statesman / to rob the farmer, they will have to live together also, so that the one may use the other's clothes while he is in bed. at Labor B.C. Published every Friday, Headquarters, Vancouver, Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. H. W. Wafts. Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE: Walter Deptford. Chairman; W. Watt (Building Trades Council); P. It. Bengough (Machinist Trades), R. H. Neelands (Printing Trades), Dan McPherson (Building Trades), B. Showier (Teaming Trades), T. Hanofln (Beverage Trades), C Herrett (Label Trades). Subscription Rates: $2 per Year; to Unions, 16c per month per member. Phone: Sey moo* 6279 Chief Bing;ham is reported as stating that he has reduced the costs of feeding prisoners in the city jail from 58c to 16c per day per man. If this means what it says, it might be a good plan to put Chief Bingham in the city jail for a week. The local Liberal organization has passed a resolution of sympathy with the unemployed.- If the Liberal had "resoluted" his sympathy twelve months ago, we would have more confidence in him. Vancouver, Friday, Nov. 14, 1930 ... Referring to the alleged influx of unemployed to Vancouver The Province editor says: "We have a reputation for being kind to the destitute." When, and how in heck did this happen? SKIMMING THE FAT OFF At the present time there are two airmen and a so-called "prospector" lost in the wilds ot northern British Columbia, and another three men going to their relief—lost near Prince Rupert. A year ago a similar group was lost on the Arctic coast of Canada, and on this occasion there was the same story of the searchers themselves being repeatedly lost. The affair of a year ago ended without mishap, unless the miserable light that the abandonment of one of the search parties shed on certain Eastern interests can be called a mishap. In the present instance, every additional day carries with it a stronger suggestion of tragedy, while from where we are now at, the right and only thing to do is to And these men, if they can be found. But there is more than this to be said on the matter. Who paid the bill in the case of the affair of a year ago, and who is paying the bill at the present time for the planes searching in northern British Columbia. Between the northern fringe of settlement and the Arctic islands there is from a thousand to fifteen hundred miles of scrub timber, muskeg, lake and glacial-worn rock. An aeroplane forced down in this area has more chance of being destroyed than of finding a safe landing site; and even if it is fortunate in this respect, unless the machine can be got going again, it's human crew have very slim chances of reaching any settlement. The lure that attracts aerial navigation in this area is* the hope of locating minerals. During former times the prospector worked out as far beyond civilization as his legs, a burro, or a canoe could carry supplies, and in this case anything of value discovered encouraged settlement to make the next step forward. The old-time prospector was the most useful pioneer that this western continent knew. The aeroplane "prospector" is either an individual of some considerable means, or a financial organization, and the motive of this class of work is to step ahead, altogether beyond the reach of the ordinary or- everyday citizen, and drive stakes—Me sacred symbol of private property, into anything which, not this but the next generation may, by the extention of settlement, give value to. This greedy form of prospecting has nothing in it to recommend it, and it wipes out a class of man that we can ill afford to lose. The suggestion which we wish to offer is that aeroplane grabbing be absolutely prohibited. The operation has its roots in greed, and because all that the method can -accomplish for the public would be accomplished at about the same time by the man on "foot. There is therefore no reason why the state should permit grave risks to be taken and stand by ready to shoulder any part of the burden when trouble occurs. There is abundant precedent for the course which we advise. In Australia, areas have at different times been withdrawn from staking, and the same in South Africa. The latter dominion opens a district for prospecting at a given hour, and excludes every human being from the territory until that hour, and prohibits every scheme of locomotion other than two legs. In our own country, during the Yukon rush, the police stood at the. head of - the river and turned back every man- who failed to show 'adequate equipment and sufficient supplies. Aeroplane "prospecting" belongs to the same class as hunting with a pump gun or netting the pool. It is One hog trying to grab up all that is in sight—M. Down in California, the State is laying off the "machine" in order to provide jobs for the unemployed, which shows that the idea of "work" is so deeply imbedded in us that we don't know how to take advantage of the labor saving productivity of the machine. Why not let the machine do the work and give the workers increased pay and more leisure? Ta. Musicians' Notes By Con Sordine % Hi* -Mr.^Beattie of ffl»-C P; R. says that the Prairie farmers should club together and use the same implements and machinery. "The Furrow" a Saskatoon radical paper, think that if Mr. Beattie and his gang continue The pending election of officers of the Local for the coming year promises to be a spirited one, which, of course, denotes a keen interest in the affairs' of the Union, is being taken by the members. The candidates to be ballotted upon are: For president: Bros. J. Bowyer, E. C. Miller and F. G. Weaver; vice-president: Frederick Brown; general secretary: W. Couling, C. E. Fitzgerald, J. Whitworth; executive committee: W. F. Arm, W. G. Bremner, W. Haywood, J. Kennedy, F. Mulgrew, R. O. Perry, H. Slatter, F. S. Stowe, H. Stocker, E. White, H. J. Wilson; trustees: E. Cox, H. G. Hunt ' * * * As our members are beginning to feel that musicians are being exploited in various interests when they are asked to give their services for the many charity concerts held during the Christmas season, in aid of various Christmas Cheer Funds, it has been decided that it would obviate this feeling if the musicians and stage hands gave one monster concert, and divided the proceeds among the 'newspaper funds. A committee has been ordered to put the matter in hand. Who's Who Oo I. LP. Municipal Ticket Wallis W. Lefeaux, aldermanic candidate in Ward One. Thirty years in the province, twenty-five in the socialist movement, and has been a candidate for office on several occasions. Has a wide business experience, and is a barrister. H. W. Watts, aldermanic candidate in WBrd Six. Twenty years on the coast, was identified with the socialist movement in other parts of Western Canada, prior to coming to Vancouver. Has edited several labor papers and now edits the Labor Statesman. Walter Deptford, aldermanic candidate in Ward Seven. Well known in the trade union movement, and chairman of the annual Labor Day Sports... He has served for five years on the Town Planning Commission; has been a motorman for -the last thirteen years. Susie Lane Clark (better known as Mrs. J. A. Clark), candadite for School Board. Mrs. Clark takes an active interest in social and economic problems, particularly those affecting women; is a member of the Local Council of Women; a resident of Mount Pleasant for many years. ' R. H. Neelands, also a candidate for School Board, is too well known to need much reference; has served two terms in the Legislature at Victoria, and was on the School Board in South Vancouver for many years; is now a member of the Police Commission, and is the popular business agent of the typos union. R. E. Rigby, also a candidate for I School Board, has been a member of the street car men's union for over twenty years; has served on its executive at different periods, and has always lined up with the political wing of labor; was chairman of the South Vancouver School Board at the time of amalgamation. Alex. MacDonald, lone labor candidate for Parks Commissioner, is well known in South Vancouver, where he was a member of the council prior to and at time of amalgamation. His experience as chairman of the Parks Committee would be useful if elected. Has been a motor- man for over twenty years, and is a prize-winning horticulturist.—I. L. P. News. A movement is under way to'tighten up the conditions of entrance into the Local. The membership will act upon the proposals at next general meeting. Farmer-Labor Party Elects State Governor time, the* Farmer-Labor party has elected a governor of Minnesota. Floyd B. Olson wins by 125,000 majority—or more. The party tried to make the grade to the State Executive Mansion with Lindbergh's father, with Magnus Johnson, and with -Senator Shipstead before he became senator. Each time it lost; but this time it has won. » The governor of Minnesota has large powers and much patronage at his command, so that the Farmer- Labor party has captured a powerful strategic position, as well as gained a high office. Olson had the earnest support of organized labor. The state heads of all the Standard Railroad Labor Organizations endorsed him. Olson is county attorney of Hennepin county. His.father is a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, and so was Floyd, until he became-a lawyer. He exposed the dynamite frame-up of 1920, when the Citizens' Alliance hired a "hophead" to plant dynamite in union headquarters, where it could be "found" by a properly timed raid. Olson ripped the whole plot to pieces, and publicly declared that the president of the Citizens' Alliance ought to be sent to the penitentiary. In 1928 and 1929 Olson prosecuted grafters in the Minneapolis city council. Some of them are now looking through gratings as -a result. pur own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness; not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.—James Russell Lowell. Ten Millions Paid For Old Age Pensions OTTAWA, Ont.—Canada paid out $10,305,909.89 to 47,291 old age pensioners up to the end of June, 1930, according to Hon. G. D. Robertson, Minister of Labor. The old age pension system now covers all of Canada west of Quebec. The New Brunswick legislature has adopted, the necessary legislation and it will become operative onSi declaration by the government. ' During the last election campaign the Conservatives declared for a national system of old age pensions, instead of the present arrangement by which the cost is divided between the Dominion and the provinces on a fifty-fifty basis. ^ This will probably be adopted at the coming regular session of Parliament. The pensioners are divided among the provinces as follows: Alberta, 2,341; British Columbia, 4,702; Manitoba, 5,283; Ontario, 30,208; Saskatchewan, 4,603; Northwest Territories, 4. It is an interesting fact that 23,620 are men and 23,671 women. A RISKY INVESTMENT A group of 22 American bankers agrees to loan $125,000,000 to Germany. The money will be used to meet the Fatherland's obligations to the Allies. The same process has been going on since the Treaty of Versailles. For how long can Germany persuade American financiers to make the advances needed to pay her war debts? If the bankers are using their own money, the rest of us have no reason to complain. Eventually, however, they will attempt to shift the burden by unloading German bonds at tempting interest rates on gullible investors. Then those who have a few dollars to invest should remember that the German budget for this year shows a deficit of approximately $260,000,000.—Labor. DETROIT TO WINDSOR * TUNNEL IS NOW OPEN DETROIT.-—The vehicular tunnel under the Detroit River between here The first •ressori "of ttfo j» tu bnrgl»W$ Windsor,--©nfc}-wasMipeWr} for traffic last Monday. It has a capac ity of 1000 motor "cars each way every hour. Now Canada may be reached from this side in three way3 —ferry, bridge and tunnel.. GRAY CABS 50' ALL UNION DRIVERS. for first TWO MILES snd 10c for each sdditlonal HALF MILE. NO CHABGE FOB EXTRA PASSENGERS. Ton only pay for the distance actually travelled. ONLY ONE RATE, DAY|OR NIGHT. SEYMOUR 7131 B. C. MOTOR TBANSFOBTATION, I.TD. Note onr New Phone Number: WAR IS ON! WE HAVE DECLARED WAR ON FURNITURE PRICES. BUY SATURDAY TO GET THE GREATEST VALUES. Three-piece Chesterfield Suite, covered all over in a richly woven imported tapestry. You will be stupned by the remarkable beauty of this set. Sale Starts at 8:30 a.m. and continues until 6 p.m. (if the stock lasts). Dominion 1082 GRANVILLE $78-50 CASH or TERMS R-I-S-K! 1 O-DAY, the lure of easy profits induces many to run the risk of financial disaster—to-morrow, the vision of wealth may be rudely shattered. a, ' What will the future hold for you?—a comfortable balance in the Bank or vain regrets for hasty action. Yqu will like hanking at the Royal. 3001 The Royal Bank of Canada Vancouver Branch 22 Offices in Vancouver. A. T. Lowe, Manager '61-Branches in British Columbia RAILWAY CLERKS ARE MAKING STEADY PROGRESS The membership campaign of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, on the Canadian National, is making satisfactory progress, the conference was told. Ten Brotherhood organizers are assigned to that system and new local unions have just been installed. Two or three more will be instituted within the coming fortnight, it was reported. "Whole-hearted support and cooperation" waB pledgtfd to the Canadian .campaign. "Believing that the International form of organization is the logical one for the workers of both the United-StaSei ^8$9$f1S9_^g-PifP claration said, "we assure the employees of large railroads of our sincere. Lr4ere*t..in,.tfe»ii_;;pHiblemg -and. pledge our consistent support to solve their problems as they,arise." WORKERS LOSE BILLIONS The collective wages of American labor, not counting government employees or farm workers, are nearly $9,000,000,000 lower this year than last, according to a survey by the Standard Statistics Company of New York City. , This company's clients are practically all firms or companies which employ labor, so there is no bias in favor of the workers. The workers' earnings in 1929 are given at $44,- 607,000,000, and those of 1930, at $35,764,000,000. . This leaves a deficit in the workers' buying power, the company .joints Truer of .'-fg^&OOftjtiOO:~^Part of this decline is due to a decrease, of nearly 4,000,000 in the number of .workers employe-), and partly to a decline of $120 in average yearly \yages. • . . J','. ^ '■ " Friday, November 14th. 1930 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five i > ■ *— r\ a Q*-! cl a -T- r- 11 -">•■*, ••... lAU ' INCORPORATED 2»? MAY !«■">. Other Branches Bt Wlnnlper. Terktoo. Bukatan, Rdmnnton, Ciliary, Lethfcrlder Net ion, Vinton, Kamloopi Victoria. - HBC WORK SHIRTS $1 -50 1 TT'S the working man's idea of a good shirt. Of serviceable quality drill — roomily cut — reinforced where the wear comes most—and fitted with two roomy breast pockets. Colbrs of blue, black, khaki; in sizes to 17. DOWNSTAIRS ECONOMY FLOOR—H B C age -that's one secret of good flavor Thesebeersare very highly recommended as an aid to digestion because they are properly brewed and aged. They have a beneficial place in daily routine, especially in the life of the working man, because good beer is invigorating and strength replacing. Owing to the great percentage of extracts, together with the low alcohol content, these beers are an aid to digestion and healthful stimulants. At all Gorernmenl Liquor Stores (tint Beer Parlors sPILSENEE LAGEE CLUE I Dl .ECN LAGER CASCADE PALE OLD Mil WAIJM.E LAGER % o This advertisement is not published or displayecTby the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. 51 REGENT TAILORS $26 159 Hasting* Street West Opposite provisos Every garment tailored strictly to measure by Union tailors. One price ssss»sssaBst-_____Ms_____--__---_i___-^v Liberty is' the right to think and choose for oneself. What liberty choosing for oneself. He who thinks liberty worth the trouble, arid actually likes the trouble, is the .only realry" free • "Englishman.—Bernard Shaw. '.:'• • KNITTERS' WAGES CUT READING, Pa.—The Berkshire Knitting Mills, the biggest anti-union plant in the full-fashioned hose industry, has cut wages 30 per cent., according to officials of the American Federation of Full-fashioned Hosiery Workers. This makes a total reduction of 50 per cent, since January 1, 1930, it was declared. About 10,000 men are affected. STRIKE IS SETTLED GALVESTON, Texas.—The strike of 3500 longshoremen here and at three other Texas ports was settled last: Sunday, -when union . off wials, and representatives of- shipping firms signed a new agreement covering wage rates and other conditions. Thirty -ships were tied up by the walk-out Big Job Ahead For Doctor Mcintosh Several drastic changes have taken place in the different departments at the City Hall, but most important of all wiil be the posi6ion*of head of the. Health Department. Dr. Underhill retires after long years of service, and Dr. Mcintosh has been appointed to take charge of the Health Department, same to commence on January 1st. Without doubt, we believe the position of bead of the Health Department is the most important office in civic affairs. A great responsibility rests on the shoulders of Dr. Mcintosh, and we wish him every success. He has already had considerable experience in health affairs, and we believe he has all the necessary qualifications, and comes highly recommended, having successfully filled the position as Doctor of Health in the municipality of Burnaby. No doubt new methods and some drastic changes will take place, when Doctor Mcintosh takes charge, and we believe he has the ability and determination in demanding that no obstacles will be placed in his way, and that he will have a free hand in placing the Health Department on a sound footing, and in a manner comparable with Toronto and other large Canadian cities. The Trades and Labor Council, and the Plumbers and Steamfitters' organization of this city, who are in direct touch with sanitation here, have been before the City Council on many occasions advocating certain sanitary measures. We have repeatedly tried to get the present head of the Health Department to adopt new methods. We have crit- ized him very severely of late, and rightly so. We were asked by the Mayor and Council to back up our charges by placing before them specific evidence of infraction of the health and plumbing bylaws. We placed before them over forty specific cases, which we gathered in one week, and a number of these cases were most detrimental to the health of employees. For instance, the first case pointed out that 16 men were employed in a factory without any toilet or sanitary equipment, not even drinking water in the building. Few people would believe that such a state of affairs would be allowed to exist in the city of Vancouver. However, we have been told that the plumbers' organization is merely trying to create some work, and making a great deal of trouble about small affairs. But the plumbers' organization will keep on critizing the Health Department and City Council whenever we find the health of our people is being ignored, and our city health bylaws not being enforced. It has only been through continually fighting for sanitary laws all over this American continent by the plumbers' organization that today we enjoy all the modern sanitation in our homes and workshops, etc., and the plumbing craft, in its relation to society, has been one of the greatest human forces in the advancement and progress of civilization. The writer recollects very clearly when he appeared before the City Council, about four years ago, on a question of sanitation, and one of the city aldermen, now dead, told him he did not think one-half of our sanitary and health bylaws were necessary. In fact, when he was a young fellow there was no such animal as a plumber. He then told a joke about the plumber, and he said most of the jokes told were either about a plumber or a Scotchman. Fortunately, or otherwise, I happen to be both. However, this is mentioned to show that the plumbing craft has not got its just credit, and this alderman mentioned was all wrong, because the plumbing craft and trade is one of the oldest. In fact, we have records of over five thousand years of their great achievements for the well-being of humanity and civilization. History and science has expressed and truly recorded the vital and magnificent part played by the men of the plumbing craft, and our predecessors, in not only advancing and creating a better civilization but as a consequence, was one of the greatest factors in sustaining and bringing to us the great economic and political liberty and freedom that we enjoy today. From the same authoritative source, which is universally recognized as genuine, it is a noted fact that the great nations of antiquity reached the apex of their prosperity and civilization because of the. profound and exacting enforcement of their ethical sanitary laws and their daily and constant use of their splendid sanitary equipment, which they excelled in and which was on a par with that which we install today. Because of this ethical and exacting The Present Situation I suppose that you have all heard at some time or the other about the fellow who fell out of the balloon. It may not be generally know, but his greatest trouble seems to have been "that he was not in it,' and he certainly wasn't in it with some people we could mention. Now only the other morning, much to our surprise, we were greatly disturbed by the sounds of an altercation taking place in the outer office, and on sending one of our staff to ascertain the reason was informed that there was an individual there who insisted on seeing us about the present situation. "But," we said, "there are no situations at present; in fact, I don't know where one.could look for one. Didn't he see that notice 'no help wanted' on the door? Tell him there's not likely to be any situations round here for some time to come." When, to our intense surprise, who should have the unparalleled audacity to walk in but Archibald. "Well!" we said, "of all the nerve, where have you been lately?" "Oh," he replied, "I thought you didn't appreciate my efforts, so, I like a fellow that .1 once knew that went up in a balloon, I dropped out, but as I happened to be passing, I thought I would drop in again and show you this."—P.A.B. I'm a little uncertain just how to begin, For I know its been frequently said "That fools, in their folly, will often rush in Where angels- are- fearing to tread." And sometimes a notion does come to my mind That angels must pause in their flight Who stoop to inspire me, for sometimes I find They are guiding my pen as I write. If the heights of Olympus I ever attain, It will certainly fill them with mirth When I make an attempt just to try to explain The conditions prevailing on earth. Where we seem to endeavor to hasten our doom Through a system of pitiful greed. Some blessed with a surplus they cannot consume, Whilst others are dying of need. Through our production its little we score Since it makes all our troubles in- ' crease, And people they say are now looking for war Where once they were looking for peace. For there's money in plenty, when fightings afoot And these people are clothed and are fed; All those unemployed in the army are put, And they make some fine heroes when dead. When you stop to consider this state of affairs, Why it seems to be almost a joke, That this world is today over-stocked with our wares While most of the people ate broke —P. A. BEALL. BBOTSFORD iWood&CoalCo.Ltd. "Satisfaction Guaranteed or Mousy Refunded" THE BEST FIB EDGINGS, psr cord, $4.SO BUDS, Mixed Wood k Inside rlr. ALWAYS OH HANOI Nanaimo-Welllngton, and tils Bast Sootlass. Extra 'Phons i High. 910 BUY B. O. PRODUCTS and boost your own payroll! rNALLEY'S SANDWICH At All Grocers Valley's Pars Poods Co. Vancouver, B. C. Western Glass Co., Ltd- Wholesale and Retail Dealers 158 Cordova W. Phons Sey. 8687 Glass for Buildings. Auto Glass Installed. Art Glass Repaired. -1 Mirrors Resllvered. Copper Store Front Construction. Phone us (or Quick Service. Glazing Jobs, large or Bmall. Sey. 3981 Trill. 6435 CAMPBELL & GRILL 1336-8 SEYMOUR STREET FURNACE INSTALLATIONS AND REPAIRS X-CELL BATTERIES 95 psr cent, a B. C. product; only new materials—new Trail lsad, boxes, etc.—are used in tne manufacture Of X-CELI. BATTERIES. CANADA LEAD PRODUCTS, ltd. 3355 Main Street; Palrmont 1863 NEW SHOES »«■>" FOR OLD! «6e , —Bring 'am in on yonr way to work, and call (or them on the way horns. Fraser Shoe Repair COMPANY "'Batter Repairs for Less'' 191 East Hastings (Opp. library) Rome and Greece had their bathtubs of marble and onyx, and they had the finest baths, showers, tubs and pools, marble lined. They had vitrified bath tubs similar to the built-in bathtubs of today, and one of the great factors in the . decline, and eventually the destruction of their civilization, was because they neglected the proper enforcement of their former ethical sanitary system and laws. In the nations where the homes' are properly equipped with modern sanitation and modern house heating and ventilating, there you will find political and economic security and real civilization. These illustrations should bring forcefully to the minds of the reader a greater consciousness of our worth and usefulness to -society. We can safely say, without contradiction, that there is no trade or art that' brings more comfort, health, happiness and joy to the homes and to the people. We can also prove conclusively from seien Spectacular Overturn In Illinois Election CHICAGO.—Fdrmer Senator Jas. H. Lewis, Democrat, with the endorsement and support of organized labor, has been elected United States senator by a majority of nearly 700,000. tt is the most spectacular overturn in the political history of Illinois. Lewis carried 87 of the 102 counties in the state— demonstrating that the revolt against Ruth Hanna Mc- Cormick was state-wide and not confined to Cook County, where Mayor "Bill" Thompson deserted her, taking most of the Republican organization with him. Almost the entire Cook County Democratic ticket was swept into office along with Lewis. Qnly two Republican county commissioners managed to survive the storm. Women Are Victorious Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb, widow of the famous champion of "industrial tific assertion that the men of our democracy" and government owner- craft have done as much, if not more, I ghip of the raHroads, and Miss Mary than other human factors in adding; McEnerney, leader of the bindery to and extending that golden price--| workers, were elected county com- less treasure, a longer life for all i mj__joners by handsome majorities, human kind.. | ■ ■ • ■ ■■-,■,-■ In the city of Vancouver, and more especially in the east end of our city, ] will find a great cleaning up is neces- many unsanitary conditions , exist_j sary. before Vancouver cajj be_classed Rents are being collected for "novels as a real healthy aft'ii Sanitary. city?" that should have been condemnedI However, he has our co-operation I hygiene, for six hundred years, the j years ago, and our observations ] and full support, and we again wish Romans had.ao-pbisiciajos; and need- prove that when Dr. Mcintosh takes him every success in his new posi- ed none. The civilization of Babylon,'charge 6fthe°Health Department tje" tion.' " "~"i^isl^=_ffl_trW_tTf?e'M?1* ™ ■*i — Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, November 14th, 1.930 c "Build B. G Payroll." British Columbia Is Our Home If live markets are the core of business, and the market at home solves the problem at once, then it is sound economics to push home products. Maker and consumer get the benefits immediately. Get them all! Pacific Milk Factory at ABBOTSFORD, B. C. Know Your Labels! This is the Bakers' Union Label: This paper, in co-operation with presenting illustrations of all the International Labor News Service, is each week. The labels were furnished by Secretary-Treasurer John J. Manning of the Union Label Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C. Union-Made Shoes CORNETT BROS A CLARK 33 BAST HASTINGS STREET Plorshalm, Strlders, C. B. A C Men's and Youth's. P WILLIAM DICK, LTD. Union Label Shoes for Men and Youths. Fellow Unionists, demand the Union Label, Shop Card and Working Button, and patronize fair employers and em- play UNION LABOR. Classified Ads. BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS Wauls W. Eefeanx, 403 Metropolitan Building-. Phone Sey. 6667. BATHS Hastings Steam Baths Price 35c Only 766 Hastings Street East. - DENTISTS Dr. W. A. Rutledge, 108 Hastings West. NOTARY PUBLIC F. R. Bengough Labor Headquarters. PRINTERS Labor Statesman, Labor Headquarters. RUPTURE SPECIALIST C. B. Heard 812 Robson. Dr. Trevelyn E. Sleetb CANINE AND PELINE SPECIALIST AMD SURGEON Operating B. C. Dog and Cat Hospital, 1429 aranvlll. street, and Kingsway Boarding Kennels, at Dogwood, 3306 Kingsway. Burnaby. Head Office Phones: Seymonr 549-550 Prices to suit the union man. "The new knowledge of nature, the newly ascertained capacity of man for a control of nature so thorough as to be almost unlimited, has not yet had an opportunity of showing what it can do. Man has not yet tried to possess this kingdom seen by Bacon. The will to possess this vast territory is alone wanting. It is a kingdom that we can only possess as brotleTs, to seKis it as"exploiters will only end in disappointment.'/—E. Ray Lankester, British scientist. Stocks Decline Despite Investigation Those speculators who interpreted the action of the New York Stock Exchange in "investigating" short, selling as meaning that the practice would be forbidden and that security prices would immediately begin to Vise suffered a crushing disappointment in the days following the Exchange's action. Though short selling is an indispensable stabilizing element in any market in which margin trading exists, it is habitually regarded as somehow unpatriotic ahd wicked, and nowhere more than in Wall Street itself, where the "bears" must take the blame for every violent decline. No one of any intelligence, however, imagines that short sellers of themselves can bring about more than a minor and temporary decline—certainly they can cause none approaching the collapse of the last thirteen months. In attempting to trace and put an end to false rumors meant to depress security prices the Stock Exchange authorities are ,of course, doing n° more than their plain duty. But such investigations have a way of being directed only at speculators who believe that stocks .are going lower. Why did the Stock Exchange fail to take action early in 1929 to stop the thousands of false rumors at that time which allowed stocks to be sold to the public at preposterously high levels?—The Nation. Packers Prosperous; Less Labor Employed Chicago. — Large meat packing companies are not affected by the business depression, and it is expected they will equal or exceed last year's profits. Storage- stocks, are reduced and this has made it possible to hold prices. The packers' prosperity is shown in the redemption by Armour & Co. of $10,000,000 7% per cent, gold bonds out of accumulated cash that is not listed as profits. Wilson & Co.v-retired $2,500,000 6 per cent, notes five months before they were due. The greatest saving by these corporations was made in reducing the number of employees. During the first six m6nths of this year the number of employees was below the corresponding period a year ago: Beginning in June, last year, the number, of employees dropped steadily as against a rise during the corresponding month in 1929. The German government has noti- lied the League of Nations of an increase in the German Customs duty on wheat from 15s. to 18s. 6d. per quintal.—Exchange. A daughter of the murdered Russian priest, Rasputin, is now presenting a troupe of ponies in a traveling circus at Bordeaux, France.—"Daily Herald" wire. fcong-dft$ance Telephone Lends Wings to Words He was thinking about his family in a distant town. How fast his thoughts bridged the distance between! If his words could only travel as quickly, he thought. How fine it would be to have a little chat with the dear ones at home ! ~ . Well, words can travel as quickly—with the aid of the long-distance telephone. It's almost like making the trip in person, minus the extra time and expense. Whether the message is a social or business one, the long-distance telephone lends wings to your words. DDDDDDanaaan B. C. TELEPHONE CO. Hotel Shooting Alleged to have been discovered at midnight trying to set fire to a new hotel in the Blue Muntains, New South Wales, the manageress shot herself dead.—British United Press. The Dutch Federation ef Trade Unions and the Dutch Social Democratic Labor Party yesterday lodged a petition signed by 1,465,971 people against the Bill for the increase of the Dutch Navy.—"Daily Herald" wire. Three Million Dollar Club for Superannuated Carpenters Better burn the family album, as the camera never lies. (By JOHN J. LEARY, Jr., of the New York World) Fancy, if you can, laboring men enjoying the comforts of a first-class city hotel plus an 18-hole golf course, said to be the finest in the south, a private lake to fish in, and an orange grove of 1000 acres to ramble through—all without cost to themselves. That, in a nutshell, is what the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is providing for its superannuated and incapacitated members in the $3,000,000 home just outside of the city limits of Lakeland, Florida. I came to Lakeland prepared to find something elaborate, but in the last analysis "just another home," stiff and rigid as any other establishment for the aged. I knew that 1800 acres of land had been acquired, most of it planted in citrus trees. I knew there was a golf course and a large lake, and I assumed that I would find the usual infirmery and chapel. Instead I found what, in few words, is, with possibly one exception, the finest club on the South Atlantic coast. The only possible exception is the Jekyll Island club, set up for the use pf a select few of America's wealthiest men. Three years ago, when the property was first assembled, I went over it with William L. Hutcheson, general president of the Carpenters' or- ganiiatidnr BeV«ral 'hOfidred' acres were then planted "in orange and grapefruit trees then in bearing. Others were then being planted with ;young ilfUJli ii iTflfT THiT ifiifihfc iTll|ni[ was rough jungle, with an ancient farmhouse the one building. Come back in a couple of years," said Hutcheson, "and we'll show you something worth while." This week I motored out to the place, entering through a great arbh that proclaimed the property to be the Home of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. What Tiad been a rut in the grass had been converted into a fine hard-surfaced road that wound between tall trees no longer half hidden in underbrush and by gorgeous putting greens for three-quarters of a mile. In the distance loomed a three- story building done in the Spanish style, 362 feet long by 260 feet wide. In the background could be seen a highly ornamental water tower and a smokestack that "proclaimed a power house. Back of it all, Lake Gibson, more than a mile across and stretching through wooded banks as far as the eye could see. . ■ The swamp had given way to a miniature lake, fed by a brook that flowed from a spring a mile away. It had been dug out, a dike built to control the waters. On the lake swans were sailing majestically. Along the dike were- poinsettias and other sub-tropical plants.and young firs and cedars. In the brook was a tiny water wheel. "One of the old men," my guide volunteered, "saw here a reminder of the brook in which he built a wheel when he was a boy. So he set that one up. J ""Thence"'through" the power-plant, which Arthur O. Wharton, president of thi- International Asosciation of Machinists, and one of my compan- ifiM-.,.Aej_kre<l w_|g_jy). ta,__js_rainute,. a large airy laundry doing better work than I can usually obtain in New York, and the refrigerating plant, electrically operated. "We use electricity for everything," Hutcheson told us. Behind the power plant a pier projected 100 yards into the lake. "That," said our guide, "the old boys have named 'McGuire's Landing' in memory of Peter J. McGuire, who founded the Brotherhood in 1881 and the father of Labor Day. There's lots of fish in there and not a few alligators. 1 guess lunch is ready now. Let's see the main building." Entering the main building, the club effect is at once noticeable. At the entrance is the usual desk. To one side a lounge, finished in dark woods and furnished with comfortable chairs and loges done in burnt bather that extend half the full length of the building. On the second and third floors are the rooms for the men—200 of them, each 18 by 20, each an outside room, fitted with twin beds, and individual closets—and the hospital, provided by the carpenters of Texas, with an operating room, an X-ray room and accommodations for 27 patients at one time, with physician and nurse always-on duty. Stairs are hard on aged persons. There are stairs in the building, but they are rarely used. Instead wide cork floored ramps of easy pitch, that mean no strain on the weakest heart, lead a from -floor to JhmiL-.:: i^-'^h^a Below in the basement is the chapel or assembly hall, heated and ventilated through artistic grills, wi^.SQomy seats, for _985-£ersons, an organ of magnificent toner~anT a gallery that conceals the machine during the week projects the pictures of one of the leading producers. "We try to make our people comfortable," said Hutcheson, referring to the roomy seats. "So I notice," I remarked, "but you must remember that the eyes of the men who may wish to use them are not as young as ours." The accumulation of $3,000,000 is no mean task. I asked Frank Duffy, general secretary of the Brotherhood, who handled the funds, how it was done. - . , For years, he told me, members paid 10 cents a month into a fund for the hoped for home. Then it was raised to 35 cents and $5 added to every initiation fee. Out of the money thus collected the Brotherhood will maintain the home, pay $15 a month pension to all members 6ver 65 of 30 years' good standing who may not care to avail themselves of its privileges, and build up a reserve fund. To this will be added the proceeds of the citrus groves, out of which 60,000 boxes were shipped last year and which, this year, will show a profit in excess of $10,000 on a much smaller crop, this being a poor orange year. The golf course, actually part of the necessary landscaping, will also contribute to the upkeep of the place, for next year it will be open to approved winter residents in this Section. ....—-__:.-.■::■:... . ;-■;■-" , > ~^.....-:_».-...-;.-._s_|-_l_c Hutcheson drove with me to the exit from the grounds, pointing out en route the hog farm, fields cleared |oE.ft^daky.'-8»d * little cemetery-on, a knoll where brothers will sleep side by side forever. ' mm Friday, November 14th, 1930 THE LABQR STATESMAN Seven Union Bakeries Delicious Bakery Union-made Bread and Pastry. Ask for it at your local store or PHONE HIGHLAND 705 and have our salesman deliver it The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. When Bett« Cakss and Pas tries ars Made, well Make 'Eml Golden Rule Bakery CO., LTD. 957 Granville St. Sey. 8656 STEWART'S BAKERY AXES. 8TEWABT, PROP. 2515 Main Strait - - Phone: .fair. 3331 Union Bakeries Following is a list of clean and sanitary union shops, employing union members, who are required to take a rigid physical examination, and who are paid sick and accident benefits in case of illness which prevents them working when in a diseased condition: London Bakery, 439 East 7th street. Phone Fair. 122. Delicious Bakery, 1500 East Hastings street. Phone High 705. Sunset Bakery, 2315 Granville St. Craig's Bakery, 187 East Hastings. Pratt's Bakery, 3980 East Hastings street. Phone High. 5607. Stewart's Bakery, 2515 Main street. Fair. 3331. / Dirks' Bakery, 6207 Main street. Golden Rule Bakery, 957 Granville street. Phone Sey. 8656. Hastings Bakery, 764 East Hastings. Phone High. 4537. Mutter's Bakery, 2157 Main street. Phone Fair. 3953. -Scott's Home Bakery, 1848 Kings- way. Phone Fair. 729. McGavin's Home Bakery, 2352 East Hastings street. Phone High. 1351. The Nook Bakery, 1835 West 4th avenue. Victoria Bakery, 3834 Main street. Bennett's Scotch Bakery, 4166 Main street. McDonald's Bakery, 4870 and 5080 Joyce Road. Carl 447. (Note.—The McGavin's Bakery listed above has no connection with the big firm on Broadway West, which delivers bread and is not operating a union shop. The following firms have "No Agreement" with local unions arTiliateo with the Vancouver, New Westminster am District Trades and Labor Council Patronize those who patronize you! Bakeries McGavin Ltd.. 2106 W. Broadway. Taxicabs Commercial Taxi Cab Co. r, Checker Taxicab- Co., Ltd. _.» Dairies Steves Dairy, 2024 West 12th. Crystal Dairy, 1802 Commercial. Restaurants National Lunch. 776 Oranvllle. Trocadero Cafe. 156 West Hastings Si Waldorf Cafe. 516 West Pender St. White Lunches, Hastings-Granville. Printers Clarke A Stuart Co., Ltd., 560 Seymour Street. Murphy ft Chapman, 569 Seymour St Ruse, Cowan ft Latta, 748 Seymour Street. J. W. Boyd,. Ltd., 112 West Hastings Street. Tailors G. A. Collard, 603 West Hastings S«. Orchestras National Juvenile Band. Theatres Avenue Theatre, 711. Main Street. Royal Theatre, 136 E. Hastings St Columbia Theatre, 64 W. Hastings. Sausages made of whale, meat 'and roasted grasshoppers, sprinkled, with crickets, were served at a dinner given "in Parts,' Th* metivi also- tti- c ludcd chicken, turkey, iguana, fruits, jellies and coffee.- "The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists" (Continued from last week) Joe Philpot—or, as he was usually called, "Old Joe"—was in the habit of indulging rather freely in the cup that inebriates. He was not very old, being only a little over fifty, but he looked much older. He had lost his wife some five years ago and was now alone in the world, for his three children had died in their infancy. Slyme's reference to -drink had roused Philpot's indignation; he felt that it was directed against himself. The muddled condition of his brain did not permit him to take up the cudgelB in his own behalf, but he knew that, although Owen was a teetotaler himself, he disliked Slyme. "There's no need for us to talk about drink or laziness," returned Owen, impatiently, "because they have nothing to do with the matter. The question is, what is the cause of the lifelong poverty of the majority of those who are not drunkards and who do work? Why, if, by some miracle, ad the drunkards and won't- works and unskilled or inefficient workers could be transformed into sober, industrious, and skilled workers tomorrow, it would, under the present conditions, be so much the worse for us, because there isn't enough work for all now, and those people, by increasing the competition for what work there is, would inevitably cause a reduction of wages and a greater scarcity of employment. The thoorics that drunkenness, laziness, or inefficiency are the causes of poverty are so many devices invented and fostered by those who are selfishly interested in maintaining the present state of affairs, for the purpose of preventing us from discovering the real causes of- our present condition." "Well, if we're all wrong," said Crass, with a sneer, "p'raps you can tell us what the real cause is?"- "An" p'raps you think you know how it's to be altered," remarked Harlow, winking at the others. "Yes, I do think I know the cause," declared Owen, "and I do think I know how it could be altered " "It can't never be altered" interrupted old Linden. "I don't see no sense in all this 'ere talk. There's always been rich and poor in the world, and there always will be." "Wot I always say is this 'ere," remarked Philpot, whose principal characteristic—Japart from thirst— was a desire to see everyone comfortable, and who hated rows of any kind, "there ain't no use in the likes of us trubblin' our 'eds or quarrelling about politics. It don't make a damn bit of difference who you votes for or who gets in. They're hall the same: workin' the horicle for their own benefit. You can talk till you're black in the face, but you won't never be able to alter it. It's no use worrying. The sensible thing is to try and make the best' of things as we find 'em: enjoy ourselves, and do the best ,we can for each other. Life's too short to quarrel and we'll hall soon be dead!" At the end of this lengthy speech, the philosophi. _ nilpot abstractedly grasped a' jam jar and raised it to his lips; but, suddenly remembering that it contained stewed tea and not beer, set it down again without drinking. "Let us begin at the beginning," continued Owen, taking no notice of these interruptions. . "First of all, what do you mean by poverty?". "Why, if you've got no money, of course," said Crass impatiently. The others laughed disdainfully. It seemed to them such a foolish question. Well, that's true enough as far as it goes," returned Owen, "that is, as things are arranged in the world at present. But money in itself is not wealth; it's of no use whatever." At this there was another outburst of jeering laughter. "Supposing, for example, that you and Harlow were ship-wrecked on a desolate island, and you had .saved nothing from the wreck hut a bag containing a thousand sovereigns, and he had a tin of biscuits and a bottle of water." Make it beer!" cried Harlow ap- pealingly. "Who would be the richer man, you or Harlow?" "But then, you see, we ain't shipwrecked on no dissolute island at all," sneered Crass. "That's the worst of your arguments. You can't ^yer.Mt-Vgfy.fjir.-Without supposing some bloody -ridiculous thing or other. Never mind about supposing things wot ain't true; let's 'ave facts and common sense." ': 'Ear, !eart"_.,*aid.- old Linden,., that's wot we want—a little com mon sense." HAZELWOOD ICE CREAM The only 100 per cent Union Ice Cream in the City! "What do yMi.,M!£an„by ftQverty, then?" asked Easton.. w .... »f%* "What I call poverty is when people are not able to secure for themselves all the benets of civilization— the necessaries, comforts, pleasures, and refinements of life: leisure, books, theatres, pictures, music, holidays, travel, good and beautiful homes, good clothes, good and pleasant food." Everybody laughed. It was so ridiculous. The idea of the likes of them wanting or having such things! Any doubts that any of them had entertained as to Owen's sanity disappeared. The man was as mad as. a March hare. "If a man is only able to provide himself and his family with the bare necessaries of existence, that man's family is living in poverty. Since he cannot enjoy the advantages of civilization he might just as well be a savage; better, in fact, for a savage does not know what he is deprived of. What we call civilization —the accumulation of knowledge which has come down to us from our forefathers—is the fruit of thousands of years of human thought and toil. It is not the result of the labor of the ancestors of any separate class of people who exist today, and therefore it is by right the common heritage of all. Every little child that is born into the world, no matter whether he is clever or dull, whether he is physically perfect or lame, or blind, no matter how much he may excel or fall short of his fellows in other.respects, in one thing at least he is their equal—he is one pf the heirs of all the ages that have gone before." Some of them began to wonder whether Owen was not sane after all. He certainly must be a clever sort of chap to be able to talk like this. It sounded almost like something out of a book, and most of them could not understand one-half of it. "Why is it," continued Owen, "that we are' not only deprived of our inheritance—we are not only deprived of nearly all the benefits of civilization, but we and our children are also often unable to obtain everr- the bare necessities of existence?" No one answered. "All these things," Owen proceeded, "are produced by those who woi« :^We do our full share of the work ■ refore we should have a full i.». Su%% the things that are made by v, The others ^.ntinued silent. Harlow thought of the over-population theory, but decided not to mention it. Crass, who could not have given an intelligent answer to save his life, for once had sufficient sense to remain silent. He did think of calling out the patent paint pumping machine and bringing the hose pipe to bear on the subject, but abandoned the idea; after all, he thought, what was the use of arguing with such a fool as Owen? Sawkins pretended to be asfeep. Philphot, however, had suddenly grown very serious. "As things are now," went on Owen, "instead of enjoying the advantages of civilization we are really worse off than slaves, for if we were slaves our owners, in their own interest, would see to it that we always had food and " "Oh, I don't see that," roughly interrupted old Linden, who had been listening with evident anger and impatience. "You can speak for yourself, but I can tell yer I don't put myself down as a slave." "Nor me neither," said Crass, sturdily. "Let them call theirselves slaves as wants to." . ■ At this moment a footstep was heard in the passage leading to the kitchep. Old Misery! or perhaps the Bloke himself. Crass hurriedly -pulled out his watch. "Jesus Christ!" he gasped, "t's four minutes past one!" Linden frantically seized hold of a pair of steps and began wandering about the room with them. Sawkins scrambled hastily to his feet and, snatching a piece of sandpaper from the pocket of his apron, started furiously rubbing down • the scullery door. Easton threw down the copy of The Obscurer and scrambled hastily to his feet. The boy»crammed the- Chronicles of Crime into his trouser's pocket. Crass rushed over to the bucket and began stirring up the stale whitewash it captained, although the "stench wriicn it gave forth was simply appalling. Pfcone: Seymour 2090 _ , _ _ Hazelwood Creamery, Limited Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.' CIDERS PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER 'Made from B. C. Apples" ^ Try "The Lions" Ginger Ale Orange, Lemon and Lime Kist. PHONE HIGH. 90 VA.N BROS.. LTD. PROMPT DELIVERY 15055 VERNON DRIVE 1 'I—.——-■■'■,_»'-—: f—w- Consternation reigned. They looked like, a gang of male factors suddenly interrupted in the commission of a crime. The door opened. It was only Bundy returning from his mission to the bookie. ,,,_, _CHAPTEL H. Nimrod-. A Mighty Hunter Before » The Lord Mr. Hunter, as he was called to his face and as he was known to his brethren at the Shining Light Chapel, or "Misery" or "Nimrod," as he was named behind his back by the workmen over whom he tyrannized, was the general or walking-foreman or manager" of the firm, whose card is herewith presented to the reader: RUSHTON & CO. MUGS BOROUGH Builders, Decorators and General Contractors (■US-SALS FURNISHEB Estimates Given for General Repairs to House Property Virslclau Work Only tit , Moderate Charges There were a number of sub-foremen or "coddies," but Hunter was the foreman. He was a tall thin man, whose clothes hung loosely on the angles of his round-shouldered, bony form. His long thin legs, about which the baggy trousers draped in ungraceful folds, were slightly knock-kneed and terminated in large flat feet. His arms were very long even for such a tall man, and the huge bony hands were gnarled and knotted. When he removed his bowler hat, as he frequently did to wipe away with a red handkerchief the sweat occasioned by furious bicycle riding, it was seen that his forehead Was high, flat, and narrow. His nose was a large, fleshy, hawk-like beak, and from the side of each nostril a deep indentation extended down ward until it disappeared in the drooping mustache that concealed his mouth, the vast extent of which was perceived only when he opened it to bellow exhortations at the workmen to greater exertions. His chin was large and extraordinarily long. His eyes were pale blue, very small and close eyebrows, with a deep vertical cleft between them over the nose. His head, covered with thick coarse brown hair, was very large at the back, the ears were small and laid close to the head. If one were to make a full- face drawing of his cadaverous visage it would be found that the outline resembled the lid of a coffin. This pian had been with Rushton for fiteen years; in fact almost from the time when the_ latter commenced business. Rushton had at that period realized the necessity of having a deputy who could be used to do all the drudgery and running about so that he himself might be free to attend to more pleasant and profitable matters. Hunter was then a journeyman, 'but was on the point of starting on his own account, when Rushton offered him a constant job as foreman, two pounds a week, and two and a half per cent, of the profits of all work done. On the face of it this appeared a generous offer. Hunter closed with it, gave up the idea of starting for himself, and threw himself heart and mind into the business. When an estimate was to be prepared, it was Hunter who measured up the work and laboriously figured out the probable cost. When their tenders were accepted it was he who superintended the work and schemed" how to scamp it, where possible, using mud where mortar was specified, mortar where there ought to have been cement, sheet zinc where they were supposed to put sheet lead, boiled oil instead of varnish, and three coats of paint where five were paid for. In fact, scamping the work was with this man a kind of mania. It grieved him to see anything done properly. Even when it was more economical to do a thing well, he insisted from force of habit on having it scamped. Then he was almost happy, because he felt that he was doing someone down. If there were an architect superintending the work, Misery would square him or bluff him. If it were not possible to do either, at least he had a try; and, in the intervals of watching, diving, and bullying the hands, his culture eye was ever on the lookout for fresh jobs. His long red nose was thrust into every estate agent's office in the town in the endeavor to smell out what properties had recently changed hands or been let, in order that he might interview the new owners and secure the order for whatever alterations or repairs might be required. He it was who entered into unholy compacts with numerous charwomen and nurses of the sick, who, in return for small commission, would let him know when some poor sufferer was passing away, and would recommend Rush- ton and Company to the bereaved and distracted relatives. By these means often—after first carefully inquiring into the financial position of the stricken family — Misery would contrive to wriggle his unsavory carcass into the house of sorrow, seeking, even in the chamber of death, to further the interests of Rushton and Company, and to earn his miserable two and a half per cent. ' - (To be continued) All one's life is music, if one touches the notes lightly and in tune. —Ruskin. Many a man would starve if he had nothing to live on but his reputation. A. E. HARRON Phone N. V. 131 North Vancouver J. A. HARRON Phone Fair. 134 55 Tenth Ave E. i. M. WILLIAMSON Phone Fair. 134 55 Tenth Ave. E. 8jarr0tt Iro*. & ffliUtantHDn FUNERAL DIRECTORS 55 EAST TENTH AVENUE PHONE FAIR. 134 •Only Union Pish and Chips in British Columbia- Ye Olde English Fish $: Chips Believing one remedy (or unemployment Is the snorter work week, all our girls are now working live days per week, without . , rednctlon oi wages. 44 HASTINGS) WW* '" ...--.- « j»oot»-West of *»S---_3seE... ■ i mn Eight t THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, November 14th, 1930 Pure 1 0 Food Products °*\ It is important tp know that the foods you buy in cans and packages are. the products of a reliable house. You may be sure that anything bearing the * "Malkin's Best" circle trade mark is of highest quality and utmost • purity. The House of Malkin guarantees this. The W. H. Malkin Co. Limited Vancouver, B.C. Nanaimo Victoria Prince Rupert *£. For Printing of QUALITY. SPEED AND SERVICE done in a Union Shop, lend your printing to A. H. Timms 236 14th Ave. E., Vanconver A. A. Brookhouse, (late of Cowan & Brookhouse) Shop Superintendent. Fair. 205 <__» Fair. 1372 Dentistryi Street Railwaymen Help Organize Factory ' Through the efforts of tne officers of the Street Railwaymepls Union, the weavers in the Gordon Campbell factory have been organized in the Textile Workers' Union.1 Some time ago the Gordon Campbell Company approached the purchasing agent of the B. C. Electric Rly. Co. in reference to using Gordon Campbell cloth in the uniforms. The purchasing agent referred the company to the Street Railwaymen's Union, inasmuch as the men have to pay half the cost of the uniforms, and have some say as to where the cloth shall come from and who shall make the suits. The cloth has come heretofore from union cloth factories in Great Britain, and the suits have been made by union tailors in this city. The union officials informed the company that the employees would not have anything to do with the cloth unless it was made in a union factory, and suggested that if the weavers were organized that the union would consider using the cloth. Some time later the company inti-, mated that they would have no objection to having their employees organize. With this information to act upon, the officers of the union and officials of the Trades Council proceeded to call meetings of the Gordon Campbell employees and explained to them not only the advantages of being organized, but also the opportunity of increasing .the demand for Gordon Campbell cloth. The meetings proved a success and the weavers are now 100 per cent, organized and a charter on its way to Vancouver. Modern E^_ Methods W Modern Ground Floor, City Hall 12 Hastings St. East Phone: Seymour 5577 "We Save You Money" I CAN SERVE YOU BETTER! GORDON CRAIG Vancouver's Orlg-lnal Radio Specialist 637 RICHARDS SEY. 6808 Correspondence November 1, 1930. Editor, Labor Statesman. Dear Sir,—I ask your assistance in tracing Roderick L. Doyle, by occupation a bricklayer, who was last heard of in Vancouver, B. C, in 1914. He is now entitle!, to a share of an estate worth more than $10,000. A number of inquiries have been made for him, but we have not been able to trace him beyond the year 1914, when he was in Vancouver. Please publish this letter and in this way it may come to the notice of someone who can give us information concerning Mr. Doyle. Particulars should be sent to the undersigned without delay. Yours truly, _ JOHN J. DWYER, 40 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. Wawanesa Mutual Ins. Co, Canada's Largest Plre Mutual. 1188.000.000.00 in force, has paid the people ot Canada (4.000,000.00 for lire losses and saved them as much in premiums. See us for rates. Office Phone: So J. 4250 • S24 BIRRS BUILDING, VANCOUVER DIAMOND WORKERS HIT AMSTERDAM, Holland.—The diamond industry ^is feeling the effects of the "worldrWide depression. Out of 5728 diamond, cutters and allied craftsmen usually employed here, only 1032 are now working. SCAFFOLD COLLAPSES Bob Baker, an active member of the Painters' Union, met with a very bad accident last week, when a scaffold collapsed and his fall resulted in a broken back and other painful injuries. He is now in St. Paul's Hospital, doing as well as it is possible, in a straight jacket. Chauffeurs Protest Unfair License Fees Truck drivers and chauffeurs of various descriptions are invited to an open protest meeting which will be held in connection with the new license fees whicl) the provincial government proposes to make all drivers pay for the privilege of holding down a job. The meeting will be held in the Labor Headquarters at 529 Beatty Street, on Friday evening November 21st, at 8 p.m. - Some Innovations at This Whist Drive A large number of cash prizes will be given away in connection with the Whist Drive which is being held by the Labor Party at the Majestic Hall on Friday evening, November 21st. It is felt that cash prizes will be more welcome than the usual run of prizes, so that people can buy what they want instead of getting what they don't want. Another innovation in connection with this event will be a drawing for a number of cash prizes. So if you »re not lucky at cards you might be ucky enough to get something in the drawing. There will be six prizes for cards and another six or more for the. drawing. After the cards, refreshments will he served: This whist drive will cost myone 25c. Remember the date— Friday week.. JJ-pyfimJ).er 21st—and the place is the Majestic Hall, opposite William Dick's big clothing store. Colne along and bring your friends. Big Carnival Night Ahead for Union Folk Are you thrifty with your eyes open for a bargain? Did you ever get up and go down town without your breakfast, to be on hand first to get the best bargains? You khow the kind, a postage stamp down, and a car ticket for life. We offer you a real bargain; be among the first to get your ticket for the Building Trades Annual Whist Drive Carnival and Dance on Friday; December 5th. Come and make whoopee. A real bargain night! You get a chance with every ticket on first prize of $100 in gold; 2nd prize, $10; 3rd prize, $5; open to every buyer of a ticket. Then for the whist players (first drive starts at 7:30 p.m.) six prizes; then the second drive (starting at 8;15 p.m.) six more prizes. Two drives, two halls, over 100 tables. The carnival dance starts at 9 p.m. in the best hall in Vancouver, with the best dance floor. Prizes for novelty numbers include a balloon dance, in which are tickets to your favorite theatre. A barrel of fun! Six-piece union orchestra, that popular peppy bunch of musicians—Bill Garden's orchestra, featuring lien Holland, the wizard of the accordion. If you don't dance, one hall will be reserved after the Whist drive for you to enjoy a hand at your favorite card game—crib, "500^ anything you choose. Arrange with your friends to come and make up a hand with you. The whole works for 50c a, ticket. You are assured of a good time "and a chance on this big carnival night of the season. This event is eagerly looked forward to every year by those who have attended. Tell your friends and remember you are helping your organization. It is your duty to be on hand once a year. Keep this date open—December 5th! All the halls in the Moose Building, 638 Burrard street have been secured for the occasion. For further information, phone Trinity 6434 or Seymour 2609.—Ed. Smith, chairman of committee. 2. France Hoards Up $2,000,000,000 Gold For what mysterious reason is France hoarding gold? She put away another £9,000,000,000 in her vaults this week, bringing up the reserve to over £400,000,000, says the Daily Herald. World bankers are uneasy, and reports suggest that France may be storing the bullion for: 1. A war chest. So that Paris may challenge London as the world's leading money market. 3. To restore gold currency and increa.se her prestige. Th? Bank of France return shows that its gold reserves now stand at £404,538,835. There has been an increase during the week of £8.954,586. During the past year revenue has gone up by £88,000,000, and since June, 1928, by £173,066,835. It seems probable, moreover, that this gold flow into France's coffers will continue. France does not need these large supplies of gold, for she has far in excess sufficient to provide against any eventualities in the future. Another that she is building up this immense reserve so Paris can challenge London as the leading money market of the world. Another Report says France proposes to bring gold coinage into currency again with the idea of increasing her prestige. The Bank of France is keeping' its motive a secret. The only statement it will make is that no more gold is being taken than that which comes normally in consequence' of exchange movements. By this reply, however, it ignores the fact that on several occasions recently France has bought gold in the opep market at above the current ■price, in order to increase her supplies. CHICAGO BARBERS RETAIN A MINIMUM WAGE OF S32 CHICAGO.—The request of the Master Barbers' Association that the barbers' minimum wage be reduced from $32 to $30 a week has been denied by Prof. B. M. Squires, who was selected to arbitrate the dispute. A slight adjustment was made in the matter of confffllssions: The employees are to be paid 60 per cent, of all receipts over $47 instead of the present rate of 60 per cent. over. $44. The employers,..wished to cut the "over-money down to 50 per cent, over $50. The number of working hours are not to be increased. Navy Blue Serge Suits WITH TWO PAIRS OF PANTS i A SMART NAVY SERGE SUIT $97.50 FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE in INDISPENSABLE! Ton will ret doable wear oat of one of Dick's guaranteed serges with two pairs of pants. Tola salt Is tailored to stand something- more than wear; It will stand Dick's guarantee: "Should this salt fads within a rear it will be replaced free of charge." Handsomely tailored models for all types— _____^^^^^^ tails, snorts, stoats, regulars. The former price of a salt of this quality with one pair of pants was $27.50, therefore tne extra pair of pants is .free. YOUB MONEY'S WORTH OR YOUR MONEY BACK! 27 HASTINGS AT HOMER STREET Your Money's Worth Or Yonr Money Back I Vancouver Drug Company (1928) limited DRUGS AT CUT PRICES THE SAME CUT-BATE PRICES ABE OBTAINABLE AT ALL OUR STORES. TELEPHONE TOUR WANTS—WITHOUT FEAR OF ART EXTRA CHARGE PBIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS—NOVEMBER 14th and 15th IS 50 Playing Cards 29 5.00 Auto-strop Razors 3.11 1.00 Luxor Pace Powder De Luxe, .67 .60 Pompollan Bloom 43 .25 Reslnol Snap 19 1.00 Tarls Eau de Quinine .66 2.50 Glaxo 8.14 .60 and 1.00 Corega .39 and .61 .35 Mum aa .50 Purltall Milk of Magnesia 87 .15 Styptic Pencil (In metal case) .08 .35 Lifebuoy Shaving Cream .82 .60 Durham Duplex Blades - .34 .10 Wade & Butcher Blades, 8 for .11 50 Dr. Reld's Cherry Cough Balsam XB .25 Cream of Witch Hazel and Roses t .14 50 Dr. Reld's Syrup of Figs 87 1.00 Dr. Reld's Blood Purleflr .56 .50 Dr. Reld's Eczema Ointment .39 .25 and .60 Renaud's Perfumes 17 and .31 QUALITY — SERVICE — SAVING VANCOUVER'S OWN DRUG STORES—FIFTEEN IN THE 01** AT YOUR SERVICE TELEPHONE YOUB WANTS EIGHTEEN STORES THINGS FOR MEN! Dependable Goods — Satisfactory Service — Satisfied Customers KIRBY BEARD BLADES—Old type Gillette; very keen edges; 50c and 91 ENDER'S RAZOR AND SIX SHARP BLADES »l-86 SURE-EDGE STROPPER—Holds all blades _ "1.00 SHAVING BRUSHES—Set In rubber; special, regular $1.60 for 98c VACUUM BOTTLES—Excellent value - 47o LUNCH KIT AND BOTTLE .. - fUt HARRIS HAIR TONIC—The best dandruff remedy: S1.00 and fl.50 BOOSTER HAIR TONIC—For scalp eczema 76c and (1.00 A WATCH FOR WORKING MEN AND BOYS Swiss movement; very reliable 51.25 each B. C. Barber Supply and Sundries, Limited PHONE SEYMOUR 4401 64 HASTINGS STREET WEST VANCOUVER, R. C. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION Everybody Knows The King Studio (Established 1902) 311 Hastings Street W. Vancouver, B. G. Sey. 1046 PRICES THAT FIT ALL POCKETS! ONTARIO GETS $850,000 FROM T. ta N. O. RAILWAY NORTH BAY, Ont.—The Ontario treasury has just received a cheque for $85_itp()gaa_i a result of the good showing of the provincially-owned Teimskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. - . . ' ..'Jmnahspffandfa|£, kM,--:chiaisra-_A,toi the commission, declares that 1930 may be regarded as a most successful year for the government-owned railway. HOME OIL DISTRIBUTORS, LIMITED PROGRAM Rome Gas Symphony Orchestra. Under Calvin Winter. Sunday, Nov. 18th, .1930, CKWX, • p.m. (All Request Program) March. "OTilg CotWrr^i..—__-;;..-J;:8i>uaa - Walts, "Wedding I>ance" '...Lincke "Country Gardens" Grainger Selection,.- "Chimes of Normandy" • Planquette "Vocal Prenentatlon. "Ride- i>f the Valteyrh***:...-:.-..;'■ r^faittier~ Xylophone Medley..-. Arranged * Jack Toevs. "Sizlllietta" Blon Overture, "ampa" Herold "There's No Gas Like Home" ' \ y . " :-.-.'■
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