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[ NO. 300— I2IGHT PAGES /hoWNED AND CONTROLLED P^ ^ BY TOE VANCOUVER TRADES » Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions VANCOUVER, B.C.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 24. 19,30 Sign Contractors' Asso. Sign Union Agreement Del. Clarkson of the, Vancouver and New Westminster .Sign and Pic- 11 torial Painters' Union, Local 726, inv ! formed the Trades and Labor Coun- i cil of the activities of the union since its formatiojrlast year, which speaks well for/tfie craft. An agreement has been"signed between the union and/tnc Vancouver Sign Contractors' MAssociation covering a ten per cent, ncrease in wages commencing April Lit, closer co-operation between employees and employers, closed shop, etc. The agreement is for one year, and will undoubtedly lead to continued and favorable co-operation between the organizations. Among the members of the association who approved the signing of the agreement were: Hopps Sign Co. Ltd. David Hall Sign Co. Ltd. Erridge Bros. Casano Sign Co. Ltd. Alex. Machin. J. H. Vince Sign Co. , William Wallace. Alma Deane Signs. Clay Sign Co. ,.\ Noble Sign Co. , Tait and Coutts. Pacific Sign Co. Art Sign Co. Neon Products of Canada Ltd. Bakeries Are Using Anti-Union Excuses Organizer Glen Warren of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Union, reported the union continues to progress and now has 17 shops lined up. It is very necessary, however, he said, for organized Tabor to continue and increase the splendid support they have already given to these union shops, as this will be the only means by which these shops will continue as union shops. The union has rented space in the Labor Headquarters, Room 304, and Brother T. H. Taylor will act as part- time secretary and business agent. Most of the shops organized are small shops, the larger places belonging to the Master Bakers' Association, controlled by the milling companies, are not favorable to the unions, although some of the bread wagon drivers are intimating to customers that the firms are union. If the driver cannot show a Blue quarterly working button or there is no union.label on the bread the place is not organized. There is absolutely no excuse for the bread not having union labels on the loaves, as there is not only a plentiful supply of labels, but just as soon as a shop is organized and signed up the union labels go on the bread. Some firms are offering excuses, but maintain that they are either union or sympathetic. The union label will designate whether they are union or not, and the sympathy part is not worth listening to. The union appreciates the support already given to the bakery workers and urges every union man to keep his family posted and active on the subject. . A list of union shops is published in this issue; cut it out and put it where it can be readily referred to by the person who purchases the bread in your house. With b a little more help from organized^ labor the big firms in this city might be lined up, and as this is very desirable and necessary, you are urged to do your bit. Some of these big firms, and also smaller firms, are telling their customers that they are friendly to the union; this friendship does not pay decent wages and create good working conditions. 'The union label or button is the only symbol of friendship worth while. AND K# WESTMrNSTER <£ TRADES^ "V/s AND .O Quarterly Working Button, almost an inch in diameter (color Blue with Green Letters) of the. Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. This button, worn by nearly all members of outside trades, and some inside. trades, such as Restaurant Employees, Beverage Dispensers, Upholsterers, Brewery Workers and Kgg Graders. Insist on only getting service by wearers of the Union Button. .' M.clNNIS GETS VOTE OF [ CONFIDENCE FROM WARD 7 ■f ' Aid. Angus MacInnis was given a vote of, confidence by the Ward 7 .JSatepayers* Asaociatmn for- -the policies, on unemployment, wages and plural .voting, after he had addressed a meeting of the organization on Monday,.night at the Horticultural "Hill, Forty-fourth avenue and Fras- er street. Trades Council Notes Credentials for delegates were received from the following unions at the regular meeting of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council meeting on Tuesday: Street Railwaymen, Hotel and Restaurant Employees, Sheet Metal Workers, Musicians, Beverage Dispensers, City Fjre Fighters, Bakers, Elevator Constructors, Uphojsterers, Milk Salesmen, Bookbinder^ Theatrical Stage Employees and Machinists. * * * \ The committee appointed to in\ quire into the alleged "closed hospital" reported progress, and recommended that Mr. J. H. McVety and Mr. R. P. Pettipiece be asked to appear before the council and explain their reasons for supporting the plan from a working class viewpoint. Recommendation adopted. * * * Del. Page, reporting for the Exhibition Board, stated that there was considerable work in sight for the building trades on the grounds for this year. » * » Organizer Colin McDonald reported that the Butchers' Union is meet- ng with fairly good success and that quite a number of shops are getting lined up. W. J. Bartlett reported on one large place that was already 100 per cent, organized, and urged trade unionists to look for the union shop card and ask for the union button. * * * Ed. Smith reported that the painting, trade was slack and the membership would appreciate any small jobs that delegates could turn their way. * * * Del. Clarkson reported for the Sign and Pictorial Painters, as published elsewhere, stating that only two or three shops are left unorganized and the union had hopes of eventually getting these. * * * Musicians reported on an active advertising campaign being conducted by the International office against canned music. The Trades Council will commend the International office for its efforts. TRADES COUNCIL ELECTS OFFICERS FOR TERM Officers elected for the ensuing term at the regular meeting of the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council were as follows: President, Jas. Thomson. Vice-president, W, J. Bartlett. . General Secretary-treasurer, P. R: Bengpugh. Warden, W. Hargreaves. - '" ~ i ,S^y»ticJan, CE. Herrett. Committee Chairmen: Organization, Colin McDonald. Legislation, R. H. Neelands.. Press, Walter Deptford. ; - ' Grievance, C. Watson. City Engineer Pleads With Contractors City Engineer Brackenridge is being made a fool of by his former friends. .When he assumed that lucrative office, possibly by the aid of_hiR contractor friends, be pooh- poohed the day-labor idea of labor aldermen and organized labor. He made all kinds of excuses against it, «nd solemnly informed the City Council that contractors could and would pave our streets and put in our sewers at a lower cost with better work than day labor, and that =smyhow the city was not equipped to do the work. Ever since ^theiv Mr. Contractor has been getting the contracts and apparently has been raising the ante every time, for at last City Engineer Brackenridge has been made to admit that the contractors have been doing a whole lot of gouging. But he is not sold to the day-labor idea by any means. He appears to be simply using the idea as an inducement to his friends to go a little easy on the city coffers. He says that if they do not come down in their prices he will do the work by day labor with a city plant. We fail to see, however, how these contractors can lose any sleep over such a threat, if, as City Engineer Brackenridge says, the day-labor plan is expensive and the city is not equipped to do the work? If day- labor costs more than contract labor, why involve the city in the experiment? If the city has not got the equipment, why allege that it has? Surely Mr. Brackenridge is making himself look ridiculous by his own summersaults. Anyhow, judging by the tone of his threat, he is not sincere. He says that we have $70,000 available for the building of a paving plant, and he says that we have two splendid sites. This money has been aavilable since 1912, and it will cost $80,000 to build the plant today, but, he says, let's give the contractors another year in which to become good. Good, yes, and by that1 time it may cost $90,000 to build the plant that could have been built for '$40,000 when the citizens first voted $100,000 for it, but which the City Council and City Engineers failed to build. In the intervening years the taxpayers have been gouged to pay for cheap roads built by high-priced contractors. Mr. Brackenridge. get out. 'HIS MASTER'S VOICH A coast-wide protest is being voiced by British Columbia fishermen against the new fishing regulations. It is pointed out that under these regulations the sayso as to who can or cannot be included in the ratings set for each cannery is left in the hands of the cannery men exclusively. The regulations also deny the fishermen the right to dispose of their fish to anyone but the cannery to which they are attached (by legislation), while the cannery interests are allowed to truck and trade in the fishermen's fish, when the cannery men get possession of them. In the matter of selling the fish these fishermen demand equal freedom of the seas with the cannery interests. They consider that the regulations, as drawn, are of very doubtful value as a preventive meas- I ure against the progressive depletion , of the fishery resources. That, at the best, the regulations are purely experimental in character and they demand that these regulations, making them effective for five years, be rescinded until their worthlessness can be demonstrated. They further demand to know why the department at Victoria has turned over to the Canadian Manufacturers' Association the authority to set up committees to pass upon the regulations, where the interests of the fishermen are concerned. They will formerly protest against these, and other points, in the proposed regulations. The slogan of the fishermen is, "We demand the freedom of the seas." About 2000 fishermen will be shut out from making •» living if these regulations are passed. A certain number of men are designated to certain canneries, and the men can only sell their fish to the cannery allotted to them, which is a new form of serfdom. But all the men who have been earning their living at fishing are not covered by these regulations, as the numbers allotted are short by about 2000 men. Aside from this, the canneries are given complete control over the fishermen, hence price objectors, agitators, or any other who is undesirable in the eyes of the cannery-owner can be deprived of his livlihood at any time. The committee selected by the Canadian Manufacturers' Association to pass upon these regulations is composed of C. Thomas, of the B. C. Packers; R. Bell-Irving, of the Anglo Packing Co.; R. R. Payne, of the Canadian Fish Co., and Jas. Lamb,"" an independent cannery owner. How can a bunch of cannery owners legislate in the interests of fishermen who have to sell their products to cannerymen who hold them in bondage by being individually "apprenticed" out to one cannery man? That kind of legislation will not preserve the fishing industry in the interests of the consumer. British Labor Has V Taken the Lead It has been left to the Labor Party of Great Britain to get action on a real plan towards the reduction of armaments. Five of the greatest sea powers have been brought together by a mere labor government, and a king has opened the conference, instead of opening a war, as was done by most former kings or their henchmen. Prime Minister MacDonald is undoubtedly in his glory, for this subject is one in which he has taken bold interest for many years. True, there are stumbling blocks to the success of the conference, the greatest of which will be the attitude of France. We believe, however, that there will be a give and take attitude among the nations involved, and that it will be a success insofar as there will not only be a reduction in armaments, but also ways and means made for further conferences and reductions. If this happens the glory will be for the British Labor Party, but they will, be willing to share it, being satisfied with having led the way towards world peace. I. L. P. MEETING FRIDAY The regular business meeting of the Vancouver Branch of the Independent Labor Party will be held in the I. O. O. F. Hall, 2237 Main St., on Friday, evening January 24th. JAPANESE WORKERS' UNION : TO HOLD GENERAL. MEETING The Japanese Workers! Onion will hold its .general meeting in the Japanese Hall at 475 Alexander street rtgx-t Saturday evening. At this meeting1 activities of the union during the past year will be reported and officers elected for the new term. Street Railwaymen Election of Officers Elected officers of Pioneer Division 101, Street and Electric Railway Employees' Union, for term commencing January 1st, 1930: f\ President, J. E. Smith. x Jst vice-president, R. E. Rigby. 2hd vice-president, J. Henderson. Recording secretary, J. Price. Business agent, H. W. Speed. Treasurer, J. Auton. Day men's executive, F. A. Hoover. Night men's executive, E. Hicks. Extra men's executive, N. M. Wright. 13th Avenue Barn, John Dew. Kitsilano barn, Alex. Will. Truck drivers, J. A. Berry. Track department,' J. Auton. Coach operators, W. B. Anderson. North Vancouver, W. A. Harris. Auditors, J. Henderson, .F. A. Hoover, F. Wallbridge. Delegates to Trade Council, J. Auton, T. R. Carson. E. Af Hoover, J. Price, J. E. Smith, H. W. Speed, E. S. HoUgham, W. Deptford Pritchard Elected Reeve of Burnaby Another member of the eight workers who were charged with "Seditious Conspiracy" in connection with the Winnipeg general strike of 1919 has attained high office in political affairs. Last Saturday W. A. Pritchard, Ope of the eight, was elected Reeve of the Municipality of Burnaby, adjoining Vancouver, defeating a former Reeve by a vote of 2679 to 2350. W.A.Prit-" chard has been councillor in that municipality for two years, and during that time has learned the advantages o t Jiot getting too far in advance of the average citizen. He has been cautious, muir, R. Gray, J. E. Smith, J Price. H. W. Speed. Sick relief committee, J. A. Wood. WsHen, night meeting, J. A. Wood. yet sincere in his attitude towards his fellow-couneil- Social committee, J. C. Christie,! men and make an ever-increasing R. Anderson (barn). F. A. Hoo "umber of friends by dealing with ver. A. V.' Lofting. W. Long-' municipal policies instead of theories '"" ''""' ' ' of the millenium. He entered the municipal arena as a member of the Labor Party. The other members of the eight "conspirators" who are holding office are: J. S. Woodswortb, who, along with another "conspirator," A. A. Heaps, are both'members of the Federal Parliament at Ottawa; Win. Ivens and John Queen are members of the Manitoba Provincial Legislature ;' George Armstrong and Fred Dixon were member* of the Provin- -^a^-fceKishU-are, trW"ftsVes*dr"i}pped out. NEW WESTMINSTER BREWERY EXTENSION IS HELD UP Building operations ft>r the extension of the New Westminster "Brewery has been held up',on account of the coJd wfeajthiuv bu£^^„wprk,ju}l, be contintfOT as .early as possible.- Two of the-union employees were injured during the past week, one of them in, connection with .the eleya-| tor. The management is going to*' have the- elevator jnade safe and foolproof. 'V '. The advances of the labor movement have always been up grade. A. constant demand for UNION-MADE GOODS and SERVICE will remove some .of the grade. 4 THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January _'4, 1930 BARNET LUMBER CO., LTD. 3895 HASTINGS STREET EAST High. 180 Ol.n. 384 Night Call: U-len. 493, Carl. 299 Y 3 BARNET BOOSTS ^^-g*-^ BETTER "^^ggJjP^ BUILT 600,000 PBBI PEB PAT BUNGALOWS SEE US FOR SPECIALS RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggist" Wo Mak. a Special Effort to Get Good. Oat by First Mail After Receipt of Your Order CORNER COBDOVA AND CAKHALI VANCOUVER, B. C. Supermaid Cook Ware Is Unfair to Labor The Toronto convention of the American Federation of Labor di- /reeted "that- the American Federation of Labor conduct an investigation of the strike between the Metal. Polishers and the above named company (Supermaid Cook Ware Corporation of Chicago), and report their findings to the different central bodies throughout the country." This investigation has been made. The American Federation of Labor representative who conducted the investigation reports: "In the early part of 1928 the company employed about 114 Metal Polishers. They, just moved into a new factory and installed an efficiency expert. The employes were non-union men, and, of course, under the absolute control and domination of the company. "The union then undertook to organize the plant, and several union men secured employment there and began to urge organization. The company became aware of this and closed' down the plant and told the employes that when they got ready to open up they would send for them. Needless to say that, when they opened up they did riot send for those empjoyes known to he members of the union. "Some time later the efficiency man began to install new prices on a piecework basis, which seriously curtailed the earnings of the men. It was so arranged that the result was greater production and less wages. "In this connection, and as a means of cutting down costs, the efficiency man furnished a cheap grade of - material, which the men had to use in doing their work, and also arranged a system of sectional work which wou'd eliminate the skill of the Metal Polishers and make it possible to employ cheap labor to perform these sectional operations. "At this time there were no regular hours. The men worked ten, twelve or fourteen hours a day, according to the amount of products to be turned out. The men made vigorous protests against the conditions, aid were told by the superintendent: 'You have a nice, new factory to work in, and you guys will have to pay for it.' "Then a number of the employes met at the home of one of the employes. They.decided that the only way they could protect themselves was by joining the Metal Polishers' Union, so they sent for the business agent, and he came to the meeting, with the result that those present fil'ed out their applications and paid part of their initiation fee, and they agreed to proceed to induce their fellow employes to make application. "In a short time sixtv of the 114 employes became members of the union. They selected a shop steward and were functioning under the advice of the business agent, avoiding every possible act which might embroil them inv trouble. • "The company became aware of this new activity and again posted the notice that the shop would close down. The union employes—60 of them—called a meeting and protested that posting of the notice to close down was an attempt to destroy their union, and tlten and there they declared a strike. The officials of the company talked to them and told them that they could not strike, that it was an illegal strike, etc., and that in the face of the notice to shut down there could be no .strike. "However, 80 of the employes walked out, and the next day'the plant did not open and it remained closed for some days. Then the com return to work, and at this point the action of the employes against'the Progress of the Holy War in United States The slaughter in the teti years of crusading since the Eighteenth Amendment came to lake up its abode totals 1,300, according, to lately published figures. This includes only those who perished in conflicts between the hired killers representing the law and the quick-trigger men of the enemy. As to the number who have been buried following free-for-all, high-jacking exploits and massacres of professional gunmen and gangsters no figures have been made public. Reviewing the riot of assassination one is inclined to titter at Ida Tar- bell's prediction that if this thing keeps up it is likely to end in civil war. Looks like the war is going strong and is going to be fiercer. The prohibition chief, Dr. Doran, informs news reporters that his agents will continue positively to go armed. Dr. Doran seems to have no illusions about the .business to which he is devoting his talents. He knows it is war. Another who thirsts for more 1. State-supervised savings bank life insurance has come of age in Mass- aehusetts^-this is the anniversary year—but the private life insurance companies doing business in the Commonwealth are sending no baskets of flowers to the author of the idea. Reasons for their lack of enthusiasm are not hard to find, Twentyone-years ago the private life companies declared emphatically that the whole sceheme was impracticable. Yet it has demonstrated its 'practicability so thoroughly that more than "$68,000,000 of savings bank life insurance is now outstanding in Massachusetts. It is painful to be proved a false prophet. This, however, was not the only awkward mistake made by the private life companies. They insisted that the savings bank insurance idea reposed upon a notion of human nature which was ridiculous; it assumed that people would go looking for life insurance instead of having life insurance go looking for them. How could anyone in his right mind expect anything but disaster from a plan which proposed to dispense with insurance agents and their commissions, and- to sell life insurance over the counter of the village savings bank without the. aid of high-powered salesmen to tell the public about it? What, demanded the vice-president of the Metropolitian Life Insurance Company—who made a special trip from New York to set the Massachusetts Legislature right on the matter— what would induce people to buy such insurance? ... Commonsense, suggested the auth- blood of his fellow men is Dr. True 0I' of the plan—a persistent, discon- Wilson, chief of the Methodist lobby certinglv. reasonable lawyer named at Washington. In a magazine ar-.Brandeis— Louis D. Brandeis, whose Mile he makes it clear that he is devotion to social progress had late- heartily in favor of shooting prohi-, •>' caused misgivings on Beacon bition into the non-conformists. His Street. Commonsense! The insur- hot stuff is labeled "Call Out the Marines." Bishop Cannon, who speaks for both church and state, is louder than ever against the accursed traffic, and his alter ego, Herbert Hoover, sends to congress a ringing message in which law enforcement is one of the things held to be the nation's foremost necessity. This able document is pronounced by Dr. Cherington of the Anti-Saloon League to be "very heartening" to the drys. What seems to be the most thoroughgoing suggestion in the bloody business comes from George J. Beaumont of St. Louis, who is quoted in the Star of that city as declaring for martial law and a rule that "any persons flouting the Volstead act be adjudged guilty of high treason, and those so found guilty by court martial, whether of* possessing, drinking; manufacturing or selling drink, be condemned to death and meet their fate before the firing squad within twenty-four hours after sentence and all their property confiscated and given to charitable institutions." It is possible these heroic sentiments are hotly seconded by millions of rampaging freemen. In view of the fact that the drys have their law safe and sound and the sons of thirst are able to get all the liquor they can handle at reasonable prices, it was intended to say something about a holiday truce and maybe a few words on peace and good-will, but delving into the War nreparations, one is inclined to back up. What's the use? In the last analysis wanting to fight is like wanting to drink. One wants what he wants. Subscription Agent: "Would you like to subscribe to the local A Great life Insurance War TXASMUCH as the life insurance companies had their "Life * Insurance Day" this week, on January 11, we feel that the following article is quite appropriate for the occasion, as it shows another instance where the life insurance companies..had many similar "days" in au effort to defeat state-supervised insurance, and lost. The following article shows the tactics of the insurance companies in lighting legislation that enabled the citizens to obtain life insurance-at a cost of 26 per cent, less than that charged by these insurance companies. premium departments (industrial insurance), was 5!',5'J per cent, of the number of policies written during the year. Their ten-year average of lapsed policies of this type has been 52.66 per cent, of all written. These are facts of record at the State House. '., The coolness of the life insurance companies in Massachusetts toward the coming of age of savings bank insurance is hot very difficult to understand. II. The story of the Massachusetts plan for savings bank insurance begins at the time of the great insurance scandals in New York City, when Mr. Charles Evans Hughes was. rising to sudden prominence as counsel for the . Armstrong Committee. DiDsDtributed by the discoveries' of this committee, New England policy holders of the Equitable Life Assurance Society retained Mr. Louis D. Brandeis (now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court) to protect their interests. As he explored the situation, Mr. Brandeis was struck not so much by the terrible abuses of the system as by the colossal wastefulness of it all. He discovered two major causes for this utterly uneconomic state of affairs: inflated agents' commissions, which piled up huge bills of costs to policy bmuyers, and over-persuasion of customers, which induced many to take out policies, the premiums on which they were unable to carry. Almost total loss to the buyer was the result in the latter case, since lapsed weekly premium policies had no cash surrender value whatever till they had run several years. Every evil which had grown up in the business of inadequately regulated commercial life insurance was, carried to exaggeration in these iti- dustrial policies: premiums/were twice as high, expense ratios were huge, and the ratio of .-lapses was staggering. s' After he had analyzed the Ian guage of the business, Mr. Brandeis decided that life insurance had been dressed up. with phases to hide the essential..-simplicity of the idea behind it. That idea was to make a ance lobby gathered on Beacon Hill smiled a substantial smile. Bbtthe 84,000 policies issued by Massachusetts savings banks during the past twenty-one years were sold single commissioned agent. The idea born in xthc brain of Louis D. Brandeis has how gathered vast momentum. Having discovered that straight 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 Fixtures Biardware Mechanics1 Toola Paints, Oils, Lamps Radio Supplies Pips Fittings Tools Bleu 370 4097 Hastings St. E. life policies, limit-payment life pol-j«d> and profitable investment of icies, endowment policies and five- money. Aside from investing money year term policies could be purchas- received, there was little in the elab- ed under the savings bank life in- j orate technical jargon which anyone could not master with a little exper surance plan at an averagexof 26 per cent, below the cost in private life companies, the public proved\that commonsense exists, after all. \ The banks will not touch hv argued the insurance, turning over a thought in the back of their minds. Again they were wrong, though for several years ,it looked as tf . they might be right. For, months after the plan became a permissive law, no savings banks would touch it. Mysterious forces were at work throughout the state to prevent savings bank insurance from surviving birth. Yet, during the past summer, ten savings banks in the state were conducting licensed business in the sale of savings bank insurance. And nearly a hundred other banks have found it profitable to accept agencies for such sale. As if to emphasize the changed attitude of Massachusetts banks today, the twenty-first anniversary of the plan has been marked by entrance into it of three more banks, one of which, the Boston-Five Cents Savings Bank, is the largest institution of its kind in New England. On November 1, these three new members of the state-supervised savings bank insurance plan issued new policies to the Value. of no less than .,„ $240,000. papers. Even the final argument put forth Lady: No, we have newspapers by the private life companies against all over the house. ' J the Brandeis idea has turned into a Agent: How about some good: boomerang. You are proposing, ,Tir . i , , they said, to write industriaHinsur- Weve got books m every janc^. thc kmd that ^ nelp ordin. books? v Lady corner.1 Agent: "How about a magazine or two that—" . Lady: "Sorry, but we're swamped with magazines." Agent: "Well, then, what about a good paper baler?" "The company brought in ^strke- ary working men and women. It is dangerous to undertake that with units as small as village banks. It is a type of insurance in which the percentage of lapsed policies is tremendous and the cost is heavy. Do you wish to drive your sayings banks 4ih the rocks? -■*, "*" - "v But, in the fiscal year just ended, pany- undertook "to" reopen the ..plan^ hrej&eM-aiHiWhi^-ww ra^ barflr and invitee! Ihe loyal employes t6~|fyythugs and blacklegs and gunmen. ^>/e insurance policies,.»• issued"in The plant and the streets adjacent Massachusetts have lapsed. What of to it were infested with policemen the private companies meanwhile? company was unanimous. Not one and special deputy sheriffs, n,n<l all In 1928 the average lapse ratio on of the 114" employes 'returned to'kinds of "intimidation was resorted policies written by these companies work. to." , . "• in Massachusetts, in their weekly ience. Make it possible for savings hanks to obtain expert actuarial service in the working out .of rates to J>e charged; provide means whereby | they might obtain medical direction for' examining clients; and the insurance, idea was absolutely identical with the idea of a savings bank! He concluded that if savings banks were given aiKopportunity to write life insurance policies as part of their business, they could-write these more cheaply than private companies, saving the enormous sums s>ent on solicitation and eliminating Byer-per- s,uasion by agents. Finally, tnl&idea would retain management of Massachusetts money in Massachusetts, ftf* stead of permitting the state to be drained of valuable quick capital badl neded to rlocal development. Only one-fourth of the life insurance companies doing business in the state were chartered there., three- fourths of them were outside companies. Every year, these outside companies were collecting millions of dollars, which were drawn out of thc state to swell their reserves; and the companies invested these huge sums as they saw fit—elsewhere. If savings banks sold life insurance, this would be available for local development, under the rigorous savings bank investment laws of the Commonwealth. It was characteristic of Mr. Brandeis' vision that he observed this universally neglected fact and foresaw its implications nearly a generation ago. How pertinent was the observation, may be seen from the statistics revealing the flow of local money to outside companies between 1917 and 1927. During that ten- year period, Massachusetts policy holders turned over to outside management n«- -l*eB-<*tam $650*321,129 of their own money. The same companies npj^g* cellefted an addition-/] al $107,95li224. Mr.. Brandeis felt that aholt should be called, not only in the interests of indivdual policy holders,; but in the interest of the state itself as an economic commun; ity. And so, after concluding his work for the Equitable policy holders, he turned to the task of legalizing savings bank insurance. No sooner did news of his purpose filter through financial circles in the Bay State than therr began an amazing social, political and economic war. Every force of political pressure, lobby power, financial resource and Massachusetts reaction was mustering against him when he at last found an independent actuary to assist him with his bill. In the winter of 1U07, it was filed with the Legist lature. The bill provided that any savings bank in the state, with; the approval of both the Bank Oommis- sioner and the Commissioner of Insurance, might acquire/a license to operate a departniemVfor the sale of savings bank life., insurance policies over the counters Each policy was limited to $500 on any one life in any one bank. When two banks joineaV-tne plan, the insured might obtain two policies for $500 apiece, one in each bank. As the number of banks operating insurance departments increased, so would his range of possible protection. (Later the maximum policy was increased to $1,000 for each bank). The insurance departments of the savings banks were to employ no solicitors. Only persons resident in thc state or regularly employed therein might be insured. Policy holders must share annually in the net profits of the business; legal reserves must meet standard requirements; the mortality experience of all banks operating insurance departments was to be unified at the end of each year. Seven unpaid trustees, appointed by the Governor, were to have administrative control over the system. Only such policies might be written as the state actuary for savings bank life insurance might prepare, and only at rates fixed by him. He was to be employed by the state, and savings and insurance banks were have no jurisdiction over him what soever. The insurance departments of the banks were to be under the joint supervision of the Commissioner of Insurance and the Commissioner of Banks—both state officials. All life and endowment policies were to guarantee to the policy holder a cash surrender value after premiums had been paid for six months. • vThe basic idea of the Brandeis 11lan is an assumption that the cost. of providing for death arid old age is a charge, on youth, which should be' recognized as fixed on .current wages. The state was not to go into the insurance business, that was left to the savings banks as a function properly their "own. State participation was limited to thc supervision and administrative control required in the interest of low cost and of uniformity of procedure throughout the Commonwealth. The atmosphere into which this, fledging bill emerged was decidedly chilly. The recess committee to which it was first submitted had fifteen members, and of these fourteen, at first, were hostile. To insure its defeat, the life insurance companies, on New Year's Day, launched a counter-offensive by offering a slight liberalization of their policies. Their idea was to weaken their opponent's case in advance. He replied by buckling on his armor and mustering a small, group of friends for the battle. _...;-- r-:;;-.:fr.--7- — ~r;--:*: : The crusaders flitted all over the state,.spokt.'before...boards aLJLtada and chambers of commerce, women's clubs and economic-clubs,, labor organizations, welfare meetings and charity conferences. They stirred up public- opinion -with joint debates and written articles.' • Interest be- (Continued on page 3) J ———— Friday, January 24, 1930 I I THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory LABOR HEADQUARTERS, 529-531 BEATTY STREET Vancouver Trades and Labor Council— President, J. Thomson: general secretary Percy R. Bengough. Office, 200 Labor Headquarters, 531 Realty St Phone Sey. 7495. Meets In Labor Mall at 8 p.m. on the lust and third Tuesdays in month. Beverage Dispensers' Union, No. 676— Meets last Sunday at 8 p.m., Uonm No. 3, Labor Headquarters. Pre*., W | H. Clancy; Secretary and Bus. Atfent, T. J. Hanofln. Office: Roam 1, Kagles' Hall, 63S Homer Street. Phones Sey. 4783 and Bay. 1656-R Hours: 9 to 12 a.m. ' Kill and Factory Workers' Union, Local Mo. 1598 — Affiliated with Unltea Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. Meets hrst and third Thursdays in Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. Pres., 0. Campbell. Secretary-Treasurer. 11 t, Avery, 7364 Montcalm Street I'hune Marpule 648K. Millwrights' Local 1638—Construction and Operating—Meets second and fourth Wednesday In Hall 31b. Labor Headquarters. J, H, Campbell, President, P. H. Edge, Fin. Sec; J. Murray Ure. Rec. Sec. Box 127. I Bridge & Structural Iron Woraera, Lo- I cal 97, Int. Also*.—Meets every Friday. Hall 311, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. vPr>*Btd\wur James F. Burns. 2833 Turner St; Secretary. P. Laurel, *"• Room 311,'Labor Headquarters. Phone Fair. 2108 L. Bonding- Trades Council, Tanoouver— i Meets second and fourth Tuesday In Hall 315, Labor Headquarters. President, E. H. Morrison; Secretary-Treasurer, W. Page, Room 301, Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 7496 | Barbers' Journeyman International Union of America—Local 120. meets sec-I ond and fourth Tuesdays In each month. In Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. President, Fred Dawe; Sear Trees., C. E. Herrett. Office, 304 Labor Headquarters. Motion Pictures Projectionists' Union, Local 348, of I.A.T.S.E. It M.P.M.O.— ll':3p p.m., first Friday In month, in Halt No. 3, Labor Headquarters. President, J. R. Foster; Secretary. Geo. G.errard, Box 345. Business, Phone Sey 3923. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, Local 148, A. r. of M. • Meets at the Q.W.V.A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President. E. C. Miller; General Secretary, W. E. Williams; Organizer, F. Fletcher. Office, Suite 307-319 West Pender. Phone Douglas 2290. Bookbinders' Local Mo. 108, Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday In month at Professional and Business Woman's Club, Empire Bide, 801 Has-, tings W. President, G. Low„«l—5lrd| Ave. \V.; Secretary. Thos. Carroll, 842 Hamilton St. Brlcklayors', Masons' and Tils Setters' | Int. Union, Ho. 1—Room 309. Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Wednesday. In Hall No. 3. President, L. Padgett, 2068 W. 8th. - Phone Bayvlew 1558 R; Secretary, W. S Dagnall. 1244 East 20th, Phone Fair. 845 R; Fin. Sec, Albert Wright, 1050 East 25th, Phone Fairmont 6582 X. - ■ Ouip and Mill Worker* Federal Labor Union No. 31—Vancouver and vicinity, meets every second Wednesday at 8 p.m., at 644 Powell St. E. President, H. Mlyasawa; Secretary. K. Tsuyukl. Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Looal 483—President, Win. Page; Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley; Business Agent, W. Har- 6reaves. Office. Room 810, Labor eadquarters. Meets second and fourth Mondays, 8 p.m., In Hall No. 1. Painters, Decorator! and Pnperhnngers, Local 138—Meets second and fourth Thursdays at Hall No. 2. President, J McCaughran; Rec. Sec, A. E. Varah, 1442 Clark Drive; Business Agent, Ed Snvttti. Office: Room 313, Labor Headquarter?. Phone Sey. 3609. * Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Doer Builders, Local' No. 3404—Meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock In 122 Hastings St. W. President, Al, Graham; James Thomson, Secretary, P. O. Box 320. Phone Sey. 7874. Plasterers, Local 83—Operative Plaster- era' and Cement Finishers' International Association—Meets first and third Wednesday In month at Hall No. 2. Labor Headquarters. President, F. Walsh; Secretary, A. Hurry, 861 — 34th Ave. E. Phone Fair. 3222R. Fin. Sec. E. A. Williams, 830 East 12th. Phone Fair. 5219X. Cement Finishers' Secretary, J. W. Bolnes, 2846 Turner St. Phone High. 1238X. Plumbers and Stoainnttere, Ho. 170, International Association -Meets every second and fourth Friday In Hall No. 2. President, Art Jane; Secretary and Business Agent, W. Watt, 305-7 Labor Headquarters. City Hall Employees' Association— Meets first Wednesday of each month at 251^ Hastings East at 8 p.m. President. A. J. Harrison; Treasurer, W J. Srrlbblns, 3208 Pender St. 10., Secretary, J. Tarbuck, 3517 West 25th. oirtc Employees' Union, Looal SB— Meets first and third Fridays In the month at 251% Hastings East at 8 p.m. President, John McRltchle, (04 West Twelfth; Secretary-Treasurer, George Harrison, 8427 Triumph St. Egg Graders' Union, Ho. 11—Meets In the Labor Headquarters, first and third Monday In month. President, G. S. Cooper; Secretary. M. A. Weight- man, 3905 Fraser Avenue. Blectrlcal Workers, Looal 813, International Brotherhood—MeetB First and Third Monday, at 8 p.m, at Labor Headquarters. President, D. Mc- Dougal; Business Agent. E. H. Morrison. Office. 201 Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 3510 Engineers—International Union of Oper- erating Engineers, Local 844—Meets Svery Friday at 8 p.m. Hall 315. Presi- ent. J. Norrls; Rec-Sec, P. Bradley; Business Agent and Fin. Sec, George Pettlptece. Office, Room 306, Labor Headquarters, rtre pighters, Ho. 18, International Association of—Meets every month at call of president at 25>V> Hastings E. President, N. McDonald, 1136 McLean Drive; Financial Secretary, C. A. Watson. 1329 ■ 13th Ave. E. rloorlayers' Union, Ho. 18TB, U. B. of C. k J. A.—Meets first and third Thursdays In month at Hall No. 8, Labor Headquarters. President, Oscar Soderman; Fin. Sec, T. H. Hamlin; Rec. Sec, John McDonald. 2905 West 12th; Business Agent, W. D. Wilson, 1535—6th Ave. W. Hod Carriers and Building Laborers, Ho, 809, International — Meets first and third Fridays In month at Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. President, Glen Harding, 1110 Denman St ; Fin. Sec. and Acting Business Agent. James Binding, 62 West 24th; Phone: Fair. 6169U ■ otel and Beitanrmnt Employees and Marine Cooke tt Btewarde, Looal to— Williams Bldg., 413 Granville Street. Meets second Monday each month' at 1 p.m., last Monday at 9 p.m. President, Thos. Edwards: Sec.-Treas. and Bus. Agent, J. Cummlng. Phone Sey. 18S. Printing Pressmen and Assistants, Looal Ho. 69—-Meets every second Tuesday In the month at 8 p m. In Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President. A. G. Grey, 867 East 20th; Secretary, Thos. S. Ezart, 1603 40th Avenue E„ South Vancouver. Hallway Carmen of America, Lodge Ho. 58—Meets first and third Friday In month at Labor Headquarters. President, H. Warde, 818 East 18th.; Secretary, J. R. Robertson, 637 West 18th. Street and Bleetrlo Hallway Employees, Pioneer Division Ho. 101—Meets K. P. Hall, 8th and Klngaway, first and third Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.ni. 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. 6000. ■beet Metal Workers Association, Looal Union HO... 080—Meets second and fourth Thursdays in Hall No. 3, President, Jas. Strachan, 2205 W. 1 lib ; Business Agent and Secretary, D. MacPherson, 308 Labor Headquarters. Tailors' Journeymen Union of America, Looal Ho. 178—Meetings held second Monday, each month. 8 p.m. Executive meets fourth Monday of every -month In Labor Headquarters. President. Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. W. Hocken, 1582 13th Ave. S.; Financial Secretary, H. Nordlund. 1930 12th Ave. E. Taxi, Stage and Bus Drive, Looal 151— Meets second and fourth Mondays at 11:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. President, D. H. Cnldlcott. Office. 308 Labor Headquarters; Phone Sey. 7495. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, Local 468—311 Labor Headquarters. Meets every First and Third Monday, Labor Headquarters,. President. A. A. McKay. 766 Cambie St.; Secretary-Treasurer , Blrt Showier, Room 308 Labor Headquarters. Theatrical Stage Employees' Union, Local 118 of the i.a.t.S.E. ft M.P.M.O. Meets second Friday In Labor Headquarters at 9:30 a.m. President, A. Harrington: Secretary, W. Park; Business Agent, If. Pearson, address. P. O. Box 711. Ladles' Auxiliary, Local 171 —United Brotherhood of Carpenters — Meete every first and third Wednesday of each month In Hall 201, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. C. J. Atkinson, 736 19th Ave. W.; Secretary. Elisabeth J. Hope, 1042 7th Ave. E. Lathers, Wood, Wire and Metal, International Union, Local 307—Meets first and third Mondays In month at Labor Headquarters. Secretary, F. Macey, 2466 West 8eventh Ave. Phone: Bayvlew 6831-L. Machinists' Looal «•*—President, Thos. Sills, 1251 Burrard St.: Secretary, P. K Bengough. Office, Room 200, Labor Headquarters. Meets on second -and fourth Tuesdays in Hall 111. , Mils Wagon Drivers and Dairy Employees, Local 484-rOfflce 808, Labor Head- <v quarters. -Meets second a rid'-.fourth Fridays in Hall No: 1. President, S. G. Walters; Secretary-Treasurer, .Blrt Showier, 2841 Triumph. Phone • High. 6SS7. Typographical Union, Ho. 898—President, C. S. Campbell; Vice-President, R. tlouthro; Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neelands, 300-2 Labor Headquarters. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., In Women's Bldg., Thurlow street. Union Label Trades Council meets In Hall' No. 4, Labor Headquarters, 6291 Beatty Street, second and fourtn^i Thursdays in-each month at 8 o'clock. President. Colin McDonald, 2834 St. George Street, Phone Fair. 3317-T. Secretary. Mollle Dolk. 1687 Fifth Avenue East. Phone High. 477-Y. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thunwtar }'» each:. "* month.. President. B. 'D. McDonald. Box 168. Secretary, .Prank Derry. Bo* 488, Prince Rupert, B.C.! A GREAT LIFE INSURANCE WAR (Continued from page 2) came so general that, to the dismayed astonishment of the insurance lobby, the bill passed the recess committee by a unanimous vote. This was but the first skirmish in the campaign. The foes of the plan had admittedly found it difficult to manage the recess committee of fifteen, standing out in the public eye. Handing the Legislature was a different matter. Haley Fiske, vice- president of the Metropoliton Life Insurance Company, was brought from New York to head the attack in the "Great and General Court." Mr. Brandeis answered him, meeting one argument after another with an amiability, a fund of humor, a flashing wit and a wealth of material fact which dismayed the insurance lobby. Reporters crowded the Legislature. A Savings Bank Insurance League was formed and every few days it issued bulletins. Public men bombarded Beacon Hill with letters. Finally, President Charles W. Eliot of Havnrd descended into the arena and won a victory over the conservatives by a tremendous attack on thc wastes and abuses of private life insurance. In June, 1907, the Brandeis plan became law. III. The seven-months' was was at an end, but the twenty-years' war was beginning. When, backed by their newly acquired legislative authority, the savings bank insurance supporters turned to look for some savings bank willing to pioneer in the experiment, they found the doors of all closed against them. Every avenue was blocked. That the insurance interests were largely responsible for this, there is little doubt, though many savings banks shied from the plan simply because it was new. But the insurance ring in Massachusetts had overplayed its hand. Such stonewall resistance began to annoy and finally to exasperate the manufacturers of the- state, who .saw in savings bank insurance possible benefits for themselves and their employees. The plan promised to stabilize employment and encourage thrift. In the town of Whitman, the Common- \ wealth Shoe and Leather Company was a very important industry, and the head of this company, Mr. Charles H. Jones, believed in the Brandeis plan. This influence prevailed upon the local savings bank. Mr. Brandeis and a few friends put up sufficient money to cover the initial guarantees necessary for opening a. life insurance department, and the Whitman Savings Bank became the first in the world to handle savings bank life insurance. The next year, former Governor W. L. Douglas cast the power of the W. L. Douglas Shoe Company, of Brockton, into the scales against the' private life company opposition. The People's Savings Bank of Brockton joined the plan. The private life companies faced a leak in their dyke of oposition. Compelled to cut their rates some .$2,000,000 a year for the benefit of their policy holders, driven to further concessions in liberalizing their policies, they were in no amiable mood. During the twenty-five years that preceded the enactment of the savings bank insurance law, they had never increased the benefits to their policy holders in the weekly premium departments. Several times, indeed, existing benefits had been decreased, 'nsurance officials declared under oath that these policies could not be liberalized. The eoncessions forced by competition through the savings bank insurance plan represent today a savings to Massachusetts' people of about $11,000,000 a year. When Mr. Brandeis, in 1910, was drawn to Washington by his professional work, the destiny of the plan was turned over to* his private secretary, Miss Alice H. Grady, who has since become Deputy Commissioner of Savings Bank insurance. The private life companies were exultant. That a resourceful lawyer should have held his own against them was, of course, one of those miracles which proved that miracles are rare. That a mere stenographer-secretary might put them' to rout was a preposterous supposition. First they tightened the blockade on the banks. Between 1912 and 1922, the campaign of influence was so successful that not a single additional savings bank in the state opened an insurance department. With these knots well tied, the insurance forces opened a battle in the state Legislature. Clouds of statistical misinformation were losed by experts at the game, to impress lawmakers with the, dangers inherent in savings bank insurance. Armed with data gathered from the records- of the. private life WHrpwhfea.Wi&rmel^^ routed the attack. Hill after bill was filed to. cripp'e and ultimately to destroy the savings-hank insurance plan. It was proposed to limit the total possible insurance to $2,000 per insured. The Legislature threw the bill out. A bill stipulating a $5,000 limit was advanced. When they saw failure again staring them in the face, the private life insurance interests offered t compromise at $10,- 000. Their scheme was rejected. Swarms of agents descended upon individual legislators in their homes to cajole and threaten. They succeeded only in antagonizing most of them. A bill providing that savings bank life insurance be taxed was introduced in the Legislature. Life insurance companies explained that they had to pay a tax on every policy- written, whereas this outrageous plan bore no burden of taxation and was fed by appropriations from the public funds. But the friends of the plan, opening the statutes, pointed out the disconcerting facts. Not only did savings bank life insurance pay taxes; it paid taxes of % of 1 per cent, on total investment, which includes reserveand surplus; whereas private life insuran.ee companies pay hut lA of 1 per cent, on their net value (reserve) only. Not a single cent of taxation is levied against their enormous surpluses. Next, the insurance interests undertook- to obtain a law ordering savings banks to pay back in full the total state appropriation each year. This would -have domed the plan in its early years, when earnings were small. Miss Grady and her shock troops repulsed the attack, and then brought about passage of a law directing that savings bank insurance departments were to . pay back 25 per cent, of the money advanced in 1929, 40 per cent, the next year, 55 per cent, the next, 70 per cent, th next, 85 per cent, the next, and 100 per cent, in 1934. This infuriated the foes of the plan to such an extent that they launched their master stroke last March. A mysterious meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee of Ways and Means was called at the State House. On the appointed day, a sniall army of insurance agents descended upon the Capitol. With them came chief counsel for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, for the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, for the Massachusetts Mutual, for the New England Mutual and for the State Mutual. The total salaries of these gentlemen amount to more than $85,000 a year. By accident, at the last moment, the friends of savings bank life insurance got wind of »the party. Even then, the secret was so well kept I that nobody outside the insurance I ring knew what was coining, until Mr. Guy Cox, generalcounsel for the j John Hancock Company, rose and of- I fered an amendment to a financial I bill pending in the lower house. The proposed amendment provided that on and after 1934 all connection, between the state and savings bank life insurance should terminate, all state offices in the Division of Savings Bank Insurance should end, and that the control of the plan should thereafter be vested solely in the banks themselves. The carefully mustered audience burst into applause as each of the high-salaried attorneys for the life insurance companies spoke. This irritated the Committee. The learned counsel were asked, "Who mustered the claque?" and "What are you afraid of?" "We are not afraid of savings hank insurance, nor are we afraid of this Committee," exploded Mr. Cox. "Neither is this Committee afraid of the insurance lobby," replied the chairman. Which exchange, duly- blazoned in the press, ended the twenty-years' war—for one year, more. IV. Steady growth has been evident in savings bank life insurance as an institution. Increasing interest has been shown by city banks in.the experience of this institution during its first two decades. For instance, the Whitman Savings Bank shows a growth of deposits exceeding in percentage almost- all other savings banks in the state. The -Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, taking an agency for the system, found itself issuing policies for approximately $1,000,000 last year. Not only was the plan proving a good busine3s-getter for savings banks: it was doing something entirely novel in the history of savings'bank business. It tended to curtail the heavy flow represented annually by withdrawn deposits, and thus increased the volume of funds available to the banks for profitable investment. One bank; in the: system reports that 82 per. cent; of the funds deposited within the past three vcars-ns He insurance premiums have, stuck. : -#■ fJetwe'eff August? I'r'1928; ana July 31, 1929, the ten banks in the, plan, together with agency banks, "co-*per- ating industries and othe fagencies, 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. When In a Hurry, Drop In at Egg Order. FRED'S Are Always ... _ , "o.k." «t Dairy Lunch "It's the Coffee" 72 Hastings West Always Open R. WILKINSON. PREI. D DUNCAN. SIC. Reynolds7 Cartage Co LIMITED Phones: Trinity 1337-1328 Crating, Packing, Shipping ana Storage. Furniture and Piano Moving Long Distance Moving Poof Car Shipments Office and Warehouse i 732 — CAMBIE STKJSBT — 723 PERRY &DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 Breeze, Wheeze, Sneeze - Last Sunday was so nice and warm T thought it would be little harm, * To change to my B. V. D.'a. On Monday came a rain and blow Which by noon had turned to snow, And'I began to sneeze. Hereafter I will wait 'till May And then pick out the very last day To change to my B V. D.% .;-*'• e What has become of the old-fashioned woman who always screamed and held up her skirts when she saw a mouse? •' * 9, James: "What do you see in that girl's,' dress?" ; ¥''■'*'.■ . Walter: "Not much. It's what I See out of it that gets toe." "> issued 14,500 new policies valued at $12,410,352. Dividends to policyholders during the twenty-one-year period exceed $),2000,000; for 1929 they are $672,000. Dividends have been paid every year to date, the buyer of an early policy receiving last year approximately 62 per cent. of his annual premium. Admitted assets of the plan in 1908 were but $26,048; today they exceed $8,000,000. Premium income in 1908 was $368.21; on December 31, 1928, it approximated $1,900,000—about 1.27 per cent, of all life insurance premiums paid, in the state for the year. Far from preventing growth of private insurance business, the plan has actually benefited it. The time is rapidly approaching when the slate will contribute nothing to savings bank insurance. The fiscal year 1929 calls for a state appropriation of $38,000 to cover expenses of supervision. But reimbursements to the state for the year from savings bank life insurance departments - will total approximately $15,200, while taxation on their business will bring the state another $13,000. The total cost this year to Massachusetts, for supervision of this $68,000,000 insurance, will be but $9,800. After considering these facts, the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank decided to enter the plan as a full- fledged member on November 1. Similar decisions were taken by the Lowell Institution for Savings and the Grove Hall Savings Bank of Boston. This is the real anniversary tribute to savings bank insurance on its coming of age. The plan functions not only for the benefit of people of moderate means, offering policies with a face value as low as $250; it is also attracting buyers from the professions and among the wealthy, who are eager to avail themselves of the opportunity of saving 26 per cent, in buying life insurance. Thirteen thousand dollars may now be written on a single life. The idea has come to stay. It is a living monument to the vision, sagacity and courageous public spirit of Louis D. Brandeis. —James H. Powers. ^in New Republic. l'our THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 24, 1930 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at Labor Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. H. W. Watts, Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE Wm. Page, Chairman; W. Watt (Building Trades Council); P. R. Bengough <.\tetal Trades), R. H. Neelands (Printing Trades), W. Deptford (Transportation Trades). B. Showier (Teamii)g Trades'), T. Hanolln (Beverage Trades!, <:. Herrelt (Label Trades). Subscription Rates: $2 per Year; to Unions. 16c per month per member. Phone Seymour 6279 the more restless among us have preferred tp leave and start anew in another country, and under fairer .auspices. If the American will be good enough to put up his wall against the Canadians, our workers, unable to run away from it, must turn and face the fight. With our lines daily broken by deserters to the United States, the labor movement, industrial and political, is shot to pieces from Glace Bay to Nanaimo. With the southern boundary closed, a coalition of labor and farmer will be in power at Ottawa in twelve years. —M. Vancouver, Friday, Jan. 24, 1930 We quote the following-from a local press notice of the death of Dr. Brooks, one of the owners of Powell Iliver: "He was always willing to render first aid if an accident took place near hiin." To get the proper back-ground and understand this we must explain that Dr. Brooks was a millionaire, that in this godlike condition he should-still retain sufficient of human attributes to be willing to assist.a human being in pajn, is most reriiarkable, and natur newspaperman's ittention DON'T FEAR THE U. S. QUOTA During the war the old and the unfit, with but a small number of the ablebodied, supplied all that was re-.. , . quired at home and sufficient to I a,[y ^attracted the meet the enormous wastes of war. It | was at that time necessary that every j short-cut and every new appliance that would increase the production per man should be used. When the ] war was over, its demands on industry ceased, and on top of this huge reduction in commodity requirements, many millions of men were released and must find a place in the field producing commodities. This state of affairs would unavoidably cause some dislocation, but not so much as the situation could be ex -M. Correspondence ■*~s ONE-MAN CARS Editor, Thc Labor Statesman. Sir,—If you will allow would like to make a mild criticism of your article on the One-man Car question. Before doing so, however, pected to cause. The governments | allow me to congratulate you on tion was drawn to it by a man who raced alongside of the car to draw the attention of the motorman. Opposition to the introduction of labor-' saving machinery is quite in order, because this machinery only adds to the. profis of the owner and intensifies the unemployment question. We will continue to oppose it on that basis, no matter how futile it may seem). and thc profiteers did not know just what was the temper of the returning men—they could not be told that we had learned how to get along without them, and, therefore, they could get off the earth. And so various schemes were devised to get over the difficulty. The employer loosened up .and found a place for every man possible, and the government borrowed unlimited millions from our grandchildren and with this bought land at three times its value, and asked five soldiers and their families to make a living on a hundred acres, where the former owner your handling of the situation in re spect ,to the lumbermen's-mission to Australia. My first knowledge ' of thc Trades and Labor Council having, taken action on the matter was, learned from what I may call was the lumbermen's defence. And at first I sort of languidly felt surely the attitude of the Trades and Labor Council is a mistake. Afterwards, however, I began to recall instances of the lumbermen's action towards! social legislation, and how they had tried to evade both the 8-Hour Day Act as well as the Minimum Wage Act. Hence, my pleasure at seeing Sociology Club Forum Selkirk block, 135 Hastings street west. Open forum Tuesdays' and Sundays, 8 p.m. Alderman A. Maclnnes spoke to a good audience on unemployment on Tuesday, 21st inst. After outlining the basic causes of unemployment- private ownership of industry by a class who were only interested in the pursuit of profits—he said that all the facts proved that unemployment had become a chronic condition which could not be solved under the present organization of society. New and improved machines constantly displaced workers, who were thrown on the industrial scrap-heap. The increased army of unemployed competed for a diminishing number of jobs, thus keeping wages down and reducing the purchasing power'of the mass. Social, legislation was . urgently needed to ameliorate this condition of the workers. The. Dominion government, by its immigration policy, intensified the unemployment prob- em and was therefore the body responsible for thc upkeep of the unemployed. An unemployment insurance scheme of a comprehensive nature was an urgent necessity. January 2Gth, Speaker, R. Kirk: "The Basis of Civilization." January 28th, speaker, W. W. Le- feaux: "Unemployment and Insurance." Anyone interested in social problems invited. —F.C. »«<Nl»IO CHAIN MOwTftCAI. cum OK Ar.o 00 OM4AOC »"CmANt STAXMffD CALGARY VANCMivrit .*','. (H (MAttt > .! iM* win rmt inV".&IMT AWOt » RIAL UUIt ta Of lUrtiJOf&Lltt RELIABILITY in every branch of brokerage Operation** is'an essential- Our large clientele has been built up over many years by the observance of a fixed principle that our Information and our trana- aotiona are as tellable as it is humanly possible to make llit-m. R. P. CLARK & COMPANY (Vancouver) LTD. INVESTMENT BANKERS 823 Hastings Street West Vancouver, B. C OPEN FOR BUSINESS! Greatest Values Ever Offered Come in and look around. DOMINION FURNITURE COMPANY Corner Seventh Avenue and Granville Street "Have you 'A Certain Rich Man".'" asked an elderly man of the girl at the library desk. "If I had I wouldn't be working here," came the girl's prompt reply. * » * Some folks are considered broad when they're only flat. Office Boy: "There's a salesman outside with a mustache." Boss: "Tel lhim I've got a mustache." * » » The Wife: "This is news—someone has invented a shirt without buttons." ' had failed to make a satisfactory liv-1 your article setting out clearly the ing for one family. As time went' facts of the case in last week's La- on, it was seen that the soldier had ; l>or Statesman. learned nothing in the war. It was j But about these one-man cars, safe to tell him that the country. Don't you think that a good deal of that he had fought for had no place what the writer said was what in for him, if a Scandinavian pacifist '6e7»J circles would be termed special or an alien enemy would work cheap- ■ pleading? I wouldn not, for one er, and with this the pace that the ' moment, support one-man cars if it needs of war had shown were pos- ] is at all likely to render less efficient sible has been enforced in industry, service. And, like the writer, I Production per man has been, in i would have fears respecting an ex- many instaces, doubled. And again, pertinent on thoroughfares like yearly a steady stream of "soldier Kingsway. But I think self-interest settlers," disillusioned and beaten, °n the part of the B. CV Electric will with other wasted years added to the prevent them doing anything that years of war service, are abandoning would lead to inefficiency. On the thc land, and demanding a place in other hand, I can easily see that by industry. The warehouses are full substituting one-man cars on certain and very much less than the whole routes the compay would be able to of those who must find an employer | S,ve a more frequent service and to UNION BAKERIES Hastings Bakery, 764 East Hasting* street. Phone High. 4537. London Bakery, 439 East 7th street. Phone Fair. 122. Delicious Bakery, East Hastings street. Phone High- 70S. Wet's Bakery, ' 1407 Commercial drive. Phone High. 166. Pratt's Bakery, 3980 East Hastings street. Phone High. 5607. Ferguson Bakery, 2515 Main street. Fair. 3331. Dirks' Bakery, 6207 Main street. Ferguson Bakery, 1714 East Broadway. Golden. Rule Bakery, 957 Granville street. Phone Sey. 8656. Rippon's Bakery, 706 West 16th avenue. Phone Fair. 502. Rigby's Bakery, Cedar Cottage. Phone Fair. 4049. Mutter's Bakery, 2157 Main street. Phone Fair. 4953. Scott's Home Bakery, 1848" Kings- r way. Phone Fair. 729. Davidson's road. Bakery, £090 Victoria McGavin's Home Bakery, 2352 East Hastings street. Phone High. 1351. The Nook Bakery, 1835 West 4th avenue. (Note.—The McGavin's Bakery listed above has no connection with the big firm on Broadway West, which delivers bread and is entirely nelh-union). . can keep them full. While, in the foregoing, we have described Canadian conditions, similar troubles are found throughout extend more readily. I think your arguments about thc number of employees needed were particularly superficial. If a com-1 the English-speaking world; but|Pany W compelled to keep on more there is an esential difference in the help than is actually needed for efTic. manner in which they are met else- \^y, then something will have to where. In1 the British Isles there is suffer as a consequence, and we may unemployment insurance, and the be 8,ure that 't will not be the divi- state considers providing employment | den<)s- Ani> surely we are strong as its first duty. Australia and New j enough to see that any saving the Zealand have contracts with the Im- company will make in that connec- perial Government to take a limited fion wi'1 not 8° to swell the net prof- number of settlers annually; finding Ilts- The argument that to insist on a surplus of local labor, both states |two n,en on e"n car means so many have withdrawn from the arrange- extra families to the community, and ment. The United States have, for therefore, more trade to the retail some years, maintained a wall stores, etc., will not bear very close against European and Asiatic labor,: examination, and recalls the old erected, as stated, by the Secretary' argument against the introduction of for Labor, as protection for the machinery. Some of us can recall American wage-worker. And now ! v,vldlv a strike against the mtroduc- the American government purposes «on of the linotype. No, sir, some a similar wall against the Canadian In Canada, if our government served other interests and were free to take a census of the unemployed, it would other method will have to be advanced in order to gain for the worker his full share in the profits of production than the putting of more be found that our rate per thousand j men on to the Job than is necessary. is greater than-any of the countries | ,,. ,, ■•*• ALLAN, named. Instead, however, of facing I *°*j*"»K Edward Ave. E, the problem our government denies its existance. In fact, it goes to the (Ed. Note.—Our friend seems to think that we would permit the com- other Txtrerae.'and in effeVf cWms ! P^yjfjfok after its own affairs that there is a shortage of labor in Canada, and to meet it our government and the largest Canadian employers collect up laborers in Europe and pay practically the whole of their passage to Canada. And on top of this, irresponsible "reformers" and crack-brained religious freaks are assisted to dump their weaklings into the country. Our government, and regardless of which party is in power, is so tied and interlocked with ■ the plundering corporations that it imagines that the progress and, ve\\- beiofsat^V&iA^Xm reflected in, , .„ , »--,-,.-, the supsr-profits of banks, nitoKfeM1*' 9ft'feet by a one-man car, the -nulling and other' sheltered favorites, j motorman of which did not know -'milling The callous course of our govern the matter of number of men employed and the service they give, and thinks that our concern about the introduction of labor-saving machinery is useless. We disagree entirely. The introduction of the one-man car not only relegates another worker to the ranks of the unemployed, but helps to increase the already big profits of the company and endangers the lives of the citizens and the health of the workers. That is our business, and we are going to oppose one-man .cars on that basis. Only this week■'.H vn>rtaat"wits"&^tg. that he was dragging a woman on merit" has been possible only .because Itne front of. his car until his atten- gw^ayjMM^iM^^ Union Shop THIS CARD CERTIFIES THAT THIS BAKERY IS COMPLYING WITH THE RULES OF THE BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY WORKERS' I. U. OF A. LOCAL UNION NO. 468 ALWAYS ASK FOR THIS LABEL It Demands Cleanliness and Sanitation GXc> -^{REGISTERED) GX3 It Stands, For Purity and Wholesomeness When Buying Bakery Products Accept No Substitute, as it - Protects- Producer anit, Consumer rMSPKlte&Kfefe YsV'S-ir/s^f-s^vsi'.vsiiysi-^s^.vsxr^iys^ysiM^.Ysi' Ill riday, January 24, 1930 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five ' C Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealers 158 Cordova W. Phono Sey. 8687 Mirrors Resilvered. Auto Glass Installed. "*»..,„ Hroken Glass Replacements. "" Polished Plate Glass. —* Flat Drawn Sheet Glass. Ornamental and Wire Glass. Orders promptly* III led. UNION MEN! We do appreciate your patronage, anil deserve It by servlng- (food food, properly cooked, at very moderate prlceB. CENTRAL CAFE 608 Pender W. at Seymour Phone: Seymbur 9147 VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, I.iimlwgo, Neuritis Rad ruld . MASSAGE A SPECIALTY- PACIFIC BUILDING 744 BASTINGS W. SHY. 2070 Chapman's Recreations, Ltd. plume: Trinity 6632 1105 Seymour St., Vancouver, B.C. E. J. Chapman You might just as well dine at the BLUE GOOSE Everybody else does! 1109 Granville Street Phone: Seymour 3617-0 Unionism Trade Unionists are coming to take a deep and geneuine interest in the Union Label as an instrument for advancing their cause. This development was certainly due, for the remissness of union members in the matter of Label support has been one of the wonders of the ecenomic struggle. The Label is a weapon, ready to hand, for a smashing blow at anti-unionism and needs only the friendship of those it seeks to serve in order to be effective. One of the greatest weaknesses of the Trade Union movement has been the lack of wholehearted, consistent support of members. Too many union men are convinced of the efficacy of the union movement as a means of raising wages and improving conditions, but are not strongly impressed with the moral worthiness of the movement. ■ This attitude is really shameful. Such rtlen really do not deserve the bencfutt' they derive from organization. Unionism is a sublime manifestation of the brotherhood of man and should count among its friends and suporters all classes of citizens.. But when its own members—the men and women who receive rich material benefits from its existence—give it only halfhearted support, what can be expect- ed^of non-members? It is true that Unionism gains its rtlotivatinir force from selfish interest but that is true even of patriot- j ism. Certainly there is nothing reprehensible aboutftndustrlous citizens desiring to improve their lot in life and going about 'it in an orderly . fashion: For some reason, however, Unionists in this country have been lacking in zeal. The political weakness of the labor movement is proverbial; the worker is a Republican or a Democrat for some silly reason that has nothing whatever to do with the welfare of his class. The banker and the manufacturer are much wiser. They cast their votes and their influence for those who serve them and against those who have injured them. I am not advocating any departure from our traditional nonpartisan policy, but am only citing evidence aroused to the importance of supporting his own interests, that he has never come to appreciate the moral grandeur of the union idea— an idea that he should look updn as worth dying for. f>', ,„!,,;Perhaps the, blame, for his indifference should not be visited'upon the individual menjber alao*v Some .•»» -case ior.his lack of faith and loyal* ty majr be-founji in past neglect of. his union education. We have learned that intelligent publicity methods Sign Painters Hold Fine Smoking Concert One of the best smoking concerts out of the many held in the Labor Headquarters took place last Friday night, when the newly-organized union of Sign and Pictorial Painters held its first event. Every one of the various turns were top-notchers and would have done credit to any vaudeville circuit. When we point out that this union was able to get the services of Vic Foley, Sid Walters and Harry Marshall, whose names are prominent in the boxing profession, for two three-round boxing exhibitions, one can visualize what the other turns would be like. Among these were the Campbell Sisters, Scotch songs and dances, Lloyd Walters at the piano; Master Bobby Lacey, a 10-year-old masterpiece on the piano; Charlie Jonfis, who was an extra special favorite because of his well-rendered songs, and who surprised the audience with Pagliachi; J. Bagan, Scotch comedian, who almost outdid Harry Lauder; Van Dunkirk, tap dancing and slow drag, one of Vancouver's prominent dancing teachers; Jimmy Moffatt and Tommy Haynes, piano and saxophone players, who made you want more; the Walker Brothers with banjo and piano were big assets for the community singing; Fred Service, accordion, and Lloyd Walters, violin, were real treats; Fred Tongue's songs that helped you sing, and then a three- round boxing match between Vic Foley and his sparring partner, Sid Walters, and another three rounds between Sid Walters and Harry Marshall that were fast and furious. President Norman Glazier occupied the chair and was ably assisted by a committee composed of Alex Swnnsdn, Sid Walters and G. L. Hooper, who supplied plenty of drinks, eats and smokes, as well us the entertainers. Some short speeches were made by William Wallace, president of the Vancouver Sign Association; P. R. Bengough, secretary Trades and Labor Council; Bob Stevenson, organized Painters' Union, and Ed Smith, business agent Painters' Union. Among those present from the Sign Association were Mr. William Wal- 'ace, Erridge Brothers. A. Machin, C. Jones, R. Noble, H. Clay and Mr. Gage. The concert closed at 12 p.m. with everybody exhilarated over the event. Have your coal delivered by Union Drivers by the Morrow Coal Co. The man who enjoys the benefits .secured through organization is securing benefits under false pretenses when he fails to demand UNION GOODS and UNION SERVICE when spending his money. Said a gentleman, arrogantly, be- j fore a group of his fellows, "Three years ago I didn't hove a nickel in my pocket and today," he looked around and saw the tax assessor, "today I've got a nickel in my pocket," he finished meekly. will arouse new interest in the pro* gramme of organized labor and>in the Union Label. The future should find the leadership of thc labor movement spending more and more time ! and effort on the task of stirring the | enthusiasm of members in favor of j the general aims of Unionism. We have made a good start in that direction. Now let us pursue the advantage! , R. B. Bennett, Tariff and Unemployment (By Frank Cusick) Xast week the Dominion leader of the Conservative party entertained a Vancouver audience with an exhibition of political dexterity. He appeared on- :Jboth sides of the tariff question simultaneously. Mr. Bennett favors a high protective tariff against foreign manufactured commodities imported into Canada—with one notable exception—that of labor power. Imported labor is and should be, on the "free'* list. Otherwise, it is presumed, the Canadian workers might develop a monopoly of labor power in the home market, which might offset the proposed-monopoly of the home commodity market in the interest of Canadian capitalists, as advocated by the Conservative leader. - . \^ Big Business Controls Politics Mr. Bennett; who aspires to be the acknowledged political Jeader of Big Business in Canada, is one.of those very wealthy men who. combining finance with politics, and possessing a large and varied assortment of platitudes, depend upon their social position and financial standing to secure for themselves political followers—some of whom are merely "rice Christians" and do not believe in the faith which they outwardly profess. According to Mr. Bennett, the great guiding principle of his life is democracy, and the cardinal doe- trine of his political faith seems to be a slightly revised edition of John A. Macdonald's National Policy, "A bigger and bigger tariff." The "United Front" As the Conservative party in B.C. is top-heavy with aspirants for political jobs, ranging from that of cabinet ministers to the less ornamental but more useful one of lavatory manicurist, the internal competition amongst the "faithful" is exceedingly keen. Sounds of quarreling in the tents of the General Staff of thc party have reached the ears of those without the fold. In view of the approaching federal election, a united front of the party vote brokers for the sole purpose of getting into office is a prime necessity. Mr. Bennett, during his visit here, must have given the necessary "promises" to some of the Conservative chieftains who had been sulking in their, tents, for a number of them appeared on his platform in the Auditorium. Mr. Bennett Expounds After a lot of reciprocal back-slapping amongst Bennett, Stevens and Tolmie, the Conservative leader expounded his policies in regular "Big Bill" Thompson style. ^To -the delight of the Conservative - applesauce" brigade, who were-occupying the front seats, were .tjaskinjj in the reflected glory of hhf rhetoric, Bennett proceeded to hand the Yankees on fclje.snout." Certainly, if half the accusations against them are true, they deserve it. It would appear that the Yanks are grabbing "our" heritage from us, aided and abetted by the political brokers in office in Ottawa, who are, in the language of the stock exchange, selling Canada "short." Waxing eloquent and pathetic over the sad case of the large army j of unemployed, a condition which he attributed to the policies of the Liberals, the Conservative leader proposed his remedy. First, elect him and his party to office, and then they will "give the necessary protection to One of the most popular brands among Union men sold by the Liquor Control Boards of Canada CATTO'S Old Highland Whis\ey Obtainable at All Government Liquor Stores Please Ask for CATTO'S Thifc advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. industry and keep the work in Canada." As an added inducement to supporMiis party, M>'. Bennett promised that the Canadian manufacturers, would reduce the price of their commodities. No one troubled to ask the Conservative leader why the manufacturers did not reduce their prices now, in view of the huge profits being made by the industrialists. Few of Mr. Bennett's political customers are going to be anxious enough to enquire into whether his solution is workable or not or how comes thc large army of unemployed in the United States despite its high tariff wall. Bennett and Democracy There are some critical vipers who are apt to remember the Winnipeg strike, when Mr, Bennett's democratic principles suffered an eclipse. He, at that time, helped to frame the amendment to the Immigration Act providing for the summary deportation of British-born labor leaders. _/ The Conservative leader's sympathy for the unemployed, and particularly for the "ppor mothers who sec their children going hungry"—was so pronounced that I fondly imagined that he was going to denounce the present federal government for not introducing an unemployment insurance act. Vain hope. Perhaps unemployment insurance is a "thoroughly vicious principle." The low-wage speed-up policy and wholesale scrapping of workers was entirely overlooked in the Conservative leader's address. This paladin of democracy was "not at home" to the representatives of organized labor when they attempted to interest him in having a fair wage on the Ghost River project—an enterprise in which he was directly interested. Mr. Bennett appears, far too shrewd to-swallow his own bunk! * Logging Operations Cause Forest Fires If Major Charles Cowan, of Washington, does not be careful he will get deported by our Provincial Government. He comes to Vancouver and tells us that the majority of fires in our woods are caused by logging; that high-speed logging en- ines and slash contribute mostly to thc cause. This publicity, as given in the following article, suggests certain remedies which our Conservative government and their logging company friends will not accept, so we feel that the Major's speech has fallen upon barren soil. The article says: Logging operations are responsible for starting forest fires involving biggest losses, Major Charles Cowan, of the Washington Forest Fire Association, told the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers at Hotel Georgia Monday night'. High-speed logging engines contribute largely to the danger, from the fire viewpoint, of all logging operations, and logged-off lands offer by far the greatest hazard, Major Cowan said. His conclusions, he said, regarding the relation between logging operations and forest fires were reached after a seven-year period of experimental investigation into the origin of all forest fires in the vicinity of Grays Harbor. The major added that the results of his studies at Grays Harbor could not be directly applied to other areas without further investigation. As a further measure to control and eliminate fires he advocated slash burning, under careful control, which, he said, would eventually assist reseeding. A young man arrived home from his university after having received the degree of M. A. . "I suppose Robert will be looking for a B. S. next," said a friend of the family to thefather. "No," was' the reply, "he will be i looking for a J.O.B." One great handicap to the progress of the labor movement is failure to demand the UNION LABEL. SHOP CARD and WORKING BUTTON, i "You don't love me as much as you used to. Haven't I always played fair with you?" "Yeh, you're fair, but I like 'em 1 lERjtW IR W. ARBUTHNOT LANE?*-worJd renowned surgeon, said: "Beer should be the drink of the Nation,", and at a recent conference at Liverpool he further states beer is "As good a drink as you can have." In British Columbia it is now an established fact that those well known undermentioned brands of beer, according to analyses by expert chemists, are beyond doubt proven to be of excellent standard and quality. For sale by all Government vendors' store* and beer parlor*. Free delivery. PILSENER LAGER BLUE RIBBON Li^E^H^^ GA5GA£E PALE OLD MILWAUKEE LAGER This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. * X Six c\ THE LABOR STATESMAN ! Friday, January 24, 1930 "Build B. C." Makes Into Cream Cheese A LADY of Victoria, who has. used Pacific Milk, for ^ears, in a splendid letter, recently received, says: "It (Pacific Milk) whips beautifully for jellies or cream cakes and makes a lovely cream pie. Also I make with it a cream cheese that is really delicious in sandwiches. Other uses to which Pacific Milk is put are also given. Pacific Milk Factories at Abbotsford and.Ladner INDEPENDENT LIBOR PASTY VANCOUVER BRANCH Chairman - - A. J. Turner 3ecretary-Treas., R. E. Tlmmlns 636 Drake Street. Meets Second ana Fourth Fridays at I. O. O. F. Hall, '2237 Main St. Membership Pee - 91 Fsr Tsar NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades 4 Labor Council Boom 300—531 Bentty Street Phones: Sey. 7495-6Z7S ▼AHGOtrfniK TRADES AND LASOS council. President James Thomson Vice-President W. J. Bartlett General Sec.-Treaa P. 3. Bengrong-h Statistician _ O. E. Sirrttt Warden _...W«lWr Deptford Executive, Committee Chairman. COMMITTEES: Organization: Colin McDonald (chair.), Tailors. P. R. Bengough. Machinists. W. J. Bartlett. Blacksmiths. Jas. Thomson, Pile Drivers. C. Herrett, Barbers. Legislative: B. H. Neelands (chair.), Typographical. W. J. Scrlbbtns, Civic Employees. P. R. Bengough, Trades Council. F. A. Hoover, Street Railwaymen. C. A. Watson. Fire Fighters. . W. Hargreaves. Carpenters. J. Thomson, Pile Drivers. C. Lamb, Typographical. C. McDonald. Tailors Prvssi W. Page (chair.), Bonding Trades Connoll. W. Deptford, Transportation Trades. R. H. Neelands, Printing Trades. P. R. Bengough, Metal Trades. T. HanoRn, Beverage Trades. B Showier, Teaming Trades. W. Watt, Building Trades. C. Herrett, Label Trades. Grievance: I Oeo. Pettlplece (chair.), Operating Engineers. E C Miller. Musicians' Union. R. Showier. Dairy Employees. E H. Morrison. Electrical Workers. H. W. Watts. Blsetrlcal Workers. Os At the Gate O Wilson & McNeill | Painters and Decorators Everything pertaining (or the trad*. [1156 E. 13th. Phone Fair. 5248 SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS Rev. 0. R. Miller, the Albany reformer, was talking about modern youth. "Modern youth may be vicious— I know nothing about that," he said, "but I do know that it's terribly self- righteous. "A young idler called on a millionaire and told him nonchalantly that he wanted to marry his daughter. . "The millionaire got ready to read the young fellow a lecture on idleness, and began: " 'Young man, do you know how I made my. money?' " 'Yes. Oh,' yes,' said the young man, 'but I can't allow that to stand in the way of Lottie's happiness.'" PAYING NATIONAL DEBT AT BILLION A YEAR RATE ' The public debt of the ■ United States dropped a clean hi'lion dollars during 1 929. The total &Jim~%fA& 300,92I;50I. At its !peak, on August 31, 1919, it was $26,896,701,648. Thus it has been paid off at an average. of»-a bilMjjfc-^jssasr^t-^TOgsK1 A Modern Pharaphraie of Dives and Lazarus By Ethel Carnie Holdiworth '■ "I'm Wetherdale—of the firm of Wetherdales," said the panting applicant for the next phase of his existence. He felt very much put out, having been rushed away in'the midst of a strike which raged around two per cent. Also, he was used to a lift, the awe of the lift-boy, and a suit with a distinctive cut. It had been highly disorganizing, and he hoped they would not keep him waiting long, but treat him with the„deference the name of Wetherdale had always inspired. The keeper of the gate was in no hurry. "Ahem!" Mr. VVetherdale \ reminded him. Then he perceived that that individual was reading—Shelley. Mr. Wetherdale pondered. She'lleyJ Why, surely, he was one of thrtse superb fools who talked of altering the whole world, who had raved of stars, rushy pools, and mountains with their heads in the clouds, and of humanity, and who had no religion, and who would have been quite" incapable of running the firm of Wetherdales? "Ahem! I'm Wetherdale, of the firm—" began Mr. Wetherdale. He -was torn by two distracting thoughts. -How would his son Reginald go on amidst the strike. Could he hold the fort and retain that two per cent, they had taken off the men on the plea of a slump in trade? And the other distracting thought was the loss of his gold watch-chain which he had been in the habit of twaddling when perturbed. "I see you are," answered the keeper of the gate. Mr. Weterdale felt relieved. The keeper of the gate laid the Shelley, book down. Mr. Wetherdale was glad to see it. He had once had a workman who had quoted Shelley to him,, and—he had sacked him at the first opportunity. Mr. Wetherdale wondered vaguely where that workman had gone. The keeper of the gate took up another book. "Directory?" questioned Mr. Wetherdale, briskly. ~"' Silence answered him. He occupied himself by a running commentary on the importance of the firm of Wetherdales in the commercial world, the work it has provided for thousands The keeper of the gate looked up with eyes that glinted at this point. "You mean—Wetherdales would have perished—without their labor," he said. Then, "Sit down." Someone had come up and now stood beside Mr. Wetherdale. He realized that it was the newcomer, and not himself, the keeper of the gate had asked to sit down. He turned—to find out what individual it was who was worthy of more courtesy than the representative of the firm of Wetherdales. He was staring into the face of the insubordinate workman who had once quoted him Shelley. They looked at each other long and silently. Shortly afterwards, side by side, they were ushered into a room. It was the room wherein those who had been hurried away without warning weer permitted to take their last view back at the world they had left. Mr. Wetherdale applied his optic to the telescope. He wanted to see Reginald at home—and flash to him the non-sentimental determination that had built Wetherdales. Why—was that Reginald? That little clot, frantically bobbing about? And now, he was looking into the interiors of houses where lived the men who were fighting for two per cent. And somehow it all looked different. It was ghastly—-it was appalling—it was hell. , As the battle raged, he saw some of the little clots disappear. They had been wiped out in the fight for two per cent. "Reginald—give it to them! What's two per cent.?" yelled Mr. Wetherdale, suddenly. He found himself dragged away by the shoulder. ,/<- "I wanto—to—to . influgnfce my son," spluttered Mr. Wetherdale, wretchedly. y/ He found himself dragged away by the shoulder,, ' He looked into thc face of the keeper of the gate. "If he heard you, he would call you. an impractical old fool," said the keeper of the gate. "Don't you realize that you ; lived amongst unrealities, and had him trained to do the same? Only percentages were real to. you. Not people. Only wealth, not life " "Then," said Mr. Wetherdale, mounrfully, "this is " "Exactly," answered the keeper o£ the gate. Mr*;Wetherdale saw his discharged workman turn from his view, a luminant smile on his face, and heard him mutter: "No matter—it will come, that dream of Shelley's,— of course, \ knew it would; but one gets tired." •*-.' "Opposite direction," the keeper of the gate called to him. Mr. Wetherdale saw his workman disappear, like a luminant must, down an avenue of trees, which dappled the sunshine of a road that seemed to run-towards beautiful in finity. "To every man—his world," said the keeper of the gate, enigmatically. Mr. Wetherdale gasped. "Bue he lived in a mean tenement," he protested. The keeper of the gate laughed humorously. "Nonsense!" he said, calmly. "He only existed there. And it was you, blind with your percentages, who kept him there. Read that as the first step towards commonsense." Mr. Wetherdale looked down, i In his hands was the book of Shelley, and he groaned as he realized that he woul dnot understand it for at least a hundred years. Sinclair Lewis Writes Story for Mill Strikers "Cheap and Contented Labor" is the ironic title of a story on the strikeof cotton mill workers at Marion,"!^., by Sinclair Lewis, author of "Main Street," "Babbitt," and other best sellers. It is being issued from the press this week by the United Textile Workers and the Women's Trade Union League for Pennsylvania. The book will be sold to raise the funds for families of mountain mill workers in North Carolina who are jobless as a result of the strike and the tyrannical methods of the mill owners. Lewis went to Marion while the strike was in progress to write a series of articles for the Scripps-How- ard newspapers. These have been expanded and revised and turned over by the author to the United Textile Workers and Women's Trade Union League without costs. Fifty thousand copies are to, be printed as a first edition, and it is -aid the publishers have reduced the selling costs so as to insure that 90 per cent, of the proceeds will be used for relief purposes. Those who desire better living and working conditions must do their share . to secure them. Demand the UNION LABEL. SHOP CARD and WORKING- ByjTjON, rr. tsszsz While oie»v jwe busy looking their age, the girls are just as busy over- ,'loolptmgr''-'Hieirst'.:-i ;-—.-'- -•-"-•-««-»«* $1316 Annual Wage Is Weak Foundation Minneapolis, Minn.—The secretary of a local business organization is jubilant over statistics which show that industry in this city, during 1929, produced goods to the value of $370,000,000 and employed workers with a payroll of $50,000,000. "Minneapolis is building on a firm foundation," says the secretary. This view is not accepted by Ed: itor Cramer of the Minneapolis Labor Review. "This report appears to be a weak foundation," says the fabor editor. "With 38,000 people working for $50,000,000, that means the average yearly wage was approximately $1,316. "The United States government finds that $2,308 a year is necessary to support a family of five in health and decency. So that every worker employed in Minneapolis factories received for thc year $992 less than was necessary to supoort their families in health and decency. "It is probable that conditions are even worse than these figures disclose, for high-salaried officials and executives are included in the ''payroll. "Local industries will only be on a sound foundation when workers in these industries are organized and obtain a living wage. "It is folly to cover up this dangerous situation." . ' The entire object of true education is' to make people not merely dp the right thine*, '.but-enjoy- the right tfiings.r— Ruskiri. HAZELWOOD ICE CREAM — You try it next time for that Party or Social Guaranteed the product of pure fresh cream For Prompt Service, Phone Seymour 2090 Hazel wood 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 PROMPT DELIVERY VAN BROS.. 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Arnold, and he traces in an interesting manner the events leading up to the forma tion of the union, the granting of the charter in June, 1917, joining up with the International in 1919, and other matters concerning thexwel fare of the men. the Strike of 1918 ' It was necessary for the union to take drastic measures in 1918 to force the city to live up to its agreement with the men. A clause existed in the agreement with the city calling for appointments to be made on the basis of seniority, but notwithstanding this an outsider was ap pointed chief on the resignation of Chief Henderson., The city council was notified that the men i-efused to work under the new appointee in view of the clause in their agreement with the city. A satisfactory answer not being received, the members of the department Walked out on strike, six scabs remaining in Meetings were held regularly during the strike, halls picketed. The filling of the halls with scabs was slow. Mass meetings were held and good propaganda work indulged in. Thc result was that when the plebiscite was taken on the matter of the appointment of a chief, the firemen won out. The captains were asked to report at the Civic Block for the purpose of choosing a chief from amongst them, Captain Davies being the successful candidate. One Day Off in Seven In connection with the two-platoon system and one day off in seven for firemen in Alberta cities, valuable assistance was given by the International Vice-president and other Alberta officials, as well as the rank and file in collecting data, etc. The bills eventually passed the Alberta Legislature in 1924, with the proviso that where not already in force a plebiscite was to be taken -bnfore fuming-into force in the-cities con-, cerned. As the, result of much hard work oi) the part of the firemen, assisted by labor "and- various social organizations, an overwhelming ma- Big Criminals Dodge Drastic "Lifer" Law Ossining, N.Y.-^-The Baumes law of this state—which means mandatory life sentence for fourth offenders—has failed to trap the big criminals, declared Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing prison, in an attack on this legislation that has sent 108 lifetermers to Sing Sing. The.warden said he did not wish to be understood as sympathizing with anyone convicted of crime. "It is my thought, however," he said, "that harsh penal laws alone are not effective preventive measures. They lend themselves to prosecuting attorneys bargaining with defendants and to juggling with indictments which, in effect, defeat the intent of the law.and arouse a general feeling of, disrespect for all-authority." Records of the 108 "lifers" show, according to the warden, that 20 profited nothing whatsoever from the crime; 17 secured less than $100 each; in one instance the loot was 20' cents; in 21 cases the average loot was $250 for each case, and in the balance of the cases the property was recovered. The warden insists that an arbi* trary life sentence in all of these cases is futile. "There should be no fixed penalties for crime," he said. "The sentencing power, be it judge jury or commission, should be able to impos? a sentence commensurate with the possibility of reform and rehabilitation." HE MADE A HIT "You are the most beautiful girl I've ever seen! I long to hold you in my arms, to caress you, to kiss your eyes, your hair, your lips—to whisper in your ear, 'I love you!'" • "Well, I guess it can be arranged." jority vote for the one day off in seven and the two-platoon system was given by the citizens of Edmonton in December, 1924. "We have had our differences," says Mr. Arnold, "but never of such importance as to blind us to the necessity of 'get together and pull' which is what has enabled us to make such a good showing." • Officers of the Edmonton local are: President, T. Steela,*!-lst- vice-' president, F. Arnold;. 2rtoTlxicfcpres- ident;-: N. Afhold; secretary, C. E.~ Mariott; treasurer, W, Young. -*w. ■ J.-I...... I January .24, 1930 TJHE LABOR STATESMAN Seven Union-Made Shoes CORNETT BROS & CLARK 33 EAST HASTINGS STREET Rlorshelm, Strlders, C. B. )1C. Men's and Youth's. HUDSON'S BAY CO. idles': Hohansen, Bancroft-Walker, Colella-Lclshton. Men's and Youth's: Tetrault's. MODEL BOOT SHOP 11B6 OBANVILLE , , . Teirault's. Men's, Women's and Youths' Union Label shoes. WM. TRICK, 146 Cordova vest. — Tetrault's Men's and t'ouths: also Stridor and Slater's Union Isabel shoes. *i How Unionists, demand the Union ill Shop,Card and Working Button, patronize fair employers and em UNION LABOR. Classified Ads. BABKI8T2RS AND SOLICITORS vaiiis w. Lefeatue, 403 Metropolitan Building-. Phone Bey. 6667. BATHS Hastings Steam Baths ■5; Price 3Se Only q 7S6 Hastings Street East. SO DENTISTS i)(W. A. Rutlorttro, 108 Hastings West. Vl NOTARY PUBLIC ill Bengoag-h Labor Headquarters. th PRINTERS <ifii- Statesman, tabor Headquarters. VI RUPTURE SPECIALIST 01. Heard 813 Robeon. '" UNDERTAKERS strong* ft Hotson, 304 Dunlevy Ave. Ye Do Not Patronize" cr cl or al w OMMERCIAL TAXI. Vancouver boys- and h' GIRLS' BAND. •"-teeves dairy. 8,:rystal dairy. °\venue theatre w'hanticleer cafe, "vietropolitan lunch, wrocadero cafe, "national lunch. *"\ll white lunches. tWALDORF CAFE. "Lollard, th« Clothier, 603 <-> Hastings W. ";LARKE A. STUART. W*URPHY & CHAPMAN. D.itOSE, COWAN & LATTA. "'jiEHRKE, LTD. "tOEDDE, G. A., LTD. f*. W. BOYD. LTD. 'Authorized by the Vancouver, "few .lHtiiilnster and District Trade* and bor Council, for the Information of b union members. ai— ei k SOME AVIATION OBSERVATIONS A FRIEND biere's one you can turn to when o: others have gone, t<For affection on which to rely; clio harbors no scorn for the suit n you have on— tcVour estate doesn't ruefully eye. ! who are those souls who can never respond «ro a doff with his faith and his « trust, P'io, when odds overwhelm, seeks I not to abscond, f'But will die for your cause if s- needs must, his sion wagging of tail and a bark but sheer of joy, cuie will come when he sees you ca around; eljh friendship, not mixed with the km least of alloy, san a human 'tis hard to be foultol. act \ un, all the world over, wherever I be, -Though the troubles around-me *" may mass, dogs that I chance on, whate'er . pedigree, will have a kind word as I pass. ot Thos. E. Biddlecombe. *lr'K Powell Street, ?, Vancouver, B.C. By "Observer" Peaceful and Scientific In these days of scientific research and invention we have now reached a stage in the history of the world when anything may happen, nothing is a surprise (at least, to those who are looking ahead or have had a full and thorough scientific training). It is therefore with good purpose one is desirous of offering such observations of things and mattos-s that have come to most peopleiS notice since the close of the war eleven years ago. Radio, or wireless communication, has made rapid strides, and today the aerial squadron performing duties, without wireless communication other than that of observation for war purposes, would be almost like a'ship at sea without a compass. Possibly one of the first evidences of the utility and neces7 sity of wireless communication was seen in practice at the opening' of the Wembley Exhibition in London, when His Majesty the King spoke through the microphone to the squadron of machines flying over him in their usual formation. His first word to them was "Mosquitoes" (for be it remembered this is the official name given to a flying squadron today). He went on to give them the usual directions, as prescribed in the Military Aerial Manual, and which are fkirly common today whenever aerial maneuvers take place. Air ' Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard was the officer in charge of that demonstration. It was a real pleasure,to see one's old chief doing his work in a craftsmanlike manner. The public ought to know, if they do not already know (especially Canadians interested in flying), that Sir Hugh Trencr'ard is a practical nffiqer who has come through the college of experience,, one ounce, of which is worth a tori of theory. Much as we may admire men who have made the grade through collegiate training (and I do not belittle their success), one is compelled to remember the brilliant practical men who have led all sorts of worthy organizations to success with little or no early training from tne scholastic point of view. So mucn, then, for wartime work in the air force. What Are the Implications What should be the lesson in these days of peace, providing we can keep the peace, one is inclined to digress from the story for a moment. It is noticeable that Vancouver (like most centres in the British Em- j pile) has got its quota of cranks. We were to have another war, I greater than the last; the time fixed was thc 28th of May, 1928. Well, the 28th of May has gohe, and this wonderful prophet's forecast has not come off. - There have been many persons certified insane for less. We have some vague recollection of D. 0. R. A. being strongly put into force against persons who were called C. O.'s. , It would be a useful piece of work on the part of the League of Nations if they were to ask each country to frame some strong legislation that would prevent these would-be warmongers running round and generally alarming people. Here is a chance for the Canadian delegate to bring the matter before the league. It is constantly said: "Out of evil comes good," and if hope, wish or desire is a form of prayer, then let us nray for peace, not only in our time, but for all time. We have now reached an epoch in the history of aviation when it can and is being put to very useful purposes. Sir Allan Cobham, Col. Lindbergh and Bert Hinkler of Australia have done much to advance the real usefulness of this wonderful forth of transport. The engineering Dart of thc business has now become a fine art. All we need is some form of fuel other than petrol or gas (as is termed on this continent). We are tnld by our scientists that radium, if it could be found in sufficient \ounntitics, might solve the problem. mi re some form of publicity, will not help one little bit. Please learn to fly- first—-then know something about the science of engineering, study navigation, become acquainted with the stars, so that in the' event of your compass going wrong when you are flying at night you will be able to find your destination. If you do this you will have contributed something useful to society and thc world's work will have become easier for your having made that contribution, then, if you desire to be insatiable from the-publicity point of view go ahead, nobody can possibly object When that time arrives, however, you. will think just how small you are and your desire will be to hide yourself from the public gaze. In conclusion let me say: If you want sound prophecy,go to some of our great poets, read, learn and mentally digest what the late Lord Tennyson in his poem "Loxley Hall," has to say with regard to aviation I quote: "For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see. Saw the visions of world and all the wonder there could be.•., Saw the heavens fill With commerce argosies of magic s|iils, Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunderstorm, Till the war drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle flags were furled. In the parliament of man, the federation of the world. .There the common-sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber lapt in universal law." The churches on matters of religious doctrine say, give us the child, we will do the rest. One is inclined tn borrow a leaf out of that book, or text of advice, and would say to them when the occasion offers, learn to fly, learn to ride, run, walk and play games fair, always remembering the other fellow in doing it. In the meantime we may safely leave the rest to the schoblmastei and any other source of education that may be useful in our day and generation, One is impe'led to the belief that, rightly directed, the nations will no longer furiously rage together, nor will the people (in the days to come) imagine a vain thing. Thus will it become true. The people that walked in darkness will have seen a great light. you b NO RETURN TRIP Officer: "Sonny, d'ya want tn*ountaineer Boy: "Mi»»(*i\ Ticcr: ."I'll give tfU five to take . this'croiriK"tb the whisky still." ' ^Vheer Boy: "All right, give gl .!ve." ,f :-cer: "Oh, I'll pay you when we P»,e back." "•Mountaineer Boy: "Mister,, you l«».n't comin' back.''. ...<,,„>»*«.•- .- •• pt ■*-.! • * a A&S many a''man has discovered i'aTTha i» matrre4-t6=4rw boss,*5-"-■- may be possible to demonstrate thi>t if a very small piece of radium cofild he placed within the aircraft ih-'rc' would be great possibilities, aijfd also the probability of safer fly- infe. ■ > J It but seems like yesterday that /Hansen travelled by do|» sledge to the North Pole. Scott did the same at the South Pole, and now Byrd, Wilkins and Amundsen have all made the North or South Pole by air in as many hours as it took weeks to do in the past. So much then for the march of science and discovery. It is necessary at this stage to say a word or two to our young Canadians, 'more particularly those resident within Greater Vancouver—if you desire to take up aviation it is not necessary to join the military side of it; you can get instructions without having to go -through that process, but it must be pointed oat to bur young friends, both male and female, that the mere putting on of a flyings; teJ«n«t^and-then securing Men and Machines Stuart Chase, in his thought-pro- yoking book, "Men and Machines," presents the machine problem in a form so .simple and in language so clear that every working man and woman should read it. Beginning with the crude machines of ancient and mediaeval times, Chase continues to the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century. He shows that the modern development, of machinery began only when manufactured products began to be consumed in volume by the common people, making mass production necessary. It is his claim that the machinery did not through the nineteenth century displace workers, but that, on thc other hand, employment was marvelously increased through consumption made possible by the machine. Even during the first twenty years of the present century it appears that new avenues of employment were opened by machinery and consumption increased to an extent that the volume of employment was not threatened. It is only since 1920 that the machine has unmistakably been taking jobs away from men without providing other jobs. Chase holds that we are now face to face with a .crisis. In an impressive figure he likens our great machine development to a billion wild horses. Their aggregate power is almost unconceivable: In that power is the possibility of undreamed comforts and luxuries for the human race—if the horses are controlled. On the other hand, our potential destruction lies in that power if it is not harnessed and controlled for the benefit of all. Reading the book and following Chase's reasoning, we seem to face a situation which offers three alternatives. As, Chase puts it: "We can drift with the tide as, at present." Drift—but whither? The second alternative is "government by business," which -should not be confused with "busineer.S.j- government.'' Government by hggjpwgg appears to be the policy of the Hoover administration; placing our affairs in the hands ■ A MILLION POUNDS ON A SINGLE BEARING A million pounds on a single bearing—a turbine and one of the largest generators on the continent! That is significant of the magnitude of the Ruskin power development of the B.C. Electric, which will soon make the electric power supply of Vancouver and the lower mainland doubly sure. — The first giant generator will begin delivery of power to the homci of this district during the coming fall. The ultimate capacity of the plant will be 188,000 hone- power—the capacity of the first unit, representing an expenditure of $7,226,000, being 47,000 horse-power. The great dam itself will cost approximated $2,000,000 and the plant will be connected with Vancouver at first by two and later by four, transmission lines. Eventually there will be eight transmission lines from thc Alouctte- Stavc-Ruskin group to thc city. In this way is the B. C. Electric providing for the future supply of electric power for Vancouver and the lower mainland—a service rendered at the lowest rates on the Pacific Coast. Send for your copy of an interesting illustrated booklet, "RVSKIN" ' Dept. 303 BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO* /-' of business "experts." The third alternative, which Chase seems to suggest, but which he seems to fear to put into words, is a bold reconstruction of our system—not necessarily revolutionary in the violent meaning that is often attached to the word, but a seizing of thc reins of the bil- 'ion wild horses by the youth of the land, men and women young in thought and courageous" in action, though not of necessity, young in years. "Men and Machines" is another and a valuable Contribution to thc economic literature which impresses upon us that we cannot much longer evade the most stupendous problem which man has been called upon to solve.—Northwest Laborer. Germany Facing Huge Political Difficulties A sharp warning from Dr. Schacht, president of the Keichsbank, early in December, that the financial reforms necessary to enable Germany to meet its obligations under the Young plan had not yet been made, followed by the authorization of a foreign loan of $100,000,000 which Dr. Schacht refused to approve and for which temporary advances from the Reichs- bank were immediately substituted, calls attention to the unhappy state of German finances and German economic life. Fortunately the Miller Government, after venting its wrath upon Or. Schacht, announced an elaborate programme of reform and thereby probably saved itself from being turned out of office; but the Finance Minister, Dr. Hilferding, resigned and Professor Paul Mollen- hauer has taken his portfolio. The Reiehsbank loan will relieve the pressure upon the treasury and take care of an estimated deficit of 1,700,- 000,000 marks at the end of the fiscal year. On December 7the number of unemployed who were receiving doles reached 1,250,000, an increase of more than 100,000 in a single week and a half million greater than the number a year ago. The index of wholesale prices had declined on December 4 to 134.6 against 140.3 the previous year, and the output of iron in November was the smallest of any month since February. German industry, in short, is showing the strain which foreign' borrowings have for some time concealed- . ;', ■ Wi all right -to entertain* ideas, but it's better to give them a good »t«t,1¥ffik9Ut ... ., .,i.;~_ y^-:W Fountain Pen Makers Use Union Labor George E. Erenwein, secretary- treasurer of the Fountain Pen and Pencil Workers' Union No. 17990, at Ridgewood, N.Y., which is chartered by the American Federation of Labor, has just recently announced their success of reaching agreements with three firms, by which their members are employed. As a result their products now bear the union label according to the following letter of the secretary of the organization : _ "Due to the ever-growing and constantly growing demand for union labeled fountain pens, pencils, pen- , cil-pens and stylgraphic ink pencils, it gives us great pleasure to announce that we have succeeded in entering into signed agreements with three shops. As a result of this action these concerns are at present conducting strictly closed union shops. "We believe that these manufacturers should receive the wholehearted support and co-operation of a'l fair-minded people, as they are fair to organized labor. Thc names and addresses of these concerns follow: "Writers Products Company, 311 Fulton street, Brooklyn, New York. "Universal (Emerson Pen Company), 281 Pulaski street, Brooklyn, New York. "Byers &. Hays Pen Company, 68 Barclay Rtreet, New York City. "All these shops are using the Union Stamp. No fountain pens, pencils, pen-pencils or stylographic pencils are union made unless they bear the Union Stamp, and the A. F. of L. sticker label is placed on the box containing same. "For perfect writing service, demand the Union Stamp and label. Looking forward to your continued co-operation along this line." .''.. HE ILLUSTRATED IT The curate was of a painfully nervous temperament, and in consequence was constantly making awkward remarks—intended as compliments—to the^ bishop and others. Having distinguished himself in an unusual degree at a gathering of the clergy, lie was. taken to task for his failings by a senior curate. "Look nere,"j$a\& the senior, "you are a'n ass. Why can't you keep quiet, instead of making asinine remarks? J- am speaking to you as • brother-—" „„„-;.., ': Loud laufhter interrupted him at this point, and for a moment he wondered, why.; .- • . ,„M <\ fc -ssHsao tmm 1 Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, January 24, 1930 - II Dentistry Painless Jay w pjj^ I0re# Prices a "O TskLeWCLLYN Ground Floor—City Hall Sey. 1460 12 Hastings East BBOTSFORD COLD HAS NO TERRORS for the nsors of either of tlioso thoroughly dependable coals. NANAIMO-WEILINGTON This famous coal Is keeping- the majority of Vanconver homes warm and snog- these cold days. ROSEDEER Proved by test to bo the flnsst soot- less and smokeless aoal yon oan bay. Makes a real bot Are that lasts for a Ions; time. Lot a ton prove It. Also clean, sound wood of any kind—promptly delivered. Abbotsford Wood and Coal Co., Ltd. Extra 'Phone: High. 910 I SMOKE! KURTZ CIGARS I "Union made by Union men" "Panetella" and "Invincible," 10c "Perfecto," 2 for 25c PHONE: FAIR. 913-914 MERRITT'S TRANSFER Moving, Packing, Storage 146 E. and Ave., Vanconver, B.C. Union Bakeries The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. ailllllMHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU § Hastings Bakery | = HIGH. 4537 E — Choicest Bread, Cakes and E E Pastries. Soar Rye Bread — 5 764 Hastings Street East | 5lHIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRi Unemployment Confab Selects Committee After four days' discussion of the unemployed problem, the intermuni- cipal conference closed Friday afternoon at the City Hall, passing twenty-three resolutions. These seek action in many forms and by all governments, Federal, Provincial, Civic and Municipal. £ To submit these resolutions to the authorities the delegates appointed the following committee, which has the power to reassemble the conference if necessary: Dr. Lyle Telford, Independent Labor Party, or as his alternative, John Sidaway; Mr. James Thomson, president Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, or his representative; Mrs. Helen Gregory MacGill or Mrs. J. A. Clark. Mrs. Thomas Kirk or Mrs. Paul Smith; H. R. Ede and Aid. Angus Maclnnis. Most of the. resolutions passed were recommended by its resolutions committee. The matter of legalization of birth control information was held over for future consideration, but not included in the demands for immediate action. Seek Early Action In seeking early action on unemployment, the conference passed five resolutions, of which the first called for the co-operation of all government and public organizations. Another appointed the continuing committee, while a third sought the inauguration of a secondary road building project to be financed by the issue of bonds. The fifth suggests that wood camps be established within 100 miles of the city for unemployed. The Hope- Princeton road right-of-way be cleared with labor from Vancouver; a marine highway be constructed immediately around the city, commencing immediately, also a road to circle Vancouver Island; and that the "Green Timbers" be cleared as a nursery. The Harbor Board is also requested to clear the Hastings mill site. Two resolutions proposing establishment of entirely different systems of unemployment insurance found approval among those resolutions passed which relate directly to legislative measures. One resolution would make the insurance a direct charge on industry with labor represented in its administration, while the other, moved by Aid. John Bennett, proposed insurance on a three- way contributary basis, with the Dominion Government and employers and employees co-operating. . Extension of old age benefits through lowered age limits and increasing the amount payable, and the formation of a department of social service to investigate, plan and initiate proposals to meet needs of the people, are also to be sought. Adopted 23 Resolutions Three resolutions proposing a provincial health insurance scheme, that the Minimum Wage and Workmen's Compensation Acts be amended to provide more generous treatment of workers, and a tax on unearned increment of land values will be studied by the continuing committee and brought to the attention of the municipal committee of the Legislature. The policy of Vancouver city in paying $2 a day to married men and $1 a day to single men for relief work is recommended to the consideration of the continuing committee, but the conference also approved another proposal for a new scale of wages. This would provide ?1 for four-hour half-day or $1.50 for seven-hour day, with additional allowances to married men of 35 cents per four-hour day or 50 cents per seven- hour day for each dependent. Opposition to firms having their work done abroad by foreign labor is urged on the civic, provincial and federal authorities, and consideration of the problem of returned soldiers in allotment of any work resulting from the conference. The conference thanked Aid. R. N. Fraser, acting mayor, for his services as chaifman. Then came the motion for adjournment, making it twenty-three resolutions passed in a three-hour session. Delicious Bakery Union-mad* Bread and Pastry. Ask for it at your local store or PHONE HIGHLAND 705 and have our salesman deliver it I g-roi rich I Growing- children and np folk need food rich la mineral salts—these art. con- , tatned la T MUTTER'S WHOLE WHEAT BREAD MUTTER'S BAKERY Main at Sixth Union Shop Factory Inspector Has Hostile Attitude In an effort to show the need of some legislation governing the construction and operation of passengei and freight elevators in this province, the Elevator Constructors' Union wrote to the Workmen's Compensation Board and to the Provincial Inspector of Factories, asking for certain information that would help the presentation of such legislation to the Government. There are a.great many accidents on the out-of-date and unsafe elevators, and these will continue until such time as some drastic regulations are put into force to safeguard the lives and limbs; of passengers and workers. Just at the present time in the city of Vancouver there are at least 90 per cent, of the elevatoi-3 that need serious attention. The replies received to this query- should receive the severest condemnation, because there appears to be not the slightest attempt to give proper answers to the queries, and no effort to help in the situation. Mr. Hamilton, the factory inspector, is the worst offender, for he takes advantage of an alleged "confidential" clause in the act respecting the number of elevator accidents. If people were being deliberately murdered through permitting unsafe elevators to be operated, we suppose Mr. Hamilton would still use that "confidential" excuse to hide the slaughter. The other three questions Mr. Hamilton passes over as though they did not concern him. His department should have all this information. If it does not then the department is certainly inefficient, for only through the gathering of such information is the department in a position to suggest changes in the statutes governing the operation of such elevators. If the functions of that office are not to aid in the prevention of accidents, etc., then we fail to see why such an office is operated. The general tone of the letter has a hostile sentiment, and, coming as it does, from a public servant, deserves the severest censure. The letters are as follows: "International Union of Elevator Constructors, Local No. 82 "Vancouver, Dec. 31, 1929. "Workmen's Compensation Board, "Vancouver, B. C. "Dear Sirs,—I have been instructed by the members of Local No. 82, I. U. E. C, to communicate with you, with a view of seeking the co-operation of your department in formulating some plan whereby we can eliminate a recurrence of the many accidents and fatalities caused, either directly or indirectly, by elevators. This has unquestionably caused a tremendous drain on the funds of the Compensation Board, notwithstanding the regrettable reflections cast on the elevator industry here. It was therefore resolved to ask the following information, which we believe you will have on file; and that, together with what information we have on hand, may permit us to get some legislative action: "1st—Number of elevator accidents during the last five or six years, with the cause of same. "2nd—Amounts paid in claims by elevator accidents. 3rd—Number killed, and jurors' report. "4th—What regulations prevail at the present time regarding safety regulations. This would apply to safety appliances, also mechanical and electrical door or gate interlocks. "Trusting you will favor us with an early reply, and thanking you in anticipation, I beg to remain, "Respectfully yours, "J. BRYCE LEA, "President." ERNEST BURNS FAILS TO GET BURNABY SEAT Ernest Burns, contesting the seat for Councillor of Ward 4 in Burnaby, failed to make it by 26 votes.' The result was H. Edwards 315, E. Burns 289. With a little more effort Ernie should be Me to make it next time. A SOFT ANSWER Husband: "Would you mind if I went into a smoking compartment, dear?" '< ' Wife (testily): "To smoke?'! „...Jtusban<J: "Oh, dear, no. I want to •expWrence the 'agony. of being* away from you, so that the jagMnHJa department. jajLtfitUKUivjl) b&J»W4he-ni6teAij^J!;:.^T.T^Ms}«^^vrmir~kre ' answers "to* -sifted." * ,. , your questions, numerically: I THINGS FOR MEN! Pependable Goods—Satisfactory Service—Satisfied Customers. Dependable Goods — Satisfactory Service — Satisfied Customers I'urKKT CO.MUS— Very largo assortment ISo, S50j 35c and 60c ll.MIt BRUSHES—At clearing prices 59c, 69o and 98c COLGATE DENTAL CREAM—Two tubes anii-hriish; {1.00 value fur 50o STKOITIM! HAXDLK—Special for Gillette type blades 35c SURE-EDGE STROPPER—For all typos of blades 81.00 WILLIAMS' SHAVING ("REAM A.Vl'l AQl'A VRLVA....'.....'.....: 35c BILLFOLDS—English and oilier makes _ §1.25, tl.75 to 15.00 LUNCH KIT AND BOTTLE—Good value! ' »1.19 Harris Hair Tonic A guaranteed dandruff remedy! Reg. size. $1; Double size, |1.60 Booster Hair Tonic For eezeina aud scalp trouble. Two sizes, 75o and 81.00 B. C. Barber Supply and Sundries. Limited PHONE SEYMOUR 4401 64 HASTINGS STREET WEST VANCOUVER. B. O. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION ^fc" Vancouver Drug Company (1928) Limited CUT-RATE DRUGS Having our own wholesale—serving Eighteen Stores—permits as to ssll saving prices. Try us for your next Drug Wants, and note the QUALITY, SERVICE and SAVING. £ L'.ltrt 100 1.00 lull FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS Guaranteed Hot Water Bottle 1.06 Dr. Re.ld's Guaranteed Hair Tonic .56 Boraelc or Carbolic Ointment .14 Zinc or Sulphur Ointment 14 Dr. j: i.r.' Royal Embro- ,-cation. ,29 Bland's Iron Pills 15 Dr. Reld's Blood Purifier... .59 Dr. Reld's Burdock and Sarsapali'tla' a. t... .58 Ayerst's A. H. S. & C. Tablets, 100s ,14 Ayerst's Caseara Tablets, 5-grain, 100s .43 50 III- 1.00 Dr. Hold's Sage and Sulphur Reld's Pyorrhea Mouth Wash,§lfi-oz. 1.00 Quinine. Iron and Wine 1.00 Coty's Single Compacts......:... .00 Dr. Hold's Blsmuthated Magnesia (powder or tablets) .26 Cucumber and Witch Hazel Cream .'IT, Henzo-Almond Cream .50 and 1.00 Krysol (Antiseptic) K and lo-'oz 28 and 1.00 Listed (Mouth Wash) ltl-oz. 1.00 Dr. Reid's Rheumatic Remedy ft .£ VANCOUVER'S OWN DRUG STORES—FIFTEEN IN THE CITY, AT YOUR SERVICE I 18 STORES 18 STORE ■ The Workmen's Compensation Board "Vancouver, Jan. 4, 1930. "J. Bryce Lea, Esq., "President, Local Union No. 82, "I. U. E. C, Vancouver. ! "Dear Sir,—Referring tq your favour of the 31st ult, re information on elevators in the province of British Columbia. "The elevators are' inspected by the factory inspectors, of which Mr. William Hamilton is the chief inspector, and Mr. Douglas the assistant. Therefore, I have referred your letter to Mr. Hamilton, who will write you fully. ' -"Yours very truly, "HUGH B. GILMOUR, "Commissioner." T^ttfamftl^ (tampan^. - INCORPORATED !« MAY 1670. VANCOUVER Starting January, 27th FEBRUARY HOME-FURNISHING SALE I Latge stock—wide assortments—law prices—easy terms—free fire insurance. DANCE at the >AN ALEXANDRA BALLROOM ROBSON AT HORNBY TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS PHONE: SEYMOUR 3783 "J Inspector, of Factories "Vancouver, Jan. 8, 1930. Bryce Lea, Esq., President, Local Union No. 82. "I. U. E. C, Vancouver, B. C. "Dear Sir,—Your letter of December. 31st, addressed to the Workmen's Compensation Board, has been tt®mr4&il to nw'f or reply, as the inspection of elevators cornea- under NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS "Only Union F. * C In B.C." Ye Olde English Fj/sh & Chips You are Invited to inspect all our beautiful/ sanitary equipment—it will be an eye-open*r HASTINGS WEST /« Doors West of »*««•«••" "1—In accordance with the Statute requreiments, this office treats such information as confidential. "2—This will have to be asc< tained from some other source. "3—I refer you to that depai ment of the Government servi wherein same is recorded. . "4—Such regulations are set forth by the. Lieutenant-Governor-in- Council and such further regulations as this department sees fit. "I trust that this and the information- that you have to hand will be sufficient for such action as you require. "Yours truly, v " "W. J. HAMILTON, / 'Tactories Inspector." Small kindnesses, small courtesies, |si/|oe," small, considerations, habitually practiced in pur social intercourse, give- a irreater charm to the character than ;We~"disp}ay' oT"great, ttftonts" and accomplishments.—M. A: Kelly. BARRIE'S FAVORITE TOBAC Two inveterate pipe smokers James M. Barrie and Stanley Ba win, once British prime minister, a dinner Baldwin revealed that IJ I rie—who was also a guest-^ne I smoked prior to the publication I his novel, "My Lady Nicotine," I which he referred to a certain bra : v>f tobacco. \ It seems that an enterprising re» crx- of the book wrote to Barrie a ] 88t\c(l what was the particular tohi - co nVjixture he had in mind. Ban did rM0t know the name of a Hint brand \0f tobacco, so he answered * random, "i naming one he saw ad' 1 tised. -,, Its fame w&w* made, and out ■ curiosity Barrie one Trsfrjt tried n p Jul, ' ■..''''"•"•",:'•/ "He liked it so well," chuckle] "i ■ Baldwin, "that he has kept to if i j ThenractJeal-tracfevuftiQnistal demands the UNION LABEL, K CARD or BUTTON. ' iVTrr -V /
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