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'—■ lalwr ^B^^/(^OWNED AND G0NTR0L1 Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions NO 340—EIGHT PAGES VANCOUVER, CANADA, OCTOBER 31st, 1930 FIVE CENTS PER COPY "The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists" Serial Book Written by an English House Painter and Sign Writer becomes Extremely Popular Among English- speaking Radicals UOR A LONG TIME we have been considering the advisability of running this book as a serial, but its length retarded our decision. Some of our friends have also suggested'the plan, and another request this week caused us to decide to run it from week to week. We suggest that the pages containing this serial be cut out, and, when the story is finished, it can be handed around to your friends and kept in circulation, as the book is out of print. PREFACE A few months ago a friend asked me to look at the manuscript of' a novel, "The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists," the work of a socialistic house-painter, who wrote his book and died. I consented without enthusiasm, expecting to be neither interested nor amused—and found I had chanced upon a remarkable human document. With grim humor and pitiless realism the workingman has revealed the lives and hearts of his mates, their opinions of their betters, their political views, their attitude toward Socialism. Through the busy din of the hammer and the scraping knife, the clang of the pail, the swish of the whitewash, the yell of the foreman, comes the talk of the men, their jokes and curses, their hopes and terrors, the whimpering of their old people, the cry of their children. In reducing a large mass of manuscript to the limitations of book form it has been my task to cut away superfluous matter and repetition only. The rest remains as it came from the pen of Robert Tressall, house-painter and sign-writer, who recorded his criticism of the present scheme of things, until, weary of the struggle, he slipped out of it— Jessie Pope. THE RAGGED-TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS CHAPTER I. An Imperial Banquet The house was named "The Cave." It was a large old-fashioned three- storied building, standing in about an acre of ground, a mile outside the town of Mugsborough. It had been unoccupied for many years, and was now being altered and renovated for its new owner by the firm of Rushton and. Company, builders . and decorators. Altogether, about twenty-five men were working there — carpenters, plumbers, plasterers, bricklayers, and painters, besides several unskilled laborers. They were putting new floors where the old ones were decayed, and making two rooms into one by demolishing the parting, wall and substituting an iron girder. They were replacing window frames and sashes, replastering cracked ceilings and walls, cutting openings and fitting doors where no doors had ever been before. They were taking down broken chimney pots and fixing new ones in their places. They were washing the old whitewash oft* the ceilings, and scraping the old paper off the walls. The air was full of the sounds of hammering and sawing, the ringing of trowels, the rattle of pails, the splashing of water brushes and the scraping of the striping knives. It was also heavily Aden with dust and disease germs, j, powdered mortar, lime, plaster, and the dirt that had been accumulating /within the old house for years. .In ., brief, those employed there might be said to be living in a Tariff Reform I. Paradise—they had plenty of work. At twelve o'clock Bob Crass, the painter's foreman, blew a prolonged 'blast upon "a "whistle anrTair"hands ; assembled in the kitchen, where Bert the apprentice had already prepared the tea in the large galvanized iron , pail placed in the middle of the floor. By the side of the pail were a number )p.; of old jam jars, mugs, dilapidated teacups, and one or two empty condensed milk tins. Each man on the "job" paid Bert threepence a week for the tea and sugar—they did not have milk—and although they had tea at breakfast time as well as at dinner the lad was generally considered to Jbe making a fortune. Two pairs of steps laid sideways in front Of the fire at a distance of about eight feet, with a plank placed across, several upturned pails, and the drawers belonging to the dresser formed the seating accommodation. The floor was covered with all manner of debris, dust, dirt, fragments of old mortar, and plaster. A sack of cement was leaning against one of the walls, and a bucket containing some stale whitewash stood in one corner. ,g As each man came in he filled his cup, jam jar, or condensed milk tin with tea from the steaming pail, before sitting down. Most of them brought their food in little wicker baskets, which they held on their laps, or placed on the floor beside them. At first there was no attempt at conversation and nothing was heard but the sounds of eating and drinking and the frizzling of the bloater which East on, one of the painters, was toasting on (he end of a pointed stick at the fire. "I don't think much of this bloody tea," suddenly remarked Sawkins, one of the laborers. "Well, it oughter be all right," retorted Bert; "it's bin bilin' ever since 'arf .past eleven." Bert White was a frail-looking, weedy, pale-faced boy, fifteen years of age and about four feet nine inches in height. His trousers were part of a suit that he had once worn for best, but that was so long ago that they had become too small.for him, fitting rather tightly and scarcely reaching the top of his patched and broken hobnailed boots. The knees had been patched with square pieces of cloth, several shades darker than the original fabric, and these patches were now all in rags. His coat was several sizes too large for him and hung about him like a dirty ragged sack. He was a pitiable spectacle of neglect and wretchedness as he sat there on an upturned pail, eating his bread and cheese with fingers that, like his clothing, were grimed with paint and dirt. "Well, then, you can't have put enough tea in, or else you've bin usin' up wot was left yesterday," continued Sawkins. -. "Why the bloody 'ell don't you leave the boy alone?" said Harlow, another painter. "If you don't like the tea you needn't drink it I'm sick of listening to you about it every damn day." "It's all very well for you to say I needn't drink it," answered Sawkins, "but I've paid my share an' I've got a right to express an opinion. It's my belief that 'arf the money we give 'im is spent in penny 'orribles; 'e's always got one in 'is hand; an' to- make wot teaLJe doesHhry-last,''■'«- collects all the slops wot's left and biles it up day after day." "No, I don't I" says Bert, who was on the verge «t tear*. "It's not me (Continued on page 8) Taking Advantage o Unemployment During these days of coin] for employment, some fir figured out that they migh well get all that the'traffic A week or two ago we po that the Woodward's D Store had discharged a lot, ers and had put a buncl boys in their places. Th. still on the job despite tl a lot of women are still being served by men an' let the boys serve them. The girls are reporting speeding up and other forms of discomfort, but jobs are so scarce they have to put up with it. Other firms in the city have figured out other, forms of exploitation. For instance, a man who recently applied for a job as bread salesman for one of the big bakery firms here found that he had to put up a bond of $50. He was not paid any wages, just a commission of 20 per cent, on all breads and cakes sold retail and 10 per cent, wholesale. His weekly load would be about $100 divided up into about $60 retail and $40 wholesale, which would make his weekly 'earnings about $16. He has to be at the bakery at 7 a.m. and might get home about 7 p.m. Labor Victory in New South Wales Premier Bavin's New South Wales government has been defeated and a Labor administration will succeed him in New South Wales. This is the result'of last Saturday's election. Labor secured fifty- one seats out of a total of ninety in the Legislative Assembly. Twenty- three Nationalists and thirteen members of the Allied Country party will comprise the opposition, numbering thirty-six. The members unaccounted for are independents, two of whom will vote with Labor. Two striking features of the election were the enormous majorities piled up by many individual Labor candidates and the striking small Communist vote. It was thought the Communist strength in the state had been growing. There were 675,000 votes cast for Labor, 373,000 for the Natonalists, 115,000 for the Country party, and 25,000 for the Australian party, 12,000 votes for Independents and 9000 for the Communists. MRS. J. A. CLARK, I, L. P. Candidate for School Trustee. DOES YOUR UNION SUBSCRIBE FOR THE LABOB STATESMAN? THE COST IS 16c PER MEMBER PER MONTH. TAKE THIS MATTER UP AT YOUR NEXT MEETING, Union Meetings at Labor Headquarters SATURDAY Makers , '. 2 Photo Engravers .•. 313 MONDAY Electrical WorkerB ...: 1 Teamsters ...: ". - 2 Pressmen ". 3 Boilermakers ...: .- 4 Glass Blowers 201 Egg Graders : 311 Cement Finishers i 315 TUESDAY Vrades Council 1 Ironworkers - 2 Mailer* „ 4 Railway Firemen and Oilers 315 WEDNESDAY Plasterers 2 Brewery ' Workers 3 Boot A Shoe Workers 4 Carpenters' District Council 311 Tilesetters' Helpers 315 THURSDAY Butchers 1 Floorlayers 2 Mlllmen ...._ - 3 Jewelry Workers ....+_, .'.._ 113 Sign Writers 315 ; ^^^Jfa%B*Aitt.MOT-,tMt^^^-Uy^ Railway Carmen, No?.68 2 Moving Picture Projectionists, 11:30 p.m _....( 3 Plasterers' Helpers - - I Mulders *311 i^fHersr\":::;-...:::--..:..-..--..:- 313 Engineers, 844 :. 315 Women Meeting To Discuss Conditions Several women members of the Independent Labor Party have arranged for a meeting at which women will be invited to discuss present economic conditions. Mrs. Kate W. Grieve is sending out the following invitation to women to attend the meeting: "When we consider the present economic depression and its serious effect on the great mass of workers and particularly on women and children, we realize that an effort should be made to arrive at a true understanding of the situation. Witn this object in view a group of women are meeting on Monday, November 3rd, at 8 p.m., in the hall at the corner of 26th and Sophia, one black east of Mainratreet, for the purpose of organizing 'to discuss this problem, and consider measures for the alleviation of the situation. We feel that women especially should be keenly interested in this endeavor, as they are perhaps the persons most affected by labor conditions. "We are hoping that you will be able to come to this meeting and support us in our effort." The following are the names of the women instrumental in the holding of this mectin'g: Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Harrington, Mrs. King, Mrs. McGou- gan, Mrs. Percival, Mrs. Lowe, Mrs. Somerville, Mrs. Speed, Mrs. Watts, Mrs. Steen. All women interested are invited. Refreshments will be served.—K. W. Grieve. Union Cotton Mills Has Unique Program BOSTON. — The labor-management plan in the 100 per cent, union Piquot cotton mills of Salem was explained to the A. F. of L. convention by J. Foster Smith, executive of the mills, and Secretary O'Connell of the Salem Textile Workers* Union. Output has been standardized and speed-up systems eliminated, wages are increased, production costs lowered and disputes adjusted. Wages tare higher than in any other cotton mill in the world. Mr. Smith said it was necessary that wages and work conditions in cotton mills be standardized, and that low wages are a menace to this industry. He denied that low wages in the South are offset by welfare work and other forms of paternalism. He quoted a Southern authority who stated that the cost of welfare work comes out of the pay envelope,. President ._Gree.n_„_asked 'delegatesrto'reiiiember Piiquot sheets and pillow cases, as increased purchases of these goods will extend the usefulness of the Piquot plan to other mills and also,to other industries. 7,000 Registered, But Only 600 Ms Found Vancouver's registered unemploy- 2d is reaching the 7,000 mark with no end in sight. These do not include very many union men or white id liar trades, nor does it include women workers. Out of this number, jobs have been found for about 600 and this does not appear to be .keeping up with the (registration. Arrangements are being made for the registration of unemployed women and girls, but the authorities have no idea what they are going to do with them when they are registered. There are about 3,000 married men registered and close to 4,000 single men, but the relief department, so far, has only instructions to take care of the married men. It has only been able to divide up 600 jobs between the 3,000 married men, so the situation for single men looks very gloomy. And in the meantime every freight train is bringing in a load of unemployed, most of them single- It would seem that the Provincial and Federal governments should be held responsible for the handling of the single men, if the city is not even able to take care of the married men among the unemployed. The entire situation is showing up the glaring impossibility of meeting the condition under the present sys-. tern of production and distribution. The work that is now being given to the unemployed is work that ordinarily would be done in the summer months, under a regular city staff. What the city will do with its staff in the years to follow will be another quandary for the city council, and 'unless the ratepayers agree to foot the bill for an increasing amount of work, the unemployment problem will be just as acute during the summer to follow as it has been this past summer. In the meantime, however, there is no shortage in commodities. The warehouses, stores and factories are still full to overflowing, of all the good things of life. The machinery of wealth production is partially idle because of the overflowing condition, but there does not appear to be any great desire upon the part of society to remedy this situation by favoring the collective ownership of these means of production. With all th* natural resources, mills, mines and factories owned in common, and with proper distribution of the products among society, there would be no poverty even though we might produce far more than we could consume. When we find that we are producing far more than our needs, we can adjust that by taking a vacation, during which time, however, we would still be able to consume the many things that collective society had produced. We are heading towards this system, but it seems that the people prefer to try everything else first and suffer in the meantime because they have been taught to fear socialism. Municipal Trade Profits in Glasgow The Glasgow Corporation Balance Sheet for the financial year ended May, 1930, is an excellent example of the success of municipal Socialism. All the trading departments are prospering and have finances which any well-managed company would envy. The tale is easily told. The official figures are simple and explicit. The trading departments show a surplus of £18,092,584 over liabilities. That is part of the profit accruing from municipal tradings. No other business concern of the same magnitude can' show better results. Wages have been maintained; business has been extended; and the s?r,yiccs are cheaper than any priv- afe'eompany can offer. Propagandists have here a unique opportunity of felling the .people ihow Socialism pays. P..J.D. MsuMWMwiiiS-WWi-aw fig 'W'^.!^jaj____ig-iMI_feBssfWP - \S Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, Octoter 31st, 1930 RED STAR DRUG STORE Ml The Mail Order Druggist" We Make a Special Effort to Set Goods Oat My First Mall After Beeeipt of Tour Order. COKNEB CORDOVA AMB OaaVBaT.T. VANCOUVEB, B. O. Union Barber Shops List of all Union Barber Shops In the jurisdiction of Vancouver. Frank Blgmore 320 Granville Street Wm. Brennan 464 Granville Street Louis Mallln 736 Oranvllle Street Francis Federicl Hotel Vancouver McLeod & Burk 818 Granville St. Pearle Ferris 973 Granville St. Harford E. Harris 1006 Granville St. Ernest Oakes 1114 Granville St. Joe. Watson 1157 Granville St. K. T. Fansson 1184 Granville St. Ed. H. Weaver 2038 Granville St. Thomas Oaffney 2215 Granville Alex. Hammergren 2402 Granville St. Norman Hueston 2714 Granville St. Hastings St. West. Morris & Montcreiff B. C. E. Ry. Sam. Rose 47 V4 Hastings St. West Joseph Pratt 166 Hastings St. W. C. D. Morgan Standard Bank Bldg. R. D. McDonald....837 Hastings St. West Chas. Smalley Paclflc Bldg., Hastings Street East. Ben. J. Sanderson 71 Hastings St. E. Wm. Korlle 117 Hastings St. E. Alfred Llndahl 159 Hastings St. East Jas. I. Smith Royal Theatre Bldg;, Fred J. Schlle 244 Hastings St. E. Henry Hopper 2603 Hastings St. E. Archibald I. Leach-3785 Hastings St. E. Fred E. Rutquist 3825 Hastings St. E. Ed. Dann 4003 Hastings St. E. John A. Llnd 4098 Hastings St. E. Walter Westwood 426 Abbott St. J. P. Doherty 820 Abbott Street C. R. Russell Lotus Hotel Barber P. J. Kalley 140 Broadway East James Paton 271 Broadway East A. E. Gawne _ 623 Broadway W. Richard Blgsworth 979 Broadway W. J. W. Green 626 Broadway West Chas. Wheeler 2792 Broadway W. V. Peterson 341 Camble Street Thos. De Merchant—346 Camble Street Jas. A, Jackson 2207 Camble St. A. E. Gilbert 306 Carrall St. Felice Clancl 309 Carrall Street Frank Caslsca 335 Columbia Ave. Thos. Bablon _ 330 Columbia Ave. Thos. Federicl 1834 Commercial Drive John F. Gerrle 1433 Commercial Drive H. F. Moody 620 Cordova St. Wm. K. Burns St. Frances Hotel John A. McLeod 662 Dunsmuir St. J. B. Hughes _ 565 Dunsmuir St. H. Odlin 602 Dunsmuir St. Sid. Cutt 761 Dunsmuir St. Arthur J. North 3291 Dunbar St. Sam. R. Parker 4205 Dunbar St. Jesse Workman 1191 Davie St. R. H. Parliament 666 Drake St. Nlcoll & Scott... 660 Georgia St. W. Silverwood & Marsh Randall Bldg. Silverwood & Marsh Hotel Georgia Elmer Da. Motta -...2668 Heather St. Thos. Patterson 312 Homer St. R. Gardiner 812 Howe St. Taylor Hanna ...Stock Exchange Bldg. H. H. Illaker .Hotel Grosvenor, Howe St. John Bennett..... 260 Kingsway G> W. Gats 1837 Main Street Conrad Magneison -2341 Main Street Glllett & Ross 2406 Main Street S. F. R. Cuddeford 6482 Main St. David Wellington Jr.— 444 Pender W. Sam. Poff _ 734 Pender St. W. Andrew Colwell 733 Pender St. W. Geo. W. Cliff- 1879 Powell Street Henry Freeman 609 Robson St. Alex. Monroe -.716 Robson St. Jas. McGhle _ 746 Robson Street C. G. Blerney _.;860 Robson Street B. F. Dennison 611 Smythe St. Jas. Stevens _ 1....713 Smythe St. Hedley V. Tuff 523 Seymour St. Offa A. Hawes 425 Seymour St Thos. Henderson 2139 Tew Street W. A. Parkin -...1620 Tew Street Alexander McLennan 5987 West Blvd. J. Wilcox 6031 West Boulevard Richard Harris ^,...5351 West Blvd. Chas. Oulton 2202 Fourth Ave. W. John J. Warzee 2720 Fourth Ave. W. A. W. Patrick 2924 Fourth Ave. W. Arthur -Reid 3713 Tenth Ave. W. Herman & Bob 1482 12th Ave. W. Henry Beaupre 2157 41st Ave. W. - K North Vancouver, B. C. George Or Range 67 Lonsdale Ave., Ed. Graham.—e 210 Lonsdale Ave. Morris R. Whittaker-1107 Lonsdale Ave,. Jas. Wm. Colwlll 1535 Lonsdale Ave., Frank Underwood 124 Esplanade, A. Berly AITIa.lt 106—2nd St. E. Nanalmo, B. C. Don. Penneway —Davenport Barber Dan. Dailey 142 Commercial St., P. Brennan 112 Commercial St., Louis Perry 27 Victoria Crescent, Wm. Bate 40 Victoria Crescent, R. G. McMillan Courtenay, B. C. Arthur B. Gatz Cumberland, B, C. Chas. Spooner Cumberland, B. C. Ed. Lowe _ Ladysmlth, B. C. Henry Wlnstanley Ladysmlth, B. C. Nick Cameron Ladysmlth, B.C. John Mlntalnsky Port Albernl, B. C. J. Burns Port A|berni, B. C. H. Du Hamel Prince Rupert, B. C. Barnes & Judge 213 Sixth St. Prince Rupert. B. C. Hugh Toung Powell River, B. C. Ernest Marsh Marine Drive, West Vancouver. Look For the Union Label This paper, in co-operation with International Labor News Service, is presenting illustrations of all the union labels. A group will be printed each week. The labels were furnished by Secretary- Treasurer John J. Manning of the Union Label Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C. !.**.<, *.,».,» Umm La*,! r..i,i. »NHn Ul Wisdom >.A Chinese proverb says: "Be not disturbed when you are misunderstood. Be disturbed when you misunderstand." "You can reflect what is another's. You can only radiate that which,,i_-],riaKe your own." "Once, while the missionary P'eached, a woman rose and left the building, returning a short time afterward. " 'Why did you 'go away? Were you not interested? she was asked. " 'Oh! yes, but I went to your car- ige drixiex and asked him, 'Does he live it?' He said, 'Yes,' and-1 came back to hear'." Britain Is Still the Home of Thrift Chancellor Snowden's description of Great Britain as the "traditional home of thrift," still holds good, insists the London Daily Telegraph, notwithstanding business depression and unemployment, "and despite the lure of the cinema and of the motorcar." The London daily has been checking up, and finds that the small investments of the nation are still increasing, which would seem to indicate that "the inherent thriftiness of the people has been strengthened, rather than weakened." The small savings of the nation, we are told, add up to the gigantic total of £1,932,000,000, the equivalent of £45 per head of the country's population, which is invested as follows : Savings certificates remaining Invested principal £361,000,000, Savings certificates, accrued Interest '. 122,000,000 Post Office Savings Bank, deposits 284,000,000 Government, securities held for depositors 191,000,000 Trustee savings banks, deposits ,.... 77,000,000 Trustee special investment department 50,000,000 Trustee Government secur- ' , ities held for depositors 38,000,000 Other savings banks, deposits ' 53.000,000 Building societies share capital and deposits 255,000,000 Industrial ussurance 217,000,000 Industrial and provident societies 174,000,000 Friendly societies 100,000,000 Trade unions 10,000,000 The two directions in which the saving tendency has been most pronounced are in the purchases of National Savings Certificates, and of house property. We read: Since they were instituted in 1916, nearly a thousand million savings certificates have been sold, over 900,000,000 since the war, and the amount advanced per annum by the building societies for the purchase of homes jumped from £15,840,961 in 1919 to £58,664,685 in 1928, according to the latest available figures. Steadily, week by week, good times and bad, savings certificates to the number of round about a million, or 100 every minute of the day and night, are sold. Up to date no less than £770,938,507 has been paid for these certificates, a considerable proportion of it by purchases of single certificates. Whereas, in the first year of their institution, 22,560,880 certificates, were bought, during the past four years, the period corresponding with the decline in our industrial activity, the annual figure has twice topped fifty millions, and has not been below forty millions. This year the average is well maintained, as the following table for the period shows: Yearly Total Cash Value 1927 44,626,673 £35,701,259 1928 52,197,513 41,758,010 1929 52,088,777 41,671,022 1930 39,232,565 31,386,052 (to September 6). The propaganda of the National Savings Committee is given credit by the Daily Telegraph for much of this growth. This organization, we are told, has been very successful in forming savings associations in schools, workshops, and elsewhere. And this is not all— The Post Office S avings Bank also continues to provide a most useful means of promoting thrift among the working classes and the young. This branch of national saving has over 10,000,000 depositors, representing'a little less than one-quarter of the whole population. With the extraordinary building activity of these post-war years the operations of the building societies have been greatly extended. By 'their aid it has been possible for thousands of married men to achieve the laudable position of owning their own. homes. .« That these societies are of immense help to the. working and middle classes is proved by the fact that a huge percentage of loans made are for amounts less than £1000. Insurance companies, friendly societies, and trade unions have also furnished considerable sums as loans for house purchase. There has to be taken into account too, the huge numbers of endowment insurance policies in existence, representing millions of pounds,, a form of saving never more popular than it is today, and one that attracts rich and poor alike.—Literary Digest. "Shall you .complain who feed the world, Who clothe the world, Who house the world? Shall" you compl'Sin, who ariT"T:he world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour If you use your power ' ■'-;—'"i ~ ] The world must follow you! —Charlotte P. Gilman. Story of Cleveland Caterers'Lockout Cleveland, Ohio, Oct, 25, 1930.— Some time previous to July 15th, the three organizations of Cooks, Waiters and Waitresses, through the Local Joint Executive Board, presented the contracts, then in force, to the Cleveland Hotel Ass6ciation, Inc., for renewal, without any changes being asked. Frequent attempts were made by representatives of the Local Union to get an interview with the hotel managers, cither individually or with the President of the Association, Mr. W. Stiles Koons, but without any success whatsoever, they being recorded as absent when any of the representatives called, either in person or over the telephone. On Thursday, July 10th, we obtained, from an outside, but reliable source, the information, that the hotels proposed giving us a battle, and that they were intending to offer our members individual, or so-called "yellow dog contracts," who were employed by them. We barely had time, to prepare our membership to resist the attempt on the part of the hotels to destroy our organizations and our right to collective bargaining. However, a vast majority of our-members refused to sign these contracts and they were told their services were no longer required— "A Lockout." At one of the hotels, the Hollenden, the members were not given the choice of signing or discharge, but were told the dining room would be closed for repairs and they were to turn in their locker keys, etc., and get what was coming to them in wages. The next morning, at the regular time, a non-union crew of colored waiters were working in the dining room. And then this same hotel manager tells some of his guests that we walked off the job, on strike. We immediately commenced picketing the affected hotels. We had as high as forty and fifty pickets at each hotel, who had volunteered their services for the work, at each meal time. The public press came out with several editorials, condemning the unfair attitude of the hotels. Public opinion has been with us all the way and there has been little patronage of the hotel dining rooms. Later a leading Jewish Rabbi, Rabbi Silver, wrote, a scorching article for the newspapers, denouncing the unfair tactics employed by the hotel managements, which strengthened our position materially, as did a reply, written by William Frew Long, representing the open shoppers, which, to say the least, was insulting to the mass of the people who believe in the integrity and sincerity of the -clergy of this city. Later, a resolution was introduced and passed in the City Council, empowering the City Manager to appoint a committee of citizens, to endeavor to bring the two contending parties together, for the good of the community. ' The unions promptly signified their willingness to co-operate with the committee in every way. The attitude of the hotels, up to the time of appointment of the committee was very hostile to any efforts on the part of any one attempting to interfere with their determination to crush the unions. They have been ably assisted by the open, shop organization, which was formerly known as the "American Plan Association" until they became ashamed of the name themselves, and changed it to "The Associated Industries." The representative of this Association, William Frew Long, is reputed to be drawing a salary of .eighteen thousand dollars a year for his activities in crushing labor, driving them into slavery of the worst kind, low wages, long hours, and a general breaking down of the established decent conditions of living. Much has happened since the trouble started as is to be expected. In the first place the hotels have been filled with private detectives, who have dogged everybody entering the hotels and generally making it miserable for everyone. The City Police got busy and arrested numerous pickets and charged them with various law violations, but were unable to substantiate their charges in court. As many as ninety-nine pickets were arrested at one hotel during the luncheon hour, with the same results in court. In the meantime the Union Engineers and Firemen quit their jobs in the affected hotels, and later on the Musicians came out, 100 per cent., and recently reiterated their intention of staying out "till the trouble is satisfacterily- settled."' — The committee appointed by the City Manager following the action of the City Council, was to have a meeting with the hotcl.managers today (September 25) but"weTnVnot expecting very much from it, if we 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 130B 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST R. C. HIRST BX.BOTBIOAI, CONTBACTOB Bleotrloel Fixtures Hardware BUoIianlca' Toole Paints, Oils, lamps Badlo tappUM Flpe Pltt-ngs Toolt (Hen 370 40*7 Hastings ■«. a. VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rheumatism, Lumbago, - - ,id Neuritis. Bad Coli MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTIHQB W. SHY. SOTO xvsbfbbvbbt labob fabtt vancouver branch Chairman - - A. J. Turner Secretary-Trees., K. B. Tlmmlns 536 Drake Street Meets Second and Fourth Frldaye IIS West Hastings Membership Fee - f1 Fer Tear are to judge by their attitude of the past. The morale of our membership is excellent, and this despite the fact they made great sacrifices for the cause and are enduring a lot of hardship. Many of our people were trying to own their own homes and to try and enjoy some of the things that go to make up a decent life. Since this foul blow has been struck by the hotel managements, our people have become greatly embittered against them and we predict it will be a long while before this feeling will be eradicated. We are of the opinion that this will be a long and hard struggle, but no matter how long it lasts, depend on it, we will win, for as long as a charter can be maintained, we will continue to hammer away at this' unfair combination, which i_ seeking to tear down conditions, that has taken years to 'build up, to a place where Jife was worth living for our people. We are indeed grateful for the response to our appeal for funds to carry on this fight, which means so much to not only our locals in this city, but to the entire Union Movement throughout the country, so all of you who sincerely believe in Trades Unionism and know the benefits that accrue through membership, will, we feel sire, put your shoulder to the wheel and give us all the assistance you possibly can. Believe us to be, Sincerely and fraternally, VTHE LOCKOUT COMMITTER By Edw. A. Whissemore, Chairman. "I KNOW THEM KINGS" How King Edward was held up. at a toll-bridge, to allow a donkey cart to go through, on his first ride in a motor-car is told by Lady Trou- bridge in a memoir just published ("John Lord Montagu of Beaullieu," Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 21s. net). Lord Montagu was driving his royal guest to Lymington, and their car came to the toll-bridge over the Lymington River. The gate-keeper approached, and Lord Montagu called to him: "Hurry up and open the gate. Don't you see that his Majesty the King is with me?" "I know them kings!" he replied. "Two of your sort slipped by me only this morning. Pay your sixpence first, and then you'll have to Wait there until I've let this donkey- cart -through." , _. -._.- -_ And wait they did, to King Edward's considerable amusement. .; JCU-become, acauatnJgd.;with a troth we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it—Novalis. Friday, October 31st, 1930 THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory LABOR HEADQUARTERS, 529-531 BEATTY STREET Vancouver Trades and Labor Council— President, C. McDonald; general secretary, Percy It. Bengough. Office, 200 Labor Headquarters, 531 Beatty St. Phone Sey. 7495. Meets in Labor Hall at 8 p.m. qn the nr«t and third Tuesdays in month. Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union, Local No. 4(1, meets first and third Saturday In month at 7:30 p.m. at Labor Headquarters. President, Fred Cashman'; Secretary's Office, Room 304, Labor Headquarters; Hours: 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Phone: Sey. 3349 Beverage Dispensers' Union, No. 878— Meets last Sunday at 8 p.m., Room No. 2, Labor Headquarters; second Friday at 2 p.m. at the office. Pres., It. T. Kane; Secretary and Bus. Agent, T. J. Hariafin. Office: Room 1. Eagles'. Hall, 6.35 Homer Street. Phones-Sey. 4783 and Bay. 165S-R. Hours: 9 to 12! noon. Bridge and structural Iron Workers, Local 97, Int. Assoc.—Meets every Tuesday. Hall 311, Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m, President, James' F. Burns. 2833 Turner St.; Secretary, P. Lauret, Room 311, Labor Headquart- . ers. Phones: Office, Sey. 7496; Residence, Fair. 5167 R. Building Trades Council, Vancouver— Meets second and fourth Tuesday in Hall 316, Labor Headquarters. President, W. 1). Wilson; secretary-treasurer, W. Page, Room 301, Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 7495- aarbers' Journeyman International Union of America—Local 120, meet* second and fourth Tuesdaya In each month, in" Hall No. 1. Labor Headauarters. President, Fred Dawe; Sec.- Treas., C. B. Herrett. Office, 304 Labor Headquarters. Bookblndera' looal Bo. 106, Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday In month at Professional and Business Woman's Club, Empire Bids., (II Hastings W. President, Q. Low, (1—llrd Ave. W.; Secretary. Thos. Carrol., 141 Hamilton St. Bricklayers', Masons' aad Tile Setters' Int. Union, Bo. 1—Room 309, Labor Headquarters. Meets aecond and fourth Wednesday, in Hall No. I. President. L. Padgett, 30(6 W. 8th. Phone Bayvlew 1568 R; Secretary, W. 8. Dagnall, 1244 East 20th, Phone Fair. 146 R; Fin. Sec, Albert Wright, 1(60 Bast 25th, Phone Fairmont ((MX. Oe_np aad Mill Workers Federal Xevsor Union Mo. II—Vancouver and vicinity, meeta every second Wedneeday at 8 p.m.. at 644 Powell St. E. Prealdent. H. Mlyasawa; Secretary. K Tsuyukl. Carpenters sad Joiners, Palled Brotber- hood of, looal 46B—President, Wm. Page; Financial Secretary, R. W. Hatley: Business Agent, W. Bar- Eeaves Office, Room IK, Labor ■adquarters. Meets second . and fourth Mondays, I p.m.. In Hall No. 1. Oity Mall Bmployees' Assoolatlon— Meets first Wednesday of each month at 251H Hastings Bast at I p.m 11 President, A. J. Harrison; Treasurer. 1 W. J. Scribbins. 1108 Pender St. E.; Secretary. J. Tarbuck. 3517 West llth, Wvlo Bmployees' Union, Meets first and third Fridays In the month at 25114 Hastings Bast at I p.m. President, John McRitchie, 114 west Twelfth; Secretary-Treasurer, Oeorge Harrison. Kit Triumph 0t- Egg Graders' Union, No. 11—Meets in the Labor Headquarters, first and ' third Monday In month. President, R. Gela. 3287 West 21st; Record Secretary, Miss D. Simpson, 627 Carnar- «- von Street, New Westminster: Financial Secretary, Miss Marjorie Deyell, 1 555 East 20th, City. ■leotrtcal Workers, looal 2IS, International Brotherhood—Meets First and Third Monday, at I p.m., at Labor, Headquarters. President. D. Mc- Dougal; Business Manager. E. II. Morrison. Office. 201 Labor Headquartera Phone Sey. 1610 Engineers—International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 844—Meets every Friday at 8 p.m.. Hall 815. President, F. L. Hunt; Rec. Sec, O. E. Jones; Business Agent and Fin. Sec, George Pettipiece. Office 306, Labor Headquarters. Phone Trinity (434. still and Faotory Workers' Union, looal Bo. 1599—Affiliated with United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners.' Meets first and third Thursdays In Hall No. 3, Labor Headquarters. Pres.^ rl Campbell. Secretary-Treasurer,- H. G. Avery, 2832 West 35th. Motion Pictures Phojeetlonlsts' Union, looal 348, of I.A.T.S.E. ft M.P.M.O.— 11:30 p.m., flrst Friday In month, In Hall No. 3 Labor Headquarters., President, J. R. Foster; Secretary, J. C. Richards, . Box 345, Phone Douglas 157I-R: Business Agent, F. W. 81m- ■ mens. Phone Trinity 5708. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, looal 146, A. F. of kL—Meets at the G.W.V.A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 10 a.m. President, E. C. Miller; General Secretary, W. Coullng; Organizer, F. Fletcher. Office, Suite 307-319 West Pender. Phone Douglas 2290. Painters, Decorators and Paporliangers, looal 138—Meets second and fourth Thursdays at Hall No. 2. President, W. Hunt; Rec. Secretary, A. B. Varah, 1442 Clark Brive; Business Agent, Ed. Smith. Office: Room 313, Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 3609. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Hook Builders, local No. 2404—Meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock In 122 Hast- ingsg St. W. President, S. Coy; Jas. Thomson, Secretary, V. O. Box 320. Phone Sey. 7874. Plasterers, local 89—Operative Plasterers' and Cement Finishers' International Association—Meets flrst and third Wednesday In month at Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President, Mark Galway, 829 East 57th; Phone Fraser 964 R. Cor. Sec, Harry West, 3276 West Sixth. Fin. Sec, E. A. Williams, 830 East 12th; Phone Fair. 5219 X. Cement Finishers' Cor. Sec, R.-Weise, 1079 West Hastings; Doug. 848 R. Plumbers and Steamfltters, Bo. 170, International Association -Meets every second and fourth Friday In Hall No. 2. President, Art Jane: .Secretary and Business Agent, W. Watt, 306-7 Labor Headquarters. Printing Pressmen and Assistants, looal Mo. 69—Meets every second Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. In Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. - President, W. W. Qulgley, 2047 West Second; Secretary, Thos. S. Esart, 1807 East Thirty-eighth. Ballway Carmen of Amerloa, loose No. 68—Meeta first and third Friday in month at Labor Headquarters. President, A. S. Ross, 6806 Sophia Street, Rec. Secretary, J. D. Valllamy, 2216 West 16 th. ■treet aad Bleotrlo Ballway Employees, Pioneer Division Mo. 101—Meets K. P. Hall, Ith and Kingsway, first and third Mondays at 10:16 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, J. B. Smith; Recording Secretary, J. Price; Treasurer, J. Auton; Financial Secretary and Business Agent, H. W. Speed. Office: Corner Prior and Main streeta. Phone Sey. 6000. ■beet Metal Workers Assoolatlon, looal Union Bo... ISO—Meets second and fourth Thursdays In Hall No. 3. Prealdent, Jas. Strachan, 1105 W. llth; Business Agent and Secretary, D. MacPhorson, 108 Labor.Headquarters. Russia's Collectivized Farms Tailors' Journeymen Union of Amerloa, 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 llth Ave. Si Financial Secretary, H. NordlUlid, 1130 12th Ave. E. Taxi, ■tare and Bus Drivers, looal 151 —Meets second and fourth Mondays at 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. President, A. C. Shaw. Office. 306 Labor Headquarters; Phone, Sey. 7496. Fire' Fighters, No. II, International Assoolatlon of—Meets every month at osll of president at 161 tt Hastings B. President. N. McDonald, 1116 McLean Drive; Financial Secretary, C. A. Watson. 1111—llth Ave. B. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, stablemen and Helpers, local 468—311 Labor Headquarters. Meets every First and Third Monday. Labor Headquarters. President, A. A. McKay, 765 Camble St.; Secretary-Treasurer, Blrt Showier, Room 306 Labor Headquarters. floorlayers' Union, Ho. 187§, V. B. of ?. ft J. A.—Meets flrst and third hursdays In month at Hall No. 1, Labor Headquarters. President, Oscar Soderman; Fin. Sec, Jack Nelson; Rec. Sec, John McDonald, 2105 West llth: Business Agent. W. D. Wilson, 1616—Ith Ave. W Theatrical Stage Employees' Union, looal 118 of the I.A-T.8.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. H. Pearson, address, P. O. Box 711. The Hotel aad Restaurant Employees assd Marine Cooks aad Stewards.— Local 18, Suite 19, 411 Oranvllle St, meets second Monday each month at 3 p.m., and last Monday at 9 p.m. President,-Thos. Edwards; Secretary- Treasurer and Business Agent, Harry Wood. Phone Seymour 125. tnWstaf Auxiliary, Local in — United Brotherhood of Carpenters—Meets every flrat and'third Wednesday ef each month in Hall 101, Labor Head, quarters, at I p.m. President, Mrs. C. J. Atkinson, 711 llth Ave. W.; i -Secretary. Elisabeth J. Hope, 1141 7th Ave. B • Lathers, Wood, Wire sad Metal, international Union, looal 307—Meeta flrst and third Mondays In month at Labor Headquartera Secretary, F. Macey, till West Seventh Ave. Phone: Bayvlew llll-L -President. Thoe ._,.. -BUS. Ill] Burrard Bt: Secretary^R, 4t- ft Bewgouih. Office. Room Ml. -J«e_~ bor Headquarters. Meets on second «wl fourth Tuesdays In Hall 111 > Milk Wag-on Drivers and Dairy Employees, local 464—tifflce 101. Labor Head- quarters 'M»etll"BBcomI Tina fourth Fridays In Hall No. 1. President. T. P. Harbottle: Secretary-Treasurer, Blrt Showier. 1141 Triumph. Phone High 6117. Typographical Union, Ho. 336—President, C. S. Campbell; Vice-President, E. R. Bayley; Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neelands, 300-2 Labor Headquarters. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., In Hall No. 1, Labor Headquarters. Union label Trades Council meets In Hall No. 4, Labor Headquarters, ill Beatty Street, second and fourth Thursdays In each month at I o'clock President, CollnfLMcDonald, 1814 St. George Street, Thone Fair. 1117-T. Secretary. Mollle Dolk, 1617 Fifth Avenue East. Phone High. 4TT-T. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday In each 1,1 month. President, S. D. Mo- Donald. Box 1(1. Secretary, Frank Derry. Box 411. Prince Rupert B.C. NOTARlTPUBIJe P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades A Labor Council I-Oo-a'So^CiiiattT' WeWT?" , Phones: Sey. 7415-6171 By LOUIS FISCHER •Rostov-on-the-Don, August. I. Giants of The Steppes Rolling prairie as far as the eye can see. Miles and miles of steppe with the air above it made visible by the white heat. Not a fence; for Russia, especially after collectivization, is a fenceless country. Here and there a Cossack village with its one-story huts and tall, dome-crowned churches, surmounted^ by a gilded Greek cross. Wheat and sunflowers stand high in the field, for it is harvest time in northern Caucasus and in many other vast stretches of Soviet territory. We leave Rostov, the capital of the' North Caucasus, and proceed southeast by auto into the wheat"| belt. "What will happen," asks one of our party philosophically, "when the Russian churches begin to crumble and disappear? What will take their place as the monotony-breakers of the dull Russian horizon?". We had the answer soon enough. Graceful, steel-gray grain elevators are the new landmarks of a rejuvenated and industrialized country. They have been springing up everywhere since the agrarian revolution started in earnest a year ago. But the Russian rural scene has acquired an even more striking feature. Indeed, it was the most remarkable of the many startling things we met with on our trip. One might have thought at first that it was mirage: (We saw water mirages). No, it is real. A town. Out in an endless plain where even the natural roll of the earth seems to disappear, a town rises with three- storey concrete- buildings, with a single central-heating station for the entire settlement, with post office, telegraph offices, flower beds, machine and tool plants, two-storey theatre and clubhouse, and with a perfect road on which we later drove at 100 kilometers an hour. Yet this is not a town. It is a single state farm, one of the neW government "grain factories" established to solve, the Soviet bread problem^ The manager of this sovkhoz, or grain farm, a young brilliant organizer named Margolin, realized that if he told us his farm had an area of so many thousand hectares it would mean nothing concrete-' to us. So he took us in his Buick to the northern boundary of the farm. From there we travelled on one straight unbending highway foT eighty-six kilometers. It made an unforgettable impression. From farthest north to farthest south on this Sovkoz Numher 2, known as "Camel," would bi an hour's non-stop dash by an express train. But the next day we visited an even bigger soykoz, "Gigant" or giant. Its director uses an airplane to get from one sector of the farm to the other, otherwise management would become impossible. Gigant covers a surface of 220,000 hectares —a hectare is about two and one- half acres—of which 113,000 were cultivated this year. It employs 3,541 workers, 220 tractors, 230 combines, and 450 tractor seeding drills. Its machinery alone cost 7,- 000,000 rubles; its buildings 16,000,- 000 rubles. It has a total population of 17,000. Both Gigant and Camel publish their own daily newspaper. Outside Russia, the world's largest farm is that of Mr. John Campbell .in Montana. But Gigant is seven times as big as the Campbell farm. Mr. Campbell, incidentally, has only recently visited Gigant and other sovkhozi. Gigant and Camel plant only high- quality wheat. Gigant's harvest this year amounts to 7,000,000 poods, or 116,000 tons (more than 3,800,000 bushels). Margolin raised 1,500,000 poods. The experience of Sovkhozi indicates that owing to the use of machinery and the application of specialized knowledge their average yield per acre is double that of the peasant and costs much less. Camel this year produced grain at eighty kopeks a pood but sells it, on account, of its fine quality, at one ruble seventy kopeks. When the idea of founding sovkhozi was first broached two years ago, many Russians, many foreigners, even some of the Right-wing Communists laughed. But they quickly proved a success and are producing results far beyond the wildest expectations of their most sanguine protagonists. -Now nobody questions their value as sources of the best seed and of the best grain for export. This year the several sovk- i!Ozi.^hTOughoTitr^c^irtoni--P-aTite'd 1,160,000 hectares, but the coming year this figure will, according to plan, rise to 4,500,000 rectares, -and at the same time 'Sin"' additional •!,- p>00,000 will be prepared for cultivation. Moscow wants 16,000,000 hectares of sovkhoz farms by the end of the Five-Year Plan—in 1933. At that time, therefore, these sovkhozi, all owned and operated ' v the government, should produce no less than 22,000,000 tons of wheat—which is about twice as much as Russia ever exported in a single year before the war. Several questions naturally present themselves. First, how big can one farm be? Margolin at Camel said 300,000 hectares. Bogomolkin, the manager of Gigant, put it at 1,- 000,000 hectares. But Margolin 'is the better agronomist and abler administrator, and we were therefore inclined to prefer his moderate estimate. A farm of 300,000 hectares or more, however, would require its own railroad, airplane service, and radio- communication system. In Siberia, in Kazakstan, and in other parts of the Union many such large stretches of land can be found which are fit for agriculture and now un- tilled. The second question deals with labor. How can a farm be run like :j factory?. These giant farms do not look like the ordinary farm we have grown accustomed to. They resemble model towns that have grown up around new factories in the American Middle West. The employees are of the city type and dress like city people. The traditional Russian farmer is a strange anchronism on these farms. A sovkhoz workingman works eight hours a day. For the first two hours of overtime he receives time and a half; beyond that he gets double the usual pay. But overtime is unusual. In harvest season, seasonal help is brought in, and the farm operates in two and sometimes three shifts. There is no slack period. I presented the usual argument to Margolin: "How can you employ men all the year around and pay them wages when they have nothing to do for months in winter?" In reply he gave me a carefully itemized account of the operating programme of his sov- hkoz. I discovered that work on the fields is possible for nine months of the year. During two of the remaining months air the workers, the vast majority of whom are mechanics— for the sovkhozi are completely mechanized—will repair, reassemble, and recondition the machines of the farm. The twelfth month will be the regular vacation.—The Nation. UNION CAFES &MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 Always Opam Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's B_st Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE 76 Hastings St. E., Vanconver, B. C. R. WILKINSON, pre*. o DUNCAN, itc. Reynolds' Cartage Co. LIMITED Phones: Trinity 1337-1338 Crating-, Peeking-, Snipping and Storage. Furniture and Piano Moving. Long Distance Moving. Pool Car. Shipments. Office and Warehouse i 733 — CAMBIE STBEBT — 732 PERRY&D0LK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 State Health Insurance Dr. MacDermot gave a very interesting talk on the above subject on Sunday last at the Free Forum, and a very instructive, and, at times, amusing discussion ensued. The speaker stressed "prevention rather than cure," and, in the writer's opinion, touched a very vital issue. This angle has been running through my mind, and if prevention is the keynote of the situation, then the logical outcome would be somewhat as follows: Every child would be born under proper healthy conditions, and this would mean that the mother's health would have to be guarded months before the birth of the child. As prenatal influence is so powerful this should mean that the prospective mother should have correct food, no worry, and surroundings that would be conducive to her health. After the child is born it, too, must have proper care and an environment that would permit of proper growth, both mentally and physically. Later on an education must be given tfnd eventually training of some kind to help perform the world's work. Eventually, if the child is of working-class parents, he will take his place in mine, factory, workshop or office. Conditions there would nave to be such that he would incur no danger from unguarded machinery, germ-laden atmosphere or nerve- wrocking, eye-straining work. All safety appliances proved of value must be used and the long list of occupational diseases would practically be wiped out. Where would all this end? As one speaker pointed out it would just mean "Socialism." How far is the civilized world prepared to go along,these lines? It would make a direct hit on vested interests and they, of course, are sacred. One could go on indefinitely but space forbids. There comes to the writer's mind that a certain country, to wit, Russia, although maligned by the capitalistic press of the whole' world, is doing many of the things that the writer has outlined. Verb sap.— Jack Chappie. Wilson & McNeill Painters and Decorators Everything pertaining to th* trade. .3616 VICTORIA OBIVB I Phones: High. 105 and Pair. 4148-B Castle Hotel Limited Visit the Finest Parlors in Vancouver; seating 600. Meeting Place of Union Men! 7SO Granville St., Vanconver Phone: Sey. 7907 Union Restaurants BLUE GOOSE CAFE—1043 Granville. BAILEY'S CAFE—322 Cambie. BOSTON CAFE—534 Pender W. BELMONT CAFE—1000 Blk. Granville. BANCROFT'S CAFE—338 Hastings W. . - BROADWAY CAFE—108 Hastings E. CENTRAL CAFE—608 Pender W. DOUGLAS CAFE—844 Main. EMPIRE CAFE—76 Hastings E. FRED'S DAIRY LUNCH—72 Hastings W. GREEN MILL CAFE—419 Abbott. GOLDEN GATE CAFE—130 Hastings E. LEONARD'S CAFE—831 Granville. LOVE'S CAFE—823 Granville. MELROSE CAFE—724 Hastings W. NEW ORPHEUM CAFE—762 Granville. NEW GOOD EATS CAFE—619 Pender W. OAKS CAFE—326 Abbott. OLYMPIC CAFE—720 Pender W. PETER PAN CAFE—1138 Granville. PRESIDENTS' CAFE—938 Granville St. PROVINCE CAFE—736 Main St. STANDARD CAFE—618 Dunsmuir. YE OLDE ENGLISH FISH tt CHIP Restaurant No. 1—614 Robson. YE OLDE ENGLISH FISH & CHIP Restaurant No. 2 44 Hastings W. ALLEN'S CAFE—New Westminster. FRASER CAFE—New Westminster. MINTO CAFE—New Westminster. "Sociability and co-operation is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. In the animal world those animals that mutually aid each other have the best chance of survival." —Prince Peter Kropotkin, in Mutual Aid. WHY RUSSIA CAN COMPETE Why is Russia becoming a formidable competitor in the markets of the world? "The Sunday Express" financial correspondent tells us it i_ because Russia has "no debt, no interest burden, no dividends on canital." - Isn't this an-incltement to other - nations to go and do likewise? Elizabeth: Are you- .a: sailor's sweetheart? '"^ ~ !U=*f7-S«4-^=^_~ Caroline: No, I don't like salt with my mush. k ■phhm nts«HNftjMM ssssmenu —^ Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, October 31st, 1930 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at Labor Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. Ovvrled by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. H. W. Watts, Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE: Walter Deptford, Chairman: W. Watt (Building Trades Council); P. R. Bengough (Machinist Trades), R. H, Neelands (Printing Trades). Dan McPherson (Building Trades), B. Showier (Teaming Trades), T. Hanofln (Beverage Trades), C. Herrett (Label Trades). Subscription, Rates: $2 per Year; to Unions, 16c per month per member. Phone: Seymour 6379 Vancouver, Friday, Oct. 31st, 1930 HOW CRIMINALS ARE MADE The local Grand Jury, viewing the startling fact of the youthfulness of criminals, has asked for a National Commission to find out why mere youths are now found engaged in major crimes that formerly only men of mature years, and who had graduated through a series of lesser crimes, could find the courage for. The nature of cases at the present assizes leaves no doubt but that it is "crimes against property" that the Grand Jury are exercised about. In nature "mine and thine" applies only to the den, the warren and the nest, the thing which the animal itself has made. The feeding ground and the water hole is the common property of all. The pig will attempt to hold one end of the trough with its snout and the other end with the rest of its body, but as this disposition is found nowhere else in nature, we must presume that this is a habit acquired through its association with man. Man's far-fetched ideas of personal ownership had its birth in selfishness. By the time that he had developed a religion, he struck the bright idea of weaving his ideas of property rights into his religion and thereby calling to its protection the unseen forces of which .' are so large a part of all religions. Those who today are at, and past middle life, will remember how well ' the teachings of. the church and the . requirements of the property owner dove-tailed in together. To us, though there were no policemen within a thousand miles, our crime was not hidden. The sum total of our religious teachings, which we called "conscience" forbid, and after the event, accused us. To drift into crime we must first abandon the teachings of our youth, and to most of us this, is not easily done, nor early in life. ... Fifty years, ago.social strata was well defined, and only a few passed from one class to the other, and the few who did, did so by slow and laborious processes. Wealth was largely inherited and it carried with it education and refinement. In this . it contained some justification for the superiority which it claimed, and the privileges which it enjoyed. The industrial and economic world has moved very rapidly during the last quarter of a century. Like a book open before us we have seen the whole mechanism by which wealth is accumulated, while a fawning press bids the youth look up.to and imitate ., Borne go.ody-goody gentleman who put a thousand dollars into a business and became a millionaire; the youth knows that there is no virtue ; or secret chemistry by which a thousand dollars may be turned to a mil- . ™ lion during any one man's life. He knows that the only way that the . thing can be done is by underpaying the producer and over-charging the . consumer. A public service corporation wheedles the State into granting exclusive privileges and even to holding the public by the throat while it robs it, and grows rich by stock- . watering and stock-splitting. Booze and dope peddlers climb into wealth and affluence, and another grows wealthy by correctly guessing whether wheat will go up or down between now and next March. These people live and spend like royal Turks, and yet their possessions increase. The majority of them, as social factors, are destructive rather than useful, and those whose activities possess some- semblance of usefulness by the chicanery of buying and selling, whether it be labor or any other commodity, extract from society a return that bears no relationship to the service which they ,. .. j^j ve (n'society, and' con'sernian tty " their "takings" take on the color of wealth undeserved and ill-gotten, and the only feeling it excites is contempt and envy-. Wealth once carried with it education and culture, and it lived sufficiently behind high walls to prevent it becoming common. Today wealth is ignorant and ill-bred. It is boastful and flaunts itself in the face of its victims and those, who give greater value to society than they get in return. The church, which taught the older of us "to order ourselves lowly and reverently to all our betters," has lost touch with the material world. The youth of today has none of the moral teachings that formerly were considered a part of religion. The average young man of today does not know whether the Ten Commandants would be found in "Jack the Giant-Killer" or the "Whitehouse Cook Book." The modern daily press, which, imagines that it is lending strength and proving the rightfulness of things as they are, has degenerated into a dollar grovelling, a worship of wealth wherever it is found, and success regardless of how it is obtained. A couple of years ago the owner of a B. C. industry, pleading hard times, discharge'd a portion of his workmen and demanded the same output from the reduced working force. The following week the "social page" of a local daily carried a three-column wide photograph of the gentleman's wife and daughter—they were leaving for Honolulu to spend the winter. The mighty work which the press imagine that it is doing to make and keep the world safe for the "successful" man, serves only to excite envy and contempt. The young man starting out today does not get an occasional glimpse of wealth behind the age-old wall. It is out in the open, deliberately bidding defiance to useful-living people. Instead of being able to look up to it he knows that on the aver-, age it is inferior to himself. The methods by which it is gotten lend no pretense of right to it, yet it guarantees honor, security, luxury and every good thing that life offers. He may bend his back in the fields of social usefulness, and by hard work and economy he cannot in a thousand years become wealthy. To do so he must in some form secure the wealth made by others. The shortest way is to hold up a bank. As to the morals of it, there are no morals to modem money-getting. It is merely a matter of nerve and luck. With good fortune he can, in an hour, secure more than he could accumulate by a lifetime of hard work, and in any fair analysis of values will anyone attempt to show that the proceeds of a bank robbery are any less than the wealth coined out of the present spread between the price of wheat and the price of flour?—M. Bakers' Dance Was A Great Success About 800 people enjoyed the entertainment, programme and dance staged at the Lester Court Dancing Acadamy Saturday night, Oct. 25th. The entertainment programme was of the best. The music by Roy Harvey and his "Society Hoboes" couldn't have been better, and the punch was the finest we have ever tasted. Many prizes of fine cakes, from the various union shops, were distributed as .well as a grand prize of a ladies' $65.00 coat. In fact every one who attended this affair had a wonderful time, and say everything in connection therewith far exceeded their expectations. The grand prize of a ladies' coat was won by ticket No. 729, held by Addie Cash of the Laundry Workers' Union at Bremerton, Washington. Prizes of fancy cakes, etc., were furnished by The London Bakery, The Delicious Bakery, Craig's Bakery, Pratt's Bakery, Stewart's Bakery, Dirk's Bakery, The Golden Rule Bakery, The Hastings Bakery, Mutter's Bakery, Scott's Home Bakery, The' Sunset Bakery, The Victoria Bakery, and Bennett's Bakery. In the excitement and rush some of the names of prize winners on the cakes were not obtained, but a partial list is as follows: Mr. R. Herrett, 2363 Grant street; Mr. Leslie, 3636 Vaser avenue; F. Canell, 1609 Broadway West; J. D. Most on, 1706 West 14th; Mr. C. Walker, of the Civic Employees' Union; E. Booman, 3849 13th East; Mrs. S. Hillman, 365 West 14th; Miss Stron, 4601 Commercial drive; D. R. Calvert, 502 East 16th, and Miss Duncan, 2824 Halley street. The entertainment program consisted of a tap dance and comedy act by Frank Scott and his dancing doll. The Highland fling, danced by Miss May Ea.ston, with David Laird playing the bagpipes, and twelve other numbers by Dinty Blackman, Miss Vera Murdoch, and her troupe of dancing girls. Those in the cast .were Miss Visra Murdoch, Kathleen 'For- syth, Hazel Parkinson, Grace Taylor, Mary McDonald and Nora Agabob. Hazel.jSinnett, a little t«t- of about 6 years of age, was a great favorite. She did two specialty song and dance numbers which were exceptionally cute and clever. Wants Government- Owned Packing Plants The new government at Ottawa hopes to combat present conditions of distress by the expenditure of twenty million dollars, mostly on public works but partly in direct distribution of relief, and to attempt to prevent the recurrence of present condttjjons by certain tariff measures. Undoubtedly the twenty million fund. will serve a useful purpose, and the bill can be met by the taxpayers. In this connection, however, it may do no harm to point out that this money is not being left on the doorstep by providential ravens. It seems to us that some provincial governments and municipalities are looking upon the money as newly-discovered treasure and have entirely overlooked the fact that the people of Canada as a whole, must, sooner or later, repay it. Each expectant body is apparently hoping that it can grab a larger share of the relief than that to which it is entitled, so that, when the paying back process commences, they will be ahead of the game. However, the purpose of this writing is not to comment on plans already under way, but to suggest that there may be sufficient money left in the twenty-million dollar fund to carry into effect a suggestion made some time ago by the livestock producers of Canada. The suggestion was that the government should establish packing plants, one in Eastern Canada and one in the West, with the object of placing the livestock industry on a better and more permanent basis. One of the outstanding and inescapable indications of the present situation is that Western Canada is not secure in relying solely on its ability to produce and export wheat. It is hoped by the livestock men that co-operative meat curing plants will form something in the nature of a balance wheel which will tend to steady and permanently improve the livestock market. It is not expected that the expenditure of a million dollars on a couple of packing plants will permanently cure all the ills that afflict the general agricultural industry at the moment, but it can be reasonably hoped that the establishment of such factories, even if conceived as experiments, may open the way to a more prosperous period for the agricultural west. It is, we think, a good time for the stockmen to press their agitation. If money, in large quantities, is to be turned loose to provide relief for surplus labor, such expenditures -should, if possible, result in some measures that may continue to have a beneficial' effect after the immediate need for relief is gone. If the experimental packing plants turn out to be successful, a step towards the permanent improvement of the stock industry will have been taken. Even if the scheme turns out to be a complete failure, and it would require an expert pessimist to visualize such an outcome, the object of provffing temporary work will have been accomplished. — Western Producer, j; LOWEST CAB RATES 50 IN VANCOUVER for first TWO MILES and 10c (or each additional HALF -OLE, NO CHARGE FOB BXTSA PASSENGERS. Yon only pay for the distance actually travelled. USE GRAY CABS FOR EVERY OCCASION AND SAVE TIME AND MONEY Stands all over the City f A I I 6CV 71 *^t 1 to give yon .nick service UAL.L 9L I . M I «J 1 Please note our new phone number, effective Nov. 2nd, B. C. MOTOR TRANSPORTATION, LTD. We've Put the Skids on Prices Famish Yonr Bedroom With One of These Beautiful Suites at Economy Prices.—Special 10-Piece Bedroom Suites—In any color combination to suit your taste. Dresser, bed, chiff- 'onler, vanity bench, all-felt mattress, no-Hway coll spring. -Silk bedspread, two feather pillows. <EQQ £__ All 10 pieces for. e?«7«7.UV Hassocks, In craft leather; only as. Each B2.tb 4 Chain Stores 968 Granville 106 Hastings E. 1082 Granville 2301 Granville (Cor. 7th) FORMERLY STODDARD'S Hesketh Makes Strong Appeal For Cleveland A Special Appeal to Our Local. Unions and Members Dear Sisters and Brothers: I am taking it upon my own shoulders to send out a special appeal to our local unions on behalf of our membership who are battling in Cleveland. When I say battling, I mean they are "on the picket line" from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m. each day in front of every large hotel in Cleveland and doing everything humanly and legally possible to 'win their fight. I know because I walked the picket line with them. The pr,ess and the public recognize the justness of the fight of our "locked out" members. I addressed a joint meeting of our locals in Cleveland Friday afternoon, October 17th. They are standing firm and full of pep, hundreds have been arrested, taken to jail in the patrol, wagons, and have met with other abuses, but upon re-, lease.get right back "on the picket line." They are in the fight to win —it means a lot to our international membership. It is costing $3,000.00 a week to maintain this fight. $750.00 a week to feed the pickets and "locked out" members in need, and the balance to house and care for the families. Head cooks, head waiters and waitresses are "on the picket line" along wtth their fellow- workers.■■' All-members that are working are contributing ten per cent, of their (earnings, local union officials twenty-five per cent *■*-* ~—'-' The International - Union, along with Local Unions and members have sent in at this writing over $15,- "Only Union Fish and Chips In British Columbia" Ye Olde English Fish & Chips Believing- one remedy for unemployment Is the shorter work week, all our girls are now working- five days per week, without reduction of wages. 44 HASTINGS WEST 3 Doors Wast of "Vantages" VANCOUVER'S LEADING UNION HOUSE 1 The New Orpheum Cafe . Private Banquet Hall 762 GRANVILLE STREET Prop.: Jas. P. Dwyer PHONE: SEY. 3346 Here Is the Most Charming Little Boudoir Style Piano You Ever Saw! Steiebach Just the piano you have been waiting for. Built and guaranteed by Mason & Risch, Ltd., this latest addition to the Mason & Risch family is the greatest value ever offered to the public in popular priced pianos. The full price for this brand new, guaranteed Mason & Risch built piano is— $325.00 With Duet Bench to Match Your old piano, radio or phonograph will be accepted as part payment—balance on term* to suit your income. MASON & RISCH, LTD. 60 Years of Service 738 GRANVILLE STREET SEY. 2453 •iff iiif "qpr (ii fi"" imfiin 'imp iipp ipf "'1 ||ir 1| 000.00. The Cleveland Locals have 'expended of their own money, $19,- 750.00. Total $34,750.00. Every nickel Jhas been vonchered out anil cleanly accounted'for, 111' guarantee that. Let us fortify our brothers and sisters who arc , making the fight, with the sinews of war. Locals' an3" members who have already contrib uted, we ask to come again. Cleveland needs it. To other Locals who n&T"y have not contributed, I urge them to send in their contributions. This is a real battle, and means a lot to all of us-_--Pon_t deJax_~ Our men aiid women W\\ Cleveland are on the picket line. Between five and six hundred of them. We must! .wio,Jn..-Qes|__-__-__„JKfi..-will_:--WiU-. ^"do'your part? Yours for success, ROBT. B. HESKETH, General Sec.-Treas. • Friday, October 31st, 1930 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five Tfyuhot&lteZ (Rimjmnfi.i INCORPORATED «*» MAY IOTO. !N"*" - *lttttet. lirWea, lutihti, Manatee, CslfwT. L.lbbrl4(a. — V.rn.n, Wml,**. Vleto.l.. Our Blue Label OVERALLS are verv good value at $2.00 They're made to the specifications of a man who wears them, and to the qualifications demanded by the Hudson's Bay Company. Have good size bib, roomy suspenders, rivetted buttons, six pockets — and all wearing parts doubly reinforced, Sizes 31 to 46. —Downstairs Economy Floor, H B C R-I-S-KF I O-DAY, the lure of easy profits induces many to run the risk of financial disaster—to-morrow, the vision of wealth may be rudely shattered. What will the future hold for you?—a comfortable balance in the Bank or vain regrets for hasty action. You will like banking at the Royal. am The Royal Bank of Canada 1752 Vancouver Branch 22 Offices in Vancouver. A. T. Lowe, Manager 61 Branches in British Columbia Often Lonely The latest Shaw joke concerns a meeting in Hampstead, at which a nervous and forbidding clergyman rose in response to the usual quety, "Any questions?" "Are you a Christian?" he asked. G. B. S. rose and, smiling blandly, replied: "Yes, but I often feel very lonely!" REGENT TAILORS m 159 Hastings Street West Opposite ProTinc. Every garment tailored strictly to measure by Union Q-sy f tailors. One price «J>-«wO i-i, WIN FIVE-DAY WEEK AFTER A SIX MONTHS STRUGGLE Long Beach, Cal.—Locked out union plasterers and laborers have won the 5-day week after a 6-month struggle. Plasterers are to get $12 a day and laborers $0. "We must some day, at last and forever, cross the line between nonsense and common sense., And on that day we shall, pass from class paternalism, originally derived from fetish fiction in times of universal ignorance, to human brotherhood in accordance with the nature of things and our growing knowledge of it. From political government to industrial administration, from competition in individualism to individuality in co-operation, from war and des- fiotism in any form, to peace and iberty."—Thomas Carlyle. A. E. HARRON Phone N. V. 114 - N'orth -Vancouver1, J. A. HARRON G. M. WILLIAMSON Phone Fnir. 134 Ph_n«JEair_lli ^it^mmth'ilno B. ~~: -ss-Terirn- Ave: E, Ifomm Itlfc & ffltUlammm FUNERAL DIRECTORS 55 EAST TENTH AVENUE PHONE FAIR 134 "THE. RAGGED-TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS" (Continued from page 1) wot buys the things at all. I .gives all the money I gets to Crass, and*e buys them 'imself, so there!" At this revelation some of the men furtively exchanged significant glances, and Crass, the foreman, became very red. i "You'd better keep your bloody thruppence and make your own tea after this week," he said, addressing Sawkins, "and then p'raps we'll 'ave a little peace at meal times." "An' you needn't ask me to cook no bloaters or bacon for you no more," added Bert, tearfully, " 'cos I won't do it-" Sawkins vas not popular with any of the othe '8. When about twelve months previously, he first came to work for Rushton and Company, he was a simple laborer, but since then he had "picked up" a slight knowledge of the trade, and, having armed himself with a putty knife and put on a white jacket, regarded himself as a fully qualified painter. The others perhaps did not object to him trying to better his condition, but his wages—fivepence an hour—were twopense an hour less than the standard rate, and the result was that in slack turns a better workman was often "stood off" when Sawkins was kept on. Moreover he was generally regarded as a sneak who carried tales to the foreman and the "Bloke." Every new hand was usually warned by his mates "not to let that swine Sawkins see anything." The unpleasant silence which now ensued was at length broken by one of the -men, who told a dirty story, and, in the laughter and applause that followed, the incident of the tea was forgotten. "How did you get on yesterday?" asked Crass, addressing Bundy, the plasterer, who was intently studying the sporting columns of the Daily Observer. "No luck," replied Bundy gloomily. "I had a bob each way on Stockwell, in the first race, but it was scratched before the start." This gave rise to a conversation, between Crass, Bundy and one or two others concerning the chances of different horses in the morrow's races. It was Friday, and no one had much money, so at the suggestion of Bundy, a syndicate was formed, each member contributing threepence, for the purpose of backing "a dead certainty" given by the renowned Captain Kiddem of The Obscurer. One of those who did not join the syndicate was Frank Owen, who as usual seemed absorbed in a newspaper. He was generally regarded as a bit of a crank, for it was felt that there must be . ome- thing wrong about a man who took no interest in racing or football, and was always .talking a lot of rot about religioiL jndiiolitics If JtJiad-not been for the fact that he was generally admitted to be an exceptionally good workman, they would have had but little hesitation in thinking him mad. Owen was about thirty-two years of age, and of medium height, but so slightly built that he appeared taller. His clean shaven face showed a suggestion of refinement, his complexion was ominously clear, and an unnatural color flushed the thin cheeks. There was a certain amount of justification for the attitude of his fellow-workmen, for Owen held the most unusual and unorthodox opinions, and it was because he was in the habit of discussing them openly that his fellow-workmen came to the conclusion that there was probably something wrong with his mind. When all the members of the syndicate had handed over their contributions, Bundy went out to arrange matters with the bookie, and, during his absence, Easton annexed the copy of The Obscurer that Bundy had thrown away and proceeded to work laboriously through some carefully cooked statistics relating to Free Trade and Protection. Bert, his eyes starting out of his head and his mouth open, was devouring the contents of a paper called The Chronicles of Crime. Ned Dawson—a poor devil who' was paid fourpence an hour for acting as mate or laborer to Bundy, or the bricklayers, or anyone else who wanted him—lay down on the dirty floor in a corner of the room and, with his coat rolled up_ as a pillow, went to sleep. Sawkins, with the same intention, stretched himself at full length on the dresser. Most of the wen lit their pipes and a desultory conversation ensued. "Is that gent what's bought this 'ouse any relation to Sweats* th* ■Draper?* asked Payne, the carpenters' foreman. .... .'.'It!s.. the samebloke," ..replied Crass. , .' "Didn't he used to be on the Town Council or something?" " 'E's bin on the Council for years," returned Crass. " 'E's on it * now. 'E's mayor this year. 'E's bin mayor several times before." "Let's see," said Payne, reflectively. " 'E married old Grinder's sister, didn't 'e? You know who I mean, Grinder the Greengrocer." "Yes, I believe 'e did," said Crass. "It wasn't Grinder's . sister," chimed in old Jack Linden. "It was 'is neice. I know, because I remember working in their 'ouse just after they were married, about ten years ago." V "Oh, yes, I remember now," said Payne, "she used to manage one of Grinder's branch shops.". "Yes," replied Linden. "I remember it very well because there was a lot of talk about it at the time. By all accounts ole Sweater used to be a regler 'ot un; no one never thought as he'd ever git married at all; there was some funny yarns about several young women what used to work for him."; This important matter being disposed of, there followed a brief silence, which was presently broken by Harlow. "Funny name to call a 'ouse, ain't it?" he said. " 'The Cave.' I wonder what made 'em give it a name like that?" .-, , "They calls 'em all sorts of outlandish names nowadays," said old Jack Linden. '"There's generally some sort of meaning to it, though," observed Payne. "For instance, if a. bloke backed a winner and made a pile, 'e might call 'is 'ouse 'Epsom Lodge' or 'Newmarket Villa'." "Or sometimes there's a hoak tree or a cherry tree in the garding," said another man, "then they calls it 'Hoak Lodge' or 'Cherry Cottage'." "Well, there's a cave up at the end of this garden," said Harlow, with a grin, "you know, the cesspool, what the drains of the 'ouse runs into; p'raps they called it after that." "Talking about the drains," said old Jack Linden, when the laughter produced by this elegant joke had ceased; "talking about the drains, I wonder what they're going to do about them?" "There's going to be a new set of drains altogether," replied Crass, "carried right out to the road and connected with the main." Crass really knew no more about what was going to be done in this matter than did Linden, but- he felt certain that this course would be adopted. He never missed an opportunity of enhancing his own prestige with the men by insinuating that he was in the confidence of the firm. "That's goin' to cost a good bit," said Linden. "Yes, I suppose it will," replied Crass, "but money ain't no object to old Sweater. 'E's got tons of it; you know 'e's got a large wholesale business in London and shops all over the bloody country, besides the one 'e's got "ere." Easton was ^tilljeading-Tht^Qh^ scurer. He was not able to understand exactly what the compiler of the figures was driving at—probably the latter never intended that anyone should understand—but he was conscious of a growing feeling of indignation and hatred against foreigners of every description, who were ruining this country, and he began to think that it was about time we did something to protect ourselves. Still it was a very difficult question; to tell the truth he himself could not make head or tale of it. At length he said aloud, addressing himself to Crass: "Wot do you think of this 'er« fissical policy, Bob?" "Ain't thought much about it," replied Crass. "I don't never worry my 'ed about politics." "Much better left alone," chimed in old Jack Linden, sagely, "argyfy- ing about politics generally ends up with a bloody row an' does no good to nobody." - At this there was a murmur of approval from several of the others. Most of them were averse from arguing . or disputing about politics. _ If two or three men of similar opinions happened to be together they might discuss such things in a friendly and superficial way, but in a mixed company it was better left alone. The "Fissical Policy' 'emanated from the Tory Party. That was the reason why some of them were strongly in favor of it, and for the same reason others were opposed to it. Some of them were under the delusion that they were Conservatives; others ■imagined themselves to be Liberals; as a matter of fact, most of them were nothing. They knew as much about the public affairs of their own country as they did of the condition of affairs in the planet Jupiter. -;: Easton" "began to - regret "ThW^e" had broached so objectionable a subject, when, looking up from his paper, ■Owen-said:-.■■:~~--:.-...'-.r~,-:■—.-;..,. -ss=£: "Does the fact 'that you never trouble your heads about politics prevent you.from voting at election times?" No one answered, and there ensued BBOTSFORD Wood & Coal Co. Ltd. "Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded" TUB BEST _n EDGINGS, par cord, •4.50 Slabs, Mixes Wood fc Inside Mr. ALWAYS Oil HAND I -ranalmo-WelUnfton, and the Best Bootless. Extra -Phone: MlgsX (10 _, BUY B. O. PRODUCTS and boost" your own payroll! TyNALLEY'S SANDWICH SPREAD At All Grocers Nalley's Pore Poods Oo. Vancouver, B. C. Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Dealers . IBS Cordova W. Phone Bty. 8687 Olass for Buildings. Auto Olass Installed. Art Glass Repaired. Mirrors Resllvered. Copper Store Front Construction. Phone us for ftulck Service. ^(Jtasin^JobsMsTgeorsmall^^ Sey. 8981 Trln. 8435 CAMPBELL & GRILL 1236-8 SEYMOUR STREET FURNACE INSTALLATIONS AND REPAIRS a brief silence. Easton, however, in spite of the snub he received, could not refrain from talking. "Well, I don't go in for politics much, either, but if what's in this 'ere paper is true, it seems to me as we oughter take some interest in it, when the country is being ruined by foreigners." -"If you're going to believe all that's in the bloody rag you'll want some salt," said Harlow. The Obscurer was a Tory paper and. Harlow was a member of the local Liberal club. Harlow's remark roused Crass. "Wot's the use of talkin' like that?" he said. "You know very well that the country is being, ruined by foreigners. Just go to a shop to buy something; look 'round the place an' you'll see that more than 'arf the damn stuff comes from abroad. They're able to sell their goods 'ere because they don't 'ave to pay no dooty, but they takes care to put 'eavy dooties on our goods to keep 'em out of their countries; and I say it's about time it was stopped." " 'Ear, 'ear!" said Linden, who always > agreed with Crass, because the latter, being in charge of the job, had it in his power to put in a good—or bad—word for a man to the boss. "'Ear, 'ear! Now that's wot I call common sense." Several other men, for the.same reason as Linden, echoed Crass's sentiments, but Owen laughed contemptuously: "Yes, it's quite true that we getB a lot of stuff from foreign countries," said Harlow, "but they buys more from us than we do from them." "Now you think you know a 'ell of a lot," said Crass; " 'ow much more did they buy from us last year than we did from them?" Harlow looked foolish; as a matter of fact his knowledge of the subject was not much wider than Crass's. He mumbled something about having no 'ed for figures, and offered to bring full particulars next day. "You're wot I call a bloody windbag," continued Crass; "you've got a ell of a lot to say, but wen it comes to the point you don't know —SS-S&^s ■" -"-■■-- 5=p^pkfe (To be continued) DOES YOUR UNION StTBSCRtBE- FOR THE LABOB STATESMAN? THE COST IS 16c PER MEMBER PER MONTH. TAKE THIS MATTER UP AT YOUR NEXT MEETING. Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, October 31st, 1930 "BiqW B. C Payrolls" British Columbia Is Our Home If live markets are the core of business, and the market at home solves the problem at once, then it is sound economics to push home products. Maker and consumer get the benefits immediately.' Get them all! Pacific Milk Factory at ABBOTSFORD, B.C. Know Your Labels! This is the Bakers' Union Label: This paper, in co-operation with presenting illustrations of all the International Labor News Service, is each week. The labels were furnished by Secretary-Treasurer John J. Manning of the Union Label Trades Department, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D.C. Union-Made Shoes CORNETT BROS A CLARK 33 EAST HASTINGS BTBBST Floraheim, Strlders, C. B. A C. Men s and Touth'a. WILLIAM DICK, LTD. Union Label Shoes for Men and Yonths. Fellow Unionists, demand the Union Label. Shop Card and Working Button. and patronise fair employers and em ploy UNION LABOR Classified Ads. BATBS Hastings Steam Baths Price 35o Only Tea Hastings Street Bast. Or. w. A. Bntledg., 108 Meetings West. HOTABY PTJBUO r. M. Bengough labor Headquarters. Labor statesman. O. B. Heard Labor Headquarters. SPECIALIST ■IS Bobaoa. Dr. Trevelyn E. Sleeth CANINE AND FELINE SPECIALIST AMD STJB.OEON Operating B. C. Dog and Cat Hospital. 1421 Oranvllle Street, and Kingsway Boarding Kennels, at Dogwood. 1101 Kingsway. Burnaby. H.ad Otflc. Phones I Seymonr 640-560 Prices to suit the union man. Workers' United Front For World Problems "The great and growing nation known as the International Transport Workers' Federation. . ." That was how Mr. C. T. Cramp, the British delegate, described the I. T. F., with its membership of more than 2% millions. He presided at the opening of the oonference in London, England—the first meeting in this country since the war. Certainly the description was justified. East and West In the Caxton Hall was an essem- bly of delegates from 35 countries, from the Eastern as well as the Western nations. Mr. Tom Shaw, when he conveyed greetings from the International Textile Workers, outlined the lesson of this meeting. "When we in the textile world," he said, "can have sitting with us our Indian, Japanese and Chinese colleagues, as well as our colleagues from the great continent of America, I shall be proud and happy to say: 'The transport workers have shown the way.' "The European international is useful—in Europe. But there can be no international that does not combine East and West together in a common .effort for uplifting the whole human race." (Applause). Need For Combination Mr. Cramp, in his presidential address, similarly emphasized the entry into their ranks of workers from countries outside Europe. Statesmen of the world had been devoted to the task of balancing the interest of their particular country against all others. Using nationality as a slogan, they had plunged others into wars, and had diverted the attention of the workers from their own interests to that of exalting the prestige of particular governments.' But when a battle for nationality had been won it had not resulted in the' emancipation of those who did the nation's work. -t. Raisin? World Level More and more, Mr. Cramp said, it was necessary that the workers, internationally united, should strive to win the economic battle. There was no surer way of protecting the workers' standards in any one country than by raising the general level throughout the world. Dealing with industrial depression, Mr. Cramp declared that if they could increase the spending power and raise the standard of living among the many millions who in the world today had not the power to purchase the goods produced they would have done something towards solving the problem. Mr. Cramp added that reaction had lifted its ugly head in-several countries. I nPoland an effort was being made to suppress the voice of democracy altogether. In Germany the recent elections had strengthened the opponents of social democracy, and in Finland violent methods were employed to weaken the organized workers. Two Methods of Solution Mr. W. M. Citrine, extending a welcome from the International Federation of Trade Unions, referred to the exclusive revelation in the "Daily Herald"—"Which, I am proud to say, has the largest circulation of any Labor newspaper in the world," Mr. Cirihe interposed—of impendine attempts of employers in Britain to reduce wages. In countries which he had visited recently, Mr. Citrine said, he found the same tendencies. Yet no solution was possible on those lines. He proceeded to make he. declaration quoted on "age 1. Two Proposals Mr. Citrine put forward two lines upon which present economic difficulties could be solved. These were: Maintining the nurchasing power of thc people of the world at the highest possible point. Promoting the greatest possible movement of trade between country and country. "It is along these lines that the solution will be found," Mr. Citrine said. Mr. George Hicks, welcoming dele gates on behalf of the Trades Union Congress, said they must internationalize themselves more and more to represent and safeguard the interests of the workers effectively. Mr. J. Middleton, on behalf of the British Labor Party, gave the delegates' this assurance: . "We are internationalists. If the British Government is sitting down at the same table with its cousins from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, it does not in any way disturb the international relationships with our friends in other parts of the world." Britain's jflaii Fora Vast Negro Colony in East Africa It is difficult for a man to realize that he is a certain kind of person of quite local importance;^ he attributes universal significance to his own peculiarities and endeavors to legislate for all mankind. A recognition of the fact that there are several species of mankind, what- . ever their biological resemblances, prevents the disappointment consequent on the inevitable frustrations of unjustifieoV1 hopes and leads "to^feaT tolewmah^r Wv Nv -Sulnvan in "Aspects of Science." Every mother thinks her boy is different from the rest The schoolmaster Has to tell here that he is (thank heaven) like the rest—A B. Ramsay. Territory two-thirds the size of Canada may be set aside in British East Africa for the Negro race. The proposal has been made by the Labor Government of Great Britain, in a "Wihte Paper," dealing with the future government of British East Africa. The plan is nothing, less than to apportion forever for the native trobes tremendous areas of tillable land, says a London despatch to the Montreal Daily Star, and to make them inalienable, so that other races can not take the soil away for their own purposes. But the proposal, we read further, will not meet with the approval of Parliament without a fight. Already, it appears, the White settlers of Kenya are protesting about various phases of it. *■'•" Furthermore, we are advised, the Germans are talking about lodging1 a protest with the League-of Nations, on the ground that the British Government is virtually proceeding as if Tanganyika, a former German colony, were a British possession instead of mandated land, governed by Britain only under the fiat of the League of Nations. This London correspondent of the Montreal Daily Star goes on:., "The United States set aside reservations for the Indians, but, under the pressure of the ever-expanding White race, vast areas were taken back again, and ultimately became States. In Africa, very dark chapters have been written. "In the last century, the whole world was horrified by an expose of the 'manner in which the blacks in the rubber regions of Belgian Kongo .were.. mishandled "and even -niaimed " "By cruel' taskthasters'. In theT3eririan colonies, before the Great War, it was repeatedly charged that the native rebellions, so sternly suppressed, were largely caused by the cruelty of the Whites. "In the French Kongo, so lately as a couple of years ago, a French writer openly charged that the natives were forced to labor in rubber collection by reason of tyrannical fines and sentences of imprisonment inflicted without rhyme or reason. 'I'n the vast territory collectively known as British East Africa, the authorities are anxious to write a new story. The domain is made up of Kenya and Uganda, which are British possessions, and Tanganyika, the mandate for which was assumed by Great Britain when this former German possession was wrested from German rule." Taking the long view, we are then told, the British Government desires to make of this territory something like one. united Crown colony, the ultimate and distant object being to develop it into a great self-governing Dominion. , We read then: "For this purpose the Government proposes to name a High Commissioner. He will supervise Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. "He will have twofold duties. He will be the chief adviser to the Secretary for the Colonies on all native questions. He will administer and legislate on such subjects as railways, ports, harbors, customs, defenses, posts, telegraphs, and telephones. "To perform the latter duties he have a council consisting of three officers of his staff and twenty-one other members, each of the colonies being, represented by seven, but aH- being flamed by him. "In doing so he will, as far as possible, name some who will represent the various races. This means that, in addition to White men on the commission, there will probably be native" Africans, Indians," and Arabs "Turning' to the native question, the Government backs up a 'White Paper' issued in 1923, which said that Kenya is primarily an African territory, and that the interests of the African native must be para' mount."1 , H. W. WATTS, I. L. P. Candidate for Alderman, Ward Six. WALTER DEPTFORD, I. L. P. Candidate for Alderman, Ward Seven. W. W. LeFEAUX, I. L. P. Candidate for , Alderman, Ward One. ALEX MacDONALD, I. L. P. Candidate for Parks Board. R. E. RIGBY, I. L. P. Candidate for School Trustee. A^iti-union Employers Worry; ublic Refusing To Join Them /NEW YORK.—The anti-union shop committee of the National Association of Manufacturers struck a iriournful note in their yearly report. They are worried over the United States Supeme Court's outlawing of the company "union" in the case of Brotherhood of Railway Clerks versus Texas and New Orleans Railroad. The committee reports as "discouraging" the growing tendency of large national chain systems, stores, hotels and other structures to order all building work on the union basis. Another "discouraging" feature is the difficulty of Convincing employers outside the building industry that they should interest themselves in preventing the extension of unionism in the construction field. who now face court suits because of their treachery. The Supreme Court's decision will retard and may smash the company "union" movement, according to the committee, which mournfully declared: "It may well be that the railway company executives who, in 1926, supported the Watson-Parker Act will, as a result of the 1930 decision of the United States Supreme Court, have subsequent cause to regret advocacy of provisions which may impair, if not destroy, the development of harmonious management-employe, co-operation in the shop crafts and other non-operating branches of the railway industry." FARMERS NEED RELIEF Whilst the farmers in many parts of Saskatchewan are not in want ^'L^lT^'Li* jw" rt.,1 {oT tne aetual necessities of life, no other,-owner i to insist that their matter what the price ** ->— - ~ buildings must not be erected under ■-- nil-union conditioM.!—-,- The committee is jubilant betause New York City iron and steel erecting employers, last July, "withdrew from negotiations with the union." =:7^ti=sr- "JKastem:- Producer*.- Jh-s-e-iaEe-'-other - The committee failed to tell complete story of how these ployers violated an agreement matter what the price of wheat or the size at the mortgage, says The parts where a succession of crop failures has engendered conditions where farm children are not properly clad and wher.e farm famines are the not in a position to .keep themselves em- supplied with food and fuel without and direct relief. , . Okwm |l'iiday, October 31st, 1930 Union Bakeries THE LABOR STATESMAN Seven Delicious Bakery Union-made Bread and Pastry. Ask for it at your local store or PHONE HIGHLAND 705 and have oujr salesman deliver it The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. When Better Cakes and Pastries are Made, We'll Make 'EmI Golden Rule Bakery CO., LTD 957 Granville St. Sey. 86S6 STEWART'S BAKERY AXB-C. 8TEWABT, PBOP. 12815 Main Street - - Phon. i Pair. 3331 Union Bakeries Following is a list of clean and sanitary union shops, employing union members, who are required to take a rigid physical examination, and who are paid sick and accident benefits in case of illness which prevents them working when in a diseased condition: London Bakery, 439 East 7th .treet. Phone Fair. 122. Delicious Bakery, 1S00 East Hailing. street. Phone High 705. Sunset Bakery, 2316 Granville St. Craig's Bakery, 187 East Hastings. West's Bakery, 1407 Commercial drive. Phone High. 166. Pratt's Bakery, 3980 East Hastings street. Phone High. 5607. Stewart's Bakery, 2515 Main street. Fair. 3331. Dirks' Bakery, 62.07 Main street Golden Rule Bakery, 957 Granville street. Phone Sey. 8656. Hastings Bakery, 764 East Hastings. Phone High. 4637. Mutter's Bakery, 2157 Main street. Phone Fair. 3953. Scott's Home Bakery, 1848 Kings- way. Phone Fair. 729. McGavin's Home Bakery, 2352 East Hastings street. Phone High. 1851. The Nook Bakery, 1835 West 4th avenue. Victoria Bakery, 3834 Main street. Bennett's Scotch Bakery, 4166 Main street. Anderson's Bakery, 6480 Victoria. Phone Fraser 414. McDonald's Bakery, 4870 and 5080 Joyce Road. Carl 447. X. L. O. Bakery, 2447 East Hastings. (Note.—The McGavin's Bakery listed above has no connection with the big: firm on Broadway West, which delivers bread and is not operating a union shop. The following firms have "No Agreement" with local unions affiliated with the Vancouver, New Westminster ant District Trades and Labor Council Patronize those who patronize you I Bakeries McGavin Ltd., 2106 w. Broadway. Taxicabi Commercial Taxi Cab Co. Checker Taxicab Co., Ltd. Dairies Steves Dairy, 2024 West 12th. Crystal Dairy, 1802 Commercial. Restaurants National Lunch, 776 Oranvllle. Trocadero Cafe; 156 West Hastings St Waldorf Cafe. 516 West Pender St. White Lunches, Hastings-Granville. Printers Clarke & Stuart Co., Ltd., 650 Seymour Street. Murphy & Chapman, 569 Seymour St Rose, Cowan & Latta, 741 Seymout Street. J. W. Boyd, Ltd., 112 West Hastings Street. Tailors G. A. Collard, 603 West Hastings Si Orchestras Nntlnmil Juvenile Band. ' Theatres Avenue Theatre, 711 Main Street. Royal Theatre. 136 E. Hastings St Cplumbla Theatre. 64 W. Hasting*. . Th«PoT<T adage thaOays.two can live as cheaply as one neglected to say one what. Snowden Speaks Out The idea that some form of Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett's medicine of protection might be found acceptable by the Labor government of Great * Britain practically disappeared this week, when Hon, Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, expressed his views in public. The Snowden views are the views which have been held for the past hundred years in Great Britain by whatever party happened to be in power. The only exception to the undisputed reign of the doctrine of free trade was made a few years ago when the McKenna protective duties transparently disguised under the name "Safeguarding Industries," were put in force. This departure from the traditional British devotion to free trade, is supposed to have assisted considerably in bringing about the fall of the Baldwin government and the ascendency of the MacDonald regime. It was thought in some quarters that owing to the failure of the Labor government to cope satisfactorily with the unemployment problem and the apparent unanimity of the Domin ion premiers at the Imperial conference on the advisability of Great Britain following the lead of her protectionist brood, the MacDonald government would waver and hold out some possibility of compromise. Mr. Snowden does not appear to be the compromising kind. He declared that protection would inevitably I lead to the corrpution of parliament, members being elected to plead for special interests and constant pressure being broUght to bear on the government at all times for legislation benefitting some individual or group at the expense of the state. "Once begin a policy of protection and you are on a slippery slope that leads to a bottomless pit" is the gloomy fate he prophesied for Great Britain if she listened to the seductive words of Mr. Bennett. Even Mr. Bennett's threat, which he said was not a threat but a prophecy, that Great Britain might never have another chance to participate to her full share in Dominion trade unless the British bulldog came when he whistled, did not stampede tile implacable socialistic Mr. Snowden. As far as the bonds of empire are concerned, the pjresent conference seems to be making notable headway, for if Snowden does not like Bennett and his notions, Baldwin and Beaverbrook think that he might be the holy symbol which British Conservatives will follow to victory. Mr. Bennett has started empire politics. That ought to simplify matters. Being a member of a provincial political association in Canada or South Africa now makes you eligible in any of the lodges in any part of the empire The Conservative party is now definitely in British politics. This looks rather absurd, but a few years of close association in domestic political matters may lead to a better understanding., all around. It would be quite interesting to see Dr. Manion addressing the electors of Liverpool on behalf of Mr. Baldwin; Lloyd- George attempting to secure the return of his colleague Mackenzie King, in North York, and Ramsay MacDonald doing a little stumping for Agnes Macphail in Grey County. In the meantime there are a lot of people at the conference who are working, away and not talking much, and it may be that they can suggest some acceptable means which will develop more satisfactory trade relations between the Dominions and Great Britain without assassinating anyone's political principles. —Western Producer. FIRED! There is a good story concerning •lack Jones, the Labor M. P. in the British Parliament. As a young man his political views, which he was never tired of advocating amongst his workmates, caused.him to be looked upon with disfavor by his employers, with the result that he was constantly being fired. ' Eventually, however, he got a job, and things seemed to be looking a bit brighter. Nevertheless, long periods of enforced idleness had made him more or less despondent, and one day, when he was sitting at his bench in a somewhat introspective mood, his employer approached him and said: "Cheer up, Jack, be an optimist; have you ever.been fired with enthusiasm?" Promptly came the retort: "Yes, fired from every job I had." "All the great advances in the progress of medicine were made by men not for. money's sake, butJtp ftoUt-jra; to^cnXe human ills..- It^B a°"s6phlsm "that competition for profits are necessary to human progress."—James P. Warbasse. „,, Union Label Trades On Air Thursday The following was broadcasted over Radio Station CKWX by the Vancouver Union Label Trades Council on Thursday at 6 p.m., "and will be continued every Thursday by other trades. This portion of tonight's programme, sponsored by the Union Label Trades Council, being allocated to the Allied Printing Trades Council of Vancouver, it is our privilege to bring to the attention of citizens of this city some of the outstanding activities of the organizations'affiliated with the Council, and their benefits to the community as a whole. The Allied Printing Trades Council comprise the locals of the International Typographical Union, the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union, the International Brothgihood of Bookbinders, the International Stereotypers' and Elec- trotypers' Union, the International Photo Engravers' Union and the International Mailers' Union, and represents between six and seven hundred organized workpeople in the printing industry of this city. The object of our association is to cultivate a fraternal spirit amongst our members, improve our position as citizens in respect of wages, hours and working conditions, and co-oper. ate with employers who -are conducting their establishments under agreement with us, and thus demonstrate that they are in harmony with our ideals. In addition' to our activities respecting working conditions, the printing trades organizations carry on other endeavors of a beneficial nature, such as training apprentices, maintaining homes for aged and afflicted members, providing pensions for members upon their reaching the period of being unable to follow their occupation and mortuary benefits to dependents of deceased members. At Union Pressmen's Home, Tennessee, in addition to providing for the care Of incapacitated members, there is conducted a technical trade school, the facilities of which are available to any member desiring advanced technical training in his calling. A correspondence course is also provided for those wishing to supplement their shop experience. The Typographical Union also has a correspondence course and provides progressive examinations for boys entering the trade, so that they may become- finished workmen upon completion of their apprenticeship. Perhaps the most outstanding monument to trades unionism on this continent is the Union Printers' Home, Colorado Springs, Colo. This wonderful institution, maintained by the International Typographical Union regularly cares for over 300 residents and patients. As an in- ntitution for combatting the ravages of tuberculosis it has received the plaudits of most eminent medical authorities. At present one member of Vancouver local is at the home, but there has been as many as four from here at one time. Over a period of years upwards of twenty local members have received the bounties of this Home which are unpurchas- ahle and can be secured only through membership in this organization. Some have returned with health restored and others spent their last days under the best of care and attention. The pension schemes of the Typo graphical and Pressmen's Unions are also features worthy of special mention. During his working period every member contributes to a fund from which, he draws a pension of $8.00 per week upon reaching the age of sixty years, is unable to follow his usual occupation, and has a specified length of membership in his organization. During the past year member's of our Canadian unions received the sum of over $67,640 in pensions. Five members of Vancouver Union are at present recipients from this fund. ' Like assistance is provided to a greater or lesser degree by the other unions, affiliated with the Allied ' Printing Trades Council. It will therefore be seen that not only do a large number of working people benefit through membership in a Union, but also the community as a whole is relieved of a burden which it might otherwise be called upon to assume. By asking for the union label when placing your orders for printing you indicate that you are in sympathy with our humanitarian endeavors as putlined during this programme, and that you are' willing to ' indirectly support them. The following firms are entitled to use the. union .label and we commend them to any one seeking estimates for printing: Broadway Printers, 151 8th Ave. East. ■■■'■', 'J HAZELWOOD ICE CREAM The only 100 per cent Union Ice Cream in the City! Phone: Seymoup 2090 Hazelwood Creamery, Limited Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.'CIDERS PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER 'Made from B. C. Apples" '.'.'.."■• '• V Try "The Lions" dinger Ale Orange, Lemon and Lime Kist. PHONE HIGH, to ; VAN BROS.. LTD./ • PROMPT DELIVERY 1055 VERNON DRIVE The Citizen, 1451 Broadway West. Commercial Stationers, Ltd., 535 Georgia St. West. Dunsmuir Printing Co., 437 Dunsmuir Street. A. Hazelcfine Printing Co., 829 Pender Street West. Journal of Commerce, 618 Homer Street. Lumberman Printing Co., 500 Beatty Street. Mitchell-Foley Ltd., 522 Hastings Street West. Mitchell Printing Co., 1037 Pender Street West. T. McPhde, 6268 East Boulevard. North Shore Press, Esplanade, North Vancouver. Pacific Printers, 500 Bekins Bldg. The Review, 110 1st Street East, North Vancouver. Seymour Press, 660 Richards St. Shoemaker, McLean & Veitch, 123 Lonsdale Avenue. Sun Publishing Co., 137 Pender St West. A. H. Timms, 228 14th Ave. East Ward & Phillips, 318 Homer St Wilson Stationery Co. Ltd., 830 Pender St. West. Wrigley Printing Co. Ltd., 676 Seymour Street. These offices are well equipped and staffed by finished workmen, and even though you may have to, pay a trifle more for your work it will be worth it when you consider it has been purchased under fair conditions. Ask for the Union Label on your printed matter. Further information will be gladly given upon application to Allied Printing Trades Council Headquarters. Phone Sey. Union Tailor Shops BEATON, F. W.—555 Georgia Wast. BUTT, CHAS 1066a Pender West. CALLADINE, W.—4349 Main. CREELMAN A MARSH—603 Duna- muir. CREASEY tt ABRAMS—700 Rob- aon. GRAY, DAVID—164 East llth. HARTLE BROTHERS —662 Sey. JEFFS, A 2532 Main. MORGAN, T. C—1338 Granville. PERRIN tt CO.—200 Blk. Georgia E. PERRY tt DOLK—18 Haatinga W. PETERSON, A.—14 Cordova W. RAY BROS. TAILORING CO.—80 Haatinga W. SLOWIN, F. M.—827 Granville. SMALL, DAVID—4021 Kingsway. STORRY, H. F.—683 Georgia. VAN THE TAILOR—886 Georgia. TOM THE TAILOR—1842 Lonsdale, North Vancouver. ELITE TAILOR —787 Lonsdale, North Vancouver. B. C. E. TAILORS—Hart Block, New Westminster. Labor 6231. Russian Lumber Swamps World Market Fascism has won what on the surface appears to be an important electoral victory in Finland. The election was fought out on the sole issue of whether Communists should by law be barred from holding public office. The fascists and their conservative and reactionary allies have apparently won 144 seats in the new Finnish parliament, or more than the two-thirds majority needed for passage of the proposed law. The intense wave of reaction that has swept the Baltic republic in the last six months may be attributed almost entirely to the success that Russia has had in underselling Finnish lumber on the world market. As a result, the timber industry in Finland, which is the foundation of the country's economic position, is actually banrupt. The interests suffering from this economic plight have taken up the fascist cry and have, through effective slogans, won the support of most of the peasants, who ordinarily are not politically minded. Their movement is not actually directed against'the Communists, legislation adopted several years ago having outlawed the real Communists, but is aimed at the Left Socialists, who, through clear propaganda, have had the Communist label effectively pinned on them. These Left Socialists will apparently now be suppressed. The moderate parties who supported the fascists in the election may have cause for worry lest the fascists carry these tactics a step farther, hang the Communist -label on-them, and thus leave nmrnsiiapei on xnem, ana tnus leave j Human slavery is wrong, insecure omy-=the ^eaWWmiTy RigHc^ mechanical govern a country which for years was thought a pioneer of parliamentary democracy.—The Nation. Tariffs Fail To Create Prosperity The British Labor government has declined to yield to the pressure exerted on" the Imperial Conference, both from the ruling powers in the dominions and the Conservatives at home, to create a tariff wall around the British Commonwealth. Chancellor Snowden and President Graham of the Board of Trade are indeed ready to abandon a dogmatic free-trade position—which1 is .fundamentally inconsistent with socialist . theory—by instituting governmental control of purchasing, or block buying and selling, with inter- imperial preference. But they are realistic enough to see that any attempt to make the Empire a completely self-sustaining economic unit would be injurious to those large sections of industry which must buy or sell in Europe and other non-British territories. The narrow economic nationalism of the protective-tariff doctrine is just as foreign to socialism as to economic good sense. While the socialists distrust laissez-faire, they also want to build their con- ' trolled economy on a world-wide basis. The misfortune is that the United States has just given the, world a supremely bad example of protectionist policy. Though it is injuring and will continue to injure our own (U.S.A.) prosperity as much as that of other nations, it is forcing their hands. The Smoot-Hawley Bill will undoubtedly be counted by future historians a great obstacle to economic recovery and a great impetus to international hostility. It may prove to have been a turning point* in the fortunes of capitalism and/peace.—The New Republic. THE SLAVE OF THE FUTURE The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery :- — slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.—Oscar Wilde. '"....*- KB -;-;,*.;■ if, ■.*<«t„„,-....--...; Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, October 31st, 1930 Highest Quality Foods There is no higher quality than Malkin's Best. Every package and can bearing the circle trade mark may be depended upon for purity and excellence. When you want the best in food products, buy Malkin's. They cost no more! The W. H. Malkin Co. Limited Vancouver, B.C. Nanaimo Victoria Prince Rupert For Printing of QUALITY, SPEED AND SERVICE done in a Union Shop, send your printing to A. H. Timms 236 14th Ave. E„ Vancouver A. A. Brookhouse, (late of Cowan & Brookhouse) Shop Superintendent Fair. 208 Fair. 1372 Dentistry Modern »- Methods lay^W Modern iore# prices Ground Floor, City Hall 12 Hastings St. East Phone: Seymour 5S77 "We Save You Money" I CAN SERVE YOU BETTER 1 GORDON CRAIG Vancouver's Original Radio Specialist 637 RICHARDS SEY. 6808 Wawanesa Mutual Ins. Co. Canada'* largest Plre Mutual. (188,000,000.00 in force, has paid the people o( Canada $4,000,000.00 tor Are losses and saved them as much in premiums. See ub for rates. Office Phone: 8ey. 4250 ,■' - 624 BIRRS BUILDING, VANCOUVER DOES YOUR UNION SUBSCRIBE FOR". THE LABOB STATESMAN? THE COST IS 16c PER MEMBER PER MONTH. TAKE THIS MATTER UP AT YOUR NEXT MEETING. Many Activities Are Economic Conditions Planned by 1. L. P. Breed Revolutions Plana have been made by the organizing, committee of the Vancouver branch pf *"e Independent Labor Party to launch what will be a series of popular^ whist drives. Cash prizes will be given away at these.events which will\ include not less than twelve prizes. As the players increase so will^ the prizes. The first of these will be held in the Majestic Hall, opposite Wm. Dick's store, at Hastings and Homer, on Friday evening, November \21st, starting at 8 p.m. Admission tp the games is 25c. Five new members were enrolled at the last meeting\of the "party, and reports received from the Campaign Committee showed the campaign getting into shape. A Vacancy among the candidates for school trustee was caused by the resignation of S. T. Wybourne, and this position was filled by the nomination Of Mrs. J. A. Clark. Women's Meeting* The Women's Committee of the I. L. P. has started a series of women's meetings for the discussion of remedies and measures for the alleviation of economic conditions among women. The first of these will be held Monday evening, November 3rd, in the hall at the corner of 26th and Sophia, one black east of Main street. All women are invited, refreshments will be served. Speaking and Dramatic A speakers' class has also been started by a group of the I. L. P. members, the first one having commenced last Wednesday, Oct. 29th, and to be continued every Wednesday through the winter months. A dramatic group is also being organized by President Turner. There .are still a few vacancies on this, so Jany member desiring to try out their dramatic abilities can get in touch with A. J. Turner. A lecture and propaganda committee has also been appointed for the arranging of lectures, etc., during the winter months- This committee is composed of Charlie Mann, Alec Mitchell and J. Clegg. TWO UNION MEMBERS GO INTO BUSINESS Ken. Patterson and Alf. Nuttall, members of the Journeymen Tailors' Union, employed for over ten years by Frank M. Slowin (bankrupt), have opened up a nlace at 811 Dominion Building, where they are inviting all their friends who desire first class tailor-made suits at popular prices. These suits will carry the union label and will be made to suit the individuality and taste of each patron. They have an entirely new selection of fall goods in the newest shades and designs to select from. Your patronage or the attention of your-frienda to-thia-ne-Rj-nak ness will be appreciated. "NO CHRISTMAS HAM IF YOU JOIN UNION" GREENSBORO, N. C—The Conel mill management warns workers | that they will receive no Christmas- ham if they are not on the pay roll at that time. . The workers reply: "Give us a living wage and we will buy our own hams." "It is not the 'ham what am' at Christmas that is interesting Greensboro workers, but the 'ham what ain't' 364 other days of the year," said A. 'F. of L. Organizer Gas,kill. DON'T BE A LOBSTER Workers who will not help themselves are like lobsters or crabs, anyway. When a fisherman catches a bucket of these shellfish he does not have to put a cover on it to keep hem from escaping. As soon as one crawls up to the top of the bucket and seems about to gain his freedom, all the other crabs and lobsters proceed to grab hold of his legs and pull him back down into the bottom of the Bucket. In this way they are all kept safe for the fisherman. They save each other from freedom, and ultimately all of them get boiled alive, because they did not have brains enough to help one another.— "Queen Silver's Magazine." The wave of revolution which is spreading over South America is a popular rather than a po.itical phenomenon. In the last analysis, it is safe to say, all revolution has its root and origin in economic conditions which can no longer be borne by the masses who feel that they are paying the piper without having called the tune. The fighting in which the revolt is usually expressed is merely the resort to a more speedy and effective means of expressing that reaction than is afforded by constitutional methods with their inevitable delays and cumbersome machinery. The immediate spark which explodes the powder magazine may be this or that, but the explosive condition which makes the spark dangerous has its source in the life of the people. It is a truism of history that when a ruler has squeezed his subjects too hard sooner or later they have risen and repudiated their allegiance. Twice in the history of Our own race — long-suffering and phlegmatic as we are—this has occurred. It was as a result of carrying his experiments in taxation and currency too far that Charles Stuart lost his head and his kingdom; while George of Brunswick escaped with the loss of a colony. The engine of pressure has changed in our times, but the squeezing process is the same and the revolt when the pressure reaches the limit of endurance is the same. The pressure today is exercised by the financial magnate or corporation concealed behind the presidential chair that has replaced the throne. Finance rules the ruler, dictates to the dictator, and governs the policy of governments. It seems as if the iron grip were invincible but when the breaking point is reached revolution follows and the figurehead, behind which the real power is concealed, falls. This is what is happening now in Brazil, what has already .happened in Bolivia, Argentine and Peru and threatened Venezuela and Chile. During the last five or six years the indebtedness of the various states of South America to the United States has risen from two hundred to two thousand million dollars, advanced from national securities pledged by the various governments, or obtained in return for concessions to be exploited under exacting terms. For a time, while world conditions were favorable, the pressure could be borne but with the onset of the world crisis and consequent depression the breaking point has been reached and the spark of revolution spreads from state to state. Against none of the presidents is any substantial charge brought other than that they have "pawned the country" to American finance. It is something to have the real cause of the insupportable economic condition, so clearly recognized. Possibly some day it may dawn upon the despoiled that the power to be overthrown is the despoiler and not merely his local agent, who can be immediately replaced by a hew figurehead. 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"The Japanese Sandman" Whiting 4. "Song of India"....Rlmsky-Korsakoft 5. Valse "Sleeping Rose" Borch 6. ''Mandarin's Garden" from "The Willow Plate": .Herbert Vocal TTfterluue. 7^ ".©-.-Sole-Mla" :.. -, _-,....dl Capus 8. "Morning"''......*.. Oley Speaks 9. "A Day at the Vancouver Fair" ' ..;- -. Arranged Here's a Ho,- Vancouver"....HIlllam "There's No Saa Like Home" in Gold Supply Affects Economic Conditions Will the gold supply run short? The gold delegation of the League of Nations financial committee, in a report just published, indicates the possibility of a shortage of new gold for monetary purposes by 1934. The question is highly technical; the practical consequences involved are of the utmost seriousness. Gold shortage means falling prices, which historically has meant business depression and hard times. In fact, one important group of economists attributes out present difficulties- in no-small measure to the effect of gold shortage on prices. During recent years much progress has been made toward economy in the use of gold, especially through a more skilful use of reserves by banks, but despite such economies the experts still fear a shortage. Public thinking on the money question has made much progress since the good old days of 1896, when our fathers settled the problem forever as they thought by voting for honest money, that is, gold; but we are not ready and perhaps never shall be for that purely scientific: money system which would be entirely independent of the value of any metal. Until that day comes we shall continue to worry our heads about the question whether we can dig .enough gold out of the earth and manage it skilfully enough to' keep prices from changing sharply. While the- Western world is alarmed by the danger of an increasing value of THINGS FOR MEN! Dependable Goods — Batiafaetory Service — BatUHad OnJrtonunr HARRIS HAIR TONIC—A tested dandruff remedy ""....$1.00 and ♦1.50 PRESTO GLYCERINE AND PUMICE SOAP—Large cake 10c BATH SOAP—Real value 3 for S6o; 18 for 9Bo RAZOR HONES—Good values at low prices 50c, 760, B1M and flJSO SHAVING MIRRORS—A big range of prices 35o, 49c, 81.25 to »6.00 THERMOS BOTTLE—Genuine , 87° 47o VACUUM BOTTLE—Good value LUNCH KIT AN DBOTTLE ..»!.» A New Gillette Razor and Blade—Free Buy Tube Palmollve Shaving Cream: 35c 1 Razor and Blade or Tube Colgate Shaving Cream -....35o j Free. B. C. Barber Supply and Sundries, limited PHONE SEYMOUR 4401 64 HASTINGS STREET WEST VARCOTJTBB, B. O. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION I MAHER'S ANNUAL STOCK-TAKING SALE . la Now in Full Swing! SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK 10 FLOOR SAMPLE CHESTERFIELD SUITES from $135.00 to $250.00 All Dining Room and Bedroom Suites greatly reduced in price. Some "Close-out" lines of odd pieces going at half-price. Buy at Maher's and Savel Maher Furniture Co. LTD. 929 GRANVILLE STREET gold, China and the. other silver-us- ine countries find their business prostrated by the unprecedented low- price of the white metal, which makes trade with the gold-using countries well-nigh impossible. While most of us never think about it, the money question affects fundamentally and constantly' the well-BeinjfTrf: everyone in all the civilized countries of the world.—The Nation. - ■ ;-.:.- -
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