The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1930-10-31
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0439221/source.json
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note: '—■ 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 "Th…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439221
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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type: Text