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- // " labor Statesman ^^l^^/h OWNED AND (X)NTROI--i-_r^^^^r BY THE VANO)liV-iRjM& AND LAbUR COUNCIL Tl Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions^F? «-_£i5W i-i NO. 322—EIGHT ^AGES Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions VANCOUVER, CANADA, JUNE 27, FIVE CENTS PER COPY STOP IMMIGRATION AND GIVE WORKERS A FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Every political candidate should be put on record as to what is their attitude toward immediately stopping further immigration and putting unemployment insurance (not a dole) into immediate operation through Federal legislation, without reference to provincial governments.—Read our editorial on page 4. An Election Appeal From Labor Members Three Labor Members of the Federal Parliament Appeal to \ Voters to Return More Labor Members to House of Commons 'T'HREE LABOR MEMBERS of thc late Federal Parliament (1926-1930) submit their record to the judgment of the electorate, and suggest that the Independents may hold the balance of power in the next parliament, and that a co-operating group of Farmer and.Labor members could exercise an influence out of all proportions to their numbers. To the Electors throughout Canada: In 1921 two Labor men unfurled the Labor flag at Ottawa. In 1925 we lost one seat and gained another. The following year we regained the lost seat. In Great Britain there' is a Labor party in power. Here Labor has only three members in a house of 245. Throughout these years we have gradually developed a working eo-operation with the Independent Farmer groups, which now have IK members. By actual experience we have learned that in most matters we can count on the support of these allies, and, in some cases, receive help from Labor's sympathizers in the two major parties. What of our record during the last four years? We have tried at all times to defend the rights and advance the interests of all sections of labor —organized and unorganized. The outstanding concrete achievement is the Old Age Pension Act, under which some 40,000 old folk already are being helped. Giving full credit to the Government, to organized labor and public opinion, we doubt if the Act would have been on the Statute Books had not two Labor men in the House occupied an exceptionally strategic position in 1925. Every year we have pressed upon the attention of Parliament the' problem of unemployment. For two years, on our action, insurance against unemployment, sickness and invalidity was studied by the Committee on Industrial and International Relations—a committee, by the way,-which earlier we had managed to have set up. This year the debate on unemployment, which we initiated, lasted over six days,-and insures that this very pressing question will be one of the main issues in the coming election. ' In the previous session the Committee on Industrial Relations took evidence and reported on minimum wage legislation. In another connection we have advocated a minimum wage for Federal employees, and succeeded in establishing a precedent in having a fair wage clause inserted in Bills granting incorporation to private companies building bridges, etc. When tariffs have been urged for the protection of industry, we have pointed out the need for the protection of standards of living for those engaged in these industries, e.g., the Oshawa strike, and the British Empire Steel Corporation. We took our part in the quiet campaign which led to the granting of back pay to the Western postal workers who had been dismissed durirfg the Winnipeg strike of 1919. It was on our motion that the Committee on International Relations studied the question of the establishment of Civil Service Councils. The report was accepted by the Government, though there has been delay in the setting up of administrative machinery. On a number of occasions we have urged a larger measure of free speech. In fulfilment of a promise made to us in 1925, the Government introduced an amendment to the Immigration Act which repealed the vicious •legislation of 1919 under which, for certain offences, British-born Canadians j could be deported without trial by jury. The Government, at the same [time, introduced an amendment to the Criminal Code repealing retrograde legislation passed in 1919. This has passed the Commons several times, but has been rejected by the Senate. We protested against the cancellation of the broadcasting license of the International Bible Students and introduced a Bill—which was defeated—which sought to repeal the law against blasphemous libel. Last year, in connection with the threatened deportation of Toronto Communists, we started a very satisfactory all day's debate on the British ideal of free speech. The men were not deported. Year after year we have pointed out the evils of our present immigration policy, and urged the need for the protection alike of the immigrant and of our own Canadian standards of living. At the beginning of this Parliament we introduced a motion urging the socialization of our natural resources. Last year, in protesting against the alienation of our water powers without consent of Parliament—especially in the case of the Seven Sisters Falls—we initiated a debate which !lasted over a week. Two years ago we introduced'a motion urging the need for a national banking system'. This was referred to and reported on by the Committee on Banking and Commerce. ,',.., .-,___- —.-^Ehfr/appointmerit of a "Royal •Commission oh Cus£oms and 'Eoccise grew' out of our amendment in the political crisis of 1926. Last year we started a two days' debate on liquor clearances.. The proposal then-received little support from €M^L_fif.:the,_QM,I!a^ arid "forced trie pace of the House. This year a Government measure prohibiting clearances passed the House with little overt opposition* . For two years we have carried on a persistent agitation against the Twelve-hour Shift in Non-union Theatres The Royal and Columbia Theatres have been placed on the "No Agreement" list of the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. The committee from the Motion Picture Projectionists' Union reported that the management is employing "rat" labor on a 12- hour day basis. This consists of a projectionist and a helper. The projectionist is alleged to be getting $75.00 per week • and the helper $30.00 on a 12-hour day basis. The union schedule for "sound" pictures is two qualified men in six- hour shifts. This is done because of the close confinement of the operator and the danger to which an overworked operator might involve the audience. One mistake and that inflammable film involves the safety of the audience. It is alleged that this small operator is taking advantage of Mr. Pooley's reqent action in permitting s.cond and third class men to operate projection machines in the larger cities. Only first class men were permitted to operate where accidents might involve a large audience. While this law applied to B. C. there has not been any picture theatre fires, but who can say what might happen when inexperienced operators are put on the job. No government has a right to involve the lives of citizens just in order to permit some motion picture theatre owner to utilize cheap labor. The union feels that two fully experienced projectionists are necessary to handle the highly complicated sound picture machines, not only to safeguard the lives of the operators, but also the audience. ONE MORE Another City Hall official was suspended on Monday after the auditors had discovered a shortage in the City Treasurer's office. But once more we cannot fail to note, as in other cases, that the books covering the contractors' deposit accounts had not been audited for 13 years. This situation, however, is going to be remedied, and Mr. Pilkington will hot have to supervise the collection of revenues from now on, as a more capable official will be put on the job. Liberty and duty are inseparable terms.—Kant. Union Meetings at Labor Headquarter. FRIDAY, JUNE 38 Milk Salesmen 1 Plumbers and Steamfltters 2 Asbestos Workers 201 Welders : 313 Bnglneers 315 SUNDAY Typographical Union, 2 p.m....'. 1 Beverage Dispensers, 8 p.m 2 FIFTH MONDAY (Tuesday, Inly 1) I rod workers 2 Butchers 3 .Mailers . Railway Firemen and Oilers 315 WEDNESDAY Plasterers 2 Brewery Workers 3 District Council of Carpenters 311 iMioto js-ngravecs f 313 Tllesettera' Helpers 315 THURSDAY Floor layers 2 Millmen 3 Jewelry Workers 313 Sign and Pictorial Painter* 315 FRIDAY, JULY 4 Hallway Carman. No. 58 2 Projectionists, 11:30 p.m _ 2 Plasterers' Helpers 3 Molders : 311 Lathers .- 313 jSnglneera 3ir, City Carpenters Elect Officers For Term The annual meeting of Local 452 was held in Hair No. 1, Labor Headquarters, on Monday, June 23rd, when the election of officers took place, and other important matters affecting the trade were dispensed with. Considerable discussion on the shorter work-week was carried on during the balloting, and reports from various officers on this subject were received. Arrangements for the annaal picnic are under way, and Bowen Island is thc chosen spot this year. The results of the election are as follows: President: W. Page. Vice-President: Tom Russell. Recording Secretary: E. W. Small. Financial Secretary: R. W. Hatley. Treasurer: J Stevenson. Conductor: G. E. Hill. Warden: Geo. Snow. Trustee: M. Clark. Business Agent: W. Hargreaves. ' Executive Board to be announced on meeting to be held July 14th. —W.H. granting of divorce by Parliament, and introduced a Bill providing for the establishment of a divorce court for Ontario. This Bill is now law. " With the other members of the Independent Groups we have protested against militarism and the National Defence Estimates, and advocated international peace, and the economic and social conditions under which alone peace is possible. At the same time our representatives on the committee investigating returned soldiers' problems have worked steadily for generous treatment for those who suffered during the Great War. We have tried to cut down needless expenditures and to prevent the granting of undesirable privileges, e.g., the Governor-General's residences; the Georgian Bay Canal scheme; the Sun Life and the Bell Telephone Companies' Bills. On the other hand, we have actively supported measures in the interest of the common people." During week-ends and between sessions and by correspondence and literature we have carried on a steady Dominion-wide educational propaganda. We submit this record to the judgment of the electorate. , ~..,_Thi&j_J[^or's-opportunity r ^ ^^ tion may not prove decisive; that the old parties may be nearly evenly divided; that the Independents may hold the balance of power. A co-operating >:roup of conscientious, clear-he. aded. Eaimet-And•• -Labor members couT3" exercise an" mnuence out of all proportion to their numbers. Send us the needed reinforcements! . J] S. WOODSWORTH, A. A. HEAPS, H. B ADSHEAD. Council Starts ; Reorganization Plans Tt is with a great deal of satisfaction that we note that the City Council has decided to relieve Mr. A. J. Pilkington of some of his most important duties. Every report received from the auditors has shown the financial chaos or lack of proper supervision, and at a secret meeting of the City Council, held in Mayor Malkin's office, immediate reorganization of all civic departments, under the direction of Helliwell, Mac- lachlan & Co., was decided upon, as well as a permanent supervisor of revenues. Mayor Malkin says that it will take the full time of an extremely capable official to supervise the collection of this city's $15,000,000 revenues. "Several departments have been audited. The auditors have made recommendations. But no action has been taken to put these recommendations into effect. "We can wait no longer. I hope Helliwell, Maclachlan & Co. will begin their reorganization on Monday morning. We were beginning to be afraid that our lax system might remain as it has been unless we took drastic action. "We were anxious to have the new system adopted and put into force at once. Several recommendations made by the auditors last fall were adopted by the Council, yet have never been put into effect. "So we decided to relieve Mr. Pilkington of some of the heavy burden he has been carrying. We hope, in this way, to speed up the reorganization. "The officials of the firm of Helliwell, Maclachlan who are to reorganize our departments will bear no official title. It may take them some time to complete this work. The appointment of a permanent supervisor of revenues will be made in due course. "In the meantime, the man who is in charge of our reorganization will report directly to the auditors, who will report to the Select Committee. "The Select Committee, in turn, will be responsible to the City Council." REORGANIZATION IN THE AIR Col. .J. B. Wolfe-Merton, secretary of the Vancouver School Board, came under a heavy bombardment last week, and suggestions of reorganization were in thc air. This has been the opinion of quite a large section of the Vancouver public for a long time, and it is with a great deal of relief that We hear that the School Trustees have at last expressed Hheir convictions on this matter. While the subject has been shelved for the time being, we believe that it will crop up again and that eventually the Trustees will carry out the reorganization that they talk about and set themselves right with the general public. VICTORIA BAKERY IS UNION Through an error we reported the Victoria Road Bakery as signing up with the Bakers' Unipn; This should h_ve-teOT"tll^--Vic%m~Ba1rer^—iff^ 383'4 Main "#tree,t.„ Our readers in this locality, will please note and patronize .the fitiiik ,.,___. .....__-.»-™—'■y— Our liberty wisely understood is but a voluntary obedience to the universal laws of life.—Amicl. % tf Two THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, June 27. 1930 — ■ ▼i B( » MAINLAND GIG AR STORE \THE PLACE FdR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER RED STAR DRUG STORE "The Mail Order Druggist" We Male a Special Effort to Get Goods Ont by rlrst Kail After Receipt \ Of Your Order. COBWEB COEDOVA AND CAREALL VANCOUVEB, B. O. Correspondence Vancouver, B. C, June 16th, 1930. Editor, The Labor Statesmanv, Vancouver, B. C. Dear Sir,—Vancouver has indeed a great deal to be thankful for, particularly to the men who finally passed the Milk Bill last fall. Since then our city fathers have been able to get down.to some real business. Instead of running over to Victoria this year to protect the price of milk to Vancouver babies, Mr. Williams is checking the chickens, etc., at the Old People's Home. First the Relief Department, then the Scavenging Department, and now the bread. Well, it is about time they forgot about the firm that pays its men union wages and gives them better conditions than any dairy in Canada today. Over 500 returned men shipping milk, and 75 per cent, returned men on their wagons. The city father should have known that a firm that plays the game with its help will play the game with the public. Keep up the good work, Mr. Mayor, there was lots going on while Mr. Taylor and yourself were barking up the wrong tree. This letter is not published or displayed by the Milk Control Board or by the Government of B. C. 1914.' A railway worker claims that in the new huge skyscrapers they are considering sending the express elevators skywards in two sections. Gee, the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will claim jurisdiction over the elevator operators! You'll like it too! FOUREX dai ay OREAD MADE WITH MILK _.»-..; _**, r-MV-'Q'. — . CANADIAN OAKERIES LTD Suggests Changes in Municipal Elections The Vancouver Branch of the Independent Labor Party sent the following communication to Mayor Malkin in connection with municipal elections, and received the reply following: His Worship Mayor Malkin, Corp. of City of Vancouver, Dear Sir,—I was instructed at the last business meeting of Vancouver Branch, Independent Labor Party, to write you asking for information relative to presenting the attached list of suggestions to the City Council in connection with the holding of the local municipal elections. We received several protests after the last municipal elections re lack of accommodation and supervision at the polling stations, and, after investigating, we drew up the following list of recommendations: 1. Whereas municipal elections are usually held during winter months when inclement weather conditions prevail, and whereas the population in the outlying districts of Greater Vancouver is quite scattered, we are of,the opinion that more polling stations are desirable. 2. That it is essential that all ballot papers, money bylaws, as well as those for Mayor, and Aldermen, School Trustees and, Parks Board, where voter is entitled to them, should be handed out at one time to insure all ballots being cast. '" 3. That in cases where a voter has received ballot papers on money bylaws, no error in the lists should prevent him receiving ballot papers for Mayor, Aldermen, School Trustees and Parks Board candidates. 4. That some expeditious method be devised for dealing with claims of persons who think they have been inadvertently left off the lists. 5. That polling stations be kept open till 8 p.m. to give adequate opportunity to those persons working till 6 p.m. to get out to their respective polling stations before closing time. 6. That it would be desirable to have a deputy returning officer in attendance at each polling station, whose sole duty it would be to supervise. All of which suggestions are hereby respectively submitted. Yours faithfully, R. E. T1MMINS. . ,.i.^„srp^ui*'(**'--;H'!"' '■' - 3rd June, 1930. Mr. R. E. Timmins, Secretary-Treasurer, Independent Labor Party, Vancouver Branch, . Dear Sir,—I am in receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo, and wish to thank the officers and members of the Independent Labor Party for the timely suggestions submitted in the matter of our municipal elections system. The various proposals offered in the communication are, to my mind, worthy of the Council's most serious consideration, and I am passing them along to Alderman Lembke, who is chairman of the special committee dealing with the question, asking that.the. earliest possible -conside.ra- tioh be given" toTne' same. . Very truly yours, , ,: W. g. MALKIN,., fcto-t. .."BUum-- ...:.-■-. . - ...;.., ~ •.. New Kind of "Protection9 Is Well Received by Labor (By Eliot Harris) The fight to make a protective tariff protect the workers has gone much farther in Canada than was indicated in a former article. The despatch told how the Labor and Progressive members of Parliament, led by J. S. Woodsworth, thc leader of the Labor party, had heckled both the Government and the Conservative opposition into agreeing that protection must show up in the payroll. Since that was printed, "Labor" has received offcial copies of the debates, editorials from Canadian papers, and a letter from Mr. Woods- worth. Taken together, these documents show that Canadian parties are pretty well conimitted to the following doctrines: That when t((e Government grants favors to any industry, whether by cash bounty or tariff protection, it has the right and duty to see that these favors are passed along to the workers in that industry in the form of good wages and fair treatment. That Government favors, whether bounties or tariffs, should be withdrawn from any industry that grinds its workers with long hours and low pay. That in protected industries, increased wages should come before dividends. That the Canadian Government is bound by the labor clauses of the Treaty of Versailles to use all its power and influence to establish the 8-hour day with a fair wage in all industries. These principles are not confined to Parliament. They are held by large groups of Canadian citizens. "Besco" Figures in Debate The debate in Parliament centered on the increased favors granted to "Besco," which is a shortening, of "British Empire Steel Company," the Steel Trust of Canada. One of the speakers called attention to the fact that about two years ago the clergymen of Sydney, Nova Scotia, where the biggest "Besco" plant is located, made an investigation of wages and working conditions there. They found large numbers of men working for 33 cents an hour. In the report made through the Ministerial Alliance, they said: "We believe that the plight of some 1000 men in the continuous operations (of the "Besco" plant) is a scandal and a shame. "Working from 11 to 13 hours a day under almost intolerable conditions—heavy manual labor in gas, smoke, heat and, in some cases, exposure to the elements in summer and winter—the situation is nothing less than appalling, and their treatment i3 utterly abhorrent to the dictates of humanity. "We recommend that representatives be sent immediately to the Federal (Dominion) Department. of Labor and to the Prime Minister of Canada, urging that if and when the steel companies of Canada are allowed a protective tariff, provision shall be made for the men receiving the standard hours of labor adopted by the Parliament of Canada, namely, the 8-hour day." But the Ministerial Alliance of Sydney, Nova Scotia, is far from being alone. The province of Ontario pays a bounty on iron ore mined and smelted within its boundaries. Last February, the steel company asked for an increase. A member of the Ontario provincial parliament, S. C. Tweed, who is also president of a life and accident insurance company, protested against the increase, saying that the labor conditions in the steel plant "almost approached slavery." He cited the 12-hour day and the seven-day week—just as in our own good Steel Trust, a few years ago— and to some extent even yet Safeguarding the Workers In spite of his opposition, the increase was granted; but the papers of the province applauded his fight, and the London (Ontario) "Advertiser" said, editorially: "The people of Ontario do not want an' industry built on inordinate hours of labor. It would be too dear at such, a price. Any further grant of public money should be contingent on safeguards for the workers." Other papers took practically the same ground. All these expressions of public opinion were read into the official record during the recent debate ip Ottawa. Mr. Woodsworth, as reported before, led the debate on this subject, and introduced an amendment to the budget providing, as he summed it up himself: "These, tariff privileges would be given only when the industry producing the (protected) articles has demonstrated that its employees are being paid a fair and reasonable wage, and that there has been instituted an eight-hour day and a 48- hour week." What Mr. Woodsworth Says In his letter, Mr. Woodsworth said: "Though my amendment was finally voted down, we were much gratified at the support which it received, and undoubtedly we were able to get across to the country the idea that protection to thc industry should be contingent on protection to the workers. Further, that in protecting the workers, We are merely carrying out our solemn agreement under the Versailles Treaty." The Progressives and United Farmers joined strongly in supporting the Woodsworth amendment. One of the Progressive leaders, Mr. Garland of Bow.River, who took a leading part in exposing the Beauharnois power grab, made a devastating attack on the way protection is practiced in Canada, and insisted that the government must force favored industries to share with their workers. Shall Exact Fair Conditions "The textile industry is like the steel industry," he said. "One enjoys a protection of something over 30 per cent, and the other enjoys even higher protection, yet in the textile industry we have the lowest average weekly wage in Canada. "Surely, Mr. Chairman, it is not too much to ask that this Govern- Tnent, which grants these privileges, shall exact fair conditions in return for them._ If you must grant them, then make sure that the workers at lease get a measure of the relief that you are extending to the manufacturers." The practical difficulty of cutting off tariff protection for a firm with a bad labor record and still protecting firms in the same industry which have a good labor record was raised by some members. That it had some influence is shown by the fact that in the cash bounty on coal, as mentioned last week, the bill was amended to provide that only the coal mining firms which violated the labor laws of the province should lose the bounty. ' Turning a New Leaf There is reason to hope that Canada has turned a new leaf in this business of protection. Woodsworth didn't get his amendment passed as law, but he got it accepted in principle by all the parties of Canada, and it is backed by Canadian labor, and by powerful groups outside the ranks of labor. It is in no sense a free trade move. On the contrary, if adopted and enforced it would probably do more to popularize protection with the masses than all the "wind-jamming" politicians can indulge in from now until Judgment Day. 'Pollyanna Stuff Won't Do I Colonel Patrick H. Callahan, a leading business man of Louisville, Ky., in the course of a speech in Denver, said: ^ . "All this prosperity talk heard at luncheon clubs and other Pollyanna organizations is so much 'bushwa.' We are. up against serious conditions and should face facts, not with a 'rah! rah!' song on our lips, but with a frown of thought on our brows and with a determination in our hearts to find a way out; to1 provide work for men that want work and not subject them to charity. -, J.-Mac4rneryr conibHwtroiMv^t«rri1>l* efficiency we hear so much about have succeeded in turning men out of work and into •brj^d_J_rieg:, "We were called by President Hoover to a conference on the industrial situation. We went away with the President's words, '-Keep on paying wages,' ringing in our ears, and not a few went straight to the telegraph office to send out commands to decrease staffs. "We know the officers were not laid off, and we also know interest to banks or bondholders will be paid. "The continuance of this unjust policy is a greater menace than Bolshevism." For Health. Strength ' anil 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: Higbland 1309 3728 HASTINGS ST. EAST R. C. HIRST ELECTRICAL COKTBACTOE -lsotrloal Fixtures Hardware Mechanics' Tool* Paints, Oils, Lamps Badlo Supplies Pip* Fitting. Tools Gtlen 370 4097 Hustings tt. _. Union Men, Eat at the MINTOCAFE Pho 2680 The Outstanding All-White Union Cafe 751 Columbia, at Alexander HEW WESTMISSTEB *"ttfttr6Tr%v5.titJbTi millions of years to make a man out of a monkey, but tome women can.reyeT$e_ihe pro.- Union Print Shops Ask for the Vancouver Allied Printing Trades Council Label on your next order of printing from any of the following: Broadway Printers, 151 Eighth Avel East; Fair. 203. The Citizen, 1451 Broadway West| Bay. 357. Dunsmuir Printing Company, 431 Dunsmuir Street; Sey. 1106. ■ A. Haxeldine Printing Co., 829 PenJ der Street West; Sey. 6336. Journal of Commerce, 645 Howe St. J Sey. 4721, Sey. 7808. Lumberman Printing Company, Beatty Street; Sey. 4653. Mitchell-Foley, Limited, 522 Hasting Street West; Sey. 1085. T. McPhee, 6268 East BoulevardI Kerr. 1933. North Shore Press, Esplanade, North] Vancouver; North 80. Pacific Printers, 500 Bekins Buildingl Sey. 9692. The Review, 110 First Street Eastl North 1470. Seymour Pren, 650 Richards Streetl Sey. 3728. Shoemaker, McLean & Veitch, 12!j Lonsdale Avenue; North 53. Sun Publishing Company, 137 PendeJ Street West; Sey. 40. A. H. Timms, 228 Fourteenth Avel East; Fair. 1372. Vancouver Job Printers, 427 I'erideij Street West; Sey. 2021. Ward & Phillips, 318 Homer Streetl Sey. 105. I Wrigley Printing Company, Limited! 576 Seymour Street; Sey. 3825. The following firms have "No Agreement" with local unions affiliated with thd Vancouver, New Westminster ami District Trades and Labor Council! Patronize those who patronize you! Taxicabs Checker Taxicab Co., Ltd. Dairies Steves Dairy, 2024 West 12th. Crystal Dairy, 1802 Commercial, Restaurants National Lunch, 776 Oranvllle. Trocadero Cafe, 166 West Hastings BtJ Waldorf Cafe. 518 West Pender St. White Lunches, Hastings-Granville. Printers Clarke & Stuart Co., Ltd., 550 SeyJ mour Street. p Murphy & Chapman, 569 Seymour Sti Bote, Cowan & Latta, 748 Scymoui. Street. I J. W. Boyd, Ltd., 112 West HastlngJ Street Tailors National Clothes Shop. Camble and Hastings. O. A. Collard, 603 West Hastings StJ Orchestras National Juvenile Band.' ..___,w ,_,_.,.TKggg-^—: -~ — Avenue Theatre, 711 Main Street. • Royal Theatre, 136Mj, Hastings. ^bTumTjiaTheaTfe, 64 W, Hastings J Friday, June 27, VJ30 THE LABOR STATESMAN Three Trades Union Directory LABOR HEADQUARTERS, 529-S31 BEATTY STREET Vancouver Trades and Labor Council— Kill and Factory Workers' Union, Looal president, J lhorilson, general secre-| No. 1599 — Affiliated with United tary Percy B. Bengough Office, 200 l-abor Headquarters, "531 UeBtty St. Phone Sey. 7495. Meets In Labor Hal! at 8 p.m. on the rtrst and third Tues- - days in month. Bakery and Confeotionery Workers' International Union, Local No. ' 468, meets lirst and third Saturday In month at 7:30 ii.m. at Labor Headquarters. President, Fred Cashman; . Secretary's Office, Boom 304, Labor Headquarters; Hours: 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Phone: Sey. 3319. , Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. Meels first and third Thursdays In Hall No. 3. Labor Headquarters. Pres.,. '', Campbell. Secretary-Treasurer/ H. C. Avery, 2832 West 35th. •average Dispensers' Union, No. 076— Meets last Sunday at 8 p.m., Boom No. 3, Labor Headquarters. Pres., W. H. Clancy; Secretary and Bus. Agent, T. J. Hanofln. Office: Boom 1, Eagles' Hall, 535 Homer Street. Phones. Sey. 4783 and Bay. 165'6-B.' Hours: » to 12 a.m. Motion Pictures photectlonlsts" Union, Local 348, of I.A.T.S.E. & M.P.M.O.— 11:3d p.m., lirst Friday in'month. In Hall No, 3 Labur Headquarters. President,'J. B. Foster; Secretary, J. C. Kichiirds, Box 345, I'hone Douglas 1574-B; Business Agent. F. W. Simmons, Phone Trinity 5708. Musicians' Mutual Protective Union, Local 145, A. T. Ot M. .Me,ts»at the ll.W.V.A. Auditorium, see.,nit Sunday nt 10 a.m. President, B. C. Miller; General Secretary, W. Coullng; Organiser, F. Fletcher. Office, Suite 807-319 West Pender. Phone Douglas 2290. ■Hogs _ Structural Iron Workers, Lo- painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, eat 97, Int. Assoe.—Meets every Friday, Hall 311. Labor Headquarters, at 8 p,m. President, James F. Burns, 2833 Turner St.; Secretary, P. Lauret, Room 311, Labor Headquarters. Phone Fair. 2108 L. ■ulldlng Trades Council, Vanoouvsr- Local 138—Meets second and fourtli Thursdays at Hall No. 2." President, W. Hunt; Bee. Secretary, A. E. Varah, 1442 Clark Drive; Business Agent, Ed. Smith. Office: Boom 313, Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 3609. Meets' second and fourth Tuesday In I Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Dock Builders, Looal Vo. 3404—Meets every eadqi deni, E. H. Morrison; Secretary -Treas-1 urer, W. Page, Boom SOI, Labor' Headquarters, Phone Sey. 7495. Friday night at 8 o'clock In 122 Hastings St. W. President, Al. Graham; Barbers' Journeyman International Va-, Ion of Amerloa—Local 120, meets second and . fourth Tuesdays in each month, in Hall No. i. Labor Headquarters. President, Fred Daws; Sec.- Treas., C. B. Herrett Office. J04 Labor Headquarters. James Thomson, Secretary, 320. Phone Sey. 7874.. P. O. Box Bookbinders' Looal Ho. 105, Int. Brotherhood—Meets second Tuesday in' month at Professional and Business] Woman's Club, Empire Bldg,, 101 Has- Cement Finishers' Secretary, Wm. Bagg, Plasterers, Looal 89—Operative Plasterers' ana Cement Finishers' International Association—Meets first and third Wednesday In month at Hal) No. 2. Labor Headquarters. President, F. Walsh; Secretary, A. Hurry, 861— 34th Ave. E. Phone Fair. 3222B. Fin. Sec, E. A. Williams, 830 East 12th. Phone Fair. 62UX. Independent Labor Party of Manitoba Election Program tings W, President, O. Low, «1—6Ird' Ave. W.; Secretary. Thos. Carroll, 141. Hamilton St. | Bricklayers', Masons' and Tile Betters' Int. Union, Mo. 1—Room 109, Labor Headquarters. Meets second and fourth Wednesday. In Hall No. 3 | President, L. Padgett, 2066 W. 8th. I Phone Bayvlew 1568 B; Secretary. W. S. Dagnall, 1244 East 20th, Phone Fair. 845 B; Fin. Sec, Albert Wright, 1050 Enst 25th. Phone Fairmont 6612 X. _^ i Oamp and Mill Workers rederel Labor Union No. 31 Vancouver and vicinity, meets every second Wednesday at t p.m., at 544 Powell St. B. President. H. Mlyasawa: Secretary. K. Tsuyukl 639 Burrard St.; Phone, Sey. 6978-R. Plumbers and Steamfitters, No. 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 No. 69—Meets every second Tuesday in the month at 8 p.m. In Hall No. 2, Labor Headquarters. President, W. W. Qulgley, 2047 West Secondi Secretary, Thos. S. E«sart, 1807 East Thirty-eighth. Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood of, Looal 452—President, Wm. Page; Financial Secretary. It. W. Hatley; Business Agent, W. Har- 8reaves. Office, Room 110, Labor headquarters. Meets second and fourth Mondays, I p.m., in Hall No. 1. City Meets first W» at 251 tt Hastlm Association Bmployees' dn ■ igs ('resident. A. J. Harrison) Treasurer, esday of each month East at I p.m. W. J. Scrlbblna, 3208 Pender St B.\ Secretary, J. Tarbuck. 3517 West 25th. OiTle Bmploreee' Union, Looal SB— Meets flrst and third Fridays in the month at 261U Hastings East at I p.m. President, John MoRltchle, 104 West Twelfth; Secretary-Treasurer, Oeorge Harrison, J427 Triumph St Bgg Graders' Union, Wo. 11—Meets in the Labor Headquarters, flrst and third Monday in month. President, M. A. Welghtman, .'1287 West 21st, City. Recording Secretary, Miss D. Simpson, 120 Durham Street, New Westminster. Bleetrical Workers, Looal 311, International Brotherhood—Meets First and Third Monday, at 8 p.m, at Labor Headquarters'. President, D. Mc- Dougal; Business Agent, E. H. Morrison. Office, 201 Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 3510 Bnglneers—International Union of Oper- •rating Bnglneers, Looal 844—Meets • every Friday at 8 p.m. Hall 815. President J. Norris; Roc.-Sec, P. Bradley: Business Agent and Fin. Sec, Oeorge Pettlplece. Office. Room 306, Labor Headquarters. lire Plghters, Wo. Ii, International association of—Meets every month St call of president at 251'A Hastings _.. President, N. McDonald, 1116 McLean Drive; Financial Secretary, C. A. Wat- eon, 1829—18th Are. E. Ploorlayers' Union, Wo. 1171, V. B. ef O. _ J. A.—Meeta flrst and third Thursdays In month at Hall No. I, Labor Headquarters. President, Oscar Soderman; Fin. Sec, T. H. Hamlin. Rec Sec, John McDonald, 2905 West 12th; Business Agent, W. D. Wilson, 1636—6th Ave. W. Railway Oarmsn of America, Lodge Wo. 58—Meets flrst and third Friday In month at Labor Headquarters. President, A. S. Boss, 6806 Sophia Street; Bee. Secretary, J. D. Valliamy, 2215 West 16th. Street and Bleetrie Ballway Bmploreee, Pioneer Division Wo. 101—Meets fit P. Hall, Sth and Kingsway, flrst and third Mondays at 10:16 a.m. and 7 p.m. President, J, B. Smith; Recording Secretary, J. Price; Treasurer, X Auton: Financial Secretary and Business Agent, H. W. Speed. Office: Corner Prior and Main streets. Phone Sey. 6000. The Independent Labor Party is formed- for'the purpose of giving ex-1 pression to the aspirations of all workers, regardless of industrial affiliation, who believe in the establishment of a co-operative commonwealth with production for use and not for profit. Labor is deeply concerned about agriculture, which, having been a plaything of both the older parties, is now facing' very critical times, both for farmers and workers. An agricultural policy must be co-ordinated with a town'policy, farming must be made to-pay.' With those aims in view, the party submits herewith its policy on Federal'affairs. This policy, constitutes ihe platform to which the party's candidates are pledged. 1, Unemployment Unemployment has become an admittedly chronic disease-of capitalism in all modern states. Social ownership of the means of production necessary to insure to the workers the full product of their tojl offers the only solution of the problem. In the meantime we urge: (a) Unemployment insurance; (b) A shorter working day and a five-day week; (c) A minimum wage for all workers; (d) A lower age of eligibility for Old Age Pensions; (e) The joint responsibility of Federal, Provincial and Municipal authorities for the provision of work or adequate maintenance for the unemployed ; (m) Generally, all measures tending to improve the standard of living and the purchasing power of the people. 2. Public ownership and democratic operation of public utilities, and, as soon as possible, of essential large scale, industries. 3. Nationalization of the Banking system. 4. Adequate pensions for disabled ex-service men, including equitable provision for the "burnt-out." 5. Pensions. (a) For the blind; (b) Other incapacitated persons. Sheet Metal Workers Assoolatlon, Looal Union No. 280—Meets second and fourth Thursdays in Hall No. 3 President, Jas. Strachan, 2206 W. 11th; Business Agent and Secretary, D. MacPherson, 308 Labor Headquarters. Tailors' Journeyman Union of America, Local Wo. 178—Meetings held second Monday, each month. 8 p.m. Executive meets fourth Monday of every month In Labor Headquarters. President. Colin McDonald; Secretary, W W. Hocken. 1582 13th Ave. S.; Financial Secretary, H. Nordlund. 1980 12th Ave. B. Taxi. Stage and Bns 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. 7495. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, Local 466—311 Labor Headquarters. Meets every First and Third Monday. Labor Headquarters, President, A. A. McKay, 765 Camble St.; Secretary-Treasurer, Birt Showier, Boom 306 Labor Headquarters. Theatrloal Stage Employees' Union, local 118 of tha I.A.T.S.E. Ii 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. Hotel and Bestaurant Employees and Marina Cooks ft Stewards, Looal 38— Williams Bldg.. 413 Granville Street. Meets second Monday each month at 8 p.m., last Monday at 9 pm. President, J. Cederberg; Sec.-Treas. and Bus. Agent, Thos. Edwards. Phone Sey. 125. Typographic al _ Union, . wo. aae—Presi- Campbell: Vice-President, K. Ft. Bayley; Secretary-Treasurer, B. H. Neelands, 300-2 Labor Headquarters. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., In Hall No. 1, Labor Headquarters. 6. Full restoration of civil liberties. (a) Repeal of all legislation restricting freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, or . of association; (b) Unrestricted right of association and representation of all workers. 7. Opposition to all forms of subsidized immigration. 8. A steeply graded income and inheritance tax. 9. A capital levy for the extinction of thc War Debt. 10. Proportional Representation with grouped constituencies.and representation by population. 11. Amendments to the British North America Act to clearly define the respective spheres of Federal and Provincial Governments in social legislation. 12. Earnest participation in all activities tending to international co-operation and world peace. 13. Abolition of the Senate. ' 14. Agriculture Agriculture, like industry, is a social service. The Independent Labor Party advocates the application of such measures.as arc necessary to bring about an order of social and economic justice, and as immediate policies the following: (a) Extension of the principle of social insurance to cover the natural risks incident to farming; (b) Legislation to facilitate the organization and operation of agricultural co-operatives for production, distribution and credit; (c) Legislation to abolish the abuse of dealing in futures on commodity exchanges and the market manipulations which • are injurious to producer and consumer alike. 16. Regaining for the use of the people of this country the natural resources which have been so recklessly alienated by incompetent or venal administration. lfi. Equal rights of citizenship, irrespective of sex, class, origin, religion, or property qualification. UNION CAFES &MERCHANTS Seymour 3168 Always Open Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's B*st Under Personal Management of HAROLD DEGG BOB KRAUSE 76 Hastings St. E.. Vancouver, B. C. When In a Hurry. Drop in at Egg Order. FRED'S Are Always , _ ■ "ok." .t Dairy Lunch ,"It's the Coffee" 78 Hastings West Always Open P. WILKINSON. P"E». " DUNCAN. «EC. Reynolds' Cartage Co. LIMITED Phones: Trinity 1387-1838 Crating, Packing, Snipping and Storage. Furniture and Piano Moving. Long Distance Moving. Pool Car .Shipments. Office and Warehouse: 732 — CAMBIE STMBT — 723 PERRY&DUeHK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 Slump in Pay Envelope Helps To Reduce Purchasing Power "Industrial depression has been intensified this year because American industries have not maintained wages and employment," says the Monthly Survey of Business for June, issued by the American Federation of Labor. "As the low level of business persisted month after month, reserves were exhausted and efforts to avoid layoffs and wage cuts were given up in many instances." The Survey points out that factory employment declined 5.6 per cent.- from November to March, although a rise of 2.5 per cent, is normal. An Unequal Condition "It is the custom of industries to lay aside a reserve fund to provide dividend payments to stockholders in dull periods when profits are low. If a similar reserve were set aside to maintain wage payments," says the Survey, "the problem of unemployment would be well on the way to solution." Dividend payments to stockholders in the first quarter of 1930 were $360,000,000 above the third quarter of 1929, while payments to wage earners were $310,000,000 below the third quarter of 1929. Payments of these large dividends to stockholders was made possible through reserves held over from the profits of 1929. Auxiliary, Meal 171 —United Brotherhood of Carpenters—Meets every first and third Wednesday each month In Hall 201, Labor H quarters, at 8 p.m. President, Mrs. C. J. Atkinson, 790 19th Are. W.; Secretary, Elisabeth J. Hope, 1041 7th Ave. E. ' i tethers, Wood, Wire ana Metal, International Union, Local 807—Meets lirst , and third Mondays in month at Labor Headquarters. Secretary, F. Macey, 2456 West Seventh Ave. Phone: Bayvlew <II1-L. - Maohinlsta' Looal •»»—President, Thos. gills, list Burrard St.; Secretary, P. R. Bengough. Office, Room 100, Leber. Headquarter*. Meeta on second and fourth Tuesdays In Hall 111. Union Label Trades Council meets In Hall No. 4, Labor Headquarters, til Beatty Street, second and fourth Thursdays in each month at 8 o'clock. rV_J -President, Colin McDonald, 2*34 St H_S- George Street, Phone Fair. 3J17-T. SV. I Secretary. Mollis Dolk. 1687 Fifth Avenue East. Phone High. 477-T. Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday In each **■ month. President. S. D. Mo- Donald. Box 281. Secretary, Frank Derry, Box 488, Prince Rupert B.C. Milk,Wagon Drivers and.Dairy amploy- --- ■- lo'rHead- Self-Pefense ' "I often wondered why the Eng-' "Retail trade is suffering for want of customers," continues the Survey. "Reduced wage earner buying power affects particularly the industries selling directly to consumers, such as clothing, household supplies, automobiles, shoes, radios, food and tobacco. What More Wages Would Do "These industries began the year with stocks of goods on hand averaging 7 per cent, above 1929. and wage earners had 6.5 per cent. less income to spend for them. Wage earner buying power must keep pace with increases in industrial production if social and economic life are to make orderly progress. "An. increase of $1 a week in the incomes of wage earners of. the United States would add over $1,- 500,000,000 worth of buying power to the consuming market; an increase of $4 a weeV would add $5,600,- 000,000, or enough to keep all our factories busy at their normal rate for over a month. "Wage increases are counted not only in terms of economic welfare, by goods and service bought, but in human betterment, families relieved from debt and discouragement, adequate* care, in sickness, greater opportunities for children in schools and colleges, and the creation of a finer and better citizenship." Which Is Your Class? Do you belong to the jawbone class, the class of folks who talk About the many things they'll do, the paths of fame they'll walk, Who boast about their conquered worlds and deeds right nobly done, While yet their efforts end with words, no task is e'er begun? Do you belong to the wishbone class, the class of folks who long That wealth and fame might flow to them for just a little song. Who wish that ease would be their lot and praise their fortune, too. While all the while they nod and smi! • and naught but nothing do? Do you belong to the backbone class, the class of folks who work From early morn till late at night and never duty shirk, Who dig right in and fight their way toward, the grand success That waits ahead for folks who give and always do their Best? . —R.Rhodes Stahley. Wilson & McNeill Painters and Decorators Everything pertaining to tha trad*. 3016 VICTORIA DRIVE Phones: High. 105 and Fair. 4148-R Castle Hotel Limited Visit the Finest Parlors in Vancouver; seating 600. Meeting Place of Union Men! 750 Granville St., Vancouver Phone: Sey. 7907 Union Restaurants BLUE, GOOSE CAFE—1113 Granville. BAILEY'S CAFE—322 Cambie. BOSTON CAFE—534 Pender W. BELMONT CAFE—1000 Bile. Granville. BANCROFT'S CAFE—338 Hastings W. BROADWAY CAFE—105 Hastings E. COMMODORE CAFE — 872 Granville. CENTRAL CAFE—608 Pender W. DOUGLAS CAFE—844 Main. EMPIRE CAFE—76 Hastings E. ELITE WAFFLE SHOP—658 Robson. 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—926 Granville. NEW ORPHEUM CAFE—762 Granville. NEW GOOD EATJS CAFE—619 Pender W._~f_< OLYMPIC CAFE—720 Pender W. PARAGON CAFE—1145 Granville. PETER PAN CAFE—1138 Granville. STANDARD CAFE—615 Dunsmuir. YE OLDE ENGLISH FISH eV CHIP Restaurant No. 1—614 Robson. YE OLDE ENGLISH FISH & CHIP Restaurant No. 2—44 Hastinge w: ALLEN'S CAFE—New Westminster. FRASER CAFE—New Westminster. MINTO CAFE—New Westminster. ' «eeyXoemr«_*-;-Omce-'S08, Labor quarters. Meets second and fourth lish were tea drinkers. Fridays in Hall No. 1. President, "Yes*" t i ■. nam,,,!! •■; H,,;, ,«u v Treasurer. t ..yep; but I know ndw,^ j. had fruit-seller's .barrow [n Undpnand A Snappy Comeback An American walked up to a street Blrt Showier. 1*41 Triumph. High. 5187. someof their coffee.*' picked up a'large"'melon. "Is that the largest apple you fel lows can grow over here?" ...VPMwigrape down!", snapped the coster. Dr. Brown had this up his sleeve and is.sljpppd-outjj^-r- ss_ite3SB_=sp-= "You must be^Swippy man," said the tailor to th* doctor.' , "Why?"' (:■■ :.. "flecft-M". jiosi*.»_v*i' •■**&» any-of- ypur bad work returned." X, Four THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday,'June 27, 1930 The Labor Statesman Published every Friday, at Labor Headquarters, Vancouver, B.C. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. H. W. Watt., Man. Editor. PKESS COMMITTEE: Walter Deptford, Chairman: W, Watt (Hullding Trades Council); P. II. Uen- gough (Machinist Trades), R. H. Neelands (Printing'Trades), Dan McPherson (Building Trades), 11. Showier (Teaming Trades), T. Hanoiln (Beverage Trades), (.'. Herrett (Label Trades). Subscription Rates: $2 per Year; to Unions, 16c per month per member. Phone: Seymour 6379 Vancouver, Friday, June 27, 1930 POLITICS AND UNEMPLOYMENT The manner in which thc unemployment question hus gotten to the front in the present campaign' places in our hands the opportunity to dig: nearer to the roots of this question than otherwise would be. possible. The most effective move that could be made on behalf of labor in Canada would be unemployment insurance. With legislation of that nature in effect, the Canadian governmental policy of lying as to thc state of employment would no longer be possible, and' because the contributing parties -would be unwilling to carry such an unwarranted burden, thc policy of crowding the country for ten and a half months with idle labor, so that there would be no shortage during six weeks of abnormal activity, would quickly be discontinued. If the State had been required to pay unemployment'insurance to our idle men, the Federal Government would not have dumped an army of coal miner-"harvesters" on to the edge of the western mining districts two years ago. And if an idle man were ! a liability instead of a glorious op-! portunity to cut down wages, Mr. King's government would have closed the door to the tens of thousands of | immigrants that crowded in last winter. A committee of the Federal Government has advised in favor of unemployment insurance, but Mr. King has acquired the habit of running to the shelter of the British North America Act whenever labor is to be served, and his Solicitor-General reports that while it is quite all right for the Federal Government to dump 167,000 immigrants into an already glutted labor market, it would be quite wrong for the same government to shoulder the responsibility for unemployment insurance. The Minister of Labor, Mr. Heenan, has, on several occasions, spoken in a manner to encourage the hope that Ottawa would make some move in this direction, but at this point we must ask is Mr. Heenan in tune with the government of which he is a member. We would like to believe that he isn't. If during the last seven months Mr. Heenan has, on the matters of unemployment, been in agreement with the government, then we must conclude- that the Minister of Labor has lost touch with labor requirements. Accepting such evidence as is available, we must conclude that the Liberal party purposes to continue importing labor and to permit irresponsible foreign-owned corporations to do so, and they make no promise as to unemployment insurance. The Tory party record on these two matters is no better than that of the Liberal party. On unemployment insurance we have'Mr. Bennett's declaration t hat he would not be responsible for any "dole" scheme in Canada. Mr. Bennett, we believe, had in mind unemployment insurance and intended to say that he would not make any payment to unemployed workmen. He is quite in favor of a "dole" to successful capitalists. If w.e could have the Canadian labor market for the Canadian without any agencies endeavoring to drive wages below the' life line by means of cheap imported labor, we might be willing to forget unemployment insurance for a time. But now does Mr, Bennett's party stand on this question? At Ottawa Mr. Bennett has condemned practically every act and policy of the government, but he has never questioned the wisdom or justice of the government importing labor to compete with the Canadian workman. Mr. Bennett has strained his vocal cords shouting about the Canadians driven into the United States. He knows that the numbers leaving for the United ."^Statesr 'jusT nicely"Sal-' anced *the number of immigrants brought from Europe, and he knows that,-notwithstanding this loss of our ,peop!>e, every job-in Canada hajJbeen manned. Knowing this,, if Mr. Bennett was as bright as'he is alleged to :s. be, he would have been able to reason out that had these Canadians remained in the country we had. no place for them, and from this he might eventually have arrived at the conclusion that there was some relationship between thc penniless hoyl coming in and the Canadians going out. Mr. Bennett, however, saw nothing of all this. He and his party supports the labor importing policy. At a time when the Provincial Government were trying to fit hungry miners in on the provincial road work, the local member, Mr. Stevens, is quoted in an English press despatch as stating that there was a shortage of miners in" Western Canada. A little over a year ago General McRae offered to parliament a crack-brained scheme to import an additional 300,000 immigrants. And two months ago, with the cost of local unemployment relief crippling the city treasury, the local Conservative evening/paper demands an aggressive immigration policy. The record, therefore, would indicate that Tory and Liberal are agreed that the labor importing policy shall continue, and that we shall have no unemployment insurance from Ottawa. If, however, organized labor took a firm and insistent stand, we can, within the next five weeks, persuade both Liberal and Conservative parties to put an end to importing labor, or make financial provision for unemployment. The request is a fair and a reasonable one, and this is one of the times when politicians are fair and reasonable. —M. Correspondence June 23rd, 1930. Editor, Labor Statesman: Sir,—The knock that Matthew M. Glenday would give to A. W. Neill, late member for Comox-Alberni, is one of the greatest boosts Mr. Neill can receive in this campaign. If Mr. Glenday has made a close study of i the members at Ottawa since 1921 he well knows that Mr. Neill has done* more in the interests of labor than all the rest of thc private members from British Columbia. Why does not Mr. Glenday shed the colored coat and come into the open and tell your readers that he is trying to damn Mr. Neill whilst wearing the cloak of Labor, though silently working for Mr. Thomas Graham, the Conservative candidate? These are the men who are holding back the' labor movement in British Columbia. There are only two candidates in Comox-Alberni, and the issue is a clear-cut one. The C. P. R. dearly wants a Conservative in that constituency, as you will remember that Mr. Dickie asked for a further extension of five years of the charter granted the C. P. R. in that district, but Mr. Neill pointed out that this charter was granted in 1919 and he objected to any extension unless it carried with it a promise of construction within the next five years, and this promise was forthcoming. The C. P. R. and the Canadian Collieries need another pliant Conservative in that riding that will serve them as did Mr. H. S. Clements, but the people of Comox-Alberni are to*, wise to send to Parliament an emissary of the coal company which has made such an unenviable record in the history of this province. H. T. Musicians* Notes By Con Sordine (By CON SORDINE) I see our acquaintances in charge of the National Juvenile Band have now branched opt into the orchestral field. They are represented»on the executive of the Haydn Orchestral Society, and Mr. G. A. King holds the position of honorary president of the society. The orchestra itself is under the musical direction of Mr. B. Gunton Smalley. The C. P. R. Alaskan route,is fur nishing a -little employment for our members, and those of Victoria local FRANK CASSIDY WANTED Wanted—To know the whereabouts of Frank Cassidy, formerly O. B. U. organizer. Any information will be gratefully received by Mrs. E. Cassidy, 2304 Twenty-second Avenue S. W., Calgary. MINE ORGANIZATION ASKS 7-HOUR DAY The Mine Workers' International Federation Conference, meeting at Cracow, Poland, has voted a resolution opposing the draft convention on miners' working hours prepared by the International Labor Office at Geneva for the June annual international labor conference. The draft fixes the working day at seven and a half hours underground, with seven and three- quarters for transition period of three years. CHICAGO TYPOS GIVING PART TIME TO JOBLESS CHICAGO.—Typographical Union No. 16, with 6000 members, one of the largest local unions in this city, has voted a voluntary five-day week hi^ujd»»-4ft-i_BW'Wt) 'JObI tOP HB-M- ployed members. At present the men work five and one-half days, or a 44-hour week, and under Jhe new plan, each worker: takes off one more day every two weeks."' '' *'''.''. "- An Election Appeal INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY 4465 Quebec St. Vancouver, B. C. June 23rd, 1930 Dear Reader: On Monday, July 28th, 1930, an election will be held for the selecting of Federal members of Parliament. The Independent Labor Party have chosen Alderman Angus Maclnnis as their candidate for Vancouver South. A member of Vancouver City Council for the past five years, and formerly a member of the Board of School Trustees, Alderman Maclnnis has given a splendid service on behalf of Labor. This is the only constituency in this district •. being contested by a Labor candidate, so let us put forth every effort for a victory with a substantial majority. In order to carry on our election, campaign funds are necessary, and we make this appeal for financial assistance in full confidence that you will do the best you can. Workers in the campaign are also needed, and we shall be glad to have the assistance of any of your members who are willing to devote a little time to our cause. Those willing to help please send their names to Secretary Neelands. Please make cheques payable to R. H. Neelands, 4465 Quebec St., Vancouver, secretary of the committee, and it will be properly acknowledged. Thanking you in advance for your favorable consideration, we are, Yours fraternally, R. H. NEELANDS, W. J. BARTLETT, J. SIDAWAY, Finance Committee. British Union Trying To Raise $500,000 Mr. J. T. Brownlie, president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union of Great Britain, at the close of the quadrennial meeting in Manchester, appealed to the divisional representatives concerning the importance of voluntarily raising a revival fund of £100,000. He explained'that the object of the fund would be to enable the union effectively to withstand any encroachments that might be made upon their working conditions, and to secure further improvements, including a reduction of working hours, as a means of alleviating unemployment. Mr. Brownlie referred to the trying period which the organization, in common with other unions, had passed through during recent years owing to the severe industrial depression. He said that while the union had every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which it had met its obligations, inasmuch as it had paid over £8,000,000 in benefits since 1920, it was imperatively essential that their funds should be rehabilitated. The meeting unanimously associated itself with the endeavor. Mr. Brownlie is retiring from the presidency of the union towards the end of June, and this was his last appearance before a general meeting. He has occupied the presidential chair for 17 years. HOME OIL DISTRIBUTORS, LIMITED PROGRAMME Home Gas Symphony Orchestra under Calvin Winter: Sunday, June 29th, 1930; CKWX. at 9 p.m. "There's No Gas Like Home" 1. March, "The Rookies"...... Drumm 2. Waltz. "Casino Dances"..: Gungl I. Selection. "The Pirates of Penzance" Gilbert & Sullivan 4.. "Festival at Bagdad" from "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakoff 5. "A Southern Wedding" Lotter 8. R. K. O. Orpheum Presentation. 7. Transcription of "The Skaters ■j. iU_ _i jb. i^Wf^S^^' "La Gloconda" Ponchlelli 9. Popular, "I'm In the Market • For Ton" .'...'.,..: : Hanley "There's No Gas Like Home" ._• The richest minds need not Urge libraries.—Alcott. Moonlight Dance Cruise To Bowen Island Union Steamships SS. LAST ALEXANDRA LEAVES UNION PIER Every Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m. For Bowen Island DANCING OX BOARD AND AT THE PAVILION, BOWEN ISLAND. Return Fare $1.00 Including Dancing Returning, SS. Lady Alexandra leaves Bo.wen_.lBland at 10:45 p.hi., arriving back In Vancouver at 11:15 p.m. • ' Make up a party early far this enjoyable excursion! City Office, 793 Granville; Say. 9331. Union Plar, Trinity 1331 VANCOUVER'S LEADING UNION HOUSE ! The New Orpheum Cafe Private Banquet Hall 762 GRANVILLE STREET Prop.: Jas. P. Dwyer PHONE: SEY. 3346 PY VALUE This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. PARTS - PARTS - PARTS Truck Parts Our Specialty. We have them New and Second-hand Car Parts Any Model, Any Make, Any Year. SAVE FROM 50 PER CENT. TO 90 PER CENT. X>ar_aat Stocx and Oldest Dealer in Canada. Country Ordera ■liiuped Sam* Day. Open till 10 o'clock Every Night. RADIOS AND. RADIO PARTS 1133-1143 GRANVILLE STRRET Phonaa: Seymour 51, Seymonr 104 VANCOUVER, B. C. 1 fc __•?■ .""7- J-'riday,' June 27, 1930 THE LABOR STATESMAN Five Western Glass Co., Ltd. Wholesale and Retail Healers 168 Cordova W. Phon* Sey. 8687 Glass for Huildings. Auto *;i;iss Installed. < Art Glass Repaired. Mirrors Re-silvered. Copper Store Front Con- Htri_ot4on\ Phope us for Quick Service. Glazing Job*, la rye' or STiiall. PHONE: FAIR. 913-914 MERRITT'S TRANSFER Moving, Packing, Storage 146 E. 2nd Ave., Vancouver, B. C. \te_______: REGENT TAILORS LIMITED 159 Hastings Street West Opposite Province Every garment tailored strictly to measure by Union tf_/} /I tailors. One price «Jr*__0 Roselawn Phone: Sey.4730 Flower Shop "Say tt with Flowers" from Vancouver's favorite florist. 1171-3 Granville Street Near corner Davie 1 '*' '*»*■■.•■'■»...■ in. .» i If You Want to BUY A HOME for yourself, do not fail to see Atherton's Realty Corner of 16th and Heather Phone Fair. 5777 | Mfawanesa Mutual Ins. Agencies 634 BIBKS BLDO., VANCOUVEB I ITBE UI ADTOMOBIU INSURANCE The people's own company, which provides protection at the very lowest minimum cost. Inquiries will receive our prompt attention. Inalat on Union-made Cigars I KURTZ Cigars Are Good UL FOILED 1 3 for 25c; 100 Straight; 3 for aso. Sola Prop. I O. J. OEBBABD. 344 Want Ninth Reciprocity "Yep, I had a beard like yours, once, and when I realized how it made me look, I cut it off." "Well, I had a face like yours, once, and when I realized that I couldn't cut it off, I grew a beard." Railroad Shop Unions Adopt Strong Program (By J. A. P. Haydon) WINNIPEG, Man.i-Adoption of a progressive and sweeping program dealing with unemployment featured the eighth biennial convention of Division No. 4, Railway Employees' Department, A. F. of L., which finished it's sessions here last week. The next convention will be held in Toronto in 1932. The program calls for a large number of activities in both the industrial and legislative field, and follows closely the one adopted at the A. F. of L. Department's recent international convention at Chicago-. One of the most important matters decided by Division No. 4 was the plan to make unemployment insurance a paramount issue at the forthcoming Canadian general election. A Federal Problem Officers of the Division were instructed to enlist the support of the Trades and Labor Congress of Can^ ada in securing pledges from candidates of all parties to inaugurate the insurance plan on a national basis. "We believe the responsibility rests on the Federal government in devising and inaugurating a national scheme of unemployment relief, operating jointly With the provincial governments," the convention declared. On the industrial field, the convention laid down the following program: 1. A 40-hour week with no reduction in pay. 2. Reduction of the number of apprentices and lengthening the period of training in harmony with the shorter week. 3. Gradual elimination of helpers by their absorption into mechanical classes. Want Annual Vacations 4. Two weeks' annual vacation with pay. 5. Performing all railroad work in railroad shops. 6. Employment of a minimum working force on an annual basis, and the maintenance by the railroads of a reserve to provide employment during periods of depression. The practice of "patriotic and welfare organizations" in bringing immigrants to Canada upon the promise that they would "be taken care of" was vigorously condemned by the delegates, and the convention lodged an official protest, pointing out that this importation of workers seriously aggravated the unemployment problem. It was also urged that the Canadian Pacific should give more sympathetic consideration to the stabilization of employment in its shops. The Canadian National Federation's meeting devoted a large portion of its time, to a discussion of the union-management co-operative program which is in effect in all mechanical departments* of the road. 0. S. Beyer, consulting engineer of the Railway Employees' Department, pointed out that employment conditions had improved .3.2 per cent, since the program was instituted in 1927, and that since the shop crafts had secured a week's annual vacation with pay there had been a reduction of "disturbed time" from 7.3 to 6.2 per cent. The federation reiterated its belief in the co-operative plan and urged all local unions to establish committees to secure additional traffic for the National. We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the difference. iiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniimiiiiiimiiiiiiiininiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii VANCOUVER RACING DATES CF 193C Brighouse Park Lansdowne Park Hastings Park • Lansdowne Park Brighouse Park June 14 to June 21 June 28 to July 5 July 12 to July 19 July 26 to Aug. 2 Aug. 25 to Sept. 1 Pari-Muluel* Under SuperrUion of Royal Northman Mounted Police VANCOUVER TUCECije_-l_3_2ED ASSNU tTP. VANCOUVER, CANADA iiiininiini mimunniimn_i.ni WHILE the B. C. Electric's primary purpose is to furnish electric light and power, transportation and gas service, it has a further mission. fit aims to be a good citizen of British Columbia, helping to build up those communities in which it has so large a stake. JB. C. Electric even now is making the largest expenditures in its history on new construction projects, which work is helping to make our province greater. $In a still more practical way, the B. C. Electric is encouraging the development of these communities through its own industrial department which is promoting the establishment of new factories and payrolls. The B. C. Electric is part and parcel of the province of British Columbia; it has one of the largest stakes of any private enterprise in the province; Us employees, numbering 4,000, are, like their company, endeavoring to live as good citizens of British Columbia. BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED Birmingham Municipal Banking Achievements The Municipal Bank Committee of the Birmingham, England, Corporation, in the annual report of the municipal bank for the year ended 31st March, states that the remarkable achievements of the bank have been referred to on previous occasions, but the committee feels justified in emphasizing the fact that the balances standing to the credit of depositors have. been increased by £1,260,209 during the year, bringing the total amount up to £11,534,834, while the number of open accounts has increased by 31,851, making a total ofw811,980, which represents nearly wK-thinl of the population of the citff The year's working shows a surplus of £39,500, which amount has been added to the reserve fund. At the end of the year there were 311,890 accounts, representing £11,- 534,834, and the average balance was £36 19s 5d. There are 55,417 home safes in use, and as a result of this method of saving 25,146 new accounts have been opened. The bank is used for the collection of accounts for the gas, water and electricity departments. A scheme for the collection of local rates was introduced in October, 1929, and £74,338 was collected during the half-year. Wonderful Animal Muriel had been to the zoo like the first time, and was giving her grandmother a long account of what ■^he'Hmd-r8TOltr^~r--~~'-'~\"w-i-~~-;, »"■'"■'" "And which animal did you-like best, dear?" asked fyer grandmother when Muriel had finished. *' ■ "Oh. the ■elephalit!" was the replyT "It was wonderful to see him pick up buns with his vacuum cleaner!" A Vacation Link With Your Home! You're away for your holidays. Enjoying yourself, to he sure, but there are distant ties that the best of vacations cannot remove from your mind. You're a little worried, perhaps, wondering how things are at home. It would take too long to exchange letters, and home is many, many miles away. But it's not so far, after all, if there's a telephone handy. Why not add to the happiness of your holidays with a long-distance telephone sail to your home? B. C. TELEPHONE CO. SPRING IS HERE! Buy the Boy a Bike! But First, See ALEC WATSON A_gent_ for C._.C, M. j»n<LB, _LA, tcycies" Parts arid Accessories. SOLD FOR CASH OR TERMS. Henderson and Excelsior . Motorcycles. .".__.'*' rf__M_-F_Jr/__Mt.<-:.——•- 224 WEST BROADWAY raiixM .r-Clt'iUaiii! :.">"-,', 1-». ____ Six THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday. June 27. 1930 "Build B. C. Payrolls" This Good Milk! ■^^K have, from a lady, a long letter so good that if we print any of it we should print all. She tells how she came to prefer Pacific Milk and . why, for years, she has used a case and a half of tails every, month. Pacific Milk Factory at ABBOTSFORD, B.C. VANCOUVER TURKISH BATHS Rltt'umatlHm, Lumbago. Neuritis Bad Told MASSAGE A SPECIALTY PACIFIC BUILDING 744 HASTINGS W. BEY. 8070 Chapman's Recreations, Ltd. Phone: Trinity 5632 1105 Seymour St., Vanconver, B.C. E. J. Chapman INDEPENDENT LABOR PAB.TT VANCOUVER BRANCH Chairman - - A. J. Turner Secreta'ry-Treas., R. E. Tlmmlna , 536 Drake Street Meeta Second and Fourth Frldaya 135 West Hastings Membership Pea - SI Per Tear British Labor's 'Output* In Parliament After One Year LONDON.—Premier Ramsay Mac- Donald's review of the Labor government's activities during the year it has been in power has treated a wealth of conversation since the interview was published in thc "Herald." the Labor party's organ. Declaring the government's legislative output "has been enormous and far above the usual," MacDonald called attention to the measures that have been enacted or are pending. Briefly, they are: 1. Passage of the $40,000,000 widows' pension bill, aiding about 500,000 additional widows who had not been included in relief legislation enacted by the former Tory government. 2. Amendment of the unemployment insurance act to increase benefits paid to certain classes of unemployed workers by approximately $(12,500,000 a year. | If that reasoning is correct, the time would seem ripe for the government jto launch some big scheme to relieve depression. If beaten,in Parliament the Labor party could then go into a general election with a good chance of being returned with a majority that would assure them staying in power until they put their program into effect. NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades & Labor Council Boom 300—S31 Bentty Street Phones: Sey. 7495-6279 Union Tailor Shops BEATON, F. W.—S55 Georgia Wait. BUTT, CHAS.—1066a Pender Weil. CALLADINE, W.—4349 Main. CREELMAN & MARSH—603 Dunsmuir. CREASEY & ABRAMS—700 Robson. GRAY, DAVID—164 East 11th. HARTLE BROTHERS — 662 Seymour. JEFFS, A.—2532 Main. MORGAN, T. C—1335 Granville. PERRIN & CO.—200 Blk. Georgia E. PERRY & DOLK—18 Hastings W. PETERSON, A 14 Cordova W. RAY BROS. TAILORING CO.—60 Hastings W. SLOWIN, F. M 627 Granville. SMALL, DAVID—4021 Kingsway. STORRY, H. F.—653 Georgia. VAN THE TAILOR—556 Georgia. TOM THE TAILOR—1542 Lonsdale, North Vancouver. ELITE TAILOR — 757 Lonsdale, North Vancouver. B. C. E. TAILORS—Hart Block, New Westminster. TIPS FOR SPORTS WRITERS The runner was as safe as a quart of grape juice at a college prom. The second baseman couldn't catch a cold in Siberia. Whoosis lifted a fly that was higher than a diamond necklace at Tiffany's. The umpire was blinder than an ' earthworm in a London fog. The home team got more runs than a pair of silk stockings in a bramble patch. The game, was tighter than a Pullman car window. 0 The .twirlet had .as.jnanjy curves__*• " Ziegfeld s chorus. • ■* The stands were as crowded as a -.sophomore's runabout.. '._ ■- 1.. If married women would, only give their husbands a chance to talk during the daytime they would .do less talking in their sleep. Putting "Kids" in School 3. Raising the "school-quitting age" from 14 to 15 years, and pro viding financial aid for the families of the 100,000 young workers the bill will remove from the labor market. 4. Passage of a budget "that places the nation's finances on a sound basis and lays on the backs of those fitted to bear it the burden that resulted from the Tory government's failure to meet its bills." 5. The Naval Disarmament treaty, "removing possible causes of friction among nations." 6. Measures introduced in Parliament and in various stages looking toward passages are—the coal mines bill, taking the first step toward rehabilitating the coal industry and securing justice for the miners; the housing bill, empowering local authorities to clear their slum areas and rehouse the people decently, and the Consumers' Council bill, giving the housewife protection against excessive prices. Unemployment Situation The Premier reiterated his statement of the week previous that unemployment had increased "in intensity all the world over, owing to causes beyond the control of this, or of any single nation." If this change had not taken place, he declared, the government's efforts would "by now have made a noticeable impression on the figures of the unemployed."' There are various reactions to the Premier's statement. In some quarters it is^regarded as an "apology" for having failed to accomplish more. Others say his review shows a record of which any government could be proud. A good cross-section of opinion, however, is inclined to give Labor considerable credit for "carrying on" under enormous odds. ',... "Labor has given Great Britain a good progressive administration," said an old-time leader in the trade union movement to "Labor's" correspondent. "It has gone further and accomplished more than any Tory government would ever have done, but still it has not done what one would expect a Labor government to do. Might Have Gone Further "Take the school bill. Making ■hil- dren stay in school until they are 15 and giving financial assistance to their families when it is needed is much better than putting them to work when they are 14, but I expected to see the Labor government set the quitting age at not less than 16. "It is the game with other measures. It seems to me that a Labor government should have attacked unemployment tooth and nail and suggested remedies sufficiently drastic to have given hope of success. "Maybe they would have gone down in the attempt to abolish unemployment, but, at least, they and their constituents would have had the satisfaction of kpowing they had exhausted every avenue." Every political conversation—let it start on any other issue—always winds up in a discussion of unemployment. Drive to Provide Work The general opinion now is that the government is going to make an intensive drive to provide jobs. The number of idle increased by 10,000 during the past week and is now 1,749,500—wiUv every indication that this figure will hit the two-million miirk nifiin Iniitij ' "'—b=_e== Unemployment measures which appeared drastic a year ago do not seem-ao drastie-now. Some-observers fauoh that O-nneal _onaraoi-i navf become so bad that Britain's "middle class" will. back up the government On almost any' kind of a program that offers promise of relief. Greater Purchasing Power Is Needed While relief legislation is vitally necessary, says Mr. Green,-president of the A. F. of L., in a broadcasted speech, the real solution for unemployment caused by overproduction lies in providing the masses of the people with the means of purchasing the products they need. "Wage earners have been stating in emphatic terms that they would like to live better, and if they had the money there would be no surplus of bath-tubs, shoes, dentists' services, books, automobiles, and good clothing," he reminded the Congressmen. "Higher wage rates and more stable employment would increase wage earners' incomes so that they might buy those,things they want and need. Reduce the hours of labpr and put everybody to work at living wages. "If you can't employ all on the basis of the 8-hour day, and the 5-day week, make it a 7-hour day and a 4-day week. Huge Market at Home "There is at our very doors a huge potential market for American products which should be used to turn the tide of business upward toward prosperity. "More than 7,000,000 families in the United States have no automobile; about 20,000,000 have no adequate radio set. In our cities alone —without computing farm population —there were, in 1928, more than 4,000,000 families who had no bathtubs in their homes, and more than 3,000,000 who had not even a kitchen sink with running water, and probably no plumbing of any kind in their houses. "There are over. 13,000,000 city families without telephones, and about 4,000,000 live in homes not wired for electricity. All of these people are eager to be customers of our industries. Take the hosiery industry, for instance, which is now suffering from overproduction. Would Require Overtime "If the thousands of women who want silk stockings could buy enough to satisfy their needs, the hosiery mills would be working overtime. "The cotton industry would not be calling for drastic curtailment if wage earners could buy all the cotton goods they need for clothing and household supplies. "Automobile manufacturers could keep on expanding production instead of reducing if the 7,000,000 families who have no car were able to buy. And so it , is with other industries. "Here is an immense potential market for our goods. Developing this market will mean higher living standards for thousands who "have never shared in American prosperity. "It will mean human progress along with industrial growth, the creation of better homes, happier families, a higher quality of citizenship, and greater opportunity to develop the fine human qualifies latent in thousands of our underprivileged citizens." Labor's Constructive Program Organized labor has a constructive program to cope with unemployment, President Green said. It is: 1. Shorter daily and weekly work periods in order that more workers^ shall be employed and all shall have leisure to enjoy the products of industry. ■ , 2. Higher incomes for wage earners in order that this vast potential market may be able, through its purchases, to stimulate industries to their full capacity. 3. A system of Federal employment agencies for the workless so that they may have the most efficient services in finding all possible work opportunities. 4. A vocational guidance service connected with employment offices to help workers whose crafts are displaced by new production methods, to equip themselves for positions under wew^ industrial -condition.. HAZELWOOD ICE CREAM The only 100 per cent. Union Ice Cream in the City/^ Phone: Seymour 2090 Hazelwood Creamery, Limited Drink and enjoy! VAN BROS.'CIDERS PURE SWEET AND SOUR APPLE CIDER 'Made from B C. Applet"" Try "The Lions" Ginger Ale Orange, Lemon and Lime Kist. ; PHONE HIGH. 90 VAN BROS.. LTD. PROMPT DELIVERY 1055 VERNON DRIVE One of the most popular brands among Union men sold by the Liquor Control Boards of Canada CATTO'S Old Highland Whis\y Obtainable at All Government Liquor Stores Please Ask for CATTO'S This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. -SQMETHiari TO-BRAC-ABOU*- ""Cfiivers-""TiaHe a cold shower every morning." Williams: "Why brag about it?"' ' Chivers: "Gosh, that's why I .take Sample of Work of Financial "Experts'' Here's another example, taken from the United States Federal Trade Commission records, of financial juggling by the power interests: ' On May 31, 1921, the American Power and Light Company, the biggest holding concern in the Electric Bond and Share group, issued $3,- 500,000 of 20-year gold bonds, bearing 8 per cent, interest. These were sold to "insiders" at so low a rate that after commissions and all were paid, they brought in only $3,021,- 891.41, or a trifle over 86 cents on the dollar. On October 31, 1922, the American Power and Light Company called these bonds at a premium. The total bill for redemption—principal, interest and premium—was $4,141,519.18. This means that the company had paid $1,119,537.77 for the use of $3,021,981.41—the sum which the sale of the bonds brought into the corporation treasury—for a period of 17 months. The payment works out at 37.05 per cent, for the entire term, or at the rate of 26.16 per cent, per year. One of the excuses made for holding and "management" companies is that they furnish their subsidiaries with expert financial and engineering advice. This is expert financial advice of the highest, or at least the most expensive character. It takes an expert to pull that kind of "stunt" and keep out of jail. The whole transaction was just another scheme for hiding profits. The company needed the cash for those bonds as much as a frog needs a hair-brush. But by issuing and then redeeming them, a lot of money could be .tranaferr^d_-4othe.j4)_ekeJS«; of "insiders" without'mueh chance of the public being any the wiser; while the cost is charged, one way or an- ; ^te^? '.gfe^£!____gBWI_j_i_; frh" --»- "rfrft-rf Vttihifirft W "paid ~b"y thai inevitable. goat utffhiate consumer.—"Labor. Saddle your dreams before ride 'em.—Mary Webb. the you Switchmen's Union Wants Six-hour Day BUFFALO, N. Y.—President T. C. Cashen opened the triennial convention of the Switchmen's Union of America in this city, Monday, June 9, with a powerful plea for the shorter work week as a means of solving the growing unemployment situation. He said: "This union was one of the first to advocate the six-hour day and the shorter work week. As your chief executive I stand for the six-hour day without reduction in pay for the switchmen employed on the railroads of this country. I hope this convention will go on record as indorsing the position I have taken on this question." President Cashen spoke with pride of the progress made by the Switchmen's Union since its last convention three years ago, showing a healthy growth in membership and financial reserves. He paid a tribute to the vice-presidents, grand board of directors and local organizers for their splendid co-operation. Union Their Only Protector "Due to consolidations, mergers and the introduction of super-power and 'efficiency systems,' all the railroad labor organizations have had to battle to retain their' membership," said Cashen. "Thousands of railroad workers are losing their jobs, and without unions these employees would have no protection whatever. The report of Secretary-Treasurer J. M. Perry showed the union lo be in fine financial condition. Receipts from all sources for the past three years amounted to $4,079,191.17. This, with a balance of $1,073,963.93 on January 1, 1927, gave a grand tB-at1 Uf;f B4i8ll_-Jt_. ■-'■ .. .-'"- Disbursements for the three-year term were $3,774,732,09, leaving 8 balance of $1,373,423.09, a hand- three years ago. The union Owns- its' headquarters, office building in Buffalo. It occupies a most desirable site, is well rented, and is valued at $500,000. Friday, June 27. VJ30 THE LABOR STATESMAN Seven Union-Made Shoes Railway Employees' Dept. in (Canada Hold Big Convention CORNETT BROS & CLARK 33 EAST HASTINGS 6TEEET Floraheim, Striders, C B. A C. Men'a and Touth'a. WILLIAM DICK, LTD. Union Label Shoes for Men and Youths. MODEL BOOT SHOP 1186 OB AH VII. LE Tetrault's. Men's, .Women's and Youths' Union Label ahoea. WM. TRICK, 146 Cordova WEST. — Tetrault's Men'a and Youths; also .Stridor and Slater's Union Label shoes. Feliow Unionists, demand the Union Label. Shop Card and Working Button. pToy PuTl°o1iI<,LAfaB,5RemPl°yer8 and "" Classified Ads. BARBISTEKS AND SOLICITOBS WalUa W. Kefaanx, 403 Metropolitan Bullding ' Phona Bar. 6867. 11*11 Hastings Steam Baths Price 35c Only 766 Hasting- street East. DENTISTS Or. W. A. Butledga, 108 Hastings West. NOTARY PUBLIC -V. M. Bengough Labor Headquarters. Labor Stat.■man, Labor Headquarters. BUPTUBB SPECIALIST 0. B. Heard 812 Kobaon. J «7 2? «f At All Reliable Dealers By J. A. P. HAYDON ! President R. J. Tallon has presided Winnipeg, Man.—The eighth bien- at all of the sessions. The debates nial convention of Division No. 4, Nye. been, at times, strenous, but an Railway Employees' Department, A. excellent spirit of brotherhood pre-' F, of L., proved to be the most pro- j valls an<l unanimous action has re gressive in the history of the division suited on most vital questions, Dr. Trevelyn E. Sleeth CANINE AND FELINE SPECIALIST AND SUBOEON Operating B. C. Dog and CatHospital, movement in Canada Despite trade depression, staff reductions and short time, there is a larger attendance than at any previous convention. Workers from every railroad in Canada and representing all crafts are here. A number of important decisions have already been reached. The outstanding action of the convention so far has been to make a demand for the forty-hour week with forty-eight hours' pay when the next wage agreements ^are negotiated on Canadian railroads! Will Ask 40-Hour Week The convention also instructed its negotiation committee to press for the restoration of time and one-half for Sunday, and, in line with the forty-hour week policy, to ask for time and one-half for men working upon their assigned day off. It decided to conduct an intensive organization campaign with a view towards unionizing the private locomotive and car equipment contract shops throughout the Dominion. The delegates emphaieally went on record for the abolition of piece-work on roads where that practice still exists. It has already .been abolished on the Canadian National. Division officers were instructed to endeavor to have the railroads plan their budgets with a view towards securing continuity of employment for Shopmen. The Canadian Pacific was urged to stop the practice of laying off large numbers of men periodically. Co-operative Plan Reindorsed The union-management co-operative policy was re-indorsed. In | bringing in its report on this subject the committee stated that "Canadian National employees have gained considerable benefits from that plan, both in betterment of working conditions and by stabilization of employment." In this connection President Tallon Many Labor Leaders Present President B. M. Jewell of the A. F. of L. Railway Employees' Department, President A. O. Wharton of the Machinists, President William Atkinson of the Boilermakers, President Roy Horn of the Blacksmiths, President McNamara of the Firemen and Oilers, Vice-President C. J. Mc- Glogan of the Electrical Workers, and International Representative Arthur Corrigan of the Sheet Metal Workers are among the International officers attending the sessions. Prior to the Division convention the various unions met and decided craft policies. The Joint Protective Board, Brotherhood Railway Carmen, Canadian Pacific Railway, was in session during all of last week. Frank McKenna was again unanimously elected general chairman. Amos Astin of Winnipeg was reelected vice-chairman for .Western lines, William Chisholm of Toronto, Vice-chairman for Eastern lines, L. A. Beaudry of Montreal, vice-chairman for Angus Shops, and Thomas Broad of Ottawa, secretary-treasurer. Three Hundred Resolutions Some 300 resolutions were presented to the Joint Protective Board, Brotherhood Railway Carmen, Canadian National Railways, which also met here all of last week. One of the resolutions adopted indorsed Sir Henry Thornton's plan for the re-organization of the National's finances. General Chairman Joseph Corbett and Secretary-Treasurer F. J. Cul- lum were re-elected. George P. O'Neill of Moncton, H. Binette of Montreal and R. Macrorie of Winnipeg were elected regional vice-presidents for the Atlantic, Central and Western districts, respectively. District Lodge No. 2, International Association of Machinists, which also met here last week, dealt with a large number of subjects. Chairman D. S. Lyons of Winni- reported that "instead of closing peg, and H. Kempster, secretary- shops and dismissing men in a wholesale manner in the fall of 1929 when traffic decreased so alarmingly, the 429 Granville Street, and Kingsway p«"n___„_ViT»J«tfnnnWnnHwn_rl^m on- Boarding Kennels, at Dogwood, 3306 -anaaian National continuea to op- i Kingsway, Burnaby. Hand Office Phones: Seymour 549-550 Prices to suit the union man.' 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 (lis eased condition: Hastings Bakery, 764 East Hastings street. Phone High. 4B37. London Bakery, 439 East 7th street Phone Fair. 122. Delicious Bakery, 1500 East Hastinga street. Phone High 70S. West's Bakery, 1407 Commercial drive. Phone High. 166. Pratt's Bakery, 3980 East Hastings street. Phone High. 6607. Ferguson Bakery, 2515 Main street. Fair. 3331. Dirks' Bakery, 6207 Main street Ferguson Bakery, 1714 East Broadway. • Golden Rule Bakery, 957 Granville street. Phone Sey. 8656. Rippon's Bakery, 706 West 16th avenue. Phone Fair. 502. Rigby's Bakery, Cedar Cottage. Phone Fair. 4049. Mutter's Bakery, 2157 Main street. Phone Fair. 3953. Scott's Home Bakery, 1848 Kings- way. Phone Fair. 729. McGavin's Home Bakery, 2352 East Hastings street. Phone High. 1361. The Nook Bakery, 1835 West 4th avenue. Victoria Bakery, 3834 Main street. Bennett's Scotch Bakery, 4166 Main street. (Note.—The McGavin's Bakery listed above has no connection with the big firm on Broadway West, which deliver* bread and it not operating a union shop. Perfect Chesterfield "Got a sweetheart yet, Tilly?" < "Yes, afW heY a regular gentle- "*"-""•"•"' _!__""_ '""'1 !_____ — -Won -don't say so!" ■-•■"-•;— ...."Yes, he took me to the restaurant last night and poured tea into a saucer to cool it; but he"'d'fdn't blow it like- common people do—he fanned it with his hat!"—Bison; erate its shops full-time throughout the winter months, thus helping to a great extent to stem the tide of panic which threatened to engulf the country." Wank Work for Rail Shops As a further aid toward stabilization every effort should be made to have all railroad work done in railroad shops, the convention declared. The delegates unanimously went on record for an efficient system of unemployment insurance. ' Irt accordance with the convention s action, division officers will ask the Dominion Government and the Canadian National management to insert a clause specifying the payment of standard wages in all contracts for equipment awarded by the Canadian National. The Fair Wage Act, enacted atthe recent session of Parliament does not apply to this class of work. The convention pledged its support to organization campaigns now being carried on throughout Canada by the Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. President John F. McNamara of the Firemen and Oilers announced that since the . last convention 52 local lodges of the Brotherhood had been organized in Canada. Reports Made of Progress Agreements covering wages and conditions have been negotiated on the Canadian Pacific and Temiska- ming and Northern Ontario, he said, and negotiations are now pending on the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo and the Quebec Central Railways. Railway Clerks are making good progress in their organisation campaign on the Canadian National, their delegates said. A motion to affiliate Division No. 4 with the International Transport 1 Workers' Federation at Amsterdam was carried. A large number of other matters affecting wage agreements and laws of the organization have also been disposed of. Is Largest Labor Group treasurer and business agent, were re-elected. T. B. Riley of Calgary, E. J. McGovern of Montreal, W. R. C. Logan of Winnipeg, W. A. McGuire of Stratford, and W. R. Rogers of Moncton were elected section chairmen. Want Disease Investigated An investigation of a skin disease by the proper authorities working in co-operation with the shop crafts unions is asked in a resolution adopt ed at the convention of District Lodge No. 30, Brotherhood of Boilermakers. This malady has affected a large number of boilermakers and as yet its origin has not been definitely fixed. The Boilermakers also urged that every effort be made to have det- mat it is included as an occupational disease under the terms of the various provincial workmen's compensation acts. A. E. Cruickshanks, a Labor alderman in Fort William, defeated P. J. Doyle for the district chairmanship after the fifth ballot. Other officers elected were: Secretary-treasurer, J. K. Hall of Winnipeg; vice-president for Eastern Canada, John Thompson of Montreal; for Western Canada, A. B. Page of Winnipeg. Blacksmiths Organize Council The blacksmiths organized a district council covering Canadian railways at meetings held here prior to Division No. 4. Officers have not yet been elected. Similar action has been taken by the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. A regional council has been provisionally organized and will be completed when the new international constitution has been drafted. The Sheet Metal Workers are also organizing a district lodge to cover Canadian railroads. It is expected , this will be completed before the con- j vention adjourns within the next day or two. Keep m a moderate temper .mm- Stand bottle upright for at lean J4 bom <x ^ before using Vow x( } carefMy \i Silver Spring Brewery Victoria, B.C. Announce their genuine Stock Ale is now fully matured and is on sale at all Government Liquor Stores This ale is of the famous Bass type ■ of excellent flavor .i)u! quality - a mild ale until a fine hop aroma This • advertisement is not publisheJ by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. Robbing the Righteous Captain: "Whoever he is, there is a dirty sneak crook on this squad. In the past week I have lost a set of Stanford shoulder pads, a Yale sweater shirt, a 'pair , of Harvard Division-No. 4 embraces all of the 'Pants, a Northwestern blanket, tfntf| Shopmen .employed hyjai„roadThay-:SLcoWle °* Y- M- c- A. towels. — Trrg^e-ir^eatestmileage-ine-Tia^^ t. . It is the largest labor group'in the ■'—a _-'. Dominion and represents about 35,- -When I can't sleep 1 just count my 000 workers. It has a national agree-? blessings.. That's a splendid thing to ment with the* Railway Association do, because you fall asleep before of Canada. 'you get to the end-of them. 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. Win W.a..,a- IJ_u* UM BOB_n____i s« nam t>u, Mjmtt mvHto** VmtmSnStnc, _. _u_JJnlb_H___e Cigars. . } _r_,^T_5_25_r:''~'""'rc~-'---l ?»__->._ Flurry in Spinach . "Whtr* time does the next train come in?" asked Edward, aged six, of the old rural station agent. "Why, you little rascal, I've told you five times before that it comes in at 4:44." "I know it,? replied Edward, "but I like to see your whiskers wobble when you say.'4:44'."—Successful Farming. Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN Friday, June 27, 1930 Denttetry mortf, DrRIW6_i__s Ground Floor—City Hall Say. 1460 ' 12 Hastinga Eaal For Printing of QUALITY. SPEED AND SERVICE done in a Union Shop, send your printing to A. H. Timms 236 Uth Ave. E., Vancouver A. A. Brookhouse, (late of Cowan & Brookhouse) Shop Superintendent. Fair. 205 -»3s*- Fair. 1372 Swan Bros., Ltd. EXPERT CLEANERS AND DYERS Main Office ana Plant: 12th at Kingsway Phone: ralr. 0200 (Private Exchange, 7 Trunk Lines) BRANCHES: 637 Richards St. 62 "i Hastings St. W. 113 Esplanade W., North Vancouver Jails Not Built For These Rich Brokers .Mr. Solloway has been sentenced to four months imprisonment and Mr. Mills to one month, added to which are fines amounting to a quarter of a million dollars. This brokerage outfit, which did a business of $170,000,000 last year, undoubtedly intends to spend a lot more money to evade the jail sentence, if not the fine. The fine undoubtedly would be easy for them, but the jail sentence is what sticks in their gall. We were informed, when the charges were first made against this outfit, that they faced at least a five-year sentence, but we knew right then that they had too much money to ever get started on such a long stretch. The sinewy arm of justice was not made for those who can afford to break laws; its only for those who are classified as the common people. The common people don't make the laws, although some common people think, they do. It's the lawyers, and they make it so that they can scare the client and the culprit and squeeze them for a fat harvest of fees. What the law says and what the lawyers can make it say, if the fee is fat enough, enables the rich man to keep out of jail and the poor man to be within the shadow of the jail, if not within the jail, many times. Considering the chaos that this firm's action is said to have created, and the fact that a conspiracy to defraud the public has been proven against them, we feel that the sentence is not only too light, but absolutely absurd, and that if some smaller fry had been found guilty of this thing the sentence would have been a matter of years and not months. The BLUE GOOSE CAFE for good eats. Try our Special Sunday Chicken Din- *J PC ner. It's a wow! * _J 1109 GRANVILLE STREET Phone: Seymour 3617-0 Union Bakeries Woman Reporter Raps American Militarists Mrs. Walter Ferguson, one of the "star" writers for the Scripps-How- ard papers, recently ventured to criticize American militarists and an army captain retorted that she was "vicious and un-American." Then Mrs. Ferguson took her typewriter in hand and delivered herself of the following: "The system that yanks an intelligent and gifted young man and compels him to be valet and slop-carrier to his superior in military caste, if not in brains,.has turned many a fine fighter into a Socialist. "A great poet once wrote, 'The tumult and the shouting dies, the] Captains and the Kings depart.' > "Well, the Kings have gone, and 'ere long, in a sane world, the Captains will have vanished, too." That same poet said: "The female of the species is more deadly than the male." / After read int.- Mrs. Ferguson's reply, the/captain probably understands what Kipling meant. , The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122. 439 7th Ave. E. ^.111111111111111111111111 i 1111111M111111111111111^ § Hastings Bakery 1 £ HIGH. 4537 = 5 Choicest Bread, Cakes and E E Pastries. Sour Rye Bread S | 764 Hastings Street East E ?m 111 ■ ii 11111111 ■ 1111111 it 111111111111111 i i m 111 r^ Delicious Bakery Union-made Bread and Pastry. Ask for it at your local store or PHONE HIGHLAND 706 and have our salesman deliver it FERGUSON'S BAKERY ALEX. STEWART. PROP. -SIS Vain Street • - Phone: ralr. 3331 1714 Broadway - - - Phone: BJgh. 6074 When Better Cakes and Pastries are Made. Well Make 'Em! Golden Rule Bakery .i>______c-=-^ J 957 Granville St. Sey. S656 If conscience can be eliminated, man. has nothing to brag of over a tadpole.—-Charles F. Goss, CHICAGO STREET CAR MEN RENEW WAGE AGREEMENT CHICAGO.—Union employees of the Chicago surface lines have agreed to continue under their present wage scale, 77 cents an hour, until May 31, 1931. The rate was established three years ago by arbitration and affects 15,000 men. The elevated railway employees will vote this week on the question of continuing their wage scale of 79 cents per hour. The question of the merging of all of the electric railway companies, the granting of a new franchise and the possible commencement of subways goes before the voters ^uly 1. This, together with the present economic depression, prompted the employees to instruct their officers to renew their contracts. SEATTLE TEAMSTERS ACTIVE Joint Council 28, comprising all the Teamsters' Locals of Seattle and vicinity, is selecting delegates for the International convention, which takes place at Cincinnati on September 8th. They anticipate chartering a special train on the Chicago, Milwaukee, which will be joined by some 60 delegates from San Francisco, visiting Victoria, Vancouver, and way points to Chicago. The Vancouver Locals will take up the question of sending delegates at their meetings in July, and, it is hoped, elect a full representation from British Columbia. Many important matters are to come . be fore the. conv_tniorr, - whioJrj assembles- .exerjt-free. yeswv-^ The West and the Federal Election Rumors are now set at rest. Sometime towards the end of July or the beginning of August the voters of Canada will be called on to cast their ballots in a federal general election. The plans of the King government would seem to have been successful. The premier is ready to have the peo- Ele decide on the challenge delivered y Mr. Bennett, and the Dunning budget is likely to b'e a major factor in the struggle. Heretofore the tariff has been made to appear the outstanding issue in Canadian elections, though it has been difficult to discover where the two historic parties differed fundamentally either on the tariff or on any other serious question-of Dominion policy. Today it is more difficult than ever before. In the Dunning budget the Liberals have shed even the pretence of standing for freedom of trade. Indeed, Mr. Bennett's real complaint against the government is that it has adopted Conservative policies. Incidentally, why the opposition should object to the Liberals embracing good Tory doctrine must be left to the subtle mentality of the expert partisan to explain. From the point of view of party politics, the general election should be an intensely, interesting game. First impressions are that the government nas "slipped one over" on its opponents. The concessions to Empire preference, the protection granted to dairy, poultry and fruit farmers, the slap at Uncle Sam under the euphonious title of "countervailing rates" are all so closely related to sound Conservative policies that Mr. Bennett and his followers cannot feel very comfortable in attacking them. And, to cap the climax, as a result of his budget policy, Mr. King has annexed "the flag," thereby depriving the Tories of one of their most potent rallying cries. All in all, the stage is set for a pretty party fight, but what, it may be asked, has this got to do with policies of the federal government as they affect the West? The answer is—"nothing." What then should be the attitude of western voters in the coming election? We repeat, there is no real difference between the two parties excepting a heated dispute as to which of them will hold the reins of office. Yet, as things are, it is a foregone conclusion that either Mr. King or Mr. Ben- net will be the next premier of Canada. It is also likely that in practically every constituency in Saskatchewan a follower of each of these leaders will be in the field as a can- idate for parliament. The people of ft^ west will have the opportunity of eking their fancy as between those f two or of coming together and choosing a third candidate selected to represent western views, particularly as regards western agriculture. All signs point to the conclusion that if a strong independent contingent is sent down to Ottawa from the west this time, it will have a potent voice in determining what legislation will get through the House of Commons ] during the life of the next parlia- I ment. The farmers' movement as a who], is facing critical times ahead. It must needs look to all its fences and pass up no opportunity of safeguarding its future welfare. If the representatives of the rural west held a strong position in the House of Commons, would not the demands of western agriculture be likely to command a most attentive and responsive hearing? Each reader can answer this question for himself. But if the west is to do anything really worth while along these lines the people must join together as agriculturists, as westerners, ignoring the imaginary lines that have so long divided them into Grits and Tories. The majority of them have jumped the party fences once; if they agree with the wisdom of the course they should encounter little difficulty in repeating the operation. The election is coming at a time which should give farmers a chance to act. If the agriculturists of the west, after mature consideration, conclude that it is worth while to strike a blow at the meaningless partisan divisions which split their ranks, the time is ripe and the opportunity is theirs. If, however, they decide that it is wiser to return either Mr. Bennett and his followers or Mr. King and his, to undisputed possession of the seats of power, that opportunity also awaits. It is just as true now as it ever was that a. country has the government it deserves.—Western Producer. Morality, .and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of the winter nigbt.—Horace Greeley. —fSBe-^os^ij-_ner*--rose" ■**': ;•;—■—~- As I stood neatK her casement, She tossed me a rose Ere I fled -to the basement, She tossed me a rose That's the theme of my sonnet, She tossed me a rose With a-flower pot on it. DICK'S QUALITY SUITS Navy Blues, Office Greys, Scotch Tweeds, English Worsteds, Gabricords. THERE'S variety and style in these long-wearing, pure wool garments. Skilfully tailored with the swagger and dash only found in high-grade suits. Each suit is adapted to your figure in our own workshop by expert tailors. 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TELEPHONE YOUB, WANTS QUALITY, SERVICE, SAVINO UNION MEN! Have your next suit made right in your city and help solve the unemployment problem. Our suits are made before your eyes by skilful Union Tailors. Fit and workmanship guaranteed. Ray Bros. Tailoring Co. Ltd. 80 and 82 West Hastings Street Why Cant We Save? JH.OW often do you say this as you find that your expenses eat up all your salary ? /"""> Other people, with no larger incomes than yours, buy many things you cannot afford. Is it because you have no definite plan of allotting your money ? The Royal Bank Budget Book will help you to plan your expenses with something to spare. ASKFORACOPY The Royal Bank - of Canada Vancouver Branch A.~T~Lowe,-Manager ~ 1424 20 Offices In Vancouver—59 Branches in British Columbia Foresight is ver ywise, but fore-1 are at any rate better than dungeons | sorrow is very foolish; and castles'in the air.—Sir\John Lubbock. I
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