The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-30
issued: 1931-05-15
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note: |~TNO. 367-rEIGjrJT PAGES VANCOUVER/CANADA, FRIDAY, MAY 15th, 1931 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Unemployment Ravages | "Wage Slashing is Greatly Intensifying^ thei Treaent EconoTn.c Crisis While the Government "Promises" —' ,■;:■''■ ... . - Some Distant Relief "T*HE POWERS THAT BE on this continent'don't appear to be working very hard toward alleviation of the present unemployment situation. 'The situation is riot getting- any better, and the general attack on wages'upon the part of the business element is certainly not helping the situation. Organized labor has been very successful in offsetting wage reductions, but the ravages made among the unorganized is appalling, some firms in Vancouver making as much as forty per cent reductions: While this action intensi- . fies the situation, there is no relief in sight except a "promise" of an unemployment insurance "investigation" from Ottawa, but even should we get this reform it will not by any means remedy the larger question of intensive production and underconsumption. Some very outspoken' statements are being made from various quarters in connection with the stuation, _wh_ch_ shows that even though -the | government sleeps, there is an undercurrent of rebellion that sooner or later will sweep away that apathy and force more important legislation than our present governments dream of. Speaking on a motion made in the Federal Parliament by Mr. A. Heaps, Labor member for Winnipeg North, which read: "That, in the opinion of this house, the government should take into consideration the immediate establishment of a federal system of assurance* against unemployment, sickness and invalidity." Mr. J. S. Woodsworth, Labor member for ' Winnipeg North Centre, 3uoted a letter from a returned sillier, extracts from which read: "1 was in France and Belgium in the Canadian Expeditionary Force infantry. . . . Born in England, 1895. . . . Come to Canada 1906. . . . Thirty-seven years of age. ... Married. ... I sleep in a box- car to save rent…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439224
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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