The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-31
issued: 1933-10
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note: ■.. ■ 'iwc-jBJirSMSWitSOTtro- a>aaaaas-____aK..l___________--_a___________B a lot of new blood hi its Federal and Provincial Parliaments to speed us towards industrial recovery. SUPPORTED BY SIXTY-TWO LOCAL UNIONS .... , . Higher Wager and Shorter Hours is the Big American slogan how being used in efforts to. ■ wards industrial recovery. V.i. No. 420 VANCOUVER, CANADA, OCTOBER; 1933 Price, Five Cents Administrator of "Nira" Talks To Lumber Barons In general, American institutions are the pride of Americans. But the i wages and hours in the lumber industry revealed in connection with the fair competition code submitted to the National Recovery Administration by a committee representing 85 per cent of- the lumber barons exempt that industry from the pride category. "~:— ;_ The lumber barons want- a 48-hour maximum work week with a minimum weekly wage rate pf $10.K0, or 22 V*. cents an hour. , Their demand ruffled the usually suave personality of Hugh ST John- Recovery Administrator, son, the who said: "A 48-hour week is s6 long I wouldn't even consider it. It is up to the lumber industry to make out its case, but 22 hi cents an . hour is far below what I regard as a necessary minimum wage." General Johnson added that these hours of work and minimum wages "are wholly unacceptable and will in no case be approved." Thereupon John D. Tennant of Longview, Wash., chairman of the lumber industry's emergency national^ committee, which framed the code, Jdrriped into the limelight to defend his committee's long hours and low wages. He said that in cases where the code called for a 48-hour week the past normal working time was 60 hours or more, and that the minimum wage of 22 ',_ cents an hour represented an increase from the present prevailing wage * of 11% cents an hour. Sixty hours a week at 11% cents an hour paid lumber workers in the past and present! Forty-eight hours a week at 22 Vi cents an hour proposed for the future I Evidently the poet who wrote "America the Beautifu…
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: 10.14288/1.0439240
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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