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Vw.,. -S W$i*:' APff/e m Starter Hours of work for labor will aid in making ljf» and working conditions better for . sll who toil for a. lirinc• aoor fV^WJH)AND (BITOMUJId By THE VANCOUVER TILDES AND LABOR COUNCIL .. * - * Supported by Sixty-two Local Unions UnUlWen - of IMnconver dis- triclr earn half a mJlion dollars each, njbnth, and spasaT Iheir wafSSjUHsis f with fri_sfl» of No. 402 VANCOUVER, CANADA, APRIL, 1932 Price: Five Cents Notes From Parliament Hill By ANGUS M.clNNIS, M.P. When the parliamentary session opened early in February, it ' was the consensus of opinion among the members that it 'would be a short one. When the opposition let the address in reply to the speech from the throne collapse it found the government without their sessional programme ready. Since then, however, many things have transpired which Would indicate that the session is likely to be a lent'thv one. The1 Farmer and Labor members have been particularly active in pressing the - government to bring down legislation making for a more equitable distribution of the product of industry. The Labor members, of course, take the position that, even if such changes were made as would place the burden of taxation on those better able to bear it, it would be only a palliative, i We do, however, accept it as we would first aid in case of accident. We believe the patient (society) should be made as comfortable as possible while making preparation for permanent treatment and care. Ultimately, we believe, we must have a change of system. To this end, on March 2nd, Mr. Woodsworth introduced a motion for the establishment of a Socialist state. As this resolution came up on a Wednesday, when we have only an afternoon session, th__. discussion on it was rather brief and, according to the rules of the house, when the debate on the motion of a private mem- • ber is talked out at one sitting, it goes to the bottom of the order paper. It is just possible that because of this we may have no more discussion on the motion during this session.'. This is regrettable for, regardless of what the press may say, Parliament evinced keen interest in the debate. • . There were only three speakers: Mr. Woodsworth, Mr. MacNicol (Conservative, Toronto), and the writer. Omitting the preamble, the motion reads: -'-.-. "Be it therefore resolved: That, I in the opinion of this house, the government should immediately take measures looking to the setting up of a co-operative commonwealth in which all the natural resources and the socially necessary machinery of "production will be used in the interest of the people and not for the benefit of the. few" !? ibdsVorth said that no mat- the future had in store i no doubt but that the eco- . system was failing to function now. He drew attention to Hie ever- increasing numbers of unemployed; the productive possibilities of the machinery of production if released from the fetters of capitalism. He . referred to the fact that a very small number of people control the natural resources, the machinery of production and the financial capital, not only of this country but of the whole world, or that part of it mat is under capitalist domination. He pointed out that even present day wars, when investigated, were found to have their root cause in capitalism. He said the opponents of Socialism asked, would It workJ That could be determined only by trial, but one thing Is clear—that the present system is not working satisfactorily. Mr. MacNicol, who followed, made • very peculiar defence of the present system. He referred to the gradual improvement and increase in the equipment of production and in production itself; the acceleration in production brought about by the «*•»•__*__ ■War.-an'd' then the collapse -in 1922, which is now continuing. Then he said: "That, however, was not a fault of the economic system; the system had nothing to do with the result" That is some logic for you. Or, take this one: "I have made a atudy of economics for many, many years, and, from a long period of practical experience, I have learned this, that if men are to succeed they must flrst be willing to work hard . . . . . Another requisite is that they must spend less than they earn and lay by something for a rainy day or to make it possible to project themselves still further ahead." One might very well wonder what partic- uuar brand of economics the member for Toronto North West had been studying for those "many, many, years." It is not hard, however, to understand what he means by success. In order to. succeed one "must lay by something," or, in other words get control of something that is necessary, if not essential,! to the social welfare, and then by taking advantage of the social need one can "project" himself "still further ahead in life." It has evidently never dawned on Mr. MacNicol, despite his "many, many years'.study of economics" that, under our present system, the harder one works and the more he saves the sooner he will find himself living off that saving. One cannot save good*: they will perish. < So one can only save money. But as the amount of money savings is far in excess of the actual amount of current money, it is obvious that if everyone were to save a part of his earnings very shortly all money would disappear from circulation. Of course, that is not what the student of economics from Toronto had in mind. The saving he had in mind is that part of one's earnings one is able to put directly or indirectly into capital investment. Mr. MacNicol did not take into consideration that the large majority of the working class do not receive, while working, enough to live decently let alone putting something by for a rainy day. I cannot forbear giving one more quotation from the speech of Mr. MacNicol: "Let us consider the moulding industry, with which I am more familiar. I can remember very well when a plant in which I was particularly interested employed approximately 700. Along came the moulding machines, with the result that instead of 700 men only 125 were required. The same effect was found all through industry; yet the economic system cannot be blamed." Who, then, may we ask, can be blamed? Can we blame it on the moon or. on the tides? Is it because of the machinations of some evil spirits? Surely, if anyone ever was convicted out of his own mouth"'that man is Mr. MacNicol. | The writer was the next speaker, and he tried tp point out that the present system was breaking down, not because of want of business ability or because of crookedness on the part of industrial and financial managers and governmental administrators, but because of defects inherent In the system itself. That one of the essentials for the continuance of capitalism is that thelre must always be room for capital expansion. That is, the profits made must be re-invested. He pointed out that the system which worked fairly well while the world was being transformed from peasant and handicraft production would not suffice when the world was overequipped with agricultural and industrial machinery. The system that did work in a way while primeval forests were giving place to huge cities could not be made to function when th_e___r_|.cL had .becometopjieavy- with- cities with a propertyless population which has no access to the means of life. He pointed out that when times were prosperous, when there was a market for goods, the wheels of industry hummed and the owners pocketed the profits. Then, when markets became clogged with the commodities the- workers had produced but could not consume because of lack of buying power, the workers were turned out of industry, to be cared for by the State. He said that the day of laissez faire in production was passed and whether we like it or not the next step in successful and orderly government must be in planned production." Mr. H. H. Stevens, who was leading the house, said that: "The importance of the resolution is, of course, recognized by all honorable members who have read it." Mr. MacKenzie King said that he too wanted to take part in the debate. It seems to me that this is a far different attitude from what we would expect toward a similar resolution, say, two years ago. For two weks now Parliament has ben discussing a proposal from the government for extending the Unemployment and Farm Relief Act, 1931. It will be remembered that towards the close of the session last year the government asked Parliament for a free hand and unlimited funds to deal with the economic situ- Situation Is Grave The economic breakdown of the world has not been averted, bat merely postponed by the tariff measures which the British and United States governments have taken, Sir Geo. Paish, noted British economist, told the Associated Press. Sir George recommended, last December, an international economic conference, revision of. reparations and temporary bank guaranty acts in all countries. ., "The situation is grave enough in consequence' of the extreme tariff policy of the United States," he said. "Now that Great Britain, which is an even greater creditor nation, is taking similar action, the situation is grave beyond measure." The announcement made by Sir Henry Betterton, minister al labor, in the British House of Commons, that unemployment had recently greatly decreased in Britain is somewhat offset by the candid admission of Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, that the basic and heavy industries are still finding the road to recovery, steep and difficult. A survey of the conditions throughout England reveals that since the gold standard was aban doned conditions in certain trades have distinctly improved, though the original spurt has not been maintained. Other nations have gone off the standard since and are now competing with Britain in foreign markets on the same terms as previously, while some, the United States and France particularly, have put up their tariff barriers to adjust them to the new value of sterling. BRICKLAYERS LOSE TWO OLD MEMBERS We regret to announce the death of two of our old members who died within a few days of each other. Anthony Allen, aged 67, died at the General Hospital on March 6th- of heart trouble. The body was shipped to Victoria for burial. > Thos. Anderson, pensioner on the "Relief Roll; of Bricklayers' Union, died of general debility on March 12th at his sister's residence, 1630 Robson street. Funeral services were held in the Holy Rosary Cathedral and interment in Catholic Cemetery, Ocean View. —W. S. Dagnall. WAR DEBT CANCELLATION DEMANDED BY JOUHAUX Paris, France.—Leon Jouhaux, secretary of the French Federation ation that had arisen because of un- _ „ emgl^ngnt _tbTo_ugl}qut_Canada and] of'Labor, reaffirmed -his'beJieTin'tb'e at^^UiiU-yk ««-prairie provinces, recommendation of the special inter- When this bill was" brought before Parliament last year the date of expiry was March 31st. uring the discussion of the bill the Prime Minister admitted that it was both undesirable and unnecessary to have the Act in effect while Parliament was in session, and he accordingly changed the date of expiry from March 31st to March 1st. But, to our surprise,.the Prime Minister now, while the house is in session, wants to have the Act of last year extended from March 1st to May 1st. He has not furnished Parliament with any plan to deal with unemployment and other economic conditions after the first of May. After that date, I suppose he will have another extension until Prliament meets in 1933. A phrase in the Act of 1931, referring to "Peace, order and-good gov- eminent," established the federal cabinet as a virtual dictatorship in Canada; subject, of course, to 'the veto of the banks. I pointed out last year, when discussing the Act, that there was nothing the government could not do by invoking the term foi "peace, order and good government," and it appears that my assertion was correct. .' ■ A few of the things done under the Act, none of which had any reference to unemployment or farm relief, for which the Act was- ostensibly passed, were: a order-in-council passed guaranteeing advances made by. the chartered banks of Canada to the Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers, Limited; an order prohibiting the export of gold; another order-in-council which virtually Socialists Will in Wisconsin Primaries The Socialists won a smashing victory in the municipal primaries in Wisconsin last week and the Farmer- Laborite candidate for mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, topped the poll. In Milwaukee, Mayor Hoan swept the city, receiving 75,178 votes as against 37,536 and 23,575 for his opponents. All 20 of the Socialist candidates for aldermen Won in the primaries,. 14 'of them topping the polls in their respective wards, indicating that Milwaukee may have a Socialist administration in the An__LQr_April_5th.... The vote for the Socialists was very much larger than that polled four years ago in the last finals. In West Allis, Milwaukee suburb, the Socialist Party got all the candidates but one on the ballot, the party's choice for mayor topping the list ngainst the present incumbent. In Racine, Wis., Socialists carried five of the seven wards in the aldermanic and supervisor races. This city already has a Socialist mayor. In St. Paul, Minnesota, the Farmer-Labor candidate topped the poll with 21,337 votes against the present incumbent. A communist candidate received 1,229' votes. national trade union congress held ia London in 1920 for the "universal and mutual repudiation of international war debts." amended, the Bank Act; still-another doing the same things' with the Insurance Act Here we have two of the most important Acts on the Statute Books amended by order-in- council. By order-in-council, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was increased by 300 men, The'Parliament of 1931 gave the Govemor-in- Council a blank cheque to spend aa much as was necessary on the relief of unemployment, but the government took the opportunity to spend as tittle as possible in unemployment relief, and, realizing that something must be done to keep the masses quiet, proceeded to add to the R. 0. M. P., to purchase riot equipment, bombs, artillery, ammunition, addi- tonal horses, specal agents, secret investigators, and then they have the gall to ask for the-extension of the Act. Members on the government side of the house are endeavoring to create the impression that in opposing the extension of the Act we are preventing the government doing anything to relieve the unemployment situation. Such is not the case. They have been told time and time again to bring down a supply bill, let Parliament know how much money they require, and that it will be speedily passed. Evidently, the Prime Minister,, having tasted the sweets of dictatorship for seven months, is now loath to relinquish it Eighty Bread-lines ~~ In New York City Alarmed by the serious industrial situation, influential public men in the United States are joining in demand for unemployment insurance. "No government has so misled the public aa to the seriousness of the problem as ours," says a declaration by • joint committee on unemployment which is receiving widespread support. "There are daily attempts to obscure the issue by irresponsible attacks on the British unemployment system, the so-called 'dole'. It is pointed out that there are no bread-lines where unemployment insurance ' operates, while "doleless America has witnessed over eighty bread-lines in one city alone." At this moment, it is declared, the Administration's officially appointed committee is "brazenly contemplating the placing of nearly 30,000,000 persons on the most degrading dole system ever undertaken by any nation." It is demanded that the Federal Government should at once institute an unemployment insurance scheme and large programs of work, and pass an emergency law reducing the hours of work in industry to six a day, five days a week, with no reduction in the total weekly wage. "The productive power of the workman in America," it is' said, "has increased within the last 15 years at least 40 per cent. There has, however, been no corresponding reduction in the hours of labor." Bankers Block Efforts To Feed Starving Masses By BUDD L. McKILLIPS Big banking interests—during the very period when they are clamoring loudest for the government to turn over to them billions of public money —are charged with blocking efforts of at least three large cities to provide food for starving men, women and children. > This serious indictment was presented recently by Senators Robert F. Wagner and Royal S. Copeland of New York, Mayor James Walker of New York City, Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, "and Mayor J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia. According to information received from these sources, the bankers are refusing to make loans which are usually granted to the cities as "routine matters." And it is not a question of the banks not having the money or the city's credit being "strained." As Senator Copeland pointed, out, the New York banks refused to lend the city $20,000,000 on "the best security in the world," but during the same week they made a $50,000,- 000 loan to Samuel Insull, head of the Middle West Utilities Company —one of the "big guns" in the Power Trust New York City has approximately 300,000 unemployed. Private charity raised $20,000,000—about half of the amount claimed necessary to provide food for the most desperate cases. Then the city government— without a dissenting vote—appropriated another $20,000,000 for relief. To finance this program the city offered short-term notes for sale. These securities were to be redeemed when the next municipal budget was made up.—a purely routine process in financing city expenditures. The banks, It is alleged, refused to make the requested loan—unless the city agreed to curtail expenditures and increase street car fares, Even then the financiers demanded a rate of interest nearly four times higher than the usual charge. As a result of this "hold-up" New York has been forced to suspend direct aid it has been furnishing to 30,000«famiHea, give up plans to provide food for some 60,000 or 70,000 additional families who are in dire straits, and' drop more than $110,- 000,000 worth of public work projects which had been planned to create jobs. HAMMERSMARK APPOINTED TO WIRE INSPECTORS JOB Toby Hammersmark, of Electrical Workers' Union. No. 218, has been appointed electrical inspector for the District of North Vancouver by Reeve Bryan, who is a member of the Typographical Union. JUST A REMINDER Most of our readers receive this paper through the mails without any cost to themselves on account of the financial assistance of labor organizations. Added io this financial assistance ia the finances obtained from our advertisers, the two combined making it possible to publish this paper. The financial depression, however, has affected the receipts from both these sources, hence we are publishing monthly until further notice. In the meantime we believe our readers appreciate the fact that the merchants who are still advertising in these columns are worthy of your support and we believe that you will act accordingly. BUENOS AIRES.—Twelve Socialists, four National Democrats and 11 members of five minor parties won seats on the municipal board in the Buenos Aires municipal elections. Yachts and Bread-lines Collier's.Weekly is authority tor the statement that between June 80, 1930, and June 30, 1931, the number of privately owned sea-going yachts in this country increased from 3315 to 3682. This is a gain of 267, or about 8 per cent. A sea-going yacht is agreed to be the most expensive plaything in the world, It costs a fortune, to start with, and takes tbe income of a much larger fortune to maintain and use. It is the'-most undemocratic form of luxury; for it requires large numbers of people to spend their lives catering to the wishes, or whims, or vanity, of a few. ;_ Yet in our good country, supposed to be free and democratic, the number of these wealth-sapping toys increases 8 per cent a year while hundreds of thousands of people stand in bread-lines and millions are out of work. '■■■_.. "— And still we are told that it would be wrong to tax the ultra-rich to provide money for public works that will employ the poor.—Labor. All the Earmarks of a Famine in the U. S. The following story, taken from The New Republic, could be applied to almost any other large city in the United States. And inasmuch as there appears to be no prospect of conditions improving, the people in the United States will face a tense situation this summer. The New Republic says: In Chicago, where it is estimated that there are 624,000 unemployed and where relief funds were being spent at/ the rate of $100,000 a day during the month of February, until they were exhausted, a committee of citizens, chosen by the Chicago Workers' Committee on Unemployment, held open hearings to give an opportunity for the various members of the community to tell how the* depression has affected them. During the hearings the Committee interviewed 176 people representing the unemployed and landlords, grocers, social workers and business men, the purpose being to gather definite data on the- condition of the impoverished masses in Chicago. The final report, which was recently made public, states-that the "situation bears all the earmarks of a famine . . . malnutrition is prevalent and starvation is far from unusual." The report further states that lowered resistance to disease is widespread, that there is a general breakdown in personal and family morale and that a complete collapse of community moral standards has occurred. Petty thievery has become widespread and the stealing of food, fuel and various kinds of merchandise has increased in alarming proportions. The report ends with a confession of the complete failure of the charitable organizations to supply adequate aid. Ray Bros. Get St. Ry. Uniform Contract The Ray Bros. Tailoring Co., at 80 West Hastings street, has contracts for making B. C. Electric Railway employees uniforms and city policemen's uniforms. Both these uniforms have to be made in union shops, and Ray Bros, is one of the new firms to obtain the contract from the Street Railway Co. This firm employs many skilled tailors, all members of the Journeymen Tailors' Union of America. Percy Bengough v^_ Goes To Geneva Percy R. Bengough has obtained two months leave of absence from his duties as General Secretary Organizer for the Vancouver, New Westminster and District rades and Labor Council to attend tbe annual meeting of the International Labor Organizations at Geneva, on behalf of the Dominion Government as Advisor to Tom Moore, President of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. He left Vancouver last week to be in Geneva when the meeting opens on April 12th. . - .___ . Union Executive Interviews Cabinet At a conference called by the Provincial Government for the jl ur- pose of considering ways and means to cope with the ever-increasing unemployment throughout this province Colin MacDonald, chairman of the British) Columbia Executive of the Dominion Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, gave a synopsis of the conclusions reached by that organization at its recent convention, held in Vancouver, and stressed the necessity of establishing a five-day week, with a maximum eight-hour day for all crafts, which he explained 'did not mean that every craft should be compelled to work eight hours per day, but that they should not be allowed to work in excess of eight hours. He advocated putting in hand the construction of public works, and buildings at union rates of pay, which, he stated, would relieve the situation somewhat with regard to building trades mechanics. He also requested the Provincial Government to petition the Dominion Government to enact legislation dealing with unemployment insurance. E. II. Morrison, business manager of the Electrical Workers' Union, who followed Mr. MacDonald, stated that while he was more or less in accord with -his colleague, he was of ' the opinion that so long as they were talking in terms of profit and loss there wss very little use wasting time in discussing the matter, and the committee would probably consider him crazy if he gave utterance to his.._views, thefirst place, the- Boston Cafe Again Displays Union Card Change in the ownership of the Boston Cafe has also brought about' a change in working conditions among employees. The new owner, haying relieved himself of his antiunion partners, is now conducting the cafe with the help of union employees. The firm has signed an agreement with the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union and urges the patronage of organized labor. ARCAND GOES TO GENEVA Hon. C. J. Arcand, Minister of Labor, for Quebec and a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, will represent the Quebec government at the I. L. O. Conference at Geneva. The Social Democratic Party of Germany has introduced far-reaching bills into parliament providing for the appropriation by the state of coal mining contents and. all their subsidiaries, wjfl^are In private hands. ThisJfl fcon and steel concerns, foulnsf^ ■tljing mills. hours of labor would have to be cut to an extent undreamed of heretofor with corresponding increases of wage rates before those presently unemployed could be absorbed. Questioned by one bf the' committee as to whether he was in favor of a levy on those employed to support the unemployed, lie stated that bo long as there was no reduction on the interest paid on bond issues, in his opinion, the Government had no right to make a levy on the employed to support the unemployed. Questioned again in reference to where the. money was coming from to meet the increases that must be given to offset the reduction in hours, he stated that there was no reason that he knew why the Dominion Government could not issue its own notes and lend them to the provinces, municipalities and cities, »without interest, as there were several very good precedents for that method of financing countries. He also stated that the home market was at least 80 per cent of the trade and commerce of the country and that manufacturers and business men generally, by the reduction of wages and the use of machinery (to displace labor) were simply destroying their own market. Mr. W. A. Pritchard, Reeve of Burnaby, followed Mr. Morrison and concurred in all that was said by the previous two representatives, and enlarged to a great deal on all the tta«*.-above mentioned. He also suggested that a committee of experts be appointed by the Government to make a thorough survey of all the industries throughout this country with a view of arriving at some solution for the present problem. Afterwards, Mr. Pritchard was put on oath and gave evidence in regard to the unemployment situation in Burnaby. SEATTLE LABORITE TOPS MUNICIPAL ELECTION POLL In the recent Seattle elections David Levine, secretary of the Jewelry Workers' Union, was reelected Councilman by the largest vote given to any candidate on the ballot. He received 8,000 more votes than given the new mayor, John F. Dore, despite the hard things said against the labor movement by Dore. Levine is a delegate to the Central Labor Council and Is Vice- President of his International Union. -G*"" Patronize ROYAL THEATRE UNFAIR TO THE B. C. PROJECTIONISTS' UNION .•1":>-'■.•-■#,.•-As.. Page Two ... THE ^ABQR STATESMAN — —i—'..iiVi' i' . ■ '--April, 1932 Trades Union Directory LABOR HEADQUARTERS, 529-531 BEATTY STREET , Vanconv.r Trades and Labor Oi President, c. McDonald; general sao- retarjr, Percy R. Bengough. Offlcs, too Labor Headquarters, 831 Beatty St. Phone Sey. 7195. Meets In Labor Hall at 8 p.m. on the first and third Tues- days in month. _K Bsksry and Confectionery Work.rs' In- Urnattooal Union, < Local No. 4(8, meets flrst and third Saturday In month at 7:00 p.m. at Labor Headquarters. President, R. P. Davis; Secretary's Office, Room 304, Labor Headquarters; Hours 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Phone: Sey. 3349. BavsrSsT* Dlspsnssrs' Union, Wo. 878— Meets last Sunday at 8 p.m.,. Room No. 2, Labor Headquarters; second Friday at 10 a.m. at the office. Pres. M. J. Oalvln; Secretary and Bus Agent, T. J, Hanafln. Office: Room 1 Eagles' Hall, 636 Homer st'. Phones Sey. 4783 and Bay. 1656-R. Hours: .9..!a._ p,m. ' .>, . ■ Taxi, Bug. sail Bus Drivers, local 181 —-Meets second Monday at 8 p.m. and second Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. Preal- -dent, C. Kontze. Office, 306 Labor Headquarters; Phone. Bey. 7418.. % Theatrical Stags Employees' Union, Local 118 of the I.A.T.C.E. k M.P.M.O. Meets second Tuesday In Labor Headquarters at 9:30 a.m. President, Geo. W. Allen; Recording Secretary, H. Pearson; Business Agent, 8yd. Summers, address, P. O. Box 711. Union, Ho. 898—Preai- Brldg. and Structural Iron Workers Local 87, Int. Assoc^-Meets 2nd and 4ih Wednesday, Hall 3, .Labor Headquarters, at 8 p.m. President, W Dickson; Secretary, P. Lauret. Room 811, Labor Headquarters. Phones: 's7'Cv SC'y; 74S6; n<"l<lence' H1Kh. Building Trades Counoll, Vanconv.r Meets second and fourth Tuesday In Hall 315, Labor Headquarters. President, E. H. Morrison; secretary-treasurer, W. Page, Room 801, Labor ■ Headquarters. Phone Sey.. 749S. B*j2,r" 'onrnsyman International Union of Amerloa—Local 120, meets second and fourth Tuesdays In each month, In Hall No. 3, Labor Head- quartora. President, Fred -Daws; Sec Treas., C. E. Herrett. Office-.. 20 Labor Headquarters. Typographical dent, C. S. Campbell; Vice-President, T. A. Hdlland; Secretary-Treasurer, R. H. Neelands, 200-2 Labor Headquarters. Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 p.m.. In Hall No. 1, Labor Headquarters. Union Label Trades Counoll meats In HaH No. 4, Labor Headquarters, 629 Beatty Street, last Monday In each month at 8 o'clock. President, C. E. Herrett: Secretary. Mollle Doik. 1587- Flftli Avenue East. Phono High. 477-V. . Prince Rupert Trades & Labor Council MEETS second Thursday In each x" month. President, 8. D. McDonald, Box 268. Secretary, Frank Kerry, Box 488, Prince Rupert.B.C. ? Bookbinders' Local No, month _ Woman's . 108, Int. Broth- Meets second Tuesday in at Professional and Business Empire Bldjr., 80> Club, Hastings W. President Mrs. Harvey. 4187 Quebec; Secretary, Fred Klnsella 3131 Portland St., New Westminster 'H&SSF& !■"„ BasJdBi International Union No. i—Room 309, Labor Headquarters Meets secondhand fourth Wednesday In Hall NoA- President^ L. Padgett. Phone Bafcvlew 1558-R- 20th, Phone Fair. 846-R; Fin. 8«c Albert _Wrlg_ht,_ 4128 Knight Road! Phone Fair. 2005-R. ""rSSoi"! *£? Workers' Federal Labor union No. 31—Vancouver and vicinity. meets every second Wednesday at frt£,m" _,t.6_J.Pow"" s,rM' B. «es- Jr«"v„t,,H' M'"""*"™: Secretary, K. NOTARY PUBLIC P. R. BENGOUGH Secretary Trades & Labor Council Boom 200—831 Beatty Strset Phones; Sey. 7495-8279 The Labor Statesman Published' last Thursday'In month, at Labor Headquarters, Vancouver, B.C. Owned by the Vancouver, «>New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. H. W. Walts, Man. Editor. PRESS COMMITTEE: W. Watt, Chairman; P. R. Bengough (Machinist TradeB); It. 11. Neelands (Printing Trades); Dan McPherson (BuildingTrades); B. Showier (Teaming Trades); T. 1 lanolin (Beverage Trades); C. Herrett (Label .Trades);'Bert Speed (Transportation Trades). Subscription Rates: $2.00 per Year Phone: Seymour 6378 Vancouver, Canada, April, 1932 Union-Made Shoes suyukl. City Hall Employees' Association— H601,8,Rflr'' Wednesday of each n^th at 105 East Pender St. at > p.m. President, E. Mitten; Treasurer and Business Agent, W. J. Scrlbbins, 8208 mi%& 2Veor,tary- J' Tartm<"'' Olvio Bmploxees' Union. Looai SB- Meets first and third Fridays In the month at 261H Hastings _ast at 8 6~'.. p__"<«ent, Jack Wood, 4571 n-H! „Str,eti Secretary-Treasurer, George Harrison. 8487 Triumph Street. THE ONLY UNION-MADE SHOE and Repair Factory In British Columbia. ' W. J. HEADS • 30 West Cordova St. S.y. 3380 MEN'S SHOES FROM 84.95 UP. CORNETT BROS. A CLARK 33 BASS HASTINGS STBBBT Florshelm. Stridors, C. B. & C Men's and Youth's LEGISLATORS ARE TINKERING WITH INDUSTRIAL CHAOS The British Columbia legislature, like most other legislatures and parliaments, is having a hard time to balance its budget, and we find the legislators all at sea in attempting to find ways and means of meeting the expenses deemed necessary to carry on the government of British Columbia. Despite the fact that we have been telling the world for a long time what a rich province we are, in natural resources, we now find that the Government is entirely overlooking these resources in attempting to adjust the difficulties, and proposes to meet the situation by another tax raising rampage, which, at the best, can only tide us over the present chaotic condition for a few months. \ And British Columbia is not alone in its predicament. The Federal Parliament faces a like situation, while across the line, both old parties find themselves facing a volcanic situation, yet without any clear idea as to how they are going to control it. Over in Europe the sit.-. uation is just as tense, if not more so, but they only seem to be attempting to bolster up the decayed economic system instead of getting down to the foots and removing the cause of the cracking up of their institu- mains idle, while' the possessor of that labor power grovels at the feet of relief officials or politicians for the food that most of them are willing and able to produce. ■• If mechanics and laborers of every trade were to be permitted to apply their labor power, their knowledge and experience to the natural resources, what a glorious heritage we could make of this continent Only one thing stands between that heritage and the present economic chaos; that is private ownership of the natural resources and'tho machinery of production. . Does anyone honestly believe -that if the state were to take over all the natural resources, the factories, mills, mines and lands, that no logger would go into the woods to cut timber, that.no miner would go down into the mines and hew the coal or metals; that rio labor would be available to till the soil or man the trains, ships or factories? Would we actually starve because we believed it was morally wrong to take possession of the things needed for human welT fare and happiness? Of course, we would not. We don't refuse to mail letters because the postal service is state owned. Then why should we hesitate at state ownership of mines, mills and factories? Why should we hesitate at depriving a group of private owners of their ownership of the natural resources and machinery when hundreds of thousands of poor people have been deprived of their homes and farms by mortgage coni- _uin.es, bankers and iarm machinery companies? Those private owners would still be able to obtain a high standard of living under state ownership, providing they applied their mental and physical energy to the production and distribution of commodities. And there need be no chaos insthe -change, such as there was in Russia. The factories, mills, mines and timber resources are right at our doors. Transportation facilities are spread over-the country from-farms, mines and seas to the homes in the cities and the rural districts. All kinds of unions have an army of skilled mechanics ready to man every kind of a job., The farmers are pretty well organized now and are on record as being in favor of the nationalization of the land. Too many farmers have lost their farms to hold them to the firivate ownership of land fallacy of eading to prosperity. There is a tremendous supply of foodstuffs and i*S___S*5§*SS&c; HOME m^c,m B c. ^ B.C. 13 YEAR OLD This advertisement is riot published or displayed by the Liquor ... Control Board or by. the. Government of British Columbia. lions. Great Britain may have balanced her budget and politicians "clothing" on hamF to take"care of our may inform us that Britain has needs during ths transition, which .'i^Sl?*1,.1^?,!**?' Xoo,u aw. mterns- tlonsl Brotherhood—Meets Hrst and third Monday, at 8 p.m., at Labor Headquarters. President, D. Mc- Dougal; Business Manager, E. H. Morrison. Office, 201 Labor Head- quarters. Phone Sey. 8610. ' *•*•«. ***_.*«•- »«■ W. International Association of—Meets 2nd or Jrd Thursday at 196 East Pender. Prosl- rhSlS Ni-. Ma?°S»* U3« McLean Wye; Financial Secretary. C. A. WatHon, 162B Bast 13th Avemis WILLIAM DICK, LTD. Union Label Shoes for Hen and Youths. The Hotel and Restaurant Employ... . !^d ,"*"", 0oo»» •»« Stewards.— Local 28, Suits 88, 418 Granville 8t., . meets second Monday each month at 3 p.m., and last Monday at » p.m. President, J. R. Kltto; Socretary- Trcasurer and Business Agent, Harry " ' Phone Seymour 186 Wood. 1*m!n&f£a*£& Saa-Presldent. Thos. .Sills, 1J68 Burrard St; Secretary. P. H. llengough. Office. Room 100, Labor Headquarters. Meets on second snd.fourth Tuesdays In nail 818. BMlk Waa-on Drivers and Dairy Employ, ess, looal 464—Office: 808 Labor Headquartera. Meets second and fourth Fridays In Hall No. 1. President, J. Patersoh; Secretary-Treasurer, Birt Showier, 2841 Triumph. Phone High. 6387. Motion Plotut. Projectionists' Union, local 348, of I.A.T.S.E. 81 MJP.M.O.— Jl:'* P-m., flrst Friday In month, In Hall No. 8 Labor Headquarters. President. Locksley Clark; Secretary, J. C. Richards, Box 846, Phone Douglas 1574-R; Business Agent, J. R. Foster, Phone Trinity 6708. _ Musicians' Mutual ProteoUve Union, looal 148, A. P. of __-Meets st the (i.W.V.A. Auditorium, second Sunday at 18 a-m. President, J. Bowysr; General Secretary, Edward A. Jamie- son. Office, Suite 807-818 West Pender Street. Phone Douglas 3880. i^**".. ^orators BM snipeaiuusjsw, local 188—Meets second and fourth Thursdays at Hall No. I. President, A. B. Hodge; Rec. Secretary. A. B. Varah, 1441 Clark Drive; Financial Secretary. Ed Smith. Office: Room 318. Labor Headquarters. Phone Sey. 8(01. Classified Ads. BARRISTERS ASS SOLICITOUS WallU W. L.f.aux, 408 Metropolitan Building. Phon. Sey. 6887. BATH* Hastings Steam Baths Prices: Private, 40o and BOe; Public, 30o 766 Hastings Street East. . DENTISTS Dr. W. A. Butledge, 108 Hastings West. NOIABY PUBLIC P. X. Bengongh Labor Headquarters. Labor Statesman, Labor H.adquartsrs. TIRES —trass BTBTBHSOH-S '■ Tires Retreaded . :... Jl on up Blowouts Repaired from 81.60 Give us a trial 1366 Granville. Phon. Dons;. 484 One Store Only _I Union Label oa Request 11. F. ST0RRY ft CO. TAILORS Style, Fit and Workmanship Guaranteed *• *V OATBHBT, As.ooUt. Seymour 1383 683 Granvills St. (Upstairs) Pile Drivers, Brldg.^s-jjaj^ and Boos ■Krlii?KflTWw» oTOcfe" in 122 Ilaat'- Ings St. W. President. A. m Jones; Jas. Thomson, Secretary, P. O. Box 320. Phone Sey. 7874. MEN'S SHOES ONLY1 Trick's Shoe Store 148 COBDOVA STBBBT Bams Addr.ss (or 88 T.srsl Plumbers and 8L.mt.tt.rs, _ Ho. WO, International Association—Meets every —Jtcpnd and fourth Friday In Hall No. _ ». .President, Val Pearson, 767 E»st (2nd; Financial Secretary and , Business Agent, W. Watt, 306-7 Labor Headquarters. fijatnur Pressmsn and Assistants, Local Ho. 68—Meets eyery second Tuesday In the month at 8 p.m. In Hall No. 8, Labor Headquarters. President W. W. Qulgley. 2829 r Secretary,"'Trios'" rty-elghth. Thl W. Broadway, Esarf, 1807 East Hallway Carmen of Am.rlca, Lodre Ho. 88—Meets first and third Friday In month nt Labor Headquarters. President, A. S. Hdss, 6806 8ophla Street- Rec, Secretary, J. D. VaUlamy, 2216 ■ West 15th. Street sad Bleotrle Hallway Employe.., . Pioneer Division No. 101—Meets k. p Hal). 8th snd Klncaway, flrst snd third Mondays al 10:16 a.m. and 7 p.m President, J. B. Smith; Recording Secretary, J. Price; Financial Secretary and Business Agent, H. W. Spssd Office: Corner Prior and Main streets Phone Sey. 6000. * £}. "etal Workers' Association, Looal Union No. 880—Meets second and fourth Thursdays In' Hall No. 3. < President, Thos,., Burke: Business Af.0?1 _""« Secretary _. MacPherson, 308 Labor Headquarters. Journ.ym.n Union of Am.rlca, lT»j-MeeJln|S held second month. 8 p.m. Execu- Tailors' Local Ho, Monday, each ni.mtli tlve meets fourth Monday of every month in labor Headquarters. Prssldent. Colin McDonald; Secretary, W. W. Hocken. l!>83 13th Ave. B.; Financial Secretary. H. Nordlund. 1118 llth Ave. E. __B_____g ARE YOU CONSISTENT? Wh.n ordering PBIHTIHO Insist on Union-mads Paper; carrl.d ia stock by A. H. Timms Fsir!i372 836 PonrU.nth ATS. E., Vanconv.r on?, to MO lor uour<Ot\L to-day L. GALLAZIN CUTLEBr AHD BICYCLES Bxpsrt Orlnd.r, law Pll.r a Looksmtta. First Class Work Guaranteed. 804 BICHAHDS ST. PHOHE 8BT. 4088 , ROAD SIGNS There are certainly some unique and fetching signs along the average American highway.' On a trip to Georgia (the .other day. the writer noticed and remembered a few of the best ones: "Stop and Gas with Gus," "Bar-B-Cue," "Hot. Dogs and How!" "Tumble Inn Here," "Est at Big Boy's" and "Speed Limit Eight Miles I an Hour."r—Florida Times-Union. turned the corner towards prosperity, but the three million unemployed and the millions on short time don't notice it. Unemployment or registrations may have gone down a little, according to the government's *a_y of figuring, but there were still 83,615 more out of work in February of this year than in February of last' year, but recent new legislation deprives many unemployed of the opportunity of registering. Germany sits on the top of a volcano. - Anything can happen there because conditions are terrible. Unemployment, bankruptcy, industrial stagnation increases week by week, and she faces the future despairingly, while politicians meddle with -KMdv^kaimes,__reparatioruv—and alleged diplomats from other nations. The re-election of Hindenburg cannot stem the tide of depression, and should the Prussians elect Hitlerites, as seems likely, it may only be the spark to the tinder of further destruction. France's economic situation is very critical and although her diplomats have been making national alignments, preparatory to further conquests, her economic situation at home has been getting worser--The only ray of hone that this mad policy will be discontinued lies in the possibility that the French Socialist Party will be given a majority in the forthcoming April elections. The smaller nations are all suffering in a like manner, and even though Spain and Denmark are bending their energies in the right direction, the surrounding nations, steeped in capitalistic economics, controlled by international bankers, cowed by diplomatic threats, slop around in the mire of the chaotic industrialism which most people still think has possibilities of prosperity. Russia stands out as a beacon light in the turmoil, directing us to the way out, but we are so dogmatic about our ability to pull ourselves out of our present difficulties and obtain the capitalistic prosperity that is around the alleged corner, that we close our eyes to that light. We have been told that we do hot have to suffer the travail that Russia suffered to make this a better world. fJur-we refuse to believe that state ownership will lead us out of the present chaos. • Over in the United States, with its millions of unemployed, its bankruptcies and its destitution, politicians and financiers offer no hope. The only suggestion that J. P. Morgan, the famous financier, can make for the situation is "block aid," or, in other words, each of us giving odd jobs in our block to each other. And others of his ilk, as well as the politicians, can only offer similar remedies^ even ,while the situation is growing worse. While our politicians, financiers and industrialists grope around for remedies, legislative and otherwise, we actually have practically all the material—even in British Columbia —for the carrying on of socialized industry. Add to that the material and natural'resources in the rests of Canada and the United States and we can garner in ptoducts from the Peace River country or from Florida that will meet our most extravagant needs. Our waters team with fish, our woods .with game. Agricultural products of every description'can be obtained from the worked soil. Timber, coal, metals and oils are here in abundance. Vast cattle ranches are available and various means of transportation are at hand to bring everything to our doors. Food, clothing and shelter in possible abundance, but the masses swarm around the relief departments and beg for their sustenance need not take any longer than it takes to open up a factory or mine that has been closed down through lack of orders. Even at the present time an order-in-council can be used to make legislation or a drastic change in our economic life, so we are becoming steeled to necessary economic changes. Of course, planning will be needed to make these changes and carry on state ownership, but that should not be any harder than planning and carrying on the operation of a great war. We would probably have to elect our legislators according to their industrial or scientific knowledge instead of by the political calling, as at present. Perhaps we would have groups, of men forming.^ Food- Administration, a Fuel, Light and Water Administration, a Transportation Administration, a Construction Administration, a Public Welfare Administration, an Engineering Administration, a Distribution Administration, and so on. The members on these administrations would be elected according to their knowledge, and by the workers engaged in that line of work, "as they wpuld be the best suited to know the ability of their man, For mstanoerthe-Fuel, Light and Water Administration would be composed of men with knowledge of the coal industry, the oil industry, hydro-electric, gas, water, etc. The coal miners would choose a man, or men, from their trade, the "electrical- workers one from their trade, and so on, all of whom, combined, would form the administration. The same method would apply to the' transportation administration ; railroads, shipping, highways and airways/ It would probably he found necessary for esch person to have more than one vote in order to elect the public welfare administration, which would take care of health, crime, asylums, aged pensioners, athletics, parks, etc., and the distribution administration, which would take care of placing lab.or at the various tasks, and the distribution of food, clothing, houses, vacations and exchange of food and products coming from other countries. Planning such an administration should not ____*, ytv/e-.»>■.h, job, but as we be no chaos as there was in the Russian situation in Its early stages; because we have every facility ■ right within reach now. There need be no suffering and no hardship, for production has been so mechanized that it only needs the pushing .of a switch, in many instances, to start the wheels of production moving. And it is that swjtch that is going to force us eventually to change over to state ownership, for mechanised industry can turn-out such' tremendous quantities, of commodities that factories, mills and mines have to close down in order that consumption can catch up v/ith production. But at the present time, when a worker is kicked off the job, his pav< stops and it becomes ever harder for him to obtain the goods that would diminish the supply sufficiently to make it necessary to start the factory going again. Under state ownership, when commodities have been piled high, the worker can take a vacation, can travel, etft, but still be in receipt of the state allowance for his past work. Just a little study along-these lines will convince you that state ownership, collective or social ownership, or Socialism, as it is invariably called, is the nearest possible solution to the present .undesirable situation. inn iiiiiiiiiiiiiiillliiliilnlllHlllllllilllliHHIIIIiliillillliiliiliililililillillillli He Knew the Value of Hearing the Voice! His voice had travelled 18,000 miles from Vancouver to Melbourne, Australia—it was the world's longest telephone call. "I placed the call in order to strengthen our business and friendly relations by hearing each other's voice," he said later. . '^. The man who talked with Australia is a member of a Vancouver importing and exporting firm. At the other end of the line was an Australian, head of a company with which the Vancouver concern does business. Neither had ever seen the other. A trip was at the ~~~~." * time impossible. A telephone conversation was considered the next best thing. • - So this Vancouver man' called Australia' to "strengthen business and friendly relations." He knew the value of hearing the voice. B. C. TELEPHONE CO. MIIIIIIIMIIIIIMIIIIMI.IIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll The United Mine. Workers of America, tq which President Green of the A. F. of L. belongs, voted in favor of the six-hour, day, the five «,. i i_ . -—-v« v* *...; "a-iwui uojf, i.ne live- ihc labor power that was formerly day week, and state unemployment applied to these natural resources inj insurance at its annual convention the production of commodities, re-1 last month. • • "Married Love" The ban on that famous book, "Married . Love," written by Marie C. Stopes, has been removed by Federal Judge Woolsey of the United States. We are pleased to announce this to our readers in Vancouver because we know that this book should be in the possession of every married couple, as it., contains solutions to most sex- difficulties and is undoubtedly the best book of its kind on the market, which Will aid in the health and happiness of married people. Women especially should see that their husbands read this book. When it was first published progressive women pushed the sale of it until it was banned by the government, but it was so popular that it kept finding its way into people's hands, Now that the ban has been lifted it should be in the library of every home. It should be pointed out, however, that this book does not deal with "Birth Control." The popular phamphlet written by Margaret Sanger on this subject is still denied the' malls by the PoBt Office Department, although the valuable information is still obtainable. ■In his decision lifting the ban on "Married Love," Federal Judge John M. Woolsey said: "The book, 'Married Love,' does not, in my opinion, fall within these definitions' of the words 'obscene' or ______j^_}lT ifTli_liMt 'Married wWi' considered attempt to explain to married people how their mutual sex life may be made happier. It makes also some apparently justified criticisms of the inopportune exercise, by the man in the married relations, of what are often referred to as his conjugal or marial rights, and it pleads with seriousness, and not without eloquence, for a -belter understanding by husbands of the physical and emotional side of the sex life pf their wives. I do not find anything exceptionable anywhere' in the book and I cannot imagine a normal mind to which this book- would seem obscene or .immoral within the proper definition of those words, or whose sex impulses would be stirred by reading it. The book before me here has as its whole thesis the strengthening of the . centripetal forces in marriage, and instead of being inhospitably received, it should. I think,, be welcomed within our borders. We have no hesitation in recom- meding this book to ourj readers. Its price is -now greatly reduced and can be obtained for $2.00, postpaid, from The Eugenics Publishing Co., Inc., 317 East 34th street, New York City. N. Y. ' *-', High. 3927 Night High. 1444-R Powell Wood and Coal Co., Ltd. SUnshsxl Hotbla.t, Innipi N»nnlmo-W«lHn_ton, Lamp; Bootless Coal, X>unp sad Wat; LsthtarlSr* I Drnmh.ll.r; VbIssum Aldsr BpUtwooa, insla. rir, All I..n_rtns to Ord.r. 1355 POWELL STREET GOOD GLASSES Pric.s Ton Csn Afford To r»y! PITMAN OPTICAL HOUSE IU_stsl»si "■ ' 818 Dodson Hotel "A COOL PARLOR" 23 Hastings Street East B. Wlshsrt ■ Props. . w. Stlrtlng ti»te of Gsntrsl Hotsl) TORONTO CITY COUNCIL REFUSES TO CUT WAGES At last we have discovered one administrative body in Canada with enough backbone to refuse to fall in line with the dictates of big finance. Members of the Toronto City Council, by a vote of 26 to 3, defeated a move to reduce the salaries of all civic employees by 10 per cent, . . PARTS AUTO WRECKING CO. Mil Wsw snd Second-hand Anto sad Trnos Farts for All Oars and Trnoss 2021 Granville Vancouver, B. C SANDY McLEOD '' SHIRT SPECIALIST ' and Men's Furnishings Tria. 2747. 533 Psndsr Wsst TIE-UP AVERTED WHEN PAY CUT IS RECALLED Copenhagen. — The Danish Employers* Association has Withdrawn its demands for a,20 per cent, wage reduction'• and a nation-wide tie-Up of all industry has been averted. • I .All trade union agreements which expire in 198S arc to be prolonged unchanged for another year, according to pledges made by the employers to Prime Minister.Stauning, the Labor Premier, who, With the state conciliator.'mediated the controversy. The women on our street claim they «re the busiest in the city, answering the door bell and saying, "no", to salesmen. April, 1932, ■THE'*LA$OR STATESMAN Page Three THE OPEN ROAD AFOOT WITH JACK LOGIE TMTOT by stinting or rigid economy JJ.nL that hurts but simply by using the street car for your daily trips to town. The cost of a single journey is then only 6}^ cents, Which will enable you to save as much as $150 in the course of a year over the expense of private transportation. And you will find the street car is the most convenient method of travel in the city. It takes you through traffic quickly and safely,'relieving you of driving cares and packing troubles. This means a further saving in mental and physical energy, __.——4. I have had occasion lately to make a few remarks on the subject of "Lenin or Gandhi?". Here are a few notes'" and comments which have arisen out of the discussion, and which may be of interest to our readers. « _ There have been several interpretations of the history of the nations, among them a statement of Napoleon, who said that history was a lie agreed upon. That was probably very true, as history up to that time was largely concerned' with and written in the interests of the ruling class and consisted mainly of a glori- Canada?" I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that we will follow neither. Prophesying about the future is a very unprofitable business, but of one thing we may be reasonably sure and that is that when the hour of our emergency arises, as it may arise in the very near future, the only man who can seize upon the popular imagination and epitomize the voice of the people will be bone of our own bone and flesh of our own flesh, steeped in the traditions and familiar with the psychology and the problems of the Canadian people. He will fication of rulers, military leaders I Pr?fit. by ™, teachings and the m, and the vanities of kings. This was 1 spiration of Lenin and Gandhi, will B.C. ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY II iiiiiiSiSSiaai llli II Ssiiiiiiiiiiii III Many infants are nourished by Pacific Milk when they can take no other food. Better evidence than this to prove that it is good for grown-ups is hardly required. Pacific Milk 100 per cent. British Columbia Owned and Controlled PLANT AT ABBOTSPOBD OOB ' New Furniture Store - IB WOBTK VISITING William Worrall 440 SDYMOITB STBBBT INDEPENDENT UNDERTAKING 00. LTD. C. FBARK BDWABDS B8BOTJ) H. BDWABDS 70S W. Broadway fair. 888 En_T.f. I. L. P. Choir Give Concert. April 9th Conductor: Reeve W. A. Pritchard. Saturday, 8 p.m., April 9th, Strath- cona School Auditorium, corner Jackson avenue and Pender street; admisr sion 10c. j ' . ' 1. Chorus: - (a) "Song to Labor!'.., ' .... (Alan Bush) (b) "Fain Would I Change Thai Note" (Vaughan Williams) Choir. 2. Baritone Solo: "Toreador's Song From 'Carmen' " (Bizet) Harold Pendreigh. $. Tenor Solo: M "My Dreams" (Tosti) -., Len Sturgess 4. Monoluge: Miss Mattenley 5. Soprano Solo: "Alleluia" - (Mozart) Miss Edna Bryant. 8. Sea Chanties...'. , >Geo. Gallagher and Male Chorus. 7. Chorus: "The Viking's Song" (Coleridge-Taylor) Choir. 8.. Duet: "Tenor and Baritone" ■.. (Lane-Wilson) Reeve Pritchard and Geo. Gallagher. 9. Sketch: "In the Jungles" 10. Chorus: "Martyrs of the Arena". _ __t___^;„^,.:.~^_..„_.4Di-BiUe) Choir. 11. Quartette: "Strange Adventure" from 'Yeomen of the Guard" (Gilbert and Sullivan) called the. "great man "interpretation of history and it was not until the time of Herbert Spencer that it was seriously called into question. Then Marx and Engels promulgated their theory of economic determinism and made it plain that the processes of production and exchange were prime ../actors in human progress and 'that great leaders were only bubbles which rode on the crest of the great wave of humanity which we know as the common people. . This may be quite true, but it is also true that when the processes of life are in a state of flux and great changes in the economic life of- a people have brought their corresponding urge for fundamental social adjustment as well, a great leader usually appears. He seems to act as the interpreter of the new era to his fellow countrymen and, by holding aloft in the vanguard of progress the flaming torch of his. genius, inflames the imagination and enthusiasm of the mass so that the desired changes are accomplished and a great onward step in human evolution brought into effect. In this era we have had two such leaders, Lenin of Russia and Gandhi of India. What was there remarkable about Lenin and in what did his greatness consist? He was above all a man with a single purpose in life and a definite aim, from which he never swerved for an instant. He lived only for the emancipation of the working class, particularly of his own country, and, in spite of obstacles and discouragements, which to an ordinary man would have seemed insurmountable, he fought on and lived ' to see his cause triumph, largely due to his wonderful genius. lie was a clese student and follower of Marx and yet was too great to be bound by any formula- which failed to fit into the heed of the moment The Marxian theorists of Europe declared that it was an absolute impossibility for Russia to leap at one bound from a country which was backward industrially, and only one step removed from feudalism, into a full fledged Socialist state. Only last year Karl Kautsky, one of the foremost Marxian scholars of Europe, wrote a book to prove that the Russian Socialist Soviet Republic had no right to exist because it was contrary to Marxian-theoryr—How ever, the revolution is a fact which he cannot get around, and it succeeded largely because Lenin was able to adapt his formula to the needs and aspirations of the common people of Russia. When Lenin was in England the workers said that Plekhanov was a great teacher but that Lenin was know the theories of Marx and other Socialist thinkers ami will be uncompromising in his pursuit of the goal of economic freedom, but he will not lie the slave of any formula, economic, religious or social. He will preach a gospel greater than any of these—the gospel of humanism. He will take as his main thesis the ending of slavery and the exploitation of one human being by another and the measure of his greatness will be the. measure of his sympathy and understanding with that cry which is arising from the hearts of the poor and .lowly, an appeal which must be answered, and speedily, if our civilization is to endure. The heather is aflame and in a few short months the blaze will illumine' all the Western sky. The people of Canada are being aroused as never before and the social revolution draws very near. There will be no violence as our whole psychology is foreign to it, and the change will come because the people as a mass demand It. The hour may produce the man, but let us remember that true liberation can only come from within and that by our individual response to our country's needs and by our energy, enthusiasm and self- sacrifice in the interest of the new Socialist state will we be judged in the days which are to come. RED STAR DRUG STORE ♦The Mail Order Druggist" Ws HAS* s Special Effort to O.t Goods Out by rlrst stall After Receipt of Your Order. COBWEB COBDOVA AND C ABB ALL VABTCOVTM, B.C. :'V-1 A. B. HARRON Phone N. V. 134 North Van^jjuver J. A. HARRON Phone Fair. 131 65 Tenth Ave. E., MSON' Q. M. WILUAMSOX Phone >-air. 131 65 .Tenth Ave. E. f arrmt Iro0. & OTiUtantHon FUNERAL DIRECTORS 55 EAST TENTH AVErJUE PHONE FAIR. 134 Empress Manufacturing Company Limited Ksnafsotarsrs or Jams, Jellies and Marmalade, Baking Powder, Extracts, Pickles, Catsup RADIO SERVICE Wbsb you want It— At s pries yoB.11 Ilk* BEPAXBS TO AM. HAKES Day Service Trinity 8783 Night Service: Bsy. 3648-X RICHARDSON & HOWARD 938 Vender St. W. BalMte Specialists the fine contribution of the women's section and their capable handling of the social features of the group. —E.S.H. I. L P. Notes SOUTH HILL BRANCH The South Hill Branch of the Independent Labor Party (Socialist) is rather rapidly building up a strong organization. The membership is growing' at a satisfactory rate, and includes some particularly capable exponents of the science of socialism. Business meetings are held, on the second Wednesday of each month, and organizational and propaganda meetings are held on the fourth Wed nesday of each month. Weekly propaganda meetings are contemplated, and arrangements for conducting them are now under discussion. Too much publicity cannot be given at this time to the aims and objec-U of the Party, and all branches are urged to increase their efforts to build up their membership. —E. M. MORGAN. PORT COQUITLAM BRANCH The Port Coquitlam Branch has been in existence about three months. It has already a membership of over sixty and is growing -rapidly. - We have held two public meetings. The first was addressed by Dr. Lyle Telford and Comrade Winch. The second by Mrs. Lorimer and Alderman Anderson, Classes are now being formed for -the study of-social economics,-both for young people and adults. . We hope to arrange another mass meeting for April 21st at the Agricultural Hall, and are making preparations for open air meetings during the summer months. The next business meeting will be held in the Club Rooms at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 7th. —W. H. ROWLANDS. WEST VANCOUVER BRANCH The regular._jneeting held in...the Legion Hall on Wednesday, March 9th, was well attended. The speaker, Dr. W. J. Curry, gave a very interesting talk and answered many questions asked him from the floor of the meeting. The whist drive and dance held in the Orange Hall on March 17th was another of the very popular affairs put on by the Branch. The music of their comrade. The real secret of,__ „ -...,.. _, . . his greatness was that he knew and|the Squamish Indian Orchestra was understood his people and "never' Ibsri*nwH_bJ__!!,?ro,ie _f__s__nt-. contact with them. He was never too busy to talk to the workers from the factories or the peasants from the villages, and while never losing sight of his ultimate goal was always SOUTH HILL BRANCH . Tht South Hill Branch has shown great activity this year. Both men and women members have been trying to outdo each other in bringing the I. I.. P. before the people in this district, in the shape of socials and propaganda meetings. The ladies held two socials to get the ladies of the district interested, one in the home of Mrs. Davies, in the shape of a whist drive and refreshments, the other held in the' home of Mrs. Steen, where a paper was rend "by Mrs. Davies on "Some of the Women of Bernard Shaw's Plays." Refreshments were served. Collection taken on both occasions goes to help to finance tbe Branch. The local held two successful propaganda meetings. Dr. Telford addressed one meeting with an attendance of over three hundred. Comrade Winch addressed the other with a very appreciative audience. - Valuable advertising was done~by Comrades Walton and Campbell with their big truck and organ. The next propaganda meeting is April 6th. Comrade Jack Davies will address the meeting at the Horticultural Hall, 41st and Fraser. Our regular business meeting is held every second Wednesday in the month at the above hall. . : -Q.8TOBN. Demand- DAD'S ORIGINAL -OATMEAL COOKIES A Health Cookie Simply Delicionsl DAD'S COOKIE COMPANY Phone Bay. 8780 2626 West Fourth Ave., Vancouver Main Radio Shop Invites demonstrations on ths following makes of Badlos: Phllco, Can. Osn. Bleotrlo, Sparton, Westlnffhons., Bolster, Atwater-Kont, Phonola, Majestic, Borers, Ecophone. Ws Givs liberal Txad.-ln Allowance. MAX* RADIO ■■or 3828 Main Pair. 4404 Demand VAN BROS.' Pure Apple Cider LIONS GINGER AXE-o»— ORANGE KIST Ths only Union Soft Drink Plrm In Vsneonv.rl Phon* I Hlg-h. 80 1088 V.rnon Sr. When You Think of Bowl st th. Bowling t ths Pender Alleys 8 and 10 Pins 338 PESTDBB STBEET WEST Phon. for B.servatlons—S.y. 8073.0 ... ,, . ,, ... „. ' I o _u. fi ins uiLiiiiuie kiui vvua always Miss Edna Bryant, Mrs. Alice able to chanKe his po?ic ,„ Ae ^^ 13. 14. [I : >*VrStf*.nd- R.i.in Bread, Pastry, Meat Piss, and Pumpkin Piss. THE ESTHER BAKERY Phon.l MtMaa 1308 3728 Hastings street east After 5 o'clock Phone Fraser 76JL-1 Day I'honc: l:rsscr 167 FRANK PARSONS ART FLORIST WREATHS AND WIDDINO BOUQUETS MAD! UP GREENHOUSES; 7059 Wales Road, Vancouver, B.C. PBOBB SET. 3800 Star Steam laundry CO. LTD. 1118 BIOHABDS STBBBT Also Pan-Co-Vesta Dry Cleaners , . 547 How. Street Phone B.y. 8834 Wickens, Mr. Len Sturgess and Mr. Geo. Gallagher. 12. Chorus: "Italian Salad" (Genee) Choir. Soloist, Geo. Gallagher Violin Solo: "1st Movement 2nd Concerto" (Wieniavsky) Hans Zschiednch. Chorus: "Fantasia" from Gounod's "Faust" .„:. Choir. Chorus: "AM, Good-night" (arr. Felix White) Choir. Pianist for the Soloists: Miss Isabel Stones. Pianist for the Choir: Mr. Harry Davis. —Geo. Gallagher. 15. HANDMADE WORK BOOTS. M. Lang & Co ° 535 mai'' S URUGUAY URGES STATE- OWNED PACKING PLANTS •4HT_ffi_vWof—'Uruguay has proposed state-owned packing houses in Argentina and Brazil, similar to Uruguay's state- owned plant, as the keystone of a tripartite agreement designed to free live stock breeders of the three republics from domination by United States and British packers. The Uruguayan delegation to the tripartite economic conference here declared that each country must be prepared to produce its own chilled beef and other meat products and to offerr it In competition with private packers, believing that this is more practical than trying to control ths output of foreign packers established in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. FORCED FARM SALES RISE; VALUES HIT PRE-WAR LEVEL Washington.—During the year ending last March 15, forced sales of farms through financial default' rose to 26.1 farms per 1000 compared to 20.8 in 1929-1930, the tfnited States Bureau of Agricultural Economics stated in its annual review of the farm real estate situation. Farm land values, the .report said, have declined nearly to the pre-war level. (MACHINISTS GIVE $8,000,000 TO JOBLESS BROTHERS Unemployed members of the International Association of Machinists have, because of their union affiliations, received assistance of more than eight million dollars during 1930 and 1931, General Secretary- Treasurer E. C. Davison announced. per or needs of the people might dictate. In short, he was a statesman, and, as Bertrand Russell says, "This century may well come to Be called the century of Lenin." From Lenin the . Revolutionist we turn to Mahatma Gandhi, the saint; The word, Mahatma, comes from two words, "Maha," great, and "Atma," soul. The word also denotes one who has transcended all human evolution and is one with all life. We are all familiar with this fragment of a man with his goats and his spinning wheel. We need not laugh at his sparse garments, as two years more of Bennett will make Gandhi the best dressed man in Canada. As Sarajini Naidu said: "It is im possible to meet Gandhi in the flesh; you can only meet him in the bone The man is pure spirit and his slightest word is law to millions of his fellow countrymen.—We--may Uugh at him a good deal in the West, largely because we are unable to understand him, but they do not laugh at him in India. Better than any other living being .he embodies the aspirations of the starving millions of India and their desire for liberation and, in his philosophy of Ahimsa or harmlessness, he expresses marvel- ously the spirituality of that great people. When asked lately if he would welcome intervention by the League of Nations,.he said: "No; liberation cannot be handed to anyone on a golden platter, but must come as an intense desire from within." He thinks that India must work out her own salvation, in her own way, and that her way of non-violent non- co-operation is best and will prevail in the end. He thinks that if you cannot take your religion into your political life then you had • better change your religion, and derives much cf his inspiration from K_uskin, Tolstoi and Christ, while at the same time remaining loyal to the faith in which he was bom. His attacks on Western capitalism would satisfy any Socialist/and he sees in the spinning wheel a means of escaping from the slavery of the machine. As Tagore-} says, "He has made the whole of India powerfully self-conscious," and there are no prison walls high enough to stop the influence of a man like that. Now I may be asked, "Which of these two great leaders' of human Whist started" at 8 p.m. with 30 tables in play and dancing at 9 with as many more people dancing. Comrade W. W. Lefeaux gave a short talk, while the orchestra was having refreshments. The following were the prize winners: Ladies' 1st, Mrs. Stitt; ladies' 2nd, Mrs. T. Smith; ladies' Sealed No., Mrs; A. Chisholm. Gents' 1st, Mr. J. H. Paterson; gents' 2nd, Mr. D. Dewar; gents' Sealed No., Mr. Jerry Griesdale. The draw prize was won by Mr73. E. Wilson. Mr. Paterson very kindly donated his prize to the I. L. P. funds. Another whist drive was field on March 31st in the Orange Hall. CENTRE BRANCH Our efforts during the past month have been a little more successful than previous. Our social committee had a successful whist drive to augment the fund necessary to pay off our election expenses. We also had fairly large crowds turning out to. our Sunday evening lectures, which caused us to try a larger hall. The, .„ . , __________-_*--_____t-»_-_, Legion -Hall,opposite the WO~Mim^c*^£ con*»faicatsWm.iut trance to the Orpheum Theatre, on Seymour street The speakers stirred up a good deal of discussion on socialism generally, which has been very instructive to our audiences. The, speakers this past month have been Jack Davis, Dr. Telford, Reeve Pritchard,,W. W. Lefeaux and John Sidaway. One ' good result of our activity is the growth of our membership. That itself gives the branch a stimulant to increase its efforts. Another interesting event takes place in Strathcona Auditorium, namely, the concert being held by the I. I.. P. Choir on Saturday, April Hth. The price for admission is only 10c. Reeve Pritchard is to be the conduetor. • —S.H. CARLETON-NORQUAY BRANCH This branch continues in active operation with a series of bi-monthly labor propaganda meetings that are well attended. " . ' The Educational Forum has a number of outatandin gspeakers arranged for the coming months. In order to widen the interest and extend the influence of the Labor Socialist group in this district, friendly contacts are made with other community groups featuring courteous discussion and active propaganda. In this way the constructive Socialist platform and the principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth arc- presented to an audience not usually in touch with, or understanding of, the Labor poltical viewpoint Much of the success of the Carle- NORTH BURNABY BRANCH A bear goes to sleep in the winter, while an I. L. P. Branch has a' tendency to be less active id the summer months. The sunshine out of doors, the beaches, and the call of the hills and the open spaces all slow down our activities; oiled floors and growing pains also retard. Our branch has had a very active winter. Social and propoganda efforts were successful till now ,but as spring comes on, and the financial stringency becomes more stringent, so that fewer are able to pay even our small dues, it is apparent our activities must become less, and also necessary to give up our hall for the summer. . - Our boys' and girls' clubs found it impossible to continue in the hall, as it was not suitable for athletics. To save the clubs it was necessary to come under the Community Hall Capital Hill Sports Committee, so we had to bid goodbye ..to our clubs and accept divorce with as good grace as possible. We'll try again in the fall from a different ajifjje perhaps. The London Bakery Gold Wheat Bread Fairmont 122 439 7th Ave. E. lire should be sent to the new secretary, Mr. S. Reynolds, 4564 Albert street Vancouver, B;. C. Phone: Glen. 396-R. ' , . ('/ —J.T WORSLEY, Correspondent. Port Coquitlam has organized a branch with over fifty members. Regular propaganda' and business meetings are being arranged. Comrade Geo. Palmer, who was "elected organizer by the convention, has gone to Russia. First hand information will, in due course, be available by correspondence » . . The various eastern provincial organizations are solidly supporting the proposal for a Dominion-wide organization'. When this is effected the next all-important undertaking will be to unite all working-class revolutionary organizations into a co-ordinated body. • e * Weekly economic classes are held n the Williams Building, Hastings and Granville streets, every Tuesday at 8 p.m. Text-book, Marx "Capital." Instructor W. W. Lefeaux. JACK STEARMAN Ujaltsa for KABDWABB ana TOOLS), Sts. Phon. Bsy. 8408. Ws D.llv.r. 8M> OSVABTIXUI, Corn.r sTslsea Truss Torture Eliminated by W.arlnr Oar Support. A. Lundberg Co. 838 rulir St. W., Tsaooavsr, B.C. Almond E. Harper DOOIOB OP OHIBOPBACTIO 148 HASTINGS WEST SET. 1780 ALBERTA ROOMS JM atoa.rn, Convenient—The. »).st for Lsssl •88 BOBSOB, COBWEB OBAjrTTXLB LABOR, FARMERS IN POLITICAL ALLIANCE Regina,' Sask.—A political alliance has been formed between the United Farmers of Canada (Saskatchewan section) and the Independent Labor Party. —Their Jointplatform calls Tor free" exchange of commodities with Great Britain, reduction of freight rates on the Hudson Bay railway, lower marine insurance rates from Churchill, complete government ownership of railroads, - graduated income tax to provide relief for the jobless, government control of currency and representation of all political parties .. at the forthcoming Imperial Econo- _ mic Conference. - 221.635 RAILROAD WORKERS LOST THEIR JOBS IN YEAR The number of rail workers in the United States dropped from 1,366,- , . — 558 in December, 1930, to 1,138,923 I ploltation of Ignorant or poverty- in the same month of 1931—which stricken workers who cannot collect means that 221,835 railroad em-1 under existing regulations. Wants wage default classified as theft New York.—The New York Federation of Women's Clubs recently adopted a resolution indorsing a law to put non-payment of wages In the same category as theft. It was explained that the law does not affect legitimate employers who pay wages regularly, but is designed to stop the present shameless ex- „ ...... ■■■■■■■ w. «*•»..•(• i ...urn w* mic ouucsb ui uic t-arte-1 pioy progress shall we fellow here in I ton Branch is directly attributable to i year. ployeea lost their jobs during the j Patronize our advertisers. Si_- PBSssjssssssj Page Four THE LA B OR STATESMAN April, 1?»2 UNION TAXI CABS GRAY CABS . ' •. . " ttoWEST RATES IN VANCOtTVER No Charge for Extra PaMen_.tr.. Union Drivers. You only psr for dietance you actually travel! SEY. 7131 B. C. MOTOR TRANSPORTATION LTD. 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Bohemian Beers and Old Country Ale and Cream Stout Wage Cuts Cannot •' Stop Depression Comparison of living costs in 14 European cities with those in the United States, just completed by the International Labor Office at Geneva brings out in striking fashion the long-recognized fact that low living standards are the product of low wages. ' ' It also developed that, contrary to popular belief; cost of living in European cities is surprisingly high, in view>£ the fact that wages are so low. Combined, these conclusions are declared by leading conomists to "cast serious doubt on the economic justification of wage reductions as a means of bringing down prices or opening up a way out of the depres- LAMONTS SON TO RULE SOVIET CATTLE INDUSTRY Denver, Colo.—Robert P. Lamont, Jr., "son of"She Secretary of Commerce, left here for Moscow, Russia, to consider a scheme of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the development of the cattle industry. He owns a 15,000 acre ranch near here, ' ~Ur The Soviet Union, Mr. Lamont said wants its cattle breeding problem handled in a scientific way- to increase the number of cattle so as to raise the per capita consumption of live stock to 100 pounds a year, which would place it on a parity with the United States. CONFISCATES CAPITAL parliament Lend Me Your Eyes! (By BILL) The Roumanian parliament is shortly due to take up-the extremely vital and almost revolutionary bill providing for reduction of farmers' private debts and mortgages by half, and prolonging them for 30 years at a low interest rate, with the state as intermediary and guarantor., The bill amounts to a partial confiscation of capital and is expected to cause embarrassment to some banks, but the government holds it will place the country's financial system on a much sounder basis. The relief measure was promised to the farmers by King Carol on his return to the throne. GOVERNMENT WHEAT - TO RELIEVE THE NEEDY Washington.—The Senate Committee on Agriculture urged the Senate to enact legislation to give to charity 40,000/000 bushels of the 189,000,000 bushels of wheat now held by the Federal Farm Board. Senators Capper of Kansas' and Wheeler of Montana sponsored the donation. President Hoover has opposed any direct appropriation from the Federal Treasury for feeding or clothing the needy, on the -ground that it would amount to a dole. He has not expressed himself on the wheat donation proposition. The resolution prescribes that the wheat shall be distributed by the Red Cross or any other charitable organization designated by the President. This I advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia 40-HOUR WEEK FOR ONTARIO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES North Bay, Ont.—Every employee ol__the Temiskaming and JJorthern Ontario -Railway, owned and operated by the Ontario provincial government, has been placed on a 40- hour week.- j The object is to keep', if possible, all forces working during the present depression. Road in Good Condition The annual report shows that the net earnings (or profits) ol.the.road in 1931 were But 1.6 per cent lower than in 1930^ that they totalled $949,000; and it adds that the railway "has never been in a better financial or physical condition." The road is ably and efficiently managed, compares with the best examples, of efficiency anywhere under private ownership. cUhe (Perfect Spring Tonic OLD MILWAUKEE BOCK BEER Is a rich, body-building matt beverage. It b tbe Master Brewer's annual spring treat O Old Milwaukee Bock Beer is a special brew that Is aged and matured for. aa unusually long period. It is made from specially prepared roasted matt, which gives It a satisfying strength and a delightfully different flavor. fr^W Milwaukee Bock Beer is on sale in bottles at Government Stores or on draught, by the glass, at licensed premises. It b no higher in price than ordinary beer. A Product of Coast Breweries Limited Vancouver, B.C. This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Colombia. At Victoria. An Asylum., No Argument. My Character. Daily Province. Con.cience. Considerable excitement arose in the House in Victoria when Mr. Pat- tullo referred, to the burlesque that was going on in the Asylum. He was immediately ruled out of order by Speaker Davies, who objected to calling the house of legislation an asylum. Mr. Pattullo objected to the ruling and suggested they look up their dictionary, where they would find out what asylum meant Mr. Pattullo is right, and, besides, he has been in the house a long time, and has ben associated-with them all, and should be fully acquainted with each and every one. However, I have looked up my dictionary and here's what I find: ''Asylum—a sanctuary or place of refuge where criminals and debtors were sheltered from justice; an institution for receiving and ameliorating the condition of persons laboring under bodily defects, or mental maladies,, as the blind, the deaf and dumb, the insane, etc." Now, just let us analyze the different definitions. First, the dictionary states "a place of refuge where criminals and debtors were sheltered from justice." Well, legislators have committed many crimes and mostly against the workers. Take, for instance, Mr. Jones' one per cent tax on the workers. No one can deny that the Government are debtors, look at the amount of money they owe, not forgetting the unemployment money which the Federal government swears they sent to Victoria, but which the municipalities can't get Just ask Reeve Pritchard if they owe them, in Burnaby, any money. And they sure are sheltered from justice." due to the fact that we can't get them out until next election, and we hope it will be soon. Now then, it states that an, asylum is a place where there are "persons laboring under mental maladies, as the blind, the deaf and dumb, insane, etc." We know they sure are - laboring under delusions and have got some crazy ideas. Look, for instance, at all the tools and machinery they have bought for the relief camps, and a -great deal of it was bought in the United States; and the camps are almost unoccu- Eicil. And the latest bee that they ave got in their bonnet is a SI fishing license. No doubt, Mr. Jones heard that many of the unemployed, who were not eating very regularly, had got into the habit of getting their rod or line and catching a few fish for the family supper, so he says here's where we grab one more buck from the worker. Last, but not least, it states "the blind, the deaf and dumb." Absolutely no argument but what they have got all these defects; in fact, we know most of them are blind to the needs of the masses. We have been shouting to them for years, trying to get some most necessary labor legislation, but they seem to be deaf to all our appeals. And can anyone dispute the fact that we have a large number of dumb persons in the sanctuary, legislature, asylum, or whatever you desire to call it. We know there are representatives over ther who never open their mouths—except at meal times —from the start of the session to the end of it But, of course, don't take my word for it, just look up the proceedings of the legislature and see for yourselves. After looking .all over the evidence, and giving them the benefit of the doubt—if there ever was any—I feel sure you will agree that Mr. Pattullo was right. * * • .Once before, for some reason, I mentioned something about getting my fortune told, but, of course, this is a different occasion, and it happened at a church fair. A beautiful —not too young—dark lady prevailed upon me to donate fifty cents, and for this small sum she would read my character if I would let her hold my hand. Well, I felt it was safe to let her go ahead. She said the way she could tell was by looking at the lines. I never knew I had so many; she pointed out the heart line, the life line, and about everything but the P. G. E. line. She said that I had had a lot of trouble, and I asked her if she was married, too. She said I was going to have a'lot more trouble, but I told her I was in the plumbing game and that was not news to me. She told,me to beware of a dark woman. I told her that I would; I always was. Now I'll sdmit I enjoyed it, but as a way of reading a man's character it's no good. My character may have been O.K. when she started, but. the longer she held my hand the worse it got And that brings me to my subject: the Conservative Government at Victoria and the Daily Province. We all know the Daily Province has been holding the hand of tho Conservatives for a long time, and they sure have said a Tot of good things about them. In fact, then- character was, perfect! everything they did was right, but, lo and behold, look what has happened? The Daily Province has awakened: they found the longer they held hands, the worse the chsrscter of the Conservatives got; in fact their character hss gob so bad that the paper dropped them like a hot brick! The Daily Province is now telling the people in British Columbia of the incompetency of the Government now in power. They are telling the people exactly, word for word, just what The Labor Statesman has been telling them for a long time. You know the old saying, "it's a great life if 'you don't weaken," but here's a better one, "it's a great life if you weaken just a little?' Be good, but don't be so darn good that you're no good. It takes a strong man to say no, but he's a lightweight compared to the man who can say i that's enough. And that's what the Daily Province has said. Here's what the editorial in the Daily Province of Vancouver Drug Company (1928) Limited DRUGS AT HALF-PRICE GREAT KAXF-PBICE SALE OP DBTJGS AMD BXT/O SUNDRIES AT ALL OTJB STORES. S.s Thursday's Province sad Sun tor Poll List. 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Ask for our folder, "A New Horizon." It will show you an easy way to buy $1,000. The Royal Bank of Canada Vancouver Branch • ■ • A. T. Lowe, Manager 24 offices in Vancouver. 63 branches in British Columbia HARD TIMES, ISN'T III HIDDEN WEALTH —FOUND MONEY I Dig out your Scrap (iold, Bridgework, Old Jewelry; I pay cash for It TAKE YOUR WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY REPAIRS TO 438 RICHARDS STREET, (Near Pender) THE OLD COUNTRY EXPERT As I can save you money on your repairs E. C. APPLEBY Bromley & Demoray Are On Unfair List At the last regular meeting of the Trades and Labor Council, the firm of Bromley & Demoray, painters, was placed on the "We Do Not Patronize" list of the council. This was done at the request of the Painters' Union, who find this firm is breaking down decent working conditions in their trade. Union men and women in other trades are urged to aid the Painters' Union in combatting this firm. The Socialist Parliamentary Party of Franco has introduced a five-day week bill into the French Parliament. March 8th says about the Conservative Government, and the party: "What have they to their credit that anyone should wish to affiliate with them? They have msde a sorry mess of it Extravagance,1 inefficiency, deficits, debts, borrowings, patronage, the pork barrel, the P. G. E., wasted resources, and mounting tax bills. -They played politics with the heritage of {he people; they administered for party advantage. It is hardly conceivable any system could have done worse. Liberal snd Conservative are both alike, and where is the incentive for any man to join either party? What can he hope- to gain for his province by such affiliation T How can he expect to escape being marked by the tar with which the parties are smeared." Yes; folks, that's just part of it, and I read it twice, snd I then looked at ths top of the psper to make sure. Yes, it was tile Daily Province in big print These utterances from the Daily Province sre no doubt a great surprise to many, and it is hard to understand the sudden awakening to the true state of affairs. Mr. Butterfield in one of his articles dealing with the subject "Conscience" msy have been right when he said "There is no doubt that one's conscience does rot, but spparently It does not disappear. It seems to lie dormant for the more active years of one's life, and then rises up andl asserts itself st the most amazing times." However, we fully endorse every word The Province has said; their conscience has risen snd asserted itself, and we only hope they will keep up the good work. A few more similar editorials and no doubt the Government will throw the sponge into the ring.. . ,1 " FARMERS BROADCASTING The "United Farmers of Canada, B. C. Section, have arranged for a series of weekly broadcasts over CJOR, covering the next six months. These will take place each Thursday evening from 7:45 to 8:00 p.m. These broadcasts are for the purpose of putting the programme of the organization before the public. BLOCK $224,000,000 WORK FUND New York.—Big banking interests have succeeded to date in forcing city officiols to scrap plans for $224,- 000,000 worth of public works which the municipality had intended to.get under way during 1932. Although the city is the richest in the world and its credit is rated at "100 per cent, plus," the bankers have tightened up on the purse strings" and have refused to handle bond and loan transactions which ordinarily are regarded as "routine." Now that some razor manufacturers give swsy razors as an inducement to buy blades, why should not dairies give swsy half-pound packages of rolled oats with every qusrt of milk? DICK'S for Clothing Style -- Quality - Value! From our extensive stock of high grade clothing st moderate prices you csn get • better selection snd more value per dollar. 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