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: 1933-11
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note: Canada Needs a lot of new blood in its Federal and : Provincial . Parlia- [ mentt to speed us towards industrial recovery. SUPPORTED BY SIXTY-TWO LOCAL UNIONS Higher Wages and Shorter Hpurs is the Big American slogan how being used- in<vefforts towards industrial —,—.recovery. 'Na421. '* VANCOUVER; ■CANADA... NOVEMBER. 1933 Price, Five Cents We Must Organize or We Per ish Say s Hugh Johnson QRGANIZATlON OF INDUSTRY and of the workers is eraphat, ^ ically stressed by Hugh S. Johnson, chief administrator of the National Recovery Act in the United States. The'millions"of employers and the millions of employees must get organized, he said, in order to properly control'the complex industrial machine which now disrupts the industrial system .utrder which all tjie human family is'compelled to exist. Mr. Johnson is a power in the land at present, and he has had very wide financial and industrial experience. . • Organize or perish! That was the solemn warning sounded to the country recently by NRA Administrator Hugh S. Johnson in, »__ adt dress delivered to the A. F. of L. convention in Washington and broadcast over a nation-wide radio hookup. "The first and fundamental idea of the Recovery Act is organization to the ultimate," he said. "Seven*' million industrial operations cannot act on a general plan without some system of organization, neither can 40,000,000 individual workers. The plan is to get complete co-operation by organization—the organization of each great industry and parallel with it the' organization of workers in each great industry. "The old order has gone forever. The roaring, clacking,, soulless "corn- sons for the Recovery Act. That is wby it provides for the organization of both and that is why its ultimate purposes must be carried to completion. . "When a system reaches a point where willing men under it cannot get a living by their own honest efforts, it has outlived its usefulness and for four years our system has failed in this regard. "It is an act …
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: 10.14288/1.0439289
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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