http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0439462
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-02-02
issued: 1950-04
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note: —SM^^* ****—*— V I I 'of* *<r SUPPORTED BY ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR LOCAL UNIONS TO EACH UNION MEMBER THE rOUTICAL PARTY or HI! CHOICE No. 616. BOR STATESMAN, BY THE VANCOUVER, NEW WESTMINSTER AND DISTR CT M MAY 5 1950 RAPES & LABOR COUNCIL L InHnnl VANCOUVER, CANADA, APRIL, 1950 -Uta-lis-erj 19.4 BUILD STRONG UNIONS FOE SOCIAL SECURITY 1 th . WHAT THEY SAID. Fair Chance for Everyone Is Goal "We do not want to hand life on a silver platter to every newborn child in America. Nobody can do that, and it would not be a good thing if it could be done. "But we do wajnt to make sure that'every person in the United States ia given a fair chance—a fair chance at edcuation, a fair chance at health, a fair chance to enjoy his declining years, a fair chance to keep his home together in times of economic distress."— Federal Security Administrator, Oscar Ewing. Taxes Hurt Little Guy Theoretically we are taxed according to our ability to pay, but nearly always the man who really gets hurt is the little fellow ... He is the unorganized he has no lobbyist or pressure groups behind him. When he cries, his is the small, thin voice in the wilderness. He may fume and fret, but he pays up."—The country's leading authority on taxation, Jacob K-. Lasser, in the New York Times Magazine. _=— Our Old Folks "Old age homes and a pension scaled just above survival level merely transform a potentially valuable social group into an isolated status in which they are fair game for political charlatans!" Dr. Max Jacobson. _._ My Religion "The world is my-Csmntry,' all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.'—Thomas Paine. Toil Is the Law "If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it; toil is the law." —Ruskin. Better Life Open To AH "The applications of science yet to come are manifold and far- reaching, With them we can establish a standard of living in this country far higher than we have ever had; we can make more goo…
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The Labor Statesman
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439462
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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