The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-02-02
issued: 1946-11
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0439482/source.json
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note: Tn ..JBHEB*5E S UP PORTED BY N I MET Y - T W Q LO C AL UNIONS S TO EACH UNION ** MEMBER THE POLITICAL PARTY CHOICE LABOR STATESMAN OWNED BY THE VANCOUVER, NEW WESTMINSTER AND DIS: }ePmm TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL(t/2V* BUILL7 STRONG UNIONS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER 575. VANCOUVER, CANADA, NOVEMBER, 1946 Established 1924 BIG BUSINESS MAN HAS AMAZING SPEECH FOR BUSINESS MEN President Of Big Business Firm Tells Group Of Business Men How They Get Their Business—An Increasing Standard Of Living For Workers Best Business Booster HPHE AGE OF MIRACLES HAS NOT PASSED. Here we find a big business man telling a group of "super market" operators that they should realize that their businesses' depend upon the income of the employees in industry. He says that the standard of living of the workers shoud be ever increasing and that by 1970 it should be 100 per cent higher than what it is today. When business men get together, they usually have a good time "pan ning" organized labor and the "New Deal." An extraordinary exception occurred this week at Chicago. ' Charles . Luckman, president of Lever Brothers Company, a Big Business concern which makes and sells soap in both Britain and the United States, got down to "brass tacks" and did some blunt speaking to other business men. These were the operators of "super markets" all over this country. "Your business," Luckman pointed out, "depends for its income on the market basket of Mrs. Joe Doakes "The way Mrs. Joe sets her table and keeps her home depends on the living standard her husband is able to provide. If that living standard continues to rise, then the super markets will prosper and expand. If that living standard falls, your business will suffer and contract. "That obvious fact suggests implications which we in business have been prone to overlook. The first is that we must do more than pay lip service to the ideal of a rising standard of living for the American wage earner. "In thinking about that for my own company, I came acr…
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: 10.14288/1.0439482
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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