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: 1947-11
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note: .:,T,; ^gasrfo^gg SUJ»PORTI_D BY ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR LOCAL UNIONS TO EACH UNION MEMBER THE POLITICAL PARTY OF HIS CHOICE LABOR a TATE^ OWNED BY THE VANCOUVER, NEW WESTMINSTER AiND Dl TRADES & LABOR COUNCI lent of Labour R J5TC E I V E 'D DEC 2 1947 LIBRARY j BUILD STRONG UNIONS FOB .SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER 587. VANCOUVER, CANa^DA, NOVEMBER, 1947 Established 1924 WHAT THEY SAID • • F.D.R. And Living Wages "No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living" wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." Daniel Webster's Tribute To Labor "Labor is one of the great elements of society—the great substantial interest on which we all stand. "Not'feudal service or the irksome drudgery of one race subjected, on account of their color, to another, but labor—intelligent, manly, independent, thinking and acting for himself, earning its own wages, accumulating those wages for his capital, educating childhood, maintaining worship, claiming the right to the elective franchise and helping to uphold the great fabric of the state. "That is American labor, and all my sympathies are with it and my voice, 'till I am dumb, will be for it." That's a pretty good answer to the Taft-Bill pirates. Olean, N. V. L. A. Alderman Gervin Outlines „ Stewardship on City Council When I had the honor conferred upon me of being elected your representative to the City Council and my first experience in Civic Administration, little did I realize the importance and illimitable possibilities to serve my fellow citizens.— While the duties and claims upon one's time are great, I feel, nevertheless, that it is the duty of every alderman who holds the good of his City at heart, to carry out his obligations and responsibilities as far as in him lies. Status Quote George West, president of an Atlanta bank, and also a prominent local Chamber of Commerce representative, was testifying before a Congressional committee on the subject of housing. Ii homes cost too much, suggested…
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: 10.14288/1.0439506
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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