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: 1947-06
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note: fsafe--*.'- , ,_-a__*___£__rar"'* .', «*rfr>«* SUPPORTED BY ONE HUNDRED AND FQUPJ LOCAL UNIONS TO EACH UNION MEMBER THE POLITICAL PARTY . ' OF HIS CHOICE :*%-.-,' fATESMAN mmm m OWNED BY THE VANCOUVER, NEW WESTMINSTER AND DISTRICT TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL _v Number^ VANCOUVER, CANADA, JUNE, 1947 WHAT THEY SAID,,. SEZ MR. DO0LEY (SOUTHAMS, PLEASE NOTE) "What is the.open Shop? Sure, 'tis where they kape the doors open to accommodate TTi^uWeiit stream av* min comin' in t' take jobs cheaper than those what has th' jobs. M Tis like this, Hinnesscy. Sttpposc one av' these free-born citizens is workiu' in an open shop Tor the princely wage av' wan' large iron dollar a day av' tin hours. \. "Along1 comes anither son av' a gurKan' he sez t' th' boss 'Oi could handle th' job nicely f'r ninety cints.' XSure," sez th' boss, and th' wan dollar man gets out into th' crool wuruld t' exercise his inalienable roight* as a free-born American citizen an' scab on some other poor divil. ■" ._. "\ "An' so it goes on, Hinliessey. An' who gits.,th' binifit? True it saves th' boss money, but he don't care any more f r^money than he does f'r his roight eye. "It's all principle wid him. He hates t' see min robbed av' their indipindince, regardless av' anything else." "Hut," said lVIr. Hinncssey, "these open shop min o/e mensfHin say they are f'r unions iv properly conducted."' "Sure," said Mr. Doolcy, "iv properly conducted. An'there ye a An' how would they have them conducted? No strikes, no rules, no' controls, no scales, hardly any wages an' dam few numbers." . a_i WHERE ARE HUMPHREY'S CALLOUSES? Ottawa — (CP) — Rev. J. Matthews, CCF member of Parliament for Kootenay East taunted by a remark that he probably had never done a day's work in his life, angrily shook a "calloused hand at Labor Minister Mitchell in the Common recently and called for' withdrawal of the remark. Mr. Matthews, raising his hands for all to see, said: "I want to inform the minister that before I ever came into this Hous…
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: 10.14288/1.0439541
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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