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: 1947-02
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note: '^rrssrigxt^str.^l'a^»xsrfr!.-j SHC"' "-' -~lr}*,im'l? '" SUPPORTED Bt ONE HUI^DRED AND FOUR LOCAL UN TO EACH UNION MEMBER THE POLITICAL PARTY OF HIS ' CHOICE LABOR STATES8*" OWNEI) BY THE VANCOUVER, NEW WESTMINSTER AND DISTT^Tj TRADES A LABOR COUNCIL mim Number 578. VANCOUVER, CANADA, FEBRUARY, 1947 Established 192+ Local Union Notes C. Jenkinson has been elected president and A. Paterson has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Vancouver Hospital Employees' Federal Union, Local No. 180, for 1947. * * a . The Trades Council Executive has ...appointed Del. Jack Stevenson of the .Carpenters Union fax act, as council's representative, -to. -the . Housing Association. Vancouver Del. Herb Plesher reports that the "Operating—Engineers—Union*—Leeal No. 116, has signed up the Independent Truck Owners' Association. \ Champion and White, Ltd. Concrete and Building Material Supplies, have signed up with tht' Building Ma- terlol) Conityuatioii and fad Truck Drivers Union, Local No. 213, says Brother I.. Cawkcr, of the Taxi Drivers Union, Local No.. 151, has been elected Business Agent of the union, to assist Secretary Charlie Gower because of the steady growth of the union. * » * Brother Bill Wilson, A. F. of L. Organizer, has been transferred to the Alaska territory to do some organizing work. Bro; Bill Page of the Carpenters Union has been sent to the nralfic provinces where he has been bucking snow and zero weather for "the past month. Wednesday Closing Effort Makes Progress Supported .by the Retail Clerks Union in Vancouver, very good progress is being made in the effort to extend the all-day Wednesday closing to alt stores: Up till recently a large _JU_r_tflT—Qf the"-downtown __tar.en.lthe various committees, aside from closed all day Wednesday, this hav ing been started as a war effort.. Now the union and the Retail Merchants Association are trying to get the Wednesday Half Holiday Act amended vso as to make it an all-day closing, in order to give the retail clerks a …
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: 10.14288/1.0439560
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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