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: 1949-07
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note: ™ c\ SUPPORTED BY ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR LOCAL UNIONS TO EACH UNION MEMBER THE POLITICAL PARTY OF HIS CHOICE LABOR D OWNED BY THE VANCOUVER, NEW WESTMINSTER AND mSTRJPZ W*9 TRADES & LABOR COUN«™bRA-£. No. 607. VANCOUVER, CANADA, JULY, 1949 Established 1924 BUILD STRONG UNIONS FOR . SOCIAL SECURITY WHAT THEY SAID ... High Cost of Scab Labor "Canadian Advertising", published quarterly in Toronto, just to hand, quotes ABC cerciilation figures in all Canada. In pritish Columbia, the figures for the first).quarter of 1949 are: News-Herald (M), 36,819; Province (E), 100,072; Sun (E), 158,123. Since the Southam-I. T. U. dispute the Sun's circulation has almost doubled. The strike-breaker-produced Southam Province is still thousands less than when I. T.'U, printers were replaced with imported strikebreakers, June, 1946.—Van. Typo Bulletin. Gloom Before the Doom Saturday nights are .quiet in these towns (of the Middle West) now. New cars stand for sale in store-room windows. Layoffs are continuing and factories are cutting back to four days a week. Homes above $12,000 go unsold; those below' $10,000 unbuilt. Farm prices are falling still, and this autumn, when the record corn crop is processed into meat, they will fall further, as every farmer knows. Few I talked to doubt that depression is due; very few have any idea how the government will meet it.—Michael' Straight in "New Republic." Best Seller Oat: Get Your Copy Now! According to a despatch from Washington the United States Chambers of Commerce is "flooded" with orders for it snew book for business on how to fight the depression. U. S. Has Highest Living Standard in World "The chief cause of absence from school is poverty, reports Archie Hennigar, director of school attendance and census in Detroit. Inadequate clothing and shoes during the inclement weather kept 29,000 kids home in the last school year."—Detroit News, April 21. Gervin Reports on ILO Montevideo Conference Wise Father? Reading magistrates yesterday granted …
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: 10.14288/1.0439582
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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