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1 I l*M SUPPORTED i-XteQNE HUNDRED AND FOUR LOCAL UNIONS — i i__Xafc_. -,•'"'. r.:. ■ „ __—____. TO EACH UNION MEMBER THE POLITICAL PARTY OP HIS CHOICE LA80R STATESMAN ■*.-».- NUMBER 600. OWNED BY THE VANCOUVER, NEW WESTMINSTER AND DISTOJQ^^-- TRADES & LABOR COUNCIpEr BUILD STRONG UNIONS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY Vancouver, Canada, December, 1948 Established 1294 WHAT THEY SAID... ... A Proud Chapter "A new and proud chapter is being written in Britain's social history. Labor's legislation strikes at the roots of poverty. Let this achievement inspire our greater effort to realize main's vast future."—Clement Attlee. .__„ __ You Just Can't Win in This Game! "Figures show that price rises since the abolition of the O.P.A. have cost the average family a thousand dollars. It must make a woman sigh for the good old days of 1932, when she could have bought a lot of groceries for a dollar, if she had had one."—New Yorker, October' 2. They Hold Down Seats, Bat Not Prices "What has happened to the commission on prices? Its members still sit in Ottawa but is that all they do—sit?"—Vince Lumney in Montreal Standard, November 6. Power to the People All power is inherent IN the people. Therefore all power TO the people. —Labor. "The Hungrier They Are--the Harder They Will Work" "It is the force of necessity which finally acts as a spur to effort and personal and family security, and social security benefits could become a peril to the nation if, by being set too high, they undermined the incentive to ^produce."—From an address by James Hunter, Assistant General Manager of the Continental-Life-Insur- ' ance Co., reporteij in the Financial Post, October .2, 1948. ■ Atomic Achievements! "Up to now, atomic energy has been in the state that electricity would be in if its only achievement were the electric chair." —Coronet. Total Disarmament! "If women had the handling of affairs all weapons would be prohibited except the tongue."—Dr. Edith Summerskill. They Don't Like ^iradOi^'™" " The Financial Post, Canadian mouthpiece of Big Business, is very upset over the fact that the Privy1 Council has ruled that the Saskatchewan Trade Union Act is valid. It makes a particular fuss about the fact that the act has teeth. It is aghast at the thought that "firms which disregard or disobey the rulings of the government- appointed Labor board will be seized." There has been a growing indication that the people for whom the Post speaks think business should be more powerful than government. Things have happened in Canada which have encouraged them to believe that this is actually the case. It will be refreshing to have a demonstration that when a government duly elected by the people legislates it expects its laws to be respected even by corporations.—People's Weekly, Alberta. The Straws Point To Another Economic Tailspin Mariner S. Eccles, who for some twelve years was chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the organization of which he is still a member, expressed himself as follows before the Senate and House Committees several months ago: "It's too late to avoid a depression. A bust is certain. You can only moderate it now." Teachers Must Be Well Paid "Canadian taxpayers must face the fact that, if they want good teachers, they must pay for them," stressed Geogre Croskery, executive secretary of the Canadian Federation of Teachers, during an address here.—Halifax Citizen. The $ Cost and the Social Price "Canada's annual liquor bill of half a billion dollars has piled up in its wake an immense total in lost lives and brpken homes, in crime and insanity and disease," charged Dr. Watson Kirkconnel, Chancellor of Acadia University, in a report given to a meeting in this capital.—Halifax Citizen. Mt Reason's! JHesBage , <___S-. ______ FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE VANCOUVER, NEW IVESTMIN- . STER AND DISTRICT TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL CO WISH You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year—-no more kindly thought was ever uttered than this age-old greeting handed down through the generat!Qns,.Jt still rfilains its humane appeal, unchanged by the vagaries of ;ime and unspoilt by the materialism of the modern skeptic. It ; remains, as of yore, the sincere expression of good fellowship and goodwill among mankind on this festive occasion. We know of ho occasion that lends itself more than this to the practical demonstration of the principles upon which our movement Is founded, the commemoration of the birth of the lowly carpenter of Nazareth, the prophet and preacher of the brotherhood of man. Living as we do in an age when social inequalities and consequent injustices predominate, it is safe to * say that no occasion gives rise to greater rejoicing, while, paradoxically, no day gives cause for more poignant sorrow and regret. It is to the elimination dfc^o&jal injustice that our movement, is dedicated. It Wm this task that our memliers are pledged. Ours is the duty of protecting the fatherless, strengthening the weak and helping the needy. Ours the obligation of making that grand old message, "A Merry Christmas and a ■ -Happy New Year" something more than mere words. Birt Showler, R. K_ Gervin, President. Secretary-Treasurer. Tom Alsbury, Jaci. Stevenson, -——^—Vitr-President. Executive Member. Jack Eaves, Hugh Bird, Executive Member. Executive Member. C E. Herrett, Robt. Cormack, Executive Member. Executive Member. Municipal Heads Urge Program On Housing, Prices Payment of Local Tax On Government Property Requested by Mayors — No Commitments Made Ottawa. — Troubles of municipalities were aired before the Federal Cabinet by a delegation from the Canadian Federation, of Mayors .and Municipalities in November. The municipal heads received a very sympathetic hearing, assurances of consideration immediately, but no commitments. A three-point program was presented to the government by the deputation urging: (1) a national subsidized housing program for the relief, of those in the low-income brackets; (2) payment by the Dominion gov- Trade Unionists Elected To Civic Office CITY COUNCIL Union Boys Laundry Indianapolis (LPA) — The Laundry Workers' International Union (AFL) recently bought a laundry that has been in receivership. This is the second time the LWIC has gone into business to protect its members' jobs. For several years it operated a plant in Spokane, Wash. This Is Terrible! "Private enterprise" gets it in the neck again. Britain's Labor government threatens to nationalize public houses"—we'd call them saloons—in new town which are built by the government to relieve the housing shortage. Old Chinese Proverb "Ostrich that keep head in sand too long during hot part of day, get burned in end/' Grand Prospect "In this age of millions, the man without some capital can only continue to slsve and toil for others to the end of his days."—The late Louis D. Brandeis, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. A. F. L Charters Its * 106th International A new "baby" has been added to the A. F. of L. '"family" of national and international unions, It's the Flight Engineers International Association. President William Green presented the organization's chiefs with a charter just before the union opener! its first convention in New York City. It now becomes the 106th affiliate of the Federation, with a membership of 1,000 airline engineers. ALDERMAN BIRT SHOWLER Preildent of lb* Vancouver, Naw Weitmimter and Diitriet Tradei and Labor Council; •.cretary - treasurer, Teamsteri' Joint Council, Milk Salei- men', and Bakery Salesmen'• Unioni. SCHOOL BOARD "Democracy Is Not Just a Word" "Democracy is not just a. word, to be shouted at political rallies and then put back into'the dictionary after election day. The service of democracy must be something more than lip service. It is a living thing—compounded by brains and muscles and heart and soul. The service of democracy is the birthright*of every citizen, the white and the colore.; the Protestant, the Catholic, the Jew; the sons and daughters of every country Jn the world, who make up the people of this land. Democracy is every man and woman who loves freedom and serves the cause of freedom."—William Allen White (Vancouver Typoi Bulletin). To Our Advertisers We are proud to have these earnest leaders of Organized Labor in Vancouver join us in wishing all our good friends and supporters A Very Happy Christmas, and the prosperity they so richly deserve throughout the coming year. H. W. WATTS, Manager W.M.SINCLAIR, Advertising Solicitor TRUSTEE JACK HENDERSON Member of tho International Union of Operating Engineer! and delegate to the Vancouver, Now Weitmimter and Diitriet Tradei and Labor Connell. PARK BOARD ernment of the prevailing municipal tax or an adequate service charge in lieu of the prevailing rate on all property it owns in various centers across the country; (3) steps to curtail the rising cost of living. One of Greatest Problems One of the greatest social problems in Canada today, the delegation told the government, is the need for low-cost rental housing on a subsidized basis. In cities and towns across the country there is grave congestion. Calling for a national rent reduction fund as a basis for subsidized housing, initiated by the Dominion government,- with possible contributions by provincial and municipal governments, the deputation emphasized that it had been asking for this as far back as 1946. The situation in housing is worse today. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent conceded that there were inflationary conditions in the economy which might warrant some form of housing subsidization. However, he did not want this to be interpreted as a statement of government policy. It would, he thought, be an unfortunate development if the Federal government got into the business of subsidizing housing which would > involve favoring the needs of one municipality as against the other. Build 80,000 Homo* According to the latest report of Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, approximately 80,000 housing units will be built in Canada this year. Aside from St. Laurent's suggestion that subsidized housing creates inequalities, the government's stand has been that the maximum number of homes are being built, considering the resources in materials and manpower, and that a system of government subsidization could not boost the total. St. Laurent's statement, though, conceding that there were inflationary conditions in the economy which might warrant some form of housing subsidization, gives a "ray of hope" that something will be done to help the common people in getting rented accommodation. A year ago, he said, - he was opposed to subsidization. Tax Matter Under Stud? - *■'- *— !•• On taxa.i-ji «_• Domintor. gove_w»" ment property. Finance Minister Douglas C. Abbott stated that this matteer has been a subject of study by the Federal government over the last several months. The government, he said, has obtained information from a number of municipalities and its own departments in respect to government property in different centers. He hoped, Abbott said, that the result of the study would be completed before the end of this year, when this took place, he intimated, the government would announce its decision. ■ Only a few Canadian municipalities are now receiving "grants" from the government in lieu of payment of municipal taxes, which these municipalities emphasize are totally inadequate. Other municipalities receive neither a grant nor the prevailing municipal tax rate paid by private property holders. Well-Being Endangered The spiralling cost of living is endangering the well-being of Canadians and steps should bet taken to curb inflationary pressures, the delegation asserted. Besides St. Laurent and Abbott, the deputation was heard by Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell, Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe and National Revenue Minister J. J. McCann, Representatives of municipal heads from coast to coast were [included in the delegation A Righteous Cause "The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error."—William 'of the B. C. Teachen' Federation and ^^^^^^^^^^^^ I of the Lower Mainland High School : Teacheri' Association for many years. COMMISSIONER ARNOLD WEBSTER Principal of GrandWew High School; j member and put secretary-treasurer Jennings Bryan. PARK BOARD COMMISSIONER ■ EVERET J. IRWIN Templeton Junior High School teacher and member of tbe B. C. Teachers' Federation. ■ ■•-■- .■-■•;> •■ *-;■- -- Page Two THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 "BuiM British Columbia Payrolls" BA3IES THRIVE ON PACIFIC No wonder doctors recommend popular PACIFIC MILK for infants. Irradiation adds needed sunshine Vitamin D and vacuum packing ensures farm-freshness milk from the beautiful Fraser Valky. Pacific Milk lira-Bate- aad Vacuum Packed MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! This space donated by Bill Couper 724 Seymour Street BALMORAL HOTEL Say: "MEET ME AT THE BALMORAL" • ■martlr moSsn—co-ofortably fanlahea ... yet rsta-nlar a tniet, dtgnlSsd »tmoiph.r.t_uit briar or meet year I place * tSnmttsr, Managers: MIKE KOSKI BOB PATTERSON "JOHNNY" McKENZIE Pfcoaei PAolflo 3148 159 East Hastings Street VANCOUVBR. EC Union-Made Shoes CORNETT BROS. aa sXASVt -UMZ-NM ITUIT FLOI-SHEIM — SLATER Men'a and Youth's Model Boot Shop agsnta tm M-Mata ualoa-made ■-_> Shoes for the whole family oa OUR HAST CREDIT PLAN Model Boot Shop sr wxsr x-Lsm-rcHi For GOODNESS Sake . . .' . DAD'S ORIGINAL -- Oatmeal Cookies TU Moat Deliciou. Health Biicuit Ever Made When sending parcels overseas don't forget to include some Dad's Cookies. They will be greatly appreciated over there! DAD'S COOKIE CO. (B.C.) UMITED -68 Kingsway, Vaaeoaver, B. C. RAITS PATTERN WORKS Manufacturen of Laadar Sawdast Burners R. D. McDougall, Prop. Patterns and Models of Every Description • Gearing Propellers All work guaranteed Estimates Given 114 West Fifth Avenue Vaaeoaver, B. C Phons: FA. _371 — Wm. BA. 2470-L RAVS PATTERN WORKS THOS. H. CLARJL rinmia oosruotoa PAI-mNODBCORATtNa AND tlPRATING Werk GuarsMeed l-oasi AI.-ss ISM assa wbst ______ High Prices, Profits Threaten Economic Stability, Says AFL CRUICKSHANK ASKS MOVE TO CURB INFLATION, . LOWER PRICES - Washington.—The American Federation of Labor placed the blame for the inflation which threatens the nation's economy upon the excessively high profits earned by American industry. Speaking for AFL President William Green, Nelson H. Cruickshank, the AFL's director of social insurance activities, told a Senate-House subcommittee investigating profits that high prices, which have fattened corporation coffers, have resulted in a decline of mass purchasing power which is a threat to the stability of our economy. Unless action is taken to stem inflation and to reduce prices wherever possible, Mr. Cruickshank warned that labor cannot refrain from seeking maximum wage increases to ease the burden of the nation's wage earners. He advanced the AFL Executive Council's proposal that a national conference of labor, business and farm leaders be called to map a voluntary inflation-control program to coordinate the activities of all groups. Basic to any program, Cruickshank declared, are sound monetary and tax policies of the federal government He asserted that the tax cut approved by the 80th Congress gave the bulk of the savings to tax payers in income groups over $3,000, while the low income groups were left with a heavy tax burden. The AFL spokesman declared that prices have been raised more than enough to cover any added cost due to wage increases with the result that business profits have reached new peaks. He said: "With each postwar year, a smaller and smaller portion of the income created by American industry has gone to the workers and a larger and larger part to profits. For example, wage and salaried workers in 1939 received 66 per cent of the income created by industry; in the first post-war year, 1946, the share paid to workers had dropped to 63 per cent and declined further to 61.3 per cent in 1947 and to 60.8 per cent in the first half of 1948. Meanwhile the share going to profits of both corporate and unincorporated business increased steadily in each postwar year. The share going to profits was 29 per cent in 1939 and 37 per cent in 1948 (first half). "It is common knowledge that profits which reached an all-time peak in 1947 are exceeding that peak in 1948. "The results of the high price policies followed by so many businesses in the postwar period are now being seriously felt in various sectors of the economy. Workers' average real wages have been declining during tbe postwar period. "From May, 1945 (V-E Month) to August, 1945 (V-J Month) the decline in buying power of the weekly pay envelope-of the average factory worker was 10 per cent' From August, 1945, to October, 1948 (latest figure) the average factory worker's buying power has declined another 2 Mi per cent But tho factory worker has fared better than the average consumer, because unions have advanced his pay. Figures from the President's, jf'dyear Economic. Retiort show that" the per capita disposal income of the American people in the first half of 1948 was 10 per cent below 1945 and 7 per cent below 1946, This decline baa been due entirely to the price rise, since average money wages and the per capita money income of the American people have advanced steadily in the postwar period." Mr. Cruikshank declared that the share of products and services purchased by consumers has been declining. In 1939 consumers bought 75 percent of the national product while in the first 9 months of 1948 they were able to purchase only 69.8 percent At the same time business expenditures and private exports lire declining, he said, adding: "The market is being supported at present by government purchases for the European Recovery Program and the military program. But we cannot go on indefinitely expanding these programs to take up the alack in consumer purchasing power. We are told by competent business observers that 'very small declines in civilian demands will offset very large increases in defense demand.' "In 1949 consumer buying must increase substantially if we- are to maintain our economy at levels of maximum employment and production. To achieve this, a stable dollar is essential. The postwar price rise in living costs must be stopped." A Dim View of the United States Here fs a composite picture — the lynching of Negroes, suppression of "poor whites", destruction of legitimate unionism (through the Taft- Hartley legislation), hounding down of intellectuals, frame-up of Communist leaders, mounting unemployment degeneracy in social life, crime on an "organised" mass scale. And the other side of the canvas - atomic weapons, development of chemicals and bacteria for war, the drive for military bases throughout the world, the propping up of-reactionary Fascist regimes, etc. Threats of war emanate from America every day. Johannes Steele, a former radio commentator said the many UNO employees in New York complained to him of "growing war hysteria in the United States". Economic penetration,- -m-l-tary- preparedness-■— world domination, by force of arms if necessary. Such is the Wall Street technique and plan. Are we going to fit into it or take our stand with those in opposition to it? —Common Cause, Australia. Teamsters' Jobt Council For a number of years the above Council has seen fit to donate, through the University of . British Columbia, a Bursary of $250 per year to any Student of Merit who is the son or daughter of any member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.Chauf- feurs, Warehousemen and Helpers and failing anyone eligible from this group, it is then open to any son or daughter of any member of an International Union. It gives us much pleasure to report this year our Bursary has been awarded to Bruce Thomson, a son of Joe Thomson, who is an executive member of the Milk Drivers' and Dairy Employees' Union No. 464. We are very prood of Bruce and we understand he is at present taking a pre-Medical course, and it is our sincere hope that the little help we have given him will be the stepping stone to a successful career. Bruce Tho-mon These White Are Stupid! Florence Begay, 17-year-old Navajo, was a bright student She won a scholarship at Sarah Lawrence College, headed there by bus to become a doctor. When the bus got into Texas she. was told to take a back seat and leave the- front seat for "white people". She decided she didn't like the ways of the whites who had taken the country from her ancestors, and headed back... for. the reservation. Young people aren't as foolish as older people. At the University of Arkansas where a Negro student attended the law school with a barrier around his seat "to segregate" him, fellow students made- such fun of it the the trustees ordered it to be removed. He was in the room because, when put in a separate room to study, white students went there to study, too. This sort of stuff is old men's folly.—Industrial Worker. Female voice on the telephone: "Hello, is this the Fidelity Insurance Company?" "Yes, ma'am." "Well, I want to speak to someone about having my husband's fidelity insured." Arriving at a strange hotel, a fussy woman thought she'd better know where the fire escape was. So she started exploring. During her tour, she opened a door and found herself in a bathroom occupied by an elderly | ly heard the pad of bare feet behind gentleman. Iner ami a sh°ut made her turn. It "Oh. I'm sorry!'\she twittered. "I^wel*6 e,dCTly mmn' ^ ta * tath was looking for the firo escape." j "Wait a minute I" he gasped. Continuing her search, she present- "Where's the fire?" ffflt?rrj} (CfcrtHiittafi - f appy Nnu f par Get It At GREATER VANCOUVER'S FAMILY SHOPPINGCENTRE <___«. WOODWARD'S FOOD DEPARTMENTS (Lower Mam Floor) Vancouver's largest selection of QUALITY FOODS at consistently low prices... WOODWARD'S MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT serves British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon, affording complete selections of QUALITY MERCHANDISE AT LOW PRICES. Write for Catalogue. CUSTOMERS FREE PARKING IN MODERN FIREPROOF GARAGE 5jP*__ ■••'^^.l.^....,v_*.^H'^ ■in • i . ^ . • . v_^ t %■ - '" - !.n it ~ - . ■ m *. YMmmm^Mf' Iv <r/■_____■!.sy-..::__ f) •^j>-.'[.H_mw A VNIT OF ONE OF THE WORLDS Scc/j! CAPILANO^yBREWERY LIMITED CHEAT tREWINC OnCANIZATtOllt December, 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Three ST. REGIS HOTEL Licensed Premises CORNER SEYMOUR AND DUNSMUIR A. H. MILLHAM, Manager 3j_S^^S^!--}i^-i___S_Sl^-^5i-^ The High Cost of Living Season's Greetings! Irish Canadian Club Phones: PA. 0722 — PA. 2431 166 WEST HASTINGS STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. PATRICIA HOTEL Modern in every respect With Compliments of E. P. Mulhern, Proprietor 403 East Hastings Street Phone: HAstings 1615 • ■ • Season's Greetings! Hotel Duflferin Refreshment Parlor CORNER OF SEYMOUR AND SMYTHE STREETS Christmas Greetings! AMERICAN HOTEL Licensed Premises "A Good Place to Meet Your Friends'' 928 MAIN STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. GRANDVIEW HOTEL /. E. Berardino, Manager REFRESHMENT PARLOR Soothing and comfortably furnished—You'll like it. 618 CORDOVA STREET WEST, VANCOUVER. B. C. Season's Greetings! Devonshire Hotel W. F. EVANS, Manager Phone: PA 5481 849 WEST GEORGIA VANCOUVER. B.C. Season's Greetings! Burrard Hotel (1944) Ltd. 760 RICHARDS STREET. VANCOUVER. B. C. Season's Greetings to,Organized Labor Larkin Importing Co. VANCOUVER. B.C ROSEBANK GROCERY & MEAT MARKET Phone: HA 2613 Prompt Delivery on Boat Orders 686 POWELL STREET , VANCOUVER. B. C, By ANGUS MaoIINNIS, M.P. During the wsr when goods were scarce, the government was continually urging us to save. We were told to buy Victory Bonds, War Saving Certificates, etc. We were not only urged to save, the government compelled us to save. A part of our income tax was designated "Compulsory Savings." This compulsory savings took place in the years 1942, 1943, and 1944. These savings are now being refunded. That is, the feople are getting their money back, t should be noted, however, that the dollar which thb government is giving us now is worth considerably less in buying value than the dollar which the government compelled us to hand over in the war years. In buying power the government is giving us about 73 cents for every 100 cents it took from us,in 1942-44. I am not finding fault with the government's Compulsory Savings policy. Because of high money income and scarce consumer goods, at the time, the policy was sound. I do find fault with the government for allowing prices to rise in the meantime and thus actually take money out of the people's pockets. This is confiscation, even if petty confiscation. It is confiscation of 27 cents out of every dollar which the government compelled us to loan to it for five years, at two per cent interest. The most amazing thing in connection with rising cost of living is how blind our government and business leaders are to the detrimental effect of rising prices on our economy. It is impossible to believe that they do not understand the dangers of inflation. One can only assume that they see the danger and dread the results, but that the imperative of the profit system: make a profit today, if you can; let tomorrow look after itself, compels them forward. That is why a capitalist economy is a succession of booms and bust . ... Because of bur method of distribution, the~ tendency in our system of production is for supply to catch up with and overcome demand. Rising prices accelerates that tendency. During the war we heard a great deal about the backlog of savings people would have when consumer goods were again available. There is little talk of that backlog of savings now. There isn't any backlog. It disappeared quickly in the high prices Chinook which ^.followed the removal of price control. When pricea were controlled during the war people lived better than ever before and saved something besides. With the removal of controls and the rapid rise of prices, saving for most people stopped, then past savings began to be used, and now, savings gone, current income inadequate to our needs, we are back to credit buying. Instalment buying is the reverse of saving. We save so as to have some of today's ncome___f-omb_Tow_ineeds. Instalment buying is buying today's needs with tomorrow's Income. A high rate of instalment buying indicates a mal-adjustment of the economy. Statistics show that that maladjustment is assuming huge proportions in Canada today. Rising prices affect international trade in the same way as it affects national trade. It limits the amount of goods that change hands. There are low income countries as well as low income individuals. In 1946 Great Britain found it necessary to get a large loan from the United States. The loan was used to buy United States goods—food, raw materials, and machinery—urgently needed by the British. About the time the loan was made prices in the United States began to skyrocket. The result was that Britain received from 30 to 35 per cent less goods than tf prices had remained as they were when the loan was negotiated. The same applied, although, perhaps in less measure, to the loan made to Britain by Canada. It should be clear then, that the removal of price control, which was insisted upon by our so-called free enterprisers, not only imposed great hardships on a large section of our own people, but is also holding back world recovery, hsstening econqmic depression, and endangering world peace. In the House of Commons when controls were discussed and some of us urged that they should be continued, the stock argument of our opponents was: Since you favor controls, do you favor wage control? My answer was that wages are pretty well controlled now. No labor union, no matter how strongly organized, can raise the wages of its members. First, it must make an application for any increase In wages to the employer. If the employer refuses— and when it comes to saying No, Molotov has nothing on Canadian employers—the request goes to a government created board. After a long and complicated procedure laid down by law, the members of the union, if not satisfied, may take strike action. There is no such control on prices. Except for two or three commodities over which tbe Prices Board exercises control, prices are set • by the owners and managers of industry at what they think the traffic will bear without the slightest regard to public welfare. - Another argument used hy the opponents of controls is that people would not stand for controls in peacetime. That argument is phoney. People will accept regulations in oeace-time as well as in war if they are satisfied that regulations are necessary. If the government and our business leaders considered winning the peace aa important as winning a war there would be very little difficulty in getting ANGUS MacINNIS, M.P. Bro. Maclnnis has been a member of the Street Railwaymen's Union since 1910. He was business agent and delegate to the Vancouver, New, Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council for many years. He served on the Vancouver School Board, 1922-1925, on the City Council from 1926-30. In 1930 he was elected M.P. for Vancouver East and has served continuously ever since, being re-elected by large majorities in 1985, 1940 and 1945. In the House of Commons he has won a national reputation as an aggressive fighter for the rights of labor, minority groups and the interests of the ordinary citizen.' from the. great majority of the people for any reasonable action considered necessary. The important thing is that the government should take the people into its confidence and explain why each step to be taken is necessary. When Sir Stafford Cripps visited Ottawa recently he explained how the British Government was able to get the support of the people for their austerity policy, which in some respects is tougher than what they endured during the war. He said thst once the people understood the facta "they were magnificent in their support" People are always magnificent in critical times if they are given the facts and the opportunity to help on a basis of equality. The final argument against controls by the advocates of every man for himself, the devil take the hindmost philosophy is that the only way to reduce prices is to increase production. No one will deny the importance of increasing, production. -TTefe-can indeed be no permanent improvement in the standard of living of the people as a whole without increased production. Our. free enterprisers should, however, be the last to advocate it, because the system they espouse will operate at capacity only in times of scarcity. Plenty throws it out of gear. Every depression of modern times has been depression of plenty. There is no use in telling people to work harder and longer unless they can be assured that working harder and producing more will mean a higher standard of living and not unemployment. That assurance can not be given today. Price control is no more than a stabilizing factor, but it should always be used in times when goods are Scarce. If rationing is necessary for equitable distribution it should' also be used. These are times of emergencies. We are not yet out of the emergency which Hitler started in 1939, but we may be facing another which we are bringing upon ourselves by forgetting that we are a community of people with a community of interests and not private individuals striving one against the other. I shall end this article by drawing attention to. three items of news which appeared^ in a Vancouver newspaper a few days ago. In my opinion the state of affairs which these items indicates points to trouble ahead. 1. "Pre-Christmas business in Vancouver during the past few weeks is down from last year." . (Our population is up from last year.) « 2. "Credit buying in Vancouver is up about 20 per cent over last year, and collections are getting tougher." 3. Headline: "Capital Expansion Sets Record in '48." These statements taken together show unmistakably that while the means to produce wealth is' expanding effective demand, that is, the opportunity to consume wealth, is decreasing. A New Birth of Freedom ". . . It is rather for ns to be here dedicated to the great task remaining fcriaW'-a-V^M-^-iflR. these" honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for, which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolved that these dead shall nqt have died in vain,— that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.—From Lincoln's immortal "Gettysburg Address." Todsy there are some Americans sharing the same grave who, in the United States, could not have shared co-operation the same hotel.—Walter Winchell. (OjriHtmaa (SmttttgB TO ALL MEMBERS OF ORGANIZED LABOR m*t RESOLUTION FOR NEW YEAR, 1949: TO DEMAND UNION LABEL GOODS AND SERVICES ALL THE TIME aw VANCOUVER AND DISTRICT UNION LABEL TRADES COUNCIL Mt. Pleasant Undertaking — Co. Ltd. KINGSWAY at ELEVENTH AVENUB Kindliness — Understanding — Dependability Lady Attendant Phones: FAirmont 0058 and 0059 DRUGS REXALL The Owl Drug Co. Ltd. (jl oawAnraw oo-dmid OWNBD AND OPERATED BT A VANCOUVBR CITI__DN _J£WAYSM<4DY TO SERVE LABOR TOBACCO CANDY BUTCHER AND PACKING HOUSE SERVICE EQUIPMENT FOR COMPLETE BUTCHER SHOPS Pacific Saw Filers & Butcher Supply J. Ciaffone, Manager 550 Eaat H..tin-. StrMt, Vancouver, B.C Phona: HAtting. S7tS MOUNT VIEW HOTEL WHERE! GOOD FELLOWS OBT TOCETHER rowsu .m inns msin tamoowtbb, ». a Season's Greetings! G.W.Bardell- Trusses rHione: TA. 3636 16 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER. B.C. §ft_-_-&d)-&t-i_-$3^ SEASON'S GREETINGSI Ray Bros. Tailoring Co. Ltd. FOR MEN and WOMEN "Union LhJ>el" Phone! PAcific 6*50 148 WEST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, %. C COMPLIMENTS OF Bowman's Apron and Uniform Service Phone: PAclflc 1941 810 ORANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, aC. SEASON'S GREETINGS I Princess Tailors and Cleaners Ltd. K. KATZNELSON, PROPRIETOR Phone: PAdflc 9639 »l WEST CORDOVA STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. . *w j>wuiMMi-Ui*gwin--iia.i--.44t»*i •r I. age Four THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN P-bKshed third Thursday in each month at Labor Headquarters, a % Vancouver, B.C. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council H. W. WATTS, Manager TOM ALSBURY, Editor ■ Subscription Rates: $1.00 oer Year; to Unions, 4c per member per month. Phoaa: PAcific 2942 VANCOUVER, CANADA, DECEMBER, 1948 The Spirit of Christmas Christmas is the season of the year when, by common consent, we seek to forget all that is petty and mean, our troubles and our prejudices. Filled with the warm glow of brotherly kindness, we • seek to do charitable deeds, exchange gifts, and indulge in merry making and rejoicing. Christmas, 1948, the .third after the close of the second global conflict, comes to a world in which war still rages in the Far East, and in which war is a constant threat in the West. It is still very much a world of poverty, hunger, disease, and insecurity. The organized labor movement is engaged in an unceasing struggle to replace this kind of world by one in which there wilLbe peace and plenty for all. As we celebrate this happy season of the year, we do well to remind ourselves that it is only as the "spirit of Christmas" takes hold of men and nations in their day-to-day relationships that "Peace on earth, goodwill -to men" will ever be realized in the lives of working people the world over. —J Some Thoughts On the Gvic Election Once more candidates endorsed by the Non-Partisan Association have made almost a clean sweep of civic offices. The election on December 8th proved once more that the only candidates who can break through the well-organized and heavily financed N.P.A., are those who are well and favorably known to the public. It is gratifying to note that a number of active trade unionists were successful at the polls. There are now two trade unionists on the city council, one on the. school board, and three on the parks board. While the working people of this city are not represented to the extent that their numbers warrant, it is a source of satisfaction that labor's point of view will at least be heard in the deliberations which determine policies affecting the daily lives of all citizens, the vast majority of whom are working people , What labor lacks in numbers on the city council, the school board and parks board, it can make up by an active interest in the work of these bodies. It can delegate members to attend and report on all open meetings of the city council and other civic boards. For the purpose of guiding and strengthening the hand of elected trade unionists, it can record its views on all phases of civic administration. It,can, moreover, give leadership in crystalizing an informed public opinion in support of progressive measures in civic affairs. Support Your Union Label Council Loyal trade unionists pay their dues, attend union meetings and actively support their local in its efforts to secure better wages and improved working conditions. That is their plain duty. But it is not enough. The limits of a trade unionist's loyalty extend far beyond his own local or his own- union. His loyalty extends to the entire labor movement of which he is a part; This means he must work, not only for raising the wage standards of his own group, but must assist other unions, in their efforts to improve the standards of their members. In this way, every trade unionist helps to raise the general wage level. There is a very simple way in which even the humblest member of a trade union can play an effective part in raising the general wage level. Every time he or his family make a purchase, they can insist on the union label or the union shop card. Those who patronize non-union firms or buy non-union goods are weakening and reducing union standards. Those who buy only union products are strengthening and raising union standards. The writer recently attended a meeting of our local Union Label Council and obtained an insight into the splendid work it is doing to make our movement and the general public aware of the importance of the union label as a means of raising living standards. ', The work of the Union Label Council is an important phase of collective bargaining and contributes in no small measure to high wage rates when agreements are being signed. Our Union Label Council deserves and must have the loyal and . There Is "A Wall Between" Us No Jews Need Apply" is the title of an article dealing with the economic aspects of anti-semitism in the November issue of "MacLean's Magazine". The writer of the article, Pierre Berton, has marshalled a wide mass of facts which show only too clearly that anti-Jewish feeling is widespread in Canada, and deeply rooted. Mr. Berton confines himself to the facts as he has found them, and gives neither reason nor remedy for a condition that he has discovered in many forms and places. For those who seek to lessen racial and religious antagonisms this article is worthy of careful reading. Without the facts of discrimination it cannot be tackled effectively. The answer to the oft- repeated question, "Why should we worry about racial intolerance when we see so little evidence of it?", is in this article. And that answer is unfortunately that there is far too much discrimination. Only in the last paragraphs of his article does the author allow himself a few sentences of opinion. He has summed up the situation especially > well: "There is every indication then, that despite all the recent talk about anti-Semitism, despite the general Up service paid to the principle that it is vicious, there is still a lot of it around. . . . The wall of segregation which today keeps the Greenbergs enstranged from the Peabodys is as high as ever. And like all walls, it can cripple the freedom of men on both sides of it. Until it comes down, It stands in the way of both Gentile and Jew — a stubborn and ugly barrier blocking the pathway to the good life." The crux of the problem of racial and religious discrimiftation is segregation. When a,Jewish boy can not find employment with Gentile employers he has only two options open to him. To earn a living he must either go into business for himself or seek employment with another Jewish firm. This sends him back into the very heart of the Jewish community' because over the years we have forced these people into a few specific lines of business — merchandising and the garment trades are the most important. When Gentile employers hire Jewish people they assist both Gentile and Jew to work together and provide an opportunity for them to understand one another. When Gentile employers refuse to hire Jewish people they force them-away from the Gentile world and require them to move almost entirely within their own Jewish community. The same is true when Jewish applicants are refused membership in social clubs, athletic organizations and the like. And yet this is what these very Gentiles object to most — the clannishness of the Jews. Why complain when the actions of the Gentiles themselves force the segregation upon the minority? But the job of those in the labour movement who are devoting themselves to lessening of intolerance and discrimination is not with the complaints. That job amounts in the final goal to the elimination of these segregated islands of minority racial and religious groups. And to reach that final goal it is necessary to break down the ideas now prevalent in the minds of some people that some people shouldn't associate with some other people. That job is not as tough as it may at first appear. People do change change their minds when they have a chance to see the real facts of the case. One thing that removes men from the rest of the animals is their ability to think for themselves. In this work of combatting discrimination it is vital to remember that men think honestly and deliberately, and the wrong decisions arise.from too few facts or a distortion of facts not from a distortion of thinking on the basis of the facts available1. The current United States election results is a case in point. The success of the Fair Employment Practices Commission of the State of New York is another. Through continuous education of our people through literature, posters, films filmstrips, talks, articles, radio programs all carrying the facts of "THE ONE HUMAN FAMILY" to which we all belong it is possible to change the thinking on this whole matter. Never has so much been said and written on the human problem of race relations than now. This should continue. In doing so the facts will get to the widest possible audience. And as those factst are disseminated and finally assimilated there will be no chance of "The Ghetto" developing in Canada. There isn't any Ghetto in Canada now. But the wall has been built between groups of different national origin and religious, persuasion. Before that wall can be pulled down those who erected it have got to be made certain that it does not remain. In doing so that important work of education the chance of ghettos developing on either side of the wall will be reduced to infinitesimal proportions, ft is a job worth doing then in the interest o fa finer life for all in a finer country of our own. A country of which the same fine phrases can be used and meant by every citizen whatever his race, colour, creed or national origin. , —Canadian Labor Reports. active support of every local and every trade unionist, ■i-.%a&*Jt&:«rli;fcr-»b>ai.-*f..'.- -. .■' -■-<_.->__-,_4;-va^tSj^jMd8p£>> ■ Theatre Under the Stars Nearly ten years ago the Vancouver Parks Board established the new famous "Theatre Under the Stars". Beginning in a: small way, on a modest budget, this publicly owned and operated project has grown and developed until it now offers seven major productions during each summer season. Last year receipts totalled more than $133,000. This fine cultural asset in the' life of our city was initiated and developed entirely as a public enterprise under the sponsorship of the Parks Board, which carried all the risks. Deficits incurred would have been paid out of public funds. Fortunately, the outdoor theatre has more than paid its way. Surpluses havrbeen re-invested to improve the quality and extend the scope of its offerings. A proposal is now being put forward to transfer this successful operation to a committee bf citizens. There can be no objection to enlisting the interest and help of a large group of citizens. It is encouraging that a fine type of publicly spirited citizens have already indicated their willingness to assist with the operation of the Theatre Under the Stars. ; ,■■■-■ This is all to the good. Nevertheless, every care must be exercised to see that a controlling'interest in the Theatre Under the Stars is retained in public hands, so that' there will be no danger either of its becpming commercialized or discontinued through the breakup of a non-permanent citizens committee. The Parks Board is a permanent public body. It has demonstrated its ability to operate the outdoor theatre successfully. The public will expect its elected representatives to retain an active and controlling interest in the Theatre Under the Stars so that its future will be safeguarded. Don't Be Too Sensible! By RUTH TAYI.OR I'm getting tired of "sensible" people. There ought to be a law against them. Or a society in opposition. Or at least an investigation of their so-called sense. You know the kind of people I mean. They are the ones who are realistic". They doh't stick their necks out — for a. cause, or a friend, or an ideal. They are the ones who are always drawing back. They are cautious. Every time anyone wants to do anything different, they say "be careful". Now I have no great objection to carefulness. I'm all for the idea of looking before you leap. But I'm getting fed up with this word sensible. And the people I'm hitting at are those who avoid taking sides, because they might want to USE someone on each side. They never stand up for anyone — except themselves in a cautious sort of way. They may have principles, but they conceal them admirably. Someone might object. You know some of the "sensible" ones with whom we have been afflicted. Do you remember those who applauded the appeasement at Munich? Do you remember those who let Hitler get*away with murder (literally speaking) because he might say "boo" if they objected? Dou you remember -those who turned away when Russia started gobbling up small nations? (Could it have been fear of the Russian bear-that-walks- like-a-man thatwnotivated them?) . There are some "sensible" folk who object to a man being asked if he is a Communist His feelings might be hurt at the question — and besides it is just as though you asked him if he were a Democrat or a Republican. (I never met any one who was too ashamed of being a Democrat or a Republican to say so. Did you?) Then, of course, there were the sibler" Values and Practices The first requirement for a good school is that it rests on values that are good. The second requirement is that it be efficient in promoting the good values. If we should think of educational progress only in terms ot technical efficiency, we might easily apply excellent methods to produce bad ends and thus betray the whole _s____i__ of education in our nation and the world. If, on the other hand, we should think only of basic ideals and purposes, we would run the danger of an impractical verbalism, with our eyes fixed on the stars and no notion as to how to climb upward. Progress in education requires a continuing and lively concern with both values and practices. When we attempt to judge the excellence of a school, we must determine whether it is good in its values and whether it is effective in its practices. In the last analysis, the purpose and programme of any school depend upon some judgment regarding what is good or bad in the conduct of human affairs. Education is a programme of social action toward goals that are based on a scale of values. The good school is one which most completely reflects the highest values of the surrounding society. —Educational Policies Commission. The Bomb Ticks On By AL SESSIONS Time marches on, and the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists reminds us once again that— "More destructive atomic bombs can now -be made cheaply and in large numbers. There is no military defense against them and none is to be expected. Other nations can rediscover our secret processes by themselves. Preparedness against atomic war is futile and if attempted, will ruin the structure of our social sensible" people who told individual labor men they were sympathetic to , ,_ , , _ Labor — they they went and voted | ?rde_- H "" break" *■* at0m^ for the Taft-Hartley Act There are " a lot of those people who are now bombs will be used and they will surely destroy our civilization. There JWerrg Xmas ^ajijiij Nefo fear 22A4 MAIN ST. 444* WEST IM. AVE. 1307 KINGSWAY tl-ti W. HASTINOS ST. 807 ORANVILLE ST. 1616 COMMERCIAL DR. 2313 MAIN ST.. 2438 E. HASTINOS ST. ail W. 41st ' NORTH VANCOUVER: 143* LONSDALE AVE. NEW WESTMINSTER: 459 COLUMBIA ST. KELOWNA — PRINCE RUPERT — VICTORIA — PORT ALBERNI Vancouver's Only Union Funeral Home HAROLD EDWARDS LTD. THE FUNERAL HOME OP SERVICE HEATHER CHAPEL 704 W. Broadway at Heather FAirmont 0528 REDWOOD INHALANT A vegetable chlorophyll. Devoid of drugs. Stop that cold, asthma, hay-fever, sinus, catarrah, coughs, etc. Price $1.26. . . Liniment for arthritis, congeation from colds, etc. . . . Ointment for piles, ulcers, eczema, ate. Trasses don't suffer, procure our comfortable air- cushion pad. Refund if not aa represented. SEQUOIA CHEMICAL CO. Room >, 412 Seymour Straat Vancouver, B. C. PAcific 3855 Res., MArine 3766 HEARL-SYKES, Florist FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS 56 East Hastings St. Vancouver, B. C MAYFAIR CAFE The city's moil "At Your Service" cafe Quality Foods — Reasonable Price* y*z3*c 29 Weat Hastings St., Vancouver, B. C. PAcific 1055 trying to .straddle the fence, with one eyc'fised on the polls of public opinion. (Do you suppose they can have realized how long labor men's memories are?) You probably have a few sensible people in your own union. You know — the ones who hamper and hinder everything that is put forward. They aren't Casper Milquetoasts. They are just "sensible" people. Look out for them — and don .t be so sensible yourself that you refuse to look ahead or to stand up for the principles and people in which you believe!—Chicago "Federation News". DEFINITION "In the U.S. today a Communist is defined as anyone to the Left of Herbert Hoover." — James Cameron in the "Daily Express". is no solution to this problem except international control of atomic energy and, ultimately, the elimination of war." The greatest peacetime armament rate in history is now going on. Disarmament proposals before the United Nations nave been ignored as two giants, fearful of each other, stall and jockey for position. People refuse to face the fact that what happened to Nagasaki and Hiroshima can happen overnight to Washington and San Francisco and Leningrad and Moscow. Yet the "statesmen" of the world prefer armaments, conscription and secrecy. Maybe it would be better to blast the world to smithereens and make a fresh start with some new grey matter! —"Union Voice". A. F. L. Unions Paid Total of $60,993,986 Benefits A new record payment of $60,993,986 in various benefits to members of national, international and local unions affiliated with the AFL, covering the year of 1947, was reported recently by the executive council. Benefits paid included those for death, sickness, unemployment, old age, disability, and for other miscellaneous purposes, according to the specific provisions of the benefit plans adopted by the unions. Miscellaneous benefits, death benefits and old age payments ranked in that order in terms of the total dollar value paid out to union members. Payments made because of the unemployment of union members represented the smallest share of the total disbursements. According to the report three unions' benefits payments accounted for more than.half of tbe record total disbursed under the plans. Topping the list was the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union with payments of $15,061,835, nearly all of which was classified as miscellaneous benefits. The International Typographical Union reported a total of $11,483,956 disbursed to its members, split almost equally between old age and miscellaneous benefits. In third place was the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. This union disbursed over 8,000,000, with three classifications: death, sick, and miscellaneous benefits, accounting for over $2,000,000 each." Twenty-five of the reporting unions advised the AFL that they had paid no international benefits during the year.. —Tacoma "Labor Advocate". "Socialism involves the abolition of all unearned income." — Bertram! Russell. NORTH VANCOUVER ADVERTISERS The first large nation to institute; compulsory state unemployment benefits was Great Britain, which did so in 1911. BARRADELL'S Cornet, First and Lonsdale Phone: North 1242 NORTH VANCOUVER . * » Where the Working Man's dollar buys better quality merchandise at CJLJY PRICES AND LESS Caribou Work Clothes — Ladies' and Children's Wear Notion* — General Dry Goods 't' r December, 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Five £}_^^2i5^£i^&^£^^32&j£©&i££ Season's Greetings! Old World Bakeries Ltd. Phone: CE. 1623 1100 WEST SIXTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. Who'll Own The Air? "N By "YAFFLE" Season's Greetings! Hostess Bakeries Phone: DE. 2864 4870 JOYCE ROAD, VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! Glaz-o-Nut Donut Supply Phone: MA. 0720 1060 ROBSON STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! The Esther Bakery Phone GL 0711 3728 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! D. & M. BAKERY Phono: CE. 3211 2242 WEST FOURTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. The question now arises: Who will own the Air? We can only judge by the signs of" the times. These' suggest that the people who are gradually getting their hands on everything on the land will sooner or later control everything in the air, including the air itself. You can't set limitts to Free Enterprise. What modern capitalism aims at is the Survival of the Fattest. Already the shipping companies and railways want to run air lines. They want to bring all forms of transport — earth, water, and air — under one control. And if anybody wants to make a getaway to a less businesslike sphere he'll soon find all the coffins stamped "U.T.I." (Universal Transport Incorporated). That's only natural. The one thing the really Big Business Man can't stand is competition. It's too tough for his tender soul. As I.C.I, chief, Lord McGowan, Said recently, "the big unit is developing a public conscience. . .. Instead of smashing one's neighbors one tries to combine with them." Yes, it's all for love. Friendly bird, this McGowan. Full of compassion for his fellow-creatures. Sold war material to both sides in the Sino-Japanese war, and had working agreement with German arms industry right up to outbreak of this war. Asked at the Armament Inquiry, 1935,,whether he had "any feeling of delicacy as to the propriety" of such transactions, replied, "No, I have no delicacy of feeling in the matter at all." So you see: If competition offends a weatherproof, asbestos-lined public conscience of this quality, you can bet competition is a pretty bad thing and has got to go. You can't expect these humanitarians to allow competition between earth transport and air transport. That is why I say that sooner or later you'll find that those who control everything down below are controlling everything up above. A man can't be hanged for merger, and it's a poor-spirited mergerer who only wants the earth. Look at it from their point of view. Here is another whole element — the Air. Just think of all that air — right around the earth and five miles thick — all running to waste with nobody staking any claims on it and nobody making a penny profit out of it! No enterprising man can bear the thought of it. As soon as he's bought the earth he looks up at the sky, sighs, and murmurs, "How happy could I be with Ether!" Of course, it will send up the price of breathing. You will object to this. You will say it isn't right that people should have, to pay for breathing. I don't see, why not. They have to pay for eating, which is as necessary to life as breathing. If you will allow racketeers with public consciences to make fortunes out of the people's food, you might as well go the whole hog and hand them over the people's air. After all, if an antiquated'18th century government could put on a Windox Tax and make revenue out of light and ventilation, surely an up-to-date Combine may be permitted to make a slight percentage out bf fresh air. They'll know what to do with it They'll treat it just as they treat your food. And you know what they do with thaV don't you? No, I thought you didn't Well, they take all the goodness out of the wheat, leaving you with a nice white loaf containing nothing but starch, and sell the rest of the stuff in packets as patent health food. So that anyone who wants to get the same food-value that his fore- Churchill & The Empire "Mr. Churchill provided a most unfortunate and unhelpful postscript to the brilliantly successful work of the Commonwealth Conference in his speech on the Address. His insistence on keeping the nomenclature 'British Empire' for an association of nations which is plainly no longer either British or an Empire is scarcely statesmanlike. "Is Mr. Churchill really willing to throw away the chance of building an intimate partnership between the leading powers in Western Europe, Briitain, and the leading power in Asia, India, for the sake of 'pride of race?? Everybody can today see that in the controversy on Indian policy a year ago, Mr. Attlee was right and Mr. Churchill was wrong." —"Observer". Well Paid No wonder the magazines oppose most reforms. Advertisers paid them $361 million in the first, nine months of this year, an increase of about $39 million over the same period of 1947. The anti-labor "Saturday Evening Post" collected $44 million. —"Labor". Something Missing "Not much comfort for the Tory Conference in the Stirling by-election result. They had a local candidate, weak in oratory, but strong in the respect of all classes. . . . "What was missing? Maybe it was a policy of their own."—"Daily Express", a Tory newspaper in London, England. SEASON'S GREETINGS SCOTT'S HOME BAKERY Telephone: FAirmont 0729 1860 KINGSWAY VANCOUVER, B. C. 'The Press Is Free, Honest, Accurate!" In some unmentionabl countries the press is controlled by the government and so only lying government propaganda is published! But here the press is free to give us honest, accurate and unbiased news. Now read on. "$25 MILLION IN NARCOTICS STOLEN HEBE" . . . front-page headline in a Denver paper, the "Rocky Mountain News"; "THIEVES GET $250,000 IN NARCOTICS HERE" . . . headline in the same paper in a later edition. "FIRM LOOTED OF $5,000 NARCOTICS" . . . headline in the "Denver Post" covering the same story. "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" . . . headline in the Chicago "Tribune" on the night of the U.S. elections. (Just in case you don't know, it was the other way round.) As we were saying . . . thank heavens the press is free to give us honest, accurate and unbiased information. Them's Harsh Words, Mister! Austin F. CroM, in "National Home Monthly" "I know that men soft soap women with kind words and keep them out of politics. At least women complain that men always givb th.m the brushoff. But since when have women been so easily pushed aside in other things? .The so-called Weaker Sex, as far as I can see, usually gets its own way where it wants to get its own way. Why then, this mealy- mouthed humility about politics? Simply, of course, because the women don't care. "Your Canadian women halfway through the 20th century is politically a strange creature. She's like a fathers got out of a loaf has to buy lady with the New Look, but with a loaf plus a packet of the stuff that;long red flannel drawers showing ought to be in it. Thats Economic through her one-gauge nlyons. Progress. ' "■• • ; • They'll do the same with air. Air contains four parts nitrogen to one SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM THE MANAGEMENT OF ELCHO BAKERY Telephone: PAcific 6447 855 DAVIE STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS BLUEBIRD QUALITY BAKERY Telephone: BAyview 1163 2884 WEST 16th AVENUE VANCOUVER, B. C. part oxygen, as near as dammit. They'll leave you the nitrogen.(after all, they've got a public conscience), take out the oxygen, and sell id in cylinders as patent lung tonic. Then anyone who wants to breathe properly will have to buy a mask for his face and a bag of oxygen for his back. It will be awfully good for trade. You'll say they can't take the oxygen out of the air. That is a reactionary assertion. It isn't safe to guess the limits of scientific progress when there's money in it. You might as well try to set a limit to what the Combines want. —Reprinted from "Pity the Poor Rich" SEASpN'S GREETINGS ATRILL'S BAKERY Telephone: KErrisdale 0134 3884 WEST 41st AVENUE VANCOUVER, B. C. -J-.' Can't Win In This Game "The New Yorker", October 2: "Figures show that price rises since the abolition of the O.P.A. have cost the average family a thousand dollars. It must make a woman sigh for the good old days of 1932, when she could have bought a lot of groceries for a dollar, if she had had one." "So I end as I began; in politics, Canadian women are an all-time flop." < Right and Wrong? Comparing housing problems i Great Britain and the United States, the newspaper, "Labor", cites what it contends is the "right and wrong way to handle housing". Britain, says the newspaper, is in sight of her goal of 750,000 new homes. On the basis of population, we should have completed about 3 times that number — and we have. But, adds "Labor", here is the catch: "In Britain, the Labor government insists that at least three out of four of the new homes must go to those who can't afford to buy. In other words, they must be rented to ordinary folks at rentals they can afford to pay. "In this country, we have concentrated on the construction of homes to be sold on "easy terms" at fantastic prices. That's why we are faced by an appalling housing problem. At How Much Per? Viace Lumney in "Montreal Standard", November 6: "What has happened to the commission on prices? Its members still sit in Ottawa, but is that all they do —sit?" RESOURCES I She was only a miner's daughter, but,'oh, what natural resources! >?_il^3W&3»3_^ SEASON'S GREETINGS BUFTON'S FLOWER SHOP Telephone: HA .ting. 0187 » 1820 COMMERCIAL DRIVE . VANCOUVER, B. C. A salesman bought some limburger cheese to eat in his hotel room. When he got ready to leave he still had about half of the cheese. He didn't want to pack it, neither did he want to leave it lying in the room. Finally he removed a plant from its pot on the window sill, buried the cheese and replaced the plant. A few days later he received this telegram from the hotel management "We give up, where did you put it?" LABOUR L" stands for the LABOURER worthy of his hire; A" for the AGREEMENT he demands from his employer; B" stands for BARGAINING to right what is wrong; O" stands for ORGANIZE that the weak may be strong; U" ia for UNION the power for Rood; R" stands for the RIGHT to live as we should. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?—Lincoln. In 1934 more than two million workers wer. _n company unions of various types. From 1890 to 1930 the illiteracy percentage among Americans over ten was cut from 13 per cent to 4 per cent. A UNION MAN INSISTS ON UNION-MADE UNION BUTTONS WE ARE A UNION SHOP The Geo. H. Hewitt Co. Ltd. 732 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C. . Phone: PA. 6148 LINWOOD COMPANY SPECIALIZING IN MADE-TO-ORDER GARMENTS Imported Chinese Silk Pyjamas Made-to-Measure Men's Shirts MENS WEAR AND FURNISHINGS <MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY) Phone: PA. 7825 106 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! GOLIGHTLY MACHINE WORKS CO. • Phone: CE. 1318 1820 FIR STREET VANCOUVER. B. C. _3 -ft Season's Greetings! PACIFIC COYLE NAVIGATION CO. LTD. Phone: PA. 2171 Foot of Broughton Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! A. Escott Co. Ltd. TOWING Phone: N. V. 1020 FOOT of PEMBERTON, NORTH VANCOUVER, B. C. , Season's Greetings! China Agencies Ltd. INSURANCE Page Six THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 iimimmmpmm SEASON'S GREETINGSI Otto Sundell Floor Laying Contractor Phone: HA. 5159 2525 GRANT STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. 5&di£&d&&gfc$&&3; British Trade Unionists Assail U. S. Medical Group For Attack on Health Plan Arthur Deakin, general secretary of the British Transport and General Workers' Union, assailed the American Medical Association for its backhanded attempt to discredit the proposed U.S. nationwide sickness insurance plan by attacking the national health service program which went into effect in Great Britain last July. In a statement forwarded to Nelson Cruickshanks, director of Social Insurance Activities for the A.F.L., Deakin charged that an editorial which appeared in the A.M.A. Journal for September 25, 1948, was completely inaccurate, and declared that "a more exaggerated statement in regard . to our national health scheme could not be imagined." The editorial attacked the recently released report entitled, "Th? Nation's Health: A Ten-Year' Program" prepared by the Federal Security Administration, which strongly recommended that a national health insurance plan be adopted in the United States. Charging that adoption of the British plan with a minimum of medical facilities available Was the greatest folly in the world, the editorial writer for the A.M.A. asserted that "an even greater folly would be the attempt to offer a similar service in the United States." Striking back, Mr. Deakin declared that, while present medical facilities may be unable at present to satisfy peak demands for care, they are that way because of the "patchwork of uncoordinated systems" which developed under the old free-for-service principle of medical care. It was Britain's wartime experience, Deakin said, which proved conclusively the for national planning and direction of medical services with particular reference to hospital administration. Supporting this contention, Deakin quoted Lord Moran, a distinguished leader of British medical opinion, who said: It was the war which, by rubbing the nation's nose in the facts, prepared it for reform and educated many in the medical profession to accept change." Rapping the A.M.A. position, Deakin charged that its assertion that delays are encountered in receiving treatment under the British plan was a "reckless exaggerated picture". Noting that introduction of the new plan did not disturb the ratio between the number of doctors and the total population in Britain, he said "if there has been an increase in the numbers being treated by doctors, the explanation must be that under the new service adequate medical care has now for the first time become available to people who did not get it before." "We in Britain are determined that so long as shortages prevail, whether of medical facilities, food or other essentials, available resources shall as far as possible be shared equally. We are convinced that the health of the community can best be assured, not by the abandonment of this priciple, but by active measures t oovercome existing shortages and by maximum efficiency in the use of what is available." Have You a Definition For 'Free Enterprise*? By PAT FRAYNE (West Coast Correspondent for AFL News Service) San Francisco. — A nationwide hunt is on for the definition of "free enterprise", with the recent discovery that no one has yet set down an authoritative meaning for that phrase. Used for years as a cliche-club over the head of ' organized labor and cliche-cloak for management, it is now revealed that "free enterprise" has neither a dictionary for a father nor an encyclopedia for a mother. DeWitt Emery, president of the National Small Business Men's Association, Chicago, failed to And a definition in a search of all reference works, including White's Political Dictionary. He tried the Unusual Words department and the Business Section, and still found no definition. John S. Piper, San Francisco News financial editor, conducted a similar survey in San Francisco. Tj^jrlps-st approach came from the ___rt__y of Economic Doctrine: "Free economy is, after all, an economy, and as such according to our definition of the term, it presupposes the establishment of an heir- archy of needs and of a method for the proportional allocation of means to their satisfaction." Mr. Piper was not satisfied with this and so asked his readers to send in definitions. Mr. Emery and his highschool son, James, whose curiosity started the whole search, have advanced the following as their own definition of "free enterprise":. "Free enterprise is, (1) the right of each individual to decide for himself what his occupation shall be and to change occupations whenever he wishes; and (2) the private ownership and management of the tools and other means of production and distribution." One might read in this some opposition to public ownership, federal production and distribution of power, as well as the right of the 20-year- olds to decide that their occupations shall not be determined by Selective Service. If you have a definition of "free enterprise" you might send it to Mr. John S. Piper, Financial Editor, "San Francisco News", 812 Mission Street, San Francisco, Calif. A Washington minister tells the story of what happened at the funeral of a certain woman who during her life had constantly quarreled with everyone, henpecked her husband, and had been regarded by all as a genuine battle-axe. But now that she was dead, people were willing, to forgive and forget,' and a crbwded church listened to the minister as he droned his eulogy of the departed. The sky grew darker and darker, and just as the service ended, a storm broke. There was a flash of lightning, followed by a crash of thunder. All was silent in the church, and then from the front row came the voice of the widower, "Well, she got there!" "Shucks, Sunday School again," grumbled Willie. "I bet Pop never went to Sunday school when he was a kid." "He went regularly," his mother answered him. "O.K." agreed Willie, reluctantly, "but I bet it won't do me no good either." Season's Greeting*! Fred Errington Ltd. PLUMBING* C6NTRACTORS Phone: KE. 0728 2352 West Forty-first Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. it SEASONS GREETINGSI Gilchrist Engineering Co. Ltd. Phone: FA. 6691 135 West Second Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! B. C. Plumbing and Heating CoLtd. Phone: MA 3036 1238 SEYMOUR STREET VANCOUVER. B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Kitsilano General Repair and Hardware Phone: BA 0398 2835 WEST FOURTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, B. C. ty# SEASON'S GREETINGSI Gosse Plumbing and Heating Phone: DE. 2562 ' '<' ' ... ■ <i 3180 EAST FORTY-FIFTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI FILBEY'S PLUMBING 8C HEATING Phone: FA. 8861 1492 KINGSWAY VANCOUVER. ft. C. (Canadian Labour Reports) SEASON'S GREETINGSI FOURTH AVENUE HEATING AND PLUMBIN6 (0. Phone: BA. 0264 * * 2008 WEST FOURTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, g, C. December, 1948 THE UABOR STATESMAN Page Sev SEASON'S GREETINGSI It' National Fisheries Ltd. Phone: HA. 3064 Foot of Campbell Avenue Vancouver, B. C. }&&&*2*i*f-^^ Season's Greetings! ,.' i Byrnes Typewriter Ltd. "DISTRIBUTORS OF ROYAL TYPEWRITERS" Phones: PA. 7942 — PA. 2752 592 SEYMOUR STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS Belmont Furniture Co. "8 STOKES TO SERVE YOU" 1016 GRANVILLE STREET—MArin. 0857 STORE No. 2—3047 WEST BROADWAY—BAyview 5393 STXMtE No. 3—1115 GRANVILLE STREET—MArine 5657 .. -r——' Vancouver, B.HS. Season's Greetings! An_rl_oi*c_r_n'__ typewriters—s_i<_, Rented, illlUCl 0t-.ll 9 Repaired, Exchanged ' GUARANTEED REPAIRING — OVERHAULING — REBUILDING Phon-: MA 1646 524 West Pender St.. Vancouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Barr Typewriter Company Typewriters Sold, Rented, Serviced Phone: MA. 5445 445 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Underwood Limited Underwood Typewriters Phone: PA. 3561 568 HORNBY STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Keith Watts Typewriters Typewriters—AU Makes-Sold, Rented, Repaired 242 CAMBIE STREET, VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI , " ! WILKINSON TYPEWRITER SERVICE IMPERIAL TYPEWRITERS — SALES AND SERVICE ALL MAKES REPAIRED* RENTED AND SOLD Phone: PA. 9842 325 HOWE STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. ABEL MAlSOJFACTURING CO. LTD. Manufacturers of INDUSTRIAL SPRINGS, UPHOLSTERING AND BED SPRINGS 600 WEST SIXTH AVE, VANCOUVER Phone: FA. 7770 Season's Greetings to Organized Labor! Society Cakes Lt& Phone: CE. 5715 974, WEST BROADWAY VANCOUVER. B.C UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA By GEO. R. BENGOUGH New wage contract of 12 cents increase for employees of Tru-Fit Millwork, tops other sash and door mills in British Columbia. Local No. 2534, New Westminster, scored another victory when 1949 agreement was signed. Some 90 employees benefit through efforts of Local No. 2S34 Wage Committee, composed of Brothers Jack Dangerfield, Local Union President; Omer Beatch, Conductor; Joe Hurt- up, Stan Haylock, Shop Stewards, and Representative George Bengough. This new agreement with Tru-Fit Millwork, division of Inter-City Distributors, came into effect two montha prior to expiry date, thereby giving all employees an approximate additional $40. Tru-Fit Millwork is a modern sash, door and millwork plant, doing first class work at competitive prices. They recently completed the supplying of the sash, doors, etc., for the Renfrew Heights Housing Ftoject Local Union No."2634 also completed this anonth, negotiations with Dodd & Steele Furniture Co., Ltd., at Edmonds, Burnaby. This is the third agreement with this firm and marks another step forward. The contract covering all employees provides for top wages in the furniture industry, 40-hour week, two rest periods a day, a clause covering overtime hours. Union Shop clause, Christmas Day paid for, and the applying of the Union Label on their products. ■ ■ :-. '■ Anyone buying furniture for their home and wanting a well made product made under conditions warranting the use of the Union Label of our brotherhood, ask for "Quak.r Colonial Maple" brand, and don't forget to1 double check by looking for the label of United Brotherhood Union. This progressive Local of New. Westminster further reports negotiations are still under way at Shaw Bros. Sash and Door plant at Sapper- ton. Many points have been agreed upon and an early settlement is anticipated. Shop Stewards Art Burrus, Ed Funk and Cliff Marsh are working towards a 100 per cent Union Shop, and according to their progress to tlate will reach the objective early in the new year. West-Min Woodcraft, now a 100 per cent organized plant, has proven somewhat difficult in negotiations for a satisfactory agreement. So far this company has only offered a 5c increase, which is not acceptable to Local No. 2534 members, considering the rates now being paid. Therefore, a Conciliation Officer is being applied for as provided under the I.C.A. Act. New sgreements for 1949 have yet to be reached with Marine Wood working and Ball Woodworking. Organizational work with this Local is proceeding and before long they hope to have the geat organized district in British Columbia. * * * . * Shipwrights, Joiners "and*.'Ci_L Local No. 506, formerly the Amalgamated Building Workers of Canada, held a big celebration the night of Tuesday, November 80th, when their United Brotherhood Charter was officially installed. Brother Jack Stevenson, president of the Provincial Council of Carpenters of British Columbia, in a well chosen speech for the occasion, formally installed the new Charter at a very well attended meeting. Later in the evening, President Stevenson obligated the officers in the customary manner of the United Brotherhood and wished the officers and members great success for the future. Malcolm Bruce, president of the Shipwrights, Joiners and Caulkers Union, called on General Representative Wm. Page to oblbigate the assembled members of Local No. 506. Some two hundred and fifty members participated, which made for a very impressive ceremony. After the official ceremony, President Malcolm Bruce invited the representative of the Building Trades Council, officers of Local Building Trades Unions and visiting membera of the brotherhood locals, to join with them in their smoker and make themselves at home for the evening. The refreshments were capablby handled by Warden Ralph Young and his committee, Some of the No. 506 officers we noted who were particularly busy making the event a success were Business Agent Jack Evans, Vice-President James Anderson and Recording Secretary Jimmy Best. Local No. 506 is assured of lots of support in their organizational work and we hope to have a report every month on. the activities of the Shipwrights, Joiners, Caulkers and Boat- builders. • ♦ • * UNITED BROTHERHOOD UNIONS VOTING TO DOUBLE FUNERAL DONATIONS Acting on a recommendation of the General Executive Board, the membership will very shortly, if they have not already done so, be voting on" a proposition to double the Funeral Donations. This will be a referendum vote. This proposition would increase the funeral benefits by 100 per cent for a per capita tax increase of 25 cents. * This is one of the biggest bargains that has ever been made available for members of any organization and is sure to be voted unanimously in every Local in British Columbia. If this proposition is carried, as we believe it will be, it could mean as much as an additional $300 worth in benefit protection for 26 centa per capita per month. A bargain hard to beat. * * ' * * QUESTION OF THE MONTH Has the outdoor advertising busi- nqpa got to the place where ita employees cannot be paid a reasonable wage? Local No. 2533 has been negotiating for some time on behalf of Sign Erectors and the increase offered by the company to date would not buy a bag of peanuts. --• • • « ,'. e 1949 ANOTHER YEAR A great deal of progress is anticipated in the organizing field for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and .Joiners in British Columbia in the months to come. Many events that have taken place in the past year point to a greater year during 1949. The United Brotherhood has not endeavored to capitalize on the sorry mess the workers in the lumber in dustry have gotten into in recent months by the political squabbles of a minority; believing the workers of this industry will turn to the Brotherhood for their trade union when they are conversant with what these factions are trying to do. It is noticeable every time politics are the main attention of the officers of a trade union that the 'resulting chaos takes place and the membership suffers the consequences. . Trade unions in the lumbering in dustry could well be patterned after the manner in which the Construction Trades are organized. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners have provided a great deal of the leadership in organizing the Construction Trades in every city and town of the province of British Columbia. In the province of Ontario and the Pacific Coast states the workers in the lumbering industry saw the advantages of being in a strong union and are securing the best of conditions under the United Brotherhood banner through its chartered Lumber and Sawmill locals. It .is gratifying that the Shipwrights, Joiners and Caulkers, formerly with the Amalgamated Building Workers, saw fit to become a part of our organization and a sincere effort will be made to have this section of the Shipbuilding industry 100 per cent with the United Brotherhood. Good progress in this' direction is being made in Victoria, Prince Rupert, New Westminster, as well as in Vancouver. The Sash, Door and Fixture plants are being organized and securing top agreements through the efforts of our organization. The Furniture industry is becoming better organized with our brotherhood every year and our Locals are giving good service to the Furniture Workers in Victoria and Vancouver. The Floorlaying trades are making good progress, i%j|siipect of wages and conditions, with special attention of late being given to the resilient men who do the lino, carpet and tile work of this city.. The year 1949 will see much more organizing activity oi) all fronts and a greater organization to make better conditions and wages in the years to come for all those engaged in any branch of the woodworking trade. . A Bigger Share For the Workers While I welcome the increase in production and ask for more, it does not surprise me to hear demands that the benefits of rising production should not find their way into the pockets of those who'seldom make any contribution or who, in increased profits, dividends, and extravagant expense allowances, derive too large a share. Increased production of course there must be, but it must be accompanied by an equitable" share of the proceeds. In a condition of full employment other social incentives to higher production are also essential. • The first consideration ia to make the worker feel that he is playing his part in the evolution of a new social order—Emanuel Shinwell, British Labor Minister. DOHT FORGET TO ATTEND THAT # UNION MEETING/ BIG-TIME WRESTLING EXHIBITION GARDENS . . EVERY WEDNESDAY ^ fMO - $1J00 - 75c TICKETS On Sale at WRESTLERS SPORT CLUB 828 Granville St. (Next door te Capitol Theatre) Free Delivery Phone PAcific 6657 Meet Your Friends at the . . . EMPIRE HOTEL 78 EAST l__4Sr__NGS STREET Licensed Premises Refreshments served as you like it S. Brando-ini t\ Sona, Proprietor! CENTRAL AUTO PAINTERS Body and Fender Repairs Metal Work Auto Tops and Upholstery Repairs Car Upholstery Thoroughly Cleaned—Truck Painting and Lettering CECIL HUGGINS, Manager — ESTIMATES FREE 1245 Seymour Street Phone MArine 2918 HOTEL REGENT Limited FULLY UCENSED 160 Hastings Street East Vancouver, B. C. ST. 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Phone: PAcific 3053 .v-" mwt# Page Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1548 SEASONS GREETINGS! lo Ho News BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: West. 370-L1 3297 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! E. R. Taylor Construction Co. Ltd. 1699 Hudson, Vancouver, B.C. — Phone.1__E.T7TT 14th Ave. and 20th St., New Westminster, B. C. Phone: N. W. 4064 SEASONS GREETINGSI C. H. Cates & Sons Ltd. SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR Geo. Mitchell PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: FA. 3761-M 342 West Twenty-sixth Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGS! H. E. Moore PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: DE. 1518-L 3419 Olive Avenue Burnaby, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Durrant & Beaumont, Plastering Contractors R. BEAUMONT H. DURRANT 79 EAST 45th AVENUE 1136 EAST 60th AVENUE VANCOUVER. B.C. Carpenters' Representative Reports Virile Growth in B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS to our Friends from Bill Page, General Representative, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. ' ~— w The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America now have 37 active Local Unions in the Province of British Columbia with some 8,000 members, 28 of these Locals being Construction the other nine shop and Mill Locals. These are assisted by three active District Councils who meet monthly and a Provincial Council whose Executive Officers meet quarterly and also in Convention annually to which all Locals send Delegates, thus assuring all Officers and Members a voice in their own Organization. The Provincial Council with representation from all Locals sets the policy for the coming year, while the District Councils with the assistance of their respective groups of Local Unions puts same into effect to the advantage of the membership. With one exception the Construction Local Unions have all made agreements during the year 1948 providing for a wage increase of 15c per hour with the Union Shop, besides standard overtime rates and holidays. The five-day forty-hour week is stipulated in all agreements. The exception mentioned is Victoria,- where negotiations are still in progress with every possibility of a satisfactory agrrement being reached before the end of the year. The Shop and Mill Local Unions are all working under good agreements. During November the Amalgamated Building Workers of Canada voted to take out a Charter in the United Brotherhood and are now working under Charter No. 506, Shipwrights, Boatbuilders, Joiners and Caulkers. Since this Charter was Granted and Installed, Local 506 has been ' certified as the- Bargaining Agent in the Burrard Shipyard and an agreement signed with the Oper ators., Agreements in other Shipyards are being negotiated. The Carpenters look forward to the year 1949, satisfied, that now being one United Organization, they can still further improve conditions for men of their adopted Craft, and plans are already under way to further extend our Organization to points in the Province where additional Local Unions can be of benefit to the Organization and the affiliated membership. I wish to take this opportunity to compliment the Officers of our Local Unions, who, working with their Business Agents and Representatives have made our Organization one of which to be proud, also to thank the Officers and Members of other Trade Unions with whom we are associated for support—always generously given when needed. Let us make the year 1949 something to look back on with pride. —Bill Page. Building Industry Leads In Labor-Management Relations According to Mr. Peter W. Eller, President of the Building Trades Employers' Association of the City of New York, other industries in the country could learn much from the building and construction indastry as to how good labor-management relations are established. Writing in the November issue of the "Elks' Magazine", Mr. Eller (who on January 1, 1949, will success Mr. Christian G. Norman as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Building Trades Employers' Association of New York City) discussed in some detail the plan which has been worked out in New York City for the settlement of jurisdictional disputes. That 'is only one of the phases of good management-labor relations which he thinks outstanding in the industry. On the more general problem of what is essential to satisfactory and constructive relations between unions and employers, Mr» Eller said, in part: "Everyone will agree, I believe, that two of the most important problems confronting the country today are the desperate need for new construction and the even more urgent necessity for setting up a sound, workable program acceptable to both labor and management in all branches of industry. The story to which I am referring — which could have been written at any time during the last three years — suggests a solution to both problems. "It is an indisputable fact that more new housing and business construction is being erected in the New York metropolitan area than ever before. (More than two billion dollars' worth in the last two years). It is equally true that while too many other, industries are plagued by labor troubles, relations between building unions and contractors' in the New York area are excellent, never were better. Again, this is not a new, overnight development. Since 1902, labor and management which once worked opposite sides of the street, have been demonstrating that there is a broad, middle road of mutual advantage and respect. "That is the element that makes the story vastly more significant than a mere report of commentary on one business. Labor and management can get together, compose their difference and proceed, swiftly and effciently, to do a job the country needs. And if it can be done in the construction business, it surely can be done in any industry. That's the point I'm trying to drive home with a sledge hammer. "Every field has problems peculiar to it, of course. Things are tough all over. Now I'm not trying to say that a building contractor has more headaches than the next fellow. All I claim is that he has to contend with a variety of factors that make his complications typical, at least. .. . "I submit that the distinguished record the building trade has established in New York represents the highest and most democratic expression, of collective bargaining. Agreement always can be reached if reas- "Now the contractors in New York City are not more altruistic than employers in any other field elsewhere in the country. We have established, at considerable expense, elaborate machinery for composing our differences with labor because we have found it is good business. We make money when new buildings are going up and old ones are coming down. We can't do the jobs without trained workers. It is to our advantage to keep labor happy and active. We benefit, as much as the union by cooperating to train apprentices, as we have since the demand for new building, complicated by the manpower shortage during the war, became acute. At the moment, there are 140,000 new building mechanics bein gtrained throughout the coun try, an dthe New York area haa more than its appropriate share. . "I think the country as a whole would be standing today on a firmer economic footing if every major industry in every section could make the same claim to good labor-management relations, and an on-with- the-work-to-be-done program. After agriculture, the construction business is Number 2 in the nation in annual dollar volume and first in employment opportunities. It is the first industry subject to boom or bust; it is the most reliable indication we have whether or not the United States is healthy or sick economically. We feel fine in New York and we're going to stay that way as long as we can sit down with labor's representatives and thrash out common problems like mature, reasonable men. There is not much difference between building a house or a nation's economy. In both instances you must have a strong foundation. And the only foundation on which better labor-management relations can be built is collective bargaining, entered into by all parties with good faith, sincere performance and a willingness to listen to the other fellow's side of the story.'' —Building Trades (A. P. of L.) _» Bulletin. The veteran character actor, Charles Coburn, likes to remember his boyhood infatuation for the theatre and the youthful shifts he made to see as many plays as possible. His father placed on prohibition on his play-going. " "Son," he warned, "you must never go to the burlesque shows." "Why not, father?" the younger Coburn wanted to know. "Because," said his father, "you will see things there ' that you shouldn't." Of course, after that, he had to go. "And did you see things you shouldn't?" someone asked Coburn. The veteran actor laughed. "Yea," he replied, "I saw father." Three bulls escaped from a slaughter house. One was a big bull, I one was a medium-sized .bull, and one was a very small bull. The big bull on able men can sit down and discuss ran into a- bam across the road and a problem objectively. - I've been in was captured in no time flat. The the construction business since boy- medium-sized bull stopped for a.red hood and I've always held to theI light on the corner and was promtly philosophy that labor and manage- lassoed. The small bull, however, led ment can get together is there is his pursuers a merry chase .before he mutual respect and appreciation for was rounded up. The reason for this the other fellow's problem. ... is that a little bull goes a long way. SEASONS GREETINGSI : »M Evoy & Hollo way Wood, Ware and Metal Lathing Contractors Phone: FA. 64S5 203 Sixth Avenue Vancouver, B. C. I/' SEASON'S GREETINGS! E. G. BLOWER PLASTERING CONTRACTOR 4751 HENRY Phone: FA. 4768 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA SEASONS GREETINGS! W.T.Harrison LATHING CONTRACTOR Phone: FR. 1979 2985 East Thirty-ninth Ave.nue, Vancouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI H. R. Harrison LATHING CONTRACTOR i Phone: FR. 2675 2261 East Thirty-ninth Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. / SEASON'S GREETINGSI W. T. HANDY, Plastering Contractor. Phona: KE. 4056-1 1750 WEST THIRTY-FIFTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Ernest Dann Ltd., Plastering Contractors Phona: HA. 1944 3285 NANAIMO ROAD VANCOUVER, B; C. .-_V December, 1948 THE LABO R STATESMAN Page Nine Halse-Martin Construction Co. Ltd. Phone: CE. 4181 • > . 1898 WEST FIRST AVENUE v***, VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Dawson & Hall Ltd. CONTRACTORS Phone: HA. 2800 , 775 Clark Drive, Vancouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS! Cameron Stuart & Co. Ltd. 4 CONTRACTORS Phone: MA. 2941 555 Howe Street Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings? DON CURRIE CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. * Phone: CE. 1915 1734 WEST SECON^AVENUErVANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! FRASER RIVER PILE DRIVING CO. LTD. Phone: N.W. 1015 EIGHTEENTH and FIFTH. NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. Season's Greetings! SHURLY-DIETRICH-ATKINS CO. LTD. Phona: HA. 0|27 1642 PANDORA STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! HICKMAN HE HARDWARE CO. LTD. Sole Distributors for: PRATT LAMBERT PRODUCTS Distributors for: WEISER _ MODERN LIFETIME HARDWARE 578 BEATTY STREET Phonei: MA. 1046-MA. 6741 SEASON'S GREETINGSI YOUNG & BOYD, Paint Supplies 853 Howe Street — Phone. TA 5735 CONTRACT PAINTING —MA 9405 377 GORE AVENUE VANCOUVER. B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI YORK CONSTRUCTION LTD. Phone: BA. 3188 1169 WEST EIGHTH AVENUE VANCOUVER. B. C. The Free, Press Has Become A Slave to the Dollar Sign Working newspapermen—the lads who write the stuff the papers print — are telling the story of why the American press, in almost unanimously predicting Dewey's, election, sustained the greatest "flop" in[ its history. "Never has the press been so wrong," declares the "Guild Reporter", official organ of the Newspaper Writers' Union. James Beston, one of the best of the New: York "Times" reporters, makes his "confession" in a memo to his editor, saying: "What happens when a reporter goes out to cover an election? usually he does one of two things: He goes on a campaign train or he goes out on his own to the various state capitals. "If he goes on the train, he is usually so busy reporting what the great man says that he haa no time for anything else. "If he goes to the state capital, he usually spends hia entire time interviewing the political managers and the political reporters, all of whom usually get their information from somebody else and place enormous confidence on the so-called scientific polls. "In short, neither on the train nor in the capitals do we spend much time wandering around talking to tha people." The Bozeman "Courier", the oldest paper in Montana, points oat that not only practically all the newspapers and magazines, including "Tbe U.S.'News, the business man's periodical Bible," were wrong, but that the commentators clung desperately to their false predictions on election night It describes what happened as returns flooded in: "Wheezed H. B. Kaltenborn, 'The trend is for Mr. Dewey.' Throughout the night tbe unbiased Kaltenborn analyzed every sneeze within his hearing, as indicating that Dewey would win. "On into the morning he droned, trying to ignore with his slanted calculations the lead Truman was maintaining and building. Even at seven- thirty the next morning he had not given up the rapidly submerging Dewey ship. "And so it was throughout the nation that is said to have the best, mest free and most accurate press in the world — that same press modestly admits it!" Out at Sidney, Neb., "Jack" Lowe, one of the publishers of the "Telegraph", gets down on his penitent knees to say: "I was the victim of a self-inflated importance, which made me thing the editor of a newspaper is supposed to do the thinking for the rest of the people. .' "If I had moved off my posterior long enough to go out and talk with some farmer friends, or even to walk into our own shop and find out our emplayees planned to vote, I might have sensed the straw in the wind. "But I chose to sit in the sanctum sanctorum and form my own opinions on the basis of what the experts were saying Iforgot to remember, and what Mr. Dewey-overlooked, too, is that there, are millions of 'experts' who don't do much talking, but their votes count just as mu_-i_s. mine when they walk into the booth. "The newspaper business is stagnating because it has permitted itself to fall into the hands of men who have lost the common touch. They sit in carpeted offices and smoke big, black cigars and build their ego to unbelievable heights. "They are push-overs for the siren songs of Walter Lippmann and Walter Winchell and a host of other columnists, who, through the lethargy of the newspapers themselves, have taken over the job of doing most of the thinking and talking for the press. "They never admit a bum guess. They crow for weeks about their good ones, and the publishers love it, because it builds circulation, which builds bank accounts, which builds dividends, "The free press has become a slave to the dollar sign and the vision and enterprise which once characterized the profession has been supplanted by selfishness and irresponsibility." U.K. Television Hits New Stride United Kingdom television ia hitting a new stride from London to Birmingham. Work has begun on a second transmitter at Sutton Cold- field which will serve around 6,000,- 000 people in a circle 100 miles across Britain. Relay programs will pick up London programs and beam them on to Birmingham. In about five years most of Britain's big centres of population will be covered by the television network. Regular viewers in the present television area of 40 miles around London already number 300,000. On special occasions more than 1,000,000 look on. The number rises daily. Viewers pay $8 a year for a combined television-sound license and for this they can get two to three full- length plays each week, many of them acted by famous stars. Then there are variety shows with acts from United Kingdom and Continental theatre's, a television news reel changed twice weekly, documentary and foreign films and outside broadcasts of great public and sporting events. Highlights within the past year have been Princess Elizabeth's drive to her we.dding, King'George at the Cenotaph on the Armistice Day Service, the Royal Family leaviing for and returning from South Africa, Mrs. Roosevelt unveiling the memorial to her husband in London's Grosvenor Square, and the Olympic Games. Children Lilt. It Every Sunday afternoon thousands of children sit entranced at the adventures of Muffin the Mule and his puppet friends of the television Mr. Job Steward Congratulations. You are the chief architect of the. union on your job, the protector of the union contract, the director of commnnications between each individual employee in yonr department and the management of your plant, and between the employees you represent and your union. It's a big job. But don't let it scare you. If you are a new stewart you can't possibly know all the angles. Not right away and not all at once. If you are a new steward you will learn them gradually, through experience. Take the job in your stride. children's hour. And they see lessons by experts in tennis, cricket, football, riding, swimming and running. Not to mention Percy Edwards and his imitations of bird songs. Television means more than entertainment for Britain. It means big overseas markets for her factories as other countries follow up. —People's Weekly. The Union Officer Oft in the night when I'm carousing My inner voice keeps me arousing; I stroll down through the local's hall And witness scenes by heart enthral. My leaders dash with paces swift To straighten things that went adrift. Fatigued they plan our common-care And devise pensions all might share. Full long they bargain with some hard-boiled heel Whose fattened jowls ne'er missed a meal. Victory sometimes crowns them — their wives may crown them, too. When barging in the back door as late.as half-past two. - * . From sublime heights of glory they meet a Waterloo, And still they come up fighting for likes of me and you. Oh, ho, for the life of a union man and battles that bleed men red! But when all these struggles are going on I'm usually tucked in bed. —Tiffany. A Dad's Hope I hope that I may always do The things my son expects me to. My greatest fear is that he may Be disappointed, some near day. And little daughter, you I love. May blessing grace you from above, May I ever help if need you have Of counsel or advice from Dad. I hope that I may ne'er pretend To falter in my trust of friend; That friends I claim may all be true And share the trust I place in you. Then when I greet that final sun And all my chores of life are done, I hope that one-by-one all can . Say With respect, "He was a man!" —Frank L. Osman. Labor Highlights The profit parade ia continuing. With prices high, industry aa a whole is making billions this. year. A "Wall Street Journal'* Survey covering 155 major companies in fifteen industries shows aggregate third quarter earnings 41.7 per cent above the third quarter of 1947. And 1947 waa a wonderful year from the profit-takers' standpoint. The financial newspaper says the soaring profits-of the third quarter of this year clearly point to "record high earnings for all 1948". Labour's League for Political Education, A, F. of L. political arm, has come through its first test with flying colors. The League, with its affiliated branches in every state and in hundreds of cities, did a magnificent job in its first year of getting the people registered and to the polls on Election Day. When the counting of the votes was completed, it was found that dozens of labor-baiting, N.A.M.-serving legislators — the men who put over the Taft-Hartley Act for Big Business in 1947 — will not be coming back to Washington in January. Working people wh-> stayed away from the polls in 1946, thereby | letting N.A.M. - approved candidates 'capture Congress, showed that they had learned their lesson' and learned it well. On November 2 the nation's millions of wage-earners and wage- earners' families marched to the polls and swept Taft-Hartleyites into the discard. As good citizens exercising the right to vote, they achieved one of the greatest people's victories in history. * * « The Census Bureau estimates that the peacetime draft could take as many as four out of every 100 worken from their jobs. The Bureau's estimate is based on a survey which was made to determine the possible impact of the draft on the labor force. ■ » • • *■ Registered nurses in New York City are making a determined effort to build a real trade union under the banner of the American Federation of Labor. —"American Federationist". "The only thing wone than having your wife find in your pocket a letter you forgot to mail," says Joe Paup, the poolroom philosopher, "is having her find one you forgot to burn." SEASON'S GREETINGSI G. W. Ledingham & Co. Ltd. Phone: LA. 0670 1025 West Seventy-Seventh Ave. Vancouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI W. D. Wallace & Sons Ltd. Phone: BA. 0172 '4 526 Broadway West Vancouver, B. C. && Industrial Wire and . Iron Works Phone: FA. 0848 138 East Fourth Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. ^Season's Greetings! WINDSOR CONSTRUCTION LTD. Phona: FA. 3960 104 PEVERIL AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! VANCOUVER PILE DRIVING CO. LTD. Phone: PA. 4536 , 207 WEST HASTINGS STREET. VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! r. ART ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS LTD. Phone: MA. 6723. 2203 GRANVILLE STREET, VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI POWERLTre ENGINEERING CO. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Phone: CE. 4154 1652 WEST FIFTH AVENUE VANCOUVER. B.C. —T 1 .- Page Ten THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 SflWt^ftre.tC'WeeTOK'*"* • •• CANADIAN CANNERS (WESTERN) LTD. VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! m \W**fF* Pacific Meat Co* Ltd* Phone: LA. 0250 8950 SHAUGHNESSY VANCOUVBR, B. C. WITH BEST WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! r Bloedel, Stewart & Welch, __JL__<L 510 WEST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! B. C. FIR & CEDAR LUMBER CO. LTD. Phone: FA. 416$ 897 WEST SIXTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, B. C. GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR from the '*>■■ Fishermen's Co-operative Federation Vancouver Prince Rupert Season's Greetings! Johnson Walton St eamships t ■ ' . LTD.! Phonei PA. 5571 355 Burrard Street Vancouver, B. C. Free Enterprise Dilemma Vancou»er San", NotM-W 26th! "It wm a aad. commentary on social service administration in Vancouver when a man this week waa arrested for vagrancy, pleaded guilty, and said he wanted to go to jail because he could find no work, had no home or money, and was suffering from swollen feet from walking the streets in search of help. "Magistrate Mclnnes. agreed' to give him shelter, food and medical treatment for a few days at Oakalla in the hope that something better could then be found for him. "There Is no excuse for this sort of thing. Jails are places of punishment for wrongdoers, not havens for the unfortunate,. - -. — "It solves nothing to explain this perennial problem by saying it is 'seasonal', or by the usual escape from responsibility by which city authorities say it is 'up to' the province or the dominion to help these victims of circumstance, many of whom are migrants from the East." Not So Good "Tim.", No-ember 22nd: "The state of the nation's health could be a lot better. That waa what they said again and again in Boston last week at the 76th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. "In some ways, we are worse off than we were a century ago, said Dr. Abel Wolman, professor of sanitary engineering at John Hopkins, and our boasted progress in health is not at great as many like to think. There is hardly a stream in the U.S. that is not more polluted than it was 100 years ago, and, said Dr. Wolman, 'there is hardly a city in Massachusetts or one in the rest of the U.S. in which the conditions of housing are not essentially worse than those at which the Shattuck report (compiled in 1850) directed severe criticism.' In Washington, D.C, he added, 100,000 people draw their drinking water from hydrants in the yard and use outdoor privies. There are almost 6,000 communities in the U.S. with no public water system, more than 9,000 without sewerapre systems; in 8,300 communities, where some 70 million people live, there are no modern facilities for collecting and getting rid of garbage." Compliments of Ryan's Carriers Ltd. TRUCKS — MOTORCYCLES — BICYCLES 606 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C T. A. Ryan, Mgr. Phone: MA. 3321 (Private Exchange) Season's Greetings! Harbour Services Ltd. • Phone: TAtlow 4050 Foot of Broughton Street, Vancouver, B. C. Speaking of Sacred Things And if it is thought necessary to speak of sacred things, then the one sacred thing- is the dissatisfaction of man wit hhimself and his striving to be better than he is; sacred is his hatred of all the trivial rubbish which he himself has created; sacred is his desire to do away with greed, envy, crime, disease, war and all the enmity between men on earth; and sacred is his labor.—Maxim Gorky. . Christmas Greetings! ARROW^-a*™—^TRANSFEI^ Moving — Packing — Shipping — Storage CALL MArine 0535 GRANVILLE ISLAND. VANCOUVER Season's Greetings! ERS TRANSPORT SERVICE Ltd.j GUARDS YOUR SHIPPING COSTS General Manager: A. F. (Art) Muir 343 RAILWAY STREET Phone: TA 4211 Can't "Go It Alone" Any More "The Daily Colonut", Victor.*, B.C., November 30th: "The Coalition Conservative candidate won his seat in South Okanagan handily yesterday, while the Coalition Liberal nominee went down to defeat before a C.C.F. standard-bearer in Rossland-Trail at the provincial polls. Both seats were held by the Coalition before, so that there is a net loss of one seat to the Administration in the Legislature. ... "The result in the by-election is a straight warning to both parties to the provincial Coalition that thia is not the best of weather in which to 'go it alone'. If there has been any such thought in the minds of responsible Coalitionists, what happened yesterday should cure it." Season's Greetings! Merchants Cartage Co. Ltd. Crane Service -r- Heavy Hauling — Light Cartage Machinery Moving — Trailer Trucks Phone: MArine 3271 716 Cambie Street, Vancouver, B. C SEASON'S GREETINGS I ATOMIC TRANSFER MOVING — BAGGAGE — LIGHT DELIVERY Phoae: HA. 2227 2486 COMMERCIAL DRIVE, VANCOUVER. B.C. Tarn To Labor Antony Flew, Si. John'- College, Oxford, in latter to "London Daily Herald": "I read with delight A J. Mc Whinnie's recent account of the growing strength of Labor organizations in the Universities. "Oxford University Labor Club has just begun what is already clear will be the greatest boom term of ita history, by achieving a membership of 1,200, the highest figure ever reached by any Labor club in any university in the country. "The Tories are very strong Mill— stronger than we are — but we are scoring big gains in our job of proving to students that Labor ia the Party for youth and the future." m Man: "Watcha cryin' fort" Boy: "I lost my nickel." Man: "Where.* Boy: "In Virginia." Man: "How come?" Boy: "She swallowed it" Joe: My brother has twelve medals. He won 'em in the war. Moe: Gee, he must have been a great sharpshooter! Joe: Nope. He was a great crap- shooter. The express pulled up with' such suddenness that the passengers were hurled in a heap on the floor. Quickly the conductor came along to reassure them. • "Somebody pulled the cord and the brakes acted too quickly. The last coach has left the rails. There will be a delay of three hours." "Three hours!" cried a young man "I'm to be married this afternoon." "Are you the fellow who pulled the cord?" asked the conductor, suspiciously. A British barrister on his death- Old Lady: "Here's a penny, my bed willed his entire estate to fools poor man. How did you become so and madmen. When asked his reason destitute?" for such a gesture, he replied: ' ! Beggar: "I was like yon, mum "From such I've had my money, always giving away vast sums to the and to auch 1 make return. poor and needy." SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM THE MANAGEMENT ef B.C. DISTRICT TELEGRAPH AND DELIVERY CO. LTD. VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! RAINBOW TRANSFER & MOVING SHORT AND LONG DISTANCE HAULING EXPERIENCED FURNITURE MOVERS Phone: MA 3818 1097 RICHARDS ST.. VANCOUVER Season's Greetings! VANCOUVER TUG BOAT CO. LTD. Phone: MA 2244 OHHCE: 407 WEST CORDOVA VANCOUVER. B. C. ■'£**-. A'. J '..h- December, 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Eleven Season'_ Greetings! WM. GREENLEES ■ . CONTRACTORS . Phone: PA 7751 500 BEATTY STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! JOE DAMETTO CEMENT CONTRACTOR Phone: KE. 0333 1195 WEST FIFTV-NINTH AVE. VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! ARVIN HANNA CONTRACTOR W. J. BAKER Carpenters' Union Representative Outbidding Time By faithfully meeting specifications; by providing skilled workmanship and finest material, HUME & RUMBLE LTD. offers guaranteed results. Rest Wishes, to Organized Labor Hume k Ramble _!i "Western Canada's Leading Electrical Contractor^ VANCOUVER VICTORIA NEW WESTMINSTER Phone: BA. 5547 3291 WEST TWELFTH AVE. VANCOUVER, B. C. Compliments of LEO KENNEDY HOUSE RAISING AND CEMENT WORK Phone: MA. 4394 1260 DAVIE STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! J. G. MOFFATT BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: BA. 8288 2525 CORNWALL VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! BURRITT BROS. CARPET LAYERS Phone: MA. 4023 570 HORNBY STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI S. BENSON , CEMENT CONTRACTOR Phone: KE 0607-R 2768 WEST THIRTY-FIFTH AVE VANCOUVER, B. C. COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON Bay Construction Ltd. VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! Smartset Manufacturing Co. Carpenters and Joiners Report from Interior Local 1540, Kamloopt This up and coming Local of the Thompson Valley, has the distinction of being the first Carpenter Local in B.C. to sign a Union Shop agreement, they also have board, allowance on out-of-town jobs, 40 hour week, $1.40 per hour. Local 1346, Vernon The oldest Local in the Interior, chartered during the war years, and army camp construction boom, they have more than doubled their mem bership this year, and have received two wage increases in the past eight months, 40 hour week, union shop, $1.40 per hour. Local 1370, Kelowna Is now the largest Local in the Interior, signing up over 150 new members this year. They have had considerable opposition from some contractors, paying two rates of wages, this situation will soon be well in hand, Smith Bros. & Wilson has given wonderful co-operation with the Union, 40 hour week, $1.40 per hour. Local 1696, Penticton Penticton has held the honor of being the largest Local in the Interior, till this year, when they lost out to Kelowna, they now hold second lace, they still have the honor of laving more signed agreements than any other Interior Local, 40 hour week, union shop, $1.40 per hour. Okanagan Valley Diitriet Council of Carpenter. This Council was chartered on May -2, 1948, and comprises of Locals 1640, Kamloops; 1346, Vernon; 1370, Kelowna; and 1696, Penticton. Local 247 _>, Trail (Kootenay Diitriet) Trail is the youngest of the Kootenay Locals, charter installed on July 10th, 1948, and have a membership of over 130, and an ambition of becoming the largest Local in the Interior, union shop, 40 hour week, $1.40 per hour. Local 2458, Nel.on Nelson is another newcomer, Charter installed on May 6th, 1948, they know the value of onr Union, prior to becoming organized, wages were $1.10 and down as low as 90c, they intend to put a sub-local in Creston, B.C., union shop, 40 hour week, $1.40 per hour. Local 1719, Kimberley. Kimberley Local Is another of our fast growing Kootenay Locals, hav signed up over 120 new members this year, 44 hour week, union shop, $1.40 per hour. LUMBER AND SAWMILL . WORKERS Local 2861, Vernon This Local has Certification with The Vernon Pine and Box Lumber Co., they recently signed an agreement with this firm for an 8c an hour increase retroactive from September 1st Local 2771, Rutland This Local has-a Union Shop agreement with the Rutland Co-operative Sawmill, they look for a big increaae in membership when this Mill opens up their new Box Factory on the first of the year. Local 2742, Welt Summerland This Local recently signed a new agreement with the Summerland Box and Lumber Co. This Local has some very active members, that are working for a 100 per cent Union. SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR British Columbia Bridge & Dredging Co. Ltd. 544 HOWE STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. n #«»_--•. .AWT- _*-_*-• •" ********* *-^iw» •-*%!_•»•-*«-."• •"»?• •^^^••r Power Panels • . . Switches MADE JUNCTION BOXES - TROUGHING Manufacturers of EXTKs^_£ LIGHTING and POWER PANELS f^3g^|Slj SWITCHBOARDS SWING-WA Switch Unite .. (Open and Enclosed) Look for ELECTRIC PANEL MANUFACTURING LIMITED 1250 Richard* Street VANCOUVER, B. C. Phone: MArine 4136 thb Sign .-_____* e.vj|«£;_e ._■ Season's Greetings! dunlop & McDonald PILE DRIVING AHD BRIDGE WORK CONTRACTORS Phone: FA. 6164-M 550 BAST BIGHTEBNTH AVE. VANCOUVBR, B;C. W.J. Phone: FA 8421 CABINET MAKERS 1477 KIN0SWAY, VANCOUVER, B.C. 4*m4mtrQsW%\mWCmW%& Season's Greetings! HOLLYWOOD FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CO. Phon*: BA. 2289 1701 WEST THIRD AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. BAKER, Representative. H. D. LAYFIELD & CO. ROOFING - FLOORING - INSULATION Distributors and Approved Contractors JOHNS-MANVILLE MATERIALS Laundry Workers Strike At Guarantee Cleaners Members of the Laundjry Workers' International Union, Local 292, are on strike at the Guarantee Cleaners, Union and Venables Streets. Some six weeks ago an award was given to Local 292 by a Conciliation Board, and the Company refused to accept, then Local 292 had no other course to take, but to strike. On November the 22nd a Government strike vote was taken with the result that the employees voted for a strike. The strike was called on December the 7th, the .plant is in operation with non-union help. We would suggest that Union Members enquire at press shops when they take their cleaning in, where it is being their work m M0M0m.mM0M0M0mW0.mM0M0. Armstrong & Monteith CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED j| ENGINEERS AND GENERAL CONTRACTORS |j Telephone: MArine 8101 m 1449 Hornby Street Vancouver, B. C. jj 2_____«-W-*-; If wholesale cleaned, then use ood sense where to have their SEASON'S GREETINGS! Commonwealth Construction Company Ltd. ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS WINNIPEG VANCOUVER VICTORIA :mmmmmmmmmmmm Nine company's have signed the agreement that the Guarantee has mused. We are picketing this plant and will continue to do so. 1225 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C. Phona: TAtlow 1471 Season's Greetings!. Pacific Lime Co. Ltd. VANCOUVER, B. C. John Smith happened to witness a In due time the minor holdup. arrived, and on. officer the iliee asked the witness his name. "John Smith," aaid Smith. "Cut the comedy," snapped cop. "What'a yonr name?" "AU right," said Smith, "put me down as Winston Churchill." "That's more like it," aaid the officer. "You can't fool me with that Smith stuff, SEASONS GREETINGSI TODD CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. P.O.Box 40 Phone: HA. 2861 Foot of Nanaumo Road Vancouver, B. C. Mother: "Now before you get serious with him, be sure he ia always kind." 'mmmmmmmmmmmi A Jewish merchant was dying, and i and three le saying the momma, hia two daughters and thne sons were at th. bedsidi Daughter: "Oh, I'm sure he is; he -Caddish. Finally momma bent over told me he put his shift on a hon. her departing spouse and sobbed: that waa scratched." "Can you hear, poppa? We are all here—all your daughters and sons and old momma, praying for you." "Is Milton here?" whispered the dying nun. "l7Wo-?Kre?" "Ia A-where? Yes, poppa." With a scream of anguish poppa sat op in bed, "Then who la looking after tho store?" ,%,-K: Page Twelve THE -LABOR STATESMAN December, .1948 . Season's Greetings! I / Archie Hogg Construction Company BUILDING CONTRAaORS Phone: N. W. 3299-L2 549 Cottonwood Ave., New Westminster, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR Windsor Building Supplies Phone: N.W. 3741 Limited 1804 Kingsway New Westminster, B. C. Cost of Living Index Stops Climb After 27-Month Spree For the first time Jn 21 consecutive months the cost of living index in Canada has stopped climbing. After its long spree the index was 159.6 on November 1, the same as on October 1, but 16 points above November 1, 1947. At the outbreak of World War II, it waa just a shade over 100 which is the average for the 1935-1939 period. So that the rise in living costs in Canada since'the hostilities started has been 58.3 per cent. These are the "official" figures of the government's Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Actually the rise has been much higher, as organized labor has repeatedly emphasized, because the Bureau in its computation leaves out several items which should he included to get the true picture. Only Tine WiU Tell The halt during October may mean the cost of living at last is levelling off. On the other hand, it may be just a plateau in the rising slope. Only time will tell. The experts have quit forecasting living cost trends in this country ever since Finance Minister Douglas C. Abbott, just back from a trip to England in November, 1947, climbed away out on a limb. Abbott guessed the index, then at 143, would go no higher than 146. Abbott hasn't done any more guessing since, because a month later it was 146 and kept on climbing until last October 1. The report of the Statistics Bureau deals only with what has happened. It says that the food index fell from 205.4 on October - to 204.7 on November 1, as lower prices of meats and vegetables overbalanced further increases in egg prices. Other foods showed no appreciable changes. The drop in food prices exactly balanced, the Bureau says, small advances in other household requirements. Rent Hike Not Included But, the Bureau's officials point out that the new November 1 index does not include rent increases allowed recently. They won't, how^ ever, hazard a guess as to what the Tent hikes will do with the index a month hence. Government experts warned against looking for an abrupt end to the soaring living costs which will have cost Canadians one billion dollars this year through loss of pur chasing power. In September the index had gone up only seven-tenths of a point com pared with 1.4 points-during August. From October 1 to November 1 this year, home furnishings and services moved up from 165.1 to 166; clothing went from 181 to 181.5; fuel and light from 128.8 to 129; and miscellaneous from 124.4 to 124.6. But, the Bureau says, the decline in the food index from 205.4 to 204.7 exactly balanced these advances. —"Labor". Output Record Cleveland. — A new all-time production was set by the steel industry during the past week, tbe magazine "Steel" reported here. Output hit 1,804,300 net tons, 13,000 above the previous peak. The magazine might have added that this record production has also brought to the industry the greatest profits in history. Rising Costs Chief Factor in Building Activity Next Year While the outlook for the building industry for 1949 appears to be good, in judging the number of projects planned, continued increase in costs will in the long run have a decided adverse effect on the volume. This waa the sentiment expressed by R. C. Pybus, retiring president, General Contractors' Association, at the annual meeting held November 26th. Better lumber supply now available through less export is offset by curtailed steel products such as nails, line, plates and large steel shapes, Ir. Pybus said. He felt the steel picture likely to worsen over the coming months with demands for rearming. Tribute was paid in the 1948 presidential report to union leaders for their cooperation in negotiations with the association. Mr. Pybus believed better understanding of each other's problems has resulted from discussions held with union representatives through the labor-employer relations committee set up by the Builders' Exchange last year. Extension of the A.F.L. building trades' unions throughout the province has been made to counteract inroads of C.I.O. groups, he revealed. The association has been dealing with local building groups, where they exist, on out-of-town jobs. Out-of-town rates have been established at 15 cents below those in Vancouver, except when Vancouver men are sent out, the president explained. Wage increases for the building trades, made earlier this year, were on a cost-of-living basis and a general 10 cent increase waa commensurate with federal government index of 150.0 points, declared Mr. Pybus. He went on to state that wage rates are to be reviewed every six months after August 1, and adjusted 6 cents for every 5 points. Wage rates will be reviewed again on February 1. A modified onion shop clause has been written into agreements with the carpenters' union, butt the lathers' union was termed the industry's "problem boys" by the association official. He recommended a brief on restrictive output practices be submitted to the arbitration board, which now has a lathers' anion demand for more wages. A sum of $99,000 was raised by the Vancouver building industry for flod relief, Mr. Pybus showed. He urged members to join the Canadian Construction Association. The president reported a successful year for the General Contractors' Association both financially and in membership, which now numbers 35. —"Journal of Commerce" Window Jbfc, $ . Do you know? ... Windows are to see through — but homeowners and builders do not see what they are getting in quality insofar aa workmanship is concerned. When building or buying a new home where pre-glazed sash is used: First — You lack paint on sash which protects the wood from rotting. Also from pulling oil from putty so it disintegrates. Second — You do aot have putty on both sides of the glass. When building, buy open sash so that the cash can be painted before the glass is set in. When glazing open sash, all glass is imbedded in putty, which seals the glass to the sash. —Peter Steffus, Glazier. Prefer Jobt to Training Organizers of vocational training classes are running up against difficulties in getting Canadian hoys and girls to train for trades. Almost all boys and girls leaving school are willing, to accept positions which are open to unskilled persons at fair wage rates. The authority for these statements ts Arthur J. MacNamara, Federal Deputy Minister of Labor. Federal Labor Department officials fear that this is a short-sighted policy. They hope that the Canadian Vocational Training Advisory Council and persons in public positions will use their influence to induce young people to consider trade training which in the long-run would fit them for higher paid joha. Cookery Suggestions For Christmas Season Mint - pineapple sandwicnes are ideal to include on your tray of holiday hors d'oeuvres which help to make entertaining easy and gracious. First remove crusts from twelve slices of enriched bread. For filling, mix together two teaspoons chopped mint leaves, one nine-ounce can crushed pineapple, well drained (about one- half cup), and one three-ounce package of cream cheese. Cut sandwiches diagonally to make triangles, or in "fingers". • ». * Serve quickly-made muffins, rich with dates and nuts, to bring Yule- tide spirit to the simplest luncheon during the busy holiday season. • ' • • For the children's Christmas party, cut a rolled cookie dough into shapes of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, bells, and stars. Bake the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet in a moderate oven about ten minutes. Frost and decorate with candies and colored sugars. • * * Give your Christmas fruit cake a glistening surface with a glaze which is applied after the cake is cold. Combine one cup sugar, one-half cup corn syrup, and orte-half cup water, ted'cook until mixture forms a thick syrup. Cool before spreading on the fruit cake. While the glaze is moist, arrange a garnish of candied fruits and nuts. When glaze is firm, wrap cakes in moisture-proof cellophane or store in covered containers. • » ■ • Small bndget, many gifts on your holiday' list? Then make an assort-, ment of your favorite Christmas cookies to give your friends. Anise drops, sprite cookies, pfeffernuss, date bars, applesauce cookies, blonde brownies, candied fruit bars, rolled cookies cnt into Christmas shapes are among those you might Include in your "personalized" cookie**box. • ■ • . * Succulent stuffin' for the Christmas goose is this prune-and-apple dressing. Mix together, lightly but thoroughly, three cups of enriched bread cubes, one cup of cooked apples (pared, diced, and stewed), one-half cup cooked prunes, one-half cup chopped nutMt one-fourth cup -melted fat, one teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper. This dressing takes well to chicken, too. \ • a » Catch that hot fruity smell? It's some of the Yuletide coffe cakes coming from the oven. They are a perfect companion for coffee, which is synonymous with hospitality in many families. Try this holiday shape in coffee cakes: Swirl a long roll of sweet yeast dough back and forth on a greased cookie sheet to form a large Christmas tree, allowing the .ranches to touch. Place a tiny ball of dough at .the base of the tree to form tte trunk. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Trapp Motors (1947) Ltd. Phone: N.W.408 834 Carnarvon New Westminster, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGS! GORDON W. DOBSON SPRAY PAINTING CONTRACTOR Phone: N. W. 619-L3 3624 Douglas Rd., New Westminster , w- .___. — -- _—-r December, 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Thirteen SEASONS GREETINGS!' Foster & Fenner PLASTERING CONTRACTORS Phone: DE. 0758-Y 5347 Earles Road Vancouver, B.C. SEASONS GREETINGSI Wm. Stuart PLASTERING CONTRACTOR . - Phone: HA. 0718 3023 Victoria Drive Vancouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS! Plast-Art Co. PLASTERING CONTRACTORS Phone: HA. 3305 2221 East Tenth Avenue Vancouver, B. C. ■ SEASONS GREETINGSI Atherfold, Yates & Western PLASTERING CONTRACTORS * Phonei.ER. 2293 Office: 4606 Knight Road Vancouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI W. G. JENNER, Plastering Contractor Phon.: FR. 3792 1895 EAST FORTY-NINTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER. B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Holroyd & Parsons, Plastering Contractors Phone: BA. 8236-L 3170 WATERLOO VANCOUVER. B. C. Federation of Building Trades Councils Report For Past Year To the President and Delegates, Canadian Federation of Building Trades Councils: Greetings, At the convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada held in the City of Hamilton in 1947, the Canadian Federation of Building Trades Councils came into being. This was something new for the Movement in Canada and was more in the nature of an experiment. The Federation was designed mainly as a centre for the disbursement of information of a nature pertinent to the Construction Trades. It was not designed to, in any way, commit any of the Building Trades Councils or any member local union to any action. It was hoped that a knowledge of what each Council was doing would be helpful in stimulating other Councils and in many cases a knowledge of the problems being met and the nature of the method used in meeting such problems would be helpful to the other Councils. There can be no doubt that what happens to workers in one section of the country has an effect on workers, particularly those in similar occupations, in other sections of the country. Of particular interest in this regard is the apprenticeship question. Many journeymen in one locality feel they have only the local interest to be concerned about. It has been said that the apprenticeship question is a purely local one and - this is a fallacy. The training of apprentices is, of course, largely a matter of local interest, but the distribution of journeymen is more than a local question. There is not, and there cannot be, any legal, bar to the movement of journeymen from one locality to another and if in any one locality, too many apprentices can be trained then there can be an un-, usual influx of journeymen into any*] other locality and this, of course, happens just when such an influx can and will create the most damage. A .knowledge of the wages and working conditions prevalent in any one locality is of great value to Workers in other localities. There was a time when the worker in the construction industry felt that the wages and conditions and the problems of the trade could have a local interest only. Insofar as the product of construction workers was of a character, that prohibited movement from locality to locality, or in other words the product of construction workers would not constitute competition in another locality the construction workers in a given I locality felt they were not concerned with what happened in another. This is no longer true. Conditions jn one locality are compared with conditions in other localities. The prefabricated house, while being far from what its producers claim for it; while it has not received the popularity which was hoped for by its producers is, nevertheless, not a dead matter. Prefabricated houses within certain limits are still in production and they are becoming more popular. This may not hold true for longer than the period of the present keen demand for houses, but we do not know that. Many times the belief that these fads pass with changes in the times is merely wishful thinking. We sort of fool ourselves into the belief that they will. A survey of the number of firms producing such buildings might be interesting. No development which might leave its imprint on the lives of construction workers, no matter how lightly, should be overlooked, ignored or looked upon with scorn. During the year it can hardly be said that real progress has been made in developing the spirit,of cooper-; ation across the country. Of course, consideration must be given to the fact that practically all of the officers ideas as they develop brings it up to date and gives to the workers a real worthwhile argument. Their gesture in making this document available to all the construction workers in Canada is indeed a worthwhile gesture. Many of the other Councils must have worthwhile material which could make a contribution to the welfare of the workera in the industry. Information is sometimes held, back because of a false sense of modesty. An inferior complex is developed regarding the giving of data and this should not be. The question bf wage rates and hours of labor information was not the success it should have been. Not very many Councils returned the questionnaire which was sent out Yet, this information was sought by other Councils and it could have been of value to them. Another attempt will be made to secure a full table of such rates. The question of securing finances was not the success it might have been, yet, sufficient was secured. This much comes out of the experience. If every . Building Tndes Council will contribute $5 per annum, there will be sufficient to operate, successfully. The magnificent contributions made by Montreal and Winnipeg Building Trades Councils were certainly appreciated, for without them it would have been difficult to operate. Thanks are due the other contributin gCouncils. However, as the financial statement shows we do have a slight surplus and if the cooperation of all Building Trades Councils can be obtained this phase of the work will be secured. I feel that the Federation does a work that will, in the future, be worthwhile. Now the ground work has been laid. We are facing, in fact we are in the midst of a marked j change in. employer-employee relations. The old days are gone—we hope, forever. More and more a realization that workers' organisations are definitely a part of our' democratic life is imposing itself on the employers and more and more they are accepting it. Legislation is being enacted which make such relations enforcible. But, there is another factor. This legislation is demanding that the qrganized workers change their tactics. Not much longer will the strike weapon be the forceful argument it. used, to be. Unless we are very careful and wide awake it will be entirely outlawed. While it is true that we, ourselves, should learn to do without it, we ahould not be placed in the position of losing it! entirely. Nevertheless, we have to' learn to develop the ability to build up argument and present it forcefully and effectively. The question of legislation is a serious one. While legislation is being passed which is designed for our benefit, we are grateful. But, at the same time efforts, by our opposi tion, are being made to nullify the effect of the legislation which is fa vorable to our cause. At present petitions, from employers' organizations are being prepared and presented to at least one government, which is designed to restrict our activities. One such petition asks the government of one province to enact legislation which will prevent local unions from in any way whatsoever interfering with apprentices during the life of their apprenticeship. This is only one. There will be many more. Here we need the cooperation of all regardless of geographly. Under these circumstances the need for interchange of knowledge across the dominion will he imperative and it is the sincere hope that all become infused with this philosophy. Under the modern trend in industrial relations we must realize that much of our tactics must change andmuch of of Building Trades" Councils"are'Vo'l-i't must be abandoned. The new unteers. They do the work in spare ,w»rclword is more cooperation and time and they are to be commended for the spirit they display in giving generously of their time in serving their fellow workers as they do, but modern industry is demanding that workers give more consideration to the wider sphere. Local limitations no longer are sufficient. During the past year we did have the opportunity of transmitting to the Councils information which we believed to be of interest to them. The greatest contribution was, of course, the brief on wages negotiations procured by the Toronto Building Trades Council. They are to be congratulated for securing this brief and what is, more it stands aa a formula for the future. It will have more value for the future than for the present. Changing the figures from time to time and adding new Secretai/s Lament If we send out a letter— It may be too long; If we send out a postcard— It's .too short. If we don't send a notice— We're lazy; If we send It early— You forget it. If we send it late— You have another date; If we attend a committee meeting We're butting in; If we don't attend We're shirking; If we ask our members for d We're insulting; If we fail to collect— . We're slipping; If we ask for advice— We're incompetent; If we don't We're bull-headed; If our reports are complete— They're too long; If we condense them— They're incomplete; If we talk on any subject— We're trying to run things; If we remain silent— We've lost all interest So it is— Ashes to ashes, dust to dust; What others won't do, Secretaries must -^Author Unknown. less trade jealousies and antagonisms. This I hope tbe Federation will develop and if it doea nothing more than that it will have lived a useful life and served a useful purpose. I deeply regret my inability to be with you at your session during the convention and I deeply appreciate the services of President Woolsey in bringing this report to you. If, in ?rour opinion I have serv.d sufficient- y well during this experimental period I am deeply grateful and if I can serve further I shall be only too glad to do io. I do, deeply, wish for all the workers in the Industry every good wish for prosperity and security. Fraternally submitted, E. INGLES, Secretary. 1,000-Mile Sidewalk Enough concrete to build a standard sidewalk more than 1,000 miles long is going into two dams which are key items in a $2 million hydroelectric project on the Feather River, California. More than 2,500 men are at work around the clock on a 16- mile strip of the river canyon, and the job is 20 per cent finished. About 100,000 of 234,000 cubic yards of concrete required have been placed. Tunnels, 26 feet in diameter, are being bored through the mountains to carry water to new powerhouses. The 6K-mile Rock Creek tunnel is one-sixth complete, and the 4-mile Cresta tunnel is over one-fourth finished. Three plants are now operating on Feather River, to be joined by the two new plants. Two other new. plants are already operating, the 101,000-H.P. Kern steam plant near Bakersfield, and the 133,000-H.P. Electra plant on the Mokelumne River.—California "Labor Review". More D_f.i_itio.ni Buffet: French for "Slug it out among yourselves." Patience: A minor for of despair, diseuised as a virtue. Etc.: Sign used to make others believe you know more than you do. "I would like to know how long girls should be courted?" "The same way as short ones." SEASON'S GREETINGS! H. Jantz . *s .* PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: FR. 4269 . 280 East Sixty-first Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGSI RFord PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: MA. 3953 1107 Thurlow Street Vancouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI BERT LAIDLEY LTD., Plastering Contractors Phone: FR. 4435 II EAST FIFTY-THIRD AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C- • W^a-H >** >m •ymss-v* T-H Page Fourteen THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 T SEASON'S GREETllNGSI S^ 1 Mott Electric Ltd. Phone: TA. 1454 Vancouver, B.C. and New Westminster 7 ** 1 SEASON'S GREETINGSI C. C. CARTER & SON LTD. ' - ELECTRIC AL CONTRACTORS Phone: MA. 1741 566 POWELL STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. S__t__-__.d3-M-ft-_^^ Pr*^,r*»w^---»r»^F^^F^^F-[j--P ti*A*\ q_^ («i w, HP MP *.*sW*l*tWm (_PH^F UV V dP-l «-1jP1 *nilrffiirfArf __n m Christmas Greetings! R1CKEHS-SEWELL ELECTRIC LTD. ENGINEERS and WIRING CONTRACTORS MAINTENANCE and REPAIRS Phone: MArine 0743 C72 RICHARDS STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. XS&tMOri?^^ Season's Greetings! L. J. McKINNON LTD. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Phone: FA. 8328 205 West Fint Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. »_*_fc»ati»g»3^^ Season's Greetings! Great West Electric Ltd. Phones: MA 3528 —PA. 8575 179 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER. B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Monarch Electric ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Phone: DL 2295 1129 EAST TENTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B. C. AFL Delegates Outline 1,0-Point Foreign Policy The recent AFL convention in Cincinnati adopted unanimously a 10-point foreign policy declaration to check the aggressions of the Soviet Union which it said was responsible for the acute international tensions. Main Provi.ion- The main provisions of the program call for continued support of the European Recovery Program, reject maneouvers "to undermine the authority of the United Nations, urge the United States to enter into a military alliance against totalitarian alliance against totalitarian aggression, and call for the severing of trade relations with Russia until the Soviet blockade of Berlin is lifted." . Outlining a course of action for the United States, the declaration said: "We cannot sit idly by and let one free nation after another become a helpless and hopeless satellite of Asiatic despotism. We cannot callously and in a spirit of self-defeating selfishness allow one democracy after another to go under and become permanently dependent on us. America has only one role and'one duty in this critical hour of human affairs. We must spare no effort to help all freedom - loving, nations become strong, independent, and self-supporting democracies. In our country's fulfillment of this historic destiny, the free labor movement has a decisive part to play," Following is the text of the 10- point program: "1. We reiterate our support of the European recovery program. ".. We categorically reject all manoeuvers to undermine the authority of the UN and the solidarity of the democratic nations through private arrangements between the U.S. and Russia, special confabs between chiefs of state, or missions to Moscow. The issues which separate our country from the Soviet empire are issues which concern the entire free world. Therefore, every effort should be made to resolve them not through appeasement which only feeds and furthers aggression, but through the channels of the UN and closest cooperation and collective decisions by the democratic nations. "3. The United States should not only put its own defenses into completed readiness and invincibility, but should also provide arms and enter1 into a defensive military alliance against totalitarian aggression which may ' threaten friendly ' nations in Europe, Asia, or elsewhere. Halt Trading "4. Until such time as Russia is ready to lift her barbarous blockade of Berlin, our country and other democratic powers should sever all trade relations with the USSR. "6. _To have the AFL consultants in the social and economic council of the UN introduce a measure making it a crime against international law for any government to organize or support (directly or indirectly)' any fifth column or fifth column activities in any country with which it is at peace. We strongly urge our government delegation to the UN to give and mobilize full support for such a decision by the United Nations. Political Integration "6. We reiterate our demand for the economic and political integration of every zone of Germany not occupied by Red troops into a community of independent and democratic nations of Europe devoted to reconstruction and peace. We further demand that no industrial or financial magnates who have been friends and supporters of German militarism and Naziism (like the steel overlord, Heinrich Dinkelbach, and the chief administrator of the coal industry, Heinrich Kost) should be given any position of authority in the rebuilding of Germany. To put these enemies of free labor and democracy into the seats of economic control is to discredit the ERP for the success of which it democratically reconstructed Germany is indispen- sible. To nurse and favor the builders and breeders of Hitlerism plays into the hands of the Communist demagogues and robs us of a major moral issue against Russia which has been resorting to widespread mobilization of notorious Nazi military and economic forces for the purpose of imposing on the German people a new totalitarian tyranny. « U.S. of Europe "7. We reaffirm our support of the idea of developing a United States of Europe. "8. We reiterate our endorsement of the Baruch plan for international control and inspection of atomic energy and propose the application of its principles as pre-requisite to effective gradual universal disarmament. "10. All peace treaties and international agreements are to be based on the principles of the Atlantic charter and the charter of the United Nations. All decisions' and pacts arrived at Yalta, Potsdam, and the treaty with Italy should be reviewed and revised accordingly." The Union Label Corner Harry C. Bates, president, Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America, says: "The Union Label is the emblem that distinguishes union-made products from all others on the market. The Union Shop Card and Union Service Button likewise designate union services. The Union Card of the Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' International Union of America may well be used to guarantee that the services performed on any building construction are done by experienced and efficient members of our International Union. When any trade unionist or member of his family purchases merchandise or requires services he should demand that they are union. Whenever we patronize firms that do not offer Union Label goods or use Union service's we reduce the standards of our own A. F. of L. members. "Through our local unions and local building trades councils our International has participated in several Union Label exhibitions. We have derived great benefits from these shows because it gives us an opportunity to educate the public regarding the skill required by bricklayers, masons, plasterers, marble setters, tile setters and terrazzo workers. It also proves, in the final analysis, that our skilled workers are the most economical. "Personally I witnessed the Union Industries Snow held in Milwaukee this year, and it gave me a thrill to see the marvellous results attained by union labor and union management because there I could actually visualize the making of Union Label goods and the performance of Union services. I shall encourage our officials and members in every locality to take an active interest in these union exhibitions wherever they are held." SEASON'S GREETINGS from Walburn Neon Ltd. Phone: MA 5936 1420 HOWE STREET VANCOUVER. B. C. Phone: PA 1809 DIXON PALMER & CO. LTD. REFRIGERATION ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS 193 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER. B.C. Glamor Girl — "Why yes, 111 endorse your cigarette for $50,000." Advertising Agent — "I see you inhale first" Sigh on a store: "Mother-in-law died. Closed for the holidays." B\y Uiuon Label goods and put more money foymyif envelope/ . 'B-____3i /v _fr 1 ___.. T**\\^m/ EDWARD SMITH Secretary, Unioa Label Tradet Council. You Can Help, Too INSIST ON THE UNION LABEL During the past year great advances have been made by the organized labor movement. Even greater gains could have been made had those who are able to, done the things that should have been done. No doubt, officers of many local unions who are anxious to help have too many responsibilities heaped on their shoulders. But some of our trade union members, who could help, fail to co-operate. One of the great weaknesses of the trade union movement lies in those who are mere dues payers, who fail to attend meetings, and who buy from non-union firms. Are you one of these back-sliders? Do you always look for the union button which denotes a fellow unionist? Do you always look for the union shop card that signifies the fair employer with a union agreement and who pays union wages. It is necessary to do this if we are to help ourselves by helping our fellow unionists and play fair with union employers. If you patronize the union label and the union shop card, it will pay big dividends both to your union and the weaker locals which are struggling to secure good wages and decent working conditions. The Union Label Tradea Council accepts its responsibility aa the educating body of the labor movement. It needs your help if it is to do its work effectively in your interesta. Help us in this important work by seeing to it that your wife and your friends insist that the union label is on all goods purchased. E. SMITH, Secretary, Union Label Tradea Council. BUY GOODS THAT BEAR THE UNION LABEL Union Labal TrtseUt L*tpt.AFL Zany Headlines "Britain Breathes Easier a* King'. Leg Improves." — Headline in "Winnipeg Citizen", November 80. Some people breath through the nose, others through their mouth. We never heard of people breathing through anyone's leg. Maybe that's because we don't get around' much. SEASONS GREETINGSI E. Bickerton CONTRACTOR BRIDGE AND STRUCTURAL STEEL ERECTOR Phone: MA. 6754 319 West Pender Street Vancouver, B. C. §. Season's Greetings to Organized Labor Jamieson Construction Co. Ltd. Phone: HA. 1071 914 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! Terminal City Iron Works Limited 1949 FRANKLIN STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Phone: HAstings 0131 Season's Greetings! DOMINO ELECTRIC LTD. REFRIGERATION SERVICE Phones: MA. 7935 — PA. 4055 1034 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER. B.C. Compliments of Canadian Ice Machine Co. - ^ • LTD. ■ • Phone: BAyview 656S 1641 Wert Second Ave., Vancouver ^SEASON'S GREETINGS! NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION AND FIXTURE CO. LTD. Phono: FA. 0910 ~^~ 1965 MAIN STREET . VANCOUVER, B. C w***mym • m ' December, 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Fifteen m *~& SEASON'S GREETINGSI Doerksen Brothers Painting Contractors Phono: FR. 6921 6559 NANAIMO ROAD VANCOUVER, B. C SEASONS GREETINGSI T.H. Clark PAINTING CONTRACTOR Phon_:AL. 1613 3958 WEST EIGHTEENTH AVBENUE. VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Chorney Bros. Pointing Contractors Phone: GL 1944 3495 PENDER STREET EAST VANCOUVER, B. C. / SEASON'S GREETINGSI City Wide Decorators Phono: GL 1287 612 n. Mcdonald avenue, Vancouver, b.c. season's-gIiKtingsi Mastercraft Studios PAINTING CONTRACTORS Phone: MA 2956 1176 GRANVILLESTREEF - VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI GRANDVIEW PAINTERS AND DECORATORS Phone: HA 4666 _ 2129 EAST FIRST AVENUE VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI W.H. Freer PAINTING—DECORATOR Phone: KE. 5449-Y ... 1512" WEST SIXTY-SIXTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. ShawV Classic Remarks On Poverty and Insecurity By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst oi dangers, the danger of-poverty, hangs over everyone's head, and where the alleged protection of our persons against violence is only an accidental result of the existence of a police force whose real business is to force the poor man to see his children starve whilst the money that might feed and clothe them goes to overfed pet dogs. In silly levity we tolerate poverty as if it were either a wholesale tonic for lazy people or else a virtue to be embraced. If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor. If he is not a gentleman, let him be poor. If he is addicted to tbe fine arts or pure science instead of to trade and finance, let him be poor. If he chooses to spend his wages on his beer and his family instead of saving it up for his old age, let him be poor. Let nothing be done for the undeserving"; let him be poor. Serve him right 1 Also — somewhat inconsistently*'— blessed are the poor! i Now what does let him be poor mean? It means let him be weak. Let him be ignorant. Let him he- come a nucleus of disease. Let him be • standing exhibition and an example of ugliness and dirt. Let him have rickety children. Let him be cheap and drag his fellows down to his own price by selling himself to do their work. Let his habitation turn our cities Into poisonous congeries of slums. Let his daughters infect our young men and his sons revenge, him by turning the; nation's manhood into scrofula, cowardice, cruelty, hypocrisy, political imbecility, and all the other fruits of oppression and malnutrition. Let the undeserving become still less deserving; and let the deserving lay up for himself, not treasures in heaven, but horrors in hell upon earth. This being so, it is really wise to let him be poor? Would he not do ten times Ies_ harm as a prosperous burglar, incendiary, or murderer to the utmost limits of humanity's comparatively negligible impulses in these directions? -' Suppose we were to abolish all penalties for such activities and decide that poverty is the one thing we will not tolerate — that every adult with less than 1,000 pounds a year shall be painlessly and inexorably killed, ana every hungry half-naked child forcibly fattened and clothed, would that not be an enormous improvement on our existing system, which has already destroyed so msny civilizations, and is visibly destroying ours? Surely the sensible course would be to give every man enough to live well on, so as to guarantee the community against the possibility of a case of the malignant disease of poverty, and then to see that he earned iti Thanks to our political ignorance and personal cowardice (fruits of poverty, both) the best initiation of a good life now procurable is life on an independent income. All sensible people aim at securing such an income, and are, of course, careful to legalize and moralize both it and all the actions and sentiments which lead to it and support it as an institution. What else can they do? They know, of course, that they are rich because others are poor. But they cannot help that: jt is for the poor to repudiate poverty when they have had enough of it. A man always prefers a pound to five shillings. To deplore this preference as sordid, and teach children that it is sinful to desire money, is to strain towards the extreme limit of impudence in lying and corruption in hypocrisy. The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization, the one sound spot in our social conscience. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously and undeniably as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness. It is only when it is cheapened to worth- lessness for some and made impossibly dear to others, that it becomes a curse. Money is the counter that enables life to be distributed socially. The first duty of every citizen is to insist on having money on reasonable terms; and this demand is not complied with by giving four men a few shillings each for ten or 12 hours' drudgery and one man 1,000 pounds for nothing. The crying need of the nation is not for better morals, cheaper bread, temperance, liberty, culture, redemption of fallen sisters and erring brothers, nor grace and love and fellowship, but simply for enough money. And the evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priestcraft, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance, .drink, war, pestilence, nor any of the other consequences of poverty, but just poverty itself. —"Manitoba Commonwealth". 'The Man Behind the Shmoos' By JOHN M. While America laughs at the shmoos in Al -Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner, there are many who see behind the humor to the cutting criti- cism of the capitalist system. Shmoos, the little animals which cost nothing and can be used for everything from amusements to the best of dinners, have brought an economy of plenty first to Dogpatch and then to all of America. Shmoo- ism is similar to socialism in that the reactionaries oppose it. They hate "anything new". They have the schmooicide squad out to eliminate shmoos. Because of the economy of plenty the shmoos created, inflation is cut. In Dogpatch the skinflint store owner can.no longer keep the population undernourished by keeping the prices for his food out of reach. Capitalist' after capitalist, leaders in the various industries, jump from high buildings as they see their hopes of higher prices smashed. In these times of nigh prices and huge profits many Americans will feel the relevance of Capp's caustic criticism of capitalism. Perhaps his most pointed support of socialism was when Senator Phog- MECARTNEY bound was "orating a spell" in the Senate to defeat the bill to put Congress on the air. Phogbound said that in New Zealand when Congress was put on the air all the reactionary and un-American Congressmen were defeated in the next election. It is significant to note that New Zealand is a socialistic country. Again after some humorous horse play in a Sunday comic strip AI Capi had a Britisher give an oration whicl might have been given by Eugene Debs or Clement Attlee. He said that exploitation must .cense all over the world and that ho one could rest as long as man was enslaved anywhere in the world. Cspp also pointed out the economic factor in crime. Fearless Fos- dick, "the original", father of Fearless, the detective, was forced to turn to crime because he could not live on his pension of $3.50 per month. Al Capp does not limit himself to cartooning. Recently he pushed a campaign in Philadelphia to aid the handicapped. Capp himself lost a leg when he was 12 years old. —"Socialist Call", N.Y. Unions Essential To Economic Welfare Chicago. — In his first labor-management address since his election as a United States Senator from Illinois, Paul H. Douglas, speaking at a unique union-sponsored birthday party for a "boss", emphasized that unions are essential to the economic welfare and interests of the working people. Pointing up the relationship of labor to the profits of the employer, he said that both unions and management have "a mutual interest in a bigger pie to cut". These twin objectives have been realized at the plants of S. Buchsbaum & Co., manufacturers of plastic products, whose president, Herbert Buchsbaum, was presented with a union "A" award, citing him for the role he played in bringing about harmonious union-company relations, by Samuel Ladermnn, President of Local 241, International Chemical Workers' Union (AFL). Buchsbaum was once a labor-hater. Douglas, appointed impartial union- company arbitrator at the time the first agreement between the company and the union was signed, recalled that relations between the local and the management weer anything but harmonious in the beginning. To the credit of both parties to the agreement Douglas has not been called into arbitrate a single issue, although he has been asked for his advice ori nrr .rous occasions. That is the way it should be,' Douglas said, indicating it was far better from every standpoint for unions and employers to settle their own differences among themselves. The onion award was presented at a dinner for Buchsbaum on his BOth birthday. Laderman, in presenting the award, stressed that the "tools we used for this successful experiment in bettering human relations in industry are not new and secretive" but are open to all, "and we will be happy to share them with all industry and labor". . "The anion and management agreed that discipline is a joint responsibility, and that workera cannot produce at their best if they are working within 'an atmosphere of fear' from the foreman, supervisors and executives of the company," he declared. "Discipline became a voluntary act on the part of the worker, in order to carry out his responsibility on the job. It is not imposed from the top arbitrarily by the foremen, supervisors' or other 'higher-ups', but by himself through his own representatives. This eliminates hatred and fear of the foreman and makes a friend, the head of a team, to be respected and guided by his advice." A group bonus, "where all of the bonus money earned is pooled together at the end of the week nnd divided equally among all the workers in the plant," has been instituted, Laderman revested. "This plan not only produces higher hourly rates for the individual workers, but also helps in the collective spirit and morale in all the plants, resulting in higher efficiency and better quality of the products made," he said. ' Laderman said that "quality merchandise committees" have been set up, giving "our people a new pride in achievement". Also, equality and brotherhood on the job have been established; workers are hired regardless of race, color or -creed, and in upgrading and the delegation of other responsibilities "only skill,, intelligence and loyalty to the group" is recognized, he added. He listed among other accomplishments -ft union-company welfare fund. In accepting the award, Buchsbaum called attention to the danger which is today threatening "our country on two fronts" — Communism at home and abroad and the attitude of certain business leaders who "clutch desperately to the power that is theirs over unorganized workers. In such a situation, good labor-management relations as a means of offsetting the danger confronting the country are a must, he indicated. Laderman, on behalf of the union, presented checks totalling $2,700 to the Jewish Welfare Fund, the Community Fund of Chicago, the Chicago division of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Chicago Urban Leaeue. and the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, -n Season's Greetings to Organized Labor [Douglas Paint Company Ltd. Exclusive British Columbia Distributors for the GLIDDEN CO. LTD. v Phone: PA. 5164 >''■ " 1280 Granville Street - Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! Frank Clarkson Ltd. Painting Contractors Phone: MA. 8951 448 SEYMOUR STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. MERRY CHRISTMAS I MORT. BROWN LTD. PAINTING — DECORATING — SPRAYING 530 West Eighth Avenue Phone: FA. 0342 Season's Greetings! F. WEBB LTD. HARDWARE — PLUMBING — HEATING Phono: FR. 2728 PAINT- 6425 FRASER ST., VANCOUVER, B.C. •A*** Season's Greetings! GEO. C. HENDERSON CO. LTD. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PAINTS Phone: PA. 9257 1385 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! . COLOR SHOP "WE PAINT THE TOWN" Phone: FA. 8692 3374 CAMBIE STREET VANCOUVER. B. C SEASON'S GREETINGSI CRAWFORD PAINTING AND DECORATING CO. LTD. Phono: BA. 2684 2239 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI H. MacDonald PAINTING CONTRACTOR Phone: DE. 3130 3615 EAST FORTY-SEVENTH AVE., VANCOUVER. B.C a Page Sixteen THE LABOR STATESMAN Decetaber, 1948 ' SEASONS GREETINGS! Keyes Construction —.ts PhOtte: MA. 4621 200 Industrial Avenue Vancouver, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS!' McKenzie Barge & Denm Co. Ltd. Phone: HA. 0739 Foot Victoria Drive Vancouver, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGS! H. McARTHUR BUILDING CONTRACTOR • Phone: HA. 0749-R 2734 YALE VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGS! AMUNDS0N CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. Phone: MA. 9051 510 WEST HASTINGS STREET, VANCOUVER. B C. SEASONS GREETINGS! HART BROS. CONSTRUCTION CO. ■ • Phone: BA. 3523 1865 WEST FIRST AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASONS GREETINGS! -__=!______. DICK & PERKINS CONSTRUCTION CO. W. J. Dick W. P. Parkins 3259 Wett 15th Avenue 3159 West King Edward Vancouver, B.C. Season's Greetings! MAJOR CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. Phone: MA. 8832 615 WEST HASTINGS STREET. VANCOUVER. B. C. i SEASON'S GREETINGSI Marsh Construction & Manufacturing Co. SASH AND MILLWORK Phone: HA. 3148 439 ALEXANDER. VANCOUVER. B. C. Labor Board Powers Upheld The Saskatchewan Labour Board by Section 6(e) to exercise the pow- has the power "to require companies ers and function of a superior court, to reinstate employees dismissed for union activity, and to enforce its de- cision. This is the import of a recent decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in a case referred to it by the Labour Relations Board of Saskatchewan this summer. And Labour all over Canada will rejoice in this forward step. This Labour victory is the more important because it involves issues of constitutionality beyond the realm of purely labour affairs. Labour has been asking for many things which have been denied by provincial legislatures on the grounds that they lacked the constitutional authority necessary to cloak the needed admin istrative tribunals with sufficient powers to carry out and enforce their decisions. The recent Privy Council decision clearly indicates that auch powers do reside in the provincial legislatures, and new approaches may now be made for the more effective handling of jurisdictional disputes as between the provinces and the Dominion. This is a Labour victory because it haa been Labour that led the long struggle to free Labour Relations and other social problems from the cumbersome and often delaying procedurea of the courts. The test case out of which this significant constitutional decision has arisen developed in the following way. The Saskatoon Trade Union Act, often referred to as a "model Trade Uaion Act", confers in section 5(e) Upon the Labour Relations Board the power to order the reinstatement of employees of a company that have been fired for union activity, and to require that such employees be paid any back pay they would have received during the period of their dismissal. This is the section that was under attack by the employers in Saskatchewan and around which the Privy Council gave its decision. The John East Company's employees were organized by the United Steelworkers of America and the union waa certified. Under the Act the company was required to bargain with the certified union. The company promptly fired five employees who had been active in the union. After a hearing of the issues the Labour Relations Board ordered the reinstatement of the five employees and the payment of back wages. _ The company then entered an action in the Saskatchewan courts claiming, section 5(e) of the Act to be invalid. The Appeal Court of Saskatchewan upheld the company and made an, order quashing the order of the Labour Relations Board. The reason given for their decision by the Appeal Court was that the Labour Relations Board was empowered the Judges of which could 'only be validly appointed by the Governor- General (the Dominion Cabinet), upder.the provisions of Section 96 of the British North America Act. The Privy Council in reversing the decision of the Saskatchewan Appeal Court finds no real conflict between the provisions of the Saskatchewan Trade Union Act which empower the Labour Relations Board with sufficient judicial powers to carry out the intent and spirit of the Act and the provisions of the British North America Act which create the courts and leave them under federal jurisdiction. In the opinion of the Privy Council Section 96 of the British North America Act was not intended to be a sort of constitutional straight-jacket which would make it impossible for the provincial legislature to create appropriate' administrative tribunals and entrust them with sufficient powers to carry out their proper functions and responsibilities. Labour'has fought long and vigorously to have Labour-management disputes kept, out of the courts, and settled by tribunals that were less formal and cumbersome. The current decision seems to write victory over that great page of labour struggle. But the struggle does not end here with this milestone:' It does not end here for two highly important reasons; employers will continue to. fight, and there are many more facets of social and human relations said to be within the ambit of provincial jurisdiction where this decision may be used to gain progressive action by these local legislatures. Already articles have appeared giving voice to the dismay of employers over this decision of the Privy Council. It would appear that they felt better protected under the federal courts than under the Labour Relations Boards. There would seem to be no valid basis for such reasoning for there is no good reason why the appointed members of Labor Boards should he any less impartial than the Judiciary. Among other matters that this Privy Council decision brings into prominence is the question of provincial Bills of Rights. There seems to be no doubt as a result of the decision that provinces deciding to pass Bills of Rights could incorporate provisions for Boards or Commissions empowered to carry out the provisions of the -Bill -in regard to such things as discrimination in employment, restrictions on hotel and other accommodation and so on. Real teeth could be put into such Acts by the provinces and the teeth made to bite when necessary. Canadian Labour Reports. Denham Gives Up Plan to Hold Union-Shop Elections in Building and Construction Only eight months after his much publicized announcement of his intention to hold union-shop elections covering every building tradesman in the country, Mr. Robert Denham, General Counsel of the NLRB, was finally forced to admit that he cannot hold such elections, because of the nature of the building and construction industry. Before the Taft- Hartley Act was adopted, and immediately after it went into effect, Mr. Denham was told many times by the Department and by building and construction trades unions, as well as by contractors, that it would be impossible to enforce the union-shop election provisions of the Act in this particular industry. Mr. Denham had to learq it the hard way. Plans for holding the elections finally bogged down in Detroit. It is practically certain that no further effort will be made to go ahead with these elections. The NLRB held one test election in the industry, in heavy construction and road building in thirty-three counties of Western Pennsylvania. Only five trades took part in the election, and in every trade the majority in favor of the union shop was overwhelming. Elaborate plans were then made to hold a second pilot election in Detroit, in the construction industry as a whole, on an area-wide basis. When the Home Builders' Association refused to take part in the election unless its employees were permitted to vote separately from those of the general construction industry, those plans fell through. This would have meant holding two elections in the area, which was impossible because of the close relations between home building and general construction. Both employ from the same labor pool, building tradesmen work interchangeably on home building and other construction, the unions involved are the same. While Mr. Denham claimed, in making his announcement of October 13 that he is trying to \find some formula other than the area-wide election, everything indicates that this provision of the Taft-Hartley Act will be changed ' as soon as the new Congress meets. President Gray testified before the | Ball-Hartley "watchdog" Committee ,in Many. At that time he pointed 1 out the enormous difficulties involved ' in holding union-shop elections in the industry, as well as the great loss in money involved since the results of (he elections were well known in advance. He did not, however, propose that the Act be amended to eliminate this provision, hut demanded instead repeal of the entire law. Mr. James D. Marshall of the Associated General Contractors, appearing before the same Congressional Committee, did recommend that the Act be, amended to eliminate the union- shop election. Meantime, for building and construction trades unions, the breakdown of the NLRB machinery for holding union-shop elections prevents union shop agreements, even though the union has long been President Gray's contention that the punitive provisions of the act should not be applied to unions as long as the administrative agency of the act is unable to give the unions any of the alleged benefits the act may contain. —A. P. of L, Bulletin". Children's Jubilee Summer Camp Reports December 4, 1948 Dear Friends: We are starting out on our thirteenth year of activities with the Children's Jubilee Summer Camp Association and hope that it will be the best one yet. On Sunday, November the 21st, the Annual Heeting of the Association was held at the Veteran's Community Hall, Forty-Seventh Avenue and Fraser Street. Some eighty delegates, representing many Trade Unions, Fraternal Organizations, etc., were in attendance and heard many interesting reports from various Committee Chairmen. The Directors reported that all activities proposed last year were successfully completed, namely: the Installation of 600 feet of New Water Pipe from the Reservoir to the Dining Hall—and the Electrification of the Camp. Six hundred and seventy-five children attended the Camp last year; this figure includes some eighty children who were accepted into the Camp, free of charge, and who enjoyed a Summer Holiday through the efforts of your organization. We plan further improvements this year. Yrtu will note that a budget of $.,450.00 must be raised if the Camp is to be run efficiently. If we are able to carry out what the Convention has planned — and that is — the remodelling and enlarging of the Dining Hall and a Swimming Pool — then the sum of $7,000.00 will have to be raised. We believe, that this type of work — with children — will bear fruit in the years to come. A good, sane world can only be built by the people of tomorrow who are the children of today. Every effort, .therefore, should be exerted to assist the Directors in building a bigger and better Camp. We trust, therefore, that we shall receive the continued support of your organization on behalf of the Children's Jubilee Summer Camp Association. Fraternally yours, "W. E. Eaton", . Finance Committee, Chilren's Jubilee Summer Camp Ass'n. Motorist (barely avoiding a broad.' aide crash): "Why on earth didn't! you' signal that you were turning in?" . Girl (who had just crossed into her home driveway): "I always turn in here, stupid." SEASON'S GREETINGSI Campbell-Bennett Ltd. Phone: CE. 5822 1718 West Fifth Avenue Vancouver, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGSI Van Der ReeBros. CONTRACTORS Phone: BA. 1301 2116 West Twentieth Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Budd's Cartage and Contracting Co. Phone: CE. 1441 1523 West Third Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. — —Season's Greetings! ~— EMPIRE BOX CO. LTD. Foot Smithe Street — Phone: MA. 4554 NALOS LUMBER LTD. Foot Smiths Street — Phone: TA. 1742 Vancouver, B.C. W mmmma* SEASON'S GREETINGS! Horie Latimer Construction Co. Ltd. Phone: MA. 3838 1260 WEST HASTINGS STREET, VANCOUVER, B. C. MMMM__ Season's Greetings to Organized Labor! mk HUNTER-HENDERSON PAINT CO. LTD. Phono: PA. 0135 555 GRANVILLE STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. jmmmmt Season's Greetings! SIGURDSON MILLWORK CO. LTD. Phono: BA. 7223 1275 WEST SIXTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B. C. ' HMtMIMiXI mm.MIM.Mam ~rr- -, , iPeate nn €artj £*.& (HootJtotU to ilen From "Memorial Address On Iwo Jima" (In order to mcure tha tiny Island of Iwo Jlnut, Home 750 miles south of Tokyo, aa an advanced air base, three American Marine Divisions captured It at a coet of 20,000 casualties, Including 4.189 killed In one of the bloodiest battles of the war. Shortly after the Island was taken, Chaplain Roland B. Glttelsohn delivered a moving memorial address, from which the following excerpts are taken.) "This is perhaps the grimmest, and surely the holiest, task we have faced since D-day. Here before us.lie the bodies of comrades and friends . . . men who until yesterday or last week laughed with us . . . trained with us . . . fought with us and feared with us . . . "Somewhere in this plot of ground there may lie the man who could have discovered the cure for cancer. Under one of these Christian crosses, or beneath a Jewish Star of David . . . aj man who was destined to find the, way, perhaps, for all to live in plenty, with poverty and hardship for none., Now they lie here silently ... .".... Our poor power of speech can add nothing to what these men have already done. All that we can even hope to do is to follow their example. To show the same selfless courage in peace that they did in war. To swear that by the Grace of Cod and the stubborn strength and power of human will, their sons and ours shall never suffer these pains again. . . . "They have paid the ghastly price of freedom. If that freedom be once again lost, as it was after the last war, the unforgivable blame will be ours, not theirs. ... ". . . We, the living, are here to be dedicated and consecrated . . . first... to live together in peace the way they fought and are buried in this war. . . . Here lie officers and men, Negroes and whites, rich men and floor — Protestants, Catholics, andn Jews—together. Here no man prefers another because of his faith or despises him because of hie color —there is no discrimination, ho prejudice, no hatred. Theirs is the highest and purest democracy. "Any man . . . who fails to understand that will thereby betray those who lie here. . . . "To one thing more do we consecrate ourselves in memory of those who sleep beneath these crosses and stars. We shall not. foolishly suppose . . . that victory on the battlefield will automatically guarantee the triumph of democracy at home. This war, with all ita suffering, is but the beginning of our generation's struggle for democracy. . . . There will be those at home, as there were last time, who will want us to turn our backs ... on the rest of organized humanity and thus to sabotage the very peace for which we fight We promise you . . .; we will not do that. We will join hands with Britain, China, Russia, in peace, even as we have in war ,to build the kind of world for which you died. "When the last shot has been fired there will still.be those . . . who will be satisfied with-those wide extremes of poverty and wealth in which the seeds of another war can breed. We promise you, our departed comrades: This, too, we will not permit. This war has been fought by the common man; its fruits of peace must be enjoyed by the common man. We promise '. . . that your sons, the sons of miners and millers, the sons of farmers and workers, will inherit fr.om your death the right to a living that is decent and secure. "When the final cross has been placed in the last cemetery, once again there will be those to whom profit is more important than peace. . . . "We will not forget that some of you were burnt with oil that came from American wells, that many . . . were killed by shells . . . from American steel. . . . ". . . When once again men seek profit at your expense, we shall remember how you looked when we placed you reverently, lovingly, in the ground. ". . . Too much blood has gone into this soil for us to let it lie barren: .-. . We here solemnly swear: This shall not be in vain. "Out of this, and from the suffering and sorrow of those who mourn this will come — we promise — the birth of a new-freedom for the sons of men everywhere. Amen. Toward the Brotherhood of Man Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that. . . When man to man the world o'er Shall brithenfefc, end *' that —Robert Burns. Your first duties . . . are towards humanity. You are men before you are either citizens or fathers. If you do not embrace the whole human family in your affection . . . if -— wheresoever a fellow creature suffers or the dignity of human nature is violated by falsehood or tyranny— you are not ready, if able, for the redemption of the betrayed or op- ftressed — you violate your law of i.e_ you comprehend not that religion which will be the guide and blessing of the future. —Giuseppe Mazzini ("The Duties of Man"). The perpetuation of democracy depends upon the practice of the brotherhood of man. The American conviction in war and in peace has been that man finds his freedom only when he shares it with others. People of every nation, every race, every creed are able to live together as Americans on this basis. We are fighting for the right of men to live' together aa members of one family rather than as masters' and slaves. We are fighting that the spirit of brotherhood which we prize in this country may be practiced here and by free men everywhere. It is our promise to extend such brotherhood earthwide which gives hope to all the world. —Franklin D. Roosevelt. PEACE By ARNOLD WEBSTER (The following are excerpts from a pamphlet entitled "Peace" written In the year 1.35. The author's comments are as timely as If written yesterday.—Editor). It is a popular pastime among writers to search for phrases with whic,h to describe historical periods. An increasing number of observers today are inclined to speak of modern times as the Age of Fear. What justification is there for such an attitude ? Few will deny the widespread feeling of uncertainty abroad in the land at his hour. What is going to happen tomorrow? Next week? Next month? These are the questions that countless men and wqmen are asking. If we examine this fear complex aa the psychoanalysts would call it, we shall find that it is caused almost entirely by that most powerful of all determining forces — the question of economic security — the question of tomorrow's, or even today's bread and butter. And it is because there is no economic security for the average Individual — no security of tomorrow's bread and butter — that the great mass of ordinary simple folk across this country live in constant fear, Is it not an amazing fact that the dominant consideration of the primitive cave man is still our dominant consideration in 1935 — how to secure the bare essentials of life? And it is when that existence is placed in jeopardy, when it becomes a matter of grave uncertainty whether the means for that existence are to be forthcoming, that man becomes obsessed with that most insidious of all fears — the fear that tomorrow he may starve. Convince an individual that his economic security is in danger, and you have the atmosphere of panic instantly created. Just as with individuals, so with groups of individuals, called nations, the dominant note today is fear, and if we examine the causes of that fear among national groups, as we have among individuals, we shall find that s°r West writes: ___ _€.__._ _._ ,,__ ,_ ,_ ■-__._, ;._.w.-i- working people everywhere — of French, of Italians, of Germans, of Japanese, of Russians. They, too, enjoy digging in their gardens, talking to. their neighbors and going to the beaches, just as you and I. It is the purest folly to imagine that they are thirsty for blood. The fact is that the vast majority of the world's population consists of simple laboring, folk, desirous of nothing more than a fair chance to live happly, one with the other. The will to peace was never stronger on this earth than it is at this hour; in other words there was never a time in history when the mass of people were so anxious for peace as now. I don't know a single man or woman who wants to murder someone else. Do you? Then, why are we preparing to do this very thing on such a colossal scale? I shall try to answer the queestion. It may not be the whole explanation, but I am convinced that it is nearer the truth than any other. * • • * From a School Textbook One does not have to consult the works of revolutionary writers for evidence. I wish to quote a rather striking passage from the textbook used in the British Columbia high schools. On nage 608, in "A Short History of Modern People," Profes- the chief trouble lies in economic insecurity. Competition — Fear This is the Age of Fear. It is also the Age of Competition. It is a truism to say that where there is competition, there must always be fear. In the realm of everyday life, where the fear that your competitor may beat yon, is the fear that he is going to deprive you of your means of existence,' the instinct of self-preservation immediately comes into play. It is this competition in matters of life and death importance that causes fear among individuals, and it is this competition in matters of life and death importance that causes fear among nations. . . Wny 8re we Preparing so feverishly in these days to murder each other? Few of us will live for more than three-score years and ten. Why should we spend so much of our time, short as it is, in daily dread—in preparing to defend or to strike a fellow being? But then, we are told that people are warlike. Can this be true? Do ordinary simple folk glory in murdering each other? Ridiculous, you say. Of course, it's ridiculous. The average Canadian likes nothing better than to be left in peace to do his work as best he can, to dig his garden, to talk to his neighbor across the fence, or to take his family to the beach. And what is true of Can- adiians, is (-equally true of ordinary This imperialism (or desire for empire for the sake of trade) has been the underlying cause of most modern wars. And yet under existing conditions it is useless to blame any one nation for trying to seize the oil of Mesopotamia, the coal of China, the ivory of the Congo, or the rubber of Mexico. The blame lies in the amazing fact that the nations have not made more serious attempts to change the system of commercial cannibalism. Rightly seen the vast raw material wealth of the globe belongs to no one or two arbitrary political divisions of the globe's population ; it is the heritage of the whole world, present and to come. "When we grow civilized enough there will be some world organization to conserve these resources and to see that all nations may share on some basis of equal opportunity or of need. True, this is much to expect while each nation still permits grasping individuals to engross within its own borders that individual wealth that should belong to all its people. But if the task is great, so is the need. It must be solved if civilization is to survive. Until there is such a world organization, annihilating world wars will not cease to threaten. The real work of a League of Nations will not be so much to enforce peace, to forbid war, as to remove the .chief excuse for war by doing justice among the peoples." There is a clear statement — an ...For AH, Without Distinction... "To achieve international co-operation in solving international prob- blems of _n economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for the fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.—United Nations Charter. "Discriminations" The Negro lives in our midst under discriminations which 'differ from the recial discrimination practiced by our enemies, the Nazis, only in that ours ave illegal and that we are free—if we wish—to fight against them.— Wendell Wilkie (An American Program. "Dcipotiim-" Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it.—Tom Paine. "-n.peal-.ble" Any movement or propaganda to create division or ill wil] among the people of our land, any effort to promote religious or racial prejudice among us, is unspeakable base, utterly un-American, and wholly unchristian.—Bishop William T. Manning. "Semitee" Abraham is called our patriarch, our ancestor, Anti-Semitism is not compatible with the reality of this text. It is a movement in which we Catholics cannot share. It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.—Pope Pius XI. "Swords Into Ploughshares0 And he shall judge among many peoples,-and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. .*-"-_ —Micah 4:3. Toward "One World" Are we learning nothing from the horrible pictures of the concentration camps which have been appearing in our papers day after day? Are our memories so short that we do not recall how in Germany this unparalleled barbarism started by discrimination directed against the Jewish people? ltl has ended in brutality and cruelty meted out to all people, even to our own boys who have been taken prisoner. This bestiality could not exist if the Germans had not allowed themselves to believe in a master race which could do anything it wished to all other human beings not of their particular racial strain. There is nothing, given certain kinds of leadership, which could prevent our falling a prey to this same kind of insanity, much as it shocks us now. The idea of superiority of some race over another must not continue within our own country, nor must it grow up in our dealings with the rest of the world.—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. ■ These Truths We hold these truths to be self- evident; that all men are. created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.— Thomas Jefferson. unanswerable indictment of the profit 11 gave my life for freedom—This I system. Professor West tells us that know; We need not expect peace in the ] For those who bade me fight had told world so long as "each nation permits grasping individuals to engross, within its own borders that natural wealth that should belong to all its peoples." Five Souli Listen to the voice of "Five Souls" as they relate their experiences at the close of World War I (1914-18): I was a peasant of the Polish plain: I left my plough because the message ran: 't . Russia, in danger, needed every man To save her from the Teuton; and was slain. I gave my life for freedom—This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. I was a Tyrolese, a moutaineer; I gladly left my mountain home to fight Against the brutal, treacherous Muscovite : I worked in a great shipyard by'the Clyde. There came a sudden word of wars declared. Of Belgium,' peaceful, helpless, unprepared Asking our aid: I joined the ranks and died. I gave my life for freedom—This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. Somerset Maugham I thought of this selection when reading Somerset Maugham's rather rather remarkable play "For Services Rendered". The time is about 1925. Sydney Ardsley, blinded in the war, is the eon of a prosperous London merchant The elder Ardsley has just finished expressing his confidence in the soundness of British statesmanship when his son, who has been quietly knitting in order to And „i.,l in >.,la„„ „„ a Cos»ck g£fc» 'tf*^, Eft* erect speaks aa follows spear. I gave my life for freedom—This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. ' I worked in Lyons at my weaver's loom, When suddenly the Prussian despot hurled His felon blow at France and at the world; * Then I went forth''to Belgium and my doom. I gave my life for freedom—This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. I owned' a vinyard by the wooded Maine. Until the Fatherland, begirt by foes Lusting her downfall, called, me, and I rose Swiftly to the crtll— and died in fair Lorraine. 1 know that we were the dupes of the incompetent fools who ruled the nations. I know that we were sacrificed to their vanity, their greed, and their stupidity. And the worst of it is that so far as I can tell they haven't learned a thing. They muddle dn, and on, and one of these days they'll muddle us all into another war. When that happens I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going out into the streets and say: 'Look at me! Don't be a lot of damned fools! It's all bunk what they're saying to you about honor and patrioitism and glory! Bunk! bonk! bunk!'." And here is the proof of those words in the form of an Order-in- Council passed in Canada during the war. Listen to it and judge for yourselves whether Sydney Ardsley spoke the truth in those words I have quoted: t€t€4B««HP@etCC48«£^^ $M $& i^A%^eikviS&im^ "Whereas ... all questioning of the causes of the war, of the motives of Canada, Great Britain or the Allies must necessarily divert from the one great object on which they should be so centred, it shall be an offence to print, publish .or publicly express any adverse or unfavorable statement or opinion concerning the war- or the motives or purposes for which Canada or the Allies entered the war." * • » In a recent issue of the "Christian Century", Herman Reissig appeals to his readers in these stirring words: "Protect 'my country!.' But where is 'my country'? Who has decreed that 'my country' shall include only the geographical area bounded by the Atlantic and the Pacific? Who has decreed that 'my country' shall embrace only those men, institutions, and events which lie between 1492 and 1935? who may thus define and limit 'my country'? "Where Isaiah lifted up his voice for human justice, there is my country. Where Jesus offered his life for men, there is my country. Where St Francis lived the compassionate life, there is my country. Where Shakespeare swept the human scene into his dramas, there is my country. Where Luther struck for the liberty of the soul, there is my country. Where Darwin discovered the method of the Creator, there is my country. Where Magna Carta was signed, there is my country. Where Milton sang, where Remembrandt painted — there is my country. "Who draws these little lines, limiting my allegiance by accidents pf time and space? "I would protect my country. For my country I would fight against all enemies. Where is my country and who are its enemies? "Wherever men and women lift the flag of justice, or of beauty, or of freedom, or of truth, or of peace, or of fellowship, there is my country. "Who enslaves men in body for the sake of gain, or in mind for the sake of power, who tramples on others' rights, who closes the doors of opportunity, who serves the dark gods of superstition and prejudice, who turns his eyes toward the past who denies to'Others' the privileges he desires for himself—he is my enemy." ' * • . . . We are part of a social system that hold war as the clouds hold lightning. Science has made as neighbors by giving ns such devices as the aeroplane and the radio. On every hand there are evidences that we are living in an inter-dependent world. That is the reality which the machine age has imposed on us. But an obsolete social system renders useless the effects of scientific ad- (An excerpt from the final draft of the Charter of the United Nations adopted at the San Francisco Conference, June 20, 1945) We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and To establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and To promote social progress and better standards of life Tn larger freedom, and for these ends To practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors, and ' ' * " To unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and To ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and To employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to. accomplish these aims. Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations. The Four Freedoms (From President Roosevelt's Message to Congress, January 6, 1941) In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want— which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for ita inhabitants^—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear— which, translated into .world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere. vancement by decreeing that we shall live in relentless rivalry as individuals, and as nations. The simple truth is that our entire social mechanism is out of tune with this collective reality. We must quickly learn to adapt our minds and our institutions to the new world which science has given us; that is the task of our generation. "Just as capitalists build houses today, not to live in, but to sell, not for use but for profit, so also they _ build empires, not for the mutual good of fell groups within them, but primarily for tribute. The nucleus of the imperial structure is the typical factory, whose owner will not return to the workers the value their labor produces and cannot himself consume the surplus thus appropriated. When an entire national society is built on this pattern, when the owning class also controls the state with its armed forces, the stage is set for imperial expansion. . , . "If we would abolish war, we must abolish a system that makes for war —a system that rests on the principles of competition and disorder. "If we would build peace, we must build a system that makes for peace —a system that rests on the prin ciples of co-operation and harmony." —From "-Peace" by Arnold Webster. ■•-"^M 7_f v- _____ -^_r "■ '-n '" ■■! ~:s*TEJ ' " Page Eighteen THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 Season's Greetings! Westminster Iron Works Co.Ltd. Phone: N. W. 3066 . 1135 Queens Avenue, New Westminster, B. C.-.-—-■ B ihisiinctitjs... unztaL <^z>£,*iuicE, S. BOWELL & SONS Phono 2656 66 Sixth Street, New Westminster, B.C.. Clovordale, B.C. — Phone: Cloverlale 193 Mallory Plumbing & Heating Phone: N. W. 2234 1450 Edmonds New Westminster, B. C. Season's Greetings! The Brackman-Ker Co. Ltd. 25 West Pender St., Vancouver — Phone: MA. 5235 Head Office: 600 Front St., New Westminster, B. C. Phones: N. W. 95 k N. W. 8000 (No toll charge) From Speeches and Writings Of Debs, Great Labor Leader "And there's 'Gene Debs—a man 'at stands And just holds out in his two hands As warm a heart as ever beat Betwixt here and the Jedgement Seat I" ... —James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene V. Debs was born in 1855. He lived, worked and wrote during the latter part of the 19th and early years of the 20th century.- He was foremost among the pioneers of the labor movement who strove to build up "Industrial Democracy". He stood as a towering rock of hope to the down-trodden workers of his day. He was a man of great power and personal magnetism. | He came with a message in the wilderness and pointing to the inevitable I farther heights to which humanity must ascend, meeting misunderstanding, insult, and rejection. Some day when the stories of his unselfish, loving life are known to the emancipated workers of the world, their joy and appreciation will replace the ignorance and neglect during his lifetime. no time, they had no opportunity for higher development, and so they were what the world calls "illiterate". They had little chance. It took all their time and energy to iced the animal; but how is it today? Upon the average twehty men can today, with the aid of modern machinery, produce as much wealth as a thousand did a half century ago. Can you think of a single thing that enters into our daily existence that can not be easily produced in abundance for all? If you can I wish you would do me the kindness to name it. ■ The Ballot The ballot of united labor expresses the people's will and the people's will is the supreme law of a free nation. The ballot means that labor is no longer dumb, that at last it has a voice, that it may be heard and if united shall be heeded. Centuries of struggle and sacrifice were required to wrest this symbol of freedom from the mailed clutch of tyranny and place it in the hand of labor as the shield and lance of attack and defense. The abuse and not the use of it is responsible for its evils. —- The divided vote of- labor is the abuse of the ballot and the penalty, is slavery and death. The united vote of those who toil and have not will vanquish those who have and toil not, and solve forever the problem of democracy. * * * » Evolution of Industry Here I stand, just as I was created. I have two hands that represent my labor power. I have some bone and muscle and sinew and some energy. I want to exchange the use of these for food and clothing and shelter. But between me and the tools with which work is done there stands a man artificially created. He says, "No, no I" Why not? "Because you cannot first make a profit for me." Now, there has been a revolution in industry during the last fifty years, but the trouble with most people j? that they haven t kept pace with it. They don't know anything about it arid they are especially innocent in regard to it in the small western cities and states, where the same old conditions of a century ago still largely prevail. Your grandfather could help himself anywhere. All he needed was some cheap, simple primitive tools and he could then apply his labor to the resources of nature with his individual tools and produce what he needed. That era in our history produced our greatest men. Lincoln himself sprang from this primitive state of society. People have said, "Why, he had no chance. See how great he became." Yes, but Lincoln had for his comrades great, green-plumed forest monarchs. He could put his arms about them and hear their heart-throbs, as they whispered: "Go on, Abe, a great destiny awaits you." He was in partnership with nature. He associated with birds and bees and flowers, and he was in the fields and heard the rippling music of the laughing brooks and streams. Nature took him to her bosom and nourished him, and from his unpolluted heart there sprang his noble aspirations. Had Lincoln been born in a sweatshop he would never .have been heard of. How is it with the babe that is born in Mott Street, or in the lower Bowery, or in the cast side of New York City? That is where thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of babes are born who are to constitute our future generations. I have seen children ten years of age in New York City who had never seen a live chicken. The babes there don't know what it is to put their tiny feet on a blade of grass. It is the most densely populated spot on earth. You have seen your bee-hive—just fancy a human bee-hive of which yours is the miniature and you have the industrial hive under capitalism. If you have never seen this condition you are excusable for not being a Socialist. Come to New York, Chicago, San Francisco with me; remain with me just twenty-four hours, and then look into mv face as I shall look into yours when _ ask: "What about Socialism now?" These children by hundreds and thousands are born in sub-cellars, where a whole grown family is crowded together in one room, where modesty between the sexes is absolutely impossible. They are surrounded by filth and vermin. From their birth they see nothing but immorality and vice and crime. They are tainted in the cradle. They are inoculated by their surroundings and they are doomed from the beginning. This system takes their lives just as certainly as if a dagger were thrust into their quivering little hearts, and let me say to you that it were better for many thousands of thenrif they had never teen the light. Now I submit, my friends, that such a condition as this is indefensible in the twentieth century. Time was when everything had to be done in a very primitive way, and most men had to work all their days, all their lives, to feed and shelter themselves. They had PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Why Suffer Amid Abundance? I don't know it all. I am simply a student of this great question, and I am serving as best 1 can and I know my eyes are ready for the light, and I thank that man, no matter what he be, who can add to the flame of the torch I bear. If there is a single thing that you can think of that cannot be produced in abundance, name it. Bread, clothing, fuel—everything is here. Nature's storehouse is full to the surface of the earth. All of the raw materials arc deposited here in abundance. We have the most marvelous machinery the world has ever known. Man has long since become master of the natural forces and made them work for him. Now he has but to touch a button and the wheels begin to spin and the machinery to whirr, and wealth is produced on every hand in increasing abundance. Why should any man, woman or child suffer for food, clothing or shelter? Why? The question cannot be answered. Don't tell me that some men are too lazy to work. Suppose they are too lazy to work, what do you think of a social system that produces men too lazy to work? If a man is too lazy to work don't treat him with scorn as if you were a superior being. If there is a man who is too lazy to work there is something the matter with him. He wasn't born right or he was perverted in this system. You could not, if you tried, keep a normal man inactive, and if you did he would go stark mad. Go to any penitentiary and you will find the men there begging for the privilege of doing work. I know by close study of the question exactly how men become idle. I don't repel them when I meet them. I have never yet seen the tramp I.was not able to receive with open arms. He is a little less fortunate than I am. He is made the same as I am made. He is a child of the same Father. Had I been born in his environment, had I been subjected to the same things to which he was I would have been where he is. • * - • • ■ Humanity and the Future Competition was natural enough at one time, but do you think you are competing today? Many of you think you are competing. Against whom? Against Rockefeller? About as I would if I had a wheelbarrow and competed with the Santa Fe from here to Kansas City. That is about the way you are competing; but your boys will not have even that chance—if capitalism lives that long. You hear of the "late'' panic. It is very late. It is going to be very late. This panic will be with us five years from now, and will continue till then. I am not a prophet. I can no more penetrate the future than you can. I do study the forces that underlie society and the trend of evolution. I can tell by what we have passed through about what we will have in the future; and I know that capitalism can be abolished and the people put in possession. Now, when we have taken possession, and we jointly own the means of production, we will no longer have to fight each other to live; our interests, instead of being competitive, will be co-operative. We will work side by side. Your interest will be mine and mine will be yours. That is the economic condition from which wfll spring"--. ■ hiiiH-m. social ■retetwir of the future. When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and he friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known. SEASON'S GREETINGSI Follis Plumbing and Heating Co. - Phone: N,W. 1651 1115 Sixth Avenue, New Westminster, B.C. Season's Greetings! R. D. Bristowe Ltd. SPRAY AND BRUSH PAINTING, STEAM CLEANING, BONDED BUILT-UP ROOFS, ASPHALT, SHINGLES New Westminster, B. C. — Phone: N. W. 1662 Vancouver, B. C. — Phone: MA. 0714 SEASONS GREETINGSI WILKINSON & KIDD LTD. SHEET METAL Phone: N. W. 1837 515 Eighth St., New Westmimter, B. C. J P PP. '""' 'M December, 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN _Page Nineteen SEASONS GREETINGS! Melny's Furniture Store Phones: FA. 4927 - FA. 2072 514 West Broadway, Vancouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI NIAGARA HOTEL Dan Rotary,Proprietor ;, Phone: PA. 5548 435 West Pender Street Vancouver, B. C. Compliments of Falconer Limited "BOATS" Phone: PA. 7929 1505 West Pender Street Vancouver, B. C. « SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR Ivanhoe Hotel T Phono: PA. 8658 1038 MAIN STREET VANCOUVER. B.C. Season's Greetings! Harbour Towing Co. Ltd. Phone: PA. 2351 Ferry Wharf foot of Columbia Vancouver, B. C. _» 623 HASTINGS STREET. W Cloak & Suit Co. Ltd. Compliments of the Season Coastal Towing Co. Ltd. • Phone: MA. 4481 89 WEST PENDER STREET VANCOUVER. B. C. PEERLESS LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERS Phon.: CE. 1151 1698 WEST THIRD AVENUE VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! FLAGG & CO. YESI We do Manufacture Enamelled Membership BUTTONS. BADGES, FRATERNAL INSIGNIA, MEDALS 701 — 16 EAST HASTINGS Phone: PA 2459 SPENDING YOUR MONEY Business Rackets Cost Consumers $4 Billion Year Every year people in the United States lose some $4,000,000,000 or more — approximately $55 for each adult in the country — through fake investment and fraudulent merchandise schemes. This is the estimate of the Better Business Bureau which has set itself the task of preventing business fraud — as far as it can — and promoting fair advertising and selling practices. In an effort to find out what the Better Business Bureau can do to help the individual consumer from being defrauded, we went around to talk with Claude H. Woodward, Director of the Better Business Bureau of Washington, D.C. The work that the Washington Better Business Bureau does is representative of that carried on in all of the major cities of the United States. There are two ways in which the Better Business Bureau in your city can help you: (1) It provides a convenient method of checking to learn whether the door-to-door salesman who calls on you is a legitimate salesman or Is promoting a racket "' ., _ (-) It promotes fair advertising and selling practices among business concerns. One standard racket always being pulled in one part of the country or another, is the sale of vacuum sweepers. There are lot of variations, but such rackets often work something like this: The salesman comes to your door, says his firm has selected you to be recipient of an "unusual offer" — that the manufacturer is starting a new line of sweepers and wants to put Some of them in the hands of a few "responsible persons". The only catch is that you are asked to pay a "nominal sum" for transportation charges, and perhaps an additional amount for special attachments. If you are gullible enough to pay this "nominal sum" that the salesman asks — it may amount to as much as $20 or more — you will find to your sorrow that you have last thrown your money away on a fake scheme. The "salesman" takes as much as he can from his victims and leaves town. It is such rackets as this — and there are hundreds of them going on all the time — that the Better Business likes most of all to expose not only because this protects the consumer but' because it protects the legitimate merchant against inroads of downright cheats. If you follow the Better Business Bureau's rules in dealing with door- to-door peddlers, you will probably save yourselve from any such loss. The Bureau recommends: (1) Ask all such salesmen for their credentials and if they can't show them call the Better Business Bureau and find out whether the salesman is legitimate. (2) Don't be high-pressured into buying. Take your time. If the salesman is legitimate he will be glad to give you time to think the matter over. Almost all fake salesmen have this in common — their "offer" is a "special that won't be repeated" and you have to act now or never. The Better Business Bureau also has some good sound advice to offer shoppers in dealing with regular storekeepers, some of whom are not too scrupulous. (a) Go slow if the "bargain" offered is too good to be true. If a merchant claims to be selling a $1,000 fur coat for $150, as some of them occasionally claim, you can be reasonably sure that the coat offered is no bargain—not even at the $150 price. (b) Be extra cautious if the store uses such deceptive terms as "worth such-and-such", "made to sell for . . .," or "valued at. . ." Such terms are deceptive devices to make it appear a bargain is being offered when it isn't. Reputable firms do often offer genuine mark- downs at bargain sales, but they don't have to resort to such deceptive language as that quoted above. Although the Better Business Bureau does'a good deal to help run outright cheats and frauds out of business, the fact is it is virtually powerless to deal wtih the much larger every day losses sustained by per- scons who buy shoddy merchandise that is overpriced. One difficulty, the Better Business Bureau says, is that a lot of people naively assume that no businessman First Aid Problem An electrician was standing on a platform about .12 feet in the air wiring _r sign in front of a store. He had turned off the main switch inside the building. A careless store employee threw on the switch and the electrician received an electric shock which caused him to lose his balance and fall to the pavement below. He fell in a sitting position, striking his buttock against the edge of the curb. Immediately after he fell he collapsed and blood gushed out from his nose. Examination revealed a dark ring around the right eye, and the eyeball itself was bloodshot His face became flushed, and the breathing sterterous. The pulse was full ana slow. Diagnosis aad Treatment Indirect-Fracture of the base of the skull with compression of the brain. .end for doctor and ambulance immediately. Lay the man on his back with the head and shoulders slightly raised. Loosen tight clothing. Clean out month, cover with coat or blankets and keep warm. these days dares misrepresent what he has to sell. In actual practice, however, it is sometimes difficult if not impossible to draw the line between outright fraud and deceit, and the quite human and understandable urge of the businessman to present his wares in the best light possible. With Christmas approaching and businessmen getting set for a new high in sales, the need for shoppers to be cautious and to make sure they are getting their money's worth is greater than ever. The best advice we were able to get is this: Never forget that gullibility can cost you a lot of money. —"The Machinist" Frostbite Tiny crystals of ice form in the skin. Sometimes even deeper tissue is actually frozen. NoSe, fingers and ears are most likely to freeze. Frozen skin is a sort of yellowish- white and hard like wood. The frozen patch shows up' easily and stays that way until it thaws giving rise to violent inflammation. This inflammation is bright red and hot. A slight freeze marks the thaw by intense itching; a severe freeze can result in gangrene of the part. The best way is to prevent frostbite by proper protection arrangements well in advance. Use windproof loose clothing. When outside the men should watch each other. If patch is small use a warm hand over it— never rub. Larger parts should be thawed by placing inside a companions clothes or soaking in tepid or cooler water. If there is severe pain as it thaws then cool the part with a little water or short snow applications. A thawed frostbite is really a wound and a light clean dressing should be used. Severe cases should get immediate medical attention: Real Efficiency Efficiency is sometimes interpreted to mean "stop loafing and put your back into it". This may be effective in some instances, but most improve ment comes from better headwork— at the machine and in the flow of work. It is an observing and thinking job, not a driving job—teamwork, not "speed-up". Top management, minor super, visors, mechanics, production workers, individually and in committee work, can pool their ideas, whether it be in technical changes or occasionally in getting everyone to work harder. Sometimes it is difficult to put your finger on one thing that "did the trick". For example, in a con- tinuous process plant a certain pro- duct was needed at the rate of 350 tons per month. Before the United States entered the war, the demand went up to 450 tons, and the plant was able to get out that tonnage. But at the outbreak of the war, the demand shot up to 1,100 tons monthly I If there had been time, a new plant with this capacity would have been built. But there was no time, and the works manager appealed to the entire organization to co-operate in reaching this seemingly impossible tonnage. The joint production committee in the department helped; "suggestions were combed from all"; and the rate of production was increased by the needed 144 per cent. By a series of relatively small improvements what the works manager called "a miracle" was accomplished. Big economies came from a lot of little economies. The attention of the operators and other workers to the small wastes connected with each process in every part of the "servicing' — supply of work, tools, supplies, instruction, equipment, lighting, work assignment from job to job — all these add up to a signi ficant total. Accident Illustrations (1) A welder used in empty drum to place his work on. At lunch time he put the cutting touch tip in the bung-hole. When he lit the touch after lunch the drum blew up and killed him. Acetylene had been leaking from the touch and turned the drum into a bomb. (2) A man burned to death when a spark landed in his greasy clothing. Fire enveloped him so quickly that a fire blanket nearby was of no use. - •.-___- (3) In one construction job, flve men were killed when compressed air to an oil-burning torch was replaced by oxygen. This last mentioned accident illustration is but a variation of i many deaths and explosions resulting throughout the country by men attempting to use oxygen from the welding unit to replace air. It seems that many persons believe the word "oxygen" a synonym for "compressed air". This error should be corrected. Everyone should know that If oxygen equipment is used for any other purpose than welding and cutting an explosion can result. Oxygen pipe lines should be painted a special color and a warning sign placed at the outlet of each pipe. Oxygen should not be used to run pneumatic tools — to start internal combustion engines —to blow out pipe lines — to to replace compressed air in any way whatever. SEASONS GREETINGSI Bestovall Canning Co. Ltd. Phone: HA. 4577 1775 CLARK DRIVE VANCOUVER. B.C. Season's Greetings from Ed. Ctdlsns Collins Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Phone: FA. 6460 356 West Second Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGSI Anglo-British Columbia Packing Co. Phone: PA. 7277 989 West Hastings Street Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! General Machinery Ltd. Phone: PA. 3487 GRANVILLE ISLAND VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS TO>ORGANIZED LABOR! Adanac Salvage Ltd. ■ • Phonei PA. 2480 334 ALEXANDER VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! E. J. Trayling ■ • Phone: MA. 2829 509 Richards Street Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! Trayling & Waters • _ Phone: MA. 8251 576 SEYMOUR STREEI™__- ..-VANCOUVER, B. C Season's Greetings! BRODIE BRUSH COMPANY LIMITED Brush Manufacturers — Brushes for AU Trades - Phones: PAcific 4184-5-6 891 CAMBIE STREET VANCOUVER, B. C Police Chief: "What! You mean to say this fellow choked a woman to death in front of 200 people and no-1 body interfered?" Cap.: "Yes, chief. Everybody thought they were dancing." Season's Greetings! Sterling Laundry Limited ClOMPLETE LAUNDRY SERVICE Phone: BAyview 2488 1460 WEST SEVENTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER. B.C. Page Twenty THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 Compliments of Garvin Ice & Fuel Co. Ltd. Garvin Appliances Ltd. WISHING OUR OLD FRIENDS A HAPPY NEW YEARI f 325 East Fifth Avenue - is. Vancouver, B. C. B.C. Marine Engineers and Shipbuilders Ltd. FT. OF VICTORIA HOTEL AMBASSADOR Fully Licensed In the Heart of the Business, Shopping, Theatrical and Restaurant District—Quiet, Comfortable, Convenient 773 Seymour Street, Vancouver Your Host: Abe Weston (Established 1911) SUMNER BRASS FOUNDRY LTD. Manufacturer, of Brass, Bronze and Aluminum Castings — Phosphor Bronze Bushings Manganese Bronze •Propellors In All Sizes Phone: MArine 1548 619 Bid well Street, Vancouver, B. C. ANGELUS HOTEL Corner.Dunsmuir mid Howe Streets, Vancouver, B.C. .HONES: 2435-SS-37 UUS ANDERSON AND A. HARRISON. PROMtl "Chubby" Powers Vital Indictment That Was Cheered by Liberals Many readers have requested "The Citizen" to reprint the charge made by the Hon. C. G. Powers in his speech at the recent Liberal Convention m Ottawa. His charges' were as follows, and as published in the ' Ottawa Journal" of August Jl v— . (1) The Government is hot now responsible to the people but is placing bureaucracy over Parliament. (2) Electoral, parliamentary and administrative ministerial systems must be reformed "to respond more readily to the will of the people'. - (3) There is often "scandously corrupt political expenditure" in our elections (4) "Ministers of the Crown must abandon the practice of abdicating their functions, their duties, and shouldering their responsibilities on irresponsible boards, committees or commissions. (5) "We have budget by radio, restraint of trade by embargoes and prohibition, bungling of freight rates and a snarling of interprovincial relations." (6) In interprovincial affairs "the plain common sense of the matter demands a less rigid attitude to be taken with the provinces. Tradition holds that we be provincial righters, rather than centralizers". (7) If the "constitutional instrument" is in the way of permanent solution of Federal-interprovincial affairs then it should be amended. (8) Parliament should shake off its platitudinous appearance; its committees should be made to work. This is a "j'accuse" of first-rate importance. Almost word for word it parallels charges made in these columns over a period of recent months. That such accusations can be made so arrestingly as a party convention by one of the party's outstanding men must surely give even the most rabid partisans pause. —"The Halifax Citizen". Price of Pleasure The latest nation-wide survey by the Canadian Government reveals that the people of Ontario paid more to see movies than any others since a total of $93,137,140 was paid there during the past year for such purposes. In other parts of this country, paid admissions involved $48,864,876 for Quebec; $24,062,010 for British Columbia, including Yukon and Northwest Territories: Manitoba, $13,054,600; Alberta, $12,809,597; Nova Scotia, $10,683,793; Saskatchewan, $10,155,603; New Brunswick, $7,027,133; and Prince Edward Island, $920,033. . , .. . —"The Halifax Citizen". True Words from General Bradley In an Armistice Day address, General Bradley, chief of Uncle Sam's army, spoke some words which deserve thoughtful attention. "Our knowledge of science has clearly outstripped our capacity to control it," Bradley declared. "We have too many men of science; too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we do about peace, more about killing than about living." That indictment of modern man >* true. The General might well have added, however, that it is possible to use the products of science to benefit instead of destroy mankind. After all, no scientist ever started a war. Wars still are made by -Big Businessmen, militarists, and the political rulers of nations. - They order scientists to produce new weapons, and order poor men to do most of the fighting and dying.—"Labor". ■*■ • - • • SEASON'S GREETINGS from IINGLEY ROOFING AND SHEET METAL CO. (B.C.) LID. Phone! FA. 3460 at WEST FIRST AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON Crescent Sheet Metal Phone: FA. 8930 4366 MAIN STREET ' VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS from HUMPHREY SHEET METAL WORKS LTD. JPhone: MA. 9437 ....'_, 132 POWELL STREET VANCOUVER. B. G V $arron JSrog. limttcb SS HAST-1 198 WBST FUNERAL DIRECTORS AVENUE Fliontt TAArmtmt 0114 STBEET, NOBTH VANCOUVER NOBTH _M and EOYAI OAK, BURNABY ' DBlt.r 3S81 RICHMOND TRANSFER DULY ______HT 8BBVICE—ISIt IBEAND, BBA I______D, MO HT -UTS HEAVY HA U LINO PHONEI HA-Unf. 6397 435 AJ-EIAWDBB Darlington, Haskins & Co. (1943) Limited TILES — MOSAICS — MARBLE — TERRAZZO 2144 Graarille Street Phona: CEd.r 6232 Vancouver, B.C. ECONOMY SAUSAGE CO. ■THI SAUSAGE THAT MADS LITTLE PlOe F AMOU." ran sals -vrarwHE-i - try eoMi 141 HAWKS AVENUE Phone: HAstings 4557 MARR HOTEL -joensbd — (oub mmtu) Remodelled - Newly Furnished • Up-to-date • Good Service ->Tm__n,i-__r» SEASON'S GREETINGS I Kerrisdale Hardware Phone: KE. M42 2118 WBST .lit AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. ;iiVi"i»-iiw)M«-ii|;iii)»ii.iit;'r,i fig* TRUCK REPAIRS TRACTOR REPAIRS CHAPMAN'S MOTOR AND MACHINE SHOP Machine Work of All Kindt Diesel Engine Overhauls Phone: MArine 9026 649 Drake Street, Vancouver SIMMONS & McBRIDE LIMITED Directors of Funeral Service Phono: BAyview 5402 1995 WEST BROAD WAY Is-§ii-S_f!_&_S_-^^ COMPLIMENTS OFTHE SEASON I Nelson Blower Co. Ltd. Phone: FA. 1582 580 WEST SIXTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, B. C. A. F. L Rejects "Third Party", But Keeps Up Political League Cincinnati.—The A. P. of L. will have no truck with a "third party" at thia time. Unanimously, the Federation's convention rejected several resolutions calling for a new political alignment—and instead, decided to keep its League for Political Education in harness. However, it was made clear that the league will engage in no ballyhoo and no lobbying. For the next 14 months, the political unit will confine itself to hard work, hard thinking, education and information. Its program, as framed by the league's national committee, will include such.unique features as film strips, recordings and occasional radio broadcasts to explain labor's position on legislative and political matters. It will also cooperate with other liberal groups. To finance this work, the convention went on record for a voluntary "assessment" on affiliates eequivalent to 10 cents per member for the entire 14-month period. Two unions — the Boilermakers and Teamsters — paid the "assessment" before the convention ended. However, in the election campaign of 1950, the league will again be financed by contributions from individuals. A. F. of L. counsel explained this procedure complies fully with the law.—"Labor". In Politics To Stay Labor learned many things in the recent political campaign and it is now in politics to stay, the "Labor World" of Duluth, Minn., points out. "The labor movement, the rank and file, has demonstrated that it is not only willing but able to get into the fight at the political level," the "Labor World" says and goes on to observe: "Labor union members who never knew what a caucus was because they were not interested, are now more versed in the ways of grass roots politics and parliamentary law than any of them ever dreamed. And they find it to their liking. "This is only the start of a rebirth and those in the rank and file of labor are in it to stay. It is a wholesome development .because these boys are interested in clean politics. But let it be said that if brass knuckles are used against them in politics, they are fully capable of retaliating in kind. And at the election booth they will say it with ballots." —Chicago "Federation News". Why Some of Us Criticize the Press The "Wall Street Journal" objects to a college professor's blistering criticism of the American press. It says that "despite the faults of vulgarity, sensationalism and trivality that certainly can be found in many American publications," America has the best and freest newspapers in the world and that government control, or ownership, of the press would not remedy existing evils. We agree with the "Journal". So far as we know, no one is advocating government ownership of newspapers. What some of us object to is the way that a handful of rich men domin ate American newspapers and practically tell the American people what they shall or shall not read. It's no answer to say that the British press is little better and that the Russian press is worse. What we need in America is a really free press- papers which will give the people all sides of all questions. We haven't anything like that today. How we are to get such a press remains a problem. It must be Aet and solved if we are to preserve the right kind of democracy in this country. ^-Chicago "Federation News". SEASON'S GREETINGS from SEABOARD SHEET METAL LTD.- Phone: PA. 2949 245 ALEXANDER VANCOUVER. B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS from SMITH SHEET METAL WORKS LTD. Phone: FA. 5422 523 WEST SEVENTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI ROOTS BROS. FURNACES AND SHEET METAL (0. Phone: FA. 7524 60 EAST BROADWAY VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS I H. & H. Sheet Metal Works Phone: PA. 4928 735 RICHARDS STREET VANCOUVER. B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS G0RRIE& SONS -SHEET METAL WORKS Phone: FR. 3626 5057 VICTORIA DRIVE VICTORIA. B. C. "I Belong To the Human Race" When Jfcn Masaryk, then Deputy Prime Minister of Czecho-Slovakia, visited the United States some years ago he had to go through the usual immigration procedure. He was required to fill out a usual form listing his name, birthplace, and other information. Jt la said of Mr. Masaryk that he i a very whimsical person and when he-came to the item "race", he gazed at it thoughtfully for a moment, and then wrote "Human". The immigration officer protested: "But Mr. Masaryk," he said; "you are from Czecho-slovakia: you should write 'Czecho-slovakian'.'' Jan Masaryk replied, "The Czecho- slovakiana aren't a race. They include!: Czechs, Slovaks and many other peoples. I am Czecho-slovakian by nationality, but I belong to the human race." Further protests being to no< avail, the officer took the matter up with his superiors, who, after much debate, decided to leave the entry as it was. So Jan Masaryk entered the United States as a member of the "human" race. The case worker at the welfare agency in a Virginia town was interviewing an applicant who asked.for aid for herself and her 13 children. "But I don't understand," the case worker said in surprise. "Ton say your husband deserted you ten years ago, yet eight of your children are under ten years of age!" "Oh, 1 can explain that, yes, ma'am," said the applicant beaming. "You see he come back now and then to apologize." Thompson 8C Company Warm Air Haattae Oe-.r.l Shut M.UI Wort Furnace, and lUpaJra Oa Mala St, Vancouver. B.C. _*_*»&_0&»3-ftti^^ Season's Greetings! C. W. GRAFTON SHEET METAL Phone: FA. 0971 790 East 14th Ave. Vancouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS from HENRY SHEET METAL WORKS Phone: BAyview lttt e ' 1455 WBST THIRTEENTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS from Carter Sheet Metal Phone: FA. 0953 1129 KINGSWAY VANCOUVER, B. C Concrete Drain Tile Chimney Blocks Chimney Pots Foundation Piers Masonry Units Flag Stottet Slabs, Etc Season's Greetings! De Cew Lumber Co. Ltd. Phone: PA. 7457 850 WEST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Christmas Greetings! FRED WELSH & SON PLUMBING and HEATING 733 BEATTY STREET Phone: TAtlow 1261 SEASONS GREETINGS! Martin Corporation Ltd. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Phone: MA. 4311 601 HOWE STREET VANCOUVER. B. C SEASON'S GREETINGS! Reliable House-movers Phone: FA. 4211 2161 Eart Twenty-Eighth Avenue Vancouver, B.C. „__.„__. Telep^a»Adfk:1823,. „..-... , WILLIAMS CONCRETE CO. H. S. Williams, Manager e Manufacturers of Concrete Products 1401 Main St. (Opp. C_V___. Station) THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Twenty-one Wife (at bathroom door)—"Dinner's on the table, John. Hurry and finish yonr bath." Husband —."Coming, dearl Just one more Stanza and I'm through.*' Mary, aged five, was facing a minor surgical operation, and mother told her: "Be a brave little girl, and mama will get you a nice kitten." Mother was sitting close by when Mary came out of the ether. She leaned forward to catch the yoang- ster's first words. The child opened her eyes, grimaced weakly, and muttered, "What a bum way to get a cat!" Building Trades Council Activities By H. W. WATTS With the year drawing to a close, back on the record building and construction program that got under wjiy during the year. Building permits for the whole of B. C. will have neared the eighty million mark by the end of the year, with the Greater Vancouver district breaking records and topping other American coast cities. A majority of our trades report trade good, in spite of the weather and the season, and the steady influx of tradesmen from other parts of Canada and overseas. There is no indication of any large number of unempolyed facing the various trades. 1949 promises to be an even greater year for the building and construction trades in British Columbia, than was 1948. There is a tremendous amount of work in sight,' and with the stabilization of wages generally, this could reach tremendous proportions if material shortages were bettered and material costs reduced. A complaint about scaffolding was recently taken up with the Safety Inspector of the Workmen's Compensation Board. The change suggested would have involved danger to other trades following on the scaffold, so, of course, could not be accepted. Workmen are reminded that irrespective of who built the scaffold, or who made changes in the scaffold, the employer whose men are working on the scaffold is held responsible for the safe condition of that scaffold while his men are working on it. Workmen should take time off to fix the scaffold or notify the employer of its unsafe condition. No worker should take a risk, or allow other workers to take a risk on an unsafe scaffold. Remember the employer is responsible. * ♦ « Local No. 170, Pipefitting Trades, had a 'Sold Out" sign up at their big Fiftieth Anniversary Banquet and Dance/ held ht the Commodore, Friday, December 17th. Tickets were all sold long before the day of the event. . '.veryliQily hud » reul ■hangup' time. 'The International President was on hand, as well as General Organizer Jack Bruce. * • * Electrical Workers' Union, No. 213, has negotiated a new agreement with the Neon Products of Western Canada, calling for a wage increase of 15c per hour to the end of the year and 18c starting with the first of the new year. « ♦ • Lathers and Glass Workers are in conciliation at the time of going to press, with no indication of what might develop out of the negotiations. * * • Jsck Laurence, of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, has been sent to the prairie provinces to investigate the possibilities of an organizing drive there next year. * * ■ " • The Vancouver local of the Amalgamated Building Workers of Canada is now washed up, and the members are operating under a charter issued by the United Brotherhood of Car- ftenters and Joiners of America. This ocal will operate as a Shipwrights' Union and members going into the construction trade will be properly taken care of. Jack Evans carries on as Business Agent, and Malcolm Bruce as president of the new local, with headquarters in the Labor Headquarters. * * • MERRY CHRISTMAS . . . HAPPY NEW YEAR Bad Housing, Slums Make Dead End Kids Inadequate housing, which has been found in Britain to be the cause of much of the neglect and mistreatment to which children are subjected, has been a vital factor in Ottawa and elsewhere in Canada in normal upbringing of children, and the breaking up of homes, and the spread of juvenile delinquency. Apart from the humanitarian as- Sect, bad housing is bad business, uvenile delinquency and child neglect are a drain on the community s most important resource — human beings. To build more houses at today's prices and under the financial terms prevailing now would not solve the problem. Many families cannot pay the going costs of a house. Hence the doubling up, the overcrowding, the neglect of children and the constantly-growing docket of juvenile delinquency cases. The problem can only be solved if families of very modest means are assisted financially to obtain adequate accommodation. Toronto has taken one small step in this direction with Its recently announced slum-clearance project, a scheme that will provide housing for several hundred families who might not otherwise afford it But this step must be duplicated a thousandfold before it can have a really beneficial effect on the Canadian community. —Halifax "Citizen". Htrwood'§ is a rye whose popularity is based on ib rich, robuit flavour, mellow aroma and proven merit It b ihe symbol of appreciative hospitality to thouundi, and uy they, rightly so . .. £i*4%M&4t /fcWj^8*_fo^ This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. no more shuddering bettveen shivery sheets! ...an electric blanket pre-warms your bed! If you are one of those people who like to keep their bedrooms cool, it still needn't be a courageous venture clambering between icy sheets. One electric blanket will warm up your bed before you get into it ... will keep you cosy all nightlong at exactly die temperature you find most comfortable no matter how much the house cools off during the night. * You'll enjoy comfortable, restful sleep every night with an electric blanket. See Electric Blankets at Your Dealers * . " B.C. ELECTRIC £••3 Page Twenty-two SEASONS GREETINGSI •i Biltmore Construction N. M. Neilson, President — P. E. I.. Moase, Director ; , f--":;'";V ■ **"" Phone: KE. 3967 .THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 18th and Rupert, Vancouver, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGSI Baynes Manning Ltd. CONTRACTORS Phones: MA. 7828-MA. 7840 T ^-—=J^|8h—-$- %} 1010 Seymour Street Vancouver, B.C. m SEASON'S GREETINGSI Highway Construction Co. Ltd. Phone: MA. 4271 789 West Pender Street Vancouver, B. C. Technological Development fey JACK HENDERSON (A digest of an article published in the "Canadian Legion Poppy Day Year Book") ___ —_____ . For over sixty centuries of recorded history the number of man hours required to do a job had varied very little; except for the lever, wheel, sail, and a few primtive pumping machine, the human machine was paramount, and although the law of nature is eternal motion and constant evolution, "Homo the Sap" has invariably been opposed to change. Some of tbe most notable attempts to prevent "Technological Development" are briefly reviewed here as an indication of ,the resistance to change in human affairs. When the steam engine was first introduced into a cotton-mill to drive the machinery in 1785 opposition flared up and in 1793 "respectable residents" at Bradford, England, protested successfully against the use of the steam engine in worsted mills as a "smoky nuisance" by threatening legal proceedings. The foregoing incidents record the first protests against what we today term "Technological Development . Protests by manufacturers at innovations have also been made. When rayon was first placed on the market a committee appointed by silk manufacturers to study its possibilities declared it a transient fad. They were proven to be mistaken in their judg- Columbia Bitulithic Limited PAVING AND GENERAL CONTRACTORS IWARRENITE-BITULITHIC PAVEMENT , ROADS — STREETS — AIRPORTS Granville Island, Vancouver, B. C. COMPLIMENTS OF JACK HENDERSON Writer of the above article, Bro. Hender.on ia a member of the Inter ment and large sums were spent by!national Union of Operating Engin- them in advertising to discredit this eer», smd delegate to the Vancouver, new product. ... 'New W_»tmin.t_r and District Tndes Season's Greetings! Louis Yellowlees BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: BA. 4771 4262 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! Deeks, McBride Ltd. BUILDING MATERIALS Phone: TA. 2521 1051 MAIN (STREET ^VANCOUVER, B.C. Perhaps the greatest contributor to world development has been transportation and it is interesting to note the resistance to the developing of the various means of transportation at our disposal today. Resistance to use use of carriages manifested itself in the thirteenth century. Philip the Fair ordered the wives of ctizens not to ride in carriages, in order to reserve the prerogatives of the idies of the court. Coaches were not widely used in England until the time of Queen Elizabeth, who rode only reluctantly in this effeminate conveyance which young men scorned. Many impediments were placed in the way of stage coaches in all countries. Roads were kept in bad repair lest business be diverted elsewhere. Excessive taxes were imposed on horses, repairs and stoppages. Tolls und passport requirements were onerous, and travel by stagecoach was discouraged long after they were well equipped for travellers. The same resistance was evinced towards the development of the railroad. In England this resistance came largely from the landlord class which with its feudal privileges arrayed itself against the industrialist . . . Marine transportation by steam and Labor Council, and School Trustee in the City of Vancoaver, to which position he was re-elected on Doc. 8. Marwell Construction V" Co. Ltd. GENERAL CONTRACTORS 410 SEYMOUR STREET Telephone: MArine 2311 Season's. Greetings! C. J. OLIVER BUILDING CONTRACTOR Ph« one: MA. 4457 660 HOWE STREET VANCOUVER. B.C. Season's Greetings! Thor. M. Peterson Ltd. CONTRACTORS VANCOUVER. B.C. Season's Greetings! James Builders Ltd. Phone: FR. 6351 5804 FRASER AVENUE i! VANCOUVER. B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS ABBOTSFORD WOOD AND COAL CO. (1943) LTD. Telephone: HAstings 4980 VANCOUVER, B. C. 2830 ETON STREET f'i -pulsion also met strong opposition, n 1804 a bill was introduced in the House of Commons at the instance of the British Admiralty against the introduction of Steam Power in the British Navy, and it was not until 1833 that Britain built her first steam driven warship. Mr. H. G. Wells, the man who wrote "The Shaps of things to Come" said of the submarine: "I must confess that my imagination, in spite even of spurring, refuses to see any sort of .submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea." Yet the submarine reached such a stage in its development that it came near changing the outcome of both world wars. The development of the airplane was met with a like attitude. In 1871 the New York Times proclaimed editorially that there was "abundant precedent in the supposition that the I laws of gravity will always prove too j much in the aerial field, for the ambitious dexterity of man." . . . Many other instances of protest against innovations in other fields could be presented but space does not permit, suffice to say tbe opposition has always proved to be in error. . . . In passing from this brief review of men's reaction to technological innovations some observations on the opposition to the diffusing and perpetuation of knowledge may interest the reader. In the early societies Priestly classes resisted the recording of tradition in writing, and the extension of literacy has had many opponents. The ruling classes have frequently opposed it ss tending to .fer-' ment discontent among their subjects- The first printed books were crude and inartistic, and their possibilities as an agency in the dissemination of knowledge was not realized at that time. As this realization came about drastic governmental restrictions which were frequently initiated by church authorities, were put into force and printing was controlled or hedged in so to speak. For instance, Leipzig printers were forbidden to print Protestant literature for almost two decades, and the Koran was never printed in any Islamic country until comparatively recent yeara. . . . Since this paper is being ran out on the typewriter by one of the Legion stenographers it is interesting to note that in 1881 when the New York Y.W.C.A. announced typing lessons for women, vigorous protests were made on the grounds that the female constitution would break down completely tinder the strenuous six months course offered. Two world wars have completely dispelled the ideas which previously prevailed about the female constitution, and, another fallacy has been disproved, about the weaker sex. Time Marches On, in spite of all the opposing forces. Today, the stage coach has been superseded by supply every imaginable convenience and which operate regularly on Schedule under practically all weather conditions. Gigantic locomotives haul the world's produce in mile long trains at speeds far in excess of that which was considered feasible when the locomotive was first introduced. Millions of automobiles, a large percentage of which are driven by the "weaker sex", clutter our highways and create parking problems for our city fathers. Motor Trucks compete for business with other transportation systems. Farms are equipped with tractors and many other machines powered with internal combustion engines. Koad making machinery of startling power and efficiency has been developed since the advent of the Diesel and Gasoline engines. The old wind-jammers were displaced by the paddle wheel steamships, which in turn were superseded by the screw propellor. steam-ships, antf which later developed-into tne ocean giants like the Queen Elizabeth. Huge hydro electric power pla-ts and Steam Turbine plants have been developed so that electrical power is available for the operation of thousands of manufacturing industries of all kinds. Millions of homes are equipped with electrical gadgets for the convenience of the home. The motien picture and the radio are common-place. Automatic tools operated by electric power, or compressed air, are in common use everywhere. The electric welding and cutting torches are in general use and so Technological Progress is in evidence all around us and it goes on increasingly. Its impact on human affairs was never more in evidence than in our wartime endeavours. With practically, a million of our young men and women inducted into the armed services, Canada was yet enabled to supply the nations needs, with the older workers and crocks. In addition to our home needs, we were able to clothe, feed and equip these million young people who were out of the production field, and at the same time we shipped millions of dollars worth of fooid and millions of'dollars worth of machines and accoutrements of war to Britain and our allies. This would have been impossible had we not been equipped with modern machinery to do the job, and used our man and woman power to its limit Here again the frailty of the female of the species was disproved. In .July 1943 the late President Roosevelt announced that sixteen million women were at work in the United States, of whom over two million were employed directly on munitions. This was symtomatic of the part women played in all countries, and of their ability to operate the machines ii8ed.in<#__uui_*«Uri_g processes. And now where do we go from here? In 1929 the British Technical Journal "The Engineer" said editorially: "The capacity for world pro duction of commodities has not near ly reached its limit. The processes too today are several times as rapid as those of the past The future, if unhindered, will see our present state of production multiplied and at the same time it will witness the industrialization of many nations which are agricultural or indefinite. Not the finest selling organization in the world can prevent the rate of production exceeding the rate of consumption, and we shall be forced to reduce the hours of labour in order to give employment" In a magazine article Winston Churchill expressed the following opinion: "The great mass of human beings absorbed in' the toils, cares and activities of life are only dimly conscious of the pace at which man has begun to travel. Science is the cause; the past no longer enables,us, even dimly, to i_.->_u__ . i_*'■■_»Wf_i there is no doubt that this evolution will continue at an Increasing rate. ~fe know enough to be sure that the ientific achievements of the next fifty years will "be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising than those _. SEASON'S GREETINGSI „__. Midland Construction Co. Phone: KE. 5771 3893 West Thirty-Ninth Avenue Vancouver, B. C. iff _&$»$l£Sd^^ CHRISTMAS GREETINGSI The J. H. McRae Co. Ltd. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Equipment — Motor Repairs — Service^ ( 2219 CAMBIE STREET Phone: FAirmont 4118 J- Season's Greetings! Chas. E. Longley Co. Ltd. COMPLETE ELECTRICAL SERVICE Phonei: TAtlow 2241-2-3 1319 SEYMOUR STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! "• Kennett Construction _ Phonos: BA. 7088 — BA. 6229 1630 WEST FIFTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. high speed air-conditioned Bus Rer vice which everyone takes for grant-11** h«ve already experienced." The ed. Railroad service of a high order [above quotations have been amply has been instituted in which Diesel, | justified, tK* productive effort during Steam and Electric locomotives of im-1 th* war proved "The Engineer" cor- mense power haul palatial trains of, rect The' Electric Eye, Radar, the air conditioned Pullman cars which I (Continued on Page 23) Season's Greetings! James Milliken & Son CEMENT CONTRACTOR Phona: N. W. 747-M3 _ 2421 CARIBOO ROAD, NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS from CAMPBELL & GRILL LTD. Established 1905 ' INDUSTRIAL SHEET METAL Phono: FA. 2920 124 W«t Sixth Ava., Vancouver, B. C.' COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON from • • WALLACE NEON LTD. Phona: HA. 4178 717 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. December,. 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Tv. enty-three SEASON'S GREETINGS! Bogardus-Wickeiis Ltd. Phones: MA. 3248-3249 1000 Homer Street Vancouver, B. C. c l» Save the Surface and You Save AH The Best Paint Possible to Make MARTIN-SENOUR 100 PER CENT PURE PAINT Made in Vancouver ' SEASON'S GREETINGS! Alta Lakri Lumber Co. (1945) Ltd. Phone: MA. 8725 207 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! Bell-Craft Fixtures Phone: BA. 8964 1650 WEST FIRST AVENUE VANCOUVER, B. C. COMPLIMENTS OF Auld & Ottewell Ltd. CONTRACTORS Phone: DE. 3797 FIFTEENTH AND BOUNDARY, VANCOUVER, B.C. 'Season's Greetings! Kaiser & Kampferer Ltd. CONTRACTORS Phone: DE. 4031 CARIBOO AND TWENTYJSECOND, VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! Stucco Supply Co. ' • Phone: FA: 7363 290 EAST SIXTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C." SEASON'S GREETINGS from THOMPSON & CO. SHEET METAL LTD. fuf&ace Specialists — Air Conditioning Automatic Heating Phone: FA. 5773 2725 Main Street, Vancouver. B. C, COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON from , LELAND MANUFACTURING C0.1TD. Phone: HA. 4917 550 UNION STREET (REAR) VANCOUVER, B. C. TECHNOLOGY (Continued from Page. 22) Jet plane, and the atom bomb I submit, prove Mr. Churchill's prognostications to be valid. In an article titled, "Battle of the Giants" one finds the following: "Already on two of the main shipping routes between the U.S.A. snd Honolulu and between the U.S.A. and Australia more people fly than go by ship. Last year Air Lines carried 58,000 passengers between Honolulu anad U.S.A. compared with 8,000 who went by sea. This year (1948) the difference will be even more extreme for in the first quarter 15,000 passengers were carried by air and only 7,000 by sea. A survey of British Ship building yards reveals clearly the trend in building. Apparently there will be no more Queen Mary's or Elizabeth's, the accent is now on medium-tonnage ships with greater turn of speed, for at the present time there are 183 cargo ships building with a total tonnage of 1,277,903 tons. But there are not more than 85 passenger and passengar-cargo ships in the yards with a total tonnage of 751,043 tons. At the same time bigger, faster and more reliable air craft are continuing to come off the production lines. Next year Britain will have the giant 100 passenger Brabazon flying, and already the huge Saunders-Roe flying boats are coming out. And America has its Navy Lockheed Constitution, which carries 180 passengers. ■ With the great strides being made in gas turbine design and construction, airline costs will be reduced and schedules speeded up. Certainly the next few years will see intensive competition between ship and aeroplane. Both sides will be all out to win the battle. But the scales are "heavily weighted on the side of the air. Sir Harold Hartley, Chairman of the British Overseas recently said: "Airways, has four main advantages over shipping — Speed, frequency, flexibility and convenience." The road that man has travelled, and the place that he has reached, opens the door to unlimited possibilities for the betterment of mankind on the one hand, or a return to barbarism on the other. A noted scientist haa said that: "It is just as illogical to associate the developments in the field of Nuclear Energy with the Atomic Bomb, as it would be to associate the developments in the field of Electricity with the electric chair." The technological and scientific developments at man's disposal make war a grisly and costly business. It has been computed that in the time of Julius Caesar it cost about 75 cents to kill an enemy soldier. Napoleon raised the cost to $3,000, and it was estimated that in the 1914-18 War it cost $20,000. Up to, and including demobilization, the 1914-18 war cost Canada, one billion six hundred and ninety-six million dollars. The war of 1939-45 cost her around seventeen billion dollars. The total cost of World War One to all the na tions who engaged in it was estimat-tf at Four hundred Billion dollars.. The war of 1939-45 cost the U.S.A. alone some three hundred fifty billion dollars. The total cost to all the nations who engaged in the last war makes the cost of the 1914-18 war almost insignificant by comparison.1 The cost in the loss of young men is beyond our power to compute. A war fought with Battleships, aeroplane-carriers, tanks, bomber planes, and an Army on wheels, is a vastly different matter, than one that was fought with chariots and spears. Each war becomes 'more costly and more destructive with the use of modern machines and techniques. Surely it is time that men.learned the art of living together in Peace and. Goodwill. Scientists are unanimous that there is no defence against the Atom Bomb, and its effect is devastating. Hiroshima is evidence of that, and such an experience should stir men everywhere into action so.that man's achievements in the fields of science and technology should be used to the end that a better and more abundant life would be the lot of mankind everywhere on this earth. Neither the printed word, nor the spoken word, should be used in frivolous and losse talk about war. Let us rather come to a proper realization of the fact that "War is Hell" — that blood, sweat, toil and tears are its penalties, and that none can fortell its ultimate consequences. Let us look out on the world we live in objectively and set all the forces at our command to make war on disease, poverty and ignorance. Industrial Safety .,' (By P. Dj, Mc-alliim) Strikes-are minor man-day losses in industry ,as compared with man days lost yearly through accidents. About 20,000 people yearly, are accidently killed at their work on this continent., Thirty million man dsys are lost yearly dye to injuries received' on the job. This wastage is terrific but fails to get the wide spread publicity of the few million man days lost by strikes. "The four main industries-showing the highest injury rates are logging, lumbering, heavy construction and mining. The bigger firms are inclined to give careful technical consideration to safety, while small firms and farming often neglect to practice the gospel of safety to the full. The onward, march of mechanization has gradually produced workmen's compensation laws and made memories of such defences as "contributory negligence", "fellow servant rule", and "assumption of risk". In general such laws provide compensation, medical care, benefits and readjustment. The study and practice of safety has given good returns to both employer and worker. The indirect loss in accidents is generally figured as $4 to $1 and more safety mean- actual dollar savings to all around. It is a case of slow education but in 35 years the National Safety Council has made a really noticable impression — the general public becoming increasingly safety minded. With all the compensation laws a careless worker still loses both time, prestige and money. The preventionists however must keep on keeping on. They continue in mines, mills, plants and camps to spread the story of accident dangers whether from personal, mechanical or material faults. There is no substitute for the executive leadership called personal interest. No safety plan yet devised has the momentum to give it perpetual motion. It cannot move in some mysterious way its wonders to perform. Any safety plan needs con. stant attention. __.._.._____X___ Compliments of the Season! PITKETHLY BROS. SAND GRAVEL BRICK PLASTER and BUILDERS' SUPPLIES 8699 ANGUS DRIVE (Turn south off Marine) Phone: KErrisdale 1841 Night, FRaser 1520 "TRUE MIX" CONCRETE SAND GRAVEL CEMENT BUILDERS' SUPPLIES m COAL DIETHERS LTD. _ Phone: MA. 6231 Granville Island, Vancouver, B.C. .Accidents In the News —Mangled left hand yesterday when it was caught in the machinery of a punch press at his plant —Amputated the right hand after it was crushed in a huge pressing machine. —Seriously injured when.a power saw ripped into his leg. — Suffered the amputation of three fingers of his right hand at ? ? ? hospital after his hand became caught in a press, —Tip of the fingers of his right hand clipped off while at work operating a machine in the mill. —Suffered the loss of one finger and lacerations to the other when she caught her right hand in a press. —Lost his right thumb when it caught in a machine. SEASON'S GREETINGS!-^ Hastings Construction Co. Ltd. Phone: HA. 3159 2542 Garden Drive Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings from Modern Store Interiors This Job Search Business "Father is pleased that you are a poet," said she to her new heart interest "I'm glad," retorted the boy friend. "Is he a lover of poetry?" ."No," confessed the sweet young thing, "but my last boy friend he tried to throw out was a wrestler." In a downtown store the other night, an eager young salesgirl was telling a stout matron about a special on a sachet. "Just what is a sachet?" the stout lady wanted to know. ''Why," said the girl, "It's a little bag of perfumed powder to keep in your drawers to make them smell nice." "Well," said the stout matron, "I guess it's all right, but I should think it's be awfully uncomfortable." Landlady: "You've been here two years and never complained. Why are you leaving now?' Boarder: "I just found ain't (tot no bathtub/' out you Sweet Adeline is the bottle hymn of the republic. A hiccough is a message from de- parted spirits. Indians scalped men skin friends. (By D. P. McCallum) . The day of plentiful jobs is fast dissappearing in your work area. How do YOU try to sell your abilities today? Industry is taking in the slack and First Aid Attendants are being trained by the dozen and by the score through such agencies as St. John, by your own association as well as by State Funds through vocational training channels. State Funds come from taxes on all the people. Very soon the labor market can be flooded which is generally regarded as a pleasing condition for the employers. In the early future it is going to be a case of filling in forms of application and ,just waiting. Then may follow an interview to cover attitude and answer oral questions. Incident- ly, if your application has not been nicely, carefully and correctly filled put and your general set-up at the interview showed you in a poor light, then you have two strikes against you. Thorough training, experience and poise can give you the self-assurance you will be needing one of these days in the coming competitive field. The personnel man knows what he wants. Many a worker has gotten a job because of his hobbies or other interests. Then, too, there will be the matter of references. The actual interview will probably be short so look your best, speak up, be courteous, do not linger and If you forgot something why they sometimes ap- Sreciate 'a phone call at the employ- lg office. Over 6,000 men and women have been trained in Industrial First Aid in B.C. the past seventeen years. About one-third are still in First Aid work. The others have largely found much better pay and working conditions in lines and activities opened to them through contacts made in first aid work. . Phone: FA. 8515 195 EASfTWENtY-SIXTH AVE., VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! Buzzelle Construction Co. CONTRACTORS Phone: BA. 20S3 1240 WEST BROADWAY VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! A. R. Grimwood Ltd. CONTRACTOR Phone: DE. 1334-T 3770 VICTORY VANCOUVER, B.C. enemies; white' d np to his room wife called out The dpjnk sneaked u late one night His wil '•'Is that you, John?" He replied, "Itisecond with 87,451 had better be." J —Canadian Ubour Reports. Union Membership Stands At All-time High Ottawa (CLR) — Membership in trade unions in Canada at the close of 1947 amounted to 912,124 or three times what it waB in 1936. This near million trade union membership was divided into four groups: The Trades and Labour Congress of Canada having 403,003 members; the Canadian Congress of Labour, 329,- 058; the Catholic Confederation of Labour, 91,026; and the Railway Brotherhoods, 39,627? The largest groups of unionists considered by trades and industries were the metal industries having 181,491; the steam railways with 138,039; services with 110,737: wood and wood-products with 77,806; construction with 71,629; transportation other than railways, with 59,536; clothing and footwear with 54,769; mining with 49,036; textiles with 44,811; foods with 39,851; snd printing and publishing with 17,831. By provinces, Ontario ranked first with 286,981; theh Quebec with 210,260; and British Columbia with 115,230: but among the cities, Montreal stood first with 106,937; and Toronto, $-H--__r£_-_-^ • Season's Greetings! W. Gillespie CEMENT CONTRACTOR • t . Phone: CE 6514 1069 WEST THIRTY-SECOND AVE, VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! Hughes & Priestley CABINET MAKERS Phone: FA. 8288 \ 625 East Sixteenth Avenue tt prater Vencouver, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS J. E. ATKINS - GENERAL CONTRACTOR Telephone: KErri.d.le 3S74-M 1250 WEST-40th, AVENUE VANCOUVER. B. C. . Page Twenty-four THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 Season's Greetings! Geo. Montgomery LTD. PLASTERING CONTRACTORS Phone: KE. 1403 VANCOUVER, B. C. John Brace Still * Active For Pipefitters INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE BILL JAMES Wishes the Officers and Members of the British Columbia Locals of the Building Laborers, Plasterers Helpers and Cement Finishers Union and all other Members of Organized Labor A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR IUZM0D CREAMERY, LIMITED 441 KEEFER STREET E. G. WELLER, Manager Phone: HAstings 1777 VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings- Foster & Thompson M, U oL-s ..- PLASTERING CONTRACTORS - ~- Clyde D. Foster 2780 East Forty-fourth Ave. W. Thompson Phone: DE. 3595-L 2585 Blenheim Season's Greetings. G. H.Anderson & Sons BRICKLAYING CONTRACTORS Phone: Richmond 1486 702 No. 3 Road Richmond, B. C. Season's Greetings to Organized Labor IDEAL CONCRETE CO. LTD. Phones: PA. 5013 • TA. 3913 1134 BARCLAY STREET ' VANCOUVER, B. C. !____> •__-___.•« SEASONS GREETINGSI MARSHALL-WELLS (B.C.) LTD. Phone: PA. 8211 - 573 CARRALL STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Canada Chain and Forge Co, Ltd. Manufacturers of All Kinds of FIRE WELD CHAIN, STUD ANCHOR, CONVEYOR, LOG HAUL BOOM CHAINS, DREDGE AND CRANE, COMMON, BB and BBB Established over Twenty Years in Vancoaver Phone: MArine 5426 Granville Island, Vancouver, B. C. ."> Season's Greetings! BLUE SEAL PLUMBING AND HEATING Phona: PA 9736 . 319 Main Street (Rear) Vancouver, B.C John W. Bruce, General Organizer in Canada for the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry, is in British Columbia, assisting in organization work. He covers the whole of Canada in his job and is one of the best known labor organizers in the country,, well respected by the membership 'and also by the employers whom he comes in contact with. An Australian , John got into the plumbing qnd pipefitting tra3e in 1893. He was born in Australia and servejLJj-S__lvj- years of apprenticeship in that country, starting in 1893. In 1902 he went to South Africa and worked there until 1906. In 1906 he came to Canada and put his traveller into Local 46 ' of Toronto. Because of his active interest in the union he was soon elected to office and became the local treasurer. I Industrial and Political In 1907 his union became involved in a strike for higher wsges and this lasted a year. Brother Bruce took an active part in the strike and he became prominent in the industrial and political struggles of the workers. In 1908 he ran as a Labor-Socialist candidate in Toronto and has taken an active interest in the political labor movement ever since. In 1908 he was elected president of the Toronto Building Trades Council, holding office until 1910, when he. relinquished the job in order to carry on the work of General Organizer to which he had been elected. Workmen'i Compensation He took an active interest in Workmen-NCompensation and helped draw up andNlaunch workmen's compensation in Ontario in 1909. He was a delegate td\the first A. F. of L. convention held irkCanada in 1909, having been elected Trom the Trades and Labor Council. \; A Fraternal Del-gate • In 1915. "he went as th'ex"F-at_rnal Delegate from the Trades arid Labor Congress convention to the American Federation of Labor conventron_ield in Rochester, N. Y. \, He was also Fraternal Delegate from the Congress t6 the British Trades Union Congress convention in 1922, and was also a Canadian delegate to the International Labor Office convention held in Geneva, Switzerland in 19.2, and again to the meeting held in New York in 1941, Oldest Elected Officer Having taken up the trade in 1893, and becoming a General Organizer in 1910, Brother John Bruce finds himself to be the oldest elected International Officer for his union in the United States and Canada. He has served under four International presidents, and has travelled widely and worked exhaustively for the movement- Although getting well on in years. Brother Bruce is so interested in his work that he does not have time to think about quitting, so while he is in British Columbia at present, he will soon be on his way to other parts of Canada to carry or. the work of his ever-growing organization. ' SEASON'S GREETINGS I IRVINE & REEVES PLUMBING AND HEATING * ;. • Phone: FR. 6210 S927 Fraser, Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! W. G. DAVIES PLUMBING AND HEATING INSTALLATIONS Phone: HA. 0861 . ' " 1943 Commercial Drive Vancouver, B.C. Christmas Greetings! SKINNER-ATKINS LTD. Wholesale Plumbing, Heating and Marine Supplies Heating Systems Engineered G. C. SKINNER, Sales Phones: MA. 4154 ,- KE. 0883-L 1233 Hornby St., Vancouver Christinas Greetings! GENERAL PLUMBING AND HEATING (0. LTD, REGISTERED PLUMBERS SHEET METAL WORK AND ALL TYPES OF HEATING NEW INSTALLATIONS AND REPAIRS Phone: HAstings 2353 1248 East Hastings St., Vancouver Season's Greetings! WELDCO COMPANY WELDING REPAIRS AND MACHINING Phone: FAirmont 7166 Phone: FAirmont 5460 '-% 116'EAST SECOND AVENUE; VANCOOVER, B. C. .•■■-__.- More Jew Phobia "The Social Creditor", October 23, 1948: "It is not necessary to go outside our own unfortunate country to observe the insulting travesty offered for public consumption by the party political system, but the evidence of its internationalism is reinforced by the antics of Messrs. Truman and Dewey in the . . . States. Everyone knows that Mr. Dewey is a Jewish nominee; he was forced on the Republican Party with a cool disregard of electoral sentiment. To assure the Democratic "Party that he is shopping with the right firm, Mr. Truman announces that he will support the New Deal ("Jew Steal") policy of the late President Roosevelt That is as much as to say that the Presidential Election in November, like the Lord Mayor's Show, is a celebration, not a choice. The President has already been elected although his name has not been decided; he will be a Jew." There is nothing that God has judged good for us that he haa not given us the means to accomplish. —Edmund Burke. Total corporate profits before taxes rose from an average of $5.4 billion in the prewar period of 1936-39 to an annual rate of $33.4 billion in the second quarter of 1948, according to U.S. Commerce Dept. estimates. That means a profit increase of 518 per eent. At a recent House-Senate labor sub-committee .hearing in Dayton, Ohio. Representative Clare Hoffman, anti-labor Republican from Michigan, said: "We passed the Taft-Hartley law at the insistence of business and industry." Season's Greetings! DUGALD McGEACHY PLUMBING and HEATING Phone: HA. 2158 1915 COMMERCIAL DRIVE VANCOUVER, B. C. ___ Season's Greetings! ||; Reed Plumbing Supply Co.j Phone: MA. 3027 630 MAIN STREET • \ VANCOUVER. B. C. |i-ft-Ptift!--3i-rl!-_^^ COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON ABC CONCRETE AND DRAINAGE tO. * Phona: GL 1377 • VANCOUVER, B. C. Hardwood Milling Co. Ltd. OAK FLOORING AND SUPPLIES MOULDINGS, ETC. Phone: HAitingi 2851 225 SALSBURY DRIVE. VANCOUVER *&*m**m*mtm%mi^^ Christmas Greetings! ALEX. GAIR SHOW CASE AND CABINET MAKER STORE AND RESTAURANT FITTING A SPECIALTY DESIGNING - DRAFTING 955 HASTINOS STREET WEST Phone: HA.tlng. ISM If you failed to vote, don't moan if you don't like the results of the election. Kick yourself, instead! PARAGON WOODWORKS LTD. MANUPACTURDIS Of Store and Office Fixtures — Store Fronts — Cold Storage Doors Refrigerator Display Casei — Reach-in Coolers' . , Walk-in Coolers 425 WEST FIFTH AVENUE Phone: FAirmont 7361 ' V ' I'-- December, 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Twenty-five — Until the Soutnam Company Negotiate and Open the Door... Why Read The Province? The Daily Province is the only newspaper in British Columbia produced behind a picket Jiae_,_ Vancouver Typographical Union No. 226 REAL ESTATE - RENTALS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CEPERLEYROUNSEFELIACO PACIFIC 3521 E-TAB.I886 846 W-HASTINGS MArine 1959 tr. nil tool, Ontl.ry, Looking B.TleM. B..t Quality Sw.di.h EDDIE'S LOCKSMITH and GRINDERS B!p una Oro..ont 313 Main St. (Near Hastings) , SERVICE * A.j. aat la 1 inlnntt, Lock. -Ul)_Jr._ by Bon_.il took- ■mlthi, Tool* and Cntl.ry ._ 8h_rp.n.(l, _ . Saw. Sh.rp.tl_S by na "ont" battar SAWDUST! THE MODERN ECONOMICAL FUEL FOR ALL PURPOSES RETAIL and WHOLESALE — Phone: MArine 1311 Robertson 8C Hackett Sawmill Co. Ltd. 1550 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C. HOTELABBOTSFORD Tourists' Home — Fully Licensed (.apt. E. T. McLennan, Manager 921 WEST PENDER STREET VANCOUVER. B. C. Season's Greetings! FRASER TRANSFER LTD. Phone: PA. 9920 940 RICHARDS STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. EAST END LUMBER AND SUPPLY CO. LTD. HARDWARE AND BUILDERS' SUPPLIES "EVERYTHING FOR THE BUILDER" Phonei HAitingi 0999 1245 East Haitingi St., Vancouver taott&ai-tird^^ Compliment! of Phone: PAcific 8374 HOTEL WEST F. R. MARCHESS, Manager Tke Hotel with over 100 Rooms, every one outside, with Hot and , . Cold Water and Telephone — Very Moderate Rates. 444 CARRALL STREET , VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI AIM Fofge Division Ltd. AIM Steel Products Division Ltd. Phone: HA. 4401 882 Eait Cordova St., Vencouver, B. C Business Leader Urges Industrialists To Work for > .*< New Social Legislation New York.—Eric Johnston, former U.S. Chamber of Commerce president, and head of the Motion Picture Association of America, nrged American business leaders to cooperate in the passage of social legislation. Addressing members of tbe N.Y. State Chamber of Commerce, he told his andience that such action would help remove the threat of socialism in tbe United States. He told his audience the nation's business interests had opposed workmen's compensation, federal deposit insurance'and social security. "Now," Mr. Johnston declared, "we are face to face with a new Congress in which social legislation will occupy the predominant place. . "I urge American business men to recognize the economic facts of life. They no longer have th^ power It is in the hands of the worker, the farmer and the housewife." Mr. Johnston said socialism came to England because the choice in 1945 was between monopoly or cartel and socialism, and the voters, faced with "Hobson's choice," chose socialism. "I ask American business men," he continued, "to cooperate in social legislation to see that it is soundly conceived and administered, and in the process, to secure a top advisory position in the financial and fiscal affairs of our government which, in the final analysis, will be tremendously, important in the year to come." Mr. Johnston urged the nation's business leaders to turn their productive ' abilities into "means and methods of diffusing ownership and the benefits of capitalism among all of our people." "In this," he continued, "I am not talking about sharing the wealth. I am talking of the creation of more wealth to share. "I like our system. It is the best system in the world today, but there is constant room for improvement. It is a' continuing never-ending job, and business men must find some means of spreading ownership, diffusing the benefits of democratic capitalism, and when we do so, the threat of socialism in America will be further and further removed." Specifically, Mr. Johnston recommended more widespread ownership of homes and other tangible utility goods to give the worker a greater sense of participation and J>elonging in his industry ani'the American system. There Is No Such Animal By DEBUNKER The Great American Myth Perhaps the most devastating article on the myth of "free enterprise" to date appears in the November issue of Harper's Magazine by a freelance reporter, Nathan Robertson. Says he: "The United. States today is in a condition comparable to that of a man suffering from schizophrenia. A few innocent fancies are safe enough in quiet times, but in a crisis, either the patient gives up his delusions or society commits him to the firm hold of others. Our national fantasy, fateful in these edgy times, is our belief that we are living in a free enterprise system. Since the reality is quite the reverse, we are in no condition to make rational decisions. It is time ot get wise to ourselves. The old free enterprise system exists only in our nostalgic imagination and we have spent more than enough energy defending it. If we want to retain custody of our economic fate, the first step is to admit the facts." * » * Robertson backs up his strong words by pointing out that America has never really had a free enterprise system such as Adam Smith championed, a system in which there is no government interference, in which the natural laws of supply and demand rule, where the individual entrepreneur takes all the risks and as reward for bearing those risks takes all the law of supply and demand will permit as a prize. Even in the daya of slave trading there were government restrictions and interference about- treatment of "human cargo". By this time competition is eliminated from most fields of endeavor and has narrowed down practically to re tailing and farming. Trusts and cartels have eliminated competition arid risk. Prices are fixed in one way or another. The latest of these methods is the basing-point system Industry is now composed of big industrial units requiring millions of dollars for capitalization and operation. It takes, for instance, 10 million dollars to start a metropolitan newspaper. Steel and oil production or transportation are now billion dollar propositions. Competition in these basic industries is mostly a myth. * * * In addition, industry is now secured and protected by a multiplicity of government assistance and subsidies. Social security programs and price guarantees diffuse purchasing power to the tune of billions of dollars, thus assuring purchasing power and markets. International commitments ond armament programs provide additional sure markets and guaranteed prices. Big business now is a cinch compared with the early days when fluctuations of the law of supply and demand existed. Like competition, risk is largely eliminated. The enormous profits that monopolized industry is exacting from its operation, can now truly the called "unearned income". They have neither legal nor moral justification of reward for risk and competition. They are like highwayman's tribute exacted from unarmed trespassers. The average American who believes in the myth of "free enterprise" is like a victim of a hypnotist submitting to a treatment by economic royalists which he would never permit while in control of his wits. The poor fish! —"Manitoba Commonwealth". Wonders Never Cease; "You cannot shrug off the worker's urge for security. It-is the most basic concern of a human being." "We prosper individually only aa, and as long as, our fellowmen prosper." "Through co-operation — getting what we want by helping our neighbor to get what he wants—we build for each other and ourselves." « • . If one were told that a socialist guest speaker — let's say Norman Thomas V- had made such statements in an address to the Naitonal Association of Manufacturers, it would be more readily believable than if they were attributed to the president of the N.A.M. itself. But the plain fact of the matter is that Morris Sayre, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, actually did make these statements in the course of an address to 700 members of his association in Chicago, as reported by the Chris- Chicago, sa reported by the "Christian Science Monitor". According, to the "Monitor", Mr. Sayre also said, "That management cannot get ahead unless each individual employee has tm incentive to get ahead by helping management." Sayre asked the manufacturers what they were doing about guaranteed annual wage plana, about ways to stabilize employment in their Slants and communities, about keep- ig the doors of individual opportunity open in their shops, about fitting average workera and phsyically handicapped workers into suitable, productive Jobs. He said that if management will show the workers that the dollar is not its first and last concern, if it will demonstrate that it is as much concerned with the workers' health, safety and conditions of work as they are, if it will show that it wants them to get the highest wages that can be justified by the productivity, then "we don't need to worry about reds on our payrolls." Picture the situation: here are those 700 manufacturers, stout fellows every one of 'em, looking forward to Dewey's victory, and eager to be assured that only the "reds" harbored any doubts about the perfections of "competitive enterprise". Then they hear their own president speak aa reported above, and tell them—among other things—that the Un-American Activities Committee wouldn't be necessary "if some of ns in years past, maybe some of us here today, .had kept first principles first" In view of all this, we feel that the Kansas City "Co-operative Consum- Auto Hints Erratic Braking — Brakes that do not bring the car to a smooth straight stop from any speed should be classed as erratic. Any tendency for the car to swerve when the brakes are applied indicates an unbalanced condition which should be corrected without delay. » • • Not Intended—It's a sad fact that many careless-pedestrians are guilty of unintentional self-destruction. • • * Sagged Spring. — Constant flexing over rough roads or overloading the car will cause springs to sag and flatten out Sagged springs lose resiliency and usually cause a thumping noise due to the chassis' striking the axle housing when the car passes over rough roadway. • * * Mend Your Wan — Perhaps the old adage, "A stitch in time saves nine" should be revised for the automobile driver to say "A signal in time may save nine stitches". Msny traffic accidents are caused by failure of drivers to signal properly. • * * Rough D.toor—Roughest of all detours is that which leads the erring motorist to the emergency hospital. • e • Ignition Leak — Spark plugs im" f>roperly gapped or having cracked nsulators allow electrical current to leak away before reaching the combustion chamber of an automobile. • * • ' : . Save A Life—Under modern traffic conditions, it's the responsibility of every motorist and every pedestrian to be hi sown life guard. • a • Fouled Spark Plat* — Misfiring of an automobile engine due to fouled spark plugs is often caused by use of a poor grade of lubricating oil in the crankcase. Fouled spark plugs waste fuel and power. • " • • l-.p-ci.M Pay* — Frequent inspections of steering, lighting, ignition and other vital equipment of your care may forestall expensive repair bills. • • • Accelerate Slowly —I Slow, smooth acceleration and driving evenly saves gasoline and improves car performance. this extra-ordinary event under the headline: "SAYRE GIVES N.A.M. SHOCK OF ITS LIFE—New President of Manufacturers Amazes Own Crowd." And if Mr. Sayre gets a second was fully justified in reporting term as president, it will be more " than amazing. ii CARIBOU BRAND \** WHEN BUYING WORK CLOTHES ALWAYS LOOK FOR THIS BRANDl Shirts—Overalls—Coveralls—Bone-dry RepeUant Clothing Bannockburn Tweed Pants ' MAOC AND aUA.ANTIIO »Y ' _. GAULT BROTHERS LTD. vmon-MADt VANCOUVER. B. C HEADQUARTERS for . . . IMPORTED TOBACCOS, CIGARETTES, CIGARS, PIPES and SMOKERS' SUNDRIES Come and See Our Stock — Largest in Canada E. A. MORRIS LIMITED , sroxru stores 438 WIST HASTINOS BT. SOS OBANVILLE ST. 540 SEYMO__» ST. 1116 OOV-.___-.B-rS ST., VICTORIA CANADA PERMANENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION SAVI-TOS ACCOUNTS e DEBENT__.ES IsaUBD Established in lift W. J. BE1.2-, Manaa_r, Brtti-h Columbia Branch -lOSHBI STBEET PAolfl. SSS1 Union Label Good. THE BIG FAMILY STORE 1409 KINGSWAY Try ua for Value.—Eitabliahed in 1910 W. J. HEADS BOOT FACTORY LTD. Makers of the "HEADS SHOE" for Loggers, Miners, Cruisers, Surveyors, etc. Our Shoes are hand-made — You'll be satisfied 21 East Hastings Street Vancouver, B. C. INVERMAY HOTEL 828 WEST HASTINGS STREET, VANCOUVER, B. C. Always a Good Placei .... NOW BETTER THAN EVER I OLD __■!____>■, rut AAA NOTE: K. CAM. _.-._,_.. K. J. CAMPBELL and C. C. CAMPBELL, Proprl.tora Phone: FAirmont 6276 Stoneberg Bros. Plating Works Wt Specialise in Hard Chromium and Heavy Industr'iatf'lartrtg Chromt, Nicltle, Copper, Electro Tinning, Polishing,.tte. . . . 436 East 5th Ave., cor. Guelph and 5th Ave., Vancouver G. W. ROCHESTER 8C SON LTD. Automobile Commercial Bodiet and Repairs 1253 HOWE STREET MArine 0827 BERG CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. Contractors and Builders J. T. BWtO, Praaldant — Raaldanoa Phona: HA.tina. mi Room 10,441 Seymour St., Vancouver Phone: MA. 1559 77PCC NEW—USED—RECAPPING IJUU-O Bny th,-,, on ,„-, Budget Plan I Bourne & Humphrys Ltd. Cor. PACIFIC and HOWE Phone: PAcific 81M MUSIC AND DANCING EMBASSY BALLROOM 1014 Davie Street Modern Dancing every Night Joe Miceli and his Orchestra COMPLIMENTS OF COMMERCIAL HOTEL .ho-...- PAcific 0442 MA* •strode — John Car—Slaa V.li.cic Fully Ucmted NEWLY RENOVATED THROUGHOUT -. MODERN AND FIREPROOF 140 CAMIII STREET VANCOUVER, I.C. FOR REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE COVERING GREATER VANCOUVER ASK FOR J. FRANK LOONEY 1749 KINGSWAY ' Phone. FAinnont 4610 Night Phone: DExter (XS72-Y -. ■ Page Twenty-six THE LABOR STATESMAN December, 1948 We wish all our Customers and Friends a Merry Christinas and a Happy New Year Jack Storey Pie Co. Ltd. "Catering to Restaurants and Banquets" Phone: BA. 3340 ; 2195 Wett Fifth Avenue, Vencouver, B. C. Compliments of the Season Raleigh's Bakery (-.-':'•■•.': Phona; FR. 3911 5040 VICTORIA DRIVE, VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! BUCHAN'S BAKERY Phone: HA. 2154 2406 EAST HASTINGS STREET " VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! SHIRLEY'S BAKERY 6470 MAIN STREET Phone: FR. 1628 \ VANCOUVER. B.C. . , <_ Season's Greetings! V ROBSON'S BAKERY Phone: FA. 7251 753 EAST BROADWAY VANCOUVER, B.C. __. ________—______ -Season's Greetings! Real Dutch Bakery*— IT'S PUREI IT'S DIFFERENT! Phone: HA. 1283 6093 FRASER AVE. VANCOUVER, B. C. 1364 KINGSWAY Season's Greetings! THE COOKIE JAR Phone: KE. 0900 2143 WEST FORTY-FIRST AVENUE, VANCOUVER. B.C. THE MANAGEMENT OF THE Wonder Bakery Ltd. WISHES ALL OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS > A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEARI Phone: FR. 2232 7007 FRASER AVE., VANCOUVER Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! ROTARY BAKERY Phone: HA. 2671 2411 EAST HASTINGS STREET... VANCOUVER. B. C. THE MANAGEMENT QF THE National Bakery WISH ALL OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEARI Phone: HA. 2043 625 HAWKS AVE.. VANCOUVER fc**»ti-__-__tifc-M^^ SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR FROM THE MANAGEMENT OF De Luxe Bakery Phone: FA. 0362 655 EAST FIFTEENTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS AN'DRESEN'S BAKERY Telephone: FRa.er 3216 S7S3 VICTORIA DRIVE VANCOUVER. B. C. NAM. Explains - "Labor", Wiihinf ton November 13: "The National Association of Manufacturers, inveterate foe of unions, givo- this explanation of the election, in its 'Washington News Letter': " 'Mr. Truman was deserted in his campaign fight by al] but organized labor, and has obligations only to this group'." On The March William Mullin., in the Boaton "Herald": "The common question posed about the entire (U.S.) election was: What caused this outcome? A few months after the war's end they had an election in England and a Labor government was installed. Since that time the only conservative election in all the countries of the world was ours in 1946. Elsewhere labor governments and socialist regimes have been established. , . "Here in this country we face the prospect o fa labor government in the near future. How can it be avoided under the current alliance of labor and the farmers? The farmers benefit from government crop support prices and organized labor, through the CIO, the AFL, and the UMB constitute today the greatest tax-free institution in the world. They now know their power and they'll be on the march." Look At the Man... Not His Religion or Race When Acting Prime Minister St. Laurent took over his duties after Mr. King's departure for Europe, he is reported to have said, "When I become Prime Minister, it will not be the first time that one of my race and religion has held that post. Again, it will be established that it is not a matter of one's origin or religion, or race, but solely his position as a Canadian citizen that determines fitness for high office." At almost the same time. Rev. Father Lampois wrote in the French language newspaper, "Le Clairon", "I would never wish merely to say: 'This man is Catholic; this one Protestant, thia one Jewish'. Rather, I would always want to say:'This man or this woman is jus't and kindly in their dealings one,with the other'. In nther words, one should judge the ■trw. by-ts fruitand -not by its name." Canadian Labour Reports. ____________ a it's Telling Them! "Wealthy citizens now being canvassed for advance donations to the 1948 Community Chest . . . could easily stand a whopping touch. Sums of {50,000 und up wouldn't be a bit too steep from k few whose yearly net proceeds are many times the total welfare requirement... . . . Those who get the most out of our private enterprise system—and are the first t odefend its admitted advantages — ought to be the first to contribute willingly to one bf its fundamental institutions."—"Vansouver Sun". Straight from the Shoulder Magazine articles are for the most part a device for luring the reader back into the advertising pages. Once they have fulfilled this function no great purpose is served by reprinting them in a book. — J. J. Brown (Canadian Forum). ... nor in "readers' digests" either, for that matter. The clergyman waa preparing his sermon, and his little daughter was watching him. "Daddy," ahe asked, "does God tell you what to say?" "Of course, child," the father answered. "Why do you ask?" "Oh," said the litle girl, "then why do you scratch some of it out?" —The Word (Glasgow). "WeCan Dream...?" An American magazine reports that recently a big manufacturing company received the following request from a photographic agency in Tokyo:.. "We have a constant demand for'photographs of modern American home appliances for use in Japanese publications. The Japanese public, although unable to buy any American luxury items, likes to dream about them." Oh well, ao do a lot of Americans! It's been estimated that to buy all of luxury items portrayed in a single issue of any slick-paper American magazine would take more money than the average wage or salary earner could muster in a couple of years even if his entire income were devoted to their purchase. Harmony Through Co-operation When communities and nations realize the importance of recreation, ■port, genera, culture, and music I— there will begin a great era of the evolution of man, with equal opportunity for well-being for everyone. Greed, exploitation, and ruthless competition will always have their inevitable results. Equally certain is that co-operation, simplicity, generosity, and understanding of the importance of culture will lead to everything that we know in our hearts to be just, true, and beautiful. —Leopold Stokowski. Hamilton T. & L C. Holds Diamond Jubilee Hamilton (CLR) — On December 3rd the Hamilton and District Trades and " Labour Council celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. The minutes of the Council record that it was inaugurated on December 3rd, 1888. Activities in connection with this important event will centre around a banquet at the Royal Connaught Hotel. Over the years many of its member delegates have entered public life and of these several now hold important official positions. The Hon. Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour is one; Mayor Sam Lawrence of Hamilton is another. ' —Canadian Labour Reports. Canadian Cost of Living .*. Nearing U. S. Level Ottawa (CLR)—The cost of living index stood at 158.9 on September first, and at that level it was only 16 goints below the United States index, y October first the Canadian index had climbed a little further and stood at 169.6. With the relinguishing of controls in the United States after the war, the index of living costs there rose sharply. Recently in Canada the index has been climbing consistently towards the United States level for exactly the same reasons—cutting off of controls and excessive demand for goods. —Canadian Labour Reports. Out of 27,193 persons employed in banking in Canada only 27 are Jewish.—Canadian Labor Report. Crime does not pay. Intolerance not only does not pay—it also costs you money.—Canadian Labor Report. How Much Money Should Workers Earn? Toronto (CLR)—Wages have become a major problem for all workers with the severe increases in living costs. The inflation spiral continues upward with wages and earnings lagging consistently far behind. No Canadian organization has been involved in what would be a very useful activity, that of. finding out the living and buying habits of the people from which could be developed the average annual income of a family sufficient to meet the cost of adequate living standards. But this investigation has been completed recently in the United States. After two years of work the Bureau of Labour Statistics in Washington haa published its findings that the average family of four living in cities should have an annual income of $3,136 (if living in Buffalo in June 1947). Relating these figures to current cost of living conditions in Canada as compared with the United. States, the Workers' Education Association has produced what it considers a comparable figure for workers' families of four in urban centres of $3,795 annually, or $72.98 weekly. However, high as the WEA figure may seem, it is noteworthy that it contains no provision for an automobile or a telephone; and the allotment for movies, newspapers and magazines is only $1.60 a week. The figure for a "health and decency" standard of living, as published by the Toronto Welfare Council, would amount now to about $47.50 a week. But the wide discrepancy between the two figures is largely due to the low minimums used in the TWC computations. These provide electricity only for lighting: nothing for cooking, not even an electric iron. As a worker said before an arbitration board on .the question of wages in a Canadian plant when asked how much all the items necessary to feed,' clothe and house his family cost, "Just a little, but more than we earn". —Canadian Labour Reports. "What, do women talk about when they are together?" "Just what men talk about" "Aren't they terrible?" Season's Greetings from the Managament of f Blaikie's Cookies Phone: FA. 8875 4770 MAIN STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! Montreal Bakery Ltd. Cj- ■■ _-_—_ , - ■•■ Phone: HA. 6067 REAR, 800 KEEFER STREET. VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings.1 - —- - CAMBIE BAKERY Phone: FA. 0561 4009 CAMBIE STREET VANCOUVER. B. C Season's Greetings! BETTER BAKERY Phone: BA. 8072 2476 BAYS WATER VANCOUVER. B.C. Season's Greetings! BROTHERS BAKERY Phone: PA. 8419 . 342 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! SutheflanTs Bakery Phone; HA. 1351 2454 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! The Family Bakery Phone: FA. 2338 4128 FRASER AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. Helen — "What tirid of husband would you advise me to get?" Hazel—"Vou get yourself a single man and let the husbands alone." Golfers and bathing girls have the same ambition—to go around in-as little ns possible. One stork said to the other: "There's a mean streak in you, brother, or you would not leave three at the house where the washing machine's broken down." •* A quartet is a group of four, each of whom thinks the other three can't sing.,. ■ A very good friend of mine called the doctor and said, "Doctor, this is Mr. Lindemann. My wife haa dislocated her jaw and can't talk. If you're out this way in the next week or so you might drop in." This clipping was sent by a reader and I like it. It is much better than my brand of jokes: A woman approached the Pearly Gates and asked St. Peter: "Do you know if my husband is here? His name is Smith." "We have lots of Smiths here. You'll have to be more specific." "Well, his first name is Joe. Joe Smith, and when he died he said if I was ever untrue to him he'd turn over in his grave." Vu. "Oh, yesl You mean old Pinwheel Smith." Season's Greetings! KNIGHT'S BAKERY Phone: FA. 5286 3834 MAIN STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! A. H. Davies Home Bakeries Phone: FA. 4977 536 WEST BROADWAY VANCOUVER. B.C. WE WISH ALL OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEARI The Cream Puff Bakery Phone: MA. 0713 1061 DENMAN STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. ^^»^»^»^_fta*^»S^»J-9}»}-»}».»}»j»l»}»}S Season's Greetings to All Our Customers and Friends! Alexandra Bakery ->"" Phone: MA. 70(2 870 ROBSON STREET V VANCOUVER. B. C SEASON'S GREETINGS SUNSET BAKERY Tel-phone: BAy-irw 2768 - 2313 ORANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. ***** December, 1948 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Tweutj-Seven /?. C Hotels Gssociatien , COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON TO ORGANIZED LABOR Empire Shipping Co. Ltd. COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON TO ALL MERCHANT SEAMEN « tgCvg-ctg-g-ctgiste Australia Yersus South Africa By ALISEN G. LOYD ' (New Westminster Teachers' Association) i PART II (Part I appeared in the November issue) Why ha. th. history of labour in Australia been oa. of corui.tent fain, and ia South Africa .ns of bitter hMtility? 966 West Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C. W. __ SEASON'S GREETINGSI BOYLES BROS. DRILLING CO LTD. CONTRACTORS and MANUFACTURERS Phone: HA. 2881 1291 PARKER STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. PIONEER EQUIPMENT 1945) UMITED GOOD YEAR TIRES AND DOMINION TRAILERS TRUCK AND BUS BODY BUILDERS Office Phones: PArific 2354,3 960 Richards Street Vancouver, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGSI New York Fur Co. Ltd. Phone: MA. 6174 797 West Georgia Vancouver, B. C. SEASONS GREETINGSI v- G. W. HAMILTON UNDERTAKING CO. LTD. Phone: FA. 0268 19 KINGSWAY VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS! Borland Ice Cream Co. Ltd. Phone: CE. 6323 IS20 WEST SIXTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. Early Convict Settlers of Australia Sometime. Political Priioner. The early convict settlers of Australia came from the dregs of the rapidly industrialized British society, whose attendant ills were wretched living and working conditions, poverty and want They included political prisoners whose views were too liberal for their time. Later immigration was predominantly British, with a strong tradition of unionism which continues to be an important motivating influence in Australia's society. This background of trade union organization has strengthened labour forces and pride in a 98 per cent British origin and "keep Australia white'' policy has minimized the importation of cheap coloured labour to compete with that of white workers. This has simplified for them the problems of labour supplies, wages and working conditions. The policy of "blackbirding" Kanakas from the neighbouring West Indies and using them as virtual slaves on Queensland sugar plantations provided cheap labour in early days. But strong opposition from anti-slavery groups, and their use of government pressure against plantation owners, eventually ended the abuse. Australia'* Background of Fighting Trade Unionism. Australia was settled when the Rights of Men were in the forefront of men's minds. Settlers came to her shores soured by rampant industrialism, and with a tradition of fighting trade unionism. Most of them were content to establish a fair and decent standard of living and opposed to any extension of the power of wealth. To Australians now, the state is collective power at the .service of individual rights. Laws forbid payment of less than a living wage. A tariff wall protects industries from outside competition and the Commonwealth has the right to tax and spend for community services. The result has been that Australia has produced » p»jni)iiti_'n at penal uniformity, with little variation in the wage scale tr standard of living. While millionaire's are few, real poverty or want is almost unknown. Broad Bui* of Middle Clau Comfort. Skilled labour in industries receive little extra reward, for Australians are content, to subordinate salary variations to greater equality. Wages are based on the needs of a family of four, in a decent and fair standard of living. Sixty-two per cent of the people are city dwellers, living on wide streets, in homes with large gardens. There is a broad spread of middle class comfort, for the huge profits of the pastoral industries shel- teer other industry and wages. The assertion of Professor Hancock, prominent authority on Australia, that western civilization makes the have-nots a diminishing force in society, is undoubtedly true in Australia, where trade unionism has been a strong force, politically and socially. Sugar Growing Is Co-operative in the Tropics. White Australians have been able to adjust themselves very satisfactorily in the tropics of Queensland. Sugar is grown by small farmers using co-operative methods, rather than on large plantations. An extra tariff and a dumping scheme make it profitable. In Northern Australia, aborigenes labour is used on the cattle ranches, under government established working conditions. Friendly Trade Relation* With Britain. Australia's isolated continental position emphasized her trade dependence upon Great Britain, and helped develop a strong sonBe of loyalty toward her. An agrarian development which produced large quantities of wool, hides, mutton, dairy and fruit products found a convenient market in Great Britain. British capital aided in the development of the Australian economy, and as a rule a favourable relationship existed between both of them. Development of the Australian Labour Party The Australian Labour Party is the product of trade union organization, which turned to politics following its defeat in the great strike of 1889. The Australian Worker's Union developed after formation of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union, and became a general labour federation of rural workers and associated trades. Sheep shearers work as coal miners for part of the season. W. G. Spence, pioneer labour leader of Australia was instrumental in starting unions in both fields. The time limit for effective sheep shearing gave the union advantages ih bargaining for better pay, living and working conditions. The development of the gold fields in Australia demonstrated the independence of the miners when attempts to charge increased government administration costs to them was met with serious riots, and in 1854, by the organization of the Ballarat Reform League. When soldiers were called in, juries refused to convict leaders accused of high treason, and the government acceded to some of the miner's demands. In 1884, committees were appointed to lobby labour interests, and in 1889, the Australian Labour Federation issued a socialist manifesto. The Labour policy consists of collec- tivist aims with reformist programmes. By 1908, the forced Coal- Jtj.-1-.o .^.h_--Wer ]M_ti«*s»»?i___-«_E. powe_rbb_-in 1916; a split on the conscription issue, weakened them for a time. AU union members are automatically members of the Australian Labour Party. Discipline strengthens the cohesion of the party and candidates are pledged to carry out the party platform. Labour policies made political struggles intelli- ?_ble and realistic to voters, and orce opposing parties to consider Labour Party wishes. This has produced a levelling, humanitarian poli- cal policy. Farmer protests, through the Nationalist Party, enlarged government policies to protect the farmer, as well as the industrial worker. U*e of Wealth T. Promote General Weil-Being We can relate much of Australia's general economic well-being to the trade unions which became a political force in order to improve the living standards of all workers. South Africa, divided culturally, racially, and by colour bar, became a happy hunting ground for a minority of millionaires, while two-thirds of the general population remained below an adequate economic level. South Africa adds another pointed lesson to the many that show that division on grounds of colour, race or education can only bring disaster, while union may direct economic forces to serve the whole of society. Cy: "Have you tried many cases lately. Judge !'r Judge: *T.ea, but the stuff in 'em is terrible these days." SEASON'S GREETINGSI Clarkson's Ltd. ELECTRICAL APPlhl-NCfS 9B_»__38Btl __r_t'L Phone: PA. 9374 401 WEST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER. B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI TOWNLEY 8c MATHESON if- s-,~v I . ARCHITECTS 1376 Hornby Street, Vancouver, B.C. Phone: PA. 1533 ';' Page Twenty-eight ./'_IVIll'l _■.' ./.x..,'ii JVC I Season's Greetings! Fred White GENERAL CONTRACTOR Phone: FA. 21594. 2416 SCOn STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. Doctors Rebellion Against A.M. A. Seen by Head of Liberal Physicians Group Telephone: FAirmont 4886 CORMACK & SON T™~ GENERAL MILLWORK Detail Factory Work 1920 MAIN STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Season's Greetings! H. GOSTICK BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: KE. 2597-L 1830 WEST THIRTY-THIRD AVE. VANCOUVER, B. C. Season's Greetings! S. P. KIRKPATRICK BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: FA, 2370.... .„, . 305 WEST SIXTEENTHAVE VANCOUVER, B. C. Washington. — "A grass roots doctors' rebellion" against the American Medical Association's plans to raise a $3,600,000 war chest to fight the Truman administration's proposed national health insurance program was predicted by Dr. Channing Frothingham, twice president of the Massachusetts State Medical Society, and chairman of the Committee for the Nation's Health. AFL President William Green is an honorary vice-chairman of the Committee for the Nation's Health, a national group of doctors and laymen spearheading the fight for National Health Insurance. Also active on the committee is AFL Vice-President Matthew Woll and API, Director of Social Insurance Activities Nelson Cruickshank. Dr. Frothingham further charged that the AMA's House of Delegates is not representative of the 140,000 AMA members. "Whereas half of the country's active physicians are under 45," he pointed out, "only 5 per cent of the delegates are below this age level. Half of our active doctors are general practitioners but only 10 per cent of the delegates fall within this category. The rest are specialises." Dr. Frothingham criticized the House of Delegates, ership in conjunction with the AFL, CIO, farm, business, and consumer organizations to work out a program to bring adequate medical care within the reach of all Americans". The Committee for the Nation's Health, Dr. Frothingham announced, would support "wholeheartedly" the administration's proposals for national health insurance. *&.93ri»ai%*i^^ Social Credit and The Red Dean Editorial in "Th. Calgary Herald", November 15: "The speeches being made around Canada by Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, must be enormously irritating to everyone associated with the Social Credit party. ... "The dean made a tour of Canada in the fall of 1935, arriving just after Social Credit had swept into power in Alberta. Everywhere he went, he sang the praises of Social Credit. "In an interview at Winnipeg, he predicted: 'The doctrines of the Aberhart party will eventually sweep SEASON'S GREETINGS! Spani & Sons & Burdett BUILDING CONTRACTORS R. Burdett 2750 21st Avenue; DE. 3245 M. Speni 3378 Church St.; DE. 0390-Y Vancouver, B.C. all Canada, and reach into the other the AMA's rul-' Dominions. It is either Social Credit ing body, for "pursuing a course un- or Communism.' "At Saskatoon, the worthy of the medical profession and Dean of Canterbury revealed that he repugnant to the ethics of American had been studying the writings of doctors". He declared that AMA Major C. H. Douglas for 18 years: officers are failing "to take the lead- they had led him to believe that So- - cial Credit was both practical and scientific. ... "He told a mass audience at Victoria Pavilion: 'The names of Douglas and Aberhart will go down in history among the great. "All this, of course, took place a dozen years ago. Since that time, it appears, the Dean of Canterbury's faith in Social Credit has waned, and his faith in Communism correspondingly waxed. It remains a fact, nevertheless, that during its early days, the Social Credit leaders drew much aid and comfort from him, and in return proclaimed his benevolent wisdom. What they think of him now, they have not said: nor are they likelyto say. This is a skeleton they prefer to keep in the cupboard." Season's Greetings! L. J. MARSHALL BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: KE. 5989-L 1041 WEST FIFTY-THIRD AVE. VANCOUVER, B. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED UBOR ALLPORT BUILDING CO. LTD. Phone: KE. 4920 , 6137 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. An Old Fashioned Xmas It will be a real old-fashioned Christmas for some forty-eight especially needy folk in Vancouver, when they find a plum pudding in their Christmas Cheer Hamper, donated by a concern in Montreal. A local concern has also donated 10 doz. jars of marmalade for hampers. The Christmas Cheer Committee, 505 Hamilton Street, under its chairman, Mrs. A. S. Grigsby, hopes to extend the old fashioned Christmas theme to the many other people in unfortunate circumstances—Hie aged, handicapped, bedridden — men, women and children, in this city. But, "There are more requests than ever before and many of them are new ones I", she reports. Gift certificates are to be used as much as possible, hampers only when necessary, allowing these people to choose their own Christmas fare, just as parents with "toy slips" are selecting their children's Christmas gifts at the toy shop of the Ex-Magee Service Club,. Members of the Committee's ex- chaange, whose phone number is now PAcific 4941, are checking and re- checking to prevent the publication of names of needy people, being sent from co-operating organizations, clubs and churches. Season's Greetings! CRANE & LODOR RENTAL SERVICE LTD. Phone: HA. 2762 606 UNION STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS I SMITH BROS. & WILSON LTD. GENERAL CONTRACTORS Vancouver, B. C. Phone: MArine 3729 Offices : Regina, Sask. Saskatoon, Sask. 1247 RICHARDS ST, VANCOUVER "Did her father come between you?" i "No; merely behind me." A census taker has a nice job. He goes around from house to house increasing the population. An ambulance sped swiftly by, A motorist, its lead. He'd glanced at a pair of legs When he should have watched road. Si*fc3-*J&-fc_»_S__^^ SEASONS GREETINGS! Hazel Bros. Construction Co. 67 LONSDALE AVENUE, NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGS! Simmons & Jarvis the "Aren't some of the hats women wear abs'ufd?"'"" '" -" "Yes," replied Miss Catty, "and Last Christmas, nearly 150 people J.1 v',he" somc People put them on went without Christmaa Cheer, be- they look appropriate." SEASONS GREETINGS! E. H. Shockley & Son Ltd. CONTRACTORS Phone: HA. 3267 1936 POWELL VANCOUVER. B.C. SEASON'S GREETINGSI James L. Galloway BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: BA. 2252 1011 RICHELIEU VANCOUVER, B. C. cause of the Committee's lack of funds. This year, since the city is growing considerably and unemployment is increasing, many more people will do without, unless we come to their aid through the Christmas Cheer Committee. If you treasure Christmas tradition in the way that the "Bob Cratchits" did, you will want to help those in need at this season. SEASONS GREETINGS! Phone: PA. 9695 1155 Weit Pender Street (Room 211) Vancouver, B. C. Season's Greetings! W D Construction Co. Ltd. Phone: FA. 3442 929 EAST FOURTEENTH AVE. VANCOUVER. B.C. Playing Is Safe Here are some Red Cross tips for avoiding accidents: While the Red Cross doesn't exactly advocate walking under ladders, it insists there's more danger in trip- Ding over a curb to avoid the practice. It doesn't find fault with shying away from black cats in one's path, but feels it more important for pedestrians to keep out of the path of automobiles, black er- any other color. The worst thing about breaking a mirror is not seven years bad luck, according to the old saw, but the danger of cutting one's fingers on the broken pieces, the Red Cross contends. Sweep up the pieces with a broom and a dust pan, the warning reads. Finally, the Red Cross cautions the public to follow simple precautions to prevent accidents at all times. Joe Zlff was rummaging through the kitchen, opening cupboard doors and looking into the ice box when a voice interrupted his prowling: "What are you looking for, dear?" "Nothing, honey," he replied. "Well then, just look in that bottle where the whiskey used to be." My friend Maud has been married three times and all her husbands" names were William. "Why, she must be a regular Bill collector. CONTRACTORS Phone: FR. 5112 5927 FRASER AVENUE VANCOUVER. B.C. SEASONS GREETINGS! Turnbull Bros. Ltd. CONTRACTORS Phone: FA. 9058 205 WEST FIRST AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. Young man, how dare you? What do you mean by embracing my daughter?" "I—I was just carrying out the scriptural injunction 'hold fast to that which is good'." Joe: "I saw your wife up town today with a black patch over her eye. What happened?" John: J*Nothr_rg,- that's her new fall hat." Some June marriages are followed by quick divorces when the bride learns that cooking isn't as much fun as necking. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, and all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, await alike the inevitable hour; the path of glory leads (but to the grave.—Gray. Leon S. Walach CONTRACTOR Phone: KE. 4144-L 4831 NARVEZ DRIVE. VANCOUVER. B. C. " ; SEASON'S GREETINGS! F. W. Fearman Ltd. LUMBER WHOLESALE Phone: PA. 7377 837 WEST HASTINGS ST., VANCOUVER , SEASON'S GREETINGS! John McRae & Son CONTRACTOR — EST. 30 YEARS Phone BA. 4792 2739 GRANVILLE ST., VANCOUVER,, B. C. SJEASCJN'S GREETINGSI SOUTHERN CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. Phone: FA. 8248 1073 KINGSWAY -., VANCOUVER, B.C.
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