The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-02-06
issued: 1959-08
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0439663/source.json
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note: —__—_— /* 6/\ ftf jf Support Vnion Buyino *eek - m Labor Statesm^ Sept 7 -12 * OWNED BT TUB VANCOUVER AND DISTRICT LABOUR COUNCIL Number 694 — Sixteen Pages VANCOUVER POLITICAL EDUCA * * • Gov't Critic ST, 1959 48 Established 1924 TS FINANCIAL BOOST • * • on Jobless Aid LABOR DAY 1959 Across the continent, these happenings and comments this Labor Day, 1959, the sixty-fifth anniversary of the declared holiday saluting workers in Canada and the United States: OTTAWA: CLC President Claude Jodoin commented: "No doubt this Labor Day will bring hollow praise for organized labor from some of those who are exerting their efforts to weakervour movemwitiiPHili^ye^Tlie who preface their remarks with the phrase, 'I believe in trade unions, but . . .'" ■ YORK: More than 100,000 AFL-CIO unionists prepared for the biggest parade ever and the first in 20 years. Said an "organizer. '■'Our march will be an answer to the lies and slanders which have been directed against labor by union-busting forces at home and by freedom-hating forces of the Kremlin around the world." WASHINGTON: Frustration as the anti-labor Land rum- Griff in bill wins House approval. Labor press charges that gags, threats, backdoor deals, patronage and pressure built the majority vote. Said the AFL-CIO executive committee: "The unfair., character of this bill is clearly demonstrated not only by the restrictions placed upon the organization of workers but by the virtual immunity from regulation given employers who engage in corruption and racketeering in labor-management affairs." NEWFOUNDLAND: Labor in St. John's won't celebrate Labor Day this year. The St. John's District Labor Council said: "We don't see anything to ' celebrate. Labor is nothing in Newfoundland, nothing to the premier anyway." But quietly behind the scenes, labor continues r its fight against the Smallwood regime. Committee Presents Plan, Premier Bennett Bristles The Lower Mainland Unemployment Committee this month charged that governments had …
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439663
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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