The Labour Statesman
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alternative: [The Labor Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-02-06
issued: 1966-07
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/labours/items/1.0439762/source.json
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note: -*_■■-■ (JUDGMENT RESERVED SINB DIE) THE PEOPLE vs INJUSTICE, BAD LAW. JUDGES, et al WILLIAM McCarthy There is a popular innocent belief that we have reached some sort of legal millennium. Intelligent people share with those concerned only about batting averages the sublime faith that the old inequities are gone, and with them went fears of injustice, prejudice, the law's delay. Never again would our law allow a man like J. S. Woodsworth to be jailed for quoting verses from Isaiah as he was in 1919. Consternation was natural then when the law and the judiciary were openly attacked. To many it was sudden and seemed capricious. It was neither. Discontent has long been festering but only recently brought to a widely publicised head. This came when C. P. Neale, secretary, Vancouver and District Labour Council, declared in an angry outburst that "the law is an ass" and added "judges are political hacks." It wasn't just one man's • passing ire. Later NDP president, Eamon Park, declared that Ontario's Chief Justice Gale used the bench as a political soap box. George Burt, UAW president, charged that most judges are mere tools of The Establishment. Mr. Park added that "the law is not only an ass, but a vindictive ass. Such statements indicate a crisis of the first magnitude. Yet few Canadians knew it existed much less the reasons behind it — only two or three eastern papers have attempted to explain the situation. There are three distinct legal elements involved which taken together form a ring that labour in particular fears is strangling it. First is the use or abuse of ex parte injunctions by employers in labour disputes. From this arose the question of contempt of court proceedings, whether civil or criminal, for failure to comply with these interim injunctions. And out of the first two came the question of the judges who granted the injunctions in the first instance and later sentenced unionists for criminal contempt for failure to comply. Labour and the NDP are not al…
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: 10.14288/1.0439762
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : B.C. Federation of Labour ; Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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