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: 1967-12
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note: . THE LABOUR Mil* *u PRICE IS CENTS ¥■ Contents LaPierre — Social Activist Let's Learn French (editorial) John Heston Writes to Santa Don't Knock Labour Draft-dodger Speaks Out - No Power Greater reviewed A Mindless Society Union News - =ampbelj^_. Page - 3 - 4 - 5 - 9 % I ■ Labour's Is Hitting the Target Four members of Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union picket Canada Rice Mills at Richmond. See story on pages 6 and IS. British Columhia labour's fight against the use of injunctions in labour disputes is beginning to cause battle fatigue among the close ranks of management, Ray Haynes, secretary-treasurer of the B.C. Federation, of Labour said recently. Labour's swinging publicity campaign ("Take the Shackles off Labour — Amend the Trade Unions Act") has drawn vitrolic comments from management spokesmen, and according to the rules of the f^ame that means labour has'drawn blood, he said. The most recent outraged condemnation of labour's campaign was voiced at Harrison Hot Springs, where the 620-member Amalgamated Construction Association of B.C. held its annual meeting. The association's watered-down statement said, in part, that trade unions are misguided in their campaign by encouraging the "false belief" that injunctions are used only against labour. MANY EXAMPLES "We have hundreds of examples of injunctions being granted against unions where no illegal acts took place," Mr. Haynes said. "Management also seems to conveniently forget that no other civilized country uses injunctions the way they are used against labour in this country.'' * A paragraph in the assoda-, tion's rewritten version of the*, statement said: "If trade unionists went to jail they were either lawbreakers or individuals who chose to defy the courts delib- Lytton Ferry Meeting Set KAMLOOPS-A public forum on the Lytton ferry dispute, sponsored by the Kamloops and District Labour Council has been called for 8 p.m. on Dec, 21 in the Colonnade Room at the Canadian Inn here. Invited to appe…
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: 10.14288/1.0439770
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : B.C. Federation of Labour
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