http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0439772
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-02-06
issued: 1962-04-30
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note: • • • IN BCIEf We celebrate our thirty-eigh VISIT—Five Malayan students from Singapore visited a VLC meeting this month, told detega ler the./ nope to learn many things from Canadian trade unions that they will be able to carry back to (heir country. They're especially interested in the fields of pension plans, union security and health and wefaare on their educational tour of our country. The study of the Canadian labor movement and Canadian politics is sponsored by the Colombo Plan. * * * Thirty-eight years ago this month The Labor Statesman wiled its first edition off the pres*?. The Statesman was first m-b.i^e'-t ^"^^ It started as a weekly paper then later switched to once- a-month '■- The first edition stated one of its aims in these words: "This is the first new step for the further unity of the labor movement on the industrial and political field . . . all of you realize that nothing can beaccon.plif*hed on the injjusc. trial: ^pi- "the pofiIleal fielrT without unity." In its pages it advertised .sirloin roast at 25 cents a pound at the First Avenue Market on Commercial Drive; the Ambassador Cafe at 610 Seymour announced its opening; there was a coupon urging readers to write for further information on a. special ,offer..;ot- pill'sharesrp«i*wi^'_^jft:. "plug, "learn ithe truth about the wonderful Wainwright oil fields.'. The B.C. Electric advertised that it had traffic checkers out counting the street car loads "so that we can with scientific"ac>__r(jcy ljfake our schedules to smTifte public needs" and the Globe Theatre said "for this week we of- JeFap, .unusual crook drama. 'The Girl Who Came But*.'' It was the day of the silent movie. The editorial board of the Statesman, published by th_ (Continued on Page H) Labor St/ tesman CHECK—VLC will invest!- No. 726 gate the report that the city of '. Vancouver is purchasing non- „ .... « - _-_,,,»,. -._■___.. =cfS'X!rea',0' JUNE 18 CHALLENGE * * * OWNED BY TNI VANCOUVER «^g^.HlCT LABOUR COUNCIL ^ANCOUVT-P«■__£>*…
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