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The Week Published by W. E. Peirce, la the Interest ol Good Government, Temperance, Single Tax and Sane Socialism Room 524 Sayward Building Phone 1472 Victoria, B.C., Canada, June 29th, 1918 5c. a copy $2.00 a year Send the Returned Man "Over the Top." Vote for Giolma WHEN the Federated Labor Party decided not to put a man in the field to oppose an independent returned soldier, they made a wise move and The Week heartily congratulates them on their action and the returned soldiers on tlieir choice,of a candidate. There has been a good deal of questionable work going on throughout Canada during the last six months whieh has had for its object the splitting up of the returned'soldiers' camp into sections, the idea being to lessen, the power of the soldiers as a political factor and gradually to force them into the old party camps. The Veteran sees this and says: "Let us not forget that there are nujny people who are extremely apprehensive of the future power of the association. They fear that it will become an engine of reform and protest against abuses and they desire nothing so much as some development which will end the growing power of the' association. The extremists who encourage discord and make extravagant demands are, if they knew it, the best friends of the reactionary class." A good deal has -also been said and written witli the deliberate intention of making the returned man feel that organized labor was his enemy and quite frequently efforts were made to make him become a strike breaker. The effect of all this was the fostering of a feeling that somehow or other labor ani} the returned soldier were at loggerheads and would have to fight out their troubles separately—if not antagonistically. This is a grave mistake. The real aims of both are identical. The man who has remained at home, may not have seen the "new vision" as the spldier has seen it, hut he too in the last four years has got a bigger grasp of the revelation of life than he ever had before, and both of them are beginning to realize as never before that if the world is to be made better—it is to be made better for every man, woman and child in it and not for a favored- few. The place o.f the returned soldier is with organized labor, and the p]ace of organizetl labor is behindthe returned soldier. When they join hands in earnest it's all up with the old political parties. In openly supporting Private Giolma,'The Week expresses regret that a Socialist candidate should come out in opposition to him especially when he has.no support from any organized body. There are times when it is far better to sink whatever little differences we have if bylo doing we-can get a little nearer the goal we are driving at. There are some points in Mr. Giolma's platform which we do not agree with. We think the thing could be improved on very materially nnd no doubt it will be improved en as Mr. Giolma gefS tfl work on it. But inasmuch as he is the unanimous choice of a large body of men who have proved by their deeds that they are worthy of the best that we can give them—and inasmuch as he has tho interest not only of the returned soldiers at heart, 1 ut, also of the man at the bottom of things, we feel it is not only our privilege but our duty to waive our differences and do our best .0 elect tho man who is as near to our point of view as we aro likely to get at this stage of the gnme. Labor has nothing to loose in backing Private Giolma, and both labor and the returned soldier have much to gain by joining hands. The future ii theirs when they unite! Thinking in Ruts WE spoke last week about travelling in ruts made by those who had long since gone the wny of all flesh. Some of these ruts are so deeply worn that one has to stand on tip toe to see over the edge and very few even think about getting out. One of the deepest ruts that we know of is the one worn by the idea that human naturo will hnve to he changed before we can adopt a sane social system. That all we ean hopo to do at present towards a solution of the ills that confront us is to cultivate an attitude of kindness between the rich and poor nnd of toleration between capital nnd labor. "Thc strife between capital and labor can only be brought to an end by mutual consideration." This is the kind of expression being mado everywhere by men nnd women who speak with the best of intentions, hut it only shows tho rut they have got into. If we could imagine ourselves getting anywhere at all by "mutual consideration" we would entirely agree with their sentiments— but wecannot. No amount of mutual consideration will hnve any permanent effect in correcting,a system thnt is based on "mutual destruction." We cannot expect to cure n disease by tinkering with the results. .Mutual consideration mny modify the results in one place only to make them felt more in another. It does not. get at the cause of- tho trouble. The ills of the competitive system aro not caused by "Man's .inhumanity to Man" ns so mnny people believe. IThis is'only one of the effects of competition. Not one man in ten thousand really wants to hurt his fellow In spite of all that lias been snid about human depravity Ko believe that there is at least ten times as much good ns there is had in all of us, and that given a fair chance tho good will show itself. The truth is-tlint nnture abhors a Vacuum and the whole process of the competitive system is to attempt to make one. Erom first to last it is continually trying to get moi'o out of labor than it puts hack, and the result is-that things are always out of balance. Nature / J. H. HAWTHORNTHWAITE, M.P.P. ♦3 The Federated labor Party has been organized in this country to express the aims and ambitions of the working people, and as a political instrument to make effective their desires; <J Political action, representing as it does' class action, results in political power. On this power rests today our present CHjjlization. Unfortunately the Working jelass, which means from the standpoint of our party, the "hand and brain" of the world, have not in the past used that great power in their own interests and therefore of society. The results of this folly is now apparent to a war-racked and devastated world. *5 But Labor is arousing itself from its sleep of ages, here, there and elsewhere. In British Columbia it has formed its party and formulated its platform. This is not one of palliatives, for the day has gone past for legal and other sedatives. It demands immediately industrial legislation to protect the life, limb and health of the workers. It demands the ownership by the people of those means of wealth production, now owned by a profiteering class, that are required to provide the necessaries and comforts of life. It'also insists, needless to say, that these operations shall be carried out in a democratic manner. <I Not much of a platform? Perhaps not, but if it had world-wide application five years ago conditions would not be as they are. Under some such sane method of production* as outlined poverty as we know it could not exist. A few other world crimes and villanies would also disappear. <J As to this election, we have already stated it is not our desire to oppose the candidature of the returned soldiers. In fact, we propose to support him. He seems to be a good fellow anyway and intelligent. <J With regard to his platform it could, of course, be improved upon. Perhaps it would have been better if the rank and file had simply pledged their man to do all in his power for them and use his spare time to solve the general labor problem from which their troubles sprang. ■1J However,if elected (and he should be elected as against any other candidate in the field) he will, seeing that he is not a fool and still less a knave, soon ascertain in our legislative hall that the interests of the profiteers cannot be identical with the interests of that section of the working people tliat he represents. After all the returned soldier is only a worker looking for work. Perhaps a broken worker, broken in health, in spirit and in hope. *4 Workers of Victoria, make no mistake. You have no direct candidate of your own in this fight, Spring to the assistance of these members of your class and give them a chance. Believe me, in this instance you will never regret it. <J Women of the workers, I need not appeal to you to do your duty. You at least will use your ballots to protect your homes. You well know that is what intelligent use of your vote means. J. H. Hawthoenthwaite. does not approve of empty'spaces. It makes no difference whether the space is inside of a volcano or in little children's stomachal- she abhors it just the same—and won't stand for it. What we want is not more consideration for one another—but more consideration for cojnmon sense. NoOnore give and take between capital and labor, but a complete revision of things that will make capital the servant and not the master. Let us get out of ruts. Times Twaddle IN its issue of Tuesday, the local evening paper treats its readers to the most contemptible piece of political camouflage in the record of that, at no time over-scrupulous organ, in a villainous attempt to cast discredit on Mr. Giolma's candidature. In a characteristically mis-leading article, the Times strives to create the impression that the appearance of the soldier candidate in the field is the result of an ingeniously conceived scheme on the part of Mr. J. H. Hawthomthwaite, who "sees ih the present situation a favorable opportunity for the organization of a sort'of soviet with himself as a potential Trotzky." Mr. Giolma, the Times insinuates, has not the endorsation of labor as a whole, but merely that of a group of "restless labor ppliti- cians" of "Socialist proclivities" and "Bolsheviki sentiments." It professes to view with alarm the dangers which will confront the Province as the result of the unholy alliance between labor and the returned soldier, and concludes by making the ridiculous and irrelevant assertion that if Major Langley were the only returned soldier running; he would not have had the support of the "Hawthornth-'. waite group," in other words, of organized labor. We have no hesitation in branding the article referred to as a most vicious, cowardly and unsportsmanlike attack. A more transparent and obnoxious piece of political trickery could scarcely be imagined. The truth of the matter is this: The subsidised press throughout the country is mortally afraid of anything which might have the effect of chisnging -ftr^iSiSiiit; order* W^^~ft^^:^iiW^& the vision of thousands of returned soldiers presenting demands and, above all, backed np by organized labor. It is known that certain interested parties have been doing their utmost to create dissension among the soldiers themselves, and, seeing the utter futility of their plan, are how busy in an equally outrageous scheme, namely, to create a breach between the soldier and labor. We believe the chief reason why Mr. Giolma received the combined endorsation of labor and the soldiers is because of the fact that he is entirely independent of the old time party, political affiliations. The people realize that these have long outlived^lnejr usefulness, if they ever possessed any. Major Langley is the nominee of a straight political party and as such could not logically receive the support of those bodies which have endorsed Mr. Giolma, Wo feel confident that the Victoria electorate is proof against the influence of an irresponsible nnd vindictive organ like the Times, and will not be brow-beaten or scared into voting for whoever that unsavory publication may support. We refuse to believe that Major Langley had any part in the concoction of the Times idiotic roorback; in fact, we venture to hope that he will publicly express his disapproval thereof. Labor and "The Week" SEVERAL intimations have appeared lately thnt there is a probability "of The Week becoming a Labor paper. This is hardly correct. The Week cannot become what it already is. Ever since the winds of fate wafted this little sheet into tho tender arms of the present management we think readers must havo recog- nizd one fnct at least—that it has stood for labor first, last and all tho time. . The question just now being considered by the Labor Party is whether The Week shall be the recognized organ for Labor, but recognized or unrecognized, so long ns it is under the present control, The Week will continue to stand for Labor. And by Labor wo do not mean only those whoso daily toil is evidenced by dirty hands and clothes, but by all who by hand or brnin nro doing nny truly useful work in the community. Rowdyism IT would lie well for returned soldiers to learn once and for all that nn good cause is advanced by rowdyism. Mnny voters who attended the Princess Theatre on Tuesday night came away disgusted at tho dcliliernte attempt to break-up a meeting called to discuss political issues. Free speech is, a priceless heritage. The peaceful progress of thc English speaking peoples has been largely due to the widespread recognition of the right to freely discuss all matters of public interest. Those returned men who imagine that their best interests can be advanced by hooliganism are making n grave mistake. Before Inst Tuesday's meeting Comrade Giolma's chances of victory wore bright in the extreme. We sincerely hope that thc action of a few hotheads will not result, in his defeat. The unseemly demonstration took place without his knowledge and it would be most unfortunate if the actions of others Were visited on bis head. Yet nothing is more calculated to antagonize the sorried ranks of organized labor than deliberate violations of that right of free assembly which is .the very cornerstone of trade-unionism. Saturday, June 29 THE RETURNED SOLDIER AND THE SANE SOCIALIST You nre a Soldier. I am a Socialist: Let me have a few words with you to try to find out. whether we don't both want the same things. There are those who would try to make you believe that our objects nre different and that the Socialist is a dangerous man. Let us see whether this is so. You have been to the front. You hnve done your bit, fighting for freedom, and I honour you for it. Don't ever run away with the idea that because I object to war 1 necessarily object to a warrior who goes to the front to light for high ideals. We may have different ideas as to how far winning this wnr will 'iilviinct us towards true freedom but we need not quarrel over Ihat. You have fought for freedom nnd I am fighting for freedom nnd it's freedom that we both want. The question is: Have ive got it? Are we getting it? Shall we ever have it? Let mo ask you to go back a few years and size things up as they were before the war. Were you free then? If so, what did that freedom consist of? You had a job. Perhaps it was a good one, but more likely it was only a very ordinary one—one that just gave you nnd your family three square meals a day and just enough clothes to look decent in. You were free to hold your job while business wns good—nnd to get out and look for another when business was bad. And when things got extra bad and the kiddies began lo get hungry or tlieir little feet were getting too near the enrth. you were still free— free to take a job not quite as good as the one you hnd before—or the snme one at a lower wage. Isn't thut true? And when you couldn't find a job at all, what then? You were still free, weren't you? Froe to go and look for one; to tramp up and down the country till your limhs ached as badly as your heart did while you wondered how the little ones nnd the mother were making out in your nb- sence. Isn't thnt true? If it wasn't in your cnse, it was in thousands of others. And now you are back from the great adventure. You have done your bit towards freedom in one direction. Do you think that you are any further nhead than you wero before? Is not the extent of your freedom ' exactly the same as it was four years ago? Are you ftot now free to take a job if you can find it and free to go without when you can't? I nm only trying to get at the bottom of things. Isn't it true what I sny? Are you not in exactly the same place you were four years ago? And when all the boys eome back, after the war is over and the world made safe for democracy: What will they find? What freedom will they have then? Won't it be exactly the same ns it was in the summer of 1014? Freedom to take what jobs are offering, and when none offer freedom to go without? I am not trying to paint things blacker than they are hut is not this the plain unvarnished truth? Does it not begin to appear to you llnil after all the lighting has been dime on the Western Front and tilings have quieted down in Europe, the real contest for freedom will still have lo be fought out in the political fields al home? If you hnve not realized lliis then lho notion of your political opponents in this election plight to convince you. Both of them claim that thoy want to do their best for you. But both of them are equally determined uot to let you do it for yourself if they can help it. If all Ibis is true, whnt nre we going to do about it? The natural impulse is to say bad things about the government and the profiteer. To call down all kinds of curses on the man who has been making money out of the war. To set the "have nots" in opposition to the "hnves" and start in quarreling. Tbis is where we are so likely to go wrong. There is nothing to he gnined by setting class against class. The thing we want to do is to show thnt we are all responsible for the desperate muddle things are in, that we are all part, and pnreel of a vicious system that cannot possibly work out right and must be nltered. The returned soldier problem is only another illustration of llie unemployed problem and there is but one way to settle it, and that is by doing away with unemployment altogether. This can never be done by nttempt- ing to solve the Returned Soldier problem by itself. The only solution is the one offered by the platform of lhe Federate'd Labor Party. "Government ownership of all the essentinl menus of production and distribution." The establishment of a complete cooperative system in place of the competitive system now in existence. This is the only way to secure the freedom we nil wnnt, and it can be done without working any injustice to any one. If you have never thought this matter out, now is the timo to get busy. The Lnbor Party in England are preparing to make a clean sweep there and tliere is no reason why we should not do the same in Canada. The Returned Soldier and the Labor Party must join hands—and the world is theirs. • W. E. P. Veterans." His name is Frank Giolma. Ex-Private Giolma is not running against or for Conservatives or Liberals, or Labor, but for the Returned Man and the People of British Columbia as a whole. • ♦ • To the Women of Victoria When the Dominion Government fixed the allowances of our women folk whose husbands are fighting at the front and doing their bit, back here in Victoria the cost of living was just half what it is today. The cost of life's necessities hnving doubled, the allowances to our women folk * should therefore be doubled, and.doubled now or Canada will have broken faith with our boys now fighting for us. Tf you return ex-Private Frank Giolma on Friday fhe Dominion Government will have to take notice. • * • Waste Not, Want Not You are advised to waste nothing. In Victoria mnny do not follow this advice. You could not make a better start than by not wasting your vote. By voting for Frank Giolma, whether you profess to be Liberal, Conservative, Labour or Socialist, your vote will not be wasted. *> A man who represents the Army and Navy men of Victoria—made up Giolma. I earnestly hope, that when the results of the election are issued, he will head the triple list. I support him for at least two reasons. I consider the returned men have a moral right to some measure of direct representation and I also think that they are more in earnest about the purification of political life than the politician is. Again wishing your candidate every success, I am, Very sincerely yours, C. S. QUAINTON. HOW THE GREAT WAR WILL MOST LIKELY FINISH From Dr. Ernest Hall As the recognized leader of the Independent forces of the City of Victoria, and in view of the fact that fhe women hnve fniled to put forward a candiate, I fail to see any logical course for me fo pursue than supporting the Returned Soldiers' Candidate—Mr. Frank Giolma. With reference to the present Government, I mny say that while I take my hat off to the Hon. John Oliver. I nm fully prepared to state that he and his Government will be made stronger by lessening his partisan support by one. Large government majorities have always proved a curse, therefore the greatest kindness that can be done by the friends of the Government is to make that Government more secure by giving it an ELECTION SHOTS FROM GIOLMA'S MACHINE GUN WHEN THE RETURNED SOLDIER AND LABOR JOIN HANDS, IT'S ALL UP WITH THE OLD POLITICAL PARTIES Answering Some Criticisms A very unfair and entirely unwarranted criticism hns been frequently levelled against the Returned Soldier, to the effect that he demands nnd expects the country to "give him a living" whether he works or not. We state most emphatically that this is NOT the attitude of tho Returned Mnn towards his country; but he does expect and demand that the country for which he has fought shall give him the means and opportunity of EARNING tt reasonable living for his family and himself. Our critics hnve charged us with a lack of duo responsibility fo our country to which wc have returned; thnt oar outlook, in fuel, is n purely selfish one. The most conclusive nnd complete refutation of this obviously absurd criticism is the very fuel flint, so keenly do we renlize our responsibility ns citizens of our wonderful Province for which wc have been willing fo risk onr all on lhe battlefields of Europe, that in order to successful}' cope with the tremendous problem of the rehabilitation of the returned soldier, with all that it menus to this country and Province, we nre now putting a candidate in the field, with the sole purpose of ensuring the enactment and enforcement of such economies and political measures, through the Provincial Legislature, ns will guarantee a fair and just solution of the recognized difficulties and dangers of this grave problem, to the mutual benefit of the Returned Soldier and the community at large. * • » The Returned Men's Candidate Ex-Private Giolma. the Returned Men's Candidate, joined up at the Willows on December 3rd, 1014. He carried the private's pack across to France, and in France, until wounded at the Somme on September 26th, 1916, Ex-Private Frank Giolma is the son of an English clergymen, being horn nt Chatham, Kent, England, in 1878. He was educated at St. Edmund's School, Canterbury. A journalist by trade, ho came out to Canada in 1905 and to Vancouver Island in 1907. He has lived in Victorin since 1910. Ex-Private Frank Giolma has never belonged to any organization either political or fraternal until joining the G.W.V.A. on his return wounded to Cnnndn, after ten months in hospital in England, on July 4th, 1917. Giolma's father was an Englishman, his mother was Scotch—a Buchanan of the Buchanans. Giolma hns been n resident of Vic- lorin for nearly ten years. All four of his children were born on Vancouver Island: three in Victorin. Giolma's whole interests nre in Victoria. He is pledged to further the in- tcresls of the whole eity. Giomn is a returned citizen going into the Provincial Legislature to further the interests of the widows and orphans of our citizens who have died fighting for Victorin; for the dependents of onr comrades now fighting and all service men; and so naturally for all our citizens of onr home city, Victoria. Giolmn went to France to fight for his home in.Victoria. Now he wauls you to help him fight for Victorin in the Provincial Legislature. There is only ono Returned Men's Candidate. Ho wns nominated by n massed convention of the "Army nnd Navy." "Brilish Campaigners," "Comrades of lhe Great Wnr." "Grent War Veterans" and "Women's. Auxiliary to Ihe Great War of all classes of political thought—will nlso represent you. » • t The Prestige of Office Will Help Tho mnjority of the planks in Giolma's platform are for the Dominion Government to settle. Thnt is why they nro inserted in his platform. Comrade Giolma is not only going to get in but ho must be returned by such an overwhelming majority that the news will bo flashed right across Cnnnda from sen to sen. If Conser- vntivo nnd staid Victorin does this the Dominion Government will wake up, tnke notice nnd increase the allowance of the soldiers' dependents, start industries for our returned men and equalize the pensions. • • • Giolma Represents Everybody BUT Profiteers Giolma is the first Returned Mnn who has come out for election on n non-partisan ticket. Remember, he represents you nil, unless you are a profiteer. Let Victoria, the city which has sent the grentest number per enpita of her population to the front, be the first Canadian eity to elect a Returned Privnte who recognizes no pnrty, but is going into the Provincial Legislature to work his very best for you all. independent opposition.' With reference to the Liberal can- didate, true he hns one recommendation, he has been to the front in this contest of "mnking the world safe for democracy," but in other conflicts in mnking democracy safe for the world and in local efforts for race elevation and municipnl progress, enn it be snid that he was ever even within signally distance of the front? While we were fighting the liquor forces, ho boasted of trifling with prohibition in a nearby State and drinking wine camouflaged in a teapot. If at the front so recently, why not Ihere still, while the Allies suffer from such a dearth of man power? Is this the type of representation Ihat our late lamented Premier would havo favored? Lawyers, lawyers, lawyers, we have a plague of them in our legislative bodies, useful members of society, but one is enough for Victoria to send. ERNEST A. HALL. Get Out on the Farm Every man is wanted on the farm this year who ever handled a hoe, or drove a team. Get in touch with the sil nation. Find out who is handling the employment agency in your town. Sign up for service where you will count most during this harvest. SECRETARY, RETURNED MEN'S CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE; From Dean Quainton June 23rd, 1918. Dear Lieutenant Rolston: Lol me assure yon that it is only nbsence from the eity that causes me lo he unable to attend one nf your meet ings nnd speak n word in supporting the enndidnture of Comrade Reformers. Hinnissy, is in favor iv suppressing iverything, but rnle polly- ticinns believes in suppressing naw- thin' but ividonce.—Mr, Dooley. Ench Province in the Dominion has been asked to form a scheme of rationing for its own people. Thus the Cnnnda Food Board hopes lo provide for each Province's own particular conditions, Dr. Gilbert Murray is considered one of the foremost scholars in Great Rritain. He is Regius professor of Greek at Oxford University and author of a famous series of translations from the Greek dramatists. The professor has added to his fame by an nrtiele on the war, published by'the Oxford University Press, an article that for candor, is hard to beat. The way lie sizes up the "mob" is entertaining and refreshing, "The forces behind the principle of nntionnl covetousness," says the doctor, "are permanent und strong. In every country the 'mob,' whether rich or poor, is 'jingo,' that is, according to its own poor mobbist lights, patriotic. It dislikes foreigners; it cannot bear self-criticism; it loves conquests; it enjoys lights in which 'our chap beats the other chap.' Also n large part of the educated upper class is, in the cruder sense, Imperialist; that is it considers that the gTeatness and success of nny nation is best measured by the number of other nations it conquers and governs. All unthinking and unregen- erate man is on this side, except those clnsses to whom personal suffering has with no effort of their own, brought wisdom or that depth of human sympathy which is akin to wisdom. '' Referring to the Labor Party he says: "The memorandum on wnr aims, passed by the special conference of the Labor movement on December 8, 1917, ranks, in my opinion, among the finest pronouncements of the wnr, a monument of balanced common sense and idealism. That is because, owing to our command of the seas, we have not yet suffered ns tlie other nations of Europe hnve suffered. Among them it is very different. We can most of us form no conception of the extreme and desolating misery which the war has brought and is still bringing to the hulk of the population, both workers and bourgeois, in many parts of Europe. And that misery must bear its fruit. In Russia it is already ripe, a new fruit with a new name. It is Bolshevism. I do not mean by this the particular policies or actions of the present Russinn government, but the vnst surge of popular feeling which has flung that government up into power; the determination of vast masses of mon with unorganized instructive unanimity, that they have been tormented long enough; have been beaten, killed, robbed, starved, frozen and treated as dirt long enough; and that henceforth they will disregard oil orders and, individually and collectively, on the spot, take what food they can get and kill any one who does not leave them alone." The professor holds the view that if a revolution is brought off in Germany, it will probably be the most orderly nnd effective revolution known to history. He designntes the Germnn government as a group of "detected criminals," and the British government as a bevy of "imperfect policemen." He considers that tliere are three types of peace possible with many variations, of course, in each type; an imperialist peace; a reasoned peace; and a Bolshevik catoclysm. The imperialist peace would be a peace in which each party's gain will be the others' loss, and he who gets the worst of it now will hope, and work for better luck next time. The stronger powers will come out stronger still, while the smnller nil'' weaker nations go to the wall, and "principles" or "idenls" nre nowhere. Thus a policy of peace by conquest would probably end in a peace hy betrayal. Secondly, there may be an anti- tnilitnrist government in Germany, nnd a' government in England, France and Italy which is true, both in word nnd deed, to the war aims officially announced by President Wilson, or to some modification of them in lhe direction desired by Labo:'. If such n change of orientation occurred nil round, and it is curious how sensitive belligerent nations are to one another's moods, the negotiations would tnke the form of an attempt to realize by common consent, nn aim desired by all the negotiating parties alike. A League of Nations, disarmament, self-determination of nntionali- ties, nnd even reparation to Belgium would not bo terms imposed by the conqueror upon the conquered nnd liable to be evaded as soon as the Intter hnd power to do so, but n set of fingerposts devised by nil pnrties for the purpose of escaping together from a condition equally disastrous to all of them., The I bird possibility is that foretold hy Grey in his warning to the Austrian ambassador in July, 1914. Tf the governments ennnot mnke n "clean peace" the forces of revolution ean, and' know that they can. He does not consider that a revolution in England is at all a possibility except in the sense that a very great transfer of votes at a general election might be termed a revolution. But tlie Bolshevik terms are before the world in their complete internationalism and splendid disregard of detail. The minority socialists of Germnny and Austria are longing to accept them with or without modifications and we must remember thnt minority is only a nickname. The French, British and Italian socialists, whether revolutionary or non-revolutionary, could accept something very like them. If the strain of war, is prolonged beyond a certain point, it seems almost inevitable that the common longing for peaee among the suffering poor throughout Europe, reinforced by the vague hut widespread conviction that, while their governments ean never agree, they themselves are agreed already, should lead to some catastrophic upheaval which would shape all Europe and even hnve its effect on England. The peace terms in that case would be "Bolshevik" peace terms, uncompromising principles of freedom nnd revolutionary justice carried out with very imperfect knowledge of detail and no regard for any mere human interests Hint stood in the path of the pure doctrine, a nucleus, so to speak, of magnificent world healing idealism with a ragged fringe of confusion and wreckage incalculable. '■' The professor holds the view that the Bolsheviki peace is far better than nn Imperialist peace, and holds that "it will eome." The educated section of society already see the end of lhe prespnt system. The spirit of the coming time is already working amongst them. All mere trilling is humbug. The Bolsheviki will win the world over. It is as it were the "hand of destiny." The mighty hosts of the wnr lords fight in vain' against what the revolutionary forces have decreed mast be.—B. C. Federationist. 'RECORD, RECORD, WHO'S GOT A RECORD?" The hospital word was big and bare, just a huge figure in officer's khaki on his daily, inspection, or perhaps a nurse bending over some helpless form, broke the uniform sameness of the rows nnd rows of white, cots. In the centre of the room within earshot of all, n talking machine had been placed. To these wounded soldiers this was a gift from the skies, for music will soothe the sick, cheer the lonely ond brighten the lives of all its hearers. On this particular morning "Silver Threads Among the Gold" hnd been played twice, "Annie Laurie" had been encored three times, while "Casey Jones," being the favorite, was played on the moving dial over five times. Can you blame the soldiers for not receiving much inspiration and cheer when just three records had been allotted tlieir ward owing to such a limited supply? This is just one instance of the many that occur in our military hospitals nnd rest homes, throughout the country, where thousands of returned soldiers are being cared for and who have some sound reproducing machine or player piano, but a very poor and meagre assortment of records or player rolls. Can you not start today looking through your cabinets and sort out the records that no longer interest you and have become unless? Think what it will mean to these various Soldier Homes and Hospitals to receive the selection of records that you hnve sent them, in enre of your ioenl branch of the Red Cross. So let's make this the record campnign for our country's heroes. Not an Unusual Speech "Young Gnbber mnde quite a long speech at the club forum Inst night." "What was ho talking nbout?" "He didn't say."—Judge. The Original Pood Crisis Bobby's mother had just taken out her winter garments. "Ma," said Bobbie, "what did flic moths live on before Adam and Eve wore clothes?"—Awgwan. Close the Stores Early Why not close the stores every other day at noon nnd let the clerks go out and help on lho farms? Why not let the towns! employees, including the townclerk, get out on the farm fnr the harvest rush? Why not close the lawyers' offices every afternoon? Why ennnot the school teachers help on the farms during the holidays? Saturday, June 29 THE WEEK Page Five "SHERMAN SAID IT" Labor News FROM "THE VETERAN" Reveille! Writing war books is like the turkey trot a few years ago; everybody's doing it! Men nnd women who have gone to France as newspaper corre- pondents, relief workers, ambulance drivers and in various other capacities, hasten to assure the layman, through tlieir writngs, that "War Is Hell!" They look at war as Sherman did, considering only the civilian, whose life and home and business have been wrecked in this world combat between flesh and steel. The private soldier agrees with Sherman and the war correspondents that "Wnr is Hell" but he forms his opinion from the routine of life in the army. A battalion has its class distinction as well as society; with its upper, middle and lower classes. In a regiment are tho officers, non-commissioned officers nnd MEN. The private soldeirs are the MEN. We nre given a number and when we aro wonted we are hailed as "Hey you!" After two years and four months 'service, I have come to the conclusion that war, from the view point of the private soldier is " hell all the way.'' , If you nre in camp and have the price of admittance to a movie and. the best looking girl in the nearby town hns consented to necompany "you there, yon think thnt life is nothing but one sweet, thing nfter another. Parade is dismissed at four thirty and by the time you have washed the terra firma from the parts of your person exposed to the weather, "Cook House" is sounded and you proceed to dispose of two slices of bread baked by men, who ns eoolts, would be first class iron moulders; a piece of really good Canndian cheese, and Mr. Tickler's contribution to the soldier's menu, namely: apple or plum jam. You hurry through the menl thinking more of the girl and the movie than the inevitable nttnek of indigestion that is sure to follow. With a last parting slick at your mop of hair and a look in the mirror to ascertain whether you forgot to wash your upper lip or if it is the budding Charlie Chaplin which you nre trying to cultivate that causes that shadow, you decided that you are a real heartbreaking hero and set off down the lines with a martial stride. You pass tho Company orderly room and nro quite plensed to know thnt you are snfely on your wny when yon henr those two words: "Hey, you!" Yon know right nway who YOU is but you take a chance and keep go ing. Sergennt-mnjors are about as long legged as thoy are long winded nnd it doesn't take this person of the Army's middle class, nny length of time before he comes aside you. "Don't you know enough to stop when you're spoken to?" he will enquire. It is token for granted, of course, thnt n privnte soldier doesn't ■know anything. You of course have this nlibi ready: 'I didn't know vou were cnlling ME." Then the Sergeant Mnjor tells yon the reason for his stopping you. The Adjutant hnd to send in a party of twenty men to the Provost Marshal at once for picket duty nnd the Sergennt-major was taking the first twenty he could find. He gets you for the first one. At seven thirty, instead of meeting the village bel' you aro marching up nnd down the streets with the other nineteen tinfor- tnnntes looking for nny wayward sons, who might have been imbibing n little too much nnd need an escort home, not to bed nnd comfortable rest some would think, but to the environs of that place of detention known as the "clink." Then the memories of those cattle trucks when wc went up the lino in France! 0 sweet cookie! "8 (Wool) Chevaux ou 40 (Carrot) Hommes." The guy Hint invented thnt phrnse: 'Home was never like this." must hnve seen that sign on the side of a French cattle truck. And listening post! The sergeant takes you out into "No Man's Land" and after finding thc shell hole with (he most water in it, he leaves you to have your bath and then goes bnck to his nice dry dug-out wilh his friend the rum jar. If you nro in the front line the sergennt-major always tells you thnt Fritz shelled the ration dump and busted the two jars, and if you are in supports, he tells you thnt the fellows in the front line need it more than you do so he sent the two jars up there. The next wnr I nm going to be n sergeant-major. Then some night you are out scouting you see a light ahead of you and before ten minutes has passed you think there nre n dozen there. After careful investigation you And flint Hie light is an illuminated wrist watch on a stiff. Some guy takes this off and says that he will send it baek to the dead man's relatives. (?) When he gets back to the trench the Captain says: "Don't you know it's a crime to .take anything off a dead man unless you nre loking for information?" When the party addressed will meekly reply: 'I WAS looking for information. I wonted to see what time it was." But tho Captain has the last word. "What do you want to know tbje time for?" he will ask. "You're not going anywhere." Then some day you will get a nice cushy one in the arm or the shoulder and you get down to Etaples and wait for the Hospital Boat to Blighty. The doctor comes into the ward and says: "The fifteen cases in the south end of the hut will bo sent across to England tomorrow." And being in the south end of the hut you. nre tickled to death until the day eomes and the nurse gives the orderlies instructions to get the kits for the men in the NORTH end of the lnjt nnd then you are positive that Sherman was right. But after all is said and done and you have been shifted about from pillar to post, there eomes a day when they put you on a boat that has got Canada painted nil over it and you cortie home nnd nfter seeing these fellows who have been staying at home keeping the home fires bright so that the billiard parlors won't hnve to go out of business, nnd the girls won't have to pay their own way into a show, you sny to yourself that it wasn't so bad after all and if some one promised you a nice job in the Pny Office in London you would go back again. Then as time goes on you are finally given that piece of paper that is known as your TICKET. With lhis you receive another slip of paper. This of course you expect to be an illuminated address duly signed by the Governor-General in Council, thanking you for your services; but you get a severe attack of shell shook when you unfold the paper and read: "Messrs. Cohen & Roseubaum, Wholesale clothiers. Please furnish the bearer, No. 1234567890 Private Percivnl Cuth- bert Fairy, (original) 987th Battn., with civilian clothing to the amount of seven (7) dollars and charge to account of Military Hospitals Commission Command." The signature is indecipherable. (This word isn't in the dictionary or K. R, & 0., but Columbus took a chance and so will I). Having assured yourself that the paper really reads "seven" you ira- medinteiy go in to seo the paymaster. Without sirring or saluting you enter nud say: "I have come to thank you for your munificent gift." Whereupon the paymaster will look up and say; "What's this? Don't you know better than to come in here without knocking?" And you reply tliusly: "Well, I hnd really intended to do n little knocking, but I thought I'd wait until I got inside." "What do you want?" he will nsk. ' You enn tell thnt he is peeved. He probably hns nn engagement to piny golf nt three-thirty and is in n hurry to get nway. Thai's tho trouble with the bomb proof jobs; there nre always some of Ihese undisciplined men who have come buck from France, keeping snid bomb proofer nwny from golf or tennis nnd Hie Indies. You display the piece of paper that entitles you lo a seven dollar suit of clothes. "I wanted lo nsk you lo put an ought behind Hint seven." you sny, "because I believe that if I appeared in public with only seven dollnrs worth of clothing on my person I would he arrested for indecency." "That's all you are entitled to," the bomb Proofer will come bnck. "If it were winter, you would get fifteen." "But" you hurriedly protest, "I've got fo buy winter clothes." "Yes, I know," the B.P. will agree, "but ns this is the last day of summer I can onlv give you seven." LIGHTS OUT. All over Cnnnda municipal police authorities are enforcing the food regulations in a firm, vigorous liinii- iio-r. They nre nlso enforcing the Anli-Loaflng Law. Keep Hoeing War gardeners should not relnx their efforts bccniise it is too hot to lie comfortable in Ihe garden. Tt is loo hoi lo be comfortable in tho tranches but the wnr goes on. Keep hoeing. The results will be worth it. Woolworth Girls and the Clerk's Union This is a direct invitation to Woolworth girls to join up with the test of the clerks of the city. Strange that the girls getting the least pay should be the last to see the advantages of joining a union. A little over one year ago the Wool- worth concern were paying to some of the girls in Winnipeg $5 and $1 a week with an odd one $9, and the bookkeeper $11. The girls, 52 in number joined the union, and as Hie telephone girls had had a successful strike, getting nn incrense of $8 a month, the Woolworth girls eould not be held baek. They decided to strike with or without permission of the union. The Trades Council conducted the strike for the girls, nnd that strike was the means of raising the wnges of every female worker in the city of Winnipeg. The public, the police, the soldiers and the labor unions were solid for the girls. In four days the Woolworth concern placarded their windows with the statement that they were paying the mimimum asked for at that time, $8 per week, in addition to which they add on account of Eaton's closing on Saturday afternoon, an extra $2 per week as long as Eaton's were closed. The snme Union will nsk Woolworth to pny the minimum passed by tbe Manitoba Legislature, that is $9.50 per week. Compare this with what they are paying in Victoria. The question was asked what is the starting wage in Woolworth's to a girl behind the counter, nnd the i'eply was "Oh, we get os much for a week as the striking shipyard men get for a day." The answer was a good one, the one feature lacking being, that the difference wns largely due to the strong union of shipyard workers. If the same girl had put the number , of years into a printing trade which some of them have put into Woolworth's, she may have been getting lhe $5 or $6 a day instead of a week, because in thnt trade' the female worker gets the same as the male worker. It is really a matter of organization after all. Asked what is the highest rate paid and the answer was $8 a week. Of course, the lady bookkeeper may get $10. Yet, if a man were employed, he would need twenty. The woman is nlways used because she is the cheaper article, and one wonders how long she will stnnd for it. The men aro all going to the front and women are takingthe place of the men, and if labor is to be relatively cheaper, than the profits will be bigger in the general, and our boasted new democracy will be built on cheaper labor than before the war. But Labor will not stand for any such deal. Ii master and man will not stand for the principle of ngree- ment as laid down by the Trades Unions, then there can be no peace of any kind. Men and women who work for wages must get into the union of their craft if they need protection, the individual cannot save himself. President Wilson has recently appointed a Wage Investigating Board. There must be no stopping of work during the war. This board cannot deal with individuals, but its business is to deal with the unions and tlieir complaints, and the wages are jumping up nil round. No man or woman' can claim injustice who wilfully stays out of the union. They are really the cause of the injustice bemuse they would be working for its removal if inside the union. The Woolworth girls ought to lake this hint nnd join up next Tuesday night. The Woolworth business is run from Toronto, nnd Toronto from Now York, and while the local malinger mny buck lhe union to please his boss, he might us well understand that the girls have a right to be iu n union and to have Ihere troubles looked after hy union officials with,the necessary experience. Tliere are hundreds of Woolworth stores organized in tho U.S.A., and President Wilson hns appointed a wage board to give them the increases made necessary by tho changes in the increased cost of living. The clerks of the City of Victorin, and the Lnbor movement desire thnt the Woolworth girls get into the union. Girls get in and do your bit! CLERK. * » • One of the city merchants wns be- monning the fnct at n meeting recently Hint he could not gel a girl for $0 or $7 a week. This merchant did not want a Union Store Card. Tlle Union Card would turn black in the window of such n merchant and we must protect it from such. • t • Wnges would be down to the vanishing point if some merchants hnd their wny. In Brandon, Man., there wns a case where two sisters came from Hie farm to the eity. Both got n job, nnd between them they BILLIARDS.- BEST LIGHTED AND VENTILATED ROOMS IN THE CITY. BRUNSWICK-BALKE AND BURROUGHS & WATTS TABLES. got $7.50 for a week's work. One was in a dry goods stone "and the other was packing seed grain for the Golden West. Tliere eame the Union, nnd the change. The Manitoba minimum wage is $9.50. THE RETURNED SOLDIER In the returned soldier we shnll haye one who will require very careful and very wise treatment. The problem must be looked squnrely in the face and not shirked. We shall have at the end of the wnr nnything np to half a million men who will return to this, country, expecting that the land for which they fought shall do something more substantial for them than merely cnll them heroes and let it gq at that. The best and stendicst nmong them will slip hack into civilian life without nny commotion or fuss, modestly pleased at the esteem with which they will be held iu their communities, and ready to take their places once more among their fellows. There will be, however, another and far different element nmong them; and even now they are seen among us. These are they who will do all they can to trade upon the title of "veteran" who will endeavor to turn the Grent Wnr Veterans' Association into an engine for wringing more and still more concessions from the government, and who will be ready to give tlieir votes to any politician who promises to give them what they want. Such tactics will bring deplorable results, for the rest of the population, men who have not had the privilege of serving their country overseas, will be forced, in merest self-defence, to resist these demands and thus set up strife in our midst. Even now the tune of the utterances of some of the branches of the association is giving men furiously to think, and the future is looking fnr from bright. Those who have served in the war naturally deserve of every reasonable consideration. A grateful country must generously reward them, but it cannot nllow of the least desirable elements among them to become arogqnt and overbearing. It is needless, and indeed undesirable to expatiate further on this point, but it is one which will need careful attention in the future.—From "Reconstruction," n Bulletin issued by the Council for Social Service of the Church of England in Canada. FREE LECTURE PRINCESS THEATRE YATES STREET SUNDAY, JUNE 30 7:30 P.M. SUBJECT: THE DIVINE PLAN OF THE AGES SPEAKER: CLIFFORD ROBERTS AUSPICES ASSOCIATED BIBLE STUDENTS SEATS FREE ALL WELCOME NO COLLECTION Superior Fruit Service Dan W. Poupard Fruit Specialist Balmoral Block Douglas Street, Victoria Phone 3321 Canada Food Board License No. 9-5809 "THE CHURCH AS A SERVANT' The tendency among many at' the present day is not so much to belittle the functions of the minister of religion ns to circumscribe them; to make of the parson a harmless ornamental person whose functions hnve nothing whatever to do with the daily lives of his people. It lias been said, "We like to have the parson among us because there are times when we don't feel quite sure of ourselves, when we feel that we are rather out of our depths, and perhaps somebody else enn do something, miraculous or not, which will sel things right nnd ninkc us feel more comfortable. Such limes as birth nnd marriage and death have in them something of the mnr- vellous nnd mysterious; we don't know exactly whnt lo make of thcm, so we get in lhe parson to bnptize onr children, to marry us, and bury us, much ns the savage gets the medicineman lo make magic for him. It seems to help quite n lot, and we feel all the better for it. Onr man hns made 'good medicine,' and we can got along all right until we want his services again. He also lends quite a becoming nir of respectability to nny little function he mny nssist at, and we feel distinctly elevated by his presence in our midst. Of course these little services he mny render ns nre nnt really very arduous nor do they entail any particular aptitude or excellence to perform with tolerable accuracy, Therefore, of course, we don't pny him very much, nnd we don't think of him very highly, rather perhaps as, "vox el praeterea nihil." Such foolish disingenuous tnlk must; be stopped, nnd the only wny of stoppint; it is by showing thnt the Church, and Ihe ministers of the Church are vitally concerned not only with birth and death and what mny he called the greater occasions of life, bnf with the every dny existence of all her children. Not in any obtrusive, prying fashion, but in the spirit of leadership and good comradeship, in the spirit of those tonehing, noble words, "I am among you as he that serveth,'' must the Church stand among her people. Tims mny the Church grapple with the problem of our new nge in Can- ada, the problem of new citizens, men and women cut adrift from their moorings in the old land, a little bewildered even a little frightened at strange scenes and new ways. The oppotrnnity for leadership among such is a priceless one, never, or rarely, to he regained if once lost.— From "Reconstruction," a Bulletin issued by the Council for Social Service of the Church of England in Canadai C. H. SMITH &CO. Photographic Supplies Pictures Picture Framing Other Things Too I 611 Fort Street LABOR MUST LEAD The leaders of the American Federation of Labor hnve often asserted a conventional resentment against the criticisms and suggestions of "outsiders." But all true democrats today, all workers who live by bund or brain or both, ure vitally concerned in the decisions of organized labor. Whether, which God grant, democracy is victorious ou the lields of France, or whether it suffer Hie in- ciileuhible tragedy of a temporary check, ils future nnd inevitable development rests in the hands of the workers of tho world and primarily witli the wage workers. As iu England and the dominions of the British Empire, so too in America those whose hearts think democracy look to the organized labor movement for leadership. That leadership lhe British Labor Parly has grently asserted in behalf of the democrats of England; the convention of the American Federation of Labor to ho held in St. Paul nexl week will show whether Hie organized workers of America are prepared lo assume a similar leadership here.—The New Republic. GRAY HAIR~~ Dr. Tremain's Natural Hair Restorative, used ns directed, is guaranteed to restore gray hair to its natural ('(dor or money refunded. Positively not a dye and non-injurious. Price $1.00, On salo in Victoria by Dean & Hiscocks, Druggists rner Votes and Broad Streets. flS? m mm Department of the Naval Servioe TENDEBS FOB WHABF SEALED TENDERS, addressed to tlie undersigned, and endorsed "Tender for Couliiiff Jetty," will be received up to noon on the 1 Stli July, lins, for the reconstruction of the Coaling Wharf at H. M. C. Dockyard, Esquimau, B.C. Tenders should bo accompanied hy certified <!u'(]ue for TEN PER CENT of the amount of tho tender.. Plans, specification!* and permission to view the site may be obtained from the understfpied or from the Captain Superintendent, H.M.C. Dockyard, Esquimau, a. J. DESBABATS, Deputy Minister of ihe Naval Service. Department Naval Service, Ottawa, May 31, 1918. Unauthorized publication of this advertisement will not be pall for. Juno 29. Page Six THE WEEK Saturday, June 29 1 At Tke Street Corner BY THE LOUNGER I am no p«litician. I never was, and hope I never shall be. Yet somehow I cannot help feeling strangely elated at the prospect of having the privilege of exercising the franchise on Friday. I do not propose to attend any of the meetings. My mind is already made np. I mean to mark my ballot, good and strong, sure and certain, for my old friend Frank Giolma. Frank, to those who know him, will, as an M.P.P., be the right man in the right place. He is entirely untrnmelled. He never belonged, and does not now belong to any politicnT party, nor, so far as I know, to any fraternal order or society, barring, of course, the Veterans. He is the choice of the soldier and labor, a worthy combination, and one whieh promises soon to relegate the old political parties with their oft-times nauseating mal-prac- tises, to the limbo of things unwept, unhonored and unsung. This line-up of labor and khaki is one of the most encouraging signs of the times. Anyhow, is not the soldier a labor man ? The great majority were, before they donned the uniform, and when they have discarded the latter for the less preten tious mufti, they automatically become onee more a part of that great body of humanity whieh we designate "labor." This brings me to what I wish to get at. I have a suggestion to offer the Trades and Labor Council or the B.C. Federation of Labor. I give it for what it is worth. Let these bodies immediately form a "burenu" or "sub-section" to work exclusively in the interests of the returned men. This would go a long way towards further cementing the happy understanding so lately consummated. In tho humble opinion of the Lounger, labor is the only quarter from.which the returned or disbanded men may ever hope to expect help. Past experience has shown that the most the other bodies have done for Tommy has been to cover him with frothy sentiment nnd make noisy .protestations of tlieir pious solicitude on his behalf—and there the matter has ended. Now, esteemed reader, please don't forget that there's an election on Friday, and that the Lounger expects that every man and woman that day will mark a ballot for Comrade Giolma. W That W. B. Perry would no doubt make a good representative for a loan company. That he might even make a good representative for the Canadian Club. That we have just as> many of that IjjEj kind of representatives as we can put **** up with. PSSS115SSI5SSSSSSSSSSSBSSSSSKSS1KB5S Look for the Retail Clerks' Union Store Card That one Conservative or Liberal more or less won't amount to a "hill of beans" just now, but— SUB ROSA THE VICTORIA TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL HAVE NOTIFIED ALL UNIONS IN THE CITY TO BUY AT STORES WHERE THE RETAIL CLERK'S STORE CARD IS IN EVIDENCE IN THE WINDOW S0TT0_V0CE BY THE HORNET ■^"That Leslie's says, "Let's tell the truth." That this is "so sudden." That the censor might object, and— That the sudden change might upset things. That the Hornet would like to get the views of qur two dailies on the matter. That he has no hopes of him doing |\ anything of the kind. i^That Oliver doesn't need any more Liberals in the house at present. That all the eloquence and all the courage that has in the past been discernable in Major Langley's attitude towards social and economic problems wouldn't help honest John one little bit. That another Conservative in the House would be equally useless. That we don't require any more eloquence over there, but— That we can very well do with some more plain common sense, and— That Giolma is able to supply it. That in spite of Giolma's Italian- sounding name, ho is English—quite English. That he got his name when he was too young to make a kick or he might have changed it. That they would need considerable ^at even had he been oalled practice before they could carry out "John Bull" he would still have been Leslie's suggestion successfully. the game man. That Leslie's must be Bolsheviki. That gome of hU most enthusiastic ,., supporters must remember that That they may put up stunts like »rowdy;sm>* generally has the very that in Russia but it would never do opposite effect to what is intended, here. That it is more likely to make enemies than votes. WThat the Old Lady on Broad Street is keeping very quiet about the election. That she has shown such utter im-' becility in her treatment of the Russian question thnt it is just as well for her not to get mixed up in any local troubles. That in this she has shown greater diplomacy than her near neighbor who is certainly "Doing his bit" to antagonize both the Labor movement and the Returned Men. Thnt these men have a curious habit of "keeping tub" on these things, and— That the Times must not be surprised if they mnke some sort of mild —very mild—protest. ■WThnt our Old Lady friend agrees? with Lloyd George when he pleads for reconciliation all round in Ireland, but— That she considers any one a perfect idiot who suggests that the plea be made world-wide. That she is not consistent. That Mr. Shortt, Genernl Secretary for Ireland, says: "The government is determined to put down disorder. It will not nllow peaceful citizens to be persecuted nnd ruined for their political opinions." Thnt this will be good news to some over there. That the Hornet would like the Secretary of State to say the same thing over'here nnd to add the word "religious" to the word "political, but—- DC- That Bowser was content with an old fashioned wash bowl—Pattulo prefers modern plumbing. That the Ministers of Lands is certainly strong on the "Spruce" business. SW" That a hysterical press may place what interpretation they like upon the action of the Federated Labor Party in supporting ex-Private Giolma, and tliere is not the least doubt they Will make tbe very worst of it, hut- That they .cannot get away from the fact that the Labor Party is the only one to show sufficient confidence ill the Returned Soldier to trust their ense in his hands. i SW" That the two old time parlies are quite willing to let the soldier go to the front and sacrilice his life for them, but— That neither of them nre willing to trust him to do nny fighting for them hero at home. WThnt "We will find work for the returned soldier" is the cry of both Liberals and Conservatives, but when it comes to letting him hnve n job over tho Bny where he can do some real work, there's nothing doing. IW That a Private is a jolly fine chap when it eomes to stopping a bullet— but it would never do to hnve one in Parliament. Nothing short of n Mnjnw will go down thenh "don't elie know™' That the Major may be a returned soldier but as ho was not chosen by them he cannot claim to be their representative, DEMOCRACY is being fought for by our soldiers. ___ DEMOCRACY must be constructed by the workers. That we can do very well with one m SOLDIERS and workers must unite on the political field, iteturned Soldier. bra Be SOLDIERS and workers must unite on the industrial field. That Victoria should put him "over |= S0LDIEES AND WORKERS must purchase only from merchants who display the Clerks' the top" en Friday.. jg Union Sto™ Card. This means democracy in the making. DEMOCRACY IS NO DREAM. It is the consciousness of right against wrong. Right goods at right prices handled by clerks who receive right wages. Right can only be established and secured by conscious organization of the masses. Tho ex-fighters and near-lighters aft Soldiers and workers must meet on the groun d where the democratic dollar means conditions were probably a power to be reckoned fig 0f ljfe fit for democracy—RIGHT BEHIND THE CLERKS' STORE CARD. with when they were under the com- ""* mand of Currie. 'They were told to do and they did. They were told to get and they got; but when it comes to a matter of going into a political action they appear to have about as much idea of what is expected of them as a bunch of boy scouts. Of course that is only my personal opinion, and ten o'clock Friday evening may prove it is worthless. I know nothing of the character or talents of the candidates. They may be all equally destable or (all dpsirably estimable, the first virgin specimens of the new style politieinns the grent war is going to bring us, but I hae ma doots, especially with regard to Perry; there is no hint of Russia in any corner of his countenance, and without Russia there is no salvation. But it is not of the candidntes I want to write. The returned men should recognize, that they are not numerous enough to separate themselves from the class they come from, nor unanimous enough to scare the class that rules or misrules them. They should recognize that the people, of this Province are behind John Oliver and that they are going to be for at least two more years. They should know 'that the public affairs of this Province were bordering on a state that would disgrace the management of a Chinese junk agency, and that while they were at the war John Oliver and his colleagues took on the task of salvaging the wreckage ■ of the past ten years of joy-riding whioh Jiad made this Province a good place to flee from. Though this government may not suit the ex-soldiers, it is doing a necessary lot of straightening out that has to be done before even any mild form of direct democracy con be attempted. Just as sure as they served a purpose by going to France, so just ns certnin John Oliver is the Premier this Province needs for its present troubles. Neither he nor Major Langley and certainly no crooked lawyer will be able to qualify for that position, say five years from now, but in the meantime neither soldiers nor workmen enn bring forth a more able and sympathetic administrator than "Honest John." • « * All of which menns this, thnt from n politicnl viewpoint, it is better to give your worst enemy a black eye than to kick your part-friend on the shins. Oliver's ploughing may not be as straight and deep as •some of us would like, but we much prefer the old man's plowing to Bowser's gambling. * » • * You remember, before the U.S.A. enme into the wnr, The Times nearly every evening had an insulting little bnrk nt President Wilson. Now it never misses a chance to yelp at Mr. Trotzky and the Russian Bolsheviki. Trotzky may not be getting along as smoothly in Russia as Mr. Oliver is in B. C., but I certainly do not see where the nppositeness of the com- pnrison eomes in. To right lhe affairs of less than hnlf n million people in Ibis Province would be a kindergarten job to the Russian statesman's, nnd straight off Ihe boat he would begin to talk in good trenchant English to The Times> representative. People who can only converse in one lnngnnge should try and attain unto a little humility in this short life of woe anil wonder. The Wage-earners' purchasing power is the first principle of government for the people, of the people, and by the people The Following Stores Command Your Attention: J. N. HARVEY, Gent's Furnishings 614 Yates Street RICHARDSON & STEPHENS (Pite Rite), Gents Furnishings, Yates and Government Sts. THE MODERN SHOE COMPANY Corner Government and Yates Streets WESTERN GROCERY COMPANY 765 Fort Street McKENZIE STREET GROCER "...335 Cook Street DAN POUPARD, Fruit Specialist Douglas Street CUMMINGS & CO., Gents Furnishings 727 Yates Street. 0. H. DORMAN, Gents Furnishings 1328 Government Street RETAIL CLERKS MEET TUESDAY NIGHT, ODDFELLOW'S HALL Remember, the Minimum Wage Board will begin to investigate wage conditions in one month's time. Where do you stand ? In the Union or o ut ? JOIN UP AND DO YOUR BIT NOW I where are looking to their fellow Canadians in the towns and cities to supplement the supply. No matter what happens the crop must be taken off, and who is to do itf If the able-bodied men in our towns and cities will look seriously at this vital question, many of them will gladly respond to the appeal made through the registration cards for assistance in farm work. Every town and city, in British Columbia can spare numbers of men who are now engaged in occupations which are not essential to our national safety and well being at the present time. Every employer and employee should read carefully the following: "A day of reckoning is coming; a day when that irresistible force, Public Opinion, will judge a man by his work, and will judge employers by the work they ure retaining men to do." It is perhaps unnecessary here to specify by name those occupations which'could be dispensed with in the face of such a crisis as our country and our nation are now facing, but certainly there nre many non-essential occupations in wnr time, and nil men nnd women engaged in them should seriously consider abandoning them for the present in favor of farm work. Form experience is i not absolutely necessary to make a man of great assistance at Ibe present time on farms. The color of his blood is of great importance. If it is red enough he will succeed. lands'' fighting to reproduce the Russian revolution in their own countries. "What has happened so far is a very old thing, the world has seen many times before tho kings of the earth rise up and the rulers take counsel together. But when peoples with new Bibles and new Jewish prophets do the same thing there will be no more use for that middle class ignorance that deals with such a danger by a refusal of passports to those alone who understand it.'' We agree with Shaw. The Russinn revolution is but nn incident in a world-wide struggle which shall not cense until Proletarian Internationalism has overthrown the infamy of Bourgeois Imperialism. Today the disinherited are no longer the meek and humble suppliants whom tho high and mighty formerly knew, but, with a definite programme for a new social order, nre working unceasingly with knowledge and strong purpose towards a social order under which the exploiting and ruling castes shall be no more. —Western Clarion. The able-bodied young men in Cnnnda are at the front or in training. The fanners hnve done their best and tlie crop is in the ground. The harvest is up to the townspeople. Unless they organize to help, the people of this country will have to tighten their belts next winter. There is no doubt nbout it. PACIFIST MINISTER LN WINNIPEG IS FIRED BY METHODIST CONFERENCE HAS THE WAR ONLY STARTED? SAVE THE CROPS The harvest is fast approaching and every effort must be made to prevent nny wnste of foodstuffs through hick of help on tbe farms. First, things must eome first. The campaign for Increased Food Production which has been carried on so successfully throughout the Dominion necessitates an increased supply of lnbor in the harvesting of the crops. Already the supply of fnrm labor is inadequate to meet this increased demand nnd farmers every- This Is What George Bernard Shaw Thinks George Bernard Shnw snys: "I must sorrowfully dispell the illusion thnt the Russinn revolution makes for peace. Our patriots, always seizing Ihe wrong end of the stick, are in full cry against a 'separate peaee' by Russia. "What they would dread if they had a grasp of the situation is a separate war by Russia; a fight to a finish, not only with tho German throne, but with nil thrones; a war that will go on when the rest of the belligerents want to stop; a war that mny develop into a blaze of civil wars in England, France nnd Italy, with the foreign offices nnd courts nnd capitalists fighting to restore the Czar, and the 'proletariat of all The Methodist Conference has taken an epochal step in removing Rev. Wm. Ivens from the pastorate of McDougnll Methodist Church because of his altitude on public questions nnd bis pacifist views. It is n clear-cut case. The Methodist Conference has definitely gone on record as intolerant townrd certain phases of thought which have no reference to nor nny bearing on the matter of religion, generally supposed to be the supreme solicitude of a church. There was no complaint nor shadow of complaint as to heretical views or utterances on the part of Mr. Ivens. His only "sin" was that he proclaimed himself a foe to capitalism, a friend of the workingmnn, a believer in social equality, and a hater of war and bloodshed. Mr. Ivens has committed no act of a nature fo draw down the censure of any official of the Government nor had he incurred rebuke or warning from any military authority. His censure and his rebuke enme from his fellow ministers in a church which professes to be nn exponent of the teachings of the Prince of Pence. The conference did not have the excuse thnt the attitude of Mr. Ivens wns resented by the bulk of the members of his congregation nnd that the church nttendniiee had fallen off. On llie contrary a petition wns presented lo the conference praying for tho return of Mr. Ivens and signed by a majority of those who attend the church. The congregations during Mr. Ivens' pastorate have been good and the church has prospered. While the conference thought Mr. Ivens was not fitted to be the minister of McDougnll Church, it did not deem him as unfitted for the ministry. It wns intended to remove him, not to n remote rural charge, but to nn- other city church, Mr. Ivens, himself, refused to submit to such a shuffle and requested to be left without a* pastoral charge at all. 1 If Mr. Ivens' views nre dangerous they would certninly be ns dangerous in Weston ns in North Winnipeg. How the Conference committee could reconcile its proposed policy with the policy of straight-forward dealing which should characterize church deliberations, can hardly be conceived. The whole course of the Conference on the Ivens matter is an evidence of wenk and pusillanimous truckling to tho rich who are opposed to the social doctrines expounded by Mr. Ivens. Mr. Ivens took the only mnnly course open to him when he refused to be shuffled. He could not hnve gone to another charge with any prestige, and had he done so he would not have possessed the respect even of his opponents to say nothing of his own self-respect. In cutting himself loose he stands unhampered to express the views he holds so vigorously.—"The Voice," Winnipeg.
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