Week
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contributor: W. E. Peirce
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1918-06-29
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note: 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, an…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374017
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : [publisher not identified]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text