The Red Flag
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-11-26
issued: 1919-10-11
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note: The Method of Social Progress Professor Leacock's Socialism ' » Goods We Need and Goods We Can Sell THE RED A Journal of News and Views Devoted to the Interests of the Working Class VOL. 1 NO. 38 VANCOUVER, B. C, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1919 '.•■-fi»";r.i:r»^,«->' ^^sfcilta*--*--*' FIVE CENTS Ten Minutes' Talk With the Workers THE MINIMUM WAGE FALLACY IN the long-winded speech delivered by the Prime Minister last week you would perhaps notice, if you read it, that the most he had to offer us was a 48-hour week and a Commission of Inquiry into the possibility of a Minimum Wage. So far as the hours' proposal is concerned, if [you are already working under the reduced working week you have doubtless become disillusioned | by this time and seen through the game. You can now see that in the change of hours a double purpose has been served. In the first instance, the [much-coveted one-break system, which employers ihave tried to introduce for years, and which we as strenuously resisted, has been introduced with decided advantages all in our employers' favor. On the other hand, in appearing to give us something for nothing—inasmuch as time-wages have not been altered—they have affected ,*<> redeem thoir war-pledges. Akin to this hours swindle is this other "gag" iof a Minimum Wage. Knowing as our employers very well do that so much of our life is absorbed in the getting of wages, and that our eternal quest is for a measure of security in our means of life; knowing, further, that the demand for a minimum wage is an old cry of labor organizations, they i reckon upon sweet words buttering our parsnips, so to say, and by pretending to solve the wages difficulty, cover up. or. at least, relieve the pressure of increased exploitation. It is perhaps as well that you received a timely warning of the [fallacies lurking, behind this idea of a Minimum Wage, lest you should be misled or deceived by [ thc specious arguments of those interested in tricking us. Value and Prices. To begin w…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
spatial: Vancouver
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language: English
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provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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