Kootenay Mail
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-07-14
issued: 1899-04-15
description: The Kootenay Mail was published in Revelstoke, in the Columbia-Shuswap region of southeastern British Columbia, and ran from April 1894 to December 1905. The Mail was published by the Revelstoke Printing and Publishing Company, and its longest-serving editor was J. Livingstone Haig. In 1906, the Mail merged with the Revelstoke Herald to form the Mail-Herald, a staunchly conservative paper that eventually folded due in part to competition from a more liberal competitor, the Revelstoke Review.
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note: Vol.5.-No. 52. REVELSTOKE. WESTVkQOTMAY, B.C., APRIL 15^1899. $2.00 a Year. CORRESPONDENCE. The. Question of the Day Is labor's wages. We have bad a good opportunity to size up tnis question from the $40,000 speut on ttfe river bunk this winter. That is a large suiii to±cpend in a .small town like this ■ but it has done' no good except to a few that could have done without it Justus well, and for the resson that $2 per day is not enough for lahorers. A man pays $1 a duy for board; if he is a temperance man and a good church member he has $r'left,' for clothing, which U no1 small item, at least 23 cents per day; then there is always lost time'ors outside work: if he loses one day per wenki which he will, he has $2,501 eft, which makes $10 per month. If' he gets eight months' work out of twelve,'which is the , veiy^ ^most for an average, he will.be from $25 to'.$30"in debt at the end, as $10 per month for 8 months equals ,$S0; board for I months without work, $120. ,, And if he'is not such iitnan as referred to above he will have his.tobacco and a diink or two per day, perhaps go- to ' the theatre once or twice, he will be in , debt at end of the 8 months to the people who make the wages. They' cannot prosper because there is too much credit and too much loss now. <■ Who do these small wages benefit, no. one in the world that ,is, fair and upright. • A man may lake a good job for a good, price and i cut' watjes to "make more, but the next jobh" has to "' take for less and pay. still smaller wages. Big companies will cut wages 't'6 get then work done cheap but they make a mistake, for this reason; a ''good man will not' work for small wa^es if he can help it and he. will do more good work in a day for $3 than a ' poor man in a day and a half for the satne; and'with a good foreman those Can be picked out at once, A man should he. .paid according "to the amount of'good work he does and .not for the kind of work he.'is put at; the iesultwoukl he that .there, would he more…
note: Print Run: 1894-1905 Frequency: Weekly, Twice weekly from 1900-01 to 1900-10 Published by R.W. Northey from 1894-04-14 to 1895-03-02; Revelstoke Printing and Publishing Co. from 1895-03-09 to 1896-04-04 and 1901-01-17 to 1905-12-30; Atkins and Smith from 1896-04-11 to 1898-03-26; Atkins and Campbell from 1898-04-09 to 1899-05-13; and B.R. Campbell from 1899-05-20 to 1901-01-10.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Revelstoke (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0181023
language: English
lat: 50.998889
long: -118.195833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Revelstoke, B.C. : Atkins and Campbell
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text