The British Columbia Federationist
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1913-03-14
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note: '.y.SjSi''- *-£?.*.!J: ^^^|? THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL UNITY: STRENGTH. OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCODVER TRADEB AND LABOR COUNCILAND b7c.FEDERATION OF LABOR. FEDERAL FIFTH YEAR. NO. 101. No. 712- Watch your address label. VANCOUVER, B* C, *jjPA?» MAI&H14,19J3. TRADES AND UBOR CONGRESS AND THE CARPENTERS'UNIONS By W. R. TROTTER. The question which may this year cause most agitation within Dominion trades- union circles la that of the proposed fusion oX the two carpenters unions, end the recognition by trades and lahor councils ot those organisations whose International executives are at variance with tbe American Federation of Labor, but who have been retained ln not a few places ln the United States, aa well as 111 the central bodies In Canada, In the hope that some solution other than compulsion would be tound. There II every evidence that theae matters will be brought to a head during IMS. The -last Trades Congress convention at Ouelph refused to unseat the delegates from the Amalgamated Car- IS ten, whose charter from the A, P. If L, had been revoked during the I vlous six months by the executive a nmlttee. No other course could < itly have been taken at that time, a e Amalgamated bad paid lte tax to jr s congreu before lte charter wu - voked. It had alio elected Its detect tee to represent tbat taatlon and ? me of them had traveled thousands i ' miles te attend the convention. To * fuse them a seat under .such clrcutn- mnces would have been, to say the least, reprehensible, -•.. Furthermore, there had* been no meeting of the A. F. of L. where the i evocation ot charter could be endorsed by the membenhlp, and,we have In mind the cue of the Brewery Workera, whose charter waa thus revoked and at the following convention at Norfolk, Virginia,' wss restored to them: The Brewery Workeri were at that time affiliated with1 the Canadian Congress, and It the congress had at the Winnipeg convention removed that order from the roll, they would have been In the foolish position of see…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (1912) ; The B.C. Federationist, Ltd. (1912-1915) ; The B.C. Federationist, Limited (1915-1922) ; The B.C. Federationist (1922-1923) ; The British Columbia Federationist (1923-1925).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0344892
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : The B.C. Federationist, Ltd.
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text