Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1900-01-27
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note: ."J VOL 3.-N0. 33. SANDON, B. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1900. FIVE CENTS. '���������nfi 1. ffiljjl HOUSE. Slocan's Member Makes a Neat Speech But Committs Himself on the Eight-Hour Law. Mr. It. F. Green, of Kaslo, followed llr. Pooley. After the usual tribute to the mover of tlie address, lie took up the great question of liis district, the eight-hour law. That he did not consider the sole cause of tlie troubles. Tlie mines shut down had paid millions of dollars in dividends, and even for the present year $2,000,000 would probably represent, the profits of the Slocan, whose total output would probably reacli 87,000,000 lor the year 1S99. There wero labor troubles there, but it has not been shown that the shorter day was their sole cause, lie also chafFcd the opposition members for their caution in committing thcrn^ selves on this question. They were* saying a great deal about it, but they seemed afraid, to demand its repeal. All of them fought shy of that. He had been referred to by tho minister of finance concerning the spending of the appropriations. So lar as his district was concerned, they were better spent last year than ever before in his 16 years' residence there. In the preceding year the government had spent ������Oft IW1 'in'fl..l ...'/Ii...... L.t^ if Un.l 1 ������26,000 iiv that riding, but it had been largely misspent; ������6,000 rightly used had gone quite as far. He favored the alien law. It worked well in the province he thought. In the State of Washington, if one of our men wandered across the line before he could stake a claim he must forswear tho Queen. Mr. Eberts���������No. Mr. Green���������But I know, lienor The people, too, he held, favored the law, and many tilings were quite wrongly attributed to its workings. The senior member for Esqiiimalt was quite mistaken in saying that the miners did not want the law, as the speaker would assure him that they did, and that they wanted it just as ft was. The country knew that the eight- hour law was …
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 49.975556
long: -117.227222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sandon B.C. : Cliffe and Son
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