Le monde ouvrier = The labor world, 1 avril 1921, Supplément

x> SUPPLEMENT SAMEDI, 23 AVRIL 1921 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY, APRIL 23rd, 1921 UNION PURCHASING LEAGUE LE MONDE OUVRIER TRADESl^r'OylcQljNCIL An organized effort to help the working man and his family to get the most for their dollar and stimulate patriotic purchasing.The wages of 50,000 Montreal working men properly expended means a local purchasing power of $2,000,000 per week.The Friendly Business Houses identified with this campaign and represented on this page are known to be worthy of the support and patronage of the working class.& » s L ü % It m worth $ 1 weekly $4 monthly^ $200°.° worth $2 weekly $8 monthly $5000P worth $5 weekly ^20 monthly $10000.0 worth » $10 weekly $40montly Complete line of Dining-Room - Bed-Room AND Living-Room Suites — AJiSO — Carpets, Baby-carriages, Kitchen Cabinets, Etc.• • • W00DH0USE & COMPANY ^ In Great Bniiih llouir Furnishers 79-83 ST.CATHER1NE W.CANADIAN VICKERS, LIMITED Naval Construction Works .MAisoNNiavj: viCKEits mu.him.3072 Notre Dame Street East MO N T HEA I., I'.tJ.UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CO OF CANADA, LIMITED MONTREAL QUEBEC TORONTO KITCHENER FINE FURS lIo[i.R;j,-ou-rQ JLiaiUctA 1ÜÔ St.Catherine St.West, M;»utipal Milln 4 72 Singer's Fit-Rite Shoe Co., Ltd WtihIt'Hîih* nui] Retail Denier» in FINK FOOT WEAK 485 Notre Damo St.West, MONTREAL PHARMACIE DORAY Notre principe Qualité et Pureté 2501, RUE SAINT-DENIS in MU douav coin lléliitiger Téléphone : Cal.C02 THE THOS.DAVIDSON Manufacturing Co.Limited.MONTREAL C*n*dft.TORONTO WINNIPEG Téléphone r.Nl Entre l'uplncau et (’urtler E.GERMAIN MEUBLES — LITERIE — TABIS — BRELARTS Noua échangeons et réparons toutes sortes de meubles 963 rue Sainte Catherine Est .MONTREAL Votre Crédit est Itou.- .le défie toute compétition.PAINLESS DENTISTRY By Novo-Codine MASSON DENTAL CO.SAINT-DENIS, | 152 PEEL Curlier Duluth | Corner St.STREET, C’Hth«»rlnn Tél.Km! 7018 — Hew.: K»t 821MI J.A.R.CHEVRIER QUINCAILLERIE Peinture» et Huiles, Fixtures Electriques, Articles de Sport.Tapisserie, Accessoire» d'Autoiuolilles 8G1 Ruo Outarlo Est, - - - MONTREAL ALGOMA STEEL CORPORATION Limited 8AULT 8TE.MARIE, CANADA.UitMr nddreHN “Alipinlel" C’ode uard.W I£ST1ÙII»\ UNION NOVA SCOTIA STEEL & COAL CO.LIMITED Head office and Yrorka: NEW GLASGOW, N.B.Bales Offices: Windsor Hotel and at 43 St.Sacrament 8t.MONTREAL A.LAURIN •Mitrelitind de MoubloH péri lui || «"• ; l'oéle*, l’rélnrl», Tapi», rte.Tél.Eht tu80 42:; Ontario Est,.MONTREAL Merchants Bank of Canada Established 180-4 Main Office: 205 St.James Street 12,-,5 SI.( iillicrlne K.I lait) Ht.l.uivreliee II.Hill SI.Unllierliie W.IHIIO SI.Lawrence H.,000,000 a year original investment coming from the $1 |>er week savings mg, it mav seem funny to see tiiej "t half a million workers would roll idea advocated in a labor paper, but! up into the billions, and labor would because the capitalists preach it is noj control the industry and finance of sign that the idea is wrong.Canada.For ages the rich liavi been ,]t.This may seiein contradictory to what their "':1< above about the profits of industry being smaller than radicals noutieed.Their palaces and _________________ coaches and their footmen have been, ',llstr.v >’eing smaller than pointed to in the past to rouse the P;111,"- But 11 'vns Poi»ted out that the working class against their masters, Then came Marx with a theory surplus values.That idea may difference between the actual cost of ot- making and the sale price of an article l,L, is absorbed by many items.With labor right and it mav be wrong.Before ! ProJnelnï 0,1 a ?i;int scale, and with the Freud, Revolution, J.1.Rous-1 labor thriftily purchasing labor’s own scan wrote hi- work the “Social| Pr»‘btcts from labor?* own factories, Contract”, in which he put forth the|'hese charges would not need to be inidea that society was a contract bet .1 .eurred in nearly the same ratio as un der present conditions when employer and employee, buyer and seller, manufacturer and retailer all pull apart.ween the individuals, and when the individuals wanted to change the contract, they could do so.This theory was used to smash the feudal system in France.Any stick is good enough when one wants to beat a dog and the “Social Contract” was tLe -tick used to beat the feudal system.That system lia- gone and the ‘4 Social j 1 ' Contract’’ theories have also gone.!11 Si.i-iet\ i- not now regarded as discreet In old days, with primitive tools, units bound together merely by their the Babylioninu workers went to their .•on-,-ions wills.Society is now looked! jobs clothed in a loin cloth ami with upon more a- a living organism.' a bag of millet and a handful of dates With the coming of Marx’s doe-! for their food.They lived in huts trines of wage workers getting a bare baked from the quid of the Euphrates tiling wage, and the surplus values! river.Today Canadian workers go to produced by the working class being j work fully clothed in the majority of — Soil 'imumxil Etiquette de la Fédération Américaine du Travail American Federation of Labor Label , Union-ntado Cigars., y *** * * • *» JiiWn ¦ jf.)rfl ___¥__________c m nj./h Ktiquette des Travailleurs eu Tabac Tobacco Workers' Label ^'unionV' ’ No Etiquette Bleue des Cigariers Cigarmakers’ Bluo Label vWORKERS UNION, Etiquette des Chapelien Cloth Hat and Cap Makers’ La, Etiquette des Cordonniers, Ateliers d» Réparages Boot and Shoo Workers Repair Shops Label Etiquette des Cordonniers Boot and Shoe Workers’ Label Bouton Bleu des Commis de Bar Bartenders Blito Button WORK Another necessity is work which the employers arc so fond of talking about ami striving to get the workers to do more abundantly.The found a lion of a nation’s wealth is work.£ Painters ECORATORS) REGISTLRCD Etiquette des Peintres-Décorateurs Painters and Decorators’ Label Carpenters and Joiners’ Union Label l.tiqucttc des Charpentiers-Menuisiers eases, with an overcoat, and they come from brick houses with window class and containing a bathtub.Their diet is far removed from that of their ancient Babylonian forerunners.Work of the people lias made the.change possible.The worker wants to inerease his standard of living.To do so, work must be applied to raw material.The, workers is the one to do it.If the worker lets down, and pro j -luces less, the -whole standard of com J fort of the national life will be lowered.The following is an illustration.When the printing office of the government was overhauled and put j on a business basis, the output of the linotypes was increased 110 per ecu' an hour.That is, the worker more than doubled his output.Or again bricklayers in New York City, it is said, are laying about eight hundred brick a day, when before the war they laid from 1,500 to 1,800 a dav.They automatically taken away from the working class by the system and placed in the hands of the employing - la-s, the ey-s of the radicals became fixed with great intensity upon that part nf the product of industry which the workers did not get.The part the workers got, wages, has been minimized, and the part the employing class got, rent, interest and profits, has been magnified.It is human nature to think what the other fellow has got is better than «hat we have got.It works both ways.Tne employer looks upon the big wages he thinks some of hi- workers dra«- down, and the worker looks upon the profits he thinks the employer is getting.The more radical speakers have been in the habit of painting word pictures of the huge profits the employers get.When seen from the employers point of view, the profits shrink rapidly, the large difference between what (he employee gets for making an art i-le and the retail price thereof being I are adopting the standard of work of |»»o ¦ D *VT**0»IT* of Etiquette des Travailleurs en Vêtements United Garment Workers’ Label Etiquette des Arêtiers Alliés de l’Imprimerie Allied Printing Trades’ Label Etiquette des Tailleurs-Oouturien Custotq Tailors’ Label htimfoml :o) Etiquette des Boulangers Bakora’ Label LABOR DIRECTORY Etiquette des Ferblantiers-Couvreurs Sheet Metal Workers’ Label Etiquette des Barbiers Barbers’ Union Label The “ Montreal Weekly Witness”, in its issue of April Uth has an editorial upon Karl Marx an -1 the theories.The -Karl Marx h.ditions of the Germany, could eept by an exj forces.The ed pled this dismal ge theory that pressor, therefoi ished.These t, a lea veil o ci.-tlist itorial declares that hat the sunken eon-orkers, especially in not be changed ex-sion from tin- under rial adds, “Be coil, orceast with a stran-capital was the op-capital must be abolis-o notions worked like ferment in the populations concerning wliieh they «ere spoken, and have in half a * .ntury reached the stags- of effervescence, and have taken the form oi a genera! conviction that the world i- to be renewed by the destruction of capital: that is its surplus earnings.'’ The editorial then goes on to state that surplus earning must b*- continued if civilization is to advance.•Much argument i- due to the fact that terms are not defined.The Witness; completely misses the point of Marx's teachings by mistaking the meaning he | attached to the word “capital.” Aç.i cording to the understanding of tiiej word by the ordinary Canadian, capital does mean surplus earnings.It! means that portion of the wealth created during tie* pa-t or i- being created j in the present, which is not being eon- j sinned to actually keep people alive I and feed, clothe and shelter them from! year to year.Thus a farmer works bard and gel- hi- current farm work done, and in hi» spare moments, gets out lumber and builds himself a hen ! house -o he can add liens to his farm industry.That henhouse is capital ae -cording to the ordinary conception.But Marx used the word in a very} special sense, lie used it in the sense' of “wealth used to exploit labor.’’ Thus it' four men « 12.30 FRATERNITE UNIE DES CIIA1IPEN-Tl Bits-MENUISIERS D’AMEItlQl K, LOCAL 141.— Président, E.Biais, 1618 Ructu-1 Est; Vice-Président, It.St-Maurl-çe, 4I8HI Clark; Secrétaire-Archiviste, 1-.Lefebvre, «10A de Saint-Valler; Secrétaire-Trésorier.E.Tisdel, 84 Garnier; Secrétaire-Financier, J.A.lloy, 544 Snlnt-ClirUUi-phe ; Assis tu ut - Secrétaire-Fl na licier, ,1.Ùl-rouaril ; J.il.Roy, pr., Sainte-Agathe ; Gardien, M.P., J.Venue, lit Lafantalue, Maisonneuve ; Conducteur, M.Laflear, 007 Drolet : Salle de Réunion, 417 rue Ontario Est.Assemblée tous les lundis soirs.CHARPENTIERS - MENUISIERS, LOUAI, 701, *011161,.—Réunion chuqu» vendredi.Halle Suint-Georges; Pféél ¦ dent: Léon Auger; Secrétnlre-archivl»-te: EU.Deslaurlor; Secrétulre-trèiût-Ur: Hector Uaboury; Sesnélalre-flnaaeUri Lucien Plante.LOGE SAINTE-MARIE No 234 DE LA FRATERNITE DES * IVAOONNIBR8 .KICEHS D-AMEURIUE.—Assemblée les 1er et Sème vendredis de DES VOIES FERREES D'AMERIQUE.Assemblée les 1er et Sème venuref chaque mois, au No 417 Ontario Est aident; Z.Tardif, 07 Win.David; Vice Ironie uc Est.pré- Président: A.Ronny, 425, 7iême Avenue, Rosemont ; Her.-Financier: Arthur Valllaa-court, No I, Azllila, Tétraultvllle; Scc.-nr-i-It I v 1st < ¦ : Joli n Tardif, SUl rue Lctuurueui; Trésorier: A.Bertrand, 085 Aylwln.ROOT giid SHOE WORKERS, No.266.—Muets every Wedneeday at 8 p.m 1216 St.Catherine St.East Prealdent.Louli Leslège; Recording-Secretary, Lionel Thibault; Flnanolal-Secretary end Business Agent, (TiR.McKercher 1216 St.Catherine St.East.INT.STEAM A.OPERATING ENGIN >L 5SS.— Asseinbléi et 4o samedis de chaque EEHS.LOCAL 5SS.— Assemblée tous les 2e ' ‘ .luun les ze et (o samedis île chaque mois & 8 hrs P.M.chambre No 16.Mo Hument Nutlonal.Président.Eugnc Hume lin, 280 rue Dufresne; Sec.-cor., T.ouïs Mur.tin, 325, Olèmc A/enue, Rosemont; Sec.-flii., J.IL L.I.ccliliT, 13 rue Resther, ROOT and Sllol( WORKERS' UNION LOCAL 257 de ST-I1YAC1NTHK-— Assemblée tous les vendredis A 8 beu res du soir au No 71 rue Mondor.Pré aident, O.Bonnette; Hi-er.financier: J.Dechennes; Tré-Horler: Arh.Brodeur.INTERNATIONA L UNION OK STEAM ! AND OPERATING ENGINEERS Nu.593—Meets every first and third Friday at 8.00 P.M.Monument Natlo nal.SL Lawrence St.President S Ma gulrs.82 Shsrbrooko St.West; recording-secretary, J.J.Dillon, 838, 48rU Avenue, Snult-nux-Bécoliels; Financial Sec'y, A.Graham, 1091 Evelyn St.Ver dun._____ UNION MUTUELLE DES EMPLOYE* CIVIQUES,— Réunions Ioiih les mardis, a la Salle du Commerce, 11» Burrl.Président: J- F.Girard, 1(14 Hiiliite-Cntlicrliic E.; cScrétaIre-correspondant: (.’.E.Courclies-¦ie, 41 Salntc-Elinubctti ; Hecrétnlre-nrclil-viHte: Achille Lntreille, 1037 Saint-André.UOOT and SHOE WOn.TICRS’ UNION, No.428.— Assemblée toiiB lus lundis k 8 heures p.m.au No.1215 rue Ste-Catherlne Est.Président, Elias Gagnon, 1716 Dandurand; Sec.-Arch., M Mouette, 68 Ht-JérOrrie; Sec.-FIn.si Agent.d'Affalres,, Chas.McKercher.t NION INTERNATIONALE DES TAILLEURS DE PIERRE DE .MONT.REAL.—Assemblée tous les 1er ot le mercredis du mois a 8 hrs P.M.an N< 417 ruo Ontario Est.Président, T.Mal sonneuve, 376 St-André; Soc.-Corr., O Jetté, 982 Montana; Agent d’affaires Jos.Métlvler, 606 Ht-Uerinaln.AMALGAMATED SOCIETY l>F EN.GINEEIIS.— Monts every lut ané 3rd Friday, at Lafatlèro Hall.18*3 Ht Catherine 8t.Enst.Roc.-Seo.B.Cross by.230 OrléstiH Avenuo, Maisonneuve Fin.-Bec., W.E.Jasmnii.1621 Chabot St.Treas.A.Lovott.209, 4tn Avenue Malsonrijsuye.16-B-lf JOURNEYMEN TAILORS’ UNION, I,o-.cal 317.—President, Bro.Martel’ Vice-President, Bro.Greenberg; Financial Secretary, Bro.Sacy; Treasurer, Bro.Milne; Bec.Secretary, Bro UlHHonnette; As.-Bec.Secretary Bro Burrows; Sergeant of.Arms, Bro.Stop man; Delegates Trades anil Labor, Bro Dupont, liny et It.Lambert; Delegtos , Independent Labor Pnrty, Bro.Martel ! Bfo.Lambert.Bro.Dupont.ntt*»8 WORKERS, LODGE No.785^ Meets 2nd and 4th Fridays In Bricklayers Labor Temple.801 Rt Dominique St.President, M.Fornn.691 Henri-Julien Ave.; Becordlng-Seoret-ary.Edw.Rogers.72a Milton Bt.; Fin anolal-Beoretary, Jas.Black, li Lebei SL PL It.Charles.UNION INTERNATIONALE DES VAI.I-SIEHH ET TRAVAILLEURS EN CUIIt, LOUAI, 71.— Assemblées le let* et 3me mercredi de i-baque mois, A H p.m., Salle de l'Union du Coinmcrt-e, 14» rue llerrl.Président: K IleilUilry, 801 Logan; Vice Président: Nnp.O'Reilly, 1030 Cartier ; Si-i-rélnlre-iirclilvisti* : Will’.Plaïuoiiiloa, 1011 ('Italiot ; Secrétaire-Trésorier: Arm.Gantliiei', 5u Indlnelle; Secrétaire-Correspondant: 16.Bélnlr, 04 Turcot.Harmony is better than hostility.* * * ('oiislnielivi: idea» are bettor than destructive ones.* * # The labor movement that studios the ili'fi'i l.s in itself in order (o remedy tin in milice» more progress thau tho move-in i-u t t lint, studies the defeats in other organizations in order to criticise I hom.* * * The I'liiployer does not possess al! tho wisdom in tlie world, neither docs tin' employée.If this bo recognized, much progress will In' made, j Ini For SORE THROAT z COLD IN CHEST etc.Chas.F.Tilton, Fairvil le, N.B.x writes: 'I wish to ' inform you that wc // consider your V Ml WARD’S LIN-jjr/y IMF.NT a very superior article, and wc use it as a sure relief for sore throat and chest, I would not he without^it if the price was one dollar a bottle.Yarmouth, N.S.7 lggtlllIilBi]lll]lllimiiiiEiTmTiTT4;;r:iitiiip^iiiuiininuiiiimmmimi:iiiitii8mniiÂ