Le monde ouvrier = The labor world, 1 juillet 1921, samedi 2 juillet 1921

ORGANE OFFICIEL DES TRAVAIL LEURS ORGANISES DE ::: MONTREAL::: Oie fulntf wflâ Bureaux et Rédaction: 2 rue St-Paul Est, Montréal Téléphoné Main 3415 ABONNEMENT: $2.00 PAR AN Payable en souscrivant Gième Année — No 27 SAMEDI, 2 JUILLET 1921 — MONTREAL SATURDAY, JULY 2nd, 1921 PRIX : 5 CENTINS LA GREVE DE QUEBEC Les membres des Syndicats Nationaux et Catholiques des Policiers et des Pompiers se mettent en grève.APPEL DE CONVENTION Le secretaire trésorier du Congrès des Qui avait osé affirmer qu’avec le règne des Syndicats ,1" T,'avuU ,l“ raiiada vi,'nt Catholiques il n’y aurait plus de grève?— Que de- !' 1:1 .s"lv'"1,t‘ |,01U vient l’influence des aumôniers quand les interets Wmlli|„ matériels sont en jeu?22 août et les jours suivants: Ij’mi îles arguments les plus forts dont se servent ceux qui veu lent détruire les Unions Internat inutiles et pousser en leur place les Sv nclieats Uatlioli vacances seront payées.A la semaine de salaire sera pay Neel, une semaine de salaire sen en supplément comme gratification.Le travail sera repris.Il existe actuellement une difficulté entre les ouvriers du service (les télégraphes italien et le gouvernement.Ce dit léreml paralyse h-s communications télégraphiques avec l’étranger.Léon Jouhaux et Fimiucii, deux en inanities de ta Fédération Générale de France sont en voyage il’empiète eu liait te Silésie.Le hut (le leur voyage est de faire une enquête sur la situation économique du pays.Un délégué de la Fédé i ut iun du Travail allemande de la Silésie tion tttix revendications des ouvriers producteurs de cette forte somme de profits.E,I attendant lions conseillons au person | ncl de la marine, débardeurs et trnvail-1 leurs aux havres, de se maintenir forte ! nient unis pour protéger leurs propres ]intérêts.—Le règne de la terreur contre les syndicats ouvriers en Espagne se développe ! de plus en plus.l’Iusients officiers appartenant aux syndicats ont été tués par I des coups de fusil tirés par des inconnus.La police, jusqu ’à aujourd’hui, i» ’est pas parvenue à localiser » es assassins.Four aggraver la situation, plusieurs leaders dit travail organisé sont jetés en prison sans procès.travailler 4S heures par semaine.Après quelques pourparlers, voyant l’unanimité des travailleurs, les patrons ont signe le enntrnt de 44 heures.—L'Union Internationale des Peintres de Tacoma vient de Signer avec les maîtres-peintres un contrat de boutique fermée, stipulant la semaine un salaire minimum de t’heure.—Les ouvriers de la fourrure de Mont de 44 heures et 80 centins dî- me un journal ouvrier local l'annonce, une difficulté créée par le patronat qui i'"llt ! veut profiter de la suspension du travail pour écouler les stocks de ma relut ndises en magasins avec- de bons profits.—Plus di- 11,000 ouvriers mineurs du | Borinage de Belgique viennent de se mettre en grève, ne voulant pas accepter la réduction de salaire de û pour cent pro posée par les administrations des charbonnages.La grève affecte la mine Rien du Ci mur à Quareguoti, Levant du Plt'uu à Cui sine et les Produits charbonniers de Pléiiu, ainsi que cinq cents puits à charbon situés à Frnminies, près de Mous.Les ouvrieis refusent d'accepter la réduction parce que les prix du charbon domestique n'ayant pas été réduits pour te consommateur, les ouvriers trouvent que la réduction de 5 pour cent du salaire n’a pas sa raison d’être.Une quantité énorme de verre à vitre ' ' le centre «le real sont heureux du résultat du travaii, jM)a|.|’aj |a pavade de la Fête du Trade leurs officiers qui viennent d’obtenir j v;ljj „„ sliecès.Comme cette année le nu contrat de 20 mois, avec.’ tse trouve en stock dans le centre «le pro gré la chaleur, les meinhres s,- rendront en ,|U(.(j011 g,.Charleroi et de La Louvière, grand nombre à cette assemblée.] ,-n Belgique.Patrons et ouvriers se sont —Un mouvement se fait ae.tuedeinent réunis ji y a 1»’U de jours .-t une entente dans les rangs des unions internationales | provisoire a été conclue permettant aux la semaine de U heures, le paiement des jours (le tête au même salaire que ]’année dernière.Honneur au courage, à l’activité et à la ténacité des travailleurs en fourrure et de leurs officiers.—Une tentative d’atteinte à la liberté de grève vient d’échouer au Sénat américain quand, par un vote de 20 à li, la lot défendant ta grève fut rejetée.Les se Dateurs déclarent que l’ouvrier doit rester libre.Toute atteinte à cette liberté serait la perte du parti qui l’aurait préconisée, _____Quelques hommes d’affaires américains ont demandé de faire réduire les salaires du personnel des compagnies de navigation et des chemins de ter «lans réduction du prix de vente.— Les fonctionnaires du gouvernement ouvriers de continuer à travailler.11 est 1 question que de part et d’autre des cou mouvement ouvrier concurrent veut s, fui- cessions seront laites pour réduite h re remarquer et que toutes les influences -‘mît de la vitre, ee qui permettrait une nécessaires seront employées pour concurrencer notre fête, des officiers de quel-.que» unions locales se proposent de faire ] italien ayant fait une grève générale adopter une mesure de sûreté pour la | gouvernement vient de destituer 4,000 réussite de la parade: U’est 1‘obligution fonctionnaires, 13 ont donné volontaire pour les membres d'être présents ee jour ment leur démission.Cependant, un pro là.Comme le mouvement ouvrier inter jet de loi est présenté au Parlement i t a national a toujours eu le respect de la J lien établissant une réforme générale tin liberté de chacun, cette obligation n'a ja système (le salaire desdits employés.I mais été en force; mais devant le travail | gouvernement supprime aussi le bureau d'offensive de certaines coteries de cette ! d'échange qui réglait les salaires du pas province, cette mesure aura son utilité sé.Actuellement, ou prend pour base du comme mesure de protection et de proga | salaire le taux payé pour un travail sein garnie.blabla dans l’administration ou l'indua —Nos grands quotidiens ont parlé un* trie privée.LlMlTSO Fermé tous les samedis durant juillet et août v- esprit nouveau s orientant vers un avenir uuurs üuglüis.meilleur.Pour cela il est nécessaire de prt-.s,.nts faire connaître aux peuples les horribles jtalicus.sacrifices faits au dieu de la Querre et en montrer les suites néfastes, j —Cette semaine, on compte trois grè- L'augmentation continuelle de la cri- ves à Québec, sous la direction des Unions minalité dans tous les pays, mais surtout 1 Nationales et Catholiques: la grève des dans tes pays affectés par la dernière journaliers travaillant au pavage des rues guerre; l'augmentation générale du fléau de Québec, celle des pompiers et celle des de la prostitution; la destruction de la | policiers.¦ 1 i-u i >4 i 52 Page 2 SAMEDI, 2 JUILLET 1921 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY, JULY 2nd, 1921 UNION PURCHASING LEAGUE * £ ^rkü,a>' An organized effort to lielp 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.1 f this nioiiex is spent in purchasing strictly union articles, or articles sold In business firms who maintain friendly relations with organized labor, evervbodv will be the gainer.& * LA LIGUE DES ACHETEURS UNIONISTES & K _ -: CT&Dcs1pP.',t?N]couNCii > Un effort organisé pour aider le travailleur et sa famille à obtenir le plein rendement de son dollar et pour encourager une façon patriotique d’aeheter'.Les salaires de 50,001) ouvriers montréalais intelligemment dépensés signifient un pouvoir d’achat de $‘2,000,000 par semaine.Si eet argent était empluye à acheter des articles strictement d’Union ou vendus par îles maisons d affaires eut retenant des relations amicales avec le Travail Organisé, tout le monde y gagnerait.¥ 9 $1 weekly H month $200 °.® worth $ 2 weekly $8 monthly $500®.® .worth $5weeldy $20 monthly IV% V.i V w ?' 1 k A À -i rY Complete line of Dining-Room — Bed-Room a xt> Living-Room Suites — ALSO — Carpets, Baby-carriages, Kitchen Cabinets, Etc.a « O n ri & COMPANY The Crr.it Hrifi.h Honte h'urtiithtn 79-83 ST.CATHER1NEW.Canadian Car and Foundry Co.Limited Passenger, Freight and General Service Cars for Steam and Electric Railways.Transportation Bldg., Montreal UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CO OF CANADA.LIMITED MONTREAL QUEBEC TORONTO KITCHENER FINE FURS JLimitcrd 405 St.Catherine St.West, Moutieal 485 Notre Dame St.Wes MONTREAL Singer’s Fit-Rite Shoe Co., Ltd UENKI DOK.W PHARMACIE DORAY 2501, RUE SAINT DENIS Notre prlr.ofp*.coin Ijulatiu’wr THE TiIOS.DAVIDSON Manufacturing Co.Limited MONTREAL Canada Tél.Lu»l 012u Arlliur Üin|utn Mercerie et Chapeaux—Le plus grand choix de marchandises de travail 2 magasins: 503 Ste Catherine Est — 231 Ste-Catherine Ouest.FURNITURE in ali l>ran< h- s is our specialty, with 35 y-nirs «*\juTiuiKv Our idea always lias been tin.i s.jiiare tl.alings ilia 1cm lusting friends.Our 1’red it terms most liberal.Try us.Metropolitan House Furnishing Co.Limited l'2 Notre Dame Street West — Montreal , Dr.R.LEVESQUE Specialist In Venereal Diseases Good Treatment — Cure Uurauteed 109 Stanley Street, - - - - MONTREAL VI30 12.30 ; 3.4; 7 8 1*.M.Uptown 81)84 PAYETTE & PAYETTE 11-'18 ANIi GENTS' FUUKISI1INGS CHAPEAUX ET MERCERIE 1771 Notre-Dame Ouest, - - MONTREAL Tel.West mount 0384 SADLER & HAWORTH Tanners and Manufacturers of OAK LEATHER BELTING 1 VC’TOKIKS: Montreal, Toronto, V a lie Oliver, Winnipeg.St.John.N.1».DOMINION BRIDGE COY I hill! It.— MO NT I IGA l.lit nil Offlt r A Work*, I.Hchlnr, line.« Manufacturera A: Erect* iil|iblte—Ground Wood Also Sawn and 1 Mossed Lumber of every description St.Maurice Paper Co Limited Alexander MacLaurln, Manager, llend Office j r.îfiïî-ai! 4 HO A It 1) DC THAI)!: III.1)0.MONT It MAL MECHANIC'S TOOLS Eoaaouable Price.Send for catalogue or call at our «tore Hlgli Grade THE CANADIAN FAIRBANKS MORSE CO., LIMITED 81 8t.Antoine Street, Montreal.MASSEY-HARRIS CO, Limited High Class FARM IMPLEMENTS HEAD OFFICES, TORONTO Factories: Toronto, Brantford, Woodstock.AGENCIES EVERYWHERE KiiKene I .PHILLIPS KLIUCTItlCAL W Oil KS, LTD.Mllr-Enil, Montreal, ( nundn.Manufacturera uf Wire and Cables for railway, light-Wig and all transmission purpose» 11 en ni* h(*m id Toronto, Winnipeg.Heglna, Calgary, Vancouver.Catalogue on request 963 rue Sainte-Catherine Est Téléphone L»t 2214 MRUBLE Nous échu i) gnu lid et réparti US toutes Sur E.GERMAIN ta IMS Je défie toute rolll|lélitloll.MONTREAL UluxtM LiWITtP Business Hours: 9.00 a.ui.to 0.00 p.ui.Telephone Uptown 7000 Hleury ,St.Catherine and SI.Mexamler Streets THE PEOPLE’S STOKE First class department.ilt store fumoir for the slogan DUPUIS FRERES It pays to simp at Dupuis' “CLARK’S” Pork and Beans is manufactured in MONTREAL.DON'T FORGET that W.CLARK LIMITED provide employment for MONTREALERS and the CLARK pay-roll means money to circulate in MONTREAL.READY TO EAT Just Heat and Serve W.CLARK, LIMITED MONTREAL T.l.list 2132 THEATRE ARCADE 859, STF.-CATIIERINE EST MONTREAL Savon IMPERIAL de Hu rsa Km est toujours is meilleur, l'aites en l’essai, vous en seres convaincus.(ON.SUIVEZ VOS ENVELOPPES.B.J.O'Sullivan, M.A., .1.IJ.Woudlock, Sec'}.O’Sullivan Business College The School of business Administration Cor.St.Catherine W.and McGill Coll.Av.First Prize Awarded ut World’s Exposition —Over 1000 students • nrolled last war Day nnd Evening Classes- Thorough iralnlng Individual liiHtnictiou Visitors Weleume.Circulars Ere»* — 'Phone l pfown 80 Tél.St.I.oui» 44 ALFRED GOYETTE QUINCAILLERIE Ferronerles G n-rules et Peintures, Poêle» ft Gaz, Tapisseries, Four nuises, etc.124 Mont-Royal Est, MONTREAL MONTREAL LIGHT, HEAT & POWER CONS.Power Hid if., 83 Crulir St.\Ve»t / G05 St.Cntherlne West -ISO St.Cutherlue East.BRANCHES: - 2200 St.Cutherlne Euat I 1007 Mount-Uoyul East 858 St.Denis.I 2138 Park Avenue.Canada Steamships Limited aro REAL frieuds of Labor employing a small army of workers from "NIAGARA TO THE SEA” Head Office: MONTREAL J.W.NORCROSS, Prcsidout and General Manager.Our Prices Are Friendly To Labor Von men know wliat organization lias accomplished for yon, i! has made possible our exception values of Soil.-, and Overcoats at our No Tax Prices.ENGLISH & SCOTCH WOOLLEN CO.'d ' < oii\riiirntly Located Montreal Store* 8G1 Rue Ontario Est.J.A.R.CHEVRIER i.>ri.\('AU.i.i:i:ii; lllllle-.1'iXtllli-S In Sporl.T:irle, aires dAntumobilea MONTREAL NEW GLASGOW, N.8.Sales OffLes; Windsor Hotel and at 43 St.Sacrament fit.MONTREAL LOVA SCOTIA STEEL COAL CO.LIMITED A T.GOIYTA STEEL CORPORATION Limited 8AILLÏ STE.MARIE, CANADA.CaMe addreMM "AliiiuMrl” rod*1 u«rd.WESTKHN I NTON 86U hAINT-DLMS, Corner Duluth PAINLESS DENTISTRY By Novo Codine MASSON DENTAL CO.towards the cause of labor, there "dll be here found a directory of ente; prises that we feel can be conscientiously endorsed from a labor standpoint, and which are therefore justly entitled to our goodwill and united co-operation.It does not necessarily follow that con ceins which may not be here represented are "unfair”, nevertheless those listed on this page have demonstrated their friendliness in various ways, and, other things being equal, they are deserving of your support.N pursuance of the movement which has for its purpose the urging of all working people to give their combined support to reputable concerns that have uniformly shown a friendly attitude Country Co-Operative Stores CHAIN STORES Selected Groceries, Meats, Butter, Eggs, etc., etc.(Owneia of the lionueidi*r Valley Farm nml Dairy t'ruducla Iteglaicrcd) in:i7 Noire Duma St.Weal—Tel.Heat 1 toil null Hherhroohe Sr.Weal-Tel.Weal Hblll-H.KIII S'JU Lunrli-r Aie.Weal —Tel.Ifoel,, 2;r,| ANGLIN NORCROSS, Ltd CONTRACTING ENGINNERS 65 Victoria Street, Montreal Tel.Uptown 64Ü E.B.EDDY COMPANY DRILLS — HEAMiüHÜ — CUTTERS LIMITED Tool» of 4) unlit > 31 mit- lu CaiiMÜM HULL, Que.Montreal Branch: trade (w 1 LT> MARK.70 ST.PETER STREET X/ Il EN It V E.HELL, Manager will filial Drill Co.uf Canada, Ltd.Wulkervllle, Out.ART.LANDRY Voitures 'i,!•¦.< anil Interna- tional Sorting' and T.n ul.iüng Machines SAII.’I *4 I K.MARIK - 1 ASAIM 1016, rue Ontario Est, Jlorlogcr-Itijoiitler Répartitions de Montres, llorlog*» et HIJoux Diamant, Ahnurtlmi ¦' 'I Aigeuteries et Verre Taillé J.A.PROULX MONTREAL HOU Mt-Uoyul K, 1411 .Ml-ltoyul, pré» rue Luvul, St-I.ouin 1342 E.SANSFACON MONTREAL (J hu uhhU res Marchands en Gros et Détail du CHARDON, FOIN, GRAINS, MOULD ISS, KTC.470 Avenue Mont Royal Est - - - - MONT Entrepôt: Coin ltlvard et I.amorlelère, ‘MMt., Mile End, 'J < I St I.ouis 1078 iiénldeuce: Cnluioet 1110.E.LEGER & CIE litireitu : M-I.oijU 04)3K 8 McGill College Avenue, - MONTREAL Phone Up.32 41 Premier Paint & Varnish Co.Limited FAINT AND l*A»NTKK3’ SUPPLIES Tél.Calumet Ü7U Caron Pianos & Phonographs Co.PIuiioh et Phonotfriiphes d’occnslon.Echanges île toutes sortes Marchand et réparateur d*; Pianos, Phonographes et disques de tous L'en res.2(i0r»A mo Saint-Hubert, près Boaiiblon MONTREAL DISTRIBUTING HOUSES: 121 .Shearer Street - - - Montreal General Office».Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, Winnipeg, Retina.Calgary.Ed mon ton.Vancouver.NOIt I llliilt \ i: I .i:< lit I ( COMPANY.115-117 Notre Dame St.W„ - MONTREAL THOS.V.BELL, Limited Bookbinders, Printers, and Retail Stationery Telephone .Main 37-13 MERCANTILE PRINTING MONTREAL Atelier d'Uunloii Union Shup TEL.MAIN 31)77 C.G.OGDEN, K.C.Advocate, Barrister aud Solicitor SUITE 414 416 TRANSPORTATION BUILDING MONTREAL 1880 Notre Dame Ouest, Dry GooiIh, Genta’ Furnishings, O a r-peta.Oll-cloth, «de.One price only Pilou — WeBt 51711 — Albert PILON & SAUVE Marcha ml i ses Sé- pia.Prelarts, etc.Un Heul prix MONTREAL CANADA IRON FOUNDRIES Car Wheels, Cast Iron Pipe and Specials, Castings of all Kinds MONTItKAL, Fpm WJLI.I AM.HT THOMAS, HAMILTON, TH ft 10 L RI V ERH.LON DON 1 j E R R Y HALLS TO LET HUDON HEBERT & Cie For Labor Meetings.Limitée Apply to JOS.LAURIER, IMPORTATION ET GRO/l 415.Ontario Eaat.AlimcntaUon, Vina, Liquourg Tel.East 1118.Tel.Kuat 3578.18 De Bresoloa.MONTREAi Echange Mont-Royal, Limitée Distributeurs des (iruniophniiPM "Oolden Dell” et "falni-o-phone" Alirullles “Wall Kane".Ele.Gros et Détail Comptant ou Crédit 718 Av.Mont-Royal E., 1339 Notro-Daino O.Tfl.Ht.Luuta HIM!—Tel.Victoria KiHB LAPORTE, MARTIN LIMITER EPICIERS EN GROS 684 rue Saint-Paul Ouest Tel.Main 3760 MONTREAL Nouveautés = Mercerie Nous avons, en tout temps, des valeurs qui vous intéresseront; le,s réductions à votre disposition auront le don de vous plaire.I «ms les articles pour homines sont maintenant aménages dans un magasin quasi-séparé des autres.¥l N.MtMïtftpr 839 à 851 Mont Royal est.MONTREAL u.ai-Jean s Crevler Tél.Wt.Lout* H212—Tél.ht I.oui» 2I7U (Ü).Ilorloicor-IIIJoutlor — Oiitlclnn Griuliie Tuutna répnrutlouM de Montrea, lîijour falta avec soin et a prix muilÊrfi 629 8te-Cathorino Est, - - - MONTREAL __________________TAI.E«l 2HKI LUS CONSOMMATEURS UNIS DE MONTREAL, LT EK < liiuup'uréH «•! endussés pur h* Conseil des Métiers et du Travail) l'ous épargneront de l’urgent sur vos commandes de charbon.Four informations adressez-vous A 419 Ontario Est Tél.: Eat 7974 4 Editorial and Easiness Office: 2 St.Paul St.East, Montreal 'Phone Main 3415 SUBSCRIPTION: $2.00 pe- year Payable in advance ®4|e f aHnf Will unite CD muter The OFFICIAL BILINGUAL MOUTHPIECE OF MONTREAL’S ORGANIZED WORKERS titli Year — No.27 SAMEDI, 2 JUILLET 1921 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY, JULY 1921 PRICE CENTS THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR I the war burden" I the union label The policy of organized labor is contained in the resolutions officially endorsed at the annual conventions.Tl»' forty-first annual convention of the Ainerienu Federation of Labor recently terminated at Denver.The English iieu.-|ia|'i'iH of Montreal gave the news faiiiv well, yet not in sufficient detail j„ là, tiare the policies that have been endorsed by the convention.The news-|,a|„ i.give what the average person is intru sted in.They featured the struggle l'„r tin- presidency.They featured a few resolutions in which the average man on tin street would be interested.Many resolutions they passed over in silence.The Convention is the Parliament of l.nhor on this continent.Many of the i,-i.lations, while not interesting to pen p|,.duelling in country parts, or the middle classes dwelling in the cities, are 0f .rent interest to the working men.Tl„ ,• resolutions tell of the struggles of lalror, of its onward progression, of the «.IV it attempts to solve the difficulties i ,i,fronting labor.The Labor Warltl, theirfure, gives to its readers a synopsis of many of the resolutions adopted by the convention.A hundred and thirty resolutions were submitted to the Committee on résolu t in-.A number of them were duplicates, introduced by various delegates on in -tin, lions from the organizations they i, presold.These were sometimes combined by the Committee.Other résolu-toms wore introduced direct upon the t'1,,,,1 of the convention.\s will appear by reading the résolu tii'ir-, many of them were endorsed and the Executive Council of the American federation of Labor was instructed to oariy them out.The members of the l.v alive are the servants of Organized Labor to do its bidding.The actions of the Executive for tbe coming year has boon determined by these resolutions.ITo following arc some of the resolutions adopted.Aid to Pueblo victims.The American Federation of Labor «ailed upon the various bodies of labor to i nine to the assistance financially of the peoplo of Pueblo who suffered from an inundation.Ocean and Lake Seamen \n attempt is being made to lengthen tfo , a -on of shipping on the Great Lakes by opening fifteen days earlier in the spiring and thirty days in the fall, ex; ing passengers and seamen to the dan goi of the spring and fall tempests.T,, hipowners are attempting to lengthen tin- hours of the oilers, wartertemlcrs :,n,l some firemen from 50 to 84 hours pel week, and to reduce the proportion of skilled men on ships on the Great I dies.Against all these the Convention n -t emphatically protested in a strong ri solution.The Convention also supported Sen a', r Lafollelte's resolution in tbe Unit- 0 ! Slates Senate calling for an investigation of the lockout of the seamen n American ships in ocean s rvice, and resolution was wired to tin- Senate 1 ,luiiui11*‘C on Commerce i ml to Senator La follette.Silkworkers.The I I hour week of the silk workers ,,f Now Jersey and part of New York ! ' dig threatened through the unorgan-• I condition of the silk workers elso-o.in-re.particularly in Pennsylvania, ' ¦ Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor wan directed to ion !.-r every possible assistance to the I I.id Textile Workers of America to iIn- end that the silk workers of the ¦ states, particularly’ Pennsylvania, a,ay lie organized, ami become rceip lo• i.f the conditions fought for and w-.ii by the organized workers of New Jersey.Paid organizers Owing to the thousands of unorgan-,e I workers in .South Dakota, tbe Convention resolved to pay for keeping an cigau .oi in that state for one year.II " i iIso resolved to place an organizer ,n Ih.field in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont for one year, if finances Will permit, and also to place an organ ¦ i ni tbe States of Montana, Colorado ami Wyoming, as well as one in Georgia and South Carolina.Tin- convention instructed its general ! sizers and also called upon all city and date central bodies to render all |,, -ilile assistance to the organization work .omiucted by the International l adies Garment Workers’ Union, so that not only the standards of the organized workers in the centers of the '.''l.o-o ' garment industry be protected, bni that the workers in the smaller >'¦ n may also achieve and enjoy the I"*1" i it- of organization.Contracts to end simultaneously.The convention went, on record as endorsing the principle that all con bants entered into by all crafts with Jhoir employers there shall be a clause iii orioil whereby that craft can render ' " b assistnneo as is needed by any and all ''rafts when called upon to do so, without violating their contract, and alt" that there shallibe given a specified 'bd".-lipulated by tbe national and in b mutionail unions, and that all future 1 '«tracts entered into by organized la I"" shall expire at the same time on the stipulated dates.Class and race hatred.\ the employers have in Hie past, “"'I will continue in tbe future, to 111 ""'iit.race hatred and class (listinc-'' "i, with tIn*, main object of bringing •'bt the complete destruction of the I 1 "O movement, the.Convention went 1 11 record that ove*y effort should be 'wild to organize and educate all « i ,.earners, white and colored, nl- "- 'g each and cveiy man and woman """ is a parr of the American Fedara-,l!l" "f Labor at this time, nr who may 1 i"r become identified with the org-^'"zation, an equal opportunity to cn-l"' Hie benefits that accrue through 1 "I- clive bargaining •Tout hern Cotton Mills Investigation.W, during the past nine months, in a'l Hie Southern Stales where cotlou tt’xtilf mills arc in operation, unheard-1,1 reductions of wages and lengthening "I hours of labor of textile w rkors Live been imposed, said wage reJue, Huns ' volition pledged Amerieati labor to remler all possible assistance to these southern workers, and called upon to investigate tbe conditions in theses Sou thorn cotton ranging from thirty-seven and lm" half per cent to one hundred a ml tier cent, and hours increacsed 111,111 '¦| to 00 and 05, together with ['«hearable conditions, 11ms endanger-mg the health of the workers, the C’ou- l '(ingress of labor mills.Laundry workers.As many thousands of women o in - ; ployed in the laundry industry at this! time are receiving le-s Ilian a living wage, and tbe industry is in a highly I unorganized state, t tie Executive Conn-oil was instructed to issue a circular letter to all organizers calling alien Hon to this fact in order that special attention may be given to the needs of these workers.Organized Teachers.1 he open shop and other reactionarv interests arc attacking organized lahorj I and in their attack make special efforts! to control the press, the, church and the sl'hool.Organized teachers are just now! suffering particularly from the attacks of these reactionaries in their effort to control education.The Couventoin therefore instructed the President and Secretary and Kxecutive Council to give substantially increased assistance to the American Federation of Teachers in this struggle.Unemployment.Power was given to the President to ! appoint a committee of five persons to make a thorough investigation of the unemployed situation, the findings of J this special committee to be reported to tbe Executive Council at the earliest! possible moment.The Executive Council was authorized to take whatever action the report of the committee might warrant.Unfair firms.The altitude of certain firms towards! organized labor was taken up.The President was instructed to take up the i question with the firms involved, and if satisfactory adjustments could not be made, to notify organized labor of' the attitude of these firms towards the working class.The firms involved are the Miami Cycle and Manufacturing Company, of Middletown, Ohio, manufacturers of bicycles; The Hamilton and Bench Foundry Company, of Kuril ie, Wis., manufacturers of sewing machines, vibrators, motors, and hair dryers; Tbe American Can Company; Tbe Buck waiters Stovo Company, of Itoyersford, Pa.; The Weir Stove Co., of Taunton, Muss.; The Walter Pratt Stove Company, of Watertown, Mass.; and the N.K.Fairbanks Company of Chicago, 1.11.The question of such firms as the Quaker Oats Company, which gives large advertising ami printing orders to printing firms who are fighting the printers, was left in the hands of the Executive Council to take such action as the situation might warrant.Japanese Exclusion.The convention went on record as endorsing the total exclusion of all Japanese immigrants in future, mid to exclude the present Japanese residents in the United States from buying or leasing agricultural lands.The Union Label.Those pressing for the open shop arc demanding that, goods he sold without the union label.To meet this demand many union firms are selling the products of union labor without the label la order to see the effect upon their trade.The convention, to meet this situation, requested all members of af filiated unions to insist upon the union label, shop curd or button when making purchases.The delegates pledged them selves tu patronize goods bearing the union label.The Packing Industry.Tbe " Big Five” packers were round ly scored for attempting to reduce nl most n million employees in the meat packing indu try to a degrading condition through a lowered standard of living.The Executive Council was instructed to leave nothing undone to aid to the utmost the workers in the packing industry to insure them a condition tlinl complies with the recent declaration of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, namely, that “American Industrial Development has reached a point where it must give to the workers n consideration that goes beyond the Imre essentials of sustaining life.” Department of Labor.The Convent ion went on record ns opposing the abolition of tbe United States Department of Labor and the transferring of tbe Children's Bureau, Woman’s llureueii, Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, United States Employment Service, and United States Employees’ Compensation Commission to other Departments, The proposed abolition of the Department, of Labor is due to the desire of tbe reactionaries to hamper the labor movement.Cost of Manufacture.The Convention recommended “that the United States Department of Labor compile and issue monthly statements of the cost of manufacture of those staple articles which form Hie basis of calculation in fixing the cost of living.” Democracy in Industry.Tbe Convention declared, “We urge the setting of conference boards of organized workers and employers thoroughly voluntary in ehiiraeler and in thorough accord with our trade union organization, as means of promoting the democracy of industry through the development of cooperative effort.We point out to employers the fact that industry, which is the lifeblood of our civilization, can not be made the play tiling and the pawn of a few who by elianco today hold control.Industry is the thing by which nil must live, and it must lie given the opportunity to function at its best.” Upon the same principle, the Convention opposed tho compulsory investigation of labor disputes.Taxation.The Convention weal on record ns opposing the imposition of a general sales tax and demanded that the highest rate of taxai ion levied during the war upon incomes and excess profits be re- An expert has figured out that the financial burden which the world has assumed since 1914 is 350 billions of dollars.The total -wealth of Canada, including land values in country and city, live stock, mines, forests, fisheries, manufactories, and other wealth producing enterprises, is between eighteen and twenty-five billions of dollars.The obligations the nations 1‘11'e undertaken to pay, therefore, is equal to the wealth of seventeen Can ados.Of this amount Canada’s share of indebtedness is over two billions of dollars.The war never overran Canada.\\ e have suffered no destruction of tangible wealth.It will therefore he illuminating to look at this question 1.' war burdens taking Canada as u basis.t a muta is said to tic t wo tuitions of dollars poorer off as a result of the war.We owe that much money.We an- told that Canadians must economize lo pn.v off ibis tremendous debt.The suffering and the niaincd are largely lorgolten.The dead are nut discussed.The chief subject is haw much poorer we as a nation are, and how we must live frugally.The war never came on Canada’s soil.Our houses, factories, railways, "lines, forests, fisheries, farms, arc still intact, In material wealth, we are as rich as ever.We will not speak about the suffering and sorrow.We will not speak of the maimed, for although they cost Canada a few millions of dollars a year, their pensions are a small amount compared with the interest on our national debt.We are nut told that we must economize to pay the pensions.We are told we must save to pay our national obligations.That national debt is not owed to people on Mars or Jupiter, it is owed to people upon this earth, and a large part of it is owed to Canadians.There fore, the proposition that we must economize in order to pay our national debt comes down to this.Canadians must he economical in order that Canadians may pay money to Canadians.Does this mean that the Canadians to whom other Canadians are to pay money must save in order to pay the national debt.’ No.They do not need to save to pay the debt, for the debt is payable to them.What the statement menus is that some Canadians must save in order that other Canadians may receive money.Canada as a nation is just as rich as before the war, only some Cumul ians have other Canadians owe them more.taini'd until the full money coat of tie war has been paid, and further demanded that a rapidly progressive tax upon large estates and a moderate tax jpon national debt.This resolution pointed out that 33,000 millionaires own 37 per cent of the national wealth and the the value of land held for speculative purposes he levied in or 1er to retire the three richest people in America own nearly two per cent of the wealth.Child Labor.The convention demanded an amendment to tlic United States constitution forbidding child labor.Cooperative Societies.The Executive Council was instructed to immediately institute an exhaustive investigation of self-constituted "cooperatives” societies that are not conducted in accordant:» with the fundamental principles of the bona fide Rochdale Cooperative Movement, which has been endorsed liy the American Federation of Labor, and that the results be communicated to every affiliated organization, and that the Executive Council make such appropriation of funds as may be necessary to prevent the exploitation of the honest Cooperative movement by wolves in sheeps’ elotliting.The Actors’ Union.The Convention went on record to the effect that the Associated Actors and Artistes of America was the regular union of the actors and actresses, and that tlic National Vaudeville Artists, Incorporated, was a union organized by the employers and was not in the interests of labor.World War Veterans.The World War Veterans, an organization composed of honorably discharged service men was endorsed.This organization has demanded the conscript ion of all excessive incomes for tlic payment of the war debts, has declared itself for a free press and free speech, has condemned the exploitation of child labor and lias declared the “open shop” to he anarchistic in principle, hypocritical in pretence and cowardly in action.Department of Agriculture.A conspiracy having been hatched to abolish the United States Department of Agriculture, which has been of such assistance to the farmers, the Convention pledged the millions of organized workers to stand back of any action the farmers might take to protect themselves and families from their economic foes, particularly in tli- maintaining of the Department of Agriculture.Many more resolutions were passed, which will appear in the next issue of the Labor World.The Convention speaks with authority.It tins the weight of four million organized workers behind its utterances.It lias the sympathy of millions of unorganized workers.It does not deal in wild generalizations, hut deals with each question separately as occasion arises.It pronounces after due deliberation.If a question is doubtful, it refers it for study to the Executive Council, to report at the next Convention a year away.Tlius its decisions are based on intelligent investigation.While the decisions are the result of mature consideration, there is a fighting spirit Hint animates the whole Organized Labor movement which spirit combined ns it is with deep reflection upon the course to pursue will win ultimate triumph.At the fifteenth annual convention of the Building Trades Depart ment of tin* A.F.of 1,.which .-.as held in Denver, Colo., just previous to the forty-first annual convention of the Federation itself, the following resolution pledging the member- to support the Union Label was unanimously passed.The resolution was in I i nduced by delegates Charles Barr, Jr., and M.Halm of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperliangors.“Whereas, The American Labor Movement is confronted with un antagonism from new and malignant forces, namely, the bankers and members of the ' liauiher of Commerce, adding an addition to our older enemies, tlic Erectors’ Association and tlic Manufacturers’ Association, in their desire to disrupt tlic American I'ederatinil of Labor, with the so-called ‘‘American” or open non-union shop plan, and their propaganda of decreasing wages and increasing hours, thereby increasing the dividends of the heartless profiteers; and “Whereas, The members of the Chamber nf Commerce arc boycotting business men anil women who desire to he on friendly relations with Organ ieil Labor, through their influence with the Bankers ’Associations, who refuse to advance financial assistance to nnv business concern who feel friendly Inwards Organized Labor, and our courts look upon these boycotts with yvmpa-thy and complaisance and ignore the injustice that is inflicted upon Amer-enterpriscs, who desire dealing with Organized THE CRIME OF POVERTY The tiling of tilings T should liko to1 show you is Hint poverty is a crime.! I ilo not.mean that it is a crime to hi-; poor.Murder is a crime; hut it is not I a crime to he murdered; and a man wlio is in poverty 1 look upon not as j criminal in himself so much as the vie ! tim of a crime for which others, as well, perhaps, as himself, are responsible.That poverty is a curse, the bit-| tcri-sl of curses, we all know.Carlyle was right when lie said that tlic hell! of which Englishmen were most afraid was tlie licit nf poverty; and this is I rue, not of Englishmen alone, but of I people all over tlic civilized world, no matter what tln-ir nationality, it is to escape this hell that wc strive and strain and struggle, and work on often-time in blind habit long after the necessity for work is gone.Therefore, T hold that poverty is a crime- -nut an individual crime, hut a social crime.There is nothing in nature like this poverty which today curses us.We see rapine in nature, we see one species | destroying another; hut as a general ; tiling animals do not feed on their own! kind; and, wherever we see one kind enjoying plenty, all individuals of that j kind sliure it.No man, f think, ever.; saw a herd of buffalo of winch it few; j were fat and tlic great majority lean.| j Xu man ever saw a flock of birds of which two or three were swimming in j grease and Hie others all skin and hone.| Nor in savage life is there anything I Mike t ie poverty that festers in our! ; c ivilization.And yet the peculiar j characteristic of tLis modern poverty of lours is, that it is deepest where wealth! THE WAR AND PRICES During the war prices mounted.This appeared to the consuming public as an increased cost of living.Since the war prices have declined, which has appeared to the public as a reduction in the cost of living.This advance and decline takes place in all wars.Some persons blame the profiteers and some lay the blame on paper money.These are effects, not the cause.TJie recent league formed in tlic i ! nited States to “stabilize money”! will have little effect upon the quest-! ion of pricos.The question can lie scon in a clearer ! light if we examine what constitutes value.The reason for the advance in! prices is seen if we grant that commodifies sell upon the basis of the! amount of labor involved in their pro-1 d net ion.On an average the amount! of tlic socially necessary labor time; embodied in a commodity constitutes; and governs tlic sale price.Thus if we figure that one hour of, labor is worth .-ft and shoes sell at $0 .per pair, it follows that there is on an lean business to be fair in Labor; niul “Whereas, The Or; Movement have within weapon that can sucée the aims ami objects i most abouiuls.-lk-nry George.epest From an address l>v nnizcil Labor their power a isfnlly combat f our enemies through the purchasing power, tin Union Label, the Shop Gard, and tin Button, it persistently demanded, will bring about u reaction that will cause the business men affiliated with the » ’hamher of Commerce to realize if tliev desire to retain their position in the business world must drop Ms allegiani’i-with the enemies of Organized Labor, or suffer the consequences nf the lost patronage of the purchasing power of Organized I.abor; therefore, bo it “Resolved, That we, the delegates to the Building Trades Depart ment, in Convention assembled in Denver, Colo., June 8, 11*31.pledge ourselves to pur chase only products that hear the Union Label, and patronize only such stores that display the Union shop ' aril, and insist upon ail deliveries through a union driver, wearing the button of his International Union; and, he it further “Resolved, That in purchasing to baccos, cigarettes and snuff wc buy only those bearing tlie I’nioii Label and enlist tlie sympathy of our friends in demanding tobaccos, cigarettes and snuff that bear the label of the Toll acco Workers international Union, thereby assisting the union people em ployed in the tobacco industry.” The Building Trades Department is composed of seventeen unions with approximately one million members.These unions have gone on record as pledging themselves In support the products of union labor.Willi tlu-se million workers demand ing Hie union label, tlie manufacturers, dealers and contractors will see the necessity nf employing union labor and giving fair conditions to the working class.Organized lal'.-r can do much to ad vortisc their unions.Every man who goes into n store and asks for goods hearing tlie niiiuii label will make the retailers respect tlie union.It will cause the storekeepers to write to the wholesalers asking for goods hearing the union label.This in turn will make the wholesalers write to the manufael urers demanding label goods.A couple of years ago it was a set ler’s market.Manufacturers were! swamped with orders.The buyer cnine with ids hat in hand and begged for delivery.Now ii is a buyer's market.The sellers are going to the buyers and hogging for orders, if the union label goods are demanded, they will] he furnished.Let Organized Labor in Canada demand union label goods.ORGANIZED LABOR'S MONEY A new kind of money is now freelv circulating in tlie United Slates.It is a kind that brings a thrill of ideas tire to tlie heart of tlie farmer or worker and the opposite feeling to every big hanker who gets his hands on it.We have a $5 bill of this currency before us ns we write this.On one side there is nil engraving showing the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock and under the picture the words-“National Currency.” In small print we read: “This note is receivable at par in all parts of tlie United States in payment of all taxes and excises and ! nil other dues to the United States ex I eept duties oil imports and also for all salaries and all other délits and demands owing by the United States to individuals, corporations and associations within the United States except interest on public debt.” All other hank notes of recent issue I have tlie same tliiug on this side.The unusual is found on the reverse side.There we read: “Brotherhood of Loco-! motive Engineers Co-Operative Nation ! nl Bank of Cleveland, will pay to the hearer on demand five dollars.” Then follows the date, October 38.1930, and the signature of the president, Warren S.Stone, chief of that brotherhood.Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of these notes are now circulating, advertising to friend and foe alike the great message of co-operative hanking—the kind that thé lawmakers of Minnesota were afraid to provide for.They were afraid it would ho successful.Tliis Cleveland hank lias grown from nothing to resources of over $8,-000,DUO in as many months.LABOR FIGHTING VENEREAL DISEASES The continent-wide program to eon: rot venereal diseases was endorsed in 1 a resolution passed by the Brotherhood I of Locomotive Engineers at its Third ! Triennial Convention, recently held in [l'levelànd.Through the cooperation of Grand chief Executive Warren S.Stone, a j motion picture film describing these diseuses and showing the need for their prevention and control was shown by Regional Consultant W.I).Riley of the j U.S.Public Health Service to the del-! i-gates and visitors at tlie convention.In his report to tile Federal Service! i Mr Rilev says that approximately! 3,000 men were present, and that nearly every seat in the auditorium was filled.; Before the showing of tlie film Mr.: Riley spoke a few minutes, outlining! 'the plan to combat venereal infection.The members showed their interest by the close attention which they pail t-.tin1 presentation of tlic subject.Following the film, Mr.Stone ill a slmrt talk! '¦tilled upon the Brotherhood to support jibe Governments in this work.In writing to the Public Health Service of the United States, Mr.Stone ; says: “We feel indebted to tlie U.SC Public 11 cult Ii Service for sending Mr.; ; Riley here.The delegates were very 1 much impressed with tlie pictures shown, and J am sure a great deal of } good was accomplished, as our members; ! will carry Hie message to every section ; "f tlie United States and Canada.” Mr.Riley reports that many of the! men asked questions about the veu-1 créai diseases, and wanted to know! how they could help stamp them out.Assistant Surgeon General C.('.Pierce] “f Hie Publie.Health Service says that ,'Mlie endorsement which the Brotherhood in convention assembled lias giv-'¦II this movement will stimulate the! I interest of other labor organizations' and so broaden the scope of tlie work.! ; If, in addition, each member of the! I Brotherhood will inform himself of the] seriousness of these diseases and will -a-e that the members of ltis family are safeguarded by early instruction as toi the place and importance of sex in] human life, lie will he contributing! greatly to the success of the work.” average six hours of labor involved in 1 producing the raw material, manufacturing it, and in distributing the pair of slioes to the ultimate consumer.Now, if the socially necessary labor ! time to produce a pair of shoes doubles, for certain reasons, and it takes twelve hours to produce and market the pair of slioes, the price will increase from $0 per pair, to $13 per pair.If fur any reason, it takes twice as much socially necessary labor to produce and market all articles of commerce, the price of everything will double so that it will cost twice as much to live.This is what happened in tlic war.During peace tlio great majority of tlie workers are producing wealth.There are a few workers doing duty ns soldiers and as marines on warships, hut they are relatively few.War comes.Half tlie workers are taken out of peaceful pursuits to either fight, or to furnish the necessary arms and munitions and implements of war.t These soldiers are necessary and their] work is part of tlie socially necessary labor to allow tlic productive workers to raise food, and produce articles of commerce in tlic factories.Let us mako the problem simple.Suppose a hundred lumbermen are in camp getting out logs for a mill down the stream.If labor time is worth $1 au j hour, and the hundred men work eight i hours a day, the product of their labor is worth $800.If they can get out ! four hundred logs a day, each log will I he worth $3.Now suppose that cir ! cuinstances arise by which fifty of the] workers have to stand on guard, be-' cause of -wolves or Indians, or Bol-1 sheviki hands roaming round, and j there are only fifty men left to prod ! uce.The fifty workers can get out ! only 300 logs a day.The hundred men tire still at work, their time is still worth $8(10 per day, hut the product is only 300 logs.It follows that each log is now worth $-1 because it took, four hours of socially necessary time to produce that leg, two hours of which] is represented by actual production,] while two hours is represented by ne-; cessary labor spent in guarding the j workers.During the war, the prices of tlie art-ides we purchased contained the time of tlie workers who produced them, hut they contained more than that.] They contained the time of tlie sold-1 iers on the battlefronts and of the war workers behind tlie fighting lines.1 Since I he war, prices have gone down, simply because it takes far less labor! to produce commodities.When a uat-i ion manufactures and produces now, it no longer lias to figure iu its overhead expense, tlie cost of litige armies, and enormous sums for shells, uniforms, submarines, airships, guns.This overhead being1 eliminated!, the cost of manufacturing is cut down, and oou-sequeutly prices fall materially.We have heard a lot about tlie profiteer.Tlie profiteer was one who purchased articles made in peacetime on a peacetime price basis, and held them until commodities were selling ou a price basis which included tlie overhead charge of an expensive war, and then sold them.We are witnessing tlie other side of the profiteer, namely the deflated trader.The deflated trader is one who purchased goods at prices based on productive costs which included a tremendous war, held them, and then sells them on a price basis which lias eliminated the overhead war expense.The profiteer made money.Tint deflated trader becomes bankrupt.Organized labor in the last few years lias drawn away from the struggle over wages merely.It lias gone iu for shorter hours and belter working conditions.Labor knows that tlie wages it receives must cover its cost of living and will fluctuate with the rise and fall in the cost of living.It knows that the living of the worker is tlie first charge upon industry, and that it is only after the workers have produced sufficient to take care of tlie workers that the employers get their profits.< onsequently tlie workers figure that if tliev clip tlie work day from nine hours to eight hours, the hour clipped off is taken solely from tlie time worked to produce profits.If that hour is clipped off, therefore, the working class lose nothing, and gain leisure.The employers lose one hour of profits.That tlie employers profits suffer would lie true if there were not compensating factors.In tlie eight hours tlie worker is less fatigued and can produce more per hour tliau iu a nine hour day.Moreover, when the work day is made shorter, the employers are spurred to put in more efficient machinery amt to hunt out inventors who can discover processes to reduce tlie labor involved iu manufacturing.The net result of tlic shorter work day is that tlie workers have more leisure and the employers make just as much profits.LABOR DAY PARADE.The parade and labor festivities of the members of the International Unions will take place in Montreal as usual the first Monday iu September.As a frenetic effort is being made by those behind the National Catholic Unions to disrupt the International organizations in this city, no doubt the Uatliolie Unions will also hold a parade, it is therefore becoming a matter of pride with the International Unions to see how big a parade they can uster.In former years, many members of the International watched tlie parade of their brothers from tlie sidewalk.Some members gathered on the field without bothering to get into line.This year a special effort is being made to hold tin- biggest parade of labor witnessed in Montreal.The proposition is being placed before many locals to make the attendance in the parading columns compulsory for every member of the local who is not ill or prevented by causes hcyoml Ii is control.Let every member make a special point of being iu line on Labor Day.-—One result of tlie Seamen’s strike is likely to he a closer affiliation between the Seamen and thé Longshoremen’s Union.On Monday, July 4th -we will sell these lovely fabrics in cool summer dresses.The prices are only a portion of what they should be.SILK AND COTTON CREPE 36 in.wide — in fashionable colors — worth $1.98 for.79c.POPLIN 36 in.wide — with a fine finish — worth $1.5U for.99c.EMBROIDERED VOILES Rose, pink, bine, grev and white — worth up to $4.75, for.'.$1.97 —Second Floor Up.: SAMEDI, 2 JUILLET 1921 - MONTREAL — SATURDAY, JULY 2nd, 1921 LABOR THE WORLD OVER En- centre CANADIAN NOTES —Patrick J.Healy will probably be the candidate chosen by the Independ rnt Labor Party in the coming prov incial bye-election for Halifax, N.S.__At the recent convention of the Ontario Labor Educational Association a committee was appointed to urge upon the proper authorities the ad visibility of abolishing capital punishment.—The Valley Seating Company, of Dnudas, Ont., has shipped a large order of church furniture to Hendrina.Trails vaal, South Africa.Birmingham, ' gland, has long been known as a from which heathen idol images were shipped to Africa.In both cases, the shipments go to swell the total ot foreign trade and help the government officials in their desire to glow with righteous pride at the prosperous condition of overseas commerce.—A farmer, writing to the O.B.I Bulletin on the position of the agriculturists of Canada, amongst other things had this to say: “Do you know that in 1910 90 per cent of Saskatchewan farm land was mortgaged, and that the fanners of Saskatchewan paid v40.-000,000 in interest alone to the loach inerv companies and that they owed the storekeepers ot this province $30,000,000?” No, we do not know any such thing.At seven per cent, fort} million dollars i- the interest upon a capital sum of i 571,which sum, if the above statement about the maoh inerv interest wen* true, would be what the farmers would have owed the maoh inerv companies, in 1911, the Dominion census showed that tin total im plpHll'Uts .11 S;i S i.;i ! dit1 \\ a li 101*111-" WtTc valued at f."7.53S.71 J.It the farmerV statement were true, between H* 11 and 1910, the Saskatchewan farmers must have increased their farm implements ten fold, and got the whole lot without paying a ¦ -cut down.When radie als make statements, let them make statements that people will not know to be wrong.—The Farmer-Labor party will place a man in the field to , ,,atest the -cat of South York, Out., in the coming federal elections.The scat is now held by W.F.McLean .—The Canada Cement Company is building a ten-story office building in Montreal.The Mount Royal Hotel, to cost eight million dollars, is under wav.The new Court House building to cost $2,000,000 is als, shortly to be begun.Hundreds of men are at Work on the repairs to the streets.Quite g few private buildings are being ere< ted.The National Brick C.mpany'« plant at Delson, F.Q .which furnishes brick to Montreal contractors has opened after being elosed a long tine Although the census enumerators in the working class districts report an appalling amount of unemployment, a| patently the turn for the better has come.This applies not only to Montreal, but to other .iti- and countries, j Lloyd George has ana im , 1 that fr-m ; information in his possession, there is the beginning of quite an ap] ¦ iabli boom in trade.Tin- impr-weno-nt in Montreal may be seen from the fact that building permits for the whole t May totalled $1,262,149, while for the tiwo first weeks in June they totalled $1,158,372.Operating Engineers, died in Denver city while attending the convention of the A.F.of L.—Trade Unionists of New Orleans, La., are making vigorous protests against a “work or jail” edict by Superintendant of Police Molouy.The order i- aimed at striking seamen.—The National Federation of Postal Clerks will hold their annual convention in Minneapolis, beginning Septem her 5th.—The convention of the Metal Trade Department of the A.F.of L.which took place in Denver preliminary to the A.F.of L.Convention, has issued a spirited demand that steps be taken to halt the merciless exploitation of female labor in the metal trades all over the country.The declaration states that there is no objection to the employment of female labor in the I metal industry, but there must be equal pay for men and women for equal ! work.Women became prominently employed in the metal trades during | the war.—In report to the convention of the National Electric Light Assoeia-i lion, a committee predicted that electricity will be the economical trails portation factor in the immediate future.In urging public utilities to prepare for serving current to move railroad trains, the committee said: “There are now in the United States about 6,500 power companies operating about 7,000 power houses, which are ready to deliver power to the railroads in the form ot electrical energy.These power houses can produce double the amount of energy of a steam locomotive fur the same coal output.careful li\ iitg statistics.This Bureau, utter examination, reported the cost of at 189 per cent above the pre-war level, or 28 points above the figures given out by the British government.As the cost of living index forms the basis of wage scales, a difterenee ot -Js peints in favor of tlie employers is a great handicap to labor in obtaining fair wages.—Reports of a terrible famine come from the Duliad region in India, toit ish officials do not admit the existence of a famine, Though they had previously confessed failure ot the crops by collection suspending temporarily the of taxes.The Ulster Parliament has been opened in the North of Ireland.Now that Ulster has home rule, the question is.what is she going to do with it .The parties there will no doubt split up into conservative, liberal and labor as in other portions of the empire.The granting of home rule allows the natural political parties to emerge.— The policy of repudiation seems to I be spreading.It is now taking the I form of borough councils declaring they ' are bankrupt.Whether it is j bankruptcy, or a capital levy j ely heavy taxation, set on making those up their possessions.* * FOREIGN j —Practically tlu ; working class is organized ! industrial unions and now 1 being put into effect to combine all these industrial unions into one organ j ization.Lu Germany there i- the monster notai workers' union, with 1.Mil),00" tin1 lie cal le or mer-the masses seem who possess give * NOTES entire Belgian in twelve a plan is -The American Ambassador Harvey.; membe r;l ; frmn jewely work in London, delivered an outspoken ad-j ., • dress in which he declared that the! United States did not go to war to| destroy autocracy and to make the world safe for democracy.He deelar-ed they went iu to protect American ! interests, chieflv trade with the alii —Speakers for the • 8 e 1 f Détermina- tiou League fur Ity ‘land have been howled down in W t-.Ste rn cities by t hose opposed to ra•!ii-;i il movements.Pro»- Lieut Tom Moure of the I ra le s ami Labor Congre-.- ¦ are tremely radj il leutlv in Canadian West 11.-r.are radiols reactionaries who think that h vis the best answers argument-.—The 1922 annual convention of Nova Scotia lmb-pi udeiit Lab' i ; will be held in Sydney.—Full and complete auton my be restored to Alberta an i British Columbia miners, DU 18, United Mine Workers t whose charter was suspended in l.il.' when the One Big l mou h-adeis c t control.The worhers who., were led astray are drifting nark int" the fold of the A.F.of L.—Another big building in will be a new high -iiool I taut pupils;.The sh> - - : w thirty-five elassr -m-.Eaeli big ! nild iug radi.at- - employment through all the building trade dipaitments * * * AMERICAN NOTES —The referendum vote of the Inter national Typographical Union up u tin-question of a ten p>-r cent assessment to support the striking printers in the Montreal h: sine.—At a meeting of l,oo0 commissioners of the Presbyterian General Assembly held at Winona Lake, Iml., an almost unanimous vote of approval was given the Federal Church Council in its work along economic lines.The council has been subject to bitter criticism because it declared that the so-called open shop campaign was a dis i gnised attempt to wreck trade unions.—The Kansas “can't strike" law is an admitted failure.There have been numerous strikes in that state.There have been at least twenty strikes, ineluding coal, railroads and packing houses.In only one o.ill mini -trike was any attempt made to punish the strikers.* * * IMPERIAL NOTES —Australian manufacturers are miming true to form.At their recent conference in Melbourne, they endorsed the proposition that in the event of a strike “all the members involved be disfranchised.” They also endorsed the proposition to subsidize anti-labor propaganda which Would consist of moving pictures, exhibitions, pamphlets an.l cartoons.One delegate declared: “The German employers organized 70,000 >trike breakers and the German government subsidized them.That is what we want in Australia—Herman methods.” —Walter Halls, the Labor candidate who was elected to the British parliament from tlie Heywood and Rad-1 i-liffe division, in Lancashire, is a farm laI."-ter in the emploi f the former! member of that district, S.r Albert Illingworth, who has been elevated to the peerage.The farm hand tak,— his “boss’s” place ia Parliament.—The uutiou-wide boycott in India against harmful stimulants has proved a hard blow' to the manufacturers of drugs, and of the liquor dealers.It has also seriously cut into the revenues of the Indian government, Consequently many arrests of persons have been made in the vicinity of Bombay of persons who exhorted to national regeneration by abstaining from the use of alcohol and narcotic'.Treason is the crime alleged.The British officials have characterized the movement for temper iiu-t- as a conspiracy against the government to deprive it of it- revenues.A strike of actors recently took place in St.James' Theatre, London, until the igned tors ’Union.planters and corporations protesting against the mandate over the ex- • ¦is to shipbuilders and steel makers.-—The German railroaders are about to combine with the telephone, telegraph and postal workers, which will give this transportation-communication union more than 1,500,060 adherents.— A Federation of Workers Disabled in Industrial Aeeideuts lots been termed in Frame.It desires a complete revision of the legislation relating to compensations for accidents and in -.1 It nlv.The change nf g"V d tin- lead iug up as a week of til resulted li- es- - demand for tlie 44 hour iu 44,702 votes in favor ment and 11,499 açain-t —The Lehigh Vall.-v railroad com puny formed a union aiming its men in opposition t" tlie trade unions, and , a referendum wa- taken among the men j for or again-l tin new union.Tin-company union died a gentle, quiet death, when the referendum showed that 98 per cent of the men favored the regular trade union-.—On June 1-t flivver no 5,000,000 left the Ford factory in Detroit, ins tead of selling it, Mr.Ford is going to put in a museum of his own containing the original Ford ear and other early models.Mr.Ford pays high wages to liis employees, and gives the product of his factory to tlie public at a low price.The result lias been great prosperity to the plant.—“General” Jacob S, Coxey, who led the famous march of joldess workers to Washington in 1894 is eager to lead another army of the unemployed on a march to the nation’s capital to demand that congress and the pres ident take action in the unemployed situation.—Milton Biielliiigs, president of the international Union of Steam and and continued Mi-s Palfrey, in ber of the At —Wealthy in Samoa are New Zealand German part of the island granted by the League of Nations.New Zealand is introducing humane conditions for the colored workers which is bitterly opposed by tlie exploiters.The Bombay, India, dockworhers , have formed a union of 5,000 members j and are demanding from the Pacifie land Orient .Steamship company an in crease of ten per cent wages.— In Queensland, Australia, a Build ing Trade Operatives' Guild has In-eii formed.At a recent meeting of the j unions it was decided to recommend | to each union in the building trade that it lend it- support by joining the guild nnd allot a percentage sum of money for the business purposes of the i guild- , .—Tlie British mine workers union numbers almost one million members; and the triple allitin«*e