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Vol. 1

THE WORKER WATCHES

New Commission To Study 'l^a^ems Must Suggest Practical
v Remedies and Parliament Must Act. , *

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Senator Robertson, Minister
of Labor, has been the consist-
ent friend of the workers. If he
has not done all that the workers
expect a Minister of Labor to do
in these days, it is because no
""Minister of Labor under our
\ resent capitalistic and oppor
tunist form of government could
/ do more than he has done.

What he has lacked has been
the support of a substantial
j ; ,bor element within Parliament
itself.

We do not mean the sort of
labor element that makes a pat-
ronizing pose from some lofty
pinnacle behind which the same
oW- wirepullers work the same
old game of “putting things
over’’ on* the dear workers.

We mean the real men, the
workers who have lived with
workers, worked with workers
worked — perhaps starved —
under a bulldozing boss whose
object in life was to whip as
much out of the worker for as
little as he dared to give; men
who know from personal contact
what unemployment means,
what worry about rents, grocers’
bills and children’s boots means
_ m en who are from the ranks
and who are so inspired that
they cannot rest until the best
that is in them is dedicated to
the happiness of the people, and

to that alone. . .

That labor element is in tne

making. Its seeds are in Par-
liament now. Soon it will be a
powerful growth. There is noth-
ing problematical about it. It
shall be so.

He who would think different-
ly is slipping behind the times.
He who would try to retard its
coming is digging his own grave.
Senator Robertson is a work-

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SENATOR G. D. ROBERSTON, Minister of Labor,

to whom is due the formation of the new Capital-Labor Commissron

er from amongst the workers.

He knows, much better than
most of his parliamentary col-
leagues know, the aims and
needs of the worker. He also
knows the determination and
power of the worker to blast the
bottom out of anything that will
stand between him and his own

conception of what is liberty and

iustice. . .

Hence the new Commission

announced by Senator Robert-
son which will shortly tour the
country to study the relations
of employer and employed and
the possibilities of j° int uu ‘ us ‘
trial control. Let us give that
Commission a chance. We know
i that Commissions are slippery
things, stop-gaps, and that the
reports of many Commissions ^
go into safety-deposit vaults and
are never heard of again. But
the workers are watching this
Commission much more closely
than they ever watched Com-
missions before.

This Commission will have to
make clean-cut decisions. H will

have to “scrap old ideas oi
I place and privilege, old forms
and customs. It will ha' e a ,

; least to be abreast of the latest
labor movements in Great B
ain of the fundamentals oi the
findings of the InternaLonal
Labor Conference, of the ex-
pressed desires of the workers
of the United States and Can-
ada. Having done so, it will
not only be the duty but the ne-
cessity of Parliament to give ef-
fect to the findings of the Com-
mission without too much quib-
bling and fancy phrasing.

Give the Commission a chance.
There is enough solid worth in
its composition as announced to
justify patience and the ex-
pectation of the square deal.
Heaven help the Government
that will try to chloroform oi
juggle its report— today .

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The Government have now an-
nounced the personnel of their Com-
mission upon Industrial Relations.
It consists of Chief Justice Math-
ers, of Manitoba, chairman ; Sena-
tor Smeaton-White and Mr. Charles
Harrison, M.P., for North Bay as
representatives of the public. Mr.
Carl Riordon and Mr. F. Pauze, both
of Montreal, as representatives of
the employers; and Mr. Tom Moore,
Ottawa and J. W. Bruce, of Toron-
to, representatives of the employees.
There could be many improvements
upon this Commission and at first
sight it looks scarcely equal to the
task which confronts it.

Chief Justice Mathers has, it is
true, presided over some arbitra-
tion concerning wage disputes and
has a fairly good record as a Judge,
but his democratic sympathies are
not pronounced and he has never
been famed for any special inter-
est in industrial questions. If the
editorials in the “Montreal Ga- 1
zette ’ ’, which he owns, are any guid- 1
ance Senator Smeaton-White is not
likely to favor the inovations which
the Whitley report favors. Mr. Har-
rison,, M.P., for North Bay, is the
one so-called labor representative in
the Unionist Party. He is an hon-
est, painstaking man, but has hither-
to cut not the slightest figure in
the Parliament and has signally
failed to voice the sentiments of
labor on several critical occasions.
Mr. Riordon is reputed to be a ca-
pitalist of more than ordinary pro-
gressive ideas and of Mr. Pauze
ilttle is known; one French Cana-
dian representative was inevitable.
Mr. Moore, of Ottawa, is the well-

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known President of the Tardes and
Labor Congress and his point of
view will be more or less conserva-
tive, but he can be relied upon to
plead for the Whitley Report. Mr.
Bruce, of Toronto, is a much more
radical person than Mr. Moore. He
belongs to the social democratic
party and is the only member of
the Commission who would be at all
likely to come near voicing the sen-
timents of Western Labor, which is
to-day poles apart from the move-
ment in the East. There will un-
doubtedly be considerable dissatis-
faction in the West at the failure
to select one or two representatives
from that region.

Moments of Interest

The Senate ' rarely provides much
material for comment or criticism;
it is, according to one view, a drow-
sy haven of rest for disinterested
patriots, and to other eyes a poli-
tical workhouse, where faithful par-
tisans who have lost or cannot carry
their seats are enabled to quarter
themselves on the country and
scan at intervals the evidence of
the marital infedelities of their fel-
low citizens. But even the Senate
has its moments of interest and bu-
siness, it never rises to the level of
excitement. There are some able
members, no great host to be sure,
on its benches, but men like Senator
Dandurand or J. S. MacLennan have
a grasp of public affairs, which few
of the present Cabinet possesss and
are always worthy of attention
when they speak. On Tuesday, the
10th, a comparatively new member
of the Upper Chamber, Senator
Planta, of British Columbia, stirred
the tranquil waters by calling the
attention of the House to the fact
that there are foreign agencies in
Canada whose activities are calcul-
ated to create a condition of labor
unrest throughout the country.

Let us think of the *
| great sacrifice made *
§ by the young soldiers. I
% They gave their lives I
S freely and selflessly. |
I They saved us. Are |

* we ingrates? Are we |
I so mean that we must |
I squander their legacy |

* in bitterness and hate *
I and greed? Must we |
I dishonor their stain- *

* less memory by squal- *
| id squabbling over the |
| heritage which they %
I bought with their *
| blood? Is all our nob- I

* ility, all our chivalry, *
% all our patriotism I

* buried in Flanders? I

* — James Douglas, f

Horrified Colleagues

Senator Planta lived some time in
Australia and has obviously given
some thought to industrial matters.
He approves of the Government’s
proposal of an Industrial Commis-
sion, but fears that the evil siprits
cannot be stliled at this late date.
He horrified his colleagues by read
ing out extracts from the statements
of Mr. Winch, President of the Van-
couver Trades and Labor Council to
the effect that there could be no re
conciliation between capital and
labor until rent, interests and pro-
fits were eliminated and that he was
prepare to utilize any means which
presents itself to eliminate capital-
ists. This bold evowal was made be-
ore a Commission in investigating
the dispute in the Coughlan ship-
yards and so appalled Judge Mur-
phy, the Chairman, that he declared
if this was the official voice of la-
bor, his enquiry might as well cease
at once. Planta had further revela-
tions to make of the iniquities of
the Laborists of Vancouver— how
they had sent a resolution of greet-

ings to the Russian Soviet Govern-
ment and the Spartacans in Ger-
many, how, after the manner of pa-
trician ladies, they had declined to
receive Mr. Peter Wright, whom
Mr. Planta believed to be a promi-
nent worker for social reform in
Britain, and did not know to be sus-
pect everywhere as the hireling
agent of the Lloyd-Georgian Gov-
ernment. The speaker bronght a ray
of comfort to his frightened breth-
ren when he told how the Great War
Veterans were still on the side of
sanity and had dealt rigorously at
Cranbrook with some wandering de-
legate from the Calgary Conven-
tion. The Senator emphasized his
belief that the labor troubles were
due to alien agitators, but he pro-
duced not an iota of evidence to
prove his contention. He obviously
filled his colleagues with great
gloom. If the Mathers Commission
does not devise a new^ social order,
which it obviously will not, they
foresee Soviets and all manner of
dreadful things.

Religious Squabble

During the week, there were two
of these appalling religious squab-
bles which benefit no single indivi-
dual in Canada, but merely serve
to embitter public life and hamper
the reasonable discussion of vital
political and economic questions.
The first arose over the famous
raid on the Guelph Novitiate. Sir
Sam Hughes charged the Govern-
ment, particularly Mr. Doherty,
with shielding Catholic students
therein from Military Service Act.
He and his friends waxed very
wroth over an apology which Gene-
ral Mewburn had offered to the
head of the College for the some-
what arbitrary conduct of ons of
his subordinates. Liberal Opposition
Catholics, naturally, rose to defend
their co-rel?igiousts and' the battle
raged for many hours. Nothing new
was said and much precious time
was wasted. In the end, Mr.Meigion,
as Acting Minister of Justice, pro-
mised a Commission of Inquiry,
which will give fees for many law-
ers and come to nothing. The On-
tario Orangemen do not like Mr.
Doherty and the debate was a med
at him. The second squabble came
in Thursday’s debate, wherein, »Sir
Sam, once again to the fore, demand-
ed heavy and uniform penalties for
defaulters. There were the usual
changes about Quebec’s slackness
and the leniency of the judges there.
Most of the Unionist speakers want-
ed disfranchisement and heavy fines
but Dr. Michael Clark made a good
plea for tolerance.

, Tuesday, April 8th, was largely
consumed in discussing the estim-
ates of the Public Works Depart-
ment, of mail subsidies and steam-
ship subventions. Mr. Carvill came
in for bitter attack from some
Unionists because he had been mis-
guided enough to award some con-
tracts to Liberals. The abolition of
patronage was supposed to have
legalised such awful practices, but
Mr .Carvell is too much of an ob-
vious Liberal still to be popular with
his ancient enemies and some day

soon he and they will part c
pany to their mutual satisfacti
Mr. Carvell is in many respects
sincere radical, he hates exploi
tion, cant and snobbery in all the
manifestations, but unfortunatel
his views upon labor relations an
public ownership are sadly primi
tive.

One Big Union Idea

On Thursday, the 10th, Mr. Hoc-
ken at question time attempted to
put the case of certain Toronto let-
ter-carriers, who had served over-
seas, against the Civil Service Com-
mission before the House, but the
Speaker ruled him out of order. Mr.
Archambault inquired if the Govern-
ment was aware of the decision of
the Calgary Labor Convention in
favor of the One Big Union idea and
if they meditated any steps. Sir
Thomas, who unlike Mr. Arthur
Balfour, evidently reads the daily
papers, had seen an account in the
press but was not otherwise interest-
ed to date. Mr. Rowell’s Federal
Health Bill was considered in Com-

mittee and reported. There is a
decided danger that it may set up in
our midst a medical autocracy which
will be as presumptuous in its atti-
tude to the general public as cer-
tain church organizations are and
there may be scope for political
manipulation. It is a pure piece of
paternalism and while it contains
some good features, it will not be-
gin to remedy the real troubles of
Canada, which are economic. There
is a report now that Mr. Calder wi
take over the Health Departme:
and restore Immigratio to
Meighen. Mr. Rowell’s heart
said to be set on representing Can-
ada in the Imperial Cabinet in Lon-
don and if that chance comes his
way, the health of the Canadian
people must needs take its chance
in turn. Sir Thomas White sought a
vote of credit for the enormous sum
of $350,000,000 of which nearly
$300,000,000 was for military and
demobilization purposes. He stated
that our war expenditure now ex-
ceeded fifteen hundred millions. The
balance of the vote was to be used
to provide credits to Roumania aad
other countries for manufactured ex-
ports. The opposition were properly
criticical of the Roumanian trans-
action; Mr. S. W. Jacobs declared
that the credit of a country which
might any day be infected by a
Bolshevik revolution was far from
safe and Mr. Pedlow maintained
firstly that excessive prices were
being paid for a woollen order
which Roumania had utilized the
credits for here and that an unne-
cessary commission had been paid
to a certain Mr. Yapp, a represen-
tative of the woollen manufacturers
for his services. Export trade is very
fine but if subsidies, which the pro-
vision of state credit amounts to
are given to send our products free-
ly abroad, there is scant hope of
any reduction in the cost of living
at home. Butter, for instance, is
mounting steadily .to uotrageous
prices but our coud storage firms
have large quantities in stock and
are selling it a fancy prices to

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famished Europe, while our poor
famish for it. The Railway Board
lias declined to interfere with the
railways’ adoption of daylight sav-
ing and Parliament despite its ow
decision now works by the new sum-
mer time.

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Canadian Railroader

WEEKLY

With Acknowledgement to the London Nation.

It Needs Scanning

On Friday, the 11th, . Dr. J. D.
Reid, the Minister of Railway^ in-
troduced the Government s bill to
fix the conditions of administra-
tion for the national railways. The
Sis an amazing production and
deserves very careful scanning by
the public. It proposes that the
, if the National rail

management it tne i'* R d

wav shall be in the hands of a Board
7f Directors who shall be appoint-
ed bv the Governor-in -Council, which

i fssv«r £££ •'

E.'i w.y‘. The board will »pp.™»b

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“w"i disoretioo in

the proposals and P*> inted out that
the Government’s plan left
scope for all the evils that had b
devilled railway administration y
a tat c in other countries. A large
majority 6 o'f the directors were busi-

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Now that the fighting has ceased,
it is possible to consider with some-
thimgvof detachment the events of
the last four years. We can throw
the mind back to the early days, to
the opinions that were then held,
and see how far they have been
justified. On the causes of the war
and its process it is vain to. dwell.
They are so involved that it will
take two generations to unravel
them. They provide opportunity for
little save conjecture; but on one
point we can speak with a knowl-
edge that is denied posterity,
that is— the psychology of war.

For in what has it been urged
that this war differs so greatly
from every preceding war? Sure v i
that it was the war of righteous-
ness. “Not for passion or for pow
er’> clean-handed we went into the
contest. The whole nation was
aflame with ideals. In the great
need we had proved ourselves
worthy of our high destiny. This

' ‘To-nigh he’s in the pink, but soon
he’ll die;

And still the war goes on, he don ’t
know why.’’

It is in that spirit that men have
gone to their death, dazed and mi-
serable, conscious only of their
suffering, filled with regret, and a ,
longing for the calm days of peace
And for those who survived courage
sank to an habitual disregard ot
danger ; they came to see war as the
ordinary course of things. y

merely transported their own va-
lues into the changer conditions ,
they were no longer disgusted by

fUt And that is the most terrible
thing of all. The first time a man
goes into action he is horrified y
what he sees. Through the cold of
I wet night he stumbles along a
duck-board track; on all sldes °
him arc strewn signs of conquest,
broken dugouts, half -buried, gun^
men, bits of men, horses. And with
morning comes the blind terror of
the barrage; the whistle, and he
plunges forward, frightened and

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ter of Bail ways, 'who use.
strongly suspect of uuuue
See to the C. N. B. arising with
hectic cheeks and waving arms to
defend in great indignation, - r.

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f‘ from what he thought were

tragedy that »»

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left a free hand in administration.
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tnWible. But would that yw
English composition was the on y
crime of our Tulers.

some ‘rose-red revelation of the
Grail a universal penacea, the
for all mortal ills. 4 ‘Purged through
fire”, Ordeal by battle”, “a uation

been the catchwords; and yet
false, how patently false! Doubt-
less the civilian felt as he spoke.
But for the fighting man this war
has been as every other war It has
opened to him no sudden influx of

ideals; instead of bringing him face

to face with reality, which is an
other word for the spiritual com
ception of things, it has coa J‘ sea ^ <
him, making him (consider human
life as a thing of little va u .
dailv work has been placed on the
lowest and most elemental levcL he
has lived from day to day, satisfi
as long as he had food to eat and a

countless pictures glonfy ng this
routine of filth and squalor we
have been told that the inner flame
rises superior to the external and

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when an Arcmc _ T

that first horror will pass. He will
look at the dead body casually, m
a cold-blooded sort of way, wonder-
ing how long it took to die.

There is no sadder experience than

J,,..! «« nigb, .

vards in the wake of carnage. The

sense of desolation, the very lights
fling across it unreal, fictitious sha-
dows. The brown stretch of water-
logged shell-holes seems unending
And among the scattered bodies ot
fV,o (\ pad dim figures are seen for
aging the broken bodies, searching
for souvenirs, diving their hands
to pockets, preying on camon. They

are no longer shocked by the con
ditions of war, but are them

to their own advantage. The scie
tific slaughter of human beings has
become for them the natural setting

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GEO. PIEBCE, Editor.

MEMBERS OF INDU STRIAE

COMMISSION ARE NAMED

ENDORSE

UNION’

The Vancouver Trades and Labor

SI o, him being “S eI, uien” nnS vrtd .1*

ed ; his susceptibilities hav « b h fa ° or of | 9tr ike to enforce the s.x_
deadened. Henri Barbusse, m l , However, the action of

one^honest »iece of fiction this n hour day. How ^ ^
has produced, draws with an im 1 this J .... iU . ,«„v and file of
«Miv thfi moral ar

mense r °sym^hy the moral and m-

may talk of the ideals at stake,

this Doay ,® , fil „ 0 f

necessary for the rank and tne o
X to vote on these questions be-
fore they are decided. A referendum

will be ‘taken on these two ques-

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are without meaning.

The commission to investigate in-
dustrial relations will consist of two
representatives each of employers,
of the employed and ot the public.
Chief Justice Mathers, of Manito-
ba will be chairman. The members
of ’the commission are: Chief JusHce
Mathers, chairman; Senator Whit ,
(President of “Gazette Publishing
Co., Montreal) and Charles Harn
son, M.P., (Railwayman) represent-
ing the public; Carl R.ordon (Pre-
1 silent of the Riordon Pulp and
Paper Company, Montreal), am
Pause, (lumberman), Montreal, re-
presenting the employers; Tom

Ere (PreeWebt .< Jb. » d

Labor Congress) ,and J- w -
I (member of the Labor Appeal Board,
Toronto), representing ™ nto
ployees. Thos. Bengongh, Toronto,
will be secretary of the commis-

sion.

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THE TARIFF COMMISSION

Dr. Michael Clark, M.P., Thinks It Would Be Mis-
chievous; Western Manufacturer Approves
of Main Idea.

Wo intend to let our Tariff Com-
mission idea get all the airing neces-
sary, as we believe that only by a
fair presentation of the case, for
and against, can we show the proper
value of it. This week, therefore,
we are giving prominence to extracts
from two letters, the writers of
which are frankly opposed. In pass-
ing we may say that, of course, we
expect the politicians to be opposed.

Extracts from letters follow: —

Strongly Opposed.

From Michael Clark, M.P. for Red
Deer: —

“I am most absolutely opposed to
•the appointment of a permanent
Tariff Commission. Such a body
would in my judgment be mischiev-
ous in the extreme, and its appoint-
ment would be an abdication by
Government and Parliament of
duties properly devolving upon them-
selves. ”

Approves Main Idea.

From T. R. Deacon, President, The
Manitoba Bridge & Iron Works,
Limited, Winnipeg: —

1 Generally speaking I agree with
re main, idea of your proposal
whilst as to the working out of some
of the details I think they would
require modifications in some re-
spects. The general idea is all
right. ’ 7

Hearty Approval

From F. M. Kimball, Business Sys-
tems, Limited, Toronto: —

1 1 Would advise that this editorial
meets with our hearty approval, and
is in acocr dance with our own
ideas. ’ 7

Bound to Fail

From Charles Leclerc, Editor “Le
Prevoyant”: —

“The tariff question is, in its
very nature, a political one; any ef-
fort, from any source, to remove it
from the political sphere, is bound
to failure.

“The people of Canada stand for
democracy. We have had already
too much government by commission.
The Commission you urge the estab-
lishment of is kaiserism, nothing
else. In such a move, the people
will see nothing else but a trick to
deprive them of their sovereignty,
and to play the game of politicians
and capitalists.

“The next move might be to name
a Commission of three members, ap-
pointed one by the manufacturers,
one by the Trades-Unionists, one by
agricultural classes, with power to
administer the whole business of the
country. They would, of course, as
the proposed tariff commission, be
appointed for life. And that would
do away altogether with what you
call “party politics”. The result
would be “stability and progress 7
“sufficient protection” to all, no
“disturbances”, “genuine benefit”
to the entire country.

“Believe me, it is easy to fool
some people some times; but mighty
hard to fool everybody all the time . 7 7

1. That a permanent Tariff Commission be established.

2. That the elements of society deeply interested shall each
have a representative on this Commission.

3. That the Commission shall consist of five members.

(a) The manufacturers shall nominate one member.

(b) The Trades Unisnists, throu g *it their executive on the
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, in conjunction with the
executive of the Railroad Brotherhoods, shall nominate one mem-
ber.

(c) The agricultural class, through the Council of Agricul-
ture, shall nominate one member.

(d) The Government in power at the time of the appoint-
ment of the Commission shall nominate one member who shall be
known as the Government Revenue member.

(e) The Government in power at the time of the appoint-
ment of the Commission shall nominate one member as a tariff
statistician.

(f) Adepartment of scientific research, capable of analyz-
ing processes of costs and manufacture shall be operated under
the authority and jurisdiction of the Commission.

(g) The Chairman of the Commission shall always be the
statistician.

3. Each member of the Commission shs.ll receive a salary of
no ^ ,^ ian $15,000.00 a year and shall have the selection of a
qualified statistician and staff.

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By Angela Morgan.

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I will rise when the workers rise,

I will see with the workers 7 eyes.
Why should I softly turn in bed
If they rise up when the sun is red?
Stern are the roads their feet must

go

Through parching heat or stinging

snow;

They sweep the whole world fair
for me —

And as they see, I, too, must see;
And as they know, I, too, must
know —

I will rise when the workers rise!

* * *

I will rise to-day at the hour the
workers keep —

I will whip my soul from sleep.

How may I know their cause is

right

If I sleep on till the sun is white?
Their woe I, too, must understand
Whose toil hath made my fairyland.
My back shall bend beneath their

strain,

Mine their courage and mine theii

pain,

Mine their patience and mine their

skill,

Mine the push of their splendid will.
* * *

I will rise to-day as the vigorous
workers rise,

I shall see with the workers 7 eyes...
Flint-cold pavements and icy streets,
Stones that clatter with hard hoof-

beats,

Clanging cars and hurrying throngs,
Ways of danger where death be-
longs: —

The forge, the loom, the sweatshop

grim —

All these, all these to share with him
Who weaves my magic world for

me:

And as he sees, I, too, shall see.

* * *

I will rise to-day as the militant
workers must,

For I know their cause is just
I who suffer and I who bleed,

My tongue shall plead as theirs shall

plead.

Mine their courage and mine their

good,

Mine their union in brotherhood.

O ye, who sleep in your soft white

bed,

Rise up, rise up when the sun is red.
Go bravely forth as the workers go,
For knowledge cometh only so!

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WHAT WILL IT
MAHER ?

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What will it matter in a little while
That for a day,

We met and gave a word, a touch,
a smile,

Upon the way?

What will it matter whether hearts
were brave
And lives were true;

That you gave me the sympathy I

crave,

As I gave you?

These trifles? Can it me they make

or mar

A human life?

Are souls as Rightly weighed as
riches are
By love or strife?

Yea, yea, a look the fainting heart
may break
Or make it whole;

And just one word, if said for love’s
sweet sake.
May save a soul.

May Riley Smith.

VOLUNTARY FLORISTS

With the advent of Spring, eight
hundred gardens along the line of
the C. P. R. demand the attention
of the Agents and Section foremen
and other employees who take an
interest in making the stations at-
tractive. The Floral Committee at
headquarters in Montreal has spent
much thought in simplyfying and
facilitate this work of beautifying,
and by establishing perennials and
shrubs where possible, have made
it possible for a Station Agent to
have a world of lovely blossom with
very little cultivation. These, how-
ever, must often be supplemented
by annuals, supplementing the pe-
rennial display, so a carefully select-
ed package of seeds is made up suit-
able for planting in any climate
from St. John to Vancouver or
from Windsor to Saskatoon. The
seeds comprise Rochia (Summer
Cypress), California Poppy, Double
Sinnia, Sweet Alyssym, Phlo, Dwarf
and Tall Nasturtium, and Giant Mi-
gnonette, which apparently is a
great favorite with the employees
wives. It is interesting to note that
this Station garden work is done
voluntarily by the C. P. R. men in
their own time — the Company pro-
viding liberal prices which are
keenly completed, by those in-
terested.

4. The members of the Commission to be appointed for life,
subject only to the recall of the organization by which they have
been chosen.

5. The Commission shall hold daily sessions, excepting on

legal holidays. ,

6. The Commission shall have power to fix the tariffs, to
examine the books and to ascertain the costs and selling price
with reference to goods of any manufacturer seeking tariff pro-
tection.

7. The tariff fixed by the Commission shall be final and
unassailable unless subsequently changed by action of the Com-
mission or a special act of Parliamnet.

Page 5

I The Way The Wind Blows

«,ttt n TT.T.TTERACY 1 ^ _ 4-^ Vfa labor

CHILD ILLITERACY

An alarming percentage of illiter-
acy among certain groups of working
children is disclosed in figures made
public by the children's bureau of
the United States department ol
labor. These figures are based on
the experience of the bureau in is-
suing federal certificates to children
going to work in five states where
state certificates were not accept-
able for the purposes of the former
federal child labor law.

More than one-fourth, or 5,294, of
the 19,546 between 14 and 16 years
of age to whom certificates were
issued could not sign their own
names legibly.

In the five states where 18,379
white children between 14 and 16
were certificated, but 742 had
— ^reached the eight grade in school.

Of 1,166 colored children only
reached the eighth grade.

In other words, 96 per cent of the
white children and 97 per cent of
the colored children granted certifi
cates had not reached the eight,
grade.

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* ‘ DUMMY ’ * DIRECTORS

Editor Baine of the Shoe Workers ’
Journal applauds the Massachusetts
state federation of labor for refusing
to indorse a bill that would permit
corporations to provide for the re-
presentation of employees on then
boards of directors.

The labor editor suggests that om
ployers permit trade unionists to run

their own affairs before they (th

unionists) are invited to share in the

management of the business of some

one else. .

The bill was introduced in the

state

an executive of the r >

Tn «uir>T)ort of the bill*
•age company, lu supp

the law-maker said. #

<<I have tried many experiments.

I have tried profit sharing b—
workmen’s committees, and all those

things, and every one of them
when time of stress came.

Editor Baine calls attention to tl®

employer's tail... <»

lectave bargaining.

“It is to be expected that an
ccutive committee of the board of
directors would run the business and
The employee directors would be

called in only on certain occasions,

principally when it was desir

impress them with some idea in the
firm’s interest relating to its labor
policies. Such directors would be
selected by the management of the
business or by the stockholders, and
would have to be perfectly accept
able to the stockholders and to the
directors. ’ ’

Editor Baine predicts a new ciop

tional Union of Railway Men of
Great Britain and Ireland, at a re-
cent conference of employers and
employees.

The trade unionist said he was
deputed to make the following ob-
servation for the triple alliance:

“The organized workers of Great
Britain have made up their minds
to obtain for themselves an increas-
ing share of the wealth which their
labor has produced and produces.
The workers of the three-fold or-
ganization are determined to shorten
materially the hours of labor in their
respective industries. They are di -

AN ITALIAN SLAP AT THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

~ v • - ■R.mim

a nf Russians Poles, Bohemians, Roumanians,
The medley is composed of Russ***, and Montenegrins.

Germans, Hungarians, Croats, ___ L >Asino (Rome).

f these scueiii^

not to solve the labor problem, but

to 'Circumvent it.”

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labor not COMMODITY

Labor is not a commodity and it

demands that it shall become a real

partner in industry, is the declara-
tion of the triple alliance, consisting
of the unions of railway workers,
miners and transport workers.

This statement was made by
James H. Thomas, member of par-
liament and general secretary Na-

saxisucHi -----

Which treats their labor power as a
mere commodity to be bought, sold
and used as though they were ma-
chine-like units in the process of
wealth production and distribute ,
and they therefore demand that they
shall become real partners in iu
dustry, jointly sharing in deter-
mining conditions and management.

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18,000 MAY UNITE

One of the biggest movements—
or rather series of movements-m

which many branches of Canadian
industry will be affected, is now in
progress.

Probably the biggest part of the
new movement, which is now fully
under way, is that of the Marine
Federation, in which all the ship-
building plants, marine engineering
I shops, and allied concerns from Ha-
I lifax to Port Arthur, will be con-
cerned. Owners of 18 to 20 ship-
building yards, and about the same
number of engineering shops, and
representative delegates of all the
trades will meet inside the next
twenty days to complete the form-
ing of a marine federation that will
establish uniform working condi-
tions and rates of pay for all the
plants concerned, and these will be
binding on all who are members of
the federation.

The plants concerned employ be-
tween 15,000 and 18,000 men and
are situated in Montreal, Quebec,

Three Rivers, Sorel, Lauzon, Kings-
ton, Collingwood, Midland, Toronto,
Ottawa, Bridgeworth, Welland, Ha-
lifax and Port Arthur.

Another aspect or part of the
movement is to form all the metal
working shops into one big coun-
cil, and raises the status of the
workers who toil in them.

A further part of the movement
will be to improve the position of
the skilled worker in the locomotive
manufacturing plants of Montreal
and Kingston, while an effort will
also be made to deal with the farm
implement business as O industry
and have the workers tnerein orga-
nized accordingly.

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at SCHOOL TILL 18

In the Ontario Legislature last
week, Premier Hearst introduced
the Adolescent School Attendance
Bill, which wakes part time school
attendance of boys and girls be-
tween the ages of 14 and 18 com-
pulsory. Adolescents of this age,
will, in the future, be unable to ob-
tain employment unless they pos-
sess certificates of exemption. Be-
tween the ages of 14 and 16, adoles-
cents are required to have 400
hours’ education each year, and,
between the ages of 16 and 18, 320
hours yearly. The act does not ap-
ply to adolescents who have com-
pleted a matriculation course or
have passed an equivalent exannna-
The act stipulates that all

tion. -Liie -

urban centres of over 5,000 popula-
tion must provide for such courses.
In smaller communities it is not
obligatory. The bill is not likely to
be finally passed this session, and no
date is fixed for its coming into
force.

Lis

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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER

CO-OPERATION, CO-PARTNERSHIP,
INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS

By Francis HANKIN, Honorary Secretary, Canadian Reconstruction Groups.

(Continued.)

The schemes recommended in the C, it is recommended that Trade

report are intended not merely for
the treatment of industrial problems
when they become acute, but also,
and more especially, to prevent their
becoming acute.

The first report dealt only with
those industries where organization
was well developed on the part of
both employers and employed. A
second report dealt with two other
e.lasess of industries as follows:

:Group B, comprising those indus-
tries in which either as regards em-
ployers and employed, or both, the
degree of organization, though con-
siderable, is less marked than in
group A.

Group C, consisting of industries
in which organization is so imper-
fect, either as regards employers or
employed or both, that no associa-
tion can be said adequately to re-
present those engaged in the indus-
try.

For Group B, it recommended
that the proposals of the first re-
port should in their main lines, be
applied to those which are found
to be relatively well organized.
Here a National Industrial Council
might be formed, but one or two
pfficial representatives might as
sist in the initiation of the Coun-
cil, and continue to serve for a time
in a advisory capacity only. They
would remain only at the wish of
the Council itself.

It is possible that in some dis-
tricts, organization might not be
sufficiently complete to permit of
Uie_ establishment of District Coun-
cils, but this should not prevent
such councils being established
where the state of organization
warrants such a step. In the case of
the unorganized or poorly organized
districts, Trade Boards might be
appointed.

in the industries covered by Group

•oards with extended powers should
be instituted until organization
should permit the formation of Dis-
trict or National Industrial Coun-
cils.

The Trade Boards were originally
intended to secure the establishment
of a minimum standard of wages in
certain unorganized industries. It
is suggested that the functions of
these Boards should be extended so
that they might deal not only with
minimum rates or wages, but with
hours of labor, and questions cogn-
ate to wages and hours, and that
they should also be in a position to
initiate and conduct enquiries on
all matters affecting the industry.
These Trade Boards would consist
of representatives of employers and
employed with ‘ ‘ appointed ’ ’ mem-
bers. The amended Trade Boards
Act of last year gives the neecssary
powers.

Under the proposals above de-
scribed, there would be broadly tffro
classes of industries — those with
National Councils and those with
Trade Boards.

The Committee also issued a sup-
plementary report on Works Com-
mittees, in which it was suggested
that these Committees should not be
permitted to interfeie with those
questions such as wages and hours
of work which should properly be
left to the National and District
Committees, but that the Works
Committees should concern them-
selves with questions affecting the
daily life and comfort in, and the
success of the business. The pur-
pose of a Works Committee is to
establish and maintain a system of
co-operation in all these workshop
matters. These Committees should
not, in constitution or methods of
working discourage Trade organiza-
tions.

In the report dealing with Conci-
liation and Arbitration, it is recom-
mended that conciliation and arbi-
tration should be voluntary.

The question whether awards and
agreements should be made enforce
able by means of monetary or other
penalties was examined exhaustive-
ly by the Industrial Council in an
enquiry commenced in 1912, and the
Whitley Committee concur gene-
rally in the views expressed in the
report made by the Council in 1913,
to the effect that, while it is to the
interests of both employers and
workpeople and the community ge
nerallv that industrial agreements
should be duly fulfilled, in the long
run this object is more likley to
be secured by an increased regard
for moral obligation, respect for an
instructed public opinion, and re-
liance on the principles of mutual
consent, rather than by the estab-
lishment of a system of monetary
penalties.

The final report is a summary of
the previous reports, and deserves
quotation at some length, as it
enables one easily to comprehend
the scope of the recommendations
of the Whitley Committee. It is to
be noted that five members of the
Committee add a postscript that the
proposals while being likely to lead
to more amicable relations between
employers and workpeople, are not
regarded as capable of affecting an
entirely satisfactory settlement of
industrial problems:

2. We have presented four Re
ports. In our first Report on Joint
Industrial Councils (Cd. 8606) we
recommend the establishment for
ea<ch of the principal well-organized
industries of a triple form of or
ganization, representative of em-
ployers and employed, consisting of
Joint Industrial Councils, Joint Dis
trict Councils, and Works Commit
tees, each of the three forms of or
ganization being linked up with the
others so as to constitute an or
ganization covering the whole of the
trade, capable of considering and
advising upon matters affecting the
welfare of the industry, and giv-
inb to labor a definite and enlarged

share in the discussion and settle-
ment of industrial matters with
which employers and employed are
jointly concerned.

3. In our second Report on Joint
Industrial Councils (Cd. 9002) we
proposed for trades where organiza-
tion is at present very weak or non-
existent an adaptation and expan-
sion of the system of Trade Boards
working under an amended Trade
Boards Ajct ;and for trades in which
organization is considerable, but not
yet general, a system of Joint Coun-
cils with some Government assist-
ance which may be dispensed with
as these industries advance to the
stage dealt with in our first Report.

In the second Report we proposed
also a plan whereby the Joint Coun-
cil of an Industry, when it has
agreed upon a minimum standard
of working conditions for those em-
ployed in the industry may have the
means of making those conditions
general in any disrtict or over the
whole country.

Taking our first and second Re-
ports together, they constitute a
scheme designed to cover all the
chief industries of the country and
to equip each of them with a repre-
sentative joint body capable of
dealing with matters affecting the
welfare of the industry in which
employers and employed are con-
cerned, and of caring for the pro-
gressive improvement of the indus-
try as an integral part of the na-
tional prosperity.

6. In our fourth Report (Cd.
9099) we have made recommenda-
tions on Conciliation and Arbitra-
tion. Replying in the main on the
methods built up by agreement
within the various industries and
looking to an expansion and im
provement of these methods.

Resulting from the habit of deal-
ing with common questions in Joint
Council, we have limited our new
proposals to the establishment of a
small Standing Arbitration Coun-
cil, on the lines of the present
Committee on Production, to deal
with cases where the parties have
failed to come tc] an agreement
under their ordinary procedure and
wish to refer their differences to
this Council.

The Whitley Report has received
a widespread study throughout the
world. It will therefore not be out
of place in view of its importance
to emphasize the advantages to be
secured by its general adoption.
This can best be done by quoting
from a pamphlet issued by the In-
dustrial Reconstruction Council of
London.

(To be continued.)

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TO AVOID REVOLUTION

the smoke of bolshevism travels around the 'world. C aKO u,, " u A '**•

The National American Woman's
Suffrage Association at St. Louis,
Mo., passed resolutions endorsing
the League of Nations and urging
the United States Government “to
bring about the prompt redress of
all legitimate grievances” as a
safeguard against revolution by
violence.

THE CANADIAN RAILROADER

The Fifth Sunday MeeUng Association of Canada

Its Only Aim Is TheWdfare of The Masses.

Join Now.

, ftf a nati0 n cannoTadvaiice beyond them™ make it.

The people <>f a Sunday Meeting Association of C n * e( i \ n the

of the manner ni M £ J any class, particularly
The^m Ss g the a a tt S ain m en g t of true democracy.

ww PLEDGE OURSELVES:-

^ ® , .i federal educational plan

TStSSt SOS* — “ a

industrial developments; for the franchise

n _ 1. ^ rt O 1 1

toeI^nds!^ BE used

HUXV ■ the Dominion Headquarters are used to

The funds accumulating 11,1 development of the organization;

political and educational propagandas^ ^ ^ fiwuwlng of the various

the preparation of pamphle s opportunities develop, to elect °

political campaigns where tavo VV & ^ books are aud itoa by a

candidates. The treasurer is under
firm of accountants.

WOW TO BECOME A MEMBER

HOW lit Merelv fill out the appaca-

An application blank will be foun< ® ^ Dominion Headquarters,

tion blank, buy a postal \ y re tum mail. Join thus gr at

your membership card will bo ^ a ^ t ion a.id clean polities. Today « «•

ffflE EDINBURGH
' PATRIOTIC CLUB §

madian jtaiiroauci ,

S“S.»AT».i «?*»*;*'» »•**»?“_ £».,

jvernment ; umversa suttrage impr 0 vements, and all pr

portunUks r fo 0 r n soldiers and their dependents; tow compelling

:: ■ -r

shareholders and bondholders.

onaiiuiucio.

financed by members

r is financed eu-

1 1 The Fifth Sunday Meeting Ass. octet n on o . ‘ me ^ bers hip fees. If a

01 * 2 <ur " ,,y “

application for membership

With the close of the war, the man>

JS- 1- “ py*™ « "S

psnecially those connected with the

received the public recognition the.

deserve. „ . , A

We have recently been urnmhed
•fit final statement of the
burgh Patriotic Club, an association
organized by the Misses Loatt.^of
the Edinburgh “* e “ d 19 B 14 ua der
the" 1 convermrship 1 Miss ' Annie Eont-

The objects of the Club uerc o

provide comforts for members of^e

Allied Armies, and to aid
distress arising through the " ar -
The money neeessary to purchase
the T Hrsfsup^lies was contributed by
the members in addition to the
trance, fee of fifty cents.

The Work Committee’s report s ions
a total of 2,891 vaTo^

Cross Society.

Donations including ^eets^lank-
ets pyjamas, pillow slips, towels, ana
hussiS totalled 1,888 articles.

In addition to this t and

CriSbte 5 ’S 7 including 1 donations
to various charitable organ^ns for

ctlu1h?s Ho|£ai; Gazett^

^SLTSSZ^ the

The importance and work of the

cessitate a Dominion Charter.

Charter Members w • ^y r ight,

r 4 . 4 . 54 - prDfiident; James A. wrigu^
Louttit, rresiaei , Tjawne

pir^t Vice-President , x •• •»«■.

A«to, »««■■! w “

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The success of the o and

questionably due^t and her

equally 1 great-hearted

lor Ibeir »»-J » “*' J ' ft, ,h.

the entertainments necessa y •

augmentation of the CluD

We are pleased to have the _ op

Z -t, J bringing these facts to
portumty ot bring j siug 0 ur

„„blie . o l « f h “E le L,«l

X'.'rf”o - ( =" b ’"

Of the Edinburgh Patriotic Club.

to pay,

To the Secretary, Mpptinff Association of Ca ^ a ^^’. „

ThC * fliST Headquarters, 65 Dandurand Building,

MONTREAL, Que. h6 ^ Sunday

I hereby make application for meml^iP.^ ^ agree ,
Meeting Association oi I C a . ta adv ance.

while a member, the yeauj

Name

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Amount paid %

City....

Province .

BOBERT w. HUNT, Drosident. ^

TIMES w. MOFFAT, Secretary

Date

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Official ™jf o e ™ hl * ms Mution ami general rales.

W ith copy of Platform,

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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER

GEORGE? RJERCE — EDIROR

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I A Living Wage Or Vice -Which? !

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M :

LCH has been written on the vice question in Montreal.
In a recent editorial one of our most important daily
papers expressed the opinion that the proper way to
attack the situation was to make war upon the white
slavers. Other important bodies favor suppression by closino-
such institutions through constant raiding. Generally speakin^
the contributing causes are supposed to be the police, the bench
the law, the lack of reformative institutions, the lack of proper
recreational facilities for young women, the movies, the dance
ldll, the prevailing immodesty of female attire and the want of

a i clv ' lc y nseieilce ; The cigarette, drink and the drug habit are
also held responsible. 0

No doubt each of the causes enumerated contributes its quota
to the great human cesspool of misery, yet the daughters of the
wealthy smoke their perfumed cigarettes in elaborate public cafes,
they drink the highest of wines, and bediamonded fingers hold the
crimson glass high where all may see; they roll by in luxurious
cars; wdh shoulders bare they recline in their boxes at the theatre
and they are beautiful to look upon, if we hate any appreciation
for nature. 1 hey view the performance of scantily attired niads
of the stage and discuss their physical attributes with risk and
caring, they meander into the picture shows to while away the
afternoon, they motor out under the stars during the hours of the
moon s sweetest enchantment, they dance the latest dances to the
bewitching air of fussy fox trots and dreamy waltzes and yet

7 ’ the C j garette ’ the dance hall, etc., are supposed

to be the real causes of prostitution. *

How is it that among the god-forgotten, the poor, painted,
desolate derelicts of life, we never, never, never find the daughters
”T the nch - rhe answer is very simple. The real cause of prostitu-
tion is poverty The under nourished, the naked, the hungry the
miserable — these are the victims. The movie show, the dance
mil, the cigarette do not lure the rich woman into the red light
district nor do they entice the poor woman. Let us brush aside
all subterfuge. They are simply alibis for the real culprit.

The real criminal is the bewhiskered, silk hatted suave em-
ployer with an armorplate conscience who pays his employees
starvation wages — the gentleman who frequently writes his
cheque for well advertised charities and benefactions and then
calmly sits down upon the back of his undernourished and despair
ing employees for the rest of a “perfect day”.

If you question the fairness of the charge we make, then ask
one of these flourishing nabobs if he can elaborate a method or
devise a plan whereby a healthy young girl of sixteen can exist
on the munificent salary of five or six dollars a week. Here is the
crux of the whole situation. The working woman of the city of
Montreal is underpaid and underpaid to such a degree that' she
cannot secure for herself the very essentials of life — food,
clothing and shelter.

Whit , e 7 aver never captures a rich woman,
isear in mind that our fashions are designed by men who cater

the T lthy ; K the d « if the^ostumes appear

whims You lil /1 • that tke desi " ,ler is catering to your
ivl,i L;! f of leisure who rustle in the silks of life, you

Z olnT ? eS V°- r the ,ittle g,ass of wine, you who brush
you who dance <mah l ies aiK ! whiff the naughty little cigarette,
wish to hpln vn y0U who ? re bllt chlldren playing, if you really

to your rich and n?°°I7 , si ® ters ’ and "! e know you do, bring home
pow erful husbands this one fact, that any woman

will be moral, will be good and will reject all advances that come
from the underworld provided your husbands will give her a liviim
wage. Without wages that will ensure food, clothing and shelter
to the young girls of our City, you may throw open all the temples
of worship, you may pray from morning until night, you may
finance committee after committee, you may issue pamphlets by
the million, you may hire the most expensive preachers that
Christendom affords, you may screech and roar, rave and shriek
scream and rant and gnash your teeth, but prostitution with its
paint, and its running sores will grin in at your window and
make mockery of your slumbers. You are not immune. Perhaps
it cannot lay its putrid hand upon your fairheaded daughter but
it can grip your baby boy and tear his bones asunder.

So a way 1 We have no time for camouflage, we have no time
nor humor, for skilful alibis. The living wage and no other plan
can offer the solution.

And now we come to the question of the public conscience.

. w bose order we do not know and we do not care, but it is suf-
lcient unto the fact that on Christmas eve w T hen the world was
making merry , when the wine was flowing, when the candles were
it upon the evergreens, when the little children were about your
knees, when the bells were ringing, when hearts were thrilled and
eyes dimmed with the great loveliness of life — on the night when
Christianity was born, there were hundreds of forgotten, tempest
™!V 0W , ° U S wko kad keen battered about in the grim storms

01 LA ~ daughters of the poor who had covered the scratches
and tiie rents made by the claws of vicious men and painted it
over with the powder and the rouge and the red light of their
unhappy environment, they were trying to forget, to forget old
i a , ces a ? d kmd voi ces that were stilled — they were arrested.
About them were the derelicts, weary and wayworn, the only />
friends that modern society could vomit up for them. In then-
caves tar away from our sensitive nostrils, in their own
way and according to their means they were trying to
forget, they were trying to forget us and the things that
we had done to them. And then out of the night there
came waggon after waggon. We dragged them out of
their holes, we piled them one upon the other, we dragged them

Chl-kf 1 the . streets - we Jeered, we jeered, we gibed them — on
Christmas night. On they went, through the pack — hundreds
upon hundreds of men, with their teeth bare at the sight, wolves
the pack. Not a word of compassion, not a heart throb. The
utter desolation, the degradation, the terrible depravity, the in-
justice and the unspeakable brutality of the mob is beyond the

slrrv 1 J?,? V™ b ?/ sked in a l )ra y er - We were infinitely
r > wj ., ,f bject { Pendent, for what man is there who has not
... 1 'vdh the pack lo make what reparation we can, we shall
lglit from now on for a living wage for every poor man’s child.

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^rnpHERE has been a great awakening of the masses The
J_ people are aroused as never before in the world’s his
with nr,n°Vr +1 0 sp ” ke a prominent labor leader in conversation

Canada 16 "o 1 and most influential business men in

Canada. Quite so , was the answer, “still they’ve been awake
before and gone back to sleep again”. We will admit that thev
have been awake but we cannot concede that they are about to
doze away into convenient slumber again. When the situation is
gfe* >* f ' J "»* is s„ me basis

!7ti p • * of . the . P e °P le are inarticulate. There is no

m of intercommunication which the people control. The only

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Wu.ce of knowledge h «he peeg * P “‘ “

k i politely, has not alway told the ^trut - considera ble 1

’ ' Until the outbreak of the wa . r ,f3 eT he majority of

influence and following among published, making ample

readers usually discount ucnC es which were intertwined with

still a limited faith in the reliability

of the general news published. d : d d other activities

During the w«r p“s»e to enthuse and

of the nation, worked The German gtate

organize the militant spirit am g I editors were exposed

was laid bare to the hone, the j . between church and state
word for word, all of the rajm Shrieks ^H tWr subterfuges,
and factory, and money, all their tricks fid was n i pp ed

all their cunning, all their, taw** ^ a » \ h “ r Sions of tons of
wide open and exposed to the P «= ployed the keenest

SL— educate the people to the perfidious

Perf0 O r rco C urse 01 'the* Publications loTa^ed taX Centra^ Powers
were«y engaged iu exactly , “^^Tron^DS

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that the public was makin & . ’ , , mi average newspaper

effect has been a "amt “cents worth

reader to-day can look right through us wo or

»' rny^peopl'eS Se'awale'and ,°he'4n who tries to
f^l then, will discover that the world is full of somnambulists.

servants

The Mining Industry in Britain

CHANGES and PROPOSALS

There has been and is still sitting
in Great Britain, a very important
commission presided over by Mr.
Justice Sankey , which is investi-
gating the coal industry and the
variety of problems connected with
it. On the Sankey commission ,all
classes are represented and the case
of the Miners Federation has been
powerfully represented. In the end
most of the miner’s demands as to
wages and hours were conceded but
the question of the future manage-
ment of the mines is still under con-
sideration by the commission. How-
ever, ten out of the thirteen mem-
bers of the commission are agreed
in ercommending a complete change
of ownership and control. The mine
owners representatives want a sort
of national trust, in which they will
retain great control. Mr. Sidney
Webb and his Fabian friends de-
sire state socialism, but perhaps th
most interesting proposals were
those of Mr. Straker, made on be-
half of the Guild Socialist School
of Thought. These proposals are now

summarized below.

< < As a first practical step to sa-
tisfv the larger demand and to place

nationally and locally , on sou
business lines, so that the interest
of the miners and the commu y
may be fully safeguarded , said the
witness, “I beg to suggest the fol-
lowing^provisionS ’ ^

the appointed day a Mining Council
of ten members, five of whose mem-

bers shall be appointed by the Mi-
nister for Mines, of which two shall
especially be appointed to repre-
sent the interests of consumers, and
five by the association known as
the Miners’ Federation of Great
Britain.

(2) The Minister of Mines shall
be chairman and an ex-official mem-
ber of the Mining Council.

(3) Subject to the provisions of
this Act, it shall be lawful for the
Mining Council, on behalf of the
Minister for Mines, to open and
work coal mines and win and deal
with minerals and generally to car-
ry on the industry of coal mining
and distributing and vending, toge-
ther with all other industries car-
ried on in connection therewith
Provided that it shall not be law
ful for the Minister for Mines or
the Mining Council to lease any
mine or minerals to any person, asso
ciation or corporation.

(4) The Minister for Mines may
compulsorily purchase land or ac-
quire such rights over land as he
may require for the purpose of this
Act, and shall have, wtih regard to
the compulsory purchase of land, all
the powers of purchasers
under the Lands Clauses Act, 1845,
and the Lands Clauses Consolidation
' (Scotland) Act, 1845.

(5) For the purpose of this sec
tion the Mining Council, on behalf
of the Minister for Mines may, from
time to time, in such manner and on
I such terms as they think fit:

I (a) Appoint managers, engineers,

agents, clerks, workmen,
and other persons, and

(b) Construct, erect or purchase,
lease or otherwise acquire, building
plant, machinery, railways, tram-
ways, hulks, ships, and other fixed
or movable appliances or works of
any description, and sell 01 other '
wise dispose of the same when no
longer required, and

(c) Sell, supply, and deliver coal
and other products the. result oil
coal mining operations, either within
or without the realm, and

(d) Enter into and enforce con
tracts and engagements; and

(e) Generally do anything that
the owner of a coal mine might law-
fully do in the working of the mine
or that is authorized by regulations
under this Act or by this Act; and

(f) Employ agents, including local
authorities or trade unions, for any
purpose they may think necessary to
carry out their duties under this
Act, on such terms as may be mu
tuallv agreed.

(6) In addition to the powers con-
ferred on the Mining Council on bo-
half of the Minister for Mines by
the last preceding sub-section, the
Council may, in such manner as they
think fit, work any railway, tram-
way, hulk, ship or other appliance
for the purpose of winning, supply-
ing and delivering coal.

(7) The members of the Mining
Council shall be appointed for five
years, but shall be eligible for re
appointment.

(8) The Minister for Mines shall,
for the purpose of the carrying on
and development of the mining in-
dustry, divide the United Kingdom
into districts, and shall, in each dis-
trict, constitute a district mining
council of ten members, half of
which shall be appointed by the
Miners’ Federation of Great Bn-
tain.

(9) The Mining Council may dele-
gate to any district mining council
such of their powers under this Act
as may conveniently be exercised
locally — d the district mining coun-
cil shall, upon such delegation, have
and exercise within their district all
tho powers and duties of the Min
ing Council as may be delegated to

them. ..

(10) A district mining council

shall, subject to the approval of the
Mining Council, have power within
their area to appoint pit committees
for each mine or group of mines,
composed of ten members, half of
which shall be members of the
Miners’ Federation of Great Bri-
tain, and nominated by the work-
ers of the mine or groups of mines
aforesaid, and the district mining
council may delegate to such pit
council such of their powers con
corning the immediate working or

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management of a particular mine or
group of mines as the district min-
ing council may, subject to the
approval of the Mining Council
think fit.

(11) The members of district min-
ing councils shall be appointed for
three years, but shall be eligible
for re-appointment, and the mem-
bers of pit councils shall be ap
pointed for one year, but shall be
©legible for re-appointment.

The witness, in conclusion, sa.d:

• - In laying this case for nationaliza-
tion of mines and minerals before
you, I have made no attempt to co-
ver the whole ground; I have merely
touched what I regard as the prin-
cipal points, and dealt with it ou
broad lines. All the details to give
effect to the principle of nationaliz-
ation, which we ask the Commis-
sion to recommend and the Gov-
ernment to ac-ept, will have to bo
wrought out and embodied in an
Act of Parliament”.

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the obsolete salute

[Saluting in the streets is
a thing of the past.]

How smart it was! The sudden jab
Of whirling hand, the click of boot
With heel on heel, the glance
astute

To blue or green or scarlet tab!
The finger-tips appeared t® stab

The eyes that right (or left)
• would snoot;

For discipline was simply ab-
Solute 1

But Tommy’s tiring of 3®fc>

And daily in the crowded street
He turns aside if he should meet,
Perchance, some high brass-hatted

Since he’s beginning to demob.

His sense of freedom is complete,
So discipline is simply ob-
Solete l

Money still talks, but contact
with the high cost of living seems
to have given it throat troub e -

— Arkansas Gazette.

« oh C olly 1 A fine dhance the world I
got for universal peace with a thing like i
in our house 1 ’*

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THE LAW IS AN ASS, SAID A JUDGE IN
RENDERING HIS DECISION RECENTLY

“Well” commented Acting Chief
Justice Archibald, sitting at Mon-
treal in review, with Justice Mer-
cie r and Monet, recently, “the ef-
fect of the judgment just handed
down by this court is that we au-
thorize the defendant husband to
beat his wife if he so desires or to
take a woman of ill repute into his
house to live with him and his wife.
That’s all I have to say!”

This acrid remark of the distin-
guished judge was called forth by
a majority decision of the court in
a case brought by a woman, who
sought to obtain a separation from
her husband. The wife alleged
among other things grave miscon-
duct, and threatening to kill, so that
life had become a hell on earth.
However, in spite of all proof, the
decision was against her; there was
nothing left for her to do but to
return to her lord and master if he
would so permit, or go where she
pleased, if he decided otherwise.

erty accumulated by^ both parties
without his wife’s consent, and need
give her only a very meagre allow-
ance if he so chooses.

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License For Men.

'If women were not reminded of
these facts once in a while they
would not believe these laws per-
mitting men every liberty and lr-
- cense so far as their treatment of
frheir women were concerned. For-
tunately for the famliy, the major-
ity of men have evolved far above
the limits accorded them by legal
enactments. If they behave as the
law allows them what brutes they
could be and what *abject slaves
women and children would be! The
difference between the rights of
men, especially the rights of par
ents, are far too conciliatory to
men. In fact, according to law, the
father is the parent. He doesn’t pos
sess quite the power of life and
death over his family as of old, but
he who holds the purse strings and
the deciding voice in the ownership
and control of wife and children
holds nearly everything. He un-
doubtedly holds the reins and can
whip up or slow down the family
chariot at will.

A few days ago, I had need to
summarize these laws. It was not a
complete summary by any means,
but sufficient to stir the imagina-
tion if not the ire of most women
and every broad minded man to
protest. Here are these laws. I will
leave the reader to judge whether
they do credit to the intelligence of
the legal profession, or the chivalry
of the “natural protectors” of wo-
men.

The husband can sell the

prop-

What the Law Allows.

A girl of 12 years can marry if
her father consents, irrespective of
the mother’s wishes.

If a wife leaves her husband, he
has a right to compel her, by force,
to return to him.

In cases of separation the father
has legal right to the children, un-
less the court orders otherwise.

A wife cannot borrow money to
get her husband out of jail, or to
establish her children in business.

The father has sole authority in
the education and disposal of .the
child, although the mother is equally
responsible with the father for its
maintenance.

A wife inherits nothing from her
husband if he makes no will.

No surgeon may perform an oper-
ation on a woman or minor child
without the authorization of the
husband or father, even to save
life.

A wife cannot take legal action,
dispose of her legal property, take a
gift of property, or go into trade,
without her husband’s consent.

If husband and wife are judicially
separated, the wife cannot sell her
property without her husband’s
consent.

If no marriage contract exists, the
husband has complete administra-
tion of his wife’s property, and can
collect her wages.

A woman, though separated from
her husband, and separate as to
property, cannot sell it without his
consent.

A man may secure a separation de
corps because of his wife’s adult-
ery; it is necessary, before the wife
can procure the same, that the hus-
band keep his concubine in their
common habitation.

: chattels, oxeny asses, barns, farms,
household stuff and so forth, and
have undergone little if any change
j in the interval.

Education, religion, industry, po
litics and science have all progress
ed and gone forward, but “His Ma-
jesty the Law” stift waddles around
In the rags of past centuries.

May this not be the psychological
moment for women to look more
closely into the laws which are so
antiquated, absurd and out of date.
Men of high and low degree are not
only holding out the olive branch
to women but eulogizing them in
season and out .To listen to some
of these orators one would imagine
women had suddenly taken to them-
selves wings but they haven’t...
they are still human, very much so.
There is little of the angelic about
them, • consequently they are very
much in need of the laws which
affect their earthly surroundings
being remodelled.

Greater Injustice.

These laws are unjust, all thinking
people will admit, but still greater
injustice exists in the law relating
to young girls. With these I shall
deal in a later issue.

The civil code of the Province of
Quebec dates back to 1867 and is
based orf the Napoleonic code of
1804, which took its code from
French sources, which in turn were
based on the code formulated by
Justiceas, Emperor of Rome of the
4th century, and at a time when
women were classed with goods and

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Kicked Footboard.

Women have kicked the foot-
board out of their cradle. They have
relegated the spinning wheel to the
attic where grandmother keeps other
old relics of a bygone «.'ge. They
have put away the broom and floor
cloth for the electric sweeper and
patent mop; they carry resolutions,
timely and progressive, to their
meetings instead of recipes for
colic, soothing syrups and sundry
other things. Not because they are
not still interested in teething, colic
and cooking, but because such things
can be discussed over the phone
Meeting day has become a red-let
ter day and is for something more
important than former trivialities,

Women stand side by side with
men in every profession in the arts,
sciences and industries, but they
have not yet succeeded in changing
the laws which bear so heavily and
bring such misery to thousands of
helpless women and children.

These laws are old, moth-eaten
and musty. The book shelves of our
law courts need overhauling and
house cleaning. Men were never
good at house cleaning. Women must
go in and take a hand in cleaning
out the legal refuse of\$he dark and
dim past. This suggestion,- 1 know,
will horrify some of our good and
sincere law-makers who say? “The
laws cannot be changed. They are on
our books and we must not touch
them. They were made by great
men. ’ ’

In the light of modern knowledge
and human needs are the foregoing
laws either just, reasonable or com-
mon sense? Are women not half of
humanity and mother of the other
half? Are they not as much or more
interested in the welfare of home
and children as men are? Ho they

not suffer and sacrifice most of the
family? Every injustice to woman
must eventually find its echo in the
heart of the race. Men cannot be
free while women are bound. Why
give men greater protection under
the law; why not project both
equally?

“Let us consider the reason of
the case, for nothing is law that is
not reason. Reason is the life of law,
nay the common law itself is noth-
ing else but reason”.

One of the greatest injustices to
women quite condoned by the law
is the fact that when raids are made
by the police upon disorderly houses
appended to the warrants is a signed
order issued by the magistrate giv-
ing the men found in these houses
the privilege of being released on a
ten dollar cash bail. Needless to say
these men are not foolish enough
to give their right names or addres-
ses and rarely if ever turn up to
claim their ten dollars.

What an added slur and injustice
to women L by which divine right are
men permitted to escape their share
o fthe blame, shame and punish-
ment particularly since men are
supposed to be the “Natural Pro-
tectors” of women and “stronger
and more logical sex”. Where is
the protection, where is the strength
and pray where is the logic? Pro-
tection for one publicity. Shame
and punishment for the other.

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The Women in Scotland.

A comprehensive study of the prob-
lem of industrial housing stand forth
as the chief work of the Scottish
Women’s Trade Council. During the
year 1918, according to its annual re-
port just published, representatives
of the Council secured material from
social workers, representatives of
working women’s society, officials of
corporations and other public bodies.
The basis of the data accumulated
demanded that all houses should con-
tain properly-equipped kitchens, wash-
ing facilities, bath and plenty of hot
water, central heating equipment, up-
to-date ventilation and sanitary ac-
commodation, open air spaces and
children’s playgrounds and the public
cleaning of closets, stairs, courts, and
playgrounds by organized corps of
workers.

Good for the working women of
Scotland! What’s the matter with
the working women of Montreal tak-
ing a lesson from their sisters in
Scotland? No city needs greater ac-
tivity on the part of women than
Montreal.

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The Stuff Revolutions Are Made Of §

FIGURES ON NATIONAL DEBT

r I ’h watching... watching dai-
[’, said a young mother “for
uAnething to happen. It's going to
ppen, it will happen when the

yast expected”. “What do you
•lean”, said a wrinkled shabby lit-
e woman beside her, “what’s go-
ng to happen”.

“Why don’t you know, don’t you
feel nt coming, don’t you see tae
injustices everywaere, don’t we see
how we’re oppressed and suffering
[every place you turn, next door, up-
on the streets, on the faces
of the men, the children litem all.
Don’t you see the anger growing on
your man’s face every day, don’t
you find it harder and harder to
feed and clothe the kids, God pity
them. Aren’t you weary of dirt and
poverty and sickness and unem-
ployment... shabby clothes and no
clothes at all. Fear of this and fear
of that and the wolf always only a
few yards from the door .Can you
find a house fit to live in without
paying an enormous rent to some
rich landlord who doesn’t care for
us poor people. Don’t you see how
^ri^ible times are for the poor. We
want to live and be honest, but we
can’t. It’s all wrong and it must
end. It will end, there’ll be a revo-
lution, that’s what’s coming. De-
pend upon it and that right soon if
things ron’t change”.

“I’m tired of poverty, I’m tired
of himself out of work and I’m
tired living in rickerty shacks, not
fit for tramps and I’m tired look-
ing at rickety children and every
decent woman I talk to is as sick of
it as I am”.

The woman uttering these senti-
ments was not a Bolshevist, an an-
archist nor a socialist. She probably
wouddn’t read any of the literature

that was put into her hands, she
was just the ordinary type of work-
ing man’s wife, oppressed, sorely
tried and at the moment as she ex-
pressed it, “tired and sick of life”,
but she was more.... she had pass-
ed through the firct process in the
making of a revolution. She had
ceased to pray to weap, to endure
patiently. She was bitter against
society, politicians and the big men.
She was questioning the worth of
the present system , sensible of a
great wrong to herself and family
and uttering a conscious protest,
desirous of a radical change.

The next step will be shorter, she
cannot stand still. She will convert
many to her way of thinking with-
out knowing it. Her direct simply
statements and facts will sink deep
and take root and bring forth fruit
one day she will find out the cau-
ses for her suffering, then will
come determine, ledentless and con-
scious action. Thousands of moth-
ers ,good and worthy women such
as she will rise up in righteous indi-
gnation and bring to account those
responsible for their misery and the
human chaos now mocking civiliza-
tion and Christianity.

This is the stuff out of which re-
volutions are made while our states-
men blunder along asleep, deaf and
blind to realities.

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London. — According to the “Econ-
omist”, the national debt of Great
Britain has risen from £710,500,000
(about $3, 600, 000:, 1)00;) on August
1st, 1914 to £7,491,400,000 (over $35,-
000,000,000) in February, 1919. This
fact recalls once again the famous
dictum of Benjamin Franklin,
“Wars are not paid for in war time;
the bill comes later.”

LECTURE BY MRS.

ROSE HENDERSON

On Sunday, April 20th, at 3.15 p.m.,
in Stanley Hall, Mrs. Rose Hender-
son, of the Juvenile Court, will give
an illustrated lecture on the tragedy
of the slum. The pictures are some
of those taken in the city during in-
vestigation into the homes of the
children who come before the Juve-
nile Court, and show the bad hous-
ing conditions, lack of play spaces,
and the causes of juvenile and adult
crime.

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INDUSTRIAL UNREST

The Spanish labor situation goes
from bad to worse. The Labor Fed-
eration of Madrid has called a gen-
eral strike. The railway men have
stopped work in various parts of the
country. The government has now
taken the bold step of mobilizing
all employees, who are thus called
up for military duties to maintain
public order.

BRITISH FIGURES ON

unemployment

Recent figures given to the House
of Commons by the Ministry of
Labor show that the number of per-
sons who have lodged their donation
^policies at employment exchanges
because they are unemployed is
734,000, of whom 254,648 are men,
24^538 boys, 438,114 women, and
26,790 girls. In trades insured
against unemployment, the largest
numbers of unemployed among men
were in the engineering and iron-
founding (70,354), building (37,352),
and shipbuilding trades (10,972), and
among women in engineering and
ironfounding (103,443) and in am-
munition and explosives (46,837).
In trades not insured the largest
numbers unemployed are among gen-
eral laborers and factory workers
in the case of men, and among gen-
eral factory workers, domestic ser-
vices, the cotton industry, and dress
in the case of women.

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