Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 6, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 13 to 22 Freedom of Liberty of Equality of civil rights. Monday september 6, 1920 printed us except Samir by r Man Talm free Ptim company. Limited joint Campana incorporated under the of Manitoba. Us head Offlee and place of Soo. Sos. 3o4 us 3m Carton Street in the cite of Manitoba. A. of Trident and we nil g recur tired at to be Nentl pout once. Emison. For Trami Misato lira ugh. The in the Briniya. Lalea Inland regenae t no religious element in the relations men such relations Are miserable and doomed to the year 1919-As set Forth in the annual report the Federal department of labor there Canada an in membership in trifle and labor organizations. At the close of .1915 there were members of Trace unions in Canada in 1918" there we re and in 1919 Ever May be the defects unionism it enforces the dignity of work and it functions on the Prin Ciple of the support of each toy All. Enlargement of vision on the part of the workers of brawn Ever As urgently needed As on the part of workers , that each the Advance of labor it is unfortunate that in the terminology of the Day and have come to be regarded As somewhat synonymous with Radical extremists seeking to accomplish the immediately impossible by Short cuts drastic in spirit but impracticable in application because this tends to distract the sympathetic attention of the Community at Large from the immensely important work that has been done by the labor movement and the possibilities greater achievement in the future if it will take its rightful place As part of the great Liberal Advance which the next Quarter of a Century should see. There has been in certain quarters misrepresentation due to ignorance or design of the provisions of the Versailles treaty relating to labor. It has been definitely asserted for instance that Hie peace treaty called upon the Allied world formally to recognize the. Eight hour Day and collective bargain. The treaty does Noth May cease to regard the other As an ins of the kind but it does something which is of still greater importance to labor because it accepts a general principle which in its working out must have consequence of far greater value than even tiie immediate Concession of these specified reforms. The preamble to the specific declarations of article 427 of the peace treaty declares that of the treaty hold that labor should not be regarded merely As an article of further in Selling for the methods and principles which Are of special and urgent importance first place is Given to this declaration the guiding principle above enunciated that labor should not be regarded merely As a commodity or article of tie principle thus declared without any one of the thirty Odd nations represented is in its ultimate implications i profoundly Radical and its application which of necessity must ice gradual is bound greatly to modify the traditional relations of capital and labor. Already there have been significant applications of this principle. Notable among these is the recent finding be the Royal commission which dealt with the matter of. The wages of Dock labourers in the port of London. Heretofore the whole of unloading and loading ships has rested upon the creation of " pools of casual labor into which the shipping com or panties dipped As they required help. Labor was seasonal and casual there was no Security of employment for the Dock labourers fluctuated so constantly within a wide Range that a budget for the family of a Docker was impossible. The results of the system were deplorable but the under the economic thinking yesterday would have been regarded As part of the indestructible order of the universe. It that tie loading and unloading of the ships involved the misery and social destruction of Large numbers of the people involved but this was held to be part of the unintelligible mystery of this world which had to be accepted on Faith. It is not so very Many years since John Burns led a great strike to secure for these casual Dock labourers a wage of. Sixpence an hour. The commission which recently reported fixed a minimum wage of sixteen shillings a Day and Laid Down the principle that a system must be worked out by which casual labor is to become a thing of the past. Whatever labor is necessary permit the port London to function properly must be taken care of by either constant work or bj7 payment for unemployed time. That is to say the Industry must afford sustenance to All the labor which it employs. This will involve limitation of the men entitled to work on the docks to a defined number and machinery will have to be devised by which All the shipping companies will in due proportion take up their portion of the Slack in carrying the Burden payment for unemployed the effect so far As the business of unloading ships is concerned is that All the shipping firms Oil the thames have been merged into one concern and they Deal not with the individual Docker but with the dockers As a whole under conditions which Are fixed by the such an arrangement up to a very recent period of time Ould have been regarded if proposed As the suggestion of a vision abstraction and know him As a com Rade in a world of workers. The Road has teen Long Cee dangly difficult but the tide ing today May Well be that leading on to Fortune if the pilots hold firm to the truth of work As the instrument for the carving out of human Ity s High destiny and of Mankind As the heirs of that destiny. our press visitors have that they had no idea of the great Ness and wealth of Canada. This is average better in by mind. Nothing it would have been held could mitigate the operation of the Iron Laws of Supply and attempt to do so would be to make disaster certain. Yet Here it is in actual or prospective operation recommended Public body and backed by Public opinion. Its purpose is to elevate Dock labor from the. Position of a commodity that is a drug in the Market to that of partnership in the Industry of which is an essential part. The Experiment has naturally attracted much attention and the Story Independent onal representation in every state prominent. the election of congressmen m candidature u18 or Wilson would been Banner is said to be Many Sii stained or Laws of. Courts that if there be Cour Aeed. Such these. Concerts become a. Good like this Cali give no idea of Public investment and should been presented the chapters cout birthday congratulations to Thos Taylor ex-mayor., born ports Routh inc sept 6 1852 g a Elliott barrister born. Pake Jiam out sept a 136ft both i the Toronto Globe says that the electors of East Elgin should demand of the government a reason for keep Irmyr the constituency without representation the parliamentary session and Ost Sider Between one tenth. And one ponies the by election As Long As the fifteenth a quota As adequate and _ would Buse the calculation port the. And. Even our religious institutions established upon the wis Dom of centuries should be dethroned and upon the other Side will be those who desire to perpetuate Brit ish institutions civic and religious Liberty the rights of legitimate pro patriotism which is the love of god and country and Justice to All classes in the state. It is for the Triumph of the latter forces that or. Meighen. Has put on the Telegraph replies the conservative cause must be in Toad order indeed when any newspaper defending h deems it Wise or necessary to publish language at once so false and so contemptible. Or. Nib out the country advocating Unity and Toler of course High Protection Here is one his newspapers declaring that acid Chris a supporting the Melgren administration while All who fail to of so Are enemies of the churches of i British of social and political sanity and safety. N mr., Meighen May Well Pray to be delivered from such injudicious adv the Edmonton bulletin criticizing Premier Meigh ii s statement at Truro that the c. N. K. And g. T. P. Had been prematurely built says it has been the accepted of every government until the pres ent that in Western Canada the rail Way must open the Way for. The Pio Neer or. Meighen a the first Cana Dian Premier to Challenge Ness of that Max Ira and to declare that railways built in Advance of settlement Are prematurely built that is the explanation he off Era for tiie failure of two of the existing rail pay their Way. Hitherto it has been accepted As a necessity of the Case that it pioneer., railway should not be Able to earn expenses for a number of years after comple Tion and the fact that a Road was not Able to find traffic sus Tain itself Iri the Early years was not taken As proving or indicating that its construction was ill advised. John j. Humple Eye Secretary of Tho proportional representation sri piety in great Britain writes in the August number of represent alien about the Success of the p. R. Elections in Winnipeg in june. But he thinks that too Many candidates lost their deposits because the relative votes they had to poll was too High. He to avoid forfeiture at present a. Candidate must either be elected. Or obtain a num Ber of first preferences equal to one fourth of the quota. In Winnipeg 21 out of the lost their in our limit in Winnipeg too High. It than., the limit in any other country. , for in stance the limit is. One fifth of a quota and the votes taken into consideration preferences Only but All votes candidate at the time of his exclusion from the., in King Dom to save his Deposit must. Of first preferences one eighth of the total votes cast by. The num Ber of candidates to . This limit generally .will., toe less. Severe than that of Tasmania but a still lower limit is parliamentary Tasmania recon fends it a. Quota. We con Twenty years Aico today 1830 at a convention in Brandon Hon. C. Sir ton was selected As the Tyr in the Comine election. Or. A 75. Birr. A graduate of the Manitoba Cal College with the mounted rifles in South afr Itra died at Johannesburg. 1 protective Board of the of of locomotive Firon in was in Pescion in City. Samples of Coal from the red District were into Winnipeg test its burning and heating qualities. You can keep coat Wuyte Mennen Kora Konia when the skin is Chat or sore. Which and pre tents skin Isritz Tom. Jut the thing ;