The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
STEEL PRESIDENT
/. LAUDS FRAMING
OF MACLACHLAN
Pats Prosecutor of
Miner on Back
By RICHARD A. SCHAEFTER.
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MONTREAL, Feb. 26.-In the,
Nova Scotia Legislature, Foreman
Waye, labor member of Cape Breton
county, took Up the fight for "old
J. B." MacLachlan, who was expelled
by John J. Lewis from membership
in the United Mine Workers for his
firm stand in behalf of the Nova
Scotia rank and file, and later on pro-
secuted and sentenced to a two years
term for seditious libel. Waya
stated that the Acknowledgement re-
iceived a telegram from Roy Wolvin,
the president of the British Empire
Steel corporation, on the plants and
pits of which the strike took place.
The telegram congratulated the At
torney-General for his success in rail
reading MacLachlan. Waye asked
the house if it was mot peculiar that
Mr. Wolvin the head of the corpora
ton that was squeezing the life blood
out of the province could be so inter-
ested in the persecution of MacLach-
Ian that he should have something in
common with the Nova Scotia gov
eminent to the extent of sending a
congratulatory telegram"
! We should say so.
Canadian High Standard
Canada is high standard country
as regards labor, and full advantage
should be taken to advertise this
fact" was stated to press representa-
tives by DR.. w. A. Ridell, former
deputy minister of labor in the On
tario government and now in the In
ternational labor office of the League
of Nations, when he arrived in Hall
fax to tour Canada on "league and
labor"
Well, we don't know where the
gentleman got his information from
but the only high standard as far as
we can see is the number of I'M
employed. Neither do the wages Of
those who are still employed look like
a very high standard.
Spurn SIS Month Wage.
1--WE are very much, disappointed
with the failure of the organized Bri-
fish harvesters to accept the farm
positions we have secured for them"
said the superintendent of the gov
eminent employment bureau in Tor
onto the other day.
Several hundred British harvesters,
once lured over here by conscience
less immigration agents with fairy
tales of steady employment and high
wages, are now stranded, jobless and
on loose ends in Toronto and provided
for only by organized labor and the
municipal authorities of this town
while the government, provincial as
well as federal, refused strictly to
do anything to aid the poor devils.
But that they refused in a body to
accept the farmland jobs offered
them for the sky-high wages of SIS
month caused the officials go up on
their hindpaws and claw the air.
They refused to adapt themselves
to Canadian conditionsv the afore-
mentioned governmental chairwarni-
er ended his story to press representa-
tives when the expected rush for
those eminently favorable jobs did
not occur.
i Canadian conditions. that's the
high standard.
An anti-labor legislation campaign
is launched by The Employers Asso-
citation Of Manitoba demands that
the provincial cabinet work for
the abolition of all labor laws, in
GLIDING the workmen's compensa-
ton act, proposes. laws prohibiting
strikes on public utilities, protecting
OF employment contracts, forbidding
afiliation of provincial and municipal
employees with industrial trade un-
ions, and the repeating of the Fair
Wage Act.