360_Nanaimo-Miners_reading-of-1905-text_2003.mp3

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Outline

Miners' wages and unemployment in Nanaimo, Canada.
• Speaker 1 criticizes striking miners in Nanaimo for relying on foreign organization for support during hard times.

Labor rights and immigration in early 20th-century British Columbia.
• Editor of the Nanaimo Herald announces new evening paper, the Rasul Star, with a focus on local politics.

Unknown Speaker 0:00
September 16 1905. Let us look at the fact the striking miners of Nanaimo. Have it the dictation of a foreign organization, ruin the Commerce and Industry of a flourishing town. And so strange our own laws and so feeble are the sparks of patriotism and Canadian Muslims, they have been allowed to commit their crime with impunity. They have always the dictation of a foreign organization, which assumes the rights of a master over freeborn Canadians on Canadian soil been idle for months did they find themselves idle proceed to look for other work to hustle for themselves as all the rest of us have to do? Oh, no, not by any manner means that they even stooped to grow their own vegetables, not much, is easier, even more less manly to beg for them? Behold a noble independence these men look at us look at some other facts. All of these men had been for years and we see to the highest wages, said in any country, paid in any country to any class of miners, all of them for years, and some of them for most of their lives. I've always been in receipt of a wage varying from three to seven and $8 a day. Where's that money? Had they laid anything by No. And when hard times came for which they had made no provision to they brace up like men and go out do other work? No. They brace the farmer for vegetables and we're not ashamed to fill their lazy hides was food which they neither earn or paid for. Could anything be more degraded and contemptible? The Miner works eight hours a day in his kicking now because he can't work seven hours and go eight hours, pay, etc. In conclusion, the week would like to suggest the United Mine Workers of Nanaimo, that having by their own Act and other commands of foreigners, for every all right to the name of a worker, they should change their names to the name, United cabbage Honduras of Nanaimo. The week, Victoria. Awesome. Cross understood that day paper called Rasul star, September 30 1905. It will be an evening paper the first issue appearing about beginning of October, the editor proprietor will be Mr. Hugh H and manager for the Nanaimo Herald publishing company. Mr. Aiken will retain his connection with the Herald as manager giving both papers his personal supervision and start will be liberal in politics.

Unknown Speaker 2:30
October 14 1905, the very sad announcement of Jessup, John L Moorish for a longtime former menorah, miner much sicker etc, etc, etc. Rosslyn Papers Please copy the poems to Thursday has a long article we clear them but donkey engines engines will not be long before the people of this belly have a chance to see practical demonstration of this work by a plant specially designed for the purpose. No doubt the parties interested will soon be able to give absolute results October 28 1905. November 3 to the editor, council leader the Chinese questions think of it rather farmers were to be deprived of your cheap labor because we do not want the Chinese Australia has said the same thing and looked at her today near sugar industry ruin by want to cheap later labor and the country generally stagnant. New Zealand is going the same way that that Japanese editor was not far wrong. When we further into the BC restriction laws. He told his jet readers that the whole thing originated in the minds of ignorant working men and is used by a politician for their own purposes.