"A Working Girl's Life-She is Helpless who Must Earn Wages." The BC
Federationist 4(74):2.
(34) American Federation of Labor, American
Federationist, January, 1902, p.
Samuel Gompers, "Editorial: The Students' Debasement," American
Federationist, April 1905, pp.
Wallace de Beque Farris, a Liberal party supporter, moved to Vancouver from New Brunswick a year after Bird and began advertising his legal services in the BC
Federationist. Farris "was considered to be quite radical," according to a biographer.
Throughout the war, the AFL's mouthpiece, The American
Federationist, ran article after article extolling the virtues of full-employment economics.
Federationist 971, 972 (1914), quoted in Forbath, supra note 8, at 157.
Stevenson of South Carolina who spoke against further publication of a magazine "that reviews books and prints commendations of soviet literature and all that sort of thing." Commissioner Ethelbert Stewart responded by testifying in support of the Review as "one of the most important functions" of the Bureau and the American
Federationist praised the mLR as an "incalculable benefit" to the people of the country because of the facts it reports.
1944, 53-55; "Recreation and National Defense,' American
Federationist, Aug.
The new BC CCF paper, the
Federationist, launched to fill the void that appeared with the collapse of Pritchard's pro-Connell Commonwealth, drew a similar balance sheet.
Thynne, had been part of a strong Queensland
federationist team, but Thynne's political career was eclipsed by that of T.
This helped make up for the lack of an official AFL magazine-the American
Federationist not appearing until 1894.
While it is not necessary to fully embrace Bercuson's argument, it is true that western radicalism had powerful voices in The Red Flag, which replaced the Western Clarion, the Western Labour News, and the British Columbia
Federationist and that eastern Canada now lacked such voices with the demise of the Canadian Forward.
Federationist observed: "Everything belongs to the company.
(36) When dissident convention delegates agreed to hold a Western Labor Conference the following spring, the
Federationist insisted this did not represent "a secessional or separatist movement." (37) However events were leading in that direction.
