Labor Star, 1919
Founder and leader of the Socialist Party of Canada, E.T. Kingsley edited the Labor Star in Vancouver in 1919. Richard Parmeter Pettipiece was the newspaper’s manager. Its offices were in the Dominion Building in Vancouver BC.
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The Labor Star described itself as “a chronicle and interpretation of local, national and international current events from the workers’ viewpoint.” Its masthead listed, “Sociology, Economics, Politics”.
Kingsley became active in the British Columbia Federated Labor Party, where he served as a vice-president and then as president. From 1903 until 1908, and briefly in 1912 he edited the Socialist Party of Canada’s newspaper, the Western Clarion. From 1915 to 1918, he contributed to and later edited The British Columbia Federationist newspaper.
This collection of 8 issues of the Labor Star is part of the BC Historical Newspapers Collection held at the University of British Columbia. Issues can be searched by date, keywords and names.