In the past three labour candidates won seats in the House of Commons. They were Arthur Butee from Winnipeg, Ralph Smith from Vancouver and Alphonse Verville from Montreal. 

Workers’ Worries: 

            One of the problems for workers was that they were not assured safety at work. Wherever they worked they had many accidents. Workers in forestry industries were in a lot of danger and had regular accidents. In B.C a machine that was used to remove trees of hill slopes was called “Widow Maker”. The workers in Ottawa valley and the Maritimes had to break up log jams which were very dangerous.

Wages in Selected Industries, 1914
Occupation				Wage per Hour
Iron moulder (Hamilton)				35 cents
Iron moulder (Toronto)				29 cents
Machinist (Hamilton)				32 cents
Labourer (average for Ontario)				21 cents
Cotton spinners (women)				13 cents