#a. e. smith

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"Another well-received speaker during the early months of 1925 was A.E. Smith. His presentations as head of the Ontario section of the Canadian Labour Party (CLP) at the Wobbly-controlled Port Arthur Labour Temple, the Orpheum theatre in Fort William, and the Fort William Auditorium focused on unemployment associations and the progress made “in forming educational classes in the East.” They were well attended. Once again, Fred Moore chaired the Fort William meetings. He used them to convince those in attendance that “the radical labour movements were converging towards ‘the day’ when a social revolution would bring about a complete change in system.” The main duty of a labour representative in Parliament, he contended, “should be to weaken, hamper and embarrass the bourgeois parliament.” The process of social revolution, described as a “grim business,” was but a “natural evolution.”

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The activities of organizers from both the IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] and the CPC [Communist Party of Canada] caught the attention of regional politicians and traditional labour leaders, who began to voice their opposition to immigration and the flood of radical workers into the country. Not all of the attention was negative. The recent success of the Communists, for example, caught the attention of Peter Heenan, the Kenora Labour member of the provincial parliament (MPP) who had been elected in 1919 and again in 1923. Sensing a shift in provincial politics, he sought to tap into the CPC’s growing support despite having recently accepted nomination from the Liberal party. He was refused a meeting. Sensing an opportunity of its own, the CPC parachuted party stalwart A.E. Smith into Port Arthur to run in the riding of Port Arthur-Thunder Bay during the 1925 federal election. Smith and the CPC’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) chose the riding because both felt that the support from the Finnish lumber workers might well carry the day. His candidacy also received the support of the local Canadian Labour Party (no surprise, as Smith was president of the Ontario section) and from Alex Gibson and the Port Arthur Trades and Labour Council. Once more, Smith’s candidacy would reveal the mileage that the Lakehead left could get by attempting to occupy at least some of the political space normally occupied by the centrists.

Much of Smith’s platform reiterated the speeches he had given in the region earlier in the year. Local newspapers described him as eloquent, with even normally skeptical journalists suggesting that “oratory like his had not flown from the tongue of any speaker on the platform in Port Arthur.” Moreover, his politics were clearly enunciated. At the Port Arthur Armoury, for example, he addressed the crowd of 2,000 directly as a “deliberative assembly, a parliament of the people, who are the first factor … in political power.” Smith did well, garnering 1,363 of a total 9,068 votes in perhaps the best showing of any federal Communist candidate in the 1920s. Even the Port Arthur News-Chronicle described the election as the “Most Vigorously Contested in the History of Port Arthur.”

The CPC considered Smith’s showing a clear indication of its growing stature in the region. As Anthony Rasporich’s work reveals, “near majorities were in fact recorded over the Conservative, Liberal, and independent candidates in the south end polls dominated by the Slavs and Finns, and in radical rural pockets of Finns to the north and west of Port Arthur.” It is revealing, however, that he won only three rural polls by narrow margins, and that the Finnish vote was split almost equally among all candidates."

- Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. p. 113, 114-115.

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ninjago fandom when all the art tags get flooded with black & white drawings

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imagine being someone who thinks nya WASNT smitten with jay from the veRY BEGINNING when this is literally her. couldnt be me. LIKE REMINDER THAT SHE CANONICALLY SEES A GLIMPSE INTO THEIR FUTURE RIGHT HERE

the difference in how she greets kai vs some guy she just met LMAOOO girlie had a crush cmon now

[kindaasrikal]

Hold onto me if you must, a blade that rusts.

Sorry guys i cant hold back the rant my art posts always have i yap too much

Anyways an alt colour and silly version (and now ANOTHER alt version because I’m indecisive)

They so silly look at them they definitely wont murder each other <3

I spent a time amount of time on it that should’ve felt long but didn’t, i had way too much fun with the fill in lasso tool that made my life easier when i had no idea where to go after the sketch. And how to do the line-art for it, my God the amount of times i suffer when at that phase.

If I’m being perfectly honest, i think this is okay, but i’m not entirely sure if it’s good. Like i feel like it could be sm better. Anyways i just remembered exactly why i did this drawing and its because my amazing mutual @rusted-fairy-wings sent an ask on my birthday to draw possessed Kai and this is the result omg thank you sm for that its like you slapped me with the realisation i’ve never drawn them like this before. I know its not really possessed Kai but i hope it gives the same vibes 😭

Ehehehhe i feel like a cool pro posting a little coloured quote with my art damn

Also i took the rust thing because, you knowwww, Kai was a blacksmith and fire can cause rust. And i think if Morro were to possess Kai, that guy would put in so much effort to ruin himself so Morro wouldn’t and couldn’t use him as a tool. Especially with such a huge loss of control as a man who is so used to being in control with everything he’s been through. But thats why i used ‘hold onto me’ rather than ‘hold me’, because Morro would either gain entertainment from Kai’s suffering, would feel some sort of kinship with Kai due to their similar (yet differing) circumstances, or because he knows how to use Kai in the state he had forced himself into against the ninja.

Okay i’ll stop yapping take this i’ll run away now

Edit: okay im gonna edit and change the colours and positioning for this in the morning so look out for that 😭

Edit: okayyyy ive changed the colours and positioning a bit in a new ver but im scared it looks bad now so i refuse to touch this again anyways

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Young Ve had a problem and is that despite going out to buy cigarretes he kept visiting Beth now and then, acting like a sort of imaginary friend, because while he couldn't make himself be a parent, he couldn't forget he had a daughter.

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How are you supposed to find what you’re looking for if you’re not convinced it’s even out there?

Jennifer E. Smith, This Is What Happy Looks Like

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YALL REMEMBER THAT ONE TIME I WAS LIKE ‘i really want mack and will to go on a podcast together’? AND THEN I ALSO MENTIONED IT BEING THE NEVER OFFSIDE PODCAST? WELL WELL WELL HERE WE ARE

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Don't laugh!

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How are you supposed to find what you’re looking for if you’re not convinced it’s even out there?

Jennifer E. Smith, This Is What Happy Looks Like

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"SMITH'S BAIL $10,000 TRIAL OPENS FEB. 19," Toronto Star. February 2, 1934. Page 1. ---- Defence Protests Short Time Allowed Blind Man One of Bondsmen ---- Rev. A. E. Smith appeared before Mr. Justice Kingstone in assize court this morning and pleaded not guilty to the charge of using seditious language.

His counsel, Onie Brown, offered this plea on behalf of his client, but his lordship refused to accept the plea until he heard it from accused himself.

An adjournment for two months to enable him, to prepare his case was sought by Mr. Brown, but after emphatic objection by Peter White, K.C., on behalf of the crown, his lordship allowed two weeks, naming Monday, February 19, as the trial date.

Bail was set at $10,000, $5,000 of which was provided by the accused and $5,000 by John A. Murray, blind piano tuner, and Anthony Markus.

Mr. Brown told the court two weeks would not be sufficient to prepare his client's defence properly. He wished to get into touch with persons who were at the meeting in Hygeia Hall on the occasion, when the alleged sedition was spoken.

"If you can show good reason on Feb. 19, why you have not been able to get your defence ready, I have no doubt the presiding judge may grant a further stay," his lordship commented.

Mr. White: "I wish my learned friend to take fair warning now that I intend to proceed with this case on the date set."

"How do you plead?" His lordship asked Smith. "Not guilty, my lord," replied defence counsel.

"I would like the plea from the accused himself." remarked his lord- ship, Mr. Smith repeating his counsel's reply.

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Patti Smith fotografada por Annie Leibovitz no Café de Flore (2011)

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𝙍𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝 1983

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Gave up on my himym comic bc I desperately needed some pre-war shenanigans, and a @mello-jello post is a great way to break out of a funk 😅

Plus I think we can all agree that, Erwin fan or not, he kinda deserves it XD

Bonus:

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Michael E. Smith Crèvecoeur, Paris, rive droite January 17 – March 1, 2025

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