Richard Clive Cooper (December 31, 1881 – March 10, 1940) was an Irish-Canadian soldier and Unionist politician. Cooper served in the First Matabele War and the Boer War. In 1914 he was assigned to serve overseas as a Major in the 7th Battalion, 1st Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Cooper represented Vancouver South in the House of Commons from 1917 to 1921.
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“I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen’s wrong and workingmen’s toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.”
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