nike away by officials of the First Methodist Church in Americus, Ga., six mixed bison nists kneel in prayer at the steps of the church. Not only have the race > denied admittance to Negroes to some churches in the South, but in recent the ere has been a spate of killing of pro-civil rights ministers and prients in ee labor Day Greetings to Our many friends and customers from Labor Day Greetings to PT readers from REGENT TAILORS LTD. 325 W. Hastings St. Ph. MU 1-8456 Polowy' s _ HOME FANCY SAUSAGES | | 264 €. Hastings St. | Ph. MU 4-3613 © ; 4441 E. Hastings St. Ph. CY 8-2030 Complete line of Scandinavian Imports we TOROS cc ccc ccc cece cee ese eeceeeneececeseseeccesesseoeesoole On this Labor Day, 1965 the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union WESTERN DIVISION looks forward to an end to all raiding and Q return to unity in the Labor Movement. 12414 Main St., Vancouver Ph. TR 4-8135 &e : e eee . SP eeccccce 96s 6.50.o bb oe 00000 00005508 000009908002) 2228 Greetings to all our friends on Labor Day, 1965 from PENDER AUDITORIUM (MARINE WORKERS) 339 W. Pender St. LARGE AND SMALL HALLS FOR RENTAL Ph. MU 1-9481 IN THE U.S.A. Violence comes from police guns No condemnation is strong enough for those who reply by shooting people down in cold blood like animals, to Negro outbursts against their condi- tions of deprivation. This was the view of three leading spokes- men of the Communist Party of the United States—Gus Hall, Henry Winston and Claude Light- foot—in a statement published recently in the U.S. Worker. Referring to the retaliation against the Negro eruptions in> Los Angeles, Chicago andSpring=- field in Massachusetts, the Com- munist statement said: ‘*Once again we witness the brutal ferocity, this time exceeding all previous bounds, with which these spontaneous protests among a frustrated and desper- ate people are put down.”’ ‘“'The figures speak for them=- selves. It is white Guardsmen and cops who are killing and wounding Negroes, not the other way round, ‘This is the violence histori- cally visited on the Negro people, the violence with which their ef- forts to secure the treatment due to them as human beings has been all too often met. Those to be con- A Labor Day Greeting to all our friends from TOM'S GROCERY 600 Main St. MU 1-2614 Labor Day Greetings to all our friends. and customers from ELMER H. WALSKE © Concrete Work Readymix Expert Finishing € Haney, B.C. INgersoll 3-3113 demned for these outbursts are those responsible for the inhuman conditions which lead to these’ outbursts impelled by human anguish,’’ The statement by Hall, Win- ston and Lightfoot called for establishment of citizens’ com- mittees of inquiry consisting of labor, religious, professional and other civic figures, including re- presentatives of the communities involved. These committees should investigate the situations and bring forward recommenda- tions for drastic action to re- medy them, Speaking in Toronto on Au- gust 22 at the 25th anniversary picnic of the Canadian Tribune, James Jackson, editor ofthe U.S, Worker, told an audience of 4,000 that what happened in Los An- geles was not a race riot. ‘*What happened was an elemental ex- plosion of the terribly impover- ished, of the oppressed who could not endure their oppression any more,’’ Jackson referred to a state- ment by Vice President Hubert Humphrey who. admitted that some 60 per cent of the people in Watts were jobless, and that 60 to 80 per. cent of those under 22 were without jobs or pros- pects, The speaker estimated that the 20 million Negroes in the United States were located mainly in 26 metropolitan centres which were also centres of the working class population and the ‘‘posts of capi- talist power.’’ The Negro struggles, he said, are taking place in working class communities. ‘*‘Negro Americans are an integral part ofthe Ameri- can working class which is most exploited, most abused and which has the least to defend in the sta- tus quo.’’ These explosions, like the one in Watts, are like fuses being lit in the hearts of industrial might and capitalist power. ‘‘Inevitable it is that these explosions will ignite a response, will stir and prod like gadflys the main body of the American working class to step up the all-round struggle against capitalism and abuse within the U.S,’’ Jackson said injustice in the U.S. could be seen in the ‘‘enor- mous inhuman conditions’”’ in Ne- gro slums from coast to coast, and abroad in the ‘* wanton slaugh= ter of human beings’’ in distant places, QOOKNNOLLALAAH AHH ALLD Labor Day Greetings THE ART BOOKBINDER A. Sochasky MU 1-4416 540 Homer St. Vancouver, B.C: PESEESECE SESS SES EEE EE Alex Ellis President Labor Day Greetings From VANCOUVER CIVIC EMPLOYEES UNION May there be peace in the world & Freedom & Security for all. Donald Guise. Business Agent, Jack Phillips Secretary to the Labor Movement TRADE UNION RESEARCH Labor Day Greetings from Ph.: MU 1-5831 capacity: 400. Labor Day Greetings to the Labor Movement from FISHERMEN’S UNION HALL 138 E. Cordova St. AUDITORIUM available for dances, socials, smokers, meetings, conventions, etc. Good accoustics, public address system, kitchen facilities, tables for conventions. Seating FOR RATES OR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Phone: Steve Stavenes—MU 4-3254 September 3, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 11