oS;

L: keeping with its glorious
march in review. May Day is
| taking, to measure the past and

struggles.

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of war against the people.

In our own province the
Conroy agents of big business,

Day of 1949 will again see world labor

This year labor has a sacred trust to renew
on May Day—io reaffirm its determination to
Preserve .world peace and defeat the plans of
the herrenvolk of the atom-bomb, the organizers

Despite the efforts and some small successes
the enemies of labor to weaken and, split its
ranks, labor will march this May Day with a
sure and firm tread, strong of heart and confident
of the ultimate goal .of its destiny—a world
| from exploitation, war and want.

trade union pillars of organized labor, have man- ;
aged to cut some small fissures. Their puny efforts
them up as wreckers rather than builders,

The people march for peace

traditions, May

a day of stock-
asstss the future

of 1949—on
Hitlers and a

The great

man of the worl

free

noon,

Mosher-Millard-
chipping at the

and freedom.

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and their attempts to destroy the unity and pur-
pose of May Day in Canada will meet with
ignominious defeat.

Labor is on the march for peace this May Day .

The thunder of its marching feet will be heard
on every continent.

Paris and its counterpart in Toronto is a happy
augury for the future. There the scientist-spokes-
d’s peace-loving peoples, Professor |.
Joliot-Curie, has declared in ringing terms, “We
are not here to ask for peace, but to impose peace
upon the advocates of war.”
will re-echo that pledge this May Day.

Vancouver's May Day parade assembles on

the Georgia Viaduct, Sunday, May 1, at 12.30

Take your place in labor’s marching battalions
in a powerful démonstration for peace, for inter-
national solidarity in the struggle for peace, security

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guard against the rise of new
new made-in-the-U.S.A. fascism.

International Peace Congress in

Millions of voices

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.

By CHARLES STEWART |

Once again this May Day the

_ international working class will

demonstrate

pledge anew its support to the’
resolution adopted by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor at Union
Square, New York on May 1,
1890, which stated:

“While struggling for the.

Much water has passed under
the bridge since those brave
words were spoken, and few in-
deed of the AFL and CIO top
leaders are today fighting for
abolition of the wages system, but
instead, are lending their fullest
support to the capitalist system,

- and as “labor lieutenants of the

capitalist class” are endeavoring
to make the labor movements of

all countries, including Canada,

rs

2

Pawns in the expansionist poli-
cies of American imperialism.
The historic struggles of U.|S.
and Canadian labor are our guar-
antee

~ ation, wages and working condi-

not a sign of strength,
> met by the organized might
sof a united labor movement. |

This May Day of 1949, we can_

see for ourselves in the events of
our times the truth of the state-
ment that in the industrial work-
ing class the capitalist system

its solidarity and *

bor in this province remained in
the doldrums for a number of
years but during that period the
workers learned many lessons
that stood them in good stead.
In the late twenties real efforts
were commenced to organize the
unorganized and from then right

through the depression years to '

the present day, the drive to or-
ganize the unorganized has con-
tinued unabated and B.C. has the
proud record of being the
strongest organized province per
capita in the Dominion of Can-
ada, oe MG SARL eS

Millions of dollars were spent by
the boss loggers;
Mining and Smelting; the coal
mine owners; the Shipping Feder-

. ation and monopolist groups in
other industries to prevent or-
ganization. Many are the stories
that could be told. of the black
list, of intimidation, frame-ups,
jail sentences, and even murder,
of labor organizers. But ‘despite
the use by anti-labor employers
of every means at their command,
despite reactionary governments
and anti-labor laws, the work-
ers in British Columbia’s basic.
industries were organ ‘

‘Through trade union organiz-

tions in the chief industries of our
province have been completely
revolutionized during the past 15
years and it was done only be-
cause true representatives of the
working class went out into the
woods, to the mines and on the

ships, to do the job in face of
every obstacle. When this truth is_
brought home to these workers —

Consolidated |

has produced its own grave dig- who have come into the basic

gers. For, in Europe, in China, industries in recent years, they -

vartmed out of their experience

with the weapons of scientific -

socialist theory, the industrial

ward to a world free from ex-
exploitation of man by man.
” The extent to which we in the
Canadian labor movement resist
those who would prevent us from
taking our place with the work-.

will be the first to demand an”

end to the smearing of those real

: _ working class leaders who were >
workers are leading the way for-_

responsible for building their
great organizations.

History repeats itself, but never
in exactly the same manner. Mil-
lions of dollars are again being
spent by anti-labor employers,
this time ‘not only to keep the

ers of all countries in the strug- # workers fom organizing, but to_

2 eek

gle towards this goal will

mine other May Days to come.

| ‘The labor movement in. British
Columbia has kept pace with
parts of this North Ameri-_

continent and we are proud —

indeed of its achievements. |
Following the split in 1919, la-

deter- | destroy their organizations. These

employers realize that labor un-_
.ited is unbeatable, so the tac
now is to “divide and rule.” Th
is why they started a drive in-
sidesthe unions, which, with the
help of false labor leaders, has
admittedly had ag es a etiend

But their day is nearly over,
-and already the workers are be-

"Labor looks back---and ahead

ginning to see that there are
traitors within their ranks.

It is the duty of every worker
in’ B.C: to help strengthen and
solidify the trade unions in the
basic industries, because if the
plans of employing interests suc-
ceed, it will not be long before
_workers in so-called sheltered in-
dustries feel the axe even more

“severely. It is the strength gen_ |

erated by the labor movement,
_ by the. militant organizations of

__ the miners,' loggers, seamen, just

aS much as our own organized
strength that keeps the craft and
service unions in a privileged po-
sition, a

This fact can easily be proven
by a casual glance over the labor
history of this province and the
bitter ‘struggles that had to be

fought by many of these organ- —

izations even for union recogni-
tion. The trade union which I
have been a member for over 30
years (the Street Railwaymen’s
Union) is a good example In an
industry that had the lowest

wages and about the worst work-_

ing conditions of any industry,
our union has grown in strength,
improving its wage scales and
working conditions as workers in
other industries organized and
won their struggles. Ft

' Our conditions even yet are
far from perfect, and we are con.
_stantly fighting to make them
_ better. Today we are facing what
may be the acid test. But we face
it with a union membership unit-
ed and determined that our next

the 40-hour, 5-day week with
a 25c increase in the atouply" wage
rate. ‘ ‘ Peete:

_ The employers claim that civic

transportation is a losing propo-

sition and therefore they cannot

meet our demands without an in- _

/crease in fares. And this despite
the fact that millions of dollars
have been spent on new equip-

_ment—equipment that in the com- _

ing years

will increase dividends
fourfold. Cone

__ We know our demands are jus.
tified and that they can be met,

“not at, the expense of the travel.

_ earned by the BCER. We are con-

_vineed that with the strength of _

our union and the support of all

organized labor we will mark ‘up
_ another success to celebrate next
May Day. Oe ig aorta

ee when signed shall em_

hurry,” are again asking the

. ling public, but from the surplus

profits earned and still to be —

| Printed by Union

TOM McEWEN

As We See It :

VEST-POCKET Gouzenko blew into our editorial sanctum last

week all set to let us in on a very “handsome proposition.” This
suspicious looking customer was none of your uncouth looking gents
the CMA artists like to depict as “bolsheviks,” but a streamlined
man of fashion as befits the habitues of the Alano Club, with a
finely cultivated Oxford accent.

‘Ne

We were-so intrigued by the chap’s accent, appearance and

we almost felt like asking him for a picture
uniform—RCMP uniform.

It appears that our pint-sized Gouzenko, accord-
ing to his own tale, has been working in sunny ;
California during recent months. While there he
met a number of “our people,’ which is to say,
in such “confidential” conversation, that he met
a lot of Communists, and thus was “one of the
boys,” so to speak. ;
» He or they, or both together, had acquired @
large number of “echo” machines from the !U.S.
navy, a gadget used by the navy for something
or other in the business of detecting enemy craft. :
How they got these “echo” finders from Uncle

proposition that in}

Sam’s navy, he didn’t say, but anyway it wasn’t —

important to the job he had on hand,

The problem was that he and “our people” in California had ,
decided that these “echo” machines must go to Uncle Joe, but —
“Chort” (the devil take it), with, all this witch-hunting and hysteria —
scattered about by the Un-American Activities committee and spyitis-
“infected Yankees generally, the job couldn't be handled expeditiously
down in the land of the free. So he and “our people,” like good
“Marshall Planners, decided that the job could best be expedited in
Canada. By‘some alchemy known only to such super expeditors,

the writer had been chosen to act as liason officer between this

chap and some local “Soviet agent,” with whom, of course, we could
put him in touch. These chaps not only concoct fantastic tales,
they get so they believe them. ;
t When we expressed some doubts on this dubious “honor,” he
enlarged upon the proposition by “pointing out that if we could

handle the deal “there would be an handsome bit of change in it.” A

It has never been our custom to turn down “handsome propositions,”
mainly because we have never had many of them, and especially in
the midst of a press campaign to keep ou “PT”.going. But we
did . .. emphaticaly. Period. es :

So our vest-pocket Gouzenko departed hurriedly for the quiet
of the Alano Club, probably to regale himself with a shot of Tye,
and perhaps marvel at the stupidity of his superiors for assigning
him the job of trying to carry through a cheap frame-up. ae

In these days of spy scares, with the country supposed to be-
just crawling with “Soviet agents,” it is hell on the warmongers not

_ to be able to unearth a single case that will stand up in court. —

Even in the case of Sam Carr, around which millions of
_ column inches of hysterical tripe has been written, and who —
was alleged to be the “king-pin” in the notorious espionage cases, —

not a single fact could be adduced showing that Carr had the

remotest connection in so-called espionage activity. The best

that could be’ done was to convict Carr for an infraction of ‘pass-
port regulations, and then to hand down a six-year sentence—s0 _
extreme that even the prosecuting attorney was moved to com-
ment on its severity! - ' ip:
So, back to the old tried and trusty—and slimy—business of :

frameup. Crude and cheap—and hopefully easy in the minds of the

amaturish RCMP stools, who would frame their fellow Canadians

for less CMA dollars than the pieces of silver Judas asked 0
betray Christ. : ; i :
It is a dirty business—but an integral part of the job of keep-

ing “free enterprise” alive.

/ Generally speaking, following a convention, political parties have :
a fair idea which way they are headed for the next period of tim

_At the very least there is some measure of agreement in thinking

they are headed in some direction. Not so with the CCF. What

and “Socialism” per se, is still anybody’s guess. : :
_ As though intended to wident the gap between leadership Pr”
mouncements and rank-and-file aspirations, the speech made ;
week by Premier Douglas of Saskatchewan to the Montreal Rota
Club has sent sections of the CCF into another political tailsP

they did in B.C. with questions like the Sales Tax, the Atlantic P:

Coupled with the Douglas
Ownership” in a “socialist” \p
reiterated ass

_ Little wonder that many rank-and-file COF’ers, who do 2°
accept St. Laurent’s description of themselves as “liberals

hardy perennial question,” “Where
we go from here?” ete : 3

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