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MAY DAY 194
Strong labor press
vital for progress

Rok ke ko Kaa ok

PRESS
BUILDERS

RO I ie ek sak ak

REE Ke Rik
+X HX H KX

Leslie Morris, editor of the
Canadian ‘Tribune, will present
1949 Press butons buttons to
all supporters who turn in $25
by Friday of this week. At
press time the honor roll of
PB’s contained the following
names:

*Vi Bianco (Moberley).

*Joé Ivens (Kelowna).

*George Cole (Kitsilano).

*Don McIntosh (Kitsilano).

*Bert Whyte (Kitsilano).

*Duncan McLean (Victory
Square).

*Fel Ashton (West End).
*Albert Truman (Victory
Square).

*Harry Allison (Sea, Shore).
*William MHrihirchik (East
End No. 1).

*Dulce Smith (Mt. Pleasant-
Fairview).

*Ed Dotzler (Victory Square)
*Art Lindberg (Victory Sq.).
*Alex Toothe (Electrical).
*Phil Leniczek (West End).
*Olega Grinkus (Mt. Pleasant-
Fairview).

*Roy Lawryniuk (East End
No. 2).

*John Gustafson
Square).

'*John Carlson (Victory Sq).
*Rita Whyte (Kitsilano).

*Harry Seland (Victory Sq.).
*Ruby Bitz (Kitsilano).
*Effie Jones (Norquay).
*Fred Sapach (Capitol Hill).
*C. M. (Prof.).

*Jeff Power (Norquay).

(Victory

Here are names of. pledg-
ed Press Builders, many of
whom we hope will move up in-
to the 1949 PB column within
the next week:

Sid Dove, John Worober, Bob
Smith (Capitol Hill); Stan
Constantine, Bill Turner, Ruth
Turner (South Burnaby); Fra-
Ser Wilson (Vancouver Hts.);
Joe Lypka, George Legebokoff,
te Gawricky (East End No.

Ann Leschynski, N. Cal-
ow Roseane Lukey (Hast
End No. 2);

Caroline McFarlane, Frank
Politano, Jimmy McFarlan,
Jr. (Grandview); Rosaleen
Ross (Commercial Dr.); John
Matich, M..Dragirevich, Ted
Kangerga (Georgia); Winona
Zuker (Hastings East); Hal
Griffin, A. Churleigh, Riva
Pike (Renfrew)); Elgin Rud-
dell, Herman Rush, Claire Po-
Sen (Mt. Pleasant-Fairview);

Lottie Foster, Agnes Rod-
rique (Moberley); Jack Cooke,
Percy Padgham, Alf Padgham,
Ed Leary, Dora Madley (Nor-
quay); Margaret Stables (Ren-
frew Afternoon); Damon Hise-
man, A. Good, C. Caron, E.
Brandon, A. Brandon, S. Ly-
nas (North Van.); Dorothy Ly-
Nas (Becky Buhay);

(More names next week)

’ Day celebration.’

AY DAY differs from all other holidays.

countries these celebrate the triumphs of the past.

Day looks to the future.

In most

May

But the slogans and the speeches are never simply

celebrations of the. future triumphs of labor.

May Day

slogans always serve to rally the workers for the job in
hand, for the tasks immediately before them.

Marked throughout the world in every country, May
Day emphasises the factors that link the destinies of the
peoples and the common purpose of the labor movement

in each country.
throughout its history.

This has been the content of May Day

Today the primary issue facing labor is the threat of
a new world war, an atomic war which would destroy a
good proportion of all mankind. Flowing out of this, and
an essential part of the drive to war, is the warmongers’
offensive against the labor movement.

ANCOUVER’S: 1948 May Day Committee has is-

sued a conference call to organize the 1949 May

Wednesday, March 30, at

Delegates will meet at Pender Auditorium,

8p.m., with James S. Thomp-

son, leader of the fighting Canadian Seamen’s Union, in

the chair.

We hope that Vancouver's 1949 May Day nara
and rally will be the biggest and best in labor history. The
issues were never sharper; the need for labor solidarity

"never | greater,

T is fitting that the Pacific Tribune,

labor’s champion,

has set May Day as the date on which we expect to

reach our $15,000 target in the 1949 Press Drive.

Give

us the money by May Day, and we'll go forward stronger
and better equipped to do our share in the fight for peace

and a better world.

In labor’s struggles we play an integral

part, for there has never been, nor can there be, an effective
labor movement without a strong labor press.

With complete confidence we call upon the labor move-
ment and its supporters to ensure the success of the Pacific
Tribune Press Drive by rushing in donations NOW. Our
appeal is to YOU PERSONALLY. At what price do
you, value the freedom of YOUR press—the Pacific Tribune,
the paper which is a living challenge to the monopoly of

the big Dollar Dailies?

Let us hear from you—now.

Thousands marched in Vancouver on May Dav, 1948

SEAMEN SET
FINE EXAMPLE

On another page you will read
the story of how 30 seamen, crew
members of the Lake Canim, con-
tributed $1,500 to the Canadian
Seamen’s Union deepsea strike
fund. Many of them had already
made big donations to the Great
Lakes strike fund of their union.

This example of “digging deep”
for a just cause should inspire
Pacific. Tribune supporters to
“give till it hurts.”

The Pacific Tribune backs the
seamen in their struggles and will
continue to “do so. That is why
seamen also back the PT, and de-
spite their own responsibilities,
have accepted a sizeable target in
the paper’s financial drive.

. Think this over, and then de-
cide how deep YOU can dig for
your paper.

Jimmy Thompson, leader of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union, has
sent out a conference call for
May Day, 1949.

The Cash Is Coming -- But Too Slowly

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Forest Products, FC .. 6.00
PG y  AIROS Seas oso 3.00
OF BEL aA ap esse 334.60

Titel? 25s $2,014.34

Many points are still not
heard from. Next week we will
publish a complete list of quo-
tas and monies turned in.
Don’t find yourself behind a
couple of goose-eggs. Rush in
the cash TODAY.‘

nner”

|__- $15, 000 BY MAY DAY

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 18, 1949 — PAGE 11

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