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given 30 days to file pre-trial
motions and the government
was given an additional 30
an days to reply.

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| MAY DAY GREETINGS

mute B.C. Provincial Committee of

tend Ommunist Party of Canada ex-

Wish its Warmest greetings and best

ol €S to the working people of British
Umbia on this memorable day.

thi Qy Day is of special importance

‘ year because of the historical con- -

ln between the struggles of the

Gnd the tasks of to-day.

a) 'S oh the case in years gone by, 't
Workj an immediate necessity for the:
shorte,® People of Canada to gain a
en, _. Work day, as a condition for the
Y existence of many workers.

labor’. ther Pressing need is to extend
sl oo Activities to preserve peace! Pre-
the U Ennedy's recent statement that
Js prepared to be the first
se thermo-nuclear weapons’
dication of the grave threat

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“cing us

ee threats must impel the labor
tO grenc nt and all peace loving people
for ter efforts to realize new policies
roung. country... to further our all-
nde being, possible only through

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on independent Canadian policy, based
Peace.

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Vancouver’s May Day parade in 1948 entering Stanley Park .. .

May Day tradition deep
in B.C. labor struggles

By NIGEL MORGAN

M”” Day has been cele-

brated in Vancouver,
and the mining towns of
Vancouver Island and the
Kootenays since shortly
after the ‘Federation of
Organized Trades and La-
bour Unions of the United
States and Canada” (later
known as the A.F. of L.)
moved in 1889 to have May
1st set aside as a demon-
stration of international
solidarity.

Vancouver had a population
of only 25,000 ‘when the
Trades and Labor Council
first decided in 1900 to mark
May ist as “International
Labor Day’ — a day of unity
and international solidarity
for the shorter work day and
the broader demands of work-
ing class progress, jobs and
peace.

It has become a day for
evaluating labor’s victories
and defeats; a day for mobili-
zation for fresh advances and
struggles ahead. The balance
sheet at May Day 1962 can
record many great achieve-
ments over the years—victor-
ies won through organization,
long years of hard struggle,
and solidarity on the picket
line, many of which are out-
standing in the annals of
Canadian labor.

The other side of the bal-
ance leaves much still to be
done. Labor’s voice against
the cold war; the surrender of

Greetings on
Labor’s Day from

ANDERSON’S
DRY GOODS

Ladies and Men’s Wear

4 Victoria Crescent
Nanaimo, B.C.

Canada’s independence, eco-
nomy and peace to U.S. im-
perialism’s suicidal plot for
world domination; and the
importance of McCarthyism,
which undermines and weak-
ens labor’s fighting capacity;
all these urgently need
strengthening.

Union solidarity and inde-
pendent labor political activ-
ity for peace, economic secur-
ity and democratic advance
is the foremost need of B.C.
labor this May Day.

PEACE MAIN ISSUE
Peace is the paramount

_ issue. before all mankind.

First, because the very sur-
vival .of mankind depends
upon it; and secondly, because
it is indivisibly connected
with all the economic and
social problems that we face
today.

NIGEL MORGAN

U.S. threats of thermonu-
clear destruction (in which
Canada would-occupy a front
seat position); the deliberate
sabotage of Canada’s markets
any economy by successive
Liberal, Tory and Socred gov-
ernments; the attempts of
monopoly to destroy the fight-
ing capacity of organized
labor; the struggle for jobs
instead of mounting ‘“perman-
ent” unemployment, for light-
ening of the unbearable bur-
dens of municipal taxation,
for a “Canada First’ develop-
ment of the Columbia and a
Canadian power grid, for a
rising standard of life and
shorter working hours — all
these can only be achieved by
a virile labor movement freed
from U.S. domination and
steeped in the class conscious-
ness of labor unity and soli-
darity which May Day sym-
bolizes.

Unleashing of labor’s eco-
nomic and political power to
defeat the assaults of mon-

opoly, to replace the big

business administrations in
Victoria and Ottawa by gov-
ernments representative of
the working people, and to
speak out louder and stronger
for peace, progress and an
end to the insanity of growing
U.S. domination and “brink-
manship” in world affairs, is
what is needed today.

Such is the essence of May
Day 1962 — the fighting tra-
dition that B.C. labor has
celebrated since the turn of
the century.

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