MAY DAY ISSUE
RiESUNIE feature section

Forty years ago on May Day, 1939

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From the Cambie Street grounds
through downtown Vancouver streets to a
mass rally in Lumbermen’s Arch, more
than 4,000 marched on May 1, 1939.
“Thousands of citizens lined the streets
and applauded as the parade of labor men
and women swung into motion shortly
after the noon hour on Monday and to the
skirl of pipes and in bright sunshine began
the long march to the park,” the People’s
Advocate, forerunner of the Tribune,
reported in its May 5, 1939 edition. Top, the
South Burnaby section of the sponsoring
May Day Committee makes its way down
Burrard Street. Centre left, the marchers
gather at the Cambie Street grounds. The

.Salmon Purse Seiners was one of several
fishermen’s unions which later merged to
form the United Fishermen and Allied
Workers’ Union. Centre right, the Com-
munist Party's float truck leading the par-
ty’s contingent. Bottom, the tight column
of the veterans of the Mackenzie-Papineau
Battalion, just returned from Spain, was
one of the most striking in the 1939 parade.

(Vancouver Public Library photos)

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 27, 1979—Page 7.

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