; i : tt ) (tt |, firey ie Fa TT 1 Pun tiitte! “p ele] Ceeih ‘ ~~ af fd, H : PEARLY ELL He OL Vancouver, British Columbia, April 27, 1951 j ‘“ Y $i ee PRICE FIVE CENTS oe By STANLEY B. RYERSON WORLD MILLIONS MARCH FOR PEACE ON MAY DAY op aa Pension grab Scheme spiked by public ire Beating a hasty retreat in face 2 torrent of protests from all B. tts of the province, Premier ey Johnson announced this 2. that the Coalition govern- Wille Was abandoning the ‘‘Det- foiced Plan which would have their Senior citizens to sign over When, old age pension cheques Rat they were hospitalized More than two weeks. siteen: Week eC Hospital In- Willer Commissioner L. F. Det- i le osantly proclaimed that May 14 would become operative Rihien ” He breezily added that @ pensioner signed over ’his n€, a $5 “allowance” would ands sn the patient each month, decide orm of means test’ would Would ‘hi any additional sums Ying © granted’ for any contin- pect or dependent. old = late inquiries by enraged Wa's 8€ pensioners brought Otta- Schey bans that the Coalition's BVemme illegal. The federal Of the ent, Which contributes $30 luntly th Pensioners receive, said to Seize Hiss BCHIS had no right neques, Rutive —Ncouver the provincial'ex- Sts O, Xi the Old Age Pension- 30,099 mzation directed B.C.’s (Cones to defy the ntinued on page 7) See GRAB mae for a WORLD Petition pict ot peac To the Government of Canada: To fulfill the hopes for peace cherished by millions through- out the world, regardless of their views as to the reason for the danger of world war; y ‘ for a Pact of We urge the government of Canada to call Peace among the five great powers — the USA, the USSR, the Chinese People’s Republic, Great Britain, France — this Pact to be open to all countries. Refusal by the Government of any great power to meet for the purpose of concluding such a Pact would reveal aggressive designs on the part of that government. NAME ADDRESS : ion for a Pact of Peace is being circulated in ALL sachet being initiated in Canada by the Renadion cece Congress. In cOmmon with many organizations, - the ic T ‘bu e is undertaking to gather signatures to this petition. nt filled send it to the Pacific Tribune office at Room 6, 426 Mebetestl beni Vancouver, B.C., from where it will be turned over rat national office of the Canadian Peace Congress. There KOREA.” The heading adorned page 1 of the Toronto Telegram edition), Monday, April 16, 1951. Here in the raw is the mentality of cannibalism, the murderous insanity of ruling-class America in the mid-twentieth century. Against this we march on May Day. May Day, 1951 .. . Over the Korean hills a pall of smoke from burning villages and cities, the stench of death, a horror that cries out to heaven... . Canadian troops in shiploads on their way to Wall Street’s slaughterhouse . . . Killing and imperial rapine in Malaya, Indochina . . . Battleships and police shootings at Abadan in the Persian Gulf, and in Barcelona harbor . . . In the U.S. the death frame-up hanging over Willie McGee (for May 8!) and over the Rosenbergs. . . . Imperialism in the hour of its madness, threatening mankind. Against all of this we march, this May Day. But May. Day is the festival of the springtime of the world. It betokens and asserts the new life, fraternity and strength of labor, fighting that peace shall triumph over war. This May \Day: In China the young peasant girl Liang Chun, first woman tractor driver in her country, leads other hundreds in the plowing and seed- ing of the good earth, her people’s own at last. . . . In the great Soviet Union, with whose fraternal help Liang learned her skill, the Five Year Plan has raised pro- duction 76 percent above pre-war (48 percent was the target), and taken the country a great stride towards Communist society: to- wards the winning of the kingdom of labor in its highest form, where the principle of distribution, ‘‘from each according to his ability, to each according ito his need. . . .”” In the lands where capital still holds sway over labor, through a varied multitude of struggles the it was, in cold: prnt: “LETS DEHUMANIZE (night Speaker af rally LAU Thousands of Vancouver May Day marchers x i j ry1« +4 411 assemble at the west end of Georgia viaduct tl . Rida April 29, between noon and 12:30 p.m. vane HOGS Say oe 5 bya ys ery agra’? At one%o’clock the great 151 * parade for peace ae eet underway, headed by a contingent of war 5 i veterans. Swinging ade will pause through downtown streets, the par- briefly at Victory Sqifare while a common bond of solidarity grows stronger. Oil workers on strike against the Anglo-Iranian plunder trust; general strike in Barcelona against high living costs\ and the (Contihued on back page) See MAY DAY Jean Pare, well-kiiown Mont- real trade unionist, and vice-presi- dent of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Un- ion, will be the featured speaker at the big May Day rally at Lumberman’s Arch, Stanley Park, this Sunday afternoon, April 29. I CE La UIA AS tM Join May Day parade this Sunday wreath is laid at the Cenotaph, then continue to Lumberman’s Arch in Stanley Park, where a public rally. will be held. In keeping with a years-long tradition, there will be many colorful floats in the parade. Main speaker at this year’s May Day rally will be Jean Pare, of Montreal.