The B.C. Workers’ News of May
3, 1935 called it “the greatest May
Day parade and demonstration in
the history of Vancouver’ as more
than 15,000 people marched from
the Cambie Street Grounds to
Stanley Park to be joined there by
another 15,000 for a mass rally.

_ The Longshoremen’s Union, the
Seafarers’ Industrial Union, the
Coastwise Longshoremen’s Union,
the Boilermakers’ Union and the
Export Log Workers’ Association
walked off the job for 24 hours to
join the march and to demonstrate
support for the striking relief camp
workers and the miners on strike in
Corbin.

Photos, clockwise form top
right: The United Front of Youth
banner leads a procession of
Young Pioneers, high school stu-
dents and members of the Stu-
dents League and the Young
Communist League; their bicycles
forming a long line behind them,
students form Britannia, Templeton,
Vancouver Technical, Alexandra,
Dawson, Grandview High School
of Commerce, King Edward, King *
George and Prince of Wales take
time out from school to join march;
members of the Young Commu-
nist league constructed a prison
cell from wood and painted flour
sacks with prison-style black stripes
to make an imaginative float that
protested the increasing arrests of
unemployed youth; a contingent of
striking relief camp workers; the
rally of 30,000 people that filled
the huge expanse of park between
the band shell and the pavilion
behind; members of the Commu-
nist Party’s B.C. District with their
banner at the parade’s marshalling
point in Cambie Street Grounds.

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