_ The People
Find a Way

By LESLIE MORRIS

“pe American people have contributed a fine militant tradi-
‘eS to ‘the struggle for freedom. Canadians would do a
oe llaiad if they mixed up the Dulles’, McCarthys and
F ican povets with the people of the United States. In the Amer-
; €volution of 1776 and the Civil War which was the
a Pletion of that democratic revolt, and more recently in the
ts itties, they gave the world amazing examples of how to
+ "gle for democracy. -

Who can forget the sit-down strikes in the 1930’s when

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ta nopolies, the auto and steel plants? “Sit-down’” be-
tame a

by-word for people everywhere. The unionization of in our drive for

ei production industries was perhaps the biggest organ-
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' countr} =e ever done by the labor movement in the western
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Now the Negro people of the USA are showing us more

xamples of b d i ity in the face of harsh
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Brg a Negro students, the mass battles against the Jim e
ing» ystem are producing “sit-in”, “study-ins” and “march- S d U Th D

Rhe, all of them new forms of struggle against an armed ee e r i ve
mY 8nd all of them designed to break the vicious practice

i “regation in restaurants, colleges, schools and churches. DO YOUR PART TO ENSURE THAT

| Wher P to now, “sit-ins” referred to the Jim Crow restaurants

*€ Negro citizens insist upon their right to be served a ° ° ° . itt
a corte. They sit ice until they are served, or are When MAY DAY is celebrated in B.C. this year we will .
eee also be celebrating the success of the PACIFIC TRIBUNE
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Now the SCatde gy . * DRIVE.
fo sitin has been extended to prisons. ere is a ci, : in hi ek to th ‘|
Point ry ‘Thirteen Negro students are “sitting in York The Broadway and Seaman’s Clubs went over the top this week in the a
festa. Prison in South Carolina. First they “satin” at a P.T. Finance Drive. Broadway has june? in $403 on $400 and Seamen
fetus They were arrested, but continued their fight by $324 on $300. Congratulations for the fine work and the fine example. "
in» ay bail, which is a new protest. They are now “sitting MH
on ere than 1,000 of their friends visited them at the jail : DRIVE QUOT AS
labor oe Birthday. The 13 are on the chain sence sie
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og their way to the jail the demonstrators “‘kneeled-in” Club Quota Achieved sete Langley .--=-- a ey
| Blinnen churches. Three churches accepted them as wor- Advantes. ~~. == $350 $160.00 Sti net ae eT = 20.00 i}
&d + alii other two threw them out. But before that happen- Bayer Se 2925 82.00 Sanh = 2b eines md onan (i
pee ated Broadway. = == 400 292.50 Some Sat = og ce ae
a Bates. « 3 students sent out a message to their friends at the Peoth prs fg a ae 150 45.00 Si Urey ck sek a tte
When... 20n’t feel confined. We feel more free here than Dry Dock ==---= 400 90.45 cL Ch ER oe 0 .
We're depressed by discrimination.” East: End: == 275 85.50
med. Electrical ___------ 400 aaios Vancouver Island
BUS ‘nic Se ache aly. SSRUS eae Frank Rogers ----- fa g200  Albernis __-_--___ 275 58.00
Ak coin Struggle with “sit-ins”, “kneel-ins” and “pray-ins , Seana —-<4=2-<--= 500 238.50 . Campbell River —_- 200
Sitting in» = on all over the South. In Atlanta 80 students = ae vet aes 500 225 35 Cumberland 2-2 & 200 j
hai Onde 2 80D: They voted that four of them should pos Hastings Hast ---- 350 164.98 Cowichan __-----_- 300 101.00 }
| Ment Sm order to get outside to direct the protest move- Kensington —------ a NesiG es oe 500 88.00 |
Se Mp, Pleasaby:s2=- mo GO. Parkeville 75 «12.00 |
Dam, 2 Savan “gat-in” ata public Niilo Makela ------ 275 44,00 Se es ee i
Dark. vannah, more than 100 Negroes “sat-in” a p 30.00 Wistieis = 500 85.00 1
Quting ad closed the park. In Charleston, 14 were arrested Ren tp oRc Sees on nope i
\ Sit-in” ata urant. : #mM __----------- : - . . a
Jim oe Rattle is aes movie houses which practice Point Grey -------- 350 aes Okanagan Region |
the vats In San Antonio, Dallas, Austin and Houston, Texas, Rigid ------------ 150 29 "00 Kamloops: =.= =- =< ~ $175 i
aan @hOuses “sit-inners” included whites. Seamen ----------- 300 3. Notch Hill! = 150 33.00 i]
“a * Aah “pray-in”, “kneel-in’, ‘don’t pay fines,” Strathcona -------- oe cotae Virani a 200 64.00 /
strugsie bail bonds”—this is the effective form of the mass Victory Square ---- Hae ono 6B : |
8hg the Gon Negro people. The link between these forms ee re subcode — v1.50 Province General 1
> . Sit-downs” is easy to see. Were ee eS oy : ; ij
eect of struggle break thfough state barriers, walls of North Basaehy ee He rg oe ----- were poet i
ie ¥ » Police rule and monopoly attacks. South ee y ao) oe ef ee : |
| Tiitisey Tee 4,000 “sat down” on the pavement before the Edmonds ( ae ¥. 350 ay: ~ ae 995 ago |
| Clyae {pot War, demanding nuclear disarmament. On the A ee Tend] aNe - ishep~ Paraktive __ 200 1.00 i
p the Bie the U.S. Polaris missile base has been set up by North Van Distric Sas apne — : a ae see hee iM
MUnding Tory government, Scottish demonstrators are sur: City Miscellaneous a ee ste pee =.= 4 . |
its mothe gg George Washington, the submarine of death and Unpledged ----- ==> a Trail-Rosalana =e 300 147.00
that can ; Ship Proteus with row boats, sail boats and anything) Dewdney Correspondence ____ 200 42.50 |
: us Bombs. to tell the Yanks to go home with their murder- |; oe 450 728. Beer Nieeiiansada. Bat if
} t Works ES Maple Ridge __---- 175 36.00 ___T. McEwen’s column 100 13.00
eN " The People always find a way. Nothing-can stép them, ——————— nn —————

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