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tive eal Sustaining fund
its second 3 weeks to go is now in
Promic half and holds out the
campai € for a successful
Tear This is provided the
maintain, of the Press Clubs can
> a the drive tempo which
half of Re displayed in the first
ateas wy € drive and provided the
al thig Ich are behind schedule
Tedoubleg te: - Will make a
Dlace ; effort and take their
Our the parade,
on a pabding May 1 was $8,000
better ¢ Set of $19,500: this is
Tesult 9 an last year and is the
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Clubs. Standing work of many
and individuals.

that va already mentioned

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Clubs AAKELA and MISSION
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time t targets. In the mean-
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Clubs ae and other Press

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mu €tween $100 and as
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ther ‘ Carry on. In addition,
Sup otters Sently 29 individual
Stowing 20d the list is still
Taise $1 Who have pledged to
or more in the

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failed to get into the swing and,
as a result, we did not reach our
halfway goal of $9,750 by May
1st as we had hoped.

The Clubs now lagging will
undoubtedly make a very special
effort to catch up with leaders.
There are 3 weeks left to do the
job. ‘
At the beginning of the drive,
we pointed out that the actual
amount pledged by the Press
Clubs was only $17,500, thus
leaving an unpledged amount of
$2,000 on our goal of $19,500. This
$2,000 must be raised if we are to
continue publication.

$19,500, is a minimum target
which does not take into
consideration further increases
in the cost of mailing threatened
by the Trudeau government. We
believe, however, that our
readers will once again take the
necessary steps to ensure the
future of the PT.

This drive has the makings of a
great success if the momentum

f

is maintained and if the .

enthusiasm which is prevalent
in most areas can spread to all
points.

THIS IS HOW YOU CAN
HELP.
. All clubs! Keep up the tempo
and plan to go over the target!
. If you have not already done so,
plan to win a special gold ($100),
Silver ($50), or Bronze ($35)
anniversary button and inform
us of your pledge now!
. Visit your friends and all
supporters of this paper and ask

for a donation! :
. If you are a reader of this
paper, help us reach our goal —
send your donation to the PT
sustaining fund now!

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May Day rally calls for action

on jobs, hits anti-labor acts

Speakers at the May Day rally
in the Labor Temple Friday last
week concentrated their re-
marks on the problems of world
peace and unemployment. Some
two hundred persons attended
the rally which began with the
rousing songs of Tommy
Hawken, and which saw more
$300 donated by the audience
towards medical aid for
Vietnam.

Dr. A. Inglis, chairman of the
committee, said close to a
quarter of a million dollars
worth of material had been sent
by his group to- aid Vietnam
‘civilians.

Syd Thompson, president of
Local 217, IWA, chaired the
rally. He recalled that the
militancy and spirit of past May
Day rallies in Vancouver had
helped to interest him in the
labor movement.

Unemployment co-ordinator,
B.C. Federation of Labor’s
Colin Snell told the audience that
Bill 33 could be repealed but the
fight against it, and the fight for
full employment must become
more militant. He said the
Socred government used Bill 33
when it was of benefit to the
employers to do so, but a few
blocks down the street from the
labor hall A.B. Dick company
employees have been on strike
since October and there has been
no government move to force
the employers to bargain in good
faith.

Alderman Harry Rankin
stated there was no possibility
the capitalist system can solve
the problems faced by workers
and youth today. They no longer
have any faith in the ‘‘lousy”’
system, he said, yet the only
answer to dissatisfaction on the
part of city authorities is the
hiring of 60 new policemen!

Objective conditions are here
for a real surge forward; for
basic change. He urged, ‘“Next
year let’s have 10,000 people out
in the May Day parade!”

Making an appeal for
donations for medical aid to
Vietnamese people, Marine
Workers union president
William Stewart said the
workers in Canada and the
United States are becoming

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aware as never before that the
military — industrial group is
responsible for the inflation and
the hardships on the homefront
and the cruelties and barbarism
of the war in Indochina.

Featured speaker of the rally,
Jeam Pare, national vice-presi-
dent of the United Electrical
Workers union, dealt with the
political and economic crisis in
Quebec. He charged the War
Measures Act was a federal
government ploy to direct
attention away from the serious
economic conditions in his
province. In March of this year,
despite Premier Bourassa’s
promise of 100,000 new jobs,
there ‘were 244,000 unemployed
in Quebec. The Canadian total
was 675,000.

The government has not seen
fit to renew the oppressive
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Still there are 40 political
prisoners in the jails of Quebec.
Later, the audience moved to
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Bourassa urging the victims of
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Pare criticized the tardiness of

the trade unions, particularly the
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Labor, in protesting the War
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said. It is no longer enough to
believe the only fight is decent
wages and working conditions;
not when exhorbitant taxes, poor
schools and hospitals, starvation
welfare rates, and reactionary
laws are part of the political
evils that must be fought.

He said there is a crying need
for a Canadian constitution. The
BNA .Act is a treaty or
agreement, not a constitution.
He read from the Oxford English
dictionary a definition of
‘nation’: ‘‘a distinct race or
people characterized by common
descent, language or history,
usually organized as a separate
political state and occupying a
definite territory. . .”.

He charged the reason why
there has as yet been no
constitution drawn up for the
French and English speaking
Canada is because the ruling
class wish to keep the people
disunited. Working people in all
sections of the country have the
same exploiters, he stated, and
the struggle against them must
be a united effort.

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