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Scrap Columbia Treaty urged by
Vancouver May Day rally

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ver workers celebrated ‘truggie.” is that this trade should
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in a Parade and Rally on
Sunday, April 29th. The
parade originated at the
Powell Street Grounds and
terminated at Exhibition
Park, which was the scene
of the Rally. Some march-
ers were undoubtedly de-

cil, claiming ‘hat its main
function was to make _ it
easier for right wing union
leadership to follow their adopted the following Tests
policy of class collaboration. tions: &

Jackson told the gathering ® A demand to scrap
that just as May Day had Columbia Power Treaty
helped organize the struggle the drafting of a new #
for the 8-hour day in the past,

newly - emerging nations)
Africa and Asia.” a
The gathering unanimé

May Day parade heading towards Exhibition Park

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Communist Party May Day float

PTAconvention urges
total disarmament

The 1962 annual conven-
tion of the B.C. Parent-Teach-
er Federation last week
adopted a strong resolution
opposing the granting of nuc-
lear weapons to any country
not now in possession of
them, and supporting all at-
tempts to achieve total dis
armament through negotia-
tions.

The action was of partic-
ular significance in the fact
that the 417 delegates to the
convention represent over
41,000 members.

Other resolutions urged:

¢ The raising of social
workers’ pay. to a proper
level;

e The appointment of a
full-time Minister of Welfare;

e Family allowance pay-
ments to be continued up to
18 years of age where re-
quested because of further
schooling;

® Restoration of free medi-
cal care to the unemployed
employables;

® Leaves of absence with
pay to enable leading edu-
cators to write suitable text
books for use in the schools
in this province;

e Free text books for
Grade 7 pupils, now that
they are considered in the
elementary schools:

® Recommended that each
delegate write to his MLA,
urging that stress be placed

on the need for a smaller
pupil-teacher ratio at the pri-
mary level.

In his keynote address, the
Reverend Philip Hewitt, Min-
ister of the Unitarian Church
said: “Why is change a chal-
lenge? Because we resist and
resent change, through iner-
tia, mental laziness, fear—we
feel threatened by change.
‘Unity in Diversity’ sums up
the changes we are faced
with.”” He concluded by stat-
ing: “if the general public
looks upon a_ well-educated
person not as a natural lead-
er but as a somewhat crack-
ed egghead, the embitions of
the rising generation are go-
ing to turn into more soci-
ally acceptable channels, like
cornering ‘considerable quan-
tities of money.”

Another special speaker
was Dr. J. F. K. English,
Deputy Minister of Education,
who outlined the provincial
government’s plans to segre-
gate Grade 7 and 10 students
into academic and vocational
classes by means of an exam.

This resulted in an emer-
gency resolution being
brought to the convention by
the Board of Directors, de-
ploring the undue emphasis
on the importance of exams
as the decisive factor in de-
ciding a child’s educational
future.—M.C.

terred by the foreboding
weather and high winds.

The rally heard Harvey

Murphy, Vice - President of
Mine Mull and C. S. Jackson,
Canadian President of the
United Electrical workers
union hit out at those seg-
ments of the trade union
movement that had turned
their. backs on May Day and
all that it stood for.
Jackson charged that the
top brass in Canadian labor
had grown fat and complac-
ent. “They have forgotten
that there is a working class
in Canada because they have
nothing in common with it,”
he stated, ‘and they go up
and down the country pro-
claiming that there is no

it would serve to do the same
job in the future for a shorter
work week and that it would
be up to the more militant

sections of the labor move-

ment to bring this about.

William Stewart, city sec-
retary of the Communist
Party and the party’s candi-
date in Vancouver South,
told the rally that extending
Vancouver’s ~ port facilities
would be one of the issues
that his party would hammer
om during the federal election
campaign.

“Our 96 miles of harbor
facilites are the busiest on
the entire west coast,’ he
said, ‘“‘and this is due to the
grain trade with the govern-
ment and people of People’s

; William Stewart of the ~

which would provide for
development of the Colum
as part of a publicly-OW™
all-Canadian East-West POY”
grid; a

® Demanded the immedi
cessation of nuclear 1é9
by the U.S. and called
Canada to demand at 7y
mediate meeting of the ©
Britain and the Soviet UME
to outlaw nuclear testins ~
all time and conclude
agreement for completé
total disarmament;

e Went on record as
porting a policy for e*
ing trade with China =|
trade agreements with)
socialist countries and

The rally was chairé

rine workers union, 4

SAM ENGLISH. well-known

Communist and for many
years a leader among B.C.’s
coalminers on Vancouver Is-
land and the Crows Nest
Pass, died last Saturday.

Ait the time of death he was
secretary of the Michel Local,
United Mine Workers Union.
Harvey Murphy, a life-long
friend of Sam English, spoke
at his funeral Tuesday.

Last weekend the Commun-
ist Party’s national committee
expressed its deep regreis at
news of the death. Next week

the Pacific Tribune will pay
a tribute to this beloved vet-

eran of the labor and Com-

munist movement.

PEACE-TRADE-J0B
~~ LESLIE MORRIS

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PENDER AUDITORIUM, 339 W. PENDER ST.

GIANT ELECTION RALLY

B.C. Communist Party Election Cttee.Phone MU 4-1451 — MU 4-5621

C.B.C. hit for free
time discrimination ,

The Communist Party has

lodged a strong protest with
the

Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation against its action

of proceeding with discus-
sions on allotting free TV and

Obituary

Long prominent

“Cy” Harding of Vancouver
passed away last week in his

62nd year, following a long

and painful illness.

For many years a paper
worker at Woodfibre, B.C.,
Mr. Harding was a life mem-
ber of the International Bro-
therhood of Pulp and Sul-
phite union, and wrote exten-
sively for his union paper
and for Co-operative and
Credit Union journals, in
which organizations he was
an active worker.

Funeral services were held
at Mount Pleasant Chapel,
conducted by the Rev. A. P.
27. itt. .Cy Harding -1s~sur-

.d by his wife Ellen, one
son, Wayne, a brother and
sister resident in B.C. and
one sister in England.

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in labor
and progressive circles in
British Columbia and former-
ly in Saskatchewan, Cyril

election campaign.

May 4, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE

radio time in the federal @
tion without including
Communist Party. prt

In a letter to CBC Py
dent J. Alphonse Onn
Communist Party camp sal
manager Nelson Clarke “)
“We submit that it act
responsibility of the cB if
an institution maintain®
public funds to accor
Canadian people the ri8
hear the Communist pol
‘view.’

His letter added: «we #
remind the CBC that
Communist Party is 4 4
established political aa y
which has been activel¥
ticipating in the public ab ‘fl
of our country for OV! ¥
years. We hold a distin’
clear-cut Bony of view °
the issyes.”’

The letter points out
while the Communist © #
had no representation in Fi
recent parliament, neith® ao
Social Credit, “yet w® if
that provision is being
for free time for this

The letter urges the
to take steps to accor’ i
time on its networks 10 y
Communist Party duri™!

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