= year’s. May Day cele-
ration in Vancouver will be

“ <4 in the Queen Elizabeth Play-
Si Se, Sunday, May 2, at 8 p.m,
Ue € theme of the rally will. be

i

Tae :

merce, Freedom, Security, said

meses release from the Trade
on May Day Committee.

Feature speakers will be

KENNETH A, FINIS, a Negro ‘

BE iilonist and civil rights
eee com San Francisco, and
ent ES STEWART, business
Uni of Amalgamated Transit
; On, Division 101, Vancouver.
oo a a practising psycholo-
ae € will speak on “Labor
“Ry fan Rights,” dealing with
cre rights struggle in the
cf
con threat of the U.S. govern-
ees, use nuclear bombs in
tas Mm must be answered by
eo of the world, No
er bombs! Remove all
a Ss troops from Vietnam!
aan . People of Vietnam de-
co < own future,” said an
"mittee, om the May Day Com-
«
a a to the May Day rally
€gister your protest against

U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER TO SPEAK
May Day rally to protest
U.S. nuclear bomb threat

this new threat to world peace,
Demand an end to the war in
Vietnam,” said the appeal.

The Milestones and TOM
HAWKEN will provide the en-
tertainment, with songs of labor

KENNETH A. FINIS, U.S. civil rights
leader, will be the feature speaker at
Vancouver’s May Day rally on Sun-
day.

and the civil rights struggle in
the U.S.A.

May Day originated in the
U.S.A. when the 1884 Convention
of the Federation of Trades and
Labor Unions of U.S. and Canada
adopted a resolution which read
“eight hours shall constitute a
legal day’s work after May 1,
1886.”

On May 1, 1886, some 40,000
workers went on strike. Some
gains were made and the Car-
penters were later asked to
spearhead a strike for shorter
hours on May 1, 1890, Samuel
Gompers, president of the new
American Federation of Labor,
appealed to the Socialist Inter-
national to celebrate May 1, 1890
as an International Labor Day.
This was agreed to by an inter-
national conference of socialist
parties.

Since then, May 1 has been
celebrated as International Labor
Day in many countries, a day
on which labor and democratic
people demonstrate to show their
desire for a better life and their
hopes for the future.

Job security is key issue
for Teamsters in dispute

oe Major Vancouver cart-
Gane ms, Pacific Cartage,
Meine Moving and Storage and
a x Cartage were picketed
Sterve us Week by the Team-
a Union, Some 30 cartage
5 pene are now involved in
ion contract dispute, with
as ximately 1,400 employees
Mediately affected,

; en Cartage companies in-
but Served a lockout notice,
Seca aa union claims that it is
Bese. aa implemented, Ed, Law-
i Resident of theVancouver
ao Ster’s Union, has declared
Situation serious ifthe lock=
; Were applied to all firms,”
eae it clear for the union
Five On that “all essential serv-
__ ©S would be maintained,”

Key issue in the Teamster’s

tC

.. Charles Stewart
BUSINESS AGENT, DIVISION 100
AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION

| MAY DAY
| | Concert - Meeting
| | Queen Elizabeth Playhouse
Sunday, May 2nd - 8 p.m.
Speakers
Kenneth A. Finis

U.S. TRADE UNION & CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
Practising Psychologist

PEACE — FREEDOM — JOBS

dispute hangs on job security,
Lawson pointed out that many
cartage firms lease trucks to
other firms, which are operated
by non-union drivers, As is known
there are also a number of truck
rental firms in Vancouver and
vicinity where similar non-union
conditions apply.

Teamsters and company offi-
cials were scheduled to meet
Wednesday of this week with
Deputy Labor' Minister Sands in.
an effort to reach agreement in

the dispute, Union president Law-

son said that unless agreement
is reached soon “we are going to
prepare for a long seige.”

* * *

Thirsty citizens and tourists
could be facing a “dry spell”

with a beverage dispenser dis-
pute shaping up. Over 800bever-
age dispensers and tapmen in 76
beer parlors and clubs through-
out the Lower Mainland have
voted to reject a B.C, Hotel As-
sociation wage offer by some 95)
percent,

Beverage Dispenser’s Union
leaders have recommended con-
ciliation proceedings be tempor-
arily halted and a strike vote
taken, Spokesmen for the BGs
Hotel Association have hinted that
a “better” wage offer may be

forthcoming.
*x * *

- United Fishermen and Allied
Workers’ Union executive for-
warded a strong protest last week
to the Air-Sea Rescue Service,
the Department of Fisheries and
the CBC Board of Broadcast
Governors for releasing the news
of the Sea Ranger tragedy before
the next-of-kin could be notified

by the UFAWU,

The halibut boat Sea Ranger
was lost in the Bering Sea, April
7, with all hands on board, The
Fisheries Department notified
the UFAWU of the tragedy and
requested the union to notify the
families of the lost fishermen, An
hour later theSea Ranger tragedy
was being broadcasted, with
names of lost personnel, The
UFAWU was given no opportunity
to fulfill its sad obligation.

YMCA hosts
Soviet youth

The YMCA in Vancouver is
playing host to three Russian
young men coming to Vancouver
for the first week in May. They
will also visit Winnipeg and Cal-

gary.

An extensive program has been
arranged for them by the “Vi
which includes trips to many in-
terior points and visits tO
summer camps, On Thursday,
May 6th at 7 p.m. they will be
guests of the Russian People’s
Home at 600 Campbell Ave,

Canada’s Budget Dollar

1965-1966

Resources~Industry

fee XPENDIT Provinces -Municipalities

Tobacco “Alcohol

Tax

Customs Duties

=

This chart prepared by Canadian Press gives its breakdown of how Canada’s
budget dollar will be spent. Military expenditures will continue to be one of the
largest items, exceeding the 21 cents shown above because of hidden costs in
other items. A cut in the military budget would have made possible a larger
rollback of personal income tax, instead of the meagre 10 percent announced.
Watch next week for a fuller analyses of the budget. ;

NATIONAL PARLEY DECIDES

Quebec Communist Party
fo be ‘distinct entity’

The National Committee of the
Communist Party of Canada, at
its plenary session held in Tor-
onto on April 23 — 25, adopted
a report on French Canada and
the work of the Communist Party
which included some far-
reaching propositions both as to
the possibilities for advance of
socialist ideas and action in
Quebec, and with respect to the

structure of the Communist

Party,

The National Executive Com-
mittee proposed for adoption and
received unanimous support from
the National Committee for the
following motion:

“That this meeting of the Na-

' tional Committee expresses its

agreement with the proposal put
forward by the Communists in
Quebec that the Party in Quebec
be established as a distinct en-
tity and be called the Parti Com-
muniste du Quebec; that a con-
vention be held in Quebec in the

20) ca

FIGHTING FOR
LABORS NEEDS

fall with a view to implementing
this;

“That the National Executive
Committee be instructed that
such changes as may be nec-
essary inthe Party’s Constitution
by the establishment of the Parti
Communiste du Quebec as a dis-
tinct entity be drafted for sub-
mission to the National Con-—
vention.” |

The reporter for the National
Executive Committee on this
question was Samuel Walsh,
chairman ofthe Communist Party
in Quebec,

The report declared that the
heart of the crisis of Confed-
eration “is that the French Can-
adians are not recognized as a
‘nation’ in Canada. This means
they do not have the right to self-
determination, Whatever auto-
nomy is granted to Quebec is
granted as to aprovince, on much
the same basis as to the other
nine provinces,

“This, despite the fact that
Quebec is the homeland, the ter-
ritorial expression of the French
Canadian nation, while the people
in the other nine provinces have
developed as members ofa single
English Canadian nation,

“The right to self-determin-
ation must include the right to
separation or it is really mean-
ingless. If the union of the two
nations is not completely vol-
untary, in contrast to its birth
in the British conquest, there ‘is
no right to self-determination,

only various degrees of auto-
nomy,” :

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