Bt ae IA IOIN THE PARTY: THAT PICHTS FOR SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM FOR THE PEOPLE OF CANADA. ANIL GRANDVIEW LPP CLUB Sita ante ALLIED SERVICE LPP CLUB Pledge themselves this May Day 1949 to work larder than ever in the fight for socialism. ue MPEP PD ARRAAAD. g | Ship and Steel Club LPP Invite all workers to join with them and make this May Day a Rally Of the people for peace. AR ‘semen NORQUAY LPP CLUB" URGE SOUTH VAN- COUVER RESIDENTS TO SUPPORT THE CANDIDATE FOR MORRIS fmartyrs who died on the gallows to win the demands of the workers, political history was created. A gauntlet to political struggle with capi- tal was thrown down by the proletarians which has not diminished, but grown apace since that time 63. years ago, May Day is at once the affirmation of the daily struggle (the 8- hour day in 1886, peace, now) and the harbinger of the Socialist fu- ture. It is this latter quality which has enraged the capitalists, and thrown opportunist leaders into ever-increasing paroxysms of treachery. That is why May Day is associated with the Communists, who draw the full political conclusions from the contest between wage-workers and employer and who keep aloft the banner of working class struggle each May Day. * _* * May Day brings to each of us a reminder of the international char- acter of the working class movement. The idea of the modern nation arose not as a result of some spiritual affinity to a locale, but as a legal definition made by the capitalists to denote a specific territory in which they exercise class rule. The nation is the market, to the capitalist. In other words, the nation is money, profit, class power. Each national] capitalist class is in rivalry with the capitalist class of another nation. The only “soli- darity’” they know about is common action against socialism—as now in the Atlantic war pact. . But to workers and peasants of each country the nation means something altogether different, It is the product of their labor—con- crete things like railroads, homes, factories, mines, farms. And that common quality—the quality of labor—binds the people of all lands together and produces the common action and common politics which the capitalist propagandist labels “orders from Moscow.” Because the workers of each country possess this common bond they are the true defenders of the nation, for only by loving one’s own country because of the labor one has put into its development, can one respect the love of another working class for its own land. * * * : May Day consequently is the day of the year in which this com- monness of life and purpose is emphasized. Far from being the nega- tion of loyalty to country, it is the very foundation of that loyalty. Capitalist protestations of loyalty are the expressions only of the greed for profits. That is why on May Day this year the great and noble idea of world peace must permeate all May Day gatherings. Peace is the watch- word of progress and socialism. War is the slogan of grinding im- perialism, ean : From the 8-hour day in 1886 to the world-wide struggle for peace UKRAINIAN ORGANIZATIONS FIGHT FOR PEACE Association of United Ukrainians Shae — : PEACE in 1949, from the idea of socialism to socialism in reality over great expanses of the earth, from the small Socialist groups in 1886 to the mighty Socialist nations of today—surely the progress of May Day Vi BIANCO is the progress of mankind, : ncn UMHS LT 2 2 OLGIN CLUB LPP GREETS THE NEW SERATE’OF ISRAEL a5 Looking Forward to - World Peace iE Burnaby Election C’ttee LPP ‘: ANI Support The Candidates Who Stand For World Peace '- Not Atlantic Pact >| BERT CARLSON Painting & Decorating Contractor % HA, 0145 2225 TRIUMPH Wishes All People A Peaceful 1949 re May Day Greetings . | 1949 mS Se SESE TE ScEé = Mace SLR as Se from } mm an {heat SKEELES Gas and Transit LPP Club |) «=» san APPEAL TO ALL WORKERS 7 : To Strengthen The Fight For Peace And Forward The Socialist V ictory Greetings to all those who are in the fight for peace and security { LAKE COWICHAN MAY DAY GREETINGS Chinese Workers’ » Protective Association 232 MAIN ST. LPP CLUB CLUB-ALPP. 3 5 Pledges to carry on the struggle / Teachers fight thought-control | disaffiliation and setting up of the a Della & Gunner ~ world peace Graveness Tay arial Reera Frank Politano - ae John DeWever ALL SLAV ’ : : Bert P F COMMITTEE pamela ee : Jack Butler ig EXTENDS ' NANAIMO AREA — 3// «Members of the Teachers’ Union (CIO) set up these tables on New York street corners asking citizens to sign petitions protest- _ ing a double blow to their schools—the proposed $20 million budget cut and the thought control bill signed into law by Governor Dewey. ‘They collected 5,000 signatures in three hours. WIUC officials cleared of union funds ‘theft’ ee NANAIMO, B.C. An IWA-pressed charge against two Woodworkers’ Industrial Union officials dealing with an alleged “theft of International Wood- workers’ funds” blew up in court here last week when an Assize Court jury brought in a verdict of “not guilty” in the case of Owen G. Brown and Fred Wilson. Attenipts of Crown Prosecutor | &@ out that Carl Winn had re- Frank S. Cunliffe to inject red- | Fosed ae: Conmiaee oF TeCoEmne = baiting into the trial brought q | Union petition demanding the re. sharp rebuke from Justice J. C. call of TWA president James Fad- Wilson. After Cunliffe and Car) |™& Several months prior to the Winn, IWA international secretary split. - from Portland, had tried to turn the trial into an anti-Communist forum, Justice W&lson sent the jury out and sternly warned that he would not tolerate such tirades. When the “not guilty” verdict was brought in there were many expressions of satisfaction from union loggers who packed the courtroom. General resentment was voiced at the IWA method of frit- tering away union funds in expen- sive court cases. Brown and Wilson testified that the union funds_had been handled according to unanimous instruc- tions from the union membership. ’ »« Defense counsel John Burton proved that disruption had existed for some time in the IWA, and pointed out that the reason for SUPPORT THE PEACE ‘ MOVEMENTS AND "PREVENT FUTURE ~ WAR Mt. Pleasant Fairview Club LPP WIUC was to end American domi- nation and interference in Cana- dian trade union affairs. He point- W.I.U.C. FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S AUXILIARIES | ‘May Day ~ Greetings 1949 Olga & Maurice Rush Pledge themselves to work to maintain Bill Spraklaar ‘May Day Greetings To All Who Fight Against The War- Caroline & Jimmy MacFarlan Jr. mongers, Eleanor Cadden PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 29, 1949 — PAGE 7