VICTORY SQUARE CLUB LPP FIGHT FOR UNITY IN THE BATTLE OF LUMBER IN THE YEAR 1950! OLGIN CLUB LPP WIN CANADIAN INDEPEN- DENCE FROM THE YANKEE DOLLAR IMPERIALISTS! CALL A HALT TO THE COLD WAR! “BAN THE ATOM BOMB LADYSMITH CLUB gage May, Day Greetings fom =. Moberly No. 2 LPP Club FIGHT FOR PEACE AND A HAPPY FUTURE FOR ALL MANKIND Grandview Club LPP JOIN THE PARTY THAT FIGHTS FOR SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM MAY DAY. GREETINGS HASTINGS EAST CLUB LPP pledge to carry on the struggle for unity of the working people We WATERFRONT CLUB | : ‘LPP EXTENDS MAY GREETINGS Fight for Unity of Organized _ Labor SSO OOOH COE OS YMAY DAY GREETINGS! TO ALL WOODWORKERS Unite in the Fight for Wages, ( itions, Security and Peace Forest Products Club LPP. ROO SS OS OS HLS SS Electrical Workers Club LPP . Sends May Day Greetings higher wages and for unity ‘ef all workers! | Join with us in the fight for Young people from the state of Washington will meet with Bri- tish Columbia youth at the Peace Arch Park, near Blaine, in. a great demonstration “for peace on June 4. Thousands are expected to rally under “No .More War” banners at the border picnic grounds. ‘We have come together today because the world in which we live seems to be rushing insanely to- wards mass slaughter,’ the youth manifesto reads. “However, in spite of the hysteria which greets us daily in thé press and over, the ‘| radio, we reject the idea that war is inevitable.” In Vancouver, an initiating com- mittee under ‘the leadership of Dick Allen of the Student Christ- ian Movement is seeking wide sup- port for the Peace Arch rally. next meeting of the committee, which is open to “everybody who is prepar- les to defend peace,” will be held |May:2 at 8 p.m. in the Unitarian ‘Church, 1550 West Broadway. Per- sons seeking additional informa- tion are asked to phone Hedy ‘Lourie, PA 7776, or write 149 North ‘Kootenay Street. The program on June 4: includes cultural events, speakers, a picnic and endorsation of a peace pledge. Unionists, students elect peace delegates William White, president of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Industria] Union, Local No. 1, is. attending the national convention of the Canadian’ Peace Congress in Toronto this coming week as a representative of a group of | prominent trade unionists in Van- |couver. Appointed by a commit- | tee of unionists last week, White has already been endorsed by the Boilermakers and the West Coast Seamen’s Union, and backing of other unions is expected. Students of six Vancouver high | © schools met recently to form a Stu- dents’ Peace League and named | Eddie Cinits, well-known athlete of King Edward High school, as delegate to the Peace Gonprere. ‘ / Fraternal : MAY. DAY GREETINGS To All Trade Unionists THE SHOREWORKERS’ LOCAL UNITED FISHERMEN AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION = * SOINTULA LOCAL U.F.A.W.U. Sends May Day Greetings Peaceful Trade for Higher Living Standards for our Workers Peace Arch meet planned by youth from B.C., Wash. fey ery, . A few months after Videla had] ‘Bloody, hateful...” In the story below, Pablo Ner- uda 'relates how President Gon- zales Videla of Chile, seen here chatting with President Truman at a Washington dinner, betray- ed the working people who elec- ted him to power.. .“How bloody and hateful is made the name of the U. S. in my land,” states Neruda. He took an old woman's pennies - - and “Al a country. NEW YORK { Visit of President Gonzales Vi- dela of Chile to President Truman at Washington has evoked bitter comment from Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet now ee in exile in Mexico. Neruda, who is himself an elec- ted member of the Chilean senate, recalls in an article written for the National Guardian here that || when Videla was campaigning for the presidency among the miners of Lota - - “Twelve hours a day the miners in Lota work, and for that their pay is 50 cents, not for an hour but for the whole day” - - when a little old woman stepped a few pennies. “It is so much that you will give us, that IE will give you all that I have,” she said to Videla. é And then, Neruda relates, bh Hci crowd applauded. The candidate wept, and holding the pennies in his hand, he, 7 SRBmaSe Videla, CU Sage : “Comrade, over these pennies, given through sacrifice, I say to you that if I should betray you,’ then put me in front of a firing squad - - to die the wise traitors been elected, Neruda continues, the workers struck, and they asked the president for help. “So he sent help; ” says Neruda. “He sent tanks and artilery and airplanes. He sent warships to lie off the coast and hold the town under their guns. He sent his police, and in the night they en- tered the wretched homes and took wives and children too. Men and women were tortured, beaten into | unconciousness.” Then the miners and their fami- lies were shipped to a concentra- tion camp at Pisagua - - “The many died there. pee the high point of his speech was} out of the crowd and Handed. him workers from their beds, and their | Camp of Extermination because so “This is the man who How" ooh | crawls to Washington to be paid) for his deeds,’ Neruda concludes. Neruda indicts Chilean president, ‘Construction men scorn scab call VICTORIA, B.C. Striking for higher wages and working conditions, CBRE employ- ees at Evans, Coleman and John- son continue to receive solid sup- port. from the building. trades workers, and all major construc- tion jobs in the city are at a standstill. : “The appeal by the company and Builders Exchange that the con- struction industry should carry on with substitute material is too old and shopworn a trick to fool building trades workers,” says 2 CBRE strike leaflet. Victoria Building Trades Council also distributed a leaflet this week, pledging continued support to the strikers and calling on all building trades workers to respect picket lines. ~ | Fire hexatd probe supported by CCL Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) this week gave full support to @ | demand made by West End Ten-, ants’ League to city council that a full investigation be made into fire hazards in West End rooming houses. A case in which several tenants. were badly injured when they were forced. to jump from windows during a recent rooming house fire was ‘cited., LITHUANIAN LITERARY ASSOCIATION Extends. May Greetings and Supports the Peace e Movements MAY DAY VICTORIA RALLY HEAR MAURICE RUSH Monday, 8 p.m., May Ist: | 749 BROUGHTON STREET | ALL OUT! PEACE FOR WHAT NOBLER AIM | ON. THIS MID-CENTURY MAY. DAY? THE FISHERMAN LABOR’S VOICE IN THE FISHING INDUSTRY ALL PEOPLE eS PEACE IS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR HAPPINESS! MAY. DAY GREETINGS from Hungarian Literature Association of May Day for 40-hour-week, : Security and Peace! g National: Federation © . of Labor Youth Tt Le “_ WEST COAST SEAMEN’S UNION (CANADA) 61 W. Cordova: Street Srateide May Day Greetings to Organized Labor and Friends SEAMEN ARE iN THE > FOREFRONT FOR ;WORLD PEACE a 2 s ‘ i , per PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 28, 1950-PAGE