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ation that May Day, 1929,
only the beginning of the
tise of fascism towards its
est of the world.

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“days when the propaganda
Pread that the forces of the
mg, those who had struggl-
| awaken the world to the
* who had taken arms to
it on the battlefields of
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because they exposed the
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“rrister, Solicitor, Notary

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O one will demonstrate on the streets of Berlin,
N the “socialist” chief of police in that city on the eve
ay Day, 1929. But the workers of Germany did take to
treets on May Day asking that a curb be put upon the
fities of Hitler’s fascist gangs and that the government
= unemployed German workers the right to work, bread

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‘Britain for the invasion of Europe, Canada’s
workers marching on May Day assure the men
ef the armed forces they will give them the
» tools to finish the job.

By ALFRED C. CAMPBELL

said

in its first stages. But with the
attack on the Soviet Union the
whole picture of the past became
clear and the -allianee of the
United Nations, forged by the
strength of united peoples fight-
ing in a common -cause, came
into being to defend the future
of their world.

s Vancouver this May Day is
being organized under the slo-
gan, “Worker-Warrior Day,’ and
no slogan was ever more appro-
priate because it symbolizes the
firm unity of soldiers and work-
ers in a common front against
fascism. 2
The traditions of May Day go
back more than half a century,
to 1886 and the Haymarket riots
and the strike of the workers in
the McCormick Harvester Works,
Chicago, in resisting a wage cut.
The frameup of leading social-
ists who were condemned to

death aroused the trade union

movement to mark May 1 as a
day of demonstration for better
working conditions.

The first May Day organized
by the workers of Chicago was

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Salutes the
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)EEPSEA & INLANDBOATMEN'S
UNION OF THE PACIFIC

extends

Greetings to Organized Workers

: on the Day we Celebrate
May Day, 1944

puy VICTORY BONDS for Victory ——
That We May Celebrate Next Year in Peace!

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called under the slogan of the
“Hight Hour Day” and “Down
Tools on May Day.’ Thus the
real purpose of May Day was
seen in the birth of the 8-heur
day movement and the fight for
better working conditions.

But in its forward march the
progressive movement of today
asks for more than the 3-hour
day. It asks that the world be
made safe for peace, social se-
curity and internaticnal cooper-
ation to make the world a better
place for all to live in.

This is the significance of the
slogans to be seen this May Day
in the long procession which will
march to Stanley Park, there to
give life to the last words of
Albert Parsons, one of the Hay-

market martyrs, who said: “Let
the voice of the people be
heard.”

For the voice of the people
will be eloquently heard this
May Day when the spokesmen
of the progressive movement
mount the speakers’
recount te thousands the reasons
why they must support the im-
pending invasion of Europe and
to explain to them the peaceful
perspectives of world coopera-
tion and mutual trust in the post-
war period opened up by the
decisions of the Teheran Con-
ference. <

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HEN the police shot down

the striking workers and
hanged their leaders in 1886, they
little. realised that their deed
established what was to become
a famous rallying day for work-
ing people everywhere in the
world when the victories ef pro-
gress would -be recounted and
onor paid to the martyrs.

Since May Day, 1929, the pro-
gressive movement of the world
has buried many times the orig-
inal 29 who were murdered in
Berlin, but each year has seen a2
strengthening and maturing of
world workingelass leadership
in world affairs. —

And during the course of the
war the labor movement has
risen to new heights of responsi-
bility and influence. In every
Allied country it is the initiatory

stand to_

force for increased production,
for social progress, for national
unity in wartime production and
postwar reconstruction. And in
the occupied countries it is the
heart of the movement for
national liberation.

This May Day, labor will cele-
prate many outstanding achieve-

ments in the realm of organiza-
tion and improved working con-
ditions. The slogans have chang-
ed as the times have changed
but the objective of advancing
the interests of the working
people remains unchanged. For
the first time in Canadian labor
history the federal government
kas enacted a labor code, with
uniform conditions throughout

ay Day --- Eve of Invasion

the dominion, which has been
adopted by a majority of the
provinces.

A victory for labor, it is also
a victory for the men and wo-
men of the armed forces who
tomorrow, the military victory
won, will rejoin the ranks of the
working people to win, the vic-
tory of the peace.

That is why the marching
tread of the thousands in our
cities on May Day will resound

in unison with the thousands of
troops who soon will be advanc-
ing on Berlin to strike the ban-
ner of fascist tyranny and raise
the flag of freedom.

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MAY

Cumberland
Local 7293

of the
United Mine Workers
Of America :

Extends to one and all a
cordial invitation to attend

CELEBRATION

in Cumberland
May 1

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