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“May Day Of Peace

_ By LESLIE MORRIS, Ontario Leader, LPP
HIS is the 60th May Day, the Jubilee Anniver-
sary of the international working class day of

and dedication to the

future. F :
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Tt is the first May Day of it.

peace, and for that millions
im every land are thankful

reaction before

But we in North America
especially are called on to

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unity and effectiveness, and
Canadian security and integ-
rity have become the pawns
of the Anglo-American atom
bloc. From here — Canada —
because of our geographical)
and economic position, arises
many of the stenches of in-
trigue and plots making for
war.

May Day here then must
be a call to all true Canadian
patriots to be on guard for
peace, against the monopo-
lists and warmongers, and
for the true national interests
of Canada in a world at
peace.

LESLES MORRIS

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.- Lhey March Firmly
By MAURICE RUSH, B.C. Organizer, LPP
This year May Day has a double significance for

the working people of Vancouver. Not only is it the

first peacetime May Day since 1939; it also marks
the sixtieth anniversary of Wancouvers growth and

port on the Pacific coast.

While feeling great pride
over labor’s sixty years of
achievements, the working
people will not be heedless of
the fact that the main blem-
ish on our city is the mon-
opoly stranglehold over its
economic life by greedy, pro-
fitmad capitalists who would
deny proper wages, ecent
homes/and all-round security
to the people.

Qn May Day labor tradi-
tionally reviews its gains and
charts the road ahead. This
May Day
the progress of our city. We
recall the glorious militant
traditions of labor and pay
tribute to the early.architects
of our great trade union
movement.

In keeping with these tra-
ditions of May Day we dedi-
eate ourselves to the struggle
te make Vancouver an even
greater city. We pledge our-
selves to the fight for world
peace through the unity of
the Big Three powers in the
United Nations organization.
We dedicate ourselves to the
struggle for a decent postwar
future by curbing the mon-
opolies. We pledge ourselves
to the struggle for decent liv—
ing standards, for
wages, maintenance of price
control, the 40-hour week and
union security. We dedicate
ourselves to the task of. ce-
menting the unity of all pro-
gressive people in order that
Vancouver’s postwar progress

development into Canada’s third city and major sea-

we take pride in §

higher ~

will see new and greater ad-
vances for labor and the
people.

MAURICE BUSH

This year as the May Day
parade swings along Vancou-
ver’s streets— marching past
tall buildings and
sites—_ thousands of working
men and women will feel
great pride that it was they
and their forefathers who
made Vancouver what it is
today. And they will march
firmly in the belief that they
and their children can and
will mould the future of our
city.

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“Salute To
Loggers”

By AL DEWHURST

T IS fitting that on this May

Day we should salute the Lum-
berworkers of our province, who
are spearheading a@ drive for
higher wages and shorter hours!
The battle for jobs with a decent
living standard is on! Organized
Labor’s fight is the fight of all
those who work by hand or
brain—it is the fight of the gro-
cer, the butcher and the baker!

The fight for the 40-hour week
and wage restoration is a fight
for fuller employment and high-
er purchasing power which equais
happy homes and prosperous
eommunities. It is a fight for a
fairer’ distribution of the goods
that Canadians can produce. It
is a fight against those monopoly
interests who would saddle the
high cost of the war and recon-
version on-the backs of our peo-
ple.

The monopolists are successful
in having price ceilings lifted
with the result that prices are
soaring and the end is not yet in
Sight.

Lumber is B.C’s major indus-
try and whither goes lumber, so
goes the Province! (The Lumber-
workers are preparing to go into
a showdown fight with the Lum-
ber barons. All B.C. labor must
join this fight against monopoly
capital! All tradesmen and pro-
fessional people must protect
their interest by rallying to La-
bors banner!

in significance.”

_ “March In Unity”

By MINERVA COOPER, Education Director, LPP

N MAY 1, 1946, world labor will celebrate the
greatest May Way in its history in numbers and
Last year demonstrations were cur-
tailed because workers were involved in the last grim

battles of, the war. In 1946 with fascism defeated, if
not yet crushed, new hun-
dreds of thousands recruited

first May Day after triumph

for progress in the People’s over fascism, it will be with
War will join the marchers. the certain knowledge that
In Spain, Greece, Argentina, there are @ark forces in the
and Nationalist China, police world who at the very mo-.
terror will still strike. In ali ment are plotting to plunge
the démocratic countries of the world into the unspeal-

the world the -millions will
demonstrate as free peoples.

Even as they march, rais-
ing high the slogans of their

able horror of atomic war.
May Day, 1946, is therefore
above all, the occasion on
which the common people cf
world will demonstrate.
_ peace. The word, ‘Peace’
has become not only the sym-
= bol of a warless world but
= Of a world moving toward
progress, since peace is the
= prerequisite of progress. i
To fight for peace will be
the pledge uppermost in the
minds of women the world
ever who have won new
strength and freedom and
mean to use it to expose and
= destroy. the warmongers.
Whether in Europe where
they are engaged in the bat-
tle for bread for hungry chil-
dren, or on this continent
where side by side with hus-
bands and sons they are lock-
€d in a grim struggle for de-
cent wages, they will not sep-
arate these aims from the
fight against the war-makers.

MINERVA COOPER.

This is the meaning of May
Day, 1946. In the words of
Joseph Stalin, “The millions:
ef simple people are
Standing guard for peace.” .

to organize
eight-hour day.

: During the intervening -
years organized labor has
written a glorious page of
struggles on behalf of exploit-
ed mankind. The best expres-
Sion of this was the self
sacrificing role played by.
trade unionists on the battle-
fields and in the factories
turning out the weapons te
erush the military might of
world fascism in the global
war just completed. The ar-
mies of the United Nations
has left the military machine
of fascism lying prostrate, but
fascism still menaces the
peace of mankind. Even be-
fore the last shot was fired
reactionary monopoly capital-
ism was scheming on how
quickly Canadian labor could
be driven back to the condi-
tions of the 730’s, but the win-
ning of the war has immeas-
urably strengthened the pro-
gressive forces throughout the

European countries have been
freed from feudal bondage,
hundreds of millions of ex-
ploited peoples in the colonies
are on the march and will
never go back to colonial
slavery. Thirty million of our
finest sons died, that mankind ©
could advance to a fuller and
freer life. Our watchword on
this May Day must be: ‘Our
noble dead, did not die in

“The Right To Oreanize?

By CHAS. STEWART, Street Railwaymen’s Union

Fifty-nine years ago four heroic Chicago workers
were executed on the gallows, a sacrifice for the right
into trade unions

and to establish the

©ut of their sacrifices grew the im-
mortal spirit of international May Day.

world. Millions of people in =

The tasks confronting us
today are enormous, but are
within our grasp. Our imme-
diate- task is to mobilize and
organize our forees to win
jobs, homes and security—the
40-hour week—for all, without
which a just and lasting
peace cannot be secured.

President Roosevelt, the
night before he died prohpeti-
eally wrote: “Our only limit
of our realization of tomorrow
will be our doubt of today.
Let us move forward with
strong and active faith.”

CHARLES STEWART

/“To us, the workers, and not the social parasites and
idlers, belongs the world——a world built by the hands of
the workers. The present rulers of the capitalist world are

but temporary rulers. The proletariat is the real master—
tomorrow’s master of the world.”

The United Front.)

(Prom Dimitrov ’s

“Fight To

Win Peace”

By DORISE NIELSEN

AY DAY has come once again.
Day of memories, and day for
renewed pledges. Too recent are
the losses .in the war to be easily
forgotten! Too keen are the sac-
rifices paid by so many, to be
effaced from our minds! Too

great the agony to be spoken
about lightly!

We face May
‘Day this year

@ratitude to
to -. those
lions who help-
ed in the defeat
of WPascist ar-
mies, but mixed
with fierce hat-

ed for those
aes : who are al-
Dorise Neiisen Teady making

_ brazen attempts
to resusitate the corpse of Fas-
cism. True we can see in the
world today the ugly shameless
hydra-headed Fascist monster
stirring itself again in. many
places. Fascism is not dead!

But, what of ourselves and the
people’s democratic army? We've
learned much through these
years of war. Weve become
tougher in the fight, better equip-
ped and better disciplined: True,
“we haven’t closed our ranks into
one united fighting force, as we
should have done. :

The strong union; the 40-hour
week, and the eight-hour day—
these are the fighting weapons
we must raise. cee

The trade unions are the shoek
troops of the workers. May Day
1946, day to renew your
memories, to renew your pledges
for the future, to renew: your
pledges for labor solidarity, in. the
winning of the Peace.

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