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Dear Reader;

Six months ago, when our
annual sustaining fund cam-
paign fell $2,000 short of its
$18,000 objective, we had to
make severe economies to en-
sure that the Pacific Tribune
would continue to appear.

At the conclusion of that
campaign, for the first time
since the paper was founded
in 1942, we had to carry over
a deficit of $4,700, the result
of the same inflated publish-
ing costs which have forced
even the big dailies, with their
huge advertising and circula-
tion revenues, to raise their
prices.

To meet the crisis we reduced
the size of the paper to eight
pages for the summer months.
We cut the small staff, dis-
tributing the responsibilities
over the remaining staff mem-
bers. This reduced our oper-
ating costs, but it still con-
fronted us with the prospect
that the total debt in March
1958, including the $4,700 car-
ried over, would still be as
high as it was in March 1957
unless we did something about
it.

So, in September, we set up
a Centennial Fund Committee,
with myself as _ chairman,
whose purpose was to obtain
contributions of $100 each
from 100 supporters or the
equivalent in smaller contri-
butions from a larger number
of supporters.

Our appeal was the strong-
est of any being made in the
centennial year. Who, if not
the working people, has built
this province, created its

wealth and erected its cities?
And what paper, if not the
Pacific Tribune, will honor the
working people for their cen-
tury of toil, record their strug-
gles and point the way to the
future in which the working
people will come at last into
their own rich heritage. For
there is no doubt thati the cen-
tury to come will belong to
labor and to socialism.

The working people had a
paper to champion, their inter-
ests even in the very begin-
nings of British Columbia,
when it was still a colony —
the Cariboo Sentinel, published
in the eighteen-sixties. And
down the years to the Pacific
Tribune of today, many labor
papers have contributed to a
proud tradition.

As a result of the work
being done by the Centennial
Committee, the total debt of
the Pacific Tribune has been
reduced by $5,700. The Cen-
tennial Committee has raised
$1,600, with another $600 in
pledges for the New Year, and
$4,100 has been lopped from
operating costs, largely by re-
ducing the size of the paper

- during the summer months.

This can be considered only
as a progress report. The total

debt as of November 1957 is-

$1,000 lower than in Novem-
ber 1956. But the paper’s posi-
tion is. still critical.

To carry through its plan,
the Centennial Fund Commit-
tee must not only wipe out the
debt outstanding from 1956-7
but reduce the debt for 1957-8
by $4,000, a total debt reduc-
tion of $8,700.

This means that at least
$1,000 must be raised between

now and December 20, our last
issue for this year.

During the past month Bert
Whyte has assumed my duties
in addition to his own to en-
able me to devote all my time
to the Centennial Fund. I am
grateful for the opportunity it
has given me to discuss the
paper’s problems with many
of you personally and to hear
your suggestions and _ criti-
cisms. More than ‘anything
else, your warm response to
the committee’s-appeal for the
paper you have brought into
being and sustained through
all difficulties is an inspiration
in itself.

To all of you who have
given so generously to the Cen-
tennial Fund belongs the re-
ward of knowing that your
contributions, whether of $5
or $100, are bringing us closer
to our objective.

That objective is to main-
tain the 12-page paper we
promised if the subscription
campaign were carried through
successfully — and we fell
only 62 subs short of our 1,200
goal. It is to cut down the
paper’s debt and so reduce the
amount we have to raise in
our. annual sustaining fund
campaign next March. And it is
to enable the Pacific Tribune,
by special features and a 24-
page Centennial issue on Can-
ada Day, 1958, to honor, as no
other paper will, the pioneer
socialists, the men and women

. of labor Who have built this

province and whose imprint
lies upon its socialist future.

Wal Griffin

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

? _ COMING EVENTS

DEC. 6 14

GRAND BAZAAR will be

held daily from 7 to 12 p.m.
starting Friday, Dec. 6th with
a BAZAAR SHOWER AND
DANCE. RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S
HOME — 600 Campbell Ave.
Games - Valuable Prizes - Furr
.for all. BIG WIND-UP DANCE
Dec. 14. Everyone

Saturday,

welcome.

DEC. 7 — Get in the spirit

of the’ Holiday
Season. Start with the BUR-
NABY SUPPER and DANCE.
Always a social success. Satur-

day, Dec. 7 at 8:30 p.m. Valley-
view Centre, - Grandview
Highway, next to Municipal

Hall. HE. 1-6801.

DEC 8 —Soviet film “The
. Match” and other
short films will be shown
at the Ukrainian Hall—805
East Pender St., on Sunday,
Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. Everyone
welcome.

BUSINESS PERSONALS

PATRONIZE POLITANO’S
BARBER SHOP — 204 Main
St., 2 blks. north of Hastings.

BIG 7 USED FURNITURE
STORE — 1420 Commercial
Drive. Phone HA. 4058. (For-
merly 3% Transfer and Mov-
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HALLS FOR RENT

RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME
Available for meetings, wed-
dings, and banquets-at rea-
sonable rates. 600° Campbell
Ave. TA. 9939.

MNASTINGS BAKERIES LTD.
—Scandinavian products a
specialty. 716 East Hastings
Street. Phone TA. 9719.

O.K. RADIO SERVICE —
Latest factory precision
equipment used. MARINE
SERVICE, 1420 Pender St.
West., TA. 1012.

REGENT TAILORS LTD. —
Custom Tailors and Ready
to wear. For personal ser-
vice see Henry Rankin at
324 W. Hastings St., Van-
couver 3. PAcific 8456.

CLINTON HALL, 2605 East
Pender. Available for ban-

quets, Weddings, Meetings,
Etc. Phone HA. 3277.

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Phone PA. 9481

for Five Year Plan

By JACK PHILLIPS

The Five-Year Plan, which
will be placed before the
voters in Vancouver on Decem-
ber 11, deserves the support
of the electorate.

It would be a tragedy if it
was rejected at the polls. While
every group, and almost every
independent candidate, is sup-
porting the bylaw, this in itself
is no guarantee of achieving
the necessary 60 percent ma-
jority.

Those who believe in Van-
couver, those who desire plan-
ned and orderly growth, must
do everything they can to com-
‘municate their faith and
vision to other people. En-
thusiasm is contagious.

No matter how. worthy the
cause, no matter how clear cut
the issue, the essence of the
question can be obscured by
lack of knowledge, distortion
and exaggeration.

When you study this Plan
you realize that the projects
listed fall mainly into three

Construction worker
honor picket lines

DUNCAN, B.C.

A motion to honor picket
lines of striking pulp workers
was unanimously passed at a
meeting of construction work-
ers here Tuesday, and as a
result construction work at
the Elk Falls plant has come to
a dead halt.

The two striking unions
(Pulp and Sulphite and Paper-
makers) threw a mass picket
line in the morning and re-
quested construction workers
to respect it.

A meeting of all construc-
tion trades was called and job
stewards reported on the situ-
ation. Ron Winters of IBEW
Local 230 urged honoring of
the picket line and a motion to
this effect was carried.

Later in the day another
meeting of construction work-
ers heard reports from H.

Eastwood and D. McDonald of
j

ROOFING

REPAIRS
Duroid, Tar and Gravel
Gutters and Downpipes
Reasonable

NICK BITZ PA. 6031
ERPS LEE LDA a

December 6, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P4

Firstly, engine?
ing necessities, like road'l
sewers, waterworks, incinel®
tor, garage and streetlightill
This accounts for more th?)
60 percent of the Plan. Secon
ly, recreational, health #7)
better living requiremen®
such as parks, branch librati@
a civic theatre, a chronic h®
pital, a public square and al’
ditions to roofing and seatill
at Pacific National Exhibitil’
Thirdly, public safety ey
like two new firehalls and’)
new fireboat.

While it is true that th!
homeowner’s taxes wll go
if this Plan is adopted, i
equally true that every il@
in the Plan is neccessary: It
also true that the cost will
even higher if the bylaw is ‘
feated, and the work put 0

categories.

for some years. 7
Our union, va
Civic Employees, Outst

Workers, is four-square
hind the idea of tax ref
and larger grants to mu
palities by senior governm®?

Mu

the striking unions. wh
thanked the men for theif if
port and said that the strike’
would guarantee that no ®
struction work would

touched while their pice
lines were respected by ott

unions. A
TED HARRIS,

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