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Target: $82,000

A crucial drive
in a Critical time

The next 88 days will be decisive for
the future of the Tribune.

Financial drives are always important
to the Tribune — indeed they are its life-
line. But the 1988 drive, which kicks off
with this issue and continues until June
25, will be more important than any we
have held in the last 30 years.

This year, we are calling on our read-
ers to make the drive a success as never
before — to push us up to the $82,000
target, and to oversubscribe it.

The target is less than it has been in
the past few years. But this year, we will
be reaching for that total without the
benefit of the annual Tribune contest.
And the support of our readers will be
more crucial than ever.

This year, we’re calling on our readers
to make this drive a declaration — a
declaration that the Tribune will flourish
and grow despite the efforts of the Social
Credit government to cut off its lifeline.

As you can see from the letter from
the RCMP printed above, we have been
told that we will be prosecuted if we
conduct our contest for the Ford Escort,
the trip to Cuba and the VCR. In the
telephone conversation that preceded the
letter, the officer informed the Tribune
that he was acting on instructions from

Victoria. —

There is no question about the effect
of that letter. The contest tickets repres-
ented $2 bills from workers and pension-
ers, unemployed and unionists from all
over this province. The ticket stubs
represented their support for the provin-
ce’s only labour weekly and a 50-year-
old tradition. It also gave them a chance
on a new car.

The contest has been a tradition of the
paper since the time, 50 years ago, when
it was first initiated by Arthur (Slim)
Evans who was then the business man-
ager for the People’s Advocate, prede-
cessor of the Tribune.

We held it all through the ‘50s, the
‘60s, the ‘70s and the early ‘80s without
difficulty, even after the lottery legisla-
tion was introduced by the Socred
government. Obviously the Tribune, as a
limited company, could not meet the
new requirements for a lottery licence,
but since we had run the contest fairly
for dozens of years, we continued to do
so.

Now that has all changed under the

. threat of criminal prosecution.

There is no doubt about the purpose
of the letter — or its intended effect.
Premier Vander Zalm and the Social
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GREATER VANCOUVER
Quota
Bill Bennett 500
Burnaby 6,000
Coquitlam 2,500
Aubrey Burton 500
Effie Jones 1,500
Kingsway 5,000
New West. 2,000
Nigel Morgan 600
North Van. 2,500
Richmond 1,500
Seamen 500
Van. East 9,000
Van. Fishermen 600
West Side 4,800
FRASER VALLEY
Delta 600
Fraser Valley 300
Langley 600
Maple Ridge 2,200
Surrey 2,200
White Rock 1,000

Here are the targets:

OKANAGAN

Kamloops 1,000
Penticton 450
Vernon 1,600
N. COAST/INTERIOR
Correspondence 1,500
Creston 400
Fernie 250
L. Similkameen 500
Powell River 500
Prince George 200
Prince Rupert 300
Sunshine Coast 600
Trail 700
VANCOUVER ISLAND
Campbell River 2,000
Comox Valley 1,400
Nanaimo 2,800
Port Alberni 1,400
Victoria 3,200
Miscellaneous 2,500
TOTAL: 65,700

step up the financial pressure on the
paper, to force us to cut back on the
number of pages or the frequency of
issues. It is part of the government’s
efforts to mute all progressive organiza-
tions, to diminish the opposition to its
policies of turning this province over to
the private sector and the U.S. free trad-
ers.

But we’re determined not to let it
happen.

And we're sure that our readers and
supporters won’t let it happen.

Over the next three months, we’re ask-
ing them to put everything they can into
realizing that $82,000 and more.

All of us at the Tribune will do every-
thing we can to help. There are pledge
sheets and receipt books as well as pro-
motional sweatshirts to sell. And watch
the Coming Events column for a wide
variety of Tribune fund-raising events.

One of the most important will be the
drive kickoff banquet April 16 with
George Hewison, the former president of
the Tribune and the nominee for leader
of the Communist Party. It’s at 7 p.m. at
the Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Ave. It’s
there that we want to set the tone for the
drive.

As word has gone out about the spe-
cial problems we face in this year’s drive,
the donations have already begun to
come in. People have been digging in
early and telling us that it is in response
to the challenge thrown down by the
Socreds.

As we begin the drive, that message
from our readers has been backed by
donations to date of $4,283. Over the
next 88 days, we’re counting on you to
push that well over $82,000.

The message in that will be unmistak-
able.

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