A final and urgent appeal to our readers

As this edition of the Tribune
Teaches our readers, there will be
less than one week remaining in
Our crucial financial drive to raise
$75,000 and ensure continued
Publication for another year.

This is our final, urgent appeal
to all our readers and supporters.
This is your newspaper and its fu-
ture is now in your hands.

At press time this week $48,204
had been raised, leaving more

than $26,000 yet to raise by the.

The Provincial Council of
Carpenters issued a direct ap-
peal this week to Canadian’
Labor Congress president Den-
nis McDermott urging the CLC
to modify its stand to enable
local unions whose interna-
tionals have refused to pay per
capita to continue their affilia-
tion to the CLC through provin-
cial federations of labor.

See CARPENTERS page 12

Interest
Part I:
Monetary

madness |
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lreland:
CP urges

renewed
protest

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end of our drive June 20. The
table on page 11*shows the pic-
ture: there is $172887 in outstand-
ing pledges; all of this*is needed
plus another $8,909 which has not
yet been pledged.

Of course, at a moment like
this there is no time to waste con-
vincing our supporters of the need
for the Tribune. They have un-
derstood this well and have made
each financial drive since 1935 a
success. But for our newer read-

ers, and there are many, we
should explain that the Tribune is
areader supported paper. Werely
on our readers to provide about
the same portion of our income as
the capitalist dailies receive from
their advertisers. And, as the
adage goes, he who pays the
piper, will call the tune.

This makes each year’s finan-
cial drive a vote of confidence by
our readership in the job that we
are doing for them. And so we ap-

peal to those who have pledged to
support our drive, please do what
you can to go over your pledge.
And to those who have not yet
made a pledge, if you agree that
there is a need for a fighting labor
newspaper like this and if you
agree that the Tribune is doing a
good job for working people, tell
us by contributing to our drive
before June 20.

There are always hundreds of
loose ends in the final week of the

campaign. A subscriber who will
donate if paid a visit, or that other
supporter who took a book of
contest tickets to sell. . . Our ex-
perience has been that it is precise-
ly the tying up of all these loose
ends in a hectic last week which
carries the drive to its target.

The drive ends the evening of
June 20 at our Victory Banquet at
the Italian Cultural Centre (see ad
page 10). Join us for a real cele-
bration.

ave of outrage condemns

Israel for bomb raid on Iraq

The Israeli government of
Menachem Begin was pounded
with a wave of outrage and
denunciation from around the
world Monday following its ter-
rorist bombing raid Sunday
which destroyed an Iraqi
nuclear reactor and killed a
French technician.

Nine Israeli air force jets sped
across 1,000 kilometres of Jor-
danian, Saudi Arabian and Ira-
qi air space to launch the bomb
strike against the reactor site
which was almost. completely
destroyed.

The air force used U.S.-built
planes in the raid in direct viola-
tion of the agreement which
governs their sale to Israel. The
U.S. has made no statement
condemning that violation,
however.

The Begin government car-
ried out the raid on the pretext
that the enriched uranium

| which the Iraqi reactor would

use when completed would give
Iraq the capability of producing
nuclear weapons, which could
threaten Israeli security.

But Iraq is a signatory to the
internationally-controlled
nuclear non-proliferation treaty

| while Israel, which is believed to

be close to obtaining nuclear
weapons if it does not already
have them, has refused to sign
the treaty.

Most alarming in the after-

'. math of the incident, however,

was Begin’s complete disregard
for world opinion which has
almost universally condemned
his provocative attack.

~ “We will stand up to outside
criticism,”’ Begin said Monday
in Tel Aviv. ‘We are not afraid
of any reaction by the world . .

But even the U.S., although it
initially echoed the ‘“‘concern”’
about the nuclear reactor that
the Iraqis were constructing,
was compelled to rebuke the

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