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DRIVE

THANK YOU FOR $6,905

It’s Week Two of the Tribune financial drive, and we're pleased to
announce $6,905 already in. ;
Not a bad start — but there is room for some concern. We’re running
alittle more than a $1,000 behind last year’s pace, and a look at the
Scoreboard below will tell you why.

A lot of provincial points are as yet unrepresented, a problem that
We’re sure will be straightened out soon.

In fact most of the money so far comes from just a few sources.

First, as always, there is our staunch supporter Mike Stevens who
dropped into the Tribune office April 1 and put $2,000 on the table.
Since then he has added another $125 to his total.

Then, there is the Vancouver East club which last year raised over
$6,000 and has already this year pushed past the $2,000 mark.

These are encouraging signs — we can only hope that there are other
Clubs and individuals motivated like these.

By the time that our scoreboard appears again, the drive will bea
quarter spent. If you plans and projects for the drive aren’t yet set,
let’s not delay!

We received word from Campbell River that their annual Tribune
May Day dinner is set for May 13. If there are any other events around
the province in the works, let us know and we'll lend youa hand. —

But most important, if you haven’t made your donation to the drive
yet — please send it now.

Make an investment in keeping the Tribune fighting.

Yr

Week 2: How We Stand

(Club targets in parentheses)

Vancouver Region North Fraser Region

$.212

Bill Bennett ($1,500) Burnaby ($2,800) $'-110
Broadyway ($2,000) 200 Coquitlam ($1,000) 5
Kingsway ($2,200) 302 Fraser Ind. ($500)

Niilo Makela ($1,000) N. Westminster ($950) 100
Olgin (400) Richmond (800)

P
Poe 82 South Fraser Region

S. Vancouver ($1,350 145 Delta ($700) ~ eee
Vancouver East ($4,000) 2,278 Langley ($600)

West End ($900) 10g Surrey ($2,800) 376
N. Vancouver ($2,500) 288 White Rock ($800)

East Fraser Region Okanagan Region

Fraser Valley ($500) Kamloops ($400)

Maple Ridge ($900) Notch Hill ($100)

Maple Ridge ($900) g Penticton ($250)

Mission ($800) g_ Vernon ($750) 190

Vancouver Island Region
Campbell River ($850)

North Coast/Interior
Correspondence ($600

Creston ($200) Comox. Valley ($650) - 2
Powell River ($300) Nanaimo ($1,200) 155
Prince Rupert ($300) Port Alberni ($1,000) 7)
Sointula ($100) - Victoria ($1,100) 220

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Packed meeting of DERA

backs annua

By DAN KEETON

Members of the Downtown
Eastside Residents’ Association
have given their leaders
unanimous support in their efforts
to reverse Vancouver city council’s
move to slash DERA’s staff from
three to one, by cutting the
Association’s annual grant from
$36,000 to $12,000.

At a packed meeting at the
Fisherman’s Hall April 6 about 400

“DERA members overwhelmingly

endorsed the continued leadership
of their executive — president
Bruce Eriksen, vice-president
Libby Davies and _ secretary
Jean Swanson — and demanded
that the organization be allowed to
continue operations with full
funding.

Speakers at the meeting cited
political motivations behind city
hall’s action and, noting that
council had unsuccessfully tried
the same thing last year, urged
members to turn out en masse
for DERA’s appeal April 18.

DERA’s Bruce Eriksen ex-
plained to the meeting that the
recent withdrawal of support by
David Cox, head of the Downtown
Community Health Society who
urged council in a letter not to give
DERA ‘one red cent,’ came after
DERA opposed Cox’s attempts to
locate a health facility on the site of
four Strathcona residences.
Neither Cox, nor any council
members — with the exception of
alderman Harry Rankin — at-
tended the meeting, although all
were invited.

Guest speaker Harry Rankin told
the packed hall during his 12 years
in office he had seen no greater
change in any area of the city then
in the downtown eastside during
the six years of DERA’s existence.

In the course of its duties, groups
like DERA are bound to make
enemies, he said.

“Ruling people hate to find out
that ordinary people can run their
own affairs,” he said, ‘‘Council
doesn’t like DERA because DERA
doesn’t say nice things about them
—it doesn’t have the happy faculty
of kissing their backsides.”’

Action.on.arms.urged

Continued from pg. 1

facture ‘and -deployment of. the
neutron bomb;

e Canada should promote the
UN World Disarmament Confer-
ence already discussed at the UN,
to follow its Special Session on Dis-
armament. This would allow
people and organizations besides
governments to discuss on a world

seale, actions for disarmament; -

e Arally in Ottawa no later than
May 20 to brief the federal govern-
ment delegation to the UN Special
Session;

e Canadian backing should be
given to the Warsaw Pact proposal

that it and NATO be disbanded
simultaneously ;

e Further exposition is needed of
the fact that ‘‘defence’’ industries
contribute to inflation and unem-
ployment: they do not provide
products people buy and use, but
products government buys with
tax money; and they are under-
employers of manpower;

e Canadian defence should be
limited to. genuinely defensive

actions, surveillance of borders,

disaster relief, none of which
justifies enormous expenditures on
tanks, fighter planes and other
military hardware.

shail!

A 4 oS
DERA MEETING... hands raised in support of the executive.

Last year, council hoped to crush
DERA by cutting its grant entirely,
but mass opposition forced them to
back down, said Rankin. This year
they tried to divide the leadership
by offering only one salary, and
jobs in the social planning
department to Davies and
Swanson.

Rankin also noted the objection
of the aldermen — the majority of
whom are TEAM members — to
DERA’s frequent support of the
Committee of Progressive Elec-
tors.

“Council says ‘if you don’t
support us, right or wrong, you
won’t deserve your grant.’ It is not

DERA, but council that is

‘political,’ and in the worst sense of
the word,”’ said Rankin. : -

Eriksen briefly outlined some of
DERA’s accomplishments and
ongoing projects including tax
‘services, advocacy for tenants’
rights, assistance to senior
citizens, the maintenance of
residential neighborhoods and
employment.

Swanson and Davies called on
those who had criticism of the
association or its executive officers
to voice their complaints. But
speakers from the audience
repeatedly stated their support for
DERA, and their intention to fight
for full funding for _ the
organization.

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COMING EVENTS

APRIL 14 — BAZAAR, bingo,
Friday, April 14 at the Russian
People’s Home, 600 Campbell
Ave. Admission free. Time 7
p.m.

APRIL 15 — Annual Oolichan Feed
and Supper — 5:30. p.m.-? at
Alice and John Person’s, 599
Chapman Ave., Coquitlam.
Everyone welcome. All proceeds
to Tribune Drive. Phone 936-7308
for tickets.

APRIL 15 — Russian People’s
Home, 600 Campbell Ave.,
Saturday, April 15. RUMMAGE
SALE — 3 p.m. No admission
SUPPER 6:30 — 8 p.m. Ad-
mission $6, Bazaar, bingo, craft
sale. Dancing 9 — 12.

APRIL 15 — Open House Social at
Penny Christensen’s, 7142-129 A
St., Surrey at 8 p.m. An en-
tertaining evening. All welcome.
Sponsored by Surrey PT Com-
mittee. Proceeds to the finan-
cial drive.

APRIL 15 — New Horizons Fund
Drive Social, 8 p.m. at 1267 W. 70

Ave., Apt. B, Vancouver. Ad-
mission - $1.00. Everyone
welcome.

APRIL 20 — See Cuba today, the
NFB film ‘‘I am an Old Tree”’ at
the Britannia Centre, 1661
Napier St., (above the library),
Thursday, April 20th at 8 p.m.

Ausp. Canadian Cuban Friend-

ship Association.

APRIL 30 — After the May Day
Meeting relax with friends at the
Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender.
Enjoy supper and/or refresh-
ments on the lawn, (indoors if
rain).
tertainment. Proceeds Van-
couver East Tribune. Drive.
Supper $4.

BUSINESS PERSONALS

Good food and en- .

to P.T. Phone 526-5226. ‘““THE
GOODIE BIN.”

SEE ALEX THE BARBER at 611
Smithe St. on Saturdays and help
the Tribune Press Drive.

FOR SALE

FINISHED SOLID OAK garden
and patio tubs, 15”’ deep and 24”
wide $15.00. All proceeds to PT.
Phone 936-7308 afternoons.

EMPLOYMENT WANTED

LIGHT JANITORIAL work wanted
— phone Ron at 926-9602.

HALLS FOR RENT

WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL —
Available for banquets,
meetings, etc. For rates: Ozzie,
325-4171 or 685-5836.

CARPENTER
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MOVING? CLEANUP — Wanted
’ articles for resale. All proceeds

RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME —
Available for rentals. For
reservations phone 254-3430.

UKRAINIAN CANADIAN
CULTURAL CENTRE — 805
East Pender St., Vancouver.
Available for banquets, wed-
dings, meetings. Ph. 254-3436.

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