F the majorit — The Barker Trail, Fes done by Steve -More than John é ERNIE CRIST irculation Manager eee to the outstanding job se Y Many individuals and a S Clubs, the Pacific Tribune ee boost in the € by. This is abo true for Papersales, ie ‘ € congratulate Chilliwack, : Peter McGuire Victor oot a ee Bloons and .Vernon; Papersales Reece revs fon previous Individually, the suistanding job in are paper sales Nickyforuk y Square. Steve sold 8,000 papers during a total of 325 subs in from Victor year or Paper sales, Tea €rs, enabled some clubs to 00 : Drevin Set iptions over the Chilli i year. These clubs are Whiten ew Westminster, Bill B Ock-Delta, Coquitlam, Niilo Wee Frank Rogers, Victo akela, Peter McGuire, Trail a Square, Edmonds, sd bel spondence, Alberni, ee River, Haney, mee Gp rs and Vernon Eu Outstanding job in Rit €xpiries was done b Prite anche: Bob Towle, Harold ae Steve Nickyforuk, anderson, Bert Smith, RE, Ona Morgan, Abe il St Syne Columba Rush, an n, Elmer Pontius, Gertie 2 lew, Nick Chernoff, Chernoff, Olaf Carlson, nx ricks i Cla on, Ian Gibson, Tence Jewitt, Eino Ahala, Pe Skee ardal, Grace Tickson, Ed Nne Tarasoff, Uno Nick Reyda, Eileen ee Anita Walters, Joe Y, Charlie Johnson, J. , reliving and Harry Ball. e ti Worker, = hats to these Press or their hard work and Senero Year. ws Support throughout the The : outstangield for the © most boostin ing all-round work for region® the Press in the city Square Went to the Victory club. This club picked up Y of expiries, won 22 New fice ders, and sold 353 subs or the wl individual copies of Clb 5, “© tip our hat to this garcnd. its outstanding press Big job done for PT in 1970 director, Steve Nickyforuk, for this magnificent performance. Vancouver East and Edmonds clubs are worthy of honorable mention. Van. East won 33 new readers and sold or distributed 100 subs in paper sales, while Edmonds boosted its circulation from 42 to 72 subs; won 16 new readers and distributed 23 subs in paper sales. The shield for best per- formance was awarded to the Trail Club. In addition to distributing the PT to the workers of Trail, they mailed out sample copies and as a result, won 22 new readers. This is work of the highest calibre, and we congratulate the club and its outstanding press director of 1970-Elmer Pontius. i Campbell River Club nearly doubled its circulation in the past year, and won 13 new readers, New Westminster Club’s Bob-Clarehue, Dave Arland and Bill Chobotuck sold close to 2,000 copies on the streets of New Westminster. Winners of a special 3-volume Lenin book award for winning 10 or more readers or for selling 500 or more copies are Bob Towle, Harold Pritchett, Elmer Pontius, Ed Skeeles, Nick Chernoff, Anne Tarasoff and Steve Nickyforuk. ' Winners of the one volume Lenin book award for winning five new readers or selling or distributing 250 copies are M. Rush, R. Penson, C. Kelly, M. Mosher, Sam Alcock, N. Morgan, Pete D’Amico, Bob Clarehue, Dave Arland, Bill Chobotuck, Dick Sharpe, Olaf Carlson, Bob Jackson, Bert Padgham, Fel Dorland, J. Bobey, Mike Demeter and others. To all these fighters for the working class press, we say thank you. As a result of these efforts by individuals and clubs, for the first time in many years we won close to 300 new readers — an increase of nearly 70 over last year. es As a result, the Pacific Tribune, now the only weekly labor paper in B.C., requires an even bigger boost in the coming year. Of equal importance is the coming PT sustaining fund drive The PT must be kept alive! With the help and support of our friends, we will undoubtedly be equal to our task. LIKES PT Alf Johnson, Skookumchuck, B.C. writes: I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on a fine magazine. The articles are all hard hitting, informative and interesting. I enjoy every page of this fine paper, especially on the forward progress of such foreign - countries as Chile, etc. What an inspiration. I feel your paper is the advance periodical of the labor movement here in B.C. and we are fortunate indeed to have such a ‘‘no punches pulled’ paper to see what is going on in the country and abroad. Your paper led me to join the Com- munist party of which I am very proud. Keep up the good work. UNITE JOBLESS A Reader, Vancouver, writes: We are trying to set up a com-~ mittee\for the unemployed members of our Local as recom- mended by the B.C. Federation of Labour. I was glad to read in the Tribune that your party supports such a move as a practical step in the fitht against unemployment. The executive of my Local is somewhat skepti- cal as to whether or not such committees are reasible, however. They point out that our industry is seasonal and the numbers of our brothers unemployed varies greatly. They also note the difficulty in keeping a committee going once its initiators get back to work. I have rebutted their leeriness with the facts that-they don’t even know how many of our brothers are out of work, since they do not keep any sort of lists. They don’t know how many of us are on Welfare, or how many of us are waiting for a retraining course to open. Most important, they do not know how militant the unemployed members of our Local really area. I would now like to be able-to propose some very practical steps that a committee could ‘Stop U.S. bombings’ The B.C. Peace Council has sent the following letter to all Member’s of Parliament in Ottawa: On November 21 the United States resumed the bombing of North Vietnam and since then has stepped up bombing activi- ties in Cambodia and Laos in complete disregard of world public opinion. In spite of Presi- dent Nixon’s professed desire to end the war it has been escalated and spread to new areas. As Canadians we deplore the continued support by our govern- ment of these criminal activities and appeal to you as our repre- sentatives to do what you can to bring about a change in attitude. You are in a position to make your influence felt by expressing, privately and in public, the horror and dismay which you must feel as the carnage continues without hope of an end. Will you let those American Congressmen who oppose their government’s foreign policy in South East Asia know they have the full support of Canadians in their efforts to end the senseless slaughter. | take, but I feel I first find out what the B.C. Fed. and the N.D.P. plan. It would certainly be helpful to me, and I’m sure others, if the Communist Party would publish a plan of practical, achievable, objective goals and tactics for these organizations. (Editor’s note: The Tribune has published two articles by Observer which dealt with this question. There will be another article next week. ) JOBLESS MARCH George Collins, Vancouver, writes: The Tribune described the march to Victoria rather well — a life-like description of unemployed citizens with B.C. Fed. sponsoring and leading the show. In its wake comes the voice of Big Business which by its very nature conspired to blackout its essential purpose, merely reporting what they wish to report, conceding very little of what really happened and what it was all about— a march for jobs. Along with it are actions of a few who were there to provoke ‘incidents’, or to brush up against the law, with law and provokers winding up on the other side of the fence — for Big Business. Later, voices which should know better gave a hand to the enemy. From the representa- tive for Atlin we hear words con- demning an important leader- ship of the march and the B.C. Fed which sponsored it. Mr. Calder is of native origin. Native people we know are VITAL READING The following books and pamphlet are available from the People’s Co-op Bookstore, 341 West Pender Street, Vancouver 685-5836. Revolutionary Adventurism — Lenin, (just arrived) a collec- tion of articles exposing the false positions of the Ultra-‘‘Lefts’’ of Lenin’s time. Valuable lessons for today’s struggle. 30¢ Radiant Sphere — Joe Wallace — a limited number of auto: Served from 1936 to 194 graphed copies are on hand. Poetry. $2.50. ‘ Hi Brother, Hi Sister. — Joe _ Wallace — a limited number of autographed copies of this small book are also available by Canada’s labour poet. $2.50. A number of the poems read on the CBU program, Jan. 30th, are contained in the above mentioned books of poems. Please include 5% sales tax and 15¢ for mailing costs. — mostly up against it for jobs. The facts of political life tells us that opportunities among B.C. natives would grow with the successful outcome of marches to Victoria— a phase of political activity that is part of public pressure. The Tribune readership realizes better than most the shortcomings of much of our local unions and often enough are not backwards in saying so. But the Tribune readers are also the most staunch backers of trade unions in our midst among workers and firmly believe that marches of political content are most effective with trade union sponsorship. We’re really not toosure at times if the New Democratic Party know this much of the fundamentals that make trade unions. We feel it is very unbe- coming for an NDP voice to take a right-wing stand, thereby lending strength to the enemy, Big Business, and its obvious lackeys in political power — now in government office. STEVE SARICH Anita Andersen of New West- minster has sent a $5.00 donation to the Pacific Tribune in memory or her cousin, Steve Sarich, who passed away January 14, 1971. Steve Sarich was born in Princeton in 1921 of hard working parents. He was no stranger to adversity and hard labor, made worse by his limited education, Mrs. Andersen writes. He had a wonderful spirit, and never gave up the struggle to make life better for everyone. He played the guitar and the accordion and when there was gloom and discouragement around, he soon had a party going and made everyone happy. He served in the active service plemees in Sicily, Italy and ; urope, and was injured by andmines on two occasions. He 5, and was awarded five medals for serving his country, He worked in the Yukon and in Penticton and Surrey. Rev. I.B. Roberts of the Oak Ave. United Church officiated at his funeral. Burial took place in Victory Memorial Park, White Rock. He is survived by two brothers and two sisters. Classified advertising COMING EVENTS UKRAINIAN CANADIAN Rast Pender St. ry as' VICTORIA MEETING Available for bancnstn cred: BRUCE MAGNUSON anes, esha Ser “ACTION for JOBS” ae held telaae, REGENT ree AUDITORIUM his THURS. FEB. 11 Custom Tailors and Ready-to- - FEB. Wear, 324 W. Hastings St. MU 8 P.M. 1-8456 of 4441 E. Hastings - CY 8-2030. See Henry Rankin for HALLS FOR RENT personal service. RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME DRY CLEANING Available for meetings, & LAUNDRY banquets and weddings at Also Coin-o reasonable rates. 600 Campbell LAUNDERE Ave. 254-3430.- 2633 Commercial Dr. CLINTON HALL, 2605 Bast eae ender. vailable for NEED CAR OR HOUSE IN- banquets, meetings, weddings, URANCE? ei Breas 253-7414, ag ee pa eee tr 4 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY—FEBRUARY 5,1971—PAGE 11.