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success. It has been such means
that have dominated all major
policy and decisions at recent
CCF conventions.

The CCF provincial executive
did not trust alone to such
machinations nd sent three
representatives to the CCF
West Kootenay nominating
convention. By one of these
representatives acting. as chair-
man at the conyention they
were able to refuse acceptance
of Mr.
and tp adjourn the convention
when the majority voted to up-
hold the nomination. Ouly by
such maneuverings were the
provincial executive able to pre-
vent the West Kootenay CCF
organization from nominating a
single candidate who would
have received the united sup-
port of progressives in this dis-
trict. After adjourning the con-
vention the representatives of
the provincial executive then
called a rump convention of so-
called ‘loyal’ CCF’ers to nom-
inate a candidate against Mr.
Herridge.

Realizing their actions would

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Herridge’s nomination

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not be popular, the provincial
executive have now resorted to
the time worn last resort of
red-baiting in order to cover the
treachery of their bankrupt
policies. In their pitiful attempt
they are now aspiring to raise
from the hbattle-torn ruins of
Hurope one of the main weap-
ons of Hitler and his criminal
Nazi henchmen that was blast-
ed to pieces by the victorious
allied armies in complete unity.
Such policies can only divide
the people at a time when

world reaction, defeated in its
centre of concentration, Nazi
Germany, is again trying to ad-
vance the interests of special.-
privilege to return to condi-
tions of the past.

Many people will remember
Mr. Herridge’s firm support of
collective security, of his oppo-
sition to shipping scrap iron to
Japan in the past, his support
of the organized labor move-
ment, his support of all meas-
ures for unity and complete
destruction of fascism during
the war, and will work for his
election at this critical time.

H. DRAKE

~ paper has so consistenly advocated . .

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Press Drive Report ee

HIS week’s column is going to be a report to the troops about the
phenomenal success of OJ]? Bill’s press drive committee. This may.
not seem so hot to the gent who wields the blue peneil but it will un-
doubtedly meet with the approbation of the circulation manageress. And
I know. the field workers scattered throughout B.C. (and Saskatchewan)
will be more than interested to know how we made out.

As far as our column is concerned, the committee we have organized
im this drive is by far the best that ever tackled the job of making our
quota. We made the quota of subs set for us by the Drive Committee
30. We decided to double that quota and succeeded in doing so just by
the skin of our teeth. We got our 60. ;

We were not asked to raise any cash but we garnered in $86.50 in
straight donation; $104.00 from the sale of dance tickets and $80.25 from
a couple of raffles. A bottle of rum donated by Cora Phillips, realized
$49.00; a dollar or two more than the bootleggers were asking on
VE Day $270.75 is real honest-to-God .money. Since we had no cash
quota we set one for ourselyes—$1.00—so figure: the percentage: for
yourself. Altogether, it was a labor of love well rewarded.

The committee was the biggest in numbers that has ever helped
OV Bill te do his duty to the paper. Some of the members only sold
one sub.; some merely sold a few tickets for a raffle or dance, but
the aggregate of their efforts may only be described by using the
adjectives of the Hollyweod publicity experts.

Here are their names. Some are well-imown and popular ones;
others not so promineut: but all are worthy of being spread on the
record, which is the only reward they get for doing a goed job and a
thorough one.

Mickey Connolly; Harry Pearl: Cora Phillips; Nerman Hiebert;
Melvin Ronan; Chuck and Bud MePhee; Elgin Brown; Mildred and
Ronnie Liversedge; Joe Dekowsky; A. Oberg: Joe Keenan; Tommy
Barras; Ethel Eyans: Jack Sutherland; M. Maukedahl; Matt Hasz;
Andy Draper; Nellie Popovich; May Ansell; Kuzma Kosoff; Winnie
Williams; Audrey Lawson; Norma Coffee; Ronnie Sparks: Wera
Smith; Nancy Hamilton; Harry Molland: Johny Johnson; Jack Mc-
Nulty; Gladys Nelson; Old Man Bingham; Mary Gavritsky; Floyd’
Anderson; Mary Leamy; Andy Drapont: Jake Anderson; Al Dew-
hurst; Anker Gilstead; Joan Tornblad: James Thomson; Nellie Mc-
Kean and Jack Higgin.

There may be one or two (or three or four) of my pin-up girls on
this list but that is not the reason for their names appearing here.
Towards the end of this column, when you read what Jack Phillips says
about the P.A. you will understand why they are on this committee.
Many of them, by the way, are also doing their share of the work on
other press committees throughout. the province, for they are not all
city slickers.

Acknowlegements

I am taking this opportunity also, to acknowledge the cash ‘dona—
tions sine this is the only acknowledgement some of the donors will get:
:J. Mulligan, $1.00; J. McNaughten, $2.00; Jack Sutherland, $2.00: Eric
Inglis $1.00; T. Fallowfield, $5-00; Jim Black, $25.00; Jock Haining,
$1.00; Cora Philips, $2.00; Fred MacNeil, $4.00; E. Mitchell, $1.00: T-
Blake, $1.00; Nellie Popovich, $1.50: Frank Bobby, $2.00; A. Hengstler,
$1.00, H. BE. Oberg, $1.00: N- M., $2.00 Pete Skehor, $2.00: Mrs. Lam-
Mutch, $1.00; J. Harnett, $2.00: L. Goldthorpe, $2.00; Weber, $5.00: Jim
mede, $2,00; Jim Beynon, $1.00: Mrs. Dixon, 50¢; C. Webster, $3.00: E.
Campbell, $2.00; Antonsen, $1.00; Dick Swain, $2.00; Wes Publicover,
$2.00; A. Friend, $1.00; Tich Griffin, $1.00: Harry Molland, $1.00; A. M.,
$3.00; D. Kerr, $1.00; Margaret Gardner, 50c; Jake Hintsa, $1.00.
Total $86.50. : .

A Boost From Germany

THE Phillips family shows up very well in the committee. Cora’s

donation, subs:., and ticket selling was a swell performance and her
old man who is now in Germany, and whose breezy and informative
-letters appear in the P.A., sends his donation too and a letter ef appre-
ciation with it.- His donation is “eine mark” in Hitler “kaput money.”
It is not of much use for paying printers’ bills but the Spirit is im the
donation. It is a souvenir of the victory over reaction.

The following quotations from his letter will help to explain why
all those friends of the P.A! went all out to make the drive a. success and
why they got the results they did. :

Jack says in part: “I am convineed that the line of action your
- is not only correct but of vital
Significance to all thinking British Columbians. You have been the
most consistent opponents of reaction at home and abroad and. your
policies of yesterday are the practical everyday policies of all progres-
Sives today--:-. . :

“As to the quasi-socialist press with their Steeves, Weavers and
Winches . . . we can debit them for sowing: endless confusion and dis-
ruption and worst of all, making it very difficult to tmite the forces of
labor and progress for the attainment of practical realizable goals in the
national and international fields. :

“Your shock brigades. armed with subscription books are doing
more than selling another paper they are introducing a vital force
for progress to their fellow British Columbisns. If a man or woman
has sold one five. ten. or more subs to the P.A: that person can
truthfully say. “I have seld shares in the greatest investment of ali
—the future of our province and COUNTY:

“This is no bankers? paper that bandies with slogans of democracy
and equality, but the organ of the most vital forces in the province in
the day-to-day fight for true democracy and equality for the people.”

_ That is the driving force which Spurred on the Ol’ Bill committee in
this drive.