Bringing our message
\fo thousands this fall

In just one week, commencing September 22, the Tribune will
begin its annual fall circulation drive. For three months, until
December 22, we will call on our readers and supporters throughout
B.C. to join in a campaign to significantly increase the readership of
Our paper. ;

Our circulation drive is not for the sake of the Tribune itself, but
for the movement which our paper serves. And this year especially,
with the tremendous challenges facing the labor movement, hun-
dreds and thousands more Tribune readers are needed. :

In the course of the struggles facing labor this fall, our paper will
find-its way into the hands of thousands of people, many of whom
are searching for a paper like ours that will fight for their interests.

We have set an objective of winning a minimum of 200 new
subscribers during our three months drive. It is a modest target that
we hope to surpass. :

In addition, there are about 750 Tribune readers whose subs
become due for renewal during the drive period. We want to use our
drive-to renew these subs as well.

Please, join our drive and help us bring our message to thousands
More people this fall. Subscription books are available from our of-
fice, or you can use the sub blank which appears each week on page’
12. Of course, extra copies of the paper are available on request.

To add some friendly competition to the drive, the Tribune will
award prizes to the top three new sub getters. Top prize will be $65:
library; second prize a $35 library; and third a $15 library.

. And as in past years, we expect a vigorous competition among the
Press clubs for the drive shields, awarded to the club in Greater Van-
couver and in the Province with the outstanding performance during
the sub drive.

We will keep you up to date on the progress of the drive right up to
December 22. We’ll need your help to cheer the drive on, but most of
all we need your help to sell the new subscriptions and renew the old
ones that will make our drive a success.

Fall sub drive target:.

200 new readers

economic positions.

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700 renewals _)

CHK Invitation

You are cordially invited to attend a reception and concert to
honor 60 years of friendship between fraternal Associations of Canada
and the USSR. |

The reception will also greet 25 distinguished visitors from all
Patts of the USSR on a tour of Canada. Among them are some
outstanding attists who will perform during the program.

There will also be an art and pictorial display.

All are invited to attend this very special evening, October 4,
1978, 7:00 ies in the Ballroom of the Georgia Hotel, Van-

couver, :

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with Tickets Still
George Hewison, Available At:
Tom O'Neill, $6.00

Chris Urbanski Vancouver Ticket
and others ah
Refreshments, geste ra
Food, =
Admission $2. SEPT. 17 — 8 P.M.

SAT., SEPT. 23
RUSSIAN HALL
600 Campbell Ave.

QUEEN ELIZABETH
THEATRE

Door Tickets: $6.50 '

A record breaking 16,000 participants marched in the 1978 Labor Day parade in Toronto. The annual
march to the Canadian National Exhibition was preceded by a mass rally at city hall square where
speeches were heard :from NDP leader Ed Broadbent, OFL president Cliff Pilkey and Metro Labor Coun-
cil president Sam Fox. In spite of the big turnout, however, the spirit and militancy of the parade was
dampened as the demand for labor action was lost amidst electioneering for the NDP.

Strike against Somoza
defies army repression La°)(4'7

Continued from page 1
occupation, which ultimately led to
Somoza’s capitulation to FSLN
demands, touched off a con-
troversy within Nacaraguan ruling
circles and the National Guard.
Certain sections of those groups

' felt that Somoza could no longer

maintain his rule and joined in the
demand for his resignation, hoping
to preserve their own precarious

The FSLN had attempted similar
tactics in the past but this was the
first time Somoza had granted
their demands and other leading
anti-Somoza forces apparently
supported the FSLN this time
around. :

The immediate response of t
Nicaraguan business and military

‘community was the attempted

coup reportedly uncovered by
Somoza. He claimed National
Guard officers were involved in a

. plan to unseat him and moved

immediately to imprison them.

Since that time, a Broad Op-
position Front (FAO) was formed
to organize and conduct the
general strike. Among its more
recent supporters are the many
chapters of the Chamber of
Commerce which represents many
small businessmen and
shopowners. —

The Chamber has recently
supported many anti-Somoza

actions and sentiments but until

recently it had not supported
strikes and other militant actions

Vancouver AUUC
School of Dance,
Music & Language

805 E. Pender St.

Still Time
To Register!

Boys and Girls 3 years and up
welcome to participate. in a
variety of classes including:

Folk Dance * Piano
: Mandolin
Balalaika * Guitar
Ukrainian Language

Vancouver — 8 °°.
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carried out by trade unions,
progressive political parties and
the FSLN.

In the general strike earlier this
year, it did not endorse the action
until stoppages by workers forced
many shops to close. And this time,
it was several days after the initial
strike actions before the Chamber
moved to take part.

As: support for the strike con-

_tinues to grow despite the

repression unleashed by Somoza’s
National Guards, the question of
how long the doctator can maintain
his rule becomes ever more timely.
Democratic sources within the
country declare that without
assistance from U.S. advisors and
the CIA, he would have already
been deposed.

Last week, members of the
FSLN seized Radio Mundal in the
capital city of Managua and
broadcast a call for a general
armed uprising against Somoza.

In a report from neighboring
Cost Rica the following day, the
Soviet news agency TASS said:
“Many areas in Nicaragua are the
scenes of bitter clashes between
the National Guard and the San-
dinistas and the general
population. But despite bloody
repressions unleased by Somoza’s
National Guards, who are being
directed by U.S. advisors, the
Nicaraguan dictator is unable to
break the will of the people to
continue the strike.

Marty Smith, B.C. provincial
secretary, Young Communist
League, writes: The latest
proposals by the federal govern-
ment to reduce the number of
unemployment insurance
claimants by 10 percent or some
263,000 people is a direct attack on
the youth of Canada. Employment
minister Bud Cullen made this
crystal clear when he said, ‘‘we are
in fact excluding those who have at
least a tenuous and marginal at-
tachment to the work force.”
These are in the main young people
and students just entering or re-
entering the labor force or those
seasonally employed.

The intent of Cullen’s measures
are to force young people to accept
low paying jobs, or in his own
words, ‘‘to accept jobs now paying
close to the current level of
benefits’. In effect the alternatives
will be welfare rates or extremely
low paying jobs, if lucky enough to
find one.

The UIC cutbacks are an attack
against the whole labor movement,
but the specific discrimination and
hardship they will apply to young
people is a point which can not be
overemphasized.

It is significant that while the

. federal government is cutting

millions from UIC payments, it is
spending millions on military
expenditures such as the 14 new
leopard tanks and the $2.3 billion
fighter planes.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING —

COMING EVENTS

SEPT. 24 — Public conference on
issues raised at the 11th World
Festival of Youth, 1978, Sunday,

“Sept. 24, 10:30 a.m. Hastings
Community Centre. All
welcome, lunch available.
Festival slide show will be
shown.

SEPT. 30 — Cabaret night. Come.
and celebrate Harry Bird’s 75th

' birthday and see slides from the
llth World Youth Festival. 8
p.m., 535 East Broadway. Music,
dancing, food and refreshments
for $3.50. Sponsored by . the
Kingsway Club. :

SHEET METAL WORK
Reasonable 277-3352.

MOVING? CLEANUP? — Wanted.

articles for resale. All proceeds
to P.T. Phone 526-5226. ‘The
. Goodie Bin’’.

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

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

UKRAINIAN CANADIAN
CULTURAL CENTRE — 805

BUSINESS PERSONALS
For info phone Dianna Kleparchuk — — East Pender St., Vancouver.
879-2089. ROOF REPAIRS Available for banquets, wed-
. Reasonable 254-5836: + dings, meetings. Ph. 254-3436.
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