Appeal for day’s pay
to boost press drive

The PT Drive is half over. By now, we should have
- raised $9,000, but, as can be seen from the drive report
on the right, we have raised only $4,700.

Obviously, a big push is
heeded if we are to overful-
fill our quota by May Day
and thus insure the continued
publication of our paper.
While we don’t want to ap-
pear panicky, the situation
does warrant striking a note
of alarm, as last year we had
received $5,700 at this stage
of the campaign.

Some individuals have done
outstanding work, by and
large, too many press clubs
have not yet thrown them-
selves wholeheartedly into
the drive, despite the fact
that a fair upsurge was felt
following Editor Tom Mc-
Ewen’s open letter in the last
edition of the PT.

The press committee at its
last meeting decided to ask
all supporters to donate a
day’s pay to help take up the

slack and commended the
South Surrey, Campbell
River, Cowichan, Grandview.
and North Burnaby clubs for
having reached half their
quotas.

At the same time, it point-
ed out that Vernon, Nelson,
Powell River, Prince Rupert,
Bayview, East End, South
Burnaby, Frank Rogers, West
End, Georgia, Niilo Makela,
Norquay, Point Grey, and
North Shore are below the
average, and will have to de-

vote special time and effort -

in order to catch up before
it’s too late.

It will require correct plan-
ning and plenty of hard
work, but the task is one
which simply must get done.

Contact your friends, neigh-
bors and work mates for a
donation NOW.

“ Close-Up’

protested

Cont'd from page l

its own affairs. Any support

“Our attitude to the raid
by the Steelworkers’ Union
on the Mine-Mill union is that
it must be condemned as
weakening Canadian labor.
This opinion is shared by
thousands of trade unionists;
it is not the opinion alone of
the Communist Party.

“These Communist  opin-
ions are public property and
are well-known. The C.B.C.
has full opportunity to ob-
tain these opinions from the
publications and officers of
our party and we would wel-
come having them debated on
C.B.C. or anywhere else with
spokesmen of our Party.

“Of course, it would not
have served the sensationalist
ambitions of the C.B.C. to
make these points clear in its
‘Close-Up’ presentations.

“Your purpose obviously
it wins from the public, whe-
ther union members or non-

union, members, comes from -

support of its publicly-advo-
cated policies. The C.B.C. is
fully aware of this. Yet not
once during the hour long
program was this fact brought
out by the C.B.C. interview-
ers. These policies include
opposition to the raiding of
one union by another, no
matter what these unions
are.”

Asserting its legal right as
a party, the letter continued:
“As for the Communist Party
organizing branches of _ its
supporters, this is the right
and duty of every political
party, and to attempt to make
the organization of a party
club in Thompson, Manitoba,

BRITISH SITDOWNERS. This photo,

something ‘subversive’ is an
arrogant assumption by the
C.B.C. of the right to tell a
political party what it must
do. We repudiate any such
assumption by you of any
such ‘right’.

“Our stated policy is the

_organization of the Commun-

ist Party whenever and wher-
ever we can,.and the winning
of new members and support-
ers under all possible circum-
stances.
“Our attitude to trade un-
ions is, that they are demo-

cratic bodies of working peo-~

ple, whose members decide
their policies.
was achieved: to misrepresent
the Communist Party, to use
the artificially created cur-
rent anti-communist feeling
to harm the Mine-Mill union,
and to use the enormous pub-
licity powers of the C.B.C. to
intervene in a very difficult
and critical labor situation.
“We submit that the public-
ly-owned C.B.C. has no right
to do anything of the sort.
By so doing you are setting
up the C.B.C. as an arbiter of
public opinion, a judge of
political opinions, a prosecu-
tor of a political party.
“The C.B.C. is under heavy
attack from powerful private
interests. The Canadian peo-
ple support it- because they
are rightly suspicious of cor-
porate wealth being in charge
of avenues of public informa-
tion. Last night’s ‘Close-Up’
has weakened the C.B.C.’s
prestige. It did a disservice
to Canada, to Canadian dem-
ocracy, and to the Canadian
labor movement by its shame-
ful use of McCarthyite meth-
ods,” concludes the letter.

airmailed to the PT

shows some of the thousands of sitdowners in Parliament

Square, London, demanding “stop the tests.’’
arrested and many of them fined. :

1,172 were

THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH! TO ME

PERIOD OVER!

OUR OBJECTIVE BY MAY DAY

Let’s
All
Pitch In!

Greater Vancouver

CLUB Quota
Advance ________ $350
Bayview 8 995
Broadway ___.___ 300
Cedar Cottage __. __ 200
Dry, Dock _______ 350
East End _______ 275
Frank Rogers ___ 350
Georgia = 3 150
Grandview __ __. 500°
Hastings East ___ 600
Kensington ____ 525
Maritime ________ 700
Mt. Pleasant _____ 300
Niilo Makela ____ 150
Norquay ________ 400
Olgin = 2 See ee 175
Point Grey ____ __ 250
Strathcona Se 00
Students __ __ 65
Victory Square __ 400
West End ____ __ 175
North Burnbay __ 500
South Burnaby __ 350
Edmonds, Burnaby 250
North Shore ____ 750
City Miscellaneous 1,350
Unpledged .____ 1,435
City Total _.__11,500
Delta
Fort Langley ____ 250
adver ===. = 195
N.W .Industrial __ 300
Steveston’_.__ _. 150
North Surrey __ _ 275
South Surrey __._ 225
~<Whalley. > = S000
TOTAL = 52 243525

Achieved

$151.00
33.00
135.50
88.00
106.00
30.00
2.00
10.00
250.50
293.50
232.75
306.00

143.75
14.00

60.50
78.00
35.00
144.50
25.00
172.00
34.00
264.00
78.50
56.50
179.25
441.78
35.00
3400.03

77.00
10.00
79.00
20.00
51.00
1435.00
40.00
422.00

_ WE URGE:

e All Press Clubs
sfep up the Dri

possible

delay.

DRIVE QUOTAS

Dewdney |
CLUB Quota Ach
Haney -
Maple Ridge __. 325 $
Mission. =- == 7100 3
TOTATG 2 2s 4-425
Vancouver Island
Albernis __-.._ 350 4
Campbell River __ 150 88
Cumberland __ ._. 200 6
Cowichan __ __ 300 19
Nanaimo __ _ __. 400 10
Parksville _...... 75 1
Victoria: 22 *=. = 400 6
Saanich __ __.. 250 3
TOTAL... 2... 22757
Okanagan Region |
Kamloops __ __. 100 . uy
Notch Hill __ _. 150 1
Vernon __. __ 200
TO RAT <-89 450
Province General
Michel-Feriie _-.. 125.
Nelson ee eS 50
Powell River __ 200
Prince Rupert __ 100
Somtula.. ==" <=) 1100
Trail-Rossland - 300
Correspondence __ 225
Tom McEwen’s
Column= =. 100
TOTAL  —... 1,200 24
Province :
Unpledged . 750 9
Province Total ._. 6,500 1,2

City Total __ 11,500 34°
GRAND TOTAL 18,000 4,67

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‘March 30, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE