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Thank You for $ 25,973

WEEK SEVEN: Almost $5,000 came in last week as we
head for the home stretch in our financial drive. But we still
need another $28,000 by June 24. . . So, please, don’t stop
now. ;

One of the reasons we’re doing so well in our drive is the
number of public events that have been organized around’
the province. Even now, there are no less than eight events .
for our drive advertised in this issue. : ty

You can support our drive and do your own constitution a
bit of good by joining in the fun at one of the events. In
particular, don’t miss Vancouver’s ‘‘Press' Dance next
Friday. With skits, dancers, singers and a good band all
- lined up, all that’s needed is your attendance to make it a
rousing success. : :

June 3, the second annual Burke Mountain Folk festival at
George Hewison’s estate in Coquitlam, is looking as if it
may draw hundreds of people. Among the performers lined
up are Tom Hawken, Kobzar Dancers, Bargain at half the
pe: Kalina, Morrison Creek Symphony and a bunch of
others.

So come on out and enjoy yourself. You’ll be welcome at
any of our drive events. . :

CONGRATULATIONS to Vancouver East club, first club.
over the top with $4,185 turned in. Congratulations as well to
Sointula, Creston, Notch Hill and Penticton, all of which
Surpassed their targets this week. .

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F.1.S.T. delivers its main
blows at labor movement

Traditionally, at least since
before the Hollywood blacklist of
the 1950’s, movies with trade union
themes have been confined to short
runs at cinemas around the
campuses. Good films such as
Harlan County, USA, a _ well-
made, low budget documentary on
the 1973 Brookside miners’ strike

‘in Kentucky and Union Maids,

about union organizing during the
Depression, rarely run for more
than a week.

It’s refreshing, therefore to see
two recently released features,
F.1.S.T. and Blue Collar showing at
the larger theatres and bringing
out more people. Sylvester
“Rocky” Stallone plays the leading
role in F.LS.T., the story of the
establishment and growth of a
Teamster-like union among
truckers and warehousemen;

Richard Pryor in Blue Collar,

about the tribulations of a trip of
Michigan auto workers.

Both movies attempt to deal with
leadership corruption and un-
democratic behavior in the union
movement. Both remind viewers of
the importance of unions as a
means whereby working people
can further their interests. The
final impression, however, is as
different as the scope of publicity
and financing available to the two

productions.
Stallone plays Johnny Kovak, a
Hungarian immigrant and

warehouseman who becomes an
organizer in the late 1930’s for the

F.I.S.T. — the Federation of In-
terstate Truckers. Because of his
exceptional leadership abilities
and his early concern for
democracy on the union meeting
floor he becomes quite popular
with the rank and file.

There are a number of stirring
moments in the film. In the
screening this reviewer attended, a
great cheer arose from the packed
house when, at a bargaining
session, a defeated management
relents and signs a contract after a
bitter campaign by the union for
fringe benefits. At one stage,

Kovak is accused of being a ~

“Bolshevik agitator’’ by the
particularly corrupt national
president of F.1.S.T., played by
Peter Boyle.

Later, however, as Stallone
comes to occupy more responsible
positions in the union, he makes a
number of backroom deals with the
Mafia. It is at this point that the
film meanders into an exploration
of union leadership corruption
which is less than satisfactory.

Undoubtedly there exist union
leaders who choose to line their
own pockets at the expense of their

. members. But this doesn’t mean

dismissing the union movement as
a whole. Yet that is what director
Norman Jewison and co-writers
Stallone and Esterhas end up
doing.

Despite the presence in the film
of good union men like Abe Belkin
(David Huffman) who are critical

Rush to speak on peace

Communist Party provincial

leader Maurice Rush will speak out
on important international
developments at a special public
meeting May 30 in Vancouver.
, The public meeting will be held
at the Library of the Britannia
complex, rooms one and two, at 8
p.m. Britannia is just off Com-
mercial Drive at Napier Street.

Rush will focus his remarks on
the need for action to end the arms
race, and in particular with
Canada’s role at the special United

Nation’s session on disarmament
that commences May 23.

Other subjects to be discussed at
the meeting include:

e the progress of the Strategic
Arms Limitation Talks and the
danger posed by new nuclear
weapons such as the Neutron
bomb.

e the new agressive, militaristic
foreign policy posture of the
Chinese government, reflected by
the recent visit to China by British
militarists.

of Stallone’s methods, one gets the
impression that Jewison and his
colleagues affirm the inevitability
of corrupt unions supported by self-
seeking workers.

Hence we get the final scene with
Kovak, his underworld connections
revealed by a Robert Kennedy-
type investigation, coming out of
the Senate doors to a thunderous
welcome by F.I.S.T. members.
Because of that the film is unable
to bring out the usefullness of the
trade union as an important
vehicle for furthering the cause
and interests of working people.

Nick Faria

CAN.-USSR ASSOC.

invites you to

MAY FILM FEST
AND MEETING

SUNDAY, MAY 28
805 E. PENDER, VAN.
~ 2PM. - 8:30 P.M.

Full of activities
for the whole
family... hefty
snack at 5 p.m.

GARDEN PARTY

and film showing

“WHITE LAAGER”
SALMON B-BO, MUSIC

Sun. May 28, 2-7 p.m.
3043 Parker Street

(Bill & Maggy McLeods)
$5 Adults, $3 OAP and
Unemployed, $2 for
Children under 12.

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Proceeds to Tribune
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COMING EVENTS

MAY 20-21 — YCL Weekend School
at Webster’s Corners Hall.
Subject: National Liberation
Movements around the world.
For more information phone 732-
5480.

MAY 26— Social and dance 9 p.m.,
Fishermen’s Co-op Hall, Savoy
St., Dalta. Refreshments.
Tickets $4.00. Reservations
phone 946-9902. Proceeds to
Tribune drive.

MAY. 27 — Saturday, May 27
Banquet and Dance at the
Russian People’s Home, 600
Campbell Ave. Banquet at 6:30
PM Dance from 9 - ?

MAY 27 — Saturday, May 27,
OPEN HOUSE — Well. . . come
on and. . . join us. It’s John and
Elsie Rutka’s 25th Anniversary.

3 PM to ? Dinner, refreshments |

and entertainment. $5.00 adults,
at 1856 Como Lake Ave.,
Coquitlam. Informal, no gifts
please. All proceeds to the
Tribune Drive.

MAY 28 — Sunday, May 28 at 1 PM
at U. Soderholm, 12279-252nd St.,
Maple Ridge. Come and have
dinner with us at $3.00 ea. All

proceeds to the Pacific Tribune
fund drive.

MAY 28—A Social Evening will be
held at the home of M. E. Had-
vick, 316 North View, Chilliwack,
Sunday, May-28. Slides of Cuba
1978 will be shown starting at 7
p.m. Refreshments and lunch
served. All welcome. Collection.
Proceeds to the P.T. fund drive.

MAY 28 — Canada-USSR Associa-
*tion May Film Fest and Meeting,
Sunday, May 28 at 805 E. Pender
St. 2 p.m. Brief business meeting
and discussion. 3:30-8:30 film
showing (break for hefty snack
of borscht 5-6 p.m.).

JUNE 4 — Social evening among
friends at Vernon and Monique
Brown’s, 12127-95A Ave., Surrey
at 7:30 PM. Professional singer,
good snacks and refreshments.

9:30 PM a 50 minute GDR film of .
the revival of fascism in West —

Germany. Admission $4.00. All
welcome. Proceeds to the Press
Drive.

BUSINESS PERSONALS

MOVING? CLEANUP — Wanted
articles for resale. All proceeds

to P.T. Phone 526-5226. “TH: .

GOODIE BIN.”

BUSINESS PERSONALS

READERS IN BURNABY AREA
wishing to assist in the Tribune
financial drive — donations,
banquet tickets, ph. 526-5226.

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

ROOF REPAIRS
Reasonable .

FOR SALE

One wedding dress, size 16.
254-5836.

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

‘HALLS FOR RENE

254-5836

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

East Pender St., Vancouver.

Available for banquets, wed-

dings, meetings. Ph. 254-3436.

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