a 4 1975 FINANCIAL | VANCOUVER BillBennett 1250 100 Broadway 1150 534 _ Kingsway 1500 121 Niilo Makela 650 115 - Olgin 400 15 "eter McGuire 1500 Van East 2700 1109 Victory Square2000 921 Amor deCosmos 250 Sointula 100 om's Column 500 250 NORTH FRASER Burnaby 1505 Coquitlam 750 WWestminster 750 56 Richmond 600 97 EAST FRASER Fraser Valley 450 Maple Ridge 400 811 _ Point Grey 500 Timber Indus 400 68 _ South Van 750 69 Fraser Indus 450 95 Mission 650 150 FF TO GOOD START DRIVE QUOTAS SOUTH FRASER Fort Langley 550 Surrey 1500 395 White Rock 650 90 OKANAGAN - Kamloops 150 Notch Hill 100 Penticton 150 Vernon 600 — VAN. ISLAND Campbell River 550 15 Comox Valley 450 Duncan 200 Nanaimo 1000 Port Alberni 650 Victoria 900 Misc. A 500 _ Mise.B 500 350 150 50 300 300 500 6 207 Correspondence 69 _ Creston : Fernie Powell River Prince Rupert : Trail TOTAL $7,500 With a total of $7,576-in-on the ancial drive by April 8, the early lations are very positive. The idence with which we entered . Campaign is being borne out. e € is no longer any doubt that 4 $40,000 target can be achieve by ne 14, j The Success of the financial drive With the supporters of our a - Send your donation early help us keep up the pace “Wuired to raise $40,000. # * * neha can be said about the Mendous contributions of aunch supporters like Mike peers. A pensioner for some Ts now and with a meagre in- Me of his own, Mike arrived at Tribune office on the first day € drive with $1,100. Then there ag perennial giant of the press Mi €, Steve Nickyforuk. Steve has Sed $700 so far in the drive. Roy ana Mary Samuelson have fonait — sted $500; and Lorne Robson ee folen dollars f very year Oo the Communist press in in first has turned in $420. Nigel Morgan is up there with $361 in while Maurice Rush already has $278 collected. Rita Tanche has raised $250 so far and both Emil Job and Barbara Stewart have turned in $200. The selfless efforts of these people and a great number of others gives us good reason to be confident. A partial list of other major contributors would include Hamish McKay with $180 in; Dorothy Lynas, $170; Fred and Barney Hansen, $168; Grace Tickson, $150; Mike Freylinger, $150; John Tanche, $140; and Mike Rabic, William Cunningham, Jim and Mary Beynon all with $100. * * * Many special efforts will be required to make our drive a successs. And for those who, like the people listed above, have at- tempted special efforts, recognition is called for. This is the reasoning behind a new°feature of our press drive—the ‘‘$400 Club.” A pledge to raise $10 for each year of the Communist press in B.C. qualifies any Tribune supporter for membership in the club. Nigel Morgan, Maurice Rush, Lorne Robson, Barb Stewart, Dorothy Lynas, Rita Tanche, Peter Gidora and Dave Werlin are among the initial members of the club. Watch for further in- formation on the $400 Club. * * * A large part of the financial drive each year is the Tribune contest ticket. This year it is the biggest contest ever with three major prizes. First prize is a 1975 Ford Mustang. Second prize is a 1975 Zenith 20” color TV. Third prize consists of $200 worth of food at the store of your choice. The tickets cost $1.50 each and come in books of 12. You can buy tickets from Tribune supporters or from the Tribune office. If you can help sell the tickets, contact us at 685-8108 and we will send you some tickets. Sell 10 and keep two for free. |_| MMT LTA i Manitoba NDP convention indicates right swing growing rank and file disen- chantment. : There is a general support for the Schreyer government’s program By HAROLD DYCK The Manitoba New Democractic Party held its thirteenth annual convention in Winnipeg from February 12 to 14. : Billed as a policy review and development convention, major stress was laid in pre-convention publicity upon six panel discussions. The subjects of the panels were: Ownership — Public, Private and/or Co-operative; . Social Development; Equality of Condition, Diversity of the In- dividual; Growth, Progress and Development; Relationship Between the Government, Party, and People; and Working Con- ditions. The intent of this convention was to establish a policy framework for constituency discussion, for finalization at next year’s con- vention, to become the NDP platform in the next provincial elections, likely in 1977. Vital to this over-all discussion was the panel on the Relationships Between the Government, the Party, and the People. A widespread complaint in the NDP has been that generally the government of Premier Ed Schreyer has paid little attention to the decisions of the annual con- ventions. This is reflected in 8 days The contest ends on June 14 at the Tribune Victory Banquet, being held this year at the Renfrew Community Centre in Vancouver. * * * This coming Sunday, April 13, the first major public event of the drive will take place at the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse. The ‘‘40th Anniversary Benefit Concert” will be the first of its kind in some years and well worth the $3.00 admission. Watch the columns of the Tribune for up-to-date information on public events in your area. The main burden of the drive is carried by the about 40 clubs in B.C. The clubs need your support. Attend the event sponsored by the club in your local area. eee | w RICHARD HUGHES, business agent of social legislation, such as Autopac, Pharmacare and so on. But there has been no real challenge to the power of the big monopoly corporations in Manitoba. What is emerging is increasing criticism of the government’s tendency to move to the right, away from many of the party’s basic principles. An example of this'was labor minister Russ Paulley’s contention that there are dangers in the govern- ment being too pro-labor, in doing tco much to establish favorable conditions for workers. One delegate criticized these tendencies severely, saying: “People in the party are starting to feel alienated from the govern- ment. They don’t see any dif- ference between this government and all the others. I’m getting tired of hearing them say they must be pragmatic. Let them have some heart for a change.” An even more serious reflection of the danger that the NDP was moving away from working class policies lay in Premier Schreyer’s address to the convention in which he reaffirmed his support for some form of wage and price controls. In the ‘last federal election similar statements by the Premier un- dermined the federal NDP’s correct position that any form of wage controls, with or without price controls, constituted an at- tack on the living standards of working people. Peace rally April 19 A public meeting is scheduled for Saturday, April 19, from 2 - 4 p.m. at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1895 Venables, to discuss recent developments in the nuclear arms race and the urgent need for progress toward nuclear disar- mament. A part of this meeting will be concerned with reports from delegates who attended the recent Conference For a Nuclear Free Pacific in Fiji. The B.C. delegation to Fiji was led by James Douglass, author and spokesman for “‘Pacific Life Community’’. ; The B.C. Provincial Government furnished financing for an ad- ditional delegate to the Fiji Con- ference. Reverend Peter. Rolston, MLA, Dewdney, also will speak about the grave implications of the Trident submarine base which will be built at Bangor, Washington, just 60 miles south of Victoria. The Saturday meeting is one of the activities. planned recognition of ‘‘World Disar- mament Week’’, which has been designated for April 14-21 by the United Nations Special Non- Governmental Organizations Committee on Disarament. In British Columbia, the ob- servance of World Disarmament Week is being sponsored by 12 members of the Provincial Legislature, including Hon. Eileen Dailly, Hon. Graham E. Lea, Colin Gabelman and Rosemary Brown, of CUPE Local 686 on strike at CK LG, holds cheques totalling $607.61 in 11 university professors and a number of prominent Vancouver citizens, including Dr. Hugh Keenleyside, Brian Gunn, Ald. Harry Rankin, Dr. Dante Lupini, Dr. Katherine Mirhady, as well as T. C. Douglas, M.P. This occasion also is being sponsored by some 20 church, labor and community groups, including the Outreach Church, the B.C. Federation of Labor, Van- couver & District Labor Council andthe Vancouver Branch of the United Nations Association. EDITORIAL Cont'd from pg. 1 to take any effective action to deal with it. There is no reason to believe the new budget will take the kind of action needed unless public pressure is stepped up. ° Ottawa must be compelled to undertake immediate and long range policies which must include a massive housing program and action to put the jobless back to work. . Recently the Communist Party of Canada called on the Canadian Labor Congress to take the initiative to bring together Canadians in every city and province and across the country to form ‘“‘Committees of Concern’’ to pressure Ottawa to act. Such initiative is now overdue and should be acted on without delay. presented to the strikers by Union Train following their benefit concert, March 22. With Hughes outside CKLG are Larri Freeman (with picket sign), Jim Thomas, president of Union Train (beside Hughes) and Karl Kobylansky, Union Train’s musical director (far right). Union Train is also expanding and is looking for tenors, basses and altos as well as instrumentalists (guitar, banjo, string bass). If you're interested, phone Sean Griffin at 685-8108 (days) or Jim Thomas at 291-1771 ( eves.) Auditions will be arranged. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1975—Page 11