It can-be done

Dear meader;

past WEEK I concluded my appeal to you
wich these words: “‘It can be done. The best
way of proving that is by doing it.”’

This week our Grandview press club has
proved that it can be done by raising $568 on a
quota of $550 — and our Grandview supporters
have no intention of making that
their final figure.

What’s more, another Van-
couver press club, Georgia, topped
its quota — $204 on $200 ae
just before the deadline. _ Let's
all give them a hand, shall we?

If you'll run your eye down the scoreboard,
as I do fifty times a day, you'll see that there are
some clubs. like Victory Square with $810 on a
quota of $1,000, that are within striking distance
of success. Unfortunately, there are others whose

Standing of press

GREATER VANCOUVER

PRESS CLUBS TARGET TURNED-IN SUBS PBs

Tom McEwen -_.-------- 100 50.00 =
Unpledged _-.--------- 550 ‘125.00 ¥

AdVANCe “oe ee utes $ 500 $ 346.00 55 2
Jp tied ORO NPV SoS os aS 225 30.00 2 1
‘Broadway Baie eee eho 296.00 44 4
Building Trades ....---. 275 139.00 8 2
Dry otk ee R15 10100 217" 2
East hend <5. ee 325 94.00 10 2
Elettricals = Se 350 240.50 10 5
Georgia’ 22. is RE 200 204.00 14 6
Grandview ------------ 550 568.00 20 9
Hastings East ~~~ .:-- “500 _ 233.25 ~28 5
Kitsilang 2 ee. 300 119.50 i 2
Kensington ....---.---- 450 190.50 17 2
Mt, Pleasant .< =. 2-- 3. — 250 143.00 16 3
Niilo Makela ____------ 150 15.00 § —
Wordnay fo eee 225 S705 18 2
Olpitis*S-3 Sc ee 200 iE) eee Gee
PONG Pat ok eee 50 20.00 2 _—
Point -Grey 233 - 325 244.00 20 4
Strathcona -_---.------ 200 99.80 8
Stitents. 2222-25-25 - 415° em
Victory Square ------- 1000 . 810.55 33 14
Waterfront __.--------- 300 «=«1%5.00 «98
West. End: 2250S 200 46.00 18 —
North Burnaby ------- 400 356.79 31 6
South Burnaby °_------- 400 327.00 31 5
North Vancouver ----- | 450 ce 7 :
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TOTAL $11,000 $6,221.56 575 90

poor showing jeopardizes the success of the drive.
We can only: reach our $18,000 minimum objec-
tive if everyone proves it can be done by doing it.

I had a most successful Easter weekend in
Powell River and with the good work being done
by our supporters there we raised $1775.

And here are the names of our Honor Press
Builders who have raised $1,471 between them
to date: Bill Hreherchuk, $237; Walter Bjornson,
$200; F. Politano, $170; Nigel Morgan, $120;
Hal Griffin, $116; Rita Whyte, $114; M. J.
Elder, $110; Vic, $105; Bert Whyte, $100; Mike
Rabik, $100; S.J., $100.

At the beginning of the year our press clubs
pledged themselves to get 1,000 subs by May 1.
Congratulations to you all on over-fulfilling the
pledge by 34 subscriptions. Once again we have

proved it can be done.
' Rita Whyte

clubs April 29

PROVINCE
PRESS CLUBS TARGET TURNED-IN SUBS PBs
Aldergrove 2 Ss S 75> S22 16 3
Cranbrook.) 32 oa 50 sete ee —
Semie: oo Se 100 aes 3 —
Fort: Langley 222 2-- 150 57.00 14 a
Haviey..2) 5 150 49.46 f —
Kamloops 2-332. =. 100 75.00 16 2
PaOner ton Se ee 150 pene q os
Maple Ridge -.-------- 125 54.69 9: —
Michel-Natal __--.___.___ 150 35.00 5 —
WESSON. 92 ee 100 50.00 7 _
Welson ctr ee SS 100 Spores \ i _
New Westminster _____- 475 eas00 10 a.
Notch 24 es 125 17.00 3 —
Powell River ss 250 182.91 22 1
Prince George ________- 15 ee 6 _
Steveston: <<. (357 50 26.00 2 _
NOMthaSrrey. ae se 175 70.50 16 1
South: Surrey, <2. 175 ae 2 —_
Trail-Rossland __._____._ 300 36.00 24 —
VeRMon on eS 200 135.00 7 2
Correspondence ________ 125 58.50 10 1
VANCOUVER ISLAND
Albernis: 22s o2s% 2 $ 325 $ 62.00 28 1
‘Campbell River -_-_-- 2775 152.67 8 4
Courtenay. = 200 ars 5 _
Cumberland --___---___ 150 94.00 18 2
Cowichan: 222-323. 350 172.50 14 3
Nanaimo ee = 650. 181.25 57 6
Parksville. 2.2 150 24.00 18 —
Victorias. 2-—- se 500 144.00 42 ° 2
Island Miscellaneous ___ 250 SS = ra
PROVINCE MISCELLANEOUS
Britannig ss $125 $ 26.00 2 1
Copper Mountain _____- 50 10.60 3 _
Grassy Plains 2__------- 25 Seas = ae
Prince Rupert’ ---.----- 100 112.00 5 1
Salmon Arm ~ 2. 75 35.00 4 1
Somtula $2) so 75 etme: b —
Unpledged =... 5 225 , 800 47 —
Tom McEwen ---------- 200 138 $052 == 1
TOTAL $ 7,000 $2,106.64 459 31
GRAND TOTAL $18,000 $8,328.20 1034 121

MAY 3, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 15

Union shop

big issue for

U.S. teachers

BUTTE, Mont.
A union shop agreement for
school teachers here has be-
come the focus of a nationwide
battle.
The issue, now pending in
the courts, dates back a year
when Butte School Board and

“Local 332 of the American

Federation of Teachers (AFL-
CIO), signed a contract includ-
ing a clause that required
teachers to belong to the union.

* Of 300 teachers affected only
eight refused to join the union.
They could not be dismissed
because they were protected
by the Montana teachers’ ten-
ure law. But the schoo] board
could, and did, withold from
these eight a $300 a year salary
increase negotiated by the
union.

The eight non-union teach-
ers then filed suit in the local
courts to compel payment to
them of the union-won salary
raise.

The Montana Educational
Association and the National
Educational Association are
seeking to intervene in the
pending trial on behalf of the
non-union teachers. The Am-
erican Federation of Teachers
seeks to enter the case on be-
half of the school board and
the loca] union.

This year a new contract
was signed, providing for an-
other $325 salary raise, with
some classifications to get
more. Another clause empow-
ers the union’s credentials
committee to “review the qual-
ifications and experience of
teachers . ... for the purpose
of placing them correctly on
the salary schedule.”

Again the non-union eight
are excluded from the union
benefits.

A week after this new agree-
ment was announced three of
the seven school board seats
were up for eléction. Two of
the three elected were union-
sponsored, retaining a six to
one labor majority on the
board.

Newsimen reject
Communist bar

LONDON

An attemp to bar Commun-
ists from holding office in the
National Union of Journalists,
met with crushing defeat at
the union’s recent Harrogate
conference.

An anti-Communist motion
from Wakefield branch was
voted down by an overwhelm-
ing majority amid hoots of
derision. Out of some 250 dele-
gates at the union’s annual
delegate meeting only three
raised their cards for the mo-
tion.

The motion drew so much
Opposition that the mover
finally sought leave to with-
draw the motion; but this was
refused and put the motion to
a vote.

HTM MOO WW Mn