WAY IN HALF PT D RIVE , $10,675 IN — V & § Rita T Lynas $ 7a ith $125, B. Turner, M. Issaac Ver Tt “Quar, pies ® and Mission are close to hee Kamloops, Penticton, a }) MY should b Ju St One month left — let's ( 4 ONE MONTH TO a oy the drive we have 15 honor press builders (who of Paul he or more) and winners of the souvenir record- — obeson at the Peach Arch. Honor press builders @ Nickyforuk $532; John Klim $500; N. Morgan $436; eee 07. M. Rush $230; N. P. $206; L. R. $200; D. + E. Skeeles $155; J. Person $141; B. Padgham | ota, non is the first and only club so far to go over the their Orth Vancouver, Peter McGuire, Van East, Victory Poj = r - aint Grey, Timber, Centennial, New Westminster, Rich- @ at this point in the drive. SPEED THE DRIVE $13,325 TO GO _ J. Tanche and the Hansons all their goals. nd Trail are well behind where not waste any time. MAY DAY “ Cont'd from pg. 3 Biting, an ye™ents as an equal liticay Be ne on intensified 10n. Similarly, it will be lidarity a Nib international if qr” center the different trade -hadian tr S of the world if the | me Bree Union movement is if neteign b and united, if it is a F wstacle ody free of the many He g nPosed by organic ~S With the AFL-CIO es “4 In the US. poemens Pendent trade union Hye N the fe Canada will not fie Member 8 of solidarity with ; ne Unidn 1p of the American hi sa DDor Movement. Instead De tunity for fraternal p p) yn position of the American trade union members who are striving to break the power of the dominant right-wing leadership of the US trade union movement will be strengthened considerably. May Day 1974 in British Columbia should bring a new determination to leave no stone unturned in order to achieve unity in the many class battles that will take place before the year is over. It should also bring a new deter- mination to step up the all-sided economic and political fight-back against the cruel effects of in- flation. The USSR’s agricultural. output in 1971-73 was about 85 per cent of the U.S. annual average; for Nation ws Pill emerge and the VICTORIA C IFIC TRIBUNE SOCIAL ace 4810 Sooke Rd. °att MAURICE RUSH AY ™Orgasbord Dinner Un, s May 12 — 2 p.m. Admission $2. cotton, it was 90 per cent; for grain, 81 per cent. The 1951-73 rates of agricultural growth were four per cent for the USSR and 2.1 per cent for the U.S. Comparing the rate of industrial growth of the U.S. and USSR, for the period of 1951-73 shows that the average rates of growth were 9.7 per cent in the USSR and 4.6 per cent in the U.S. P _ ORT ALBERNI RCifie +. Ic Tribune Banquet © honor YOHN SENKIW Sat, May 11 °ngshore Hall Cocktails. 7 p.m MAY DAY GREETINGS to our readers & supporters Please help us achieve our tar- get in the current press drive Surrey Club CPC aa > MAY Day We: bi “dge to carry on the GREETINGS dream of our late comrade Bill tewa, 't to j sae s 0 Its realization for peace and socialism ‘SOUTH FRA ‘\\_SOUTH FRASER REGION GPC Unity in wood IWA member writes: The latest issue of The Barker (April 1974) published by Local 1- 217 of the International Wood- workers of America, contains an interesting but confused editorial on the issue of one union in wood. Here are some quotes: “UPIU leadership is unwilling to fight and the Canadian Pulp Union doesn’t know how to fight.’ “The ultimate objective, of course, must be the building of one union in wood. The IWA with over 50,000 members in Western Canada, and constantly growing, has nearly four times as many members in the same area as both of the pulp unions put together. Such a union therefore has to be built around the IWA.” The recent vote by 52,000 Canadian members of the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) to set up a national union marks a high point for organized labor in Canada. The new union will be fully independent -of the American union and will have the sovereign right to run its own af- fairs, including the right to issue charters and to merge with any other union in Canada. This is more than we can say of the IWA in Canada, which is part of an American union, with headquarters in the U.S.A. In my opinion, the perspective should be for one trade union in Canada for all woodworkers, pulp and paper workers and allied occupations. Such a union should be purely Canadian, maintaining close fraternal relations with our American brothers and sisters and with the trade union movements of other countries. It is harmful for the IWA to issue an ultimatum that “WILLIAM STEWART FUND AT $300 Latest donors to the current PT drive in the, memory of William Stewart are: John and Alice Person [G. and A. Kaario] $70; Andy Lee $10; Stan and Sylvia Lowe $10; Mr. and Mrs. Yurichuk $5; Peter Gidora $20; John and Rita Tanche $10; Jack Treleving $10; Stan and Olive Padgham $5; Wilf Lennox $2; Axel Oling $5. ‘The fund now totals $300. OBITUARIES ALOF OBERG The progressive movement lost a longtime supporter with the death of Alof (Ed) Oberg on April 12 at McBride, B.C. Ed Oberg emigrated to Canada from Sweden in 1926 and took up residence in the Vancouver area in the 1940’s. He worked most of his , adult life as a trapper in the Goat River region of B.C., and as a construction worker. He was a member of the Pile Drivers Union till he retired seven years ago. An active supporter of the Pacific Tribune and the Advocate and B.C. Workers News before it, Ed Oberg lent his time and financial assistance to numerous causes of working people. He was 72 at death. MAX HONEY The Pacific Tribune was sorry to learn recently an old supporter of the ‘Communist and progressive movement, Max Honey of Salmon Arm, B.C. passed away recently. Ina letter from his mother who is still going strong at 92 and now lives at Port Alberni, we were - informed that Max passed away at Kamloops Hospital on March 9. The PT extends sincere con- dolences on behalf of the staff and friends. ’ the only road to unity is ‘‘join the IWA or else. ...” The, Barker ~ editorial, for example, lays down that in the event of astrike by IWA members in B.C. this year, pulp mills, where the other two unions are certified, cannot be allowed to run on material produced by IWA members. In other words, there is an indication that moves may be made to close down pulp and paper mills through picket line action. This writer would be the last to argue against a joint approach in negotiations and _ collective bargaining by the three unions in the wood, pulp and paper industry in B.C., particularly in view of the advanced’ centralization of ownership and the high degree of integration. However, the best way to achieve this kind of unity is through the working out of a common program of action mutually acceptable to the three unions, and not through one union trying to use its muscle against the others, irrespective of the wishes of the other unions and _ their members. - In my opinion, the officers of the B.C. Federation of Labor should be requested to do everything possible to assist in creating thé conditions whereby the three unions can establish a sound and voluntary Jacking it up basis of working. together for common objectives. Bill 31 Alex Huculak, Hedley, B.C., writers in part: Attending a meeting in Princeton sponsored by the Princeton Chamber of Com- merce on Bill 31 I found out it had been misrepresented over the radio which said NDP MLA Bill Hartley was to be there. Bob Mathews, a geologist and president of Granby Mines and Mr. Bissett, president of the Similkameen Mine in Princeton had the meeting salted with their stooges crying doom for Princeton. Finally at the conclusion I asked them what they did with the tailings from the mill, to which they said that question did. not apply to Bill 31. The foreign mining companies came into B.C. and took the cream off and left nothing but pollution and cemeteries full of miners who died from silicosis. A comparison between the U.S. and Soviet economies shows the following: In. 1950, total USSR production was less than 30 per cent of that of the U.S. But in 1973, that ratio had changed drastically: total USSR production was 75 per cent of. that of the U.S. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Sn a A COMING EVENTS WANTED May 5 — Burnaby Dance Arts Society presents CANADA THROUGH DANCE, Queen Elizabeth Playhouse, Sunday May 5, 1974 — 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission $2.00.. Tickets avail. Vancouver. Ticket Centre Eaton’s Stores or at the Door. MAY 11 — SOCIAL and DANCE, 8 P.M. - 12 MIDNIGHT (Dancing 9 P.M.-?) 600 Campbell Ave. Spons. by: Federation of Russian Canadians. May 26 — Gidora’s — 6714-148th St., Surrey. FIRST ANNUAL HORSESHOE PITCHING tournament and pancake break- fast. Prizes for winning team. Entry fee, $2 per team. Pre- registration by phoning 594-9371. Refreshments. Come and play, watch and eat good food. Fun starts 10 a.m. Proceeds to PT. FOR‘SALE COLORADO SPRUCE FOR SALE. Only 10 left $5.00 each (4 ft. high) Phone 594-4073. Proceeds Tribune Drive. BLIND MAN looking for old gramophone records. Phone 325- 6954. MOVING — SPRING CLEANING? Wanted: materials for resale. Proceeds PT drive. PH. 526-5226. Room and Board. for Single Man, 3109 W. 3rd Ave. Phone 733-9235. Readers in Burnaby area who wish to contribute to PT drive phone 526-5226. HALLS FOR RENT UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE — 805 East Pender St., Vancouver 4. Available for banquets, wed- dings, meetings. Phone 254- 3436. RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME — Now available for rentals. For reservations phone 254-3430. WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL — Available for banquets, meetings, etc. For rates, Ozzie 325-4171 or 685-5836. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1974—PAGE 11