——- Eighteen Communist and Workers’ farties have called a consultative meeting to take place in February to iscUuSS preparations for a full ternatiinal meeting of Communist farties. All parties are asked to support tis initiative and to take part in the geeting. The 18 have asked the Hungarian gcialist Workers’ Party to arrange he meeting in Budapest and to send at invitations for it. The full text of the statement on he meeting follows: In the decisions of their congresses nd leading bodies and in the course mutural consultations, a large umber of Communist and Workers’ ies have expressed themselves n favor of convening an sternational meeting of Communist yd Workers’ Parties with the “yirpose of strengthening the unity of je Communist movement and allying all Socialist and other fmocratic forces in the struggle gainst imperialism, for the national md social liberation of peoples and or world peace. ‘The Communist and Workers’ Yarties of Australia, Argentina, ulgaria, the German Democratic fepublic, the Federal Republic of Drive Objective Within Reach Renew your sub today! FINAL DRIVE RESULTS NEXT WEEK orld Comm unist eeting planned Germany, India, Italy, Mongolia, Poland, Syria, the Soviet Union, the United States of America, Finland, France and Czechoslovakia, which participated in the consultative meeting held in Moscow in March 1965, have had bilateral consultations among themselves on the question of preparing the ground for another international meeting. On the basis of these consultations and in conformity with the views and desires expressed at the March 1965 meeting, the above-mentioned parties have found it expedient to convene a consultative meeting in February 1968 with the purpose of collectively exchanging views on the question of convening an international meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties. We call upon all fraternal parties to support the initiative aimed at convening a consultative meeting and to participate in such a meeting. Our parties have requested the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party to make it possible to hold the consultative meeting in Budapest. The Central Committee of the Hungarian Party has given its consent and will send the appropriate invitations to the fraternal parties. 1a oe. a Sere ee ee en Organize a Party & Bring Your Friends to the PRE-NEW YEAR'S FROLIC to be held FRIDAY — DECEMBER 29TH AUUC HALL — 805 EAST PENDER ST. (Door — 8:30 P.M.) * DANCING 9 P.M. to 1 A.M. * BUFFET LUNCH served 11:30 P.M. Adm. $3.50 per Person. Sponsored.by: Ass’n. of United Ukr. Canadians FR SFR ESR SRR ETA NTR SK GR RGR SA GIO ISR IOGEAR GEESE: 3) i ° SUNDAY — DECEMBER 31ST Serving 7 — 10. Dancing 9 p.m. — 1 a.m. Music by: John Rennie & Co. _- Advance Tickets — $3 each. At the Door — $4 each. AUSP: Van. Local 55 — Finnish Org. of Canada NEW YEAR’S EVE CABARET CLINTON HALL 2605 E. Pender St. Van. Vancouver's Mayor Tom Campbell and City Council will not soon forget the Eric Hamber High School Auditorium capacity meeting of citizens last Thursday. With Mayor Campbell and City Council on the platform, there to listen to the collective voice of the people, some twenty-seven representative spokesmen for civic, cultural, planning, ratepayers, university, political and other groups made their views known in briefs and supplementary speeches, in opposition to City Council decision to approve construction of a freeway as a solution to Greater Vancouver’s growing transportation problem. Of the twenty-seven representa- tive speakers who addressed the capacity audience, only one, from the Downtown Business Associa- tion, voiced mild approval of the Council’s decision to construct a freeway; a decision which, according to Professor W.G. Hardwick, (U.B.C. Department of Geography ), ‘City Council had opted for transportation planning rather than City planning’’, a decision the professor described as a *‘whimsical post-mortem’’. The first brief to be presented to the gathering was that of the City Committee of the Communist Party, ‘presented by City Secretary Charles Caron. The brief was received with evident audience approval, and in essence expressed the tone and content of the majority of all briefs and other supplementary views presented to the meeting. In a later interview with the Pacific Tribune, following the public rally, Caron stated that as Mayor FILM TO AID GRAPE STRIKE Vancouver IWA local 1-217 is sponsoring the showing of the movie, ‘‘Huelga”’ (Spanish for strike) at the IWA Hall, 2859 Commercial Dr., on. Monday, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. A representative of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, (AFL-CIO) will speak briefly on what is happening in the present strike and nation-wide boycott at the Giumarra Vineyards Corp., in California. Contributions or donations of $1.00 for adults and 50¢ for students will go the striking farm workers. Campbell had promised at the meeting of Dec. 7 that he would ask Council to reconsider their discussion and decision on freeways, that, ‘‘The City Council, should, in our opinion go much further than reconsidering its previous decision. They should, as we called for in our brief along with every other submission, rescind their previous decision on freeways. ‘City Council would thus open the way for a comprehensive study in co- operation with other municipalities concerned. A new study must show the kind of vision of Vancouver that was eloquently outlined by a number Public protest shakes council freeway policy of speakers at the Dec. 7 meeting. It would therefore be most useful if the Council would enlist the help of the organizations which participated at the open meeting in the compiling of a new survey.” Vancouver PTA Council representative Mrs. Betty Greenwell voiced opposition to the projected freeway routes and the inherent increasing dangers to the health and lives of school children. Cassair Ratepayers Association chairman Jim Cork emphasized, as did other speakers, that hundreds of homes would be eliminated should Council’s decision stand. IN FOURTH WEEK. Photo shows young pickets carrying weather-beaten “On Strike” signs at Capital Wires plant on Annacis Island. Thirty-one members of Lodge 692, International of Machini have been on strike for four weeks after a 90 percent strike vote. Strikers are demanding wage increases of 40¢ an hour each year for the next two years, as well as extended vacations and job security. ‘The Milestones’ present A NEW YEAR'S BALL FISHERMEN’S HALL — 138 E. 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