rahe >, — OAs, 7 ee SS vA SSS % iy have to raise $3,333 by then. Yoq Whee] Ver it’s quota. NEED $3,333 LAST APPE THE BELL BY THE VICTORY y’ BANQUET JUNE 12 To make the banquet a real VICTORY BANQUET we still I This is a final appeal to all our friends to help us reach our oa If you have a five, ten or twenty dollar bill which you have eiorked for the PT, please rush it to the PT office now. If you ®some friends you haven't visited yet — do so without delay. Ifyou are a member of a Press Club put your shoulder to the in a last effort to make sure that your club will reach or go {DRIVE QUOTAS Get Your Tickets Now! far the PACIFIC TRIBUNE VICTORY BANQUET TANT SECONDS | Seu ot : One thousand students from Toronto high schools took their grievances to the Ontario provincial government last week. They carried slogans demanding “No more cutbacks in school spending,’’ “Lower student- teacher ratios,’ and ‘“Democratize the high schools.’ They protested also the hikes in cafeteria prices. ‘Field work or starve’ edict is condemned by union men Organized labor generally has condemned Surrey Mayor Vander Zalm’s ‘‘pick berries or starve,”’ edict. New Westminster Labor Council secretary John Hachey charged it is a municipal scheme to provide cheap labor for berry growers. The labor council voted unanimously to support CUPE’s position that welfare recipients, when found jobs, must be given the going union rate of pay. Berry picking, particularly in the strawberry fields, is a form of slavery. Eight - nine hours work nets even the most profi- cient picker a bent spine and not more than $10 a day, and for the average casual laborer, about $5 welfare recipients off the roles and into the berry fields. Mayor. Tom Campbell, as could be expected, applauds his stand. whole new pattern would be set: welfare costs cut, cheap labor rates, a backlog of hungry men and women at the gates willing to take ant job at any pay. But this is not the dark ages, not yet is it the hungry thirties. It was announced last week that the federal government would impose a surtax on fresh and processed strawberries imported from Mexico and the U.S. to give a measure of protec- tion to the B.C. growers. Last year Fraser Valley strawberry growers produced more than 15 million pounds, valued at $3 million. This year it is expected the crop will be around 13 million | pounds. makes a profit off the consumer. It is obviously not the grower, who takes the risks, or the Cost of ‘good life’ soars high again Be it a necessity of life or one of its frivolities, liquids in this province are in for one of the incessant price hikes. Milk and liquor prices are up. Milk from Dairyland sees an average increase of two cents a quart to both stores and on home deliveries, making the cost of the latter 38 cents. To consume the minimum requirements for health, the - family with three small children will be faced with a milk bill of from $12 to $15 a month. Families on welfare will be further than ever away from the pleasures of an occasional bottle of fresh milk. While the increases in liquor prices will benefit the pro- vincial government coffers a ALY whopping amount, (they o> aman estimate a profit of $70 million this year), the working man whose main relaxation is a bottle of beer will once again pay the shot for Bennett’s ‘“‘good life’’. Elizabeth Hill, national secretary Int : : Victory ae meantime, we look forward to seeing you at the peed so evs Se 3 Prices to the grower last year of the young Communist League, quet. plese eige S averaged .20 cents a pound, soit has been nominated as candi- ee grower, is trying to get Surrey) J oiig appear that someone date in the Ontario provincial riding of St. Adrew. She will cam- paign for bursaries for students who because of unemployment this summer will have difficulty Watch for sign on right hand side just past POPKUM HALL — to 1320 Trans. Can- ada H’wy East. From 12 NOON on. Play horseshoes, welcome. Ausp: Bill Bennett. NOTICES SOCIALISM! Pick the fruits BUSINESS PERSONALS REGENT TAILORS LTD.- Custom Tailors and Ready-to- Wear, 324 W. Hastings St. MU Clug ‘ aie worker in the fields who would meio heirs : G quotas AcHiEveo CLUB QuoTAS ACHIEVED} Other reactionary municipal : continuing their education, as | VAATER VAN. 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