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A shot of Bob Towle doing what he likes best—selling PTs.

How 'OI Bob Towle
fights for his paper

By JERRY SHACK
(Circulation Mgr.)

Bob Towle is a man of 73.
He doesn’t try to kid himself
about his age, nor does he try to

_©0nvince others of how young
le feels, Like most workers
Who have spent their entire life
Working for someone else’s good,

Ob feels every one of those 78
Years,

But there are times when he
feels better than usual — when
© puts on a pair of PT “sandwich
ards” and pounds the bricks
of Vancouver’s East End, selling
Tibs, Time was when he’d sell
@hywhere from 150 to 200 papers
® Week and think nothing of it.

Lately though (and Bob would
4 the first to admit it) he’s
Owed down a bit, For example,
PO. weeks ago his sales were
& Mere 50 copies and last week
© turned in the cash for 95.
(The Weather was quite good, he

Said, and this made it easier to
Sell),

As things turned out, it’s a
800d thing the weather wasn’t
le better because Ol’ Bob

aned the PT office right out

Copies — and bawled us out, —

2 the Process, To make a long
. TY short, and less painful for
Be We promised to have 200

8re copies set aside next week,

You see, what with the fine

weather and the PT engaged in
its 30th Anniversary Circulation
Drive, Bob just can’t sit at home

-and read or tend his garden, He

feels a compulsion to get
cracking, to get outon the streets

and introduce his beloved Trib
to the people of Vancouver,

A feeling that many younger
people would do well to emulate,

Because at the rate he’s going,
Bob will fulfill the Vancouver
East Press Club’s paper sales
quota all by himself — and that
means selling 1,000 papers
during the Drive!

The PT is fortunate in that we
have more than one Bob Towle,
There’s his fellow Club member
Tom Boylan, who sells 30 Tribs
every week at the mill where he
works and then goes out to give
Bob a hand, ©

And there’s Bob Clerihue in
Nanaimo, who gets 80 papers
mailed: to him every week of the
year, and sends back the money
for them once a month as regu-
lar as the Moon’s orbit of Earth,
The only time Bob C, cut his
bundle was recently when, due to
the beer strike and subsequent
beer parlor closure, he was re-
luctantly forced to reduce the
order to 40, :

There are others too — many
others, Staunch Trib supporters
who get anywhere from five to
25 copies every week and thus
help to keep their paper in busi-
ness,

They do this because they real-
ize that the very reason for the
paper’s existence is that the

people of B.C, should read it, |

should get the working class
viewpoint,

Yes, we have many . Bob
Towles. . .but not yet enough.
How about you? Are you doing
all you can to help promote
Trib sales?

If not, why not join the fra-
ternity?

How United Fruit Company

is strangling Costa Rica

Costa Rica holds third place

in world banana production and’

the plantations, production and
export are the monopoly of the
United Fruit Company (UFCO),

United Fruit is the biggest
landowner in the country, a real
«state within a state” directing
the country’s affairs as it
pleases.

Banana cultivation is, after
coffee, the second economic ac-
tivity in Costa Rica, But while
the growing and marketing of
coffee, despite certain problems,
brings the country a consider-
able amount of currency, the ban-
ana situation is quite different.
The profits from the banana crop
are purely and simply pocketed
by United Fruit,

According to delayed statistics
published by United Fruit itself
the exportation of bananas from
Costa Rica was 7,170623 stems
in 1961, with a value of $20,-
413,382. This was a drop from
the previous years; the priceofa
banana stem has also fallen,

During the last few years,
United Fruit declared its losses
in order to avoid paying taxes,
According to the agreement
signed many years ago by the
Jose Fugueras government and
John Foster Dulles, then U.S,
Secretary of State, the United
Fruit Company has stopped pay-
ing taxes on land, railways and
house property to the Costa Rican
government,

United Fruit runs its business
through its subsidiaries, La
Compania Bananera de Costa
Rica and theStandard Fruit Com-
pany.

According to the contracts in
force, La Bananera can plant
its immense fields or leave them
uncultivated, It can also cease
to exploit this land without losing
the right to ownership, It isalso
free to build railways in the
whole Pacific zone and to dis-

mantle them whenever it pleases,
Since it has the monopoly of pro-
duction, the company can also fix
wages to its own liking.

A Costa Rican banana enter-
prise was formed recently, fin-
anced by the national banking sys-
tem, The United Fruit Company
immediately declared war on it,
They used pressure and lowered
prices so that they broke down

this attempt at independent pro-
duction, : C

When La Bananera leaves a
region, after working out the land,
it takes away everything which
has been built by the company,
All that is left is an abandoned
population of sick people,
Stretches of totally worked out
regions exist today, This is
where the United Fruit Company
passed by.

Long jobless lines at Costa Rica Labor Exchange.

Canadian, Italian CPs
issue joint statement

A delegation from the Com-
munist Party of Italy, composed
of Senator G, Pajetta, Member
of the Central Committee and
head of the International Depart=-
ment, and Senator Conte, mem-

’ ber of the Central Control Com-

‘mission, held a joint meeting
with W, Kashtan, General Secre-
tary of the Communist Party of
Canada and members of the

Party’s National Executive and |

National Committee,

In the course of the meeting,
opinions were exchanged and ex-
periences discussed relating to

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the deeply felt common concern
of both Parties in the urgency
of the struggle for world peace;

.in particular, there was strong

reaffirmation of the condemna-
tion of the barbarous interven-
sion of UniedStates imperialism
in Vietnam, Concern was ex-
pressed regarding the serious
aggravation of the war danger in
the India-Pakistan conflict,

The need was emphasized for
strengthening action in defense
of peace and for reinforcing in-
ternational ties of solidarity as
between the broadest forces
working for peace in different
countries,

In the course of discussion of
problems of struggle against
monopoly, in defense of the in-
terests of labor, the Canadian
participants raised the question
of the protection of the rights
of Italo-Canadian workers, and
advanced the proposal of the
adoption of a joint Convention by
the Gevernments of Canada and
Italy, governing the transfer-
ability of social security benefits
and the safeguarding of the in-
terests of Italian emigrants to
Canada,

In supporting this proposal,
the representatives of the Italian

‘Communist Party expressed

their Party’s appreciation of the
efforts made by Canadian Com-
munists in combatting discrim-
ination and upholding the rights
and interests of Italians who
have emigrated to this country,

Both delegations expressed the
hope that trade and friendship
between the two countries would

-be further extended,

The exchange of views con-
cluded with warm wishes on both
Sides for a regular renewal of
such fraternal contacts and con-
tinued study of mutual problems
which constitute a fruitful and
constructive expression of fra-
ternal solidarity between the
Communists of Italy and Canada,

October 1, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 11

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