| CLug = OSS = SR eS 00 new subs. S$ SUB DRIVE ON Until November 15 we appeal to each of our faders and supporters to help us build circulation. Our target is 800 subs which will include at least What Can You Do? ~Renew your own sub promptly! ell a new sub to a workmate or friend! SUB DRIVE QUOTAS — VANCOUVER 4 Bennett oe dadway 30 Mtennial 10 Tank Rogers 25 aay 45 Niilg Make| = al 15 “McGuire 25 int Grey 15 r Chilliwack ve ; le Ridge 15 Bee 12 Urnab Cogy ¥ 30 F Yitlam Net Ind i: ew “x Pichngtinster i GLISLSILAVY STIOWV: DLISLSILAVY SIIOWVI Q | Gf d 5 m a BS S Quotas Achieved SOUTH FRASER Quotas Achieved Fort Langley 10 Surrey 60 White Rock 10 OKANAGAN Kamloops 12 Notch Hill 6 Penticton 9 Vernon 18 VAN. ISLAND Campbell River 20 Comox Valley 10 Duncan 5 Nanaimo 30 Port Alberni 20 Victoria 25 PROV. MISC. Correspondence 10 Creston 5 Fernie 5 North Vancouver 35 Powell River 8 Prince Rupert 5 Sointula 5 Trail 20 TOTAL 802 : FAMOUS ARTISTS LTD. S| QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 8,000 jobless in wood looking to IWA parley The Western Canadian Regional Council of the International Woodworkers of America meets in convention next week in Van- couver. This* convention of the largest union in the province opens at a time when the United States, western Europe, Japan, Australia and other parts of the capitalist world are showing all the symptoms of an economic crisis. Some 8000 B.C. woodworkers have been laid off, and reports indicate that the total will reach 10,000 before the end of the year. The official reason given for the fall-off in lumber sales is the sharp cut- back in the export demands in those same countries: The US, Japan, Australia and western Europe. Sixty-five percent of all lumber produced in this province is nor- mally sold in the American market. The drastic decline in housing starts in that country, despite the need for new housing, has resulted in severe cutbacks in B.C. lumber production. Western Europe, Japan and Australia, which were drawn into the orbit of US imperialism after World War II, are experiencing grave economic and financial problems and are increasingly coming into conflict with the US. These areas normally account for other 20 percent of B.C. lumber production. It is noteworthy that, in the early postwar years, all political parties in Parliament supported the policy of continentalism, trying our production and trade to US im- perialism. Only the Communist Party warned that this policy would inevitably lead to economic recession and loss of jobs. The current situation in the lumber industry is living proof of the correctness of the policy advanced by the Communist Party at that time. The IWA convention should call FAMOUS ARTISTS LTD. 24 & 25 AT 8:30 P.M. FAMOUS ARTISTS LTD. FAMOUS ARTISTS LTD. for an aggressive search for new markets in the socialist countries and the newly emerging states. It should also call for a massive onslaught on the Canadian housing problem. If the federal govern- ment would embark on a program to construct 300,000 low rental housing units annually, it would mean thousands of jobs for B.C. wooodworkers. The convention should demand the removal of the 11° percent federal and the five percent sales tax on building materials. It should also demand government action to provide mortgages at low interest rates. : The contract negotiations and strikes in the lumber and pulp and paper operations highlighted an anomalous situation. On the one side, we had a handful of monopoly concerns which directly exploit woodworkers in their integrated operations. On the other side are three unions: the IWA, two unions in pulp and a number of craft unions. If these three sections, particularly the IWA and the two unions in pulp, had presented a united front to the employers, greater economic gains would have been made by all unions. The employers were united; the workers were not. The convention should take a strong stand for a common front in negotiations comprising all unions in lumber, pulp and paper in- dustry. As the largest union in the province, the IWA can render a signal service to the labor movement by calling for the unity of all democratic forces, including the trade union movement, the New Democratic Party and the Communist Party to defeat the attempt of big business to return this province to big business rule. The trade union movement can play a leading role in this regard by stepping up its independent political action. The convention would also givea splendid lead to organized labor if it called for an autonomous trade union movement in Canada: a fully-integrated national energy policy based on Canadian needs: the development of secondary and processing industries: and an independent foreign policy based on detente and peaceful coexistence. Such policies, along with action to curb inflation and roll back prices on essential goods, should constitute the major objectives of the trade union movement. They are the policies of social progress as distinct from the policies on monopoly capital and their harm- ful social consequences. The IWA, as the largest trade union in the province, has a special respon- sibility to the trade union movement as a whole, to fight for their establishment. G. Legebokoff photo LARGE CROWDS visit the Soviet pavilion at the Spokane World's Fair every day. The pavilion, shown here, is considered one of the best at the Fair. Behind the huge map of the Soviet Union is a quote from the Soviet constitution which reads: “The land, its mineral wealth, waters, forests, factories . . . are state property. That is, belong to the whole CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING people.” COMING EVENTS October 5 — KEEP THIS DAY OPEN — North Shore Club Will Celebrate MEL BURRITT’S 85th BIRTHDAY, Saturday, October 5th, 8 P.M. at 832 Calverhall, North Vancouver. Admission $1.50 — Children 75c. Everyone - Welcome. OCTOBER 5 — 8 p.m. Celebrate 25th anniversary of German Democratic Republic, Unitarian Church, 49th Ave. and Oak St. Refreshments, speakers, en- tertainment. Admission $2. Auspices Canada GDR Association. HALLS FOR RENT RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME— Now available for rentals. For reservations phone 254-3430. UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE — 905 East Pender St., Vancouver 4. Available for banquets, wed- dings, meetings. Phone 254-3436. WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL Available for banquets, meetings, etc. For rates, Ozzie, 325-4171 or 685-5836. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1974—Page 11