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DELUGE OF
MAIL WARMS
OUR HEARTS

ur postman is getting round-

shouldered lugging in the
Pacific Tribune mail these
days. Scores of letters are
piling up in our “letters to the
editor” box, and we on the
PT staff are seriously consid-
ering publishing a full page of
letters every week,’instead of
every second issue, as at pres-
ent.

This isa heart-warming sign,
for it shows that our readers
regard the PT as their paper.
Every letter is read and the
suggestions made for improv-
ing the paper are discussed by
the editorial staff, Many are
adopted. Not all letters can
be published (our space is lim-
ited) but we attempt to print
as many as possible, even if
in condensed form.

One letter in every three
contains a contribution to the
press fund drive. We: know
that many of these donations
represent a real sacrifice on
the part of the sender.- The
best way we can express our
thanks is to strive harder than
than ever to publish a better
paper each week — a paper
that will constantly. extend its
influence throughout B.C. as
a fighting-champion of the
people.

Here’s one letter — just one
— picked from the mailbag
this week. The spirit it re-
presents is typical of all our
Supporters who. are truly the
salt of the earth, the hope of
the future.

A. G. Grant, ef Whonnock,
writes: “Enclosed please find
money order for $5, as My
semi-annual donation to-
wards your press drive. I
pass my copy of the Pacific
Tribune on to non-subscrib-
ers, in, the hope that they
will subscribe themselves. I
am helping to keep alive a
half-dozen other progressive
publications, all my income
will stand.” :

Take a gander at the column
on the opposite side‘ of this
page, and you'll notice that 36
contributors have now become
Press Builders — that is, they
have sent in $25 or more to
the drive. We hope to have
250 PBs by May Day. During
the first week in May, the
Pacific Tribune will stage a
Chinese banquet for all Great-
er Vancouver Press Builders
— and for any from other
points who are able to attend.
There'll be no tickets sold for
| this banquet—but only holders

of 1951 PB buttons will be ad-
mitted. Want to be our guest?
Then get busy and become a
Press Builder! , f

A group of PT readers in
‘Cedar (near Nanaimo) have
banded together and hired a
local hall for two nights, one
in March and one in April.
Whist, bingo, dancing and
such. Proceeds to the press
campaign.

~ $17,500 BY MAY |

3 life-long blacksmith, now a
brilliant labor editor, pre-
sided over the last session of the
fourth convention of the Labor-
Progressive party,’ wrote J. B.
Salsberg, in his trade union col-
umn yecently. The man he re-
féerred-to, of course, was Tom Mc-
Ewen, editor of the Pacific Tri-
bune. _ sites a
Tom began his apprenticeship
in a blacksmith shop at the age
of 15, in Scotland. Wien he came

‘to Canada he worked as a black-

smith on the prairies, and helped
organize the first prairie local

From blacksmith |
to labor editor

of the International Brotherhood
of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and
(Helpers, Local 22, In 1922, while

still \orking at his trade, be be-.

gan his journalistic career as
editor of The Furrow, first left-
wing farmers’ paper.

_On Friday, April 6, Pacific Tri-

bune readers will have the op- -

portunity of paying tribute to
Tom McEwen’s long years of
work in the labor movement, at
a 60th birthday celebration in
Pender Auditprium. There'll be
a fine musical program — and a

short talk on the press by Tom.

O MORE KOREAS!

ANKEE warlords have launched “Operation Killer” in Korea,
and are driving northward towards the 38th parallel — where
many of the young “killers” will be killed. Among the victims
of MacArthur’s mad scheme will be young Canadians. Some of
them have already fallen in battle.

The Pacific Tribune, expressing the true voice of the Canadian
people, calls for a halt to this slaughter in Korea, and supports
the World Peace Council’s Appeal #o the United Nations, which
places as Point One this call to end the war in Korea:

“In view of the fact that the war now raging in Korea is not
only bringing incalculable disaster upon the people of Korea, / but
also threatens to become a general war, we demand the cessation
of hostilities, the withdrawal from Korea of foreign armies, and
the peaceful settlement of the internal conflict between the two
parts of Korea with the participation of the representatives of the
Worean people. We demand that the. problem be dealt with by
the Security Council in its full composition — that is, including
the lawful representatives of the Chinese People’s Republic.

“We call for the termination of the intervention by armed
forces of the U.S. on, the Chinese island of Formosa (Taiwan)
and the cessation of hostilities against the~Republic of Viet Nam,
military operations which also carry the threat of world war.” ‘

The Pacific Tribune is the only paper in British Columbia
which fights for peace. Yiour dollars, donated in the current PT
press drive, are urgently needed to enable the paper to reach new
thousands of people with this peace program. WILL YOU help?

_ DRIVE TOTAL |
$2,024.65

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