“Holding the Line”
— thattheme, rem-
iniscent of the
earlier labor strug-
gles in our pro-
vince’s and coun-

will mark this year’s drive to help
Keep the Tribune on top in 1984.

With the current round of attacks
on workers’ rights and living stand-
ards topping the agenda of employ-
€rs and a Fraser Institute inspired
Provincial government, that theme is
the most appropriate.

Holding the line also becomes the
ex Officio slogan for tenants, welfare
recipients, unemployed workers, min-

Socred legislation cutting GAIN

GREATER VANCOUVER
Bill Bennett. 800
Burnaby 5,800
Coquitlam 2,600
Kingsway 7,000
New Westminster 1,800
Nigel Morgan 2,500.
Niilo Makela 700
North Van. 3,000
Olgin 650
Richmond 1,400
Seamen 400
Van. East 10,500
Van. Fishermen . 800
West Side 4,000
FRASER VALLEY
Chilliwack 350
Delta 800
Langley 700
Maple Ridge _ 2,800
Surrey 5,000
White Rock 1,200

en

try’s histories, .

Orities, Natives and others who have
Seen legalized discrimination in

Campbell River 1,700
Comox Valley 1,800
Nanaimo 2,200
Port Alberni ‘1,500 °
Victoria 2,500
‘North Island 400

‘We're asking for $85,000
for the struggle in 1984

rates, cancelling rent controls and
abolishing human rights.

A growing peace movement has
been working overtime to hold the
line on the deadly spiral of the arms
race, whereby the U.S. Reagan
administration comes up with new
weaponry pushing the world closer

~ to the brink of annihilation, and the
federal government shamefully be-
comes a partner through allowing
testing of the cruise missile and oth-
ers, as yet unspecified war machinery
in Canada.

And we at the Tribune have been
striving to hold the line — not only
by covering and analysing the events
arising from those developments and
the struggle against them, but by rec-
ognizing that with cutbacks and
unemployment affecting many of
our readers and supporters, it’s time

Here are the targets

OKANAGAN
Kamloops 900
Penticton 600
Shuswap 750
Vernon 1,300

N. COAST/INTERIOR

to hold the line on increases in our ~
financial target.

This year, we hold the line at
$85,000 — the same figure as the 1
1983 target.

Even at that, we’re aware that the
figure represents a substantial request
for a readership with little or nothing

in the way of disposable income. Again, a major
commitment is asked of everyone who wants to
seek the working class and peace press continue

its course.

Actually, last year’s “85,000” theme turned
out to be somewhat prophetic. In 1983, a
crowd approximating and possibly exceeding
that number marched for an end to the arms
race in the annual Vancouver Walk for
Peace. Mass rallies of workers, students and

' citizens affected by the Socred’s notorious
July 7 budget came close to approximating
that number, and ushered in a new era in

Canadian politics with the formation
of Operation Solidarity and the
Solidarity Coalition. =~

That year also saw success, albeit
limited, in more than numbers. Bill 3,
the notorious Public Sector Restraint
Act, was put on the back-burner in
several public sector agreements. The
new rental legislation, and the bill
abolishing human rights were with-
drawn in the face of widespread,
solid opposition, The year also saw

limited success for
the Tribune, when
we reached our tar-
get with an eleventh-
hour: appeal at the
annual victory banquet.

This year, there is as

much a need to con-
tinue the “85,000” theme
as before. There’s the
real threat of new Socred
legislation with far-reach-
ing negative changes to the
Labor Code. And we can expect little
that is good in revised tenants” and
human rights bills also anticipated
shortly.

So there’s more than enough rea-
sons to “hold the line” the phrase for
1984.

In fact, it would be even better to
extend the line, pushing for gains in
rights and living conditions, and put-
ting the Trib financial drive over the
top for a successful 1984.

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