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By JERRY SHACK
(Circulation Mgr.)

On Septem-
ber 15, the Pa-
cific Tribune
and its friends
and supporters
will kick off the
~ > annual circula-
} tion campaign,
or Fall Sub
ee Drive. For a
beriod of approximately two
months hundreds of people all
Over B.C. will be selling
Papers on street corners and
Plant gates, ringing doorbells
and generally doing what they
Can to introduce B.C.’s leading
labor paper to many new faces.

&

This year, to help make the
Job of these volunteer P.T.
boosters easier, we will be
Making a Special Offer during
the campaign period. Details
of this offer will be announced
Next week — so watch for them!

Proposed quotas have been
Sent out to all areas for dis-
Cussion and press clubs from
all over the province have

Started responding to thepro-
Posals,

In this connection we'd like
to point out that Sept. 1 was
ne deadline for clubs accept-
ag or amending their quota,

any club that hasn’t con-

Cted us yet should do so
Without delay,
ane nerally speaking, the
‘ ing of the press committee
aes of, to use a much-
oe term, “cautious op-
pees With the historic

Circulation Drive

yew

opens Sept: 15

gains rolled up by B.C.’s labor
movement this year, with the
new spirit of militancy in the
air, we feel the opportunity
for registering good gainsand
solid growth is present.

On the one hand, the ripening
of conditions of peaceful coex-
istence and continued thawing
of the cold war are working
in our favor. Many people are
coming to realize that the pol-
icies for which this paper has
fought so long and so con-
sistently are what isneeded to
further social progress inour
province and country.

On the other, wide circles

of people are becoming gen-
uinely alarmed at the cancer-

ous growth of fascist elements
in the U.S. and their Canadian
counterparts. Not only are
they becoming alarmed -— they
want to react to this develop-
ment in a positive fashion.

Taken all in all the situation
is one in which, given a high
degree of devotion and enthus-
iasm, a breakthrough for the
P.T. and forces of the Left
generally is possible. But the
WILL to do this is also necess-
ary. And that’s where our
friends and supporters come
in.

Next year, the P.T. will be
celebrating 30 years of un-
broken publication — a feat
unmatched by any other B.C.
weekly labor paper. The best
way to mark this historic
milestone is to put the paper
on an even more solid footing
by increasing its circulation.

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Soviet gains ‘disturbing’?

Canadian-born Roy Thomson —
now known as Lord Thomson of
Fleet — has just returned from a
visit to the USSR. Below we publish
excerpts from a British Daily
Worker editorial which expresses
some opinions on Thomson’s im-
pressions of life under socialism.

Britain’s latest Press Baron,
Lord Thomson of Fleet, has come
back from his recent visit to the
Soviet Union extremely im-
pressed and very disturbed, The
Russians, he said in the Sunday
Times, “are making amore rapid
industrial advance than is gener-
ally realized in the West,”

Since his previous visit 18
months ago, “signs of progress
stand out in every direction,” On
his tour with Khrushchov “there
was enthusiasm everywhere; no
one could mistake this for an
‘arranged’ reception,”

With a distinct note of envy in
his voice our press lord told us
“the ordinary people’s attitude
to K, is unique, They admire and
respect him, yet are in no way
awed by him,”

A woman cook took Khrush-
chov by the arm into a canteen in
a remote spot, “It was a com-
pletely natural gesture—he might
have been her favorite uncle—and
it seemed to me it could never
have happened just that way to a
man of such importance in our
own country,”

It is, of course, laughable to
think of anyone in Britain regard-
ing Sir Alec Douglas-Home as

their favorite uncle, But Lord
Thomson perceives that this is
not a question of personalities,
but of a social system,

“I came away profoundly dis-
turbed by the character of this
challenge and the present weak-
ness of our position,” he con-
cluded, “If we are to meet the

‘challenge of Communism there

must be a change of emphasis in
our lives, We must put the na-
tion’s good above our own selfish
interests,”

Coming from the man who said
that his ownership of Scottish
Television was like “having a
licence to print money,” this is
interesting advice,

Lord Thomson admits that

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Communism “puts the nation’s
good” above selfish interest,
while our system does not, So he
appeals to management andtrade
unions in Britain to reform them-
selves and become unselfish,

If employees of Lord Thomson
work harder, what is the result?
They put more money in his
pocket, They enable him to extend
his press empire still further,
The “nation” does not benefit,
Lord Thomson does, The work-
ers do not own the plants they
work in, He does,

This is the elementary differ-
ence with the Soviet Union, The
workers there know that they are
the owners, They are not ex-
ploited by millionaires,

To the jungle warfare of capi-
talism in which the Lord Thom-
sons come to thetop and the
slogan is “Every man for himself.
and the devil take the hindmost,”
the Soviet Communists counter-
pose the slogan of their party
program: “Man isto man a friend,
comrade and brother,”

This is the source of Soviet
strength, Thereisno secret about
it. :

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