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' The 59th anniversary of
ternational Women’s Day will
marked in New Westminster
id Vancouver with social events
great public interest.

Sunday, March 2 the New
estminster annual celebration
ill get underway at 2 p.m. at the
eamland Hall, Church Street
ith a musical program and
freshments. Speaker will be
speth Munro Gardener who
ll speak on the ‘‘The Status of
omen.”’

The Vancouver celebration will
t underway at 1 p.m. on
nday, March 9 at the
Grandview Community Centre,
390 Victoria Drive.

_ Feature of the program will be
est speaker Eunice Parker,
ose subject will be ‘‘Canada’s
Women and NATO”.

There will also be afternoon
tea, international bake sale, a
book display of particular
interest to women and children
d other items, including a
Musical program.

City, Westminster mark
International Women’s Day

Proceeds will go to Canadian
Aid to Vietnam Civilians.

The general public is cordially
invited. For information about
the Vancouver celebration phone
Mrs. Tillie Collins, 255-0958.

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Admission $1.50

Social Evening

SATURDAY, MARCH 15th —

at Hadvick’s:

316 North View St., Chilliwack
Come & Enjoy the latest slides of
CUBA & MEXICO
by BERT & JO ANNE NEILSON
Dancing — Refreshments — Supper 11 P.M.

8 P.M.

Everyone Welcome

‘BUILD THE PT’

BOB TOWLE, Vancouver: The
organs of mass communication
are controlled, both financially
and editorially by the ‘‘captains’’
of the Canadian monopoly power
structure. By such overwhelming
control of the information media,
illusions of democracy, and
notions of national affluence, are
diligently cultivated in the public
mind.

The fiction is put forward that
the majority of Canadians live in
relative affluence. If it were not
for the Tribune what and who
could expose the fact that most of
our people live in a state of
constant siege against the
creditors, and almost one third of
our population live beneath the
official poverty income level?

We are fed the assumption that
our standards of health services
are amongst the highest in the
world. If it were not for the
Tribune what organs of
information would bring to light
the fact that in Vancouver alone
we need at least 10,000 new
hospital beds, and that as a
consequence people must strive
to arrange their periods of acute
illness to fit into the grossly
inadequate hospital schedules for
admittance? Indeed if people
cannot arrange their periods of
illness thus, they risk needless
suffering and premature death.

We Canadians are nurtured in
the illusion that women have
equal opportunities and that most
married women who work do so
for professional advancement,
pin money or merely to add
interest to their life. If it were
not for the Tribune what organs
of the press would clarify and
stress the real economic
pressures which force wives and
mothers to work; and who would
expose the fact that most
working mothers are forced to
leave their pre-school children in
the care of incompetent or
dubiously qualified guardians?
Who and what organs of
information would point out the
crucial need for adequate day
care centers?

We are subtly tendered the
impression that we are blessed
with a form of government
which honors our heritage and
respects the national achieve-
ments forged and built by past

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generations. If it were not for
the Tribune who would point out
the shameful degree of financial
compensation tendered to our
aged Canadians. A .rate of
compensation which serves to
stave off symptoms of gross
malnutrition rather than render
the recipients due reward for
their contribution, and a
reasonable rate for a decent
living standard? Indeed what a
way to honor our elders and
respect the retired builders of
our national heritage? The
Tribune is a paper that seeks to
expose such hypocrisy.

We are fed the fiction that we ©

live in a land that values youth as
the future builders and leaders of
our nation. If it were not for the
Tribune who would expose the
roots of the financial crises in all
levels of education which must
result in the _ technical
incompetence and _ intellectual
inadequcy of our nation’s future
adults? Yes we as a nation are
destined to continue in our aim of
building a mighty industrial
state, but will our young be equal
to the task? And without the
Tribune what organs of the news
media would serve to
consistently expose and seek to
remedy this serious impediment
to national development?

Yet in the midst of this
confused jungle of half truths,
romantic illusions and false
assumptions projected by the
monopoly news media, our
paper, the Pacific Tribune serves
as a ray of hope, a search-
light for remedy and a spotlight
for truth. We must therefore, as
Tribune subscribers, broaden the
scope of the Tribune's influence
by pledging, each of us, to find 12,
25, or 50 new subscriptions, or
renewals this year. This is the
pledge of our club; we cannot and
shall not fail to fulfil it.

NOTE OF THANKS

MARY CAMPBELL and
family write to thank all their
friends and comrades for their
many kindnesses at the time of
Corey's passing. Also the
comrades from out of town for
all the lovely letters.

‘We wish to thank particularly
Harvey Murphy and Nick Smith
of the United Steelworkers for
their tribute to Corey’s memory;

and the soloist, Mrs. Olafson, and
pianist, Mrs. Swankey. Also the
officers and members of the IWA
for donation of their union hall
for the funeral

‘‘We want to express
appreciation of the generous
contributions to the B.C. Heart
Foundation, to help others who
may suffer in the future from the
same ailment. Corey would be
very proud of the fact that $258.00
was donated in his memory by
his union brothers, Party
comrades and friends. Thank you
all!’

‘Take Mid-East
crisis to UN’

Reacting to the urgent
situation presently occupying the
news on the Middle East, the
B.C. Peace Council last Friday
urged Prime Minister Trudeau to
take the matter to the United
_Nations,

The letter said the United
Nations should intervene to stop
the terror of Israeli occupation
forces against the civilian
population of the Gaza strip.
“These inhuman acts violate the
1949 Geneva Convention con-
cerning civilian population in
occupied territories and recall
Hitlerite methods.”

Labor wants
forest probe

The B.C. Federation of Labor
has protested the Socred
government's decision not to
allow the legislature's
committee on forestry and
fisheries to open up a compre-
hensive study of the forest
industry.

In a telegram to Land and
Forests Minister Williston the
BCFL urged that the terms of
reference be broadened to
include: the effect of tenures,
licences and permits on compe-
tition in the industry; the
problems of the small
producer; stumpage rates and
timber royalties; the need for
an increased leasehold rate for
tree farm licences; and the
adverse effects on employ-
ment resulting from log
exports.

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HALLS FOR RENT

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50th ANNIVERSARY
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HALLS FOR RENT

OKRAINIAN CANADIAN CUL-
TURAL CENTRE — 805 East
Pender St... Vancouver 4.
Available for Banquets, Wed-
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3436 or 876-9693.

MARCH 1 — “‘CUBA 1969” a
TRAVELOGUE & SOCIAL
EVENING will be held on SAT.
MARCH Ist at 8 PM. FISHER-
MEN’S HALL - 138 E. Cordova
St. See SLIDES & hear com-
mentary by MR. A.E. OLSEN
& MRS, E. PARKER on Cuba
today. Display of Cuban handi-
crafts. Refreshments seved.
Adm., $1.50 - Students 75¢.
Everyone welcome. Ausp:
Canadian-Cuban Friendship

MARCH 2— Hear ROSALEEN
ROSS report on the recent
HEMISPHERIC CONFER-
ENCE for PEACE held in
Montreal, SUNDAY, MARCH
2nd at 7:30 p.m. —2157 ST.
GEORGE’S AVE. NORTH
VANCOUVER. Everyone wel-
come. Ausp: North Van Peace
C’ttee.

MARCH 9— INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN’S DAY TEA — SUN-
DAY, MARCH 9th at 1 PM at
the GRANDVIEW COMMUN-
ITY CENTRE — 3350 Victoria
Dr. Guest Speaker: MRS.
EUNICE PARKER, ‘Subject:
“CANADA’S WOMEN &
NATO.”’ International Baking.
Musical Program, Tea. Ad-
mission $1. Everyone is cor-
dially invited.

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