$24,000 Final push needed By FRED WILSON With just Drive Manager atthe Vic barely two weeks left in our drive before we wind it up Mith abou ry Banquet we have now reached $20,000. That leaves us There real} $7,500 to go to reach our $24,000 \target. What’s that? "etre In Y isn’t an error in my adding. Our $24,000 target is a net order to cover the expenses of the drive, and still be left . What Se -. wave to go over that figure by at least $3,500, which : ast year. : tive, aes that every club will have to go over the top in the J Hee € of the financial burdens created by the election, the {Ne 15th b of our energy must be kept on the drive right up to the UD to ha Clubs should remember that all the club quotes Main $22,000. If clubs do not go over their quota by the ov eWoulg unt possible, our drive could fail. Pecia rec Surely be amiss if we did not stop for a moment to offer fear have °Bnition to those outstanding individuals who year after ak Outdon the leaders in our drive efforts. And this year they i cede, he themselves. Mike Stevens, by raising the un- Pyc ina br Sum of $1,120, has raised more than anyone, at any CkYtoy €ss drive. No less superb is the effort of tireless Steve 1 “lube drive es date Steve has $748 turned in. ) ae will Mmittee will meet on Friday, June 14th to pick the ig looks si the drive shields. Although lots can happen yet, cf "8 wey in ee in the province, while Victory Square club is | ancouver, ee ee ne a aN a = << & &<< = * * et | Your ¢¢ : y the Next pickets now for the Victory Banquet. With a good effort | ° Weeks we will have something to celebrate. * * PIL 3 i § 4 ates to ‘a ART FUND: The Bill Stewart memorial fund con- 1 Pr vince bees trade unionists and working people from all over ty ive, The Fronstrate their feelings for Bill by donating to the Cike, Mattig Und now totals $745. Latest donors are: M. Khaluck A] “810, 2,810 Dr. and Mrs. Inglis $25, B. Turner $10, B. 7 ‘Nichol $20 and T. Downs $10. DON'T MISS Pacirie TRIBUNE VICTORY BANQUET June 15th Fishermen's Hall 138 E Cordova St. Tickets go on sale May 25th at Co Op Books and PT office (out of towners should reserve) Price — $5, Pensioners — $3 Ady A Ie TRlaUNe —~F RIDAY, MAY 31 1974—PAGE 11 Landlord survey called ‘phoney Cont'd from pg. 2 demanded by the B.C. Tenants Organization in the new Landlord and Tenant Act (Bill 105). The BCTO is demanding that a landlord be compelled to show just cause before evicting a tenant and would provide for the right to evict only under certain conditions. Another issue dealt with in the Newsletter is what it calls “The Housing Emergency.”’ Admitting that the vacancy rate for suites in Vaneouver ‘“‘is below one per cent,” the Newsletter has an editorial on page 2 entitled, “Free (Eee ee OBITUARY TOM SIEBERT Fellow unionists in the IWA with whom he worked for 17 years, and friends in the progressive movement were saddened this week to learn of the loss of Tom Siebert who died in Vancouver General Hospital. May 21, following an extended illness. He was 52. Born in Arborg, Manitoba in 1921, the grandson of one of the éarliest Ukrainian immigrants in the area, Tommy came to British Columbia in 1937 where he quickly became involved in the struggles of the unemployed and the Relief Cam Project Workers Union. He joined the Communist Party shortly afterward. As a participant in the historic ’ Post Office-Art Gallery sitdown of single unemployed, he was tear- gassed when the RCMP attacked the sitdowners June 19, 1938. In the same year, he was one of those charged with unlawful assembly following a mass picket line around the Empress of Japan, one of several actions aimed at preventing the shipment of scrap iron to Japan where it was being used to build up the armaments industry. At the outbreak of world war; he joined the army to fight fascism but was discharged on political grounds. After a two-year term as business agent for the Dock and Shipward Union from 1941-43, he joined the Seaforth Highlanders and was wounded in action in Italy. The jaundice he contracted during the Italian campaign was later to contribute to his untimely death. Throughout his life, Tommy retained his membership in the Communist Party and on his return from war service he became an organizer for the Labor Progressive Party in New West- minster, later running as a can- didate for the Party in the 1953 federal elections. He was a member of the Victory Square Club of the Communist Party at the time of his death. Provincial Communist Party leader Nigel Morgan paid tribute at funeral services held Thursday. TOM SIEBERT Enterprise: Can It Do the Job?”’ This editorial says: “Free enterprise can do the job — and do it much better, at lower cost — than government can do,”’ and ‘‘British Columbians can continue to enjoy high standards of housing, and free enterprise once again would be willing to compete strongly for the tenant’s dollar, if the provincial government would create a reasonably favorable atmosphere.” The fact is that the present housing crisis — both for houses and apartments — is primarily due to the fact that ‘free enterprise” ran the whole show and brought on the present housing crisis with its exhorbitant costs and rents. The main aim of the landlords and realty companies has been to make profits, not provide ac- commodation. It’s because “free enterprise” has proven that it cannot solve the housing crisis that public opinion is forcing govern- ment action in the housing field. The statement, that if the government created a favorable atmosphere landlords “‘would be willing to compete for the tenant’s dollar” is an indirect admission that landlords have been holding back housing and apartment construction as a means of pressuring the government to make further tax and other con- cessions to ensure them even higher profits. It’s a form of black- mail with the public the victim. If anything, the landlord’s Newsletter confirms the need for changes in the new Landlord and Tenants Act which would ensure that tenants have some rights and are not completely at the mercy of gouging landlords. Olympic champion Ludmila Turischeva will head up the Soviet Shades of the Hungry 30's H. K. Warren, who has con- tributed many articles to the PT on the cost of living, this week sent us the following letter which ap- peared in the Western Producer, February 9, 1933: “Dear Sir: A farmer would have to sell 36 hides to get enough money to buy a good pair of shoes. He would have to keep 30 sheep for a year and sheer them in order to sell fleeces for enough to buy a suit of underwear. A man went into a store and sold a calf skin for fifty cents. He bought a pair of shoe laces for 20 cents. Had the calf skin been all made into shoe laces it would have brought over $70. “Because of the foregoing and many other examples of the wide spread between raw materials and the finished product, Robert Mackenzie, (Liberal, Assiniboia) Monday night urged on the House of Commons a resolution that an inquiry be instituted into why the farmer got so little for what they sold and paid so much for what they bought. He blamed the tariff for the. cause. The farmers had expected to get cheap woolens from Britain after the Imperial Conference and were disap- pointed.” Warren writes: We are now going into a new election, and, it would seem that policies have ‘changed very little. In Canada millions of people will look forward to the coming election in terms of two parties only. The only difference is the names. Today we have Trudeau and Stanfield. Then we had King and Bennett. But the economies seem to have changed very little. Sub- sidies, inquiries, committees and price review boards, but the prices continue to rise. And the primary producer is in no better position. women’s gym team touring Canada next month. Vancouver will be one of the cities they will visit. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Peon encase s COMING EVENTS WANTED JUNE 1 — CELEBRATE MOVING—SPRING CLEANING? HAROLD PRITCHETT’S 70th BIRTHDAY at the NORDIC CENTRE, 7820 - 6th St., Bur- naby, Saturday, June ist. Cold Plate Supper and Dance 6:30 p.m. Adults $4.00 — Students (16 and under) $2.00. Dance only from 9 p.m. Admission $2.00. Tickets available PT office, Party office or by reservation. Phone 521-5847. JUNE 20 — CUBAN SLIDES — Latest Pictures, Thursday, June 20th at 8:00 p.m., Russian People’s Home, 600. Campbell Ave. Come and bring a friend. Refreshments. Proceeds toward Braille Electric Printing Press. JULY ist — KEEP THIS DATE OPEN. JULY 1st GALA PICNIC, SURREY. FOR SALE COLORADO SPRUCE for Sale — only 10 left. $5.00 each (4ft. high). Phone 594-4073. Proceeds to the Trib. Drive. Wanted: materials for resale. Proceeds PT drive. PH. 526-5226. Readers in Burnaby area who wish to contribute to PT drive phone 526-5226. ; HALLS FOR RENT UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE — 805 East Pender St., Vancouver 4. Available for banquets, wed- dings, meetings. Phone 254- 3436. RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME — Now available for rentals. For reservations phone 254-3430. WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL — Available for banquets, meetings, etc. For rates, Ozzie 325-4171 or 685-5836. ANNOUNCEMENT PT office will be open 10 to 2 every Saturday until the end of Press Drive.