the panic button. the future of our paper. {McEWEN APPEAL: | new punch By TOM McEWEN, Chairman, Press Committee In my appeal this week to all press clubs, press builders, readers and supporters of the PT, to give their efforts towards reaching the $18,000. target in the current financial campaign an extra push from now on in, there is no hint, of trying to push It is just a matter of facing the facts of life, as these affect So far, the financial drive is going comparatively well. Some press clubs have already reached their agreed upon goal. Individual press builders are also reaching their own targets in ever-increasing numbers. All this is good. The new problems demanding a greater urgency of effort are not of our making; the grave possibility of a nation-wide mail strike, which can, should it occur, shut us off entirely from scores of provincial points, create grave new problems for the PT, and at the same time demand from all of us our undivided support of Canada’s postal workers in their struggle for a just wage and working agreement. We must, therefore, see the latter half of our campaign for the PT against the possibility of such a background, and act accordingly by getting all possible available contributions into the PT office NOW. If the postal workers can win without the Necessity of strike action, so much the better. Moreover, with tens of thousands of B.C.’s key workers on strike, locked out, or facing similar situations, because of the combined operations of a highly organized monopoly oligarchy with government backing, who have determined to make the working people bear the full burden of the economic shambles these people call ‘“‘inflation’, the PT bears a greater importance than ever before in this struggle. In such a situation our job becomes more self-evident than ever before; to give the drive effort a new elan, a new punch, So that the PT in the decisive period ahead will play an ever greater role in the struggles of our fellow workers in B.C. Let’s get this drive doing better than ‘‘relatively well’. |_Let’s make it outstanding— in tempo and results attained. s pee OBITUARY Ernie Wickland ~ Ernie Wickland of White Rock, ___ Passed away recently in his 83rd year, _ He homesteaded in southern ; askatchewan near Claydon in 1913, hauling his wheat to Gull ke, a distance of 80 miles, with Orses and wagon. He and his wife Laura raised a amily of four on the prairies. During the years of drought times were hard, but if the gods Were propitious and there was a Crop, the collectors of past-due Rotes on purchased machinery Would come and collect what Should he ve been left for the kids, Ernie Wickland’s doors were always open to progressives, and € late Ivan Birchard and many thers were visitors who Iscussed late into the nights Ways and means of bettering the armers lot. : He is buried beside his late Wife, Laura, in White Rock. Benevolent Assn. 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Beaver Transfer — * Moving * Packing * Storage 573 East Hastings St. Phone 254-3711 It Pays To Sell THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE Contact: E. CRIST, Circulation Mgr. - at 685-5288 Dorothy Johnson, Gibsons, writes: This week the world is faced with a new and grave crisis! The great fear that the USA might expand their war to another Asian country is now a fact. As in the past there is much misinformation and speculation for the reasons of the invasion. It seems that at this time it is important that some of the historical facts be brought to light. The World Book Encyclopedia 1969 prints the following: ‘‘From 1955-63 Cambodia received millions of dollars in aid from the United States of America. In 1963 Sihanouk cut off US aid. He charged that the USA supported attempts to overthrow the Cambodian government. In 1965 Cambodia broke off diplomatic relations with the USA and declared itself neutral. . .” Wilfred Burchett, a_ well known journalist in Asia reports: “Prince Sihanouk has been generous in the . extreme in refraining till now from disclosing the full extent of US involvement in a plot to overthrow his government following the Saigon coup — 1963 assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem.” World journalists including those from France and the USA have visited the Laos-Cambodia- Vietnam borders and have repeatedly declared that no Vietnamese bases or infiltration routes were found. Cambodia and Laos have remained neutral in the conflict in spite of continuous provocations from US bombers and violations of - their borders. American leaders and newsmen who cannot find a good reason for the invasion of Cambodia come up with the phoney excuse that maybe President Nixon had _ secret information unknown to the public. This kind of reasoning reminds us of ex-President Johnson’s tactics in Tonkin Bay, which now have been repudiated by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, and found to be a deliberate lie in order to justify _ the bombing of North Vietnam. Our Canadian government states it deplores and regrets the invasion, and hopes it is not an escalation of the war in Asia. What kind of double talk is this? How much longer must Canada be the tail of the American war kite? PROTEST WINS Freda Knott, Victoria, writes: In the April 24 edition of the Tribune you carried an article about my protest to Victoria City * Council on the bomb-swing in Beacon Hill Park. I thought you might be interested in the outcome of this protest. Within a week, the swing was CORRECTION | The PT would like to correct two typographical errors which appeared in last week’s article — by ‘“‘Observer.”’ The end of the second paragraph under ‘sub head ‘‘Structure and Mergers”’ should read: ‘‘Accordingly, the CLC should invite the affiliation of any bona-fide union which is NOW outside the Congress...” . The last three lines of the article should read: ‘‘. . . and political domination of our country BY monopoly capital “Yes, we do have a job with good pay, good hours and good holidays; it happens to be mine.” removed from the park, had the USAF inscription taken off, fins painted black, eyes and mouth painted on the front, and returned to the park as a whale. — protest, large or small, against the war machine or any injustice is worthwhile. The powers-that- be are susceptible to pressure. We must persist in our efforts to create a better society even though at times it is discouraging. Only then will we - eventually reach the goal of socialism in Canada. POLLUTION A Reader, Vancouver, writes: I have attempted to find an excuse why the Dow Chemical plant at Sarnia, Ont., was not charged under the Fisheries Act 1932, section 33-2 for polluting the St. Clair river and Lake St. Clair: This section of the act states .that ‘“‘No person shall cause or knowingly permit — lime, ‘chemical substance, or — poisonous matter — “to pass into’ any water frequented by f+ * > ia I questioned the Department of Fisheries stand on this subject in a letter to them and I stated that if Dow Chemical did not represent the established status quo of our country and of our neighbour to the south, and if Dow Chemical did not have its financial leading parties in power which are the figureheads of the present status quo, then the government and the Department of Fisheries, would challenge the corporate and financial power of Dow Chemicals. support behind the I cited the case brought into provincial courts in Vancouver of the Department of Fisheries vs ABC Plating of Vancouver. They pleaded guilty and were ~ fined for their actions. This incident proves that any - I have now received a letter ~ from the Department of Fisheries. The letter states: “The way the Act is written, it must be proved that fish were actually killed as a result of the release of a pollutant. This is what happened in the Vancouver case. However, the release of mercury to the St. Clair river by ~ Dow did not kill any fish.”’ The writer of this letter — E.W. Burridge, Deputy Director, Resource Development Branch — ignored my political statement as it questioned his whole philosophy. Now, from the Pacific Tribune, May 1, 1970,- comes a photograph of dead fish caused by mercury pollution in Reg. 45-—Now 19% @ Roll | Classified advertising | COMING EVENTS. MAY 23— A real swinging night! Dancing — Games — Refresh- ments — Loads of Fun. COME & SEE! Sat. May 23 — 8:30 p.m. Val & Glynn’s — 2093 East 28th Ave. Admission $1.50. 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