SNAIMO — This Vancouver hub city marked the “Week Cern”’ for the 200,000 political wets being held in Saigon : With a series of public ; strations and meetings last "sored by the Voice of Nand an ad hoc committee, Ca of a tiger cage in which TS are held, was displayed Sy downtown corners on ay, Friday and Saturday. Yit was displayed at chur- D “aflet distributed to passersby bol tiger cage was both a _ 2nd actual representation Suffering which continues in og letham for more than Political prisoners. Th. Points out that recently ir government placed a jy contract with the U.S. firm dig, Ot Knudsen (whose &n subsidiaries are inn Knudsen of Canada with © Interests in Elk River » BC. and Northern Con- U BY FRED WILSON Tecent issues of the PT large aaa sub blanks and .~ ppeals have been in- 8 our readers that we are ve to increase circulation. 'S Week we received a = from Prince Rupert, B.C. 3 Sub blanks anda regular i 30 copies per week. The be Opened contained some a Sold by one of our readers Hae B.C. The following Aa 4ll brought new subs from lar B.C. and a request for a Order of 50 copies per ata Same day a letter from aj, Person in Cawston, B.C. Mion ¢° send him some sub- rms so he could do his he Southern Interior. NS j ‘3 z the kind of spirit that will Wershi desire for a larger life and greater influence . he job is being done by & Working people, largely Hout (au to-person basis, and mice benefit of any. slick Ckery. ae | spingore remains to be done. tioned ‘the efforts of those © above and others, our Sviet Union. Help build the PT We have tours to Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, -®Mywhere you wish to travel to throughout the f .'°p in and see us. We will be happy to discuss _ ‘Ur personal travel needs. Toreserve space or for further information. please contact — The experts in travel to the USSR 9 Hastings Street East/Vancouver B.C./ 253-1221 struction Company, Vancouver) to build tiger cages which are now in use in South Vietnam. The leaflet points out that the most common form of torture is the pouring of lime through the bars of the prisoners’ cages. Torture, beatings, sexual abuses are other forms of treatment are common and many prisoners are left permanently disfigured and crippled. ; Charging that when Canada signed the Paris Accords in January, 1973 it undertook a number of explicit guarantees, the leaflet says that the government has instead followed the lead of the U.S. Canada has failed to acknowledge as co-equals the two governments in South Vietnam — the Saigon government and the Provisional Revolutionary Government — despite their of- ficial recognition in the Accords. ‘A second serious violation toward which the Canadian government has shown = in- difference is the guarantee that circulation drive is moving at a relatively slow pace. The importance of this drive to our paper. can not be overly stressed. From a political stand- 200,000 Vietnam prisoners “all Vietnamese civilian personnel captured and detained in South Vietnam shall be treated humanely at all times and in accordance with international practise.”’ (Article 8b of the Protocol to the Paris Agreement.) The leaflet urges citizens to write Prime Minister Trudeau demanding that Canada support programs of aid to all.three parts of Vietnam; that Canada recognize the PRG as one of the two official governments in South Vietnam instead of just the Saigon regime; that Canada join the protest of the governments of Sweden, Holland, Australia and Norway against violations of the Paris. Accord; and that Canada press the Saigon government to adopt humane treatment and to eventually release all Vietnamese political prisoners. A public meeting Saturday night, attended by 65 people in the Credit Union Hall heard John Beeching of the B.C. Peace Council call for stronger action to compel the Canadian government to press for implementation of the Paris Ac- cord which Canada signed. A resolution was adopted by the meeting demanding release of political prisoners, im- plementation of the Accord and an end to torture of prisoners, and for humane treatment as laid down in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. point it is essential that our growth keeps pace with growing op- position to monopoly and its policies. With the pace of today s world to ‘hold your own’ is not good enough. From a financial view, this drive is a very practical question. We need the money. Our costs are increasing at an incredible rate. The effect of inflation over the longer haul will be to put an ever- increasing squeeze on our paper. Our only real protection is to boost circulation income. Judging by the letters and comments we receive, we know that the quality of the PT is im- proving. Our. strength .lies in reporting and analysis from the centre of the labor movement. Action photos and color have: added to that appeal. And the objective situation is in our favor. If you would like sub books, papers or any other help, just contact us. It is up to our reader- ship to make this drive a success. We are sure that they will. OBITUARY DESC AE Se ie ANNIE BERESKA A long time member and sup- porter of working class organizations and of the labor press, Annie Bereska, passed away in New Westminster on August 27 _ following a sudden heart attack. Born in the Ukraine in 1900, she came to Canada with her family at the age of 14, settling in Portage la Prairie. She married Nicholas Bereska in 1916. Later they moved to Drumheller, Alta. where Nick worked in the coal mines. In 1943 they moved to- New Westminster. She was predeceased by her husband, Nick, who passed away in 1965, and her son Bill in 1973. Her many friends will join with members of her family in mour- ning her loss. Funeral services were held at the Slavic Hall in Queensboro on August 30. Before her passing she requested that donations be made to various working class and progressive H. K. Warren, writes: Are marketing boards the cause of high food costs? Or are they truly a means of stabilizing prices and food ‘supplies? In the June issue of Canadian Farm Economics, G. A. Hickocks and T. A. Bennett, officers of the economics branch of the federal department. of agriculture, have attempted to explain those questions. There are 89 marketing boards in Canada, 36 of them in the prairie provinces and B.C., operating under provincial law. Four of them operate under federal law. Marketing boards first appeared in 1929 and have been on the in- crease ever since, particularly in the last 10 years. They are, by and large, self-appointing and prac- tically self-perpetuating and have no provision for government or consumer representation. Primarily they appear in the egg, broiler chicken, turkey and dairy industries. Provinces with any significant milk production have milk. marketing boards. As well, the boards have some or all of these powers: @ It may pool proceeds from sales so that each producer gets the same average price after grade and other adjustments; @ It may have the power to set wholesale or retail prices or both; @ It may set prices by formula, negotiation or price-fixing; @ It may be delegated the power from the federal department to regulate the interprovincial and export trade; @ It may have the power to licence growers or anyone else involved in marketing the product. In general, fluid milk boards have the greatest powers, followed ‘by poultry marketing boards. organizations including the labor - press. The Pacific Tribune gratefully acknowledges a $25 contribution in her memory. FILM NIGHT Films of Soviet Union in living color with English commentary! THIS ISSPORT plus UNDERGROUND SUBWAYS IN USSR To be held at New Westminster Library. 716-6th Ave. THURS., OCTOBER 17 7:30 p.m. FREE ADMISSION Spons.: Canada-USSR Friendship Assoc. Beaver Transfer *” Moving * Packing * Storage 790 Powell St. Phone 254-3711 Since they determine the price at which wholesalers buy fluid milk, these boards have a very direct Vancouver influence on consumer prices. Poultry boards also have direct power including the right to set quotas and minimum prices. They have generally raised prices by restricting sales but their influence is somewhat limited by in- ternational trade in poultry products. This all looks fine and dandy on the surface but the fact remains that these boards are all self- appointed. Neither governments nor consumers have any voice in policies. What’s more, on close scrutiny, we find that they are also self- perpetuating — each year we find that the majority of board mem- bers are the same as they were in previous years. The time has come that con- Sumers must form a strong and vocal group to insist that these boards be fully representative of the consuming public as well as the producers. The ‘representation on these boards is so heavily loaded in favor of the large producers that the small producer must bow to the decisions of the mighty. Most of the producers of any importance are either owned or dominated by the large corporations who command the important representation on the boards. It’s high time that the consumer stepped in and demanded proper government and consumer repre- sentation in the decisions with respect to pricing and marketing of these highly essential food items. CHILEAN FILM Canadians for Democracy in Chile have announced a preview showing of the famous Chilean film “Venceremos”’, -Sunday, October 13, in the lounge of the Fishermen’s Hall, 138 E. Cordova. Admission is be ba FISHERMENS HALL concern SAT. OCT. 26% 9:m-lan’ eS foes free, collection will be taken. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING COMING EVENTS OCTOBER 11 — SECOND AN- NUAL OKTOBERFEST. “Bubbles”, last year’s Beer Drinking Champ, will defend her title. Fun and Food — 7:30 p.m. Russian People’s Home, 600 Campbell Ave. Ausp.: YCL. Proceeds to Young Worker. Tickets from YCL’rs. OCTOBER 26 — Saturday. Keep this date open for COPE Hallowe’en Dance. HALLS FOR RENT RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME— Now available for rentals. For reservations phone 254-3430. UKRAINIAN CAN CULTURAL CENTRE eS aS East Pender St., Vancouver 4 Available for banquets, wed- dings, meetings. Phone 254-3436. WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL eRe for banquets, meetings, etc. For rates, Ozzi 325-4171 or 685-5836. ee PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1974—Page 11