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~The Borker

NEWS ITEM: The Canadian Labor Congress last week protested the new
postal rates which came into effect on April 1 which have forced many labor

in full

By ERNIE CRIST,
The objective of our Annual
Spring Drive is to raise $17,000
‘during the next two months and
© guarantee the continuous
xistence of our paper.
The success of this Drive will
spend to a large degree on how
joon we can go into high gear:
he first few weeks are decisive,
number of Press Clubs like
nt Grey, Vernon, Broadway,
nloops, Coquitlam, North
ore, White Rock Delta,
Cowichan, Frank Rogers,
Victory Square and Nanaimo
have already made a sizeable
contribution towards their
quotas providing an excellent
example of good leadership.

Also we would like to extend
pecial recognition and give a
large bouquet to Lil Stoneman
rom the North Shore Press
Club. Lil. not the youngest
anymore and not in the best of
health, has turned in $100 in
memory of Bill Hohlochoff, a
ongtime and outstanding fighter
for the Pacific Tribune. This
makes Lil the first Honor Press
Builder in this Drive.

~“**

By now all the Press Clubs are
in possession of pledge cards,
‘ollection cards and_ contest
ickets. Contest winners will be
mnounced at the end of the
Drive on June 13th. There’ is
hoice of several prizes. all
alued around $650. including
trips to Alaska or Mexico for
two, a color TV or a $650 cash
prize.

There are also a number of
additional prizes donated by
‘Hippwell Furniture, London
"Drugs. Army and Navy.
Ukrainska Knyha. Regent
ailors and the South Sea Gift
shop in Vancouver.

Many pledge cards containing
edges of $25, $50, or $100. have
been filled out and returned to
the PT office.

However, the majority of the
ledge cards now in the hands of
he Press Clubs are still
Outstanding and we urge all
Press Directors to return these
ledge cards as soon as possible.
The Drive will wind up with a
tory Banquet to be held at the
Lock Restaurant, 67 East

PT drive is

nder St., in Vancouver.

swing

Entertainment
provided by
Vancouver artists.

The shield for best

performance in the Drive will be
awarded at the Victory Banquet.

again be
known

will
well

On our minimum Drive target
of $17,000, there is an amount of
$1,000. which has not been
pledged by the Press Clubs in the
Vancouver region. This
unpledged amount is ‘a Serious
obstacle towards our objective
and will jeoparidze the
achievement of our goal unless
all Press Clubs go over their
respective quotas to cover the
shortage.

In the many years since the PT
was first published we have
never been able to cover
expenses through income in the
manner that the big commercial
press does, i.e. advertising and
large circulation. This is because
our paper in all the difficult
years has consistently fought for
the interests of working people.
against the monopolies and their
scandalous and ruinous policies
both at home and abroad.

In our struggle to keep our
paper alive we have always
relied on the working people and
the progressive community as a
whole.

Together we have been able to
do our share towards the
building of a better world.

This year again we are
appealing to our friends and
supporters to help us keep our
paper alive. Because of rising
mailing and printing costs, the
difficulties we face with
continuing publication § are
greater than ever. However, the

need. for our Press is
undiminished.

We appreciate. as in past
years, that the generous

financial support of our readers
will make it possible for us to
continue the job that needs to be
done.

You as a supporter know what
it takes to do that job.

Please send your donation to
Pacific Tribune, 193 East
Hastings, Vancouver 4.

Hits Nato

JOHN TANCHE, White Rock,
writes: While the taxes for a
family of four amount to $440 a
year aSgits contribution to
Canada’s NATO military
commitments, Canadians are
short-changed on funds for
education. Their lack of housing
has become a chronic situation,
rentals are unapproachable,
there is a waiting list of three for
each hospital bed available in
Vancouver, pollution rampant
from municipal shortages of
finances. with interest soaring to
unheard of costs, bringing the
NATO nations to the brink of
bankruptcy with inflation.

With NATO's insanity on
armaments we are pushed again
into the vortex of spend-for our
own annihilation if the American
military financial complex is
able to drag us into a third world
war with its ally, the neo facist
West German government which
it has helped rearm as the
greatest potential war maker
since 1914.

For the sake of continuing the
reign of the financial monopolies
throughout the world we are
coaxed, cajoled or forced with
reprisal sanctions to renew the
contract with NATO, NATO has
already cost $40 billion in the last
20 years with the waste of the
DEW lines that cannot discern
between a flock of geese and an
oncoming plane and almost
triggered an atomic war, and a
Bomare that never flew. What
more idiotic flirting with death
continuing with NATO will bring
only time will tell.

In. the meantime we shall
continue to do without things,
while the redundant military will

FLASH FLASH
By the opening day of the drive,
April 1, the PT office had
received $2,800. Keep up the
good work!

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continue to waste and erode the
good things of life put here in
abundance which could be used
for the blossoming of a good life.

Prime Minister Trudeau has
asked for discussion on NATO.
He has come to power on his
assumption of a ‘‘just society”’.
Let us back him by showing the
government that we know what
we want is completely attainable
and within our means.

There are so many things our
society can dedicate itself to.
The maintenance of life on the
planet, development of science
to the benefit of man, under-
standing the needs of oppressed
nations by dictators who see only
an opportunity for extortion as
the means of life. There are
many things we can do without
belonging to NATO.

Patriotism does not mean that
one should constantly and blindly
lead his country in wars, It does
not mean selling poppies in
November to care for the
casualties. Patriotism means a
foreign diplomacy that will
eliminate war and its casualties.

The world has had too much to
do with the military who have
brought nothing to man outside
of death, taxes and pestilence.
Let's throw all this outside of our
vocabulary and have a future on
which we can look with pride and
confidence. It certainly can not
have been the purpose of man to
be on earth to massacre himself.
It certainly does not make sense
nor does adherence to NATO.

NATIVE INDIANS

GEORGE COLLINS,
Vancouver, writes: The editorial
of March 14 issue of the PT spoke
well of Native Indian wellbeing

insofar as to speak well for the
part played by the trade unions
in our province. That is to say,
that it is trade union principles
that helps Indians best — once
they are on the job.

Part of these said principles is
that trade unions operate best
against fascism, against the
divide and rule tactics of the

employing class. Of course part
of the fact and fiction of trade
union history in our province
depends on how well we as trade
unionists and as citizens live up
to these union principles. It is
deeds which best describe the
success story of trade unionism
in our province, as well as
elsewhere.

Insofar as certain trade unions
have Native Indians in their
ranks as reported by the PT,
shows that a good section of the
workingclass is not succumbing
to the divide-and-rule tactics of
the employers. Moreover, the
NDP has often spoken up for the
Native Indians, especially as
against racism, police brutality,
and other discriminations that
have been imposed by society.

Native Indian citizens are not
productively in harness to the
extent of their white neighbors.
But that remains for Tribune
supporters to push ahead for; to
push for facts and deeds as a
substitute for lip-service.

Your Haircut Dollars
Go To The
Press Drive at
Orpheum Barber Shop
611 Smithe St.

(near Seymour)
Just Say: “It's For The Trib”

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