epee ne a EES ees ee oot —— HELP WANTED! E NEED the help of all our readers to ensure that the Pacific Tribune’s 1957 financial drive for $18,000 reaches its target. different walks of life illustrates how wide this support is. “Thanks for your support of our wage struggle. Enclosed teacher said simply: find $10.” Another from an industrial worker: “Here’s punching.” cheque for $25. We'd like to hear from YOU, too. kk Three letters from readers in One from a school $25 as a starter. Keep And the third from a labor politician, containing greetings and a DRIVE TARGET: $18,000 CASH RECEIVED: - WE STILL NEED: x xX 1,115 16,885 Top Press Clubs GRANDVIEW -:.------------ $160.00 COWICHAN: 8s ee Sees 60.00 VICTORY SQUARE --------- * 103,80 NORTH VAN. DISTRICT pee 000 BROADWAY |: 5-2 S 67.00 NORTH BURNABY --_-------- 52.00 NORTH VANCOUVER CITY . 61.50 CAMPBELL RIVER -__------- 48.50 1957 Press Builders FRANK POLITANO (Grandview) JOHN DE WEVER (Grandview) RITA WHYTE (Broadway) BERT WHYTE (Broadway) HARRY MACKIEWICH (Victory Sq.) JOHN CARLSON (Victory Square) A. MINARD (North Burnaby) MAY MARTIN (North Vancouver City) a CHARLIE CARON (North Van. City) DOROTHY LYNAS (North Van. Dist.) A FRIEND (North Van. District) ALFRED CAMPBELL JIM COCKS (Waterfront) , VIC (Vancouver) GERTRUDE CHERNOFF (Campbell River) Dear Keader: Cumberland, and press clubs were confident that quotas would. be met. again aiming’ to raise $100 and become an Honor Press has planned its campaign well. There is confidence and. Cumberland, Nanaimo and the Cowichan district. have raised a good share of their quota by that date. renewals. paper sales. increase in circulation — at present we expired subs. drive. taken up in other city areas. PRESS DRIVE NEWS URING thie past few weeks I’ve been on the road, helping to get the financial D drive underway. Places visited include Lake Cowichan, Duncan, Port Alberni, Parksville, Nanoose Bay, Campbell River, Hilliers, Nanaimo, Langley Prairie, and the North Surrey and Maple Ridge areas, ‘In most places there was high enthusiasm for the drive, and our readers difficulties in Port Alberni, but they are being tackled and I’m sure our sup- porters there will do a fine job. In Campbell River young George Hewison is Y'll be visiting Powell River April 23, and hope the paper’s supporters will Along with the need for finances goes the drive for subscriptions and We hope to hit 1,000 by May Day, and prospects are bright, for we have received 576 up to Monday this week. This figure includes credits for But the pace must be stepped up if we are to register an actual are just keeping up with the lists of Greater Vancouver press clubs are just getting started on the financial In Vancouver East a drive manager has been elected to _keep tab on several press clubs in the constituency. This is a good idea which might be Courtenay, There were some Builder. Courtenay elan in places like Rita Whyte Fast German revolt plot bared in trial By PHYLLIS ROSNER The East German Supreme Court last Dr. Wolfgang Harich to ten years penal servitude, BERLIN week sentenced Bernhard Steinberger to four years and Manfred Hertwig to two years for their part in plotting a revolt. In giving judgment, the court president said that the ac- cused had not been sentenced because of their views, but be- cause they had formed a con- spiratorial group striving to al- ter the German Democratic Re- public’s regime, if necessary by force. No foreign correspondents were given facilities to attend the trial, but the East German news agency ADN released an extensive report of the pro- ceedings. The evidence shows that the group did not merely consist of confused. intellectuals, not to be taken too seriously, the posi- tion advanced by Harich at the beginning of the trial. On the contrary, detailed plans, worked out in conjunc- tion, with certain West German circles, were to be achieved, if necessary by an uprising on the lines of the June, 1953 dis- turbances in East Berlin. Among the’ group’s aims were ‘overthrow of the East German government, removal of the leadership of the Socia- list Unity part, dissolution of the People’s Army, and with- drawal of the German Demo- eratic Republic from the War- saw Pact of East European states. In addition, smaller nation- ally owned East German fac- tories were to be handed over to private ownership, West German and foreign capitalists were to be granted concessions in East Germany and the na- tionally-owned farms were to be liquidated. The plan was to get suffi- cient support within East Ger- many to carry through this program peacefully. If — this failed, however, an ultimatum was to be broadcast over the German - language Voice of America station in West Berlin and over “Free Berlin Radio.” Harich showed that he was aware of the types which would participate in such a putsch. If the plan had suc- ceeded the order would then be given: “Cease fighting, get rid of- the thieves, incendiarists, rowdies, etc.” For several months Harich had been working on his scheme, but he became espec- ially active during November (after the Poznan riots and the fighting in Hungary). In that month he had six meetings with the East Bureau of the West German Social Democra- tic ‘party. The suggestion was made that the bureau should print his proposals in leaflet form, to be smuggled into East Ger- many. Harich, 35, was professor of philosophy at East Berlin Uni- versity and editor of the Ger- man Journal of Philosophy. Steinberger was a lecturer in political economy at East Ber- lin University, and Hertwig was on the editorial staff of the Journal of Philosophy. Harich described his rela- tions with Georg Lukacs, the Hungarian writer, whom he met for the last time in Sep- tember or October last in Ber- In. The court president asked Harich if Lukacs had concur- red in his views, to which Harich answered: “Oh, yes, very strongly.” World union congress planned for October The Fourth World Trade Union Congress, sponsored by the World Federation of Trade Unions, will be held in Leipzig, Germany, October 4-15, this year. In its call to the conference, the WFTU invites trade unions from all countries, irrespective of affiliation, to send represen- tatives to the gathering. Among major questions to be discussed at the congress are: - guaranteed minimum and wage increases; reduction of “working hours; the fight against the effects of automa- tion; an end to discrimination. based on age, sex or race; con- struction of homes for working people; improvement of social security legislation; defense of trade union rights;; disarma- ment: development of back- ward, countries; and consolida- tion or achievement of national independence for colonial peo- ples. “The discussion will be free wages and frank, the platform will be open to all,” the call asserts. ROOFING Aa RS acne aay iZm) Saat a beg tin Duroid, Tar and Gravel Gutters and Downpipes Reasonable NICK BITZ AL. 4141 MARCH 22, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 15