OFF .to a GOOD START!

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A HE maintenance of any paper is a matter for the class it serves,” wrote “O]’ Bill’? Bennett a couple

of years ago. ‘The people who make millions in profits do not put any of their millions into papers that
carry on the fight for economic and political justice for the exploited workers who create these vast profits. FIRST RES U LTS
. “That is quite natural. It is just as natural, then, to expect that those who produce the millions of Bek
. profits should support a press which serves only their best interests. The readers of the Pacific Tribune ~ e Buhay Club, North Van. 2 $ 30.00
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We've selected these words of Ol’ Bill's to open our financial drive column this week, not only because Ghani ee Clase ae eee ;
they are as timely now_as the day they were written, but because we on the Pacific Tribune staff cannot Civic Workers No. ‘1 aie
visualize a press drive without Ol!’ Bill participating in it. And though lechacat A? auc te. RA ee OT Soe ee 7.00
Ol’ Bill was laid to rest more than two months ago, his spirit goes sapagas PUL pee Se ae Sa aes te ees 10.60
marching on. Letters from staunch oldtimers of the PT, many with Peitvicw-WVit *b lensant cee Ce aN 25.00 -
cheques enclosed, confirm our belief that Ol’ Bill will play a big part Frokestiprodwots as ss ia pe ee 7.00 °
in this and future drives. His wide circle of friends have picked up GipatCHb soe Meas eee ee 12.00 4
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which Ol’ Bill wrote about, talked about and worked for. all his long Hastings Gast Club iis Oates Mea ko ae hae
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When Ol’ Bill told his readers that the Pacific Tribune should be Nii Ci a ee §
supported because it serves their best interests, he did not mean that he Niilo Makel Chib BC energie ee = aaa erg eer 10.00
expected those readers to agree with every word of every article publish- Or Bi Sun RaRg ae Manny RS 6 Rea ra Geos 4.50
ed in our paper. He made his position quite clear on another occasion, < Bill memorial tributes 2... nee 11.00
when he wrote: ‘‘It is not to be expected that everyone will endorse 100 é yerson’ Club 2-2 ee ee 22.00
percent every line in our paper—but is there any paper of that kind? Strathcona’ Clube ee ee 20.00
If so, I have never seen it, and if I did, 1 believe I would take issue with Victory’ Square ‘(Glub © a ee 70.00
something in it immediately.” oY West End Club. 2s. yee 10.75
But Ol’ Bill always made it very clear that newspapers fall into Burrard oechon see ge ee ee 83.80
two camps, and that labor without a press is handcuffed. The powerful Miscellaneous.¢ Vancollver. 28% 27.50
commercial press musters the forces of reaction against every progressive Courtenay : 50.50
an made by the people. ““That is why it is necessary to foster, to maintain a press of our own,” wrote Pde See meee :
Ol’ Bill. ‘That is why we have a press drive for every reader of this column doing his share in the Seg 50.00
support of the Pacific Tribune fmancial drive this drive.” Vernon 2.00
We know that Ol’ Bill’s friends will rally to the Pacific Tribune. That is why I am banking on Hsiss
year as they have always done in the past, and we are confident that before May 15 many of them will ‘ TOTAL $681.35

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-Ican on food bills, but my husband hasn’t made any, complaints.
He is just as enthusiastic a supporter of the labor press as I am,

and agrees that the first thing we should do is make a personal
sacrifice. I hope to get donations from neighbors, also.”

have joined the ranks of 1950 Press Builders.

“RQ EACH our target? We're gomg away over the top!”
That’s the response we've been getting from clubs and
organizations which have accepted responsibility for reaching speci-

fied quotas in the 1950 Pacific Tribune financial drive.
@ Steelworker, Vancouver: “Most of my friends where I work

are opposed to C. H. Millard’s union raiding at Trail. They

i eS But what about individuals? What about our 6,000 read-

_ &rsr the majority of whom are not members of any of the orgaii-

Wations that are participating in the drive?

_, There’s a form below which individual readers: can fill out

and send in to PT business manager Fel Dorland. She will’

Send along a drive collection card by return mail.

Now the question is, how to fill the card? Here are some

_ Suggestions, culled from readers’ letters:

‘ © B.G., Vancouver: “I organized a bridge game last Saturday,
“and everyone donated 50 cents to the PT drive. There were

four tables, and that meant $8. After coffee and sandwiches, —

We played a few games of bingo and brought the total up to
$10. Now I’m shooting for $25 and a Press Builder's button,
‘0 I've lined up my friends for another bridge night.”

© E.C., Vancouver: “Selling PT subs in my area, I've met
meny progressive people. For the past two weeks I’ve been visit-
whe them, explaining about the PT drive ‘and asking for dona-
tions. So far I've collected $13 and I'm sure
figure before the drive is over.”

eel Housewife, V Seosids
budget at our house, but I’m trying to put aside
the duration of the drive. This means I’m

$1 a week for

I'll double this :

“We run things on a pretty slim

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cutting all the corners —

know the stand of the PT, and are quite willing to chip in to
keep the paper going. I think I'll make the Press Builder list
before May 15.” :

Well, there you have some suggestions. Perhaps other readers

have other ideas on how to fill a donation card; if so, we'd be

glad to hear from you. The main thing is to get cracking and

finish the drive ahéad of schedule! -

_1 WANT TO HELP

Fel Dorland, business manager, Pacific Tribune, —
650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. ;
Please send me a PT drive collection card by return mail.

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-—T, C. Sums
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member of the Labor-Progres-

sive party and former Toronte : 2

Tribune Press Builder Buttons.
to all LPP members who have
qualified during the 1950 drive,

at a special ceremony to be stag- a

ed during the provincial LPP
convention in Vancouver. ;

hag a long career in labor jour-

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