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Bob. Towle, and outstanding supporter of this paper, sent the following letter-to-the-editor which we are happy to publish. Despite his advanced age and illness, as was the case last year, Bob managed to raise $500 for the sustaining fund of the PT. This year Bob hopes, with the help of his friends, to do as well or even better:

The goal of Socialism embraces all the activity of the working class. Activity is generated by the needs of the working class. Marxian Socialism is the solution, but to obtain this entails effort and education by the militant section in the form of getting the workers to take part in the day to day struggle — “to make this country a better place to live in.” Such struggles include housing, education, medicare, old age assistance, and above all the struggle for peace.

The best media to unite us and assist us to working along these lines is the PACIFIC TRIBUNE. And with the tremendous opposition of the capitalist system, with all its forces of propaganda (Capitalist press, etc.) the CIA and the Canadian equivalent (RCMP), we have to fight diligently to beat back the forces of reaction to achieve some of our immediate objectives and to teach the workers how to achieve socialism, which would mean a full life for everyone.

This requires a great effort in financing! Therefore we have to raise $17,000 to keep OUR paper in circulation. The price of printing is going up every year with all other costs. The only source of this money is the understanding members and readers of YOUR paper, the Pacific Tribune.

Therefore, I am asking a personal appeal for each and everyone to assist us to achieve our fairly large quota. You can do this in two ways:

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The paper will grow and you will have the satisfaction of having helped it to grow, and we shall be all ever grateful for our great effort.

helped it to grow, and we shall all be “ever grateful for our great

effort. Yours in the fight,

Bob Towle.

Gold Crisis L. A. Vancouver, writes: I found the article giving the background of the gold crisis of interest.

Reading it one gets the idea that there are actually two bases for the judging of solvency, concerning a country; — whereas such a double standard does not apply elsewhere in business.

Thus it seems that, following the early days when payments of balance of payments were actually made in gold, has come a situation in which a country could be perfectly solvent based on her ability to pay because having the assets to do so. But this same country could be and was penalised in the payment of her debts, because she had not the one commodity, gold, required (theoretically) to back every unit of that currency.

And one is led to surmise that any . such country has thus had to endure an added penalty imposed upon the assumed value of her currency when paying her debts merely because this situation suited the bankers rather than that there is no other system of payment possible; — even with a debt payment currency backed partially or fully by gold — though probably less profitable to the bankers.

The evidence. of injustice in balance of payments seem to be proved when one notices that the U.S., which for years had evidently been unable to pay in gold, has had her curency accepted as “‘good as gold’’ because of her evident ability to meet her debts in productive capacity. But Canada, with a similar capacity has been penalized because she may happen to be a ‘debtor’. But as most of us know, or should know, rules could be altered when it suited the Establishment to alter them — as now.

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DR. JAMES ENDICOTT, Chairman of the Canadian Peace Congress, who recently returned from an emergency meeting on the Vietnam war in Stockholm, will speak at a public meeting in Vancouver on Thur., April 18 at 8 p.m. in the Peretz School, 6184 Ash St. The meeting is under the auspices of the B.C. Peace Council.

New foreign policy urged

The B.C. Peace Council at its meeting March 31 unanimously passed a resolution calling on the newly-elected Prime Minister at the Liberal convention to take steps to formulate an independent foreign policy for Canada.

The resolution urged that such a foreign policy should result in greater pressure on the U.S. to stop the bombing of Vietnam unconditionally; to cancel the U.S.-— Canada 1959 arms agreement until the war in Vietnam is over: to withdraw Canada from NATO and reverse the recent decision to extend NORAD for another five years.

Chairman of the Council, J. Beeching, told the meeting in his annual report that there was a greater awareness of the danger of war on the part of the Canadian people and that “these forces are capable of pushing Canada over the

brink — not the brink of war but the ~

brink of peace.”’

The Council decided to embark on — a campaign to collect school supplies ‘to be sent to the bombed out schools of Vietnam.

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