si hah lA i. iA af Tt tL a one | 2 VV ee oo | WHERE DO YOU STAND? Last January our Pacific Tribune press clubs accepted yearly circulation targets, with the understanding that in addition to actual subs and renewals se- cured, every 25 papers sold would be credited as a sub by our business office. Since then there has been some improvement in street sales, although this is mostly the work of a few press clubs and individuals. Some 100 papers were sold at the big rally on unemployment in Georgia Auditorium last week, and the paper is sold at many union and public meetings. We would like this method of introducing the PT to new readers to be extended during the coming months. A look at the figures below will show that while some press clubs have done excellent work and gone away over their quotas for the year, and others are on the verge of success, many more have not made the effort required. There is still time to change the picture. How about sending your friends 2 PT subscription as a Christmas gift. Everyone knows someone who should become acquainted with a paper such as ours, which works for world peace, supports the trade unions in their battles, fights to extend democracy and pro- jects the ideas of a better world — a socialist Canada in a socialist world. Sub to tals at December 3 * GREATER VANCOUVER PROVINCE CLUB TARGET ACHIEVED ROsomhe ss. es 20D 146* cLus : : TARGET ACHIEVED Probsiway ss. 222. 100 137* manererove <> 15 16 gs ee SR ee 53 Cranbrook. « 6 css 15 2 OS SS Rae aS 23 : = 5 Dienbtiiel. ce GS 38 ee Se = Ghatak: 40 31 Fort Langley -----.---- 40 32 Sarandview: = S22: 110 103 Wake 50 28 mes East Se 5 44 — Ss East 35 Kamloops We a 3 Poseeea 15 41* mensinston. ~ _—_--.___. 90 70 Moun.’ Pleasant ____---- 65 50 Ladner -------------- 25 11 Niilo Makela --------- 40 * 22 Maple Ridge __-__-_--- 44 32 Nereuay se 75 50 S 2 : 1-Nat sis eae re AG Glsin ieee BSNS 25 16 Michel-Natal 35 7 Pane Paks 10 5 Nission.~ =.= 25 40* Paint Grey IS 88* Nelson (8 eS 131* Strathcona 2..==-—--- 30 35* : ; = Victory Square -------- 125 87 Notch Aan (

. 10 6 North Van Dist. ------ 80 38 Notth Sues 3h 4g* City Miscellaneous -_-- 300 269 South Surrey, —-- == 30 14 Trail Rossland 2) = 100 53 VANCOUVER ISLAND z Vernon. 2.2 ee 39% Albernis ------------- 125 84 Correspondence ------ 25 15 Campbell River ------ 60 29 Courtenay ~~ --------- 65 23 PROVINCE MISCELLANEOUS Cumberland ---------- 50 43 Rirdtenning <2 15 6 Cowichan ------------ 70 52 Prince Rupert —------- 15 18° Nae tty ooo roe oR 275 187 Salmon Arn. 4 13 Parksville ieee 32 Sointuia: = 45 27 SS Se ee 175 121 Miscellaneous -~-_----- 210 137 CLC STAND Unemployment now — national emergency The Canadian Labor Con- gress, now revising its: esti- mates of unemployment sharp- ly upwards, has called again for emergency government action. Estimating that this winter the number of applicants for jobs may rise to 700,000, CLC president Claude Jodoin says, “The figures issued by the government confirm our fears that unemployment this winter may be the worst since the war.” Unemployment is rising; but So are dividends. The cumu- lative total of dividend pay- ments this year is up 14 per- cent over 1956 — $639,969,477 to the end of November 1957 as compared to $579,007,405 for the first 11 months of last year. : The figures to which Jodoin referred were released by the National Employment Serv- ice, and show that as of Octo- ber 18, 278,698 Canadians were seeking work from the government agency — 121,306 more than at the same time last year, with every district in the country showing sharp increases. Estimates are that now there are at least 350,000 unemployed in Canada. “With winter unemploy- ment on the scale that seems probable, this constitutes a national emergency and calls for’ emergency action,” the CLC president said.. He called for immediate in- creases in unemployment in- surance. “The 51 week maxi- mum should be restored and seasonal benefits extended to cover December. Unemployed immigrants should receive. as- —istance along lines recently proposed by the -Canadian Welfare Council and the Can- adian Labor Congress. For many, unemployment benefits are already exhaust- ed. The Toronto Star in an editorial last week describes the plight of homeless men in Toronto — “Two hundred and twenty stranded men sought shelter from the cold and wind at Fred Victor mis- sion Sunday night... . No one knows how many were sleeping in boxcars or in the ‘tunnel’ of the Union Station heating system. The story was much the same every night ' this week, and as winter comes it will get worse.” In sharp contrast to this pic- ture of mounting unemploy- ment and human suffering is the statement of Canada’s Finance Minister Donald Flem- ing last week: “Tf this is a national emerg- ency, all I can say is that prac- tically every country in the world would like to have a national emergency like it.” Fleming is reported to have made a “deep impression” in this speech. He was, however, not speaking to unemployed men and women, but to an audience of top U.S. and Can- adian business executives in Toronto. Recognition of the real prob- lem facing Canadians this winter, despite official gov- ernment assurances to the contrary, was the proposal ad- vanced at the Dominion-Pro- vincial talks to have the fed- eral government foot 50 per- cent of relief costs to employ- able unemployed. Continued from page 9 CONQUEST high as 400 degrees Cente- grade. Flights to Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto along paths requiring a minimum initial velocity would take too much time. Super - powerful “express” rockets would there- fore have to be built to reach them. Although the gravitational pulls of these planets are al- most the same as that of the earth, their natural conditions are unsuitable for man. It has been established that their atmospheres consist chiefly of methane and that their sur- face temperatures are very low. What about journeys to the nearest stars? If we scan the canopy of the heavens with the naked ey® we cannot tell the difference between the planets and the stars, But although the two seem to be equally removed from the earth, the distance be tween the planets and stars is really very great. Light ray$ from Pluto, the most distant planet of the solar system, reach the earth in less tha? seven hours, wheareas it takes © more than four years for light to cover the distance betwee? the nearest visible star and th® earth. Flights to the stars therefore seem to be a matter of th® very remote future. December 6, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 10