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LEFT TURN!

A Column For_
WAR VETERANS

-- by Jack Phillips

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Lest We Forget.

N July, 1933, a report on unemployment was delivered to the Lower

Mainland Executive Council of the Lesion, meeting at Cloverdale.
Some excerpts from this report will do more than remind the old-
timers of what yesterday was like:

it will remind all veterans of what tomorrow will bring if we
allow the monopovlists and governments of this country to ride high,
wide and handsome again.

“Vir. King, the leader of one of the major political parties, denied
the gravity of the unemployment Situation.”
It is going to find work for ail

“Mr. Bennett said of his party:
I promise to end

who are willins to work, or perish in the attempt.
unemployment.”

“That was in July, 1930. Mr. Bennett’s party was elected, and
when they took office it was estimated there were 170,000 unemployed
in Canada. Three years have passed, and there are now nearly
1,500,000 on relief. Thousands of workers are only working part time,
whilst thousands more bave been forced to perform more work per
day at reduced rates. Wages have been ruthlessly slashed and con-
sequently standards of living have been lowered at the instigation of
the financial interests.

Thousands of war veterans are on relief and their sons are
working in government relief camps at twenty cents per day, less
than their fathers received as soldiers in the army that fought to

Save Democracy-”

“Our penitentiary population has increased 125 percent since the
war ended. Mental hospitals are taxed to the limit. Women and girls
in untold numbers have been forced into prostitution. Thousands of
good and worthy citizens have lost their homes through circumstances
Over which they had no control.”

_. “Minimum wage laws have been set at naught, as have also
the laws relating to the hours of labor.” : :
' “Social legislation relating to Mothers’ Pensions and Old Age
Pensions has been attacked.”
S “Fo add insult to injury, the pensions awarded as compensa-~
| tion to those who bore the brunt of battle in war to make Canada
a place fit for heroes to live in, have been and still are being
_reduced or cut off altogether.”

2 “Poverty, malnutrition, sickness ang despair are abundantly in
evidence. Statistics state there were 1,665 suicides in Canada in
1932. Sacrifice and still further sacrifice has been the lot of our
people during the past three years.”

i “The coupon clippers must be protected. No sacrifice has
been demanded of the holders of approximately $500,000,000 of tax
free Canadian bonds. Canada’s nationgzl resources have been handed
to the vested interests and both political parties have been equally
reprehensible in this matter.”

Believe Me, It’s True.

Many Canadians are determined as individuals that the Hungry
Thirties: must not return. Too few are united around a positive
program.

Every veteran-must back the striking Woodworkers. They worked
instintedly for victory over fascism, now they are in the front line
to win the peace. To support labor or to Support monopoly—these
are the two Choices open to veterans. Labor’s read leads to jobs,
homes, and _security- Monopoly’s road leads back to the Hungry
Thirties. Where do you stand, Buddy?

L | s Ss A
‘British Fascist
j*-sement Grows} Club Listi
£.
va vement Grows ud Listing
ast W.--Heartened by the = am
po pet refusal to ban fas- la Trib : Drive
cist, SI , Sir Oswald Mosley, =
form, Oan oF the British Union = :
of 4 better thas announced the Club Quota Raised
openticit in hi new publishing | North Burnaby $250 $297.20
PRESS on yD GS sieetion. _ |South Burnaby 175 98.50
Mosh olding public meet— Ss
ings afSOMMCi. of widespread | Central Burnaby 175 71.80
trade un the rotests to the ‘gov- | Chinese = 150 48.50
ernment, ermitted full free- | Italian 100 48.00
dom to > Seve on his fascist ac- | Civic Industrial _ 200 74,21
tivities. \t of Be : Commercial Drive 250 279.50
East End 450 819.10
Pairview 250 292.41 |
Georgia ~ 450 556.05
Ginger Goodwin 150 38.25
Grandview 300..._. 529.36
Sea & Shore 300 327.59
Shipyard ~ 350 117.02
Building Trades 100 TT.25
‘| Hastings - Hast 300 ' 388.00
Kitsilano ~ g 250 391.45
Moberley _ +» 200 219.35
Worth Vancouver 300 116.15
| Mergquay -~  » 200 230.50
South Hill - 200 172.00
Victory ‘Square 400 - 603.15
| West End 350 466.68
len Harper Youth ~ 50 31.50
Old Bill’s Column 100 167.30
‘Special ; : 600 1116.80
Al Parkin 50 47.715
Left Turn 50 33.50
Aldergrove 25 75.80
Britannia 100 341.95
Cambie-Mburne a5 39.25
Campbell River 50 29:25
Cranbrook 15 5.00
Creston 60 nil
Courtenay 85 126.40
Cumberland 100 75.00
PERCY BUDD Duncan 75 _ 125.00
“. . . rustled a total of 28 new ESI TSTEN 2 71.00
readers.” dee i Sb 11.00
Grassy Plains 50 13.00

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 6

A Tribute To The Workers Who

of the Club Press Committee.
fine set of drinking cups and

Kay Dosen of Rossland came
second with a score of 84 subs
to her credit. Kay put the heat
on in Trail one day and netted
18 new subs. Walter Gow, Jew-
eller, donated a pearl necklace
which the -"[ribune has awarded
to Kay for her fine work. Kay
was shy, no picture.

George Pavich the wrestler was
third high with a total of 59
subs to his credit and was award-
ed a leather bill fold donated
by Potters, Jewellers. George has
not been well for a considerable
part of the drive, but made a
fine showing anyway.

Hats off to Mrs. Ross who has
devoted every day all day, with-

out stop, to voluntary work in
the office for more than six
weeks. We are sure that our
readers will join with the Trib-

une staff in voting a hearty
thank you to Mrs. Ross. We pre-
sented her with as fine a flower
as Vancouver can provide as
a token of our appreciation. No
report of the drive would be
complete without the acknow-
ledgement of the help provided
by Pat Roberts, John DeWeaver,
Dunc. McLean, Caroline and
Eleanor McFarlen, Olga ‘Turple,
Mrs. Kirk, John Boyd, and, of
course, Johnnie who have all
devoted a lot of time to the
technical -work of the office. It
would have been. very difficult
for our paper to come out hyd
it not been for the unstinted
help supplied each week by these
comrades.

irwin Schwartz, just discharged

from the army, walked into the
Tribune office and has_ been
working ever since taking over
city sales and doing a dozen

other jobs on the paper. He has
made himself essential to the
Smooth functioning ~of the Trib-
une in the short time he has
been in town. Our street sales
are a means of building the Trib-

“JOHN STANTON

“ . . argued his clients into 28
frib readers.”

Kamloops 125 20.00
Ladysmith 45 25.50
Lake Cowichan 90 103.50
Langiey 30 16.50
Michel-Natal 85 139.00
Mission 60 38.50
Nanaimo 100 206.44
Welson i 45 29.00
New Westminster 300 128.65
Port Alberni 100 63.00
Eric Graf Club 50 51.25
Powell River vs) 8.00
Prince Rupert / 100 57.50
Princeton 60. 7-00
Quathiaski Cove 45 11.00
Reveistoke 60 10.00
Rossland 100 124.50
Salmon Arm . 60 66.50
Sointula. 7 73.10
Stewart Isiand 25 25.00
North Surrey 35 47.50
Surrey Centre 35 9.00
Vernon 150 36.50
Victoria 350 356.80
Zeballos 20 55.00
Copper Mountain 30 39.00
Webster’s Corners 35 45.00
South Wellington DO ee 27.00
Trail 150 26.00

Bill hustled 93 subs himself,

Made The Trib. Drive A Succes

By IVAN BIRCHARD, Business Manager, Pacific Tribune

Pop honors as subscription hustler go to Bill Hreherchuk, East End Club, chairman

The Tribune awarded Bill 4

case which was donated by Rogers Jewellers, Vancouver.

une which is not being taken

advantage of in most places.
Vancouver street Sales have
jumped from almost nil to an

average of 2,000 weekly during
the drive.

One Chinese comrade who does
not read English has raised his
Sales of the Tribune from zero
to 300 weekly. Bill Greenwood
increased sales from 50 to 100,
to 300 and even 400 weekly. Mrs:
Roderique and Gladys Nelson

$10.900 2000.

fe

E0%

10%

60%

50%

40D,

30%

20%

10%

sell several hundred a week and
the Georgia and East End Clubs
has different members cut eaeh
week selling fairly large bundles,
New Westminster, Kamloops and
Dunean are other localities where
results have been obtained sim-
ply by ordering a bundle and
selling them. James Phillipson of
Nanaimo, Frank Bottner, Port
Alberni, Frank Halverson — of
Kamloops each sell 100 papers a
week.

We cannot be satisfied to allow

We. “BILL” HREHERCHUK
“... tops with 93 subs to PT, and
Bill didn’t count renewals.”

the achievements of this drive
to be lost. Our circulation can
be doubled again in a short time
if every reader becomes a booster
—sells subS and orders bundles,

Build Our Tribune To A Mighty
Voice of Labor!

Wow that our press drive is
over, it is time to start checking
up on challenges that were care
lessly bantered around during the
early part of the campaigns.

Rumor had it
Club was going to lick the tar
out of Kitsilano in subscriptions
and donations. The loser was to
treat the winner to Aa social eve
ning.

that Pairview

We are now prepared to accept
Fairview’s most gracious offer
and are looking forward to a
pleasant affair.

GEORGE PAVICH
- - - Cam also wrestle subs, and
scored second with 59.”

JOHN GREENE
Hlouse: Gen. 0654-1.

Chicopractor
402 DOMINION BANK BLDG.
Office Phone: PA 4849
207 West Hastings

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FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1946