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By IVAN BIRCHARD

We are well satisfied towards establishing a _tmaintain our press and’ radio.

with the beginning we have made regular

income of donations to Subscriptions are also coming

in faster than any time since our drive.

While we have not reached 4 position where the income balances expenses, we have gone quite a way towards that goal. In fact, had our income been any way near the figures achieved this past month, we would be fairly secure. fo guarantee our broadcast and our ‘paper has sufficient funds without Going heavily into debt, we must have a minimum cf $4,000 in dona- tions by the end of this year. It will réquire support from all clubs and all readers to raise this amount.

For several weeks we have held out the objective of 5,000 new read_ ers. Let us reach that goal by De cember 31. We will break the 5,000 down eas 2,500 subscribers and 2,500 inereased bundle orders.

Both these objectives can be reached if all supporters pull their weight, step up the systematic sup- port for our press and radio and

get the habit cf working a little

bit for the press all year round. Please write us and let us know what part you can play in fuaran- teeing the life of our press and “radio to the end of the year.

Bill Hreherchuck deserves special mention again this week—Bill went to Powell River and returned in a few days with 27 subscriptions and $33.45 donations to the radio fund collected from Powell River friends.

We are pleased to report over $209.60 in donations and 87 sub- scriptions for this week.

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Little Mountain squatters will

stay put until homes are found

By EFFIE JONES

“I got a job in Vancouver, but the only place I could find for my family was in New Westminster. It took too much of my time travelling back and forth and TI couldn’t

afford two places, so I used to slee

my family weekends.”

This is how a veteran de- scribed for me the plight which led te his becoming one of the Little Mountain squatters. His is one of thirteen veterans’ fami-

lies who have moved into empty

huts—former sergeants’ quarters —at the army camp since last week. Over the weekend the army, acting on instructions from the national defense department, dis- connected light and water sery- ices. But the squatters have an- nounced that they have no in- tention of vacating until authori- ties find them accommodation as good as the quarters they have seized. é =

Most of them can’t leave. They have nowhere to go. Now they are waiting to see how they will be affected by the federal govern- ment’s decision to turn over the old Dunsmuir Hotel, operated dur- ing the war as a hostel for the Merchant Seamen’s Pool, to the Citizens’ Rehabilitation Council.

The government’s announce- ment made a point of stating that the decision to use the old Duns- muir Hotel for veterans in the Same way that the old Vancou- ver Hotell has been operated since veterans occupied it early this year had no connection with the

squatters’ invasion of Littie Mountain army camp, but the squatters themselves feel that

their action Has had a great deal to do with the government’s move.

For one thing, their action has focussed attention on the fact

A good example

There are increasing indica- _ ions that the daily radio pro- gram—Labor Looks Behind the Headlines’”—is being recog- nized as an important new fac- tor in labor publicity. :

The recent advertisement ap- pealing for funds for Al Par- kin’s five-minute program, Which appeared in the Tribune and a number of weekly news- papers, has had some results. It raight be noted, however, that the best results came when the 2ppearance of the ad- vertisement was followed up by crganized Canvassing by in- dividuals or groups among neighbors and fellow workers on the 306, who in every case Have been more than willing to contribute funds to “keep ‘labor on the air.”

As a good example of the Kind of letters being received in recent days, we reprint the following from the Lithuanian duiterar:: Society of Vancouver, and addressed to the editor of the Tribune;

“The Lithuanian Literary So- ciety in Vancouver held a so- cial recently. From the proceeds one sum of fifty dollars ($50) was given to Al Parlin’s radio broadcast, and another fifty dollars donated to a fund for the purchasing of implements for the Agricultural Academy in Soviet Lithuania.

“We consider ‘Labor Looks Behind the Headlines’ as 2

’ Snust’? broadcast for all peace- loving people, and we wish to see it continued and expanded.”

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- EFERFTE JONES “.... a black market.”

that more than a year after the ending of hostilities hundreds of veterans and their families in Vancouver have no place they can call home. For another, the gov- ernment’s counter-action in cut- ting off facilities has drawn Scores of protests, particularly from veterans’ groups, from those who feel that the needs of men who fought for their country Should be placed first.

Behind the squatters’ action is the story of the black market in building materials and wun- curbed profiteering in -~ housing resulting from federal, provincial and civic indifference to their needs which forced them to oc- cupy the army huts in a desper- ate effort to solve their problems.

“My landlady told me I had no

time,” one young wife told me. “It wasn’t much of a room I had, although IT paid $28 4 month for it, but she refused to have my two children there. That meant I had to pay $50 a month for their recom and board at an- other place. I didn’t like not be ing able to have them with me

any more than any other mother

would, but what could I do? Here, at least, we can all be together.”

Last Saturday, as president of the Tenants and Homeowners’ League, I visited the Squatters

and saw for myself the danger- ous conditions forced on them by the government’s order to cut off light and water. :

Little children were sleeping: on mattresses on the floor with candles burning in saucers’ burn-— ing nearby. The huts had good wash basins and toilets, but with- out water they would soon be come a menace to ‘health. It was apparently of no concern toe the authorities that they were creat- ing a fire hazard endangering the lives of children or setting the Conditions for a possible outbreak of sickness in the camp.

i immediately sent this wire to Defense Minister Douglas Ab- bott:

“Desperate veterans and their families here have taken over un- used army huts. Light and water have been shut off. This is creat- ing a Serious fire and health hazard. The Tenants and Home- owners: League demands that your department restore light and water immediately. It further de mands that your department in- sist Tlisley quit ‘quack, quack, quacking” with insurance compan- ies and start building decent low- rent housing.”

Little Mountain Squatters have now formed their own organiza—

tion, Little Mountain Squatters Association, with John Cox as their president. They are pre-

ared sto pay any reasonable rent to the authorities, But they are also determined to stay in the

buildings until the authorities meet their demands for decent accommodation.

If you are interested in their problem, you can hear John Cox tell about it when the Tenants and Homeowners: ieague holds its next monthly meeting at Hast. ings Auditorium, 828 Hastings St., on Thursday, October 10; at 8 p.m:

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