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The National Film Board of Canada has been in a state of crisis since
the imposition of severe budget cuts by the Federal Government a year
ago. These cuts reduced our purchasing power by 18%.

To sum up the effects of the budget cuts on our ability to operate
effectively have been devastating. Unless the Board receives an
increase in funds, we will witness the rapid distintegration of an
organization which has served the public well for forty years.

We are conscious ofthe need for spending restraint in many sectors of
the Public service. It should be understood, however, that the arts
and communications industry is highly labour intensive, providing more
jobs pers dollar than any other industry, and responds dramatically to
even small infusions of money. The funds needed to restore the N.F.B.
for example, would not be enough to purchase one fighter jet, or build
much more than a mile of super highway. The Board needs, approximately,
an additional 20 cents per citizen.

The arts and communications industry in Canada has been locked in a life
and death struggle to prevent the total takeover of our film and televi-
sion screens, and our publishing houses by a dynamic American industry.
The National Film Board has played a key role in this struggle. Our
ability to continue to do so is now in jeopardy.

If you believe in the work of the N.F.B. and wish to see it continue,
please make yourself heard. We ask you to send letters of support or
telegrams to the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State and and your
Member of Parliament, now, before it is too late. Address - The House
of Commons, Ottawa.

-...-Normand Gagnon
Claude Godin
Marie Nycz
Robert Verall
Unions of Employees at the National
Film Board

FOR SALE

1/4 size Suzuki violin. Good bow and case. Good tone! Has two years

of use. $150 or offers. (For age about 7-10). Bill Kelley, Richmond
local 46. Home 263-7489.

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