BY TED LEONARD
Miami and New Zealand are at the top of the Pathfinder Fund chart this week. After four weeks both areas are ahead of schedule, but many areas collection is lagging. Janet Post, a supporter of the international fund drive in Miami, described how supporters there have stayed on time in their contributions. "We keep a chart entitled `Fund Drive to Reprint Pathfinder Books' that tracks the contributions both locally and internationally to graphically follow the drive each week. We also have regular organized discussions among supporters of the Pathfinder Fund to discuss the importance of making regular payments and who else we can reach out to for contributions."

Supporters of the Pathfinder Fund in every city should discuss how to step up the collection of pledges in order to get the fund back on schedule. "We have only received $20,000, which puts us at 16 percent collected, when we should be at 40 percent," fund director Maggie Trowe said.

"There is a tradition among Pathfinder supporters that we take pride in meeting our fund drive goals `in full and on time,' " Trowe continued. "This is possible if we take steps now to turn around the slow pace of contributions. Funds received are immediately used to make possible the production of reprints like Crisis of the French Section (1935-36) by Leon Trotsky; Leon Trotsky on China; and The Chinese Communist Party in Power by P'eng Shu-tse, which are in production in Pathfinder's print shop right now."

Work is being done now to prepare to go back to press to produce 450 copies of The Changing Face of U.S. Politics: Working-Class Politics and the Trade Unions, and 1,000 copies of The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara. Interest has risen in The Bolivian Diary, one of Pathfinder's strongest sellers, with increased debate on the significance of Guevara's internationalist work and with the release of a film on the revolutionary's Bolivian campaign.

Keep those checks rolling in! Contributions received by noon Tuesday will be counted on the chart in the Militant each week. Reports on fund-raising meetings and activities should be received by the previous Friday.  
 
 
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