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Alice Snipper, a member of Socialist Action, died on Dec. 31, 1987, at the age of 73. We are reprinting below messages from Canada and Ireland that were sent in tribute to Alice. The first, from Ruth Bullock, was sent to the Feb. 28 memorial meeting in San Francisco.
Canada Dear comrades and friends of Alice Snipper, I join with you in paying tribute to Comrade Alice and in appreciation of her decades of faithful daily service to the Trotskyist cause.
We all come to the time when we must leave—but not everyone has done so with such a fine record as the one Comrade Alice leaves us. Let it be a worthy example to those who follow and a source of comfort to those who will miss her personally.
Ruth Bullock Vancouver, B.C.
Canada Ireland Dear editor, I read Asher Harer's article in the February issue of Socialist Action about Alice Snipper. She really was a dedicated campaigner. Our sympathy to her companion, Henry, and to her comrades. I am enclosing a poem I wrote for Alice.
"A socialist for 50 years," the paper's headline said,