Volume 1, No. 1

Banquet / Tyrras ... 1 

On the evening of July 8 the banquet hall in the Palace of Culture was filled with working men dressed in limp suits and hardy women in tight summer dresses. These were the men and women who had worked on the factory floor soldering, grinding, riveting and forging patrol boats and other such small craft. These people used to be state employees, but now they were becoming part owners of the Amur Machine Works. At a table, with small Russian, Japanese and Canadian flags to symbolize the  multinational aspect of the business venture, a ceremonial signing was repeated for the benefit of Amur Machine Works collective, and a photographer took separate pictures of Evgeny Bondarenko, Osa Harioto, and Bob Bellamy as each one in turn sat down and posed with pen in hand as if they were just about to initial the agreement. More pictures were taken with the three of them shaking hands together. Finally a group picture