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Wednesday, January 9, 1985

Newsstand Price 40° Vol. 48, No. 1

Star wars: will Reagan’s plan
make space the final frontier?

— page 10

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— SEAN GRIFFIN

A packed COPE nomination meeting in the Sheraton Plaza Monday unanimously endorsed Bruce Yorke for the Feb. 2

_ byelection as the campaign officially kicked off. Noting that the Vancouver Labor Council, the B.C. Federation of Labor,
Building Trades, Vancouver NDP constituency associations and numerous community leaders had backed his campaign,
Yorke echoed others in terming the unity “‘historic. For the first time, the progressive forces are united behind a single
candidate,” he said. He added that the unity had had “‘an exhilarating effect on campaign workers” but emphasized that the

“mood had to be organized to ensure a massive turnout on election day. Campaign co-managers Margaret Birrell and Fred
Wilson told the meeting that the campaign would extend right across the city and urged supporters to volunteer for the
telephone canvass, a leaflet drop Jan. 12 and work on E-Day Feb. 2. The COPE headquarters is at 111 Victoria Drive,
253-5108. (Rankin, page 2.)

The price
of cutting
universal
programs

— page 2 —

Labor opens
campaign
for shorter
work week

— page 8 —

Laborers’ concessions pact slammed

— page 12

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