Rental of school to Temple called ‘dangerous precedent’ COPE’s WEINSTEIN (left), public school rental to Glad Tidings Temple. KNAPP...warn of implications of —Fred Wilson photo The rental of public school facilities to a private religious school is setting a ‘‘dangerous precedent’”’ which could have far- reaching implications, the Com- mittee of Progressive Electors warned this week. COPE was reacting to the de- cision last month by the Vancou- ver School Board to rent the Ren- frew School Annex to the Glad Tidings Temple. Christian Value school while freezing out students from the public Sunrise East School which had hoped to use the facility to expand its pro- gram for dropout students. “That school should have been made available to students in the public school system,”’ COPE ed- ucation critic Dr. Pauline Wein- stein said Sunday. ‘‘A neighbor- ing high school needs that school for its rehabilitation program.” The neighboring high school is Vancouver Technical School which has successfully operated Sunrise East School for a number of years, as a public alternative school which brings school drop- outs back into the classroom. Phony shortage UPS gas price oe Joined by a number of organizations and some 300 supporters Saturday, the Pacific Life Community marched from the Queen Elizabeth Theatre plaza through downtown Vancouver streets, to the U.S. consulate and then to Stanley Park to protest the Trident submarine base in Bangor, Wash. Above, masked demonstrators march past the U.S. consulate building. A further demonstration is slated for June 9 at the Peace Arch. —Sean Griffin photo ILWU set to strike June 7 The bargaining committee for the Canadian Area of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehouse- men’s Union unanimously rejected Justice Henry Hutcheon’s concilia- tion report this week and will move now towards a strike date of June 7. ILWU Canadian Area secretary Frank Kennedy said that schedule of meetings was being set up with all B.C. locals to prepare the membership ‘‘to implement the strike mandate against all member companies of the B.C. Maritime Employers’ Association,’’ bargain- ing agent for the employers. - Hutcheon’s report, released last week, recommended that a new vote be taken by the ILWU mem- bership on the terms of the propos- ed three-year agreement. The pact had been accepted by an arrow one-vote majority but the vote turned to rejection in a re- count May 3 which showed the vote to be 1,126 against and 1,125 in favor. : New talks were indicated follow- ing the rejection vote but the BCMEA instead turned to federal conciliator Hutcheon for a ruling. In his report, Hutcheon said that he couldn’t do anything to improve the terms of the agreement and call- ed for the pact to be re-submitted to the BCMEA member companies: and the longshoremen. The BCMEA had earlier harden- ed its bargaining stance, indicating ~ that its approval of the contract had ended with the longshoremen’s re- jection. Hutcheon also noted in his report that there appeared to be ‘‘a growing reluctance’’ among the maritime employers to make wage increases retroactive. Some’ 2,500 regular longshoremen, in addition to nearly 1,000 casuals are covered by the BCMEA contract. ‘Get off butt’, Fed tells Pacific Press B:C. Federation of Labor presi- dent Jim Kinnaird told Pacific Press Tuesday to ‘‘get off its butt’’ in the seven-month-old strike lockout and pledged the full sup- port of the Federation to the press strikers. Kinnaird’s call was aimed at com- pelling the company to move on the cont...iious manning dispute with Printing Pressmen following the union’s proposal to submit the issue to binding arbitration based on cer- tain conditions. Although. Pacific Press has argued that the conditions stand in the way of resolution—and earlier claimed that the Pressmen had withdrawn their proposal—the Pressmen pointed out that the con- ditions were in line with general union practice and made it clear that the proposal was on the table and provided the basis for a resolu-. tion of one of the chief issues in the strike-lockout. In the wake of phony gasoline shortages in western capitalist coun- tries, multinational oil corporations in this country are preparing for huge increases in the price of oil and gasoline and are demanding massive new giveaways from the federal government. B.C. Energy minister Jim Hewitt this week admitted that there is no shortage of gasoline supplies in B.C., but nevertheless indicated that the: retail price of gasoline should. rise to about $1.15 per gallon for ~‘‘conservation’’ measures. Hewitt’s statements were follow- ed by a thinly veiled threat from Im- perial Oil president Jack Armstrong that the new federal Tory govern- ment should ‘“‘put its money where its mouth is’? and come across with substantial new tax incentives and subsidies if it expected the ‘‘co- operation”’ of the oil industry’ in Canada. Only months ago the National Energy Board declared that Canada had ample domestic supplies of oil and gas to the extent that a west coast oil port and pipeline was not needed at this time and that exports of natural gas to the U.S. could be increased. Now Canadian oil industry spokesmen are falling into line with their U.S. counterparts and are warning of gas rationing and lineups in this country similar to those in California. The so-called gas shortage in the U.S., particularly in California, has been denounced as a complete hoax by elected officials, community leaders and unionists. A coalition of community groups and unions this week in Los Angeles called for a one day work stoppage to protest the shortage hoax and to force down the price of gas. ‘‘If they withhold their energy, we’ll withhold ours,’’ Blase Bonpane of. the Southern Californian Energy Coalition declared May 22. The coalition included. the United Elec- trical Workers Union, the Longshoremens Union, the American Federation of State. County and Municipal Employees and several community groups and churches. - _The coalition have demanded that the gas price gouging be stop- ped and prices rolled back, that President Carter immediately order the oil companies to allocate suffi- cient supplies to California, that energy minister Schlesinger be removed and that the decision to See Olt pg. 2 The success of the school, now operating out of a small store front, prompted administrators to expand its program from the pres- ent 30 students — and they had expected to get the Renfrew An- nex facility. Wes Knapp, a member of the COPE education committee, told the Tribune Wednesday that some 65 to 70 students were waiting to get into the Sunrise East School, an indication of its success. a 1 alternative program. see PRECEDENT pg. 2 £¥ *1YC: The Tribune marks In- ternational! Children’s Day, June 1, with a_ pictorial layout and a look at how the declaration on the rights of the child finds application in the Soviet Union, pages 6 and 7 *HOUSING: In the second of three articles, Fred Wilson examines the hous- ing crisis in Vancouver and the failure of senior govern- ments to provide for low in- come people, page 3 *NATO: Daily World cor- respondent William- Pomeroy adds Part II to his in-depth analysis of the new arms buildup by the NATO countries. (Part 1 was car- ried in the May 18 Tribune.) page 10.