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Students gathered in the sun-

shine for a special general meeting
of the Simon Fraser University
Student Society Thursday com-
Mitted their organization to a
slate of activities with other cam-
pus groups and the province-wide
Solidarity Coalition to counter
the whammy on post-secondary
€ducation from several pieces of
Provincial government legisla-
tion.
_ The two-hour meeting, at
which all students who attended
were eligible to vote, saw over-
whelming endorsation of mo-
tions committing the student
union to full participation in the
hext major march and rally plan-
| ned to coincide with the Socred
Convention at the Hotel Van-
couver Oct. 15.

The approximately 500
| Students, several of whom took to
the microphone to support in-
itiatives from the student society,
also approved participation by

the SFU Budget Coalition in
solidarity activities during the
first weeks of October.

Simon. Fraser’s coalition con-
sists of the student society, its
staff unions, two locals of the
Association of University and
College Employees representing
university staff,.and the faculty
and administrators associations.
They engage in coordinated ac-
tions with a similar coalition at
the University of B.C., are
represented on the steering com-
mittee of the Lower Mainland
Solidarity Coalition, and are a
part of the coalition’s Education
and Social Services Committee.

“Tt’s time to let the Socreds
know there’s a majority against
them,’’ said coalition represen-
tative and SFU Faculty Associa-
tion president Ehor Boyanowsky,
to applause.

In urging support for the mo-
tions calling for increased and
united activity against the Socred

legislation, Boyanowsky warned
that ‘‘the government has
declared war on all of us.”’

The faculty president noted
that Simon Fraser faces a budget
cut of at least five per cent this

year.
The worst cut — 40 percent —
has slashed student financial aid,

noted student society external
relations officer Kevin Russellina
recent statment.

More than 300 SFU students
have found themselves ineligible
for student financial assistance
under the new regulations, and
provincial government delays in-
forwarding existing funds means
the university’s financial awards
office is five weeks behind
schedule in processing applica-
tions, Russell noted.

The devastating cut in provin-
cial grants — which helps keep
low-income students from post-
secondary education — is par-
ticularly draconian considering

Students, SFU coalition pledge
_ support for Solidarity activities

the hike by the federal govern-
ment of eight per cent to the loan
portion of the student aid
package, speakers at the rally
noted.

“There are many students who
couldn’t be here today because of
those cuts,’’ student society
representative Stephen Howard
told the crowd.

Speakers Nick Witheford of
the B.C. Organization to Fight
Racism, and Faith Jones of
Women Against the Budget —
both SFU students — linked the
abolition of the Human Rights
Commission, the Rentalsman’s
office and rent controls and legal
aid cutbacks as developments
that also hurt students.

In that spirit the assembly
adopted a resolution noting that
Socred legislation jeopardizes
students ‘‘in many ways outside

their educational experience”’and .

calling on students to participate
in the Oct. 15 march and rally.

Rallies mark Solidarity

action in ‘Socred country’

< What is commonly known as
‘ country” may never be
the same following a rally and
ited job action by the local
Solidarity Coalition in Prince
George Wednesday.

Some 3,000 trade unionists,
Members of several locals of major
Public sector unions, staged in-

- dividual rallies and meetings before
8athering at the Plaza 400 mall for
‘ducational activities on the pro-
Vincial goverment’s cutbacks, and
the abolition of human rights ac-

_COmpanying the budget legislation,
from noon until 6 p.m.

Ken Stahl, president of the
Prince George and District Labor

il and vice-president of the
local Solidarity Coalition, called
the action a major success and
“stimated the public display reach-
&d some 7,000 to 8,000 Prince

: rge residents.

“As far as I’m concerned, this

Was one of the biggest successes in
© Prince George area, and we’d

do it again tomorrow if asked,”
told the Tribune. ‘““When you

_ SOnsider that this is Socred coun-

» With two Socred MLAs, it was

A Surrey disarmament coalition
ents to pack city council
ambers Oct. 3 to urge a hearing

. for delegations promoting a disar-
7 ct referendum in the
“Unicipality’s next elections.

' Gig Calition spokesman Steve

dora said the group has been try-

5 ae to persuade council to bring the

ent vote, which has been

f held in several municipalities across
i, SS and more than 100 in Canada,

re Surrey’s electors.
th The Coalition had been offered

“lt case, but refused because few
tions could arrange to be ab-

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an enormous success — contrary to
BCTV reports,’’ he said.

The network, and some other
big-business media, made much of
the fact that private sector unions
did not participate in the effort
(although several leaders made
statements supporting the action),
noting that the activities did not
shut down operations in the in-
dustrial city.

Such was never the intent of the
action, planned as the first of a
series of Solidarity Coalition ac-
tivities to take place outside the
Lower Mainland. ‘

Involved in the action were the
Hosptial Employees Union, the
Canadian Union of Public
Employees, the B.C. Government
Employees Union, the Firefighters
Association, the local teachers
association affiliated to the B.C.
Teachers Federation, the Interna-
tional Woodworkers and the
United Native Nations.

inning at noon, some 200
non-medical staff and HEU
members at the Prince George
Regional Hospital gathered in the
hospital cafeteria to hear speeches

i Activists seek peace vote.

sent from work at that time. The
Oct. 3 council meeting takes place
at 7 p.m.

Mayor Don Ross has consistent-
ly opposed efforts for the civil
peace vote, and ruled out of order
an attempt by Ald. Bob Bose to
allow delegations to appear before
council during the Sept. 19 night
session.

The peace coalition includes the
Fraser Valley Peace Council, the
White Rock Coalition for Peace,
the New Horizons Peacemakers,
the Surrey Teachers Association,

- locals of the Canadian Union of

Public Employees and several
other groups:

by HEU secretary-business
manager Jack Gerow and fired
Human Rights Commission chair-
man Charles Paris.

Meanwhile, 200 CUPE
members rallied at noon outside
the city hall to hear B.C. Federa-
tion of Labor secretary-treasurer
Mike Kramer promise further and
escalating actions if the Socreds
failed to repeal the budget bills,
before marching to the Plaza 400.

Kramer said large-scale job ac-
tion could follow the Socreds’ ef-
forts to ram the unpopular legisla-
tion through the House, urging
trade unionists to ‘‘save your pen-
nies’’ because ‘“‘I suspect that the
trade union movement will have to

‘look at a closure movement of its

own.”’

An estimated 900 to 1,000
teachers finished classes one hour
early to attend a rally at Vanier
Hall, while firefighters participated
by distributing leaflets at street cor-
ners. Approximately 300 to 500
private sector workers attended the
display during lunch hours, Stahl
reported.

The local Solidarity Coalition
has also sent telegrams to Educa-
tion Minister Jack Heinrich and
Deputy Speaker Bruce Strachan re-
questing they attend meetings to
“explain their legislation at the
grassroots level.’”’ But neither of the
local MLAs has responded to the
request, said Stahl.

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VDLC backs
occupation

Delegates to the Vancouver
and District Labor Council gave
the people who occupied the
cabinet offices a gesture of sup-
port Sept. 20, as they
unanimously endorsed a mo-
tion which stated that the coun-
cil ‘‘fully understands and ap-
preciates the anger and frustra-
tion of those who occupied the
cabinet offices and commends
them for their restrained and ex-
emplary conduct.”

The resolution, presented by
the executive board, also
reiterated the council’s condem-
nation of the July 7 budget and
the demand that the govern-
ment withdraw the legislative

package.

UFAWU delegate Jim
Rushton, one of the occupiers,
told delegates that the action
had been undertaken to
dramatize the ‘‘grave situation”
created by the Socred govern-
ment.

He added, however, that
their action should not be con-
sidered as ‘‘open season” for
any group to occupy public

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Although details of how the
action was organized could not
be made public, he said, ‘‘it was
not something we did in isola-
tion from rest of the labor
movement.’’

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