‘“*How soon they forget,”’ our own prizes. Giant in the World of Sport’’. level . services.”’ It is worth reading. (New booklet isa > must for sports fans could well be the comment on the minds of amateur sport people in Canada. Two months ago Canada was host to the outstanding sports event in the world, the Olympic Games. Not unexpectedly, the lessons learned from the drubbing that we, took in Montreal in July have been shoved to the background in the breast beating wake of the Canada Cup. Just give the pros a chance to put things on a business basis and they will prove that we are the best — even if we have to create Not everyone though has let the lessons of the Olympic Games be eclipsed by the flash of nickel. A very valuable contribution to the heritage of the Montreal games has been provided by Kontakt Press, a progressive German lahguage publishing house in Can- ada, who have published a booklet in English entitled “Little The 64 page booklet is a collection of articles by Montreal Gazette sportswriter Doug Gilbert that are addressed to the question of questions for Canadians concerned with our ability to compete in the world of international sport — How is it that a country of roughly equal population such as the German Democ- ratic Republic can in only a few years achieve sports excellence in such a wide range of fields. What can explain a small country like the GDR surpassing even America to finish in second place in the overall Olympic medal standings. Indeed, the solution to this mystery is the problem for Canada. For many years a widely read sports columnist in Canada, . Doug Gilbert set out to solve the mystery with a fact finding tour to the GDR in 1973. In the months following he published a series of comparative articles on the sports programs of the GDR and Canada. It is these articles, used by the permission of the Montreal Gazette, that form the main contents of the booklet. Gilbert’s commentary on sports in the GDR is factual and educational. He outlines a well organized and effective system for both mass involvement and individual excellence in sports which, interestingly, may cost less than the Canadian system. More to the point though are his conclusions contained in a penetrating critique of amateur sports in Canada. Provoking, to say the least, is Gilbert’s contention that ‘‘the Canadian system of sport, government and education works against the development of a viable system to prepare Canadian athletes at the world ‘*I’m afraid that what we need in sports in Canada today .. .isa whole new revolutighary approach.”’ The highlight of the booklet, though, is an article written during the Olympic Games at Montreal which in a unique fashion draws a human comparison of two systems. “A Portrait of Two Women”’ brings together two very similar and very different women: Abby Hoffman of Canada and Gun- hild Hoffmeister of the GDR. Both women are outstanding dis- tance runners and veterans of at least a dozen years in interna- tional sport. Both too are radicals and activists, as women and as athletes. The differences that Gilbert draws are profound for while Canada’s Abby Hoffman is “an outsider, a radical battling for better conditions’’, the GDR’s Hoffmeister is ‘‘a member of the GDR parliament helping draft a new bill for national youth To round out the booklet there are additional articles by Cana- dian Tribune staff wiilcr Tom ivivitis and by Professor Carr Irom the University of British Columbia. Kontakt Press’ ‘‘Little Giant in the World of Sport’ will be a lasting contribution to sport literature in Canada. For 50¢ it is more than worth the price. It will be available soon in bookstores across the country but you can beat the rush by writing Kontakt \ Press, Box 1339, Postal Station A, Toronto, Ontario delete, Saskatchewan miners support Day of Protest ESTEVAN — ‘“‘On October 14 we will be out to fight wage con- trols,” says Ben Crumly, presi- dent of the Saskatchewan Strip Miners Union, local-1573. Crumly said that in answering the CLC call for a work stoppage the membership has become con- vinced that the anti-inflation pro- gram is a sham and amounts to wage controls only. “*That was really brought home to our membership ten days ago,”’ Crumly explained, ‘‘when we were told that the AIB is attempt- ing to order a rollback of our wages.” According to the union, the proposed AIB rollback would mean that each miner would have to give back almost $1,150.00 in wages from last year’s increase as well as facing a further cut of $1,539.00 in the coming year. On _the average each miner would personally pay the employer some $2,683.00 over two years and that much for each year thereafter. When considered in total, $85,000 in miners’, wages would be lost over two years. “If the AIB proceeds with this insanity everyone in our com- munity will suffer, in assuring a large response from Estevan strip miners for the Day of Protest. Fee Ce Code ee dT es ent 2 meee EI? Se Ine Tea ee 1 ween earns Sate] PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 1, 1976—Page 10 > Crumly said CLC president Joe Morris with NUS president Pierre Ouellette CAMPUSES PLAN SUPPORT ACTIONS Students back Oct. 14 The 300,000 member National Union of Students announced last week that the student movement across Canada will give its sup- port to the CLC Day of Protest against wage controls. Following out of a meeting on August 24 between NUS and CLC officials student leaders agreed to urge full support for the October 14 protest with student organizations participating in local and municipal co-ordinating committees. In throwing its support to the protest, NUS linked the wage control program with the policy of cutbacks in education and social services and noted that in the same year that wages and in- comes had been cut back tuition fees had been increased in 8 prov- inces. The joint meeting between student and labor leaders pointed out that the demand of the student movement for universal accessi- bility to education, the abolition of tuition fees and the payment of a living stipend for students is a long standing CLC policy as well. The Ontario Federation of Stu- dents added it voice to the move- ment towards October 14 last Fri- day by declaring their official support for the CLC action and predicting ‘‘strong support’’ from Ontario students. OFS chairmian Murray Miskin said that ‘‘wage controls and cuts in vital. social services hurt students as much as they hurt all Canadians.”’ The Ontario student body has formulated plans for involvement in the Day of Protest including representation on the provincial co-ordinating committee of the Ontario Federation of Labor. OFS’ senior researcher Dale Mar- tin will représent the student point of view on the oc-ordinating committee. OFS is recommending that stu- dent councils at local campuses work. in conjunction with their — local labor council and that on the Day of Protest itself events be ar- ranged on campuses to demon- strate student affinity with the” ' labor movement. Ryerson Polytechnical: and Trent University have already” | begun active mobilization so stu- — dents for the: protest: CONTROLS ANTI-STUDENT SAYS YCL Labor — student unity urged ‘“‘Never before have the in- terests of the student movement and the youth movement gener- ally been so closely related to th- ose of the labor movement,’’ commented YCL secretary Fred Wilson in welcoming the decision of the official student movement to support the CLC’s Day of Protest. In an interview with the Tribune the YCL leader said that the positive résponse from the student movement was to be ex- pected because ‘“‘the economic arguments against wage controls are equally as compelling for stu- dents as for workers.”’ “It is still going to be a struggle though,’’ Wilson said, ‘‘to in- volve the student movement across Canada because NUS has unfortunately not made plans for eo FRED WILSON reduction in education spending in Canada over-the past year from 8% of the GNP to 7.5% with a further cut coming this year. ‘‘When that is translated into real problems,’’ he said, ‘‘it means fewer courses, fewer teachers, and fewer students from working class homes.’’ The other, result of the re- straints Wilson noted was the axe- ing of the few job creation pro- grams for students that had existed. Together with the gen- eral economic crisis it led to a situation where 400,000 students across the country were unem- ployed last summer. “The opporunity is here to’ . build a real working unity be- tween the student movement and > the labor movement,’’ Wilson said, ‘‘but that has to extend beyond formal agreements be- tween officials. The measure of that unity will be the numbers of students who join the workers in. protesting on October 14. a campaign to really involve large == numbers of students. There is a big job to be done in getting the information as to why students ~ should support the Day of Protest out and on to the campuses. “*Students have got to under- stand,’ he said, ‘‘that the wage controls are only one part of a whole program of income cutting measures which has set accessi- bility to education in Canada back many years over the past year.” The “‘restraints’’ imposed on workers, he noted, has been ‘matched with other ‘‘restraints”’ in spending for health, education and welfare. This has resulted ina UN President backs SRV membership United Nations membership for the Socialist Re- public of Vietnam was strongly supported Tuesday by the newly-elected President of the 31st UN General Assembly, Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The U.S. has threatened to veto the SRV’s mem- . bership application. International financial and economic support for the SRV came Tuesday when the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the ‘‘World Bank’”’) voted in Washington to admit the SRV as a member. All World Bank member-countries except the U.S. voted in favor of SRV membership. The U.S. hasno veto power in the World Bank. Last Thursday the Interna- SRV, again over strong U.S. ob- tional Monetary Fund (IMF) injections and a U.S. negative Washington voted to admit the vote.