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Friday, October 15, 1982

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oa #8
Vol. 44, No. 40

E Congress, B.C. Fed
urged to demand

end to trusteeship

Nobel prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling and former NATO com-
mander Nino Pasti are featured speakers at the upcoming United Na-
tions Disarmament Week in Vancouver, Oct. 21-31. Pauling, under
the sponsorship of the End the Arms Race Committee, will speak at
the Orpheum Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. Italian senator
and disarmament figure Nino Pasti will speak in the Robson Square .
Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m., and again at the University

- to limit

pensions

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defend
hard won

advances| |

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Teachers protest Bill 89

Led by the ‘undertaker,’ Surrey teachers carry the coffin of education which ‘died of a terminal
case of cutbackitis.’ The mock ceremony was part of a mass rally by some 1,200 Surrey Teachers
Association members who marked their first unpaid day with a protest over Socred policies.

of B.C. Student Union Building at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday.

A young carpenter from the
Williams Lake area was con-

In his consistent efforts to
find a medical solution to his

Tribune from his hospital bed
Oct. 4. ;
Now the United Native Na-

recommended Cooper visit a
specialist in Kamloops. Instead,
he stayed in the Williams Lake

Bill 89, the provincial govern-
ment’s latest Act. legislating
education cutbacks passed third
reading Oct. 7, but failed in its
purpose of dividing the forces
which have grown increasingly
militant over the slashing of
school funding.

School boards and teachers
still bitterly oppose the Social
Credit government’s efforts to}
bail out the projected provincial}
deficit by hacking education, |
and have said so in telegrams
and massive teachers’ rallies}
during the past week.

Public information cam-|
paigns and lobbying MLAs had)
been the strategy of the B.C.)
Teachers Federation, whose
members have lost up to 11 days
pay and have been forced to
work days for nothing under the
Social Services (Interim) Act.
But with the potential fall elec-
tion now apparently scotched,
teachers have indicated that)
some form of job action may be}
in the offing in the near future. |

About 1,100 to 1,200 Surrey;
teachers turned out to a rally|
called by the 1,700-member Sur-

-rey Teachers Association last}
Friday, to hear speakers from}
the BCTF ‘and the Canadian
Union of Public Employees at-}
tack Bill 89 as “‘extortion”’ and|
‘a form of industrial
terrorism.”

“Tt is the government’s objec-}
tive to reduce the strength of the:
BCTF. They’d like us to start}
fighting among ourselves. But
the testimony of teachers is that
they are united as they never}
have been before,” federation}

) vice-president Doug Smart toldj

) the cheering, and at times sing~

| ing, rally.

F A mock funeral procession toy
protest the ‘‘death off
education”? from ‘‘terminaf
Socreditis” ~preceded the rally J

sistently rebuffed in his efforts problem, he was frequently :

| to Bae iedical attention fora dismissed as being drunk or suf- tions, a Vancouver-based In- _area, where his condition con- eo = aie ee
| condition that caused dizziness, _ fering froma hangover, accord- dian organization, wants tinued to deteriorate. : chiremsengs ate ene
blackouts and partial paralysis, _ ing to Cooper and his relatives. See pa ae _“Finally, we decided to bring | | take ofi fto help the school board
_ | the Tribune has learned. ‘Suffering from dizziness and way he wants to.g0,2 said NK him down there to see what | | meet its budget cuts for 1982. |

_ Hector Cooper, a Native In-
dian from Alexis Creek, B.C.,
was finally hospitalized after he

some loss of muscle control,
Cooper had repeatedly visited
doctors in Williams Lake, and
more recently, doctors and

vice-president Donna Tyndall.
Cooper said she had visited
three doctors in Williams Lake

could be done,’’ said Vancouver
resident Larry Stewart, who is
related to Cooper by marriage.

The Stewarts set up an ap-

H Other Surrey teachers wen§

on a door-to-door canvas, of
passed out literature in shopp4
ing malls. They received an ‘‘8@

Tecei i i after he experienced di : : 3 :
city pie pre hes hospitals in Vancouver, but was following niu 3 cee eae Sener ie family percent positive f eedback’
COuver, and underwent a suc- released shortly after each Vist fight about two and a half mon- ee sai ene em ees eae is ; be vaiace!

Cessful operation for a brain
aneurism at the Vancouver
General Hospital — the same
_ hospital that had turned him

away only one day before.

“They told me there was
nothing wrong with me, or that
I was drunk,’’ Cooper, who
works as a carpenter on the
Chilcotin band reserve, told the

ths ago. His condition had
worsened to the extent that he
could no longer work, he said.

All doctors told him there
was nothing wrong, but one

told Stewart’s wife Susan that
“fall he (Cooper) had was a
hangover,” said Stewart.

See BRAIN page 11

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