| White Spot workers fight imposed pact , — page 1 PACIFIC RIBUNE COPE sweep rebut — to Socreds policies || Wednesday, February 5, 1986 ewsstand Price 40° Vol. 49, No. 4 for talks on test ban treaty — page 7 — It was stated often enough before the school board elections last week that the : provincial Socred government would get its message when the polls reported in. And they got that message with inter- est Jan. 30 when Vancouver voters ’ affirmed all nine candidates for the 7 Committee of Progressive Electors, making it the first sweep in COPE’s 18-year history. ___ The bedlam that erupted at the COPE victory rally in the Ukrainian Hall after campaign worker Jon Bartlett told incredu- _ lous supporters that all COPE candidates were elected trustees would have been _ Sfeater. But the news came at 11:45 p.m., _ after many well-wishers and campaign volunteers had headed home, satisfied that COPE had achieved its sought after victory. It was just slightly before then — at 11 P-m. — that Bartlett announced, with 137 _ Of the 147 polls reporting, that Vancouver’s 7 labor-supported civic organizaiton had taken seven of the board’s nine seats. Sometime earlier, with 90 of the polls reporting that COPE was topping the vot- ing, the candidates took to the stage to Praise before some of the estimated 800 _ People who packed the ethnic hall the hard work of the volunteers and the political unity among the city’s anti-Socred forces. sets out “Without that dedication we wouldn’t be up here. We owe thanks to that unity which Pauline Weinstein (top), who topped the poll in the COPE sweep, talks to the j ‘brings us up here as this (newly xccted) hundreds of cheering supporters (bottom) who jammed the Ukrainian Hall for the . — page 6 — see UNITY page 3 election night celebration. can ESSE — ‘Only a beginning, vow VISA strikers as board aneons, eae RASS AN NS A = sam rem