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Friday, September 17, 1982

Vol. 44, No. 36

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Local Chileans, exiled or forced to flee their country when presi-

dent Augustino Pinochet seized power in a bloody coup nine:
Years ago, marched up Lonsdale Ave. in North Vancouver Satur-
day in one of several weekend protest actions to mark the an-

_Vancouver’s progressive can-
didates for city council, parks and
School boards will head to the
Polls this fall with a program of
Sweeping tax reform, a “‘parks for
People” mandate and a promise
to maintain advances in the
School system despite provincial
SOvernment budget cuts.

The Committee of Progressive
Electors also pledged to carry the
fight for a ward system, which
Once again will be placed before
Vancouver voters.in an election
day referendum, senior alderman

| and candidate Harry Rankin told

COPE members and supporters

) On Sunday.

“We are advocating policies
that go in the op ite direction to
the cutbacks of the Socreds and
the NPA (Non-Partisan Associa-
tion) like those offered by U.S.
president Theodore) Roosevelt in
the late thirties, when he turned
the Depression around by putting
people back to work,” said
Rankin in his introductory

speech.

‘He offered what he called his
‘New Deal,’ and that’s what
we're offering voters — a new
deal for Vancouver,’’ said
Rankin in introducing COPE’s
slogan for the 1982 election.

Steelworkers

reject rollback

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niversary of the U.S.-backed regime. Chile is experiencing mass

hunger and unemployment of 26 percent (even by official
figures), thanks to the extreme monetarist policies of economic
advisor Milton Friedman, according to the latest reports.

And COPE members approv-
ed the recommendation of their
table officers that one aldermanic
candidate be dropped from the
original list of eight to ac-
comodate mayor Mike
Harcourt’s three running mates.
This move will ensure the backing
of the Vancouver and District
Labor Council for a labor unity
slate, a process that is virtually.
“‘solidified,’? COPE president
Jim Quail told the special
membership meeting at
Templeton High School.

In its bid for a majority on city
council this year, the progressive
civic organization will be forwar-

pledges tax reform, housing

ding a platform of greater.

autonomy for the city, coupled
with a tax reform program
designed to take the burden of
skyrocketing mill rate hikes off
the backs of working and poor
people and small business, said
incumbent candidate Bruce
Yorke.

‘*We want a new financial deal
from the province. We want the
right to tax property at varying
mill rates. And for small business,
we propose a graduated business
tax,’’ said Yorke, attacking the
provincial government’s ‘‘wholly

See COPE page 2

ajor confrontation forced
Socreds’ education cuts —

As the deadline to slash budgets ~
in line with the latest round of pro-
vincial government cuts was fast
approaching Wednesday, teachers
across the province were vowing to
greet any layoffs or pay conces-
sions with job action.

B.C. Teachers Federation presi-
dent Larry Kuehn told the Tribune
Wednesday that teachers around
B.C. were turning out in droves to
meetings of their local teachers
associations, and that ‘‘at least 15
associations have said, ‘if one goes,
we all go.’ 39
meet this weekend in a BCTF
representative assembly, and are
expected to give overwhelming en-
dorsement to two actions: strikes in
any district where teachers are laid
off, and a refusal to work any days
for no pay.

“the degree of teacher response _

across the province to this situation
— it’s amazing to see,’’ said
Kuehn.

And there is increasing evidence
that many school boards will also

rebel against the education

ministry’s directives. Minister Bill
Vander Zalm’s ham-fisted ap-
proach in attempting to force
trustees to slash funds they simply
don’t have has caused many to
reverse earlier decisions to lay off
teachers in compliance with the

That Vander Zalm is seeking
confrontation in what is clearly
shaping up as battle over the

See TEACHERS page 8

UE hits
‘phony’

economic
measure

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