October 8, 1986
40°

Vol. 49, No. 36

~ Summit
and the
“arms race

~_ Gorbachev
— page 10

Prospects
— page 5

After 22 years in apartheid’s prisons
Denis Goldberg committed to struggle

— pages 6, 7

.

s CP

‘Guarantee forest jobs
or lose TFLs,’ say

— page 15

Education
moves into
election
| spotlight

Provincial government cutbacks
_— applied directly or indirectly to
| public education — have been
| prought into the provincial election
fimelight by school trustees, adminis-
| trators, teachers and students.
| On Oct. 2, representatives of 15
| Vancouver elementary school princi-
and vice-principals slammed the
axing of child care workers and other
| special social workers as a result of
| cuts enacted to the ministry of social
| services and housing (formerly the
‘human resources ministry).

And on Monday, trustee Phil Ran-
kin of the Vancouver school board
called for an end to the Social Credit
government's “totally arbitrary and
partisan” Fund for Excellence in
Education.

Meanwhile, Socred leader Bill
Vander Zalm on Saturday rejected a
call by post-secondary students,
faculty unions and public school
| teachers to engage in a televised
| debate on the future of B.C.’s schools.

The B.C. Teachers Federation —
one of the co-sponsors of the pro-
posed debate, along with the Canadian

Federation of Students, the Confed-

eration of University Faculty Associa-
| tions of B.C., and the College-Institute

Educators Association of B.C. —

cited a BCTF survey which found
| education, after unemployment, is the
| key issue in the minds of B.C. voters.

And, stated all the groups who
called press conferences on the issue,
education is a subject the Socreds are
avoiding on the hustings,

John Richardson, president of the
Vancouver Elementary School

| Administrators Association (VESAA)
|—a component of the BCTF —
| acknowledged that the election was
) the key reason VESAA was reiterat-
ing its call for the replacement of 15
| child care workers.
see STUDENT page 2

- 4

NANAIMO — Members of Local 1-80
of the IWA and the Nanaimo Indian Band
gave new expression to labor-Native
solidarity Sunday as they joined forces to
blockade a CPR track carrying logs to
MacMillan-Bloedel’s strikebound Alpulp
mill in Port Alberni.

IWA members first set up the picket
line Friday after receiving permission
from the band to blockade the track where
it runs through Indian reserve land at the
foot of Needham Street. After halting
three attempts by the CPR to move the
logs, on Sunday and early Monday, they
decided Monday to lift their pickets and let

Indian Band backs IWA picket |

Nanaimo band chief Jerry Brown (r) talks to reporters at site of IWA-Nanaimo band picket line on CPR tracks Monday.

members of the Nanaimo band continue
picketing the rail line.

Nanaimo band chief Jerry Brown said
Monday that the band intended to con-
tinue blocking rail traffic to seek resolu-
tion of decades-old grievances with CPR
over the railway line, which was originally
laid in the 1880s to carry coal.

Coincidentally, the action came just as a
conference on land claims, jointly spon-
sored by the B.C. Federation of Labor and
B.C. Native groups, opened Sunday at the
nearby Coast Bastion Hotel.

IWA Local 1-80 strike committee
member Lynn Kistener spoke to confer-

ence delegates briefly Monday where he

thanked the Nananimo band for their
support in the IWA dispute.

The support was decisive, he said,
“because every time we've tried to put upa
picket line to stop MacMillan Bloedel
from shipping logs to Port Alberni, we get
slapped with an injunction.”

He said that the Nanaimo band had
determined to continue the picketing to

“resolve the injustices inflicted on the band

by the CPR over the year.
“And we in the IWA will be supporting
see NANAIMO page 3

TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN