LIBERAL MAJORITY Tories trounced as THE UBYSSEY NDP gains seats; Vol. LXII, No. 54 Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday, February 19,1980 228-2301 B.C. weep It's true. There is another world on the other side of the Rockies. While eastern Canada renewed its infatuation with Liberal leader Shadow Pierre Trudeau, British Columbians were deciding between the Conser­ vatives and a surging NDP. The New Democrats snatched wins big four seats from the Tories and held on to all eight seats they won last May. The Liberals were wiped off the B.C. electoral map as Van­ with Grits couver Centre MP Art Phillips Why is Liberal leader Pierre finished third behind Tory winner Pat Carney and New Democrat Ron Trudeau back in office with a Johnson. majority government? The The Conservatives held on to 16 Shadow knows. So does On­ of the 19 seats they had in May, los­ tario. ing Kootenay West, Kootenay East- Eastern Canada gave its regal Allantic dumps NDP/2 assent for a re-ascension to the Et ta, Ontario/16 throne of the same man, called Quadra results/16 The Shadow during the cam­ Revelstoke, Kamloops-Shuswap, paign for evading public events, and Cowichan-Malahat-The Islands they angrily deposed only nine to the NDP. The NDP got 35 per months ago. Ontario gave 55 of cent of the popular vote, the Tories its 95 seats to the Liberals, while 41.5 and the Liberals 22.5. the party took all but one of But there was little joy in either the Conservative or Liberal camps, Quebec's 74 available seats. the former because it got creamed The Liberals had enough back east, the latter because it had seats for form a majority come up empty-handed this side of government before the polls Winnipeg. even closed in the west — and The New Democrats seemed to be the only ones content with the for the Liberals it was a good B.C. returns. "I'm so happy, I've thing, as they achieved virtually got a job again," cried NDP MP the impossible by losing one of Svend Robinson's Ottawa aide their meagre three Western David Gort, cheering and hugging seats. his female companion after Robin­ son doubled his margin of victory Winnipeg Liberals Lloyd Ax­ from last May. "The vote showed a worthy and Robert Bockstael — petaf menyasz photo SOMETHING DOESNT JIVE but victorious Tory Pat Carney dreams of happy times during celebration Monday definite swing from the Tories. The will most certainly find majority we got was from themselves in the new cabinet as after Vancouver Centre win. Carney joins 27 other B.C. members of parliament who will sit in opposition and everybody, not just students." a result of the election's un­ watch revived Pierre show, brought to you by central Canada. Carney won one election too late to make cabinet and will spend most days in house sawing wood. Another Robinson campaign precedented polarization. Set: page 16: PIERRE The Progressive Conser­ vatives found it a difficult night — losing votes and seats in Carney is happy bedtime Tory every part of the country, in­ cluding four seats to the NDP in By PETER MENYASZ Wallace, one of Carney's campaign but not a decisive defeat. B.C. While a Liberal tidal wave was washing workers. One radical Westerner shouts "Let's Joe Clark out of the prime minister's chair, "It doesn't look too good," Wallace separate!" but is ignored by his fellow The a few Tories managed to keep their heads says. "The Liberals are going to get 75 seats Tories who are intent on learning the extent watched its small base in the above water and retain their seats. in Quebec." of their humiliation. east virtually vanish, as Ed And Vancouver Centre voters presented 7:09 p.m. 8:19 p.m. Broadbent's Oshawa riding their Tory candidate with a touch of A few Pat Carney signs drift by the cof­ The first Vancouver Centre poll results becomes their eastern-most sweetness to take away the bitter sting of fee shop on their way upstairs to the cam­ arrive and the crowd's mood changes possession. But the west came Clark's downfall. paign headquarters. The doors to the room perceptibly, even though the results repre­ through for the NDP as Broad­ Pat Carney created a decisive victory in are open now and 10 people, including the sent only one polling station. bent predicted in Vancouver one of Canada's showplace ridings. After bartender, wander listlessly between the Carney — 46 votes; Phillips — 42 votes; this Saturday, winning six seats losing to Liberal Art Phillips by only 95 television screen and a table full of sand­ Johnson — 20 votes. in Manitoba, eight in Saskat­ votes last May, Carney expected to wind up wiches and snacks. "Maybe we'll at least get some consola­ A woman walks into the room with a tion in this riding," says one depressed chewan and an all-time high 12 in a dead heat with Phillips and NDP can­ didate Ron Johnson this time around. radio slung over her shoulder blaring out campaign worker, convinced that the single in B.C. But her hard-hitting campaign over­ election results on CBC's short wave sta­ poll is a sign of things to come. And she's But while Western Canada whelmed Phillips' feeble efforts and had tion. The news isn't cheering the Tories up. right — the lead is Carney's from the begin­ clearly rejected Liberal party, enough stamina to outlast a massive NDP ning. 7:41 p.m. 8:29 p.m. Ontario eagerly jumped back on surge. "It's going to be a three-way tie in Cen­ the bandwagon giving Trudeau Feb. 18 didn't start off confidently for The results from six polls have been tre," says UBC law student Paul Wilson, tabulated and Carney is still in the lead with 26 seats that went Tory last Carney, but as the evening progressed . . . another of Carney's campaign workers. May. 316 votes. Johnson has moved into second Century Plaza Hotel, 6:30 p.m. And Wilson adds that B.C.'s Tory sup­ place with 242 and Phillips brings up the Standings in the new House, The hotel lobby is quiet, too quiet. It porters are generally discouraged by the rear with 228. news broadcast on U.S. television stations before recounts, are: Liberals would be hard to tell there's an election A low buzz of conversation fills the 148; Conservatives 100; and going on if the doors to the bar weren't for an hour before the mandatory blackout took effect. room, but not many smiles are on the NDP 33. The Liberal share of locked. The desk clerk seems surprised that Tories' faces. They were expecting a close the popular vote increased nine someone is asking for Pat Carney's cam­ "By quarter to six people were calling up run and they're worried. and asking 'Is it true?' " Wilson says. percentage points to 47, while paign headquarters. But a sign listing the Someone announces that Liberal Gordon the Tories got 29, and the NDP hotel's events for the day distinctly says "All that work for nothing," another Gibson's temporarily leading Conservative "Progressive Conservative Party Election Carney supporter sighs. Chuck Cook in the North Vancouver- 19. Results Headquarters, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m." The leading Tory to bite the 8:00 p.m. Burnaby riding. "Gibson's a fag anyway," The Century Plaza coffee shop looks like The magic moment arrives, and the says one dismayed onlooker. dust was employment and im­ a young lawyers' convention. Clean­ migration minister Ron Atkey, Carney supporters surge in a single motion 8:40 p.m. shaven, boyish faces wearing three-piece — to the free bar. A minute later, CBC's The polls are reporting in rapid succes­ who lost his Toronto St. Paul's suits drink coffee, read newspapers and election fanfare blares out from the giant- sion and some of the Tories' enthusiasm riding to Liberal John Roberts. grab quick bites between snatches of sullen screen television at one end of the room. wanes as Johnson pulls within 119 votes of Other Tory cabinet ministers conversation about the results from the "The Liberal government, defeated in Carney with 49 or the 225 polls accounted west of Quebec were all re­ east. May, comes back with a majority win in for. elected, as were finance minister 6:56 p.m. February," announces CBC announcer But Wilson is not worried. "She's going John Crosbie, fisheries minister "The election's over," says one coffee Knowlton Nash. to win. I've never been wrong yet," he says. James McGrath, and economic shop diner. "I just heard the news on an "Christ, no!" shouts one Carney sup­ "They wouldn't vote for a labor expansion minister Elmer American channel." porter. A general shock pervades the researcher." Mackay. "I know, I know," answers Dave Tories. Everyone was expecting a setback, See page 3: TORY Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, February 19, 1980

Maritimes spurn UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT LANDS PC, reject NDP Proposal For A Regional Park with a high ranking cabinet post in GVRD OPEN HOUSE By MATT ADAMSON the new Pierre Trudeau govern­ for Canadian University Press ment. The Greater Vancouver Regional District is holding an HALIFAX — Joe Clark's tough In Newfoundland, a move to­ foreign affairs stance did not make wards the NDP a year ago evapor­ Open House to discuss with the public plans for a major an impression on Atlantic voters, ated as the party's vote percentage regional park on the Endowment Lands. but the Tory call for an 18 cent a dropped from 30 to 16. St. John's gallon excise tax on gasoline did. remained solidly Tory while the rest Private fishermen, farmers and of the province went Liberal. The Dates: Tuesday, February 26th, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. urban dwellers all questioned the NDP's surprise winner in the prov­ Wednesday, February 27th, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tory energy policy, particularly ince in, the 1978 byelections, Fonse Thursday, February 28th, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. keying on the confusion surround­ Faour, also watched a 7,000 vote ing the fate of PetroCanada. margin in May disappear to the Lib­ The Conservative's popular vote erals, leaving the party without a Place: GVRD Offices went down in almost every riding in single seat in the Atlantic. 2215 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver the region as Atlantic Canadians re­ The NDP's other Atlantic seat, 3rd floor conference room. jected Joe Clark's heavy-handed Father Andy Hogan's Cape Breton- leadership. East Richmond, also was swept The drop in Tory fortunes was away in the Liberal tide. For further information about the Open House or UEL most dramatic in Prince Edward The Liberal popular vote was up Program, please call the GVRD Parks Department, Island and Nova Scotia. After being in all four provinces, mostly at the shut out in the island province a expense of the Conservatives. But 731-1155, local 132. year ago, the Liberals came back to the NDP losses were surprising, and Greater Vancouver Regional District knock off one of the Conservative's showed the loss of momentum the most prominent and popular cab­ NDP gained in the summer's pro­ Parks Department inet ministers — secretary of state vincial election in Newfoundland. 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Registration is limited! Tuesday, February 19,1980 THE UBYSSEY Page 3 GVRD digs toes in for natural park By GEOF WHEELWRIGHT eliminate any further attempts by Keefer said he thought the nature UBC students could soon be the provincial government to build park proposal did not go far walking barefoot through the in the park. enough, although GVRD parks ad­ largest official civic nature park in UEL electoral area director Iva ministrator Rick Hankin said the North America. Mann also let out a sigh of relief at plan is a minimum position. The A new plan to turn 1,500 acres of the proposal. "I feel very sure they park should include 130 acres pf the university endowment lands in­ (the provincial government) will "reserve" land located between to an official natural park was make the right decision. It's a 16th Ave. and Chancellor revealed yesterday by the Greater defacto park right now and it's not Boulevard, said Keefer. Vancouver Regional District. secure in any way." He said the 130 acres would pro­ The proposal, which will be And Bowie Keefer, a UEL vide ideal space for construction of presented to the provincial govern­ regional parks committee member, outdoor sports and recreation ment in late March, calls for a said the new plan would put a com­ facilities within the park, including regional district takeover of the plete halt to any government the existing golf course. "Such UEL, improved supervision of the development speculation on the facilities could well be located in the park, increased fire protection, and lands forever. "Once the thing is central core lands." extensive clean-up and renovations established as a park, nobody's go­ But Hankin said the GVRD will to camping areas and walking trails. ing to revert it until the next ice already have a major chore ahead GVRD park planner Bev Evers age," he said. of itself cleaning up the existing said the plan would also insure the If approved, the park plan will trails within the park and turning it WORKING BOUNDARY for ENDOWMENT LANDS REGIONAL PARK UEL's future as protected prevent expansion of the current into a proper nature park twice the ffPH City of Vancouver Camosun Bog Reserve Lands parkland. "Theoretically right now proposed 58 acre research park into size of Stanley park. The GRVD the land could be used for anything the UEL. But problems still might will also hire a park manager to IJIIII Marine Drive Foreshore Park (City of Vancouver) the provincial government wants to arise due to close proximity of the police the park and ensure the do with it," she said. research park to the nature park, maintenance of standards within it. ^^ Reserve Lands (Areas not yet assigned to park or other uses) Evers said until last year, many said Marty Lund, chair of the UBC Hankin said the GVRD wants planners and residents were con­ Alma Mater Society research park public input on the proposal and he cerned the government would use committee. is inviting the public to an open Millett hits male 100 acres of the UEL to build an in­ "I'm glad they've finally got house to consider it. The open dustrial research park. Although something nailed down, but I think house will be held at the GVRD's that plan was defeated, she said giv­ they (the GVRD) should look at third floor conference room in their ing the UEL park status under the how the industrial research park offices at 2215 West 10th Ave. from rule by violence control of the GVRD would will affect their park." Feb. 26-28. perogative and U.S. president Jim­ By jyLIE WHEELWRIGHT my Carter's announcement that Violence continues to keep wo­ women might be drafted but will men subservient to men, contro­ not face combat proves that point, versial feminist and author Kate she said. Millett said Friday. "This is clearly a privilege for "Every important aspect of so­ men. We should oppose the draft ciety is in male hands," Millett told absolutely, absolutely, absolutely 500 people in the Woodward's for everyone," said Millett. "All building. "There is a temperament the years of work against the war in thing in this, all forms of bullying Vietnam, we thought the lesson was are said to be masculine." so well learned. All access to force, education and "You can love a place and all the system of government is male that stuff, but why should you like dominated and women are treated your government. My goodness." as "backward people," she said. Millett said she advocates chang­ "Somewhere we have been com­ ing our society through peaceful pletely divorced from all heavy in­ means even though it is "built on dustry technology. This is enor­ violence." mously important because it is the "We are surrounded, immersed, same situation as in the Third drowning in violence and it seems to World." me we are going to have to unders­ Millett added that achieving tand violence. I would say it is the equality for women is more than a ultimate problem." question of employment and equal Women will have to become pa­ pay. cifists if they hope to have a peace­ "It is not about unequal pay, that ful society', she added. is the surface of it. It is not only Women should provide help for about rape but about all forms of victims of violence in society such physical assault. It is a feeling we as battered children and women, (women) have always grown up said Millett. "We have all been with." brutalized and we all know it and Killing continues to be a male accept it." Tory tale ends as Carney kisses, tells From page 1 manager, attributes the Vancouver 9:07 p.m. Centre victory to "a lot of damn — kevin finnegan photo Tory leader Joe Clark makes hard work on behalf of our can­ "IS THIS POLISCI 200?" asks confused student attempting to register for second year arts six months too late. his television appearance to publicly didate." Woman wondered about course professor John Eh McDonald and was totally thrown off by kindly manner of accept his crushing defeat. And the "She managed to articulate the helpful people behind tables, which she had never encountered before at registration. B.C. voters retained isola­ Vancouver Centre Tories remain budget," Knott says. And he tion by electing no members of government in one of smarter moves ever. unmoved by his words. blames the Tories' lack of success in "I wonder what it's like to be a eastern Canada to a lack of com­ has-been at 40?" says Wilson. munication. "They didn't have the Only a few diehards applaud news explained to them quite as well Gov't money promise 'empty' when Clark finishes his address. as our voters did." But the Vancouver Centre results 9:48 p.m. A provincial government plan to help the college if extra campus increase will "not at all" adequate­ keep everyone's spirits up. Carney Vancouver Centre NDP can­ increase community college funding space is not provided, he added. ly fulfil the funding need for his in­ is clearly the winner, and by 9:15 didate Ron Johnson arrives to con­ is an empty promise, a Langara col­ And B.C. Student Federation stitution. "This is not the end of the p.m. television announcers are an­ gratulate Carney on her victory and lege dean charged Monday. chair Malcolm Elliott charged the development to our campus. It's nouncing her elected. shakes hands with her. Unless administrators are told ex­ plan may cause antagonism bet­ only part of the good news. There's "All is not lost," says a Tory. Johnson is cheerful even after his actly where the increases are going, ween colleges and universities. "We more good news to come." "They've got some sense in B.C." fourth defeat. they will be useless, Langara in­ don't want to see competition bet­ UBC administration president All that's left is for Carney to "I'm obviously happy about the struction dean Lawrence Fast said. ween colleges and universities for Doug Kenny predicted the college claim her prize. showing we made in Vancouver "But in any case the good news funds," said Elliott. increases will be matched with 9:30 p.m. Centre," Johnson says on his way the government has given us will "We have certain concerns about monies from provincial universities Carney arrives and is immediately out of the Tory party. "And we did have to be translated into reality," the budget. At BCSF we think it's minister Pat McGeer. surrounded by cheering supporters very well nationally." he added. great because colleges need money, "Anything that increases funding and hungry media people. 9:51 p.m. but where is the money going to for education is to be approved. Fast said the provincial govern­ She thanks her campaign workers Carney turns on the charm. Hugs come from?" Universities are growing too so on ment has already increased the to cries of "We love you, Pat" and and kisses for all her faithful sup­ Elliot said he hoped the govern­ that argument funding for univer­ x operating budget for colleges for "Glad to do it for you." porters, unkind words for The ment will not stress the need for col­ sities should grow too," said Ken­ the past two years to improve voca­ Carney speaks only briefly, but Ubyssey. lege funding at the expense of the ny. tional and career training programs. says she is distressed by the election "I was a city editor for The universities. Smith said last week college fun­ outcome. "It shows a national Ubyssey once," Carney muses. "It "So if that were extra money for Capilano college principal Paul ding should be increased because tragedy," she says. "It shows that was a bad start to 15 years of jour­ us we could only use it if we had ex­ Gallagher said education minister colleges are growing faster than we do not have a national party." nalism." tra space." The increases will not Brian Smith's recently announced universities. Lyall Knott, Carney's campaign See page 12: CARNEY Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, February 19, 1980

INTRODUCING /* iFCOFF^EflD AND his ™m&\ m Suffering for us By JOANNE GILBERT "A day will come when the world will look upon today's vivi­ This is an obituary notice for section in the name of science the d. the 236,746,765 animals slaught­ way we look, today, upon witch u ered every year in Canada so peo­ hunts in the name of religion," ple can eat them. says former Harvard physiology I dedicate this in remembrance professor Henry Bigelow. of: B B I dedicate this obituary notice in *LOVES «CS^^fK AN eNEBGCnCl BlE m0 • 3,692,000 cows killed every . FLUFFV lZMff LITTLE iXlirU *Ti?iw2 rla# ANXIETY remembrance of all those animals ' ROCK COLL£CTORl\ INVENTOR _ year, especially the young calves who are deliberately made anemic killed for their pelts every year: to become veal on our plate; GIZMO, DO YOU BCLIEUE N0T UNLESS • to the 180,000 seals bludg­ ^^'''••'•'•'•'^SSJr • 5,550,000 pigs who sit bored RALPH NADER WOULD CONSIDER eoned; ^-_ . .Hli.1^/1 JMPLAMMABLE BACKGROUNDS in small pens just waiting to die; THIS COMIC STRIP SAFE £ • to the 4,000,000 fur-bearing animals who are caught in traps and suffer such agonizing deaths each year; • and a special mention must go to the domesticated animals; the 958,000 mink killed every year; ///. • and the 24,000 fox and chin­ chillas. ^ r^V4^7 fl Philosopher Jeremy Bentham once wrote that the day may come perspectives when the number of legs, the tex­ ture of skin, the lack of intelli­ • 208,800,000 chickens who gence will not be sufficient enough Blank expressionism never leave their cages in the fac­ reasons to condemn innocent, tory farm, who never see even a sensitive beings to terrible suffer­ the . Welcome to the Eighties. glimpse of the sun before they are ing and death. "The question is Last night saw the Canadian electorate, in an An important issue in this campaign has been beheaded; not, Can they reason? nor Can overwhelming show of support, re-elect , energy. The plan to — Petrocan • 200,000 sheep and lambs they talk? but, Can they suffer?" Under leader , the party has found itself must be a source of grat concern to all concern­ killed every year for meat; The answer is yes! in the corridors of power, thanks to its firm stand ed Canadians. Provinces such as will • 7,701 goats; Approximately 242,000 animals and . Having elected have to learn to lump it if the are true to • 86,961 horses; on • 36,103 rabbits; and fish slaughtered every year in a majority of , the people of Canada can their campaign promises. The s' stand Canada. Our own private Ausch­ on nuclear power shows a clear misunderstan­ • 17,400,000 turkeys; expect an era of political stability, unless, of • and to the 3,928,000,000 ani­ witz! Animal Auschwitz! I look at course, issues such as and , spoil ding and ignorance of the basic energy choices mals killed every year for meat in this figure and I truly wonder at the party's seemingly bright future. we must make in the coming decades. the U.S. our level of consciousness. And The , whose political base is virtually But of all the difficulties that confront us as a (Figures are based on 1978 and non-existent in , prove that no Canadian nation, none is more pressing and significant 1979 agricultural and fisheries political party can adequately represent the than the issue of Quebec separatism. The departments statistics.) 'Few of us, if ever. needs and interests of every region in the nation, s' position of for Quebec is ap­ As Peter Singer writes in his especially --' . preciated by all those who adhere to a truly book Animal Liberation we are, in general, ignorant of the abuse associate meals Now that the election is over, the par­ and vision of Canada. directed towards the living crea­ If ultimately, fails to satisfy our needs, ty will be looking for a new leader. The tures that become the food we eat. with a living. will provide a strong opposition, but like the we urge Canadians to , - and For, few of us, if ever, associate other parties, depends too much on one region . And if you've lost all faith in the political our meals with a living, breathing, breathing, walking. of the country for its support, which will detract process, you can always . Be , walking, suffering animal. "Yet, from their ability to become a thorn in the side of or else they'll - you. the use and abuse of animals rais­ suffering animal' ed for food far exceed, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment." my concern is manifold for, if this I dedicate this obituary notice in is how we treat the helpless beings remembrance of the 426,158,145 of our society, then what of our Letters pounds of fish who die, by long, children? To have compassion for drawn-out suffocation, each year life is to have compassion for all in Canada. life, there are no degrees. If we Hotel scheme threatens unique housing Singer writes: "Surely, it is only can do it to animals then we can because fish do not yelp or whim­ do it to humans. That step is small One of the hottest issues dealt cupied by the senior house advisor and a quiet environment for serious per in a way we can hear that indeed as Vietnam and Afghanis­ with by The Ubyssey in the past of Gage highrise. Of the remaining students. It is the only available otherwise decent people can think tan prove only too well. And as I month has been the low-rise-Hotel suites, 15 are occupied by married housing on campus for married it a pleasant way of spending an compare the joyous faces of our Gage controversy. The object of couples, six by common-law students without children. With the afternoon to sit by the water children at two and the neurotic, this letter is to define the low-rise in couples, and the rest by pairs of present housing crisis, the Gage Ho­ dangling a hook while previously unhappy looks on their faces by order to give greater insight into single students. Each apartment is tel scheme is threatening what suit­ caught fish die slowly beside 21, I wonder if we have not al­ this serious matter. composed of a bedroom, a living- able housing is available to them." ready taken that step in a less The Walter H. Gage low-rise is dining room area, a kitchenette, students. I dedicate this obituary notice in overt manner. situated on the northwest corner of and a small bathroom. The bed­ Susan Enns remembrance of 400,000 animals So I dedicate this obituary not­ the junction of Wesbrook and room has two beds and two desks; and other concerned mutilated, tortured and killed ice to all innocent, helpless beings, Student Union Mall in the north­ the kitchen is equipped with a small Gage low-rise residents every day in the world for psycho­ animals and children who are eastern section of the campus. The stove and fridge; and the living-din­ logical, medical and scientific ex­ made to suffer for the uncaring of low-rise is a three-storey apartment ing room area has an assortment of Bloody good periments. this world. building and is part of the Gage moveable furniture. The floors are Thank you to everyone who took highrise residence area. It was built carpeted; linen and bedding are the time and trouble to donate a in 1971 and, although it is part of supplied by housing just as in the pint of blood during the Red Cross the single student residence system, single student residences. and forestry blood drive of Feb. Joanne Gilbert is a third-year its prime purpose was to house mar­ The 1979-1980 winter session 4-8. And for those who were unable UBC psychology student and veg­ ried couples who were both full- rates for the low-rise were SI,115.62 to give blood that week, there will etarian. If you've got some heart­ time UBC students. Today, married per person, which was $2,231.24 be a one-day blood donor clinic in felt pleas for the lives of wee crea­ couples are still given priority for per married couple. These rates SUB 215 on Feb. 28. tures, enlighten the world's meat- assignment over single senior cover Sept. 1 to April 30, a 242-day As usual, forestry had the best eaters in Perspectives, a column students. period. turnout for the drive. Best damned open to all UBC carnivores and There are 54 one-bedroom suites Gage low-rise is a viable student little faculty on campus. herbivores. in the low-rise, one of which is oc­ residence which provides privacy forestry fans THE UBYSSEY February 19, 1980 Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary and review. The Ubyssey's editorial office is in room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301; Advertising, 228-3977. Co-Editors: Heather Conn and Tom Hawthorn Time passed slowly in the land. Wendv Hunt could usually be seen walking in the fields at morn with her flocks. But something was different this morning in the village. Gary Brookfield cast the sky and felt something vaguely familiar in the air. Heather Conn too was disturbed by the presence. "It's something I know I've teit before, remarked Tom Hawthorn as he nottced small flocks of animals scurrying home to lick their wounds and others chuckling as only beasts will. Kevin Finnegan and Julie Wheelwright watched the creatures intently disturbed by the scene. Steve McClure almost refused to be in the masthead thinking it too dull but conceded and noticed the animals doing their own thing and ignoring the others seemed happier. Geof Wheelwright and Peter Menyasz were sick of observation and wanted action. They suggested killing the beasts but Keith Baldrey refused, saying some kind of compromise would be found, perhaps in Manitoba. Bob Staley turned from the scene recognizing what it was. Man Adamson and Bill Tieleman wandered on the scene and in drunken euphoria, in­ formed the numbed crowd it was, alas, only another majority government. ^ Tuesday, February 19,1980 THE UBYSSEY Page 5 Time to update UBC's imitation catacombs By TREVOR GIBBENS achieved such a high level of use regardless of packages cannot be offered. Photocopying We can help to make this need become a re­ The Gothic facade of the University of student body or size of collection." The lib and typewriter space is severely restricted. ality by encouraging our student representa­ British Columbia's Main library lends a rary is integrated into the provincial library Readers undoubtedly can add many items to tives to strongly advocate that construction pleasing old world charm to the campus, system and is used increasingly by many citi­ this list. of a new Main library building must be un­ dominated in recent years by the plain con­ zens of B.C. During the last decade the col­ The reality of a library is found in its in­ dertaken without delay. By making our crete exteriors of high-rise buildings. In one lection has doubled from one to two million terior. Anyone who has visited Main library sense, it is fortunate that magnificent oaks volumes, approximately one-third of which is regularly has experienced the cramped quart­ and redwoods landscape the library, for these in storage. Consequently browsing (an im­ ers which severely restrict the services cur­ trees partially obscure what must be one of portant source of reference selection) must of rently provided and prevent the addition of 'I new library should be this university's and this province's most ser­ necessity be reduced. new services. Clearly, a new Main library ious cultural disgraces. The report documents the problems that must be given first priority in any new cam­ considered a resource Conjure for a moment the familiar images are associated with the Main library building pus construction. The project should not suf­ and sounds encountered during a visit to the in terms of the existing structure; it does not fer from the shortsighted scrimping which oc­ make a comparative analysis with other lib­ curred during the economic depression that for not only UBC raries or attempt to identify services which followed the First World War when the orig­ should be part of a structure that is designed inal was built. A new library should be con­ but British Columbia' perspectives to replace the present building. Compari­ sidered as a resource for not only UBC but sons, however, are easy to make. The excel­ British Columbia as a whole. It must be an Main library. Pass through the grand library lent international business section of the efficient structure of sufficient size and so­ friends and colleagues aware of the problems portals, climb the steps, stride across the cat­ Vancouver public library has no counterpart phisticated design to meet the needs of the and inadequacies of the existing facilities and alogue hall, pass through the turnstiles, and at UBC, and a modern audio-visual division twenty-first century. the pressing need for a new Main library, we be confronted with a scene that would have similar to the B.C. Institute of Technology's UBC students have for too long turned can stimulate university and government of­ delighted Dickens. is noticeable only by its absence. Nor are gen­ quietly from this problem. The time has ficials to action. Write a letter to the UBC Professors and students crouch to avoid eral-access computer terminals provided; come to voice our concern and encourage the students' council now. Approach a student banging their heads on low ceilings, scurry consequently new computerized learning construction of a new Main library building. representative and voice your concern. down narrow stairwells and scrabble for books in dimly-lit aisles. Lineups seem to oc­ cur everywhere. Every inch of floor space is packed with some library service. Sounds of crashing footsteps, wheezing air ventilators, clacking typewriters, and wooshing photo­ copiers fill the air. Fortunate are those who have found an empty carrell, but they cast furtive glances as one approaches, fearful lest you might be the rightful owner come to re­ claim it. Quite simply, the Main library reached a bursting point decades ago. The report of the university librarian to UBC senate 1977-1978 refers to the existing structure as "UBC's im­ itation of the catacombs." The report states: "Few if any libraries in North America have

Trevor Gibbens is a UBC student who thinks Main library is worthy of Charles Dickens' wrath. If you've got a personal gripe or phobia about a campus building, write to Perspectives. MAIN LIBRARY . . . narrow stairwells, dimly-lit aisles create B.C.'s 'most serious cultural disgrace'

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Dean has 'little control'over engineers Graduate Studies in The following letter, dated Jan. was a successful event with few ex­ terrible, as some of these examples Fine Arts 23, 1980, was sent to UBC engineer­ceptions. Unfortunately it is about show: ing dean Martin Wedepohl, with some of these that I write you. • during a presentation by Bob at York University copies to administration president One hundred and fifty students Peterson, executive vice-president Doug Kenny and the UBC alumni were involved with the congress. Of of Esso Resources Canada, the Two-year programs in Dance. Film. Music. Theatre, and association: these, the 10-student delegation group lit a small bonfire on their Visual Arts lead to Master of Fine Arts degrees at York. The twelfth congress of Canadian from the University of British Co­ table; Graduate programs currently include: Dance history and engineering students, hosted Jan. 2 lumbia were the only group not wel­ • during a film presentation by criticism; Musicology of contemporary cultures; Visual to 6 by the University of Alberta, come to attend. Their behavior was Syncrude Canada Ltd., the group Arts/Studio art (painting, drawing, sculpture, design, threw sugar cubes at the other dele­ photography, graphics, experimental arts); Theatre Pogo-less prudes dig roses, not punk gates. This attack was prolonged; (performance, playwriting, directing, design, production); • while on the University of Al­ Film — not offered in 1980 (Canadian film production and I am writing to assure Bob Staley To complainers about the berta campus, the group ransacked film studies). and the arts undergraduate society loudness of the music I can only say a lecture theatre, pulling out a fire For more information, contact: Mrs. Magda Davey, Faculty that someone did appreciate them that if these future Mozarts aren't hose, and taking many signs. of Graduate Studies, York University, Downsview bringing the band Popular given a chance to express I understand that even as dean of (Toronto), Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3. Mechanix to UBC. Bob said at the themselves freely then what hope is applied science, you have very little Telephone (416) 667-2426. end of the show, that in the future there for Vancouver getting a control over these students, espe­ Undergraduate degree programs and Summer Studies are other bands could be expected and I culture of its own. cially at such a student function. I available in all five Departments. Contact the Information hope he keeps his word. It's easy to say that the band was understand also that the delegates Officer, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, Downsview The concert was intensely en­ not all that good but until these fees were paid by the alumni associ­ (Toronto), Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3. joyable except for the strollers on critics can play as well and with as ation. Perhaps this expenditure Telephone (416) 667-3237. their way to the rose gardens. These much energy they should keep their should be reviewed. strollers, who were obviously not comments to themselves. To As mentioned above, these stud­ on drugs, steadfastly refused to paraphrase Peter Townsend's ents are not welcome in Edmonton. become interested in the music and response to his critics: "Why don't I am certain Queen's University, thus put a damper on the whole af­ ya just f-f-fuck off." host of the 1981 Congress, does not fair. For the next concert, effects Wes Mundy welcome them either. should be made to get these people science 1 Thank you for hearing our griev- involved, to throw away their in­ P.S. If Arlene and Dan were only ances hibitions and pogo for their lives. joking, then so am I. - James Embury and six others MUSIC/UBC PRESENTS WEDNESDAY NOON-HOUR CONCERT The taste 12:30 p.m. Recital Hall Pawel Checinski, Piano THURSDAY CONCERT 8:00 p.m. Old Auditorium VANCOUVER YOUTH ORCHESTRA and the UBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Guest Conductor Music of: Brahms, Berlioz, and Tchaikovsky says it all. 77MS AS a benefit concert for scholarship funds of the UBC Department of Music and the Junior Symphony Society. . Tickets on sale at the UBC Department of Music.

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CLARK W DAVEY Th9 Vancouver «5.,„ She Vancouver Sun Publisher FRANK RUTTER BRUCE LARSEN BRUCE HUTCHISON Founded in 1886 Editor. Editorial Pages Managing Editor Editor Emeritus nt. ft is

)yFpp By MIKE McEVOY profits from his North Sea oil investments. for Canadian University Press r p (These same revenues also helped Thomson Ct > acrfi The sight of a hard-hitting corporate ex­ buy out the Hudson's Bay, Zellers and Simp­ pose in your daily newspaper is as rare as the sons-Sears department stores last year.) politician who keeps a promise. But nary a whimper was heard from Can­ will it add?" It's not that corporations don't make scan­ ada's communications establishment. No one Lamb spent more than 20 years at the dalous decisions adversely affecting people's suggested that this might represent too much Thomson-owned Orillia Packet and Times lives. They do. control over the media by too few people. and says that most of the newspaper's energy Muckraking journals like Mother Jones, Globe and Mail publisher Roy Megarry was spent on meeting profit quotas set down <** which rely on donations from subscribers to said the changing of the guard "augers well" by the head office in Toronto. Reporters survive, have exposed corporate corruption for the paper. Likewise, Winnipeg Free Press spent so much time writing "boilerplate" regularly. Revelations about the deadly Ford boss Don Nicol said the takeover coup would (stories which were complimentary to adver­ 3%««**. Pinto, and a company whose distribution of be "beneficial" for his paper. tisers) that they had little time left for actual &*& tb. defective contraceptive devices caused several But what does the future hold for the new reporting. 9** deaths are but a few examples. Thomson acquisitions? Lamb finally left the Packet and Times in But daily newspapers generally choose not The British magnate has a notorious repu­ 1971, disgusted by a head office attempt to to track down these stories themselves, main­ tation for transforming reputable community squeeze more profit out of the paper at the ******* ly because they depend on corporate adver­ newspapers into what critics have called expense of its carrier boys. tising revenue to make a profit. "Thomson clones." The papers are stripped "The Thomson group was the greatest As such, newspapers are themselves cor­ of their individual face and are made look-a­ money-making organization in the country porations, corporations growing larger and likes of dozens of journals in Thomson's ex­ outside the Canadian Mint," he says. "The Aefe becoming more concentrated. panding chain. idea of this newspaper colossus wrestling The Thomson newspaper chain is a good "By 1971, Thomson newspapers were al­ some grubby-faced kid for another half-cent illustration. most interchangeable; one had to read the of his meagre earnings struck me as enor­ Like a starving wolf in a pit of rabbits, masthead banners to tell them apart," writes mously funny." British Lord and multi-millionaire Kenneth James Lamb in his recent book, Press Gang: But when it became clear Lamb's associ­ tion. But that's small change compared to Thomson has devoured 51 papers in Post-War Life in the World of Canadian ates were serious about the move, he re­ some horror stories, stories almost every Canada's publishing hutch. Newspapers. signed. printer formerly with Thomson tell with Thomson's latest $165 million takeover of Even the comics and features were packag­ And the chain's penny pinching exploits relief now that they no longer face the in­ F.P. Publications netted him another eight ed in Toronto and sent out to publishers, he have become legend. credible cost cutting efforts. daily newspapers including the prestigious said, adding that if a publisher wanted to run At one Thompson plant, women workers But if Thomson cares little about his news Toronto Globe and Mail. a feature from outside the package, he would were told they had used too much toilet pa­ product and his employees, he does pay close The acquisition was financed largely by be bluntly asked, "How many new readers per, having gone over their month's alloca- attention to the bottom line of the balance sheet. In 1978, Thomson reaped profits of $47.3 million and by 1979 he increased this figure to $56.5 million. It is no wonder that Ken­ neth's father, Roy, (who got his son started in the newspaper business) observed that Ottawa Journal owning a communications business was like "having a licence to print your own money." The Senate report on the mass media brought out in 1970 concurred with the elder Thomson, noting that newspaper ownership generates profits which are on the average twice that of a factory or a retailing outlet. The Senate report pointed out another (Q» (&bk* and ^iail trend amongst monopoly newspaper chains which seems particularly true of Thomson. V "Newspapers are pulling the maximum out of their communities and giving the mini­ mum in return," it states. "This is what in contemporary parlance is called a ripoff." In short, with newspaper profits growing en­ <> ormously they can afford to plow back more money to make the paper a better product — Winnipeg Free P$»v but they aren't. Syndicated columnist Douglas Fischer says that when he was an MP for the constituency of Thunder Bay in the early '60s, he asked Roy Thomson, who owned Thunder Bay's newspaper, if he could include more columns about federal politics in his paper. Fischer argued that the local citizens had a high de­ gree of interest in the subject. Thomson replied: "Frankly, what would Dicfaria j?F?Vfc be the point of it? It wouldn't sell one more paper in the market area." "Precisely," notes the Senate report, "the paper is earning a pile already; why reduce profits by putting out a better product?" The attitude of FP publishers towards their newspapers has been an "odd compound of patrician responsibility and estate planning," €fo l^Sduuer Sun to quote a recent story in the Globe and Mail. "While the previous owners saw their paper as a good investment they were also proud of their quality and opposed any kind of editor­ ial interference," the story said. Globe and Mail publisher Megarry does not believe however that Thomson will inter­ fere with the Globe's quality. He believes e Herald the Thomson organization will treat the Globe in the same manner accorded the Times of London, the venerable journalistic institution in England which Thomson con­ trols. V**** In 1978 and '79, three F.P. papers, the Ot­ tawa Journal, the Montreal Star and the Vancouver Sun were all hit with labor walk­ outs. While the Sun and Journal continued to publish at strike's end, the Star folded after incurring losses estimated to be $30 million, Zh? Sails ilolontet leaving the Southam chain's morning Gazette the single anglophone daily. Tuesday, February 19,1980 THE U BY S S EY Page 9 Labor battle in Nova Scotia 7 yfifetui ifo® 15® Itelbfey' Mktelta By MATT ADAMSON for certification of craft unions in the Trade employees at the plant. The second at­ inating against it through the tariff commis­ and PAUL CLARK Union Act. The changes made it impossible tempt, in July of 1978, was lost when the sion. for Canadian University Press for the operating engineers to form a bar­ vote was counted six months later in the "Michelin was after the companies," On Dec. 28 the Nova Scotia government gaining unit. midst of a complaint of unfair labor prac­ said Mike Beliveau, URW information offi­ passed an amendment to the Trade Union During breakfast meetings at the Lord tices at the plant. cer in Pictou county, "they know damn Act which required "interdependent"man­ Nelson Hotel, then Liberal premier Gerald The unions third bid culminated in a vote well the union has no power to lobby, that's ufacturing plants owned by the same em­ Regan met with organized labor and per­ on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. The vote has never the irony of it." ployer to form one bargaining unit. Bill 98, suaded them the changes were good for the been counted as the recent amendments to or the "Michelin Bill, "as the amendment is economy and good for organized labor. the Trade Union Act in the Michelin Bill in commonly called, is generally assumed to Ralph Fisk, Liberal development minister eluded a retroactive clause that whiped out THE JOINT LABOR be aimed at preventing the Michelin Tire at the time, and Regan went over to France votes that were pending when the legislation MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Corporation's plants in Granton and to assure Michelin the situation was under was passed. Since 1962 the province has used a mech­ Bridgewater from unionizing. control. A charge frequently made by Michelin is anism that is unique to North America to This article, the second and final in a The majority Conservative government that the URW, an international union, is stabilize its labor management relations. series, takes a look at the relationship be­ of premier John Buchanan has recently more concerned about the bulk of its mem­ Under the auspices of the Dalhousie Uni­ tween the government and the tire com­ shown the same concern for Michelin's in­ bership in the U.S. than it is with the 3,000 versity Institute of Public Affairs, the joint pany. dustrial labor relations policy in passing Bill employees in Nova Scotia. It accuses the labor management study committee has In a region with limited natural resources 98. union of not trying to organize the Nova bridged the traditional gap between the two and a high unemployment rate, Nova Sco­ The bill is designed to promote employ­ Scotian plants to protect the workers but to groups. tia has looked to expanding its small manu­ ment through expansion of collective bar­ disrupt production in the province to the In mutual fear of restrictive legislation facturing sector for the past years. gaining, says labor minister Ken Streatch. It benefit of its membership in the U.S. both labor and management had declared a Wooed by a government hungry for jobs, calls for all employees who work in inter­ Michelin also says the union lobbied the moratorium on directly approaching the the provincial economy went through a dec­ dependent plants owned by the same em­ U.S. government to put tariffs on imported government to make changes in the Trade ade of expansion spurred by foreign invest­ ployer to be considered in one bargaining tires, thus making Nova Scotian tires less Union Act. The study committee would act ment that ended in the early 1970s. Gulf unit. competitive and hurting the company and as a sounding board and its recommenda­ Canada (wholly owned by its U.S. parent) The government and proponents of the the people who work there. tions would be passed on to the labor min­ built a refinery in Point Tupper, the Swed­ legislation say it does not make it imposs­ Labor minister Ken Streatch underlined ister. The ministry would then decide what ish-based Stora Kopparberg built a kraft ible for workers to organize — it ensures where the government stood when he intro- action to take, based on the committee's mill in the same area, U.S. Scott Paper built advice. pulp and paper facilities in Abercrombie, Although it was never clear sailing things General Electric built a heavy water plant in worked relatively well from 1962 onward. the Point Tupper area. In the early '70S, however, the economic Some are still in the province today. STIHG YOUR PAKmER,RpUND V ROUND condition of the province had changed. Other more consumer oriented manufactur­ The spirit of the founding, of the commit­ ing interests such as Clairtone in Nova AIA WIN war, tee, enhanced by the moderate size of the Scotia and Bricklin in New Brunswick were NGO TO TOWN business interests in the province, the geo­ sensational failures and cost the taxpayers graphic concentration, and the relatively millions. small number of personalities involved, was One of the biggest corporations to come lost on some of the new multinational arri­ to the province was Michelin. The French vals to the province. tire giant expressed an interest to come to Organized labor almost withdrew from Canada in the late '60s, setting off a bid­ the committee when it was not consulted ding war between the Quebec and Nova until after the fact during the operating Scotia governments to see who could offer engineers case in 1973. the most attractive tax deals and subsidies. The study committee got its first look at a Nova Scotia finally won Michelin's favors draft of what would later be Bill 98 during after an estimated 40 meetings in 1968 and the spring of 1979. On the Thursday before 1969. the Easter weekend, Ken Streatch told the The provincial government gave the cor­ chairman of the study committee, Kell An- poration an $8.6 million grant, a $50 mill­ toft, the bill was going to be introduced to ion loan at approximately 3 Vi per cent less the House the folio wing1Wednesday. than the prime lending rate, and a pledge to The committee examined the legislation buy $14.3 million in Michelin bonds. The and came to three conclusions. The com­ municipalities of Bridgewater and Pictou mittee said the interdependency provision reduced taxes to one per cent of real and was a misnomer. Instead of calling for personal property tax assessment for a broad based bargaining, the legislation stip­ 10-year period and Bridgewater donated 40 ulated broad based certification, the com­ acres of land valued at $10,000 for a plant mittee said. Broad based bargaining has site. The federal government added $16 usually been understood by labor and man­ million in grants, a tariff exemption on agement as the practice of several different Michelin tires entering the country, $20 unions in the same industry bargaining with million in credit from Canadian banks, and all the employers of the same industry in an exemption from paying federal income two large groups. tax until the two plants were paid off. On the other hand, the term broad based Of the approximately $120 million ex­ certification stipulated that applicants who tended to set up the two plants about $80 would normally be considered as separate million can be traced to government aid. bargaining units would have to apply for The additional $40 million was made up of that all workers in interdependent plants duced the bill to the House in early Decem­ certification to become a bargaining unit equipment and cash. It is known that some have a say in deciding union representation. ber: "And as minister of labor, I declare simultaneously. of the equipment in the Nova Scotian plants The interdependency provision was intro­ that this government does not, and I as Under the proposed legislation, non-un­ was earlier used in Michelin's European duced despite criticisms raised by two key minister of labor do not, oppose or wish to ionized personnel would be considered as operations. It is conceivable the equipment government labor bodies, the Nova Scotia change materially the collective bargaining part of a bargaining unit with other union­ could have been valued at current market Federation of Labor and sectors of the procedure. It's not the principle we concern ized employees. An example cited was that value and depreciated accordingly. general public. ourselves with, it's the abuse of the valid re­ National Sea Product's trawler captains Michelin has become one of the biggest While the government defends the bill as sponsibilities of organizations which appear would be lumped together with non-union­ employers in the province; about 3,000 peo­ not anti-union, officials freely admit it is more concerned with their own political ized fishpackers and cutters and organized ple are employed between the Bridgewater directed at the United Rubber Workers. posture than they are with the rank and file truckers. The management caucus of the and Granton plants. worker." committee objected to the bill saying it It has also been acknowledged as the John MacDonald, president of volunteer would disrupt their already stable labor re­ world leader in keeping its operations rela­ THE UNITED RUBBER WORKERS URW Local 1028 in Pictou, says the gov­ lations. tively union free. Using techniques outlined The United Rubber Workers have been in ernment "responded exactly the same way The committee also found the relation­ in James L. Dougherty's book Union Free Nova Scotia almost as long as Michelin has. the employees did when this was introduced ship between employment and broad based Management and How to Keep It Free and An international union, its members are during the brainwash campaign." bargaining to be very indirect and tenuous. other practices mentioned in part one of predominantly Americans working at Mich­ The committee urged the minister not to use He says the focus of the URW lobby to the Trade Union Act as a development tool this article, the percentage of the tire man­ elin's biggest competitors — Goodyear and the U.S. tariff commission was directed at ufacturer's plants that are unionized are Firestone. URW has spent about a million and asked for more time to study the pro­ companies from Japan involved in the rub­ posed legislation. small. Of more than 50 plants world-wide, dollars in three attempts to organize the ber footwear industry. MacDonald says in­ only a few in France and the rest of Europe Granton plant. The legislation was not introduced to the ternational president Pete Bommirito made House the following Wednesday. are unionized to any great degree. The Granton plant in central northeast­ verbal reference to Michelin and its extens­ Because of its strategic employment im­ ern Pictou county is in an area with a his­ ive loan and grant arrangements with Cana­ Sources close to the committee indicate portance, Michelin has always enjoyed tory of trade unionism. Most other manu­ dian governments at a hearing in Ohio. A that certain people in the management cau­ good communications with the provincial facturing workers in the area such as state senator repeated it in congress, and in­ cus were told the provincial government government. Hawker Siddeley railroad car works or to the congressional record, and Michelin was going to introduce the legislation what­ In 1973 operating engineers at the Gran­ Scott paper, are unionized. Bridgewater, lo­ has used it against URW ever since. ever the committee recommended. The Ca­ ton plant applied for certification author­ cated on the picturesque South Shore of the nadian Manufacturers Association in par­ izing them to become a unionized bargain­ province, has almost no history of worker "The URW's representation to the tariff ticular wanted the legislation directed away ing unit. Michelin asked for and received a organization as most people have tradi­ commission in the United States made no from its members as it would upset existing delay in the hearing so it could present evi­ tionally been employed in the fishing in­ reference to Michelin at all," MacDonald agreements that were working with relative dence concerning the application. In the dustry, on farms, or in the tourist trade. says. stability. meantime, the provincial cabinet, without The first attempt to certify the Granton In the middle 1970s, Michelin launched a The bill that was eventually introduced consulting any of its labor boards, passed plant in 1977, was withdrawn when organiz­ court action in the U.S. alleging that the into the House was substantially a CMA an Order in Council changing regulations ers seriously underestimated the number of other large tire manufacturers were discrim­ See page 10: BILL Page 10 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, February 19,1980

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Bill leaves union wheels spinning From page 9 plants should have the same bargaining Liberal and New Democratic MLAs kept fective in the face of deliberate erosion of traditional trade union rights. proposal to limit the scope of the interde­ unit. filibustering until Dec. 23 when the legis­ pendency provision to manufacturing The Labor Relations Board heard this ar­ lature broke for Christmas. One day oppo­ Unlike the United States, where union plants, of which there are only two in the gument in 1978 and admitted there was a sition members taunted individual govern­ membership is declining (AFL—CIO mem­ province who would come under the terms sacrifice in the stability, and the likelihood ments for 11 Vi straight hours in an effort to bership dropped from 34 per cent of the used — Michelin's. of a strike is increased somewhat, by creat­ flush out backbenchers' personal views on work force in 1955 to 20 per cent today ac­ The deputy minister of labor has observ­ ing two separate bargaining units. the bill. They were met with silence. Pre­ cording to The Economist) unionized em­ er status on the study committee and while "The board accepts that a strike at one mier Buchanan said after the session the ployees as a percentage of the work force in he does not attend the meetings he does re­ plant would inevitably bring a halt to work government had already made its position Canada is on the upswing. In Nova Scotia ceive the minutes. at another. While the dependence of the clear and there was no need for continued about 36 per cent of the working popula­ tion is unionized, down about a point from The labor caucus of the committee said Granton plant and Bridgewater plants is debate. The legislature reconvened Dec. 27 a year ago, and slightly under the national the legislation was an attempt to undermine physically demonstrable to a somewhat un­ and the next day the Conservatives used average. a principle of the committee's founding usual degree, it is not uncommon for their overwhelming majority to pass the charter which stated that all workers have separate operations of the same employer bill. With one out of every three Canadians the right to organize. The labor representa­ to be heavily dependent on each other in an unionized labor should have some political tives asked the management caucus to join economic sense." clout. While the provincial federation stag­ them in protesting the bill to the minister. The board went on to say, "nobody can THE NOVA SCOTIA gers to assess its position, the national labor The management caucus split with a small fail to be aware of how dependent eco­ FEDERATION OF LABOR scene is "far too strong to just roll over," nomic units in today's world are on each says one labor economics expert. but important minority wanting to support The 70,000 member provincial federation labor. This minority included industrialist other, even when they are not owned by the same employer, but these facts of economic of assorted trade and public service unions and millionaire socialist Lloyd Shaw and J. had denounced the legislation as an out­ A VULNERABLE SOCIAL FABRIC B. Morrow, senior vice-president of Na­ life have never been held to dictate single province-wide bargaining units." right attack since the first day it was intro­ As analyzed by the Labor Relations tional Sea Products. duced. Economic facts of life aside the board Board, the distance between Bridgewater also outlined some of the social obstacles The federation argues that the Nova Sco­ and Granton and the lack of social inter­ tia labor force is the most productive in the play between the people who live in the THE LABOR RELATIONS BOARD that make including Granton and Bridge- water in the same bargaining unit unreason­ country, losing less people hours per capita areas and work in the Michelin plants mean The Labor Relations Board's function is- able. due to strikes than any other province. the workers do not have the resources or the Michelin's plants in the province are two of to administer and interpret the Nova Scotia "Employees at Granton live 150 miles opportunity to discuss the merits of union­ their most productive in the world. They Trade Union Act. Under the jurisdiction of away from employees at Bridgewater. They ism. term the legislation as needless and point to the ministry of labor, the board monitors do not have social interchange during the Their right to decide whether they wish to Michelin's announcements of further ex­ bids for union certification and rules on the day, develop friendships and acquaintances 'join the URW or any other union has been pansion as proof the company is using the appropriateness of bargaining units when and engage in after hours athletic and social effectively legislated away. government to satisfy its corporate whim there is a dispute. It consists of labor and events except on a formal and very occa­ Critics of the legislation say labor rela­ and not basing its demand on economic management representatives and is chaired sional basis. If they were combined into one tions in the province are as stable as they performance. They call the use of the Trade by a generally acceptable third party. bargaining unit and certification resulted, will ever be and the work force measures Union Act a basic erosion of traditional hu­ During the second application for certifi­ the distance between the two would prevent above the Canadian average in time lost due man rights in the province. cation made by the URW in 1978 the boarcf any natural cohesion because they do not to work stoppages. If this bill has been in­ heard extensive testimony on the interde­ have the facilities for communication and President Gerald Yetman has refused to troduced to promote labor stability, it is at pendency of Michelin's operations, and a travel back and forth available to manage­ meet with labor minister Ken Streatch and best unnecessary. variety of other points. ment. Any such bargaining unit would not publicly ask him to resign. The federation Further, as labor regards the loss of a The Trade Union Act gives some direc­ be a natural unit." has withdrawn from the Joint Study Com­ traditional right to organize, there is the tion in deciding an appropriate bargaining mittee and refused to sit on the Labor Rela­ fear it will become hard line in its bargain­ unit stating the decision should be made tions Board until the new government ap­ ing positions, which could lead to strikes with, "regards to the community of inter­ pointed chairman (a management repre­ and work stoppages. This would conse­ ests among the employees in the proposed THE HOUSE DEBATE sentative on the board for years) is replaced quently create the insecure climate for in­ unit, in such matters as work location, The majority Progressive Conservative by a neutral third party. The federation also vestment the bill was passed to avoid. hours of work, working conditions, and government was harshly criticized by sev­ threatened a general strike, and to with­ In addition to the inadequacy of the leg­ methods of communication." eral groups, besides the opposition parties draw from the host of government agencies islation it is clear the provincial government The board decided three out of the four and labor; for rushing the bill through the and commissions it has representation on. is following a development policy that has "community interest factors" were satis­ legislature and stifling debate. Organized labor's strategy to fight the never been debated in public. fied by both the Granton and Bridgewater The day after the bill was introduced de­ Micehlin Bill has not yet emerged. The res­ The carte blanche given to foreign multi­ plants. These include hours of work, work­ velopment minister Roland Thornhill an­ ignations from public boards has not hap­ national investment as the savior of the pro­ ing conditions, and methods of remunera­ nounced in the House that Michelin was go­ pened, the general strike was ruled out be­ vinces' economic plight has one glaring side tion. The fourth factor, work location, was ing to expand its existing facilities and build cause the membership is not solid enough to effect. It is the vulnerability of the prov­ only unique to the unit being proposed, in a third plant — creating an additional 2,000 guarantee effective militant mass action. ince's social fabric. This is manifested when this case Granton. jobs. The announcement was greeted with Promised economic sanctions against the a corporation such as Michelin wants and Under the bargaining unit outlined in Bill delight by the government benches and tire company have not been announced. gets fundamental changes in accepted social 98 the unit must consist of all employees amidst cries of "Why do we need the bill?" The federation has stayed to its word not rights. working in interdependent manufacturing and "anti-labor," the polarization on the to meet with the Buchanan government The Citizens' Coalition against the Mich­ plants owned by the same employer. The House floor was set. while it remains in office and a newspaper elin Bill presented a brief to the provincial new definition of the bargaining unit stip­ Premier John Buchanan refused to with­ informing its members of the ramifications legislature's law amendments committee ulates work location as all the locations in draw the legislation so more public debate of the Michelin bill is planned to be out be­ during the bill's second reading. The coali­ an interdependent manufacturing opera­ could be facilitated and within two weeks it fore the federal election. tion, a group of professional people, tion. moved to second reading. The House law Organized labor in Nova Scotia is reeling. academic and business people, concluded Michelin and the provincial government amendments committee held public hear­ After a decade of being told by the Liberals the brief saying, "Today we are asked to say the legislation does not limit the rights ings and about 50 groups presented briefs. they were being listened to, despite the op­ support the undermining of rights of unor­ of workers but ensures stability in the labor Only one, the Halifax Board of Trade, sup­ erating engineers fiasco of 1973, the federa­ ganized workers and established labor man­ force. They argue that since one plant ceas­ ported the bill. The hearings were so crowd­ tion's contribution to the tripartite bargain­ agement relations. Tomorrow it could be ing operation would shut down the other in­ ed they were moved from the designated ing process has been ignored. The tradi­ pollution controls, safety standards, or hu­ terdependent plant, putting those employ­ committee room to the more spacious legis­ tional three way dialogue among govern­ man rights legislation that will go on the ees out of work, all employees at the two lative chambers. ment, business and labor has proved inef­ auction block." Tuesday, February 19,1980 THE UBYSSEY Page 11 /^^^!:W^ 'Birds to face torrid Vikings All season the Thunderbird bask­ etball team has enjoyed the role of the underdog. Expected to go no­ where, the 'Birds surprised by win­ ning and impressed by coming close. But now, they face harsh reality. Now, the Thunderbirds must beat the undefeated University of Vic­ toria Vikings to make the Canada West playoffs. "Let me put it this way — we're quite capable of beating them," said coach Peter Mullins Monday. "If we shoot well, we can beat them." The Thunderbirds moved into sole possession of second place on the weekend with two wins over the University of Alberta Golden Bears, but to make the playoffs UBC must finish the season with more wins than Calgary, presently in third place. Calgary lost two close matches to Victoria in the Alberta town on the weekend, but have a fairly easy schedule with only four games remaining. CANADA WEST UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Men's basketball standings W L Pts. Victoria Vikings 16 0 32 UBC 'Birds 10 6 20 Calgary D'saurs 8 8 16 Alberta Bears 7 9 14 L'bridge P'horns 7 9 14 Sask. Huskies 0 16 0 The Thunderbirds play Victoria on the island this weekend and then finish the season with a pair of games in Lethbridge on Feb. 29 and March 1. Lethbridge has a scrappy team and is always difficult at home, where the referee union has more homers than Hank Aaron. UBC must win three of those four games to guarantee a playoff spot. Calgary has an easier time, play­ — kevin finnegan photo ing winless Saskatchewan twice and HOOPING IT UP, UBC basketball players prove too offensive for visiting second place. Cathy Bultitude (right) was high scorer as women took first then hosting Alberta. While Alberta University of Alberta teams Saturday. Men's team was led by consistent league win of season in squeaker over Pandas. Both squads face tougher has been weak this year, Mullins play of John Doughty (22, left) as they swept two from Bears to move into competition on weekend in Victoria. pointed out the Alberta rivalry always makes such games a dogfight. "It's like us and Simon Fraser, UBC jocks deliver big shock to west there's a big rivalry there. Anything can happen," said Mullins. UBC athletes took Canada West personal best times in placing se­ the three metre to lead the women. bars. The women finished behind "They could split — I'd like to by storm on the weekend, winning cond in the 100 and 200 metre UBC won the combined title in Calgary and Alberta. see it." UBC must finish with more wins three championships and posting backstroke. both swimming and diving. "It And the men's wrestling team than Calgary to take the playoff several impressive individual per­ UBC women's swim team placed shows what kind of depth we have finished third at the Canada West spot because the Dinosaurs have an formances. second in the meet to University of to take the championship with so finals, which were also held in Ed­ edge in the point spread between The UBC men's swim team edged Victoria. Robin Loucks scored few wins," said coach Jack Kelso. monton. Peter Farkas placed first the teams. the University of Alberta 132-126 to UBC's only individual first in the UBC will send 11 swimmers and in the 65 kg. division while Lee win the Canada West title at the 200 metre breastroke, while Janice five divers to the Canadian In- Blanchard (76 kg.), Brent Hender­ The Thunderbirds displayed their UBC aquatic centre on the Blocka added three seconds. teruniversity Athletic Union cham­ son (86 kg.) and Barry Lam (57 kg.) quickness and hot shooting for the weekend. The Thunderbirds placed UBC won the men's diving title pionships at Universite Laval in took seconds. Farkas and Blan­ hometown fans for the last time this first only in the four by 100 medley with Don Liebermann winning both Quebec March 7-9. The UBC team chard will represent UBC at the year as they dropped the visiting relay but used their depth to out­ the one and three metre events, will be twice as large as any other CIAU meet in Saskatoon Feb. 29. Bears 88-58 and 64-51. The 'Birds point the Bears and four other while the women divers placed se­ team from Canada West. speed and teamwork were evident schools. UBC received a strong cond to Calgary. Sue Goad placed In other Canada West champion­ And both the men's and women's throughout as they constantly swim from Neal Carley, who posted first in the one metre and second in ship action on campus, the UBC volleyball teams will go to the Can­ scored up the middle against the women's curling team went ada West tournament in Saskatoon 'Bears and simply ran away with the undefeated in a round robin tourna­ with hopes of qualifying for the na­ games. ment at the winter sports centre to tional finals. See page 12. VICTORIA win the women's title. The team skipped by Cathy Jensen was taken to an extra end by last-place Bultitude scores multitude Lethbridge but managed to save its Not many coaches have the gall league game of the season 48-47 perfect record. THURSDAY Men's gymnastics to sound optimistic about a 1-17 over the University of Alberta Pan­ Canada West finals The University of Saskatchewan Men's soccer Calgary 48 win-loss record but you'll have to das Saturday evening. UBC 204.05 won the men's title. UBC does not UBC 1 SFU 3 Victoria 3 forgive Thunderette basketball Alberta 195.65 "(The players) are getting Women's swimming have a men's curling team. coach Jack Pomfret. FRIDAY Manitoba 131.9 Canada West finals stronger and playing as a cohesive Men's basketball Calgary 75.4 The men's gymnastics team "We haven't won the world Victoria 121 championships but it's nice to be unit," said Pomfret, who credited a UBC 88 Alberta 58 UBC 108 received a strong showing from Ed Women's gymnastics new-found fast break and a tough Women's basketball Alberta 67 Osborne to upset the University of Canada West finals defence as the keys to the victory. UBC 47 Alberta 64 Manitoba 64 CANADA WEST UNIVERSITY Calgary 157.7 Alberta for the Canada West title in Calgary 55 Men's ice hockey Alberta 145.25 a meet in Edmonton. Osborne won ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION The Thunderettes were led Satur­ Lakehead 31 UBC 1 Saskatchewan 5 UBC 126.6 five of six events and took the Women's basketball standings day by Cathy Bultitude's 17 points, Diving SATURDAY Men's wrestling W L Pts. Canada West finals overall title with a 47.8 score. while Agnes Baker added 12. Canada West finals Men's basketball UBC 36 UBC's Glen Harder placed fourth Victoria Vikettes 17 1 34 Alberta 46 On Friday night the Thunderettes UBC 64 Alberta 51 Calgary 26 Calgary 27 overall and Ralph Bereska fifth. Calgary Dinnies 13 5 26 Women's basketball Alberta 19 were within five points of the Pan­ UBC 23 Alberta Pandas 11 7 22 UBC 48 Alberta 47 Manitoba 7 The women's gymnastics team das with three minutes remaining Saskatchewan 19 L'bridge P'horns 5 11 10 Men's swimming Women's curling placed third in the championships but a late game full court press Men's ice hockey Sask. Huskiettes 5 11 10 Canada West finals Canada West finals despite the efforts of Patti Sakaki, UBC 4 Alberta 1 UBC Th'ettes 1 17 2 backfired as the Pandas went on to UBC 132 UBC 6 wins who won all four events and took win 64-47. Jane Waddell led UBC Alberta 126 Victoria 3 wins SUNDAY the overall title. Sakaki's lowest with 15 points while Bultitude add­ Manitoba 83 Saskatchewan 3 wins Women's soccer coming up," mused Pomfret after Lakehead 60 Lethbridge 0 wins UBC 2 Retreads 1 score was an 8.8 on the uneven the Thunderettes won their first ed 12. 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There is only one problem abouJt Forty three competitors ignored Mustang. Volker Wagner took class Shefa Vegetarian the rain Sunday to race in the fifth two in a 1980 Corvette while Peter taking a break from classes this slalom challenge of the year to be Pistner won class three in a Datsun week. UBC intramurals is going to sponsored by the UBC sports car 510 by turning in the fastest time of take a break too. Restaurant club. Doug Carlisle managed to the day. John Zwaagstra took class There will be no three kilometre avoid the underwater parts of B-lot four by six hundredths of a second run at noon Friday as advertised, long enough to place first in class over Jay Poscente, while Darlene due to the mid-term break. EVERYONE WELCOME one while driving a modified turbo Gartner posted the fastest women's Watch for intramurals' big week time of the day in a Honda Civic. in late February, though, when they Hillel House The sixth and final challenge race will host a storm-the-wall event and will be on March 16. a giant aquatics show as well as co- Victoria looms rec football. next for 'Birds HOCKEY From page 11 Upcoming UBC shot 54 per cent hriday THUNDERBIRD STYLE night and 52 per cent Saturday from TODAY FRIDAY Women's basketball the floor, with Brad Findlay scoring Men's rugby Intramurals UBC at Victoria UBC vs SASKATCHEWAN UBC at Long Beach 3 km run cancelled 22 points in the first game and John Women's field hockey Stark matching that figure in the se­ Women's squash Men's ice hockey UBC vs. Doves, 2:30 p.m FRI. & SAT. FEB. 22-23-8:00 P.M. cond. John Doughty played a UBC vs. Hollyburn UBC vs. Saskatchewan McGregor field steady series and added 16 points 7:15 p.m., winter sports 8:30 p.m., winter sports JVs vs. Tigers, 1 p.m. centre centre Balaclava field WINTER SPORTS CENTRE each night. Men's basketball Totems vs. Rebels WEDNESDAY But all that is in the past for the UBC at Victoria 1 p.m., Tisdall park 'Birds, as they head to Victoria Intramurals Women's basketball STUDENTS FREE ADMISSION knowing they must win at least one Last day of registration: UBC at Victoria Men's rugby Co-rec bike tour, Galiano game if they are to make the Volleyball UBC at Santa Barbara playoffs of their own accord. And THURSDAY Canada West tourney. Saskatoon that is as it should be, for those Men's rugby SUNDAY playoffs will find the second place UBC at Santa Barbara SATURDAY Women's soccer team back in Victoria for a best of Women's ice hockey Men's basketball UBC vs. IODE, 10 a.m., UBC at Flindall UBC at Victoria Maclnnes field three series with the lofty Vikings. Carney GET INVOLVED IN 1980 From page 3 APPLY NOW!! Carney says she will fight for her constituents even though her party S.A. C. Reps on . . . will be in opposition. "I intend to • Thunderbird Winter Sports Center Management work for the special interest groups Commitee — gays, seniors and others." • Aquatic Center Management Committee And Carney is not surprised at her victory. "1 told Ron Johnson APPLICATION DEADLINE: early in the campaign that it was my Tuesday, February 26th. 1980 — 4 p.m. wish that he'd come in second. "He's a great campaigner. I hope Students needed for . . . he runs again but somewhere else." • Elections Committee Carney's son John is ecstatic. It's • Budget Committee a double treat for him because he won a class election in high school • Art Gallery Programs Committee earlier in the day. "I think it's • Whistler Cabin Management Committee great," he says. 10:04 p.m. APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: Carney's supporters sing For Friday, March 14, 1980 She's a Jolly Good Fellow. Then the band strikes up a smooth Dixie APPLICATIONS FORMS ARE TO BE OBTAINED FROM beat and Carney does a slow jive AND RETURNED TO THE AMS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, with her campaign manager. SUB ROOM 238 "This is the only happy spot in Diane Campbell the whole damn country," says one Secretary SAC Tory supporter. "I'm happy about this," he adds. "Ron Basford's a partner in my law firm." (Ron Arts Undergraduate Basford is a former Vancouver Centre Liberal MP and cabinet minister who also ran Phillips' re­ Society Presents . . . election campaign.) Hotel Vancouver, 10:25 p.m. the second in a series of outdoor concerts A few cheers echo around the X-COUNTRY room and the band plays for the benefit of the less than 60 people Featuring The present. Many of them are media people and most of them are sober — the main Tory celebration is charging for liquor, unlike Carney's SKI SALE "COVERBOYS" party. 10:50 p.m. SKIS, BOOTS, BINDINGS, Thursday, Feb. 28, 12:25 p.m. Carney appears shortly after Vancouver South Tory MP John POLES, ETC. Fraser speaks to the assembled North-West SUB Plaza Conservatives. Her supporters precede her, chanting "We want Pat! We want Pat!" (They wave KNEISEL & AMANN signs and exude victorious cheers.) INTERMISSION SPECIAL: "If we had to lose, this is a nice way to lose," says one of Fraser's A Special General Meeting of campaigners. Rumors drift around the room the A.U.S., to approve a new that Joe Clark cannot survive long COST+10% as party leader after such a strong rejection from the voters. undergraduate society Carney isn't ready yet to make a Prices from $56 and up firm move on the Tory leadership constitution and by-laws. she says, and adds that Clark might not have to step down anyway. "That's a hypothetical question," SALE ENDS she says, but admits that others (Check next Tuesday's UBYSSEY for exact have suggested it. location — for further information contact "I've got a disadvantage," she MARCH 1st adds. "I'm not bilingual." Bob Staley in Buchanan 107). But as she starts to walk away to join her wellwishers, Carney turns f^ PACK&BOOTS SHOP back and puts her hand on my arm. "Maybe I should take an immer­ V**- 3425West Broadway.T&ncouver 738-3128 . sion course." Tuesday, February 19,1980 THE UBYSSEY Page 13

W HAIRSTYLING ^ Carleton rejects fee hike w FOR MEN & WOMEN ^ 10% Discount OTTAWA (CUP) — Carleton Student senators thought the income families from a university for all students on University senate has rejected a pro­ defeat of the proposal to add a 10 education. hairstyling by Karin and Terry with posal to increase tuition by 17.5 per per cent increase to the mandatory Meanwhile, at the university of presentation of this ad. Offer ex­ pires April 5. 1980. cent next fall, despite the university 17.5 per cent announced by the pro­ Toronto, a committee of the U of T president's worry that ad­ vincial government Jan. 1 was a governing council, the university's ken hippert ministrators will look like "damn heartening victory. combination of senate and board of hair company ltd. fools." But the tuition battle at Carleton governors, will be considering a 5736 UNIVERSITY BLVD." Senate agreed that a fee increase is far from over. proposal next week which could (next to the Lucky Dollar is the only way to bail Carleton The senate has no real power over result in the highest possible tuition in the Village) University out of its projected $2 financial matters at the university incrases for U of T students. .DROP IN OR CALL 228-1471^ million deficit, but they could not — the Carleton board of governors Harry Eastman, U of T registrar agree on how much that increase decides on tuition levels. And a and vice-president of research and should be. (The senate rejected its board decision on the level of the planning, will be putting a proposal budget review committee's proposal increase is expected to be made at before the planning and resources to increase fees). their meeting Thursday. committee at Monday's meeting TODAY-12:30 University president William calling for more than a 17 per cent Beckel has warned that an increase increase in tuition for some Vanier hits at Carleton is inevitable considering faculties. the university's declining enrol­ ment, the level of inflation and the If the governing council accepts At Hillel House low level of grant assistance to the Eastman's recommendations, in­ racist bank university by the provincial govern­ creases for next fall will be: MONTREAL (CUP) — The ment. • $710 to $834 for arts and science or 17.4 per cent; Vanier College students' association President Beckel said university has moved its account from the administrators "run the risk of • pharmacy, music and law FREE SALAMI LUNCH Royal Bank of Canada because of looking like damn fools" if they ig­ from $725 to $858 or 17.4 per cent; that bank's loan policy with South nore the optional part of the pro­ • medicine from $945 to $1,089 with guest Africa. posed increase. or 15.2 per cent. Council president Stephen The proposal also calls for a basic Student president Kirk Falconer Prof. Nathan Divinski Caminsky sent a letter to the bank visa student fee hike from $1,500 to told senate that too great an ir late last year informing the institu­ $1,612 for an increase of 7.5 per crease could bar students of lower- tion of their decision. The letter cent. EVERYONE WELCOME stated that the government of South Africa enforces a policy of apar­ theid and racial discrimination and that the council is "vehemently op­ posed to such policies." PACIIKWESTERN The Royal Bank responded by sending Caminsky an information package of its policies toward South Africa. GIVES STUDENTS ABREAK In a letter to Caminsky, bank president R. C. Frazee said, "each individual loan proposition is carefully examined, not only from ONTHEIRBREAK the traditional point of view of security risk and return but also from the perspective of social responsibility. "The bank will not make loans to Youths 12 through 21 can save 15% any borrower, in South Africa where the bank judges that the off the regular fare. funds will support or facilitate the application of apartheid policy or that country's past laws system." Say good-bye to stand-by. Included in the information Pacific Western's Youth Fare seats package was a copy of an advertise­ ment in the Wall Street Journal ex­ are confirmed plaining the hardships that South African blacks would suffer if Pacific Western flies to more than Canadian banks were boycotted. A 1978 press release included in 50 destinations across Western the package said "the Royal Bank is Canada. the first Canadian bank to reveal that it has not made loans to the South African government or its Get a break next break call your agencies for almost two years." travel agent or Pacific Western Another press release said that in many cases money loaned to South Airlines. Africa is used to improve the social welfare of blacks. David Lai, Vanier Council treasurer at the time of the move, said he thought the letter to the bank might influence other people or groups to change banks. Caminsky said he believes any loans to South Africa support the government and adds that he is not personally convinced the Royal Bank's loans do not further the racist regime. The Dawson College students' council moved its account from a bank which deals with South Africa last year. NORRES _." MOVING AND TE SI TRANSFER LTD. 1~ f 51 Big or Small Jobs Reasonable Rates 2060 W. 10th- PRCIFIC Vancouver 734-S535 WESTERll Eve. and Holidays 732-9898 AIRLJN Also Garages. Basements, Yards CLEAN-UPS THE GREAT WEST CONNECTION Page 14 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, February 19,1980 'Tween classes Dalhousie University TODAY WOMEN'S COMMITTEE FRIDAY General meeting, noon. SUB 130. Department of Physiology & Biophysics INTERNATIONAL HOUSE ALL CANDIDATES BRIDGE LEAPING COALITION FOR A SAFE CAMPUS Defeated federal candidates wilt leap from Lions' Regular meeting. 1:30 p.m., SUB 130. The Big Night of African reggae music, 8:30 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7 p.m., International House upper lounge. Gate Bridge, 1 p.m., Burrard Inlet. CAMPUS PRO-LIFE wusc Film: First Days of Life, noon, SUB 207. EL CIRCULO Tape and discussion on Canadian immigration SATURDAY Conversation groups, noon, Buch. 218. policy, noon, Buch. 312. WHEELHOUSE CLUB PRE-MED SF SOCIETY Kurtz kitten-shaving and Brando worship, 3:46 Opportunities For: Lecture on biomedical research at TRIUMF, General meeting, noon, SUB 113. a.m., Wheelhouse dungeon. All dogs will be ex­ noon, IRC 1. NEWMAN CATHOLIC CENTRE terminated with extreme prejudice. Graduate Studies (M.Sc. & Ph.D.) Bible discussion, noon, St. Mark's College. VST Postdoctoral Fellowships Shrove Tuesday dinner, 5:30 p.m., St. Mark's Open forum, 7:30 p.m., Vancouver School of College. THURSDAY Theology 103. AMS ART GALLERY HILLEL HOUSE J. C. Szerb Transmitter Release/Regulation General meeting, noon, SUB 230. Spring-break dance, 8:30 p.m., Grad Student TOASTMASTERS Centre. M. Wilkinson Neural Control of Fertility General meeting with new members welcome, R. Rosen Biological Control/Biomath 730 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., MacMillan 278. SUNDAY D. M. Regan Hot AMS CONCERTS Vision/Hearing: Normal/Abnormal WEDNESDAY Cheap Thrills 19 presents Fingerpnntz, 8 p.m., P. M. Rautaharju Smoking, Obesity, Exercise: voc SUB ballroom Special slide show on Mt. Logan, first ascent of Ischemic Heart Disease flashes N.W. ridge, noon, Chem. 250. MONDAY . 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McGill workers call WJW 'unlimited' strike INTRAMURALS MONTREAL (CP) — McGill Alan Fenichel of the faculty union has reaffirmed this stand. University service employees began with an "unlimited" strike yesterday The McGill teaching assistant as­ with support from students and var­ sociation has passed a resolution ious campus organizations. "to defend the right of teaching as­ The Sky Diving Club, Aqua Soc, the Canoe Club, After a year of negotiations with sistants to refuse to cross picket the university, 400 union workers lines." are striking over union rights, griev­ While the residences will be UBC Diving Team and Synchro Swim B.C. ance procedures, subcontracting of picketed, Berlin said students will jobs, job definitions and workload. not be prevented from entering the "We are asking students and building. The residence head has presents teachers to respect picket lines and granted students $7 per day for we are appealing to student and food while the residence cafeteria is teacher associations to form sup­ closed. port committees," said union nego­ The union has already signed a tiator Simon Berlin. sectorial agreement between Que­ Workers have set up picket lines bec unions and the provincial gov­ at several points across the campus, ernment which settles the major including the university's main gate monetary issues of salary, vacations and in front of residences. and job security. McGill is the only A LEAP YEAR Some students have boycotted university which has not settled classes in support of the service em­ local issues. ployees, whose walkout will affect the residence cafeteria, computer "McGill is the only university do­ centre, university mail and mainten­ ing this," said Berlin. "They are ar­ ance services. No official announce­ guing for articles below the status ment has been made concerning quo, and are trying to take back EXTRAVAGANZA! cancellation of classes by professors rights we have won over the years." otj departments. Meanwhile, the McGill adminis­ ^The McGill students' society says tration is circulating a leaflet outlin­ it supports students' right to decide ing the university's position on the Thursday, Feb. 28, 12:30 for themselves if they should re­ strike. "It would be expected that spect picket lines. all staff, both academic and non- The McGill faculty union issued a academic, would come in to take up STORM THE WALL statement last December urging its their normal duties," the leaflet members to respect picket lines and states. Men, Women & Mixed — 5 person relay team 2 Km Jog • 200 M Swim • 4 Km Cycle • 200 M Sprint ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING culminating in all 5 members scaling a 12' wall.

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Graduate Centre, UBC Available in the AMS business office, or Rm. 210, War Memorial Sponsored by Hillel House 224-4748 Page 16 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, February 19,1980 Ontario lumps en Liberal bandwagon By BILL TIELEMAN The Ontario popular vote tells the story. to, but ended up with just six seats, the The only big news in Quebec, which Canadian University Press In May of 1979 the Tories picked up about same as in 1979. returned 67 Liberals last time, was the national bureau chief 42 per cent, while the Liberals held on to 36 The Ontario results are a crippling blow elimination of the Social Credit party that OTTAWA — Ontario voters decided per cent. Last night the percentages simply to the aspirations of Broadbent and also once boasted 26 seats in the 1960s. The Monday to show British Columbian's the flipped around and the NDP held steady at point out the inability of the Canadian demise of the Social Credit was grimly real meaning of the word volatile. 22 per cent. Labor Congress to convince workers to foreshadowed earlier when one of their can­ The NDP suffered a serious setback to its vote NDP. Instead the election results leave didates died and the election in the riding The province which gave Pierre Trudeau hopes of improving its position in the was postponed. the electoral bum's rush only last May turn­ the NDP basically a regional party whose House of Commons because Ontario refus­ strength lies in the West. The Atlantic also Only Tory cabinet minister Roch LaSalle ed around to offer him 44 of its 95 seats and ed to rally behind leader Ed Broadbent. In was able to survive the Liberal wave, which a majority government. disappointed the party, which lost its only northern Ontario, labor critic John two seats of the region. washed former senator and cabinet minister While most of the Tory heavyweights — Rodriguez of Nickel Belt and Timiskaming Bob de Cotret and recent Social Credit con­ Flora MacDonald, David Crombie, Sinclair MP Arnold Peters were bested in surprise The Conservative party's demise at the vert Richard Janelle and science and Stevens and Walter Baker — were returned, upsets. Energy critic Cyril Symes also fell to hands of fickle Ontario voters appears to technology minister Heward Grafftey out a score of backbenchers, the majority from a major Liberal drive in Sault St. Marie. have come from a dislike for two things: of office. Toronto and southern Ontario, are looking On the plus side the NDP picked up Joe Clark and his budget, which Ontarions Ontario standings: L-S5, PC-34, NDP-6. for new jobs today. Hamilton Mountain and Beaches in Toron­ saw as a prescription for economic disaster. Quebec standings: L-73, PC-1. Pierre is 'Canada's Indira Ghandi' From page 1 Liberal bash at downtown Van­ tawa, although his wife Carole about Maureen McTeer's sexual Sid Parker (NDP—Kooteney East- worker, Chuck Tayes, 25, sported a couver's Hotel Georgia, the joy of Taylor's television commitments habits, while she and Joe were Revelstoke); Lyle Kristiansen button, with bot­ winning the larger race muted by might prevent them from moving speaking on the television to sup­ (NDP—Kooteney West); Mark tled beer in hand at a Burnaby the dreadful B.C. results. Most of right away. porters gathered in Spruce Grove, Rose (NDP—Mission-Port ! v. union hall. "About two hours ago, the party bigwigs and bagmen mere­ "We felt there was a lot less Alta. Moody); Ted Miller I was saying to myself, 'I really ly mused about why they won. And hostility towards Trudeau this time The Vancouver Liberals did real­ (NDP—Nanaimo-Alberni); Pauline wonder if we're gonna win.' But I why they lost in B.C. than last time," he said later. "It ly try to have a good time though. Jewett (NDP—New Westminster- predicted an increase in voter sup­ "Pierre Trudeau is the Indira seemed to be an anti-east attitude But basking in the glory of more Coquitlam); Fred King port, and we got it." Ghandi of Canadian politics," said that developed. I don't understand successful eastern cousins did not (PC—Okanagan-Similkameen); Party followers greeted a beam­ former Liberal cabinet minister why people voted the way they make for a festive mood. Lome McCuish (PC—Prince ing provincial leader Dave Barrett, Ron Basford, apparently unaware did. I felt that with the national Few candidates bothered to show George-Bulkley Valley); Frank in blue pin-stripe suit, with cries of of the statement's implications. trends, there would have been some up at the party. Those that did Oberle (PC—Prince George-Peace "Hey, Slim," and hugs and em­ "It's a commanding political com­ slop-over to B.C." didn't stay long. "I feel like I'm on River); Jim Fulton braces. And as encouraging results eback, but as a westerner I'm very But some of the reflection was a desert island out here. I might (NDP—Skeena); and, Allan poured in, the 300 supporters drank disappointed that west of Winnipeg unpleasant, even rude. Male move back east,"_said one woman McKinnon (PC—Victoria). to their success, soon oblivious to we have no seats at all." workers at defeated Vancouver summing up the Liberal the party's major setbacks in On­ A saddened Art Phillips was Quadra Liberal Peter Pearse's cam­ defeat/win. tario and the Atlantic. overheard telling friends about the paign headquarters on W. 16th But not everyone was disap­ Life was a lot quieter at the house he would have to sell in Ot­ made rude and sexist comments pointed with the Liberals' dismal Clarke still western showing. Vancouver Quadra Rhino candidate Verne John Eh McDonald said he ex­ pected to get a call from Trudeau has Quadra giving him a spot in the senate and a cabinet post. Peter Pearse discovered that it While McDonald's chances are takes more for a successful run for slim, there was a great deal of talk parliament than a slick campaign, of the Liberals appointing western UBC connections and faculty club senators like Ray Perrault into the talk of an upset. cabinet to at least get some token Pearse, the UBC economics pro­ western representation. fessor turned Liberal candidate, In Vancouver Centre, Carney found himself a surprisingly distant won with 15,958, Johnson followed 7,157 votes behind Tory incumbent with 14,599 and Phillips trailed with Bill Clarke. 14,511. In Vancouver Quadra, Bill So it's back to school for Pearse, Clarke (PC) got 20,851; Pearse who said he was finished with (Lib) 13,694); Alan Bush (NDP) politics at a downtown Liberal post­ 10,077; and McDonald (Rhino) mortem after the results were in. 398. Pearse barely dented Clarke's In Vancouver East, Margaret plurality, despite an endorsing Mitchell (NDP) hung on with advertisement in a daily newspaper 13,897 votes, while Art Lee (Lib) Friday, signed by prominent cam­ had 12,502. Kingsway's MP Ian pus Liberals including administra­ Waddell (NDP) easily won with tion vice-president Chuck Con­ 16,929, while former Liberal MP naghan. Simma Holt trailed far behind with Clarke, who is often referred to 10,959. In Vancouver South, John as The Invisible Man for his indif­ Fraser (PC) easily hung onto his ferent attitude to the constituency Tory bastion with 22,349, while of his safe Tory bastion, is saying Liberal Patrick Graham garnered his performance at the polls reflects 10,368. New Democrat Judy his ability as MP. "In view of our McManus was close behind with sagging support in the province, 9,194. (the Quadra results) say something In Burnaby, Svend Robinson about the representation of Bill (NDP) had 21,577, beating off Clarke." tough Tory opponent Hugh Mawby When asked if he would take a with 18,622. Liberal Doreen harder look at student issues in this Lawson finished well out of the session, Clarke said: "I always meet money with only 10,600. Robinson with the executive of the university also won the Simon Fraser Univer­ administration and often the sity student residence poll 135 votes students are too busy." to 66 for the Tories and 40 for Clarke also won a majority of the Liberals. UBC residence vote, taking 756 to The Liberals' other bright hope Pearse's 611, and New Democrat in B.C., Gordon Gibson in North Alan Bush's 475. But the student Vancouver-Burnaby, lost again to turnout was quite low at the Gage Tory Chuck Cook. Tory Ron Hun­ residence poll. tington won easily as expected in "We had expected an 80 per cent B.C's largest cakewalk in Capilano. voter turnout," deputy returning The Conservatives also won officer Bill Rochford said, noting Richmond-Surrey-North Delta that only a little more than half had (Benno Friesen), Fraser Valley West bothered to vote. (Bob Wenman), Fraser Valley East The change of the voting loca­ (Alex Patterson), and Richmond- tion, which came after the three ma­ South Delta (Tom Siddon). jor candidates petitioned Ottawa, made voting for residence students Other MPs are: Lome Greenaway easier at the expense of Acadia Park (PC-Cariboo-Chilcotin); Ray Skelly residents. They live only a block — geof wheelwright photo (NDP—Comox-Powell River); Jim away from University Hill secon­ PRINCIPLES UNBENT BY DEFEAT, UBC board of governors member and Liberal hopeful Peter Pearse ex­ Manly (NDP—Cowichan-Malahat- dary school, the original voting presses heartfelt concern for student issues during press conference Monday night. Pearse, who voted with stu­ The Islands); Don Munro locale, but were told the polling dent board members on several issues during campaign in riding which includes UBC residences, promised to (PC—Esquimalt-Saanich); Nelson switch would force them to walk to continue struggle for rights of oppressed. At least, we think he did . . . Riss (NDP—Kamloops-Shuswap); Gage about two kilometres away.