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CUPE accepts admin offer The threat of a strike by UBC ment cutbacks in education should start negotiations again rate, or minimum increase wage that government cannot control support staff vanished Sunday spending," Andrews said. within three months and next offer, which would help bring up wages and prices equally. The real when union members voted 82 per He said unions on university March 31 (when the contract ex the wages of lower paid categories control just goes on wages. cent to accept an administration campuses are at a disadvantage in pires) if there's no contract, no of workers. "It's easy to control wages contract offer providing for a 7.5 negotiating contracts because they work." Andrews said food service because they're public and down in per cent wage increase. are in the position of negotiating He said CUPE representatives employees are an example black and white — but there's no Ken Andrews, president of the for money that would be taken out will meet with UBC's ad because they are among the way they can control prices the Canadian Union of Public Em of general education funds. ministration this week to formalize hardest working CUPE members same way." ployees, local 116, said Monday 810 Referring to the settlement, he the agreement, and added there but are in the lower end of the pay CUPE represents workers in of the union's 1,500 members at said "the thing that changed are several areas in which the scale. food services, residences, physical tended Sunday's membership people's minds was the fact that union will negotiate for im He also lashed out against the plant and UBC patrol. meeting to vote on the ad negotiations took us six months." provements next year. federal anti-inflation board. The offer accepted Sunday was ministration proposal. But Andrews added: "The mood He said a main area of "The paring is always done on 4.5 per cent less than the 12 per "The membership doesn't like it I got from the meeting was that we dissatisfaction is the lack of a base the lower levels. The AIB proves cent hike the union had asked for. but they'll be able to live with it," The administration proposal was Andrews said. made to CUPE a week ago, in the He. said the mood of Sunday's form of a written final offer, and meeting was one of grudging ac had the effect of forcing a ceptance, and said it has made showdown with the union. CUPE members more anxious than ever to take part in the Oct. 14 If CUPE had rejected the offer day of protest against federal wage Sunday, the union would have THE UBYSSEY issued 72-hour strike notice im and price controls. "It's absolutely impossible to mediately, and a strike could have negotiate with the anti-inflation Vol. LIX, No. 10 VANCOUVER, B.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1976 228-2301 begun as early as Wednesday board and the provincial govern night. 'Controls hurt business too' Labor isn't the only group op profits, chiefly by limiting wage posed to wage and price controls — increases. the business community doesn't The national rate of inflation in like the government controlling its 1972 a nd 1973 was 10 to 11 per cent a profits, economist Cy Gonick said year but the government didn't do at UBC Friday. anything then because "profits The Trudeau wage and price were at unprecedentedly high controls were set up to protect the levels." companies from inflation, he said, "Unions were locked into long- but the controls aren't always term contracts. They (business) working that way and business already had the type of controls wants out. they wanted," Gonick said. He said the main goal of the But profits were being squeezed controls is to preserve corporate by the end of 1974, he said. "The concern was that they (business) were no-longer the beneficiaries of coDective bargaining. Fewer frosh * "The only way to cope with that sort of inflation was an old- fashioned recession (like the one) enter UBC of the 1930s." Governments formerly limited wages and increased interest rates but "now the state accepts this year responsibility for full em By JOHN CARTWRIGHT ployment," he said. "People won't UBC enrolmeat increased accept a depression as inevitable." slightly this year, but first year So the government has enrolment is down, according to developed a new weapon: wage figures released Monday by and price controls. associate registrar Ken Young. Increasing wages and interest There are 22,925 day-time rates during times of high inflation students attending winter session has the effect of reducing stock this year, according to preliminary piles of unsold goods and returning figures, up from 22,898 last year. the companies to a state of high First year enrolment is 3,609, down profits — but unemployment must five per cent from 3,806 last year. remain high to achieve this, he And William Tetlow, director of said. UBC's office of institutional But even though wages are being analysis and planning, said controlled much more than prices, Monday this year's figures show "companies began opposing enrolment at the university is controls as early as last May. levelling off. There was an attempt by large Tetlow said enrolment had been capitalist enterprises to rescind or increasing steadily during the past retract the control of profits. few years. Last year total "The Chamber of Commerce — matt king photo enrolment was 22,980, up 3.8 per said two days ago that they will LEAKING FOR LIFE Hiroshi Yamamoto, engineering 1, gives at Red Cross blood donor clinic in SUB 207 cent from 1974-75, and in 1974-75 withdraw support for controls while clinic assistant Nancy Murray helps out. Faculty with largest turnout to clinic, held every day this week total enrolment was 22,046, up 8.2 See page 2: LABOR from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., wins 10 cases of amber liquid .to help dilute students' blood even further. per cent from 1973-74. In 1973-74 enrolment stood at 20,067 and in 1972-73 it was 19,500. Tetlow said planners are predicting slight increases until Students wanted for nude earth club 1982 when enrolment, will stop UBC students are being asked to join a club UBC students involved in the club because of will begin work by writing to the world's increasing. dedicated to making the world into a nudists' his many visits to Wreck Beach. academic councils and governments. But no Other provinces will experience paradise. "It could become a social club," Britten UBC students have joined the club yet, he a decline in enrolment in 1982 but The world game club — conceived by said. "Maybe we could get together in the said. enrolment in B.C. universities will Patrick Britten, a 30-year-old welfare nude for meetings, that would be a good Britten said the idea of forming the world remain constant because of recipient and president of the Nude Garden beginning." game club has been on his mind for seven greater immigration to B.C. than Party — would reshape the world by disar Britten said the vast amount of money the years. to other provinces. ming all military forces and cultivating the world's nations now spend on weapons could "It's been seven years of frustration. I "But anything could happen. A world's deserts. be used to help underdeveloped nations. reached the conclusion, after three years of change in residences for mature "I conceive of the whole planet being a But much of Britten's philosophy is based touring Europe and the rest of the world, that students, for example, could paradise if everything was controlled, in on "nude liberation." man must be his own ruler." change things completely," Tetlow cluding the weather," Britten said. "In 50 "Keeping alive the spirit of man, that is the said. years we could all wander around in the purpose," he said. "Nude liberation is the Vancouver will be the base for the world The biggest change at UBC this nude." basket of nature. It is essential to global game club, Britten said. year was the reduced number of The Nude Garden Party is a registered development. The animal of the body is the "I've seen and felt so much and now believe students in first year and in the federal party dedicated to creating a new controlling force. It can't be surpassed." Vancouver should take the lead to promote fifth year teacher certification Garden of Eden on earth by an agrarian, Britten said he attended a prostitutes world development." program in education, Tetlow said. proletarian movement. In 1975 the party had conference in the U.S. last year and ended up Britten said he has spent a small fortune Tetlow said revised admission 15 members and it planned to field candidates taking his clothes off in the lobby of the over the years sending mailings with his ideas standards — including the new in the next federal election. convention centre. around the world. If he raises enough money See page 2: ENROLMENT Britten said he hit on the idea of getting Britten said UBC students who join the club Britten plans to run for mayor of Vancouver. Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, October 5, 1976 Enrolment figures follow forecast From page 1 "Some students are coming into The number of graduate students wage rates and doubts about numbered grading system used in first-year Science, for example, is down about two per cent from university education.