Oct. 14 — see special section, page 9 i EQUALLY DIVIDED on questio%of whether or not to study while facing sun, four stultents Monday sit on benches near Buchanan. Anyway !^jou like it, sun had better be enjoyed while it's around because it won't be long before fog, rain, mist, drizzle, hail and probably snow arrive to turn Point Grey campus into muddy monument — matt king photo to education. Meanwhile, Ubyssey staffers confined indoors have come up with look at Anti-Inflation Board, wage (and some say price) controls and Thursday protest. Women neglected—Fulton I Vol. LIX, No. 13 VANCOUVER, B.C,, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1976 ^T>'- 228-2361 It's business as usual for UBC on day of protest By TED DA V» UBC will remain open as usual Thursday despite the nation-wide day of protest against the federal government's anti-inflation board Indications are that many of the university's unionized employees will remain on the job, as the tbre& major unions oft campus airej requesting but not requiring their members to participate in the. protest. Ken Andrews, president of local 116 of the Canadian Union of Public- Employees said Tuesday the response of the CUPE member? has been "mixed", but he hopes many;members will support-fflr strike and attend the down^awtt rallies. Andrews said so far as he knew* there will be no pickets of union demonstrations on campus But this may be changed at * CUPfe general meeting tonight. Reactions of members of the Association of University and College Employees and of the Office and Technical Employees Union indicate that many clerical and office workers on campus will remain on the job, allowing the university to operate at close to normal efficiency. Administration spokesman Al Hunter said Tuesday the administration has no plans to deal with any possible shortage of labor that may occur. He said that staff members will just fill in for those staying off work, and that the administration anticipated no trouble. CUPE members include heating engineers in physical plant, campus security patrolmen, technicians, maintenance and trades people, food service employees and some health service and clerical employees. Andrews expects good support from the heating engineers and those members working in. the student residences, and from security patrolmen but less from those in the other areas. If the heating engineers stay away, campus. buildings will be heated anyway because one shift engineeri^^pHPfjrfe^Wfeeoit hand at all times, he said And res)£enc.eist*ideat& need not worry-wfteafe^witt be served as usual, .saioV 'g\ace Vanier residence's' cMe£,d,Cefician Esther Margolis ' ' '* Sgt. Al Ht&BJgi&ffCof the local RCMP deT^pfepfijMorlie has m plans for gxtea patrols if campus patrol^ i$mfmi&si&y 'away1 because bfe~djgj|^they wJL An- drews saw^YidfigH^fcrctmen will probably ,s,$a^ qpfrtfr adequately cover the campus Libraries ^ife^jsrtam open on campus* bjglpdJ.Tibrarian; Basil said Tuesd|!p> food services outlets and administrative offices will be oge%: though possibly with reduced staffs, Andrews and Lloyd Detwiller, administrator of the psychiatric hospital said that tine hospitals will probably not be affected by the strike because they are necessary facilities And the Registered Nurses Association of B.C. has\ fold its members to report to- work Thursday During the strike all construction and road-work sites on campus will be idle, as construction and trades See page 14. BUSINESS UBC dean, of women Margaret Fulton Friday slammed the university administration for not providing enough support for women's groups on campus. Fulton said the university is less enthusiastic this year about supporting women's groups at UBC because international women's year is over. The administration's attitude is "Alright girls, you've had your year. Now it's time to get back to the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant," she said. "The administration and vice- president Erich Vogt in particular must recognize the necessity of the elimination of sex stereotyping, must encourage women to expand their educational horizons and must provide support to women until they have equal representation in student affairs." Fulton said budget cutbacks which have hit the whole university have forced the dean of women's office to cut back on its activities. But she refused to say how much money the office is receiving compared ta last year. "Making public statements of this nature could inflame the administration and result in further cutbacks in my budget next year." Fulton said the administration should do more to encourage women to enter traditionally male dominated faculties such as engineering, science and forestry. "It takes a strong minded women to go into applied science or forestry for example. Although this McGeer angers UVic pres VICTORIA (CUP) — Education minister Pat McGeer failed Tuesday to placate an angry University of Victoria administration president when he visited UVic to discuss cutbacks of the university's capital spending. And his flippant attitude after a stormy meeting with UVic president Howard Petch angered students and faculty who had hoped McGeer would discuss the issue with them. UVic administrators, faculty and students are upset because the B.C. Universities Council has blocked construction of a music building, a new theatre building and more classroom space. A member of UVic's board of governors has claimed the council is trying to usurp board functions by blocking construction of specific projects. Petch last week said he is "furious" at the council for its actions and hinted he is willing to go to court to overrule it. Both the UVic senate and board of governors have given Petch unanimous support. McGeer, accompanied by his executive assistant and two education department officials, met with UVic administrators for almost an hour and a half, but, according to Petch, only talked business for 10 minutes. . Asked after the meeting if he would go against the council's recommendations, McGeer said "it would be wrong for a minister to undercut the intent of the legislation." "In fact, I'm prevented from doing so by the legislation," he said. McGeer refused to comment on Petch's charge that the council is acting outside the provision of the Universities Act. "That's something you'd have to take up with the council," he said. Petch was visibly angry after the meeting, during which there was shouting that could be heard by reporters waiting outside the closed doors. "It was a very unsatisfactory meeting," he said. 'We finished lunch and he (McGeer) said weonly had 10 minutes. If he'd told us earlier, we could have talked through lunch. "I've no idea what he's going to do. We weren't able to press our case," Petch said. "He told us he might be able to give us some more time on Thursday." Dozens of UVic music students in their cramped classroom space across campus jammed offices, liallways and even washrooms and noisily practiced their instruments to demonstrate their need for more space. McGeer refused to meet with the students, however, and instead asked "Do they sing in the bath here too?" He grinned and refused further comment. Seepage 14: UVIC situation is changing it is changiltg too slowly." - -imy;' -;U^£x Women students are concentrated in the faculty of arts, fine arts, home economics and nursing and the administration has done little to encourage them to enter other fields of study. And more women should be encouraged to enter graduate school, Fulton said. "There is a definite need for more women in grad studies and at senior faculty and administration levels. A greater ;^orts^ojil^^ made to achieve: this^'-:: ;'■■_ V1- But UBC admmistration vicef president Erich Vogt said^B the admmfetra^jiJ|^lui^^ mittee last yiaWm-pt I".'"'..,..,, booklet for high, ^school students advising wQmeaij|l^J ea#eTft^ traditionally Ci?i&Kf:f; domina$e&; areas of studyifithey want tb;J$£v The committ^^s ,'flnejSfe several set up by administration president D^ujgJSpl^i^i^eaiSlfc look intff way^os^iftproVing^ tfifc> status of women^at JJBCW <■».-.>.,. Fulton cfiarjied:; -th^: 'adX ministration r^ltoih^t-^Oi^Itih^ the dean of women's office about the progress ofctfte/committees.- :' "This is a ridiculous situation. Where is th&*pbj^toiX setting ijb, commit tees of tly^^peAwhen; people directl^fey^ly##ith v^afc is being studied tren*jt^^ '^Spited? v "The admihistrSq^lsle^s "tip have an image ofthf^eanfiBSf women's office tiiatvpiedatesfHie;,; thirties. r -• "I suspect they think mat Tjha^e; bleached hair and a cameo aijny throat and that all1 db-is^presj^ over a silver teapotv" said^FultbTrt:; But Vogt said Fulton should be fully aware of the committees that were set up to study women on campus since she sits on the dean's committee that discusses the setting up of committees. When told of the Fulton's charge that she was not consulted about the committees Vogt said: "I don't think that's correct. There must be some misunderstanding on her part." The administration should provide more support for groups at UBC that aim toimprove the status of women at the university, Fulton said. "It will be a long while before there is a change in attitudes and behaviors that even women conform and submit to. Until this change comes women need support. "The administration should be prepared to give that support, especially when male dominated student organizations such as the SRA (student representative assembly) refuse to do so." Two weeks ago the SRA decided See page 2: FULTON' ?" Page. 2 TM£ UBYSSEY Wednesday,'/October .13,. 1976 Fulton calls for appeals r From page 1 not .to fund a women's group that had occupied an office in SUB since 1971. Fulton said, "I would like to see the AMS reinstate the women's office as a sort of umbrella office until it is no longer needed. That will be when there is total integration and women are confident enough to compete with men." She said in order to achieve this and other support, women at UBC must appeal to Vogt and make him aware of their needs. She said she realizes there isnot much money available for new programs but the administration should at least make improving the lot of women top priority. "It should be more conscious of university women's needs," she said. Vogt said Tuesday he doesn't know much about the women's committee that was denied space in SUB. But he said the administration should not be funding what he called student clubs because that is the responsibility of the Alma Mater Society. Vogt said he would like to see increased funding for studying the status of women at UBC, providing money is available. "Women on this campus have a lot of problems. It will be a long time before this situation is changed .However much more is needed than studies. There should be education of the young — a great deal of talk is necessary to change the attitudes of people about women," Vogt said. > Fulton said an effort must be made to provide better opportunities for women at UBC. "We need more programs to increase people's awareness of the changing status of women. Such programs might include research into the changing roles of women, more women's studies, speakers, seminars and conferences." Fulton said since she became dean of women in 1974 she has- sometimes had to fight the administration in her efforts to improve the status of women. "Pressure should be put on the vice-president of student affairs (Vogt) to provide more support and funding for the women of UBC." Fulton said the dean of women's office should be a centre for UBC women but the office doesn't have enough money to fulfill that function this year. She said if the office was as well funded as it was last year it could become a women's resource centre. Women at UBC need to get more involved in decision making bodies at UBC, Fulton said. But most UBC women students lack the confidence to run for positions on the SRA senate and other areas where students are represented, she said. 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Because when you take the time to roll your z^?50^ own, you deserve something different. Wednesday, October 13, 1976 THE UBYSSEY Page 3 South African politician jeored About 60 angry demonstrators tried to prevent a speech at UBC Tuesday by Harry Schwarz, white South African politician. Waving placards and chanting slogans the group, calling itself the committee to support the just struggle of the Azanian people, drowned out Schwarz's speech to about 300 people in Totem Park ballroom. The demonstrators tried to halt Schwarz's speech about peaceful change in South Africa with chants like "fascists have no right to speak" and "go home." The cqmmittee says Schwarz, a member of parliament for the South African Progressive Reform Party, should not be allowed to speak at UBC because he represents imperialist powers which are trying to retain white supremacy and race segregation in South Africa. Despite the constant disruption from the demonstrators Schwarz managed to finish his speech in about an hour, although many in the ballroom could not hear what he was saying. He interrupted his speech several times io answer taunts from the demonstrators. He called them "political cowards who don't want to hear.the other point of view." "I had to fight the fascists in the last war and I don't think you know what fascism means," Schwarz said when demonstrators called him a fascist. When he finished his speech Schwarz asked the audience if they had any questions but was drowned out by boos and chants of "don't argue with fascists." The audience booed the demonstrators several times but there was no attempt to stop the disruption. Schwarz and his party advocate an end to apartheid and a gradual transition to black majority rule in South Africa. But Dave Fuller, a spokesman for the demonstrators committee, said in an interview before the demonstration that Schwarz only wants blacks in government who will answer to imperialist powers with economic interests in South Africa, such as Britain and the U.S. "I don't believe that Schwarz is really against apartheid," Fuller said. ■ What blacks in South Africa need is total liberation from domestic and foreign imperialists, he said. "Schwarz says that the current demonstrations in South Africa are in protest of the apartheid system. "This is just a side issue that has been blown out of proportion by the imperialists. What is really happening is the struggle of the Azanian people for complete national liberation from the colonialist powers," he said. AMS opposes bus cutbacks By STEVE HOWARD The Alma Mater Society is protesting to city council major changes in the operation of the Forty-first and Forty-ninth buses which will come into effect Oct. 29. The AMS is opposed to reduction of service on the Forty-ninth route, which services southern Vancouver, Moe Sihota, AMS external affairs officer, said Tuesday. Even though there will be an increase in service on the Forty- first route, passengers going to UBC on the Forty-ninth bus will now have to transfer at the Dunbar Loop, instead of continuing nonstop to UBC, Sihota said. The AMS has printed a leaflet that charges Hydro operates with little public input. The public does not know whether or not there is an overall plan for buses in the south Vancouver area and for service to UBC, the leaflet says. The AMS urges that public meetings be held and a plan for all types of transit in Vancouver be presented to voters for approval. Vancouver city council last week approved a crosstown bus service to UBC, but the proposed service is low on B.C. Hydro's list of priorities, a Hydro spokesman has indicated. The proposed route goes from UBC via Sixteenth, Crown, King Edward, Kingsway, Slocan, Twenty-ninth and Moscrop to Burnaby municipal hall. Council has decided a new bus line is needed to service the area between the two major cross- town routes on Broadway and Forty-first. "We see the King Edward ser- — matt king photo CHAINING HER BIKE to stand beneath south wing of Buchanan Monday, Lynn Nelson, arts 1, performs daily chore necessary to preserve her transportation. Only items that won't be stolen at UBC are piles of dog turd left by canines whose owners refuse to chain them, or get the little bastards to do it somewhere else. Hacksawed iron bars a story make Canadian University Press The editor of Douglas College's student newspaper the Other Press had a rude awakening early Saturday when he was summoned to interview three escaped convicts. The three, Tom Toten, Cliff Abigosis, and Dennis Wilson, had spent three days sawing through the iron bars of a window facing the exercise yard at the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre (Oakalla) before they escaped Friday night. They wound up in the yard of a Burnaby resident less than a mile from the prison. The startled resident invited the trio in for tea. before he realized they were escapees, and then telephoned Other Press editor Terry Glavin. Glavin arrived at the resident's home and conducted a brief interview before the three men left in the company of an accomplice they called on the telephone. Glavin informed Burnaby RCMP of the: incident later Saturday, but has since refused to reveal the identity of the Burnaby resident. Glavin said Tuesday he found the escapees polite and well spoken. "They were pretty nervous," he said. "They realized they had us at an advantage while they were there and knew we had them at an advantage wh^n they left." The three used no force and made no threats during the interview and were mainly interested in enjoying their freedom, Glavin said. "They were really happy to be out," he said. Totten, awaiting trial on two counts of armed robbery, told Glavin they had escaped because of "terrible" conditions in Okaalla. He claimed he was being "confined illegally" and that no bail had been set at his preliminary hearing. Wilson was in Oakalla awaiting trial on charges resulting from a February hostage-taking incident at Victoria's Wilkinson Road jail. He is the brother of Claire Wilson, who was involved in the June, 1975 hostage taking at the B.C. Penitentiary, which ended when Pen guards stormed the prisoners' stronghold and shot and killed classifications officer Mary Steinhauser, one of the hostages. Wilson said that during the three days it took to saw through the bars on the window more than 100 inmates watched, "but there wasn't a pigeon among them." (Three of the watching inmates, however, did take advantage of Wilson's, Totten's and Abigosis' labors by following their escape route after they left. One of the latter escapees, William Hay, turned himself into Coquitlam RCMP Sunday. The other two, Shing Kwan and Gavin Larocque, are still at large). Wilson .told Glavin they had broken the glass in the barred escape window the night before they fled, but claimed guards on duty reacted only by saying "if they want to bust their own windows and freeze this winter, they can go right ahead." Toten told Glavin there was no way authorities would get him back in prison. "I don't intend to get busted," he said. However, both Totten and Wilson are back in custody. Saanich police arrested the pair early Tuesday morning and they will appear in court today charged with possession of stolen property, impaired driving and possession of marijuana. Abigosis was awaiting trial at Oakalla for walking away from the Maple Ridge work camp, where he was serving time for a robbery conviction. He was still at large late Tuesday. Glavin said he found Abigosis to be the quietest of the trio. "He didn't trust me as much as the others," he said. Both Wilson and Totten were "friendly, open and honest," Glavin said. "I can't see how anyone could consider them dangerous as individuals," he said. Glavin said none of the three asked for money or weapons and left behind a knife that was lying on a coffee table in the Burnaby resident's living room. "They did ask to use the bathroom," he said. Glavin said he ■ isn't worried' about his refusal to tell police who the Burnaby resident is. "They (RCMP) have apparently accepted this," he said. "They weren't really interested." vice as desirable but we haven't got the resources," B.C. Hydro spokesman Harry Atterton said. "It's not high on our list of priorities. There's no indication that we will be able to bring it in in the near future." Atterton said more men, equipment and funding will be needed before the King Edward bus service is established. The Forty-first route to UBC will be extended and will run more frequently Monday to Saturday. Buses will run every five minutes in rush hour, every 7.5 minutes during the- day and every 10 minutes at night. Fewer UBC students seek loans By JANET NICOL Fewer people applied for student loans this year than iast, financial aid officer. Byron Hender said Tuesday. He estimated a 10 per cent decrease in loan applications but said the high level of summer unemployment did not effect students who applied for loans. "My own feeling is that the students we were seeing didn't have a ba6* time," he said. But many students were unable to apply for loans because they were not working this summer, according to B.C. Students' Federation spokesman Stew Savard. Savard said the BCSF received many complaints from students who were unable to apply for loans because their savings did not meet the loan requirements. Savard also said women are at a further disadvantage because they earn less money than men, yet are subject to the same loan restrictions. As well, Savard said, the lesser amount of grant money has deterred students from applying. The initial loan this year is $600 and the remaining money available is 50 per cent loan and 50 per cent grant. Last year the initial loan was $300 which allowed for a larger grant. Students receive about $200 more than last year, which Hender attributes to the higher cost of living. . He said monthly room and board now averages at $275, up from $250 last year. Textbook costs have gone up about 10 per cent. Although tuition fees have, remained stable, there will be problems with loans next year, Hender said, if fees go up. Of the 6,000 students who have received loans, 85 per cent have salaried parents and most of them earn less than $25,000 a year, Hender said. Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Wednesday, October 13, 1976 Controls not only issue in Oct. 14 day of protest In May, representatives of most Canadian trade unions voted almost unanimously to mandate the Canadian Labor Congress to call a general strike when and if the CLC thought one necessary. On Aug. 6, the CLC executive used that mandate to call a one-day general strike protesting wage and price controls for Oct. 14, the first anniversary of the controls. It was a good idea but something went wrong between then and now. Not only did business and government campaign actively against the strike; the labor movement itself did a terrible job selling it to Canadians. So the Thursday strike has had lots of bad publicity which.has obscured the fact that yes, the strike is worth supporting. Not even economists will agree on whether wage and price controls are desirable. But you don't have to be an economist to see these ones aren't working. They are, in effect, wage controls. They've destroyed collective bargaining and made the labor scene even more tense and strike-prone than before. They don't control the income of people who live off profits rather than wages and salaries. And they don't control prices of such things as > transportation, oil and gasoline, housing and other essentials the government decided were outside the jurisdiction of the Anti-Inflation Board. But wage and price controls are not the only issue in the strike. There are reasons for supporting the strike that have nothing to do with wage and price controls. It's a bit of a cliche that the people run the country on election days. But between elections, we're nobody — and that isn't so funny. Government policies have always been determined by groups and individuals able to apply pressure to the government. Since the government will do almost anything that will guarantee winning elections, and money is one thing needed these days to win elections, money goes a lot further than popular support. That's why business and industry are always so much more satisfied with governments than the common folk — business and industry, with their financial clout, have called most of the shots. Labor unions are powerful only in a very limited sense. They are powerful in that they can demand excellent living standards (in the form of high wages) for individual members. But labor hasn't been able to look after the long-term interests of all its members. Why not? Because labor has never been able to apply any kind of pressure on any government. All labor has been able to do is whine to governments that things should be done in such-and-such a way. Governments can afford to ignore them: labor hasn't been able to organize its membership to apply pressure on governments, even at election times. Business is powerful, simply because it, has been able to organize its resources — money — and apply where needed. Labor is in reality weak because it has never been able to organize its resources — people — and apply pressure on government. It's our own fault for never having done that organizing; we've let another group with its own special interests look after our interests, something they'll do only when our interests don't clash with theirs. Why is one interest group, THE UBYSSEY OCTOBER 13, 1976 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 offices are located in room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial deplartments, 228-2301; Sports, 228-2305; Advertising, 228-3977. Co-Editors: Sue Vohanka, Ralph Maurer Tuesday at The Ubyssey was a day of hard labor. Sue Vohanka worked, Ralph Maurer slaved, Ted Davis labored and Heather Walker did her job well. Jan Nicol tolled while Chris Grinor threw all his weight Into his work and Paul Vanderham worked up a sweat. Verne McDonald strained at his typewriter as Doug Rushton put his hard nose to the grindstone. Earning - their daily bread were Matt King, Doug Field, Paul Wilson and Bob Krleger.' Surviving off the sweat of their brows were Lambert Loh, Steve Howard, Marcus Gee, Shane McCune and Deb van der Gracht. And striving toward perfection were Dave Fraser, David Morton, Merrilee Robson, Bruce Baugh, Jean Randall and Maureen Curtis. labor, better than another, business? Simple. No matter how benevolent the business 'sector is, they'll never do exactly what the majority of people want because they are not democratically run. In judgement of its members. Here's how the strike might have been organized: The CLC decides at its convention to organize a strike; individual union leaders go back to their members, explain the issues VJeU-...0r4CE- A^AinI WE'VE PASSED ANOTrfeR. Cfc\9TS DAy - -. OhlSCATHEP- the labor movement, there is that potential. Unions are organized along democratic principles, and if the members watch their leaders, they actually function that way. Unions are far from perfect, and they represent less than 50 per cent of the work force (a percentage that continues to grow, though) but at least there is that potential which business does not have. Why are business and government out to discredit Thursday's protest? Business, because of the reasons outlined above: it simply isn't in their interest to have another group in the position to apply pressure to the government. Government, because it sees wage and priqe controls and their own popularity as the issues of the strike, and the Liberal party is fighting for its political life. What has labor . done wrong? Its leadership got snotty and underestimated the intelligence and and let the membership decide whether they agree with their leaders. If the strike was at all justified, the membership would recognize this and support it. To their credit, many unions worked this way. At UBC, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Association of University and College Employees decided at membership meetings. Both supported the strike in principle but left it up to individual members whether to work or march Thursday. But many unions didn't do it that way. The executives decided to let their membership know what they were going to do on Oct. 14. Much of the backlash against the strike was from people (who might have under any other circumstances supported it) who didn't like being told what to do. Again, all that obscures the fact that the strike is a good thing. It's the first effort in decades to organize people all across Canada on one issue. That, not wage and price controls, is what this strike is about. It will be a success if labor proves it can organize its members on a national basis. It will be a "failure — not just for labor, but for everybody — if they show they cannot organize workers. If protest organizers prove it is possible to organize the Canadian work force, Canadian politics will be changed. Having done it once, it will be easier to do it again. And Canadians will be able to protest not only things to which they are opposed, they will be able to demonstrate for things they want. We don't want a group holding a gun to our heads to win a point; but if some group is threatening a general strike to gain their special interests you know it isn't the interest of a minority. A national strike needs mass support; one won't happen if it's called on an issue most people aren't willing to strike over. In short, if the strike succeeds, the Canadian work force will become a powerful determinant of government policy — the government will think twice before it does something if there's a chance that its action (or lack thereof) is going to bring on a general strike. If the protest fizzles we are in trouble: A poor strike turnout would only tell the Liberals (and other political organizations) that Canadians are content to let the government run things for them between elections. They'll stop listening and will only pay attention during election campaigns when it's time to buy our votes. The business sector has day-to-day access to government while people only enter into things during elections. Thursday's strike could be the first step toward a situation where the average Canadian is involved in government decision-making every day, simply because no government will be able to ignore him or her. That's why we should all support the protest, whether we are union or not, whether we like wage and price controls or not, whether we like the Liberals or not. Don't go to classes. Don't go to work. Instead, go to one of the protest rallying centres — there's a student rally starting at 8 a.m. at Sunset Beach. Are you going to be there? Wednesday, October 13, 1976 THE UBYSSEY Page 5 Letters Schiffer a hypocrite We could not help but notice the irony in the story on Rick Murray in Friday's Ubyssey. The story indicated that a law student by the name of Roger Schiffer was threatening to take Rick Murray to court if Murray did not resign as a student board rep. Schiffer was screaming about the principle of a non-student representing students on the board. Schiffer should not be one to scream about principles. As the Ubyssey story aptly pointed out, Schiffer is a UBC student. Which raises an interesting question: Why in the hell is Schiffer then sitting as a student rep on the SFU senate? Schiffer has been on the SFU senate all summer and all September with the full knowledge that he would be attending UBC law school in the fall. It seems to us that this situation parallels that of Murray. Therefore, we respectfully suggest that Schiffer either stop being so hypocritical, or that the SFU Student Society initiate legal proceedings against Schiffer. Actually, Schiffer's case is a bit more disturbing than Murray's. The major problem with replacing Murray is that it would be difficult to conduct new board elections at UBC this fall. However, the tri- semester system at SFU would have insured that an election to replace Schiffer could have been held during the summer. Don't get us wrong. We believe that non-students should not represent students on the board or senate. What concerns us is the hypocrisy displayed by Schiffer. Herb Dhaliwal Alma Mater Society director of finance Moe Sihota external affairs officer Illusion It is kind of sad to see The Ubyssey front-page highlighting a non-issue such as new equipment in the library, and sadder yet to see such distorted reporting on a significant library development. The new machines are not slower than the old ones and they don't reject most student cards. Some cards are rejected, mainly cards produced for the old machines; perhaps we should have kept students in those registration lineups even longer and replaced all of the old cards. The new machines are in fact much faster than the old, and only a few locations require the library card to be reinserted for each book. This is a procedural limitation to ensure student assistants don't charge books to the wrong borrower. It is also a procedure which can and likely will be eliminated. Other apparent delays do not relate to the equipment but to 'DECORA TE WITH PRINTl grin bin 3209 W. Broadway 738-2311 (opposite Super-Valu) Art Reproductions Art Nouveau Largest Selection of Posters in B.C. Thoto Blowups from Negs & Prints Jokes - Gifts, etc. 1EC0RA TE WITH POSTERS procedures which are largely patterned after the old machines and which are still being revised. There is an illusion of delay caused mainly by the procedures and this will be improved. Meanwhile we are being careful so as not to screw-up loan records. Sedgewick library's use of two turnstiles is not a new practice and these turnstiles previously required two staff members; now there is generally only one, and the one operator must process books through the security system, which is an additional process. An impression is left that the old machines were much better, which is simply not the case. The new machines provide immediate improvements to circulation services and provide a flexibility for introducing many other improvements in the future. R.W. MacDonald coordinator of technical processes and systems, Sedgewick library Sober kiss Greg Olsen, we could kiss you! You took the words right out of our mouths!! We also went to the door of the science undergraduate society dance and were turned away. In addition to that, we also went to one of the SUB disco nights at the beginning of the year. We were turned away there, too. It's getting so the only things you can do are go to the movies or sit around with other under-aged people who don't have or won't get false I.D. (yet). We also feel that having most activities liquor-oriented encourages people to get false I.D. which is wrong in our opinion. All we want to do is dance and have a good time and yes, we can do it without liquor. Don't get us wrong. We like to drink. But we like to dance and meet new people too. So come on, you people who organize these things, we'd like to be included in on a few things where we don't have to be nineteen. If anyone is interested in getting a dance going where you don't havetobe nineteen to get in, please contact us. We'd like to help. We're in Tweedsmuir, Place Vanier. Rhonda Garside arts 1 Leigh Achtemichuck science 1 Dry? Hiss! In response to Greg Olson's letter about the lack of functions on this campus for minors, the arts undergraduate society would like to share the experience we had when we put on a disco without liquor. We thought that we should direct our campaign against apathy at the new first year arts students. "Get them involved! Give them something to do!" ...We tried. We held a free disco and coffeehouse on Sept. 24. The music was great, the coffee weak and the conversation non-existent. Perhaps fifteen people came and stayed for a few minutes in the two hours we kept it going. Many more came but left as soon as they found out there was no hquor available. We rationalized the fiasco..."Well, we had to give it a try." We did but where were you when we needed you Greg? We have come to the conclusion, sadly, that functions don't get off the ground unless there is liquor around. We're holding a beer garden in the Buchanan lounge from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Friday. We'll see then if liquor can overcome the apathy of the arts undergrads. And for all you minors and non- drinkers—show us a little support when we try to get you involved in the "campus scene" and maybe more groups will notice your existence and hold functions for you. Gretchen Pohikamp AUS secretary Schiffer 2 I realize that an arts hack (or whatever faculty he came from) entering first year law might like WE SUPPORT WOMEN We are an organization of mature women students and we deplore the lack of a Women's Office on Campus. We feel that the large population of women students must he represented in the general life of the University. We strongly urge the formation of a women's group which will concern itself with the unique aims and needs of women in achieving their educational goals. C. U. E. Continuing University Education SUB FILMS takes this opportunity to present most highly acclaimed film of the year] "shampoo is the most virtuoso example of sophisticated kaleidoscopic farce that american moviemakers have ever come up with'.' — paaHne luwl. im-myofier maftaiine "it is going to be a smash. think it will be one of the biggest pictures in a long, long timej.' —gene shalil. nbc4v warren beatty julie christie • goldie hawn to earn a name for himself by singlehandedly conquering that oppressor of political hacks, Rick Murray, but one should ask Roger Schiffer to curb his ego in the cause of practicality. Before Schiffer makes history by liberating the students of this campus from the experience and good judgment of Murray, Schiffer should remember that in order to replace him, a general election must be held. This small feat requires one month and encompasses preparation of voter lists and $4,000 to pay for ballots and their tallying. The elected student will sit in on one board of governors meeting before his term expires. Since enough of the students money has been wasted on the student representative assembly debates of this issue already, why not, for the remaining few board meetings, retain an experienced person a nd sa ve some money at the same time? Sniffer, keep your nose out. • Bill Chow applied science 3 Robots I'm not sure what makes UBC students tick, but whatever it is, it goes off at 20 minutes past the hour, every hour. By means of some remarkable mechanism, the students in almost all my classes automatically shut off all mental functions (such as they are) at this magic moment. Does the film you are watching build to a cathartic climax? Is a wizened gnome in your seminar about to explain the meaning of life and the secret of Caramilk in one deft stroke? Is the world about to come to an end? If so, it had better happen before a quarter after, or you'll miss it. There is no telling what cosmic mysteries might have been unravelled on this campus, were they not tost in the din of books slapping shut and earth shoes shuffling towards the exits. Perhaps, as a returning student scarred by five years in the work force, I am expecting too much. But I'm out here spending ludicrous sums of money in order to take in as much as I can out of each class. It may be inane, but I'm paying for it, and it pisses me off when a robot with Pavlovian reflexes cuts off a speaker in mid-sentence in order to be out of the classroom two minutes earlier than necessary. Shane McCune arts 2 The Ubyssey welcomes letters from all readers. Although an effort is made to ; publish all letters- received, Tbe : Ubyssey reserves the right to edit letters for reasons of brevity, legality, grammar or taste^ Letters should be addressed to r the paper care of campus mail or dropped off at The Ubyssey office, SUB 241-K. ARTS BEAR GARDEN FRIDAY, OCT. 15th 4-6 p.m. BUCHANAN LOUNGE (Don't forget to Vote Oct. 13th) This Thurs., Sun:-7:00 & Fri., Sat.-7:00/9:30 Plus Ch. 5 of the Phantom Creeps —Fri., Sat. -7:00 Independent Optician* Come in and experience good old-fashioned Service!! U.F.O. SPECIAL $24.95 Till Oct. 31/76 Plus Lenses Christian Dior - Silhouette, & others 25% Off 44 Water St., Gastown 681-6626 i§ VIEW LOTS FOR SALE LOCARNO BEACH Call exclusive agent Block Bros. Realty Ltd. STEVE KURREIN 581-0441 or 588-0346 Page 6 THE UBYSSEY Wednesday, October 13, 1976 Page Wednesday Boers and British battle By DAVE FRASER The Great Anglo-Boer War Byron Farwell Pub. by Fitzhenry and Whiteside • Ltd. [1976] $17.75 454 Pages History, it has been said, is a : great teacher. A sad and painful • truth, however, is that teachers are sometimes ignored by their pupils and lessons quite often must be learned the hard way. In the Anglo- m. Boer War of 1899-1901 Britain chose C to ignore history! and the result was hi. me beginning ctf ihe end of firitish %': intluehce in S&mshut down when workers stopped work because the company would not give then a - penny;more than AIB regulations specify. And right now workers are threatening to turhihe mining town of Faro, Yukon into a- ghost town because the all-powerful AIB administrator has pared their legally negotiated wage increase to eight per cent afte^-they signed for 36 per cent. Everyone agrees the AIB has treated > business less severely than labor, but now evieii^ the 'chamber of commerce, which ;.'enthusiastically heralded the establishment ;o/"t^board,; is now turning on the Ottawa bureaucracy. friendly persuader T^e AIB is run by chairman Jean Luc Pepin, a former minister of industry, trade and commerce and also a former executive of the Quebec-based Power Corporation. Pepin was handpicked by Trudeau to run the board but his appointment was criticized by observers who thought his business connections would make him too favorable to business. Under Pepin is new vice-chairman June Menzies, a Winnipeg economist. She replaces Beryl Plumptre who resigned for "personal reasons". Pepin and Manzies oversee a sprawling bureaucracy which has offices all across the country. Although the AIB was supposed to employ a maximum of 200 people, the bureaucracy has now grown to more than 400. Most agree it was ridiculous for the government to think it could limit the board staff to 200. Many of the large corporations the board has to monitor have more than 200 staff in their accounting departments alone. . And during the Second World War the, Canadian government employed 10,000 people to oversee a much less complicated and more popular controls program. When the U.S. government established a temporary control program in the early 1970s it employed 5,000 people to run it and there was speculation the staff would increase to 25,000 if controls had stayed. So the federal government was naive to think it could get involved so deeply in controlling the economy without a large bureaucracy. But the hundreds of nameless civil servants who handle the tons of paper that flow through the board offices have no real power. An eight-member tribunal overseen by Pepin makes the key decisions about where wage and price rollbacks are necessary and where to leave contracts and prices alone. Pepin has called the tribunal a "friendly persuader" which merely tries to talk companies and workers into staying within the wage and price control guidelines. But in reality the board has the power to order rollbacks anywhere it wants and stiff fines await those who disobey its commands. AIB hatchet man fays down law A summary conviction on charges of evading the guidelines can bring fines of $200 to $10,000. A conviction can bring five years in prison or a $10,000 fine. The board has seldom had to enforce its penalties because few so far have tried to challenge the law. But even if it had, many have argued the penalties are too light. A company like MacMillan Bloedel is unlikely to be afraid of a $10,000 fine. But if companies or workers refuse to accept the recommendations of the tribunal, the tribunal seldom does the dirty work of laying down the law. Instead it sends in hatchet man Donald Tansley, AIB administrator. According to the Anti-Inflation Act Tansley is invested with extraordinary powers of interpreting and enforcing the law. After the AIB ordered a rollback in the -wage increase for workers at the Cyprus An vil Mine in Faro to 14 per cent from 36 per cent, it was Tansley who was sent in to decide whether the rollback was a fair application of the law. Special pewers Tansley decided it wasn't and rolled back- the increase even further to eight per cent, bringing the threat of mass resignations by the workers. The administrator has a number of special powers to help him do his unsavory job. He can order audits and searches of companies" and issue a restraining order if he suspects a company will try to evade the guidelines. Tansley needs information to base his decisions on and for those who refuse to supply him with it there are fines of up to $100 a day. And if a company is found to have made revenues in-excess of the guidelines Tansley can order the company to pay the government a penalty of 25 per cent of the excess. So Tansley spends most of his time flying around the country laying down the law and then getting out of town as quickly as possible. Although the decisions by Tansley concentrating on controlling wages instead of prices because of outright discrimination, in favor of business. It is just a lot easier to control wages. Contracts are much more tangible and easier to study than price lists. The board admits that it began by concentrating on wages but the government claims recent revisions to the Anti-Inflation Act have closed many of the loopholes in the price control section of the program. It certainly hasn't convinced most workers yet that they are not the main victims of the program. But the board is at least structured to deal equally with prices and wages. The AIB is broken into two sections. One monitors employer and executive benefits on an industry to industry basis. The other section, which monitors prices, is organized into seven divisions each scrutinizing a' different industry. And indications so far show the board is fairly independent from government influence, although Pepin undoubtedly consults often with his boss and buddy Pierre Trudeau. The AIB may reach into many people's lives but there are some areas it stays away from. For instance, the board has delegated existing marketing boards to monitoring prices and incomes in farming. The regulation of gasoline prices is still in the hands of the federal government. Small farmers, merchants and businessmen are also exempt. Deflationary goal The board only regulates corporations with more than 500 employees and construction firms with more than 20 employees. The stated objective of the board is to reduce inflation to eight per cent this year, to six per cent in 1977 and to four per cent in 1978. Whether or not the board can bring inflation under control remains to be seen. _, lr --,v--A I'M GOING TO WORK FOR CANADA OCT.I4 to roll back wages get the most publicity, he often hands down decisions which give workers more than the board itself did. But if companies or workers don't like Tansley's decision they can make an appeal to the tribunal in Ottawa, and if that fails in some cases they can go to the Federal Court of Canada. Appeals to the tribunal must come within 60 days of a decision by Tansley. The composition of the anti-inflation board is interesting—it being stacked with brass that represents the concerns of business. After opposing the formation of the board in the first place, labor refused to have a representative sit on the board. So what the board consists of is a cross; section of people with interests in business. The executive director of the board is Robert Johnstone, a former director in Canada of the International Monetary Fund. And the associate director is Donald Yeomans, former assistant deputy minister of operational services for the federal department of supply services. And then of course there is Pepin with his strong business connections. But most critics agree the board is not Wednesday, Oefober~13, 1976" "-rff-r i/Tirs'siT ^oeell tiled with wet spaghetti By HEATHER WALKER The Canadian Labor Congress voted at its May conference this year to hold a general strike to protest government imposed wage and price controls—maybe. Delegates at the conference gave the CLC executive authority to "organize and conduct a general work stoppage or stoppages when and if necessary" as part of labor's continuing opposition to the anti-inflation program. Although the CLC did not set a date for the strike, since renamed a day of protest, at the conference, or even completely commit itself to the protest, the actual decision to hold a general day of protest was made at the May conference. The 2,400 delegates, representing more than 2 million Canadian workers in international unions, public service, and government employees, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposed strike. In fact, the only opposition to the proposal came from delegates who wanted the motion to be stronger. Canadian Union of Public Employees organizer Lofty MacMillan wanted the CLC to be more definite about the strike, suggesting they drop the words "when and if necessary" from the strike mandate. Morris hesitates over strike action But MacMillan was not supported by either the majority of delegates or the CLC executive. Instead, CLC president Joe Morris was very cagey when asked if the CLC really intended to go ahead with the strike. "I wouldn't bet against it," said Morris. Not exactly a strong statement. But he did clarify and strengthen the CLC's stand a while later. "We didn't put the recommendation forward with a view to finding an escape hatch (in the future)," he said. Morris was also hesitant about the objectives of the strike at the time of the conference. "I don't know what we will achieve. I don't have much experience with general strikes," he said. His last statement is hardly surprising, as this will be Canada's first general strike. Bui: in spite of Morris's apparent hesitation, the CLC could not back out of the strike once it had received such overwhelming support for strike action. The CLC did not expect a general strike would cause the Liberals to withdraw their wage control program, but it did see the strike as a means for workers toexpress their opposition to the controls in a way the government could not fail to notice. If, on the other hand, the CLC threatened a general strike, and then backed out of their decision, the move could easily be taken by the government as indicative of rank and file s upport of the controls within the labor movement. During the conference, the CLC also presented a document, the Labor Manifesto of Canada, which calls on government and business to share their power in determining .-national, economic and social policies equally with organized labor. The manifesto probably expresses the CLC's reasons; for calling for the national protest more clearly than Morris did later. :fbe manifesto says: '"We must make it clear that Canadian labor will not be a part of this program (wage controls) because they strike at the basic principles on which our movement Jwas founded. "It must be clearly understood by all governments that we will Tight to maintain out-heritage, the right to control our own desjb%j the right to freedom of association and the right to dissent." Show oi tone The labor movement, according to the manifesto, is not objecting to wage controls because they limit the possibility of huge salar y increases, but because the imposition of controls interferes with collective bargaining. When the government puts a limit on wage increases, a union is held within this limit, and management is immediately made more powerful because its desire to limit wage increases is backed by the government. A local example is the recent settlement between CUPE and the UBC administration. According to local union president Ken Andrews, CUPE could not negotiate effectively with the university because it had to deal not only with the administration, but with the government controls as well. In a speech during the convention, Morris said union leaders understood the feelings of union members better than the government did, and that these people were opposed to controls. He said he thought workers would fight to bring an end to controls, and "the sooner the government is made to understand this, the sooner it will put an end to its anti-inflation policy." The day of protest, to the CLC, is a show of opposition to controls, and as such, an indication to the government that controls are not good policy and should be removed. During the conference at least one CLC executive member thought the congress would not follow up on its strike threat. John Fryer, one of the CLC's vice- presidents and general secretary of the B.C. Government Employees Union, said there was less than a 50 per cent chance of the CLC actually calling a general strike. OCT. 14 OUT TO FIGHT CONTROLS Fryer said if the government dropped the controls and discussed the labor manifesto, there would be no need for a strike. "I think there's a good chance that will happen," he said. He also suggested a one-hour withdrawal of services might be a better course for unions to take, rather than a general strike. The CLC made what it called a "final attempt" to have the government withdraw the control program before the scheduled time two years from now. In an Aug. 6 meeting with prime minister Trudeau, die congress asked that controls be withdrawn because they controlled wages more than prices. The government, of course, didn't drop the controls. And the CLC could hardly have expected they would, as any such movement would look like government capitulation to union demands. Following the Aug. 6 meeting, the congress's executive council announced the day of protest would take place. OCT. 14 OUT TO FIGHT CONTROLS They chose Oct. 14 as its date because tt is the anniversary of :the wage and price controls program. And the xJay was renameda national day of protest instead of a general strike, probably both t£ make the object of the day more easily apparent and to encourage non-union workers |p support it. Besides, a day of protest sounds lea* militant and threatening than a Strike. With the protest scheduled #o* Oct M, union leaders throughout the country had only two months to prepare their members for it. As a result, there was confusion among the unions about exactly what was Supposed to happen, and Morris sent out a letter saying the protest would include rallies, parades, demonstrations, and information picketing as well as a general work stoppage. Morris said in the letter than protest day activities would be decided on and coordinated by local labor councils, and that the CLC would undertake "a massive organizational program to ensure that our activities on that day will once and for all convince our government that Canadians will not stand idly by, seeing their incomes curtailed while prices, profits and dividends remain unrestricted." Mot convinced The president of the Federation of Telephone Workers of B.C., Bob Donnelly, admitted that union leaders had a problem convincing their members of the need for the protest. "Our provincial executive has unanimously endorsed the position of the CLC," Donnelly said. "Now we have to convince the membership. Many of them don't realize how bad the legislation really is. They don't realize how badly it will effect them." , Donnelly made that statement early last month, and since then there has been some evidence that union members are not convinced of the value of the protest. For example, bus drivers for B.C. Hydro voted Saturday to work, reversing their earlier decision. Their changed position may not indicate only opposition to the protest—as union members received letters from Hydro chairman Robert Bonner saying that an Oct. 14 work stoppage would be illegal. But more members voted in the decision not to support the protest than did in the earlier decision. It's clear now that most unions in B.C. will support the protest, and that people who do work won't be able to do their usual jobs because of those groups which are out. But unfortunately it is still not clear how much support the union executives have for the protest, or what the protest will accomplish. And it won't be clear until after Oct. 14. Page 12 TffF"~'"0"rYsSE Y Wednesday, October 13, 1976" UBC unions support walkout All three of UBC's unions have decided to support the Canadian Labor Congress's national day of protest October 14. UBC's largest union, local 116 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, voted unanimously at a Sept. 21 meeting to support the day of protest. CUPE is the largest campus union, representing 1,400 workers in food services, physical plant, residences, and maintenance. The union's executive decided to join with other CUPE locals and take part in rallies and demonstrations downtown. They encouraged the membership to do the same. CUPE's president at UBC, Ken Andrews, says the UBC local has an especially strong reason for supporting the protest. When the union signed its contract with the UBC administration recently, Andrews said negotiations between the union and the administration were "almost impossible'^. He said the union was forced to negotiate with the anti-inflation board as well as. the administration; AUCE eager When the union finally agreed to accept the administration's'of fer of 7.5 per cent instead of the 12 per cent it wanted; Andrews said the membership was more anxious than ever to take part in the Oct. 14 protest against wage and price controls. The Association of University and College Employees, local 1, voted Thursday on the day of protest. AUCE represents library and clerical workers on campus, and is currently negotiating a new contract with the administration. Spokeswomen for the union have said that wage controls are hindering their negotiations, just as Andrews said CUPE's collective bargaining power was restricted. AUCE members passed a motion supporting the day of protest in principle because, they said, the anti-inflation board is being used to diminish the effectiveness of unions, and is not an equitable way to deal with the problem of inflation. The union decided to support members, who choose to withdraw their services from the university and participate in the proposed Oct. 14 activities. AUCE organizer Farleigh Funston said the union's two motions left the choice on October 14 up to the individual members. She said the membership wanted the choice because the protest is a political issue, and members don't want to be subject to discipline similar to that which occurs in a strike if they chose to work that day. "The membership was split and- a lot of people didn't shew," Funston said. "We hope a lot of, people will go out because we (the. executive) all are." AUCE, unlike CUPE and the;. Office and Technical Employees union-, is ah independent union and therefore not an affiliate of the Canadian Labor Congress, that organized the protest. UBC's branch of the OTEU is also supporting the day of protest. But unlike the other campus unions, OETU did not hold a general membership meeting to decide on. its position on the protest. Mo OTEU vote OTEU secretary-treasurer Opal Skillingsaid the union decision was made in May at the CLC convention," "There was no membership vote—that was done at the convention," Skilling said. "We always follow CLC policy." Skilling said the OTEU supports the protest because the wage guidelines are not going to assist the anti;inflation program when profits and bank interests are continuing to rise. She said the union did not see any sign of price controls. i "Our union has been severely rolled back by the AIB," she said. "In one instance we had a joint submission from a company and the union, and the AIB told them at the board to get a more realistic solution." Ron Johnson, director of education and research for the B.C. Federation of Labor, said UBC unions reached their decisions in the same ways as other unions in the province did. "Support for Oct. 14 became the policy of the CLC," he said. The representatives reported back to their membership and from there the respective executives did one of two things." He said the union executives either took the question of support to their memberships or else made a recommendation to the union to go out on Oct. 14'. "In more cases the executive agreed that the policy had already been established by the CLC and they had no choice but to support it, Johnson said. ? rWVO wanv fines ooes we rviwce in owe DAY? " >(PTV 00UA6 WOf2.TH.« >: >Xr$@& Rendale Lee Apple bee Wrangler Levi's Big Blue Seafarers Brittania Place for Pants CHARG EX MOTORS REBUILT • » »■ 12 Month Warranty 12,000 miles (Bugs Only) $235 For 36 H.P. $265 For 40 H.P. $295 For A V.W. 1500 $305 For A V.W. 1600 S BUG STOP 1897 BURRARD 731-8171 9@ Wednesday, October 13, 1976 THE UBYSSEY Page 13 Students won't fight controls Of 21 students interviewed, one will boycott classes on labor's day ot protest By CHRIS GAINOR The UBC administration says the university will be open on Oct. 14 as usual. They will probably be proved correct, because at UBC, the only thing that will be different from normal is that many unionized workers and a small number of students will be away supporting labor's national day of protest. Yes, students will be coming to classes despite the fact that the B.C. Students' Federation and the National Union of Students support the day of protest and are urging students to boycott classes on Oct. 14. The Ubyssey survey of students Tuesday showed that of 21 students interviewed, 16 will go to class Oct. 14, four do not have classes that day and one will boycott classes. But many students who sympathize with labor's grievances against wage controls will not participate in the protest. "I don't think it would have any effect one way or the other," said Dan Balmos, forestry 2. "The university is far removed from the labor field." Many would disagree with his view, among them, many so-called student leaders. "I think Oct. 14 is our day, too," said Lake Sagaris, chairwoman of the BCSF. "The reason I say that is because students themselves are workers." Sagaris said many students benefit from union jobs, especially during the summer when they are trying to make money to finance education. "The labor movement in our society is one of the few groups left in our society that attaches great value to education in itself," she said. an old criticism of UBC, but nevertheless a valid one. The cost of post-secondary education is so great, in terms of lost wages and living and tuition costs, that few people from working- class families can afford to go to university—unless they have a lot of drive. Many students attend UBC not because they are especially suited for university, but because they live west of Granville or in West Vancouver's British Properties and can stay at home while going to university and pursuing a field which promises a high- paying job. Student reaction to a recent labor dispute in which students had the opportunity to support a union facing the UBC administration and the federal anti-inflation board would help back up arguments that UBC is an elitist institution. A strike by the UBC local of the Association of University and College Employees was broken barely a week after it started last December. Other campus unions supported AUCE, but students did not. Some, in fact, hurled insults and missiles at picket lines which surrounded the campus during the strike. But that time student council supported the strikers. No stand has been taken by student representatives regarding Oct. 14. After numerous delays, the student representative assembly was forced last week to make up its mind. Student senator Bill Broddy (a staunch Liberal, by the way) moved that council "regret" the day of protest. Arts rep and former SRA president Dave Van Blarcom then moved that Broddy's motion be tabled indefinitely, because the "It's a strike against the government but not directly against the bosses. But the government is a government of the bosses." against the Trident nuclear submarine base in Bangor, Wash. Van Blarcom's motion succeeded, and the SRA did not take a stand one way or the other on Oct. 14. But don't worry, the SRA then voted to ask the administration not to penalize students who boycott classes that day. And few students have that much intestinal fortitude. Current SRA president Dave Theessen, who seconded Broddy's motion of regret, had this to say: "I don't believe basically in big government, big business or big labor. But I don't believe in controls either. "There's no room for the little guy in And what about the fringes of student opinion? "I'm far to the right," SRA science rep Aksel Hallin said. "But I think there's far more danger in big government than in bog labor." It is for this reason that Hallin favors the Oct. 14 protest. "The point is that the government does not and should not have the right to interfere to that degree in the economy." The government that is supposedly fighting inflation has in fact caused it because it printed too much money, Hallin said. When the gross national product rose "I'm far to the right, but I think there's far more danger in big government than in big labor." "Ironically enough, often it's the children of working people who can't afford post- secondary education." Sagaris' last remark was a repetition of SRA should not deal with such "airy fairy" motions. Two weeks earlier, Van Blarcom led the fight to ensure that the SRA support protests there. Unless you're one of the big three, you're screwed." But Theessen said the SRA should have dealt with the matter because, "I don't think it was trivial." Theessen, who is also a commerce rep, suggested that controls be dropped, as well as all tarrifs against foreign goods entering Canada. This would solve Canada's economic problems after some short-term hardship, he said. External affairs officer Moe Sihota stands oji the other side of the picket fence. • "I personally do not agree with the way (controls are) being handled. All that's happening is that wages are being controlled and prices are not," Sihota said. "And the whole AIB and the restraint program has an effect on students." In the past year, the opportunities for youth and local initiatives programs have been dropped, resulting in many lost student jobs, he said. And the federal government is being tighter with money given to universities under the Fiscal Arrangements Act, he added. This will likely mean higher tuition fees to be paid by students who earn restrained wages and pay unrestrained prices. "Students earnings and average sayings this year were down from last year," Sihota added, "and the AIB has something to do with it." Last summer was one of the worst for student unemployment, thanks in part to government restraint. But the fact was obscured when the annual survey of student employment was eliminated this year. by only four per cent annually, the government was increasing the money supply by 10 per cent annually. Elaine Bernard, a history student and member of the Young Socialists, said the protest will result in an irreversable change in Canadian society. The antiwar movement of the 1960s changed U.S. society, she said, because it forced the government to stop a war and then resulted in an atmosphere in which the Watergate scandal could be fully investigated. The change in attitudes did not allow the U.S. government to intervene in Angola, as it might otherwise have done, Bernard said. "The same sort of process is now going on in Canada," she added. "It's a one-day general strike. It's a political strike. It's against the government but not directly against the bosses. But the government is a government of the bosses." Most strikes are for direct economic reasons, but this strike is different, she said. "In this case, its workers going out as a class. "Canada will not be the same after this." In the middle are the 23,000 students of UBC. Many say "yes, I agree with it but I don't feel strongly enough to participate," or, "do two evils make a right?" Many students will get their nice cushy jobs in a twenty-eighth storey office downtown, and will not know the reality of the problems that working people face. But many students (most of them unexpectedly) will find out what it's like to earn a wage controlled by government. -.4 MOW THOT YoO'sJE HEARD fH&M both si pes... A Re you aso(N<^' TO INVOLVE YOURSELF IN THE DAY OP PODTtzST? WELL, AfT£R COLLECT^ All THE evidence:, amp NOT WANT) Nfij TO be LASEt-eP AN APATHETIC $>TvpetiT X've cone To THE coMclusiom TVlAr T'M DgFiNATElX owiy ^otd half My CLASSES. .. Page 14 THE UBYSSEY Wednesday, October 13, 1976 McGill group to shut down U* MONTREAL (CUP) — Activities to protest federal wage controls on Thursday at McGill University here were co-ordinated at a Friday meeting of the campus Oct. 14 protest committees. The McGill Oct. 14 Committee aims to shut down McGill University Thursday and has appealed to McGill professors and students to join the nationwide opposition to controls by refusing to lead or attend classes Oct. 14. The 15 committee members concluded their preparations for the day of protest by delegating to individuals the various responsibilities of publishing committee leaflets and documents, and speaking to classes and student groups around campus about the labor walkout. In addition, Allessandro Lucarino, a representative from the McGill Service Workers Union, Local 298, affiliated with the Quebec Federation of Labor, Pierre Paquette of the McGill Teaching Assistants Association, and a student from the Association Generale des Etudiants de L'Universite du Quebec a Montreal spoke at Friday's meeting about the policies of their respective groups. Lucarino said that at a "disappointingly small" meeting of 100 union members, workers voted 66-26 to support the Oct. 14 day of protest. He said the rank and file workers reached the decision after an apparent executive attempt to stall a final strike vote. The workers recommended setting up a special group of service employees, including union executives, to prepare leaflets and 33<^SnW^-'7o. in i •^3^BT~~^Sffy %2^ 1 ^\Jt NON W Birds a head 144) -at quarter ■ time; The 'Birds in the second quarter ■finished off their scoring when Cave and end John; Turecki caught Huskie quarterback Barrie Fraser in his own end zone for a two-point safety'touch. The Huskies: gained a single and. the quarter ended with the score 16-1. After a weil-played first half the 'Birds offence slowed right down. The second half was a series of punts and fumbles. Although the 'Birds were making mistakes the Huskies didn't seem to be able to capitalize on them until Les McFarlane grabbed the ball from Bird fullback Gord Penn and sprinted 55 yards for a touchdown. The Huskies again capitalized on a 'Bird tunrover when Evan Jones fumbled a pass from 'Bird quarterback Greg Garoiner. The Huskies recovered and drove in for the touchdown on a run by Gene Wall. The Huskies then had a choice between a one-point kicked convert or a two point run Huskie coach Val Schneider chose the one point convert and it cost him the game and first place in the league. The 'Birds led the Huskies in total offence 372 300 The Huskies got 20 first downs to the 'Birds 16 The leading rusher of the game was Gord Penn who carried 16 times for 97 yards Top tor the Huskies was Wall with 85 yards in 17 carries. 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