THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

SHOWERS of beer bottles rained on police who
tried to break up a West Vancouver party early
Saturday morning. Two officers were injured —
one by a beer bottle thrown at him which broke
on his chin and sent pieces of glass flying into his

eye.

Two other officers
escaped injury only because
of the protection of riot
helmets they were wearing.
In a battle with youths who
attacked them, one officer

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had his helmet torn off and
stolen.

The mayhem began at

‘about 1:15 a.m. when four

officers responded to
neighbors’ complaints about

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CHRIS LLOYD

a noisy party in the 900 block
Kings Avenue.

They found a group of
about half a dozen youths
fighting in the street and
when they arrested one of
them they were attacked by
a large group of the party-
goers.

In the attack a
corporal received an

police
injury

to his knee. A constable was
struck by a hurled beer
bottle which shattered as it
struck him in the chin,
sending glass fragments into
one of his eyes. He received
stitches in hospital and
escaped without his sight
being damaged.

As the officers put the
arrested youth in the back of
a paddy wagon the vehicle
was pelted with beer bottles,

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Three youngsters pic-

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Monday night.

Council made the
unanimous decision -
with aldermen Gary

Payne and Bill Sorenson
absent - before.a chamber
packed with members of
the Canadian Umion of
Public Employees Local
389 which had requested
that council rescind the
layott of 1s members

One of the = laid-off
workers warned council
that iw would tace the
consequences at the next
Mumctipal election

“4 don t-see how you
Can expect the votes of
us, those connected with

us and the community
he said adding that he
had capected bold action
by Council too find oan
alternative to the Layvotts,
but all ous h oud offer
“tsar lott potitrs

But some couneal
members blamed the
union for the plight of the
land off workers saying
that CU PE reqeetedl oa
proposal foot work
sharing under which the
outside workers would
have all worked part
time wath supplemental
Money comp from the
une mployemcuat to
surance fund

“DT fai te see why the

Union cunt see the flopic

of work sharing

WEDNESDAY
Cloudy with showers

THURSDAY
Continuing wet

LAYOFFS of 15 outside engineering
workers by North Vancouver City council
will ‘not be rescinded, council decided

Alderman Frank Marcino
said.

CUPE local president
Harry Green said the City
workers were against
work-sharing for a
number of reasons —
there was no guarantee
that there would be no
layoffs even af work-
sharing was im-
plemented fringe
benefits and retirement
benefits would “go down
the bloody drain”. and if
anyone was laid off after
a work sharmng progran

their

unemployment
insurance benefits would
be only 60 per cent of
half-time wages, which
would not be enough to
hvyeon

Green reacted strongly

to what he saw as oin

fimalions by various
coumel members that the
bony executive wis
Dery geen Sd rn gy Vis own
disapproval af work

sharing on the

nember-
Ship We don ttry to ram
the washes of a couple of
olficces chown the Chr oais
ofthe members

Another union member
the

program in

sand work sharing

West
Kiven as an
crample by

Stella oda was a

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Alderman
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