AIL - Wednesday, July 22, 1981 - North Shore News A North Shore disar- mament group may really be a front for the Soviet Union,, said North Vancouver City Alderman Frank Marcino at last week’s council nieeting. Though Marcino said he wasn't accusing the North Shore branch of the Coalition for. World Disarmament of being a , Russian front, he did say the _ group was “undermining two , against t Mentioning | ‘Union. - - “They are promoting. two. latge | powers. to the vevefit -of a third.” Marcino said that . Maureen «Simmonds, who ‘presented the group” to. council, was calling for views Great Britain and the Onited States to disarm bui not the. sides out of three,” he said. “Why are'they disarming us? - council’s Soviet. To whose benefit?’- ‘However, he added, “I’m not. implying in any way that this group has that in mind.” Simmonds asked _ for support in a campaign to raise signatures for a World Disarmament Petition which will be presented to the United Nations next year. The group wants to use public pressure to force ‘Sticking with GVRD for next negotiations North Vancouver City will stick with the Greater Vancouver Regional District in municipal . labor negotuations — ‘at least for new, , Council voted last week to send 4a motion to get out of the GVRD labor team® to staff for study and comment. However, most council members indicated they didn’t think too much o Alderman Ralph Hall's idea. Hall made his motion because, he said, City council had no say in the - negotiations to end the three month municipal earlier this year. New parks West Vancouver's Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission member -Gordon Cameron resigned STORE strike - tt was difficult for me to tell taxpayers that I could do nothing about the strike,” he said. Lower Matuland municipalities should negotiate separately with their Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) staff, and not as a team, he said, as each municipality has its own problems. “It's time council and City employees stop thinking of themselves as adversaries.” However, labor relation It would be atright, said Alderman Frank Marcino, if most of the | other council members were ‘unwilling to-go it alone in. -the North Vancouver CUPE local also cut its links with CUPE. Alderman Bill Sorenson agreed, saying “it would be like leading the lambs to slaughter” to have councils negotiate individually with CUPE, Canada's largest union. The union would be able to hire top-flight negotiators, which the City wouldn't be able to match, he said. © Mayor Jack Loucks said the settlement reached with CUPE would have been far more favorable to the union if each municipality had negotiated separately. commission member last week because of in- sufficient time to devote to the board. Dr. C. 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Aldermen Stella Jo Dean and Gary Payne supported the aims of the group, though Dean said council members should support the petition individually. , However Alderman Bill Sorenson said Simmonds and her group were naive. deterrent is a balance of power, he said. Marcino said he was worried about the seeming lack of organization to the group, ° ‘though he added, “Individually I will do all I can to prevent a third world war.” ; The group’s lack of a charter made him suspicious, he said. “I would have preferred to be addressed by a group serious. enough to get a charter,” said Marcino. Simmonds replied that her group.is only a-branch of the Vancouver-based Coalition for World Disarmament, and not a seperate organization. Opening Soon : _ onthe | North Shore e OID REHIOND ICECREAM Not Just a Food It’s a Feeling FRANCHISE INFORMATION | AVAILABLE (604) 588-1011 No. 236 - 9801 King George Hwy,., Surrey, B.C. V3T-5H5 Be ready to stock up on lower priced food with a General ‘Freezer from Y. 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