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PAGE Als PAGE C7 What’s Going On. .B14

Few support
new elections
for province

A POLL conducted recently by Marktrend sider going off work. Sixty
Marketing Research Inc., a Vancouver-based Percent said they would not
research firm, provides indications of the level of 2° Off work and five percent

f . said a strike did not apply to
support that exists in the GVRD for new elections, them since they did. “not

and for a general strike designed to bring about belong to a union
new elections.
Bruce Campbell,

ee Food sce ere ee ee eee

THEY CALL it the
Cypress Mountain
Madness Run and the
potential Mad Men of the
Mountain were out in

Support for a_ general

strike was closely related to
Marktrend’s Vice-President, the vote in the May election.

reports that 39 percent of Fifty-six of the NDP voters
those polled said they four percent of those who © said they would join a general

PECIAL TO THE

thought ‘‘Premier Bennett
should call for a new election
because of opposition io his
new programs,’’ 58 percent
disagreed and 3 percent did
not know

Support for a new election
was concentrated among
those who voted for the NDP
in the May provincial clec-
tron Sixty-eight’ percent of
the NDP supporters thought
there should be new election,
compared to 20 percent of
the Social Credit voters

A second indication of the
sources Of support: for new
ciections as revealed by the
question “Have you of your
family lost any income or
other support because of the
Provincial CGrovernment’s
restraint program?” balty

had lost income or support
favored calling a new elec-
tion, compared to 34 percent
of those who had not lost in-
come or support

One of the means of bring-
ing about new provincial
elections that has been widely
discussed lately, 1s a general
strike. Marktrend’s
respondents were asked: ‘‘If
the Sohdarity Movement
were to call a general strike tn
Britush Columbia in order to
bring about new provincial
elechons, would you per
sonally stay off work?"’
Twenty sin percent of those
members of the sample who
were working at the time of
the interview said they would
go off work Another nine
percent said they would con

strike, while 25 percent said
they would not. Among
Social Credit voters, nine
percent said they would join
a general strike, and 81 per-
cent said they would not

Finally, support for a
general sinke ts hnked to
whether of not the respon-
dent had lost income or sup-
port because of the restraint
program Forty-four percent
of those who had lost income
or support said they would go
off work, while 43) percent
said they would not

Among those who had not
lost any income of support,
20) percent said they would
strike, and 66 percent said
they would not The poll was
conducted between Sept 16
and 30

force for the event, spon-
sored by the Disabled
Skiiers Association § of
B.C. on Sunday.

More than 90 racers
showed up to compete in
either 10 or 5 kilometre
runs up the slope as they
worked up a hunger for
Thanksgiving dinner and
competed for prizes in
men's and women's
events.

Al left are two of the
runners who drew large
cheers from those who
preferred watching to run-
ning Randy Metcaif
who guided blind runner
Phil Crowson throughout
the race and across the
finish line

Below, (wo unidentified
runners provide a pic-
turesque sight