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This column is a follow-up of last Sunday’s
feature on student summer jobs. Let’s hear
from some North Shore students on how they

_ are doing in the slack job market.

- {This issue the Inquiring Reporter asks: |

‘How is the summer

| job situation?’

Myrna Jenner

' North Vancouver

Tm. lucky, I have a
summer job. Since I was
‘already working part-
time at a department
store, I was able to
‘transfer to another one
for the summer job.

Brian Metcalf
North Vancouver “_
‘I was able to find a job

in a factory that makes
decals,

Kelvin Elffes
North Vancouver

The situation is pretty
rough. Although I have
been looking around, I
have not been able to find
a job yet.

Lisa MacDonald
North Vancouver

1 have been looking for
summer jobs, but there
aren’t many available this
year.

Susan Greenwood
North Vancouver

I have been trying to
find any kind of work -
but no luck yet.

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B.C. longshoremen strike

Thousands . of B.C.

Jongshoremen are on strike
; higher. wages, after .

for
walking off the job Monday
and Tuesday. se .

And it is felt the strike will

be the first main test of the -

new federal government,
and will have serious

economic consequences if it

is a prolonged strike. =~

2400 loagshoremen at
seven West coast ports,

including Vancouver, New

Westminster, Prince Rupert
and Victoria, were

scheduled to go on strike,

~Thursday.

John Vorster has resigned

as the president of the

Republic of South Africa
after a judicial commission
announced Monday that ‘he

was responsible for the
“country’s so-called in-
formation scandal.

Vorster was also found
guilty of trying to cover up
the facts of the affair as they
came to light.

Vorster’s
Monday, was
recent development in the
year long scandal which
resulted in the misap-
propriation of at least $100
million in public money.

resignation,

Ever since the scandal
broke in the South African
English language papers, a
year ago, Vorster main-
tained his innocence.

His resignation as Prime
Minister in September, and

the most

But, because... of.

dissatisfaction on the
progress of contract talks,-
and because of unrest at
several union locals, the
members of the In-

ternational... Longshoremen

and Warehousiiien’s Union
walked off the job early. .—

‘The Union wants. a pay
raise of $1.50 an hour, and

‘the Maritimes Employers

Association is offering 90
cents an hour.

Earlier, the workers
rejected a contract proposal
by only one vote, 1126-1125.

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his assumption of largely
ceremonial role of state

‘president, Vorster said was

due to ill health.

In November, Vorster
himself appointed Judge
Rudolph Erasmus to in-
vestigate the facts of the
scandal, then appearing in
the press. .

Erasmus, in December,
confirmed there had been
gross inadequacies in the
Department of Information.

He found money had been
used for a number of secret
projects and schemes to
improve the image of South
Africa both at home “and
abroad.

One of these schemes
involved buying the
Washington Star newspaper.

Erasmus also found that
millions more dollars went

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_on the contract, but union
leaders refused, saying they

. had astrong strike mandate.

' They say 75 per cent of the -

‘workers voted in favour of
strike action. o

The president of the
employers association,
Norm Cunningham,
speaking before the
strike, said the union would
be inviting government
intervention by striking. —

In 1975, the Liberal
government ordered the

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iclal commission

But he concluded that
Vorster had nq knowledge of
what had been going on.

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- longshoremen back to work
recommended another vote .

after a-month long strike, a
move which the union called
repressive...

._ Joe Clark has promised he
will be tougher with unions
who strike in — essential
services, and shipping on the
West coast is considered an
essential service.

A prolonged strike would

~ put a stop to the import and

export trade, and this would
seriously. effect the whole:
Canadian economy.

B.C. longshoremen have
been called the highest paid
inthe world. ;

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frican president |
| resigns - guilty of coverup

Then in the report -issued
today, Erasmus said he had
been deceived by Vorster,
and that as Prime Minister
Vorster had been aware of
everything about the original
financial arrangements
which the judge had termed
‘gross inadequecies’.

The judge concluded that
Vorster had also concealed
the true state of affairs from
his cabinet and parliament.

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The South African
government is facing its first
major test of popularity
since Vorster’s resignation,
today, in a parliamentary by-
election at Randfontein,
near Johannesburg.

The by-election was
forced by the resignation of
a cabinet minister who was
one of the leading figures in
the scandal