Got $2,700 ‘change’ for $50 in WV holdup:

4outof5

AT LEAST 80 per cent
of shipbuilders working

bed e on the North Shore are
snipbuilders ©." =
minently, according to

their unions.
e @ As many as 2,500 workers
will be joining the unem-
S$ e tT to join ployed between now and
July at the latest, they say,

leaving a maximum of 500
with jobs. And North Shore

shipyards will not be seeing
full employment until a year

from now at the earliest.

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

Newsstand Price 50¢ April 24, 1983 Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

North Shore yards
running out of work

And only then, says John = shipyard jobs on the North
Fitzpatrick, president of the Shore by July will have been
Marine Workers’ and _ decimated to “500 tops,”
Boilermaker’ Union Local predicts business manager of
No 1 and president of the the Marine and Shipbuilders’
Shipyard and General’ Union Local 506 Ron
Workers’ Federation of Ferguson.

B.C., if federal government He says all five North
Shipbuilding contracts are Shore shipyards - Burrard
awarded to North Shore Yarrows, Vancouver
yards. Shipyards, Bel Aire, Allied,
Until then, the number of and Matsumoto - are in the

DAVIS - incumbent

IN

:
e

Pacific Daylight.
Time started, at 2
a.m. this morning |

MEWS ois Torry Peters when clocks were>

HAMMERING [IT OUT In Victoria Park, oblivious to awe-struck passing motorists,
Lord Aaron of the Black Mountains (left) receives a blow from Colin Mackay of
Balmugcy. Lord Aaron (known to his 20th century friends as Bob Le Pine and Mackay
(Colin Hart) are member of the Society of Creative Anachronism, whose membem
recreate the Middle Ages as they feel they should have been. There are 200 members

in the Vancouver area and the knights practise their fighting cach Thumday cvening
at Queen Mary school.

moved FORWARD.
one hour.

IF THE PROVINCIAL ELECTION had been held
last Monday, the NDP would have had a healthy Lib..-------------- -(-)

What time is it?

same mess, with no new
shipbuilding contracts on the

books once existing ones,
now in their final phases, are
completed.

Ferguson and Fitzpatrick
point fingers of blame in the
same direction.

They concur with former
Burrard Yarrows boss Bill
Hudson that the foremost
culprit is the federal
government and its complete
lack of long-range maritime
policy.

“We were the second or
third largest merchant navy
in the Second War and now

CONTINUED ON PAGE All

SCHRECK TAKES THE LEAD

SUNDAY
Sunny with
Cloudy pertods

MONDAY
Lattle c hange

SCHRECK - challenger

NDP ......... 22% (S4%)

chance of winning one of the three North Shore Loe edvore’ rere non
ridings hitherto held by Social Credit. Undecided ...... . + 30%

This was the finding of a said they wouldn't vote at Won'tsay .......... 25%
North Shore News poll all. Won't vote .......... 4%
conducted April 18. The random telephone

It showed the Socreds survey asked respondents in N. VAN-CAPILANO
leading strongly among a geographically balanced Socred ....... 29% (79%)
already decided voters in NDP .......... 7% (18%)
North Vancouver-Capilano Lib. ............ wee (-)
and West Vancouver-Howe Coms. .......... 1% (3%)
Sound -- but trailing the NDP ss sample of 358 households Decided vote ....... 37%
by cight percentage pointsin) from Deep Cove to Hor- Undecided ......... 34%
North Vancouver-Seymour, seshoe Bay “If che Womtsay .......... 26%
where Jack Davis. the provincial election were held Won'tvote .......... 3%
Socred incumbent, ts being today, which party would
challenged by New you vote for?” W. VAN-HOWE SD.
Democrat David Schreck Socred ....... 41% (72%)

In all cases, however, the Broken down by ndings, NDP ......... 14% (25%)
most significant fipures were the results were as follows Lib. ........... 2% (3%)
those of the “unknown” = (with percentages of decided Coms. ............. -(-)
vote Overall on the North voters only shown in Decidedvote ....... 57%
Shore, 30 per cent said they 9 brackets) Undecided ......... 25%
hadn't made up their minds. Won'tsay .......... 17%
a further 23 per cent refused N. VAN-SEYMOUR Won'tvote .......... 1%
to answer and one per cent Secred ....... 19% (46%)