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SHIP REPAIR work in hand at a North Van yard. Repairs promise the only continuing
business in the months ahead until new shipbuilding contracts are obtained.

Tough months loom

SHIPYARDS in North Vancouver, normally one
_of the industrial mainstays of the local economy,
are bucking heavy seas this year and the weather
outlook seems unlikely to improve before 1984.

According to Ron
Ferguson, business manager
of the Marine and Shipbuild-
ing Union, Local 506, all five
North Shore shipyards —
Burrard Yarrows, Van-
couver Shipyards, Bel Aire,
Allied and Matsumoto — are
in the same boat, with no

new shipbuilding contracts
on the books once existing
ones, now in their final
phases, are completed.

As a result, as many as
2,500 workers are expected
to have joined the
unemployed by the end of
July. Union leaders and

management both agree that
the main culprit is the
federal government with its
complete lack of any long
range maritime policy.

Typifying the situation is
North Van’s biggest yard,
Burrard Yarrows, which last
year employed up to 1,500
men.

Currently, Burrard has 600
yard workers on the job and
is finishing off a Class 4
icebreaker — named after
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our position as a leader in the
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Industrial Growth On The North Shore Since 1978

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advent of Fibreco, these waste products had to be burned or disposed of through

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