YOUR COMMUNITY | NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 NEWS photo Stuart Davis Workers march on ministers ABOUT 75 workers from North Vancouver's Versatile Pacific Shipyard Inc. marched through the streets of Van- couver Friday afternoon roaring for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney icebreaker. Versatile workers dropped tools en masse to join the demonstra- tion, which began at the North Vancouver Seabus terminal and ended on the steps of the Horel Vancouver, the site of the first minister’s conference. Marine Workers and _ Boiler- makers Industrial Union (MWBIU) shop) steward Bob Briere said the protest was orga- nized “to get some kind of a message to (Prime Minister) Mulroney while he is in town, Most of us will be Jaid off within the next month and a half, Without the Polar 8 there aill be no future for shipyards in North Vancouver."” The 36-year-old steel! checker said the Jan. 3 launch of the Type 1200 icebreaker currently being built at the Versatile yard would signal the beginning of the end for the shipyard if the $450 million Polar 8 contract was not awarded to Versatile now. Through a loud-hailer on the sieps of the Hotel Vancouver, MWBIU president) John Fitz- patrick told the workers they were to make a decision on the Polar Class 8 By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter there to fight for jobs and the future of the West Coast ship- building industry. “We don’t want to go on welfare. We're not bums. We want jobs and we want them now.’”’ Fitzpatrick said later, without the Polar 8 contract, ‘‘you might as well write us (the shipbuilding industry) of f."" He added that Mulroney had promised to help the West Coast shipbuilding industry when he had visited Vancouver in March, but had not followed through on that promise. Following his speech and to the chant of ‘‘Brian! Brian! Brian! Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!** Fitzpatrick strode into the hotel in hopes of confronting Mulroney, but was headed off by Capilano MP Mary Collins. She told the union president that local MPs were doing everything they could to secure the icebreaker contract for the West Coast. “The decision is coming."’ Squamish Band hope: coaches team PAGE 56 y \ WAR RINE WORKERS. Sey AN & INDUSTRIAL Uni iis “ANCOUVES. -, agent BY SHIPYARD GENERAL WORKS: CL NEWS se Stu VERSATILE Pacific Shipyard employees (above) took to the streets of Vancouver Friday afternoon in a demunst-ation for the Polar Class 8 icebreaker. Capilano MP Mary Collins (above left) assures Marine Workers and Boilermakers Industrial Union president John Fitzpatrick that a decision on awarding the icebreaker contract wil! be made soon. Aldermen retain seats] | Sutherland wins OFFICIAL vote recounts in. West Vancouver and “North Vancouver. ‘District have. rearranged vote totals, but. not. changed the overall positioning of aldermen. In North Vancouver District, Joan Gadsby remains at the top of the polls with 6,157, follow- ed by Murray Dykeman with 6,153, Craig Clark with 5,445, Mary Segal. with 5,438,: Ernie: Crist’ with. 4,601 and Bill Rodgers, officially winning the ‘final aldermanic- seat, with 4,002 votes. The runners-up were led by Norm Vipond with 3,982, followed by Richard Buchols with 3,904, Ron Gamble with 3,498, Neil Maclean with 2,157 and Philip Marsh with 1,900. In West Vancouver, incum- bent Ald. Gordon Rowntree will definitely -be back for another two-year term on council. An official recount this week, requested -by candidate Andrei Danyliu, increased Rowntree’s votes by eight. Danyliu now misses the last aldermanic seat by 49 instead of 41 votes. . A COMEDY of errors that has left few laughing in the Nurth Shore News newsroom resulted in the wrong North Shore high school being credited with winning the B.C, senior be.s’ high school soccer cham- pionship in the front page photo cutline --f Friday’s paper. Contrary tp the claim beneath the picture, West Varicctver’s Sentinel Secondary School DIM NOT win the championship. «‘Crsistent with the photo's accompanying page 12 story, North Vancouver's Sutherland Second- ary School Sabres won the championship with a 2-] victory over the Templeton Titans on Nov. (5. The News apologizes for the error, all disappointment it might have caused the Su:herland team, and ail momentary delusions of grandeur enjoyed by Sentinel.