Bobby Hull (left) whose name has been synonymous with the best in
Canadian hockey for nearly 20 years visits with the Soviet national
hockey team, another team which has achieved greatness, during a
workout by the USSR team in the Montreal Forum prior to the
Opening of the Canada Cup tournament. Hull's friendly approach to the
international tournament and his gracious play on ice have contributed
greatly to Team Canada’s success thus far in the tournament.

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We're one week into the Canada
Cup hockey tournament, and while
things are still a long way from
being finalized, a few trends are
emerging.

To the surprise of absolutely no
| one, the tournament is shaping up

_ to be a four way scrap for the top
spot between Canada, the Soviet
Union, Sweden and Czecho-
slovakia. The U.S. and Finnish
teams, while extremely game are
simply out of their league in this
level of competition. But, they’ll be
learning, particularly the Finns,
whose assistant coach, former
NHL defenceman Carl Brewer, has
proven over the years that he is a
particularly astute student.of the
game of hockey and prepared to
adapt winning methods from
elsewhere in the world to his own
circumstances.

The Finns are in the same cir-
cumstances which the Soviets,
Swedes, and Czechs found them-
selves in about 20 years ago when
they first came up against
Canadian teams. They knew that
they were not competitive yet, but
were prepared to take their lumps
and learn from the Canadian
hockey players. The results of that
learning process are by now well
known. Not only did those three
nations learn, but they studied and
improved upon what they learned
to such a degree that Canada,
finding itself in the uncomfortable

role of an also-ran, finally picked.

up its puck and went home as
Hockey Canada pulled this country
out of international hockey.

It was almost universally
- recognized for what it was — a
dumb move, and it has taken
nearly 10 years for this country to
get back into international hockey
following that temper tantrum.

But now that Canada is back in
international hockey, at least in
this series, we are being,
represented by probably the most

awesome hockey team ever .

assembled on this side of the
Atlantic Ocean, and maybe on the
other side as well. Rather than
select a coach and general
manager, the Canadian organizing
committee showed a _ little
imagination and asked Montreal

Canadiens’ general manager Sam -

Pollock to be responsible for the:
team. And Sam, showing that the
Swedes, Soviets, and Czechs
_weren’t the only ones who have
learned from previous in-
ternational competitions selected a
four man coaching staff, each of
whom have specific respon-
sibilities.

But even more impressive, was
Pollock’s selection of players for
this Team Canada. In the past,

Canadians, totally caught up in the
image of the athletic superstar,
have tried to mold a team from a
collection of all-stars, many of
whom have totally incompatible
styles of hockey. Sam tried a
different approach, and selected
players which he felt would easily
fit together as a cohesive unit. As a
result, he selected players as units.

Though a number of top ‘‘stars”’
such as Frank Mahovolich and Ken
Dryden are missing from the Team

Canada roster, I think that there .

are few who would doubt the
wisdom of Pollock’s .method of
selecting his team. In addition to

being one.of the. more complete

hockey teams to represent this
country for several years, the
manner in which Team Canada has
conducted themselves on the ice, to
date anyways, marks a significant
change of attitude amongst many
of the players.

Though Team Canada has
selected one of the more gentle
squads in recent history, the same

_cannot be said of the other teams

playing. In the early games,
Sweden, the Soviet Union and
Czechoslovakia have all shown a
willingness to adapt to the so-
called North American style of
hockey. Though they haven’t had
time to perfect the style, all three
teams are using their bodies more
effectively and are showing that
they aren’t adversetoa little rough
play. In my opinion, they are all
three making a mistake.

It took the Canadian professional
hockey establishment three in-
ternational series before they
began to realize that a rough
hockey team will never beat a good
hockey team. It’s surprising
therefore to see Europe’s good
hockey teams emphasize the rough
side of the game.

Another surprise, has been the
team which the Soviet Union
brought with them for the Canada
Cup series. While the other five
competing countries have amassed
their best possible teams, the
Soviet team appears to be in a
period of rebuilding and missing
from the lineup are names such as
Valery Kharmalov, Alexander
Yakushev, and Alexander Gusev,
to mention but a few. In their
places are a new crop of younger,
more aggressive hockey players.
Unlike the Canadian team, the
Canada Cup series is not a be all
and end all for the Soviets. This, to
them, is still another of the many
international tournaments which.
they participate in each year, and
is a time to experiment and build
their team for the world and
Olympic championships.

_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 10, 1976—Page 11

Guy, Phillips speak

' Labor Day rally hears
call for support Oct. 14

Despite a cold and dreary day,
more than 400 people turned out in
Parksville last weekend to hear
Len Guy, secretary of the B.C.
Federation of Labor and Jack
Phillips, provincial organizer of
the Communist Party appeal for
maximum support for the October
14 National Day of Protest.

Guy and Phillips were two of the
featured speakers at the 2ist
Annual Vancouver Island Labor
Day Picnic.

“Governments are attacking
working people and the trade union
movement as we’ve never been
attacked before,” Guy charged.
“We face hostile governments,
both in Ottawa and in Victoria, who
are bent on serving the interests of
bankers, promoters and land
speculators, the big landlords and
foreign corporations rather than
the interests of ordinary working
people.”

“Tt’s time that the working
people of this country stood up to
those governments and told them
once and for all that we are
through being bullied by
politicians; we are through being
made scapegoats for inflation that
we didn’t create and that we are
not going to accept the kind of
inequitable anti-worker legislation
that has been thrown at us in in-
creasing amounts over the past
few. months,” he said.

“Jt is important to understand
that this legislation is not ac-
cidental, that it hasn’t just hap-
pened, rather it is the result of a
longand» carefully planned cam-
paign against Canadian workers, a
campaign in which the thrust is to
turn worker against worker, to
turn the unorganized against the
union worker, to turn the retired
worker against the active worker,
and to turnall groups against those
who are disadvantaged and unable

_to work.”

Guy said that the trade union
movement would be standing up to
the governments, ‘‘to the barons of
industry and manipulators of our
media’’ on October 14, which he
called ‘“‘a second national day for
the labor movement in Canada.

“October 14 is not a holiday in
the sense that Labor Day is a
holiday. It is nota day to celebrate,
but it is a day to protest and
demonstrate to the federal
government the united deter-
mination of the trade union
movement in Canada to change

GUY

Cont'd from pg. 3

reason, I’m not personally in-
terested in leading that kind of
federation. However, the choice as
to what kind of federation and what
kind of leadership we’re going to
have will be made in the proper
democratic fashion.

I hope the labor movement will
opt for a stronger federation. I
hope the labor movement will give
the federation a mandate to go
further in developing a united and
militant campaign to defend
labor’s rights, to defend the trade
union movement and, both on the
industrial front and the political
front, to pursue vigorously the
interests of working people in this
province. I believe, if we unite
behind strong Federation policy,
we can win the battles ahead.

And we must win. We must
defeat wage controls. We must
successfully resist further anti-
labor legislation. We have proven
we can do it in the past. With united
determination we can do it now and
in the future.”

things, to begin a concentrated
effort to unite Canadians who work
for a living into a campaign for
social, economic, and political
justice in this country and to begin
to regain control of our govern-
ments, our industries and our
resources and to ensure that they
work for the benefit of all
Canadians.”’

He cited the fact that in the first
six months of operation the Anti-
Inflation Board rolled back 170
collective agreements for being in
excess of the allowable wage in-
crease under the federai program,
andin that same period of time the
AIB took action against only two
price increases.

Guy promised the crowd that the
National Day of Protest will be
taken up wholeheartedly by the
B.C. labor movement. “I am
pleased to be able to tell you that
after meetings we have held with
key trade union officials from
around the province, it is clear that
we have achieved nearly
unanimous support in B.C. for the
CLC’s National Day of Protest on
October 14. —

“T’m confident that we will find,
when Oetober 14 rolls around that
we are going to have the kind of
support in B.C. that will make the
politicians stand up and take
notice. Z

“After October 14, Canadian
politics will never again be the
same.”’

Provincial organizer of the.

cansov

present

Communist Party, Jack Phillips,
himself a veteran of many years in
the forefront of. the labor
movement, reiterated Guy’s
prediction when he told the picnic
crowd that ‘‘a successful one-day
protest will be biggest political
demonstration this country has
ever known.

“The main target will be the
abolition of wage controls.
However, the impact of such a
demonstration will register
political tremors through the whole

See ISLAND RALLY, pg. 12

CIVIC UNITY

Cont'd from pg. 2

seeking COPE endorsation as
candidates.

There is still time, of course, for
the leaders of the NDP to change
their minds. COPE would warmly
welcome any steps to unity, even at
this late date. But we also know
that miracles don’t happen very
often, and so we must deal with the
realities that exist.

For all those who want a genuine
change at City Hall, there is now
only one realistic alternative and
that is to support COPE. COPE
was established in 1968 on the
initiative of the Vancouver and
Distribt Labor Council to act as an
umbrella bringing together all
reform forces in the city. We ex-
tend a welcome hand to all those
who seek this same objective.

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