ad aed TWU again facing hard-line stance by US-owned B.C. Tel — page 12 — UN peace festival Ingrid Lehmann (right), as- sistant to UN secretary-gen- eral Kurt Waldheim and polit- ical advisor in the UN disarm- ament centre, was. one of several speakers and _ per- audiences to the Robson Square media centre Friday and Saturday as the Disarma- ment Festival focused public attention on the accelerating arms race, (stories page 10). a formers who drew capacity - . <> f4Gn C GEORGE HEWISON ... UFAWU spokesman said union would campaign to block ratification 0 Budget boosts inflation, does nothing for jobless f treaty with U.S. A TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN the Klan last week. son and COPE aldermanic can- didate Delecia Crump has filed charges with the provincial pro- secutor’s office in Vancouver against Ku Klux Klan organiz- ers, as a result of a meeting by Fed wants action, page 11 Crump, aided by Vancouver alderman and lawyer Harry Rankin, told a press conference Thursday at Rankin’s law office that the charges are laid under a Black community spokesper- | See CHARGE page 11 a aD RT Salmon pact bad news for fishermen The salmon interception trea- ty between Canada and the U.S. is a sellout, United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union sec- retary treasurer George Hewi- son declared this week. If signed the treaty will freeze a present imbalance in the U.S.’s favor of five million sal- mon — nearly one-third of the total B.C. salmon run. Tuesday, the union reacted angrily to new ‘‘conservation’’ measures imposed by federal minister Romeo LeBlanc which Hewison likened to “‘kicking a y when he’s lying in the mud” (see page 3). BERT NILSSON ... Vernon labor leader acclaimed. Acclaimed Labor scored its first victory of the municipal election cam- paign Monday when nomina- tions closed and Vernon Labor Council secretary Bert Nilsson was acclaimed as alderman. However a local businessman, not on any voters list in the pro- vince, had challenged the ac- clamation in the courts as the Tribune went to press. More news from the civic election campaigns, pages 2, 3. McEachen grabs $500 per family A budget which does nothing to resolve the critical issue of unemployment, which fuels in- flation by increasing energy costs and contains only half-hearted measures to effect Canadian con- trol of the multi-national- dominated oil industry were descriptions voiced by various leaders in the labor movement this week as finance minister Allen MacEachen brought down the Liberal government’s long awaited budget Tuesday. Communist Party leader Bill Kashtan added that it should be called the ‘‘MacEachen-Crosbie budget since it is similar to the ill- fated Tory budget.” Although speculation throughout the media of a possi- ble end to income tax indexation did not materialize — prompting news commentators across the country to emphasize how reliev- ed taxpayers should be — there was little reason for relief as the government imposed new in- creases for gasoline, home heating fuel, natural gas, air transportation and unemploy- ment insurance premiums. By next week consumers in this province who burn natural gas in their furnaces will pay an extra $3 a month (based on average mon- thly use of 10,000 cubic feet). Im- mediately they’ll pay an extra .64 cents a litre for gasoline — and upwards of 3.6 cents more a litre for each of the next three years — and an extra one-third in unemployment insurance premiums. NDP leader Ed Broadbent estimated following the budget speech that MacEachen’s measures would cost the average family an extra $500 a year. MacEachen himself acknowledged that the increases would push inflation over the of- ficial figure of 10 percent per year. But at the same time as fuelling inflation, the government did nothing to stimulate the economy and tackle the main problem of unemployment which has reach- ed critical levels in the main manufacturing areas of the coun- try as well as in Atlantic Canada. Canadian Labor Congress president Dennis McDermott said Wednesday that the govern- ment “‘should have instituted tax cuts to stimulate the economy and create jobs.” He noted that many had ex- pressed relief that there were no tax increases in the budget, ““But that alone is unacceptable,”’ he said, emphasizing that the budget did nothing to address the major problem of unemployment. Roy Gautier, president of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council was critical of the budget’s failure to deal with unemployment, adding that the 33 percent increase in unemploy- ment insurance premiums was typical of ‘“‘the government’s in- effectiveness in dealing with near- - ly one million unemployed.” Emil Bjarnason, director of the Trade Union Research Bureau, said that the government should have undertaken job-creating measures including ‘‘a real hous- ing construction program instead of just re-introducing tax incen- tives.” Communist Party leader Bill Kashtan also condemned the MacEachen budget’s provision for UI premium increases which, he said, ‘‘continues the govern- ment’s policy of attacking the vic- tims of unemployment.” Kashtan warned that the government with its budget was continuing to follow the dictates See BUDGET page 3