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Led by Federation president George Johnston and secretary Len Guy,

US. oil firms
narrow field
in port race

Once the front runner in the race

' to secure approval for a west coast

oil port, Trans Mountain Pipeline
Company this week withdrew its

| pplication before a Washington

State regulatory agency to build an

oil superport at Cherry Point,

’ Washington.

Trans Mountain’s decision to
Srop the application: for the port
€xpansion narrows the field of
‘Options of the oil companies to
either Port Angeles, Washington or
Kitimat or Port Simpson, B.C.

The major U:S. oil companies,
however, are still backing a
Canadian site — with the attendent
risks — for a port. Exxon and Sohio

_ backed Kitimat Pipeline Company

Still has its application for a port at
Kitimat, B.C. pending before the

National Energy Board, in spite of

Statements by federal cabinet
Ministers opposing the project.
The KPL project is-‘very much
alive,” its president Jack Cressey
S insisted, but observers expect”
that the plan will be modified by

See HEARINGS, pg. 2

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Demand echoes

Victoria's Memorial Arena began filling early Thursday as jobs lobby

demonstrators gathered from the Lower Mainland and Vancouver
Island points, spending the time making placards while Bargain at Half
the Price and the UFAWU’s George Hewison provided entertainment.

— Sean Griffin photos

demonstrators march towards the Legislative Buildings.

VICTORIA — ‘This is a
tremendous demonstration, but it
won’t be the last,’’ B.C. Federation
of Laber president George John-
ston greeted the 3,500 strong
Citizens’ Lobby For Jobs as it
sprawled across the lawns of the
legislature Thursday.

“For every available job there
are 37 unemployed workers. What
does the government expect the
other 36 to do?”’ Johnston asked.

What the government should do
was the subject that a series of
speakers pounded upon at the
spirited rally on the steps of the
legislature. And although the
approach differed from speaker to
speaker, a single message
emerged loud and clear: the
government must use its resources
and authority to increase spending
power of workers and in direct job
creation programs.

““We’ve had enough hypocritical
restraint,’’ Johnston declared,
“This government has increased
the sales tax, insurance rates,
ferry rates . . . All of this money

Delegates to the Burnaby
Teachers’ Association represen-
tative assembly voted this week to

_ Wire immigration minister Bud

€n demanding that Chilean
Tefugee Galindo Madrid be granted
Political asylum in this country.

Madrid, a former Chilean soldier -

Who jumped ship in Squamish last
4y, is still under a deportation

order although a stay of pro-

Ceedings was granted earlier this

Month by Cullen pending a review
of the case.

The minister. had been under

Pressure to halt the deportation,

originally ordered last October and
Teaffirme

appeal March 6.

The Burnaby teachers’

d following a denial of his

GALINDO

Tesolution was also to be placed support of

teachers

efore the B.C. Teachers’ Federa- against deportation.

MADRID...

Teachers support Chile

has
in fight

an’s appeal

tion convention in Vancouver this:
week where it was expected to

_receive overwhelming endorse-

ment following remarks by
Canadian Teachers’ Federation
president Mike Heron who noted
the case in his address to delegates
Tuesday. :

He had been questioned about
the issue by former BCTF
president Jim MacFarlan who
asked if the CTF would be taking
action. Heron replied that “‘it
would welcome direction from the
B.C. Teachers’ Federation.”

The B.C. Federation of Labor
and B.C. human rights com-
missioner Kathleen Ruff have
‘already added their voices to the
demand for asylum for Galindo
Madrid who fears for his life should
he be compelled to return to Chile.

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for asylum

Madrid, who has been working
as a dishwasher in Vancouver, told
reporters earlier this month that
he is wanted by military
authorities in Chile since,
technically, he is a deserter and
also because, as a soldier, he was
an eyewitness to the torture being
carried out against Chilean
citizens by the military.

An indication of the probable fate
awaiting Madrid was seen in the
case of another Chilean refugee,
Eduardo Antichiviche, who was
ordered deported by Canadian
immigration authorities four
months ago and has now become
one of the more than 2,000 ‘‘dis-
appeared” prisoners.

Antichiviche disappeared after
being sighted in a concentration
camp immediately following his
arrival in Chile. sats

in Victoria: "we want jobs’ |

VICTORIA — Chanting ‘‘we

want jobs’’, 3,500 trade
unionists, unemployed,
students, and members of
conmunity organizations

marched on the provincial
legislature Thursday in a
powerful demonstration for full
employment policies.

It was obvious as the nearly
one mile long procession that
marched from _ Victoria’s
Memorial Arena reached the
lawn in front of the legislature
— only moments before
lieutenant governor Walter
Owen arrived to open the new
session of the legislature — that
the B.C. Federation of Labor’s -
“Citizens’ Lobby For Jobs’”’ was
a resounding success.

Forty-five buses carried |
protesters from Vancouver
Island locations, the Lower
Mainland and from as far away

See LOBBY pg. 12

@ Rally blasts gov't
& for jobless crisis

should be in the economy creating

While the speakers attacked the
government for its lack of action in
meeting the unemployment crisis,
it was Vancouver alderman Harry
Rankin that put the matter in
perspective.

“The role of any government is

to take from some and give to
others,”

Rankin said, ‘‘This
government takes from the have-
nots and gives to the haves. The
role of this government is to keep
corporate profits high in spite of
unemployment.”

The unemployment crisis will
not be met, Rankin said, until ‘‘the
multinational corporations are
met head on” and stopped from
exporting profits earned in

See JOBS pg. 12

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