} 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 ‘ FS 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. « 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 Sg "INSIDE ud = ae f e EDUCATION: The BCTF assesses declining enrollment in our schools. § and COPE blasts the | provincial government for rising school taxes, page 3. SLE BRETT TINE SIONS PETIT. e HAITI: The oppressed Caribbean nation is a powderkeg set to explode, page 7. PRET RPS LOSE IED e LABOR: Jack Phillips — comments ° on the jurisdictional dispute interfering in the CLC’s | campaign to organize. OME AT RRL OE PAN PER ae ial =