Jobless
protest
set for |
Victoria

_ A demonstration and lobby
In Victoria to demand govern-
Ment action on jobs has been
Called by the B.C. Federation of

bor unemployed action cen-
tres on Vancouver Island.

No date has yet been set but
federation secretary Mike,
Kramer told unions that it
Would be organized as early as
Possible following the opening
of the spring session of the
legislature. The organizational
Plans are being made by the
labor councils on Vancouver
Island,

_ The unemployed organiza-
ons have been pressing for a
Major demonstration in Vic-
toria to focus the demand for
job creation programs.

Next Monday, Vancouver
area unemployed will
demonstrate outside the office
Of _the.. Unemployment. In-
surance Commission at Georgia
and Burrard to protest layoffs
Of UIC staff and to demand the
€xtension of unemployment in-
Surance benefits to claimants
for the full term of their
unemployment.

The rally is set to begin at
noon Feb. 7 at Robson Square.
Demonstrators will march from
there to the UI offices.

This Friday, representatives
Of the Vancouver and District
Labor Council’s unemploy-
ment committee will meet with
Tegional UI officials to discuss
the backlog of unresolved
Claims which has been made

supported

worse by staff layoffs.

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strikers

Quebec hospital workers
returned to work this week as part
of an agreement worked out with
the Levesque government but
teachers remained on the picket
lines in the historic Common Front
strike. Story on strike opening
page 6, 7.

Science for Peace members (left to right) Andrew Spence, Luis

Sabrino, George Spiegelman and Arnie Thomlinson speak to is mayor Michael Harcourt.

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et cuts at raily at Delta’s Sands Secondary Schoo!-Mondav.

‘

Hundreds of parents of Delta
school children are expected to
converge on a scheduled Socred
cabinet session at Robson Square
next Tuesday to protest the way
education minister Bill Vander
Zalm has imposed restraint on the
school district’s budget and to de-
mand that the government make
up at least some of the $3 million
cut from the Delta School Board.

Set for 7 p.m., the rally has
been called by the Delta Parents’
Advisory Committee which has
already organized several packed
meetings in Delta to dramatize the
“severe impairment of educa-
tion’’ that would result if the
board were forced to accept the
budget cuts stipulated by Vander
Zalm in letters to boards last
November.

The cuts have aroused par-
ticular bitterness in Delta becuase
the Delta School Board, chaired

See DELTA page 2

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reporters at press conference in Vancouver Wednesday. At right

Canada should cancel ‘its |
planned testing agreement with |
he U.S. of the Cruise missile |

regardless of any actions the

| Reagan administration might
take in retaliation, a group of |
} Canadian scientists said at Van- |

couver city hall Wednesday.

The scientists, members of |
the B.C. chapter of Science for |
Peace, argued that a refusal by |
the Canadian government to |
allow testing of the first-strike |
weapon over northern Alberta

will ‘‘create enough pressure on
the U.S. government to serious-
ly negotiate’ arms treaties with
the USSR.

Their arguments were backed |
up by a 15-page study, The |
Canadian

Cruise Missile: A
Perspective, undertaken by four

members of the relatively new |
disarmament group, and releas- |
ed simultaneously in Vancouver |

and Toronto.

Mayor Mike Harcourt added
his support, telling reporters:

i “City council has taken a clear

See STUDY page i2

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