is Ke “4 These girls, ages 10, 11, leave home at 6 a.m. to work at a Clear- : U.S.-China lead €anada by the nose in S.E. Asia The message from Cuban cartoonist Nues (right) speaks for itself. But now Canadian external affairs minister Mark Mac- Guigan apparently wants to add a Canadian face to the U.S.-China nose in Vietnam’s affairs. See editorial, page 3. Social workers on line Social workers in B.C. could be arbitrarily decertified from the B.C. Government Employees Union if draft legislation be- 4 comes law. Jack Phillips comments, page 8. brook farm and return at 10 p.m. Legislation for first time regulating labor standards for farmworkers is a victory for the new CFU, see story page 8. No jobs means no By JANICE HARRIS Summer employment for stud- ents in B.C, is the worst in years. The majority of students haven’t found work and will remain jobless until classes resume in September = this is the picture shaping up as statistics start coming in from stud- Peace council raps minister B.C. Peace Council chairman Bert Ogden this week rapped federal defense minister Gilles Lamontagne for the minister’s July 12 statement that the western coun- tries need more nuclear weapons, including the neutron bomb, because ‘‘the Soviet Union is not in a friendly mood’’. ; “This feeble attempt to justify a budget increase for your depart- ment poses a threat to the Cana- dian people and increases the war — danger,’’ Ogden said in a telegram July 13. ‘We demand that you repudiate this cold war posturing and return to negotiations to end the arms race.”’ —FRED WILSON TRIBUNE PHOTO The “‘prebuild’”’ natural gas pipeline between Alberta and the U.S. would be a colossal sell out of Canadian interests, if built, Com- munist Party national leader William Kashtan declared this week. Kashtan’s statement came on the eve of an expected federal govern- ment approval of the prebuild plan for the.pipeline Thursday, July17 as the Tribune went to press. ; - Under the prebuild plan, Westcoast Transmission and Alberta Gas Trunk pipeline com- panies would proceed to build the southern half of the Alcan natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the U.S., and immediately begin using the southern half of the line to boost exports of Canadian natural gas to the U.S. That would mark a change from the decision made by Parliament more than a year ago when it ap- proved the pipeline on the condi- tion that no building would take place until guarantees were established that the whole pipeline would be built: The theory was that any Alberta gas that was exported through the line would be replaced by Alaska gas coming to Alberta from the North. The so-called ‘“‘prebuild’’ plan is merely ‘‘a device to increase ex- ports of Alberta natural gas to the U.S. without any guarantees what- soever that the rest of the pipeline will be built,’’ Kashtan warned. “‘It is part of a continental energy policy the government is carrying out despite protestations to the contrary.” Instead of another north-south pipeline to siphon off Canadian resources to the U.S., Canada needs two east-west pipelines, for ent employment offices around the province. - Of the 44,311 high school and post-secondary students registered with manpower in B.C. and the Yukon up to the end of June, 29,- 300 or 66 percent were still looking for work. “Not all students register with us, so the unemployment figure is much higher,’’ Donna Moffatt, as- sistant coordinator of Canada Em- ployment Centres for Students said last week. “Tt is virtually impossible to find them all jobs now,’” NDP MP Svend Robinson said last Wednes- day. ‘‘The reality is that even if the government created some jobs through acrash job program, it still wouldn’t do any good because students will be returning to school ~ in September. . ““We have to look seriously at fi- nancial assistance for those stud- ents who couldn’t find jobs,”’ Rob- inson declared. - Robinson’s call for increased fi- nancial-aid to students was echoed by national secretary of the Young Communist League, Mike Gidora, in B.C. on the last leg of a cross- Canada tour. “The YCL will be initiating a school this fall populist ‘transfer of funds’ cam- paign on as many campuses as possible in the fall, focusing on the demand that the government take $1 billion dollars out of the arms budget and put it straight into post- secondary education,’”’ Gidora said. é He added that it was the govern- ment’s fault that the unemploy- ment rate of those under 25 is more than twice that of the rest of the population. See NO JOBS page 2 se (Nicaragua seeks By FRED WILSON Before the Nicaraguan revo- | lution toppled the brutal regime of Anastasio Somoza, the tiny Central American country where the Atlantic and Pacific 1 Oceans come within a few hundred miles of each other had a mere 160 commercial fishing vessels, on both coasts. The entire fleet was owned by Somoza and his family, and when the revolution triumphed exactly one year ago, the fleeing dictator and his henchmen loot- ed the country of the best vessels \_ See SANDINISTAS page 7 aid to rebuild stolen fleet TRIBUNE PHOTO—FRED WILSON ROMERO (L), VALDIVIA, MARTINEZ (far right) . . . rebuilding Nicaragua's fishing fleet for the Sandinistas. With them is Chilean refugee and interpreter Jaime Arizago. Report from | Guatemala June 21, Guatemalan police | busted into a meeting of the national executive of the Na- tional Labor Central and ab- ducted the entire executive. Our correspondent saw smashed desks and blood on the floor. An exclusive eye- witness report on the repres- sion in Guatemala, page 6. Jon’t allow prebuild — pipeline, warns CP oil and natural gas, he said. “These two pipelines should be tied in with public ownership of natural resources and energy to the benefit of the people, not of the U.S. multinational oil corporations.”’ $10,000 VLC election pot- The Vancouver and District Labor Council will spend a minimum of $10,000 to support the Committee of Progressive Electors and Mike Harcourt in the 1980 Vancouver civic election. Delegates to the regular VLC meeting Tuesday gave unanimous approval to an executive resolution recommending the campaign fund and a VLC sponsored poster cam- paign to register voters in the city’s east end. Council vice-president Frank Kennedy called for a maximum ef- fort in the campaign. ‘‘This is our opportunity to break through at ci- ty hall,’ he said. The VLC has called on unionists to meet Sat., Aug. 9. at the ConLab hall in Vancouver to assist in the distribution of the VLC poster outlining the procedure to get on the voters list. a RAL thins RRR SRST Pe anadian | A