The good life not for the unemployed says this demonstrator who took part in last Thursday’s protest in Victoria. Unemployed demand jobs Cont'd from pg. 1 It demanded the government “‘look to future needs and launch major projects using deficit financing and long-term borrowing.” The government frequently boasts of annual budget surpluses, claiming they are for a ‘“‘rainy day.’’ We have a downpour in 1971, the brief reminded the Bennett government, and it is time for the government to launch a massive program of construction of public works. There is a crying need for adequate, publicly supported low-cost housing in the province for low income families and for senior citizens. We have the labor, we have the materials, we have the need; all that remains is the necessary financing by the provincial government, the brief charged. New classrooms are needed, and new policy on resource export. “We call on the government to include, as part of its natural resources policy, provisions which would require companies licensed to exploit and export resources to provide a specified number of man- hours of employment in B.C. for British Columbians. “We urge the government to act now in meeting its responsibilities to the people of this province by implementing the kinds of programs which we have outlined in this submission. Even in the face of the federal government’s folly, these proposals would significantly improve the situation in this province. . .” The march to Victoria was a militant march, a successful march. There is no way in which the Bennett government and the kept press and TV can deny the fact that most of those participating were skilled workers who have helped build this province were on the government’s doorstep demanding jobs, as well as youth who have never had the opportunity to develop their skills. The antics of a tiny segment of those who took part in the march at Victoria will never obscure the reality of 2,000 people representative of thousands more, demanding jobs. Bennett and his cabinet know it and every member of the Legislature knows it. Pacific Press and TV reporters know it, and that is why they are trying to play it down and that is why they lie about what really happened in Victoria. Above all, the demonstration served notice on the government they are not prepared to take mass unemployment lying down. —Jack Phillips photo. SUCH AVICTORY OVER INFLATION MON CAPITAINE ! AND ARE. THESE THE. BODIES OF THE ENEMY TROOPS, OUI? CARLESS vessel limitation scheme — By unanimous vote, close to 700 fishermen decided to picket outside the Department of Fisheries offices January 29 to protest the Davis Plan for vessel limitation. The vote was taken at a meeting held in John Oliver High school last weekend in which members of the UFAWU, the Native Brotherhood of B.C., the Pacific Trollers Assoc., and the Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co-op Association took part. The meeting also adopted a motion from the floor that “‘we condemn the Davis Plan in its entirety.” The general feeling was that by putting the license on the ‘‘thing’’, the Minister of Fisheries was depriving com- mercial fishermen of the basic rights as individuals. Although emphasis was placed on the four main points which were objectionable, — that is higher license fees, use of quality controls, the buy-back scheme, and the piece-meal introduction of the plan by press release, there were many fishermen who raised the need for the government to spend money to increase the salmon resource. T.C. Douglas, Tom Barnett, Ray Perrault and Grace MacInnes, Members. of Parliament, addressed the meeting and answered questions raised from the floor. Jack Davis, Minister of Fisheries, was condemned by UFAWU president Homer Stevens, who said he could not accept the Minister’s various excuses for not attending the meeting. “The latest one given by Davis is that the majority of people present were shoreworkers and crew members, but not owners of fish boats. The Minister is making a false statement. Over 75 percent of the attendance was made up of gillnetters and a trollers who either owl own boats or are trying # them. The others are crew members, with handful of shoreworkers Stevens outlined the efforts to work with other § to change the worst feat! the Davis Plan. Tenants to for changes in Act The B.C. Tenants Organiza- tion will lobby the B.C. Legislative Assembly on February 16 in a demand for amendments to the Landlord and Tenant Act and to the Municipal Act. The request for changes include the following points: No rent increase to exceed the increase in the cost of living; No evictions unless the landlord can show a just cause to a judge; Enumeration of tenants for municipal elections, and the right of tenants to vote on municipal money by-laws. In the meantime a Rally for Lower Mainland tenants is scheduled for Wednesday, February.10, at 307 West Broadway, at 8 p.m. Regional meetings will be held in Kitsilano, Hastings East, West End, Marpole, and for the lobby Broadway-Main area. tenants will meet in th Road hall on January % p.m., and meetings scheduled for Coqull Richmond, Burnaby Vancouver and Victoria. as to time and place @ acquired by contactl Tenant Organization quarters Rm. 4, 199 1 Ave., phone 873-2230. Tenants Organization! tatives met this week committee set up ® Attorney-General’s Dep@ to review the Act. A brief detailing the ret amendments to the Ae been prepared and is bell to all M.L.A.’s for their tion, and the members) Legislature have | requested to meet WH Tenants lobby while they Victoria. a PT REPORTER SAYS: By MABEL RICHARDS I was shocked to learn, last Friday morning, that the day before, in Victoria, I had been part of a barbarous mob which ‘‘stormed”’ the Legisla- tive Buildings. Many hundreds others who took part in the march to Victoria will be equally surprised. Vancouver reporters and cameramen obviously have a mote in their eye. It wears long hair, beards and beads, and it makes them blind to all else. Perhaps the other men and women I thought I saw on the demonstration were a mirage. Perhaps the whole affair centred in the activities of a few kids who were allowed — and I use the word advisedly — to enter the Chamber while the speech from the Throne was being read. (There were almost enough military personnel, Mounted Police, and palace guard around the buildings to have stopped a full-fledged revolution had they a mind to!) Newsmen Fotheringham, Wasserman, Barry Clark and divers other resentatives of the media saw only the beards, beads and long hair, and that is unfortunate. for they missed something far more real and much more exciting. ‘Media had mote in their eyes The Victoria demonstration was an inspiring event which no amount of trivia from the persons mentioned above can succeed in writing off the record. There was a good spirit abroad on that day which we who took part will not soon forget. There was real inspiration in the sight of the thousands of men and women marching in one cause — the fight against unemployment. The signs they carried and the banners behind which they marched expressed their sentiments; Stop Exporting Jobs! War on Poverty, not its Victims! Stop subsidies to Big Business!, . and hundreds more. There was a good spirit aboard the ferries going to Victoria and coming back, and if there were clouds of marijuana smoke in the lounges it never reached our proletarian noses. Probably Sun reporters are better able to recognize it than we are. In the lounge of one of the ferries returning to Vancou- ver dozens of people, young and old, sang union songs with Tommy Hawkens and his group of musicians, and it was a fine thing to hear old time trade unionists and young men and women who have never’ had the opportunity of belonging to a IN VICTOR trade union, raising © voices in harmony i favorites as Joe Hill, © Maid, Solidarity Forev@: lots more. It occurred to me th have been the first tim of those young people made genuine contact | trade unionists, ane” versa. We are inclilt forget that the majom our young Canadians = never held an eight-h® day job, in close conta@. other workers, or throu discipline of the movement learned necessity of self-restt4 well. Full employment mean the end 0 alienation; the © acceptance of a de philosophy that ‘‘confrontation tae ahead of united actio# unity which did beé Thursday, January between the majorilY young people who cipated, and the trad@ movement must 4 allowed to die. B.C. Federation of president George said it all: “It was 2° and, if the situation W4 it, we will certainly further such demons — because that’s U™ thing the governm really recognize.”