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Apr. 9 is the day when B.C.’s
unemployed will raise their voices in a de-
Mand for jobs at rallies in both Van-
Couver and Victoria.

For Vancouver, it’s a rally in Op-
Penheimer Park, organized by the Van-
couver and District Labor Council’s
unemployed action committee. In Vic-
toria, the Island’s jobless and trade

unionists will gather on the Legislature
|grounds following a three day trek from
Nanaimo. :

The “‘On to Victoria” trek, organized
bythe B.C. Coalitionof the Unemployed,
will begin in Nanaimo Apr.’4 for the

/32 km per day walk. Others are “ex-
pected to bus into Victoria Saturday from
various Island localities. Participants will
gather at Centennial Square at 1 p.m. and
march to the Legislature.

Vancouver’s rally begins at noon (at
the 400-block of East Powell street), and
wiil feature entertainment and speakers
from the political parties that accept the
committee’s invitation to attend.

They'll be asked to state their position
regarding the action committee’s seven-
Point program, which includes demands
for an end to social service cutbacks and
plant closures, a massive public works
Program and a 30-hour work week with
No loss in pay.

In the event of rain, the Vancouver ral-
ly will be at Fishermen’s Hall, 138 East

Ordova street.

The Nanaimo and District Labor
Council has donated $1,000 to pay for the
buses to the Victoria rally, and has urg:
its affiliates to contact their unemployed
Members. Further information can be
obtained by phoning 758-6854 or
753-1313.

U.S. plots against S. /

‘liberation struggle—ANC

creds’ crisis
mirrors economy

— page 3

Despite a black sky, lightning bolts and a typical Vancouver monsoon, some 500 run-
ners made their way from Brockton Oval around the Stanley Park seawall Sunday in
the first-ever Run for Peace, organized by End the Arms Race to raise money for the
Apr. 23 Walk for Peace. The runners, who had pledges for every kilometre covered,
raised an estimated $10,000: Meanwhile, scientist Linus Pauling urged everyone in
Vancouver to take part in the peace walk in a letter to mayor Michael Harcourt (People and

Issues page 2).

Conference dramatizes ‘reality’ of Port Alberni

The tables were filled as about 100 peo-
ple from Port Alberni and area sat down
to address reality Saturday at the Interna-
tional Woodworkers Local 1-85 hall in
the city where unemployment has taken
its heaviest toll.

When delegates left at the end of the
day-long seminar of discussion papers
and workshops, it was clear that most laid
the blame for the-crippling of the area’s

forest-based economy on the doorstep of

multinational corporations and the
governments whose policies have led to
the worst economic crunch since the
Great Depression.
That sentiment will be expressed in
Motions brought to the Port Alberni and
District Labor Council, which sponsored

the event, and then to its affiliates, said
George McKnight, conference chairman
and an executive member of Local 1-85.

Labor was represented by members of
the IWA, the Hospital Employees Union
and the Carpenters — the latter two non-
affiliates of the labor council — and par-
ticipants from Vancouver Island’s
unemployed organizations and Native
tribes.

They were joined by representatives of
local government — including the
mayors of Port Alberni and Tofino, three
Port Alberni aldermen, members of the
Alberni Regional District board and the
local school board. Among the most ac-
tive participants were local church people

See UNIONS page 12

TRIBUNE PHOTO — DAN KEETON

Woodworker Monty Mearns said forest companies who move operations from
B.C. should lose tree farm licences.

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