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UI said at risk

Marchers slam fed plan

BOOSTED BY the skirling of a
bagpiper, a small group of
protesters took their protest of
pending cuts to social programs
to the city’s Canada Employment
Centre last Friday, :

Speakers from labour unions,

the women’s resource centre, stu--

dents and seniors said cuts in wn-
employment insurance and trans-

fer payments will hurt area resi-

dents,
Norm Lavillee, president of the
Kitimat-Terrace and = District

Labour Council said an increase
in the number of weeks that need
to be worked from 14 to 20 and a
cut in benefils from 55 to 50 per
cent of earnings will affect sea-
sonal workers.

A labour council letter ad-
dressed to federal human resource
development minister Lloyd Ax-
worthy was presented to employ-
ment centre officials asking that
Axwarthy visit the northwest.

. Lavallee was particularly criti-
cal of promised training programs
for jobs he said might not cven
exist,

“You got to have holes first if
you want to drill,’ he said,

Lavallee added that since UI
contribulions are made by
employers and employees and not
the general taxpayer the cuts
don’t make sense,

He said the federal government
would be better off to end the
departure of untaxed corporate
profits from the country,

BAGPIPER LEADS marchers down Lazelle Ave. to do the Canada Employment Centre Jan. 13.
Labour, senior citizen and women’s and poverty group representalives spoke against pending
changes go social services programs, saying they'll affect Ul recipients, poor people and those who

now benefit from social services programs of ane type or another.

And = Lavallee — challenged
Skeena Reform MP Mike Scott to
explain his position.

Skeena NDP provincial mem-
ber Helmut Giesbrecht said the
federal deficit wasn’t created by
social programs.

He said cuts in social programs
are part of the world-wide effort
toward free trade to reduce bene-
fits to a common denominator.

Hospital Employees’ Union rep
Andrea LeBlanc called for equal

Third man charged
in Hazelton murder

A HAZELTON murder case took
a surprising twist Friday when
another man was arrested and
charged as a co-conspirator.

Dana Charles Winter, owner of
a gas station in Two Mile, was

taken into custody, said RCMP

Cpl. Chris Bomford.

Winter, 32, is the third person
so far arrested in the murder of
Landis Heal, whose body was
recovered from a shallow grave
near Cedatvale last October.

Heal, of New Hazelton, went
missing. in August. He died of
gunshot wounds.

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murder of Heal are Winter and
Timothy Sheldon McReery, 19,

Ajiso charged as an accessory in
the crime is Jaedrion Aaron Katz,
19, of Smithers,

The prosecutor in the case,
Mike Fulmer from Prince Rupert,
intends to try Winter and
McReery together as co-accused
in the same procceding with Katz,
Cpl. Bomford said,

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“Plug the laopholes,’’ she said,

Northwest Community College
student Ken Harder said a broad
range of cuts affecting a large
number of people is doing them a
favour.

‘*This way we can all band to-
gether,” he said in adding that
the federal government will hear
a variely of voices,

Gerald King from the Terrace
Anti Poverty Group Society said
there was a “‘consplracy to create
a slave labour force.”’

And he forecast an increase in
prison construction to handle the
increased problems that'll happen
when people are affected by the
cuts,

Terrace Women’s Resource
Centre representative Carol Sabo
didn’t argue against the need for a
reform of social programs.

"Reform means change. But all
we're hearing about are cuts,”’
she said,

Senior citizen Norm Read said
events of today are taking people
back to the depression years of
the 1930s.

As was the case then, Read said
people don’t want unemployment
insurance, they want jobs.

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