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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1971

Vol. 32, No. 38

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MILLION NEW JOBS NOW

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Unemployment shows
another sharp rise

Faced with new jobless figures released by Ottawa
showing a startling jump in unemployment in August,
the Union of B.C. Municipalities, meeting in Victoria
last week, passed a resolution calling for emergency
action by all levels of government to provide a million

new jobs in Canada.

The UBCM parley, attended by
674 mayors and aldermen. from
B.C.’s major cities and villages,
overrode its own executive to
adopt the resolution which came
from the Port Alberni Council.

Text of the resolution reads:

“‘Whereas the crisis of un-
employment and consequent rise
in welfare payments places an
ever growing burden upon the
municipalities as well as the
whole economy of Canada;

‘“‘Whereas many thousands of
working people, young and old as
well as many thousands of
students graduating each year
from our educational institutions
are unable to find employment
because no jobs are available to
them;

‘“‘Whereas the economy of
Canada is far too dependent upon
the extraction and export of raw
materials which, if processed
and manufactured in Canada,

Bred Amchitka to protest the U.S. nuclear blast.

Oger’s Pass. ”

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Frida 2s the theme of last
ta cd sanrotest in Victoria
‘thers * More than 500
i, AMehj onstrate against
di Itka test, City hall
day on g Protest by declaring
Mchitka Day.”

ty or Percy Frampton
nd sally in Centennial
Whe Mat th v7 it was “incred-
Piece . test could go ahead
h oud Scientists have
ap .S about its safety.

d by 14,000 citi-
Cana.peut to President
the test.

ainst the test are also pouring
= to Washington from around
the world. And the pressure is
only beginning to mount as ie
anticipated deadline of Oct.
nears.

In Vancouver more than 24,000
names have been collected on 2
mass telegram and sent to Presi
dent Nixon. Names are being
collected at shopping centres,
churches, etc., and sent off Hk
day by the Canadian Conte “i
Stop the Amchitka Blast, wl
is sponsoring the pe ae a,

University students
planning a giant border ah ae
this Friday. Initiated at :

Amchit

i ities across Canada have
pach nike to join in the border
protest.

Meanwhile, the Greenpeace
protest vessel is expected to
reach the Amchitka area 1n the
next few days. World-wide atten-
tion has been fixed on the voyage
of the small fishboat with its
crew of 12 who are sailing to the
Aleutians to dramatize oppo-
sition to the nuclear test.

om Ottawa this week,
nee Minister Trudeau pe :
statement in which he said tha
“the Canadian government has
informed the United Sines
administration that it canno
agree with the proposed pene
and that we believe all such tests

should be halted.”

a test’

A petition is also circulating
among MPs in Ottawa protesting
the blast which, according to
latest reports, is being signed by
most Members of Parliament. It
will be forwarded to Washington
Monday.

The Real Estate Board of
Greater Vancouver followed up
its TV and radio campaign this
week with effective adver-
tisements in the daily press
urging the public to write Presi-
dent Nixon.

Last week Nigel Morgan,
provincial leader of the Com-
munist Party, addressed a series
of meetings throughout the
Okanagan and Kootenays at
which resolutions condemning
the test were passed.

would provide the jobs so badly
needed by our own people;

“Therefore be it resolved that
this 68th annual convention of
the Union of B.C. Municipalities
urges the provincial and federal
governments to call an im-
mediate joint conference on
unemployment, with the
participation of the muni-
cipalities, to consider a program
for the immediate provision of
one million jobs in Canada
through the encouragement of
new manufacturing industries
in Canada, processing our own
raw materials and providing
work and wages for our own
people.”’

(See analysis of UBCM Con-
vention on page 2). :

.The UBCM action came as the
nation was shocked by the dis-
closure by Statistics Canada
(formerly the Dominion Bureau
of Statistics) that unemployment

‘in August had risen to 6.5 percent

of the labor force. It was 6.3
percent in July. This rise came
despite assurances for months
by Finance Minister Benson that
the jobless rate in Canada would
decline.

To make matters worse, Sta-
tistics Canada also announced
that the cost of living index in
August went up dramatically to
135 points from 134.1 in July.
This is the largest July-to-August
increase in food prices in more
than a decade.

The large jump in un-
employment between July and
August does not yet reflect the
effects of the Nixon 10 percent
surtax on Canada. The impact of
the U.S. action will start showing
up in September. Layoffs are
already taking place in many
industries in B.C. and across
Canada. -

In the last few days spokes-

See NEW JOBS, pg. 12