The staid halls of the legislature €choed to the chants of: ‘‘We want J0bs”’ as some 250 woodworkers, Most of them forced on to Unemployed rolls by industry layoffs, took their demand for 80vernment action into the legislative galleries Nov. 26. The International Wood- Workers union members filled the Public galleries as NDP MLA Bill King, who had earlier addressed a Tally Outside, pressed forest ‘Minister Tom Waterland as to what take to provide jobs through in- creased silviculture and other forest management programs. But King’s question brought on- ly the cynical reply from Waterland that the government was already doing much to provide employ- ment and was ‘‘already going more than the NDP was doing when it was in government.” The unionists left after MLAs began turning to other business. Outside, one IWA member looked at the framed copy of the BRITISH COLUMBIA ‘We wants jobs’, IWA tells gov’t = 22vertisine the wall outside the legislative chamber and remarked bitterly: “The one right they don’t say anything about is the right to a job.” The demonstration at the legislature was initiated by locals of the IWA on Vancouver Island where layoffs have been particular- ly heavy. 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The situation is as severe in Port Alberni, and the local there sent the largest contingent to the rally which marched on to the steps of the legislature to the ‘skirl of music from plywood worker George McKnight’s accordion. Regional IWA president Jack Munro told the brief rally on the steps that across the province more than 25 percent of the membership “is totally out of work. “But this government refuses to say one word about it,’’ he charg- ed, adding that premier Bennett has not made any representation to ~ the federal government on the critical issue of interest rates. If the government in Victoria won’t speak for us, then they should allow us to speak at the ballot box,’’ he demanded. © Munro and other [WA officials eventually met briefly with Bennett who claimed that the problem was high interest rates, a federal responsibility. He said he would take up the issue at the first ministers’ conference scheduled for the new year. _. The IWA delegation reportedly _ agreed to provide cases showing the devastating effect of high interest rates. Munro also pressed for curbs JACK MUNRO ... IWA presi- dent meets with Bennett on jobs. on rates, to push them back to the level they were at before the spiral began. : But as. woodworkers left to return to Nanaimo, Alberni and elsewhere, many were dissatisfied that the discussion had been focussed only on the issue of in- terest rates. The up-Island locals particularly have long maintained that there is much that the provin- cial government can and should do directly, particularly in launching a housing program, both to alleviate current shortages and to provide jobs for IWA members. ~ There has also been bitterness among woodworkers at the government’s refusal to use the Tree Farm Licences asa bargaining tool with the forest industry, even though the licences are intended to “ensure stable employment.’? 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