Lobby for jobs set to go March 30 Final plans were being set this week for the B.C. Federation of Labor’s Citizen’s Lobby For Jobs, Set to gather on the lawn of the Provincial legislature March 30 to Press the demand for government _ action on unemployment. Some 40 buses will bring demonstrators from the Lower Mainland while. others will be Marshalling in Victoria from various points on Vancouver Island. Unions have organized buses to Carry their members to the lobby and they will be scheduled so as to Meet the 6:30, 7:00, 9:00 and 10 am. sailings from Tsawwassen and the 6:30 adn 8:30 sailings from Horseshoe Bay. Unionists have been asked to contact their local office for more details. Citizen groups will be boarding buses at the Hastings Community Centre at 3096 East Hastings St. in Vancouver and the Queens Park Arenex, off McBride Boulevard, in New Westminster. Since it is important to determine how many buses are needed at these centres, those intending to go are urged to register beforehand with the Greater Vancouver Union of the Unemployed at 517 East Broadway in Vancouver. The telephone number is 872-7331. Lobby organizers have noted that transportation will entail no cost to any participant but stressed that they must register beforehand in order to ensure a seat on one of the buses. Once in Victoria, demonstrators will begin marshalling at the Memorial Arena at 10:30 a.m., following the arrival of the first buses. The arena, for those coming from Island points, is on the corner of Caledonia and Blanchard Streets in Victoria. The last bus is set to arrive at the arena at 12:15 and, following a brief organizational rally, demonstrators will marshall into parade ranks for a.one-mile march to the provincial Legislature. The Lobby itself is set for 2 p.m. with various activities planned, ’ including a mass rally and a symbolic Depression-style soup kitchen on the lawns. Buses will begin leaving the arena to return to Vancouver at 4 p.m. with the last bus set to depart at 6 p.m. Several actions aimed at pressing demand for jobs have also been scheduled for the days leading up to the lobby. On March 29, Federation and local union officers will lobby MLA’s, to get their responses to a three-page questionnaire sent out by the B.C. Fed earlier. The Vancouver and District Labor Council will be appearing before both the Richmond and North Vancouver District municipal councils March 28 to call for local initiatives to create jobs. The Richmond meeting is at 7 p.m. while the meeting in North Van- couver is at 7:30 p.m. Roe herring processing has suddenly brought fish plants like the Canadian Fishing Company’s home plant in Vancouver (above) to life over the past few weeks as shore workers process this year’s catch. But it’s a brief season — most will be laid off when the season ends, expected some time within the next two to three weeks. —Richard Morgan photo City sets disarmament day Vancouver mayor Jack Volrich last week proclaimed Friday, March 31 as Disarmament Day in the city of Vancouver. The proclamation was issued this week in response to a request from the Ad Hoc Coalition for Disarmament, a coalition of trade “Union, peace and_ religious - Organizations. The Coalition intends to mark the event with various activities at hoon at the Pacific Centre, at Granville and Georgia in Van- Couver. Several prominent Speakers are expected to attend. A major focus of the Coalition’s campaign is a post card, thousands of which have already been distributed, calling on the federal government to support specific Measures on disarmament at the Next issue Out Mar. 31 Tn order to provide our readers With live coverage of the March 30 Citizens’ Lobby For Jobs, the next iSsue of the Tribune will be printed On March 31. \ Normally, we print the day before our Friday publication date, t on that day next week we will with the Lobby. The issue will be dated Friday, as usual, but expect it a day late in the mail. UN Special Session on Disar- mament slated for May and June: of this year. Among those measures are: A comprehensive test ban treaty; a halt to further research, development and deployment of weapons of mass destruction; action to reduce stockpiles of all armaments; and the convening of a UN world disarmanent con- ference. Vancouver’s Disarmament Day will also coincide with various other actions across the country, spearheaded by local and national organizations. A Canadian Assembly on Disarmament has been acheduled for that weekend in Ottawa, called by the People’s Assembly on Canadian Foreign Policy. Delegates to the conference will be outlining actions for the May Special Session of the United Nations. B.C. Hydro. unions map new tactic in dispute The vice-president of the Amalgamated Transit Union said this week that the union was going to “regroup and come at B.C. Hydro from a number of different angles.’ Len Doyle, ATU first vice- president, said that ‘‘various ac- tions” would be taken but added that they would be aimed at “minimum inconvenience to the public and maximum = in- convenience to Hydro.” Doyle was outlining the ATU’s program for action following the return to work by Hydro bus drivers Sunday night. An ATU membership meeting Sunday voted 90 percent to cut short their week-long strike and return to their routes — without, however, yielding to Hydro. Instead the ATU will be coor- dinating its actions with the other Hydro unions — the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Office and Technical Workers — which are also in a contract dispute with the crown corporation, as well as with the B.C. Federation of Labor. “We're going to be going back to Hydro to press our demand for a contract,” Doyle stated, adding that the union would ‘“‘be sitting down and discussing joint strategy with the other Hydro unions.” The ATU representative also See ATU pg. 12 Attack by Israel called ‘genocide’ Israel’s action was denounced as an ‘act of genocide’ and the United Nations security council voted 12-0 to demand a withdrawal of Israeli troops this week as the world reacted to the massive air and land attack launched by Israel against Lebanon last Wednesday. The Egyptian foreign ministry accused Israel of launching an “organized attempt at_ the genocide” of the Palestinian people while Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, declared Thursday: ‘The aim of the Israeli invasion is the physical an- nihilation of the Palestinian people.” Some 25 to 30,000 troops were involved in the massive invasion which seized a 450-square-mile area of southern Lebanon and then began a major new thrust against Lebanese territory despite the UN resolution calling for withdrawal. UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim strongly condemned the Israeli invasion as a violation of the sovereignty of a UN member state, and as a massive military action which threatens the possibility for a Mid-East peace. The UN said that the Israeli action had destroyed several UN ob- server posts. In launching the attack, Israel used the pretext of the terrorist attack on Israeli citizens by a “suicide squad’”’ on March 11, but statements .by Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, coupled with the March 2 attack on a Palestinian camp — carried out by Israeli forces together with Lebanese fascists — indicated that an invasion of Lebanon had been contemplated for some months. The ferocity of Wednesday’s strike and the enormous number of forces involved clearly indicated that Israel intended an attack aimed at the virtual decimation of the Palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon. Israeli defence minister Ezer Weizman gave substance to that aim when he declared last week that Israel would stay in Lebanon “as long as necessary.” Continuing U.S. support has also been seen behind Israel’s stand in refusing to withdraw despite the UN demand. As other nations condemned the invasion, secretary of state Cyrus Vance said that it “was a decision they had to make themselves.”’ First ? INSIDE 2 v/ ra e UIC: As the jobless crisis deepens, the unemployed are finding it increasingly) difficult to claim benefits —| as this report shows, page 3. e JOBS PROGRAM: Com- munist Party leader Maurice Rush outlines a program that can put B.C. back to work, page 6. e THE DOLLAR: Canada’s battered dollar is the result of policies pursued by the Trudeau government as this analysis shows, page 7. i a bic e LAND CLAIMS: outlinin an approach to the vital issue of Native land claims, page 11.