esl x egos x SES . sit aes \ 5 aS ; Dy j FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1971 APRIL JOBLESS 72,000 IN B.C. the mess after an oil spill along the U.S. danger if Alaska oil is hauled by hrough Canada which would give the U.S. art of a national plished on page 3. a af Hie Co THE MEss. Young people are shown cleaning up Ast E tank. ao cotly. The whole B.C. coast would be exposed to this “Ont, Ss ° carte 2 ver ¢ Wn B.C. coast. The answer is not a U.S. pipeline t Sy Policy ieee’ energy resources. A publicly-owned Canadian pipeline as S the only answer, says the Communist Party of Canada in a statement pu Nova Scotia union head deal was made in a hotel in Halifax on March 7 between the union and A.L. Cadegan, general manager of Acadia Fisheries Limited.’ : Bell charged that ‘‘Mr. Cadegan determined the union for the fishermen in this province . . = ik Secr th Qderay:. -ary-treasurer of the Nova fe the Se of Labor, charged last week lish: des not ‘an Food and Allied Workers bepy, men’ f represent a majority in the Canso ‘Gy en CR SPute and that ‘‘a deal” was made UNEMPLOYMENT UP bt IN ONE YEAR Latest jobless figures released in Ottawa showed a sharp rise in unemployment in April with B.C. among the hardest hit. The figures for April, 1971 showed that there were 14,000 more without work than last April — which is a jump of 25 percent. In April last year the official jobless total stood at 58,000 in B.C. The latest figures give 72,000 as the number of jobless in B.C. this April. According to this 8.1 percent of the province’s working people were without jobs. The national total in April was 659,000 or 7.8 percent. The release of the figures for April by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics has aroused a national storm of protest. April was considered as a month in which the unemployment lists begin a / seasonal decline. But the opposite is the case this April. The only comment Finance Minister Benson could make in Parliament, when confronted with the new figures, was that “Tt’s very bothersome.’ The Federal government continues to refuse to take action to launch large scale works programs, but is determined to maintain its policy of mass unemployment “to fight inflation.” The sharp rise in B.C. jobless in April also makes a hollow mockery of Premier W.A.C. Bennett’s promise made during the last session of the Legisla- ture that the provincial government will provide 25,000 new jobs in B.C. The opposite is the trend. At the time of writing layoffs are continuing in B.C. in many industries. Only this week the Marine Workers and Boiler- makers Union wired the Federal government and leaders of politi- cal parties in Ottawa demanding: immediate action for the construction of a new drydock in Vancouver. The wire poirts out that only 250 are now employed at Burrard Drydock where the normal capacity work force is 1,500, and that the company has advised the union that further layoffs are pending. The April figures for B.C. do not include the thousands of students who are expected to hit the labor market in the next few weeks as universities and high schools close for the summer. The plight of the country’s jobless is made more difficult with rapidly rising prices which Strike at the jobless as well as those fortunate enough to have. jobs. According to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics prices as See JOBLESS, pg. 12 The VANCOUVER SUN: Thurs, Apr. 8, 1971 tes 21 CANADIAN DIVIDENDS — SET PAYMENT RECORD Retvtel as Officials and company heads ang Spoke att tye mouth Premign Which labor's” Gerald Ree licatig, “lations ‘ay 12 meeting of the Halifax istrict Trades and Labor Ssed a motion calling on ay to instruct the provincial Ali Uli Td to reconsider its certi- (y In $ The Voters trite” United Fishermen and Sunci} ‘ Von 0 oto in effect called for over- delepe the Cpe? Tuling of the board which to des ell ref U. In his address to the heag “Bates 4 futed earlier statements made The the labor a Bury of the CFAWU. The Fa Tation said: es not have a majority, The ’ If the CFAWU were to show the names of the fishermen who made up the majority vote there would be no fishermen’s dispute.”’ He said the labor relations board should have the authority to investigate what union the workers want. Earlier, Bury refused to release the names of the 57 workers he claimed the CFAWU had signed up as a majority in the two plants of the Acadian Fisheries Limited. Meanwhile, this week Homer Stevens, presi- dent of the UFAWU, addressed an open letter to delegates attending the Montreal conference of the CFAWU, outlining his union's position and charging union leaders with ‘‘falsehoods.”” He urged the delegates to demand the truth from their officers. _ TORONTO:(CP) — Dividends paid by Canadiar companies so far this ‘year’ haye pera 4 re pedi ond ue hie ee writ . of Toronto says the fig- higher than in 1969. ve 1910. afd 18 per stent” NEW RECORD SET. Unemployment and living costs are not the only things setting new high records these days, as the above clipping from the Vancouver Sun shows. Dividend payments set a new record for the first three months of 1971 totalling $530,741,330. This, according to the above item, is 16 percent higher than 1969 and five percent above the same period in 1970.