A large quantity of arms and ammunition, manufactured mainly by the NATO countries, has been captured by the Ethiopians in the course of. war actions between Somalia and Ethiopia. All captured ammunition and arms were recently demonstrated to journalists in the city of Harara, the administrative centre of Harage province. U.S.-SOMALI PLOT EXPOSED © ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia has attacked a U.S.-Somali plot to seize the independent Republic of Djibouti. The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said the plan for annexation was approved in the Somali capital of Mogadishu during talks between Somali leaders and Richard Moose, U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs. NO RELEASE FOR HESS WEST BERLIN — Pyotr Abrasimov, ‘Soviet ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, has ruled out the release of Hitler’s former deputy, Rudolf Hess, from a West Berlin jail, saying it would amount to an amnesty for: fascism. Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Allied War Crimes Tribunal in 1946. 10th ANNIVERSARY OF DR. KING’S MURDER ~ MEMPHIS — April 4 was the tenth anniversary of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. As millions of Americans and democratic minded people throughout the world commemorate his brutal assassination at the hands of reactionary forces, the following quotation from Dr. King comes to mind; **The organized labor movement, which has contri- buted so much to the economic security and well-being of millions, must concentrate its powerful forces on bringing economic emancipa- tion to white and Negro by organizing them together in social equality.” BLACK PRESIDENT OF U.K. STUDENT BODY BLACKPOOL — Britain’s 700,000-member National Union of Stu- dents elected its first Black president at its annual meeting here, April 4. The new leader, Trevor Phillips, was born in London of Guyanese parents. Phillips promptly issued a warming to Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher, that Blacks are in the country to stay. U.S.-ISRAELI DIFFERENCES A SHAM : MOSCOW — Widely publicized ‘‘U.S.-Israeli differences’’ are largely fakery, for public consumption, the Soviet news agency TASS said. The news agency said: *‘It is an artificially whipped up campaign, with some ‘differences’ deliberately exaggerated; the main policy line has been co-ordinated between Washington and the Israeli © government.” One aim of the U.S.-Israeli propaganda is thought to be saving the position of reactionary Arab regimes in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. NAZIS ORDERED TO VACATE DETROIT — “‘Almost every organization in Michigan is against us, we don’t stand a chance,”’ lamented Bill Russell, head of the Detroit Nazis, minutes before .a judge ordered the Nazi Party to vacate its Southwest Detoit premises. The Nazi defeat was attributed to a broad militant opposition to them spearheaded by organized labor. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—April-15, 1978—Page 8 Without contract since August ’77 Alberta airline workers strike Special to the Tribune _ EDMONTON — Pacific West- ern Airlines (PWA), owned by the Government of Alberta sent its ground support personnel home from Edmonton’s munici- pal and international airports, March 26, while the Canadian Air Lines Employees Association (CALEA) stepped up its rotating strike action affecting 12 western Canadian airports. CALEA has been in a legal strike position since Feb. 28. Though PWA management has not directly said it will lock out its employees, it has already sent its Edmonton workers home for one day amidst threats it will not tol- erate the rotating strike which CALEA has. been conducting since March 21. The workers haven’t had a con- tract since August 31, 1977. Negotiations broke down for a two-year contract that, if won, would bring PWA workers to wage parity with other airline employees such as Air Canada and CP Air who now earn about $150. a month more. CALEA says it will accept the 6% allow- able wage hike under the wage- cutting AIB provided that once - controls are lifted the workers will be guaranteed the remaining dif- ference in the agreement. Negotiations began last June, and in the current phase have been conducted under a concilia- tion officer appointed by the Canada Labor Relations Board. Management refuses to discuss wage parity or two-year contract, and is pushing to include pro- visions in the agreement to permit contracting out of work with no guarantees that union workers won’t be laid off. The airline which operates out of 50 centres in Alberta, British Columbia, thé Northwest Territories, and thé Canadian arctic is determined no! to. tolerate this legal strike by CALEA members. CALEA represents 550 PWA employees who. handle baggag® ramp services and perform othe! ground crew jobs with the airline European workers hit the bricks for jobs — Angered over growing unem- ployment, millions of workers in Western Europe walked off the job, rallied in plants and staged mass demonstrations in the streets in an international protest staged April 5, and called Euro- pean Workers’ Action Day. An estimated 15 million work- ers staged actions in Spain, Italy, Belgium and Greece. Union lead- ers said the protest was not aimed at crippling the region but warned of further actions unless people are put back to work. At least 31 trade unions representing 40 mill- ion workers in 18 countries were involved in Action Day. The Action Day, called to coin- cide with a summit meeting of the European Common Market cout tries held in Copenhagen, placed the blame for the seven milliot unemployed in the regiom squarely on the shoulders of gov ernment and big business. In Italy more than 10 millio! industrial and agricultural work ers struck for four hours to protes! both unemployment and thé terrorist kidnapping of forme! premier Aldo Moro. . : Unemployment figures for th region are deceptive as they not include’ millions of migrasl workers who in times of crisis 2. simply told to pack up and 9° home. ~ One million spent to catch — the 6,865 who ‘cheat’ UIC _ REGINA — In a statement March 29, the Saskatchewan Federation of Labor (SFL) urged the federal government to follow up on ifs recent decision to drop, in certain areas, the mandatory job search requirement as a pre- requisite for receiving benefits, by restoring UIC benefits to at least the level they were before last fall’s ruthless cutbacks. The SFL also called on the government to drop its ‘‘deplorable advertising campaign which depicts jobless workers as cheaters and crooks.” The government’s recent move the federation said, was ‘‘a recog- nition, however belated, of the obvious fact that in many regions of Canada, there are simply no jobs to look for.” The SFL also pointed out that the government decision under- lined what labor has consistently maintained throughout the cur- rent crisis, that job creation and not the tightening up of unemployment insurance regula- tions making benefits collection tougher, ought to be the govern- ment’s number one priority. The labor centre pointed out that less than one-twentieth of ‘money on an advertising cal one per cent, or 6,865 out of 2,806,000 UIC claims received! 1977 resulted in prosecutions for irregularities, according to the government’s own figures. “Surely the spending of $1,000;000 of the taxpayer paign aimed at such a minority ® an absurdity”, the SFE said ‘The plausible alternative to tht problem of paying out millions © dollars in unemployment insU™ ance benefits is to introdu@ policies that will put Canadia™’ — back to work and get ov! economy back on the rails.” — | . Why i | hy is a I Ca ULI. giving | us the | shaft. | We're unemployed: j Things are bad enough. | So why is U.I. blowing a | million dollars in papers showing us as cheats? And on T.V. showing us as Philadelphia Flyers? <€ Is it because they want to With their millions in tax ~ : get the rules across? concessions and billions in We think that’s |! They could have stuck a profits. intimidation. What to do | notice in our checks and That's what we think ULI. 7 | saved a lot of money. is up to. And about the longest about ul. | you'll get benefits for if The Canadian Labour | Or do they have another For instance the agency you're under 25 or a movement is fighting motive? that does those ads is married woman is 3 back. : [: Vickers-Benson. One Local labour councils | We think they do. They're the Liberals That's discrimination! are setting up offices to | We think they want to agency. : help you get your rights, | shift blame for the job That's curious! And what happens when ——_your U.I. benefits crisis to us. And the Liberals have pal ar bs cute Give them a call iene unemployers just introduced a bill t Pee cheap eeau | ike Inco, G.E., Massey- register all employees ‘t Ferguson, G.M., prevent abiseerUL Pp That’s why ULI. is giving A JOBIS A RIGHT | Faiconbridge, etc. benefits.” us the shaft. FOR ALL ot ae