THE HERALD, Thursday, September 7, 1978 PAGE 3 tet statetitetettetataBabetatetatebatateta! “RSE RRO RRPERERSEE REE UCUSSSHERSISISSESESS ESSE SPORES OBEROI ESOS PPIRIRSR SSOSOOIOOSE ROURARISENSES SSS | | ° oo — gag Unemployed Walk Hill for Jobs hewan full employment committees Em- of the Brampton and District ployment, the Halifax Coali- Labor Council and the London The students may be back at school but as long as the sun shines some people will take advantage of the pleasant weather to sit beneath the trees and do.a little studying of their own. Pictures above is Gonzalo Merino who is participating in the youth exchange program between Canada and El Salvador. Mr. Merino has been in Terrace for five weeks and will return to his home in El Salvador early in October. When this picture was taken he was studying a book on English which he speaks ‘fairly well considering he did not know any English at all when he arrived in Terrace. Standard Blocks x Non Standard Blocks xVarious Odds & Ends 4! Work in rogressing well on the new drainage pleted and reopen to vehicular traffic within a couple of days. eq jobrereationg 402 <7 :.°> Mie” Oftdwa'Coalititn’ fr «Fireplace Acce OTTAWA (CP) — A group of workers, small in number but loud in voice, marched outside the unemployment insurance headquarters Wednesday to protest government proposals to reduce jobless benefits. About 30 demonstrators, most of them out of work, paraded through a downiown noon-hour crowd chanting: “Full employment is a right.” If the federal government cannot introduce policies that increase employment, op- portunities, ‘‘we demand that they provide universally accessible unemployment insurance to the 1,500,000 Canadians who are being denied the democratic right to a job,” said protest organizer Jane Stinson. A statement read by Ms. Stinson and endorsed by 10 unemployment committees across Canada blamed Liberal policies for a unem- ployment rate that Statistics Canada listed as 8.4 per cent of the work force in July. “Canadians do want to nounced proposals to reduce the number of unemployment insurance claimants by about ' 10 per cent and to increase returning to the work force million benefit claims that would normally be filed by the 1980-81 fiscal year. The changes would result in savings of $580 million in the 1979-80 fiscal year and that CALLS THEM DEVIOUS ° Full Employment, set up to help the “unemployed, discussed the government's committees across Canada and then issued a statement calling the : proposals as “a clever and 4 devious political ploy designed to shift public attention away E from the Liberai's inability to 7 create employment." Steve Jelly, an unemployed ® organizer of the Ottawa Coali- S tion for Full Employment, said at a news conference the wfrd Proposed cuts in unem- ; + ployment insurance will mean 7; increased # welfare. numbers on “There aren't jobs. Where M else would they go?" Ms. Stinson said for the first time since the depression of the 1930s, committees representing the unemployed “ are attempting to co-ordinate -. their campaigns for full- . employment. 4 Sat the demonstration, she i read telegrams of support * from unemployment com- GLEARAR Sopt. 1 8:30 - 4 pan, Sopt. 8 8:30 - 4 pm, Sept 99-3 pum. 1 proposed unemployment 4 insurance cuts with other . unemployment mittees in St. John's, Nild., ployment, the Saskate: Kingston, Ont., and. Van- Coalition couver. for Full The slatement issucd by the tion for Full Employment, the and District Labor Council Ottawa group was endorsed Kingston Com NewfoundJand Unemployed, by the Associalion for Full Em- Union of the Unemployed, the New Strategy Needed The NDP leader also called Canadian dollar in export Leader Ed Broadbent said onthe Trudeau government to markets, he said. HAMILTON (CP) — NDP Wednesday the Liberals and develop better trading assaci- Progressive Conservatives ations with the other in mittee of the and the Greater Vancouver the Hamilton Union of the Unemployed. Broadbent later met with leaders of the local trade are advocating identical fiscal dustrialized countries to help union movernentin an effort to policies thal are dangerous to domestic manufacturers shore up support for the NDP the country's economy. troubled compete in the world market. in the election campaign. The government has not taken Today he travels to Welland, y Broadbent told a business- advantage of the competitive Ont., for a round of appear- men's luncheon it is essential position o| for gevernment to work with the private sector to help fight inflationary pressures and soaring levels of unem- ployment. Instead, the Liberal govern- ment now is implementing Conservative policies af pulling back from investments in the private sector at a time the economy alongside the private sector. “Therefore it is dangerous to now suggest that govern- mixed economy but we also and Conservatives,’’ Broadbent said. ‘These policies didn't work during the Depression and they won't work now.”' Broadbent sought support money would bespent towards for fig party's short-term . Red pnoinis. progams,‘dimed at: » ekeating .400,-000 new jobs, ins the next two years, The package calls for a cut in the manufacturers’ sales. tax, a tax credit for Canadians earning less than §20,000 a year and a capital works program in essential com- munity projects such a5 housing, rail and public transit systems. “The net effect would in- crease the federal deficit in. the short term, but it would also give th economy the kick it needs, he said. NEED NEW STRATEGY Broadbent pointed to healthy economies under socialdemocratic government in Saskatchewan and Western Europe, saying a new in- dustrial strategy is needed in Canada. The continuing slump in the Canadian dollar is a signal from the international com- munity that the government’s recent spate of economic in- itiatives are ‘not being well-re- ceived, he said. “What we need now is an ef- fective government to work with the private sector.” f the weakened ances before returning to Ot- tawa in the evening. OTTAWA UPDATE by Tona Campagnolo Construction of the Pallant Creek Chum Salmon Hatchery on the Queen Chartotte Islands add 100,000 adult chum salmon to the north coast fishery. The FBDB gives finan- ty Wey Al *Bag Mixes - Concrete — Mortar — Topping *Various Precast items for Patios ssories Easy set — heat forms Construction Supplies ss#1= Environment Minister Len Marchand, include three worth $89,500 to. B.C. universities. - system being installed from the revitalized work,” she said, "Un- atime WORK UNDERWAY Davis Street down Sparks Street north of Park fortunately it is the Liberal when such stimulation is is mow underway. The Avenue. Unfortunately traffic is currently government that is not "Cucomore uy oo hatchery, which will cost Three Skeena_com- ON DRAINAGE having to det the obstructi working.” He said the most prosperous close to $400,000is part of panies, Dal Monte's " ving to detour around the obstructions, Last’ week. E .. period in history occurred the Salmonid Enhan- Woodcraft (Kitimat) SYSTEM however city works superintendent Len Minister BL 4 mployment from the mid1930s to 1973 cement Program and Broadwater Welding and Needham reports the work should be com- n an- whengovernmentsmovedinto when completed should Fabricating (Prince Rupert) and J & D Rewind (Smithers), have received a total of $37,742 in interest-free, _ Spending on job creation. i on WILL LOOK HARDER’ ments should extricate In the fiscal yearended forgiveable loans from He said the unemployed “However, he stressed that March 31, 1978, the the Assistance to Small would be encouraged.to look an NDP government would Federal Business Enterprise _ Program harder for jobs if the govern- fot dominate the domestic Development Bank ap- (ASEP(. ASEP is a ment made it more, difficult economy. proved 9,903 loans for a component of the federal- or new entrants and persons “We believe very much ina total amount of $479,324. provincial economic development agreement q wot XB Paes may : eS PS SE ate ate break to qualify believe | in ery 1Strone cing as wel as coun: for . A 24-year-old demonstrator, | UMPS POLICIES bt ing tosma wig at dj who asked not to be named, Broadbent has lumped to- Mi aoa deere Tho ie 1 Said everylime he applies for gether the economic policies Mayor George th vom, isa As part of the federal ai a new job “there are at least of Prime Minister Trudeau ‘©. government's emphasis 4 25 guys ona listaheadoime.” nq Conservative Leader Joc Hegional Board of on developing alternate UY He said he was laid off as a sag bi Directors of the FBDB. a bartender t 4 Clark during his current four- sources of energy, $40 _ ‘ Officials from * Gatlen’s day swing through southern Canadian universities million will be made eo department said the proposed Ontario. Party strategists are ha ved $ million i available during the next i pa ' ia P hoping to increase NDP ave receive $millionin six years for research a nee Oye insurance strength in the region in the grants from the federal and demonstration of i i ange* whic “tak ae r€ forthcoming federal election, government for water- innovative techniques fl eB then Me heut os 000" “Wehear acommon refrain related. environmental such as the conversion of 4 wou re ene ju iy 2 of restraints, cutbacks and research. The ,grants, biomass to liquid fuels 4 of the approximately 2.5 -oibacks from the Liberals whichwereannouncedby and chemicals. 4