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With still no answers from the Mul- roney government on the shipbuild- ing crisis in this province, more than 200 members of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers’ Union, most of them unemployed, took their protest Feb. 21 to Vancouver's new World Trade Centre at Canada Harbor Place where federal Minister of Regional Industrial Development Sinclair Stevens was scheduled to meet with provincial government officials. The | union has been seeking a meeting with federal cabinet ministers to dis- | cuss the loss of jobs in the industry and to press for swift action on the Tories’ pre-election promise to enact measures that would make ship- building a priority industry. Demon- strators, who were joined by other unionists also sought a meeting with Stevens Friday but were unsuccess- Al ful. “’This isn’t the end of it,’’ pledged Marine Workers Union president John Fitzpatrick. ‘““We want some answers and we want some action — and we're going to hound every cabinet minister that comes to town until we get them.”

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If the Tory government in Ottawa is following the plan laid out in a confidential cabinet document drawn up last May, the federal-provincial conference of communications ministers in Montreal next weekend is intended as one more step in a carefully-worked out strategy aimed at de-regulating this country’s telecommunications system and allowing more companies into the lucrative long distance market.

According to that same document, the biggest fear of the government is that a “common front” of

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The meeting unanimously endorsed a letter to federal Communications Minister Mar-

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