UFAWU MEETINGS
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WELCOME BACK Vancouver Labor Council secretary C. P. (Paddy) Neale (speaking into mike), former Electrical Workers' business agent Art O'Keeffe (centre, facing camera) and Marine Workers' president Jeff Power (right) meet the press after Neale and O'Keeffe were released from jail December 22. O'Keeffe, ousted by his International, is now back at work as a lineman — and Neale is back in jail.
'Bugging' Issue
Union Protest Well Taken, MLA Agrees
Replies have been received by the UFAWU to a letter sent last month by secretary Homer Stevens to all MLAs protesting the decision by Judge R. A. Sargent to make public tape recordings obtained by the "bugging" of the Pulp and Paper Workers Union of Canada's convention in a downtown Vancouver hotel.
"The points you make . . . are well taken and I would advise you that I will be supporting the proposals that you have enunciated in your letter during the next session of the legislature," stated Bob Williams, New Democratic Party MLA for Vancouver East.
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Williston expressed his belief that Judge Sargent would work to achieve a fair finding and evaded the points raised in Stevens' letter.
Williston's opinion was not shared by Chief Justice J. O. Wilson who, a few days later, ruled the inquiry was improperly constituted and had no authority to play the tapes.
At the present time a suit has been launched by the Pulp and Paper Workers Union to gain possession of the tapes.
Soviets To Fish Mexican Waters
Grounds off the coast of Baja California in Mexico are to be fished for bluefin tuna, anchovy, sardine and mackerel by two large Soviet stern factory trawlers, the Arkovo and Skryplev, which sailed from Soviet ports in mid-November. Three other vessels are expected to follow from Soviet far eastern ports.
During the winter of 1965-1966, Soviet exploratory fishing vessels were reported to have operated in the area and reported favorably on the prospects for commercial fishing of those species.
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a stoppage for reasons having nothing to do with the stoppage and yet be denied benefit. For this reason, he states, the Union must reserve the right "to press for specified consideration of this problem if future experience warrants a further amendment."
The Union's proposed amendment takes into account the fact that men engaged in a particular fishery in the four weeks preceding a stoppage would in all likelihood have continued in that section of the industry had a stoppage not occurred. Possibility of a twe week agreed vacation period preceding a work stoppage is also taken into account, "as this has happened on more than one occasion in the herring fishery."
Under the amendment a fisherman who was, at the time of a work stoppage and for six weeks after, engaged in some type of fishing other than that where the stoppage occurred, or in some occupation outside the fishing industry, would not be subject to disqualification.
"We submit that a change to a different type of fishing is essentially no different than a change to a different occupation," the Union states. "Herring seining is as different from halibut long-lining as carpentry work is from electrical work . . . (and) the Commission does not disqualify the electricians when carpenters are on strike or vice versa."
SECOND AMENDMENT
A further amendment to cover the possibility of a labor dispute preventing the opening of a particular fishing season is also part of the Union's submission.
This amendment would provide that where a labor dispute causes the opening of a fishing season to be put off, any fisherman engaged in that particular fishery during any of the four weeks immediately preceding the previous season's closing date would be subject to disqualification unless at the time fishing would normally have begun and either during the two weeks preceding the stoppage or during the six weeks following the stoppage, he was working regularly in some other type of fishing or in another occupation.
Finally, the Union proposes an amendment which would cover the right to unemployment insurance of a fisherman disqualified on the grounds of previous employment in a section of the industry closed down by a labor dispute, provided that he is able to prove that he lost employment in that particular fishery for reasons other than the dispute, or that he has made definite arrangements for employment in another fishery or occupation prior to the work stoppage commencing.
This amendment, Stevens points out, would cover the situation where a man is informed at the end of a fishing season that his services are not required for the coming   season   and   who then
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Without the protection of this particular amendment a man might find himself in the position where, having lined up a job in some other fishery or occupation but not yet being regularly employed in his new place of work, a strike or lockout occurs in that fishery where he is no longer working and he is automatically disqualified from benefit. RIGHT OF APPEAL
"We believe it is only fair that the right of appeal as envisaged in the above amendment should be available to the individual. In all other industries no person is disqualified unless, at the time a work stoppage occurred, he was engaged in the employment where the stoppage actually took place (and) the fact that he was employed in that job last week or last year or that he may be planning to return to that employment is of no consequence," Stevens concludes.
"We are hopeful that the amendments we have submitted will be promulgated as quickly as possible and further, that the individuals who were wrongly disqualified due to the mistaken principles contained in the existing regulation 210 will be reinstated in benefit as soon as possible after the amendments are made."
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task of bringing pressure on Ottawa for a more decisive Canadian policy," the report says.
Increasing support for an all-inclusive North Pacific fisheries treaty and a weakening of arguments against inclusion of the Soviet Union following the appearance of its fleets offshore from the Queen Charlottes to California, is noted in the report.
"The only questions raised now by the minister and deputy minister are whether the American and Japanese governments are willing, whether the time is ripe and how anxious are the Soviets to agree to a treaty. It is perfectly obvious that research, not to mention conservation policy, is fruitless without including the catches as well as the research "onducted by such a large scale fishery," the report comments.
Noting that proposals of organised fishermen for licence limitation have been largely ignored, the report foresees further efforts by the federal department of fisheries to foist an undesirable program on the fishermen or pursue a deliberate do-nothing policy and states that the Union "must be prepared to fight for a positive program, at the same time opposing either delay or a boat licence system which could damage or destroy our members' rights."
Included among the many other important questions before delegates are the issues of the 12 mile limit, development of offshore fisheries, organisation, negotiations, and labor's fight against injunctions.
Australia Ups Tuna Catches
Australia's tuna catch for 1966 amounted to 9,164 short tons, most of which was destined for export to the US. South Australia provided the bulk of the catch with 6 688 tons, more than 600 tons above the previous record catch in 1964.
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SIDNEY LOCAL Monday, January 9
7:30 p.m. K.O.P. HALL Sidney
• Report of general executive council
• Regular business
• Special business
VICTORIA FISHERMEN'S LOCAL Tuesday, January 10
7:30 p.m. WILLIAMS BUILDING 749 Broughton Street Victoria
• Report of general executive council
• Regular business
• Special business
GULF ISLANDS LOCAL Wednesday, January 11
8 p.m.
SCOUT HALL Chemainus
• Report of general executive council
• Regular business
• Special business
ANNUAL MEETING
STEVESTON FISHERMEN'S LOCAL
Wednesday, January 11
7:30 p.m.
STEVESTON COMMUNITY CENTRE
• Election of officers
• Auditors' report
• Discussion of fine system
• Halibut Layup Conference
NANAIMO LOCAL Thursday, January 12
7:30 p.m.
OCCIDENTAL HALL Nanaimo
• Report of general executive council
• Regular business
• Special business
TENDERMEN'S MEETING
Wednesday, January 18
7:30 p.m.
FISHERMEN'S HALL 133 East Cordova Street
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• Election of negotiating committee
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NEW WESTMINSTER
LOCAL Monday, January 16
7:30 p.m. ILWU HALL
• Election of officers
• Report of general executive council
VICTORIA SHOREWORKERS LOCAL
Monday, January 16
8 p.m.
UNION CENTRE 2750 Quadra Street
• Report of general executive council
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PRINCE RUPERT SHOREWORKERS LOCAL
Thursday, January 19
8 p.m. ISLANDER HALL
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• Report of general executive council
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