Gillnetter Loses Life
Funeral services were held in Victoria on September 28 for Jaakko Lauri Koski, Victoria gillnetter who died suddenly on September 23 at the age of 60 years.
For many years before he moved to Victoria, Lauri Koski fished out of Sointula, where he established his home after emigrating from his native Finland. His last boat was the Dipper, with which he fished for Francis Millerd and Company.
A staunch unionist, Lauri Koski was a member of the IWA during the years he worked in logging camps, transferring to the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union in 1946.
He leaves his wife, Alii; one son, Paul, and one daughter, Mrs. D. Haddock, in Victoria; one brother, Edwin, in Finland, and two sisters, Mrs. J. Tarkanen in Sointula and Mrs. Lyydia Filand-er in Finland.
Funeral services from Chaplin's Funeral Home September 23 were conducted by Rev. L. M. Carlson, followed by interment in Royal Oak Burial Park.
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UFAWU Names Observer To World Union Parley
General executive board of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union was meeting this Friday and, as one of the items on the agenda, was scheduled to act on a recommendation from its president, business agent, and available vice presidents that the Union accept an invitation to send an observer to this month's convention of the World Federation of Trade Unions.
The recommendation was made after the Union unexpectedly received a return ticket to the sixth annual WFTU convention slated for October 8 to 22 in Warsaw, Poland.
And it further proposed that expenses, chiefly meals and lodging, should be raised by appealing to locals or by individual collection.
The amount involved, however, is not expected to be large be-
cause the main item of cost — air fare — is being supplied.
In a further recommendation, the officers proposed that business agent Jack Nichol represent the Union, since it was felt that a top officer should act for the Union at this conference.
The World Federation of Trade Unions has an affiliated membership of more than 120 million workers out of the more than 205 million organised throughout the world.
In addition to representation from its 120 million members in affiliates, WFTU general secretary Louis Saillant has set a target of representation from an additional 30 million unionists at the Warsaw convention, most of them, as will be the case with the UFAWU, by observers.
The invitation to the United Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union was originally received last February and considered by a meeting of the Union's general executive board March 30.
The board expressed regret over its inability to send a representative because of its financial problems but asked WFTU secretary Luis Padilla to keep it informed of developments and to keep the invitation open for future conferences.
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This was communicated to the WFTU on April 21 and on June 19, secretary Padilla wrote stating that consideration would be given to organisations invited to attend which had indicated financial or other difficulties.
"The WFTU has followed through the pages of your fine and informative organ The Fisherman the activities, struggles, and achievements of your organ-
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isation on behalf of your membership," Padilla stated. "We do indeed appreciate this record of militant trade unionism and your friendly sentiments toward the work of the WFTU on behalf of the world trade union movement."
He concluded by extending "warmest brotherly greetings . . . to your officers and members."
This was followed on July 20 by a letter enclosing conference agenda items.
All this latest correspondence was read to the board at its meeting August 20 and turned over to The Fisherman for publication.
But on September 20, Air Canada called to report that funds had been deposited by the WFTU for a round trip fare to Warsaw for one person from the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union.
It was in view of the need for immediate action if the invitation were to be acted on that the officers met and drew up their recommendations which were circulated September 23 to all members of the general executive board.
In a letter to board members on behalf of the officers, UFAWU president Steve Stavenes pointed out that the WFTU was a world wide organisation "and the opportunity to attend such a congress of working people from all over the world is something of which we should take advantage."
Motorbike Crash Kills Fishworker
Workers at BC Packers' Imperial plant were saddened last week by the death of Nelson Edward Carefoot, 26 year old fresh fish worker, who succumbed to head and internal injuries received in a motorcycle accident.
Carefoot was riding a rented motorcycle on September 20 when it went out of control, striking a mailbox on Finn Road, Richmond. He died in Vancouver General Hospital two days later.
A popular worker at Imperial plant, he had been employed there as a cannery and fresh fish and cold storage worker since 1958, taking an active part in the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, of whose Steve-ston Shoreworkers Local he was a member.
He is survived by his wife, Mavis, and young daughter, Judy, Richmond; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Carefoot, Vancouver; two brothers, Arthur and Foster; and four sisters, Blanche, Melvina, Ernestine and Jean.
Funeral services conducted by Rev. J. Patrick were held September 25 from Richmond Funeral Home, followed by interment in Veterans' Memorial Park.
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