Fish Sale
Charges
Dropped
Following two successful appeals, Vancouver city prosecutor's office has withdrawn charges of exposing fish for sale in the open air against United Fishermen and Allied Workers' secretary Homer Stevens and seven other members of the Union and its Women's Auxiliaries.
The charges arose out of fish sales for strike relief held at False Creek Fishermen's Terminal on July 24 and 26 last year during the fishermen's strike.
In Vancouver County Court on May 27, Mr. Justice L. A. Hanna upset Vancouver Magistrate Douglas Hume's conviction of Stanley Karchaba on two counts of exposing fish for sale in the open air.
Mr. Justice Hanna, allowing Karchaba's appeal, said he could not agree that the fish were exposed for sale in the open air for public view and purchase since they were packed in ice until they were actually required and then transferred to plastic bags.
In New Westminster County Court on September 18, Mr. Justice G. W. Bruce Fraser concurred in Mr. Justice Hanna's decision when he allowed the appeal entered by Harold Wilcox against his conviction by Burnaby Magistrate C. Murray Hyde on a similar count.
Those charged in the proceedings now withdrawn by Vancouver city prosecutor's office were: Croft Faircrest, Mrs. Carrie Ironside, Mrs. Helen Pitkanen, J. Aura, Kotari Hayashi, Mrs. Helen Wishinski, Eli Amanovich and Homer Stevens.
Stevens, however, still faces one additional charge of operating a retail business without a licence. Disposition of this awaits the outcome of Karchaba's further appeal against his conviction on a similar charge.
Karchaba was convicted on this charge by Magistrate Douglas Hume and the conviction was upheld by Mr. Justice Hanna. The decision is now being taken to BC Court of Appeal.
Derogatory Racist Trash Peddled in Yukon Store
Dissemination of what purports to be a membership card in "Squawmen's Union No. 1, comprising the District of White-horse, Champagne and Carcross, Yukon," has roused the ire of Frank Howard, New Democratic MP for Skeena.
Howard has sent The Fisherman one of the cards, which he obtained from The Kee Bird, a Whitehorse drug, curio and souvenir store, during his recent tour.
Derogatory motto of the socalled "noble order" is "Sitkum dollar hyas kloshe," meaning "half dollar very good," followed by the admonition, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's klootch. Brothers' are warned not to overwork the privileges hereby extended."
In an accompanying letter, Howard says:
"The owner or manager of the store, a Mr. Jack Needham, was not there, but I voiced my objection to his store carrying such a piece of denigrating material to two of the employees.
"I returned to the store some few days later, again to find that Mr. Needham was out and also that the cards were still being sold.
"It is my opinion that the printing and dissemination of such material is disgusting and leaves me with a bad taste and a feeling of regret that such things exist."
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ICELAND HERRING
nine percent for Canadian exchange. More accurately, to correspond to the present exchange rate, this should have been eight percent.
PRICE UNDERSTATED
The effect of the error in presenting this as the metric ton price was to understate rather than exaggerate the actual price.
Adjusted to provide for an eight percent exchange rate, the new Icelandic prices per short ton in Canadian funds are: herring for freezing, salting and filleting, $38.66; iced herring for export or canning, $35.21; reduction herring, $23.11; herring for animal feed, $28.51.
On the same basis, prices per metric ton are: herring for freezing, salting and filleting, $42.63; iced herring for export or canning, $38.82; reduction herring, $25.48; herring for animal feed, $31.43.
Facts on Fish posed two questions, whether the price for reduction herring were a delivered price and whether Icelandic fishermen had a share agreement similar to that of the UFAWU.
The Fisherman's report stated that the price was for reduction herring delivered directly to the plants, for which vessel owners received a small addi-
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The larger question of a share agreement is bound up with prevailing wage rates and living costs in Iceland.
NO INFORMATION
In an effort to obtain further information, The Fisherman phoned Charles Reardon, Market News Service reporter, in Seattle this week.
Reardon said he had published the report received from the US embassy at Reykjavik in full.
"It's the most comprehensive report on Icelandic herring prices we've ever received," he said. "It gave the increases in ex-vessel prices for herring for salting and filleting and the decrease in the price for herring for freezing, but there was nothing about comparable reduction herring prices."
(The 1963 price for herring for salting was 1.50 US cents per pound and for herring for filleting 1.18 US cents per pound. Herring for freezing was 1.94 US cents per pound. These prices compare with the uniform 1964 price of 1.79 US cents per pound.)
Reardon added that the Market News Service had not received any reports on Icelandic herring share agreements at any time and he had no information on present share arrangements.
Facts on Fish, by compounding The Fisherman's own error, produced an inaccurate figure of $11.34 per short ton, assuming that Icelandic fishermen have a share agreement similar to that of BC herring fishermen.
The correct figure, on this same assumption, should be $13 per short ton. But there is no available information to justify this assumption or, even if it were correct, to make an accurate comparison of Icelandic and BC wages and living costs.
Union Wins $600 For Tendermen
Two tendermen, paid off at Alert Bay although their contract designated any place within easy access of Vancouver as their home port, have won $600 in wage and other claims in grievance proceedings.
Their grievance, successfully taken up with Anglo-BC Packing Company by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, was that the Company ignored the home port condition in their contract.
Both men reside in the Van-couver-Fraser Valley area and any place within easy access was to be considered as their home port when they were hired by the Company to pack fish in the Alert Bay area. Instead, the Company paid them off at Alert Bay as though that were their home port.
The difference in earnings for the captain was $277.20 in wages, $40.50 in board and $12.71 in vacation pay for a total of $330.41, and for the cook - deckhand, $217.98 in wages, $40.50 in board and $10.34 in vacation pay for a total of $268.82.
The Union reported this week that the Company had conceded this claim. A further claim for an additional two days' pay, dependent upon the date of the men's return to Vancouver, remains in dispute.
Japanese Top Meal Target
Fish meal production from the four Japanese factory ships operated in the eastern Bering Sea this year totalled 49,430 metric tons, topping the quota by 4,000 tons.
Eighty percent of the raw material used was reported to be Alaska pollock.
"In winning this grievance, the Union wishes to draw the attention of all tendermen to the need for checking into conditions of this kind," the Union's report stated.
"It could be that other tender-men are being underpaid by virtue of the fact that this and other companies in the industry are ignoring or attempting to ignore the home port condition.
"The Union has fought hard to establish a home port condition in the contract and every effort should be made to uphold it."
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Large red _______..____________ lb. 82c
Jacks........._______......._..........        lb. 30c
Large white____________........... lb. 50c
Small white........................ lb. 25c
OTHER SPECIES
Sole _..............■, . , ....._______ lb. 6-9c
Grey cod _______________________ lb. 4%-7c
Ling cod ...............________ lb. 10-12c
Red and rock cod _______        lb. 4-1 Oc
Mink feed ....._______lb. 2'/z-3c
Black cod (large) _________ lb. 25c
Black cod (small) .....____ lb. 18c
Flounders _______________________ lb. 4c
Skate____.....____________ lb. 5c
Shrimp (meat) ......_______ lb. $1.25
Shrimp (shell) _______        lb. 13'/2-15c
Crab (shell) ...... doz. $2.50-$5.00
Crab (meat) _____________ lb. $1.30
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Sole ______________________ lb. 41A-6c
Minkfeed ______________.... lb. 2c
Black cod (large) ......... lb. 24c
Black cod (small) ____....... lb. 14c
Red and rock cod ___________ lb. 3c
Crab (shell) _________________lb. 15c
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„ THE FISHERMAN - November 6, 1964