"Our minds are made up . . . Don't bother to confuse us with facts . . . !"
NORTHERN RIPPLES
and SHIPS
The two men pictured here are Bill Mackie, now president of the North Delta and District Local of the UFAWU (left) and Charlie' Sheaves, net boss at Cassiar Cannery. The photo was taken in 1931 or 1938 and by noiv the unidentified youngsters may be veteran fishermen. Bill, a member of the 1964 tendermen's negotiating committee, was in Ottawa last month with the 41 member delegation that demanded protection for the BC fishing industry.
JACK Shauer is one of a number of gillnetters who have hit various rocks in Metla-katla Pass. This is a tricky piece of water and it is necessary to follow the marker buoys very carefully to avoid hitting the rocks.
Last week we reported to the transport department's Prince Rupert office that a marker buoy was set out of place and needed to be reset. Within a day the department sent a vessel out to check the report and found the buoy to be in position. Apparently it had been reset When another complaint was made just after Shauer hit the rock.
Edward Ormsby, transport department agent in Prince Rupert, requests that fishermen make their reports directly to his office just as soon as they notice these buoys to be out of position. He states that the buoys are often moved by log tows and frequently have to be replaced.
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BC Airlines has applied for a licence to start a scheduled service to a number of points south of Prince Rupert, includ-
COMING EVENTS
CONCERT - SONGS AND MUSIC
SHEVCHENKO MALE CHORUS and MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA of Toronto
Thursday, June 11
QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE Tickets — $2, 1.50, 1.00 Available at AUUC Hall, 805 E. Pender St MU. 4-9720 People's Co-op Bookstore 341 W. Pender St. MU. 5-5836
FIRST ANNUAL
FAREWELL CABARET
DANCE
North Delta and District Local and WA
Friday, June 12
9 p.m. to 2 a.m. SUNBURY PARK HALL
Admission $1 by ticket only
DANCE CRUISE
Sponsored by LADIES' AUXILIARY CHILDREN'S JUBILEE SUMMER CAMP ASSOCIATION
Saturday, June 20
Boat Leaves Gore Avenue at 7:45 p.m. •
TICKETS and reservations available from Mrs. R. Len-festy at CY. 8-3385.
ing Hartley Bay. We note that this is being opposed by those who have planes for charter on the ground that this has been an important part of their income. It seems that a regular schedule would give better service at a more reasonable price and also provide a regular mail service. At the present time mail service to many points is on a fortnightly basis.
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Incomplete shop steward elections were held at BC Packers' Seal Cove plant on May 22 during a lunch hour meeting at the plant. Elected to represent the shed crew were Walter Schmidt and Doug Sankey. Dieter Ulrich and A. Rosin will represent the freezermen, and Mrs. Alios Schmidt will represent the shed women. Still to be elected are a shop steward for the maintenance crew, one for the afternoon shift ice gang, and the chief shop steward.
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A delegation of five, led by UFAWU northern representative Carl Liden, left Prince Rupert May 23 to join other delegates from all parts of the coast on their lobby to Ottawa. Other delegates from the northern area were Florence Greenwood (Prince Rupert WA), Marion Pierce (Prince Rupert Shore-workers), Ed. Valpy (Port Simpson Local) and Murphy Stanley (Kincolith Local).
The BC Federation of Labor is calling upon affiliated unions to contribute $100,000 a week through assessments to the fund for office workers at Port Alberni whose dispute with the giant MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River corporation has erupted into a full scale struggle involving some 3,000 other workers.
The 62 office workers, members of the Office Employees International Union, struck May 19 for contract demands including union security and parity with office wages paid elsewhere in the industry.
Refusal of pulp, paper and sawmill workers to cross their picket lines brought the IWA, whose members are now voting on a proposed settlement, directly into the struggle.
"M a c M i 11 a n, Bloedel has adopted a reckless and irresponsible attitude in this situation," Federation secretary Pat O'Neal declared this week. "The only real issue is job security and this could be settled in half an hour."
Direct intervention by deputy labor minister William Sands, however, has failed to budge
FISH
THE newspapers have made a great deal about the Russians bugging foreign embassies. We're willing to accept the story that they do it, the US does it, and so do most countries as part of an accepted intelligence program. The National Guardian indicates how far this sort of thing goes even among socalled allies: "Mutual distrust was so great during the NATO ministerial council session in the Hague (last month) that security officers ruled that no plant or bunch of flowers could decorate the discussion table, to avoid the possibility of hidden microphones." Reuters news agency reported that "all radios and tape recorders in the barracks (where the meeting was held) were removed. No parcel or package could be taken in without a thorough search. The contents of waste-baskets were burned at the end of each day, and secret documents were stored in extra safes brought in for the conference." As the Guardian put it: "... with allies like these, who needs enemies?"
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Here's an overdue correction. We reported in the issue following the Union convention that Clauds Davidson, who presented Alex Gordon with an argillite totem pole, was president of the Masset Fishermen's Local. We were wrong on two counts. Claude is vice president of the Masset Shoreworkers Local. Alan Wainwright is president of the Masset Fishermen's Local. Our apologies to all concerned.
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A note from Mrs. A. J. Sim-ard of Aldergrove gladdens our hearts this rainy morning. She encloses her $4 subscription to The Fisherman with the note: "We have not received it for some time and find we really miss it."
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Carrie Ironside passed along her son's copy of Canadian Boy to let us see what kind of jokes the kids are telling these days. They're a little different from some we've heard. Here are two samples, the first from Brad Cunningham of Haney and the second from Ricky Winczura of Chilliwack:
"Why was the baby ink crying?"
"Because he heard his mother was in the pen and didn't know how long the sentence was."
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Sam: Joe made a fortune in crooked dough.
Sal: Was he a counterfeiter?
Sam: No, he was a pretzel manufacturer.
Well, at least they're clean.
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husband Walter, who is out on the New Queen fishing halibut, announce the marriage of their
the Company from its refusal to give the Union the security clause it seeks.
In a wire to provincial labor minister Leslie Peterson this week, NDP provincial leader Robert Strachan said:
"The government has granted economic power to forest companies by granting of tree farm licences. This economic power must not be used to deny workers the basic right to organise effectively.
"I urge you to use your office in persuading MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Company to grant union security to office workers in Port Alberni so that pulp and lumber operations affected can continue operation.
"Union security is now considered to be normal procedure and should not be a cause of difference between the employees and management."
Releasing the wire, Strachan urged "every thinking person in British Columbia to support the office workers of Port Alberni in their fight for fair play and freedom to organise effectively into the union of their choice."
daughter Carolyn Ruby to Douglas Robert Parsons, son of F. L. Parsons of New York. They were married in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on May 16, and are presently living in Merritt, BC.
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Cece Fisher, senior machinist at Britannia Shipyard, is in Vancouver General Hospital following a major operation. Cece will be on the sick list for some time. Cece, who has been with ABC Packing for 38 years, had just finished the exacting six month job of machining two new stainless steel centrifuges for North Pacific Cannery.
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Bill Law of Heriot Bay managed to escape an operation during his recent serious illness and is recuperating at home. It was a close one and we wish Bill all the best.
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The companies complained some time ago that we only mention herring meal prices when they're high. Well, what else can we do when they keep going up? The price of oil ^soared out of sight some time ago and the only herring meal quotation at Seattle is for Alaska stocks. A May 27 report stated: "Alaska supplies sold well ahead, subject to production. Last sales 70 percent $144 per ton burlap bagged FOB car Seattle." That's over $155 in Canadian funds. Bring on the herring.
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We have this note from Pat O'Kane, husband of Fisherman and Union stenographer Becky O'Kane: Becky O'Kane gave birth to a 7 pound, 3 ounce baby boy June 1. He is named after her great great great grandfather Clah, who helped Duncan in the fight against the Hudson's Bay Company, Dan McLeod of the Arthur Evans Local, Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Union, and grandfather Patrick O'Kane of the Marine Workers Union. Becky and Pat are active in the progressive youth movement. Becky has been with the paper for two years. The baby's full name is Daniel Patrick Clah O'Kane.
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Since we're on the subject of births, here's an overdue report on another former employee of the Union. Margaret North, wife of Fisherman editor George North, gave birth to a baby girl last February 25. She has been named Tarea Karen and if the second name sounds familiar, it should be since she was named after Karen Stav-enes, wife of Union president Steve Staven-ss.
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Young George Hewison of Campbell River is a man of many talents. As a member of the delegation to Ottawa, he helped conduct interviews with MPs, but in addition, he turned in a number of fine performances with his guitar. George sang labor and folk songs on the plane, performed in two night clubs and was offered an appearance on TV, all in the space of four days. Let's hope he stays in the fishing industry. With young fellows like George, maybe it has a future.
Canadian crew members of the Chenega and Calm C were impressed with the efficiency of the US Coast Guard when the Chenega, skippered by Torgier Rysstad of North Vancouver, was holed off Icy Bay on May 18. The two vessels, under charter to US oil companies exploring for oil in the Gulf of Alaska and carrying US fishery officers, were observing the exploration parties as they set off their test charges. The Chenega was holed in the stern by a charge that went off too close to her. She sent out a call for assistance when her pumps failed and she began to fill with water. In less than 30 minutes a US Coast Guard plane from Cape Spencer dropped a barrel containing a portable pump alongside. With this, and a second pump dropped by a private plane from Yakutat, the Chenega made port safely.
UFAWU MEETINGS
STEVESTON SHOREWORKERS Thursday, June 11
8 p.m. STEVESTON COMMUNITY CENTRE
• Report of Ottawa lobby.
• Report on negotiations.
• Regular business.
VANCOUVER FISHERMEN'S LOCAL Thursday, June 11
7:30 p.m. FISHERMEN'S HALL 138 East Cordova Street
• Report of new membership committee.
• Report on salmon negotiations.
• Report on Ottawa lobby.
• Barrel draw — $15 first prize; $10 second prize.
Bring Your UNION BOOK
ATTENTION
Members of
NANAIMO, GULF ISLANDS, CAMPBELL RIVER AND DISTRICT LOCALS
Tom Parkin, Vancouver Island organiser, willl be in Nanaimo and Campbell River to clear vessels, as follows:
NANAIMO
SHORELINE HOTEL
June 8 and 9
Hours: 10 a.m. - 12 noon
1 p.m. - 5 p.m. 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
CAMPBELL RIVER
DISCOVERY INN
June 11 and 12
Hours: 10 a.m. - 12 noon
2 p.m. - 5 p.m. _6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
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THE FISHERMAN - June 5, 1964
Labor Rallies Behind Striking Office Workers