March 1, 1963
THE FISHERMAN
Page 5
You Have the Floor
Are We Giving Japan Fish To Sell Us Back in Cans?
Editor, The Fisherman:
What is the most important thing to the Canadian people? Their country.
But there are some of the politicians and big companies who are willing to sell Canada out in millions of dollars of our fish. It would not be so bad if we were getting something back in return. What do wet get? Fish canned in Japan and shipped back cheaper than our own canned fish.
Japanese canned fish is not as good as Canadian fish as most of the fish used are immature. The millions the companies will make from this sellout is not going to help the Canadian people one bit or the Japanese who catch the fish.
By what I have been told, Japanese fishermen work for the lowest wage I have ever known. In 1936, a job in one of the Vancouver-canneries paid 25 cents per hour. That would be more than the Japanese fishermen and floating cannery workers get today. In this day and age they still get away with low wages.
Our government made a trade agreement with Japan.
It is for the Japanese to come over to Canada and catch our fish and then sell the fish back to us in cans at a cheaper price. I think it is a very high price to pay to have the Canadian people sold out.
The Canadian people should not buy any. It would be letting our fishermen down. Just 18 years ago the Americans and Canadians were at war with the Japanese to stop them from taking this country of ours.
It doesn't seem right that the leaders are so willing to give the Japanese more right to Canada. Last year the Japanese had their record catch of fish — 7.6 metric tons—and Canada had one seventh of the Japanese catch. Are we going to be so kind and give them more?
Everyone must eat, whatever race they are. But do they have to be such gluttons? What is all this conservation for? So the Japanese can catch the fish before they come in close enough so we can catch them?
Are the big companies to make a few more million dollars out of cheap labor?
I am sure that if the government agrees to let the Japanese come in the Russians will come in too. The Russians are putting some effort into conservation and hatcheries. But if you let one in, the others follow. The sorry day for the Canadian fishermen will come if this is allowed to happen.
TERRY KEAN
Vancouver, BC.
P.S.: The 25 cents per hour job was offered to me in 1936.
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BERING SEA
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^| That nothing within any of these recommendations shall apply to or restrict the operations of a bonafide research vessel under the direct control of a contracting party.
That within the joint conservation area the opening date for the retention of halibut by any fishing vessel of any of the contracting parties shall be 1800 hours, March 25, 1963.
Outside the triangular area as defined in item 7, fishing vessels of any contracting party shall not retain any halibut captured after 1800 hours on October 15, 1963 except as stated in item 8 below.
■J^ That within the triangular area bounded by a line connecting Cape Navarin and the northern tip of Cape Sarichef, Unimak Island; the meridian of 170° west longitude; and the Aleutian Islands: (a) the catch quota for halibut for the 1963 season shall be 11,000,000 pounds or 5,000 metric tons to be computed with heads off and entrails removed, (b) fishing vesels of any contracting party shall not retain any halibut captured after 1800 hours on the date the catch quota has been reached or after 1800 hours on October 15, 1963, whichever is earlier.
Editor. The Fisherman:
I have been sitting for the past few weeks in an inverted Yogi stance, namely on my backside, meditating; an ice pack on my feet, a hot water bottle on my head and wearing three suits of black Stan-field Long Johns, statistics rattling around in my skull and works like "abstention" buzzing in my ears.
By dint of heroic concentration, I emerged from the huddle with my ectoplasm and came up with some invaluable deductions which I felt I must impart to your intelligent readers.
First, I noted that the Russians have been conducting experiments with their "humpback" salmon by
UFAWU Aid Appreciated
The fallowing letters of appreciation have been received by the Union's Salmon Welfare Ynncl.
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I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to you and the Salmon Welfare Fund for the cheque I received on February 19.
If Arvid could know, it would make him equally happy to know I had been helped so generously by you.
It has been gratefully received. (MRS.) GERDA PEARSON Whonnock, BC.
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I received youor cheque from the Salmon Welfare Fund and also your note.
I want to thank you very, very much. .
Thank you all.
MRS. B. E. SUTER Aldergrove, BC.
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I received your most kind and welcome letter, also $1,000 cheque which was enclosed.
I cannot find the words to thank the trustees of the Salmon Welfare Fund and the members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union.
I can only say that my remaining sons and I were overwhelmed at the size of the cheque and the generosity of the board of trustees of the Salmon Welfare Fund.
We will find the money very useful to us in taking care of funeral and future expenses.
MRS. VIOLA E. PHILLIPS RONALD PHILLIPS DAVID PHILLIPS RALPH PHILLIPS Egmont, BC.
I would like to express our deep appreciation to you, and to your Union, for their kind letter of sympathy, together with the enclosed cheque.
At times such as these, finding oneself responsible for the upbringing and support of six children, such financial help does much to relieve the burden.
(MRS.) SHIRLEY LANSDOWN, and children.
transporting or rather transplanting millions of the eggs from Sak-kalin to northern rivers.
Now consider our prolific and unaccountable run of humps last year. "Pinks" — get it — they were maverick right wing and centre noncomformist fish — better dead than in Red cans.
This should indicate to our government a future massive propaganda campaign — underwater beams modulated to reproduce the communicative sounds of chums and sockeye (Yany). Floating microwave relay stations across the Pacific — directing all freedom loving fish to our shores. This could revitalise our dying fishing industry in the northern inlets.
On crabs, broadcast underwater messages to all "King" crabs — entice them away from the continental shelf of the proletariat, here we will treat them royally.
On Cameron — his statement to the effect that they had scientific proof to back up their actions — "Pass the kidney basin, Charlie, I'm going to be sick."
With all due respect to our dedicated, overworked and no doubt underpaid ichthyologists, biologists et al at Departure Bay and elsewhere, I may state that it is my belief there is not a true scientist among them, nor a statement issued that could be given serious consideration by anyone other than a cretinous idiot.
A recent publication of top American opinion suggests that even the revered Einstein was not a true "scientist".
The paper on which the department periodically publishes wordy facts (?) and figures is for my money only useful to one end or purpose — and even in this they face overwhelming competition from Zellerbach.
On future top level or cabinet appointments, in my humble opinion, it would be infinitely wiser to return to the past unequivocal method of appointment by name association; e.g. Finn — fisheries; Orchard — forestry; Gardiner — agriculture; Coyne — Bank of Canada; etc.
The fall of the Diefenbaker government clears the way for all fishermen to unite in preparing the way for review, revision, and reconstruction of this ghastly mess which we refer to "tongue in cheek" as our fishing industry.
Sechelt, BC BOB DONLEY
Union Thanked
Editor, The Fisherman:
I wish to express my full appreciation to the Union and Salmon Welfare Fund for their assistance, enabling me to replace much of my necessary belongings, lost with my boat last fall.
I have been able to get another boat and hope to be ready to try my luck another year. Your help has been a good boost.
JOHN E. JACOBSON Campbell River, BC.
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Q That, outside of the triangular " area defined in item 7 above, line fishing vessels may retain incidentally caught halibut at a ratio of one pound of halibut for each seven pounds of other species until 1800 hours, November 15, 1963.
0 All vessels employing any type 1 of net trawl gear shall return to the sea immediately any halibut taken within an area bounded by the meridian of 175° west longitude; the Aleutian Islands and the Alaska Peninsula; a line drawn from Cape Newenham to the intersection of a line from Cape Navarin to the northern tip of Cape Sarichef on Unimak Island within the meridian of 170° west longitude, and a line from this point to the intersection of the meridian of 175° west longitude with the line from Cape Navarin to the northern tip of Cape Sarichef on Unimak Island.
JAPANESE PROMISE
In addition, the Commission states, the Japanese government "as a domestic measure in 1963," intends to prohibit trawling of all kinds in an area defined as follows:
An area delimited by the line of 160° west longitude; a line connecting the point of 58°10' north latitude, 160° west longitude, and the point of 57°0' north latitude, 163° west longitude; the line of 163° west longitude; a line running from a point of 58°20' north latitude, 163° west longitude, through the point of 56° north latitude, 164°
west longitude, to its intersection with a line connecting Cape Navarin of the USSR and the northern top of Cape Sarichef, Unimak Island; a line connecting Cape Navarin and the northern tip of Cape Sarichef; the Aleutian Islands; and the Alaska Peninsula.
"This action by Japan," the Commission claims, "to a great extent affords protection for the young juvenile halibut known to be concentrated in the region."
The Commission also notes that Japan intends to establish for 1963 a minimum size limit of 66 centimetres for retention of halibut throughout the Bering Sea.
The Commission adds that it is developing a research program "to provide information which will extend and improve the scientific basis for the conservation of the groundfish of the Bering Sea."
CAMPAIGN CONTINUES
In stating that the regulations "fail to convince Canadian fishermen of the justice or acceptability of the giveaway to Japan," the UFAWU said it will continue its campaign to have the Canadian government reject the Commission recommendations to allow Japan to fish herring off the Queen Charlottes and halibut in the eastern Bering Sea.
It summarises its reaction to the regulations in these words: ^ Canadian and American halibut fishermen have been subject to conservation controls in this area for several years. The Japanese are now going to benefit from past restrictions on Canadians and Americans.
2> Japanese fishermen will have a big advantage in their mother-ships. Their catches can be delivered daily for processing whereas Canadian vessels must travel eight days each way to and from Canadian oorts. Even to deliver in Alaskan ports would mean several days' loss of fishing time. The Japanese could well take the lion's share of the quota.
O Japanese vessels, therefore, operating between the 175° and 170° west longitude, will not be restricted to any quota. Formerly, they were net allowed to fish halibut in this area.
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WOODS STRIKE
A Enforcement of quota limits, " areas of operation, size limits, type of gear used, etc., will be a major problem. Japanese trawlers are not prohibited from landing halibut in all waters of the Bering Sea. Halibut landings may be far in excess of those reported in for quota and conservation purposes.
K The Commission has opened a * wide door to the Japanese without any serious consideration of the fact that the Soviet fleet operating in the same area will be under no moral or legal obligation to refrain from landing halibut.
Salmon Collector Owners Get Shortest End of Stick
Editor, The Fisherman:
I am writing on behalf of salmon collector owners who work on charter for the companies.
Before, we were sure of a few dollars profit for the boat when we started out for the season after spending two months fixing it up to have it in good shape for the season.
Now we are doing the same thing as before but where are the profits? Actually we are just holding a job with the boat for a few months' wages.
We all know we are not on the production end of the fishing industry and we also know that we
cannot expect a bonus cheque to buy our Christmas liquor with, but we know we are still needed in the industry. So let's get together as collector owners and demand some kind of a guarantee for the season.
Now is the time to do it before our annual UFAWU convention. Let's see the resolutions go in, boys.
Let's not blame it on the long closures either, for last summer especially was one of the biggest seasons and we certainly would have been worth a guarantee.
TENDERMAN FOR 20 YEARS.
ried, no children, Palmarolle, Abi-tibi, Quebec; and Fernnand Drou-in, 29, single, St. Elzear, Temin-couata, Quebec.
STRIKERS UNARMED
According to published eyewitness reports, the settlers, ignoring posted appeals to support the strike, had piled some 500 cords of pulpwood at Reesor Siding. In an attempt to halt this strikebreaking, the strikers sent a cavalcade of cars to the scene.
A dozen provincial policemen halted the cavalcade of cars near the railway crossing shortly after midnight, but the press of strikers pouring out of the cars swept the policemen along with them.
All reports agree that the strikers were unarmed.
As the crowd approached the pulpwood stacks, the settlers opened fire in the darkness from the shelter of two parked trucks.
Police seized 10 rifles, two shotguns and a revolver and arrested 18 settlers, releasing them on bail of $1,000 each. They also announced they were issuing warrants for 400 lumber workers on charges of rioting.
NON-CAPITAL MURDER
In face of the outcry from the labor movement, which poured its protests into Ontario Premier Ro-barts' office, the 18 settlers were re-arrested, charged with non-capital murder and held in jail. The total of those charged was increased to 20 with the subsequent voluntary surrender of two other settlers.
Strikers charged with rioting surrendered in a body, only one of the 237 men posting bail.
The shooting has focussed national attention on the anti-union activities of Kimberley-Clark Canada Ltd. and its subsidiary, Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company Ltd., which is partially owned by the strikebound New York Times.
In former years pulp and paper companies in northeastern Ontario covered by agreement with the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union have followed the pattern established by the first company to settle with the Union.
STRIKE PROVOKED
Negotiations opened last August, but in December, after the Port Arthur, Sudbury and Kapuskasing locals reached agreement with Abitibi Power and Paper Company Ltd., in conciliation proceedings.
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Kimberley-Clark and Spruce Falls companies refused to accept the pattern.
On January 14, 1,000 workers employed by Kimberley-Clark and 500 others employed by Spruce Falls went out on strike.
Another 1,000 settlers, farmers and truckers who cut wood independently and sell it to the companies at substandard prices were idled by the strike, which shut off all deliveries to the mills.
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION
Ontario labor department is also under fire for its failure to act on Union applications for conciliation proceedings at the Kimberley-Clark and Spruce Falls operations.
"It was only after this tragic climax that the Ontario government and department of labor took their responsibility seriously enough and attempted to bring the parties together," Carl S. Ek-holm, vice president of Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Local 2693, reported in a letter sent to the UFAWU and other unions.
"Without going into any detail as to the efforts of the department of labor, it will suffice to say that through roundabout threats of legislation, the Union finally agreed to binding arbitration on all matters in dispute. . . . PROBE DEMANDED
"The strike, of course, is now over. The membership realised the position they were in and therefore showed nearly 100 percent unity in the vote to return to work pending the final decision of the arbitration boards that are expected to be established very shortly.
"We are not happy with this settlement, but it appears that we must accept it, at least for the time being.
"We can only hope and trust that this tragic climax to our story serves as a reminder to all people of the never ending struggle of labor to achieve a fair standard of living."
Repercussions of the strike continue to be felt in demands by other unions for an inquiry into the shooting.
Labor wants to know why provincial police were around Reesor Siding throughout the weekend preceding the shooting but failed to prevent the armed ambush. Yet for days before the shooting, daily press stories quoted settlers as threatening to "shoot to kill" anyone interfering with their strikebreaking operations.
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