October 12, 1962
THE FISHERMAN
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Union Raps US Pressure On Foreign Ships to Cuba
United States pressure on NATO countries to withdraw their merchant ships from Cuban trade is "a violation of international navigation rights." the Trade Unions International of Transport, Port and Fishery Workers declares in a statement issued at Prague last week.
In its efforts to tighten its own economic blockade of Cuba, the
'Eiko' Gone; Crew Saved
Two fishermen, trapped below decks when the 38 foot seiner Eiko capsised south of Nanaimo on October 5. escaped from the sinking vessel through a skylight.
The Eiko was caught in a tide rip in Dodd Narrows, between Gabriola Island and the mainland of Vancouver Island. As the vessel flipped over, the skipper. Robin Harley, and his brother Peter, both of Nanaimo, were thrown into the water.
The skiff was still lashed to the capsised vessel, but they managed to cut the lashings with a fish knife and free it.
Two other crew members, Gerry Jensen of Prince Rupert and Carl Nelson of Duncan, who had been asleep below decks, found themselves trapped.
With water coming under the galley door, they succeeded in making their escape through the skylight.
Jensen, who could not swim, donned a lifejacket and made his way to a log boom off Gabriola Island, where workers helped him from the water. Nelson was picked up by the Harley brothers in the skiff and they too, made for the boom.
The four men, all UFAWU members, were later treated for exposure in hospital at Nanaimo.
The Eiko, owned by Canadian Fishing Company, was reported to have sunk in 400 feet of water.
US is demanding that other NATO countries refuse to allow their merchant ships to be chartered by the Soviet Union, German Democratic Republic and other socialist countries to transport goods lo Cuba.
Norway and Britain are reported to have rejected the US demand. West Germany, however, has banned charter of its flag ships where they are to be used in the Cuban trade.
Last week the US state department announced closure of US ports to shipping of countries engaged in trade with Cuba.
Appealing to all seamen and dockers to demonstrate their solidarity with the Cuban people, the Trade Unions International statement declares:
"The US imperialists do not want to understand that even with the help of their NATO allies they no longer have the power to isolate and reduce to their mercy a people struggling for its independence and freedom, and that they no longer hold the monopoly position in sea transport.
"This new step in the economic-war against Cuba defies world public opinion and constitutes a violation of international navigation rights.
"The seamen and dockers will refuse to be instruments of provocations and aggressions of US imperialism against a people whose only crime is to have won its freedom and independence in an heroic struggle admired all over the world.
"At a moment when a considerable number of Greek, British. Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, German, Italian and French ships are ying idle and many seamen are unemployed on account of the crisis in this industry, this step by the US state department is also a blow against the interests of the seamen and dockers of western Europe ..."
Feed and Bleed
Mortgages are might,
movies are up there, Costs like fears are flighty—
gas and streetcar fare; But where the basic pressure? smoke it out! Where? Powdered milk and water
that make my babies' drink. Sausage made from silage siphoned from the sink.
Every fourth dollar
disappears down rent. On coat and cuff and collar the yet unearned is spent. Though these are hardly lazy, who ahead is sent? Oranges, tomatoes:
subtle modern switch. Steaks so rich in protein: protein for the rich.
Liars moan of losses,
who still boasts of more? Not my little bosses,
not the corner store, But the supermarket that fattens on my core. Cereal sealed half empty,
pork and beans half juice, Bread near half molasses, meat near all abuse.
Once the might of masses
stirred, and standards set, Ceilings too. Time passes;
new murder must be met. Organise against it anger eager yet! Clip the claws of the crazy
jugglers of our lives, The essence of the issue: that some child survives!
—The Westerner
Why I Am With Castro
• 'l he following article appeared in the September 28 issue of the Vancouver Sun. It is reprinted and the photo reproduced through the courtesy of author Jack Scott. * * ★
By JACK SCOTT
WHENEVER I write of Cuba — and, yes, I'm afraid it's much too often — I find my eyes straying from my typewriter to the wall of my workroom. There hangs a picture of a girl I fell in love with. This is it:
Her name is Maida Pozo. She is four and a half years old and she does not always look this serious. She had just awakened from her afternoon nap. I had asked my photographer, Vincente Cubil-los, to take her picture in that pensive, just-waking moment.
I wanted you to see this picture. It may help to explain why I am with Fidel Castro.
Oh yes, I'm all too aware that the tide of current events may
Pink Smolts With Herring
Acting on representations made to it by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union that considerable numbers of salmon smolts were being taken in herring seines, the fisheries department closed part of Juan de Fuca and Haro straits to herring fishing last weekend.
The order noted there was conclusive evidence that substantial numbers of young salmon had been taken in the herring fishery over the preceding few days.
The Union made its representations to the department after receiving reports from Steveston about the number of salmon smolts being taken by herring seiners off William and Albert heads.
On investigation, it is reported the smolts were found to be young pink salmon.
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Rupert Man Dead at 55
Funeral services were held at Prince Rupert October 3 for Helge Carl Essen, who died in Prince Rupert General Hospital September 28 at the age of 55 years.
Helge Essen, who was born in Winnipeg but lived the greater part of his life in Prince Rupert, became well known in the fishing industry over the many years he fished out of the northern port.
He was a veteran of the Second World War, during which he served in the Canadian army from 1942 to 1946.
He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Eva Dybhavn, North Vancouver, whose husband Tom is a bro-the of the late Carl Dybhavn, for a number of years manager of the Vancouver Fishermen's Cooperative society; Mrs. Louise Bar-ringer, Los Angles, California; and Mrs. Julia Christianson, Prince Rupert.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. S. J. Rude of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Prince Rupert, with interment following in Fair-view Cemetery.
Vancouverite In New Post
Establishment in Vancouver of a branch of the fisheries department's Industrial Development Service and appointment of John S. M. Harrison to the newly created post of branch chief is announced by Pacific area fisheries director W. R. Hourston.
For the past 16 years Harrison, a native of Vancouver and graduate of UBC, has served as engineer with the Fisheries Research Board's Vancouver Technological Station.
Among major projects with which he has been associated is development of refrigerated sea water and brine spray systems, most recently applied in the Industrial Development Service program to develop a Canadian tuna seine fishery in the Pacific.
Hourston termed extension of the Service to this coast "a recognition of the significance of the fishing industry in British Columbia."
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China
China's people, Yesterday's draft animals, Have shed their harness— The rickshaw is fuel For the garden furnace.
How they sing to their crop,
Hum to their machines,
Tame the rivers,
Casting their commune
And face the Taiwan marauder.
Our blue-chip statesmen Have bolted the glass gates To China, the reborn, Gambling our bread, our lives, Upon the atom wheel.
Sun-tanned brothers of China— We will drink of your wisdom wine—
You will eat of our bread— Crossing our flags Shield to the world.
—Henri Percikow
Dignity of Labor
This waitress
Smiling sweetly behind the counter
Calling out numbers for toast eaters
Pancake syrup bacon and egg eaters
Earnestly inquiring after their
knives and forks; This tall old man Proud of his bundle of papers Newest news first from his lips Serving the man at his coffee The man in the bus, Wear the yoke of service Of bondage gladly accepted, The dignity of labor.
No shackles here
To crush out thought
To destroy their sweet service with fear;
None from the man in the street
To the doctor with his scalpel
From the girl with the pencil behind her ear
To the unharried hostess in the teashop
None breathe in Canada
Who cannot say:
"This is my labor, my work This dignity of my humanity, This freedom of my life."
The waitress smiles
And hands the night charwoman
Her cup of coffee. . . .
—Evelyn Goddard
make this admission difficult to sustain when- the United States had finally forced Cuba all the way into the orbit of the Soviet Union. But that's a small and unimportant risk when the fate of millions of children is involved.
Maida lives with her parents, three brothers and two sisters on a cooperative plantation in the country 30-odd miles from Havana. When I met her last spring they had just moved into a new cottage. It was the first home any member of the Pozo family has ever had without a dirt floor. It was the first any worker on the plantation had ever had with running water and a toilet.
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WHEN I MET MAIDA I'D just come from close to two months' travelling in South America.
In Peru, in Chile, in Argentina and in Brazil I had seen children, by the tens of thousands, who were dying slowly from hunger and malnutrition and, overnight, from hookworm and typhoid fever and tuberculosis.
I had seen thousands of children in rags and filth, condemned to lives without enough to eat, without proper shelter or proper medicine or a doctor's care, without ever a hope of an education or a future with any more security or decency than animals.
I hated the bastards who hurt these children for their enormous profit and privilege. I hated the Americans whose millions of dollars and military weapons for the support of South American tyrants, to keep control of their investments, maintains them in power by the use of naked, armed force.
And so, when I reached Cuba, four and a half year old Maida Pozo made the difference for me in my outlook on Fidel Castro's revolution.
Without Castro, Maida would face the same plight as her South American cousins. With Castro, Maida and every other child in Cuba now has enough food, enough medicine, a roof over their heads that will keep out the rain, a chance for an education and a full, purposeful life.
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IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS is the terrifying blind spot in America today, an America that worships another little four year old girl called Caroline who is growing up in a fairy tale world of untold wealth and elegance.
America has forgotten the millions of Maidas. Fidel Castro has not.
And if that confronts a man with the arbitrary, cold blooded choice between the philosophies of Marx and Lenin and the philosophies of an over fed and over indulged form of predatory capitalism, then I'll go with Fidel.
If children are going to continue to die in their infancy to keep United States corporations strong in South America, then I
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"THE CAUSE OF WORLD
peace is best served by letting the Cuban Revolution develop without outside interference."
—Lord John Boyd-Orr. Rector
of the University of Glasgow.
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think the whole way of democracy, ours included, is a futile, losing game.
I believe that this is the thinking of serious and deeply concerned men and women all over the world, that it is a far more significant issue than the ravings and ragings of the ideological debate, and that Fidel Castro, a man mocked and vilified in the United States, is one of the great men of our times.
Fidel Castro is making the world a good place for Maida Pozo. If there is any justice left at all, he will win over those who do not know she exists.
Bill Would Secure Vote
Frank Howard, MP for Skeena, introduced a bill in the House of Commons to provide a system of absentee voting in federal elections. This is in line with a demand from the UFAWU prior to the last election which disfranchised hundreds of fishermen.
Howard said: "Many thousands of people: loggers, fishermen, railroaders, and construction workers, to name a few, have been denied the right to vote in federal elections in the past because there is no absentee ballot provided in the Canada Election Act..
"I estimate that more than 200,-000 people lost the right to vote on June 18. If any bill becomes law this situation will be corrected."
He said his bill was patterned after the BC Elections Act and would allow a person to vote on election day at any poll in Canada and have his ballot returned to his home constituency for the purpose of having it counted.
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