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THE FISHERMAN
May 19, 1961
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
ENGINES FOR SALE
GOBLE ENGINE REPAIRS
Repairs all makes Easthope Parts 1747 W. Georgia MU. 1-5718
USED ENGINES TRADED-IN ON FORD AND DAVID BROWN DIESELS
Nordberg Marlin, 110 h.p.
31................................ 325.00
Kermath, 130 h.p., 3:1 _____ 395.00
Buda 6 cyl., 90 h.p., 2M-:1 _ 395.00
Vivian 4 cyl., 60 h.p. _.......... 195.00
Chrysler 6, 3:1, heat exch. 450.00
Buda Diesel, 4 cyl., 2:1 ________ 550.00
Kelvin, 30 h.p., 2 cyl. 85.00 Standard Diesel, 54 h.p., 3:1
Run less than 10 hours ._ 1,350.00 We will start any of the above engines in our warehouse for a customer. Be sure—Know what you are buying—Hear it run
INDUSTRIAL MARINE POWER LIMITED
"We Service What We Sell" 1737 W. Georgia St. MU. 4-1465 Vancouver, B.C.
EASTHOPE
Marine Engines, Parts & SeYvice 1225 No. 1 Road, Steveston, B.C. P.O. Box 424, Steveston Phone BRowning 7-7710
ENGINE FOR SALE
CHRYSLER CROWN 3% TO 1 RE-duction, engine completely rebuilt. Everything in good running order, with propeller and spare parts. Ed. Hansen, RR 2, Powell River. Phone HU. 2-3024.
BOATS WANTED
BOAT WANTED
GILLNETTER OR TROLL ER. Give particulars. Write Box 10, The Fisherman, 138 E. Cordova St., Van. 4, BC or phone WOod-land 8-9032.
CLEARANCE SALE! PERM A LEADLINES
All Popular Lengths & Weights Clearance Price 45c lb.
Write or Phone C. P. LECKIE LTD. 1748 W. 4th Ave. RE. 1-2175 Vancouver 9, B.C.
We have an excellent CLEANER for
DENTAL PLATES
HU LLEWELLYN
DR. R. Douglas
Supply Co.
ONE DOLLAR POSTPAID
712 Robson St. Cor. Granville Suite 3 MU. 1-4022
Vancouver 1, B.C.
BOATS FOR SALE
TROLLERS HALIBUT MEN
FREE! Samples of new products from SCOTT PLASTICS. For the troller: Sample of the "bait-biter" and sample flasher-flicker.
For the halibut man: Sample package of the new GANGE CAP.
Just send in your name and address; name of boat and fishing licence number and these samples will be sent to you free of charge, along with free literature on other "SCOTTY" commercial fishing and marine products.
See your marine dealer for these other "SCOTTY" plastic products: "SCOTTY" Lures; "SCOTTY" Fluorescent paints; "SCOTTY" plastic bilge pumps; "SCOTTY" Bait and strip lures; "SCOTTY" Gaffs; "SCOTTY LITE" Gillnet and Halibut Lights; "SCOTTY" Foam plastic Trolling 'Pigs'- "SCOTTY" Oar Collars — ALL PLASTIC MATERIALS.
BUY B.C. MADE PRODUCTS KEEP B.C. WORKING
Scott Plastics Ltd.
21 Erie Street
Victoria, B.C.
SEINER FOR SALE MISS DELPHINE, 4 YEARS OLD, 44' x 14' with 6:71 GMC, radiophone, recording sounder, with hydraulic Puretic power block, 2Vfe strip used seine, asking complete $22,000. Boat can be purchased separate from block and seine. Write Box 12, The Fisherman, 138 East Cordova St. Vancouver, BC.
PACKER FOR SALE
60' x 15' x 8' PACKER, NEW Caterpillar diesel, fully hydraulic. Must be sold, no reasonable offer refused. Phone 376 or write P.O. Box 175, Duncan, B.C.
GILLNETTER FOR SALE M/V FAWN, GILLNETTER, length 27', beam 7', 85 h.p. Chrysler, ready to go, without net. For particulars contact Wesley Niemi, Box 63, Sointula, BC. Phone 46-W
GILLNETTER FOR SALE
GILLNETTER, 32' x 9', 20 H.P. twin ignition 3 cyl. Easthope, 9 years, old, Price $2,000. Phone BAIdwin 6-5135 Sat. or Sun.
GILLNETTER, FLOATING HOUSE, NETS, NET HOUSE FOR SALE
29' GILLNETTER, GREY MARINE eng. float house 30' x 11", 4 nets, 2 sets of lines ready to fish. Boat can be seen at Massey's Machine Shop. Apply S. Mehelis, Box 692, Ladner, B.C. WHitney 6-2118.
COMING EVENTS
The social committee of the Ladner Fishermen's Co-op Hall invites you to a
SPAGHETTI SUPPER and
SOCIAL EVENING
ON JUNE 3 Supper from 5:30 to 8 p.m. ADULTS $1 — CHILDREN 50c Social and dance from 9 to 12 p.m.
Admission 50c For tickets phone WHitney 6-6450 or WHitney 6-2208
FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS
VERNON L. SANKEY, MARINE and Industrial Electronics. Service and sales of radio telephone, echo sounders, Loran direction finders. 528 East 11th Street, North Vancouver, B.C. Phone: YUkon 8-3963.
SPECIALS IN ELECTRONICS
$315—Kaar radiotelephone, DOT approved, 5 channels and broadcast band. Crystals $10 per channel, whip aerial $35. $295— Ekolite 100 fath. flasher. $625—Robertson direction finders 'made in Norway) the best available.
LYALL McLENNAN ELECTRO MARINE EQUIPMENT
2895 Trinity St. Vancouver, B.C. ALpine 3-6572
TROLLER FOR SALE
40' TROLLER COMPLETELY equipped, sounder, phone, D.F., etc., ready to fish. MU. 1-7769 eves.
"SONIA B" FOR SALE
GILLNETTER 30' x 8%", 75 H.P. Grey Marine, completely rigged including 2 new sockeye nets, fully insured, ready to fish. Price $4,000. Boat at Kanata Marine Ways, Coal Harbor.
GILLNETTER FOR SALE
2 YR. OLD GILLNETTER NOR-dic Fortune, 35' x 10' beam, V-bottom, square stern, 98 GMC engine. LA. 1-5216.
WC TROLLER FOR SALE 40' TROLLER VIKING 4, ALL
electronics, refrigeration. Chrysler Royal engine completely overhauled. Gibsons 8862350.
FOR RENT
OFFICE SPACE AUDITORIUM FOR RENT
Spacious auditorium, modern in every respect, for banquets, meetings, dances. Also smaller meeting ing area and office space for rent in new Fishermen's Hall, 138 East Cordova Street. Phone Mutual 4-3254 or write the UFAWU at 138 East Cordova Street for rates, other details.
CANNON BALLS FOR SALE
FAD CANNON BALLS, ALL sizes, 13c per pound. Davidson Battery Service Ltd., 1900 Main St., TR. 4-1414. Free delivery.
GEAR FOR SALE
SEINE, BLOCK FOR SALE
SEINE FOR SALE, 2% STRIP BY 170 fathoms, all nyak salmon seine, nylon cork line, 3%" x 5%" Aero Buoys, manila lead line and purse line, snap seine rings, used two weeks 1960. Price including 300 lbs. nyak new web and one chain Puretic power block $4,000. Write Box 10, The Fisherman, 138 East Cordova St.,1 Van, BC.
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TENDERMEN CHARGE STALL
NETS FOR SALE
NIKKA 5%" x #28 x 200 F. ON used lines. $250. 1 Van. Nylon Web 43/33 x 6" x 625 F., $100. 1 Linen Web (new stock) 440/5%" x 450 F., $75. 1 Nylon Web, green, 5% x #43 x 200 F., $50. 9792 River Rd., N. Surrey (weekends). WO. 8-9096 eves.
EMPLOYMENT WANTED
GLOVES
FISHERMEN'S GLOVES
Large size, reversible canvas Plastic coated Gloves and Gauntlets All the Best Brands
Sold by
JOHN WATSON LIMITED
127 E. 2nd Ave. Vancouver, B.C. Phone TR. 4-1105
JOB WANTED
AS CAMP MAN, STOREKEEPER, cook or deckhand. Phone Frank, mornings at MU. 5-9878.
YORK DOUBLE KNOT NYLON NETS
ALL SIZES
Spring Salmon and Sockeye Nets Available for Immediate Delivery. Write or Phone C. P. LECKIE LTD. 1748 W. 4th Ave. RE. 1-2175 Vancouver 9, B.C.
given at any port or shore station on the British Columbia coast."
The Union wants the same conditions for tendermen as those now prevailing in the towboat industry —one day off in home port for each day worked and away from home port.
WORSE THAN 1953
It charges that the companies are trying to revert to a condition worse than that contained in the 1953 salmon tendermen's agreement, when the Union first established the principle that time off should be given in home port.
The 1953 agreement stated that "each vessel shall have a designated home port and all time off shall be given in home port except that n any calendar month not more than two days in the case of class B and C tenders and not more than three days in the case of class A collectors may be given away from home port." Home port was designated as the port from which the majority of the crew was engaged.
Tendermen, the Union points out, have no control of hours. By contrast, the men on most coastal shipping have an eight or 12 hour day, with overtime conditions beyond those hours.
MORE THAN 12 HOURS DAILY
On an average, tendermen put in more than 12 hours a day and these hours, multiplied by the 15 days worked, add up to a monthly total of considerably more than 180 hours, compared with 174 hours monthly for a worker on the 40 hour week in any other section of industry.
In the Union's view, the company proposal would wipe out the condition written into the 1960 agreement stipulating that only five days off a month could be given away from home port, extending it to a full 15 days, and rob them of gains already made as well as denying them a justified demand.
SENIORITY: Tendermen are seeking changes in the seniority clause of the agreement to bring it into line with seniority sections of the agreement with the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Cooperative Association.
Co-op seniority conditions have been in effect since 1954 and at no time has the Co-op, as an employer, requested basic changes. On occasions, the companies have asked for interpretation of their agreement with the Union and the Union has had to refer to the Co-op agreement for a proper interpretation.
The companies have made no proposal to improve seniority conditions. After having had almost three months to study Union proposals, their statement at the meeting committed them to no more than further consideration of the question with a view to submitting a counter proposal at the next meeting.
BOARD ALLOWANCE: The Union is asking $2.50 a day, with the exception of days off in home port. The canners have offered $2 a day. At the $2.50 figure asked it would require 22 working days or days off away from home port to equal the previous $55 monthly figure. At the $2 figure offered tendermen would receive less than
$55. But the companies have refused to advance their $2 offer.
GUARANTEE OF EMPLOYMENT: Tendermen point out that total employment has been declining year by year while the amount of employment received by each man has been reduced to the point where it is becoming impossible to make a living. In face of these facts, the companies flatly refuse to provide any guarantee of employment.
HOURLY RATES: Tendermen are asking $2 an hour, pointing out that in some instances rates are as low as $1.50 an hour. The operators have refused to make any offer. They have also rejected the tendermen's demand for $1 a ton for unloading ice at upcoast plants and camps—tendermen now have to unload 20 tons of ice free before they receive the $1 a ton rate.
CREW COMPLEMENTS: Sole concession made by the companies is to agree to two men on all gill-net collectors. They have rejected all other changes proposed by the Union.
Operators, however, have made a counter proposal to cut two men from some packers in the event that they install refrigerated sea-water tanks. The proposal is for five men on vessels of 100 tons or more outfitted with refrigerated tanks.
Contract changes proposed by the Union are designed to ensure at least the minimum crew complement carried by some vessels in the past few years and to protect the men against speedup. LABOR SAVING ISSUE
Early in negotiations, company representatives were compelled to admit that changes sought by the Union would not increase the crew complement in very many instances. But when the Union challenged them to present the exact figures, Association representative Malcolm Robertson declared that if only one man were added to the
payroll, the companies would not change their stand.
The Union contends that until the companies are prepared to share some of the benefits of labor costs saved with tendermen, it is not prepared to reduce crew complements. For the companies, Robertson has declared they will not consent to this becoming an issue at the bargaining table.
In the opinion of the tender-men's negotiating committee, the companies are stalling and making no serious effort to bargain. The companies are asking tendermen to accept a two year agreement which would provide none of the men's basic demands.
The contract sought by canners would actually deprive tendermen of the condition already established whereby they get a majority of days off in home port. STRONG STAND NEEDED
"The negotiating committee wants it to be noted by all Union members, whether tendermen, shoreworkers or fishermen, that it is under instruction of the membership to get down to serious bargaining," Union secretary Homer Stevens said this week.
"However, the companies' stand that they will not make serious proposals for improving the agreement, their demands for changes that would worsen the agreement and their insistence that the committee reduce its own demands before they will make any move, all indicate that the companies are stalling negotiations, possibly with the hope of forcing tendermen into a poor settlement at a later date. "The negotiating committee feels that a very strong stand will have to be taken by tender-men this year to get a decent settlement. It expects that this will require united action by the tendermen in support of the basic proposals advanced in negotiations and full support of the tendermen by all sections of the Union."
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ised the industry, UFAWU spokesmen said. Rest periods, taken collectively or individually, could not be avoided. In fact, studies made during the war in many industries had proven productivity was improved by properly organised relief periods. This could hardly be claimed as an item of cost, the Union contended.
With the exception of the welfare plan which is financed by a three cent per hour straight time contribution to the trust fund and which was originally agreed to by the companies as part of a parcel offer in which the three cents was listed as a wage increase, the so-called cost of other items is open to considerable question.
The Union conceded that some might be worth one fiftieth of a cent per hour if spread over the full labor force but called on the companies to make a proper estimate which could then be reviewed by the committee.
It was also suggested that at the same time, operators should table declining labor costs.
In reference to control of hours, the Union said that employment conditions in the industry were by no means favorable to the employees generally. The Union would be willing to hire a hall and have each party present its picture to a public meeting and let the meeting de-
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NYLON FISHING NETS
QUALITY NETS THAT GIVE YOU DEPENDABLE SERVICE
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS
E. A. TOWNS LTD.
MUTual 5-7929 1017 Marine Building Vancouver, B.C.
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NIKKA OVERSEAS AGENCY LTD.
217 Dunlevy Avenue
MUtual 4-7623
Vancouver, B.C.
TRANS-PACIFIC TRADING CO. LTD.
Nylon supplied by TOYO RAYON CO. OF JAPAN
1005 West Broadway
REgent 3-3216
MITSUI
640 West Hastings St.
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AND COMPANY
Vancouver 2, B.C.
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Vancouver, B.C.
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RENTALS
during the season, the company shall deduct from the total rental payable by the fisherman, a proportionate sum of money to cover fishing time lost due to such breakdown.
SECTION 2: It is agreed that if any company does not desire the services of a fisherman employed on a rented boat, the company shall notify the individual at the end of the season during which his services have been considered as unsatisfactory.
SECTION 3: It is agreed that rental boats shall be assigned to fishermen, by the company, on the basis of the length of service of the individual fisherman with the company.
SECTION 4: It is agreed that when a company decides to dispense with the services of a fisherman using a rented boat, any legitimate fishing debts, incurred during the period when the boat was being rented and remaining unpaid at the date of termination, shall be cancelled by the company.
SECTION 5: A proposal for a percentage system of payment for . rented boats may be proposed at a later date after further discussion with fishermen renting gillnet boats.
cide who suffers most, management or employees.
CONTRADICTORY CLAIM
During their statement of the many extra cost items besides straight wages, operators spoke of the "very good" statutory holiday pay condition in shore agreements. This statement was made even though at the previous meeting, companies had claimed the 3% percent method of calculating statutory holiday pay which the Union is requesting, was "a very expensive cost item."
Since the 3% percent method would simply guarantee that everyone would get exactly equal treatment on statutory holiday pay and it would cost the companies very little if the present condition worked the way it was designed to work, the Union committee found it impossible to reconcile the companies' contradictory statements.
If the present condition is bad (and the Union claims it is as a result of a steady and persistent search by companies for loopholes and technicalities to get out of paying) then a correction will cost money. "If the companies consider this a cost item, the cost should be discounted by the saving over past years made by chiselling on the statutory holiday pay which the employees should have received," UFAWU business agent Alex Gordon said.
Certain generalised statements with regard to market conditions which the companies classify as "poor" were made by Broatch who said a more developed posit inn "would be expressed on behalf of the companies" at the next meeting. AMENDMENT OFFERED
In spite of the refusal of the companies to place any offer on the table, the Union committee stated it was prepared to recommend to the membership an amendment to the ZVz percent statutory holiday pay request applying the condition only to those employees on the seniority list. This was done in reply to repeated company statements that temporary employees should not have the same condition in this regard as regular employees.
The Union committee also informed the Fisheries Association labor committee that it would recommend withdrawal of the request for payment of double time for all overtime. It would substitute a standard condition request for the whole coast and all groups, of double time for hours worked in excess of four hours, after 12 noon on Saturday, and for all hours worked on Sundays.
Next negotiating meeting has been set for June 1. Prior to this meeting, there will be conciliation session with Prince Rupert Fishermen's Cooperative Asociation and smaller operators such as Babcock Fisheries, Carlyle Fisheries, North American Fisheries, and Queen Charlotte Canners.
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