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THE FISHERMAN
December 16, 1960
Greater Unity Needed
Labor Vote Strong But Successes Few
Labor polled strong votes but elected few candidates in civic and municipal elections Thursday last week, scoring its only victories in Burnaby and Surrey. In Vancouver, where labor mounted its strongest campaign, the Non-Partisan Association swept the polls, regaining the stranglehold on civic government it held for 20 years.
——^— Many factors contributed to labor's failure to win greater repre
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Mrs. Ethel Miller Sends Her Thanks
Mrs. Ethel Miller, widow of net-man Bill Miller, has expressed to the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union her appreciation of the Union's $150 death benefit cheque and the many kindnesses of Union members and officers individually in her bereavement.
The late Bill Miller, who started fishing in 1921, was widely known in the industry. For the 10 years preceding his death on October 20 he had lived in retirement forced on him by ill health, but he retained his ties and interest in the industry to the end.
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sentation in municipal government, chief among them lack of unity among labor and progressive forces and the stronger effort made by established political groups in face of labor's challenge. This was particularly apparent in Vancouver, where the NPA benefiited by internal dissension within the rival Civic Voters Association.
The NPA took every office, ousting Aid. E. A. Jamieson from the lone council seat won by labor in 1958. Labor influenced the outcome only to the extent that the three NPA candidates endorsed by Vancouver Labor Council topped the poll in each instance—Aid. Halford Wilson for council, John Henderson for school board and Arnold Webster for parks board.
Strongest labor challenger for aldermanic office after runner up E. A. Jamieson, who had CVA backing, was Sam Jenkins, while the biggest threat to the NPA on the school board was Harry Rankin, progressive independent who polled an impressive 37,943 votes as runner up and ran ahead of the CVA.
BURNABY, SURREY WINS
In Burnaby, labor had greater success, reelecting Russell Hicks to the council seat he won in a byelection earlier this year and returning Robert Prittie, Burnaby Citizens Association candidate endorsed by labor, at the head of the council poll. Two other labor candidates were narrowly defeated, John Higman, contesting a one year council term, and James Gordon, who fell only 30 votes short jf election to school board.
Labor also reelected Ernie Wood to council and Ernest Neumann to jchool board in Surrey, but lost i school board seat in North Vancouver District, where Mrs. Dorothy Lynas was defeated.
Elsewhere labor's successes were imited to endorsed candidates, two labor approved candidates, Ken Wright and Maud Corrigan being alected to New Westminster council and two others, Aid. W. G. T. Goddard and Aid. J. G. Folkard, winning reelection in Port Alberni.
How Is Your Memory?
That's a question that applies only to the old timers in the fishing industry since they're the only ones who might recognise these two pictures. They were passed along by veteran fisherman Art Watson and he in turn obtained them from George Fentiman. We'd appreciate information or even guesses.
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UNEMPLOYMENT
the number of unemployed over October and 112,000 over November of 1959.
GORDON CRITICAL
UFAWU business agent Alex cordon told The Fisherman that 'These statistics grossly understate the real situation. But even taking them as approximately accurate, it is obvious we are in a serious economic crisis that necessitates emergency action.
"The federal winter works program is a sickening farce, with the government including all its regu-
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lar work as part of what it claims as its special program for meeting the situation. It won't even concede that our economic difficulties constitute a crisis of major proportions.''
Gordon called for immediate large scale public works, including new schools, hospitals, slum clearance and new low rental housing construction, roadbuilcling, and in the case of the fishing industry, a comprehensive program of stream clearance to rehabilitate salmon runs.
"It is clear," he commented, "that we won't get much action from Ottawa or Victoria without mass pressure."
LOBBY FROM UAW
Members of The United Automobile Workers in eastern Canada along with members of other unions converged on Ottawa this week to press demands for jobs and sentiment is growing in BC for similar action.
With the unemployed beginning to organise under leadership of the BC Federation of Unemployed, it is expected there will be a mass lobby to Victoria when the legislature opens early in the New Year.
With an increasing number of foreclosure on homes and furniture and other possessions, and with unemployment increasing rapidly, there is a mounting demand from organised workers for militant steps to force government action.
Two UFAWU Fishermen Lost in Alert Bay Area
Search by plane and boat of the area around the Pearse Islands has failed to disclose any trace of Fred Inch and Allen W. Huson, whose damaged gillnetter was found beached on Cormorant Island, and both are now presumed to have drowned. Both men were members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union.
The Nowell was found beached on the southern point of Cormorant Island on November 21. Her
Is Canada US Colony?
Why should Canadian school students be taught the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag?
This is the question many parents in Montreal are asking since it was disclosed that a Grade 4
textbook containing the pledge overturned written and published in the US, is s wprp nrnhahlv
mast was snapped, the roof of the cabin sheared away and the gill-net drum, found about 150 feet down the beach at high tide mark, torn away. A scuff mark near the keel indicated where the boat might have hit a rock and overturned.
The two men, both well known in the fishing and logging industry around Alert Bay, were returning to Arthur Lansdowne's logging camp with a load of groceries when the accident occurred.
It is believed the net caught in the propeller shaft and while they were trying to get the propeller cleared, the boat drifted into the fast current of the narrow pas-
being used in some schools under the jurisdiction of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal.
The school board can offer only the lame excuse that the textbook is being used "for reading purposes only" and "no comparable textbook is published in Canada."
One mother quoted by the Montreal Star, said tartly that if money were the only reason, "surely Russia would be happy to offer us free textbooks, and the hammer and sickle would be a change from the stars and stripes propaganda."
And, as a postscript to BC parents: "What US textbooks is your child studying?"
The two men were probably thrown into the cold swift water and carried away from the boat.
Union Groups Ask 5/7/ 43 Repeal
Repeal of Bill 43, the Socred government's bitterly assailed Trade Unions Act, was asked by the legislative committee of the International Railway Brotherhoods in a brief presented to the provincial cabinet this week.
The brief condemned Bill 43 as removing protection long accorded to trade unions and reversing the accepted principle of justice by providing "that a trade union is presumed to be guilty until its innocence is proven."
Support Delta Hockey Teams
The United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union has two teams, one junior and one senior, playing hockey, according to UFAWU Delta Sports committee secretary Nick Spil-chen.
The seniors, the UFAWU Salmon Kings, play every Monday and Wednesday in the Delta Ice Stadium at Ladner.
The UFAWU Bluebacks, equipped in part by Robert Ransford, is open to youngsters connected with the fishing industry who live in the Delta area.
Youngsters interested may contact Nick Spilchen in Ladner or Ted Bottin (LAkeview 1-6195) in Sunbury for further information.
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Pat Mulligan Passes at 70
The United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union has lost a staunch member by the death in St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, on December 9 of Patrick Emmet Mulligan in his seventieth year.
As cook at the Good Hope Cannery, Rivers Inlet, where he had worked for the past six years, Pat Mulligan was well known to many fishermen and shoreworkers. Union organisers visiting the plant were always assured of a friendly welcome and a good meal. Pat Mulligan also had many friends at Alert Bay, where he worked for four years.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth; two sons, Terry, Vancouver and Hugh, Kamloops; one daughter, Mrs. W. K. Farsberg, Vancouver; seven grandchildren; two brothers, Lome and Dave, Wini-peg; and two sisters, Mrs. T. Olesen, Vancouver, and Mrs. A. F. du Brule, Los Angeles.
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