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THE FISHERMAN
June 17, 1960
Report from Rupert
Gordon Goes to Rupert, Discusses Plant Grievances
By GEORGE COLLINS Prince Rupert Correspondent
REPEATED a visit to North Pacific Cannery where a meeting was held of a mixed attendance and included the presence of Alex Gordon, busincso agent of the UFAWU. The meeting began with Alex Gordon givin.r some reasons for his visit to this area and followed through i n a later talk on the discussion floor.
He stressed the importance of handling "griefs" in the early part of the season rather than waiting till the season is just about over. Seniority clause turned out to be the highlight in the meeting strengthened with the added ideas of putting through the siime clause for the fishermen having to rent boats from year to year.
In his speech, Alex Gordon fell that a general "shake-up" was reeded on the seniority clause as a whole of which the companies involved have beer, trifling with of late to their employees' discomforts, perhaps with the view in mma that the present statistics of our
'Nordic Queen' Gets GM Diesel
Now powered by a 335 shaft hp GM diesel turning a 54-inch wheel recently installed by Sterling Shipyard, the Nordic Queen recorded a speed of 10.6 knots in trials at Vancouver.
Features of the new diesel, which was supplied by Hoffars, include hydraulic starting and a 60 hp Cotts power takeoff clutch driving seine and anchor winches.
The 72-foot seiner, owned by Capt. George T. Brajcich, fishes salmon and herring for Canadian Fishing Company.
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country's unemployment might be to their advantage.
He also mentioned that it would be best to be thinking about thf question of prices and wages for next year's negotiations. The fact of shoreworkers' wages being below Alaskan and Puget Sound shoreworkers was brought out and should be in the minds of members affected if an ideal wage is tr be won in next year's negotiations. *    * *
SOME   OF   THE FISHERMEN
present complained of inadequate overhauling of their rented 'gill netter" motors before the season.
Other "handicaps" to a productive season were mentioned an< obsolete "gillnetters" were mentioned as one which is also ques tionable in regard to safety laws.
Members were asked to applj for compensation therefore bringing such "gillnetters" to light m the eyes of the proper authorities.
So much for my version as a
spare time reporter knowing that whatever is mhsed will be broughi to being in the person of those better authorised.
I wish for further talk about certain elements in the fishing industry who were not there at the trollers' meeting of which I gave but a brief mention in my first report as a correspondent.
The trollers I want to talk about as a beginning are those NOT on the "unwanted list" inserted from time to time in the pages of The Fisherman.
These persons of whom I speak feel it to be a great wrong to be fishing when others in the industry are on strike.
But yet they are not members of the UFAWU which also includes a lot of trollers of certain areas and who were the ones to contribute the list I aforementioned. *    * *
INDIVIDUAL ENTRY AS MEM bers to our organisation or a successful merger of any combinatioi! of which they may be members with our organisation would have contributed a lesson and example to follow that shoreworkers are also in existence. Perhaps the list mentioned would not have been so many in numbers. They would have been with us to stop those "who have been scabbing againsc the shoreworkers" (pardon my strong words) such as taking bait and ice and in that way crossing the picket line.
We,  as  fellow workers need
you; better come out of hiding!
And as to those on the unwanted list, who wished to stay as "hermits" on the "high seas," no need to dwell on my opinion of their actions. There are a growing number of people who are voicing their opinions within the industry as well as outside the industry. After all we did have support from other trade unions last year when we needed them most.
So I write hopeful for potential members to join us.
Thank ye, again.
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Province' Closes Columns to Truth
feel that there is sufficient basis for your protests to warrant their publication.
Inasmuch as she documents her case thoroughly, I am reluctant to publish a letter that casts aspersions on her professional reputation and discounts a series of articles which we feel constituted a workmanlike job.
Indeed, if we are not careful we will find ourselves engaged in an endless series of letters of accusation and denial which would leave our readers highly confused.
We do not think that such a situation would meet our responsibilities as a newspaper.
ALAN JESSUP, Editor, Editorial Page, Vancouver, BC. Vancouver Province.
Reading 'Between the Lines1
June 13, 1960.
Mr. Alan Jessup, Editor, Editorial Page, The Province, Dear Mr. Jessup:
Thank you for your letter of June 10, 1960. I found it somewhat puzzling at first, but after reading between the lines a little, it becomes somewhat clearer.
I attach a copy of how it read to me with the "between the lines" portions spelled out.
Please let me know if the new version correctly expresses your thoughts.  I would not like to misquote you.
HOMER STEVENS, Vancouver, BC. Secretary treasurer, UFAWU.
Dear Mr. Stevens:
Thanks for your letter. I have read it most carefully and reviewed all the corrections contained in it to our articles on the BC fishing industry. However, you go too far in suggesting we publish it. If you are really serious about that, I suggest you go and buy a daily newspaper of your own. A free press means everybody who disagrees with anything we publish can put out his own newspaper.
To show the detailed manner in which we considered whether to print your letter, I called in Pat Carney, whom we hired to write the articles, which you would like to correct. She does not feel that there is sufficient basis for your protests to warrant their publication.
Now as you must be well aware, our reporters always decide what they are to write and everything is always published exactly as written. Furthermore our reporters always decide whether to publish any correction of anything we have published for them. I can't understand why you would suggest I hurt her feelings by publishing your letter.
She has documented our case thoroughly. She even quoted you. You were most unkind to cast aspersions on her professional reputation by denying what we printed you as saying. Pat Carney, I should remind you, is working for us. We never employ anybody who fails to do a workmaniike job for us. I always thought you favored the workmen. Tut! Tut!
Indeed if we are not careful we might have to print a series of letters, contradicting and arguing about what we have seen fit to print. This would leave our readers highly confused and we cannot allow you to interfere with our editorial prerogative.
We are determined to boldly meet our responsibilities as a newspaper and will therefore continue to print what fits the views of the proprietors of The Province.
ALAN JESSUP, Editor, Editorial Page.
Women's Peace Committee Lays Plans, Elects Officers
A continuations committee named at the recent peace discussion conference called by women's auxiliaries to the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union has elected provisional officers and named itself the "trade union women's committee lor peace."
Seton Creek Pink Test Site
Historic Seton Creek near Lil-looet has been chosen by the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission as the site of an artificial spawning channel which, it is estimated, will double the rate of natural pink salmon spawning in the area.
The channel, now being built by the Commission on land provided by the BC Electric, will be 3,000 leet long and 20 feet wide. It will substitute for natural spawning areas recently flooded by construction of the BC Electric diversion dam on Seton Creek, which flows eastward from Seton Lake to the Fraser River.
Commission scientists estimate that the channel will double the rate of production from natural spawning areas, allowing a minimum of 10,000 pink salmon to spawn.
Operating costs and efficiency of the Seton Creek spawning channel will be compared with those of the new Pitt River experimental hatchery, now under construction and expected to be completed in August, as part of a study being made by the Commission. Records of experimental spawning areas kept by the Commission and the fisheries department since 1953 indicate that they have been effective in increasing salmon fry production and that operating costs are considerably lower than those of standard type hatcheries.
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Mrs. Jean Cook has been elected secretary and Mrs. Frances Gii-stead research director. Both arc members of the Vancouver Women's Auxiliary to the UFAWU.
Chairman is Mrs. Jean Waugh.
Immediate intention of the committee is to send ietters to aL women's auxiliaries and unions reporting on the conference and listing preliminary plans:
• A tag with a slogan for peace to be issued to auxiliaries and unions;
• Space at the Pacific National Exhibition to explain the committee's policies;
• Make speakers avaiiable to interested organisations and add representatives to the committee.
Also on the agenda is a further conference   for   next September.
Strikers Given $500 Donation
After hearing an appeal from a locked out member of the Union, the independent Van-. couver Civic Employees Union —Outside Workers has voted $500 to assist the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, AFL-CIO in its bitter dispute with three Vancouver hardware firms. The strike started May 6, when 25 employees of Fred C. Myers walked out and the two other firms, Mc and Mc and Marshall Wells, promptly locked out their workers.
The committee received a letter from Helen Walton, recording secretary of the WA for Local 303, Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Union at Salmo, BC, expressing "our best wishes to all your membership . . . and continued success in the work being done by your organisation.
"My belief is that if all people we're acquainted properly with what great suffering and harm radiation can cause, to say nothing of what a war of this making would be to the world and all living things, then I do believe it would not be long before we would have convinced them 100 percent to stop all these testings and achieve a permanent peace. With God's help, may this be done."
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