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Representing The Organized Fishermen And Shoreworkers of British Columbia
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g     TUNA AGREEMENT .............................. Page 3
1     ANNIVERSARY OF A FASCIST .................. Page 4
|     PILCHARD AGREEMENT ........................ Page 8
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Vol. VTII. No. 23. (342)
VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1946
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STOP WORK MEETING AT RUPERT
Tuna Boat Share Basis Arbitrated
Signing of a 1946 tuna fishing agreement last Monday with a supplement providing for arbitration to finally settle the exact share basis under which tuna vessels will operate this year, brought to an end a two-week deadlock of fishermen and vessel owners. The pact was signed by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union and the B.C. Fishing Vessel Owners' Association.
Provision of a lay-away fund amounting to seven percent of gross stock with the vessel keeping 20 percent of gross pending outcome of arbitration is the basis on which settlement was reached.
This, a compromise finally proposed by the union came after a number of alternate proposals including 1jie latest by the Vessel Owners that the boat retain 20 percent of gross stock with 12 percent of gross to go into a fund pending arbitration. Original plan offered by the union was that boats fish at 25 percent of net stock while arbitration was taking place. A full agreement was, following arbitration, to have been negotiated specifying whether the share would be 25 percent of net or 20 percent of gross. Owners had proposed that boats receive a straight 27 percent of gross stock.
It is reported from Victoria by Elgin "Scotty" Neish, president of the Victoria local, UFAWU, that three boats of Falconer Fish Company planning to go out on tuna are tied up awaiting signing of the agreement by the company. Neish is skipper of one of them, the Glendale 5.
Complete text of the supplement to the tuna agreement states as follows:
"This memorandum of understanding is hereby agreed to by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union and the Fishing Vessel Owners' Association of British Columbia and shall govern the division of the catch on all tuna trolling vessels until such time as a full agreement has been arrived at between the union and   the association.
"1. An arbitration board shall be set up composed of one rep-—Continued on Page 8
Wnnlil.ho 6ti*ilrA Rnetore This scene of strike-busting by police has TVUU1U-DC Sirilte OUMC» !10t as its locale British Columbia but
Toronto, where metal miners at Anaconda have been on strike for nearly two months. Premier Drew, who can't find a cent to provide necessary social conditions or even adequate anti-crime protection, is still able to send literally hundreds of police out to arrest, browbeat, and attempt to  smash  union picket lines.
Pilchard Pact Meet To Set
Terms Herring
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ettled; Plans
With terms of the 1946 pilchard agreement now settled, members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union affected will be meeting tonight over compromise proposals offered by operators on two of the three chief points still unsettled in the herring fishing pact for the coming season.
As   far   as   pilchards   are   con- | cerned, there is an understanding jn  case  either party should feel
UFAWU Members Qather Saturday To Decide Policy
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.—All shoreworker members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union Local in this city will hold a special "stop work" meeting Saturday at 2 o'clock in the Civic Auditorium to decide what action will be taken to secure satisfactory agreements for major fresh fish and cold storage operations on the Rupert waterfront. Operators are proposing a
to be attached to the agreement regarding a time-off period or a decision as to when pilchard fishing is to close, depending on whether the herring agreement is signed now or later  in  the fall.
Major points remaining to be settled in herring were the following  original demands:
• A clause which would permit the tendermen of each company's fleet to vote by secret ballot on whether they will work on lay or on a wage and pool basis with each company agreeing fo abide by the result of such a poll of  its  own  tender crews.
• A clause which would permit the agreement to be reopened on the question of price for herring with seven  days' notice provided
UF Co-op N
lames Sales Managers For Bond Drive
Keen competition is expected between the twenty-six main areas taking part in the United Fishermen's Co-op drive to raise $150,000 in bonds for financing construction of a modern cold storage plant.
A  bond   drive  committee with
at least one member representing each of the areas, has been selected. Here are the areas with names of salesmen:
Campaign
Area Manager
Albion ................. W. Lahti
Whonnock .............. Ted Lee
Fort Langley ...... Pete Cordoni
Port Kells ........... Alex Eyton
Port Mann ....... Henry Hansen
S. Westminster .. Ray Sivertsen N. Westminster . Trygve Pedersen Anniville .. . Harry Christiansen West Anniville .... E. A. Iverson
Sunbury ........ Harold Iverson
Woodwards  Slough   . .   Jack Hill
Ladner .......... Mike Vidulich
Burnaby ....... Sig. Hansen
(3226 Laurel St., N. Westminster) Active Pass .......,. W. W. Floyd
(Co-op Camp) Porlier Pass ........ R. MacKay
(Co.op Camp) Nanaimo ......... Tom Gregory
(Co_op Camp) Hornby Island .... George Moore
(Co.op Camp) Quathiaski Cove . ■ Doug. Morton
(Co-op Camp, Cape Mudge) Stuart Island .... Leonard Larson Bliss Landing .... Pete Anderson
Lund ............... D. Sorenson
Egmont ............ Bill Blakely
Pender Harbor .... M. Warnock Skidegate and Skidegate
Mission .......... Ed. Stevens
Queen Charlotte
City ............ Art Husband
Vancouver.—All members of the board of directors are acting as salesmen, and members in Vancouver can contact the office direct.
Quotas for each area will be announced shortly. The bond drive publicity committee points out in a statement to The Fisherman that the main object is to raise the $150,000 as quickly, as possible, and be able to start construction in the shortest time possible.
"We invite your suggestions as to how this can be done," says the committee. "If you have not already visited the plant, or wish to show visiting friends through the plant, you will find it a busy and interesting place, and the workers here will be glad to  show you through.
"Perhaps 60 years from now we will be celebrating a jubilee, and can rejoice over years of cooperative endeavor, but the timo to start building towards this is right now. Let us hear from you."
The committee urges members not to wait to be contacted but to shoot their bond money to the co-op at Box 767, Vancouver. All money sent to the office this way will be applied directly to the area from which it came. Bonds,
that some change in market con dition so warrants.
• The $30 per month board allowance demanded for tender-men working on straight wages.
Compromise proposal on the first point provides that in the fall tenders concerned in each company would hold a discussion of their own on the question. Following this procedure, a secret ballot of the men would be taken on whether they prefer the lay basis or wage and pool basis. If the majority desire was not agreed to by the company or companies, the question would be submitted to independent arbitration.
On the question of reopening the agreement after seven days' notice over price if market ' conditions warrant, the proposed clause reads:
"In the event that the Canadian government should abolish Wartime Prices and Trade Board controls on herring meal and/or remove the embargo on shipments of such meal and oil to other countries, resulting in free trading and free marketing, then the price for herring contained in this agreement may be reopened for further negotiation by either party on seven day's written notice. Negotiations are to begin on receipt of such notice and during the seven day period fishing is to continue. The fish delivered during this seven day period is to be paid for at the price in this agreement. If the negotiations so reopened are not
concluded satisfactorily to both parties at the end of the seven days, then fishing by members of the union may cease."
Operators have refused to consider the requested provision allowing for a $30 per month board allowance for tendermen on straight wage basis.
If the proposed terms are not accepted by the meeting tonight, there will likely be no agreement and the whole matter of a herring agreement will have to be reopened at the close of pilchard operations.
wage scale equal to that es tablished in Vancouver's Edmunds and Walker and Victoria's Ogden Point Plant during negotiations conducted recently.
Members are sticking to their original demands of one dollar per hour for cold storage workers, 98 cents for fresh fish (male), and a range of 84 cents to 98 cents for women workers after one year.
They are also asking for maintenance of membership and check-off for Atlin Fish, Edmunds and Walker and Seal Cove. The award of the conciliation board set up recently to go into the case for union security provisions at the two large company operations in Prince Rupert, recommended that maintenance of membership be put into practice.
However, the board also suggested voluntary check-off, stating as one reason that "the voluntary check-off does not conflict with the employers' position . . . while it does have very obvious advantages from the point of view of the  employees  . . ."
While the Prince Rupert Fishermen's   Cooperative   is   not in-
( Rupert Tuna 1 | OK'd at 20% |
H All vessels going out of Prince Rupert to fish tuna this year will operate on the 20 percent gross share basis prevailing in the B.C. halibut fishery. Members of the Deepsea Fishermen's Union have turned down any form of arbitration, sticking by their original demand for the flat 20 percent boat share.
Vessels leaving Rupert to enter this fishery on these terms number eight. They are the Arctic 1, Domino, Larrie H, Lorna H, Morris H, Oldfield, Toodie, and 1 Tramp.
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rax Deduction Cut Helps Fishermen's Take-Home Pay
In line with demands made by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union at meetings and conventions, the federal government has finally reduced taxes of fishermen by fifty percent, effective last Monday. This brings the tax on seine, halibut and otter trawl crews down from 20 to 10 percent. For all other gear taxes have been cut to five percent from the former 10 percent figure.
Originally invoked by order-in-council in September of 1942, incidentally, come in $50 and $100 1 the flat 20 percent and 10 per-denominations. I cent   deduction   plan   won swift
opposition from fishermen concerned for the obvious injustice it inflicted, particularly in poor seasons. Last October when Hon. Ilsley announced his budget, he "relieved" 12,000 firms of excess profit tax payments and made a general cut of 40 percent on big businesses.
However, despite the unorthodox and unjust method of collecting from fishermen, no reduction in their taxes was effected until now. Once the method of averaging taxes on a three-year basis comes into effect, fishermen will be in a far better position than they have been for some years.
volved in the check-off question, it is involved in wage demands. The board of directors has delegated power to bargain for an agreement to Bill Brett, Ted Sorensen, and Hans Hansen, who are acting as members of the joint   operators' committee.
An example of how the members feel about accepting the latest offer of the operators' committee was provided a week ago when Seal Cove members voted on the Vancouver Edmunds and Walker scale made retroactive to January 15. This would have meant wage increases considerably higher than those which would be received under the same schedules in other Rupert plants since the rates now in effect at Seal Cove are considerably lower than in the other operations.
Seal Cove members voted 69 to 2 to reject the offer, leaving little doubt of the firmness of their position.
Plants other than Seal Cove would stand to gain from 3 to 5 cents per hour on the basis of proposed rates. From all evidence available, it appears that a strike on the Prince Rupert waterfront is definitely possible this weekend.
Unions Act To Fight Anti-Labor Injunction
Mass picketing of the Daily Province by AFL, CIO and CCL unionists was Vancouver labor's answer this week to a supreme court injunction restraining nearly a hundred officers and members of Local 226, International Typographical Union, from picketing the Southam newspaper, strikebound since composing room workers walked out on June 5. Alarmed by issuance of the in
junction, a familiar strike-breaking weapon in pre-war days, trade unions of both affiliations have moved in the past few days from sympathetic support of the ITU strike to active participation on the picket lines.
When the ITU withdrew pickets named in the injunction, the lines were filled with members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union, seamen, shipyard workers, street railway-men, miners, and others. Two hundred shipyard workers, members of the Boilermakers Union, on Monday staged a parade through Victory Square following their own union meeting.
Statements attributed to officers of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union, following the union's majority decision to return to work, that ab|ence of pickets would make it possible for the decision to be carried out brought a mass turnout of pickets, including many union leaders, on Thursday morning in response to the call of the permanent coordinating committee of daily newspaper workers.
Pressmen and stereotypers are not on strike, but when ordered to report for work by the Province management they have refused to cross picket lines.
Support of other unions was welcomed in a statement issued this week by Fraser Wilson, chairman of the coordinating committee and endorsed by International Typographical Union, International Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union, International Photo Engravers Union and Vancouver Newspaper Guild.
The statement read:
"We, the undersigned, representing the overwhelming majority of all newspaper workers in Vancouver, and being the permanent coordinating committee of all daily newspaper workers, accept the offer of the two Vancouver labor
councils for support in the South-am dispute.
"We call upon all trade unionists to give all moral, legal and economic support possible to have the Southam newspaper chain bargain with the only genuine printers' union, the International Typographical Union."
Instruments Stolen From Halibut Boat
A chronometer and barometer were stolen from the Vancouver halibut boat Alaverdy, moored at the government wharf in Prince Rupert last week. The Alaverdy is skippered by Capt. Lief Karstensen  of New Westminster.
Fish Prices
Following fish prices obtained at Campbell Avenue Dock on Thursday, July 18, at Vancouver.
White Spring Salmon ____ 10c lb.
Red Spring Salmon:
Large .................... 24c lb.
Medium ................ 20c lb.
Small ................... 14c lb.
Flounders (in round) ____ 2c lb.
Soles ...................... 5c lb.
Dogfish Livers: (Bought on test.)
Grey Cod Livers .......... 4c lb.
Fresh Grey Cod  (dressed) 5c lb.
Live Cod (dressed, headed) 10c lb.
Glllnet   Herring .......... 6c lb.
SEATTLE (Wednesday, July 17, 1946)
Petrale Sole .............. 5c lb.
Ling Cod ................. 8c lb.
True Cod ............... 4«4c lb.
Rockfish ..................4 He lb.
Sablefish .................ll^c lb.
Troll Spring Salmon:
Red .............. 37H-S8C lb.
White .................. 25c lb.
Silver .................. 25c lb.
Halibut:
Larger  chlx ...... 26c-26%c lb.
Medium ............ 27H-29C lb.