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THE FISHERMAN
March 6, 1945
THE
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Published Every Tuesday except the last Tuesday of each month by The Fisherman Publishing Society at 138 East Cordova St, Vancouver, B.C.
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A. W. Neill For Senator
npHE suggestion of Bruce Hutchison writing in March 2 issue of the Vancouver Sun that A. W. Neill be appointed to the Senate, has aroused widespread interest among fishermen.
In his column, Hutchison states in part:
"Before an election it is the cheerful custom of the Canadian Government to fill up«ll vacant Senate seats. This process, we may be sure, is soon to be completed. And if the past is any guide, the appointments generally will be bad. Sixteen senatorships are to be bestowed as the personal gift of the prime minister, and they will be bestowed, according to the rules, on party hacks who will have a minimum of use in a deliberative assembly.
"Many means could be used to create a second chamber which would be democratic, representative of something more than a prime minister's friends. We could provide that all ex-prime ministers should automatically be members so that their ability and experience will not be lost, just as British prime ministers usually go to the House of Lords. We could place in the Senate all cabinet ministers if they have served a long term, say 10 years. We might appoint to it provincial premiers of long experience. We might insist that labor and agriculture shall choose representatives. Or we might make the Senate elective, for long periods, apart altogether from the Commons.
"In the pending appointment in British Columbia, it seems \ to me, Mr. King has a chance to add to the Senate a man of almost unequalled experience, very good ability and complete fearlessness. I mean A. W. Neill who has represented Comox-Alberni in the Commons since 1921, and sat in our legislature as early as 1898.
"Mr. Neill has never been a slavish party man. He has run as an independent but generally has supported the King Government. Sometimes he has quarreled bitterly with it and voted against it and pulled no punches. If Mr. King were to choose men of this sort, instead of blunted party tools, he would, in fact, be reforming the Senate.
"The work of the easy-going Senate, which only meets for a few weeks a year, might seem just a holiday for a man accustomed to Mr. Neill's schedule, but he would make himself useful and introduce into the Senate a kind of practical skepticism, an insistence on facts, and a curious deadpan irony which would liven the whole place up.
"I do not know whether Mr. Neill is interested in the Senate or not and I mention him only as an example of the type of men we need there—men of experience, who understand the country as only a parliamentarian can understand it, and men who will say and vote as they please."
A Lesson In Labor Unity
ANNOUNCEMENT that Minister of Labor George S. Pearson will establish a special government labor committee to consider all matters of provincial labor legislation has been greeted by the British Columbia trade union movement.
While the decision to set up the committee represents an important gain, it came only as the result of strong trade union pressure and it came primarily as a result of the labor lobby organized by the B.C. Federation of Labor, showing that labor can influence the government when it follows a clearcut line of non-partisan political action.
It is to be regretted that labor did not come together for this event and share jointly in the impressive lobby.
The Trades and Labor Council executive, over the protests of Fishermen's Union delegates and others from such industries as air-
craft, decided to pursue an "independent" course, ignoring the fact that some 60,000 trade unionists exist outside the AFL in B.C. and that these unionists were quite willing to jointly press labor's demands before the government. As a result, less than 40 AFL'ers journeyed to Victoria while the CCL delegation was able to rally 174 delegates. That the forty did do some work is conceded, but their efforts would have resulted in nil had not the CCL leaders acted so effectively.
One redeeming factor which probably did more to influence the government than any other single act was the presence of representatives from all Vancouver Island AFL unions.
No other lesson stands out more clearly as a result of this lobby than the extreme necessity of united labor action.
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Monterey cannery operators, appreciative of the fact that cannery workers could no longer hop into their cars and dash home for a snack at the lunch periods, and that there were no adequate eating facilities adjacent to Cannery Row, have installed hinch rooms and cafeterias, where good, appetizing, hot food is served at. cost price.
One of the most complete of these is the Del Mar Canning Co. recreation center, just a block and a half from the cannery- Here the company has taken over what were formerly the club rooms of a social organization, and fixed them up most attractively, as a recreation centre and cafeteria.
Under the direction of Paul Mason, sales manager of the Del Mar Canning Co., the caretaker of the club raises chickens right on the place, so every week or so chicken appears on the menus, prepared by George Burns, chef.
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Conservation Brief Backed By Ladner
Endorsation of the operators' hrief on conservation was voted at a special meeting of the Ladner local on February 18, held to elect delegates to the 1945 joint convention.
Members also endorsed the resolution referred from the last convention to the Fraser River council, urging the fisheries department "to take immediate steps to have uniform gillnet fishing licences for the Fraser River and district and also that the weekly starting be made uniform at 8 a.m. Monday morning throughout the entire fishing season."
Meanwhile, Port Mann local members have voted against the removal of the boundary, claiming that fishermen up the river earn less than those from below. The one clear day's fishing, according to the local, serves to bring earnings of fishermen above the bridge more in line with those of fishermen below.
The resolution on use and size of drift nets for natives, originally brought up by the Albion local, was also backed by the Ladner meeting. Seventeen members were present with J. Read in the chair and M. A. Vidulich, acting secretary.
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