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THE FISHERMAN
October 12, 1943
Trade Unions Join Hands To Make Vancouver Better City For Common Man
Forty-three delegates from 30 trade union locals met in conference last Sunday at the Medical Dental building and adopted a program for civic improvement to be put forward in the coming municipal elections in the city.
The program, which candidates for municipal office will be expected to endorse in order to secure the support of the Trade Union Representation Committee, embraces these points:
• Recognition of the fuel problem as a civic responsibility.
• A definite program of small homes development, to be worked out in conjunction with federal and provincial authorities.
• Extension of the right to vote to persons at present ineligible, by the process of opening the city charter.
• Development of community centers and supervised playing fields, throughout "Vancouver.
• Retention of present day nurseries and further extension of the service.
• Social services, such as public health, institutions for the infirm, etc., to be extended; social services to be maintained by governments and not by individual charity.
• Greater social and economic security.
• City council to take lead in establishing proper labor relations between employer and employee by executing mutually satisfactory agreements with its own employees, such agreements to embody the recognized principle of a closed shop.
• Development of industries such as steel, shipbuilding and plastics, to meet the post-war period.
• Extension of educational facilities, investigation of continual changing of textbooks.
An effort has been made by the trade union representation committee to enlist the aid of the C.C.F. provincial executive in securing a united labor front in this year's civic elections, William Stewart, boilermakers' delegate and secretary of the committee, reported.
A protest will be made by the committee against the City Council's refusal to sign a closed shop agreement with the Civic Employees' Federation, it was decided in a resolution.
"I have heard aldermen say the closed shop is a Fascist measure," said Ed. Leary, Dock and Shipyard Workers' delegate. "We don't want such men serving on the City Council. We want members who are all out for collective bargaining and the closed shop."
TO APPROACH CITY
"We should ask the city to do business with firms which have collective bargaining agreements with their employees," urged L. Anderson, Amalgamated Building Workers.
Social services should be paid for by the municipal or provincial governments and not left to such private charities as the Welfare Federation, S. Shearer, Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Engineers, declared.
"It's an outrageous thing that a crippled child must depend on funds derived from tag days,"
added W. Sribbens, Civic Employees.
"The state should look after the infirm. The Welfare Federation, which bears the main burden by private subscription, is not the right method of handling the problem."
"Racketeering" in the sale of textbooks was mentioned by delegates, during discussion of educational reforms.
"Commercial companies are making a racket out of textbook business," charged Harold Prit-chett, I.W.A.
"There's quite a possibility of a racket," added Maurice Baker, Aeronautical Workers. "The constant changes in textbooks bring no great improvement either in the books or their subject matter." CHLORINATED WATER
The issue of chlorinating Vancouver's water supply was referred to the executive for special study before labor, as represented by Trade Union Representation Committee, takes a definite stand.
Recommendation was made in a resolution calling for provision by the city of adequate fire protection for waterfront property. The executive was enlarged from eight to sixteen members. New members elected were: William Burgess, United Fishermen's Union; W. Cooper, Beverage Dispensers Union; M. H. Coomb, Carpenters Union; M. G. Baker, Aeronautical Mechanics Union; Nigel Morgan, IWA; S. S. Rogers, Machinists Union; M. J. Kennis, Bakers Union; E. E. Leary, Dock and Shipyard Workers Union, S. Hagman, City Firefighters Union, was appointed financial secretary.
G. J. Gerrard, Projectionists' Union, is chairman of the committee, and William Stewart, Boilermakers, is secretary.
Trawler Catches Snb Or Vice-Versa
Some time ago this year we reported the story of the Fraser River fisherman who caught a giant turgeon in his net and thought he had a submarine. Last week the press reported the story of a fishing crew who caught a submarine and couldn't imagine what they had.
A trawler, the Adelaide T. (so the story runs) was operating off the eastern end of Long Island, N.Y. Suddenly the vessel started going backward. That continued at some speed for 40 minutes.
The crew was staring rfpen-mouthed into the sea trying to guess what sort of monster their net had snagged when a smoke bomb emerged from the water and exploded in the air. That was enough. The crew cut loose the net containing the day's catch. The trawler's backward movement stopped.
Twenty minutes later a United States submarine surfaced.
Commercial fishermen in British Columbia landed 23,033,400 salmon during the 1942 season. Of this number 9,061,000, in round figures, were taken by gill-netters, 8,759,000 by purse-seine fshermen, and nearly 2,025,000 by trollers. In 1941 the number of salmon caught was slightly less than 21,572,900.
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By G. T. GREENWELL (Extension Department, University of British Columbia)
CO-OPERATIVE HISTORY-II
While numerous co-op enterprises had been undertaken in England prior to 1840 most if not all had ended in complete collapse. The story of their rise and fall did nothing to build in the people faith in the co-operative movement. Causes of failure were many, but generally co-op developments prior to 1840 were not successful for one of three reasons:
(1) The free extension of credit.
(2) An attempt to sell too cheaply.
(3) Lack of co-operative spirit due to insufficient preparatory training.
The period between 1840 and 1850 in England has come to be know as the "hungry forties." It was a period of pronounced wretchedness for the factory workers, a period of industrial strife and political unrest that extended across the whole of the European continent. Rochdale, a city near Lancashire, in the heart of- the cotton weaving area, faced particular hardship. As a protest against conditions the weavers went on strike. The strike was broken and many were unable to get back to work. Some left for America. Others discussed ways and means of achieving the goal pointed out by Owen and King, the ownership of the machine. A small group of these latter under the leadership of Charles Howarth and Samuel Ashworth banded together into a society to save sufficient funds to open a small store. This society was called "The Equitable Society of Rochdale Pioneers."
After saving for a year the twenty-seven men and one woman in the society had amassed a total of £28—about $140.00. With this they opened up a store in Toad Lane on December 21, 1844. It was stocked with only a few staple groceries, £14 worth of flour, butter, sugar, oatmeal, candles, to be exact, but from this humble beginning grew the powerful English Cooperative Movement of today, and from England the idea spread to Europe, North America, Asia and throughout the world.
Why was the store in Tsad Lane successful? It was not the first or largest co-op enterprise to begin in England. It was not even the first to commence operations in Rochdale. But the store in Toad Lane was the first to operate under a set of principles today regarded as a necessary basis for successful co-operative development and named from its founders, the Rochdale Principles. This set of principles, propounded by Howarth and developed by the Toad Lane store follows:
(1) A Consumer's Co-operative Society shall be democratically controlled.
(2) Membership shall be open to all, regardless of race, nationality or creed.
(3) Money invested shall receive a low and fixed rate of interest.
(4) Profits shall be returned to patrons on the basis of amount of purchases.
(5) Political and religious neutrality shall be observed.
(6) Trading shall be done on a cash basis.
(7) Education in co-operation shall be fostered.
These principles have remained until today the basis of the co-operative movement. In 1937 at the Paris congress of the International Co-operative Alliance they were slightly amended to present the principles in two categories. The first four listed above are grouped together as primary principles to which all consumers must subscribe and the remaining points as secondary principles which should be observed. To these points might be added an eighth principle—the fair treatment of co-op employees.
Department Plans Drive Against Seals
Bob Wulff representing the United Fishermen's Union attended a meeting in the Department of Fisheries office in Vancouver last Tuesday at which plans to reduce losses suffered by fishermen from the growing number of hair seals and sea lions in B.C. waters were under discussion. The meeting was attended by Major Motherwell and representatives of his Department.
R. W. Macleod, fisheries representative in New Westminster, is now engaged on the preliminary preparations for a campaign to reduce the number of hair seals on the Fraser River and Howe Sound. He is taking steps to contact practical fishermen who would be able to provide the necessary information and advice which would make it possible to enlist the aid of military organizations in a planned campaign to reduce the growing depredations of these pests.
Pacofi Cannery Destroyed By Fire
B.C. Packers' cannery and reduc tion plant at Pacofi, southern end of Queen Charlotte Islands, was destroyed by fire a week ago. The plant was valued at $150,000.
The cannery contained no stocks of canned fish, fish meal or oil, since it has not been operating this year.
Origin of the fire is unknown
George Anderson Visits Vancouver
George Anderson of the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union has been a visitor in Vancouver during the past week having attended meetings of the WPTB on ceiling prices for Pacific coast fish, as a representative of the Prince Rupert Fishermen.
While in Vancouver he accepted an invitation to attend a meeting of the General Executive Board of the United Fishermen's Federal Union, held last Friday.
He returned to Prince Rupert on Monday.
Opportunity was taken at the meeting to explain the considerations and needs that prompted the last • annual convention of the UFFU to propose amalgamation to the Deepsea Fishermen's Union and to dispel misunderstanding of the suggestion that appeared to have arisen.
The Executive Board decided to submit a memorandum on the matter to the Prince Rupert Union and to suggest that a representative of the UFFU pay a personal visit to the north in order to obtain an all-sided discussion of the question of amalgamation.
EDITOR SPEAKS AT OPEN FORUM
William Rigby, editor of the "Fisherman," will address the Bur-rard Open Forum on Sunday evening, October 17th, at 8 p.m. His lecture on "Stages in Soviet Economic Policy" will be followed by questions and discussion.
The first winter series organized by the Forum is devoted to the general topic "The Soviet Union— Our Ally." Meetings are held every alternate Sunday evening at the Foresters Hall, Broadway and Kingsway.
Speakers at subsequent lectures in the series include: Dr. D. M. Baillie, Prof. G. F. Drummond, Prof. Hunter C. Lewis, Harrison Brown, Tom Barnard, John Stanton, John Goss, Hilary Brown, Nigel Morgan, Thomas McEwen.
The Burrard Open Forum is sponsored by the Kitsilano and Mt. Pleasant Branches of the Labor-Progressive Party and is dedicated to the cause of free and frank discussion on topics of interest to Canadians.
Notice to Mariners
Mariners are advised that the dolphin carrying the "fill" light (2319.5) marking the North end of "fill" West of the Ballantyne Pier, Vancouver Harbor, has been carried away. This dolphin and light will be replaced as soon as possible.
- Mariners are advised that the fog bell on Berens Island, entrance to Victoria Harbor, is out of commission pending repairs to the electrical apparatus.
Mariners are advised that the Ripple Shoal light and bell buoy,
Johnstone Strait, is reported missing. This buoy will be replaced as soon as possible.
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Whitefish, which from the business point of view are the most important of Canada's freshwater fish, may be caught with hook and line but this method of fishing for them is not employed commercially. Most of the catch is taken with gill-nets, though pound-nets are also used in some localites. Ontario and Manitoba are the biggest . producers, thought the catches in several of the other provinces are of substantial size.
It's been said before -It's imperatively important to remember today --
IC^VERY pound of Fish the Dominion can pro-duce is needed to meet the food necessities of Britain and others of the United Nations, to supply Canadian fighting forces, to serve domestic demand and replace in Canada the other foods which are being shipped abroad in great quantity to help the allied peoples.
HpHE NEED is urgent. It's a war-service chal-lenge to every Fisherman, every Fish Plant Worker, every Fish Producing Company.
Fish Production Is National Service
Fish Production Ms Patriotic Duty
Department of Fisheries, Ottawa
Hon. Ernest Bertrand, M.P., Minister