October 12, 1943
THE FISHBRMAN
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PRINCE RUPERT
ORMES LIMITED
Prescription Chemists
Phones 81 and 82 The REXALL Store
Prince Rupert, B.C.
New Attitude Towards Manpower Tribute To Labor's Role In War
CANADIAN FISH & COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.
"Rupert Brand"
Cured Ice — Herring Bait
PRINCE RUPERT
B.C.
FOR YOUR
Electric Refrigerators, Washers, Ranges, Floor and Table Lamps,
see . . .
Northern B.C. Power Co. Ltd.
Phone 210 • Pr. Rupert, B.C. Stewart, B.C.
FISHERMEN ...
What does good water mean to you? The recent government laboratory test indicates that the water from our artesian well which supplies the Sointula oil station is entirely free from all impurities. Drop in at Sointula and fill your tank with water that is REALLY PURE. And don't forget that your dollars go further when you make your purchases at a "Co-op."
Sointula Co-operative Store Association
Sointula, B.C. General Imperial Oil
Merchandise Agents
ALERT BAY
Peterson & Edward
General Merchandise
FRESH MEATS kept fresh by our modern refrigeration system. VALVOLENE Agency.
ALERT BAY
STEVESTON
The MEAT SHOP
at STEVESTON, B.C.
Provisions for Fishermen
Closed Thursday afternoon at 1:00 p.m.
JAS. B. GRAHAM
Duncanby Landing RIVERS INLET
Standard Oil Products GENERAL STORE
GIL MERVYN General Store
PENDER HARBOR, B.C.
Fresh Water, Gov't Tested (Obtained from drilled well) Home Gas and Oil Independent Fish Buyers
Yuclataw Traders
(Reg*d.) STUART ISLAND, B.C. at Southern Entrance to Yuclataw Rapids Fish Buying Camp - All Supplies Fully Equipped UNION Oil Station
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THULIN TRADINC Co., Ltd.
(Red & White Store) Complete stocked for every need of the fishermen — Fish Buying Camp — Imperial Oil Products LUND, B.C.
J. It. TINDALL
Fishermen's Supplies — Good Harbor — Fresh Water Imperial Oil Products REFUGE COVE
B.C. Public Market
333 Main Street
FRESH MEATS — Best Quality (Special Rates to Fishermen)
LARSEN'S Grocery
Provisions for Fishermen
829 E. Hastings
PAcific 4824 '
Balmoral Hotel
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159 East Hastings Street i Vancouver, B.C.
"The
Fishermen's Home"
John Stanton
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. NOTARY SOS Holden Bldg., 16 E. Hastings MArine 6746 Vancouver
Bending over their exacting work, these welders in a Canadian munitions plant perform their vital tasks. Documenting the tremendous achievements of working men and women on the Allied production lines, the current National Film Board release, "The Labour Front", issued in the World in Action series, is a tribute to energies and skills of United Nation's manpower.
Disclaiming the charges laid against labor that precious time has been lost by irresponsibility -and shirking on the job, the current World in Action release, "The Labor Front," pays tribute to the people's contribution towards the defeat of Fascism. It is a dramatic record of labor's tremendous achievements on the Allied production fronts.
Against the charges of irrespons-sibility and shirking the commentary of this National Film Board production states, "Experts who have conducted realistic surveys in the field are reporting that the true causes of absenteeism are very different. They are pointing out that if women are to work, they should be relieved of domestic cares and chores; that inadequate transportation means thousands tired out before ever they clock in; that if men and women are to transfer to new districts, it is only fair that a roof and a bed are ready for them when they come.
"They are emphasizing that in the tremendous task of converting industry to war, we perhaps paid too little attention to all those factors of human well-being which in the end are so vital when strength and endurance are needed above all."
The picture itself deals with the development of the labor movement and the new attitude towards
manpower. Against the wasted years of the thirties when human energies and skills were left idle, unwanted, there is placed the tremendous organization of today, when muscle and brain are being channelled and utilized towards total production. As the commentary of "The Labor Front" states "the realization is dawning that of all the revolutions wrought by war, none has been so significant or ir revocable as that which has swept away the scourge of unemployment and opened those floodgates of human energy which is the working capital of the people."
As the scenes of the film indicate, in contrast with the slave labor of the fascist countries turning out the weapons of war, stand the free workers of the United Nations producing freely a tremendous volume of war materials. Among the Allied Nations, as the commentary continues, "wherever individual aims have merged with the collective drive for the benefit of all, willpower as well as workpow-er has been mobilized to a pitch unknown in former days."
And as the commentary of "The Labor Front" concludes, "These men and women who released the floodgates of human energy and did the impossible in time of war, well know that the seemingly impossible can be achieved again— in peace."
Women's Auxiliaries
Vancouver
At the special meeting of the Auxiliary held last Wednesday, Mrs. W. S. Purvis was elected as the new organizer and as a result we are hopefully expecting to enroll a number of new members and stimulate the activities of our Auxiliary.
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Delegates who will be attending the first annual convention of the Women's Auxiliary to be held on Thursday and Friday of this week (Oct. 14 and 15) at the home of Mrs. W. S. Purvis, 2381 Burns St., Vancouver, are asked to present their credentials before 10:30 Thursday morning.
There will be a morning and afternoon session on each day of the convention. The morning sessions will be from 10:30 to 12 noon and afternoon sessions will be held from 1:30 p.m. till 4 p.m. Luncheon will be served to those in attendance at the convention and there will be a supper for members and delegates on the Friday evening at the same address to wind up the convention.
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All members with books of tickets for the cushion raffle are asked to turn them in not later than Wednesday, Oct. 13, during the regular meeting of the Vancouver Auxiliary to be held in the Fishermen's Hall, 138 East Cordova Street beginning 8 p.m.
Mrs. Martin In General Hospital
Mrs. Ole Martin, wife of the secretary of Steveston Local and a member of the Women's Auxiliary of the UFFU, has suffered a slight stroke and is at present in Ward R, Vancouver General Hospital. A visit from her friends in the Women's Auxiliary would be appreciated.
Mrs. E. L. Hobbs
The Fisherman extends sincere sympathy to Skipper Bob Hobbs of the Western Fisher whose wife Edna Louise died on Monday, October 4. The funeral was held last Wednesday at the Grandview Funeral Home with the Rev. H. J Bevan officiating.
LABOR PROGRESSIVES NOMINATE CANDIDATE
The new Labor Progressive Party will officially open its Federal election campaign in British Columbia with a Nominating Convention for Vancouver Center Constituency to be held in the Beacon Theatre on Sunday evening, October 17, at 8:00 o'clock.
Call to Convention endorsed by more than 40 trade union leaders has been given province-wide circulation, together" with official Manifesto outlining the aims and purposes of the Party.
Provincial leader, Fergus Mc-Kean, announces that fifty Branch Clubs have already been organized throughout the Province, with ten now active in Vancouver. Rapidly increasing support from the farmer-labour movement is reported by the B.C. Provincial Committee headquarters, located at 209 Shelly Building, Vancouver.
Chiropractor
LOYD LEVERET
Room 507, Lyric Bldg. 751 Granville St.
Phone - - MA. 4612
Propeller Adjusters
1919 West Georgia St MArine 3867 Vancouver
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Bengough Supports Move For Six-Hour Day After War
HOTEL COLUMBIA
100 Modern Rooms Licensed Premises
Office Phone: MArine 3787 Licensed Premises: PAc. 0752
J. Nadalin and C. Penway Proprietors 303 Columbia Ave. Vancouver One Block from Union Hall
"The workers of Canada will<$> never go back to city relief. We live in a land of plenty, and must not think in terms of scarcity," Percy Bengough, president of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, Tuesday night told the delegates of the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council.
"We want no more relief," declared President Bengough. "We are not going back to the rotten way things have been run in the past.
"MUST FIND JOBS."
"We can produce all we can use, and in abundance."
"We have in Canada about a million persons working in the shipyards, on munitions and in the making of tools of destruction. We have another 750,000 in the armed services. We have ill the people that are maintaining those services.
"If these are not put into peace-timo jobs after the war we are going to have greater unemployment than ever before."
"We must reduce the hours of. labor," he continued. "Not that we want to loaf. We haven't yet learned to ?njoy our leisure."
He then warned that there would be changes in world markets, saying: "As for foreign markets, we know that some exports, such as lumber, must cease because they can get it (abroad) by shorter hauls as from Sweden. We won't have the food markets because England and other countries are growing food."
The council supported the request of the Street Railwaymen's Association for an education campaign on the subject of the six-hour day. The council will also request that all local unions set up committees to conduct similar work. •
Donations List Axel Nelson Fund
Two more donations were received during the week for the Axel Nelson Benefit Fund bringing the total to date up to $108.25. Donations Received
Previously acknowledged ___$ 82.00
Collection at Ladner
UFFU meeting ..... ............... 25.00
George McGregor .................. 1.25
Total to date...................... $108.25
Donations for this fund should be addressed to this office.
Flash
Lien Drowns As 'Annie A' Capsizes
Word was received Tuesday morning as we were already on the press that the Salmon Seiner, Annie A, chartered by Nelson Bros, from skipper and owner Pete Anderson, had capsized at Cape Beal in'1 the entrance to Barclay Sound.
Alf Lien, crew member, was reported drowned, being trapped in the net when the vessel overturned in the swells. The other crew members were picked up by a passing naval patrol craft that witnessed the accident, and taken to Bamfield.
After rescuing the crew the naval patrol boat put a line on the capsized vessel.
The Annie A is a 60-foot vessel built two years ago.
FISHERMEN!
See us for your clothing needs when in * Prince Rupert.
Our stock always includes a full range of woolen work garments--of top quality.
Watts & Nickerson
532 THIRD AVE.
PRINCE RUPERT
Fishermen ! . ..
When in Northern B.C. waters call at Your Own Store!
Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op Ass'n
"Everything for the Fisherman" Phone 264 — Box 264 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
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45 East Hastings Street.
Vancouver, B.C.
THE ANGLO-BRITISH COLUMBIA PACKING CO. LTD.
H. BELL-IRVING & CO. LTD. - Agents
VANCOUVER, B.C.
Packers and Distributors of Canned Salmon Since 1891
• "The Fishermen's Welfare Is Our Welfare" •
IN MARINE SHEET METAL WORK
W. A. THOM
Sheet Metal Works Ltd.
1779 WEST GEORGIA ST. VANCOUVER. B.C.
Principal Products Manufactured:
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Portable Welding Equipment Phone - - MArine 2725