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THE
FISHERMAN
May 18, 1943
THE
FISHERMAN
Published Every Tuesday by The Fisherman Publishing Society at 138 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, B.C.  Telephone MArine 1829. Subscription Rates: One Year, $1.50; Six Months, 80c. Make All Payments to: THE FISHERMAN PUBLISHING SOCIETY Advertising Rates on Application.
Norway's Day
Norwegian Independence Day has been celebrated on May 17 ever since 1814 when the Norwegian Storting assembled at Eidsvold and declared Norway an independent state. Yesterday wherever Norwegians gathered the pledge to restore the independence of their country was solemnly reaffirmed. Though the original Quisling who serves as Hitler's abject tool in Oslo forbade all commemoration of Independence Day in Norway we can be certain that in tens of thousands of homes the same pledge was made by people ready to give their lives to fulfill it.
For fishermen desirous of expressing sympathy for the cause of Norwegian independence may we suggest that donation to the Norwegian Spitfire Fund would be a practical and a helpful gesture.
Continued
Wartime Council
dare not forget that the offensive requires not only money and machines, but men, and that manpower problems will increasingly become potential bottlenecks preventing maximum production. Complaints are increasingly heard that individual companies are hoarding manpower. Recommendations on such a vital matter can be authoritative only if they are made with the united backing of all sections of the industry.
Given the single objective of making recommendations to promote maximum production in the fishing industry there would be no lack of important matters to be considered by such a council. Perhaps therefore, it would be preferable to outline matters which would not be included in the functions of such a council.
Negotiations for union agreements would be conducted as hitherto directly between the parties concerned. But there can be no doubt that the existence of such a council and the preliminary survey which such a council would conduct in regard to each fishing operation long before the season started, would make it possible to start negotiations concerning wages and prices much earlier than has been the case up to now when uncertainty about governmental policy has created many difficulties that have tended to prevent the signing of union agreements before the fishing season was underway. The prospects for uninterrupted fishing production would be materially improved if agreements were satisfactorily concluded before operations began.
It should be clear that such a council would not assume either to take over the direct functions of management or to limit the independence of the trade unions participating. The aim of the council would be to endeavor to make UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPTED RECOMMENDATIONS on behalf of the industry as a whole to the government. Provided, therefore, that the council was truly representative of all sections of the industry, no one section would need to fear that its viewpoint and assistance would be ignored simply on the basis of voting strength in such a council.
Over a year ago the United Fishermen's Federal Union at its fourth annual convention appealed to all organizations in the fishing industry and to the government to establish a Joint Production Council for the industry. Baseless fears on the part of the operators led to the rejection of this proposal. The department of fisheries, in spite of all requests, made no move to bring such a body into being. There is no reason, however, to doubt that Ottawa would welcome the establishment of a Wartime Fisheries Council in B.C. if all sections of the industry here were themselves agreed upon the proposal.
Some weeks ago we reprinted in our columns a report from The Pacifc Fisherman concerning the establishment in Southern California of a California Fisheries Management-Labor Committee. The report included the remarks of Assemblyman Vincent Thomas, whose opinion of this committee was: "If the government wants maximum production of fish they will get it if they let the men who know how suggest the program." There is. a moral for us here in British Columbia if we wish to apply it.
It is to be hoped that the initiative that is again being assumed by the UFFU in proposing the creation of a Wartime Fisheries Council will meet with the approval of all sections of the industry. If experience during the past year has failed to convince us of the urgent need for such a body, we would indeed be both deaf and blind to everything that is happening about us.
To Protect the Salmon
The following timely editorial appeared in The Vancouver Daily Province last week. As previously reported by The Fisherman "a law" such as is suggested by The Province was enacted by the State of Washington last March.
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Premier Hart has issued instructions to government engineers for the more effective safeguarding of our provincial salmon fisheries from any improvident development of water power on our river systems. It is good to have the assurance implicit in the announcement but it is still proper to say it is an assurance good only as far as it goes and that it does not go far qnough.
These instructions, as far as they have been explained, seem to be still no more than an injunction towards the enforcement of routine regulations. "To assure free access of fish from the sea," we are told, the water rights department "has been instructed to take every pre-i -iution before permitting any future hydro-electric development, or repairs, to be undertaken."
Doubtless this is the response of Premier Hart to the discussions at the recent meeting of the International Salmon Fisheries Commission, when the members of that body "viewed with some concern the grave danger" which might come of great power projects upon our salmon streams, and especially the Fraser River, undertaken without full and competent enquiry into the effect which such projects might have upon the spawning beds of the salmon.
The point here is not at all to find fault with the existing regulations and safeguards—as far as they go. But what should be said and many times said again is that we can not too insistently lay it down as an uncompromising principle that we will not permit in British Columbia the development of water power at the cost of our natural resources in the salmon fisheries.
For that precisely is the danger. We have great undeveloped water power potentialities and some of the greatest in the streams which are the spawning grounds of the salmon. After the war we shall undoubtedly have schemes for the large-scale exploitation of our water powers and the arguments for them will be attractive and properly so.
They should be denied, nevertheless, except upon the condition precedent that our water powers shall not be developed at the cost of our salmon fisheries. And if we can not at present assure that condition, and there i9 reason to say that we can't, then "there ought to be a law."
Text Of Government Order Pegging Prices Of All Salmon For Canning
The following is the text of the administrative order issued by the WPTB fixing maximum prices for canned salmon for the coming season which was announced Saturday. We have omitted clause (1) defining terms used in the order and clauses (6) and (7) which nullify previous board orders No. A-91 and No. A136 in regards to their application to canned salmon.
WARTIME PRICES AND TRADE BOARD
Administrator's Order No. A-723
Respecting Maximum Prices of Canned Pacific Coast Salmon
Pursuant to authority conferred by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, it is hereby ordered on behalf of such Board as follows:
2. The maximum price at which a canner may buy, offer to buy, or otherwise acquire any variety of salmon (dressed or round) for canning shall be the price for the same set forth in Schedule "A" according to the fishing ground in which it is caught as specified in said Schedule "A."
3. (1) The maximum price per case at which a canner may sell or offer to sell canned salmon, shall be the price thereafter set forth in Schedule "B" hereto according to the variety, grade, weight and type of can and number of cans per case of the canned salmon as the same are specified in said Schedule "B."
(2) The maximum prices fixed by subsection (1) of this section shall be f.o.b. the following railhead terminal points, namely, Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, Steveston, Prince Rupert or Skeena River, and shall include all transportation charges to such points; provided that where such canned salmon is sold f.o.b. any other point the canner may add the cost of transportation from his nearest above mentioned railhead terminal point to such other point.
(3) The maximum price fixed by subsection (1) of this section shall be for canned salmon in unlabelled tins having enamelled ends packed in a wooden case which is double strapped and double marked, and where the canner affixes the labels or supplies and affixes the labels to the cans he may add to his maxi mum selling "price the following charges:
(a) where the labels are supplied by the buyer and affixed by the canner, the sum of five (5) cents per case of 48 tall cans or eight (8) cents per case of 96 flat cans; and
(b) where the labels are supplied and affixed by the canner, the sum of fifteen (15) cents per case of 48 tall cans or twenty (20) cents per case of 96 flat cans;
and where the canned salmon is packed in a fibre case instead of a wooden case, the canner shall reduce his maximum selling price
Youth Parley Will Open Saturday
The first provincial convention of the Labor Youtn Federation will be held on May 22 and 23 at the Hotel Georgia.
Delegates from labor groups, farm organizations, and student clubs, as well as Labor Youth Federation clubs from various parts of the province, will attend.
The convention, dedicated in purpose to the defeat of fascism, has adoped as its official slogan, "Fight for your freedom now." Today youth must realize that the outcome of the war against Hitler will decide the future of the world.
A dance will be held at the Aztec Ballroom on the Saturday evening preceding the convention.
Following the formal opening, discussion will center around the three main phases of federation work, namely, education, labor and war work.
Jessie Storey, co-editor of the Canadian Youth magazine, New Advance, will be in Vancouver to address   the convention.
All interested youth are invited to attend the convention proceedings and dance.
by fifteen (15) cents per full case.
4., (1) The maximum price at which a wholesale distributor may sell or offer to sell to any class of customer any canned salmon listed in Schedule "B" hereto shall be the sum of the following:
(a) the actual price paid for such canned salmon by such wholesale distributor but not in any event exceeding the lawful maximum price that may be charged by the canner, plus transportation charges and sales tax where and to the ex tent they are not included in such actual price; and
(b) a mark-up (percentage of cost) not exceeding the mark-up (percentage of cost) customarily obtained by him during the basic period from September 15, 1941, to October 11, 1941, both dates inclusive, on sales of such canned salmon or a substantially similar kind and quality ot salmon, to the same class of customer, but not in any event exceeding ten per centum (10%) of such wholesale distributor's selling price.
(2) In the case of a sale of canned salmon by a wholesale distributor to another wholesale distributor, or in the case of a sequence of sales between wholesale distributors, the mark-up referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall constitute their total combined mark-up; and every wholesale distributor on a sale to another wholesale distributor shall deliver to the buyer before or concurrently with delivery of such canned salmon, an invoice stating the total combined mark-up, and such buyer's share thereof.
o. The maximum price at which any person may sell or offer to sell at retail any canned salmon listed in Schedule "B" hereto shall be the sum of the following:
(a) The actual price paid for such canned salmon by such retailer, but not in any event exceeding the lawful maximum price that may be charged by his supplier, plus transportation charges and sales tax where and to the extent they are not included in such actual price; and
Cb) A markup (percentage of cost) not exceeding the markup (percentage of cost) customarily obtained by him during the said basic period on sales at retail of such canned salmon or a substantially similar kind and quality of salmon, but in any event not exceeding twenty-five per centum (25%) of such retail selling price.
fi. This Order shall be effective on and after the 15th day of May, 1943.
Dated at Ottawa this 12th day of
May, 1943.
(Signed) A. N. McLEAN, Administrator of Fish and Fish
Products.
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SCHEDULE "A"
To Administrator's Order No. A-723
Maximum prices (in cents per pound or per each fish) for salmon, round or dressed, bought or acquired by canners for canning:
Maximum prices in cents per pound or per each fish  as indicated.
per lb. (round) per  lb. (round)
Variety Sockeye
Bluebacks
Fishing ground where caught
Fraser River ............................13'^c
Any other fishing ground... 12He
Any fishing ground
7 c  per  lb. . (round)
8 c per lb. (dressed)
Cohoe, Redspring and Steelhead
White Springs
Pinks
Chums
7   c  per lb. (round) Any fishing ground .............. 8V2C per lb. (dressed)
Any fishing ground .............. 2   c  per  lb. (round)
Fraser River ............................10   c  per each fish
Cape Flattery ..........................10   c  per each fish
Johnstone Straits ....................10   c  per each fish
Quatsino ....................................                      6%c per each fish
Queen Charlotte Is.................               7   c  per each fish
Any other fishing grounds., 8   c jjer each fish
Fraser River ............................23   c per each fish
Johnstone Straits ..................23   c per each fish
Queen Charlotte Is...............15%c per each fish
Quatsino ....................................15Hc per each fish
Barclay Sound and 22   c per each fish
Nitinat ....................................
Cape Mudge to Victoria ...22   c per each fish
Any other fishing ground.   17   c per each fish
The above maximum prices shall apply to any variety of salmon bought or acquired by a canner during any part of the fishing season except fall chums caught in Johnstone Straits during the period commencing October 1 and ending with the close of the fishing season, and the price for such fall chums shall be 37.85 cents each which is equivalent to:
(a) 23 cents each for 45 per cent of any quantity of such salmon bought by a salmon canner at any one time from any particular seller; and
(b) 50 cents each for 55 per cent of any quantity of such salmon bought by a salmon canner at any one time from any particular seller.
SCHEDULE "B"
To Administrator's Order No. A-723
Maximum prices per case for sales by canners of the following grades and varieties of canned salmon:
GRADE
Grade A or certified
GRADE B
Tips and Tails minced or flaked salmon (standard)
VARIETIES Maximum Prices per Case
48 cans    96 cans    96 cans of 1-lb.   of a-lb.   of %-lb. Tails       Flats Flats
SOCKEYE ...................$16.25
Cohoe, Red Spring Blueback and Steel-head .................................. 11.50
Fink, Chum and
White Spring ................ 6.25
SOCKEYE ...................... 12.75
Cohoe, Redspring, Blueback and
$17.50 $10.50
12.75
7.50 14.00
8.12 Vi
5.00 8.75
Pink, Chum and
Cohoe, Redspring. Bluebacks and
Pink, Chum and
SOCKEYE ..............
Cohoe, Redspring.
Tips and Tails minced or flaked salmon (Sub-standard) Bluebacks and
Steelhead ..............
Pink, Chum and
10.00	11.25	7.37 hi
5.50	6.75	4.62%
. 12.75	14.00	8.75
... 10.00	11.25	7.37%
5.50	6.75	4.62%
9.75	10.50	7.00
8.50	9.75	6.62%
4.75	6.00	4.25
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