December 16, 1941
THE FISHERMAN
Page Three
Fishermen! . . .
When in Northern B.C. waters call at Your Own Store!
Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op Ass'n
"Everything for the Fisherman" Box 264 Phone 26*
JAMES E. DAWSON
Dawson's Landing
FISHERMEN'S SUPPLIES IMPERIAL OIL AGENT
LABOR
AND THE
LAW
By
ATTORNEY JOHN STANTON
Cascade Harbor Store
In BATES PASS Water, Standard Gasoline and Oils. Bread, Groceries & Hardware. Halibut & Trolling Gear. Battery Service, Float Accommodation. Mrs. Art Jones
SHOP at a
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"CO-OP
and share in the DIVIDENDS
Sointula Co-operative Store Association
Sointula, B.C.
General Imperial OU
Merchandise Agents
Dogfishermen Or A Dog's Life
ALERT BAY
Shamrock Cafe
ALERT BAY
BEST
HOME-COOKED MEALS
F. Parsons
Fishermen—For REAL SAVING in Prices TRY
EDDIE'S
Shoes, Clothing and
Confectionery ALERT BAY, B.C.
CASPER'S STORE
General Merchandise
VALVOLENE Agency ALERT BAY
Fred Parson's Meat Market
Alert Bay
FRESH MEATS, VEGETABLES — GROCERIES
Union Meatcutters .... Most modern refrigeration on the Coast
Harbour Inn
RESTAURANT
Licensed Premises ALERT BAY
A location built for the convenience of fishermen:
JAS. B. GRAHAM
DUNCANBY LANDING RIVERS INLET
Standard Oil Products General Store
Right on your course Is—
BLISS LANDING
That handy place in which to pop in and pop out, or to wait over.
A modern General Store stocked for the needs of fishermen. Speedy Shell Gas and Diesel
service.
Fresh water, pure and soft,
piped onto floats. Have your mail addressed here. BOYD YOUNG, Proprietor, for 35 years supplier to B.C. Coast fishermen.
Yuclataw Traders
(Reg"d.) STUART ISLAND, B.C. at Southern Entrance to Yuclataw Rapids Fish Buying Camp - All Supplies Fully Equipped UNION Oil Station
• Post Office and Telegraph •
When in PORT ALBERNI call at
E. Homewood's
for SUPPUES
Meat, Groceries, Farm Produce. "Quality and Service" Our Motto.
E. HOMEWOOD
Phone 212 Argyle St.
Opposite E.& N. Station PORT   ALBERNI, B.C
P. C. 8253 (continued)
Since this column appeared last week, the new order-in-council pegging wages at the level which they occupied on November 15, 1941, has been amended. Previously, wages paid by employers with fewer than 50 employees in non-war industries, and by employers in the construction industry with fewer than 10 workers, were not fixed.
The new amendment, text of which has not yet reached Vancouver, does away with these exceptions; and wages in ALL industries, both basic and secondary, are now fixed throughout Canada. The only remaining exceptions are wages paid by any government department or agency, or by charitable or religious institutions; o» wages in fishing, hunting or agricultural pursuits.
Practically all wages in the country having been fixed at the level of November 15, 1941, what provisions does P.C. 8253 make for increases in the cost of living?
Briefly, it carries into effect the provisions of P.C. 7440 by requiring bonuses to be paid. And although P.C. 7440 is repealed, the principle of cost-of-living bonuses in place of wage increases is recognized and made law by the new order.
The bonus is not payable without written authority of the National War Labor Board; nor is it payable in industries where the basic wage rate is higher than the prevailing rate.
Aside from these exceptions, the following is the basis on which bonuses are payable:
(1) Employers who already pay bonuses under P.C. 7440 must increase same in accordance with the rising cost-of-living based on August, 1939 figures. This bonus is to be adjusted quarterly in February, May, August and November each year as the cost of living changes.
(2) Employers who have not as yet paid any bonus under P.C. 7440, must start paying by February 15, 1941, and the same applies to any who have not started to pay a bonus under the present Order 8253.
The actual amount of the bonus in each case is calculated as follows:
For each increase of one point in the cost of living index, all adult male employees are to receive 25c per week, as are all employees who now receive over $25 per week. For men under 21 and women now receiving under $25 per week, the bonus shall be one per cent of the basic wage rate paid to these workers.
Should any dispute arise as to the amount of the bonus, the National War Labor Board must hear and determine the case, and its decision is final and binding on employer and worker alike.
This final provision, of course, eliminates any union as a bargaining agency even in respect of the bonus. We can thus see that unions henceforth have no officially recognized part to play either in securing basic pay increases (because they are forbidden) or in securing the bonus (because that is a matter for the War Labor Board).
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MONDAY —
Dick: "Boy, it's great to be alive. Twenty cents a pound for dog livers, or $40 a ton in the round, tanks full of gas, lockers full of grub and a thousand hooks baited. Are we gonna raise Cain!"
Pete: "Huh, wait and see. Let's try the Rapids at Egmont first."
Two hours elapsed, after which time we find our two heroes feverishly setting their gear into the Skookumchuck. Three more hours elapse, and back the gear is hauled.
Pete: "Seven hundred pounds of fish; not bad, but not good. We'll stay here overnight and try again, a daylight set." TUESDAY (Ack Emma) —
Out goes the line and back in again with four hundred pounds of dogfish.
Dick: "About half a ton of fish, $20 for two days. Two men, less gas, oil and grub. Let's see — we're making about $4.00 a day apiece. Let's go back to Billingsgate Bill's at Pender Harbor, and sell our fish."
Pete: "Then we'll flag it to Princess Louise Inlet, that's where the dogfish sleep." WEDNESDAY —
Another day in which our erstwhile liver hunters have sold their catch for $20, and are now putting up Jervis Inlet with a good southeast boosting them along, and so into Louise Inlet.
Pete: "That's the Malibu Resort. Wonder why they charge $15 a day there, or is it more?"
Pete: "Can you or I pay that much? No? Well, maybe that's the reason."
Out goes the gear again, and back in before dark with about 600 pounds of dogfish. A pall of gloom falls over our heroes. CRASH! (That's the pall of gloom falling.)
Pete: "I thought we'd get a fish on every hook here. Why, when I trolled salmon here I had to carry a shotgun to protect myself from the dogs! But we'll get them in the morning. Br-r-r-r it's cold; gonna snow.' THURSDAY —
Pete: "When we finish our mug-up we'll pull up our lines and scram out of here, those snowfiakes look like parachute troops."
Dick: "This place freezes up, too, doesn't it? It's cold enough here to freeze a brass monkey."
Up comes the line with about 400 pounds of dogs and we now find Dick and Pete buzzing in the direction of Deserted Bay, where they make another set. This set proves Uttle better, about 300 pounds of fish.
Pete: "Those Indians have some fine homes in there. What! No church?"
Dick:  "An Indian is as industrious as anyone else, given the opportunity." FRIDAY AM. —
Dick: "Jeeze, but it's cold this morning. Three inches of snow on the decks and slush all over the bay."
Pete: "The sun is shining down the inlet. Let's buzz down to Vancouver Bay and set." , Dick: "I hear the Finns are revolting."
Pete: "Yes, aren't they."
Dick: "How is it that we have always been led to believe that the Russians were uncouth, illiterate peasants whose feet smelled and they didn't love the Lord. Now we find them running  the  pants off
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Pete: "People usually put up a better fight when fighting for their own property. Do you know that Russia is one of the few countries in the world whose birth rate is increasing. Say, this isn't getting our gear out."
Two and a half hours elapse and — yes, you're right! — those two fellows sitting on that fish-boat watching two mountain goats up on the hillside are non other than Dick and Pete.
Dick: "Let's liver the fish, they are a pretty good size and we should gain a couple of dollars on a ton at 20c lb."
Pete: "O.K., then we'll pick up." Dick: "Four cans at eight dollars a can — thirty dollars for three days. Say, maybe we should have extracted the liver less noticeably and sold both the liver and the carcass, too."
Pete: "Tut tut, Dick, that's not cricket. We shouldn't dupe the fish buyers even if they do sell us rotten bait. With a mind like yours you should be a politician."
The gear is in, and we find our armchair admirals richer by another can of liver.
Dick: "Three hours now to Billingsgate's and deliver, — we should clear about $15 apiece for three days' work." . At Billingsgate's. Bill: "Got bad news for you. Can't buy dogs in the round, and Helpful Harry was in and told me that Gus told him that Bug Eye Joe told him that Bill on the 'Lucky-says livers are down to ten cents a pound. Some woman has been investigating the dogfish liver price dispute."
Pete: "Why do they put an embargo on the fish? To stop the fishermen from exporting, but' let the big operators continue to export livers to probably the same market that the Seattle livers go to, and they get 60c a pound against our 10c. Sounds like a Jap trick. Gosh, maybe the Japs are running the industry."
Dick: "With the price cut to half we will have to cut our food consumption in half. Eight dollars apiece clear for three days' work."
Pete: "Well, let's go and set once more, off Thormanby Island. "
Yes, that Easthope you hear outside Buccaneer is putt-ing our two lads out to set.
Dick: "What is that terrific stench? Is there a herring canner or a reduction plant near?"
Pete: "Phooey! By George, look at the sea lions! Must be almost a hundred of them on that rock. Maybe they smell."
Dick: "Now, Pete, you may owe those poor sea lions an apology. The stink has most likely just got here from the dogfish deal in Vancouver."
Pete: "What irks me is that a woman investigated the racket. She probably doesn't know which end of the dogfish barks."
This set outside Thormanby produced the magnificent sum of eight dogfish and fifty pounds of red cod We now find our two lads settin-off North East Point. This set net them 18 dogfish, with a total o $4.25 for two days' fishing.
Dick: "A total of 046, two men for a week, less gas and oil, grub, and bait. We've made about $2 a day apiece. —Anon.
The Regular Business Meeting of P.C.F.U. Local No. 1 will be held next Friday, December 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Hall, 164 East Hastings St.
Business of great importance will be on the agenda, and all members are requested to attend.
Frozen Fish
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics report that Canadian stocks of frozen fish totalled 35,200,000 lbs. on December 1. Of this total, 2,800,000 lbs. are frozen smoked.
In comparison with last year's stock, there was a decrease of 4,-600,000 lbs. in the frozen fresh stocks, and an increase of 600,000 lbs. in the frozen smoked.
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More salmon is canned in the city of Ketchikan than any other city in the world.
STUART ISLAND
Well, as per usual, somebody had to throw a monkey wrench into the dog fishing industry. The drop to ten cents per pound was some drop! At the present time I can't just see where it comes from; it seems funny that livers that were in such great demand should drop so suddenly. Then again the fish were getting scarce; that would have the effect of raising prices more than cutting them. Lots of fishermen bought gear and outfitted their boats and now find themselves fishing for very poor pay.
Fishing has slowed up a little on account of prices, but still a large quantity of livers getting shipped from here. Red cod are bringing 2c lb. round, red cod livers are worth 18c lb., ling cod 7%c, while their livers are 55c.
Harry Pavey from Redonda District was in outfitting for dogfish. He says that he is going after them in a big way, so just to be on the safe side we unloaded twenty more drums.
Tuna Fishing
Apparently there are only two trollers going after tuna in B.C. waters, the Pal 2 and Oldfleld. They have been doing pretty well. The price paid is $180 per ton at Kildonan.
For a while prices skyrocketed in the States, but they have now settled at lower levels.
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Now that the fishing season is over, and if you have a season's customs clearance, you should make your entrance clearance before the last of December to insure that you will get a new one next year.
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