THE FISHERMAN
March 11, 1941
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MEETING PLACE OF FISHERMEN.
Stuart Island has always been the rendezvous for fishermen. Many of the old-timers have passed to their final fishing grounds, but we still have many with us. You will generally find them gathered around the blue stone tubs. They are always willing to help out some young fisherman with his troubles and it's no uncommon sight to see several  of the  veterans mending
GREAT TOURIST COUNTRY.
The floats at Stuart  Island are
one place that you are liable to see anyone. It is visited annually by large numbers of yachts, from all points of the coast. It is no uncommon sight to see half a dozen different club flags flying at the same time. Amongst those who were here last season I might mention Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., on the Zimmie from Seattle. Young Roosevelt made a great hit with the fishermen and was greatly interested in  their  boats  and  gear.   Frank I
CSU GAINS WAGE INCREASES FOR MEMBERSHIP
	1936	1937				
	(Before C.S.U.)	(Spring)				
Deckhand .........	..................$35.00	$40.00	$50.00	$55.00	$62.50	$27.50
Watchman	.................. 40.00	45.00	52.50	62.50	70.00	30.00
Wheelsman	.................. 55.00	60.00	70.00	77.50	87.50	32.50
Fireman ...........	.................. 50.00	55.00	65.00	72.50	80.00	30.00
Oiler ...................	.................. 55.00	60.00	70.00	77.50	87.50	32.50
1st Cook ............	.................. 85.00-95.00	90.00-100.00	97.50-107.50	110.00-120.00	117.50-127.50	32.50
2nd Cook ...........	.................. 35.00	40.00	47.50	57.50	65.00	30.00
Porter .................	.................. 30.00	35.00	42.50	50.00	57.50	27.50
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some youngster's net and listening to Sandy McPherson tell about the time he was blown out of Bute. It was here that the famous washboard bait was invented. Salmon were getting leary of the old-fashioned spoons so something had to be done about it. Well, here was the place ... so J. B. Willcock and Capt. KipharJ; went to work. Many types of flashers were made and tried out till at last the present-time washboard was perfected. Many were the laughs when the flasher first appeared; but as the fishermen got them going and increased their catches its fame soon spread. So now you will find them all over the coast, even the wiley Jap used them and tried two of the flashers with the addition of a small piece of red rag, but they, like the others, ended up by using the plain washboard. Tourists take them home after discarding all kinds of fancy gear to spread the fame far and wide. Well, what is the secret? Some say that you have to bend the metal during a certain time of the tide in the Yuclataws, and some say that J. B. goes up in the woods to bend them and utters strange and wierd supplications. But whatever it is, they catch the fish.
Morgan, the radio star; Spencer Tracy, the screen star, were up on the Dolphin. Axel Wennergren on the Southern Cross. This was the boat, you will remember, that rescued the passengers off the Athenia which was sunk by the Germans at the outbreak of the war. Wennergren told me that in all his worldly travels he had not had better fishing or saw more beautiful scenery. In fact, the visitors' book at the store is a regular who's who of yachting.
Well, soon, you will be on your way to the Yuclataws. The same old mountains that looked down on Captain Vancouver as he sailed along will be looking down- on you as you set your net or watch your lines. As you cross the mouth of Bute you'll see the smoke curl up from Indian fires as they have done for ages. The sun will be lighting up. the crest of Mount Estero, then you will make a landing at Stuart Island. Here it is where you will hear all the fishing news, the story of the latest catches and stories of catches that are going to be made. Maybe you will take a look into the live boxes to just see how the cod men are making out. Then take on gas and water. Just time to eat, then it's slack water and you're away.
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Victory For Seamen's Union
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menting the terms of the agreement.
6. An increase in wage rates of $10.00 per month for wheelsmen and oilers, and $7.50 per month to all other categories, all such wage increases to be retroactive to the opening of the 1940 navigation season.
7. Provisions defining overtime work and holiday, and payment for the same.
8. Provision for payment of transportation costs at the end of the navigation season.
9. Increased deckhand crews for eanal bulk or package freighters, operating on the St. Lawrence Canals between ports within the limits of the port of Quebec and the port of Port Colborne.
10. Provision for further negotiation and consideration of any additional request of the Union for more deckhands.
11. Provision against discrimination or coercion by reason of trade union activity.
12. Provision against strikes or lockouts during the life of the agreement pending any negotiation or hearing.
13. Provision for duration of the agreement until the 15th day of March, 1942, with provision then for general review or automatic renewal, and with provision for a special review during the 1941 navigation season.
14. Establishment of a Maritime Adjustment Board to deal with any disputes during the life of the agreement arising out of the interpretation or application of the same, such Board to be composed of three members, one selected by the Union, one by the Companies, and a third to be selected by the
two so named or, failing agreement, to be appointed by the Minister of Labor.
It was pointed out in the report of the Board of Conciliation that the agreement has been signed by eight companies operating a total of 155 vessels out of a total of 209 involved. The Board pointed out that the terms of the agreement were "proper, reasonable and constructive" as has been upheld by the judgment of three-fourths of the industry which had shown their concurrence with it by signing the agreement.
LABOR'S BASIC RIGHT.
The Board further upheld the right of collective bargaining as they state in their report: "As industry has grown and developed, the right of working people to organize into collective associations or trade unions and through such organizations to bargain collectively with their employers as to the terms and conditions of their employment, has been increasingly emphasized. It is a right acknowledgement now by law, by industrial practice, and by public policy. It has been verified by many important public pronouncements.
"These rights cannot be said to be effectively acknowledged unless employers are willing to negotiate and enter into agreement with the organizations which the employees have selected or formed in the exercise, in good faith, of their legal and public rights. This is in accordance with the principle enunciated by the Government of the Dominion of Canada in its order-in-council of the 20th of June (No. 2685) and later confirmed by P.C. 7440 of 16th December, 1940, of:
"The right of association (of workers) in labor bodies and the right of organized work people to
By EVAN LANE
If discussion in the bunkhouses and on the boats are any indication, the recent People's Convention in Britain has aroused considerable interest among loggers, miners and fishermen. They are eager to know the full story of the convention and what has happened since, and while, for reasons of space, a full report cannot be given in this column, here is the resolution adopted at the first full meeting of the national committee of the People's Convention last month. The resolution states:
This meeting calls on all democratic and progressive organizations and on the whole mass of the people to rally to the defense of their rights and interests in the face of many direct and indirect threats to which they are exposed at present. The reactionary property interests, instead of devoting themselves to redressing the grievances exposed by the People's Convention and admitted on all sides as real and serious, are now openly developing their plans to destroy democratic and trade union rights, break up the working class movement, cut down the living, health and cultural standards, and establish a fascist type of social, economic and political organization, in particular in the following respects:
1. Industrial conscription: The introduction of industrial serfdom for industrial workers for the benefit of private employers who retain the industries in their own hands and operate them not in the interests of the people but for their own profit and enrichment; large scale absorption of women in industry on the basis of agreements which in practice provide no real safeguard for the standards of either men in industry or women entering it; the sending into the armed forces of skilled workers who are urgently needed for the efficient operation of industry; grave threats to trade union standards involved in all those measures.
"2. The development of economic and financial policies which increase the power of large scale monopoly combines at the expense of small producers and traders; this coupled with a food policy which enables the rich to consume ample supplies of unrationed food and compels the poor to suffer unnecessary hardships for the enrichment of the food profiteers.
"3. The attack on the freedom of expression, particularly on the press, as exemplified by the suppression of the Daily Worker, suppression which both in itself and in the manner in which it was carried out represents a long stride on the way toward fascism and a 'coordinated' government press.
"4. The ripening proposals for prolongation of the spurious national unity of the capitalists and 'socialists' after the war, in which the Labor party leaders will continue their inglorious role of buttressing the capitalist system against the desires of the rank and file; together with the vague and empty promises of a 'new order' on the basis of their spurious unity."
Plans for extending and building the People's Convention movement include the calling of 12 regional conferences covering every area of Britain. Each of these regional con-
ferences, it is proposed, will elect local committees to direct campaigns based on the 8-point program adopted by the People's Convention.
Thousands Starve in Spain.
From Spain, by way of Lisbon, come stories telling of the suffering of the Spanish people. Thousands sleep on the streets in Madrid, in the sewers or amid the ruins of what were once their homes. Their plight has been rendered even worse by the recent bitterly cold weather which has taken the lives of many women and children. Tuberculosis is increasing at such at alarming rate that the Franco government has been forced to appropriate the equivalent of $36,000,-000 for an anti-tuberculosis campaign.
While these conditions prevail, new taxes are adding to the hardships of the poverty-stricken people. The agricultural tax has been increased from 25 to 50 percent, the sales tax from 11 to 25 percent. Additional consumers' taxes have been placed on coal, electricity, shoes, pastries, knitted goods and canned goods. Inflation Faces Sweden.
With its foreign trade severely curtailed as a result of the war and indirect taxation already at a maximum level, Sweden is now facing the prospect of inflation. Imports in 1940 fell 20 percent, exports 30 percent, while the turnover in foreign trade for the year showed a reduction of 25 percent. The output of war industry has increased, but paper, cellulose and cement industries are at a standstill. Swedish economy is approaching the level of 1932-33 — the most difficult years of the world economic crisis— with all the consequences, unemployment, rapid decline in living standards of the people, sharpening of social contradictions.
Unemployment is now officially estimated at 100,000, and this figure does not include those not registered at labor exchanges. In the building trades alone 60 percent of all workers are without work.
Taxation, which has trebled during the past five years, has now reached its limit, and the gap between the lowered living standards
enter into collective agreements through which they may expect to exercise a more organic influence on the processes of industrial life." "The abstract right which it is now conceded belong to labor can only be said to exist in a concrete sense   if   collective  bargaining is practiced and collective agreements are concluded. It cannot be said too clearly that labor can no longer be regarded, if it ever was correct so to  do,   merely   as   a commodity. Labor is a partner in industry, and as such it is entitled to have not only the right to organize but the corresponding right and opportunity to utilize its organization for collective   negotiation   and agreement with employers."
The recommendations of the. Board are hailed as a tremendous victory for the Canadian Seamen's Union.
Burgess Attends
Halibut
Conference
At the time of going to press we have received no final report from Brother Burgess, Secretary of the United Fishermen's Federal Union, Local 44, who is the only delegate from Vancouver attending the Coastwise Halibut Conference at Juneau, Alaska.
In a telegram received by the Union on March 7, he made mention that some changes had already been made in the curtailment program. He outlined the following: The lay-up time for the first 2 trips to be 15 days; for the third and consecutive trips 10 days. He also quoted that all lay-up time must be served before leaving for the next trip. It appears that the poundage is to remain the same as in 1940. At the time the above questions were dealt with at the conference, the liver situation had not as yet been discussed.
Brother Burgess will stop off at Prince Rupert on his way South to attend the Halibut Marketing Board hearings and is expected to remain there for one or two days discussing this matter. Consequently he is not expected to return to Vancouver before March 14.
of the people and the increased incomes of the wealthy is widening. From 1935 to 1940 the cost of foodstuffs, calculated on the basis of a working class family's budget, increased 700 kroner, but in the same period nominal wages increased only 130 kroner.
At the end of last year the Swedish Trade Union Federation and the Employers' Association signed an agreement giving skilled workers a wage increase of 107 kroner for six months, although official ures of the home ministry show that in 1940 the cost of foodstuffs for a worker's family over a six-months period increased by 522 kroner over 1939. This agreement is being opposed by the rank and file of many unions, particularly the metal workers, miners and building trades.
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