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THE FISHERMAN
May 7, 1940
U.S. Fishermen's Leader Makes Trip To Washington
By J. F. JURICH, President, International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America
Early in April I went to Washington, D.C., for the purpose of seeking modifications of the 1940 fishing regulations and other legislative matters affecting fishermen. While I went officially in behalf of the legislative committee of the United Fishermen's Union, the work undertook affected all international affiliates, particularly the Alaska Fishermen's Union, exceptionally hard hit by the drastic curtailment of regulations. The additional closed periods sti-f
pulated under the Bureau of Fisheries 1940 regulations will bar between four and five thousand men from working in the fishing and fish processing industries in Alaska this year. We are already informed that the Columbia River Packers' Association has cancelled operations entirely for this year and other plants have also stated that, unless modifications are secured, they will follow suit. In addition to the salmon fisheries, the entire oil and meal herring plants in Southeast Alaska will be closed by these drastic regulations.
In Washington I sought modifications of the Bristol Bay regulations to the extent that more boats would be permitted to fish without being penalized by additional closed time and I also sought the removal of the marker in Kvichak Bay to Jensen Creek.
In Southwest Alaska the severe restrictions imposed had nothing to do with conservation and tended only to discriminate against the present type of gear used. After explaining this to Department of Interior officials, we secured a re-
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vision affecting safety and conditions of crew members working in that area. This was a definite victory for the fishermen.
We also sought and secured additional employment for resident fishermen in Cook Inlet.
The Copper River and Prince William Sound group did not seek a revision of the regulations.
In Southeast Alaska certain minor changes were secured which will benefit resident fishermen.
Brother Vigen and myself were unable to prevail upon Department of Interior officials to change their attitude on the Bristol Bay curtailment regulations.
In the herring industry, we found the fishing industry had accepted the 1940 regulations for Kodiak and Prince William Sound, but were seriously concerned about Southeast Alaska where the entire operation has been closed by the bureau for the current season. Groups including plant operators, boat owners, shore workers and fishermen were united on a program of opening one plant to carry out scientific investigations and to use up the inventory of the plants in that district. To date, no reply has been forthcoming from Charles Jackson, acting commissioner of fisheries, on this problem.
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Many maritime workers and fishermen have doubts of the necessity of such political action. I learned while back there that our chief job from now on must be
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the political field and that in order to do more effective work in this respect we've got to devote a lot more time and money to this kind of work than we have in the past. The curtailment regulations are an excellent case in point as to why we've got to activize ourselves in the political sphere. The maritime unions, too, are confronted with ever bolder attacks by the shipowners to destroy their organizations and are becoming more and more to recognize the necessity for increased political activization.
We found that the CIO Maritime Committee has done an excellent job in establishing itself and knows all the ins and outs of the national capital. With its help we were able to meet the various members of the Washington and California congressional delegations, Secretary Ickes and other officials of that department and Commissioner Jackson and his aides.
While engaged in my work in Washington I ran across a neat little example of high binding which serves as an excellent example as to the lengths big business will go in its greed for profits—and the devil take the hindmost. I learned that General Foods, subsidiary of General Seafoods, had been granted $200,000 to establish a shore plant in Newfoundland with the exclusive privilege of an area 15 miles around their plant for a period of 22 years. The output of this plant is 15 to ,30 million pounds annually for processing fish which under the Treasury Department decision permits it to enter the United States duty free.
The effect would be to practically destroy the New England fishermen of tneir livelihood, as it would be impossible to compete with the cheap Newfoundland labor. This goes to show how the employers take full advantage of the political sphere of activity and why our organizations may do likewise to protect our members.
I also appeared before the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and testified against passage of the Dimond Bills. These are bills which Alaska Delegate Anthony Dimond has introduced calling for the exclusion of outside labor working in the Territorial fishing industry. These bills, under the slogan of "Alaska for Alas-
kans," are aimed at organized labor generally and the fishing unions and UCAPAWA in particular. They are the brain children of the absentee mining and packing interests in whose interests Dimond is working, while he pretends to a great friend of the residential Alaskans.
But let some of this phony legislation be enacted into law and our organizations be destroyed and the residents of Alaska will find what a great "friend" they have in the packing and mining interests —and in their tools, the Dimonds.
I also learned that the Dies Committee union busting drive is more serious than we realized out here on the West Coast. Being closer tc the scene of its activities back there, I could not help but be impressed by its threat to organized labor under the palpably phony guise of looking for Communists.
—Courtesy "Voice of the Federation."
B.C. Fishing Streams Are Planted
Thousands of fish eggs are being planted in streams and rivers of the Fraser Valley this week by Art Butler, game warden.
The Campbell River and the Serpentine in the Langley district are being planted with 100,000 and 150,000 steelhead eggs, respectively. McConnell Creek in Dewdney district is getting 200,000 eggs, Squa-mish is getting 100,000 and 5000 cutthroat eggs are being placed in Stanley Park hatchery, Vancouver.
About 500,000 steelhead eggs are being placed in the Vedder River and another 100,000 will be planted in the Sicamous River.
SEATTLE. — The International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America ,CIO, this week had requested the Maritime Labor Board to assign a mediator to the dispute existing between the salmon packers on the Columbia River and the Columbia River Fishermen's Protective Union, one of its affiliated organizations.
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(45) Lists of Lights, Fog Signals And Radio Aids to Navigation — 1940 Edition Available.
The 1940 edition of the List of Lights, Fog Signals and Radio Aids to Navigation on the Pacific Coast and the rivers and lakes of British Columbia, is now available for distribution.
Copies may be obtained from the King's Printer, Printing Bureau, Ottawa, for fifteen cents per copy, payable in advance.
Postage stamps or cheques will not be accepted in payment for this list, and all postal or express money orders must be made payable to the order of the Receiver General of Canada.
(46) New Charts Issued.
The Hydrographic Service of Canada, Department of Mines and Resources, announces the issue of the following charts.
(1) Title: Nanaimo Harbour; Catalogue No., 381; Scale, 1-6,081 or 12.0 inches to 1 mile; Projection, Polyconic; Date, Sept. 1939.
(2) Title: Checleset Bay, Vancouver Island; Catalogue No., 383; Scale, 1-36,493 or 2.0 inches to 1 mile; Projection, Polyconic; Date, Sept. 1939.
(3) Title, Rivers Inlet; Catalogue No., 378; Scale, 1-37,602 or 1.0 inch to 1 mile; Projection, Mercator; Date, Oct. 1939.
(4) Title, Goose Island; Catalogue No., 392; Scale, 1-36,505 or 2.0 inches to 1 mile; Projection, Polyconic; Date, Jan. 1940.
(5) Title, Milbanke Sound and Approaches; Catalogue No., 328. Milbanke Sound and Approaches, Scale, 1-72,478 or 1-0 inch to 1 mile. St. John Harbour, Scale, 1-24,273 or 3.0 inch to 1 mile. Channels east of Milbanke Sound, Scale, 1-18,254 or 4.0 inch to 1 mile. Projection, Mercator; Date, Nov. 1939.
Copies of the above charts may be obtained from the Hydrographic Service, Department of Mines and Resources, Confederation Building, Ottawa, or from the Hydrographic Service Office, 319 Post Office Building, Victoria, B.C., for fifty cents per copy, payable in advance.
(47) Johnstone Strait; Channels in the vicinity of Yorke Island — New Chart Issued.
A new chart, Channels in the vicinity of Yorke Island, numbered 387, on polyconic projection, Scales: 1-25,611 or 2.8 inches to 1 mile, dated Jan. 1940, has been issued by Canadian Hydrographic Service.
Copies may be obtained from the Hydrographic Service, Department of Mines and Resources, Confederation Building, Ottawa, or from the Hydrographic Service Office, 319 Post Office Building, Victoria, B.C., for fifty cents per copy, payable in advance.
Postage stamps or cheques will not be accepted in payment for charts, and all postal or express money orders must be made payable to the order of the Receiver General of Canada.
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