Guild fights tieup pressure
Co-op shoreworkers expand picketing
PRINCE RUPERT — Locked out shoreworkers at the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association have organized flying pickets to confront scab boats up and down the coast as their battle for a new contract with the co-op and its fishermen enters its third week.
Still apparently allied with management against the 500-member Amalgamated Shore-, workers and Clerks Union
is the Co-operative Fishermen's Guild representing the co-op's 1,000 vessel owners and crewmen. Both unions are Canadian Labor Congress affiliates.
Repeated meetings among representatives of the union, the congress and the guild failed to win a firm committment from guild officers to tie up their vessels and support the shoreworkers.
As The Fisherman went to
press, guild president Paddy Greene issued a statement containing the first hint that his organization may change a position that has fully supported coop management during the lockout.
Greene said he "is calling upon the Fishermen's Co-op to meet the union to end the lockout and to reach a settlement as soon as possible."
The statement, issued a full
Halibut nets higher price
Prices on the Vancouver and Prince Rupert halibut exchanges continued to edge upward last week as longliners began making deliveries from the second fishing period in Areas 2 and 3.
Fishing in the areas began June 19 and closed July 6. The third opening of the current season will be between July 25 and August 10 and the fourth from August 26 to September 11.
Vancouver deliveries in the past week included 10,000 pounds by the Hey Dad selling to Lions Gate Fisheries on July 5 at $2.11 per pound for medium and $2.10 for large, and 40,000 pounds by the Day Star selling to Canadian Fishing Company on July 6 at $2.16 for medium and large.
Vancouver exchange prices for halibut taken in the first open period between May 15 and May 31 ranged from $1,775 to $1,955 a pound, the accumulated average price being $1.85 a pound com-
pared with $1.34 in the same period last year.
The $2.16 per pound paid for the Day Star's delivery last week compared with $1,442 a pound for medium and large obtained by the same vessel for a 33,000-pound trip sold on the Vancouver exchange on July 5 last year.
Prices also inched up to the $2 a pound level at Prince Rupert where the Deep Sea sold 12,000 pounds to Canfisco at that price June 30. July 4 transactions on the northern exchange saw the New Island selling 12,000 pounds to B.C. Packers at $2,015 for medium and $2.02 for large, while the Double Island sold 8,000 pounds to J.S. McMillan Fisheries at $2,015 for medium and $2,021 for large.
Deliveries at Prince Rupert on July 6 were made by the Anthony L, 28,000 pounds to B.C. Packers, Silver Horde and Ivy A, 22,000 pounds and 8,000 pounds respectively to Atlin Fisheries, and
the Genesta and New Start, 12,000 pounds and 2,000 pounds to J.S. McMillan Fisheries.
Prices on July 6, however, fell back from levels attained in earlier sales and were a consistent $1.96 to $1,965 a pound for medium and large.
Prices at Alaskan ports in the June 26 to June 30 period showed a range of $1.30 to $1.39 a pound for medium and large at Kodiak, $1.44 to $1.50 at Petersburg, $1.50 to $1.56 at Pelican, $1.50 at Wrangell and Sitka.
The port of Sward accounted for a large portion of deliveries made at Alaskan ports from the initial halibut opening in May, including those made by Canadian vessels.
According to the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service 54 vessels delivered trips at Seward between May 25 and May 31, all selling in a range of $1.30 to $1.50 a pound for medium and large.
three weeks after the June 23 lockout and 10 days after the coop fleet left the floats for the salmon fishery, said Greene would also call "upon all guild members and those within the guild's jurisdiction to refrain from fishing while the lockout continues."
He also pledged the guild will "exercise its every influence in an effort to bring about a resolve (sic) of this unfortunate situation." Greene and guild business agent Sid Dickens are both directors of the co-op, which is owned by the fishermen on a share basis.
The co-op has already refused to resume negotiations before the union takes its last offer before the membership.
That offer, issued in letter form only 48 hours before the co-op gave lockout notice, included no contract.term and was given with the provision that its terms were not binding on the co-op. It proposed to pay workers 10 cents more than the wage settlement achieved by UFAWU shore-workers in Prince Rupert.
It made no reference, however, to union demands for tighter contract language to protect seniority rights and minimize the threat of imposition of a piecework system.
Earlier efforts by the CLC and the B.C. Federation of Labor to bring the guild over to the union's side July 5 ended in a stalemate.
Federation secretary Dave Maclntyre issued a letter to all affiliates that day advising that "the co-op is attempting to scab the fish processing operation and
co-op boats are continuing to fish."
He called on affiliates to support an ASCU request that "all trade unionists refuse to handle scab-caught fish."
Among those who responded were UFAWU shoreworkers at the co-op's Vancouver plant, who refused to unload 17,000 pounds of groundfish brought in by Arabella 2 July 7.
Crew members admitted crossing picket lines to ice up and the boat eventually sailed to Bellingham to unload. Arabella 2 was only one of several co-op boats caught in the union's hot edict last week.
Ottawa plans licence swap
Holders of B vessel licences expiring December 31, 1978 will be able to apply in writing for C licences for 1979, the fisheries department has announced.
Wally Johnson, director of fisheries management for the Pacific •region, said July 5 that applications would be approved automatically in line with the department's policy of issuing C licences to A vessels when the A licence has been transferred to another vessel.
Most of those eligible for the new C licences will be those losing their B permit as a result of the Davis plan.
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Nordica, delegate — Dave Ryan; Norpac 1, J. Ruic, G. Robinson; North Isle, Dave Houston, Joe Chernoff; Northland, Milko Anzulovich, Mike Chankovich.
Ocean Blue, Brian Johnston, Sean Ivens; Ocean Cape, Joe Haugan, John Pallister; Ocean Cloud, Bill Bird, Reg Richards; Ocean Venture, Gilbert Hillaret, C. Harold Doane.
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Pachena 1, Sandy Bunten, Ed Maier; Pacific Belle, Tony Boroevich, A. Boroevich; Pacific Mist, Greg Spetifore, Scott Wood-ley.
Pacific Pearl, Tony Brnich, Ivan Spralja; Pacific Rancher, T. Suomi, Mike Graff; Pacific Queen, Matt Farac Sr., George Dujmovich; Pacific Rover, George Vukic, Frank Milakovich.
Pender Isle, Peter Demosten, Bill Demosten; Predator, Brian Mantta, Bruce Rosenburg; Prestige, Doug Mantta, Ray Gilfillan.
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St. Joseph, Paul Boroevich, S. Stankovich, St. Nicholas, Nick Jurincic Jr., William Daviduk; Salish Pride, Ken Wilson, Ken A. Fetherston; Sandy Ann, Mike Stefanich, John Vuckovich; San Juan 2, Mike Wilson, Don Hammond.
Sea Master, Bill Campbell, Bruce Mcintosh; Sea Rake, Phil Kasprow, Thomas R. Martin; Searcher, Lloyd Baines, Dave Oliver; Seiner, Jack Racic, Joe Cecic.
Semidi, Tom Pallant, Simon Zabudsky; Shirley Lore, Frank Domijan, Mike Crawford; Sharon M, Phillip Dupuis, Ole Husvik; Silver Bounty, George Hubert, George Olafsen.
Silver Quest, Joe Dillworth, Glen Farncombe; Skeena Cloud, John Aleksich, John Carr; Skidegate, S. Cerezin, Jim Bud-den; Snow Cloud, John Reid, Larry Mckee.
Snow King, Ed Sopel, George Surko; Snow Prince, Mike Loncarich, John Daviduk; Snow Queen, Harold Hardy, Jim Meyer; Star Pacific, R. Kaltio, L. McAllister; Sunrise Maiden, Angelo Travic, Gerry Matesan.
Tanu Warrior, Willis Crosby, Clayton Suhr; Tiber, Jerry Dal Sacco, Wilmore Soper; Tiro, John Falcos, Stephen Falcos; Tony C, Vlado Cerinj, Fausto Busljeta; Tracy Lee, Frank Spika, Bruno Rimanic; Tullcrest, Bob Koracic, Sam Anic.
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