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• Gloria and Alex Hall of Namu were in Vancouver for October 16 arbitration hearings. Decision is expected before end of month.
Namu dispute aired
Arbitration decision awaited in Hall case
It will be close to end of this month before shoreworkers Alex Hall and his wife Gloria learn if they are to be reinstated at B.C. Packers' Namu operation.
The pair were fired by plant manager Jim Hill on August 11 and an arbitration hearing was held in Vancouver October 16. A decision was expected within 12 days.
The UFAWU nominee was Michael Collins, secretary-treasurer of Local 400, Seaman's Section, Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers. The company's nominee was Kenneth Martin of Management Research (Western) Ltd. in Vancouver.
Giving evidence at the hearing were the Halls, plant manager
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U.S. plans new weather setup
WASHINGTON — A "weather office of the future" envisioned as the first step toward applying modern automation technology to its field operations has been announced by th.e U.S. National Weather Service.
A $638,000 contract for developing the prototype weather office already has been awarded. Slated for completion by next July, the prototype is seen as the forerunner of a complex, long-range program, dubbed AFOS (for Automation of Field Operations and Services), and current plans call for completion of the entire system within six to eight years.
The object is to employ modern machinery, especially computers and TV-type display devices, to provide maximum assistance to the forecaster, hydrologist, weather service specialist and observer.
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UFAWU joined to action challenging labor code
Appearance in federal court in Vancouver of the attorneys general of British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland could be the next stage in a court battle the fishing monopolies have launched in an effort to delay full bargaining rights for fishermen.
Gerald Levey, counsel for B.C. Packers, the Canadian Fishing Company and 10 smaller companies, tried to obtain a court ruling October 16 restraining the federal Labor Relations Board from dealing with a UFAWU
Veteran dies at 88
The height of this year's salmon season came and went, and with it departed an old salmon man, Nick Serheniuk — his passing regrettably unnoticed until now even by The Fisherman.
A resident of Prince Rupert, Nick passed away August 25, taking with him memories of a dizzying span of years in the B.C. fishing industry.
A member of the UFAWU since 1947, Nick was born in the Ukraine in 1884. In the grand tradition he made his way to America to seek his fortune, soon finding his way to the west coast. Following experience in the logging industry he wound up at Port Essington in 1912. And that was the start of a fishing career that wasn't to end until 1968.
He bought a sailboat for $10 and gillnetted in the Skeena River. In 1914, his first full season of fishing, he earned $1,800 — a princely sum in those faroff days.
Over the years he owned a total of 19 boats, five of which he built.
He was a charter member of the Prince Ruper Fishermen's Co-op, and a founder of the Northern Salmon Fishermen's Association of Prince Rupert, started as part of a concerted effort to combat the use of fish traps.
When he hauled in his last net in 1968 he had seen many changes — and admitted most of them were for the better. Organization and regulations tend to be a little overpowering, he said, but working conditions are certainly a world removed from the "not so good old days."
application for federal certification.
Mr. Justice Collier allowed the UFAWU and its president Homer Stevens and business agent George Hewison, to oppose the companies' move as interested parties and adjourned the case to November 20 to give others opportunity to intervene.
These were spelled out as the Pacific Trollers Association, the Native Brotherhood of B.C., three vessel owners' groups and the three provincial attorneys general.
Levey opposed UFAWU intervention on grounds that at law the union is not a corporate body.
Counsel for the union is S. R. Chamberlain.
The companies are, in effect, challenging the constitutionality of the new Canada Labor Code, and in a statement of claim not yet considered by the court, ask it to declare ultra vires of parliament definitions in the code applicable to fishermen.
The union's position is that the labor relations board should
immediately process the application it made last spring.
"There is' nothing ,to prevent the board from taking the question to the courts for a decision, or making its own decision which can then be challenged in the Supreme Court of Canada," stated business agent George Hewison.
"But in any event the board should get on with the job, in our opinion."
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