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every respect. . .". And, it adds, "At their yearly meetings, both PTA and the companies have agreed that market demands make for better prices than negotiated minimums."
What's the difference between the Fisheries Association and the PTA position? Both say, in effect, leave it all up to the companies to decide how much fishermen will get.
From this it becomes obvious that the PTA is simply running interference for the Fisheries Association and the companies to the detriment of all fishermen.
The bulletin claims that "the union (UFAWU) has always been openly against trailers." This lie is intended to hide the PTA's own open hostility to union fishermen battling the Fisheries Association for better prices.
The PTA was invited to meet with the UFAWU last year to discuss action on troll prices. And as long ago as 1966 the UFAWU wrote to the PTA urging it to give consideration to joining the union as a group under the banner of one industry, one union, and to emphasize the advantages of a united trollers' section. The PTA has never replied.
The PTA knows there are considerably more trollers in the UFAWU than in its own ranks. But this does not deter it from distorting the facts with its statement in the March bulletin that it "can only keep this position (on advisory boards) if we continue to have a majority of the 1,800 to 1,900 pure trollers in our ranks." A majority of 1,900 would be 951 and that's far from the 120 members it claimed in the latter part of March.
In an attempt to downgrade the efforts of the U.S. West Coast Trollers Association in winning better prices, the bulletin says: "The West Coast Trollers Association has used the strike every year and although their prices were higher than ours in 1963, they have been considerably below ours in the past few years."
But the WCTA has a minimum price agreement covering troll prices. British Columbia trollers don't. The companies here can
cut the price at any time and quite often do, sometimes in mid-season.
Prices to be paid by B.C. Packers at Ucluelet this month are considerably below those U.S. fishermen won in their negotiations this year — without a strike.
Large red springs will be $1.09 a pound, but medium red will the 74 cents against 77 cents in the U.S. and small red 59 cents against 65 cents.
Further, B.C. Packers will revert to the grading of red and white springs, which fishermen on the west coast here eliminated by job action and which U.S. fishermen are not subject to.
With large whites at 64 cents a pound, grading is going to be under strict supervision and 10 cents a pound less will be paid for No. 2 fish. U.S. fishermen get the large price at 12 pounds and up and Canadian fishermen don't get it for fish of less than 12V2 pounds.
Canadian trollers would not be getting even the prices they do, were it not for the determination with which the WCTA has conducted its struggle for better troll prices.
Rather than preparing to do a job for the companies this year by knifing their fellow fishermen in the back, the PTA would be doing its own members and all fishermen a real service by meeting with the UFAWU, trollers' steering committee with a view to working up their fellow trollers instead of against them.
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the union could name a second adviser, whose expenses would be paid by the union.
Levelton had confirmed Stevens' appointment on March 21. However, he made no mention of a second representative. On the same date, Pacific regional fisheries director W.R. Hourston told the union it would be allowed only one adviser because the department could "not obtain special immigration clearance for individuals other than those who may be attached officially to the Canadian delegation."
The UFAWU general executive board discussed the issue March 30 and decided to insist that the department live up to its original commitment.
Following the telegram to Davis on April 2, word that Neish would be accredited and given immigration clearance was received by the union April 3.
Rupert trial date set for May 29
Trial date of May 29 in provincial court at Prince Rupert has been set for a herring seine skipper charged last month with failing to remain at the scene of a collision which sank the packer Koskeemo.
David Clattenburg, skipper of the Pacific Rover, appeared briefly in court April 6.
The collision occurred March 14 near Pitt Point at the northern entrance to Grenville Channel. Skipper and three crewmen of the Koskeemo took to a liferaft before the vessel sank and were picked up later by the Western Express.
Steveston services held for Tadatoshi Koyanagi
Funeral services were held at Steveston Buddhist Church last month for UFAWU member Tadatoshi Koyanagi who died March 16 in Richmond General Hospital shortly after being felled by a stroke at his Richmond home.
A native son of this province, born to a fishing family at Eburne on the Fraser River 57 years ago, he attended school in Richmond and began fishing as a teenager in the thirties.
In the forties he was a victim of the forced relocation policy, spending several years in Ontario before returning to the Pacific
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Over the next 22 years he gill-netted and trolled primarily in the west coast Vancouver Island area, operating his 40-foot combination boat The Amazon for most of that period.
Surviving members of his family include his wife, Yoshiko, one daughter, Ruby, and two sons, Thomas and Bruce, in Richmond, and three sisters, Mrs. Taki Koyanagi and Mrs. Hisako Kurokawa in Vancouver and Mrs. Emiko Shiozaki in Toronto.
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