Canned Salmon Pack Well Ahead of 1967
Canned sockeye production in B.C. stood at 118,994 cases to July 13, an increase of 76,940 cases over the previous week's total and well ahead of the 74,814 cases recorded to the comparable date last year.
An increase of 22,352 cases in the week ending July 13 brought this season's pink pack to 56,099 cases, best level attained to the comparable date in any year back to 1963 with the exception of 1966.
Coho production of 47,809 cases, an increase of 13,096 cases over a week earlier, also compared favorably with most recent years.
Current Comparison with previous years
Season (1)
July 13, July 15, July 16, July 10, July 11, 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964
Cases Cases Cases Cases Cases (48 lbs.) (48 lbs.) (48 lbs.) (48 lbs.) (48 lbs.)
SOCKEYE.................... 118,994 74,814 89,246 31,863 47,783
Increase over prev. wk. 76,940 45,664 59,240 18,913 28,749
SPRINGS ...................... 1,911 5,017 4,288 2,753 2,021
Increase over prev. wk. 722 1,670 1,722 1,760 752
STEELHEADS............ 151 236 443 118 105
Increase over prev. wk. 79 118 212 61 39
BLUEBACKS ................ 7,643 4,785 14,920 5,315 18,887
Increase over prev. wk. 2,547 2,269 5,213 3,300 4,523
COHO............................. 47,809 38,898 56,557 21,779 17,318
Increase over prev. wk. 13,096 8,309 15,295 9,690 10,431
PINKS.............................. 56,099 10,092 124,714 1,496 16,979
Increase over prev. wk. 22,352 4,440 75,970 1,009 14,023
CHUMS............................ 22,591 11,976 12,422 ' 5,136 13,755
Increase over prev. wk. 12,523 7,104 5,182 2,293 7,795
TOT. ALL SPECIES 255,198 145,818 302,590 68,460 116,848
Increase over prev. wk. 128,259 69,574 162,834 37,026 66,312
Albert James Passes
Death at 91 Ends Long Sea Career
Funeral services were held at Vancouver on July 10 for former UFAWU member Albert James whose 91 years encompassed six decades of work as fisherman and seaman in various part of the world.
Born at Bristol, England, in 1877, he went to sea as a boy of 14 aboard a square rigged ship, the first of many on which he sailed over the next two decades. In 1902 he was shipwrecked off the New Zealand coast in a storm which saw his skipper washed overboard and lost.
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During the First World War, he was aboard a merchant ship that was torpedoed 10 days out from Southampton and he spent some time in a lifeboat before being picked up and taken to safety. In the twenties he faced a different hazard, evading U.S. revenue cutters as he worked aboard a B.C. based rum runner.
He entered the fishing industry around 1930, gillnetting in the central area, and for a number of seasons he operated his own boat, the Iris. He last fished out of Namu in the late forties.
The veteran maritime worker had never married and is believed to have only one survivor, a sister, in England. His death, however, is being mourned by a wide circle of friends in the fishing industry and the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada, of which he was a member.
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Vancouver Labor Council this week pledged full support for postal workers in their attempts to win improved wages and working conditions and called on Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Tru-deau to work toward the "just society" he espouses by ensuring that post office employees and other government workers share in some of its benefits.
A spokesman for the combined postal unions told the July 16 Council meeting that post office employees are determined to win long overdue improvements in their status. Ray Andrus, Letter Carriers Union of Canada, scored Trudeau's recent attack on organized workers in the public service field in which the prime minister reportedly accused unions of taking the position that "we'll squeeze this lemon for everything that's in it."
"The fact is," Andrus said, "that postal workers represent the lemon that's been squeezed continuously over the years."
He challenged press reports which, he said, have left the impression that $2.75 an hour is the average wage rate for postal workers.
Most categories, he pointed out, earn considerably less. Mail handlers start at $2.06 an hour rising to $2.50 after five years and letter carriers start at $2.28 rising to $2.63 after five years. Postal clerks, starting at $2.25 an hour, earn $2.75 and hour after six years' service.
"We believe the Trudeau government is seeking a strike in the hope of taking on postal workers and beating us as a warning to all civil servants," Andrus said. "But we're confident we can win through to a fair settlement with the help of other unions."
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In other Council business, delegates approved a resolution instructing their executive officers to look into the future role of the Labor Statesman and make recommendations for submission to
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this year's Federation convention.
Content of the paper, published by the B.C. Federation of Labor executive, has been discussed at recent Council meetings with a number of delegates voicing objection to some of its policies, including that of carrying Liberal and Socred advertisements during the recent federal election.
Jack Phillips, Canadian Union of Public Employees, said he did not think the matter of political advertisements was a central issue. "I don't think that a Liberal advertisement, for example, is going to change the views of a convinced New Democrat," he said.
But, he added, it is a matter for concern that the Labor Statesman has been the subject of an exchange between Council delegates and Federation officers.
'PROVINCE' REPRINT
Phillips noted that contents of the paper's most recent issue included an editorial statement and a reprint of a Vancouver Province column by labor reporter Jack Clarke, both of which were critical of remarks attributed to Council delegates. At one point the reprinted article contended that "labor publications in the
past have foundered on too much control from the labor movement."
Phillips held that the record shows a far more extensive history of labor publications foundering as a result of too much control from outside sources, as in the case of big business control which, destroyed the British Labor Party's Daily Herald.
"But whatever the merits of the respective viewpoints," he said, "it's an intolerable situation when the Federation executive, as the editorial board of the Labor Statesman, attacks the Vancouver Labor Council, editorially and otherwise, over this issue.
"Some common ground must be found and Council should bring in some concrete proposals on this matter at the Federation convention."
In other business, Council voted to send a telegram of congratulations to William King, successful NDP candidate in this week's Revelstoke-Slocan provincial by-election. The new MLA, Council learned, is a younger brother of Steelworkers Union delegate Al King, well known former western district secretary of the old Mine-Mill Union.
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