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Veteran Skipper Barney Bing Dead
Funeral services were to be held this Friday for well known UFAWU veteran Barney Bing who died at St. Mary's Hospital, Sechclt, on July 17 after an illness of several months.
A native of Norway, where he was born 63 years ago in the north coast town of Mo, he came to this country in the mid-twenties and soon after his arrival began fishing out of Prince Rupert.
In 1929 he longlined with Alex Duthie aboard Aksel Olson's Oslo and while he remained predominantly a halibut fisherman, his 40 year career on the coast took him into almost every section of the industry, including the salmon, herring, and pilchard seine fisheries.
The many boats he skippered over the years included the Brooks Bay, Bruce I, William C. Todd and San Juan I. He last sailed as skipper on halibut when he took out the Westerner 2 in 1966 and he put in his final trip last year with Andrew Christian-son aboard the Zodiac Light.
In recent years he had also owned the 42 foot troller Mobro which he sold to return to halibut fishing.
Married during the thirties, he moved to Vancouver from Prince Rupert where he lived until he went to Wilson Creek in 1957.
A unionist for as many years as he had worked in the industry, the veteran fisherman held membership in the UFAWU since its foundation and in earlier organizations during the twenties and thirties.
Surviving members of his fam-
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ily include his wife, Mrs. Queenie Bing, of Wilson Creek; two sons, Roland, in Norway, and Stanley, in Abbotsford: and five grandchildren.
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STEVENS
what is supposed to be a correc-cional institute."
And John Hayward, Amalgamated Transit Union, said it is obvious that Mount Thurston prison camp "is a punitive rather than correctional institution. I suggest our protest be strongly worded," he said. "Imposition of this type of penalty runs counter to the methods which are supposed to be employed in correctional institutions in this country."
W. Waywood, Carpenters Union, said: "Imposing this type of sentence on a man acting out of concern for a fellow prisoner borders on downright sadism. It's a vengeful act by the authorities involved, nothing more."
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AS some of the major construction jobs end in the province, the employment picture grows worse, particularly in Prince Rupert. A steady stream of people looking for work has passed tl rough the UFAWU office in Rupert, either requesting assistance i n finding employment or asking ■ what the chances are to get in-t o the big money.
The illusion persist; that a berth on a fishing boat assures them of big earnings — and daily press reports do nothing to dispel it.
When these people are told that the picture is far from good, they are sceptical. Possibly they feel that those already in the industry a~e trying to keep a good thing to themselves. Some from other provinces undoubtedly have travelled to the coast to find out first hand despite every discouragement.
Among employment seekers are students looking for a means to earn next semester's tuition fee. If a have-not province such as Newfoundland can introduce paid tuition for students, surely J C. with its wealth of resources can do so.
Each summer students are thrust out into the labor market to compete with workers who depend on jobs in the industry for their livelihood and though one can sympathize with those who need the money for their fees, first consideration should go to those who depend on the industry for their living, with little hope of escaping to a profession as many students hope to do.
In this day and age, why should any students, except those requiring on the job training, be forced to depend on uncertain seasonal employment, competing on the labor market, for the right to continue an education?
I don't know if Prime Minister Trudeau ever did define what he
meant by a just society, but my concept of such a society would include free education to all those who desire it and are capable of absorbing it.
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RECENT SHOP. STEWARD elections at Prince Rupert shore plants saw John Dutra win a four way contest for chief shop steward at B.C. Packers' Seal Cove operation, with Ron White and Bob Jongewaard elected as shed stewards and Jerry Min-tenko and Joe Andolfatto in the freezer department.
Jessie Hoff won election as women's shop steward with Fred Willson and A. Hipolito named as ice and maintenance department stewards.
Over at Atlin Fisheries and Northern Fishermen's Cold Storage, Jabez Toye won election for another term as chief shop steward. Mario Magliocci and B. Iaco-nelli were named as freezer department stewards, Dot Letour-neau and Ann Wilson for the fillet room and Theo Wesley for the Cold Storage ice department.
Myrtle Haldane, Pat Ward and Danny Johnston were named to represent the crew at Royal Fisheries. Elections are proceeding at other plants in the Prince Rupert area.
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TUNA
It also wants the federal government to ensure that fleet catches are landed and processed in this country and has urged action by Ottawa to prevent any recurrence of the situation.
Last month, in a letter to all MPs in B.C., Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Nichol said: "What could be a major move to establish a new Canadian ocean fishery must not be allowed to degenerate into another sordid runaway operation with everyone — except the owners — losing their shirts on the deal."
And in a letter to Jean Mar-chand, then federal manpower minister, he said: "Our deep concern is that millions of dollars will have been squandered without any benefit to Canadians in the form of jobs or development of a Canadian tuna industry."
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THE FISHERMAN — JULY 19, 1968