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THE FISHERMAN
November, 6, 1951
You Have The Floor
Empty
Other Matters Before Royalty
Editor, The Fisherman:
T concur in the sentiments expressed by Harry Allison in hio letter published in the last issue of The Fisherman. I cannot associate myself with the hysterical enthusiasm displayed towards one who has not and neither has her ancestors since the dawn of history contributed materially to the welfare of the world. Anything they have or ever did, has been given to them or obtained for them by right of conquest.
I am not a Communist. I am not interested in Russian ideology, but I do think that we should discard our aristocracy ideas and concentrate upon converting this fair Canada of ours and turn this land of abundance into a better life for us all.
WALTER RUMBALL. Vancouver, B.C.
• This column is open to all readers. The Editorial Board requests all letters be signed. Signatures will be published unless otherwise stated. Letters should not be more than 400 words in length. If longer, the editorial board reserves the right either to reject the letter or condense the material to meet length requirements.
Issue Placed Very feluntly
Editor, The Fisherman:
Mr. One Who Knows will no doubt be sober by the time he reads this; however, just in case he does not submit another letter of apology, it behooves me to suggest that the author of the letter dealing with drunken skippers should have sent it to one of the local dailies and collected five bucks for his sensational bit of news.
Speaking of drunken skippers, I believe I saw one once, but I didn't get a close look at him, so now have reason to be extremely jealous of One Who Knows.
It would be interesting to learn just who the fortunate One Who Knows is. However, I would be almost willing to hazard a guess that the gentleman in question is a crewman of very limited experience, given to superior airs and one who would from.his limited experience feel qualified to reform the fishing industry from A to Z.
Have heard of several incidents in which mediocre crew members who failed to cut the mustard have been given to doing a little bitching to cover up their own shortcomings when they find themselves beached.
Now, Mr. One Who Knows, put up or shut up, we haven't the time or the desire to fiddle around with triflers.
—H. MALYEA
Owen Bay, B.C.
Albert Duffy
Editor, The Fisherman:
A note on the passing of an old timer, one of the Union's best supporters.
Albert Duffy, owner of the boat "Eagle," fishing out around Mas-sett, passed on at the Prince Rupert Hospital on September 3. Apparently he was overcome by a stroke. It was. too foggy for a plane so they took him by boat to Prince Rupert where he died.
Duffy, as he was known by that name only, was one of the old school of fishermen. He started his career at Gloucester, Mass., U.S.A., when a boy, and came to the coast in 1909. Fished halibut out of Seattle. When World War I broke out, he enlisted in the Canadian army in 1914 and went overseas with the first outfit out of Canada. Served five years overseas and came back to the coast in 1919 and fished at the Provincial Cannery and other canneries.
During the strike in the year 1936, he was an active picket boat on Rivers Inlet.
He was well known on the coast and respected by all who know him as a good fellow and a good union man. He will be missed by all who know him. He was one of the first members of the union under the heading of Fishermen and Cannery Workers Industrial Union. I, as a delegate, signed him up—one of the first to join in Rivers Inlet.
An article by Chas. Valley from the Queen Charlottes, called him Charlie Duffy, which is incorrect. Charlie Duffy is a logger and died recently around Butedale. He was 85 years old.
Albert Duffy was a personal friend of mine and I guess I know more about him than most do.
JOE MOORE,
Namu, B.C.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Very often some of us who are relatively newcomers to the fishing industry do not know all the facts about old-timers such as Albert Duffy. We very much appreciate such letters as the above.
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Editor, The Fisherman:
In announcing the. delegation going to Japan to discuss a fisheries treaty, Canadian Minister of Fisheries R. W. Mayhew made this statement:
"The taxpayers of this province have invested considerable money in the protection and conservation of salmon, consequently, we feel tha.t they have a right to the harvest when it comes in."
I most humbly suggest that the minister, instead of having quotation marks at the end of his statement, should have had double question marks. "When it comes in", he says, but what happens to the fish before it comes in, that's what we are concerned about.
No fish will reach our coast because the Japanese fishing offshore will get all the salmon before they get to our fishing grounds.
The Japanese peace treaty was signed without the consent of the Canadian people and the fishermen too. Now, the same thing is being done with the fisheries treaty. The fishermen, co-ops, and vessel owners have been ignored and only the B.C. Packers (Salmon Canners) ere represented on the hand-picked delegation going to Japan for a two weeks holiday.
What has the Japanese government got to do with the Canadian fishing industry or the Canadian people that we have to go to ask them how the Canadian people are to live?
Remember, you do not need to empty an empty brailer.
—A. BARCOT
Vancouver, B.C.
By FISHER LASS
ip\AWGONNIT folks, I had ta quit doin so much writin an start doin a little more studyin -1*-^ as I been gettin behind. I found two letters which I'm sending on account of they aint anythin very secrut in either one a them. DEAR PAR: I been waitin
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Alert Bay
fer a long spell now fer a letter from you. It kinda 16oks like you been out of stamps like I been out of them an if it hedn't been fer Olga lendin me this'n, I wouldn't hev been able ta send this letter ta you.
They ain't been no startlin' news around this town since you an' the Lass went up north. Of course 1 ain't got no money till I sell some apples which isn't ripe yet.
I been out diggin' clams, but now I broke the stock of the clam-gun tryin' ta git somethin' else ta eat fer a change from spuds an' eggs. The hens is both layin' good so some days I get two eggs. Out oi 10 chicks, I see we got nine roosters, so next year I'll hev three hens.
How is the fishin' been goin' an' how is the Lass, Par? Parson Switzenburger dropped in fer a visit tother day an' he brung along his visitin' sister fer tea. You know that split board in the bathroom floor, well, the parson's sister bustid clean through thet board an' she scraped all the bark offin her shin bone. The parson hed ta go down under the floor an' take his sister's boot offin her trapped foot bifore she could get shed of the floor. I was terrible imbarrassed, Par. When you come home in the fall, I want you ta git busy an' beachcomb a new board fer our bathroom floor.
They hes been a bunch of bills come in the mail fer you since you went away only I didn't see no sence in sendin' them on ta you cause I realize thet you don't aim ta pay them fer a spell. They is one bill from the merchine shop about thet repellor and the time you got yer stern thingme rabbited and they is one from the oil station about the time you got gas fer haulin' thet goviment man which revaluates propity around an' fer which you ain't been paid yet. Thet magazine company is thretinin' ta soo you if you don't pay up the last eight years' subscripchun an alls you ordered was one year's subscripchun. Of course they's lots more bills which isn't so awful important.
I hed a letter from yer sister Liz an' she says thet the Yankks hes jist about got this war won, same as last one also, so you'd best fish good an' hard on account of as scon as the war is over, we most likely will hev hard times agin.
If you kin talk thet cannary man-niger out of 15 dollars fer me, it fer sure would come plenty handy at this time. Please hit him up Par an' let me know if he'.s loosened up any since last year.
Love from . . . (Mar)
P.S.—The fire from the kitchen cook stove is burnt right through inta the oven now, so I been cookiii on the heatin' stove, also, thet goat you got off'n the Swede Finn hes chewed one sleave outa yer only Sunday dress shirt.
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take it easy Mar,   we'll need plenty this commin' winter.
Sure am disappointed about them chicks bein' dang near all roosters, we won't get no more settin' eggs from Gowland Harbor, they must bs usin' bum hen feed, on their hens.
Fishin' hes been all gunnysack this year. My net ain't holdin' up none too well neither. The Lass an' me's been eatin' all the Jack springs we catch, so it don't leave much left ta sell as them sockeyes is scarcer'n hairs on the Parson Switzenburger's head when he takes his wig off.
Sure am sorry about thet lady gittin' the bark peeled off'n her leg, guess they ain't much leg left onc't the bark is gone. They is a piece of hemlock plank in the goat pen which is just about the right length
about them Mar, I been doin' so much worryin' lately, thet a little more won't hurt me none. Besides, they ain't no more room left on my head fer grey hairs.
What Liz knows about this war could be writ on one side of a cigarette paper in big letters an' she'd still hev plenty room left to write what she knows about the 10 commandments on the same side of thet paper.
By gum, Mar, there's some scrap iron thet would just fill in thet hole in yer kitchen cook stove, just git the widder Olsen ta let you hev a gander in her basement fer scrap iron; you kin git plenty clay fer chinkin' it in with in thet pile of muck we took out of the well.
Make sure thet the goat don't git at thet troil of caulkin cotton under my work bench, I don't want
ta fit the bathroom floor only don't1 caulkin cotton scattered all over ast the parson ta put it in fer you, the yard. We'll be seein' you, Mar, he never could drive nails an' thet. the Lass an' me sends our love, hemlock is plenty tough. Yer lovin' Husband.
Them bills thet you mention sure ] P.S.—The price of fish ain't gone is the bunk, don't you go worryin' up much._
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DEAR MAR:
Please find included, the sum of five bucks which the cannary man niger says will hev ta be suffishunt fer this season until I catch more fish.
We hev already drawed fifty bucks in kewpons fer gas an' grub so I hit the manniger up fer money bifore asking fer more kewpons Thet manniger's liable ta hev a callico kitten with cotton ears when I tell him I also need more kew.-pons.
They is another clam-gun behind the barn, Mar, an' I expect thet you will find it's a trifle rusty an' the handle might be sorta wired up, so
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