Friday, May 23, 1947
THE FISHERMAN
Page Seven
Fish and Ships
By BEG DIXON
IN RUSSIA
Einar Karlsen is now living on his boat "Pitt Navigator" at North Shore Marine Basin, North Vancouver. He has now retired from the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, and will be remembered by many members for the hard work he put in helping to establish "The Fisherman" on a sound basis during its early days.
Einar Larsew, who is working at the U.F. Co-op liver plant, is selling the "Laura L," his bro- | ther Angel Larsen's boat. Angel' Larsen, as reported in this col- j umn last week, died a short while ago. He was 67 years old | and died: justt after returning from the fishing grounds, having spent the winters in Vancouver the last few years. He leaves a sister, brother and his mother in Norway.
Ole Skax who was on the "Bumper Catch" has had to stay in Vancouver owing to fish poisoning, losing a trip. Olaf Hof-seth of the "Bessie Mac" has also lost a halibut trip with a badly clit finger.
Alfred Gjerde, Union member since 1939, is now in Tranquille Sanatorium and would be glad to hear from any of his friends who have lost touch with him.
They have never managed to develop real bones and get by with a skeleton made of cartilage. The are known as selachians, which includes ratfish as well, and all other fishes are classed as Pisces or true fishes.
FISH FACT: Most fishermen realize that the sharks, dogfish and skates aren't like other fish. Actually they represent the oldest class of fishes which flourished long before there were any other fish or any land animals either.
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TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY TONS RECENTLY CAUGHT LARGE HERRING AT CRAMER PASS. CLOSE TO ECHO BAY.
MOSES ALFBED
Ten Years Ago
From The Fisherman, 1937
Story of the 1901 Fraser Fishermen's strike:
"The first trial of Rogers (strike leader) and the six patrolmen (union pickets) took place in Vancouver. In spite of the ferociously vindictive instructions of a prejudiced judge, who called them 'thieveB and robbers of the very worst class,' the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty in both cases. The judge showed his class bias so openly that he did not offer the jury the usual thanks.
As there were still some more counts on which they were charged, the prosecutor asked for a change of venue for the next trials, claiming in an affidavit of the chief of provincial police that 'The City of Vancouver from which the jury panel is drawn, is thoroughly union, and the union juries must necessarily be very much affected by the sympathies of the prisoners who are union fishermen." One part of the prosecutors plea should go down in history—"the crown could not get a fair trial."
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Artificial Breeding Offsets Dam Effect
BAKU, Azerbaijan,. (WNS)—An unusual program for the artificial breeding of fish, necessitated by the building of a dam on the Kura River as part of the huge Minge-chaur hydro-electric power project now launched, has been drafted by a special organization set up by the government of this republic.
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The dam will close the way to millions of fish which annually run up the Kura river from the Caspian Sea to spawn. For example, between March ,and July great numbers of sturgeon, salmon and other fish go hundreds of miles up the Kura and its tributaries, as far as Georgia and even Armenia, to reach their spawning grounds.
With the way barred by the new dam, the problem was to make good the loss in the propagation of these valuable fish. Scientists suggested that natural breeding be supplanted by stocking water artificially.
To this end experimental fish hatcheries are to be set up on an area of about 125 acres, cov ered by special reservoirs fitted with heavy-duty pumps and power installations. On the banks of these reservoirs laboratories and hatcheries are to be built.
Conditions most favorable for spawning will be devised, and
scientists will conduct investigations on the life of the various kinds of fish in order to perfect existing methods of artificial breeding.
Five hatcheries will be erected along the Kura below the dam for the artificial spawning of sturgeon and salmon alone, from which millions upon millions of fry are expected.
For those fish that do not go far to spawn, several lakes located near the Kura will be transformed into reservoirs and connected by a series of canals. At the same time, a number of tunnels will be built in the wall of the Mingechaur dam to provide channels through which fish not taken care of by the hatcheries will be able to proceed up the river and spawn naturally.
The scale of work entailed by this program may be judged b> the fact that about 100,000,000-ruble have been earmarked to carry it out.
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Gulf Islands
The Gulf Islands Local of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union will hold its next meeting at Reid Island saltery, Friday, May SO. Time of the meeting Is 12 o'clock and meetings fall regularly on the last Friday of each month.
Victoria Local
Will meet first Thursday in June, at 8 p.m., in Victoria Trades and Labor Council Hall, 602 Broughton Street.
Sunbury Local
Meeting first Sunday of each month. 7 p.m., in Sunbury Hall. Next meeting falls on Sunday, June 1.
Albion Local
The Albion Local of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union will hold its next regular monthly meeting June 8, the second Sunday in the month, in Albion Community Hall at two o'clock. (Note: this is a change in date.)
New Westminster
The New Westminster local of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union holds its meetings regularly on the first Thursday of each month at 8 o'clock in the Canadian Legion Hall on Begbie Street.
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Shoreworkers' Local
Next regular meeting of the shoreworkers' local UFAWU, will be held on Thursday, June 19, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fishermen's Hail.
Steveston Shore Local
Regular monthly meeting of the Steveston shore local, United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union will be held on the last Monday of each month in the Red Cross Hall on Fourth Avenue in Steveston at 8 p.m. Next meeting is May 26.
Sooke Local
Sooke local of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union meets regularly on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Sooke corn-unit^ Hall. Next meeting is June 10.
Ladner Local
Regular meeting of the Ladner Local will take place on Sunday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ladner Fishermen's Co-op Hall. Meetings are held regularly on the first Sunday of each month.
Port Mann
Second Sunday of each month at two o'clock, at Port Mann (Henry Hansen's). Next meeting Is set for June 8.
Sointula
Meets regularly on the first Sunday of each mcnth at 2 o'clock in the Finnish organization Hall, Sointula.- Next meet-is June 1.
AMERICA'S children are indeed fortunate to have as one of their countrymen, Howard Fast. For he is a man who has made the best in American history live. He has taken the dry hif-tory of text books, which too often ignores or superficially deals with some of the greatest events in a country's life and made of it blood, bone, and muscle.
Where in a history book has there been told the srtory of the Haymarket working class leaders, eight men who were framed with having instigated the throwing of a bomb at a quiet meeting in Chicago's Haymarket Square ? This is a page which can only be written in labor's own history books and this is a page ably written in The American.
The American is actually the story of Pete Altgeld, the son of a German immigrant farmer. Altgeld, squat, ill-formed, poor offspring of poverty stricken parents, fought in the civil war as a mere boy, fought on his own to become educated, fought—that was his life's theme. He became a wealthy lawyer, finally governor of Illinois.
His great act, exposing thoroughly and completely the frame-up of the Haymarket "anarchists" and granting them a complete pardon, earned him two reputations; one among the people as a great spokesman for and leader of the people, the other, among big business leaders, and their trumpet^ the newspapers, as a socialist, Revolutionary, anarchist, Communist and an alien. The Chicago Tribune said editorially when the pardons were announced, "He has apparently not a drop of true American blood in his veins."
Caricatures of him, verses mocking him—these were the fruits the press offered for an act which his case, prepared then, and the facts, reviewed now, prove unalterably as just, honest, decent and American in the finest sense of that word.
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Lucy Parsons, wife of one of the four Haymarket men who were hanged, is- an integral part of the book. She, who fought for her husband's life, then for his pardon after death and finally always for what he believed in, had a profound effect on the destiny of Pete Altgeld.
Governor Altgeld took over the Democratic Party, would have been run for president, but for the few days he was born from America, and with William Jennings Bryan, went down to defeat. The press, plus such tricks as closing factories with a warning that if Bryan were elected, they would never reopen, cancellation of fire insurance policies to farmers because of the possibility of Bryan'a election, beat Altgeld. From then on, this man, so much like Lincoln, grew even closer to the people, conducted their struggles, dreamed and spoke with Eugene Debs of a, third American Party. Only a few hours before Altgeld died, in 1902, he was in court fighting an injunction on behalf of Chicago's cabbies' union, a governor turned labor lawyer.
The American is indeed thrilling history, a story which is life itself. —G. NORTH.
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