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THE FISHERMAN"
November 6, 1945
Salmon Pack Bulletin
NUMBER 20, FOR 1945
Figures represent 48-H>. cases or equivalent
• . Current Season Oct. 27 1945 Comparison with packs of previous years as at the dates indicated Oct. 28 |Oct 30 |Oct. 24 1944 1 1943 | 1942 Oct. 25 1941 Oct. 26 1940
SOCKEYE All Dists. 328,969 V2,247,498 164,803 663,753 454,764 360,449
SPRINGS All Dists. 12,341%| 19,129 10,471 22,101%'| 49,879 17,057
STEELHEADS All Dists. 2,803 3,890 3,095 4,542 3,407 994
BLUEBACKS All Dists. 6,661% 12,464 14,067 23,254 %'i 30,011 23,191
COHOE All Dists. 210,890 167,141% |171,644%'jl84,682 358,676 187,700
PINKS All Dists. 823,134% |389,856 529,157% !269,204%]430,895 213,311
CHUMS District 1 District 2 District 3 95,486% 180,427 51,770 44,475 176,733 26,479 67,132 171,553 63,138 157,658 168,491% 153,779 190,951 226,402 262,105 118,741 251,592 180,326
Total ........ 327,683 %'j247,687 301,823 479,928% |679,458, 550,659
Totals All Dists. CO OO T-t t> is in <o <o t-00 0^ CO 0 10 02 r-1 CO CD •* CO rH 0 Oi 0 c-~ 0 o_ of CD co CO ul M r-T
Out Of The Bilge
by Al PriUhati
How Prince Rupert Handles Consumer Co-op Business
The Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association store operations are extensive and successful. They have a very large investment in building and equipment and carry a stock of approximately $15,000. Their turnover last year was over $50,000.
This organization has been facing a serious problem for some time in the increasing volume of non-member business. For a time this city non-member consumer business was of value in helping to carry the cost of operations during slack months, but soon there became the danger of exceeding the quota of 20 percent of non-member business.
In addition to this, the burden of directing the extensive con-
sumer business, as well as the fishing business in all of its r a m i f i c a -tions, was be coming a very heavy load. The directors, therefore, r e c o m-mended that the consumer society be incorporated to take over the consumer business and that membership be open to all consumers.
D. G. MacDONALD Secretary-Treasurer Fishermen's Co-op Federation
This was presented as an extraordinary resolution to the members of the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association in General Meeting. It required a 75 per cent majority in order to pass. This recorded vote was a matter of a very few short of the necessary 75 percent. In other words, almost three-quarters of the members present were in favour of such a move, but it could not be carried out. The result was, of course, the setting up of a second organization to service others than fishermen and now there is something akin to competition between these two consumer operations.
The fishermen's store is still unavoidably serving many non-members and this still offers a threat in regard to the possible excess of non-member business, and is very decidedly not beneficial to the up-town consumer society.
- Probably some day the problem may again become a live issue and a way found of combining forces, which would be mutually beneficial. The interests of all consumers differ only in the type of goods and services required, and the questions involved are purely of a technical nature dealing with such things as stock of merchandise and departmentalization.
The consumer movement is after all the same in all walks of life and in every country of the world. Next week we will go into the position of the Kyuquot Trol-lers' Co-operative Association and the West Coast Consumers.
J WONDER what the attractions are along the Stanley Park shore in Coal Harbor. The fishermen tied up at Chappel's and East-hope's are working their binoculars overtime. Ain't nature grand? . . . Gsorge Miller and Fred Olsen inspecting one of the Fairmiles ($195,000) on Crane's drydock were ordered off in no uncertain terms; fightin' words almost. However, the boys figured "a soft answer turnsth away wrath", and after identifying themselves, everything ended happily. By the way, the papers report that ten of these 120 foot ships sold, for $3,000 each; the blankets alone on one of these craft are worth $500
Below Highwater
George Matson, from Rivers, who was packing for BCP on charter is back in Vancouver with his "Samra". After holidaying, his boat will go up at Pender Harbor for a burn-off and painting . . . Don Jensen who recently bought the "Tugwell" and his crew iced iced up at Canadian Fish and are off for scrap fishing around Quat-sino . . . Monte Carrs, returned from Merchant Marine Service, is the new owner of the troller "Nautilus" . . . Andy Nelson of the "Lively" is at Benson's and will
I have the aft hold remodelled . . . "Mistral" (UFAWU) was up at Chappel's for minor repairs and
j copper, is being skippered around the gulf locals by Fred Olsen. Fred is extremely happy these days— it's a boy . . . Bob Murray of Ref-
i uge Cove in town for gear with his boat "Harlequin", is enthusiastic about the prospects of prawn fishing .. . Len Parker ("Caraloma") from Bute Inlet and Roy Olsen (pick-up boat for Canadian Fish) were down for a holiday . . . Bert Wilcock from Stuart Island is recovering from a major operation' at (he General Hospital . . . Ben Backus, at Chappel's, is a genial host to those who visit his boat, the "Quinte." Matt Grin (Bamby) who found the local cod fishing very poor has left for points north.
The Labor Front
The general opinion is that the results of the Ford strike will determine th£ future labor relations of the whole country. The average take-home pay in Canada for Ford workers is $28 per week. The main issue, however, is union recognition and union security. This strike deserves your support ... A leaflet issued by the Retail Clerks Association (Local 540) Toronto, states that the rate of pay for returned veterans at Simpson's Department Store is $24. a week, married or single . . . The Arbitration Board is considering demands of the Montreal Textile workers who are paid wages as low as 20 and 30 cents an hour. In an advertising plea for public sympathy the Dominion Textile Company states that their employees' wages are above the minimum required by law and that the average pay is 50 cents an hour. How is it possible to average 50 cents an hour without some rates being below subsistence level ? The Province of Quebec provides a minimum wage of 12'/? cents an hour!
Weekly Beef
When will the promised relief of mooring conditions in Vancouver be attended to? Many fishermen who usually winter in Vancouver Harbour have had to raturn up coast to find a place to tie up. In Salmon Bay at Seattle the facilities for wharfage will be increased from the present 350 to 11,000 vessels.
The Poet's Bunk
I've seen the North West Mounted And it's true they are the rage With the feminine hicks out in the sticks;
'Tis their desert heritage. I've seen the sailors in the Navy
With women in every port; And the cowboy too, with horse so true
And a rancher's girl to court. I've thrilled to Alaskan miners Who seek gold neath the frozen moss
But no romance of the fisherman Have I ever come across.
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The B.C. Cooperative Union has arranged a winter series of classes to cover a wide range of co-op and credit union questions and to include as lecturers some of B.C.'s most noted co-op leaders.
Classes are held in Vancouver Normal School at 12th and Cam-bie, between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 on Tuesday evenings.
Classes are under the auspices of the Workers' Educational Association and although they have already started, anyone interested may attend.
Fee for the term is only three dollars. The following list covers dates of lectures, topics and lecturers:
Oct. 30, Labor and Cooperation. C. D. Clarke.
Nov. 6, Origin, Principles and Methods of the Cooperative Movement, D. G. Macdonald. Nov. 13, Marketing Cooperatives, W. L. Macken.
Nov. 20, Consumer Cooperatives, L. H. C. Phillips.
Nov. 27, Producer Cooperatives, G. W. Dolsen.
Dec. 4, Credit Unions, G. M. Holtby.
Jan. 8, Producer - Consumer Problem, L. H. C. Phillips.
Jan. 15, Cooperative Administration and Finance, G. W. Dolsen.
Jan. 22, Cooperative Legislation, R. J. McMaster.
Jan. 29, Cooperation in Canada, Breen Melvin.
Feb. 5, Cooperation Abroad, Breen Melvin.
Feb. 12, The Future of Cooperation, J. Deane.
Feb. 19, The Social and Economic Significance of Cooperation, R. J. McMaster.
Feb. 26, Education and Organization, C. D. Clarke.
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Election Day At Nootka
By LIN BROWN
Seventy-thirty in the morning, rain heating a mist from the grey sea, sounds of cheap silver on thick china—thirty men feeding in a company dining room.
"It's almost time to open the polling office, Father."
"Oh, if they come hefore I'm ready, I'll just kick them out and tell them to come hack later." This from Fa.ther Chean, a jolly, rotund little Irishman, Returning Officer for the day, and a real friend of the fishermen. He can take his collar off and ice fish with the best of them too.
Captain "Pete" was the first to vote in the gloomy "hotel" lobby next to the dining room. His was an absentee vote so all the regulations had to he conned and duly carried out. The proper oath was administered by the good Father in a loud voice and the ballot handed over to the Captain. Said Mrs. Sonley, the Clerk: "You might as well tell us how you vote—we'll know anyway when we open the box—that will be the only ballot of its kind.'' The Captain sternly marked his ballot in secret behind the lavender-printed cotton screen.
With only fifteen on the voters' list the returning officer anticipated an easy day. There were numerous quips about "easy money" and "working for the government." The population of the place is about fifty but, as in several other places, the necessary forms for registration had arrived too late. By ten-thirty nine had voted. Father Chean stoked the fire in the blackened stove fireplace, and washed his hands. The clerk read, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," and the rain heat clown outside.
Noon came, the gong sounded, and in streamed "the disfranchised." The afteroon dragged. Father Chean popped in and out looking for an electrician. Mrs. Sonley threatened to go home and wash the dishes. Approaching feet caused "the officers" to hastily put their feet down from in front of the fire. But it was only some of the men dropping in for "mugg ups" (afternoon coffee, to you). Sing, the cook (who makes the best hot-cakes on the Pacific Coast) walked through with the kitchen laundry. His face showed no sign that he was even interested in the election—his participation outlawed because of the accident of his race.
At seven-thirty business boomed: five fishermen to cast absentee votes. Father Chean wrote furiously to fill in the names of candidates on the ballots—and got nine upside down. He read the oath for the first two in a loud voice. The others insisted they knew it by heart so just "swore."
The 'scrutineer arrived, tilted on the back of his chair, and smoked' a smelly cigar. Periodically, he related his many experiences as returning officer in past elections. The last fisherman left, the officers heaved a sigh and lit up. In walked another. By the time he had voted it was well past the eight o'clock closing t«ime. Curtains were drawn, instructions read, a hush fell—the time had come to open the box and count all of the twenty-one votes!
Another fisherman stuck his head in the door and yelled '"hurrah" for his candidate. The Father laughed and told of hearing him say to a fellow fisherman: "Vote Labor? Good God man, always vote Labor!"
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