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THE FISHERMAN
July 21, 1942
Fish Cannery & Reduction Plant Workers' Union
By BILL GATEMAN
PRODUCTION MUST BE MAINTAINED
At our Union's first annual convention held last March a resolution was passed which called for the 100 percent support of Canada's war effort. In support of that resolution a further one was passed declaring that the membership of our organization would do everything in their power to guarantee a maximum production of goods from our industry this year.
It is possible that a large number gotiations with the union for the of our members did not, and as yet cannery employees immediately do not understand the significance and importance of those two resolutions. Not to understand them means that our union's policy will remain on paper instead of being put into actual practice.
Reports have been received by the union office during the past week to the effect that employees have quit their jobs in wholesale numbers. Many of these employees quit because of little grievances which possibly could have been straightened out by the union at each plant. Our Reduction Plant agreement has a provision whereby grievances or disputes can be settled by the plant committee, and
Union Asks $6.00 Per Ton Herring Price
W. T. Burgess, secretary of the Union, met with the herring operators committee on the afternoon of July 20 for the first joint discussion on 1942-43 herring price and conditions.
The price of $6.00 per ton was laid before the operators as well as tendermen's demands for lay basis, particularly in the Gulf area, if we are to do everything to the and where working on wageSi last end that a maximum production is year..s sca]e plug Doard.
The major part of the discussion,
By Evan Lane
THE NEWSPOINT
A Weekly Commentary on Current Events
WITH Hitler's armies now at the approaches to the Caucasus, agitation for opening of the second front is widespread. What a few months ago was the demand raised mainly by sections of the labor movement and a few prominent individuals is today the cry of the great majority of the people .recognized in the recent London-Moscow-Washington understanding on the urgent necessity of opening the second front this year
attained, then certainly every effort should be made to iron out any grievances that may arise before our members quit their job.
We do not suggest for a moment that employees have no right to quit their job. They have, but we do feel that when grievances exist they should use the machine that is set in our Union Agreement to rectify those grievances.
We are not unmindful of the fact that in times past the operators have been reluctant to do busines with their employees through the Union, and in fact today they still hesitate to grant their cannery employees that right which may have serious repercussions in production before the year is out. We hope not. And we therefore trust that the operators will enter into ne-
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however, was confined to presenting the Union's program for maximum production within the industry to meet the urgent wartime requirements.
It was agreed that further meetings would be held in the near future in order to establish a sound basis to conduct final negotiations when the proper time arrives.
Our Women's Auxiliary
A luncheon will be held at the home of Mrs. W. S. Purvis, 2381 Burns Street (phone FAirmont 4547-L) on Thursday, July 23, at 1:30 p.m. in honor of Mrs. Alice Garvin from Manson's Landing. All members of the Auxiliary are invited to attend. BUSINESS MEETING.
The regular business meeting will be held on Thursday, July 23, in the Union Hall, 138 East Cordova St., at 7:30 p.m. All members are requested to attend.
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Today it is generally accepted that opening of the second front now can decide the outcome of the ■war within months and lead to victory this year. It is also widely understood that an Allied invasion of Europe will rally the peoples of the United Nations for a supreme war effort as no other action can and inspire the breaking of all production records.
The very fact that opening of the second front, in face of the apparent need, is delayed helps to weaken morale and heighten suspicion of the government's policies. Workers want to hear, not the enumeration of difficulties, as elaborated in Colliers recently by Quentin Reynolds in his article, Second Thoughts on a Second Front," but proposals for overcoming these difficulties.
Some workers, misconstruing the delay in opening the second front as deliberate, have fallen into a negative attitude of general opposition to the government's policies because of it. Obviously, such general opposition contributes nothing to the war effort and actually hampers the campaign for opening of the second front. Not general opposition, but support of every governmental policy that promoted the war effort and agitation for a positive demand enabled the British people to influence the recent understanding of the second front.
'Many factors contributed to the new stage in the government's policy and strategy, but the campaign has been a signal contribution of the British working class to the common aims of the alliance against Hitlerism and demonstrated the role which the working class can play in a democratic antifascist war within the framework of national unity."
AS PALME DUTT, the famous British writer, noted in an article last month:
"Powerful agitation throughout the country expressed the popular demand for the immediate establishment of such a second front. Accordingly, it is recognized that the agreement announced on June 11 represented a milestone in the achievement of the objects of this agitation. The campaign now goes forward for the fullest support of sustaining and speeding the fulfilment of these decisions.
"The twelve-month campaign in Britain for a second front constituted one of the most outstanding popular agitations of modern times in Britain and considerably exceeded in scale and range the Spanish, anti-Munich and People's Convention compaigns. By mobilizing broad public opinion the campaign assisted in paving the way for the agreements reached on May 28 and further advance to practical measures is now possible.
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/CONCLUDING his article, Palme ^ Dutt stated:
"The task now becomes to rally the united support of the entire nation for the fulfilment of the undertaking of the most urgent establishment of a second front in Europe."
Soon our own Canadian army will be actually engaged on the fighting front in Europe, for that is the people's will and it must prevail. And here, on the production front, in the agitation for total war policies, the workers can make their contribution to "a democratic antifascist war within the frame-work of national unity."
Policies that cannot be reconciled with a total war effort must be opposed. Criticism is essential to strengthening of the war effort. But criticism that offers no practical and positive proposal for advancing the war effort defeats itself. Not merely opposition to prevailing policies but leadership on the production front and in the demand for stronger policies that will rally all the people for total war is the contribution labor must make to victory.
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Any Food Industry's a War Industry Today
CANADA NEEDS MORE FISH
Britain wants more Canned Salmon and Canned Herring from Canada, and Britain is going to get it. The Dominion's entire 1942 output will be sent to the United Kingdom. Canadians will do without these fish. The gallant British people need them more than we do.
Other kinds of Canada's fine Fish and Shellfish must replace Canned Salmon and Canned Herring on the Dominion's 1942 tables. That means production of these other fish foods must be stepped up.
Here's a Job to Be Done . . . Canadian Fishermen Will Do It!
War adds to the normal hazards of the fishing fleets but Canadian fishermen carry on courageously. They've done splendidly. But there's still more to be done. Great catches of salmon and herring must be made so that Britain can get the fish her people need so urgently. Catches of other Canadian Fish and Shellfish must be increased for Canadian tables.
Greater Production Must Be the Watchword. United, Intensified Effort Will Do the Job!
DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES Ottawa
Hon. J. E. Michaud, M.P., Minister
