June 3, 1941
THE FISHERMAN
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Returning to our discussion of PC 7440 by which wages are pegged at the 1926-29 level, we recall that an earlier Order-in-Council (PC 2685), which was passed in June, 1940, already hinted that where wages adjustments were necessary as a result of wartime conditions, they might well take the form of bonus payments.
This idea was made law in December when PC 7440 was passed.
This order-in-council actually takes the form of a series of instructions to conciliation boards set up under the Federal Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. It does not apply to Provincial Boards as yet; and that is why the recent B.C. Electric arbitration was not directly affected by PC 7440. However, as time goes on more and more industries are placed under the Federal Act, and so the importance of PC7440 increases.
The Order itself is really divided into two sections. The first covers wages and the second bonusses.
(1) Wage levels established in 1826-29, or higher levels established between that time and December, 1940, are declared to be "generally fair and reasonable." This means that a Board, when asked to grant higher wages, cannot do so if the wages which are sought are higher than those which prevailed in 1926-29 or subsequently, unless it can be "clearly shown" that the 1926-29 level was abnormal.
Furthermore, if a Board does grant wages higher than those which obtained in 1926-29, the Minister of Labor can re-convene it and require it to bring its findings with in the terms of PC 7440.
It is interesting to see how this policy works in practice. In the West Coast Woollen Mills case, the company and the employees had agreed to a new wage scale. The Board turned in a unanimous report. Nevertheless, the Minister wired the Board Chairman, after the report was in .asking if the new ( and considerably higher) wage scale was in conformity with PC 7440. After receiving his reply, the Department of Labor in Ottawa wrote as follows:
"While the report did not indicate whether the (new) scale of wages . . . was in conformity with PC7440, it has been ascertained that the new wage rates are not higher than those paid by a knitting mill in Vancouver during 1926-29. , . . Consequently, these new wage rates do not appear to conflict with the provisions of PC 7440."
Had the Board's report favored wages higher than those of 1926-29, no doubt the Minister would have reconvened it and instructed it to lower the scale so as to bring that scale within the 1926-29 level.
It is thus easy to see that when organized labor claims that wages on jobs within Federal Jurisdiction are pegged at 1926-29 levels, it is entirely justified. Next week: Bonusses.
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Challenges Correspondent On Cooperatives
Editor, The Fisherman:
I see that our correspondent at Stewart Island objects to the idea of forming co-operative collective systems to handle our fish. The idea somehow has permeated my thick dome that he also objects to credit unions on the same grounds, viz., the locomotive engineers started a bank and it went fluey.
Well, there have been more bank failures in the U.S.A. in anyone of a dozen years than all the failures of co-operative societies and cooperative banks (credit unions), in the whole world during all the years we have any record of.
Of course, if the working people start banks and try to run them with out first learning how, which the engineers no doubt did, they are likely to have failures.
By the same token if we started credit unions and co-operative societies without learning anything about them they would have a good chance to fail.
But we all, and especially the fishermen, have a chance to study the co-operative and credit union movement through the facilities offered by the U.B.C. Extension Department.
Then after we have studied the subject thoroughly, we can decide whether we want to have a co-operative movement or not, and if we also decide we want it, we will have a good chance to make a success of it when we start it.
Yours for co-operation and unity, PERCY SABIIS.
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Information On Independent Camps
Editor, The Fisherman:
As there seems to be a lot of confusion in regards to independent camps, I would like to make some of the facts known as I see them. On the Fraser River last fall we got 70 to 75 cents per sockeye and 35 cents in Rivers Inlet. Granting the Fraser River fish are a little larger, there still is too big a spread. On the Fraser River we have our own net racks, tubs and are more or less independent, hence the price goes up.
On the Inlets the cannery furnishes us with everything and we are paying through the nose both for net rentals, mending and on our fish price.
The idea of the independent camps is to get away from the canneries, have our own floats and tubs and get the highest price that is to be had for our fish. The halibut fishermen and the trollers coop sell the fish to the highest bider, so why not the gillnetters; but we will never be able to do this unless we become independent.
It is up to all the independent
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Has Reaped But Not Sown
Editor,  The Fisherman:
It is an established fact that the salmon fishing industry today is, from the fishermen's point of view, a sick industry. As late as a quarter of a century ago, the rivers and indentations of our coast were teeming with salmon. Today, what have we?
Now a deplorable condition such as we have at the present time dosen't just happen. Man, in his greed and avarice, has over-balanced the wheels of nature. He and he alone, is responsible. He has reaped but he has not sown. Our fishery officials in their wisdom have tried the method of placing boundaries which all fishermen are supposed to respect. They have also curtailed the hours of fishing.
Unfortunately the commercial fisherman is not the only one depending upon the salmon for his existence. There are innumerable depredatory foes of the salmon who do not observe any boundaries but follow the spawning salmon into their spawning grounds and grow fat by feasting on them and their eggs which are the potential embryo of a new generation. These depredatious foes of the salmon are their natural enemies and man the unnatural enemy ,and it is only logical to assume that if man is to continue to enact his toll, then the natural enemy must be exterminated or the industry will soon cease to exist.
By observation carried on over a period of years it has been prob lematically assumed that salmon run in cycles. A cycle is the period of times from when the female deposits its eggs until those eggs return as mature fish. Following out line of thought it is only reasonable to assume that the more eggs deposited and protected, the larger will be the "run" in the ensuing cycle year. It does not necessarily mean that because there has been a large escapement of fish to any particular given spawning area that there will be a large run of salmon to that particular given area in their current cycle year.
The time is long past due for those interested to do their part in preventing our third largest industry in Canada from taking the road to complete oblivion.
—WALTER RUMBALL.
Labor News and Comment
By EVAN LANE
At the recent Vancouver Civil Liberties Conference, R. T. Elson, then editor of the News-Herald and now Washington correspondent of the Province, affected great indignation at the distinction drawn by some delegates between the "commercial" and the "free labor" press. Canadians, he maintained, are better informed on world events by their daily press than any other people. In fact, the Canadian people are so well-informed that it remains for obscure columnists like myself writing for the trade union press and the one or two democratic papers the government has not been able to suppress to supply the information the daily press prefers to omit.
Into the offices of the daily papers the cables daily pour thousands of words covering events and developments in Britain. But where did you read about the call for "an effective parliamentary opposition which will come out boldly in the interests of the people" recently issued by the People's Convention?
fishermen to get behind this move and fish for the independent camps this year and when the other fishermen see that we get a dime or more then they do, they will soon be with us. There will be a camp at Rivers and Smith Inlets this year. BOB WULFF.
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Where did you read about the amendment introduced into the British House of Commons, although not accepted by the speaker, that: "The House condemns the policy of the government in relation to the conduct of the war declaring that by submitting to the dictates of the vested interests it has hampered democratic initiative of the people; by failing either to overcome the waste, corruption and inefficiency prevailing in many branches of industry or to organize the production and equitable distribution of food supplies, it has imposed heavy and unnecessary suffering on the people; by not adopting and proclaiming progressive peace aims it has stifled the forces of resistance to Hitler and Mussolini in Europe; and by refusing to follow a policy of friendship with the Soviet Union it has increased the war burdens and difficulties; and it has thereby forfeited the confidence of the country?"
The News-Herald published a few days ago an interview with Sir Firuz Khan Noon, high commissioner for India in Britain, in which he deplored the general apathy in Canada and contrasted it with the enthusiasm displayed in India. But where did the News-Herald publish the statement issued by the Indian National Congress containing the information that 2 ex-ministers, including seven former provincial premiers, are now either under arrest or serving prison sentences? The statement further reported that more than 500 people have been sentenced in the present civil disobedience campaign in India and that to collect the fines ranging from 200 to 37,000 rupees, the authorities are distraining the property of those convicted, including agricultural and household implements and even clothing and food.
You and I may well ask why this statement was not published. There is always the inference that it would have been inconsistent with Elson's statement to the civil liberties conference that democratic liberties are of secondary importance at this time.
actually dying of hunger in the streets as in a beleaguered city," he told members of Dublin Rotary Club, "but people are dying from the results of malnutrition for all that in great numbers, as any doctor who works among the poorer classes will tell you. Many children are going to bed at night hungry, wake in the night with hunger pains and get up and struggle to school still hungry." Did you read this statement in the daily press?
Did you read about the bill recently introduced in the Dail to restrict the rights of trade unions in Eirej This bill requires all unions with a membership of under 2000 to deposit with the government the sum of £2000 sterling, with a graduated scale for unions with a larger membership. By its provisions the smaller unions are threatened with destruction. As a result of rank and file opposition the Trade Union Congress and Dublin Trades Council have been obliged to call special conferences. But did you read about this in the daily press?
The daily press for weeks now has scarcely allowed a day to pass without some reference to the demand for bases in Eire. But never a word is mentioned about the struggle of the Irish working people to maintain their neutrality. As revealed by Dr. Collis, eminent Dublin physician, thousands of unemployed in Dublin are dying from starvation.   "You don't see people
The daily press, for its own reasons, features South American news prominently now. But not all the news. Some of it never finds its way into print, as, for instance, the news about the demonstration staged by Caracas citizens when President Medina of Venezuela was inaugurated a few weeks ago. Crowds demonstrating before the Capitol for universal and direct suffrage, election of the president by direct vote instead of by vote of Congress, legislation of all political parties and Venezuelan neutrality, were attacked by police and several persons were severely injured. Newspapermen who took pictures of the attack had their cameras confiscated. The government ,however, could have dispensed with this last act of suppression. The pictures would not have been published by the commercial press, which, in Vancouver, did not even consider the news worth reporting.
The moral for organized workers hardly requires pointing. Build up your own trade union press. Oppose all attacks on the one or two papers which still strive, despite censorship and intimidation, to give you the facts.
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