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THE FISHERMAN
CORHESP0 1TDENCE
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has recently become affiliated with the Trades and Labor Council, to be concrete proof the Japanese are desirous of unity with the other fishermen*   I have to drop back to the symbolic language of the Six Nations and state, one or two fine days do not make a summer.
Their old friends, the B.C. Fishermen's Protective .association, seem to have turned against them.   And again, the Cannerymen and other big shot employers who protected them just as long as they could use them as a club on the other workers, may have cot their wind up at their penetration into their own positions and instead of protecting them are trying to get rid of them now that their efforts are a menace instead oi an asset.
I have nothing against the Japanese because they are Japanese, I have had both Indian and Chinese friendsthat I respect the memory of just as much as any white man I ever roBt in my life, but it will take more than promises for me to forget the   Brechen   trolling fleet and the fishing for food racket they put over during the late Blue back strike.   They made the big stake when the white men were tied up on strike.   He, I left Squitty   with $9.00 in cash, $1800   in the hole and had to face the winter with the swan song: "No relief for striking Blueback Fishermen" humming in my ears and three of a family to keep besides myself.
In view of the above and other things I mentioned in my previous letters, I think most trollers will take the same view that I do.   We are not against them because they are Japanese but because they are scabs and I think        Umezuki, if your views are as stated in your letter, you will be of the sa..e opinion that   we are.
Once we can change the system from production for profit for a few and poverty for the masses, to production for use and an abundance for all, the Oriental problem will be a thins of the past. Then the undoubted industry of the Japanese will be an asset instead of a menace; they will have to line up with "the other workers or move out.
Until then we have to do the best we can in order to bring about better working conditions, and to safeguard ourselves, our homes and our fellow workers as much as possible under the present system, and we may yet be put in the same position as a man, who to save his house from being burnt, has to put out a fire that someone else started.
Trusting I have nede myself clear, I
remain,     v„ .,,
Yours fraternally,
CHAS. C. KEAN. EDITOR'S NOTE:   We still cannot agree with
LOG BOOK ON THE PRESS
The Log Book is finished and on the Press, and loud sighs of relief can be heard around Union Headquarters.
Only two advertisers have held us up for the copy of their ads and perhaps we may be delayed a day or two, as we don't want to get hard-boiled, but otherwise everything is going fine.
We have had one piece of bad luck though, and that was with the map we intended to include with the book.   We expected to get some of our advertisers to furnish a map in return for advertising, but found that it costs real money to turn out the kind of map we wanted,  so rather than spoil the book with an inferior map, we decided to leave it   out this year.
But we also stumbled on to a. piece of good luck that more than makes up for the map.   Mr. W.M. Seivewright, a Master Mariner who knows the B.C. Coast well, has given us tables of the cruising distances between all points on both the mainland coast and the West coast.
These tables are so laid Out that the distance between any. two points can be readily found.   They have never been published anywhere before, and every fislier-man who gets one of the Log-Books should copy these tables out on a large piece of good grade paper and paste them up for ready reference.
'With this and other data that has been included, it is expected there will be a real scramble for the Log-Bocks when they are off the press.   Three thousand copies are being ordered, and all locals should get their orders in early for their quota.
The remainder will be distributed on the grounds by the Union organizers and delegates.   A Log-Book is being given with every sub or renewal while the subscription drive is on, so those who want to make sure of getting one should get their subs in as soon after May 1st as posrible.
Bro. Kean's viewpoint.! He says "one or two fine days do not make a summer.'•' We 'might say that a few incidents do not condemn a race of People - if so, the white race would have been consigned to damnation long ago.
We do not condone the acts of the Japanese of which Bro. Kean complains, but we do point to the conditions that give rise to such acts and maintain that our task lies in helping the Japanese overcome these conditions.
Abraham Lincoln voiced our views, over seventy years ago, much better than we are able to do today, when-he said:
"The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues and kindreds." * * *