• Bill 3, depriving teachers of bargaining rights, and Bill 88, now suspended, which would have stripped unions of the right to refuse to handle hot products or handle non-union materials, were targets of UFAWU lobbyists at Victoria.
Talks with U.S. asked
Marine traffic control system urged on gov't
The federal government is being urged by the UFAWU to establish a comprehensive marine traffic control system to regulate shipping in B.C. coastal waters.
Acting on a resolution adopted by last month's UFAWU convention, Archie Kaario, secretary of the union's navigational aids committee, this week wrote to federal transport minister Don Jamieson urging the government "to institute discussions with the U.S. with a view to establishing a marine traffic control system from inside the Cape Flattery-Carmanah Point line to Pine Island in B.C., and the head of Puget Sound and Hood Canal in Washington state."
The convention resolution to this effect pointed out that a constantly growing volume of shipping using B.C. and Washington state ports makes fishing more hazardous each year and brings with it the threat of more collisions and groundings.
The resolution suggested creation of a communications system to keep shipping informed of fishing activities along their
Five charged in murder of fisherman, fiancee
A 27-year old gillnetter, William Tupniak, and his fiancee, 24-year old Marilyn June Cathers of Sooke whom he was to have married later this year, were victims of a brutal double slaying at Tupniak's newly built home in Surrey on the night of March 27.
The bodies of the couple were found on the morning of March 28 by Patrick Murphy, a neighbor who had been looking after Tupniak's house at 1155 - 164th Street during the past year while it was under construction.
Police said both victims had been shot with a heavy calibre rifle and a small calibre weapon and had been stabbed repeatedly.
On March 30, three days after the murders, police arrested a man on his release from Vancouver General Hospital, where he had been taken for treatment of injuries received when a car crashed into a power pole on Granville
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Street. Articles found in the car, including a color television set, matched the description of those reportedly missing from Tupniak's home.
The man, Robert Charles Smith, 28, of Richmond appeared briefly in provincial court at Cloverdale on March 31 to hear a charge of noncapital murder and was remanded in custody without plea.
SECOND MAN CHARGED
Search for a second man involved in the accident, who left the hospital before police arrived, ended with the arrest of Ronald Joseph Philip Sauve, 31, of Vancouver. He too, was charged with non-capital murder when he appeared in provincial court at Vancouver on April 1.
At Fisherman press time, RCMP announced they had arrested three other men. One, David George, 26, of Vancouver, is charged with noncapital murder.
The other two, Clifford George Wells, 38, of Richmond, and
William Konkin are charged with "conspiracy to commit murder or cause another person to be mudered."
The same charge has also been laid against Smith.
Police now believe that theft was the aftermath rather than the motive for the slayings.
Tupniak, who moved from Richmond to the new house in Surrey only last Christmas, was planning a trip with Miss Cathers to Thunder Bay, Ontario, where Miss Cathers lived before she moved to Sooke last year.
Raised by George Fentiman, a pioneer Steveston resident, Tupniak had been fishing since he was* in his early teens. UFAWU records show that he joined the union in 1959 when he was fishing for Nelson Bros, but maintained his membership only until 1962. Then he was dropped from union rolls for nonpayment of dues.
He is survived by his father, whose whereabouts are unknown, and one sister.
route of travel, and to warn fishing craft of approaching traffic "so they can pick up gear in time to give clear passage."
SPONSOR BILL
Kaario expressed the union committee's support for a private member's bill submitted by MP David Groos (Lib., Victoria) setting out stiff regulations governing standards for vessels entering B.C. coastal waters, and prescribing penalties for infractions.
Kaario said organized fishermen "wholeheartedly agree" with MP David Anderson (Lib., Esquimalt-Saanich) who described many vessels employed in Canada's foreign trade as "accidents waiting to happen."
The runaway flag freighter Vanlene, which grounded last month in Barkley Sound, was a case in point. The Panamanian-registered ship hit a reef near Effingham Island March 14 while bound for Vancouver from Japan. Her master said the freighter's only functioning piece of navigational equipment was a magnetic compass.
Noting that private members' bills usually die without any action being taken on them, Kaario said the federal government "should sponsor Groos' bill to ensure its adoption."
PENALTIES SOUGHT
Until adequate legislative controls are imposed, he said, exporters and importers will continue to use "poorly equipped, incompetently manned and structurally unsound ships."
Heavy penalties should be imposed not only on the owners of ships which fail to meet standards but also on "shipping agents who are responsible for bringing this type of vessel into the country."
The legislation should be broad enough to provide penalties for "ecological damage caused by accidents involving ships that fail to meet prescribed standards."
The UFAWU is urging the creation of a complete marine traffic control system as an additional measure because, Kaario said,
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Increased use of B.C. 'inside waters by marine traffic plying between Alaska and Washington state ports has become "a real problem for our fishermen," Kaario noted, "and as yet there is no communication system to regulate and coordinate this U.S. traffic with coastal fisheries.
"This factor, along with the increase in international traffic using Juan de Fuca Strait. .. would necessitate consultation and agreement with the U.S. government to make the proposed traffic system workable."
Kaario added, "We wish to emphasize, however, that the union'sproposalfor atraffic control system does not condone the use of supertankers to transport Alaskan oil from Valdez to Puget Sound. We remain, with the fishermen of Alaska, unalterably opposed to this scheme . . ."
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