ie, ‘
Lashing out at the unprincipled campaign by press,
radio and TV to back the fish comparites in their attack

on the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, the
July 26 issue of THE FISHERMAN carries the following

The Fisheries Association has
Pulled out all the stops in its
fight to prevent striking fisher-
men, shoreworkers, and tender-
Men from winning a decent set-
tlement.

The canners want price cuts
and they’re using every scurril-
ous trick in the book to force

_ their will on the industry.

The press, radio, and TV have
been mobilised to present a dis-
8racefully biased story to the
Public. Dissidents have been un-
€arthed, trotted out, put on dis-
Play, anc’ proclaimed heroes.

Trade unionists have a more
Colorful word to describe them.
They are in many cases men who
Would like to scab but find them-
Selves frustrated by an_insur-
Mountable wall of trade union
Solidarity. ;

The direct link between B.C.
Packers and the Pacific Press
Partners is paying dividends for
the canners.

Gordon Southam, a director of
B.C. Packers, is also director of
The Vancouver Province. The
result is a viciously slanted pro-
Company press that has ripped
off the mask of impartiality the
hypocrites of the news media like
to wear so smugly.

Every reader has seen this sort
of thing a thousand times —
Union statements suppressed or
twisted; company remarks play-
€d up and made to sound like
the words of God.

The sealed offer made by the

_ editorial outlining the union’s stand:

Union Friday before conciliation
officer Reg Clements has suffer-
ed brutal treatment at the hands
of the press.

It’s been kicked around, twist-
ed, turned upside down, inside
out, and then jumped on. After
this treatment, what has emerged
bears little resemblance to the
original, very serious, Union pro-
posal.

The distortion is deliberate and
it’s shameful.

The joint strike and policy com-
mittee which actually initiated
the moves that led to Friday’s
meeting, met the canners in the
presence of the province’s chief
conciliation officer, fully prepared
to get down to serious discussion.

The Union has consistently
taken the position that it will
bargain at any time.

The canners, however, came re-
luctantly to the bargaining table
on July 18 and 19. They stayed
only briefly. Then they walked
out. They broke off negotiations.

On Friday, with conciliation
officer Reg Clements presiding,
they also refused to negotiate.

They repeated their previous
stand. They said fishermen must
acept the offer canners had put
on the table even though the offer
contained that big 25 percent cut
in the take home price of pinks.

That was that. No bargaining;
simply take it or leave it.

The strike and policy commit-
tee adopted a much more respon-
sible attitude. It came to bargain,

Roy Jacques, CFUN radio
commentator last week hit on
the head the widely held mis-

conception that fishermen
“make thousands of dollars
a year.”’

‘In his broadcast he pointed
out that the average gillnet-
ter’s earnings for the peak
year, 1958, were $2,696 gross
and $1,617 net.
Tendermen and shorework-

LESLIE MORRIS

Fishermen earnings low

ers, who work only when the
fishermen are working, earn
on the average about $1,200
to $1,800 a year.

Pointing out that the com.
panies are offering 10c a pound
for pinks (1!4c less than last
year), Jacques asks house-
wives to compare that with
the price the companies
charge. He pointedly asks

where the price spread goes.

Continued from Page 2

Prong is economic, the terrible consequen
tion under Liberal and Tory auspices, t
€conomy; the other prong is the implacabl

anada for self-determination which can

new Canadian constitution.

=, Pearson’s “60 days of decision
_ ‘benefits of “integration” with the U.S.A.

The only decisions that will meet th
way, are: the nationalization of the U-S.
the first step to a New Canadian Economic

Made-in-Canada Constitution.

Neither Lester Pearson nor John Diefenbake

> that:

*

The renovation of Canada is the jo
those business interests who are sick and tire
the USA — actually, of all patriotic elemen
accept the defeatist line of the very men who go

mess in the first place.

The “soaring sixties” promise to b

ces of our subordina-
o the declining Wis}
e demand of French
be met only by 8

» were just as illusory as the

e situation, even part
-owned industries as
Policy and a new

r will do

*
b of labor, the farmers,
d of being tied to
ts who refuse to
¢ us into this

ecome the “roaring S1X-

Hes”, The decade is still quite young.

P.S.: Since the above was writt

tawa have announced that “it is the
both governments that by maintaining
Will prove possible in practise to have an
‘for Canada without adverse effects 0
Statement is a “pig in a poke” and do

asic problem.

en, Washington and Ot-
hope and expectation of
close consultation it
unlimited exemption
n the United States.” This
ecn’t really affect the

not to waste time. But it takes
two to bargain. When one says
no, no, no, either the other party
says yes, yes, yes or there’s an
impasse.

The canners said no as expect-
ed, but striking fishermen and
shoreworkers didn’t say yes.

The strikers did say, however,
that they would make an offer,
their second effort to get negotia-
tions ‘started in the space of a
week.

We won’t put our proposal on
the table, they said, because you
have already said you won’t ne-
gotiate unless we accept your
terms.
~ We'll seal the offer in an en-

‘velope and give it to the con-

ciliation officer who will hold
it in trust. If you will agree tc
withdraw your ultimatum and
bargain, we will release the terms
of the offer. Strikers told can-
ners this ‘‘was no gimmick.’’ The
offer, the joint committee said,
contains reductions in last week’s
scaled down demands.

What could be more reason-
able? It wasn’t a matter of the
companies agreeing to some of.
fer sight unseen, but agreeing to
jargain before the dffer was
made.

Organized fishermen, shore-
workers, and tendermen are in-
volved in a bitter struggle against
unscrupulous employers whose
sole interest is how much profit

Fisherman’ blasts plot against union

they can squeeze from their em-
ployees.

No strike is pleasant. This one
is no exception.

If the membership rallies be-
hind the Union’s program, if
strike relief fishing is stepped
up into a giant operation, if the
labor movement rallies behind

the strikers financially as well
as morally, canners can be de-
feated in their efforts to cut
fishermen’s earnings.

It is a battle of major magni-
tude. Its outcome will effect every
worker in the industry, organized
and _ unorganized, fisherman,
shoreworker, and tenderman.

‘DEACE COMES ONLY THROUGH ACTION’

At such a great congress as
this many wonderful and in-
spiring words are spoken. They
give confidence and hope that
peace is possible and that never
again will women feel the cruel-
ty and pain of war. -

I have asked to speak to you
because I think there is some-
thing we can do and which we
must do together, It is not en-
ough to say many words about
peace, however inspiring they
may be. Peace can come only
through action. We must work
together. We must act together,
in deeds of cooperation.

It was the thought of women
helping each other, and families
helping each other, which the
Voice of Women in Canada pro-
posed to our government in 1961
in a plan for a world peace year,
and we urged our government
to put the idea before all na-
tions at the United Nations. . .

I think it must be clearly re-
cogni=1 that there are differing
ideologies and political systems
represented by the participants
at this congress. Those of us
who come from non-Communist
countries wish to compliment
the Soviet women’s committee
and the Women’s International
Democratic Federation organiza-
tions who have had the _initia-
tive and good judgement to make
us fee! welcome.

Mrs. Helen Tucker
speaks in Moscow
fo women’s congress

RESPECT OTHERS -

This is an act of cooperation.
And it is an act of cooperation
that we respect each other’s dig-

nity and good-will. As the chair-.

man of the Women’s Interna.
ternational cooperation Year, on
which sit women from _ the
USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
USA, U.K., Norway, India Nig-
riea and Canada I am a neutral,
and I hope I can speak equally
for the heart of the Communist
and non-Comunist woman.

It is a great honor to embody
this trust. I am not represent-
ing an organization here, ~al-
though I am co-founder of Voice

of Women, Canada. (Nor is the -

group, Voice of Women, Canada,
an official delegation here.)

However, I am trying to say
that there is a great responsibili-
ty and a magnificent opportun-
ity for all of us here and for
the women of the world to live
the ideal peace .. .
NEED COOPERATION

Our world needs cooperation
in science and exploration, not
only in outer space, but in food
production and health and edu-
cation. We need _ international

teams or commissions to de.

salinize sea water and make de-
serts fertile.

We need to extend the prin-
ciple of the International Geo-
physical Year into Antarctic ex-
ploration and control, oceano-
graphy, medical and atomic
energy research and research
into the causes of war and meth-
ods of peace.

Such communion of scholars
and techniques could awaken
an open world society, free of
hate and fear, and could build
a better life for all.

An international year of co-
‘operation could teach us, not in-
superable differences, but the
relatedness of our various cul-
tures and institutions. It would
help us to think of our prob-
lems as family problems of man-
kind as a whole.

We must seek solutions to our
problems, not in the name of
democracy or communism, or
capitalism or socialism, or any
other ‘‘ism’’, but in the name of
the human race .. .

WORK TOGETHER

Our thought and determina-
tion can be placed where it be-
longs — on cooperation and
-partnership. We all know in our
hearts that the great purposes
of life cannot possibly be real-
ized in isolation —- working to-
gether is essential.

In this we have the image of
peace. In this way the history
of our decade and of our gen-
eration can be written — toward
the establishment of a viable
world community which is the
historic responsibility of our
time.

AN EMPTY SHELF?

If (the U.S.) congress doesn’t
do something about civil rights
at this session, there won’t be,
in the moral and spiritual sense,
an America for them to repre-
sent. There will be only an
empty shell without a heart or
a soul.

—ROY WILKINS, executive
secretary of the National
Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People.

™ August 2, 1963—PACFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7