TOO MANY SOCKEYE? Morgan wins strongest suppor Food wastes while jn 5-party Town Meeting dehate | canners refuse fish The silver ~hords of the Adams River sockeye salmon run has produced an unprece- dented problem in the fishing industry. At the beginning of the sal- mon fishing season this year the Fisheries Association of B.C. and its versitile spokes- man, Liberal ex-fisheries min- ister Jimmy Sinclair, haggled fish prices. Sinclair’s argument was that the United Fishermen and Al- lied Workers Union should take a ‘substantial cut below last year’s prices on sockeye «and other species because of the anticipated record run. The “incentive” he held out to fishermen was that the more fish they caught, the less the Fisheries Association should pay. The UFAWU stood by the recommendations of its bar- gaining committee and the price for sockeye landed was set at 28 cents a pound. Now the Fisheries Associa- tion, with a pack of 1,800,000 of sockeye salmon al- ready on hand, doesn’t want to take delivery of any more sockeye at union agreement prices. It notified the UFAWU that as of Monday, October 6, the canneries “were closing down.” They would “only buy chums in certain coastal areas” but would “refuse to accept sockeye.” Meantime the record Fraser River sockeye run is still on, and although the Fisheries As- sociation. has withdrawn its closure order under union pro- test, it is still refusing to ac- cept sockeye on the Fraser. In consequence fishermen are faced with heavy losses and the situation constitutes an open invitation to U.S. buy- ers to violate the union agree- ment by buying sockeye at re- duced prices. Proposals made to Fisheries cases Minister MacLean by he UFAWU, which would have enabled the fishermen to bene- fit from the delayed Adams River sockeye run, have been rejected by the government. 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Town Meeting of the Air, originating in the Pender Auditorium on Friday evening la : before an audience of 700 and later broadcast over CJOR, pitted four provincial party leaders” and a former speaker of the legislature in debating the topic “Which: Party is th Man’s Best Friend?” Conservative party leader man’s best friend, because his party stood for “maximum em- ployment opportunities, and reasonable distribution of the wealth produced.” Liberal leader Arthur Laing was equally insistent that the Liberal party was “best,” since all of labor’s aims,- he asserted, were “consistent with the continuance of capitalism and Liberal policies of re- form.” Social _ Credit °. spokesman Tom Irwin put his party “as “Jabor’s only real friend” be- cause Social Credit’s aim was “to take the control of finance out of the hands of private in- terests and restore it to the people.” ; : The audience periodically showed its appreciation | of these partisan . apostles of SEI VTAN TT ACER NA Deane Finlayson contended that the Tories were the working” “friendship” with labor by numerous hoots of derision and catcalls. - CCF leader Robert Strachan contended that any party which supported: or advanced the policies and -interests of big. business could scarcely qualify ‘as the “workingman’s best friend.’ Such friendship, to’ be genuine,” said. Strachan “must be dedicated to progres- sive measures.’ Speaking for the Labor-Pro- gressive Party,. provincial leader Nigel Morgan won the greatest applause when he de- clared, “No serious political party that wishes to serve the working people’s interests can ignore the central issue of peace or war, and where the present policies of the parties st week | e working | of big business are leading ae “And what is the record ® | the parties on this platform tonight? Which. one, Liberals, Tories, Socreds or CCF, can deny that they, supported the policies of so-called Canadiaty U.S. integration, the Canaéia? involvment in Korea” i NATO .. . out of which! # — Quemoy-Matsu war danget — but one natural outcropping: as In the course of his remat s) Morgan ‘stressed the meed % peaceful coexistence and 4 be with the socialist sector of the world; a greater unity to wit wages increase and full em ployment compensation, that those responsible . the economic crisis, and 2 the working people, should bear its full brunt. i for | NOTICE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING | COMING EVENTS DEADLINE FOR COMING EVENTS COLUMN All copy must be in the Pacific Tribune office not later than 12 noon Tuesday. A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each addi- tional line is made for notices appearing in this column. 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