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Sar me * oF yell ee a a uy rohit rise ae — = om pote hal ee [3 we, g Ale TO st Sis See RON ots Tan profit rises to recarA CQO te om AND LABOR IS BLAMED. The above headlines clipped from financial pages of newspapers tells the true story of inflation — exhorbitant profits. The above appeared in the Feb. 15 issue of Canadian Transport, organ of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers (CLC). Last week MacMillan Bloedel announced the highest profit in its history; over $42 million. VANCOUVER NEEDS Fishermen’s parley © faces big issues Hanging over the United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ convention when it opens Saturday, March 7, will be the threat posed by the $149,000 damage suit against it by trawl vessel owner members of Prince Rupert Fishing Vessel Owners Association. Since final submissions in the suit were only heard by Mr. Justice Gordon Rae in B.C. Supreme Court in mid-February, it is unlikely that-his decision will be heard before the convention ends. But every delegate will be acutely aware of the possible consequences of that decision. It’s not the first time that the UFAWU has faced a threat to its existence. Indeed, over the past 20 years it has met and overcome a succession of such threats. At the height of the cold war in the early fifties, after its suspension by the old Trades and Labor Congress, it defeated an attempted raid by the Seafarers International Union. This was followed by federal YOU on MARCH 11th VOTE YES ON THE FIVE YEAR PLAN THE FIVE YEAR PLAN IS ENDORSED BY THE FOLLOWING: Hastings Community Association ATTAC (Association to Tackle Adverse Conditions) Vancouver and District Labour Council Killarney Society Cassiar Ratepayers Association Kitsilano Ratepayers Association Town Planning Commission South Hill Ratepayers Association Vancouver Amateur Swimming Club Renfrew Park Community Association Vancouver School Board West End Downtown Community Ratepayers Association Fraserview Community Association Vancouver Real Estate Board Dunbar Community Association Vancouver Board of Trade Cedar Cottage Ratepayers Association Kitsilano War Memorial Community Association Community Centre Kerrisdale Society PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 6, 1970—Page 10. Canadian Amateur Association, B.C. Section Grandview Ratepayers Association Marpole-Oakridge Community Association Mayor Tom Campbell and. all members of City Council Vancouver City Hall Employees’ Association Canadian Dolphin Swimming Club Sunrise Ratepayers Association Grandview Community Association Fairview Ratepayers Association Save Our Parklands Association Vancouver Civic Employees Union Fraserview Ratepayers Association Swimming Community Centre Vancouver Parks Board Mount Pleasant Community Association Riley Park Community Association Library Board Central Council of Ratépayers action against it under the Combines Investigation Act. The UFAWU fought this to a standstill, finally compelling the government to pass special legislation enabling the union and fishing companies to bargain for minimum salmon prices. The damage suit now before the courts arises from the Prince Rupert trawl-longline dispute in 1967, in which, as brought out in evidence, collusive efforts by Prince Rupert Fishing Vessel Owners Association, Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co-op, the CLC chartered rump Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union and the fishing companies thwarted the UFAWU in its attempt to win an agreement for trawl crews in the Prince Rupert area. One consequence of this was the jailing of UFAWU president H. Steve Stavenes and secretary Homer Stevens for a year on criminal contempt charges. Another was decertification of the UFAWU as bargaining agent for Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co-op shoreworkers, who even- tually were absorbed by -the DSFU. Still another is the damage suit, the outcome of which will be known in coming weeks. But if a line of questioning by the court about the status of fishermen as workers is any indication, it could threaten every right organized fishermen have won in decades of struggle. As it was at last year’s convention, the federal govern- ment’s salmon vessel licensing plan, announced in September 1968, will be a major issue for discussion and federal fisheries minister Jack Davis may be expected to come under close questioning by delegates when he addresses them on March 9. Although Davis has made a number of changes in the plan during the past year, its basis is still diametrically opposed to the union’s demand for licensing of fishermen rather than boats in order to restrict entry into the, overcrowded salmon fishery. And, far from weakening the hold of the two monopolies, B.C. Packers and Canadian Fishing Company, on the industry, the plan is calculated to strengthen it. Other major issues to come before the convention include the sensitive question of foreign fishing off the B.C. coast and the position of the UFAWU itself as an independent union still excluded from the Canadian Labor Congress, despite its long standing application for affiliation. Over the past few years both Soviet and Japanese trawl fleeets have engaged in mothership operations off the B.C. coast. Inevitably, there have been incidents involving Soviet trawlers and Canadian trollers. Every such incident contributes to the rumors with which the industry is rife. Although Soviet policy is opposed to any form of salmon fishing on the high seas and there is every reason to believe that Soviet fleets off B.C. are scrupu- lously avoiding any taking of salmon, some commercial salmon trollers and_ sport’ fishermen have raised the cry that Soviet trawlers are catching salmon. On a question as sensitive as this, .with many fishermen inclined to believe the charge, it is not difficult for them to fan an anti-Soviet hysteria, exploiting the rightful demand of Canadian fishermen for exclusive fishing rights in their own waters. When Davis says there is no proof to support the charge, they deride his statements, countering with the example of the U.S. trawler Seabreeze Pacific, which caught 84 spring salmon in a few trawl hauls during its test cruise last fall. f A campaign for extension of Canadian jurisdiction to control fishing inside the continental shelf will culminate this month in presentation to the federal government of a_ petition sponsored by Pacific Trollers Association and the Amalgamated Conservation Society. In fact, the petition serves tO distract attention from failure of the federal’ government 1t0: complete its drawing of headland to headland baselines along the Pacific coast to include Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound as_ exclusive Canadian fishing waters, let alone the continental shelf. It ignores the fact that the U.S. already has negotiated bilateral agreements with the Soviet Union covering designate fishing areas and fish stocks, and that Canada has made n0 overtures for similar agreements, which at best offer only a temporary solution. Soviet and Japanese fishing fleets off our Pacific coast must — be regarded as the forerunners of other foreign fleets as other Pacific rim countries exten their fishing operations to the high seas. Foresight demands negotiation. of a new multi national North Pacific fisheries treaty which will include the Soviet Union, to replace the present U.S. dictated tripartite treaty between Canada, Japatl and the U.S., under which Japan maintains its high seas salmon fishery against all conservation principles. ATTENTION FRASER VALLEY READERS MARXIST CLASSES ‘THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALISM IN CANADA” (Ist in a series of six lectures) SUNDAY, MARCH 8th at 7 p.m. “Socialism & The N.D.P.”” by Nigel Morgan at 13463 BOLIVAR CRESCENT — SURREY Anyone wishing to participate in ONE, or MORE of this series of public lectures, is asked to register by PHONING 521-5847 or 936-4467. a