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: A Ripple, A Wave. The Story of
Union Organization in the B.C.
Fishing Industry. From a draft
Manuscript by George North.
Revised and Edited by Hal Grif-
fin. Fishermen’s Publishing
Society.
\oae labor minister Bill King,
: rafting the labor legislation
or B.C. trade unionists, should
exclude Coast fishermen from its
Provisions of that legislation,
Was not a new development.
rom the days when Frank
‘ eden leader of 1900-1901
ba ermen’s Strike was gunned
CPR by police agents on the
bal tracks after two trials had
= ed to silence him, to the time,
nee half a century later
i n the union was dealt a series
: Crippling fines, fishermen
‘lave, as one union officer put it
bistie denied all their lawful
ie Sas trade unionists but have
as N subject to all the punitive
fasures that the statute books
an provide.”
ut despite antiquated laws,
ae that emerged frequently
e early days of the labor
ovement, inflamed by the com-
pence and a host of anti-union
— *880ciations that appeared
fies the years, B.C.
the aga organized, looking to
pian, when industrial unionism
4 bring together all workers
Ae fishing industry.
= i effort — three-quarters of
ie au long-culminated in the
tee Jon of what is now the
a and Allied
nion. Just slightl
More than year ago iwon
Beaty lengthy battle against
aa war hysteria that had
. Wo decades divided the trade

ion. movement by gaining

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Nce to the central
{2bor body from which it had

been Suspended in 1953.

Ripple, A Wave outlines the

Bet :
; Urbulent history of union

among fishermen’s
IS On this continent.”’
necessity, the book is only

eu

-UFAWU history traced
in ‘A Ripple, A Wave’

an outline and the full, colorful
story is being prepared for even-
tual publication. Nevertheless, it
fills a need to trace the struggles
of the men and women, the fruit
of whose labor finds its way into
a score of countries around the
world.

It is a need not only because
history has its claims, but also
because the struggles of the
fishermen, both past and pre-
sent, hold a lesson for working
people all over this country. At a
time when class collaboration,
under the guise of anti-
Communism, fragmented the
trade union movement, the
UFAWU never succumbed.

And at a time when successive
governments have sought to sell
our resources out to the U.S. the
UFAWU has consistently fought
for a sovereign Canada, putting
forward its policies from the
position of advisor on inter-
national commissions, and from
its participation in the move-
ment of the day.

It is a book that every trade un-
ionist as well as every student of
history should have on his shelf.
Illustrated with some 32
photographs, it sells for $2.50

paperback and is available at the ©

People’s Cooperative Bookstore,
341 West Pender or the UFAWU
Hall, 138 East Cordova, Van-
couver. — S.G.

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Fishermen voice demand
‘no resources sellout’

The United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union wound up
its week-long convention last
Friday having replied strongly to
Jack Davis’ passive stand on
Canadian sovereignty with a
resolution calling for the right of
coastal states to extend fisheries
jurisdiction over all fish on the
continental shelf to a depth of
1000 fathoms of 200 miles,
whichever is greater.

The resolution, introduced
midway through the convention
by the general executive board,is
expected to be part of a proposal
to be presented to the Law of the
Sea conference which will be
held this summer in Caracas.

Several other points were in-
cluded in the resolution which, in
fact, comprises a summary of
the union position, including the
exclusive right to. harvest and
manage salmon and other an-
dronomous species (fish which
ascend rivers to spawn) which
originate in a country’s rivers; a
total ban on high seas fishing for
salmon, subject only to special
agreement between states; and
negotiation of all-inclusive inter-
national fisheries treaties gover-
ning conservation and catch of
wide-ranging ocean species of
fish.

The resolution also asked the
federal government to prepare
-an outline of US refusal to
recognize Canada’s — territorial
waters and advocated “‘serious
effort to establish the principle
that grievances be resolved by
an international tribunal.”’

In an additional resolution in-
corporating in general the points
specified by the executive
board’s submission, Elgin Neish,
union advisor to the Canada-US
reciprocal treaty negotiations,
criticized the Liberal cabinet.for
“‘tying the hands of its
negotiators’ with the result that
“Canada’s position in these
negotiations has crumbled to one
of abject submission to every
whim and wish of the US.”

As well as calling on the
federal government to ‘‘declare
where it stands in fighting for
Canada’s territorial integrity,”
Neish’s resolution — which was
subsequently: adopted by the con-
vention — called for the im-
mediate development . of the
Fraser River conservation
program without the financial

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loss of a husband, father and
comrade, Bill Arland.

They especially express thanks
to the provincial executive of the
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participation of any foreign
government. :
Under the existing terms of the
treaty, the US is supposed to con-
tribute one-half of the funds for
salmon enhancement programs
on the Fraser in return for which
it is allowed to intercept fish
bound for the Fraser spawning

grounds. Canadian fishermen’

want the government to let the
treaty lapse as it is of greater
benefit to the US than Canada.
Delegates to the 29th conven-
tion also expressed their concern
for sovereignty over energy
resources in a resolution calling
for supplies of Canadian oil to the
refinery at Cherry Point to be
cut off pending guarantees from

both US oil companies and US

government authorities that
supertankers will not come
through the Strait of Juan de
Fuca. The refinery is dependent
on oil from Alberta.

The strongly-worded resolu-
tion also urged Canada to cut off
natural gas supplies to the US to
ensure the guarantees.

Copies have been sent to prime
minister Trudeau, federal en-
vironment minister Jack Davis
and premier Barrett.

A featured speaker at the con-
vention, C.S. Jackson, whose un-
ion, the United Electrical
Workers, was readmitted to the
CL€ last year along with the
UFAWU, touched on the question
of Canadian oil shortages and
told delegates that ‘‘there is no
shortage of oil in this country
and the energy crisis has been
deliberately engineered.

“And it’s not just oil,’ he
emphasized, ‘‘Multinational cor-
porations with their increasing
control over the world’s
economy can control prices and
engineer a shortage of any com-
modity they want.”

Jackson pointed out that Cana-
dian workers are taxed higher
than anywhere else in the world
yet “‘tax dollars are transferred
directly to the owners of industry
to increase their investment and
profit position.’’ He added that
corporations are busy lobbying
governments for further restric-
tions on the rights of workers.

Jackson was critical, too, of
the leadership:of Some: sections
of the trade union movement for
failure so far to give voice to the
growing desire of workers for an

offensive against the cor-
porations.

Elsewhere in the convention,
delegates adopted a resolution
calling for an end to the terror in
Chile, the release of all political
prisoners, withdrawal of
recognition of, and financial sup-
port for, the fascist junta, and
the release of Chilean Com-
munist Party general secretary
Luis Corvalan who has been im-
prisoned on remote Dawson
Island.

A further resolution on Chile
urged the department of external
affairs to speed up evacuation
and immigration procedures in
order to facilitate the escape-
ment of persecuted people.

A resolution entitled ‘trade
union unity’’ endorsed the prin-
ciples adopted by the recent B.C.
Federation of Labor convention
calling on the CLC to fight
vigorously for full functional
autonomy for all Canadian locals
of international unions.

A resolution on inflation noted
that ‘‘monopoly’s drive for
profits has resulted in an in-
flationary trend which is inflic-
ting a hardship on a growing
number of Canadians”’ and call-
ed on the federal government to
invest authority in the Prices
Review Board to roll back un-
justified price increases and
prosecute offenders who refuse
to comply.

“Due to technical difficulties in
the preparation of the tapes, the
part of John Dean will be played
by Frank Sinatra.”

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