“We have not selected any strike deadline yet,’ Homer
Stevens, secretary of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union said this week, “but our joint committee representing
salmon fishermen, tendermen, shore workers is awaiting results
of coastwide strike votes. It is possible the shoreworkers, the
tendermen, will still have to go through the red tape of a

government supervised ballot.

“The joint committee has
the power to fix a deadline
any time between June 15
and August 15. Last year it
was set for August 9 because
of the lateness of the Adams
River run. ;

“This year, it will likely be
set much earlier. Reports in
the. daily press that strike
deadline has been set for the
first week of August are
wrong. No deadline has yet
been fixed.”

Replies from 11 locals on
the strike vote to protect
signed agreements shows over
97 percent in favor of strike
action. The wote in all locals
should be completed this week,

Fisheries Association of B.C.
has refused to continue con-
tract negotiations on-the ex-
cuse that they may be found
“illegal” under the Combines
Investigation Act. They have

posted fish prices, subject to
change without notice.

“The real issue is the right
of fishermen to organize, to
bargain collectively and to
take strike. action to defend
and improve their agree-
ments,” said Homer Stevens.
“Fishermen have struggled
since 1893 to achieve these
rights and will not go back
66 years, regardless of the
misuse of the Combines Act
or the foul red-baiting spread
by the big canners.

“Our members are not taken
in by the Fisheries Associa-
tion ‘shell game’ of posting
pricgs. The ‘Association’s
‘postings from time to time’ is
like the huckster at a gayway
with a ‘now you see it—now
you don’t’ routine.

“Our union is determined
to maintain free collective
bargaining.”

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IWA strike vote shows rising —
militancy of coast members

IWA woodworkers, in a militant mood, are voting almost unanimously in favor of
strike action in the union-conducted strike vote, and are expected to roll up a big majority
for strike action when the government supervised vot
conducted vote it is reported that Pine voted 591 to 22 in favor of strike action: Plywood 1,174
for, 30 against; and Courtenay about 98 percent for strike action). .

The union has been using
radio spots thi§ week and Joe
Morris, district president, has
been making this appeal to
the IWA’s 27,000 coast mem-
bers:

“J urge all workers in B.C.’s
coast lumber industry to vote
yes in the supervised strike
vote on Friday. Show your
determination to win a decent
contract, These facts (pointing
to a chart on production,
prices and profits) prove the
industry can pay more.”

Morris has also issued a

Nick Klim (above) has been
named Labor - Progressive
Party candidate for North
Okanagan in the next provin-
cial elections, Klim, operator

of B-X Motors in North Ver--

non, contested the seat for
the LPP in the last elections.

FISHERMEN PREPARE TO STRIK
POLLS RUN 97 PERCENT FOR ACTIO

es sign contracts, the salmon will stay in the sea this summer.

bulletin aimed at winning 100
percent support from wives
of union members.

“Stand by your husband’s
union in this crisis, and the
union will stand by you,”
Morris appeals.

“T want the wives to know
that we contemplate no course
of action except one that will
add to their future well-
being. Our present-day stand-
ards would be very much
léwer had members and their.
wives lacked courage to chal-
lenge the employers.”

Last year the union leaders
settled for nothing. This year
rank and file demands for a
substantial wage boost have

Roy Samuelson named
by LPP in Burrard

Roy Samuelson, 34-year-old -

shipyard worker, will con-
test Vancouver-Burrard con-
stituency in the coming pro-
vincial elections for the Labor-
Progressive Party.

Samuelson, an active mem-
ber of the Marine Workers
Union, was for many years a
lumber worker and IWA
member before he became a
shipyards. worker. :

He was named to run in
Vancouver-Burrard at a nomi-
nating meeting held in the
constituency last week.

The LPP now has 11 ‘can-
didates in the field: provinci-
ally and expects to nominate
several more. 4

June 26, 1959 —

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ating seeking a 20 percemy
pay hike. Forest Ind

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