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Union, show (left) a group of youngsters on a hike; (centre) farmerettes examining the pulled flax at the Rodina collective farm near Minsk, and (right) young Nina Petrovich with fibre of the flax harvest ‘at the

Voroshilov collective farm in the Grodno Region,

Byelorussian SSR.

These pictures, just arrived from the Soviet

UFAWU SETS STRIKE DEADLINE

Strike deadline for salmon net fishermen for the B.C. Coast has been set for noon Saturday, July 25. Any net caught salmon taken after 12 noon Saturday will be declared hot. Strike deadlines for tendermen and shorework- ers will be announced as quickly as possible following completion of gov- ernment supervised strike votes on July 24. A minimum of 48 hours notice

is required by law.

A series of strike rules have been announced by the Joint Union Native Brotherhood committees representing fishermen, shoreworkers, and tendermen. The first of these is the basic policy that in the event of a strike of any one of the three groups there will be no settlement until such time as all groups have reached the point where agreements can be signed. Simul- taneous signing is the basic policy of the Union and has been announced to the Fisheries Association as far back as April of this year. The committee has adopted subsidiary rules in order to avoid any loss of production through wastage. These

are as follows:

1. Net caught salmon caught by fishermen before: noon Saturday, July 25 may be processed at the shore plants up to midnight. Mon- day, July 27. Net caught salmon taken by fishermen after 12 noon Saturday is hot and -will not be processed.

2. Troll caught salmon taken by fishermen up to midnight Sunday will be processed by organized shoreworkers, providing it is de- livered to the plants in time for processing by midnight Tuesday, July 28. This rule shall apply to deliveries of trawl fish, halibut, crabs, etc. ;

3. Any fish declared fair under these rules which has arrived on the floor or is in bins, shall be handled by shoreworkers even if the shoreworkers strike deadline has been reached prior to shore- workers walking off the job. Any exceptions to these rules must. be cleared with the Central Strike and Policy Committee.

4. Fishermen are being asked to set up floating picket lines at all

plants beginning noon Saturday, July 25 to ensure that only fish that is declared fair under these rules is landed and processed.

5. Fish delivered to troll and fresh fish camps after 12 midnight

‘ Sunday, July 26 will be hot and

will not be handled by organized tendermen or shoreworkers. (Note: companies are being advised to ar- range the shut down in such man- ner as to have all fish deliveries at processing plants in accordance with these rules so as to avoid wastage.)

The Joint Union Brotherhood Negotiating Committee is recom- mending to all locals and branches and fishermen on the grounds that joint membership meetings be held to prepare and finalize all strike plans.

The Joint Union Brotherhood Negotiating Committee adopted a resolution congratulating the Na- tional Association of Marine En- gineers, the International Long- shoremen and Warehousemen’s Union, the B.C. Federation of La-

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bor and all trade unionists in the city of Vancouver for their solid- arity, unity, determination and their fine working-class victory.

Word has been received at union headquarters that the fishing com- panies on June 22 and 23 issued notices to all retail outlets of a basic increase in the price of can- ned salmon. Compared with the 1958 opening prices these represent the following increases in terms of 48 pounds of canned salmon, i.e. 96 tins 7-%4 oz.

Sockeye: .......... $5.00 per case

Cohoe: ............ $6.00 per case > ..-$4.50 per case ..-$4.50 per case

These increases have been blamed against the fishermen, ten- dermen and shoreworkers, even though at the time they were made the companies were even refusing to meet with fishermen and had offered a miserable 2 percent in- crease to shoreworkers which would be more than swallowed up by increased productivity. The big chain stores have already boosted prices to the consumer ranging from 2 cents to 7 cents. per 7-%4 oz. tin.

The United Fishermen and ‘Al- lied Workers’ Union is opposed to company policy of raising consum- er prices and must point out it is unnecessary in view of the profits announced by the biggest fishing

company in the industry, B.C Packers Limited.

Last year, according to their fit- ancial report released, this ol company had a gross profit of $4; 534,421 out of which they aside $942,014 for depreciatio® paid dividends to minority shale holders of $253,293 set aside $I* 463,197 for income taxes, leavilé a net disclosed income of $1,875" 917. Majority shareholders © ceived dividends of $517,679.

This is only one company, though it is the largest and the total profit from all companies ® the fishing industry would be mom than ample to not only meet the demands of the organized fishe men, tendermen and shoreworke® but also give price reductio® rather than price increases to consumers.

Union, Brotherhood negotiators walk out of meeting on prices

United Fishermen & Allied Workers’ Union and Native Bro- therhood negotiators walked out of negotiations with the Fisheries Association on Monday after one of the shortest sessions on record, lasting less than 30 minutes.

The Fisheries Association open- ed the meeting with a new offer of a 3 percent wage increase in 1959

and a further 3 percent in 1960,

in a 2-year agreement. They. also proposed that board rates charged employees at out-of-town plants be increased by $5 per month payable by male employees and $4 per month for female employees.

Other minor concessions were indi- cated.

Union-Brotherhood spokes- man, A. L. Gordon told the Association: “We notice your remarks about your desire to _avoid conflict in the industry. ‘Our desire, as far as shore- workers is the same. If we are to avoid conflict management must be realistic. This latest proposal is not realistic. When you are ready to make a real- istic proposal give us a call and we’ll meet you again.”

: James Sinclair said: “As usual

you expect us to make all i moves.” :

A. L. Gordon replied: “We t you months ago that we are & termined to get a 20 cents per hott across-the-board wage increase ® a one-year agreement.”

J. Sinclair asked as the Uniot Brotherhood committee rose © leave, “Are you leaving now—wilt out any further discussion?”

Gordon replied, “If you ~havt any further proposals which at realistic we'll stay, but your pr sent offer provides no basis fo further talk.” :

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