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The commission is scheduled to report its recommendations to the second session of the first legis-iaiiure next January.B. C. fiobectfte.30tal.SIXeyindustry movesnearer strikeUl1UtlyVANCOUVER, B. C. BritishColumbia’s fisheries industry, the i(j. province's second largest, came a step closer to being tied up It by a strike today. f tThe province’s foremost mdus-1!vdltr’* logging, already is strikebound.The United Fishermen and Allied Workers union (Ind.) an-1 lt;nounced today more han 80 per|i cent of tihe 5.000 salmon fisher men have rejected a company 11 ?5| price offer and have voted tostrike.It said a meeting of the executives and negotiation commit-rt|tees of the union and the Native*5rI Brotherhood of British Columbia, he I representing Indian fisheries workers, will be held Thursday to re I decide a strike deadline of sal-• Hin|mon fishermen, tendermen and shoreworkers — about 9,000 inr’ I all.or| Herring fishermen are already he I on strike to back up price-in-ne 1 crease demands.v| Nearly 3.000 cannery workers have voted to sitrike in a unionla1ttuctulldftjt:Il,en1sr-1 ballot and a government-supervised strike vote, necessary before fdi the men can work off their jobs, id will be taken July 24. to About 650 tendermen, the men of I who transport the fish from fishing boats to the canneries, have re I also approved a strike and a gov-e-|ernment vote will lie taken a-mong them July 16, 17, 18.is I A government vote among the ic salmon fishermen is not neees-is sary because the men are notes employees of the fishing eompan-re ies.The imion says it is reeom-ey mending strike action in every ri- case. The provinces fish catch he was worth 90 million dollars las: jtfi- year. itto The salmon fishermen are de-|t tolmanding price increases of be ry tween four and eight cents a 11.pound. The 250 striking herring irs fishermen want increases of Si .251 \ fl.v and $4 a ton. Shoreworkers de- \ •e mand a 20-cent increase over a I i base rate of between $1.32 andcF1
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
Sitka, Alaska, US
Tue, Jul 14, 1959
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