Gloomy Outlook For Fishing Industry
Queen’s Cove (From our correspondent):
Many fishing crews have returned home this week from the Labrador fishery. Very discouraging news has been brought along. The shore men on that part of the Coast have done practically nothing making a failure three years in succession while the floaters have done not much better.
The schooner Ivy Francis, Captain Eli Drodge of Little Heart’s Ease and the schooner W. J. Allison, Captain David Stoyles of Hillview have arrived having secured 200 quintals each. Each of these schooners carries a crew of eleven men but many of these men will have sufficient time to provide for the winter as they will be able to proceed to the lumber camps but there are several of these fishermen who will not find employment in the woods as they are too old and others are cripple.” What about such men as these ? One can forsee bad times coming to the common labourers of Newfoundland and if it were not for the Paper Companies hard times would be here now.
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Transcribed by Lester Green, January 2017
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