. They used to come over and I did it for'V nothing. But they appreciated it. ^ Prom a former Employee(cook): Oh, they were the most wonderful people to work for. Everything, anything you wanted, you got it. Of course in a place like, it was kind of hard-to have, you didn't have much variety... Cass was quite the character. He was a great character. Come Spring , I remember Earl telling us onetime, Cass, in Spring , would come to the shore with hardly any clothes for his bed. I remember his bed. He slept over, men like that slept over at the cookhouse. Cass would be up so early every morning, "had.to get up to see the sun rising". Anyway, Earl said, "Janet took up some blankets and put them in Cass's bed" and he said,"Cass didn't get up to see the sunshining anymore." The bunkhouse was so cold you know, too sleep... Earl's had it hard those years too. I really liked, the Johnstons. They x^ere good to everybody and good to us. We had to take Gerald with, us there (her infant son) and our Mother* after. They built a little shed onto the cookhouse for my Mother to sleep in. They were really ^ good. All the fishermen were good to Gerald. Prom another employee: She was a grand person to work with and Earl, her husband was too. Everyone liked ?7 them. ' The workers in the factory in those days worked long hours for low wages. In the late JO's some of the women who worked in the factory got paid about as low as eighteen dollars a month or up to 28 one dollar a day for one of the packers. "The head packers got more then those who pulled the tails or picking arms, the menial Jobs". J "whoever was cracking too, they used to get more. They were about the highest paid". ^ However, there were few other ways to make money in the area at that time. Meals were included as well. I got one dollar a day at the factory in those days (she was packer). It was big