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had to be washed down two, three or four times a day."48 The inspector only came about once a season and they were ready for _ them. .49 'Mechanical and carpentry work was done in preparation for the lobster season by some of the male workers. They also carried out maintenance. On a slack day, some of the women would 'be lining cans but not much else. 50 The men could pick up sup- plies or ship out lobster at Elmira Station. They sometimes went topick up the lobsters caught by the fishermen on the south side of the Point if. it Was rough along the north shore. . They also re- moved the lobster shells which were used fer-fertilizer. 51 As well, the workers carried out routine tasks daily depending on who was free to carry them out. i

The only workers outside of the factory were the cooks. The cookhouse Was where the fishermen and. the factory crew who stayed got their "breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper. No one was hungry. [(They werezreal good meals." 52 9 The cooks day was long and busy. The cooks got paid .- _. more than the factory workers ($96.00 for ten weeks) but they work— ed longer days and had to stay at the factory. 53’ The cooks were , ‘ probably the best remembered people at the factory outside the bosses. Their jobs did have more variety then those of the factory I crew. I interviewed one cook from the late 1950's and the 1940's, her story was sofinteresting I will include quite a bit.

And the day. Oh, Don't ask about the day.

Get up around three o'clock in the morning and Well, we'd manage to get to bed around

ten o'clock at night. A long day, you‘d get breakfast ready at five. Well then just one