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Interview with Mr. And Mrs. Bob Arkell of Arkell Foods - Bob and His Wife Describes Picking up Workers for Their Shift

(If they had a big stake bodied truck, they would just put benches in). They didn't have seatbelts (The Canning factory, Canadian Canners in Grimsby ) would do that, I've seen the women get off the trucks, you know you just shudder when you think of riding in the back of the truck like that, and then getting off and doing your work. I can remember when we were parked down on Barton Street and Kenilworth Avenue, we used to have to call the police in. At times we ran two shifts; a day shift and a night shift. We would go up there and pick up people in the morning and these people you know would take their knives home and their aprons home and they can be pretty volatile if they can't get on that truck to go to work. And you had the times that it got a little dicey, that you had to call in the police and cool them down.