sawing on the halves

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/33715

half These gentlemen didn't take the 'hard cash' from the fishermen for sawing their logs. . The owners had a scheme called 'sawing on the halves'. Under this scheme they got half the lumber they sawed.if a fisherman got 1000 board feet of lumber sawed, the sawmill owner got 500 board feet and the fisherman got 500 board feet. In the spring the sawmill operators sold their surplus lumber to some firm outside. JH JUN 1973 Used I and Sup Used I Used I Cp OED ~ n 7 f on the halves, DAE now dial. In the DNE, the source is listed as M 69-5