| Summary: | Oral history interview with Con Fitzpatrick conducted by Jeffrey Pittman, on sign painting, shipyard work, working conditions, and noteworthy successes. "00:00:35-Jeffrey Pittman, collector, July 17,2019; Con Fitzpatrick, age 75, Marystown, NL; 00:38-commercial course, Burin District Vocational School, insurance company, Curran and Briggs, paving Burin Peninsula highway, Nfld. Lab. Liquor Corp. store, sign painting, weekends, shipyard, no abstracts on vinyl, actual paint; 02:02- ships, oil rigs, safety signs, yard equipment, identification numbers, blueprints, centre punch, welding bead, permanent job, more money than liquor store; 04:05-typical day, shipyard, Cow Head, parking lots, St John’s, ships, “I did that.”, shop, on site; 05:01-ceeativity, Friede Goldman, cleanliness award, gold cup, pig; 06:22-safety, expectations, new ownership, American companies, resentment, supervisors, tool box meeting, firing; 08:16-stick-on signs, marine industrial paint; 08:56- job satisfaction, incentives, little praise, completion of ship, pride, celebration, workmanship; 10:18-wages, union, Walter Wilson, English workers, union experience;11:55- English and Irish workers, Liverpool, Clyde, Belfast; 13:27-Atlantic Sugar Refineries, Penney, design, dragger, fish plant; 15;24- boom and bust cycle, cod moratorium, yard never recovered, TAGS, re-training, temporary layoffs, Con never laid off, sign painter always needed, core of every trade, pension, insurance, 19:41-management fromEngland, steel shipbuilding experience, local resentment, housing, car, English workers; 21:21-working conditions, safety committee, intimidation, paint spraying, paper mask, Vaseline, silica sand, dust, grit; 24:19-mishaps, Penney Hope, syncrolift, broken cable, regulation; 30:07-union, wages, occupational health inspection, walkout, no strike, Jerome Walsh, walk to St John’s; 33:25-province, building on speculation, Mortier Bay(Mary Hitchins), Grenfell; 34:30-Maersk, Nascopie, Norseman, transition to oil rigs, workers to Norway; 38:53-Cow Head, ...
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