Well, I doubt if it was the inshore fisherman who got the majority of the fish, but the point is well taken even though Ottawa did have a great deal to do with it. Perhaps though all the millionaires who oppose the seal hunt will do something to assist in finding new employment for those put out of work, to prevent another series of angry songs.

The computer song might be White Collar Holler, which is on Stan Roger's "Between The Breaks Live". I've always liked it because it was one of the few songs about us white-collar workers, who can be just as oppressed as any blue collar worker and less likely to be unionized. (The Dilbert cartoon which appeared in today's Sunday funnies is not at all far from the truth, trust me.)

I believe that the title of the other song is "Tiny Fish For Japan", not "Tiny Fishes", and it is on From Fresh Water. BTW, the Erie fishermen seem to be doing OK, and are selling perch to Europeans, who apparently don't know much about Lake Erie. From Fresh Water also includes a song about a boy playing in the Junior A and attempting to make the NHL, but I suppose that that is the kind of work song only Canadians would care about.

Make And Break Harbour is a good song along the lines of no work for fishermen.

Hard Times Of Old England, and Cropper Lads may be found on Roy Harris's old Topic LP, Champions of Folly, which I recently dug out to post a song here. There is also The Top Guard and the Afterman, about the sad lot of sailors. He has another LP, From Sandbank Fields, which contains some old work songs. No idea if these are released on CD but they are not in Topic's current catalogue.

Bob Dylan had that song too about the mines closing --- can't recall the words or title. Something about a miner's wife.

Rodney Brown, from Northern Ontario, had a good album in the 1970's called The Freedom In Me which had some great songs along these lines, written by himself, including a fine one about a miner having to move to Toronto that I wish someone would cover. However it is so obscure a release that it would be by the greatest luck you'd ever find a copy.

I've always liked Look For The Union Label, but no-one seems to sing it any more. They always sing that infernal Solidarity Forever, which I could never abide.