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The Fishermen's Protective Union and Politics: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage |
 | | The FPU engaged in many economic activities that were intended to better the lot of fishermen and loggers, and Coaker realised that if the FPU was to achieve lasting social and economic reform it would need influence within the government. |
 | | The political ambition of the FPU was on the one hand wide enough to include adopting policies on fisheries reform and social programs, yet narrow in the sense that the FPU strove to be an influence upon government, rather than form a government itself. |
 | | The FPU was strongest on the north east coast of the island, an area where men often worked together each winter in the lumber woods, the spring seal fishery and the Labrador fishery. |
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