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For those of you who have not visited the areas where the indians are 
used to do lobster fishing and witnessed them being boated over a 
period of days to a chamber arriving there paralized or worse with most 
likely permanent disability from the delay in getting treatment, I beg 
that you look at the disability of the poor diver, who is not the cause 
of the depletion of the fisheries but rather a tool of the industy and 
have mercy on them as individuals.

Place your pressures on the industry that willfully destroys the 
fisheries and not on the indians who receive very limited monies for 
there effort and who most often have little or no formal education 
concerninmg diving or ecology. They are pawns not the kings and queens 
of the playing board. Indeed for many the first line of treatment is 
booze and grass to make the pain go away, when problems progress beyond 
pain then the ones fortunate to work on a boat that gives a hoot 
eventually are carried to a distant chamber. I urge you to support a 
proper treatment facility for these persons and to use your influence 
to clean up the industry by directing your efforts towards those 
responsiable for the depletion of the fisheries. Failure to get a 
chamber will just mean more crippled indians as they will simply be 
replaced when they can no longer dive. There futures are often 
dependent on the generosisty of the communties they come from. they do 
not know the word disability insurance nor wellfare.
Tom

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