Employment agencies like this one on Winnipeg's Main Street supplied the railway contractors with workers. Typical of the charges made against these "sharks" by the stiffs were those of a Port Arthur man: "they send you out on a job for a dollar fee, and give you a contract with certain information, but when you get out to the camps, the boss gives you different orders. I learned a few facts in the last two weeks. I was out of town twice, but came back again, and lost two dollar fees and about ten dollars fare, and can't see the end of robbery. When you come back and go to the office asking for the return of your fee, the shark chases you out."
