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Description

1. xiii, 400 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "It is easy to forget today how desperate the need was for unions in the days of the worst exploitation and abuse of power by powerful companies. Who now could imagine workers being forced to strike to avoid wage cuts even in times of rising prices? Who could imagine them losing such a strike? This moving story of the miners and steelworkers of Cape Breton focuses on the issues which generated the most militant unions in Canada. Wage cuts, blacklisting, mine disasters, pit closings, police killings, collusion between management and government, company unions, bayonets and barbed wire, American interference, hostile legislation -- all this and more have contributed to a century of labour violence and bitterness almost unparalleled in North America. This is a piece of Canadian history usually forgotten, a part of our history that affects us today more than we like to think." --

Subject

1. Coal miners > Labor unions > History. > Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island
2. Iron and steel workers > Labor unions > History. > Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island
3. Strikes and lockouts > Coal mining > History. > Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island
4. Strikes and lockouts > Steel industry > History. > Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island
5. Iron and steel workers > Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island > History
6. Iron and steel workers
7. Coal miners > Labor unions
8. Iron and steel workers > Labor unions
9. Strikes and lockouts > Coal mining
10. Strikes and lockouts > Steel industry
11. history
12. labour dispute
13. coal miner
14. steel worker
15. survey
16. strike
17. slowdown
18. working conditions
19. wages
20. trade union
21. labour legislation
22. statistical table
23. histoire
24. conflit du travail
25. mineur de houille
26. travailleur de la sidérurgie
27. enquête
28. grève
29. grève perlée
30. conditions de travail
31. salaire
32. syndicat
33. législation du travail
34. tableau statistique
35. historia
36. conflicto de trabajo
37. minero del carbón
38. obrero siderúrgico
39. encuesta
40. huelga
41. huelga de brazos caídos
42. condiciones de trabajo
43. salario
44. sindicato
45. legislación del trabajo
46. cuadros estadísticos
47. Nova Scotia > Politics and government > 20th century
48. Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island
49. Canada
50. Canadá

Genre/Form

1. History
2. bibliography.
3. comment.
4. illustration.
5. map.
6. reference.
7. bibliographie.
8. carte géographique.
9. commentaire.
10. référence bibliographique.
11. bibliografía.
12. comentario.
13. ilustración.
14. mapa.
15. referencia.

Contents

1. Preface -- The background -- The Provincial Workmen's Association -- The United Mineworkers, 1909 -- The first amalgamated -- District 26 and BESCO -- The labour sweep and Donald the Boo -- 1922 : wage cut, slowdown, and strike -- Smashing the steelworkers -- J.B. McLachlan : crime and punishment -- The situation worsens -- "They can't stand the gaff" -- 1925-1932 : a developing rift -- The second amalgamated -- The last days of J.B. McLachlan -- The C.C.F. and Clarie Gillis -- The steelworkers come back -- The slowdown of 1941 -- The C.C.F. during the war years -- Two strikes and two elections -- The decline of the fifties -- "Vic" MacInnis, heavy water, and other ills -- The struggle continues -- Epilogue.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 381-385.