"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s
For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Scotia. BESCO cut wages by a third, setting off a bitter labour dispute. The miners settled in for a long strike. Finally, in 1925, the military ended the unrest with brute force. But the miners, in one sense, had won. They broke up the monopoly and provided an example to workers across the country.
Year: 1991
Genre: Documentary, History
Studio: ONF | NFB
Director: Patricia Kipping
Cast: Lulu Keating
Crew: Patricia Kipping (Director), Patricia Kipping (Writer), Patricia Kipping (Sound), Floyd Elliott (Producer), Keith Packwood (Producer), Ronald MacEachern (Music)
Runtime: 21 minutes
Release: Oct 01, 1991
IMDb: 6.00/10 by 1 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Canada
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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