Collapse of the ship building industry caused a domino effect on the lumber industry as well.
Low wages, exploitation, miserable working and housing conditions for miners and steel workers.
Miners struggle to organize a union, owners oppose.
Violence ensues with tragic results.
Workers lean toward communism and uprisings as a solution.
Communists support and speak on behalf of the coal miners and steel workers in their efforts to establish a union.
District 26 - Cape Breton � expelled from the United Mine Workers (UMW) in early 20s because miners vote to join the International Communist Trade Union Movement.
Centralized industry results in migration of young men to Ontario and Qu�bec.
The Church realizes a social justice obligation to the people of the region.
