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 Nova Scotia labour response to Crisis 1984
Industrial Cape Breton may be a mine for labour historians, but the more recent record of the labour movement in the province has strayed a considerable distance from this tradition.
Here the major contradiction, as with the labour movement as a whole, is between the sectional interests of the individual unions and the general interests of the movement as a whole.
It was a stunning defeat for the labour movement in the province and a dismal end to the Common Front which had appeared in 1972 to represent a significantly new social movement.
ace.acadiau.ca /soci/agt/labour/nslabrespcrisis.htm   (15083 words)

  
 Cape Breton Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party was founded by Paul MacEwan, who had been an NDP Member of the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly for ten years, 1970 to 1980.
The Cape Breton Labor Party was founded at a convention held in Glace Bay in the fall of 1982.
The party issued a multi-point election platform, but its contents were confined to such traditional Cape Breton issues as "proper" levels of government support for the coal and steel industries, a higher minimum wage, reform of Workers Compensation, and improvements to highways.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Breton_Labour_Party   (1204 words)

  
 1798. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
While they retained in other respects, their partiality for the savage life, they have been exposed to all those sufferings arising from cold and inclement seasons, to which they are always liable in the high northern latitudes, under which they live.
That party who are in favour of leasing their lands are the most addicted to intemperance ; but it is acknowledged, that those who are called, in general, steady and sober men, will at some times transgress the rules of temperance.
The action was brought by the town of Littleton for the maintenance of a fl man, who was born in the town, claimed as a slave, under the laws prior to the revolution, and sold to the defendant by his supposed master, of whose slave he was born.
capecodhistory.us /19th/MHS1798.htm   (13455 words)

  
 Frank. Cape Breton Red
It was his hope that labour radicals across the country would unite around a common programme focusing on issues such as unemployment and housing, and that they would be prepared to engage in forms of common action such as general strikes to enforce their demands.
It was the election that reduced the old Tory party of big business to third place and enabled the Liberals to begin their tenure as the government party of the 20th century.
There followed dozens of protests from union locals, labour councils and public meetings in all parts of the country: from the western coalfields, from machinists and garment workers in Montreal, from steelworkers in Hamilton, from railway workers in Moncton and Halifax, from labour councils in Calgary and Montreal.
www.library.utoronto.ca /fisherold/frank.htm   (6716 words)

  
 Colin Perkel, Nation rife with labour strife: As Labour Day nears, workers are united in their discontent
Two weeks ago, unionized drivers in Cape Breton left their buses after a fellow driver was suspended for refusing to take the wheel because he was denied a lunch break.
Labour leaders say the shared sense of grievance among workers is helping pull private- and public-sector unions closer together and that the labour movement is more united now than a year ago.
For one thing, the nasty spat that was still raging last Labour Day after the CAW was expelled from the Canadian Labour Congress and affiliated federations over a raiding dispute has been largely settled and the powerful union is returning to the fold.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/44/230.html   (1004 words)

  
 Men in the Mines - Cape Breton Mining Bibliography - Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
Traces history of union in Cape Breton as case study in challenges facing UMWA generally in early twentieth century.
Cape Breton at 200: historical essays in honour of the island's bicentennial, 1785-1985 (Sydney: UCCB Press, 1985), 203-18.Illus.
Cape Breton at 200: historical essays in honor of the island's bicentennial, 1785-1985 (Sydney: UCCB Press, 1985), 183-202.
www.gov.ns.ca /nsarm/virtual/meninmines/capebreton.asp   (6162 words)

  
 Fort Frances Times - 2006-08-28 - New Green Party leader hoping to seek seat in home province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
May’s attention is firmly fixed on how to raise the party’s profile going into the next election, which theoretically could happen as early as this fall, depending on the fate of the minority Conservative government.
“This time around, it’s up to the Green Party to prove to the national media and the national political system that we are a relevant voice in Canadian political life before the writ is dropped,” she stressed.
The party, launched in 1983, has run full slates in the last two federal elections but has not come close to winning a seat in the Commons.
www.fftimes.com /print_version.php/26821   (404 words)

  
 List of All Canada Political Parties
The party evolved from the another white supremacist organization, the Western Guard, and was briefly known as the the National Citizens Alliance, which is not be confused with the National Citizens' Coalition.
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Confederation of Regions Party of Canada The Confederation of Regions Party was a Canadian political party founded in 1984 by Elmer Knutson as a successor to the Western Canada Federation (West-Fed), a non-partisan organization to fight the Ottawa Liberals.
www.seaiba.com /PoliticalParties.htm   (2247 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A 2002 poll of 405 Nova Scotians showed that 82 per cent of the Cape Bretoners surveyed were either completely or mostly opposed to separation.
Still, the survey was part of a study prepared for the Cape Breton Regional Municipality that concluded "dramatic changes in governance are needed" to address the island's economic struggles.
Scott Boyd, manager of the province's Cape Breton cabinet office, says many of the problems faced by Cape Bretoners are not unique to the island.
start.shaw.ca /start/enCA/News/NationalNewsArticle.htm?src=n121013A.xml   (717 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library Labour History: Museums
Amana Heritage Museum The Amana Heritage Museum collections are comprised of approximately 12,000 objects and 10,000 archival pieces that pertain to the history of Amana and its associated religious group (The Community of True Inspiration) in Germany and America.
Cape Breton Miners' Museum (Glace Bay, Nova Scotia).
Työväen perinnelaitokset Suomessa Institutions of Labour Heritage in Finland: links to labour and labour history organizations in Finland.
www.iisg.nl /~w3vl/museums.html   (889 words)

  
 Modern History Sourcebook: Edward Haies: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland, 1583
This cape lieth south-south-west from St. John's; it is a low land, being off from the cape about half a league; within the sea riseth up a rock against the point of the cape, which thereby is easily known.
Under this cape we were becalmed a small time, during which we laid out hooks and lines to take cod, and drew in less than two hours fish so large and in such abundance, that many days after we fed upon no other provision.
The distance between Cape Race and Cape Breton is 87 leagues; in which navigation we spent eight days, having many times the wind indifferent good, yet could we never attain sight of any land all that time, seeing we were hindered by the current.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1585haies-gilbert.html   (7125 words)

  
 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Kenny Prize.
The result was an extended series of letters in the Canadian Labour Leader which explained the miners’ case for better wages in exceptional detail while also gaining recognition for the women’s contribution to “the economic side of housekeeping”.
When a Cape Breton Independent Labour Party was formed at this time (with McLachlan as president), the party platform included “working class ownership and democratic management of all social means of wealth production and distribution at the earliest possible date”.
By the 1920s, when he counted himself a supporter of the Communist Party of Canada, the objective had not changed significantly and was described in party platforms (and on the front page of the Maritime Labor Herald as “Nationalization of Industry with Workers’ Control”.
www.library.utoronto.ca /fisher/kenny-prize/david-frank.html   (6755 words)

  
 George MacEachern, An Autobiography: The Story of a Cape Breton Labour Radical. by Michael Earl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
George MacEachern was the most active shop-floor leader in the organizing of the steel workers' union in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1935, 1936, and 1937, and this was one of the earliest places in Canada where the industrial unionism of the cioœ made a breakthrough.
George was able to offer some broad insights into several themes in Canadian labour history.' This seems quite valid, but it might have been useful to have included, interspersed with MacEachern's narrative, a few short passages giving the broad outlines of the historical events of the period.
But throughout the book is revealed, in passage after passage, MacEachern's honest pride in workmanship, his compassion for those who suffered injustice and hardship, his anger at stupidity and greed, and his wholehearted dedication to the cause for which he worked.
www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/701/george20.html   (442 words)

  
 Cape Breton Regional Municipality (Bias Ruling): NS Environment and Labour, Labour Relations Board
Greg Blanchard, a member of the Board sitting in this hearing, be replaced on the basis that he has shown himself to be biased in this matter, or in the alternative, that there exists a reasonable apprehension of bias with respect to his impartiality herein.
Counsel for the Applicant seeks agreement among the Board and parties, that another member of the Board be substituted for Mr.
The parties are represented by counsel who are vigorously representing their clients’ interests as they best see fit.
www.gov.ns.ca /enla/lrb/bias.asp   (1332 words)

  
 Here Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was called 'Cape Breton is the Thought Control Centre of Canada,' by a guy name of Ray Smith.
Now here's the funny thing about that; the idea of Cape Breton separation has been around for almost as long as Homard's back taxes, not just with the Cape Breton Liberation Army who did it for fun but regular political groups like the Cape Breton Labour party who were pretty serious about it.
Macneill's still working out the details, but he says most of Cape Breton's 150,000 people (he talked to them all at once because they're all at the airport heading for Alberta) are all for it and Stevie's gambit could inspire similar movements in Labrador, northern Ontario and northern Manitoba.
www.herenb.com /moncton/article.php?articleID=701   (672 words)

  
 Canadian Foreign Policy: Priorities and Principles
Developing a knowledge of what each party, if elected, will do on the world stage is very important in determining what we will represent in these times of world hunger and poverty, military conflict, and terrorism.
Cape Bretoners, like the rest of Canada, are a caring people.
Cape Bretoners need to realize that what happens in our world affects all of us.
faculty.capebretonu.ca /cis/cis1.htm   (4656 words)

  
 Jensen-Post-Secondary Education on the Edge
In the bitter, conflict-ridden 1920s and 1930s, when miners battled the army and police for enough wages to stay alive and gave their allegiance to the Communist Party, Glace Bay was known as "Little Moscow." May Day parades saw 10,000 workers, their families and children, marching under the hammer and sickle.
The battles of militant miners, led by the legendary labour leader J.B. McLachlan, have settled into the myths and stories that residents of Glace Bay tell about their beloved home place.
To be from "the Bay"-this identity is still fiercely adhered to-was to embrace a communal heritage of labour struggles and mining.
www.aaanet.org /cae/aeq/br/jensen.htm   (799 words)

  
 The Oil Drum | Will Canada Fuel Fortress America?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cape Breton Island - an area which is currently a part of Nova Scotia, but in the past it has been a separate colony.
Cape Breton Island is usually considered distinct from mainland Nova Scotia by people across Canada including mainland Nova Scotia.
Ideologically, these parties are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, but both have an interest in decentralization - Harper because he dislikes big government (especially eastern big government which has not traditionally paid much attention to the interests of the west) and the BQ because they are separatists.
www.theoildrum.com /story/2006/3/10/16241/7139   (12270 words)

  
 LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Elizabeth May's Catholic Ideology
While I am on the subject of the Green Party of Canada leadership race, see previous article, Politique Canadienne has a wonderful collection of quotes from Elizabeth May the former director of the Sierra Club who has thrown her hat in the ring for the leadership of the Green Party.
Well not an insignifcant force in Cape Breton last century, he follows the school of distributist economics of Hilaire Belloc at the turn of last century.
Cape Breton Island has been home to many famous individuals, whose contributions to society are well known outside of the area.
plawiuk.blogspot.com /2006/05/elizabeth-mays-catholic-ideology.html   (1206 words)

  
 Citizens Against Strip Mining, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Council members of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality voted 14 to 1 to pass a motion by Wes Stubbert that "the Council request a By-Law to be enacted to protect water supply, agriculture and fishing industries from the ravages of strip coal mining."
Cecil Clarke, Minister of Energy and Tory MLA for Cape Breton North, I was happy to see that Premier Hamm was presented with a new T-shirt by N.S. Legal Aid lawyer and anti-strip mining advocate Alan Nicholson of Boularderie Island, near the Seal Island Bridge.
But Cape Bretoners are not strangers to their own legacy of strip mining and they didn't like the experience so the government's plan is running into a lot of opposition.
www.c-a-s-m.org   (2155 words)

  
 MHS 1792 part 3
When the Indians pursued the party into the town, they set fire to all the buildings, except a few in the neighbourhood of the house in which the inhabitants had taken shelter.
And though the punishment may seem too rigorous, yet it ought to be remembered, that if commanders of parties, sen! upon particular expeditions, may take liberty to vary from their express orders, nothing effectual could be accomplished, and only confusion, disappointment, loss, and in many cases ruin would be likely to ensue.
Several years did the town lie desolate and in ruins; the buildings in ashes—the farms uncultivated, and the inhabitants scattered abroad; but peace being settled with the Indians, some of the dispersed, after a while, returned to the place of their former habitation, and, in conjunction with others, gradually resettled the town.
www.capecodhistory.us /19th/MHS1792-part3.html   (13935 words)

  
 CBC - Nova Scotia Votes 2003
Riding Profile: This is another urban riding in Cape Breton, taking in a portion of the city of Sydney, namely the Ashby area, as well as the large community of Whitney Pier.
Listen to the party leaders in their own words.
Send us your view about the election, the party platforms and leaders, and issues during the campaign.
www.cbc.ca /nsvotes2003/riding/007   (393 words)

  
 J.B. McLachlan: A Biography - The Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Miners. by David Bright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
James Bryson McLachlan was born in 1869, two years after Confederation, and died in 1937, two years before the start of a war that elevated Canada's standing among world nations.
With considerable deftness, Frank retells familiar stories through the prism of McLachlan's own experience: the 1909 Glace Bay strike, the rise and fall of the Provincial Workmen's Association, the labour unrest of 1919, the rise of industrial unionism, and the Communist Party's uneasy relationship with the Canadian labour movement.
This is most definitely not just a book about Cape Breton coal miners.
www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/822/bio12.html   (593 words)

  
 Quebec News
Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair says he is unmoved by poll results showing less dissatisfaction with Premier Jean Charest's government, lower backing for sovereignty and less support for the PQ since Stephen Harper's Conservatives won last week's federal election.
Parti Quebecois MNAs who attended the conference showed support for Houda-Pepin and suggested a joint motion in the National Assembly urging Ontario and other jurisdictions in North America not to apply sharia.
Quebec's relatively paltry donation had the Parti Quebecois opposition on the attack yesterday, with one MNA accusing the Liberals of nickel-and-diming.
www.angelfire.com /my/migrations/quebec_issue_and_separatism.html   (12787 words)

  
 Marxists Internet Archive Updates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Socialist Party Convention by Jack Carney [May 21, 1920] Communist Labor Party NEC member and editor of Duluth Truth Jack Carney grudgingly provides a brief commentary to the paper’s readers on the May 8-14, 1920 Convention of the Socialist Party of America.
The Communist Party Condemns Publication of Tim Buck's Reminiscences A 1977 letter from the CP of Canada's Central Executive Committee explains why two party leaders were censured and disciplined for editing and publishing the a book based on interviews with Tim Buck.
Socialist Party in Swing to the Left, by Robert M. Buck [events of May 17-18, 1919] This short news snippet from the Labor Party of Cook County's official organ documents the heated proceedings at the recently completed convention of the Socialist Party of Cook County.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /marxists/admin/new   (3450 words)

  
 fuddle-duddle
Moving into the new year, it appears some new issues and questions may play a key role in a potential federal campaign -- one which may be a referendum on an energetic new Conservative government with a highly ideological leader.
Speculation over whether or not the 35-year-old will enter politics and give a positive jolt to the Liberal party has run rampant since he delivered a stirring eulogy at his father's funeral in 2000.
Kenny, chairman of the standing Senate committee on national security and defence, said weaknesses in Pearson's mail and freight inspection procedures are more significant than lapses which might result from alleged labour disputes.
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 Scottish Related Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Government and political departments, parties and organizations in Scotland.
One of the excellent young Cape Breton fiddlers and Buddy's niece.
Although Cape Breton isn't part of Scotland, it's Scottish heritage sits very close to the surface which makes it a great destination for the Albaphile.
www.acgamerica.org /links/scotlinks.html   (926 words)

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