STRIKING MINERS.
FACING STARVATION
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION - COPY - RIGHT
OTTAWA, April 11
At Sydney (Nova Scotia) 500 persons, mostly women and children, are facing starvation as the result of the strike by the coal miners in the mines operated by the British Empire Steel Corporation, which has now lasted a month. Thousands more of the 60,000 affected miners and their dependents are living in filth aiid squalor under conditions which have doubled the death-rate and filled the hospitals. Handicapped and impoverished relief committees a fie doling out all contributions received from the Canadian public, but they are able to give only enough to keep body and soul together and are no longer able to supply meat.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 April 1925, Page 5
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116STRIKING MINERS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 April 1925, Page 5
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