http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0345378
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1920-10-08
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note: THE BRITISH COLU INDUSTRIAL UNITY > STRENGTH. OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER. BJADES AND LABOR COUNCIL. ' rOLITICAL UNfTT r. ■•VtC||aT, TWELFTH YEAR. No. 41 EIGHT PAGlSs VANCOUVER B. C, FRIDAY M&tillNG, OCTOBER 8,1920 $2.50 PER YEAR MINERS ARE RESISTING THE (■OFF "Gid" Robertson Has Arrangements with the Press Service Miners at Fernie and Michel Join in the Strike Calgary, Oct. 5.—Th« MinHt.r ot tabor la Is Calrary. Ha "pent tiro aay. ln the Drumhellar Valley, met all the operaton and talked with alx mine workera, who were not ' elected to represent any body of opinion. On returning to Calgary, he publicly announced that the O. B, U, atttke hand ended in failure and that moat ot the men were back at work. That waa late on Sunday night. On Monday morn. Ing, lew than 100 out ot 1100 mine workera were at work ln the Drum, teller Valley. On Tueeday morn. Ing an even lesser number were at work, and at the time of sending thla message, production of coal in that region haa pratcally ceaaed. - The honorable minister of labor discovered that the O. B. U. treas ury of the miners waa empty, save tor a lone I. O. U. for fli. He found, too, that the O. B. U. had no machine and no leaders and he oould not understand, and does not yet understand, how the rank and ■ tile could possibly act as they have ' acted, as they wtll act so long as the government attempts to force upon them the United Mine Work- •■« of the United States check-oft. Minister and Press, The minister ot labor made arrangements with both the day and lilght press service regarding what newa muat go out regarding the revolt of the mine workera agalnat] the check-of. He made arrangements also with the heada of the provincial and federal police forces to head off any revolutionary action that might he taken by Russians, whom he had discovered In the dlstriot to be in direct touoh with Lenin and Trotsky. But there, has been no trouble. To one camp' an International organizer carried lb ten bottles ot hootch and there was …

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