Description
With all the passion and forward thrust of a terrific novel, The
Company Store is John Mellor’s winning story of Labour’s Wars in Cape
Breton Island. A much sought after book, it has been too long out of
print, and it remains a good place for the general reader to start in
digging into this essential story in the making of the character of
industrial Cape Breton. The company store itself stands as a powerful
symbol for the entire system against which the miners fought—a system
wherein the company owned the mines, the homes, the stores and often
even the ministers and priests—all with the goal of profits for
shareholders and of keeping the workers indebted and in line. And
when all these failed, the governments sent in the troops against the
workers!