Show EASTER DAWNS DA ON DIRE SUFFERING IN COAL STRIKE AREA By PAUL R. R MALLON United Press Pre Staff Correspondent Co Copyright b by y United p Press Canada Canai I a Ef Cape Breton Braten No Now Nov Ua- Ua On fe On tr tm this br ot misery y h where a months month's cof strike h ha thrown oJ Jg i thousand people upon the tb threshold of ot starvation on relief c announced today they had about reached reachel the end ond end of their meager mer hrit resources resource i I More funds mus must be immediately forthcoming forthcoming- t If it the Increasing I Dumber IU of destitute brood at or women and children who became public I II I Charges when their Incomes d with the strike five wn weeks k ceo eo I are are tre to be saved laved Tile announcement was WAIl made mad by Father M. M A. A MacAdam village priest prist in charge of the VIe relief c com committee cOrn cOrn- m- m who said Bald the organization wl f nearly 9 da day short hort of or necessary easer essary aury rations Jf If f we get got a a. cup of tea and a crust of ot bread to the who depend upon u ui tot for Easter dinner we w ll do well he said Our present prent slender resources and inI in- in I j creasing task While not Affecting j I jour our resolution to stand by the needy present a staggering difficulty culty the end of which I 1 cannot foresee DIRE SUFFERING The Tho dep depth h to which some residents residents resi reel dents of ot the Sydney district h have e sunk in this year old struggle between the coal miners and operators operators oper oper- Store was purported to b be shown In iii a published affidavit by James Caine caretaker of tho the Whitney y pier community house who swore that ho had seen between and anil persons picking over the city dump for food tood long before the strike began The affidavit was printed by a a. labor Jabor newspaper When hen confronted viti it ft Cal Calne Caine e told me that ev every ry word of ot It Is true I used to see seo them on my way to work vork in the mornings and comIng com coming corn com ing home In the evenings he de declared do- do dared Lots Lota of or them were there last summer and Ive I've seen others there thero recently Sure I used to be bea bea bea a member of the miners' miners union but butI I wouldn't lie for tor them Joseph Campbell of ot 13 Old VIctoria Victoria Victoria Vic Vic- toria road a a. spot at the edge of ot the dump told me that scores still came there to pick over food They Thoy are all in foreigners that can eat cat eat that stuff sturt Campbell said I 1 dont don't Know whether any of them were miners or not not- They get I meat an and anil onions and potatoes that the store storekeepers are forced to throw awa away It would kill me but I 1 saw them doing It it The dump lump itself rise beside Campbells Campbell's house and as I stood at atthe atthe atthe the door talking to him the wind wafted its stench over upon us Upon three visits to tho the dump I 1 Idid did lid not see ace anyone picking there I THOUSANDS STARVING I But the evidence is that at people mostly women and chilI chil- chil 4 I dren were facing starvation that thousands more were wore Insufficiently fed that women expecting children had gone gone without food rood four tour days that children were unable to go o out O of their homes because they were Insufficiently were clad facts tacta quickly quick quick- ly established J. 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W McLeod union head for tor tile the district tells the story tory of ot miners miners' rs long sufferings to th the United Press Pressas I as follows The people here have always s been poor Only during the flurry of ot the tho war did things pick up Then Toben we contributed so many men to the colors that this was only district tilt dis in Canada where they had to toI stop recruiting I The savings of 01 the men were wiped out In 1924 1924 that that is those few miners miners' who did save anything Since e then we have had only enough to keep body and anti boul to to- to gether No attempt has been made to oust the ml maners ners from froni British Em- Em pire piru steel corporation houses About 75 per cent of them are still living upon the mercy of the company William Baxter const construction uc n I I man presented this side sloe or of the u- u tuition for consideration COMPANY'S VIEW I think there has been a lot of ot exaggeration about the actual condition condition con con- of many of ot the tho destitute Baxter said In any mining com community com com- during a strike there are bound to be hardships hardship r I put tho the roofing rooting on fifteen bath houses that the company has built In the mining districts district If It they want wanted to get clean they could go to these bath houses I l think that many of ot them have money and are arr merely 5 seeking to got get relief so that they for nothing The Tho cases cases you have seen here are the most exaggerated cases If It of ot them are starving then it it i shows that other othel dependents of the miners getting I along pretty well wen Red Cross nurses were ordered into the stricken region today with appropriated by t the tho e pro- pro i cial government to be used for aid of the sick but none of or it is tb be bo spent for food tood or clothing according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to J J J- L. L lIethe pr pres pr- president s- s ident of or the Red Cross The provincial pro government it Is explained by some impartial citizens does not wish to be placed in a position of I II I backing the miners' miners strike by supporting sup sup- j I porting them until the company I I gives gt In |