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Until 1931, eelgrass was the pillar of saltwater mudflat society. Under its waving, tape-thin leaves, young and weak creatures sought shelter-and the hungry and strong sought food. But in 1931 and 1932, the eelgrass meadows vanished leaving flats of barren mud as far north as Nova Scotia. A microscopic fungus (Labyrinthula) streaked the eelgrass leaves with brown, killing them to the roots...
...preached young (29) Presbyterian Minister Perry F. Rockwood in sermon after angry sermon in his little fieldstone church in Truro, Nova Scotia. "Hell," he told his flock, "is a place just as much as Truro is a place. It is not a condition Hell is a place of terrible pain, anguish and suffering. . . . Those who die in their sins must burn and burn and burn forevermore...
William F. Carroll, Government mediator and Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge, had tried hard to reconcile the miners' demands ($1.40 more a day) with the operators' offer of $1 a day, contingent on increased production. Mediator Carroll recommended a pay boost of $1.40 a day, plus more production. The extra 40?, he said, must come from an increased Government subsidy since a higher coal price would "interfere most gravely with effective transition to a peacetime economy." But the miners thumbed down the recommendation as a "mere incentive bonus...
...would have to come out of a higher coal price. But the operators found that unacceptable. Only skeleton maintenance crews were left underground. Industries and cities dug into the coal which they have been stockpiling. Most coal users had enough on hand for a few weeks. But Nova Scotia cities were already talking about dimouts and other conservation measures...
...party has been gaining strength steadily. In the last general election (1945) it got 822,661 votes (against 393,230 in 1940) and increased its number of seats in the House of Commons from eight to 28. In the latest provincial elections in British Columbia and Nova Scotia the party gained in popular vote while losing seats. In Manitoba, it gained both ways. To meet the socialist threat, Tories and Liberals in Manitoba and British Columbia have coalesced...