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...Party. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation is only 14 years old. Besides controlling the government of Saskatchewan, it is the official opposition in three of the Dominion's nine provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba and Nova Scotia). It is Canada's No. 3 party and has 28 seats (out of 245) in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Its national leader, Major James Coldwell, 58, is one of the most admired men in the House; by many politicians of all parties, he is regarded as prime-ministerial timber...
...winter gale ever tied up Nova Scotia's deep-sea fishing fleet so completely as the strike that held it in port last week when the fishing weather was fine. While the fleet's 30 schooners, trawlers and draggers lay at the docks, the walkout had spread from deep-sea crewmen (500 strong) to hundreds of sympathizing inshore fishermen. Soon it would force the closing of processing plants and fish-box factories, thus shut down the province's entire fishing industry...
...away to sea at 16, turned up in the U.S. in 1937 as an organizer for the Red-hued National Maritime Union. He went back to Canada in 1944, soon became Atlantic vice president of the Canadian Seamen's Union. He also became executive board member in Nova Scotia of the Labor Progressive Party, Canada's Communist Party, of which his wife is provincial secretary. In due time, Bert Meade turned to organizing the fishermen, did a bang...
...idea spread. In Nova Scotia alone there were 35,000 fishermen, farmers, loggers, miners who could neither read nor write. In a year and a half, Dr. Coady's self-help doctrine ("seek, and ye shall find") had sprouted 1,000 adult study clubs with 10,000 members. With adult education came co-op stores, farm and fish producer groups. Impressed, St. F.X. set up a special extension department to carry on the work, put Dr. Coady at the head of it. The Dominion Government picked Dr. Coady to organize the badly exploited Maritime fishermen, some of whom...
...Coady can tot up his successes. Now Nova Scotia has 12,500 members in 73 incorporated co-ops and about a dozen unincorporated ones, which do a $6,000,000-a-year business. It has 33,645 members banded together in credit unions, who have lent one another over $9,000,000. In the Maritimes as a whole 100,000 members have joined coops...