0 “They Didn’t Starve Us Out”: Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s Oct. 01, 1991 “They Didn’t Starve Us Out”: Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s 1991 21 min 38 views For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. ... DocumentaryHistory