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The Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914 was a major strike affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan The strike organized by the Western Federation of Miners was the first unionized strike within the Copper Country It was called to achieve goals of shorter work days higher wages union recognition and to maintain family mining groups
Blankenhorn Heber The Strike for Union New York H W Wilson Company 1924 reprint New York Arno and New York Times 1969 This is the classic account of the miners' difficult lengthy strike for union in 1922-1923 in the Windber area and Somerset County Pennsylvania Brophy John A Miner's Life Edited by John O P Hall Madison
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The UK miners' strike of 1984–85 was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry It was a defining moment in British industrial relations and its defeat significantly weakened the British trade union movement It was also seen as a major political victory for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party The strike became a symbolic struggle as the National Union of
The 2010 Copiap mining accident also known then as the Chilean mining accident began on Thursday 5 August 2010 with a cave-in at the San Jos copper–gold mine located in the Atacama Desert 45 kilometers (28 mi) north of the regional capital of Copiap in northern Chile Thirty-three men trapped 700 meters (2 300 ft) underground and 5 kilometers (3 mi) from the mine's entrance via
The miners' strike of 1984-85 came to be called the "Great Strike" With good reason It was the largest longest trade union struggle in Britain and the most far reaching in its consequences since the 1926 General Strike For a whole year some 170 000 miners plus the women of the mining communities battled against everything the Tory government and the police threw at them The
The Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914 was a major strike affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan The strike organized by the Western Federation of Miners was the first unionized strike within the Copper Country It was called to achieve goals of shorter work days higher wages union recognition and to maintain family mining groups
Furthermore for much of the period during which they were preparing for a strike most on the government side imagined that it would begin after a ballot 121 The government also expected that the order to strike would be observed by all miners and that men would only return to work when the union executive ordered them to do so 122 Ministers including Lawson had worked to 'decentralise
Miners from Tkibuli Stop Strike The initiative group of miners from Dzidziguri mine in Tkibuli announced the suspension of their strike which was launched several days ago The miners stated they will stop boycotting the company because the employer Coal of Georgia has agreed to meet part of their demands With the involvement of the Tkibuli Miners' Initiative Group they held numerous
The film cuts to a group of corralled miners being led by police along a snow covered path inside the mine yard Besides a building with a sign attached to it saying 'Usworth Colliery' the police hold back a crowd of striking miners who are trying to push forward Many of the men are screaming 'scum' The camera pans around and shows a number of strike-breakers entering a building in
22 08 2011Re miners strike drivers strike by Carl Williams Sun Aug 21 2011 1 49 pm Lawrence Dunbar wrote I remember the Miners strike allthough I wasnt involved in hauling coal I was in fact hauling sand I had to pass two pits on route the miners were very hostile at both of them
GODERICH Ontario — Striking salt miners returned to work here July 18 following their approval of a new contract two days earlier Compass Minerals' bosses were forced to the bargaining table following determined mass actions by the strikers with the active support of local farmers who blocked the company's deployment of scabs aimed at breaking the strike
The Leadville miners' strike was a labor action by the Cloud City Miners' Union which was the Leadville Colorado local of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) against those silver mines paying less than $3 00 per day The strike lasted from 19 June 1896 to 9 March 1897 and resulted in a major defeat for the union largely due to the unified opposition of the mine owners
16 06 2014Two MORI polls of miners – in March and April 1984 – showed majorities of over 60 per cent in favour of a strike Accepting that a ballot might well have been won Ken Capstick an NUM ally of Scargill's argued after the strike that organising a vote would have seemed "like giving in" adding "You've got to remember that we had lads who were picketing every day total
Normanstrike's Blog The Miners Strike 1984 – 5 My Diary Westoe Lodge NUM strike meeting Archives RSS Feed Posts Tagged 'Victory to the Miners' Bob Delbridge Houses of Parliament Mrs Gandhi newcastle poly swp Thatcher and MacGregor Victory to the Miners 113 Saturday November 3rd 1984 In Uncategorized on November 2 2009 at 12 42 pm Even the bloody weather was against
The inside story of the miners' strike? Give me Peace! Posted on March 5 2009 by scottdouglas Miners' Strike I'll be glued to the box tonight to watch the first instalment of Red Riding on Channel 4 It's a good few years since I first stumbled on the work of David Peace starting with 1974 the tilted erratic autistically repetitive and nosebleed inducing first volume in his Red
Inside Labour No normal strike 2014-04-04 07 44 *Terry Bell A CRUNCH point has this week been reached in the platinum sector Stockpiles are all but exhausted and striking miners are starving In normal circumstances this would be the time when compromise is reached a matter of who blinks first But this is no "normal" strike no industrial dispute just like any other And unless all
Margaret Thatcher branded Arthur Scargill and the other leaders of the 1984-5 miners' strike 'the enemy within' With the publication of this bestselling book a decade later the full irony of that accusation became clear There was an enemy within But it was not the National Union of Mineworkers that was out to subvert liberty It was the secret services of the British state - operating
Inside Mining Dec/Jan 2019 Inside Mining Oct/Nov 2018 Inside Mining Aug/Sept 2018 Inside Mining Jun/Jul 2018 Inside Mining Apr/May 2018 Inside Mining Feb/Mar 2018 Advertise Contact Us Coal miners on strike in India Mpinane Senkhane | Jan 7 2015 | News Five major unions of mine workers at state-run Coal India (CIL) have begun what they have indicated could be their biggest strike
The militia and the coal miners' strike July 25 2016 by Peter Silverman In 1913 the militia was called out during a coal miners' strike on Vancouver Island Called the Great Strike of 1912-14 it was to be and remains the longest deployment of the militia in aid of the civil power in Canadian history The immediate cause of this strike in Nanaimo 110 kilometres north of Victoria was
01 07 2016The heroic militancy of the miners' strike exposed in a most necessary way the inability of the then dominant leftwing thinking as a whole (notwithstanding the disputatious variety within it) to meet the theoretical needs of labour In the new situation the pressure of militant trade unionism to secure from capital and its servant state measures of reform and progressive change was no
It is this aspect of the miners strike that paves the way for the future — the recognition that British workers have a common interest in uniting with the oppressed everywhere to destroy the common enemy British imperialism Real allies of the miners are to be found among the nationalist people fighting for freedom in Ireland among the black masses fighting against the British-backed
Salute the miners' strike for jobs This week marks the 25th anniversary of the start of the great miners' strike in defence of jobs and communities Their year-long confrontation with the state and the Tory government remains an outstanding example of the determination of ordinary working people to fight for their rights By the time of the strike officially unemployment in Britain had
Directed by Mike Figgis With Stephen Cranford Jeremy Deller Howard Giles John Spencer-Barnes In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike The dispute lasted for over a year and was the most bitterly fought since the general strike of 1926 marking a turning point in the struggle between the government and the trade union movement
Mining FIN24 SPEAKS | Anglo American execs on how Covid-19 will affect SA's mining industry Jun 04 2020 08 44 Fin24 editor Ron Derby speaks to the CEOs of Kumba Iron Ore Anglo Coal and De Beers SA about the impact of the pandemic as thousands of miners return to work Mining Amplats processing unit shut down again after water leak Jun 03 2020 19 16 The platinum producer said on Wednesday a
From the miners' strike to the gig economy How Thatcher's defeat of the miners paved the way for the low-paid zero-hours economy of today This is the last article you can read this month You can read more article this month You can read more articles this month Sorry your limit is up for this month Reset on Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here SOME basic facts
New Yorkshire Miners Strike 1841 In the event that I am never set free I would dearly like you all to see Why I've spent twenty years in this stinking jail Can you see my wife Mr Bloggs? Can you tell her what it's like on the inside? But don't talk too fast as she's not very bright Mr Bloggs We worked all hours for very little dosh While the mine owners became rather posh So we asked if
Miners in Colorado had observed a general strike called by the revolutionary syndicalist union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1927 in support of the arrested anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti who were executed in August of that year and later in the year taking notice of the continuing discontent amongst the miners the IWW called a strike of all mine workers on October 18
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