William Davis Miners ' Memorial Day is celebrated in coal mining towns to commemorate the deaths of miners at the hands of the coal companies.

* Edwards, Eric The Miners ’ Safety Lamp at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University

* Fife mining museum, formed 1992, is located in Kinglassie at the back of the Kinglassie Miners Welfare Institute but has recently closed.

Miners at the Tamarack mine | Tamarack Mine in Copper Country, Michigan, U. S. in 1905.

The IWW was founded in Chicago in June 1905 at a convention of two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States ( mainly the Western Federation of Miners ) who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ).

Early European interest in the island followed discovery of copper in the remote north of the island, where New Zealand's earliest mines were established at Miners Head in 1842.

* How The Miners Were Robbed 1907 anti-capitalist pamphlet hosted at EconomicDemocracy

His son ( Aneurin Bevan ) also joined the Tredegar branch of the South Wales Miners ' Federation and became a trade union activist: he was head of his local Miners ' Lodge at only 19.

Miners at work in Potosí

There is a small museum at Miners Foundry Cultural Center.

Live music, theater and dance are performed nearly continually at Miners Foundry Cultural Center and the historic Nevada Theatre.

Miners used this railroad, as did the Terry Lumber Company at Bella Vista.

Miners dug under buildings and tore down houses to get at the gold beneath the city.

Image: Ironwood-mining03-1910. jpg | Miners at the Norrie Mine around 1905.

In 1919, Nevada's Red Scare Miners held a ten-day strike at Battle Mountain Copper Mines.

Miners residing at the mouth of Gold Canyon noted Colonel Reese and his party passing along the Carson River as they headed for the Sierra foothills to establish Mormon Station, later called Genoa.

* Derrick Caracter ( born 1988 ), played power forward / center formerly for the Louisville Cardinals basketball team, then the University of Texas at El Paso ( UTEP ) Miners basketball team, current member of NBA's Los Angeles Lakers.

Uniontown was the site of violent clashes between striking coal miners and guards at the local coke works during the Bituminous Coal Miners ' Strike of 1894.

Miners twice rallied at the town ballpark in August 1921, to consider whether to continue their march to neighboring Logan and Mingo counties.

Corryong is home to two of the three foundation clubs: Corryong FC, which has been based in the town from 1893 and Federal FC, formerly the Mount Elliot Miners and renamed in 1901 to celebrate the Federation of Australia and moved to be fully based at Corryong around the same time.

Miners at that time were mainly involved in iron mining.

The Posse defeated the Gold Miners 32 – 26 at Sacramento's Hornet Stadium.

On Christmas Eve 1913, the Western Federation of Miners organized a party for strikers and their families at the Italian Benevolent Society hall in Calumet.

Miners set to work to demolish the tower of Hetoune ( Castle Heaton ) on 24 September, but the army quickly retreated when resources were expended, and hoped-for support for Perkin Warbeck in Northumberland failed to materialise.

Paracelsus ' major work On the Miners ' Sickness and Other Diseases of Miners documented the occupational hazards of metalworking including treatment and prevention strategies.

Miners ' demands included increased wages, a reduction in working hours to eight per day ( from ten ), the posting of mine inspection reports, the isolated storage of explosives, the use of non-freezing explosives, and semi-monthly rather than monthly pay ; the mine operators objected to this last point on the basis that many miners did not report to work the day after payday, and it was thus desirable to keep paydays to a minimum.

" Miners were generally paid according to tonnage of coal produced, while so-called " dead work ", such as shoring up unstable roofs, was often unpaid.

Miners would work in 14-day shifts, spending their off days in Nanaimo with their families.

A grant was awarded from the Miners ’ Welfare Fund to fund the building work.

Field work in Victoria showed Noisy Miners infiltrated anywhere from into remnant woodland from the edges, with greater penetration occurring in less densely forested areas.

Miners maintain their relative innocence of the violence, claiming that the agitation and most of the brutality was the work of Iliescu ’ s government agents who had infiltrated and disguised themselves as miners.

He began work as a miner at Charters Towers, and later was elected first president of the Miners ' Union.

Miners had many grivences with conditions of work and often downed tools and walked off the site in response to accidents in the mine – falls, broken limbs, crushing, brusings and even the occasional fatality.

Miners were still using carbide lamps to work by down the mine in the late 1950s.

Many of the builders were coal miners from Carfin and neighbouring villages out of work during the 1921 Coal Miners ' Strike.

Miners with such concerns for their work safety cannot be penalized with any threat to the loss of employment.

These villages offered more advanced facilities, such as a distinctive water system heated by the mine running in pipes between houses in New Ollerton, but as well as displaying characteristics of paternalism the new villages were also restrictive, with the employment of company policemen and the discouragement of trade unionism, with the exception of the breakaway Nottinghamshire Miners ' Industrial Union ( NMIU ) of George Spencer in the 1930s ; work at the Dukeries collieries had not ceased even during the coal and general strike of 1926.

Most of those houses were built to house the Coal Miners who used to work at the nearby collieries.

He tramped out of the Miners Rest with his hopes plummeting, and headed doggedly for the Palace Saloon, the last place of any consequence on this side of the street.

The Larks produced a track called " Maggie, Maggie, Maggie ( Out, Out, Out )" which was included on the Miners ’ Benefit LP “ Here We Go ” on Sterile Records.

* 1894: The Bituminous Coal Miners ' Strike, an unsuccessful national eight-week strike by miners of hard coal in the United States, which began on April 21, 1894.

* Samuel Stockhausen publishes his “ Treatise on the Noxious Fumes of Litharge, Diseases caused by them and Miners ’ Asthma ”

Miners, entering illegally into the Cherokee Nation lands, came into conflict with the Cherokee, whose territory they were trespassing on.

* Coal Miners ' Memorial – Located across from the current city hall on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and First Street, this memorial statue commemorates those individuals who gave their lives in pursuit of coal in the local mines.

Purdon was featured on the Channel 4 Everyman TV series ; six of his songs appear in Bert Lloyd's definitive collection of pit poems and songs, Come All Ye Bold Miners and he published a radical album of poems and songs entitled Pitworks, Politics & Poetry.

In 2004, the Cotia banner ( subject of one of Purdon's songs ) was remade and carried to the Durham Miners ' Gala with pictures of Purdon and fellow miner and folksinger Jack Elliot of Birtley on the back.

* Warren James, a miners ' leader who led the Free Miners to action against the Crown, was born on the edge of Parkend.

The most memorable moment for the franchise occurred on July 8, 1994, when the team played the Sacramento Gold Miners in the first ever CFL match involving two American based teams.

It is sometimes stated that the Gold Miners were the first American team to play against a Canadian team and to play on Canadian soil when they were the guests of the Ottawa Rough Riders ( losing 32 – 23 ) on July 7.

The Gold Miners were once again a part of CFL history when they played against the Las Vegas Posse in Sacramento on July 8, 1994.

Gold Miners games were broadcast on KFBK radio and KRBK-TV with Tim Roye and Lee Grosscup on radio and Grant Napear and Jack Youngblood on television.

Miners rushed to the new field, using the site of Rockhampton on the Fitzroy River as the nearest navigable port.

Soldiers of No 2 Field Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners on duty in China in 1900.

Miners who later went on to Denver followed the South Platte River trail into Colorado.

Miners pose with lunch pails in hand on a mine rock pile outside of the Tamarack mineshaft.

Slip 7 was designed by Colonel Godfrey Greene RE on his move to the Corps from the Bengal Sappers & Miners.