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 ).

* Derrick Caracter ( born 1988 ), power forward / center for the University of Texas-El Paso Miners team who was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA Draft.

Lyon Mountain is the home of the Lyon Mountain Miners who play in the Champlain Valley Baseball League.

* 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.

James Earl Jones ' character Will Cleveland introduced these works to young Ephram, who was an aspiring pianist, in the second season episode " Three Miners From Everwood ".

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

One notable team administrator was Jack Youngblood, who was the Gold Miners ' Director of Marketing in 1993 and 1994, which was a similar post he held with the Surge in 1991 and 1992.

In their second season, the Gold Miners were no longer the lone American team as the CFL introduced three new teams: The Las Vegas Posse, the Shreveport Pirates and the Baltimore Stallions ( who were known as the CFLers when the NFL did not allow the Colts name to be used ).

She is buried in the Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois, alongside miners who died in the Battle of Virden in 1898.

On November 3, 2003, the Globetrotters had a streak of 288 consecutive victories snapped after suffering an 89-88 loss to the UTEP Miners, who had just six victories the season before.

The Western Federation of Miners was frontier unionism, the organization of workers who had become " wage slaves " of mining corporations rather recently acquired by back-east absentee ownership.

During the confrontation, the Coeur d ' Alene miners received considerable assistance from the Butte Miners ' Union in Butte, Montana, who mortgaged their buildings to send aid.

One union leader who closely observed the experiences of the ARU was Big Bill Haywood, who became the powerful secretary treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners ( WFM ).

In March and April 1907, because the owners refused to discharge carpenters who were members of the American Federation of Labor, but did not belong to the Western Federation of Miners or to the Industrial Workers of the World affiliated with it, this last organization was, as a result of the strike, forced out of Goldfield.

American Socialist Labor Party theoretician Daniel DeLeon was among the radical leaders who joined together to establish the new organisation — a group which included Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party of America and William " Big Bill " Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners.

Connolly also covered the Idaho trial of the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, who were accused of the assassination in 1905 of a former Idaho governor, Frank Steunenberg, putatively in retaliation for Steunenberg's calling of federal troops to suppress what he called a union " reign of terror.

With the promise of a lighter sentence, McParland compelled Orchard to write a confession in which he implicated " Big Bill " Haywood, general secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, and George Pettibone, a labor activist who had a prior conviction related to an 1892 dispute in Coeur d ' Alene, as co-conspirators.

During the Miners ' Strike of 1984-85 the bank offered miners who were mortgage holders a deferment, allowing them to postpone payments for the duration of the dispute.

Y Lliwedd is the most conspicuous of the peaks for those who approach Snowdon via the Miners ' and Pyg tracks.

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.

The miners occupied the town hall of Petroşani and from its balcony, Miron Cozma, who at the time was President of the League of Miners Unions of the Jiu Valley, said " We're going to Bucharest ".

In 1874 Spence was one of a number of militant mine-workers who formed the Amalgamated Miners ' Association of Victoria, and he became the union's general secretary in 1882.

During the 1890s, gold was discovered and Miners quickly traveled to the area and populated it in order to strike it rich ; however, the industry waned for many years, yet later had some success with a small boom during the 1930s.

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.

Three weeks later, Hardie was chosen by the miners as their delegate to a National Conference of Miners to be held in Glasgow.

Ten years later the Gibraltar company, which had remained separate, was absorbed and in 1812 the name was changed to the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners.

Purchased in 1925 by the Reading Room Committee, it became the Seven Sisters ' Miners ' Welfare Society, which later established a children's playing field, a football field and in 1935 the construction of an outdoor swimming pool, completed in 1932.

The DAM was highly involved in the Miners ' Strike as well as a series of industrial disputes later in the 1980s, including the Ardbride dispute in Ardrossan, Scotland, involving a supplier to Laura Ashley, for which the DAM received international support.

Gompers's trade union philosophy and his devotion to collective bargaining with business proved to be too conservative for more radical leaders such as Ed Boyce, president of the Western Federation of Miners ( WFM ), and later, WFM secretary-treasurer Bill Haywood.

Miners began prospecting for gold in the watershed, including a Bear Creek tributary called Jackson Creek, where they established a mining camp in 1851 at the site of what later became Jacksonville.

Born in Fort William, Ontario, Adams began his career with the Fort William Maple Leafs in 1914 of the NMHL, and played for the Calumet Miners a year later.

" Miners would later say that the clubs were lengths of gas pipe.

In the late 1870s Pelton modeled, tested and manufactured his first turbine wheel, dubbed the Pelton Runner — later referring to the impulse blades only — at the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, California.

The club was nicknamed “ The Cup Team ” due to Shakhtar ’ s success in vying for the trophy every year, however the Miners ’ more notable achievements occurred later from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s.

He began attending union meetings, including the annual Durham Miners ' Gala, where in later years he met the likes of Will Crooks, Ellen Wilkinson, Ernest Bevin and George Lansbury.

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

Miners flocked to Murton from across County Durham and Northumberland in the early years, with people later uprooting from Devon, Cornwall and Ireland too.

Keir Hardie, then Secretary of the Scottish Miners ' Federation, denounced the deaths as murder a few days later.

Twenty years ( and ten days ) later, the Aggies and Miners played to the largest crowd in stadium history, with 32, 993 in attendance to see the Aggies win again, 33-24.

( The San Antonio Texans name would later be used for the aforementioned Gold Miners when they moved to San Antonio in 1995.

The daughter of a miner, she would later serve on the Miners ' Welfare Commission.

Still he racked up 366 yards and four touchdowns in his only season with the Gold Miners, before being traded in the offseason to the team where he would make his most lasting mark, the then-Baltimore Football Club, later to become the Baltimore Stallions.