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On June 27, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois, Debs and other influential union leaders including Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Western Federation of Miners, and Daniel De León, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, held what Haywood called the " Continental Congress of the working class ".
Miners were paid union wages of USD $ 4. 00 per day working six, 10-hour shifts per week.
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.
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.
The group aimed to provide an anarchist intervention into working class struggles such as the Miners ' Strike, and was closely involved with the Anti-Poll Tax community-based campaign at the end of the 1980s and unemployed struggles through the Groundswell network of claimants ' action groups.
Miners working a small sluice on Lucky Gulch, Alaska
Born as Joseph Cooke and working in the coal mines of Silverdale, Staffordshire during his early life, he emigrated to Lithgow, New South Wales during the late 1880s, and became General-Secretary of the Western Miners Association in 1887.
Miners ' strikes in 1972 and 1974 featured widespread participation from the working class and other sectors.
By the time of the Miners ' strike in the 1980s, Maerdy was the location of one of the last working mines in the south Wales valleys, and the pictures of the returning miners once the strike was resolved was one of the defining moments of late 20th century Welsh history.
The Miners ' Welfare Institute ( locally known as the " stute "), a working mens club for miners, is still open to this day.
Miners complained about working in deep coal dust.
The working men's club is the CIU affiliated Miners Welfare.
Miners working in Mount Leone are trapped, and it's up to Roderick to reach them.
On 1 November the miners of the South Wales coalfield were balloted for strike action by the South Wales Miners ' Federation, resulting in the 12, 000 men working for the mines owned by the Cambrian Combine going on strike.

Miners and sluice
Miners operate a hydraulic sluice in San Francisquito Canyon, Los Angeles County.
Miners operating a hydraulic sluice at San Francisquito Canyon ( c. 1890-1900 ).

Miners and on
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 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.
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.
Miners at work on the Mesabi Range 1903.
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.

Miners and same
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.
In 1920 he was elected to Wigan Board of Guardians, in 1924 became president of a local co-operative society and in the same year a miner's agent for the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain.
Having established a reputation as a left-winger, Cook spent the next ten years following through on this initiative ; finally getting elected as the secretary of the South Wales Miners ' Federation in 1921 and spending another brief period in prison in the same year for incitement and unlawful assembly.
As governor, Waite supported the Western Federation of Miners in its successful 1894 Cripple Creek Strike and that same year the American Railroad Union during the national Pullman Strike.
While maintaining a position against white supremacy, the Party made special efforts to organize black miners in the strikes its National Miners Union led in western Pennsylvania in 1928 at the same time as leading strikes of ( nearly exclusively ) white textile workers in the Carolinas and Georgia in 1929 and coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1931.
The H-58 concurrency was removed in 2004 when the northern segment of H-13 along Miners Castle Road was redesignated H-11 ; at the same time, the segment north of M-28 / M-94 was reverted to a gravel surface.
Clarke toured with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and has performed on the same bill as bands such as Sex Pistols, The Fall, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Costello, Rockpile, and New Order ( including at their May 1984 Music for Miners benefit concert at London's Royal Festival Hall ).
In 1993, Pringle resurfaced with the CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners, remaining in the same city but switching leagues.

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