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.

Miners working a sluice on Lucky Gulch, AlaskaThe same principle may be employed on a larger scale by constructing a short sluice box, with barriers along the bottom called riffles to trap the heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box.

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.

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.

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.

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

Miners could place the safety lamp close to the ground to detect gases, such as carbon dioxide, that are denser than air and so could collect in depressions in the mine ; if the mine air was oxygen-poor ( asphyxiant gas ), the lamp flame would be extinguished ( black damp or chokedamp ).

The historical provinces now included in Nord-Pas-de-Calais are Artois, Boulonnais, Calaisis, Cambraisis, French Flanders, French Hainaut and portions of northern Picardy, and the regional nickname Bassin Minier or Meiners-Bassen ( Miners ' or Mining Basin in the region's two languages ) derived from historically large mining deposits.

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

The sports teams except for baseball are called the Miners.

* 1906 April-' Miners Dispute ' striking miners are shot by 21 troopers of the State Constabulary-ten men were injured, but all survived

Miners created the famous engineering system for the management of water in the Upper Harz, the Upper Harz Water Regale, of which 70 kilometres of ditch and 68 ' ponds ' ( with a volume of 8 million cubic metres ) are still used today.

These include, but are not limited to: The Bear and Ragged Staff ( a Wetherspoon pub ), The White Horse, The Miners Arms, The Mountpleasent, The Black Horse, The Lord Raglan, The Black Bank, Saunders Hall, Collycroft Working Men's Club, The Bedworth Liberal Club, Bedworth Conservative Club, The Griffin Inn, The Newdigate Arms, The Cross Keys, The Collycroft Goose, The Royal Oak, The Prince Of Wales, JB ' S, Littleworks ( Re-Opened as Jack's Entertainment Club ) and The Cricketers Arms in Collycroft.

Gateshead Miners are Gateshead's first and only Aussie Rules Football team and compete in the Aussie Rules UK National League.

Miners are being gassed in the washhouse and transformed into thugs and vandals, attacking men and machinery, being perceived as Luddites by other locals.

Other teams in Dalkeith are the youth side Dalkeith Miners ( Dalkeith CYP ), whose ground is at Cowden Park, Woodburn, and amateur football team Salters AFC.

Lochore Welfare are a club formed from mergers between various other Junior clubs over the years, firstly with local amateur side, Lochore Miners to become Lochore Miners Welfare.

Noisy Miners are gregarious and territorial ; they forage, bathe, roost, breed and defend territory communally, forming colonies that can contain several hundred birds.

High densities of Noisy Miners are regularly recorded in forests with thick understory in southern Queensland, or more from the forest / agricultural land edge.

Female Noisy Miners are aggressive towards each other, and one cause of a male-biased sex-ratio in colonies may be the females ’ greater intolerance for each other, driving immatures out of the colony and preventing the immigration of new females.

Although Noisy Miners are protected across Australia, and a permit is required to cull them, culling has been proposed as the most humane and practical method of reducing their impact, particularly where combined with rehabilitation of the habitat to suit a wider variety of bird life.

There are memorials and monuments celebrating Pelton and the Pelton Runner mounted in Camptonville, California, in the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, California, and at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D. C., among other sites.

Other teams in the ASHL included the Calgary Stampeders and the Drumheller Miners ; the latter team featured four Bentley brothers, three of whom played in the NHL and two of whom are enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Examples are the Miners ' Parade, the St. Barbara Celebration or the Ledersprung (" Leather Jump ").

* Miners ' and Trappers ' Charity Ball and Mr. Fur Face beard contest ( since 1950 )-Beards are grown as long as possible and they are dyed, decorated and shaped for this contest.

There are two pubs, the Olde Gate, which has a 1616 datestone, and has a largely 19th-century interior, and the Miners Arms, which was modernised thirty years ago, and which was once the venue for the manor court and the lead miners ' Barmote Court.

Another political pirate was the Miners pirate radio station dubbed Radio Arthur by the media, which operated in the Nottinghamshire area during the 1984 / 1985 miners strike ; downloads of some of its programmes are available on www. g0mrf. com.

While there are two other coal mining regions ( primarily surface mining ) in Romania, and other miners unions, the Jiu Valley Coal Miners Union has long been the most independent and militant.

Miners salaries, estimated at $ 400 – 500 / month as of January 2006, are considerably higher than the average in Jiu Valley which lag far behind the national average income.

For it's Miners that we love best.

Miners dug underground tunnels to reach the ore and brought it up to the surface by the cartloads for smelting into jongkangs.

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

The port came to prominence in the 1984-85 Miners ' Strike, where attempts were made to import coal through the Port ( as with the small port at Wivenhoe further up the river Colne ).

He began acting by chance, when he went to meet a friend at the Miners ' Welfare Hall, and one member of the cast of an amateur dramatics production being performed at the Hall had failed to turn up.

Miners followed the creeks up into the foothills of the Longwoods to where the richest gold was to be had.

Miners must carry loads, which range from to, up to the crater rim, with a gradient of 45 to 60 degrees and then 3 kilometers ( 1. 86 miles ) down the mountain for weighing.

It is a popular location from which to walk up Snowdon, as three of the popular routes ( the Miners Track, the Pyg Track and the ascent via Crib Goch ) can be started here.

In 1957 a US Government travel ban prevented Paul Robeson from appearing in person at the Miners ' Eisteddfod, however he still performed live via a secretly arranged transatlantic telephone link up.

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.