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 ).

In June 1985, three months after the miners admitted defeat and ended their strike, Benn introduced the Miners ' Amnesty ( General Pardon ) Bill into the Commons, which would have extended an amnesty to all miners imprisoned during the strike.

Other pioneers soon followed ; during the 1670s and 1680s families arrived that would form the backbone of the town: They were the Mains, Miners, Wheelers, Browns, Palmers, Hewitts, and Averys, to name a few.

The Miners would have finished fourth with a 10 – 7 – 1 record, if not for a poor call by the officials in the team's last game of the season in Edmonton, where an erroneous " incomplete " ruling negated an apparent game-winning touchdown.

The troops arrived in Goldfield on December 6, and immediately afterwards the mine-owners reduced wages and announced that no members of the Western Federation of Miners would thereafter be employed in the mines.

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

In April 1899, as the Western Federation of Miners ( WFM ) was launching an organizing drive of the few locations not yet unionized, superintendent Albert Burch declared that the company would rather " shut down and remain closed twenty years " than to recognize the union.

Miners in the South Island were saying, “ If only one could draw a section one would be made .” On the 18th of May 1910 at the Miner ’ s Union Hall in Thames, the first applications for land blocks were made.

The company offered no compensation for miners and long before the strike ( 1906 ) there was a feeling among them that “ there were too many accidents, to many maimings, too many deaths ... Miners would ask themselves bitterly what they were dying for.

One of the earliest forms of Carols by Candlelight began in the 19th century, when Cornish Miners in Moonta, South Australia would gather on Christmas Eve to sing carols lit with candles stuck to the brims of their safety hats.

The height of the group's fame coincided with the Miners Strike of 1984, when the National Union of Mineworkers called strike action following the National Coal Board's decision to close 20 pits-a move which would claim some 20, 000 jobs.

It would be taken down the Miners ' Track to a store-house at Pen-y-Pass first.

Miners would undercut the coal along the width of the coal face, removing coal as it fell, and using wooden props to control the fall of the roof behind the face.

Should the Miners return to Mesa, they would be an expansion team since the original team was absorbed by the Silver Sox.

The GBL has stated publicly that they would reconsider the Arizona market ( Surprise and Mesa ) if the league, the city of Mesa and the concessionaire at HoHoKam Park in Mesa could reach agreement on a revenue sharing agreement for concessions sales at Miners games.

( 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.

Following some confusion over what terms the Miners ' Union would be prepared to accept, the transport workers ' and railwaymen's unions decided not to call their members out on strike in sympathy with the miners.

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.

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 at work in Potosí

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

Miners at work on the Mesabi Range 1903.

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.

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.

Miners were paid union wages of USD $ 4. 00 per day working six, 10-hour shifts per week.

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.

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

Miners were forced to abandon their homes in search for new beginnings in other regions of the country.

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

In their first season, the Sacramento Gold Miners entered the CFL history books by:

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 ).

The Gold Miners made a decided improvement from their 1993 inaugural season with a 9 – 8 – 1 record.

It took them until week 15 to record their first victory, a 24 – 12 victory over the Sacramento Gold Miners After the historic victory, the team won two out of their last three games, but they still finished last in the CFL East Division with a 3 – 15 record.

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.

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.

Labor Historian Melvyn Dubofsky traces the birth of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) to the industrial unionism of the Western Federation of Miners, and their years under fire during the Colorado Labor Wars.

Miners had their choice of two passes across the mountains to the Yukon fields: The Chilkoot Trail, an old Native route, started in Dyea, and the White Pass, also called Dead Horse Trail, was in Skagway.

A field study in Canberra found that Superb Fairywrens that lived in areas frequented by Noisy Miners ( Manorina melanocephala ) recognised miner alarm calls and took flight, and had learnt to ingore their non-alarm calls, while those that live in areas not frequented by Noisy Miners did not respond to miner alarm calls.

Miners came to the area, causing clashes with the Nez Perce on their ancestral tribal lands.

Miners often called it "' Rockwell ' also known as ' Harrisburg '" in their mining records.

* Gloucestershire: The Free Miners of coal and iron of the Forest of Dean had their customs confirmed by charter attributed to Edward I, with a miner's court to try cases between the miners, and a miner's parliament.

Noisy Miners have a range of strategies to increase their breeding success including multiple broods and group mobbing of predators.

A field study in Canberra found that Superb Fairywrens ( Malurus cyaneus ) that lived in areas frequented by Noisy Miners recognised miner alarm calls and took flight, and had learnt to ignore their non-alarm calls, while those that live in areas not frequented by Noisy Miners did not respond to miner alarm calls.

Noisy Miners were seen to have a range of strategies to increase their breeding success including multiple broods, laying eggs early in the season, nesting low in the canopy and group mobbing of predators ; these measures did not guarantee against nest failure due to the diversity of potential predators in the Noisy Miner's open woodland habitat.