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The Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911, or the Westmoreland coal miners' strike, [1] was a strike by coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America. The strike is also known as the Slovak Strike because about 70 percent of the miners were Slovak immigrants. [2]
The Miners Strike of 1910–11 was a violent attempt by coal miners to maintain wages and working conditions in parts of South Wales, where wages had been kept low by a cartel of mine owners.
Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909; Georgia Railroad strike; 1910 Clockmakers' strike; 1910 Chicago garment workers' strike; Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911; Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1910–11; 1910 Columbus streetcar strike; Philadelphia general strike (1910) 1911 Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Coal mining Strike 6 (plus 9 miners' wives) [51] Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911: 70 percent of the miners were Slovak immigrants. Employers used force to intimidate striking miners, partially paying the cost for the Coal and Iron Police, local law enforcement and the Pennsylvania State Police.
The 1912 United Kingdom national coal strike was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom. Its main goal was securing a minimum wage.After 37 days, the government intervened and ended the strike by passing the Coal Mines Act, extending minimum wage provisions to the mining industry and certain other industries with many manual jobs.
Pittston Coal strike: United States Pennsylvania: 1989–1990 Real del Monte silver miners' strike of 1766: Kingdom of Spain Hidalgo: 1766 South Africa miners' strike of 2007: South Africa Nationwide 2007 South Wales miners' strike (1910) [citation needed] Wales South Wales: 1910 United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919: United States Nationwide ...
The massacre was the seminal event of the 1913–1914 Colorado Coalfield War, which began with a general United Mine Workers of America strike against poor labor conditions in CF&I's southern Colorado coal mines. [8] The strike was organized by miners working for the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company and Victor-American Fuel Company. Ludlow was the ...