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The 1922 UMW Miner strike or The Big Coal Strike [1] was a nationwide general strike of miners in the US and Canada [a] after the United Mine Worker's (UMW) trade union contract expired on March 31, 1922. The strike decision was ordered March 22, to start effective April 1. Around 610,000 mine workers struck.
The Pittston Coal strike was a United States strike action led by the United Mine Workers Union (UMWA) against the Pittston Coal Company, nationally headquartered in Pittston, Pennsylvania. The strike, which lasted from April 5, 1989 to February 20, 1990, resulted from Pittston's termination of health care benefits for approximately 1,500 ...
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) has cleared members to return to work at Alabama’s Warrior Met coal mine after a nearly two-year strike. UMWA President Cecil Roberts announced Thursday ...
The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. [ 1 ]
A pro-employer newspaper called the Workmen’s Chronicle was distributed free of cost to mine workers. It was published by a black minister named P. C. Rameau who worked out of an office in the TCI building. Oscar W. Adams Sr., editor of the Birmingham Reporter, spoke to workers in company-owned halls, imploring them to remain loyal to mine ...
In 1920, he landed the most influential role of his career when he became the Secretary and Treasurer of the District 15 sector of the United Mine Workers of America in Colorado. Here, he would do the majority of his work known to the public, contributing numerous articles to the United Mine Workers Journal while acting as a correspondent for ...
On April 1, 1922, the United Mine Workers (UMW) began a nationwide coal strike. By mid-May 1922, the United States faced a "serious coal shortage." Only mines without unions remained open; prices rose, as did hoarding. [2] On June 8, 1922, Warren G. Harding announced that voluntary pricing was relieving the situation.