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Bituminous coal strike of 1973 [1] United States West Virginia: 1973 Bituminous coal strike of 1974: United States Nationwide 1974 Bituminous coal strike of 1977–78: United States Nationwide 1977–1978 Broken Hill miners' strike of 1892: Australia New South Wales: 1892 Cananea strike: Mexico Sonora: 1906 Cape Breton coal strike of 1981 ...
Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
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 ...
The 1969 United Kingdom miners' strike was an unofficial strike that involved 140 of the 307 collieries owned by the National Coal Board, including all collieries in the Yorkshire area. [1] The strike began on 13 October 1969 and lasted for roughly two weeks, with some pits returning to work before others.
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.
Copper mining Strike 1 Anaconda Road Massacre: A strike by Butte miners was suppressed with gunfire when deputized mine guards suddenly fired upon unarmed picketers. 17 were shot in the back as they tried to flee, and one man died. [90] May 19, 1920 Matewan, WV Coal mining Strike 3 (Bob Mullins, Tot Tinsley, Cabel Testerman)
The 1949 Australian coal strike was the first time that Australian military forces were used during peacetime to break a trade union strike.The strike by 23,000 coal miners lasted for seven weeks, from 27 June 1949 to 15 August 1949, with troops being sent in by the Ben Chifley Federal Labor government to the open cut coal mines in New South Wales on 28 July 1949, with the workers returning to ...
Coal mining employment in the UK, 1880–2012 (DECC data) While more than 1,000 collieries were working in the UK during the first half of the 20th century, by 1984 only 173 were still operating [11] and employment had dropped from its peak of 1 million in 1922, down to 231,000 for the decade to 1982. [12]