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Eventually Lewis, facing criminal charges and sensitive to the propaganda campaign, withdrew his strike call, though many strikers ignored his action. [10] As the strike dragged on into its third week, coal supplies were running low and public sentiment was calling for ever stronger government action. The final agreement came on December 10.
The United Mine Workers conducted a strike in Colorado, called in October 1903 by President Mitchell, and lasting into 1904. The strike, while overshadowed by a simultaneous strike conducted by the Western Federation of Miners among hard rock miners in the Cripple Creek District, contributed to the labor struggles in Colorado. These came to be ...
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The 1972 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major dispute over pay between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Conservative Edward Heath government of the United Kingdom. Miners' wages had not kept pace with those of other industrial workers since 1960.
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Union family members all had a stake in the union's activities and wives of the union members often formed support groups associated with the locals. During strikes, women actively supported the union efforts by picketing with the men, fundraising for funds to feed families during the strikes, cooking in strike kitchens and in whatever way ...
The area council's delegates responded by voting Bullogh out of the chair and voted for a strike by a margin of 85 votes to 3. [1] Within 48 hours, all 70,000 mineworkers in Yorkshire were on strike. [1] In other militant coalfields, such as Kent, South Wales and Scotland, walkouts followed shortly afterwards. [1]
The name of the union was briefly changed to Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union at the group's second convention in 1930, although not long after the organization reverted to its previous title. The organization conducted controversial and violent strikes during 1931, culminating in a call for a general strike on New Year's Day ...