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Miners' trains at Huelva station during the strike. The Riotinto mining strike of 1920 was a general strike that took place in the Riotinto-Nerva mining basin ( Huelva ) during 1920. The conflict went through several phases of varying intensity and lasted nine months, during which about 11,000 workers took part in the strike movement.
Miners and mine guards engaged in several armed skirmishes over the closure of coal mines and access to rail routes in the summer and fall of 1920. The West Virginia government declared martial law and sent federal troops to quell the strike, but backed down under threat of a general strike of all union coal miners in West Virginia. [3]
A recent change in the WFM constitution gave union leadership the right to call strikes in support of other locals without a strike vote, and the rank and file were not given the opportunity to vote on the strike. A large majority of the union miners were said to be opposed to the strike; Rastall estimated up to 90 percent were against. [10] p.89
Miners' Strike: A Frontline Story is an 88-minute BBC Two documentary film about the 1984 UK miners' strike including the Battle of Orgreave.The film splices archive footage of the strikes, with stories from 15 individuals who were directly involved on the both sides of the events, including the miners and the police force.
Plaque at Gay's the Word celebrating Mark Ashton and LGSM. Three months into the strike, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) was established by Communist Party of Great Britain activist Mark Ashton, Mike Jackson, and their friends, after they had collected donations for the miners at the 1984 Lesbian and Gay Pride march in London. [4]
The Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, labor riot of 1899 was the second of two major labor-management confrontations in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of northern Idaho in the 1890s. . Like the first incident seven years earlier, the 1899 confrontation was an attempt by union miners, led by the Western Federation of Miners to unionize non-union mines, and have them pay the higher union wage sca
The miners proved unable to meet management production quotas and the mine owners refused to pay the previously agreed minimum daily wage, alleging deliberate slow working. An arbitrator called in to review the dispute ruled that the quotas were achievable. The miners disagreed and went on strike from 9 January.