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  • The National Miners' Union (NMU) was a dual workers' association established in 1928 in the United States of America under the aegis of the Red International...
    8 KB (1,077 words) - 10:46, 11 May 2024
  • The Miners' National Union (MNU) was a trade union which represented miners in Great Britain. The union was founded in November 1863 at a five-day long...
    5 KB (466 words) - 02:56, 17 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike
    they met the miners, joined pickets and raised funds. The songs of the South Wales Striking Miners' Choir and the speeches of Kent miner Alan Sutcliffe...
    175 KB (18,876 words) - 21:50, 7 August 2024
  • The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union for coal miners in Great Britain, formed in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain...
    24 KB (2,462 words) - 20:43, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Union Miners Cemetery
    The Union Miners Cemetery is a cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois. The cemetery is the burial site of labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. Miners Day...
    5 KB (442 words) - 01:30, 1 November 2023
  • Florence Reece (category People from Union County, Tennessee)
    Workers of America and the National Miners Union in which her husband, Sam Reece, was an organizer. Pete Seeger, collecting labor union songs, learned "Which...
    7 KB (783 words) - 11:00, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of coal miners
    primary fuel, coal miners have figured strongly in labor and political movements since that time. After the late 19th-century coal miners in many countries...
    52 KB (7,226 words) - 21:06, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
    Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) was an alliance of lesbians and gay men who supported the National Union of Mineworkers during the year-long...
    23 KB (1,923 words) - 21:48, 13 June 2024
  • The Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) was established after a meeting of local mining trade unions in Newport, Wales in 1888. The federation...
    25 KB (2,597 words) - 21:46, 2 August 2024
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    Arthur Scargill (category Presidents of the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain))
    1984–1985 miners' strike. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated...
    49 KB (5,577 words) - 18:53, 17 August 2024
  • Harlan County War (category Kentucky National Guard)
    involved coal miners and union organizers on one side and coal firms and law enforcement officials on the other. The Harlan County coal miners campaigned...
    15 KB (1,836 words) - 02:01, 4 August 2024
  • 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...
    16 KB (1,699 words) - 12:16, 3 May 2024
  • labor leader from Springfield, Massachusetts. He was sent by the National Miners Union to Harlan County, Kentucky during the Harlan County War to organize...
    3 KB (220 words) - 03:21, 20 June 2024
  • 1984–85 miners' strike, when the Nottinghamshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was involved in a number of disputes with the National Executive...
    5 KB (435 words) - 10:40, 25 May 2024
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    Battle of Blair Mountain (category Conflict sites on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia)
    armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers (called the Logan Defenders) who were backed by coal mine operators during the miners' attempt...
    37 KB (4,060 words) - 04:09, 23 August 2024
  • fluctuations in pricing, miners sought a group to stand up for their rights. American Miners' Association The first step in starting the union was the creation...
    55 KB (7,462 words) - 16:12, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Miners Union Hall
    Miners Union Hall, located east of Philipsburg, Montana in Deerlodge National Forest, is a historic building built in 1890. Also known as Granite Miners...
    2 KB (94 words) - 00:58, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for 1926 United Kingdom general strike
    strike, with many of those who were not miners and not directly affected striking to support the locked-out miners. The government was well prepared, and...
    37 KB (4,656 words) - 16:41, 14 July 2024
  • The Waihi miners' strike was a major strike action in 1912 by gold miners in the New Zealand town of Waihi. It is widely regarded as the most significant...
    8 KB (991 words) - 12:13, 22 August 2024
  • The Ayrshire Miners' Union was a coal mining trade union based in Scotland. The first Ayrshire Miners' Union was founded in 1880, with Keir Hardie as...
    2 KB (205 words) - 00:18, 14 March 2021
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