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Prison Strike took place from August 21 to September 9, where prisoners across the United States went on strike by coordinating sit-ins, hunger strikes, work...

the 1984/5 UK miners' strike resulted in such groups being given pride of place in many miners' marches. Another example is the great strike by Jewish immigrant...

President Roosevelt intervened by asking the owners and miners to submit to arbitration. The miners accepted, but the owners refused Roosevelt's suggestion...

rights movement within India and Britain especially. She also found the Miners strike in Britain in the 70s as she was a student in Sussex at the time (Johnson)...

morning of August in 2007, the roof of the mine collapsed trapping six miners 1,800 feet beneath the surface inside the coal mine. Emergency responders...

caught word of a strike occurring at more successful mines in the Noma Alaska and beyond, inspiring many of the thousands of miners to leave the Klondike...

along the Mulgrave River in North Queensland were": "..very useful to the miners [of the Mulgrave goldfields], who have many difficulties to contend with...

hanging wall is above you and the footwall is where your feet would be. Miners often extract mineral resources along faults. They used to hang their lanterns...

General Strike, to support the miners who were already on strike against wage cuts and longer hours. Although it was called a general strike it was only...

that other miners would be reluctant to recognize a claim made by an Indian, given the strong racist attitudes of the time. [[Image:Miners register claims...

Massacre. on September 2, 1885 striking coal miners working for Union Pacific mining killed 28 Chinese strike-breakers, along with wounding 15 others and...

Autumn" in Italy, 1969), the UK miner's strike (1984–85), the struggle against the Poll Tax in Britain (1988–92), the strikes in France in 1986 and 1995,...

railroad workers strike that was about 400,000 strong. Also in 1922 the government took part in putting to an end a nationwide miners strike that consisted...

precious metals. Miners made $4 a day throughout the 1860s and 1870s. Subsequently, the majority group in this population were male miners, although women...

other places of entertainment for their inhabitants. These saloons provided miners a place to “seek boozy camaraderie”, but were far from portraying the ideas...

with all the unions within its industry into a national union (of, say, miners or metal workers). Each union was autonomous and all officials were part-time...

support of unions. He displayed this belief when dealing with the Alabama Miner's Strike of 1920, which was called the greatest stoppage in industrial development...

followed the miners to Nevada. This is because the wealth of the miners attracted saloonkeepers, gamblers, and prostitutes who would “mine the miners” for their...

ice bowling, Fur Rondy Melodrama, snow sculpture competitions, and the Miners and Trappers Ball. The Rendezvous carnival started in 1935. The purpose...

set of measurements of the Earth’s geothermal gradient from reports of miners in 1862, and returned to the question of the age of the Earth. Lord Kelvin...