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Inspired by leaders such as John Mitchell of the UMWA and Mother Jones, miners fought back for union recognition, freedom of speech and assembly, and freedom from the private police. For Green, the mining wars of West Virginia, far from being backward and parochial, were an essential part ...
Veteran coal miners share personal stories of their experiences working in the coal mines of West Virginia with visitors. We were emotionally immersed in the heartfelt personal stories shared by Dorsal of his days working in the underground coal mines. The presentat...
Disaster at the Monongah coal mine in West Virginia in 1907 when an explosion killed more than 360 workers. Meaningful safety regulations were still decades away.
If you haven’t heard that story,you should. (And here’s adifferent versionwith a somewhat different perspective.) Coal mining in the West Virginia coalfields was a deadly business for miners, but trying to form a union to get better working conditions was brutal as well. Coal companies ...
which largely explains this dangerous continuity. The coal industry's nationalization in 1947, which brought Great Britain's small privately owned pits under the new National Coal Board's (NCB) control, ushered in concern for miners' health and safety. Despite the NCB's efforts, however, safety...
Various: Coal Digging Blues: Songs of West Virginia Miners.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)Weir, Rob
$9.95. David Alan Corbin's Life, Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 is perhaps the best-known book of its type to appear in recent years. Corbin has now supplemented that work by... C Cibber 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Life, Work and Rebelli...
During the 1940s and into the 1950s a number of other industrial scale gasifiers were tested for producing medium-Btu gas. These included the B&W du Pont gasifier in West Virginia, the Würth gasifier at Leuna, Germany, and the Rummel gasifier at Wesseling, Germany. None of these were late...
BUKHANNON West Virginia—Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path on Monday night to the site of a coal mine explosion that trapped 13 miners who had not been heard from since the early morning accident. Meanwhile at a nearby church more than 250 family members and friends gather...