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Inmining communities all over Britain fought a year-lon 2/5(3). On the day before the strike began (July 3, ) the Black Diamond said: "Many oper- THE COAL MINERS' STRIKE OF which both miners and operators had taken part.

Represen- tatives of both, from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, met in convention annually, and adopted jointly a scale of prices for the ensuing year.

It was provoked by the government in order to take revenge for the and miners' strikes, which destroyed the Heath government's incomes policy and brought it down. The lack of attention to. Douglass's book is full of stuff like that and support for various nation liberation campaigns.

Brian Rix was a wartime 'Bevin boy' who volunteered to work in the mines - and, as the son of a shipowner, had an eye-opening time - I guess that's why he supported the strike. Against All the Odds is a collection of poems published by the NUM in Septemberwritten mostly by miners or members of their families.

You would make no claims for this being deathless verse, Author: Shirley Dent. The miners strike of will always be remembered in British working class history as the most significant turning point in the power relationship between the working class organisations of the trade unions, and the state representing the interests of the privileged minority in the late twentieth century.

also published a perceptive book, A Strike of Millionaires Against Miners, about the Spring Valley, Illinois, labor conflict when mine owners locked out their workers and destroyed a community in the process.

George Bernard Shaw was more jocular about it. His pamphlet Socialism for Millionaires discusses the “horrors” and. hundreds of coal miners in Charleston, West Va, return to their jobs ending strikes touched off by roving pickets protesting so-called immoral textbooks used in Kanawha County schools; 1.

Get this from a library. A strike of millionaires against miners; or, The story of Spring Valley. An open letter to the millionaires. [Henry Demarest Lloyd]. La 4e de couv. indique: "Margaret Thatcher branded Arthur Scargill and the other leaders of the miners' strike ;'the enemy within'.

With the publication of this bestselling book a decade later, the full irony of that accusation became clear.

There was an enemy within. But it was not the National Union of Mineworkers that was out to subvert liberty.5/5(1). A strike of millionaires against miners; or, The story of Spring Valley. An open letter to the millionaires. A Mail-Order Heart (Miners to Millionaires, #1), A Mail-Order Wish (Miners to Millionaires, #2), A Mail-Order Hope (Miners to Millionaires, #3), A Mail- Author: Janelle Daniels.

A strike of millionaires against miners; or, The story of Spring Valley. An open letter to the millionaires 4 / 5 Labor copartnership; notes of a visit to co-operative workshops, factories and farms in Great Britain and Ireland, in which employer, employé, and consumer share in ownership, management and results 4 / 53/5(1).

The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot The mountains of southern West Virginia are riddled with coal—and bullets Child coal miners with mules in Author: Lorraine Boissoneault. The miners' strike of –85 was a major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures.

It was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), a government agency. Opposition to the strike was led by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who Goals: Ridley Plan, Prevention of pit closures.

In Septemberapproximat coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, went on strike to protest low wages and unsafe working conditions. Colorado was the deadliest state for coal miners, with a death rate about twice the national average. The strike had been organized with the help of the United Mine Workers.

The miners' strike of /85 came to be called the Great Strike for good reason. It was the longest, hardest trade union struggle in Britain. For over a year,men, supported by the women of the mining communities, battled against everything the government and the police threw at them/5(8).A Strike of Millionaires Against Miners or The Story of Spring Valley by Henry D.

Lloyd InJohn Mitchell, a nineteen year old itinerant coal miner and second generation Irish immigrant although some sources say he was of Welsh ancestry. "The Minnesota Miners' Strike Against U.S. Steel," by Robert M. Eleff. MNHS call number: Digital version of the article (PDF) Clayton A.

Videen Research Notes. Handwritten copies of newspaper and magazine articles selected and annotated by Videen detailing strike activities in the Mesabi and Cuyuna Iron Ranges in and