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I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.


Ann Romney


#arms #bottles #called #cleaning #coal

If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.


Anil Agarwal


#certainly #climate #continues #extremism #flourish

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.


Harry Reid


#around #born #called #dad #desert

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.


Mary Harris Jones


#death #deaths #life #lives #miners

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.


Mary Harris Jones


#arizona #character #due #governor #history

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.


Mother Jones


#bayonets #because #constitution #end #had

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.


Margot Kidder


#amino #body #called #chemical #correct

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.


Arthur Scargill


#economic strength #indeed #miners #often #other

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.


William Shatner


#doing #hard #hard work #i #i think

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.


Agnes Smedley


#camp #during #especially #father #her






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