#miners

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#aware #coming #cut #down #end

Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#big #branch #california #coal #day

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins That hold Glamorgan's blood. The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and bread. - Rhondda Valley ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#coal #coal-miner #glamorgan #hills #miners

My father and brothers were coal miners. ↗

— Merle Travis

#coal #father #miners #were

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#business #cause #doing #fine #had

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

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