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Last week a six-foot former coal miner whom Dr. Joseph Hakes, Baptist pastor of Huntington, W. Va., calls "a man sent from God," kept a solemn pledge. He was ordained a Baptist minister. His name: Park Tucker. His parish : Tabernacle Baptist Church, Chillicothe, Ohio...
Sydney Page watched the little knot of men at the pit head as they handled the crumpled form of a badly injured miner. Sydney was 18 and worked aboveground at the Newstead Colliery in Nottinghamshire. The injured man was one of 200 seriously hurt each month in British mines, but he was the first casualty Sydney had seen...
...Silent Village, produced by Humphrey Jennings, is a reenactment by Welsh miners of the story of Lidice, the Czech mining village whose male population was executed by the Nazis, in revenge for the killing of "Hangman" Heydrich. Out of all the uneasy efforts to commemorate that grim tragedy, The Silent Village emerges as the one conceivably adequate memorial. The film shows the official Nazi sound-truck rolling incongruously through the streets of the beautiful Welsh village, shows it croaking: "Achtung! Achtung! (Attention!)", shows the village's men, women & children listening to the Nazi commands, some with anger, some with...
...Once the most exploited workers (1933 weekly average: $14), miners are now among the best-paid laborers in the U.S. Their minimum wage is 73.6? an hour; an able-bodied miner gets...
...present 38-hour week continues through this year, the miner's average annual income will be $2,150 - 23% greater than 1942, 77% greater than...