Word: miners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most came from the northern shipbuilding and steelmaking cities of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the misery of the 1930s is not forgotten. Last week, by contrast with the hunger marches of that era, most arrived by train or bus; some even came by plane. Said a Scottish miner: "We are not hungry men asking for food. We are angry men asking for self-respect." Getting into Politics. They pointed out that though warm weather has boosted employment in homebuilding and heavy construction, the actual total of unemployed (702,000) in Britain was still 250,000 higher than...
...Dark Ages, when copper was needed to arm Europe's growing armies, hundreds of men migrated to the copper mountain. At the pithead sprang up the village of Falun, Sweden's first industrial center, where the company still has its headquarters. At first each miner dug and smelted the ore himself, but by 1347 King Magnus Eriksson had granted a charter setting up a corporation of master miners. The largest copper supplier in medieval Europe, Kopparberg made Sweden a major political power; its profits financed King Gustavus Adolphus' part in the Thirty Years War (1618-48), which...
Rather than turn the party over to the rash and mercurial Bevan after Labor's defeat in the 1951 election, Attlee held on to the leadership and watched the developing struggle between ex-Coal Miner Nye and the middleclass, intellectual Gaitskell, who had never lived in a slum or walked in a picket line. With all the passion and eloquence of his proletarian youth, Bevan raged that Gaitskell was a "desiccated calculating machine." No phrasemaker, Gaitskell did not engage Nye in verbal combat, instead coolly and shrewdly lined up the trade union rank and file behind him. When Attlee...
...protest against a permanent fact of life, and in itself it has become just such a fact. Says one striking miner: ''These gun thugs call a lot of times during the night and say, 'We're going to blow your house up. You've got twelve hours to live.' But you get so you don't worry about that." The Only Assets. Ironically, much of Hazard's tragedy is the result of a wise decision. More than a decade ago, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis realized that the coal industry...
Captain Tim Taylor is still suffering the effects of an automobile accident, and linemates Ike Ikauniks and Gome Kinasewich are both plagued by miner injuries. If any of these players are still ailing next week the Crimson could have its hands full...