Word: pitheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miners is forced to leave his family in some other part of Germany, while he lives in a barn or an old air-raid shelter near the pits. At the Zollverein mine, near Essen, 1,500 homeless miners live in bleak, clapboard cabins sprawling in the shadow of the pithead. The turnover among them is immense. "They don't budge in winter," said a mine official. "But when the spring comes round, you see a look in their eye, and one day they're gone...
...hours shivering miners' wives, their scarves tightly knotted beneath blue pinched faces, stood round the pithead in stunned misery, while Salvation Army officers served tea and prayed, and squeaking shaft wheels lowered rescue teams into the smoke-choked mine. Meanwhile, grim-faced union and government officials sat in conference. At midday they issued a statement...