The Bituminous coal strike of 1977–1978 was a 110-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America. It began December...
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The Bituminous coal strike of 1974 was a 28-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America. It is generally considered...
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Price V. Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890–1930 (1992) Grossman, Jonathan. "The Coal Strike of 1902 – Turning...
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The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents...
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John L. Lewis (category Vice presidents of the American Federation of Labor)
leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining...
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Harlan County War (category 1930s strikes in the United States)
County War, or Bloody Harlan, was a series of coal industry skirmishes, executions, bombings and strikes (both attempted and realized) that took place...
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three-quarters of US energy. At the start of the 19th century, coal mining was almost all bituminous coal. In 1810, 176,000 short tons of bituminous coal, and 2...
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STRIKE SETTLED". The New York Times. 1935-09-29. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-11. Stark, Louis (1935-09-27). "$90,000,000 Pay Rise Settles Coal Strike...
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The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace...
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Lewis called a strike for November 1, 1919, in all soft (bituminous) coal fields. They had agreed to a wage agreement to run until the end of World War I...
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