#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

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#camp #during #especially #father #her

Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#designed #football #game #keep #miners