#miners

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

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#aware #coming #cut #down #end

Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#big #branch #california #coal #day

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins That hold Glamorgan's blood. The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and bread. - Rhondda Valley ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#coal #coal-miner #glamorgan #hills #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