18 Facts About Coal miners

Coal miners were among the first groups of industrial workers to collectively organize to the protection of both working and social conditions in their communities.

Statistics show that from 1889 to 1921 British miners struck between 2 and 3 times more frequently than any other group of workers.

Coal miners formed the core of the political left wing of the Labour Party and the British Communist party.

In Germany, the coal miners demonstrated their militancy through large-scale strikes in 1889,1905, and 1912.

In Chile in the 1930s and 1940s, the Coal miners supported the Communist Party as part of a cross-class alliance that won the presidency in 1938,1942, and 1946.

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In Eastern Europe the coal miners were the most politicized element in society after 1945.

Poland's Coal miners were critical supporters of the anti-Communist Solidarity movement of the 1980s.

British Coal miners, was privatised by selling off a large number of pits to private concerns through the mid-1990s.

Coal miners was sold to local mills and railways as well as to France and Prussia.

Miners in remote coal camps were often dependent upon the company store, a store that miners had to use because they were often paid only in company scrip or coal scrip, redeemable at the store, which often charged higher prices than other stores.

The Coal miners lived in crude housing provided at low cost by the companies, and shopped in company stores.

Welsh and English Coal miners had the highest prestige and the best jobs, followed by the Irish.

Company stores became scarce after the Coal miners bought automobiles and could travel to a range of stores.

The strike never resumed, as the miners received more pay for fewer hours; the owners got a higher price for coal, and did not recognize the union as a bargaining agent.

The number of coal miners nationwide fell from a peak of 694,000 in 1919 to 602,000 in 1929, and fell sharply to 454,000 in 1939 and 170,000 in 1959.

The rank and file Coal miners were primarily interested in regaining lost income, and began slow-downs to force the company to pay higher wages.

The union leaders were unable to control a dissatisfied and militant work force, as the Coal miners fought both the company and their own union leaders.

Political unity and radicalism of coal miners has traditionally been explained in terms of the isolation of a homogeneous mass of workers in conditions of economic and cultural deprivation.