The Progressive Miners of America (PMA, renamed the Progressive Mine Workers of America, PMWA, in 1938) was a coal miners' union organized in 1932 in...

Union Miners Cemetery is a cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois. The cemetery is the burial site of labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. Miners Day has...

merger of several miners' unions representing copper miners from Butte, Montana, silver and lead miners from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, gold miners from Colorado...

were among the first directors of the bank. He later served as the general counsel for the Progressive Miners of America. Dowell ran unsuccessfully for...

a member of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America, he was one of the early converts to the newly formed Progressive Miners of America union. He...

were killed, one of them a non-union miner, the other a union man accidentally shot by other miners. Their mission accomplished, the miners once again boarded...

prominent during the internecine war between the UMW and the Progressive Miners of America of the 1930s. Agriculture remained the county's prime economic...

called for the creation of a new union in August 1933 and other disaffected members gravitated towards the Progressive Miners of America. The Lovestoneites...

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a black union based in Chicago, and with the Progressive Miners of America in southern Illinois. In 1933 she was part of forming...

consequent lung tissue's reaction to its presence. It is common in coal miners and others who work with coal. It is similar to both silicosis from inhaling...

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...

president of the Boston Women's Trade Union League Joseph Ozanic, founder of the Progressive Miners of America Rose Pesotta, vice president of the ILGWU...

(2006-11-12). "Massacre at Morewood Mine & Coke Works, (Coal Miners Strike of 1891)". Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania. Archived from the...

train to bypass local coal miners, racial violence between black and white coal miners, most notably during the Battle of Virden on October 12, 1898,...

Wieck was founder and first president of the short-lived Illinois Women's Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners of America (PMA) in 1932. She led a January 1933...

The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) had won a sweeping victory in the 1897 strike by the soft-coal (bituminous coal) miners in the Midwest, winning...

Progressive Miners of America (PMA) withdrew from the UMWA and claimed to be the "legitimate" miners' union. As many as 85% of Illinois UMWA miners sided...

1930) was an American politician and the sixth mayor of Juneau, Alaska, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1917 to 1919. He was also a miner, goldsmith, jeweller...

separate union, the National Miners' Union. In Southern Illinois, amidst widespread violence, the Progressive Mine Workers of America challenged Lewis but were...

company hired spies and then fired organizers and pro-union miners. Some frustrated miners responded with violence and when two men were killed, martial...

was an American journalist and political activist who was a prominent muckraker during the Progressive Era. He is best known for his exposés of Standard...

and fewer miners struck their fortune, and most ended exhausted and broke. Violent bandits often preyed upon the miners, such as the case of Jonathan R...

symptoms of that disorder to appear. The term "redneck" in the early 20th century was occasionally used in reference to American coal miner union members...

workday for Cripple Creek miners from eight to ten hours without raising pay. This action provoked a strike by the miners. In response, mine owners brought...

already in 1869 when white miners began to resent the Chinese miners, feeling that they were discovering gold that the white miners deserved. Eventually, protest...

athletes, frontiersmen, Native Americans, hunters, miners, former soldiers, tradesmen, and sheriffs. The Rough Riders were part of the cavalry division commanded...

occurrence in taller individuals. Progressive massive fibrosis increased during the period 1970–2016 among coal miners in central Appalachia who filed for...

Tributary Music Label released a live CD of Heavens Cafe to the progressive rock community in 2000. Previously, Miner co-founded the California-based art rock...

The Marikana massacre was the killing of thirty-four miners by the South African Police Service (SAPS) on 16 August 2012 during a six-week wildcat strike...

conservative and progressive wings of the party. Hughes was on the Supreme Court in 1912 and was not involved in the bitter politics of that year. He defeated...