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Blood On The Coal

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Author : Ken Cuthbertson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2023-09-12

Blood On The Coal written by Ken Cuthbertson and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-12 with History categories.

The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it They said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine. Those who made that claim were probably correct. What is certain is that in October 1958, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation’s No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, was a leading candidate for both those dubious distinctions. The mine was the proverbial “disaster waiting to happen.” And it did. Springhill was the quintessential one-industry town, whose existence depended on coal, a commodity with a dying market. And yet something far worse was soon to come. On the night of October 23, 1958, a “bump” in the mine—actually a small earthquake—shook the ground beneath the town. Seventy-five miners died and scores more were injured in what remains one of Canada’s worst underground disasters. The lives of the survivors were shattered, and Springhill would never be the same again. In compelling detail, Ken Cuthbertson tells the stories of three of the miners and one of the doctors who cared for them following the disaster. This remarkable book is based on historical documents and interviews, as well as new interviews with the last of the surviving miners and their loved ones. It is a story of heroism, sacrifice and the indomitable strength of the human spirit.

Blood On The Coal

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Author : Roger David Brown
language : en
Publisher: Windsor, N.S. : Lancelot Press
Release Date : 1976-01-01

Blood On The Coal written by Roger David Brown and has been published by Windsor, N.S. : Lancelot Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with Coal mine accidents categories.

Blood On The Coal

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Author : Roger David Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976-01-01

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Blood Runs Coal The Yablonski Murders And The Battle For The United Mine Workers Of America

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Author : Mark A. Bradley
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-10-13

Blood Runs Coal The Yablonski Murders And The Battle For The United Mine Workers Of America written by Mark A. Bradley and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with History categories.

A vivid account of “one of the most shocking episodes in organized labor’s blood-soaked history” (Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Behind the assassination was the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent, and served the interests of Big Coal companies—and would do anything to maintain power. The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders catalyzed the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history. Blood Runs Coal is an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation’s major unions on the brink of historical change.

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Author : Denise Dent
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

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Coal Dust In My Blood

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Author : Bill Johnstone
language : en
Publisher: Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books
Release Date : 1993

Coal Dust In My Blood written by Bill Johnstone and has been published by Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art categories.

Bill Johnstone spent most of his working years as a coal miner, first in England, then in Alberta, and finally on Vancouver Island. Born in 1908 in Northumberland, England, he began working in the pits as a hand miner at the age of thirteen. After immigrating to the Canadian Prairies, where he alternated between working as a farmhand and a miner in the Alberta coal mines. In 1936, he moved to Vancouver Island where he mastered nearly every phase of coal mining from working on the picking tables to shooting explosive charges. He also studied mining engineering and mine rescue and was injured in a cave-in. Not long before his retirement, after 52 years in the mining industry, Bill Johnston became district superintendent of the Canadian Collieries mines near Cumberland.