South African mine owner Amplats fires 12,000 workers ... · South African mine owner Amplats fires 12,000 workers. The world's biggest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum, has fired 12,000 striking South African miners after a protracted strike .
The anthracite strike of 1922; a chronological statement ...The anthracite strike of 1922; a chronological statement of the communiions and negotiations between the hard coal operators and the United Mine Workers of America Item Preview removecircle Share or Embed This Item.
: 35,000 Pa. Mine Workers Strike for Right of Union ...It is significant that the strike has also embraced the mines of the Pittsburgh Terminal company which now has a contract with the United Mine Workers. This company was the very backbone of the onslaught which smashed the in the lost strikes of 1927–28.
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG .gold mines of the Transvaal where they formed by far the largest element in the underground work Estate owners foresaw a major labour crisis. The 1913 Indian workers' strike, perhaps the largest and most successful that there has ever been on the Natal sugar fields, fulfilled the estate owners' worst '* Empowered by
SynopsisSmaller, local strikes took place over this period, and were not only provoked by wage reduction, but also over disagreements with management regarding procedure and supervision of the mines, and workdiscipline. The second major strike began with the steelworkers of Sydney in 1923, with the coal miners proving their solidarity by striking in ...
Chapter 7 Slums, segregation and poor whites in ... · Conflict over wages in the struggling mining sector spawned the strikes of 1920 and The importance of the housing question in these developments has never been developed. The idea that the high cost of shelter in Johannesburg may have exacerbated the already fierce competition between the workers of the city has, however, been
Department of Labour. ORKING THE ineworkers made possible ...the National Union of Mineworkers strike in 1987. The white miners' strike in 1922 grew into a general strike which helped to bring the government down. Until 1979, successive whiteruled governments refused to recognise black trade unions, and the mineowners were able to control black workers through the compound system and the pass laws.
South African gold miners strike over 'slave wages in ... · About 80,000 gold miners in South Africa walked out on strike on Tuesday night, raising fears of renewed violence in the crisishit industry and underlining the government's dwindling authority.
Mining Strikes In South AfricaMining Strikes In South Africa. The great south african mine strike of 1946 workers world workers world 29 aug 1996 web 22 nov 2012 naicker monty p the african miners strike of 1946 1976 n pag african national congress web 22 nov 2012 webb chris history of south africa's cheap labour economy the 1946 miners strike and the marikana massacre.
south african gold mineworkers strike 1913 1922Home / south african gold mineworkers strike 1913 1922. Baruch Hirson: The General Strike of 1922, The General strike of 1922 was one of the most traumatic events in the struggle of the mainly white working class against their employers and the South African state Although it started as a dispute against wage cuts on the mines, the strike developed into a revolt and ended with the aerial ...
A history of mining in South Africa (ZA)As a result, mining has been marred by violence, with the Marikana Massacre of 2012 being the most recent occurrence where police killed 34 workers and injured 78. Such events are rooted in a strike led by the African Mine Workers' Union in August 1946. Miners of the Witwatersrand were demanding higher pay: an extra 10 shillings a day.
1922 The Herrin Massacre | AMERICAN HERITAGEOn June 21, labor violence erupted at the Southern Illinois Coal Company's strip mine near Herrin, Illinois. The United Mine Workers () was in the midst of a nationwide strike, but it had agreed to let members of the steamshovelmen's union remove dirt from the site. In midJune, however, the shovelmen started loading coal.
THE WINDBER MINERSSource: United Mine Workers of America, District 2 Records, Stapleton Library, Special Collections, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. District 2's strike call to nonunion miners. On April 1, 1922, organizers from UMWA District 2 invaded Windber and "Siberia"their term for Somerset County.
THE JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE (JSE) RETURNS, .1922 "Rand Revolt" and labour strike leading to widespread political unrest. The strike was violently suppressed by the Smuts government, a defeat for mine workers. JSE recorded returns of 70%. Period of recovery for gold mine industry – reflected in relatively high average annual returns of 14% for the five year period.
The Art of the Party: Great Strike of 1922 · In May 1922, the Anyuan Railways and Mines Workers' Club was officially established. Several months later, more than 13,000 miners and railway workers were mobilized to join the Great Strike of 1922. The fiveday nonviolent protest led by the CPC forced the railway and mining company to accept the workers' 13 demands including pay raises ...
Mining Accidents and Worker Safety in the early 1900s ... · Worker safety, particularly in the face of technological changes, became a major grievance of copper miners leading up to the strike of 1913. Mine accidents during the years leading up to the strike could range from minor injuries, such as a temporary loss of hearing due to blasting and drilling, all the way up to death, such as in the case of Frank Spehar of Tamarack, MI who feel down a ...
Unions will play a vital role in modernising the mining sector · The historical importance of five unions becoming meaningfully involved in the work at the Mandela Mining Precinct to modernise SA's resources sector cannot be understated. Understandably ...
South Africa shocked by police shootings at mine | CNN · Striking workers are monitered by police during a sitin on a hill ... 34 mine workers killed, 78 others wounded, 259 arrested on various charges ... about two hours northwest of Johannesburg.
The Nova Scotia Coal Strikes of 1922 to 1925 · The Nova Scotia coal strikes of 1922 to 1925 are a pivotal episode in the history of the Canadian labour movement. They were remarkable for the tenacity of the miners, particularly in Cape Breton, who drew on shared work, ethnic and community backgrounds and "stood the gaff" during confrontations with the British Empire Steel Corporation (Besco) in spite of pressure from provincial .
The 1913 Great StrikeThe 1913 Great Strike. Battle of Featherston Street. The Great Strike of 1913 was in fact a series of strikes between midOctober 1913 and midJanuary 1914. It was one of New Zealand's most violent and disruptive industrial confrontations. Between 14,000 and 16,000 workers went on strike, out of a population of just over one million.