Miners Quotes
He did previous research on the operators and their most visible factors of great wealth.
Most mine safety initiatives have only been passed or implemented after a major mine disaster. This type of inertia, in most fields, is unfortunately typical of legislative calendars and agendas where only a few items are high priority at any one time.
Bear was the classic icon of the wealthy, insensitive, powerful, prejudiced snob. He even made other capitalists somewhat sympathetic to the complaints about corporations. See {593878} and {593879}.
Mitchell had warned that the strike was coming (see {607760}). The strike lasted 29 days and ended when the miners received a 10% wage increase. President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the dispute.
The strike went on. See Mitchell’s later statement: {607757}.
The mine owners had hired goons as "guards" who had shot some of the protesting mine workers. Unlike most labor leaders, Mother Jones advocated retaliatory violence which was against her female, motherly stereotype. She was one of the very few female labor leaders, and one of the most militant.
It was fairly common at the time for the management of a company undergoing a strike to hire goons and gunmen to beat up and even murdering strikers to intimidate the strikers. But some state and locall governments supporting private companies began to do that as well. Sometimes they even used the police and the state national guard.
Washington took advantage of the new technology of explosives that had been developed and created an innovative new unit under the command of David Bushnell (1740–1824) the Yale University student who had invented the first time bomb and the Turtle submarine.
