Earlier this year the West Virginia Legislature passed a law eliminating work permit requirements for 14- and 15-year-olds ...

of all the children in the land between the ages of ten and fifteen years; little boys and girls-mere babies-dwarfed physically and mentally, bending under heavy burdens in the coal mines of ...

Americans want to work in the coal mines, according to the president. “One thing I learned about the coal miners is that’s what they want to do,” Trump said. “You could give them a ...

The nomination last month by Trump of Wayne Palmer to head the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) presages a major ramping-up of attacks on miners. Palmer, a former mining industry ...

In the last week before Christmas, without any announcement, the Albanese Labor government approved four significant coal mine expansions, while hypocritically claiming it had approved no new coal ...

Popeyes shut down a location in Oakland, Calif., last year in the face of complaints about child labor and other workforce violations. About half the states have introduced bills in recent years ...

Once there was a little man in a long black coat who roamed the hard-coal fields of Pennsylvania, doing mighty deeds for the United Mine Workers ... Arthur Horace (“Breaker Boy”) James ...

As The Breaker Boys, they participated in the 14th annual Coal Miners Heritage Festival and performed “Once a Man, Twice a Boy” at the Mountaineer Hose Co., Minersville, in 2022.

This fall, Schuylkill County lost a devoted historian, coal mining re-enactor and veterans advocate with the recent passing of John Stuart “Stu” Richards, of Orwigsburg. Skip to content All ...

History of mining, Slate pickers in a coal breaker, Breaker boys, Pennsylvania, USA , Victorian, 1890s, Vintage photograph 19th Century. A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States and ...