Mother Jones believed that unions represented the best hope for coal miners and other workers to improve their lives.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Mining of coal and logging of the forests became major industries as transportation improved on the rivers and railroads were built.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Justice Brent Benjamin now chief justice voted to overturn a fifty million dollar judgment against the Massey Coal Company.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

President Roosevelt won even more public support for his actions during a labor crisis in the coal industry.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Miz Gunnoe works with a coalition to organize neighborhood groups to fight environmentally harmful activities by coal companies.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Max Arthur Cohn's painting "Coal Tower" shows the dark form of a coal tower against a light sky.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

One of Palmer's first actions as Attorney General was to prevent coal miners from going on strike.

VOA: special.2010.12.09

And they came by the hundreds of thousands to take jobs in steel factories in Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Under the building, a boat is delivering coal that will help power the city of New York.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

After several months, President Roosevelt invited coal mine owners and union leaders to a meeting in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

The state governor freed her, but only after the United States Senate ordered an investigation into conditions in the West Virginia coal fields.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Automobiles create it. Any device that burns fuels like coal,gasoline,kerosene, oil or wood will produce carbon monoxide.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

They took jobs in the steel factories of Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Many of the coal miners in America were men from the British mines in Wales.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Even coal, the fuel people used to heat their homes, cost twice as much.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Coal miners in Pennsylvania protested against a law drafting men into the Union army.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Any device that burns fuels such as coal,oil or wood can create the gas.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

Want to explore a working coal mine and a World War Two submarine?

VOA: special.2009.01.12

In some cases,there was open war between labor activists and coal mine operators.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Coal was produced mostly in six states: Pennsylvania,Ohio,Indiana,Illinois, West Virginia and Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

And that year they produced three hundred fifty million tons of coal.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The coal miner's wife, Florence Reece, remained inside with her children.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Wood and coal for fuel. Technology solved many of the problems.

VOA: special.2010.04.15