| Pressure last night mounted on the Government to end the shame of some former mineworkers crippled by coal dust being denied proper compensation. |
| The last serious strike by mineworkers was at the former Tsumeb Copper Limited mine in 1997, just before it was liquidated. |
| He attracted a following of peasants, Old Believers, Ural mineworkers, and non-Russians such as Bashkirs and Kalmyks. |
| The government tried to get the mine owners and mineworkers to hold a conference, but no agreement could be reached. |
| If the closures go ahead, hundreds more coal mineworkers and their families in hard hit regions will be thrown on the industrial scrapheap. |
| There are mineworkers hoping to become nurses, police officers, prison officers, driving instructors and yacht skippers. |
