Documents showing safety records were falsified after a mine disaster which killed 266 people have been on display in Wrexham. They were among a host of exhibits marking the anniversary of the ...

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday that it will hold a public inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave,” a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners that became a ...

—1942: China’s northeast is the site of the world’s deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during World War II. —1906: A dust explosion in a ...

Throughout the week the British coal strike (TIME, May 10, et, seq.) continued so completely deadlocked that representatives of the Government, the Miners’ Federation and the Owners’ Association never ...

Four august gentlemen have been inspecting the British coal industry with statistical microscopes since last August. Chairmaned by the noted industrialist, Sir Herbert Samuel, they constitute the ...