In protest at the wage reduction, miners organized mass pickets in a number of coal towns in Central Illinois.

In 1901, Consolidation's miners organized locals 1799 and 2106 of the United Mine Workers union, with memberships of 493 and 691 respectively.

Van and his comrades were elated when 30,000 miners in the Hon gai-Cam pha region set up elected councils to run the mines, public services and transport, and organised a literacy campaign.

As a result of these events, in February 1989 the ethnic Albanian miners in Kosovo organized the 1989 Kosovo miners' strike, demanding the reinstatement of their autonomy.

A month later more than 300 miners successfully organized at the Comstock Lode, although this effort also faded.

An economic slowdown in 1865 finally did result in a wage cut, and when the stock market crashed that year, the miners did not organize to oppose the lower wage.

News of the mine owners' meeting with Bowers soon leaked out, and the miners organized and armed themselves in response.

Blaine makes it look like murder, and the miners organize a lynch mob.

On 16 September, about 1,000 miners in Rustenburg organised a solidarity march for the Marikana miners who marched the previous day.

Workers in related industries were joining in the widespread stoppage, according to dispatches from the isolated Siberian fields, where miners have been organizing rallies and confronting political leaders in cities and towns.