item: #1 of 5
          id: 15503
      author: Welsh, James C.
       title: The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
        date: None
       words: 93556
      flesch: 85
     summary: We ha'e heard of how other men in other places ha'e managed to start a union, and how it has been a guid thing in risin' wages. At last in came a number of other men to relieve them--men equally anxious and desperate as they, burning with the desire to get to grips with this calamity which had come upon two of their comrades.
    keywords: aboot; andrew; awfu; bed; bit; black; boy; day; dinna; eyes; face; fine; folk; gang; gaun; geordie; god; guid; ha'e; hae; hard; head; heart; help; home; house; jock; ken; life; little; look; man; matthew; men; mind; moor; mother; mrs; mysie; nellie; night; noo; peter; pit; place; robert; rundell; sinclair; smillie; tam; tell; things; thought; time; voice; wad; walker; want; way; weel; wife; work; young
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 21907
      author: Makellar, Archibald
       title: An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners
        date: None
       words: 25039
      flesch: 54
     summary: He says, I have had several opportunities of substantiating the carbonaceous matter in a state of extraordinary accumulation in black lungs supplied by my medical friends. He expectorated bloody tough mucus without any tinge of black matter.
    keywords: air; black; blood; bronchial; carbon; case; chest; coal; cough; dark; disease; fluid; glands; lobe; lungs; matter; pulmonary; substance; time; years
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 31128
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: Facing Death; Or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit: A Tale of the Coal Mines
        date: None
       words: 73999
      flesch: 84
     summary: In a short time I hope that the Vaughan pit will be pumped out and at work again, and when it is, Mr. Jack Simpson will be its manager! So young Jack Simpson led a dual life, spending twenty-six days of each month as a pit lad, speaking a dialect nearly as broad as that of his fellows, and two as a quiet and unobtrusive young student in the pleasant home of Mr. Merton.
    keywords: 'em; bill; boy; brook; day; girls; good; haden; harry; head; house; jack; jack simpson; know; lad; lads; life; look; man; men; merton; mother; mrs; nelly; night; pit; place; round; school; shaft; sir; stokebridge; thou; thought; time; vaughan; water; way; work; years
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 48925
      author: Wilson, John
       title: A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904
        date: None
       words: 101076
      flesch: 68
     summary: It is therefore necessary for the State to fix the amount of wages men should be paid, for men require bread as well as hours. Again, if you seek by Act of Parliament an Eight Hours' Bill, it logically follows that you regard eight hours as the number of hours men should work.
    keywords: act; advance; arbitration; association; board; case; cent; coal; coal owners; collieries; colliery; committee; council; council meeting; county; day; durham; durham miners; employers; executive; federation; federation board; following; general; great; hours; july; life; man; matter; meeting; members; men; miners; mr crawford; mr w.; number; owners; place; position; present; question; reduction; resolution; result; scale; strike; time; trade; union; wages; work; working; workmen; years
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 56528
      author: Zola, Émile
       title: Germinal
        date: None
       words: 180819
      flesch: 83
     summary: That's it, old man, isn't it? Fists were stretched towards him, mothers spitefully pointed him out to their boys, old men spat as they looked at him.
    keywords: air; arms; bed; bread; captain; catherine; chaval; children; coal; company; darkness; day; door; earth; end; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; girl; god; good; hands; head; hennebeau; hour; house; idea; jeanlin; left; levaque; like; little; look; madame; maheu; maheude; man; mates; men; midst; miners; moment; montsou; morning; mother; night; pale; people; pit; place; rasseneur; road; room; saw; settlement; silence; spite; strike; things; thought; time; turn; voice; voreux; water; way; wife; woman; work; years; zacharie; étienne
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