Blackball, New Zealand
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Blackball is a small town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 29 km from Greymouth. Elevation is approximately 100 metres.
Blackball Miners Strike Memorial
The hotel known as "Formerly the Blackball Hilton"
Cover of Bill Pearson's 1963 novel, Coal Flat.
The 1908 Blackball miners' strike was industrial action that happened when seven miners in the small town of Blackball, on New Zealand's West Coast, were dismissed for taking longer than their allocat
Blackball, New Zealand
…Zealand radicalism and workers' militancy. It is credited as the birthplace of (the predecessors of) the New Zealand Labour Party, which followed the 1908 miners 'cribtime' strike, at ten weeks the longest in New Zealand history. In the 1913 Great Strike, Blackball miners were the last to return to work, in 1914. During the strike…
A drawing of miners confronting their manager during the strike
Truckers at work in the Blackball mine