sentences:  During the pre-strike period and just as the strike began, certain of the sectoral party chiefs who obstructed the miners' efforts were verbally and physically assaulted by the miners.Of 90,000 miners in the Jiu Valley, 35,000 decided to stop working on the evening of 1 August.Those at Lupeni were immediately joined by their fellow miners from nearby locations such as Uricani, Paroșeni, Aninoasa and Petrila.