united mine workersView This Storyboard as a Slide Show! Create your own! Like What You See?This storyboard was created withGoals: Develop mine safetyImprove mine workers independence from the mine owners and company storeProvide miners with collective bargaining powerIncrease mining wagesWho could join? Anyone could join, coal miners, miners from different industries and people outside of the mining industry John L. Lewis One of many leaders of this unionThe United Mine Workers were in the Coal Mine Industry They focused on trying to improve mining safety, increasing mining wages and ending child labor in minesEND CHILD LABOR! We need SafetyFor the MinesHooray we did it! For the most part their strikes succeeded but 1 or 2 of their strikes went wrong, resulting with miners being killedChild labor ended in MinesOver 12 MillionCreate My First Storyboard