Underground workers

Usage examples of miners.

The Butterball emitted an ear-piercing hoot, and a moment later one of the miners opened the door.

Federation of miners made its first tentative steps toward a position of fiscal and political power under the bold and visionary leadership of Jerim Coleman, a young legal student who took the cause of the miners as his own.

Coleman, a deeply moral and religious man, was responsible for the heroic stands taken by the downtrodden miners of five major outworlds, including.

He knew that the miners usually made alliances with the native life forms, occasionally because of mutual need, more often from sheer loneliness and boredom.

And he also knew enough to remain where he was until one of the miners showed up.

At precisely midnight, Earth time, they will demand that the miners turn over fifty tons of iron.

Should the miners refuse to do so, they are to take whatever action is deemed expedient to secure the iron.

At eleven minutes after midnight, the flagship of the 27th Fleet demanded that the miners of Spica II relinquish their daily quota of iron.

At fourteen minutes after midnight, the 27th Fleet gave the miners a ten-minute ultimatum, after which they stated that they would take the iron by force and arrest the miners.

At twenty-two minutes after midnight, the seventy-two miners who formed the total population of Spica II gathered by the largest single refinery on the planet and set off a series of three nuclear bombs.

These miners have undergone three hours of intense hypnotic conditioning every day for more than a decade, and are fully prepared to die for their rights if need be.

If the Republic cares for either the rights of its miners or the lives of its patients, it has the wherewithal to end the strike this very minute.

But now the miners of five worlds are dead, and not a single member of the military has been harmed.

Then, eighteen days ago, when we began to load the processed ores onto our ship prior to moving to another area, they began ripping our miners to shreds.

The miners had carefully restored the landscape before moving on, and had broken down their ore refinery, which had been at the base of the largest mountain.