{"id":18385,"date":"2019-07-05T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18385"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:02","slug":"bath-night-miners-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18385","title":{"rendered":"Bath Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Two up two down. Back to back.<\/p>\n<p>The tin bath hanging on a nail next to the privy.<\/p>\n<p>Sheets strung from gate to gate<\/p>\n<p>flapping in the alley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shoulders hunched against wind and rain.<\/p>\n<p>Heads down under oppressive skies.<\/p>\n<p>Pit boots tramp the pit path.<\/p>\n<p>Every contour carved on a consciousness<\/p>\n<p>consequence of time&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0relentlessness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oil lamps glow like fireflies caught up<\/p>\n<p>in the tangled web of steel and iron.<\/p>\n<p>Sons follow fathers criss-crossing girders<\/p>\n<p>to the gantry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cage descending into sunken shafts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the Tyne to the North Sea<\/p>\n<p>a quarter of a million men worked in pits<\/p>\n<p>that never stopped\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0shovelling coal;<\/p>\n<p>taking pick axes to veins<\/p>\n<p>powering wealth for owners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bath night. \u00c2\u00a0 Heat rising.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Pictures on windows.<\/p>\n<p>Skin crusted coal dust pitted the pitman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back.<\/p>\n<p>Washed clean. Lurking silent and unseen<\/p>\n<p>deadly dust invading the lung.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you may have been affected by exposure to <strong>asbestos<\/strong> find out more from Unite&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitelegalservices.org\/services\/asbestos-diseases\">legal team <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you have been exposed to <strong>diesel fumes<\/strong> find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitelegalservices.org\/services\/diesel-fumes\">here<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you have been exposed to <strong>silica<\/strong> find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitelegalservices.org\/services\/silica-dust\">here<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you have been exposed to\u00c2\u00a0a <strong>cabin fume event\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitelegalservices.org\/services\/toxic-cabin-air\">here <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two up two down. Back to back. The tin bath hanging on a nail next to the privy. Sheets strung from gate to gate flapping in the alley. &nbsp; Shoulders hunched against wind and rain. Heads down under oppressive skies. Pit boots tramp the pit path. Every contour carved on a consciousness consequence of time&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0relentlessness. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[479,216,864,111,1191],"wps_subtitle":"Unite's Joy Johnson recalls the miner's life and reminds us of the dangers of dust ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25157,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18385\/revisions\/25157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}