{"id":3317,"date":"2022-08-08T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:25:40","slug":"marcinelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/marcinelle\/","title":{"rendered":"MARCINELLE August 8, 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dramatic end of the \"Arms Against Coal\" agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pact, signed between Italy and Belgium, in 1951, called for sending 50 thousand miners, 2,000 per week, in exchange for 200 kg of coal per day for each Italian worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had to be healthy and young: less than 35 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postwar misery and a strong desire to help their families drove them to emigrate to Belgium, where no one wanted to go down the mines anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incidents became more and more frequent until the morning of August 8, 1956 when the Bois du Cazier was the catastrophe, the inferno<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 12 workers were saved, 232 died, 136 were Italians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bilateral agreement also blew up...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La drammatica fine dell\u2019accordo \u201cBraccia contro carbone” Il patto, siglato tra Italia e Belgio, nel 1951, prevedeva l\u2019invio di 50mila minatori, 2000 a settimana, in cambio 200 kg di carbone al giorno per ciascun lavoratore italiano. Dovevano essere sani e giovani: meno di 35 anni. La miseria del dopoguerra e il forte desiderio di aiutare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-categorizzato","tag-marcinelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museoemigrazioneitaliana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}