The miners were prepared to resort, if not to violence, then to acts of civil disobedience and incursions onto contested land.
Nevertheless, employees preferred to proceed under the workmen's compensation act, a preference dramatically shown in the experience of miners.
The progressive cross track distance describes the path of the miner relative to the designed path.
The miner progressive cross track deviation can be calculated as the integral of the sine of heading deviation with respect to along track distance.
The most important of these were the military and the labour movement, particularly the miners union.
