Jim on Ancestry:

There is an Earl MECK (which looks like MEEK) - age 22 and a Miner, (3rd Class) arriving in Liverpool, on the 17 May 1910 aboard the Maurentia, (Cunard Line) from New York to Liverpool via. Fishguard

Lots of MEEK's going backwards and forwards across the pond - and can see quite a few people with occupation: MINERS