Episodes tagged "Labor Union": 1 through 4 of 4
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1873 to 1875
NORTHUMBERLAND, Pennsylvania
Mines, Labor UnionIn 1894 McClures Magazine published a piece by Cleveland Moffett on the infiltration and the eventual downfall of the Molly Maguires, a violent and secretive Irish labor union accused of terrorizing Pennslyvania coal country. The heroes of the piece were wealthy mine owner Frankilin B. Gowen and Pinkerton detective James McCparland both according to Mclure were instrumental in toppling the Molly Maguires...
September 3, 1875 to March 26, 1876
CARBON, Pennsylvania
Labor Union, Murder, TrialIn 1876 the New York Times published an article describing the murder trial of John P. Jones , a mine boss of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company. It was widely believed that Jones murderers were members of the secretive and violent Irish labor union called the Molly Maguires. During this time stories of the Mollies murdering mine bosses that crossed the group were very common. A very interesting...
July 19, 1877 to July 23, 1877
ALLEGHENY, Pennsylvania
Labor Strike, Labor Union, MilitiaIn her memoirs, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones described the night in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that strikers from the Pennsylvania Railroad turned the "Great Strike" of 1877 into a riot. "Hundreds of box cars standing on the tracks were soaked with oil and set on fire and sent down the tracks to the roundhouse. The roundhouse caught fire. Over one hundred locomotives belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad...
1883
ORLEANS, Louisiana
Labor Union, Race RelationsThe history of the nineteenth century United States rarely speaks of racial cooperation, however evidence of a few such scenarios are historically documented. The end of slavery in the United States all but destroyed the agrarian economy of the southern states, and even with the constitutional abolition of slavery racial hostility ran high throughout the country. Yet as the country attempted to rebuild...
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