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Anthracite coal miners were one of the first groups of miners to join the UMWA after its founding in 1890. Anthracite coal, or "hard" coal, is harder and more compact than bituminous coal. It has the highest carbon content and fewest …

Salay, David L. Hard coal, hard times: ethnicity and labor in the anthracite region. Scranton: Anthracite Museum Press, 1984. Spear, Sheldon. "Wyoming Valley Children in the Age of Anthracite" in Chapters in Northeastern Pennsylvania History: Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming Counties. Shavertown, Pa: Jemags & Co, 1999.

Split Labor Markets in the 19th Century Anthracite Coal Fields by Thomas J. Keil and Wayne M Usui Introduction1 In the present study, we examine split labor market theory's2 usefulness as an explanatory framework for understanding the patterns of ethnic discrimination and conflict in Northeastern Pennsylvania's anthracite coal

labor in and about the hard coal mines in an article published under my signature in the Outlook, August 26, I905, as follows: Dr. Peter Roberts, in "The Anthracite Coal Communities," has esti-mated that there are in the anthracite region 6,400 boys under fourteen years of age employed in and about the mines. He based his estimate on the num-

Labor History Timeline – Western States Center. 1902. 147,000 miners striked over union recognition in the Great Anthracite Coal Strike. President Roosevelt mediated. Big Bill Haywood lead the Western Federation of Miners (WMF) through a bloody series of conflicts spanning two years in what became known as the Colorado Labor Wars.

Anthracite Coal Strike: Union Action in 1902. The Anthracite Strike of 1902 was an effort by the United Mine Workers to get higher waves, shorter hours, and recognition of their union. The history of federal government intervention in …

Blatz, Perry K. 1994. Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925. SUNY Series in American Labor History. Albany: State University of New York Press. 304 pp. Blatz, Perry K. 1996. "Workplace Militancy and Unionization: The UMWA and the Anthracite Miners, 1890-1912."

The Coal Strike of 1902: Turning Point in U.S. Policy. The Federal Government, with the Commissioner of Labor in a fact finding role, acted as a 'neutral' for the first time in contributing to settlement of the bitter coal strike. On Friday, October 3, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt called a precedent-shattering meeting at the temporary ...

Similar Items. Hard coal, hard times ethnicity and labor in the anthracite region / by: Salay, David L Published: (1984.) Anthracite Coal Communities : Study of Demography, Social, Educational, Moral Life of Antharcite Region / by: Roberts, Peter Published: (1970.) Anthracite trust / by: Freeman, Aileen Sallom Published: (1994.)

Moss, David, and Marc Campasano. "Labor, Capital, and Government: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902." Harvard Business School Case 716-046, February 2016.

Labor Violence and the Industrialization of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1871-1902. This is the second in a series of posts about labor violence in the anthracite coal region by Robert Schmidt. " Dynamite Bombings in Northeast PA, 1871-1957 " was the first. During the 1877 strike, Pennsylvania Governor John Hartranft ordered militiamen to the ...

How a 1897 Massacre of Pennsylvania Coal Miners Morphed From a Galvanizing Crisis to Forgotten History . The death of 19 immigrants may have unified the labor movement, but powerful interests left ...

The Molly Maguires: or, Labor Wars in the Coal Mines: Some thirty years ago there existed among the anthracite coal miners of Northeast Pennsylvania a secret organization known as the Molly Maguires. Taking the name from a secret political society of Ireland, it spread rapidly over the entire anthracite country and soon succeeded in obtaining a general ascendancy in the …

I recently got the chance to record a full-length album about my grandparents' experience as immigrants living in Anthracite Coal Country. One of my favorite parts of recording Come From A Coal Town was the chance to share some of the labor songs that I heard as a child.. Although my grandfather died of black lung before I was born, I remember happily …

Anthracite Coal Strike. United States 1902. Synopsis. When the United Mine Workers in Pennsylvania went on strike in 1902, the crisis became serious enough that President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to arbitrate a settlement. By arranging for labor and management to meet face-to-face, Roosevelt unofficially recognized the union for the first time.

The Anthracite Coal Strike (May-October 1902) began after mine operators refused to meet with representatives of the United Mine Workers of America. Anthracite—or hard coal—was solid and rich in carbon, ideal for industrial and domestic use. The strike began in eastern Pennsylvania, where almost all anthracite coal was mined at the time, on May 12, 1902, after the railroad …

The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 was significant because it was the first time in American history that the President took direct, non-militant action. Theodore Roosevelt acted as a moderator for a compromise that happened at the White House.

The Anthracite Coal Strike, which took place from May to October 1902, began after mine operators refused to meet with representatives of the United Mine Workers of America. Billings, Frederick Frederick Billings, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, was a driving influence to that railroad's expansion across North Dakota.

The coal barons expected to wait them out. The strike that began that May would become one of the greatest labor actions in American history. It was a confrontation between a past where power was ...

Both of my grandfathers were breaker boys and coal miners. My dziadzi's stories and the life I experienced in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania have influenced the directions my life has taken.It is the contention of this project that the stories of breaker boys and the lives of coal miners' families need to be told and retold often.

The coal-mining region of Eastern Pennsylvania rose to meet this demand. There are two primary types of coal -- bituminous and anthracite. While bituminous coal is easier to ignite and more commonly found in the United …

Anthracite coal is the hottest burning fuel in comparison to the most common ones in use. Example – It takes one ton of Anthracite Coal to produce 25,000,000 BTUs of heat. Anthracite Coal / One long ton 2,200lbs = 25,000,000 BTUs of heat. Natural Gas produces 1,021,000 BTUs / Per 1000 Cubic Feet. Petroleum Fuel oil produces 5,871,390 BTUs per ...

3 Coal: Abrams, James, et. al. "Anthracite Mining Unionism and the UMW: An Oral History." Pennsylvania History 58.4 (1991). 330-337. Aldrich, Mark. "The Perils ...

Prices. Coal prices vary by region as well as by grade and quality. The price rebound starting in 2016 ended in 2018, moving in a downward trend in 2019. After stabilisation of prices in the beginning of 2020, Covid-related demand …

THREE ink blots on the eastern end of the map of Pennsylvania, between the Delaware and the Susquehanna rivers, represent all the anthracite coal in the United States. They cover an area of 488 square miles, and produced last year …