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The Coal Strike of 1902, also known as the Anthracite Coal Strike, was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
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* 1894: Bituminous Coal Miners ' Strike
* June 2 – The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States.
* November 1 – The Coal Strike of 1919 begins in the United States by the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis.
* 1894: The Bituminous Coal Miners ' Strike, an unsuccessful national eight-week strike by miners of hard coal in the United States, which began on April 21, 1894.
The United Mine Workers in 1903 send Joe Fenoglio to organize the Italian workers, thus beginning the Thurber Coal Miners Strike.
Uniontown was the site of violent clashes between striking coal miners and guards at the local coke works during the Bituminous Coal Miners ' Strike of 1894.
Many of the residents went through the infamous Coal Strike of 1927-28.
* Confrontation at Rossiter: The Coal Strike of 1927-1928 and Its Aftermath, 2MB PDF
During the Great Coal Strike of 1902 the Pennsylvania National Guard was called into Shenandoah to keep the peace and curb rioting by angry miners.
The Somerset Coal Strike of 1922-1923 centered in these towns, and nearby Boswell, Jerome and Windber.
* Powers Hapgood, a Harvard-educated miner, labor leader and organizer for the United Mine Workers Union of America, helped lead the Somerset County Coal Strike of 1922-23, a bitter sixteen-month effort which draw significant national press and political attention.
: Narrative on Somerset County Coal Strike, including its violence, and its hardship for women in particular.
During the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910 – 1911, miners were evicted from company-owned houses, which were used to house strikebreakers, predominantly southern Blacks.
The borough was the scene of violence during the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910 – 1911.
Ludlow was the deadliest single incident in the southern Colorado Coal Strike, lasting from September 1913 through December 1914.
Roosevelt held many meetings, and opened public hearings, in a successful effort to find a compromise for the Coal Strike of 1902, which threatened the fuel supplies of urban America.
Coal miners in the Hanley and Longton area ignited the 1842 General Strike and associated Pottery Riots.
Harlan County, USA is an Oscar-winning 1976 documentary film covering the " Brookside Strike ", an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973.
The height of the group's fame coincided with the Miners Strike of 1984, when the National Union of Mineworkers called strike action following the National Coal Board's decision to close 20 pits-a move which would claim some 20, 000 jobs.
The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 ( 1957 )
Coal and 1902
In 1902, the Numa Numa Block Coal Company took over these mines.
The Webster Coal and Land Company operated a mine near Lehigh from 1899 to 1902.
He purchased the Chauncey in 1902, and operated it as the George F. Lee Coal Co and also ran a coal distribution center in Brooklyn, New York.
* 1902: explosion at Coal Creek mine kills 128 men.
* 1902 – President of the Coal Trust George F. Baer proclaims the ' Divine right of Capitalists ',
Finally, under the direction of General Cornelius Clarkson Watts, a Confederate veteran, construction of the Coal River and Western Railway began in 1902 and was completed in 1904.
In 1902, during the Anthracite strike, hundreds of commissions for the Coal and Iron Police were issued.
Briceville played an important role in three major late-19th and early-20th century incidents related to the region's coal mining activities: the Coal Creek War in 1891, the Fraterville Mine disaster of 1902, and the Cross Mountain Mine disaster of 1911.
ISBN 1-4033-6697-7 ; history of Labor and 1872, 1877 and 1902 Anthracite Coal Strikes.
" The Coal Strike of 1902 – Turning Point in U. S. Policy.
The Great Strike: Perspectives on the 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike.
* Wiebe, Robert H. " The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902: A Record of Confusion.
* Wilson, Susan E. " President Theodore Roosevelt's Role in the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.
* United States Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May-October, 1902 online edition
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He served as an arbitrator during the Coal Strike of 1902.
In 1894 he was chairman of the commission which investigated the Pullman Strike of Chicago, and in 1902 was a member of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.
* June 2, 1902: The Anthracite Coal Strike by the United Mine Workers began, continuing until October 21, 1902.
Coal and also
Coal tar is also used to manufacture paints, synthetic dyes, and photographic materials.
The last 15 – 20 years has also seen Hobart's wine industry thrive as many vineyards have developed in countryside areas outside of the city in the Coal River Wine Region and D ' Entrecasteaux Channel, including Moorilla Estate at Berriedale one of the most awarded vineyards in Australia.
Coal dust explosions can also begin independently of methane gas explosions.
Coal was used to run furnaces for the melting of metal ore. Semi-solid hydrocarbons from seeps were also burned in ancient times, but these materials were mostly used for waterproofing and embalming.
He also used this time to write A New Deal for Coal which used his wartime experience to argue for nationalisation of the coal mines on the grounds of the improved efficiency he predicted would ensue.
Coal mining became prominent in the 19th century to the east of Lough Allen in Sliabh an Iariann and also to the west in Arigna, on the Roscommon border.
Coal and shale mining was also carried out in the Jamison Valley for many years, but when the seams were completely exhausted by the early 20th century, Katoomba was an established resort town.
He subsequently met W. H. Auden, who was also working for the GPO Film Unit ; together they worked on the films Coal Face and Night Mail.
Robson played football whenever he possibly could but also worked as an electrician's apprentice for the National Coal Board in the Langley Park colliery.
The Treaty also contained provisions to deal with the financial consequences of the expiry of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) treaty ( Treaty of Paris ( 1951 )).
It was also owned by the Consolidated Coal Company.
A through-line of the Norfolk Southern Railway line passes through the community, and also provides services to the nearby Buckingham Coal Company mine.
Coal mining is also an important industry ; strip-style mines are currently operating on both the north and south sides of the town.
Coal mining has also affected the flow and water quality of small streams.
Coal also became Ruler.
The Chauncey was also known as the Union Mine, and from about 1861 to 1866 the Union Coal Co., in association with Charles Hutchison, operated the mine, working both a shaft and a slope.
The New York Iron and Coal Company also built an iron furnace near the mouth of Frozen Run in 1831.
The valley is also part of the anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania, fire clay abounds in the vicinity, and the borough's principal industries are still the mining and shipping of coal although the demand for it has steadily declined since its peak in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
More important than the local runs, Blossburg Coal was being shipped to Albany where it influenced railroad and canal navigation legislation, and also to Philadelphia where it attracted the enterprising businessmen.
Knapp also opened coal mines on Coal Run and ore mines on " Barney Hill ".
Coal had also become one of the main products of Chartiers Township for many years.
In its first year, colonists were asked to settle Johnson Fort, now Enoch, where a stockade was built, and were also sent to settle along Coal Creek, site of the settlement to manufacture iron which became Cedar City.
Big Stone Gap also hosts the Coal Museum. Henry Meador Coal Museum
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