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The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region is in the Valley and Ridge Province of the Appalachian Mountains, with the coal located in the folded and faulted terrain of the Province. The anthracite fields are maintained in synclinal basins that are surrounded by sandstone ridges, which help to “protect” the anthracite.
The Coal strike of 1902 (also known as the anthracite coal strike) [1] [2] was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union .
Coal and Unionism: A History of the American Coal Miners' Unions (1939) McIntosh, Robert. Boys in the pits: Child labour in coal mines (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2000), Canadian mines; Palladino, Grace. Another Civil War : labor, capital, and the state in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68 (1990) online; Phelan, Craig.
A Welsh miner in a coal mine in Pennsylvania's Coal Region in 1910. By the 18th century, the Susquehannock Native American tribe that had inhabited the region was reduced 90 percent [2] in three years of a plague of diseases and possibly war, [2] opening up the Susquehanna Valley and all of Pennsylvania to European settlers.
Aug. 12—SCRANTON — The oldest tourist mine in Pennsylvania is now also the newest. The Brooks Mine, a model mine in Nay Aug Park in Scranton dating to 1902 but closed for nearly half a century ...
Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania (1 C, 21 P) C. Coal mining disasters in Pennsylvania (18 P) ... History of anthracite coal mining in Pennsylvania; Huber ...
The Federal Coal Commission was also formed as part of the agreement. [11] After ratification, mining resumed on September 11. The general coal strike lasted 163 days. [4] However non-unionized mining workers were not covered by the UMW contract. After the UMW ended their strike, around 25,000 Windber, Pennsylvania miners [12] continued ...
Much of the history of the Western Middle Anthracite Field aligns with much of the other significant events in the Coal Region in Pennsylvania. Yet, the region is specifically famous for housing the town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the famous hotbed of unionization in the coaling industry and of the Molly Maguires in the 1870s.