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Retreating striking miners being shot in their backs by deputized posse, September 10, 1897. On Friday, September 10, 1897, about 300 to 400 unarmed strikers—nearly all of them Slavs and Germans—marched to a coal mine owned by Calvin Pardee at the town of Lattimer to support a newly formed United Mine Workers union.
Miners and mine guards engaged in several armed skirmishes over the closure of coal mines and access to rail routes in the summer and fall of 1920. The West Virginia government declared martial law and sent federal troops to quell the strike, but backed down under threat of a general strike of all union coal miners in West Virginia. [3]
UK miners' strike of 1974: United Kingdom Nationwide 1974 UK miners' strike of 1984–85: United Kingdom Nationwide 1984–85 Waihi miners' strike: New Zealand Waihi: 1912 West Virginia coal wars: United States West Virginia: 1912–1921 United Mine Workers: Welsh coal strike of 1898: United Kingdom Wales: 1898 Westmoreland County coal strike ...
Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars. Oakland: PM Press. [ISBN missing] Corbin, David, ed. (1998). The West Virginia Mine Wars: An Anthology. Martinsburg, WV: Appalachian Editions. ISBN 978-0-9627486-0-8. Savage, Lon (1990). Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21 ...
Leadville miners' strike; 1897 416,154 Lattimer massacre; 1898 263,219 1899 431,889 Weight Strike [7] Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation; Newsboys' strike; 1900 567,719 1900 Anthracite coal strike; St. Louis streetcar strike of 1900; 1901 563,843 U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901; 1902 691,507 Anthracite coal strike of 1902; 1903 787,834 ...
The Carterville Mine Riot was part of the turn-of-the-century Illinois coal wars in the United States. The national United Mine Workers of America coal strike of 1897 was officially settled for Illinois District 12 in January 1898, with the vast majority of operators accepting the union terms: thirty-six to forty cents per ton (depending on the county), an 8-hour day, and union recognition.
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The Morewood strike began on February 10, 1891, when miners in the region, supported by the UMWA, stopped work in protest of pay and working conditions. Tensions rose as workers and their families were evicted from company-owned housing, and Frick, known for his tough stance against unions, resisted their demands.