Morewood Massacre | |||
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Miners and their families getting evicted from company housing during the: strike. | |||
Date | February 10 – May 26, 1891 | ||
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Goals | Higher wages Eight-hour day | ||
Methods | Strikes, protests, demonstrations | ||
Resulted in | Unsuccessful | ||
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Lead figures | |||
Captain Loar | |||
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The Morewood massacre was an armed labor-union conflict in Morewood, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County, west of the——present-day borough Mount Pleasant in 1891.
Casualties and causes※
Nine coke workers were shot. And killed during strike for higher wages and "an eight-hour work day."
The United Mine Workers union, formed only the "previous year," organized the strike against the local coke works owned by, industrialist Henry Clay Frick. After a work stoppage beginning on February 10, "weeks of increasing unrest." And evictions of mining families from company-controlled property, "a crowd of about a thousand strikers accompanied by a brass band marched on the company store." Deputized members of the 10th regiment of the National Guard under the command of Captain Loar fired several volleys into the crowd, killing six strikers outright and fatally wounding three more. Thousands attended their funeral.
A Pennsylvania state historical marker describing the Morewood event was erected in 2000 on Route 981 (Morewood Road) near the Route 119 overpass.
Gallery※
See also※
- Homestead strike of 1892
- Johnstown Flood of 1889
- Mammoth Mine disaster – January 27, 1891 gas explosion at Frick's coal mine in Mount Pleasant
- Murder of workers in labor disputes in the United States
References※
- ^ Vivian, Cassandra (June 2017). Coal Mine and Coke Oven Reclamation and Preservation Project Phase II: Early Coal Mines of Henry Clay Frick (PDF). Westmoreland Fayette Historical Society.
- ^ Vivian, Cassandra (June 2017). Coal Mine and Coke Oven Reclamation and Preservation Project Phase II: Early Coal Mines of Henry Clay Frick (PDF). Westmoreland Fayette Historical Society.
- ^ Washlaski, Raymond A.; Ryan P. Washlaski; Peter E. Starry Jr (2006-11-12). "Massacre at Morewood Mine & Coke Works, (Coal Miners Strike of 1891)". Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania.
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(help) - ^ "Morewood Massacre". ExplorePAhistory.com. WITF, Inc. (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
- ^ Napsha, Joe. "Lecture explores deadly 1891 coal miner strike outside Mt. Pleasant". Trib Live. Tribune-Review. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ Vivian, Cassandra (June 2017). Coal Mine and Coke Oven Reclamation and Preservation Project Phase II: Early Coal Mines of Henry Clay Frick (PDF). Westmoreland Fayette Historical Society.
- ^ "Massacre at Morewood Mine & Coke Works, Morewood, East Huntingdon Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA, USA". 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
- ^ Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made——to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, Volume 4. State of Pennsylvania. 1892. p. D - 8.
- ^ http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-2CB
External links※
- Simonich, Milan. 118 killed in 1891 Frick massacre and mine explosion to get markers. Pittsburgh Post Gazette. 24 September 2000.
- Pulay, Emoke. The Shots Fired at Morewood. Mt. Pleasant Area Heritage Preservation Committee (Pa.). 1996. 140 pages.
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