Breaker boy
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A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States and United Kingdom whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker.
Group of Breaker boys. Smallest is Sam Belloma in Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Breaker boys at the Eagle Hill colliery near Pottsville, Pennsylvania. George Bretz photo, 1884.
"Breaker boy" by Charles Green
Breaker boys in the 1880s picking slate from coal at a coal breaker in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Photo by George Bretz, 1880s
Lattimer massacre
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The Lattimer massacre was the killing of at least 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite miners by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, United States, o
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…unions, and precipitated a number of important strikes in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. Among these were the strike which culminated in the Lattimer massacre and the Anthracite coal strike of 1902. "The Boys in the Breakers." eHistory. Multimedia Histories Section. The Ohio State University…
Lattimer massacre
A proclamation by Sheriff Martin, dated September 6, 1897, warning against unlawful assembly, "tumult", and interference with the peaceful operation of any mines or mining equipment
Deputy shooting a miner, while he is on the ground. Caption reads "What is crime in Pennsylvania anyhow?".