Morewood massacre
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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.
Laborers at Morewood Works, c.1890
Morewood Road in Mount Pleasant as it appeared in 2024
Marker commemorating the Morewood massacre
Names of strikers killed in Morewood labor unrest
The United Mine Workers of America is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers a
Morewood massacre
…Pennsylvania's coke region, strikes were common; between 1881 and 1886, miners organized around 800 strikes to maintain or improve their wages. In 1890, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) submitted demands to the coke operators that included an eight-hour workday, wage increases, restrictions on house rent, and the right to…
As John L. Lewis addresses a UMW convention in Columbus, Ohio, a red flag with a hammer and sickle is unrolled above him as a practical joke, January 25, 1940
Coal miners in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in 1905
"KEEPING WARM" Los Angeles Times November 22, 1919
WPA poster