Hellraisers Journal: Striking Miners of Southwestern Counties of Pennsylvania, Evicted for Joining UMWA, Live in Tents

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Quote Mother Jones, Coming of the Lord, Cnc Pst p6, July 23, 1902—————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday December 17, 1922
Evicted Miners of Southwestern Counties of Pennsylvania Survive in Tents

From the United Mine Workers Journal of December 15, 1922:

SW PA UMW Strike, Mendak Family in Tent Fayette Co, UMWJ p9, Dec 15, 1922

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UMW Strike SW PA, Tent Denbo Miners Wife Milks Cow, UMWJ p16, Dec 15, 1922

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UMW SW PA Strike, Uniformed Gunthugs, UMWJ p14, Dec 15, 1922

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Hellraisers Journal: Striking Miners of Southwestern Counties of Pennsylvania Still in Want, Living in Tents and Shacks

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Quote Mother Jones, Coming of the Lord, Cnc Pst p6, July 23, 1902—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday December 12, 1922
Striking Miners in Southwestern Counties of Pennsylvania Face Sever Hardships

From the Hazleton Plain Speaker of December 8, 1922:

SOME MINERS ARE STILL IN WANT
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UMW Strike So W PA, Evicted Miners Shanties, UMWJ p9, Dec 1, 1922
United Mine Workers Journal of December 1, 1922

Hard coal [anthracite] field miners have received word that in the Berwind fields of Somerset and Fayette Counties [miners] are still in want.

Those are union miners who are in non-union districts, their cause was not included in the Cleveland agreement and forty-five thousand miners are still on strike.

Fayette County, where many former Hazleton people are located, has a record of 1,500 evictions by the sheriff.

Logan Union 5,220 of the miners’ organized during the strike has sent out an appeal for bread to feed their hungry children. They say that their local has “suffered 384 evictions, of which 200 have been since the Cleveland agreement.” They also say that “the agreement was signed against their wish and special plea that their Coke fields should not be left out,” and that the Hillman company has been allowed to sign up for former union miners near Pittsburgh without being required to sign up in Fayette county.

This is also the case with the Consolidated Coal Company-the Rockefellers‘ property. As they have done their bit “suffering evictions, exposure in tent colonies, typhoid fever and other hard ships,” they demand of the international organization that it send them relief.

[Photograph and emphasis added.]

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