This illustration appeared in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper in September 1875. It shows two law enforcement officers arresting a mineworker near Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania with a crowd howling its disapproval at the two armed officers. The scene, among several others printed in that edition about the Coal Region, was used to show the “howling pandemonium” that took place during the first payday among mineworkers after the end of the Long …
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