In April 1869, miners in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region gathered in Hazleton to put their anger – and their demands – into the public record. At a time when coal companies controlled not only work underground but life above it, miners adopted a series of formal resolutions condemning the everyday practices that defined existence in the coal fields: company stores, withheld wages, forced deductions, and employer control that extended well beyond thei…
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