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Thursday Mar 09, 2023
March 9 - The Slovak Strike of 1910-11
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 1911. That was the day that coal miners in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania walked out of the mines. It became known as the “Slovak strike” because seventy percent of the strikers were Slovakian immigrants. Unrest was mounting among the workers in the non-unionized coal fields.
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