Battle of Homestead Foundation - Charles McCollester Collection

The article, written by Dr. Charles McCollester, details the labor history of Pittsburgh region. The article dives into the details of the 1919 Steel Strike, as well as its impact still in 1994.

This document outlines the execution of Dennis Donnelly in 1878. The document covers the reason for the execution, the execution itself, and the aftermath.

The letter from Ed Yankovich to a wide audience asks the readers to support the United Mine Workers of America by attending the Windber Borough Council meeting to argue for the creation of a historical marker for the Windber Strike of 1922-1923.

The speech, written by Charles McCollester, commemorates those who died in the Mammoth Mine explosion on January 27th, 1891 in Mount Pleasent, Pennsylvania. The speech details the history of the explosion and the impact of that disaster today. The dedication where the speech was given occurred on October 4, 2002.

This program advertises the mining memories landmark monument dedication being held on October 17, 2009. The program outlines the event, the location, and the sponsors.

The document announces the execution of the last Mollie Maguire, Dennis Donnelly. He was the fifteenth executed. The document lists the remaining 14 murdered Mollie Maguires. The Molly Maguires were an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Great Britain and parts of the Eastern United States. They were best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania. After a series of often violent conflicts, twenty suspected members of the Molly Maguires were convicted of murder and other crimes and were executed by hanging in 1877 and 1878.

This form proposes a historical marker commemorating the passage of the Public Employee Relations Act of 1970, Act 195. The act was passed on July 23, 1970 as a result of mounting employee strikes of the 1960s. The act allowed for public employees to legally strike.

This pamphlet details the programs of the Pennsylvania Labor History Society 32nd Annual Conference in 2006.

This program was presented at the Teaching Educational conference in Pennsylvania in 1985. The program contains music, poetry, newspaper clippings, a theatrical play, and references.

The proposal form nominates the Windber Strike for Union 1922-1923 and the New York City Inquiry into the labor conditions of Berwind-White Miners in Windber during that strike for a historical marker. The coal miners' strike of 1922 turned into a 16-month long unsuccessful strike of Windber miners picketing in front of the company's offices in New York City. The strike resulted in a city inquiry into the company. The form overviews the history of the strike, the proposed text for the marker, and biographical data.