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I grew up on a family farm in northeastern Pennsylvania The head waters of a small wild trout stream emerged from a spring in our backyard My father built a number of ponds in the yard and pasture before allowing the trickle to form little Raven Creek which then drops downstream some eight miles to join with bigger Fishing Creek

To improve working conditions and increase wages for mine workers Specifically a 20% wage increase an 8-hour workday (down from 10 for miners and 12 for maintenance workers) the right to check the operator's stated weight of coal the creation of a grievance policy fair to workers recognition of the union and the right to collectively bargain

Pennsylvania judge breaks teachers' strike By Adam Mclean 29 June 2018 Teachers in the northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dallas went on strike on June 19 to fight to secure a contract and oppose school authorities' demands for cuts in wages and healthcare and pension benefits The teachers who have been without a contract for three years

Northeastern Pennsylvania retains its multiethnic character having overcome many cultural differences that in the past set groups against each other In an effort to overcome the divide and conquer strategy that employers sometimes used to prevent ethnically diverse coal workers from uniting labor leader and United Mine Workers of America

After the war Schuylkill County stood as the epicenter of Northeastern Pennsylvania violence through the Long Strike of 1875 The so-called Molly Maguires a reputed conspiracy of insurgent Irish Catholic miners veiled behind the Ancient Order of Hibernian allegedly perpetrated assaults and vengeful murders against mine bosses and company

The Anthracite Coal Strike in northeastern Pennsylvania had been going on for over four months with no signs of ending President Theodore Roosevelt feared "untold miserywith the certainty of riots which might develop into social war " He felt something must be done But the federal government had no legal right to intervene in a dispute

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Anthracite Coal Region – of Northeastern Pennsylvania

Scranton — On Saturday May 13 2017 from 8:30 a m to 4:00 p m the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum will host 6th Biennial Anthracite Heritage Conference The conference is intended to encourage public interest in and knowledge about the Anthracite Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania

The 1958 strike was about curbing the mob sector and in effect renegotiating the previously made arrangements It was the article argues a kind of real-world anticorruption effort waged by union members and union leaders at some risk to themselves in mob-dominated towns such as Pittston Pennsylvania

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The Appalachian Basin has been an important shale-gas-producing province since the early 1800s with an estimated 3 0 tcf already produced from Devonian black shale Until recently the organic-rich Marcellus Shale although recognized as a major source rock was not a significant hydrocarbon producer in the Appalachian Basin

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Pennsylvania is also home to a diverse group of people with ethnic enclaves of black Hispanic and Southeast Asian populations in its major cities Pennsylvania is also diverse in that the Eastern and Southeastern parts of the state are urban and densely populated while much of the rest of the state is rural and/or mountainous

About the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania The Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania encompasses six counties in Pennsylvania: Carbon Columbia Lackawanna Luzerne Northumberland and Schuylkill (a small portion of Dauphin County also contained coal)

Presents the stories of Eastern Europeans who emigrated to Northeastern Pennsylvania during the early decades of the 20th century in order to escape their war-ravaged homelands and begin a new life in America Emphasizes the sense of community family and religious values that these immigrants maintained even in the midst of a new land and a new culture

In October of 1902 a major strike shut down the industry for 5 months idling 100 000 miners After government intervention the strike was settled with significant union gains Mining in the flat-lying coal beds near Scranton (Courtesy USBM) Coal pillars timbers and waste rock provided roof support