Episodes in Anthracite Labor History

Moderator:  Chester Kulesa, Administrator Emeritus, Anthracite Heritage Museum

Speakers:
Thomas Mackaman, King’s College, “Labor and Industry in the Early Years of Anthracite”
Ann Flaherty, Kehoe Foundation of Maryland, “The Molly Maguires in the Hard Coal Fields: Fact vs. Fiction”
Robert Wolensky, King’s College, “The Industrial Workers of the World: The Wobblies in Anthracite, 1907-1916”
Robert Schmidt Independent Scholar, “Labor, Violence, and Dynamite in Coal Country”
Mary Kay Kimelewski, Misericordia University, “The 1943 Anthracite Strike in Northeastern Pennsylvania: Defending Patriotism During World War II”