"MINERS RELIEF COMMITTEE" TRIO OF SCARCE LABOR STRIKE BUTTONS.
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Winning Bid:
$118.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, June 29, 2021 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
1927-1930. Included are: 5/8" cello reading "I Gave Pennsylvania Ohio Miners Relief Committee"; .75" litho "Help Striking Miners Nat. Miners Relief Committee" (paint wear affecting text at 2 o'clock, Fine) and 5/8" litho "Support Miners Strike". Unless noted all are Exc. to NM. All are related to the Rossiter Mine Strike against the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company (CBC). The strike was among the most bitter and longest in PA history and saw the CBC reopen its mines w/non-union strike breakers and evicted miners and their families from company towns.
Bringing national attention to the strike was sweeping injunctions by Judge Jonathan Langham banning public gatherings, advertising of the strike, demonstrations and most notably church services and the singing of hymns on the only two pieces of property not under CBC control in Rossiter. The national reaction brought about a US Senate investigation which agreed that strikers constitutional rights had been violated. Gov. John Fisher, a former attorney for the CBC, suggested the investigating Senators be thrown in jail. Despite the investigation, the CBC was able to reduce wages through strikebreakers decimating the UMWA.
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