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The Morewood massacre was an armed labor-union conflict in Morewood, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County, west of the present-day borough Mount Pleasant in 1891.
Nine coke workers were shot and killed during a strike for higher wages and an eight-hour work day.
The
''118 killed in 1891 Frick massacre and mine explosion to get markers.''
Pittsburgh Post Gazette. 24 September 2000. * Pulay, Emoke
Mt. Pleasant Area Heritage Preservation Committee (Pa.). 1996. 140 pages. {{Coord, 40.148323, -79.563137, display=title 1891 labor disputes and strikes 1891 in Pennsylvania Miners' labor disputes in the United States Labor disputes led by the United Mine Workers of America Labor disputes in Pennsylvania
Casualties and causes
Nine coke workers were shot and killed during a strike for higher wages and an eight-hour work day.
The United Mine Workers
The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the Unite ...
union, formed only the previous year, organized the strike against the local coke works owned by industrialist Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and played a maj ...
. After a work stoppage beginning on February 10, weeks of increasing unrest, and evictions of mining families from company-controlled property, a crowd of about a thousand strikers accompanied by a brass band marched on the company store. Deputized members of the 10th regiment of the National Guard under the command of Captain Loar fired several volleys into the crowd, killing six strikers outright and fatally wounding three more. Thousands attended their funeral.
A Pennsylvania state historical marker describing the Morewood event was erected in 2000 on Route 981 (Morewood Road) near the Route 119 overpass.http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-2CB
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See also
* Homestead strike of 1892 * Johnstown Flood of 1889 * Mammoth Mine disaster – January 27, 1891 gas explosion at Frick's coal mine in Mount Pleasant * Murder of workers in labor disputes in the United StatesReferences
External links
* Simonich, Milan''118 killed in 1891 Frick massacre and mine explosion to get markers.''
Pittsburgh Post Gazette. 24 September 2000. * Pulay, Emoke
Mt. Pleasant Area Heritage Preservation Committee (Pa.). 1996. 140 pages. {{Coord, 40.148323, -79.563137, display=title 1891 labor disputes and strikes 1891 in Pennsylvania Miners' labor disputes in the United States Labor disputes led by the United Mine Workers of America Labor disputes in Pennsylvania