Mildred W. Mitchell. April 16, 1906. -- Ordered to be Printed
Title | Mildred W. Mitchell. April 16, 1906. -- Ordered to be Printed PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1906 |
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Mildred W. Mitchell. March 15, 1906. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and Ordered to be Printed
Title | Mildred W. Mitchell. March 15, 1906. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and Ordered to be Printed PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Pensions |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1906 |
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Title | Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Superintendent of Documents |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1870 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Title | Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ... PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Superintendent of Documents |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1868 |
Release | |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Title | Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Superintendent of Documents |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1864 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
A Century of Innovation
Title | A Century of Innovation PDF eBook |
Author | 3M Company |
Publisher | 3m Company |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | 3M Company |
ISBN |
A compilation of 3M voices, memories, facts and experiences from the company's first 100 years.
The Miners of Windber
Title | The Miners of Windber PDF eBook |
Author | Mildred Allen Beik |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 1996-09-15 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0271029900 |
In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.