The Battle of Virden, also known as the Virden Mine Riot and Virden Massacre, was a labor union conflict and a racial conflict in central Illinois that...

Virden is a city in Macoupin and Sangamon counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 3,231 at the 2020 census. The Macoupin County portion...

The Battle of Matewan (also known as the Matewan Massacre) was a shootout in the town of Matewan in Mingo County and the Pocahontas Coalfield mining district...

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. The...

Chicago-Virden Coal Company, attempted a similar strike-breaking effort, this time with an armed escort on the train car. The result was called the Battle of...

during the Battle of Virden on October 12, 1898, and the Pana massacre on April 10, 1899. In 1898, a coal miners' strike began in Virden after the Chicago-Virden...

The Battle of Evarts (May 5, 1931) occurred in Harlan, Kentucky during the Harlan County Wars. The coal miners desired improved working conditions, higher...

Full History of the Molly Maguires. National Publishing Company. "The Battle of the Halsted Viaduct". UChicago Events. Archived from the original on December...

Biggers, Jeff. "Battle of Virden". Zinn Education Project. Retrieved July 8, 2019. "United States Department of Labor – Labor Hall of Fame: Mary Harris...

this system and engaged in a series of strikes, including the Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912, and the Battle of Evarts, which coal operators attempted...

rest of the nation. Despite headway by the unions, the battle for Harlan County between labor and capital continued. Sheriff Blair was voted out of office...

white and segregated black soldiers 1898 – Battle of Virden, October 12, Coal strike; 11 killed, 35 wounded, Virden, Illinois 1898 – Phoenix election riot...

General, and the Battle for Labor Peace" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2018-04-29. Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt...

agents of the Baldwin-Felts and local miners, who later joined the United Mine Workers of America, sparked what became known as the Battle of Blair Mountain...

Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated...

Point: The Lasting Impact of the 1898 Virden Mine Riot". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 99 (3/4). Journal of Illinois State Historical...

1922 UMW Miner strike or The Big Coal Strike was a nationwide general strike of miners in the US and Canada after the United Mine Worker's (UMW) trade union...

Lattimer, Pennsylvania, during a march in support of unions. Battle of Virden – October 1898. This was part of the larger mine wars that established Illinois...

This is an incomplete list of all military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern U.S. State of Illinois since European contact...

States. After the Battle of Virden on October 12, 1898, four of the miners who were killed were from Mount Olive. However, the owner of the "privately owned...

months, climaxing in the battle of Lincoln, a five-day gunfight and siege that resulted in the death of McSween and the scattering of the Regulators. Pat Garrett...

the number of company-aligned dead in a period when strikebreaking violence typically saw fatalities exclusively among strikers. The Battle of Blair Mountain...

government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. The strike and boycott shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit...

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the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket...

Illinois, and resulted in the deaths of seven people. It was one of many similar labor conflicts in the coal mining regions of Illinois that occurred in 1898...

killed in the Battle of Virden and community and labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones are buried. The cemetery sits just south of former U.S. Route...

The United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919 saw bituminous coal miners strike for over a month, from November 1 to December 10, 1919, for better wages...

blood-soaked confrontations between police and enraged mobs are known as the Battle of the Viaduct, as they took place near the Halsted Street viaduct, although...

The Lattimer massacre was the killing of at least 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite miners by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse at the Lattimer mine...