The Pana Coal Miners were a minor league baseball team based in Pana, Illinois. In 1907 and 1908, the Coal Miners played exclusively as members of the...
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The Pana riot, or Pana massacre, was a coal mining labor conflict and also a racial conflict that occurred on April 10, 1899, in Pana, Illinois, and resulted...
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The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners. The West Virginia mine...
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the Pana massacre on April 10, 1899. In 1898, a coal miners' strike began in Virden after the Chicago-Virden Coal Company refused to pay their miners union-scale...
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during 1891 when coal mine owners in the Coal Creek watershed began to remove and replace their company-employed, private coal miners then on the payroll...
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anthracite or "hard" coal, which produces higher heat value and less smoke than "soft" or bituminous coal. The strike never resumed, as the miners received a 10...
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"Staunton Speakers" joined the Charleston Evangelists, Mattoon Giants, Pana Coal Miners, Paris Parisians, Shelbyville Queen Citys, Taylorville Tailors and...
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the state. Miners would not be allowed to organize again until the 1930s. Battle of Blair Mountain Cripple Creek miners' strike (1894) Coal strike of 1902...
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around Pana was first organized as Stone Coal Precinct in 1845. The county's precincts became townships in 1856, and Stone Coal Precinct became Pana Township...
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Battle of Blair Mountain (category Coal mining in Appalachia)
armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers (called the Logan Defenders) who were backed by coal mine operators during the miners' attempt...
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The 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...
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Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster happened on December 24, 1932, in Moweaqua, Illinois. The disaster was caused by a methane gas explosion killing 54 miners. The...
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Battle of Virden (category Coal Wars)
ordered the state militia to Pana to keep the peace, as the miners tried to unionize the mine. The militia withdrew from Pana in March, and on April 10,...
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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...
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Centralia White Stockings, Charleston Broom Corn Cutters, Mattoon Giants, Pana Coal Miners and Taylorville Tailors joined Shelbyville as charter members of the...
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Joe Adams (baseball) (category Pana Coal Miners players)
with the Taylorville Christians. Adams had previously managed the Pana Coal Miners in 1907 and the Shelbyville Queen Citys in 1908, both in the Eastern...
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000 unionized coal miners had walked out over the proposed 25% wage cut. The local and national press followed the events of the miners' walkout. They...
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Harlan County War (category Coal Wars)
involved coal miners and union organizers on one side and coal firms and law enforcement officials on the other. The Harlan County coal miners campaigned...
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Centralia White Stockings, Charleston Broom Corn Cutters, Mattoon Giants, Pana Coal Miners and Shelbyville Queen Citys joined Taylorville as charter members of...
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Battle of Matewan (category Coal Wars)
in southern West Virginia. It occurred on May 19, 1920 between local coal miners and their allies and the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency. The dead included...
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Colorado Coalfield War (redirect from Colorado Coal Strike of 1913-1914)
striking coal miners and their families, in the Ludlow Massacre on 20 April 1914 when the Colorado National Guard attacked. In retaliation, armed miners attacked...
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Herrin massacre (category Coal Wars)
the UMWA claimed sole jurisdiction over all coal miners. Lewis' message was printed in newspapers, and miners throughout the region decided to take action...
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of the miners in the [Walsenburg] district [are] members of the I.W.W." When the walkout occurred on August 8, 1927, out of a total 1,167 miners, 1,132...
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Linton, IN: Linton 1908 Mattoon, IL: Mattoon Giants 1907-1908 Pana, IL: Pana Coal Miners 1907-1908 Paris, IL: Paris Colts 1907; Paris Parisians 1908 Shelbyville...
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Ludlow Massacre (category Coal Wars)
200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. Approximately 21 people were killed, including miners' wives and children...
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Carterville Mine Riot (category Coal Wars)
very different racial legacy, when compared to Virden and Pana. African-American coal miners suffered losses, but were not expelled for good, as in those...
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Class D level league. The Centralia White Stockings, Mattoon Giants, Pana Coal Miners, Shelbyville Queen Citys and Taylorville Tailors joined Charleston...
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the Charleston Evangelists, Danville Speakers, Linton Coal Miners, Mattoon Giants, Pana Coal Miners, Paris Parisians, Shelbyville Queen Citys, Staunton...
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encompassed 65 mines and 15,000 coal miners. Sixteen people were killed during the strike, nearly all of them striking miners or members of their families...
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the COVID-19 pandemic Douglas, Brea (April 1, 2021). "Alabama miners at Warrior Met Coal Inc. striking". WVTM-TV. Archived from the original on April 2...
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