Mildred Beik: 1 book
The Miners of Windber
The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1996
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...
