40 State historical markers commemorate labor Society Director Ken Wolensky, The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, mi- Lackawanna County of the Pennsylvania Historic Museum litia shoots 26, 28th Street Crossing Anthracite Mine Disaster, 72 killed in Commission, compiled and distrib- off Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh 1911, In front of Throop Borough uted a detailed list of all of the mark- Building, Charles and Sanderson Av- ers in the Commonwealth commemo- Beaver County enue, Throop rating individuals, organizations and NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin, Supreme events associated with the labor Court ruling upholding NLRA, Franklin Terence W. Powderly, Grand Master movement. Avenue & Route 51, Aliquippa Workman, Knights of Labor, North Noteworthy is the loss of life Main Avenue, near Mears Street, among working people. Markers for Berks County West Scranton mine disasters commemorate some 600 deaths from 1859 to 1959 out of Reading Railroad Massacre, 1877, Thomas J. Foster, early mine safety the tens of thousands of miners who militia kills 10, 7th & Penn streets, advocate, Wyoming Avenue, near were killed in Pennsylvania mines. Reading Ash Street, Scranton They also commemorate events where over one hundred workers were Cambria County Luzerne County killed in labor’s struggles. The follow- John Brophy, miners and CIO leader, Avondale Mine Disaster, 110 miners ing is a compilation of the list, with Triangle Park, Route 721, Armaugh died in 1869, US 11 near junction PA the county, marker name and loca- 29, Plymouth Township tions: Centre County Concrete City, early ‘model’ for indus- Allegheny County John Montgomery Ward, founded first trial housing, Front Street in Hanover Baseball Players Union, 236 East section of Nanticoke 1909 McKees Rocks Strike, 812 Is- Lamb Street, Bellefonte land Ave. McKees Rocks Bridge, at Knox Mine Disaster, 12 died in illegal Pressed Steel Car, Stowe Twp. mine below river, St. Joseph’s Roman Indiana County Catholic Church on Main Street, Port Bost Building, headquarters of the William H. Sylvis, Iron Molders Griffith, Jenkins Township 1892 strike committee, Borough of founder, National Labor Union presi- Homestead Lattimer Massacre, 19 killed by depu- dent, Keith Hall, Indiana University of ties in 1897, PA 924 at Harwood Founding Convention of the AFL, in Pa. Pittsburgh, 1881, NW corner of Lattimer Massacre, violence against Mellon Park, opposite the William strikers’ march killed 19, off SR 3028, Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh just East of Lattimer Crossroads Founding Convention of the CIO, in Min L. Matheson, ILGWU organizer Pittsburgh, 1928, North Commons and community leader, Public Square, Drive, above Allegheny Center, Pitts- Wilkes-Barre burgh Rev John J. Curran, championed la- The Great , bor in 1902 strike, Holy Savior Church, 350,000 strikers, United Steelworkers 43 Penn Street, Wilkes-Barre Hall on Braddock Avenue, Braddock Twin Shaft Disaster, 58 killed, 1896, United Steelworkers of America North Main and Union Streets, founding, 1936, Grant Street, be- Pittston tween 3rd and 4th Avenues, Pitts- burgh Montgomery County Founding of Ironworkers Union in Bryn Mawr Summer School for 1896, Grant Street and Boulevard of Women Workers In Industry, Bryn the Allies, Pittsburgh Mawr, PA

Homestead Strike: the Battle at the Philadelphia County Pump House, Waterfront Drive, Homestead Mother Jones, the march of the fac- tory children, North Broad Street and Battle of Homestead marker was one Victims: six buried John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Philadel- of 20 that the Society sponsored in Munhall, 22nd Avenue and Main phia Street, Munhall since 1974. 6/Pennsylvania Labor History Journal Society had role in approval of half of state markers for labor New Century Guild, Pioneer women’s Williamson Road, 1792 rescue of road Washington County labor guild, 1307 Locust Street, builders, Business 15 south of Cement City, Donora Steel worker Philadelphia Mansfield at Canoe Camp housing, McKean Avenue (PA 837), Local 274, First Black Musicians South Donora Union, 912 South Broad Street, Phila- Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski, assassi- delphia nated UMW leader, 3rd and Wood Pike County Streets, California Unity House, ILGWU labor education BRYN MAWR SUMMER Westmoreland County retreat, 1919-1989, Bushkills Falls SCHOOL FOR WOMEN Road at Unity House entrance, WORKERS IN INDUSTRY Darr Mine Disaster, 71 of 239 killed Bushkill Falls A pioneering liberal arts school for in 1907 buried here, Olive Branch working women was held here on Cemetery, PA 981 between PA 51 and Somerset County the campus of Bryn Mawr College, Smithton Windber, bituminous coal company 1921-1938. Led by Hilda Worthington Smith, it graduated Fannie Sellins, UMW organizer, mur- town, 501 15th Street, Windber over 1,700 students from diverse ra- cial, ethnic, and geographic back- dered in 1919, Union Cemetery, PA Tioga County grounds; some became community, 386, Arnold labor union, and public leaders. The William B. Wilson, UMW leader, first school served as a model for work- Mammoth Mine Explosion, 109 min- Labor Secretary, US 15 just south of ers’ and labor education programs ers killed at Frick mine, St. Johns’ at colleges and universities across Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant Blossburg the nation. Williamson Road, road builders block Morewood Massacre, in 1891 eleven house, SR 2005 (old US 15) south of strikers shot by Frick police, Rte 219 Liberty overpass on Rte 981

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