Charlie’s Monday Markers
Charlie Monday Marker ~ Episode 15: Queen Aliquippa
Charlie’s Monday Markers ~ Episode 14: The McKees Rocks Strike of 1909
The 1909 strike at the Pressed Steel Car Company in McKees Rocks marked a major industrial rebellion by Eastern and...
Charlie’s Monday Markers ~ Episode 13: Harwick Mine Explosion 1904
Coal mining in Pennsylvania took a terrible toll of death and injury for workers and environmental degradation for...
Charlie’s Monday Makers ~ Episode 12: The Allegheny Arsenal and Pittsburgh Fortifications
On September 17, 1862, while the armies of the North and South wrestled to a bloody stalemate at Antietam in Maryland,...
Charlie’s Monday Markers ~ Episode 11: The Founding of the Ironworkers Union, 1896
The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers was formed on February 4,...
Charlie’s Monday Markers ~ Episode 10: Morewood Mass
The Morewood massacre was an armed labor-union conflict in Morewood, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County, west of the...
Charlie’s Monday Markers ~ Episode 9: Mammoth Mine Explosion, 1891
The Mammoth Mine disaster or Frick Mine explosion occurred on January 27, 1891 just after 9:00 AM in the Mammoth No. 1...