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To all BHF Members, Contacts, and Organizations:Greetings and Happy New Year!The BHF Program Committee is seeking your proposal ideas and energy for our 2020 Pump House events. The Battle of Homestead Foundation is now requesting submissions for its 2020 programming…
Workshop held Saturday, October 5, 2019 at the Historic Pump House. There are jobs today that pay a living wage with benefits, provide a decent retirement, and don't require a college education. Union apprentice program leaders and other new workforce…
Charles McCollester, past president of the Battle of Homestead Foundation. Keynote address: Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, October 18, 2019, Indiana PA
On August 26, 2019, The Battle of Homestead Foundation labor supporters gathered in Natrona Heights, Brackenridge and Arnold Cemetery, Pennsylvania, to remember the one hundred year anniversary of the death of labor activists, Fannie Sellins and Joe Strazeleski, who were…
The Battle of Homestead Foundation, All-Kiski Historical Society, United Mine Workers of America and the United Steelworkers sponsored the "Fannie Sellins Memorial Commemoration" on August 26, 2019. This all day event commemorated the 100th anniversary of Fannie and Joe's death…
To introduce the 2019 BHF program series, peoples' historians Eric Leif Davin, Charlie McCollester, Jacqui Cavalier, and Howard Scott will spotlight the turbulent post-war era of 1919 USA. We'll hear about Suffragettes on the march; immigrants' struggle for labor and…
Carlow University students present a rarely -performed reading of Voices from the Great Steel Strike Dave Demarest’s story of the 1919 Steel Strike Free! at the Braddock Carnegie Library 6 - 7pm, Wednesday, May 1, 2019
The Battle of Homestead Foundation Annual Meeting was held on January 21, 2019 at the Indigo Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA. The program "Honor and Remember the Rev Martin Luther King" featured the following speakers: John Haer, Charlie McCollester, Millie Beik, and…
With the armistice ending the First World War, signed November 11, 1918, manufacturing demand fell and unemployment swelled. Social pressures already exacerbated by wartime labor practices, inflation and postwar corporate repression of unions, only deepened as economic activity slowed. The…