Credit: Courtesy Archives Department, Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company Records, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Despite Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s efforts to diminish the influence of radical political organizations in America and to squash labor unrest, the 1920s witnessed bitter strikes in Pennsylvania and the nation. In 1922 a strike by bituminous coal miners near Windber, PA, just outside of Johnstown, attracted nation attention when they picketed outside the headquarters of the Berwind-White Coal Company in New York.
