Flip to Steel mill worker fighting to cross a picket line outside the Cambria Steel Mill, Johnstown, Pa. June 14, 1937.Close Window
Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives
The rugged ridges and valleys of the Pennsylvania anthracite region provided great cover for bootleg miners to dig the thousands of small clandestine mines that kept food on their tables. Bootleg mining, however, was extremely dangerous work, with accidents and mine collapses common.
