Morewood Massacre
On April 2, 1891, at the nearby Morewood Mines of the H.C. Frick Coke Co., sheriff's deputies killed seven strikers; two more died later. These were among some 16,000 workers striking for higher wages in the coke region. Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of the original seven victims, who were buried in a mass grave in St. John's Cemetery, Scottdale. By late May the strike had collapsed, & the organizing of coke workers suffered a severe blow.
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