Morewood Massacre | |||
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![]() Miners and their families getting evicted from company housing during the strike. | |||
Date | February 10 – May 26, 1891[1] | ||
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Goals | Higher wages Eight-hour day | ||
Methods | Strikes, protests, demonstrations | ||
Resulted in | Unsuccessful | ||
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Lead figures | |||
Captain Loar | |||
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The Morewood massacre was an armed labor-union conflict in Morewood, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County, west of the present-day borough Mount Pleasant in 1891.