I’m grateful to the Catholic Community of St. Ann, Spokane, Washington, for nurturing women’s gifts, calling them forth, and supporting them and me during the gestating years of this book. Always grateful for the love and support of my family and friends, Mom and Dad (Iron Workers Union Local #505), Mike, Brandon, Clarice, Monica, and Dylan.
INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS
Allegheny Coal & Coke Company
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Auto-Lite strike
Battle of Blair Mountain
Battle of Toledo
Black Friday Minneapolis truckers strike
Black Valley miners
injuries/deaths of
labor wars
poor living conditions of
World War I and
button factory workers
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie Steel Co.
carpenters’ union
children workers
cigar factories
Clothiers Exchange
Colliers mine
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.
Colorado labor wars
of 1903–1904
Ludlow massacre
coroner’s jury verdict
Electric Auto-Lite Company
eyewitnesses, to murder of Fannie Sellins
garment factory workers. see also union garment workers
background of
piecework
working conditions
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Haymarket Square explosion (1886)
Hicks, Lewis
hiring strikebreakers
treatment of
wage deal with
Homestead plant lockout (1892)
immigrants
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
labor struggles
in Black Valley
time line (1877–1935)
Ladies’ Local 67. see union garment workers
law enforcement officers
arresting picketers
brutality of
prosecution of
longshoremen strike
Ludlow massacre
Marion County jail
Marx & Haas Clothing Co.
concessions of
going to court
locking out union workers
unfair treatment at
union agreements with
working conditions at
Morgan, John Pierpont
murder of Fannie Sellins
National Guard troops
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935
national textile workers’ strike of 1934
Newnan Textile Mill
Pearson, Deputy John
picketing
Pinkerton National Detective Agency agents
police. see law enforcement officers
protests, against unfair treatment
Rafalko, Stanley F.
Rockefeller, John D.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roth, Abe
St. Louis, Missouri garment factories
scabs, strikebreakers known as
Schneiderman, Rose
Sellins, Fannie Mooney
arrest of
family history of
first strike of
funeral of
graveside memorial of
helping coal miners
jury decision for
murder of
strikebreakers and
time in jail
as union president
union work of
Starzeleski, Joseph
strikebreakers
striking
by Black Valley workers
consequences for
by garment factory workers
time line of (1877–1935)
Tacoma Times article
train, carrying strikebreakers
truckers strike
tuberculosis
union garment workers
Fannie joining
label of
launching Ladies’ Local 67
struggle/success of
“union-made” labels
union mine workers. see also Black Valley miners
1913-1914 struggles of
Allegheny Coal & Coke Co. and
in Battle of Blair Mountain
children of
continued strikes by
Fannie meeting with
labor wars of 1903–1904
living/working conditions of
struggle to unionize
unions. see also specific unions
company treatment of
fears regarding
union steel workers, World War I and
United Auto Workers
United Garment Workers of America (UGWA). see union garment workers
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). see union mine workers
wages, low
Wagner Act
West Coast Waterfront Strike
West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal Company
Wilson, President Woodrow
working conditions
button factory
cigar factory
of children
of coal miners
garment factory
World War I, unions and