Coal miners' strike of 1873

Coal miners' strike of 1873
Mahoning, Shenango, and Tuscarawas Valleys in the Youngstown area of Ohio and Pennsylvania
Date1873
Location
Mahoning Valley, Shenango Valley, Tuscarawas Valley
Goalswages
MethodsStrikes, Protest, Demonstrations
Parties
Miners' Union (local)
Local coal companies
Number
7,500 strikers
strikebreakers
Casualties and losses
Deaths: 1

The Coal miners' strike of 1873, was a strike against wage cuts in the Mahoning, Shenango, and Tuscarawas Valleys of northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania.[1] In the Tuscarawas Valley, the labor action lasted six months, and in the Mahoning Valley four and a half months,[2] but the walkouts failed. The introduction of imported strikebreakers and manufacturers finding substitutes for the area's special block-coal, forced the organized miners back to work at prevailing wages.[3]

  1. ^ Roy, Andrew, History of the Coal Miners of the United States, Green Wood Press, pp. 133–134.
  2. ^ “The Mahoning Valley Strikers Superseded,” Cleveland Daily Leader, May 15, 1873, 2, GenealogyBank, https://www.genealogybank.com/
  3. ^ Powderly, Terrance Vincent; James, Edmund Janes (1886). The Labor Movement: the Problem of To-day: The History, Purpose and Possibilites of Labor Organizations in Europe and America. A.M. Bridgman & Company. p. 259. ISBN 9780678007136. Retrieved 20 January 2017.