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Blood Runs Coal

by Mark A. Bradley
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A vivid account of "one of the most shocking episodes in organized labor's blood-soaked history" (Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Behind the assassination was the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent, and served the interests of Big Coal companies—and would do anything to maintain power. The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders catalyzed the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history. Blood Runs Coal is an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation's major unions on the brink of historical change.
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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  • ISBN: 9780393652543
  • Release date: October 13, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780393652543
  • Release date: October 13, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780393652543
  • File size: 14758 KB
  • Release date: October 13, 2020
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History Politics True Crime Nonfiction

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A vivid account of "one of the most shocking episodes in organized labor's blood-soaked history" (Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Behind the assassination was the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent, and served the interests of Big Coal companies—and would do anything to maintain power. The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders catalyzed the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history. Blood Runs Coal is an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation's major unions on the brink of historical change.
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History Politics True Crime Nonfiction