He does his best to follow orders while trying to be fair to the workers whose lot he sees as little different from his own. The Mollie Maguires-a secret society some see as working to improve the lot of the Irish and which others damn as a terrorist organization-long viewed by the mine owners as a problem, are now seen as an increasing threat.īenjamin Franklin Yeager is a coal company police officer. The miners know their real purpose is to spy upon targeted agitators and intimidate and break up strikers. Private police forces commissioned by the state but paid by the coal companies are sworn to protect property of the mine owners. Many found their way to Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region where they encountered some of the worst exploitation and hatred.īy the 1870s, mine owners and their employees, particularly the Irish immigrants, are in conflict over working conditions.
They worked whatever jobs they could find and were routinely exploited. My new novel, Watch The Hour, was released today by Whiskey Creek Press, in both print and electronic formats.įleeing famine and brutal oppression, more than a million Irish refugees flocked to the United States between 1846-1855 in search of opportunity and a better life. Love,lust and skulduggery in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region.
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