William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader by Craig Phelan

By Craig Phelan

William eco-friendly, president of the yank Federation of work from 1924 to 1952, used to be a debatable determine whom historians always depict as bumbling, incompetent, useless, and ignorant; the pleased servant of egocentric and reactionary craft uinionists, and the individual such a lot at once answerable for the cut up in prepared exertions in 1935. This biography offers a social and political context for Green's activities in an try to vindicate one of many final heirs of a religiously encouraged exchange unionism that sought cooperation among hard work and capital at the foundation of biblical precepts.

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Two larger, more permanent operators at this time were the Morgan Run and the Cassingham mining companies. These companies operated a series of mines and employed most of the men living on Hardscrabble Hill. 6 Upon their arrival, the greens found a situation in many ways typical of English miners emigrating to America. Hardscrabble Hill was a primitive enclave of miners, shacks and company houses isolated from the rest of the community. And while most of that community was of native birth, most of the miners were foreigners.

Two years later, Hugh Green took his son along with him on the two-and-a-half mile journey in the dark of morning to Morgan Run mine No. 3. Nothing his father said could have prepared him for the experience of working in a late nineteenth-century bituminous mine. Working conditions facing coal miners were unmatched in terms of privation and danger. Only flickering lamps distributed the total darkness as miners descended sometimes miles underground. Each miner either worked alone or with an assistant in his own small chamber that was never big enough to stand up in.

By pitting immigrant against immigrant, foreign against native born, black against white, operators hoped to enlist the prejudice of miners in their attempt to destroy union organization. Morgan Run followed up with two other familiar strikebreaking tactics: injunctions and evictions. Under force of law, miners on the Hill were thrown out of their homes to provide living quarters for the strikebreakers. In the face of this employer onslaught, Green and his local remained firm, finally forcing a settlement on May 1 that provided for the departure of the strikebreakers and union recognition.

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