Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1903. First Edition. Official report of Theodore Roosevelt's independent Commission, appointed "at the request of both the operators and of the miners" in October 1902 to investigate the causes of the Great Anthracite Strike of that year. The Commission's report marked an important mileston in... More about Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May-October, 1902, by the Anthracite...

N.p. by the Author, 1975. First Edition. Photo-essay depicting the daily lives of miners and their families during the 1973 Harlan County Coal Strike. The accompanying booklet contains the transcript of an interview with Houston Elmore, head of the organizing drive for the UMWA during the Brookside and Highsplint strikes... More about Harlan County, Kentucky. A photo-documentation by Robert Gumpert

New York: Council of Women for Home Missions, [1918]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown card wrappers printed in dark brown; viii,192pp.; photographic frontispiece, seven leaves of plates. One plate separated but present, else Very Good and sound. Covers urban industries, child labor, mill workers, "Negro Laborers," lumber camps, and... More about The Path of Labor. Theme: Christianity and the World's Workers

Battle Creek, MI: Wages, Wealth and Welfare Press, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; viii,760pp. Shows signs of being ex-library, with minor spine label residue and redacted rubberstamp to front free endpaper; spine quite darkened, else Very Good and sound. More about Capitalism's Individual Ownership, the Deep Thing of God; or, The Only Solution of the Coal...

Kansas City: Burton Publishing Co., 1920. First Edition. Publishes a series of letters from the author to Charles Schwab, who at this time was President of Bethlehem Steel, seeking Schwab's support in implementing a sort of "maximum wage" scheme in the United States. Kathrens's letters grow increasingly indignant as Schwab... More about Who Will Answer for Mr. Schwab?

Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1987. First Edition. A detailed account of the Banner Coal Mine, a proponent of the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company, in Jefferson County, Alabama. In 1911, an explosion killed 128 miners, of which 123 were convicts on lease from state prisons. This tragedy prompted... More about Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy

Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1972. Reprint. A selection of articles reprinted from Labor Age dating from April to December 1931 depicting harsh living conditions and general union activities of the West Virginia mountaineer miner. Heavily illustrated with photographs and political drawings. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial staplebound wrappers, [20pp], illus. Mild... More about The West Virginia Miners Union, 1931. As Reported at the time in Labor Age

[San Francisco]: The Communist Party of North Beach, N.d. [1947?]. Broadside advertising a rally in San Francisco's Washington Square Park. The broadside does not list the particular issues being protested, but from the context it would appear to have been against the Supreme Court's 1947 ruling affirming the right of... More about It Is Time For Action! / 'E Tempo Di Essere Attivi Nella Lotta Contra La Reazione!

London: Joiner and Steele, 1931. First U.K. Edition. The author's first collection of short fiction, containing 15 short stories about the private lives of colliers tinged with bitter humor and a portrayal of "life in the raw." A particularly striking example of the dustjacket designed by George William Bissell (1896-1973)... More about A Pig In A Poke

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [10],337pp.; map endpapers. Jacket spine sunned, tiny soil spot to upper panel, upper flap has faint glue residue from previously removed sticker of original price ($4.50), else Very Good and sound. Novel... More about The Hills Stand Watch

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1910. First Edition. Issue primarily devoted to "The Murder of the Miners at Cherry," also known as the Cherry Mine Disaster, in which 259 (rounded up to 400 by the Review) mine workers were burned and suffocated in a fire trap at the Cherry... More about The International Socialist Review. Vol. X, no. 7, January, 1910

State College: Penn State University Press, 1980. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 200pp; illus. Slight sun-fading to jacket spine panel, else a Fine, apparently unread copy. Biography of folklorist and folk song collector George Korson, whose compilations of coal-mining songs remain one of the key contributions to Pennsylvania folk history. More about Folklorist of the Coal Fields: George Korson's Life and Work