As efforts to reach a settlement with the H.C. Frick Coal and Coke on union recognition stalled out, a group of local miners requested a meeting with the president of the United States.The miners wanted to explain to none other than Franklin Roosevelt their opposition to returning to work ...
Thanks to the failed senatorial candidacy of Herschel Walker, the Republican Party has egg on its face 鈥� again.There鈥檚 something sweet about that.Not just because Democrats now have the outright majority (51 to 49) in the U.S. Senate. But because Republicans got caught trying to play the ...
Strikes always hassle someone. Trolley operator strikes in the early 20th century aggravated commuters. Coal miner strikes in the 1920s inconvenienced manufacturers. Auto worker strikes in the 1950s irked new car buyers, car salesmen, and advertisers.Almost by definition, just about any work ...
First things first.I have a correction to make.In my column about my love of high school basketball last week, I talked about how the Raider Dozen (Uniontown High School鈥檚 spirited pep band) would start playing 鈥淪weet Georgia Brown鈥� as the Red Raider basketball team came on to the court.I ...
At first glance, they were an unlikely duo. One 鈥� Nancy Pelosi, the future House speaker 鈥� represented tony, well-heeled San Francisco. The other 鈥� John Murtha, the powerful military appropriations chairman 鈥� hailed from Johnstown, a decaying steelmaking hub in middle Appalachia.One ...
The Uniontown Red Raiders of my youth never lost a game.That鈥檚 an exaggeration.They may have lost, but not nearly as much as they won.The Red Raider basketball teams of the mid-1950s until the mid-1960s functioned as precision-made machines 鈥� calibrated to destroy enemy high school ...
