Miners shot to death in Lattimer as they marched for better wages 125 years ago will be remembered on Saturday. The program about the anniversary of the Lattimer Massacre, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in ...

Sep. 16—It's hard to imagine the scope of tragedy that happened 126 years ago last week on a dusty road near a coal patch named Lattimer, a few miles from Hazleton in Luzerne County. The headline in ...

A lot has been written about the Lattimer Massacre, but perhaps the headline in the Pottsville Republican on Sept. 11, 1897 best captures the dimension of the tragedy. “Strikers Shot In Cold Blood,” ...

The 400 miners and immigrants who went on strike after a state tax on foreign labor cost them 3 cents a day, started marching through coal towns around Hazleton with American flags. The 87 deputies, ...

ONE OF the worst labor clashes in the nation occurred 115 years ago this month just outside of Hazleton. Today, a marker where the road splits as you enter Lattimer is the only evidence that in the ...

HAZLE TWP. – Ever since a posse shot 19 coal miners to death and wounded dozens more in the village of Lattimer on Sept. 10, 1897, a debate simmered about blame. When recapping how people remembered ...

Penn State Wilkes-Barre students in the communications class Conflict, Negotiation and Resolution conducted a field trip to the site of the 1897 Lattimer Massacre in Lattimer. The Lattimer Massacre is ...

The film reveals how rising union pressure, anti immigrant hostility, and unchecked power collided on September 10, 1897. What began as an unarmed march for fair working conditions ended in gunfire, a ...