Coeur d'Alene miners' dispute
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The Coeur d'Alene miners' dispute refers to two incidents:
- On July 11, 1892 miners in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho commandeered trains, fired on scabs, and threatened to blow up nonunion equipment. The governor of Idaho sent National Guardsmen and federal troops to confine 600 miners in bullpens without any hearings or formal charges. One of the leaders, George Pettibone, was convicted of contempt of court and criminal conspiracy. Pettibone was later implicated in the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho.
- On April 29, 1899 members of the Western Federation of Miners dynamited the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Mining Company at Wardner, Idaho. President William McKinley sent black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas, veterans of the Spanish-American war, to roundup 1,000 men into bullpens.
[edit] References
- New Politics, vol. 7, no. 1 (new series), whole no. 25, Summer 1998 by Steve Early [1]
- Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas
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