Competing Unions
Several unions were involved in the organizing of miners.
- Workingmen's Benevolent Association
- Knights of Labor
- United Mine Workers
- United Anthracite Miners
- National Miners Union
- AFL
- CIO
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Aurand, Harold W. "Early Mine Workers' Organizations In The Anthracite Region." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 58, no. 4 (1991): 298-310. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27773483.
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