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ON APRIL 1-2, 2023, the Pennsylvania Labor History Society and Battle of Homestead Foundation presented a two-day historical conference commemorating the 1922-23 United Mine Workers strike based in Windber, PA and the 1924 street battle between citizens of Lilly, PA and the Ku Klux Klan. The weekend contained lectures, music, monument tours and service award ceremonies celebrating the epic miners’ strike and a community’s anti-Klan resistance. The full schedule of events is here. ALL EVENTS were videotaped by documentary filmmaker and BHF board member Pauline Greenlick. The links are below: April 1. Singer-songwriter Tom Breiding opened the weekend with a concert set celebrating American Labor History. Tom Breiding is the official Musician-in-Residence for the United Mine Workers of America. April 1. “Women in Coal and Steel” panel with Steffi Domike, Kipp Dawson, Amy Niehouse. April 1. “John Brophy and Labor Education” panel featuring Elizabeth Ricketts, Nick Molnar, Sterling Maystorovich, Jan Lohmann. April 1. “Eastern Europeans and American Labor History” featuring Dr. Charles McCollester, Ken Wolensky, Nick Molnar honoring Dr. Millie Beik. ALSO INCLUDED – The Pennsylvania Labor History Society annual awards presentation: The Irwin Marcus Labor Education Award to John Lepley (USW Education Department); Bill Sylvis Labor Organizer Award to […]