Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 43, Number 2, 1975

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Salt Lake Herald cartoon. 1903.

The "Foreign Element" and the 1903-4 Carbon County Coal Miners' Strike BY ALLAN KENT POWELL

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twentieth century were a time of tremendous growth for the labor movement in the United States. In 1900 nationwide union membership was 868,500, and by 1904 it had more than FIRST YEARS OF THE


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