TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - Italian Americans KW - labor strikes KW - legal profession KW - trade unions KW - Irish Americans KW - Polish Americans KW - Coal Strike of 1949 KW - lockouts KW - United Mine Workers KW - Black Americans KW - coal industry AU - Stefan Heym AB - When the local mining union chief fails to take action against the company, Carlisle Kennedy leads a wildcat pit strike. C1 - 1940s-50s C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Westmoreland County; New Kensington C4 - Labor; Roman à clef CY - Leipzig, Germany LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - When the local mining union chief fails to take action against the company, Carlisle Kennedy leads a wildcat pit strike. PB - Paul List Verlag PP - Leipzig, Germany PY - 1953 RN - Stefan Heym (1913-2001) was born Helmet Flieg to a Jewish family in Germany. He fled in the 1930s to Czechoslovakia and later to America. In 1936, he completed a degree at the University of Chicago. As a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, and a socialist, he became a naturalized American citizen and even served as an American soldier in the liberation of Europe. An active writer, he was requested to do site visits with coal miners in Western Pennsylvania during a strike and led to Goldsborough's first drafts. McCarthyism, however, drove him to East Germany where he finished the book in 1952. Heym renounced his American citizenship and lived the rest of his life in East Germany. EP - 511 p. TI - Goldsborough ER -