TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Italian Americans
KW - labor strikes
KW - immigrants
KW - trade unions
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Congress of Industrial Organizations
KW - Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC)
KW - Communist Party
KW - William Z. Foster (1881-1961)
KW - Philip Murray (1886-1952)
KW - John L. Lewis (1880-1969)
KW - Tony (W. A.) Boyle (1904-85)
KW - John Barcoski (1889-1929)
KW - United Mine Workers
KW - activists
KW - coal industry
AU - Michael Musmanno
AB - A novelization of the 1935 film of the same name about John Barcoski, a coal miner and union activist, who was beaten to death by private company police.
C1 - 1920s
C3 - Ohio River; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; McKeesport; Mt. Lebanon; Castle Shannon; N. Fayette Twp.; Stowe Twp.; Indiana Twp.; Fayette County; Greene County; Indiana County; Indiana; Washington County; Westmoreland County
C4 - Historical; Labor
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - A novelization of the 1935 film of the same name about John Barcoski, a coal miner and union activist, who was beaten to death by private company police.
PB - Fountainhead Publishers
PP - New York
PY - 1966
RN - Michael Musmanno (1897-1968), a prolific writer and colorful jurist, was born the son of Italian immigrants in Stowe Twp., Allegheny County. As a young man he worked in mines and mills before entering college. He earned degrees from George Washington University, Georgetown Law School, American University, and the University of Rome. He served as a lawyer (for the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti); a Pennsylvania politician; a U. S. Navy officer during World War II; an Allegheny County judge; and as a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1952 until his death. He also prosecuted Nazi war criminals as Presiding Justice at the Nuremburg International War Crimes Tribunal. Musmanno is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
EP - 394 p.
TI - Black Fury
ER -