TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - labor strikes
KW - trade unions
KW - Great Depression, The
KW - Congress of Industrial Organizations
KW - Slovak Americans
KW - Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC)
KW - Communist Party
KW - John L. Lewis (1880-1969)
KW - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
KW - Oil Workers International Union (OWIU)
KW - American Petroleum Institute (API)
KW - strikebreakers
KW - John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937)
KW - oil industry
KW - priests
KW - Black Americans
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - David Poyer
AB - When a refinery explosion kills workers, strike leader W. T. Halvorsen and CIO organizer Doris Gurley Golden confront Daniel Thunner, owner of a small oil company.  “Richly entertaining melodrama about the US labor movement, reminiscent of both early Steibeck and John Sayles's <em>Union Dues</em>,” says the <em>Kirkus Review</em>.
C1 - <p>1932-6</p>
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; McKeesport; Homestead; Turtle Creek; Swissvale; Cambria County; Cresson; Clearfield County; DuBois; Crawford County; Titusville; Elk County; St. Marys; McKean County; Bradford;
C4 - Literary; Suspense; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - When a refinery explosion kills workers, strike leader W. T. Halvorsen and CIO organizer Doris Gurley Golden confront Daniel Thunner, owner of a small oil company.  “Richly entertaining melodrama about the US labor movement, reminiscent of both early Steibeck and John Sayles's <em>Union Dues</em>,” says the <em>Kirkus Review</em>.
PB - A Forge Book
PP - New York
PY - 1999
RN - David Poyer (1949— ), born and raised in DuBois, Clearfield County, graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1971 and served as an active duty officer and naval reserve captain. He's the author of more than two dozen American sea fiction novels. He lives on Virginia's eastern shore.
EP - 382 p.
TI - Thunder on the Mountain
ER -