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John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers President plaque located in Lucas, Iowa After serving as statistician and then as vice-president for the UMWA, Lewis became that union's acting president in 1919. On November 1, 1919, he called the first major coal union strike, and 400,000 miners walked off their jobs.
The United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis announced a strike for November 1, 1919. [1] They had agreed to a wage agreement to run until the end of World War I and now sought to capture some of their industry's wartime gains.
The museum focuses on global events from the causes of World War I before 1914 through the 1918 armistice and 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Visitors enter the exhibit space within the 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m 2 ) facility across a glass bridge above a field of 9,000 red poppies , each representing 1,000 combatant deaths.
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [5] [6] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
Stacie Peterson, director of exhibitions and collections at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, shows an historical office memo during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at ...
The Centralia Tragedy, also known as the Centralia Conspiracy [2] and the Armistice Day Riot, [3] [4] was a violent and bloody incident that occurred in Centralia, Washington, on November 11, 1919, during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
The National World War I Memorial is a national memorial commemorating the service rendered by members of the United States Armed Forces in World War I.The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the World War I Centennial Commission to build the memorial in Pershing Park, located at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
Fendall family coat of arms. The Lee–Fendall House is a historic house museum and garden located in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, United States, at 614 Oronoco Street.. Since its construction in 1785, the house has served as home to thirty-seven members of the Lee family (1785–1903), hundreds of convalescing Union soldiers (1863–1865), the prominent Downham family (1903–1937), the ...