May 19

Explosion in Coal Creek, Tenn. kills 184 miners - 1902

Shootout in Matewan, W. Va. between striking union miners (led by Police

Chief Sid Hatfield) and coal company agents. Ten died, including seven

agents - 1920

Gas explosion in a Mather, Pennsylvania, coal mine kills 195. - 1928

The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, formed by the Congress of Industrial

Organizations, formally becomes the United Steelworkers of America - 1942

31 dockworkers are killed, 350 workers and others are injured when four

barges carrying 467 tons of ammunition blow up at South Amboy, New Jersey.

They were loading mines that had been deemed unsafe by the Army and were

being shipped to the Asian market for sale - 1950

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