Black Thursday: Mass Execution of Molly Maguires Based on Pinkerton Infiltration
Ten Irish-American coal miners were hanged in Pennsylvania on “Black Thursday,” the first mass execution in a coordinated corporate-state campaign against labor organizing. In 1873, Reading Railroad President Franklin B. Gowen hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency to infiltrate the Molly …
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Franklin B. Gowen
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
James McParlan
Pennsylvania Courts
labor-suppression
corporate-power
judicial-corruption
gilded-age
institutional-capture
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