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Breaker at dawn

by Paul Sullivan

Irish AmericansHistoryCoal mines and miningLabor movementChild laborFiction

Working for the past four years in the breaker room of a Pennsylvania coal mine in 1900, twelve-year-old Paddy O'Grady sorts coal twelve hours a day, as labor leader John Mitchell tries to organize a protest against the terrible working conditions.

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