Sometime in the summer of 1869, a correspondent from the Boston Advertiser sat down on a log in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, with two Welsh-born coal miners named Thomas R. Williams and William Pritchard. Both men were members of the Workingmen’s Benevolent Association – the WBA – the first successful trade union for anthracite mineworkers in Pennsylvania, founded in 1868 by Irish immigrant John Siney in the St. Clair, Schuylkill County.
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