Well, that's where the Irish immigrants were.
On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
I thought that the electoral politics was restricted to the urban
areas & the larger
urban areas at that.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 07:34:49PM -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote:
You could say that the Molly Maguires were a radical labor
organization in Pennsylvania's coal regions just after the Civil
War. I don't know the history at first hand. In any event the
Mollies were subversive -- with perhaps a front in the Ancient Order
of Hiberians which is still active today. (This underground and
above ground pattern is alleged to persist today in Ireland. It is
alleged that the IRA is the armed wing of Sein Fein.) (It is also
alleged that the British Army is the armed wing of "the loyalists" as
they are called.) Arson was a common tool in Ireland against the
landlords for centuries. The Mollies were done in by the early
Pinkerton organization and generally the Irish seem to have drifted
at that time into electoral politics in the USA.
Gene Coyle
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Michael Perelman
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