President. the tragic saga of the Molly Maguires. a century ago. has much in common with what is happening in the battle for civil rights today. In the mining town of Eckley. Pa.. on May 6. Paramount Pictures will begin to film the story of a band of misbegotten Irish immigrant miners who formed a secret society to protest against brutal working conditions. low pay. wretched housing. and social discrimination. Although their cause was just. their methods to gain some measure of economic freedom were not. and their protest erupted into violence. beatings. and murder. By 1877. 13 members of the Molly Maguires had been hanged and the society destroyed.
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