Mr. Speaker. tomorrow will be a most significant day in the history of the anthracite coalfields in northeastern Pennsylvania. when the Paramount Pictures production. "The Molly Maguires" will have its world premiere in the cities of WilkesBarre and Hazleton. which I have been privileged to represent over the past quarter century. as well as in neighboring Scranton. "The "Mollies" is the story of the conflict between oppressed immigrant Irish coal miners. earning their pittance in the lethal chambers beneath the terrain of the anthracite region. and the company police. hired to protect the barons and their holdings from the newly formed secret society which was bent on "an eye for an eye" against coal company injustice. But beyond the cold facts of labor strife and violence. which. a century later. still plagues our society. are some of the basic elements of our American historycourage in the face of exploitation. pain. deceit. and injustice. Vividly traced in the Paramount screening Is prelabor union America. what it was really like before men joined in the first determined fight for organizing to secure rights and improved working conditions.
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