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TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY (11/6/2025)

Chris Garlock | Published on 11/6/2025
1922: A coal mine explosion in Spangler, Pa. kills 79. The mine had been rated gaseous in 1918, but at the insistence of new operators it was rated as non-gaseous even though miners had been burned by gas on at least four occasions.