Two early volumes of the PLHS Journal now available

Vol. 1 Numbers one and two from 1974 and 1975 respectively are now available for free download by PLHS members. Both volumes can be purchased by non-members on the shop page. Dating back to the mid-1970s these publications have historical significance of their own.

Vol. 1, No. 1 November 1974 includes:

• Founding of the Pennsylvania Labor History Society on November 17, 1973.
• Report on the first general membership meeting
• Society Notes and Miscellaneous Memoranda
• Reprint from the Pottsville Republican newspaper: Pennsylvania labor historians organize, honor pioneer mine unionists
• Reprint from the Hazelton Standard newspaper: Labor Historical Society Holds First Dinner Here

Vol.1 No. 2 December 1975 contains these articles:

• Report on second annual meeting
• Keyserling: present at the creation of the NLRB
• Labor to Bicentennial
• Introduction by Society member John M. Elliott to the book: The Mollie Maquires and the the Detectives
• Effort to restore citizenship to Eugene Debs
• The Rise And Fall and Rise of Tom Armstrong, by Margie Carlin
• Reprint from The Pittsburgh Press: Labor Movement Historians Find State A Fertile Field