An interesting video created by Joe Tucciarone about the Italians who ended up in New York instead of South America and ended up in Ohio coal mines as strikebreakers.
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My husband’s grandfather followed his brothers to the coal mines in Carbondale, PA, He died of Black Lung – only 27 years after arriving in NYC. I don’t know about his 3 brothers who also worked at those mines. It was said “scouters” grabbed Italians & others as they disembarked from the ships.
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