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Monterey Pub St Paddy's/St
Paddy's Day Parade celebration tomorrow!
Bar opens at 1p.m. and the
kitchen opens at 3p.m. Live entertainment
featuring Jamie and Myles Rooney starting at
7p.m.
Lots of beer and traditional
Irish fare! Kick off your pre-celebration
tonight with our Lenten specials!
The Allegheny Y Lecture Series
continues...also check out the invite to the
Wine Comparative!
Allegheny Y Lectures and
Conversations Series
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Labor Historian Charles McCollester
Topic: A Labor History of the North Side.
"Organized Labor in Allegheny City and on the
Northside"
From the Cotton Mill "Rioters" (1845, 1848) to
Martin Delany's speech of total resistance to
the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), "Boss" Ammon's
leadership of the 1877 railroad workers
organizing efforts, early Marxist and anarchist
organizing, the appearance of Father Charles
Owen Rice on his first picket line at the H.J.
Heinz plant in 1937, the founding convention of
the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
the following year, to the anti-Red riot at the
Allegheny Carnegie Library in 1948, Allegheny
City, aka the Northside, has a long history of
union and political activism. Charles
McCollester, author ofThe Point of Pittsburgh:
Production and Struggle at the Forks of the
Ohio, will provide an overview of this rich
history.Dr. Charles McCollester, retired
professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and
former director of the Pennsylvania Center for
the Study of Labor Relations at IUP.
There is no charge for attendance, but donations
to the YMCA’s Building Bridges Campaign will be
gratefully accepted.
Sponsored By:
First Niagara and the Pittsburgh Steelers
Special thanks to the Monterey Pub for their
continued support! |
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