Episode Details

On today's story we are back up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, deep in the mining shafts, then a strike began, and just 5 months later The Italian Hall Disaster.

Sources:

Intro and Exit music written and recorded by Alan Hunt.

Death’s Door The Truth Behind Michigan’s Largest Mass Murder by Steven Lehto, first edition, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I04FIpH5ywM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yjFP1IajQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FruyQLoryPc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqEoFQTSb44

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft_sinking#:~:text=Mine%20shafts%20are%20vertical%20or,any%20combination%20of%20the%20above

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_and_Hecla_Mining_Company#:~:text=By%201897%2C%20the%20Calumet%20and,the%20Calumet%20and%20Hecla%20system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Country_strike_of_1913–1914#:~:text=The%20Copper%20Country%20quickly%20became,%22lower%20class%22%20of%20worker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_and_Hecla_Mining_Company#:~:text=By%201897%2C%20the%20Calumet%20and,the%20Calumet%20and%20Hecla%20system.

https://www.1913strike.mtu.edu/paternalism.html