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Ghost Towns
Sease, Glenn | August 7, 1954 issue

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Coal mines are full of trouble, even when work is good and hopes are high and the miners drink to the tune of rollicking Polish polkas down at the town tavern. In the better days, there's the fear of props cracking and buckling, letting the rock roof down on the men. But today, there's worse misery in the mine town that stud Pennsylvania's hillsides. More sinister than the dust cloud that used to hang like a black blanket overhead is the present wholesale shutdown of mines. Thousands of men have been laid off and scores of towns are turning into ghosts. Since January 1, 1953, 156 mines have closed in the state and 16,247 men have been thrown out of work.

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MINE closures; COAL mines & mining; EMPLOYEES -- Dismissal of; MINERAL industries; MINES & mineral resources; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States
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