The list of worker deaths in United States labor disputes captures known incidents of fatal labor-related violence in U.S. labor history, which began in the colonial era with the earliest worker demands around 1636 for better working conditions.
The table below has three sections: violence perpetrated by law enforcement and companies' militia, armed detectives and guards; executions by the state; violence perpetrated by vigilantes, strikers, mobs and hate groups.
... Any objective study of the tenor of the times and the entire record must conclude that (the Mollies) ... did not have fair and impartial juries.
They were, therefore, denied one of the fundamental rights that William Penn guaranteed to all of Pennsylvania's citizens.
[150]Following an investigation 100 years after his death, John Kehoe was posthumously pardoned by the governor, who wrote, "[I]t is impossible for us to imagine the plight of the 19th Century miners in Pennsylvania's anthracite region.