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Issac and the Coal and Iron Police in Pennsylvania

The coal and iron police are over represented with very anti irish orange men, protestant ascendancy. They really don't like catholics and enjoy oppressing them. So the iris workers in the coal fields of pennsylvania form a secret society called the mally mc guires. And they're sending really threatening letters to foremen,. or theyre burning down houses in the night. The pinkerton detective agency was founded by a scottish fellow named james martland who would have his fellow miners break up strikes for him. That's what the pinkertons did - that's what he did.

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