tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488422862815120364.post5277991701121429438..comments2023-08-27T01:42:51.266+09:30Comments on Ausjenny: Call Me Kate: is among is named in the Mom's Choice AwardsAusjennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07644698706787568679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488422862815120364.post-61326231668176620642010-02-23T13:58:43.605+10:302010-02-23T13:58:43.605+10:30Call Me Kate is a mistreatment of a rich and proud...<i>Call Me Kate</i> is a mistreatment of a rich and proud history. <br /><br />Molly Roe’s story makes coal miners who were trying to form unions into the bad guys. But these are the very men praised by former governor of Pennsylvania, Milton Shapp, as "men we can be proud of" when, in 1979, he granted a posthumous pardon to the alleged "leader" of the alleged Molly Maguires, Jack Kehoe.<br /><br />Kehoe and 19 others, all prominent in the immigrant community, had been convicted of murder in an unfair trial and executed in 1878, part of a sustained effort by coal barons to intimidate and to break unions. <br /><br />A hundred years later, when the case was reopened by the State Pennsylvania, court procedures and events surrounding the trial were found to be so unjust that the Board of Pardons recommended pardoning Kehoe, the Kehoes having been the only family to have asked the state for an exoneration. But both the governor's pardon and his words at the time make it clear his action was intended to set the record straight, and exonerate other coal miners similarly treated by coal owners of the day.c. czyiknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488422862815120364.post-11505482036495714592010-02-18T01:42:32.391+10:302010-02-18T01:42:32.391+10:30Thanks Jenny - we appreciate it!Thanks Jenny - we appreciate it!Tribute Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16959016294721462184noreply@blogger.com