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Molly Maguires

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Molly Maguires A secret US organization of Irish Americans (c.1865–75). Its name was based on an anti-landlord organization in Ireland. It dominated the eastern Pennsylvania coalfields, campaigning against anti-union mine-owners and managers. Resorting to murder and intimidation of the police, it was broken after infiltration by a PINKERTON detective.

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