While thumbing through a book a few years ago, Spencer Sadler saw an old photograph of members of Pennsylvania’s Coal and Iron Police, a private police force created under state legislation to protect company property but which later became better known for their often heavy-handed, strike-breaking tactics.
“The concept struck me so oddly,” Sadler said. He asked himself, “How could I have family who worked in coal mining and not have been aware of the C&I?”
His curiosity led to three years of research and writing, and Sadler is now the author of a new book, “Pennsylvania’s Coal and Iron Police,” available from Arcadia Publishing.
Read the full article in the November 20, 2009 edition of Indiana Gazette.
