Thomas Mallory

Death by Force

Police Officer Thomas Mallory, a white, Caucasian male serving with the Erie Railroad Police Department and assigned to the bustling coal docks of Edgewater, New Jersey, met his death on December 11, 1912, in the middle of a violent labor dispute. At the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad yards and coal docks, where coal from Pennsylvania flowed toward the Hudson River and eastern markets, tensions between management and striking coal handlers had been rising, turning an industrial water ...Read More