On my father’s side were Molly Maguires. I may be related to one these people in the picture 💁

The trusts seem to have focused almost exclusively upon the Molly Maguires for criminal prosecution. Information passed from the Pinkerton detective, intended only for the detective agency and their client – the most powerful industrialist of the region – was also provided to vigilantes who ambushed and murdered miners suspected of being Molly Maguires, as well as their families.[13] Molly Maguire history is sometimes presented as the prosecution of an underground movement that was motivated by personal vendettas, and sometimes as a struggle between organized labour and powerful industrial forces. Whether membership in the Mollies’ society overlapped with union membership to any appreciable extent remains open to conjecture.

"The charge has been made that the Molly Maguires episode was deliberately manufactured by the coal operators with the express purpose of destroying all vestiges of unionism in the area… There is some evidence to support the charge… the “crime wave” that appeared in the anthracite fields came after the appearance of the Pinkertons, and… many of the victims of the crimes were union leaders and ordinary miners. The evidence brought against [the defendants], supplied by James McParlan, a Pinkerton, and corroborated by men who were granted immunity for their own crimes, was tortuous and contradictory, but the net effect was damning… The trial temporarily destroyed the last vestiges of labor unionism in the anthracite area. More important, it gave the public the impression… that miners were by nature criminal in character…

From a quick wiki.

(My dad’s side is a wild bunch ngl, they have a wild streak for sure)