I remember it as a kid, and still see it today ... The lab sent mobile x-ray units to mines to screen miners regularly. It authorized job transfers for miners showing signs of disease.

Michael J. Gallagher was born in Scranton in 1898. He was born into an Irish family of coal miners and was destined to follow in their footsteps. From father to son, the skills and the grit were ...

But an enduring memory is what happened to the underage miners in the shaft where he worked. "I used to see these kids in the mine - teenagers actually, 15, 17-year-olds. "Others used to take ...