9:00–9:30 a.m.

Opening Comments: Ambassador Przemyslaw Grudzinski,
Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C.
Marriott, Room 8212

9:30–11:30 a.m.

Polish American Historical Association Session 1
Labor Organization and Identity Formation
Marriott, Room 8212, Lobby Level

Chair:	Mary Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University
Papers:	Glüück Auf! Differences between the Way Polish Miners Organized in the United States and Germany, 1890–1940 Pien Versteegh, Erasmus University of Rotterdam Staroprusaki, Mazurzy, Germans or Poles? Masurian Exceptionalism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Brian McCook, University of California at Berkeley Blood, Coal, and Newsprint: Polish-American Identity and Labor Strife in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1897–1902 Joseph P. McKerns, Ohio State University Ethnicity Matters: The 1911 Furniture Strike in Grand Rapids, Michigan Mary Erdmans
Comment:	The Audience