Pennsylvania state legislator and former coal miner Michael Musmanno acted to ban the private Coal and Iron Police after the murder of miner John Barkoski in Imperial, Pennsylvania, in 1929. Later he wrote a short story about the incident changing the name of the miner to "Jan Volkanik."
A Pennsylvania state legislator and former coal miner, Michael Musmanno, took steps to outlaw the private Coal and Iron Police following the 1929 murder of miner John Barkoski in Imperial, Pennsylvania. He later penned a short story about the incident, renaming the miner "Jan Volkanik."