Elizabeth Hayes

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| death_cause = | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | burial_place = | burial_coordinates = | monuments = | nationality = | other_names = Elizabeth Hayes Voris | siglum = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | agent = |known_for = Led coal mine strike for public health

| notable_works = | style = | height = | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | otherparty = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charges = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = LeRoy Voris (married 1956) | partner = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }} Elizabeth Hayes (7 May 1912 – 26 June 1984), known as Dr. Betty Hayes, was an American physician who drew widespread attention in 1945 for protesting the unsanitary conditions in Force, Pennsylvania, a company-owned coal town where sewage was contaminating the drinking water. Fearing a typhoid outbreak, Hayes, the company doctor, asked her employer, Shawmut Mining Co., to clean up the town and provide another source of water. When Shawmut refused, Hayes quit her job, and 350 miners struck for nearly five months in support of her.

Hayes became an overnight media sensation. Dubbing her "Dr. Betty", reporters and editorial writers described her as a "miners' Joan of Arc." Reluctantly famous, she compared her sudden celebrity to that of Canada's Dionne quintuplets. Virtually all news coverage was sympathetic to the doctor and the strikers, who lived in Force and two other north-central Pennsylvania communities, Byrnedale and Hollywood. Their demands for safe water and clean streets struck a chord with Americans hoping for a bright postwar future.

In the end, investigative reporting into the coal company's finances led to the replacement of its top executives with court-appointed managers. The strike ended as the new management agreed to all of the miners' conditions and rehired Hayes, who was hailed as a "fighter" who "wouldn't wait for an epidemic." Provided by Wikipedia