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In April 1912, miners along Paint Creek and Cabin Creek in Kanawha County walked off their jobs, and the great Mine Wars began. Their basic demand, employer recognition of the union, seemed simple enough, but they and the coal operators alike knew that this would mean the end of company housing, company stores, company schools, company guards, and company churches, as well as better pay for the miners and control over their own lives and work. The Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike lasted a year and a half. Miners were beaten, ambushed, and killed by mine guards, machine-gunned by an armor plated train called the Bull Moose Special, illegally court martialed, and deported from the state. shaybo-therisingtide.blogspot/2011/05/mine-wars-1912-to-1922-coal-wars-5.html
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:27:37 +0000

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