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Bunker used by company thugs to fire upon agitated workers, Mine Wars, West Virginia, USA, ~1912? (lemmy.world)

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy cow. That is quite a read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

I had family involved in all of that. On the union side, and there's still some of that family line that are furious about it.

Hell, there's a branch of us that had a more or less socialist upbringing because of it, though I wasn't part of that directly.

But yeah, I have family in Mingo county that take great pride in the history of it, almost to the point of silliness tbh.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Class warfare

[–] Subtracty@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I remember seeing the PBS documentary about the mine wars a few years ago. It is crazy the amount of control these companies had, and the lengths miners had to go through to break free from the system.