#UMWA

This Day in Labor History: May 19, 1920. The Matewan Massacre took place in the small town of Matewan, West Virginia, a pitched battle between hired gun thugs of the

This Day in Labor History: October 12, 1898. A racialized battle over strikebreaking broke out in Virden, Illinois. Let's talk about how employers could so easily manipulate racism to promote

This Day in Labor History: November 9, 1935. The Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations) was created. Let's talk about how the labor movement finally moved

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Just 100 years ago there was a small war going on in the coal mining areas of southwestern West Virginia. The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) had yet to

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THREADThe history of Appalachia in the past century or so is one of ordinary people standing up against a powerful elite. No politician or election has ever had the kind

Wow, a history lesson about cultural identity in coal country. I love discussions about this. As a founding member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, as an honorary member