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Thunder in the mountains : the West Virginia mine war, 1920-21 /
The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties wer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
1990.
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| Colección: | Pittsburgh series in social and labor history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1. On to Mingo
- 2. Everyone called him Sid
- 3. The Battle of Matewan; 4. We have organized all the camps
- 5. The most complete deadlock of any industrial struggle
- 6. It's good to have friends
- 7. Our citizens are being shot down like rats
- 8. ... to clean up Mingo County
- 9. You saw nothing wrong in that?
- 10. Don't shoot him any more!
- 11. There can be no peace
- 12. We'll hang Don Chafin to a sour apple tree!
- 13. No armed mob will cross Logan County
- 14. It's your real Uncle Sam
- 15. By God, we're goin' through16. We wouldn't revolt against the national guv'ment
- 17. The thugs are coming
- 18. There was a different feeling
- 19. I, Warren G. Harding ... do hereby command
- 20. Bring your raincoats and machine guns
- 21. Bullets were hissing back and forth
- 22. Things slacked off after we ate
- 23. These strange new craft
- 24. The miners have withdrawn their lines
- 25. It was Uncle Sam did it
- Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; lndex.