Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Virginia Tech lecturer Taulby Edmondson discussed unionization efforts in the West Virginia mining industry that led to a series of armed conflicts ...
MATEWAN, W.Va. — In August 1921, an estimated 10,000 union coal miners clashed with anti-union figures in Logan County, sparking the largest armed insurrection in U.S. history outside the Civil War ...
MATEWAN, WV (WVNS) — The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum announced that the staff at the institution has unionized, becoming an official part of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). According to ...
The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: THE WEST VIRGINIA ENCYCLOPEDIA AT WWW.WVENCYCLOPEDIA.ORG. May 19, 1920: Ten people were killed in a ...
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 08 No. 30 - 8 October 1921) Including: Sylvia Pankhurst on the fallacies of industrial unionists, the battle of Matewan, manifesto of the Communist Workers Party, birth ...
MATEWAN, WV (WVNS) — The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum announced that the staff at the institution has unionized, becoming an official part of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). We are ...