8-30-15 The Battle of Blair Mountain in 2:00

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http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/august-30-the-battle-of-blair-mountain/




August 30, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1921. That was the day that one of most pitched battles in US labor history, the “Battle of Blair Mountain” began in West Virginia. Coal fueled the engines of industry, keeping the trains moving and the steel mills humming.

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[Cheese Sandwich]

1. An actual battle, with thousands of people on each side

That's pretty crazy.

It's really interesting thanks for posting

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest organized armed uprising since the American Civil War.[1] For five days in late August and early September 1921, in Logan County, West Virginia, some 10,000 armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers, called the Logan Defenders,[2] who were backed by coal mine operators during an attempt by the miners to unionize the southwestern West Virginia coalfields. The battle ended after approximately one million rounds were fired,[3] and the United States Army intervened by presidential order.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain