http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/04/he-said-if-miners-picketed-his-mine-he.html Stories, quotes and anecdotes. Sun, 19 May 2013 20:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/04/he-said-if-miners-picketed-his-mine-he.html#comment-1318972 Tom Mathews Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:16:15 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2009/04/he-said-if-miners-picketed-his-mine-he-would-slaughter-them/#comment-1318972 Brother Tidwell may not have been a professional historian but his recall of the UMWA struggle against the coal barons has the ring of truth.
These were the same kind of greedy employers who worked little kids half to death in their coal breakers and cheated the coalminers out of their hard-earned wages.
There was an old saying:
“Miners mine coal and the company mines the miners.”
This is an important story and a great website.

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/04/he-said-if-miners-picketed-his-mine-he.html#comment-158410 Elizabeth Robinson Mon, 23 May 2011 03:02:14 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2009/04/he-said-if-miners-picketed-his-mine-he-would-slaughter-them/#comment-158410 This written by UMWA organizer Tidwell is not a factual account of this gun battle. Don’t believe everything you read. There is always two sides to every story.

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