@[email protected]M to History [email protected]English • 10 days agoBunker used by company thugs to fire upon agitated workers, Mine Wars, West Virginia, USA, ~1912?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down12
arrow-up1167arrow-down1imageBunker used by company thugs to fire upon agitated workers, Mine Wars, West Virginia, USA, ~1912?lemmy.world@[email protected]M to History [email protected]English • 10 days agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-square@MajorHavoclinkEnglish22•10 days agoHoly cow. That is quite a read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars
minus-squaresouthsamurailinkfedilinkEnglish6•10 days agoI had family involved in all of that. On the union side, and there’s still some of that family line that are furious about it. Hell, there’s a branch of us that had a more or less socialist upbringing because of it, though I wasn’t part of that directly. But yeah, I have family in Mingo county that take great pride in the history of it, almost to the point of silliness tbh.
Holy cow. That is quite a read.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars
I had family involved in all of that. On the union side, and there’s still some of that family line that are furious about it.
Hell, there’s a branch of us that had a more or less socialist upbringing because of it, though I wasn’t part of that directly.
But yeah, I have family in Mingo county that take great pride in the history of it, almost to the point of silliness tbh.