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2. West Virginia coal wars - Wikipedia

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   The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners. The West Virginia mine wars era began with the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek strike of 1912–1913. [ 1] With help from Mary "Mother Jones" Harris Jones, an important figure in unionizing the mine workers, the miners ...

3. Battle of Blair Mountain - Wikipedia

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   The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [ 5][ 6] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia .

4. United Mine Workers of America - Wikipedia

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   The United Mine Workers of America ( UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. [ 1] Although its main focus has always been on workers and their rights, the ...

5. A history of Black coal miners in W.Va. is worth ... - AOL

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   Jun. 22—In West Virginia, where the Appalachian storytelling tradition still hangs in the hollows and along the ridgetops like a whisper of morning fog, it's not just the tale. It's the person ...

6. Hillbilly Highway - Wikipedia

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   West Virginia is one of the largest coal producing state in the Appalachian region. [15] One feature of the Appalachian coal mines was the existence of company towns. In the company towns , the coal companies provided the "municipal" services, owned the homes and the stores, where the accepted currency was usually company scrip (despite laws in ...

7. EDITORIAL: The real cost of coal for West Virginia - AOL

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   According to a WVU study, in 2019, coal mining and coal-fired power plants directly employed 15, 400 people (roughly 13, 000 in mining and 2, 000 in plants) and indirectly supported the employment ...