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E57: West Virginia Mine Wars, part 1

Working Class History

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The Distrustful Environment of Public Law Enforcement

Baldwin-Feltz played a key role in the often violent repression of union miners. Public law enforcement at this time was enmeshed in and sometimes inseparable from these private mine guards, these mercenaries. The next day, everyone at that meeting gets fired from their jobs because there was a spy there. This miner was called Elmer Rumba. After the strike, both Rummy and Chaplin joined the industrial works of the world union.

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