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Part Two: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About

Behind the Bastards

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Mine Workers - What's Our Reward?

In September 1919, half of America's steel workers go on strikes and Woodrow Wilson uses federal troops to violently break the strike. But while the steel workers could be crushed rather simply, mine workers were in a much better position to resist. By this point, United mine workers was more than half a million men strong. And the union then possessed the ability to shut down almost the entire coal industry.

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