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E57: West Virginia Mine Wars, part 1

Working Class History

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Solidarity Forever: A Labor Anthem

Paint creek cabin creek strike was also the inspiration for the writing of the famous labor anthem, Solidarity Forever. There was a socialist poet named Ralph Chaplin, who would go through the strike zone and throw labor newspapers out into the strike zone. So, based on some of the scenes he saw, he wrote that song in collaboration with a West Virginia unionist miner named Rummy.

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