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#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction

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The Coal Miners Are Tough People, and They're Going Up There to Kill Them

The company brought in trainloads of scab labor from other parts of the country. This was the one way that they could truly defeat their strike. Lawrence o'brien is a skilled machinist who lives in new york city, and he's out looking for work. He signs up on the spot with several of his irish buddies,. A whole bunch of italian and polish immigrantswho literally just got off the boat. They came straight from the docks, and they don't even have time to go home for a change of clothing. And so these poor replacement workers had no idea what they were walking into... It was becoming a war zone very quickly. Maybe made a little

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