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

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The Baldwin Feels Guards in West Virginia

If a miner showed too much independence or became inquisitive, he was suspected of being a union agitator and might be beaten. The guards forcibly prohibited the assembly of more than three miners at night for fear that one of the miners might be an organizer preaching unionism. In the speech that precipitated the massacre by miners of 19 mine guards at heron, illinois, a miner had declared, we must show the world that this ain't west virginia.

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