He fined the UMW $20,000. When filmmaker Barbara Kopple traveled to Harlan County, Kentucky, the resulting Academy award-winning documentary, Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) captured a historic story. On May 5, 1931, the Battle of Evarts began. It was a nearly decade-long conflict, lasting from 1931 to 1939. . I am the only man in the United States who would do that sort of thing.". Typical of counties with low income, counties where the mine companies own everything and pay low taxes, our UMW driver says. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. Source Citation [ }] Descriptive Note Contributors from initial SNAC EAC-CPF ingest. Crossing the Clinch River, we turn onto Highway 421 and leave the modern world. I have an Associates Degree from Hazard Community College and Technical School. Darrell Deaton says there is a direct telephone line to Washington for safety complaints, "but if you identify yourself; you're gonna be out of a job.". They're trapped. The Wagner Act of 1935 (National Labor Relations Act or NLRA) guaranteed the rights of workers to choose to organize. He tells me that the miners plan to picket on Wall Street, hoping to give Duke problems with its stock. In response, the coal owners and operators decided to sell their fuel at below cost to increase the national dependency on coal. The coal companies refused to back down from their positions and change anything. For a time after the hearing, he says, it appeared that Duke had softened. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". If you wouldn't do it, they'd just say, 'Get your bucket.' There were ten lodges that were chartered for the National Miners Union. He is dressed more like a miner than a mining executive. The Widows of Harlan County - CBS News No one knows who fired the first shot but when it was over four were . The AFSC fed almost 1500 children in Harlan by the end of the 1931-2 schoolyear, as well as about a hundred nursing and expectant mothers. And lastly, the Harlan Fox Mining Co - presumably derived from the Harlan Fox Coal Co - was in operation from 1925-1932. (Eastover, to repeat, now pays portal-to-portal wages for inside workers in its other mines and has raised the wages of nonstrikers to the UMW level.) "This troubles me; I don't sleep," Yarborough says. I have also attended the University of Pikeville. Dalton points out that there were 132 mine fatalities in the United States in 1973, only seventeen of them in UMW mines. Harlan County Coal Miners Deaths 1940-1949 1940 1940 Hayes, Petry - Harlan Central Coal Company Totz No.
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