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Offline Hoodat

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Re: Michael Bloomberg pledges $500M to shutter U.S. coal plants
« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2019, 04:16:41 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on June 12, 2019, 03:59:01 pm
To this day,  some West Virginians cling to the labor wars of the 1920s as support for their "us vs. management mentality". It's tiresome. They ignore how irate coal miners executed a sheriff in cold blood,  just as they today overlook how union bosses are screwing them.

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Ever see the movie Matewan?
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Re: Michael Bloomberg pledges $500M to shutter U.S. coal plants
« Reply #26 on: June 12, 2019, 04:21:17 pm »
 No, but have heard of it. My position is that neither side - labor or management - was without sin, so perhaps we should stop rehashing past injustices and look at today's reality.
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Re: Michael Bloomberg pledges $500M to shutter U.S. coal plants
« Reply #27 on: June 12, 2019, 10:12:51 pm »
"Matewan" is pretty good, directed by John Sales and Hazel Dickens appears in it, singing. But Matewan is a fictional piece.

"Harlan County, USA" is a very good documentary about miners trying to get a company to accept a union contract, shot back in the early 1970's. The filmmaker, Barbara Kopple, was probably an out-and-out communist -- but the finished work is worth watching, nonetheless.
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