As in Germany, the AFSC used need alone to determine who got fed. We first hear from a number of the striking miners about safety conditions in the Brookside mine. Done. A federal bankruptcy judge ruled that the company could leave damages to the environment, abandon assets, and not pay the coal miners owed wages. Harlan County sits in the sweet spot of coal mining in southeastern Kentucky. Even pop culture cannot ignore its impact with such shows as Justified. Whitfield's family was from Alabama where his father had been in the coal business. He run all the way down the stairs and out of the jail." 5355 after Local Union 4495 at Black Mountain folded up. Herndon J. Evans, the editor of the Pineville Sun, argued, The troubles of the coal industry had their inception in war times. I can see twenty-five miles to the southeast, five ridges. In the bloody 1930s coal wars, miners known to be union members were fired and evicted from company-owned homes. "I don't like to handle that raw juice," he says. Altogether, it is a heavy financial burden for the UMW. corporateBody associatedWith : Heyl & Patterson, Inc . Which Side are You on?: The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39 He says that negotiations were broken off on November 28, 1973, because of the miners' insistence on the full terms of the standard UMW contract. I have also attended the University of Pikeville. The Seco Train Accident September 20, 1917, New Bank in the Coal Country Installed in 1911, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Evarts, https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/new-deal/national-industrial-recovery-act-of-1933/, https://pipiwiki.com/wiki/Battle_of_Evarts, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County_War, https://labornotes.org/blogs/2019/08/brief-history-harlan-county-usa, https://www.thebalancecareers.com/the-wagner-act-of-1935-national-labor-relations-act-2060509#:~:text=%20The%20Wagner%20Act%20defines%20and%20prohibits%20five,or%20administration%20of%20a%20labor%20organization.%20More%20, https://www.nytimes.com/1935/09/05/archives/bomb-in-auto-kills-kentucky-official-harlan-county-attorney.html#:~:text=HARLAN%2C%20Ky.%2C%20Sept.%204%20%28AP%29.%20%20The%20death,his%20automobile.%20View%20Full%20Article%20in%20Timesmachine%20%C2%BB, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70804679/elmon-clay-middleton, https://www.nytimes.com/1935/09/06/archives/kentucky-holds-four-in-auto-bomb-killing-harlan-prosecutors-death.html, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/?fbclid=IwAR21nYphw4Dul-_EwuAmSWgzsvPLNwsMM0FtV75j0y-mGUHq-lCZjJxZot8, The Flatwoods Monster: Weird Appalachia Cases, Rotherwood Mansion: Weird Appalachia Cases, The Brown Mountain Ghostly Lights: Weird Appalachia Cases.