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Battle of Blair Mountain #1 - Extra History
🕑 Added 2022-09-16 17:30:01 +0000 UTCMatewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in the town square. He's declined bribes and payoffs to help protect the coal miners of Matewan but the Baldwin Felts detective agency has its own plans. Backed by the coal industry and commercial railroad they've fabricated a deadly standoff, in the largest American uprising since the civil war.
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Martin Verran
No, I imagine not.
Aaron Neumann
The sad reality is that the Corporations won the war, so to speak, and it appears that Martin is the sort of person who the corporations indoctrinated.
The Deaf Mans Lands
The genuine sheep joke leads me to believe he is.
Herkles
Technically not about this event, but about a similar event by the same Union in Kentuky, specifically Harlan county. That said, this song and so much other union songs are great. anyways: YOU WILL EITHER BE A UNION MAN, OR A THUG FOR J.H BLAIR.
The Deaf Mans Lands
Goodness gracious, I've been waiting for this series for years since I started supporting EH! Thank you guys so much for finally talking about it!
Veteran of the Mushroom Wars
I am unclear here, are you anti-union?
Ramien
As pointed out obliquely in the video... did anyone think picking a fight with a Hatfield would go well?
Aaron Neumann
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON, BOYS? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Jason Youngberg
You can bet this won't be taught in most schools.
Martin Verran
BAAA ~ lair Mountain: what happens when working ~ class sheep take up the ideologies of Karl Marx.
