I come from Pennsylvania. Both sides of my family worked the mines & lived in company towns. Towns with names like "#5". I cringe when I hear the names Frick, Carnegie and Rockefeller.
The miners organized armed patrols to ward off the detectives, but they were no match for the “Death Special.” That was the name Baldwin-Felts agents gave to the car, equipped with a machine gun, in which they roamed the coalfields at night. https://timeline.com/rockefellers-hired-militias-to-shoot-at-strikers-in-ludlow-massacre-115ae488164c …
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I grew up in Southern Indiana hearing about the coal mines in Kentucky & listening to Bluegrass songs like Paradise. Here is one by Tennessee Ernie Ford that I haven’t forgotten from 60 years ago.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7g2oyVUKNE …
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