A Study of the West Virginia Coal Industry and Ways to Help it
Author: West Virginia. Legislature. Joint Committee on Government and Finance. Subcommittee on Coal Mining
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: West Virginia. Legislature. Joint Committee on Government and Finance. Subcommittee on Coal Mining
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Constitutional Association (Charleston, W. Va.)
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Purviance Tams (Jr.)
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia is much more than a brief history of one of West Virginia's most productive coal regions. Written by a pioneer operator who served in leadership positions in the Winding Gulf Coal Operators Association. The Smokeless Operators Association, the National Coal Association and the Southern Coal Operators Association, theis [this] little book constitutes a memoir of a man and a generation that shaped our history. Tams's description of the events, companies, and personalities that built the coal industry in the New River and Winding Gulf regions fills an important gap in our understanding of that volatile time."--Ronald D. Eller, from the Introduction (on back cover).
Author: West Virginia Coal Mining Institute
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Green
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2015-02-03
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0802192092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).