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About that hardshell baptist preacher in "Matewan":
While he was ranting about "beezelbub," and "socialist, Bolshevik, union man!" Did anyone else wonder how much the coal operators had paid him to do that? Considering how the companies apparently owned the state for all practical purposes, maybe they really did that. They did bribe law enforcement and politicians with impunity, it seems.
