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struggle4progress

(118,332 posts) Tue Jul 16, 2013, 02:28 AM Jul 2013

Battle of Blair Mountain

Find a vein and drain the black gold.
Hoping to god, that the timbers hold ...
... 14 hour shifts and such a meager wage
And Mother Jones can’t help us now anyway.
We’ll take the roads. We’ll take the train by force.
O deliver us Lord from the gathering storm
Lay down your bible, take up your gun.
Blair Mountain, here we come.
Red bandanas tell us what side you’re on.
We’re the Rednecks of the union - 1921 ...

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Battle of Blair Mountain (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2013 OP

Does that have anything to do with the Blair Witch Project? taterguy Jul 2013 #1

No, it's about an battle between coal miners and coal operaters' private army NoPasaran Jul 2013 #2

An amazing story you probably don't hear about in school. Brigid Jul 2013 #3

taterguy

(29,582 posts)

1. Does that have anything to do with the Blair Witch Project?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 06:20 AM

Jul 2013

NoPasaran

(17,291 posts)

2. No, it's about an battle between coal miners and coal operaters' private army

Reply to taterguy (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 08:02 AM

Jul 2013

A chapter in the mostly-ignored history of working folks.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

3. An amazing story you probably don't hear about in school.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 08:54 AM

Jul 2013

And that is no accident. I first heard about it myself only when I saw a long documentary about Appalachia, and I have yet to have anyone know what I am talking about when I mention it to them. I want to write a novel about it. There is already one out there, but apparently it is quite different from what I have in mind. The miners were the original "Redneck Army."

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