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The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The conflict occurred in Logan County , West Virginia , as part of the Coal Wars , a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia .
The Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency was a private detective agency in the United States from the early 1890s to 1937. The agency's members played a key role in the events that led to the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 and violent repression [1] of labor union members.
William H. Blizzard (September 19, 1892 – July 31, 1958) was an American union organizer, a commander of the miners' army during the Battle of Blair Mountain, and president of District 17 of the United Mine Workers (UMWA).
[12] and troops of the 19th and 26th U.S. Infantry divisions were readied at Camp Sherman in Ohio and Camp Dix in New Jersey, respectively, to be sent by railroad to West Virginia. [ 13 ] The union leaders ignored the order and 2,500 federal troops arrived on September 2, bringing with them machine guns and military aircraft armed with surplus ...
This was the beginning of the modern Clinchfield. The promoters proposed a 625-mile line from Ironton, Ohio, to Charleston, South Carolina, with an extension down the Ohio River to Cincinnati. It would serve the rich agricultural lands of the Piedmont, the summer resorts of the North Carolina mountains, the rich timber and mineral deposits and ...
August 25–September 2 – An uprising of striking coal miners in West Virginia leads to the Battle of Blair Mountain. September 5 – Popular comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle attends a party at the St. Francis Hotel , San Francisco, during which actress Virginia Rappe is fatally injured; although he is eventually acquitted of rape and ...
Death of Elmer “Bill” Blair Mountain Grove, Missouri: A hot air balloon exploded after propane began to leak, causing the balloon to catch fire. The balloon's pilot jumped from the balloon to safety, but was killed when he hit the ground. A person aiding the pilot was injured when trying to rescue the pilot from the burning wreckage. [60 ...
The AA presence in Ohio and Illinois continued for a few more years, but the union continued to collapse. Many lodges disbanded, their members disillusioned. Others were easily broken in short battles. Carnegie Steel's Mingo Junction, Ohio, plant was the last major unionized steel mill in the country. But it, too, successfully withdrew ...