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The next major event of the mine wars in West Virginia was the Matewan Massacre on May 19, 1920. [7] The massacre only exacerbated tensions between miners, their allies, and coal operators. In West Virginia, the mine wars would come to a head at the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921. This armed conflict pitched organized miners against ...
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.
West Virginia Coal Wars continued. [30] President John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers of America (right) photographed today at the Capitol, talking over the coal situation with Representative Nolan, Chairman of the Labor Committee of the House of Representatives, 1922 April 3 1922 (United States) Conference for Progressive Political ...
The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners. The West Virginia mine wars era began with the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek strike of 1912–1913 . [ 1 ]
Part of Mexican American Wars: Coal Wars: c. 1890–1930 Eastern United States and Colorado: Coal Creek War Colorado Coalfield War Battle of Blair Mountain: Miners and unions The Coal Wars, or the Coal Mine Wars, were a series of armed labor conflicts in the United States, they occurred mainly in the East, particularly in Appalachia. [37]
Ute Wars: White River War: 32-50 [c] White River Ute vs United States of America Battle of Berwind Canyon: October 24, 1913 Berwind: Coal Wars: Colorado Coalfield War: 1 Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, & Colorado National Guard vs United Mine Workers of America: Ludlow Massacre: April 20, 1914 Ludlow: Coal Wars ...
The Colorado Coalfield War (1913–14) began when about 12,000 coal miners when on strike in Ludlow on September 23. Some of the workers were forced from their home and established a tent city, and 26 people were killed on April 20, 1914, at the makeshift settlement by agents of the coal mine owners. [ 25 ]
The Colorado Coalfield War [c] was a major labor uprising in the southern and central Colorado Front Range between September 1913 and December 1914. Striking began in late summer 1913, organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) after years of deadly working conditions and low pay.