Posted on 07/30/2019 8:15:07 AM PDT by buckalfa
They say in Harlan County,
There are no neutrals there.
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J. H. Blair.
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
It’s a major miner protest!
In legal terms they might call this putting a lien on the coal until wages due are paid. Perfectly reasonable demand.
Really bad optics for the company, and I feel for the miners. That being said, they can’t get paid until those loads get delivered, so it seems self-defeating.
Because the major miner’s minors need school supplies.
I miss Elmore Leonard.
If this goes on for a while and starts to get press, it would be a good opportunity for President Trump to get some good blue-collar press by standing with the miners. It could help in states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. It could put Democrats on the defensive. Do they stand with the union miners or the environmentalists?
Those are some nice spikes you got Holden down them rails, sure hope some of them don’t go missing.
Pay the miners what they’re owed!
The company is bankrupt.
Coal income will go to the suppliers, not the miners.
The company has the option of posting a bond to pay the miners once the coal is released.
That is a rough badass neck of the woods that didn’t get it’s name for nothing. Those hollers have secrets they’ll never give up. There is also nearby “bloody” (also) Breathitt County and Pike County of Hatfield McCoy fame. Appalachia heap bad medicine.
It’s totally JUSTIFIED! ;)
“I miss Elmore Leonard.”
Hard to fill the gaping hole he left behind. Time to read all of his books all over again! :)
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/elmore-leonard/203769/
“Appalachia heap bad medicine.” Harlan, the Baltimore of the mountains.
My grandpa was killed in a mining accident atthe BlueDiamond mine in Highsplint, just outside of Harlan, in 1932. He spent three days in the company hospital before he died. The day he passed away BlueDiamond sent my grandma a bill for hospital his hospital stay. They also evicted herfrom the company house. She had four kids andwwas seven months pregnant at the time. You are either a company man or a union man.
My gramps was the first treasurer of the UMW in Harlan when it was organised. He was good friends with “Peggy” (Pegleg) Dwyer, whose house was Dynamited by company thugs while he and his family were in it. Peggy was the prime organiser of the first UMW Union in Harlan. My grandpa was also involved in the Black Tuesday gunfight between the miners and the sheriff and company thugs.
I am always reading his books over again. The easy way he brings me into his stories is what inspired me to write.
*APPLAUSE* :)
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