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Omaha Steve

(99,556 posts) Wed May 20, 2015, 01:57 PM May 2015

5-19-15 On this day Labor History the year was 1920 Matewan in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/may-19-matewan/

May 19, 2015
On this day Labor History the year was 1920. That year a national coal strike had won unionized miners a twenty-seven percent pay raise. But the miners in West Virginia were not in the union.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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