There used to be an expression heard in San Giovanni in Fiore, and the other little Calabrase mountain towns near the arch of the boot in southern Italy that have West Virginia coal-mining connections. People would say it when they were on their way to an errand, or work, or just an outing ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com One of the art pieces on display at the Battle of Blair Mountain Art Exhibit at the Monongalia Arts Center. “Pray For The Dead, Fight Like Hell For The Living” is now on display at Monongalia Arts Center. The exhibit, for which there was an opening ...
The Mine Wars of 1912-21 were the height of labor organizing in the Mountain State. Organizing to demand real money for wages and less lethal work environments were punishable crimes; but paying employees in company money and letting hired guns beat up employees were legal. Unions were ...
Bullets snapped the air, breaking branches and kicking dirt. Biplanes droned overhead, and some of the pipe bombs dropped by their pilots actually worked. It didn’t take long for the miners who had been Over There to revert back. They were tough, rangy and more than committed. A ...
Aug. 25, 1921, was the beginning of the end of West Virginia’s lost chapter. While the memory of company stores and scrip live on, the nearly decade-long rebellion against deplorable working conditions and coal barons’ greed has largely been forgotten. West Virginia’s coal mine ...