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2025-05-19

Today in Labor History May 18, 1920: The Battle of Matewan occurred in the town of Matewan, Mingo County, West Virginia. It started when the mine bosses fired miners for joining the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and evicted them from their company housing. Sheriff Sid Hatfield supported the miners’ right to organize and tried to arrest the detectives. The detectives, in turn, tried to arrest Hatfield. Unbeknownst to the detectives, armed miners had surrounded them. No one knows who shot first, but when the smoke had cleared, there were 7 dead detectives, including Albert and Lee Felts, and 4 dead townspeople, including the mayor. The episode became known as the Matewan Massacre, and is depicted in John Sayles’ film Matewan. West Virginia bluegrass singer and labor activist Hazel Dickens sings the film's title track, "Fire in the Hole."

Mining was, and still is, one of the most dangerous and corrupt industries around. Owners typically forced the miners to live in company towns and purchase living necessities from their company stores at inflated prices. They paid the men in scrip, which was useless outside of the company towns. In the time leading up to the Battle of Matewan, miners in other parts of the country had won a 27% wage increase. The time was ripe for organizing southern Appalachia. The UMWA sent in their best organizers, including Mother Jones. 3,000 men signed union cards in the early spring of 1920. Yet, at the same time, vigilantes, detectives and goons were murdering miners in the region. And the company was evicting anyone who signed up. So, hundreds of miners and their families were living in the Stony Mountain Camp Tent Colony.

On August 1, 1921, surviving members of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency assassinated Sheriff Sid Hatfield, in broad daylight, on the steps of Welch County courthouse, as his wife watched in horror. As news of his death spread, miners began arming themselves, leading to the Battle of Blair Mountain. the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War, and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. 10,000-15,000 coal miners battled 3,000 cops, private cops and vigilantes, who were backed by the coal bosses. Up to 100 miners died in the fighting, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and three national guards. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. One million rounds were fired. And the government bombed striking coal miners by air, using homemade bombs and poison gas left over from World War I.

You can read my complete article on the Battle of Blair Mountain here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/

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Scene from the John Sayles's film, Matewan, when armed company thugs go after striking miners.
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The Detective’s Wife – CBS News

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🎯 ■ Va a descubrir cómo trabaja un detective privado y lo que le hacen nada más entrar es una jugada maestra ■ "¡No me lo puedo creer!".
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The Third Black Beacon Book of Mystery is available in print and for #kindle #kindleunlimited. Essential #reading for all the armchair #detectives and sitting-room #sherlocks out there!
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2025-03-22

Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities

These sleuths bring a little something extra to the table... The post Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities appeared first on Reactor .
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Inspector Schmidt – The Ebbing has a prologue ahead of the release of this detective RPG store.steampowered.com/app/340

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🔥 ■ Lo que hace este novio en su despedida de soltero es de película de terror: se queda sin boda y sin amigos ■ "Con amigos así quién quiere enemigos".
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Gay CurmudgeonHermitsDaily
2025-02-26

My friends and I have made movies most our lives. "Mr. Big" was a 1979 production, based on a Woody Allen short story, about the murder of god.

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2025-02-22

En el mes de septiembre, las sombras caían más pesadas sobre la ciudad, Silas Grayson, un investigador privado con una propensión a estar solo, recibe una nota enigmática. No lleva remitente, ni firma, solo una dirección: una estación abandonada en el distrito sur, el último vestigio de una antigua red de trenes subterráneos.

Lee esta asombrosa historia en el siguiente enlace escritoresrebeldes.com/2025/02

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Spending the evening with Detective Murdoch.

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