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Bought it a couple years ago when visiting Matewan then meant to read up on the matter more for a long time. Boy am I disappointed. The hype around the event has always suggested to me the real implications of the air force getting called on civilians for the only time in US history but this account relates that the miners basically gave up once they were expected to shoot at army men instead of local private detectives because gawrd blessh uhmerica. Then they got railroaded in the courts and none of their labor demands because of course they did.
The author (with a seemingly jewish name) also goes to insane lengths in pointing out every possible time a black person was involved so as to paint some kind of multiracial workers‘ coalition which is pretty funny. There are stretches where every other page will have a sentence to the effect of: "Stretchers carried away an injured miner, who was black."