Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the culmination of a series of battles between miners and mine owners that began as early as 1914. The miners' leader was William H. "Bill" Blizzard. The mine owners used employees of the Baldwin Felts detective agency to crack down on the strikers . The unrest, with numerous dead and injured, escalated for good in Logan County , West Virginia, in 1921 . In the battle were US - forces called in, which also machine guns and fragmentation bombs inserting. It was the bloodiest confrontation on American soil since the end of the Civil War in 1865. Coal is no longer mined at Blair Mountain today.
literature
- Robert Shogan: The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising. Perseus Books; Reprint (July 25, 2006). ISBN 978-0465077731
Web links
- Coal workers uprising, collective bargaining with machine gun
- Blair Mountain: The History Of A Confrontation
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 37 ° 50 ′ N , 81 ° 56 ′ W