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Subject: Re: [PaCambri] Coal Mine - Marstellar
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:32:18 -0400
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Thank you so much, I am so enjoying all this information.

Ethel
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Subject: Re: [PaCambri] Coal Mine - Marstellar


> I do not know the name, but it was exceptionally interesting because
just
> before or during the 1922 Strike, the mine owners fenced in the entire
town,
> which they owned, and proceeded to evict any miner and his family who went
on
> strike. It was in the newspaper.
> Colver did not have a fence, but it had only one way in, by rail, and
the
> Mine police inspected the cars on the train, and refused admittance to
anyone
> they did not want in town. No alcohol was allowed, and an area called
> Tripoli, just outside the land the Mines owned, had several bars.
> The mines would also build the school and church in many areas, and
> retain ownership of at least the land, to insure that there was no trouble
and the
> school and the church would be on their side. Some of the copper mining
towns
> in Arizona are still that way.
> The striking miners at Morris Mines, I think it was, during the 1922
> strike were being evicted, and Smallpox broke out, so they suspended the
evictions
> [probably couldn't find anyone willing to risk exposure!!] until everyone
was
> over the Smallpox, then evicted them. They just cleared everything out and
> dumped it outside the town limits. This was November, I think, and in
many
> areas the miners were living in tents.
> During some strikes, the Mine Owners employed gangs of toughs called
the
> Coal and Iron Police, to evict or police mining towns. The original State
> Police were often sent in by the governor to enforce the Mine Owners, and
I
> remember older men who hated the State Police for that reason.
> That movie, Shenodah, with Sean Connery, was made in the Hard Coal
> Country in the 1970s, was the true [with Hollywood embellishments] story
of how the
> Pinkertons [Detective Agency] infiltrated the Molly McGuires and it led to
> hangings of miners.
>
>
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