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Documenting The Illinois Mine War

February 18, 2001 | Comments »

“There is no such thing as clean coal … coal at the very least has blood on it.”
"There is no such thing as clean coal … coal at the very least has blood on it."

Steve Earle

February 17, 2001 | Comments »

“We have come…to seek redress from the oppressive and intolerable conditions in the coal fields of Illinois. Dare you fail us now?”
"We have come...to seek redress from the oppressive and intolerable conditions in the coal fields of Illinois. Dare you fail us now?"

Agnes Burns Wieck, President,  Women’s Auxiliary of the PMA

February 17, 2001 | Comments »

“The so-called Progressive Miners of America will indubitably suffer the same fates as a long list of its predecessor dual organizations.”
"The so-called Progressive Miners of America will indubitably suffer the same fates as a long list of its predecessor dual organizations."

John L. Lewis, President, United Mine Workers of America

January 1, 2001 | Comments »

“We count it death to falter, not to die”
"We count it death to falter, not to die"

inscribed on the Mother Jones Monument

January 1, 2001 | Comments »

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