Communist
18th August 2009, 00:01
essay from the Kasama Project------>>>>
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Ambush at Keystone: Inside the Coalminers’ Gas Protest (http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/ambush-at-keystone-1inside-the-coalminers-gas-protest/)
Posted by Mike E (http://mikeely.wordpress.com/about/) on July 26, 2009
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ambush_at_keystone_1_coalminers_strike_gas_protest _mike_ely.png?w=350 (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ambush_at_keystone_1_coalminers_strike_gas_protest _mike_ely.png)[PDF pamphlet (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ambush_at_keystone_coal_miners_protest_kasama_pamp hlet.pdf) of this essay]
Ambush at Keystone:
Inside the Coalminers’ Great Gas Protest of 1974
By Mike Ely
Introduction
Coalminers in Appalachia waged a fierce 10-year movement of illegal walkouts called wildcat strikes, starting in the late 1960s. Tens of thousands of miners repeatedly confronting the federal and state authorities, the courts, the police, the mine owners, the media, and their own top union officials. Most strikes involved individual mines and local grievances – and lasted a day or two. But especially after 1974, some strikes started to spread from mine to mine, county to county, state to state – challenging government policies and court repression. The hard fought strikes lasted for weeks. The leadership of these strikes was entirely at the grassroots, among the working miners and sometimes the local elected leaders at their mines.
This was one of greatest upsurges of working class struggle in modern U.S. history. And yet it is virtually unknown.
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Ambush at Keystone: Inside the Coalminers’ Gas Protest (http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/ambush-at-keystone-1inside-the-coalminers-gas-protest/)
Posted by Mike E (http://mikeely.wordpress.com/about/) on July 26, 2009
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ambush_at_keystone_1_coalminers_strike_gas_protest _mike_ely.png?w=350 (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ambush_at_keystone_1_coalminers_strike_gas_protest _mike_ely.png)[PDF pamphlet (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ambush_at_keystone_coal_miners_protest_kasama_pamp hlet.pdf) of this essay]
Ambush at Keystone:
Inside the Coalminers’ Great Gas Protest of 1974
By Mike Ely
Introduction
Coalminers in Appalachia waged a fierce 10-year movement of illegal walkouts called wildcat strikes, starting in the late 1960s. Tens of thousands of miners repeatedly confronting the federal and state authorities, the courts, the police, the mine owners, the media, and their own top union officials. Most strikes involved individual mines and local grievances – and lasted a day or two. But especially after 1974, some strikes started to spread from mine to mine, county to county, state to state – challenging government policies and court repression. The hard fought strikes lasted for weeks. The leadership of these strikes was entirely at the grassroots, among the working miners and sometimes the local elected leaders at their mines.
This was one of greatest upsurges of working class struggle in modern U.S. history. And yet it is virtually unknown.
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(read the rest at the link provided)
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