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<blockquote data-quote="kenny thomas" data-source="post: 1396748" data-attributes="member: 8993"><p>I encourage anyone to watch same of the above. Harlan is one I am really familiar with. I work in the middle of where these things happened. As stated, the company owned your house, paid u in script coins that were only good at their company store. Everything u bought had to be bought there. Some even had company Doctors. You couldn't just move away, there was nothing to move with. People were very poor. The unions helped that but went too far. </p><p> I worked at a non-union mine in 1978 and the union mines nearby were on strike. We had armed guards protecting us as we loaded coal on the trains. The mine owner offered the striking miners same pay and benefits as the union mines but they let the mine close because the union would not allow it. </p><p> Union helped a lot of people but in the end a lot of coal mines closed because of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kenny thomas, post: 1396748, member: 8993"] I encourage anyone to watch same of the above. Harlan is one I am really familiar with. I work in the middle of where these things happened. As stated, the company owned your house, paid u in script coins that were only good at their company store. Everything u bought had to be bought there. Some even had company Doctors. You couldn't just move away, there was nothing to move with. People were very poor. The unions helped that but went too far. I worked at a non-union mine in 1978 and the union mines nearby were on strike. We had armed guards protecting us as we loaded coal on the trains. The mine owner offered the striking miners same pay and benefits as the union mines but they let the mine close because the union would not allow it. Union helped a lot of people but in the end a lot of coal mines closed because of it. [/QUOTE]
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