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Fire in the hole!

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Fire in the hole!

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Fire in the hole!

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<i>All clear.!</i>

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- She out here smilin'?
- Yeah! Smile for her!

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<i>Why do them girls
got them car clothes on?</i>

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Whew.

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Coal mining was rough.

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Eighteen and 20 hours.

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Get wet, come outside,
and your clothes'd be froze to stiff.

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It would sound like a fire broom hit 'em
- make a rattling noise.

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<i>They worked you like
workin'a mule or a brute.</i>

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<i>I heard the boss man to say one time-</i>

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<i>He said, "You be sure...</i>

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"don't get that mule no place
where the rock'll fall in on him.

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<i>Don't take that mule to no bad place".</i>

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<i>I said, uh, "Well, what about me?"</i>

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I was drivin' mule then.

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"What about me,
if a rock had fallen on me?"

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He said, "We can always hire another
man, but you gotta buy that mule".

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In other words, he thought more
of the mule than he did a man.

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<i>My grandfather was a coal miner...</i>

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<i>and belonged to the union-
the U.M. W.</i>

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And, uh, he died with black lung.

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Uh, I can remember sittin' around,
you know, when we were younger...

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and him talkin' about
bein' on picket lines and organizin'.

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I mean, that was - that was
mostly what we talked about...

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sittin' around the table
after supper and all.

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<i>Most of our conversation was his union-</i>

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You know, when he was
organizin' for the union...

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and things that happened on the picket line
and things that the company did to you.

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So I began to hate the company,
you know, uh -

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I mean, seemed like I just always did.
I knew they were our enemy, you know.

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And then, uh, when I watched him die...

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and suffer like he did
with that black lung disease...

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I knew that something
could be done about it.

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I told myself then, if I ever get the
opportunity to get those coal operators, I will.

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'Cause I thought, you know...

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they was the enemy.

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So when this strike came up, I saw the
opportunity and I jumped right in there.

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Let's get up there at 5:00 in the
morning and fix you a good cup of coffee.

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Let's be there and show these Brookside
workers what we can do for 'em.

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Let's stand on our two feet and show
these boys we can help 'em get a contract.

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Let's show the people of Harlan County
we stand together.

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<i>'Cause you filed for this contract.
We gonna get it.</i>

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<i>Hey, the fire's done hot now.
There ain't much they can do.</i>

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<i>All you boys on that football field,
I want you to be there in the mornin:</i>

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<i>Let's show Carl Horn that we stand
on two feet here in Harlan County.</i>

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We'll sit there and sweat
when it's snowin'.

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We'll stand right there until that
U.M.W.A. contract is signed at Brookside.

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<i>All you people here on Black Mountain,
we'd highly appreciate it...</i>

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<i>if you'd be there at 5.:00-
sunrise revival at Brookside, Kentucky.</i>

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<i>Let's don't back off. Let's don't
let one man run us out of Harlan.</i>

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Yeah, boys, that's where it's happenin'
- Brookside at 5:00, Monday mornin'.

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Let's be down there to support
the Brookside workers.

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I got hurt down there
about a year ago at Brookside.

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<i>I had about 300 pounds of steel
on my head.</i>

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They took me to the hospital,
sewed my head up.

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Had a hole cut through my nose here.

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I was off one day and the superintendent
sent a feller over, said, uh...

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"Get him to come on
back up here and work.

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We'll make it easy on him
so he won't lose no time".

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Went back up there, and then it knocked
me out of compensation or anything.

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Come back with my head busted open.

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That's the way they want you
to work down there.

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Protect your family! U.M.W.A.

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<i>join now, boys.
Need your support.</i>

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<i>Take some letters for a buddy.!
It's on the house.!</i>

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Now you're a real pal!

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<i>- Need your support, buddy.
- May the good Lord take a likin' to ya.</i>

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<i>- You know I will.
- I like that! I like that!</i>

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- Hey, I'll put one on the car if you want me to.
- U.M.W.A. all the way.

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Here, give me one.
I'll put it on his car for him.

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<i>Right on the bumper there-
"Tennessee is a U.M. W.A. state.!"</i>

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We're out of Kentucky stickers.
We need more of them.

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<i>Organize the unorganized.</i>

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With organization,
you have the aid of your fellow man.

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Without organization...

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you're a lone individual...

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without influence...

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and without recognition of any kind.

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An exploitation...

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of you and your family...

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when it pleases some industrialist...

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who desires to make money
from your misery.

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Well, we'd like to have every man
that'll walk this picket duty with us -

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To get his name before he leaves,
and we'll break it up.

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These boys on this committee'll
break it down...

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and we'll get somethin' goin' here.

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<i>Come on up and sit around.
It ain't no big thing.</i>

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<i>You ain't gonna be doin'nothin'no way,
cryin'about how broke you are, like I am.</i>

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<i>We'd sure appreciate that.
Would you like a sticker?</i>

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<i>We're protesting.</i>

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<i>We're protesting Duke Power's
control over these men...</i>

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<i>that voted in the U.M. W. contract...</i>

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<i>and Duke Power says,
"No, you can't have that contract".</i>

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We have made them...

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dozens and dozens of proposals...

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of different language...

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in these areas of disagreement.

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They read 'em and throw 'em back.

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They have no counterproposal.

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<i>If you could settle it quietly,
I would think maybe you'd do it and say...</i>

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<i>"Well, maybe they won this battle,
but we've got 'em off our back".</i>

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Well, I would agree with you to this extent -
I'd like to have 'em off our back.

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They're treatin' us
like we're animals, dogs.

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Well, we aren't.
We're American citizens.

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<i>And they are violatin'
our constitutional rights...</i>

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<i>when they tell us that we can't have
the union of our choice...</i>

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<i>that those men voted in.</i>

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<i>If you looked on TVthe other day,
you seen women goin'up there, and men-</i>

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<i>"Impeach Nixon.!
Impeach Nixon.!"</i>

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But you let us get up there
with pick- uh, with protest signs...

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against Duke Power...

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and they're sendin' their gun thugs
to intimidate us.

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What do you think when unions
are destroying our whole country?

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Mm-hmm.

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Mr. Hoffa's in the penitentiary...

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the Teamster Union
are known communists...

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the Longshoremen
are known communists.

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Every union in the country strikin',
what will happen to our country?

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The men wants higher wages.
They're gonna strike for it.

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The union is backing 'em.

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They stay on strike
till they get their higher wages.

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Like I explained to my daughter, I said,
there's a spool of thread there.

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That thread might have been 15 cents.

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<i>A man goes on strike, I said, if they want 30
more cents on an hour-They get their 30 cents.</i>

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When they go back to work,
they got to raise that price to cover that wage.

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<i>The unions is what's doin'it.</i>

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<i>The unions is ruinin'
the United States.</i>

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I went to work when I was 10 years old
pickin' slate in the coal burner.

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Well, at that time
we were workin' 10 hours a day...

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and we were gettin'
six-and-a-fraction cents an hour.

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<i>Well, we breaker boys...</i>

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<i>we'd have our feet in the chute
and we'd be pickin'the slate out...</i>

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<i>when the breaker boss
would sneak up behind us.</i>

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<i>And ifhe'd see a piece of slate
comin'through...</i>

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<i>he'd pick up the slate and hit you
in the back with it, and hit you hard.</i>

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<i>And he'd said, "Pick that slate up.!"</i>

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<i>Well, they used to abuse us, actually.</i>

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<i>Well, finally we got to a stage where we figured
that, well, we was gonna strike.</i>

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That was when I learned
my first real political lesson...

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about what happens when you
take a position against the coal operators...

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against the capitalists.

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Well, the first thing that happened...

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the union officials came to us
and told us we'd have to go back to work...

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that we were violating the agreement.

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We said, "To hell with the agreement.
We're gonna strike until we get our demands".

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<i>Well, then the politicians began
visiting us and putting pressure on us.</i>

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<i>Then the parish priests.</i>

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<i>Well, finally the coal company
did agree to meet with us...</i>

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<i>and they agreed
to raise the hourly pay...</i>

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<i>from six-and-a-fraction cents
to eight cents an hour.</i>

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<i>So we thought
we got big concessions.</i>

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Today that wouldn't mean anything.
That's only peanuts.

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But it meant a whole lot to us
and our paycheck at that period.

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Well, this was my first lesson -

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that if you stuck to your organization
and stuck together in solidarity...

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you could defeat them.

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Besides that, I learned that the politicians
worked with the coal companies.

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I found out that the union officials
were working with the coal companies.

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I also found out that the Catholic hierarchy
was working with the coal officials.

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Here was a combination
of the whole thing, see -

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that you had to bump up
against the whole combination of them.

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<i>When the coal and iron police would find out
who was trying to instigate a union...</i>

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<i>well, they'd abuse them.</i>

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<i>The miners figured, well,
the only way they could fight back...</i>

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<i>was to abuse them,
pay them for what they was doin:</i>

201
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<i>So they began to use, then, violence...</i>

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<i>in retaliation of the violence
that was bein'used against them.</i>

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<i>This kind of a struggle
went on to such a degree...</i>

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<i>that there was many of the mine foremen
gettin'killed...</i>

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<i>there was many of the police
gettin'killed...</i>

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<i>and, of course,
there was many miners gettin'killed.</i>

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<i>It was regular guerrilla warfare.</i>

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<i>And some of the early ideas of guerrilla warfare
developed out of that kind of struggle.</i>

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<i>The coal company gets every dollar
which he can chisel out of some coal miner...</i>

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<i>through oppressive management tactics.</i>

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<i>So why wouldn't the coal operators
be satisfied?</i>

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00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:06,498
<i>The government is acting
as their muscleman.</i>

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<i>Tax money of Kentucky at work...</i>

214
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<i>breakin'the organized labor.</i>

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Organized labor!

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<i>Organized labor.!</i>

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Well, hell, I don't think they're in here
for anything except break the strike here.

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They are for the company all the way,
for the operators.

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I don't have any feelings one way or the other.
Just have a job to do.

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<i>- And why are you here?
- To keep the roads open.</i>

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Enforce laws, keep the peace,
try to keep people from gettin' hurt.

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Move down here, please.

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- Don't put your hands on me, hoss.
- All right.

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"Bailey". You know, my name's Bailey,
and you're a damn disgrace to the Bailey family.

225
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Boy, this is a damn shame.
A Bailey, y'all, a state cop. Ain't that a shame?

226
00:16:00,993 --> 00:16:04,759
You wanna get a shot of somethin',
get a shot of this baby hangin' off him.

227
00:16:04,863 --> 00:16:08,355
That's what I been lookin' at.

228
00:16:08,467 --> 00:16:12,426
<i>It's the same diameter as this right here.</i>

229
00:16:12,538 --> 00:16:14,438
<i>Once a scab-</i>

230
00:16:14,540 --> 00:16:17,008
<i>There ain't no healin'for a scab.
You know?</i>

231
00:16:17,109 --> 00:16:20,704
<i>- Hell, that's some nerve.
- Here they come!</i>

232
00:16:42,568 --> 00:16:46,129
There's the damn guy drawed that gun on me!
Right there! Right there!

233
00:16:46,238 --> 00:16:48,968
<i>You son of a bitch,you.!</i>

234
00:16:53,379 --> 00:16:56,348
<i>Hey.!</i>

235
00:16:58,417 --> 00:17:00,317
<i>Get 'em outta here.</i>

236
00:17:02,421 --> 00:17:05,322
<i>- Hey.! That's goddamn wrong.!
- That's the kind of goddamn law we got.!</i>

237
00:17:07,426 --> 00:17:11,726
<i>- Donny.!
- They ask, you tell the people!</i>

238
00:17:11,830 --> 00:17:14,958
<i>They'll set a while out back,
your two families.!</i>

239
00:17:15,067 --> 00:17:18,127
<i>Hey.! Hey.!
What in the hell you think you're doin'?</i>

240
00:17:22,941 --> 00:17:25,171
Scabbin' bastards.

241
00:17:25,277 --> 00:17:28,007
<i>- Go on, sucky!
- Hey, scab.!</i>

242
00:17:28,113 --> 00:17:30,809
Hey, go on! Hey, go on!

243
00:17:30,916 --> 00:17:32,816
<i>Excuse me. Have some of my hand.</i>

244
00:17:32,918 --> 00:17:35,512
<i>- Goddamn bastards.!
- Goddamn scab sons ofbitches.!</i>

245
00:17:35,621 --> 00:17:38,522
<i>Hey.!</i>

246
00:17:38,624 --> 00:17:40,592
Scabs!

247
00:17:42,628 --> 00:17:47,258
<i>All you guys on this injunction,
all 36 of you, remember this-it's a court order.</i>

248
00:17:47,366 --> 00:17:50,767
<i>You can't block the traffic,
and don't call 'em scabs.</i>

249
00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:54,828
<i>- Why not?
- 'Cause if you do, you'll be behind bars.</i>

250
00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:57,841
I don't think
you'll never win a strike...

251
00:17:57,943 --> 00:18:01,845
by havin' six people
on the picket line.

252
00:18:01,947 --> 00:18:06,247
There's no way, I mean, that you can
win a strike with six pickets.

253
00:18:06,351 --> 00:18:09,184
So you gotta violate these injunctions.

254
00:18:09,288 --> 00:18:12,280
Lawyers are made to
get you out of trouble after you get in...

255
00:18:12,391 --> 00:18:15,554
not to get you out of trouble
before you get in.

256
00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:20,323
<i>I'll put it like this-
you do what you wanna do.</i>

257
00:18:20,532 --> 00:18:24,195
Women all over the country
are interested in what their husbands are doin'.

258
00:18:24,303 --> 00:18:28,239
They're interested in the safety laws
that the United Mine Workers have...

259
00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:31,207
<i>and they want their husbands
to have their pension funds.</i>

260
00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:34,211
<i>They don't want their husbands
goin'into these scab mines...</i>

261
00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:37,441
<i>with the rock a-fallin'and runnin'
these here motors with no brakes.</i>

262
00:18:37,549 --> 00:18:40,950
So, they want to participate.
They're ready and willing.

263
00:18:41,053 --> 00:18:45,581
<i>The good thing about our club is that now
we're giving them the chance to participate.</i>

264
00:18:45,691 --> 00:18:47,591
<i>You see?</i>

265
00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:50,821
<i>When their husbands goes in the mines,
they're prayin'that they'll get out.</i>

266
00:18:50,929 --> 00:18:54,660
I think that they feel like maybe their prayers
would have been answered sooner...

267
00:18:54,766 --> 00:18:58,133
if they were workin'
under a U.M.W.A. contract.

268
00:18:58,237 --> 00:19:01,570
Well, I went down there
in support of the miners...

269
00:19:01,673 --> 00:19:03,573
for the miners...

270
00:19:03,675 --> 00:19:07,975
and in support of my own children too
that I'm raisin' up.

271
00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,380
Now, sit down real easy.
Sit down. Now, it's runnin' over.

272
00:19:12,484 --> 00:19:15,817
<i>- I can't get my foot -
- Angie.!</i>

273
00:19:15,921 --> 00:19:19,049
- I couldn't get my foot outta here.
- You're messin'.

274
00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:23,925
- When will we be goin' to jail again?
- If the scab starts to cross the picket lines -

275
00:19:24,029 --> 00:19:28,591
We went because we was tryin' to protect -
The scab was gonna take your daddy's job.

276
00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:31,794
When they sign the contract,
Daddy's gonna have hot running water...

277
00:19:31,904 --> 00:19:34,429
and a big ol' bathtub.

278
00:19:40,112 --> 00:19:42,444
Let's help the striking miners now!

279
00:19:42,548 --> 00:19:48,043
<i>

280
00:19:48,153 --> 00:19:50,417
<i>

281
00:19:50,522 --> 00:19:53,923
<i>

282
00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:56,790
<i>

283
00:19:56,895 --> 00:20:00,262
<i>

284
00:20:00,365 --> 00:20:03,562
<i>

285
00:20:03,669 --> 00:20:06,968
<i>

286
00:20:07,072 --> 00:20:10,303
<i>

287
00:20:10,409 --> 00:20:13,674
<i>

288
00:20:13,779 --> 00:20:16,304
<i>

289
00:20:16,415 --> 00:20:20,010
<i>

290
00:20:20,118 --> 00:20:23,053
<i>

291
00:20:23,155 --> 00:20:26,386
<i>

292
00:20:26,491 --> 00:20:29,289
<i>

293
00:20:29,394 --> 00:20:33,387
<i>

294
00:20:33,498 --> 00:20:37,127
<i>

295
00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:40,296
And we have to fight for our rights.

296
00:20:40,405 --> 00:20:42,305
You gonna have to fight for that.

297
00:20:42,407 --> 00:20:47,242
If you have more safety in the mines,
if you get your portal-to-portal pay...

298
00:20:47,346 --> 00:20:50,838
if you have your doctor card
so you can be doctored.

299
00:20:50,949 --> 00:20:55,409
Because if you get disabled
and you don't have any backing...

300
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,921
then some home will get you...

301
00:20:59,024 --> 00:21:01,458
or your family will starve.

302
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,960
For, you see, I know what it means.

303
00:21:04,062 --> 00:21:07,327
And this club means a lot
to pull us all together.

304
00:21:07,432 --> 00:21:10,128
Everybody stand together in it...

305
00:21:10,235 --> 00:21:12,294
and everybody goes together...

306
00:21:12,404 --> 00:21:14,634
everybody go out on the picket line...

307
00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:16,640
and we'll win their contract...

308
00:21:16,742 --> 00:21:18,642
if they'll all stand up.

309
00:21:18,744 --> 00:21:22,111
<i>That's good, Sudie. That's real good.</i>

310
00:21:31,723 --> 00:21:34,692
<i>All the police were lined up
there when we got there.</i>

311
00:21:34,793 --> 00:21:38,058
<i>It was early. We must've got there
at quarter after 5.:00, maybe 5:30.</i>

312
00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:40,961
<i>But they were there already.</i>

313
00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:44,695
<i>And by that time all this big crowd
had gathered-you know, supporters.</i>

314
00:21:44,803 --> 00:21:49,137
<i>One car went through with three men in it.
They kinda slipped through.</i>

315
00:21:49,241 --> 00:21:54,406
<i>And, uh, the next car that come through,
we were able to get in the road and lay down.</i>

316
00:21:54,513 --> 00:21:57,277
- No work today, fellers!
- Come on, girls! Lay down! Lay down!

317
00:22:00,352 --> 00:22:03,253
<i>Now let's see what kind oflaw
we got in Harlan County...</i>

318
00:22:03,355 --> 00:22:05,255
<i>what kind of state police we got.</i>

319
00:22:05,357 --> 00:22:07,257
<i>Look at them bastards, manhandlin'women.</i>

320
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,487
<i>We didn't give 'em
any resistance whatever.</i>

321
00:22:10,595 --> 00:22:14,531
<i>Wejust laid down in the road because they
were there to escort those scabs through to work.</i>

322
00:22:14,633 --> 00:22:17,534
<i>And that's been goin'on
for a whole month.</i>

323
00:22:17,636 --> 00:22:19,797
<i>And we'djust come too far for that.</i>

324
00:22:23,575 --> 00:22:26,043
Take pictures, boys!

325
00:22:27,746 --> 00:22:30,306
You're havin' fun, right?

326
00:22:34,252 --> 00:22:38,154
<i>Honey, they gotta stay on that picket line.
They start scabbin'- They gotta go back there.</i>

327
00:22:38,256 --> 00:22:41,157
They can't let me down.
Shit,just bring me a gun, for-

328
00:22:41,259 --> 00:22:43,727
I- I'd rather be dead...

329
00:22:43,829 --> 00:22:46,730
i- if I have to know
that there's scabs at Brookside.

330
00:22:46,832 --> 00:22:49,926
I can't stand it.
I can't stand the thought of it.

331
00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:52,560
So just don't let 'em, you know -

332
00:22:52,671 --> 00:22:56,129

Always on the picket line

333
00:22:56,241 --> 00:22:58,141
I really mean it.

334
00:23:00,879 --> 00:23:03,780
If they'll just keep on the picket line,
we'll -we'll -

335
00:23:03,882 --> 00:23:06,544
<i>then they'll just beat hell
out of them scabs.!</i>

336
00:23:06,651 --> 00:23:08,551
<i>Beat the shit right out of'em.!</i>

337
00:23:08,653 --> 00:23:10,553
<i>- That's mine there!
- Which one ain't took?</i>

338
00:23:10,655 --> 00:23:12,555
I don't know, but I got this un.

339
00:23:12,657 --> 00:23:16,457
<i>This top one ain't took yet.
This a double mattress. I'll take this un.</i>

340
00:23:16,561 --> 00:23:19,860
<i>- Hell, I was legally on the picket line.
- I knows he was.</i>

341
00:23:19,965 --> 00:23:23,696
I tried to show 'em in court down there,
and they wouldn't accept a damn thing.

342
00:23:23,802 --> 00:23:26,270
Let's go violate one more time.

343
00:23:26,371 --> 00:23:28,271
Then let 'em put us right back.

344
00:23:28,373 --> 00:23:31,240
'Cause you're a prisoner out there anyway.
You might as well be -

345
00:23:31,343 --> 00:23:33,243
<i>Might as well just be in jail.</i>

346
00:23:33,345 --> 00:23:35,745
<i>It is thejudgment of the court...</i>

347
00:23:35,847 --> 00:23:38,645
<i>that Bill Doan, George Eldridge,
Lois Scott, Betty Eldridge...</i>

348
00:23:38,750 --> 00:23:40,945
Bessie Cornett and Melba Strong...

349
00:23:41,052 --> 00:23:43,850
be incarcerated for
a period of 60 days from this date.

350
00:23:43,955 --> 00:23:47,755
<i>Could I say- Because I haven't had
a chance to give any testimony today.</i>

351
00:23:47,859 --> 00:23:51,420
<i>I knew we weren't gonna get anyjustice.
You say the laws were made for us.</i>

352
00:23:51,530 --> 00:23:54,931
<i>The laws are not made
for the working people in this country.</i>

353
00:23:55,033 --> 00:23:57,558
<i>There's a person missing here today,
and that's Carl Horn.</i>

354
00:23:57,669 --> 00:24:00,570
The law was made for people
like Carl Horn, not for us.

355
00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:04,005
I knew when I came here,
without offering any testimony or gettin' up...

356
00:24:04,109 --> 00:24:07,545
I knew what I was doin' at Brookside,
because that's what I wanted to do.

357
00:24:07,646 --> 00:24:10,979
For once I was able to take the offensive
instead of coming down here...

358
00:24:11,082 --> 00:24:13,983
to take a step backward
to try and defend what we did.

359
00:24:14,085 --> 00:24:16,986
What we did is right,
and we all know that.

360
00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:26,296
I resent the fact...

361
00:24:26,398 --> 00:24:31,927
that they- thatJudge Hogg is a-tryin' me,
and him a coal operator...

362
00:24:32,037 --> 00:24:37,600
and that sittin' beside him
is circuit court clerk Mary Lou Coldarn...

363
00:24:37,709 --> 00:24:39,904
is sittin' up there,
and her son is up there -

364
00:24:40,011 --> 00:24:43,276
He's the photographer up there
takin' the pictures for 'em...

365
00:24:43,381 --> 00:24:46,475
to blacklist the men on the picket line -
I resent that.

366
00:24:46,585 --> 00:24:51,215
I resent the fact that he can make a law
that can tell me that I can't go where I please.

367
00:24:51,323 --> 00:24:53,416
He's violatin' my constitutional right.

368
00:24:54,659 --> 00:24:56,559
<i>My name is Norman Yarborough.</i>

369
00:24:56,661 --> 00:24:59,994
On my right is Mr. Logan Patterson...

370
00:25:00,098 --> 00:25:04,398
who is an attorney who has been retained
by the Eastover Mining Company...

371
00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:06,403
<i>as chief negotiator.</i>

372
00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:08,905
<i>I'd like to ask you what you think...</i>

373
00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:11,237
<i>about the role the miners'wives...</i>

374
00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:13,971
<i>have played in this strike.</i>

375
00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:16,547
Well, they've certainly
played a big role in it.

376
00:25:16,648 --> 00:25:20,880
<i>I would hate to think that my wife
would play this kind of role.</i>

377
00:25:20,986 --> 00:25:22,886
<i>Why?</i>

378
00:25:22,988 --> 00:25:25,218
Well, there's been some conduct...

379
00:25:25,323 --> 00:25:30,124
that I don't like to think that our
American women have to -

380
00:25:30,228 --> 00:25:32,287
to revert to.

381
00:25:32,397 --> 00:25:34,797
<i>Is it a fact that the Duke Power Company...</i>

382
00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:39,166
<i>maintains housing for its employees
that has no water and no indoor plumbing?</i>

383
00:25:39,271 --> 00:25:42,604
<i>Yes, sir. We were attempting to move our people-</i>

384
00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:46,268
<i>And these are our people.
They're my people.</i>

385
00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:50,838
Move our people,
upgrade our people into trailers...

386
00:25:50,949 --> 00:25:54,350
upgrade our people into better housing...

387
00:25:54,452 --> 00:25:57,046
better conditions in all directions...

388
00:25:57,155 --> 00:26:00,784
because they'll make us better people
when we are able to do this.

389
00:26:07,098 --> 00:26:09,965
<i>Larry.! Come on to supper.!</i>

390
00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:12,969
<i>It's a feudal system, I think.</i>

391
00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:17,531
<i>There's a very rich class of people,
and then there are the coal miners.</i>

392
00:26:17,642 --> 00:26:20,167
<i>And then there are the people
who are on relief.</i>

393
00:26:20,278 --> 00:26:22,644
<i>And that's about it in Harlan.</i>

394
00:26:22,747 --> 00:26:24,647
<i>They wanna keep it this way.</i>

395
00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:28,549
The way they keep it that way
is keepin' a monopoly on the labor market.

396
00:26:28,653 --> 00:26:31,952
They do that by keepin' other competitive -

397
00:26:32,057 --> 00:26:34,355
or industries that will be competitive...

398
00:26:34,459 --> 00:26:37,394
you know, for the labor-
keep them out.

399
00:26:37,495 --> 00:26:41,795
There are a few little places to work,
but they don't pay nothin' but the minimum wage.

400
00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:43,800
Maybe two dollars an hour.

401
00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:46,803
You can't make a livin' at that no more.

402
00:26:46,905 --> 00:26:50,705
And if it don't go United Mine Workers,
me and him'll have to leave Harlan County.

403
00:26:50,809 --> 00:26:52,743
That's for sure.
Or maybe Kentucky.

404
00:26:52,844 --> 00:26:56,280
We'll have to go
where it's a union state to get a job again.

405
00:26:56,381 --> 00:27:00,044
Duke Power is a Southern,
conservative company.

406
00:27:00,151 --> 00:27:04,281
Less than 10%% of their employees
in their power plants...

407
00:27:04,389 --> 00:27:06,289
and their line crews...

408
00:27:06,391 --> 00:27:08,291
are organized.

409
00:27:08,393 --> 00:27:11,453
And they feel that if we -

410
00:27:11,563 --> 00:27:14,123
if they give in to a contract here...

411
00:27:14,232 --> 00:27:18,726
it will encourage union organization
in their home state of North Carolina...

412
00:27:18,837 --> 00:27:20,737
and South Carolina.

413
00:27:23,908 --> 00:27:26,502
<i>

414
00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:29,375
<i>

415
00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:32,279
<i>
to break the strike

416
00:27:32,384 --> 00:27:35,251
<i>

417
00:27:35,353 --> 00:27:37,844
<i>

418
00:27:37,956 --> 00:27:41,483
<i>

419
00:27:41,593 --> 00:27:44,494
<i>

420
00:27:44,596 --> 00:27:46,757
<i>

421
00:27:46,865 --> 00:27:49,834
<i>

422
00:27:49,934 --> 00:27:52,266
<i>

423
00:27:52,370 --> 00:27:55,828
<i>

424
00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:59,842
<i>

425
00:27:59,944 --> 00:28:02,845
- You from the South?
- Can I have one of those? Thank you!

426
00:28:02,947 --> 00:28:05,609
You all look like y'all from -

427
00:28:05,717 --> 00:28:07,617
We're gonna let people know...

428
00:28:07,719 --> 00:28:10,813
that if you buy Duke Power stock,
it's risky.

429
00:28:10,922 --> 00:28:13,083
<i>We've had several this mornin:..</i>

430
00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:16,092
<i>said they had Duke Power stock,
but they wouldn't have it long.</i>

431
00:28:16,194 --> 00:28:18,594
They said,
"We're gonna get rid of it".

432
00:28:18,697 --> 00:28:20,597
And that sounded beautiful to me.

433
00:28:20,832 --> 00:28:23,767
- The tunnels here is just like a mine.
- Yeah.

434
00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:27,702
Only ours is about 42 inches high.

435
00:28:27,806 --> 00:28:30,707
I think- I think these are more secure
than a mine, sir.

436
00:28:30,809 --> 00:28:33,710
I wouldn't mind going under here,
but your mines -

437
00:28:33,812 --> 00:28:36,337
- Yeah. You wouldn't wanna go in the mines?
- No.

438
00:28:36,448 --> 00:28:40,544
They could make good profit off the mines
if they had a union. They won't give us one.

439
00:28:40,652 --> 00:28:43,052
Make good profit, but they
keep it all themselves. Right?

440
00:28:43,154 --> 00:28:45,714
- Yeah.
- They don't spread the wealth.

441
00:28:45,824 --> 00:28:48,725
I thought you guys got paid
a little more than you do.

442
00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:51,227
You don't get paid a bad salary,
but I thought it was a little more.

443
00:28:51,329 --> 00:28:53,729
- We get paid real good, but, you know -
- No, it's not.

444
00:28:53,832 --> 00:28:55,993
What's real good?
Five dollars, six dollars an hour?

445
00:28:56,101 --> 00:28:58,695
- Yeah, we -
- That's not real good. I make more than that.

446
00:28:58,803 --> 00:29:00,703
- Yeah?
- Sure, I do.

447
00:29:00,805 --> 00:29:03,205
<i>The policeman makes less down there.</i>

448
00:29:03,308 --> 00:29:06,744
<i>- We make about seven.
- God.! That's good money.</i>

449
00:29:06,845 --> 00:29:08,870
<i>We draw union strike benefits.</i>

450
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:12,472
<i>And it's real hard,you know,
to live on a hundred.</i>

451
00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:14,484
Is your job real dangerous, though?

452
00:29:14,586 --> 00:29:16,486
- Look at me.
- I mean -

453
00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:18,488
This is all I do.
It's a lot of bullshit.

454
00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:21,991
A lot of people don't understand
that that electricity burnin' over there...

455
00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:24,994
takes somebody dyin'
every day for it.

456
00:29:25,096 --> 00:29:27,496
There's one man dies every day.

457
00:29:29,634 --> 00:29:31,864
<i>- You probably got medical coverage.
- Free.</i>

458
00:29:31,970 --> 00:29:33,870
<i>Free medical coverage.</i>

459
00:29:33,972 --> 00:29:36,202
<i>I'd save up, buddy, buy a house.</i>

460
00:29:36,307 --> 00:29:38,551
Kids all get sick,
I'd have to spend every penny-

461
00:29:38,552 --> 00:29:39,674
What about dental?

462
00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:41,678
No dental.

463
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:43,680
- You got dental?
- Dental.

464
00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:46,444
- Goddamn.
- We got dental. We got all kinds of health.

465
00:29:46,551 --> 00:29:49,179
<i>We got drugs.
I could retire at 36.</i>

466
00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:51,187
<i>Half pay- 10,000 a year.</i>

467
00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:53,723
<i>They don't want us to ever be able to retire.</i>

468
00:29:53,825 --> 00:29:55,918
- That's bad.
- That's the reason we're here.

469
00:29:56,027 --> 00:29:59,019
That's the reason we're on strike.
Been on strike nine months.

470
00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:01,030
- Nine months?
- Nine months.

471
00:30:01,132 --> 00:30:04,363
- I thought this was the first day.
- No! This is nine months.

472
00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:06,033
We can't get a-
They won't sign a contract.

473
00:30:06,034 --> 00:30:07,597
- It's good you came here
to bring some publicity.

474
00:30:07,705 --> 00:30:09,468
Yeah. Yeah.

475
00:30:09,641 --> 00:30:12,474
The outstanding issues...

476
00:30:12,577 --> 00:30:15,546
between Duke Power's coal mining subsidiary...

477
00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:17,547
Eastover Mining Company...

478
00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:20,812
<i>and the United Mine Workers...</i>

479
00:30:20,919 --> 00:30:24,514
<i>in the opinion of
the management of Eastover...</i>

480
00:30:24,622 --> 00:30:28,149
<i>and the management of Duke Power,
its parent, are...</i>

481
00:30:28,259 --> 00:30:31,524
the absence of a no-strike clause -

482
00:30:31,629 --> 00:30:37,499
the refusal of the union to agree to not strike
during the life of the contract.

483
00:30:37,602 --> 00:30:42,471
If there are questions on the content
of my report to the stockholders...

484
00:30:42,574 --> 00:30:44,474
I will entertain those questions.

485
00:30:44,576 --> 00:30:49,104
How come you hire gun thugs
to harass us around with?

486
00:30:49,214 --> 00:30:53,514
<i>You sayin'there that the issue is
for a no-strike clause.</i>

487
00:30:53,618 --> 00:30:56,212
Well, if we had a no-strike clause in there...

488
00:30:56,321 --> 00:30:58,221
Norman Yarborough
could kick us off that hill...

489
00:30:58,323 --> 00:31:01,850
and there wouldn't be
a thing we could do about it.

490
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,793
But I tell you,
we in Harlan County...

491
00:31:04,896 --> 00:31:07,296
all of our life
we've been kicked around...

492
00:31:07,398 --> 00:31:09,298
we've been put in jail...

493
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,800
we've been shot at,
we've had dynamite throwed at us...

494
00:31:11,903 --> 00:31:14,303
and then you don't want us
to have nothin'.

495
00:31:14,405 --> 00:31:16,305
Well, I tell you, Mr. Horn...

496
00:31:16,407 --> 00:31:19,308
I'm gonna be standin' right there
on that picket line lookin' at you...

497
00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:21,310
just as long as it takes.

498
00:31:21,412 --> 00:31:22,970
Thank you.

499
00:31:24,849 --> 00:31:29,513
<i>Coal companies are not
theJ.P. Morgans or the Hannas anymore.</i>

500
00:31:29,621 --> 00:31:31,521
It's Occidental Petroleum...

501
00:31:31,623 --> 00:31:33,454
and Exxon and Sohio.

502
00:31:33,558 --> 00:31:35,458
The oil companies control the coal industry.

503
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,724
<i>Seventy percent of all the domestic coal
reserves are owned by oil companies.</i>

504
00:31:46,404 --> 00:31:49,464
There just can't be any question...

505
00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:51,906
that the health and the safety...

506
00:31:52,010 --> 00:31:54,001
of our employees...

507
00:31:54,112 --> 00:31:56,137
in the mining industry...

508
00:31:56,247 --> 00:31:59,045
must be given first priority...

509
00:32:00,385 --> 00:32:03,411
on humanitarian grounds alone.

510
00:32:03,521 --> 00:32:06,285
We find violation
after violation after violation...

511
00:32:06,391 --> 00:32:08,291
in those mines.

512
00:32:08,393 --> 00:32:10,293
We have a national record...

513
00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:11,885
that looks very poor...

514
00:32:11,996 --> 00:32:13,896
when laid up against
the German national record...

515
00:32:13,998 --> 00:32:16,899
the U.K. national record,
the French national record...

516
00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:19,333
the Netherlands national record...

517
00:32:19,437 --> 00:32:21,337
and the others that I've examined.

518
00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:25,671
So I think that - I'm not indicting anyone.
If anything, I'm indicting myself.

519
00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:30,043
I'm indicting an agency that I've been
associated with for a long time.

520
00:32:30,148 --> 00:32:33,049
We haven't done all
that we should have in this field.

521
00:32:48,533 --> 00:32:54,199
<i>"Oh, my God, Frankie, "I said,
"The whole midnight shift in the mine blew up.</i>

522
00:32:54,305 --> 00:32:58,799
They're trapped in the mine,
and Pete's in there too".

523
00:32:58,910 --> 00:33:03,404
He left for work, and he acted, well,
just kinda like he didn't want to go to work.

524
00:33:03,514 --> 00:33:06,415
He'd rather stayed home.
He said, "Maybe I should stay home".

525
00:33:06,517 --> 00:33:09,418
I said, "Well, why don't you?"
He went to the door two or three times.

526
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,421
Kept saying, "Should I go,
or should I stay home?

527
00:33:12,523 --> 00:33:15,424
It's spittin' snow out there,
and I just hate to be on the road".

528
00:33:15,526 --> 00:33:18,427
I said, "Stay home, then,
and pretend you're sick tonight".

529
00:33:18,529 --> 00:33:20,929
But he went,
and that was the explosion -

530
00:33:21,032 --> 00:33:25,731
I live right almost on the seat
of the main explosion - right there.

531
00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:27,998
<i>And they said,
"You get out of your house.!"</i>

532
00:33:28,106 --> 00:33:31,007
And the police told me to get out.
But you know why?

533
00:33:31,109 --> 00:33:33,509
Because they was notified
to tell me get out.

534
00:33:33,611 --> 00:33:37,809
Because they didn't want me to see what was
goin' on up at that damn, dirty, filthy mines!

535
00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:43,444
I gave up.
I figured we'd never make it out.

536
00:33:43,554 --> 00:33:46,819
Because we just -
w- we all passed out.

537
00:33:46,924 --> 00:33:50,587
I don't know, uh, whether...

538
00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:54,461
any- any one man
didn't pass out or not.

539
00:33:54,565 --> 00:33:57,466
I couldn't say that,
'cause I know I did.

540
00:33:57,568 --> 00:34:00,696
When I woke up,
I was like froze to death.

541
00:34:00,805 --> 00:34:03,706
I've worked in the mines
about seven years...

542
00:34:03,808 --> 00:34:08,268
and I've really never been
too scared of the mines.

543
00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:12,839
But I don't think
I'll go back in the mines.

544
00:34:12,950 --> 00:34:16,215
And, uh, the television says...

545
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,221
uh, if another explosion would occur...

546
00:34:19,323 --> 00:34:21,223
they'd have to seal the mine.

547
00:34:21,325 --> 00:34:23,589
And about 1:00 that explosion came...

548
00:34:23,694 --> 00:34:25,662
and I says, "Uh-oh, they'll seal it".

549
00:34:27,932 --> 00:34:29,832
<i>They sealed 'em.</i>

550
00:34:29,934 --> 00:34:32,232
<i>And then we knew that was-
that was it.</i>

551
00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:39,907
<i>

552
00:34:40,011 --> 00:34:42,878
<i>

553
00:34:44,182 --> 00:34:46,514
<i>

554
00:34:46,617 --> 00:34:50,018
<i>

555
00:34:51,522 --> 00:34:55,185
<i>

556
00:34:55,293 --> 00:34:59,195
<i>

557
00:34:59,297 --> 00:35:01,492
<i>

558
00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:04,830
<i>

559
00:35:06,170 --> 00:35:10,800
<i>

560
00:35:10,908 --> 00:35:15,743
<i>

561
00:35:15,847 --> 00:35:19,010
<i>

562
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:24,111
<i>

563
00:35:24,222 --> 00:35:30,252
<i>

564
00:35:30,361 --> 00:35:33,262
<i>

565
00:35:33,364 --> 00:35:35,992
<i>

566
00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:44,433
And I would like to know,
since they died...

567
00:35:44,542 --> 00:35:48,706
uh, in order to help the living,
find out what caused that explosion.

568
00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:51,338
You know,
you learn from a tragedy.

569
00:35:51,449 --> 00:35:53,508
Then maybe they could help, uh -

570
00:35:53,618 --> 00:35:55,779
<i>- Others.
- Uh, others to live.</i>

571
00:35:55,887 --> 00:35:58,185
Then it wouldn't happen again.

572
00:35:58,289 --> 00:36:00,189
But as long as they're greedy...

573
00:36:00,291 --> 00:36:03,522
and as long as they're
rushing the coal miner...

574
00:36:03,628 --> 00:36:06,188
in wanting the production
before lives...

575
00:36:06,297 --> 00:36:08,731
there'll always be tragedies.

576
00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:13,736
I knowed there was somethin' wrong,
but I didn't know what it was.

577
00:36:13,838 --> 00:36:16,204
- And the doctors told me.
- 'Bout 60, don't you guess?

578
00:36:16,307 --> 00:36:19,105
Yeah, 'bout 60.
Somewheres along there.

579
00:36:19,210 --> 00:36:21,576
<i>Well, what would happen to you...</i>

580
00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:24,580
<i>when you started realizing
that something was wrong?</i>

581
00:36:24,682 --> 00:36:26,582
Well, you just couldn't get no breath.

582
00:36:26,684 --> 00:36:32,213
You'd walk a little piece and you'd give out,
just a-pantin' for breath.

583
00:36:32,323 --> 00:36:35,850
And sometimes
you couldn't hardly get it no way.

584
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,088
Lots of times I've had to go
to the hospital down here.

585
00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:41,461
They gave me some shots and things.

586
00:36:41,566 --> 00:36:43,466
I thought I was a goner.

587
00:36:43,568 --> 00:36:46,332
<i>

588
00:36:46,437 --> 00:36:51,397
<i>

589
00:36:51,509 --> 00:36:55,639
<i>

590
00:36:55,746 --> 00:36:59,705
<i>

591
00:36:59,817 --> 00:37:05,847
<i>
down in that dark cave

592
00:37:05,957 --> 00:37:09,518
<i>

593
00:37:09,627 --> 00:37:13,654
<i>

594
00:37:16,767 --> 00:37:20,066
When you start destroying
the lung tissue...

595
00:37:20,171 --> 00:37:23,572
as occurs in miners who have pneumoconiosis...

596
00:37:23,674 --> 00:37:25,699
and the end result of pneumoconiosis...

597
00:37:25,810 --> 00:37:28,745
there really isn't anything
that you can do to restore the lungs.

598
00:37:28,846 --> 00:37:30,814
They're just simply destroyed.

599
00:37:35,486 --> 00:37:38,319
170 over 100.

600
00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:40,686
Buck, how old a man are you?

601
00:37:40,791 --> 00:37:43,851
- I'm 67.
- You're 67?

602
00:37:43,961 --> 00:37:47,954
<i>You couldn't see your buddy
on the other side of the car for the dust.</i>

603
00:37:48,065 --> 00:37:51,466
We'd be covered just black.

604
00:37:51,569 --> 00:37:55,903
We done make every color when we went in.
You all be look the same when you came out.

605
00:37:56,007 --> 00:37:58,100
Right?

606
00:37:58,209 --> 00:38:01,007
- That's right.
- We's all even, huh?

607
00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:05,014
- We's all brothers when we out.
- That's right, when you came out.

608
00:38:05,116 --> 00:38:07,710
The whites looked like the blacks,
so it wasn't any difference.

609
00:38:07,818 --> 00:38:10,582
You knowed you was gettin'
plenty dust.

610
00:38:10,688 --> 00:38:13,919
There are also miners that are working
and who are very symptomatic...

611
00:38:14,025 --> 00:38:15,925
but who don't dare quit...

612
00:38:16,027 --> 00:38:19,861
unless they can be reassured
that they have sufficient impairment...

613
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:23,229
that they'll be able to collect
some sort of disability benefits.

614
00:38:23,334 --> 00:38:25,234
It's a kind of negative system...

615
00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:30,296
because what we do is we really force them to
keep working until they become that disabled.

616
00:38:31,842 --> 00:38:34,868
<i>

617
00:38:34,979 --> 00:38:39,211
<i>

618
00:38:39,317 --> 00:38:43,117
<i>

619
00:38:43,220 --> 00:38:45,848
<i>- Very good.
-

620
00:38:45,956 --> 00:38:49,221
<i>

621
00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:53,195
<i>

622
00:38:53,297 --> 00:38:57,529
<i>

623
00:38:57,635 --> 00:39:01,230
<i>

624
00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:05,639
<i>

625
00:39:07,411 --> 00:39:12,644
<i>We want to do the right thing
about coal workers'pneumoconiosis.</i>

626
00:39:12,750 --> 00:39:14,650
But we think the best informed...

627
00:39:14,752 --> 00:39:17,619
medical opinion will show you...

628
00:39:17,722 --> 00:39:19,622
that it's not true...

629
00:39:19,724 --> 00:39:22,625
that the inhalation and retention
of coal dust in the lungs...

630
00:39:22,727 --> 00:39:26,754
<i>necessarily results in any impairment
of pulmonary function...</i>

631
00:39:26,864 --> 00:39:28,764
and that, on the contrary...

632
00:39:28,866 --> 00:39:31,858
only a relatively small portion
of coal miners...

633
00:39:31,969 --> 00:39:34,961
who have coal dust
retained in the lungs...

634
00:39:35,072 --> 00:39:37,973
have any resulting impairment
of pulmonary function...

635
00:39:38,075 --> 00:39:39,975
much less disability.

636
00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:42,978
This is one of your brother's lungs.

637
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,049
And this is what it looks like at autopsy.

638
00:39:46,150 --> 00:39:48,983
And this is why he died.

639
00:39:49,086 --> 00:39:51,054
That's preventable.

640
00:39:52,089 --> 00:39:53,989
Other countries have done it.

641
00:39:54,091 --> 00:39:56,218
Other countries have made
tremendous strides.

642
00:39:56,327 --> 00:39:59,785
For example, the Australians believe
that they've completely eliminated...

643
00:39:59,897 --> 00:40:02,297
the problem of lung disease
in their coal miners.

644
00:40:03,801 --> 00:40:06,998
<i>

645
00:40:07,104 --> 00:40:10,437
<i>

646
00:40:10,541 --> 00:40:15,444
<i>

647
00:40:15,546 --> 00:40:18,140
<i>

648
00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:20,774
<i>

649
00:40:20,885 --> 00:40:24,082
<i>

650
00:40:24,188 --> 00:40:28,090
<i>

651
00:40:28,192 --> 00:40:31,650
<i>

652
00:40:31,762 --> 00:40:36,665
<i>

653
00:40:40,938 --> 00:40:46,740
It turns out that 1969 was a year for
an election in the United Mine Workers union.

654
00:40:46,844 --> 00:40:49,972
And with all the dissatisfaction
that was going on...

655
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,607
there was really, for the first time,
I guess, in the union's history...

656
00:40:53,717 --> 00:40:57,209
open talk of people
opposing Tony Boyle.

657
00:40:57,321 --> 00:40:59,983
Forty years I have to work in a mine...

658
00:41:00,090 --> 00:41:01,990
to get a pension.

659
00:41:02,092 --> 00:41:04,185
A meager pension at that.

660
00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:06,456
And I suppose, when I do quit...

661
00:41:06,564 --> 00:41:10,466
which will be in two years
because I can't stand it anymore...

662
00:41:10,568 --> 00:41:14,470
I won't be able to get silicosis
because you have to be dead.

663
00:41:14,638 --> 00:41:18,130
<i>I doubt if Tony Boyle's ever knowed
what coal dust is on his hands.</i>

664
00:41:18,242 --> 00:41:22,474
He's sittin' back there in Washington
drawin' a big amount of money.

665
00:41:22,580 --> 00:41:25,777
What for? He don't even know
what the miners goes through.

666
00:41:25,883 --> 00:41:29,046
And to hell with him!
That's the way I feel.

667
00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:31,713
"Boyle's doing nothing for the widows.

668
00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:34,188
"Boyle's doing nothing for the pensioners.

669
00:41:34,291 --> 00:41:38,022
"I'll give you this, I'll give you that.

670
00:41:38,128 --> 00:41:40,790
"I'll give you pie...

671
00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:44,698
"if I can reach high enough
in the sky...

672
00:41:44,802 --> 00:41:46,929
in the sweet by-and-by".

673
00:41:47,037 --> 00:41:48,937
Well, the coal miners in this country...

674
00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:51,405
are damn sick and tired of having...

675
00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,807
a national president of its organization...

676
00:41:53,911 --> 00:41:56,345
that's in bed with the coal operators.

677
00:42:02,620 --> 00:42:04,679
<i>

678
00:42:04,788 --> 00:42:07,018
<i>

679
00:42:07,124 --> 00:42:10,321
<i>

680
00:42:10,427 --> 00:42:12,657
<i>-
- Hi, fellas.</i>

681
00:42:12,763 --> 00:42:15,163
<i>

682
00:42:15,266 --> 00:42:17,632
<i>

683
00:42:17,735 --> 00:42:20,135
<i>

684
00:42:20,237 --> 00:42:23,138
<i>

685
00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:25,731
<i>

686
00:42:25,843 --> 00:42:27,834
<i>

687
00:42:27,945 --> 00:42:30,345
<i>

688
00:42:30,447 --> 00:42:33,473
<i>

689
00:42:33,584 --> 00:42:35,848
<i>

690
00:42:35,953 --> 00:42:37,944
<i>

691
00:42:38,055 --> 00:42:40,683
<i>

692
00:42:40,791 --> 00:42:43,885
<i>

693
00:42:43,994 --> 00:42:47,157
Now we have nine paid holidays.

694
00:42:47,264 --> 00:42:52,361
And I think the one that tops them all
is the holiday for your birthday.

695
00:42:52,469 --> 00:42:55,199
Every miner is given the opportunity...

696
00:42:55,306 --> 00:42:57,934
to work on his birthday...

697
00:42:58,042 --> 00:43:01,011
and he receives triple time
for working on his birthday.

698
00:43:01,111 --> 00:43:04,103
I think that's really something
to be proud of.

699
00:43:04,214 --> 00:43:07,911
And this is the thought
and the idea and the accomplishment...

700
00:43:08,018 --> 00:43:09,918
of President Boyle.

701
00:43:10,020 --> 00:43:14,218
When they asked, "How many terms do you want?"
you know how many terms I told 'em?

702
00:43:14,325 --> 00:43:18,887
I told 'em. I said, "Just as long
as the Supreme Being up there...

703
00:43:18,996 --> 00:43:22,932
"gives me the intellect
and the health to carry on...

704
00:43:23,033 --> 00:43:25,695
"and the membership
elect me to office.

705
00:43:25,803 --> 00:43:29,705
That's how many terms I want,
until I'm 180 years of age!"

706
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,310
<i>Can you tell us
just where the bodies were found...</i>

707
00:43:38,415 --> 00:43:40,508
<i>and some of the circumstances
surrounding the discovery?</i>

708
00:43:40,618 --> 00:43:45,954
Well, the, uh, daughter was in a bedroom
adjoining the master bedroom.

709
00:43:46,056 --> 00:43:50,857
Mr. and Mrs. Yablonski
were in the master bedroom.

710
00:43:50,961 --> 00:43:53,987
The events in Washington, Pennsylvania...

711
00:43:54,098 --> 00:43:57,363
show that murder is as institutionalized...

712
00:43:57,468 --> 00:43:59,368
within the U.M.W.A...

713
00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:01,665
as it is in the mafia.

714
00:44:01,772 --> 00:44:06,766
The order to kill -
to kill the whole family, if necessary-

715
00:44:06,877 --> 00:44:10,278
was as routinely transmitted
and carried out...

716
00:44:10,381 --> 00:44:13,873
as an order to call a strike
or settle a grievance.

717
00:44:15,019 --> 00:44:16,987
We loved and admired our father.

718
00:44:17,087 --> 00:44:19,248
We respected him.

719
00:44:19,356 --> 00:44:21,517
And my brother and I would like to carry him...

720
00:44:21,625 --> 00:44:23,650
to his final resting place.

721
00:44:25,029 --> 00:44:28,192
But we deem it proper
to do otherwise.

722
00:44:28,298 --> 00:44:32,064
<i>My brother,Joseph, with our cousins
from my mother's family...</i>

723
00:44:32,169 --> 00:44:34,069
<i>will carry our mother...</i>

724
00:44:34,171 --> 00:44:37,834
<i>and I, with our cousins
from my father's family...</i>

725
00:44:37,941 --> 00:44:40,637
will carry our sister, Charlotte.

726
00:44:40,744 --> 00:44:44,612
We entrust our father
to the coal miners whom he loved so much.

727
00:44:45,649 --> 00:44:48,413
<i>

728
00:44:48,519 --> 00:44:50,646
<i>

729
00:44:50,754 --> 00:44:54,656
<i>
for another year

730
00:44:54,758 --> 00:44:56,817
<i>

731
00:44:56,927 --> 00:45:00,419
<i>

732
00:45:00,531 --> 00:45:03,500
<i>
The preacher preached

733
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,797
<i>

734
00:45:06,904 --> 00:45:09,771
<i>
"I come to take the soul

735
00:45:09,873 --> 00:45:13,001
<i>
and leave it cold

736
00:45:13,110 --> 00:45:16,045
<i>

737
00:45:16,146 --> 00:45:18,979
<i>

738
00:45:19,083 --> 00:45:23,019


739
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,384


740
00:45:25,489 --> 00:45:29,482

for another year

741
00:45:29,593 --> 00:45:31,959


742
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:35,361


743
00:45:39,036 --> 00:45:41,004
In 1969...

744
00:45:43,941 --> 00:45:47,741
there wasn't any reform organization.

745
00:45:47,845 --> 00:45:51,679
<i>This is 1972...</i>

746
00:45:51,782 --> 00:45:55,650
and this is the year
for Miners for Democracy.

747
00:45:56,754 --> 00:45:58,551
<i>Now you can look around...</i>

748
00:45:58,655 --> 00:46:00,555
and see your brothers...

749
00:46:00,657 --> 00:46:02,557
in other districts...

750
00:46:02,659 --> 00:46:06,493
who are willing to stand
shoulder to shoulder with you...

751
00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:10,590
to throw Boyle and his crowd out...

752
00:46:10,701 --> 00:46:12,999
for once and for all.

753
00:46:15,172 --> 00:46:19,199
<i>I'm proud of the honor ofheading up
a slate of rank-and-file candidates...</i>

754
00:46:20,511 --> 00:46:22,411
for the international offices...

755
00:46:22,513 --> 00:46:24,413
for rank-and-file miners.

756
00:46:24,515 --> 00:46:27,678
<i>We must have a safety program...</i>

757
00:46:27,785 --> 00:46:29,912
<i>that will guarantee our members...</i>

758
00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:32,352
<i>a safejourney to and from the mines...</i>

759
00:46:32,456 --> 00:46:34,947
<i>not one which accepts...</i>

760
00:46:35,058 --> 00:46:38,425
<i>that we must lose
200-300 men every year in mining.</i>

761
00:46:38,529 --> 00:46:42,898
<i>I wanna make it plain that my commitment
is to the rank-and-file miner.</i>

762
00:46:45,002 --> 00:46:48,665
<i>

763
00:46:48,772 --> 00:46:53,300
<i>

764
00:46:53,410 --> 00:46:56,641
<i>
sit up and listen

765
00:46:56,747 --> 00:47:00,808
<i>

766
00:47:00,918 --> 00:47:05,150
<i>
at the trough too long

767
00:47:05,255 --> 00:47:10,090
<i>

768
00:47:10,194 --> 00:47:13,288
<i>
and the time is near

769
00:47:13,397 --> 00:47:18,425
<i>

770
00:47:18,535 --> 00:47:21,629
<i>

771
00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:25,471
<i>I now pronounce you president
of United Mine Workers of America.</i>

772
00:47:25,576 --> 00:47:29,103
<i>Congratulations.!</i>

773
00:47:31,381 --> 00:47:33,281
Which office was this?

774
00:47:33,383 --> 00:47:35,283
This was Boyle's old office...

775
00:47:35,385 --> 00:47:38,286
and the other one
was Suzanne Richards's old office.

776
00:47:38,388 --> 00:47:40,288
Neither lives here anymore.

777
00:47:42,392 --> 00:47:45,327
<i>I do sign a 20-cent royalty for-</i>

778
00:47:45,429 --> 00:47:47,659
<i>- Peabody.!
- Peabody Coal Company.</i>

779
00:47:47,764 --> 00:47:49,664
Tony Boyle.

780
00:47:49,766 --> 00:47:51,631
What'd you say?

781
00:47:51,735 --> 00:47:53,464
<i>Mr. Boyle was giving...</i>

782
00:47:53,570 --> 00:47:56,505
<i>a civil deposition when he was intruded upon...</i>

783
00:47:56,607 --> 00:47:58,438
<i>by three F.B.I. agents.</i>

784
00:47:58,542 --> 00:48:00,442
<i>I think that's grossly unfair.</i>

785
00:48:00,544 --> 00:48:04,241
Never expected that that was gonna
come through - anything like this.

786
00:48:04,348 --> 00:48:08,011
- Why?
- Because I had no forewarning.

787
00:48:08,118 --> 00:48:10,678
What about the charge itself?

788
00:48:10,787 --> 00:48:13,153
Well, as I read the charge -

789
00:48:13,257 --> 00:48:16,158
I'm not supposed to say anything.
My lawyer told me not to.

790
00:48:16,260 --> 00:48:18,626
<i>Come on, Tony.</i>

791
00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:21,721
<i>- As you read the charge, what?
- Tony? Tony?</i>

792
00:48:21,832 --> 00:48:23,959
<i>As bad as the killers are-</i>

793
00:48:24,067 --> 00:48:27,366
<i>Vealey and Gilly
and whatever they may be-</i>

794
00:48:27,471 --> 00:48:29,701
<i>they don't compare
to the people at the top...</i>

795
00:48:29,806 --> 00:48:33,401
<i>who would use
the blood and sweat of miners...</i>

796
00:48:33,510 --> 00:48:36,070
<i>to finance for killing.</i>

797
00:48:37,848 --> 00:48:39,816
Excuse us, please.

798
00:48:41,084 --> 00:48:43,052
Excuse me.

799
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:31,963
The United Mine Workers today...

800
00:49:32,069 --> 00:49:34,094
is a labor organization...

801
00:49:34,204 --> 00:49:36,331
of rank-and-file miners...

802
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,568
led by rank-and-file miners,
for rank-and-file miners.

803
00:49:39,676 --> 00:49:41,576
And that's the way it oughta be.

804
00:49:47,451 --> 00:49:49,851
<i>I want to introduce
to all of you now-</i>

805
00:49:49,953 --> 00:49:54,083
<i>and I expect that most of you
already know her- Miss Florence Reese.</i>

806
00:49:54,191 --> 00:49:57,592
I'm not a coal miner,
as you well know...

807
00:49:57,694 --> 00:50:00,254
but I'm as close as I could be
not to be one.

808
00:50:00,364 --> 00:50:03,561
My father was a coal miner
who was killed in the mines...

809
00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:05,999
and my husband is slowly dyin'
with the black lung.

810
00:50:06,103 --> 00:50:10,096
<i>And my husband and me
was in the strike in the '30s...</i>

811
00:50:10,207 --> 00:50:12,107
<i>in bloody Harlan County...</i>

812
00:50:12,209 --> 00:50:15,303
<i>and I do mean it was bloody too.</i>

813
00:50:15,412 --> 00:50:18,643
And they tell me -These miners say
we're gonna stick it out...

814
00:50:18,749 --> 00:50:21,809
unless Duke Power signs a contract,
till hell freezes over.

815
00:50:27,324 --> 00:50:31,351
<i>And the men knows they got nothin'to lose
but their chains...</i>

816
00:50:31,461 --> 00:50:33,361
and their union to gain.

817
00:50:33,463 --> 00:50:35,431
So I say hang in there.

818
00:50:35,532 --> 00:50:39,195
<i>And, uh, now, this song
I composed in the '30s.</i>

819
00:50:39,302 --> 00:50:42,203
As you know, I'm old -
that's 40 year ago -

820
00:50:42,305 --> 00:50:44,205
and I can't sing very well...

821
00:50:44,307 --> 00:50:48,209
but you can ask the scabs
and the gun thugs which side they're on...

822
00:50:48,311 --> 00:50:50,211
because they're workers too.

823
00:50:52,616 --> 00:50:54,743


824
00:50:54,851 --> 00:50:57,945


825
00:50:58,055 --> 00:51:00,319


826
00:51:00,424 --> 00:51:02,949


827
00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:05,358


828
00:51:05,462 --> 00:51:08,329
<i>

829
00:51:08,432 --> 00:51:11,162
<i>

830
00:51:11,268 --> 00:51:13,930


831
00:51:14,037 --> 00:51:16,597


832
00:51:16,706 --> 00:51:19,300


833
00:51:19,409 --> 00:51:24,176

Which side are you on

834
00:51:24,414 --> 00:51:26,439
<i>What about this gun bein'pulled?</i>

835
00:51:26,550 --> 00:51:28,950
Oh, he pulled it right here!

836
00:51:29,052 --> 00:51:31,543
<i>- He had it concealed in a rag.
- And we got his name.</i>

837
00:51:31,655 --> 00:51:35,352
<i>He told me that- His boys said if we got
in his way again he would mow us down.</i>

838
00:51:35,459 --> 00:51:38,360
I told him, "I'll see you in federal court
Monday if you say that again, sir.

839
00:51:38,462 --> 00:51:40,430
We're here on peaceful business".

840
00:51:41,631 --> 00:51:44,532
So he put it back in his holster then,
wrapped it back up in a rag...

841
00:51:44,634 --> 00:51:46,534
and got back in his car.

842
00:51:46,636 --> 00:51:48,695
But he did pull the gun and point it.

843
00:51:50,073 --> 00:51:52,564
<i>That's Basil Collins.
That's the gun thug.</i>

844
00:51:52,676 --> 00:51:54,769
<i>He is a known strikebreaker.</i>

845
00:51:54,878 --> 00:51:56,778
That man is a gun thug.

846
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,280
He's the same one
that came up here before.

847
00:51:59,382 --> 00:52:02,351
He had the gun in the car
whenever Red was talkin' to him.

848
00:52:02,452 --> 00:52:05,353
<i>He's a-cruisin'around here now,
goin'up and down...</i>

849
00:52:05,455 --> 00:52:08,117
<i>tryin'to find out who's here.</i>

850
00:52:08,225 --> 00:52:10,853
<i>- Who are you working with, honey?
- What? United Press.</i>

851
00:52:10,961 --> 00:52:13,429
Who do you work with?
Well, you show me your press card.

852
00:52:13,530 --> 00:52:16,431
<i>- It's in the car. Anne, get my press card.
- Show me your press card.</i>

853
00:52:16,533 --> 00:52:19,627
<i>- Okay. What's your name, sir?
- My name's Basil Collins.</i>

854
00:52:19,736 --> 00:52:21,636
<i>- Do you work here?
- Yes, ma'am.</i>

855
00:52:21,738 --> 00:52:24,866
<i>- What's your position here?
- Line foreman.</i>

856
00:52:24,975 --> 00:52:27,603
<i>How do you feel about the people
picketing out here?</i>

857
00:52:28,645 --> 00:52:30,545
Well...

858
00:52:30,647 --> 00:52:32,740
I don't have no comment on that.

859
00:52:33,783 --> 00:52:35,910
<i>- And you, sir?
- Same thing.</i>

860
00:52:36,019 --> 00:52:37,987
Where's this press card
you was gonna show me?

861
00:52:38,088 --> 00:52:40,318
<i>- Can I see your identification?
- Ma'am?</i>

862
00:52:40,423 --> 00:52:42,618
<i>- May I see your identification?
- Yes, ma'am, if I had any.</i>

863
00:52:42,726 --> 00:52:44,990
<i>I'm sorry. I've lost it.
All I can do is tell you my name.</i>

864
00:52:44,991 --> 00:52:47,254
<i>I think I might have misplaced mine too.</i>

865
00:52:47,364 --> 00:52:49,332
<i>- Okay. Okay.
- All right.</i>

866
00:52:51,368 --> 00:52:54,997
<i>He had the nerve enough,
believe it or not, to run for sheriff.</i>

867
00:52:56,773 --> 00:53:00,800
<i>We're not gonna have the violence of the '30s.</i>

868
00:53:00,911 --> 00:53:03,744
The conditions are not the same.

869
00:53:03,847 --> 00:53:06,441
There is probably nothing illegal or immoral...

870
00:53:06,550 --> 00:53:08,450
about the union trying to get...

871
00:53:08,552 --> 00:53:10,452
the best contract they can...

872
00:53:10,554 --> 00:53:12,488
including the one they have
with everyone else.

873
00:53:12,589 --> 00:53:16,685
<i>On the other hand, the fact that
somebody else has made a contract...</i>

874
00:53:16,793 --> 00:53:18,693
with the United Mine Workers...

875
00:53:18,795 --> 00:53:21,491
doesn't raise any obligation
on our part, as I see it...

876
00:53:21,598 --> 00:53:24,089
legally or morally,
to accept that contract...

877
00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:26,294
any more than we could
go to the union...

878
00:53:26,403 --> 00:53:29,372
and say we want you to accept
the Southern Labor Union contract...

879
00:53:29,472 --> 00:53:31,372
which we have at two other mines.

880
00:53:31,474 --> 00:53:33,374
<i>Is it as simple as that?</i>

881
00:53:33,476 --> 00:53:37,310
<i>You do not want the major industry
agreement with United Mine Workers.</i>

882
00:53:37,414 --> 00:53:39,814
<i>- That is the 1971 agreement.
- It's that simple.</i>

883
00:53:39,916 --> 00:53:41,941
Yes, sir.
If you want to make it simple.

884
00:53:45,989 --> 00:53:50,426
We'll bug 'em a little bit this mornin',
play with 'em a little bit, see.

885
00:53:50,527 --> 00:53:52,654
- Mister, you're mean.
- I'm not.

886
00:53:52,762 --> 00:53:56,323
- Mean old man. That's what you are.
- That's what they say, don't they?

887
00:53:56,433 --> 00:53:58,594
You can tell 'em different, can't you?

888
00:53:58,702 --> 00:54:02,331
Huh? I'm as gentle as a newborn baby.

889
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:12,207
<i>Just when it was the first ti-
time they went to work.</i>

890
00:54:12,315 --> 00:54:15,216
<i>All of them had guns and pistols.</i>

891
00:54:15,318 --> 00:54:19,049
<i>And it was just-
You know, it was really bad up there.</i>

892
00:54:32,569 --> 00:54:35,470
Get the hell out of my way.

893
00:54:35,572 --> 00:54:39,565
<i>Get back in here now.
Hold the rest of'em. Hold everybody.</i>

894
00:54:45,615 --> 00:54:49,483
<i>- Preparin'for a little trouble here.
- There's a gun. Get a picture of that gun.</i>

895
00:54:49,586 --> 00:54:51,486
<i>- Gun.
- Where?</i>

896
00:55:12,709 --> 00:55:14,734
Go on in, boys.

897
00:55:14,844 --> 00:55:18,610
<i>Come on in. Come on.!</i>

898
00:55:22,986 --> 00:55:24,954
Come on in.

899
00:55:25,055 --> 00:55:27,319
<i>Go on in, Bobby.</i>

900
00:55:43,340 --> 00:55:47,071
<i>Let's go, boys.
Everybody, let's go.</i>

901
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,420
I'm not happy about it.
We can't hold 'em -

902
00:55:59,522 --> 00:56:02,753
We can hold 'em, but we can't hold 'em
with all them guns they got.

903
00:56:02,859 --> 00:56:04,759
They got guns.
We don't got 'em.

904
00:56:04,861 --> 00:56:08,854
<i>They allowed to carry guns and sticks.
We can't have nothing but a knife and a whetrock.</i>

905
00:56:08,965 --> 00:56:10,865
<i>That's right.</i>

906
00:56:10,967 --> 00:56:14,869
We just heard that, uh, Mickey Messer,
president of Brookside Local was, uh -

907
00:56:14,971 --> 00:56:17,269
house was shot up last night by...

908
00:56:17,374 --> 00:56:19,274
some Highsplint employees.

909
00:56:19,376 --> 00:56:21,503
They called his name
to get him to come outside...

910
00:56:21,611 --> 00:56:24,705
and he went out the back door and they
opened up on him with a machine gun.

911
00:56:24,814 --> 00:56:27,783
Right here is one shot.

912
00:56:27,884 --> 00:56:30,375
Up here is a shot.

913
00:56:30,487 --> 00:56:34,150
And then right here is a shot.

914
00:56:34,257 --> 00:56:38,250
<i>I'm sure it was scabs- uh, gun thugs-
Eastover has hired...</i>

915
00:56:38,361 --> 00:56:41,853
because, uh, there ain't nobody else
who'd want to do anything like that to me.

916
00:56:41,965 --> 00:56:43,865
I've never bothered anybody.

917
00:56:43,967 --> 00:56:46,663
They're shootin' down beside the house,
and we all slipped to the floor.

918
00:56:46,770 --> 00:56:50,297
<i>- Jesus. Honey-
- Thugs shooting. Yes.</i>

919
00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:54,275
They shot about 16 times last night.
Knocked me out of bed.

920
00:56:54,377 --> 00:56:56,811
And the kids was all in there cryin'.

921
00:56:56,913 --> 00:56:58,813
Scarin' your baby.

922
00:56:58,915 --> 00:57:01,281
<i>- Makes my blood boil.
- Shh.</i>

923
00:57:01,384 --> 00:57:05,218
<i>If we don't want it
to come back to the '30s...</i>

924
00:57:05,321 --> 00:57:07,448
and bloody Harlan...

925
00:57:07,557 --> 00:57:11,493
and all of this crowd -
women and men -

926
00:57:11,594 --> 00:57:15,860
can get out on the picket line
two or three times, we've got it made.

927
00:57:15,965 --> 00:57:20,026
<i>If you're afraid to go to sleep
and can't wake up,just stay up all night.</i>

928
00:57:20,136 --> 00:57:22,604
<i>Let's not let it happen-</i>

929
00:57:22,705 --> 00:57:25,367
<i>to come back to the '30s -
because I was here.</i>

930
00:57:25,475 --> 00:57:29,411
I seed children hungry,
cryin' for somethin' to eat.

931
00:57:29,512 --> 00:57:34,279
And - Oh, I - I can't take it.
I'll be out -

932
00:57:34,384 --> 00:57:38,343
If I get shot, they can't
shoot the union out of me.

933
00:57:43,026 --> 00:57:45,961
<i>

934
00:57:46,062 --> 00:57:48,553
<i>

935
00:57:48,665 --> 00:57:53,864
<i>
out on the picket line

936
00:57:53,970 --> 00:57:56,768
<i>

937
00:57:56,873 --> 00:58:00,309
<i>

938
00:58:00,410 --> 00:58:03,345
<i>

939
00:58:03,446 --> 00:58:06,074
<i>

940
00:58:06,182 --> 00:58:11,711
<i>
There's room for you and me

941
00:58:11,821 --> 00:58:14,312
<i>

942
00:58:14,424 --> 00:58:17,757
<i>

943
00:58:36,012 --> 00:58:39,209
We find two or three -
sometimes four pickets.

944
00:58:39,315 --> 00:58:41,510
Very rarely are we finding six.

945
00:58:41,618 --> 00:58:44,246
<i>Now, where are all these people
that was raisin'hell...</i>

946
00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:47,585
<i>because they couldn't have 50
on these picket lines?</i>

947
00:58:47,690 --> 00:58:51,990
Now, the understanding
in this local union was...

948
00:58:52,095 --> 00:58:54,461
that strike benefits would be paid...

949
00:58:56,199 --> 00:58:59,430
and every man
would pull his share of picket duty.

950
00:58:59,536 --> 00:59:02,004
<i>- Right or wrong?
- Right.</i>

951
00:59:02,105 --> 00:59:04,938
All right. Then what in the hell's
goin' on around here?

952
00:59:05,041 --> 00:59:09,637
Let me tell you somethin'. When I was on the
picket line, you was in bed and you was in bed.

953
00:59:09,746 --> 00:59:12,681
So don't tell me -
And so I know about -

954
00:59:12,782 --> 00:59:15,512
<i>- Yeah, but we went tojail-
- Oh, you went to jail.</i>

955
00:59:15,618 --> 00:59:18,678
<i>- Who else went to jail? Was you the only one?
- No.</i>

956
00:59:18,788 --> 00:59:22,349
We stayed over there as long as
we could stay without goin' back to jail.

957
00:59:22,458 --> 00:59:24,358
<i>I call for a moment of silence.</i>

958
00:59:24,460 --> 00:59:27,224
<i>She's not done nothin'but cause trouble.</i>

959
00:59:27,330 --> 00:59:30,663
<i>- You know,you make me sick.
- Well, you make me sick too.</i>

960
00:59:33,336 --> 00:59:37,136
<i>...to you and tell you what they tell me-
that you're running round with their husbands.</i>

961
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:39,470
You're trying to take
their husbands away from 'em.

962
00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:42,545
<i>Okay then. They told me
you're an alcoholic and everything else.</i>

963
00:59:42,645 --> 00:59:45,910
<i>I don't care who takes whose man,
who lives with whose man or what they do.</i>

964
00:59:46,015 --> 00:59:50,475
If they can take mine and take him on,
they can have him. I'll shed no tears.

965
00:59:50,587 --> 00:59:54,853
I'm not after a man. I'm after a contract.
I'm raisin' two boys.

966
01:00:01,731 --> 01:00:06,100
I tell you. We can't let our brother down.
We gotta stand on solid ground.

967
01:00:06,202 --> 01:00:08,102
And then we're gonna go through.

968
01:00:08,204 --> 01:00:09,804
If we're gonna start lettin' personal -

969
01:00:09,805 --> 01:00:13,005
what we feel about each other
personally get in the way...

970
01:00:13,109 --> 01:00:15,543
then we're not gonna
be able to accomplish anything.

971
01:00:15,645 --> 01:00:18,375
I don't count myself
nothing big in the club.

972
01:00:18,481 --> 01:00:20,506
I don't count myself no bigger
than nobody else.

973
01:00:20,617 --> 01:00:23,051
The rest of'em has more
to do with it than I do...

974
01:00:23,152 --> 01:00:26,553
because my husband was mashed up
in the mines, retired.

975
01:00:26,656 --> 01:00:28,624
And Eastover just pushed us out.

976
01:00:28,725 --> 01:00:31,558
We was pushed out before
the rent was up and all of that.

977
01:00:31,661 --> 01:00:34,459
It either smashed up their daddies...

978
01:00:34,564 --> 01:00:38,000
or down with coal dust from that mines.

979
01:00:38,101 --> 01:00:41,434
I went to school - to age of school -
I've got part of the sixth grade...

980
01:00:41,537 --> 01:00:44,904
because Daddy got eight dollars
and somethin' a shift.

981
01:00:45,008 --> 01:00:48,500
Nothin' to go to school on.
I had to go in overalls.

982
01:00:48,611 --> 01:00:51,978
And pile out slate for a living
after I growed up.

983
01:00:52,081 --> 01:00:54,174
Coal out of it and sell it.

984
01:00:54,283 --> 01:00:56,183
And...

985
01:00:56,285 --> 01:00:58,651
walk off of that mountain
from that mines to school.

986
01:00:58,755 --> 01:01:01,383
And they're all barned up there,
not even allowed in it.

987
01:01:01,491 --> 01:01:06,485
I've got Mom's coal oil lamps. I've got her
stove irons a-sittin' there for 'em to look at.

988
01:01:06,596 --> 01:01:09,292
And walkin' to school and back.

989
01:01:12,235 --> 01:01:16,194
And I know everybody's disappointed
we don't have a bigger crowd...

990
01:01:16,305 --> 01:01:20,435
and we're disappointed that more people
haven't come in, but when you get down to it...

991
01:01:20,543 --> 01:01:24,138
in this fight, and like in any other fight,
you gotta depend on yourselves.

992
01:01:24,247 --> 01:01:26,408
<i>Nobody in the end's gonna do it for you.</i>

993
01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:29,508
<i>The union's gonna back you,
and we're gonna do all we can...</i>

994
01:01:29,619 --> 01:01:32,087
<i>but you gotta win this fight yourselves.</i>

995
01:01:32,188 --> 01:01:35,320
Now, it's the first time East Kentucky
has stood up against the coal operators,

996
01:01:35,321 --> 01:01:36,887
and you're doin' it.

997
01:01:36,993 --> 01:01:40,429
And when you win, you're fighting
for your kids and your grandkids.

998
01:01:40,530 --> 01:01:43,795
Every one of them will have a better life
because of what you're doin' here.

999
01:01:43,900 --> 01:01:45,800
And that's why the fight's so hard.

1000
01:01:45,902 --> 01:01:48,871
If there wasn't so much at stake,
they wouldn't be fightin' you this hard.

1001
01:01:48,971 --> 01:01:51,439
They wouldn't shoot into your homes
if there wasn't so much at stake.

1002
01:01:51,541 --> 01:01:55,272
And if there are not enough on the picket line,
then when you come to the picket line...

1003
01:01:55,378 --> 01:01:58,279
on the way, stop by
and pick someone up and knock on his door...

1004
01:01:58,381 --> 01:02:00,349
and ask him to come along with ya.

1005
01:02:00,516 --> 01:02:02,643
<i>- Bob, are you gonna be there?
- Where?</i>

1006
01:02:02,752 --> 01:02:05,016
<i>- At the picket line at Highsplint
in the mornin'. - Yeah.</i>

1007
01:02:05,121 --> 01:02:07,885
<i>I don't know what y'all
are goin'up to do except for-</i>

1008
01:02:07,990 --> 01:02:12,518
The thugs that's sittin' there
in the highway with guns in their hands.

1009
01:02:12,628 --> 01:02:14,994
We can't do nothin'
except get up there and whittle.

1010
01:02:15,098 --> 01:02:16,998
<i>How do you feel about it, Tommy?</i>

1011
01:02:17,100 --> 01:02:21,730
How do you feel about us comin' up there?
I don't want to go up there against their will.

1012
01:02:21,838 --> 01:02:23,897
I want to be welcomed, but, uh -

1013
01:02:24,006 --> 01:02:27,032
<i>Welcomed? We've been expecting
you forever to come. Come.</i>

1014
01:02:33,516 --> 01:02:38,180
<i>Now, we've got a new president.
Sudie Crusenberry is our new president.</i>

1015
01:02:38,287 --> 01:02:40,721
<i>So let's give her a hand.</i>

1016
01:02:44,961 --> 01:02:48,021
<i>And we've got two treasurers-
co-treasurers.</i>

1017
01:02:48,131 --> 01:02:50,895
<i>DorothyJohnson and Mary Lou Fergerson.</i>

1018
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,696
<i>So let's give them-</i>

1019
01:02:53,803 --> 01:02:56,738
<i>I- I really- I'm just really tickled...</i>

1020
01:02:56,839 --> 01:03:00,275
that we've got this many people out,
you know, today, and all of us out.

1021
01:03:00,376 --> 01:03:02,844
And I think if one thing,
it's helped us.

1022
01:03:02,945 --> 01:03:05,209
<i>'Cause last week we had such a struggle.</i>

1023
01:03:05,314 --> 01:03:07,805
<i>But I think
that what's come out of it is good.</i>

1024
01:03:08,851 --> 01:03:10,785
<i>Come on.!</i>

1025
01:03:10,887 --> 01:03:12,946
<i>- And it's loaded?
- Yeah.</i>

1026
01:03:13,055 --> 01:03:15,489
<i>You shouldn't carry it with you like that.</i>

1027
01:03:15,591 --> 01:03:19,493
It's got a safety on it. And if it did,
it wouldn't shoot nothin' but my titty off.

1028
01:03:19,595 --> 01:03:22,029
<i>And I might lose that one anyway.</i>

1029
01:03:22,131 --> 01:03:24,031
As long as I got another one.

1030
01:03:24,133 --> 01:03:26,226
<i>- I want you to meet Anita, Lois.
- Oh.</i>

1031
01:03:26,335 --> 01:03:28,826
Tellin' 'em I started out with a switch
on that picket line...

1032
01:03:28,938 --> 01:03:30,963
but I'm ended up now carrying a gun.

1033
01:03:31,073 --> 01:03:32,973
I mean, all the time too.

1034
01:03:33,075 --> 01:03:38,240
Hell, you - I have to, you know - Especially
since what's happening up there at Highsplint.

1035
01:03:38,347 --> 01:03:40,247
And knowin' 'em and seein' 'em.

1036
01:03:40,349 --> 01:03:42,283
Seeing the machine guns and all.

1037
01:03:42,385 --> 01:03:46,685
It's time to -
Well, you'd be crazy not to carry a gun now.

1038
01:03:47,723 --> 01:03:49,918
You would, really.

1039
01:03:50,026 --> 01:03:51,994
Yeah.

1040
01:03:52,094 --> 01:03:56,053
Well, all right. Uh, are we gonna -
Are y'all gonna be back at 6:00?

1041
01:04:15,017 --> 01:04:16,951
<i>Don't shoot.!</i>

1042
01:04:28,731 --> 01:04:30,699
<i>Watch out. Coming back across the bridge.</i>

1043
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:33,200
<i>He shot right at me.</i>

1044
01:04:36,239 --> 01:04:38,207
<i>No.!</i>

1045
01:04:41,811 --> 01:04:44,245
<i>You get away from me.! Huh?</i>

1046
01:04:49,418 --> 01:04:51,386
<i>Fuckin'- A.!</i>

1047
01:04:53,723 --> 01:04:57,386
<i>Take 'em back over there
and take your pants off, Basil.</i>

1048
01:04:57,493 --> 01:04:59,723
All right, men.
Let's - Let's break it up now.

1049
01:04:59,829 --> 01:05:02,263
Clear the bridge.
Let these people leave.

1050
01:05:03,299 --> 01:05:05,631
You know that nigger?

1051
01:05:05,735 --> 01:05:08,863
<i>That "nigger"
is a better man than you'll ever be.</i>

1052
01:05:08,971 --> 01:05:12,168
<i>He's a better man than you'll ever be.</i>

1053
01:05:12,275 --> 01:05:14,334
<i>Three or four of'em,
damned old gun thugs...</i>

1054
01:05:14,443 --> 01:05:17,412
<i>get on him and start kicking a woman
and hitting a woman and then-</i>

1055
01:05:17,513 --> 01:05:21,210
and then another one come over
and start beatin' a man...

1056
01:05:21,317 --> 01:05:23,683
and - and gettin'
four or five of them on him...

1057
01:05:23,786 --> 01:05:26,118
and then see, uh -
uh, Basil Collins holding a gun...

1058
01:05:26,222 --> 01:05:31,057
and - and calling a - a - a union man
that believes in - union man -

1059
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:35,290
said, "I want you to get that nigger.
You hear that nigger? Get that nigger".

1060
01:05:35,398 --> 01:05:38,060
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of it.

1061
01:05:39,101 --> 01:05:42,070
And it's - it's time for us, uh,
to - to stand together...

1062
01:05:42,171 --> 01:05:45,834
and - and get just as violent as they are.

1063
01:05:45,942 --> 01:05:48,638
<i>- I agree.
- Right.</i>

1064
01:05:48,744 --> 01:05:52,305
They're violent, so, by God,
you fight fire with fire.

1065
01:05:52,415 --> 01:05:55,543
<i>It seemed like they were
pretty well organized to me this morning...</i>

1066
01:05:55,651 --> 01:05:58,347
and we're gonna have to get
a little tighter organized.

1067
01:05:58,454 --> 01:06:00,888
<i>We're gonna get together.
The women are gonna get together...</i>

1068
01:06:00,990 --> 01:06:03,254
<i>and be responsible
for 10 women each...</i>

1069
01:06:03,359 --> 01:06:05,725
<i>- or 10 people out there each at 4:00.
- Okay.</i>

1070
01:06:05,828 --> 01:06:08,524
If you women gonna bring 10 each...

1071
01:06:08,631 --> 01:06:10,758
then, uh, the men
ought to be able to say...

1072
01:06:10,866 --> 01:06:14,768
"Well, we'll bring five
or we'll bring 10 or we'll bring 15."

1073
01:06:16,005 --> 01:06:18,064
And that would be workin' together.

1074
01:06:18,174 --> 01:06:22,110
<i>You're gonna have to get some more
black people out, too, 'cause you look odd-</i>

1075
01:06:22,211 --> 01:06:24,441
<i>I am odd.</i>

1076
01:06:26,482 --> 01:06:29,940
They want us to sit by
and watch 'em shoot...

1077
01:06:30,052 --> 01:06:31,986
and not us shoot back.

1078
01:06:32,088 --> 01:06:35,148
And the police is not gonna do nothin'
about it either. They're for them.

1079
01:06:35,257 --> 01:06:37,157
<i>No. We know that.
just fight back.</i>

1080
01:06:37,259 --> 01:06:40,854
Just attack hell out of them -
and not run.

1081
01:06:40,963 --> 01:06:43,761
Let your conscience be you gu -
I never run.

1082
01:06:45,201 --> 01:06:47,795
I - I had one.
One's all I could handle.

1083
01:06:47,903 --> 01:06:50,838
But I got him.
He didn't come no farther.

1084
01:06:50,940 --> 01:06:53,306
<i>If there's enough of us up there,
and we can get one-</i>

1085
01:06:53,409 --> 01:06:55,639
<i>if each one of us can get one,
hell, we can do it.</i>

1086
01:06:55,745 --> 01:07:00,478
Men, women and children all.

1087
01:07:00,583 --> 01:07:02,642
It's time to stand up and be counted.

1088
01:07:02,752 --> 01:07:05,585
Don't you gonna be
throwed back for 500 years.

1089
01:07:06,856 --> 01:07:10,053
We're gonna have a picket line
in the morning.

1090
01:07:10,159 --> 01:07:12,650
And we hope to have a big picket line.

1091
01:07:12,762 --> 01:07:15,731
It's gonna be set up a little bit
different than the last one.

1092
01:07:15,831 --> 01:07:17,964
<i>'Cause - We can't have
a picket line at the bridge</i>

1093
01:07:17,965 --> 01:07:20,097
<i>with a.30-caliber machine gun
shooting at you.</i>

1094
01:07:20,202 --> 01:07:22,261
<i>These ladies are setting it up.</i>

1095
01:07:22,371 --> 01:07:25,636
<i>We're gonna have to get out there
and back them. That's all there are to it.</i>

1096
01:07:25,741 --> 01:07:29,108
<i>They come up to back us, and we're not even
backing them. It's pretty disgusting.</i>

1097
01:07:29,211 --> 01:07:31,736
<i>So we'd like to see-
We know about who ain't been there.</i>

1098
01:07:31,847 --> 01:07:34,247
We'd like to see you out there
once in a while.

1099
01:07:36,419 --> 01:07:39,081
<i>- Has anybody got any questions?
- Bob.</i>

1100
01:07:39,188 --> 01:07:41,452
<i>Most of'em are afraid to come up.</i>

1101
01:07:41,557 --> 01:07:43,457
Hell, I'm afraid too,
but I go up there.

1102
01:07:43,559 --> 01:07:46,392
<i>Looked pretty shaky up there this mornin:</i>

1103
01:07:46,495 --> 01:07:48,463
We got some good uns though.

1104
01:07:51,233 --> 01:07:53,565
<i>- Anything anybody want to bring up?
- Can I talk?</i>

1105
01:07:53,669 --> 01:07:55,967
Come on up here.
You sure can.

1106
01:07:57,206 --> 01:08:02,075
Uh, if there's anybody in here
that can't - or is not with us...

1107
01:08:02,178 --> 01:08:05,170
and can't go with us in the morning...

1108
01:08:05,281 --> 01:08:08,717
I'd rather for 'em to leave
before that I finish this...

1109
01:08:08,818 --> 01:08:10,979
because I do want to know...

1110
01:08:11,087 --> 01:08:15,490
if we're gonna have these people here
or if we can depend on 'em or what.

1111
01:08:15,591 --> 01:08:19,118
Because if we can't,
we're not a-gonna go up there no more...

1112
01:08:19,228 --> 01:08:22,391
and have those machine guns
shot at us and have the -

1113
01:08:22,498 --> 01:08:24,898
the gun thugs a-comin' across
and attacking us.

1114
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,935
We're not a-gonna do that.
Now, we're with ya...

1115
01:08:28,037 --> 01:08:29,937
and we'll stick with ya.

1116
01:08:30,039 --> 01:08:33,202
All these women -
We got a whole gang of'em...

1117
01:08:33,309 --> 01:08:35,277
that says they'll go
with 'em tomorrow...

1118
01:08:35,377 --> 01:08:39,006
and we're gonna be
at Mac's in the morning at 5:00.

1119
01:08:39,115 --> 01:08:42,209
Now, they're not -
We're not a-gonna go any earlier than that...

1120
01:08:42,318 --> 01:08:45,754
because if we do,
we're just sitting ducks for them.

1121
01:08:45,855 --> 01:08:47,789
And they'll wait for us.

1122
01:08:47,890 --> 01:08:50,825
And we're not a-gonna tell you where we're
gonna set up the picket line

1123
01:08:50,826 --> 01:08:52,293
until in the morning.

1124
01:08:52,394 --> 01:08:55,124
If you want to know where
the picket line's gonna be set up...

1125
01:08:55,231 --> 01:08:57,199
you'll be at Mac's
in the morning at 5:00.

1126
01:08:57,299 --> 01:08:59,199
We need every man and woman.

1127
01:08:59,301 --> 01:09:02,031
There's enough Brookside pickets
and Highsplint pickets...

1128
01:09:02,138 --> 01:09:04,971
and women
that those scabs wouldn't mean a thing...

1129
01:09:05,074 --> 01:09:06,974
if we get all of'em up there.

1130
01:09:07,076 --> 01:09:09,909
But we're not a-gonna do it
layin' in bed.

1131
01:09:14,150 --> 01:09:16,675
<i>Think they're gonna shoot at us today?</i>

1132
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:19,688
Shot at us yesterday.

1133
01:09:19,788 --> 01:09:22,882
<i>- What about today?
- I don't know.</i>

1134
01:09:26,862 --> 01:09:29,228
<i>- You scared?
- I hope not. Yeah.</i>

1135
01:09:29,331 --> 01:09:31,925
Ain't you?

1136
01:09:35,938 --> 01:09:37,906
<i>I just hope nobody gets hurt.</i>

1137
01:09:43,212 --> 01:09:46,181
I don't believe -We'd have seen 'em go.
We've got people out on that.

1138
01:09:46,282 --> 01:09:50,480
You let them bastard scabs come.
We got our guns now.

1139
01:09:50,586 --> 01:09:51,852
<i>Then they work two shifts.</i>

1140
01:09:51,853 --> 01:09:54,386
<i>Nah. They ain't gonna
do nothin'dirty like that.</i>

1141
01:10:02,031 --> 01:10:03,999
Huh?

1142
01:10:04,099 --> 01:10:07,535
<i>- Gotta get it right at the railroad.
- Bring it over here a little bit.</i>

1143
01:10:19,882 --> 01:10:22,817
<i>Basil Collins. Right in front.</i>

1144
01:10:25,454 --> 01:10:27,422
<i>Well, what's he doing?</i>

1145
01:10:32,928 --> 01:10:37,763

We shall not be moved

1146
01:10:37,866 --> 01:10:42,360

We shall not be moved

1147
01:10:42,471 --> 01:10:48,000

that's standing by the water

1148
01:10:48,110 --> 01:10:51,307
<i>

1149
01:10:51,413 --> 01:10:53,381
Come on, Basil!

1150
01:10:55,351 --> 01:10:58,878
We got somethin' for you!

1151
01:10:58,988 --> 01:11:01,479
Are we gonna start
like we did yesterday?

1152
01:11:01,724 --> 01:11:04,318
<i>We wasn't blocking the road. They was.</i>

1153
01:11:04,426 --> 01:11:06,690
<i>They've had it blocked all day.</i>

1154
01:11:09,698 --> 01:11:13,896
You -You put the car there, so either remove it,
or I'll call the wrecker to remove it.

1155
01:11:14,003 --> 01:11:16,528
<i>That's neutral, ain't it?
That's neutral. No, it's not neutral.</i>

1156
01:11:16,639 --> 01:11:18,937
And you know it's not neutral.
It's not neutral.

1157
01:11:19,041 --> 01:11:21,509
You know what it is. I'll tell you.
You know what I told you.

1158
01:11:21,610 --> 01:11:24,363
I don't give a damn how much money
you makin' at bein' a sheriff,

1159
01:11:24,364 --> 01:11:25,740
but don't go against the union.

1160
01:11:25,848 --> 01:11:27,839
That's all I ask.
That's the only thing I ask.

1161
01:11:27,950 --> 01:11:30,968
Baby, you can stand here
and raise hell all you want to,

1162
01:11:30,969 --> 01:11:32,478
but this road's gotta be cleared.

1163
01:11:32,588 --> 01:11:35,580
<i>Will you go up there when
they shoot machine guns across the highway?</i>

1164
01:11:35,691 --> 01:11:37,022
No. He won't. No. He won't.

1165
01:11:37,023 --> 01:11:39,684
Will you go up then?
'Cause that's your duty too.

1166
01:11:39,795 --> 01:11:41,050
No, he won't do it. He won't.

1167
01:11:41,051 --> 01:11:43,561
Why don't you go up there then?
You weren't up there yesterday.

1168
01:11:43,666 --> 01:11:46,999
When they beat us and club us. And when
they beat that 17-year-old boy- He won't.

1169
01:11:47,102 --> 01:11:50,367
I mean, I see. You know what,
Billy G., that was told to me...

1170
01:11:50,472 --> 01:11:52,667
and I wouldn't believe it
before the election.

1171
01:11:52,775 --> 01:11:56,108
That was told to me that you'd do this.
It really was.

1172
01:11:56,211 --> 01:11:58,304
Excuse me. Mr. Williams.

1173
01:11:58,414 --> 01:12:00,814
I have a warrant for Basil Collins.

1174
01:12:00,916 --> 01:12:03,248
<i>We want you to throw Basil's ass in jail.</i>

1175
01:12:03,352 --> 01:12:05,843
<i>Don't stand there.!
You've got a warrant for him.</i>

1176
01:12:05,954 --> 01:12:08,115
<i>- Now serve it to him.!
- Will you give me -</i>

1177
01:12:08,223 --> 01:12:11,659
<i>- You won't do it.
- Will you give me a chance to do my job?</i>

1178
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,660
- Okay. Let's see you do it.
- All right.

1179
01:12:13,762 --> 01:12:15,957
Somebody pay me seven dollars
for the fee of arrest.

1180
01:12:25,574 --> 01:12:27,474
Here's your seven dollars.

1181
01:12:27,576 --> 01:12:29,908
How much more do you want?
Hell, you can have it all.

1182
01:12:30,012 --> 01:12:32,708
By God, we'll get you up a hundred dollars.
Go arrest him.

1183
01:12:32,815 --> 01:12:34,783
<i>- Look. Okay.
- And take him tojail.</i>

1184
01:12:34,883 --> 01:12:37,716
I'm gonna do my job,
and this happens to be part of my job.

1185
01:12:37,820 --> 01:12:40,983
<i>- Yeah, he's got it. He's got it.
- Okay. Now let's see it.</i>

1186
01:12:42,024 --> 01:12:43,024
For that--

1187
01:12:43,025 --> 01:12:44,925
He'll be arrested,
but this car's gotta move on.

1188
01:12:45,027 --> 01:12:48,326
- Get him right now -
- You arrest him.

1189
01:12:48,430 --> 01:12:50,796
You -You -

1190
01:12:50,899 --> 01:12:56,030
<i>Here I go to, ladies.</i>

1191
01:12:59,174 --> 01:13:01,608
<i>

1192
01:13:02,978 --> 01:13:04,878
- What?
- You're under arrest.

1193
01:13:04,980 --> 01:13:09,417
- Under arrest for what?
- Oh, disorderly conduct, I guess. I don't know.

1194
01:13:09,518 --> 01:13:11,645
Flashin' a deadly weapon.

1195
01:13:15,257 --> 01:13:17,225
Once again, that's part of my job.

1196
01:13:17,326 --> 01:13:20,056
- Movin' this car's part of my job also.
- That's part of your job.

1197
01:13:20,162 --> 01:13:22,790
I'll be in pretty quick.
Soon as we get this thing moved...

1198
01:13:22,898 --> 01:13:25,264
- and get my men to work, I'll come into town.
- Yeah.

1199
01:13:26,301 --> 01:13:28,769
I'm gonna see that she's moved,
then we're goin' to town.

1200
01:13:28,871 --> 01:13:30,998
All right.

1201
01:13:31,106 --> 01:13:33,336
Move these people
away from my truck, Bill.

1202
01:13:33,442 --> 01:13:36,138
<i>- Move back from his truck.
- Get away from my truck.</i>

1203
01:13:36,245 --> 01:13:38,213
<i>Move back from the truck.</i>

1204
01:13:39,948 --> 01:13:42,883
Now let's move the car-

1205
01:13:42,985 --> 01:13:45,385
<i>No. You arrest him, Billy.</i>

1206
01:13:45,487 --> 01:13:49,321
You come and get us. You get him out of
the truck, put him in your car and take him -

1207
01:13:49,425 --> 01:13:52,758
This is not a one-sided thing, Lois.
Now, I'm gonna take him to town...

1208
01:13:52,861 --> 01:13:54,761
but I'm also movin' that car.

1209
01:13:54,863 --> 01:13:58,697
<i>You're letting him drive himself to town
after he gets up there. That's what you're doin:</i>

1210
01:13:58,801 --> 01:14:01,565
<i>- What's the difference?
- Oh, no. There's a lot of difference.</i>

1211
01:14:01,670 --> 01:14:03,831
There's a lot of difference.
I tell you one thing.

1212
01:14:03,939 --> 01:14:06,931
If they got a warrant for us,
you would come and take us to jail.

1213
01:14:07,042 --> 01:14:09,101
<i>Lois,you're taking things
in your own hands. You're-</i>

1214
01:14:09,211 --> 01:14:13,011
<i>- I'm not taking things in my own hands.
- You're thinking one way- and no other way.</i>

1215
01:14:13,115 --> 01:14:16,175
<i>Oh, no- Well, how-how other way
are there to think, Billy?</i>

1216
01:14:16,285 --> 01:14:19,618
<i>Whenever you get shot at with machine guns-
They shot at us with machine guns.</i>

1217
01:14:19,721 --> 01:14:22,849
<i>How many of your men
have I up and hauled off tojail?</i>

1218
01:14:22,958 --> 01:14:26,223
This is the first time you've come out.
I will say that. But this has shocked me.

1219
01:14:26,328 --> 01:14:28,228
This has absolutely shocked me to death.

1220
01:14:28,330 --> 01:14:31,265
So be it. You're down here
on a public highway now.

1221
01:14:31,366 --> 01:14:34,665
You're not up there at the picket line.
You're not at Brookside on the picket line.

1222
01:14:34,770 --> 01:14:38,331
<i>- You're here in the middle - - We can't stand
up there. They're shooting machine guns at us.</i>

1223
01:14:38,440 --> 01:14:41,898
Well, they can also transfer 'em down here
if they're gonna kill you. You know that.

1224
01:14:42,010 --> 01:14:44,410
<i>Yeah, but, see, we've got
a better chance down here.</i>

1225
01:14:44,513 --> 01:14:47,607
<i>- Well, nevertheless, that car has got to go.
-

1226
01:14:47,716 --> 01:14:51,083
<i>
We shall not be moved

1227
01:14:51,186 --> 01:14:56,647

that's standing by the water

1228
01:14:56,758 --> 01:15:00,819
<i>

1229
01:15:00,929 --> 01:15:05,559

We shall not be moved

1230
01:15:05,667 --> 01:15:09,535

We shall not be moved

1231
01:15:09,638 --> 01:15:14,268
<i>

1232
01:15:14,376 --> 01:15:18,608


1233
01:15:18,714 --> 01:15:23,981
<i>

1234
01:15:24,086 --> 01:15:28,182
<i>
We shall not be moved

1235
01:15:28,357 --> 01:15:31,121


1236
01:15:31,226 --> 01:15:33,626


1237
01:15:33,729 --> 01:15:36,425


1238
01:15:36,532 --> 01:15:38,625


1239
01:15:38,734 --> 01:15:41,669
<i>
On the mountaintop

1240
01:15:41,770 --> 01:15:44,204
<i>

1241
01:15:44,306 --> 01:15:46,774
<i>
Let it shine

1242
01:15:46,875 --> 01:15:50,174
<i>

1243
01:15:50,279 --> 01:15:55,216
<i>Well, we're gonna try to get 'em organized
and give these brothers a little help.</i>

1244
01:15:55,317 --> 01:15:57,877
I think it's a great day.

1245
01:15:57,986 --> 01:15:59,886
It really rejoices me.

1246
01:16:02,658 --> 01:16:04,558
<i>

1247
01:16:04,660 --> 01:16:07,220
<i>
Let it shine

1248
01:16:07,329 --> 01:16:09,297
<i>

1249
01:16:09,398 --> 01:16:12,390
All the way! All the way!

1250
01:16:12,501 --> 01:16:14,560
<i>- All the way!
- Join the march.!</i>

1251
01:16:14,670 --> 01:16:18,333
<i>Come on andjoin the march.!</i>

1252
01:16:21,410 --> 01:16:23,537
<i>We're Harlan County union...</i>

1253
01:16:23,645 --> 01:16:27,376
from the top of our head
to the sole of our foot.

1254
01:16:27,482 --> 01:16:31,851
<i>Do you think that the company has
any possibility ofbreaking this strike?</i>

1255
01:16:31,954 --> 01:16:34,286
Well, at this particular time
I don't think so.

1256
01:16:34,389 --> 01:16:37,825
The, uh, show of strength on the part
of our membership here...

1257
01:16:37,926 --> 01:16:41,521
and the general, uh, public awareness
in East Kentucky indicates to me...

1258
01:16:41,630 --> 01:16:44,793
that it isn't gonna be easy,
but we're gonna be successful.

1259
01:16:44,900 --> 01:16:48,267
<i>Do you have any idea how long this
may go, and are you prepared to-</i>

1260
01:16:48,370 --> 01:16:52,363
It's pretty hard to say how long it's gonna go,
but we're here to stay, as I said earlier.

1261
01:16:52,474 --> 01:16:56,410

I'm a shuttle-car driving man

1262
01:16:56,511 --> 01:17:00,345

I'm a shuttle-car driving man

1263
01:17:00,449 --> 01:17:02,383


1264
01:17:02,484 --> 01:17:04,418


1265
01:17:04,519 --> 01:17:07,579

I keep on rollin'

1266
01:17:07,689 --> 01:17:11,455
<i>
a very big part I play

1267
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:14,927
<i>
work hard at it every day

1268
01:17:15,030 --> 01:17:17,157
<i>

1269
01:17:17,265 --> 01:17:20,598
<i>
on the ground

1270
01:17:20,702 --> 01:17:24,263
<i>
I'm a shuttle-car driving man

1271
01:17:24,373 --> 01:17:28,241

I'm a shuttle-car driving man

1272
01:17:28,343 --> 01:17:31,972

at 14 cent a load

1273
01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:34,844

I keeps on rollin'

1274
01:17:46,561 --> 01:17:49,155
I don't know of any time
in coal mine history...

1275
01:17:49,264 --> 01:17:51,232
when, uh...

1276
01:17:51,333 --> 01:17:53,233
the president and principal officers...

1277
01:17:53,335 --> 01:17:56,395
of the international union have come
to the coalfields during an organizing.

1278
01:17:56,505 --> 01:17:59,565
The battle.
It's most gratifying to me to see...

1279
01:17:59,675 --> 01:18:02,701
<i>busloads in here
from Indiana and Illinois.</i>

1280
01:18:02,811 --> 01:18:06,440
<i>I think if I were a Brookside striker,
I think that that would mean something to me.</i>

1281
01:18:06,548 --> 01:18:09,711
<i>To bring people hundreds of miles...</i>

1282
01:18:09,818 --> 01:18:12,446
<i>tojust march around town
and listen to a couple speeches...</i>

1283
01:18:12,554 --> 01:18:14,454
don't make too much sense to me.

1284
01:18:14,556 --> 01:18:18,754
That, uh -Although it generated
a lot of enthusiasm and fortified -

1285
01:18:18,860 --> 01:18:22,318
you know, maybe strengthens
people's morale here...

1286
01:18:22,431 --> 01:18:25,127
a lot more could have been done
when they came here.

1287
01:18:25,233 --> 01:18:28,430
That we could have, for example,
marched down to Brookside...

1288
01:18:28,537 --> 01:18:30,505
and confronted Yarborough
face-to-face...

1289
01:18:30,605 --> 01:18:33,335
who was sittin' at
the Brookside office during the day.

1290
01:18:33,442 --> 01:18:38,470
Uh, we could have gone to Highsplint
and expropriated their machine guns.

1291
01:18:38,580 --> 01:18:41,743
<i>And the miners here, I'm convinced,
were ready to do something like that.</i>

1292
01:18:41,850 --> 01:18:44,114
After that contract's a-signed...

1293
01:18:44,219 --> 01:18:46,119
it's gonna be better on everybody.

1294
01:18:46,221 --> 01:18:49,088
Let's show Norman Yarborough
he don't run Harlan County.

1295
01:18:49,191 --> 01:18:51,659
Let's show Judge Hogg
he don't run Harlan County.

1296
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:55,696
And if you people don't get out here and help us
out, we ain't gonna get nothin' that's right.

1297
01:18:55,797 --> 01:19:00,393
We want you down there at 5:00.
That's a sunrise revival at Brookside, Kentucky.

1298
01:19:29,498 --> 01:19:32,194
<i>We don't know
what caused the shooting or nothing...</i>

1299
01:19:32,300 --> 01:19:36,066
<i>but we can figure it was just a disagreement
for the mine workers.</i>

1300
01:19:36,171 --> 01:19:38,833
<i>He was shot in the face.</i>

1301
01:19:41,543 --> 01:19:44,376
We helped bring him over here.

1302
01:19:45,714 --> 01:19:48,512
<i>- What happened?
- Got shot in the damn head.</i>

1303
01:19:48,617 --> 01:19:50,983
<i>- Shot in the face with a shotgun.
- Who shot him?</i>

1304
01:19:51,086 --> 01:19:54,613
A goddamn scab.
Bill Bruner.

1305
01:19:56,258 --> 01:20:00,957
That's brain that's laying there.
A goddamn fella when he tried to do somethin'.

1306
01:20:02,030 --> 01:20:05,522
That's what a scab does to a person,
by God, when they're not lookin'.

1307
01:20:07,469 --> 01:20:10,233
See, the pissants carrying off
a goddamn man's brain...

1308
01:20:10,338 --> 01:20:12,533
while he's layin' over in the hospital dying.

1309
01:20:12,641 --> 01:20:15,371
Maybe shot all to hell.

1310
01:20:15,477 --> 01:20:18,674
<i>- You friends ofhis?
- I'm always tellin' him -</i>

1311
01:20:21,550 --> 01:20:24,485
He got dea -
shot in the goddamn head by a -

1312
01:20:27,355 --> 01:20:30,813
Yeah. My son's a-fightin' for it,
and that's what he got shot over.

1313
01:20:30,926 --> 01:20:33,394
<i>- You got two sons fighting.
- Yeah.</i>

1314
01:20:33,495 --> 01:20:37,226
My- My other son too.
He pickets at Highsplint.

1315
01:20:39,801 --> 01:20:42,235
<i>How long have you been married?</i>

1316
01:20:42,337 --> 01:20:44,430
Almost a year.

1317
01:20:44,539 --> 01:20:46,939
<i>- How old are you?
- Sixteen.</i>

1318
01:20:47,042 --> 01:20:49,602
<i>- Do you have any children?
- One.</i>

1319
01:20:49,711 --> 01:20:51,975
<i>Are you proud of your husband?</i>

1320
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,173
Yeah.

1321
01:20:54,282 --> 01:20:57,843
<i>What made him decide
to go on the picket line?</i>

1322
01:20:59,154 --> 01:21:01,816
The union, I guess.

1323
01:21:01,923 --> 01:21:04,357
Yeah. He's a union man. That's why.

1324
01:21:04,459 --> 01:21:09,522
I - I want my kids all to be union.
I don't want 'em to be a yellowback scab.

1325
01:21:09,631 --> 01:21:12,259
I don't want 'em to be
kicked around like at the -

1326
01:21:12,367 --> 01:21:14,301
like we was when we was kids.

1327
01:21:14,402 --> 01:21:19,101
And my daddy- He worked all his life
and didn't get a thing before he died.

1328
01:21:19,207 --> 01:21:23,041
Worked all his life in the coal mines,
and we never did see him either.

1329
01:21:23,144 --> 01:21:27,638
Till we was asleep in the bed. Mom would give us
what we had to eat, and we'd go to bed.

1330
01:21:27,749 --> 01:21:31,378
He'd eat when he come.
He'd be gone when we got out of bed.

1331
01:21:31,486 --> 01:21:36,014
Then whenever he got too old to work
in the mines, they just kicked him out to die.

1332
01:21:36,124 --> 01:21:39,651
They didn't care.
'Cause there wasn't no union then.

1333
01:21:41,229 --> 01:21:43,459
And I don't want my kids
to be like that.

1334
01:21:43,565 --> 01:21:47,968
I want my kids to stick up
for their rights and be a union... man.

1335
01:21:49,437 --> 01:21:53,373
Well, next time somebody gets up in our
meetin' and says let's have nonviolence...

1336
01:21:53,475 --> 01:21:56,239
and don't bother them,
let's kick their goddamn ass.

1337
01:21:56,344 --> 01:21:59,404
The women get up there,
and they park their car across the road...

1338
01:21:59,514 --> 01:22:02,540
and they gets to say what they think,
and we hide behind the goddamn car.

1339
01:22:02,651 --> 01:22:05,211
<i>- Don't use no violence -
- I'll be honest with you.</i>

1340
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:08,016
<i>I done got enough goddamn
shotgun blasts in my goddamn face.</i>

1341
01:22:08,123 --> 01:22:10,057
<i>Nonviolence. We don't have no violence.</i>

1342
01:22:10,158 --> 01:22:13,855
We stand back there, and we don't say
a goddamn thing. We don't even do nothin'.

1343
01:22:14,963 --> 01:22:18,228
<i>Most of you were
real close friends with LawrenceJones.</i>

1344
01:22:18,333 --> 01:22:22,360
He left a 16-year-old wife
and a five-month-old daughter.

1345
01:22:24,072 --> 01:22:29,100
But I think at this time that
we should at least wait till the morning...

1346
01:22:29,210 --> 01:22:31,701
before -
and not let things get out of hand.

1347
01:22:31,813 --> 01:22:34,441
<i>I'vejust talked to Chip Yablonski
and Rick Banks...</i>

1348
01:22:34,549 --> 01:22:37,211
<i>and they've asked me to tell you...</i>

1349
01:22:37,319 --> 01:22:39,583
<i>that the company
and the union is talkin:..</i>

1350
01:22:39,688 --> 01:22:41,986
<i>and that they're close.</i>

1351
01:22:42,090 --> 01:22:44,581
<i>Looks to me like the best part...</i>

1352
01:22:44,693 --> 01:22:47,184
is to be - try to get old Yarborough
and old Basil Collins.

1353
01:22:47,295 --> 01:22:49,195
<i>Amen.</i>

1354
01:22:49,297 --> 01:22:52,698
Now, them's the leaders, boys.
Them's the leaders...

1355
01:22:52,801 --> 01:22:55,326
and they're somewhere
they can be got.

1356
01:22:55,437 --> 01:22:57,598
There's plenty of big trees down there...

1357
01:22:57,706 --> 01:23:00,197
and there's plenty of high-powered rifles.

1358
01:23:00,308 --> 01:23:03,641
<i>I went in 'em back in the '30s.
I knowed it exactly.</i>

1359
01:23:03,745 --> 01:23:07,237
I've seen 'em, buddy-
I've seen 'em carryin' - puttin' down with this.

1360
01:23:07,349 --> 01:23:09,681
And I've seed men
get it right out in the open.

1361
01:23:09,784 --> 01:23:14,153
So I tell everybody. Take to shelter
if you can and lay the lead to 'em.

1362
01:23:14,255 --> 01:23:16,223
<i>Amen, brother.</i>

1363
01:23:19,761 --> 01:23:23,925
The contract is what we are fightin' for.

1364
01:23:24,032 --> 01:23:27,001
That's what LawrenceJones died for.

1365
01:23:27,102 --> 01:23:29,900
<i>To get a contract.</i>

1366
01:23:30,005 --> 01:23:32,405
<i>But I told his family-</i>

1367
01:23:32,507 --> 01:23:34,998
<i>I said, "It was for a good cause".</i>

1368
01:23:37,278 --> 01:23:39,178
<i>And what I said-</i>

1369
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:41,714
"Why couldn't it be somebody like me?

1370
01:23:41,816 --> 01:23:45,013
Some old man just about spent anyhow".

1371
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:48,521
But it took a young man's life...

1372
01:23:48,623 --> 01:23:50,955
to bring this thing -

1373
01:23:51,059 --> 01:23:55,155
the government and the union
and the operators together.

1374
01:23:56,398 --> 01:23:58,866
If this shootin'
hadn't have happened, probably...

1375
01:23:58,967 --> 01:24:02,698
this contract - they wouldn't probably-
might not have been a meetin'...

1376
01:24:03,738 --> 01:24:06,798
to negotiate a contract.

1377
01:24:06,908 --> 01:24:09,843
But every contract that we've ever got...

1378
01:24:09,944 --> 01:24:11,844
has been hard.

1379
01:24:11,946 --> 01:24:13,880
We've had to fight for it.

1380
01:24:14,983 --> 01:24:17,747
I've been all around the blood...

1381
01:24:17,852 --> 01:24:20,480
<i>shed back here in the '30s.</i>

1382
01:24:21,523 --> 01:24:23,491
Blood all around me.

1383
01:24:24,793 --> 01:24:27,318
Where men died right around my feet.

1384
01:24:28,997 --> 01:24:31,431
For a contract.

1385
01:24:31,533 --> 01:24:35,469
And I think,
if we ever did hold our peace...

1386
01:24:35,570 --> 01:24:37,970
let's try to hold it tonight.

1387
01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,405
<i>The price has been paid for it.</i>

1388
01:24:41,476 --> 01:24:46,004
<i>

1389
01:24:46,114 --> 01:24:51,177
<i>

1390
01:24:51,286 --> 01:24:57,816


1391
01:24:58,860 --> 01:25:02,853
<i>

1392
01:25:02,964 --> 01:25:08,095
<i>

1393
01:25:08,203 --> 01:25:14,938
<i>

1394
01:25:21,182 --> 01:25:24,151
<i>Oh, God.</i>

1395
01:25:28,756 --> 01:25:31,725
Oh, God! Oh!

1396
01:25:34,996 --> 01:25:38,523
Oh, God!

1397
01:25:39,667 --> 01:25:41,692
I can't -

1398
01:25:43,671 --> 01:25:46,196
Oh, God, I can't stand it!

1399
01:25:46,307 --> 01:25:49,470
Oh, God, I can't -

1400
01:26:06,828 --> 01:26:09,922
<i>Needs to come up
the riverjust a little bit, don't it?</i>

1401
01:26:26,381 --> 01:26:30,044
<i>When you believe in something
strong enough that you're ready to die for it...</i>

1402
01:26:30,151 --> 01:26:32,051
that's when you get it.

1403
01:26:32,153 --> 01:26:34,849
Because that's what happened
to LawrenceJones.

1404
01:26:34,956 --> 01:26:39,222
He believed in it so strong,
and he was ready to die for it, and he did.

1405
01:26:39,327 --> 01:26:44,094
But it could have been me. It could have been
anybody that was out there on the picket line.

1406
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:48,966
<i>I feel like that this is just a little pebble
on the beach.</i>

1407
01:26:49,070 --> 01:26:52,836
<i>Because we've got
a lot of organizing to do in Harlan County.</i>

1408
01:26:52,941 --> 01:26:57,844
<i>'Cause Harlan County will be
U.M. W.A. coal.</i>

1409
01:26:57,946 --> 01:27:02,906
I guess that, uh, I'd have to say that...

1410
01:27:03,017 --> 01:27:04,951
as much as we fought down here...

1411
01:27:05,053 --> 01:27:07,021
and as hard as we fought...

1412
01:27:07,121 --> 01:27:09,146
I don't think if it was for...

1413
01:27:09,257 --> 01:27:12,090
that young boy LawrenceJones,
I doubt if we...

1414
01:27:12,193 --> 01:27:14,457
would have got a contract
as fast as we did.

1415
01:27:14,696 --> 01:27:19,429
Uh, I'd like to ask to pass a motion
that we accept this contract.

1416
01:27:21,736 --> 01:27:23,636
<i>- Somebody-
- I second it.</i>

1417
01:27:23,738 --> 01:27:25,638
Somebody, uh, make the motion.

1418
01:27:25,740 --> 01:27:28,004
<i>- I make the motion.
- I second.</i>

1419
01:27:28,109 --> 01:27:30,907
All Brookside miners
stand for a count.

1420
01:27:31,946 --> 01:27:33,846
<i>All right.</i>

1421
01:27:33,948 --> 01:27:36,473
<i>- Tell 'em to sit down.
- Sit down. Everybody sit down.</i>

1422
01:27:37,685 --> 01:27:39,585
The ayes have it, and so ordered.

1423
01:27:39,687 --> 01:27:41,848
The ayes have it,
and so ordered.

1424
01:27:41,956 --> 01:27:44,720
- The contract's accepted.
- The contract's accepted.

1425
01:27:46,961 --> 01:27:50,556
The only thing I hate about this -
On - On account of that boy getting killed...

1426
01:27:50,665 --> 01:27:52,565
you know, and it all having to come to -

1427
01:27:52,667 --> 01:27:57,969
Of course, you expected that. I really expected
more, you know, than that to happen...

1428
01:27:58,072 --> 01:28:01,769
and probably would have if it had gone on,
you know, this week and next week.

1429
01:28:01,876 --> 01:28:05,437
That's right.
We all knew that it was comin'...

1430
01:28:05,546 --> 01:28:07,878
but we didn't know who or when.

1431
01:28:09,617 --> 01:28:12,279
<i>Do you feel you've been changed by the strike?</i>

1432
01:28:12,387 --> 01:28:14,719
<i>- Oh, yes.
- How so?</i>

1433
01:28:14,822 --> 01:28:18,155
Many different ways.
I can look for a future now.

1434
01:28:22,730 --> 01:28:24,789
I feel good about it.

1435
01:28:24,899 --> 01:28:26,799
<i>It's just great. Marvelous.</i>

1436
01:28:26,901 --> 01:28:30,098
<i>After 13 months, waitin' to see,
you know, him go back to work.</i>

1437
01:28:30,204 --> 01:28:33,401
Boy. It's been a long time.

1438
01:28:33,508 --> 01:28:36,477
<i>I wish that I wouldn't go up there,
but I did.</i>

1439
01:28:36,577 --> 01:28:40,104
<i>I wouldn't go, but when I see him go,
his fight's my fight...</i>

1440
01:28:40,214 --> 01:28:43,706
so I want to stand beside of him
and fight too.

1441
01:28:43,818 --> 01:28:45,877
If this had just been a Harlan County strike...

1442
01:28:45,987 --> 01:28:47,887
and there hadn't been publicity...

1443
01:28:47,989 --> 01:28:50,082
hadn't been a fight against
their rate increase...

1444
01:28:50,191 --> 01:28:52,091
hadn't been a fight against their stock...

1445
01:28:52,193 --> 01:28:55,720
Duke Power wouldn't have given a damn
about any of the pressure down here...

1446
01:28:55,830 --> 01:28:57,855
'cause, uh, all we had was their coal...

1447
01:28:57,965 --> 01:29:01,765
and we never had shut off enough of that
to hurt their stockpiles up until the end.

1448
01:29:01,869 --> 01:29:03,769
And the same thing with Lawrence.

1449
01:29:03,871 --> 01:29:06,362
They never would have cared
if LawrenceJones died in Harlan.

1450
01:29:06,474 --> 01:29:09,773
<i>It would have been a two-inch paragraph
in the Harlan Daily Enterprise...</i>

1451
01:29:09,877 --> 01:29:13,142
and Carl Horn wouldn't have
given a goddamn about it.

1452
01:29:13,247 --> 01:29:16,307
And so I don't think
a strike is won by any one thing.

1453
01:29:16,417 --> 01:29:20,615
It was won by a lot of different people
in a lot of different ways...

1454
01:29:20,722 --> 01:29:23,156
fighting together
and playing different roles.

1455
01:29:23,257 --> 01:29:26,522
Victory! Harlan County!

1456
01:29:26,627 --> 01:29:28,527
<i>The other thing we're trying to do...</i>

1457
01:29:28,629 --> 01:29:31,097
<i>is investigate how the fix
was put in here in Harlan.</i>

1458
01:29:31,199 --> 01:29:33,565
<i>- What fix?
- Well, it's pretty clear...</i>

1459
01:29:33,668 --> 01:29:37,229
that when a man commits murder
and the state police charges him...

1460
01:29:37,338 --> 01:29:41,741
and witnesses say that he, uh,
fired on the man unprovoked...

1461
01:29:41,843 --> 01:29:44,243
that a grand jury is duty-bound
to indict him.

1462
01:29:44,345 --> 01:29:46,575
But this grand jury was Harlan County...

1463
01:29:46,681 --> 01:29:49,343
and it seemed like,
despite the fact we had won a contract...

1464
01:29:49,450 --> 01:29:51,350
not that much had changed here.

1465
01:29:51,452 --> 01:29:53,352
It was just like in the old days.

1466
01:29:53,454 --> 01:29:56,321
If the company kills a man,
the company gets let off.

1467
01:29:56,424 --> 01:30:00,190
If one of our people had shot
any company man throughout this strike...

1468
01:30:00,294 --> 01:30:02,489
he'd be servin' 25 years now.

1469
01:30:02,597 --> 01:30:04,758
Bill Bruner is scot-free.

1470
01:30:06,100 --> 01:30:08,898
Once a concession is won...

1471
01:30:09,003 --> 01:30:12,530
and once a strike is won,
that the workers have to move right on...

1472
01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:14,540
<i>to the next struggle.</i>

1473
01:30:14,642 --> 01:30:17,406
<i>And if they don't, the concession
that was won,you're gonna lose it.</i>

1474
01:30:17,512 --> 01:30:21,972
<i>So there's two types of ways
to win strikes and concessions.</i>

1475
01:30:23,017 --> 01:30:27,351
<i>And the first type is
where the workers fight and struggle...</i>

1476
01:30:27,455 --> 01:30:29,423
<i>and force the concessions...</i>

1477
01:30:29,524 --> 01:30:33,551
<i>out of the mine owners
or factory owners or who have ya.</i>

1478
01:30:33,661 --> 01:30:37,825
<i>And, uh, these strikes are strikes
that are won from below.</i>

1479
01:30:37,932 --> 01:30:41,698
<i>The other type of strike is strikes
that are given to you from above.</i>

1480
01:30:41,803 --> 01:30:45,364
<i>Whenever anybody gives you something,
they don't give you nothin'for nothin:</i>

1481
01:30:45,473 --> 01:30:47,634
<i>To get something and be given it...</i>

1482
01:30:47,742 --> 01:30:50,074
<i>you're gonna have to give up something.</i>

1483
01:31:22,076 --> 01:31:24,135
The B.C.O.A. member companies...

1484
01:31:24,245 --> 01:31:26,372
are to be expected to provide...

1485
01:31:26,481 --> 01:31:30,611
substantially higher levels
of wages and benefits.

1486
01:31:30,718 --> 01:31:32,618
It is essential -

1487
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:36,019
be necessary for the bargaining
parties to give serious consideration...

1488
01:31:36,123 --> 01:31:39,684
to contract provisions
which will contribute significantly...

1489
01:31:39,794 --> 01:31:41,887
to increased production and productivity.

1490
01:31:41,996 --> 01:31:46,092
The membership of our union no longer
was willing to accept two dollars more a day...

1491
01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:49,033
and a bar of soap
and a towel and a bathhouse.

1492
01:31:49,136 --> 01:31:51,866
The areas -The main areas of concern
to our membership -

1493
01:31:51,973 --> 01:31:55,238
It's been well established and should be
recognized by everyone in this country.

1494
01:31:55,343 --> 01:31:58,141
Particularly the coal operators.
Safety is our highest priority.

1495
01:31:58,246 --> 01:32:01,704
The men's asking for
more than they did before.

1496
01:32:01,816 --> 01:32:03,750
And they're gonna get it.

1497
01:32:03,851 --> 01:32:06,479
They either get it,
or there won't be no coal.

1498
01:32:06,587 --> 01:32:08,487
The strike.

1499
01:32:08,589 --> 01:32:11,353
They're -
They've been looking forward to this.

1500
01:32:11,459 --> 01:32:14,690
This is a big thing for the miner.

1501
01:32:14,795 --> 01:32:16,763
He will better his lot after today...

1502
01:32:16,864 --> 01:32:19,298
because when Miller took office...

1503
01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:23,097
he said that he was going to
get the miner what he was entitled to.

1504
01:32:23,204 --> 01:32:25,866
Okay. The supply track.

1505
01:32:34,815 --> 01:32:37,340
<i>They're starting now from the work area...</i>

1506
01:32:37,451 --> 01:32:39,510
<i>and they're coming to
what we call the manway.</i>

1507
01:32:39,620 --> 01:32:41,611
<i>They'll be coming up the cage.</i>

1508
01:32:41,722 --> 01:32:45,522
<i>In another, uh,
32 minutes they'll all be out.</i>

1509
01:32:45,626 --> 01:32:47,594
<i>God willing.</i>

1510
01:32:50,631 --> 01:32:55,159
Well, I think that, uh, ratification's great.
We have something to say about it.

1511
01:32:55,269 --> 01:32:58,602
Retire - Retirement.

1512
01:32:58,706 --> 01:33:00,606
Want vacation.

1513
01:33:00,708 --> 01:33:03,905
- Yeah. Better- Better vacation.
- Sick pay.

1514
01:33:04,011 --> 01:33:09,244
It'll never be ratified for something
that's not at least a $15-a-day increase.

1515
01:33:09,350 --> 01:33:12,183
<i>- You've been through this before.
- Many a time.</i>

1516
01:33:12,286 --> 01:33:16,086
<i>- Six months one time.
- Are you afraid of going out on strike?</i>

1517
01:33:16,190 --> 01:33:19,387
No, I'm not afraid.
I don't want to see no strike. Naturally.

1518
01:33:20,928 --> 01:33:23,488
No miner wants a strike.
But no contract, no work.

1519
01:33:23,598 --> 01:33:26,499
And if it's not -
A good one, we get to ratify it.

1520
01:33:27,535 --> 01:33:31,198
It would never have gone the way it has
if we'd have been able to vote before.

1521
01:33:31,305 --> 01:33:34,069
Just like, uh, Boyle.
He didn't -We didn't vote.

1522
01:33:34,175 --> 01:33:36,376
He says,
"Oh, this is what they'll take".

1523
01:33:36,377 --> 01:33:38,578
So that's what we had to take
is what they'd give us.

1524
01:33:38,679 --> 01:33:41,113
Now we're gonna take what we want.

1525
01:33:47,955 --> 01:33:50,617
Even those who criticize it acknowledge...

1526
01:33:50,725 --> 01:33:52,818
that it's probably the best agreement...

1527
01:33:52,927 --> 01:33:56,385
uh, that's been made in any industry
in modern times.

1528
01:33:56,497 --> 01:34:00,263
<i>Mr. Miller, do you expect to recommend
ratification of this contract to the membership?</i>

1529
01:34:00,368 --> 01:34:03,030
I will recommend ratification
of this contract to the membership.

1530
01:34:03,137 --> 01:34:05,935
<i>- Sir? - Will you have a right
to strike at the local level?</i>

1531
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:07,940
No.

1532
01:34:08,042 --> 01:34:11,500
<i>Do you anticipate that will cause
you trouble in ratification, since that's one-</i>

1533
01:34:11,612 --> 01:34:14,638
No. I'm sure there are some divergent views
among the membership, and...

1534
01:34:14,749 --> 01:34:18,116
I never expected 100%% ratification,
but I'm confident the membership will ratify.

1535
01:34:18,219 --> 01:34:20,278
<i>You can't take the right to strike away.</i>

1536
01:34:20,388 --> 01:34:24,415
If you go through the proper
grievance procedure and it doesn't work...

1537
01:34:24,525 --> 01:34:27,255
you have only got one right left:
the right to strike.

1538
01:34:27,361 --> 01:34:31,058
And if you take that away from a man,
you've had it.

1539
01:34:33,067 --> 01:34:35,501
- It's not in the agreement.
- But it's not ruled out yet.

1540
01:34:35,603 --> 01:34:36,778
I'd like to have it.

1541
01:34:36,779 --> 01:34:39,130
- Well, I would like.
- I can't speak for everyone.

1542
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:42,141
Let me step out here
and talk to you privately about it.

1543
01:34:47,682 --> 01:34:50,082
<i>The international's gone and changed...</i>

1544
01:34:50,184 --> 01:34:52,914
<i>the whole ratification process
without giving any reason for it.</i>

1545
01:34:53,020 --> 01:34:56,683
<i>They're trying to keep us apart. He could
be getting pressure from the government.</i>

1546
01:34:56,791 --> 01:34:59,521
<i>He could be getting pressure
from the companies. It's hard to say.</i>

1547
01:34:59,627 --> 01:35:03,290
We don't know. That's what the problem is.
We don't know, and we're not being told.

1548
01:35:03,397 --> 01:35:07,493
Everybody was under the impression, when Miller
was elected, that he was the man for the job.

1549
01:35:07,601 --> 01:35:10,035
<i>- Everybody-
- Well, he acted. He acted like he was.</i>

1550
01:35:10,137 --> 01:35:12,133
<i>He's an honest man,
but he's no match</i>

1551
01:35:12,134 --> 01:35:14,130
<i>for them bunch of clowns,
because that is theirjob.</i>

1552
01:35:14,241 --> 01:35:16,141
<i>- He's honest.
- He didn't try.</i>

1553
01:35:16,243 --> 01:35:18,643
<i>Coal companies don't need
to tell you they can't afford this...</i>

1554
01:35:18,746 --> 01:35:21,271
because they're owned by the oil companies
and the power companies.

1555
01:35:21,382 --> 01:35:23,612
And who has more money in the world
than those people?

1556
01:35:23,718 --> 01:35:26,152
<i>- They can afford everything.
- That's why we're out here.</i>

1557
01:35:26,253 --> 01:35:30,747
I'll tell you what. The company kept the apple.
They throwed us the core.

1558
01:35:30,858 --> 01:35:33,827
That's what they did.

1559
01:35:33,928 --> 01:35:37,455
You look at these coal companies.
You look at Consolidated Coal -

1560
01:35:37,565 --> 01:35:40,728
<i>181 goddamn percent profit.</i>

1561
01:35:40,835 --> 01:35:42,860
<i>You look at Piston:886.</i>

1562
01:35:42,970 --> 01:35:46,565
And they're bitchin' about their giving us
a goddamn five more days vacation.

1563
01:35:57,752 --> 01:35:59,879
<i>This is unprecedented, isn't it, Mr. Secretary...</i>

1564
01:35:59,987 --> 01:36:02,615
<i>for a secretary of the treasury
to step in like this?</i>

1565
01:36:02,723 --> 01:36:04,782
I don't think it's, uh, unprecedented. No.

1566
01:36:04,892 --> 01:36:09,420
I think this is a very serious, uh, issue
in the economic area in our country.

1567
01:36:09,530 --> 01:36:12,465
A prolonged coal strike would have...

1568
01:36:12,566 --> 01:36:14,466
very serious economic implications.

1569
01:36:14,568 --> 01:36:16,468
So as the chief economic spokesman...

1570
01:36:16,570 --> 01:36:18,124
I consider this
my very deep responsibility

1571
01:36:18,125 --> 01:36:21,234
to attempt to work toward
a resolution of this issue.

1572
01:36:21,342 --> 01:36:24,834
<i>What is your reaction to the government
stepping in at this time?</i>

1573
01:36:24,945 --> 01:36:28,312
Well, I hope that we can
resolve the matter ourself, but -

1574
01:36:28,415 --> 01:36:30,474
That's, uh, the way I feel about it.

1575
01:36:31,986 --> 01:36:34,750
<i>Some of this contract-
It's got some good in it.</i>

1576
01:36:34,855 --> 01:36:38,086
<i>But most of this contract is against you.</i>

1577
01:36:38,192 --> 01:36:40,387
What contract?

1578
01:36:40,494 --> 01:36:43,429
<i>- As far as I-As far as I can see, this-
- A funny book.</i>

1579
01:36:43,531 --> 01:36:45,431
<i>This, uh- This is no contract at all.</i>

1580
01:36:45,533 --> 01:36:48,934
<i>- Take it and read it and shut up.
- That's what I did with the last one.</i>

1581
01:36:49,036 --> 01:36:52,938
<i>You work three years in Wheeling Steel,
you can get 13 weeks.</i>

1582
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:56,203
Bill, you're not working at Wheeling Steel.
You're working in a coal mine.

1583
01:36:56,310 --> 01:36:59,507
I ain't workin' in a hole all the time.
I have to work down in the hole too...

1584
01:36:59,613 --> 01:37:01,808
<i>- and I deservejust as much as he gets.
- That's right.</i>

1585
01:37:01,916 --> 01:37:04,851
What about your high cost of living?
What about your sick leave?

1586
01:37:04,952 --> 01:37:07,614
Five goddamn days.

1587
01:37:07,721 --> 01:37:11,316
<i>- You been off sick?
- I can't afford to get sick.</i>

1588
01:37:11,425 --> 01:37:15,020
I have to spend all my money- the money
going to doctors and getting doctor slips.

1589
01:37:15,129 --> 01:37:17,012
They got the
cost-of-living index set up

1590
01:37:17,013 --> 01:37:18,895
for people making two and
three dollars an hour...

1591
01:37:18,999 --> 01:37:21,866
<i>where we should be on a.3 or a.25
instead of a.4.</i>

1592
01:37:21,969 --> 01:37:23,459
<i>- That's right.
- It's a joke.</i>

1593
01:37:34,348 --> 01:37:37,249
<i>- A lot of yeses, boys. I'm telling you.
- Yes, sir.</i>

1594
01:37:38,352 --> 01:37:43,483
<i>104, 105, 106, 107.</i>

1595
01:37:43,657 --> 01:37:46,626
The 1974
Bituminous COA's agreement...

1596
01:37:46,727 --> 01:37:50,094
has been ratified by the membership
of the United Mine Workers.

1597
01:37:51,265 --> 01:37:54,666
The, uh, figures for
those voting for...

1598
01:37:54,768 --> 01:37:57,532
is 44,754...

1599
01:37:58,606 --> 01:38:01,939
<i>and 34,741 voting against.</i>

1600
01:38:02,042 --> 01:38:04,533
I think that we have a great contract.

1601
01:38:04,645 --> 01:38:08,445
I think our people will adapt theirselves to it.

1602
01:38:08,549 --> 01:38:11,677
They will be more familiar with it
as they work along with it.

1603
01:38:11,785 --> 01:38:14,481
And it's, uh, my hope that, uh...

1604
01:38:14,588 --> 01:38:16,556
we can now get on with the job...

1605
01:38:16,657 --> 01:38:18,784
of, uh, running this union...

1606
01:38:18,893 --> 01:38:21,384
and, uh, doing
the kind of organizing job...

1607
01:38:21,495 --> 01:38:25,295
that will make the United Mine Workers
number one in the country again.

1608
01:38:28,736 --> 01:38:32,934
I'm directing the membership of our
United Mine Workers organization -

1609
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:35,008
labor organization -
back to work.

1610
01:38:35,109 --> 01:38:38,977
<i>- I'm glad to get back.
- You feel you got a good contract?</i>

1611
01:38:39,079 --> 01:38:41,570
Uh - Oh, I felt mine's all right.

1612
01:38:41,682 --> 01:38:43,741
Uh, I got a good raise.
I'm happy about it.

1613
01:38:43,851 --> 01:38:45,751
I'm not too worried.

1614
01:38:45,853 --> 01:38:48,947
<i>Morning.
How do you feel about going back to work?</i>

1615
01:38:49,056 --> 01:38:52,822
Well, going to work- I don't feel like
working anytime, but I have to go.

1616
01:38:52,927 --> 01:38:55,452
<i>Do you feel you got a good contract?</i>

1617
01:38:55,562 --> 01:38:58,725
Well, not for us old-timers,
we don't have a good contract.

1618
01:38:58,832 --> 01:39:02,165
<i>- Why not?
- Well, we ain't gonna get too much benefit.</i>

1619
01:39:02,269 --> 01:39:07,764
You take, uh, three years ago the coal miners
were supposed to be getting $50 a day.

1620
01:39:07,875 --> 01:39:11,470
Three. Within six years - 1976-

1621
01:39:11,578 --> 01:39:15,139
I still won't be getting $50 a day
with this new raise in there.

1622
01:39:15,249 --> 01:39:17,809
And the papers had to be forged
three years ago...

1623
01:39:17,918 --> 01:39:20,478
that they'd start up $50.

1624
01:39:21,755 --> 01:39:25,350
But now, after six years,
I still won't be making $50.

1625
01:39:25,459 --> 01:39:27,723
<i>When are you gonna be able to retire?</i>

1626
01:39:27,828 --> 01:39:29,762
Well, I'm old enough to retire now...

1627
01:39:29,863 --> 01:39:33,094
but I couldn't live off $150 a month.

1628
01:39:34,501 --> 01:39:36,799
So I gotta go to work.

1629
01:39:36,904 --> 01:39:39,702
<i>- Okay. Have a safe day.
- I'm gonna try.</i>

1630
01:39:52,619 --> 01:39:55,884
<i>It was a fight before and it's still a fight.</i>

1631
01:39:55,990 --> 01:39:58,754
Fight before we had the union
and still fightin'.

1632
01:39:59,893 --> 01:40:02,623
And they're gonna keep fightin'.
Coal miner will always be fightin'.

1633
01:40:09,536 --> 01:40:13,700
<i>

1634
01:40:13,807 --> 01:40:17,834
<i>
a battle must be fought

1635
01:40:17,945 --> 01:40:21,813
<i>
the key to liberty

1636
01:40:21,915 --> 01:40:26,045
<i>
that rich man's style ofluxury

1637
01:40:26,153 --> 01:40:30,453
<i>
oh no

1638
01:40:30,557 --> 01:40:34,254
<i>

1639
01:40:34,361 --> 01:40:36,522
<i>

1640
01:40:36,630 --> 01:40:38,530
<i>

1641
01:40:38,632 --> 01:40:40,532
<i>

1642
01:40:40,634 --> 01:40:42,932
<i>

1643
01:40:43,037 --> 01:40:46,063
But you have got them goin' now,
and you're gonna keep 'em goin'.

1644
01:40:46,173 --> 01:40:48,937
If you don't, God bless America,
you're down!

1645
01:40:49,043 --> 01:40:52,171
Join the struggle! Fight to strike!

1646
01:40:52,279 --> 01:40:54,179
Join the struggle!
Fight to strike!

1647
01:40:54,281 --> 01:40:57,546
That we get a grievance procedure
that has the right to strike in it...

1648
01:40:57,651 --> 01:41:00,279
so that we can fight the companies
and win our grievances.

1649
01:41:00,387 --> 01:41:02,287
<i>

1650
01:41:02,389 --> 01:41:04,289
<i>

1651
01:41:04,391 --> 01:41:06,325
<i>

1652
01:41:06,427 --> 01:41:08,452
<i>

1653
01:41:08,562 --> 01:41:10,462
<i>

1654
01:41:10,564 --> 01:41:12,589
<i>

1655
01:41:12,699 --> 01:41:16,635
<i>

1656
01:41:16,737 --> 01:41:19,501
<i>

1657
01:41:19,606 --> 01:41:21,506
<i>

1658
01:41:21,608 --> 01:41:25,066
<i>

1659
01:41:25,179 --> 01:41:27,079
<i>

1660
01:41:27,181 --> 01:41:29,479
<i>
dishonest but

1661
01:41:29,583 --> 01:41:33,576
<i>
shoot that union out of me

1662
01:41:33,687 --> 01:41:37,851
But if you get those junctions lifted -

1663
01:41:37,958 --> 01:41:41,121
<i>you get thosejunctions dropped-</i>

1664
01:41:41,228 --> 01:41:43,662
<i>automatically you got the right to strike.</i>

1665
01:41:49,536 --> 01:41:52,027
<i>

1666
01:41:52,139 --> 01:41:54,039
<i>

1667
01:41:54,141 --> 01:41:56,336
<i>

1668
01:41:56,443 --> 01:41:58,343
<i>

1669
01:41:58,445 --> 01:42:00,345
<i>
get your help

1670
01:42:00,447 --> 01:42:02,347
<i>

1671
01:42:02,449 --> 01:42:06,317
<i>
that rich man's mind

1672
01:42:06,420 --> 01:42:10,618
<i>
oh no

1673
01:42:10,724 --> 01:42:14,421
<i>
that rich man's mind

1674
01:42:14,528 --> 01:42:16,587
<i>
in their hands

1675
01:42:16,697 --> 01:42:18,858
<i>

1676
01:42:18,966 --> 01:42:22,868
<i>

1677
01:42:22,970 --> 01:42:25,768
<i>
never, never, never keep us down

1678
01:42:25,873 --> 01:42:30,867
<i>
Never, never, never keep us down

1679
01:42:30,978 --> 01:42:32,912
<i>

1680
01:42:33,013 --> 01:42:35,277
<i>

1681
01:42:35,382 --> 01:42:39,648
<i>
keep us down