1 00:00:13,813 --> 00:00:16,509 Fire in the hole! 2 00:00:18,485 --> 00:00:21,716 Fire in the hole! 3 00:00:24,190 --> 00:00:27,489 Fire in the hole! 4 00:00:34,134 --> 00:00:37,035 There is no danger! 5 00:00:37,137 --> 00:00:41,267 Let's all go, young friends 6 00:00:41,374 --> 00:00:46,004 So brave and so brave 7 00:00:46,112 --> 00:00:49,275 Do not seek your fortune 8 00:00:49,382 --> 00:00:54,183 Road to the mines 9 00:00:54,287 --> 00:00:57,279 It will be your routine 10 00:00:57,390 --> 00:01:02,293 And it will sink your soul 11 00:01:02,395 --> 00:01:05,091 Until the blood that flows through your veins 12 00:01:05,198 --> 00:01:10,864 Turn as black as coal 13 00:01:10,970 --> 00:01:14,770 Where it's as dark as a dungeon 14 00:01:14,874 --> 00:01:18,537 And it's as wet as a grave 15 00:01:18,645 --> 00:01:22,581 Where the risk is double 16 00:01:22,682 --> 00:01:27,585 And the pleasures are few 17 00:01:27,687 --> 00:01:31,248 Where the rain never falls 18 00:01:31,357 --> 00:01:36,056 and the sun never shines 19 00:01:36,162 --> 00:01:39,393 It's dark like a dungeon 20 00:01:39,499 --> 00:01:44,630 Road to the mine 21 00:03:24,504 --> 00:03:27,405 - Is she out here laughing? - Yeah! Give him a smile! 22 00:03:29,509 --> 00:03:32,000 Why do girls Do they put on clothes from the car? 23 00:03:36,049 --> 00:03:38,017 Oh. 24 00:03:42,789 --> 00:03:47,749 For 42 years 25 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:52,263 It's been a long time 26 00:03:52,365 --> 00:03:56,426 I worked and worked" 27 00:03:56,536 --> 00:04:00,302 in a coal mine 28 00:04:00,406 --> 00:04:04,001 Under a deep hole 29 00:04:04,110 --> 00:04:07,238 Where the brightness of the lights shined 30 00:04:08,581 --> 00:04:12,483 In a dark room 31 00:04:12,585 --> 00:04:16,453 A piece of chopped charcoal 32 00:04:17,490 --> 00:04:21,950 My bones hurt 33 00:04:22,061 --> 00:04:25,792 My kneecaps were getting worse 34 00:04:25,898 --> 00:04:29,959 under a hard rock 35 00:04:30,069 --> 00:04:34,062 Covered with knee pads 36 00:04:35,675 --> 00:04:40,135 The engines running 37 00:04:40,246 --> 00:04:44,012 I had sand in my hair 38 00:04:44,117 --> 00:04:48,611 Both lungs were destroyed. 39 00:04:48,721 --> 00:04:52,623 From breathing polluted air 40 00:04:52,725 --> 00:04:55,819 The coal mine was hard. 41 00:04:57,697 --> 00:05:01,098 Between 18 and 20 hours. 42 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,899 You get wet, and when you go outside, your clothes stay frozen. 43 00:05:06,005 --> 00:05:11,102 It would sound like a burning broom was hitting them. making a vibrating noise. 44 00:05:11,210 --> 00:05:15,112 They wanted you to work like a mule or an animal. 45 00:05:15,214 --> 00:05:17,876 I once heard the boss say... 46 00:05:17,984 --> 00:05:19,884 He said, "Make sure... 47 00:05:19,986 --> 00:05:24,980 "not to put that mule in a place where a rock could fall on him." 48 00:05:25,091 --> 00:05:27,992 Don't put that mule in a bad place." 49 00:05:28,094 --> 00:05:30,255 So I said, "Well, and... What's wrong with me?" 50 00:05:30,363 --> 00:05:32,263 So I was carrying a mule. 51 00:05:32,365 --> 00:05:35,061 "What would happen to me, If I fell on a rock? 52 00:05:35,168 --> 00:05:38,899 He said, "We could always hire another man, but you have to buy that mule." 53 00:05:41,007 --> 00:05:43,737 In other words, he thought more in favor of the mule than of the man. 54 00:06:08,401 --> 00:06:10,961 My grandfather was a coal miner... 55 00:06:11,070 --> 00:06:14,301 and belonged to the U.T.M. union. (Mining Workers Union) 56 00:06:14,407 --> 00:06:17,467 and died with black lungs. 57 00:06:17,577 --> 00:06:21,513 I remember when we were lazing around, You know, when we were younger... 58 00:06:21,614 --> 00:06:25,846 and he talked about his stay on the pickets and the organization. 59 00:06:25,952 --> 00:06:29,888 I mean, that was what we used to talk about... 60 00:06:29,989 --> 00:06:32,958 lounging at the table even after dinner. 61 00:06:33,059 --> 00:06:36,119 Most of our conversations They were about his union... 62 00:06:36,229 --> 00:06:38,629 You know, when organized the union... 63 00:06:38,731 --> 00:06:41,632 about the things that happened on the lines picket line and what the company did to you. 64 00:06:41,734 --> 00:06:44,259 So I started hating the company, I mean... 65 00:06:45,471 --> 00:06:49,134 It seemed like he had always hated her. I knew they were our enemy. 66 00:06:49,242 --> 00:06:52,211 and then, when I saw him die... 67 00:06:53,513 --> 00:06:56,414 and suffer as he did with that lung disease... 68 00:06:56,516 --> 00:06:58,416 I knew there would be to do something about it. 69 00:06:58,518 --> 00:07:03,217 So I told myself that if ever had the opportunity to catch to those coal operators, I would. 70 00:07:03,322 --> 00:07:05,756 because I thought... 71 00:07:05,858 --> 00:07:07,758 that they were the enemy. 72 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:11,352 So when the strike came, I saw the opportunity to get right in there. 73 00:07:11,464 --> 00:07:15,491 Let's get up at 5:00 in the morning and prepare a good coffee. 74 00:07:15,601 --> 00:07:18,593 Let's go there and teach those workers from Brookside what we can do for them. 75 00:07:18,704 --> 00:07:22,572 Let's fend for ourselves and let's show these kids that we can help them to get a contract. 76 00:07:22,675 --> 00:07:25,576 Let's teach the people of Harlan County that we will stay together. 77 00:07:25,678 --> 00:07:28,579 Because you requested this contract. Let's get it. 78 00:07:28,681 --> 00:07:31,844 Things are hot now. There's not much they can do. 79 00:07:31,951 --> 00:07:37,014 All of you who are on that soccer field, I want you to be there in the morning. 80 00:07:37,123 --> 00:07:41,184 Let's show Carl Horn that we will be worth it for ourselves here in Harlan County. 81 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:43,626 We'll sit there and sweat when it's snowing. 82 00:07:43,729 --> 00:07:47,563 We will remain there until the contract from the U.T.M.A. be signed at Brookside. 83 00:07:47,667 --> 00:07:51,034 To all the people of Black Mountain, We would deeply appreciate you... 84 00:07:51,137 --> 00:07:55,198 that you were there at 5:00... when dawn comes in Brookside, Kentucky. 85 00:07:55,308 --> 00:07:58,766 Don't back down. Don't let anyone run away from Harlan. 86 00:07:58,878 --> 00:08:03,747 Yes guys, that's where it's going to be... Monday at 5:00 a.m. in Brookside. 87 00:08:03,850 --> 00:08:06,944 Let's go there to support to the Brookside workers. 88 00:08:07,987 --> 00:08:10,649 I got hurt there a year ago at Brookside. 89 00:08:10,756 --> 00:08:13,884 300 pounds of steel fell on me in the head. 90 00:08:13,993 --> 00:08:17,326 They took me to the hospital, to sew my head. 91 00:08:17,430 --> 00:08:20,024 I had a deep cut on my nose. 92 00:08:20,132 --> 00:08:24,694 I was absent one day and the superintendent I sent a companion, and told him... 93 00:08:24,804 --> 00:08:27,506 "Tell him to come back to work. 94 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:30,208 We will make it easy for you so that I don't waste time." 95 00:08:30,309 --> 00:08:33,210 I went back there, and I didn't find any kind of compensation 96 00:08:33,312 --> 00:08:36,440 I came back with my head open. 97 00:08:36,549 --> 00:08:39,484 This is how they want that you work there. 98 00:08:39,585 --> 00:08:43,419 Protect your family! U.T.M.A. 99 00:08:43,523 --> 00:08:46,014 Join now, guys. We need your support. 100 00:08:46,125 --> 00:08:49,891 Have some cards for a friend! It's in the house! 101 00:08:49,996 --> 00:08:51,964 Now you are a real friend! 102 00:08:52,064 --> 00:08:55,522 - We need your support, friend. - Maybe the Lord will take care of you. 103 00:08:55,635 --> 00:08:58,399 - You know I will. - That's very good! 104 00:08:58,504 --> 00:09:01,837 - Hey, I'll put one in my car if you want. - U.T.M.A. until the end. 105 00:09:01,941 --> 00:09:04,341 Give me one. I'll stick it on the car. 106 00:09:04,443 --> 00:09:08,607 On the bumper... "Tenessee is a U.T.M.A. state!" 107 00:09:08,714 --> 00:09:11,842 We want Kentucky stickers. We need more. 108 00:09:11,951 --> 00:09:13,851 Organize the disorganized. 109 00:09:13,953 --> 00:09:17,821 With organization, you have the help of your neighbor. 110 00:09:18,958 --> 00:09:20,858 Without organization... 111 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,360 You are a lonely individual... 112 00:09:23,462 --> 00:09:25,430 without any kind of... 113 00:09:27,433 --> 00:09:30,994 influence or recognition. 114 00:09:32,605 --> 00:09:35,335 An exploitation... 115 00:09:35,441 --> 00:09:37,432 yours or your family's... 116 00:09:37,543 --> 00:09:41,206 pleases some industrialist... 117 00:09:42,782 --> 00:09:46,309 who wants to make money of your misery. 118 00:09:46,419 --> 00:09:50,082 Well, we would like every man May he be on this picket line with us 119 00:09:50,189 --> 00:09:52,783 Give us your name before you leave, and we will break it. 120 00:09:52,892 --> 00:09:55,520 These committee guys they will break it... 121 00:09:55,628 --> 00:09:57,528 and we will get something. 122 00:09:57,630 --> 00:09:59,655 Come on and laze around. It's not something complicated. 123 00:09:59,765 --> 00:10:03,326 You're not going to do anything anyway. crying because you don't have money, like me. 124 00:10:03,436 --> 00:10:07,338 We will appreciate it, I assure you. Would you like an adhesive label? 125 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,340 We are protesting. 126 00:10:09,442 --> 00:10:12,741 We are protesting the control he has Duke Power on these men... 127 00:10:12,845 --> 00:10:14,745 who voted in the U.T.M contract... 128 00:10:14,847 --> 00:10:17,748 and Duke Power says, "No, you can't have that contract." 129 00:10:17,850 --> 00:10:20,375 We have to make them... 130 00:10:20,486 --> 00:10:23,046 dozens and dozens of proposals... 131 00:10:23,155 --> 00:10:25,146 in different ways... 132 00:10:25,257 --> 00:10:28,158 in these aspects of disagreement. 133 00:10:28,260 --> 00:10:30,251 They read them and return them 134 00:10:30,363 --> 00:10:32,263 They have no counterproposal. 135 00:10:32,365 --> 00:10:35,596 If you solved it calmly I might think you would say... 136 00:10:35,701 --> 00:10:39,603 "Well, maybe they have won this battle, But we have our backs covered." 137 00:10:39,705 --> 00:10:41,838 I might agree with you in this regard... 138 00:10:41,839 --> 00:10:43,971 I wish we had backs covered. 139 00:10:45,344 --> 00:10:48,472 They treat us like if we were animals, dogs. 140 00:10:48,581 --> 00:10:50,776 And we are not. We are American citizens. 141 00:10:50,883 --> 00:10:53,943 And they are violating our constitutional rights... 142 00:10:54,053 --> 00:10:57,216 when they tell us we can't have the union we choose... 143 00:10:57,323 --> 00:10:59,791 in which those men voted. 144 00:10:59,892 --> 00:11:03,259 If you watched television the other day, you would see the women and men present there... 145 00:11:03,362 --> 00:11:05,660 "Nixon resign! "Nixon resign!" 146 00:11:05,765 --> 00:11:09,929 But let us go there with spikes... eh, with protest signs... 147 00:11:10,036 --> 00:11:11,936 against Duke Power... 148 00:11:12,038 --> 00:11:15,235 and they send us their armed thugs to intimidate us. 149 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,910 What should one think taking into account that there are unions that are destroying our country completely? 150 00:11:25,818 --> 00:11:27,718 Mm-hmmm. 151 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:30,482 Mr. Hoffa in jail... 152 00:11:30,589 --> 00:11:32,648 To the Truckers Union They are known as communists... 153 00:11:32,758 --> 00:11:34,726 to the dockers They are known as communists. 154 00:11:34,827 --> 00:11:38,319 Every union in this country is on strike, What will happen to our country? 155 00:11:38,431 --> 00:11:41,332 Men want higher salaries. And they are going to fight for it. 156 00:11:41,434 --> 00:11:43,402 The union supports them. 157 00:11:43,502 --> 00:11:46,403 And they will be on strike until they get higher salaries. 158 00:11:46,505 --> 00:11:50,032 As I explained to my daughter, I said there is a spool of thread there. 159 00:11:50,142 --> 00:11:52,042 That thread could have cost 15 cents. 160 00:11:52,144 --> 00:11:58,014 A man goes on strike, I said, if they want 30 cents more per hour, they get their 30 cents 161 00:11:58,117 --> 00:12:02,383 When they go back to work, they managed to raise the price of their salary 162 00:12:02,488 --> 00:12:04,388 This is what the unions are doing. 163 00:12:04,490 --> 00:12:06,788 The unions are ruining the United States. 164 00:12:12,398 --> 00:12:16,596 I went to work when I was 10 years old collecting slate on the coal burner. 165 00:12:16,702 --> 00:12:19,364 At that time We worked 10 hours a day... 166 00:12:19,472 --> 00:12:21,702 and we won six and a bit cents an hour. 167 00:12:21,807 --> 00:12:24,207 Well, new guys... 168 00:12:24,310 --> 00:12:27,404 we used to have our feet in the dump and we used to pick up the blackboard... 169 00:12:27,513 --> 00:12:31,005 when the new boss He used to sneak up behind me. 170 00:12:31,117 --> 00:12:33,517 And when I saw escape a piece of slate... 171 00:12:33,619 --> 00:12:36,554 He would pick up the blackboard and hit you. on the back with it, it hit you hard. 172 00:12:36,655 --> 00:12:39,249 And he'd say, "Pick up the whiteboard!" 173 00:12:39,358 --> 00:12:42,521 Actually, they used to abuse us. 174 00:12:42,628 --> 00:12:48,032 We finally got to a point where we said that, well, we were going to be on strike. 175 00:12:48,134 --> 00:12:51,729 That's when I learned my first political lesson... 176 00:12:51,837 --> 00:12:56,274 about what happens when you adopt a stand against coal operators 177 00:12:56,375 --> 00:12:58,275 against the capitalists. 178 00:12:58,377 --> 00:13:00,902 The first thing that happened... 179 00:13:01,013 --> 00:13:04,676 the union leaders came to us and they told us to go back to work... 180 00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:06,684 that we were violating the agreement. 181 00:13:06,786 --> 00:13:11,246 We said, “To hell with the agreement. We will be on strike until let's get our demands." 182 00:13:11,357 --> 00:13:15,555 Then the politicians started to visit us and put pressure on us. 183 00:13:15,661 --> 00:13:17,561 then the parish priests. 184 00:13:17,663 --> 00:13:22,100 finally the coal company agreed to meet with us... 185 00:13:22,201 --> 00:13:25,967 and they agreed increase hourly pay... 186 00:13:26,071 --> 00:13:28,733 six cents or so eight cents an hour. 187 00:13:28,841 --> 00:13:31,275 We think we had big concessions. 188 00:13:31,377 --> 00:13:34,278 Today that would mean nothing. Just a pittance. 189 00:13:34,380 --> 00:13:37,577 But that meant a lot to us. and for our pay at that time. 190 00:13:37,683 --> 00:13:40,584 Well, that was my first lesson... 191 00:13:40,686 --> 00:13:46,090 if you stick to your organization and you remain together in solidarity... 192 00:13:46,192 --> 00:13:48,092 you can defeat them. 193 00:13:48,194 --> 00:13:52,528 In addition to that, I learned that politicians They worked with the coal companies. 194 00:13:52,631 --> 00:13:56,863 I found out that the union officials They worked with the coal companies 195 00:13:56,969 --> 00:14:01,429 I also found out that the Catholic hierarchy he worked with the coal officials. 196 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:04,168 Here was a combination of all that, you see... 197 00:14:04,276 --> 00:14:07,404 that you have to fight against all of them. 198 00:14:09,181 --> 00:14:13,948 When the Coal and Iron Police found out who was trying to instigate a union... 199 00:14:14,053 --> 00:14:16,283 well, they abused them. 200 00:14:16,388 --> 00:14:19,846 The miners imagined that, the only way they could hold on... 201 00:14:19,959 --> 00:14:22,860 was to abuse them, make them pay for what they were doing: 202 00:14:22,962 --> 00:14:25,829 So they started using violence... 203 00:14:25,931 --> 00:14:31,392 as revenge for violence that was being used against them. 204 00:14:31,503 --> 00:14:34,529 this fight continued to a point... 205 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,268 in which many mining foremen They were murdered... 206 00:14:37,376 --> 00:14:40,368 many police They were murdered... 207 00:14:40,479 --> 00:14:42,674 and of course, many miners were killed. 208 00:14:42,781 --> 00:14:44,214 It became a regular guerrilla war. 209 00:14:44,316 --> 00:14:49,720 and some of the first ideas of that war of guerrillas developed that type of struggle. 210 00:14:52,625 --> 00:14:56,994 The coal company gets until the last dollar can scam some coal miner... 211 00:14:57,096 --> 00:14:59,621 through oppressive management tactics. 212 00:14:59,732 --> 00:15:02,724 So why weren't they satisfied? coal operators? 213 00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:06,498 The government is acting through force. 214 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,209 Kentucky Tax Money at Work 215 00:15:11,310 --> 00:15:13,540 breaks with unionized workers. 216 00:15:13,646 --> 00:15:15,671 Unionized workers! 217 00:15:16,782 --> 00:15:20,513 Unionized workers! 218 00:15:20,619 --> 00:15:25,921 Damn, I guess they're here. to stop the strike. 219 00:15:26,025 --> 00:15:29,859 They are here for the company, by the operators. 220 00:15:33,666 --> 00:15:37,693 I have nothing to say anyway. Just a job to do. 221 00:15:37,803 --> 00:15:41,569 - And why are you here? - To keep the roads open. 222 00:15:41,674 --> 00:15:45,371 Enforce the laws, keep the peace, prevent people from getting hurt. 223 00:15:45,477 --> 00:15:47,877 Stand here, please. 224 00:15:47,980 --> 00:15:50,471 - Don't put your hands on me, animal. - OK. 225 00:15:50,582 --> 00:15:55,485 "Bailey. You know, my name is Bailey, and you're a damn disgrace to the Bailey family. 226 00:15:57,589 --> 00:16:00,888 Man, that's a damn shame. A Bailey, state trooper. Isn't it a shame? 227 00:16:00,993 --> 00:16:04,759 You want to get rid of something, Get rid of this little thing hanging on it. 228 00:16:04,863 --> 00:16:08,355 That's what I was looking at. 229 00:16:08,467 --> 00:16:12,426 It has the same diameter as this one here. 230 00:16:12,538 --> 00:16:14,438 Another scab... 231 00:16:14,540 --> 00:16:17,008 There is no remedy for scabs. Know? 232 00:16:17,109 --> 00:16:20,704 - Holy shit, how brave... - Here they come! 233 00:16:42,568 --> 00:16:46,129 That bastard threatened me with a gun! Over there! Over there! 234 00:16:46,238 --> 00:16:48,968 Son of a bitch! 235 00:16:53,379 --> 00:16:56,348 Hey! 236 00:16:58,417 --> 00:17:00,317 Get them out of here. 237 00:17:02,421 --> 00:17:05,322 - Hey! That's fucking wrong! - That's the fucking law we have! 238 00:17:07,426 --> 00:17:11,726 -Donny! - If they ask, you tell people! 239 00:17:11,830 --> 00:17:14,958 They will make you come back soon, your family! 240 00:17:15,067 --> 00:17:18,127 Hey! Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing? 241 00:17:22,941 --> 00:17:25,171 Scabs sons of bitches. 242 00:17:25,277 --> 00:17:28,007 - Come on idiot! - Hey, scab! 243 00:17:28,113 --> 00:17:30,809 Hey, come on! Come on! 244 00:17:30,916 --> 00:17:32,816 Sorry. Take something from me. 245 00:17:32,918 --> 00:17:35,512 - Damn bastards! - You scabs, son of bitches! 246 00:17:35,621 --> 00:17:38,522 Hey! 247 00:17:38,624 --> 00:17:40,592 Scabs! 248 00:17:42,628 --> 00:17:47,258 All of you present In this judicial request, the 36, Remember that this is a court order. 249 00:17:47,366 --> 00:17:50,767 You can't block traffic, nor call them scabs. 250 00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:54,828 - Why not? - Because if you do, you will be behind bars. 251 00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:57,841 I think never you will win a strike... 252 00:17:57,943 --> 00:18:01,845 with six people on the picket line. 253 00:18:01,947 --> 00:18:06,247 I mean it is impossible that you can win a strike with six pickets. 254 00:18:06,351 --> 00:18:09,184 So you have to rape these court orders. 255 00:18:09,288 --> 00:18:12,280 Lawyers are there to get you out of a bind after getting you into it... 256 00:18:12,391 --> 00:18:15,554 not get you out of trouble before you get into it. 257 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:20,323 I'll say it like this... do what you have to do 258 00:18:20,532 --> 00:18:24,195 Women from all over the world They are interested in what their husbands do. 259 00:18:24,303 --> 00:18:28,239 They are interested in security laws that the Mining Workers Union has... 260 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:31,207 and they want their husbands have their pension funds. 261 00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:34,211 They don't want their husbands go to those scab mines... 262 00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:37,441 dropping rocks on them and working with those engines without brakes. 263 00:18:37,549 --> 00:18:40,950 So they want to participate. They are ready and eager. 264 00:18:41,053 --> 00:18:45,581 The good thing about our club is that now We give them the opportunity to participate. 265 00:18:45,691 --> 00:18:47,591 See? 266 00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:50,821 When their husbands go to the mines, They keep praying that they get out of there. 267 00:18:50,929 --> 00:18:54,660 I think they feel that maybe their prayers They can be answered sooner... 268 00:18:54,766 --> 00:18:58,133 if they were working with a contract from the U.T.M. 269 00:18:58,237 --> 00:19:01,570 I went there to support the miners... 270 00:19:01,673 --> 00:19:03,573 for the miners... 271 00:19:03,675 --> 00:19:07,975 and to also support my son the one I'm raising. 272 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,380 Now sit down slowly. Sit down. It's overflowing. 273 00:19:12,484 --> 00:19:15,817 - I can't get my foot out... - Angie! 274 00:19:15,921 --> 00:19:19,049 - I couldn't get my foot out of here. - You're a disaster. 275 00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:20,747 When will we go to jail again? 276 00:19:20,748 --> 00:19:23,925 If the scab begins to pass through the picket lines... 277 00:19:24,029 --> 00:19:28,591 We went because we tried to protect her... The scab was going to prevent your father's work. 278 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:31,794 When you sign that contract, Dad will have hot water running... 279 00:19:31,904 --> 00:19:34,429 and a huge old bathtub 280 00:19:40,112 --> 00:19:42,444 Let's help the striking miners now! 281 00:19:42,548 --> 00:19:48,043 Come all, coal miners 282 00:19:48,153 --> 00:19:50,417 Wherever you are 283 00:19:50,522 --> 00:19:53,923 And listen to the story 284 00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:56,790 What am I going to tell you? 285 00:19:56,895 --> 00:20:00,262 My name is the least 286 00:20:00,365 --> 00:20:03,562 But I will tell you the truth 287 00:20:03,669 --> 00:20:06,968 I'm a coal miner's wife 288 00:20:07,072 --> 00:20:10,303 I assure you that I wish you the best 289 00:20:10,409 --> 00:20:13,674 They leave you breathless 290 00:20:13,779 --> 00:20:16,304 They take the lives of our children 291 00:20:16,415 --> 00:20:20,010 They separate parents from their children 292 00:20:20,118 --> 00:20:23,053 And to the husbands of their wives 293 00:20:23,155 --> 00:20:26,386 Oh miner, put order 294 00:20:26,491 --> 00:20:29,289 Wherever you are 295 00:20:29,394 --> 00:20:33,387 And make this a land of freedom 296 00:20:33,498 --> 00:20:37,127 For workers like you and me 297 00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:40,296 And we have to fight for our rights. 298 00:20:40,405 --> 00:20:42,305 You are going to have to fight for them. 299 00:20:42,407 --> 00:20:47,242 If you have more security in the mines, If you have your transportation bonus... 300 00:20:47,346 --> 00:20:50,838 If you have the doctor's card you can be treated. 301 00:20:50,949 --> 00:20:55,409 Because if you become disabled and you get nothing in return... 302 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,921 the only thing that some houses will receive... 303 00:20:59,024 --> 00:21:01,458 or families will be hungry. 304 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,960 Believe me I know what it means. 305 00:21:04,062 --> 00:21:07,327 And this club means a lot to keep us all together. 306 00:21:07,432 --> 00:21:10,128 If we all stay united... 307 00:21:10,235 --> 00:21:12,294 and we all go together... 308 00:21:12,404 --> 00:21:14,634 We all go to the picket line together... 309 00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:16,640 we will win your contract... 310 00:21:16,742 --> 00:21:18,642 if we all fight. 311 00:21:18,744 --> 00:21:22,111 That was good Sudie. Very good. 312 00:21:31,723 --> 00:21:34,692 All the police were lined up when we got there. 313 00:21:34,793 --> 00:21:38,058 It was early. we should be there around 5:00, maybe 5:30. 314 00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:40,961 But they were already there. 315 00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:44,695 And by then it had come together a great crowd; sympathizers. 316 00:21:44,803 --> 00:21:49,137 A car passed by with three men inside. It seemed like they were slipping away. 317 00:21:49,241 --> 00:21:54,406 And, uh, the next car came, and we dared to go to the road and lie down. 318 00:21:54,513 --> 00:21:57,277 - No work today, friends! - Come on girls! Get down! Get down! 319 00:22:00,352 --> 00:22:03,253 Now let's see the law class that we have in Harlan County... 320 00:22:03,355 --> 00:22:05,255 the kind of state police we have. 321 00:22:05,357 --> 00:22:07,257 Look at those bastards, mistreating women. 322 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,487 We have not offered them no kind of resistance. 323 00:22:10,595 --> 00:22:14,531 We just lay on the road because they were there to accompany to those scabs at work. 324 00:22:14,633 --> 00:22:17,534 And it has continued to be done for a whole month 325 00:22:17,636 --> 00:22:19,797 And we have come very far for this. 326 00:22:23,575 --> 00:22:26,043 Take photos, guys! 327 00:22:27,746 --> 00:22:30,306 You're having a good time, right? 328 00:22:34,252 --> 00:22:36,203 Honey, they have to be on that picket line. 329 00:22:36,204 --> 00:22:38,154 They begin to break strikes... They have to go back there. 330 00:22:38,256 --> 00:22:41,157 You can't let me down. Damn, just give me a gun, to... 331 00:22:41,259 --> 00:22:43,727 I'd rather be dead... 332 00:22:43,829 --> 00:22:46,730 It was due to that there are scabs in Brookside. 333 00:22:46,832 --> 00:22:49,926 I can't stand it. I can't stand that idea. 334 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:52,560 Let's just not let them... 335 00:22:52,671 --> 00:22:56,129 Stand on the picket line Always on the picket line 336 00:22:56,241 --> 00:22:58,141 I'm serious. 337 00:23:00,879 --> 00:23:03,780 If only they stayed on the picket line, we... we... 338 00:23:03,882 --> 00:23:06,544 then they would give him a hard time to those scabs! 339 00:23:06,651 --> 00:23:08,551 Touch their balls! 340 00:23:08,653 --> 00:23:10,553 - That's mine! - Which one should I not choose? 341 00:23:10,655 --> 00:23:12,555 I don't know, but I have this one, which is sad. 342 00:23:12,657 --> 00:23:16,457 This one up here is not chosen. It has a double mattress. I'll stick with this one. 343 00:23:16,561 --> 00:23:19,860 - Well, I was legally on the picket line. - I already know. 344 00:23:19,965 --> 00:23:23,696 I tried to show it to him in court, and they accepted absolutely nothing. 345 00:23:23,802 --> 00:23:26,270 Let them abuse us once again. 346 00:23:26,371 --> 00:23:28,271 And then they put us back. 347 00:23:28,373 --> 00:23:31,240 Because you're a prisoner anyway out there. You could also be... 348 00:23:31,343 --> 00:23:33,243 You could be in jail. 349 00:23:33,345 --> 00:23:35,745 It's the court's judgment... 350 00:23:35,847 --> 00:23:38,645 in which Bill Doan, George Eldridge, Lois Scott, Betty Eldridge... 351 00:23:38,750 --> 00:23:40,945 Bessie Cornett and Melba Strong... 352 00:23:41,052 --> 00:23:43,850 are imprisoned for a period of 60 days from this date. 353 00:23:43,955 --> 00:23:47,755 I could say - Because today I haven't had the opportunity to give any testimony. 354 00:23:47,859 --> 00:23:51,420 I knew we weren't going to get justice. you say that the laws are made for us. 355 00:23:51,530 --> 00:23:54,931 The laws are not made for the working people of this country. 356 00:23:55,033 --> 00:23:57,558 One person is missing here today, and that's Carl Horn. 357 00:23:57,669 --> 00:24:00,570 The law is made for people like Carl Horn, not for us. 358 00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:04,005 When I came here, without offering any testimony... 359 00:24:04,109 --> 00:24:07,545 I knew what I was doing at Brookside, because that's what I wanted to do. 360 00:24:07,646 --> 00:24:10,979 For once I've been able to take an offensive instead of coming here... 361 00:24:11,082 --> 00:24:13,983 not to take a step back but to judge and defend what we did. 362 00:24:14,085 --> 00:24:16,986 What we did is right, and we all know it. 363 00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:26,296 I am offended by the fact... 364 00:24:26,398 --> 00:24:31,927 that they... that Judge Hogg is a... They judge me, and him a coal operator... 365 00:24:32,037 --> 00:24:37,600 and the one sitting next to him, the employee of the circuit court, Mary Lou Coldran... 366 00:24:37,709 --> 00:24:39,904 is sitting there, and his son is there... 367 00:24:40,011 --> 00:24:43,276 He is the photographer who was there taking pictures... 368 00:24:43,381 --> 00:24:46,475 to blacklist the pickets... That offends me. 369 00:24:46,585 --> 00:24:51,215 I'm offended by the fact that he can make a law. to say that I can't go wherever I want. 370 00:24:51,323 --> 00:24:53,416 It is violating my constitutional right. 371 00:24:54,659 --> 00:24:56,559 My name is Norman Yarborough. 372 00:24:56,661 --> 00:24:59,994 To my right is Mr. Logan Patterson... 373 00:25:00,098 --> 00:25:04,398 who is a lawyer who has remained by the Eastover Mining Company... 374 00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:06,403 as main negotiator. 375 00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:08,905 I would like to ask you what you think... 376 00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:11,237 about the role that miners' wives... 377 00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:13,971 have taken in this strike. 378 00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:16,547 actually They played a great role. 379 00:25:16,648 --> 00:25:20,880 I would not have liked to think that my wife could play such a role. 380 00:25:20,986 --> 00:25:22,886 Because? 381 00:25:22,988 --> 00:25:25,218 Well, there are certain behaviors... 382 00:25:25,323 --> 00:25:30,124 I don't like to think that our American women have to... 383 00:25:30,228 --> 00:25:32,287 correct. 384 00:25:32,397 --> 00:25:34,797 Is it a fact that Duke Power's company... 385 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:39,166 has accommodation for its employees without water and without internal plumbing? 386 00:25:39,271 --> 00:25:42,604 Yes sir. we were trying move our people... 387 00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:46,268 And these are our people. They are my people. 388 00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:50,838 Move our people, improve our people in the trailers... 389 00:25:50,949 --> 00:25:54,350 improve our people with better accommodation... 390 00:25:54,452 --> 00:25:57,046 better conditions in every way... 391 00:25:57,155 --> 00:26:00,784 because they will make us better people when we are able to do all this. 392 00:26:07,098 --> 00:26:09,965 Larry! Let's have dinner! 393 00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:12,969 I think it is a feudal system. 394 00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:17,531 There is a class of very rich people, Then there are the coal miners. 395 00:26:17,642 --> 00:26:20,167 There are also people who receives social security benefits. 396 00:26:20,278 --> 00:26:22,644 And that's how things work more or less in Harlan County. 397 00:26:22,747 --> 00:26:24,647 They want it to stay that way. 398 00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:28,549 The way to keep everything like this is monopolizing the labor market. 399 00:26:28,653 --> 00:26:31,952 They do it while keeping others competitive... 400 00:26:32,057 --> 00:26:34,355 or industries that are going to be competitive... 401 00:26:34,459 --> 00:26:37,394 for work... keeping them apart. 402 00:26:37,495 --> 00:26:41,795 There are a few places to work, but they only pay you the minimum wage. Nothing else. 403 00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:43,800 Maybe two dollars an hour. 404 00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:46,803 You can't live like that. 405 00:26:46,905 --> 00:26:48,805 And if it doesn't take to the Union of Mine Workers 406 00:26:48,806 --> 00:26:50,705 both I and he will have to leave Harlan County. 407 00:26:50,809 --> 00:26:52,743 That's for sure. Or maybe Kentucky. 408 00:26:52,844 --> 00:26:56,280 We will have to go where there is a union state to get a job again. 409 00:26:56,381 --> 00:27:00,044 Duke Power belongs to Southern, a conservative company. 410 00:27:00,151 --> 00:27:04,281 Less than 10% of its employees in their power plants... 411 00:27:04,389 --> 00:27:06,289 and its specialized employees... 412 00:27:06,391 --> 00:27:08,291 They are organized. 413 00:27:08,393 --> 00:27:11,453 And if they feel so 414 00:27:11,563 --> 00:27:14,123 If they grant us a contract here... 415 00:27:14,232 --> 00:27:18,726 will increase union organization in his home, the state of North Carolina... 416 00:27:18,837 --> 00:27:20,737 and South Carolina. 417 00:27:23,908 --> 00:27:26,502 They say in North Carolina 418 00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:29,375 That Duke Power runs the show 419 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:32,279 Carl Horn would like break the strike 420 00:27:32,384 --> 00:27:35,251 But the miners tell him no. 421 00:27:35,353 --> 00:27:37,844 Which sides are you on, guys? 422 00:27:37,956 --> 00:27:41,483 Which side are you on? 423 00:27:41,593 --> 00:27:44,494 Going to New York City 424 00:27:44,596 --> 00:27:46,757 We have to spread the news 425 00:27:46,865 --> 00:27:49,834 We have fought hard for many months 426 00:27:49,934 --> 00:27:52,266 And we won't lose 427 00:27:52,370 --> 00:27:55,828 Which side are you on, guys? 428 00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:59,842 Which side are you on? 429 00:27:59,944 --> 00:28:02,845 - Are you from the south? - Can you give me one of those? Thank you! 430 00:28:02,947 --> 00:28:05,609 You all look like southerners... 431 00:28:05,717 --> 00:28:07,617 Let's let people know... 432 00:28:07,719 --> 00:28:10,813 than buying Duke Power shares, It's risky. 433 00:28:10,922 --> 00:28:13,083 There have been several this morning 434 00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:16,092 who claimed to have shares in Duke Power, but they wouldn't have them for long. 435 00:28:16,194 --> 00:28:18,594 They said, "Let's get rid of them." 436 00:28:18,697 --> 00:28:20,597 And I thought it was great. 437 00:28:20,832 --> 00:28:23,767 - The tunnels here are similar to mines. - Yes. 438 00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:27,702 Only ours measure about 42 inches tall. 439 00:28:27,806 --> 00:28:30,707 I think... I think these are safer. than mines, sir. 440 00:28:30,809 --> 00:28:33,710 I wouldn't mind coming down here, but its mines... 441 00:28:33,812 --> 00:28:36,337 - Yeah. Wouldn't you want to go to the mines? - No. 442 00:28:36,448 --> 00:28:39,178 They could make a big profit from the mines If they had a union. 443 00:28:39,179 --> 00:28:40,544 They won't give us any. 444 00:28:40,652 --> 00:28:43,052 They make good profits, but They keep everything for themselves. TRUE? 445 00:28:43,154 --> 00:28:45,714 - Yes. - They do not share the profits. 446 00:28:45,824 --> 00:28:48,725 I thought you guys won something more than what you earn. 447 00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:51,227 You don't have a bad salary, but I thought you earned something more. 448 00:28:51,329 --> 00:28:53,729 - They pay us very well, but... No, I don't think so. 449 00:28:53,832 --> 00:28:55,993 How much is very well paid? Five, six dollars an hour? 450 00:28:56,101 --> 00:28:58,695 - Yes, we... - That's not very well paid. I earn more. 451 00:28:58,803 --> 00:29:00,703 - Yeah? - Of course. 452 00:29:00,805 --> 00:29:03,205 The police earn less there. 453 00:29:03,308 --> 00:29:06,744 - We made about seven dollars. God! It's quite a lot of money. 454 00:29:06,845 --> 00:29:08,870 We get some benefits of the union strike. 455 00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:12,472 And it's very difficult, live on a hundred. 456 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:14,484 But is your job that dangerous? 457 00:29:14,586 --> 00:29:16,486 - Look at me. - I mean... 458 00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:18,488 That this is all I do. A lot of nonsense. 459 00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:21,991 Many people don't understand That scorching electricity there... 460 00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:24,994 takes someone's life every day. 461 00:29:25,096 --> 00:29:27,496 Every day a man dies. 462 00:29:29,634 --> 00:29:31,864 - They probably have medical coverage. - Free 463 00:29:31,970 --> 00:29:33,870 Free medical coverage. 464 00:29:33,972 --> 00:29:36,202 I'd save up, man, I'd buy a house. 465 00:29:36,307 --> 00:29:38,551 The kids get sick, I would have to spend every last cent... 466 00:29:38,552 --> 00:29:39,674 And what about dental care? 467 00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:41,678 We don't have dental. 468 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:43,680 - Do you have dental care? - Dental. 469 00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:46,444 - Damn. - We have dental. We have all kinds of health. 470 00:29:46,551 --> 00:29:49,179 We have medicines. I could retire at 36. 471 00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:51,187 Half salary... 10,000 per year. 472 00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:53,723 They don't want it We can retire one day. 473 00:29:53,825 --> 00:29:55,918 - That's very bad. - That's why we're here. 474 00:29:56,027 --> 00:29:59,019 That is the reason we are on strike. For nine months. 475 00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:01,030 - Nine months? - Nine months. 476 00:30:01,132 --> 00:30:04,363 - I thought today was the first day. - No! Today is the ninth month. 477 00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:06,033 We can't get a... They will not sign any contract. 478 00:30:06,034 --> 00:30:07,597 - It's good that you came here to get some publicity. 479 00:30:07,705 --> 00:30:09,468 Clear. Clear. 480 00:30:09,641 --> 00:30:12,474 The problematic issues... 481 00:30:12,577 --> 00:30:15,546 between coal mining branch by Duke Power... 482 00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:17,547 The Eastover Mining Company... 483 00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:20,812 and the Union of Mine Workers... 484 00:30:20,919 --> 00:30:24,514 in the opinion of Eastover management... 485 00:30:24,622 --> 00:30:28,149 and the management of Duke Power, Its owners are... 486 00:30:28,259 --> 00:30:31,524 the absence of an anti-strike clause... 487 00:30:31,629 --> 00:30:35,542 the union's refusal to agree not to be on strike 488 00:30:35,543 --> 00:30:37,499 while your contract lasts. 489 00:30:37,602 --> 00:30:42,471 If there are questions about the content of my report against the shareholders... 490 00:30:42,574 --> 00:30:44,474 I will consider those questions. 491 00:30:44,576 --> 00:30:49,104 Why do you hire armed thugs? that they won't stop harassing us? 492 00:30:49,214 --> 00:30:53,514 You say the issue here is on an anti-strike clause. 493 00:30:53,618 --> 00:30:56,212 If we had an anti-strike clause there... 494 00:30:56,321 --> 00:30:58,221 Norman Yarborough could kick us off that hill... 495 00:30:58,323 --> 00:31:01,850 and there would be nothing What we could do about it. 496 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,793 But I assure you, that we in Harlan County... 497 00:31:04,896 --> 00:31:07,296 throughout our lives we have been treated with kicks... 498 00:31:07,398 --> 00:31:09,298 They put us in jail... 499 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,800 they have shot us, They threw dynamite at us... 500 00:31:11,903 --> 00:31:14,303 and besides you don't want that we have nothing. 501 00:31:14,405 --> 00:31:16,305 I tell you, Mr. Horn... 502 00:31:16,407 --> 00:31:19,308 that I will stay there On that picket line watching him... 503 00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:21,310 as long as it lasts. 504 00:31:21,412 --> 00:31:22,970 Thank you. 505 00:31:24,849 --> 00:31:29,513 Coal companies are no longer the J.P. Morgans or the Hannas. 506 00:31:29,621 --> 00:31:31,521 It's Western oil. 507 00:31:31,623 --> 00:31:33,454 as well as Exxon and Sohio. 508 00:31:33,558 --> 00:31:35,458 oil companies They control the coal industry. 509 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,724 60% of all coal reserves domestic belong to oil companies. 510 00:31:46,404 --> 00:31:49,464 There can be no doubt... 511 00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:51,906 that health and safety... 512 00:31:52,010 --> 00:31:54,001 of our employees... 513 00:31:54,112 --> 00:31:56,137 in the mining industry... 514 00:31:56,247 --> 00:31:59,045 It should be the top priority... 515 00:32:00,385 --> 00:32:03,411 in humanitarian territories. 516 00:32:03,521 --> 00:32:06,285 We found rape after rape after rape... 517 00:32:06,391 --> 00:32:08,291 in those mines. 518 00:32:08,393 --> 00:32:10,293 We have a national registry... 519 00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:11,885 which is very poor... 520 00:32:11,996 --> 00:32:13,896 when placed against the German national register... 521 00:32:13,998 --> 00:32:16,899 the UK national register, the national registry of France... 522 00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:19,333 the national registry of the Netherlands... 523 00:32:19,437 --> 00:32:21,337 and others that I have examined. 524 00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:25,671 So I think... I'm not blaming anyone. If anything, I'm blaming myself. 525 00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:30,043 I'm blaming an agency I've been to associated for a long time. 526 00:32:30,148 --> 00:32:33,049 We have not done everything we should have done in this area. 527 00:32:48,533 --> 00:32:54,199 "Oh my God, Frankie," I said, "During the midnight shift the mine exploded. 528 00:32:54,305 --> 00:32:58,799 They were trapped in the mine, and Peter was there too. " 529 00:32:58,910 --> 00:33:03,404 He went to work, and he acted, well, like he didn't want to go to work. 530 00:33:03,514 --> 00:33:06,415 He preferred to stay at home. Said, "Maybe I should stay home" 531 00:33:06,517 --> 00:33:09,418 I said, "Why don't you do it? He went to the door two or three times. 532 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,421 And he kept saying, "Should I go, or should I stay home? 533 00:33:12,523 --> 00:33:15,424 It's snowing out there, and I don't like being on the road at all." 534 00:33:15,526 --> 00:33:18,427 I said, "Then stay home, and pretend that you are sick today." 535 00:33:18,529 --> 00:33:20,929 But he went to work, and the explosion happened... 536 00:33:21,032 --> 00:33:25,731 I live almost in the middle from where the main explosion occurred. 537 00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:27,998 and they said "Get out of your house!" 538 00:33:28,106 --> 00:33:31,007 And the police told me to get out. But do you know why? 539 00:33:31,109 --> 00:33:33,509 Because they were warned They told me to leave. 540 00:33:33,611 --> 00:33:37,809 Because they didn't want me to see what was happening in those damned, dirty, disgusting mines! 541 00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:43,444 I gave up. I thought we would never make it. 542 00:33:43,554 --> 00:33:46,819 Because simply... we lost consciousness 543 00:33:46,924 --> 00:33:50,587 And I don't know if... 544 00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:54,461 some man whether he fainted or not. 545 00:33:54,565 --> 00:33:57,466 I can't know, because I was passed out. 546 00:33:57,568 --> 00:34:00,696 When I got up, I was freezing cold. 547 00:34:00,805 --> 00:34:03,706 I have worked in the mines for seven years... 548 00:34:03,808 --> 00:34:08,268 and I have never had them very afraid. 549 00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:12,839 But I don't think let it come back. 550 00:34:12,950 --> 00:34:16,215 And the television says... 551 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,221 What if another explosion happened... 552 00:34:19,323 --> 00:34:21,223 They would have to seal the mine. 553 00:34:21,325 --> 00:34:23,589 Around 1:00 that explosion came... 554 00:34:23,694 --> 00:34:25,662 and I said, "they'll have to seal it." 555 00:34:27,932 --> 00:34:29,832 They sealed it. 556 00:34:29,934 --> 00:34:32,232 Then we knew that was... that was all. 557 00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:39,907 You can read it in the newspapers 558 00:34:40,011 --> 00:34:42,878 And the radio tells us 559 00:34:44,182 --> 00:34:46,514 May we raise our children 560 00:34:46,617 --> 00:34:50,018 So that they can also be miners 561 00:34:51,522 --> 00:34:55,185 Tell them how safe 562 00:34:55,293 --> 00:34:59,195 What are the mines today? 563 00:34:59,297 --> 00:35:01,492 And be like dad 564 00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:04,830 Bringing home a good paycheck 565 00:35:06,170 --> 00:35:10,800 But don't believe it, my son 566 00:35:10,908 --> 00:35:15,743 That story is false 567 00:35:15,847 --> 00:35:19,010 Remember the disaster 568 00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:24,111 At the Mannington Mine 569 00:35:24,222 --> 00:35:30,252 Where 78 miners burned alive 570 00:35:30,361 --> 00:35:33,262 For working in unsafe conditions 571 00:35:33,364 --> 00:35:35,992 your parents died 572 00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:44,433 And I would like to know, since they died... 573 00:35:44,542 --> 00:35:48,706 eh, to help those who still live, Find out what caused that explosion. 574 00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:51,338 As you know, We usually learn from a tragedy. 575 00:35:51,449 --> 00:35:53,508 So maybe you can help, huh... 576 00:35:53,618 --> 00:35:55,779 - To others. - Let others live. 577 00:35:55,887 --> 00:35:58,185 Then it wouldn't happen again. 578 00:35:58,289 --> 00:36:00,189 But as long as they are greedy... 579 00:36:00,291 --> 00:36:03,522 while they are attacking the coal miners... 580 00:36:03,628 --> 00:36:06,188 wanting a good production before their lives... 581 00:36:06,297 --> 00:36:08,731 there will always be tragedies. 582 00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:13,736 I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what. 583 00:36:13,838 --> 00:36:16,204 - And the doctors told me. - About 60, don't you think? 584 00:36:16,307 --> 00:36:19,105 Yes, about 60. More or less. 585 00:36:19,210 --> 00:36:21,576 Well, what happened to him... 586 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:24,580 when he started to realize What was something wrong? 587 00:36:24,682 --> 00:36:26,582 You just couldn't breathe. 588 00:36:26,684 --> 00:36:32,213 You walked a little and you got exhausted, you were panting. 589 00:36:32,323 --> 00:36:35,850 and sometimes you could hardly get it. 590 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,088 Many times I have had to go to this hospital. 591 00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:41,461 They gave me injections and other things. 592 00:36:41,566 --> 00:36:43,466 I thought I was on my last legs. 593 00:36:43,568 --> 00:36:46,332 Black lung, black lung 594 00:36:46,437 --> 00:36:51,397 Oh, your hand is frozen with cold 595 00:36:51,509 --> 00:36:55,639 How are you trying to take my life? 596 00:36:55,746 --> 00:36:59,705 and torture my soul 597 00:36:59,817 --> 00:37:05,847 Cold as the trough there is under that dark cave 598 00:37:05,957 --> 00:37:09,518 Where I spend my life's blood 599 00:37:09,627 --> 00:37:13,654 Digging my own grave 600 00:37:16,767 --> 00:37:20,066 When you start to destroy lung tissue... 601 00:37:20,171 --> 00:37:23,572 how it happens to the miners with pneumoconiosis... 602 00:37:23,674 --> 00:37:25,699 the final result of pneumoconiosis... 603 00:37:25,810 --> 00:37:28,745 there is nothing you can do to restore the lungs. 604 00:37:28,846 --> 00:37:30,814 They are simply devastated. 605 00:37:35,486 --> 00:37:38,319 170-100 606 00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:40,686 Buck, how old are you? 607 00:37:40,791 --> 00:37:43,851 - I am 67 years old. - 67? 608 00:37:43,961 --> 00:37:47,954 You couldn't see your friend on the other side of the car because of the dust. 609 00:37:48,065 --> 00:37:51,466 We were totally dirty. 610 00:37:51,569 --> 00:37:55,903 We all had a different color when we entered. And we all looked the same when we went out. 611 00:37:56,007 --> 00:37:58,100 Know? 612 00:37:58,209 --> 00:38:01,007 - It's true. - All of us, huh? 613 00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:05,014 - We were all brothers when we dated. - That's right, when we go out. 614 00:38:05,116 --> 00:38:07,710 The whites looked black, so there was no difference. 615 00:38:07,818 --> 00:38:10,582 you knew you were completely full of dust. 616 00:38:10,688 --> 00:38:13,919 There are also miners who are working who, even though they are very symptomatic... 617 00:38:14,025 --> 00:38:15,925 They don't dare to resign... 618 00:38:16,027 --> 00:38:19,861 unless they are sure that they have a sufficient disability... 619 00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:23,229 so they can get some type of benefit for your disability. 620 00:38:23,334 --> 00:38:25,234 It's a very negative type of system... 621 00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:30,296 because we are actually forcing them to continue working until they become disabled. 622 00:38:31,842 --> 00:38:34,868 He went to see the boss 623 00:38:34,979 --> 00:38:39,211 But he closed the door 624 00:38:39,317 --> 00:38:43,117 Anyway, it seems that you are not required 625 00:38:43,220 --> 00:38:45,848 - Very good. - When you are sick 626 00:38:45,956 --> 00:38:49,221 And when you're broke 627 00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:53,195 You are not even covered 628 00:38:53,297 --> 00:38:57,529 in your medical plans 629 00:38:57,635 --> 00:39:01,230 and your life depends 630 00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:05,639 Of the favors of others 631 00:39:07,411 --> 00:39:12,644 We want to do the right thing when it comes to to coal miners' pneumoconiosis. 632 00:39:12,750 --> 00:39:14,650 But we believe that medical opinion... 633 00:39:14,752 --> 00:39:17,619 better informed will show you... 634 00:39:17,722 --> 00:39:19,622 which is not true... 635 00:39:19,724 --> 00:39:22,625 inhalation and retention of coal dust in the lungs... 636 00:39:22,727 --> 00:39:26,754 must necessarily cause damage in lung function... 637 00:39:26,864 --> 00:39:28,764 and, on the other hand,... 638 00:39:28,866 --> 00:39:31,858 only a relatively small part of the coal miners... 639 00:39:31,969 --> 00:39:34,961 that have coal dust held in his lungs... 640 00:39:35,072 --> 00:39:37,973 have some type of disability in your lung function... 641 00:39:38,075 --> 00:39:39,975 and much less disability. 642 00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:42,978 This is one of the lungs of a brother of yours. 643 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,049 This is what it looks like after the autopsy. 644 00:39:46,150 --> 00:39:48,983 This is the reason for his death. 645 00:39:49,086 --> 00:39:51,054 This is avoidable. 646 00:39:52,089 --> 00:39:53,989 Other countries have achieved it. 647 00:39:54,091 --> 00:39:56,218 Other countries have done great progress. 648 00:39:56,327 --> 00:39:59,785 For example, Australians believe which they have completely eliminated... 649 00:39:59,897 --> 00:40:02,297 the problem of lung disease in its coal miners. 650 00:40:03,801 --> 00:40:06,998 There to the cemetery 651 00:40:07,104 --> 00:40:10,437 The boss arrived 652 00:40:10,541 --> 00:40:15,444 With a small bouquet of flowers 653 00:40:15,546 --> 00:40:18,140 my god 654 00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:20,774 What a shame 655 00:40:20,885 --> 00:40:24,082 Take those flowers 656 00:40:24,188 --> 00:40:28,090 Don't sing any sad songs 657 00:40:28,192 --> 00:40:31,650 The die has already been cast 658 00:40:31,762 --> 00:40:36,665 A good man is gone 659 00:40:40,938 --> 00:40:46,740 It turns out that 1969 was a year in which there were an election in the Mine Workers Union. 660 00:40:46,844 --> 00:40:49,972 and with all the discontent that there was... 661 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,607 there was, for the first time, I guess, in the history of the union 662 00:40:53,717 --> 00:40:57,209 an open conversation of people who opposed Tony Boyle. 663 00:40:57,321 --> 00:40:59,983 I have to work in a mine for 40 years... 664 00:41:00,090 --> 00:41:01,990 to get a pension. 665 00:41:02,092 --> 00:41:04,185 A meager pension in fact. 666 00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:06,456 And I guess when I retire... 667 00:41:06,564 --> 00:41:10,466 which will be in two years because I can't take it anymore... 668 00:41:10,568 --> 00:41:14,470 I will not be able to have silicosis because I will already be dead. 669 00:41:14,638 --> 00:41:18,130 I doubt Tony Boyle ever knew which is having coal dust on your hands. 670 00:41:18,242 --> 00:41:22,474 He is there in Washington crossed with his arms charging a lot of money. 671 00:41:22,580 --> 00:41:25,777 So that? He doesn't even know what miners do. 672 00:41:25,883 --> 00:41:29,046 Let him go to hell! That's what I feel. 673 00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:31,713 Boyle does nothing for widows. 674 00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:34,188 Boyle does nothing for retirees. 675 00:41:34,291 --> 00:41:38,022 "I'll give you this, I'll give you that. 676 00:41:38,128 --> 00:41:40,790 "I'll give you cake... 677 00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:44,698 "If I can get high enough in the sky... 678 00:41:44,802 --> 00:41:46,929 in the sweet passage of time". 679 00:41:47,037 --> 00:41:48,937 The coal miners in this country... 680 00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:51,405 They are fucking sick and tired of having... 681 00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,807 a national president of your organization... 682 00:41:53,911 --> 00:41:56,345 who's in bed with the coal operators 683 00:42:02,620 --> 00:42:04,679 Clarksville, Pennsylvania 684 00:42:04,788 --> 00:42:07,018 It's not too far from here 685 00:42:07,124 --> 00:42:10,321 The coal miners waited 686 00:42:10,427 --> 00:42:12,657 - A radiant new year - Hello, friends. 687 00:42:12,763 --> 00:42:15,163 But for Jock Yablonski 688 00:42:15,266 --> 00:42:17,632 His daughter and his wife 689 00:42:17,735 --> 00:42:20,135 The new year would bring an end 690 00:42:20,237 --> 00:42:23,138 To their precious lives 691 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:25,731 It's cold blooded murder, folks. 692 00:42:25,843 --> 00:42:27,834 I'm talking about what 693 00:42:27,945 --> 00:42:30,345 Now who's going to stand up 694 00:42:30,447 --> 00:42:33,473 And who will fight 695 00:42:33,584 --> 00:42:35,848 Better clean up the union 696 00:42:35,953 --> 00:42:37,944 Put it on solid ground 697 00:42:38,055 --> 00:42:40,683 And get rid of that dirty trash 698 00:42:40,791 --> 00:42:43,885 That doesn't let you raise your head to the working man 699 00:42:43,994 --> 00:42:47,157 We now have nine days of paid vacation. 700 00:42:47,264 --> 00:42:52,361 And I think one of the best It's your birthday vacation. 701 00:42:52,469 --> 00:42:55,199 Every miner has the opportunity... 702 00:42:55,306 --> 00:42:57,934 to work on your birthday... 703 00:42:58,042 --> 00:43:01,011 and receive triple pay for it. 704 00:43:01,111 --> 00:43:04,103 I think that's something to be proud. 705 00:43:04,214 --> 00:43:07,911 and this is the thought, the idea and the achievement... 706 00:43:08,018 --> 00:43:09,918 of President Boyle. 707 00:43:10,020 --> 00:43:14,218 When they asked, "What conditions do you want?" Do you know what conditions I told them? 708 00:43:14,325 --> 00:43:18,887 I told them, "While the Lord who is up there... 709 00:43:18,996 --> 00:43:22,932 "me of the intellect and the health to continue like this... 710 00:43:23,033 --> 00:43:25,695 "and the members They elect me into office. 711 00:43:25,803 --> 00:43:29,705 Those are the conditions I want, until I turn 180 years old! 712 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,310 Can you tell us where the bodies were found... 713 00:43:38,415 --> 00:43:40,508 and some of the circumstances What surrounded the discovery? 714 00:43:40,618 --> 00:43:45,954 Well, uh, the daughter was in a bedroom adjacent to the master bedroom. 715 00:43:46,056 --> 00:43:50,857 Mr. and Mrs. Yablonski They were in the master bedroom. 716 00:43:50,961 --> 00:43:53,987 The events in Washington, Pennsylvania... 717 00:43:54,098 --> 00:43:57,363 show how the murder It is institutionalized... 718 00:43:57,468 --> 00:43:59,368 within the U.T.M.A... 719 00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:01,665 as it is in the mafia. 720 00:44:01,772 --> 00:44:06,766 The order to kill... to kill to the whole family, if necessary... 721 00:44:06,877 --> 00:44:10,278 was so routinely transmitted and perpetrated... 722 00:44:10,381 --> 00:44:13,873 as an order to call a strike or resolve a complaint. 723 00:44:15,019 --> 00:44:16,987 We loved and admired our father. 724 00:44:17,087 --> 00:44:19,248 We respected him. 725 00:44:19,356 --> 00:44:21,517 And my brother and I would like to take him... 726 00:44:21,625 --> 00:44:23,650 to the place where he will rest eternally. 727 00:44:25,029 --> 00:44:28,192 but we consider it appropriate do it another way. 728 00:44:28,298 --> 00:44:32,064 My brother, Joseph, with my cousins from my mother's family... 729 00:44:32,169 --> 00:44:34,069 They will take our mother... 730 00:44:34,171 --> 00:44:37,834 and me, along with my cousins from my father's family... 731 00:44:37,941 --> 00:44:40,637 We will take our sister, Charlotte. 732 00:44:40,744 --> 00:44:44,612 We entrust our Father to the miners of coal whom he loved very much 733 00:44:45,649 --> 00:44:48,413 Oh Death 734 00:44:48,519 --> 00:44:50,646 Oh Death 735 00:44:50,754 --> 00:44:54,656 please forgive me another year 736 00:44:54,758 --> 00:44:56,817 please forgive me 737 00:44:56,927 --> 00:45:00,419 another year 738 00:45:00,531 --> 00:45:03,500 The children prayed the preacher preached 739 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,797 Time and mercy are out of my reach 740 00:45:06,904 --> 00:45:09,771 Death said, "I come to take your soul 741 00:45:09,873 --> 00:45:13,001 "Abandon the body and leave it frozen 742 00:45:13,110 --> 00:45:16,045 "Tear the skin off the brain 743 00:45:16,146 --> 00:45:18,979 "Earth and worms have their place" 744 00:45:19,083 --> 00:45:23,019 Oh Death 745 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,384 Oh Death 746 00:45:25,489 --> 00:45:29,482 please forgive me another year 747 00:45:29,593 --> 00:45:31,959 please forgive me 748 00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:35,361 another year 749 00:45:39,036 --> 00:45:41,004 In 1969... 750 00:45:43,941 --> 00:45:47,741 there was no reformed organization. 751 00:45:47,845 --> 00:45:51,679 We are in 1972... 752 00:45:51,782 --> 00:45:55,650 and this is the year of Miners for Democracy. 753 00:45:56,754 --> 00:45:58,551 Now you can look... 754 00:45:58,655 --> 00:46:00,555 and see your brothers... 755 00:46:00,657 --> 00:46:02,557 in other districts... 756 00:46:02,659 --> 00:46:06,493 who wish to remain shoulder to shoulder with you... 757 00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:10,590 to finish off Boyle and his people... 758 00:46:10,701 --> 00:46:12,999 once and for all. 759 00:46:15,172 --> 00:46:19,199 I am proud of the honor of leading a list of ordinary candidates... 760 00:46:20,511 --> 00:46:22,411 for international departments... 761 00:46:22,513 --> 00:46:24,413 and for ordinary miners. 762 00:46:24,515 --> 00:46:27,678 We must have a security program... 763 00:46:27,785 --> 00:46:29,912 that guarantees our members... 764 00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:32,352 a safe route to and from the mines. 765 00:46:32,456 --> 00:46:34,947 no one who accepts... 766 00:46:35,058 --> 00:46:38,425 what we must lose between 200 and 300 men every year in the mines. 767 00:46:38,529 --> 00:46:42,898 I want to make it clear that my commitment It is with the ordinary miner. 768 00:46:45,002 --> 00:46:48,665 When December 9th arrives 769 00:46:48,772 --> 00:46:53,300 We will have our election day 770 00:46:53,410 --> 00:46:56,641 And Boyle, better that you sit and listen 771 00:46:56,747 --> 00:47:00,808 Because this is what we are going to tell you 772 00:47:00,918 --> 00:47:05,150 Oh Tony, you've fallen at the bottom for too long 773 00:47:05,255 --> 00:47:10,090 You've been stealing all our pay 774 00:47:10,194 --> 00:47:13,288 But Miller is here and the moment is approaching 775 00:47:13,397 --> 00:47:18,425 The reckoning is approaching 776 00:47:18,535 --> 00:47:21,629 The reckoning is coming 777 00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:25,471 Now I name you president of the United Mine Workers of America. 778 00:47:25,576 --> 00:47:29,103 Congratulations! 779 00:47:31,381 --> 00:47:33,281 Whose office was this? 780 00:47:33,383 --> 00:47:35,283 This is Boyle's old office... 781 00:47:35,385 --> 00:47:38,286 and the other It was Suzanne Richard's old office 782 00:47:38,388 --> 00:47:40,288 None of them are here anymore. 783 00:47:42,392 --> 00:47:45,327 I sign 20 percent of the rights to... 784 00:47:45,429 --> 00:47:47,659 - Peabody! - The Peabody Coal Company. 785 00:47:47,764 --> 00:47:49,664 Tony Boyle. 786 00:47:49,766 --> 00:47:51,631 What did you say? 787 00:47:51,735 --> 00:47:53,464 Mr. Boyle was giving... 788 00:47:53,570 --> 00:47:56,505 a civil declaration when they interfered... 789 00:47:56,607 --> 00:47:58,438 three F.B.I. agents 790 00:47:58,542 --> 00:48:00,442 It seems extremely unfair to me. 791 00:48:00,544 --> 00:48:04,241 I never thought that were to happen... nothing like that. 792 00:48:04,348 --> 00:48:08,011 - Because? - Because they didn't give me any warning. 793 00:48:08,118 --> 00:48:10,678 What do you think of the charges? 794 00:48:10,787 --> 00:48:13,153 As I have read the charges... 795 00:48:13,257 --> 00:48:16,158 I'm not supposed to say anything. My lawyer told me. 796 00:48:16,260 --> 00:48:18,626 Come on, Tony. 797 00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:21,721 How did you read the charges, what's going on? - Tony? Tony? 798 00:48:21,832 --> 00:48:23,959 They are as bad as murderers... 799 00:48:24,067 --> 00:48:27,366 Vealey and Gilly and whoever they want them to be... 800 00:48:27,471 --> 00:48:29,701 they don't compare with the people above... 801 00:48:29,806 --> 00:48:33,401 who use the blood and sweat of the miners... 802 00:48:33,510 --> 00:48:36,070 to finance the murders. 803 00:48:37,848 --> 00:48:39,816 Excuse us, please. 804 00:48:41,084 --> 00:48:43,052 Excuse me. 805 00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:31,963 Today the Union of Mining Workers... 806 00:49:32,069 --> 00:49:34,094 It is a work organization... 807 00:49:34,204 --> 00:49:36,331 of ordinary miners... 808 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,568 directed by and for ordinary miners. 809 00:49:39,676 --> 00:49:41,576 And that's how it should be. 810 00:49:47,451 --> 00:49:49,851 Now I want to introduce you to all of you... 811 00:49:49,953 --> 00:49:54,083 although I imagine that most of you You already know her... Mrs. Florence Reese. 812 00:49:54,191 --> 00:49:57,592 I'm not a coal miner. as you already know... 813 00:49:57,694 --> 00:50:00,254 but it could be very close to it although it is not. 814 00:50:00,364 --> 00:50:03,561 My father was a coal miner and was killed in the mines... 815 00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:05,999 and my husband is slowly dying with black lungs 816 00:50:06,103 --> 00:50:10,096 my husband and I We were on strike in the 30s... 817 00:50:10,207 --> 00:50:12,107 In bloody Harlan County... 818 00:50:12,209 --> 00:50:15,303 bloody fucking Harlan County. 819 00:50:15,412 --> 00:50:18,643 They told me... These miners say that we will continue until the end... 820 00:50:18,749 --> 00:50:21,809 Unless Duke Power signs a contract, Until hell freezes over. 821 00:50:27,324 --> 00:50:31,351 And men know they have nothing to lose except his chains... 822 00:50:31,461 --> 00:50:33,361 and your union to progress. 823 00:50:33,463 --> 00:50:35,431 So I ask you to hold on. 824 00:50:35,532 --> 00:50:39,195 Now I will sing you a song that I composed in the 30s. 825 00:50:39,302 --> 00:50:42,203 As you know, I'm older... It was 40 years ago... 826 00:50:42,305 --> 00:50:44,205 and I can't sing very well... 827 00:50:44,307 --> 00:50:48,209 but you can ask the scabs and the armed thugs on whose side they are... 828 00:50:48,311 --> 00:50:50,211 because they are also workers. 829 00:50:52,616 --> 00:50:54,743 Let's all go, poor workers 830 00:50:54,851 --> 00:50:57,945 I have to give you good news 831 00:50:58,055 --> 00:51:00,319 like the good old union 832 00:51:00,424 --> 00:51:02,949 comes here to live 833 00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:05,358 Which side are you on? 834 00:51:05,462 --> 00:51:08,329 Which side are you on? 835 00:51:08,432 --> 00:51:11,162 If you go to Harlan County 836 00:51:11,268 --> 00:51:13,930 There is no neutrality 837 00:51:14,037 --> 00:51:16,597 You will be either a union man 838 00:51:16,706 --> 00:51:19,300 Or a thug from J.H. Blair 839 00:51:19,409 --> 00:51:24,176 Which side are you on? Which sides are you on? 840 00:51:24,414 --> 00:51:26,439 What happened to that gun that was fired? 841 00:51:26,550 --> 00:51:28,950 He shot it here! 842 00:51:29,052 --> 00:51:31,543 - I had it hidden in a rag. - And we got his name. 843 00:51:31,655 --> 00:51:35,352 He told me that... His boys said that If we got in his way again would end us. 844 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. 845 00:51:38,462 --> 00:51:40,430 We have peaceful matters here. " 846 00:51:41,631 --> 00:51:44,532 Then he put it back on, wrapping it again in the cloth... 847 00:51:44,634 --> 00:51:46,534 and returned to his car. 848 00:51:46,636 --> 00:51:48,695 But he took out the gun and pointed it. 849 00:51:50,073 --> 00:51:52,564 That's Basil Collins. That's the armed thug. 850 00:51:52,676 --> 00:51:54,769 He is a known strikebreaker. 851 00:51:54,878 --> 00:51:56,778 That man is a bully. 852 00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,280 It's the same who came here. 853 00:51:59,382 --> 00:52:02,351 I had the gun in the car when Red was talking to him. 854 00:52:02,452 --> 00:52:05,353 Now he's hanging around this area up and down... 855 00:52:05,455 --> 00:52:08,117 trying to find out who there is. 856 00:52:08,225 --> 00:52:10,853 - Who do you work with, darling? - That? With United Press. 857 00:52:10,961 --> 00:52:13,429 Who do you work with? Well, show me your press pass. 858 00:52:13,530 --> 00:52:16,431 - It's in the car. Anne, take my press pass. - Show me your press pass. 859 00:52:16,533 --> 00:52:19,627 - OK. What is your name, sir? - My name is Basil Collins. 860 00:52:19,736 --> 00:52:21,636 - Do you work here? - Yes, ma'am. 861 00:52:21,738 --> 00:52:24,866 - What position do you hold? - I am the foreman in charge. 862 00:52:24,975 --> 00:52:27,603 What do you think about people? What's here picketing? 863 00:52:28,645 --> 00:52:30,545 Well... 864 00:52:30,647 --> 00:52:32,740 I have nothing to say about it. 865 00:52:33,783 --> 00:52:35,910 - And you, sir? - Neither. 866 00:52:36,019 --> 00:52:37,987 Where is that press pass are you going to show it to me? 867 00:52:38,088 --> 00:52:40,318 - Can I see your ID? - Excuse me? 868 00:52:40,423 --> 00:52:42,618 - Could I see your ID? - Yes ma'am, if I had one. 869 00:52:42,726 --> 00:52:44,990 I'm sorry. I have lost her. The only thing I can do is give him my name. 870 00:52:44,991 --> 00:52:47,254 I think I've lost my pass too. 871 00:52:47,364 --> 00:52:49,332 - OK. OK. - Very good. 872 00:52:51,368 --> 00:52:54,997 He is capable, believe it or not, to go to the sheriff. 873 00:52:56,773 --> 00:53:00,800 We are going to have the same violence than in the 30s. 874 00:53:00,911 --> 00:53:03,744 The conditions are not the same. 875 00:53:03,847 --> 00:53:06,441 There's probably nothing illegal or immoral... 876 00:53:06,550 --> 00:53:08,450 what the union is trying to get... 877 00:53:08,552 --> 00:53:10,452 the best contract they can... 878 00:53:10,554 --> 00:53:12,488 including the one they have along with the rest. 879 00:53:12,589 --> 00:53:16,685 On the other hand, the fact that Someone has made a contract... 880 00:53:16,793 --> 00:53:18,693 with the Union of Mining Workers... 881 00:53:18,795 --> 00:53:21,491 does not trigger any obligation For our part, that's how I see it... 882 00:53:21,598 --> 00:53:24,089 both legally and morally, to accept that contract... 883 00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:26,294 no one apart from us could go to the union... 884 00:53:26,403 --> 00:53:29,372 and say that we want you to accept the Southern Labor Union contract... 885 00:53:29,472 --> 00:53:31,372 the one we have in two other mines. 886 00:53:31,474 --> 00:53:33,374 Is it that simple? 887 00:53:33,476 --> 00:53:37,310 They do not want the agreement for a greater production with the Union of Mine Workers. 888 00:53:37,414 --> 00:53:39,814 - That is the 1971 agreement. - It's that simple. 889 00:53:39,916 --> 00:53:41,941 Yes sir. If you want to make it simple. 890 00:53:45,989 --> 00:53:50,426 We'll bother you a little this morning, We will play with them for a while. 891 00:53:50,527 --> 00:53:52,654 - Sir, you have evil. - No, I don't have it. 892 00:53:52,762 --> 00:53:56,323 - An old man with bad temper. That's what you are. - That's what they say, right? 893 00:53:56,433 --> 00:53:58,594 Are you different? 894 00:53:58,702 --> 00:54:02,331 I? I am as tender as a newborn. 895 00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:12,207 It was the first time who went to work. 896 00:54:12,315 --> 00:54:15,216 They all carried guns. 897 00:54:15,318 --> 00:54:19,049 And everything... you know, everything got really bad. 898 00:54:32,569 --> 00:54:35,470 Get out of my way. 899 00:54:35,572 --> 00:54:39,565 Come back here right now. Stop the rest. Stop everyone. 900 00:54:45,615 --> 00:54:49,483 - Prepare for a little problem. - He has a gun. Take a photo of the gun. 901 00:54:49,586 --> 00:54:51,486 - A pistol Where? 902 00:55:12,709 --> 00:55:14,734 Come on, guys. 903 00:55:14,844 --> 00:55:18,610 Come on. Come on! 904 00:55:22,986 --> 00:55:24,954 Come on. 905 00:55:25,055 --> 00:55:27,319 Stay there, Bobby. 906 00:55:43,340 --> 00:55:47,071 Come on, guys. Let's all go. 907 00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,420 I'm not satisfied. We can't stop them... 908 00:55:59,522 --> 00:56:02,753 We can stop them, but it is impossible with all the weapons they have. 909 00:56:02,859 --> 00:56:04,759 They have guns. We don't. 910 00:56:04,861 --> 00:56:08,854 They are allowed to carry guns and sticks. We can only carry a knife and a sharpening stone. 911 00:56:08,965 --> 00:56:10,865 That's how it is. 912 00:56:10,967 --> 00:56:14,869 We just heard that, Mickey Messer, president of Brookside Local was, uh... 913 00:56:14,971 --> 00:56:17,269 was shot last night in his house by... 914 00:56:17,374 --> 00:56:19,274 some Highsplint employees. 915 00:56:19,376 --> 00:56:21,503 They shouted his name for him to come out... 916 00:56:21,611 --> 00:56:24,705 then he went out the back door and They shot him with a machine gun. 917 00:56:24,814 --> 00:56:27,783 Here's a shot. 918 00:56:27,884 --> 00:56:30,375 There's another one up here. 919 00:56:30,487 --> 00:56:34,150 And here's another one. 920 00:56:34,257 --> 00:56:38,250 I'm sure it was the scabs... hey, bullies... hired by Eastover... 921 00:56:38,361 --> 00:56:41,853 because, uh, there's no one else I would like to do something similar to myself. 922 00:56:41,965 --> 00:56:43,865 I have never bothered anyone. 923 00:56:43,967 --> 00:56:46,663 They started shooting next to the house, and we all fell to the ground. 924 00:56:46,770 --> 00:56:50,297 - My God. Honey... - Thugs shooting. Yes. 925 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:54,275 Last night they shot about 16 times. I was unconscious in bed. 926 00:56:54,377 --> 00:56:56,811 And all the children were crying. 927 00:56:56,913 --> 00:56:58,813 Scaring your children. 928 00:56:58,915 --> 00:57:01,281 - My blood boils. - Shh. 929 00:57:01,384 --> 00:57:05,218 If we don't want go back to the 30's... 930 00:57:05,321 --> 00:57:07,448 to the bloody county... 931 00:57:07,557 --> 00:57:11,493 and if people... women and men... 932 00:57:11,594 --> 00:57:15,860 leaves the picket line two or three times, we will return. 933 00:57:15,965 --> 00:57:20,026 If you are afraid to go to sleep and cannot wake up, be active all night. 934 00:57:20,136 --> 00:57:22,604 Don't let it happen again... 935 00:57:22,705 --> 00:57:25,367 go back to the 30's... because I was there. 936 00:57:25,475 --> 00:57:29,411 I saw the hungry children, screaming for something to eat. 937 00:57:29,512 --> 00:57:34,279 And, no... I can't stand it. I won't be... 938 00:57:34,384 --> 00:57:38,343 Even if they shot me, they couldn't keep the union away from me. 939 00:57:43,026 --> 00:57:45,961 If you do not want your husbands 940 00:57:46,062 --> 00:57:48,553 die in a coal mine 941 00:57:48,665 --> 00:57:53,864 I'll see you in the morning on the picket line 942 00:57:53,970 --> 00:57:56,768 Which side are you on? 943 00:57:56,873 --> 00:58:00,309 Which side are you on? 944 00:58:00,410 --> 00:58:03,345 We are fighting for a contract 945 00:58:03,446 --> 00:58:06,074 We are fighting to be free 946 00:58:06,182 --> 00:58:11,711 And the picket line is big There is room for you and me 947 00:58:11,821 --> 00:58:14,312 Which side are you on? 948 00:58:14,424 --> 00:58:17,757 Which side are you on? 949 00:58:36,012 --> 00:58:39,209 We found two or three pickets... sometimes four. 950 00:58:39,315 --> 00:58:41,510 We have rarely found six. 951 00:58:41,618 --> 00:58:44,246 Now where are the people that lit up... 952 00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:47,585 because they couldn't be 50 on the picket lines? 953 00:58:47,690 --> 00:58:51,990 Now the interpretation What happens in this local union is that... 954 00:58:52,095 --> 00:58:54,461 the benefits of the strike could be paid... 955 00:58:56,199 --> 00:58:59,430 and each of us would get a piece 2of our position on the picket line. 956 00:58:59,536 --> 00:59:02,004 - Agree or not? - OK. 957 00:59:02,105 --> 00:59:04,938 Good. So what the fuck happens here? 958 00:59:05,041 --> 00:59:09,637 Let me tell you something. When I was on the picket line, you were in bed and so were you. 959 00:59:09,746 --> 00:59:12,681 So don't tell me anything... Because I know what happens... 960 00:59:12,782 --> 00:59:15,512 - Very good, but we went to jail... - Oh, you were in jail. 961 00:59:15,618 --> 00:59:18,678 -Who else went to jail? Were you the only ones? - No. 962 00:59:18,788 --> 00:59:22,349 We were there as long as we could, when we didn't have to go back to jail. 963 00:59:22,458 --> 00:59:24,358 I ask for silence for a moment. 964 00:59:24,460 --> 00:59:27,224 The only thing she has done has been causing problems. 965 00:59:27,330 --> 00:59:30,663 - You know, you make me sick. - You make me sick too. 966 00:59:33,336 --> 00:59:37,136 ...and let them tell you what they tell me... that you go everywhere with your husbands. 967 00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:39,470 You are trying to separate them of their husbands. 968 00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:42,545 OK. They told me that you are an alcoholic and more things. 969 00:59:42,645 --> 00:59:45,910 I don't care who goes with what man, who lives with what man or what they do. 970 00:59:46,015 --> 00:59:50,475 If you want to take mine, let them take it away. I won't shed any tears. 971 00:59:50,587 --> 00:59:54,853 I'm not looking for a man. I'm looking for a contract. I'm raising two boys. 972 01:00:01,731 --> 01:00:06,100 I tell you that we cannot disappoint to our brothers. We have to stay on dry land. 973 01:00:06,202 --> 01:00:08,102 And let's do it. 974 01:00:08,204 --> 01:00:09,804 If we're going to make this personal... 975 01:00:09,805 --> 01:00:13,005 if what we feel is going to get in the way for each other... 976 01:00:13,109 --> 01:00:15,543 then we are not going to get nothing. 977 01:00:15,645 --> 01:00:18,375 I'm not from a great worth in the club. 978 01:00:18,481 --> 01:00:20,506 I'm not worth more than anyone. 979 01:00:20,617 --> 01:00:23,051 The rest of them have more than interest than me... 980 01:00:23,152 --> 01:00:26,553 because my husband was torn to pieces in the mines, retired. 981 01:00:26,656 --> 01:00:28,624 Eastover kicked us out. 982 01:00:28,725 --> 01:00:31,558 They even kicked us out before the rent went up. 983 01:00:31,661 --> 01:00:34,459 That devastated his parents... 984 01:00:34,564 --> 01:00:38,000 next to the dust that gave off the coal in those mines. 985 01:00:38,101 --> 01:00:41,434 I went back to school... to school age... I started in sixth grade... 986 01:00:41,537 --> 01:00:44,904 because daddy earned eight dollars in each turn. 987 01:00:45,008 --> 01:00:48,500 Without anything to go to school. I had to wear work pants. 988 01:00:48,611 --> 01:00:51,978 I collected slate to live once I got older. 989 01:00:52,081 --> 01:00:54,174 Remove the coal and sell it. 990 01:00:54,283 --> 01:00:56,183 And... 991 01:00:56,285 --> 01:00:58,651 I was walking from the mountain where are those mines to the school. 992 01:00:58,755 --> 01:01:01,383 All lying in the barn, and they weren't even allowed to be there. 993 01:01:01,491 --> 01:01:06,485 I have mom's kerosene lamps. I have your kitchen plates to have something to look at. 994 01:01:06,596 --> 01:01:09,292 And going to school and coming back. 995 01:01:12,235 --> 01:01:16,194 I know everyone is disappointed We don't have many people... 996 01:01:16,305 --> 01:01:20,435 and we are all disappointed because more people haven't come, but once you enter... 997 01:01:20,543 --> 01:01:24,138 In this battle, as in any other, you depend on yourselves. 998 01:01:24,247 --> 01:01:26,408 Nobody is going to finish it for you. 999 01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:29,508 The union is going to support you, and we are going to do the most we can... 1000 01:01:29,619 --> 01:01:32,087 but you have to win it yourself. 1001 01:01:32,188 --> 01:01:35,320 For the first time, Eastern Kentucky has stood against the coal operators, 1002 01:01:35,321 --> 01:01:36,887 and you are doing it. 1003 01:01:36,993 --> 01:01:40,429 And when you win, you will be fighting for your children and grandchildren. 1004 01:01:40,530 --> 01:01:43,795 Each of them will have a better life for what you are doing here. 1005 01:01:43,900 --> 01:01:45,800 And that is why the battle is so hard. 1006 01:01:45,902 --> 01:01:48,871 If there weren't so much at stake, They wouldn't be fighting so hard. 1007 01:01:48,971 --> 01:01:51,439 They wouldn't shoot at your houses If there wasn't so much at stake. 1008 01:01:51,541 --> 01:01:55,272 If there aren't enough people on the picket line, when you come to the picket line... 1009 01:01:55,378 --> 01:01:58,279 on the way, stop and bring someone. Knock on his door... 1010 01:01:58,381 --> 01:02:00,349 and tell him to accompany you. 1011 01:02:00,516 --> 01:02:02,643 - Bob, are you going to be there? - Where? 1012 01:02:02,752 --> 01:02:05,016 - On the Highsplint picket line in the morning. - Yes. 1013 01:02:05,121 --> 01:02:07,885 I don't know what you're going for to do except... 1014 01:02:07,990 --> 01:02:12,518 the thugs that are sitting there on the road with guns in their hands. 1015 01:02:12,628 --> 01:02:14,994 We can't do anything else I have to go there and stand up to them. 1016 01:02:15,098 --> 01:02:16,998 What do you think, Tommy? 1017 01:02:17,100 --> 01:02:21,730 What do you think about us going? I'm not going to go there against your will. 1018 01:02:21,838 --> 01:02:23,897 I want to be well received, but, eh... 1019 01:02:24,006 --> 01:02:27,032 Well received? We have been waiting for May you come for a long time. Come on. 1020 01:02:33,516 --> 01:02:38,180 Now, we have a new president. Sudie Crusenberry is our new president. 1021 01:02:38,287 --> 01:02:40,721 So let's give him a round of applause. 1022 01:02:44,961 --> 01:02:48,021 And we have two treasurers... co-treasurers. 1023 01:02:48,131 --> 01:02:50,895 Dorothy Johnson and Mary Lou Fegerson. 1024 01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,696 let's receive them... 1025 01:02:53,803 --> 01:02:56,738 I am tremendously delighted... 1026 01:02:56,839 --> 01:03:00,275 that we have so many people with us, Today, we are all there. 1027 01:03:00,376 --> 01:03:02,844 And I think something, has helped us. 1028 01:03:02,945 --> 01:03:05,209 Because last week we had an argument. 1029 01:03:05,314 --> 01:03:07,805 but i think which is something that has helped us. 1030 01:03:08,851 --> 01:03:10,785 Come on now! 1031 01:03:10,887 --> 01:03:12,946 - Is it loaded? - Yes. 1032 01:03:13,055 --> 01:03:15,489 You shouldn't carry her like that. 1033 01:03:15,591 --> 01:03:19,493 It has the safety on. And if it were to go off, The only thing that would happen would be that my tit would blow off. 1034 01:03:19,595 --> 01:03:22,029 And I could lose her anyway. 1035 01:03:22,131 --> 01:03:24,031 As long as I have the other one. 1036 01:03:24,133 --> 01:03:26,226 - I want you to meet Anita, Lois. - Oh. 1037 01:03:26,335 --> 01:03:28,826 Telling them that I started with a change on that picket line... 1038 01:03:28,938 --> 01:03:30,963 but I ended up carrying a gun. 1039 01:03:31,073 --> 01:03:32,973 In fact, I carry it at all times. 1040 01:03:33,075 --> 01:03:38,240 Damn, I have to do it. Above all since what happens in Highsplint. 1041 01:03:38,347 --> 01:03:40,247 We already know them. We have seen them. 1042 01:03:40,349 --> 01:03:42,283 Even with machine guns. 1043 01:03:42,385 --> 01:03:46,685 It's time to do it... As things stand, You'd be crazy if you didn't carry a gun 1044 01:03:47,723 --> 01:03:49,918 You should, really. 1045 01:03:50,026 --> 01:03:51,994 Yes. 1046 01:03:52,094 --> 01:03:56,053 Anyway. Let's... Are you all coming back at 6:00? 1047 01:04:15,017 --> 01:04:16,951 Don't shoot! 1048 01:04:28,731 --> 01:04:30,699 Careful. Go back across the bridge. 1049 01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:33,200 He shot me. 1050 01:04:36,239 --> 01:04:38,207 No! 1051 01:04:41,811 --> 01:04:44,245 Get away from me! Okay? 1052 01:04:49,418 --> 01:04:51,386 Damn! 1053 01:04:53,723 --> 01:04:57,386 take them back and take off your pants, Basil. 1054 01:04:57,493 --> 01:04:59,723 Come on guys. Let's get this over with. 1055 01:04:59,829 --> 01:05:02,263 Clear the bridge. Let these people go. 1056 01:05:03,299 --> 01:05:05,631 You know that nigga? 1057 01:05:05,735 --> 01:05:08,863 That "nigger" He is a much better person than you, and always will be. 1058 01:05:08,971 --> 01:05:12,168 He will always be a better person than you. 1059 01:05:12,275 --> 01:05:14,334 Three or four of them, unfortunate old thugs... 1060 01:05:14,443 --> 01:05:17,412 They grabbed him and started kicking him. and to hit a woman, then... 1061 01:05:17,513 --> 01:05:21,210 then another man arrived and started shaking another man... 1062 01:05:21,317 --> 01:05:23,683 and had four or five of them on top... 1063 01:05:23,786 --> 01:05:26,118 then, uh... uh, Basil Colins holding a gun... 1064 01:05:26,222 --> 01:05:31,057 and calling a union man, who thinks he belongs to the union... 1065 01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:35,290 He said, "I want you to catch that nigga. Do you listen to that nigga? Catch it. " 1066 01:05:35,398 --> 01:05:38,060 I'm fed up. I'm fed up. 1067 01:05:39,101 --> 01:05:42,070 It's time for you let's stay united... 1068 01:05:42,171 --> 01:05:45,834 and... and be as violent as them. 1069 01:05:45,942 --> 01:05:48,638 - I agree. - Good. 1070 01:05:48,744 --> 01:05:52,305 They're violent, so by God We will pay them with the same coin. 1071 01:05:52,415 --> 01:05:55,543 It seemed to me that this morning they were very well organized... 1072 01:05:55,651 --> 01:05:58,347 and we will have to be better organized. 1073 01:05:58,454 --> 01:06:00,888 Let's stay united. We women are going to stay united 1074 01:06:00,990 --> 01:06:03,254 and we will be responsible of 10 women each... 1075 01:06:03,359 --> 01:06:05,725 or to take 4 to 10 people each there. - OK. 1076 01:06:05,828 --> 01:06:08,524 If you women are going to bring 10 each... 1077 01:06:08,631 --> 01:06:10,758 so, uh, men we should be able to say... 1078 01:06:10,866 --> 01:06:14,768 "We will bring 5, 10 or 15". 1079 01:06:16,005 --> 01:06:18,064 And that would be working together. 1080 01:06:18,174 --> 01:06:22,110 You're going to have to bring more people of color because your appearance is strange... 1081 01:06:22,211 --> 01:06:24,441 I'm weird. 1082 01:06:26,482 --> 01:06:29,940 They want us to sit and wait and let's see how they shoot us... 1083 01:06:30,052 --> 01:06:31,986 and let's not shoot them back. 1084 01:06:32,088 --> 01:06:35,148 The police aren't going to do anything anyway. about it. They are in your favor. 1085 01:06:35,257 --> 01:06:37,157 No. We know. Just fight back. 1086 01:06:37,259 --> 01:06:40,854 The only thing to do is to attack them with force... and not flee. 1087 01:06:40,963 --> 01:06:43,761 Do what your conscience tells you... I never run away. 1088 01:06:45,201 --> 01:06:47,795 I was able to handle one. I could only handle one. 1089 01:06:47,903 --> 01:06:50,838 But I caught him. He didn't go very far. 1090 01:06:50,940 --> 01:06:53,306 If we are enough, and we can catch one... 1091 01:06:53,409 --> 01:06:55,639 each of us, Damn, we can get it. 1092 01:06:55,745 --> 01:07:00,478 All; men, women and children. 1093 01:07:00,583 --> 01:07:02,642 It's time to declare yourself openly. 1094 01:07:02,752 --> 01:07:05,585 You are not going to back off for 500 years. 1095 01:07:06,856 --> 01:07:10,053 Let's make a picket line this morning. 1096 01:07:10,159 --> 01:07:12,650 And we hope it is big. 1097 01:07:12,762 --> 01:07:15,731 It's going to be something different from the last one. 1098 01:07:15,831 --> 01:07:17,964 Because... We can't do a picket line on the bridge 1099 01:07:17,965 --> 01:07:20,097 while a 30 mm caliber machine gun is shooting at you. 1100 01:07:20,202 --> 01:07:22,261 The women are getting ready. 1101 01:07:22,371 --> 01:07:25,636 We're going to have to be there and support them. That's all. 1102 01:07:25,741 --> 01:07:29,108 They are going to come to support us, and they don't even know it. we are giving back. It's totally embarrassing. 1103 01:07:29,211 --> 01:07:31,736 We would like to see... We know who is not going to be there. 1104 01:07:31,847 --> 01:07:34,247 We would like to see you there from time to time. 1105 01:07:36,419 --> 01:07:39,081 - Does anyone have any questions? - Bob. 1106 01:07:39,188 --> 01:07:41,452 Most of them are afraid to come. 1107 01:07:41,557 --> 01:07:43,457 Damn, it scares me too, but I go. 1108 01:07:43,559 --> 01:07:46,392 This morning he looked very dangerous. 1109 01:07:46,495 --> 01:07:48,463 We have some who back down. 1110 01:07:51,233 --> 01:07:53,565 - Would anyone like to contribute something? - Can I talk? 1111 01:07:53,669 --> 01:07:55,967 Come here. Of course you can talk. 1112 01:07:57,206 --> 01:08:02,075 If anyone here present that cannot... or is not with us... 1113 01:08:02,178 --> 01:08:05,170 and he can't come with us in the morning... 1114 01:08:05,281 --> 01:08:08,717 I would prefer that they leave before I finish speaking... 1115 01:08:08,818 --> 01:08:10,979 because I want to know... 1116 01:08:11,087 --> 01:08:15,490 if we are going to have those people here or if we can count on them or what. 1117 01:08:15,591 --> 01:08:19,118 Because if we can't, We're not going to go there anymore... 1118 01:08:19,228 --> 01:08:22,391 and they have those machine guns They shoot at us and they have the... 1119 01:08:22,498 --> 01:08:24,898 to the bullies stalking us and attacking us. 1120 01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,935 We are not going to do that. Now, we are with you... 1121 01:08:28,037 --> 01:08:29,937 and we will strike with you. 1122 01:08:30,039 --> 01:08:33,202 All these women... We have a great group... 1123 01:08:33,309 --> 01:08:35,277 who say they will go with them tomorrow... 1124 01:08:35,377 --> 01:08:39,006 and we will be at Mac's at 5:00 in the morning. 1125 01:08:39,115 --> 01:08:42,209 They don't go... We are not going to go before that time... 1126 01:08:42,318 --> 01:08:45,754 because if we do, We will be easy prey for them. 1127 01:08:45,855 --> 01:08:47,789 And they won't be waiting. 1128 01:08:47,890 --> 01:08:50,825 We're not going to tell you where we're going. to establish the picket line 1129 01:08:50,826 --> 01:08:52,293 until morning. 1130 01:08:52,394 --> 01:08:55,124 If you want to know where the picket line will be established... 1131 01:08:55,231 --> 01:08:57,199 stop by Mac's at 5:00 in the morning. 1132 01:08:57,299 --> 01:08:59,199 We need all men and women. 1133 01:08:59,301 --> 01:09:02,031 There are enough Brookside pickets and Highsplint... 1134 01:09:02,138 --> 01:09:04,971 and women those who would mean nothing if we crushed... 1135 01:09:05,074 --> 01:09:06,974 to those scabs. 1136 01:09:07,076 --> 01:09:09,909 But we're not going to do it lying in bed. 1137 01:09:14,150 --> 01:09:16,675 Do you think they're going to shoot us today? 1138 01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:19,688 They shot us yesterday. 1139 01:09:19,788 --> 01:09:22,882 - And today? - Don't know. 1140 01:09:26,862 --> 01:09:29,228 - Are you scared? - I hope not. Yes. 1141 01:09:29,331 --> 01:09:31,925 Don't you? 1142 01:09:35,938 --> 01:09:37,906 I just want no one to get hurt. 1143 01:09:43,212 --> 01:09:46,181 I don't believe it... We would have seen them leave. We have people in charge of that. 1144 01:09:46,282 --> 01:09:50,480 Let those scab sons of bitches come. Now we have guns too. 1145 01:09:50,586 --> 01:09:51,852 So they work two shifts. 1146 01:09:51,853 --> 01:09:54,386 No. They don't something so fucked up. 1147 01:10:02,031 --> 01:10:03,999 Hey? 1148 01:10:04,099 --> 01:10:07,535 - We have to put it on the railway. - Bring it here a little. 1149 01:10:19,882 --> 01:10:22,817 Basil Collins. Right in front. 1150 01:10:25,454 --> 01:10:27,422 What is he doing? 1151 01:10:32,928 --> 01:10:37,763 They won't move us They won't move us 1152 01:10:37,866 --> 01:10:42,360 They won't move us They won't move us 1153 01:10:42,471 --> 01:10:48,000 like a tree that stays next to the water 1154 01:10:48,110 --> 01:10:51,307 They won't move us 1155 01:10:51,413 --> 01:10:53,381 Let's go Basil! 1156 01:10:55,351 --> 01:10:58,878 We have something for you! 1157 01:10:58,988 --> 01:11:01,479 Let's start like yesterday? 1158 01:11:01,724 --> 01:11:04,318 We were not blocking the road. But them. 1159 01:11:04,426 --> 01:11:06,690 They've had it blocked all day. 1160 01:11:09,698 --> 01:11:13,896 Put the car there, so either you take it away, or I will call the demolition worker to remove it. 1161 01:11:14,003 --> 01:11:16,528 That's neutrality, right? That is neutrality. There is no neutrality. 1162 01:11:16,639 --> 01:11:18,937 And you know it's not neutral. It is not neutral. 1163 01:11:19,041 --> 01:11:21,509 I know what it is. I'm going to tell you. Remember what I told you. 1164 01:11:21,610 --> 01:11:24,363 I don't give a damn how much you want to be sheriff, 1165 01:11:24,364 --> 01:11:25,740 but don't go against the union. 1166 01:11:25,848 --> 01:11:27,839 That's what I ask for. That's all I ask for. 1167 01:11:27,950 --> 01:11:30,968 Honey, you can stay here and make a fuss if you want, 1168 01:11:30,969 --> 01:11:32,478 but this road has to be clear. 1169 01:11:32,588 --> 01:11:35,580 Will you be there when shoot with machine guns on the road? 1170 01:11:35,691 --> 01:11:37,022 No. It won't be. It won't be there. 1171 01:11:37,023 --> 01:11:39,684 So will you be there? Because it is also your duty. 1172 01:11:39,795 --> 01:11:41,050 It won't. It won't. 1173 01:11:41,051 --> 01:11:43,561 Why don't you go? You weren't there yesterday. 1174 01:11:43,666 --> 01:11:46,999 When they beat us and clubbed us. and when They beat that 17-year-old boy. It won't. 1175 01:11:47,102 --> 01:11:50,367 I see. You know what, Billy G., he had told me... 1176 01:11:50,472 --> 01:11:52,667 and I didn't believe them before the election. 1177 01:11:52,775 --> 01:11:56,108 They told me you would do this. They told me. 1178 01:11:56,211 --> 01:11:58,304 Excuse me. Mr. Williams. 1179 01:11:58,414 --> 01:12:00,814 I have a warrant against Basil Collins. 1180 01:12:00,916 --> 01:12:03,248 We want you to put him behind bars. 1181 01:12:03,352 --> 01:12:05,843 Don't stay here! You have a warrant against him. 1182 01:12:05,954 --> 01:12:08,115 - Make him fulfill it! - You're going to give me... 1183 01:12:08,223 --> 01:12:11,659 - You're not going to do it. - Are you going to let me do my job? 1184 01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,660 - OK. Let's see how you do it. - OK. 1185 01:12:13,762 --> 01:12:15,957 Someone pay me seven dollars by the arrest rate. 1186 01:12:25,574 --> 01:12:27,474 Here's your seven dollars. 1187 01:12:27,576 --> 01:12:29,908 How much do you want? Damn, you can have whatever you want. 1188 01:12:30,012 --> 01:12:32,708 For God's sake, we'll give you a hundred dollars. Go arrest him. 1189 01:12:32,815 --> 01:12:34,783 - Look. OK. - Take him to jail. 1190 01:12:34,883 --> 01:12:37,716 - I'm going to do my job, and this seems to be part of my job. 1191 01:12:37,820 --> 01:12:40,983 - Yes, you understood it. He caught it. - OK. Now let's see it. 1192 01:12:42,024 --> 01:12:43,024 Let's get to it... 1193 01:12:43,025 --> 01:12:44,925 You're going to be arrested, but that car has to be removed. 1194 01:12:45,027 --> 01:12:48,326 - Go get him right now... - Arrest him. 1195 01:12:48,430 --> 01:12:50,796 Arrest him... Arrest him... 1196 01:12:50,899 --> 01:12:56,030 Here I come, ladies. 1197 01:12:59,174 --> 01:13:01,608 Glory, glory, hallelujah 1198 01:13:02,978 --> 01:13:04,878 - What? - You are under arrest. 1199 01:13:04,980 --> 01:13:09,417 - Because? - Oh, disturbance of public order, I guess. Don't know. 1200 01:13:09,518 --> 01:13:11,645 Wielding a deadly weapon. 1201 01:13:15,257 --> 01:13:17,225 Again, it's part of my job. 1202 01:13:17,326 --> 01:13:20,056 - Removing that car is also part of my job. - That's part of your job. 1203 01:13:20,162 --> 01:13:22,790 I will be very fast. As soon as we remove that... 1204 01:13:22,898 --> 01:13:25,264 and take my men to work, I'll go to the city. - Yes. 1205 01:13:26,301 --> 01:13:28,769 I'm going to see that he has moved it, then we will go to the city. 1206 01:13:28,871 --> 01:13:30,998 OK. 1207 01:13:31,106 --> 01:13:33,336 Get rid of those people from my truck, Bill. 1208 01:13:33,442 --> 01:13:36,138 - Get away from the truck. - Get away from my truck. 1209 01:13:36,245 --> 01:13:38,213 Get away from the truck. 1210 01:13:39,948 --> 01:13:42,883 Now let's move the car away... 1211 01:13:42,985 --> 01:13:45,385 No. Arrest him, Billy. 1212 01:13:45,487 --> 01:13:49,321 You're coming for us. Take it out of the truck, put it in your car and take it... 1213 01:13:49,425 --> 01:13:52,758 This isn't a one-sided thing, Lois. Now, I'm going to take you to town... 1214 01:13:52,861 --> 01:13:54,761 but I also have to move that car away. 1215 01:13:54,863 --> 01:13:58,697 You're letting him drive into town and let it arrive by itself. That's what you're doing. 1216 01:13:58,801 --> 01:14:01,565 - What's the difference? - Oh, no. There is a big difference. 1217 01:14:01,670 --> 01:14:03,831 There is a lot of difference. I'll tell you one thing. 1218 01:14:03,939 --> 01:14:06,931 If they had an order against us, You could come and take us to jail. 1219 01:14:07,042 --> 01:14:09,101 Lois, you're trying to do it all your way You are... 1220 01:14:09,211 --> 01:14:13,011 - I'm not doing anything my way. - You're only thinking of one possibility. 1221 01:14:13,115 --> 01:14:16,175 Oh no... Well, how else Can you see it, Billy? 1222 01:14:16,285 --> 01:14:19,618 When you are shot by machine guns... They shoot you with machine guns. 1223 01:14:19,721 --> 01:14:22,849 How many of your men have I had to imprison? 1224 01:14:22,958 --> 01:14:26,223 This is the first time you have come. I know that. But this has outraged me. 1225 01:14:26,328 --> 01:14:28,228 It has outraged me tremendously. 1226 01:14:28,330 --> 01:14:31,265 So be it. Now you are on a public road. 1227 01:14:31,366 --> 01:14:34,665 You're not on the picket line. You're not on the Brookside picket line. 1228 01:14:34,770 --> 01:14:38,331 - You are here in the middle... - We can't be there... They are shooting at us with machine guns. 1229 01:14:38,440 --> 01:14:41,898 Well, you can move them here if they are going to try to kill you. You know it. 1230 01:14:42,010 --> 01:14:44,410 Yes, but here we have a more interesting opportunity. 1231 01:14:44,513 --> 01:14:47,607 - However, that car has to be removed. - They won't move us 1232 01:14:47,716 --> 01:14:51,083 We support the sheriff They won't move us 1233 01:14:51,186 --> 01:14:56,647 like a tree that stays next to the water 1234 01:14:56,758 --> 01:15:00,819 They won't move us 1235 01:15:00,929 --> 01:15:05,559 They won't move us They won't move us 1236 01:15:05,667 --> 01:15:09,535 They won't move us They won't move us 1237 01:15:09,638 --> 01:15:14,268 Like a tree that stands by the water 1238 01:15:14,376 --> 01:15:18,608 They won't move us 1239 01:15:18,714 --> 01:15:23,981 Glory, hallelujah, they won't move us 1240 01:15:24,086 --> 01:15:28,182 Glory, hallelujah They won't move us 1241 01:15:28,357 --> 01:15:31,121 The top of the mountain 1242 01:15:31,226 --> 01:15:33,626 Kids, let's let it shine 1243 01:15:33,729 --> 01:15:36,425 Oh, the top of the mountain 1244 01:15:36,532 --> 01:15:38,625 I say we let her shine 1245 01:15:38,734 --> 01:15:41,669 Oh, The top of the mountain 1246 01:15:41,770 --> 01:15:44,204 Let's let it shine 1247 01:15:44,306 --> 01:15:46,774 let it shine let it shine 1248 01:15:46,875 --> 01:15:50,174 let it shine 1249 01:15:50,279 --> 01:15:55,216 Let's let them organize and let's give these brothers some help. 1250 01:15:55,317 --> 01:15:57,877 I think it's a great day. 1251 01:15:57,986 --> 01:15:59,886 I'm very happy to hear it. 1252 01:16:02,658 --> 01:16:04,558 I'll let it shine 1253 01:16:04,660 --> 01:16:07,220 let it shine 1254 01:16:07,329 --> 01:16:09,297 let it shine 1255 01:16:09,398 --> 01:16:12,390 Until the end! Until the end! 1256 01:16:12,501 --> 01:16:14,560 - Until the end! - Join the demonstration! 1257 01:16:14,670 --> 01:16:18,333 Come on and join the demonstration! 1258 01:16:21,410 --> 01:16:23,537 We are the Harlan County Union... 1259 01:16:23,645 --> 01:16:27,376 from the head to the feet. 1260 01:16:27,482 --> 01:16:31,851 Do you think the company has Any chance to break this strike? 1261 01:16:31,954 --> 01:16:34,286 Well, as it is I don't think so. 1262 01:16:34,389 --> 01:16:37,825 The, uh, show of strength on the part of from our members here... 1263 01:16:37,926 --> 01:16:41,521 and general public awareness in eastern Kentucky tells me... 1264 01:16:41,630 --> 01:16:44,793 it's not going to be easy, but we will be successful. 1265 01:16:44,900 --> 01:16:48,267 Do you have any idea how long It's going to last, and it's ready for... 1266 01:16:48,370 --> 01:16:52,363 It's very difficult to say how long it will last, but we are here to stay, like I said before. 1267 01:16:52,474 --> 01:16:56,410 Yes, but my name is Sam, I am a traveling driver 1268 01:16:56,511 --> 01:17:00,345 I said my name is Sam and I am a traveler 1269 01:17:00,449 --> 01:17:02,383 With my six big wheels rolling 1270 01:17:02,484 --> 01:17:04,418 14 cents a load 1271 01:17:04,519 --> 01:17:07,579 A battle that never ends I keep rolling 1272 01:17:07,689 --> 01:17:11,455 It may not be a great role I play 1273 01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:14,927 But I'm going to work hard every day 1274 01:17:15,030 --> 01:17:17,157 So let's show up for the union 1275 01:17:17,265 --> 01:17:20,598 And I will continue doing my dirty work on the ground 1276 01:17:20,702 --> 01:17:24,263 Yes, but my name is Sam and I am a traveling driver 1277 01:17:24,373 --> 01:17:28,241 I said my name is Sam and I am a traveling driver 1278 01:17:28,343 --> 01:17:31,972 With six big wheels rolling 14 cents a load 1279 01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:34,844 A battle that never ends I keep rolling 1280 01:17:46,561 --> 01:17:49,155 I have never seen in the history of coal mines... 1281 01:17:49,264 --> 01:17:51,232 when, uh... 1282 01:17:51,333 --> 01:17:53,233 the president and the main directors... 1283 01:17:53,335 --> 01:17:56,395 of the international union have come to the mining basins during an organization. 1284 01:17:56,505 --> 01:17:59,565 The battle. For me it is more gratifying to see... 1285 01:17:59,675 --> 01:18:02,701 buses full of people coming of Indiana and Illinois. 1286 01:18:02,811 --> 01:18:06,440 I think if I were a Brookside striker, I think it would mean something to me. 1287 01:18:06,548 --> 01:18:09,711 Bringing people from hundreds of kilometers... 1288 01:18:09,818 --> 01:18:12,446 just to demonstrate in the city and listen to a couple of speeches... 1289 01:18:12,554 --> 01:18:14,454 It doesn't make much sense to me. 1290 01:18:14,556 --> 01:18:18,754 That... Although it generated a lot of enthusiasm and reinforced... 1291 01:18:18,860 --> 01:18:22,318 perhaps it reinforced the morale of the people... 1292 01:18:22,431 --> 01:18:25,127 much more could have been done when they came. 1293 01:18:25,233 --> 01:18:28,430 For example, we could have manifested in Brookside... 1294 01:18:28,537 --> 01:18:30,505 cope with yarborough face to face... 1295 01:18:30,605 --> 01:18:33,335 who was sitting in Brookside office during the day. 1296 01:18:33,442 --> 01:18:38,470 We could have gone to Highsplint and expropriate their machine guns. 1297 01:18:38,580 --> 01:18:41,743 and the miners here, I am convinced, that they were ready to do something like that. 1298 01:18:41,850 --> 01:18:44,114 When that contract is signed... 1299 01:18:44,219 --> 01:18:46,119 It's going to be better for everyone. 1300 01:18:46,221 --> 01:18:49,088 Let's show Norman Yarborough who does not govern Harlan County. 1301 01:18:49,191 --> 01:18:51,659 Let's show Judge Hogg who does not govern Harlan County. 1302 01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:55,696 And if people don't go out there and help us, We are not going to achieve anything positive. 1303 01:18:55,797 --> 01:19:00,393 We want you to be there at 5. Dawn resurfaces in Brookside, Kentucky. 1304 01:19:29,498 --> 01:19:32,194 we don't know What caused the shooting... 1305 01:19:32,300 --> 01:19:36,066 but we imagine it was a disagreement with mining workers. 1306 01:19:36,171 --> 01:19:38,833 They shot him in the face. 1307 01:19:41,543 --> 01:19:44,376 We helped bring it here. 1308 01:19:45,714 --> 01:19:48,512 - What happened? - They shot him in the damn head. 1309 01:19:48,617 --> 01:19:50,983 - They shot him in the face with a shotgun. -Who shot him? 1310 01:19:51,086 --> 01:19:54,613 A damn scab. Bill Bruner. 1311 01:19:56,258 --> 01:20:00,957 What's there is part of the brain. A damn friend when he tried to do something. 1312 01:20:02,030 --> 01:20:05,522 That's what a scab does to a person, For God's sake, when he's not looking. 1313 01:20:07,469 --> 01:20:10,233 Look, the ants take away a man's damn brain... 1314 01:20:10,338 --> 01:20:12,533 While he is in the hospital dying. 1315 01:20:12,641 --> 01:20:15,371 Maybe I'll send everything to hell. 1316 01:20:15,477 --> 01:20:18,674 - Are you friends? - I'm always telling him... 1317 01:20:21,550 --> 01:20:24,485 He was shot in the head by a... 1318 01:20:27,355 --> 01:20:30,813 Yes. My son is fighting, and that's why they shot him. 1319 01:20:30,926 --> 01:20:33,394 - You have two children fighting. - Yes. 1320 01:20:33,495 --> 01:20:37,226 My other son too. He pickets at Highsplint. 1321 01:20:39,801 --> 01:20:42,235 How long have you been married? 1322 01:20:42,337 --> 01:20:44,430 Almost a year. 1323 01:20:44,539 --> 01:20:46,939 - How old are you? - Sixteen. 1324 01:20:47,042 --> 01:20:49,602 - Do you have any children? - One. 1325 01:20:49,711 --> 01:20:51,975 Are you proud of your husband? 1326 01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,173 Yes. 1327 01:20:54,282 --> 01:20:57,843 Why did you decide go to the picket line? 1328 01:20:59,154 --> 01:21:01,816 I guess because of the union. 1329 01:21:01,923 --> 01:21:04,357 Yes. He's a union man. That's why. 1330 01:21:04,459 --> 01:21:09,522 I want all my children to be in the union. I don't want them to be cowardly scabs. 1331 01:21:09,631 --> 01:21:12,259 I don't want them to be kicked around like... 1332 01:21:12,367 --> 01:21:14,301 when we were... when we were kids. 1333 01:21:14,402 --> 01:21:19,101 And my father... He worked all his life and he achieved nothing before he died. 1334 01:21:19,207 --> 01:21:23,041 He worked all his life in coal mines, and we never saw it 1335 01:21:23,144 --> 01:21:27,638 until we were almost asleep. Mom fed us and we went to bed. 1336 01:21:27,749 --> 01:21:31,378 I would eat when I arrived. He would leave when we got out of bed. 1337 01:21:31,486 --> 01:21:36,014 Then when he got too old to work in the mines, They cast him out to die. 1338 01:21:36,124 --> 01:21:39,651 They didn't care. Because the union did not yet exist. 1339 01:21:41,229 --> 01:21:43,459 And I don't want my children are in those conditions. 1340 01:21:43,565 --> 01:21:47,968 I want my children to defend their rights and are union men. 1341 01:21:49,437 --> 01:21:53,373 The next time someone speaks in a meeting and tell us not to use violence... 1342 01:21:53,475 --> 01:21:56,239 and let's not bother them, Let's kick his fucking ass. 1343 01:21:56,344 --> 01:21:59,404 The women go there, and they park their car in the middle of the road... 1344 01:21:59,514 --> 01:22:02,540 and let them say what they think, We hide under the damn car. 1345 01:22:02,651 --> 01:22:05,211 - Do not use violence... - I'm going to be honest with you. 1346 01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:08,016 I've had enough bursts shotgun in my fucking face. 1347 01:22:08,123 --> 01:22:10,057 Without violence. We don't have non-violence. 1348 01:22:10,158 --> 01:22:13,855 We stay down there, and we don't say not a damn word. What's more, we don't do anything. 1349 01:22:14,963 --> 01:22:18,228 Many of you were very good friends of Lawrence Jones. 1350 01:22:18,333 --> 01:22:22,360 He abandoned his wife of 16 years and a five-month-old daughter. 1351 01:22:24,072 --> 01:22:29,100 But I think this time at least We should wait until morning... 1352 01:22:29,210 --> 01:22:31,701 before... and not lose control. 1353 01:22:31,813 --> 01:22:34,441 I just spoke with Chip Yablonski and Rick Banks... 1354 01:22:34,549 --> 01:22:37,211 and they have asked me to tell you... 1355 01:22:37,319 --> 01:22:39,583 that the company and the union are in talks:... 1356 01:22:39,688 --> 01:22:41,986 and they are close. 1357 01:22:42,090 --> 01:22:44,581 For me the best... 1358 01:22:44,693 --> 01:22:47,184 is trying to stop Yarborough and Basil Collins. 1359 01:22:47,295 --> 01:22:49,195 Amen. 1360 01:22:49,297 --> 01:22:52,698 Now they are the ringleaders, guys. They are... 1361 01:22:52,801 --> 01:22:55,326 and they are in a place where they can be caught. 1362 01:22:55,437 --> 01:22:57,598 There are many huge trees there... 1363 01:22:57,706 --> 01:23:00,197 There are also many rifles prepared. 1364 01:23:00,308 --> 01:23:03,641 I was there in the 30s. I recognized it perfectly. 1365 01:23:03,745 --> 01:23:07,237 Friends, I've seen you... I've seen you wearing... pointing you with them. 1366 01:23:07,349 --> 01:23:09,681 And I've seen some men do it outdoors. 1367 01:23:09,784 --> 01:23:14,153 So I tell you all. Find shelter if you can and let them take the initiative. 1368 01:23:14,255 --> 01:23:16,223 Amen, brother. 1369 01:23:19,761 --> 01:23:23,925 We are fighting for the contract. 1370 01:23:24,032 --> 01:23:27,001 Which is why Lawrence Jones died. 1371 01:23:27,102 --> 01:23:29,900 For getting a contract. 1372 01:23:30,005 --> 01:23:32,405 But I told his family... 1373 01:23:32,507 --> 01:23:34,998 I told them, "It was for a good cause." 1374 01:23:37,278 --> 01:23:39,178 And I told them... 1375 01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:41,714 "Why couldn't it have been someone like me? 1376 01:23:41,816 --> 01:23:45,013 Some old man who only pretends go anyway." 1377 01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:48,521 But a young man took his life... 1378 01:23:48,623 --> 01:23:50,955 to bring this... 1379 01:23:51,059 --> 01:23:55,155 the government, the union and operators together. 1380 01:23:56,398 --> 01:23:58,866 If this shooting It would never have happened, possibly... 1381 01:23:58,967 --> 01:24:02,698 this contract... possibly they... They wouldn't have had any meeting... 1382 01:24:03,738 --> 01:24:06,798 to negotiate any contract. 1383 01:24:06,908 --> 01:24:09,843 But every contract we've gotten... 1384 01:24:09,944 --> 01:24:11,844 It has been very hard. 1385 01:24:11,946 --> 01:24:13,880 We have had to fight a lot for him. 1386 01:24:14,983 --> 01:24:17,747 Blood has surrounded me... 1387 01:24:17,852 --> 01:24:20,480 spilled here in the 30s. 1388 01:24:21,523 --> 01:24:23,491 Blood around me. 1389 01:24:24,793 --> 01:24:27,318 Where men died at my feet. 1390 01:24:28,997 --> 01:24:31,431 For a contract. 1391 01:24:31,533 --> 01:24:35,469 And I believe, that if we ever have to keep the peace... 1392 01:24:35,570 --> 01:24:37,970 Let's try to make it tonight. 1393 01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,405 The price has already been paid. 1394 01:24:41,476 --> 01:24:46,004 leave it behind 1395 01:24:46,114 --> 01:24:51,177 Yes, leave it behind 1396 01:24:51,286 --> 01:24:57,816 What will I leave behind? 1397 01:24:58,860 --> 01:25:02,853 when I go 1398 01:25:02,964 --> 01:25:08,095 Through unknown worlds 1399 01:25:08,203 --> 01:25:14,938 What will I leave behind? 1400 01:25:21,182 --> 01:25:24,151 Oh my god. 1401 01:25:28,756 --> 01:25:31,725 Oh my God! Oh! 1402 01:25:34,996 --> 01:25:38,523 Oh God! 1403 01:25:39,667 --> 01:25:41,692 I can't... 1404 01:25:43,671 --> 01:25:46,196 Oh my God, I can't stand it! 1405 01:25:46,307 --> 01:25:49,470 Oh God, I can't... 1406 01:26:06,828 --> 01:26:09,922 need to go up the river a little more, right? 1407 01:26:26,381 --> 01:26:30,044 When you believe in something so strong that makes you ready to die for it... 1408 01:26:30,151 --> 01:26:32,051 That's when you get it. 1409 01:26:32,153 --> 01:26:34,849 Because that's what happened to him to Lawrence Jones. 1410 01:26:34,956 --> 01:26:39,222 He believed in it with all his strength, He was ready to die for it, and he died. 1411 01:26:39,327 --> 01:26:44,094 But it could have been me. It could have been anyone who was on the picket line. 1412 01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:48,966 I feel like this is a little china on the beach 1413 01:26:49,070 --> 01:26:52,836 Because we have Lots to organize in Harlan County. 1414 01:26:52,941 --> 01:26:57,844 Because Harlan County will be coal from the U.T.M.A. 1415 01:26:57,946 --> 01:27:02,906 I guess, uh, I'd have to say... 1416 01:27:03,017 --> 01:27:04,951 as much as we fight... 1417 01:27:05,053 --> 01:27:07,021 as hard as we fight... 1418 01:27:07,121 --> 01:27:09,146 I don't think it was because... 1419 01:27:09,257 --> 01:27:12,090 That boy Lawrence Jones, I doubt if we... 1420 01:27:12,193 --> 01:27:14,457 we would have gotten a contract as fast as we did it. 1421 01:27:14,696 --> 01:27:19,429 Hey, I would like to ask you to pass a motion that we accept the contract. 1422 01:27:21,736 --> 01:27:23,636 - Someone... - I support her. 1423 01:27:23,738 --> 01:27:25,638 Someone, uh, makes a motion. 1424 01:27:25,740 --> 01:27:28,004 - I make a motion. - I support her. 1425 01:27:28,109 --> 01:27:30,907 All Brookside Miners They wait for the count. 1426 01:27:31,946 --> 01:27:33,846 OK. 1427 01:27:33,948 --> 01:27:36,473 - Tell them to sit down. - Sit down. Let everyone sit down. 1428 01:27:37,685 --> 01:27:39,585 The motion has been approved. 1429 01:27:39,687 --> 01:27:41,848 The motion has been approved. 1430 01:27:41,956 --> 01:27:44,720 - The contract has been accepted. - The contract has been accepted. 1431 01:27:46,961 --> 01:27:50,556 The only thing I hate about this is... As for the boy who was murdered... 1432 01:27:50,665 --> 01:27:52,565 that all this had to happen to... 1433 01:27:52,667 --> 01:27:57,969 Of course, it was expected. I was actually hoping something else... 1434 01:27:58,072 --> 01:28:01,769 and possibly we would have had it if I would have continued this week and next. 1435 01:28:01,876 --> 01:28:05,437 It's true. We knew something was coming... 1436 01:28:05,546 --> 01:28:07,878 but we didn't know who or what. 1437 01:28:09,617 --> 01:28:12,279 Do you feel that the strike has changed you? 1438 01:28:12,387 --> 01:28:14,719 - Oh, yes. - How so? 1439 01:28:14,822 --> 01:28:18,155 In many ways. Now I can look to the future. 1440 01:28:22,730 --> 01:28:24,789 I feel very good. 1441 01:28:24,899 --> 01:28:26,799 It's great. Marvelous. 1442 01:28:26,901 --> 01:28:30,098 After 13 months, waiting to see him go back to work. 1443 01:28:30,204 --> 01:28:33,401 My mother. It's been a long time. 1444 01:28:33,508 --> 01:28:36,477 I would have liked not to go there, but I did it. 1445 01:28:36,577 --> 01:28:40,104 I didn't want to go, but when I see him go, Your fight is my fight... 1446 01:28:40,214 --> 01:28:43,706 so I want to be by your side and fight too. 1447 01:28:43,818 --> 01:28:45,877 If only it had been a strike Harlan County... 1448 01:28:45,987 --> 01:28:47,887 and there would have been no advertising... 1449 01:28:47,989 --> 01:28:50,082 there would not have been a fight against the rise in rates... 1450 01:28:50,191 --> 01:28:52,091 there would not have been a battle against his actions... 1451 01:28:52,193 --> 01:28:55,720 Duke Power wouldn't have given a damn all the pressure we put... 1452 01:28:55,830 --> 01:28:57,855 because, uh, the only thing What we had was their coal... 1453 01:28:57,965 --> 01:29:01,765 and we have never been separated from him enough to finish your reservations. 1454 01:29:01,869 --> 01:29:03,769 And the same thing happened with Lawrence. 1455 01:29:03,871 --> 01:29:06,362 They have never worried that Lawrence Jones died in Harlan. 1456 01:29:06,474 --> 01:29:09,773 It may have taken up a two-inch paragraph in the Harlan Daily Enterprise... 1457 01:29:09,877 --> 01:29:13,142 and Carl Horn has not imported absolutely nothing. 1458 01:29:13,247 --> 01:29:16,307 That's why I don't believe that a strike wins itself. 1459 01:29:16,417 --> 01:29:20,615 It has been won by many different people in many aspects. 1460 01:29:20,722 --> 01:29:23,156 fighting together and playing different roles. 1461 01:29:23,257 --> 01:29:26,522 Victory! Harlan County! 1462 01:29:26,627 --> 01:29:28,527 The other thing we're trying to do... 1463 01:29:28,629 --> 01:29:31,097 is to investigate how there has been any fraud here in Harlan County 1464 01:29:31,199 --> 01:29:33,565 - What fraud? - It's clear... 1465 01:29:33,668 --> 01:29:37,229 that when a man commits murder and a state police officer accuses him... 1466 01:29:37,338 --> 01:29:41,741 and the witnesses say that he, uh, He shot that man without any provocation. 1467 01:29:41,843 --> 01:29:44,243 that a grand jury is bound to accuse him. 1468 01:29:44,345 --> 01:29:46,575 But this grand jury It was Harlan County... 1469 01:29:46,681 --> 01:29:49,343 and it seemed as if, despite the fact that we won a contract... 1470 01:29:49,450 --> 01:29:51,350 Not many things had changed there. 1471 01:29:51,452 --> 01:29:53,352 It was like old times. 1472 01:29:53,454 --> 01:29:56,321 If the company kills a man, the company is exonerated. 1473 01:29:56,424 --> 01:30:00,190 If one of our men had shot to some man from the company in this strike... 1474 01:30:00,294 --> 01:30:02,489 Now he would be turning 25 years old. 1475 01:30:02,597 --> 01:30:04,758 Bill Bruner is unpunished. 1476 01:30:06,100 --> 01:30:08,898 Once a concession is won... 1477 01:30:09,003 --> 01:30:12,530 and once a strike is won, Workers have to prepare... 1478 01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:14,540 for the next fight. 1479 01:30:14,642 --> 01:30:17,406 If not, the concession What has been gained will be lost. 1480 01:30:17,512 --> 01:30:21,972 So there are two types of victories; strikes and concessions. 1481 01:30:23,017 --> 01:30:27,351 The first type is where workers fight and fight... 1482 01:30:27,455 --> 01:30:29,423 and force concessions... 1483 01:30:29,524 --> 01:30:33,551 of the owners of the mines or the factory owners or whoever you have. 1484 01:30:33,661 --> 01:30:37,825 And, uh, these are strikes that are earned from below. 1485 01:30:37,932 --> 01:30:41,698 The other type of strikes are those that They are formed from above. 1486 01:30:41,803 --> 01:30:45,364 Whenever someone gives you something, They don't give it to you without asking for anything in return: 1487 01:30:45,473 --> 01:30:47,634 To get something and be able to keep it... 1488 01:30:47,742 --> 01:30:50,074 you have to give something. 1489 01:31:22,076 --> 01:31:24,135 Company members are expected to B.C.O.A. (Bituminous Coal Operators Association) 1490 01:31:24,245 --> 01:31:26,372 provide... 1491 01:31:26,481 --> 01:31:30,611 some salaries and benefits substantially larger. 1492 01:31:30,718 --> 01:31:32,618 It is essential... 1493 01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:36,019 It is necessary in all aspects of negotiation, study seriously... 1494 01:31:36,123 --> 01:31:39,684 the benefits of the contract that will contribute significantly... 1495 01:31:39,794 --> 01:31:41,887 to increase production and productivity. 1496 01:31:41,996 --> 01:31:46,092 The members of our union were no longer willing to accept two more dollars a day,... 1497 01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:49,033 a bar of soap, a towel and a sauna. 1498 01:31:49,136 --> 01:31:51,866 The aspects... The main aspects of interest to our members... 1499 01:31:51,973 --> 01:31:55,238 have been well established and should be recognized by everyone in this country. 1500 01:31:55,343 --> 01:31:58,141 Especially the coal operators. Safety is our top priority. 1501 01:31:58,246 --> 01:32:01,704 Men are asking more than before. 1502 01:32:01,816 --> 01:32:03,750 And they are going to get it. 1503 01:32:03,851 --> 01:32:06,479 Or they give it to you, or there will be no coal. 1504 01:32:06,587 --> 01:32:08,487 The strike. 1505 01:32:08,589 --> 01:32:11,353 They... have been waiting for a long time this moment. 1506 01:32:11,459 --> 01:32:14,690 This is a huge thing for the miner. 1507 01:32:14,795 --> 01:32:16,763 After today your future will improve... 1508 01:32:16,864 --> 01:32:19,298 because when Miller took over... 1509 01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:23,097 He said he was going to give it to the miner what he deserves. 1510 01:32:23,204 --> 01:32:25,866 Very good. The electrical source. 1511 01:32:34,815 --> 01:32:37,340 They start from the work area... 1512 01:32:37,451 --> 01:32:39,510 and they go up what we call "manway" (small tunnels in the sinking levels) 1513 01:32:39,620 --> 01:32:41,611 They will be raising the cage. 1514 01:32:41,722 --> 01:32:45,522 In others, eh, 32 minutes will have left 1515 01:32:45,626 --> 01:32:47,594 God willing. 1516 01:32:50,631 --> 01:32:55,159 Well, I think the ratification is great. We have something to say about it. 1517 01:32:55,269 --> 01:32:58,602 Retire. 1518 01:32:58,706 --> 01:33:00,606 I want vacations. 1519 01:33:00,708 --> 01:33:03,905 - Yes. Better... Better vacation. - Sickness benefit. 1520 01:33:04,011 --> 01:33:09,244 It will never be ratified in anything that is not at least an increase of $15 per day. 1521 01:33:09,350 --> 01:33:12,183 - You've been through this before. - Many times. 1522 01:33:12,286 --> 01:33:16,086 - Once six months. - Are you afraid of going on strike? 1523 01:33:16,190 --> 01:33:19,387 No, it doesn't scare me. I don't want to see any strikes. Naturally. 1524 01:33:20,928 --> 01:33:23,488 No miner wants to be on strike. But without a contract, you don't work. 1525 01:33:23,598 --> 01:33:26,499 And if not... We got a good one to ratify it. 1526 01:33:27,535 --> 01:33:31,198 It would never have happened like it did if we had been able to vote earlier. 1527 01:33:31,305 --> 01:33:34,069 Like Boyle. He doesn't... We don't vote. 1528 01:33:34,175 --> 01:33:36,376 He says, "Oh, this is what they'll take." 1529 01:33:36,377 --> 01:33:38,578 So that's what we have to stay with with what they give us. 1530 01:33:38,679 --> 01:33:41,113 Now we're going to keep what we want. 1531 01:33:47,955 --> 01:33:50,617 Even those who criticize him acknowledge... 1532 01:33:50,725 --> 01:33:52,818 Which is probably the best deal... 1533 01:33:52,927 --> 01:33:56,385 that has been done in every industry in the modern era. 1534 01:33:56,497 --> 01:34:00,263 Mr. Miller, do you plan to recommend a ratification of this contract to the affiliates? 1535 01:34:00,368 --> 01:34:03,030 I will recommend a ratification of this contract to the affiliates. 1536 01:34:03,137 --> 01:34:05,935 - Mister? - Will you have the right to go on strike at the municipal level? 1537 01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:07,940 No. 1538 01:34:08,042 --> 01:34:11,500 He anticipates that this will cause some problems. in ratification, since it is a... 1539 01:34:11,612 --> 01:34:14,638 No. I'm sure there are different points of view among the affiliates, and... 1540 01:34:14,749 --> 01:34:18,116 I don't expect 100% ratification, but I trust that the members will ratify it. 1541 01:34:18,219 --> 01:34:20,278 You cannot take away the right to go on strike. 1542 01:34:20,388 --> 01:34:24,415 If the complaints procedure is reviewed appropriate and not worth it... 1543 01:34:24,525 --> 01:34:27,255 You only have one right left: the right to go on strike. 1544 01:34:27,361 --> 01:34:31,058 And if you take that away from a man, you are left with nothing. 1545 01:34:33,067 --> 01:34:35,501 - It's not in the agreement. - But it's not ruled out yet. 1546 01:34:35,603 --> 01:34:36,778 I would like to have it. 1547 01:34:36,779 --> 01:34:39,130 - I would like to. - I can't speak for everyone. 1548 01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:42,141 let me get out of here and let's talk about it privately. 1549 01:34:47,682 --> 01:34:50,082 The international match It's gone and it's changed... 1550 01:34:50,184 --> 01:34:52,914 the entire ratification process without giving any reason. 1551 01:34:53,020 --> 01:34:56,683 They're trying to keep us out of it. You could be getting pressure from the government 1552 01:34:56,791 --> 01:34:59,521 I could be being pressured by the companies. It's hard to know. 1553 01:34:59,627 --> 01:35:03,290 We don't know. Therein lies the problem. We do not know, and we are not told anything. 1554 01:35:03,397 --> 01:35:07,493 Everyone had the impression, When Miller was elected, that he was the perfect man for the job. 1555 01:35:07,601 --> 01:35:10,035 - Everyone... - Then he acted. He acted like the man he was. 1556 01:35:10,137 --> 01:35:12,133 He is an honest man, but it's not up to par 1557 01:35:12,134 --> 01:35:14,130 for that shortcut of clowns, because that's their job. 1558 01:35:14,241 --> 01:35:16,141 - He's honest. - He didn't try. 1559 01:35:16,243 --> 01:35:18,643 Coal companies don't need tell you that they can't afford it... 1560 01:35:18,746 --> 01:35:21,271 because the oil companies supply them and companies with power. 1561 01:35:21,382 --> 01:35:23,612 and who has more money than them in the world? 1562 01:35:23,718 --> 01:35:26,152 - They can afford everything. - That's why we're here. 1563 01:35:26,253 --> 01:35:30,747 I'll tell you one thing. The company stayed with the apple and they threw the bones at us. 1564 01:35:30,858 --> 01:35:33,827 That's what they did. 1565 01:35:33,928 --> 01:35:37,455 You look like those coal companies. You look like Consolidated Coal... 1566 01:35:37,565 --> 01:35:40,728 A damn 181% profit. 1567 01:35:40,835 --> 01:35:42,860 You look like Piston 886. 1568 01:35:42,970 --> 01:35:46,565 And they are complaining because they are not giving five more days of vacation. 1569 01:35:57,752 --> 01:35:59,879 This is something unprecedented, true, Mr. Secretary... 1570 01:35:59,987 --> 01:36:02,615 for a treasury secretary find yourself in something like that. No? 1571 01:36:02,723 --> 01:36:04,782 I don't think it's unprecedented. 1572 01:36:04,892 --> 01:36:09,420 This is a very serious topic in the economic sector of our country. 1573 01:36:09,530 --> 01:36:12,465 A prolonged strike due to carbon could have... 1574 01:36:12,566 --> 01:36:14,466 very serious economic implications. 1575 01:36:14,568 --> 01:36:16,468 So as the main economic spokesperson... 1576 01:36:16,570 --> 01:36:18,124 I consider this my biggest responsibility 1577 01:36:18,125 --> 01:36:21,234 try to work to get a resolution to this issue. 1578 01:36:21,342 --> 01:36:24,834 What is your reaction to the government intervene now? 1579 01:36:24,945 --> 01:36:28,312 I hope we can solve this matter, but... 1580 01:36:28,415 --> 01:36:30,474 That's what I think. 1581 01:36:31,986 --> 01:36:34,750 Some parts of this contract... They have something good. 1582 01:36:34,855 --> 01:36:38,086 But most of the contract It goes against you. 1583 01:36:38,192 --> 01:36:40,387 What contract? 1584 01:36:40,494 --> 01:36:43,429 - So... From what I see, this... - A curious book. 1585 01:36:43,531 --> 01:36:45,431 This, uh... This is not a contract. 1586 01:36:45,533 --> 01:36:48,934 - Take it, read it and shut up. - That's what I did with the last one. 1587 01:36:49,036 --> 01:36:52,938 If you work at Wheeling Steel for three years, you can get 13 weeks. 1588 01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:56,203 Bill, you don't work at Wheeling Steel. You work in a coal mine. 1589 01:36:56,310 --> 01:36:59,507 I'm not always going to work in a hole. Plus I have to work in the hole... 1590 01:36:59,613 --> 01:37:01,808 and I deserve as much as him. - You're right. 1591 01:37:01,916 --> 01:37:04,851 At what price do you have to earn a living? And what about the pathetic permits? 1592 01:37:04,952 --> 01:37:07,614 Five damn days. 1593 01:37:07,721 --> 01:37:11,316 - Have you had sick leave? - I can't afford to get sick. 1594 01:37:11,425 --> 01:37:15,020 I have to spend all my money going to doctors and getting medical rulings. 1595 01:37:15,129 --> 01:37:17,012 They have established the cost of living index 1596 01:37:17,013 --> 01:37:18,895 for people who earn between two and three dollars an hour... 1597 01:37:18,999 --> 01:37:21,866 where we should be at a.3 or a.25 instead of a.4. 1598 01:37:21,969 --> 01:37:23,459 - That's true. - It's a joke. 1599 01:37:34,348 --> 01:37:37,249 - Lots of "yeses", guys. I assure you. - Yes sir. 1600 01:37:38,352 --> 01:37:43,483 104, 105, 106, 107. 1601 01:37:43,657 --> 01:37:46,626 The 1974 agreement of the Bituminous COA... 1602 01:37:46,727 --> 01:37:50,094 has been ratified by members of the Union of Mine Workers. 1603 01:37:51,265 --> 01:37:54,666 The, uh, figure of that vote... 1604 01:37:54,768 --> 01:37:57,532 It is 44,754... 1605 01:37:58,606 --> 01:38:01,939 and there have been 34,741 against. 1606 01:38:02,042 --> 01:38:04,533 I think we have a great contract. 1607 01:38:04,645 --> 01:38:08,445 I think our people will adapt to it. 1608 01:38:08,549 --> 01:38:11,677 They will become familiar with it when you work with him. 1609 01:38:11,785 --> 01:38:14,481 And I'm hoping that, uh... 1610 01:38:14,588 --> 01:38:16,556 Now we can continue with the work... 1611 01:38:16,657 --> 01:38:18,784 to run this union... 1612 01:38:18,893 --> 01:38:21,384 and, doing the type of work organized... 1613 01:38:21,495 --> 01:38:25,295 What will it do to the Mine Workers Union? again the country number. 1614 01:38:28,736 --> 01:38:32,934 I am in charge of the members of our organization of the Union of Mine Workers... 1615 01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:35,008 work organization... back to work. 1616 01:38:35,109 --> 01:38:38,977 - I'm glad to be back. - Do you think you have a good contract? 1617 01:38:39,079 --> 01:38:41,570 Oh, I think mine is fine. 1618 01:38:41,682 --> 01:38:43,741 I've had a good increase. That seems fine to me. 1619 01:38:43,851 --> 01:38:45,751 I'm not too worried. 1620 01:38:45,853 --> 01:38:48,947 Good morning. How do you feel about returning to work? 1621 01:38:49,056 --> 01:38:52,822 Well, back to work... I don't feel like If I were working, but I have to go. 1622 01:38:52,927 --> 01:38:55,452 Do you think you have a good contract? 1623 01:38:55,562 --> 01:38:58,725 Certainly not for the older ones, We don't have a good contract. 1624 01:38:58,832 --> 01:39:02,165 - Why not? - We are not going to have too many benefits. 1625 01:39:02,269 --> 01:39:07,764 Three years ago in the coal mines You were supposed to make $50 a day. 1626 01:39:07,875 --> 01:39:11,470 Three. In six years -1976- 1627 01:39:11,578 --> 01:39:15,139 I still won't make 50 dollars a day with this new increase. 1628 01:39:15,249 --> 01:39:17,809 And the newspapers had to lie ago three years ago... 1629 01:39:17,918 --> 01:39:20,478 because they started with 50 dollars. 1630 01:39:21,755 --> 01:39:25,350 But now, after six years, I still don't make $50. 1631 01:39:25,459 --> 01:39:27,723 When will you be able to retire? 1632 01:39:27,828 --> 01:39:29,762 I'm old enough how to retire now... 1633 01:39:29,863 --> 01:39:33,094 but I couldn't live on 150 dollars a month. 1634 01:39:34,501 --> 01:39:36,799 So I have to get to work. 1635 01:39:36,904 --> 01:39:39,702 - OK. May the day pass without problems. - I'll try. 1636 01:39:52,619 --> 01:39:55,884 It was a battle and continues to be one. 1637 01:39:55,990 --> 01:39:58,754 We fought before we had the union and we continue fighting. 1638 01:39:59,893 --> 01:40:02,623 And they will continue fighting. Coal miners are always fighting. 1639 01:40:09,536 --> 01:40:13,700 United we continue, separated we fall 1640 01:40:13,807 --> 01:40:17,834 For every penny they give us we have to fight a battle 1641 01:40:17,945 --> 01:40:21,813 So workers, use your power the key to freedom 1642 01:40:21,915 --> 01:40:26,045 do not support the luxurious lifestyle of the rich man 1643 01:40:26,153 --> 01:40:30,453 There's no way they can defeat us oh no 1644 01:40:30,557 --> 01:40:34,254 They can never defeat us 1645 01:40:34,361 --> 01:40:36,522 We will not be bought or sold 1646 01:40:36,630 --> 01:40:38,530 Our goal is to be treated well 1647 01:40:38,632 --> 01:40:40,532 and there is no way 1648 01:40:40,634 --> 01:40:42,932 They will never be able to defeat us 1649 01:40:43,037 --> 01:40:46,063 But now they are with you, and you are going to keep them with you. 1650 01:40:46,173 --> 01:40:48,937 If you don't, God bless America, you are lost! 1651 01:40:49,043 --> 01:40:52,171 Join the fight! Fight to get it! 1652 01:40:52,279 --> 01:40:54,179 Join the fight! Fight to get it! 1653 01:40:54,281 --> 01:40:57,546 We got a complaints procedure that gives us the right to demonstrate... 1654 01:40:57,651 --> 01:41:00,279 so we can fight the companies and get our requests. 1655 01:41:00,387 --> 01:41:02,287 They have shot us and put us behind bars 1656 01:41:02,389 --> 01:41:04,289 Lord, it's a sin 1657 01:41:04,391 --> 01:41:06,325 When mom and children 1658 01:41:06,427 --> 01:41:08,452 They supported the men 1659 01:41:08,562 --> 01:41:10,462 But we got that contract 1660 01:41:10,564 --> 01:41:12,589 What makes the worker free? 1661 01:41:12,699 --> 01:41:16,635 And they will never separate the union from me 1662 01:41:16,737 --> 01:41:19,501 And they will never separate the union from me 1663 01:41:19,606 --> 01:41:21,506 oh no 1664 01:41:21,608 --> 01:41:25,066 They will never separate the union from me 1665 01:41:25,179 --> 01:41:27,079 We have a contract in our hands 1666 01:41:27,181 --> 01:41:29,479 Signed in blood of honest men 1667 01:41:29,583 --> 01:41:33,576 and they never They will separate the union from me 1668 01:41:33,687 --> 01:41:37,851 But if these meetings are stolen from you... 1669 01:41:37,958 --> 01:41:41,121 If they deprive you of them... 1670 01:41:41,228 --> 01:41:43,662 you automatically have the right to go on strike. 1671 01:41:49,536 --> 01:41:52,027 The machinery works, it works 1672 01:41:52,139 --> 01:41:54,039 Very good 1673 01:41:54,141 --> 01:41:56,336 And the government helps make it work. 1674 01:41:56,443 --> 01:41:58,343 Strengthening it 1675 01:41:58,445 --> 01:42:00,345 So workers get the help 1676 01:42:00,447 --> 01:42:02,347 As you want 1677 01:42:02,449 --> 01:42:06,317 Your well-being is not in the minds of those rich men 1678 01:42:06,420 --> 01:42:10,618 Your well-being is not in mind of those rich men. oh no 1679 01:42:10,724 --> 01:42:14,421 Your well-being is not in the minds of those rich men 1680 01:42:14,528 --> 01:42:16,587 They want to have the power in your hands 1681 01:42:16,697 --> 01:42:18,858 To oppress the worker and 1682 01:42:18,966 --> 01:42:22,868 Your well-being is not in mind of those rich men 1683 01:42:22,970 --> 01:42:25,768 and they They will never, never, never be able to defeat us 1684 01:42:25,873 --> 01:42:30,867 oh no They will never, never, never be able to defeat us 1685 01:42:30,978 --> 01:42:32,912 They can scam, lie, frame or steal 1686 01:42:33,013 --> 01:42:35,277 But we will stop them 1687 01:42:35,382 --> 01:42:39,648 And never, never, never they can defeat us 1688 01:44:32,550 --> 01:44:34,550 Spanish translation: Fernando A. Montes Navarro (Sept 2007)