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Fire in the hole!
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Fire in the hole!
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Fire in the hole!
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All clear.!
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♪ Come, all you young fellers ♪
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##So brave and so fine ♪
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##Seek not your fortune ♪
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♪ Way down in the mines ♪
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#It'll form like a habit ♪
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#And will sink in your soul ♪
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♪ Till the streams of your blood ♪
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#Runs as black as the coal ♪
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♪ Where it's dark as a dungeon ♪
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#Damp as a tomb ♪
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♪ Where the danger is double ♪
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#And the pleasures are few ♪
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♪ Where the rain never falls ♪
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♪ The sun never shines ♪
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#It's dark as a dungeon ♪
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♪ Way down in the mine ♪
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- She out here smilin'?
- Yeah! Smile for her!
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Why do them girls
got them car clothes on?
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Whew.
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#For 42 years ♪
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#Been a mighty long time ♪
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#I labored and toiled ♪
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#Down in a coal mine ♪
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#Down in a deep hole ♪
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♪ Where the bright lights did glow ♪
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#Back in a dark room ♪
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#A-spadin'up coal ♪
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♪ My bones, they did ache me ♪
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♪ My kneecaps got bad ♪
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♪ Down on a hard rock ♪
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♪ On a set of knee pads ♪
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#The motors were shiftin' ♪
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♪ I got sand in my hair ♪
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♪ Both lungs were broke down ♪
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♪ From a-breathin' bad air ♪
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Coal mining was rough.
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Eighteen and 20 hours.
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Get wet, come outside,
and your clothes'd be froze to stiff.
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It would sound like a fire broom hit 'em -
make a rattling noise.
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They worked you like
workin'a mule or a brute.
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I heard the boss man to say one time-
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He said, "You be sure...
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"don't get that mule no place
where the rock'll fall in on him.
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Don't take that mule to no bad place".
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I said, uh, "Well, what about me?"
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I was drivin' mule then.
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"What about me,
if a rock had fallen on me?"
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He said, "We can always hire another man,
but you gotta buy that mule".
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In other words, he thought more
of the mule than he did a man.
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My grandfather was a coal miner...
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and belonged to the union-
the U.M. W.
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And, uh, he died with black lung.
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Uh, I can remember sittin' around,
you know, when we were younger...
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and him talkin' about
bein' on picket lines and organizin'.
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I mean, that was - that was
mostly what we talked about...
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sittin' around the table
after supper and all.
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Most of our conversation was his union-
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You know, when he was
organizin' for the union...
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and things that happened on the picket line
and things that the company did to you.
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So I began to hate the company,
you know, uh -
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I mean, seemed like I just always did.
I knew they were our enemy, you know.
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And then, uh, when I watched him die...
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and suffer like he did
with that black lung disease...
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I knew that something
could be done about it.
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I told myself then, if I ever get the opportunity
to get those coal operators, I will.
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'Cause I thought, you know...
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they was the enemy.
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So when this strike came up, I saw
the opportunity and I jumped right in there.
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Let's get up there at 5:00
in the morning and fix you a good cup of coffee.
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Let's be there and show these Brookside workers
what we can do for 'em.
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Let's stand on our two feet and show these boys
we can help 'em get a contract.
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Let's show the people of Harlan County
we stand together.
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'Cause you filed for this contract.
We gonna get it.
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Hey, the fire's done hot now.
There ain't much they can do.
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All you boys on that football field,
I want you to be there in the mornin:
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Let's show Carl Horn that we stand on two feet
here in Harlan County.
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We'll sit there and sweat
when it's snowin'.
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We'll stand right there until that
U.M.W.A. contract is signed at Brookside.
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All you people here on Black Mountain,
we'd highly appreciate it...
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if you'd be there at 5.:00-
sunrise revival at Brookside, Kentucky.
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Let's don't back off.
Let's don't let one man run us out of Harlan.
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Yeah, boys, that's where it's happenin' -
Brookside at 5:00, Monday mornin'.
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Let's be down there to support
the Brookside workers.
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I got hurt down there
about a year ago at Brookside.
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I had about 300 pounds of steel
on my head.
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They took me to the hospital,
sewed my head up.
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Had a hole cut through my nose here.
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I was off one day and the superintendent
sent a feller over, said, uh...
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"Get him to come on
back up here and work.
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We'll make it easy on him
so he won't lose no time".
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Went back up there, and then it
knocked me out of compensation or anything.
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Come back with my head busted open.
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That's the way they want you
to work down there.
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Protect your family! U.M.W.A.
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join now, boys.
Need your support.
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Take some letters for a buddy.!
It's on the house.!
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Now you're a real pal!
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- Need your support, buddy.
- May the good Lord take a likin' to ya.
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- You know I will.
- I like that! I like that!
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- Hey, I'll put one on the car if you want me to.
- U.M.W.A. all the way.
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Here, give me one.
I'll put it on his car for him.
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Right on the bumper there-
"Tennessee is a U.M. W.A. state.!"
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We're out of Kentucky stickers.
We need more of them.
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Organize the unorganized.
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With organization,
you have the aid of your fellow man.
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Without organization...
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you're a lone individual...
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without influence...
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and without recognition of any kind.
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An exploitation...
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of you and your family...
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when it pleases some industrialist...
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who desires to make money
from your misery.
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Well, we'd like to have every man
that'll walk this picket duty with us -
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To get his name before he leaves,
and we'll break it up.
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These boys on this committee'll
break it down...
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and we'll get somethin' goin' here.
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Come on up and sit around.
It ain't no big thing.
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You ain't gonna be doin'nothin'no way,
cryin'about how broke you are, like I am.
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We'd sure appreciate that.
Would you like a sticker?
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We're protesting.
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We're protesting Duke Power's
control over these men...
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that voted in the U.M. W. contract...
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and Duke Power says,
"No, you can't have that contract".
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We have made them...
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dozens and dozens of proposals...
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of different language...
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in these areas of disagreement.
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They read 'em and throw 'em back.
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They have no counterproposal.
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If you could settle it quietly,
I would think maybe you'd do it and say...
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"Well, maybe they won this battle,
but we've got 'em off our back".
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Well, I would agree with you to this extent -
I'd like to have 'em off our back.
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They're treatin' us
like we're animals, dogs.
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Well, we aren't.
We're American citizens.
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And they are violatin'
our constitutional rights...
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when they tell us that we can't have
the union of our choice...
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that those men voted in.
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If you looked on TVthe other day,
you seen women goin'up there, and men-
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"Impeach Nixon.!
Impeach Nixon.!"
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But you let us get up there
with pick- uh, with protest signs...
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against Duke Power...
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and they're sendin' their gun thugs
to intimidate us.
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What do you think when unions
are destroying our whole country?
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Mm-hmm.
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Mr. Hoffa's in the penitentiary...
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the Teamster Union
are known communists...
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the Longshoremen
are known communists.
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Every union in the country strikin',
what will happen to our country?
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The men wants higher wages.
They're gonna strike for it.
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The union is backing 'em.
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They stay on strike
till they get their higher wages.
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Like I explained to my daughter, I said,
there's a spool of thread there.
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That thread might have been 15 cents.
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A man goes on strike, I said, if they want 30
more cents on an hour-They get their 30 cents.
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When they go back to work,
they got to raise that price to cover that wage.
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The unions is what's doin'it.
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The unions is ruinin'
the United States.
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I went to work when I was 10 years old
pickin' slate in the coal burner.
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Well, at that time
we were workin' 10 hours a day...
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and we were gettin'
six-and-a-fraction cents an hour.
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Well, we breaker boys...
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we'd have our feet in the chute
and we'd be pickin'the slate out...
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when the breaker boss
would sneak up behind us.
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And ifhe'd see a piece of slate
comin'through...
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he'd pick up the slate and hit you
in the back with it, and hit you hard.
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And he'd said, "Pick that slate up.!"
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Well, they used to abuse us, actually.
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Well, finally we got to a stage where we figured
that, well, we was gonna strike.
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That was when I learned
my first real political lesson...
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about what happens when you
take a position against the coal operators...
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against the capitalists.
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Well, the first thing that happened...
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the union officials came to us
and told us we'd have to go back to work...
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that we were violating the agreement.
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We said, "To hell with the agreement.
We're gonna strike until we get our demands".
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Well, then the politicians began
visiting us and putting pressure on us.
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Then the parish priests.
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Well, finally the coal company
did agree to meet with us...
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and they agreed
to raise the hourly pay...
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from six-and-a-fraction cents
to eight cents an hour.
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So we thought
we got big concessions.
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Today that wouldn't mean anything.
That's only peanuts.
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But it meant a whole lot to us
and our paycheck at that period.
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Well, this was my first lesson -
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that if you stuck to your organization
and stuck together in solidarity...
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you could defeat them.
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Besides that, I learned that the politicians
worked with the coal companies.
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I found out that the union officials
were working with the coal companies.
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I also found out that the Catholic hierarchy
was working with the coal officials.
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Here was a combination
of the whole thing, see -
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that you had to bump up
against the whole combination of them.
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When the coal and iron police would find out
who was trying to instigate a union...
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well, they'd abuse them.
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The miners figured, well,
the only way they could fight back...
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was to abuse them,
pay them for what they was doin:
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So they began to use, then, violence...
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in retaliation of the violence
that was bein'used against them.
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This kind of a struggle
went on to such a degree...
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that there was many of the mine foremen
gettin'killed...
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there was many of the police
gettin'killed...
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and, of course,
there was many miners gettin'killed.
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It was regular guerrilla warfare.
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And some of the early ideas of guerrilla warfare
developed out of that kind of struggle.
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The coal company gets every dollar
which he can chisel out of some coal miner...
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through oppressive management tactics.
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So why wouldn't the coal operators
be satisfied?
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The government is acting
as their muscleman.
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Tax money of Kentucky at work...
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breakin'the organized labor.
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Organized labor!
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Organized labor.!
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Well, hell, I don't think they're in here
for anything except break the strike here.
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They are for the company all the way,
for the operators.
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I don't have any feelings one way or the other.
Just have a job to do.
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- And why are you here?
- To keep the roads open.
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Enforce laws, keep the peace,
try to keep people from gettin' hurt.
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Move down here, please.
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- Don't put your hands on me, hoss.
- All right.
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"Bailey". You know, my name's Bailey,
and you're a damn disgrace to the Bailey family.
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Boy, this is a damn shame.
A Bailey, y'all, a state cop. Ain't that a shame?
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You wanna get a shot of somethin',
get a shot of this baby hangin' off him.
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That's what I been lookin' at.
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It's the same diameter as this right here.
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Once a scab-
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There ain't no healin'for a scab.
You know?
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00:16:17,109 --> 00:16:20,704
- Hell, that's some nerve.
- Here they come!
233
00:16:42,568 --> 00:16:46,129
There's the damn guy drawed that gun on me!
Right there! Right there!
234
00:16:46,238 --> 00:16:48,968
You son of a bitch, you.!
235
00:16:53,379 --> 00:16:56,348
Hey.!
236
00:16:58,417 --> 00:17:00,317
Get 'em outta here.
237
00:17:02,421 --> 00:17:05,322
- Hey.! That's goddamn wrong.!
- That's the kind of goddamn law we got.!
238
00:17:07,426 --> 00:17:11,726
- Donny.!
- They ask, you tell the people!
239
00:17:11,830 --> 00:17:14,958
They'll set a while out back,
your two families.!
240
00:17:15,067 --> 00:17:18,127
Hey.! Hey.!
What in the hell you think you're doin'?
241
00:17:22,941 --> 00:17:25,171
Scabbin' bastards.
242
00:17:25,277 --> 00:17:28,007
- Go on, sucky!
- Hey, scab.!
243
00:17:28,113 --> 00:17:30,809
Hey, go on! Hey, go on!
244
00:17:30,916 --> 00:17:32,816
Excuse me. Have some of my hand.
245
00:17:32,918 --> 00:17:35,512
- Goddamn bastards.!
- Goddamn scab sons ofbitches.!
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 you guys on this injunction,
all 36 of you, remember this-it's a court order.
249
00:17:47,366 --> 00:17:50,767
You can't block the traffic,
and don't call 'em scabs.
250
00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:54,828
- Why not?
- 'Cause if you do, you'll be behind bars.
251
00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:57,841
I don't think
you'll never win a strike...
252
00:17:57,943 --> 00:18:01,845
by havin' six people
on the picket line.
253
00:18:01,947 --> 00:18:06,247
There's no way, I mean, that you can
win a strike with six pickets.
254
00:18:06,351 --> 00:18:09,184
So you gotta violate these injunctions.
255
00:18:09,288 --> 00:18:12,280
Lawyers are made to
get you out of trouble after you get in...
256
00:18:12,391 --> 00:18:15,554
not to get you out of trouble
before you get in.
257
00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:20,323
I'll put it like this-
you do what you wanna do.
258
00:18:20,532 --> 00:18:24,195
Women all over the country
are interested in what their husbands are doin'.
259
00:18:24,303 --> 00:18:28,239
They're interested in the safety laws
that the United Mine Workers have...
260
00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:31,207
and they want their husbands
to have their pension funds.
261
00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:34,211
They don't want their husbands
goin'into these scab mines...
262
00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:37,441
with the rock a-fallin'and runnin'
these here motors with no brakes.
263
00:18:37,549 --> 00:18:40,950
So, they want to participate.
They're ready and willing.
264
00:18:41,053 --> 00:18:45,581
The good thing about our club is that now
we're giving them the chance to participate.
265
00:18:45,691 --> 00:18:47,591
You see?
266
00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:50,821
When their husbands goes in the mines,
they're prayin'that they'll get out.
267
00:18:50,929 --> 00:18:54,660
I think that they feel like maybe their prayers
would have been answered sooner...
268
00:18:54,766 --> 00:18:58,133
if they were workin'
under a U.M.W.A. contract.
269
00:18:58,237 --> 00:19:01,570
Well, I went down there
in support of the miners...
270
00:19:01,673 --> 00:19:03,573
for the miners...
271
00:19:03,675 --> 00:19:07,975
and in support of my own children too
that I'm raisin' up.
272
00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,380
Now, sit down real easy.
Sit down. Now, it's runnin' over.
273
00:19:12,484 --> 00:19:15,817
- I can't get my foot -
- Angie.!
274
00:19:15,921 --> 00:19:19,049
- I couldn't get my foot outta here.
- You're messin'.
275
00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:23,925
- When will we be goin' to jail again?
- If the scab starts to cross the picket lines -
276
00:19:24,029 --> 00:19:28,591
We went because we was tryin' to protect -
The scab was gonna take your daddy's job.
277
00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:31,794
When they sign the contract,
Daddy's gonna have hot running water...
278
00:19:31,904 --> 00:19:34,429
and a big ol' bathtub.
279
00:19:40,112 --> 00:19:42,444
Let's help the striking miners now!
280
00:19:42,548 --> 00:19:48,043
♪ Come, all you coal miners ♪
281
00:19:48,153 --> 00:19:50,417
♪ Wherever you may be ♪
282
00:19:50,522 --> 00:19:53,923
#And listen to a story ♪
283
00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:56,790
♪ That I'll relate to thee ♪
284
00:19:56,895 --> 00:20:00,262
#My name is nothin' "extree" ♪
285
00:20:00,365 --> 00:20:03,562
#But the truth to you I'll tell ♪
286
00:20:03,669 --> 00:20:06,968
#I am a coal miner's wife ♪
287
00:20:07,072 --> 00:20:10,303
#I'm sure I wish you well ♪
288
00:20:10,409 --> 00:20:13,674
♪ They take your very lifeblood ♪
289
00:20:13,779 --> 00:20:16,304
♪ They take our children's lives ♪
290
00:20:16,415 --> 00:20:20,010
♪ Take fathers away from children ♪
291
00:20:20,118 --> 00:20:23,053
#And husbands away from wives ♪
292
00:20:23,155 --> 00:20:26,386
♪ Oh, miner, won't you organize ♪
293
00:20:26,491 --> 00:20:29,289
♪ Wherever you may be ♪
294
00:20:29,394 --> 00:20:33,387
#And make this a land of freedom ♪
295
00:20:33,498 --> 00:20:37,127
#For workers like you and me ♪
296
00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:40,296
And we have to fight for our rights.
297
00:20:40,405 --> 00:20:42,305
You gonna have to fight for that.
298
00:20:42,407 --> 00:20:47,242
If you have more safety in the mines,
if you get your portal-to-portal pay...
299
00:20:47,346 --> 00:20:50,838
if you have your doctor card
so you can be doctored.
300
00:20:50,949 --> 00:20:55,409
Because if you get disabled
and you don't have any backing...
301
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,921
then some home will get you...
302
00:20:59,024 --> 00:21:01,458
or your family will starve.
303
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,960
For, you see, I know what it means.
304
00:21:04,062 --> 00:21:07,327
And this club means a lot
to pull us all together.
305
00:21:07,432 --> 00:21:10,128
Everybody stand together in it...
306
00:21:10,235 --> 00:21:12,294
and everybody goes together...
307
00:21:12,404 --> 00:21:14,634
everybody go out on the picket line...
308
00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:16,640
and we'll win their contract...
309
00:21:16,742 --> 00:21:18,642
if they'll all stand up.
310
00:21:18,744 --> 00:21:22,111
That's good, Sudie. That's real good.
311
00:21:31,723 --> 00:21:34,692
All the police were lined up
there when we got there.
312
00:21:34,793 --> 00:21:38,058
It was early. We must've got there
at quarter after 5.:00, maybe 5:30.
313
00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:40,961
But they were there already.
314
00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:44,695
And by that time all this big crowd
had gathered-you know, supporters.
315
00:21:44,803 --> 00:21:49,137
One car went through with three men in it.
They kinda slipped through.
316
00:21:49,241 --> 00:21:54,406
And, uh, the next car that come through,
we were able to get in the road and lay down.
317
00:21:54,513 --> 00:21:57,277
- No work today, fellers!
- Come on, girls! Lay down! Lay down!
318
00:22:00,352 --> 00:22:03,253
Now let's see what kind oflaw
we got in Harlan County...
319
00:22:03,355 --> 00:22:05,255
what kind of state police we got.
320
00:22:05,357 --> 00:22:07,257
Look at them bastards, manhandlin'women.
321
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,487
We didn't give 'em
any resistance whatever.
322
00:22:10,595 --> 00:22:14,531
Wejust laid down in the road because they
were there to escort those scabs through to work.
323
00:22:14,633 --> 00:22:17,534
And that's been goin'on
for a whole month.
324
00:22:17,636 --> 00:22:19,797
And we'djust come too far for that.
325
00:22:23,575 --> 00:22:26,043
Take pictures, boys!
326
00:22:27,746 --> 00:22:30,306
You're havin' fun, right?
327
00:22:34,252 --> 00:22:38,154
Honey, they gotta stay on that picket line.
They start scabbin'- They gotta go back there.
328
00:22:38,256 --> 00:22:41,157
They can't let me down.
Shit, just bring me a gun, for-
329
00:22:41,259 --> 00:22:43,727
I- I'd rather be dead...
330
00:22:43,829 --> 00:22:46,730
I- if I have to know
that there's scabs at Brookside.
331
00:22:46,832 --> 00:22:49,926
I can't stand it.
I can't stand the thought of it.
332
00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:52,560
So just don't let 'em, you know -
333
00:22:52,671 --> 00:22:56,129
♪ Stay on the picket line
Always on the picket line ♪
334
00:22:56,241 --> 00:22:58,141
I really mean it.
335
00:23:00,879 --> 00:23:03,780
If they'll just keep on the picket line,
we'll -we'll -
336
00:23:03,882 --> 00:23:06,544
then they'll just beat hell
out of them scabs.!
337
00:23:06,651 --> 00:23:08,551
Beat the shit right out of'em.!
338
00:23:08,653 --> 00:23:10,553
- That's mine there!
- Which one ain't took?
339
00:23:10,655 --> 00:23:12,555
I don't know, but I got this un.
340
00:23:12,657 --> 00:23:16,457
This top one ain't took yet.
This a double mattress. I'll take this un.
341
00:23:16,561 --> 00:23:19,860
- Hell, I was legally on the picket line.
- I knows he was.
342
00:23:19,965 --> 00:23:23,696
I tried to show 'em in court down there,
and they wouldn't accept a damn thing.
343
00:23:23,802 --> 00:23:26,270
Let's go violate one more time.
344
00:23:26,371 --> 00:23:28,271
Then let 'em put us right back.
345
00:23:28,373 --> 00:23:31,240
'Cause you're a prisoner out there anyway.
You might as well be -
346
00:23:31,343 --> 00:23:33,243
Might as well just be in jail.
347
00:23:33,345 --> 00:23:35,745
It is thejudgment of the court...
348
00:23:35,847 --> 00:23:38,645
that Bill Doan, George Eldridge,
Lois Scott, Betty Eldridge...
349
00:23:38,750 --> 00:23:40,945
Bessie Cornett and Melba Strong...
350
00:23:41,052 --> 00:23:43,850
be incarcerated for
a period of 60 days from this date.
351
00:23:43,955 --> 00:23:47,755
Could I say- Because I haven't had
a chance to give any testimony today.
352
00:23:47,859 --> 00:23:51,420
I knew we weren't gonna get anyjustice.
You say the laws were made for us.
353
00:23:51,530 --> 00:23:54,931
The laws are not made
for the working people in this country.
354
00:23:55,033 --> 00:23:57,558
There's a person missing here today,
and that's Carl Horn.
355
00:23:57,669 --> 00:24:00,570
The law was made for people
like Carl Horn, not for us.
356
00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:04,005
I knew when I came here,
without offering any testimony or gettin' up...
357
00:24:04,109 --> 00:24:07,545
I knew what I was doin' at Brookside,
because that's what I wanted to do.
358
00:24:07,646 --> 00:24:10,979
For once I was able to take the offensive
instead of coming down here...
359
00:24:11,082 --> 00:24:13,983
to take a step backward
to try and defend what we did.
360
00:24:14,085 --> 00:24:16,986
What we did is right,
and we all know that.
361
00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:26,296
I resent the fact...
362
00:24:26,398 --> 00:24:31,927
that they- thatJudge Hogg is a-tryin' me,
and him a coal operator...
363
00:24:32,037 --> 00:24:37,600
and that sittin' beside him
is circuit court clerk Mary Lou Coldarn...
364
00:24:37,709 --> 00:24:39,904
is sittin' up there,
and her son is up there -
365
00:24:40,011 --> 00:24:43,276
He's the photographer up there
takin' the pictures for 'em...
366
00:24:43,381 --> 00:24:46,475
to blacklist the men on the picket line -
I resent that.
367
00:24:46,585 --> 00:24:51,215
I resent the fact that he can make a law
that can tell me that I can't go where I please.
368
00:24:51,323 --> 00:24:53,416
He's violatin' my constitutional right.
369
00:24:54,659 --> 00:24:56,559
My name is Norman Yarborough.
370
00:24:56,661 --> 00:24:59,994
On my right is Mr. Logan Patterson...
371
00:25:00,098 --> 00:25:04,398
who is an attorney who has been retained
by the Eastover Mining Company...
372
00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:06,403
as chief negotiator.
373
00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:08,905
I'd like to ask you what you think...
374
00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:11,237
about the role the miners'wives...
375
00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:13,971
have played in this strike.
376
00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:16,547
Well, they've certainly
played a big role in it.
377
00:25:16,648 --> 00:25:20,880
I would hate to think that my wife
would play this kind of role.
378
00:25:20,986 --> 00:25:22,886
Why?
379
00:25:22,988 --> 00:25:25,218
Well, there's been some conduct...
380
00:25:25,323 --> 00:25:30,124
that I don't like to think that our
American women have to -
381
00:25:30,228 --> 00:25:32,287
to revert to.
382
00:25:32,397 --> 00:25:34,797
Is it a fact that the Duke Power Company...
383
00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:39,166
maintains housing for its employees
that has no water and no indoor plumbing?
384
00:25:39,271 --> 00:25:42,604
Yes, sir. We were attempting to move our people-
385
00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:46,268
And these are our people.
They're my people.
386
00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:50,838
Move our people,
upgrade our people into trailers...
387
00:25:50,949 --> 00:25:54,350
upgrade our people into better housing...
388
00:25:54,452 --> 00:25:57,046
better conditions in all directions...
389
00:25:57,155 --> 00:26:00,784
because they'll make us better people
when we are able to do this.
390
00:26:07,098 --> 00:26:09,965
Larry.! Come on to supper.!
391
00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:12,969
It's a feudal system, I think.
392
00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:17,531
There's a very rich class of people,
and then there are the coal miners.
393
00:26:17,642 --> 00:26:20,167
And then there are the people
who are on relief.
394
00:26:20,278 --> 00:26:22,644
And that's about it in Harlan.
395
00:26:22,747 --> 00:26:24,647
They wanna keep it this way.
396
00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:28,549
The way they keep it that way
is keepin' a monopoly on the labor market.
397
00:26:28,653 --> 00:26:31,952
They do that by keepin' other competitive -
398
00:26:32,057 --> 00:26:34,355
or industries that will be competitive...
399
00:26:34,459 --> 00:26:37,394
you know, for the labor-
keep them out.
400
00:26:37,495 --> 00:26:41,795
There are a few little places to work,
but they don't pay nothin' but the minimum wage.
401
00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:43,800
Maybe two dollars an hour.
402
00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:46,803
You can't make a livin' at that no more.
403
00:26:46,905 --> 00:26:50,705
And if it don't go United Mine Workers,
me and him'll have to leave Harlan County.
404
00:26:50,809 --> 00:26:52,743
That's for sure.
Or maybe Kentucky.
405
00:26:52,844 --> 00:26:56,280
We'll have to go
where it's a union state to get a job again.
406
00:26:56,381 --> 00:27:00,044
Duke Power is a Southern,
conservative company.
407
00:27:00,151 --> 00:27:04,281
Less than 10%% of their employees
in their power plants...
408
00:27:04,389 --> 00:27:06,289
and their line crews...
409
00:27:06,391 --> 00:27:08,291
are organized.
410
00:27:08,393 --> 00:27:11,453
And they feel that if we -
411
00:27:11,563 --> 00:27:14,123
if they give in to a contract here...
412
00:27:14,232 --> 00:27:18,726
it will encourage union organization
in their home state of North Carolina...
413
00:27:18,837 --> 00:27:20,737
and South Carolina.
414
00:27:23,908 --> 00:27:26,502
♪ They say in North Carolina ♪
415
00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:29,375
#Duke Power runs the show ♪
416
00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:32,279
♪ Carl Horn would like
to break the strike ♪
417
00:27:32,384 --> 00:27:35,251
#But the miners tell him no ♪
418
00:27:35,353 --> 00:27:37,844
♪ Which side are you on, boys ♪
419
00:27:37,956 --> 00:27:41,483
♪ Which side are you on ♪
420
00:27:41,593 --> 00:27:44,494
♪ Goin'up to New York City ♪
421
00:27:44,596 --> 00:27:46,757
♪ We've got to spread the news ♪
422
00:27:46,865 --> 00:27:49,834
#Been fightin'hard for many months ♪
423
00:27:49,934 --> 00:27:52,266
#And we're not about to lose ♪
424
00:27:52,370 --> 00:27:55,828
♪ Which side are you on, boys ♪
425
00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:59,842
♪ Which side are you on ♪
426
00:27:59,944 --> 00:28:02,845
- You from the South?
- Can I have one of those? Thank you!
427
00:28:02,947 --> 00:28:05,609
You all look like y'all from -
428
00:28:05,717 --> 00:28:07,617
We're gonna let people know...
429
00:28:07,719 --> 00:28:10,813
that if you buy Duke Power stock,
it's risky.
430
00:28:10,922 --> 00:28:13,083
We've had several this mornin:..
431
00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:16,092
said they had Duke Power stock,
but they wouldn't have it long.
432
00:28:16,194 --> 00:28:18,594
They said,
"We're gonna get rid of it".
433
00:28:18,697 --> 00:28:20,597
And that sounded beautiful to me.
434
00:28:20,832 --> 00:28:23,767
- The tunnels here is just like a mine.
- Yeah.
435
00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:27,702
Only ours is about 42 inches high.
436
00:28:27,806 --> 00:28:30,707
I think- I think these are more secure
than a mine, sir.
437
00:28:30,809 --> 00:28:33,710
I wouldn't mind going under here,
but your mines -
438
00:28:33,812 --> 00:28:36,337
- Yeah. You wouldn't wanna go in the mines?
- No.
439
00:28:36,448 --> 00:28:40,544
They could make good profit off the mines
if they had a union. They won't give us one.
440
00:28:40,652 --> 00:28:43,052
Make good profit, but they
keep it all themselves. Right?
441
00:28:43,154 --> 00:28:45,714
- Yeah.
- They don't spread the wealth.
442
00:28:45,824 --> 00:28:48,725
I thought you guys got paid
a little more than you do.
443
00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:51,227
You don't get paid a bad salary,
but I thought it was a little more.
444
00:28:51,329 --> 00:28:53,729
- We get paid real good, but, you know -
- No, it's not.
445
00:28:53,832 --> 00:28:55,993
What's real good?
Five dollars, six dollars an hour?
446
00:28:56,101 --> 00:28:58,695
- Yeah, we -
- That's not real good. I make more than that.
447
00:28:58,803 --> 00:29:00,703
- Yeah?
- Sure, I do.
448
00:29:00,805 --> 00:29:03,205
The policeman makes less down there.
449
00:29:03,308 --> 00:29:06,744
- We make about seven.
- God.! That's good money.
450
00:29:06,845 --> 00:29:08,870
We draw union strike benefits.
451
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:12,472
And it's real hard, you know,
to live on a hundred.
452
00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:14,484
Is your job real dangerous, though?
453
00:29:14,586 --> 00:29:16,486
- Look at me.
- I mean -
454
00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:18,488
This is all I do.
It's a lot of bullshit.
455
00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:21,991
A lot of people don't understand
that that electricity burnin' over there...
456
00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:24,994
takes somebody dyin'
every day for it.
457
00:29:25,096 --> 00:29:27,496
There's one man dies every day.
458
00:29:29,634 --> 00:29:31,864
- You probably got medical coverage.
- Free.
459
00:29:31,970 --> 00:29:33,870
Free medical coverage.
460
00:29:33,972 --> 00:29:36,202
I'd save up, buddy, buy a house.
461
00:29:36,307 --> 00:29:38,551
Kids all get sick,
I'd have to spend every penny-
462
00:29:38,552 --> 00:29:39,674
What about dental?
463
00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:41,678
No dental.
464
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:43,680
- You got dental?
- Dental.
465
00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:46,444
- Goddamn.
- We got dental. We got all kinds of health.
466
00:29:46,551 --> 00:29:49,179
We got drugs.
I could retire at 36.
467
00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:51,187
Half pay- 10,000 a year.
468
00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:53,723
They don't want us to ever be able to retire.
469
00:29:53,825 --> 00:29:55,918
- That's bad.
- That's the reason we're here.
470
00:29:56,027 --> 00:29:59,019
That's the reason we're on strike.
Been on strike nine months.
471
00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:01,030
- Nine months?
- Nine months.
472
00:30:01,132 --> 00:30:04,363
- I thought this was the first day.
- No! This is nine months.
473
00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:06,033
We can't get a-
They won't sign a contract.
474
00:30:06,034 --> 00:30:07,597
- It's good you came here
to bring some publicity.
475
00:30:07,705 --> 00:30:09,468
Yeah. Yeah.
476
00:30:09,641 --> 00:30:12,474
The outstanding issues...
477
00:30:12,577 --> 00:30:15,546
between Duke Power's coal mining subsidiary...
478
00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:17,547
Eastover Mining Company...
479
00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:20,812
and the United Mine Workers...
480
00:30:20,919 --> 00:30:24,514
in the opinion of
the management of Eastover...
481
00:30:24,622 --> 00:30:28,149
and the management of Duke Power,
its parent, are...
482
00:30:28,259 --> 00:30:31,524
the absence of a no-strike clause -
483
00:30:31,629 --> 00:30:37,499
the refusal of the union to agree to not strike
during the life of the contract.
484
00:30:37,602 --> 00:30:42,471
If there are questions on the content
of my report to the stockholders...
485
00:30:42,574 --> 00:30:44,474
I will entertain those questions.
486
00:30:44,576 --> 00:30:49,104
How come you hire gun thugs
to harass us around with?
487
00:30:49,214 --> 00:30:53,514
You sayin'there that the issue is
for a no-strike clause.
488
00:30:53,618 --> 00:30:56,212
Well, if we had a no-strike clause in there...
489
00:30:56,321 --> 00:30:58,221
Norman Yarborough
could kick us off that hill...
490
00:30:58,323 --> 00:31:01,850
and there wouldn't be
a thing we could do about it.
491
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,793
But I tell you,
we in Harlan County...
492
00:31:04,896 --> 00:31:07,296
all of our life
we've been kicked around...
493
00:31:07,398 --> 00:31:09,298
we've been put in jail...
494
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,800
we've been shot at,
we've had dynamite throwed at us...
495
00:31:11,903 --> 00:31:14,303
and then you don't want us
to have nothin'.
496
00:31:14,405 --> 00:31:16,305
Well, I tell you, Mr. Horn...
497
00:31:16,407 --> 00:31:19,308
I'm gonna be standin' right there
on that picket line lookin' at you...
498
00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:21,310
just as long as it takes.
499
00:31:21,412 --> 00:31:22,970
Thank you.
500
00:31:24,849 --> 00:31:29,513
Coal companies are not
theJ.P. Morgans or the Hannas anymore.
501
00:31:29,621 --> 00:31:31,521
It's Occidental Petroleum...
502
00:31:31,623 --> 00:31:33,454
and Exxon and Sohio.
503
00:31:33,558 --> 00:31:35,458
The oil companies control the coal industry.
504
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,724
Seventy percent of all the domestic coal
reserves are owned by oil companies.
505
00:31:46,404 --> 00:31:49,464
There just can't be any question...
506
00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:51,906
that the health and the safety...
507
00:31:52,010 --> 00:31:54,001
of our employees...
508
00:31:54,112 --> 00:31:56,137
in the mining industry...
509
00:31:56,247 --> 00:31:59,045
must be given first priority...
510
00:32:00,385 --> 00:32:03,411
on humanitarian grounds alone.
511
00:32:03,521 --> 00:32:06,285
We find violation
after violation after violation...
512
00:32:06,391 --> 00:32:08,291
in those mines.
513
00:32:08,393 --> 00:32:10,293
We have a national record...
514
00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:11,885
that looks very poor...
515
00:32:11,996 --> 00:32:13,896
when laid up against
the German national record...
516
00:32:13,998 --> 00:32:16,899
the U.K. national record,
the French national record...
517
00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:19,333
the Netherlands national record...
518
00:32:19,437 --> 00:32:21,337
and the others that I've examined.
519
00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:25,671
So I think that - I'm not indicting anyone.
If anything, I'm indicting myself.
520
00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:30,043
I'm indicting an agency that I've been
associated with for a long time.
521
00:32:30,148 --> 00:32:33,049
We haven't done all
that we should have in this field.
522
00:32:48,533 --> 00:32:54,199
"Oh, my God, Frankie, "I said,
"The whole midnight shift in the mine blew up.
523
00:32:54,305 --> 00:32:58,799
They're trapped in the mine,
and Pete's in there too".
524
00:32:58,910 --> 00:33:03,404
He left for work, and he acted, well,
just kinda like he didn't want to go to work.
525
00:33:03,514 --> 00:33:06,415
He'd rather stayed home.
He said, "Maybe I should stay home".
526
00:33:06,517 --> 00:33:09,418
I said, "Well, why don't you?"
He went to the door two or three times.
527
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,421
Kept saying, "Should I go,
or should I stay home?
528
00:33:12,523 --> 00:33:15,424
It's spittin' snow out there,
and I just hate to be on the road".
529
00:33:15,526 --> 00:33:18,427
I said, "Stay home, then,
and pretend you're sick tonight".
530
00:33:18,529 --> 00:33:20,929
But he went,
and that was the explosion -
531
00:33:21,032 --> 00:33:25,731
I live right almost on the seat
of the main explosion - right there.
532
00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:27,998
And they said,
"You get out of your house.!"
533
00:33:28,106 --> 00:33:31,007
And the police told me to get out.
But you know why?
534
00:33:31,109 --> 00:33:33,509
Because they was notified
to tell me get out.
535
00:33:33,611 --> 00:33:37,809
Because they didn't want me to see what was
goin' on up at that damn, dirty, filthy mines!
536
00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:43,444
I gave up.
I figured we'd never make it out.
537
00:33:43,554 --> 00:33:46,819
Because we just -
w- we all passed out.
538
00:33:46,924 --> 00:33:50,587
I don't know, uh, whether...
539
00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:54,461
any- any one man
didn't pass out or not.
540
00:33:54,565 --> 00:33:57,466
I couldn't say that,
'cause I know I did.
541
00:33:57,568 --> 00:34:00,696
When I woke up,
I was like froze to death.
542
00:34:00,805 --> 00:34:03,706
I've worked in the mines
about seven years...
543
00:34:03,808 --> 00:34:08,268
and I've really never been
too scared of the mines.
544
00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:12,839
But I don't think
I'll go back in the mines.
545
00:34:12,950 --> 00:34:16,215
And, uh, the television says...
546
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,221
uh, if another explosion would occur...
547
00:34:19,323 --> 00:34:21,223
they'd have to seal the mine.
548
00:34:21,325 --> 00:34:23,589
And about 1:00 that explosion came...
549
00:34:23,694 --> 00:34:25,662
and I says, "Uh-oh, they'll seal it".
550
00:34:27,932 --> 00:34:29,832
They sealed 'em.
551
00:34:29,934 --> 00:34:32,232
And then we knew that was-
that was it.
552
00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:39,907
♪ You can read it in the paper ♪
553
00:34:40,011 --> 00:34:42,878
#And the radio tells ♪
554
00:34:44,182 --> 00:34:46,514
♪ Us to raise our children ♪
555
00:34:46,617 --> 00:34:50,018
♪ To be miners as well ♪
556
00:34:51,522 --> 00:34:55,185
♪ Tell them how safe ♪
557
00:34:55,293 --> 00:34:59,195
♪ The mines are today ♪
558
00:34:59,297 --> 00:35:01,492
#And be like Daddy ♪
559
00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:04,830
#Bring home a big pay ♪
560
00:35:06,170 --> 00:35:10,800
#But don't you believe it, my boy ♪
561
00:35:10,908 --> 00:35:15,743
♪ That story's a lie ♪
562
00:35:15,847 --> 00:35:19,010
#Remember the disaster ♪
563
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:24,111
#At the Mannington mine ♪
564
00:35:24,222 --> 00:35:30,252
♪ Where 78 miners were burned alive ♪
565
00:35:30,361 --> 00:35:33,262
♪ 'Cause of unsafe conditions ♪
566
00:35:33,364 --> 00:35:35,992
♪ Your daddies died ♪
567
00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:44,433
And I would like to know,
since they died...
568
00:35:44,542 --> 00:35:48,706
uh, in order to help the living,
find out what caused that explosion.
569
00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:51,338
You know,
you learn from a tragedy.
570
00:35:51,449 --> 00:35:53,508
Then maybe they could help, uh -
571
00:35:53,618 --> 00:35:55,779
- Others.
- Uh, others to live.
572
00:35:55,887 --> 00:35:58,185
Then it wouldn't happen again.
573
00:35:58,289 --> 00:36:00,189
But as long as they're greedy...
574
00:36:00,291 --> 00:36:03,522
and as long as they're
rushing the coal miner...
575
00:36:03,628 --> 00:36:06,188
in wanting the production
before lives...
576
00:36:06,297 --> 00:36:08,731
there'll always be tragedies.
577
00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:13,736
I knowed there was somethin' wrong,
but I didn't know what it was.
578
00:36:13,838 --> 00:36:16,204
- And the doctors told me.
- 'Bout 60, don't you guess?
579
00:36:16,307 --> 00:36:19,105
Yeah, 'bout 60.
Somewheres along there.
580
00:36:19,210 --> 00:36:21,576
Well, what would happen to you...
581
00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:24,580
when you started realizing
that something was wrong?
582
00:36:24,682 --> 00:36:26,582
Well, you just couldn't get no breath.
583
00:36:26,684 --> 00:36:32,213
You'd walk a little piece and you'd give out,
just a-pantin' for breath.
584
00:36:32,323 --> 00:36:35,850
And sometimes
you couldn't hardly get it no way.
585
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,088
Lots of times I've had to go
to the hospital down here.
586
00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:41,461
They gave me some shots and things.
587
00:36:41,566 --> 00:36:43,466
I thought I was a goner.
588
00:36:43,568 --> 00:36:46,332
#Black lung, black lung ♪
589
00:36:46,437 --> 00:36:51,397
♪ Oh, your hand's icy cold ♪
590
00:36:51,509 --> 00:36:55,639
#As you reach for my life ♪
591
00:36:55,746 --> 00:36:59,705
#And you torture my soul ♪
592
00:36:59,817 --> 00:37:05,847
♪ Cold as that water hole
down in that dark cave ♪
593
00:37:05,957 --> 00:37:09,518
♪ Where I spent my life's blood ♪
594
00:37:09,627 --> 00:37:13,654
#Diggin'my own grave ♪
595
00:37:16,767 --> 00:37:20,066
When you start destroying
the lung tissue...
596
00:37:20,171 --> 00:37:23,572
as occurs in miners who have pneumoconiosis...
597
00:37:23,674 --> 00:37:25,699
and the end result of pneumoconiosis...
598
00:37:25,810 --> 00:37:28,745
there really isn't anything
that you can do to restore the lungs.
599
00:37:28,846 --> 00:37:30,814
They're just simply destroyed.
600
00:37:35,486 --> 00:37:38,319
170 over 100.
601
00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:40,686
Buck, how old a man are you?
602
00:37:40,791 --> 00:37:43,851
- I'm 67.
- You're 67?
603
00:37:43,961 --> 00:37:47,954
You couldn't see your buddy
on the other side of the car for the dust.
604
00:37:48,065 --> 00:37:51,466
We'd be covered just black.
605
00:37:51,569 --> 00:37:55,903
We done make every color when we went in.
You all be look the same when you came out.
606
00:37:56,007 --> 00:37:58,100
Right?
607
00:37:58,209 --> 00:38:01,007
- That's right.
- We's all even, huh?
608
00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:05,014
- We's all brothers when we out.
- That's right, when you came out.
609
00:38:05,116 --> 00:38:07,710
The whites looked like the blacks,
so it wasn't any difference.
610
00:38:07,818 --> 00:38:10,582
You knowed you was gettin'
plenty dust.
611
00:38:10,688 --> 00:38:13,919
There are also miners that are working
and who are very symptomatic...
612
00:38:14,025 --> 00:38:15,925
but who don't dare quit...
613
00:38:16,027 --> 00:38:19,861
unless they can be reassured
that they have sufficient impairment...
614
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:23,229
that they'll be able to collect
some sort of disability benefits.
615
00:38:23,334 --> 00:38:25,234
It's a kind of negative system...
616
00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:30,296
because what we do is we really force them to
keep working until they become that disabled.
617
00:38:31,842 --> 00:38:34,868
#He went to the boss man ♪
618
00:38:34,979 --> 00:38:39,211
#But he closed the door ♪
619
00:38:39,317 --> 00:38:43,117
♪ Well, it seems you're not wanted ♪
620
00:38:43,220 --> 00:38:45,848
- Very good.
♪ When you're sick ♪
621
00:38:45,956 --> 00:38:49,221
#And you're poor ♪
622
00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:53,195
♪ You're not even covered ♪
623
00:38:53,297 --> 00:38:57,529
#In their medical plans ♪
624
00:38:57,635 --> 00:39:01,230
#And your life depends ♪
625
00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:05,639
♪ On the favors of man ♪
626
00:39:07,411 --> 00:39:12,644
We want to do the right thing
about coal workers'pneumoconiosis.
627
00:39:12,750 --> 00:39:14,650
But we think the best informed...
628
00:39:14,752 --> 00:39:17,619
medical opinion will show you...
629
00:39:17,722 --> 00:39:19,622
that it's not true...
630
00:39:19,724 --> 00:39:22,625
that the inhalation and retention
of coal dust in the lungs...
631
00:39:22,727 --> 00:39:26,754
necessarily results in any impairment
of pulmonary function...
632
00:39:26,864 --> 00:39:28,764
and that, on the contrary...
633
00:39:28,866 --> 00:39:31,858
only a relatively small portion
of coal miners...
634
00:39:31,969 --> 00:39:34,961
who have coal dust
retained in the lungs...
635
00:39:35,072 --> 00:39:37,973
have any resulting impairment
of pulmonary function...
636
00:39:38,075 --> 00:39:39,975
much less disability.
637
00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:42,978
This is one of your brother's lungs.
638
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,049
And this is what it looks like at autopsy.
639
00:39:46,150 --> 00:39:48,983
And this is why he died.
640
00:39:49,086 --> 00:39:51,054
That's preventable.
641
00:39:52,089 --> 00:39:53,989
Other countries have done it.
642
00:39:54,091 --> 00:39:56,218
Other countries have made
tremendous strides.
643
00:39:56,327 --> 00:39:59,785
For example, the Australians believe
that they've completely eliminated...
644
00:39:59,897 --> 00:40:02,297
the problem of lung disease
in their coal miners.
645
00:40:03,801 --> 00:40:06,998
#Down at the graveyard ♪
646
00:40:07,104 --> 00:40:10,437
♪ The boss man came ♪
647
00:40:10,541 --> 00:40:15,444
♪ With his little bunch offlowers ♪
648
00:40:15,546 --> 00:40:18,140
#Dear God ♪
649
00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:20,774
♪ What a shame ♪
650
00:40:20,885 --> 00:40:24,082
♪ Take back those flowers ♪
651
00:40:24,188 --> 00:40:28,090
#Don't you sing no sad song ♪
652
00:40:28,192 --> 00:40:31,650
♪ The die has been cast now ♪
653
00:40:31,762 --> 00:40:36,665
#A good man is gone ♪
654
00:40:40,938 --> 00:40:46,740
It turns out that 1969 was a year for
an election in the United Mine Workers union.
655
00:40:46,844 --> 00:40:49,972
And with all the dissatisfaction
that was going on...
656
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,607
there was really, for the first time,
I guess, in the union's history...
657
00:40:53,717 --> 00:40:57,209
open talk of people
opposing Tony Boyle.
658
00:40:57,321 --> 00:40:59,983
Forty years I have to work in a mine...
659
00:41:00,090 --> 00:41:01,990
to get a pension.
660
00:41:02,092 --> 00:41:04,185
A meager pension at that.
661
00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:06,456
And I suppose, when I do quit...
662
00:41:06,564 --> 00:41:10,466
which will be in two years
because I can't stand it anymore...
663
00:41:10,568 --> 00:41:14,470
I won't be able to get silicosis
because you have to be dead.
664
00:41:14,638 --> 00:41:18,130
I doubt if Tony Boyle's ever knowed
what coal dust is on his hands.
665
00:41:18,242 --> 00:41:22,474
He's sittin' back there in Washington
drawin' a big amount of money.
666
00:41:22,580 --> 00:41:25,777
What for? He don't even know
what the miners goes through.
667
00:41:25,883 --> 00:41:29,046
And to hell with him!
That's the way I feel.
668
00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:31,713
"Boyle's doing nothing for the widows.
669
00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:34,188
"Boyle's doing nothing for the pensioners.
670
00:41:34,291 --> 00:41:38,022
"I'll give you this, I'll give you that.
671
00:41:38,128 --> 00:41:40,790
"I'll give you pie...
672
00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:44,698
"if I can reach high enough
in the sky...
673
00:41:44,802 --> 00:41:46,929
in the sweet by-and-by".
674
00:41:47,037 --> 00:41:48,937
Well, the coal miners in this country...
675
00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:51,405
are damn sick and tired of having...
676
00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,807
a national president of its organization...
677
00:41:53,911 --> 00:41:56,345
that's in bed with the coal operators.
678
00:42:02,620 --> 00:42:04,679
♪ Clarksville, Pennsylvania ♪
679
00:42:04,788 --> 00:42:07,018
#Is not too far from here ♪
680
00:42:07,124 --> 00:42:10,321
♪ Coal miners were hopin' ♪
681
00:42:10,427 --> 00:42:12,657
- #For a brighter new year ♪
- Hi, fellas.
682
00:42:12,763 --> 00:42:15,163
#But forJock Yablonski ♪
683
00:42:15,266 --> 00:42:17,632
#His daughter and wife ♪
684
00:42:17,735 --> 00:42:20,135
♪ The new year brought an ending ♪
685
00:42:20,237 --> 00:42:23,138
♪ To their precious lives ♪
686
00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:25,731
♪ Well, it's cold-blooded murder, friends ♪
687
00:42:25,843 --> 00:42:27,834
#I'm talkin'about ♪
688
00:42:27,945 --> 00:42:30,345
#Now who's gonna stand up ♪
689
00:42:30,447 --> 00:42:33,473
#And who's gonna fight ♪
690
00:42:33,584 --> 00:42:35,848
♪ You better clean up that union ♪
691
00:42:35,953 --> 00:42:37,944
#Put it on solid ground ♪
692
00:42:38,055 --> 00:42:40,683
#And get rid of that dirty trash ♪
693
00:42:40,791 --> 00:42:43,885
♪ That keeps the workin'man down ♪
694
00:42:43,994 --> 00:42:47,157
Now we have nine paid holidays.
695
00:42:47,264 --> 00:42:52,361
And I think the one that tops them all
is the holiday for your birthday.
696
00:42:52,469 --> 00:42:55,199
Every miner is given the opportunity...
697
00:42:55,306 --> 00:42:57,934
to work on his birthday...
698
00:42:58,042 --> 00:43:01,011
and he receives triple time
for working on his birthday.
699
00:43:01,111 --> 00:43:04,103
I think that's really something
to be proud of.
700
00:43:04,214 --> 00:43:07,911
And this is the thought
and the idea and the accomplishment...
701
00:43:08,018 --> 00:43:09,918
of President Boyle.
702
00:43:10,020 --> 00:43:14,218
When they asked, "How many terms do you want?"
you know how many terms I told 'em?
703
00:43:14,325 --> 00:43:18,887
I told 'em. I said, "Just as long
as the Supreme Being up there...
704
00:43:18,996 --> 00:43:22,932
"gives me the intellect
and the health to carry on...
705
00:43:23,033 --> 00:43:25,695
"and the membership
elect me to office.
706
00:43:25,803 --> 00:43:29,705
That's how many terms I want,
until I'm 180 years of age!"
707
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,310
Can you tell us
just where the bodies were found...
708
00:43:38,415 --> 00:43:40,508
and some of the circumstances
surrounding the discovery?
709
00:43:40,618 --> 00:43:45,954
Well, the, uh, daughter was in a bedroom
adjoining the master bedroom.
710
00:43:46,056 --> 00:43:50,857
Mr. And Mrs. Yablonski
were in the master bedroom.
711
00:43:50,961 --> 00:43:53,987
The events in Washington, Pennsylvania...
712
00:43:54,098 --> 00:43:57,363
show that murder is as institutionalized...
713
00:43:57,468 --> 00:43:59,368
within the U.M.W.A...
714
00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:01,665
as it is in the mafia.
715
00:44:01,772 --> 00:44:06,766
The order to kill -
to kill the whole family, if necessary-
716
00:44:06,877 --> 00:44:10,278
was as routinely transmitted
and carried out...
717
00:44:10,381 --> 00:44:13,873
as an order to call a strike
or settle a grievance.
718
00:44:15,019 --> 00:44:16,987
We loved and admired our father.
719
00:44:17,087 --> 00:44:19,248
We respected him.
720
00:44:19,356 --> 00:44:21,517
And my brother and I would like to carry him...
721
00:44:21,625 --> 00:44:23,650
to his final resting place.
722
00:44:25,029 --> 00:44:28,192
But we deem it proper
to do otherwise.
723
00:44:28,298 --> 00:44:32,064
My brother, Joseph, with our cousins
from my mother's family...
724
00:44:32,169 --> 00:44:34,069
will carry our mother...
725
00:44:34,171 --> 00:44:37,834
and I, with our cousins
from my father's family...
726
00:44:37,941 --> 00:44:40,637
will carry our sister, Charlotte.
727
00:44:40,744 --> 00:44:44,612
We entrust our father
to the coal miners whom he loved so much.
728
00:44:45,649 --> 00:44:48,413
♪ O Death ♪
729
00:44:48,519 --> 00:44:50,646
♪ O Death ♪
730
00:44:50,754 --> 00:44:54,656
#Please spare me over
for another year ♪
731
00:44:54,758 --> 00:44:56,817
#Please spare me over ♪
732
00:44:56,927 --> 00:45:00,419
#For another year ♪
733
00:45:00,531 --> 00:45:03,500
♪ The children prayed
The preacher preached ♪
734
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,797
♪ Time and mercy's out of reach ♪
735
00:45:06,904 --> 00:45:09,771
#Said Death
"I come to take the soul ♪
736
00:45:09,873 --> 00:45:13,001
♪ "Leave the body
and leave it cold ♪
737
00:45:13,110 --> 00:45:16,045
♪ "Take the skin right off the brain ♪
738
00:45:16,146 --> 00:45:18,979
#Earth and worms both have their claim" ♪
739
00:45:19,083 --> 00:45:23,019
♪ O Death ♪
740
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,384
♪ O Death ♪
741
00:45:25,489 --> 00:45:29,482
♪ Please spare me over
for another year ♪
742
00:45:29,593 --> 00:45:31,959
♪ Please spare me over ♪
743
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:35,361
♪ For another year ♪
744
00:45:39,036 --> 00:45:41,004
In 1969...
745
00:45:43,941 --> 00:45:47,741
there wasn't any reform organization.
746
00:45:47,845 --> 00:45:51,679
This is 1972...
747
00:45:51,782 --> 00:45:55,650
and this is the year
for Miners for Democracy.
748
00:45:56,754 --> 00:45:58,551
Now you can look around...
749
00:45:58,655 --> 00:46:00,555
and see your brothers...
750
00:46:00,657 --> 00:46:02,557
in other districts...
751
00:46:02,659 --> 00:46:06,493
who are willing to stand
shoulder to shoulder with you...
752
00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:10,590
to throw Boyle and his crowd out...
753
00:46:10,701 --> 00:46:12,999
for once and for all.
754
00:46:15,172 --> 00:46:19,199
I'm proud of the honor ofheading up
a slate of rank-and-file candidates...
755
00:46:20,511 --> 00:46:22,411
for the international offices...
756
00:46:22,513 --> 00:46:24,413
for rank-and-file miners.
757
00:46:24,515 --> 00:46:27,678
We must have a safety program...
758
00:46:27,785 --> 00:46:29,912
that will guarantee our members...
759
00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:32,352
a safejourney to and from the mines...
760
00:46:32,456 --> 00:46:34,947
not one which accepts...
761
00:46:35,058 --> 00:46:38,425
that we must lose
200-300 men every year in mining.
762
00:46:38,529 --> 00:46:42,898
I wanna make it plain that my commitment
is to the rank-and-file miner.
763
00:46:45,002 --> 00:46:48,665
♪ When the ninth of December rolls around ♪
764
00:46:48,772 --> 00:46:53,300
♪ We'll have our election day ♪
765
00:46:53,410 --> 00:46:56,641
#And, Boyle, you'd better
sit up and listen ♪
766
00:46:56,747 --> 00:47:00,808
♪ 'Cause here's what we're gonna say ♪
767
00:47:00,918 --> 00:47:05,150
♪ Oh, Tony, you been
at the trough too long ♪
768
00:47:05,255 --> 00:47:10,090
#Been stealin'all our pay ♪
769
00:47:10,194 --> 00:47:13,288
#But Miller is here
and the time is near ♪
770
00:47:13,397 --> 00:47:18,425
♪ There's comin'a reckonin'day ♪
771
00:47:18,535 --> 00:47:21,629
♪ Comin'a reckonin'day ♪
772
00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:25,471
I now pronounce you president
of United Mine Workers of America.
773
00:47:25,576 --> 00:47:29,103
Congratulations.!
774
00:47:31,381 --> 00:47:33,281
Which office was this?
775
00:47:33,383 --> 00:47:35,283
This was Boyle's old office...
776
00:47:35,385 --> 00:47:38,286
and the other one
was Suzanne Richards's old office.
777
00:47:38,388 --> 00:47:40,288
Neither lives here anymore.
778
00:47:42,392 --> 00:47:45,327
I do sign a 20-cent royalty for-
779
00:47:45,429 --> 00:47:47,659
- Peabody.!
- Peabody Coal Company.
780
00:47:47,764 --> 00:47:49,664
Tony Boyle.
781
00:47:49,766 --> 00:47:51,631
What'd you say?
782
00:47:51,735 --> 00:47:53,464
Mr. Boyle was giving...
783
00:47:53,570 --> 00:47:56,505
a civil deposition when he was intruded upon...
784
00:47:56,607 --> 00:47:58,438
by three F.B.I. agents.
785
00:47:58,542 --> 00:48:00,442
I think that's grossly unfair.
786
00:48:00,544 --> 00:48:04,241
Never expected that that was gonna
come through - anything like this.
787
00:48:04,348 --> 00:48:08,011
- Why?
- Because I had no forewarning.
788
00:48:08,118 --> 00:48:10,678
What about the charge itself?
789
00:48:10,787 --> 00:48:13,153
Well, as I read the charge -
790
00:48:13,257 --> 00:48:16,158
I'm not supposed to say anything.
My lawyer told me not to.
791
00:48:16,260 --> 00:48:18,626
Come on, Tony.
792
00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:21,721
- As you read the charge, what?
- Tony? Tony?
793
00:48:21,832 --> 00:48:23,959
As bad as the killers are-
794
00:48:24,067 --> 00:48:27,366
Vealey and Gilly
and whatever they may be-
795
00:48:27,471 --> 00:48:29,701
they don't compare
to the people at the top...
796
00:48:29,806 --> 00:48:33,401
who would use
the blood and sweat of miners...
797
00:48:33,510 --> 00:48:36,070
to finance for killing.
798
00:48:37,848 --> 00:48:39,816
Excuse us, please.
799
00:48:41,084 --> 00:48:43,052
Excuse me.
800
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:31,963
The United Mine Workers today...
801
00:49:32,069 --> 00:49:34,094
is a labor organization...
802
00:49:34,204 --> 00:49:36,331
of rank-and-file miners...
803
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,568
led by rank-and-file miners,
for rank-and-file miners.
804
00:49:39,676 --> 00:49:41,576
And that's the way it oughta be.
805
00:49:47,451 --> 00:49:49,851
I want to introduce
to all of you now-
806
00:49:49,953 --> 00:49:54,083
and I expect that most of you
already know her- Miss Florence Reese.
807
00:49:54,191 --> 00:49:57,592
I'm not a coal miner,
as you well know...
808
00:49:57,694 --> 00:50:00,254
but I'm as close as I could be
not to be one.
809
00:50:00,364 --> 00:50:03,561
My father was a coal miner
who was killed in the mines...
810
00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:05,999
and my husband is slowly dyin'
with the black lung.
811
00:50:06,103 --> 00:50:10,096
And my husband and me
was in the strike in the '30s...
812
00:50:10,207 --> 00:50:12,107
in bloody Harlan County...
813
00:50:12,209 --> 00:50:15,303
and I do mean it was bloody too.
814
00:50:15,412 --> 00:50:18,643
And they tell me -These miners say
we're gonna stick it out...
815
00:50:18,749 --> 00:50:21,809
unless Duke Power signs a contract,
till hell freezes over.
816
00:50:27,324 --> 00:50:31,351
And the men knows they got nothin'to lose
but their chains...
817
00:50:31,461 --> 00:50:33,361
and their union to gain.
818
00:50:33,463 --> 00:50:35,431
So I say hang in there.
819
00:50:35,532 --> 00:50:39,195
And, uh, now, this song
I composed in the '30s.
820
00:50:39,302 --> 00:50:42,203
As you know, I'm old -
that's 40 year ago -
821
00:50:42,305 --> 00:50:44,205
and I can't sing very well...
822
00:50:44,307 --> 00:50:48,209
but you can ask the scabs
and the gun thugs which side they're on...
823
00:50:48,311 --> 00:50:50,211
because they're workers too.
824
00:50:52,616 --> 00:50:54,743
♪ Come, all you poor workers ♪
825
00:50:54,851 --> 00:50:57,945
♪ Good news to you I'll tell ♪
826
00:50:58,055 --> 00:51:00,319
♪ How the good old union ♪
827
00:51:00,424 --> 00:51:02,949
♪ Is coming here to dwell ♪
828
00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:05,358
#Which side are you on ♪
829
00:51:05,462 --> 00:51:08,329
♪ Which side are you on ♪
830
00:51:08,432 --> 00:51:11,162
#If you go to Harlan County ♪
831
00:51:11,268 --> 00:51:13,930
#There is no neutral there ♪
832
00:51:14,037 --> 00:51:16,597
#You'll either be a union man ♪
833
00:51:16,706 --> 00:51:19,300
♪ Or a thug forJ.H. Blair ♪
834
00:51:19,409 --> 00:51:24,176
#Which side are you on
Which side are you on ♪
835
00:51:24,414 --> 00:51:26,439
What about this gun bein'pulled?
836
00:51:26,550 --> 00:51:28,950
Oh, he pulled it right here!
837
00:51:29,052 --> 00:51:31,543
- He had it concealed in a rag.
- And we got his name.
838
00:51:31,655 --> 00:51:35,352
He told me that- His boys said if we got
in his way again he would mow us down.
839
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.
840
00:51:38,462 --> 00:51:40,430
We're here on peaceful business".
841
00:51:41,631 --> 00:51:44,532
So he put it back in his holster then,
wrapped it back up in a rag...
842
00:51:44,634 --> 00:51:46,534
and got back in his car.
843
00:51:46,636 --> 00:51:48,695
But he did pull the gun and point it.
844
00:51:50,073 --> 00:51:52,564
That's Basil Collins.
That's the gun thug.
845
00:51:52,676 --> 00:51:54,769
He is a known strikebreaker.
846
00:51:54,878 --> 00:51:56,778
That man is a gun thug.
847
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,280
He's the same one
that came up here before.
848
00:51:59,382 --> 00:52:02,351
He had the gun in the car
whenever Red was talkin' to him.
849
00:52:02,452 --> 00:52:05,353
He's a-cruisin'around here now,
goin'up and down...
850
00:52:05,455 --> 00:52:08,117
tryin'to find out who's here.
851
00:52:08,225 --> 00:52:10,853
- Who are you working with, honey?
- What? United Press.
852
00:52:10,961 --> 00:52:13,429
Who do you work with?
Well, you show me your press card.
853
00:52:13,530 --> 00:52:16,431
- It's in the car. Anne, get my press card.
- Show me your press card.
854
00:52:16,533 --> 00:52:19,627
- Okay. What's your name, sir?
- My name's Basil Collins.
855
00:52:19,736 --> 00:52:21,636
- Do you work here?
- Yes, ma'am.
856
00:52:21,738 --> 00:52:24,866
- What's your position here?
- Line foreman.
857
00:52:24,975 --> 00:52:27,603
How do you feel about the people
picketing out here?
858
00:52:28,645 --> 00:52:30,545
Well...
859
00:52:30,647 --> 00:52:32,740
I don't have no comment on that.
860
00:52:33,783 --> 00:52:35,910
- And you, sir?
- Same thing.
861
00:52:36,019 --> 00:52:37,987
Where's this press card
you was gonna show me?
862
00:52:38,088 --> 00:52:40,318
- Can I see your identification?
- Ma'am?
863
00:52:40,423 --> 00:52:42,618
- May I see your identification?
- Yes, ma'am, if I had any.
864
00:52:42,726 --> 00:52:44,990
I'm sorry. I've lost it.
All I can do is tell you my name.
865
00:52:44,991 --> 00:52:47,254
I think I might have misplaced mine too.
866
00:52:47,364 --> 00:52:49,332
- Okay. Okay.
- All right.
867
00:52:51,368 --> 00:52:54,997
He had the nerve enough,
believe it or not, to run for sheriff.
868
00:52:56,773 --> 00:53:00,800
We're not gonna have the violence of the '30s.
869
00:53:00,911 --> 00:53:03,744
The conditions are not the same.
870
00:53:03,847 --> 00:53:06,441
There is probably nothing illegal or immoral...
871
00:53:06,550 --> 00:53:08,450
about the union trying to get...
872
00:53:08,552 --> 00:53:10,452
the best contract they can...
873
00:53:10,554 --> 00:53:12,488
including the one they have
with everyone else.
874
00:53:12,589 --> 00:53:16,685
On the other hand, the fact that
somebody else has made a contract...
875
00:53:16,793 --> 00:53:18,693
with the United Mine Workers...
876
00:53:18,795 --> 00:53:21,491
doesn't raise any obligation
on our part, as I see it...
877
00:53:21,598 --> 00:53:24,089
legally or morally,
to accept that contract...
878
00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:26,294
any more than we could
go to the union...
879
00:53:26,403 --> 00:53:29,372
and say we want you to accept
the Southern Labor Union contract...
880
00:53:29,472 --> 00:53:31,372
which we have at two other mines.
881
00:53:31,474 --> 00:53:33,374
Is it as simple as that?
882
00:53:33,476 --> 00:53:37,310
You do not want the major industry
agreement with United Mine Workers.
883
00:53:37,414 --> 00:53:39,814
- That is the 1971 agreement.
- It's that simple.
884
00:53:39,916 --> 00:53:41,941
Yes, sir.
If you want to make it simple.
885
00:53:45,989 --> 00:53:50,426
We'll bug 'em a little bit this mornin',
play with 'em a little bit, see.
886
00:53:50,527 --> 00:53:52,654
- Mister, you're mean.
- I'm not.
887
00:53:52,762 --> 00:53:56,323
- Mean old man. That's what you are.
- That's what they say, don't they?
888
00:53:56,433 --> 00:53:58,594
You can tell 'em different, can't you?
889
00:53:58,702 --> 00:54:02,331
Huh? I'm as gentle as a newborn baby.
890
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:12,207
Just when it was the first ti-
time they went to work.
891
00:54:12,315 --> 00:54:15,216
All of them had guns and pistols.
892
00:54:15,318 --> 00:54:19,049
And it was just-
You know, it was really bad up there.
893
00:54:32,569 --> 00:54:35,470
Get the hell out of my way.
894
00:54:35,572 --> 00:54:39,565
Get back in here now.
Hold the rest of'em. Hold everybody.
895
00:54:45,615 --> 00:54:49,483
- Preparin'for a little trouble here.
- There's a gun. Get a picture of that gun.
896
00:54:49,586 --> 00:54:51,486
- Gun.
- Where?
897
00:55:12,709 --> 00:55:14,734
Go on in, boys.
898
00:55:14,844 --> 00:55:18,610
Come on in. Come on.!
899
00:55:22,986 --> 00:55:24,954
Come on in.
900
00:55:25,055 --> 00:55:27,319
Go on in, Bobby.
901
00:55:43,340 --> 00:55:47,071
Let's go, boys.
Everybody, let's go.
902
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,420
I'm not happy about it.
We can't hold 'em -
903
00:55:59,522 --> 00:56:02,753
We can hold 'em, but we can't hold 'em
with all them guns they got.
904
00:56:02,859 --> 00:56:04,759
They got guns.
We don't got 'em.
905
00:56:04,861 --> 00:56:08,854
They allowed to carry guns and sticks.
We can't have nothing but a knife and a whetrock.
906
00:56:08,965 --> 00:56:10,865
That's right.
907
00:56:10,967 --> 00:56:14,869
We just heard that, uh, Mickey Messer,
president of Brookside Local was, uh -
908
00:56:14,971 --> 00:56:17,269
house was shot up last night by...
909
00:56:17,374 --> 00:56:19,274
some Highsplint employees.
910
00:56:19,376 --> 00:56:21,503
They called his name
to get him to come outside...
911
00:56:21,611 --> 00:56:24,705
and he went out the back door and they
opened up on him with a machine gun.
912
00:56:24,814 --> 00:56:27,783
Right here is one shot.
913
00:56:27,884 --> 00:56:30,375
Up here is a shot.
914
00:56:30,487 --> 00:56:34,150
And then right here is a shot.
915
00:56:34,257 --> 00:56:38,250
I'm sure it was scabs- uh, gun thugs-
Eastover has hired...
916
00:56:38,361 --> 00:56:41,853
because, uh, there ain't nobody else
who'd want to do anything like that to me.
917
00:56:41,965 --> 00:56:43,865
I've never bothered anybody.
918
00:56:43,967 --> 00:56:46,663
They're shootin' down beside the house,
and we all slipped to the floor.
919
00:56:46,770 --> 00:56:50,297
- Jesus. Honey-
- Thugs shooting. Yes.
920
00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:54,275
They shot about 16 times last night.
Knocked me out of bed.
921
00:56:54,377 --> 00:56:56,811
And the kids was all in there cryin'.
922
00:56:56,913 --> 00:56:58,813
Scarin' your baby.
923
00:56:58,915 --> 00:57:01,281
- Makes my blood boil.
- Shh.
924
00:57:01,384 --> 00:57:05,218
If we don't want it
to come back to the '30s...
925
00:57:05,321 --> 00:57:07,448
and bloody Harlan...
926
00:57:07,557 --> 00:57:11,493
and all of this crowd -
women and men -
927
00:57:11,594 --> 00:57:15,860
can get out on the picket line
two or three times, we've got it made.
928
00:57:15,965 --> 00:57:20,026
If you're afraid to go to sleep
and can't wake up, just stay up all night.
929
00:57:20,136 --> 00:57:22,604
Let's not let it happen-
930
00:57:22,705 --> 00:57:25,367
to come back to the '30s -
because I was here.
931
00:57:25,475 --> 00:57:29,411
I seed children hungry,
cryin' for somethin' to eat.
932
00:57:29,512 --> 00:57:34,279
And - Oh, I - I can't take it.
I'll be out -
933
00:57:34,384 --> 00:57:38,343
If I get shot, they can't
shoot the union out of me.
934
00:57:43,026 --> 00:57:45,961
#If you don't want your husbands ♪
935
00:57:46,062 --> 00:57:48,553
♪ To die in a coal mine ♪
936
00:57:48,665 --> 00:57:53,864
#I'll see you in the mornin'
out on the picket line ♪
937
00:57:53,970 --> 00:57:56,768
♪ Which side are you on ♪
938
00:57:56,873 --> 00:58:00,309
♪ Which side are you on ♪
939
00:58:00,410 --> 00:58:03,345
♪ We're fighting for a contract ♪
940
00:58:03,446 --> 00:58:06,074
♪ We're fighting to be free ♪
941
00:58:06,182 --> 00:58:11,711
#And the picket line is a long line
There's room for you and me ♪
942
00:58:11,821 --> 00:58:14,312
♪ Which side are you on ♪
943
00:58:14,424 --> 00:58:17,757
♪ Which side are you on ♪
944
00:58:36,012 --> 00:58:39,209
We find two or three -
sometimes four pickets.
945
00:58:39,315 --> 00:58:41,510
Very rarely are we finding six.
946
00:58:41,618 --> 00:58:44,246
Now, where are all these people
that was raisin'hell...
947
00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:47,585
because they couldn't have 50
on these picket lines?
948
00:58:47,690 --> 00:58:51,990
Now, the understanding
in this local union was...
949
00:58:52,095 --> 00:58:54,461
that strike benefits would be paid...
950
00:58:56,199 --> 00:58:59,430
and every man
would pull his share of picket duty.
951
00:58:59,536 --> 00:59:02,004
- Right or wrong?
- Right.
952
00:59:02,105 --> 00:59:04,938
All right. Then what in the hell's
goin' on around here?
953
00:59:05,041 --> 00:59:09,637
Let me tell you somethin'. When I was on the
picket line, you was in bed and you was in bed.
954
00:59:09,746 --> 00:59:12,681
So don't tell me -
And so I know about -
955
00:59:12,782 --> 00:59:15,512
- Yeah, but we went tojail-
- Oh, you went to jail.
956
00:59:15,618 --> 00:59:18,678
- Who else went to jail? Was you the only one?
- No.
957
00:59:18,788 --> 00:59:22,349
We stayed over there as long as
we could stay without goin' back to jail.
958
00:59:22,458 --> 00:59:24,358
I call for a moment of silence.
959
00:59:24,460 --> 00:59:27,224
She's not done nothin'but cause trouble.
960
00:59:27,330 --> 00:59:30,663
- You know, you make me sick.
- Well, you make me sick too.
961
00:59:33,336 --> 00:59:37,136
to you and tell you what they tell me-
that you're running round with their husbands.
962
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:39,470
You're trying to take
their husbands away from 'em.
963
00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:42,545
Okay then. They told me
you're an alcoholic and everything else.
964
00:59:42,645 --> 00:59:45,910
I don't care who takes whose man,
who lives with whose man or what they do.
965
00:59:46,015 --> 00:59:50,475
If they can take mine and take him on,
they can have him. I'll shed no tears.
966
00:59:50,587 --> 00:59:54,853
I'm not after a man. I'm after a contract.
I'm raisin' two boys.
967
01:00:01,731 --> 01:00:06,100
I tell you. We can't let our brother down.
We gotta stand on solid ground.
968
01:00:06,202 --> 01:00:08,102
And then we're gonna go through.
969
01:00:08,204 --> 01:00:09,804
If we're gonna start lettin' personal -
970
01:00:09,805 --> 01:00:13,005
what we feel about each other
personally get in the way...
971
01:00:13,109 --> 01:00:15,543
then we're not gonna
be able to accomplish anything.
972
01:00:15,645 --> 01:00:18,375
I don't count myself
nothing big in the club.
973
01:00:18,481 --> 01:00:20,506
I don't count myself no bigger
than nobody else.
974
01:00:20,617 --> 01:00:23,051
The rest of'em has more
to do with it than I do...
975
01:00:23,152 --> 01:00:26,553
because my husband was mashed up
in the mines, retired.
976
01:00:26,656 --> 01:00:28,624
And Eastover just pushed us out.
977
01:00:28,725 --> 01:00:31,558
We was pushed out before
the rent was up and all of that.
978
01:00:31,661 --> 01:00:34,459
It either smashed up their daddies...
979
01:00:34,564 --> 01:00:38,000
or down with coal dust from that mines.
980
01:00:38,101 --> 01:00:41,434
I went to school - to age of school -
I've got part of the sixth grade...
981
01:00:41,537 --> 01:00:44,904
because Daddy got eight dollars
and somethin' a shift.
982
01:00:45,008 --> 01:00:48,500
Nothin' to go to school on.
I had to go in overalls.
983
01:00:48,611 --> 01:00:51,978
And pile out slate for a living
after I growed up.
984
01:00:52,081 --> 01:00:54,174
Coal out of it and sell it.
985
01:00:54,283 --> 01:00:56,183
And...
986
01:00:56,285 --> 01:00:58,651
walk off of that mountain
from that mines to school.
987
01:00:58,755 --> 01:01:01,383
And they're all barned up there,
not even allowed in it.
988
01:01:01,491 --> 01:01:06,485
I've got Mom's coal oil lamps. I've got her
stove irons a-sittin' there for 'em to look at.
989
01:01:06,596 --> 01:01:09,292
And walkin' to school and back.
990
01:01:12,235 --> 01:01:16,194
And I know everybody's disappointed
we don't have a bigger crowd...
991
01:01:16,305 --> 01:01:20,435
and we're disappointed that more people
haven't come in, but when you get down to it...
992
01:01:20,543 --> 01:01:24,138
in this fight, and like in any other fight,
you gotta depend on yourselves.
993
01:01:24,247 --> 01:01:26,408
Nobody in the end's gonna do it for you.
994
01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:29,508
The union's gonna back you,
and we're gonna do all we can...
995
01:01:29,619 --> 01:01:32,087
but you gotta win this fight yourselves.
996
01:01:32,188 --> 01:01:35,320
Now, it's the first time East Kentucky
has stood up against the coal operators,
997
01:01:35,321 --> 01:01:36,887
and you're doin' it.
998
01:01:36,993 --> 01:01:40,429
And when you win, you're fighting
for your kids and your grandkids.
999
01:01:40,530 --> 01:01:43,795
Every one of them will have a better life
because of what you're doin' here.
1000
01:01:43,900 --> 01:01:45,800
And that's why the fight's so hard.
1001
01:01:45,902 --> 01:01:48,871
If there wasn't so much at stake,
they wouldn't be fightin' you this hard.
1002
01:01:48,971 --> 01:01:51,439
They wouldn't shoot into your homes
if there wasn't so much at stake.
1003
01:01:51,541 --> 01:01:55,272
And if there are not enough on the picket line,
then when you come to the picket line...
1004
01:01:55,378 --> 01:01:58,279
on the way, stop by
and pick someone up and knock on his door...
1005
01:01:58,381 --> 01:02:00,349
and ask him to come along with ya.
1006
01:02:00,516 --> 01:02:02,643
- Bob, are you gonna be there?
- Where?
1007
01:02:02,752 --> 01:02:05,016
- At the picket line at Highsplint
in the mornin'. - Yeah.
1008
01:02:05,121 --> 01:02:07,885
I don't know what y'all
are goin'up to do except for-
1009
01:02:07,990 --> 01:02:12,518
The thugs that's sittin' there
in the highway with guns in their hands.
1010
01:02:12,628 --> 01:02:14,994
We can't do nothin'
except get up there and whittle.
1011
01:02:15,098 --> 01:02:16,998
How do you feel about it, Tommy?
1012
01:02:17,100 --> 01:02:21,730
How do you feel about us comin' up there?
I don't want to go up there against their will.
1013
01:02:21,838 --> 01:02:23,897
I want to be welcomed, but, uh -
1014
01:02:24,006 --> 01:02:27,032
Welcomed? We've been expecting
you forever to come. Come.
1015
01:02:33,516 --> 01:02:38,180
Now, we've got a new president.
Sudie Crusenberry is our new president.
1016
01:02:38,287 --> 01:02:40,721
So let's give her a hand.
1017
01:02:44,961 --> 01:02:48,021
And we've got two treasurers-
co-treasurers.
1018
01:02:48,131 --> 01:02:50,895
DorothyJohnson and Mary Lou Fergerson.
1019
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,696
So let's give them-
1020
01:02:53,803 --> 01:02:56,738
I- I really- I'm just really tickled...
1021
01:02:56,839 --> 01:03:00,275
that we've got this many people out,
you know, today, and all of us out.
1022
01:03:00,376 --> 01:03:02,844
And I think if one thing,
it's helped us.
1023
01:03:02,945 --> 01:03:05,209
'Cause last week we had such a struggle.
1024
01:03:05,314 --> 01:03:07,805
But I think
that what's come out of it is good.
1025
01:03:08,851 --> 01:03:10,785
Come on.!
1026
01:03:10,887 --> 01:03:12,946
- And it's loaded?
- Yeah.
1027
01:03:13,055 --> 01:03:15,489
You shouldn't carry it with you like that.
1028
01:03:15,591 --> 01:03:19,493
It's got a safety on it. And if it did,
it wouldn't shoot nothin' but my titty off.
1029
01:03:19,595 --> 01:03:22,029
And I might lose that one anyway.
1030
01:03:22,131 --> 01:03:24,031
As long as I got another one.
1031
01:03:24,133 --> 01:03:26,226
- I want you to meet Anita, Lois.
- Oh.
1032
01:03:26,335 --> 01:03:28,826
Tellin' 'em I started out with a switch
on that picket line...
1033
01:03:28,938 --> 01:03:30,963
but I'm ended up now carrying a gun.
1034
01:03:31,073 --> 01:03:32,973
I mean, all the time too.
1035
01:03:33,075 --> 01:03:38,240
Hell, you - I have to, you know - Especially
since what's happening up there at Highsplint.
1036
01:03:38,347 --> 01:03:40,247
And knowin' 'em and seein' 'em.
1037
01:03:40,349 --> 01:03:42,283
Seeing the machine guns and all.
1038
01:03:42,385 --> 01:03:46,685
It's time to -
Well, you'd be crazy not to carry a gun now.
1039
01:03:47,723 --> 01:03:49,918
You would, really.
1040
01:03:50,026 --> 01:03:51,994
Yeah.
1041
01:03:52,094 --> 01:03:56,053
Well, all right. Uh, are we gonna -
Are y'all gonna be back at 6:00?
1042
01:04:15,017 --> 01:04:16,951
Don't shoot.!
1043
01:04:28,731 --> 01:04:30,699
Watch out. Coming back across the bridge.
1044
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:33,200
He shot right at me.
1045
01:04:36,239 --> 01:04:38,207
No.!
1046
01:04:41,811 --> 01:04:44,245
You get away from me.! Huh?
1047
01:04:49,418 --> 01:04:51,386
Fuckin'- A.!
1048
01:04:53,723 --> 01:04:57,386
Take 'em back over there
and take your pants off, Basil.
1049
01:04:57,493 --> 01:04:59,723
All right, men.
Let's - Let's break it up now.
1050
01:04:59,829 --> 01:05:02,263
Clear the bridge.
Let these people leave.
1051
01:05:03,299 --> 01:05:05,631
You know that nigger?
1052
01:05:05,735 --> 01:05:08,863
That "nigger"
is a better man than you'll ever be.
1053
01:05:08,971 --> 01:05:12,168
He's a better man than you'll ever be.
1054
01:05:12,275 --> 01:05:14,334
Three or four of'em,
damned old gun thugs...
1055
01:05:14,443 --> 01:05:17,412
get on him and start kicking a woman
and hitting a woman and then-
1056
01:05:17,513 --> 01:05:21,210
and then another one come over
and start beatin' a man...
1057
01:05:21,317 --> 01:05:23,683
and - and gettin'
four or five of them on him...
1058
01:05:23,786 --> 01:05:26,118
and then see, uh -
uh, Basil Collins holding a gun...
1059
01:05:26,222 --> 01:05:31,057
and - and calling a - a - a union man
that believes in - union man -
1060
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:35,290
said, "I want you to get that nigger.
You hear that nigger? Get that nigger".
1061
01:05:35,398 --> 01:05:38,060
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of it.
1062
01:05:39,101 --> 01:05:42,070
And it's - it's time for us, uh,
to - to stand together...
1063
01:05:42,171 --> 01:05:45,834
and - and get just as violent as they are.
1064
01:05:45,942 --> 01:05:48,638
- I agree.
- Right.
1065
01:05:48,744 --> 01:05:52,305
They're violent, so, by God,
you fight fire with fire.
1066
01:05:52,415 --> 01:05:55,543
It seemed like they were
pretty well organized to me this morning...
1067
01:05:55,651 --> 01:05:58,347
and we're gonna have to get
a little tighter organized.
1068
01:05:58,454 --> 01:06:00,888
We're gonna get together.
The women are gonna get together...
1069
01:06:00,990 --> 01:06:03,254
and be responsible
for 10 women each...
1070
01:06:03,359 --> 01:06:05,725
- or 10 people out there each at 4:00.
- Okay.
1071
01:06:05,828 --> 01:06:08,524
If you women gonna bring 10 each...
1072
01:06:08,631 --> 01:06:10,758
then, uh, the men
ought to be able to say...
1073
01:06:10,866 --> 01:06:14,768
"Well, we'll bring five
or we'll bring 10 or we'll bring 15."
1074
01:06:16,005 --> 01:06:18,064
And that would be workin' together.
1075
01:06:18,174 --> 01:06:22,110
You're gonna have to get some more
black people out, too, 'cause you look odd-
1076
01:06:22,211 --> 01:06:24,441
I am odd.
1077
01:06:26,482 --> 01:06:29,940
They want us to sit by
and watch 'em shoot...
1078
01:06:30,052 --> 01:06:31,986
and not us shoot back.
1079
01:06:32,088 --> 01:06:35,148
And the police is not gonna do nothin'
about it either. They're for them.
1080
01:06:35,257 --> 01:06:37,157
No. We know that.
just fight back.
1081
01:06:37,259 --> 01:06:40,854
Just attack hell out of them -
and not run.
1082
01:06:40,963 --> 01:06:43,761
Let your conscience be you go -
I never run.
1083
01:06:45,201 --> 01:06:47,795
I - I had one.
One's all I could handle.
1084
01:06:47,903 --> 01:06:50,838
But I got him.
He didn't come no farther.
1085
01:06:50,940 --> 01:06:53,306
If there's enough of us up there,
and we can get one-
1086
01:06:53,409 --> 01:06:55,639
if each one of us can get one,
hell, we can do it.
1087
01:06:55,745 --> 01:07:00,478
Men, women and children all.
1088
01:07:00,583 --> 01:07:02,642
It's time to stand up and be counted.
1089
01:07:02,752 --> 01:07:05,585
Don't you gonna be
throwed back for 500 years.
1090
01:07:06,856 --> 01:07:10,053
We're gonna have a picket line
in the morning.
1091
01:07:10,159 --> 01:07:12,650
And we hope to have a big picket line.
1092
01:07:12,762 --> 01:07:15,731
It's gonna be set up a little bit
different than the last one.
1093
01:07:15,831 --> 01:07:17,964
'Cause - We can't have
a picket line at the bridge
1094
01:07:17,965 --> 01:07:20,097
with a.30-caliber machine gun
shooting at you.
1095
01:07:20,202 --> 01:07:22,261
These ladies are setting it up.
1096
01:07:22,371 --> 01:07:25,636
We're gonna have to get out there
and back them. That's all there are to it.
1097
01:07:25,741 --> 01:07:29,108
They come up to back us, and we're not even
backing them. It's pretty disgusting.
1098
01:07:29,211 --> 01:07:31,736
So we'd like to see-
We know about who ain't been there.
1099
01:07:31,847 --> 01:07:34,247
We'd like to see you out there
once in a while.
1100
01:07:36,419 --> 01:07:39,081
- Has anybody got any questions?
- Bob.
1101
01:07:39,188 --> 01:07:41,452
Most of'em are afraid to come up.
1102
01:07:41,557 --> 01:07:43,457
Hell, I'm afraid too,
but I go up there.
1103
01:07:43,559 --> 01:07:46,392
Looked pretty shaky up there this mornin:
1104
01:07:46,495 --> 01:07:48,463
We got some good uns though.
1105
01:07:51,233 --> 01:07:53,565
- Anything anybody want to bring up?
- Can I talk?
1106
01:07:53,669 --> 01:07:55,967
Come on up here.
You sure can.
1107
01:07:57,206 --> 01:08:02,075
Uh, if there's anybody in here
that can't - or is not with us...
1108
01:08:02,178 --> 01:08:05,170
and can't go with us in the morning...
1109
01:08:05,281 --> 01:08:08,717
I'd rather for 'em to leave
before that I finish this...
1110
01:08:08,818 --> 01:08:10,979
because I do want to know...
1111
01:08:11,087 --> 01:08:15,490
if we're gonna have these people here
or if we can depend on 'em or what.
1112
01:08:15,591 --> 01:08:19,118
Because if we can't,
we're not a-gonna go up there no more...
1113
01:08:19,228 --> 01:08:22,391
and have those machine guns
shot at us and have the -
1114
01:08:22,498 --> 01:08:24,898
the gun thugs a-comin' across
and attacking us.
1115
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,935
We're not a-gonna do that.
Now, we're with ya...
1116
01:08:28,037 --> 01:08:29,937
and we'll stick with ya.
1117
01:08:30,039 --> 01:08:33,202
All these women -
We got a whole gang of'em...
1118
01:08:33,309 --> 01:08:35,277
that says they'll go
with 'em tomorrow...
1119
01:08:35,377 --> 01:08:39,006
and we're gonna be
at Mac's in the morning at 5:00.
1120
01:08:39,115 --> 01:08:42,209
Now, they're not -
We're not a-gonna go any earlier than that...
1121
01:08:42,318 --> 01:08:45,754
because if we do,
we're just sitting ducks for them.
1122
01:08:45,855 --> 01:08:47,789
And they'll wait for us.
1123
01:08:47,890 --> 01:08:50,825
And we're not a-gonna tell you where we're
gonna set up the picket line
1124
01:08:50,826 --> 01:08:52,293
until in the morning.
1125
01:08:52,394 --> 01:08:55,124
If you want to know where
the picket line's gonna be set up...
1126
01:08:55,231 --> 01:08:57,199
you'll be at Mac's
in the morning at 5:00.
1127
01:08:57,299 --> 01:08:59,199
We need every man and woman.
1128
01:08:59,301 --> 01:09:02,031
There's enough Brookside pickets
and Highsplint pickets...
1129
01:09:02,138 --> 01:09:04,971
and women
that those scabs wouldn't mean a thing...
1130
01:09:05,074 --> 01:09:06,974
if we get all of'em up there.
1131
01:09:07,076 --> 01:09:09,909
But we're not a-gonna do it
layin' in bed.
1132
01:09:14,150 --> 01:09:16,675
Think they're gonna shoot at us today?
1133
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:19,688
Shot at us yesterday.
1134
01:09:19,788 --> 01:09:22,882
- What about today?
- I don't know.
1135
01:09:26,862 --> 01:09:29,228
- You scared?
- I hope not. Yeah.
1136
01:09:29,331 --> 01:09:31,925
Ain't you?
1137
01:09:35,938 --> 01:09:37,906
I just hope nobody gets hurt.
1138
01:09:43,212 --> 01:09:46,181
I don't believe -We'd have seen 'em go.
We've got people out on that.
1139
01:09:46,282 --> 01:09:50,480
You let them bastard scabs come.
We got our guns now.
1140
01:09:50,586 --> 01:09:51,852
Then they work two shifts.
1141
01:09:51,853 --> 01:09:54,386
Nah. They ain't gonna
do nothin'dirty like that.
1142
01:10:02,031 --> 01:10:03,999
Huh?
1143
01:10:04,099 --> 01:10:07,535
- Gotta get it right at the railroad.
- Bring it over here a little bit.
1144
01:10:19,882 --> 01:10:22,817
Basil Collins. Right in front.
1145
01:10:25,454 --> 01:10:27,422
Well, what's he doing?
1146
01:10:32,928 --> 01:10:37,763
#We shall not be
We shall not be moved ♪
1147
01:10:37,866 --> 01:10:42,360
#We shall
We shall not be moved ♪
1148
01:10:42,471 --> 01:10:48,000
#Just like a tree
that's standing by the water ♪
1149
01:10:48,110 --> 01:10:51,307
♪ We shall not be moved ♪
1150
01:10:51,413 --> 01:10:53,381
Come on, Basil!
1151
01:10:55,351 --> 01:10:58,878
We got somethin' for you!
1152
01:10:58,988 --> 01:11:01,479
Are we gonna start
like we did yesterday?
1153
01:11:01,724 --> 01:11:04,318
We wasn't blocking the road. They was.
1154
01:11:04,426 --> 01:11:06,690
They've had it blocked all day.
1155
01:11:09,698 --> 01:11:13,896
You -You put the car there, so either remove it,
or I'll call the wrecker to remove it.
1156
01:11:14,003 --> 01:11:16,528
That's neutral, ain't it?
That's neutral. No, it's not neutral.
1157
01:11:16,639 --> 01:11:18,937
And you know it's not neutral.
It's not neutral.
1158
01:11:19,041 --> 01:11:21,509
You know what it is. I'll tell you.
You know what I told you.
1159
01:11:21,610 --> 01:11:24,363
I don't give a damn how much money
you makin' at bein' a sheriff,
1160
01:11:24,364 --> 01:11:25,740
but don't go against the union.
1161
01:11:25,848 --> 01:11:27,839
That's all I ask.
That's the only thing I ask.
1162
01:11:27,950 --> 01:11:30,968
Baby, you can stand here
and raise hell all you want to,
1163
01:11:30,969 --> 01:11:32,478
but this road's gotta be cleared.
1164
01:11:32,588 --> 01:11:35,580
Will you go up there when
they shoot machine guns across the highway?
1165
01:11:35,691 --> 01:11:37,022
No. He won't. No. He won't.
1166
01:11:37,023 --> 01:11:39,684
Will you go up then?
'Cause that's your duty too.
1167
01:11:39,795 --> 01:11:41,050
No, he won't do it. He won't.
1168
01:11:41,051 --> 01:11:43,561
Why don't you go up there then?
You weren't up there yesterday.
1169
01:11:43,666 --> 01:11:46,999
When they beat us and club us. And when
they beat that 17-year-old boy- He won't.
1170
01:11:47,102 --> 01:11:50,367
I mean, I see. You know what,
Billy G., that was told to me...
1171
01:11:50,472 --> 01:11:52,667
and I wouldn't believe it
before the election.
1172
01:11:52,775 --> 01:11:56,108
That was told to me that you'd do this.
It really was.
1173
01:11:56,211 --> 01:11:58,304
Excuse me. Mr. Williams.
1174
01:11:58,414 --> 01:12:00,814
I have a warrant for Basil Collins.
1175
01:12:00,916 --> 01:12:03,248
We want you to throw Basil's ass in jail.
1176
01:12:03,352 --> 01:12:05,843
Don't stand there.!
You've got a warrant for him.
1177
01:12:05,954 --> 01:12:08,115
- Now serve it to him.!
- Will you give me -
1178
01:12:08,223 --> 01:12:11,659
- You won't do it.
- Will you give me a chance to do my job?
1179
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,660
- Okay. Let's see you do it.
- All right.
1180
01:12:13,762 --> 01:12:15,957
Somebody pay me seven dollars
for the fee of arrest.
1181
01:12:25,574 --> 01:12:27,474
Here's your seven dollars.
1182
01:12:27,576 --> 01:12:29,908
How much more do you want?
Hell, you can have it all.
1183
01:12:30,012 --> 01:12:32,708
By God, we'll get you up a hundred dollars.
Go arrest him.
1184
01:12:32,815 --> 01:12:34,783
- Look. Okay.
- And take him tojail.
1185
01:12:34,883 --> 01:12:37,716
I'm gonna do my job,
and this happens to be part of my job.
1186
01:12:37,820 --> 01:12:40,983
- Yeah, he's got it. He's got it.
- Okay. Now let's see it.
1187
01:12:42,024 --> 01:12:43,024
For that—
1188
01:12:43,025 --> 01:12:44,925
He'll be arrested,
but this car's gotta move on.
1189
01:12:45,027 --> 01:12:48,326
- Get him right now -
- You arrest him.
1190
01:12:48,430 --> 01:12:50,796
You -You -
1191
01:12:50,899 --> 01:12:56,030
Here I go to, ladies.
1192
01:12:59,174 --> 01:13:01,608
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1193
01:13:02,978 --> 01:13:04,878
- What?
- You're under arrest.
1194
01:13:04,980 --> 01:13:09,417
- Under arrest for what?
- Oh, disorderly conduct, I guess. I don't know.
1195
01:13:09,518 --> 01:13:11,645
Flashin' a deadly weapon.
1196
01:13:15,257 --> 01:13:17,225
Once again, that's part of my job.
1197
01:13:17,326 --> 01:13:20,056
- Movin' this car's part of my job also.
- That's part of your job.
1198
01:13:20,162 --> 01:13:22,790
I'll be in pretty quick.
Soon as we get this thing moved...
1199
01:13:22,898 --> 01:13:25,264
- and get my men to work, I'll come into town.
- Yeah.
1200
01:13:26,301 --> 01:13:28,769
I'm gonna see that she's moved,
then we're goin' to town.
1201
01:13:28,871 --> 01:13:30,998
All right.
1202
01:13:31,106 --> 01:13:33,336
Move these people
away from my truck, Bill.
1203
01:13:33,442 --> 01:13:36,138
- Move back from his truck.
- Get away from my truck.
1204
01:13:36,245 --> 01:13:38,213
Move back from the truck.
1205
01:13:39,948 --> 01:13:42,883
Now let's move the car-
1206
01:13:42,985 --> 01:13:45,385
No. You arrest him, Billy.
1207
01:13:45,487 --> 01:13:49,321
You come and get us. You get him out of
the truck, put him in your car and take him -
1208
01:13:49,425 --> 01:13:52,758
This is not a one-sided thing, Lois.
Now, I'm gonna take him to town...
1209
01:13:52,861 --> 01:13:54,761
but I'm also movin' that car.
1210
01:13:54,863 --> 01:13:58,697
You're letting him drive himself to town
after he gets up there. That's what you're doin:
1211
01:13:58,801 --> 01:14:01,565
- What's the difference?
- Oh, no. There's a lot of difference.
1212
01:14:01,670 --> 01:14:03,831
There's a lot of difference.
I tell you one thing.
1213
01:14:03,939 --> 01:14:06,931
If they got a warrant for us,
you would come and take us to jail.
1214
01:14:07,042 --> 01:14:09,101
Lois, you're taking things
in your own hands. You're-
1215
01:14:09,211 --> 01:14:13,011
- I'm not taking things in my own hands.
- You're thinking one way- and no other way.
1216
01:14:13,115 --> 01:14:16,175
Oh, no- Well, how-how other way
are there to think, Billy?
1217
01:14:16,285 --> 01:14:19,618
Whenever you get shot at with machine guns-
They shot at us with machine guns.
1218
01:14:19,721 --> 01:14:22,849
How many of your men
have I up and hauled off tojail?
1219
01:14:22,958 --> 01:14:26,223
This is the first time you've come out.
I will say that. But this has shocked me.
1220
01:14:26,328 --> 01:14:28,228
This has absolutely shocked me to death.
1221
01:14:28,330 --> 01:14:31,265
So be it. You're down here
on a public highway now.
1222
01:14:31,366 --> 01:14:34,665
You're not up there at the picket line.
You're not at Brookside on the picket line.
1223
01:14:34,770 --> 01:14:38,331
- You're here in the middle — We can't stand
up there. They're shooting machine guns at us.
1224
01:14:38,440 --> 01:14:41,898
Well, they can also transfer 'em down here
if they're gonna kill you. You know that.
1225
01:14:42,010 --> 01:14:44,410
Yeah, but, see, we've got
a better chance down here.
1226
01:14:44,513 --> 01:14:47,607
- Well, nevertheless, that car has got to go.
♪ We shall not be moved ♪
1227
01:14:47,716 --> 01:14:51,083
♪ We stood by the sheriff
We shall not be moved ♪
1228
01:14:51,186 --> 01:14:56,647
#Just like a tree
that's standing by the water ♪
1229
01:14:56,758 --> 01:15:00,819
♪ We shall not be moved ♪
1230
01:15:00,929 --> 01:15:05,559
#We shall not be
We shall not be moved ♪
1231
01:15:05,667 --> 01:15:09,535
#We shall not be
We shall not be moved ♪
1232
01:15:09,638 --> 01:15:14,268
#Just like a tree standing by the water ♪
1233
01:15:14,376 --> 01:15:18,608
#We shall not be moved ♪
1234
01:15:18,714 --> 01:15:23,981
♪ Glory, hallelujah, we shall not be moved ♪
1235
01:15:24,086 --> 01:15:28,182
♪ Glory, hallelujah
We shall not be moved ♪
1236
01:15:28,357 --> 01:15:31,121
#Well, over on the mountaintop ♪
1237
01:15:31,226 --> 01:15:33,626
♪ Children, we're gonna let it shine ♪
1238
01:15:33,729 --> 01:15:36,425
♪ Oh, on the mountaintop ♪
1239
01:15:36,532 --> 01:15:38,625
♪ I said we're gonna let it shine ♪
1240
01:15:38,734 --> 01:15:41,669
♪ Whoa
On the mountaintop ♪
1241
01:15:41,770 --> 01:15:44,204
♪ We gonna let it shine ♪
1242
01:15:44,306 --> 01:15:46,774
#Let it shine
Let it shine ♪
1243
01:15:46,875 --> 01:15:50,174
#Let it shine ♪
1244
01:15:50,279 --> 01:15:55,216
Well, we're gonna try to get 'em organized
and give these brothers a little help.
1245
01:15:55,317 --> 01:15:57,877
I think it's a great day.
1246
01:15:57,986 --> 01:15:59,886
It really rejoices me.
1247
01:16:02,658 --> 01:16:04,558
#I'm gonna let it shine ♪
1248
01:16:04,660 --> 01:16:07,220
#Let it shine
Let it shine ♪
1249
01:16:07,329 --> 01:16:09,297
#Let it shine ♪
1250
01:16:09,398 --> 01:16:12,390
All the way! All the way!
1251
01:16:12,501 --> 01:16:14,560
- All the way!
- Join the march.!
1252
01:16:14,670 --> 01:16:18,333
Come on andjoin the march.!
1253
01:16:21,410 --> 01:16:23,537
We're Harlan County union...
1254
01:16:23,645 --> 01:16:27,376
from the top of our head
to the sole of our foot.
1255
01:16:27,482 --> 01:16:31,851
Do you think that the company has
any possibility ofbreaking this strike?
1256
01:16:31,954 --> 01:16:34,286
Well, at this particular time
I don't think so.
1257
01:16:34,389 --> 01:16:37,825
The, uh, show of strength on the part
of our membership here...
1258
01:16:37,926 --> 01:16:41,521
and the general, uh, public awareness
in East Kentucky indicates to me...
1259
01:16:41,630 --> 01:16:44,793
that it isn't gonna be easy,
but we're gonna be successful.
1260
01:16:44,900 --> 01:16:48,267
Do you have any idea how long this
may go, and are you prepared to-
1261
01:16:48,370 --> 01:16:52,363
It's pretty hard to say how long it's gonna go,
but we're here to stay, as I said earlier.
1262
01:16:52,474 --> 01:16:56,410
#Yeah, but my name is Sam
I'm a shuttle-car driving man ♪
1263
01:16:56,511 --> 01:17:00,345
♪ Said my name is Sam
I'm a shuttle-car driving man ♪
1264
01:17:00,449 --> 01:17:02,383
#With my six big wheels a-rollin' ♪
1265
01:17:02,484 --> 01:17:04,418
#At 14 cent a load ♪
1266
01:17:04,519 --> 01:17:07,579
#A never-ending battle
I keep on rollin' ♪
1267
01:17:07,689 --> 01:17:11,455
♪ Well, this may not be
a very big part I play ♪
1268
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:14,927
#But I'm gonna
work hard at it every day ♪
1269
01:17:15,030 --> 01:17:17,157
#So let's come out for the union ♪
1270
01:17:17,265 --> 01:17:20,598
#And I'll keep a-doin'my dirty work
on the ground ♪
1271
01:17:20,702 --> 01:17:24,263
♪ Yeah, but my name is Sam
I'm a shuttle-car driving man ♪
1272
01:17:24,373 --> 01:17:28,241
♪ Said my name is Sam
I'm a shuttle-car driving man ♪
1273
01:17:28,343 --> 01:17:31,972
#With six big wheels a-rollin'
at 14 cent a load ♪
1274
01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:34,844
#A never-ending battle
I keeps on rollin' ♪
1275
01:17:46,561 --> 01:17:49,155
I don't know of any time
in coal mine history...
1276
01:17:49,264 --> 01:17:51,232
when, uh...
1277
01:17:51,333 --> 01:17:53,233
the president and principal officers...
1278
01:17:53,335 --> 01:17:56,395
of the international union have come
to the coalfields during an organizing.
1279
01:17:56,505 --> 01:17:59,565
The battle.
It's most gratifying to me to see...
1280
01:17:59,675 --> 01:18:02,701
busloads in here
from Indiana and Illinois.
1281
01:18:02,811 --> 01:18:06,440
I think if I were a Brookside striker,
I think that that would mean something to me.
1282
01:18:06,548 --> 01:18:09,711
To bring people hundreds of miles...
1283
01:18:09,818 --> 01:18:12,446
to just march around town
and listen to a couple speeches...
1284
01:18:12,554 --> 01:18:14,454
don't make too much sense to me.
1285
01:18:14,556 --> 01:18:18,754
That, uh -Although it generated
a lot of enthusiasm and fortified -
1286
01:18:18,860 --> 01:18:22,318
you know, maybe strengthens
people's morale here...
1287
01:18:22,431 --> 01:18:25,127
a lot more could have been done
when they came here.
1288
01:18:25,233 --> 01:18:28,430
That we could have, for example,
marched down to Brookside...
1289
01:18:28,537 --> 01:18:30,505
and confronted Yarborough
face-to-face...
1290
01:18:30,605 --> 01:18:33,335
who was sittin' at
the Brookside office during the day.
1291
01:18:33,442 --> 01:18:38,470
Uh, we could have gone to Highsplint
and expropriated their machine guns.
1292
01:18:38,580 --> 01:18:41,743
And the miners here, I'm convinced,
were ready to do something like that.
1293
01:18:41,850 --> 01:18:44,114
After that contract's a-signed...
1294
01:18:44,219 --> 01:18:46,119
it's gonna be better on everybody.
1295
01:18:46,221 --> 01:18:49,088
Let's show Norman Yarborough
he don't run Harlan County.
1296
01:18:49,191 --> 01:18:51,659
Let's show Judge Hogg
he don't run Harlan County.
1297
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:55,696
And if you people don't get out here and help us
out, we ain't gonna get nothin' that's right.
1298
01:18:55,797 --> 01:19:00,393
We want you down there at 5:00.
That's a sunrise revival at Brookside, Kentucky.
1299
01:19:29,498 --> 01:19:32,194
We don't know
what caused the shooting or nothing...
1300
01:19:32,300 --> 01:19:36,066
but we can figure it was just a disagreement
for the mine workers.
1301
01:19:36,171 --> 01:19:38,833
He was shot in the face.
1302
01:19:41,543 --> 01:19:44,376
We helped bring him over here.
1303
01:19:45,714 --> 01:19:48,512
- What happened?
- Got shot in the damn head.
1304
01:19:48,617 --> 01:19:50,983
- Shot in the face with a shotgun.
- Who shot him?
1305
01:19:51,086 --> 01:19:54,613
A goddamn scab.
Bill Bruner.
1306
01:19:56,258 --> 01:20:00,957
That's brain that's laying there.
A goddamn fella when he tried to do somethin'.
1307
01:20:02,030 --> 01:20:05,522
That's what a scab does to a person,
by God, when they're not lookin'.
1308
01:20:07,469 --> 01:20:10,233
See, the pissants carrying off
a goddamn man's brain...
1309
01:20:10,338 --> 01:20:12,533
while he's layin' over in the hospital dying.
1310
01:20:12,641 --> 01:20:15,371
Maybe shot all to hell.
1311
01:20:15,477 --> 01:20:18,674
- You friends of his?
- I'm always tellin' him -
1312
01:20:21,550 --> 01:20:24,485
He got dea -
shot in the goddamn head by a -
1313
01:20:27,355 --> 01:20:30,813
Yeah. My son's a-fightin' for it,
and that's what he got shot over.
1314
01:20:30,926 --> 01:20:33,394
- You got two sons fighting.
- Yeah.
1315
01:20:33,495 --> 01:20:37,226
My- My other son too.
He pickets at Highsplint.
1316
01:20:39,801 --> 01:20:42,235
How long have you been married?
1317
01:20:42,337 --> 01:20:44,430
Almost a year.
1318
01:20:44,539 --> 01:20:46,939
- How old are you?
- Sixteen.
1319
01:20:47,042 --> 01:20:49,602
- Do you have any children?
- One.
1320
01:20:49,711 --> 01:20:51,975
Are you proud of your husband?
1321
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,173
Yeah.
1322
01:20:54,282 --> 01:20:57,843
What made him decide
to go on the picket line?
1323
01:20:59,154 --> 01:21:01,816
The union, I guess.
1324
01:21:01,923 --> 01:21:04,357
Yeah. He's a union man. That's why.
1325
01:21:04,459 --> 01:21:09,522
I - I want my kids all to be union.
I don't want 'em to be a yellowback scab.
1326
01:21:09,631 --> 01:21:12,259
I don't want 'em to be
kicked around like at the -
1327
01:21:12,367 --> 01:21:14,301
like we was when we was kids.
1328
01:21:14,402 --> 01:21:19,101
And my daddy- He worked all his life
and didn't get a thing before he died.
1329
01:21:19,207 --> 01:21:23,041
Worked all his life in the coal mines,
and we never did see him either.
1330
01:21:23,144 --> 01:21:27,638
Till we was asleep in the bed. Mom would give us
what we had to eat, and we'd go to bed.
1331
01:21:27,749 --> 01:21:31,378
He'd eat when he come.
He'd be gone when we got out of bed.
1332
01:21:31,486 --> 01:21:36,014
Then whenever he got too old to work
in the mines, they just kicked him out to die.
1333
01:21:36,124 --> 01:21:39,651
They didn't care.
'Cause there wasn't no union then.
1334
01:21:41,229 --> 01:21:43,459
And I don't want my kids
to be like that.
1335
01:21:43,565 --> 01:21:47,968
I want my kids to stick up
for their rights and be a union... man.
1336
01:21:49,437 --> 01:21:53,373
Well, next time somebody gets up in our
meetin' and says let's have nonviolence...
1337
01:21:53,475 --> 01:21:56,239
and don't bother them,
let's kick their goddamn ass.
1338
01:21:56,344 --> 01:21:59,404
The women get up there,
and they park their car across the road...
1339
01:21:59,514 --> 01:22:02,540
and they gets to say what they think,
and we hide behind the goddamn car.
1340
01:22:02,651 --> 01:22:05,211
- Don't use no violence -
- I'll be honest with you.
1341
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:08,016
I done got enough goddamn
shotgun blasts in my goddamn face.
1342
01:22:08,123 --> 01:22:10,057
Nonviolence. We don't have no violence.
1343
01:22:10,158 --> 01:22:13,855
We stand back there, and we don't say
a goddamn thing. We don't even do nothin'.
1344
01:22:14,963 --> 01:22:18,228
Most of you were
real close friends with LawrenceJones.
1345
01:22:18,333 --> 01:22:22,360
He left a 16-year-old wife
and a five-month-old daughter.
1346
01:22:24,072 --> 01:22:29,100
But I think at this time that
we should at least wait till the morning...
1347
01:22:29,210 --> 01:22:31,701
before -
and not let things get out of hand.
1348
01:22:31,813 --> 01:22:34,441
I've just talked to Chip Yablonski
and Rick Banks...
1349
01:22:34,549 --> 01:22:37,211
and they've asked me to tell you...
1350
01:22:37,319 --> 01:22:39,583
that the company
and the union is talkin:..
1351
01:22:39,688 --> 01:22:41,986
and that they're close.
1352
01:22:42,090 --> 01:22:44,581
Looks to me like the best part...
1353
01:22:44,693 --> 01:22:47,184
is to be - try to get old Yarborough
and old Basil Collins.
1354
01:22:47,295 --> 01:22:49,195
Amen.
1355
01:22:49,297 --> 01:22:52,698
Now, them's the leaders, boys.
Them's the leaders...
1356
01:22:52,801 --> 01:22:55,326
and they're somewhere
they can be got.
1357
01:22:55,437 --> 01:22:57,598
There's plenty of big trees down there...
1358
01:22:57,706 --> 01:23:00,197
and there's plenty of high-powered rifles.
1359
01:23:00,308 --> 01:23:03,641
I went in 'em back in the '30s.
I knowed it exactly.
1360
01:23:03,745 --> 01:23:07,237
I've seen 'em, buddy-
I've seen 'em carryin' - puttin' down with this.
1361
01:23:07,349 --> 01:23:09,681
And I've seed men
get it right out in the open.
1362
01:23:09,784 --> 01:23:14,153
So I tell everybody. Take to shelter
if you can and lay the lead to 'em.
1363
01:23:14,255 --> 01:23:16,223
Amen, brother.
1364
01:23:19,761 --> 01:23:23,925
The contract is what we are fightin' for.
1365
01:23:24,032 --> 01:23:27,001
That's what LawrenceJones died for.
1366
01:23:27,102 --> 01:23:29,900
To get a contract.
1367
01:23:30,005 --> 01:23:32,405
But I told his family-
1368
01:23:32,507 --> 01:23:34,998
I said, "It was for a good cause".
1369
01:23:37,278 --> 01:23:39,178
And what I said-
1370
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:41,714
"Why couldn't it be somebody like me?
1371
01:23:41,816 --> 01:23:45,013
Some old man just about spent anyhow".
1372
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:48,521
But it took a young man's life...
1373
01:23:48,623 --> 01:23:50,955
to bring this thing -
1374
01:23:51,059 --> 01:23:55,155
the government and the union
and the operators together.
1375
01:23:56,398 --> 01:23:58,866
If this shootin'
hadn't have happened, probably...
1376
01:23:58,967 --> 01:24:02,698
this contract - they wouldn't probably-
might not have been a meetin'...
1377
01:24:03,738 --> 01:24:06,798
to negotiate a contract.
1378
01:24:06,908 --> 01:24:09,843
But every contract that we've ever got...
1379
01:24:09,944 --> 01:24:11,844
has been hard.
1380
01:24:11,946 --> 01:24:13,880
We've had to fight for it.
1381
01:24:14,983 --> 01:24:17,747
I've been all around the blood...
1382
01:24:17,852 --> 01:24:20,480
shed back here in the '30s.
1383
01:24:21,523 --> 01:24:23,491
Blood all around me.
1384
01:24:24,793 --> 01:24:27,318
Where men died right around my feet.
1385
01:24:28,997 --> 01:24:31,431
For a contract.
1386
01:24:31,533 --> 01:24:35,469
And I think,
if we ever did hold our peace...
1387
01:24:35,570 --> 01:24:37,970
let's try to hold it tonight.
1388
01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,405
The price has been paid for it.
1389
01:24:41,476 --> 01:24:46,004
#Leave behind ♪
1390
01:24:46,114 --> 01:24:51,177
♪ Yes, leave behind ♪
1391
01:24:51,286 --> 01:24:57,816
#What will I leave behind ♪
1392
01:24:58,860 --> 01:25:02,853
#After I leave ♪
1393
01:25:02,964 --> 01:25:08,095
#For worlds unknown ♪
1394
01:25:08,203 --> 01:25:14,938
♪ What will I leave behind ♪
1395
01:25:21,182 --> 01:25:24,151
Oh, God.
1396
01:25:28,756 --> 01:25:31,725
Oh, God! Oh!
1397
01:25:34,996 --> 01:25:38,523
Oh, God!
1398
01:25:39,667 --> 01:25:41,692
I can't -
1399
01:25:43,671 --> 01:25:46,196
Oh, God, I can't stand it!
1400
01:25:46,307 --> 01:25:49,470
Oh, God, I can't -
1401
01:26:06,828 --> 01:26:09,922
Needs to come up
the riverjust a little bit, don't it?
1402
01:26:26,381 --> 01:26:30,044
When you believe in something
strong enough that you're ready to die for it...
1403
01:26:30,151 --> 01:26:32,051
that's when you get it.
1404
01:26:32,153 --> 01:26:34,849
Because that's what happened
to LawrenceJones.
1405
01:26:34,956 --> 01:26:39,222
He believed in it so strong,
and he was ready to die for it, and he did.
1406
01:26:39,327 --> 01:26:44,094
But it could have been me. It could have been
anybody that was out there on the picket line.
1407
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:48,966
I feel like that this is just a little pebble
on the beach.
1408
01:26:49,070 --> 01:26:52,836
Because we've got
a lot of organizing to do in Harlan County.
1409
01:26:52,941 --> 01:26:57,844
'Cause Harlan County will be
U.M. W.A. coal.
1410
01:26:57,946 --> 01:27:02,906
I guess that, uh, I'd have to say that...
1411
01:27:03,017 --> 01:27:04,951
as much as we fought down here...
1412
01:27:05,053 --> 01:27:07,021
and as hard as we fought...
1413
01:27:07,121 --> 01:27:09,146
I don't think if it was for...
1414
01:27:09,257 --> 01:27:12,090
that young boy LawrenceJones,
I doubt if we...
1415
01:27:12,193 --> 01:27:14,457
would have got a contract
as fast as we did.
1416
01:27:14,696 --> 01:27:19,429
Uh, I'd like to ask to pass a motion
that we accept this contract.
1417
01:27:21,736 --> 01:27:23,636
- Somebody-
- I second it.
1418
01:27:23,738 --> 01:27:25,638
Somebody, uh, make the motion.
1419
01:27:25,740 --> 01:27:28,004
- I make the motion.
- I second.
1420
01:27:28,109 --> 01:27:30,907
All Brookside miners
stand for a count.
1421
01:27:31,946 --> 01:27:33,846
All right.
1422
01:27:33,948 --> 01:27:36,473
- Tell 'em to sit down.
- Sit down. Everybody sit down.
1423
01:27:37,685 --> 01:27:39,585
The ayes have it, and so ordered.
1424
01:27:39,687 --> 01:27:41,848
The ayes have it,
and so ordered.
1425
01:27:41,956 --> 01:27:44,720
- The contract's accepted.
- The contract's accepted.
1426
01:27:46,961 --> 01:27:50,556
The only thing I hate about this -
On - On account of that boy getting killed...
1427
01:27:50,665 --> 01:27:52,565
you know, and it all having to come to -
1428
01:27:52,667 --> 01:27:57,969
Of course, you expected that. I really expected
more, you know, than that to happen...
1429
01:27:58,072 --> 01:28:01,769
and probably would have if it had gone on,
you know, this week and next week.
1430
01:28:01,876 --> 01:28:05,437
That's right.
We all knew that it was comin'...
1431
01:28:05,546 --> 01:28:07,878
but we didn't know who or when.
1432
01:28:09,617 --> 01:28:12,279
Do you feel you've been changed by the strike?
1433
01:28:12,387 --> 01:28:14,719
- Oh, yes.
- How so?
1434
01:28:14,822 --> 01:28:18,155
Many different ways.
I can look for a future now.
1435
01:28:22,730 --> 01:28:24,789
I feel good about it.
1436
01:28:24,899 --> 01:28:26,799
It's just great. Marvelous.
1437
01:28:26,901 --> 01:28:30,098
After 13 months, waitin' to see,
you know, him go back to work.
1438
01:28:30,204 --> 01:28:33,401
Boy. It's been a long time.
1439
01:28:33,508 --> 01:28:36,477
I wish that I wouldn't go up there,
but I did.
1440
01:28:36,577 --> 01:28:40,104
I wouldn't go, but when I see him go,
his fight's my fight...
1441
01:28:40,214 --> 01:28:43,706
so I want to stand beside of him
and fight too.
1442
01:28:43,818 --> 01:28:45,877
If this had just been a Harlan County strike...
1443
01:28:45,987 --> 01:28:47,887
and there hadn't been publicity...
1444
01:28:47,989 --> 01:28:50,082
hadn't been a fight against
their rate increase...
1445
01:28:50,191 --> 01:28:52,091
hadn't been a fight against their stock...
1446
01:28:52,193 --> 01:28:55,720
Duke Power wouldn't have given a damn
about any of the pressure down here...
1447
01:28:55,830 --> 01:28:57,855
'cause, uh, all we had was their coal...
1448
01:28:57,965 --> 01:29:01,765
and we never had shut off enough of that
to hurt their stockpiles up until the end.
1449
01:29:01,869 --> 01:29:03,769
And the same thing with Lawrence.
1450
01:29:03,871 --> 01:29:06,362
They never would have cared
if LawrenceJones died in Harlan.
1451
01:29:06,474 --> 01:29:09,773
It would have been a two-inch paragraph
in the Harlan Daily Enterprise...
1452
01:29:09,877 --> 01:29:13,142
and Carl Horn wouldn't have
given a goddamn about it.
1453
01:29:13,247 --> 01:29:16,307
And so I don't think
a strike is won by any one thing.
1454
01:29:16,417 --> 01:29:20,615
It was won by a lot of different people
in a lot of different ways...
1455
01:29:20,722 --> 01:29:23,156
fighting together
and playing different roles.
1456
01:29:23,257 --> 01:29:26,522
Victory! Harlan County!
1457
01:29:26,627 --> 01:29:28,527
The other thing we're trying to do...
1458
01:29:28,629 --> 01:29:31,097
is investigate how the fix
was put in here in Harlan.
1459
01:29:31,199 --> 01:29:33,565
- What fix?
- Well, it's pretty clear...
1460
01:29:33,668 --> 01:29:37,229
that when a man commits murder
and the state police charges him...
1461
01:29:37,338 --> 01:29:41,741
and witnesses say that he, uh,
fired on the man unprovoked...
1462
01:29:41,843 --> 01:29:44,243
that a grand jury is duty-bound
to indict him.
1463
01:29:44,345 --> 01:29:46,575
But this grand jury was Harlan County...
1464
01:29:46,681 --> 01:29:49,343
and it seemed like,
despite the fact we had won a contract...
1465
01:29:49,450 --> 01:29:51,350
not that much had changed here.
1466
01:29:51,452 --> 01:29:53,352
It was just like in the old days.
1467
01:29:53,454 --> 01:29:56,321
If the company kills a man,
the company gets let off.
1468
01:29:56,424 --> 01:30:00,190
If one of our people had shot
any company man throughout this strike...
1469
01:30:00,294 --> 01:30:02,489
he'd be servin' 25 years now.
1470
01:30:02,597 --> 01:30:04,758
Bill Bruner is scot-free.
1471
01:30:06,100 --> 01:30:08,898
Once a concession is won...
1472
01:30:09,003 --> 01:30:12,530
and once a strike is won,
that the workers have to move right on...
1473
01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:14,540
to the next struggle.
1474
01:30:14,642 --> 01:30:17,406
And if they don't, the concession
that was won, you're gonna lose it.
1475
01:30:17,512 --> 01:30:21,972
So there's two types of ways
to win strikes and concessions.
1476
01:30:23,017 --> 01:30:27,351
And the first type is
where the workers fight and struggle...
1477
01:30:27,455 --> 01:30:29,423
and force the concessions...
1478
01:30:29,524 --> 01:30:33,551
out of the mine owners
or factory owners or who have ya.
1479
01:30:33,661 --> 01:30:37,825
And, uh, these strikes are strikes
that are won from below.
1480
01:30:37,932 --> 01:30:41,698
The other type of strike is strikes
that are given to you from above.
1481
01:30:41,803 --> 01:30:45,364
Whenever anybody gives you something,
they don't give you nothin'for nothin:
1482
01:30:45,473 --> 01:30:47,634
To get something and be given it...
1483
01:30:47,742 --> 01:30:50,074
you're gonna have to give up something.
1484
01:31:22,076 --> 01:31:24,135
The B.C.O.A. member companies...
1485
01:31:24,245 --> 01:31:26,372
are to be expected to provide...
1486
01:31:26,481 --> 01:31:30,611
substantially higher levels
of wages and benefits.
1487
01:31:30,718 --> 01:31:32,618
It is essential -
1488
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:36,019
be necessary for the bargaining
parties to give serious consideration...
1489
01:31:36,123 --> 01:31:39,684
to contract provisions
which will contribute significantly...
1490
01:31:39,794 --> 01:31:41,887
to increased production and productivity.
1491
01:31:41,996 --> 01:31:46,092
The membership of our union no longer
was willing to accept two dollars more a day...
1492
01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:49,033
and a bar of soap
and a towel and a bathhouse.
1493
01:31:49,136 --> 01:31:51,866
The areas -The main areas of concern
to our membership -
1494
01:31:51,973 --> 01:31:55,238
It's been well established and should be
recognized by everyone in this country.
1495
01:31:55,343 --> 01:31:58,141
Particularly the coal operators.
Safety is our highest priority.
1496
01:31:58,246 --> 01:32:01,704
The men's asking for
more than they did before.
1497
01:32:01,816 --> 01:32:03,750
And they're gonna get it.
1498
01:32:03,851 --> 01:32:06,479
They either get it,
or there won't be no coal.
1499
01:32:06,587 --> 01:32:08,487
The strike.
1500
01:32:08,589 --> 01:32:11,353
They're -
They've been looking forward to this.
1501
01:32:11,459 --> 01:32:14,690
This is a big thing for the miner.
1502
01:32:14,795 --> 01:32:16,763
He will better his lot after today...
1503
01:32:16,864 --> 01:32:19,298
because when Miller took office...
1504
01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:23,097
he said that he was going to
get the miner what he was entitled to.
1505
01:32:23,204 --> 01:32:25,866
Okay. The supply track.
1506
01:32:34,815 --> 01:32:37,340
They're starting now from the work area...
1507
01:32:37,451 --> 01:32:39,510
and they're coming to
what we call the manway.
1508
01:32:39,620 --> 01:32:41,611
They'll be coming up the cage.
1509
01:32:41,722 --> 01:32:45,522
In another, uh,
32 minutes they'll all be out.
1510
01:32:45,626 --> 01:32:47,594
God willing.
1511
01:32:50,631 --> 01:32:55,159
Well, I think that, uh, ratification's great.
We have something to say about it.
1512
01:32:55,269 --> 01:32:58,602
Retire - Retirement.
1513
01:32:58,706 --> 01:33:00,606
Want vacation.
1514
01:33:00,708 --> 01:33:03,905
- Yeah. Better- Better vacation.
- Sick pay.
1515
01:33:04,011 --> 01:33:09,244
It'll never be ratified for something
that's not at least a $15-a-day increase.
1516
01:33:09,350 --> 01:33:12,183
- You've been through this before.
- Many a time.
1517
01:33:12,286 --> 01:33:16,086
- Six months one time.
- Are you afraid of going out on strike?
1518
01:33:16,190 --> 01:33:19,387
No, I'm not afraid.
I don't want to see no strike. Naturally.
1519
01:33:20,928 --> 01:33:23,488
No miner wants a strike.
But no contract, no work.
1520
01:33:23,598 --> 01:33:26,499
And if it's not -
A good one, we get to ratify it.
1521
01:33:27,535 --> 01:33:31,198
It would never have gone the way it has
if we'd have been able to vote before.
1522
01:33:31,305 --> 01:33:34,069
Just like, uh, Boyle.
He didn't -We didn't vote.
1523
01:33:34,175 --> 01:33:36,376
He says,
"Oh, this is what they'll take".
1524
01:33:36,377 --> 01:33:38,578
So that's what we had to take
is what they'd give us.
1525
01:33:38,679 --> 01:33:41,113
Now we're gonna take what we want.
1526
01:33:47,955 --> 01:33:50,617
Even those who criticize it acknowledge...
1527
01:33:50,725 --> 01:33:52,818
that it's probably the best agreement...
1528
01:33:52,927 --> 01:33:56,385
uh, that's been made in any industry
in modern times.
1529
01:33:56,497 --> 01:34:00,263
Mr. Miller, do you expect to recommend
ratification of this contract to the membership?
1530
01:34:00,368 --> 01:34:03,030
I will recommend ratification
of this contract to the membership.
1531
01:34:03,137 --> 01:34:05,935
- Sir? - Will you have a right
to strike at the local level?
1532
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:07,940
No.
1533
01:34:08,042 --> 01:34:11,500
Do you anticipate that will cause
you trouble in ratification, since that's one-
1534
01:34:11,612 --> 01:34:14,638
No. I'm sure there are some divergent views
among the membership, and...
1535
01:34:14,749 --> 01:34:18,116
I never expected 100%% ratification,
but I'm confident the membership will ratify.
1536
01:34:18,219 --> 01:34:20,278
You can't take the right to strike away.
1537
01:34:20,388 --> 01:34:24,415
If you go through the proper
grievance procedure and it doesn't work...
1538
01:34:24,525 --> 01:34:27,255
you have only got one right left:
the right to strike.
1539
01:34:27,361 --> 01:34:31,058
And if you take that away from a man,
you've had it.
1540
01:34:33,067 --> 01:34:35,501
- It's not in the agreement.
- But it's not ruled out yet.
1541
01:34:35,603 --> 01:34:36,778
I'd like to have it.
1542
01:34:36,779 --> 01:34:39,130
- Well, I would like.
- I can't speak for everyone.
1543
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:42,141
Let me step out here
and talk to you privately about it.
1544
01:34:47,682 --> 01:34:50,082
The international's gone and changed...
1545
01:34:50,184 --> 01:34:52,914
the whole ratification process
without giving any reason for it.
1546
01:34:53,020 --> 01:34:56,683
They're trying to keep us apart. He could
be getting pressure from the government.
1547
01:34:56,791 --> 01:34:59,521
He could be getting pressure
from the companies. It's hard to say.
1548
01:34:59,627 --> 01:35:03,290
We don't know. That's what the problem is.
We don't know, and we're not being told.
1549
01:35:03,397 --> 01:35:07,493
Everybody was under the impression, when Miller
was elected, that he was the man for the job.
1550
01:35:07,601 --> 01:35:10,035
- Everybody-
- Well, he acted. He acted like he was.
1551
01:35:10,137 --> 01:35:12,133
He's an honest man,
but he's no match
1552
01:35:12,134 --> 01:35:14,130
for them bunch of clowns,
because that is their job.
1553
01:35:14,241 --> 01:35:16,141
- He's honest.
- He didn't try.
1554
01:35:16,243 --> 01:35:18,643
Coal companies don't need
to tell you they can't afford this...
1555
01:35:18,746 --> 01:35:21,271
because they're owned by the oil companies
and the power companies.
1556
01:35:21,382 --> 01:35:23,612
And who has more money in the world
than those people?
1557
01:35:23,718 --> 01:35:26,152
- They can afford everything.
- That's why we're out here.
1558
01:35:26,253 --> 01:35:30,747
I'll tell you what. The company kept the apple.
They throwed us the core.
1559
01:35:30,858 --> 01:35:33,827
That's what they did.
1560
01:35:33,928 --> 01:35:37,455
You look at these coal companies.
You look at Consolidated Coal -
1561
01:35:37,565 --> 01:35:40,728
181 goddamn percent profit.
1562
01:35:40,835 --> 01:35:42,860
You look at Piston:886.
1563
01:35:42,970 --> 01:35:46,565
And they're bitchin' about their giving us
a goddamn five more days vacation.
1564
01:35:57,752 --> 01:35:59,879
This is unprecedented, isn't it, Mr. Secretary...
1565
01:35:59,987 --> 01:36:02,615
for a secretary of the treasury
to step in like this?
1566
01:36:02,723 --> 01:36:04,782
I don't think it's, uh, unprecedented. No.
1567
01:36:04,892 --> 01:36:09,420
I think this is a very serious, uh, issue
in the economic area in our country.
1568
01:36:09,530 --> 01:36:12,465
A prolonged coal strike would have...
1569
01:36:12,566 --> 01:36:14,466
very serious economic implications.
1570
01:36:14,568 --> 01:36:16,468
So as the chief economic spokesman...
1571
01:36:16,570 --> 01:36:18,124
I consider this
my very deep responsibility
1572
01:36:18,125 --> 01:36:21,234
to attempt to work toward
a resolution of this issue.
1573
01:36:21,342 --> 01:36:24,834
What is your reaction to the government
stepping in at this time?
1574
01:36:24,945 --> 01:36:28,312
Well, I hope that we can
resolve the matter ourself, but -
1575
01:36:28,415 --> 01:36:30,474
That's, uh, the way I feel about it.
1576
01:36:31,986 --> 01:36:34,750
Some of this contract-
It's got some good in it.
1577
01:36:34,855 --> 01:36:38,086
But most of this contract is against you.
1578
01:36:38,192 --> 01:36:40,387
What contract?
1579
01:36:40,494 --> 01:36:43,429
- As far as I-As far as I can see, this-
- A funny book.
1580
01:36:43,531 --> 01:36:45,431
This, uh- This is no contract at all.
1581
01:36:45,533 --> 01:36:48,934
- Take it and read it and shut up.
- That's what I did with the last one.
1582
01:36:49,036 --> 01:36:52,938
You work three years in Wheeling Steel,
you can get 13 weeks.
1583
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:56,203
Bill, you're not working at Wheeling Steel.
You're working in a coal mine.
1584
01:36:56,310 --> 01:36:59,507
I ain't workin' in a hole all the time.
I have to work down in the hole too...
1585
01:36:59,613 --> 01:37:01,808
- and I deservejust as much as he gets.
- That's right.
1586
01:37:01,916 --> 01:37:04,851
What about your high cost of living?
What about your sick leave?
1587
01:37:04,952 --> 01:37:07,614
Five goddamn days.
1588
01:37:07,721 --> 01:37:11,316
- You been off sick?
- I can't afford to get sick.
1589
01:37:11,425 --> 01:37:15,020
I have to spend all my money- the money
going to doctors and getting doctor slips.
1590
01:37:15,129 --> 01:37:17,012
They got the
cost-of-living index set up
1591
01:37:17,013 --> 01:37:18,895
for people making two and
three dollars an hour...
1592
01:37:18,999 --> 01:37:21,866
where we should be on a.3 or a.25
instead of a.4.
1593
01:37:21,969 --> 01:37:23,459
- That's right.
- It's a joke.
1594
01:37:34,348 --> 01:37:37,249
- A lot of yeses, boys. I'm telling you.
- Yes, sir.
1595
01:37:43,657 --> 01:37:46,626
The 1974
Bituminous COA's agreement...
1596
01:37:46,727 --> 01:37:50,094
has been ratified by the membership
of the United Mine Workers.
1597
01:37:51,265 --> 01:37:54,666
The, uh, figures for
those voting for...
1598
01:37:54,768 --> 01:37:57,532
is 44,754...
1599
01:37:58,606 --> 01:38:01,939
and 34,741 voting against.
1600
01:38:02,042 --> 01:38:04,533
I think that we have a great contract.
1601
01:38:04,645 --> 01:38:08,445
I think our people will adapt theirselves to it.
1602
01:38:08,549 --> 01:38:11,677
They will be more familiar with it
as they work along with it.
1603
01:38:11,785 --> 01:38:14,481
And it's, uh, my hope that, uh...
1604
01:38:14,588 --> 01:38:16,556
we can now get on with the job...
1605
01:38:16,657 --> 01:38:18,784
of, uh, running this union...
1606
01:38:18,893 --> 01:38:21,384
and, uh, doing
the kind of organizing job...
1607
01:38:21,495 --> 01:38:25,295
that will make the United Mine Workers
number one in the country again.
1608
01:38:28,736 --> 01:38:32,934
I'm directing the membership of our
United Mine Workers organization -
1609
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:35,008
labor organization -
back to work.
1610
01:38:35,109 --> 01:38:38,977
- I'm glad to get back.
- You feel you got a good contract?
1611
01:38:39,079 --> 01:38:41,570
Uh - Oh, I felt mine's all right.
1612
01:38:41,682 --> 01:38:43,741
Uh, I got a good raise.
I'm happy about it.
1613
01:38:43,851 --> 01:38:45,751
I'm not too worried.
1614
01:38:45,853 --> 01:38:48,947
Morning.
How do you feel about going back to work?
1615
01:38:49,056 --> 01:38:52,822
Well, going to work- I don't feel like
working anytime, but I have to go.
1616
01:38:52,927 --> 01:38:55,452
Do you feel you got a good contract?
1617
01:38:55,562 --> 01:38:58,725
Well, not for us old-timers,
we don't have a good contract.
1618
01:38:58,832 --> 01:39:02,165
- Why not?
- Well, we ain't gonna get too much benefit.
1619
01:39:02,269 --> 01:39:07,764
You take, uh, three years ago the coal miners
were supposed to be getting $50 a day.
1620
01:39:07,875 --> 01:39:11,470
Three. Within six years - 1976-
1621
01:39:11,578 --> 01:39:15,139
I still won't be getting $50 a day
with this new raise in there.
1622
01:39:15,249 --> 01:39:17,809
And the papers had to be forged
three years ago...
1623
01:39:17,918 --> 01:39:20,478
that they'd start up $50.
1624
01:39:21,755 --> 01:39:25,350
But now, after six years,
I still won't be making $50.
1625
01:39:25,459 --> 01:39:27,723
When are you gonna be able to retire?
1626
01:39:27,828 --> 01:39:29,762
Well, I'm old enough to retire now...
1627
01:39:29,863 --> 01:39:33,094
but I couldn't live off $150 a month.
1628
01:39:34,501 --> 01:39:36,799
So I gotta go to work.
1629
01:39:36,904 --> 01:39:39,702
- Okay. Have a safe day.
- I'm gonna try.
1630
01:39:52,619 --> 01:39:55,884
It was a fight before and it's still a fight.
1631
01:39:55,990 --> 01:39:58,754
Fight before we had the union
and still fightin'.
1632
01:39:59,893 --> 01:40:02,623
And they're gonna keep fightin'.
Coal miner will always be fightin'.
1633
01:40:09,536 --> 01:40:13,700
♪ United we stand, divided we fall ♪
1634
01:40:13,807 --> 01:40:17,834
#For every dime they give us
a battle must be fought ♪
1635
01:40:17,945 --> 01:40:21,813
#So working people, use your power
the key to liberty ♪
1636
01:40:21,915 --> 01:40:26,045
#Don't support
that rich man's style ofluxury ♪
1637
01:40:26,153 --> 01:40:30,453
♪ There ain't no way they can ever keep us down
Oh, no ♪
1638
01:40:30,557 --> 01:40:34,254
#Ain't no way they can ever keep us down ♪
1639
01:40:34,361 --> 01:40:36,522
♪ We won't be bought, we won't be sold ♪
1640
01:40:36,630 --> 01:40:38,530
♪ To be treated right, well, that's our goal ♪
1641
01:40:38,632 --> 01:40:40,532
#And there ain't no way ♪
1642
01:40:40,634 --> 01:40:42,932
♪ They can ever keep us down ♪
1643
01:40:43,037 --> 01:40:46,063
But you have got them goin' now,
and you're gonna keep 'em goin'.
1644
01:40:46,173 --> 01:40:48,937
If you don't, God bless America,
you're down!
1645
01:40:49,043 --> 01:40:52,171
Join the struggle! Fight to strike!
1646
01:40:52,279 --> 01:40:54,179
Join the struggle!
Fight to strike!
1647
01:40:54,281 --> 01:40:57,546
That we get a grievance procedure
that has the right to strike in it...
1648
01:40:57,651 --> 01:41:00,279
so that we can fight the companies
and win our grievances.
1649
01:41:00,387 --> 01:41:02,287
♪ We've been shot and we've been jailed ♪
1650
01:41:02,389 --> 01:41:04,289
#Lord, it's a sin ♪
1651
01:41:04,391 --> 01:41:06,325
♪ When mom and little children ♪
1652
01:41:06,427 --> 01:41:08,452
#Stood right by the men ♪
1653
01:41:08,562 --> 01:41:10,462
#But we got that union contract ♪
1654
01:41:10,564 --> 01:41:12,589
♪ That keeps the worker free ♪
1655
01:41:12,699 --> 01:41:16,635
#And they'll never shoot that union out of me ♪
1656
01:41:16,737 --> 01:41:19,501
#And they'll never shoot that union out of me ♪
1657
01:41:19,606 --> 01:41:21,506
♪ Oh, no ♪
1658
01:41:21,608 --> 01:41:25,066
#Never shoot that union out of me ♪
1659
01:41:25,179 --> 01:41:27,079
♪ Got a contract in our hand ♪
1660
01:41:27,181 --> 01:41:29,479
#Signed by the blood
ofhonest men ♪
1661
01:41:29,583 --> 01:41:33,576
#And they'll never
shoot that union out of me ♪
1662
01:41:33,687 --> 01:41:37,851
But if you get those junctions lifted -
1663
01:41:37,958 --> 01:41:41,121
you get thosejunctions dropped-
1664
01:41:41,228 --> 01:41:43,662
automatically you got the right to strike.
1665
01:41:49,536 --> 01:41:52,027
♪ Well, the power wheel is rolling, rolling ♪
1666
01:41:52,139 --> 01:41:54,039
#Right along ♪
1667
01:41:54,141 --> 01:41:56,336
#And the government helps keep it goin' ♪
1668
01:41:56,443 --> 01:41:58,343
♪ Goin'strong ♪
1669
01:41:58,445 --> 01:42:00,345
#So working people
get your help ♪
1670
01:42:00,447 --> 01:42:02,347
#From your own kind ♪
1671
01:42:02,449 --> 01:42:06,317
♪ Your welfare ain't on
that rich man's mind ♪
1672
01:42:06,420 --> 01:42:10,618
♪ Your welfare ain't on that rich man's mind
Oh, no ♪
1673
01:42:10,724 --> 01:42:14,421
♪ Your welfare ain't on
that rich man's mind ♪
1674
01:42:14,528 --> 01:42:16,587
♪ They want the power
in their hands ♪
1675
01:42:16,697 --> 01:42:18,858
#Just to keep down the worker and ♪
1676
01:42:18,966 --> 01:42:22,868
♪ Your welfare ain't on that rich man's mind ♪
1677
01:42:22,970 --> 01:42:25,768
#And they'll
never, never, never keep us down ♪
1678
01:42:25,873 --> 01:42:30,867
♪ Oh, no
Never, never, never keep us down ♪
1679
01:42:30,978 --> 01:42:32,912
♪ They can cheat, lie, frame or steal ♪
1680
01:42:33,013 --> 01:42:35,277
#But we'll stop that big wheel ♪
1681
01:42:35,382 --> 01:42:39,648
#And they'll never, never, never
keep us down ♪
1682
01:42:40,305 --> 01:42:46,326
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