A century ago, Mother Jones faced bullets and long odds in her quest to better the lives of coal laborers working in New River Gorge and other West Virginia mines. Union organizers told ... In their ...

I am white, and come from a small, rural, coal mining town in West Virginia ... After the killing, the union backed off for a few years, but in 1952 the bitterest mine strike in modern West Virginia ...

Stanley, 64, worked at West Virginia's Marrowbone Coal ... 29 miners and which was bought out in 2011. Stanley says he lost his job after a conflict with management, when he, as union president ...