ITEM OVERVIEW
Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and gun thugs, while Black and Italian miners, brought in by the company to break the strike, are caught between the two forces. Union activist and ex-Wobbly, Joe Kenehan is sent to help organize the union and is determined to bring the local, Black, and Italian groups together. Drawn from an actual incident. Now on DVD.
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